2395)   MR. BLOCK  "To the tune of: It Looks To Me Like A Big Time Tonight". Midi made from notation originally printed in Sing Out! vol.1, 1959.

940)   DREMLEN FEYGL (Drowsing Birds)  Midi made from notation which originally appeared in Sing Out! vol. 6, 1964. The title there was given as S'Dremlin Feigle, with words and music both credited to Leah Rudnitzky; the DT has "Words by Leah Rudnicki; Music by Leyb Yampolski". Yiddish music is not my field, so I have no comment on that, or on the fact that the spelling system used in the DT is completely different from that used in Sing Out; presumably Yiddish uses more than one. They gave a translation, which the contributor to the DT failed to do:

Birds are dozing on the branches,
Sleep my dear little one.
At your crib on an old wooden bench,
A stranger sings to you.

There was a time when your crib
Was woven out of happiness.
But now your mother, oh, your mother,
Will never return.

I have seen your father running,
Under a hail of stones
And his far and lonely wail
Flew over the fields.

The translation was perhaps made by Dina Suller, who sent the song to Sing Out.

2398)   MRS. ADLAM'S ANGELS  Not, as tentatively ascribed in the DT file, by Brian Bower, but by Ralph McTell. Midi made from notation in Ralph McTell, Essex Books, 1972. ©Essex Music, 1968. The DT transcription contains errors or changes; since this is not a traditional song, I'll specify precisely; line numbers refer to the DT file:

Verse 1
• line 1: And Mrs. Adlam said, angels stood round our bed
• line 2: ...right through till day begun
• line 6: ...softly singing in the air.

Verse 2
• line 1: Sundays occasionally
• line 2: Sundays seem ...
• line 3: In the dingy mission hall, Mrs. Adlam praying
• line 4: And down the street back home all our mates were playing
  The DT has a line accidentally dropped in from a completely different song!
• line 5: With...

Verse 3
• ...ain't like that...
  When transcribing from commercial recordings, many people here render standard English words like going as goin', because they have mistaken accent for dialect; here is a rare example of someone being too careful in the other direction!
• line 3: ...around her curled
• lines 4 & 5: A keeping her safe from life and guarding her from the world.
• line 6: On a summer's Sunday...
• line 7: To hear...

2376)   MORRISSEY AND THE BLACK  The DT text was taken from MacKenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia, where no tune was given. Midi made from notation in Edward Ives' Folksongs of New Brunswick (1989); that example came from Spurgeon Allaby, and is a variant of Villikins and His Dinah. Obviously, we don't know whether or not Harry Sutherland used that tune or one like it.

Roud Index no. 1884, Laws H19.

2369)   MONTH OF JANUARY  The DT text was transcribed from a June Tabor record; she seems to have recorded an arrangement of the traditional set that came from Sarah Makem, omitting the final two verses, as did Dolores Keane. Midi made from notation in Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, 1975, where it was called The False Young Man. Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle recorded the song from Sarah Makem in 1953. Additional background and the two verses not in the DT are at Lyr/Chords Req: month of january

Roud Index no. 175, Laws P20.
Variants have been found in Ireland, Canada, Scotland, the USA and England, often with titles like Cruel Was My Father, The Fatal Snowstorm, and so on.