Quiz: Name these songs

Subject: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 May 01 - 01:55 PM

The following extracts from songs were scattered around the pages of the programme for this weekend's Upton-on-Severn Riverside Festival, with a competition to name all the songs they're from. I only got about a dozen straight off, and have found most of the rest in my DT download. But I'm still misssing a few. How many can you get?

1. Was in the Merry month of May
   When flowers were a bloomin'.
   
   

2. English bribes were a' in vain,
   Tho' puir, and puirer, we maun be.
   
   

3. Her slender waist, with carriage chaste,
   May leave the swain repining.
   
   

4. There the wild flowers spring and the wee birdies sing.
   And in sunshine the waters are sleeping.
   
   

5. Across the fields o' bounding heather
   A song of love that's without measure.
   
   

6. Should I cherish earthly treasure
   It would fly on speedy wings.
   
   

7. While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple
   Your robe of lawn and your hair's spun gold.
   
   

8. Bobolink, cuckoo and quail,
   Tanager and cardinal.
   
   

9. Let it shine on! Let it shine on!
   Let the light from the lighthouse shine on me!
   
   

10. If she'd been the pal that she should have
    He might have been raising a son.
    
    

11. Overhaul, overhaul, on your davit tackles fall,
    And launch your boats for sea, brave boys.
    
    

12. Let other folk make money faster,
    In the air of dark roomed towns.
    
    

13. An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain
    Oh give me my lowly thatch'd cottage again.
    
    

14. To eat their ragouts, as well as to dance,
    We are fed up with nothing but complaisance.
    
    

15. The cat's gone and scratched
    Poor little Bill.
    
    

16. These ladies must have pillowes,
    And beds by strangers wrought.
    
    

17. Next came in was a bumble bee, mm-mm,
    Danced a jig with a two-legged flea, mm-mm.
    
    

18. As oft time we wandered in the cool morning air,
    Where the roses are blooming and the lilies entwine.
    
    

19. Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg,
    Ye'll have to put with bowl out to beg.
    
    

20. Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high,
    And the snow come tumblin' from the sky.
    
    

21. In a cowslip's bell I lie,
    There I crouch when owls do cry.
    
    

22. My men were all clothed in green
    And they did ever wait on thee.
    
    

23. The birds did whistle and sweetly sing,
    Changing their notes from tree to tree.
    
    

24. Each step wakes a mem'ry, as freely I roam
    With soft whispers laden, its leaves rustle o'er me.
    
    

25. The days for youth are made for glee,
    And time is on the wing.
    
    
26. Noiseless and light to the lattice above her
    The maid steps, then leaps to the arms of her lover.
    
    

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: MMario
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:00 PM

not many...

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: harpmolly
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:06 PM

The only one that even sounds vaguely familiar...

4.There the wild flowers spring and the wee birdies sing. And in sunshine the waters are sleeping.

I actually don't know this, but from the way the lyric flows, I'm guessing "Red is the Rose."

Hmmm. Cool idea, anyway. :)

M

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:06 PM

No. 21 is from Ariel in the Tempest, Where the bee sucks

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:10 PM

No. 1 sounds like the second or so verse from Barbara Allen

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: IceWolf
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:13 PM

1 is from "Barbara Allen".

19 is from "Johnny I hardly knew ye"

21 is from one of Shakespeare's plays.

IceWolf

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Mad Maudlin
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:22 PM

And 11 is "The Greenland Whale Fisheries".

17 is "Mr Frog Went A-Courting"

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Bert
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:22 PM

11: Greenland Whale fisheries
17: Froggy went a courting

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:28 PM

Mollificent - you got the right tune, but this is a Scottish song.

Ice Wolf - I agree with all of yours.

Perhaps these are more familiar in Britain than on the left of the pond

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:31 PM

Maudlin & Bert - Great Minds think alike! are you related?

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Bert
Date: 07 May 01 - 02:33 PM

Wow, both the same answers posted at exactly the same time.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 May 01 - 03:03 PM

4 - Big Rock Candy Mountain????
23-The Croppy Boy

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Roughyed
Date: 07 May 01 - 03:26 PM

20 is "I'll Tell Me Ma"

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Dahlin
Date: 07 May 01 - 03:47 PM

5. Dumbarton's Drums

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 May 01 - 04:01 PM

I got the already mentioned , froggy, and Johnny We hardly....
I think #9 is titled "shine on Me" I know of two recordings of the song. I can't remember 1 guys name but he does a version of it on the "Anthology of American Folk Music", I believe with his family. The other is Blind Willie Johnson. This is fun.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: GUEST,Barry T at work
Date: 07 May 01 - 04:11 PM

A neat lunch hour quiz!

16. Sosban Fach

18. Rose of Mooncoin

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Noreen
Date: 07 May 01 - 04:12 PM

12. Linden Lea

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: mousethief
Date: 07 May 01 - 04:32 PM

I know I'm ignorant of most folk music. Do we really need these threads to emphasize it? I'm willing to admit it openly.

My "folk" recorded music collection is pitifully small, and I don't get out nearly enough to hear live folk music.

Sigh.

Alex

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 May 01 - 04:57 PM

2 Will Ye Come Back No More?

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: SeanM
Date: 07 May 01 - 05:38 PM

I almost want to say 1 is Rocky Road to Dublin...

M

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 May 01 - 05:45 PM

Wow! You've got most of the ones I couldn't find in the DT! Thanks

I was missing 6, 9, 12 15, and 18.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 May 01 - 07:31 PM

#24 is The Ash Grove

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 07 May 01 - 09:04 PM

ones that I don't think have been named yet:

20 I'll Tell my Ma
22Greensleves (as Pete Seeger said, " out of Francis James Child. Forty verses, and each one of them dumber than the last" (bonus: what record does THAT dialog appear on?)
23 the Croppy Boy

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Anglo
Date: 07 May 01 - 09:20 PM

I'd guess 14 is "Roast Beef of Old England."
21 is "Where the bee sucks, there suck I."
Is 26 "The Spinning Wheel"?

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 07 May 01 - 09:49 PM

Yeah, Pete, but Greensleeves isn't in Child at all. Not even the first three verses.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: toadfrog
Date: 07 May 01 - 09:58 PM

The only one I know, not identified above, is 10

I ain't got no yewse for the women!
A true one may never be found!
[etc.]
If she'd been the pal that she should of
He might have been raising a son,
Instead of out there on the prairie
Shot down by a Ranger's gun!
Sung once by Burl Ives, and before him, by my dad.
Amazing, how the most dirt-common song is the last one to get identified!

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Jeri
Date: 07 May 01 - 10:32 PM

I haven't looked for all of them because I have to go to bed sometime, but...

3. Girl I've Left Behind Me
4. Loch Lomond
9. Lighthouse (thread with lyrics)
12. Linden Lea
18. Rose of Mooncoin
25. Miller of Dee
26. Spinning Wheel

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 07 May 01 - 11:06 PM

#8 An English Country Garden (3rd verse from Lesley's site)

How many songbirds fly to and fro
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Bobolink, cuckoo and quail
Tanager and cardinal
Bluebird, lark, thrush and nightingale
There is joy in the spring
When the birds begin to sing
In an English country garden.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 07 May 01 - 11:15 PM

#6 Calon Lân (also found at Lesley's site, midi by Barry Taylor)

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 08 May 01 - 12:11 AM

Alex, for shame! You live in one of the folk music capitals of the world. At times I wish I still lived there, with so many concerts and dances and festivals. Go pick up a copy of Victory Music Review and get out there, boy!

Aloha,
Mark (only knew 17, 19, and 23...my brain's gone soft here in Paradise!)

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 May 01 - 12:12 AM

Sheesh, Snuffy, I am across the pond and named two of them first off! Where's my prize, eh?!**BG**

katlearningsomethin'neweveryday

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: John P
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:46 AM

16. I Care Not For These Ladies by Thomas Campion

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: alison
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:54 AM

15. sospan vach

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 08 May 01 - 10:22 AM

Hi Sandy,
I KNOW it isn't, that's what made Pete's remark so funny. ((But I didn't know that when i first heard it, and that led me to actually FINDING Child in my college library, before the Dovre reprints, and I was hooked forever))
If I have read correctly, #7 and #13 are the only ones still unidentified-- and I just realized that #13 is from one of the later verses of Home Sweet Home!

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 08 May 01 - 02:07 PM

#7 LONDONDERRY AIR (in the DT)

Would God I were the tender apple blossom
That floats and falls from off the twisted bough,
To lie and faint within you silken bosom,
Within your silken bosom as that does now!
Or would I were a little burnish'd apple
For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold,
While sun and shade you robe of lawn will dapple,
Your robe of lawn, and you hair's spun gold.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 08 May 01 - 02:14 PM

#2 Will Ye No Come Back Again?

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 May 01 - 07:17 PM

I'm still not sure about #15. It sounds like it could be Sospan Fach, but in the Welsh version the cat scatches little Johnny, not little Bill. (A'r gath wedi scrapo Sioni bach)

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Boab
Date: 09 May 01 - 04:51 AM

2) Willye no Come Back Again [Bonnie Charlie] 4)Loch Lomond 5)Dumbarton's Drums 11) Greenland Fisheries 20)I'll Tell my Ma 21) Where the Bee Sucks ("AMidsummer Night's Dream? ---Skakespeare)

Can't see anything in the others-- Boab

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 09 May 01 - 07:37 AM

Nope, Boab, 21 is The Tempest, as Kat said at the top of the thread.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: COINWOLF
Date: 02 Nov 02 - 06:54 AM

Many thanks to Snuffy for posting the Upton Folk Festival Quiz on Mudcat.

Having only just joined Mudcat I had no idea that it produced such a response and have only just found out!
Hope everyone enjoyed the quiz. It started life as an amusing space filler with appropriate cartoons for the Festival programme.

Next year's festival is goin ahead full steam, we are just about to send an update to our web site of morris sides that want to attend.
If your side has not replied yet, the sooner you reply the sooner you will get listed on the web.(Last year we had just over 50 sides attend during the four days of the festival.

Looking forward to fun folk and frolic,

Festival Cat

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Nov 02 - 08:43 AM

Not being one to brag I got nine right and three wrong with out looking any thing up.Smart arses of the world unit and I will be your leader

Subject: how do I find digital sheet music
From: GUEST,dillon
Date: 02 Nov 02 - 10:44 AM

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Freso
Date: 02 Nov 02 - 11:25 AM

Shame on me, I could only identify two off the top of my head... Tell Me Ma and Greensleeves... oh well, I'm young! I've plenty o' time tae learn! ^^;

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: belfast
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 10:01 AM

Pedants' corner.

No.11 "Overhaul, overhaul, on your davit tackles fall"

Surely it should be "Let your davit tackles fall."

I did so poorly on this quiz I had to find a nit to pick.

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Verna
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 10:52 AM

Just found Coinwolf on Mudcat. What a surprise!! Can I cheat as I know all the answers?

Festival Drudge!!

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:29 PM

Hello Verna.
How's your hip?????????
See you at Upton, I'll be coming with Travelling Folk all being well.
Mary (dog days)

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:54 PM

Just looked in my garden, couldnt find any of the bobolinks and cardinals and stuff. Are we sure that one was "English Country Garden"?

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: Fleadhman
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:36 PM

No 20 "Donald where's your trousers"

Subject: RE: Quiz: Name these songs
From: COINWOLF
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 06:56 PM

Verna won the competition at Upton, so she does know what she is talking about!


Are there any songs out there about bionic folkies?


Festival Cat