{"id":697,"date":"2016-03-18T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2017-02-05T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T01:48:13","slug":"whiskey-in-the-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/whiskey-in-the-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey in the Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whiskey in the Jar\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EXp4DS-7f0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where I learned this, though I&#8217;m pretty sure it was early. I assumed I&#8217;d got it from the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, who were favorites of mine, but they don&#8217;t seem to have done it, and the only version I can find of it in my LPs is by the Irish Rovers, and is nothing like I remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The versions in general circulation seem mostly to descend from the Dubliners&#8217; recording, and I assume that&#8217;s how it came to me &#8212; albeit at second or third hand &#8212; but that&#8217;s just a guess. In any case, the song has a long and well-researched lineage, back to the ballad of an Irish highwayman named Patrick Flemming who was executed in 1650. That ballad, given in full<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csufresno.edu\/folklore\/Olson\/SONGTXT2.HTM#PATFLEM\"> on other folklore sites<\/a>, includes a fair number of lines that overlap my version, and an identical theme:<\/p>\n<p><em>My whore she proved false and that is the reason<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Or else Patrick Flemming had never been taken,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> When I was asleep and knew nothing of the matter<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Then she loaded my arms with water<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By about 1850 it had taken something very close to its modern form, and was published in a broadsheet as &#8220;The Sporting Hero, or Whiskey in the Bar&#8221; (reproduced below). 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