Roud 15 is called "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter," but if you know it, it would probably be as "Pretty Polly." And old English song about a brutal, calculated murder which became an American bluegrass standard, this song has a well-traced history behind it.

In this episode, I bring along Paul Slade of http://www.planetslade.com/ to talk about it with me.

 

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