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Thread #174235 Message #4226637
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
02-Aug-25 - 12:53 PM
Thread Name: Sports in Songs.
Subject: RE: Sports in Songs.
There are 69 songs in the Ballad Index with a "sports" keyword. That won't be all of them, but it's a start. Here they are with their Roud numbers if they have one:
After the Ball Was Centered. Roud #4859 Archibald, Certainly Not. Roud #V31310 Barrs' Anthem, The. Roud # Barry Grenadiers, The. Roud # Bible Baseball Game, The. Roud #12784 Bill Scrimshaw and the Scotsman. Roud #1089 Black and Amber Glory. Roud # Bold Thady Quill. Roud # Boys of Fair Hill, The. Roud # Bring the Gold Cup Back to Newtown. Roud #17890 Carrigaline Goalers Defeated, The. Roud # Cavenagh Hill. Roud #17896 Cheer Up Sycamore. Roud #38158 Coat That Was Buttoned Behind, The (An Irishman's Coat It Is Buttoned Before). Roud #24895 Cock-Fight, The. Roud #211 Convict of Clonmel, The. Roud #6993 Cushnie Winter Sports, The. Roud #6071 Day That I Played Baseball, The. Roud #4961 Dear Cork City by the Lee. Roud # Donnelly and Cooper. Roud #2147 Dungiven Cricket Match. Roud #13539 Echoing Horn, The. Roud #878 Eleven More Months and Ten More Days. Roud #13327 Fair Do, The. Roud #20523 Fast Pair of Skis, A. Roud # Flying Trapeze, The. Roud #5286 Football Crazy. Roud #6858 Football Match, The. Roud #1291 Fylemore. Roud # Georgie Best, Superstar. Roud # Hardy Sons of Dan, The. Roud #17895 Haughs o' Gartly, The. Roud #6070 Heenan and Sayers [Laws H20]. Roud #2148 Hobbies, The. Roud #5632 Humours of Donnybrook Fair (I), The. Roud #V4007 Humours of Glasgow Fair, The. Roud #6260 I Wish I Was a Little Fish. Roud # Innocent Hare, The. Roud #1216 Interval Was Welcome Too, The. Roud #25376 Johnnie Made a Touchdown. Roud # Lincolnshire Wrestler, The. Roud #1089 Methody Beat Them All. Roud #25374 and 25378 Morrissey and the Benicia Boy. Roud #9781 Morrissey and the Black [Laws H19]. Roud #1884 Morrissey and the Russian Sailor [Laws H18]. Roud #2150 Napan Heroes, The. Roud #1946 New Market (The Call to the Races at New-Market). Roud #15020 Nine-Thirteen Men, The. Roud # O'Kelly Brothers, The. Roud #15677 Oh They Tossed Me in the Air. Roud #25375 Our Queen Won the Medal. Roud #19544 Praise of Kinsale, The. Roud # Race, A. Roud #8852 Rickety, Rackety, Rust. Roud # Rugby Song, The. Roud #10142 Shores of Coolough Bay, The. Roud # Southerly Wind. Roud #9442 Stamford Bullards, The. Roud #23378 Swimming, Swimming. Roud #37848 Team Was in a Huddle, The. Roud # Terra Nova Regatta, The. Roud # Then Big Black the Loyalists' Custodian. Roud #25377 Toast to Beara, A. Roud # Tyler and Robinson. Roud #2411 Victorious Goalers of Carrigaline and Kilmoney, The. Roud # Wednesbury Cocking, The. Roud #23391 When Clon Came Home. Roud # Willy Coombe (Crantock Games). Roud #3318 Your King and Country Want You (We Don't Want to Lose You). Roud #
A lot of these are pretty obscure, and others involve things we wouldn't really call spots (cockfighting?). But "Bold Thady Quill" and "The Day That I Played Baseball" and all the Morrissey songs and "Heenan and Sayers" are all well-known traditional songs.