The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25189 Message #294222
Posted By: Sandy Paton
09-Sep-00 - 04:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lang a Growin'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lang a Growin'
You might be interested to know that the version of this non-Child ballad that Joan Baez recorded came from James Atwood of Vermont, collected and published by Helen Sturgis, and slightly modified (inadvertently) by me when I recorded it for Elektra in 1959. The notes in her "Ballad Book" and on her record jacket don't even mention that it's an American version she is singing.