Artist: Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1964
On their album The First Hurrah. With a slightly different melody, Dominic Behan (Brendan's brother) sang it in 1961 as The Kerry Boat Song on his album The Irish Rover.
Covers:
Tinkers [hit IRE]
Ceoltóiri Chualann & Seán Ó Sé [as Do Bhí Bean Uasal in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, a performance boosting Irish traditional music in general and The Chieftains in particular; with Paddy Moloney on uilleann pipes; title means: There Was A Lady; seems this lady stayed behind while the singer crossed the ocean (or the Irish Sea), making it some Ulster-type The Water Is Wide; words from an 18th century macaronic ballad sheet, where verses in Irish (Gaelic) and English intertwine; The melody as we know it is probably not older than the 1960s, when Irish traditional music revived around institutions as Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann, first established in Mullingar (Co. Westmeath), later in Dun Laoghaire (south Dublin) (see also: My Lagan Love)]
Joe Dassin [as Mon village du bout du monde]
Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola [as An Gleanntan Uaigneach; learned it from her grandmother]
Carrickfergus is a place in Northern Ireland north of Belfast, known for a Norman fortification, build ca. 1200 to control all naval traffic to and from Belfast, with success.
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