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Thread #96122   Message #3224631
Posted By: GUEST,Don Wise
17-Sep-11 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Tramps and Hawkers
Subject: RE: tramps and hawkers
There's an early Dylan song you've all missed- "The Ballad of Donald White". I found the text in one of those handy, pocket-sized(!) books containing Dylans lyrics, but no tunes, over a certain span of years (1962-1985) So I made a tune.......A few years later I found a Broadside LP with a certain 'Blind Boy Grunt' singing "Donald White". The tune? Yep- "Tramps and Hawkers". Personally, I think that "T & H" doesn't fit the song at all, not by a long way, and that's irrespective of having made my own tune for it.