The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25527   Message #299821
Posted By: Noreen
18-Sep-00 - 08:34 AM
Thread Name: Little Jimmy Murphy
Subject: RE: Little Jimmy Murphy
Thanks for bringing this up, Martin. I heard Shay Black sing this 20 years ago and had remembered only a scrap of it. I often wished I knew the rest, never thinking it would be in the DT. Printing it out now! Not come across any other versions or heard anyone else sing it so can't help there, sorry.

I'm sure you know, but for the record: Kate Whelan is Cathleen ní Houlihán, or the personification of Ireland. So Jimmy Murphy was hanged for the love of his country.

Going to sing it through now!

Noreen