Artist: Wally Whyton
Author: Wally Whyton
Label: Fontana
Year: 1969
British radio & tv personality (Country Meets Folk and children programs) and one-time member of The Vipers Skiffle Group (see also: No Other Baby). First sang it in his own Country Meets Folk radio show the day they knocked down some oak trees in his street.
Covers:
Ed Ames [one of the Ames Brothers solo; on his cover lp Love Of The Common People]
Louis Neefs [as Laat Ons Een Bloem]
Anne Lorne Gillies [Scottish ballad singer]
Gunther Neefs [on Louis Neefs 20 Jaar Later, in duet with his father's voice and with Toots Thielemans]
Yevgueni [Zo Is Er Maar Eén winner, a Belgian tv format set up to find the ultimate Flemish song; 5 out of 7 songs making that shortlist were covers from abroad]
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