Any December Songs?

Subject: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:39 PM

This is an edited PermaThread®, used for a special project. This thread will be moderated by Geoff Lawes and Levana Taylor. Feel free to post to this thread, but remember that all messages posted here are subject to editing or deletion.
-Joe Offer-

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The songs-of-the-month threads need one for December that does not include anything specifically about the solstice or midwinter holidays, those having their own. Here's a few to begin...

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ALPHABETICAL DECEMBER INDEX Below is an alphabetical index of titles collected in this thread so far. If a title in this index is clicked then you should be "jumped" to the section of the thread in which most of the discussion and links for that title occur. If you just want to add a new post to this thread use the “Post to this thread” or POST buttons to jump to the end of the thread. We will sometimes rearrange “late” posts to group them with the appropriate main area of discussion so that they are not overlooked.When I add to someone’s post I make this clear by doing so beneath an orange line like the one below.- Regards ,Geoff Lawes

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INDEX OF DECEMBER SONGS

ÁIRD A' CHUAIN
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A CONCERTINA
ALL THE BRENDA LEE SONGS ON YOUTUBE
AMERICAN MOONSHINE AND PROHIBITION SONGS   -   NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS (full album)
ANGEL GABRIEL FROM HEAVEN CAME (THE)
ANTHEM TO EURIKA STOCKADE
APPLE TREE WASSAIL
ARTIFICIAL HEART by Cherrelle
ARTIFICIAL HEART by Jonathan Coulton
ARTIFICIAL HEART by various
ASHTABULA TRAIN WRECK
AS I GO RAMBLING ROUND
AULD LANG SYNE
AUSPICIOUS QUEEN   pop song from Phillis Wheatley poem
A VINT-I-CINC DE DESEMBRE     aka FUM FUM FUM
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
AYE FOND KISS by Robbie Burns
BACK TO DECEMBER
BALLAD OF DARR MINE (THE)
BALLAD OF EURIKA by Marg and Bob Fagan
BALLAD OF EURIKA STOCKADE by Terry Bennetts
BALLAD OF EURIKA STOCKADE by Lazy Harry
BALLAD OF JOHN MACLEAN
BALLAD OF KATHLEEN CLARKE (THE)
BALLAD OF OF LIFEBOAT 54 (THE)   -   Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir
BALLAD OF MICHAEL COLLINS (THE)   aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours
BALLAD OF PENLEE (THE)   -   Anthony Phillips
BALLAD OF SOLOMON BROWNE (THE)  -   Simon King
BALLAD OF THE CARPENTER (THE)
BALLAD OF THE MARY CELEST
BALLAD OF THE TAY RAIL BRIDGE
BALLAD OF THE TEA PARTY
BALLAD OF ST. ANNE'S REEL (THE)
BASKET OF EGGS
BATTLE OF NASHVILLE by Doc Watson with Frosty Morn
BATTLE OF NASHVILLE by Lamar Hill
BATTLE OF NASHVILLE by Matthew McCartney
BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
BAYOU SARA
BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
BLACKBIRD (THE)
BLECKELL MURRYNEET (THE)
BLOOD RIVER MIRICAL (THE)
BLUE SUEDE SHOES
BOAR'S HEAD CAROL (THE)
BONNIE CHARLIE   aka   WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?
BOSTON BURGLAR (THE)
BOSTON TEA PARTY SONG
BOXING DAY
BOYS OF PENLEE (THE) -   Jim Wearne
BOYS OF PENLEE (THE) -   Stephen Richard
BRACERO
BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA
BULLFIGHT ON THE SAN PEDRO (THE)
BUSHES AND BRIARS
CANDLE IN THE WINDOW (A)
CAPTAIN JOHNSON’S LAST FAREWELL
CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP
CARDIFF BAY
CARDIFF BUS SONG
CARDIFF CITY FOOTBALL SONGS
CHERRY TREE CAROL (THE)
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
CHRISTMAS CAROL (A)   byTom Lehrer
CHRISTMAS DINNER by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
CHRISTMAS DINNER by Peter, Paul & Mary
CHRISTMAS DINNER COUNTRY STYLE
CHRISTMAS HARE (THE) 
CHRISTMAS GOOSE (THE)
CHRISTMAS IN NO MAN’S LAND
CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHGATE
CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES
CHRISTMAS IS COMING, THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES
CHRISTMAS MORNING
CHRISTMAS, MY ARSE  by Ricky Tomlinson
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
CHRISTMAS PUDDING SONG
CHRISTMAS SHOES (THE)
CHRISTMAS SONG WRITTEN BY A COMPUTER
CHRISTMAS TIME
CHRISTMAS TIME IN WASHINGTON     written by Roy Acuff
CHRISTMAS TIME'S A-COMIN'
CHRISTMAS TREE FARM
CHRISTMAS TREE SONG (THE)
CHRISTMAS TRUCE SONG (THE)
CHRISTMAS 1914
CHRISTMAS 1915
COLD DECEMBER FLIES AWAY
COLUMBIA THE GREAT BANANA MASSACRE 1928
CONCERTINA   by Tori Amos
CONCERTINA CHAOS SONG
CONCERTINA CONSCIOUSNESS
CONCERTINA MAN   -   Ray Bradfield
CONCERTINA MAN (THE)   -   Alan Bell
CONCERTINA MAN (THE)   -  Paul O' Reilly
CORNISH WASSAIL
CORN,WATER,WOOD
COVENTRY CAROL (LULLY LULA)
COWARDS OVER PEARL HARBOR
COWBOY CAROL (THE)
COWBOY CHRISTMAS
CREMATION OF SAM McGEE (THE)
CUTTY WREN (THE)
DARK DECEMBER by Graeme Miles
DECEMBER by Foxhunting
DEPORTEE
DERRY'S WALLS
DITCHLING CAROL (THE)
DONKEY RIDING
DON’T PLAY ME YOUR CONCERTINA
EARLY PEARLY
EARLY SNOW
EDWARD VIII [It Was Love, Love Alone]
EIGHT DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (THE)
EL DESEMBRE CONGELAT (Catalan)
ELLEN VANNIN
EMIGRANT EYES (Immigrant Eyes)
EMIGRÉ
EMPTY GARDEN   aka Hey, Hey Johnny
ERSKINE CHILDERS
EUREKA(The Stockade Song)
EUREKA STOCKADE by Jeff Bruce
EUREKA STOCKADE by Michael Leese
EUREKA STOCKADE SONG(THE) by Edwin Morris
FAIRY ON THECHRISTMAS TREE (THE)
FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK
FELIZ NAVIDAD
FIGGY PUDDING
FIRE AND FLAME
FLORA McDONALD’S LAMENT
FROZEN DECEMBER
GAUDETTE by   Angie Wright
GELOFTE( DIE)
GET THAT COMMUNIST, JOE
GIFT CARD
GIFT (THE)
GLOUCESTERSHIRE WASSAIL
GOD SAVE THE CZAR
GOOD KING WENSLASLAS LOOKED OUT
GOWER WASSAIL(THE)
GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER
HANUKKAH SONGS
HALSWAY CAROL (THE)
HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS TREE (THE)
HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER)  aka So This Is Christmas
HARVEY LOGAN
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
HERE TODAY
HEROD AND THE COCK
HEY HEY, LBJ
HOT BUTTERED RUM
HOMELESS WASSAIL
HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT
HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVING(Unless You Migrate Too)
HURON CAROL
A HYMN TO THE EVENING set to music
HYMN TO THE MORNING   Phillis Wheatley, music by Kelvyn Koning
HYMN TO THE MORNING     Reid/ Wheatley
I AM CHRISTMAS
I AM A ROCK
IF ONLY I COULD PLAY A CONCERTINA
IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER
IF YOU MISS ME AT THE BACK OF THE BUS
I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON
IMMIGRANT’S SONG
IMMIGRATION BLUES
I’M THE MAN WHO SLITS THE TURKEYS’ THROATS AT CHRISTMAS
IN DULCI JUBILO
I PLAYED MY CONCERTINA
IRELAND BOYS HURRAH
IRISH FREE STATE(THE)
I SAW THREE SHIPS    AKA On Christmas Day in the Morning
IT ONLY SEEMS FIVE MINUTES SINCE LAST CHRISTMAS
I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL WITH SANTA CLAUS
I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY
JACOBITE SONGS
JACOBSTOWE WASSAIL
JA NUS HONS PRIS
JOE McCARTHY'S BAND
JOE McCARTHY IS COMIN' TO TOWN    
JOE McCARTHY'S LULLABY
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
JOHN FUDSTON
JOHN MACLEAN MARCH
JOSEPH
JUST ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SONG
KENTUCKY WASSAIL
KETT’S REBELLION !
KHOMEINI EY EMAM
KILMORE CAROLS (THE)
KINGSTOWN DISASTER (THE)
KIT CARSON
KITCHEN DANCE
KWANZAA SONGS
LADY OF THE HARBOR
LAST CHRISTMAS
LAST FIERCE CHARGE (THE)
LAST HANGING IN WEST VIRGINIA
LAST NIGHT OF THE YEAR (THE)
LAST TRAIN FROM POOR VALLEY
LAST WAVE (THE) -   Bates Motel
LE RÉVEILLON DU JOUR DE L'AN [La Cuisinière]
LIFEBOAT MONA (THE)
LIFEBOAT SONG, SOLOMON BROWN PENLEE LIFEBOAT (THE)   -   by Russ Holland
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (THE)
LIVING IN THE PROMISELAND
LOSS OF THE SAILOR’S HOME
LOVE,LOVE ALONE
LULA VIERS
LULLE LULLAY
MALPAS WASSAIL
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS
MARAT/SADE
MARCH THE MORNING SUN
MARY CELEST by Eighthavenue
MARY CELEST by David Stone
MARY CELEST from Summer's Songs and Stories
MARY L. McKAY
MARI LWYD SONG (THE)
MASTER McGRATH
MERRY CHRISTMAS, DARLING   - The Carpenters
MERRY CHRISTMAS, I DON’T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT
MISS FOGARTY’SCHRISTMAS CAKE
MONAGAH DISASTER (THE)
MONAGAH MINE
MONAGAH MINE DISASTER
MORE WOOD
MORE WASSAIL SONGS
NIGHTINGALE (THE)
NINETTO E LA COLONIA
NO CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY
OAKS PIT DISASTER (THE)
O CHRISTMAS TREE
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
O MAY, THY MORN
O TANNENBAUM
ODE BY A CHRISTMAS PUDDING AT SEA
OH, CALIFORNIA
OLD SUNDAY DINNER (THE)
ONE COLD DECEMBER DAY
ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER
ON MY LITTLE CONCERTINA
PADDY LAY BACK
PALESTEENA
PASTURES OF PLENTY
PEARL HARBOR BLUES
PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER   -  (Gil Boyd) performed by Piers Mortimer
PERFECT FIELDS OF FREDERICKSBURG (THE)
PERSONENT HODIE
PIG AND THE INEBRIATE (THE)
PLEASE DADDY, DON'T GET DRUNK THIS CHRISTMAS
PLEASE MR CUSTER
PLOUGHBOY’S DREAM (THE)
POPPA PICCOLINO
PORT ADMIRAL (THE)
PRETORIA PIT DISASTER
PRINCE CHARLIE STUART
PROHIBITION SONGS
PROOF IS IN THE PUFFING (THE) (Prince Albert Jingle)
QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT’S LOVE SONG >
REBELLION
REDNECK REINDEER (THE)
REFUGEE
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
REMEMBER THE POOR [The Snow Is on the Ground]
REVOLUTIONARY TEA
RISE UP !
RIVER
ROCKING AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE
ROLL ON JOHN
RUN, RUN RUDOLPH
SAINT STEPHEN AND HEROD
SANDS
SANS DAY CAROL (THE) ,   (The Holly Bears a Berry)
SANTA CLAUS     by Bo Diddley
SANTA CLAUS BOOGIE
SANTA NEVER BRINGS ME A BANJO
SEASON’S UPON US (THE)
SHOTGUN SHELLS ON A CHRISTMAS TREE
SIGNORINA CONCERTINA   -   Shuki & Aviva
SITTING BULL IN VENICE
SITTING BULL MEMORIAL SONG
SKIBBEREEN
SKYE BOAT SONG (THE)
SKY WEEPS STILL (THE)
SOLOMON BROWNE (THE)   -   Hughie Jones
SOLOMON BROWNE   - Seth Lakeman
SONG FOR EURIKA STOCKADE
SONG OF SITTING BULL
SONGS ABOUT AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS DINNER
SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS PUDDING
SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS TREES
SONGS ABOUT EURIKA STOCKADE
SONGS ABOUT JACK KETT AND KETT’S REBELLION OF 1549
SONGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON’S DEATH
SONGS ABOUT JOSEPH STALIN
SONGS ABOUT MIGRANTS
SONGS ABOUT PROHIBITION  on YOUTUBE
SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA
SONGS ABOUT THE BANANA MASSACRE 1928
SONGS ABOUT THE CONCERTINA
SONGS ABOUT THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
SONGS ABOUT SENATOR JOE McCARTHY
SONGS ABOUT THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION
SONGS ABOUT THE SIEGE OF DERRY
SONGS OF THE BUSH     by Chloe and Jason Roweth
SONGS SUNG BY WILL FYFFE
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER)
STAGGER LEE
STANDING STONES (THE)
STANDING STONES ( Loreena McKennitt)
STANDING STONES OF ORKNEY
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT
STROUD WASSAIL
SUDDENLY IT’S CHRISTMAS
SUSSEX CAROL (On Christmas Night)
SWEET BABY JAMES
TAILOR’S BRITCHES (THE)
TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION SONGS & HYMNS on YouTube)
THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS
THAT CHRISTMAS MOOD
THOU GLOOMY DECEMBER
THREE WISE WOMEN (THE) by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
THREE WISE WOMEN by     Stanley Accrington
THREE WISE WOMEN     by Lucinda Lucas
THREE WISE WOMEN     by Kate ?
TIM BURMAN
TO DAUNTON ME
TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY
TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
TRUNCH WASSAIL SONG (THE)
TRURO AGRICULTURAL SHOW
TRY NOT TO BE A CUNT IT’S CHRISTMAS
TRY TO REMEMBER
TURKEY SONG (THE)  (I've Been Invited for Christmas)
’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
TWELVE DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS
TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (THE)
UN FLAMBEAU,JEANETTE ISABELLA
VALLEY FORGE
WAKE ISLAND
WASSAIL CUP CAROL (THE)
WASSAIL OF FIGGY DUFF (THE)
WASSAILING SONG (THE)- Blur
WASSAIL SONGS
WEXFORD CAROL (THE) aka Wexford Lullaby
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE?
WHEN GRANDPA PLAYED THE BANJO
WHEN SANTA GOT STUCK UP THE CHIMNEY
WHEN THE SNOWS OF WINTER FALL
WHEN THEY FLEW
WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY
WIFE OF USHER’S WELL (THE)
WHIMPLE WASSAIL
WISE WOMEN     by Marco Frankland
WHITE COCKADE (THE)
WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS   by The Wombles
WOUNDED KNEE SONGS
WREN DAY SONGS
WRIGHT!
YORKSHIRE CAROLS
YORKSHIRE WASSAIL
YULE
YOUNG FREEDA BOLT
1913 MASSACRE
23RD FLOTILLA (THE)
2000 Miles

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:42 PM

ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER

One cold morning in December,
I've reason to remember,
I fell in love with such a charming girl.
Her eyes were bright and tender, her form was tall and slender,
Her hair it hung around her head in curls.

Along the streets together, regardless of the weather,
She took me to a house that stood quite near.
She closed the door behind me, to me she said so kindly,
"It's warmer in the bed, love, than down here."

Sung by Walter Pardon (1978) Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcnQL8xI8WI

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Other recordings of” One Cold Morning in December “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=One+Cold+Morning+in+December

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:44 PM

O MAY, THY MORN
(by Robert Burns)

O May, thy morn was ne'er so sweet
As the mirk night o' December!
For sparkling was the rosy wine,
And private was the chamber:
And dear was she I dare na name,
But I will aye remember.

Sung by Davy Steele (1998) Video

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:47 PM

THOU GLOOMY DECEMBER
(by Robert Burns)

Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy December!
Ance mair I hail thee wi' sorrow and care;
Sad was the parting thou makes me remember—
Parting wi' Nancy, oh, ne'er to meet mair!

sung by Jean Redpath (1985) Video
sung by Corrina Hewat (1998) Video

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:49 PM

ONE COLD DECEMBER DAY
Dick Justice (1929) Video

Down by a western water tank
One cold December day
In the bottom of an empty car
A dying hobo lay.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:55 PM

December 1, 1955 Montgomery bus boycott begins, as Rosa Parks takes a symbolic seat; December 20, 1956: US Supreme Court orders bus integration and the boycott ends.

IF YOU MISS ME AT THE BACK OF THE BUS
Digital Tradition    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2937

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Link to 4 more Rosa Parks songs to be found in the INDEX of Mudcat Thread:Any November Songs?   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170494&messages=72#4122978

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:57 PM

December 2, 1859: John Brown executed

JOHN BROWN'S BODY
Thread    /mudcat.org/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=71356

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Many recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+brown%27s+body

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:14 PM

SONGS ABOUT THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION
December 6, 1917: an enormous explosion shatters Halifax, Nova Scotia. Songs about it include:

• HALIFAX (written and performed by Chuck Hall) Video Thread
• REMEMBER ME (written and performed by Dan McKinnon) Video Lyrics
• THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION (anonymous, collected by Helen Creighton) Digital Tradition
• NIGHT TRAIN by Bob Quinn, recorded by the author on Coast of Difference (1993) and by John Gracie on Nova Scotia Lullabye (1997)
• THE SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER by Penny MacAuley, recorded by her on Memories (1976)
• Her Own War: The Halifax Explosion Project is a 2005 album of songs written by David Stone. A Mudcat thread lists the titles of the tracks; there are live videos of two of the songs.
  • NORTH FERRY Video (sung by Tony Mombourquette)
  • I WONDER, I WONDER Video (sung by Tarah Sawler)
  • "December 6"
  • "Black Rain"
  • "West Street Firemen"
  • "Prairie Sailors"
  • "Silver Moon"
  • "Ghosts of Richmond"
  • "And They're Gone"
  • "I Heard the Soldiers Calling"
  • "Smoke and Cinders"
  • "Ash Pan Anny"
  • "Take Her Away"
  • "Vince's Song"
  • "The Halifax Explosion"



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WIKIPEDIA: The Halifax_Explosion     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
The Halifax Explosion Song Written by Daniel MacIntyre    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFT0bWbqew

FIRE AND FLAME
Fire & Flame - The Longest Johns     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_5PHU7vQu4
MUDCAT : Folk songs about the Halifax Explosion    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=149281

David Stone "Sacrifice", Songs-of-the-Halifax-Explosion hear tracks on Bandcamphttps://davidstone2.bandcamp.com/album/sacrifice-songs-of-the-halifax-explosion

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:24 PM

December 11, 1936: King Edward VIII abdicates.

EDWARD VIII [It Was Love, Love Alone]

Mudcat Thread
Edward The VIII - The Caresser with Gerald Clark & his Caribbean Serenaders     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN0ZYIyKDJY


Link to post below LOVE,LOVE ALONE - Harry Belafonte

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:27 PM

December 17, 1777: The Continental Army takes up winter quarters at Valley Forge.

VALLEY FORGE
(by Bob Coltman)

We came down here with our boots on our feet,
We lost them somewhere in the snow and the sleet.
Pennsylvania winters are some kind of cold --
What's left of your body won't comfort your soul.

Mudcat Thread
Sung by Joe Hickerson (1976) Video

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:28 PM

THE BALLAD OF ST. ANNE'S REEL
(by David Mallett)

He was stranded in a tiny town on fair Prince Edward Island
Waiting for a ship to come and find him
A one horse place, a friendly face, some coffee and a tiny trace
Of fiddling in the distance far behind him

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Now the sailor's gone, the room is bare, the old piano's setting there
Someone's hat's left hanging on the rack
Some empty chairs, the wooden floor that feels the touch of shoes no more
Awaiting for the dancers to come back

And the fiddle's in the closet of some daughter of the town
The strings are broke, the bow is gone and the cover's buttoned down
But sometimes on December nights, when the air is cold and the wind is right
There's a melody that passes through the town.

Digital Tradition

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 09:18 PM

December 11-15, 1862: Battle of Fredericksburg.

THE LAST FIERCE CHARGE

See Mudcat Thread for arguments that this piece was written about Fredericksburg, and for another composition about the battle.

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The Last Fierce Charge: Various recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+last+fierce+charge


Link to post below THE LAST FIERCE CHARGE AKA The Battle of Fredericksburg

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 09:24 PM

December 9, 1911: Disaster at Cross Mountain Mine near Briceville, Tennessee.

THE CROSS MOUNTAIN EXPLOSION
Digital Tradition

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Cross Mountain Mine Disaster 1911- Tony Thomas    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwKp7FBEGG0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 09:51 PM

The various broadside ballads about naval combats against Turkish vessels ("The Royal Oak," "The Turkish Man-of-War," "Captain Mansfield's Fight," etc. etc.) are often supposed to have been inspired by an action on December 9, 1669, in which an English squadron under Admiral Kempthorne defeated nine Algerian ships. However, this thread points out that the 1669 battle may be the best known but not the only one, and that few or no specific details in the ballads link them to Kempthorne. (And when they give some date, it is not in December.)

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 10:25 PM

THE WALKER OF THE SNOW
(Poem, Charles Dawson Shanly, 1859; set to music by Sean Tyrrell.)

To the cold December heaven came the pale moon and the stars,
As the yellow sun was sinking behind the purple bars.
The snow was deeply drifted upon the ridges drear
That lay for miles between me and the camp for which we steer.

Digital Tradition

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The Walker of the Snow - Sean Tyrrell    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ka5x60vOwE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 10:35 PM

December 8, 1959: The lifeboat Mona is lost during a rescue attempt in St. Andrews Bay, Fife.

THE LIFEBOAT MONA
by Peggy Seeger

Remember December of fifty-nine
The howling wind and driving rain
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.

Digital Tradition

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"The Lifeboat Mona"- Peggy Seeger and others on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=THE+LIFEBOAT+MONA+by+Peggy+Seeger

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 11:07 PM

December 5, 1885: The Mississippi steamboat Bayou Sara burns at the dock.

BAYOU SARA

Digital Tradition
Recorded by Sara Grey and Ellie Ellis (sadly not yet to be heard online) and by Ed Siegler Video

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 11:24 PM

December, 1917: Murder of Lula Viers. There is some great material online about this case.

LULA VIERS

Digital Tradition
Recorded by, among others, Loretta Lynn. Video

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 08:46 PM

ELLEN VANNIN    by Hughie Jones of The Spinners. Another maritime disaster.

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The Ellan Vannin Tragedy sung by Hughie Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91uH_J6B6JI

Link to THE ELLEN VANNIN posted below

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 04:16 PM

The Digital Tradition entry for The Walker of the Snow (see Levana's link on this thread 16 Nov) says "Sung by Davy Spillane on "Shadow Hunter," TARACD 3023, 1990". Davy Spillane plays on his album, but the singing is unmistakably that of Seán Tyrrell (r.i.p. 30 Oct 2021). I saw Seán and Davy at a gig once. Davy played uilleann pipes and whistle and I don't remember him singing anything.
Walker of the Snow (via youtube)

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Nov 21 - 07:00 PM

THE BOSTON BURGLAR

I set my foot on an eastbound train one cold December day,
And every station I passed by I could hear the people say:
“There goes that Boston Burglar, in iron chains he is bound;
For the breaking of the Union Bank he is sent to Charlestown.

The Boston Burglar- Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4fB7_8tC0
Boston Burglar · Hedy West     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSr9K55_-gs
The Boston Burgler · James Keelaghan    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc3u__gDeN8
Boston Burglar · Delia Murphy     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdA50AFLYY
Mudcat, Origins: Boston Burglar     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=100659&messages=38#2021715
Mudcat DT Lyrics, The Boston Burglar     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5968

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 09:30 AM

DARK DECEMBER   by Graeme Miles

Dark December(Graeme Miles)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfLdLcvPMtg
MUDCAT: Lyr Add: Dark December (Graeme Miles)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=117679

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 06:27 PM

ÁIRD A' CHUAIN
Aird a' Chuain, Ardaigh Chuain (various renderings of the place name) is a song about someone abroad (in Scotland) missing home on the north Antrim coast of Ireland. One verse mentions Nollaig, which can mean either the month of December or the Christmas holiday.

Is iomai Nollag a bhí mé féin i mBun Abhainn Doine
Is mé gan chéill
Ag iomainn ar a trá bán
'S mo chaman bán ins mo dhorn liom

It is many a Christmas Day I had
In Cushendun while still a lad;
Hurling on the White Shore Strand
With my good ash hurley in my hand. (singable translation by Seán Ó Gallochóír)

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10469#3797807

sung by Éamonn Ó Faogáin (youtube link)

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 11:11 AM

STARRY, STARRY NIGHTaka Vincent

December 23, 1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear during a fit of depression.

Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
Vincent (Don McLean song) From Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_(Don_McLean_song)
Various recordings of Starry, Starry Night on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=STARRY%2C+STARRY+NIGHT

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 02:52 PM

SONGS ABOUT THE SIEGE OF DERRY

See the August thread for a collection of songs about the Siege of Derry, 1689, part of a resistance against King James. Although the siege is annually commemorated on August 14, one of the most celebrated events (referenced in most songs) took place on December 7, 1688, when a group of apprentices shut the town gates against Jacobite forces.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 05:17 PM

DERRY'S WALLS
7 December 1688 The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by a first attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when 13 apprentices shut the gates. This was an act of rebellion against James II.
From Wikipedia: Siege of Derry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Derry
Wikipedia: Robert_Lundy  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lundy
Derry's Walls (Apprentice Boys Loyalist Song)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXoRNA5mUY
“Derry's Walls” From Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry%27s_Walls
"The Siege of Derry" by Alice Osborn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a07JICnCe50

Thanks for this one Felipa

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 06:28 PM

HARVEY LOGAN

Out of all the incidents in Harvey Logan's violent, roving, and criminal life, this ballad focuses on a barroom fight and shootout with the police that took place in Knoxville, Tenn. in December, 1901; the jailbreak which, in this account, sounds like it was immediately afterward, was actually in June, 1903.

Article by Lyle Lofgren
Digital Tradition
Recording by Walt Gibson of Hazard, Ky. (collected by A. Lomax in 1937)
Dock Boggs, 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QELhq0vXAO8

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 07:18 PM

Harvey Logan From Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Logan

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 10:02 AM

SONGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON’S DEATH

8 Dec,1980 Ex-Beatle John Lennon was murdered in New York

EMPTY GARDEN     aka Hey Hey Johnny
Elton John - Empty Garden     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyy7Huc6KA
HERE TODAY
Paul McCartney/John Lennon - Here Today     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjwnWU6OsaI
ROLL ON JOHN
Bob Dylan - Roll On, John     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9MCXJuG3KA&t=5s
I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON
The Cranberries - I Just Shot John Lennon     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsN86H0yzrE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Nov 21 - 08:53 AM

PADDY LAY BACK

"Paddy Lay Back" ('Twas a cold and dreary morning in December...)

MUDCAT DT:Paddy Lay Back /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4580
Many recordings of "Paddy Lay Back" on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Paddy+Lay+Back%22
Thanks for this song Levana

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Nov 21 - 10:45 AM

Another beautiful song from Graeme Miles which mentions December: copied from another thread:

WHEN THE SNOWS OF WINTER FALL
(Graeme Miles)

My yard is high with wood now, my cellar deep with coal,
My windows are well battened; I’ve sealed each crack and hole,
When the storms and winds come raging, I’ll not be touched at all,
For I’ll be well protected, when the snows of winter fall.

My sheep still wander freely, upon the lonely fell,
In the field my horse is grazing, and my cattle feed as well,
But come the bleak December, with its rain and sleet and squall,
They’ll be safely penned and stabled, when the snows of winter fall.

I look out from my doorway, to the trees on yonder rise,
Soon the leaves will turn to yellow as the summer fades and dies,
I’ll put on my coat of leather, and my love will don her shawl,
How close we’ll draw together, when the snows of winter fall.

Through the bitter cold and darkness, our hopes we will keep high,
For we know the warmth of summer will come back by and by,
Then we’ll walk into the sunshine wearing neither coat nor shawl,
And together we will listen just to hear the cuckoo call.

I am not a man of riches; I have little that is new,
Some livestock and some chattels, amount to very few,
But my love is here beside me; I need nothing more at all,
She will give her love and comfort, when the snows of winter fall.

My yard is high with wood now, my cellar deep with coal,
My windows are well battened; I’ve sealed each crack and hole,
When the storms and winds come raging, I’ll not be touched at all,
For I’ll be well protected, when the snows of winter fall.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:26 AM

TRY TO REMEMBER
(Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)

Deep in December, it's nice to remember
Although you know the snow will follow
Deep...
Without a hurt the heart is hollow
Deep...
The fire of September that made us mellow
Deep in December our hearts should remember, and follow

Lots of recordings onlinehttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TRY+TO+REMEMBER+
Here's one by The Brothers Four: https://youtu.be/LUZpjW7QHGo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:41 AM

CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN’S COURTSHIP Child Ballad #46, Roud 36.

I maun hae some winter fruit that in December grew
And I maun hae a silken goon that waft gaed never through
A sparrow's horn, a priest unborn this nicht tae join us twa
Afore I'll lie untae your bed at either stock or wa'"

Recording by Ewan MacColl:    https://youtu.be/lqbbSoZVFM0

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Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - Capt Wedderburn's Courtship.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUHIVcFbyFU
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship · Rossettistone    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmCDpfEyu8g
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship · Jean Redpath     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5segw40_Q

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:46 AM

WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY
(Tom Lehrer)

Your teeth will start to go, dear, your waist will start to spread.
In twenty years or so, dear, I'll wish that you were dead.
I'll never love you then at all the way I do today.
So please remember,
When I leave in December,
I told you so in May.

Recording by Tom Lehrer: https://youtu.be/8NOZH0y7VxE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:52 AM

PIG AND THE INEBRIATE

It was early last December, as near as I remember
I was walking down the street in tipsy pride
No one was I disturbing, as I lay down by the curbing
And a pig came up and lay down by my side

As I lay there in the gutter, thinking thoughts I cannot utter
A lady passing by was heard to say
"You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses"
And the pig got up and slowly walked away

Recorded by Ed McCurdy: https://youtu.be/wc9pvw1z60M

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:04 AM

THE NIGHTINGALE
(Wreck)

On the fifteenth day of December last,
The wind did blow a most fearful blast.
We lost our spars, likewise every sail.
What a dismal wreck was the Nightingale!

Couldn't find a recording, but here's some sheet music: http://www.loopendtuygh.nl/mediapool/56/567105/data/040_the_NIGHTINGALE.pdf

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The Nightingale · Cyril Tawney    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLZFq2K70o

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:09 AM

MORE WOOD
(Dillon Bustin)

When the spring rolls around and I spade the muddy ground
I have often found I lay my saw away,
The shed is empty and yet you can make a bet
That I'll forget to be cutting more wood.
The old timers say to split a little every day
And stack it away to season well, but
From March to November I rarely do remember
December will find me in a rut...

Recording by Herdman, Hills and Mangsen: https://youtu.be/2-Pdg7GmLH0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:13 AM

HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT

In March it is mud, it is slush in December
The midsummer breezes are loaded with dust
In fall the leaves litter, in muddy September
The wall paper rots and the candlesticks rust

Recording by Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen: https://youtu.be/bslMx_mhiBc

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More performances on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=housewife%27s+lament+youtube
MUDCAT: Origins: Poor Old Woman/Housewife's Lament    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=129897

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 12:25 PM

Matt McGinn's BALLAD OF JOHN MACLEAN celebrates the Communist organizer's return to Glasgow on December 3, 1918 after having been jailed.

Many recordings of "Ballad of John MacLean" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%22Ballad+of+John+MacLean%22+
MUDCAT: Digitrad    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=446
There is also Hamish Henderson's JOHN MACLEAN MARCH
Many recordings of " John MacLean March "on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Maclean%27s+March
The John MacLean March Lyrics & Info from unionsong.com    http://unionsong.com/u124.html

Thanks to Levana Taylor for suggesting the above two songs.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 12:52 AM

SWEET BABY JAMES   , by James Taylor

Now the first of December was covered with snow
So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston
The Berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frosting
With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go

Recording by James Taylor:  https://youtu.be/k2x0fPgAj_Y

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 06:12 AM

16 Dec. 1773 American colonists boarded three ships in Boston harbour and emptied 342 chests of tea into the sea.

Wikipedia:Boston Tea Partyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

REVOLUTIONARY TEA
"Revolutionary Tea" Lyrics, Info & Music: The Minnesota Heritage Songbook     https://mnheritagesongbook.net/the-songs/addition-song-without-recordings/revolutionary-tea/

BALLAD OF THE TEA PARTY
The Ballad of the Tea Party, song lyrics    http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Historic_Songs/Ballad-the-Tea-Party.phtml
Ballad of the Tea Party · Hermes Nye     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gi6Zh3VA1Y
Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics: Ballad of the Tea Party http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Ballad_of_the_Tea_Party.htm


BOSTON TEA PARTY SONG

The Boston Tea Party Song-Pharrell Williams     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5Nh7mggx0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 06:54 AM

December 7, 1941 - The U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese aircraft in a raid that lasted just over one hour and left nearly 3,000 Americans dead.


REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
Carson Robison "Remember Pearl Harbor"       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyOyoHNkeC4
Remember Pearl Harbor (song) From Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Pearl_Harbor_(song)   


PEARL HARBOR BLUES       -Doctor (Peter) Clayton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg_0AT5LLqE


COWARDS OVER PEARL HARBOR    - Wilma Lee Cooper
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnyiE5u03M

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 07:15 AM

And another song about related events which was suggested by Levana Taylor is
WAKE ISLAND
Wake Island · Oscar Brand    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvkdKinM4-0
MUDCAT :Origins, Oscar Brand's 'Wake Island'    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=98039#1936283

It's about a battle that took place December 8-23, 1941.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: open mike
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 12:23 AM

HERE ARE MY FAVORITES FOR CHRISTMAS TIME
CHRISTMAS TIME'S A-COMIN' BEN."TEX" LOGAN   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRL5hTWidk4
HOT BUTTERED RUM   TOMMY THOMPSON
Many recordings of "Hot Buttered Rum "on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hot+Buttered+Rum+song
Lyr Req: Hot Buttered Rum (Tommy Thompson)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1209&messages=49
CORN,WATER,WOOD   ELLIOT, WALDMAN
Corn, Water and Wood · Michael Martin Murphey  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYUVtxf-XM
COWBOY CHRISTMAS   CONNIE KALDOR   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi5JO3kzeU
EARLY SNOW   TOM PAXTON    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qCe9vfQzw
Lyrics & Chords :Early Snow http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/tom-paxton/early-snow-crd-tom-paxton.htm
IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER   MERLE HAGGARD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TByT3QlWc
THE GIFT   STEPHANIE DAVIS   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEH2QJLSNMU
CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES   JOHN MCCUTCHEON
Christmas in the Trenches - written and performed by John McCutcheon    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJi41RWaTCs
Wikipedia: "Christmas in the Trenches"     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Trenches

WE'RE GONNA SING   CONNIE KALDOR
MUDCAT: Lyr Add: We're Gonna Sing (Connie Kaldor and Bim)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53561#reply

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 05:28 AM

THE PERFECT FIELDS OF FREDERICKSBURG
by Larry Kaplan

The mower cuts the lower field,
The grass grows slow this year.
Still, every week, all summer long
I see that mower here.
Around the fields of Fredericksburg,
In this fair morning light,
A place we call a monument
Straight lines up Marye's Heights.

A mile further down this hill,
The river Burnside crossed,
Who razed this town clear to the ground,
Then every soldier lost.
The engine drones, the mower slows
Where young boys stood in fear.
It stops for time to clean the blades
Then slowly disappears.

The broken walls, the soldiers' calls,
The frightened guns are gone.
Still, shops that sell the souvenirs
Say, "Choose which side you're on."
And children search for evidence
To prove a war was here.
And perfect fields of Fredericksburg
Hide blood and bones, and tears.

YouTube

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 05:31 AM

In this video, Dermot Byrne has a story from the memoirs of Irish soldiers at the battle of Fredericksburg, concerning Irish troops on both sides singing "Ireland Boys Hurrah" together. The incident is also mentioned in the Mudcat thread about the song.

IRELAND BOYS HURRAH

YouTube search

Link to post below IRELAND BOYS HURRAH aka Song from the Backwoods

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 01:13 PM

KITCHEN DANCE
by Larry Kaplan

Was a lonely old night; longest night of the year.
Biggest moon in the sky; biggest moon in ten years.
There's a chill in the air; hear the wind in the trees.
Says it's just another winter night. He doesn't mind.
He says, "It suits me."
Come a bump on the door, then a snap of the wind.
But there hasn't been a single soul come calling here since I don't know when.
Put the coffee pot down; better turn into bed.
There ain't nothing like a little sleep
To get these devils out of your head.

CHORUS (after each verse):
It's a lonely night; he could use a few songs.
Needs a banjo and a fiddle, and a little tune that isn't too long.
Dancing in the kitchen; talking 'bout the fishing last June.
Flirting with the ladies. Would you take a look at that moon!

In a minute or two he was deep in a sleep;
But there were tunes in his ear and the music was sweet.
Then he heard a voice call, "Roll the carpet back now.
Put the chairs in the corner. If you want to dance,
We're starting right now."
There was singing all night; how that fiddle bow flew!
Kids on the stairs, folks alone and in pairs; not a soul there he knew.
Won't you come out tonight? Take a turn on the floor.
So they spun him 'round a little,
Then he spun himself around a bit more.

Then the music grew dim; then they all disappeared.
He sat up with a start. Where's the music he hears?
Throws open the door; just a little new snow.
Fire in the fireplace; it must have started minutes ago.
Sun up in the trees. There ain't nobody there.
But there's rosin on the table, and he can't remember moving them chairs.
What a curious dream; what a wonderful night!
Well, the winter gets long, but he's got a new song,
And the moon is still bright.

YouTube

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 06:43 AM

MARY L. McKAY
The record run of the "Mary L. McKay" (pseudonym of the schooner Effie M. Morrissey) happened in December, 1912.

Various recordings of "Mary L. McKay" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Mary+L.+McKay
MUDCAT: Lyr Add: The Mary L. Mackay / Mary L. McKay     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=91328T
MUDCAT:lyrics in DT /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6686

Thanks go to Levana Taylor for this song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 09:15 AM

LAST TRAIN FROM POOR VALLEY
Norman Blake

It was good one time
Everything was mighty fine
The coal tipple rolled day and night
And things they got slow
For reasons I don't know
And the chill winds they pulled into sight

The mine's all closed down
Everybody layin' around
There wasn't very much left to do
But to stand in that line
Get your rations strict on time
And woman I could see it killin' you

CHORUS: Now the soft new snow of December
Lightly falls my cabin round
Saw the last train from Poor Valley
Bringing brown-haired Becky Richmond bound

Been comin' all night long
Soon we'll be gone
Leavin' crossed your mind everyday
And then you said to me
"Things are bad back home you see"
I guess I'd better be on my way

I should hate you now
But I never could somehow
A miner's wife you were not cut out to be
It wasn't what you thought
Just some dreams you bought
When you left home and ran away with me

Saw the last train from Poor Valley
Bringing brown-haired Becky Richmond bound

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 09:51 AM

SONGS ABOUT SENATOR JOE McCARTHY

December 2, 1954 - The U.S. Senate condemned Senator Joseph McCarthy for misconduct following his ruthless investigations of thousands of alleged Communists.

Joseph McCarthy From Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

GET THAT COMMUNIST, JOE -The Kavaliers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKW-oz1Lbw&t=27s
THE SENATOR McCARTHY BLUES     by Hal Block     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCp_oWHLki0
JOE McCARTHY'S BAND   Joe Glazer   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiW50wxZn-I
"Joe McCarthy’s Band" is found on page 5 of The Big Little Person’s Book of Songs for Democratic Action(link is external). McCarthy is Comin’ to Town”
JOE McCARTHY'S LULLABY     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr-tlqWkrU

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 10:11 AM

JOE McCARTHY IS COMIN' TO TOWN

Folk Singer Joe Glazer wrote this parody about Senator McCarthy titled “Joe McCarthy is Comin’ to Town” (1951) sung to the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.

You’d better beware, you’d better be good,
You’d better do only the things that you should.
Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

He’ll call you a pink, he’ll call you a red,
He’ll drive every liberal thought from your head.
Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

He knows when you’re subversive, he knows each move you make;
His gumshoe boys are watching, so be good for McCarthy’s sake.

So you’d better play safe, don’t talk and don’t read,
Don’t write and don’t join if you want to succeed.
Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

If you’ve got a book whose cover is red,
When you start to read look under the bed,
Cause Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

If you go to church to pray or to wed,
You’d better make sure that the preacher’s not red,
Cause Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

Now if you are a teacher and you want to get ahead,
Don’t mention Thomas Jefferson, talk about Joe McCarthy instead.

So, you’d better play safe, don’t talk and don’t read,
Don’t write and don’t join, if you want to succeed,
Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

Be careful who your friends are, be careful what you say.
Don’t be too controversial, or McCarthy will get you some day.

So, get rid of your brains and you’ll never go wrong,
You’ll always be safely sailing along,
When Joe McCarthy’s coming to town.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 10:23 AM

DECEMBER
by Foxhunting (Joseph Sutherland)

Hear on Bandcamp

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 12:57 PM

THE BLECKELL MURRYNEET

Or, "Blackwell Merry Night" in more standard dialect -- a "merry night" in the borders, especially Cumbria, being a big party at a public house. This one, in a song written by Robert Anderson (1770-1833), took place on "the last of December" 1802 or 1803.

"Blackwell Merry Night" on Mainly Norfolk
Mudcat thread and DT
Instrumental version ("loosely based") by a harp and guitar duo is the only online recording I found: YouTube

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 05:19 PM

JOHN FUDSTON   
concerns the execution of said murderer, which took place on December 29, 1825.

MUDCAT, DT lyrics: John Fudston     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3241

On the twentieth of December, in the morning quite soon,
He called to the sheriff to confess what he'd done;
He confessed to his God for the crime he had done,
He said he was a murderer, his race it was run.

Thanks go to Levana Taylor for suggesting this song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 08:17 AM

MASTER McGRATH

The greyhound's triumph is stated in the song to have taken place in December, 1869.

Various recordings of "Master McGrath" on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Master+McGrath
MUDCAT DT Lyrics: "Master McGrath"     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905&SongI

Thanks to Levana Taylor for this song.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 03:57 PM

6 Dec 1921, the Anglo-Irish treaty was signed. One war ended and another - the Irish Civil War - was soon to start. What songs would you recommend to mark the occasion? One that springs to mind for me is a relatively recent composition by Brian Moore (1946-2011)
THE BALLAD OF MICHAEL COLLINS   aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours

Returning then to London town, who will take the blame?   
The Treaty lies before him, Michael Collins adds his name.   
There's a darker time upon the land, who will bear the load?   
An awkward hero in an armoured car on an Irish country road.

Hang out your brightest colours and his memory now recall   
For each one wants a part of him, no one wants it all   

Brian singing under the name Cormac O'Moore    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhMx_UI1fs

LINK to post below from Felipa about more songs marking the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 01:02 AM

December 28, 1879: The bridge over the Tay at Dundee collapsed taking a passenger train down with it.

The event inspired a famous poem by Theodor Fontane and an infamous one by William McGonagall (see Mudcat thread), neither having been set to music as far as I know.

BALLAD OF THE TAY RAIL BRIDGE
by B Yellow

The station was so dark, so quiet and still,
There was nothing in the air, the air was bracing,
Christmas day had passed, he was coming home, your loved one.
And over the valleys people crying out loud,
A storm was on its way,
The memories of Christmas day flashed before your eyes,
When the truth came out.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty36a9Z4gHE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 06:40 PM

WOUNDED KNEE SONGS
December 29, 1890 - Members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacred more than 200 Native American (Sioux) men, women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.

Wounded Knee-Vic Abram     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ErFsomokn8
We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee-Redbone   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-exUl-TnQ0
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"-Buffy Sainte-Marie    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJnwUbJoheo
Big Foot-Johnny Cash     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEwWXNN6bIs
Wounded Knee · Nik Kershaw    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSoY1hj2ek
"Gwaed Ar Yr Eira Gwyn"-Tecwyn Ifan    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmUMjX1DWRg
"Were You There?"-Grant Lee Buffalo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7plNcVqmX4
Wounded Knee · Walela    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XowG1z6Ag0
Wounded Knee Massacre From Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 10:28 AM

THE NIGHTINGALE
[ Roud 1093 ; Laws M37 ; G/D 1:18 ; Henry H75a ; Ballad Index LM37 ; VWML HAM/3/13/5 ; Bodleian Roud 1093 ; trad.]

On the fourteenth day of December last,
The storm did blow a most fearful blast.
We lost our spars, likewise every sail.
What a dismal wreck was the Nightingale!”

The Nightingale · Cyril Tawney     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2deKpaMtI

Link to NIGHTINGALE (THE) posted above

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 05:37 PM

PROHIBITION SONGS
5 December, 1933 - The 18th Amendment (Prohibition Amendment) to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. For nearly 14 years, since January 29, 1920, it had outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.

Wikipedia: Repeal of Prohibition in the United States     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Just A Little Drink - Tennessee Happy Boys     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXvUwA3UUis
Prohibition is a Failure · The New Lost City Ramblers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYm5I6izh4Q
The Goodbye Old Booze- New Lost City Ramblers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdTNkoe7mes

American Moonshine and Prohibition Songs, many tracks on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=American+Moonshine+and+Prohibition+Songs+all+tracks+Youtube

Link To post below SONGS ABOUT PROHIBITION

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 07:23 PM

December 24, 1913: At a Christmas party organized by striking miners in Calumet, Michigan, someone shouted "Fire," and during the ensuing rush for the exit, 79 people, including 54 children, were crushed to death. It is very widely believed that the culprit was an opponent of the union. (Wikipedia)

1913 MASSACRE
by Woody Guthrie

Mudcat: here and related threads
Traditional Ballad Index
Wikipedia article about the song
Well-known recordings of the song include those by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Alex Campbell.
Live recording by Christy Moore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvnazELFb5k

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 05:16 AM

MUDCAT:Christmas Parodies I   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=28249#top

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 08:59 PM

As I noted in my 6 Dec message, that date marked the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty.
Another song for the occasion is THE IRISH FREE STATE by Patrick Galvin. It is the opening song in this video of a Treaty Songs programme at the (Irish) National Concert Hall, Dublin in Dec 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwGXdOtgeWY
There's also a new song by Duke Special about ERSKINE CHILDERS . I haven't watched the full programme yet, but hope there will be some other noteworthy songs. I'm just about to listen to Karan Casey sing two songs she has written about Kathleen Clarke.
LINK to post above on 06 Dec 21 from Felipa about songs marking the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 10:44 AM

Felipa,here is another song about her:
THE BALLAD OF KATHLEEN CLARKE

By Paul Gillis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwjvTYqpK8

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 10:49 AM

/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170729 THE KINGSTOWN DISASTER
by Johnny McEvoy

recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4S96bsaiQ8

It was Christmas Eve in eighteen ninety-five
The biggest storm in years was blowing wild
Never had we seen it’s like before
As we drifted helpless towards the Kingstown shore

The wind was blowing like a wild banshee
Our ship was tossed upon the raging sea

Each man on board believed it was the end
We thought we’d never see our homes again
Suddenly there came a mighty sound
Our sails in shreds as they came tumbling down

How nobody died I’ll never know
As we ran aground upon the rocks below
We prayed to God to see us through the night
We had many hours to go before day-light

When suddenly we heard somebody call
“Stand fast me boys we’ll save you one and all

With burning eyes, we stared into the night
I must admit it was a wonderous sight
The Kingstown lifeboat drawing up abeam
Our eyes could not believe the sight we’d seen

Hold tight me boys we’ll throw to you a line
To tell the truth we haven’t got much time
The tide is turning fast before our eyes
We’ve got to get you off before sunrise

Then through the night there came a mighty roar
A towering wave of twenty feet or more
Came crashing down upon the men below
Such fear and terror you could never know

Splintered timbers scattered all around
Of those brave men there wasn’t sight nor sound
Capsized and smashed into a million parts
tnough to break a hardened sailor’s heart

Alex Williams was the cockswain’s name
His likes I know we’ll never see again
Fifteen men and boys were lost that night
Gone to their reward before daylight

Saint Stephen’s day they laid them in their grave
Wives and mothers prayed their souls to save
And we stood by just glad to be alive
That Christmas time in eighteen ninety-five.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Dec 21 - 06:58 AM

THE BULLFIGHT ON THE SAN PEDRO is about the so-called Battle of the Bulls, an incident of Mormon history traditionally dated to December 12, 1846.
MUDCAT: Lyr Add: The Bullfight on the San Pedro et al.    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2964#13720

Thanks for this one Levana Taylor

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Dec 21 - 06:40 AM

JACOBITE SONGS

22 Dec.1715 James Edward Stuart, son of James II, the deposed Catholic King of England, lands in north-east Scotland to lead a Jacobite rebellion.

Many Jacobite songs on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jacobite+Songs
More Jacobite songs    https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&tbm=vid&q=jacobite+rebel+songs&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGj_Gd_OX0AhUBoVwKHTVEB
Wikipedia : Jacobite songs     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jacobite_songs
Extract from a Jacobite song in The National Archives Kew, Richmond https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1715/jacobite-song/

Link to THE WHITE COCKADE posted by Levana Taylor below
Link to more Jacobite songs posted below by GUEST,henryp

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 09:06 AM

O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL  has been identified by Professor Bennett Zon, the Head of the Department of Music at Durham University as a Jacobite song
Article:‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ - Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Christmas Carol    https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=7328
More on Wikipedia ( scroll down to Jacobite connection)     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 09:15 AM

SONGS ABOUT JOSEPH STALIN
December 21 Josef Stalin leader of Soviet Russia leader was born as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

Stalin Wasn't Stallin' , many recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stalin+wasn%27t+stallin
Stalin Wasn't Stallin' ,From Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Wasn%27t_Stallin%27
The Ballad Of Stalin     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fxSMQFAkBE
MUDCAT: Lyr Add:The Ballad of Stalin (songs about Stalin)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=39480
Just Like Me (Joseph Stalin Song) · Jeffrey Martin    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8igbElE_y0
Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys - Advice To Joe 1951    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosOQkKnNkc

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 05:47 AM

CHRISTMAS SONG WRITTEN BY A COMPUTER    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89qjdBb9k8

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 09:02 AM

PLEASE DADDY, DON'T GET DRUNK THIS CHRISTMAS
Many recordings of “Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PLEASE+DADDY+DON%27T+GET+DRUNK+THIS+CHRISTMAS+

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 08:17 PM

I AM A ROCK
by Paul Simon
Recorded by Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Dec 21 - 10:07 AM

WHEN THEY FLEW

17th December, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, controlled airplane flights. They made four flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
When They Flew - Jonathan Sprout     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UeXUYsUi4E

Another song about The Wright Brothers    WRIGHT!
Wright! - by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkBmFWUNRzs

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 06:33 AM

WASSAIL SONGS

Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvylJZczJrc&list=OLAK5uy_nXL9QITouGVeYSS2_gEqV4QP1zja_bsfA
Wassail songs and Tunes     http://www.cbladey.com/wassong.html

MALPAS WASSAIL-Watersons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2BsU-dVdI     Mainly Norfolk: Malpas Wassail Lyrics & Info     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2BsU-dVdI
APPLE TREE WASSAIL- Watersons    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYsi7Y-ICYs&list=OLAK5uy_l0Vp2LdaqgA74qeeA3-7do0Bh0chzYguw&index=10
APPLE TREE WASSAIL-Peter Griggs    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W0wUo2rng4
THE GOWER WASSAIL -The Revels Chorus     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH8DGS3K3jM
GOWER WASSAIL -Steeleye Span     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwwEmQmSWs
YORKSHIRE WASSAIL - Elektra Women's Choir    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXM9G9uyt4
CORNISH WASSAIL - Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg4Ql4YEdbg
JACOBSTOWE WASSAIL - Lynn Rowan · Will Rowan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5s4DK82OwU
THE WASSAILING SONG- Blur     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_fnMdIw3o&list=PLvh35o-hIL3zuLP0jOXsr1idvrm6lqRnR
GLOUCESTERSHIRE WASSAIL     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfncJavzoB8
STROUD WASSAIL -     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYigw7vzEk
WHIMPLE WASSAIL- Jim Causley and assorted musicians     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHMPs5lZwfE
WASSAIL SONG - Dick Miles     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJlnITRcTc&t=2s
Many More Wassail Songs on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Wassail++songs
Link to Mudcat post below MORE WASSAIL SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 05:02 PM

KENTUCKY WASSAIL- · Cathy Barton · Dave Para · Caroline Paton · Sandy Paton · Skip Gorman     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5A9yBXeYo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 07:30 PM

HOMELESS WASSAIL by Ian Robb

"Wassail, wassail,all over the town,
Our cup is white and our ale is brown"
But huddled on the iron grate
we poor and hungry curse our fate.

This song was originated by Finest Kind and has been covered by many others. See thread. It's very much in the tradition of older works:

THE DITCHLING CAROL

And all remember, gentles gay:
For you who bask in fortune's ray
The year is all a holiday.
The poor have only Christmas.

See Mudcat, Mainly Norfolk, and YouTube search.

REMEMBER THE POOR [The Snow Is on the Ground]

Cold winter is come with its keen cutting breath,
And the birds is all dropped from the trees.
All nature seems touched at the finger of death,
And the streams are beginning to freeze.
When the hills and the dales are all covered in white
And Flora attends us no more,
When you sit by your fireside, reviving and hot,
Will you grumble to think on the poor?

Recorded by Jeff Warner, Waterson:Carthy, and others. See Mudcat and Mainly Norfolk.

---

Remember the Poor / The Snow Is on the Ground   -  Catherine Earnshaw    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iYQBLj2X4-8
Various other recordings of Remember the Poor / The Snow Is on the Ground     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Remember+the+Poor+%2F+The+Snow+Is+on+the+Ground

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Dec 21 - 04:44 PM

YORKSHIRE CAROLS
recordings of the singing of carols in Yorkshire pubs and other public places    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=YORKSHIRE+CAROLS
Dungworth and the Sheffield carols    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNonVdwRT9A
Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines (Ian Russell )    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeH270_alTM

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 04:53 PM

BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella · The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square · Orchestra at Temple     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voqg04JdZss
Many other recordings of ' Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella' on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ring+a+Torch%2C+Jeannette%2C+Isabella
Link to post below UN FLAMBEAU,JEANETTE ISABELLA

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 04:59 PM

KIT CARSON
December 24 American frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809-1868) was born in Madison County, Kentucky. He was a soldier, trapper, guide and Indian agent in the Old West.

Fess Parker - The Ballad of Kit Carson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t00-MsQVKA
Kit Carson by Bruce Cockburn    http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/kc.html
Bruce Cockburn - Kit Carson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3mX1UoJQo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 09:05 AM

THE CHRISTMAS SHOES
    The Christmas Shoes  -  Many recordings on Youtube        https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Christmas+Shoes! BR>

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 09:25 AM

HANUKKAH SONGS
MUDCAT:Happy C/Hanukkah! (plus a song)     /thread.cfm?threadid=28872&messages=14

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 05:42 PM

CHRISTMAS AT SEA   -  The Longest Johnshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDjbUJxVw84

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 05:57 PM


THE MARI LWYD SONG
The Mari Lwyd was a tradition enacted at Christmas time in Wales

Mari Lwyd on Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd
Lyrics, Recording & Info    https://museum.wales/collections/folksongs/?id=2
Mari Lwyd performed by Carreg Lafar     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nlqIhJnQrc
Mari Lwyd performed in Wales     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptel9C3Zhg
Mari Lwyd - The Welsh Sources and Meaning     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5pk-Hc758
Many More YouTube Videos about Mari Lwyd     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mari+lwyd+song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 07:30 PM

THE CHERRY TREE CAROL
Wikipedia: The Cherry-Tree Carol     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry-Tree_Carol
The Cherry Tree Carol -Joan Baez    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYaFGSG_x80
Many other recordings of The Cherry Tree Carol on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cherry+tree+carol

The Qur’an and the Cherry-Tree Carol – David Halperin     https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-quran-and-the-cherry-tree-carol-a-christmas-story/
Islam and Source Criticism: Part 1    http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2015/04/islam-and-source-criticism-part-1.html
Wikipedia :Mary in Islam    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: leeneia
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 11:20 AM

There's a Christmas song called COLD DECEMBER FLIES AWAY

Here's a YouTube video with the melody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l78tzAYDYiE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 11:47 AM

JUST ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SONG
"Just Another Christmas Song"- Bill and the Belles     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbmJTIHy3o
And for a song of a different colour there's
TRY NOT TO BE A CUNT, IT’S CHRISTMAS
Try Not To Be A Cunt, It’s Christmas - Fascinating Aïda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2XdkBkTTk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 11:57 AM

YULE

Yule · Lisa Thiel     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400WG-v3VO0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 10:27 AM

HEROD AND THE COCK

Herod and the Cock · Watersons     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwbY5aWSVQ
Many other recordings of Herod and the Cock on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Herod+and+the+Cock

Thanks for suggesting this one Reinhard

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Reinhard
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 11:55 AM

Is the premise from the beginning of the thread still valid? :

"The songs-of-the-month threads need one for December that does not include anything specifically about the solstice or midwinter holidays, those having their own."

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 03:54 PM

@Reinhard: excellent question. It was me who proposed having a separate non-holiday thread, but Geoff's the one running the "months" project, so if he thinks separating them out isn't a good idea, he's no doubt right.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 05:24 AM

PLEASE MR CUSTER
George Armstrong Custer was born on December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio.

Please Mr Custer Custer, many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Please%3B+Mr+Custer

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 07:35 AM

I think having one thread for Christmas and St Stephen's day songs (and maybe other holidays such as Chanukah and Kwanza) and one for other December songs (secular Dec songs?) was a good idea.

If Geoff doesn't mind the work, he could sub-divide the index by song type.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 06:45 AM

MARCH THE MORNING SUN

Then men and dames give up your beds
oh, maids and boys, you're yawning
to hear the bells ring frosty round
to tell it's Christmas morning

March the Morning Sun - The Young Tradition With Shirley and Dolly Collins     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qFXIvxb-Q
Thanks for suggesting this one Reinhard

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 21 - 06:12 AM

THE CUTTY WREN

26 December is sometimes called St Stephen's Day or Wren Day. The song is thought by some to represent the human sacrifice of the Year King, or the symbolic substitute slaughter of the wren as "king of the birds" at the end of the year for similar purposes, and such songs are traditionally sung on Boxing Day (26 December), just after the winter solstice.

Saint Stephen's DayFrom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day
Various recordings of The Cutty Wren on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Cutty+Wren
MUDCAT: Origins: Any St Stevens Day songs?/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170749&messages=2#top

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 06:26 AM

CHRISTMAS TIME IN WASHINGTON
written by Roy Acuff
Many & various recordings of “Christmas Time in Washington”on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CChristmas+Time+in+Washington%E2%80%9D%2C+written+and+sung+by+Steve+Earle

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:43 PM

THE PORT ADMIRAL

'Twas at the landing-place
    That's just below Mount Wyse,
Poll leaned against the sentry's box,
    A tear in both her eyes,
Her apron twisted round her arms,
    All for to keep them warm,
It being a windy Christmas Day,
    And also a snowstorm.

Lyrics: Frederick Marryat (1837); Music: George Ward (1998)
Mudcat
YouTube

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 05:55 PM

SAINT STEPHEN AND HEROD
Wikipedia: Saint Stephen and Herod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen_and_Herod
Bluegrass Messengers: Recordings & Info 22. St. Stephen and Herod http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/recordings--info-22-st-stephen-and-herod.aspx
Thanks to Reinhard for suggesting this one

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 08:58 AM

CHRISTMAS 1914
Christmas 1914 by Mike Harding     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqaCSnyRMO8

Link to "Christmas in the Trenches "above

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 09:11 AM

THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE SONG
The Christmas Truce Song (A Game of Football)- Louis Skiffington & Andy Mort    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGgXYGsqmw

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 09:16 AM

CHRISTMAS 1915
'Christmas 1915'- Celtic Thunder     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG3l-OBdcPI
Christmas 1915 – Various recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Christmas+1915+

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 01:50 PM

CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHGATE  -   Ry Cooder    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yCMTm2zT8s

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 04:47 PM

THE LIFEBOAT MONA
Remember December fifty-nine, The howling wind and the driving rain,
Remember the gallant men who drowned, On the lifeboat, Mona was her name

Luke Kelly -The Lifeboat Mona     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNHzSf-QZI
Various recordings of The Lifeboat Mona on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Lifeboat+Mona+++

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 11:27 AM

THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL
Wikipedia: Boar's Head Carol     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol
The Boar's Head Carol - Many recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Boar%27s+Head+Carol

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 06:54 PM

HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) aka So This Is Christmas     Recordings by various performers on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HAPPY+XMAS+%28WAR+IS+OVER%29+

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 10:26 AM

ASHTABULA TRAIN WRECK
The Ashtabula Train Disaster was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876.

The Hiram Rapids Stumblers -- Ashtabula Train Wreck     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De5Gz662e2E
Wikipedia: Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_River_railroad_disaster
MUDCAT: Ashtabula Train Disaster 1876 songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=148645&messages=7

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 01:41 AM

LE RÉVEILLON DU JOUR DE L'AN [La Cuisinière] (The New Year's Eve Dinner, or The Cook)

"A réveillon is a long dinner held in the evening preceding Christmas Day and [on] New Year's Eve." (Wikipedia)

Recordings:
Originated by the Famille Larin, recorded circa 1960 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nWWD0moxs
La Bottine Souriante has many live recordings of this song; here are ones from 1987 and 1996
Live by The Lost Fingers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-UvJzqoZE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 10:29 AM

I SAW THREE SHIPS  aka On Christmas Day in the Morning
Wikipedia: I Saw Three Ships     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw Three_Ships
Many recordings of " I_Saw_Three_Ships" on YouTube nbsp;   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I+Saw+Three+Ships
Many recordings of "On Christmas Day in the Morning" on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christmas+day+in+the+morning+song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 08:31 AM

JOSEPH -   Jake Thackray    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTG-1d6rGQ

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 04:21 PM

AYE FOND KISS by Robbie Burns
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=32222#422373

http://www.robertburns.org/works/358.shtml

"When Burns's affair with Mrs Agnes M'Lehose ('Clarinda') came to an end, and he settled down to married life with Jean Armour, he still retained a strong affection for 'Clarinda'. They met in Edinburgh for the last time on 6th December 1791. She was then about to set sail for Jamaica in the hope of achieving reconciliation with her husband (a hope that was not to be realized). On 27th December, Burns sent her 'Ae Fond Kiss' from Dumfries, a song so genuine in its resigned passion that it makes the drawing-room songs of 'sensibility' he had previously written for her seem artificial and insignificant. Sir Walter Scott thought that 'Ae Fond Kiss' contained the 'essence of a thousand love tales'."

as sung by Dougie MacLean

Jean Redpath with Alisdair Fraser and San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 01:20 AM

TO DAUNTON ME by Robert Burns

The blude-red rose at Yule may blaw,
The simmer lilies bloom in snaw,
The frost may freeze the deepest sea,
But an auld man shall never daunton me.

Mudcat
Lyrics and translation
Recorded by Ewan MacColl and by Janet Russell

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 01:58 AM

THE WHITE COCKADE

The white cockade was a Jacobite symbol. A Mudcat thread discusses several songs by that title.

Link to JACOBITE SONGS above
Link to more Jacobite songs posted below by GUEST,henryp

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,Diolch
Date: 15 Jan 22 - 07:38 AM

BOXING DAY
by Robb Johnson, also recorded in two different but both magnificent versions by Roy Bailey. Any undated hunting and anti-hunting songs set in winter could also fit on the 26th December.

Mudcat thread with lyrics and tune:   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33441

The youtube offerings tend to come and go as it's under copyright but searching will usually turn one up.

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Here's one Diolch     Boxing Day · Robb Johnson   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4v8FK7IyEA
and anotherBoxing Day · Roy Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmKru6yYHjM

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 06:07 AM

THE ELLEN VANNIN

3rd December 1909 The SS Ellan Vannin left the Isle of Man bound for Liverpool. She foundered on the Mersey approach channel and all 15 passengers and 21 crew were lost.

   The Ellan Vannin Tragedy - Hughie Jones    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6g46ooCmk
Other recordings of “The Ellan Vannin Tragedy” on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ellan+Vannin++tragedy
SS Ellan Vannin from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ellan_Vannin_(1883)
Link to earlier post ELLEN VANNIN from Tattie Bogle

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Dec 22 - 07:34 AM

CHRISTMAS IS COMING, THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT

Christmas Is Coming the Goose Is Getting Fat - Boogertown Gap    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3sICMeiZk
Various other recordings of ” Christmas Is Coming the Goose Is Getting Fat” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Christmas+Is+Coming+the+Goose+Is+Getting+Fat++

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Dec 22 - 01:26 PM

WHEN GRANDPA PLAYED THE BANJO
”When Grandpa Played the Banjo” recording and lyrics from Bandcamp    https://davetaylor1.bandcamp.com/track/when-grandpa-played-the-banjo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Dec 22 - 06:52 AM

THE BALLAD OF THE CARPENTER
by Ewan MacColl

Jesus was a working man, a hero as you shall hear
Born in the slums of Bethlehem at the turning of the year,
Yes, the turning of the year.

Many recordings of” Ballad Of The Carpenter “ on YouTube    https://www.google.com/search?q=THE+BALLAD+OF+THE+CARPENTER+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&oq=THE+BALLAD+OF+THE+CARPENTER++
   Information about the song from Rise Up Singing     https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/ballad-carpenter

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 04:25 AM

A CHRISTMAS CAROL byTom Lehrer
A Christmas Carol -Tom Lehrer     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 12:17 PM

CHRISTMAS, MY ARSE  by Ricky Tomlinson    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSDn6o2RN4A

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 05:53 PM

THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE
The Christmas Goose, recording by Will Noble and information from The Yorkshire Garland    http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=40
The Christmas Goose · Kate Rusby     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGJI2ftqi88

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 01:56 PM

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
Many and various recordings of “The 12 Days of Christmas” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=12+Days+of+Christmas
THE EIGHT DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - Destiny's Child   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdndMXIVXw

TWELVE DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS
"Twelve Days After Christmas" - Gay Men's Chorus    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MgmT5pH5bc
Many other recordings of "Twelve Days After Christmas" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Twelve+Days+After+Christmas%22

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 02:14 PM

BBC Sounds In Tune 22 days left to listen; Folk duo Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones perform their new single - traditional Yorkshire Christmas song   EARLY PEARLY - in the studio.
Tracklist;
(1 John Foster; While shepherds watched their flocks by night)
10 Trad. The Grey Goose and Gander
14 Trad. Early Pearly
17 Trad. The Christmas Goose

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Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones sing Early Pearly on Folk Radio        https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2022/12/bryony-griffith-alice-jones-early-pearly/
Margaret Gardham sings “ Early Pearly “ on The Yorkshire Garland    https://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=126

Link to THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE posted above
BBC Radio 3 Sounds, In Tune    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fx2g

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 12:08 PM

SUDDENLY IT’S CHRISTMAS - Loudon Wainwright III     https://youtu.be/ew6rVcL3Up8

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:09 PM

RUN, RUN RUDOLPH  -   Chuck Berry
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqVtqbzTdVs
Run Run Rudolph - Foo Fighters     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nun2eNYeaQ

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:20 PM

SONGS ABOUT THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER

19 December 1981 The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred off the coast of Cornwall, England.

Penlee lifeboat disaster from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_lifeboat_disaster

SOLOMON BROWNE- Seth Lakeman     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCf-Esfjb8
THE BALLAD OF SOLOMON BROWNE  -   Simon King     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfN4QzViBc
THE BALLAD OF PENLEE  -   Anthony Phillips     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtn4Yw7oe7U
THE SOLOMON BROWNE  -   Paul Sirman     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlR5RAc9LYs
THE SOLOMON BROWNE  -   Hughie Jones     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZ25s1pPiM
THE BALLAD OF LIFEBOAT 54  -   Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f5jLqY3SA
PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER  -   (Gil Boyd) performed by Piers Mortimer     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWK-07X-Ik <BR>
THE LIFEBOAT SONG, SOLOMON BROWN PENLEE LIFEBOAT   -   by Russ Holland    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTr41HTpx0k
PENLEE   -   Lyn Edmonds     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkDAyKzcMR0
DON’T TAKE THE HEROES -  Kimber's Men     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOfMMrr_IQ
THE LAST WAVE -   Bates Motel     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMYNBLtpWiA
THE BOYS OF PENLEE -   Jim Wearne     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vLSay95mY
THE BOYS OF PENLEE -   Stephen Richard     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSIiaezDCl4

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 05:02 AM

SANTA CLAUS  by Bo Diddley     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD2baClJefg

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 09:05 AM

THE SEASON’S UPON US
Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 12:57 PM

RIVER
by Joni Mitchell

River

It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer, And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river, I could skate away on

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 07:42 PM

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Christmas Morning - Loudon Wainwright III    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pgzRPPuQis

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,Kristoffer Ross
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 09:59 PM

Depending upon which version one sings, THE OLD SUNDAY DINNER describes the eponymous meal as "the peace and goodwill in the month of December"
The Old Sunday Dinner
I included an unaccompanied version of it in a yuletide show last year.

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Charlie McGonigle (James Eoghain), singing " The Old Sunday Dinner" on ITMA plus information     https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/old_sunday_dinner_charlie_mcgonigle_james_eoghain
MUDCAT Origins: Ye Old Sunday Dinner    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=144188
Other recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Old+Sunday+Dinner

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Dec 22 - 05:19 AM

THE CHRISTMAS HARE  by The Druids     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmd0fQyQEY
Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham sing Roger Watson's song The Christmas Hare.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yweR7_z3Rdw
MUDCAT Lyr ADD: The Christmas Hare (Roger Watson) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=63106&messages=9#reply

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 06:43 AM

TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Shall_Be_My_Dancing_Day
Various recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tomorrow+Shall+Be+My+Dancing+Day

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 09:08 AM

WREN DAY SONGS
26 December Saint Stephen's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Stephen and Wren Day
Saint Stephen's Day from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day

”Saint Stephen, God's Knight (I shall you tell this ylke night)” from The Ballad Index     http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/MSSSGK.html
Saint Stephen and Herod [Child 22] from The Ballad Index     http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/C022.html

26th December Wren Day
Wren Day, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren_Day

The Wren Boys Song · Ian Giles    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZMCAilzCYU
The Wren In The Furze · The Chieftains · Kevin Conneff · The Voice Squad    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-IXsN0ZldQ
The Wren, The Wren - Lisa O'Neill     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9xBVrMm_o

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 09:33 AM

THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL
Mudcat: Wife of Usher’s Well     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=20497

It was very close to Christmas time;
The nights was long and cold.
And the very next morning at the break of day
Them babes come a-running home.

The Wife of Usher's Well (Child 79) - Hedy West    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fmn8dCpLrug
Various other recordings of The Wife of Usher’s Well on Youtube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Wife+Of+Ushers+Well
N.B.This song is also located at Martinmas (November) in some versions

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 04:57 AM

THE FAIRY ON THECHRISTMAS TREE
The Fairy On The Christmas Tree -Gracie Fields     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMAzEr5mmu4

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 12:59 PM

THE REDNECK REINDEER
Joe Diffie - Leroy The Redneck Reindeer    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdnYAkqSes

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 01:04 PM

THE COWBOY CAROL
Many Recordings of “ The Cowboy Carol” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cowboy+Carol

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 22 - 03:19 AM

31 December 1942 The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement between warships of the German Navy and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR.

SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA
Battle of the Barents Sea From Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Barents_Sea
23rd Flotilla from The Ballad Index     http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Hopk112.html
THE 23RD FLOTILLA sung on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9IAJhLjH4
Russian Convoy Escort's Song from The Ballad Index     http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Tawn068.html
THE KOLA RUN from The Ballad Index     http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/PsSea152.html

The Battle of Barents Sea oral documentary from World War II Chronicles     https://soundcloud.com/wwiichronicles?platform=hootsuite

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 22 - 09:36 AM

THREE WISE WOMEN by Stanley Accrington     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSwhPIPy2E
Jolly Jock sings "3 wise women" by Stanley Accrington     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Rh-2JFplc


WISE WOMEN     by Marco Frankland
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFk9kFDLsk


THE THREE WISE WOMEN     by by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPauis-Dk8

THREE WISE WOMEN     by Lucinda Lucas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtaBnQEyVm4

THREE WISE WOMEN nbsp;   by Kate ?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgZyTP_s-0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 01:12 AM

31 December 1720: Charles Edward Stuart – Bonnie Prince Charlie, the “Young Pretender” – was born in Rome. As leader of the Scottish Jacobites, he attempted to depose George II, but was finally defeated at Culloden.

THE BLACKBIRD The first broadside versions of this song date to 1650, obviously referring to Charles II, who was then in exile. It wasn't safe to refer to him by name, so the allegorical "blackbird" was used. It seems also to have been used of James II, and perhaps also to his son James III. However, the title came to be most strongly associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie.

After the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the same situation arose as in 1650. It was generally not safe to speak of Charlie, so the Jacobites adopted various circumlocutions -- the "blackbird," the "moorhen," or simply "Somebody."

Moira Craig sang FLORA McDONALD’S LAMENT on her 2000 album On ae Bonny Day. She noted: The Steeleye Span version of this, PRINCE CHARLIE STUART, was one of the first songs I sang in public...it was only part of a Jacobite song Flora McDonald's Lament. It was found by John Moulden in the Kidson Collection in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, not far from where I first sang it.

BONNIE CHARLIE  aka WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?, is a Scots poem by Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), set to a traditional Scottish folk tune. Written well after the events it commemorates, it is not a genuine Jacobite song.

THE SKYE BOAT SONG tells the tale of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Prince Charles Edward Stuart and grandson of James II and VII of Scotland) and his flight from Benbecula to the Isle of Skye, following his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The words were written by an Englishman, Sir Harold Boulton, in the 1880s. He used a Gaelic song format, a rowing song called an iorram, and the tune is said to come from the Gaelic song Cuachan nan Craobh or The Cuckoo in the Grove.

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The Blackbird -Kenneth McKellar     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wl-DWKVXto
Flora MacDonald's Lament - Kenneth McKellar     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVyG3VM-UE
Prince Charlie Stuart -Steeleye Span     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWD7cBNOV44
Many recordings of “Will Ye No Come back Again?” on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Will+Ye+No+Come+back+Again%3F++song
Many recordings of “The Skye Boat Song” on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Skye+Boat+Song

Link to JACOBITE SONGS posted above

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 11:45 AM

THE LOSS OF THE SAILOR’S HOME

31 December, 1890 The Sailor's Home was wrecked near St Pierre & Miquelon carrying coal from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Fortune, Newfoundland.

Loss of the Sailor's Home from The Ballad Index    https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Pea960.html

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 23 - 12:16 PM

SANTA NEVER BRINGS ME A BANJO
Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo · Kate Rusby     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coDfMgwu3HI

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 06:47 AM

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY
Many Recordings of “ The Little Drummer Boy” on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Little+Drummer+Boy
Little Drummer Boy  -  The Priests with Shane MacGowan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC191TMNBqc

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 04:31 PM

6 December Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, is observed on 5 December or on 6 December in Western Christian countries, and on 19 December in Eastern Christian countries using the old church Calendar.

PERSONENT HODIE

Saint Nicholas Day from Wikipedia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas_Day
Personent hodie from Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personent_hodie
Personent hodie from Classic fm    https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/first-santa-song/
Intonent hodie voces ecclesiae- Anonymous 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJSUDI0f880

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Jan 23 - 07:23 AM

   
MISS FOGARTY’SCHRISTMAS CAKE -   The Irish Rovers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8SfdNBUWVk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Jan 23 - 05:33 PM

8 December 1914. Battle of the Falkland Islands.

BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS

Battle of the Falkland islands from The Ballad Index    http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Tawn059.html
Information and some lyrics from "Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970" By Cyril Tawney (scroll down a little)    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r01ACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&lpg=PT102&dq=%22One+day+at+Port+Stanley+The+lookout+man+did+see+Some+s

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jan 23 - 07:02 PM

       KWANZAA SONGS

    26  December to 1 January Kwanzaa , an annual celebration of African-American culture

Kwanzaa from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa

A Kwanzaa Song - Lovely Hoffman    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2T3zRfIRc
Happy Kwanzaa Song - Fanoko Singers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPR7jsc6JRw
It's Kwanzaa Time - Steve Cobb, Chavunduka     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxp6WIYSRDI
O Kwanzaa - Karen Dubiner    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dE5ECe2_E

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 08 Jan 23 - 09:40 AM

GOOD KING WENSLASLAS LOOKED OUT

MUDCAT Origins: Good King Wenceslas     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=161099&messages=20
Good King Wenceslas from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas, The Irish Rovers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-b4bo4YOvQ
Good King Wenceslas - The Beatles -     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXXAQ8eeiQY
Good King Wenceslas - Loreena McKennitt     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL_GSs6wkdg

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 08 Jan 23 - 08:00 PM

LAST HANGING IN WEST VIRGINIA 16 December 1897
a real event commemorated in a song by T. Hall, recorded by Flatt and Scruggs. The December date is mentioned at the end of the song.
I posted the lyrics and links to youtube today in a long Mudcat discussion thread Songs about capital punishment

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The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia - Flatt & Scruggs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFjDC4EvVdg

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Jan 23 - 06:05 AM

SONGS SUNG BY WILL FYFFE     14 December 1947. Death of Will Fyffe, Scottish music hall and performing artist.

Will Fyffe from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Fyffe

Will Fyffe - 16 recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m096Io6nzF98D06F4tRW3sRsC54iVSDZA
1. I Belong to Glasgow2.I'm the Landlord of the Inn at Aberfoyle3.Ye Can Come and See the Baby 4.The Engineer 5.A'm Fear'd for Mrs. McKie
6.The Spirit of a Man from Aberdeen 7.The Waddin' o' Mary Maclean 8.The Train That's Taking You Home 9.I'm 94 Today
10.He's Been on the Bottle Since a Baby 11.The Railway Guard 12.Uncle Mac 13.The Skipper of the Mercantile Marine
14. Corporall McDougal 15.It Isn't the Hen 16.Sailing up the Clyde

MUDCAT Lyr Add: Music-hall songs sung by Will Fyffe    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=140776&messages=22#top

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Feb 23 - 05:59 PM

OH, CALIFORNIA

It could be the Christmas season
Why I want to get away
And just lately for no reason
I've been thinking of LA

Oh, California - a balladeer   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3z4zXC9jQM

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Feb 23 - 05:55 AM

THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS
Thank God It's Christmas - Queen     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V5mtUff6ik

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Monique
Date: 15 Feb 23 - 07:17 AM

EL DESEMBRE CONGELAT (Catalan)

El desembre congelat
confús es retira.
Abril, de flors coronat,
tot el món admira.
Quan en un jardí d'amor
neix una divina flor,
d'una ro, ro, ro,
d'una sa, sa, sa,
d'una ro, d'una sa,
d'una rosa bella,
fecunda i poncella.

El primer pare causà
la nit tenebrosa
que a tot el món ofuscà
la vista penosa;
mes, en una mitjanit,
brilla el sol que n'és eixit
d'una be, be, be,
d'una lla, lla, lla,
d'una be, d'una lla,
d'una bella aurora
que el cel enamora.

El mes de maig ha florit,
sense ser encara,
un lliri blanc tot polit
de fragància rara,
que per tot el món se sent,
de Llevant fins a Ponent,
tota sa, sa, sa,
tota dul, dul, dul,
tota sa, tota dul,
tota sa dulçura
i olor, amb ventura.

Arribaren els tres reis
amb molta alegria,
adorant el rei del cel
en una establia.
Oferint-li tres presents,
com són or, mirra i encens.
A la Ma, Ma, Ma,
a la re, re, re,
a la Ma, a la re,
a la Mare pia,
la Verge Maria.

Amb contentament i amor
celebrem el dia,
en què el diví Senyor
neix amb alegria.
Si no tenim més tresor
oferim-li nostre cor,
que és la gran, gran, gran
que és la fi, fi, fi
que és la gran, que és la fi,
que és la gran finesa
de nostra pobresa.

FROZEN DECEMBER

Frozen December,
Sorry, withdraws.
The whole world admires
April, crowned with flowers,
When in a garden of love
A divine flower is born,
Of a ro-, ro-, ro-,
Of a -se, -se, -se,
Of a ro-, of a -se,
Of a beautiful rose,
Fecund and virgin.

The first father caused
The dark night
That overshadowed the painful sight
Of the whole world;
But, one midnight,
The sun shines that came out
Of a beauti-, beauti-, beauti-,
Of a -ful, -ful, -ful,
Of a beauti-, of a -ful,
Of a beautiful dawn
That the sky falls in love with.

The month of May has blossomed,
Without being yet
A white lily all well groomed
With a rare fragrance,
That can be felt throughout the world,
From the East to the West,
All its, its, its,
All sweet-, sweet-, sweet-,
All its, all sweet-,
All its sweetness
And smell, hopefully.

The three kings arrived
With great joy,
Worshiping the king of heaven
In a cowshed
Offering him three presents,
Such as gold, myrrh, and frankincense.
To the Mo-, Mo-, Mo-,
To the -ther, -ther, -ther,
To the Mo-, to the -ther,
To the pious Mother,
the Virgin Mary.

With joy and love
Let's celebrate the day
In which the divine Lord
Was born with joy
If we have no other treasure
Let's give him our hearts,
Which is the great, great, great,
That's the re-, re-, re-
Which is the great, which is the re-,
Which is the great refinement
Of our poverty.

Live rendition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fe8xEmM71o
El desembre congelat YT page (different versions)

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Feb 23 - 08:35 AM

A VINT-I- CINC DE DESEMBRE aka FUM FUM FUM

Fum, fum, fum from Mama Lisa’s World https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=622&c=45
“Fum,Fum,Fum"from Wikipedia     https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fum,_Fum,_Fum
Fum,Fum,Fum - Musica Nostra Canta Nadal    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2opnMO4BzRk
Many other recordings of “ Fum, Fum, Fum on YouTube    https:https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=FUM+FUM+FUM+

Thanks to Monique for this suggestion and for the following addition

---

Verse on the Wiki page not on MLW and with no translation:

Qui dirà més gran mentida?
Fum, fum, fum
Ja respon el majoral
amb gran cabal, amb gran cabal;
jo en faré deu mil camades
d'un sol bot totes plegades.
Fum, fum, fum

Who will tell the biggest lie?
Fum, fum, fum
The head-shepherd at once answers
with great strength, with great strength;
I will make ten thousand strides
All in one jump.
Fum, fum, fum

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Feb 23 - 07:00 AM

YOUNG FREEDA BOLT
December 14, 1929 Freeda Bolt, from Floyd County, Virginia was murdered.

Various recordings of ” Young Freda Bolt “ on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Young+Freda+Bolt++song
Freeda Bolt from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeda_Bolt
“ Young Freda Bolt“: Lyrics from Bluegrass Lyrics.com     https://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/song/young-freda-bolt/
The Story of Freeda Bolt - Floyd County Ramblers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXwk5zGtRY

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Mar 23 - 07:04 AM

STAGGER LEE
Christmas night 1895 In St. Louis, Missouri, Lee Shelton, nicknamed Stag Lee or Stack Lee, shot and killed his acquaintance William "Billy" Lyons in a bar room dispute about a hat.

A Christmas Killing: Stagger Lee By Paul Slade     http://www.planetslade.com/stagger-lee1.html
Stagger Lee from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee
Various recordings of ” Stagger Lee” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Stagger+Lee

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 04:52 AM

WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS  by The Wombles     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhVkWNHaU4

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 09:27 AM

SONGS ABOUT THE CONCERTINA
19 December 1829  British Patent No. 5803, for the first English Concertina, was submitted by Charles Wheatstone.

The patent document from Concertina Library Digital Reference Collection for Concertinas   aka  http://www.concertina.com/patents/#wheatstone-patent-1829
MUDCAT: The Concertina Song     thread.cfm?threadid=170923

I PLAYED MY CONCERTINA   -   Arthur Osmond     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12JP1CdwD0
PALESTEENA     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzJRJPQlI8
Other recordings of “Palesteena “ on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Palesteena+song
Music and lyrics to Dave Goulder's CONCERTINA CONSCIOUSNESS on The Concertina Newsletter No 23 Pages 11 & 12     http://www.concertinamuseum.com/FreeReed/FR23.pdf
POPPA PICCOLINO   - Petula Clark     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cMFkd5AaUQ
Many more recordings of Poppa Piccolino on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=poppa+piccolino+song
CONCERTINA   by Tori Amos       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqLR7pbYRcc
Concertina (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina_(song)
ON MY LITTLE CONCERTINA   - Ian Page     -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMjc1seanSI
THE CONCERTINA MAN  - Paul O' Reilly     -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4QthgQRRsk
CONCERTINA MAN   - Ray Bradfield     -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02QmwjY0gwk
SIGNORINA CONCERTINA   -   Shuki & Aviva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gdnkgkSPg
DON’T PLAY ME YOUR CONCERTINA, written by Les Barker   - sung by Hilary Spencer with Mrs Ackroyd Band   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZA54vn5iY
MUDCAT: Lyr Req: Don't Play Me Your Concertina (Les Barker)   -   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=157543
CONCERTINA CHAOS SONG     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGt-Y2_FIRU
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A CONCERTINA     D Street Band     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sd-4pGuByw
All I Want For Christmas is a Concertina - Kat Vilardi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qhT9a_BBYU
Songs About Concertinas from Concertina.net  -   https://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?/topic/762-songs-about-concertinas/page/3/
IF ONLY I COULD PLAY A CONCERTINA - Dick Rogers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FGZkITHHKw

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 06:09 PM

THE CONCERTINA MAN  written by Alan Bell  
Mudcat: Lyr Req: The Concertina Man (Alan Bell)   -   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72157 But I cannot find an on-line recording of it yet.??

CONCERTINA CONSCIOUSNESS
Music and lyrics to Dave Goulder’s “Concertina Consciousness” are here on The Concertina Newsletter No 23 Pages 11 & 12     http://www.concertinamuseum.com/FreeReed/FR23.pdf

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 07:15 PM

SONGS OF THE BUSH    by Chloe and Jason Roweth
Thanks to GerryM for his PM Message suggesting this song.He told me
Chloe and Jason Roweth, Songs of the Bush has the chorus,

I never learned how to play concertina,
Happy enough with my foot keeping time,
Somewhere I guess I just took it for granted;
The songs of the bush would still be there next time...

Click on track 2 to listen to the song https://www.rowethmusic.com.au/copy-of-wailing-bizarre-1

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Nov 23 - 07:54 PM

BACK TO DECEMBER  -   Taylor Swift     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwxKWT6m7U

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,Rob Mad Jock Wright
Date: 30 Nov 23 - 08:55 AM

A must listen to track is Angie Wright version of GAUDETTE which is on her C D Captive Heart and is available on Spotify.
It is a modern parody which sums up what many of us go through at this time of year.

20% of all Angies appearance fees and sales o towards the Scottish Mental Health Charity SAMH.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 23 - 02:14 PM

MERRY CHRISTMAS, I DON’T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT
Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) - Ramones     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIhIBFPtnoc

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 23 - 02:19 PM

MERRY CHRISTMAS, DARLING   - The Carpenters    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1ujXx2p-I

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Dec 23 - 11:43 PM

2 December; On this day in 1814, the Marquis de Sade, the French aristocrat whose perverted lifestyle gave the word sadism to the language, died in an asylum.

The play by Peter Weiss titled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade, or Marat/Sade for short, is a fictional account of Sade directing a play in Charenton, where he was confined for many years.

Judy Collins sings MARAT/SADE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvW2v9dUjI8 Judy Collins

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 08:50 AM

December 06, 1928 . The Banana Massacre was a massacre of United Fruit Company workers that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia. The event inspired Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori's song Ninetto e la colonia.

SONGS ABOUT THE BANANA MASSACRE 1928
NINETTO E LA COLONIA  -  Francesco De Gregori    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrIZjQ4Mk4M
COLUMBIA THE GREAT BANANA MASSACRE 1928  -   Recording & lyrics - Tim Hughes    https://scatcat.bandcamp.com/track/columbia-the-great-banana-massacre-1928
Banana Massacre from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 10:09 AM

On the 4 December 1903, Ralph Vaughan Williams heard his first folk singer. He borrowed a bicycle and cycled from Brentwood to the home of Charles Potipher in near-by Ingrave. The first song Mr Potipher, standing on his doorstep, sang was BUSHES AND BRIARS. Lady Ursula Vaughan Williams said, "He felt it was something he had known all his life."

Far From the Madding Crowd

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 12:05 PM

On the 4 December 1903, Ralph Vaughan Williams heard Charles Potipher of Ingrave, Essex, sing ‘Bushes and Briars’, and his life changed. Around forty ‘Vaughan Williams’s Journey into Folk’ posts by Caroline Davidson are still available. If you enjoyed travelling with him last time, you might like to revisit his journey, starting from today.

https://carolinedavison.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=email

And The Captain's Apprentice by Caroline Davidson is now available in paperback.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 06:37 PM

6 December 2023 Truro Primestock Show    https://www.truroprimestockshow.co.uk/

TRURO AGRICULTURAL SHOW   -  Ian Marshall     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ykqQcSo8Ew
Truro Agricultural Show - Andy Roberts – Haverfolk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLswhFtflE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Dec 23 - 06:32 PM

December 12th 1866 The Oaks Pit Explosion, the worst mining disaster in England, occurred near Stairfoot in Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire killing 361 miners and rescuers.
Oaks Explosion from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_explosion#:~:text=The%20Oaks%20explosion%2C%20which%20happened,worst%20mining%20disaster%20in

THE OAKS PIT DISASTER Sung by Keith Tomlinson on the Yorkshire Garland site https://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=130
To the Oaks Pit near Barnsley on the 12th of December
About four hundred colliers to work they did go,
In health and in strength upon that fatal morning,
Not thinking of danger they descended below.


THE OAKS PIT DISASTER   - Del Scott Miller       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXNJ5Uy-zM

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 09:32 AM

MORE WASSAIL SONGS
THE WASSAIL CUP CAROL - John Kirkpatrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWT9ROFjWMU

THE KENTUCKY WASSAIL   -   The Revels Chorus     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU55Q9zd9dY

THE TRUNCH WASSAIL SONG   -   The Kipper Family     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reiXwyUm0lM
Mudcat DT Lyrics:The Trunch Wassail /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7074



Link to Mudcat post above WASSAIL SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Dec 23 - 10:04 AM

GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER  - Various recordings https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=grandma+got+run+over+by+a+reindeer+song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Dec 23 - 11:54 AM

SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS PUDDING
CHRISTMAS PUDDING   -  (Willcocks) SA [Full Performance]    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad7OnuT15pA
CHRISTMAS PUDDING SONG   -  Postman Pat · Bryan Daly · Ken Barrie    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSEIfM3FT_c
ODE BY A CHRISTMAS PUDDING AT SEA     Information and Lyrics from Peter Marquis-Kyle     https://www.marquis-kyle.com.au/mt/002079.php
FIGGY PUDDING  -  by Ruth Morris Gray     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvpafsXgTIk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Dec 23 - 04:22 AM

GIFT CARD   -  The Snake Oil Willie Band    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iZZkt_XXtMo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Dec 23 - 03:52 AM

21 December 1910 The Pretoria Pit Disaster was a mining accident . Three hundred and forty four men and boys lost their lives in an underground explosion at the Hulton Colliery Bank Pit No. 3, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, Lancashire, England.

THE PRETORIA PIT DISASTER  -  Houghton Weavers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPu-g-lcXM4
Pretoria Pit disaster from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria_Pit_disaster

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Dec 23 - 11:44 AM

SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS TREES
O CHRISTMAS TREE   Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+O+Christmas+Tree
O TANNENBAUM    Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=O+Tannenbaum
ROCKING AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE     Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rockin%27+Around+the+Christmas+Tree
THE HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS TREE    Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CThe+Happiest+Christmas+Tree%E2%80%9D
THE CHRISTMAS TREE SONG   -  A.J. Jenkins     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfuTBGaEQ-E&list=RDnfuTBGaEQ-E&start_radio=1
CHRISTMAS TREE FARM -   Taylor Swift     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3rDTAdM2o
”Christmas Tree Farm" from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_Farm

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: Pappy Fiddle
Date: 14 Dec 23 - 06:21 PM

I created a Christmas song, THAT CHRISTMAS MOOD , and posted it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSG-SwFrDgo I think it's a very good song. It's had over 100 views! in two years.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Dec 23 - 05:23 PM

SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS DINNER
CHRISTMAS DINNER -   Peter, Paul & Mary    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfEpCQKsyc&t=12s
CHRISTMAS DINNER   -  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3eCD3L8vo
CHRISTMAS DINNER COUNTRY STYLE   -  Bing Crosby    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aBVMIQkpp2w
THE TURKEY SONG     (I've Been Invited for Christmas)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUXr-9qDEAA&t=18s

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 11:59 AM

18 December     International Migrants Day.
Information from UN site     https://www.un.org/en/observances/migrants-day

SONGS ABOUT MIGRANTS
DEPORTEE (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)        Many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Deportee+(Plane+Wreck+at+Los+Gatos
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos)
REFUGEE -   Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbWDV72oQlo&t=7s
IMMIGRANT’S SONG  -  Keith & Kristyn Getty ft. Jordyn Shellhart    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBoZwm0m6oQ
HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVING(Unless You Migrate Too)  -   Ry Cooder     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s89wz8BjXvw
IMMIGRATION BLUES  -   Chris Rea     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrV50AQvYw&t=34s
EMIGRÉ -   Alela Diane    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWAC-PmEVo&t=168s
AS I GO RAMBLING ROUND   -  (Woody Guthrie)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf772d9mR-g
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS -   Jimmy Cliff    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjW5f7i5EwE&t=3s
LIVING IN THE PROMISELAND    Willie Nelson    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6lxpt8lzbo&list=PLk6n90VAXJUafo0LH0E6jnlVNAHL6U2a0&index=53

Link to post SONGS FOR WORLD REFUGEE DAY in Mudcat Tread Any June Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#worldrefugeeday:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20June%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20Geof
Link to post below LADY OF THE HARBOR

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Dec 23 - 04:42 AM

Thanks to GerryM for sending the following suggestions in a Mudcat PM
PASTURES OF PLENTY -   Woody Guthrie     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pastures+of+Plenty+-+Woody+Guthrie
BRACERO   -  Phil Ochs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmNDZNmxIk
EMIGRANT EYES (Immigrant Eyes)  -   Guy Clark     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBMqZ7xa1ZU
Various other recordings of the song     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Emmigrant+Eyes+

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 04:02 AM

Just a reminder.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Geoff Lawes Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:20 PM

19 December 1981 The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred off the coast of Cornwall, England.

Link to post above SONGS ABOUT THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 11:19 AM

19 December 1907 239 workers died in the Darr Mine Disaster, the worst coal mining disaster in Pennsylvanian history.

THE BALLAD OF DARR MINE  -  Jason Hegedus     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VfjYUklxW4
Monument to the Darr Mine Disaster    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darr_Mine_Disaster_Memorial.jpg
Darr Mine disaster from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darr_Mine_disaster

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 11:46 AM

FELIZ NAVIDAD Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Feliz+Navidad

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Dec 23 - 05:32 AM

I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY  -   Wizzard     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA&list=RDIJPc7esgvsA&start_radio=1

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Dec 23 - 09:08 AM

THE KILMORE CAROLS
Kilmore Carols from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmore_Carols
Ancient Christmas Carols in the Yola language, Co. Wexford, Ireland    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgcFP5Cf2E
Song for the Twelfth Day: The Kilmore Carol    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mMEgdYpTxk
Caroling tradition from rural Wexford    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV52t75mxWQ
The Kilmore Carol -The Voice Squad     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiTk_kZN-qM

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 23 - 11:29 AM

SHOTGUN SHELLS ON A CHRISTMAS TREE - Robin and Linda Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpzSWAg-HDg
Mudcat Thread, Lyr Req: Shotgun Shells on a Christmas Tree /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=87182

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 09:38 AM

7 December 1549 Jack Kett leader of the Kett Rebellion in Norfolk was hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle

SONGS ABOUT JACK KETT AND KETT’S REBELLION OF 1549


RISE UP !  -   The Demon Barbers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94q5UOombDQ
KETT’S REBELLION   -  Hard to Port     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_en2Xu0ixU
REBELLION !  -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPEAKg27-8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPEAKg27-8k
Kett's Rebellion from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett%27s_Rebellion

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 02:34 PM

NO CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY  -  Phil Ochs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7E69Do9dv0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 04:45 PM

CAPTAIN JOHNSON’S LAST FAREWELL

23th. December, 1690 Capt. Johnson executed at Tyburn for abduction of a young heiress

Capt. Johnsons last Farewel from Execution Ballads     https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/1209

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 04:33 AM

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Yourself_a_Merry_Little_Christmas
MUDCAT: Origins: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171966&messages=9
Many recordings of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas " on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Have+Yourself+A+Merry+Little+Christmas

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 06:48 AM

’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS  Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Twas+the+Night+Before+Christmas+Song.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 10:07 AM

CHRISTMAS TIME
Christmas Time - Smashing Pumpkins     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmFeg2e5GzI

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 10:20 AM

CHRISTMAS IN NO MAN’S LAND  -  Maggie Boyle     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGNd-N2rw00&list=OLAK5uy_men4VWxn78KN8JCWU37NHB1sCDT6UBZoQ&index=51

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 10:44 AM

Friday 22 December 2023 the longest night of the year

THE HALSWAY CAROL  -   Jackie Oates     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpwwO2kJOlg
Lyrics by Iain Frisk, tune by Nigel Eaton     http://www.towncommonsongs.org/songs/halswaycarol.html
The Halsway Carol by Iain frisk (lyrics) and Nigel Eaton (music) sung by Julie Murphy and played by Nigel Eaton    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siI5kX-iUmk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 04:14 AM

IN DULCI JUBILO   -  Maddy Prior     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7liENnrIA
Various recordings of “In Dulci Jubilo “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=in+dulci+jubilo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 09:16 AM

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK  -  The Pogues|Kirsty MacColl     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN4EXhBR8
Fairytale of New York from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairytale_of_New_York
Lyrics from Kirsty MacColl website https://www.kirstymaccoll.com/songs/other-peoples-songs/fairytale-of-new-york/
Fairytale of New York: the story behind the Pogues' classic Christmas anthem, from The Guardian     https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/06/fairytale-new-york-pogues-christmas-anthem

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 09:52 AM

SUSSEX CAROL   (On Christmas Night)  -  Various recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=On+Christmas+Night+(Sussex+Carol )
Sussex Carol from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Carol#

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 12:13 PM

THE ANGEL GABRIEL FROM HEAVEN CAME   Various recordings    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=THE+ANGEL+GABRIEL+FROM+HEAVEN+CAME
”Gabriel's Message” from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Message

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 12:17 PM

THE STANDING STONES Dave and Toni Arthur     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoYWEi7TFbk

One bonny moonlight Christmas Eve
They met at the sad place.
With heart of glee and the beams of love
Were shining on her face.

STANDING STONES  -   Loreena McKennitt     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OexEDXBW4-4

STANDING STONES OF ORKNEY Quadriga Consort     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RioWx6QxEFQ

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 06:05 PM

I AM CHRISTMAS

I am Christmas   -  John Conolly     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETCZR5HySkQ

I Am Christmas  -   Kate Rusby    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGwVWdBFdVs

Sheffield Folk Chorale   -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBARewAeMc
   
The V&A Ensemble.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ml6VGibSE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 08:33 AM

COVENTRY CAROL (LULLY LULA) various recordings https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Coventry+Carol+
Coventry Carol from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Carol
LULLE LULLAY -   John Jacob Niles     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOSbgcYHJt0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 08:40 AM

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES  -  Alabama Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2XD1A7HG9E MUDCAT Thread, Lyr Add: Christmas Memories    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172934&messages=1 CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

WHEN SANTA GOT STUCK UP THE CHIMNEY  -  Various recordings
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=When+Santa+Got+Stuck+Up+the+Chimney+song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 10:03 AM

THE CREMATION OF SAM McGEE   -  Ed Mathis     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwPyu9FTAU

On a Christmas day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.

Various other recordings of “The Cremation of Sam Mcgee” on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+cremation+of+sam+mcgee+l
The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service from The Poetry Foundation    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 08:47 AM

2000 Miles
I can hear people singing
It must be Christmas time
I hear people singing
It must be Christmas time

Pretenders - 2000 Miles    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyGZlBdkaA

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 10:28 AM

THE WASSAIL OF FIGGY DUFF  -  Ayrshire Voices     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmvisa2lN5A
Link to Mudcat post above WASSAIL SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 10:33 AM

THE SANS DAY CAROL (The Holly Bears a Berry)
Many recordings of “ The Sans Day Carol “ on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Sans+Day+Carol
Sans Day Carol from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_Day_Carol

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 11:00 AM

UN FLAMBEAU,JEANETTE ISABELLA  -  Diane Taraz     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-qFn48d9s
Link to post above BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 06:40 AM

Many recordings of I’M THE MAN WHO SLITS THE TURKEYS’ THROATS AT CHRISTMAS     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I%27m+the+man+that+slits+the+Turkeys+throats+at+Christmas

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 06:30 AM

Thanks to GerryM for a further song about migrants
LADY OF THE HARBOR  -  Si Kahn     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUDcc4p5YSk
Various other recordings on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=Lady+of+the+Harbor


Link to post above SONGS ABOUT MIGRANTS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 06:58 AM

HURON CAROL -   Prairie Rose Rangers   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTlU2jO9VZI
Many other recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Huron+Carol

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 01:22 PM

THE WEXFORD CAROL   AKA WEXFORD LULLABY Various recordings    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wexford+caro l

Mudcat DT Wexford Carol Lyrics    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7708#:~:text=WEXFORD%20LULLABY%0A(%20John%20Renbourn)
Mudcat, Lyr ADD: Wexford Carol    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=270&messages=22

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 06:23 PM

A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW  -  Alabama Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqL-Kv4T5WI&list=PLyBnvt-PVepluInXlt-igUQujzzzwmPn0&index=8

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:34 AM

IT ONLY SEEMS FIVE MINUTES SINCE LAST CHRISTMAS- Trouble at' Mill (Dixon/Dixon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PnorkJOAL0
It Only Seems Like Five Minutes Since Last Christmas by Colin C McDonald.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7redvsSaunw

SANTA CLAUS BOOGIE
The Santa Claus Boogie - The Tractors     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUrWFBfz3SM

I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL WITH SANTA CLAUS     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRAgXt0Nxo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:51 AM

LINK to Alphabetical Index of all the December songs above /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170618&messages=192#:~:text=INDEX%20OF%20DECEMBER%20SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 10:19 AM

LAST CHRISTMAS -   Wham     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5vC0Cxl44

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 10:39 AM

AULD LANG SYNE    Various recordings    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Auld+Lang+Syne
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE? -   The Carpenters     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sl1xhU7xpk
THE LAST NIGHT OF THE YEAR  -  Kantos Chamber Choir     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux4w-vw3acI

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 12:32 PM

The liner notes to Eileen McGann's recording of her song, SANDS, say, "Written on the beach, near midnight on New Year's Eve." There's a thread here, /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130078 with the subject, RE: ADD: Sands (Eileen McGann). The thread contains the full lyrics.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 11:21 AM

THE TAILOR’S BRITCHES aka THE BRISK YOUNG TAILOR

A dance one New Year’s evening the tailor did attend;
I’m sure that he would ne’er have gone if he could have seen the end.

The Tailor's Britches sung by John Greaves on The Yorkshire Garland. http://yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=49
Mudcat, Origins: Tailor's Britches (or breeches)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72395#top
Brisk Young Tailor   -  The Fianna Folk     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzlGKTiYW8
Music and Lyrics in Marrow Bones - English Folk Songs From The Hammond And Gardiner Mss. by Frank Purslow, fromGoogle Books    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Uld8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=the+briskyoung+tailor+english+folksong&source=bl&ots=E_E7
Mudcat DT, full Lyrics of "The Tailor's Breetches"    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7028

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Dec 24 - 08:31 AM

1 December 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers met to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.


HEY HEY, LBJ  - Bill Frederick   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_krQH_zZqE    

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Dec 24 - 08:01 AM

2 December 1982 The first permanent artificial heart was implanted in 61-year-old Barney C. Clark by Dr. William De Vries at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
The First Artificial Heart, 30 Years Later , article from the University of Utah    https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2012/12/first-artificial-heart-30-years-later

ARTIFICIAL HEART   - Jonathan Coulton       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDqtCiZJES8
ARTIFICIAL HEART   - Cherrelle       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NoVTIqkKzA
ARTIFICIAL HEART  - Various recordings on YouTube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Artificial+Heart%22+song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Dec 24 - 12:14 PM

2 December 1979 Iranian electors voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new constitution granting absolute power to Ayatollah Khomeini.

SONGS ABOUT AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
KHOMEINI EY EMAM     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxHwrytBMdk
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI   - John Valby       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7z0dPX_No

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Dec 24 - 05:44 AM

3 December 1854 The Battle of the Eureka Stockade was fought in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, between gold miners and the colonial forces of Australia.
Battle of the Eureka Stockade, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eureka_Stockade

SONGS ABOUT EURIKA STOCKADE
EUREKA(The Stockade Song)   - Buddy Williams       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG9-otc26Qw
BALLAD OF EURIKA   - Marg and Bob Fagan       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF-MxHO3mqI
BALLAD OF EURIKA STOCKADE  - Terry Bennetts       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6YuimiwLMk#:~:text=Ballad%20of%20the%20Eureka%20Stockade%20%2D%20Terry%20Bennetts%20%2D%20YouTu
BALLAD OF EURIKA STOCKADE by Lazy Harry     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFAL_l_sm98
SONG FOR EURIKA STOCKADE   - David Rovics       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laE0hOSMnoo
THE EUREKA STOCKADE SONG by Edwin Morris     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOYmpbcM74
EUREKA STOCKADE by Michael Leese     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8OD4QtTIXg
EUREKA STOCKADE by Jeff Bruce     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty16PZ11NZE
ANTHEM TO EURIKA STOCKADE         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QQK70omgpE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Dec 24 - 05:29 AM

4 December 1872 The American brigantine Mary Celeste was discovered drifting in the Atlantic, off the Azorean islands . Her crew was never found.
Mary Celeste, article from Wikipedia,     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

BALLAD OF THE MARY CELEST  - J.P. Cormier     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2MFZ-BcUs  
MARY CELEST by Eighthavenue    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqvfU6abKag
MARY CELEST from Summer's Songs and Stories     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUyIRBGjus0
MARY CELEST by David Stone   -       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0sz8KIbkIE

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Dec 24 - 06:30 AM

5 December 1784 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley died.
Phillis Wheatley, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley

A HYMN TO THE EVENING set to music     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjDhVuHIgAI
A HYMN TO THE MORNING  Clement Reid/Phillis Wheatley   - Jordan Wright, soprano; Jane Harty, piano      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk10tSTv_xI
A HYMN TO THE MORNING   Phillis Wheatley, music by Kelvyn Koning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkoLnmFBg18
AUSPICIOUS QUEEN   pop song from Phillis Wheatley poem       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6CxQO70rBk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Dec 24 - 06:51 PM

December 6, 1907 The Monongah Mining Disaster was a coal mine explosion at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia.
Monongah mining disaster , article from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongah_mining_disaster

MONAGAH MINE DISASTER  - Dan Cunningham       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK73xK0klC4
MONAGAH MINE   - AJ Lee & Blue Summit       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBEWe6w0RKg
THE MONAGAH DISASTER  - Ryan Taylor       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quRFsOIJEmk

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Dec 24 - 05:00 AM

11 December 1936 King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of England to marry American Wallis Simpson.
Abdication of Edward VIII, article from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication_of_Edward_VIII

LOVE,LOVE ALONE   - Harry Belafonte       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9-Fge-dp8
EDWARD VIII   - Lord Caresser       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-x1vRJ91AY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJrrAXrHts
Edward The VIII Lord Mouse And The Kalypso Katz    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJrrAXrHtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJrrAXrHts
KING EDWARD VII SCHOOL SONG    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIHiciIx-eY

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Link to Levana Taylor's post above EDWARD VIII [It Was Love, Love Alone]

Link to Index of Any December Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170618#4126401:~:text=From%3A%20Levana%20Taylor%20%2D%20PM%0ADate%3A%2016%20Nov%2021%20%2
Link to Index of Any January Songs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJrrAXrHts /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169254#4090567:~:text=below%20.%20Regards%2C%20GeoffLawes-,

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Dec 24 - 07:47 AM

In December 1903, Ralph Vaughan Williams began his collection of folk songs.

4 December 1903 Vaughan Williams collected nineteen songs in the village of Ingrave, near Brentwood, Essex, including six from Mr Potiphar, four from a Mrs Horsnell, and five from a Mr Bloomfield. The first of these was Bushes and Briars sung by 74-year-old labourer Charles Potiphar. Vaughan Williams proclaimed "I felt it was something I had known all my life".

7 December 1903 Vaughan Williams was clearly excited by his discovery of folk singers. Only three days after his visit to Ingrave, he arranged for Henry Burstow to travel the ten miles from Horsham to his home at Leith Hill Place, where he used a phonograph to record the old man singing at least eight songs. One of these was Basket of Eggs, also known as The Biter Bit. Burstow remembered ‘I was amazed beyond expression to hear my own songs thus repeated in my own voice.’

Late December 1903 Vaughan Williams was at his childhood home, Leith Hill Place, for the Christmas holidays when he set off on his bike ‘equipped with notebook and pencil’ to find songs ‘almost at his own doorstep’. Vaughan Williams didn’t note down the exact date when he heard ‘The Ploughboy’s Dream’ sung by Mr Garman, but it was probably sung a couple of days after Christmas when he collected further songs from another local resident near his home at Leith Hill Place, Surrey. In The English Hymnal, Vaughan Williams matched the tune, now familiar as Forest Green, with the words of a mid-19th century American poem, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’, written by Phillips Brooks, an Episcopalian preacher from New England.

‘The Poachers’ sung by Isaac Longhurst at Broadmoor, Surrey. Isaac Longhurst lived at Forest Green. Mr Garman lived at Ockley. Vaughan Williams probably got their home villages mixed up when he met the two men at Broadmoor on the day when Garman sang ‘The Ploughboy’s Dream'.

See Vaughan Williams's Journey into Folk by Caroline Davison https://carolinedavison.substack.com/ with links to recordings where you can hear her sing the first verse of a song from each of the forty days that Vaughan Williams collected them, between December 1903 and January 1905.

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BASKET OF EGGS   - Various recordings on YouTube      https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Basket+of+Eggs+song
THE PLOUGHBOY’S DREAM  Various recordings on YouTube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ploughboy%E2%80%99s+Dream%E2%80%99
TOWN OF BETHLEHEM  Various recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Town+of+Bethlehem%E2%80%99%2C  
O Little Town of Bethlehem,article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Little_Town_of_Bethlehem
Vaughan Williams's Journey into Folk by Caroline Davison    https://carolinedavison.substack.com/

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Dec 24 - 05:26 PM

11 December 1944 Birth of American singer Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee

ALL THE BRENDA LEE SONGS ON YOUTUBE     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=all+brenda+lee+songs
Mudcat thread, Happy 80th birthday BRENDA LEE    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173728&messages=5#reply

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Dec 24 - 06:57 PM

13 December 1862 The Battle of Fredericksburg , Virginia
Battle of Fredericksburg article , from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg

THE LAST FIERCE CHARGE AKA The Battle of Fredericksburg   Various recordings on YouTube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Last+Fierce+Charge
Audio recording of Ward H Ford, and song information about The Last Fierce Charge from Library of Congress    https://www.loc.gov/item/2017700924
Mudcat DT Lyrics The Last Fierce Charge     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6575
IRELAND BOYS HURRAH aka Song from the Backwoods   - Dermot Power       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0vrQFMoaQ
Song from the Backwoods  -  Bonnie Whitehurst · Brendan Nolan · Jimmy Crowley · Maírtín de Cógáin    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkfTyzjBqI
Recordings of Song of the Backwoods on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Song+of+the+Backwoods

Link to Levana Taylor’s post above THE LAST FIERCE CHARGE
Link to Levana Taylor’s post above IRELAND BOYS HURRAH

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Dec 24 - 09:50 AM

14th December 1861 Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria died.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT’S LOVE SONG     https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/horrible-histories-song-victoria-and-albert-love-song
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUFFING, ( Prince Albert Jingle)   -Ernest Tubb       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBzQVmM4Tw

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Dec 24 - 05:17 PM

15 December 1890 Sioux leader Sitting Bull was killed in a skirmish with U.S. soldiers along the Grand River in South Dakota as his warriors tried to prevent his arrest.

SITTING BULL MEMORIAL SONG   - Lakota Thunder       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwQFmTwbQpE
SONG OF SITTING BULL   - sung by Wahácha?ka-yapi       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wr_fztT4k
SITTING BULL IN VENICE   - Tom Russell       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aS2rHYJYQU

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 24 - 12:06 PM

16 December 1864 Battle of Nashville in the American Civil War.
Battle of Nashville, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nashville#:~:text=It%20was%20fought%20at%20Nashville,Thomas.

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE  - Doc Watson with Frosty Morn   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gylqAf2bbBw    
BATTLE OF NASHVILLE  - Lamar Hill       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGT8eViUKg
BATTLE OF NASHVILLE  Matthew McCartney -       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ZyMR0Dxv0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Dec 24 - 06:56 PM

16 December 1944 The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes Forest as the Germans launched a big counter-offensive.

PANZERLIED (Tankmen's Song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCjrZ4lF5I
Panzerlied, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerlied
BATTLE OF THE BULGE  - William Kennedy       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrIjr6Me650

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Dec 24 - 05:18 AM

16 December 1838 The Battle of Blood River when the Voortrekkers defeated the Zulu impis in South Africa.
Battle of Blood River, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blood_River#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Blood%20River,in%20their%20Republic%20of%20Natal

DIE GELOFTE    Various recordings on YouTube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Die+Gelofte%22
THE BLOOD RIVER MIRICAL  - John Edmond       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn69XRblHQs

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Dec 24 - 05:00 PM

17 December1895 The Anti-Saloon League of America was formed in Washington D.C.
Anti-Saloon League, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Saloon_League#:~:text=The%20Anti%2DSaloon%20League%2C%20now,Prohibition%20was%20repealed%20in

SONGS ABOUT PROHIBITION on YOUTUBE       https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjdzLbJeDxijwbTX6BoenTLSr6q0BPppM
AMERICAN MOONSHINE AND PROHIBITION SONGS   -   NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS (full album)     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJzSUzFtksdjYH2iY61htQwwNnZPuHbpm
TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION SONGS & HYMNS on YouTube)   - by Peter Tylor     &bsp; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT1O3SMLsQmWXXAHtZc3G1EoJhImgVJO4
Anti-Saloon League Song Book from Ohio Memory    https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll36/id/782
Convention song book of the Anti-Saloon League of America from Digital Library of Appalachia    https://dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/wvwc/id/436
Mudcat thread: Anti-alcohol, temperance songs /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=65565

Link To post above PROHIBITION SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Dec 24 - 06:28 AM

17 December 1955 Carl Perkins wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes.'
Blue Suede Shoes, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Suede_Shoes

BLUE SUEDE SHOES   - Carl Perkins       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvsYRAc-BWA
Other recordings of 'Blue Suede Shoes'on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Blue+Suede+Shoes

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Dec 24 - 11:02 AM

18 December 1833 The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", was first performed.
God Save the Tsar!, article from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Tsar!

GOD SAVE THE CZAR   Many recordings on YouTube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22God+Save+the+Tsar!%22%2C+

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Dec 24 - 06:57 PM

19 December 1942 Convicted murderer, Robert Stroud, was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, where he became known as " The Birdman of Alcatraz"
Robert Stroud, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stroud

BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ  - The Highwaymen       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RUfjr_aD-0

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Dec 24 - 09:01 AM

20 December 1955 Cardiff was proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom
Cardiff, article rom Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff

CARDIFF BAY   - Martyn Joseph       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9koRmCVxYk
DONKEY RIDING   - Brian Gulland · Robin Jeffrey · Tim Laycock       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2vRuNCbiwg
CARDIFF BUS SONG  - Clive Hewins       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfMgJ4gxzk
CARDIFF CITY FOOTBALL SONGS    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5H6FV3lGVcLv84pTz94VN4t0599I-z9

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 24 - 05:51 AM

21 December 1988 Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, because of a terrorist bombing.
Pan Am Flight 103, article rom Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

TIM BURMAN  - The Young'uns       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXAbEKwsrc
Tim Burman - the Young'uns (film about the song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrDRjihzgs8
THE SKY WEEPS STILL    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKduzKWwkg

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Dec 24 - 06:15 PM

21 December 1192 King Richard 1 of England was captured and imprisoned by Duke Leopold of Austria.

JA NUS HONS PRIS  Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ja+nuns+hons+pris+
Ja Nus Hons Pris by Richard the Lionheart from Songfacts     https://www.songfacts.com/facts/richard-the-lionheart/ja-nus-hons-pris
Article from Silence de Cherbourg”Translation: Ja Nus Hons Pris”     http://www.silencethebard.com/?page_id=34