"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen. Lyrics The singer describes a prison sentence of twenty-one years in HM Prison Dartmoor, and complains that his lover does not write.
Song history "Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970.Jairazbhoy, N. A. (1983:272). Essays in Honour of Peter Crossley-Holland on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. United States: University of California. It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970.Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. References
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