the beasley brothers wrote the song whiskey in a jar.
who wrote the song whiskey in a jar?
the beasley brothers
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the song collector colm ó lochlainn, in his book irish street ballads, described how his mother learnt "whiskey in the jar" in limerick in 1870 from a man called buckley who came from cork. when ó lochlainn included the song in irish street ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother. he called the song "there's whiskey in the jar", and the lyrics are virtually identical to the version that was used by irish bands in the 1960s such as the dubliners. the o lochlainn version refers to the "far fam'd kerry mountain" rather than the cork and kerry mountains, as appears in some versions.
whiskey in the jar