SO WE'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING

Created on 09/04/2021
Latest update on 09/01/2023

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:

1964:

Joan Baez [on Joan Baez 5]

1983:

John Williams

1998:

Mike Westbrook

1998:

Jean Redpath

2004:

Leonard Cohen [as Go No More A-Roving on Dear Heather]

2010:

Susan McKeown

2021:

Marianne Faithfull

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).

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