FTX-025 - HEALTH
TO THE BARLEY MOW
SONGS OF GOOD COMPANY
These include the texts and tunes of
songs #265-288 in the book: FOLKSONGS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND edited by
Peter Kennedy (Cassell/ Schirmer 1975 paperback by Oak [1985] and distributed
by Music Sales). These are the original recordings of the songs in the
book which won the Library Association McColvin Award for the most outstanding
reference book of 1975 and contains the full texts, translations, music
notations and background information on the songs.
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HEALTH TO THE BARLEY MOW Arthur Smith - BILLY JOHNSON'S BALL
Peter Reilly - BLACK RAM Bob Copper - CAMPBELL THE ROVER Joe Heaney - DRINK
OLD ENGLAND DRY Haxey Boggins - EWIE WI' THE CROOKIT HORN Lucy Stewart - FAREWELL
TO WHISKY Jessie Murray - GOOD ALE Bob & Ron Coppers - IRISH FAMILIE Jim
Baldry - JOHN BARLEYCORN Bert Edwards - JUG OF PUNCH Margaret Loughram &
Edward Quinn - PENNY WAGER George Hawkins - ROSIN THE BEAU Davie Stewart - THE
DAY WE WENT TO ROTHSAY-O Davie Stewart - THOUSANDS OR MORE Coppers - TO BE A
GOOD COMPANION Dickie Lashbrook - TWANKYDILLO Jim Copper - WHEN JONES'S ALE
WAS NEW Coppers - WILD ROVER Gabriel Figg