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Subject: Index: Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs (Appendix)
"Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs"
Wright
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Appendix 1
AIRS
SOME ADDITIONAL VARIANTS
SOME AIRS LISTED ON BROADSIDES ("To be sung to the tune of .....)
SOME EMIGRANT SONGS WITHOUT WORDS
AS VANQUISHED ERIN (BOYNE WATER) 635
Source: Lampe, Songs of Ireland, 13.
BOW-WOW-WOW 636
Source: Chamberlain & Harrington, Songs of All the Colleges, 104.
"BURNS' FAREWELL" (Two possibilities) 637
Source: Ritson, Scotish Songs, Vol. II, 453-455. See also "The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolten," and "Farewell, Thou Stream That Winding Flows."
CHEER, BOYS, CHEER 638
Source: Johnson, Our Familiar Songs and Those Who Made Them, 105-106.
THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN 639
Source: Sheet music, E. Ferrett, New York, etc., n.d. Located: Free Library of Philadelphia
THE FLAG OF OUR UNION 641
Source: Sheet music, William Hall, New York, 1851. Located: Free Library of Philadelphia
THE IRISH JAUNTING CAR 644
Source: Sheet music, Stannard and Dixon (?), Dublin (?), n.d. Located: Free Library of Philadelphia
THE LOW-BACKED CAR 648
Source: Fisher, Sixty Irish Songs, 96-97.
NO IRISH NEED APPLY 650
Source: Sheet music, S. Brainerd...., 1863.
Located: Library of Congress
OLD DAN TUCKER 653
Source: Sheet music, J. F. Atwill, New York, 1848. Located: Free Library of Philadelphia
PACKINGTON'S POUND (three versions) 656
Source: Simpson, 'The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 564-570.
Simpson states: "This is the most popular single tune associated with ballads before 1700." The first of the three versions given here dates from 1596. See Simpson for details concerning this fascinating song.
THE QUILTING PARTY 657
Source: Chamberlain and Harrington, Songs of All the Colleges, 264.
RORY O' MOORE 658
Source: Sheet music, G. Riley, New York, n.d. Located: Free Library of Philadelphia
THE SHAN VAN VOCHT 661
Source: Galvin, Irish Songs of Resistance, 27.
AN SEANN-BHEAN BHOCHT 661
Source: Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, XX (1925). One of several variants of the melody.
THEY SAIL'D AWAY (DUBLIN BAY) 662
Source: Lampe, Songs of Ireland, 91.
THO' DARK ARE OUR SORROWS (SAINT PATRICK'S DAY) 663
Source: Lampe, Songs of Ireland, 92-93.
WHO WILL CARE FOR MOTHER NOW? 665
Source: Silber, Songs of the Civil War, 157-159, from sheet music, Sawyer and Thompson, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1863.
VILLIKINS AND HIS DINAH 668
Source: Sheet music, The Musical Bouquet Office and J. Allen, London, n.d.
BILLY BYRNE OF BALLYMANUS 672
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 179-180.
CHARMING MARY NEILL 672
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 123.
DONNELLY AND COOPER 673
Source: Healy and O'Keeffe, The First Book of Irish Ballads, n.p.
EMIGRANT SONG (GOING TO AMERICA) 673
Source: Petrie, The Complete Collection of Irish Music, pt. II, 216.
ERIN-GO-BRAGH 673
Source: Ford, Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland....,47.
THE IRISH STRANGER 674
Source: Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. 5, 50-51.
JACK O'DONOGHUE (BOLD JACK DONAHUE) 674
Source: Roche, Collection of Irish Airs...., vol. 1, no. 17.
A LADY IN PENNSYLVANIA LOVELY NANCY YOU'LL BE 675
Source: Joyce, The Complete Collection of Irish Music, Pt. II, 173.
LOSS OF THE LONDON 675
Source: Journal of the Folk Song Society, no. 17 (the fourth part of vol. IV), 1910-1913,31.
MACKENNA'S DREAM 676
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, lib-Ill.
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD 676
Source: Zimmerman, Songs of Irish Rebellion, 111.
SHULE AROON (JOHNNY HAS GONE FOR A SOLDIER) 677
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 236-237.
THE TAILOR (TAYLOR) AND THE PIPER 677
Source: Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, XVII, (1923), 29-30.
THERE'S WHISKEY IN THE JAR 678
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (Pigot Collection), 345.
WHEN FIRST I LEFT OLD IRELAND 678
Source: Petrie, The Complete Collection of Irish Music, Pt. II, 215.