Twenty One Years
{{Infobox song
| name = Twenty One Years
| cover =Twenty One Years record label.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
|caption=
| artist = Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen
| album = 21 Years
| B-side = Sing Me Back Home
| released = April 1970
| recorded = 1970
| studio =
| genre = Irish traditional
| length = 2:57
| label = Release
| writer = Traditional, arr. Plainsmen
| producer =
| prev_title = Gay Galty Mountains
| prev_year = 1969
| next_title = I'll Be There
| next_year = 1971
}}
"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/plainsmen.htm|title=Plainsmen|website=www.irish-showbands.com}}
Lyrics
The singer describes a prison sentence of twenty-one years in HM Prison Dartmoor, and complains that his lover does not write.{{Cite web|url=https://neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/nfb-listens-to-number-ones-21-years-dermot-hegarty/|title=NFB Listens To Number Ones: “21 Years” – Dermot Hegarty|date=September 6, 2021}}
Song history
"Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970.Jairazbhoy, N. A. (1983:272). Essays in Honour of Peter Crossley-Holland on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. United States: University of California. It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970.Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
References
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External links
- {{YouTube|lWxTMt9nXlA|Twenty One Years}}
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