"The Golden Vanity", also known as "The Golden Willow Tree", "The Turkish Revelry" or "The Sweet Trinity" is Child Ballad #286. An early version of this ballad appears circa 1635 as "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands". This ballad is known in many versions with numerous tunes. It was printed in The Roxburghe Ballads. More recently it was printed in The Burl Ives Songbook and many other collections. It has been recorded by The Carter Family ("Sinking in the Lonesome Sea") (1935) The Almanac Singers on Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads (1941) Richard Dyer-Bennet on Richard Dyer-Bennet #5 (1958) A.L. Lloyd on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume III (1956) Paul Clayton ("The Turkish Revelee") on Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick (1956) Burl Ives on Down to the Sea in Ships (1956) The Brothers Four ("The Gallant Argosy") (1960) The New Lost City Ramblers ("Sinking in the Lonesome Sea") (1963) Odetta on Odetta Sings Folk Songs (1963) Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, and Ed Trickett on The Ways of Man (1978) Peter, Paul and Mary on Flowers and Stones (1990) and many others.