Joan Baez Go Away from my Window

Joan Baez sings "Go Away From My Window", traditional folk from John Jacob Niles

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• traditional
• Joan
• Baez
• Go
• away
• from
• my
• window

[wildhias]

when John Jacob Niles wrote it - than it is not a traditional - or am i wrong?

[ceb2633]

@wildhias

I have John Jacob Niles huge book; collections of traditional American folk and where it came from. He mainly compiled a huge collection, I doubt he wrote any. He sang some, in a quavery voice. We can thank him for his lifelong studies.

[zyxek]

@ceb2633 Niles was a songwriter as well. This was his; he wrote when he was 16, but didn't perform it until much later.

[ceb2633]

@zyxek

Thank you for the info. All I got was from his book/collection.

C.

[STUDIOCHINCHAN]

I didn't know this was an old folksong. I know this song in the version of Cliff Richard

" I'm looking out my window ". Please check this out you will hear the same tune.

Cheers Eric - Studio ChinChan

[ceb2633]

Thanks for the tip. I checked it out, had not heard this update before. Very nice. C.

[CDL719]

yes he did

[mattoking1]

OH MY GOD

[allenshepard]

@wildhias I heard somewhere that his father is the one who had the idea for it and he told Mr niles and he took it from there

[wildhias]

@ceb2633 aha - didn't know that, because in a youtube clip he said that the he wrote that song in 1908 - and Wikipedia says indeed that he did both transcribing songs from oral sources and wrting new ones - and that he composed that one