This is the eight in a series of blogs about the songs on our new CD “The Wandering Ballad”. Wake up is yet another ballad telling the story of Earl Brand/King Vallemo. The ballad has now sailed over the Atlantic with migrants, and as usual it has adapted to its surroundings. The melody has a definite American twang to it and the young man is now proclaiming that his father is a regal king and his mother a Quakers queen. As the young couple rides out of town the father and th