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Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
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". Following the Irish insurrection, Father O'Neill wrote the lyrics that were covered. The Moorlough Shore uses the same melody (see there).
Covers:
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)