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Red rum’s song
There’s the ballad of Ruby walsh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqt1hWyfR4- Total Posts 17716
The Galway races
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Por Una Cabezza (already posted before)
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A couple of Greeks
mologa ta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JHRkPf7f5w
meaning "confess" (what happened to the money)
fevgo gia Dubai
Like many old Americana/bluegrass songs, there’s a million and one versions of Molly and Tenbrooks, but here are my favorites. All based off the great Ten Broeck-Mollie McCarty match race of 1876. First recorded in 1947 by Bill Monroe, it became his signature song.
A whole bunch of legendary bluegrass guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7Te8uEIgM
Townes van Zandt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPVQ_TNRlR0
Kingston Trio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AEpBomMl0The real horses
http://www.pedigreequery.com/mollie+mccarty
http://www.pedigreequery.com/ten+broeckSame with Stewball. Based off this horse http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Ske … ball1.html, the Irish/English ballad had been around in a multitude of forms since the late 1700s before it became popular as an American folk song.
it might sound familiar because John Lennon ripped off the melody for Merry Christmas/War is Over!
Peter, Paul & Mary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXdQB-mR4tg
Joan Baez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrN0wXCYCHY
Woody Guthrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJ2i-31c0A
And the mid-tempo blues version by Leadbelly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP7AAYhmX8EFinally, here’s a song that’s not quite about a racehorse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UWl1GarRpMArkle by Dominic Behan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4paj14Y4lg
Dawn Run by the great Foster and Allen!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3hE2PxoTU
The Plains of Kildare (Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJP6BzTYYm8
The Curragh of Kildare (sung every year before the Derby):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY3ucJ3ZkVo
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