OLD GREY MARE, THE

Created on 28/09/2022
Latest update on 26/01/2023

Artist: Prince's Orch.
Author: trad./Frank Panella
Label: Columbia
Year: 1917

Top 5 US. Derived from 1858 song Down In Alabam, which under new title Old Abe Lincoln was used as campaign song for the 1860 presidential elections. Roud #2651.

Covers:

1917:

Earl Fuller Jazz Band

1918:

Collins & Harlan [top 5 US]

1927:

Skillet Lickers [as Old Gray Mare]

1928:

Vernon Dalhart [idem]

1936:

Gene Autry [idem]

1942:

Carson Robison [as The Old Grey Mare Is Back]

1958:

Buell Kazee

1962:

Bing Crosby

1976:

Norman Blake

1992:

Peggy Seeger [as Once I Had An Old Gray Mare]

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