Your most recent 10 songs

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: alanww
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 12:57 PM

These lists clearly depend on what sort of event(s) you are singing at and where you sing, ie UK/US/Oz etc. As I am UK based and my most recent singing was after a morris/mummers performance (rather than at a folk club) my list is:-

1 Ale, Ale, Glorious Ale

2 Clementine

3 Marching Through Rochester

4 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

5 South Australia

6 Parting Glass

7 Country Life

8 Wild Mountain Thyme

9 Sammy's Bar

10 Roll Alabama Roll

Most of my list have some bl**dy good choruses! "Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry ... "

Wassail!

Alan

PS Hi Gervaise. I look forward to hearing you singing Row On. See you at Upton FF and/or Chippenham FF?

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: alanww
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 01:01 PM

PS Has anyone analysed the lists? "When snow transforms the hedgerow thorn ..." Alan

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 11:32 AM

any additions to this thread?

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 11:43 AM

Sure!

From Mark Knopfler's Ragpicker's Dream:

Why Aye Man
Devil Baby
Quality Shoe
Fare Thee Well Northumberland
Mabletown
Coyote
Ragpicker's Dream
Old Pigweed

and, from Patterson, Jordan, Dipper's Flat Earth:

Rounding the Horn
Adam the Poacher
The Manchester Rambler

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 12:12 PM

"Most recent"?? I'm not sure. They would all be songs sung in Paltalk rooms, and I don't keep track of what I sing there. Ten of the songs sung very recently there would be something like this, in no particular order:

I've Got No Use for the Women
Lincolnshire Poacher (It's my delight on a shiny night, in the season       of the year)
Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn
The Frozen Logger
Eggs and Marrowbone
Bird in a Gilded Cage
The Zebra Dun
The Cherry Tree Carol
The Great American Bum
Don't Go in Them Lions' Cage Tonight

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Jeanie
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 12:38 PM

Coo, this is an interesting thread ! It's reminded me of lots of songs, and some new ones to look up.

My last ten, all sung over the past few weeks at the folk club in Blackmore, Essex, are:

Gone To Be Wed To Another
The German Clockmender
Martin Said To His Man
A Fair Maid Walking All In Her Garden
The Olive Tree
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
Compliments Returned
Dat Du Meen Leevsten Bist (a night-visiting song in Plattdeutsch !)
Don't You Be Foolish, Pray

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST,BB Grunt
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 01:16 PM

The last time I played live was November 22 in Fairfax, VA. The last 10 songs in the set were:

Shelter From The Storm
Old Man
Honest With Me
The Times They Are A-Changin'
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Mutineer
Bye And Bye
Summer Days
Blowin' In The Wind (acoustic)
All Along The Watchtower

Grunt

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Lee
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 01:28 PM

Hmm. At a children's show:
       Abiyoyo - Seeger
       There's a Great big Monster under my bed (original)
       Put your finger in the air
       Abinaki New Year song
       Seneca Canoe Song
    For adults:
       Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Harris
       Maggie was a Boozer (original)
       The Shower Song (original)
       I've Just Seen a Face - Beatles
       Mama Don't Allow

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 03:35 PM

The guy calling himself "Bedubya" above was me in an earlier Mudcat incarnation, but since that list is from a year and a half ago I'll throw this one out as the current crop. I kept one song from the old list 'cause I like it a lot.

Ain't Misbehavin'
Travelin' Man
One Meatball
Thirsty in the Rain
Deep Elem Blues
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Some of These Days
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
Christmas in the Trenches

Bruce

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 12:29 PM

An amendment to my post of yesterday.

Last night I took part in an open mike, with 15 minutes at my disposal. I sang:

The Swapping Song
Sing Anything
The Cherry Tree Carol (getting a lot of mileage out that one these days) and
Don't Go In Them Lions' Cage Tonight (ditto).

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Tweed
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 12:40 PM

Only get to do 3-4 songs at the local Roots music nite so I compiled the last couple visits down there.

Sugar Sweet~ Mel London
Mudwimmen Blues~ Tweed (R.Shaw)
If You Love Me Like You Say~ Little Johnny Taylor
Fifteen Cent Blues~ Roosevelt Sykes
Sterno Gal~BlueLady/Tweed (D.Cannon, R.Shaw)
Prodigal Son~Reverend Robert Wilkins
Stack O Lee~ Who can say for sure?
France Blues~ "Papa" Harvey Hull
When I Lay My Burden Down~ Fred McDowell
Little Red Rooster~ Willy Dixon

Tweed

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Alice
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 12:53 PM

(Last night at a session)
The Flower of Magherally
The Holly Bears The Berry - Sans Day Carol

(Before the session)
Tibbie Fowler
The Lake of Pontchartrain
My Johnny Lad
William Taylor
John Anderson
Jacket's Green
If I Was A Blackbird
Ladies of Spain

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Jazzyjack
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 02:10 PM

I Want to Thank You Baby      - Delbert McClinton
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - Bob Dylan
Festivals                     - Todd Butler
On The Great Divide          - Stephen Fearing
A Town Called Jesus          -   "         "
My Old Friend The Blues       - Steve Earle
A Mother's Son                - Eileen Laverty
Copper Kettle                - Kristin Sweetland
Wish We'd Never Met          - Kathleen Wilhoite
Bitter Green                  - Gordon Lightfoot

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 03:38 PM

Tickle Cove Pond
Peter Amberly
Forty-five Years (Stan Rogers)
Rambels of Spring (Tommy Makem)
Union Song
Take It from day to day (Stan Rogers)
Matthew (John denver)
Hard Times (S. Foster)
From the Heart (Mine)
Mary Ellen Carter (Stan Rogers)

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Nathan in Texas
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 03:58 PM

My group has a weekly 90-minute gig, strictly instrumental.
We try to vary what we play, but most weeks, sometime in the evening, you're likely to hear:

Redwing
Westphalia Waltz
Wayfaring Stranger
Stone's Rag
Joe Turner Blues

I'll stop the instrumental list there, so I can mention five I'm most likely to sing on those rare occasions I'm asked:

Corinna, Corinna
I'll Fly Away
Life's Railway to Heaven
This World is not My Home
Rivers of Texas (Down By the Brazos)


Also, for those who might be interested, two of the songs attributed in postings above to the Carter Family, "Jimmie Brown the Newsboy," and "You've Been A Friend to Me," were written by W. S. Hays, a tidbit I discovered while researching another current thread "The Lily of the Valley."

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 04:15 PM

As I unpack:
When The Evening Star Went Down
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Dainty Davey (curly pow and all)
Early Morning Rain
Rocks and Gravel
Fire Maringo
Three Score And Ten
Gentle Annie
Finnegan's Wake
Keep On The Sunny Side

All accompanied by CDs.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GaryDon
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 04:39 PM

Si Beag Si Mor
Mrs. Hardwood
Capt Farrel
London Homesick Blues
Paradice
More O Carolan Pieces

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: harpgirl
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:02 AM

Here's mine:

Miner's Lullaby
Give Me Just a Little More Time
She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabam
The Gypsy Girl
Mississippi Queen
Role The Woodpile Down
The LogDriver's Waltz
RedWing/Eight More Miles to Louisville/Golden Slippers (autoharp medley)
Go To Sleep Little Babe (three part harmony)
What Will We Do

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: MMario
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:07 AM

This time of year ---

The Bellman's Carol
Huron Carol
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Children Go Where I send Thee (Christmas version)
O Holy Night
The Friendly Beasts
Joy to the World
Adestes Fidales
Once in Royal David's City
Jingle Bells

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: songs2play
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:18 AM

FOLK SINGAROUND


Freight Train (Libba Cotton original version)
Don't Think Twice(Dylan)
Farewell to the Rhondda (Frank Hennessey)
The Gypsy (Frank Hennessey)
Up (Ralph McTell)
Streets (Ralph McTell)
Geordie
Last Thing on my Mind (Paxton)
Barges (Ralph McTell)
Catherine (snogs)

BLUES

Stagolee
Pay Day
Make me a Pallet on Your Floor
Weepin Willow
C'mon in my Kitchen
Dust My Lighthouse Blues (snogs)
Louis Collins
Midnight Special
I'm satisfied
Candy man

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:46 AM

Not sure which ones, but they were most likely from this list:

Abide With Me
Ain't That Good News?
Are You Walking And A-Talking With The Lord?
Beautiful Home
Beautiful Life
Beautiful Stars
Blessed Assurance
Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord
Blest Be The Tie That Binds
Born Again
Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary
Chatter With The Angels
Deep River
Don't Forget The Bridge
Family Who Prays
Farther Along
Gideon's Band
God Don't Never Change
God Leads Us Along
Grace Greater Than Our Sin
Green Pastures
He Was Waiting At The Altar
Heavenly Sunlight
Higher Ground
House Of Gold
I Am A Pilgrim
I Have Decided To Follow Jesus
I Heard About A Stone
I Love To Tell The Story
I Remember Dark Calvary
I Saw The Light
I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
I Went Down To The River To Pray
If You See My Savior
I'll Fly Away
I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map
In The Garden
In The Highways
In The Sweet By And By
I've Got A Home In That Rock
Jesus Died For Me
Jesus Is Whispering Now
Jewels
Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho
Just As I Am, Without One Plea
Keep On The Sunnyside
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Leave It There
Let God Abide
Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
Life's Railway To Heaven
Michael Row The Boat Ashore
My Jesus, I Love Thee
My Lord, What A Morning!
Nearer, My God, To Thee
Never Grow Old
Ninety And Nine
No Disappointment In Heaven
No, Not One!
Oh Glory, How Happy I Am
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
Oh, Why?
Old Rugged Cross
Old Ship Of Zion
One Morning In Jerusalem
Palms Of Victory
Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior
Paul And Silas
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Rescue The Perishing
Shall We Gather At The River?
Softly And Tenderly
Standing In The Need Of Prayer
Standing On The Promises
Step By Step
Sweet Hour Of Prayer
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Take Up Thy Cross
That's All Right
There Is A River
There'll Be No Dark Valley
Thirty Pieces Of Silver
To God Be The Glory
Twelve Gates To The City (Story Version)
Twelve Gates To The City (Trinity Version)
Wade In The Water
Weapon Of Prayer
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
When The Angel Rolled The Stone Away
When The World's On Fire
Where The Roses Never Fade
Whispering Hope
Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
Wings Of A Dove
Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up
You Can't Make Me Doubt Him



And next will be from this list:

Are You Ready For The Coming?
Babe Of Bethlehem
Christ Is Coming On The Cloud
Christ Returneth
Come, Thou Redeemer Of The Earth
Coming Down From God
Gospel Ship
Green Pastures
Hallelujah, I'm Ready
Heavenly Aeroplane
He Is Coming Again
I'm Working On The Building
Ivory Palaces
Just Rehearsing
Mansion Just Over The Hilltop
My Lord, What A Morning!
There'll Be No Dark Valley
Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night
We'll Work Till Jesus Comes
What A Gathering
What If It Were Today?
What You Gonna Do When This World's On Fire?
When The Gates Swing Open
When The World's On Fire
Where Shall I Be?
While We Work For The Lord
Will Jesus Find Us Watching?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Merritt
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 02:34 PM

Performed Saturday, Nov. 30th, at the Caffe Tlazo in Algoma, Wisconsin, along with unindicted musical co-conspirator, Pete Honzik:

~ Rocky Road – Yarrow/Stookey/Grossman
~ Something Fine – J. Browne
~ Any Old Time – J. Rodgers
~ Rosa Lee McFall – C. Monroe
~ It's Only Love – Beatles
~ Paper Moon – Arlen/Harburg
~ Sloop John B
~ Sometimes – J. Edwards
~ Contrary Blues – vaguely original; political
~ Lookin' for Trouble – S. Goodman

- Merritt


"It's all one big note." - Frank Zappa

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Firecat
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 02:45 PM

Erm,

Movie In My Mind from Miss Saigon at my audition for Twelfth Night (I didn't get the role I wanted but I'm doubling as the Sea Captain and the Priest)
Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease in my bedroom
If You Believe by Steps with a friend
Have You Ever by S Club for another audition for the Barn Hill college party
Paul by me
He Knows by me
Anxiety by me
The Last Goodbye by Atomic Kitten cos it was on the radio
The Ballad of Blackadder the Boyfriend with a friend
The Point of No Return (girl's bit) from Phantom Of The Opera in my bedroom

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Seamus
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 03:45 PM

Oof. Hard to rememeber Saturday Night. I think the latter part of the last set went like this:

1)Smoke and Strong Whiskey. (Wally Page)
2)Reels: Repeal the Union (trad), Captian Widdley's Reel (THe Clare Voyants) The Tam-lin(trad).
3) Couldn't Have Come at a Better Time (Luka Bloom)
4) The Dangerous Ones (The Clare Voyants)
5) Aisling (Moore/McGowan)
6) Danny Boy RIP (The Clare Voyants)
7)Monto (trad)
8) The Night the Pub Burned Down (The Clare Voyants
9) Just be Friends (The Clare Voyants)
10 Ride On (JImmy McCarthy)

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 04:05 PM

Songs laid on the winds over the Pauma Valley from a ranch high on Palomar Mountain last weekend:

Saint James Infirmary Blues
Summertime
Night Rider's Lament
Many a Fair Lady (Townes van Zandt)
Mz Henley's Revenge (my own)

SOngs laid down on CD for Xmas presents in a tight budget year:

Roddy McCorley
Kelly the Boy from Killaine
The Garden Where the Praties Grow
The Wild Colonial Boy
Courting in the Kitchen
Bally James Duff
The Old Orange Flute
The Irish Rover

..and half a dozen others I forget.


A

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Neighmond
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 08:20 PM

I sang only one this last weekend

Bury me under the weeping willow

Last week i think i did
Nebo Girl
Joe Been
WhisperingHope
I'll Fly away
137th psalm
I can't recall the rest.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Mr Happy
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 10:47 AM

Paddy on the Railway
Lonesome Pine
Sammy's Bar
Will you still love me tomorrow
Rockin' all over the world
Seems like home to me
Shelves of herring
Ilkley d'amour
Black Girl
Listen to the ocean

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 11:01 AM

What are Shelves of herring &
Ilkley d'amour?

They sound like they could be fun.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 12:43 PM

Billy Gray - Norman Blake
Lost River Desert - trad (think Red River Valley)
Barangrill - Joni Mitchell
Love at the Five and Dime - Nanci Griffith
Old Jerome - Kate Wolfe
El Caballo Blanco - trad
Kiss me, Mother - trad
Four Strong Winds - Ian Tyson
Happy Trails - Dale Evans?
Don't Fence Me In - Cole Porter

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Chris Green
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 01:03 PM

Barring the set with the band last weekend which I guess doesn't count

Moreton Bay (Aussie trad)
Farewell, Farewell (Richard Thompson)
Seven Yellow Gypsies (trad arr. Nic Jones)
Annan Waters (Scots trad)
High Germany (trad)
Green Fields of France (parody version)
Old Bones (Jez Lowe)
Canadee-I-O (trad arr. Nic Jones)
Farewell to the Gold (Paul Metsers)
Do-Re-Mi Parody (Sound of Music)

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST,Ewan M.
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 02:20 PM

What are Shelves of herring

What's the matter, lad, does your grocer not have shelves of herring?

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 02:39 PM

I'm guessing that Shelves of Herring is a parody of Bonnie Shoals of Herring and is about jars of rollmops on a grocery shelf.

And if it isn't then it should be.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 03:19 PM

Definitely. Shelves of Herring is a parody of Shoals of Herring. I heard the late John Dwyer (here and here) sing it many times. Pretty hilarious.

Shelves of Herring [Frederic Schroers of Portland, Oregon]

It was a fine and a pleasant day,
In a supermarket I was faring,
And I walked for miles
Up and down the aisles,
As I hunted for the shelves of herring.

Shopping trolleys few
And the lines were long,
And the people, sure they took some bearing.
There was little kindness And the kids were many,
As I hunted for the shelves of herring.

O I took my catch to a ten-item line,
And at me the cashier sure was swearing;
For I'd a hundred cans of the silver darlings
That I'd taken from the shelves of herring!

Now for six long months I've been eating fish,
And my house it sure could use an airing!
And now I know, never again I'll go
For to hunt the shelves for tins of herring!

(As posted on folkinfo.org)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 03:53 PM

...a hundred cans of the silver darlings...

I love it.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 11:44 PM

All my songs worth the effort of allowing others to listen are in The Foolestroupe Songbook. The rest are in the shredder.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 03:55 AM

Given that I sing 30-50 songs, 3, 4 or 5 times a week, this is a VERY hard thead to answer...

Off the top of my head... newest stuff fer me to be playing 'out'

We Are The Lonely - John Prine
Beer Run - Todd Snider
Girl From The Hiring Fair - The Garnet Rogers Cover (ish)
People My Age (Have Started Looking Gross) - John Gorka
$30.00 Room - Dave Alvin
Blue Wing - Tom Russel
Galway Girl - Steve Earle
Gladys Ridge - James Keelaghan
Next Time I'm In Town - Mark Knophler & Chet Atkins (A GREAT show-closer!)
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - Bob Dylan


Most of which I suspect most people here don't even know...

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 04:59 AM

Down Where the Drunkards Roll (Thompson)
Both Sides the Tweed (Gaughan)
Freedom Come-all-ye (Henderson)
Wantonness/Yellow Yorlin (Burns)
Jimmy Clay (Sky)
Banks of the Lee (trad)
Terror Time (McColl)
Ye Banks and Braes (Burns)
How Can I Ever Be Simple Again (Thompson)

wr.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST,weerover
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 05:04 AM

4:59 post was me inadvertently unidentified and also can't count to ten. Make the tenth:
Teddy O'Neill (trad)

wr.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 05:34 AM

Turnagain Waltz by Mike Campbell
Little Jim by Mike Campbell
Carhartts by Mike Campbell
Wilderness Letters by Mike Campbell
Shenandoah Roll On Home by Mike Campbell
Iditarod by Mike Campbell
If Not For Buffy by Mike Campbell
Hate To See You Go by Mike Campbell
First Kill by Mike Campbell
Evil Freddy by Mike Campbell

No apologies, this is what singer/songwriters do.

"Alaska Mike" Campbell

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: JulieF
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 05:35 AM

Ca the Yowes
The Currah of Kildare
The snows the melt the soonest
Where are you - Andy M Stewart ( but not quite right yet)
Parcel of Rouges
Jamie
The Highland Woman's Lament
Culloden's Harvest - Alistair McDonald
Love is Teasing
The Maid on the Shore

All traditional unless otherwise stated.

Julie

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: mg
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 12:34 AM

I was trying to watch the lists and see who I liked their songs the best...I think Julie F.
In Cawe the yowes do you sing the verse where he gets to roll her in his plaid? It seems not to be sung much but I love that verse.
mg

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 04:48 AM

The Water is wide,
Long long before your time.
Windmills.
The Alleluya song.
Van Diemens land.
You're not a ship.
Death of a Sheriff.
My Willie lives over the sea.
The Saucy Sailor
The Cadgwith Anthem.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: JulieF
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 05:31 AM

mary - The version I sing is ( forgive the spelling)

As I came doon the water side.
There I met a shepherd lad
He rolled me gently in his plaid
And called me his dearie

Ca' the Yowes To the Knowes
Ca' them where the heather grows
Ca' them where the burnie roes
My bonnie Dearie

Will you come doon the water side
And see the waves sae sweetly glide
Beneath the Hazels spreading wide
And the moon it shines full clearly

Ca' the Yowes ......

I was brought up in so such School
My shepherd lad to play the fool
An a' the day to sit in dool
And no body to see me.

Ca' the Yowes...

You shall get gowns and ribbons neat
Caulf leather shoon upon your feet
And in my arms you'll lie and sleep
And you shall be my dearie

Ca' the Yowes.....

If you but stand by what you said
I'll go with you my shepherd lad
Any you can roll me in your plaid
And I shall be your dearie

Ca' the Yowes.....

As waters wimple to the sea
While day blinks in the lift sa hie
Til cauld clay deeth shall blin my eie
I will be your dearie

Ca' the Yowes .......


Julie

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 08:02 AM

Sweet Summer's Gone Away - Eck Dunford
I Want to be Loved - Bailes Brothers
The Beacon Light of Home - from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook
El Rancho Grande - trad. Mexican
Pardon Me - Jim & Jesse
Where the Catskills Lift Their Summits - Grant Rogers
Down on the Southern Jersey Shore - Bill Britton (from the DT)
Lamplighting Time in the Valley - various people
Low and Lonely - Roy Acuff
Daisy Dean - Grandpa Jones

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: Nick
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 09:00 AM

Water is Wide
Vincent Black Lightning 1952 - Richard Thompson
Folksingers Lament - David Diamond
First Song - Ralph McTell
San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits
Something in the Way She Moves - James Taylor
Sally Wheatley - Wilson
Celluloid Heroes - Kinks
So Long Marianne - Leonard Cohen
American Tune - Paul Simon

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: mg
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 03:35 PM

great words to Cawe the Yowes...I hadn't seen most of them.

mg

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 03:55 PM

Nick (9:00 this am):

"Something in the Way She Moves" by James Taylor?

Isn't that a George Harrison song? I doubt that JT would use the same title as a monster hit by a contemporary and a one-time label-mate. (James Taylor was the first non-Beatle to sign with Apple, who released his eponymous first album in 67 or 68.)

Of course, I don't doubt that he'd *cover* it. I'm just surprised that one wouldn't know the origin of that well-known song.

If it *is* a different song, or if I am otherwise out of line, please enlighten.

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: GUEST,Augie
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 06:30 PM

It is indeed a different song. Taylor wrote it ~1968 and you can find it on the first James Taylor album (along with "Goin to Carolina in My Mind"). That first album was released about a year before the monster Sweet Baby James came out.

You might remember the chorus:

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now
She's around me now just about all the time
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now
She's been with me now, quite a long,long time
And I feel fine

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: JulieF
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 10:44 AM

Mary - There does seem to be at least two completely different versions of this song.   I like this one as its nice to do a requited love song as opposed to all the lost loves. I particularly like the last verse.

Julie

Subject: RE: Your most recent 10 songs
From: saulgoldie
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:47 PM

Great thread! Nice to see some names I don't always see. (But then, I spend more time on the BS side, so that probably explains it.)

Let The Band Play Dixie, by the late, great Bob Gibson
My Favorite Song--Bob Zentz
Song for a Winter's Night--Gordon Lightfoot
Down the Road--Bill Staines
Marvelous Toy--Tom Paxton
Last Thing On My Mind--Paxton
Dog--Tom Dundee (as heard done by Bryan Bowers)
The Gambler--Kenny Rogers
White Collar Holler--Stan Rogers
Field Behind the Plow--Stan, again

And I have to pick only two songs to play at an upcoming benefit at the College. How can I pick just two? And my list of songs that I'd love to play if only I was given the chance to share them goes easily 25 songs for the bare minimum. What do other folks do?

It is supposed to be "light," so I am leaning, so far, to playing "Folk Song Army" by Tom Lehrer, (each and every one of us...cares) and possibly "Somos El Barco" for that warm and fuzzy folkie sing-along togetherness angle.

By the way, I will repeat my offer: I have all of these songs transcribed (except the last two), and many of them with chords that I will share with anyone who wants them.