Here’s a little Maiden’s Prayer, with John David Williams on diatonic button accordion.
A bit of digging revealed a pretty interesting history. The tune was written by Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska as a piano parlour song in the 1850s, and took off after being published in Parisian weekly. After becoming a hit, she followed up with Prayer Granted, and even Maiden’s Thanksgiving, which I haven’t gotten my hands on yet.
The story goes that Texas fiddler and western swing pioneer Bob Willis heard it while working as a barber in New Mexico. He started performing it with his band the Texas Playboys and it soon became a string band standard.
And lastly - it’s played by garbage trucks in Taiwan as they drive around town. Who knew?
Email me at adrian@adriangross.ca for mandolin lessons.
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