gillymor, I hear The Galtee Mountain Boy tune on this YouTube track of Body of An American starting from about 35 seconds in and going up to 1 minute 10 seconds

The Body of an American

I can hear a similar tune when I listen to Skibereen.

Our session group last night was too busy chatting to listen to The Pogues, so I've just sent them out an email with some tracks on the If I Should Fall From Grace With God album.

Track numbers and the time on each track where the tunes start:

# 2. the tune in the middle and then end part of Turkish Song of the Damned, starting at 2 minutes into the track, then an instrumental at 2 mins 40 secs

# 6. Thousands Are Sailing - the last part, about 4 mins 40 secs into the track

# 7 The end part of South Australia from about 2 minutes into the track

# 12 The Battle March Medley is the track I played last night. There are snippets of March of the King of Laoise between each tune. but it's possible that the first main tune was written recently and is not traditional. The one which someone said is a slip jig starts at about 2 minutes into the track.

# 14 The Broad Majestic Shannon - the first part of the tune at 1 minute 20 secs is the same as one of the melody lines in # 4 Fairytale of New York also starting at 1 Min 20 secs where Kirsty McColl sings "They've got cars bigs as bars...etc" and then there is an instrumental part with that tune straight after.



I've identified a couple more of the snippets of tunes:

On Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, the track called Gentleman Soldier has a snippet of The British Grenadiers - "Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules..."

I think I was wrong about what I posted near the beginning of the thread:

Re Hell's Ditch album: "Also the tune on the beginning of The Sunnyside of the Street is just on the edge of my brain. It has shades of Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, but slightly re-jigged."

I think it might be A Man You Don't Meet Every Day rather than Believe Me etc.

Helen