BRENNAN ON THE MOOR
Created on 13/09/2022Latest update on 04/07/2023
Artist: Blaine Stubblefield
Author: traditional
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1938
Lyrics of this version were printed in John A. & Alan Lomax's Our Singing Country ('41). Song about an Irish highwayman (William Brennan) hanged in Clonmel in 1812 and buried in Kilcrumper (between Kilworth and Fermoy).
Covers:
- 1949:
Burl Ives [on Stinson lp Wayfaring Stranger]
- 1955:
- 1957:
- 1959:
Neil Morris [version where Brennan is pardonned and released to fight the Spanish over sea]
- 1961:
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [most famous version of the song; Clonmel where the real Willy Brennan was hanged is 12 miles from where the Clancy's grew up]
- 1964:
See also: Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie.
