I thought that I had already sent a midi for 2427)  MY JOHNNY WAS A SHOEMAKER  to Alan, but perhaps I didn't, after all.  The DT text is taken from Steeleye Span's recording; they got it from Colm O'Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads (Vol.II), and I've made a midi from the notation in that book.  The version in question was noted from Alice Deady of Waterford; it's noticeable how much Gay Woods and Maddy Prior interfered with the rhythm when they recorded it, so I've also made a midi based on their re-phrasing of Alice Deady's set.

WILLIE O' WINSBURY  This file already has a traditional tune attached to it, but the most widely-known melody used for the song nowadays (Pentangle, Gaughan etc.) was actually written by (I think) Andy Irvine -specifically for this set of words- in the 1960s; it was such a good piece of work that it was almost immediately assumed to be traditional.  Midi made by ear; the phrasing is generic, as the arrangements I've heard of it differ.

FAREWELL FAREWELL  Richard Thompson set his song to Irvine's tune, believing it to be traditional.  Midi made by ear from Fairport's recording, with most of Sandy Denny's decorations omitted for the sake of clarity.

376)  BLUE BLEEZING BLIND DRUNK  As sung by Sheila Stewart of Blairgowrie; she learnt it from her mother, Belle, who in turn had it from "an old ploughman", probably in the early 1950s.  It seems to acquire a different title every time it appears in print or on record; on the Stewarts of Blair (Lismor LIFL 7010 [1985], now available on CD) it's Mickey's Warning, while in Ailie Munro's The Folk Music Revival in Scotland it's When Mickey Comes Home I Get Battered.  NOTE: The verses in the DT are not in the usual order.  What appears to be a first verse is in fact the chorus, and should appear after verses 2 ("For when Mickey comes home") and 3 ("Oh but whisky I ne'er was a lover").  Midi made from the notation in the book, slightly modified to accommodate the DT text.  Confusingly, I have given the tune for verse 1 and chorus together, though Sheila doesn't sing them together, because it would just be too complicated to have a note in the Midi pages explaining it all, until the DT entry is modified!

The tune for  THE BEGGAR MAN (4)  doesn't fit  THE BEGGAR MAN (2)  incidentally.  I'm looking into it.

Malcolm