Because It's There

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Because It's There
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Studio album by
Released1979
Recorded1979
Studio Riverside Studios, London
Genre Folk
Length41:47
Label Topic
Producer Ashley Hutchings
Martin Carthy chronology
Crown of Horn
(1976)
Because It's There
(1979)
Out of the Cut
(1982)
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Because It's There is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1979. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995.

Contents

Track listing

All songs "Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy" unless noted otherwise. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering.

  1. "Nothing Rhymed" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 2:10
  2. "May Song" (Roud 305) – 2:49
  3. "Swaggering Boney" (instrumental) – 2:46
  4. "Lord Randall" (Roud 10, Child 12) – 4:16
  5. "Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251) – 6:05
  6. "Jolly Tinker" (Roud 863)– 3:01
  7. "Lovely Joan" (Roud 592)– 3:14
  8. "Three Cripples" (Roud 2422)– 3:06
  9. "Siege of Delhi" (instrumental) – 4:18
  10. "Nothing Rhymed" (reprise) (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 1:18
  11. "Death of Young Andrew" (Roud 6740, Child 48) – 8:37

Personnel

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