Fire Draw Near

The Farmer's Curst Wife


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This episode looks at the ballad The Farmer’s Curst Wife aka the Women are Worse than the Men aka The Old Man under the Hill aka The Devil and the Farmer's Wife aka The Old Woman and the Devil aka The Battle Axe and the Devil aka The Farmer and the Devil aka The Carle o' Killyburn Braes aka The Farmer's Wife aka Jack's Wife aka Kellybumbraes aka Ten Little Devils
The Devil and the Fanner's Wife aka The Devil's Song aka The Old Devil Come to my Plow aka The Old Jokey Song aka The (Old) Scolding Wife.
Tracklist
A.L. Lloyd – The Devil and the Ploughman
Walter Pardon – The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife
Gordon Hall – Farmer’s Curst Wife
The City Waites – Lillibullero
Frankie Armstrong – Devil and the Farmer’s Wife
Jimmy White – The Devil
Maggie Murphy – Killyburn Brae
Dominic Behan – The Women are Worse than the Men
Margaret Dunne – There was an Old Woman from Conner in Hell
Thomas Moran – The Farmer’s Curst Wife
Bill and Belle Reed – Old Lady and the Devil
Captain Pearl R. Nye – Old Woman under the Hill
Joe Hubbard – The Farmer’s Curst Wife
Hobart Stallard – The Old Lady and the Devil
Lena Armstrong and Etta Jones – The Farmer and the Devil
Jean Ritchie - The Farmer's Curst Wife
Civilization IV – Colonization – The Farmer’s Curst Wife
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