Recorded by Seumas Ennis in 1955. Sleeve note by Peter Kennedy says "the great songsmith Sam Lover wrote this now classic love song and Seumas really gives us the feeling of what courtship was really like for the sweethearts of local farm lads..."

A maybe more accessible, and much more musical, version was recorded by the Johnstons (with Paul Brady) on their first album (1967), re-released recently. The sleeve note for this included setting the song in "a lonely cottage in the wild countryside of West Kerry...they don't make songs like this any more". Lover was born in Dublin in 1797, died 1868. He was a sort of forerunner of Percy French, putting on shows featuring, songs, stories, monologues, etc.