Track Listing

1. Mitty Matty Had a Hen
2. Shelly Kee Bookey
3. Big Ship Sailing
4. Rain, Rain
5. When I Was Young
6. Three Gray Geese
7. Tom, Tom the Piper's Son
8. Red Fox
9. Frosty Weather
10. Oliver Twist
11. Mammy, Mammy
12. Seotin Seo
13. Frog in the Well
14. See Saw
15. She Didn't Dance
16. As I Went up an Apple Tree
17. Around to the Butcher's Shop
18. Paddy on the Railway
19. Oh, Rodger Rum
20. There Was an Old Man at the Fair
21. Goodie on a Saucer
22. One, Two, Three
23. Dance to Your Daddy
24. Old Nanny Witch
25. King of the Castle
26. O-Row Shay
27. Jeremiah, Blow the Fire
28. Wall Flowers
29. I've Come All the Way from Dublin
30. Coming to Work, Sir
31. Bread Rhyme
32. Postman, Postman
33. Man of Double Deed
34. Are You Ready for a War?
35. Wren Song
36. Sally Go 'Round the Moon
37. Old Nanny Gray
38. Why Don't You Get Johnny's Supper?
39. Ahem, Ahem
40. She Can Knit
41. Soldier, Soldier
42. All Along
43. Oro My Little Boat
44. As I Roved Out
45. Paper of Pins
46. Rattlin' Bog

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27798 in Music
• Released on: 1997-07-22
• Number of discs: 1

From Parents' Choice®
This collection of 46 (yes, 46!) Irish children's songs, rhymes and singing games is unique and utterly charming. Collected between 1955 and 1961, mainly from members of the Robert Clancy family of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, the individual selections are performed by different generations of the same family. Each is presented with such engaging simplicity that listeners will be quickly transported to an Irish kitchen where family members sit around the table singing through the days, weeks and years of their closely interwoven lives. Extensive liner notes supply a cultural context, but the songs-passed from mouth to mouth over the centuries-speak for themselves...as universal and timeless as childhood itself. A 1998 Parents' Choice® Gold Award.

Reviewed by Kristi Beavin, Parents' Choice® 1998

From the Label
For this album, the Clancy clan has collected songs which they learned from their mums–songs which have been passed down through countless generations of Irish children. Features contributions by the Clancy children and some of the elder Clancys along with Seamus Ennis on Uillean pipes and penny whistle. Recorded in 1962.

Customer Reviews

enchanting voices, learn new insights to irish people
This CD is really helpful if you would like to learn new songs for children, the voices are full of laughter and fun ( even when singing about war or the devil) If you collect children's music, or children, this is a must for your collection. With 46 traditional songs on the recording you can't miss.

The Clancy Children
My wife is Irish and I am German, having bought a fabulous CD of German Children's folk songs we felt we needed an Irish equivalent for our 8 month old. It was difficult enough to find this CD and my wife was very pleased to hear nursery rhymes which she had not heard since her childood. The one disappointing thing was that there weren't as many longer songs on the CD as I would have wished. There are very few and don't really last more than a minute.