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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Cherish the Ladies]]
| cover      = The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone.jpg
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| released   = April 17, 2001
| recorded   = November 1998–August 2000
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| studio     =
| genre      = [[Celtic music|Celtic]]
| length     = 59:23
| label      = [[Windham Hill Records|Windham Hill]]
| producer   =
| prev_title = [[At Home (Cherish the Ladies album)|At Home]]
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Across the Waves]]
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}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r528193|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
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'''''The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone''''' is an album by [[Cherish the Ladies]] released in 2001 on the [[Windham Hill Records|Windham Hill]] label. The title reverses the lyrics "the boys won't leave the girls alone" from the Irish song "[[I'll Tell Me Ma|Belle of Belfast City/I'll Tell Me Ma]]", popularized in the album ''[[Irish Heartbeat]]'' by [[Van Morrison]] and [[The Chieftains]]. ''[[The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone]]'' is also the title of a 1962 album by [[The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem]].
Two of the Clancy Brothers, [[Liam Clancy|Liam]] and [[Bobby Clancy]], make guest appearances on ''The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone''. They both perform "[[Freeborn Man of the Traveling People]]" with Bobby's son, [[Finbarr Clancy|Finbarr]], and daughter, Aoife Clancy, a former member of Cherish the Ladies. This was the final recording of any of the Clancy Brothers together. Liam Clancy also sings "The Jolly Beggarman" with [[Arlo Guthrie]] on the album. The Clancys' former singing partner, [[Tommy Makem]], appears with [[John McCutcheon]] and [[Tom Chapin]] on the song, "Rambling Irishman."
Other guest artists include [[Paddy Reilly]], [[Luka Bloom]], [[Pete Seeger]], fiddler Brendan Mulvihill, banjo player [[Eric Weissberg]], flutist [[Matt Molloy]], and [[Liam Ó Maonlaí]]. In the second half of the recording, the Ladies pay tribute to their families by playing a rendition of "The Queen of Connemara"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiQUENCONN;ttQUENCONN.html|title=Queen of Connemara}}</ref> accompanied by their fathers and brothers. This album is a departure from the group's previous dance-tune-based recordings, but the quality of the singing is regarded as very good throughout.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Wont-Leave-Boys-Alone/dp/B00005AX60|title = The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone|website = Amazon|year = 2001}}</ref>
==Track listing==
# "Song: The [[Broom of the Cowdenknowes]]" – 4:33
# "Song: [[Freeborn Man of the Traveling People]]" – 4:05
# "Song: Rambling Irishman" – 5:23
# "Song: Bonny Blue-Eyed Nancy" – 5:43
# "Reels: The Raveled Hank of Yarn Set" – 3:29
#*"Mullin's Fancy"
#*"The Raveled Hank of Yarn"
#*"Gilbert Clancy's"
# "Song: Erin Grá Mo Chrói" – 5:16
# "An Poc Ar Buile" – 4:14
# "Song: I'll Walk Beside You" – 3:16
# "Jigs: The Colliers' Set" – 4:01
#*"The Two-and-Six-Penny Girl"
#*"The Humors of Drinagh"
#*"The Colliers"
# "Song and Jigs: The Queen of Connemara/The Carraroe/The Lilting Fisherman" – 6:42
# "Song: [[Down by the Glenside]]" – 4:13
# "Song: The Jolly Beggarman" – 3:35
# "Reels: The Last Night's Fun Set" – 4:53
#*"Last Night's Fun"
#*"The Chattering Magpie"
#*"The Black Haired Lass"
#*"The Commodore"
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r528193|label=''The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone''}}
* [http://www.irishtune.info/album/CTL+8/ Complete identification of album contents at irishtune.info]
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