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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Jeannie Robertson
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1953
Alan Lomax recording. Only four verses. The song was longer when she first heard it thirty years before: It got bluer as it went on, you see. But I didn't catch it. That's all the verses I learned. Was published in Ancient And Modern Scottish Songs (1776).
Covers:
Joni Mitchell [live]
Peggy Seeger [as An Old Man Came Courting Me]
Dubliners [as Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man; with more than four verses; weren't as prude as Jeannie]
Hamish Imlach [as Maids When You're Young]
Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr [as An Old Man Came Courting]
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [as Old Man Came Courting]
Corries [as Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man]
Jayme Stone [on his Lomax Project as Maids When You're Young; vocal: Margaret Glaspy]
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)