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Bill Elliott at The Bridge Folk Club – Fall Down Billy O’Shea (Iain McCarthy, c1963)

Bill Elliott at The Bridge Folk Club, 12 January 2026 Fall Down Billy O’Shea (Iain McCarthy, c1963) Poor Billy O’Shea gets drunk and when he wakes up he finds he has been taken on board a ship and expected to be a sailor. That kind of thing really did happen in the good old days when the Royal Navy used a variety of tactics to ‘encourage’ men to join. The most feared and hated were the pressgangs who would kidnap men by force and enlist them. Victims were chosen more or less at random and very few men were exempt, no matter how badly suited they would be to working at sea. Discipline was harsh for men who couldn’t perform to the standards demanded and treatment could be cruel, as Billy discovers in this song