Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 11:38 PM

Songs, poems, spoken word, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich, aka All Shall Be Well Again)
I Don’t Like Mondays
Cattle Trucks (poem)
It Couldn’t Happen Now (poem)
Strawberry Fair
Dirty Old Town
Hill of Little Shoes (poem)
Shenandoah
Donna Lombarda (in Italian)
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (poem)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (spoken word)
The Gruen Watch Song
Roger's Courtship
Sweet Sunny South (aka Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South)
Master of the Sheepfold
Bring Me Back a Banana
Because Of (English version of Iranian "Baraye")
Old Brown's Daughter
Wade in the Water
Why Walk When You Can Fly
The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom
As Sylvie was Walking
Too Close to the Wind
Turning Toward the Morning
Down South Blues
Won't You Help Me to Raise 'Em
Where the Blarney Roses Grow (aka Blarney Roses)
The Village Ladies' Pancake Race
The Frozen Logger
Cobweb of Dreams
The Snow of Deep Midwinter (poem)
Ninety-Nine and Ninety (aka The Devil's Nine Questions, Riddles Wisely Expounded, ...)
South Australia (aka Bound for South Australia)
Clementine (aka Oh, My Darling Clementine)
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
I Love Susie in the Supermarket
Vegematic
The Southern Girl's Reply
Isle of Hope
The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan)
The Shores of Avalon
Maui Whales (ttto Rolling Down to Old Maui)
The Trimdon Grange Explosion
The Flowers of Bermuda
Woody Knows Nothing
Father's Grave
Row On
Ceres and Pluto and Eris, ... Oh My!
Poor Lazarus
The Great Salish Sea
Gunga Din (poem)
Harriet Tubman
Welcome to the Store
The Streets of New York
He Plays the Violin
Roger the Miller (aka My Father's Gray Mare)
Tunnel Tigers
The Ways of Man
Frobisher Bay
Love Makes Me Stupid
I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair
Farewell to Tarwathie
Just the Way You Look Tonight (piano instrumental)
How Woman Got Even with Man
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
Iko Iko (aka Jock-A-Mo)
Take Your Time
Dark as a Dungeon
Bubble Up Economy
The Leaving of Liverpool
Heartwood
Side By Side

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 15 Feb 23 - 07:45 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

One of The Roving Kind
Lovers & Friends
Just Another Love Song (poem)
Tom Lotch (monologue)
Love on the Dole
My Way through the Blue Cocoon
Cornflower Blue
Down by the Riverside
Ring of Fire
La mora cautiva (aka El dio de los torneos; "The Captive Moorish Girl", in Spanish)
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (poem)
Plaisir d'Amour (in French, and some English)
A House is Not a Home
Willie Taylor
Wonderful, Wonderful Day
Settling Down
The Day the Piddletrenthide Jug Band Hit the Charts
The Hellbound Train
Dark-Eyed Molly
The Ballad of Erica Levine
Vicky's Secret
Dark Old Waters
Loch Tay Boat Song
Take Off Your Old Coat
In My Prime
The Lovesick Maid (aka Curragh of Kildare, The Winter it is Past)
Song of the Swift
My Dearest Dear (aka The Blackest Crow)
An Vailintin Buan ("The Eternal Valentine," in Irish Gaelic)
The Dutchman
(I'm in Love with) A Wonderful Guy
All the Diamonds
Waltzing Matilda (piano instrumental)
Hal-an-Tow
Changes
Exercise 77 (aka Amourette)
I Will Love You in the Setting of the Sun (poem)
Love on the Line
The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones)
Have I Told You Lately
The Shmuck Song (ttto Thirty Years a Princess and Never a Queen)
Somewhere
Gardening
The Wild Geese (aka Norland Wind)
The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn
Make You Feel My Love
The Bee
Blank Space
Love Call Me Home
Sufficiently Unique (poem)
Dawning of the Day
Bound for the Mountains and the Sea
Geordie
Oh, Boy!
He Stopped Loving Her Today
For All We Know
You'll Never Know
When You and I were Young, Maggie
Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me
You Are Love
The Devil's Courtship (version of Paper of Pins / The Keys of Heaven / The Keys of Canterbury / etc., etc.)
Slow Romance
Sing with Me
A Bench by the Sea
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Northern Tide
Regretting What I Said (full title: Regretting what I said to you when you called me at 11:00 on Friday morning to tell me that 1:00 Friday afternoon you were gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab, to go out to the airport, to catch a plane, to go skiing in the Alps for two weeks. Not that I wanted to go with you; I wasn't able to leave town, I'm not a very good skier, I couldn't expect you to pay my way, but after going out with you for three years, I don't like surprises.)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Feb 23 - 11:11 PM

Songs, poems, spoken word, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Philadelphia Lawyer
Holland Handkerchief
The Four Trees (poem)
Song of Wandering Aengus (poem)
Spring song
Please Don’t Pull Our Local Down
Villikins and Dinah
Hard Case
Honoré, mon enfant ("Lord Randall", in French)
Faded Coat of Blue
You'll Get Used to It
The Gay Fusilier (same tune as Waltzing Matilda)
Baptism of Fire
Scuppernong Day
Falling in Love
Uncle Joe
I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
General Guinness
Seven Spanish Angels
San Antonio Rose
Chicken Cordon Blues
Up, Up, and Away
Who Shall Count for Thee?
I Don't Want to Get Well (aka I'm in Love with a Beautiful Nurse)
Duncan and Brady
Don't Sit on My Jimmie Shands
Cannily, Cannily
The Land Beyond the Blue
Shining Dancer (poem)
Angel in a Bar
Pokegama Bear
Sensodyne (ttto Reynardine)
Annabel Lee (poem)
Come Along You Drunken Bums
Walk with Me (poem, aka The Raucous Cry of the Gulls)
King of Scurf
The I Don't Know where I'm Going, But I'm Going Nowhere in a Hurry Blues
Marry the Man Today
West Shore Trail
(Lamentation for) Anac Cuan (aka Anach Cuan, Anach Cuain, Anac-cuain, Anacuin, ....)
Willie the Weeper
Land of the Bottom Line
The Orange and the Green
Casey ay the Bat (poem)
Oh to be Back with You
Now Our Meeting is Over (aka Meeting is Over, Land on the Shore)
Army Life
Gene-Modified Food (ttto Food, Glorious Food)
You're the Girl I Love
Qualification of a Scout (spoken)
Smoky Bars no Longer
Planxty Fanny Power (instrumental)
Military Life (aka The Jerk Song)
I'll be Seeing You
I Could Write a Book
The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones)
Even a Gray Day
Survivor Leave
Batter Your Sole (ttto Fathom the Bowl)
Last Trip Home
The Ballad of Crispus Attucks
Run and Catch the Wind
Up With People
Oh, Susannah
Across the Great Divide
When I'm Gone

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 09:17 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 30/31 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

If I had a Hammer
A Sailor’s Life
The Royal Charter (poem)
Sugar in the Hold Below
The Weaver and the Factory Maid
Early One Morning
My Meatless Day (monologue)
When Icicles Hang by the Wall
The Cuckoo
The Coils of Love
I Can Hew
Bold Riley
The Shoemakers' Holiday (aka Round Boys Round Indeed)
Big River
I'm an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
Yo Soy un Pobre Vaquero ("I'm a Poor Cowboy", in Spanish)
Angels in the Snow
Mother, I Climbed
The Really Strangest Dream
Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War (aka Susan's Adventures in a Man-of-War)
With a Little Bit of Luck
Zog Nit Keynmol (alternating Yiddish and English stanzas)
Destroyer Benson (ttto The Sick Note = Why Paddy's Not at Work Today = Murphy and the Bricks, which was ttto The Garden where the Praties Grow)
Gabhaim Molta Bhride ("I Praise Brigid", in Irish Gaelic)
Amhrán ne Féidireachta ("Songs of Possibility", in Irish Gaelic)
Liza in the Summertime (aka She Died on the Train)
Looking for Trouble
To Where You Are
The Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich, All Shall Be Well)
Eliza (ttto Delilah)
The Photocopier (poem)
Label in the Printer (ttto Little Boxes)
The Parting Glass
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
Anathea
Way Down in the Mines
Metyelitsa ("Snow Flurry", in Russian)
Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
How Long, How Long Blues (aka How Long Blues, aka How Long, How Long)
How to Stand Still
Suburbs of Eden
If I Loved You
Destitution Road
When You and I were Young, Maggie
The Luckiest Sailor
Skin (ttto You've Got to Have Heart)
For the Sake of the Republic
Bloody Sunday (Joe Mulheron, not U2; ttto 1913 Massacre)
Goodbye Old Booze
The Unicorn Song (piano instrumental)
Ellan Vannin
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Time has Made a Change in Me
Hold on Tight

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 12:10 AM

Songs, poems, readings, stories and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 23/24 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Hunting the Cutty Wren (parody of The Cutty Wren, Hunting the Wren)
The Granemore Hare
The Song of Stars (poem)
A Brief Life (poem)
Two short eulogies to Les Barker (recited)
The Truth about the Loch Ness Monster
Long Black Veil
Filking on a Sunday Afternoon
untitled poem about Larry the Cat
Polly Von/Vaughan
Sally I’m Thinking of You (ttto That was Before I Met You)
Sweet William's Ghost
Woodstock
La serrana ("The Mountain Girl", in Spanish)
Green Grow the Rashes
The Air in America
Peter's Song
Turtledove Done Drooped His Wings
The Wendigo
No More Fish, No Fishermen (ttto See, Amidst the Winter's Snow)
Sardines
People Say Strange Things
Fair and Fause
The Verb To Be (reading)
Sodger Laddie
I'm Going to German
Boozing
Ballyronan Maid
The Storms are On the Ocean
Gil Morice (= Child Maurice)
The Wendigo Case (story)
My Heart's in the Highlands
Toast to the Lassies (poem)
Driving By Judy's
Pastures of Plenty
I'll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig
Amnesia (poem)
Scottish Food and Drink
High Germany
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Tell Old Bill
The Scotsman
Smile
You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'
Green Green Rocky Road
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal
Month of January (same tune as Leaving Derry Quay = Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore)
Dragon Song
Lizzy Lindsay
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
Johnny Macree (poem)
Goodbye Booze
Geritol Gypsy
It Could Have Been Me
When You and I were Young, Maggie (piano instrumental)
Holocaust Memorial Day (poem)
Has Anybody Seen (ttto Abraham, Martin and John)
Wedding Bell Blues
Jaquima to Freno
Amhrán Mhuinse (in Irish Gaelic)
An Cailín Álainn (in Irish Gaelic, same tune as Mingulay Boat Song)
Good Fish Chowder (aka Jerry Mulligan)
Going Home (ttto Rolling Home)
Keep Hauling
Dona, Dona
The Mistletoe Bough Mystery
Medhel an Gwyns ("Soft is the Wind")
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 05:08 AM

Songs, poems, readings, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 16/17 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Derby Ram
Will the Turtle be Unbroken? (ttto Will the Circle be Unbroken)
Salmon (poem)
Any Old Wind that Blows
The Pensioners’ Pantomime
When I First Came to This Land
Reinstalling Windows (ttto When I'm Cleaning Windows)
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Mon père avait un p’tit champ d’ pois ("My Father had a Small Field of Peas", in French)
We Shall Overcome
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Tá mé 'mo shuí ("I am Awake", in Irish Gaelic) (same tune as The Red-Haired Man's Wife, similar to Sisters of Mercy)
Battle of New Orleans
Poison Beer
Mary Brown Abolitionist
Molasses
Capstan Bar
The Turtle (poem)
We Have a Dream
Follow That Road
Staying Out All Night
Rattlesnake Mountain
He Went to Sleep and the Hogs Ate Him
The Franco Prussian War of the Spanish Succession (read)
Mo Chailín Bán (My Comely Lass, in Irish Gaelic) (similar tune to Dawning of the Day, On Raglan Road)
Flowers of the Forest
Woody Knows Nothing
Blackbird
Rolling Home to Old New England
It Isn't Matter Any More
A Year, a Day, and Twice Forever
The Backlegs of the Cow
Scarlet Raygun
Streets of Laredo
MacCrimmon's Lament
The Merry Golden Tree (version of The Golden Vanity)
Pangur Bán (poem, "White Pangur")
Doc's Guitar (instrumental)
The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, Eh
Shining Down on Sennen
The Old Cobbled Streets
Keys of Canterbury
In Contempt
My Granny's a Wild Flying Dove (ttto My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove)
Tomorrow
The Old Churchyard
Frankie and Albert
Nevada Jane
Pretty Saro
Rosa Parks
All the Pretty Little Horses (aka Hush-a-Bye)
Hold On to Me Babe
Homegrown Tomatoes
They're Taking it Away
The Boys of Barr na Sraide
Worried Man Blues
Honeysuckle Rose
The January Woman (ttto The January Man)
Cossack Lullaby (in Russian)
Paradise
Windmills
I Am the Wind
The Hard Cheese of Old England
Louisiana 1927
May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You
Custard Creams (ttto John O' Dreams)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 02:10 PM

Songs, recitations, poems and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 9 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Comments and corrections always welcome.

John Ball
Penny for the Ploughboys
The Ballad of Cosmo McGrew (poem)
The Abandoned Coffee Cream
Joshu-Ah
The Time_Ts are a-Changing (ttto The Times They Are a-Changin')
The Water is Wide
Squalor
The Asteroid Light (ttto The Eddystone Light)
Perqué m'an pas dit (in Occitan)
Do You Sing Any Dylan? (recited)
Battle of New Orleans
Song of the Weather
Eggs and Marrowbones (aka The Old Woman from Wexford; Wikipedia and mainlynorfolk give a dozen other titles)
Cottonwood Canyon
Things Have Changed
McBryde-Argyle Station
Lowlands of Holland
Baby Rose
The Cold Within
A Cold Wind
The Coming of the Roads
Mean Old Bedbug Blues
It's Up to Us
(I Dreamed there were) Unicorns
Fire
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Lady Franklin's Lament (aka Lord Franklin)
Friends I've Made
The Month of January (aka In the Month of January, 'Twas in the Month of January, It was in the Month of January)
Hearth and Fire
Smeòrach Chlann Dòmhnaill (in Scots Gaelic)
The Farmer's Carol
Feels So Near
It's Too Late
Deportee (aka Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Rip Van Winkle
Tyranny (poem)
The Ladies of the January Army
The Writing of Tipperary
Simple Gifts
Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky)
The Three Little Piggs, Revised (story)
The January June
If I had a Hammer (aka The Hammer Song)
Bring Flowers
Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
Follow the Heron Home
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Daddy, What's a Brain? (ttto Daddy, What's a Train?)
Come See the Boys Go Round
The Rose of the San Joaquin (refers to, and same tune as, Tramps and Hawkers)
Fisherman's Luck
Price Tag
Someday Soon
I Would I Were
Drip Drop
Free and Easy for to Jog Along
Chì Mi'n Geamhradh (in Scots Gaelic)
Out in the Catskill Mountains (ttto Big Rock Candy Mountain)
Six Thousand Miles
Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears
Dead Presidents
Bright New Year
Mary Ann
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 08 Jan 23 - 08:55 AM

Edited list of the items offered at the singaround of 26/27 December 2022, as scavenged from the chat and supplemented by personal communications. Additions and corrections eagerly solicited.

When You and I were Young, Maggie
Strike Sound
Ring Out, Wild Bells (recitation)
OH Winter (OH, as in Ohio)
Villancico (Carol, in Spanish)
Slithering
Sherborne
One Day After Christmas
I Still Miss Someone
Morrissey and the Russian Sailor
The Mitcham Line Shunty
Mary's Morning Song
The Twelve Days after Christmas
Frankie and Johnny
River (Joni Mitchell, not Bill Staines)
A Healing In This Night
Broke (poem)
The Boar's Head Carol
Coventry Carol
Saint Stephen
The Music of Strings
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Malpas Wassail
Chariots
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
A Shropshire Lad
In The Shadows (poem)
Plenty for the Few
Cinderella Rock
Joseph Not So Meek and Mild (recited)
The Lag's Song
Absent Friends
The Stranger - Yn Joarree
Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear
The Tinkerman's Daughter
Belleau Wood
The Music Theory Song
Good King Wenceslas
Winter Song
T'ord'nance Survey / Th' Ordnance at 'Burton
Extraordinary Love
Circle Game
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Champion at Drivin' them Crazy
Doc's Guitar (instrumental)
Bah, Humbug
Blue Skies and Meadows of Gold
New Year's Eve
Why I'm Different (poem)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Gentleman Porkers (variant of Gentleman Rankers)
Someday at Christmas
Unicorns
The Christians And The Pagans
I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas
Hunting The Cutty Wren (Les Barker)
Winter / When the Trees Are All Bare
A Bird Without Wings
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (in German)
Loud Sing the Carol
Best Friends (The Unicorn Song)
All Through the Night

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 03:32 PM

Songs and other offerings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 19/20 December 2022, mostly in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items that came after I left as the battery in my phone rapidly approached zero charge. Thanks to Felipa and Yorkshire Yankee for clearing up some of my confusion about the last few items on the list. Comments & corrections always welcome.

Gaudete
Homeless Wassail
I've had a Glass of Ginger Wine
Sozzled Santa
Hacia belén va una burra ("A Jenny Goes to Bethlehem", in Spanish)
Personent hodie
Ocho kandelikas (in Ladino)
A Solstice Prayer (poem)
Could it Be? (ttto Let it Be)
The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy
Rock of Ages (Maoz tzur) (sung in English mostly)
Zat You, Santa Claus?
Talk to Me of Mendocino
Doc's Guitar
A Brush with Life (poem)
Skillet Good and Greasy (aka Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy)
In the Bleak Midwinter
The End of Another Year
Halve, by yourself, that...
Hanerot halalu (in Hebrew and English)
Light is Returning
(story about too-tall Christmas tree)
Innocent's Song
Caught in the Coils of Love
A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song)
See, Amid the Winter's Snow
Coventry Carol
Sweet and Shiny Eyes
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Somewhere Along the Road
If I Were Free
Nursie Nursie (monologue)
I'll be Glad when it's All Over
Good King Wenceslas (ttto White Cockade)
The Summer Land (poem)
Helping not Oppressing (aka Striking, ttto Good King Wenceslas)
Metyelitsa ("Snow flurries", in Russian)
Jingle Bell Rock
Oy Chanike (in Yiddish)
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Song for a Winter's Night
Victor Rag
But I Do
Good King Wenceslas (sung in Latin)
Tracks in the Snow (aka Come Walk with Me)
Glory Hallelujah
All the World is Just a Narrow Bridge (Partly in Hebrew, "Kol ha'olam kulo")
Walking in my Winter Underwear (ttto Winter Wonderland)
Session on the Other Side
Three Wise Women
Hang Me, oh Hang Me (aka Been All Around this World)
S'vivon, sov, sov, sov ("Dreydl", in Hebrew)
Hot Buttered Rum
No Christmas in Kentucky
Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl (sung in Yiddish)
Christmas in the Trenches
Maoz tzur ("Rock of Ages") (sung in Hebrew)
Mary's Song
Blessings for lighting the Chanukiah
Witch Hazel

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 20 Dec 22 - 07:41 PM

Songs and such from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 12/13 December 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Pickle Tree Carol
Dark December
The Lily of Arkansas
Christmas Countdown (recitation)
I'm a Little Fairy on the Christmas Tree
Sans Day Carol (aka The Holly Bears a Berry)
Crudités (ttto Gaudete)
Oh, What a Merry Land is England
Cantem Nadal (in Occitan)
Sing the Merry (aka Christmas Song)
Joe and Me (aka Joe and Mary)
When a Child is Born
Ordinary Town
Santa Baby
Fly Away
The Friendly Beasts
The Fields Lie Silent
Just a Single Life
Innocent's Song
The Christmas Song (aka Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Mistletoe Bough
Ai Pepito
The Baby of Mother Mary Turner
Footsteps of the Faithful
The Greatest Story of All
Homeless Wassail and (poem) Could Be, interleaved
Christ's Lullaby (in Scots Gaelic, Taladh Chriosda)
The Gardener (aka Proud Maisrie)
a' Ghrian (in Scottish Gaelic)
I Can't Dance
(New Age version of) Will the Circle be Unbroken
The King's Navy
Poor Johnny
Pretty Boy Floyd
Bethlehem Down
I'll Fly Away
I Count the Stars on Christmas Night (poem)
Forever (poem)
The Policeman's Song
The Christmas Goose
Calling All Angels
(story about a too-tall Christmas Tree)
Raglan Road
Ready for the Storm
Bells of St Mary's (fragment)
Adeste Fideles
Wexford Carol
Bleached-White Jesus
Permission to Dance
(poem)
Here's Hoping
Too Much of a Good Thing
The Pride of Springfield Road
White Christmas
Twelve Days Home for Christmas
William Bloat (ttto Raglan Road)
The Willow Tree
A-Soalin'
Christmas Memories
Holiday Dinner Party (ttto Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
Down in Yon Forest
Ding Dong Ding
Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire (ttto ...)
Thanksgiving Prayer
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Witch Hazel

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 20 Dec 22 - 07:30 PM

At long last, songs and such from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 5/6 December 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Logs to Burn (poem and song)
When the Snows of Winter Fall
Christmas At Sea (poem)
Rag Dance Song
Father’s Christmas Toys
The Innkeeper
O Come Emmanuel
I Saw Three Ships (refugee version)
Nadal dels aucèls ("The Carol of the Birds", in Occitan)
Aunt Sue
My Songbird
Bluejay
Christmas 1914
Death or Glory Wassail
Christmas Eve
We've Got Work to Do
The Long and Lonely Winter
Jingle Bells
Who Comes this Night
Horniman Rag
How Anarchy Could Function
I'd Rather be Tending My Sheep
Yorkshire Wassail
Love Call Me Home
You're a Mean One Mr Grinch
Christmas Carol
The Lambskin Carol
Tennessee
Martin Short
Ciad turas mhic dhòmhnaill a ghlaschu (Scottish Gaelic and English, ttto Musselburgh Fair, tune also used in several Australian songs such as The Station Cook, The Great Northern Line, The Sandy Hollow Line)
(story about a young boy and a sled)
Follow the Heron Home
In Dulci Jubilo (in Latin and German)
Gaia's Lullaby
Help Me to Raise 'em
The Man that Slits the Turkeys' Throats at Christmas
Fever
Travelin' Man
Awayday (ttto Gaudete. Several languages, mostly Latin)
Turkeys (poem)
The Turkey's Reply
The Christmas Fairy
The Pickle Tree Carol
Mock Me (ttto Wagon Wheel)
Wasn't that a Mighty Day
Casey's Last Ride
Annexation (version of Yankee Doodle)
Lives in the Balance
While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
(alternative version of) Pleasant and Delightful
God Rest Ye Unitarians
Innocent's Song
Hard-Lovin' Loser
Personent Hodie (in Latin)
The Gambler
The Christmas Goose
Hearth and Fire
Tidings of Candy and Toys (ttto God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
A Foggy Day
Wayside / Back in Time
Farewell to the Gold
Wassail The Silver Apple
Please to See the King
Ballad of the Carpenter
Caravan Song
Take a Chance
If I Needed You

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 29 Nov 22 - 07:44 PM

Songs, monologues and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 28/29 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

A Handful of Songs
Goodnight-Loving Trail
The Mission Of Saint Launderette (poem)
At the Vicar's Fancy Ball (monologue)
Confessions of a Songwriter
Somerset Wassail
Skye Boat Song
Paure Satan ("Poor Satan", sung in Occitan)
Will Ye Gang Love
Kelly
November (poem)
Remember the Alamo
Rich People
Nobody Cares about the Railroads Any More
The Lupines and the Poppies
Water, Fire and Smoke
The Falcon Carol (aka Corpus Christi Carol)
Santa Anna
Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin'
9 to 5 Pollution Blues
My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
John O'Dreams (tune based on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6)
Riddles Wisely Expounded (aka The Devil's Nine Questions, Ninety-Nine and Ninety, Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom, ....)
Billy Barlow (version of Cutty Wren)
There's a Hole in the Bucket
Síscéal Nua Eabhrach ("Fairytale of New York," sung partly in English, mostly in Irish Gaelic)
Streets of Derry
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
Hard Times Come Again no More
You are Love
A Poem of Thanksgiving (poem)
Here's Hoping
Plenty for the Few
Steady as You Go
Simple Gifts
Logs to Burn
Until the Dark Time Ends (aka The Comfort of Singing Voices)
The House on the Moor (poem)
When Father Papered the Parlor (monologue)
Versification
Lock-keeper
This Old Mouse (ttto This Ole House)
Fiddler's Green
The Briar and the Rose
Babylon is Fallen
A Circle Game
The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones)
Sing Me the Old Songs
Rose of Desire
Do You Hear what I Hear
Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly)
Sloop John A
Come Back Liza
Uncle Dave's Grace
What's the Use of Wings
Gathering Time (poem)
Heaven
Thanksgiving Prayer
Nevada Jane
Come By the Hills
Crossing the Water

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 10:13 PM

Songs, poems/recitations and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 21/22 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo)
Turning Toward the Morning
Distant Hills (poem)
Heart of the Heartland (poem)
Brindisi
The Tale of the Lonesome Prawn (monologue)
All Through the Night
Come Back in the Morning (ttto The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy)
The Holly and the Ivy
Pleasant and Delightful (spoken)
I'm Called Little Buttercup
Que se nos va la Pascua ("Easter is Leaving Us, Girls", sung in Spanish)
Folksinger's Ring (ttto Fiddler's Green)
The Old Woman Who Lived in the Wood
On Your Sleeve (poem)
Lobster Salad (recitation, aka Like Ya Would, Paddy's Dream, Kelly's Dream, Paddy Kelly's Dream)
Three Little Birds
A Friend of Mine is Going Blind
Kentish Beers
A Silent Lonesome Sound
When I'm Drunk
Worried Man Blues
Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's
To a Thesaurus (poem)
All Mixed Up
Johnny Todd
In the Summer of His Years
Rivers of Texas
Freedom Come All Ye
Changes
Somos el Barco (chorus in both Spanish and English)
Poor Ditching Boy
The Charge of the Late Brigade
I'm Not as Drunk as People Think I Am
Somebody Would Shout Out Shop (poem)
The Intergalactic Laxative
Winter (poem)
Bring Us in Good Ale
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (poem)
The Shape of Things
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Ain't Got the Blues Blues
Nine Times a Night
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Urge for Going
Down and Out Blues (better known as Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out)
One More Minute
In de Vintertime
The Lady Recruit
If You Say Yes
Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
Dance Ten, Looks Three
The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth (ttto Brisbane Ladies/Augathella Station/Spanish Ladies)
All the Money in the World
Savage Daughter
The Rose of York
See Me Tweet (ttto Ain't She Sweet)
Mary from Dungloe
Autumn Leaves
A Chat with Your Mother
Thanksgiving Eve
The Avant-Garden Song (ttto Garden Song)
Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Nov 22 - 05:01 PM

Joe asked me to put the name of the original version of "In Thee is Gladness" in the chat that Monday, but there was something wrong with my Chat and it wouldn't take typing.

The original version is called L'Innamorato,' and the composer was the Italian Giovanni Gastoldi, died 1622.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 06:53 AM

Joan, done.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GUEST,Guest Joan F
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 11:37 PM

No, though it has pretty much the same tune as "Spanish Lady", Dublin City", etc. The ni Dhomnail sisters, whose name I always mis-spell, use my chorus only at the end of their "Spanish Lady".

Someone at the Somerville Armory when we were having pub sings inside there told me my song was supposed to have the last verse I used so I've used it ever since.

I know another song with much the same lyrics but sung to a variant of the "Willow Garden" tune.

Please use the titles I gave in my earlier post.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 03:59 PM

Thanks, Joan, I'll edit. Was this the song you sang? http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Wheel_of_Fortune_or_Dublin_City.htm

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GUEST,Guest Joan F
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 09:53 AM

I sang "Wheel of Fortune", could also be called "Sad Experience Teaches Me" in the 1st round but the line your helper gives as title *isn't* in the song.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 12:20 AM

Songs, poems/recitations, monologues and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 14/15 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Jabberwocky (recitation)
Constant Lovers
Jenkins’ Ear (poem)
Home Fit for Heroes (poem)
The Germans Bombed our Chippy in the War
Sniper Sandy (monologue)
Pensioner Magee
Walk with Me (poem)
Scarborough Fair
In Thee is Gladness Amid all Sadness (ttto L'Innamorato; lyrics translated from the German, "In Dir ist Freude")
Las fielairas ("The Spinners", sung in Occitan)
(version of) Two Sisters
What is't to Us
Wheel of Fortune (aka Sad Experience Teaches Me)
John Condon
The Day We Went to Blackpool (ttto The Day We Went to Bangor)
Wind River Waltz
This Old World
The True Haunting
The Green Willow Tree (version of The Golden Vanity)
If I had the Copyright on the Word $%^&
Life Passes By (French original is "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit")
Bríd Óg Ní Máille ("Bridget O'Malley," sung in Irish Gaelic)
Somewhere to Begin
The Ferrybank Piper
I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog
Only Remembered
The Lost Words Blessing (I think the singer called it "The Blessing Song")
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella (instrumental)
Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger
Battle of the Somme
Philadelphia Lawyer
Wall of Death
Number Ten (poem)
Bungay Roger
The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem)
The Water is Wide (aka Waly, Waly)
Masochism Tango
Kitty Bairdie
When You Wish Upon a Star
Dream of a Child
Our Town
Seven Bridges Road
Zimmerframe Blues (ttto Summertime Blues )
Thanksgiving Eve
(To) Make You Feel My Love
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime
Downtown Zeno Exit
Eyes of a Painter
Cold Rain and Snow (aka Rain and Snow)
Casus Belli
Halsway Carol
(a different version of) Two Sisters
Air an Somme ("On the Somme", sung in Scots Gaelic)
River of Tears
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Farewell
All the Good People
Geritol Gypsy
Their Brains Were Small and They Died
(parody of) Mockingbird (aka "Hush, Little Baby")
The Road is Always Easy
If I Were Free
Railroading on the Great Divide

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 09 Nov 22 - 04:45 PM

Songs, stories, recitations, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 7/8 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Monique for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Mr. Fox (story)
Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley)
Art (recitation)
Bonfire Night
Don Quixote
Lovely Joan
Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair
Banks of the Sweet Primroses
Ballade en novembre (sung in French)
The Devil at York Minster
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Oh Babe it Ain't No Lie
Tavern Down by the Harbor
Angels Rock Me to Sleep
Broke (recited)
Safe Romance
To the Princess Margaret on her Arrival at Holyrood
Willie McBride Rap
It was All for Our Rightful King
Too Stupid for Democracy
Delia's Gone
The Cat Came Back
Crazy from the Heart
Lady Franklin's Lament
Palace of the Czar (aka Shootin' with Rasputin)
Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
Things in Life
Almost Every Circumstance
Lyke Wake Dirge
The Ship Hotel (poem)
Uncle Fred's Shed
Streets of Laredo
On the Sunny Side of the Street
The Black Velvet Band
The Dreadnought
(rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold
My Dearest Dear
Burning Gold
Woody Knows Nothing
Thirteen Florins on the Bar
Candles in the Rain
Wasn't That a Time
Keep on the Sunny Side of Life
Crazy
Sunrise, Sunset
Shirley
Sing with Me
From Me to You
Guy Fawkes (ttto Modern Major General)
Wash My Eyes
Manoa in the Rain
The Final Trawl
Song of the Weaver
If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus
Widows of War
Don't Fence Me In
Where Teardrops Fall
Watts Happening (ttto Don't Fence Me In)
Find Every Ballot (ttto Climb Every Mountain)
Nevada Jane
River of the Big Canoe
Julian of Norwich

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 04:36 PM

Songs, recitations, poems, monologues, readings, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 31 October/1 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Griesly Bride
The Lover’s Ghost
The Witch of Fife (recited/dramatized)
She’s a Witch
The Bard (recited)
Three Ravens
The Ballad of William Bloat (recited)
A Bhean Ud Thios (= "Oh Woman Down Yonder", sung in English)
Voces daba un marinero (= "The Sailor was Screaming Out", sung in Spanish)
The Merry Huntsman Reinvented (parody of The Merry Huntsman)
The Monster Mash (recited)
The Devil’s awa’ wi’ the Exciseman
Weela Weela Walya (aka Woman in the Woods)
October Roses
Red Samhain (sung in Russian)
The Unquiet Grave
Bound for Transylvania
A-souling
Du, du liegst mir im Herzen (sung in German)
Gentle Soldier of My Soul
I am Cherry Alive
Hillbillies in a Haunted House (recited)
Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Samhain (poem)
Moon over Bourbon Street
Camptown Races
We Sail the Ocean Blue / I'm Called Little Buttercup (bits)
Hallows' Eve
The Maids of the Northern Lights (poem)
Blood Count Dracula
Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers (monologue)
Tam Lin
Tragedy
Le Fantôme ("The Ghost", in French)
The Private Still
The Brown and Yellow Ale
The Widow's Promise
Tam Glen
Rise Again
The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic)
Look for Me at Samhain (reading)
The Devil and the Ploughman
The Stolen Child
IQ Testing (story)
The Vampire
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Tom Dooley
A Witch's Words to Her Familiar on Samhain (poem)
The Devil and the Smith
Take Me Out(-of-sync) to the Ballgame
The Kelpie's Lullaby
Sentimental Journey
Who were the Witches
The Highwayman (Ochs setting)
Zombie Jamboree
Quantum Mechanics
The Vicar of Bray
Mr Fox
All Scary Critters Got a Place in the Choir (ttto A Place in the Choir)
Ghost Song from Ruddigore ("Painted Emblems of a Race")
The Lincolnshire Vampire
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn)
The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle (sung as The Mudcat Ladies Magical Circle)
I Remember Loving You

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Oct 22 - 04:46 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 24/25 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list, and to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Away Ye Merry Lasses
Mr. Fox (the one by John Pole)
Lucy Gray (poem)
The Monster Mole
We're Living At The Cloisters (monologue)
The Rains Have Come Again
The Ballad Of Springhill
Don Quixote (fragment)
Grey October
Vampire Rag
Didn’t I Dance?
Don’t Fence Me In
Sometimes I’m Calling For You
Lyke-Wake Dirge
Unfortunate Miss Bailey
The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta
Agnes at Hallowe’en (monologue)
The Congleton Bear
The Curmudgeon (recitation, parody of Poe’s The Raven)
Found Dying in the Street
Flirtin’ with Death
Carrying Nelson Home
Phantom of Samhain (poem)
Bringing Mary Home
Tails and Trotters
Tell Old Bill
The Toast Song
Legacies (poem)
The Reluctant Monster
Albert and the 'Eadsman (monologue)
The Preacher's Whiskey Flask
Look for Me at Samhain (poem)
The Spider
The Bell-Ringing
I Had an Old Coat
The Griesly Bride
Death and the Lady
'Illean bithibh sunndach ("Boys Be Happy", in Scottish Gaelic)
Lady Margaret
I Wanna Be a Bonobo
Hej Bystrá Voda ("Oh Fast-Flowing Stream", in Czech)
The Lowestoft Boat (ttto A-Rovin')
Mr Fixit (poem)
A Maiden Sat A-Weeping
Why I'm Different (poem)
Samhain (poem)
Knoxville Girl
Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, sung in English, except chorus in Hebrew)
Somewhere to Begin
Good Old Mountain Dew
Song Sung Blue
Over the Rainbow
Death of Queen Jane
Thíos Cois na Trá Domh (in Irish Gaelic)
Revolutionary Tea
Oregon or Die
Bound for Transylvania
King Henry
(version of) Butcher Boy
Light
The Good in Living

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 05:49 PM

Songs, poems, recitations, tunes, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 17/18 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Lady of Autumn
Carrying Nelson Home
How They Brought the Gnus from Ghent to Aix (poem)
Clancy of the Overflow (recitation)
Three Fatal Females
The Unquiet Grave
Turn the Page Over (ttto The Wild Rover)
Susanna Martin
Qu’allais-tu faire à la fontaine? (sung in French)
Oor Hamlet
Caisleán Droma-Mhor (= Castle of Dromore) (sung in Irish Gaelic)
Hobo's Lullaby
When the Old Man Came Home Sober
Apple Pickers’ Reel
Sweet Memories
Rio Grande
Man Walks Among Us
Silver Dagger
October Song
January Man
Planxty Irwin (tune)
Planxty Fanny Power (tune)
Brother Warrior
Last Trip Home
Four Walls
Harris and the Mare
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Easy and Slow (the Irish song, not the Si Kahn song)
Morningtown Ride
October Winds (aka Castle of Dromore, sung in English and in Irish Gaelic)
Breisleach (in Scots Gaelic)
The Old Chisholm Trail
Mrs Ravoon
(rewrite of) Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Speech at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (reading)
The Boys of the Chelsea School (monologue)
The Headless Horseman
The Owl and the Pussycat
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Loch Tay Boat Song
(rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold
Flicka från Backafall (Girl from Backafall, in Swedish)
The Anti-Vaxxer and the Climber
Half a Man
West Coast Lullaby
My Texas Girl
Mexican Hat Dance (tune is called Jarabe Tapatîo)
Baboon Climbs the Hill / Stellenbosch Boys
Coal in the Stone
Don't Fence Me In
Fair the Heather Grows
The Marvelous Toy
Watts Happening (ttto Don't Fence Me In)
We Should Be Going Home (ttto Rolling Home)
Hymn Song
Find a Way Home

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 06:56 PM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 10/11 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Whitby Fisherman (ttto Blessed Quietness)
The Mary Ellen Carter
In Praise of VIA Rail (poem)
Hector the Objector
It Won't Last Very Very Long (monologue)
The Sick Note
Look for Me at Samhain (poem)
Autumn Song
Bessie’s Boil (monologue)
La esposa infiel ("The Unfaithful Wife", version of Seven Drunken Nights - Our Good Man, sung in Spanish)
The Sailor Fireman
How Brightly Beams the Morning Star
Miner’s Washing
The Tale of Old Bill Blunt
Reuben James
The Demon Lover (aka Night Visiting Song)
Steal Away and Pray
In the Sidings Now
The Equestrian Statue
The False Knight on the Road
Marching Inland
Slow Train Through Georgia
My Bonnie Lies Over the Oil Tank (ttto My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
Go Rest High on that Mountain
This is Halloween
He Had a Long Chain On
If You Know What I Mean
My Country 'Tis of Your People You're Dying
Living in the Stilts
Wandering
The Griesly Bride
A Strange Way to Go to be Free (poem)
Every Man Should Have a Shed
New Motorway's Coming (aka Folk Song 73) (monologue)
Pleasant and Delightful
Red is the Rose
The Street Where You Live
My Lady at Tesco (ttto My Lady of Autumn)
Killing the Blues
Fire Down Below
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn)
In My Life
The Long and Lonely Winter
Time to Love Again
Lyke Wake Dirge
Zombie Jamboree
The Fifth Day of October
Rosh Hashanah (ttto Oklahoma!)
The Siren
Oedipus Rex
Things We Said Today
Yesterday
Who Am I Now
I Hate to See You Cry
I Don't Know
Final Trawl

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 05 Oct 22 - 08:44 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 3/4 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Your Daughters and Your Sons
October Song
The Tryphena’s Extra Hand (poem)
The Spider and the Yucca
Tom Lotch (monologue)
Three Wheels on My Budget (ttto Three Wheels on My Wagon)
The Bard of Armagh
Le roi a fait battre tambour (sung in French)
We’ve Got Work to Do
William-O (aka Bay of Biscay)
Lifeboat Horses
The Last Shanty (poem)
The Minstrel Boy
Neocortex
Trouble Child
Bells of Norwich
I Wish that the Wars were all Over
Urge for Going
Three Rows Over, Two Seats Down
Rawtenstall Annual Fair
Night Rider's Lament
Let Her Go Down
The Book of Kevin, Chapter Five
The Pub Landlord’s Labrador
Faraway People (recited)
Winter (poem)
Buffalo Gals
The Starling
Jamaica Farewell
Hard Time Come Again Once More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More)
Don't Tell Mama
Oró sé do bheatha bhaile ("Welcome Home", in Irish Gaelic)
Arthur McBride (aka The Recruiting Sergeant, Arthur McBride and the Sergeant)
Ballad of the Microwave Poodle
These are My Mountains
Letyat Utki ("Ducks are Flying", in Russian)
The Best of Autumn
Hanging Johnny
Three Score and Ten
The Handsome Cabin Boy
The Fifth of October (ttto The Patriot Game/One Morning in May/The Nightingale)
Autumn Leaves
Soon It's Gonna Rain
Empty-Handed
Songs Stay Sung
Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda ("Alasdair, Son Of Gallant Coll" in Scots Gaelic)
Bridges

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 28 Sep 22 - 01:25 AM

I sang Ecumenical Hora at the most recent singaround. The lyrics were written by Murray Porath, the tune is that of Hava Nagila. The version I sang went

Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria;
Allahu Akbar!
Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria;
Allahu Akbar!

Nearer my God to Thee, nearer my God to Thee.
Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.
Nearer my God to Thee, nearer my God to Thee.
Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.

Hare! Hare Krishna!
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare,

Allelu! Allelu!
Kyrie Eleison,
Ommmmmmmm.

I don't know where I found these lyrics. Possibly on one of the Usenet newsgroups rec.music.folk or rec.music.filk, could be 30 years ago.

Track 17 of https://archive.org/details/filk_ovff_concert_1 is Murray Porath singing it at the 1984 Ohio Valley Filk Festival concert, but with very different lyrics from what I've posted here.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Sep 22 - 08:24 AM

Songs, poems, recitations and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 26/27 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Old Joe Clark
Hard Times
The Widow’s Promise
Mandalay (poem) (by Les Barker, not Kipling)
Just a Little Rain
Molly Malone
Errol the Feral Cat
The Broken-down Showman (monologue)
Maiulin (sung in Italian)
Sussex Drinking Song
Till I’m Too Old to Die Young
Feeling Good
Unsaneh Tokef (recited)
Who by Fire
Chickens in the Garden
Wabash Cannonball
75 Septembers
Urge for Going
Strike at the Whale! (Pique La Baleine, sung in English)
Pointing to the Moon
Wee Pot Stove
Johnny MacEldoo
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Four Walls
Edward/Who Put the Blood?
(I Wish I had) Someone to Love Me
Camden
Across the Seas of Time (poem)
The Key of Always (poem)
Label in the Printer (ttto Little boxes)
Clementine
Bone Fido
Sam’s Medal (monologue)
Before I Gaze At You Again
How to Handle a Woman
The Heights of Alma
Evil-hearted Man
Song for Margaret (the one by Charlotte Peters Rock)
Deep Settled Peace (or, There's a Deep Settled Peace in My Soul)
The Isle of Eigg
Light the Pipe
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
I'm Leaving Facebook (ttto Farewell My Friends, aka Parting Friends, aka Canaan's Land)
Library-O
Last Trip Home
The Soldiers Story
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
One Time and One Time Only
Eyes of Night Owls (ttto Eyes of Eagles)
Bread and Fishes
Misalliance
Darcy Farrow
Frances Lee
Ecumenical Hora (ttto Hava Nagila)
The Family of Woman and Man
(When We Go) Rolling Home
One With the Darkness
Housewives' Shanty
Circle of Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 21 Sep 22 - 12:15 AM

Songs and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 19/20 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Railroading on the Great Divide
Home Lads Home
When I’m Gone (not the Phil Ochs song)
Beat the Retreat (monologue)
Absent Friends and You
America (My Country ‘tis of Thee)
L’Escriveta (sung in Occitan)
Barbara Allen
Little Boy Fishing off a Wooden Pier
The Mountain
Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk
Funerals
The Future Mrs ‘Awkins
Vicky’s Secret
Her Majesty
No Woman No Cry
Cheek to Cheek
Do Virgins Taste Better (ttto The Irish Washerwoman)
The Bergen
Barroom Girls
Goldwatch Blues
Spanish Pipedream
Charade
Bright Sweaters and Fall
Bonny at Morn
Die Gedanken Sind Frei (sung in German)
I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing (ttto "The Maids of Mourne Shore," the tune commonly used for Down By the Salley Gardens)
Maybe I Won’t Turn Up For Me Death
Sam Drummed Out (monologue)
Love is a Chain
Come All You Virginia Girls
When Your Bells Have Turned Green (ttto Fiddlers’ Green)
The Mary Ellen Starter (parody of The Mary Ellen Carter)
I Can See Clearly Now
There Is a Wall
General Guinness
Let’s All Go Join the Queue (ttto Let’s All Go Down the Strand)
Raven in the Storm
Killed by a Coconut
Banana Republics
San Francisco Bay Blues
Isle of St Helena
Medicine Wheel
In Spite of Ourselves
Stormy
Truth Cannot Be Silenced (ttto Die Gedanken Sind Frei)
The Unquiet Grave (ttto Star of the County Down)
Boat of Silver
Somewhere
The Way I Feel
Streets of London
Find Me an Island
Dimming of the Day
Singing Through the Hard Times
Lilibet's Gone (ttto Lavender's Blue)
All Around My Fat (ttto All Around My Hat)
Crossing the Bar

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 08:47 PM

Songs, recitations, monologues, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 12/13 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Right Said Fred
September Song
How To Give A Cat A Pill (recitation)
Brown Boots (monologue)
Plots
The Bells of Rhymney
Papeta Calhau (sung in Occitan)
I’m Marching Inland
So Handy
You’ll Get By
Dark as a Dungeon
Song of Deal
The Golden City
More Work for the Undertaker
Aged and Mellow
Empty Pocket Blues
Voodoo Queen Marie
The Anti-vaxxer and the Climber
My Meatless Day
The Nightingale Bird
Sleep on Beloved
I Still Miss Someone
The Iona Boat Song
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Roseville Fair
Waltzing’s for Dreamers
Happy Ever After (poem)
Angel of the North (poem)
Father William (recited)
I Love Susie in the Supermarket
Sally Free and Easy
Here I Am Amongst You
O Sinner Man
Embraceable You
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (piano instrumental)
The Gallant Shopping
Eppie Morrie
When a Knight Won His Spurs
Call the Lamas!
Will Ye Load, Mudcat, Load (ttto Wild Mountain Thyme)
(Parody of) Three Score and Ten
Death of Queen Jane
I Want to Buy Peroxide (parody of "I Wandered By a Brookside"?)
(Parody of) Parting Friends
Medley: Unst Boat Song and Þat Mælti Mín Móðir (My Mother Told Me) (in Norn, Old Icelandic, English, and Scottish Gaelic)
Isle au Haut Lullaby
The Bells
What Should I Wear to the Revolution
The Bold Tinker (aka Daniel O'Connell, O'Connell's Steam Engine, Making Babies by Steam)
Singing Through the Hard Times
Come By the Hills
Golden Mansions
Hills of Isle au Haut
How Could You Believe Me when I Said I’d Govern, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? (parody of How Could You Believe Me when I Said I Love You, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?)
Only Remembered
Bright Morning Stars

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 02:05 AM

This website was down for a few days, which prompted me to write these verses, and to sing them at the Mudcat Singaround of 12/13 September 2022, to the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme:

Oh, the wintertime is here [in Australia],
And Mudcat's on the fritz.
How will I learn my songs?
I'm about to lose my wits.

Chorus:
Will ye load, Mudcat, load,
And we'll all browse together,
Downloading lyrics
From the electronic heather.
Will ye load, Mudcat, load?

If the website should crash,
Where will I find another?
Fresno State? Mainly Norfolk?
Or YouTube – what a bother!

Chorus

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 01:53 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 5/6 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Banks of Marble
Old Bones
Cargoes (poem)
Time to Pay the Ferryman (poem )
The Burghers of Calais (monologue)
Bill the Burly Burglar
Sam’s Gone Away (aka Aboard a Man o’ War)
The Ballad of Chris Moser
Schön ist der Morgen (Morning is broken, sung in German)
September Song
Brave Marin (sung in French)
Bury Me in My Overalls
Ludlow Massacre
How Could You Believe Me when I Said I’d Govern, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? (parody of How Could You Believe Me when I Said I Love You, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?)
When I Grow too Old to Dream
Mobile Bay
Cold Mountain
Queen Eleanor’s Confession
Gambling on the Sabbath Day
The Boys of Barr na Sraide
My Dearest Dear (aka The Blackest Crow)
Female Rambling Sailor
The Boxer
The Mill was Made of Marble
All Among the Barley
Your State's Name Here
The Day After Tomorrow
The Lemmings’ Reunion (poem)
The Magna Carta (monologue)
The Kamikaze Reunion Party (recitation)
My Father Was a Driver on the Northwest Railway
I Still Miss Someone
Shepherd, O Shepherd
Stixwould Harvest Song (aka Drink Good Ale)
Little Sadie
Take a Chance
That's He (ttto That's Him)
Try to Remember
McKinley's Rag (aka White House Blues)
Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Geritol Gypsy
False, False
Bonny Portmore
Who Built this House
Farewell to Nova Scotia
Logie o' Buchan
Do You Need Another Hand?
Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Before the Deluge
Tolpuddle Man
I've Been Workin' on the Railroad
I Can See Your Aura and It's Ugly
Medley: In the Sweet By-and-By/The Preacher and the Slave/Joe Hill
Me and My Uncle
The Scarecrow
Working Man
A Miner's Life (aka Union Miners, Miner's Lifeguard)
Satisfied Mind

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 08:24 PM

Songs, monologues, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 29/30 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Home Grown Tomatoes
Thorneymoor Woods
Aggie the Elephant (monologue, aka Little Aggie)
Woodhouse Colliery (poem)
Oblate Spheroids (poem)
Spanish Beaches (ttto Spanish Ladies)
High Germany
Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer
Ten in the Bed (aka Roll Over)
Black is the Colour
O Tell Me Where the Dove has Flown (tune is "Dove of Peace")
Frozen Logger
The Unquiet Grave (Jean Ritchie version)
The Rare Ould Times
The Countersigns
The Baby Tree
If it wasn’t for the ‘ouses in Between
Downed and Drowned
Egyptian Ella
Byker Hill
Till the Dance is Mine
The Keys of Canterbury
Ragged Old Truck
Elsie Marley
Our Ship is Ready
Isabella (adaptation of Keats’ poem)
What’s the Use of Wings?
Westlin Winds
Turn Turn Turn
Songs Stay Sung
The Mountain
Slow Train Through Georgia
Old Zip Coon
The Rich Man and the Poor Man
Doomsday Blues
The Atheist and the Bears (poem)
Violin Farm (monologue)
Hillbilly Heaven
Saucy Sailor
Disco Calypso
Isn't It Grand, Boys
As Time Goes By
In My Grandma's Garden
See You In September
As If He Knows
Sapozhkelekh (in Yiddish; chorus only)
Morning Come, Maria Gone
Guilt and Shame
Room for Company (aka Bartholomew Fair)
Broom o' the Cowdenknowes
As I Roved Out
The Song of the Volga Boatmen (in Russian; "Ey, Ukhnyem!" loosely translated as "yo heave ho!")
Heat Detector
Sweet Thang
The Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Hielan Laddie (often sung as "Donkey Riding")
I Heard You Sing a Song
Sunday Driver
Hungarian shepherds' dance (title unknown; jaw harp instrumental)
Dilmano Dilbero (in Bulgarian)
Awake You Drowsy Sleeper
In China or a Woman's Heart
One I Love
When I was a Cowboy
Rigs of the Time (contemporary verses)
The Recruited Collier
Bring Me a Boat
His Name was Juel
Look to the Rainbow
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 06:06 AM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 22/23 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Cat Came Back
I Wish We’d Sailed on the “Jeanie Johnston”
The Civilised World (poem)
Sam’s Racehorse (monologue)
Suede Show Blues
Barney Google
Public Bar (ttto Early One Morning)
False Autumn (poem)
If You Love the Water, Let It Rain
Cad é sin don té sin (sung in English translation)
Cawsand Bay
The Scotsman
The Lone Pilgrim
Roseville Fair (fragment)
Morning Has Broken
Wild Mountain Thyme
Fair Maid of Islington
Maginot Waltz
Dink’s Song
Bad Blood
I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River
Prairie Lullaby
One More Mile
Buddy Better Get on Down the Line
Ukrainian Now
Stewball
Remember Me
Who will Watch the Home Place?
Bygone Days (poem)
Marksman Sam (monologue)
Balding
April Come She Will
Streets of Laredo
????? ???? (Letyat utki) (Ducks are Flying, sung in Russian)
The Lord Into His Garden Comes (The Garden Hymn, extra verses from Meditations Among the Tombs)
A Bottle o’ the Best
A Capital Ship (aka The Walloping Window Blind)
The Coils of Love
The Rosabella
Down Where the Drunkards Roll
Billy Venero
Address on Death (poem)
The Laily (or Laidly, or Loathsome) Worm and the Mackerel (or Machrel) of the Sea
Far from the Home I Love
The Ballad of Michael Collins (aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours)
What'll I Do
The King's Navy
The Cobbler's End
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
My, My, Mama
Darling Nelly Gray
Dark-Eyed Molly
Braw Sailin' on the Sea
Caledonia
Blue Tail Fly (aka Gimme/Jimmy Crack Corn)
If I Could (poem)
Let's Choose Peace
Let's Fall in Love
When I First Came to this Land
The Vampire Come to Whitby
Do You Love an Orange (ttto Do You Love an Apple)
She's Someone's Grandmother
Dillon Bay
Sing, Sugar, Sing
Wild Blossoms
Hobo's Lullaby

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 01:13 AM

Songs, recitations, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 15/16 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Early
Parking At Whitby (ttto Dancing at Whitsun)
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Verbosity
Sammy’s Bar
You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out
El enamorado y la Muerte (sung in Spanish)
Lunenberg Town
Harbo & Samuelson
Skewball (recited)
An Cailin Rua (The Red-haired Girl) (sung in English)
The Muffin Man Song (plus medley of nursery rhymes)
Where’ve You Been?
The Ramona
Old Times They Are a-Changin’ (parody of The Times, They Are a-Changin')
On the Cat (ttto Quartermaster’s Stores)
The Doctor
Danny Boy
Eat Bertha’s Mussels
Haul Away Boys
The Singer's Club in Enniscorthy (tune based on The Man who Came Home from Pretoria)
One I Love
Man with Blue Dolphin
The Irish Rover
Deep River Blues
My Grandfather’s Clock
The Queen and the Soldier
Silly Polysyllabist
The Last Battle
Rosin the Bow (aka Old Róisín the Beau, and other variations)
Bluenose
Wild Rover (ttto Banana Boat Song)
Blue Screen Broken Hearted Blues (updated to Zoom Room Blues)
Ballad of Penny Evans
Bonny Streets of Fyvie-o (aka The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie, Peggy-O, Fennario, The Maid of Fife, ...)
Where Shall We Go (poem)
How Beautiful Upon the Mountain
Tail Toddle
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Banks of Ponchartrain
Marcie
Scarlet Ribbons
Mrs Murphy
Greensleeves
Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
The Blind Boy's Dog
Bunessan (piano solo; tune used for Morning Has Broken)
Forty Years Ago (rewrite of Twenty Years Ago)
Charlie Porter
Make and Break Harbour
My Love is Like a Dewdrop
Lord Franklin (Les Barker parody)
Leanabh an Aigh (Blessed Child, in Scots Gaelic, ttto Bunessan)
All the Way Home
Swimming to the Other Side
True Confessions (poem)
Single Player
Let Me Be There
I Have a Dream
ACME
Where Do Dead Animals Go
The Fields of Athenry
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Music to Me

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 02:09 AM

Songs, recitations, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 8/9 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Woodstock
Remember All Those Years Ago (poem)
We Are All The Souls On Earth (poem)
William Brown (aka Keep That Wheel a-Turning)
Drunk and Disorderly (parody ttto Lord of the Dance)
I’m a Wheel within Wheels within Wheels
Greasy Mac (recited)
Re Gilardin (sung in Piedmontese)
I Ain’t Marching Any More
Willie o’ Winsbury
You Belong to Me
Walkie in the Garden/Parlor
I’m an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
Home Lads Home
Song to a Seagull
White Cliffs of Dover
Long Summer Day
The Hole in the Ark (monologue)
She Moved Through the Fair
Love at the Five-and-Dime
Blues Chase Up a Rabbit
Le Chinois
The Vision (poem)
Sight for Sore Eyes
The Contender
The Carnival is Over
Catfish John
Let Me Be There
Son of the Earl of White Banners (sung in Scottish Gaelic)
Star of the County Down
Bring Back My Body to Me (parody ttto My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
The Irish Rover
Brigg Fair
Pearl the Preying Mantis (poem)
Red is the Rose
The Ballad of Springhill
Animalarkey
Five Folk Songs in Thirty Seconds
Adelaide's Lament
When First Unto this Country
Long Black Veil
Aardvark
Hiroshima Memorial Candlelight Vigil (poem)
Changes Olivia Newton-John presente!
Danny Boy Cat Parody
Ballad of Lewis Mills
Summerfly
Black Girl (aka In the Pines)
Last Song
The Music of Strings
You Never Know Just Who You're Going to Meet
Hard Times Come Again Once More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More)
Embraceable You
I Come and Stand at Every Door
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Jazzing (poem)
Dance Away
Archimedes (ttto Leave Her, Johnny)
Kingfisher
Drowned Sailor
Dreaming My Dreams with You
Have You Never Been Mellow
What's the Use of Wings
Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 12:37 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 1/2 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Hallelujah I’m A Bum
Both Sides Now
Dipsticks & Seals (poem)
Fields of Athenry (parody)
Farewell He (ttto All Around My Hat)
I’m the Original Chauvinist Pig
The Rolling of the Stones
Wind River Waltz
Pack Up Your Sorrows
I Wish They’d Do It Now
Le Galant Indiscret (The Indiscreet Suitor, sung in French)
White Cottons of Despair (ttto Woody Guthrie’s 1913 Massacre)
Dink’s Song
Pancho & Lefty
Buck-eyed Jim
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
Swifts and Swallows
Slip Jigs and Reels
Elijah (ttto Delilah)
Caledonia
Where Did You Get That Hat?
Claudy Banks (with additional verse)
Mathematics
Times are Not What They Used to Be
The Horses of May Day
Bold Riley
Duncan Gray
Who Woulda Thunk It?
The Briar and the Rose
Down Under
Handsome Molly
Travelling Man’s Daughter (aka Tinkerman’s Daughter)
Smile
The Unfortunate Rake (same tune as Streets of Laredo)
I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
Jolly Roving Tar (aka Get Up, Jack; John, Sit Down)
This Bit is Mine (poem)
Women Always Lead Men From Behind
I’m Gonna be an Engineer
Darling Corey
Son Come Tell to Me (cowboy version of Edward)
Mezi Horami (Between the Mountains, in Czech)
The Bergen
The King's Navy
Tha mo ghaol air àird a'chuain (a broken token song in Scots Gaelic)
Catahoula
Give Ear to a Frolicsome Ditty
The Leaving of Liverpool
Crazy
Green Stamps (ttto Greensleeves)
Red-Haired Mary
Last Words
Related
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Joy of Living
Scrambled Eggs (ttto Yesterday)
Eilean Leodhais, tir nan gaisgeach (The Isle of Lewis, Land of Heroes, in Scottish Gaelic)
The Lammas Tide
See Here, She Said
The Wine Song
When Hippos Battle in the Mud
The Wild Side of Life
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
The Kangaroo Song (aka A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak)
Raise Your Voices
Lisa's Freight Train
Give Yourself to Love
Kisses Sweeter than Wine

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 30 Jul 22 - 08:56 PM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 25/26 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Life Gets Teejius Don’t It? (recitation)
Leonardo da Thingy (poem)
The Song Goes On
The Good Cook Stirs in the Alli-allium
Michael Row the Boat
When I Go
An Affectation of Conceit (=I’m in Love with the Nearest Mirror)
Roll the Cotton Down (halyard version) + verses of Roll the Kaiser Down (parody)
Savory fair
Mia, totsants s’apròcha (sung in Occitan)
Bring Me a Rose
Crossing the Bar
Isn’t Life Strange?
Banks of Red Roses
The Unquiet Grave
Where Shall I Be (when the first trumpet sounds)? (including verses by Rick Pollay)
If Our Lives were on Videotape
49th Birthday (story) + poem by Muriel Fisher
Row On
In My Life
Girl from the North Country
Alice White
Ride Cowboy Ride
Anac Cuain
I’m So Glad I Got My ‘Ligion in Time
Willie’s Lady
The Ball Playing Song
Hospice (poem)
No Thanks, Thanks
I’m Going Home to Georgia
Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
The Wayfaring Stranger (aka Poor Wayfaring Stranger, I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
Let There Be Morning
My Eldorado
Won't You Come Home, Disraeli (ttto Bill Bailey, Won't You Come Home)
Mickey Mouse wears a Boris Johnson watch (poem)
Too Many Icarus Moments (poem)
The Magpie
Joy to the World
High Germany
Make It, Mend It
Slithering Round Eden (ttto Streets of Laredo)
Pretty Flowers All Around
Fatty Molesworth
Jack Ashton
Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog)
All You Need is Love
Electricity
If You Love Me
Ratcliffe Highway
I Ain't Never Been Satisfied
The Ding Dong Blues
San Antonio Rose
After the Haircut (free verse)
First You Lose the Rhyming
The Lone Pilgrim
The Ballad of Penny Evans
Slow Train Through Georgia
Hard, Ain't it Hard
Parkette
Skye Boat Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:50 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 18/19 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Just the Facts, Ma’am
Now is the Cool of the Day
Mrs. Groves (poem)
Handweaver and the Factory Maid
Rest Quiet (poem)
Angling
Woodturner’s Love Song
Todo tiene que ver (sung in Spanish)
Blackwater Side
Uncle Tom Cobleigh Will Run (ttto Widdicombe Fair, Widdecombe Fair, Tom Pearce)
William Archer (version of Banks of the Bann)
Something Sort of Grandish
Billy Bones and his Dancing Cat
Ho, Boys, Ho
El Paso
Le grand frisé (sung in French)
I Give Myself to You
The Old Dance
Shanghaied
Ballad of Seth Davey (aka Whiskey on a Sunday)
Turn Around
The Castle of Dromore
Down Where the Drunkards Roll
Air Fa La La Lo
The King’s Navy
St. Brendan’s Fair Isle
Mrs McGrath
Ella's Song
Carter’s Blues
Bridge-Guard in the Karoo
The Moorlough Shore
Barrett’s Privateers
House Carpenter
Go To Work On Monday
Terms & Conditions (poem)
She Moved Through the Fair
Cool Water
Flying Song
Falling in Love
Lovin' Emma
The Fairy Fair Blues (ttto Folsom Prison Blues)
Some Enchanted Evening
Blue Bayou
Ten Thousand Miles (version of Turtle Dove)
Lynn's Dream
Beautiful Soul
Plains of Waterloo
Weggis Song (aka From Lucerne to Weggis)
The Maker
Going to the West
Stand Up for Jesus
The Woman in Your Life
Garnet's Homemade Beer (ttto Barrett's Privateers)
Jenny Wren (poem)
Ice Cream Weather
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
In the Heat of the Summer
Apprentice Song
Benjamin Bowmaneer
I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
Pretty Saro
Three Little Fishies
Newborough Beach
North Country Tragedy
Song of the Folk Nazi (read as a poem)
Blackbird
The Song Goes On
Skye Boat Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 05:34 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 11/12 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Going home (version of Frankie & Johnny)
Diamantina Drover
The Maid of Melrose Town (poem)
Boudicea
Sow Took the Measles
Dark-eyed Molly
Allergic to his Face (poem)
Widdecombe Fair
Scarborough Fair
A Terrible Beauty is Born
The Bold Princess Royal
The Worst Day Since Yesterday
I’ll be Your Baby Tonight
Black is the Color
Brown Baby
Le roi Eugène (sung in French)
If You Say Yes
The Music Makers
See No Evil
Snakes and Ladders
On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep
Melting Pot (poem)
Our Planet's Unfolding
Star of the County Down
Both Sides Now
Oak Ash and Thorn
The Orange Maid of Sligo
The Ballad of Soulful Sam
Rolling Home (to dear old England)
Bread and Roses
Folsom Prison Blues
Zen Gospel Singing
The Trees They Do Grow High (parody by Les Barker)
The Seasons’ Wheel (poem)
A Pirate Walked into a Bar
Mind Games
Early One Morning (Election Day parody)
Courting is a Pleasure (aka Lovely Molly)
All the Good Times are Past and Gone
Power and the Glory
Men of Worth
My Love Comes Rolling Down
Matty Groves
Scotch and Soda
Like the Way I Do
Monday, Monday
My Son John From the Isle of Man
Projectionist Woes (poem)
Text and Tweet (ttto Aragon Mill)
Hi Lili, Hi Lo
Breed Specific Legislation Ballad
Drinkin' Them Beers
Peat Fire Flame
Ring of Fire
Cotton Jenny
Fare Thee Well My Own True Love (aka Ten Thousand Miles)
Yesterday (parody by Dave Mann)
You Gotta Have Skin (ttto Heart)
Donegal Dreams
The Wild Geese (aka Norland Wind)
When the Ship Comes In
To My Old Brown Earth
Kite at Sundown

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 03:21 AM

Songs, instrumentals and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 4/5 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

What Did You Learn in School Today?
The Last Thing on My Mind (poem, parody of Tom Paxton song)
Where’s the Fuel Now? (ttto Who's the Fool Now, aka Martin Said to His Man)
Goldwatch Blues
Walk with Me Now / The Raucous Cry of the Gulls (poem)
When I First Came to this Land
I Wish I could be Nice and Warm
Windmills
Perrine était servante (sung in French)
If I had a Hammer
Mack the Knife
Henry Joy (aka Henry Joy McCracken)
Wade in the Water
Workin’ My Way Back to You Babe
What does it Matter?
Patrick Spencer (Bob Coltman version of Sir Patrick Spens)
My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
Early Morning Rain
I Ain’t Marching Anymore
Peggy Gordon
Oops! Jamboree! (parody of Whup Jamboree)
Night Ride Home
Yankee Doodle
Oh Sinner Man
Battle of New Orleans
An Irishman’s Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
The Rifleman's Song at Bennington
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Never Turning Back
At Seventeen
Rolling Down to Old Maui
America the Beautiful (piano instrumental)
Johnson Boy
America the Beautiful (sung)
The Roses of Prince Charlie
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
The Mermaid and the Swallow
Somewhere in America
East Virginia
Roll On Columbia
They Make the Laws (poem)
Rigs of Rye
A Sailor's Life
Bard of Armagh
A Jolly Holiday
Rolling Home
The Fiddle and the Drum
A Kiss in the Morning Early
The Star-Spangled Banner
Enough
May I Suggest
How Anarchy Could Function
Tomra's Song
O What a Merry Land is England
The Auld Triangle (aka The Old Triangle, The Royal Canal)
Toddling Home
The Wayward Wind
Black-Eyed Susie
But Mr Adams
Pipers Refrain
The Minstrel Boy
Sister, Sail
Ashokan Farewell (piano instrumental)
Carter Blues
The Battle of the Somme
I Only have Eyes for You
Highland Cathedral
This Land Ain't Your Land (parody of This Land is Your Land)
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
The Shirt Song
If I Were Free
Lay Down Beside Me
This is My Song (aka Song of Peace)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 02:18 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 27/28 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. I didn't get a title for Elle's story about a parrot. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes To Our Door
Adieu, Adieu
The Folk Club Disaster (poem)
Dabob Bay
Annie Get Your Sun Cream
Jim Keay’s Gander
Katie Moray
The Remote Users’ Song (ttto Wombling Song)
Come Round Her
Wee Pot Stove
Patches
The Outlandish Knight
The Back Blocks Shearer
L’inglesina (sung in Italian)
The Last Minstrel Show
Sturdy Woman
In the Heat of the Summer
Alice White
Down Where the Drunkards Roll
The Royal Forester
Summertime
The Ballad of Robban's First Ride
Pivnicková (in Czech)
When the Old Dun Cow Caught Fire
Rock Salt and Nails
Butchie’s Tune
The Sack ’em Up Boys
Rainbow Race
Millie’s Waltz
Story about a parrot
Disposal (poem)
Crying
Take it Easy
Cha Bhi Mi Buan ("I'll Not Survive", in Scots Gaelic)
The Tex-I-An Boys
The Lonely Willow Tree
The Old Gravy Train (poem)
Sunday Afternoon in the Car
Lassie wi’ the Yellow Coatie
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
Buy a Gun for Your Son
Sailor Home From the Sea (aka Cock of the Morning)
The Rest of the Day is Your Own (parody of A Farmer's Boy)
Shallow Brown
After the Gold Rush
You Blood Red Roses
Glenlogie (aka Jean of Bethelnie)
Cadgwith Anthem
Summer Sunlight
Banks of Marble
The Literary Dustman
There is a Tavern in the Town
The Rose of the San Joaquin
Now and Then
Morning Morgantown
The Isle of Arran
Kentucky in the Morning
Shift and Spin
The Golden Triangle
An Activist's Accomplishment (reading)
Not Only Bars
My Body's Nobody's Body But Mine
Quantum Mechanics
I Think I Understand
The Hippopotamus Song (aka Mud, Glorious Mud)
Noah's Ark Shanty (aka A Long Time Ago, aka In Frisco Bay)
Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 09:18 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list, and also to Casey. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Hard Times Come Again No More
Trains of Waterloo
Eeyore’s Speech from “Piglet” (poem)
Animal Adoption
Waltzing Matilda (Queensland version)
Streets of London
11th Cavalry Song
Somewhere to Begin
Galveston
I'm Gonna be an Engineer
Midsummer hymn
The Young Fisherwoman
Poison beer
Whisky You’re the Devil
Fruit Trees Fill My Garden
Queen Sally
Rainbow Race
Designated Answerer of Questions (ttto Dedicated Follower of Fashion)
Summer Lady (poem)
Freight Train
Bring Flowers
Geordie
Whitby Whaler
I am Cherry Alive
Six Feet of Mud
Harriet Tubman
Lord, How Come Me Here
Scarborough Fair
Wild Goose Shanty
Ella’s Song (aka We Who Believe in Freedom)
Oak Ash and Thorn
Out of the Window (aka Our Wedding Day)
Dreary Black Hills
The Keelman
The Broken Token
Come Fare Away (aka "Come Fare Away With Me"; also, "Marnie" is sometimes included in the title)
Some Little Bug
Come All You Recluse Spiders
Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (aka Roll Her to the Wall)
The Gallowa’ Hills
At the Dawning of the Day (poem)
Never Turning Back
A Mighty Ship was the Gundremar
Long, Long Ago + I'm Romeo
A Boné Fido Dog
I Wish I was a Punk Rocker with Flowers in My Hair
Colors of the Sun
The Hounds
Nellie Gray
Pat Gets on an Airplane (ttto Paddy Works on the Railway)
Dance with My Father
The Hokey-Pokey (Shakespearean style)
Rory O'Moore
Already Dead
On Board the Susianna
Chrò Chin t-Sàile (I Will Go Home, in Scottish Gaelic)
The Elements
Into the Mystic
Keep Haulin'
Midsummer Hymn
Farewell Johnny Miner
The Bonny Bunch of Roses-O
Every Bush and Tree (aka I Have No Mother Now)
Yucky Bugs
Orphan Train
Lovely Agnes
The Gallagher Boys (aka Lost on Lake Michigan)
Dubarry Done Gone Again
Some Little Bug
Cockroaches on Parade
A Place in the Choir
After Hours
John o' Dreams

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 08:44 AM

Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list, and also to Casey. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Do-Re-Mi
Bright Blue Rose
As I Walked Out (poem)
Bert and Jane
What Have They Done to the Rain
The Water is Wide
The Rose and the Lily (version of Cruel Brother)
Hunting the Hare
Romance de Isabel (in Spanish)
West Texas Waltz
Jesus Jesus (sung in Irish Gaelic)
Three Score and Ten
The Shores of Normandy
The Power and the Glory
Who Do You Love
Derby Ram
Kentucky Babe
Changeling's Lullaby
Wanting Memories
San Antonio Rose
Old Dogs
A Sailor's Grave
That Look in his Eye
Cape St. Mary's
254 Shades of Gray
The Thunderstorm Approaches (poem)
Hurricane Blues
Miss Otis Regrets
She Was One of the Early Birds
Theme from Mahogany
Come Fare Away (aka "Come Fare Away With Me"; also, "Marnie" is sometimes included in the title)
Lovely Agnes
More Hills to Climb
Hope Eyrie
Annan Water
Peace Train
Keep on the Sunny Side
Golden Mansions
Caravan
Selchie
Feher Laszlo Stole a Stallion
Roseville Fair
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Remember All Those Years Ago (poem)
Why Did They Have to Get Married
Bruces' Song (aka Bruces' Philosophers Song)
Down in Granny's Yard (aka Johnny's Lost his Marble)
She's Like a Swallow
Farewell to Whiskey (aka Johnny My Man)
Roy O'Brien jingle
So Will We Yet
Dodi Li (in Hebrew)
Je suis trop jeunette ("I am too Young", in French)
Rosebud in June
Fantasy Lover
Crazy
Their Brains Were Small and They Died
In Self Defense (poem)
Who Shot Sam
To Cheer Him Up and Help Him on His Way
Sea Glass
Shallow Brown
Sammy's Bar
Thaïs
Greensleeves (piano solo)
Cold Haily Rainy Night
The Dewy Ones
Trouble
Singing Through the Hard Times
Zen Gospel Singing
Makin' Whoopee
(parody of) My Father's a Hedger and Ditcher
A Bench by the Sea
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 08:34 AM

Songs, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Dancing at Whitsun
June Song (parody of Dave Webber’s May Song)
Partygate (poem)
D-Day Song
Whiskey in the Jar
Down by the Sally Gardens
Lamorna
Bold Robert Emmet
Steal my Heart Away
Ratto al ballo (sung in Piedmontese)
Summerfly
Seeing Nellie Home
Last Bus Home
The Gam
Georgia on My Mind
Cut the Cake
There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner
A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go
The Old Rose & Crown
Mineral Wells
Coffee Shop Down in Pimlico
Long Hot Summer Day
Fisher Lads of Whitby
Dark-Haired Gypsies
Mill o’ Tifty’s Annie
Transylvania Shanty
Crackdown Addict
For Free
Big Yellow Taxi
It Could be a Wonderful World
Breaths
Sam the Skull
The Shearing’s Not for You
Band o’ Shearers
Kite at Sundown
Trains and Boats and Planes
Cumha an fhile (The Loneliness of the Poet, in Irish Gaelic)
Cholesterol
Get Your Butt Over Here (poem)
Rosebud in June
Hit the Road Jack
Mary and the Seal
I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound
Somewhere Ahead
D-Day Dodgers
The Frozen Logger
Play Friends (poem)
What Else Can I Do (aka Nothing Less Will Do, The Election Song)
Who Am I Now
All Hooked Up (ttto All Shook Up)
Simple Gifts
Give Yourself to Love
Chad Looked Over the Wall (aka Shortages)
When Can I Have a Banana Again
The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter
John o' Dreams
The Blue Train
The Whale Song
Buckingham Palace (revised for the Platinum Jubilee)
The Boy Who Thought He Was a Cockerel (story)
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Forgiven
The Fox
Son David (variant of "Edward")
Our Favorite Things (ttto My Favorite Things)
The Old Man's Wish
You Are Not Alone
Shores of Avalon
Circle of Friends
The Guillotine
Three Little Fishies
Open That Can
Be Prepared
Fave Swings (ttto My Favorite Things)
Hero (poem)
Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire (updated version)
Call Me the Whale
We Zoom (ttto Blue Moon)
Zoomiversary Song (ttto The Parting Glass)
The King's Breakfast (poem)
Lay Down Beside Me
River

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 02 Jun 22 - 08:15 AM

Songs, poems, recitations/readings and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 30/31 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Last Shanty
The Earl o’ March’s Daughter
I Have Blown it All Away (poem)
Hard Case
Cruel Sister
Giving Her Away
I Ain’t Marching Any More
An Apartment in Sunny Spain
La filha d’un païsan (sung in Occitan)
A Prayer in Open D
If it Weren’t For the Music
Fathom the Bowl
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Woad
Don Quixote
Don’t Take Your Gun to School
Nothing Rhymed
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recited)
Old Abe
Oleanna
Down the Dials
Death Letter Blues
Sea Change
Paper Houses
Lili Marlene
Universal Soldier
Come Back Baby
Promenade
Terrorism (poem)
Song for the Life
In the Jailhouse Now
I Come and Stand at the Schoolhouse Door
Assault Rifles (poem)
Self-knowledge (poem)
Dirty Old Town
Summerland (poem)
Aisle After Hymn
Faithless Love
500 miles
Whiskey on a Sunday (aka Come Day, Go Day, also The Ballad of Seth Davey)
Martin Said to his Man (aka Who's the Fool Now)
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1952 (story)
Let Union Be
The One on the Right was on the Left
Jutland
The Water is Wide
Fire and Flame
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
recitation from David Valentine Taylor
Nepudem Domu (We Won't Go Home, in Czech)
Lyke Wake Dirge
Poor Soldier
Wayfaring Stranger (secular version)
Second Front Song
Homeward Bound
Buddhist Monk, 1960s (reading)
Man Who Used to Be
Calypso
Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)
Tim McGuire
Train Trip to Guildford
Run and Catch the Wind
Up with People
Who Am I Now
Mothers, Daughters, Wives (reading)
Here is My Home

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 25 May 22 - 08:24 PM

Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 23/24 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Twelve Gates To The City
World Turned Upside Down
Questionnaire (poem)
Be Gentle with my Heart
Fruit Trees Fill My Garden
Diga Joaneta (sung in Occitan)
The Deserter
She’s Like the Swallow
Turtle Dove
Reminds Me of You
Fennario
Cuchullain’s Son
The Bard of Armagh
Call to Song
Betsy Bell & Mary Gray
A Handful of Songs
Farmer’s Toast
Tonight He Belongs to Me
Early One Morning
Mrs. Fisher
Dowie Dens of Yarrow
Ceres, Pluto and Eris... oh my!
The Seasons of the Year
McCafferty
The Watchman’s Gone
Yorkshire Couple
Going to Leave Old Texas
Banks of the Nile
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
They Say it’s Wonderful
The Snows they Melt the Soonest
Mingulay Boat Song
Hard Times
Procrastination (poem)
Where will the Last Flower Grow?
The King’s Navy
I will Follow Him
I Fall to Pieces
Where Shall I Be?
I Think it's Gonna Work Out Fine
Summertime
The Spotted Cow (aka Crafty Farmer? Well Sold the Cow? The Crafty Ploughboy? The Yorkshire Bite?)
Solid Ground
Quit Your Lowdown Ways
Catahoula
Time to Spare
Land of the Bottom Line
Across the Great Divide
Take Your Time
Rio Grande
Cherokee Bend
Down Where the Drunkards Roll
Will Ye Go to Flanders
The Swaggering Jig (aka Bellaghy Fair)
Turn, Turn, Turn
Out of Nowhere
I Wanna Die Easy
Don't Buy the Liverwurst (ttto Down by the Riverside)
The Man in the Moon
What Else Can I Do (aka Nothing Less Will Do, The Election Song)
Anchored in Love
Nevada Jane
May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You (piano solo)
Hunting the Hare
Caledonia
Devilish Mary
Walkin' on my Wheels
Take Your Time
Jubilee

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 May 22 - 08:10 PM

Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 16/17 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. "Mountain Village" is a guess at a title for Jane's story. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Travelin’ man
Verdant Braes of Skreen
Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Door (poem)
Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (or Shock Absorba the Greek)
Bold Riley
Nobody Knocking
D’ ye Ken John Peel?
Day by Day
Two Sisters
Los dos filhets del rei (sung in Occitan)
Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Wild Women
Don’t Cry Baby
The Happy Zoomer (ttto The Happy Wanderer)
Lichtbob Lassie
Molecatcher
St. Brendan’s Voyage
The Mermaid
Oh the Dishes
A Dollar a Day
Ay lu lu (sung in Yiddish) (possibly aka Shlof Shoyn Mayn Tayer Feygele? or, Unter Beymer?)
Lives in the Balance
The Barring of our Door
Wagon Wheels
A bhean úd thíos
Today
Scarborough Fair
Rum, by Gum
Bill Bailey
Fresh Hops
The Puppeteer (recitation)
A waltz by Bob Pasquerello (may be in Fingerwaltzes collection) (solo piano)
Where is our James Connolly
Mountain Village (story)
Earth Angel
Don’t Despise the Deserter
A September Song (recitation)
The Dancing Teacher
Wild Mountain Thyme
How Could Anyone
Trouble
Just a Lie
Queen of the Rails
If I Could Be the Rain
Queen of Waters
I Can See Clearly Now
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Benjamin Bowmaneer
The English Wedding (Le Mariage Anglais, alternating English and French)
Off the Cold Coast of Iceland
Bye Bye Blues
First of May Blues
Love Me a Little
When I Have Seen
I Happen to Know (poem)
The Strange Case of Mr Donnybrook Boredom (poem)
The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude (poem)
Little Village
Ordinary Man (Gordon Lightfoot, not Peter Hames)
The Ballad of Minepit Shaw
Diana
For Tom McLean
Barrett's Privateers
Share the Road with Me
Book of Love (Monotones)
An Irish Song
Follow the Heron Home
Cuba
Rock On Rockall
Turning Toward the Morning
I Think of You
Take Your Time
The Dandelion (poem)
Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket (poem)
Did You Ever Lose an Elephant
Gentle Arms of Eden
Angel from Montgomery

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 14 May 22 - 07:33 PM

Songs, poems, monologues and riddles from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 9/10 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Cornish Lads
Billy Boy (Malvina Reynolds rewrite)
The Unquiet Grave
Sisters of Mercy
Useful French Phrases (poem)
Trip to Gougane
Lo comte Arnaud (sung in Occitan)
Mack the Knife (bilingual version, part English and part German)
Asparagus (monologue)
Come to the Dance
Courting is a Pleasure
A la una yo naci (sung in Ladino)
Strontium 90
Innisvaddie Annie
Down by the Railroad Track
Cawsand Bay
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
Fever
Resurrection Packet
Forgive and Forget
Al di là (sung in Italian)
Knocking Nellie
Sunbeam and Sunshine
Eggs and Marrowbones
The Armadillo
We’re All Cleaning Windows
Blank Space
Prudence
The Faithful Horse
There is a Tavern in the Town (in English, then in German)
Banks of the Ohio
Mudcat Love
Rio Grande
Poor Little Liza Jane
Transylvania Shanty (ttto South Australia)
Bluenose (Skilling & Martin)
Boys of Barr na Sráide
The Morning Glory (aka One for the Morning Glory, Here's to the Morning Glory)
Song of Wandering Aengus
Nancy Spain
Barking (poem)
Brown Stuff (riddle)
Rutherford Coffee Bar (ttto Sisters of Mercy)
Thanksgiving Eve
Sally Free and Easy
Old Age Rage
The Bold Fisherman
The Little Sparrow
Run for the Roses
Down to the River to Pray (in Scots Gaelic)
Shule Aroon (Siúl a Rúin) (chorus in Irish Gaelic)
Drop Hammer
Rolling Down the Bay to Juliana
Siúl a Ghrá (in Irish Gaelic)
Fare Thee Well Cold Winter
The Unquiet Grave
Beautiful Soul
A Wee Bird Cam tae My Apron
Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song)
The Verdant Braes of Skreen
The Rambles of Spring
Anathea
Auprès de Ma Blonde (in French)
Tomorrow
Bonny Boy from Underneath My Apron
Peace like a River
Jerusalem
The Knoxville Girl
Sunny Goodge Street
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (fragment, in Middle English)
(The) Colorado Trail (aka Along the Colorado Trail)
You Are Beautiful
Bagenal Harvey's Farewell (aka Bagenal Harvey's Lament, ttto Derwentwater's Farewell)
Try to Remember (fragment)
Parting Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 10 May 22 - 09:15 PM

Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 2/3 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Scotch and Soda
Lie Low
Travel Irons (poem)
Reg the Veg and the Charity Lady
Ballad of Thunder Road
Drunken Sailor
Come Back in the Morning aka Prescription Calypso
Turning Towards the Morning
An druimeann donn dílís (My Dear Brown Cow) (in Irish Gaelic)
The Gas Man Cometh
Romance del Conde Olinos (in Spanish)
Diana
You Belong to Me
Dandelion (by Humphrey & The Dumptrucks)
Where oh Where do I Live?
Malt and Barley Blues
Two Brethren
Rose the Riveter, Revisited
Southbound Passenger Train
Hard Times in the Mill
Who Mowed the Lawns of Eden?
Route 66
The Working Class Stranger
Wait till the Work Comes Round
Angel on my Shoulder
Life is Music
Can’t You See?
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn (in Irish Gaelic)
Freight Train
On a Winter’s Night
Dance up the Sun
Kathy’s Song
Blue Moon
Do not go Gently (poem)
Villanelle (by Berlioz, from Les nuits d’été)
Roseville Fair
May Time Dawns
Count Me Out (poem)
Hollywood Hope
Lunenburg Town
November Lament (recitation)
Hang Them High
The Book of Love (Magnetic Fields, not Monotones)
Over the Rainbow
Bring Them Home
Union Maid
Bluenose
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
The One-Legged Cowboy
Buffalo Skinners
Mary Ellen at the Church Turned Up
The Moon Shone Bright
Lean On Me
My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
I'm an Old Cowhand
The Blackest Crow (aka My Dearest Dear, Breast of Glass)
Amazing Grace (alternating English and Scots Gaelic)
Ta He Wa He La He (in Hawaiian)
Japanese Garden in the Rain (recitation)
St. Louis Blues
The Farmer is the Man
What Then (poem)
The Wild West is Where I Want to Be
Blue Boat Home (ttto Love Divine All Loves Excelling)
Drift Away
The Bedmaking
Scarborough Fair
Whiskey is the Life of Man (aka Whiskey Johnny)
The Galway Shawl
A Rìbhinn Òig Bheil Cuimhn' Agad
Shiny-O
Morris the Moose
Think About Your Troubles
Circle Round (or, Circle Chant)
On Children (or, Your Children)
Morningtown Ride

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 28 Apr 22 - 12:02 AM

Songs, recitations, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 25/26 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

My Own Grandfather (recitation)
I Am My Own Grandpa
It Takes a Soldier
Cosmo, Prince of Denmark (poem)
Strawberry Fair
Disobedience
Hackingham Palace
Temperance
A Nation Once Again
Pretty Saro
Humpty Dumpty was Pushed
Bob Dylan’s Dream
A los árboles altos (sung in Spanish)
Swell My Net Full
O Come Away
Summertime
Annan Water
Blow Away the Morning Dew (aka The Lady's Policy, The Disappointed Lover, The Baffled Lover)
New Garden Fields
Kind Hands
Dear Mr. Rogers
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (sometimes called "Anne Boleyn")
Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk
The Gum Tree Canoe
Whisky in the Jar (aka Kilgary Mountain, Gilgarra Mountain)
The Tailor & the Mouse
Once I Was a Sailor
The Rare Old Times
Willow Weep Me No More
Rio Grande (Great Lakes version)
Wild Horses
The Dock and the Nettle
Downtown Zeno Exit
Gentle Arms of Eden
Now is the Month of Maying
Things in Life
Lullaby
Isle Au Haut Lullaby
We Ain’t Gonna Give it Back
L’adieu de la mariée à ses parents (sung in French)
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Foggy Dew (Irish version)
The Highwayman
Hal-An-Tow
Spot was Not Like the Rest (poem)
Make You Feel My Love
Singing in the May
Tha mi duilich, cianail, duilich ("I am sorry, anguished, sorry" in Scottish Gaelic)
No More Fish, No Fishermen (ttto of See Amid the Winter's Snow)
John Ball
Fortitude
There is Nothing Like a Dane (ttto There is Nothing Like a Dame)
Moving On
Mayday Carol
Que Bonita Bandera (in Spanish)
Annie Laurie
Oor Hamlet
Husy (Geese, in Czech)
Shanghai Lil
Jamaica Say You Will
Dragon Song
One Morning in May (aka The Nightingale, The Bold Grenadier)
Marion les roses (All Among the Roses, in French)
Waterbound
The Journey
Calypso
The Old Gray Squirrel
Masters of War
The Brown and the Yellow Ale
One Hippopotami (ttto What Kind of Fool am I)
The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan)
How Drunkenness Came Into the World (story)
As If He Knows
A Bench by the Sea
Anachie Gordon
You of Little Faith
Rest Well, Old Man (poem)
Day is Done (ttto Taps)