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    Songs of Social Life and Drinking

    from The Góilín Song Project

    • 55 Songs
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    Tramps and hawkers, A begging I will go, Halleluia I’m a bum, song / Bob Davenport, singing in Engli

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    • Tramps and hawkers, A begging I will go, Halleluia I’m a bum, song / Bob Davenport, singing in Engli

    • Can’t make money from a cotton mill, song / Ken Hall and Peta Webb, singing in English

    • Come fill up your glasses, song / Luke Cheevers, singing in English

    • Ratcliffe highway, song / Luke Cheevers, singing in English

    • The bells of Rhymney, song / Tom Crean, singing in English

    • The poor young man, song / Tom Crean, singing in English

    • On yonder hill there sits a hare, song / Máire Delaney, singing in English

    • The boy remembers his father, song / Tim Dennehy, singing in English

    • The deep end, song / Tim Dennehy, singing in English

    • Keep in touch, song / Tim Dennehy, singing in English

    • Casadh an tsúgáin, song / Róisín Elsafty, singing in Irish

    • The broken-down squatter, song / Séan Garvey, singing in English

    • Spencer the rover, song / Barry Gleeson, singing in English

    • Rosie Anne, song / Sara Grey, singing in English

    • Little old cabin, song / Con Greaney, singing in English

    • The winning side, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • Never despise an old friend, song / Dominic Kelly, singing in English

    • O’Catháin’s dream, song / Dominic Kelly, singing in English

    • The scholars on the road, song / Robert Kelly, singing in English

    • The Willie Clancy Summer school, song / Tim Lyons, singing in English

    • The rocks of Bawn, song / Tim Lyons, singing in English

    • An draighneán donn, song / Tim Lyons, singing in Irish

    • An bonnán buí , song / Tim Lyons, singing in Irish

    • The wild rover, song / Dónal Maguire, singing in English

    • The old Sunday dinner, song / Charlie McGonigle (James Eoghain), singing in English

    • The little thatched cabin, song / Michael McGonigle, singing in English

    • 1956 Fleadh, song / Robbie McMahon, singing in English

    • Myself and Spancil Hill, song / Robbie McMahon, singing in English

    • Spancil Hill, song / Robbie McMahon, singing in English

    • The Newry highwayman, song / Eilish McQuaid, singing in English

    • The female highwayman, song / Eilish McQuaid, singing in English

    • Free and easy to jog along, song / Kevin Mitchell, singing in English

    • The blue tar road, song / Kevin Mitchell, singing in English

    • Charlie’s pigeon, song / Siobhan Moore, singing in English

    • The cremation of Sam McGee, song / Liam Nolan, singing in English

    • Dangerous Dan McGrew, song / Liam Nolan, singing in English

    • An bonnán buí, song / Éamonn Ó Donnchadha, singing in Irish

    • The rocks of Bawn, song / Dessie O Halloran, singing in English

    • Bonny Woodhall, song / Pádraig Ó Lúnaigh, singing in English

    • Spencer the rover, song / Pádraig Ó Lúnaigh, singing in English

    • Do bhí bean uasal, song / Séamus Ó Raghallaigh, singing in Irish

    • Old grey duck, song / Graham O’Callaghan, singing in English

    • Dangerous Dan McGrew, song / Diarmuid Ó Cathasaigh, singing in English

    • An bonnan buí, song / Michael Reynolds, singing in Irish

    • An draighneán donn, song / John Sheáin Dharach Seoige, singing in Irish

    • An bonnán buí, song / John Sheáin Dharach Seoige, singing in Irish

    • About a row, song / Frank Browne, singing in English

    • Another round, song / Pete Burnham, singing in English

    • St. James’ Hospital, song / Luke Cheevers, singing in English

    • The blue tar road, song / Andrew Clarke, singing in English

    • The old main drag, song / Andrew Clarke, singing in English

    • The trip to the fair, song / Johnny Collins, singing in English

    • The old threshing mill, song / Johnny Collins, singing in English

    • Horses and plough, song / Johnny Collins, singing in English

    • Two little orphans, song / Johnny Collins, singing in English

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