Farms: Stewball: Peter Yarrow with Pete Seeger, Dar Williams and Congressman John Hall
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Peter Yarrow performs the tragicomic Peter Paul & Mary song about a race horse who "never drank water, he always drank wine" at a Hall fundraiser, Arcadia Farms, Yorktown Heights, NY on Oct. 10, 2010. Support Hall's reelection at: http://www.johnhallforcongress.com/ "I bet on the gray mare, I bet on the bay Lord, if I'd bet on my Stewball, I'd be a free man today"
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In America, the Stewball ballad was "...most popular in the Negro south, where the winning horse is known variously as 'Stewball' or 'Kimball," and was apparently one of the chain-gang songs. The song was recorded by Leadbelly in 1940 (cd available via the Smithsonian Museum), by Joan Baez (album title Joan Baez/5), by Peter Paul and Mary, and a number of successive artists.