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	<title>Roger McGuinn&#039;s Folk Den</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>Give Me Oil In My Lamp</title>
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&#8220;Give Me Oil In My Lamp&#8221; is great old Gospel song that I recorded on the Byrds&#8217; &#8220;Easy Rider&#8221; album back in 1969. It&#8217;s derived from Matthew 25:1-3 in the Bible: &#8220;The kingdom of heaven shall be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t It Grand?</title>
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This is an old English music hall song making fun of death and funerals. I turned 70 on July 13, 2012. People were shocked! So was I. That&#8217;s why I decided to record this song for the Folk Den on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob&#8217;s Dream</title>
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Painting by William Blake c. 1800
This is a variation of the spiritual &#8220;Jacob&#8217;s Ladder&#8221; There have been many versions of this, some used to organize unions by changing the lyrics. The description of Jacob&#8217;s ladder appears in Genesis 28:10-19,
&#8220;Jacob left Beersheba, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7452</link>
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		<title>When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New</title>
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This marks the 200th song in the Folk Den!
&#8220;When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New&#8221; is a popular drinking song from Olde England, circa 1594. The first printed version was entered at Stationer&#8217;s Register in 1595, &#8220;a ballet intituled Jone&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down In The Valley</title>
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This song had an influence on Kurt Weill
Down in the Valley: An Appreciation
by Mark N. Grant
Kurt Weill couldn&#8217;t convince any of his usual collaborators to write a libretto, so Stonzek and well-known conductor Lehman Engel suggested Arnold Sundgaard (1909-2006), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7437</link>
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		<title>Let My People Go!</title>
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One of the greatest spirituals, just in time for Passover and Easter!

Lyrics:

When Israel was in Egypt&#8217;s Land
Let my people go
Opressed so hard they could not stand
Let my people go.
Chorus:
[Gm] Go down, [Cm] Moses
[Gm] Way down in Egypt&#8217;s Land.
Tell ol&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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