My Singing Calendar

Subject: My Singing Calendar
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 10:31 AM

At first I wanted to wait till Christmas to present to you all MY SINGING CALENDAR containing
A SONG (OR MORE) FOR MANY A DAY OF THE YEAR FROM THE MUDCAT DIGITRAD
which can be browsed up through my mudcat signals page or directly.

Unfortunately I need some help. Looking through the DT searching for May the entire list was blown up by the verb to may. So if anybody knows a song with a fixed date in it which is missing in the calendar, please inform me (not only for May, you may also help out with other months).
The idea is to enjoy a few songs on alternating days and learn about the different types of songs, about battles, love, murder, hangings, the whale fishery, and about the general course (and curse) of life.

Sing and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:34 AM

The Bonny Black Hare comes immediately to mind for the 14th May.

Mick

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:39 AM

Wilfried, you might search for "May morning," "first of May," and "month of May," all of which commonly occur in ballads and folksongs. Searching for these phrases using advanced search shouldn't get you in trouble.

What a wonderful idea you have had! I can't wait to browse it (but since I am at work, I will have to).

There's an English country dance tune called "the Twenty-Ninth of May," which is (I think, though the story is rather confusing) the day when Charles II was crowned king in 1660. In parts of England, people still commemorate the restoration of the monarchy by wearing sprigs of oak in memory of the time when the king hid from Cromwell's forces by climbing an oak tree following the Battle of Worcester. There MUST be songs...

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:47 AM

A search on "of May" produces a workable list, even though it contains a lot of "month of May". It did let me find quickly Botany Bay for the 28th. I didn't look further, but the list is not extensive.

Mick

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:48 AM

ClareBear beat me to it - but for example - "month of may" brings up about 35 songs and around 230 threads.

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:56 AM

using the "advanced super search" you can search on "may" AND a specific number/date.

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:57 AM

I should have looked at the next song in my list, for Boy And The Mantle has the 3rd of May.

(I should have said that this is from the DT only - using text search in my local copy. I don't think that "month of May" is so useful as it mostly brings up the nuisance "It was in the month of May" or similar. Using just "of May" get you things like "It was on the Xth of May").

Mick

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM

BARNS O' BENEUCHES - 26th

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:03 PM

SHAMROCK SHORE (2) - 23rd

THE SOO STE. MARY'S JAIL- 24th

SALADIN MUTINY - 29th

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: open mike
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:29 PM

ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAIN

One morning, one morning, on morning in May
I overheard a married man to a young girl say
"Arise you up, Pretty Katie, and come along with me
Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny

"I'll buy you a horse, love, and a saddle to ride
I'll buy me another'n to ride by your side
We'll stop at every tavern and drink when we are dry
Across the Blue Mountain goes Katie and I"

Well, up stepped her mother, in anger she was then
"Daughter, dear daughter, he is a married man
Besides, there's young men a plenty is handsomer than he
Let him take his own wife to the Allegheny"

"Oh mother, dear mother, he's the man of my heart
Wouldn't it be an awful shame for me and my love to part
I'd envy all the women that ever I did see
Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny"

Well the last time I seen him, he was saddled to ride
Katie, his darling, was there by his side
A laughing and a singing and happy to be free
Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny

We left before daybreak on a buckskin and a roan
Past tall shivering pines where mockingbirds moan
Past dark cabin windows where eyes never see
Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny

@courting @west
recorded by Sandy and Caroline Paton
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Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: open mike
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:36 PM

this one, or a version of it wqs first heard by many when sung by james taylor.

THE NIGHTINGALES SING (4)

One morning, one morning, one morning in May
I spied a young couple, a goin' this way
One was a lady, a lady so fair
The other a soldier, a brave Grenadier.

Good morning, good morning, good morning to thee
O where are you going, my pretty lady?
O, I'm going to walk to the banks of the sea;
To see waters gliding, hear the nightingales sing.

They had not been standing but a moment or two
When out of his knapsack a fiddle he drew
And the tune that he played made the valleys to ring
"Hark! Hark!" cried the lady, "hear the nigntingales sing."

"Pretty lady, pretty lady, it's time to give o'er"
"O no", cried the lady,"please play one tune more
I'd rather hear your fiddle, and the touch of one string
Than to see waters gliding, hear the nightingales sing."

"O soldier, O soldier, will you marry me?"
'O no, pretty lady, that never can be
I've a wife in old England and children twice three
Two wives in the army's too many for me."

"I'll go back to London and stay for a year
And drink wine and whiskey, instead of small beer
But if ever I return it'll be in the spring
Just to see waters gliding, hear the nightingales sing."

note: an Appalachian version. Tune has been adapted to
Patriot Games, God On our Side RG
Recorded by Jean Ritchie, Doc Watson

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:12 PM

That's the Cat!
In about two hours' time I got a lot of valuable advice!
Some combinations I tried, naturally; but songs containing only the merry month of May without a date I found a lot, but they don't fit my purpose. The songs with a fixed date I shall incorporate into my calendar in the next days - I'm just back from a short but heavy bout and have to work next morning.
Thanks y'all, and y'all invited to tell me more. But remember: only dates with month and day are needed,

Sing and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:27 PM

TRUE THOMAS (2) - 1st

THE RAGING CANAL - 2nd

J.B. MARCUM - 4rth

STREETS OF FORBES - 5th

TEBO -6th

COME O MY LOVE - 11th

LISBON-14th

THE COD BANGING SONG -14th

SHERMAN CYCLONE - 15th

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 01:22 AM

Nothing for May 9? Does this mean I don't have a song to sing on my birthday?

Sob.....
JennieG

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:05 AM

Bad luck, Jennie - but maybe this poem might comfort you (only entry I found for May 9).

MMario - many thanks for the extensive list.

Sing and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:34 AM

JennieG - look at the calendar under May 9.

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: Jess A
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 05:36 AM

for 21st October, Death of Nelson as discussed here although it doesn't look like its been harvested for the DT yet

Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:36 AM

Why are all May songs merry? Miserable begins with 'M' too. I've been looking for miserable May songs without a lot of success, but you have greatly widened the range for me. Many thanks

PS. When I Was on Horseback (2) 14th.