| "Twenty One Years" | ||||
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| Single by Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen | ||||
| from the album 21 Years | ||||
| B-side | "Sing Me Back Home" | |||
| Released | April 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Irish traditional | |||
| Length | 2:57 | |||
| Label | Release | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Traditional, arr. Plainsmen | |||
| Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen singles chronology | ||||
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"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen. [1]
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"Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970. [3] It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970. [4]
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