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Thread #123027   Message #2704854
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-Aug-09 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: dollar and a half a day: Percy Grainger
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: dollar and a half a day: Percy Grainger
Gibb Sahib, you are not 'off'; I am trying to find out what Baez sang and where recorded.
The lyrics I posted for "Lowlands" are those of more than one website. I would guess that in it, Joan Baez put together material from more than one song. At the time there was much interest in the history of the 'Wild Geese' and their exile and they are included in the song.

Is it the song from that Harvard Square album? I don't know, although the sing365.com site says it is. Also, it is the only Baez "Lowlands" with lyrics that I can find on the net, with the exception of the youtube cut you linked- and the album cover shown is not of the 1959 Harvard Square album (reissued in 1963), in which two other singers are included.
The 1960 Joan Baez album's 16 tracks do not include "Lowlands," so I have questions about where the youtube cut came from.
See Joan Baez Discography

In the complete Joan Baez discography (linked above), only one "Lowlands" is listed, and the album is the Harvard Square album (and re-issues).

Someone here may have the Harvard Square recording. That would settle the question. I have only one of the Baez songbooks; it may be in one of the others; another place to check.