Thats a beautiful rendition of the Butcher boy ,Ive never heard anyone cover it and never tried it myself .I really enjoyed hearing it here.

That last song...."The Fairy and The Fly" my oh my that is something special right there. I will need to listen to it again a few times for it to fully sink in I think , that's pure fairy-tale folk song magic right there.

Just as a wee bit of musical history .The Clancys and Tommy Makem did eventually get to act ,after they got famous from their music a lot of doors opened to them. One of my favourite short films is this one from the 1970s called "The Magic Sovereign" Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem play a couple of Irish con men trying to sell a magic sovereign to a rural Irish couple.

They were naturally talented men of the stage in all aspects :) I got the song "The Rambles Of Spring" from this short film.