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15 - The Cruel Ship's Carpenter

Songs

Where Were You?
The Mekons
https://open.spotify.com/track/7LuRo2rdMRYOQ4G7E4EkMu?autoplay=true
The Rains of Castamere
The National
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9vDL7AgLdYQ
Wrong 'Em Boyo
The Clash
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vj1i8kifAFtzrEfWgUPA5?autoplay=true
Pretty Polly
Grȃda
https://grada.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-polly
Pretty Polly
Kristen Hersch
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Polly/dp/B000SFUK4S
Pretty Polly
Bob Dylan
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/7459401?autoplay=true
Pretty Polly
Chad Caldwell
https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/118
Pretty Polly
Ruby Throat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPW6RmUnkxU
Pretty Polly
Queen Adreena
https://www.deezer.com/us/track/5611850?autoplay=true
Pretty Polly
Jeff Beal
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Polly/dp/B00KQP97LC
Pretty Polly
Bill Frisell
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Polly/dp/B0011ZMZWO
Pretty Polly
Carl Jackson
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Polly/dp/B00WAROVM4
Pretty Polly
The Coal Porters
https://thecoalporters.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-polly
Pretty Polly
The Dead Brothers
https://thedeadbrothers.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-polly
Pretty Polly
Vandaveer
https://vandaveer.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-polly
Pretty Polly
The Stanley Brothers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3GY0EZ1fs1qtKcsGQ3vcDM?autoplay=true
Pretty Polly
Henhouse Prowlers
https://www.henhouseprowlers.com/imported-products/Breaking-Ground
Pretty Polly
Bradley Palermo
https://song.link/i/1395836119
Purty Polly
John Hammond, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrlFINuE7o
Pretty Polly
Red Tail Ring
https://music.apple.com/us/album/pretty-polly/548281969?i=548281972&uo=4&app=itunes&at=10l3Sh
Pretty Polly
Judy Collins
https://open.spotify.com/track/4919DVhiMNN5hoxYTFllRE?autoplay=true
Pretty Polly
The Hillbilly Gypsies
https://music.apple.com/us/album/one-foot-in-the-gravy/200859418?i=200861015&ign-gact=3&ls=1
Polly's Love (The Cruel Ship's Carpenter)
Norma Waterson
https://www.amazon.com/Pollys-Love-Cruel-Ships-Carpenter/dp/B07RSB54DG
The Cruel Ship's Carpenter
Steeleye Span
https://open.spotify.com/album/1WglqT39ifgGJWXYfkizWe?highlight=spotify:track:5GMNEYUd75Ik1sUSZDBi57
The Ghost Ship (The Gosport Tragedy)
Ewan MacColl
https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/track/the-ghost-ship-english
The Cruel Ship's Carpenter
Jackie Oates
https://jackieoates.bandcamp.com/track/the-cruel-ships-carpenter-2
Pretty Polly
The Byrds
https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Polly-Album-Version/dp/B00136RLCU
Pretty Polly
The Coon Creek Girls
https://open.spotify.com/track/5pZ9ZhJ1VN8971LcsjBuwZ?autoplay=true
Love and Murder
Jon Raven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSk8hHm7t10
Pretty Polly (Instrumental)
The Crooked Jades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbZ1O8igT8

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)

9] Fresno State (1) (2)

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

17] https://nativeground.com/pretty-polly/#:~:text=He%20later%20died%20aboard%20ship,by%20the%20Coon%20Creek%20Girls.

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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