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Thread #31662   Message #498627
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
04-Jul-01 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: Songs you've posted II
Subject: RE: Songs you've posted II
Most of the songs I post here are in response to requests, and I often forget the "ADD" prefix. Here is a list of some recent ones that don't seem to have been harvested, following on from the list I put in the previous thread:

FAREWELL, MY OWN DEAR NATIVE LAND  -as sung by Margaret Barry.  No tune (it's a variant of Tramps and Hawkers), but see this thread for some related discussion:
Farewell My Own Dear Native Land   -discussion re tune.

DAN MC.CARTHY'S PARTY  -with tune.  Thread also contains text of another (?later) version, MACARTHY'S PARTY, which is harvested, and a couple of fragments.

THE MOWER  as re-written by Baring Gould, plus original text as collected.  With tune.

AIKEY FAIR  with tune.  Thread also contains AIKEY BRAE, posted by Wolfgang.  The tune should be more-or-less the same for both, and is a traditional variant of The Moss O' Burreldale.

LOGAN WATER  John Mayne's lyric, 1789 .  Three verses from Shankmac, three from me.  Two verses of an earlier, traditional set from, presumably, Bruce Olson.

SIX JOLLY MINERS  Two versions from Sheffield, with tune.

LYKE-WAKE DIRGE  Cleveland set.  Thread also includes the texts published by John Aubrey and Walter Scott (the text in the DT is a modernised one, with a verse missing) and the tune as originally composed by Harold Boulton, c.1895.

THE HILLS OF DONEGAL  Version from Willie McElroy of Brookborough, County Fermanagh, via The Boys of the Lough.

A NAU CATARINETA  Brazilian set of the Portugese song, with tune.  The thread also contains two French versions, La Courte Paille and Trois matelots du port de Brest; tune for the former is at Mudcat Midis.

NEWPORT STREET  with references.

NO LOVE IS SORROW  (Pentangle, 1972)

THE TINKLER'S WADDIN'  with tune.

THE THREE DANISH GALLEYS  with notes, and tune.

GLOSSOP ROAD  tune, notes and emendations from the original text, to go with Jacko's post earlier in the same thread.

CORDUROY  Copper Family, with tune and notes.

LORD GRESHAM  (Martin Furey, Banshee Music, 1995) -May contain some small errors.

Hanged I shall be  Text transcribed by Stewie from Albion Country Band record, originally from "Shepherd" Taylor of Hickling in Norfolk (1921); text from Harry Cox of Catfield in Norfolk; text (The Wexford Murder) from Walter "Paddy" Church of Bedfordshire; tunes for first and third examples; notes and references.

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE (LET ITALY BOAST)  -not the 1950s version that's in the DT twice (and on both occasions unattributed to its author)!  With notes.

THE WHITE HARE  text as given by Frank Kidson in his Traditional Tunes (1891).  Also in the same thread are transcriptions of the Kidson text as modified by The Watersons, and of Joseph Taylor's version.  Extensive notes, by no means all from me.

Add: Tribute to Willie Clancy (Junior Crehan)  with notes.

DOWN IN DEMERARA  The thread also includes another song with a similar title from Kat, and enormous amounts of information about Demerara itself.

THE PULLING-DOWN SONG  (John Tams and Roger Watson)

THE MUIR OF CULLODEN  From Ord; text only

THE BACK O' RAREY'S HILL  Text from Ord.  Also in the same thread (first post) is a transcription of another version, recorded by Mary Black, who got it from Cilla Fisher.  It contains a few mis-hearings, which I have corrected later in the thread.  The second transcription in the thread, copied from Cantaria's website, is so full of silly mistakes that it is best ignored.

BACKSIDE ALBANY  With some discussion of difficult readings.  I couldn't remember the name of the tune it was set to at the time, but it was actually The Boyne Water.

HAGMANA SONG  Text from Richmond, North Yorkshire

UAMH AN OIR (CAVE OF GOLD)  as recorded by Margaret Stewart and Allan MacDonald; no tune.