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The Unfortunate Rake
"The Unfortunate Rake", also known as "The Unfortunate Lad", is a traditional folk ballad〔(The Unfortunate Rake at www.fresnostate.edu/folklore )〕 (Roud 2; Laws Q26), which through the folk process has evolved into a large number of variants, of which one branch "The Cowboy's Lament", which includes the song "Streets of Laredo" is perhaps currently the best known. The earliest known variant, from an 18th-century broadside, is a lament for a young man dying of syphilis. The many variants feature various young soldiers, sailors, maids and cowboys, being "cut down in their prime" and contemplating their deaths.〔(Laws Q26 at www.fresnostate.edu/folklore )〕
==Synopsis==
One warm morning the narrator meets a comrade outside a hospital. Despite the weather the comrade is wrapped up in flannel. When asked why, he replies that he has been wronged by a beautiful woman, usually inferred to be a prostitute or camp follower. She failed to warn him to take the precautions needed to prevent syphilis and he is dying, complaining that he has been "cut down in his prime". He then asks the narrator to arrange for him a military funeral, for his coffin to be carried by six soldiers, accompanied by six young maids singing, and that they should not muffle their drums but "play their fifes merrily".
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