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    The First EP from the Mary Wallopers featuring two tracks from the upcoming album. You heard it online now play it in your CD player!


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    released July 6, 2019

    All songs performed by The Mary Wallopers
    Tadhg Mulligan on fiddle.
    Sárán Mulligan on concertina.
    MÍcheál Keating on tin whistle, organ & bass guitar.
    Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Mícheál Keating
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The earliest known publishing of this song was in the 17th century. Ethnomusicologists Steve Roud and Julia Bishop described it as "far and away the most widely collected song in the English language—equally popular in England, Scotland and Ireland, and with hundreds of versions collected over the years in North America." The ballad generally follows a standard plot, although narrative details vary between versions. A servant asks Barbara Allen to attend on his sick master. She visits the bedside of the heartbroken young man, who pleads for her love. She refuses, claiming that he had slighted her while drinking with friends; he dies soon thereafter. Barbara Allen later hears his funeral bells tolling; stricken with grief, she dies as well. They are buried in the same church, a rose grows from his grave, a briar from hers, the plants form a true lovers' knot.

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from A Mouthful of The Mary Wallopers, released July 6, 2019
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Sung here by Charles Hendy
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Mícheál Keating

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The Mary Wallopers Dundalk, Ireland


“Full-pelt rattle-and-sneers through traditional Irish songs that can’t help but summon the spirit of The Pogues – although who knows what else might be sneaking in around the sides” Mojo

“The Mary Wallopers invokes the raucous ghosts of the Dubliners and the Pogues to startling effect” The Guardian ... more

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