Recorded in Edinburgh, January 1966 (Matt McGinn); Newcastle, January 1966 (Johnny Handle); London, January 1966 (Alasdair Clayre); London, April 1966 (Cyril Tawney);
Produced by Joe Boyd;
Cover photo John Hopkins;
Cover design William S. Harvey

Musicians

Cyril Tawney: vocals [1, 8, 13, 18];
Alasdair Clayre: vocals [2, 5, 11, 15];
Peggy Seeger: guitar [2], banjo [5], concertina [11], dulcimer [15];
Martin Carthy: guitar [2];
Matt McGinn: vocals [3, 6, 9, 12, 16];
David Speirs: guitar [3, 6, 12], banjo [9];
Johnny Handle: vocals [4, 7, 10, 14, 17], banjo [7], accordion [10], melodeon [17];
Ellis Holliday: vocals [14]

Tracks

Side 1

1. [CT] Five Foot Flirt
2. [AC] Hawthorne Berries
3. [MM] Get Up, Get Out
4. [JH] Dust
5. [AC] Tiny Newman
6. [MM] The Champagne Flows
7. [JH] The Trepanner Song
8. [CT] On a Monday Morning
9. [MM] Mr Rising Price

Side 2

10. [JH] Fill up the Pints Again
11. [AC] Old Man’s Song
12. [MM] I’ve Packed up My Bags
13. [CT] Sammy’s Bar
14. [JH] The Old Pubs
15. [AC] A Cold Wind Blows
16. [MM] Jeannie Gallacher
17. [JH] Because It Wouldn’t Pay
18. [CT] The Oggie Man

Tracks 1, 8, 13, 18 written by Cyril Tawney;
Tracks 2, 5, 11, 15 Alasdair Clayre;
Tracks 3, 6, 9, 12, 16 Matt McGinn;
Tracks 4, 7, 10, 14, 17 Johnny Handle

Produced by Joe Boyd and Alasdair Clayre
Engineer: John Wood (Sound Techniques)
Cover photograph: John Brooke
Design: D. Halperin

Musicians

Alasdair Clayre: vocals;
Leon Rosselson: banjo [1], guitar [1, 7-9];
Michael Jessett: guitar [2, 11];
Peggy Seeger: mountain dulcimer [3, 14], banjo [6];
Brian Daly: 12-string guitar [3, 14], guitar [6, 10];
Bobby Campbell: fiddle [4, 10], madolin [6, 13];
Gordon McCulloch: guitar [4, 13], harmonica [8];
George Adie: guitar [5, 12];
Duncan Lamont: flute [7], alto flute [12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Invisible Backwards-Facing Grocer Who Rose to Fame
2. Snow
3. Adam and the Beasts
4. Lighterman
5. Night Song
6. Tied to the Line
7. The Professor and the Girl

Side 2

8. A Gentle Easy-Flowing River
9. The Gormless Maid
10. The Wayward Way
11. Irish Girl
12. Lament for a Writer
13. Old Couple Walking
14. Lullaby and Come Afloat

All track lyrics & music Alistair Clayre except
Tracks 2, 9, 11 music Michael Jessett;
Track 12 music George Adie

Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Lyrical Songs From the British Isles

6. Barbara Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
7. Blackwater Side (Roud 564; G/D 6:1188)
8. The Collier Laddie (Roud 3787; G/D 5:991)
10. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1495)
12. I Know My Love (Roud 60; Laws P25)
13. The Lichtbob’s Lassie (Roud 1645; G/D 4:725)
14. Love Is Teasing (Roud 1049)
15. Lowlands Away (Roud 681; Henry H469)
16. Night Visiting Song (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783)
17. The Seeds of Love (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180)
19. The Water Is Wide (O Waly, Waly) (Roud 87)
20. Once I Had a Sweetheart (Roud 170)
22. The Recruited Collier [Robert Anderson] (Roud 3503)
24. The Wild Mountain Thyme [Robert Tannahill] (Roud 541; G/D 4:862)
26. The Sandgate Dandling Song [Robert Nunn] (RoudBS B24532)
28. The North Country Maid (Roud 1367; Laws K43B; G/D 5:1058)
29. The Sweet Primeroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841)
30. Waly Waly, Gin Love be Bonny (Roud 87; Child 204)
32. The Verdant Braes of Skreen (Roud 419; Henry H593)
34. The Unquiet Grave (Roud 51; Child 78)

Songs With Refrains etc.

36. Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill (Roud 4401)
38. Master McGra’ [Henry McCusker] (Roud 3041; Henry H161c)
40. The Leaving of Liverpool (Roud 9435)
42. The Rocky Road to Dublin (Roud 3012; Henry H44)
44. Old Swansea Town Once More (Roud 929)
46. Pleasant and Delightful (Roud 660; Laws O30; TYG 51)
48. The Trooper and the Maid (Roud 162; Child 299; G/D 7:1470)
50. The Real Old Mountain Dew (Roud 938)
52. The Twa ’ecruitin’ Sairgeants (Roud 3356; G/D 1:77)
54. When Morning Stands on Tiptoe (Roud 24896)
55. The Fox (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38)

Songs of Work, War and Travelling

58. The Bonny Ship ‘The Diamond’ (Roud 2172; G/D 1:11)
60. Come All Ye Tramps and Hawker Lads (Roud 1874; G/D 3:487)
62. Gaol Song (Roud 1077)
64. The Greenland Whale Fishery (Roud 347; Laws K21; G/D 1:9)
66. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye [Joseph Bryan Geoghegan] (Roud 3137)
68. Mrs McGrath (Roud 678; Henry H131)
70. Off to Sea Once More (Roud 644; Laws D7)
72. Rounding of the Horn (Roud 4706; Henry H539)
74. Van Diemen’s Land (Roud 519; Laws L18; G/D 2:252)

Ballads, Mostly Scottish

78. Andrew Lammie (The Trumpeter of Fyvie) (Roud 98; Child 233; G/D 5:1018)
80. The Bonny House of Airlie (Roud 794; Child 199; G/D 2:233)
82. Clark Saunders (Roud 3855; Child 69)
84. The Demon Lover (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332)
85. The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215)
87. The Twa Corbies (Roud 5; Child 26)
88. The Fair Flower of Northumberland (Roud 25; Child 9; G/D 6:1149)
90. The Fair Maid of Fyvie (Roud 545; G/D 1:84)
92. The Fause Knicht Upon the Road (Roud 20; Child 3)
93. The Wife of Usher’s Well (Roud 196; Child 79)
95. The Gypsy Laddies (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
97. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (Roud 197; Child 113)

Sea Shanties

100. Blood Red Roses (Roud 931)
101. Haul Away, Joe (Roud 809)
102. General Taylor (Roud 216)
104. The Liverpool Judies (Roud 928)
106. Reuben Ranzo (Roud 3282)
107. Mister Stormalong (Roud 216)
108. Wild Goose Flying (Roud 328)
110. New York Girls (Roud 486)

Songs From the Appalachian Mountains

114. Black Girl (Roud 3421)
115. Ev’ry Night When the Sun Goes In (Roud 3611)
116. Cme All You Fair and Tender Ladies (Roud 451)
117. The Riddle Song (Roud 330)
118. My Dearest Dear (Roud 3601; G/D 8:1540)
120. Black Is the Colour (Roud 3103)
122. Nine Hundeed Miles (Roud 4959)

Ritual Songs and Carols

126. Gower Wassail (Roud 209)
128. Padstow May Song (Roud 305)
130. A Lyke Wake Dirge (Roud 8194; TYG 85)
131. Suddenly Afraid

Translations and Poems to Music

134. South of the Great Sea [Chinese, translated by Arthur Waley, music Michael Jessett]
136. Child of Light and Air [Italy, 10^th century, translated by Alasdair Clayre]
137. How Sweet I Roamed [William Blake, music Michael Jessett]
138. The Skylark [Bernart de Ventadorn, 12^th century, English words by Alasdair Clayre]
140. Full Fathom Five [William Shakespeare, music John Bannister]
142. Invitation to a Journey [Charles Baudelaire, music and English words by Alasdair Clayre]
144. The Golden Apples of the Sun (The Song of Wandering Aengus) [W.B. Yeats]

Songs by Living Writers

148. The Shrouded Stranger [Allen Ginsberg, music Alasdair Clayre]
150. The Jute Mill Song [Mary Brooksbank, music Ewan MacColl] (Roud 2585)
152. Dust [Johnny Handle]
154. I’m a Freeborn Man [Ewan MacColl]
155. Jeannie Gallacher [Matt McGinn]
156. MacAlpine’s Fusiliers [Dominic Behan]
158. The Needle of Death [Bert Jansch]
160. Sally Free and Easy [Cyril Tawney]
161. The Way of the World [David Campbell]
162. The Crow on the Cradle [Sydney Carter]
163. Hawthorn Berries [Alasdair Clayre]
164. Palaces of Gold [Leon Rosselson]
166. The Dove (La Colombe) [Jacques Brel, English words Alasdair Clayre]
168. Old Man’s Song [Alasdair Clayre]
169. Two Evenings [Alasdair Clayre]
170. The Tyre Fitter [Alasdair Clayre]
172. Ballad of London [Alasdair Clayre]
175. A Cold Wind Blows [Alasdair Clayre]
176. Break-up [Alasdair Clayre]
178. Springtime Song [Alasdair Clayre]
180. Guerilla [Alasdair Clayre]
184. Three Loves [Alasdair Clayre]

187. Notes and Acknowledgements 187

Arranged by Alasdair Clayre, Andrew Parrott and Nick Bicât;
Recorded by Colin Sanders;
Designed by Humphrey Stone;
Produced by Alasdair Clayre

Musicians

Alasdair Clayre: vocals [1, 3-5, 7-11, 13-16];
Emma Kirkby: vocals [2, 4, 6, 8, 11-12];
Victoria: vocals, guitar [14];
Andrew Parrott: clavichord [1, 3, 6, 11, 16], recorders [6, 15], piano [5, 12], organ [11];
Nic Bicât: bass guitar [1, 11], guitars [2-3, 5, 13, 15-16], clavichord [3, 9, 11], piano [5, 7, 9], drums [2-3, 5, 9, 11, 16], hand drum [3, 15], George Adie: guitar [10];
Dave Brooks: harmonica [10];
Rod Skeaping: viols [4]

Tracks

Side 1

1. A Gentle Easy-Flowing River (2.00)
2. Sell Your Beauty (1.42)
3. Adam and the Beasts (3.01)
4. Lullaby and Come Afloat (2.02)
5. Springtime Song (1.25)
6. Irish Girl (2.30)
7. Motorway Promoter (2.09)
8. An Old Wind Blows (2.58)

Side 2

9. Two Evenings (1.58)
10. Ballad of London (.150)
11. Guerilla (3.35)
12. Snow (2.39)
13. Old Rich World’s Daughter (1.37)
14. Hawthorn Berries (2.00)
15. Mass Production Song (1.14)
16. Travelling North (1.41)

all track lyrics & music Alistair Clayre except
Track 4 arr. John Byrt