Artist: Johnstons
Author: trad./Robert Burns
Label: Pye
Year: 1968
Anglo-Irish song, also known as The Winter It Is Past, which are the first lyric lines (by Robert Burns). First collected in Traditional Ballad Airs by Dean Christie in 1876. Written from the standpoint of a highwayman named Johnston who was hanged in 1750 for robberies around the Curragh, now a racetrack for horses, once the chief base for the army in Ireland.
Covers:
Emmet Spiceland [with Donal Lunny]
Bert Jansch [on A Rare Conundrum]
Pogues [melody in White City]
Jean Redpath [as The Winter It Is Past on a different tune and viewed from a female perspective]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)