title: Because It's There
text: # Because It's There
  
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  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.
  
  * "Nothing Rhymed" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 2:10
  * "May Song" (Roud 305) – 2:49
  * "Swaggering Boney" (instrumental) – 2:46
  * "Lord Randall" (Roud 10, Child 12) – 4:16
  * "Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251) – 6:05
  * "Jolly Tinker" (Roud 863)– 3:01
  * "Lovely Joan" (Roud 592)– 3:14
  * "Three Cripples" (Roud 2422)– 3:06
  * "Siege of Delhi" (instrumental) – 4:18
  * "Nothing Rhymed" (reprise) (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 1:18
  * "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
  
  Carthy, Kirkpatrick and Evans appeared on Carthy's Album Out of the Cut released in 1984 and followed on as three fifths of the band Brass Monkey.
  
  