You Can Tell Me is a simple folk ballad from the heart.

你可以告诉我是一首发自内心的简单的抒情歌。

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You Can Tell Me "is a simple folk ballad from the heart."

你可以告诉我是发自内心，一首简单的民间情歌。

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In many countries, the folk ballad was one of the earliest forms of literature.

在很多国家，民谣是最初的文学之一。

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Chesley Sullenberger "The Ballad of Casey Jones" is a folk song about a train engineer who saved the lives of his passengers in a wreck.

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Another highlight came when Marsalis, playing a muted trumpet, went to the front of the stage to play alongside Crosby and Nash on a tender, intimate trio version of Crosby's folk ballad "Guinnevere, " which trumpeter Miles Davis covered in a 1970 recording.

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His most recent effort, the sprawling 17-song folk tale My Name Is Buddy, revisits the Dustbowl ballad form and Depression-era road songs.

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