American Folk Anthologies The Unfortunate Rake (St. James Hospital), A Study in the Evolution of a Ballad with A.L. Lloyd, Dave Van Ronk, Rosalie Sor

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"This item is part of the Folkways (Cook, or Paredon, or Monitor) archives. The original liner notes from the LP are included." The story is basically this: a soldier is dying, evidently of venereal disease he contracted from a young woman, and he requests a funeral. Hear how this story has been spun over centuries into a whole collection of similarly themed songs, the earliest possibly dating to 1790. In this recording we are essentially witnessing the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition.      101      The Unfortunate Rake      A. L. Lloyd and Alf Edwards      2:59           102     The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime     Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger     4:30          103     The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime     Harry Cox     1:57          104     Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime     Willie Mathieson     2:17          105     The Bad Girl's Lament     Wade Hemsworth     2:49          106     One Morning in May     Hally Wood     2:36          107     Bright Summer Morning     Viola Penn     2:24          108     The Girl in the Dilger Case     D. K. Wilgus     1:08          109     The Cowboy's Lament     Bruce Buckley     2:39          110     Streets of Laredo     Harry Jackson     4:59          201     St. James Hospital     Alan Lomax     3:33          202     Gambler's Blues     Dave Van Ronk     2:44          203     I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con     Guthrie T. "Gus" Meade     1:12          204     The Lineman's Hymn     Rosalie Sorrels     1:49          205     The Wild Lumberjack     Kenneth S. Goldstein     1:51          206     A Sun Valley Song     Jan Brunvand and Ellen Stekert     1:28          207     The Ballad of Bloody Thursday     John Greenway     3:44          208     Streets of Hamtramck     Bill Friedland, Mark Newman, and Morris Howarth     2:23          209     The Ballad of Sherman Wu     Pete Seeger     2:07          210     The Professor's Lament     Roger Abrahams     3:25

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