14 Dec 01 - 10:15 AM (#609623)
Subject: RE: Song Origins PermaThread™
From: katlaughing
(H) Happy Birthday Song Happy Birthday Song Hard Times Come Again No More Hector The Hero High Noon/Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling Hob-i-derry Dando evolved to Cosher Bailey the rugby song Holly and the Ivy - Older discussion Holly and the Ivy - Some recent insights Home on the Range Hound Dog Original Version?? House of the Rising Sun Hush Hush, Time to be Sleeping
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I Dreamed There Were Unicorns - Bill Caddick If I Were a Blackbird If I Were A Blackbird I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen Iko Iko - Please see "Jacamo finane?" In the Bleak Mid-winter I Ride An Old Paint - Please see "Old Paint" I Wish I Wish
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Jacamo finane? Actual title IKO IKO Jimmy Cracked Corn John Henry John Henry's Origin Solved? Johnny Be Fair Joy of My Heart
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Keep On the Sunny Side Kelligrew's Soiree (Kishmul's Galley)Who Was Kishmul Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Kumbaya Another one on Kumbaya
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Lads of Virginia - History?; Weary in Virginny, O Two different songs in same thread LAGAN LOVE Lament of the Irish Emigrant Lament of the Irish Emigrant Lament of the Irish Emigrant Laurel - variations on Green Grow the Rashes (Burns), Green Grow the Rushes; The Green Laurel/Green Grows the Laurel. Also see GREEN GROWS Lavender Blue/Dilly Dilly Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's Lines Upon The Water Little Beggarman Lippai Loch Lomond referencing an early version called Flora's Lament for her Charlie Loch Lomond Loch Lomond Loch Lomond Loch Lomond Loch Lomond & Red Is the Rose Loch Tay Boat Song Log Driver's Waltz Londonderry Air/Danny Boy Long Black Veil Lord of the Dance
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Maggie(When You and I Were Young) Magpie Mairi's Wedding Tune For Mairi's Wedding Mary Ellen Carter Mary Mild Massacre of Glencoe (see "Ballad of Glencoe," also) Master of the Sheepfold (also see Poor Lil' Brack Sheep) Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife Midnight Loving Trail - please see Goodnight Loving Trail Mingulay Boat Song Miss Otis AND, Chords for Mist Covered Mountains/Chì Mi Na Mórbheana Molly Bawn, etc Molly Maguires Molly Malone Mormon Folk Songs Important thread with songs important to history:Bullfight on the San Pedro; Zack, the Mormon Engineer; John D. Lee (Mountain Meadows related); The Double Tragedy; Brighter Days in Store (see Hard Times Come Again No More); All Are Talking of Utah; The Desert Route (tells the story of the Mormon Batallion that founded the Desert Wagon Route during the Mexican War that led to the Gadsen Purchase from Mexico and eventual building of the Southern Pacific route). Morning Has Broken Mouse on the barroom floor MTA Song, The My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean My Darling Clementine My Green Valleys My Wild Irish Rose
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NEW San Antonio Rose 1913 Massacre No Man's Land (Green Fields of France) Northwest Passage Northwest Passage Now Is the Hour
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Ode to Billy Joe/Talahassie(sic) Bridge Ode to Billy Joe/Jumped off a bridge? O Du Fröliche, English version of German Three titles: O Du Fröliche, O Sanctissima, O Thou Joyful Day, and tune, Sicilian Mariners Oh Dem Golden Slippers Old Dun Cow Old Paint Help: houlihan? Old Paint Good-by, Old Paint (Lomax cpl. 1910, also 1938 versions)I Ride An Old Paint(Larkin 1931)(Best thread with complete songs and reliable term definitions) Old Rugged Cross One Meat Ball-Burl Ives ("Lone Fish Ball," the first version from 1855, in the thread)
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Paddy's Lamentation/BY THE HUSH Peggy Gordon/Caledonia/When I First Went To Caledonia Peter Amberlay - New Brunswick Song Poor Lil' Brack Sheep The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow Puff The Magic Dragon
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Raggle Taggle Gypsy Raglan Road Red Haired Man's Wife Red Is The Rose Red River Valley (Also see "Forty Below") Reynardine Ricky Nelson - Garden Party Robin Hood ballads Rochester Recruiting Sergeant Róisín Dubh Roll, Alabama, Roll Roll me over in the Clover Roll ON The Day Rose of Allendale Rose of Tralee Rosin the Bow Rushes O -Green Grow the Rushes O (Sandys 1833), and its cluster, including The Twelve Apostles, The Ten Commandments, Children Go Where I Send Thee, How Shall I Send Thee.
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St. James Infirmary Sally in our Alley (NEW) San Antonio Rose Scarborough Fair Scarborough Fair Scarborough Fair - Uncorrupting The Corruptible Scottish Emigrant's Farewell Sea Chanteys That wonderful one that Cranky Yankee started Seven Drunken Nights Shel Silverstein's Unicorn Shenandoah She Moved Through the Fair Show Me The Way To Go Home Si Bheag Si Mhor / Shee Beg Shee More
sick note/murphy and the bricks a thread started by Pat Cooksey, the author of the song; the definitive thread on the origins of this song.
This must count as one of the earliest threads #32: Sick Note/Paddy's Not at Work/Excuse Note
Sick Note/Paddy's Not at Work/Excuse Note Sick Note/Paddy's Not at Work/Excuse Note Sierry Petes Sing A Song of Sixpence(Why 4 & 20 Blackbirds Baked in a Pie?) Skibbereen Sleeping At the End of the Bed Sloop John B The Snows They Melt the Soonest Soldier's Joy Spancil Hill Spanish Is The Loving Tongue Spanish Ladies Stagger Lee Stand Up For Judas Strawberry Roan - Sheepherders version? Correct title: Strawberry Roan - Outlaw Broncho Streets of Laredo Strike the Bell, Second Mate Sweet Betsey From Pike
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Take Her Out Of Pity Take The Children and Run Taladh Chriosta(Christ Child Lullaby) Tell Me Ma Tell Old Bill There is a Tavern in the Town This Land is My Land (Canadian Version) Those Were The Days My Friend Tie A Yellow Ribbon Tom Dooley Tom Dooley Tom Dula/Dooley Tom Dula/Dooley Tom Dula/Dooley Tom O' Bedlam Town of Old Dolores Trad British Isles' Songs 12 Days of Christmas
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Unchained Melody
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Wabash Cannonball (also defines term Hobo) Wabash Cannonball (discussion of terms) Wabash Cannonball (definition of terms) Waly Waly Waltzing Matilda / Craigielee Waltzing Matilda / Bonnie Woods of Craigilea (Original) Waltzing Matilda Water Is Wide Water Is Wide Water Is Wide Water Is Wide Water is Wide, and other tie-ins Water is Wide - One more time Wayfaring Stranger Weary in Virginny, O; Lads of Virginia - History? Two different songs in same thread Westering Home Wexford Carol (Enniscorthy Christmas Carol) also known as "Good People All" Whaler's Tale When Christmas Morn is Dawning (words: När Juldagsmorgon Glimmar) (tune: Wir hatten gebauet) When I First Went To Caledonia When You and I Were Young(Maggie) Where Have All The Flowers Gone Whiskey In The Jar Wild Colonial Boy Wild Mountain Thyme Wild Rover Wildwood Flower (Includes original, I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets) WILLIAM TAYLOR Wimbeldon Fair Wimoweh/Lion Sleeps Tonight(original) Women o'Dundee Women O'Dundee The World is Old Wreck of the Asia Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck of the Old '97
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Yankee Doodle You Are My Sunshine
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