HANDSOME CABIN BOY, THE

Created on 28/08/2002
Latest update on 18/12/2023

Artist: Jeannie Robertson
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1953

So handsome it's a girl. Reissued in Alan Lomax' Portrait Series.

Covers:

1957:

Ewan MacColl

1960:

A.L. Lloyd

1965:

Martin Carthy

1967:

Mothers Of Invention [reissued on The Lost Episodes and on Son Of Rogues Gallery; When everyone else was listening to Cream, I was listening to A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl - Frank Zappa]

1968:

Byrds [melody in Space Odyssey from their Notorious Byrd Brothers lp]

1979:

Astrid Nijgh [as Het Maatje Van De Schipper]

1986:

Kate Bush [B-side of Hounds Of Love]

1996:

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman

1998:

Phranc

2000:

Roger McGuinn

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