Jim Ed Brown: She’s Leavin’ (Bonnie Please Don’t Go)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnFTDfs-6L8
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Posted on 06/11/2015 7:09:31 PM PDT by John W
Jim Ed Brown, a member of the country music trio The Browns and a star of the Grand Ole Opry for more than a half-century, died Thursday. He was 81.
Brown, who was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in March with his sisters Maxine and Bonnie, died at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tenn. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in September.
The Browns’ 1959 crossover smash “The Three Bells” topped Billboard’s country chart for 10 straight weeks, and it spent four weeks atop Billboard’s all-genre singles chart.
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RIP.
RIP
His soul winged its way to Heaven. RIP
He had a nice voice. I remember that song from when it first came out.
Ray Price will likely great him on arrival...
R.I.P.
There’s a village hidden deep in the valley
Among the pine trees half forlorn
And there on a sunny morning
Little Jimmy Brown was born
All the chapel bells were ringing
In the little valley town
And the songs that they were singing
Were for baby Jimmy Brown
Then the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation,
Bless this hour of meditation
Guide him with eternal love
There’s a village hidden deep in the valley
Beneath the mountains high above
And there, twenty years thereafter
Jimmy was to meet his love
All the chapel bells were ringing,
Was a great day in his life
Cause the songs that they were singing
Were for Jimmy and his wife
Then the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation,
Bless oh Lord this celebration
May their lives be filled with love
From the village hidden deep in the valley
One rainy morning dark and gray
A soul winged its way to heaven
Jimmy Brown had passed away
Just a lonely bell was ringing
In the little valley town
Twas farewell that it was singing
To our good old Jimmy Brown
And the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation,
May his soul find the salvation
Of thy great eternal love”
Loved “It’s that time of the night,” and “Pop a top”. RIP Jim Ed and enjoy paradise.
Here is the original and now I can't see my keyboard. RIP Jimmy Brown! Well done thy good and faithful servant.
I gave away around a hundred LP albums a few years ago along with a stereo. One of the albums was Jim Reeves. His version of “Beautiful Dreamer” in Afrikaans was really good.
Thanks for that. Enjoyed.
This was when it still had class.
Oh, if they heard the stuff that monopolizes the genre today.
Odd how things work - I literally was singing this song while shaving today, and thinking epecially about the “soul wing(ing) his way to Heaven” part.
RIP, Mr. Brown.
I’m a bit too young to remember that. By the time I came along, it was Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Yal4jOrNo
I sure hope he got his six pack to go. RIP Jim Ed.
The Browns - Little Jimmy Brown is a GREAT song!
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