So, we'll go no more a roving the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty nine." The poem seems to have been suggested in part by the refrain of a Scottish song known as "The Jolly Beggar." The Jolly Beggar was published in Herd's "Scots Songs" in 1776, 41 years before Byron's letter, and goes partially
Here We Go Again! Capitol's Grand Canyon-like echo chamber, which Gilmore used to make the Trio's instruments 'ring' like no other folk group, before or since." Sales of "Here We Go Again!" rose to over 900,000 copies reaching the number one chart position for eight weeks. At one point in 1959 after the release of "Here We Go Again!", the Trio had four records at the same time among the Top 10 selling albums according to "Billboard Magazine's" "Top Ten Albums" chart for five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched now for over 50 years. "Here We Go Again!" received