Hi, this is a Vault video, the unseen footage of the conclusion of Take 1 of my re-written and extended version of 'Whiskey In The Jar'. This was never used, as the file ran out a few lines from the end - perils of yakking intro's. Anyway, here is the final verse, from the following file, and the start - all 37 minutes of it - is also up now, so if you play them consecutively, you only have a transition gap of 14 seconds. As noted before, on my 'proper' takes, I have lengthened the root tale, at the same time introducing a back-story to the narrator, whilst making it a family parable. My family. There is also a video of the prose-only, recited version, which is titled 'Pray For My Family' . This omits the refrain, and has the words and the narrative altered further. Love and peace Paul M 25.07.2023 'Whiskey In The Jar' - music trad. arranged Paul Murphy ; words (c) Paul Murphy [verse 1 and refrain - Trad] - - - - On a tertiary note, whilst here, if I may be so bold - I am uploading videos of my songs, my performances, my recitals, etc, to raise funds for my most amazing children, who get any considerations when they reach 16. I WAS doing it to promote my books so they got the royalties, but that option has been taken away from us. If you have enjoyed this video, and would care to make a small donation for them, many sincere thanks and much gratitude, from both myself, and from them via myself; the link is https://paypal.me/DylEmTrust If you have listened and read this far, you have been extraordinarily kind with your precious time, and my sincere thanks for that. Paul M x - - - - - - - Other arenas: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/audburn My Patreon is now back up [25.07.23], following the removal of some rather 'unkind' persons, and it contains 'Vault' material that does not appear anywhere else. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=86744526 Addendum : I have started an Odysee channel, where I had hoped to place some of my more - well, not controversial, at least not for the sake of it, but more 'pointed' material. Due to the rapid progress of my Motor-FND, it may or may not happen, but here is the link if you want to pop in there occasionally to see - https://odysee.com/@PaulMurphy4Em+Dyl:9 - - - - - 'Imagine there is a Heaven - and it is holding your child in your arms.' - Me, 27.07.2023 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoI0KZI0s4Y

I get asked about the length of my songs quite often, and I do understand why - you don't find too many songwriters that breach the 7, 8 minute mark, and I think I have 15 or 20 that go over 20 minutes. Probably 100 in the 8-15 minute range. It's because I am a storyteller, if that doesn't sound pretentious, and the songs need to be as long as the story takes. Elton famously cut off the last verse of 'Daniel', for instance, to make radio play length. It's still a great song - what a melody line - but it always reminds me of that Tony Hancock episode, 'Lady Don't Fall Backwards', where the last page of the book is missing and you don't find out whodunnit. Anyway, I used to be asked "Which is your longest song?" (when I had bands, I would come in with a new song and they wouldn't say, "What are the chords" or "What time is it in?", their first question would be, "How long is it...?". I did see their point - me, I had the lyrics to tell, but playing a bass riff over and over for 24 minutes? Even my drummers breathed a sigh of relief when drum machines came in!). Well, this is probably - probably - my longest song, on the basis that it IS a song. 'In Search Of Hell's Grand Reward' - there are 9 parts - is a one-song double-CD (I am recording from the album, onto camera). The full song lasts 2 and a half hours. And that's just the chorus... - nah, I'm joking about that part. It doesn't have a chorus. Maybe I should write one! So, this is likely my longest song. I had to record it in parts because, in those days of yore, on a Tascam 8-track analogue home studio, a 45-minute metal C90 ran at double speed, and thus, cut out after 23 minutes. Just after this song, digital came in and I was away (my 31-minute rewrite of Bob Dylan's 'Tangled Up In Blue' was the first I did on digital). Anyway revisited - I thought I would put it up. It's not all solo acoustic/vocal, some of the parts I overdubbed extra instruments on - so, Part 1 has organ running throughout, and electic arp's, for instance. Part 5 is on piano, with overdubbed acoustic through it. I would love to transcribe the lyrics and put them out as a book, just so it is in it's original story format, but the other night it took me an hour to transcribe the lyrics to the 4-minute 'Getting To Babylon', to include them in the "Bitter Realities" songbook, so - don't hold your breath. Oh, the reason I say 'ISoHGR' is 'probably' my longest song is, last year's 'Maybe Tomorrow' has, I think, 10,000 words, but it only exists as the lyric book - I have music for it, in my head, but that work needs to be recorded all in one go, and due to my disablity, I can't do that. And 'Prairie Winds' - which is also a song - is probably getting close to this, timewise; I have been recording it in chunks, and there are 17 now (none of them particularly good technically - since I have no means of holding the lyrics up, it is write, turn camera on, hit E-minor and hope to remember what one has just written). The lyrics that make up the second half of the "Prairie Winds" lyric anthology book clock in at 6,5000 words, but I have written 3 more 'stages' to it since then. US election coming up - try to keep a social commentary songwriter still with that on the horizon! On a trivia note, the CD sleeve notes state that I recorded 'ISoHGR' between 29.12.98-02.01.99 (CD 1, parts 1-5); and between 09-11.01.1999 (CD2, parts 6-9). THAT must have been a wonderfully happy Xmas I was having that year.... ! Light and peace, Paul M 06.11.2022 'In Search Of Hell's Grand Reward' © Paul Murphy / 1998, renewed 2022 Whilst here, if I may be so bold... Many of my song lyrics and poems and prose-pieces, should you care to investigate them further, are presented in 12 books of such (details below), available from Amazon. There is a 10-page free contents preview of each title available. If you do go to Amazon and purchase any of my lyric/poetry, or indeed my comedy or my children's titles, thank you with my extreme gratitude for that, because all royalties go into trust for my beautiful young children, Dylan and Emily Jade. Books by Paul Murphy: Comedy: The Private Diary of Emily Jade Murphy (Aged 0) Don't Look Sideways Jottings 1001 Ways To Cook An Aardvark Extremely Unlikely History of the World - Part One Eric Wobble Finds A Time Machine The Fabbles: The So-Low Years A Christmas Carol (No, Not That One, A Different One) Lyrics/Poetry: Songs Without Music Journeys... Poems, Lyrics & Reflections Stories That Rhyme Poems For My Children Maybe Tomorrow Poems From An Empty Wishing Well Tombstones One More Rainbow, Before The Lights Go Out Maybe Tomorrow... Maybe Next Year (A Love Story) Love, Prairie Winds Bitter Realities Songs For Charlotte ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jNLWcKEdU