Don Firth:

Thanks for the reminder. Lovely tune (and I can't remember for the life of me if I've got it on record somewhere ... I suspect it's on one of the old vinyls I have or a cassete tape, perhaps BTM [or now that Ioread the rest of your post, ET solo]).

And you're talking minstrel shows? I'll raise you:

"Pull Down Lads" (John Tams [and, according to Roger, Roger Watson, but seldom credited AFAIK]). June Tabor does an absolutely haunting [well, she's knwo for that, eh?] version of this.

Couple more:

"Peter Kagan and the Wind" (Gordon Bok)
"51st (Highland) Division's Farewell To Sicily" (Hamish Henderson/Pipe-Major J. Robertson) [Dick Gaughans version is stunning]
"When I'm Gone" (Phil Ochs)
"Jesse's Corrido" (Bruce "Utah" Phillips)
"School Day's Over" (Ewan McColl)

Heh ... let me do my morning show one more time, and I'll play you a list of tearjerkers that'll have you laying a week in your bed, crying your eyes out....

Then there's the finale:

"God's Song" (Randy Newman)

;-)

Cheers,