Jean Ritchie released "Jackero" on her 1956 album "Songs from Kentucky"[2] and performed it on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest in 1966.
[4] Cecil Sharp had previously collected this version of the song from Jean and Edna's older sister May Ritchie (1896-1982) in 1917.
Hamish Henderson recorded Willie Mathieson of Ellon, Aberdeenshire singing a version called "Jack the Sailor" in 1952, which can be heard via the Tobar an Dualchais archive.
[7] The Irish traditional singer Thomas Moran was recorded by Seamus Ennis singing a variant entitled "Jack Mulroe" in 1954.
[8] Only two versions have been collected in England - "The Maid of Chatham" by Sabine Baring-Gould in Devon in 1893,[9] and "Jacky Robinson" by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Essex.