Wonderful tab and  an even better story, Jack.  Your tales from the 60s need to be captured for the rest of us and those that follow.  Maybe consider recording some stories for us off the cuff.  They do not need to be heavily edited or produced.  

I have uploaded some clawhammer tab for "Green Green Rocky Road" that I wrote for a student at the Louisville Folk School.  Now I need to work on your guitar tab.  Dave Van Ronk recorded th song in the key of D.  I tabbed the tune in the key of G to make it easier for my student.

David

Green Green Rocky Road Tab - Details and Ratings - Banjo Hangout

Video of Van Ronk playing it in D on guitar. - Dave Van Ronk || Green Green Rocky Road

Hi David,
Thanks so much for posting and doing this tune in Clawhammer. Well, here is at least one story of my adventures in NYC in the 60s. I left NYC because the rents got hiked after I returned to NYC after Covid had struck and now reside in Hampton NJ. I just happened to be in the right and fun place at the right time I guess. Dave actually was a great Chess player when he was off the sauce...Jack    your tab, as always, is just great Dave....

Nice one, Jack. I had this one on a Tim Hardin album,, great tune. Yes, more stories from 1960’s NYC - us folkies in Ontario back then just caught a bit of those times from Sing Out! magazine.

Thanks Chuck,
Yes I wrote several articles for Sing Out way back. They are all on my website...I knew Tim when He lived in NYC for a time. Those were the days I met all those people because we all did gigs with each other back then....Jack

Another fine choice, Jack. Lots of covers of this old skip-rope ditty -- one of my favorites by Chris Smither, who puts a nice little descending chord change on "green."
"Ooka-dooka soda cracker" indeed!

Just had Elijah Wald visiting who was like an acolyte for Van Ronk. I knew Van Ronk only a little bit from the political side of his life and from being friends with one of his several former wives and companions.

Van Ronk had been a tenor banjo player int he Dixieland revival stage of things before coming over to kind of folk music and blues. It strikes me curious why he never played the banjo. Is there any recording of him playing banjo anywhere? I will ask Elijah next time I see him.

He is too much forgotten nowadays when you say his name people say "Who?"/

I was always curious why he never pursued $$ for re-arranging House of the Rising Sun which became a huge hit for The Animals.

well, I looked it up: 

Jack, the guitar tab for "Green Green Rocky Road" is right on and so much fun to play -- or to learn, I should say.  I'm working on the verse or A part now and the subtle variations in the phrasing  are sweet.  I want to nail them down before looking at the second half of the tab.

David

Hi David,
Sounds great. Let me know when you've finished with the tab and I'll throw in some chords for you...It's a great tune for Dave. He didn't write it but he made it popular for sure....Jack

Jack, I've actually been learning to play your tab on guitar. Maybe I will write some Clawhammer tab in double-C to more closely match the key that Dave sang it in. 
David

Sounds great David.....Jack