Pretty good for a folk song. Of course, it is more than that ... His marriage to Sara Lowndes (for whom he had written the iconic “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”) was dissolving.

Limiting your holiday playlist to your standard “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Deck the Halls” denies you one of the best musical offerings of the yuletide season: sad Christmas songs.

A folk song echoed on the Shandong Plain This ... lot of folk songs for her and she returned to Shandong with those sad folk songs ...