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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Jan-09 - 10:36 PM
Thread Name: Sam Henry's Songs of the People
Subject: INDEX- Sam Henry's Songs of the People
Sam Henry's Songs of the People is a quarto volume of over 600 pages. The posts here are a beginning of an index; the material will be revised for the Irish Song Book Permathread.
SAM HENRY'S SONGS OF THE PEOPLE Edited by Gale Huntington, revised by Lani Herrmann, Geographical index by John Moulden, 1990, 632pp., Univ. Georgia Press, Athens(GA) and London. Ballads and songs first published in the "Northern Constitution" between 1923-1939. Tunes (Melodic Index) are indexed by First-phase Accents. Original sources and geographic location are also indexed. The main index of songs is by first word, with title, alternate titles and first lines. It requires some familiarity with the indexing systems and subject matter. Example:
All songs are indexed by subject at the beginning of the volume. This will be the preliminary index posted here. Alternate titles not included.
SONGS
A1. Come let us all begin: Old choir rhymes Abbey 2 Dublin/Coleshill 2 Dundee 2 French 2 Mary's 2 Martyrs 3 York 3 Newto[w]n Additional verses 3 A1 References 4
A2. Rockin' the cradle is nae work, ava: Lullabies Heezh Ba 6 Hush Alee 6 Ballyeamon Cradle Song 6 Irish Lullaby for the Christ-Child 7 Lullaby for a Sailor's Child 7 Raven-Locks 7 A2 References 8
I am the Master 10 Green Gravel 10 Ring a Ring o' Roses 10 Water, Water, Wallflowers 11 I'll Tell My Ma 11 Here's a Poor Widow 11 Old Sally Walker 11 Broken Bridges 11 Fair Rosa/The Sleeping Beauty 12 How Many Miles to Babyland? 12 Cricketty Wee 12 A3 References
A4. Once I had a wee hen: Animals, hunting, racing A Child's Lullaby 17 The Little White Cat 17 My Bonnie Wee Hen 17 The Bonny Brown Hen 18 Neil Flaherty's Drake 18 The Duck from Drummuck 19 The Lost Birdies/The Hobe and the Robin 20 Robin Redbreast's Testament 20 The Goat's Will 21 Matty Broon's Soo 22 The Moneygran Pig Hunt 22 Bellaghy Fair 23 Sport's Lament 23 The Heifer 24 The "Crummy" Cow 25 The Mayogall Asses 26 Seal Song 27 The Crocodile 28 The Fox and His Wife 29 The Hunting Priest 29 Squire Agnew's Hunt 30 The Hare of Kilgrain 31 The Hare's Dream 31 The Clady River Water Bailiffs 32 A Ballad of Master M'Gra[th] 32 Cashel Green (II) 33 Arthur Bond 34 Spanking Maggie from the Ross 35 A4 References 36
A5. By the heat of my brow; Occupations, lifestyle Waulking Song 39 The Tailor Boy 39 The Cobbler 40 Jim, the Carman Land 40 My Rattlin' Oul' Grey Mare 41 My Irish Jaunting Car 41 The Farmer 41 The Rocks of Bawn 42 The Charity Seed/We Never Died in the Winter Yet 43 The Lint Pullin' 43 The Jolly Thresher 44 As a King Went A-Hunting 44 Shanty Boy 45 The Shepherd Laddie 45 The Thatchers of Glenrea 46 The Dandy Chignon 47 Long Cookstown/Nancy Whiskey 47 The Jug of Punch 48 A Cup o' Tay 48 The Black Pipe 49 The Rakes of Poverty 50 The Oul' Rigadoo 50 Old Rosin the Bow 51 Bryan O'Lynn 52 The State of Arkansaw 53 Denny Byrne, the Piper 53 The Sailor in the Alehouse 54 The Private Still 55 Mick Magee 56 My Grandfather Died 57 The Buttermilk Boy 57 O'Ryan 58 The Jolly Fisherman 59 Songs of Old Ireland 59 The Salutation 60 Fine Broom Besoms! 61 Better Bide a Wee 61 Gaol Song 62 The Bramble 62 The Leaves So Green 63 Dun Ceithern 63 Barossa/Oliver's Advice 64 The Yellow Bittern/An Bunnan Buidhe 64 The Parting Glass 65 A 5 References 65
A6. If you want a bit of fun: Celebrations Dan Murphy's Convoy 72 The Wedding at Ballyporeen 72 The Ballinderry Marriage 73 Coleraine Regatta 74 The Lammas Fair in Cargan 75 On the Road to Bethlehem 76 A6 References 77
A7. The Irish soldier boy: War The Shepherd Boy 79 My Parents Reared Me Tenderly 79 The Black Horse 80 Pat Reilly 80 Pat Muldoney 81 You Broken-Hearted Heroes 81 Lovely Sally 82 The Deserter 83 Bonny Woodha' 84 My Son Ted 84 Lovely Jamie 85 The Hungry Army 86 The Plains of Waterloo (I) The Plains of Waterloo (II) The Drummer Boy at Waterloo The Bonny Light Horseman 88 The Irish Soldier Boy 89 The Three Flowers of Chivalry 89 The Heights of Alma 90 Balaclava 91 Old Ireland Far Away 92 A7 References 92
A8. Bound away to the west'rd: Sea Kishmul's Galley 96 Sailors' Shanties 96 It's Time for Us to Leave Her 96 Tom's Gone to Ilo 96 Santy Anna 96 Paddy Doyle 97 I'm Going Home 97 The Girls of Valparaiso 97 The S[team]s[hip] Leinster Lass 98 The Cruise of the Calabar The Zared 99 Yellow Meal 100 The Shamrock Shore 101 Patrick O'Neal 102 The Sailor Boy 103 Franklin the Brave 103 The Loss of Seven Clergymen 104 The Portrush Fishing Disaster (I) 105 The Portrush Fishing Disaster (II) 105 The Wreck of the Enterprise 106 The Falcon The Wreck of the Fanad Boat 107 The Wreck of the Nimrod 108 The Loss of the Royal Charter 109 The Trader 110 The Wreck of the Rebecca 111 The Good Ship Mary Cochrane 111 The Banks of Newfoundland 112 The French Privateer 112 Captain Coulston 113 A8 References 114
A9. A bold undaunted youth: Crime Botany Bay 119 The Boston Burglar 119 The Wild Colonial Boy 120 Eight Mile Bridge 121 Whiskey in the Jar 122 Waltzing Matilda 122 Heather Jock 123 Jamie Raeburn's Farewell 124 James Magee 125 John Mitchel's Farewell to His Countrymen (a) 125 John Mitchell (b) 126 Hugh Hill, the Ramoan Smuggler 127 The Three Huntsmen/Wilson, Gilmore and Johnson 128 The Crafty Ploughboy 129 Shane Crossagh 130 The Breaking of Omagh Jail 131 The Dreary Gallows 132 Lambkin 133 A9 References 134
A10. Deep and dead water: Death, laments, ghosts The Bard of Culnady/Charles O'Neill 139 Finvola, the Gem of the Roe 139 Heilan'Jane 140 An Irish Mother's Lament 140 The Cowboy of Loreto 141 John McKeown and Margaret Deans 141 Annie Moore 142 Molly Bawn Lowry 143 A Collier Lad 144 My Lowlands, Away 144 Mary's Dream 144 The Nightingale (I) Willie Lennox 146 Sloan Wellesley 147 James Kennedy 147 Miss Cochrane 148 Rachel Dear/The Maine Water Side 148 Polly Primrose 149 Holland Is a Fine Place 149 Susan on the Beach 150 A10 References 151
B11. Erin, my country: Praise of home The Little Thatched Cabin 156 The Old Stone Wall 156 Old Arboe 157 The Hills o' Ballyboley 157 Ballycastle, O! 158 Ballymonan Brae 159 Benbradden Brae 159 The Braes of Carnanbane 160 Carnlough Shore 160 Beautiful Churchill 161 The Girls from [Dt, Wt: of] Coleraine 161 The Maids of Downhill 162 Dungiven Priory Church 162 Faughanvale 163 Bonny Garrydoo 164 Glenariffe 164 Glenelly 165 Lovely Glenshesk (I) 165 Old Inishowen 166 Kearney's Glen 166 The Shores of Sweet Kilhoyle 167 Knocklayde 168 Lochaber Shore 168 Mountsandel 169 Mudion River 169 Oville 170 The Peistie Glen 170 Bonny Portrush 171 The River Roe (I) 171 The River Roe (II) 171 Slieve Gallen Brae 172 Fair Tyrone 173 Among the Green Bushes [Bp, Dp: in Sweet Tyrone] 174 Where Derry Meets Tyrone 174 The Land of the West 175 Old Ireland 175 Erin, My Country 176 The Enchanted Isle 176 The Mac's and the O's 177 The Connaught Man 177 The Rocky Road to Dublin 178 Dungiven Cricket Match 179 March of the Men of Garvagh 180 Ta Ra, Limavady 180 The Knights of Malta 180 The Bright Orange Stars of Coleraine 181 The Boys of Coleraine 182 Neuve Chappelle 182 B11 References 182