From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> with a long American history under several titles, most notably "Streets
of
> Laredo"--Robin hamilton has been studying this ballad forever)
As it looks highly unlikely that I'll ever finish this, if anyone's
interested, backchannel me and I'll send a Word file of what I've done to
date.
Mostly a compilation of texts, but hey, more interesting than what I have to
say about them.
What I was trying to do was track an 18thC Irish ballad called "The Rake's
Lament" through +all+ its tortuous twistings and windings to "The Cowboy's
Lament"/"The Streets of Laredo", and beyond.
Latest "beyond" (as Candice points out) is Emmylou's "Bang the drum slowly".
Robin
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