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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 May 24 - 07:40 AM Correct, Richard! It mentions Pomona Bay. Just for curiosity, the song (Away down to) Pomona originated in Manchester. The Pomona Palace and Gardens (named after the Roman goddess of fruit trees and orchards) were in Cornbrook, Hulme; the site was later used to build the Pomona Docks at the terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal. Inglis Gundry notes in his introduction to Canow Kernow (published by the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1966): '...the process of balladry still goes on. In the Logan Rock Inn at Treen a popular song called Way down Albert Square is gradually being transformed into a folk-song called Lamorna." |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 May 24 - 07:18 AM Friday, May 30, 1907 Bertha Boronda cut her husband's penis off with a razor while in bed believing that her husband Frank had visited a place of prostitution. BAD BERTHA by squirrel Butter https://soundcloud.com/squirrelbutter/bad-bertha Bertha Boronda from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Boronda |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Richard Mellish Date: 27 May 24 - 01:01 PM > From: GUEST,henryp - PM > Date: 21 May 24 - 11:15 PM > On 21 May 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened. [Pedant mode on] Yes but the song quoted in the rest of that post is not about the Ship Canal but about one of the older canals serving Manchester. As described here, insofar as the place names make any sense, they refer to a "voyage" from somewhere on the eastern side of Manchester, past Wilson's Brewery and ending "just south of Salford station". |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 May 24 - 05:45 AM EDWARD BOYLE aka My Charming Edward Boyle In the time I well remember, it was in the month of May When Flora’s flowery mantle bedecked the meadows gay. Various recordings of “Edward Boyle “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=++Edward+Boyle+song |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 May 24 - 11:02 PM More Manchester Ship Canal songs; the construction of the Ship Canal caught the imagination of contemporary writers and continues to do so today. ‘Tales from the Towpath’ was a BBC Radio 2 programme first broadcast on 27 May 1997. It tells the story of the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. The programme featured Mike Harding, the Albion Band, Bridgewater Brass Ensemble and Mikron Theatre Company. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/AV/tales_from_the_towpath.htm Original songs; 36 miles Away from the Sea Tales of the Towpath We Can't Get the Wares Away The Ganger's Wife Your Loving Son, Dan Big Ditch Flood A Modern Marvel Manchester Ship Canal recorded by Pumpkin Pie https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester_ship_canal_2.htm Manchester Ship Canal by John Gill recorded by Hindle Wakes https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester_ship_canal_gill.htm NEW SONG ON THE PROPOSED SHIP CANALTo enable large vessels to be navigated from Liverpool to Manchester Text is from a broadside which stated it was to be sung to the air "Grandmother's Chair". https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/N/new_proposed_canal.htm SEAPORT TOWN OF MANCHESTER or Prosperity to the Ship Canal Text is from the broadside printed by Jack Harkness, Printer, Church Street, Preston. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/S/seaport_manchester.htm |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 May 24 - 08:16 PM 24 May 1915 John Condon was killed in action in a gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres. JOHN CONDON written by Mary Dillon John Condon - Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWK-0dVUQbk John Condon - Fairport Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7wU1tpU5hs John Condon - Rebecca Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxNTFhhmeE John Condon - Flossie Malavialle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-db-DaEk6Eg John Condon - Janet Dowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip27e6xZK8w John Condon (British Army soldier) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Condon_(British_Army_soldier) Mudcat Thread, Lyr ADD: John Condon - about WWI soldier /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=82078&messages=43#top |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 22 May 24 - 07:15 PM And yet another song about The Manchester Ship Canal is THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL NAVVY - Ian Woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-ACXwSJyM And yet another is BRING THE SEA TO MANCHESTER - Jon Raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7ihIOLxmI&list=OLAK5uy_k5aFUmD66dw9WdPtvl30S2OCxccw9SoIw And a snitch of a recording by Nick Dow https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester.htm
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 May 24 - 08:07 AM Here's another song about the Ship Canal; THE SHIP CANAL SONG, or THE MARY, sung by Gary and Vera Aspey on From the North, Topic 1975. A hundred years before the building of the Ship Canal, the River Irwell was a busy waterway with packet boats drawn by teams of horses and supplemented by a square-rigged sail. They started at any hour of the day or night, timed to catch the ebb tide at Runcorn, where passengers for Liverpool were transferred to a larger boat. The Mary was the first seagoing vessel to make the journey to Manchester on October 20, 1840. The Ship Canal Song was published on a handbill in 1840 by Wilmot Henry Jones of Market Street, Manchester. Ian Woods added the chorus calling for support for the building of the Ship Canal, which was opened by Queen Victoria in 1894. The Ship Canal Song - Gary and Vera Aspey on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O03Ie1ylC6U Another song on YouTube about this theme from Gary & Vera Aspey is Manchester Ship Canal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JerOXpAgM |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 11:15 PM On 21 May 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened. From Mainly Norfolk with thanks; Harry Boardman sang THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL to the tune of The Girl I Left Behind Me on his and Dave Hillery’s 1971 Topic album Trans Pennine. They noted: The Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894, was of tremendous economic importance, both to Lancashire and the country as a whole, changing as it did one of the world’s greatest commercial and trading centres from a land-locked city to an important inland seaport. The Manchester Canal comes from an undated printed sheet and was supplied by Paul Graney of Manchester. The notion of describing a mere canal voyage in terms of the dangers of the deep has been very popular in times past, to judge by the number of versions on the go, one of the best known of which is The Calibar. Harry Boardman sings The Manchester Canal O the S.S. Irwell left this port the stormy sea to cross. They heaved the lead and went ahead on a voyage to Barton Moss. No fair ship e’er left the slip from this port to Natal Than the boats that plough the waters of the Manchester Canal. The third day out or thereabout, a great storm swept the main. The captain called his officer, I just forget his name. “You see that light there on the right?” “Aye, aye,” he did exclaim. “Well it’s the Wilsons’ Brewery lightship at the end of Ancoats Lane.” The Manchester Canal · Harry Boardman · Dave Hillery · Bob Diehl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKI2vqgxgQ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 10:54 PM On 21 May 1851: Gold was discovered in Australia. Within a few weeks of the reports of Hargraves’ discoveries, songs were appearing about the rush to Ophir. One such song was published in Bell’s Sydney Life and Sporting Reviewer on 31 May 1851, under the heading On the Gold-digging Epidemic now raging in New South Wales. It’s off to the diggings we’ll go, Whether they let us or no. We’ll scramble for gold Through wet, dirt or cold, And it’s off to the diggings we’ll go. It’s off to the diggings we’ll go, And perhaps without striking a blow We may fill up our bags, And then mounting some nags, We’ll cut to the …. oh oh. Gold’s called the elixir of life; It certainly causes some strife; Some of the turmoil created by the goldrushes can be appreciated in these verses from New Words to an Old Song, again about the rush to Ophir, and written by William Walker ‘on the breaking out of the Gold Diggings, 1851’. The world is now turned upside-down, And everything seems queer, For all the men are leaving town, And prog gets dreadful dear. To talk of love now no one thinks, The men have got so cold Their heads are stuffed with nothing, but – This cursed, filthy gold. A woman’s voice sounds dull and tame, In her no charm now lives; But spades and picks are harmony, And gold the music gives. Songs from the Australian Goldfields, Part 1: Gold mania by ROSS A. BOTH and WARREN FAHEY Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 13, October 2015 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 10:20 PM On 21 May 1688: Poet and satirist Alexander Pope was born in London. Peace o’er the world, her olive branch extends, And white-robed innocence from heaven descends. Swift fly the years and rise the expected morn; O, spring to light! The auspicious Babe be born! PEACE O’ER THE WORLD is the signature carol of village communities in the Hope Valley of the Derbyshire Peak District. The text can be found on broadsides and is based on Alexander Pope’s extensive poem Messiah, first published in 1712. The text is set to a tune by Richard Furness of Eyam, c.1820. ‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire by Ian Russell THE FORTY-FIRST KATHARINE BRIGGS MEMORIAL LECTURE, 16 NOVEMBER 2021 Bella Hardy sings “Peace O’er The World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o790Mu07IFg Peace O'er the World from Foolow in Derbyshire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dleat14Wm7A And at 0.50 in the above video I think Ian Russell is one of the people singing?
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Haruo Date: 21 May 24 - 01:31 AM I'm a bit surprised not to see TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM ("Spring Has Now Unwrapped Her Flowers" here. This is the original song to the tune now best known as "Good King Wenceslas". It's a May Day flower carol. Here's a link to a fasola shapenote score of one verse in Latin and three in English from my under-construction "Shape Note Daily Lectionary Hymnal". Haruo The "Original" song with Lyrics circa 13th Century on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8PgukSLX0 Many other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tempus+Adest+Floridum
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 May 24 - 05:37 PM 23 May 1706 The Battle of Ramillies, a battle in the War of the Spanish Succession was fought in the Spanish Netherlands, present day Belgium. WILL YE GO TO FLANDERS? Many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Will+Ye+Go+To+Flanders Mudcat, Origin: Will Ye Go to Flanders /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10176 Mudcat DT LYRICS: Will Ye Go to Flanders? /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7897 Battle of Ramillies from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramillies |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 May 24 - 06:30 PM May 20, 1946 Birth of Cher SONGS OF CHER Cher Song list from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/songs/cher Cher songs playlist recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_T3wyHe_vMLVTxa4k4bGQhQ8pGm7ZT1R Cher from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 May 24 - 04:49 AM 18 to 20 May 1944 The deportation of the Crimean Tatars to exile inCentral Asia. 1944 - Jamala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCG2rw4ZXTY 1944 (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_(song) Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 May 24 - 06:45 AM LO MES DE MAI Lyrics and recording https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=7357 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 May 24 - 09:07 AM May 13, 1960 death of American old-time fiddler and one of the earliest stars of what would come to be known as country music. SONGS OF GID TANNER AND THE SKILLET LICKERS on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=songs+of+the+Skillet+Lickers Gid Tanner from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gid_Tanner# |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 May 24 - 08:41 AM LA BÈLA DE MAI (No recording yet ) Lyrics and translation from Mudcat thread " Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English" /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=169209#4127559:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Lyr%20Add%3A%20Mudcat%20singaround%20songs%20N |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 May 24 - 10:44 AM Sunday 19 May 2024 Whitsun WHITSUNTIDE CAROL aka The Whitsun Song Various recordings of The Whitsuntide Carol on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Whitsuntide+Carol The Whitsun Song · John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpO_nW8tvbU MUDCAT: Lyr Add: WHITSUNTIDE CAROL /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13130&messages=8 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 May 24 - 07:16 AM Whitsun falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. This usually comes in late May or early June. In 2024 the date will be May 19, because of an early Easter. Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three holiday weeks for the medieval villein; on most manors he was free from service on the lord's demesne this week, which marked a pause in the agricultural year. It continued to be a holiday for workers. The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's words for ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS , first published in the Church Times in 1864, were sung in 1865 by the children of Horbury Bridge as they marched up the hill to St. Peter’s, Horbury, in the annual Whit Tuesday procession. Eventually, the hymn was set to the tune 'St Gertrude', composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Horbury Church; This year is the 100th anniversary of the death of Fr Sabine Baring-Gould, who was curate of Horbury from 1864-1867 under Canon John Sharp. We are pleased to be able to mark the centenary of Fr Sabine’s death in the parish for which he wrote ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ over Whit Weekend 2024. The weekend opens on Friday, 17th May at 7pm with a concert at Horbury Working Members’ Club with award-winning folk artists Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes, who present ‘Ghosts, Werewolves and Country Folk – Songs and Stories of Sabine Baring-Gould’. Our celebrations then come to a climax with the re-enactment of the Whit Walk on Sunday, 19th May at 2pm. Various recordings of 'Onward, Christian Soldiers'on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Onward+Christian+Soldiers+ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 May 24 - 05:50 PM SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon She wore it in the spring time, in the early month of May Recordings of “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon " on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=she+wore+a+yellow+ribbon+song+ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/facts/traditional/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon#:~:text=Songfacts%C2%AE%3A&text=The%20song%2Fpoem%20has%20a Mudcat DT Study: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53527 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 May 24 - 07:07 PM CAWSAND BAY In Cawsand Bay lyin', the Blue Peter Flyin' The hands all turn'd up, oh, the anchor to weigh; There came off a lady, as fresh as a May-Day Who, looking up modestly, these words did say Various recordings of “Cawsand Bay “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cawsand+bay+song Mudcat, Origins: Cawsand Bay /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171250 Mudcat DT Lyrics /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1123 Mudcat, Cawsand Bay: who was Elinor Ford? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=151266 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 May 24 - 05:42 AM BEN, BEN VENI MAG - Cantovivo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD40rqBXCJA
Translation from the Piedmontese courtesy of Cattia Salto, Google Translate and Monique
Mistress, if you don't want to believe that May has arrived,
Look at our bride, how well dressed she is
Look at our bride what a beautiful dress she has
Look at our bride what a beautiful hat she has
Look at our bride, what a beautiful ring she has
[We enter this house if there are good people
Oh, you mistress if you want to pay
[To you mistress who paid
To you mistress, who have not paid, |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 May 24 - 04:49 AM DO YOU EVER REMEMBER - Molly Drake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVGANfB8l_Q Do you ever remember? Now you are so far away Things that we used to laugh about Crazy things we'd say There were so many May times When every word was a song There were so many gay times Before it all went all so wrong |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 08 May 24 - 05:27 PM Still nobody helping me with my question about "The first of May" (12th post in this thread, 31st March 2021). I have been asking various people in the hope that that they might know who wrote it but no luck yet. Robin |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 May 24 - 01:18 PM [Verse 1] 'Twas in the merry month of May, when balmy winds first blow I met my love in Arisaig where rhododendrons grow I met my love in Arisaig in the shadow of Craig Mor The sun shone on the Isle of Eigg, far from the silver shore The sun shone on the Isle of Eigg, far from the silver shore ISLE OF EIGG - Robin Laing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhyH7HF0qB0 Many other recordings of The Isle of Eigg on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Isle+of+Eigg+%C2%B7+Robin+Laing+lyrics
Mudcat,Lyr Add: Isle of Eigg (Robin Laing) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173087&messages=5 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 May 24 - 05:50 AM NA SERA 'E MAGGIO (A Night in May ) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Na+sera+%27e+maggio+ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 24 - 09:31 AM VAQUÉ LO POLIT MES DE MAI Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Vaqu%C3%AD+lo+polit+mes+de+mai+ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST Date: 05 May 24 - 03:16 PM POLLY ON THE SHORE Come all you wild young men And a warning take by me, Never to lead your single life astray And into no bad company. As I myself have done, It being in the merry month of May, When I was pressed by a sea-captain And on board a man-o-war I was sent. We sailed on the ocean so wide And our bonny bonny flag we let fly. Let every man stand true to his gun For the Lord knows who must die. Oh our captain was wounded full sore And so were the rest of his men. Our main mast rigging it was scattered on the deck So that we were obliged to give in. Oh our decks they were spattered with blood And so loudly the cannons did roar; And thousands of times have I wished myself at home And all along with my Polly on the shore. She's a tall and a slender girl, She's a dark and a-rolling eye, And here am I lie a-bleeding on the deck And for her sweet sake I would die. So farewell to my parents and friends, Farewell my dear Polly too. I ne'er would have crossed this salt sea so wide If I had been ruled by you. Many and various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Polly+on+the+Shore Note that there is the song Polly on the Shore as above from the tradition but also another, modern song sung by some such as the Voice Squad |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 May 24 - 06:48 PM May 1st, 1945. Katharina_Jacob, teacher and member of the German Resistance movement against National Socialism , was rescued by Russian troops from an SS death march . THEY ALL SANG THE INTERNATIONALE by David Rovics Lyrics and recordings of "They All Sang the Internationale", from Songs of Social Significance https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/they-all-sang-the-internationale/ Katharina Jacob from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Jacob |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 May 24 - 04:49 PM C’EST DANS LE MOIS DE MAI - Ariko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk3ht6ifVws |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 May 24 - 12:19 PM C’EST LE MAI - Malicorne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFlx0b7e_ak Thank you for this traditional French song Monique |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 May 24 - 11:59 AM FAIR IS ROSE AS BRIGHT MAY DAY The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzHrfTeAQzc |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 May 24 - 06:11 AM First of May by the BeeGees - See other thread! Link to post above FIRST DAY OF MAY by The Bee Gees Link to Dave’s other thread /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173277&messages=1#:~:text=Friendly%20%2D%20Home-,First%20of%20May%20%2D%20The%20BeeGees,- |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 May 24 - 04:58 AM WHEN ROSY MAY COMES IN WI’ FLOWERS (aka THE GARD'NER WI' HIS PAIDLE) written by Robert Burns sung by Tony Cuffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqZvrOxFcU Mudcat , Lyr Req/Add: The Gard'ner wi' His Paidle (R Burns) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=56534 The Gardener Wi' His Paidle Christine Sparks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwVewkZN2E Also from Burns', DAINTY DAVEY Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers, To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers; And now comes in the happy hours, To wander wi' my Davie. Dainty Davie - Eddi Reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_w4rGTVN8 Link to Post above DAINTY DAVIE |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Jun 23 - 10:49 AM JIM HARRIS In nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the last daylight in May, Jim Harris in the Ronald P. from St. Kyran's sailed away; “Jim Harris”- Matthew Byrne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubm7Z4QCle4 Jim Harris - The Punters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itaIs6XNYKo Lyrics and information about Jim Harris from Disaster Songs https://disastersongs.ca/jim-harris/ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 Jun 23 - 11:12 AM SONGS ABOUT GEORGIE BEST 22 May 1946.Birth of N.Irish footballer Georgie Best George Best song: Spirit in the Skyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sElZk-Zd7Q George Best Manchester United song - Spirit in the skyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJrLQzXsTw Georgie Best, Superstar from The Ballad Index ; http://balladindex.org/Ballads/OpGa479D.html Belfast Boy - The Electric Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvW1z5S0FjY The Ballad of Georgie Best" performed by Finbar Furey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETz1y_70V6g |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Jun 23 - 03:22 AM SINK THE BISMARK 27 May 1941. The German battleship Bismarck was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the British battleships King George V and Rodney supported by cruisers. Last battle of the battleship Bismarck from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_battle_of_the_battleship_Bismarck Blues Brothers - Sink the Bismarck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPXnur0vMs Don Lang - Sink The Bismarck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTmp-N-2xk Link to post above SONGS ABOUT THE SINKING OF HMS HOOD |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jun 23 - 02:36 PM May 31, 1889. The Johnstown Flood occurred after the failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. JOHNSTOWN FLOOD Johnstown Flood from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood Johnstown Flood from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/LG14.html The Night of the Johnstown Flood · Rock Creek Jug Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7EEtO8Dkcc MUDCAT Lyr Req: Night of the Johnstown Flood /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=22181 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 May 23 - 05:48 PM May 31 to June 12, 1864 The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought during the American Civil War near Mechanicsville, Virginia, with the most significant fighting occurring on June 3. COLD HARBOR
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 May 23 - 11:12 AM WILLIAM EDDY May, 1846. The Donner-Reed wagon train, composed of group of American pioneers left Independence, Missouri, migrating to California. The wagon train encountered great difficulties and some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating the bodies of those who had died as a result of starvation, sickness, and extreme cold. William Eddy sung by Alice Osborn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnPPvcvngkQ The Donner Party - Mr BettsClass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZiSyV4kz40 Donner Party from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party > William Eddy from Sparticus Educational https://spartacus-educational.com/WWeddy.htm |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 May 23 - 08:46 AM THE THIRTEENTH OF MAY aka In Fatimas's Cove, or Avé de Fátima The Thirteenth of May - Cantate Domino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU2gKKlk4KA Many other recordings of 13th Of May on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Thirteenth+of+May In Fatimas's Cove by Kyle Geraghty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mk8iM3XaeU Avé de Fátima from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Av%C3%A9_de_F%C3%A1tima |
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Subject: indexing May songs From: Felipa Date: 25 May 23 - 09:03 PM I think there are likely to be several repeats in this discussion of May songs. My message refers to the two previous messages, posted 24 and 25 May 2023. Henry P. mentioned Whitsun Dance (the ladies go dancing at Whitsun) on 31 March 2021. Henry also mentioned a line in Bogie's Bonnie Belle "Ae Whitsun day at Huntly toun 'twas there I did agree Wi auld Bogieside a fairmer a six-month for tae fee" but I don't see Bogie's Bonnie Belle listed in the index at the beginning of this 7 page thread. I wonder if Bogie's Bonnie Belle is mentioned as a June song, as any Whitsun song might be appropriate in either May or June of a given year. I also don't see the Whaddon Whitsun Song in the index; henry p posted that in a separate message, also on 31 March 2021 I posted re Dh'èirich mi moch madainn Chèitein on 13 Jun 21; I see admin (Geoff) has linked the two messages but left out a letter "i" in the word "dh'èirich". The lyrics of that Gaelic song are on Mudcat at https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=122289 Link to post by above by henryp WHADDON WHITSON SONG Link to post by above by henryp BOGIE’S BONNIE BELLE Link to post by above by henryp LADIES GO DANCING AT WHITSUN
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 May 23 - 05:44 PM DANCING AT WHITSUN Sunday, 28 May 2023 Whitsun Many recordings of “Dancing at Whitsun” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dancing+at+whitsun+song Whitsun Dance / Dancing at Whitsun from Mainly Norfolk. https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/whitsundance.html MUDCAT Lyr Add: Dancing at Whitsun /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=24241&messages=64#top MUDCAT DT Dancing at Whitsun /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1452 The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun. Or do they? from Doctoral research.wordpress https://doctroidalresearch.wordpress.com/pages/morris-dancing/morris-dancing-origins-and-history/the-ladies-go-dancing-at-whitsu Whitsun from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsun Link to post by above by henryp LADIES GO DANCING AT WHITSUN |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 May 23 - 06:52 PM There’s a lovely traditional song called DH’ÉIRICH MI MOCH MADAINN CHÈITEIN (I arose early on a May morning) . It’s a waulking song, fast, lively, joyful, full of praise for the birds and their singing, the salmon leaping, and the beauty of nature. seaboardgàidhlig Ainsley Hamill and Toby Shaer performed this beautifully last night at the Willows Folk Club, Wrea Green, Preston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFg3b6usyBc Ainsley Hamill Various other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dh%27+%C3%88irich+Mi+Moch+Madainn+Ch%C3%A8itein Link to post above by Felipa DH’EIRICH MI MOCH MADAINN CHEITEIN |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 May 23 - 12:52 AM 24 May On this day in 1809: Dartmoor Prison was opened to house French prisoners of war. From 1850 it was used for convicts. TWENTY ONE YEARS ON DARTMOOR The judge said, “Stand up, boy, and dry up your tears. You're sentenced to Dartmoor for twenty-one years.” So kiss me goodbye, babe, and say you'll be mine, For twenty-one years, love, is a mighty long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duO5vZyBXaw 21 Years Tim van Eyken sang Twenty-One Years on Dartmoor in 2004 on Waterson:Carthy's fifth album, Fishes & Fine Yellow Sand. Martin Carthy commented in the liner notes: The album is topped and tailed by Goodbye Fare You Well and Twenty-One Years on Dartmoor. […] Tim learned the latter from a recording of the lovely London born, Sussex dwelling singer Louie Fuller who sadly died just this year. It's great to come upon an old American song which has made the crossing the other way for a change and this is one which has been given a real working over into an English vernacular. Mainly Norfolk Dartmoor (For 21 Years) - Jim Carroll and Tony Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-bUM4uCgA Many recordings of "21 Years" on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=21+years+irish+song Information and full lyrics from Mainly Norfolk: Twenty-One Years on Dartmoor https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/twentyoneyearsondartmoor.html MUDCAT Lyr Req: Twenty-One Years /thread.cfm?threadid=23631
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 May 23 - 10:32 AM THE PRAISE OF A DAIRY (sung to the air of Packington’s Pound) In praise of a dairy I purpose to sing, But all things in order, first, God save the King! And the Queen, I may say, That every May-day, Has many fair dairy-maids all fine and gay. Assist me, fair damsels, to finish my theme, Inspiring my fancy with strawberry cream. Old English Song Lyrics for: In Praise Of A Dairy I Purpose To Sing from Traditional Music.co - https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-english-songs/in-praise-of-a-dairy-i-purpose-to-sing.htm John Playford - Packington's Pound ("In praise of milk") - Voice & Harpsichord : Tom Mébarki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8dsL9n7buA |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 May 23 - 12:17 AM 23 May On this day in 1701: Scottish pirate William Kidd was hanged at Execution Dock in London for piracy. Oh, my name is Captain Kidd, as I sailed, as I sailed, Oh, my name is Captain Kidd, as I sailed. Oh, my name is William Kidd, Many wicked things I did, And the law I did forbid, as I sailed, as I sailed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFXh-29avn4 Alex Campbell 23 May On this day in 1706: Marlborough defeated the French at the Battle of Ramillies in Belgium. "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" ("Marlborough Has Left for the War"), which was composed the night after the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709. It was popularized by a nurse singing it to one of Marie Antoinette's infants as a lullaby. The tune has been adopted for He's A Jolly Good Fellow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zL5bM7pUs Malbrough http://www.goldenhindmusic.com/lyrics/LORDMELB.html John Roberts & Tony Barrand In Lincolnshire Posy this is categorized as "'Lord Melbourne' (War Song)," where it is given a fanfare-like, almost arhythmic treatment. The song is better known as Lord Marlborough, to whom it properly refers. John Churchill (1650-1722), 1st Duke of Marlborough, soldier and statesman, is perhaps best known for his "glorious victories" against the French at Blenheim and Ramillies. He was a meticulous planner, and was also known for his consideration of the welfare of his soldiers, which is perhaps why he became so popular in balladry. He was also an ancestor of Winston Churchill, whose elder brother Charles became the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1892. I am an Englishman to my birth, Lord Melbourne is my name; In Devonshire I first drew breath, that place of noble fame. I was beloved by all my men, by kings and princes likewise. I never failed in anything, but won great victories. 23 May On this day in 1934: Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot dead in an ambush by Texas Rangers near Gibland, Louisiana. THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE is a song, written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander, and recorded by the British rhythm and blues singer Georgie Fame. Released as a single, the song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for one week from 24 January 1968. The song reached number seven in the US Billboard Chart later the same year. Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8mTAsv5cA Georgie Fame Link to post above on CAPTAIN KIDD Link to post above SONGS ABOUT THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde - Merle Haggard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I_Lu4l85_I A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde" - Mel Torme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdmyEBMUNE Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot - "Bonnie and Clyde". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPm5_X3Ykg |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 22 May 23 - 03:57 AM JOCKEY TO THE FAIR , Roud Number: 3344 ’Twas on the morn of sweet May-day, When nature painted all things gay, Taught birds to sing, and lambs to play, And gild the meadows fair; Young Jockey, early in the dawn, Arose and tripped it o’er the lawn; Jockey to the Fair - Archer Goode, from Glostrad http://glostrad.com/jockey-to-the-fair-2 / Jocky to the Fair – Edmund Henneberry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQNxd8BFLQ Lyrics and information from The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, Edited by Robert Bell https://www.gutenberg.org/files/649/649-h/649-h.htm#page245 Ballad sheet, information and instrumental tune recording from Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/88 Jockey to the Fair Lyrics from Musica International https://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/english/jockeyto.htm MUDCAT : Lyr Req: Jockey to the Fair /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=67201 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 May 23 - 05:08 AM SONGS ABOUT THE SINKING OF HMS HOOD 24 May 1941. HM S Hood was sunk during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. HMS Hood from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood# Sink The Bismrack - Johnny Horton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM “Battle of Denmark Strait” A song tribute to the Hood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IKDUYGKG0 The Battle Of Denmark Strait · Beatnik Turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShaGO1041n4 The Lost 1400 - Brian Peters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmKM4Xgb0A MUDCAT: Songs and poems about HMS Hood /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169224,169224 Link to post below SINK THE BISMARK |
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