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Paul Clayton

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Paul Clayton (born Paul Clayton Worthington; March 3, 1931 – March 30, 1967) was an American folksinger and folklorist who was prominent in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. A graduate of the University of Virginia, where he earned a master's degree in Folklore, Clayton specialized in traditional music, primarily New England sea shanties and ballads as well as Appalachian songs. He became interested in the first of these as a youngster and began playing guitar as a teen.

Top songs

  1. Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
  2. The Devil's Question
  3. Last Cigarette
  4. Green Rocky Road
  5. The Maid of Amsterdam
  6. False Love
  7. The Dying Sailor to His Shipmates
  8. Boney Was A Warrior
  9. The Gambling Suitor
  10. Durango Jail
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  1. Spanish Ladies
  2. Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
  3. Johnny's Gone To Hilo
  4. Shenandoah
  5. The Riddle Song
  6. Pharaoh's Army
  7. Polly Von
  8. Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone)
  9. The Girls Around Cape Horn
  10. Old Stormalong
  11. Love For Love
  12. Soldier's Joy
  13. The Mermaid
  14. Go Down You Blood Red Roses
  15. Sally Brown
  16. Lady Franklin's Lament
  17. Locks and Bolts
  18. The Deaf Woman's Courtship
  19. Wondrous Love
  20. Saturday Night At Sea
  21. Santy Anna
  22. Admiral Benbow
  23. Ranzo
  24. The Greenland Whale Fisheries
  25. Bully Of The Town
  26. The Bashful Courtship
  27. The Turkish Revelee
  28. Bonny Bunch of Roses
  29. Long John (Long Gone)
  30. The TWA Sisters (The Two Sisters)
  31. On The Job Too Long
  32. If She's Gone
  33. Pretty Peggo-o
  34. The Swapping Song
  35. That's Once
  36. The Old Grey Goose Is Dead
  37. This Morning She Was Gone
  38. Young But Growing
  39. Sally Brown (Paul Clayton)
  40. Paddy Doyles Boots
  41. The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
  42. Round the Corner
  43. The Split Dog
  44. Santy Anna (Paul Clayton)
  45. The Dying Stockman
  46. Paddy Doyle's Boots
  47. The Snakebit Hoehandle
  48. Cedar Mountain Breakdown
  49. Floyd Collins
  50. Old Joe Clark
  51. Flop-Eared Mule
  52. Gotta Travel On
  53. The Man In The Kraut Tub
  54. Going To Georgia
  55. The Big Toe
  56. Shady Grove
  57. Mary Hamilton
  58. Admiral Benbow (Paul Clayton)
  59. Lilliburlero
  60. Swannanoa Tunnel
  61. The Maid Of Amsterdam (Paul Clayton)
  62. John Hardy
  63. Nine Inch Will Please A Lady
  64. Spotty and Dudie
  65. Lonesome Road
  66. Wild Mountain Thyme
  67. Bile Them Cabbage Down
  68. Railroad Bill
  69. In The Pines
  70. Sad And Lonely
  71. Botany Bay
  72. John Henry
  73. The Hickory Toothpick
  74. Silver City Bound
  75. Rio Grande
  76. The Sea Captain
  77. All the Good Times Are O'er
  78. The Two Sisters
  79. Cape Cod Girls
  80. Dogwood
  81. Charley's Rant
  82. Storms On the Ocean
  83. Pay Day At Coral Creek
  84. Boney Was A Warrior (Paul Clayton)
  85. The Darby Ram
  86. Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
  87. Gambling Man
  88. The Baffled Knight
  89. Pretty Polly and False William (Child No. 4)
  90. 'Round the Corner

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