I'M A MAN YOU DON'T MEET EVERY DAY

Created on 27/11/2017
Latest update on 15/03/2024

Artist: Mrs. Amy Ford
Author: anonymus
Label: cassette tape
Year: 1970s

Aberdeenshire drinking song recorded by Bob Patton in Somerset. Amy learned it from her grandfather who sang it for Cecil Sharp.

Covers:

1960:

Jeannie Robertson [as I'm A Man Youse Don't Meet Every Day; two of her grandparents were Stewarts]

1976:

Archie Fisher [as Jock Stewart]

1977:

Silver Spree [idem]

1979:

Tannahill Weavers

1979:

Dougie MacLean [as Jock Stewart]

1985:

Pogues [vocal: Cait O'Riordan]

1989:

Sheila Stewart [daughter of piper and storyteller Alec Stewart as Jock Stewart]

1992:

Dubliners

2002:

DanĂº

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