Artist: Lead Belly
Author: Huddie Ledbetter
Label: Library of Congress/Rounder
Year: 1937
Re-issued on a bonus cd with a Weavers compilation on Omega records: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.
Covers:
Weavers [as Kisses Sweeter Than Wine; title by Pete Seeger, the rest of the lyrics by Lee Hays]
Frankie Vaughan [idem]
Jimmie Rodgers [idem; n°3 US; not to be confused with the eponymous Father of Country Music]
Hugues Aufray [as Ses baisers me grisaient; lyrics: Boris Vian]
Nana Mouskouri [as Ses baisers me grisaient]
Kronos Quartet [all as Kisses Sweeter Than Wine]
Based upon the Irish melody Droimeann Donn Dílis about a cow (allegorical for Ireland); became Poor Drimmer (or Drimmer's Cow) in America, where Lead Belly changed the rhythm and The Weavers did the rest.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)