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  • 04-03-2009 11:24pm
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    Red Sleeping Beauty
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    Any of ye know anything of this song ? Wikipaedo tells me it's an Irish Traditional song. Google searches just give me Bruce Springsteen lyrics and videos.


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    fitz0
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    Dubliners did a version not sure who else though


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    Pangea
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    Yeah great song ,Its an old song written around 200 years ago,
    This is a nice verison also
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiYeQkrh-hQ

    The dubliners sang it aswell , then they made their own verison about Ciaron Burke who left college.


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    Whiskey Devil
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    Yeah Bruce Springsteen recorded it on his Seeger Sessions album a few years ago - great album by the way! There are many Irish recordings of it.


    Now came Ted without any legs
    And in their place two wooden pegs
    She kissed him a dozen times or two
    Saying "My God Ted is it you?"

    "Now were you drunk or were you blind
    When you left your two fine legs behind?
    Or was it walking upon the sea
    That wore your two fine legs away?"

    "No I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind
    When I left my two fine legs behind.
    a cannon ball on the fifth of May
    Tore my two fine legs away."


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