David Massengill
About the artist
David Massengill (born in 1951 in Bristol, Tennessee) is an American folk singer/songwriter, guitar and appalachian dulcimer player. His best-known songs include "On The Road to Fairfax County," recorded by The Roches and by Joan Baez, "The Great American Dream," and "My Name Joe," about an illegal immigrant restaurant worker. For some years after he began recording, Massengill maintained a day job as a restaurant dishwasher. He also contributed his
Top songs
- Contrary Mary
- Fairfax County
- Massengill's Theory of De-evolution
- What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs?
- My Name Joe
- Mild Mannered Schizophrenic
- Rider on an Orphan train
- Rider On A Orphan Train
- Crucifixion
- Number One in America
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- Where has My True Love Gone
- On the Road to Fairfax County
- Bloods And Crips
- My Hometown
- Jesus, the Fugitive Prince
- Coming Up for Air
- Tree of Rhyme
- Don Quixote's Lullaby
- The Great American Dream
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Down Derry Down
- The Girl From Nebraska
- Henry the Accountant
- It's a Beautiful World
- Fireball's Last Ride
- Where Has My True Love Gone?
- Johnny Macaroon
- To Climb A Tree
- My Home Must Be a Special Place
- Shamas Rides
- Somebody Else Not Me
- Rainchild
- Another Time And Place (Dave Van Ronk cover)
- Killer Keller's Last Stand
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster cover)
- The Return
- Crucifixion (Phil Ochs cover)
- Wake Up
- The Eunuch's Lament
- Mrs. Credle Was My First Love
- Intro-Cowboy Kid
- A Notable Social Event/The Debutante's Ball
- Green, Green Rocky Road
- Nothing
- A Careless Man
- Candy Man Blues (trad; via Dave Van Ronk)
- Girl From Nebraska
- Perfect Love
- My First Kiss
- The Gambler-In-Chief
- The Code of Cowboy Kid
- He Was A Friend Of Mine (trad, arr. Van Ronk / Schmidt)
- Culture Hurts
- Frank Goodpasture Had A Pony
- Madou
- Blind Man / Black Swan
- Our Lady of Shinbone Alley
- Forever Love
- Like a Big Wheel (You Make Me Feel)
- Sightseer
- Like a Big Wheel
- Dave Van Ronk's Last Cigar
- One for the Loons
- Aunt Fannie and the Yankees
- A Girl's Daring Escape
- We Will Be Together
- What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs
- He Was A Friend Of Mine
- The Ex-President's Waltz
- Evangeline
- Sierra Blanca Massacre
- Family Reunion
- Sail On
- Morgana The Pirate Queen
- The Fairy's Code
- Premature Cheese
- The Fugitive
- Twilight the Taj Mahal
- The Whittlin' Boy
- Mrs. Howard's Elementary Waltz
- Candy Man Blues
- Jack And The Beanstalk
- Penley At The Wheel
- Scratchee Goes A-Wooing
- A Tree Romance
- Tell Old Bill
- Talkin' Dave Ronk Blues
- The Gambler In-Chief
- Used To Be
- Blind Man/Black Swan
- Don Quixote's Lullaby (for Abbie Hoffman)
- Number on in America
- A Valentine For Her Highness
- Another Time And Place
- Beggarman's Pearl
- Rats and Bats and the Spring Water
- Cousin Jackie and Mamaw's Hedges
- Where Did Miss Nancy Sterett Go?
- My Name Joe - Live
- The Great Holston Mountain Rescue Of 1954
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