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A radio-ballad about boxers by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger

THE FIGHT GAME VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD807
1 'Twas in Tierra del Fuego in South Amerikay... 2.13
2 There's a game some call The Fight Game ... 3.15
3 Boxing, to me, is the greatest character-builder in the world ... 4.40
4 Come all you gallant fighting men ... 1.54
5 Come on Johnny, and put 'em up Johnny... 3.02
6 When you're a fighter, you're different... 3.25
7 Then come on, strip off young Johnny Boy... 3.50
8 I like all my boxers to he perfect skippers... 1.52
9 When you're training... 4.11
10 There's such a helluva lot of work to he done... 3.46
11 The programme is set up... 2.35
12 Who would have a boxer for a husband... 2.58
13 You get to the hall... 3.31
14 On my right, the champion, Johnny Boy... 8.46
15 What'll we do with the man in the ring... 1.34
16 Johnny, Johnny, you failed us... 3.31
17 I don't think you can call boxing a sport... 4.16

Script, song lyrics and music: Ewan MacColl (with Peggy Seeger)
Orchestration and musical direction: Peggy Seeger
Actuality recording: Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker
Production: Charles Parker

Singers: Bob Davenport, Gordon McCulloch, Ewan MacColl, John Reavey, Peggy Seeger

Instrumentalists:
Jim Bray double bass
Brian Daly acoustic and electric guitars
Alf Edwards English concertina, trombone
Ronnie Hughes trumpet
Alfie Kahn harmonica, clarinet, piccolo, flute
Johnny Lambe trumpet
Colin Ross Northumbrian pipes, fiddle
Peggy Seeger guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer
Dave Swarbrick fiddle