Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A writer named Stephen L. Suffet wrote a song in 1997, from the point of Willie McBride respectfully answering Bogle, set to the same tune as "No Man's Land", and saying that he doesn't regret fighting in the First World War. [14] The lyrics were included in the book Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears'. [15]
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, they recorded several singles such as Pete Seeger's Rainbow Race, studio versions of The Dutchman, Dandelion Wine and The Town of Ballybay, as well as new material including Kitty from Baltimore, A Place in the Choir, Willie McBride, The Ballad of St Anne's Reel, The Garden Song, and Gentle Annie; some of ...
Fired and shot her false Willie, And the bride at his right hand. The captain is so impressed he marries her, or makes her the commander of a ship or two. [8] [6] And then the captain stepped up to her, Was well pleased at what she'd done. He took her and made her a bold commander Over a ship and all his men. [7]
Willie O Winsbury (Child 100, Roud 64) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. The song, of which there are many variants, is a traditional Scottish ballad that dates from at least 1775, and is known under several other names, including " Johnnie Barbour " and " Lord Thomas of Winesberry ".
These are in turn derived from an Elizabethan era poem or broadside ballad, "The Cruel Miller". [ 1 ] Possibly modelled on the 17th-century broadside William Grismond's Downfall, or A Lamentable Murther by him Committed at Lainterdine in the county of Hereford on March 12, 1650: Together with his lamentation. , sometimes known as The Bloody ...
The most country thing about Buffett is that he had a harmonica player sidekick, Greg “Fingers” Taylor, whose instrument sort of operated as Buffett’s second voice on record, much like ...
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.