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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
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Artist: John Jacob Niles
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1941
On 78rpm American Folk Lore Vol 3. Roud #77, Child #170 who collected a version in Kentucky in 1917. Song about Jane Seymour, one of the wives of king Henry XIII and who did not survive the birth of their son (and crown prince) Edward.
Covers:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford [who probably recorded a much earlier version for the L.o.C. Archive of Folk Culture]
Oscar Isaac [in film Inside Llewyn Davis]
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