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“Dink’s Song” (sometimes known as “Faretheewell”) is an American folk song played by many folk revival musicians, as well as more recent musicians.
The song tells the story of a woman deserted by her lover when she needs him the most.
The first historical record of the song was by ethnomusicologist John Lomax in 1908, who recorded it as sung by an African American woman called Dink, as she washed her man’s clothes in a tent camp of migratory levee-builders on the bank of the Brazos River, a few miles from College Station, Texas and Texas A&M College.
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