Artist: Bella Higgins
Author: traditional
Label: Kyloe
Year: 1954
Hamish Henderson recording. Scottish press gang song. No direct link with the Netherlands. Sugarcane crops in one lyric line suggest colonial trade.
Covers:
Ewan MacColl [as The Cold Coast Of Greenland]
Martin Carthy [on his Second Album]
Steeleye Span [vocal: Gay Woods]
Fotheringay [BBC recording; vocal: Sandy Denny]
Sandy Denny [BBC recording]
Chieftains [vocal: Natalie Merchant]
Zydepunks [as Lowlands Of Baghdad]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)