EPISODE · Sep 4, 2013 · 34 MIN
2 - The Unfortunate Rake
from Every Folk Song
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. http://everyfolksong.xyz
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