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Twenty One Years

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"Twenty One Years"
Single by Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen
from the album 21 Years
B-side"Sing Me Back Home"
ReleasedApril 1970
Recorded1970
GenreIrish traditional
Length2:57
LabelRelease
Songwriter(s)Traditional, arr. Plainsmen
Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen singles chronology
"Gay Galty Mountains"
(1969)
"Twenty One Years"
(1970)
"I'll Be There"
(1971)

"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen.[1]

Lyrics

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The singer describes a prison sentence of twenty-one years in HM Prison Dartmoor, and complains that his lover does not write.[2]

Song history

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"Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970.[3] It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Plainsmen". www.irish-showbands.com.
  2. ^ "NFB Listens To Number Ones: "21 Years" – Dermot Hegarty". September 6, 2021.
  3. ^ Jairazbhoy, N. A. (1983:272). Essays in Honour of Peter Crossley-Holland on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. United States: University of California.
  4. ^ Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
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