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Old 05-02-2009, 11:57 AM   #14
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Default Re: Back Home in Derry

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Originally Posted by The Rez View Post
OK - Now I'm really confused . . .

Finally found The Fenians CD jacket: *Back Home in Derry*
writer credits are listed as Bobby Sands and Christy Moore
- no year given

in a prior discussion this tidbit of wiki surfaced: "The tune and rhyming structure were borrowed in 1984 by Christy Moore for his song, "I Wish I Were Back Home in Derry," which is itself an adaptation of Bobby Sands's poem, "The Voyage."


...rez, "Derry-Air"...heh, great one
(Ebert/Roper are giving it 2 thumbs up)
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