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    Two good men and true / Jimmy McBride

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    The flower of Dunaff Hill : and more traditional songs sung in Inishowen / compiled and annotated by Jimmy McBride

    Foreword — The songs — The singers — The photographs — Another man’s wedding — As I roved out — Ballintown Brae — The Banks of Newfoundland — The Banks of Sweet Dundee — The Bay of Biscay O — The Bedford Van — The Black Horse — The Blackwater Side — I’m Bidding Adieu — The Blind Beggar’s Daughter — The Bonnie Green Tree — Burnfoot Town — Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo — Captain Colster — Charming Buachaill Roe — The Coalmine — Cottage with the Horseshoe O’er the Door — Dan Curley — Darling Son — Deep Sheephaven Bay — Duggan’s Dancing School — The Evergreen — Erin’s Lovely Home — Erin’s Lovely Shore — Fair Randalstown — The Fair Town of Greenock — Paisley Officer * — Father McFadden — Father Tom O’Neill — The Flower of Corby’s Mill — The Flower of Dunaff Hill — The Flower of Sweet Strabane –Friar Hegarty — Garvagh Town — General Owen Roe — Glenswilly — Going to Mass Last Sunday — Green Grass it Grows Bonnie — The Hiring Fair — The Holland Handkerchief — The Isle of Doagh (1) — The Isle of Doagh (2) — Jimmy Leeburn — Johnny Bathin — Kathleen Casey — The Leinster Lass — The Lady Fair — A Little Too Small — London City — Loughrey’s Bull — My Lovely Irish Rose — The Lurgy Stream — The Maid of Bonnie Strathyre — McGinty’s Model Lodge — Bulroy Bay — November Keady Fair — Paddy Stole the Rope — The Rangey Ribs — The Rattling Railway Boy — The Sailor Boy — The Rose of Glenfin — The Shamrock Shore — She Tickled Me — The Shirt I Left Behind — The Smashing of the Van — The Sow Pig — The Titanic — Treat My Daughter Kindly — Welcome Home — The Wee Woman in Our Town — The Year of Seventy One — Bibliography

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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