Lonesome Traveller

Lonesome Traveller is a 1950 skiffle song written by Lee Hays and recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers in that year. The lyrics begin "I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller.."[1]

For the short story collection by Jack Kerouac, see Lonesome Traveler.

Versions
  • Lonnie Donegan - Lonesome Traveller / Times Are Getting Hard Boys - Metronome (1958)
  • The Tarriers - Lonesome Traveller / East Virginia - London (1958)
  • The Five Dallas Boys - Big Man / Lonesome Traveller - Columbia (1958)
  • Charles Blackwell - Lover And His Lass / Lonesome Traveller - Triumph (1960)
  • The Limeliters 1960 debut album, The Limeliters, on Elektra Records. They also did live versions on their albums The London Concert (1963), Reunion (1973), The Chicago Tapes (1976, released in 2001), Alive! In Concert (1985), Harmony (1987) and The Limeliters (Live) - An Evening With The Chad Mitchell Trio: Live At The Birchmere (1995).
  • Trini Lopez - Kansas City / Lonesome Traveller Reprise (1963)
  • The Seekers on their album, Introducing the Seekers (1963)
  • Joe And Eddie - There's A Meetin' Here Tonight / Lonesome Traveller - Vocalion (1964)
  • The Countrymen - Winter Rushes On / Lonesome Traveller - Piccadilly (1964)
  • Marianne Faithfull (1965)
  • Esther & Abi Ofarim recorded the song for their album Das Neue Esther & Abi Ofarim Album (1966)[2]
  • Paperboys (2009)
  • Karl Denver

References
  1. Doris Willens, Lonesome Traveller: A Biography of Lee Hays 1988
  2. http://www.esther-ofarim.de/Disco.htm


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