AS I ROVED OUT
Latest update on 18/10/2020Artist: Mr. Broomfield
Author: traditional
Year: 1904
Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in East Hornden, Essex. Fragment of longer ballad The Soldier And The Maid (in the US: The Trooper And The Maid). Christy Moore sang two versions of As I Roved Out: the one with Planxty and his own, performed in '79 and zchoed by Van Morrison in As I Walked Out in 2020.
Covers:
- 1916:
Jeff Stockton [oldest American version collected by Cecil Sharp in Flag Pond, Tennessee as The False Young Man]
- 1951:
Seamus Ennis [Lomax/Kennedy recording]
- 1956:
- 1960:
Sarah Makem [a Jean Ritchie recording]
- 1961:
- 1962:
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [Tommy knew the song from his mother Sarah]
- 1971:
Woods Band [with Terry Woods]
- 1973:
- 1985:
- 1996:
- 1998:
- 2000:
- 2005:
- 2005:
Martyn Wyndham-Read [on cd Song Links 2]
- 2005:
Kieron Means [as The False Young Man]
- 2010:
When Alan Lomax moved his activities to Ireland and the British isles, 'folksong' wasn't even a common denominator. In search for traditional song material, he and his team of song catchers hunted for "songs that started with As I Roved Out", which became the title of his BBC radio folk series.
