[1] On the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Catalogue the earliest versions are from "Ballads and Songs Collected by The Missouri Folklore Society" by Henry Marvin Belden.
In some versions she remembers his words "You could make me believe by the falling of your arm that the sun rose in the west".
[9] In 1967 Pete Seeger recorded it for the album Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs.
[11] The song has been performed by numerous other artists, including Joan Baez, Odetta, The Kingston Trio, Leon Bibb, Makem and Clancy, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, The Rankin Family, The Country Gentlemen, Murray Head, Dolly Parton, Gene Clark and Carla Olson.
The 2000 film Songcatcher sees a scholar travelling through Appalachia using a cylinder recording machine.