The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone

The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone
Studio album by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Released 1962 (1962)
Genre Irish folk
Label Columbia
Producer Robert Morgan
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem chronology
Hearty and Hellish
(1962)		 The Boys Won't Leave the
Girls Alone
(1962)		 In Person at Carnegie Hall
(1963)

The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone is a collection of mostly traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. It was their third album for Columbia Records and was released in 1962. It was also their first studio album for Columbia. Its title is taken from the song, "I'll Tell My Ma". The original LP featured liner notes by Tom Clancy.

Contents

Track listing

All songs traditional except as indicated.

Side one

  1. "Bold O'Donahue" - 1:43
  2. "I'll Tell My Ma" – 1:38
  3. "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?" – 3:06
  4. "Rothesay-O" – 2:21
  5. "Marie's Wedding" – 2:00
  6. "Singin' Bird" – 3:01
  7. "Holy Ground" – 2:29

Side two

  1. "South Australia" – 2:00
  2. "As I Roved Out" – 2:13
  3. "McPherson's Lament" – 3:33
  4. "The Wild Colonial Boy" – 2:55
  5. "Shoals of Herring" – 2:33 (Ewan MacColl)
  6. "I Know Who Is Sick" – 1:23
  7. "Old Woman from Wexford" – 1:58

Personnel