Artist: A.L. Lloyd
Author: traditional
Label: Riverside
Year: 1956
On lp English Drinking Songs. Roud #475 (also as Good Brown Ale And Tobacco, Across The Western Ocean/Sea and All Through The Ale/Beer). Published by Cecil Sharp in 1904 as My Jolly Jolly Tar.
Covers:
Martyn Wyndham-Read [as Oh For Me Grog]
Watersons [idem]
Dubliners [idem]
Roy Harris [as All Through The Ale]
Cyril Tawney [as All Through The Beer]
Jon Boden [actual singer of Bellowhead in his (literal) project A Folk Song A Day]
Irish Rovers [as Across The Western Sea]
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)