Hello Hooray. I first heard a beautiful version of this on a 1974 Meg Christian album called I Know You Know. Some years later, when my Hubby was playing an Alice Cooper album I was surprised to hear his 1973 heavy rock version of the song.

A bit of Googling shows that Judy Collins first recorded it in 1968 and it was written by Canadian Rolf Kempf.

Maybe as a bit of a tribute to Kempf, Meg Christian also had a track on her album Freest Fancy/Kemp's Jig. (Note: the 16th Century English tune, Kemp's Jig became a favourite tune of mine, after hearing it on both Meg C's album and the Gryphon album, released in 1973. I don't know which of those I heard first.)

Also, I first heard the Tim Buckley album Sefronia in 1974 and then was surprised to hear Tom Waits singing it on another of Hubby's albums. I thought Buckley had written it but no, it was Tom Waits. Just found that out!

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Helen