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The Wild Rover

folk song
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The Wild Rover
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The Wild Rover

Summary

The Wild Rover is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (406 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Wild Rover's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • The Wild Rover's Commons category is recorded as The Wild Rover (song)[4].
  • The Wild Rover's country of origin is recorded as United States[5].
  • The Wild Rover's has characteristic is recorded as drinking song[6].
  • The Wild Rover's has characteristic is recorded as traditional folk song[7].
  • The Wild Rover's form of creative work is recorded as song[8].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[9]

  • Genre(s): irish folk[10]

  • Community tags: irish folk, traditional, traditional: ireland[11]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3da88400-4b61-3f6d-a075-7a6e046b6bae[12]

Why It Matters

The Wild Rover ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (406 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). The Wild Rover. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-wild-rover
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  1. 18d ago · Kiwigirl3850 · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Country of origin → United States
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    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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