The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11731   Message #89210
Posted By: dick greenhaus
23-Jun-99 - 09:29 PM
Thread Name: The Water is Wide - one more time!
Subject: RE: The Water is Wide
There's a very pretty Scots version that Burl Ives sangm and was popular in the late 40s hat began "When cockle shells turn silver bells...:

One problem with folk recordings is that every version except the "righr one" tends to disappear.