The Spinners - The Minstrel Boy / The Leaving of Liverpool (live) with Lyrics 

2 classic songs sung beautifully by my favorite band

2 great songs. The Spinners are the best ever.

No folk band I know of could ever create the ambiance the night I went with my parents to listen to the spinners in Liverpool. I and my family now live in Brittany which has a very strong sea faring tradition, with many shanty voice choirs, I get so homesick when I listen to these lads from back home.

Folk music at its purest. This brings tears to this old duffers eyes.

The country's most under valued group. They were a joy in live performance. I believe they played the Cavern before the Beatles.

The Dubliners do a great version but this is the definitive version for me...really moving. Very fond memories of their show back in the 70's. Introduced me to folk...god bless 'em!

Met the spinners in Liverpool during a festival at the Albert Dock for the Ocean Youth Club in the early 80's they and their partners came and sat with us on our ship and sang songs, having been raised on their music by my mum and dad, I was the only one among the young crew who knew who they were. It was like meeting the Beatles , and here I am now age 55 working a night shift discovering them again on RU-vid, bringing back great memories of listening to their songs with my parents who are sadly no longer with us.

My very first album of The Spinners, but certainly was't my last. A greatly missed folk group.

These guys got me into folk music in the 60s, fantastic live performances.

Both my wife and myself really enjoyed going to see the Spinners in Sheffield ,many times we went for a fabulous nights entertainment. The best folk group ever

Mum used to be a big fan. I was taken along to see them about 5 times to Northampton and Birmingham when I was about 8, 9, 10, 11. They gave me my entire folk reportoire and even dedicated a song to me at a concert, when Mum wrote to them for about my 10th birthday - no email back then! This is a great song. I think my late Great Granny wrote me the words out.

Awesome singers love this album

Thank you UTUBE for the great access to all our wonderful music memories of yesteryear so amazing

used to listen to these songs,with my 2 kids,many dogs many years ago!! wonderful memories!!

Happy days and daze living on Merseyside .Hope the Spinners are all well after all the years....thanks for all the lovely music.

great memories,,, was good to see the same album as I have appear again !

I used to listen to and sing along with my children 40 years ago! Thanks for bringing back such good memories

I had this LP as a Kid and then last year I tried to look for the mintrel boy I Forgot about this....wow. The Man who would be king....

I love 'The Minstrel Boy' - this is a wonderful version!

Great group; they made folk music truly the people's music (all the people living here in the UK at the time) and made me a lover and singer of folfks songs of the world. Good memories, specially "The Ink is black"

They were an amazing group. R.I.P Cliff Hall sadly missed x

Used to go the Free Trade Hall in Manchester , every time they were on in the early 70's. Picked up my roots for folk music at these concerts. Well done lads.

Instantly I was singing along, using the old harmonies my Mum and I made up, over 30 years ago. Thank you for posting. Thank you.

Learnt at a time Liverpool schools had time to teach our heritage.

Just Love it,thank you SCOUSE.

saw them many times always enjoyed going to their concerts

Love this - one of my favourites! This was one of my mum and dad's albums - must go and dig it out!

I used to go to the Groton pub Liverpool. They had an open mind night. Brilliant

I love this song it's my vavorite

My wife and I were at the Spinners "Final Fling" performance in Reading, more years ago than I like to think. Afterwards they autographed the vinyl LP sleeve for us (yes that long ago) and Cliff marked a kiss on it (x) - for my good lady! Wonderful group, great songs, good memories.

Unfortunately Cliff Hall died some years back in Australia. Mick Groves and Hughie Jones still perform in folk clubs mainly in the south-west. Clips are on RU-vid. I think Tony Davis retired. Yup - one of the best folk groups ever. Saw them at the Hexagon in Reading several times.

my mu, imtrouduced me to them on the long drive down to my aunties' so it seems apporopriate to listen to them RIP mum xxx

The Spinners at the Phil was always something else - Sorry most of you are too young to have gone!

An interesting note; Sean Connery sings the minstrel boy over the titles of the film: "A man who would be king"

Remind me of Dad .RIP .

John, this is great - leave it just like it is!

Super song, love the lyrics but never heard the harmonica intro before. Reminds of the the folk clubs we used to have in my school days. Thanks for uploading this wonderful version

those who say that folk music is bad have never heard this or any other spinners song

brought up on this album x

It is so difficult to find their records now, I lost mine many years ago and do not know why they have not been reissued. The Leaving of Liverpool and the sea shanties have never been reproduced as well by any other group. such a pity with the current popularity of Liverpool, a great city for my one of the best in my life!! wonderful people.

I've heard a lot of versions of this from banjo to mandolin but nothing comes close to how haunting this harmonica version is. It never fails to bring up the hairs on my arms listening to it..... and as for young men dying for old men's principles - let me just say that the the difference between a 'freedom fighter' and a 'terrorist' is just your political allegiance (so let's raise a glass and empty a bottle to peace and harmony.......never thought I'd see the day when Rev. Ian Paisley would share a laugh with Martin McGuiness......🤔👏👏👏). .....and before some muppet comes to lecture me on the world, I've got 6 years as a British Paratrooper under my belt (back in the days when the IRA were trying their best to kill us). Celebrate the things we have in common, not dwell on our differences. Good music, fine ales & whiskey's, good company 😎👍.

Thanks!

Thanks for that info moorg7. It is a very similar tune though. You learn something new everyday :-)

Triton pub. Paradise street

I've always loved the Spinners, sadly now so hard to get their albums, especially on MP3

"The Minstrel Boy" isn't credited on the track listings for this song on the LP by the way, that's why I didn't realise it was actually two songs in one.

Hi P1ckerings, moorg7 has already pointed out that the first part of the song is The Minstrel boy. The second part of the song is The Leaving of Liverpool. Maybe I should edit the title.

Smashi ng

did shawn connery and michael caine not belt out this tunein a movie? it is, i think, an old celtic war tune. celts fighting celts. it dates, i think, from the pre-anglo days of the presenet-day british isles. please double check. thanks. it is catchy, the minstrel boy, is it not?

where are the rest of the spinners songs?

I want to buy their music collection, but where to find it?

That's "Anson Terrace" at 6:40.

does anyone rememnbger the singing trio, the bachelors, from dublin in the sixties? they recorded a BEAUTIFUL harmonica version of Molly Malone on the b-side of one of their 45s. I cannot get it anywhere. can a nyone upload it? this minstrel boy piece is BEAUTIFUL,TOO. we sing it a lot in ireland as a rebel song!! but i understand it is originally a U.K. song. english? scottish? cornish? welsh? does anyone know (or care)?????

I've always loved the Spinners, sadly now so hard to get their albums, especially on MP3