Artist: English Singers
Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: Roycroft
Year: 1928
Vaughan Williams wrote it in 1919. Lyrics based upon The True Lover's Farewell in songbook The Roxburgh Ballads (1710).
Covers:
Aunt Molly Johnson [as Ten Thousand Miles]
Burl Ives [idem]
Andrew Rowan Summers [as True Lover's Farewell]
Joan Baez [as Fare Thee Well (Ten Thousand Miles)]
Marianne Faithfull [idem]
Nic Jones [as Ten Thousand Miles; learned it from A.L. Lloyd]
Mary Black [as Fare Thee Well My Own True Love]
Jerry Garcia [released in '10]
June Tabor [as Ten Thousand Miles]
Mary Chapin Carpenter [idem, in film Fly Away Home]
Eliza Carthy [learned it from Nic Jones]
Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger [as Poor Little Turtle Dove]
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)