Parallel Anthology Track 7

Track 7: Buell Kazee - The Wagoner's Lad  Brunswick 213-B; Recorded in New York, 18.1.1928

No image of record label available. Neither Anthology booklet assigns authorship, nor does www.78discography.com.

The Roud Folksong Index classifies this song as a version of Roud 414, and also lists a version collected by Cecil Sharp in 1908. Perhaps the book which contains this version (English Folk-Songs Southern Appalachians 2) has more information about the origins of this song?

It seems reasonable to treat this composition as public domain, although the evidence for this is not particularly firm as yet.

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Alternative Versions
The Wagoner's Lad by Peggy Seeger   album released in 1955: Spotify   Liner notes make no claim to copyright for writing or arranging.

The Wagoner's Lad by Pete Seeger   album released in 1957 according to Folkways: Available in BL, shelfmark 1LP0082764: Spotify   No claim to authorship or arrangement on liner notes

Pretty Saro by Guy Carawan   album released in 1959 (according to www.folkways.si.edu: Spotify   Liner notes say "This version from Sharp's English Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, Vol. II, page 12, was popularized among city singers first by Elizabeth Harold and Hally Wood."

Pretty Saro by Guy Carawan and Peggy Seeger   from 1958 album "America at Play"

The Rose of Naideen by Mrs. Laura McDonald   recorded in 1958: Max Hunter Collection

My Horses Ain't Hungry by Mrs. Haden Robinson   recorded in 1960: Max Hunter Collection

My Horses Ain't Hungry by Mrs. Kenneth Wright and Mrs. Gladys Jennings   recorded in 1960: Max Hunter Collection