Question: Who wrote the folk song recorded by an English rock band that released it's debut album in the United States on January 12, 1969?

Context articles: The Maid Freed from the Gallows
Motorhead (Motörhead song)
Led Zeppelin discography
Led Zeppelin (album)
Change (Killing Joke song)
The Garden of Jane Delawney
Led Zeppelin II
The House of the Rising Sun
Liege &amp; Lief
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

"The Maid Freed from the Gallows" is one of many titles of a centuries-old folk song about a condemned maiden pleading for someone to buy her freedom from the executioner.
 In the collection of ballads compiled by Francis James Child in the late 19th century, it is indexed as Child Ballad number 95; 11 variants, some fragmentary, are indexed as 95A to 95K.
 In the Roud Folk Song Index it is number 144.
 The ballad exists in a number of folkloric variants, from many different countries, and has been remade in a variety of formats.
 For example, it was recorded in 1939 as "The Gallis Pole" by folk singer Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, and - the most famous version - in 1970 as "Gallows Pole", an arrangement of the Fred Gerlach version by English rock band Led Zeppelin, on the album "Led Zeppelin III".
"Motorhead" is the eponymous song of the British hard rock band of the same name.
 It was originally recorded by the space rock band Hawkwind, of whom the song's author, Motörhead frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, had been a member from 1971 to 1975.
 It was the last song that he had written for them, but it had only been released as the B-side of the single "Kings of Speed", in March 1975.
 In May of that year, Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind and formed a new band, naming it after the song.
 It indicated the direction in which he planned to go: hard rock, not space rock.
 Motörhead recorded two new versions of the song later that year, one as part of a demo session with producer Dave Edmunds and then another as part of the sessions for what was meant to have been Motörhead's debut album.
 However, their record label, United Artists Records, decided to shelve the project and dropped the band without releasing any of the material.
 Over a year later, the song was recorded yet again for Chiswick Records, during the session for their actual debut album and was released ahead of it, in June 1977, as their second 7" single.
The discography of the English rock band Led Zeppelin consists of nine studio albums, four live albums, nine compilation albums, 16 singles and eight music downloads. Formed in London in 1968, the group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bass player John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.
 The band pioneered the concept of album-oriented rock and often refused to release popular songs as singles.
 Nevertheless, four of their ten songs that reached the Hot 100 had no mention of the title in the lyrics: "Immigrant Song", "Black Dog", "Over the Hills and Far Away", "D'yer Mak'er".
 Their debut album, "Led Zeppelin" (1969), released by Atlantic Records, charted at number six on the UK Albums Chart and at number ten on the United States "Billboard" 200.
 It received several sales certifications, including an 8 times multi-platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Diamond from the Music Canada.
 Led Zeppelin's second studio album, "Led Zeppelin II", recorded when the band were on tour, was released a few months after the first.
 It reached number one in several countries, including the UK and the US, where it was certified 12 times multi-platinum.
 The album produced Led Zeppelin's most successful single, "Whole Lotta Love", which peaked at several music charts in the top 10. "
Led Zeppelin III" (1970) was a softer, more folk-based effort compared to the hard rock of the band's previous releases.
 It also peaked at number one in the UK and in the US.
Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records.
 Featuring integral contributions from each of the group's four members, the album was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and established their fusion style of both blues and rock music.
 It also attracted a large and devoted following to the band; Zeppelin's take on the emerging hard rock sound endeared them to parts of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Change is a song by English rock band Killing Joke that first appeared on the US release of their 1980 self-titled debut album.
 This same version of "Change" was released as the B-side of the band's single "Requiem".
 A version of the song recorded at a John Peel session on 5 March 1980 was issued that month as a limited-edition promotional single, available at gigs and without advertisement from the band's Malicious Damage label.
The Garden of Jane Delawney is the debut album of British folk rock band Trees.
 Whilst nearly every song on the album appears to be a traditional folk song, this is actually only the case for about half of them, the others having been penned for the album by front-man Bias Boshell.
 The title track is a particularly good example of his apparent talent for writing songs that sounded like they had existed for hundreds of years as folk songs.
Led Zeppelin II is the eponymous second studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records.
 Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969.
 The album's production was credited to the band's lead guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page, and it also served as Led Zeppelin's first album to utilise the recording techniques of the engineer Eddie Kramer.
 Incorporating several elements of blues and folk music, "Led Zeppelin II" exhibited the band's evolving musical style of blues-derived material and their guitar riff-based sound.
 It has been described as the band's heaviest album.
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues".
 It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling to avoid the same fate.
 The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by British rock group the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and also in the United States and France.
 As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk-rock hit".
Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the English folk rock band Fairport Convention.
 It is the third and final album the group released in the UK in 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist (Denny did not appear on the group's 1968 debut album).
 It is also the very first Fairport album on which all songs have either been adapted (freely) from traditional British and Celtic folk material (for example "Matty Groves", "Tam Lin"), or else are original compositions (such as "Come All Ye", "Crazy Man Michael") written and performed in a similar style.
 By introducing songs of this genre into the group's repertoire Denny, who had previously sung and recorded traditional folk songs as a solo artist, was instrumental in this transformation.
 Although Denny quit the band even before the album's release, Fairport Convention has continued to the present day to make music almost exclusively within the traditional British folk music idiom, and are still most strongly associated with it.
"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a folk song written by Anne Bredon (then known as Anne Johannsen) in the late 1950s.
 It was recorded by Joan Baez (credited and became widely popular as "traditional") and released on her 1962 album "Joan Baez in Concert, Part 1"; and by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, who included it on their 1969 debut album "Led Zeppelin".