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:
Burl Ives [as There Were Three Ships]
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)]
Jean Ritchie [Lomax recording]
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]
Julie Andrews [as Sunny Bank (I Saw Three Ships)]
Roy & Val Bailey [as I Saw Three Ships, with Leon Rosselson]
Jon Anderson [as Three Ships]
Maddy Prior [idem]
Coope, Boyes & Simpson [as As I Sat On A Sunny Bank]
Kate Rusby [as Sunny Bank]
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