1.13 I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con
1.14 The Lineman's Hymn
1.15 The Wild Lumberjack
1.16 A Sun Valley Song
1.17 The Ballad of Bloody Thursday
1.18 Streets of Hamtramck
1.19 The Ballad of Sherman Wu
1.20 The Professor's Lament
Number of discs:
1
Description:
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.