Child Ballad 243, The Daemon Lover, also known as The House Carpenter.

According to a review by John Bush,

The hoary old Scottish ballad known as “The House Carpenter” was given a new lease on life in a 1930 recording by old-timey banjoist Clarence Ashley and yet again in 1962 by Bob Dylan. The song, originally compiled as “Child Ballad No. 243 aka the Daemon Lover,” was originally a supernatural tale about a drowned man whose ghost makes one last appearance to say goodbye to his wife. Most American versions of the song concern a more plausible tale, about a woman who forsakes her husband and child to sail away with another man, but regrets the decision just before the boat sinks and drowns her. Ashley’s version sounds appropriately chilling and supernatural – the recording sounds almost as ancient as the ballad itself. With only the sparse pickings of his banjo for accompaniment, Ashley plays it straight, stretching out the last word of most lines. The song was also recorded by Bradley Kincaid and the Carolina Tar Heels before Dylan’s early-‘60s version, finally released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1. Aside from Dylan, many other folk revivalists reprised it, including Joan Baez, Pentangle, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and Doc Watson.

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