Ireland: Singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

HSH-18739/1/259001/05
Part
1 July 1968 ; 10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

My lovely Irish rose (‘A winding river winds its way close by an Irish shore...)’, song [two-verse fragment]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

HSH-18739/1/259001/06
Part
1 July 1968 ; 10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Saturday night is Halloweve night [as learnt from his mother when about 7 years old]; story ; song [single verse] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

HSH-18739/1/259001/07
Part
1 July 1968 ; 10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

The wee dog Buff (‘I have a wee dog and I called him Buff...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English,

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

HSH-18739/1/259001/08
Part
1 July 1968 ; 10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Mrs Mason broke her basin, rhyme / Mrs Grace Butcher, speech in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

HSH-18739/1/259001/09
Part
1 July 1968 ; 10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Alexander [=Alexandra: Eddie’s title] (‘Oh don’t you know the reason love, this night that I came here...’), song [learnt from his father] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 17 [sound recording] / Eddie Butcher

HSH-18739/1/259002
Item
1 July 1968 ; 10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) while staying in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–5]

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

Running Order:
1. The ‘Trader’ (‘Oh come all you gallant seamen bold, now listen here a while to me...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The hills of Glenshee (‘As I went a-walking the heather was blooming...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. It’s of a row to you I’ll show, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. It’s of a row I’ll tell to you (‘It’s of a row I’ll tell to you between a woman and a man...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Cock-a-doodle-doo (‘As I roved out one evening to have a bit of a walk...’), song [sung to the airs of ‘Phil the fluter’s ball’, and ‘The old plaid shawl’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 17 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1