Artist: Valentine Crawford
Author: traditional
Label: Irish Traditional Music Archive
Year: 1930s

In Greta Deehan's bar, Magilligan, Co. Derry. From the Hugh Shields Collection. Roud #2964. Collected by Sam Henry in Bushmills (Ulster).

Adapted from late 19th century broadside ballad The Rambling Boy Of Poverty (My Boyhood's Happy Home). Same melody also served many a persiflages and college song (Son Of A Gambolier, Rambling Wreck Of Georgia Tech, Come And Join The Airforce...).