SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Created on 29/09/2022
Latest update on 21/04/2024

Artist: Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd
Author: traditional
Label: Tradition
Year: 1957

On Blow Boys Blow. Roud #325. Sea shanty dating from the days when the new established colony (Captain Cook 'discovered' Australia in 1770) became the ideal destination for British criminals and potential agitators galore.

Covers:

1958:

A.L. Lloyd

1962:

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

1964:

Seekers

1966:

Trevor Lucas

1970:

Louis Killen [ex sailor himself]

1976:

Irish Rovers

1987:

Pogues [on If I Should Fall From Grace With God]

2008:

Dubliners

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