The Unfortunate Rake
Various Artists
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.
Track Listing
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101
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The Unfortunate Rake | A. L. Lloyd and Alf Edwards | 2:59 | |
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102
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The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 4:30 | |
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103
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The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime | Harry Cox | 1:57 | |
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104
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Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime | Willie Mathieson | 2:17 | |
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105
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The Bad Girl's Lament | Wade Hemsworth | 2:49 | |
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106
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One Morning in May | Hally Wood | 2:36 | |
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107
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Bright Summer Morning | Viola Penn | 2:24 | |
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108
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The Girl in the Dilger Case | D. K. Wilgus | 1:08 | |
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109
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The Cowboy's Lament | Bruce Buckley | 2:39 | |
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110
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Streets of Laredo | Harry Jackson | 4:59 | |
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201
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St. James Hospital | Alan Lomax | 3:33 | |
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202
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Gambler's Blues | Dave Van Ronk | 2:44 | |
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203
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I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con | Guthrie T. "Gus" Meade | 1:12 | |
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204
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The Lineman's Hymn | Rosalie Sorrels | 1:49 | |
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205
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The Wild Lumberjack | Kenneth S. Goldstein | 1:51 | |
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206
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A Sun Valley Song | Jan Brunvand and Ellen Stekert | 1:28 | |
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207
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The Ballad of Bloody Thursday | John Greenway | 3:44 | |
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208
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Streets of Hamtramck | Bill Friedland, Mark Newman, and Morris Howarth | 2:23 | |
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209
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The Ballad of Sherman Wu | Pete Seeger | 2:07 | |
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210
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The Professor's Lament | Roger Abrahams | 3:25 |
Album Info
Folkways Suggests
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Irish Music from Cleveland, Vol. 2: The Community TraditionVarious Artists
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Chaucer: Readings from Canterbury TalesVictor L. Kaplan
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Songs of Robert BurnsEwan MacColl
