Artist: A.L. Lloyd
Author: trad./A.L. Lloyd
Label: Topic
Year: 1966
With Dave Swarbrick on fiddle on LP First Person. Child #67, Roud #145 (also as Glasgerion). Song about a Welsh bard and harper from the 9th century, so legendary he was quoted by Chaucer five centuries later (1380s). The tune was Bert Lloyd's.
Covers:
Bert Jansch [album title track]
Martin Carthy [also with Swarb]
Trees [as Glasgerion]
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)