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Back Home in Derry
Irish rebel song
Back Home in Derry is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Maze.[1][2]
The song has been covered by multiple artists, most notably by Christy Moore in his 1984 album Ride On, who sang it to a melody inspired by Gordon Lightfoot’s famous 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald“.[3][4] Moore's version is shorter than the original poem.[5]