HOLY GROUND, THE
Created on 01/11/2023Latest update on 02/08/2024
Artist: Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1962
On LP The Boys Won't Leave The Girls Alone. Sea shanty about a renowned place for prostitution east of Cobh, harbour town in county Cork, in 1912 the last stop for the Titanic on its fatal maiden voyage.
Covers:
- 1964:
- 1993:
Mary Black [title track cd; same tune, different words]
- 2000:
- 2013:
- 2023:
Mary Wallopers [fitting song for an Irish band named after a whore]
The tune reminds Welsh traditional Old Swansea Town Once More as arranged by Gustav Holst.
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- 1959
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- 1962
- ROTHSEA-O
- 1964
- CARRICKFERGUS (DO BHí BEAN UASAL)
- 1964
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- 1956
- FOGGY DEW, THE
- 1956
- WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, THE
- 1956
- BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS
- 1956
- MINSTREL BOY, THE
- 1956
- FATHER MURPHY OF BOULAVOGUE
- 1959
- BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS
- 1959
- KENTUCKY MOONSHINER
- 1959
- RARE OLD MOUNTAIN DEW
- 1959
- KEVIN BARRY
- 1961
- BUTCHER'S BOY, THE
- 1961
- BRENNAN ON THE MOOR
- 1961
- JUG OF PUNCH
- 1961
- BONNY LASS OF FYVIE, THE
- 1961
- WHISTLING GYPSY
- 1962
- I'LL TELL MY MA
- 1962
- WILL YOU GO, LASSIE, GO
- 1962
- WILD COLONIAL BOY, THE
- 1962
- JUG OF THIS, A
- 1962
- SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- 1962
- MY SINGING BIRD
- 1962
- SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY
- 1963
- LEWIS BRIDAL SONG
- 1964
- JOHNNY TODD
- 1964
- RAGING SEA, HOW IT ROARS, THE
- 1964
- ROSIN THE BOW
- 1964
- ROW, BULLIES, ROW
- 1964
- PATRIOT GAME, THE
- 1964
- LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL, THE
- 1966
- SPORTING RACES AT GALWAY
- 1966
- WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU MARRIED A SOLDIER
- 1966
- FREEBORN MAN
- 1967
- PAPER OF PINS, A
- 1968
- LIED EINES JUNGEN WACHTPOSTENS (LILI MARLEEN)
- 1968
- BLOOD RED ROSES
- 1968
- BARD OF ARMAGH, THE
- 1968
- BLOW BOYS BLOW
- 1968
- TOM'S GONE TO HILO
- 1968
- HOME BOYS, HOME
- 1969
- BANKS OF RED ROSES, THE
- 1969
- ALL FOR ME GROG
- 1983
- SLIEVE GALLON BRAES
- 1992
- VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH
- 1995
- NEVER WED AN OLD MAN
