Lonesome Traveller is a song by the Norwegian Hip-Hop group Paperboys

Paperboys

Paperboys is a Norwegian hip hop-duo consisting of rapper Øyvind «Vinni» Sauvik and DJ Ole Aleksander «Pope Dawg» Halstensgård. The duo has released four albums and their debut included Barcelona, a collaboration with Madcon which was a hit in Norway...

. It was featured on the album The Oslo Agreement

The Oslo Agreement

The Oslo Agreement is an album by Norwegian Hip-Hop group Paperboys.It was released in 2009. It features the hit Lonesome Traveler, which topped the charts in Norway for three weeks.-Track listing:# The Way# Easy Street# See Me Coming# Into The Same...

 and is easy recognizable by its banjo-rap and choir in the chorus.

It spent twenty-four weeks in the Norwegian Singles Chart, five of which were at number one.

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Lonesome Traveller is an old skiffle song recorded by Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger

Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...

 and The Weavers

The Weavers

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads, and selling millions of records at the height of their...

 in 1950. The british Skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie Donegan

Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan MBE was a skiffle musician, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is known as the "King of Skiffle" and is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s...

 recorded the song in 1958 with his skiffle group and released it as a single.
The Limelighters have also recorded a version of this song.