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The “Gallows Pole”: How Folk Songs are the Gift that Keeps on Giving.

Paul July 18, 2020 July 18, 2020Traditional Music Folk, Gallows Pole, Hurdy Gurdy 0

In the late 1800s, an ethnomusicologist (Folk song collector) published the lyrics to several versions of a traditional song in which a maid is begging the hangman to delay until her friends or family can come up with enough cash to buy her freedom. It’s called “Child #95: The Maid…

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