Artist: Burl Ives
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1941
On his debut album. Irish traditional (County Antrim). Roud #5701.
Covers:
Weavers [and in '57 Live At Carnegie Hall]
Tarriers [crediting Arkin/Carey/Darling]
George Hamilton IV [hit US crediting Dick Wolfe/Randy Starr]
Harry Belafonte [Live At Carnegie Hall]
Peg & Bobby Clancy [from The Clancy Brothers]
Highwaymen [crediting Dave Fisher]
Countrymen [hit UK]
Burl was blacklisted by the left since he gave the UN-American Activities Commission some names of possible communist sympathizers among his fellow piers.
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Arnold Rypens
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