Apologies if this has been answered before. I always understood that the version of the "Wild Rover" that the Clancy Brothers recorded in the 60s and which everyone knows, was learnt by the Clancies from Sam Larner. However, the Sam Larner tune appears to be quite different from the Clancies one. Where did the Clancies learn their tune from? I note that the song has rarely been collected from oral tradition in Ireland but often in England.