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Vin Garbutt

Vin Garbutt 2010
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About the artist

Vin Garbutt (Vincent Paul Garbutt, 20 November 1947 – 6 June 2017) was an English folk singer and songwriter. A significant part of his repertoire consists of protest songs covering topics such as "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland (Troubles of Erin), unemployment, and social issues. Vin Garbutt was born in South Bank, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, the son of an English father and an Irish mother. He discovered folk music while he was still at school, and began visiting and performing at the Rifle Club in Cannon Street, Middlesbrough.

Top songs

  1. The Land Of Three Rivers
  2. Punjabi Girl
  3. If
  4. Where the Hell Are We Going to Live
  5. The Loftus Emigrant
  6. England My England
  7. Not For the First Time
  8. Wings
  9. When the Tide Turns
  10. Man Of The Earth
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  1. Darwin To Dili
  2. The Valley of Tees
  3. City Of Angels
  4. Silver and Gold
  5. The Hartlepool Monkey
  6. The Troubles of Erin
  7. To Find Their Ulster Peace
  8. Welcome Home Howard Green
  9. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
  10. The By-Pass Syndrome
  11. Away From the Pits
  12. Fell of the Back of A Boat
  13. Slaggy Island Farewell
  14. Forty Thieves
  15. Send the Boats Away
  16. The Beggar's Bridge
  17. Morning Informs
  18. Filipino Maid
  19. Nothing To Show For It All
  20. Gentle Annie
  21. Absent Friends
  22. Lynda
  23. Storm Around Tumbledown
  24. When Oppressed Becomes Oppressor
  25. It Couldn't Be Done
  26. Down By the Dockyard Wall
  27. The Flowers and the Guns
  28. The Kilburn Horse
  29. Dark Side of the Moon
  30. Photographic Memory
  31. El Salvador
  32. Dormanstown Jimmy
  33. Waits and Weeps
  34. Old Cissy Lee
  35. For An Explanation
  36. They Don't Write 'Em Like That Any More
  37. Tunes: Wilfy Mannion's Jig/The Wild Irishman/Jamie's Christening
  38. Danny Danielle
  39. The Waters Of Tyne
  40. Howard Green
  41. Beyond the Pale
  42. The Truth Is Irresistible
  43. Time and Tide
  44. Sarajevo
  45. A Man of the Earth
  46. Carrigdhoun
  47. Lady Anne Montgomery
  48. Nica Nicaragua
  49. The One Legged Beggar
  50. Tonto McGuire
  51. The Ring Of Iron
  52. The Birk Brow Jig and Thomas McElvogue's Jig
  53. John You Have Gone
  54. If I Had a Son
  55. Fell Off The Back of the Boat
  56. Lough Sheelin Side
  57. Carol Anne Kelly
  58. The Rose of Tralee
  59. The Ballad of John Pearson
  60. One-Legged Beggar
  61. I Wouldn't Have One Myself
  62. St. Helena's March
  63. The Secret
  64. Bantry Bay / Den Toppede Høne
  65. Their Ulster Peace
  66. The Wilderness Road
  67. Legend Of Roseberry
  68. Skibbereen
  69. The Potash Song
  70. The Royal Blackbird
  71. Long Note / Lads Of Laois / Le Reel Jeune Marie
  72. Jessie the Flower of Dunblane
  73. The Morpeth Rant
  74. The Fairy Hornpipe
  75. The Songbird
  76. John Doonan's Hornpipe/tinker's Alley Reel
  77. Hornpipes - The Belfast / The Japanese
  78. Philippino Maid
  79. Be As Children
  80. Yorkshire Volunteer's Farewell to the Good Folks Of Stockton / Push About The Jorum
  81. The Land Of Three Rivers (John North)
  82. The Birk Brow Jig/Thomas McElvogue's Jig
  83. The Court of Cahirass
  84. Dish of Glass
  85. Nawa's Song
  86. Wilfy Mannion's Jig / The Wild Irishman / Jamie's Christening
  87. From the Diary of a Northumberland Miner
  88. The Coalman
  89. The Black Poplar
  90. It Couldnt Be Done

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