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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Henry Whitter
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1927
Roud #147 & 1937. Universal folksong, also as The Dying Hobo and as Lady Alice (Child #85), main inspiration for the US versions. In France as (Le Roy) Renaud, in Germany as Undine. The lyrics in The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams & A.L. Lloyd (1959) were collected in 1906 in Hampshire.
Covers:
Kelly Harrell [as The Dying Hobo]
Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers [released in '15 on anthology of English songs in the USA: My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean]
Dixon Brothers [as The Story Of George Collins]
Nathan & Rena Hicks [Frank Warner recording]
Enos White [well in his eighties; released in '77 on Topic album Songs & Southern Breezes]
Jean Ritchie [as Johnny Collins]
Sam Lee [as The Ballad Of George Collins, opening cd Ground Of Its Own]
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)