Canals & Cargos

Introduction
& Narration
Blood Sweat, No Tears
The Weavers
Telford Bridge
Peg'n'awl
Cargoes
The Judgement
E' Took A Look
Cut Waltz
Charlie
Isobella
Tess The Boatman's Daughter
My Dad
Dirty Boaties
Raise up your Glasses
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Memories

Introduction &
Narration
Rough Neck Navvy Band
Banks of the Nile
Called to Arms
Joshua Ridley (story)
Our Josh
Bargees March Away
Billy (story)
Darling Lizzie
Jack Bishop (story)
Training the Land Girls Army
Sammy's Gone to War
Yesterdays Heroes
The Bright New Future Song. |
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Songs & Stories From The
Canals

Introduction
Inland Navigation
One May Morning
Alice White
The Vicars Donkey
Tom Beachey
Rosie Cooper
Push Boys Push
The Tilbury
The Toll Collector
Hard Working Boater
The Boatman
Shropshire Union
Waterways Lament
Working on the Railway
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A Cut Through Time

Overture
Lancashire Working Man
Gout Builds A Canal
Up The Ladder
Iron Road
Collier Lass
Industry's Wife
Keeping The Boats Ahead
My Boatman
The Leggers Song
lock Gate Keeping
Water Gypsies
No Use For Him
Goodbye To The Canals |
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They're Coming Back To
The Water

They're Coming Back
To The Water
The Manchester Canal or The SS Irwell
When Leeds Becomes a seaport Town
All Hail This Grand Day
The Wandering Navvy Boy
The Rochdale Nine
Still Waters
Broken Boats
The Narrow Lock Gate
Moving Up The Cut
Down at the Pub on the Cut
The Tommy Note
The Rosemary
Push Boys Push
Girl on the cut / Keep Your Hands Off
Bristol Trough To Reading
I Know that I'll Be Back Again |
The Bold Navigators

The Stour
Come No Begin Delving
The Navy Boy
The Bold Navigators
Canal Fever
Leeds - A Seaport Town
The Manchester Ship Canal Navy
Manchester Ship Canal
Bring the Sea to Manchester
Birmingham Lands
All Hail This Grand Day
The Captains of the Waterways
The cruise of the Calibar
Keep Yer' Ands Off
The Tommy Note
Poor Old Horse
Push Boys Push
The Rosemary |
David Blagrove, who wrote the ‘Rosemary’, sings it on a BBC
vinyl recording: ‘Narrow Boats’, BBC REB56M.
There are other songs about the canals on:
'The
Bold Navigators’, Jon Raven at al; Tradition TSR019.
Tradition Recordings, 183 Chester Rd, Macclesfield.
‘Straight from the Tunnel’s Mouth’, Sweet Folk and Country
SFA018.
Sweet Folk All Recordings Ltd, Shrewsbury Lane, Shooter’s
Hill, London SE18.