FTX-185 - THE BALL OF KILLIECRANKY

THE TRAVELLERS CAMPFIRE - 3

The third album in which Scots and Irish tinkers were recorded singing around the campfire after a hard days' rasperry picking in the berryfields belonging to Alex ands Belle Stewart at Blairgowrie, Perthshire. Performers include Jimmy THOMPSON & Jean STEWART, Belle STEWART, with Alex on Highland bagpipes, Ruby KELBY, with Willie on harmonica. Other songs from Bella, Charlotte and John HIGGINS, Jimmy KELBY (17) and Bella McGREGOR. Includes 2 ballads, Lord Bateman & The Flower of Servantmen, comic songs composed by Jimmy Thompson and Redcoat's Battle Song composed by Bella McGregor.

1. THE BALL OF KILLIECRANKY/ THE 25th of LIVERPOOL/ THE RAG-DEALER'S SONG composed and sung by Jimmy Thompson - 2'45"

2. SUSIE PIRATE (Lord Bateman: Child #53) being partly remembered by Jean Stewart - 2'19"

3. THE SILLY AULD MAN (The Flower of Servantmen; Child #106) Belle Stewart (with talk after about the laird's fool) - 1'54"

4. HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS Belle Stewart - 4'21"

5. THE MOUNTAIN STREAMS Jean Stewart (2v only) - 1'05"

6. THE MOUNTAIN DEW (Political parody) Belle Stewart & ch - 1'56"

7. THE HIGH GALTEE MOUNTAINS ("The White, Yellow & Green" - Flag of Sinn Fein to tune of "Green Bushes") Jean Stewart - 2'10"

8. THE BANKS OF RED ROSES Ruby Kelby (2v & ch only) - 2'53"

9. THE BARNYARDS O DELGATY; MARCH; WHERE THE GADIE RINS/ McPHERSON'S MARCH played by Willie Kelby (harmonica) - 3'53"

10.Dance-songs: I WISH I'D NEVER 'VE SEEN YOUR FACE Belle Stewart; HAP AN' ROW Charlotte Higgins; KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN Belle; THE HIGH ROAD TO LINTON (cantering) Alec & Belle; THE BEAUX OF OAKHILL & THE TENPENNY BIT ("diddled") Belle - 1'47"

11.LONDONDERRY ON THE BANKS OF THE FOYLE (1) Belle Stewart (3v only) - 2'05"

12.SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (Our Wedding Day) Belle with Bob Rundle (Northumbrian small- pipes) - 2'04"

13. THE MAID OF KILMORE Belle Stewart (first part only) - 2'05"

14. BENGHAZI (Second World War Ballad) Jimmy Kelby (17) (Talk after) - 1'37"

15. IN DUBLIN'S FAIR CITY (The Murder of Miss Brown) Jimmy Kelby - 3'00"

16. DARK NEUVE CHAPELLE Charlotte Higgins - 6'02"

17. MY FATHER DIED (Jingle: "Father's will") John Higgins - 0'15"

18. GLEN ISLA NEAR BONNY GLENSHEE (Busk, busk, bonny lassie) Charlotte Higgins - 3'52"

19. LONDONDERRY ON THE BANKS OF THE FOYLE (2) Bella Higgins - 5'19"

20. YOUNG DONALD CAMPBELL (Redcoat Battle Song) composed and sung by Bella McGregor (to tune of "The Galway Shawl") - 2'22"

21. THE MANCHESTER HORNPIPE; MAGGIE DICKIE (Mrs McLeod's Reel); THE DE'IL AMANG THE TAILORS; THE REEL O TULLOCH' THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY; THE RIGHTS OF MAN Alec Stewart on Highland bagpipes - 3'45"

Recordings by Peter Kennedy, except #16-19 by Isabel Sutherland and Joby Blanshard July 1955. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published by Folktrax 1979.