Track List - Leap Year CD - John Wilson - Whitcliffe Records
John Wilson
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WHFF001
A version of "Long A-growing" where the young man survives
I couldn't resist this melody!
Resident group chorus fodder in early folk clubs; here a cheerful little ballad
From Colm O'Lochlain's 'Irish Street Ballads' (1939)
The perils of the Atlantic off New York
A treat of a surprise in store (from the poem 'First Sight')
A love song for the West coast of Scotland
A leap of faith
A leap into legend. See lyrics page and More About Willance
Ancient mines in wild places (from the poem 'Ghosts')
Recorded at Robin Hood's Bay Folk Club
Published 1821, Newcastle, as "Collected by Josiah Shufflebotham."
From the singing of Nic Jones
The great tragic ballad written in 1809 by Glasgow poet Thomas Campbell
Kavanagh's words set by the writer to an earlier melody
Lady Mary Ann
The Young Highland Rover
Lizzie Lindsay
It was Early Early all in the Spring
Get Her in to Shore
Lambs that Learn to Walk in Snow
Sandwood down to Kyle
Icarus
Robert Willance
Remember Dear
Bushes and Briars
The Snows they Melt the Soonest
Green Mossy Banks of the Lee
Lord Ullin's Daughter
Raglan Road
Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Trad/R.Burns/R.Allan
Trad/Colm O'Lochlain
Larry Kaplan
Philip Larkin /John Wilson
Dave Goulder
Anne Lister
John Wilson
Robert Service /John Wilson
Traditional
Attr to Thomas Doubleday
Traditional
Thomas Campbell /John Wilson
Patrick Kavanah