| Twenty One Years | |
| Cover: | Twenty One Years record label.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Dermot Hegarty and his Clubmen |
| Album: | 21 Years |
| Released: | April 1970 |
| Recorded: | 1970 |
| Genre: | Irish traditional |
| Length: | 2:57 |
| Label: | Release |
| Prev Title: | Gay Galty Mountains |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | I'll Be There |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
"Twenty One Years" is an Irish traditional song by Dermot Hegarty and the Plainsmen.[1]
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]