Covers:

1949:

Dorothy Howard [Frank Warner recording as Babes In The Wood]

1960:

Almeda Riddle [on Songcatcher II - The Tradition That Inspired The Movie]

1963:

Bob & Ron Copper [Peter Kennedy recording; a Copper family song since the early 19th century; based upon the storyline in broadside The Norfolk Gentleman His Last Will And Testament (1595), where two orphans are send in the wood to be killed by an inherited uncle; it all ends well for the orphans, not so for the uncle]

1967:

Shirley Collins

1968:

Tim Hart [with Maddy Prior]

2005:

Copper Family [the next generation on cd Song Links 2; it was a Copper's tradition to sing this song polyphonic at 11 pm on Christmas eve, while ham and rabbit pie was being served; while half of the table took a bite, the other half sang two lines and vice versa; in the interest of everyone's digestion this version was reduced to three verses]

2005:

Cassie Franklin, Emily Creel & Dennis George [American variation; in 1918 Cecil Sharp collected his first version that side of the Atlantic from 76 year old Philander Fitzgerald, ex soldier in the Confederate army]

2009:

Brendan Croker & Bruno Deneckere