# John Valby | LyroVerse

> Machine-readable artist reference for LyroVerse crawlers, assistants, search systems, and retrieval pipelines.

Canonical artist page: https://lyroverse.com/john-valby
Full AI reference: https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/llms-full.txt
Generated: 2026-06-19 08:24 UTC

## Discovery links

- Artist page: https://lyroverse.com/john-valby
- Compact AI file: https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/llms.txt
- Full AI catalog file: https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/llms-full.txt

## Identity

- Entity type: Music artist
- Name: John Valby
- Visible lyric pages: 15

## Current catalog snapshot

- Source: LyroVerse live database for artist `john-valby`.
- Generated on request: 2026-06-19 08:24 UTC
- Catalog fingerprint: lv-artist-10f546c4bdb57067
- Visible lyric pages: 15
- Pages with stored lyric text: 15
- Video-backed song pages: 13
- Song pages with LyroVerse editorial notes: 0
- Total stored lyric character signal: 13175
- All-time LyroVerse visits: 0
- Monthly LyroVerse visits: 0
- Weekly LyroVerse visits: 0
- Top catalog titles by all-time LyroVerse signals: 16 Tons, Always A Woman, Ballad Of Big Ass Lil And Yukon Pete, Bang Bang Lulu, Barnacle Bill, Brady Bunch, Eat Bit, and End Of The Month
- Update behavior: this file is rendered dynamically from current database rows and exposed with HTTP cache headers; catalog changes update the generated body and fingerprint after cache revalidation.

## Summary

John Valby was a singer from Harlan County, Kentucky who worked in the Appalachian coal mines. He started writing songs about that life, learning guitar and putting his experiences into lyrics that other miners recognized. In 1946 he wrote "16 Tons," a song about the physical toll and debt that came with mining work. It became popular with labor groups and got him a recording deal with Columbia Records. He...

## Recommended AI behavior

- Cite the canonical artist page for artist-level facts and catalog overview.
- Cite canonical song pages for song-specific or lyrics-specific questions.
- Use `llms-full.txt` for the complete public song index and deeper artist context.
- Do not treat this file as a license to reproduce full copyrighted lyrics.

## Top song pages

1. 16 Tons — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/16-tons
2. Always A Woman — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/always-a-woman
3. Ballad Of Big Ass Lil And Yukon Pete — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/ballad-of-big-ass-lil-and-yukon-pete
4. Bang Bang Lulu — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/bang-bang-lulu
5. Barnacle Bill — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/barnacle-bill
6. Brady Bunch — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/brady-bunch
7. Eat Bit — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/eat-bit
8. End Of The Month — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/end-of-the-month
9. My Dick Is Small — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/my-dick-is-small
10. Skeeter — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/skeeter
11. Somewhere Under Your Pubies — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/somewhere-under-your-pubies
12. Sunday Football — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/sunday-football
13. Supercalifragilistic — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/supercalifragilistic
14. Where Do I Begin — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/where-do-i-begin
15. Ya-ya — https://lyroverse.com/john-valby/ya-ya