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Thread #42072   Message #609623
Posted By: katlaughing
14-Dec-01 - 10:15 AM
Thread Name: Song Origins PermaThread™
Subject: RE: Song Origins PermaThread™

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Happy Birthday Song
Happy Birthday Song
Hard Times Come Again No More
Hector The Hero
High Noon/Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling
Hob-i-derry Dando evolved to Cosher Bailey the rugby song
Holly and the Ivy - Older discussion
Holly and the Ivy - Some recent insights
Home on the Range
Hound Dog Original Version??
House of the Rising Sun
Hush Hush, Time to be Sleeping

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I Dreamed There Were Unicorns - Bill Caddick
If I Were a Blackbird
If I Were A Blackbird
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
Iko Iko - Please see "Jacamo finane?"
In the Bleak Mid-winter
I Ride An Old Paint - Please see "Old Paint"
I Wish I Wish

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Jacamo finane? Actual title IKO IKO
Jimmy Cracked Corn
John Henry
John Henry's Origin Solved?
Johnny Be Fair
Joy of My Heart

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Keep On the Sunny Side
Kelligrew's Soiree
(Kishmul's Galley)Who Was Kishmul
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Kumbaya
Another one on Kumbaya

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Lads of Virginia - History?; Weary in Virginny, O Two different songs in same thread
LAGAN LOVE
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Laurel - variations on Green Grow the Rashes (Burns), Green Grow the Rushes; The Green Laurel/Green Grows the Laurel. Also see GREEN GROWS
Lavender Blue/Dilly Dilly
Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's
Lines Upon The Water
Little Beggarman
Lippai
Loch Lomond referencing an early version called Flora's Lament for her Charlie
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond & Red Is the Rose
Loch Tay Boat Song
Log Driver's Waltz
Londonderry Air/Danny Boy
Long Black Veil
Lord of the Dance

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Maggie(When You and I Were Young)
Magpie
Mairi's Wedding
Tune For Mairi's Wedding
Mary Ellen Carter
Mary Mild
Massacre of Glencoe (see "Ballad of Glencoe," also)
Master of the Sheepfold (also see Poor Lil' Brack Sheep)
Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife
Midnight Loving Trail - please see Goodnight Loving Trail
Mingulay Boat Song
Miss Otis AND, Chords for
Mist Covered Mountains/Chì Mi Na Mórbheana
Molly Bawn, etc
Molly Maguires
Molly Malone

Mormon Folk Songs Important thread with songs important to history:Bullfight on the San Pedro; Zack, the Mormon Engineer; John D. Lee (Mountain Meadows related); The Double Tragedy; Brighter Days in Store (see Hard Times Come Again No More); All Are Talking of Utah; The Desert Route (tells the story of the Mormon Batallion that founded the Desert Wagon Route during the Mexican War that led to the Gadsen Purchase from Mexico and eventual building of the Southern Pacific route).

Morning Has Broken
Mouse on the barroom floor
MTA Song, The
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
My Darling Clementine
My Green Valleys
My Wild Irish Rose

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NEW San Antonio Rose
1913 Massacre
No Man's Land (Green Fields of France)
Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage Now Is the Hour

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Ode to Billy Joe/Talahassie(sic) Bridge
Ode to Billy Joe/Jumped off a bridge?
O Du Fröliche, English version of German Three titles: O Du Fröliche, O Sanctissima, O Thou Joyful Day, and tune, Sicilian Mariners
Oh Dem Golden Slippers
Old Dun Cow
Old Paint
Help: houlihan? Old Paint Good-by, Old Paint (Lomax cpl. 1910, also 1938 versions)I Ride An Old Paint(Larkin 1931)(Best thread with complete songs and reliable term definitions)
Old Rugged Cross
One Meat Ball-Burl Ives ("Lone Fish Ball," the first version from 1855, in the thread)

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Paddy's Lamentation/BY THE HUSH
Peggy Gordon/Caledonia/When I First Went To Caledonia
Peter Amberlay - New Brunswick Song
Poor Lil' Brack Sheep
The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
Puff The Magic Dragon

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Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Raglan Road
Red Haired Man's Wife
Red Is The Rose
Red River Valley (Also see "Forty Below")
Reynardine
Ricky Nelson - Garden Party
Robin Hood ballads
Rochester Recruiting Sergeant
Róisín Dubh
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Roll me over in the Clover
Roll ON The Day
Rose of Allendale
Rose of Tralee
Rosin the Bow
Rushes O -Green Grow the Rushes O (Sandys 1833), and its cluster, including The Twelve Apostles, The Ten Commandments, Children Go Where I Send Thee, How Shall I Send Thee.

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St. James Infirmary
Sally in our Alley
(NEW) San Antonio Rose
Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair - Uncorrupting The Corruptible
Scottish Emigrant's Farewell
Sea Chanteys That wonderful one that Cranky Yankee started
Seven Drunken Nights
Shel Silverstein's Unicorn
Shenandoah
She Moved Through the Fair
Show Me The Way To Go Home
Si Bheag Si Mhor / Shee Beg Shee More

sick note/murphy and the bricks a thread started by Pat Cooksey, the author of the song; the definitive thread on the origins of this song.

This must count as one of the earliest threads #32:
Sick Note/Paddy's Not at Work/Excuse Note

Sick Note/Paddy's Not at Work/Excuse Note
Sick Note/Paddy's Not at Work/Excuse Note
Sierry Petes
Sing A Song of Sixpence(Why 4 & 20 Blackbirds Baked in a Pie?)
Skibbereen
Sleeping At the End of the Bed
Sloop John B
The Snows They Melt the Soonest
Soldier's Joy
Spancil Hill
Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
Spanish Ladies
Stagger Lee
Stand Up For Judas
Strawberry Roan - Sheepherders version? Correct title: Strawberry Roan - Outlaw Broncho
Streets of Laredo
Strike the Bell, Second Mate
Sweet Betsey From Pike

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Take Her Out Of Pity
Take The Children and Run
Taladh Chriosta(Christ Child Lullaby)
Tell Me Ma
Tell Old Bill
There is a Tavern in the Town
This Land is My Land (Canadian Version)
Those Were The Days My Friend
Tie A Yellow Ribbon
Tom Dooley
Tom Dooley
Tom Dula/Dooley
Tom Dula/Dooley
Tom Dula/Dooley
Tom O' Bedlam
Town of Old Dolores
Trad British Isles' Songs
12 Days of Christmas

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Unchained Melody

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Wabash Cannonball (also defines term Hobo)
Wabash Cannonball (discussion of terms)
Wabash Cannonball (definition of terms)
Waly Waly
Waltzing Matilda / Craigielee
Waltzing Matilda / Bonnie Woods of Craigilea
(Original) Waltzing Matilda
Water Is Wide
Water Is Wide
Water Is Wide
Water Is Wide
Water is Wide, and other tie-ins
Water is Wide - One more time
Wayfaring Stranger
Weary in Virginny, O; Lads of Virginia - History? Two different songs in same thread
Westering Home
Wexford Carol (Enniscorthy Christmas Carol) also known as "Good People All"
Whaler's Tale
When Christmas Morn is Dawning (words: När Juldagsmorgon Glimmar) (tune: Wir hatten gebauet)
When I First Went To Caledonia
When You and I Were Young(Maggie)
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Whiskey In The Jar
Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Rover
Wildwood Flower (Includes original, I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets)
WILLIAM TAYLOR
Wimbeldon Fair
Wimoweh/Lion Sleeps Tonight(original)
Women o'Dundee
Women O'Dundee
The World is Old
Wreck of the Asia
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Wreck of the Old '97

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Yankee Doodle
You Are My Sunshine

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