By TheHeadlessFolkieOfStatenIslandHollow. (The original video wasn't cropped, and I'm not sure why it decided to cut out my head . . . .)
I thought I'd record something a bit less nautical today. This is influenced by the 1920s commercial recordings of Buell Kazee and Clarence Ashley recordings, but I extemporized a couple of lines and made the melody more languid.
Mudcat thread about the song's origins, with input from Jean Ritchie: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=35233.
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