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Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST Date: 02 Feb 26 - 02:12 PM correction 300 little babies and children 8 or 9 all starving in their little cots and one of them was mine refers to the orphanage situation in Tuam Ireland where children were apparently tossed into septic tanks, unused ones thank heavens tune sung by john McCormick. only part A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY61CUOkwmk&list=RDkY61CUOkwmk&start_radio=1 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Beer Date: 02 Feb 26 - 07:26 AM Would love to hear the melody to this song. I can't find it. I have to say it is one I have never heard. Thanks mg |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 02 Feb 26 - 01:46 AM I will post the words to Maureen Monahan here. A Monahan wrote me and said how did you know? I didn't know but his mother was in that same situation.. I might forget some of the words. Tune Wearing of the Green. My name is Maureen Monahan my age is 93 I have a little baby that they never brought to me It might have been a daughter it might have been a son I never got to see it so it could be either one. If a boy I named you Paddy if a girl I named you Clare And yes you have a father and his name is Jack O'Hare. And for you old Mother Ireland how could you use us so When we were young and pregnant and had no where else to go Babies in their little cribs and children eight or nine All starving in their little cribs???? and one of them was mine And when they drew their final breath in those buildings dark and dank They were wrapped up in their little shrouds? and thrown in the septic tank So farewell little Paddy and farewell little Clare If I had known what might have happened I'd have never left you there I'd have sold myself for pennies to sailors on the street But by God and all that's holy you'd have had enough to eat. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 01 Feb 26 - 11:07 PM true. I have several -- Freida Schiller - dairy maid. Mary Flynn - irish mosser girl Ginnie Oliver -- lobsterwoman Maureen Monahan - Magdalen Laundries |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Julia Date: 01 Feb 26 - 10:56 PM Interesting that it seems to be mostly men |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Jack Campin Date: 30 Jan 26 - 03:07 PM I heard Vivi talking about her research into East End Jewish songs once - she said that a lot of them needed to be pieced together from fragments, but that one didn't. If you went into an old folks home in that part of the world, ALL the old ladies knew it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 30 Jan 26 - 02:19 PM I will only post a few lines to give you the idea... if you you have the stomach follow the link. Chicago H3 is always remarkable. My name is Jack (nah-na-nah-na-nah-na-nah), I’m a necrophiliac (nah-na-nah-na-nah-na-nah), etc. My name is Gus I’m incestuous etc My name is Kyle I’m a pedophile etc My name is Nick I’m a narcoleptic I … ZZZZZZZzzzzzz (end songs) Sincerely, Gargoyle |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Aethelric Date: 29 Jan 26 - 04:02 PM Jarrow song by Alan Price My name is Geordie McIntyre, An' the Bairns don't even have a fire So the wife says "Geordie, go to London Town!" And if they don't give us half a chance, Don't even give us a second glance Then Geordie, with my blessings, burn them down Come on follow the Geordie boys, They'll fill your heart with joy They're marching for their freedom now Come on follow the Jarrow lads, They'll make your heart feel glad They're singing now, yes now is the hour My name is little Billy White, And I know what's wrong and I know what's right An' the wife says "Geordie, go to London Town!" An' if they don't give us a couple of bob, Won't even give you a decent job Then Geordie, with my blessings, burn them down Come on follow the Geordie boys, They'll fill your heart with joy They're marching for their freedom now Come on follow the Jarrow lads, The joy'll make your heart feel glad They're singing now, yes now is the hour Well I can hear them an' I can feel them An' it's as just as if they were here today I can see them, I can feel them An' I'm thinking nothing's changed much today Not all came here to stay their way and die But they would come and hit you in the eye Now's the time to realize that time goes on Nothin' changes, changes, changes Now I can feel them, I can see them An' it's as just as if they were here today I can feel them and I need them An' I'm thinking nothing's changed much today Not all that people stay their way and die But they would come and hit you in the eye Now's the time to realize that time goes on And nothin' changes, changes, changes My name is little Alan Price, I tried to be nice all of my life But I'm afraid that up to date it doesn't work Because when you lay some money down, The people try to put you down Now where do I stand, either side or not Come on follow this Geordie boy, He'll try and fill your heart with joy We're marching for our freedom now Come on follow this Jarrow lad, He'll try and make your heart feel glad We're sayin' it now, yes now is the hour |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Paul Burke Date: 29 Jan 26 - 02:08 PM Thanks Jack, that's led me on to this on YouTube: the same tune my mother used. Written by Fred Seaver in 1885, obviously transplanted to Manchester between then and my parents' heyday of the 1930s-40s. I wish I could remember more of the words. Or perhaps better not, depending on who wrote the relocated version. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 26 - 12:19 PM ‘I’m Darby the tinker and me brother is Tam..’ (‘The Old Changing Way’, Richard Thompson) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Jack Campin Date: 29 Jan 26 - 06:32 AM Solomon Levi was a real person (philandering salesman) and Vivi Lachs features the song on her CD of the music of the East End of London Jews, "Whitechapel, meyn Vaytshepl". |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 Jan 26 - 05:40 AM https://youtu.be/_VhWKBD2rEk?si=TFwLnaY3CJFAQsYq My name is Jock Stuart in tge link. Great Scottish song about a rich landowner, boastfully relating his days happenings to the workers in a local pub. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,Dick Miles Date: 29 Jan 26 - 03:58 AM Sam Hall |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 28 Jan 26 - 06:21 PM that last one reminds me of I am a pretty little Dutch Girl I have written 3 name songs in the last 3 days, after two years of nothing coming to me. What is interesting they are all about children/young teens. They must want to be heard from. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,Joe in MN Date: 28 Jan 26 - 05:45 PM It's the start of the chorus, at least, of a one-hit wonder from 1972 called Playground in my Mind by Clint Holmes: My name is Michael, I've got a nickel I've got a nickel shiny and new I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy That's what I'm gonna do |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 27 Jan 26 - 12:46 PM "My name it is Mulvaney"- from Richard Thompson's Cooksferry Queen I seem to remember a verse from Banks of the Bann that also begins "My name it is Mulvaney". |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Paul Burke Date: 27 Jan 26 - 06:58 AM Brought to mind one my mother used to sing... can't remember many of the words. Probably a bit dodgy by today's standards. Obviously from, or adapted to, Manchester area. My name is Solomon Levi, It's a name that's very well known, I live in the borough of Cheetham Hill With a business of my own. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,Guest, Erich Date: 27 Jan 26 - 04:24 AM (My name is) Penny Evans (Steve Goodman, Sands Family) My name is Carnival (Jackson C. Frank) My name is London (Reg Meuross) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Beer Date: 26 Jan 26 - 10:29 PM My name is Peter Emberley, as you may understand. I was born on Prince Edward lsland near by the ocean strand. ln eighteen hundred and eighty when the flowers were in bloom. I left my native country my fortune to pursue. etc. Adrien |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST Date: 26 Jan 26 - 09:42 PM My name is Maureen Monahan my age is 93. I have a little baby that I never got to see. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Johnny J Date: 26 Jan 26 - 04:59 PM "My name's Duncan Campbell from the shire of Argyll" Erin Go Bragh |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Jan 26 - 03:12 PM My name Dick Darby I'm a cobbler. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Johnny J Date: 26 Jan 26 - 01:57 PM "my name is Jack" Manfred Mann "My name is Luka" Suzanne Vega |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 26 Jan 26 - 01:53 PM Great songs. I think the one phrase I find most powerful is "My name is O'Hanlon." |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,James E Date: 26 Jan 26 - 11:58 AM "Me name is Jim Parkinson, Hull’s where I’m from" – Mike Waterson's Cold Coast of Iceland. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Beer Date: 26 Jan 26 - 09:05 AM Canadian Newfoundland singer/songwriter Ron Hynes(passed away November 19th 2015) wrote the following. My name is nobody I'm a weary traveller out upon a lost highway I come all the way from hell with this tale to tell Like many here before me Calling to be set free My name is nobody And I am rightly blessed I heard a voice that cried out inside the wilderness I awoke and my heart and soul were in despair Like a sailor lost at sea No ship to rescue me My name is nobody CHORUS: So I take it one day at a time I walk the hard line above this blessed sod And I'm still living with this fear But I'm still here with all these children of god My name is nobody My name is nobody I'm a weary traveller out across a lost highway Every night as I lay down I say a silent prayer That morning light will find me here Without this cross to bear My name is nobody CHORUS: So I take it one day at a time I walk the hard line above this blessed sod And I'm still living with this fear But I'm still here I'm still living with this fear But I'm still here I am still living with this fear But I'm still here with all these children of god My name is nobody Adrien |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,Roger Date: 26 Jan 26 - 08:00 AM Thomas Muir. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Jan 26 - 04:21 AM Sam Hall Captain Kidd |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jan 26 - 10:36 PM My name is Yon Yonson (is how it shows on YouTube) appears above as My Name is Jon Johnson. I always think of that as a children's song, or a silly ditty, but it's nice to see that Carl Sandburg recorded it. (This video itself is awful, it isn't synced to the music, it's just background. The song itself sounds good and is probably from one of Sanburg's records. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Howard Kaplan Date: 25 Jan 26 - 10:08 PM [My name is] Wilhelmina Cord, a song by Eric Blau, sung by Elly Stone. There's a YouTube video of the recording here. My name is Francis Tolliver, Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon. Oh my name is Penny Evans, the Ballad of Penny Evans by Steve Goodman. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: rich-joy Date: 25 Jan 26 - 07:53 PM My name's Polly Parker, I come o'er from Worsley My mother and father work down the coal mine ...... 'The Collier Lass' should already be in Mudcat. R-J |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Jack Campin Date: 25 Jan 26 - 04:31 PM Oh my name it is Van Gogh... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 25 Jan 26 - 03:20 PM .... can't .... resist ....
.... but who actually wrote it? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 25 Jan 26 - 02:00 PM great new song and so many to add to my list. I thought of another that might be on the list as Carter Lad. My name is Buttercup Joe. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 25 Jan 26 - 09:24 AM Not sure this counts but "I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler" by Tom Paxton. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 25 Jan 26 - 09:10 AM My name is Luka by Suzanne Vega My name is Bocephus by Hank Williams Jr. I can't say I'm a fan but I'm definitely a fan of Hank Sr. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Reinhard Date: 25 Jan 26 - 08:08 AM William Coombe (Roud 3318): My name is Willy Coomb, just twenty in my bloom Captain Grant (Roud 1286): My name is Captain Grant I am bound for to say Catch Me If You Can (Roud 1028) My name is catch me that’s if you can Jim the Carter Lad (Roud 1080; G/D 3:457):My name is Joe the carrier lad, a merry chap am I Jim the Carter Lad (Roud 1080; G/D 3:457):My name is Jim the carter lad, a jolly cock am I Lizzie Lindsay (Roud 94; Child 226; G/D 4:858): My name is Lord Ronald McDonald Maggie Lauder (Roud 5625): My name is Maggie Lauder Maggie Lauder (Roud 5625): My name is Rab the Ranter Robin Hood and Little John (Roud 1322; Child 125): My name is John Little, a man of good mettle The Shannon Side / Captain Thunderbolt (Roud 1453): My name is Captain Thunderbowl and the truth I’ll never deny The Shannon Side / Captain Thunderbolt (Roud 1453): My name is Captain Walters, my name I will never deny Willie Angler / The Banks of the Bann (Roud 3473; Henry H614): My name is Willie Angler, and you might understand Murder of Maria Marten (Roud 215): My name is William Corder, to you I do declare Banks of the Bann (Roud 889; Laws O2): My name is Delaney, it’s a name that won’t shame me Jack the Jolly Tar / Do Me Ama (Roud 511; Laws K40): My name is Jack, and my ship’s the London The Flying Cloud (Roud 1802; Laws K28; G/D 1:44): My name is William Hollander, as you will understand Davy Lowston: My name is Davy Lowston, I did seal, I did seal His Name Is Andrew [David Ackles]: My name is Andrew Mary Neal (Roud 142; Laws M17): I am a bold undaunted youth. My name is John McCann The Devil and the Feathery Wife (Roud 12551): My name is Duncan, said the diel Shillin’ a Day [Rudyard Kipling]: My name is O’Kelly, I’ve heard the Revelly The Robber’s Song [Peter Bellamy]: My name is Abe Carman Josef Locke [Richard Thompson]: My name is Josef Locke It Suits Me Well [Sandy Denny]: My name is Jan the gypsy John the Gun [Sandy Denny]: My name is John the Gun Tam Lin (Roud 35; Child 39; G/D 2:330): My name is Lady Margaret Death and the Lady (Roud 1031): My name is Death, cannot you see? Dennis O’Reilly (Roud 676) My name is Dennis O’Reilly Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842): My name is Captain Wedderburn, a servant tae the King The Aylesbury Girl (Roud 364): My name is Mickey the drover boy, from Dublin town come I The Aylesbury Girl (Roud 364): My name is Jack the rover, from Dublin I did’st come Bold Doherty (Roud 2992): My name is Bold Doherty from the North Country Bright Shiny Morning (Roud 2; Laws Q26): My name is Loretta but don’t call my name Jamie Raeburn (Roud 600; G/D 8:1535): My name is Jamie Raeburn, frae Glasgow toon I came |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,Hootenanny Date: 25 Jan 26 - 05:09 AM Charles Giteau |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Acorn4 Date: 25 Jan 26 - 04:23 AM By coincidence I've just finished writing this one - it's about a serving maid burned at the stake in Leicester in 1605 for aiding and abetting in the murder of her mistress, for the crime of petty treason:- Alice Grimbold’s Tale My name is Alice Grimbold, in Leicester was employed In a position as a humble serving maid. For the killing of my mistress, guilty I was found And to be burned at the stake my sentence handed down. 1.Now Agnes was the landlady of the Blue Boar Inn Famous from that time when Richard was the King, And on that fateful final night before that battle it fell He brought his own bed to that inn, so that he might sleep well 2.For many years within that room that bed it had stayed put And many a gust slept well within without a second thought Now before Agnes’s husband died, a rumour spread around When that couple unexpectedly new wealth seem to have found 3. The bed had a false bottom, and contained within A hoard of gold and silver coins hidden by that King Until one day by accident, Agnes found this store When a single coin fell out and rolled onto the floor. 4. I met one Thomas Harrison, a rake and a roaring blade He courted me with a promise that we would be married But he proved a false knave to be, that led me to my fate To be thrust into those flames tied unto that stake 5. Now Thomas Harrison he did plot to steal away this store And to this end intrigued with one by name Edward Bradshaw And to this end I was led astray, accessory to be And my inside knowledge used to commit this felony. 6. This couple they then hired a room to bring about this plan Myself and the other maid were tied and taken to the barn But as part of this cunning plan, I was the set free, That chest of gold and silver to locate the keys 7. Now Agnes was securely bound but made a dreadful scene And being so terrified she began to scream Bradshaw the to silence her put his fingers down her throat Which led at last to the result that poor Agnes choked 8. Now this said Thomas Harrison very soon was caught And along with Edward Bradshaw to trial was soon brought And as an accomplice I was brought to trial And of my involvement I could make no denial 9. Those wretches soon were guilty found and on the gallows hanged But for the murder of my mistress I too was condemned For the crime of petty treason was decreed my fate That I would be taken on that day to be burned at the stake. 10, A curse on Thomas Harrison and that path he made me tread, And on Edward Bradshaw who killed poor Agnes dead A curse upon that wretched law that fell so hard on me Just a poor serving maid treated so badly My name is Alice Grimbold, in Leicester was employed In a position as a humble serving maid. For the killing of my mistress, guilty I was found And to be burned at the stake my sentence handed down |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Date: 25 Jan 26 - 03:10 AM Captain Grant Jock Stewart Hugh Reynolds |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GerryM Date: 24 Jan 26 - 11:47 PM Oh, my name, it ain't nothing (Bob Dylan, With God on Our Side). |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Pappy Fiddle Date: 24 Jan 26 - 11:26 PM Well my name's John Lee Pettimore Same as my daddy and his daddy before You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here He only came 'a town about twice a year He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line Everybody knew that he made moonshine etc. That's Copperhead Road |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 24 Jan 26 - 10:55 PM my name is cole bostwick -- lumberjack from Kelso Washington who died years ago in an awful accident. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 24 Jan 26 - 10:26 PM John O'Dreams Freida Schiller Robert Baker??? MacPherson's Lament Chanson De Louis Riel (my restrictions are getting more loose now) "Éamonn an Chnoic" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 24 Jan 26 - 10:18 PM I loosen my own boundaries. I really like songs where people are said to have written it themselves. MacPherson's Lament Chanson de Louis Riel I wrote my name is Frieda Schiller I am a dairy maid and My name is Inga plain and stout I might be writing one about the Maine Lobster Lady who just died at the age of 105 and worked till 103. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Helen Date: 24 Jan 26 - 10:06 PM Slim Shady (sorry! couldn't help myself there!) Jock Stewart |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: cnd Date: 24 Jan 26 - 09:56 PM Kidder Cole Story of George Mann [Laws E38d] My Name is Ticklish Reuben My Name Is Morgan (But It Ain't J.P.) sorry, none by or about women that I know of |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 24 Jan 26 - 09:47 PM Traditional Australian song - My name is Edward Kelly - collected in the 50s |
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Subject: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...' From: GUEST,mg Date: 24 Jan 26 - 08:36 PM especially about or by women. My name is Macnamara Peter Emberly Sam Hall Captain Kidd Jon Johnson Jack Haggerty? O'Hanlon |
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