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Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
19-May-02 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Who Put the Blood
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who put the blood
You might also check the title as "What Brought The Blood" which is how this song appears in Sean O'Boyle's excellent book The Irish Song Tradition, published by Gilbert Dalton, Dublin, 1976. My edition is in paperback and the ISBN number is 09505 17313. The hardback ISBN is 09505 17305, though I don't know if these are still in print. They certainly deserve to be.

There are 25 songs in this collection, plus a lot of interesting historical and music-related notes (not surprising, as O'Boyle is respected in these fields). Well worth getting if you like Irish songs.