Which irish group sings this Folksong?

Subject: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 06:43 PM

http://matmax.50g.com/folk.mp3

Thanks -
Kaspar

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 07:04 PM

The song is called "The Peat Bog Soldiers" ("Moorsoldaten"), a WWII concentration camp song. Pete Seegar did it, on "Strangers and Cousins", but I don't know of any Irish group that has done it.

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: GUEST,Tom Hamilton
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 07:17 PM

The Dubliners sang it

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: Willie-O
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 07:35 PM

So did the Maritime group from the 70's Ryan's Fancy.

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 08:11 PM

My favorite is the a capella version by The Black Family. (Shay, Michael, Martin, Francis and Mary Black.) It appears on their 1989 CD called Time for Touching Home.

pj

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: mg
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:05 AM

Is it originally in German or in Yiddish? I remember Ryan's Fancy doing it but in English. mg

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:31 AM

Mary, it was originally in German; written at the Borgermoor camp in 1933 by (first name unknown) Esser and Wolfgang Langhoff, music by Rudi Goguel.

Ref: "Yes We Sang, Songs of the Ghettos and Concentration Camps",
c. 1985.

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 01:12 AM

See the earlier discussion Help: Peat Bog Soldiers for a lot of background information and links to other discussions and additional material.

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: mg
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 01:49 AM

here are the german words and midi and mp3

"http://viadrina.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~juso-hsg/lieder/moorsoldaten/moor.htm"

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Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: GUEST,Kaspar
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 05:47 AM

Hi all!

Thanks very much for your help! :)

Kaspar

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: JJ
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 07:34 AM

I learned it from the Paul Robeson recording on his collection, "Songs of Free Men."

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 07:46 AM

Martin Carthy did it as well

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Which irish group sings this Folksong?
From: belfast
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 08:06 AM

The Ian Campbell Folk Group recorded this in the '60's, I think. And I suspect that this is where many of the Irish groups heard it.