But what he'd taken from the rich, like Turpin and Black Bess. It's no wonder that Folklorists in North America also managed to collect versions of "Brennan On The Moor" from oral tradition (see Traditional Ballad Index and Roud Index: No. To my knowledge Burl Ives was the first one to use them (see Burl Ives Songbook 1953, p. 54) and "on the liner notes to his Songs of Ireland LP [Ives] credits that verse to 'Mackinley Kantor, author of Andersonville'" (Kevin W. at Liam Clancy's Messageboard, 20. Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. Now Brennan finding the pedlar as good a man as he, He took him on the highway, his companion for to be; The pedlar threw away his pack, without any more delay, And he prov'd a faithful comerade until his dying day. They threw theirselves in the open field.
And in some versions, "modern" ones Kloss says, the ghost of Willie still rides: "They see him with his blunderbuss, all in the midnight chill. Declan Nerney Lyrics. American Folk Song / arr. Album: other songs Brennan On The Moor. A brace of loaded pistols he carried night and day. But - as Cazden et al. After making a purchase you should print this music using a different web browser, such as Chrome or Firefox. It was a story of the 'nobleman-bandit', Brennan O'Malley, who is captured and imprisoned, but an attempt to drown him through flooding his cell fails. For clarification contact our support. I think this melody was only borrowed at a later point, maybe by Burl Ives. It was his belief that he might be effectually reclaimed from his dangerous courses, and render good service to society, by his active exertions as a police officer. Montague Matthew, a brother of the late Lord Landaff, strongly interested himself to procure a remission of his sentence for the convict.
Did young Brennan On The Moor, etc. 56-61) while Cecil Sharp used a version with eight verses for his Folk Songs From Somerset (1904, No. The mayor he knew his features. 'Til the day began to dawn. In 1896 Katherine Tynan Hinkson wrote a fascinating article for the New Review about "An Irish Peasant Woman", Hannah Quinn from Cork who knew "many famous ballads now forgotten" (p. 534/5): "There is the song of. Says he, "Hand me that ten penny, ".
Stubbs noted: It is unusual for a singer, whatever else he or she forgets, to forget the first stanza and chorus, but Mrs Pronger did just this. In 1804 Mr. Fitzgerald had only been 6 years old and that surely isn't the right age to be a friend of a highwayman. So they were taken prisoners, in irons they were bound, And conveyed to Clonmel jail, strong walls did them surround; They were tried and found guilty, the judge made this reply, "For robbing on the King's highway you are both condemned to die. The song was then printed regularly until the turn of the century. Brennan on the Moor [Laws L7]. He says, "Hand to me that tenpence"—no sooner had he spoke, Now with his loaded blunderbuss, the truth I will unfold: He made the Mayor to tremble and he robbed him of his gold. Old Joe ClarkPDF Download.
One is from The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1809 (Vol. Caught and hanged in Cork at the turn 1800s. But at least the non-existing "Livart" Mountains were replaced for example by "Limerick" or "Libbery". The first stanza goes: It's of a brave young highwayman this story we will tell, His name was Willie Brennan and in Ireland he did dwell. He was at length, however, taken, about three months after my recontre with him, and was executed in a short time afterwards. But the definitive and most influential version surely was the one by the Clancy Brothers who included it in 1961 on The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (Tradition TLP 1042) and on their first Columbia LP A Spontaneous Performance Recording (CL 1648). Get this sheet and guitar tab, chords and lyrics, solo arrangements, easy guitar tab, lead sheets and more.
So straightaway he did go, His companion for to be. Then Willie's wife went into town porvisions for to buy. In this version he is betrayed by a woman and in other versions Brennan was betrayed by one of his comrades. "Your name is William Brennan.