Origins: Sixteen Fisherman Raving

Subject: Origins: 'Sixteen Fisherman Raving .
From: skarpi
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 05:04 PM

Christy Moore sang this song on the album Burning Times

and on the cover its saying nothing about the song . anyone know about it ????

All the best Skarpi Iceland ,

Subject: RE: Origins: Sixteen Fisherman Raving
From: michaelr
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:25 PM

Written by Wally Page and Tony Boylan.

Subject: RE: Origins: Sixteen Fisherman Raving
From: michaelr
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 06:54 PM

Christy's liner notes:

I was at The Cobblestone one night 12 years ago and I heard Wally sing this. I loved it and forgot about it. Then 11 years later I was at a hooley and a fellow called Cathal Henry came up, "when are you going to sing Wally's Fishermen Raving". I believe in signs and this was a clear direction for me to have a cut at it. I always think of Plunky, a fisherman of Dun Laoghaire, when I sing this. How he would love the turn of tis lyric.