I’m also open to suggestions to improve the site. The origins of Carrickfergus may be disputed, but it has nonetheless achieved the status of. If anyone has more details about this song, or believes I’ve stated something in error, please let me know. The variation of the song I’m posting is the version I perform and is not exactly replicating the sources cited, but is always in the same song family. The recording © copyright 2013 by Stephen Griffith and may be used by permission of the copyright holder. NOTICE: The tune and lyrics are in the public domain unless otherwise noted.
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Brunnings, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London 1981 Carrickfergus Joan Baez Rock 1,290Shazams play full song Get up to 3 months free of Apple Music Share OVERVIEW LYRICS PLAY FULL SONG Connect with Apple Music. Carrickfergus Joan Baez Last.fm Last. Folk Song Index: A Comprehensive Guide to the Florence E.With gold and silver I would support her,īut I’ll sing no more now ’till I get a drink.įor I’m drunk today, and I’m seldom soberĪh, but I’m sick now, my days are numbered, Today has over 500 different recordings for sale as MP3 downloads.īONUS YOUTUBE VIDEO: Jim McCann with the Dublinersīut the sea is wide and I cannot cross over Album cover of Carrickfergus Carrickfergus. The songs history before OToole brought it to light is much more. Sign up for Deezer and listen to Tears in My Eyes by Joan Baez and 90 million more tracks. In 1957 his mate Richard Harris related to O’Toole a more fullsome version with which he was familiar, and it was this Harris-O’Toole hybrid version which Peter O’Toole sung from memory to Dominic Behan. The Youtube version on this page is by Joan Baez, who sings the song beautifully. Forty years later someone thought to ask O’Toole about this, and he confirmed the story.O’Toole’s agent reported to the inquiring music scholar that the actor had first heard the song in 1946 with the English lyrics approximating the song we know. And Behan? The legend had it that it had been “collected” by Behan from Peter O’Toole. “The Kerry Boatman” by Dominic Behan on his album The Irish Rover. Carrickfergus Lyrics: I wish I were home now, in Carrickfergus / Only for nights in Ballygrand / I would swim over the deepest ocean / The deepest ocean. Two of the verses are recognizable but a number of additional English verses have been added over the years. “Carrickfergus” seems to have first appeared as a ballad usually called “The Young Sick Lover”, published in 1830 but with perhaps earlier origins. The melodies for “Water is Wide” and “Carrickfergus” probably go back to an 18th century Irish air. EARLIEST DATE: partial in 1927 (Sandburg) more fully in “The Kerry Boatman” by Dominic Behan (recorded 1960) Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole in 1995’s Shine at the Top
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