FARMER'S CURST WIFE, THE
Created on 23/09/2022Latest update on 30/10/2025
Artist: Joe Hubbard
Author: traditional
Label: Blue Ridge Institute
Year: 1939
From Wise, Virginia. Herbert Halpert recording released on LP Virginia Traditions: Ballads From British Tradition ('78). Child #278, Roud #160 (also as The Devil And The Farmer, The Devil And The Ploughman, Lily Burlero and Killieburn Brae). The tune might have been composed by Henry Purcell and was used in Gay's The Beggar's Opera.
Covers:
- 1939:
Aunt Molly Jackson [as The Devil And The Farmer, Lomax recording for the L.o.C.]
- 1942:
Horton Barker [another Herbert Halpert recording, on L.o.C. album Folk Music Of The United States - Anglo-American Ballads - Album 1]
- 1946:
Texas Gladden [Alan Lomax recording as The Devil And The Farmer's Wife]
- 1948:
- 1949:
- 1952:
Jean Ritchie [as The Little Devils]
- 1957:
- 1957:
John A. Lomax Jr. [as Tee Roo, Farmer's Curst Wife]
- 1958:
- 1959:
Dominic Behan [as The Women Are Worse Than The Men]
- 1960:
A.L. Lloyd [as The Devil And The Ploughman]
- 1963:
Ian Campbell Folk Group [as The Devil And The Farmer's Wife]
- 1966:
Martyn Wyndham-Read [as The Devil And The Ploughman]
- 1976:
Dubliners [as Killieburn Brae]
- 1979:
Oscar Brand [as The Devil And The Farmer's Wife]
- 1980:
Frankie Armstrong [idem]
- 1992:
Irish Rovers [as Killieburn Brae]
- 1993:
- 1994:
- 1994:
Barry Dransfield [as Lily Bulero]
- 2002:
- 2011:
- 2012:
Bellowhead [as Lilliburlero]
- 2015:
- 2017:
Celtic Woman [as Kilieburn Brae]
