Artist: Richard Dyer-Bennet
Author: Lord Byron
Label: Dyer-Bennet Records/Smithsonian Folkways
Year: 1955
Poem by Lord Byron (1788-1824) included in a letter to Thomas Moore in 1817. Moore published those letters in 1830.
Covers:
Joan Baez [on Joan Baez 5]
Leonard Cohen [as Go No More A-Roving on Dear Heather]
Some lines of this poem seem to have been inspired by Scottish song The Jolly Beggar (published since 1772). The melody is different (recorded by Planxty).
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)