This is a well-known Irish/Australian ballad about the bushranger Jack Duggan, based on the historical outlaw Jack Donohue (also the subject of the somewhat more accurate "Bold Jack Donohue") who was killed in 1830. Arranged by Jan Wolters: http://www.janwolters.nl/blad/wildcolb.pdf I have adapted the arrangement for mandolin quartet (two mandolins, tenor guitar and mandocello). Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin 1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin Ozark tenor guitar Suzuki MC-815 mandocello Martin
Oh this is a great song -- I loved it in the movie, The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. By the way, the squeeze box player who sang this song in the movie was none other than Ken Curtis. (You'll find him in many a John Ford western also.) He was once a member of the Sons of the Pioneers and later went on to even more fame on the TV program Gunsmoke where he played Festus Hagan. Nicely done Martin!
I love the title of this song. Sounds like the words might be interesting. Really nice playing, Martin. Your arrangements have gotten really refined and polished. Hey, looks like someone posted that clip from The Quiet Man on YouTube. I'd seen the movie, but didn't remember the song at all. Anyway, here it is if anyone's curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvbOdnzTKk
Thanks, Michael and Marcelyn. The Clancys did this song on the Ed Sullivan Show in the early 60s, in a somewhat more raucous version than in The Quiet Man: Link Martin
