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Tommy Dempsey & John Swift: Green Grow the Laurel

Green Grow the Laurel (Trailer LER 2096)

Green Grow the Laurel
Tommy Dempsey & John Swift

Trailer Records LER 2096 (LP, UK, 1976)

Recorded by Tony Taverner;
Produced by Fred Woods;
Photographs by Mike Bramich;
Sleeve by Janet Kerr

Musicians

Tommy Dempsey, vocals;
John Smith, “glute” (an instrument part guitar, part lute)

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The Little Beggarman (Roud 360)
  2. Walking in the Dew
  3. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb (Roud 434; Laws Q5)
  4. The Recruiting Sergeant (Roud 2355)
  5. The Enniskillen Dragoon (Roud 2185)
  6. Cunla Dear
  7. She Moved Through the Fair (Roud 861)
  1. Green Grow the Laurel (Roud 279)
  2. Follow Me Down to Carlow
  3. Blackwaterside (Roud 312; Laws O1)
  4. As I Roved Out (Roud 277; Laws O17)
  5. Paddy and the Whale (Roud 6342)
  6. The Tri-coloured Ribbon
  7. The Limerick Rake (Roud 3018)

All tracks trad. arr. Tommy Dempsey, John Swift except
Track 7 trad. arr. Herbert Hughes