Famous alternative versions (that go by a different song name) of previously well-known songs: what are your favourites?

[dark water]

Hi,

I was just listening to White Summer by Led Zeppelin / the Yardbirds.



As many of you will know, this is a well-known 'take' (some might say rip-off?) by Jimmy Page from an old Irish folk song called She Moved Through The Fair, thought to have been 'pieced together' by Padraic Colum and Herbert Hughes at the start of the 20th century. Many famous artists have recorded a version of this gorgeous song, for example: Fairport Convention, Van Morrison and the Chieftains, and Davey Graham:



This melody was also worked later by Simple Minds as Belfast Child which, unlike the Yardbirds / Led Zeppelin's version White Summer, was seen as giving sufficient accreditation to the old Irish folk song She Moved Through The Fair:



(Of course, Led Zeppelin are well known to have 're-interpreted' / 'nicked' previous songs as their own - sometimes giving credit and sometimes not, a case in point being Bert Jansch's Black Waterside)



Anyway, what famous songs do you know (and maybe like) which are a re-interpretation of an older known song, yet have a different name?

Cheers,

[Acid Mitch]

Black Sabbath original


Butthole Surfers

[BONES]

OK, so this version isn't quite famous but it did chart here in Australia -



This is another good Barron Knights parody -



No need to link to the original here -

[vurt]

now i know for certain im in bizarro world.
my mum and auntie used to go and see the barron knights in the late 70s early 80s.

wonder if i can actually fly here?
back later, experiments to run....

[Aloysius]

Soy Boys - It's A Bin ... [name changed to avoid lawsuit]
Cat Stevens - Wild World