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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Clancy Brothers
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1969
Closing song on album Christmas. Boxing Day in Ireland is St. Stephens Day of Wren's Day, when boys went from door to door with a dead wren, to collect money, for the funeral.
Covers:
Steeleye Span [as Hunting The Wren; a tradition less popular in England]
John Kirkpatrick [idem; not to be compared with Lankum's Hunting The Wren ('19), about 19th centyry Irish outlaws, all women, living wild (in nests!) on the plains of the Curragh in Co. kildare]
Lisa O'Neill [as The Wren The Wren; gave its title to a novel by Anne Enright (2023)]
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)