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Thread #118474 Message #4106463
Posted By: Joe Offer
18-May-21 - 02:15 AM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
Subject: Index: Shanties by the Way: a selection of NZ song
Thread #13706 Message #4101032 Posted By: GUEST,Tongers 06-Apr-21 - 03:44 PM Thread Name: Origin: Soon May the Wellerman Come Subject: Index: Shanties by the Way: a selection of NZ song
Another rare book of NZ songs is "Shanties by the way: a selection of New Zealand popular songs and ballads"
Contents: Sealers, whalers and traders. David Lowston -- Come all you tonguers -- New Zealand whales -- Whalers' rhymes -- The voyage of the Buffalo -- The settlers. Taranaki song / John Hursthouse -- The lay of the disappointed / Walter Mantell -- Cheer, boys, cheer! -- The steel mill / John Blair -- The new chum / Charles John Martin -- A tract for the hard times / music, Neil Colquhoun -- The abolition of the Provinces -- The New Zealand wars. He Ngeri -- A jeering song -- The fall of Rangiriri / E.J.F. -- The escaped prisoners ; The surrender of the natives / Charles Robert Thatcher -- The inimitable thatcher. The old identity ; The shipping agents ; The bazaar ; Presented at court / Charles Robert Thatcher -- Gold. The rush to Coromandel ; The Southland gold escort / Charles Robert Thatcher -- The Wakamarina / Charles Robert Thatcher ; music, Neil Colquhoun -- The shanty by the way / E.J. Overbury ; Anon. -- The unlucky digger -- The digger's farewell : on the wharf, 1874 / music, Neil Colquhoun -- Waitekauri everytime! / Edwin Edwards ; music, Neil Colquhoun -- The volunteers. Kumara volunteers' song -- The Russian scare / 'Puzzlehead' -- The long depression. The sweater / N.A.A. -- The scab / John Brooks Hulbert -- The exiles of New Zealand / A.D. -- God's own country -- I struck for better wages -- Arthur Desmond. The song of Te Kooti ; Death song for the Huntly miners ; Barr of the Western Chain / Arthur Desmond -- Arthur Desmond / 'An Australian exile'. Prohibition. A Prohibition jingle of 1893 -- Strike out the top line -- Don't strike out the top line -- The young teetotaller -- A lay of the trade -- Members of Parliament. The liberal march / James Adams -- Ma¯ori Joe -- Sir Joseph Ward -- The rival candidate / 'Casual chronicler' -- Vote for Tommy Seddon, boys / Ned McCormack -- An M.P.'s life for me / Ronald L. Meek -- War and conscription. We'll set the children free : the song of the anti-conscripts -- Kidd from Timaru / Barrie Marschel -- The bloke that puts the acid on / Henry Kirk ('The Mixer') -- Work and wages. Cook and shearer : a 'Bulletin' pastoral idyll -- A long time ago -- I've traded with the Ma¯oris -- The windy hills o' Wellington / 'The Exile' -- A meeting / 'Taiwai' -- Song of the gumfield / William Satchell ('Saml. Cliall White') -- Amelia Jane / David McKee Wright -- Shearing's coming / David McKee Wright -- In the morning / Marshall Nalder -- The Ma¯ori's wool / Andrew Barton Paterson -- The embryo cockatoo / 'The Wanderer' -- The gay muttonbirder -- Goodbye to the old pick and shovel / Dennis Hogan -- Old Billy Kirk / 'Cazna Gyp' -- The magpies / Dennis Glover ; music, Neil Colquhoun -- Cargo workers. Out with the jokers. Double-bunking ; A fast pair of skis / Harold William Gretton -- The old gumdiggers' bar / Dennis Hogan -- The passing of the Helvetia : a lament / Louis Magee -- Down the hall on Saturday night / Peter Cape -- Black billy tea / Joe Charles ; music, Les Cleveland -- Lament for Barney Flanagan : licensee of The Covenant Hotel / James K. Baxter ; music, Neil Colquhoun -- By the dry Cardrona / James K. Baxter ; music, James McNeish -- The hunted. The hero of the coast / Jim S. Case -- Down on my luck / A.R.D. Fairburn ; music, Neil Colquhoun -- On the swag / R.A.K. Mason ; music, Neil Colquhoun.
Responsibility: collected and edited by Rona Bailey and Herbert Roth ; with musical arrangements by Neil Colquhoun.