An original six-verse Irish ballad inventing a fictional backstory for Sherlock Holmes, tracing him from a childhood on the Yorkshire moors through a boarding-school expulsion and solitary self-education in London to Baker Street and his meeting with Watson.
The Ballad of Young Sherlock Holmes
Style
A 6/8 Irish folk ballad at roughly 105 BPM, built on tin whistle, bodhrán, acoustic guitar and fiddle, sung by a warm baritone in a storytelling pub-singalong delivery that shifts from minor-key verses to a major-key final verse.