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Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Noreen
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 11:01 AM

Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT

(for completeness, and because I couldn't find it)


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 03:47 PM

1048)   FACTOR'S SONG  This appears in Vermont Folksongs and Ballads (Helen Hartness Flanders and George Brown, 1931) with the following note:

"Recorded by Mr. Brown, September 13, 1930, in Manchester, Vermont, from the singing of Mr. Sharon Harrington as learned from his mother, Rebecca Smith Harrington."

Midi made from the notation in that book.

1845)   JENNY JENKINS  A song quite widespread in America, though I have a vague idea that it's originally Scottish.  The text in the DT was taken from a record by Margaret MacArthur rather than from her source, the Flanders/Brown book, in which the tune is given with the following note:

"Recorded by Mrs. Alice Brown, July 24, 1930, in Bethel, Vermont, from the singing of Mrs. Susan Chase, as learned from her aunt when a little girl.  The village of Bethel promised much at a casual glance, but yielded nothing until Mrs. Chase sang a snatch of this old song to the collector who sat upon a doorstep in the village street and gratefully wrote it down; it was all Mrs. Chase could recall of the song."

The editors go on to discuss colour symbolism and the use of the song in children's games.  They then give a text from the original Green Mountain Songster (1823); Ms. MacArthur has added bits of this to Mrs. Chase's single verse in order to make a "full" set; unfortunately, the older text is too long for the tune, so the result is -on paper- an uneasy compromise with most of the chorus omitted and oh narrow, narrow substituted throughout for the Onere, Onere of the earlier set.  I expect it works fine when sung, but the DT note is misleading in that it implies that the text is authentic whereas it's actually a modern collation.  Midi made from the notation of Mrs. Chase's singing.

2813)   A PRESENT FROM THE GENTLEMEN  This poem by Rudyard Kipling is, inexcusably, not credited to its author in the DT file.  It is correctly called A Smuggler's Song, and appeared in Puck of Pook's Hill.  In verse 1, line 4 should begin So watch... In verse 2, line 1, woodlands should be woodlumps; in line 4, brushwood should be brishwood.  Strictly, use 'em for your play should be take 'em for your play, but this appears to be an alteration made by Peter Bellamy, who set the poem to music.

Midi made from notation of Bellamy's music as given in The Song and the Story (Isla St Clair and David Turnbull, 1981).


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 09:22 AM

Malcolm - you are a treasure! Thank you!


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 09:16 AM

1047)   THE FACTOR'S GARLAND  This broadside text was originally posted by Bruce Olson, here:  LONG SONG, Q37.  The tune directed, The Wand'ring Lady, has not been identified; however, Marguerite Olney noted a set from tradition in 1941, from a Mr. Nelson Powers of Mattawamkeag, Maine; he had learned it from his father.  His text, at an impressive 54 verses, is virtually the same as the broadside (58 verses); obviously we can't tell whether or not his tune is The Wand'ring Lady or a relative of it, but it's the closest we are likely to get.  Midi made from notation in Ballads Migrant in New England (Helen Hartness Flanders and Marguerite Olney, 1953); I have not modified it to fit the first verse of the DT file, as the intervals are unusual and I don't think it should be messed with.  Mr. Powers' first verse went as follows:

Behold, here's a ditty, the truth and no jest,
Concerning a gentleman lived in the West,
And he by his gaming came to poverty
And afterwards went many voyages to sea.

There is a much shorter, fragmentary set from tradition in the DT, also lacking a tune: 1048)   FACTOR'S SONG  This was printed in Hartness and Brown's Vermont Folksongs and Ballads (1931); as soon as I get hold of it I'll add that tune as well.

There are two further DT files without tunes which were taken from Ballads Migrant in New England: 3502)   THE TROOPER AND THE TURK  and 3855)   YOU GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND FARE:  in both cases, no tunes were given in the book.  There appears to be only one tune known for the former (Child 266), which is a Scottish one so may be quite inappropriate for an American text; however, it's all that's available.  It's in Bronson, and I'll get to it eventually unless Sorcha would like to.  For the latter, there appear to be two tunes on record; an English one in the Journal of the Folk Song Society (vol.3, no.1, 1908) and one in Helen Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia.  I don't yet know if they are at all similar, but will look into it.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:57 PM

3538) TWENTY MEN FROM DUBLIN TOWN - NWC file sent to Joe.

2033

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 09:10 AM

lemmee - count....carry the one, take off the shoes, and...

nope - sorry - latest guestimate is we are at 2034


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 09:03 AM

Great! that's 2 less. Are we under 2K yet?


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 08:40 AM

yup - snuffy Lin-in-Kansas sent me a copy of "Palms of Victory" and it's been put into NWC and sent on to Joe.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 07:21 PM

snuff - I'll check in the morning - but I do believe it has been posted.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 06:20 PM

Mario you posted: 1575) HONEST FARMER or BOLL WEEVIL - tune = 'Palms of Victory' see tunefile PALMSVIC (l-i-k)

I have 2710 PALMS OF VICTORY as still outstanding. Did I miss something?

WassaiL! V


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 01:40 PM

Thanks malcolm! files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 11:35 AM

3872)   YOUTH'S THE SEASON  From John Gay's Beggar's Opera (song number XXII, though the DT file does not say so).  Frank Kidson (The Beggar's Opera: Its Predecessors and Successors, 1922) identifies the tune to which it was set as follows:
"Air: Cotillon. This is a French cotillon called Zoney's Rant, in the third volume of the Dancing Master (circ. 1726)."
Midi made from the notation in that book, found at Robert M. Keller's  The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium  where it is given as Toney's Rant.  I don't know which is the correct reading; it is impossible to tell from the image file.

1177)   FLY UP, MY COCK (2)  There is a note in the DT file saying, "from Sam Henry's Songs of the People where it's called The Bonny Bushes Bright".  Seems not the best of ideas to file it as Fly Up My Cock, then, but it was intended to be helpful.  Midi made from notation in the Henry collection; the set came from Frank Thompson of Priestland, Bushmills, in 1937.

NOTES:

511)   BROUCHTY WA'S  [Child #258].  Sorcha posted an abc for this one back in February, which I think you may have missed:   Broughty Wa's.  Worth mentioning that the DT file title is spelled wrong!

338)   BILL PICKETT  and 2580)   OLD BILL PICKETT  are effectively duplicates.  The former credits a writer, the latter doesn't, but contains extensive background notes.  The two files need to be combined.  No idea about the tune...

1072)   FALSE SIR JOHN 2  This is Child's version C.  MMario sent a tunefile (Bronson, 4:83) to Joe back in April, saying that it was for   1071)  FALSE SIR JOHN.  This latter file states "tune & text from Bronson", which is only partly true; the text seems to have been cobbled together from bits and pieces (and the reference halfway through to a "bridge" seems pretty pointless), though the bulk of it is probably a modern anglicisation of parts of Child's C text.  Altogether rather unsatisfactory; there are so many genuine traditional versions of this song that it seems a shame to include modern, non-traditional collations instead.  Oh well; the tune is the right one for Child 4:C, anyway, and may well be the right one for the other file as well.  We can probably consider both dealt with.

Worth mentioning, perhaps, that there are mistakes of transcription in False Sir John (2), which look like the result of using an OCR program and not proof-reading the results.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 06:26 PM

3495 TRAINS OF WATERLOO


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 03:41 PM

2413) MY DADDY IS ONLY A PICTURE ~ mid/pdf from lin-in-kansas; NWC file sent to Joe.

2566) OH, HAPPY DAY -pdf from lin-in-kansas; NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 09:39 AM

2780) PLASTIC MOSES - see 'Plastic Jesus - tunefile plastjes (l-i-k)

1575) HONEST FARMER or BOLL WEEVIL - tune = 'Palms of Victory' see tunefile PALMSVIC (l-i-k)

1747) IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY - tune - 'Rye Whiskey' see tunefile ryewhisk (l-i-k)

2866) QUEEN OF CHESAPEAKE BAY - NWC file sent from Lin-in-kansas; found at American Memory aka "Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay"

2877) THE RACE IS ON - midi from web- NWC file sent from Lin-in-Kansas

19) ADALIDA - midi by J. A. Robinson - NWC file sent from Lin-in-Kansas

1919) JUST A-BUMMIN' AROUND - NWC file from Lin-in-kansas sent.

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 08:46 AM

files updated. Lin-in-Kansas has sent me a new batch too, will update with hers asap.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 11:16 AM

Back in the Tamblin thread, Garry Gillard has pointed to a transcription of Mike Waterson's recording of the song, which makes it clear that Pete Morton got his set from Mike, who made most of the modifications to Lloyd's earlier re-write himself.  It seems most likely that Les Barker's parody is based on the Waterson re-make.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 11:01 AM

The DT text seems to be a transcription made by ear from a Pete Morton record, Frivolous Love (Harbourtown Records; issued in the USA by Philo).  It contains some minor mis-hearings.  It is not a traditional version of the song, and is pretty obviously a modification of A.L. Lloyd's (also untraditional) modernisation of the ballad, which he seems to have based loosely on the text (without a tune) that James Duncan got from Bell Robertson of Aberdeenshire in 1915.  Exactly where the tune Lloyd used came from nobody seems to know, but it's a relative of one I've heard used for Little Sir Hugh amongst others.  Snuffy's abc is the tune Lloyd used; I don't remember how close to it Morton's recording was, but I'm pretty sure he used it too, as did Frankie Armstrong, who also sings a modification of Lloyd's rewrite.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 08:42 AM

3356 TAMLYN

Miditext/abc posted here Young Tamblin of Les Barker's Tam Lin which seems to be based on the above. There is no indication of source in the DT file.

The first verse is identical, and it follows the subsequent text fairly closely. Unlike the Kippers, Les Barker tends to use the traditional tune and only change the words.

WassaiL! V


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Dec 01 - 05:22 PM

317)   BESSY AND HER SPINNING WHEEL  Described laconically in the DT file as "Scots", this is actually another one from Burns, written in c.1792.  Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, OUP, 1969).

542)   CA HAWKIE  This file actually contains one Scottish text and one English; the latter is from Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Mistrelsy (1882); midi made from the notation in that book.  For convenience, I have slightly modified bar12; the 5th and sixth notes are given as an eighth note and a dotted sixteenth, which leaves a one-thirtysecond rest -not specified in the music- somewhere in the bar.  I have changed these to a dotted eighth and one sixteenth, which fits nicely.   For some reason, two stanzas are omitted in the DT file (though their omission is noted); they belong between the second and third stanzas as given, thus:

Hawkie is a pretty cow,
All the children do adore her,
For she gives them all the milk,
There is none they prize before her.

Girls be not too nice or coy,
If your sweetheart wants to marry,
Ne'er say nay, but quickly comply,
As 'tis hazardous to tarry.

Bruce Olson posted an earlier set of the tune (1772) here:  Drive Hakky


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Dec 01 - 01:46 PM

1142 FIRE MARINGO


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Dec 01 - 11:43 AM

636)   CHRISTMAS LAMENTATIONS  The DT file names no source of any kind for this text.  Thanks to a current thread,  Welladay: need corrections,  we now know that it was taken from Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859), and that the correct title is CHRISTMAS'[S] LAMENTATION.   The DT has only the first two verses of eight, and contains one or two minor mistakes; I have posted the entire text to the Welladay thread, with a midi of the vocal line as printed by Chappell.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 04:36 PM

3264) STEP IT OUT, MARY - NWC file sent to Joe.

3326) TAFFY WAS A WELSHMAN - NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 12:51 PM

3228) THE SONG OF THE SOCKEYE - NWC file sent to Joe.

3130) SHOWER THE PEOPLE - NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 05:33 PM

2655) ONE DAY AT A TIME, SWEET JESUS - mid/pdf from lin-in-kansas; NWC file sent to Joe.

3506) TRUCK DRIVIN' MAN - pdf from lin in kansas; NWC file sent to Joe.

192) THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE-midi/pdf from lin-in-kansas; nwc file sent to joe.

files updated


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 04:21 PM

700) COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS - midi found by sorcha:NWC file sent to Joe.

2318) METHODIST PIE -pdf from lin-in-kansas;NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:32 PM

3186) SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE!-pdf from Lin-in-kansas; NWC file sent to Joe.

409) BOLD O'DONAHUE - NWC file sent to Joe.

2573) OKLAHOMA HILLS - pdf from l-i-k;midi by J.A. Robinson;NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 01:41 PM

3104) SEVEN DAFFODILLS - mispelled duplicate of 3105

3105) SEVEN DAFFODILS-NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 03 Dec 01 - 03:05 PM

I swear snuffy's post wasn't there when I went to post these!


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 03 Dec 01 - 01:20 PM

1504) HERE AND NOW - posted by snuffy in thread 26154

1465) HARVARD SQUARE - posted by snuffy in thread 26154

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 03:57 PM

A couple of Beatles tunes with parody lyrics:

1465 HARVARD SQUARE

1504 HERE AND NOW

MidiText/abc posted to this thread Tune Add: Please Post Tunes Here -2

WassaiL! V


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 04:38 PM

2731) PEACEFUL EASY FEELING-NWC file sent to Joe; pdf from lin-in-kansas

files updated


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:30 PM

17) ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAIN ~ NWC file sent to Joe; pdf from lin-in-kansas

272) THE BATTLE OF ELKHORN TAVERN - NWC sent to Joe; pdf from Lin-in-kansas

966) DUST ON THE BIBLE ~NWC file sent to Joe; pdf file from lin-in-kansas

files updated


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 04:16 PM

2470) THE NERVOUS WRECK OF THE EDNA FITZGERALD- NWC sent to Joe

2512) NORTH SEA HOLES - NWC file sent to Joe.

2672) ONLY A BOY NAMED DAVID - NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 09:47 AM

Thanks Malcolm - files updated with your info plus:

2423) MY HOME TOWN -NWC sent to Joe.; pdf from lin-in-kansas

2439) MY OWN DEAR GALWAY BAY-NWC file sent to Joe.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 04:44 PM

The following three need to be considered together:

2592)   THE OLD DOORSTEP  -original song, as written by A.J. Crider and Geo.B. Chase, 1880.

2631)   OLD STEPSTONE   -shortened text from Bascom Lamar Lunsford of Carolina.

There is another DT file,  STEP STONE  "from Bascom Lamar Lunceford"; the text has moved further from the original.  There is a tune given, a cut-down set of the original.

Both "Stepstones" reckon to be derived from Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Lunceford is a mis-spelling); the texts are different, so either he had two variants, or someone has made a mistake.  At all events, it seems not unreasonable to imagine that the tune given with Step Stone must be pretty much the same as the one missing from Old Stepstone, so a cross-reference should suffice unless someone can provide specifics.  The Old Doorstep was written with verses double the length of these, so needs a tune of its own; fortunately, it can be found in the  Lester Levy Collection,  and I have made two midis from the 1880 sheetmusic (Creston, IA: Dr. J.W. Graves); one of the vocal line only, one of the full arrangement for voice and piano including a nice four-part harmony for the chorus.

3274)   STRANGE VISITOR  This is a recitation, and has no tune.

3307)   SWEET DUBLIN BAY  Though it appears on broadsides and was noted (text only) by Alfred Williams in the Upper Thames area in the early years of the 20th century, all sets noted with tunes from traditional singers seem to be from the USA and Canada.  In fact, it's a commercially composed song of the later 19th century, words by Mrs. Anne (or Julia; accounts differ) Crawford with music by George Baker.  Sheetmusic (undated, published by the National Music Co. of Chicago) is available at Levy:  Dublin Bay.  Mrs. Crawford was a prolific writer of popular romantic songs, often on "Irish" or "Scotch" subjects ; she wrote a whole series of "Songs of Mary Queen of Scots" (and at least one about the American Civil War), but is best known as the writer of  Kathleen Mavourneen.  Midi made from the sheet music (vocal line only; the piano accompaniment is not worth bothering with).

The "Silly Wizard" recording, as transcribed in the DT, contains some departures from the original text, but since no reference of any kind is made to their source, we can't tell if these are genuine variations from a traditional version or mistakes made by the band or the transcriber.  Equally, I have no idea if they used the original tune or not.

75)   AMBER TRESSES  The DT file appears to credit this song to  A.P. Carter,  but it was actually written by Samuel M. Mitchell (words) and H.P. Danks (music), as  Amber Tresses Tied in Blue.  Sheet music printed in 1874 by Cottier & Denton, 269 Main St., Buffalo, can be seen at Levy.  Midi made from this (vocal line only).  The text has changed in the course of transmission, so I 've posted it in a thread of its own:  Amber Tresses.  I don't know if Mr. Carter's set had a modified melody, of course; presumably it was shorter, as the original song had verses twice the length of his.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 03:03 PM

2385) MOTHERS, DAUGHTER, WIVES - NWC file sent to JOe;midi from SingOut

2406) THE MUSIC WILL FOLLOW US - NWC file sent to Joe.

files updated


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 09:41 AM

Thanks snuffy!


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Nov 01 - 06:07 AM

3164 SISTER JOSEPHINE


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 05:09 PM

will not be at work for the next 5 days - so may not be as quick to respond to various postings - but I will be checking. and for once I WILL have the updated list of "missing tunes" at home - so will be able to send it out if anyone wants it.

My rough count says we are are at about 2088 tunes still missing. Wouldn't take much to put us below 2000


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 09:42 AM

Thanks snuffy! Files updated.


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Nov 01 - 11:47 AM

1791 ISABEL MAKES LOVE Miditext/ABC posted here Tune Add: Please Post Tunes Here -2


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Nov 01 - 01:24 PM

3189 SMUGGLERS Miditext/ABC posted here Lyr Req: Smugglers life for me

2342 MINER LAD Miditext/ABC posted here Lyr/Tune Add: Miner Lad

WassaiL! V


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: Snuffy
Date: 16 Nov 01 - 06:36 PM

1885 JOHNNY LAD The DT says recorded by McColl & Seeger, Ian Campbell Folk Group. I have a recording by the Campbell group which uses the same tune as MY JOHNNY LAD in the DT (Filename [JOHNLAD2).

However, they also sing basically the same lyrics shown in MY JOHNNY LAD, not the lyrics of JOHNNY LAD.

But as the last verse of JOHNNY LAD is used as the chorus of MY JOHHNY LAD, and there is another verse in common, I guess the tune is probably the same. Looking at the two sets of words, it looks like MY JOHNNY LAD is probably a (kids') parody of the other.

Have a look at them both, Mario - you decide.

Wassail! V


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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 16 Nov 01 - 01:12 PM

637) CHRISTMAS TIME - lehrer - aka A CHRISTMAS CAROL - NWC file sent to Joe;pdf from lin-in-kansas

1621) I AIN'T MARCHIN' ANYMORE- NWC file sent to Joe;midi from SingOut!

1900) JOSHUA GONE BARBADOS - NWC file sent to Joe; midi from SingOut!

1312) GIVE YOURSELF TO LOVE - NWC file to joe; midi from singout!

1885) JOHNNY LAD - see tunefile johnlad2

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 15 Nov 01 - 02:00 PM

1667) I SING OF A NIGHT - aka One Night in Bethlehem aka Don Oiche Ud Im Beithil - NWC file sent to Joe.

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 15 Nov 01 - 11:04 AM

some of these may be duplicate reportings:

1595) HOWARD JOHNSON HALLELUJAH! - see "The Hallelujah Chorus"

1599) HUMBOLDT WASSAIL SONG - see wasscome.mid

1792) ISLAND OF BOTHIES - see Fionnghuala.mid at alan's site

1872) JOHN FRANCOIS - see songfile BONEYNAP

3150) THE SINGLE BOLINDER - see little chance at alan's midi site

3167) SIX EGGS IN THE POT - see songfile DNTDAVE

3231) SONG OF THE GILLIE MORE - see Gillie Mor

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 15 Nov 01 - 08:19 AM

3227) SONG OF THE SEALS - NWC file sent to Joe.

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 14 Nov 01 - 04:29 PM

1537) THE HIGHLANDER'S LAMENT - NWC file sent to Joe.

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
From: MMario
Date: 14 Nov 01 - 02:44 PM

490) BRIGHT COLLEGE DAYS - lehrer - NWC file sent to Joe; pdf from lin-in-kansas

588) CAROLINA ON MY MIND /Going to Carolina/Carolina in My Mind - NWC file sent to Joe; pdf from lin-in-kansas

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