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Posted By: MartinRyan
21-Jun-08 - 07:58 AM
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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.