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Any July Songs

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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 05:57 AM

also re the Dunne's Store strike TEN YOUNG WOMEN AND ONE YOUNG MAN https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=102678#2082436


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,Emma Runswick
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 06:33 PM

THE DUNNE’S STORE STRIKE

Written by Sandra Kerr
Performed by:
- Sandra Kerr on Yellow, Red and Gold;
- Rebel Voices on Warning: Women at Work (American duo, my favourite version)
Christy Moore   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TER_M3KNVCE

"On 18 July 1984, Mary Manning, a shop worker in the Henry Street, Dublin (Ireland) outlet of Dunnes Stores, refused to handle the sale of grapefruit from South Africa."

More details about the Strike here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_Stores_strike

https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/anti-apartheid-in-ireland-the-dunnes-stores-strike-1984-87/

It was in the month of sweet July in 1984
The scene was set in Dublin, in Dunne's Department Store
The supermarket's busy, the registers make a din
The groceries go rolling out, the cash comes rolling in!

Mary manning was sitting at the till not thinking any harm
When a customer comes up to her with a basket on her arm
The content of that basket, Mary's destiny will shape
For it bears the dreaded label: Produce of The Cape

"Oh I can't check out your oranges missus, won't you take them back,
For they come from South Africa where white oppresses black,
Our Union says don't handle them it's the least that we can do,
You'll know what opression is if you are Irish too"

For I'd have it on me conscience and I couldn't sleep at night
If I helped support a system that denied to blacks their rights"
The managers were called, the ones that wear the suits
And Mary was suspended 'cause she wouldn't touch the fruits

But her friends were all behind her and the union gave support
They struck, they picketed the boss was overwrought
He said "I'll not be dictated to on what is bought and sold!
These women are only workers they should do as they are told"

"That's typical", said the strikers, "of apartheid's cruel law,
It's not just in South Africa where rich oppresses poor.
Ben Dunne won't have a boycott, he'd sooner have the curse.
He couldn't care less how he fills his shelves as long as he lines his purse"

Now Clery's in O'Connell Street they won't sell racist shoes
Best Man returned their clothes and Roches sent back all their booze
"'Til all South African goods are taken off the shelves at Dunne's,
You'll find us down in Henry Street, sticking to our guns!"

"Apartheid", said the strikers, "is the law of slavery,
A cruel and immoral crime against humanity.
We've learnt about our system too and now we know the score
If we go back we'll never take the sh*t we took before"

The praises they came rolling in from all around the world
For such concern and sacrifice and courage brave and bold
When 14 months were over 10 women and a man
Had changed the minds and consciences and hearts of Ireland

MUDCAT:Lyr Add: Dunne's Store Strike (Sandra Kerr)/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170216&messages=4


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 04:03 AM

true enough, I just renamed it in memory of the place and not the girl. Flower of Magherally , Ta mo chleanas a dheanamh, Diarmuid and Grainne . The galway shawl - The unattanable holy grail girls of Irish music folklore. The Rose of Tralee.

Contrast with the more realistic Lillibulero.

That is probably a new thread though


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 03:42 AM

Jiggers.I think your Banbridge Town song is STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN which is posted above? Plenty of recordings there.
See main post for this song


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 06:46 PM

I am upset by an obvious miss. I used to sing the Banbridge Town song, and of course it is a July song, how did I miss that ? I think it is because I do not have any CDs of music that include that song so it has faded.

At the harvest fair she'll be surely there....

Sip on a pint of Guiness and forget the girl is my advice.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 03:05 AM

Slievenamon - The Wolfe Tones    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOSZjLtTUg

          
Many more recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Slievenamon


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 05:13 PM

SLIEVENAMON

Frank McGrath wrote at Mudcat thread "Info on "Slieve na mBan"
"The line "To see our flag unrolled"... the Irish Tricolour, our national flag ... was unrolled for the first time on Slievenamon on the 16th July in 1848 by Thomas Francis Meagher at an enormous protest/rebellion meeting. The flag was inspired by the French Tricolour and signifies peace "White" between the "Green" nationalists and "Orange" the followers of William of Orange or Unionists."

Tom Finn sang Kickham's "Slievnamon" at the online Courthouse Session tonight, 16 July 2021. Tom gave much the same information in his introduction and said that Kickham himself was present at the rally where the future national flag of Ireland, the tricolour, was first raised.

(Not to be confused with another song Sliabh na mBan, which was composed in Ireland but has also been translated to English. Sliabh na mBan, transliterated as Slievenamon, means the Mountain of the Women, and it is an actual mountain in south County Tipperary.)


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 09:00 AM


JULY WAKES

MUDCAT Lyr Req: July Wakes (Pomfret, Ellison)   
/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=56568
               
Mike Harding - The July Wakes     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeK-kAzcGWM
                  
July Wakes - Gary Aspey,Vera Aspey    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucz8y6sLVK4

More recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=July+Wakes


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 08:25 AM

July Wakes

Looms are swept an' t' brass is drawn,
An' me an' Jack we'll be up at dawn
An' we're off to beg or steal or pawn,
For t'July Wakes.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 04:46 AM

STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN

Near Banbridge town, in the County Down
One evening last July


The Irish Rovers, Star of the County Down   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLnSkGmTdQ
Van Morrison & The Chieftains - Star of the County Down     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvVVzH3O5E
Star Of The County Down - Angelo Kelly & Familyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkTI1L2Ap3s
The Pogues - Star of the County Down     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6mSlNnO6M4
The Star of the county Down · The Wolfe Tones     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nsbKlGOYxc


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Jul 21 - 04:35 AM

WORLD CUP WILLIE
30 July 1966 England win the football World Cup
World Cup Willie England 66 Song
   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzaMjM4Ra7o


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 07:21 PM

Geoff,

you are doing some very good research here.

thanks.

I do not know any August songs - for next month, I guess ppl were too busy harvesting, drinking and reproducing in that month for any songs to be made.

May is still the best song month by far.

John


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 05:14 PM

GENTLE MEN CD TRILOGY     by Robb Johnson
Thank you GUEST,The Man from UNCOOL for pointing us to the Robb Johnson trilogy of CDs about his own grandfather's/great-uncle's involvement in Passchendale.Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry for the Cd trilogy which includes the tracklist
   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentle_Men

Look to the bottom and find External links Solo performance of 22 of the tracks


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 12:36 PM

THE WRONG BUS
The Wrong Bus -Jez Lowe   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_URraZPzc

Thanks GUEST,The Man from UNCOOL for the two above titles.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 12:19 PM


THE JARVEY WAS A LEPRECHAUN
The Jarvey was a Leprechaun - Val Doonican (plus lyrics)    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnYWmQrvGgE


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,The Man from UNCOOL
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 11:11 AM

The Jarvey Was A Leprechaun, recorded by the pretty un-cool Val Doonican, is a nonsense tour of Ireland, including the line "They heard him say that Galway Bay was frozen in July" [for clarity, it isn't actually: that's the point!]/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7080#42517. Jez Lowe wrote "The Wrong Bus" for the WW1 commemorations, mentioning Passchendale. Can find no musical links to it, outwith Mudcat or within [all search results are too early, leading to folks who've used the 3 words in the chat]. Robb Johnson did a ?trilogy of CDs about his own grandfather's/great-uncle's involvement there, and surely Coope, Boyes & Simpson have stuff in their repertoire on Passchendale.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 07:01 PM

BASTILLE DAY
Bastille Day by Rush   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW72Gmqjse4&t=14s

ÇA IRA
Ça Ira - French Revolutionary Song    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM1pJwLfs7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM1pJwLfs7I


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 05:11 AM

LORD WILLOUGHBY (Roud V18836)

The fourteenth day of July, with glistering spear and shield,
A famous fight in Flanders was foughten in the field;


Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/danny.spooner/songs/lordwilloughby.html
Lord Willoughby - Jim Moray    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUvZfHsoP8    


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 08:13 PM

THE MOWER     aka     The Buxom Lass

As I went out one morning on the fourteenth of July
I met a maid and I asked her age and she gave me this reply:
“I have a little meadow, I've kept for you in store
And it's only due, I should tell you true, it never was mowed before.”


MAINLY NORFOLK:     Lyrics& Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/themower.html
The Mower · A. L. Lloyd     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmVGpAIcZNg


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 07:45 PM

SONG FOR THE TWELFTH OF JULY
Sean Tyrrell - Song for the Twelfth of July    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOxXNTE1-M
MUDCAT: Lyr Add: The 12th of July    /thread.cfm?threadid=3824&messages=27


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 05:39 AM


TEACHING FRENCH IN KILLYLOE fragment sung by Denis Kelly https://soundcloud.com/cbe-nfc-ucd/denis-kelly-teaching-french-in

Link to TEACHING FRENCH IN KILLYLOO posted above by Felipa


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 06:31 PM

BOYNE WATER    https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5975

July the First in Ouldbridge Town there was a grievous battle
Where many a man lay on the ground by cannons that did rattle;
King James he pitched his tents between the lines for to retire,
But King William threw his bombballs in and set them all on fire.

LURGAN TOWN     https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3789
Oh Lurgan town's an altered town,
Since papish Hancock he came to it
If ye walk on the twelfth day of July,
Ye may depend he'll make you rue it,

THE OULD ORANGE FLUTE    https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3789
On the twelfth of July as it yearly did come
Bob played on the flute to the sound of the drum

THE SASH MY FATHER WORE https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23052#253477

It is old but it is beautiful, and its colors they are fine
It was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne.
My father wore it as a youth in bygone days of yore
And on the Twelfth [of July] I love to wear the sash my father wore



Boyne Water · Sam Carson   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-yRtwPJV4

Lurgan Town · Houl Yer Whisht    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLIlxLHUfJ0

The Ould Orange Flute, Many recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Old+Orange+Flute
The Sash My Father Wore, Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+sash+my+father+wore+
Article about 'The Sash My Father Wore' https://www.jstor.org/stable/4522649

A Stan Rogers song on this topic


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 06:08 PM

On 14 July 2016, "Hank", a mixed breed pet dog, was seized in Belfast Northern Ireland under legislation which bans pit bull type dogs. Hank was neither the first nor the last dog to be seized under breed specific provisions of the Dangerous Dogs Act, but he was one of those who got the most publicity. Fortunately, Hank was spared the death penalty which many "of type" dogs receive. And fortunately, his case was adjudicated more quickly than many. THE BSL BALLAD https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=160317#3802012 (I think an editor gave a title to the song which is not one I ever used ; I reject that title as it gives away the punchline)


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 05:47 PM

TEACHING FRENCH IN KILLYLOO/Killaloe     just might suit singing on 14 July (Bastille Day)
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7992

as sung by Sam Carson


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 05:37 PM

THE TWELFTH OF JULY     https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9271

set to music and sung by Seán Tyrell


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Jul 21 - 10:29 AM

LIVING BY THE WATER    

I was living by the water
Late July moon's early quarter


Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/anne.briggs/songs/livingbythewater.html
Anne Briggs - Living by the water     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MUjHpoHUE0


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Jul 21 - 05:46 AM

L’ANSON’S RACEHORSE    aka    Little Dun Mare (Roud 176)

On the fourteenth day of July last
An horse fair at Newmarket was
And many bold gentlemen there did resort
And it's all for to see such lively sport

Mainly Norfolk ; Lyrics & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/iansonsracehorse.html
L'anson's Racehorse - The Watersons    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tW63EtjX0
Little Dun Dee · Mrs. Haynes     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAyAnyH9BuA


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:33 AM

HENRY THE POACHER     aka     Van Diemen's Land (Roud 221)

'Twas on the Fourth of July, the day we made the land,
At four o'clock we went on shore all chain-ed hand in hand.
And to see our fellow sufferers, as I feel I can't tell how,
Some chained unto a harrow and some unto a plough.


Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/henrythepoacher.html
Gavin Atkin - Henry the Poacher    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaji_9YNsak


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GerryM
Date: 07 Jul 21 - 03:28 AM

THE RECRUITING SERGEANT written by Bob Hallett.


The call came from London for the last July drive
"To the trenches with the Regiment, prepare yourselves to die"
The Roll call next morning, just a handful survived
Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me.

Recording by Great Big Sea.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 06:49 AM

FOURTEENTH OF JULY (THE) aka Little Fighting Chance

Ken Wilson - Little Fighting Chance    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD4vCxGT-wk
The Fourteenth of July (trad)- Tim McElwaine     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWIq3vUVDCE

Mainly Norfolk -Lyrics & Info    https://mainlynorfolk.info/tony.rose/songs/thefourteenthofjuly.html


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 06:27 AM

Thank you for this one BTMP,

AMELIA EARHEART’S LAST RIDE

Amelia Earhart's Last Ride · Anne Feeney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZWa8Hy1kQ
Many more recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Amelia+Earhart%27s+Last+Ride            
Red River Dave, Amelia Earhart's Last Flight    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUhB3-aHnNc


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: BTMP
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 08:58 AM

Amelia Earhart’s Last Ride - “With her partner Captain Newnan on the 2nd of July …”

John Stewart - “July, you’re a woman, more than anyone I’ve ever known”



JULY, YOU’RE A WOMAN
July, You're A Woman - John Stewart    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p20OGw-PC3c
MUDCAT Lyr ADD: July You're a Woman     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=6239&messages=14#top


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Subject: RE: Rigs o' Rye
From: Felipa
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 05:54 AM

26 June message, the Rigs o' Rye amended: it is in the "DT"
https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4965


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 05:44 AM

FAREWELL TO THE GOLD

We sluiced and we cradled for day after day,
Making hardly enough to get by;
Until a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away
During six stormy days in July.

Mainly Norfolk: LYRICS & INFO Farewell to the Gold [Paul Metsers]    
https://mainlynorfolk.info/nic.jones/songs/farewelltothegold.html
Paul Metsers - 'Farewell to the Gold'     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswLTVtqzW8
Farewell to the Gold · Nic Jones     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQtDV3GWi0
Many more recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Farewell+to+the+Gold%27+


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 09:47 PM


Another Somme song HEARTS OF GLORY by Craig Herbertson
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=97952#1933589

performed by the author (youtube)

"July 1st, 1916, was Edinburgh’s worst day in the history of the British Army. During the first hour of the Battle of the Somme some sixty thousand men were killed or wounded – among them were twelve officers and over six hundred other ranks of “McCrae’s Battalion”, the 16th Royal Scots. It was Edinburgh´s blackest moment since Flodden. These lads had enlisted voluntarily under the leadership of the charismatic Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George McCrae, partly in response to suggestions in the press that young sportsmen were not ‘doing their bit’ for the war effort."
https://www.craigherbertson.com/recordings/hearts-of-glory/

Who cared for the Kaiser or imperial gains
Love of our country, duty or fame?
Between the whim of an airman and four feathers of shame
We fought for the pals of a wee fitba team

And when it was over just what had we done?
There were no flags of glory for McCrae and his own
There were no graves for heroes for our brothers and sons
Who sleep 'neath the flowers in the fields of the Somme


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 07:38 PM

ZMAN MATN KHEYRUSEYNU, (The Time of the Giving of our Freedom) by Elyokum Tsunzer - aka Zunser (1836-1913), is a Yiddish song praising the freedom offered to Jewish immigrants to the U.S.

I haven't found the text except for the chorus in transliteration
Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus

Fayer, ale yidn, the Fourth of July
Dos iz undzer groyser yontef haynt
Do zayen yiden fun ale pares fray
Haynt bazigt men ale faynt

my fellow Jews, celebrate the Fourth of July
Today is our big holiday
Here Jews are free from all pharoahs
Today we conquer all our enemies

from the video "liner" notes by Samantha Zerin

Zunser viewed his immigration [from Lithuania] to America as "a second Exodus from Egypt," a Biblical analogy one can clearly see in the text to this song. In fact, while the version we sang is incredibly short (35 seconds!), Zunser's original poem, titled "Zman matn kheyruseynu" (The Time of the Giving of our Freedom) had five additional verses, which allowed him to make the contrast even starker:

"From stereotypes of the 'crooked Jew', from curses in the newspapers,
From the dark censures, from insulting government officials,
From dirty anti-semitism — free!"

(My fellow Jews, celebrate the Fourth of July...)

To this day, [in Europe], the Jews are hated and persecuted;
But our Declaration of Independence makes our country different!
Our Constitution is sealed with gold!

(My fellow Jews, celebrate the Fourth of July...)"

----
and yet Eliakum Tsunzer also wrote Kolumbus mit zayn golden land (Columbus and his golden land) a complaint about poverty in America.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 04:54 PM

TOM PAINE'S BONES
I'm at an online song session and someone just sang
TOM PAINE'S BONES because it's American independence day today.


Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info    https://mainlynorfolk.info/roy.bailey/songs/tompainesbones.html
Many more recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tom+Paine%27s+Bones


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 03:11 PM

Wonderful Guy...
from South Pacific
Rodgers and Hammerstein
sung by Mary Martin

"I'm as corny as Kansas in August
High as a flag on the Fourth of July"

Sincerely,
Gargoyle


https://genius.com/The-original-broadway-cast-of-south-pacific-a-wonderful-guy-lyrics


A WONDERFUL GUY
A Wonderful Guy (from "South Pacific") - Jane Morgan   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dXjL15ZI8
FULL LYRICS   https://genius.com/The-original-broadway-cast-of-south-pacific-a-wonderful-guy-lyrics


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 12:20 PM

THE CRUISE OF THE SUN GLORY
Mainly Norfolk Lyrics & Info   https:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thecruiseofthesunglory.html    
MUDCAT: Lyr Req: The Cruise of the Sun Glory
/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72457


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 07:27 AM

The wonderful Aimee Mann's '4th of July' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDwRt_3vok - and Bruce's '4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB1d0eey5ho.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 05:55 AM

different version of the cuckoo c ashley mentions july 4 today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlOO8RG-og


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 02:52 AM

THE CUCKOO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGoYfU2-A54


Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info:     https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thecuckoo.html


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Jul 21 - 07:25 PM

FROM THE SHANKILL TO THE SOMME
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170069

From the Shankill Road they went,
Their young lives, to be spent,
On the first day of July, so long Ago,
All the deeds that they have done,
And the glories they had won,
We remember as long as the bright red poppies grow.


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Jul 21 - 12:29 PM

WALKING THE DOG

Ask your mama for fifteen cents
To see the elephant jump the fence
It jumped so high , it touched the sky
Didn't come back 'til the fourth of July


RUFUS THOMAS - Walking the Dog (1965)    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AZNywvF-s
Many more recordings on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walking+the+dog+


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Jul 21 - 11:37 AM


Thank you Reinhard for the bumper crop of songs from your excellent Mainly Norfolk site. Here are a few more links for this one:

BUTCHER BOY (THE) aka Hanged I Shall Be(Roud 980; Laws J19)

It was there that he met with a fair young maid
With dark and a rolling eye,
And he promised for to marry her
On the month of sweet July.


Mainly Norfolk: Lyrics & Info    
https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/theoxfordtragedy.html
The Butcher Boy · Jeannie Robertson    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAGWYNchJaE&list=PLdeP9b-_sy28UlyPKPg1J-plvT9kdp41h&index=7
Various Youtube recordings of The Butcher Boy    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+butcher+boy+song


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Jul 21 - 09:25 AM

FOURTH OF JULY by Sufjan Stevens

The evil it spread like a fever ahead
It was night when you died, my firefly
What could I have said to raise you from the dead?
Oh could I be the sky on the Fourth of July?


Fourth of July- Sufjan Stevens    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeKpWp8Psw


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 07:07 PM

Battle(s) of the Somme started 1 July 1916 and went on till Nov. 1916

https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8539
MY FATHER HATED THE GERMANS

Then the Somme came along on a fine summer day
And he's nicked by a bullet quite early
And a nose full of gas kept him out of the way
As his unit was mown like the barley

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7511#3870842
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
(lyrics by Phyl Lobl, tune by Pipe-Major William Laurie)
mp3 at
https://phyllobl.net/songs/bronzewing-songbook/battle-of-the-somme/

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzjtg7M8XY8

AIR AN SOMME
(lyrics: Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, tune: Julie Fowlis)
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170063

recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR-NKCL_BtU


Air an Somme · Julie Fowlis · Eamon Doorley · Zoë Conway · John Mc Intyre     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQu97pcXFI


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Ged Fox
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 04:27 PM

"Bonnie Dundee" died on 27th in 1689 at "Killikrankie"


Thank you for this Ged Fox
BONNIE DUNDEE
Various recordings od “ Bonnie Dundee” on YouTube   
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Bonnie+Dundee


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 11:32 AM

GRUAGACH OG AN FHUILT BHAIN


The South Uist Games are held annually in July. It was an occasion at the dance held in connection with the games that inspired Dòmhnall Ailean Dhòmhnaill to write Gruagach òg an fhuilt bhàin for Mòrag Dhòmhnaill Chaluim

performed by Oigridh

sung by Art Cormack


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Subject: RE: Any July Songs
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 08:14 AM

THE HAYMAKERS
The Haymakers · Bill Jones    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L1cIm5fI0I


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