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My parents reared me tenderly / Jim McFarland and Jimmy McBride

from The Inishowen Song Project

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My parents reared me tenderly / Jim MacFarland and Jimmy McBride

The bonnie labouring boy — John Reilly the fisherman — The girl I left behind — Erin’s lovely home — My parents reared me tenderly — False lover John — My charming blue eyed Mary — The maid of Culmore — The girl from Glenagivney — The jacket so blue — The shifting apron — The old reserves — The rose of Glenfin — Bold Sean and the tinker — The blazing star of Drung — Erin is my home — The bright silvery light of the moon — The green fields of Americay — Nora Lynch — Derry Jail — Ballyliffin Town — Falkirk Fair — Sweet Isle of Doagh — The green fields of Annagh — The collier lad — The Cloontagh boys — The shamrock shore — Moville — The next market day — Pat O’Donnell, the son of old Grainne — Pat O’Donnell, Newgate’s dreary prison — Caoineadh ‘n Dalaigh — O’Donnell’s lament — Everyone does it but you — The mincer — The Burnfoot young policeman — The pride of Moville Town — Plearaca na bPollan — The jolly smuggler — The courting coat — My bonnie Irish boy — The Free State farmer — The Buncrana Train — The bonnet so blue — A lament to the Fanad boys — Caroline of Edinburgh Town — Dinsmur of Bonniewood Hall — The Illies still — The Shandrum still — The cool winding banks of the Ayr — The rusty mare — The three O’Donnells — Ceol na dtrí n-Dálach — The royal rats of Carn — Dark Inishowen — The Mary Snow — The high walls of Derry — The wreck of the Cambria — Carndonagh far away