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FTX-310 A-ROVING BRITAIN AND IRELAND

with Peter Kennedy

A catchy Irish drinking song sets the scene - which takes us into the heart of the Yorkshire dales - to meet the original lass of Richmond hill - and some of the country dances peculiar to the area - moving to North-East Scotland and a melodeon-playing melodeon-mending molecatcher of Moray - further north still and we hear massed fiddle music from both Orkney and Shetland - on the way - calling in on the island of Sark - some Gaelic next - not from Scotland or Ireland but from the Isle of Man - one song, a girl in love with a sailor, from four different groups of travellers - tinkers and gypsies from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales with our final drinking song from a cider-loving Dorset shepherd.

ROVING JOURNEYMAN - THE JUG OF PUNCH - THE LASS OF RICHMOND HILL - BEAUTIFUL SWALEDALE - IF I WAS A BLACKBIRD (whistled with other bird effects) - TURN OFF SIX - THE YORKSHIRE LASS - THE HUNTSMAN'S CHORUS - DERRY GAOL - JOHNSTON'S & DERRY HORNPIPE - THE HAUGHS OF CROMDALE - AUCHAN LOCHAN - MORMOND BRAES - THE ROVING PLOUGHBOY - DA PEERIE HOOSE AHINT DA BURN - THE MERRY BOYS OF GREENLAND - MACDONALD'S REEL - THE SARK DANCE - NO MORE FANCY GIRLS FOR ME - THE GREENLAND WHALE-FISHERY - THE BIG SHIP WAS LEAVING BOMBAY - SHE LLONG HUNNICK NEE (A SHIP WAS SAILING) - STRONSAY WALTZ - JACK HALCROW - FATHER, FATHER, BUILD ME A BOAT (or SWEET WILLIAM) - THE WATER OF TYNE - FACA TU RAOGHAIL NA AILEIN - THE OAK AND THE ASH (or HOME, BOYS, HOME) - UP TO THE RIGS OF LONDON TOWN

 

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