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Y Saith Rhyfeddod (per Malcolm Douglas transcribed by ear from June Tabor recording) | Popup Midi Player |
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Yarmouth Town | Popup Midi Player |
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Ye Mar'ners All (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Yellow on the Broom [Adam McNaughton] | Popup Midi Player |
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Yorkshire Couple | Popup Midi Player |
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Yoshke, Yoshke / Der Rebe Hot... (from Pearls of Yiddish Song, Mlotek) | Popup Midi Player |
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You Can't Be a Pirate [Don Freed] | Popup Midi Player |
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You Gentlemen of England Fare (Malcolm notes:
The DT text is from Flander and Olney's Ballads Migrant in New England
(1953); no tune was given in that book, as the text was "received by mail from James Copeland of Brideport, Connecticut". There is,
however, a reasonably close version, with tune, in Helen Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (1932). This was noted
from Mr. Ben Hennebury of Devil's Island, and I've made a midi from that notation.
Mr. Copeland's text was reproduced verbatim, including his (probably accidental) rendering of "coronation" as "croronation". There
are two errors in the DT file; in verse 6 line 3, "Beat" should be "great", and in verse 7, line 5 should end at "love", "I Hope" being the
first part of line 6. Parts of the text have become garbled in the course of transmission, or require explanation; the information comes
from Roy Palmer's Boxing the Compass (2001; formerly The Oxford Book of Sea Songs), where he gives a text called
England's Great Loss by a Storm of Wind .
Verse 3 line 2: "the old ram's head": a headland to the west of Plymouth, now called Rame Head.
line 5: "fisher noes": originally "Fisher's Nose", part of the foreshore at the entrance to Sutton Harbour, Plymouth.
line 6: "Thinking to bring our palamoers": in earlier versions, "Thinking to fetch up in Hamose", Hamoaze being a name for the mouth
of the River Tamar.
Verse 5: The following is the equivalent verse from the set published by Palmer, taken from J. Ashton's Real Sailors' Songs (1891):
When we came to Northumberland Rock
The Lion, Lynx and Antelope,
The Loyalty and Eagle too,
The Elizabeth made all to rue:
She ran astern and the line broke,
And sunk the Hardwick at a stroke.
Re. Northumberland Rock, Palmer comments "This line in one version reads: Ashore went the Northumberland."
The ballad was made on an historical event. Palmer again: "The outcome of the storm of September (not November) 1691, was less
disastrous than the ballad indicates: two ships, the Coronation and the Harwich, were lost, and two more, the Royal Oak and the
Northumberland, went aground but were later refloated."
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You've Gotta Have Heart | Popup Midi Player |
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The Young and Single Sailor (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Young Banker (midi from the tune as given in Kidson's MSS., published in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and
Song Society (vol.III no.I, 1936). It was noted by Charles Lolley from Mrs Kate Thompson of Knaresborough) | Popup Midi Player |
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Young Edwin In The Lowlands Low (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Young Forbest | Popup Midi Player |
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The Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Young Jamie Foyers (from "Bothy Songs and Ballads" (James Ord, 1930)) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Young Man on the Railway (full) [Harry Clifton & W.H. Brinkworth] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Young Man on the Railway (melody) [Harry Clifton & W.H. Brinkworth] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Young Oysterman (source unknown) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Young Oysterman (source unknown) | Popup Midi Player |
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Young Redin (per Malcolm:
Child #68 (Young Hunting). The DT text is Child's example B, from Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads
(1827), and was noted from a Miss E. Beattie (from Mearns-shire), in Edinburgh.Her tune was
printed by Kinloch, and I have used Bronson's emended version,) | Popup Midi Player |
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Young Roger Esquire (from Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | Popup Midi Player |
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Your Light from the Lighthouse (transcribed by Blessings Barbara) | Popup Midi Player |
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Youth's the Season (From John Gay's Beggar's Opera (song number XXII)
Frank Kidson identifies the tune to which it was set as follows:
"Air: ...Zoney's Rant, in the third volume of the Dancing Master (circ. 1726).") | Popup Midi Player |
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Zulu Warrior (from the Marais & Miranda songbook, Folk Song Jamboree) | Popup Midi Player |
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