the Jolly Beggarmen
20 Great Irish Drinking Songs
1981 - Dolphin DOLM 5027 LP
Side One
Take Her Up To Monto
Wild Rover
A Nation Once Again
Whiskey In The Jar
Big Strong Man
Holy Ground
Spancil Hill
Paddy On The Railway
Merry Ploughboy
Biddy Mulligan
Side Two
Jug Of Punch
Waxies Dargle
Spanish Lady
Old Man In The Garret
Henry My Son
Bog Down In The Valley-O
Peggy Gordon
Finnegan's Wake
All For Me Grog
Dicey Riley
Credits
The Jolly Beggarmen are
Tommy Jenkinson: vocals & mandolin
Charlie Clarke: vocals & mandolin
Joe White: vocals & guitar
Johnny Carroll: banjo, vocals, guitar and tin whistle
The album was produced and engineered by Paul Waldron at Trend Studios, Dublin.
Sleeve Notes
This record is the product of diligent research by teams of unpaid volunteers who without thought to their moral or physical welfare toured the pubs of Ireland to find out what songs were lifting the roofs at closing time. Although many of these brave researchers were never seen again, enough information reached us to enable us to produce this, the definitive Irish drinking record. Just one look at the titles will convince you that every song that has ever roused the drinking public is included. The Jolly Beggarman, who, with the help of their many friends sing the songs on this album, are already deservedly famous for their rousing on-stage performance, a performance which is successfully captured on this record.