The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136943   Message #3138637
Posted By: Amos
19-Apr-11 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Wayfaring Stranger Research Project
Subject: RE: Folklore: Wayfaring Stranger Research Project
. How and when did you first hear Wayfaring Stranger?

Also Burl Ives' record from the 50's

2. How did you learn it?

Just absorbed it from the record.

3. When did you first perform/record it?

Probably sometime in the late Fifties, informal performing.

4. Why did you choose to perform/record it?

It has beauty.

5. Where did you source your lyrics from?


Memory of (1) above.