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

  1. Contrary Mary
  2. Fairfax County
  3. Massengill's Theory of De-evolution
  4. What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs?
  5. My Name Joe
  6. Mild Mannered Schizophrenic
  7. Rider on an Orphan train
  8. Rider On A Orphan Train
  9. Crucifixion
  10. Number One in America
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  1. Where has My True Love Gone
  2. On the Road to Fairfax County
  3. Bloods And Crips
  4. My Hometown
  5. Jesus, the Fugitive Prince
  6. Coming Up for Air
  7. Tree of Rhyme
  8. Don Quixote's Lullaby
  9. The Great American Dream
  10. Hard Times Come Again No More
  11. Down Derry Down
  12. The Girl From Nebraska
  13. Henry the Accountant
  14. It's a Beautiful World
  15. Fireball's Last Ride
  16. Where Has My True Love Gone?
  17. Johnny Macaroon
  18. To Climb A Tree
  19. My Home Must Be a Special Place
  20. Shamas Rides
  21. Somebody Else Not Me
  22. Rainchild
  23. Another Time And Place (Dave Van Ronk cover)
  24. Killer Keller's Last Stand
  25. Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster cover)
  26. The Return
  27. Crucifixion (Phil Ochs cover)
  28. Wake Up
  29. The Eunuch's Lament
  30. Mrs. Credle Was My First Love
  31. Intro-Cowboy Kid
  32. A Notable Social Event/The Debutante's Ball
  33. Green, Green Rocky Road
  34. Nothing
  35. A Careless Man
  36. Candy Man Blues (trad; via Dave Van Ronk)
  37. Girl From Nebraska
  38. Perfect Love
  39. My First Kiss
  40. The Gambler-In-Chief
  41. The Code of Cowboy Kid
  42. He Was A Friend Of Mine (trad, arr. Van Ronk / Schmidt)
  43. Culture Hurts
  44. Frank Goodpasture Had A Pony
  45. Madou
  46. Blind Man / Black Swan
  47. Our Lady of Shinbone Alley
  48. Forever Love
  49. Like a Big Wheel (You Make Me Feel)
  50. Sightseer
  51. Like a Big Wheel
  52. Dave Van Ronk's Last Cigar
  53. One for the Loons
  54. Aunt Fannie and the Yankees
  55. A Girl's Daring Escape
  56. We Will Be Together
  57. What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs
  58. He Was A Friend Of Mine
  59. The Ex-President's Waltz
  60. Evangeline
  61. Sierra Blanca Massacre
  62. Family Reunion
  63. Sail On
  64. Morgana The Pirate Queen
  65. The Fairy's Code
  66. Premature Cheese
  67. The Fugitive
  68. Twilight the Taj Mahal
  69. The Whittlin' Boy
  70. Mrs. Howard's Elementary Waltz
  71. Candy Man Blues
  72. Jack And The Beanstalk
  73. Penley At The Wheel
  74. Scratchee Goes A-Wooing
  75. A Tree Romance
  76. Tell Old Bill
  77. Talkin' Dave Ronk Blues
  78. The Gambler In-Chief
  79. Used To Be
  80. Blind Man/Black Swan
  81. Don Quixote's Lullaby (for Abbie Hoffman)
  82. Number on in America
  83. A Valentine For Her Highness
  84. Another Time And Place
  85. Beggarman's Pearl
  86. Rats and Bats and the Spring Water
  87. Cousin Jackie and Mamaw's Hedges
  88. Where Did Miss Nancy Sterett Go?
  89. My Name Joe - Live
  90. The Great Holston Mountain Rescue Of 1954

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