Artist: Pete Seeger
Author: traditional
Label: Folkways
Year: 1953
On 10" American Folk Songs For Children. Song with roots in de Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Roud #236 (also as The Cutty Wren, Hunting The Wren and The Wran Song).
Covers:
Liam Clancy [as The Wran Song]
Ian Campbell Folk Group [as The Cutty Wren]
Cream [melody under Pressed Rat And Warthog from 2lp Wheels Of Fire]
Steeleye Span [with Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick and in '96 as The Cutty Wren]
Robin Dransfield [as The Cutty Wren]
Chumbawamba [idem, protesting against the poll tax]
Chieftains [idem]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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