18 Nov 04 - 10:31 AM (#1331085) Subject: My Singing Calendar From: Wilfried Schaum 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 |
18 Nov 04 - 11:34 AM (#1331129) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: GUEST,MCP The Bonny Black Hare comes immediately to mind for the 14th May. Mick |
18 Nov 04 - 11:39 AM (#1331135) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: GUEST,ClaireBear 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... |
18 Nov 04 - 11:47 AM (#1331143) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: GUEST,MCP 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 |
18 Nov 04 - 11:48 AM (#1331144) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: MMario ClareBear beat me to it - but for example - "month of may" brings up about 35 songs and around 230 threads. |
18 Nov 04 - 11:56 AM (#1331158) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: MMario using the "advanced super search" you can search on "may" AND a specific number/date. |
18 Nov 04 - 11:57 AM (#1331160) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: GUEST,MCP 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 |
18 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM (#1331165) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: MMario BARNS O' BENEUCHES - 26th |
18 Nov 04 - 12:03 PM (#1331170) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: MMario SHAMROCK SHORE (2) - 23rd THE SOO STE. MARY'S JAIL- 24th SALADIN MUTINY - 29th |
18 Nov 04 - 12:29 PM (#1331191) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: open mike 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 filename[ BLUEMNTN SOF |
18 Nov 04 - 12:36 PM (#1331198) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: open mike 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 |
18 Nov 04 - 04:12 PM (#1331478) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: Wilfried Schaum 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 |
18 Nov 04 - 04:27 PM (#1331494) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: MMario 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 |
19 Nov 04 - 01:22 AM (#1331967) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: JennieG Nothing for May 9? Does this mean I don't have a song to sing on my birthday? Sob..... JennieG |
19 Nov 04 - 03:05 AM (#1332009) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: Wilfried Schaum 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 |
19 Nov 04 - 03:34 AM (#1332024) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: Wilfried Schaum JennieG - look at the calendar under May 9. |
19 Nov 04 - 05:36 AM (#1332077) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: Jess A for 21st October, Death of Nelson as discussed here although it doesn't look like its been harvested for the DT yet |
19 Nov 04 - 09:36 AM (#1332291) Subject: RE: My Singing Calendar From: Snuffy 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. |