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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Jul-04 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: Songs of the Newfoundland Outports-Peacock
Subject: RE: Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
Thanks for the Index, Karen. I was afraid Joe would take up my offer, and am glad you stepped in.

A number of the titles are local. Here are the ones with alternative names or that have been derived from another version.
Proper indexing should contain entries for alternate names. Not done in Peacock. Some are impossible to guess at (e. g., The Loss of the Eliza - The Herons).

The Banks of the Ayr - Burns and His Highland Mary
Blooming Mary Ann - Lovely Mary Ann
Bold McCarthy - The City of Baltimore
The Bold Trooper - The Cropped Tailor
The Bonavist Line - The Riverhead Line
The Bonny Banks of Ardrie-O - Babylon, Child
The Bonny Busk of London - The Twa Sistrs (Child 10)
Bound Down for Newfoundland - The Schooner Mary Ann
The Cambric Shirt - The Elfin Knight (Child 2)
The Deserter - When the Battle It Is Won
Donald Munro - Daniel Munro - You Sons of North Britain
The Drunken Captain - In Canso Strait
Early Spring - The Young Bride's Lament
Fair Marjorie's Ghost - Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Child 74-B)
Feller from Fortune - Lots of Fish in Bonavist Harbour
Flora - The Stormy Winds of Winter
The Foolish Shepherd - The Baffled Knight (Child 112)
George's Banks - The Shea Gang
Gold Watch and Chain - The Female Highwayman
The Gray Mare - Roger the Miller
Hembrick Town - Katherine Jaffray (Child 221)
High Times in Our Ship - Martin Hurley
I Long to Be Wedding - The Old Maid's Song
I'm Sitting on the Stile, Mary - The Irish Immigrant
John Barbour - Willie O Winsbury (Child 100)
The King's Daughter - Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (Child 4)
Lady Margaret - Sweet William's Ghost (Child 77)
Liza Gray - The "Lady of the Lake"
Lord Bateman - Young Beichan (Child 53)
Lord Donald - Little Musgraver ... (Child 81)
The Loss of the Eliza - The Herons
The Maid on the Shore O - The Young Sea Captain
The Mantle So Green - Famed Waterloo
Nancy from London - Tall Grow the Rushes
The Nobleman's Wedding - The Green Willow Tree - The Awful Wedding
The Old Bo's'n - The Boatswain and the Tailor
The Sailor and the Lady - The Rich Merchant
The Sealers' Ball - Be Ye Much of a Hand Aboard a Vessel
Seven Years I Loved a Sailor - Flowery Garden
She Died in Love - The Butcher Boy
The Ship's Carpenter - The Gosport Tragedy
Sir William - The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter (Child 110)
The Slaney Side - The Tanyard Side
The Soldier and the Lady - The Nightingale
Strawberry Tower - Strawbello Strand
Taking Back Gear in the Night - Gerry Fudge
A Tale of Jests - The Lie Song
A Week's Work - A Week's Work Well Done - The Holly Twig
Whaling Song - The Greenland Whale Fishery
The Woods of Michigan - Harry Dunn - The Hanging Limb
The Worcester Tragedy - The Cruel Miller - The Miller Boy
The Yorkshire Boy - Well Sold the Cow
The Young Ship's Carpenter - The Daemon Lover (Child 243)