Artist: Dame Nellie Melba
Author: Robert Burns/trad.
Label: Gramophone
Year: 1904
A Robert Burns poem (1759-1796) using the melody of a Scottish children song (Common' Frae The Town). Top 10 US in 1914.
Covers:
Ava Gardner [in film Mogambo]
Bill Haley & His Comets [as Rockin' Through The Rye; n°3 UK]
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Arnold Rypens
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