BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND

Created on 18/01/2023
Latest update on 20/05/2023

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:

1972:

Corries

1988:

Gordon Bok

2006:

John Faulkner

2010:

Andy Irvine

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).

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