The Wayfaring Stranger

Tracklist

• 1
  Blue Tail Fly
  2:52
• 2
  I’m Goin’ Down the Road
  2:40
• 3
  Cowboy’s Lament
  2:40
• 4
  Tam Pierce
  2:16
• 5
  Sweet Betsy From Pike
  1:42
• 6
  The Wee Cooper O’ Fife
  1:31
• 7
  The Riddle Song
  1:32
• 8
  I Know Where I’m Going
  1:30
• 9
  I Know My Love
  1:40
• 10
  Darlin’ Cory
  3:14
• 11
  The Ballad of Rodger Young
  3:12
• 12
  The Foggy, Foggy Dew
  2:36
• 13
  Big Rock Candy Mountain
  2:45
• 14
  Old Dan Tucker
  1:20
• 15
  The Erie Canal
  1:44
• 16
  The Fox
  2:12
• 17
  Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  1:16
• 18
  It Makes No Difference Now
  2:35
• 19
  I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  3:19
• 20
  Lavender Blue, Dilly, Dilly
  2:21
• 21
  Billy Boy
  2:56
• 22
  Ghost Riders in the Sky
  3:09
• 23
  Poor Wayfaring Stranger
  1:26
• 24
  Woolie Boogie Bee
  1:33
• 25
  Mr. Froggie Went A‐courtin’
  3:03
• 26
  The Worried Man Blues
  2:40
• 27
  The Doughnut Song
  2:58
• 28
  I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  2:53
• 29
  One Hour Ahead of the Posse
  3:15
• 30
  This Time Tomorrow
  2:27
• 31
  Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord
  3:06
• 32
  On Top of Old Smoky
  2:38
• 33
  A Little Bitty Tear
  2:02

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Release credits

• Burl Ives
  arranger [5, 7, 12, 16]
• Elie Siegmeister
  arranger [27]

Issues

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  The Wayfaring Stranger

  12" Vinyl
  28 February 1955
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  T
  The Wayfaring Stranger

  CD
  14 November 2000
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  B
  Burl Ives “The Wayfaring Stranger”

  Digital Media
  1 April 2016