SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY
Created on 19/02/2004Latest update on 15/04/2024
Artist: Fred Atkinson
Author: traditional
Year: 1905
From Redbourne, Lincolnshire. Song collected by Percy Grainger who used the tune for his British Folk Song Setting, inspiring Ralph Vaughan Williams for his Folk Song Suite. Shares As I Roved Out as second title; #277 in Roud's Folksong Index.
Christy Moore sang two versions of As I Roved Out: the one with Planxty and his own, performed in '79 and echoed by Van Morrison in As I Walked Out in 2020.
Covers:
- 1906:
Joseph Leaning [also collected by Percy Grainger, in Brigg, Lincolnshire]
- 1906:
Dean Robinson [idem]
- 1916:
Jeff Stockton [oldest American version collected by Cecil Sharp in Flag Pond, Tennessee as The False Young Man]
- 1923:
Ralph Vaughan Williams [first part of his Folk Song Suite]
- 1947:
Seamus Ennis [Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy recording]
- 1950:
Sarah Makem [as As I Roved Out in the eponymous folk program Alan Lomax made for BBC radio]
- 1951:
Jimmy McBeath [as The Trooper And The Maid; Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson recording]
- 1952:
Annie Jane Kelly [Peter Kennedy recording]
- 1953:
Harry Cox [for Alan Lomax]
- 1955:
Ewan MacColl [as As I Went Out One May Morning]
- 1956:
Cynthia Gooding & Theodore Bikel [as As I Roved Out]
- 1956:
A.L. Lloyd [as The Soldier And The Maid]
- 1961:
Tommy Makem & Eric Weissberg [als As I Roved Out]
- 1962:
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [Tommy knew the song from his mother Sarah]
- 1964:
Joe Heaney [Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger recording]
- 1965:
Louis Killen [as One Morning In May]
- 1971:
Woods Band [with Terry Woods]
- 1973:
Planxty [as As I Roved Out]
- 1976:
- 1977:
- 1978:
- 1985:
- 1996:
- 1996:
Brian Kennedy [as As I Roved Out]
- 1998:
Kate Rusby [idem]
- 2000:
Jane Siberry [idem]
- 2002:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Altan [as As I Roved Out]
- 2005:
Kieron Means [as The False Young Man]
- 2005:
Martyn Wyndham-Read [as As I Roved Out on cd Song Links 2]
- 2010:
Loreena McKennitt [idem]
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.
