Twenty One Years

"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen.[1]

"Twenty One Years"
Single by Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen
from the album 21 Years
B-side"Sing Me Back Home"
ReleasedApril 1970
Recorded1970
GenreIrish traditional
Length2:57
LabelRelease
Songwriter(s)Traditional, arr. Plainsmen
Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen singles chronology
"Gay Galty Mountains"
(1969)		 "Twenty One Years"
(1970)		 "I'll Be There"
(1971)

Lyrics

The singer describes a prison sentence of twenty-one years in HM Prison Dartmoor, and complains that his lover does not write.[2]

Song history

"Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970.[3] It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970.[4]

References
  1. "Plainsmen". www.irish-showbands.com.
  2. "NFB Listens To Number Ones: "21 Years" – Dermot Hegarty". September 6, 2021.
  3. Jairazbhoy, N. A. (1983:272). Essays in Honour of Peter Crossley-Holland on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. United States: University of California.
  4. Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
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