Artist: Andrew Rowan Summers
Author: traditional
Label: Folkways
Year: 1951
Probably dating from the 15th century. Collected by Francis James Child in 1868 as Child Ballad #78 (also as Cold Blows The Wood, The Restless Grave, The Resurrected Lover and Lost Jimmie Whalen).. Morality: mourning too long (longer than "for twelve months and a day") disturbs the dead.
Covers:
Bob Gibson [as Lost Jimmie Whalen; same subject]
Peter, Paul & Mary [as Jimmy Whalen]
Ween [as Cold Blows The Wind]
Golden Glows [as The Wind Blew Up, The Wind Blew Down]
Steeleye Span [here's this "twelve months and a day again"; see: All Round My Hat]
Vaughan Williams arranged the song as How Cold The Wind Doth Blow.
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Arnold Rypens
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