FARMER'S CURST WIFE, THE
Created on 23/09/2022Latest update on 13/12/2023
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 #27, Roud #160 (also as The Devil And The Farmer, The Devil And The Ploughman, Lily Bulero and Killieburn Brae).
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 Lillibulero]
- 2015:
- 2017:
Celtic Woman [as Kilieburn Brae]
