Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)

Subject: RE: Song Help: Mollymauk (was: Southern Ocean)
From: GUEST,Bob Watson
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:11 PM

Hi, Barbara .   .   .

Got a message from a friend today saying that you might be looking for me, & your (above) message appears to confirm this.

My E-mail address is:

[e-mail]

Be pleased to hear from you.

Bob

Subject: RE: Song Help: Mollymauk (was: Southern Ocean)
From: Barbara
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 04:52 PM

Email sent. Thanks all for the info.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Song Help: Mollymauk (was: Southern Ocean)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 01:58 PM

From The Sailor's Word-Book by William Henry Smyth (London: Blackie and Son, 1867), page 465:

MALLEMAK, or Mollymauk. A sea-bird; the Procellaria glacialis, called also fulmar (which see).

[page 327:]

FULMAR. A web-footed sea-bird, Procellaria glacialis, of the petrel kind, larger than the common gull; its eggs are taken in great quantity at St. Kilda and in the Shetlands.

[Procellaria glacialis seems to be an obsolete name. My best guess is, it corresponds to Fulmarus glacialis, or Northern fulmar.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jun 20 - 11:55 PM

needs just a little more work

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 10:57 AM

And on the Humber among the seamen and rivermen a molly is simply a gull of any description.

'Tulip was a bit of a birdman, when a molly came down on the deck.
Its wing was all bent and misshapen and looking a bit of a wreck!'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
From: GUEST,Jane
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 07:08 PM

I'm looking for a recording of Mollymawk which I heard from a group at Yarmouth Maritime Festival about in about ?2006. It was a slower rendition than the recordings I've heard since; I bought the CD at Yarmouth but have mislaid it and would like to buy another copy if I can.

All I can remember about the group is there were four of them, two ladies and two gentlemen; the name escapes me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 08:55 PM

In the original post...
I learned it from Danny McCleod, in a group "Salt of the Earth", comprised of Danny and Joyce McCloud & Ingrid and Barrie Temple. The song is on a CD titled "Tomorrow's Tide." I haven't hear a fast version of the song, but I think they do it at a reasonable pace.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
From: GUEST,Jane
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 09:32 PM

Thanks - I've looked at an image of the Tomorrow's Tide CD, and I don't recognise it ... but I might buy it anyway.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 10:24 PM

Try The Keelers - they're down to four members now, and Mollymauk is on "On the North Sea Ground". (It may be on other CDs, too - didn't look at them all.)