- 1. Drunken Sailor 2.56 2149 plays
- 2. Whores And Hounds 3.46 487 plays
- 3. Cruisin' Round Yarmouth 2.21 300 plays
- 4. The Barley Mow 2.36 386 plays
- 5. Sweet Anne 4.44 229 plays
- 6. All For Me Grog 2.52 293 plays
- 7. Trust In Drink 2.29 256 plays
- 8. Dear Old Ireland 3.08 336 plays
- 9. Across The Western Ocean 2.34 263 plays
- 10. Pleasant and Delightful 3.14 221 plays
- 11. The Titanic 6.35 378 plays
- 12. The Dublin Pub Crawl 4.29 230 plays
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Drunken Sailor
The Titanic is a tribute to the great ship from its beginnings in Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard. Its legend has both haunted and intrigued George Millar partly because he shares his birthday of April 14, with the date the ship met its icy end on her maiden voyage a century ago. When listening to the single, we get a feeling of descending the ocean depths to meet the great ship at her resting place, then she quickly sweeps us away on a journey to her glory days, charging across the high seas. "Being from Northern Ireland and born on April 14th, the legend of the Titanic has been with me all my life. It took the labour of fifteen thousand Irishmen to build her - she was the pride of Belfast," says George Millar of The Irish Rovers. SEE Irish Rovers video, The Titanic
CBC Documentary - Belfast's Titanic Legacy featuring George Millar and the Irish Rovers single, The Titanic - View Documentary
Drunken Sailor, the title track is our traditional ending song at our concerts so we thought it would be a good way to begin. As Eugene Field once told his captain, "He is not drunk who from the floor can rise again and drink some more but he is drunk who prostrates lies and cannot drink and cannot rise."
Whores And Hounds brings back the rough and tumble feel of a town brimming with pubs and roving sailors. What goes through a sailor's mind as he heads to a new port? After 3 or 4 weeks at sea, a bit of recreation was required and nature walks or church going, while noble and uplifting, were not necessarily part of it.
Track List
1. Drunken Sailor (Trad. A & A George Millar & Wilcil McDowell)
2. Whores And Hounds (George Millar)
3. Cruising 'Round Yarmouth (Trad. A & A George Millar)
4. Good Luck To The Barleymow (Trad. A & A George Millar)
5. Sweet Anne (George Millar)
6. All For Me Grog (Trad. A & A George Millar)
7. Trust In Drink (Trad. A & A George Millar)
8. The Jolly Roving Tar (George Millar)
9. The Good Ship Rover (Words, George Millar - Tune, trad)
10. Dear Ould Ireland (George Millar)
11. Across The Western Sea (George Millar)
12. Pleasant And Delightful (Trad. A & A George Millar)
13. The Titanic (George Millar)
14. The Dublin Pub Crawl (George Millar)
Production duties were handled by George Millar for Rover Records. The CD was recorded at Rick Salt's Lois Lane Studios, Nanaimo, BC Canada & Wilcil McDowell Studio, N. Ireland. CD comes with booklet of lyrics.
