Anita Carter did a killer cover (with some wording changes. Johnny Cash introduces here as the “greatest singing voice in country music today” (1972). Maybe he was a little biased, but she’s certainly one of the most underrated from that time.
Anita Carter has a beautiful voice here, but the tempo of the song is all wrong. It’s not supposed to be so cheerful and bouncy. It’s a song about painful and bittersweet loss.