The Minstrel Boy
1813 Irish patriotic song by Thomas Moore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the song. For the novel by A. J. Cronin, see The Minstrel Boy (novel). For the album by Donovan, see Minstrel Boy (album).
"The Minstrel Boy" is an Irish song written by Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779–1852) and published as part of his Irish Melodies.[2] Moore himself came to be nicknamed "The Minstrel Boy",[3] and indeed it is the title of Leonard Strong's 1937 biography of Moore.
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It is Roud Folk Song Index no. 13867.[4]