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Artist: John McCormack
Author: L.F. Milligan/Spencer Clay
Label: Victor
Year: 1913
With Spencer Clay on piano. Pre Easter 1916 version with romantic lyrics opening with "Down by the glen on an Easter morn". Roud #556. In Folk Song In England (F&F - '17) Steve Roud dates it back to 1689. Following the Irish insurrection, Father O'Neill wrote the lyrics that were covered. The Moorlough Shore uses the same melody (see there).
Covers:
Jim Dwyer [for Decca; see also: Father Murphy Of boulavogue]
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 with opening line "When I was a bachelor", sang by Douglas Morling ('39 - BBC recording at the Eel's Foot pub in Eastbridge, Suffolk), Burl Ives ('44), Harry Cox ('56), Oscar Brand ('56), Carl Sandburg ('57), Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten ('61) (as The Foggy Foggy Dew), A.L. Lloyd ('61 ; he conducted the '39 recording at the Eel's Foot) and Ewan MacColl ('86). Greg Brown sang it also as Foggy Foggy Dew.
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