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"The Merry Ploughboy (Off To Dublin In The Green)" was released by Dermot O'Brien (who also played accordion on the track) [6] in 1966 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, with an arrangement by Dominic Behan, and was number one on the Irish Singles Chart for six weeks.
Dermot O'Brien and the Clubmen had considerable musical success, with their hit single "The Merry Ploughboy" (a cover of a Jeremiah Lynch/Dominic Behan song about joining the Irish Republican Army) reaching the top of the Irish Singles Chart in only seven days and holding that position for six weeks in late 1966.
An adaptation titled "Come all you bold fellows that follow the plough" was used as a recruiting song for Joseph Arch's National Agricultural Labourers' Union. Places named in the song are in Somerset. [6] The poet John Clare wrote a two stanza poem which seems to have been influenced by the song. It describes the ploughman's life in more ...
"The Merry Ploughboy (Off To Dublin In The Green)" Dermot O'Brien: 3 October 10 October 17 October 24 October 31 October 7 November "Somewhere My Love" Charlie Matthews & The Royal Showband: 14 November "Mursheen Durkin" Johnny McEvoy: 21 November 28 November 5 December "Green, Green Grass of Home" Tom Jones: 12 December 19 December 26 December
By their second album release, Irishmen Johnny Patterson and Mitch McCoy were added. The band's album, The Merry Ploughboy, was the first Canadian album to be released on cassette tape. [2] McCoy departed after 2 years, replaced by Bob Lewis (of Nova Scotia). [3] This would be the usual lineup from about 1968 through the mid-70s.
St. John Chrysostom (c. 400) invokes a related set of characters who can understand Christ's few and plain words to love God and neighbour: And these things even to a ploughman, and to a servant, and to a widow woman, and to a very child, and to him that appears to be exceedingly slow of understanding, are all plain to comprehend and easy to learn.
Music Inspired by The Story is a 2011 compilation album of songs by various contemporary Christian music artists. [5] The songs were inspired by scripture passages found in the Bible; it is included in a series with books by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee. [5] The album was named the Special Event Album of the Year at the 43rd GMA Dove Awards. [6]
Not even the parallelismus membrorum is an absolutely certain indication of ancient Hebrew poetry. This "parallelism" occurs in the portions of the Hebrew Bible that are at the same time marked frequently by the so-called dialectus poetica; it consists in a remarkable correspondence in the ideas expressed in two successive units (hemistiches, verses, strophes, or larger units); for example ...