Guitar: The Jolly Tinker

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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This amusing Irish song I learned from either the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem or The Dubliners, both groups along with many others having recorded it. I just love the imagery created in the early verses only to be shattered in the last verse as having been wishful thinking.

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