The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone

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The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone
The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone cover
Studio album by Cherish the Ladies
Released April 17, 2001
Genre Celtic
Length 59:23
Label Windham Hill
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Cherish the Ladies chronology
At Home The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone On Christmas Night


The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone is an album by Cherish the Ladies released in 2001 on the Windham Hill label. The title reverses the lyrics "the boys won't leave the girls alone" from the Irish song "Belle of Belfast City/I'll tell me ma," popularized in the album Irish Heartbeat by Van Morrison and The Chieftains.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Song: The Broom of the Cowdenknowes" – 4:33
  2. "Song: Freeborn Man of the Traveling People" – 4:05
  3. "Song: Rambling Irishman" – 5:23
  4. "Song: Bonny Blue-Eyed Nancy" – 5:43
  5. "Reels: Mullin's Fancy/The Raveled Hank of Yarn/Gilbert Clancy's" – 3:29
  6. "Song: Erin Grá Mo Chrói" – 5:16
  7. "An Poc Ar Buile" – 4:14
  8. "Song: I'll Walk Beside You" – 3:16
  9. "Jigs: The Colliers' Set: The Two-and-Six-Penny Girl/The Humors of Drinagh/The Colliers" – 4:01
  10. "Song and Jigs: The Queen of Connemara/The Carraroe/The Lilting Fisherman" – 6:42
  11. "Song: Down by the Glenside" – 4:13
  12. "Song: The Jolly Beggarman" – 3:35
  13. "Reels: Last Night's Fun/The Chattering Magpie/The Black Haired Lass/The Commodore" – 4:53

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