podunklander

There was a thread about this subject some time ago (back in 2008?) and as I recall...Gordon had incorporated the use of or otherwise was influenced by a traditional, Irish "dirge" (as he has referred to it as such) when composing the music for "The Wreck...". If there is a specific traditional Irish song that Gordon based his melody on that pre-dates modern times, I do not know and have yet to hear it. At some point, either Christy Moore (brother of Barry Moore a.k.a Luka Bloom) and/or some others considered that perhaps Bobby had also followed the melody or similar dirge of a traditional (public domain) song as Gordon may have.