Twenty One Years Explained

Twenty One Years
Cover:	Twenty One Years record label.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen
Album:	21 Years
Released:	April 1970
Recorded:	1970
Genre:	Irish traditional
Length:	2:57
Label:	Release
Prev Title:	Gay Galty Mountains
Prev Year:	1969
Next Title:	I'll Be There
Next Year:	1971

"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen.^[1]

Lyrics

The singer describes a prison sentence of twenty-one years in HM Prison Dartmoor, and complains that his lover does not write.^[2]

Song history

"Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970.^[3] It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Plainsmen. www.irish-showbands.com.
2. Web site: NFB Listens To Number Ones: “21 Years” – Dermot Hegarty. September 6, 2021.
3. Jairazbhoy, N. A. (1983:272). Essays in Honour of Peter Crossley-Holland on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. United States: University of California.
4. Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.