Item HSH-18739/1/258998 - Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13 [sound recording] / Eddie Butcher

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–5]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–5

Running Order:
1. I’ll climb up a high, high tree (‘As I roved out on a May morning for to hear true lovers talk...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Seventeen on Sunday (‘As I roved out one fine summer’s night when the moon was shining clearly...’), song  [complete text, orally derived] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Burns and his Highland Mary (‘Oh in green Caledonia there ne’er were two lovers...’), song  / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The Bureau (‘Oh come all you gay people, I pray pay attention...’) , song [words by  Eddie Butcher, to the air of ‘Teddy O’Neal’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The burning of Downhill (‘We then proceeded up the hill for to view the landscape o’er...’), song [fragment of a local song, to the air of ‘Flower of sweet Strabane’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE