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Artist: Henry Whitter
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1927
Roud #147. Universal folk song, 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, in the Lowlands as Heer Halewijn. 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)
Belgium