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Voice Of The Army

Voice Of The Army. Program 509, The Wayfaring Stranger
 First published in 1948, this autobiography from Burl Ives, whom Carl Sandberg calls "the greatest folk ballad singer of them all," is as fresh and wholesome as a summer's breeze out of an Illinois cornfield. His ballads have long been an authentic expression of his land and its people-songs his grandmother taught him in the Midwestern farm country, songs remembered by old-timers in small towns all over the land, songs he heard hobos singing-songs we have come to know and love. In Wayfaring Stranger, writing in the stirring imaginative language of the ballad, Burt Ives tells of a night spent in a haystack with a pig, and of a brief fight with a railroad cop on top of a boxcar. He hitched a ride with Al Capone's master bootlegger; he barely escaped the clutches of an old maid in Maine; he fell in love on a Great Lakes steamer; he played for evangelists and politicians; in speakeasies and public parks. Always he listened to the people, and he learned their songs. Anywhere he could get an audience, he sang his ballads: Barbara Allen, The Riddle Song, Fair Eleanor, Old Smokey, Silver Dagger, Foggy Foggy Dew. Now in Wayfaring Stranger, he has written his own story-as warm and appealing as the songs he sings.
Publisher: [United States]:, Papamoa Press ,, 2017

ISBN: 9781787204898

Additional Contributors: Ripley, Joe
Ives, Burl 1909-1995
Thomas, Lowell 1892-1981
Bradley, Omar Nelson 1893-1981
Pace, Frank Jr.,1912-1988
Matthews, Francis P.
Finletter, Thomas K. (Thomas Knight), 1893-1980
Johnson, Louis Arthur 1891-1966
Goldin, J. David

Alternative Title: Wayfaring stranger
Voice of the Army (Radio program)
Voice of the Army. Program 510, Armed Forces Day 1950
Armed Forces Day 1950
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