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Thread #169212 Message #4116153
Posted By: GerryM
11-Aug-21 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
Songs/poems/tunes/readings from the 9-10 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.
Jenny’s Gone Away The Vampire Cholera Camp Until it’s Time for You to Go Why We Wear Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer Lloraba la niña ("The girl was weeping", in Spanish) The Backblocks Shearer (aka Widgegoara Joe) I Come and Stand at Every Door Let Union Be Crabfish (aka Johnny Daddlum) Where the Wild, Wild Flowers Grow Searching for Lambs Green Grows the Laurel To Father Sheehy’s Head Town of Ole Dolores An Maidrín Rua (The Little Red Fox) The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls Sam Hall Eensy Weensy Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) Enola Gay Mary had a Little Lamb (Fenian boys parody) Fair Flower of Northumberland Joe Peel The Ring of the Nibelungs (abridged) The Mule Song One-Legged Horse (poem) Farewell to the House Four Strong Winds The Fair Haired Boy, Child Grove, Balqiddhr Lasses (whistle tunes) Sweet Inniscarra (aka The Exile’s Return) Ceres, Pluto and Eris, Oh, My Shanty Man's Life Enola Gay – The Day After (reading) Ramblin' Boy Oh Maritana August 6th and 9th, 1945 (poem) First Time/Last Time Forked Tongue Story Their Brains were Small and They Died A Ballad of Recursion (ttto Wee Willie Lost His Marley, aka Wor Geordie's Lost 'is Penka) Broken Token The Rare Ould Times Old Bangum The Sands o' the Shore Brigg Fair Black Panther The Fox Buddhist World Peace March 1982 (recitation) Walking Yankele (one verse in Yiddish, the rest in English translation) A Mhic Mo Chroí (Irish Gaelic version of Mrs. McGrath) The Great Storm is Over Interesting Times