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Song
Back Home in Derry
Written by
Bobby Sands
Language
English
ISWC
T-011.169.583-0
ISWC
T-030.059.721-0
GEMA
T-902.097.761-1
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Song about the penal transportation of Irishmen in the 19th century to Van Diemen's Land (modern day Tasmania, Australia). The melody of was borrowed from Gordon Lightfoot's song
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
.
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Originals
Back Home in Derry
First release
by
Christy Moore
(1984)
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