5 - The Three Ravens
Every Folk Song
English - October 16, 2013 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsMusic History folk history music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Roud 5, "The Three Ravens." An old English ballad thought to date back to the 13th century, this bleak, BLEAK song was first printed in 1611. Find out just how bleak it is and just how much bleaker it could get when it finds its way to Scotland. This is really a dark-twilight-of-the-soul kind of podcast episode.
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