I never saw any of the 60s, but my parents sometimes would listen to oldies while I was growing up so I remember hearing this folk tune when I was 12, which I never heard again for years and I mean YEARS so it's been haunting me, but just a little over a month ago while I was sitting in a waiting room---I almost fell out of my seat!!!

Anyway this song probably came from the late 60s or early 70s, and is probably from a not-well-known Canadian artist (can't even make out the gender!). If anybody knows the title and the artist, that would be wonderful. Here's how the song goes---it's got a mellow beat (quiet folksy), and the string guitar seems to be the only instrument played while the lyrics are something like, "And I'm going to the country. Da dum da dum da dum dum dum....da dum da dum da dum dum dum...dum dum dum..." I'm afraid that's all I can recall.

Could be Bruce Cockburn's Going To The Country from the album Bruce Cockburn (1970)  ???

Look out the window, what do I see?
cows hangin' out under spreading trees.
ZOOM! they're gone behind the sign
white letters pointing to the long white line
and I'm going to the country
o, la la la la la
I'm going to the country
sunshine smile on me

I can smell the grass growing in the field
wind in my hair tells me how it feels
farm house, silver roof flashing by
tractor-trailer truck says goodbye with a sigh
and I'm going to the country
o, la la la la la
I'm going to the country
sunshine smile on me

birds singing, I'm singing in my bones
doesn't much matter now where I'm going
get it when I get there is what I'll do
if I get enough I'll give some to you
and I'm going to the country
o, happy as can be
I'm going to the country
sunshine smile on me

I never saw any of the 60s, but my parents sometimes would listen to oldies while I was growing up so I remember hearing this folk tune when I was 12, which I never heard again for years and I mean YEARS so it's been haunting me, but just a little over a month ago while I was sitting in a waiting room---I almost fell out of my seat!!!

Anyway this song probably came from the late 60s or early 70s, and is probably from a not-well-known Canadian artist (can't even make out the gender!). If anybody knows the title and the artist, that would be wonderful. Here's how the song goes---it's got a mellow beat (quiet folksy), and the string guitar seems to be the only instrument played while the lyrics are something like, "And I'm going to the country. Da dum da dum da dum dum dum....da dum da dum da dum dum dum...dum dum dum..." I'm afraid that's all I can recall.


Sounds familar to me as John Fogerty formerly with Creedence Clearwater who had a band for a short time called the Blue Ridge Mountain Rangers kinda folksy and that song sounds like "going up the country".  Hope that helps...

Perhaps it's CANNED HEAT ?

They're on the Woodstock soundtrack LP, doing  "Goin' Up the Country".

I'm going up the country. Baby, don't you wanna go?
I'm going up the country. Baby, don't you wanna go?
I'm going to some place where I've never been before.
I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine.
I'm going where the water tastes like wine.
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away.
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away.
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I just can't stay.
Now, Baby, pack your leaving trunk.
You know we got to leave today.
Just exactly where we going I just can not say,
But we might even leave the U.S.A.
'Cause it's a brand new game, and I want to play.
No use of you running or screaming and crying
'Cause you got a home as long as I got mine.

bet it's the Canned Heat one..cool tune too.