Artist: Grayson & Whitter
Author: G.B. Grayson
Label: Gennett
Year: 1927
Later that year on Victor (Ralph Peer). Appalachian mountain ballad with origins in the British Isles. Roud #454.
Covers:
Winnie Ryan [as Going To Mass Last Sunday: Peter Kennedy recording; it's the first line in Loving Hannah and comes halfway through Handsome Molly's]
Margaret Barry [idem; Alan Lomax recording attended by Jean Ritchie, who recognised the Loving Hannah line]
Neal Morris [as Breast Of Glass]
Bob Dylan [Live At The Gaslight]
Jean Ritchie [as Loving Hannah; see Margaret Barry's '53 version]
Shirley & Dolly Collins [idem, on Snapshots]
Strawbs [on anthology Preserves Uncanned in '91]
Buell Kazee [as The Inconstant Lover]
Nic Jones [as Courting Is A Pleasure on Penguin Eggs]
Andy Irvine [as Farewell To Ballymoney]
Mary Black [as Loving Hannah]
Mick Jagger [skipping the Going to mass last Sunday stanza]
Kate Rusby [as Courting Is A Pleasure]
Voice Squad [idem]
Jake Xerxes Fussell [as Breast Of Glass]
Sam Lee [as Meeting Is A Pleasant Place]
See also: Dublin Blues.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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