Liam Clancy

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Oh all the money that e'er I had I spent it in good company And all the harm that e'er I've done alas, it was to none but me For all I've done for want of wit to memory now I can't recall So fill to me the parting...

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Those Were The Days - Liam Clancy [26/26]

Final song one of Liam's best live from the Oylmpia

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The Broad Majestic Shannon - Liam Clancy

Liam Clancy performing The Broad Majestic Shannon recorded at the Bitter End in New York in June 2008

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Liam Clancy - Green Fields Of France

CHORUS Did they beat the drum slowly did they play the fife lowly, did they sound the death march as they lowered you down did the band play the last post and chorus, did the pipes play the "Flowers of the Forest"...

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Liam Clancy - The Patriot Game

The Patriot Game, written by Dominic Behan and sung by Liam Clancy. The song tells the story of Fergal O'Hanlon, a 1950's IRA Volunteer from Ballybay, County Monaghan, who achieved fame for taking part in an attack on...

Liam Clancy Biography

William "Liam" Clancy (2 September 1935 - 4 December 2009) (Irish Liam Mac Fhlannchadha) was an Irish folk singer and actor from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He was the youngest and last surviving member of performing group The Clancy Brothers. The group were regarded as Ireland's first pop stars. They recorded 55 albums, achieving global sales of millions and appearing at a sold-out Carnegie Hall, New York and the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Liam was regarded as the group's most powerful vocalist. Bob Dylan regarded him as the greatest ballad singer ever, whilst Gay Byrne described him as one of the "most famous four Irishmen in the world". He was a central figure during the 1960s folk revival, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Shortly before his death in 2009 The Irish Times said Clancy "does seem a little like a figure from the Pleistocene era": upon his death the newspaper said his legacy was secured.

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