A poignant version of the song also was recorded by Sweet Honey in the Rock on the Grammy award-winning album A Vision Shared produced by CBS as a tribute to Lead Belly (and Woody Guthrie) for Smithsonian Folkways.
During his visit to North America, German theater practitioner and playwright Bertolt Brecht was inspired by Lead Belly and rich American folk-music traditions.
He ultimately wrote a poem entitled "Die haltbare Graugans", which loosely means 'The indestructible grey goose'.
German composer Hanns Eisler, who frequently collaborated with Brecht, set this poem as an original song for voice and piano.
[3] Baritone Holger Falk and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher included this song on their album "Hanns Eisler Lieder Vol.