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Joan Baez sings the traditonal song 'Fare Thee Well (Ten Thousand Miles)' from her self-titled debut 1960 Vanguard album. Fred Hellerman plays second guitar on the album. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below with some notes on the song.

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Fare Thee Well (Ten Thousand Miles) (Singer-Joan Baez)

Oh fare thee well, I must be gone
And leave you for a while
Wherever I go, I will return
If I go ten thousand miles
If I go, if I go
If I go ten thousand miles

Oh, ten thousand miles it is so far
To leave me here alone
While I may lie, lament and cry
And you'll, you'll not hear my moan
And you'll, no you'll
And you'll not hear my moan

Oh, the crow that is so black, my love
Will change his color white
If ever I should prove false to thee
The day, day will turn to night
Yes the day, oh the day
Yes the day will turn to night

Oh, the rivers never will run dry
Or the rocks melt with the sun
I'll never prove false to the boy I love
Till all, all these things be done
Till all, till all
Till all these things be done

Songwriter: Traditional, Arranged by David Gude
© The Bicycle Music Company
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

The album [Joan Baez 1960] was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2015, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry.

"Fare Thee Well" (sometimes known as "The Turtle Dove") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, in which a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey. The lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers. The first published version of the song appeared in Roxburghe Ballads dated 1710; the lyrics were there given the title "The True Lover's Farewell".

"Fare Thee Well" shares several lyrics which parallel those of Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose". The lyrics are also strikingly similar to a folk song titled, "My Dear Mary Ann" that dates back to the mid-19th century. Similarities include the meter and rhyme scheme, as well as the alternative title of "Ten Thousand Miles". Lyrical similarities include the opening line, "Fare thee well my own true love", "Ten thousand miles or more" (word-for-word matches), and the question of seeing a dove or other bird crying for its love. The subjects of the songs are practically identical: Lovers mourning their separation and longing to return to one another.

The song has been recorded, notably by Nic Jones as "Ten Thousand Miles", as well as by Joan Baez on her 1960 debut album, Mary Black, Eliza Carthy, Chad & Jeremy, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Liam Clancy, Marianne Faithfull and Kate Rusby and as "Ten Thousand Miles" by Michael Holliday, Burl Ives, Molina and Roberts, June Tabor and Marcus Mumford. A version of the song by Mary Chapin Carpenter, entitled "10,000 Miles", was used in the movie Fly Away Home (1996).