Author: Harold

“‘Whiskey in the Jar'” is a famous Irish traditional song about a highwayman (usually in the Cork and Kerry mountains), who is betrayed by his wife or lover. One of the most widely performed traditional Irish songs, it is also particularly known through its 1970s chart version by the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. It is sung with many variants on locations and names; a typical version begins:

As I was a-walkin round Kilgary Mountain
I met Colonel Pepper and
his money he was countin’,
I rattled me pistols and I drew forth me
saber,
Sayin’ “Stand and deliver, for I am the bold deceiver!”
Musha rig
um du rum da, / Whack fol the daddy O,
Whack fol the daddy O, / There’s
whiskey in the jar.Folk Songs of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, ed.
William Cole, arr. Norman Monath, Cornerstone Library, New York,
1961.

‘Andy Goldsworthy’ (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer
and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and
land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of
natural and found objects, to create both temporary and permanent sculptures
which draw out the character of their environment.