This is a tune that has had a bit of a renaissance due to the film Inside Llewyn Davis, but it is one I’ve known for many years. It has some different names – Hang me oh hang me is one. I’ve been all around this world is another. Some people call it, I’ll be dead and gone. Here are a couple of alternative versions I think you might enjoy….

Let’s start with Dwight Diller. Mr. Diller is well known in the clawhammer banjo world (some players really LOVE this guy’s playing, others not so much), but perhaps less known outside the banjo fraternity. I think he does a beautifully understated version of this tune…

And a stringband version by the Foghorn Stringband….very nice