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Fare Thee Well Enniskillen

from Choice Company by Pig's Ear

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Fare Thee Well Enniskillen is baed on a traditional Irish tune while the words were composed by Tommy Makem in 1963. It talks of the Inniskilling Dragoons as if they served in the Peninsula War against Napoleon, though our 'mole' at the Victorian Military Society tells us ut was the Inniskilling Fusiliers who distinguished themselves in the Peninsular. The writer probably found the word 'dragoons' easier to rhyme than 'fusiliers'!

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from Choice Company, released December 31, 2002
Written by Tommy Makem.

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Pig's Ear England, UK

Pig's Ear was a family folk group that entertained audiences from the late 1980s to 2011, with a mix of carefully collected and researched traditional folk, self-penned songs and creative musical arrangements. Based in Kent, near the Sussex & Surrey border, in 2003 they started a small festival 'The Pig's Ear Folk Ale' at Markbeech, Kent which is still going today - folkale.co.uk ... more

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