Artist: A.L. Lloyd
Author: Tom Cook
Label: Tradition
Year: 1956
Bert Lloyd was inspired by two oraly transmitted stanzas, collected in Sussex in 1904, but gave the lyrics more bite: His teeth did brightly shine instead of His eyes....
Covers:
Davy Graham & Shirley Collins [for Decca]
Martin Carthy [with Dave Swarbrick]
Fairport Convention [on Liege & Lief; their oldest version was for the BBC (John Peel session)]
Anne Briggs [a cappella]
Pentangle [with Bert Jansch]
Favorite ballad in Ireland, England (also as Upon The Mountains High) and North America (since the 19th century on broadsides). Continental Europe has its own Reynard tradition (coming from Dutch Zeeuws Vlaanderen and the Flemish Waasland region since the 14th century. John & Alan Lomax collected a Rhinordine in 1934 in Austin Texas with the Gant Family (L.o.C.)
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)