Best-Loved Irish Ballads: Great Songs from the Irish Folk Tradition

Contents

• Introduction 6
• Craic and Drink 9
• Are Ye Right There Michael? 11
• Finnegan's Wake 17
• I'll Tell Me Ma 21
• The Irish Rover 25
• Lanigan's Ball 31
• The Rare Old Mountain Dew 37
• The Waxies' Dargle 41
• Revolution and Nationalism 45
• Arthur McBride 47
• Boulavogue 53
• Follow Me Up to Carlow 57
• Kevin Barry 61
• A Nation Once Again 65
• The Wearing of the Green 69
• Love and Tragedy 73
• As I Roved Out 75
• Danny Boy 79
• The Dawning of the Day 83
• Down By the Sally Gardens 87
• The Galway Shawl 91
• The Rose of Tralee 95
• She Moved Through the Fair 98
• The Star of the County Down 101
• Home and Emigration 105
• The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee 107
• Carrickfergus 111
• Molly Malone 115
• The Mountains of Mourne 119
• Muirsheen Durkin 123
• Spancil Hill 127
• Adventure and Misadventure 131
• The Black Velvet Band 133
• The Rocky Road to Dublin 137
• Weela Weela Walya 141
• The Well Below the Valley 145
• Whiskey in the Jar 149
• The Wild Colonial Boy 153
• The Wild Rover 157