FTX 434 - THE
TRIP OVER
THE MOUNTAIN - WOMEN'S VOICES FROM NORTHERN IRELAND
The first two ladies are Maureen and Annie, daughters of the
famous Belleek Co Fermanagh singer, Brigid Tunney, and both marred to husbands
with similar names, Melly and Lunny! Then enter two singers, Anna Boyle and
Mary Toner, recorded at Markethill in Co Armagh. Una Douglas of Derry then sings
four classic love songs in Gaelic followed by "Charming Molly", known in the
Appalachians as "Lovin' Hannah", a version of "Going to Mass (or Church) last
Sunday". A sweet singer from Draperstown in Co Derry is Mary Murphy (aged 71)
with 8 beauties including her version of "The False Young Man" sung in Ulster
as "The Verdant Braes of Skrene"; finally seven more classics from Antrim from
two singers recorded by Seamus Ennis in 1954, Martha Gillen and Jenny Davison.
THE TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN - DRIMIN DROO -
PADDY SHINEHAN'S COW - BUACHALIN DONN - FAREWELL GREEN ERIN
- THE BLACKBIRD OF AVONDALE - THE DARK SLENDER BOY -
THE KERRY COW - THE BUCHAL ROE - RITHEARIN O MO CHROIDHE - THE
HILLS ABOVE DRUMQUIN - JOGGING UP TO CLAUDY (The Sour Milk Cart) -
FAREWELL TRUELOVE REMEMBER ME (Our Ship ready) - TA ME MO SHUIDHE (I
am awake) - AN DROIGHNEAN DONN (The Brown Thorn) - SIUBHAN NI
DHUIBHIR (Susan Dwyer) - 'SE FATH MO BHUADHARTHA (The Cause of my sorrow)
- CHARMING MOLLY (Going to Mass last Sunday) - THE WEE DAFT
ARTICLE - THE WEE FAR DOWN - DAN'S NO MORE - THE COBBLER
- THE STAR OF GARVAGH TOWN - BRACKAGH HILLS - MY GENTLE
COLEEN RUA - AS I ROVED OUT (The False Young Man) - PAT O FLANAGAN,
THE TRAVELING CANDYMAN - THE BALD-HEADED END OF THE BROOM -
THE BONNY LABOURING BOY - THE RAMBLER FROM CLARE - THE RED MANTLE
- THE PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW
