Artist: Maggie Murphy
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1952
With her niece Sarah Chambers from county Fermanagh (North Ireland) as Clinkin' O'er The Lea. BBC recording for Peter Kennedy. Child ballad #279, released on anthology The Child Ballads 2 (1968).
Covers:
Ewan MacColl [as The Jolly Beggar]
Jeannie Robertson [as Davy Faa; a live recording for Hamish Henderson was released in '84, an even earlier recording for Alan Lomax appeared in '11]
Davy Stewart [as The Jolly Beggar for Hamish Henderson]
Cyril Tawney [as The Ragged Beggarman]
Planxty [as The Jolly Beggar]
Jean Redpath [as Davy Faa]
Lal & Norma Waterson [as The Beggarman, with Lal's daughter Maria Knight]
Tannahill Weavers [as The Gaberlunzie Man]
As The Gaberlunzie Man first published in 1724 in Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany - A collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English. Frequently crediting James V, father of Mary, Queen of Scots. It is even suggested king James V is the main subject of this ballad, taking pleasure strolling around incognito as a ragged beggar.
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Arnold Rypens
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