Fire Draw Near

This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England Tracklist Paul Clayton – Botany Bay The Watersons – The Whitby Lad Fiddlin' John Carson August – The Boston Burglar Carl T Sprague – The Boston Burglar New Lost City Ramblers – Louisville Burglar George Pegram – The Boston Burglar Cat Mother – Boston Burglar Jean Elvin - The Boston Smuggler Jimmy MacBeath – The Boston Smuggler Delia Murphy – The Boston Burglar The Clancy Brother and Lou Killen – The Boston Burglar The Pubcrawlers – Boston Burglar https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Episode LVII is a grim Halloween special featuring some creepy favourites! Artwork is a German painting of the Danse Macabre, creator unknown. Tracklist John Carpenter – Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships Richard Dawson – Ghost of a Tree Paddy Glackin and Robbie Hannan – The Young Tom Ennis / The Maid at the Well John Goodluck – The Lover’s Ghost Pentangle – The Cruel Sister Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson – The Geese in the Bog / The Jig of the Dead Roky Erickson – I Walked with a Zombie Dimlaia – Goodnight Sweet Ghost Eddie Butcher – Saturday Night is Halloween Night Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor – Haunted The Kipper Family – All on the Shore Blood Axis & In Gowan Ring – Dead Men’s Slip-Jig Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad Jeannie Robertson – The Dublin Murder Ballad https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair Tracklist Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William Martin Howley – Knight William AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret Justus Begley – Lady Margaret Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear “Margaret’s Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909

This episode looks at the ballad the Suffolk Miracle aka the Holland Handkerchief aka the Lover's Ghost. Tracklist Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief Packie Manus Byrne – The Holland Handkerchief Austin Flanagan – The Holland Handkerchief Michael McGonigle – The Holland Handkerchief John Goodluck – The Suffolk Miracle Chris Foster – The Holland Handkerchief Rósa Ingólfsdóttir – Djákninn á Myrká John W. Green – The Suffolk Miracle Mrs. G. A. Griffin – The Suffolk Miracle Dol Small – The Suffolk Miracle Peggy Seeger – The Suffolk Miracle Dean Gitter – The Suffolk Miracle Doctor Evazan – The Suffolk Miracle Quadriga Consort – The Suffolk Miracle https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

This episode looks at the ballad Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man aka An Old Man Came Courting Me aka Never Wed an Old Man aka The Foolish Old Man. Tracklist The Dubliners – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man The Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came Courting Pat McNamara – Never Wed an Old Man Sam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man Danny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting Me Peggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting Me Killy Country – An Old Man Came Courting Me Ashley Hutchings – Black Joke Jeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting Me Alex Beaton – Maids When You're Young Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old Man Alan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old Man Edna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting Me Frank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get Away Joni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man Paul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-Courting Jon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

This episode looks at the song Paddy Works on the Railway aka Paddy on the Railway aka Poor Paddy aka Fillimiooriay aka Paddy Works on the Erie aka Pat Do This, Pat Do That. Tracklist That Clancy Children – Paddy on the Railway The Pogues – Poor Paddy Salty Dick – The Shaver Mark Page – Paddy Works on the Railway Ewan MacColl – Paddy Works on the Railway Dominic Behan – Paddy Works on the Railway Louisa Jo Killen – Paddy Works on the Railway Keith Kendrick - Paddy Works on the Railway The Wolfe Tones – Paddy Works on the Railway Michael Cassius Dean – To Work Upon the Railroad The American Ballad Singers – Pat Works on the Railway Pete Seeger – Paddy Works on the Railroad The Highwaymen – Pat Works On The Railway Cisco Houston – Pat Works On The Railroad Stuart M. Frank – Paddy on the Railway Barbara Moncure – The Bluestone Quarries Sam Amidon – Pat Do This, Pat Do That Ben Miller Band – Paddy on the Railway https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LIII has been a long time coming...Included therein are songs of resistance, songs of magic and songs of being human. Life, Death, Love, Rage, Joy and Suffering. You know the drill. Sit by the Fire Draw Near. Free Palestine. Artwork designed by Palestinian artist Abdal Latif Muhanna and published by the Foreign Information Department of the PLO in 1982. X Tracklist Zeinab Shaath – The Urgent Call Of Palestine Marcel Khalife Oumeima El Khalil – My Teacher Palestinian Student Karmel Group – Al Intifada Was Jabal Al Thawra Robert Sarazin Blake – Don’t Use Our Death and Pain Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko – Oh you Foolish little Zionists Rola Azar – Ya Teir Elsnono Áit Ait – Henry Martin Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap Wailing Sídhe – Corrag Derrick Morgan – Three Drunken Night Mark Lanegan – The Cherry Tree Carol Richard Bégin – Lavrador Jack Sheehan & Isa Gordon – My Heart Biological (Loch Erne’s Shore) Doyle & Andersson – Baffled Knight Leonard Barry – Tom Busby's / The Humours of Ballingary Ian Lynch - The Rocks of Palestine https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear