Troubles they are but few : dance tunes & ditties /
SCD 352 Sound Library Troubles they are but few : dance tunes & ditties / an anthology edited by Reg Hall. - Topic Records, 1998. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - The voice of the people ; volume 14 .
Compact disc. Booklet contains words to songs, performer biographies and extensive notes. Musical instruments: Jew's harp, tin whistle, piano accordion, mouth organ, melodeon; fiddle, banjo.
1. Bonny Kate; Jenny's chickens / Eddie Corcoran & Seamus Tansey -- 2. The herring / Mikeen McCarthy -- 3. Old Johnny Booger / Jack Elliott -- 4. MacKenzie Highlanders; The Inverness gathering / Willie Kemp & Curly MacKay -- 5. The leprechaun / Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman -- 6. The Derby miller / Jumbo Brightwell -- 7. Tell her I am; Teviot brig / Will Atkinson -- 8. The hungry army / Walter Pardon -- 9. Hieland Rory / Jimmy McBeath -- 10. Old Joe; The boat is going over; Untitled polka / Percy Brown; The pigeon on the gate / Font Whatling & Wattie Wright -- 11. The barley grain / Austin Flanagan -- 12. The heel and toe polka; The Morpeth rant / Ned Pearson -- 13. Sing ivy / Charlie Potter -- 14. I am a donkey driver / Harry Upton -- 15. The queen of the fair; The lark in the morning / Michael Grogan -- 16. The ball o'Kerriemeer / Willie Kemp & Curly MacKay -- 17. Jingles, recitations & dance tunes / Albert Smith, Jasper Smith, Minty Smith, Ray Driscoll & Joe Jones -- 18. Off to California; The green castle / Willy Taylor, Joe Hutton & Will Atkinson -- 19. It's nowt to do with me / Martin Gorman -- 20. The four-hand reel / Phil Tanner -- 21. Johnny McIndoe / Jimmy McBeath -- 22. Old John Wallis / Bob Brader -- 23. Ballydesmond; Knockabowl / Julia Clifford -- 24. I wish there was no prisons / George Spicer -- 25. The Inverness gathering; Dornoch Links / Donald Davidson -- 26. I'm going to be mother today / Johnny Doughty -- 27. A parody / Unidentified & Margaret Barry -- 28. The soldier's joy / Gargan's Athlone Accordion Band.
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