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Original Dubliners is an album by The Dubliners
The Dubliners
The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin...

. The double disc features EMI
EMI
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 albums Seven Drunken Nights
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
A Drop of the Hard Stuff is an album by The Dubliners. It was originally released in 1967 on Major Minor Records . When it was reissued, it was renamed Seven Drunken Nights because the first track became a hit single. The album cover provides biographical sketches of the band line-up: Ronnie Drew,...

(a.k.a. A Drop of the Hard Stuff
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
A Drop of the Hard Stuff is an album by The Dubliners. It was originally released in 1967 on Major Minor Records . When it was reissued, it was renamed Seven Drunken Nights because the first track became a hit single. The album cover provides biographical sketches of the band line-up: Ronnie Drew,...

), Seven Deadly Sins
At It Again
At It Again is an album by The Dubliners and was released on the Major Minor label in 1968. It featured "The Irish Navy", a satirical song with lyrics co-written by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly and set to music by John Sheahan. Barney McKenna and Ciarán Bourke also feature on the album. It was...

(a.k.a. At It Again
At It Again
At It Again is an album by The Dubliners and was released on the Major Minor label in 1968. It featured "The Irish Navy", a satirical song with lyrics co-written by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly and set to music by John Sheahan. Barney McKenna and Ciarán Bourke also feature on the album. It was...

), Whiskey On A Sunday (a compilation) and More of the Hard Stuff
More of the Hard Stuff
More of the Hard Stuff is an album by The Dubliners, originally released in 1967. The line-up consists of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciaran Bourke and John Sheahan. True to its title, five of the songs concern hard drinking. Three of the songs were written by Brendan Behan...

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Track listing

  1. "All for Me Grog"
  2. "Cork Hornpipe"
  3. "Peggy Gordon"
  4. "Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe"
  5. "Quare Bungle Rye"
  6. "Flop Eared Mule"
  7. "Poor Old Dicey Riley"
  8. "Whiskey on a Sunday
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  9. "Gentleman Soldier"
  10. "Navy Boots"
  11. "Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man"
  12. "Rattling Roaring Willie"
  13. "Mrs. McGrath
    Mrs. McGrath
    "Mrs. McGrath" is an Irish folk song. The song tells the story of a woman whose son enters the British Army, and returns seven years later having lost his legs to a cannonball fighting against Napoleon in the Peninsular War. The general theme of the song is one of opposition to war, the mother...

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  14. "Carolan Concerto"
  15. "Parting Glass"


"Donkey Reel" featured on the original LP
LP album
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 release, but not on the CD. It is an instrumental almost identical to "Flop Eared Mule", which does feature here and appears to be the only track that had been previously unavailable at the time of this album's original release (date unknown).
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