I SAW THREE SHIPS (COME SAILING IN)

Created on 20/01/2025
Latest update on 20/01/2025

Artist: Bing Crosby
Author: traditional
Label: Decca
Year: 1949

In medley on Christmas Greetings album. Christmas carol first mentioned in 1666. Roud #700. Also known as As I Sat On A Sunny Bank.

Covers:

1952:

Burl Ives [as There Were Three Ships]

1956:

Mario Lanza

1957:

Charlie Bate [for the BBC Live Christmas Day Broadcast, out in Alan Lomax Collection on CD Sing Christmas And The Turn Of The Year ('00)]

1959:

Jean Ritchie [Lomax recording]

1960:

Nat King Cole

1961:

John Thomas [as As I Sat On A Sunny Bank, Peter Kennedy recording out on anthology Songs Of Ceremony - The Folk Songs Of Britain, Vol 9]

1966:

Julie Andrews [as Sunny Bank (I Saw Three Ships)]

1968:

Roy & Val Bailey [as I Saw Three Ships, with Leon Rosselson]

1985:

Jon Anderson [as Three Ships]

1991:

Maddy Prior [idem]

1991:

Chieftains with Marianne Faithfull

1993:

Bruce Cockburn

1995:

Glen Campbell

1995:

Kiri Te Kanawa

1997:

Judy Collins

1998:

Coope, Boyes & Simpson [as As I Sat On A Sunny Bank]

1998:

John Renbourn

2001:

Marillion

2004:

Barenaked Ladies

2006:

Blackmore's Night

2006:

Sufjan Stevens

2006:

Robin Gibb

2006:

Don Dixon

2011:

Irish Rovers

2013:

Mediaeval Baebes

2015:

Kate Rusby [as Sunny Bank]

2023:

Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden

Contact


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

info@originals.be

No Facebook No Twitter