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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> I grew up singing in a singing family at first in Birmingham and Bally- bunion later on in the immigrant surroundings of Toronto Boston and Brooklyn. My father had a few of the old songs: The Wild Rover I Wish They’d Do It Now McCaffery Early One Morning Barbara Allen-plus a host of sentimental Irish songs. Even my mother’s side the relatively non- musical Kerry Cremins have kinship to “The Weaver? Denis Murphy of Gneeveguilla. So it is out of a long love for traditional music and a match- maker’s zeal to see others wooed with its beauty that I thought to put together this sampler. Here is a book of songs for singers. A mixed bag of tenderness sly humor sheer horror compelling lust history and pseudo-history repeated thought- less stupidity a few lies great heroic effort sublime devotion and just damn bad luck. They are songs from England Ireland and Scotland: Irish songs from Hampshire and Scots ones from Galway set with altogether further-fetched mutations.