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2 - The Unfortunate Rake

Every Folk Song

English - September 04, 2013 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
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This episode focuses on Roud 2, "The Unfortunate Rake" and its journey across Europe, into and out of the Crimean War, and then over the Atlantic, where it settled in the American West and New Orleans. Made popular as "The Streets of Laredo" and "St. James Infirmary" by artists like Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong.

 

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