Tecumseh Valley

What is Tecumseh Valley?


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Song by folksinger Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), telling the story of a girl named Caroline, who went to look for work in a valley named after Shawnee leader Tecumseh. She wants to earn money for her but also for her father, a miner. When she has earned enough to return home she receives the message that her father has died. Having lost all hope she becomes a prostitute and finally dies of unknown cause (broken heart?).

All in all a very strong and melancholic song by one of the great songwriters in American folk music. Townes Van Zandt is given credit by the documentary movie "Be Here to Love Me".

"The name she gave was Caroline

Daughter of a miner

Her ways were free

It seemed to me

That sunshine walked beside her"

"They found her down beneath the stairs

That led to Gypsy Sally’s

In her hand when she died

Was a note that cried

Fare thee well... Tecumseh Valley"

See tecumseh, folk, texas


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