JUG OF PUNCH
Created on 26/09/2022Latest update on 08/11/2025
Artist: Edward Quinn
Author: J.B. Buckstone
Label: Caedmon
Year: 1952
Peter Kennedy recording (BBC), in '61 on LP Jack Of All Trades - The Folk Songs Of Britain Vol 3. Roud #1808. Introduced in Buckstone's play Green Bushes, first staged at ther Adelphi Theatre in London in 1845. The play defined the stereotype of the Irish Paddy while the song became a hit in music-hall.
Covers:
- 1956:
A.L. Lloyd [on LP English Drinking Songs]
- 1957:
- 1961:
- 1961:
- 1962:
Pete Seeger [with Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon]
- 1964:
Joe Heaney [on The Road From Connemara]
- 1966:
- 1966:
- 1973:
- 1993:
