The musical production was originally devised/written by Graham Moore and developed in workshop by the Drama Group, “Endangered Sepcies”. The songs were mainly written by Graham Moore and Mick Ryan, and the present recording, with the inclusion of some traditional pieces, reflects the show as performed by “Fieldwork Productions” under the dramatic direction of Vic Merriman.

Recorded by Doug Bailes at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire;
Cover and design by Meg Crowther

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Pete Harris: guitar, vocals, mandolin;
Sarah Morgan: concertina, harmonium, vocals;
Dave Wischhusen, Ita Fitzgerald, John Prince, Bob Naylor, Steve Jordan, John Bond, Vic Merriman: vocals

Tracks

Side 1

1. Tolpuddle Man
2. Rigs of the Time (Roud 876)
3. Captain Swing
4. Put Them Down
5. The Oath
6. Uniting Together
7. Road to Dorchester
8. Labourer’s Cause
9. Prison Bars

Side 2

10. Lament
11. God Is Our Guide
12. Judas
13. Farewell
14. Suffer the Children
15. Waiting
16. Gather and Stand
17. Wrong Side of the World
18. Put Them Down (Reprise)
19. Tolpuddle Man (Reprise)

Tracks 1, 3, 14-15, 19 Graham Moore;
Track 2 trad.;
Tracks 4, 9, 12, 16, 18 Mick Ryan;
Tracks 5-8, 17 Mick Ryan, Graham Moore;
Track 10 S. Wright;
Track 11 George Loveless;
Track 13 Graham Moore, trad.

According to James Patterson, the album’s title is a misremembered “Fair Worcester City” from the first line of The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter.

Recorded and produced by Bill Leader and John Adams

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Jon Burge: guitar, fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, vocal harmonies;
Dave Burland: vocal harmonies [2, 6]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Lucy Wan (Roud 234; Child 51)
2. The Football Match (Roud 1291)
3. January
4. The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime (Roud 2; Laws Q26)
5. Brown Robin’s Confession (Roud 3882; Child 57)
6. Rufford Park Poachers (Roud 1759)

Side 2

7. On Monday Morning (Roud 433; Laws Q6)
8. An English Lord (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
9. Green Beds (Roud 276; Laws K36; G/D 1:48; Henry H779)
10. The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter (Roud 15; Laws P36A; G/D 2:201, 2:202)
11. The Widow of Westmorland’s Daughter (Roud 228; G/D 7:1439)
12. The Banks of the Roses (Roud 603; G/D 7:1444)

All tracks trad. arr. Mick Ryan, Jon Burge except
Track 3 Mick Ryan, Jon Burge

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

This CD is a selection of songs from Mick Ryan & Pete Harris’ first two albums on the WildGoose label, the cassettes Drink Up the Sun and Another Place, Another Time.

Musicians

Mick Ryan: lead vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-11] harmony vocals;
Pete Harris: vocals [3, 6, 8], harmony vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, banjo, bass guitar, whistle

with
Keith Holloway: melodeon [5]

Tracks

1. The Widow’s Promise (4.56)
2. The Bonny Light Horseman (Roud 1185; G/D 8:1584; Henry H122a) (5.06)
3. The Old Couple (Roud 491) (4.00)
4. Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60) (4.14)
5. The Man I Killed (5.35)
6. Channels (4.54)
7. Hash House Blues (Roud 11719) (2.58)
8. Rambleaway (Roud 171; G/D 7:1485) (4.45)
9. Salisbury Plain (Roud 1487) (2.48)
10. Love is Life (5.21)
11. Adieu, Adieu (Roud 30101) (5.58)

Tracks 1, 5, 10 Mick Ryan;
Tracks 2-4, 7-9, 11 trad.;
Track 6 Graham Penny

Contains songs from the musical drama of the same name by Mick Ryan. The show looks at aspects of emigration from Ireland and England in the mid nineteenth century. One of the main themes is the impact of the past upon the present. One of the main themes is the impact of the past upon the present. Ther show develops the idea of the past living on through memory, and begins to explain why emigrants were prepared to leave, and what made the terrors of the voyage less daunting than the horrors of the immediate past.

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire;
Cover picture by Marilyn Campbell

The Cast

Mick Ryan, Jenny Hogan, Mike Birch, John Bond, Pete Watkinson, Martin Lee, John Prince, Carrie Jones, Paul Burke, Kerry Manning, Marilyn Campbell

Musicians

Robert Harbron: concertina, guitar;
Tim van Eyken: melodeon, vocals;
Paul Sartin: violin, oboe

Tracks

1. Voices From the Past (2.37)
2. The Leaving Time (3.48)
3. Behind Me (3.47)
4. The Emigrant (3.31)
5. When We Take ’Em Over (1.36)
6. Sailing West (3.22)
7. How Deep’s the Sea? (3.05)
8. Green Island (4.17)
9. Lying Down (3.10)
10. Reprisals (3.07)
11. Prisoners of the Past (3.37)
12. The Sea (3.33)
13. The Soldier’s Song (Part One) (3.40)
14. Fever on Board (4.14)
15. The Bargain (3.34)
16. Farewell My Child (4.17)
17. The Soldier’s Song (Part Two) (3.39)
18. Home (4.10)
19. Safe Harbour (3.09)
20. Keep You in Peace (3.16)
21. The Promised Land (2.52)

All tracks word and music by Mick Ryan except
Track 4 trad. adapted Mick Ryan;
Track 11 words Mick Ryan, music Mark Powell;
Tracks 13, 17 words Mick Ryan, music Sarah Morgan;
Track 16 words Mick Ryan, music trad. adapted Mick Ryan;
Track 20 words and music Sarah Morgan

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios;
Cover painting by Deborah King

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Pete Harris: vocals, guitar, electric guitar, mandola, whistle, bouzouki, mandolin, electric fretless bass

with
Dave Ingledew: melodeon [5, 9];
Joyce Ingledew: fiddle [5, 9];
Paul Marsh: bodhrán [1];
Paul Sartin: oboe [13]

Tracks

1. I Won’t Take That Lying Down (4.09)
2. Spencer the Rover (Roud 1115; TYG 3) (4.58)
3. Long Hard Season (3.20)
4. The Lass of Islington (Roud 168) (4.09)
5. The Drunkard’s Lament (Roud 4286) (3.56)
6. Leaves of Life (Roud 127) (3.24)
7. Night Visiting Song (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783) (4.29)
8. The Recruited Collier (Roud 3503) (4.01)
9. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1495) (5.01)
10. Fair Was the City (5.02)
11. Just As the Tide Was Flowing (Roud 1105) (4.16)
12. The Plains of Waterloo (Roud 960; Laws N32) (6.17)
13. Willy Worrell (6.14)
14. The Leaving Time (4.30)
15. Come and Be a Soldier (3.30)

Tracks 1, 3, 13-15 Mick Ryan;
Tracks 2, 4, 5-7, 10-11 trad. arr. Mick Ryan, Pete Harris;
Track 5 words Mick Ryan, tune trad. adapted Myck Ryan;
Tracks 8, 12 trad. arr. Mick Ryan;
Track 9 trad. arr. Pete Harris

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Pete Harris: vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, fretless bass guitar, banjo, whistles

with
Steven Faux: fiddle;
Paul Sartin: oboe

Tracks

1. The Road to Dorchester (4.16)
2. The Black Horse (Roud 3027; Henry H586) (3.57)
3. Poppies (3.19)
4. The Journey (5.47)
5. Time to Remember the Poor (Roud 1121) (4.42)
6. The Bonnie Irish Maid (Roud 6319) (4.03)
7. Strange Fruit (2.21)
8. Holmes and Watson (3.43)
9. The Two Sisters (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (5.28)
10. Song for John (5.29)
11. Voices From the Past (3.27)
12. The Crafty Maid’s Policy (Roud 1624) (2.44)
13. Desperate Dan (3.29)
14. The Wrong Side of the World (4.36)

Track 1, 14 Graham Moore, Mick Ryan;
Tracks 2, 6, 9, 12 trad. arr. Pete Harris;
Tracks 3-4, 8, 13 Mick Ryan;
Track 5 trad. words and tune adapted Mick Ryan, guitar arrangements Pete Harris;
Track 7 Lewis Allen;
Track 10 Mick Ryan, guitar arrangements Pete Harris;
Track 11 Mick Ryan, instrumental arrangements Pete Harris

The story of Tyneham told in song, from the original stage production directed by John Bond

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios, May Cottage, Wherwell, Hampshire

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Pete Harris: vocals, guitar, tenor banjo;
Sarah Mallinson: vocals, keyboard, accordion;
John, Nicola and Sophie Bond: vocals and readings;
Nancy Scott: readings

Tracks

1. The Dorset Four Hand Reel / The Huntsman Chorus (1.17)
2. Dorest (Rap) (2.39)
3. Tyneham (5.28)
4. The Tank (2.33)
5. Defending the Island (3.43)
6. Whose is this Land (2.19)
7. Parting Do Come (2.06)
8. Life (2.58)
9. Farewell (3.18)
10. The Leaving Time (2.34)
11. Promises Promises (2.41)
12. Peace at Last (3.06)
13. Promises Promises (reprise) (1.14)
14. Shadows (3.14)
15. Listen (1.50)
16. Time (2.35)
17. Country Gardens (0.58)
18. Tyneham (Poem) (1.21)
19. The Land (3.37)
20. The Grace (1.24)
21. Tyneham (reprise) (2.41)
22. What Does It Mean to Be English (3.55)

Tracks 1ab trad.;
Tracks 2-3, 17, 21 words Mick Ryan, tune trad.;
Track 4 words Mick Ryan, tune Fred Gilbert;
Tracks 5-6, 8-13, 16, 19 words and music Mick Ryan;
Tracks 7, 15, 18, 21 poem Mick Ryan;
Track 14 words and music Joanna Ryan;
Track 20 words Lillian Bond, music Sophie Bond

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Pete Harris: vocals, harmony vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, banjo, fretless bass guitar, whistles, percussion

with
Paul Burgess: fiddle;
Paul Sartin: oboe;
Tim van Eyken: melodeon

Tracks

1. The Ballad Seller (4.51)
2. The Queen of the May (Roud 594) (4.35)
3. Sons of the Land (3.45)
4. Farewell My Dearest Dear (Roud 1035) (5.04)
5. Jack Went A-Sailing (3.54)
6. The Grey Hawk (Roud 293) (3.19)
7. King Kaley (6.40)
8. Work, Work, When It’s Gonna Stop? (3.00)
9. Something to Show (5.20)
10. Faithless Sally Brown (Roud V625) (4.12)
11. The Last of England (4.07)
12. Two Brethren (Roud 202) (3.11)
13. The Prince of Peace (4.24)
14. The Eighteenth of June (Roud 2539) (5.41)

Tracks 1, 8, 13 Mick Ryan arr. Pete Harris;
Track 2 words trad., tune Ian Palmer;
Tracks 3, 7, 9 Mick Ryan;
Track 4, 14 trad. arr. Mick Ryan, Pete Harris;
Track 5 trad. adapted Mick Ryan, arr. Pete Harris;
Tracks 6, 12 trad. arr. Pete Harris;
Track 10 poem by Thomas Hood adapted Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan;
Track 11 Graham Moore

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Pete Harris: harmony vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, banjo, bass guitar, whistles, percussion

with
Paul Sartin: oboe, fiddle

Tracks

1. The Labourer’s Cause (3.26)
2. The Land (3.33)
3. There Was a Man (3.14)
4. Cupid’s Garden (Roud 297; G/D 5:970) (3.24)
5. Life (3.11)
6. The Island of Apples (3.52)
7. Tom Paine’s Bones (4.11)
8. The Boy Remembers His Father (4.31)
9. The Banks of the Bann (Roud 889; Laws O2; Henry H86) (3.54)
10. Here Comes Mick (3.49)
11. When We Take ’Em Over / Sailing West (5.01)
12. Fresh Fish (4.09)
13. A Tolpuddle Man (3.25)
14. The Song Goes On (4.12)

All tracks written by Mick Ryan except
Track 1 Graham Moore, Mick Ryan;
Tracks 4, 9 trad.;
Tracks 5, 13 Graham Moore;
Track 8 Séamus Mac Mathúna adapted Mick Ryan;
Track 12 words J. Ryan, music Mick Ryan

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Paul Downes: vocals, guitar, banjo, Octave mandola, mandolin

Tracks

1. Grand Conversation (Roud 1189) (5.20)
2. Reprisals (3.15)
3. The Bell-Ringing (Roud 1515) (4.17)
4. Sleep of Death (4.27)
5. The Light (4.10)
6. Young Men All (6.22)
7. Put Them Down (3.40)
8. The Larks Above the Downs (7.42)
9. Banks of the Bann (Roud 889; Laws O2; Henry H86) (2.49)
10. Land of Cockayne (3.15)
11. The Foe (4.03)
12. The Lazy Man (2.54)
13. Green Island (5.11)
14. Thomas Brassey (4.44)

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 9 trad. arr. Paul Downes, Mick Ryan;
Tracks 2, 4, 7-8, 10-14 Mick Ryan;
Track 5 words Mick Ryan, music Joni Mitchell

“The Navvy’s Wife gives voice to those whose life were shaped by the great drive to carve out Britain’s canals, railways and roads. This itinerant way of life conferred hardship and uncertaincy on the women caught up in it but of these mothers, lovers, wives and widows the newspapers had very little to say; of their longings, sorrows, hopes and joys they said nothing, nothing at all …”

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Jackie Oates: vocals, five string fiddle-viola, shruti;
Paul Downes: vocals, guitar, mando-cello, mandolin, banjo;
Judy Dunlop: vocals;
Heather Bradford: vocals;
Roger Watson: vocals, melodeon, concertina

Tracks

Act 1 / CD 1

1. [MR] Men from Limerick (3.41)
2. [JO, JD, HB] The Women’s Song (4.00)
3. [JO] My Paddy (2.00)
4. [MR] Don’t Forget (3.23)
5. [HB] Mammy’s Poem (2.01)
6. [HB] Farewell My Son (3.33)
7. [JO] My Paddy (part 2) (2.07)
8. [MR, JO] The Right Thing (2.09)
9. [MR] Don’t Forget (part 2) (2.56)
10. [JO] I Miss Him (2.38)
11. [RW] The Railway Age poem (1.46)
12. [RW] Brassey (4.50)
13. [JD] The Navvy’s Wife (7.23)
14. [JD, JO, HB] Women Not Their Wives (4.46)
15. [Cast] They All Hate (3.41)
16. [PD, JD] The Eyes Have it (5.18)
17. [JD] Farewell (3.43)
18. [RW] Dangerous Enough poem (0.53)
19. [RW] So Many Ways to Die (3.32)

Act 2 / CD 2

20. [MR, JD] Poppies (3.49)
21. [MR] The Journey (2.45)
22. [MR] What Brought Paddy Over poem (3.41)
23. [HB] We Get All Sorts (2.32)
24. [PD] Here Comes Mick (4.17)
25. [RW] Just like You (4.56)
26. [MR] Something to Show (4.20)
27. [MR] The Journey (part 2) (1.49)
28. [HB] Wasn’t He the Lucky One? (1.54)
29. [JO; JD, HB] Aren’t We the Lucky Ones? (3.10)
30. [MR, RW] The Land Around You (4.06)

All words and music are by Mick Ryan except
Tracks 1, 28 words Mick Ryan, music trad.;
Track 13 words Mick Ryan, music trad. adapted Mick Ryan;
All spoken verse is by Mick Ryan, and the musical accompaniment to this which is not integral with a subsequent or previous song is traditional;
All prose is freely adapted from testimony taken from the books:
Ultan Cowley: The Men Who Built Britain; Terry Freeman: The Railway Navvies

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Paul Downes: harmony vocals, guitar, banjo, mando-cello, acoustic bass guitar;
Jackie Oates: five-string viola;
Paul Hutchinson: accordion

Tracks

1. The Pauper’s Path (4.43)
2. The Bells Rang (4.69)
3. Summer Is A-Coming In (3.12)
4. Jack in Luck (7.13)
5. Greenland (3.05)
6. South Armagh (3.43)
7. The People Must Be Amused (4.18)
8. Love Is Life (4.16)
9. Vinland (5.24)
10. No Evil (3.01)
11. Upon a Field (4.22)
12. Fire Against the Cold (3.41)
13. How Wide’s the Ocean (3.22)
14. The Institute (4.30)

All tracks Mick Ryan except
Track 4 words Mick Ryan, music Paul Downes;
Track 5 trad. arr. Paul Downes;
Tracks 6, 11 words Mick Ryan, music trad.;
Track 7 words Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan, Paul Downes

“The Pauper’s Path tells the stories of some of those who, though no fault of their own, were forced to enter the dreaded ‘Union’ or ‘Workhouse’. It tells how, by courage, determination, solidarity and love, some were able to at least hope for a better future.”

Musical direction by Paul Downes and Mick Ryan

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Paul Downes: vocals, guitar, mando-cello, mandolin, banjos;
Maggie Boyle: vocals, flute, bodhrán;
Roy Clinging: vocals, concertina;
Heather Bradford: vocals;
Judy Dunlop: vocals;
Phoebe Kirrage: vocals

The Characters

Richard [Roy]: A pauper. Formerly hard working. Misses his wife.
Jane [Judy]: A pauper. Saddened by childlessness. Misses Richard.
Mark [Mick]: A pauper. Feckless. Says he sees separation from wife as a relief.
Helen [Heather]: A pauper. Wife of Mark. Also relieved by separation.
Mary [Maggie]: A pauper. Apparently a widow.
A Tramp [Paul]: A vagrant. Apparently slightly insane.
The Workhouse Master [Paul]
A Workhouse Child [Phoebe]: An orphan.

Tracks

Act 1 / CD 1

1. [MR, cast] The Workhouse (3.30)
2. [cast] Let Us In (1.41)
3. [PD] This Is the Workhouse /
   You Can’t Have That (3.51)
4. [HB] Time (4.30)
5. [MR, cast] Locks and Bolts (2.52)
6. [RC] Turn That Mill (3.01)
7. [JD, MR, cast] Fire Against the Cold (3.33)
8. [RC, JD] Long Ago and Far Away (2.37)
9. [MR, HB] Free at Last (2.29)
10. [MB] Who? (2.53)
11. [JD] My Child (3.10)
12. [PK] The Workhouse Child (Part One) / [MR, cast] Work! Work! When’s It Gonna Stop? (4.36)
13. [cast] Industry, Usefulness, Virtue (5.31)

Act 2 / CD 2

14. [MR, cast] In Their Eyes (2.54)
15. [PD] The Vagrant’s Song (4.36)
16. [HB, cast] The Union (Part One) (2.16)
17. [JD, RC] Do You Remember? (2.43)
18. [HB, MR] A Jolly Good Job (4.10)
19. [MB] That’s My Story (4.39)
20. [PD] Down Among the Dead Men (3.12)
21. [MR, cast] The Union (Part Two) (2.18)
22. [PK] The Workhouse Child (Part Two) (2.20)
23. [RC, JD, MB, PD] Is That You? (2.29)
24. [PK] No One Saw Me (2.42)
25. [MB] Where Shall I Go? (2.49)
26. [All] My Home (2.25)
27. [MR] The Path to Hope (3.37)
28. [cast] The Pauper’s Path (4.31)

All words and music are by Mick Ryan except
Tracks 2, 14-15 words Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan, Paul Downes;
Track 3b words Mick Ryan, music trad. adapted Mick Ryan;

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios;
Cover design by Hilary Bix

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Paul Downes: vocals, guitar, five-string banjo, tenor banjo, mandolin;
Maggie Boyle: flute, whistle, bodhrán;
Gill Redmond: cello;
Keith Kendrick: concertinas;
Tom Leary: fiddle

Tracks

1. Beccles Gates (4.05)
2. Limbo (Roud 969) (4.01)
3. One Night As I Lay on My Bed (Roud 672) (3.20)
4. You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Roud 386) (3.29)
5. The January Man (3.09)
6. The Knife in the Window (Roud 32572) (3.51)
7. The Lover’s Ghost (Roud 179; Child 248) (5.29)
8. The Old Jig Jog (3.14)
9. The Lass of Maharalee (4.16)
10. The New York Trader (Roud 478; Laws K22; G/D 2:191) (3.31)
11. The Grey Hawk (Roud 293) (3.17)
12. Summerwater (4.04)
13. Georgie Barnwell (Roud 546) / Among the Crows and Rooks (3.32)
14. When Every Song Was New (3.34)

All tracks trad. arr. Paul Downes, Mick Ryan except
Track 1 Mal and Bill Jardine;
Track 5 Dave Goulder;
Track 8 Banjo Paterson;
Track 12, 14 Summerwater;
Track 13b Paul Downes

The show tells the story of farm workers moved from the country to the front in the first world war and the death of one of their number shot as a concientious objector.

A Day’s Work was first written and performed in 1995. That version of the show was recorded, and released as a cassette, by WildGoose Records in 1996 (WGS272MC). It was published in 1997 by Lyngham House (ISBN: 0 9528225).

Musical direction by Paul Downes

The Cast

Maggie Boyle: a mother;
Matt Quinn: her son, a farm labourer; later a recruit;
Mick Ryan: a father;
Greg Russell: his son, a farm labourer; later a ‘concie’;
Pete Morton: a poacher and farm labourer;
Heather Bradford: an Irish mother; her son is in the army;
Paul Downes: a vicar and an officer

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Paul Downes: guitars, mando-cello, five-string banjo, mandolin, percussion, vocals;
Maggie Boyle: flute, whistles, bodhrán;
Matt Quinn: concertina, melodeon, mandolin;
Heather Bradford: bodhrán;
Pete Morton: harmonica

Tracks

Part 1: An English village, Christmas 1914

1. [MR, PM, PD] It’s All in a Day’s Work / Flanders Tommy (Part One) [MR] (4.08)
2. [MT, GR, PM, MQ + cast] Sons of the Land (2.59)
3. [MQ, GR, PM] The Land I Love (3.38)
4. [MR, GR, PM, MQ] Summer Is A-Coming In Again (2.37)
5. [MR] Come and Be a Soldier (3.02)
6. [MB, GR, PD, HB] The Soldier’s Rest (1.50)
7. [MB] Another Harvest (Part One) (2.23)
8. [PD, GR + cast] The Call (4.00)
9. [HB; PM, MQ] Join the Game (3.06)
10. [GR] Peace (3.03)
11. [MR, MB] The Long Farewell (2.43)
12. [HB; PM; MQ] Marching (2.08)

Part 2: Mostly at the front, 1916

13. [GR; MB] Flanders Tommy (Part Two) (3.21)
14. [PM; MQ] The Night (4.06)
15. [HB] What Men Do (3.06)
16. [MQ; PM] Gimme a Blighty (2.28)
17. [PM, MQ] The Estaminet (2.34)
18. [GR] The Lark Above the Downs (6.22)
19. [MR, MB] Another Harvest (Part Two) (1.37)
20. [cast] Home Lads, Home (3.15)
21. [MB; GR] Land Fit for Heroes (3.30)
22. [cast] A Day’s Work (2.04)
23. [Mick; cast] Christmas in No Man’s Land (3.57)

All words and music are by Mick Ryan except
Track 6 music James Petterson;
Tracks 7, 19 music Sarah Morgan;
Track 17 music Steven Faux;
Track 20 words Cicely Fox Smith, music Sarah Morgan;

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios;
Cover pictures of dandelions from Dreamstime library

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Paul Downes: vocals, guitar, banjo, piano;
Jackie Oates: vocals, 5 string viola;
Kate Riaz: cello;
Martin Bradley: comcertina

Tracks

1. The Midshipman’s Boast (4.37)
2. Lady Diamond (Roud 112; Child 269; G/D 6:1224) (4.17)
3. The Passing Hour (3.47)
4. Bartholamew Fair (3.34)
5. All at Sea (2.55)
6. Song of Repentance (2.41)
7. Thankful Village (3.38)
8. The Parson and the Pig (2.39)
9. Adieu, Old Friend (4.06)
10. The Fowler (3.14)
11. One Day (2.13)
12. Last Will (3.04)
13. The Sea (4.18)
14. Oh! Swine! (5.09)

Track 1 Helen North;
Tracks 2, 4 trad. arr. Paul Downes;
Tracks 3, 7-8, 10-11, 13-14 Mick Ryan;
Track 5 Tom Lewis;
Tracks 6 trad. arr. Paul Downes, Mick Ryan;
Track 9 Steve Thomason;
Track 12 Mick Ryan, Paul Downes

Recorded and produced by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios;
Cover design original concept by Bob Berry, final artwork by Doug Bailey

Musicians

Mick Ryan: vocals;
Heather Bradford: vocals;
Alice Jones: vocals, clarinet;
Pete Morton: vocals, guitar;
Geoff Lakeman: vocals, crane duet concertina;
Granny’s Attic:
    Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne: vocals, Anglo concertina, melodeon;
    George Sansome: vocals, guitar, euphonium;
    Lewis Wood: vocals, fiddle, guitar, mandolin

Tracks

CD 1

1. [LW] Introduction (0.45)
2. [MR] Here at the Fair (3.12)
3. [GL] Maldini’s Cure All (3.43)
4. [cast] It’ll Do (5.31)
5. [AJ] We Must Wander (3.31)
6. [MR] The Old Joke (3.28)
7. [PM] I Have Fleas! (5.09)
8. [HB] As for Me (4.17)
9. [CBK] You Can’t Fool Me (3.07)
10. [GS] Only a Ha’ Penny (3.25)
11. [cast] Worth It in the End (3.19)

CD 2

12. [GL] I Was There (3.00)
13. [GA] The Peterloo Hornpipe And Reel (2.10)
14. [HB] Hope Was High (3.30)
15. [GS] Dancing in the Light (3.58)
16. [AJ] I Can Remember (3.49)
17. [PM] A Good Old Gal (3.36)
18. [cast] If Only (4.56)
19. [MR] The Turning of the Years (4.23)
20. [cast] The First Stone (3.06)
21. [CBK] Moving On (4.58)
22. [MR] People Must Be Amused (4.05)

All tracks written by Mick Ryan except
Track 3 words trad. adapt. Mick Ryan, music trad.;
Track 7 words Mick Ryan, Chaplin, music trad.;
Track 22 words Mick Ryan, music Mick Ryan, Paul Downes;