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Artist: Bob Copper
Author: traditional
Label: Caedmon
Year: 1952
BBC recording released on Songs Of Courtship ('61). Louie Hooper (where Cecil Sharp first heard it from) recorded a version for the BBC in 1942. Roud #154. This song circulated on broadsheet since the 17th century. Alternative titles: I Loved A Lass, The Week Before Easter and The Lambs On The Green Hill. See also: What Can A Young Lassie Dae Wi An Auld Man?
Covers:
John Strachan [as It Was Nae My Fortune To Get Her, for Hamish Henderson and released on CD Hamish Henderson Collects ('05)]
Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl [as I Loved A Lass; see also: What Can A Young Lassie Dae Wi An Auld Man]
Jeannie Robertson [as I Saw My Own Bonnie Lass, released in '84]
Pete Seeger [as I Once Loved A Lass]
Sarah Makem [as I Courted A Wee Girl]
Ian Campbell Folk Group [as I Loved A Lass]
Pentangle [aI Once Loved A Lass]
Seamus Ennis [as The False-hearted Lover]
Jane Turriff [as What Can A Young Lassie Dae Wi' An Auld Man?; Bill Leader recording incorporated in Sam Lee's My Ausheen]
Robin & Barry Dransfield [as A Week Before Easter]
Louis Killen [as A Week Before Easter]
Paddy Reilly [as I Once Loved A Lass]
June Tabor [as The Week Before Easter]
Martyn Wyndham-Read [as The Forlorn Lover]
Tannahill Weavers [as I Once Loved A Lass]
Maddy Prior [as I heard The Banns (Published In Church); from a female perspective, live at Cecil Sharp House, Camden]
Jon Boden [as A Week Before Easter, exactly one week before Easter during his A Folk Song A Day project]
Sam Lee [as My Ausheen (My Old Shoes) on 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