[1] The Stargazers' recording was produced by Dick Rowe, one of eight of his UK chart topping successes in that role.
[3] The Mariners' version, released in 1953 on Columbia Records, reached number 14 in the United States.
[4] A recording by Don Cameron with Morton Fraser's Harmonica Band was made in London on February 17, 1954.
In 1997, the English actress Phoebe Nicholls (as May Thrace) performed the song with piano accompaniment in an adaptation for television of Ruth Rendell's mystery, May and June.
It matches a couplet that appears in English as early as 1784 in a work entitled Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus:[6]