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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)

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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