Talk:Whiskey in the Jar

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Contents 1 Irish or gibberish? 2 Cleanup 3 I think it needs some little changes 4 Timing of the song 5 name of origin? 6 The Highwaymen

[edit] Irish or gibberish?

Is "musha ring duma do damma da whack for the daddy 'ol whack for the daddy 'ol" Galeic/Irish or just a bunch of babble?

Just a bunch of nonsense. Like Toora loora loo. -R. fiend 06:15, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually, musha is an irish word that means rougly "If it be so." I think the rest is a little scattered by time and I have never heard it translated. I certainly don't have the knowledge to append it to the article. Audioweevil 22:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This page has turned into a mess of lyrics lists, most of which are basically the same. Needs work cutting down on sloppiness and redundancy. -R. fiend 03:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I would very much like to see someone put the lyrics on WikiSource rather than witness a continued argument over them here. WikiSource is really where they belong anyway; WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of information, and Wikipedia is specifically not a place where song lyrics should be accumulated. WikiSource is even explicitly recommended on that page as a proper place for non-copyrighted song lyrics (of which the lyrics to Whiskey in the Jar are a prime example).--chris.lawson 02:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I think it needs some little changes

I think the name Metallica is very prominent in the article... maybe changing that a little?

Since it is not a Metallica song, but they just covered the song like so many others.

Khora 22:30, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree very strongly. As a player of traditional Irish music, I was a little insulted by the two very prominent boxes regarding Metallica. The Category box at the bottom (whatever it's referred to as) especially, as this article should belong in some sort of Irish music, Traditional music, or other music category, and definitely not in the "Metallica" category.

10:59 July 12 2007 (EDT)

and maybe remove the lars lilholt-comment. just beceause some random danish musician is singing the song, doesn't mean that he has to be mentioned in the very first part of the article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.94.157.91 (talk) 21:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Timing of the song

I really cannot judge the reference to the Irish "half pike", but one can just for instance check wikipedia to find out that "rapier" is a general term for a slender thrusting sword of the 16th and 17th centuries. Mkkls 14:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] name of origin?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro (false) far simply reffers to the container in which whiskey is stored for long periods of time.

[edit] The Highwaymen

The link for the band The Highwaymen in the lede redirects to a dab page in which two different groups are listed with the same name. Does anyone know which group recorded a version of this song? The link needs to be fixed to link to the correct band, obviously. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 17:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)