"There is a boar in yonder’s wood. He’ll break your bones and drink your blood." From whence the CD title comes. Learned from Peggy Seeger’s Popular Ballads.

A 16th century mummer’s tune learned from the singing of Jean Ritchie.

Written (or re-written) by Frank Beddoe, from Bexar County, Texas.

An original of Brian's, in traditional gospel-bluegrass ballad style.

Learned from Lucy Simpson in Blue Hill, Maine. First recorded by Alan Lomax, with the great Bessie Jones, on a George Sea Island Singers collection.

Woody Guthrie tune about the fellow who robbed dozens of banks, killed at least six men, wounded many more, made it onto the FBI’s Public Enemy list, and became the most famous man in Oklahoma.