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Released on CBS, also Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash), Down Under (Men at Work) and (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult)
Written by [traditional], also Greensleeves (John Coltrane), Milk Cow Blues (Aerosmith) and Banana Boat Song (Day‐O) (Harry Belafonte)
Part of The Chieftains 8, also The Wind That Shakes the Barley / The Reel With the Beryle and Sea Image
Written by Paddy Moloney, also Santiago de Cuba, School Days Over and Down in the Willow Garden
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
[traditional] wrote 2823 songs on fono, the 3rd most of any writer
[traditional] wrote 6 of The Chieftains’s top 10 songs
[traditional]’s most frequent co-writer is Johannes Brahms (29 songs together)
[traditional] first appears on fono in 1925, 53 years before this song
Credits
All 4 credits
- Written by
- Paddy Moloney and [traditional]
- Part of
- The Chieftains 8
- Released on
- CBS
- Written by
- Paddy Moloney and [traditional]
- Part of
- The Chieftains 8
- Released on
- CBS
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: [traditional]
Same writer: Paddy Moloney
Same label: CBS
Same release: The Chieftains 8
Same writer: [traditional]
Same writer: Paddy Moloney
Same label: CBS
Same release: The Chieftains 8
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz If I Had Maggie in the Wood was written by Paddy Moloney
If I Had Maggie in the Wood was written by Paddy Moloney
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz If I Had Maggie in the Wood was written by [traditional]
If I Had Maggie in the Wood was written by [traditional]
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz If I Had Maggie in the Wood is part of the release The Chieftains 8
If I Had Maggie in the Wood is part of the release The Chieftains 8
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz CBS is the label of the song If I Had Maggie in the Wood
CBS is the label of the song If I Had Maggie in the Wood
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz If I Had Maggie in the Wood was released on 1978
If I Had Maggie in the Wood was released on 1978
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026