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and his first wife, Bess Brown Lomax. In the liner notes to the album, Van Ronk writes that he considers the tune "probably the best piece of singing as such I've ever done on record." He goes on to explain, "I had a nasty flu when we cut this one, and my voice had gone pre-laryngitic. This had the
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effect of opening up an octave valve I didn't even know I had. The next day I couldn't talk, let alone sing."
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crooned an abbreviated version of the song on the show
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