Artist: Leon Payne
Author: Leon Payne
Label: Capitol
Year: 1947
See also: I Love You Because.
Covers:
Townes Van Zandt [died exactly 44 years after Hank]
Jerry Lee Lewis [with Delaney Bramlett]
Melody and part of the lyrics borrowed from Irish ballad Rake And Rambling Rose. There's a 1928 American version by Clayton McMichen's McMichen-Lane String Band, later cut by Riley Puckett. Also as Rude And Rambing Man by The Carolina Tar Heels ('29), as Rambling Boy by Wade Mainer, The Carter Family and The New Lost City Ramblers, and as Rake And Rambling Boy by Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Long John Baldry.
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