What remains, though, is the almost-manic high speed energy of their uptempo performances: Addendum I couldn't sneak this into the article because it just wouldn't fit thematically, but I wanted to include it. According to the great poet and accomplished folklorist Carl Sandburg, the earliest British versions did not include a deck of cards or any games of chance at all - because the story was about an itinerant bad boy known as a roving gamboler , or a hopping and skipping playboy, a despoiler of innocent girls.
