Artist: Anne Briggs
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1963
On industrial folk music theme-album The Iron Muse, produced by A.L. Lloyd. Roud #2133. ballad about working conditions for young children in Northern Irish linen mills. The Mistress hung her coat at the highest pin. No one else around could reach so high (too small or too bent-over).
Covers:
Maddy Prior & June Tabor [on The Silly Sisters album, with Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Andy Irvine and Danny Thompson]
Martin Carthy [with Brass Monkey]
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)