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New Arrival Unfortunate Rake / Various

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1. The Unfortunate Rake
2. The Trooper Cut Down In His Prime
3. The Young Sailor Cut Down In His Prime
4. No, I’m A Young Man Cut Down In My Prime
5. The Bad Girl’s Lament
6. One Morning In May
7. Bright Summer Morning
8. The Girl In The Dilger Case
9. The Cowboy’s Lament
10. Streets Of Laredo
11. St. James Hospital
12. Gambler’s Blues
13. I Once Was A Carman, I Once Was A Carman In The Big Mountain Con
14. The Lineman’s Hymn
15. The Wild Lumberjack
16. A Sun Valley Song
17. The Ballad Of Bloody Thursday
18. Streets Of Hamtramck
19. The Ballad Of Sherman Wu
20. The Professor’s Lament

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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.

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