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Thread #10547 Message #2547692
Posted By: GUEST,MK
24-Jan-09 - 05:49 AM
Thread Name: Gypsy Rover a real folk song?
Subject: RE: Gypsy Rover a real folk song
The Whistling Gypsy was written by Leo McGuire in Dublin about 1950 and first sung by Joe Lynch, the popular ballad singer from Cork. The song was written on a dare -according to McGuire himself - that he could write a popular Irish song that would not have a sad ending ! The song was very popular throughout the 1950s