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Child Ballads
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger
The Fight Game
1999
Topic
TSCD 807
CD
Tracks:
1. 'Twas In Tierra Del Fuege In South Amerikay...
2. There's A Game Some Call The Fight Game...
3. Boxing To Me, Is The Greatest Character-Builder In The World...
4. Come All You Gallant Fighting Men...
5. Come On Johnny, And Put 'Em Up Johnny...
6. When You're A Fighter, You're Different... (appears on other albums)
7. Then Come On, Strip Off Young Johnny Boy...
8. I Like All My Boxers To Be Perfect Skippers...
9. When You're Training...
10. There's Such A Helluva Lot Of Work To Be Done...
11. The Programme Is Set Up...
12. Who Would Have A Boxer For A Husband...
13. You Get To The Hall...
14. On My Right, The Champion, Johnny Boy...
15. What'll We Do With The Man In The The Ring?...
16. Johnny, Johnny, You Failed Us...
17. I Don't Think You Can Call Boxing A Sport...
Personnel:
Singers: Bob Davenport, Gordon McCullogh, Ewan MacColl, John Reavey, Peggy Seeger
Jim Bray: double bass
Brian Daly: acoustic and electric guitars
Alf Edwards: English concertina, trombone
Ronnie Hughes: trumpet
Alfie Kahn: harmonica, clarinet, piccolo, flute
Johnny Lambe: trumpet
Peggy Seeger: guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer
Dave Swarbrick: fiddle

A radio-ballad (no.7) about boxers
Related recordings:
The Ballad Of John Axon (Topic TSCD 801)
Song Of A Road (Topic TSCD 802)
Singing The Fishing (Topic TSCD 803)
The Big Hewer (Topic TSCD 804)
The Body Blow (Topic TSCD 805)
On The Edge (Topic TSCD 806)
The Travelling People (Topic TSCD 808)
The Fight Game (Argo DA 141)
Available from Topic Records