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Led Zeppelin's "Gallows Pole" was never really theirs. It's a centuries-old folk ballad they reworked from an old Lead Belly recording. Here's Robert Plant at 77, singing it acoustically at NPR's Tiny Desk, taking the song all the way back to where it started.

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