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08 Mar 17 - 06:30 AM (#3843622) Subject: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: sleepyjon I've been asked to come up with some songs about country crafts etc - but not including ploughing or shepherding (themes that we've had already) - and that seems to rule out everything I know! Mind gone blank! Help! (please!) SJ |
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08 Mar 17 - 06:51 AM (#3843627) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,SteveT You could always try "Acorns" written by Eric Payne and recorded on his CD of the same name and on Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher's CD Acorn to Oak. It references ostler, labourer, farrier, blacksmith, carter, herdsman, keeper, poacher, hawker, tramp and ploughman. (Sorry about the last one!) |
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08 Mar 17 - 07:10 AM (#3843634) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Manitas_at_home Hedging and Ditching? The Hiring Fair? |
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08 Mar 17 - 08:51 AM (#3843651) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Jack Campin Waulking songs. Lotsa songs about blacksmiths. "My daddy's a delver of dykes" "The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow" (spinning) "The Weary Pund o Tow" (ditto) "Clout the Cauldron" (tinkering) |
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08 Mar 17 - 09:10 AM (#3843655) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Snuffy I'd sooner lay blackthorn |
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08 Mar 17 - 09:24 AM (#3843659) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: FreddyHeadey walling thread.cfm?threadid=161028 hedging thread.cfm?threadid=107687 > Related threads: Lyr Req: Blackthorn (from Anuna) Lyr Req/Add: Blackthorn THE NOBLEMAN AND THE THRESHER @displaysong.cfm?SongID=6757 HONEST LABOURER @displaysong.cfm?SongID=2707 THE SEASONS ROUND @displaysong.cfm?SongID=6953 There are probably more. Type a word into the "Lyrics & Knowledge Search" box. |
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08 Mar 17 - 09:38 AM (#3843661) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: gillymor Dick Gaughan - The Thatchers O'Glenrae |
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08 Mar 17 - 09:45 AM (#3843663) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: gillymor Peg and Awl- Danu |
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08 Mar 17 - 09:45 AM (#3843664) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Hedger and Ditcher is a start Poor Old Horse the canal shanty - there's a similar American one Erie Canal/Low Bridge/Mule Named Sal |
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08 Mar 17 - 10:01 AM (#3843668) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: gillymor Jimmie Rodgers "Mule Skinner Blues" |
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08 Mar 17 - 10:08 AM (#3843671) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Dave Hanson The Molecatcher [ trad ] Dave H |
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08 Mar 17 - 10:08 AM (#3843672) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Big Al Whittle Sooz -Sue Dewsbury - wrote this song after talking to an old ploughman. theres only a fragment of it here - but its an impressive song. i'm sure she'll send the words. she's a generous soul. http://www.gainsboroughfolkclub.com/stitherum/11six.mp3 |
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08 Mar 17 - 10:47 AM (#3843687) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel I don't know if there's a tune, but someone told me:- I am a dry-stone waller, All day I dry-stone wall, Of all appalling callings, Dry-Stone walling's worst of all |
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08 Mar 17 - 12:28 PM (#3843706) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: The Sandman check out dave goulders website i am sure there is a song about dry stone walling |
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09 Mar 17 - 02:09 AM (#3843809) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: eftifino Beekeeping: The Big Effen Bee by Matt McGinn He kept bees in the old town of Effen An Effen beekeeper was he And one day this Effen beekeeper Was stung by a big Effen bee Now this big Effen beekeeper's wee Effen wife For the big Effen polis she ran For there's nobody can sort out a big Effen bee Like a big Effen polisman can The big Effen polisman, he did his nut And he ran down the main Effen street In his hand was a big Effen baton He had big Effen boots on his feet The polis got hold of this big Effen bee And he twisted the Effen bee's wings But this big Effen bee got his own back For this big Effen bee had two stings Now they're both in the Effen museum Where the Effen folk often come see The remains of the big Effen polis Stung to death by the big Effen bee That's the end of that wee Effen story 'Tis an innocent wee Effen tale But if you ever tell it in Effen You'll end up in the old Effen jail |
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09 Mar 17 - 02:12 AM (#3843810) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: eftifino Myriads of poems and tales about Shearing, droving and farming in Australia, or is the thread just UK? |
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09 Mar 17 - 03:59 AM (#3843826) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel I'm sure Rambling Syd would also address your needs :-) "The Ballad of the Woggler's Moulie" immediately springs to mind, but "The Taddle Gropers' Dance", "Song of the Bogle Clencher" and "Runcorn Splod Cobbler's Song" would also fit the brief. |
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09 Mar 17 - 04:01 AM (#3843827) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: sleepyjon Lots of great suggestions - some that I should have spotted! - kicking myself now! Eftinfo, Yes, I was thinking of UK content, but the Aus connection is a good thought - especially songs with UK roots - any suggestions welcome - and prompted by your question I'll also have a look at the Sharp/Karpeles collection from the Appalachains. SJ |
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09 Mar 17 - 04:44 AM (#3843837) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Mr Red Hooks & Nets by the recently departed Ian (Woodsie) Woods about poaching Mr Red's songs not trad per se, in context there is: "Merry Bookbinder", "Knittershanty", plus a couple of genuine, if off-piste, Pace Egging songs - (if you include carol singing for small boys ) and more urban are "Pure Finder" & "Old Rags & Bones". |
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09 Mar 17 - 09:49 AM (#3843925) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: CupOfTea Think of any field of endeavour, and search for worksongs relating - mining, sailing, oil drilling, fishing, house building, you likely know more songs than you can think of off the top of your head. Lots of songs about mill work Weaver's Reverie, Cotton Mill Girls The Copper Family repertoire has reference to some more specific crafts And be sure to include the brewer! "Craft" beers proliferate like weeds around here. John Barleycorn covers several skills along the way from planting to drinking. Ships afford a range from shipbuilding to all the tasks on board. Gordon Bok has several about shipbuilding. Dick Swain's setting of "Old Figurehead Carver" Gotta get to work, and I admit, I do not know any work songs about church record keeping or bulletin writing. Joanne in Cleveland |
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09 Mar 17 - 10:11 AM (#3843927) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Following on from Mr Red, of course "When Gamekeepers Lie A-sleeping" |
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09 Mar 17 - 10:12 AM (#3843928) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel And Steve Knightley's "Long Dog". |
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22 Mar 17 - 07:46 AM (#3846115) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: sleepyjon Thanks for the suggestions so far - following up a couple of goodies - still room for more if anyone's got any. Cheers SJ |
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22 Mar 17 - 12:44 PM (#3846160) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Jack Campin Loads of songs about millers (or more often, their wives and daughters). If you can play the pipes, the joke about the piper encountering the septic tank installers would give you a routine commemorating an otherwise unsung occupation. |
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22 Mar 17 - 01:56 PM (#3846174) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Marje "Young Banker" I understand that a banker was a man who built up the stone banks that border the narrow lanes in some country areas such as Devon. |
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23 Mar 17 - 05:01 AM (#3846236) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Mo the caller Jack, your reference to the Rock and Wee Pickle Tow set me searching. I have a dance of that name in a BBC pamphlet from a series of Barn Dances that they did 20 or so years ago. Mudcat Lyrics gives me a Scottish Nursery Rhyme to the tune Rock... (that I sing an English version of to Lilli Bolero, to my granddaughter), Google tells me who wrote the poem. But I can't find the words so I still don't know what the title means and I've often wondered. |
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23 Mar 17 - 09:14 AM (#3846294) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Gutcher Songs mentioning lassies milking include:-- "The {Old] Yellow Haired Laddie" [at least two others with this name] Mentioned by Allan Ramsay B.1686 as an old song in his day. [1] The yellowed haired laddie sat doon on yon brae Cried milk the yowes lassie let nane o them gae And aye as she milket she merrily sang The yellow haired laddie shall be my gudeman. On another recent thread I mentioned that I had a number of floating songs which, as far as I can determine, do not appear in any of the printed collections--one of them being:-- "Lassie Leave yer Milkin Pail" [M] [1] O lassie lea yer milkin pail O lassie lea yer fee O lassie lea yer milkin pail An come awa wi me. [F] [2] [M] [3]----I have recently found this one verse in an 1820s. publication. [F] [4] [M] [5] [F] {6] |
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23 Mar 17 - 09:36 AM (#3846296) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Paul Reade The excellent singer / songwriter Anna Shannon's CD "A Celebration of Old England" fits the bill for this thread perfectly. |
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23 Mar 17 - 12:34 PM (#3846328) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,henryp The Drovers' Way by Jim Boyes; it's on Coda by Coope Boyes and Simpson The Ploughboy's Dream sung by Coope Boyes & Simpson 0n Triple Echo: Songs collected by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth and Grainger The Drovers by Keith Marsden; Oh the droving days are done, and the drover's way is run. For there's railways laid and they've taken the trade, And the droving days are done. In the Droving Days - poem by Banjo Patterson The Diamantina Drover written by Hugh McDonald Search for drover/droving on DT index. The Goodnight-Loving Trail by Utah Philips The Old Changing Way by Richard Thompson; "I'm Darby the tinker" Poor Ditching Boy by Richard Thompson Shillingstone Moss by Tim Laycock The Nutting Girl/A-Nutting We Will Go; from the singing of Cyril Poacher The Spotted Cow; from the singing of Harry Cox Lincolnshire Poacher; traditional song Rufford Park Poachers; sung by Joseph Taylor, verses completed by Patrick O'Shaughnessy Search for poacher in DT index. While the Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping; from the singing of George 'Pop' Maynard Long Dog by Steve Knightley of Show of Hands Country Life by Steve Knightley of Show of Hands |
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23 Mar 17 - 12:51 PM (#3846330) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: GUEST,henryp And this is one you really could sing. Click Go the Shears; first published in 1891 in the regional Victorian newspaper the Bacchus Marsh Express |
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23 Mar 17 - 08:55 PM (#3846396) Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations From: Tattie Bogle The Rock (or Roke) and Wee Pickle Tow is one of the town tunes of Linlithgow in West Lothian, and is played VERY early in the morning on Linlithgow Marches Day by whistlers, pipers an a'. It is almost identical to the Irish tune, "O'Sullivan's March". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYaLwZf9Yo Yes, that was 6 AM, and the flutes and whistles were at 5 AM! |