MY FATHER HAD AN ACRE OF LAND
Created on 31/08/2019Latest update on 11/03/2024
Artist: Jim & Bob Copper
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1952
Seamus Ennis recording for the BBC. Variation on The Elfin Knight (Child ballad #2). Re-issued on Come Write Me Down - The Copper Family of Rottingdean.
Covers:
- 1956:
Charlie Potter [as Sing Ivy; on Topic anthology The Voice Of The People Vol 14]
- 1965:
Fred Jordan [as An Acre Of Land]
- 1971:
John, Bob & Ron Copper [as Heigh Ho, Sing Ivy]
- 1972:
George 'Tom' Newman [as Sing Ivy, Sing Ivy]
- 1998:
John Kirkpatrick [as An Acre Of Land]
- 2018:
P.J. Harvey & Harry Escott [idem, in film Dark River]
Ralph Vaughan Williams adapted An Acre Of Land in his choir suite Folk Songs Of The Four Seasons (1950).
