Artist: Buell Kazee
Author: traditional
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1929
Roud #196 and Child #79. First collected by Sir Walter Scott in 1802 (Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border) before moving over to Appalachia.
Covers:
John Jacob Niles [as The Wife Of Usher's Well]
Peggy Seeger [idem]
Texas Gladden [Lomax recording as Three Little Babes, released on the same Southern Journey cd holding Hick's Farewell (see there), also covered by The Chieftains]
Jean Ritchie [as The Wife Of Usher's Well]
Hedy West [as The Wife Of Usher's Well]
Steeleye Span [idem]
Chieftains [as Three Little Babies with Patty Loveless]
Bellowhead [as The Wife Of Usher's Well]
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)