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Thread #53051   Message #814825
Posted By: GUEST,curmudgeon(on a cookie free url)
30-Oct-02 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: 20 Best Irish Trad Songs
Subject: RE: 10 BEST IRSH TRAD SONGS
As amendment to Malcolm's post, the following are also not Irish:

The Leaving of Liverpool -- Collected in NY by Doerflinger, this song is English. As John Roberts once remarked, "The only traditional English song to be collected in America."

The Wraggle Taggle Gypsy - (Child 200} The Gypsie Laddie, originally Scottish, Wraggle Taggle is the English version. For Irish, sing "The Gypsy Rover," still under copyright.

The Wild Rover - English. I had this from a recording by John Runge over forty years ago. When I first met Lou Killen, he prefaced his singing of this great song, bemoaning that he had ever taught to "some friends." They gave it the clap.

And, Radriano, this is most assuredly a port list -- Tom