More midis (to be sent to Alan after the Olympics):

MOWING THE BARLEY filename[ MOWBRLY  No source named again.  The text appears to be the version collected by Cecil Sharp from Miller Spearman at Ile Brewers, Somerset in 1904, so that's the tune it's getting; midi made from the notation in The Crystal Stream (Sharp/Karpeles, 1975).  Whoever posted the text forgot to mention that what looks like the second verse is, in fact, the chorus.  Sharp changed verse 4 line 4 from "And a handful of gold and silver" to "And a handful of golden money"; the "I" in the DT text is a typo.  Also known as Lawyer Lee.

THE MOWER filename[ THEMOWER  Text transcribed from a record by A.L. Lloyd.  I'm not even going to attempt to make a midi by ear from his singing, so I've used what I take to be his source, The Mower, published in his book Folk Song in England (1967, p. 204) and collected by him from an unnamed Dorset singer in 1939.

ONE MAN SHALL MOW MY MEADOW filename[ ONEMANMW  Presumably transcribed from a record by a band called "Gold Ring".  It appears to be the version collected by Cecil Sharp from Mr. Morris of Marston Magna, Somerset, in 1905; in which case, verse 1 line 3 should be: "Two men, one man and one more".  Midi made from the notation in The Crystal Stream (Sharp/Karpeles, 1975).  From the inclusion of the word "it" in line 2 of each verse, I suspect that "Gold Ring" used the tune Sharp published in 100 English Folk Songs (1916), in which the rhythm was regularised for the parlour or concert singer; I have modified the melody at that point to accommodate the extra word, but otherwise it is as originally noted.  Alfred Williams (Folk Songs of the Upper Thames, 1923) gives a text from Kencot in Oxfordshire (Mowing Down the Meadow) and remarks: "Like The Barley Mow, this was often called for at the harvest-homes and other farm feasts."  Sharp had also heard it used as a soldiers' marching song.

EAT WORMS filename[ EATWORMS  A traditional children's song.  Midi made from the version I learned in the early 1960s in South London:

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me;
Think I'll go and eat worms.
Short ones, fat ones, long skinny lean ones;
See how the little ones squirm.
Bite all their heads off (sucking noise) -all the juice out;
Throw the skins away.
Nobody knows how well we fare
On worms three times a day.

My tune doesn't really fit the DT text, but I don't care 'cos I prefer it!

LAND O' THE LEAL filename[ LANDLEAL  Transcribed from a Silly Wizard record.  The song was written by Lady Carolina Nairne in 1798, on the occasion of the death of the baby of her friend, Mary Anne Campbell, and circulated privately.  By the time it was published -"author unknown"- in 1801, in George Thomson's Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs (vol.II), it had acquired several variant forms. One of these, with the original "John" (the name of Mary's husband) changed to "Jean" (as in the Silly Wizard text), was posthumously attributed to Burns.  The DT text is fairly close to the original, though a little cut.  The song was first published with the music to which Lady Nairne set it, the traditional Hey tutti taiti (various spellings), in The Scottish Minstrel (vol. III, ed. R.A. Smith, 1824), from which I've made a midi.  I've also made a midi of the 3-part arrangement given in that book.  Information from Lady Nairne & her Songs, George Henderson (5th. edition, 1908).  A traditional version, Be Kind Tae Yer Nainsel', was collected by Rev. James Duncan in Aberdeenshire in the early 20th. century; whether it began as a parody of Lady Nairne's song, or whether she based her piece on an earlier version of it, I do not know.  At all events, it was published in The Folk Music Journal (1966) and recorded by Gordeanna McCulloch on Sheath & Knife (Topic Records 12TS370, 1978; recently re-issued on CD).
I've just noticed that John in Brisbane posted .abc and miditext of the melody in this thread:  Some More Missing Tunes  -I shall still send mine, though, as his reading is slightly different.
CALLER HERRIN' filename[ CALLRHRN  Also written by Lady Nairne, though I don't know who was responsible for the tune.  The version given in the DT is the "parlour" arrangement; midi made from the notation in The New National Song Book (Boosey & Hawkes, 1957).  The song was written for Nathaniel Gow, the publisher and musician (and son of the famous Niel), who was hard-up at the time.  Two verses are omitted from the parlour version:

Caller herrin's no got lichtlie,
Ye can trip the spring fu' tichtlie,
Spite o' tauntin', flauntin', flingin',
Gow has set ye a' a-singin'.

Neebour wives, now tent my tellin':
When the bonnie fish ye're sellin',
At ae word be in your dealin'-
Truth will stand when a' thing's failin'.

PRINCE CHARLIE STUART filename[ CHASTRT  Transcribed from a Steeleye Span record, pretty accurately but for the rather eccentric substitution of "toggin" for "tartan".  They had the song from Brigid Tunney; I shall be posting her version in a separate thread, but have made a midi of the tune as recorded by Span for sending to Alan.

LUDGIN' WI' BIG AGGIE filename[ BIGAGGIE  Text transcribed from a record by Robin Hall & Jimmy MacGregor.  Midi made from the version in The Scottish Folk Singer (Norman Buchan & Peter Hall, 1973) very slightly modified to fit.

Malcolm