The fight game : a radio-ballad about boxers /
SCD 368 Sound Library
MacColl, Ewan
The fight game : a radio-ballad about boxers / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. - Topic Records, 1999. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc. First released by Argo, 1967. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 3/7/1963, produced by Charles Parker. Musical instruments: trumpet, trombone, concertina, clarinet, oboe, flute, piccolo, harmonica; double-bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo, dulcimer.
1. 'Twas in Tierra del Fuego in South Amerikay -- 2. There's a game some call the fight game -- 3. Boxing, to me, is the greatest character builder in the world -- 4. Come all you gallant fighting men -- 5. Come on Johnny, and put 'em up Johnny -- 6. When you're a fighter, you're different -- 7. Then come on, strip off young Johnny boy -- 8. I like all my boxers to be perfect skippers -- 9. When you're training -- 10. There's such a helluva lot of work to be done -- 11. The programme is set up -- 12. Who would have a boxer for a husband -- 13. You get to the hall -- 14. On my right, the champion, Johnny boy -- 15. What'll we do with the man in the ring -- 16. Johnny, Johnny, you failed us -- 17. I don't think you can call boxing a sport.
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