On the US side of the water, two important early artists introducing "Pleasant and Delightful" to the folksong revival were:

Wallace House (a Channel Islander living in the US), on his Folkways LP "English County Songs," 1952. He titled his version "The Lover's Departure."

Paul Clayton, who was singing it in club dates and concerts by at least 1952, when he recorded it with Bill Clifton in a set of tapes not issued on LP till 1975. He would first release it on LP on the 1957 Folkways album "American Broadside Ballads in Popular Tradition," but by that time he'd been popularizing it in gigs for some five years.

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