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	Dec 13 2009, 6:31 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	2 words added 2 words deleted
Change: #42#39 - Top Rated (Today) - Australia#5#4 - Top Rated (Today) - Music - Australia#29 - Top Rated (This Week) - Music - AustraliaHere is our performance. You can also see it on Alonzo's channel.Here are the lyrics. I Never View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26949)
	Dec 13 2009, 5:13 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	2 words added 2 words deleted
Change: #13#10 - Most Discussed (Today) - Australia#4 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music - Australia#93 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music#27 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Music - Australia#25 - Top Favorited (Today) - Music - Australia#43#42 - Top View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26949)
	Dec 13 2009, 4:54 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	211 words added 2 words deleted
Change: This was put up as my thousandth video on YouTube, and it was made as a collaboration with YouTube star, Alonzo Garbanzo. I think it View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26949)
	Dec 11 2009, 8:59 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	5 words added
Change: our performance and here are the lyrics. I Never Will Marry There are several versions of this song, but most seem to end with the woman drowning herself. One of the earliest versions seems to be The Lover's Lament for Her Sailor, which was known View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26760)
	Dec 5 2009, 4:44 PM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	8 words added 2 words deleted
Change: and possibly the first, is that of Odetta.the incomparable Odetta.Here is Bill Richards singing the song to his new-born son.You can hear my performance and read the lyrics. Almost DoneAlso known as On a Monday and Take These Stripes (From Around my Shoulder), View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26755)
	Dec 5 2009, 5:26 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	12 words added
Change: of the song, collected by John Lomax. It became part of the folk repertoire, with several changes and gained wide popularity when recorded by the Carter Family. I first heard it sung by Joan Baez. Woody Guthrie used the tune for his song The Sinking of the Reuben James View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26750)
	Dec 4 2009, 11:59 PM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	86 words added 8 words deleted
Change: popular folks song, according to Alan Lomax, originated in North Carolina. One of the earliest versions was a plantation song called "Cindy Ann" though the version known today was written by Benjamin Weisman, Dolores Fuller and Fred Wise, using the name "Cindy, Cindy." It has been View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26738)
	Dec 2 2009, 8:44 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	8 words added 8 words deleted
Change: (coming soon) and here are the lyrics.Loving HannahMost modern versions of this song, which is closely related to Handsome Molly, come from the singing of Jean Ritchie, who says she learned it from her father and View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26665)
	Dec 1 2009, 3:59 PM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	139 words added 41 words deleted
Change: Maud Irving, with music by Joseph Philbrick Webster (1819-1875), who also wrote "In the CarterSweet family.By Youand canBy" hearand their"Lorena". songIt became part of the folk repertoire, with several changes and gained wide popularity when recorded by herethe Carter Family. I View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26667)
	Dec 1 2009, 7:36 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	327 words added
Change: When Ella broke off with the Reverend, she wrote him a letter containing the line "If we try, we may forget," which he later used View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26576)
	Nov 30 2009, 7:02 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	90 words added 33 words deleted
Change: , and here are the lyrics. Sweet Betsy from Pike (John A. Stone)This American gold-rush ballad about the trials of a pioneer named Betsy and her lover Ike, who migrate View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26241)
	Nov 30 2009, 3:44 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	18 words added 4 words deleted
Change: The lyrics are here. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Lee Hays) This love song was written and sung by The Weavers. Lee Hays seems to have done most of the work View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26197)
	Nov 30 2009, 3:11 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	135 words added 265 words deleted
Change: Aboard a ship to cross the wave;Every day his life's in danger,Still he ventures being brave.Watch the rocks, they're falling daily;Careless miners always fail;Keep your hand upon the dollarAnd your eye upon the scale.Union miners, stand together,Heed no operator's tale;Keep View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26188)
	Nov 29 2009, 6:14 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	40 words added 5 words deleted
Change: , and here are the lyrics. I Wish I Was Single Again The earliest known date of this song is 1904. It is known in America and Canada but may have View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26350)
	Nov 28 2009, 5:04 PM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	101 words added
Change: Terry Fell was born in 1921 in Dora, Alabama. He got his first guitar at nine years old, when he swapped his groundhog for it, View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26320)
	Nov 28 2009, 9:04 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	18 words added 1 word deleted
Change: , and here are the lyrics. Hopalong Peter This is probably not a very old song as there are not many variations to be found. It was recorded on View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26215)
	Nov 28 2009, 8:21 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	186 words added
Change: Oscar Brand heard it at the home of a family in Allentown and wrote his own version of it in 1948. The original melody was View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26201)
	Nov 28 2009, 2:21 AM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	382 words added 271 words deleted
Change: : "I listened a lot to a John Jacob Niles record, too. Niles was nontraditional, but he sang traditional songs. A Mephistophelean character out of View changes from previous version. (Word count: 26013)
	Nov 27 2009, 6:43 PM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	10 words added
Change: There is also a French version, sung by "nondepouk".Here is my rendition of the English version of the song and here is the American version performed with my wife and two friends from Brunei who visited us in Hong Kong. Here are the lyrics. Streets of Laredo View changes from previous version. (Word count: 25924)
	Nov 27 2009, 6:11 PM EST	raymondcrooke	edit	3 words added 7 words deleted
Change: BCB Band, and David Holness, and marcoacca.marcoacca. You will find more on this playlist put together thanby none other than stewballmax3 himself.Here is my rendition of the English version of the song and here is the American version performed with my View changes from previous version. (Word count: 25915)

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