The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

FOGGY DEW, THE

Latest update on 02/02/2015

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:

1939:: Douglas Mosling [in the Eel's Foot in Eastbridge, Suffolk; BBC recording by A.L. Lloyd]
1954:: Susan Reed
1959:: Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [their first collaboration]
1976:: Dubliners
1994:: Alan Stivell
1995:: Chieftains [vocal: Sinéad O'Connor]
2004:: Martin Carthy
2006:: Frances Black
2006:: Young Dubliners

Also using the English love ballad lyrics: Shirley Collins, A.L. Lloyd, Harry Cox, Burl Ives and Ewan MacColl. Greg Brown sang it as Foggy Foggy Dew.

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