Ireland: Singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

HSH-18739/1/258995/07
Part
1–10 July 1968

Dandy McCloskey (‘You ancient sons of Cumberland and offsprings of old Erin...’), song [to the air of ‘Boyne Water’], Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

HSH-18739/1/258995/08
Part
1–10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

My Jamie Lee (‘On a hill in bonny Scotland stood a soldier...’), song [music hall, clipped at end of tape] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

HSH-18739/1/258998/01
Part
1 July 1968–10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

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

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

HSH-18739/1/258998/02
Part
1 July 1968–10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

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

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 14 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

HSH-18739/1/258999/01
Part
1 July 1968–10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

The English harvest [=Irish harvest-men's triumph] (‘Come all your true-bred Irishmen that is intent to roam...’), song [singer starts again] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 14 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 3

HSH-18739/1/258999/03
Part
1 July 1968–10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

The Shamrock Shore [‘Edward Conor’] (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers, give ear all for a while...’), song [incomplete: for complete text see 6813] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / Eddie Butcher

HSH-18739/1/259000
Item
1 July 1968–10 July 1968

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) at 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 Shamrock Shore [Edward Conors] (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers, give ear all for a while...’) [complete version], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The jacket so blue (‘A ship crew of sailors, as soon you will hear...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. I love my love far better (sung to the air of ‘The minstrel boy’)
4. Easy gaan Tam (‘I’m a canny Scotch steel, to this country I came...’) [incomplete?], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Benevenagh surrounded in snow , song [Fragment of literary style, sung to the air of ‘Oh the marriage, the marriage’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 4