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-Joe Offer-
Can you suggest any songs associated with the month of January? That is : (A) Any songs with January in the title (B) Any songs with a January date given in the lyrics (C) Any songs referencing an event that is known to have occurred in January even if the lyrics do not actually say so.
It would be very helpful to have links to performances of the songs and further sources of information about them.
INDEX OF JANUARY SONGS
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ABDUL THE BULBUL AMIR
AULD LANG SYNE
ALL HANDS
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS NEW YEAR’S DAY
AMAZING GRACE
ANOTHER POSTCARD
ARRIVAL OF THE GREENHORN (THE)
AWFUL EXECUTION OF CHARLES CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON (THE)
BALLAD OF 1891(THE)
BALLAD OF DEREK BENTLEY (THE)
BALLAD OF HENRY AND SUSANNAH (THE)
BALLAD OF LOU MARSH (THE)
BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO (THE)
BATTLE OF FALKIRK MUIR (THE)
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (THE)
BECAUSE I LOVE YOU aka The Postman Song
BOLD DANIELS
BOLD POACHERS (THE) aka THE OAKHAM POACHERS
BOSTON MOLASSES DISASTER
BOUND FOR CALIFORNIA
BROOKLYN BRIDGE by Anaïs Mitchell
BROOKLYN BRIDGE (THE) by Barry Manilow
BURNTOLLET AMBUSH
BURNTOLLET BRIDGE AMBUSH (THE)
CANVEY ISLAND
CAROL OF THE BELLS
CHALLENGER
CHERRY TREE CAROL (THE)
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
COME SEE THE BOYS GO ROUND
COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS
COSHER BAILEY
DARKEST HOUR - Arlo Guthrie
DAYS OF ’49 (THE)
DECK THE HALLS
DEM NAYNTN YANUAR [Ninth of January]
DEPORTEE ( Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
DERBY RAM (THE)
DIRTY OLD TOWN
DOMHNACH NA FOLA
EL ANNO VIEJO
FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE (THE)
FLYING FOR ME
FOUR RODE BY
FRED JORDAN'S BOOTS
GALLEY SONG {THE)
GO DOWN YOU MURDERS aka The Ballad of Tim Evans
GREAT MOLASSES DISASTER
GREAT MOLASSES DISASTER by Robin Aigner
HAPPY NEW YEAR song by ABBA
HARE'S DREAM
HEN WLAD FY NHADAU / LAND OF MY FATHERS
HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING
HEROINE OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA
HO! FOR CALIFORNIA
HOLOCAUST SONGS
HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY (THE)
HYMN TO SAINT SYLVESTER
I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS
I’M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER
ISLE OF HOPE, ISLE OF TEARS
IT’S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY
JANUARY
JANUARY CHILD
JANUARY, FEBRUARY
JANUARY LULLABY by Lester Simpson
JANUARY MAN
JANUARY SALES
JANUARY SNOWS by Ray Hearne
JANUARY SNOWS (2)
JANUARY SONG By Alan Hull
JANUARY SONG by Billy Bragg
JANUARY 28, 1986
JOE BOWERS
JUNE IN JANUARY
KELLY THE PIRATE
LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME (THE)
LETTER FROM AMERICA
LETTER TO ME
LETTER IN THE MAIL
LETTERS FROM WAR
LETTER TO YOU
LEVY – DEW MILLENIUM
LLOYD GEORGE
LONG MARCH TO DERRY
LORD HAW HAW
LOU MARSH
LOVE LETTERS
LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND
LOVE TO BE WITH YOU by Andy Irvine
LUCKIEST SAILOR (THE) by Linda Kelly
MARI LWYD SONG (THE)
MINDS LOCKED SHUT
MONTH OF JANUARY (THE)
MOUNTAINS OF MOURNE (THE)
MURSHEEN DURKIN
NEW PENNY POSTAGE (THE)
NEW YEAR’S DAY (Taylor Swift song)
NORSEMAN'S HOME (THE)
NUN LASST UNS GEHN UNDTRETEN
OH CALIFORNIA
OH MOLASSES
OH MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
OLD MOLASSES RUM
OPEN LETTER TO A LANDLORD
PERFECT YEAR (THE)
PLOUGH MONDAY SONG
PLOUGH MONDAY SONGS
POSTCARD FROM PARIS
POSTCARDS
POST OFFICE SONG
POST PLOUGH MONDAY SONG
PLEASE MR POSTMAN
PRIDE OF PETROVAR (THE)
PRINCESS VICTORIA by Gareth Davies-Jones
P.S. I LOVE YOU
QUEEN VICTORIA by Leonard Cohen
RANTIN' ROVIN' ROBIN
RETURN TO SENDER
RING THE BELLS
ROAD TO DERRY (THE)
ROLL DOWN TO RIO By Rudyard Kipling
ROSE FOR EDITH THOMPSON'S GRAVE (A)
RUBINSTEIN REMEMBERS
SALUTE TO THE CHALLENGER
SEEING THE ELEPHANT
SHCHEDRYK
SHINE ON HARVEST MOON
SHOOTING GOSCHEN’S COCKS UP
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED
SOLDIER’S LAST LETTER (A)
SONGS ABOUT ABORTION
SONGS ABOUT DONALD CAMPBELL
SONGS ABOUT LETTERS AND THE POSTAL SERVICE
SONGS ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING
SONGS ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
SONGS ABOUT THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD
SONGS ABOUT THE SPACE SHUTTLE, CHALLENGER
SONGS FROM ELVIS PRESLEY
SONGS OF ALISTAIR HULETT (THE)
SONGS AND POEMS BY LES BARKER
SONGS SUNG BY AL BOWLLY
ST. AGNES EVE SONGS
STAN
STEPHEN FOSTER SONG by Teresina Huxtable
STRATTON CAROL (THE)
STRATON CAROL OF THE MONTHS
SUNDAY,BLOODY SUNDAY
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (RAP)
SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE
THREE MCFARLANDS
THROUGH THE GALLEY BOY'S EYES
THIS IS THE FEAST OF SAINT SYLVESTER
'TIS A STORY THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER (ROBERT FALCON SCOTT MEMORIAL SONG )
TRIBUTE TO THE CHALLENGER
UP HELLY AAH SONGS
VICTORIA - The Grehan Sisters
VICTORIA - The Kinks
VICTORIA, THE SUITE - The Mediaeval Baebes
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
WE SHALL OVERCOME
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE?
WHEN THE GREEN MAN WALKS THE FOREST By Graeme Miles
WILL 2K
WRECK/ LOSSOF THE INDUSTRY (THE)
WRECK OF THE NORTHFLEET (THE)(Roud 1174)
(IT WAS IN THE ) MONTH OF JANUARY
mainlynorfolk-song info https://mainlynorfolk.info/frankie.armstrong/songs/itwasinthemonthofjanuary.html
Month Of January · Dolores Keane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am7b8QimTOw
The Month of January · Frankie Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-u1kaUfg9g&list=PLY2jO2aLrSJookNNCmIEAH4rZSgOkcH-D&index=84
Marianne McAleer sings "The Month of January" in Worlebury Woods, Somerset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASne3cSk_k&fbclid=IwAR0PnGzQuIt6Mb1pq-JvO7Rb2DH_4QSmpCvcHm4Qn-WoacFa_BojX3Vbyiw
The Month of January · Siobhan Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJnZIcIIFA&list=PLpfne-pLcasGFlnPu8czMSgmTSbgW5ZvW&index=30
The Month of January · Blair Dunlop · Larkin Poe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoFngIPIk8
The Month of January · John Doyle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH8cG5KbvhM
The Month Of January - June Tabor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjKiTJ99LdM
The Month of January -Jyll Skinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7F7a4SmaPI
MUDCAT:Lyr/Chords Req: The Month of January mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=45014
DIGITRAD /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4021
Link to JANUARY SNOWS (2)
JANUARY MAN
By Dave Goulder
Dave Goulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UbWhtVCBE
Christy Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW-7KrLzIcQ
The January Man · Siobhan Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHGiLd2e12g&list=PLpfne-pLcasGFlnPu8czMSgmTSbgW5ZvW&index=32
Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbDZQsEH3n8
Bert Jansch mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55546#864740
DIGITRAD @displaysong.cfm?SongID=3159
https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/records/thejanuaryman.html
JANUARY SONG
By Alan Hull
Lindisfarne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5QLKft_a7A