Artist: John McCormack
Author: E. Milligan/Fox
Label: Victor
Year: 1913
Pre Easter 1916 version with romantic lyrics. Following the Irish insurrection, Father O'Neill wrote the lyrics that were covered.
Covers:
Douglas Mosling [in the Eel's Foot in Eastbridge, Suffolk; BBC recording by A.L. Lloyd]
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [their first collaboration]
Chieftains [vocal: Sinéad O'Connor who sang it in '02 as The Moorlough Shore (see there)]
Not to be confused with the eponymous traditional English ballad, sang by Burl Ives ('44), Harry Cox ('56), Carl Sandburg ('57), Shirley Collins ('59), A.L. Lloyd ('61) and Ewan MacColl ('86). Greg Brown sang it as Foggy Foggy Dew.
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