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Artist: Burl Ives
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1941
On debut album Okeh Presents The Wayfaring Stranger. Irish origin. First noted in Herbert Hughes' first songbook Irish Country Songs (1915), also in Padraic Colum's Anthology Of Irish Verse (1922).
Covers:
Susan Reed [on Sings Old Airs]
McPeake Family [reason why James McPeaky is frequently credited]
Chieftains [hit UK feat. The Corrs and on album Tears Of Stone]
Dave Swarbrick [fiddler from the Ian Campbell version solo]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium