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	<title>Roger McGuinn&#039;s Folk Den</title>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been Working On The Railroad</title>
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In the 1800&#8217;s working on the railroad was a good job for many folks who had immigrated to the United States from other countries. The workers were hard driven! Evidently the &#8220;Dinah Won&#8217;t You Blow Your Horn&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Crossing The Jordan River</title>
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This is a song that helped catapult Joan Baez to become the &#8220;Queen of Folk Music.&#8221; Bob Gibson had invited her to sing with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Her performance was so riveting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early One Morning</title>
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&#8220;Early One Morning&#8221;, also known as &#8220;The Lovesick Maiden&#8221; is an English folk song that dates back to 1787. It was cataloged by Roud #12682. I learned this song in glee club at the Latin School of Chicago in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swing Low Sweet Chariot</title>
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This was written by Wallis Willis, circa 1860 in Native American Territory, which is now Hugo Oklahoma. The Red River inspired the song because it reminded Willis of the Jordan River where the prophet Elijah was taken up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moonshiner</title>
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Inspired by Buell Kazee&#8217;s 1958 Folkways recording, I did my best to emulate his phrasing and 5-string banjo style. The photo is of a real moonshiner, Marvin &#8220;Popcorn&#8221; Sutton who was quite popular in the hills of Tennessee and North Carolina. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks of Newfoundland</title>
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Written in 1820 by Chief Justice Francis Forbes, &#8220;Banks of Newfoundland&#8221; is one of the first published songs about this northeast region of Canada. It was once used as a dance tune and later as a march by the Royal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Hardy</title>
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In West Virginia, a railroad worker named  John Hardy got violent during a game of craps and fatally shot Thomas Drews, a fellow player. Hardy was tried, found guilty of murder in the first degree and hanged on January 19, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Three Kings</title>
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This is a Christmas carol I&#8217;ve never tried to play before. As I went through the chords, it struck me they were very much like the patterns folk singer Bob Gibson favored. A good example is his version of &#8220;Wayfaring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Away With Rum</title>
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I played &#8220;Rum by Gum&#8221; on the Chad Mitchell Trio&#8217;s LP &#8220;Mighty Day On Campus&#8221; in 1961. The origin is difficult to determine. It dates back to England in the 1890s and was possibly a music hall song. There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7494</link>
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		<title>Darling Clementine</title>
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Camilla and I were on the road in September 2012 and I realized we were in a copper mining town on the upper peninsula of Michigan. The town of Calumet has a rich history of mining and was the site of [...]]]></description>
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