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Artist: Bob Dylan
Author: Bob Dylan
Label: Columbia
Year: 1962
Outtake from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan sessions, released on Bootleg Series Vol 1-3.
Covers:
Townes Van Zandt [as Little Willie The Gambler; Townes was a serious gambler]
Clancy Brothers [who as no other made the ballad of Brennan On The Moor famous; Liam Clancy remembered how Bob Dylan, new in the Village, stopped him on the street to make him listen to his adaptation of their Brennan, nine verses long]
Based on Irish traditional Brennan On The Moor (see there) about highwayman Willie Brennan, the Irish equivalent of Jesse James, hanged in county Cork in 1812. Dylan knew the song from the Clancy's canon, but switched the action to the life & times of that other historic outlaw gambler Will O'Conley.
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
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