The Wild Rover - Street Music

While walking down Upper Liffey St,. I ran into Mathew who was playing Traditional Irish Music. I asked him if he could play two of his favorite traditional Irish songs and has decided to play Spancill Hill and Wild Rover. Here is Mathew Playing Wild Rover. If you own a pub/bar, restaurant, hotel, etc.. and would like to hire Mathew or any other performers Please contact us and we will provide you with Their details.

About the Song

The Wild Rover (Roud 1173) is a popular folk song whose origins are contested.
According to Professor T. M. Devine in his book The Scottish Nation 1700 - 2000 (Penguin, 2001) the song was written as a temperance song.[1] The song is found printed in a book, The American Songster, printed in the USA by W.A. Leary in 1845, and spread from Scotland to America from the Temperance movement. There is another USA printed version in the "Forget-Me-Not Songster" (c 1850), published by Locke. An alternative history of the song is suggested by the fact that a collection of ballads, dated between 1813 and 1838, is held in the Bodleian Library. The printer, Catnach, was based in the "7 Dials" area of Covent Garden, London. The Bodleian bundle contains "The Wild Rover".[2] The Greig-Duncan collection contains no less than six versions of the song. It was compiled by Gavin Greig 1848--1917.

Countless popular singers and bands have covered the song, amongst others
André Rieu
Andy Stewart
Bizardunak, in a version sung in Basque called Nafarroa, gure aberria
Burl Ives
Bootless & Unhorsed
Booze Brothers
Brobdingnagian Bards
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
The Corries
Cruachan
Culann's Hounds, on One for the Road in 2008
Cutthroat Shamrock
Doble Fuerza
Dropkick Murphys
The Dubliners on The Dubliners in 1964
Foster and Allen
Hair of the Dog
Happy Ol' McWeasel
Harry Hibbs
The High Kings
The Idlers on Ten Thousand Miles Away and others
The Irish McGees
The Irish Rovers
The Mahones
Johnny Logan on Johnny Logan and Friends
Marc Gunn
Morning Call
Mudmen on their album "Another Day" released in 2010. The Mudmen feature bagpipers Rob and Sandy Campbell who perform on the Hockey Night In Canada theme song on CBC television.
Off Kilter
Orthodox Celts on their debut album in 1994
The Pogues, on the 2004 remaster of their debut album, Red Roses For Me
Rapalje
Rolf Harris
The Seekers
Soldat Louis
Stiff Little Fingers on their live album which was later repackaged as the third disc of their Anthology
The Town Pants
Týr on their 2003 album Eric the Red
Prydein
Wolfe Tones
Woods Tea Company

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[nestoresuarez]

Excellent cover!

[TommCat86]

Amazing! Once I saw him performing this lovely traditional song in live! Thanks a million for this up!

[khalidjaf2]

yeah man the bars in dublin needs people like this guy ))

[DescentFromHeaven]

<3<3<3 we need more people like this in the music business these days....

[Jammin2vibes]

Well played and well traditional lyrics.

[jjokezie1]

our lovely Irish song

[TheWeirdLifeOfMe]

third comment

[TheWeirdLifeOfMe]

Second.. Good video

[AkberdinN]

Excellent Playing !