"Skin and Bones"
Additional Formats > Ewan MacColl > Songs > Old Lady All Skin and Bone (There Was a) Lady All Skin and Bone[ Roud 501 ; Ballad Index Roy Palmer: Everyman's Book of British Ballads Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl: The Singing Island Jean Ritchie: Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians Jean Ritchie sang Skin and Bones in 1952 on her Elektra album Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Traditional Kentucky Mountain Family. Edward Tatnall Canby wrote in the sleeve notes:
Ewan MacColl sang Old Lady All Skin and Bones in 1961 on his and Peggy Seeger's Folkways album Two-Way Trip. They also included the song year earlier in their book The Singing Island. The album's liner notes commented:
Cyril Tawney sang There Was a Lady All Skin and Bone on his 1970 Argo album Children’s Songs from Devon and Cornwall. He noted:
Jo Freya sang There Was a Lady All Skin and Bone in 1992 on her Saydisc album Traditional Songs of England. The liner notes commented:
The Devil's Interval sang Lady All Skin and Bone in c. 2005 on their EP Demon Lovers, and Jim Causley sang it in 2007 on his WildGoose solo album Lost Love Found. He noted:
Eliza Carthy sang Lady All Skin and Bone in 2019 on her Topic album Restitute. She noted:
Jackie Oates and John Spiers sang There Was a Lady All Skin and Bone on their 2020 album Needle Pin, Needle Pin. Lyrics
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