Artist: Humbard Family
Author: Albert Brumley
Label: Okeh
Year: 1940
Written in 1929, inspired by a line from Vernon Dalhart's Prisoner Song: "If I had the wings of an angel". The copyright reads 1932.
Covers:
Southern Sons [for Trumpet]
Survivors [Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis & Carl Perkins]
Aretha Franklin [on Diana's Tribute]
Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss [in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?]
Johnny Cash [posthumous on My Mother's Hymn Book]
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)