Grateful Dead Family Discography: Virgin's Lament

Virgin's Lament / Maiden's Prayer

Composer: Badarzewska-Baranowska / Bob Wills / Richard Greene

Virgin's Lament was played on at least two occasions by Jerry Garcia in 1974 with the Great American String Band. The group for these shows were David Nichtern, David Grisman, Richard Greene and Buell Neidlinger plus Jerry Garcia.

Virgin's Lament is a variation, by Richard Greene, of the traditional tune The Maiden's Prayer.

A Maiden's Prayer was originally Modlitwa dziewicy Op. 4 a composition for piano by the Polish composer Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska. It was popularised in the US as a fiddle tune by Bob Wills who recorded it as an instrumental which was released in the late 1930s. Subsequently Wills wrote lyrics for the piece and recorded a vocal version in 1941. It became a standard of the country music repertoire. On recording it is often credited to Wills or Traditional.

Virgin's Lament recordings

The Grass Is Greener: Traditional Bluegrass Instrumentals, Richard Greene, 1995

Maiden's Prayer recordings

Only Country Music versions are listed here. This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

no info Single (Maiden's Prayer / Never No More Hard Times Blues), Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, 1938?
no info Single (Maiden's Prayer / Takin' It Home), Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, 1941
no info Single (Maiden's Prayer / Never No More Hard Times Blues), Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, 1948
no info Single (A Maiden's Prayer / I'm Gonna' Move Home Bye And Bye), Moon Mullican, 1948
no info Ranch House Favorites, Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, 1956
no info Together Again, Bob Wills / Tommy Duncan And The Texas Playboys, 1958
no info Hoedown! The Fantastic Fiddles Of Felix Slatkin, 1962
no info San Antonio Rose, Ray Price, 1962
no info The Lightning Fingers Of, Roy Clark, 1963
no info Bob Wills Sings & Plays, Bob Wills, 1963
no info True Country And Western Songs, Bill Choate, 1964
I've Got A Tiger By The Tail, Buck Owens, 1965
The Instrumental Hits of Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, 1965
no info 18 All-Time Hits, Little Roy Wiggins, 1965
no info A Master At Work, Mac Wiseman, 1966
no info San Antonio Rose, Steel Guitar Rag, Bob Wills / Tommy Duncan, 1966
Red Allen & The Kentuckians, Red Allen And The Kentuckians, 1967
no info Town & Country Square Dances, Tobacco Jones And The Slickers, 1967
no info The George Jones Song Book And Picture Album, George Jones, 1967
no info Send Me The Pillow You Dream On, Hank Locklin, 1967
no info Fire on the Strings, Various Artists (Bob Wills), 1967
All-Time Great Country Instrumentals, Jim & Jesse, 1968
no info Play The Nashville Sound, The Nashville Brass, 1968
no info With the Music City Pops, Floyd Cramer, 1969
no info Chubby Wise and his Fiddle, Chubby Wise, 1969
no info Single (I Saw The Light / Maiden's Prayer), The Nashville Brass, 1969
no info Single (Chubby's Hornpipe / Maiden's Prayer), Chubby Wise, 1969
no info Chubby Plays Bob Wills, Chubby Wise, 1970
Bluegrass Country, Emerson & Waldron, 1970
no info Down Home, The Nashville String Band, 1970
no info Single (Black Mountain Rag / Maiden's Prayer), Fiddlin' Charlie McDowell, 1970
Two Aces: Sho-Budding Again, Buddy Emmons & Shot Jackson, 1971
Present Original Songs And New Banjo Sounds Of The 70's, Jake Landers & Tom McKinney, 1971
no info Classic Country! The Fantastic Fiddles, Felix Slatkin, 1971
no info Nashville Northwest, Shot Jackson / Chubby Howard, 1971
no info Single (I'll Be All Smiles Tonight / Maidens Prayer, Shot Jackson / Chubby Howard, 1971
no info EP, Frank Hamilton, 1971?
Tiny Moore Music, Tiny Moore, 1972
no info My Little Home in West Virginia, Curly Ray Cline, 1972
no info Please Pass The Wine, The Flinthills, 1972
no info Bluegrass On My Mind, Reno & Harrell, 1972
no info Let Me Tell You About A Song, Merle Haggard, 1972
no info Champion Fiddler, Vol. 2, Various Artists (Curly Fox), 1972
no info Rackensack. Volume 1, Various Artists (Richard Morrison), 1972
no info The Bob Wills Anthology, Bob Wills, 1973
no info The Fastest Harp In The South, Charlie McCoy, 1973
no info Let The Good Times Roll, Buck Owens, 1973
no info 38th Annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, Various Artists (Jimmy Kidd), 1973
no info Union Grove 50, Various Artists (Tommy Malboeuef), 1974
no info Hot Tarheel Fiddlin', Various Artists (Carl Joyner), 1974?
no info Memories, Moms and Dads, 1975
no info Single (Maiden's Prayer / San Antonio Stroll), Maury Finney, 1975
no info Draggin' the Bow, Buck Ryan, 1976
no info King Of The 5-String Banjo, Raymond Fairchild, 1976
no info Alabama Fiddling: Roy Crawford Style, Roy Crawford, 1976
no info Remembering ... The Greatest Hits Of, Bob Wills, 1976
no info Sax Life In Nashville, Maury Finney, 1977
no info Single (Maiden's Prayer / Off And Running), Maury Finney, 1977
no info String Band. Mountain Swing, Various Artists (Luke Smathers), 1977
no info 30 Fiddler's Greatest Hits, Various Artists (Buck Ryan), 1978
no info The Gaudreau Mandolin Album, Jimmy Gaudreau, 1979
no info Chubby Wise and his Fiddle, Chubby Wise, 197?
no info Fiddle Classics, Terry Morris, 1981
no info Bob Wills' Original Piano Player, Brother Al Stricklin, 1981
no info Steel Guitar Rag, Leon McAuliffe, 1982
no info A Tribute To Bob Wills, Joe Stephenson, 1982
no info Just Kickin' It Around, Red Taylor, 1982
no info Hull's Victory, Dakota Dave Hull, 1983
no info Home Again, Everly Brothers, 1985
no info Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2, Bob Wills, 1986
no info 16 Fiddlers' Greatest Hits, Various Artists (Buck Ryan with Reno and Harrell), 1987
no info Fiddle, Bob Wills, 1987
no info That Dobro Sound's Goin' Round, Various Artists (Hoss Linneman), 1987
no info Hull's Victory, Dakota Dave Hull, 1988
no info 52nd Annual Old Fiddlers Convention Galax, Various Artists (Glen Ashwell), 1988
no info Phone Call from God, Various Artists (Hoss Linneman), 1988
no info Swingin' from the 40's Thru The 80's, Ray Pennington, 1989
no info 24 Great Hits, Bob Wills, 1989
no info Red Allen and The Kentuckians, Red Allen, 1991
no info Anthology 1935-1973, Bob Wills, 1991
no info Essential Bob Wills and His Texas Playboy, Bob Wills, 1992
no info Place of My Own, Raymond W. McLain, 1992
Texas Crapshooter, Bobby Hicks, 1994
Bluegrass And More, Jim & Jesse, 1994
no info Encore, Bob Wills, 1994
no info Texas Crapshooter, Bobby Hicks, 1994
no info Fiddle Tunes, Various Artists (Buck Ryan), 1995
1956-1968, The Osborne Brothers, 1995
Common Chord, David Grisman and Daniel Kobialka, 1995
The Honky Tonk Years: 1950-1966, Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys, 1996
no info Not Much Work For Saturday, Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman, 1996
no info Texas Bluegrass - Cotton Eyed Joe and Others, Various Artists (Bob Wills), 1996
Bluegrass Masters, Various Artists (Flatt and Scruggs), 1996
no info Faded Love and Other Texas Playboys, Playboys Two, 1996
Dancing On The Fingerboard, Rickie Simpkins, 1997
no info Celtic Journey, Medwyn Goodall, 1998
Flatt On Victor Plus More, Lester Flatt, 1999
no info Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene, Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien, 1999
no info Ride With Bob, Asleep At The Wheel, 1999
Newport Folk Festival: Best of Bluegrass 1959-1966, Various Artists (Flatt & Scruggs), 2001
Lonesome & Blue: The Complete County Recordings, Red Allen, 2004
Faded Love 1947-1973, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, 2005
Back to Back (Extended ed.), Tiny Moore, 2005
Acoustic Cheer, Various Artists (Tiny Moore, Jethro Burns & David Grisman), 2005?
Chained to a Memory 1966-1972, The Everly Brothers, 2006
no info Sings & Plays / In Concert, Bob Wills, 2006
Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969-1976, Merle Haggard, 2007
Act Naturally: The Buck Owens Recordings 1953-1964, Buck Owens, 2008
no info Classic Country Sax, Maury Finney, 2009
Let The Steel Play, Andy Hall & Roosevelt Collier, 2017
no info Big Road, David Bromberg Band, 2020