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The Moonshiner (1963)
Surely the most nihilistic folk song ever written and also – not entirely coincidentally – my party piece. Weddings, bar mitzvahs etc. etc.
March 14th, 2010.
March 14th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
@ EK – Its a traditional Irish song. Dylan didn’t write it. And the song about the girl with ringlets in her hair is the Lakes of Pontchartrain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad8RVexRUoQ