Because It's There

Because It's There is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1979. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995.

Track listing
All songs "Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy" unless noted otherwise. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering.
 * 1) "Nothing Rhymed" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 2:10
 * 2) "May Song" (Roud 305) – 2:49
 * 3) "Swaggering Boney" (instrumental) – 2:46
 * 4) "Lord Randall" (Roud 10, Child 12)  – 4:16
 * 5) "Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251) – 6:05
 * 6) "Jolly Tinker" (Roud 863)– 3:01
 * 7) "Lovely Joan" (Roud 592)– 3:14
 * 8) "Three Cripples" (Roud 2422)– 3:06
 * 9) "Siege of Delhi" (instrumental) – 4:18
 * 10) "Nothing Rhymed" (reprise) (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 1:18
 * 11) "Death of Young Andrew" (Roud 6740, Child 48) – 8:37

Personnel

 * Martin Carthy – vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin (6), electric guitar (7)
 * John Kirkpatrick – accordion (1,7,8,10), concertina (2,6)
 * Howard Evans – trumpet (6,7)
 * Bruce Rowland – percussion (2,9)
 * uncredited – Jew's harp (6)
 * Technical
 * Ashley Hutchings – production
 * Jerry Boys - engineer
 * Keith Morris - photography


 * Kirkpatrick and Evans appeared on Carthy's Out of the Cut released in 1984, only to follow as two fifths of the band Brass Monkey.