The Unfortunate Rake

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title: The Unfortunate Rake
text: The Unfortunate Rake is a ballad, which through the folk process has evolved into a large number of variants, including allegedly the country and western song "Streets of Laredo". The Roud Broadside Index contains exactly two songs with the title "The Unfortunate Rake": "Jenny Gordon or The Unfortunate Rake" from the Madden collection, and another printed in Gateshead, England, whose first line is "Attend to the tale of a wand’rer forlorn". These do not seem to be connected with the songs that c
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description: Anglo-American folk song, also called "The Unfortunate Lad"
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date created: 2013-03-02T23:33:12Z
date modified: 2024-09-12T13:07:22Z
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