Grateful Dead Family Discography: Rake and a Rambling Boy

Rake and a Rambling Boy

Composer: Traditional

Rake and a Rambling Boy was played by Bob & Jerry (Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia) in 1961.

Rake and a Rambling Boy is one of a large family of songs with varying lyrics and titles. Other titles used for closely related songs include 'Rake and a Rambling Blade', 'Rude and Rambling Man', 'Reek and Rambling Blade', 'Rich and Rambling Boy', and just 'Rambling Boy'.

The song appears to be part of a wider family of Irish/British folk songs known variously as 'The Newry Highwayman', 'Newry Town', 'Newlyn Town', 'Wild And Wicked Ways', and other titles.

Note that there are other songs called 'Rambling Boy' that are not part of this song family.

Jerry Garcia recordings

Before The Dead, Jerry Garcia, 2018

Other recordings

This list is not intended to be comprehensive and does not include recordings of the wider group of 'Newry Town' related songs..

no info Single (Rude And Rambling Man / Oh, How I Hate It), Carolina Tar Heels, 1929
no info Single (The Wave On The Sea / The Rambling Boy), Carter Family, 1944
no info The Rambling Boys, Jack Elliot and Derroll Adams, 1957
no info Sings Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, Guy Carawan, 1959
Joan Baez, Joan Baez, 1960
no info Visit Puget Sound, The Group, 1961
Sings Folk Songs From The Three Laurels, Obray Ramsey, 1961?
The Folk Music of the Newport Folk Festival 195-60, Vol. 2, Various Artists (Fleming Brown), 1961
Fleming Brown, Fleming Brown, 1962
Ballads and Bluegrass, Walter Forbes, 1962
no info Roll On Buddy, Jack Elliot and Derroll Adams, 1964
no info Songs Made Famous by Joan Baez, Maura & Maria, 1964
no info Pretty Saro, Hedy West, 1966
no info Play And Sing American Folk Music, Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, 1966
no info Directions, Norman Blake, 1978
no info Carolina Tar Heels, Carolina Tar Heels, 1965
no info Tony and Irene Saletan, Tony and Irene Saletan, 1970
no info Till We Meet Here Again, or Above, Hotmud Family, 1974
no info Good To Be Alive, John Baldry, 1975
no info Live!, Derroll Adams, 1976
no info The Kickapoo Medicine Show, Gid Tanner And His Skillet Lickers, 1977
no info Ramshackle Stringband, Ramshackle Stringband, 1979
no info Albert Hash and the Whitetop Mountain Band, Albert Hash and the Whitetop Mountain Band, 1979
no info Buttermilk Hill, June Clapp, 1992
no info One More Ride, The Bear Bridge Band, 1993
no info A Greener Prairie, Skip Gorman, 1994
Stay Awhile, Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin, 1995
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 2000
Greenback Dollar: 1929-1933, Clarence Ashley, 2001
Ballads and Bluegrass / Folksong Festival, Walter Forbes, 2003
no info Now I'm Lonely, Cages Bend, 2007
Red House 25: A Silver Anniversary Retrospective, Various Artists (Ramblin' Jack Elliott), 2008
Mountain Frolic: Rare Old Timey Classics 1924-37, Various Artists (Carolina Tar Heels), 2008
no info Sandy Boys, Sara Grey, 2009
no info Morning Stands On Tiptoe (exp CD), Dave & Toni Arthur, 2009
no info The Complete Vetco Recordings, The Hotmud Family, 2010
no info Ballads And Songs From The Appalachians, Hedy West, 2011
no info Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years (1958-1965), John Fahey, 2011
no info Ramblers, Gamblers, Vagabonds And Revelers, Various Artists (Carolina Tar Heels), 2012
no info Cherry River Line, Gerry And Jesse Milnes With Emily Miller, 2013?
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean: British Songs in the USA, Various Artists (Carolina Tar Heels), 2015
no info Banjo Troubadour, Derroll Adams, 2015
no info Live in Haarlem 1977, Derroll Adams, 2015
no info Single (Durang's Hornpipe / Rake & Rambling Boy), Mike & Cara Gangloff, 2015
no info Three Classic Albums Plus, Joan Baez, 2016
no info Live And In Person: Greenwich Village 1963, Clarence Ashley, 2017