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Posted By: Stewart
02-Feb-05 - 11:30 PM
Thread Name: Burl Ives LP: A Collection of Songs from Burl Ives
Subject: Index: Irish Songs (Burl Ives)
After Decca Records recorded a selection of his Irish songs, Burl Ives published a song book of Irish Songs. I have a copy, borrowed from a friend, of that book. Here is the table of contents.

Burl Ives IRISH SONGS
Edited with piano accompaniments by Michael Bowles
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1955

Contents

A Personal Note, by Burl Ives, v

PART I: Love, Laughter, and Daily Events

The Palatine's Daughter, 2
"I Thank You, Ma'am," Says Dan, 5
In Glendalough Lived a Young Saint, 7
Limerick Is Beautiful, 10
Garryowen, 12
Molly Brannigan, 14
The Maid of Slievenamon, 16
The Snowy-Breasted Pearl, 18
The Girls of Coleraine, 20
Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone), 22
I'm a Poor Stranger, 24
I Know My Love, 26
I Know Where I'm Goin', 28
The Women Are Worse Than the men, 30
The Green Bushes, 33
The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow, 35
The Low-Back'd Car, 37
"Are You There, MO-RI-AR-I-TY?", 40
The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe, 44
The Garden Where the Praties Grow, 46
The Cruiskeen Lawn, 49
I Wish I Had the Shepherd's Pet, 52
The Lark in the Clear Air, 54
Boston Burglar, 56
On Board the Kangaroo, 58
The Ould Orange Flute, 60
Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded?, 64
When He Who Adores Thee, 66
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, 68
Let Erin Remember, 70

PART II: Wit, Courage, and a Fighting Nation

The Bard of Armagh, 74
Follow Me Up to Carlow, 76
Mrs. McGrath, 79
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye, 82
Brennan on the Moor, 85
Kilgary Mountain, 88
Van Diemen's Land, 90
The Girl I Left Behind Me, 92
The Dear Little Shamrock, 94,
The Bells of Shandon, 97
Off to Philadelphia, 99
Boolavogue, 102
Shan Van Voght, 105
The Men of the West, 108
Kelly, the Boy from Killann, 111
The Famine Song, 114
The Wearing of the Green, 116
A Nation Once Again, 119
Step Together, 122
A Soldier's Song, 124

Cheers, S. in Seattle