The Banks of Sweet Primroses

[8] A rendition by Bob Hart recorded by Reg Hall is available online at the British Library Sound Archive.

[9] Many singers involved in or inspired by the second [British Folk revival] have performed and recorded versions of "The Banks of Sweet Primroses", including Shirley Collins on her LP Sweet Primeroses,[10] The Dubliners[11] Fairport Convention,[12] Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick,[13] June Tabor,[14] Martin Simpson,[15] and Eliza Carthy.

Steve Roud writes that this song was so popular with traditional singers at the beginning of the 20th century that some collectors did not bother to note down every example.

[16] Ralph Vaughan Williams and A. L. Lloyd make the observation that "Tune and text have shown remarkable constancy" through many collected versions, and conclude that "Clearly, singers have found the song unusually memorable and satisfactory, for the process of oral transmission seems to have worked little change on it".

[17] The first line of the song was the inspiration for the title of Laurie Lee's autobiographical travel memoir As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.