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Thread #41207   Message #3956785
Posted By: Lighter
15-Oct-18 - 02:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Seven Irish Men
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: interp of 'seven Irishmen'
Dick Cameron, on his Folkways album of "Irish Songs and Ballads" (1961), utilizes the tune of "Dear Old Donegal" (see that current thread) for a more concise and somewhat different version of the song he calls "The Seven Irish Boys."

Joe Heaney sings the version he learned from his father - the only other original version I can find - here:

https://www.joeheaney.org/en/seven-irishmen-the/

Heaney's tune is unrelated to "Dear Old Donegal." Where Cameron got his own text and tune, I don't know.

The group Aengus recorded the song to a third tune in 1978:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4Pdg1A24c