Artist: Michael Coleman
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1927
With Ed Geoghegan on piano. Reel dedicated to Sir Alexander MacDonald, the 9th Baronet of Sleath, a friend of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. The oldest version salvaged was on board the polar expedition of Admiral Perry in 1819. A barrel organ replaced a fiddler.
Covers:
Boys Of The Lough [as Slanty Gort]
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs [as Leather Britches; that's how dried green beans were named in pre canning jars and freezer days in Appalachia]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)