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Any May songs?

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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 05:09 PM

WE’LL ALL GO A-HUNTING TODAY

What a fine hunting day, it's as balmy as May,
When the hounds to our village did come.
Every friend will be there, and all troubles and care
Will be left far behind them at home.


Nick & Mally Dow English Folk Music Collection    
https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Nick-and-Mally-Dow-Collection/025M-C1012X0018XX-0300V0
We'll All Go A-Hunting Today Song - The Watersons     https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9ijZaeT_YEQ&list=RDAMVM9ijZaeT_YEQ

Mainly Norfolk Lyrics & Info/     https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/wellallgoahuntingtoday.html
MUDCAT: Origins: The Hunting Day / Fine Hunting Day     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=147208


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 06:09 PM

AR BEN WAUN TREDEGAR

Ar ben Waun Tredegar mae eirin a chnau
Ar ben Waun Tredegar mae ’fale mis Mai.


English Translation
On Tredegar moor there are berries and nuts
On Tredegar moor there are are apples in May,


Various recordings on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ar+Ben+Waun+Tredegar


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 08:06 AM

THE GALWAY SHAWL

In Oranmore in the county Galway
One pleasant evening in the month of May
I spied a damsel; she was young and handsome
Her beauty fairly took my breath away


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 11:50 AM

THE GALWAY SHAWL

Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thegalwayshawl.html    
Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Galway+Shawl
MUDCAT:Origins: Galway Shawl - author         /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72825&messages=43


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 09:22 AM

LEDGE - END OF THE FIDDLER by Nick Apollonio.

Now the fiddler and Jim Brown set out on the thirty-first of May   
To play the dance at Rockland thirteen miles across the bay
With the wind southeast on the sunlit sea their pinky skipped along
Their hearts were full as the rising moon and the air was full of song.


[Also, the last stanza mentions June.]

Recording by Gordon Bok.


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 09:51 AM

LITTLE BALL OF YARN
on the twenty-first of May I was passing by that way
On the way to my grandfather's farm
When I saw a pretty maid and unto her I said,
'Can I wind up your little ball of yarn?'


Another version of The Little Ball Of Yarn
From An East Riding Songster, collected and edited by Steve Gardham, 1982


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 06:45 PM

British Library Sounds, Steve-Gardham-Collection     https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Steve-Gardham-Collection/025M-C1009X0008XX-1800V0
Link to BALL OF YARN posting above


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 07:57 PM

JACK THE SAILOR

Well, as I walked out one May morning
By the seaside as I was a-walking
'Twas there I saw a pretty maid
Along with her father talking.


Mainly Norfolk: Lyrics & Info    
https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/jackthesailor.html
Chris Foster at the Gypsy Davey Folk Club,at 57mins, sings Jack The Sailor     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5820n1glAw    


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Oct 21 - 04:36 PM

MAGHERAFELT MAY FAIR:    Many recordings on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%22The+Magherafelt+May+Fair%22
Seamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music at Boston College Libraries: Music, Info, Lyrics & Recording     https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/542


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Oct 21 - 06:00 AM

ELLON FAIR

T’was in the merry month of May
When flowers had clad the landscape gay
To Ellon fair I bent my way
With hopes to find amusement.


Lyrics in article about Bothy Ballads   
http://www.nefa.net/archive/songmusicdance/bothy/index.htm


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Subject: RE: Magherafelt May Fair
From: Felipa
Date: 26 Oct 21 - 04:48 PM

The lyrics for the Magherafelt May Fair are posted on Mudcat in a thread re Hiring Fair songs https://mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=925934

Other singers who recorded Magherafelt May Fair include Kevin Mitchell, Gemma Hasson and Maranna McCluskey, and Rosemary Nugent with the Pride of Erin Céili Band


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Subject: RE: Magherafelt May Fair
From: Felipa
Date: 26 Oct 21 - 04:51 PM

please correct me/ That link is for the Magherafelt Hiring Fair

see https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72675 for the Magherafelt May Fair


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 28 Oct 21 - 01:40 AM

SOUTH CAROLINA MOON
Dan Berggren (2002)
Video

As I look across the porch tonight I see you sitting there,
Resting with your eyes closed, rocking in the chair.
We worked so hard clearing the yard and a thousand other things,
But now they're done and I'm with the one who makes me want to sing.

CHORUS (after each verse):
At the end of a long, hard day,
An unusually hot month of May,
Shooting the breeze as we look through the trees
At the South Carolina in the sky,
At the South Carolina moon.

It was ninety degrees when we stopped to eat, and hotter when supper was done.
A ride in the boat was the only way to put up with the sun.
As the river rolled on, with you in my arms, we let the day float away;
Then back to the shore and I walked to the door of the porch at the end of the day.

Sitting here with the one I love makes me feel so good;
Just like when it's cold in winter and you know you've got lots of wood,
Like a race that's won or a job well done -- I hope you feel it too:
That feeling inside, there's nothing to hide, that's why I sing for you.


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Nov 21 - 09:32 AM

WITH HER HEAD TUCKED UNDERNEATH HER ARM

On 19 May 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn was executed by beheading.

Many recordings of “ With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm “ on YouTube   
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=With+Her+Head+Tucked+Underneath+Her+Arm+
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm From Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Her_Head_Tucked_Underneath_Her_Arm
MUDCAT:DT Lyrics ANNE BOLEYN(R.L. Weston and Bert Lee.) @displaysong.cfm?SongID=297


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 02:48 AM

BLACKBERRY WINTER

Written by Louise Mosrie and Mike Richardson

On the first day of May, frost lay on the vine
When just yesterday, it was warm as summertime
But the North wind did bring her cold heart with her
Now we're in the middle of a blackberry winter


Lyrics
Sung by Louise Mosrie on her album Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7g0278Xb8


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 04:12 AM

May 20, 1892: The act is signed that creates the Adirondack Park.
This date is also the birthday of Harold K. Hochschild, the founder of the Adirondack Museum.


DON'T FORGET TO THANK HAROLD
by Dan Berggren (
recording 1992)

On the twentieth of May in 1892,
The Adirondack Park was brand-spanking-new.
So was Harold Hochschild, that’s his birthday, too
And he left a lot of presents for me and you


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Levana Taylor
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 04:29 AM

THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS

Composed by Stan Ransom in 1992 for the 100th anniversary of the Adirondack Park. (
recording)


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 04:50 AM

https://youtu.be/LOi_wxypeGc


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 08:02 AM

GUEST,    I get it - May You Never    maybe not.


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 08:14 AM

THE KENT STATE MASSACRE

The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio

More from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#:~:text=The%20Kent%20State%20shootings%2C%20also,64%20km)%20south%20of%20Clev
The Kent State Massacre- Barbara Dane     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCb0v6TlRAo
It Could Have Been Me - Holly Near (with dropdown lyrics)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CadP4dRemYk&t=19s


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: oldhippie
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 01:50 PM

MAY SONG   (translated from German)

How wonderful is Maytime
With Flowers in bloom everywhere
If she with me would stay
In all the splendor of Maytime
My heart would be happy and gay.

I would that my beloved
Were here my joy to share
If she with me would stay
In all the splendor of Maytime
My heart would be happy and gay.


As published in The Ditty Bag" 1946 by Janet Tobitt


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 06:36 AM

Another German May song    DER MAI IST GEKOMMEN
   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usn8qpZdqGU
Lyrics and Translationhttps://songstranslation.com/nena/der-mai-ist-gekommen/


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Reinhard
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 09:21 AM

That is a very strange word-for-word translation without any sense of language and phrasing. E.g. the second line "Die Bäume schlagen aus" means "The trees are budding", not "The trees are beating out".


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 05:04 PM

Thanks Reinhard , all the on-line translations seem a bit odd
The following link appears to give a better translation of the second line but cannot be right with " There is some whine I never tasted before" https://www.lyrtran.com/Der-Mai-ist-gekommen-id-76295


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Subject: birthdays of Percy French and Pete Seeger
From: Felipa
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 09:03 PM

I've been at a Zoom sing tonight 25 Jan celebrating the birthday of both Robbie Burns and Ewan MacColl by singing there songs. There were slightly more MacColl songs sung than Burns songs on this occasion. So I was thinking of other singers and songwriters whose birthdays we might commemorate.
PERCY FRENCH ( (1 MAY 1854 – 24 January 1920)
Mudcat thread
The Songs of Percy French includes a list of the songs in a book by that title, with clickable links to those songs which can be found on the Mudcat site. see message posted by Joe Offer on 28 Sept 2008
Link to SONGS BY PERCY FRENCH posted below

PETE SEEGER SONGS (3 MAY 1919 - 27 Jan 2014) If you search for Pete's name in this discussion, you will find mention of several recordings by Pete of the various May songs. Pete is not primarily known as a songwriter, but he did write quite a few songs including IF I HAD A HAMMER, TOMORROW IS A HIGHWAY, WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY, MY RAINBOW RACE, ENGLISH IS CRAZY, and part of WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE. There is a Mudcat discussion thread entitled Pete Seeger songs


Pete Seeger Top Songs on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kzn0uHnjRb34QVljcLkic-udh8zB3CQ6A


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 07:14 PM

THE PRIDE OF THE SPRINGFIELD ROAD aka THE COTTON MILL SONG
I took my love out for a walk in the merry month of May.
The birds were singing sweetly as we went along the way.

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=51243#781292

youtube:
Craobh Rua
Houl' Yer Whisht


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,Diolch
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 01:40 PM

Norma Waterson's version of FLOWER OF SWEET STRABANE on her collection Bright Shiny Morning mentions May in the first verse, although other versions I've heard don't (e.g. Margaret Barry, or Paddy Tunney). The folk process in action presumably.

Norma's lyrics:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/flowerofsweetstrabane.html


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,Diolch
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 05:14 AM

THE BOLD FISHERMAN has been recorded from such luminaries as Harry Cox (although his version is set in June), Sam Larner, Alice Webb, and Walter Pardon. This song is also much beloved by the current generation of young singers.

Mudcat:
/mudcat.org/detail.cfm?messages__Message_ID=3082512
Mainly Norfolk:https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/theboldfisherman.html
George Sansome, also of Granny's Attic (May):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMEZA7YF2I4
Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly (June):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSzZQBGyUs

Link to "The Bold Fisherman" posting above by henryp

Link to more about THE BOLD FISHERMAN posted below by henryp


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Apr 22 - 12:54 PM

LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF KNIGHT(Child #4; Roud #21)

Fair lady Isabel sits in her bower sewing,
Aye as the gowans grow gay
There she heard an elf-knight blawing his horn.
The first morning in May


'Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight' from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Isabel_and_the_Elf_Knight
Many recordings on YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Lady+Isabel+and+the+Elf-Knight
Emilie Faiella - Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, a Medieval Ballad (with lyrics)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6q4qHEXfMs


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 Apr 22 - 01:24 PM

Padsdow song "Oss oss we oss"? I don' have the lyrics but it's like
"Unite and unite......for summer is a-cumin' today
..............In the merry morning of May."

I'm sure English Catters know it.


PADSTOW MAY SONG aka OSS OSS
'Obby 'Oss festival From Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Obby_%27Oss_festival
Mainly Norfolk: Padstow May Song   https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/padstowmaysong.html
Padstow Night Song    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwSv8YEr78g

Padstow Day Song   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_NSluiVPc
Many more recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Padstow+May+Song


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Apr 22 - 01:41 PM

Maggie May ?


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Apr 22 - 10:23 AM

THE HUSBAND WITH NO COURAGE IN HIM

As I walked out one May morning
To view the fields and the leaves a-springing
I saw two maidens standing by
And one of them her hands was wringing


Mainly Norfolk: O, Dear, O / The Husband With No Courage in Him / My Husband's Got No Courage in Him   
https://www.mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/odearo.html
Various YouTube recordings of ' My Husband’s Got No Courage In Him '     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=My+Husband%E2%80%99s+Got+No+Courage+In+Him


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Apr 22 - 07:27 PM

May 1, 1830 Birth date of Mary 'Mother' Jones,the Irish-born American labour leader who was called ' the most dangerous woman in America ' by Theodore Roosevelt.

britannica.com: Mother JonesAmerican labour leader     https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mother-Jones-American-labour-leader
'Mother Jones'From Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones

SONGS ABOUT MOTHER JONES

MOTHER JONES
'Mother Jones' Info& Recording on Union Songs   
https://unionsong.com/u823.html

THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN

The Most Dangerous Woman · Ani DiFranco · Utah Phillips    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO0pXTik0OE

THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN AMERICA
The Most Dangerous Woman in America -Raymond Crooke   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI2NIpYra3I
Mother Jones- 'The Most Dangerous Woman in America': Documentary   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4dICZsNXBE


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Apr 22 - 07:37 PM

THE SPIRIT OF MOTHER JONES
The Spirit of Mother Jones · Andy Irvine   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRbcydTWElY

DISHPAN BRIGADE
Dishpan Brigade -Kiya Heartwood    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN8XmBeHUGA

MOTHER JONES IN HEAVEN
Mother Jones In Heaven (and Hell) - A Musical by Si Kahn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSrOVYKRlE

THE DEATH OF MOTHER JONES
"The Death of Mother Jones"- Gene Autry    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVajXBl7BSc

WELCOME HOME MOTHER JONES
' Welcome Mother Jones' Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics    
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Welcome_Mother_Jones.htm


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Apr 22 - 05:31 AM

https://youtu.be/LOi_wxypeGc


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 26 Apr 22 - 08:57 AM

Edmund Sheehy, James Buxton and Buck Farrell were held in Clonmel Gaol, Co Tipperary, Ireland and executed in 3 May 1775. The three men were convicted of the murder of John Bridge and of aiding and assisting the Whiteboys. The Whiteboys sought agrarian reform; they were similar in many respects to the Levellers (and sometimes went by that name) but often used terrorist methods.

A suitable song to sing in commemoration:
THE CONVICT OF CLONMEL aka The Gaol of Cluain Meala by J.J. Callinan, is a translation of the Irish language song "PRÍOSÚN CHLUIAN MEALA"; which in some versions mentions "na Buachaillí Bána", the Whiteboys.
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10313 thread name: Lyr Add: Clun Malla


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 26 Apr 22 - 04:24 PM

typo above, the spelling of Príosún Chluain Meala (Chluain is correct)


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Apr 22 - 06:54 PM

ONE MAY MORNING
One May Morning · Louis Killen    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFG1iQvMss


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 01 May 22 - 06:46 AM

OHIO , written by Neil Young, commemorates the four deaths at Kent State University, 4 May 1970. Recording by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at https://youtu.be/l1PrUU2S_iw


Ohio-Neil Young    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVMGKOFIwY


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 May 22 - 07:12 AM


SWALCLIFFE MAY DAY CAROL Magpie Lane, first public performance Oxford, 3 May 1993

I learned the song from Forty Long Miles: twenty-three English folk songs from the collection of Janet Heatley Blunt, edited by Tony Foxworthy and published by Galliard / EFDSS in 1976.

Swalcliffe (pronounced sway-cliff) is a village near Banbury in North Oxfordshire. The words of this carol were noted by Miss Annie Norris around 1840 from the singing of a group of children in the village. The words were passed onto the collector - and Adderbury resident - Janet Blunt in 1908, and she finally collected a tune for the song from Mrs Woolgrove of Swalcliffe, and Mrs Lynes of Sibford, at Sibford fete, July 1921.

May Day Carol

May Song by Magpie Lane

A song inspired by the May Day celebrations at Padstow in Cornwall where an ancient "Obby 'Oss" has for centuries been paraded through town. The words and tune, by contemporary songwriter Dave Webber, have entered the folk tradition.

May Song
This song is also known as Hail,hail the First of May Link to HAIL THE FIRST OF MAY posted above


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 May 22 - 07:28 AM

Magpie Lane / As I walked through the meadows / First of May

Start of the first ever performance by Magpie Lane - 3rd May 1993, in the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.

First of May


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 01 May 22 - 01:35 PM

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=34523
THE RIVER LEA
attributed to Sam Peck

It was one fine day in the month of May,
And I was outward bound.
I hadn't any tin to buy some gin,
So I walked the street all around.
My shoes was out at the elbows,
And I was sore in need
So I shipped as a jolly sailor
On board of the River Lea.

No more I'll go to sea,
beat down the bay of Fundy.
Forever more I'll stay on shore,
I'll go to sea no more.

Cliff Haslam sings The River Lea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJGS7hnMhEk

sung by Dan Milner

The following song has the Isle of May, which is a place in Scotland, not a month. Both songs have a "Go to sea no more" chorus
https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7690

WE'LL GO TO SEA NO MORE

Oh! blythly shines the bonnie sun
Upon the Isle of May,
And blythly comes the morning tide
Into St. Andrews bay;
Then up, gudeman--the breeze is fair;
And up my braw bairns three,--
There's goud in yonder bonnie boat
That sails so well the sea!

When haddocks leave the Firth of Forth,
And mussels leave the shore;
When oysters climb up Berwick Law,
We'll go to sea no more,
No more,
We'll go to sea no more.


Mudcat Thread, Lyric Req: The River Lea
/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=34523&messages=33#top


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 May 22 - 05:05 PM

Thanks for 'We'll go to sea no more' Felipa -there are extra verses for this version of the song here     https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Scottish_Song/We%27ll_go_to_sea_no_more


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 May 22 - 09:46 AM

IN MAY, THAT LUSTY SEASON
In May, That Lusty Season · Libana    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqaiv4FE_E
In May, That Lusty Season · The Heath Sisters     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PpZwXagQBo


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 May 22 - 06:46 PM

5 May,1821  & Bonaparte died in exile on St. Helena.

SONGS ABOUT NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

MUDCAT: Songs about Napoleon   
/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=80106
Wikipedia:Songs about Napoleon     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Napoleon


DONE WITH BONAPARTE
Done With Bonaparte -Mark Knopfler;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgSYnu0bZ_E

NAPOLEON'S DREAM aka THE DREAM OF NAPOLEON
Many recordings on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=NAPOLEON%27S+DREAM+%2Csong
Mudcat DT::The Dream of Napoleon    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6186

THE GRAND CONVERSATION ON NAPOLEON
Many recordings on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Grand+Conversation+on+Napoleon

BONEY WAS A WARRIOR
Many recordings of 'Boney was a Warrior' on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BONEY+WAS+A+WARRIOR+
Boney (Was a Warrior) from Mainly Norfolk     https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/boney.html

THE GREEN LINNET
The Green Linnet- Dick Gaughan    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfbNX9p9-BE

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Mudcat DT: "Napoleon Bonaparte"
/mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4181
"Napoleon Bonaparte" Jim Mageean & Pat Sheridan    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIgVy2w-TM

THE GRAVE OF BONAPARTE
The Grave Of Bonaparte · Norman And Nancy Blake    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PelqtYTeQ8U
Grave of Bonaparte · The Scott Family Band     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvKXiHoZjyc
Mudcat, Lyr Req: The Grave of Bonaparte     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=14081&messages=5

Link to post by henryp about Napoleon in Mudcat thread Any August Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170145#reply:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20August%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20GUEST%2Chenr


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 May 22 - 09:16 AM

WE WILL SING by Kate Rusby

When May comes in she brings the flowers,
We will sing, we will sing,
And winter by the door she cowers,
We will sing, we will sing.

We will sing


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Subject: Sacco and Vanzetti arrested 5 May 1920
From: Felipa
Date: 05 May 22 - 02:43 PM

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were charged with armed robbery and murder. They were executed in Aug. 1927, after very controversial trials."Anti-Italianism, anti-immigrant, and anti-Anarchist bias were suspected as having heavily influenced the verdict." (Wikipedia)

Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime of murder on May 5, 1920, and indicted four months later on September 14. I had to look up the dates of indictment and execution but I always remember the date they were arrested because I know a Woody Guthrie song RED WINE with lines, "'twas 1920, the fifth of May, a cop and some buddies took two men away". https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4922 (I learned a slightly abridged version from the singing of Bill Vanaver)

https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Red_Wine.htm

performed by Woody Guthrie


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 05 May 22 - 03:39 PM

3 MAY 1916 Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett married in Kilmainham Gaol. Joseph Plunkett was condemned to death for his part in the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland.

song GRACE by Frank and Seán Ó Meara https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2379

Mudcat discussion https://mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=5041

as sung by Jim McCann

sung by Caoimhe Mooney

The lyrics have been translated to Irish Gaelic, quite appropriately as J Plunkett was a keen member of the Gaelic League. He was one of the founders of the Irish Esperanto League as well.

translation by Ciarán Fox, sung by Kelli McGrory

translation by Seán Mac Cumhaill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU0SKL5GogA
lyrics in notes and comments

translation by Zara Ní Fhinn lyrics on screen

some background

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/joseph-plunketts-wedding-wasnt-romantic-it-was-sordid-34622448.html


https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/joseph-plunketts-wedding-wasnt-romantic-it-was-sordid-34622448.html


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 May 22 - 04:29 PM

FACING THE CHAIR (Andy Irvine) From Andy Irvine's recent double CD OLD DOG LONG ROAD – VOL.2. Another song about Sacco and Vanzetti
Facing the Chair Andy Irvine: mandola & vocal Recorded in Dreieichenhain, Germany on 3rd December 1982.

Being a massive fan of Woody Guthrie’s from an early age, I bought his records as they came out. “Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti” came out on Folkways in 1960. Woody had recorded it in 1946/47 but was not really satisfied with the result. I had not heard of these two Italian anarchists whose trial for murder in Boston had led to them being found guilty and executed in the Electric Chair in 1927.

His lyrics made a great impression on me and I studied the books which had been written about these events. As the trial unfolded, the bias of Judge Thayer became more and more evident and I came to the conclusion, along with Woody and most other socially minded people that a terrible injustice had been perpetrated. I wrote this song after visiting the courthouse in Dedham MA where so much of this trial had been held.

Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody (1963-65) strongly opposed capital punishment and "vowed that he would not sign a death warrant even for the Boston Strangler, if he were ever caught and convicted." In 1977, Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation vindicating Sacco and Vanzetti, stating that they had been treated unjustly and that no stigma should be associated with their names.


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Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 May 22 - 04:40 PM

A memorable performance of I Roved Out. Andy Irvine sings and plays hurdy-gurdy, with Paul Brady whistle and guitar and Donal Lunny guitar in 1976.

As I Roved Out

Link to "As I Roved Out" posted above


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