•
Merle Travis on
Folk Songs of the Hills, 1946 •
Maddox Brothers and Rose, 1950 •
Cisco Houston, Early 1950s •
Tennessee Ernie Ford, 1955 •
Harry Belafonte on
The Many Moods of Belafonte (1962) •
Gordon Lightfoot and Terry Whelan on
Two Tones at the Village Corner, 1962 •
Johnny Cash, studio version as the b-side of "
Understand Your Man" single (1964) •
Wolfe Tones on
The Foggy Dew -as "Down in the Mines" (1965) • The Twiliters on
In Concert (1966) •
Johnny Cash, live version on
At Folsom Prison (1968) •
Merle Travis with
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972) •
Dolly Parton on
9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (1980) •
Patrick Sky on
Through a Window, 1985 •
Wall of Voodoo on
Seven Days in Sammystown (1985) •
The Seldom Scene with
Charlie Waller on
15th Anniversary Celebration (1988) •
Frank Tovey on
Tyranny and the Hired Hand (1989) •
Souled American on
Sonny (1992) •
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, duet with
Guy Clark, on
Friends of Mine (1998) •
The Chieftains with
Vince Gill on
Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions (2002) •
Marley's Ghost on
Ghost Country (1996) •
Queens of the Stone Age, 2005 •
Jerry Garcia and
David Grisman on
Been All Around This World (2004) •
Charlie Louvin on
Sings Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs (2008) •
Kathy Mattea on
Coal (2008) •
Willie Nelson on
Country Music (2010) •
Amy Grant on the Lee C. Camp & Friends specialty album,
Tokens 9: "Back to Green" (2010) •
John Darnielle of
The Mountain Goats on
The Front Porch Sessions (The Front Porch Festival, 2012) •
John Mellencamp for the soundtrack of the documentary
From the Ashes (2017) •
Joni Mitchell on the archival release
Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967) (2020) • Being a well-documented song publicized by
EFDSS, and Mainly Norfolk, the song was recorded by
Jon Boden and
Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective projects
A Folk Song A Day and
365 Days of Folk. ==Published versions==