附註:"A ribald collection of love songs, ballads, and melodies recorded at pubs, firesides and campfires"--Container.
Originally published in 1961 as Caedmon LP TC 1143 as Songs of seduction, compiled and edited by Peter Kennedy and Alan Lomax, part of the series Folk songs of the British Isles; tracks 1, 7-8, 13-14, 16-17, and 32 are previously unreleased.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy, lyrics, and bibliography ([36] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Blackbirds and thrushes (Dickie Lashbrook) (:59) -- The bonnie wee lassie who never said no (Jeannie Robertson) (1:23) -- Bundle and go (Johnny Doherty) (3:11) -- Blow the candle out (Jimmy Gilhaney) (1:42) -- The foggy dew (Phil Hammond) (3:11) -- Toorn-a ma goon (Jimmy McBeath) (:40) -- Rolling in the ryegrass (Paddy Taylor) (1:23) -- The jolly tinker (Michael Gorman ; Thomas Moran) (1:26 ; 1:50) -- The long peggin' awl (Harry Cox) (1:58) -- The thrashing machine (Annie O'Neil) (1:48) -- Up to the rigs of London Town (Charlie Wills) (2:45) -- The new-mown hay (William Rew) (3:28) --
The overgate (Belle Stewart and Hamish Henderson) (3:50) -- Rolling in the dew (George Maynard) (4:27) -- She is a rum one (Jeannie Robertson) (1:50) -- The knife in the window (Harry Cox) (2:20) -- The cunning cobbler (George Spice with chorus) (3:44) -- The nutting girl (Cyril Poacher) (2:16) -- The magpie's nest (Annie Jane Kelly) (2:37) -- Dublin City (Seamus Ennis) (:57) -- The Orkney style of courtship (John Findlater) (1:26) -- The light drago'n (Harry List) (1:31) -- The cuckoo's nest : (two versions) (Jeannie Robertson ; Sean Maguire) (1:36) --
Twa 'n' twa : The cuckoo's nest (John Strachan) (1:41) -- The soldier and the lady (Fred and Ray Cantwell) (2:33) -- Behind the bush in the garden (Seamus Ennis) (2:02) -- Never wed a' auld man (Jeannie Robertson) (2:03) -- The maid of Australia (Harry Cox) (2:56) -- The merchant's son and the beggar wench (Davie Stewart) (3:24) -- The bold English navvy (Lal Smith) (1:41) -- Firelock stile (Harry Cox) (2:11) -- The wind blew the bonny lassie's plaiie awa' : (three versions) (Jimmy McBeath ; Duncan Burke ; Jeannie Robertson) (1:15).
