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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.