The Planxty songbook was released in 1976. It has a low gloss green cover with the gold lettering and has many odd illustrations throughout the book. I only found out about the songbook a couple of years ago, as it is not mentioned anywhere. It contains 25 of their songs and instrumentals, as listed below.

As I Roved Out
An Phis Fhliuch
Arthur McBride
Bean Phaidin
The Blacksmith
Cunla
Cold Blow and Rainy Night
Fisherman's Lilt
Cronin's Hornpipe
The Dogs amongst the Bushes
Jenny's Wedding
Follow Me Up To Carlow
Hewlett
Humours of Ballyloughlin
Johnny Cope
The Jolly Beggar
The Kid on the Mountain
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Only Our Rivers
Polkas
"P" Stands For Paddy, I Suppose
Pat Reilly
Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Time Will Cure Me
The Well below the Valley

It is now out of print but I guess there is quite a few of them out there. It seems to be of the standard Songbook quality, 7” x 10”, paper backed cover and a couple of photos of the band thrown in. I think ‘Aiming for the Heart’ is a little bit more tastefully put together, but I don’t own a copy of the Songbook to give it a fair comparison. Not yet anyway.

Kieron

This is one of the illustrations in the book. This one is for the song Arthur Mc Bride.

 

Special Thanks to Debra for all the songbook info.