Twenty One Years

"Twenty One Years"
"Twenty One Years"
Single by Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen
from the album 21 Years
B-side	"Sing Me Back Home"
Released	April 1970
Recorded	1970
Genre	Irish traditional
Length	2:57
Label	Release
Songwriter(s)	Traditional, arr. Plainsmen
Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen singles chronology

"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen.^[1]

Lyrics

The singer describes a prison sentence of twenty-one years in HM Prison Dartmoor, and complains that his lover does not write.^[2]

"Twenty One Years" was released in April 1970.^[3] It was number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart for five weeks in 1970.^[4]