All the days of his life: Eddie Butcher in his own words

Contents:
Introduction: Hugh Shields, 1985
About Eddie
About presentation
Editor’s preface: Lisa Shields, April 2011
List of illustrations 

All the days of his life:

• 'Before I was married at all nor only a cub’
• ‘Magilligan’s a pretty place’ 
• ‘Come all you jolly working men’ 
• ‘To lift up our heart’ 
• ‘A thing that can conquer us all’ 
• ‘It’s a mistake could happen to a lady in her bed’ 
• ‘Circumstances alters cases’
• ‘I heard of him a thousand times’ 
• ‘Told twice’
• ‘Sarah was a good singer’

‘An old friend’ (appreciation of Eddie after his death) 
Appendix 1: 'Old songs in Ulster', Hugh Shields, 1992 
Appendix 2: MS music transcriptions by Hugh Shields 
Glossary 
Notes & references 
Index of persons & places 
Index of titles, first lines & track nos of songs 
Track listing of songs on CDs 
References to Eddie’s published songs (print and sound) 

CD tracks:
Nancy’s whiskey -- Green grows the laurel & so falls the dew -- Dandy Mick McCloskey -- My son in America -- The green veil -- The flower of Corby mill -- The smuggler -- The hiring day -- John Gaynor -- Glenshee -- The lowlands low -- Oh, the marriage, the marriage -- Skewball -- I’ll climb up a high high tree -- Mary Ackland -- The Bureau -- Ann Jane Thornton -- Sally & Johnny -- Barbara Allen -- Our wedding day -- The maid of Faughanvale -- I am a youth -- The Shamrock Shore -- The new Mallard bar -- The pisspot -- It is now for New England -- Easy-gaan Tom -- The weary gallows -- Katey of Ballinamore -- I wish that the war was o’er -- The cricket club & ball -- The walling of the men -- Come all you fair maids -- The English harvest -- The Drogheda festival -- Down the moor -- Lanigan's ball -- Green grows the laurel & so does the rue -- Baltimore -- The concrete mile -- The bonny Irish boy -- The Longfield bank -- The brisk young butcher -- The parochial house -- In Connaught I was reared -- The Point fair -- The Castle maid -- The jacket so blue -- Magilligan Gaelic team -- Johnny & Molly -- The anglers on the Roe -- The very first night -- The burning of Downhill castle -- Benevenagh surrounded in snow -- When the storm swept the countryside -- Boyne water -- Until the morning -- The cuckoo’s nest -- The wind & the rain -- Take hault o that man’s hand -- Drawing buckets of water -- My aunt Jane -- My aunt Biddy -- I have a wee dog -- The Roe bridge -- The Myroe floods -- In the county Exeter