Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, from Eddie and Gracie Butcher from Magilligan, Co. Derry and from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine), 8 September 1975 [tracks 1–11, 15]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in The Tradition Club, Slattery’s pub, Capel St., Dublin 8 September 1975 [tracks 12–14]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 9-10, singing in English Tracks 3, 5, 8, 11-15;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 7;
Butcher, Gracie, speech in English Track 2;
Devenney Jackie, singing in English Track 6, speech in English Track 7

Running Order:
1. Talk about Eddie Butcher’s father singing the ‘Silk merchants daughter’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 7407]
2. Talk about Kate Curry and the long songs / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. Walling of the men (‘Oh, come all you jolly working men whereever that you be...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Talk about the song ‘Walling of the men’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
5. The very first night (‘The very first night that we were married...’), song [one-verse fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. The mountainy farmer (‘I am a mountainy farmer, I’m fated to work and toil...’), song / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
7. Talk about the song ‘The mountainy farmer’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jackie Devenney, speech in English
8. Rock my wee baby to sleep (‘I married a wife, she was just forty-five...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. I hae forgot the password (‘This old boy driv a hackney car...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. The Lord Mayor (‘This boy was walking through [the] London...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
11. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold like I not long ago...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. Sarah Jane (‘One day for my amusement, it being Sunday afternoon...’), song [words by Jimmy McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
13. Down the moor (‘One morn in May when fields wee gay...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
14. Opening of two songs not recorded [It’s only a step from Killarney to Heaven (‘It was at a campfire concert...’) and The two sweethearts] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. Virgin only nineteen years old (‘As I went a-walking down by the Strand...’). song [fragment of two and a half verses], / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]