HENRY MARTIN

Created on 19/01/2022
Latest update on 10/01/2024

Artist: Phil Tanner
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1937

As Young Henry Martin. Reissued on Voice Of The People Vol 2 (My Ship Shall Sail The Ocean). Roud #104, Child #250. About a Scottish privateer with a licence to kill. Also as Henry Martyn, Three Brothers In Merry Scotland and as The Lofty Tall Ship.

Covers:

1944:

Burl Ives [as Henry Martyn]

1956:

A.L. Lloyd

1958:

Alfred Deller

1960:

Joan Baez

1961:

Ewan MacColl

1961:

Sam Larner [Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger recording]

1966:

Bert Jansch [on Jack Orion]

1971:

Donovan [on H.M.S. Donovan]

1995:

Louis Killen

2002:

Waterson:Carthy [as The Lofty Tall Ship]

2016:

Steeleye Span [idem]

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