Adam Miller leads the audience in singing “Blue Mountain” a Utah folksong, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18, 2015. Videography by Robert C. Richmond, rcr@do-some-good.com, www.do-some-good.com. Adam Miller's website is; Folksinging.org. Printed versions of this ballad (Child #278) date back to 1828, though it may be much older. Also known as “The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife,” there are so many versions of this tall tale that, in Volume Four of his Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads (1972), Professor Bronson collected over 70 different melodies for this old feministic fable.
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