Covers:

1942:

Horton Barker [Lomax recording]

1951:

John Strachan [Lomax recording in Aberdeenshire as The Twa Sisters; out on Classic Ballads Of Britain And Ireland Volume One]

1954:

Dorothy Fourbister & Ethel Findlater [idem; Peter Kennedy recordings on the Orkneys]

1956:

Paul Clayton [version inspiring Dylan for Percy's Song]

1958:

Peggy Seeger

1959:

Shirley Collins [as The Berkshire Tragedy]

1960s:

Kilby Snow [as The Wind And Rain; autoharp player from Independence, Virginia (°1905) who knew this from his grandpa, a Cherokee indian; 'discovered' by Mike Seeger]

1962:

Dan Tate [idem and short version as The Cruel Sister on cd Virginia Traditions: Ballads From British Tradition; comes from the same region as Kilby Snow]

1962:

Evelyn Beers [idem]

1963:

Bob Dylan [similar structure and tune in Percy's Song]

1965:

Asphalt Jungle Mountain Boys [as The Wind And Rain; with Jerry Garcia & Jody Stecher]

1970:

Pentangle [as Cruel Sister]

1975:

Red Clay Ramblers [idem]

1977:

Jody Stecher [as Oh The Wind And Rain]

1988:

Jerry Garcia

1989:

Altan [as A Bhlan Adei Thall]

1990:

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman [as Dreadful Wind And Rain]

1991:

June Tabor

2001:

Gillian Welch, David Rawlings & David Steele [in film Songcatcher]

2005:

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset [as Cruel Sister]

2006:

Tom Waits