This might actually be a Scottish song

[joe552]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97uEToBzJ4

[scottish-guy]

Correct!

[FarangRuMak]

And so also is the song “The Wild Rover” Scottish.
It’s now sung as a drinking song but was first performed in Scotland as the anthem of an anti-drinking crusade organised by the Kirk.
If you listen to the lyrics the theme is very clear.....“no, nay, never, no never no more, will I play the Wild Rover no never no more...”
More irony.

[joe552]

Tell me this isn't Irish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFYOPyPru0Y

[FarangRuMak]

Tell me this isn't Irish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFYOPyPru0Y

Great performance from the boys in white.
Don’t get mad Joe when I suggest that this song is more than likely an English folksong.
A ‘wench’ is a common old english word.
The original version had an
‘Alehouse fire’ not the fire mention here.
But who cares abbibbi....