THREE RAVENS, THE
Created on 20/01/2022Latest update on 22/11/2025
Artist: Ada Maddox
Author: traditional
Label: BBC
Year: 1950
Maud Karpeles recording in Lynchburg, Virginia, stocked at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library in Camden Town. Roud #5, Child #26, first published in 1611 by Thomas Ravenscroft (Melismata). All Scottish versions as Twa Corbies, with one less raven.
Covers:
- 1955:
- 1955:
Alfred Deller [for Vanguard]
- 1957:
- 1957:
- 1961:
Ewan MacColl [English and Scottish versions]
- 1962:
Jean Redpath [idem]
- 1962:
Ian Campbell Folk Group [as Twa Corbies]
- 1964:
- 1964:
- 1967:
Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger [as Twa Corbies]
- 1967:
Peggy Seeger [as Poor Old Crow]
- 1968:
Corries [as Twa Corbies]
- 1969:
Hamish Imlach [idem]
- 1970:
Steeleye Span [idem]
- 1977:
Alex Campbell [idem]
- 1979:
- 1991:
Boiled In Lead [as Twa Corbies]
- 1993:
Maddy Prior [idem]
- 1996:
- 2001:
Bert Jansch [as Twa Corbies]
- 2019:
Story of a slain knight who's bones were picked bare by birds, which also used plucks of his hair to confy their nests.
