Contents — List of illustrations — Abbreviations — Foreword — 1. Preliminary — 2. Magilligan or Tamlaghtard — 3. Music and poetry in local life — 4. The singers — 5. The traditional song repertory — 6. Music and language of the songs — Notes

Notes to the songs — References — Glossary — Index of titles, first lines etc

List of the songs — Adam in paradise = Father Adam — Alexander = The rejected lover = The two true lovers = I’ll travel to Mount Nebo — Another man’s wedding = The nobleman’s wedding — The noble lord’s wedding = The laird’s wedding = An old lover’s wedding [song: music and words = The noble rich wedding = The faultless bride = The faithless bride = The unconstant lover = The love token = The bark and the tree = Orange and blue = All round my hat = Green willow = Down in my garden — The Arranmore disaster — The banks of Kilrea = The banks of Sweet Drumreagh — The banks of Newfoundland = The barque ‘Mariner’ — The banks of the Bann = The brown girl — The brown maid — Barbro Allen = Bonny Barbara Allen = Mary Ellen — The blazing star of Drung = The maid of Drim — The bonny Irish boy = My bonny Irish boy = The bonny boy = The maid’s lament for her pretty Irish boy = The maid’s lament for her bonny Irish boy = The Irish girl’s complaint in Bedlam = The Irish girl — The bonny moorhen = The mulberry bog — The braes of Strathblane = The braes of Strathdon = The bleaches so green = The beach of Strablane = The Chippewa girl — Carrowclare = The maid of Carrowclare = Killyclare / Jimmy McCurry and Eddie Butcher — The close of an Irish day — The cocks is crowing = The drowsy sleeper = Arise, arise, you drowsy maiden = Awake, awake I will put my ship in order = Awake, awake I will set my ship in order = Who’s that knocking? = Oh, who is that that raps at my window? = Who comes tapping to my window? = Let the hills and valleys be covered with snow — Come all you rakish fine young men — Copper John = Cofer John — Craiganee = The flower of Craiganee = The hills of Tandragee = Innisfree = Bonaghee — The crockery ware — The bold lieutenant [words only] — The dark-eyed gipsy = The gipsy laddie = The brown-eyed gipsies = Seven yellow gipsies = The raggle-taggle gipsies — David’s flowery vale = Young McCance = Drummond’s land = Divis mountain — The daysman = A story in rhyme of the hiring fair — Don’t come again = You shan’t come again = The rejected lover — Down by the canal = Bonny Kilwarlin — Erin’s lovely home — The fan = The bold lieutenant = The lions’ den = The den of lions = The lady’s fan = The glove and the lions = The lover’s test = The faithful lover = The hero rewarded = The distressed lady = A trial of true love = The fairest lady in London city = The Bostonshire lady — The farmer’s daughter — The Faughan side — Finvola, the gem of the Roe = The gem of the Roe — Free and easy to jog along — The good ship Cambria — The green fields of America = The emigrant’s farewell — Greencastle shore = The shamrock shore — Paddy’s green shamrock shore — Here’s a health to the company — The hillman = The Connaughtman = Our goodman = The seven drunken nights — I long for to get married = The young men = The cherry tree — The Enniskillen dragoons [song: words only] — India’s burning sands = The Paisley officer = The village pride = Henry and Mary Ann = Blithe and bonny Scotland — The Inniskilling dragoon — It’s just about ten years ago — It’s of a young gentleman = The seducer outwitted — It was in the Queen’s County — James McKee = James Magee — Johnny Doyle = The lost Johnny Doyle = Claudy town — The journeyman tailor = The jovial young sailor = The sailor and the lady = Willie bound down to Derry = It’s of a rich lady — A lady walked in her father’s garden = The young maid stood in the garden = A servant maid in the garden = The maiden in the garden = The pretty fair maid = There was a lady = The green garden = All in a garden = The sailor = The single sailor = The brisk young sailor = The young and single sailor = The sailor’s return = The cowboy’s return = The broken ring = The broken token = The test of love = Seven years since I had a sweetheart = The true lovers’ discussion — Laurel Hill = Kyle’s flowery braes — A new song called The seducer outwitted [song: words only] — The Lisburn maid [song: words only] — The maid of Culmore = The maids of Culmore = The maid of Kilmore — The maid of seventeen — The mason’s word — Minnie Picken = Maggie Picken = Maggie Pickie = Molly picking on the shore = Mary picking cockles — Molly, lovely Molly = Pretty Polly = Polly’s love = Young Willie = The cruel ship carpenter [song: music and words], The Gosport tragedy — The Moorlough shore = The maid of Mourne shore = The maid of the Mourne shore = Walmsley’s shady groves — The mountain streams where the moorcock crows — Where the moor cocks crow [song: words only] — Moville along the Foyle — The new tractor / by Eddie Butcher — The parish of Dunboe = The banished lover = Learmount grove = Claudy town — Pat Reilly = Johnny Golicher = Johnny Gallagher = Johnny Coughlan = Captain Galligan = John Gollaher’s lamentation = The sentry box — Johnny Golicher [song: words only] — The ploughboy = The lark in the morning — The rakes of poverty — Saturday night is Hallowe’en night = Tam Lin — The ship carpenter’s wife = Sale of a wife = Cabbage and goose — A new song on the sale of a wife [son: music and words] — The shores of sweet Benone = Magilligan — The strands of Magilligan — Three gipsies riding = Three dukes riding — Todd’s sweet rural shade — Tossing the hay = The turning of the hay = The new-mown hay = The female haymaker — A new song called The tossing of the hay [song: words only] — The trader = The loss of the ‘Trader’ and crew — The true lover’s discourse = The true lovers’ discussion — The wheel of fortune = Love it’s pleasing = Love it’s bonny = Fair and tender ladies = The false lover — When a man’s in love = A man in love = Young men in love = Boys in love = There is an old man in love — When I was in Ireland = The Kerry recruit = The Irish recruit = The Irish soldier = True Paddy’s song = Pat and the war = Paddy’s ramble = The boy on the land — The widow’s daughter = The widow of the West = The widow of Westmorland = The widow of Westmorland’s daughter — Youghal harbour