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Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) while staying in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–8]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English 1–8

Running Order:
1. Nothing (‘When rhyming and verses came first into fashion...’), song [sung to the air of ‘The Irish washerwoman’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. For my daddy goes to Meeting, song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. To my grief and woe I’ll let you know, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. ’Tween Tory Island and Malin Head, song [two-line fragment, sung to the air he uses for ‘The Royal Charter’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. On the top of yon heathery mountain, song [one verse only] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Abeen a’ the airts the wind does blaw, song [one verse only] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English )
7. Mary O’ Neill (‘I am a bold undaunted youth, my name is John M’Cann...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. John Gainor (‘Assist me now you poets for I’m resolved to show it...’), song [one-verse fragment of which the last two lines are merely lilted] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, lilt [END OF BAND ONE] 

Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) while staying in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–4]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English 1–4

Running Order:
1. Alexander (‘Oh it’s don’t you know the reason love this night that I am here?...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The tree in the ground (‘In yonder ground there was a tree...’), song [incomplete?] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Moorlough Mary (‘The first place that I saw Moorlough Mary...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Many’s a misty morning, song [single line fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English    [END OF BAND ONE]

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]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 16 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded at the house of Michael O’ Hara, Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 4–6]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior [age about 48, son of Eddie’s brother Robert, deceased] 21 July 1969 [tracks 7–8]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 9]

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 5, 9;
Lizzie O' Hara, singing English Tracks 4, 6, speech in English Track 5;
Robert Butcher (junior), singing in English Tracks 7–8

Running Order:
1. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and bred in Boston, a city you all know well...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6901]
2. Conversation about ‘The Boston burglar’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. The wild colonial Boy (‘It’s of a wild colonial boy, Dan Dolan was his name...’), song [learnt from Bill Quigley] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]
4. The bonny wee lass of the glen (‘It being on a bright summer’s morning, alone as I carelessly strayed...’), song [learnt from her elder sister] / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara (age about 56, from Carnymuff) singing in English
5. Conversation about ‘The bonny wee lass of the glen’, speech / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. The bright silvery light of the moon (‘As I strayed by a cot, it being at the close of day...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English [continued at 6903] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Old Falcarragh town (‘Last week I had a pleasant trip, I treasured every mile...’), song [ words attributed to Paddy O’Grady of Balliness, & learnt by Robert from Falcarragh girls visiting, air ‘Lovely Leitrim’] / Robert Butcher junior singing in English
8. Lovely old Fintown (‘My countrymen, I take my pen to write a verse or two...’), song / Robert Butcher junior singing in English [session continued on 6925]
9. Queries on songs, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 6919] [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]