Whiskey In The Jar (sometimes spelt Whisky) is a compilation album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, originally released in 1996, covering the early part of the band's career. The song's narrator laments his long sailing trip to California and the thought of leaving his loved ones, pledging to return to her one day.
I jumped up, grabbed hold my pistols, and I shot him with both barrels Auch waren im London zur Zeit Gays zahlreiche Straßenräuber unterwegs, die ihm als Inspiration gedient haben könnten. - Garage Days Re-Revisited, Orgullo, Pasión, y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México, A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, The Blackest Album: An Industrial Tribute to Metallica. In Ireland the chorus usually refers to Belfast city and is known colloquially as "The Belle of Belfast City", although it is also adapted to other Irish cities, such as Dublin. Das Lied erzählt in der Ich-Form von einem Räuber, der in den bekanntesten Versionen in den Bergen bei Cork und Kerry einen Captain namens Farrel überfällt und dabei Gold erbeutet, jedoch von einer Jenny oder Molly, zu der er eine Liebesbeziehung unterhält, verraten wird.
Various versions of the song take place in Kerry, Kilmoganny, Cork, Sligo Town, and other locales throughout Ireland. For about six or maybe seven in walked Captain Farrell Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. I first produced my pistol and then produced my wager The song has also been recorded by singers and folk groups such as Roger Whittaker, The Irish Rovers, Seven Nations, Off Kilter, King Creosote, Brobdingnagian Bards, Charlie Zahm, and Christy Moore. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material; in this case an 18th-century marching cadence about a flintlock musket. 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.
Alan Lomax spekuliert in seinem Buch Folk Songs of North America (1975) über eine Verbindung zu John Gays 1728 uraufgeführter Oper Beggar’s Opera. I think one of the roadies had to show us how to play the solo.
One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials. It is also sometimes placed in the American South, in various places among the Ozarks or Appalachians, possibly due to Irish settlement in these places. I said: "Stand and deliver or the devil may he take ya" American metal band Metallica in 1998 played a version very similar to that of Thin Lizzy's, though with a heavier sound, winning a Grammy for the song in 2000 for Best Hard Rock Performance. The general theme of the song is one of opposition to war. Liam Clancy recorded the song with his son and nephew on Clancy, O'Connell & Clancy in 1997, and Tommy Makem recorded it on The Song Tradition in 1998. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad." On the bluegrass scene, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman recorded a version for the album Shady Grove .
There is also a song about Irish troops in the American Civil War called "We'll Fight for Uncle Sam", which is sung in the same tune of "Whiskey in the Jar". [19]. I took all of his money and I brought it home to Molly Der Autor ist unbekannt. [23].
It is also known variously as "Bad Lee Brown", "Cocaine Blues", "Transfusion Blues", "East St. Louis Blues", "Late One Night", "Penitentiary Blues" and other titles.
There are various versions of this album, released by different record companies, with the same track listing but with different covers. We played it on a live French radio show and it later featured on a charity album for "ChildLine". "(The) Leaving of Liverpool", also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folk song. The O Lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd Kerry mountain" rather than the Cork and Kerry mountains, as appears in some versions. It has been covered by many musicians in several different styles. But me, I like sleepin', 'specially in my Molly's chamber
Oh, ring-dum-a-doo-dum-a-die. Whiskey in the Jar is an Irish traditional song set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry. Irish folk song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn described "Mrs. Grath" as "known to every true born citizen of Dublin". It was collected from both singers by William Main Doerflinger, an American folk song collector particularly associated with sea songs in New York. Metallica is een van de succesvolste (metal)bands uit de Verenigde Staten.Metallica bestaat uit vier leden en werd opgericht begin jaren 80 in Los Angeles door de Deen Lars Ulrich en de Amerikaan James Hetfield.De band heeft sinds zijn ontstaan meer dan 100 miljoen exemplaren van zijn albums verkocht. für: „Whiskey im Krug“) ist ein irisches Volkslied, das unter anderem von Thin Lizzy, Roger Whittaker, Metallica, Gary Moore, den Dubliners, Grateful Dead, den Pogues, Bryan Adams, Pulp, Smokie, Rednex, Paddy Goes to Holyhead, Santiano und Klaus und Klaus (deutscher Titel: Rum Buddel Rum) und Valetti interpretiert wurde. Whiskey in the Jar (engl. Whiskey in the Jar was released as the second single from the cover album Garage, Inc.. Weitere Versionen mit verschiedenen Bergen und Antagonisten existieren.
[4], At some point, the song came to the United States and was a favourite in Colonial America because of its irreverent attitude toward British officials. Our attempt to copy "Thin Lizzy"'s version of this song. Though he has sworn to never work at sea again, this situation forces him to accept a position on a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Sea, having to endure terrible conditions such as the freezing cold. The details of the betrayal are also different, being either betraying him to the person he robbed and replacing his ammunition with sand or water, or not, resulting in his killing the person.
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