15 - The Cruel Ship's Carpenter
Songs
Citations/Sources
1] The Roud Folk Music Index hosted by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Libary at https://www.vwml.org/
2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/ (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
3] "Timber Wolf: Pretty Polly" by Paul Slade http://www.planetslade.com/pretty-polly.html
3a] Slade, Paul. Unprepared to Die: America's Greatest Murder Ballads and the True Stories That Inspired Them. Soundcheck Books, 2015.
4] “Rennie Sparks: ‘Pretty Polly.’” The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad, by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus, W.W. Norton, 2006.
5] "The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, by Stephen Roud and Julia C. Bishop, Penguin Books, 2014, pp. 286–288, 481
6] Folk Song USA, by John A. Lomax, Duell, 1947, pp. 286–287., 304-205
7] Mainly Norfolk https://mainlynorfolk.info/ (1) (2)
8] Bluegrass Messengers http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/ (1) (2) (3) (4)
10] Mudcat Forums https://mudcat.org/ (1)
12] British Tars https://www.britishtars.com/2014/12/the-gosport-tragedy-or-perjured-ship.html
13] "Murder Most Foul: The Cruel Ship's Carpenter / Pretty Polly" by Tom Leonardi on KZFR.org http://kzfr.org/broadcasts/550
14] “Come, Pretty Polly.” Folk-Songs of the South, by John Harrington Cox and John Harrington Cox, Pelican Pub. Co., 1998, pp. 308–310.
15] "A Brief History of Gopsort" by Tim Lambert http://www.localhistories.org/gosport.html
16] https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/dissociative-disorders/what-are-dissociative-disorders
18] http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/32460/xml
19] The Lomax Kentucky Recordings. "Pretty Polly" by Chad Caldwell https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/118
20] St. Mary's Alverstoke Church website http://stmarysalverstoke.org.uk/our-history/
21] Three Decks (fact-checking ships and crews) https://threedecks.org/ (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
22] The Gosport tragedy. Sold Wholesale and Retail by Leonard Deming, Boston. Monographic. [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/amss.as104750/.
23] "Scurvy" Better Health https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/scurvy
24] "The Question of Why: Did Ted Bundy have Dissociative Identity Disorder?" https://www.crimetraveller.org/2019/06/did-ted-bundy-have-dissociative-identity-disorder/
Transcript
Transcript forthcoming
Extras
An amazing lecture by Rennie Sparks on the cruelty and depth of violence in folk songs like Pretty Polly and the Itsy Bitsy Spider
The haunting performance of Pretty Polly by KatieJane Garside reference in the episode.
Some surviving broadsides of The Gosport Tragedy
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