Monday, September 24, 2018

Folk Songs Always Go Backward

Bob Dylan's song....



was based on a 19th-C ballad, sometimes referred to as Lord Franklin, sometimes as Lady Franklin's Lament.



I prefer what Dylan did with it, and prefer Peter, Paul, and Mary's harmonising arrangement even more.
Posted by Assistant Village Idiot at 12:59 AM

3 comments:

RichardJohnson said...

Another example:

Woody Guthrie: Sinking of the Reuben James

Wildwood Flower

Getting out of folk-folk: Redwing's tune came from Schubert's Happy Farmer.

3:07 AM
Texan99 said...

I was partial to the Pentangle version. Harmony appears in the 3d verse: https://youtu.be/ysFKjWG_W54

1:42 PM
RichardJohnson said...

The PP&M version has the best video- hands down.

2:56 PM

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