Talk:Donkey Riding

This is a well known song that predates Great Big Sea by a very considerable margin to my knowledge. I have a 1969 recording, listing it as traditional and I'm sure it's very much older than that. Mutt Lunker (talk) 00:09, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Agreed - the article is nonsense. It's an old children's song or sea shanty with the same tune as Highland Laddie.Wilus (talk) 14:10, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Then replace it with an article. I only made it as a disambiguation place holder. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 11:49, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

No worries, I've tweaked it. Mutt Lunker (talk) 20:36, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Presence in Assassin's Creed

'Donkey Riding' is one of the shanties 'learnable' in the computer game "Assassins Creed Rogue" (a.k.a. Black Flag 2). Once learned, the crew sing some verses of it with chorus as you sail the Atlantic waterways in American Colonial times circa 1750. This does make it probably anachronistic; definitely so if the reference to steam power is correct, but the Assassins Creed series are well known for major historical inaccuracies. Yet it is nice that AC4 and AC4b bring shanties to the attention of the wider and mostly younger public, having over a dozen in its library. Note that although many other shanties appear in Black Flag, 'Donkey Riding' itself does not appear in Black Flag, only in Rogue. 86.183.60.5 (talk) 17:39, 18 February 2019 (UTC)