I have to concede that every man and his dog (probably the cat, the budgie and at least one of the goldfish) has recorded a version of this traditional folk song. The version by Johnny Cash was possibly the first I had heard... or remember, at least. A little bit of trivia... if you played all the known recorded versions (in other words, the list from Wikipedia) back to back, it would take nearly five hours. Burl Ives was known as The Wayfaring Stranger... but I don't really want to go there. Jamie Woon is a young British singer/songwriter and producer and he released the Wayfaring Stranger EP in 2007. It was actually the 'Burial' remix from the EP that attracted my attention, though. It has the typically dark beats that you would expect from 'Burial' and I couldn't think of a better way to introduce a song, that is at least a couple of hundred years old, to a new generation.
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