Dink's Song

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"Dink's Song" (sometimes known as "Faretheewell") is an American folk song played by many folk revival musicians such as Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley. 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. Dylan recorded the song in 1961 for his debut album, Bob Dylan, but the song was not included on the album. Dylan's version was released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (2005).

The song was covered by Puerto Rican singer Gabriel Rios and included on the limited edition 2-disc release of his album Angelhead.

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• Heylin, Clinton (2003). Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. Perennial Currents. ISBN 0-06-052569-X
• Lomax, John A (1947). Adventures Of A Ballad Hunter. MacMillan. ISBN 0-02-8484800-X