Whiskey in the jar
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Who wrote the original Whiskey in the Jar?
I watched the Thin Lizzy doc on BBC4 and it gave the impression it was Lynott/Snowy, but Wikipedia states all sorts.
Anyone know?
Whilst we are here http://youtu.be/-M2jSzLBzK4
I watched the Thin Lizzy doc on BBC4 and it gave the impression it was Lynott/Snowy, but Wikipedia states all sorts.
Anyone know?
Whilst we are here http://youtu.be/-M2jSzLBzK4
The Metallica version is rather good.
This was recorded live in Dublin,it's off the album Garage,Inc.
http://youtu.be/u0m2HlbKFZQ
This was recorded live in Dublin,it's off the album Garage,Inc.
http://youtu.be/u0m2HlbKFZQ
goldblum said:
The Metallica version is rather good.
This was recorded live in Dublin,it's off the album Garage,Inc.
http://youtu.be/u0m2HlbKFZQ
yes, i've seen that a fair few times, brilliant!This was recorded live in Dublin,it's off the album Garage,Inc.
http://youtu.be/u0m2HlbKFZQ
fullgear1 said:
The Dubliners wrote the song.
^^
^^
ETA: from wiki so not gospel, but...
The song's exact origins are unknown. A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad "Patrick Fleming" (also called "Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.[3][4]
In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and (based on plot similarities) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing "Whiskey in the Jar". In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, "The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen; and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad."[5]
At some point, the song came to the United States and was a favorite in Colonial America because of its irreverent attitude toward British officials. The American versions are sometimes set in America and deal with American characters. One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials.[5]
The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called "The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar" in a mid-1850s broadsheet.[6]
The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads,[7] described how his mother learnt Whiskey in the Jar in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from Cork. When O Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother. He calls the song, There's Whiskey in the Jar and the lyrics are virtually identical to the version that was used by Irish bands in the 1960s such as the Dubliners. The O Lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd Kerry mountain" rather than the Cork and Kerry mountains, as appears in some versions.
The song also appears under the title There's Whiskey in the Jar in the Joyce [8] collection, but that only includes the melody line without any lyrics.
ETA: from wiki so not gospel, but...
The song's exact origins are unknown. A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad "Patrick Fleming" (also called "Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.[3][4]
In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and (based on plot similarities) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing "Whiskey in the Jar". In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, "The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen; and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad."[5]
At some point, the song came to the United States and was a favorite in Colonial America because of its irreverent attitude toward British officials. The American versions are sometimes set in America and deal with American characters. One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials.[5]
The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called "The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar" in a mid-1850s broadsheet.[6]
The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads,[7] described how his mother learnt Whiskey in the Jar in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from Cork. When O Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother. He calls the song, There's Whiskey in the Jar and the lyrics are virtually identical to the version that was used by Irish bands in the 1960s such as the Dubliners. The O Lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd Kerry mountain" rather than the Cork and Kerry mountains, as appears in some versions.
The song also appears under the title There's Whiskey in the Jar in the Joyce [8] collection, but that only includes the melody line without any lyrics.
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Wiki is sometimes inaccurate, but yea, it is an old Irish folk song.
The song's exact origins are unknown. A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad "Patrick Fleming" (also called "Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.[3][4]
In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and (based on plot similarities) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing "Whiskey in the Jar". In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, "The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen; and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad."[5]
At some point, the song came to the United States and was a favorite in Colonial America because of its irreverent attitude toward British officials. The American versions are sometimes set in America and deal with American characters. One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials.[5]
The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called "The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar" in a mid-1850s broadsheet.[6]
The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads,[7] described how his mother learnt Whiskey in the Jar in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from Cork. When O Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother. He calls the song, There's Whiskey in the Jar and the lyrics are virtually identical to the version that was used by Irish bands in the 1960s such as the Dubliners. The O Lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd Kerry mountain" rather than the Cork and Kerry mountains, as appears in some versions.
The song also appears under the title There's Whiskey in the Jar in the Joyce [8] collection, but that only includes the melody line without any lyrics.
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Wiki is sometimes inaccurate, but yea, it is an old Irish folk song.
fullgear1 said:
Pothole said:
ETA: from wiki so not gospel, but...
The song's exact origins are unknown. A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad "Patrick Fleming" (also called "Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.[3][4]
In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and (based on plot similarities) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing "Whiskey in the Jar". In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, "The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen; and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad."[5]
At some point, the song came to the United States and was a favorite in Colonial America because of its irreverent attitude toward British officials. The American versions are sometimes set in America and deal with American characters. One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials.[5]
The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called "The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar" in a mid-1850s broadsheet.[6]
The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads,[7] described how his mother learnt Whiskey in the Jar in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from Cork. When O Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother. He calls the song, There's Whiskey in the Jar and the lyrics are virtually identical to the version that was used by Irish bands in the 1960s such as the Dubliners. The O Lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd Kerry mountain" rather than the Cork and Kerry mountains, as appears in some versions.
The song also appears under the title There's Whiskey in the Jar in the Joyce [8] collection, but that only includes the melody line without any lyrics.
Wiki is sometimes inaccurate, but yea, it is an old Irish folk song. The song's exact origins are unknown. A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad "Patrick Fleming" (also called "Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.[3][4]
In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and (based on plot similarities) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing "Whiskey in the Jar". In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, "The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen; and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad."[5]
At some point, the song came to the United States and was a favorite in Colonial America because of its irreverent attitude toward British officials. The American versions are sometimes set in America and deal with American characters. One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials.[5]
The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called "The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar" in a mid-1850s broadsheet.[6]
The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads,[7] described how his mother learnt Whiskey in the Jar in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from Cork. When O Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother. He calls the song, There's Whiskey in the Jar and the lyrics are virtually identical to the version that was used by Irish bands in the 1960s such as the Dubliners. The O Lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd Kerry mountain" rather than the Cork and Kerry mountains, as appears in some versions.
The song also appears under the title There's Whiskey in the Jar in the Joyce [8] collection, but that only includes the melody line without any lyrics.
Edited by Pothole on Monday 12th September 00:10
Edited by Pothole on Monday 12th September 00:11
eric twinge said:
Who wrote the original Whiskey in the Jar?
I watched the Thin Lizzy doc on BBC4 and it gave the impression it was Lynott/Snowy, but Wikipedia states all sorts.
Anyone know?
Whilst we are here http://youtu.be/-M2jSzLBzK4
got to work with snowy earlier this year, on the wall tour, got to say, he's a top lad.I watched the Thin Lizzy doc on BBC4 and it gave the impression it was Lynott/Snowy, but Wikipedia states all sorts.
Anyone know?
Whilst we are here http://youtu.be/-M2jSzLBzK4
Viv Campbell = brilliant guitarist - he uses freakin 13's for chrissake! :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWeRkX41qE
dealmaker said:
Viv Campbell = brilliant guitarist - he uses freakin 13's for chrissake! :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWeRkX41qE
I tried 13s once but the neck on my electric bowed quite a bit with them on...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWeRkX41qE
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