Hey everyone!

Perhaps the thing I love most about folk music is that the songs are a reflection of history...about the poeple, the times and the culture that they erupted from. Even modern folk songs still tell similar stories (even if done in retrospect).

This long winded intro done, I have questions about some songs that I have learned. I am looking for any information that anyone can give me about these songs. I am most interested in the stories behind the songs (the period of history they cam out of, the reason the song was written, the battle or war it talks about, the politics at the time, etc)

I have saved up the list until I thought it was big enough to only bother everyone once. I am always happy to recieve personal email on this topic and not take up any of the all too precious bandwidth here. I tried to do some searching in the old threads but kept getting errors. Sorry if this dulicates anything that has been talked about.

the list:
Banks of Sicily
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
Fiddlers Green
Foggy Dew
Greenfields of France
Johhny has gone for a Soldier
Johnny I hardly Knew Ya
Minstrel Boy
Nova Scotia
Peter's Song
Red is the Rose
Rising of the Moon
Rosin the Beau
Scotland the Brave
Star of the County Down
Too Close to the Wind
Ye Jackobytes by name

Thanks for any info you can give me!!!!!!!!!!!