Artist: Ewan MacColl
Author: traditional
Label: Folkways
Year: 1959
On Songs Of Robert Burns.
Covers:
Jane Turriff [an aunt of Stanley Robertson, who was a nephew of Jeannie Robertson, the Scottish "queen among the heather" who was recorded by Alan Lomax (He captured her Never Wed And Old Man by the way); speaking of folk influences: Jane (1915-2013) was also a niece of Davie Stewart and the granddaughter of an Irish traveller]
Sam Lee [complete stanza at the beginning of My Ausheen (My Old Shoes), also using the melody of Sandy Denny's The False Bride]
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Arnold Rypens
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