Covers:

1925:

Vernon Dalhart

1926:

Riley Puckett

1927:

Carl T. Sprague

1940:

Delia Murphy [hit UK, reissued on Rounder cd From Galway To Dublin]

1960:

New Lost City Ramblers [as Louisville Burglar]

1964:

Hedy West [learned it from her grandmother who had it from an uncle]

1967:

Johnny McEvoy [n°1 IRE]

1971:

Jimmy McBeath [as The Boston Smuggler]

1972:

Clancy Brothers & Louis Killen

1976:

Wolfe Tones

1998:

Irish Rovers [as Botany Bay]

2010:

Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson [as Whitby Lad]

2018:

Sam Lee [on lp Van Diemen's Land]