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
