Mighty River of Song

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Here We Come A-Wassailing
  1:28
• 2
  Blood Red Roses

  The Folksons
  2:22
• 3
  Let the Bulgine Run
  2:41
• 4
  The Ploughboy
  3:16
• 5
  Hollbeck Moor Cock Fight
  1:39
• 6
  The Greenland Whale Fishery
  2:36
• 7
  Derby Ram
  2:36
• 8
  Hal-an-Tow
  2:07
• 9
  John Barleycorn

  Mike Waterson
  3:21
• 10
  The Barley and the Rye

  Lal & Norma Waterson
  1:25
• 11
  The Thirty-Foot Trailer
  3:31
• 12
  I Am a Rover
  5:02
• 13
  Rap Her to Bank
  1:42
• 14
  Three Score and Ten
  3:49
• 15
  The Jolly Waggoners
  2:57
• 16
  Twanky-Dillo
  3:42
• 17
  The Whitby Lad
  3:17
• 18
  The Morning Looks Charming
  2:06
• 19
  Willy Went to Westerdale
  1:58
• 20
  The White Cockade
  3:39
• 21
  Stow Brow

  Lal Waterson
  3:26
• 22
  The Bird

  Lal & Mike Waterson
  2:27
• 23
  Red Wine Promises

  Lal & Mike Waterson
  3:04
• 24
  Song for Thirza

  Lal & Mike Waterson
  4:23
• CD 2
• 1
  Pace-Egging Song
  3:58
• 2
  Boston Harbour
  1:56
• 3
  Sweet William

  Mike Waterson
  3:43
• 4
  Souling Song
  4:20
• 5
  Barney
  3:02
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Three Day Millionaire

  Mike Waterson
  1:38
  5.0 ★
• 7
  The Good Old Way
  3:30
  5.0 ★
• 8
  The Light Dragoon
  3:07
• 9
  Jenny Storm

  Lal & Norma Waterson
  2:29
• 10
  Tam Lyn

  Mike Waterson
  10:59
• 11
  Sound Sound Your Instruments of Joy
  4:31
• 12
  Heavenly Aeroplane
  2:24
• 13
  Emmanuel
  2:48
• 14
  Swansea Town

  Mike Waterson
  4:26
• 15
  The Unfortunate Lass

  Norma Waterson
  4:29
• 16
  The Welcome Sailor

  Lal Waterson
  3:18
• 17
  Young Billy Brown

  Lal & Norma Waterson
  2:25
• 18
  The Khaki and the Blue
  3:18
• 19
  The Whitby Lad
  3:14
• 20
  The Black and Bitter Night

  Mike Waterson
  7:16
• CD 3
• 1
  The Prickle Holly Bush
  4:09
• 2
  When I Die

  Peter Bellamy
  2:46
• 3
  I Went to Market
  3:35
• 4
  The Furze Field

  Martin Carthy & Mike Waterson
  3:14
• 5
  The King’s Song
  1:26
• 6
  Swarthfell Rocks
  5:01
• 7
  Meeting Is a Pleasure

  Lal & Norma Waterson
  2:23
• 8
  Doing a Bit

  Mike Waterson
  2:30
• 9
  Young Banker
  3:11
• 10
  Chickens in the Garden
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 11
  A Stitch in Time

  Martin Carthy
  2:37
• 12
  All I Have Is My Own

  Mike Waterson
  2:22
• 13
  Brave General Wolfe
  4:46
• 14
  May Song

  Norma Waterson & Martin Carthy
  2:18
• 15
  Harvest Home
  2:22
• 16
  Gower Wassail
  3:22
• 17
  Rumpsy Bumpsy Toralee

  Mike Waterson
  2:35
• 18
  John Ball

  The Waterdaughters
  3:24
• 19
  A Stur Mo Chroi

  The Waterdaughters
  3:56
• 20
  Stormy Winds
  3:17
• 21
  A Mole in a Hole

  Blue Murder
  4:37
• CD 4
• 1
  Hilda’s Cabinet Band
  2:19
• 2
  The Rambling Irish Man

  Mike Waterson
  4:34
• 3
  There Are No Lights on Our Christmas Tree
  3:51
• 4
  Coal Not Dole

  Norma Waterson
  3:04
• 5
  The White Cockade
  3:34
• 6
  Cob A-Coaling
  2:00
• 7
  T Stands for Thomas

  Waterson:Carthy
  3:54
• 8
  I Bid You Goodnight

  Blue Murder
  3:13
• 9
  McIlroy the Emerald Cowboy

  Mike Waterson
  4:25
• 10
  Jack Frost

  Mike Waterson
  2:27
• 11
  Pleasure and Pain

  Waterson:Carthy
  5:12
• 12
  Stars in My Crown

  Waterson:Carthy
  3:03
• 13
  Flowers of Knaresborough Forest

  Waterson:Carthy
  5:33
• 14
  Ain’t No Man Worth the Salt of My Tears

  Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy
  2:00
• 15
  Black Muddy River

  Waterson:Carthy
  4:06
• 16
  Just a Note

  Lal Waterson & Maria Gilhooley
  1:48
• 17
  Earth

  Norma Waterson & Martin Carthy
  3:05
• 18
  Stumbling On

  Eliza Carthy
  3:38
• 19
  Poor Boney

  Norma Waterson
  3:43
• 20
  Bright Phoebus

  Blue Murder
  2:53
• 21
  A Sweet Lullaby

  Oliver Knight
  5:18
• DVD-Video 5: Travelling for a Living
• 1
  The Jolly Waggoners
• 2
  The Bonny Ship the “Diamond”
• 3
  Three Score and Ten
• 4
  The Thirty-Foot Trailer

  Ewan MacColl
• 5
  Hal-an-Tow
• 6
  Jolly Old Hawk
• 7
  Dido Bendigo
• 8
  The Greenland Whale Fishery

  Mike Waterson and Louis Killen
• 9
  The Barley and the Rye
• 10
  The North Country Maid

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Release credits

• Barnaby Stradling
  electric bass guitar [18], percussion [18]
• Barry Coope
  vocal [8]
• Bill Leader
  recording [1, 7-9]
• Chris Parkinson
  piano [21]
• Eliza Carthy
  additional [18], lead vocals [8], vocal [18]
• Gabriel's Horns
  brass [13]
• Jim Boyes
  vocal [8]
• Jim Eldon
  background vocals [14]
• Lal Waterson
  background vocals [14], vocal [8]
• Lester Simpson
  vocal [8]
• Marry Waterson
  additional [2.9, 4.16, 3.18], background vocals [14], vocal [21]
• Martin Carthy
  vocal [8]
• Martin Green
  piano [18]
• Mike Waterson
  lead vocals [1.7-9, 2.10, 2.14], vocal [8]
• Norma Waterson
  background vocals [14], vocal [8]
• Oliver Knight
  electric guitar [18], recording [18]
• Rod Stradling
  background vocals [14]
• Sam Thomas
  membranophone [18], percussion [18]
• The Watersons
  arranger [11]
• Show all credits (19)

Issues

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  Mighty River of Song

  4x CD, DVD-Video
  16 February 2004