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The Well of Spring Water (Roud 5215) ![]() Doonagore, Doolin Recorded in Doolin, c. 1977 ![]() |
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“Singer Tom Lenihan
learned this from his sister who had picked it up while she was living
in America. He passed it on to Micho Russell, who later recorded it.
Tom Munnelly also heard it sung in Wexford. A seven verse broadsheet
text appears in one of James N. Healy’s anthologies of street
ballads, which clearly demonstrates the country singers’ practice
of dispensing with unnecessary verses, or of broadside hacks taking
an economically-made country song and stuffing it with over-literate
verbiage, as was their practice.” See also |
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