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Artist: John McGettigan & his Irish Minstrels
Author: traditional
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1937
Same melody as The Foggy Dew (see there). See also: The Turfman From Ardee.
Covers:
Rita & Sarah Keane [Sean-nos singing aunts of Dolores Keane with their niece on flute as The Moorlough Shore; the Archive of Folksongs at the Library of Congress holds a version in Gaelic from '56]
Dolores Keane [idem]
Sinéad O'Connor [second song from her Sean-nós Tua CD and also cut by Susan McKeown]
Corrs [all as The Moorlough Shore]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium