Original upload date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:50:35 GMT
Whiskey in the Jar / Lovel, the Robber / Bold Lovell / The Irish Robber / McCallister / McCollister / McAllister / There's Whiskey in the Jar / Gilgary Mountain / Colonel Pepper / Captain Farrell / Gi
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lgara Mountain / Patrick Flemming (Roud No. 533) - Sung by Mary Byrnes of Springside near Orange, New South Wales, Australia. Recorded by John Meredith in 1954/1955.
Note by Kevin W.:
This version has been localized to mention Abercrombie Mountain and Sir Frederick Pottinger, a local police inspector who had failed on a number of occasions to catch the bushranger Ben Hall.
Here's a bit of info about Pottinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Pottinger
The mention of a blunderbuss is rare, I remember seeing it in a version of Bold Lovell (Roud No. 534), an earlier form of the song: http://www.minnesotafolksongcollection.org/item/rwp/a008
