Artist: Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd
Author: traditional
Label: Tradition
Year: 1957
On lp Blow Boys Blow. Roud #1812. Cecil Sharp collected a version in 1915. Some lyriclines double with lines from Van Diemen's Land.
Covers:
Not to be confused, neither with the eponymous marsh from the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during WW I, crediting Francis Forbes/Oliver Ditson, nor with the jig on accordion by Peter James Conlon in 1928, released on Rounder comp From Galway To Dublin ('93).
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)