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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Harry Cox
Author: traditional
Label: Decca
Year: 1934
B-side of Down By The Riverside (The Bold Fisherman), the first folksong issued by the EFDSS on a traditional singer (on 78RPM). His Peter Kennedy recording in '53 was released in the Portrait Series of the Alan Lomax Collection. Moving love story between a damsel and a ploughboy, realizing quite clearly he'd be sent to war by some press gang once her parents would hear about their romance. Sure enough. Versions of this popular tune circulate all over England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the US since Napoleon.
Covers:
Mary Ann Galpin [on New Foundland]
Chumbawamba [and they sent him to the wars to be slain to be slain-sample in Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name), grooving along Bert Jansch's guitar tune Anji (see: Angi); not to be confused with Bruce Springsteen's Jacob's Ladder (see: (We Are Climbing) Jacob's Ladder)]
Bruce Molsky [as The Simple Ploughboy; American variation; Cecil Sharp collected local versions as early as 1916]
Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher [on cd Song Links 2]
Eliza Carthy [on Anglicana]
Tim Van Eyken [And they sent him to the wars to be slain-verse in Learning To Plough on the OST of National Theatre stage production WarHorse]
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)