Title: Songs of the County Down
Author: Boyce, Jackie
Contributor:   
Publisher: Ballyhay Books
Place of Publication: Donaghadee
Date of Publication: 2004
Number of Pages: 285
Binding Style: Hardback
Dimensions: 9.5 in.

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Men of Down

Songs from the Bangor/Donaghadee area

Down, Down, Sweet County Down
Betsy Gray
The Twelve Lodges
Crawford's Burn
The Kinnegar
The Lovely Pink of Ballyhay
An American Dream

Songs from the Strangford Lough/Ards Peninsula area

The Beauty of the Ards
The Bright Orange Heroes of Comber
The Virtuous Girls of Joseph's Brig
Ballygowan
A Rustic Love Making
The Lovely Lass of Moneyrea
The Banks of Drumreagh
The Lovely Lass o' Creevy Ha'
Bessie Grey
Lough Cuan's Shore
Carrickmannon Lake
The Colonel's Retreat
Strangford Shore
The Fairy Review
David Brown's Farewell
A Wee Drop o' Auld Comber. Tam
John MacAnanty's Courtship
MacAnanty, Fairy King of Scrabo Hill
The Ballyboley Races
The Hare Murders
The Comber Maid
The Disappointment
The Hills of Carrowdore
The Cot on the Hill
James Porter of Greyabbey
The Flower of the County Down

Songs from the Ballynahinch/Dromore area

Porter for My Tay
The Nymph of the Lagan
The Ducks of Magheralin
Felix O'Neill
The Battle of Ballynahinch
Sweet Blooming Lassie o' Lovely Drumarrah
The True Lovers' Discussion
The Lass of the Falls
Forde's Desmesne
General Munroe
Castle of Dromore
Castle of Dromore 2
The Amazon
The Windin' Roads of Down
The Defence of Crossgar

Songs from the Banbridge area

Rathfriland on the Hill
Willie Archer
The Flower of Magherally O
The Boys in the Red and Black
The Banks of the Bann

Songs from the Carlingford Lough/The Mournes

As I Was Going to Newry
Newry Town
The Races at the Bridge of Mayo
The Maid of Mourne Shore
The Maids of the Mourne Shore
The Tinker and the Ass
John Mitchel
Killeavey's Pride
The Newry Transport
The Mountains o' Mourne
Up in the Mountains
The Jolly Sailor Man
The Blackbird of Mullaghmore
Walmsley's Shady Grove
The Hedges of County Down
The Newry Apprentice Boy
The Sailor
Dick McKnight's Farewell to Mourne
The Newry Highwayman
The Hills o' Mourne
The Next Market Day
The Muster of the North
Roger O'Hehir
Gra Geal Mo Chroí
Mourne Maggie O

Songs from the Newcastle/Castlewellan area

Dolly's Brae
The Dream of Dolly's Brae
The Battle of Dolly's Brae
Betty MacBlaine
The Murlough Shore
The Wreck of the Newcastle Fishermen
The Castlewellan Meeting

Songs from the Downpatrick area

Tom Tadger of Killyleagh Town
An Ardglass Boat Song
Goodbye tae Ardthole
Downshire Nanny
Legananny O
Jimmy Murphy
Sweet Portaferry
Sweet Portaferry 2
Lament for the Irish Emigrant

Miscellaneous songs

The Man from God Knows Where
Jack o' Dunleer
Sweet Nancy is the Girl for Me
Little Town in the Ould County Down
An Advice tae the Lasses I Will Gi'e
The Moving of the Furniture
The South Down Militia
The Lovely Flower of Banks of Nore
The Constant Sailor
Ah Jessy! Come into My Arms
I Feel for Hibernia
The Bonny Linen Weaver
The Nut-Bushes
The Bonny Lasses, O!
The Isle of the West
I Once Was a Maiden
Sweet Wedlock
Margaret Jane
The Hand Weaver and the Factory Maid
The Weaver and the Servant Maid
Erin go Bragh
The Maid of Ballydoo
The Emigrant's Farewell
The Friend in the Jug
My Jemmy is Returning
The Farewell
Ould 'Heel-Ball' You're Boozing Again
My Mother's Son Ne'er Was a Fleecher
O, The Honest Labour, O
The Battle of the Longstone
Paddy's Lamentation
O! Whiskey My Darlin'
Maggy
Fallen Boney
Because He Was Smarter Than Me
It's a Bad Thing Bousing
We Will Stop Where We Are
Wallace's Ale
The Dear Land of Freedom
We May and Might Never All Meet Here Again
The Old Woman's Advice
The Maid of Tullyquilly
The Parting Glass
The Parting Glass 2
Honest John (A Tale of 1798)