wyte on Geordie. O he has written a lang letter, He sent it to his lady: 'Ye maun cum up to Enbrugh town, To see what word's o Geordie.' When first she lookd the letter on, She was baith red and rosy; But she had na read a word but twa Till she wallowt like a lily. 'Gar get to me my gude grey steed, My menyie a' gae wi me, For I shall neither eat nor drink Till Enbrugh town shall see me.' Field recordings The earliest recording is a 1907 performance by Joseph Taylor, collected on wax cylinder by the musicologist Percy Grainger in that year. It was digitised by the British Library and made available online in 2018. Louisa "Louie" Hooper (1860–1946) of Langport, Somerset, England (sister of the folk singer Lucy White) sang a version in 1942 which Joan Baez based her popular version on. A version recorded by Keith Summers of the Nottinghamshire singer Alec Bloomfield singing "Young George Oxbury" in the British Library Sound Archive'. The traditional singer Harry Cox sang a complete version to Mervyn Plunkett c.1959 which is available on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Alan Lomax recorded Kentucky singer Jean Ritchie singing a version of this song in 1949 in New York. A version in the "Carroll Mackenzie Collection", "Clare County Library" recorded from Mrs. Casey contains this verse: My Georgie never killed a man, No, nor neither robbed a lady. He stole a pair of the King’s pretty maids, And he gave them to Lord Taily. There are three versions, all called "Georgie", in the "Max Hunter Folk Song Collection" at Missouri State University: from Rhonnda Hayes of Irving, Texas; Joan O'Bryant of Wichita, Kansas and Charles Strayer Jr. of Sarcoxie, Missouri; in all these versions, either "the oldest lawyer at the bar" or "Georgie's own lawyer", says that he is condemned by his own confession, an interesting local variant. Folk-song collections The Roud Folk Song Index lists about 129 distinct versions – 40 from England, 27 from Scotland, 2 from Ireland, 52 from the United States and 8 from Canada. Popular versions Louisa "Louie" Hooper and Joan Baez Joan Baez released one of the first popular versions of the song on her first live album in 1962, which took the tune from the traditional 1942 recording of Louisa "Louie" Hooper (1860-1946) of Langport, Somerset, England. It is possible