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The actual tune first appeared in the 1943 film The Outlaw, as the film's main theme. John O'Dreams was written by an Englishman, Bill Caddick, (1944-2018), and later became famous in Irish Traditional music. Caddick was born in Wolverhampton, England. The titular central character is equivalent to the Sandman, a fictional character who sends people to sleep. The song portrays all people as being "equal in sleep": All things are equal when the day is doneThe Prince and the ploughman, the slave and freemanAll find their comfort in old John O'Dreams

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  • The actual tune first appeared in the 1943 film The Outlaw, as the film's main theme. John O'Dreams was written by an Englishman, Bill Caddick, (1944-2018), and later became famous in Irish Traditional music. Caddick was born in Wolverhampton, England. The titular central character is equivalent to the Sandman, a fictional character who sends people to sleep. The song portrays all people as being "equal in sleep": All things are equal when the day is doneThe Prince and the ploughman, the slave and freemanAll find their comfort in old John O'Dreams (en)
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  • The actual tune first appeared in the 1943 film The Outlaw, as the film's main theme. John O'Dreams was written by an Englishman, Bill Caddick, (1944-2018), and later became famous in Irish Traditional music. Caddick was born in Wolverhampton, England. The titular central character is equivalent to the Sandman, a fictional character who sends people to sleep. The song portrays all people as being "equal in sleep": All things are equal when the day is doneThe Prince and the ploughman, the slave and freemanAll find their comfort in old John O'Dreams In this context, sleep may also be considered a metaphor for death, both as an eventual equalizer of all things, and for the allusion to a "crossing over," as in a river, a prevalent theme in Western spiritual beliefs. The most popular arrangements are by English singer/songwriter Bill Caddick. Singers Gordon Bok, , Christy Moore, Jean Redpath, Max Boyce, Garnet Rogers and The Clancy Brothers with Robbie O'Connell also recorded versions. The enchanting arpeggiated melody is based on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "The Pathetique", and is erroneously thought to have originated in either a Russian or Italian folksong. John O’Dreams is a character in Scottish author Fiona Macleod’s (William Sharp’s alias) “The Lynn of Dreams”, in the Winged Destiny (en)
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