There are at least two artists named Richard Burnett: a British classical k… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least two artists named Richard Burnett: a British classical keyboardist and an American folk songwriter.

Richard Burnett has recorded several albums of early, baroque, and classical music on historic instruments, including the harpsichord, virginal, clavichord, and fortepiano.

Richard Dick Burnett (October 8, 1883 – January 23, 1977) was an American folk songwriter from Kentucky .

Burnett was born near Monticello, Kentucky. He was known to play the fiddle and was blind in one eye. He allegedly wrote the traditional American folk song, Man of Constant Sorrow, which was later to be covered by Bob Dylan and featured in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou as another version.

Dick Burnett lost his sight when he was shot in the face in 1908. He could not work anymore so he took up music to feed his family. He lived for 94 years and his wife lived one month shy of 98. He died in Somerset, Kentucky

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Willie Moore
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Willie Moore was a king, his age twenty-one,
He courted a damsels fair;
O, her eyes was as bright as the diamonds after night,
And wavy black was her hair.

He courted her both night and day,
'Til to marry they did agree;
But when he came to get her parents consent,
They said it could never be.

She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms,
As oftime had done before;
But little did he think when they parted that night,
Sweet Anna he would see no more.

It was about the tenth of May,
The time I remember well;
That very same night, her body disappeared
In a way no tongue could tell.

Sweet Annie was loved both far and near,
Had friends most all around;
And in a little brook before the cottage door,
The body of sweet Anna was found.

She was taken by her weeping friends,
And carried to her parent's room,
And there she was dressed in a shroud of snowy white,
And laid in a lonely tomb.

Her parents now are left alone,
One mourns while the other one weeps;
And in a grassy mound before the cottage door,
The body of sweet Anna still sleeps.

This song was composed in the flowery West
By a man you may never have seen;
O, I tell you his name, but 'tis not in full,
His initials are J.R.D.

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