Glastonbury 2022 Ralph McTell " From Clare to Here" Acoustic Stage

Ralph Mctell was performing in the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury just before Paul McCartney's show, he sang his hit from 1976, from the album Right Side up.

"From Clare to Here" is a ballad about Irish emigration written by Ralph McTell. In 1963, McTell was working on a building site, and it is of this time that he wrote, in the mid-1970s, "From Clare to Here". "There was an Irish gang on the site, and the craic, as they call it, relieved the stress of the hard work. I was working with an Irishman called Michael, as so many of them are. And I said to him, 'It must be very strange to be here in London after the place you come from.' And he responded by saying, 'Yes, it's a long way from Clare to here.'"

McTell's original version appears on his 1976 album Right Side Up. In the sleeve notes of the remaster, he wryly describes it as his "second most covered song".

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