Chicago-based band The Tossers wrote the song "Breandan O Beachain", found on their 2008 album "On A Fine Spring Evening". Shortly after Behan's death a young student, Fred Geis, wrote the song "Lament for Brendan Behan" and passed it on to the Clancy Brothers, who sang it on their album "Recorded Live in Ireland" the same year. This song, which calls "bold Brendan" Ireland's "sweet angry singer", was later covered by the Australian trio The Doug Anthony All Stars, better known as a comedy band, on their album "Blue". "Brendan" is Seamus Robinson's song-tribute to Behan. Behan's prisoner song "The Auld Triangle", (which featured in his play "The Quare Fellow"—this term being prison slang for a prisoner condemned to be hanged), has become something of a standard and has been recorded on numerous occasions, by folk musicians as well as popular bands such as The Pogues, the Dubliners, the Dropkick Murphys and The Doug Anthony All Stars. He is also referenced in the opening line of the Mountain Goats song "Commandante" where the narrator proclaims that he will "drink more whiskey than Brendan Behan".