This week at 52fs, a couple more gallows songs.

FS08 is Hughie the Graeme: a Child ballad, rewritten by Robert Burns, arranged by Ewan MacColl and rearranged by Tony Capstick. I've got a soft spot for really defiant gallows speeches, and it doesn't get much more defiant than openly planning out the revenge attack.

Also this week: Sam Hall, a gallows song in an odd kind of mock-heroic style. Sam's a petty thief who's never had as much attention in his life as he's getting on the gallows; his story is pathetic and ridiculous, but dreadfully sad at the same time.

Plus Serenity. We ask: is Joss Whedon a folkie?

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