Unidad documental simple HSH-18739/1/259023 - Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 38 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, MagilliGan, Co. Derry, 16 July 1969 [tracks 1–5]

Performers:
Edward Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–4, speech in English Track 5;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. My son in America(‘A long time ago in the county Mayo the story it first began...’), song [learnt from the singing, to a different air, by its author Alf McLaughlin of Dublin] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The New Mallard Bar (‘There’s a spot in Magilligan ’way down near the tide...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The lowlands low(‘Oh, young Emily sat lamenting when young Edmund first did roam...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher to the air of ‘The Mountains of Mourne’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The wedding of Sandy McNab(‘I’m on my road hame from a wedding...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Conversation about the song ‘My son in America’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [session continued at 6902] [END OF BAND ONE]