149. The Wild Colonial Boy (Traditional Australian)

[raymondcrooke]

@MnrSpringbok22 Thank you.

[BoudiccaBlanc]

Thanks for sharing. I like your version of this song. :-)

[raymondcrooke]

@BoudiccaBlanc You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it.

[dnzz]

Dear Mr Crooke; this must be my favorite interpretation of this song, I think you capture its essence very, very well. I'm a huge fan of your videos, you're a true youtube star!

[raymondcrooke]

@dnzz I think it's great that people in Turkey can enjoy our Australian songs. Maybe I can learn a Turkish song when I'm there next month!

[goodforagiggle]

Fukn grouse mate , we sang this in prep school , when australia was australia , thanks for the memorys , now australia is full of NON australians we dont hear this tune at all ! probably be a racial law against it now ? all the jiggaboo , zipperheads ,and towelheads will enjoy it i'm sure !

[SGTRVN1]

Thank you for sharing...Excellent.....Outsta­nding....

[raymondcrooke]

@SGTRVN1 Thanks for your enthusiastic response.

[iLuVsUpErJuNiOr100]

MAY I KNOW WHATS THE TIMBRE, RHYTHM, HARMONY, MELODY, AND FORM OF THIS SONG????

[goodforagiggle]

@iLuVsUpErJuNiOr100 if u dont get it , go live in coon town , by Johnny Rebel .

[goodforagiggle]

@iLuVsUpErJuNiOr100 may i know whats with the zipper on your head, old chap ?

[KINGREGGY69]

original lyrics say jack Duggun not Dollan

[raymondcrooke]

@KINGREGGY69 As badbetty05 points out below, it was originally Jack Donahoe. The Irish version calls him "Duggan" and the Australian version calls him "Doolan". As I am Australian I sing the Australian version.

[TheKezziah]

g8 job stirred up an Aussie passion in me thank you

[raymondcrooke]

@TheKezziah You're welcome.

[bassline13]

i lov it although i wish it had lyrics

[raymondcrooke]

@bassline13 The lyrics are on my website Link is in the information panel) You'll find it under "Australian Songs"

[LibertyTreeBud]

Oh, I loved this song. I wish he had a professional recorder helping him. Loved it!

[raymondcrooke]

@LibertyTreeBud I wish he did too!

[badbetty05]

Great rendition Ray and FYI, The Wild Colonial Boy's name was John (Jack) DONOHOE, pronounced 'Donahoo'. Many of his decendants still live in NSW, not too far from where he was killed. An Irish legend and an Aussie Hero.

Well Done Ray!!!

[raymondcrooke]

@badbetty05 Thanks for that information.

[diplomat44]

here is in Russia an emeritus Professor Nikolay Stepanovitch, a chevalier and privy councillor; he has so many Russian and foreign decorations that when he has occasion to put them on the students nickname him "The Ikonstand." His acquaintances are of the most aristocratic; for the last twenty-five or thirty years, at any rate, there has not been one single distinguished man of learning in Russia with whom he has not been intimately acquainted.

[goodforagiggle]

@diplomat44 big fukn deal , now fuck off red jew faggott !

[ggmorvaj]

I love this song & I love your version of it!!!

I've never heard this version before....the words are different than the "usual" one & the chorus is totally new to me.

Much more meaningful words!!(You don't happen to know anything about the origin of this version, do you?)

Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful ballad (& all your other songs that I've been enjoying, too !!)

[raymondcrooke]

This is the version I've always known as an Australian, though, as with all folk music, there are many variations. Good to know you are enjoying my songs.

[hol96star]

I had to do an assignment on Jack Donahue, and it would appear that this song was written about him. The name was changed to Jack Doolan in the song as the authorities had banned the singing of 'Bold Jack Donohue' I'm not entirealy certain but the lyrics do fit in with his story.

[raymondcrooke]

I think you're right. There is no record of a real bushranger called Jack Doolan, Dolan, Dowling or Duggan. The ballad seems to be a very romanticised version of the life of Jack Donahue. He seems to have been a nasty piece of work, who didn't deserve to be immortalised as a hero.

[hol96star]

He was described as a 'robin hood' type character, apparently he charmed the ladies. But as there is only one picture of him, side on after he died, i would have no idea if this was true! ;D

[wwetnasux]

@raymondcrooke Neither does Hitler, but that don't stop stupid skinheads and racists from writing racist songs

[setra1968]

Fantastic Raymond.... Thank you very much.

[raymondcrooke]

You're welcome. Glad you liked it.

[diplomat44]

great work.

i like this song alot.

i heard it at dreamworld on a ride and i want to find out who sang it but i dont kno

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ur version is very good !

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks. I don't know who would have sung it for Dreamworld. Quite a lot of people have recorded it.

[darlingtester1982]

Hello Raymond One of the classic song well done lots of hugs kisses love Gizmo xox

[raymondcrooke]

Yes, it's a classic all right. Thanks for watching.

[iamawesome1231]

i like the irish and australian they are pretty good

[raymondcrooke]

It's a good song, whichever variation it is. Most Australian folk music is Irish in origin - brought here by the many Irish immigrants (including convicts) that made up a large part of Australia's population in the early years.

[tyrantcool]

i dont know why. The austrailian version great, but i like the irish version better. The Clancey brothers did it with such energy : )

[raymondcrooke]

The Clancy Brothers do everything well. One of my favourite groups.

[soccerchik456]

Its Jack Duggan, seriously look up lyrics first

[raymondcrooke]

This is a folk song. There is no one correct version. This is the way I heard it as a child and it is just as valid as the version you learned.

[shanecronogue]

It is Jack Duggan the Irish version is older then Austrailian I suppose it is typical of the Austrailians to fuck up a good song!

[pscucailin]

Are you fucking retarded? In what small, pathetic part of your brain would it make any sense at all that the Irish version would be older? This is a great Australian song that some Irish artists have done an interesting cover of, nothing more. Stop trying to steal our culture.

[MichealTheGreatMan]

"jack doolin" fuckin eejit!!!! jack duggan. . im from castlemaine,fuck the british

[pscucailin]

It is Jack Doolan, you dumb Irish prick, Do not confuse it with the Irish version.

[MichealTheGreatMan]

ha jack doolan?? Stupid fat australian. . that's the irish song. . i'd spose i wouldnt mind tho if you could sing it in tune. . .some people are made to be thick cunts their whole lifes

[pscucailin]

He is alright. Multiculturalism destroyed Australian culture 20 to 30 years ago, so all we have left is blokes like this who are willing to have a go. Have fun watching Irish culture be destroyed by the "new Irish", another concept you copied off of 1950s Australia.

[DLS95]

hey micheal the great man noone cares and fuck u

[juv7]

every time i hear this guy sing he gets worse he should be jailed for assaulting my fekin ears do us all a favour mate catch laringitus

[ggmorvaj]

Only an idiot would keep going back & listening to a musician he claims is "assaulting my fekin ears"?

BTW Pottie-Mouth, if you didn't like the performance, go ask for a refund......

Or did it escape your notice that this is an FREE performance by an amateur? It's the performer's gift to the audience.

Only a total a*****e would make insulting comments.

If you enjoyed it, you're supposed to say "Thanks" & if you didn't, you're supposed to say nothing.

[raymondcrooke]

I find the best way to deal with comments like these is to use them in a song, as you can see here:

/watch?v=OQL8_gKgMxw

[yakkiebush]

wise up stupid

[ColonelSibthorpe]

You sing very well but the guitar is out of tune to put it mildly.

[raymondcrooke]

That guitar was untunable. You can see my new one in later videos. Thanks for commenting.

[juv7]

his name is jack duggan mate and do us all a favour go learn to sing because your catspiss

[catminima]

"The first written version of this song dates from 1881, and the main character is known variously as Jack Doolan, Jack Dowling and Jack Duggan." (from Raymond's desription of the song)

And you do us all a favour and learn behaviour!

[juv7]

who gives you the right to tell me to behave i was melrley expresing my opinion so fuck you mste ok

[cometkeeper00]

it's not an opinion to try to correct him. i hate people that say deconstructive criticism is an opinion, because it's not and if you want to say it then just think it unless you're going to try to help the singing by giving constructive criticism or you can go make your own singing video as a video response

[juv7]

to help singing you have to critice guys like this so thel stop singing and as for me going on to make a singing video i would be a knock out because unlike these daftys and people like you i CAN sing now go away and give me peace

[telemecus1]

put your own video out there wanker. Lets see how you sing it, my guess is that you spend your life having a go at other people, instead of having a go yourself.

[juv7]

fuck you you dickhead il have a go at anybody i want the idiot whos singing the song dosent even know his name so fuck you you prick ok

[telemecus1]

Let me know when you can construct a sentence

[juv7]

know what mate constuct this fuck off ya dickhead ok ya prick

[ShandySteve]

This is a lengthier and very interesting version of the well-known folk classic. I always thought it was Jack "Duggan" rather than Doolan, but it's an excellent rendition which I thoroughly enjoyed!

[shanpas]

THAT IS TOTALLY WRONG

[NicktheIrishman]

This is heard in The Quiet Man slightly different

[Domitianvs]

Very well done. Highly impressive. And I don't know if it's just that my speakers are on the verge of breaking down, but your guitar sounds as if it is either out of tune or poorly intonated or something.

[raymondcrooke]

That's why I now have a new guitar, as you can see from my more recent videos. Thanks for your comment.

[sparrow111260]

very nice!

[suecilla]

Irish origin you nutter!

[wyskater94]

? i typed in Zdeno Chara?

[markpaulam]

love it!!!!

[UbiDuboi]

i know this song, and its doolan, dugan and you name it

[jaminunit]

Yeah the Aussies are now a bunch of slackers that are letting the new world order slowly take away our freedoms. God bless Australia and our freedoms. Nice song mate! love it.

[nsck3]

This IS an Irish song....Jack was born in Ireland but was imprisoned and sent to the Australian continent by the Crown...where he made life miserable for the authorities until they finally hunted him down and killed him....an Irish hero...up the Republic!!!

[mryjon]

Up the irish and F*** all judges,lets take their blooby gold and chuck em in the cells !

[secelin]

cross9090....You need to get a life with a wider view.....Please don't visit Oz...you couldn't handle it.

[rokape77]

Traditional Australian music....love it!

[quasirella]

I love this song!!! It is in the quiet man, with john wayne. You sang wonderfully. I always thought it was irish, I never knew it was Australian!

[PowerDowd19]

im from castlemaine co.kerry ireland where the place this song came 4m we have a different version over here thats a aussie version!!!

[robindavies24]

Good performance enjoyed that.

[pytko3]

I've said it before bu, I'll say it again:"Long live the Rebels of Australia!"

[erzbet07]

Nicely done with very good diction. Enjoyed the background written info about this song, since I was under the impression it was Irish (heard it in THE QUIET MAN film). Never knew it had so many verses either. I can see why Aussies love this song. Thank you for posting.

[raymondcrooke]

Thank you for commenting. Like most Australian songs it probably does have Irish origins.

[kingyo27]

Well done mate! As an Aussie living overseas, this clip really made me feel closer to home. Thanks!

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks. As an Aussie living overseas myself, singing our songs does the same for me.

[cross9090]

i think your rubbish and crap :) love ya ma

[hdl5000]

great song well sung good job

[vidlad]

Lovely hearing this song sung so well.5stars and in my favourites.

Regards

Jim Clark

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks to all for your comments. Yes. it is a great Aussie song.

[johnclement]

This has for years been one of my favorite songs, but I have never heard it in the full version - very well done!! Thank you!

[jwalabama]

thank you, most don't sing the chorus. It is essential to understand the song. I wish I had your skills to play and sing!

[creamofcardstv]

great video and I've rated it as five stars. Please check out mine on some old 1920's trading cards of pirates, highwaymen and outlaws.

[pytko3]

Long live the rebels of Australia!

[Kennychan222]

I love this song too, it is one of the songs symbalising Ned Kelly and jack Doolan

[rvbobc]

I love this song. I used to have a version of it by Rolf Harris. :)