The Irish Rover
The Irish Rover is an Irish folk song that tells of a fictional sailing ship called the Irish Rover that sets sail from Cork to New York . The ship and crew have to struggle with all sorts of adversities on the way, ultimately the Irish Rover is shipwrecked and therefore does not reach the destination of its journey. The song was interpreted by numerous folk musicians, sometimes with changed lyrics.
The origins of the song are in the dark, a song directory from 1966 attributes it to the rather unknown songwriter JM Crofts.
Probably the most famous recording comes from the groups The Dubliners and The Pogues , which made it to number 8 in the British singles chart and number 1 in the Irish singles charts in 1987 .
Cover versions
The Flensburg band Santiano recorded a version of the song in 2012 for their album To the End of the World , as did the band Fiddler's Green from Erlangen for their 2011 album Wall of Folk . On the album Rattenplage by Michael Völkel aka Spielmann Michel, the song is included in an instrumental fingerstyle guitar version.
Trivia
- The Irish Rover is one of the most popular Scottish ballroom dances that is danced to the music of the song.
- Slugger O'Toole - a character in the song serves as the namesake for one of Northern Ireland's largest political websites .
- In issue 26 of the comic series Preacher, Cassidy lists his drinking buddies from New York, all of whom are named after the song.
Individual evidence
- ^ Walton Songs, Book 5: The Irish Rover, A Ballad Miscellany
- ↑ Live version on YouTube
- ↑ Santiano, Irish Rover. In: charts.de. Media Control , accessed January 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Notes and tablature by Irish Rover arranged for fingerstyle guitar.
- ↑ www.sluggerotoole.com