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Row Bullies Row
Topic 8T7
The Blackball Line
Topic 8T8
Singing Sailors
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Shuttle & Cage
Topic 10T13
Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs
Riverside RLP 12-642
Bad Lads And Hard Cases
Riverside RLP 12-632
Thar She Blows!
Riverside RLP 12-635
Matching Songs Of The British Isles And America
Riverside RLP 12-637
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Wattle B2
Chants de Marins Anglais No 1
Le Chante du Monde LDY 4155
Chants de Marins Anglais No 2
Le Chante du Monde LDY 4157
Ewan MacColl
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol.3, F.J. Child Ballads
1961
Folkways
FG 3511
12-inch LP
Tracks:
1. The Broom of Cowdenknowes (Child 217)
(appears on other albums)
2. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship (Child 46)
(appears on other albums)
3. Fair Ellen (Child 63)
4. Sweet William (The Famous Flower of Serving-Men)
(appears on other albums)
5. The Elfin Knight (Child 2)
(appears on other albums)
6. Glenlogie (Child 238)
7. Henry Martin (Child 250)
(appears on other albums)
Personnel:
Ewan MacColl, unaccompanied
Related recordings:
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads), Vol.1 (Folkways FG 3509)
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol.2, F.J. Child Ballads (Folkways FG 3510)
Digital download (mp3 or lossless) or a custom CD is available from
Smithsonian Folkways