Note: This song was written by Tom Paxton and released on Folkways Broadside. He says that he stopped performing it at concerts because it proved to have too powerful an effect on the audience.
About the session: These informal recordings of Tom Paxton are among the folksinger's first, and were made by Alan Lomax an at unspecified location in New York CIty. Pete Seeger was also on hand, and assisted in the recording.
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