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Green Grow the Laurel

Green Grow the Laurel Tommy Dempsey & John Swift Trailer Records LER 2096 (LP, UK, 1976)

Recorded by Tony Taverner;
Produced by Fred Woods;
Photographs by Mike Bramich;
Sleeve by Janet Kerr

Musicians

Tommy Dempsey: vocals;
John Smith: ‘glute’ (an instrument part guitar, part lute)

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Little Beggarman (Roud 360; G/D 7:1397)
2. Walking in the Dew
3. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb (Roud 434; Laws Q5; G/D 6:1289)
4. The Recruiting Sergeant (Roud V15395)
5. The Enniskillen Dragoon (Roud 2185; Henry H98b)
6. Cunla Dear
7. She Moved Through the Fair (Roud 861; Henry H141)

Side 2

8. Green Grow the Laurel (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab)
9. Follow Me Down to Carlow (Roud 36327)
10. Blackwaterside (Roud 564; G/D 6:1188)
11. As I Roved Out (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152)
12. Paddy and the Whale (Roud 6342)
13. The Tri-Coloured Ribbon
14. The Limerick Rake (Roud 3018)

All tracks trad. arr. Tommy Dempsey, John Swift except
Track 7 trad. arr. Herbert Hughes;
Track 9 P.J. McCall