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Belfast Mountains

Three Quarter Time track 3

Lucy Broadwood had Belfast Mountains from Henry Burstow of Horsham in Sussex in 1893, and included it in her English Traditional Songs and Carols - where the third verse, not especially risqué to our ears, was marked “omit when singing”.

Broadwood's notes on the song say

The words follow very closely those on a ballad-sheet (circa 1800), printed by W. Shelmerdine, Manchester. Catnach also printed a version. There is a popular Irish superstition that Cave Hill near Belfast contains diamonds which shine sometimes at night, and this throws light upon similar allusions to diamonds, found so frequently in Irish broad­sides of a particular type.

 

String quartet arranged by Joe Turner, played by:

Joe Turner, Paul Sartin - violins
Jackie Oates - 5 string viola
Sophie Thurman - cello.