Which came first?

[c.a.bird]

I was listening to a CD of Irish folk music recently (in a friend's car). A song came on that had the exact same tune as "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", with lyrics about some Irish historical event.

Did Gordon "lift" the tune from the Irish, or was he ripped off by a pseudo Irish folk group?

If anyone knows the answer........please reply.

[JHaller829]

I was listening to a CD of Irish folk music recently (in a friend's car). A song came on that had the exact same tune as "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", with lyrics about some Irish historical event.

Did Gordon "lift" the tune from the Irish, or was he ripped off by a pseudo Irish folk group?

If anyone knows the answer........please reply.

What was the date on the recording? Who's the band? Both or one of those things will probably give you the answer.


quote:Originally posted by JHaller829:
I was listening to a CD of Irish folk music recently (in a friend's car). A song came on that had the exact same tune as "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", with lyrics about some Irish historical event.

Did Gordon "lift" the tune from the Irish, or was he ripped off by a pseudo Irish folk group?

If anyone knows the answer........please reply.



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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

--R.W. Emerson

What was the date on the recording? Who's the band? Both or one of those things will probably give you the answer.


quote:Originally posted by JHaller829:
I was listening to a CD of Irish folk music recently (in a friend's car). A song came on that had the exact same tune as "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", with lyrics about some Irish historical event.

Did Gordon "lift" the tune from the Irish, or was he ripped off by a pseudo Irish folk group?

If anyone knows the answer........please reply.



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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

--R.W. Emerson

[Bahama Star]

This is a song called " Back Home in Derry".

We had a bit to say about this on the 6 June 2002. you can find it on the board.

Part of what was said then.

Kim wrote.
"A nice irishman, named Brendan Kelly, came up to me last Thursday and said, "I have a song I think you'd like
to hear". He says , "I think you'd find it interesting, since you like Gordon Lightfoot".
So he brings me the cd, today.
The Artist: Christy Moore, CD: Ride On, Date: 1984
The song of interest: Back Home in Derry, written by Bobby Sands, an irish political.

The song strongly resembles, The Wreck."

Kim, the Bobby Sands, I know was a member of the IRA who died in Prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike,he was 27 years of age at the time.

He was a noted poet, but it is unlikely he would have written Back Home in Derry before Gordon wrote "the wreck" in 1975.

Back Home in Derry is about Irish Convicts being transported to Australia in 1803.

They were bound for Botany Bay which is an inlet just south of Sydney Harbour. But later in the song they are in Van Diemen's Land which is now Tasmania, this is where the most hardened convicts were sent to Port Arthur.

In Other words... Gord did not copy !!!

Keep Smiling... Ron..

[catmanron]

This is a song called " Back Home in Derry".

We had a bit to say about this on the 6 June 2002. you can find it on the board.

Part of what was said then.

Kim wrote.
"A nice irishman, named Brendan Kelly, came up to me last Thursday and said, "I have a song I think you'd like
to hear". He says , "I think you'd find it interesting, since you like Gordon Lightfoot".
So he brings me the cd, today.
The Artist: Christy Moore, CD: Ride On, Date: 1984
The song of interest: Back Home in Derry, written by Bobby Sands, an irish political.

The song strongly resembles, The Wreck."

Kim, the Bobby Sands, I know was a member of the IRA who died in Prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike,he was 27 years of age at the time.

He was a noted poet, but it is unlikely he would have written Back Home in Derry before Gordon wrote "the wreck" in 1975.

Back Home in Derry is about Irish Convicts being transported to Australia in 1803.

They were bound for Botany Bay which is an inlet just south of Sydney Harbour. But later in the song they are in Van Diemen's Land which is now Tasmania, this is where the most hardened convicts were sent to Port Arthur.

In Other words... Gord did not copy !!!

Keep Smiling... Ron..