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Subject: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Feb 21 - 07:54 AM
-Joe Offer- Can you suggest any songs associated with the month of April That is : (A) Any songs with April in the title (B) Any songs with an April date given in the lyrics (C) Any songs referencing an event that is known to have occurred in April even if the lyrics do not actually say so. It would be very helpful to have links to performances of the songs and also more sources of information about them. INDEX OF APRIL SONGS Below is an index of the May songs listed in Alphabetical order. The titles are blue click links which will take you to the area in thread where you will be able to see most of the posts for that title. I shall sometimes rearrange “ late” posts to group them with the appropriate main area of discussion so that they are not overlooked. When I add to someone’s post I make this clear by doing so beneath an orange line like the one below. Regards, GeoffLawes
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Feb 21 - 08:25 AM A ROSE IN APRIL Wikipedia info https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/aroseinapril.html ”I was a rose in April and still a rose in June I fear that come the winter, I shall no longer bloom.” A Rose in April -Kate Rusby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYClOgRyvLs |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner Date: 27 Feb 21 - 08:46 AM APRIL IN PARIS Gotta be done... one more once! Count Basie Orchestra April in Paris (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_in_Paris_(song) |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Feb 21 - 06:30 PM SONGS ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC The Titanic sank on April 15,1912 Wikipedia info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic IT WAS SAD WHEN THAT GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN /aka THE TITANIC Wikipedia info about song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Titanic_(song) When That Great Ship Went Down · Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfbzUg-CWM Roy Acuff - "The Titanic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQ_bxF_N1U Pete Seeger - The Titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u61Pj4f6Ucg Lead Belly - "The Titanic"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNlnl8nbfSE Bessie Jones, "The Titanic"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09yWul4yPY4 MY HEART WILL GO ON My Heart Will Go On / Titanic : Celine Dion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOJx_M_pBDI MY SWEETHEART WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-Sheet Music for song https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200197074.0?st=gallery My Sweetheart Went Down With The Ship - Caitlin Doak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9zfzcuXH6E My Sweetheart Went Down with the Ship · Nathaniel Blumberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqx8YKml8qY THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC Vernon Dalhart-The Sinking Of The Titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zJKOwN008 THE LAST SCENE OF THE TITANIC Frank Hutchison - The Last Scene Of The Titanic - 1927 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG67Toa7ZRk SHE MOVES ON THE WATER Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MylKZba4wa4 God Moves on the Water From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Moves_on_the_Water JUST AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN Just As The Ship Went Down- piano, Jake Turski vocals, James Penca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qEBhpufEEU TITANIC (Falco song) Titanic (Falco song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(Falco_song) Falco - Titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQyIh7c8p0 TEMPEST - Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBVADoo3iI Link to post below about "When the Great Ship Went Down " from: GUEST,henryp – PM Date: 14 Apr 23 - 11:42 PM
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: mg Date: 27 Feb 21 - 11:55 PM april come she will...Paul Simon I think
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Feb 21 - 09:51 AM Here is a link to April events in History https://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/april.htm If you know any songs about any events please post them |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Feb 21 - 09:59 AM PONY EXPRESS SONG April 3, 1860 The Pony Express service began in the American West. Devil's Gate - Pony Express Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH62HTnGgGw |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Feb 21 - 11:27 AM MOTEL IN MEMPHIS April 4, 1968 Civil Rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed. Motel in Memphis - Old Crow Medicine Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQzFhsoZ0w |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: RTim Date: 28 Feb 21 - 12:25 PM April So here we are in April, in showy, blowy April, In frowsy, blowsy April, the rowdy dowdy time In soppy, sloppy April, in wheezy breezy April, In ringing, stinging April, with a singing swinging rhyme. The smiling sun of April on the violets is focal, The sudden showers of April seek the dandelion out; The tender airs of April make the local yokel vocal, And he raises rustic ditties with a most melodious shout. So here we are in April, in tipsy gypsy April, In showery, flowery April, the twinkly, sprinkly days; In tingly, jingly April, in highly wily April, In mighty, flighty April with its highty-tighty ways! The duck is fond of April, and the clucking chickabiddy And other barnyard creatures have a try at caroling; There's something in the air to turn a stiddy kiddy giddy, And even I am forced to raise my croaking voice and sing. Sung by Arky's Toast on Maypoles to Mistletoe.. Tim Radford |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Feb 21 - 05:44 PM THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE April 18th is the anniversary of the earthquake which partially destroyed San Francisco in 1906.
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Joe_F Date: 28 Feb 21 - 05:50 PM "April May" by Lou & Peter Berryman. APRIL MAY April May · Lou & Peter Berryman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xC4NVcMujg For more on this song see posting below from GUEST,Karen Impola -Date: 23 Mar 21 - 09:55 PM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Feb 21 - 06:08 PM April 26, 1937 - During the Spanish Civil War, the ancient town of Guernica was attacked by German warplanes SONGS ABOUT THE BOMBING OF GUERNIKA MARKET DAY IN GUERNICA Katie Melua - Market day in Guernica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEFYymMEIw GUERNIKA by Andy Roberts Lyrics & Info https://www.distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/12/31/gernika-2 Link to more songs about Guenika posted below |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Feb 21 - 07:07 PM THE SULTANA April 27, 1865 The Loss of the Steamboat Sultana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hOB-3pDrqY MUDCAT DT: The Sultana (Art Thieme) /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=10226 The Sultana by Art Thieme Lyrics and information http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Sultana.htm MUDCAT,Lyr Add: Sultana (steamboat disaster 1865) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172321&messages=2 Another song about this disaster The Sultana by Jeff Stachyra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFV9qperaGo&t=201s Link to post below by henryp about The Saltana disaster |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Long Firm Freddie Date: 01 Mar 21 - 11:57 AM Little April Shower LFF |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Mar 21 - 08:12 AM YES! WE HAVE NO BANANAS 10 April,1633 Bananas, unknown before in England, went on sale in a London shop. Billy Jones: Yes! We Have No Bananas (1923)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDd8shcLvHI Yes, We Have No Bananas · Louis Prima & His Orchestrahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QqkrIDeTeA Yes We Have No Bananas-Spike Jones & His City Slickers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvhIOyvmutE Banana Boat (Day-O) · Harry Belafonte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE Many recordings of I’VE NEVER SEEN A STRAIGHT BANANA, on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22I%27ve+Never+Seen+A+Straight+Banana%22+ |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Mar 21 - 10:54 AM 16 April. 1889 Birth of Charlie Chaplin THE MOON SHINES BRIGHT ON CHARLIE CHAPLIN The Oldham Tinkers - Charlie Chaplin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHm-b99-ER4 Sam Lee - The Moon Shines Bright feat. Elizabeth Fraser with Bernard Butler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxKyfPR5nls MARY ANN JOOS SINGS "THE MOON SHINES BRIGHT ON CHARLIE CHAPLIN" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNB5YD6tjgk Those Charlie Chaplin Feet – 1915, Arthur Collins And Byron Harlan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEjKmkHQ1bM Charlie Chaplin Let Us All Unite ( with lyrics ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb60J5dnW-w Sing along with Chaplin - Nonsense Song (Titine) from Modern Times – Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqd1ar5_7qw |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Mar 21 - 12:08 PM CULLODEN 16 April, 1746 Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) was defeated at the Battle of Culloden Deánta- (singer- Mary Dillon). - "Culloden's Harvest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnPquqI3Bk Runrig - Fae Hymn for Culloden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTL3Fd-U9Y Jacobite Rebellion Song (1745) "Welcome Royal Charlie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6gOcXrvmtg Ye Jacobites by Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEDy3vEX8Ms> Ye Jacobites by Name - Moonrakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P0tvHbb-yU Lizzie Higgins- MUIR O’ CULLODEN MUDCAT: Origins: Culloden Moor. /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72261 The Skye Boat Song from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skye_Boat_Song Many recordings of “The Skye Boat Song” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Skye+Boat+Song |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Mar 21 - 11:41 AM PAUL REVERE 18 April,1775 At the start of the War of American Independence, US patriot Paul Revere rode from Charleston to Lexington, warning people that British troops were advancing. ”On April 18 of '75, hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. “ Midnight Ride of Paul Revere - Razzle Bam Boom (Mark Beckwith and Obediah Thomas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dKJ75F3tj8 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Mar 21 - 06:23 PM Nine (pop) titles from The Cavan Project http://www.thecavanproject.com/songs-about-april/ 1. “April Sun In Cuba” by Dragon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE7RJuR9dj0 2. “April 29, 1992 (Miami)” by Sublime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddaTlS2kT0 3. “April After All” by Ron Sexsmith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYD-DIggB2k 4. “April Lady” by Smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuX_t10LOvk 5. “April Come She Will” by Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYD-DIggB2k 6. “April Showers” by Proleter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv3bdsome4U 7. “April’s Song” by Real Estate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTA_9Dst4-Q 8. “April Skies” by The Jesus And Mary Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pchGKkTs5o 9. “April In Paris” by Frank Sinatra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKC0vxCc_w
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Mar 21 - 06:34 PM APRIL QUEEN Jon Boden April Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayr7oESLvqI |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Mar 21 - 06:19 AM 25 April, 1599 Birth of Oliver Cromwell, republican leader in the English Civil War, Lord Protector of England 1653-8. THE BALLAD OF OLIVER CROMWELL Oliver Cromwell by Monty Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1yPz14LrU OLIVER CROMWELL LAY BURIED AND DEAD Oliver Cromwell Lay Buried and Dead , Vivien Ellis , Tim Laycock-The Broadside Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LftVPA4AmSc Oliver Cromwell Lay Buried and Dead Lyrics http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/songs/796.html English Folksong: Oliver Cromwell (Nursery Rhyme from Suffolk) (arr. Britten) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4fllaxedk4 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: FreddyHeadey Date: 09 Mar 21 - 09:00 AM NARROW BOATS TO TOW © Barry Goodman 2008 has a verse And as I walk the towpath on a glowing April morning, The brasses on my harness flashing brightly in the sun, I think about those horses who by fortune’s fickle calling Are taken far away to pull a gun. thread.cfm?threadid=113151#3957087 You can see the music and hear the tune played here : http://www.waterwaysongs.info/narrowboats_to_tow_tune.htm |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Mar 21 - 06:34 PM 25 April the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings at at Anzac Cove in 1915 AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA Wikipedia: song info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_Waltzing_Matilda Eric Bogle - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8 And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by the Dubliners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0fF6oY6I4 Liam Clancy - Band Played Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Live) · Joan Baez) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmCHm-sxNxA GALLIPOLI Gallipoli (the song for the ANZAC Centenary) - Adam Dunning & ChanCé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX9MfaRWBrA OLD GALLIPOLI'S A WONDERFUL PLACE Old Gallipoli's A Wonderful Place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQnp6PlA79k Link to post below ALL AND EVERYONE |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Mar 21 - 06:10 PM One April Morning; Sisters Jane and Amanda Threlfall released a notable version as April Morn on their 2002 CD Gown of Green WBCD 002. They recorded it again on their 2007 CD Revisited WBCD 003. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Mar 21 - 03:17 AM PIECES OF APRIL Three Dog Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FrbAow3LtY&list=RD-hotMw70-6M&index=3 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Erich Date: 11 Mar 21 - 05:27 AM There is a song simply called "April" from "Arky's Toast" LP From the Half Moon to the Rising Sun, Greenwich Village GVR 212, 1979. It is also on the CD "Maypoles to Mistletoe" Leader, LERCD2092. It's also sung by "Jolly Jack" as "April Song" (CD "Seasons, Cermonies & Rituals" Fellside, FTSR 5 Also: 20th of April, Oysterband April 1918, Steve Byrne April Friend, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan April Morning ('twas on one April Morning, Young Men are false): Folly Bridge, June Tabor, Wilsons, Lou Killen, Norma Waterson, Tony Rose, Cyril Tawney, Pilgrim's Way The April Fool Tape: Nicols/Swarbrick (Cropredy Box) When April came to Rhymney: APRIL FRIEND James Fagan · Nancy Kerr · Colin Fletcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6g-4wandPU WHEN APRIL CAME TO RHYMNEY - Poem by Idris Davies set to music by Gerhard Obwegeser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRz_PiQhAoU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 Mar 21 - 12:19 PM 7 April, 1739 Highwaymen Dick Turpin, was hanged at York. TURPIN HERO Ewan MacColl -Turpin Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0UA2UjJYbU Eliza Carthy - Turpin Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BObQG71tIX8 Brian Peters: Turpin Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TXeHHqtBbo Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins - Turpin Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ZP__V4J4c DICK TURPIN’S RIDE TO YORK Dick Turpin's Ride to York · John Graham Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpEw4CnlTg BONNIE BLACK BESS Bonnie Black Bess · Margaret MacArthur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqSVqz2nMg American Folk Music (CA): My bonny black Bess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htoFKOr7hs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqSVqz2nMg fresnostate.edu folklore ballads http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/LL09.html The Ballad of Dick Turpin-Freddie and The Dreamers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km0FXujoiig Gallant Dick Turpin Part 1 & 2 · George Formby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHKrGuXlFg |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Mar 21 - 08:44 PM SONGS FOR ST GEORGES DAY 23 April. St George’s Day : Patron Saint of England. Waterson:Carthy - St George https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVBcDaZGxdg Mainly Norfolk: info https://mainlynorfolk.info/john.kirkpatrick/songs/saintgeorge.html MUDCAT:What songs for St. George's Day? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46861&messages=66 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: JHW Date: 22 Mar 21 - 06:27 AM Still over a week to go. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Mar 21 - 07:31 PM 20th OF APRIL Thanks for your suggestion, above, Erich. Here is a link 20th of April - Oysterband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifk4Yfo6LrE |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Karen Impola Date: 23 Mar 21 - 09:55 PM APRIL MAY Lou and Peter Berryman, of Madison Wisconsin, have a song called "April May". April = name of month, and May = verb, in this instance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xC4NVcMujg The February sun it didn't turn the lawn to mud but April May The warmer wind of March it didn't bloom a single bud but April May There are little lumps of February down behind the bed Winter wasn't wonderland like everybody said March it didn't melt away the blizzard in my head but April May Full lyrics can be found by scrolling down here: https://www.louandpeter.com/files/212287/lyricsx-ysnh.pdf |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Mar 21 - 04:21 AM Blue click link to lyrics given above by GUEST,Karen Impola - https://www.louandpeter.com/files/212287/lyricsx-ysnh.pdf |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Mar 21 - 06:25 AM CAPTAIN COOK 28 April,1770 English naval explorer James Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia. Song for Captain Cook · Phil Garland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTjsf_ncuk The Ballad of Captain Cook https://www.folksong.org.nz/captain_cook/index.html The Ballad of Captain Cook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz9jY-uls1g The Song About Captain Cook · Peter Combe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP8IZfmCWvc |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Felipa Date: 29 Mar 21 - 06:28 PM One April Morning features in the first message. Here is a link to a different Mudcat thread discussing that song: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=107721#2731981 Thanks Felipa I have copied and pasted your message at the top of this thread where the other links for this song are grouped |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:10 AM April 24, 1916 The first day of the Easter Rising in Dublin. THE DYING REBEL “ Chorus My only son was shot in Dublin, Fighting for his country bold, He fought for Ireland,and Ireland only, The harp the shamrock,green white and gold “ The Wolfe Tones - The Dying Rebel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlk1FTUN_Y
Lonnie Donegan - My Only Son Was Killed in Dublin (The Dying Rebel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEuBzNEpPsk |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Apr 21 - 09:14 AM WALTZING MATILDA April 6th is Waltzing Matilda Day Slim Dusty - Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtttbbYfSM The Seekers - Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7exgYn-BuYI Kylie Minogue - Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmEnymAMBR8 Wikipedia Song Origins Info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Apr 21 - 06:35 PM GREEN GROW THE RUSHES 'Eight for the April Rainers.' The Spinners 'Green Grow The Rushes O' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZldyI0-OqM Guitar: Green Grow The Rushes Ho (Including lyrics and chords) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR1-iwtih8k Green Grow the Rushes-O (Traditional, after Roberts & Barrand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjht2xQripM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 Apr 21 - 05:27 PM APRIL SHOWERS - Al Jolson (1921) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Z0odJJj00 IT’S APRIL AFTER ALL Ron Sexsmith (1998 BBC Session) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4yAageqJoY |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: mg Date: 05 Apr 21 - 12:23 AM moonshine can red velvet by ian tyson |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Apr 21 - 06:36 AM LYRA MCKEE 18 April 2019 Lyra McKee was shot during rioting in the Creggan area of Derry. The Young’uns have a song about this called “Lyra McKee”, but I have not found any on-line lyrics or recordings yet.??? |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Apr 21 - 10:25 AM Mr Cooney wrote 14 songs for the theatre piece - Rising Up Peterloo 2019 - seven about the events of 1819 and seven about 2019. His song about Ms McKee was among those eventually chosen and performed. The song's lyrics include the lines: "Was early early in the spring/ All the birds did sweetly sing/ They changed their notes from tree to tree/ And they sang for Lyra McKee". Mr Cooney said the producers behind the Peterloo show posted a video of his song about Ms McKee, sung by Lucy Farrell, Jim Molyneux and Sam Carter, on YouTube. Lyra McKee |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: YorkshireYankee Date: 06 Apr 21 - 12:29 AM This is a song I wrote for the April song swap of the Paint Creek Folklore Society of Rochester (near Detroit), Michigan (not sure what year it was, maybe 1996 or 97). We have a theme every month and it was "April Fool". I'd had an idea in mind for weeks without having time to sit down and try to write anything, but the drive to the meeting took about 20 minutes, so I composed it in my head as I drove there. (Don't think I'd be able to do it all in my head now, sadly!) APRIL FOOL © ~1997 Vikki Appleton Fielden Come sit ye down beside me and hear my sorry tale And if you have a mind to, you might purchase me an ale Me heart is sick and weary and me pride is hurtin' bad And if you listen, you will hear the time that I have had. Chorus: And there's no fool like an April fool I thought I'd learned me lessons But now I'm back in school And there's no fool like an April fool So I'll just drink and sit and think How love can be so cruel. Now I was just a fool for love -- I guess I lost me head But she was young and pretty and she winked at me and said Come sit ye down beside me and we'll have a drink or two Her charms were irresistible... what else was I to do? Chorus We passed a lovely evening there and when she asked me in I knew that luck was with me (or perhaps it was the gin)... The next thing I remember I was lyin' in the street Without a stitch of clothing or the shoes upon me feet. Chorus So now, your Honour, here I stand, and now I comprehend Not every lass who smiles at you is bound to be a friend So if you'll take a tip from me concernin' lovin's game Don't trust a girl who tells you, Sir, that April is her name... For there's no fool like an April fool (etc.) Note: Sometimes I start the chorus with "And" instead of "For", usually on verse 3. Sorry, no link to a video, but if anyone would like an mp3 with the melody, PM me. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: JHW Date: 08 Apr 21 - 02:24 PM 'The winds of March all blown away the April skies show fair' FARNDALE DAFFODILS - Graeme Miles 'Ronnie me lad thi ship is noo leavin An t convoy is headin for Arctic seas April without thee is past beleivin Already there's leaves on our wych-elm trees' RONNIE - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe '...though snow is still seen on the moorlands And winds are companioned by hail Yet April the year's fortune teller Is gypsying right up the dale' APRIL IN WENSLEYDALE - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Both Dorothy Una Ratcliffe lyrics set by Brian Bedford and sung by Artisan |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby Date: 08 Apr 21 - 03:42 PM I’LL REMEMBER APRIL Frank Sinatra "I'll Remember April" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pepYluyez4k |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Apr 21 - 08:04 AM THE BALLAD OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER ‘It was in the month of April '68, In the Delta land he met a soldier's fate. He fought to his last breath and he died a hero's death, And he wore the black pyjamas of the People's NLF.’ Barbara Dane - Ballad of the Unknown Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBETzjoNKeI |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Apr 21 - 05:16 PM THE BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD ’It was on the first of April, Nineteen-Fifty-Four The Federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more. He said "200 agents were covering the state; Whichever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate." Robert Mitchum sings The Ballad of Thunder Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwUpxkfSJw > The Charlie Daniels Band - Ballad of Thunder Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX8WKD_WndI Jim and Jesse - Ballad of Thunder Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKP6_8-QA1s The Ballad of Thunder Road · R.B. Morris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknmCfwxN3o Ballad of Thunder Road · The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brk8-vMvn8w |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 Apr 21 - 08:32 AM SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL Sometimes It Snows In April · Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZgBhSMSUM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 14 Apr 21 - 07:26 PM THE FORTUNATE FACTORY MAID Roud Number: 1659 First Line:”The sun was just rising one fine May morning” Bodlian Ballad info http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/20000/19099.gif |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 Apr 21 - 09:06 AM APRIL IN PORTUGAUL - Russell Arms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1xxsTHZJh4 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: JHW Date: 16 Apr 21 - 04:27 AM 'It was on one April morning' has had several mentions. I always remember Tony Rose singing it. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Apr 21 - 03:32 AM Thannks JHW, This Youtube has a number of Tony Rose recordings on it but starts with ‘Twas on One April Morning’ Tony Rose - On Banks of Green Willow (1976) (Full Album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMMyHB0PT8 TRACKLIST & CUE A1 - Twas on One April Morning 0:00 A2 - Bold Archer 4:06 A3 - Fanny Blair 7:34 A4 - Polly Vaughan 11:14 A5 - The Murdered Servantman 15:28 A6 - Poor Man's Sorrows 19:59 B1 - Banks of Green Willow 23:34 B2 - Lord Randall 26:54 B3 - The Bonny Hind 30:54 B4 - Sir William Gower 37:10 B5 - The Fourteenth of July 42:13 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Apr 21 - 07:15 AM Tony Rose sang 'Twas on One April Morning on his 1976 LP On Banks of Green Willow. He commented in the album's sleeve notes: The village of Cowley, near Exeter, awakens boyhood memories on three counts — it was the terminus of the old “F” bus route, my mum's favourite picnic spot, and a superb vantage point from which to behold the Great Western Railway in all its majesty! Last year I discovered it was also where Priscilla Wyatt-Edgell collected 'Twas on One April Morning from Mr R. Bryant. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: The Sandman Date: 17 Apr 21 - 10:06 AM Cyril Tawney introduced On One April Morning to the Folk RevivaL and passed the song on to Tony Rose and Lou Killen. Cyril told me this in person, he claimed he never sang it live , but some years ago a mudcat contributor mentioned that in fact he did sing it live at least once. Cyril Tawney: I Will Give My Love Cyril Tawney: I Will Give My Love (Argo ZFB 87) I Will Give My Love Traditional love songs from South West England Cyril Tawney (1930-2005) Argo Records ZFB 87 (LP, UK, October 1973) Recorded by John Rollo and Iain Churches; Produced by Kevin Daly; Cover: Brockley Combe, Somerset, by Peter Baker Musicians Cyril Tawney: vocals, guitar; Bob Stewart: dulcimer; Dave Bland: concertina; Doug Sherriff: melodeon Tracks Side 1 Side 2 'Twas on One April Morning (Devon) (Roud 1546) (2.47) My Rose in June (Dorset) (Roud 1202) (3.25) Searching for Lambs (Somerset) (Roud 576; Henry H548) (2.37) Must I Be Bound? (Dorset) (Roud 18829; Henry H218ab) (3.52) The False Bride (Somerset) (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (1.52) The Scornful Dame (Devon) (Roud 381; G/D 5:980) (2.27) Midsummer Carol (Devon) (Roud 6913) (4.17) The Queen of Hearts (Devon) (Roud 3195) (2.35) Nancy (Hampshire) (Roud 1646) (3.07) I Will Give My Love an Apple (Dorset) (Roud 330) (1.57) The Turtle Dove (Somerset) (Roud 422) (4.02) The Cuckoo (Devon) (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.25) One Night As I Lay on My Bed (Dorset) (Roud 672) (2.42) The Sweet Streams of Nancy (Cornwall) (Roud 688; Henry H520) (2.01) Farewell She (Dorset) (Roud 803; Henry H504) (2.12) All songs trad. arr. Cyril Tawney |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Apr 21 - 06:54 PM ALL IN THE APRIL EVENING All in the April Evening - Hugh Roberton. Choir and orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh7E-A9mbUo All In The April Evening -Aled Jones · Libera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqoocpFiog |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Apr 21 - 08:50 AM 'Till April is dead' Lisa Knapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe-WWMHQASg |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Apr 21 - 07:00 PM RUINATION DAY It was not December. Was not in May. Was the 14th of April. That is ruination day. Gillian Welch. Ruination Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXM8wxg6XM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GerryM Date: 15 May 21 - 07:14 AM THE BALLAD OF BARNEY GRAHAM Della Mae Graham On April the thirtieth Nineteen thirty-three Upon the streets of Wilder They shot him brave and free They shot my darling father He fell upon the ground 'Twas in the back they shot him His blood came streaming down They took the pistol handles And beat him on the head The hired gunmen beat him 'Til he was cold and dead When he left home that morning I though he'd soon return But for my darlin' father My heart shall ever yearn We carried him to the graveyard There we laid him down To sleep in death for many a year In the cold and sodden ground Although he left the union He tried so hard to build His blood was spilled for justice And justice guides us still Liner notes from Hedy West, Old Times and Hard Times: This elegy was written by teen-age Della Mae Graham for her father, who was president of the United Mineworker's Union local in Wilder. One Sunday morning Barney Graham was walking along the dirt road that was Wilder's main street, and as he passed the company store, two gun thugs shot and killed him. The community was so tightly controlled by the mine owners that no local preacher dared preach at the funeral of the dead union man; instead, the oration was preached by divinity students from Nashville. "The tune I sing here is from John Greenway' s American Folk Songs of Protest which doesn't explain its source. When Daddy knew Della Mae Graham, she recited this poem and had no written tune." The song also appears as Track 20 on Pete Seeger, American Industrial Ballads. Recording by Hedy West. Recording by Pete Seeger. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 May 21 - 12:23 PM FARNDALE DAFFODILS by Reg Meuross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPY8OY4oj4 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 May 21 - 04:39 PM This song is ususually set in May But this version is set in April The Bonny Black Hare (Roud 1656) - Ed Thrasher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkrv254V0vM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Jun 21 - 10:54 AM Aprill is in my mistris face, Aprill is in my mistris face, And July in hir eyes hath place; With in hir bosome is September, But in her heart a could December. Aprill is in my mistris face written by Thomas Morley is one of the best-known and shortest of English madrigals; it was published in 1594, and appears to be based on an Italian text by Livio Celiano, set by Orazio Vecchi in 1587. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Jun 21 - 03:47 AM APRIL IS IN MY MISTRESS’ FACE April is in my mistress' face (Thomas Morley) – Ingenium Ensemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPDltGCotyk |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:36 PM Many more recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=April+is+in+my+Mistress%27+face |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Jun 21 - 12:24 PM ONE APRIL MORNING Mainly Norfolk Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/cyril.tawney/songs/twasononeaprilmorning.html
“It was on one April morning, just as the sun was rising,
Norma Waterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANgVGV-EWM Here is a relevant post from above in this thread From: GUEST,Felipa - Date: 29 Mar 21 - 06:28 PM
One April Morning features in the first message. Here is a link to a different Mudcat thread discussing that song: |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Jun 21 - 05:49 PM CAMPBELL THE DROVER The first day of April I'll never forget Three English lassies together they met They mounted their horses and swore solemnly That they would play a trick on the first man they see Campbell the Drover- David Ingerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3hoonMpYw Campbell, The Drover · Grit Laskin · Margaret Christl · Ian Robb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsg2kf5D2Ok |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Jun 21 - 06:33 AM WALPURGIS NIGHT SONGS MUDCAT: Songs for Walpurgis Night (April 30) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=137390&messages=8 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Aug 21 - 12:13 PM THE MUIR O' CULLODEN -Lizzie Higgins https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/66020?l=en Main Post for CULLODEN SONGS |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Aug 21 - 06:33 AM DRUMOSSIE MOOR Drumossie Moor · New Tradition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Tld2UEtzY Main Post for CULLODEN SONGS |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Oct 21 - 06:00 PM The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War SHILOH HILL Shillo Hill- Bobby Horton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6plG_wgraF8 Shiloh's Hill Jim Taylor https:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5tzduIEZI Wikipedia: Battle of Shiloh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh Hill
Come all you gallant soldiers, a story I will tell
Was on the sixth of April about the break of day
Was about the hour of sunrise the battle it began
Was early the next morning we fit the fight again
My uniform of blue was turned to a purplish red
Although we won the battle, my heart is filled with pain |
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Subject: Re: Any April songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 23 Oct 21 - 09:06 AM "Bedtime Story," written by Jan Harmon, recorded by Anne Dodson on From Where I Sit in 1993. Video Dodson writes: "'Bedtime Story' is actually a four-part choral piece, but since I can't carry a chorus around with me, I put the bass, tenor, and alto parts on the guitar and sing the soprano." BEDTIME STORY Jan Harmon Once upon a time I caught a glimpse of April Like a spear of sunlight on a January morning I closed myself as petals, but the light unclosed me There so deep in darkness Nothing, even starlight, has such tiny fingers Stones reach out and whisper to each other without warning And nothing, even wisdom, is as kind as roses Or so rare and reckless So sleep, my dearie 'Neath the dream horse hooves I will give you, in a wreath of leaves Bedtime stories, wishes tossed Like flashing pennies by lovers. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Oct 21 - 05:51 AM COPSHAWHOLME FAIR On a Friday, it fell in the month of April, O'er the hill came the morn' with the blithe sunny smile, And the folks they were throngin' the roads everywhere, Makin' haste to be in at Copshawholme Fair. Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/copshawholmefair.html Various Recordings of Copshawholme Fair on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=COPSHAWHOLM+FAIR MUDCAT Lyr Add: Copshawholme Fair (Steeleye Span) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2778&messages=19 Copshawholme Fair from Tune Search https://tunearch.org/wiki/Copshawholm_Fair |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Oct 21 - 06:40 AM I SHALL NOT CARE
When I am dead |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 02 Dec 21 - 04:57 PM Another Sultana song, this one by Son Volt (Jay Farrar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBhzCfDBvus Link To main posts above about THE SULTANA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Dec 21 - 07:10 PM Margaret Thatcher died on 8 April 2013 MRS THATCHER'S SONG Mrs Thatcher Song - Alan Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJh0m0E7Ozg Lyrics to Mrs Thatcher Song https://pesni.guru/text/belfast-busker-alan-dean-by-sean-brady-mrs-thatcher-song I'M IN LOVE WITH MARGARET THATCHER "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher" From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_in_Love_with_Margaret_Thatcher I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher -Not Sensibles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnToK3kSKKg Link to Thatcher songs posted below |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 09 Dec 21 - 08:46 PM SONGS ABOUT THE INVASION OF JOHNSON COUNTY In April, 1892 Wyoming's "Johnson County War," a conflict between large cattle owners and less wealthy settlers, culminated in the former bringing in a small army of hired gunmen to dispose of their opponents. They succeeded in killing the opposition leader, Nate Champion, but despite support from the President of the U.S., didn't come out well from the political fallout. See the Traditional Ballad Index for historical info and for the songs The Blood-Stained Diary and The Invasion Song. Under the title "Ballad of Nate Champion," "The Blood-Stained Diary" was recorded by The Phoenix Arizona Rebels. Johnson County War by Chris LeDoux: Mudcat thread and YouTube The Ballad of Nate Champion by David Wilkie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0UfarpJ8I Nate Champion by The Hotshot Freight Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHBYdYAnlw |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 03 Jan 22 - 11:09 PM LE PORTE-ENSEIGNE , also known as "Le 25 du mois d'avril", "Le 26 du mois d'avril", "La mort du contre-maître", and other titles, is a traditional song widespread in France and Canada. It tells of a dying soldier's farewell to his sweetheart, and usually begins something like "Voici le mois d'avril arrivé..." (The month of April has come...) See main thread for further discussion and many recordings. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 06 Jan 22 - 06:24 PM April 3, 1911 Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Canada: six men perish, four of them from the same family; they'd gone out to the sea-ice to hunt seals. COMPLAINTE DES LEBEL written by Nelson Arsenault Historical notes and lyrics: https://www.centredarchivesdesiles.org/2019/04/ephemeride-3-avril-tragedie-sur-les.html Recording by Georges Langford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu2k5aaFsr8 Recording by Mélusine [électrotrad]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9JShzvLELE |
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Subject: The Dance of the Cherry Trees From: Felipa Date: 21 Feb 22 - 05:55 PM https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171051 THE DANCE OF THE CHERRY TREES recorded, and presumbably written by, John Spillane. Let me tell you 'bout the cherry trees Every April in our town They put on the most outrageous clothes And they sing and they dance around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmOZycFqVc Link to post below by henryp about DANCE OF THE CHERRY TREES (THE) |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST Date: 27 Apr 22 - 05:54 PM THE CUCKOO Various dates in April are called 'Cuckoo Day ' and some places hold 'Cuckoo Fairs'. Marsden Cuckoo Day Festival https://www.visitengland.com/experience/herald-coming-spring-real-old-english-knees The Cuckoo (song) From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo_(song) Mainly Norfolk: The Cuckoo / The Coo Coo Bird https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thecuckoo.html Many recordings of "The Cuckoo" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+cuckoo+song The Cuckoo Bird - Doc Watson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YgFY8_Nt68 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Apr 22 - 09:28 AM April 20, 1914 The Ludlow Massacre, attack on striking coal miners and their families by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards at Ludlow, Colorado, resulting in the deaths of 25 people, including 11 children. LUDLOW MASSACRE By Woody Guthrie Wikipedia:Ludlow Massacre (song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre_(song) Ludlow Massacre · Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuASGyI7SY Dick Gaughan - Ludlow Massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNFyTBs4rP8 The Ludlow Massacre · Christy Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktWxFtkL314 Ludlow Massacre · Ramblin' Jack Elliott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ5fwfYdUTk Ludlow Massacre · John McCutcheon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3FUT7-t7lI MUDCAT DT lyrics : LUDLOW MASSACRE (Woody Guthrie) /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3779 MUDCAT: Tune Origins: WOODY'S LUDLOW MASSACRE - INFO PLEASE /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=6877#top |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Apr 22 - 05:10 PM 26th April 1937The bombing of Guernika in the Spanish Civil War PICASSO PAINTS GUERNICA Picasso Paints Guernica - Robin Laing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jjTYr3mZOI SPANISH BOMBS Spanish Bombs- The Clash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-qcy0-7ngw IN GUERNICA In Guernica -Joan Baez Lyrics http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk/songs/joan-baez/baptism/in-guernica.php Joan Baez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrUXaGCiEc GUERNICA(Tribute to Picasso) Guernica (Tribute to Picasso)"Mad World" as performed by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFCXdO9HQBw |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jun 22 - 10:19 AM I SYNG OF A MAYDEN aKa "As Dewe in Aprille" “I Syng of a Mayden” From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_syng_of_a_mayden Many recordings of “I Syng of a Mayden” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I+Syng+of+a+Mayden++song Many recordings of "As Dewe in Aprille" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22As+Dewe+in+Aprille%22%3C+song |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Geordie Downie Date: 05 Jun 22 - 03:46 PM APRIL FOOL’S DAY MORN LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III- April Fool's Day Morn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woaZiqmpah8 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Jun 22 - 06:49 PM TILL APRIL IS DEAD 'Till April is dead' Lisa Knapp on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe-WWMHQASg |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 18 Jun 22 - 06:23 PM ELEPHANT ISLAND
April 15th1916. Shackleton's Antarctic expedition arrived on Elephant Island |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Jun 22 - 12:19 PM 9 April,1806 Birth date of English engineer and inventor Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He was one of the greatest 19th-century engineers. Brunel designed railways, bridges, tunnels, viaducts and ships. SONGS ABOUT ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL "BRUNEL” - The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21QqXumEWFU "Brunel Railway Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7NOhggkJfI "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" · The Crowman & the Fiddling Pixie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY4fVPxl1TA Isambard Kingdom Brunel from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel Link to post below by GUEST,henryp: HUMOURS OF WHISKEY |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Jun 22 - 11:08 AM SONGS ABOUT IQBAL MASIH April 16, 1995 - Iqbal Masih, a young boy from Pakistan spoke out against child labour and was shot to death. He had been sold into servitude as a carpet weaver at the age of four and spent the next six years shackled to a loom. At age ten, he escaped and began speaking out, attracting worldwide attention. Iqbal Masih:from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Masih Iqbal Masih, Child Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15xzLt2VI “You Spoke Louder Everyday”- Buster Shuffle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-5y_hOI--8 Song, Tribute to Iqbal Masih https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJnpq9fR1iY ”Iqbal Masih vive” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oaiSphzwLA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jul 22 - 06:51 PM SONGS SUNG BY PAUL ROBESON April 9, 1898 Birthdate of African American actor and singer Paul Robeson Paul Robeson from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson “Paul Robeson Songs” from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Paul_Robeson_songs Paul Robeson Top Tracks on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Paul+Robeson+Top+Tracks |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Jul 22 - 05:05 PM The Battle at the Haughs o’ Cromdale took place near Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire. on 30 April and 1 May 1690. THE HAUGHS O’ CROMDALE Many recordings of ” The Haughs o’ Cromdale “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+haughs+of+cromdale+ Mainly Norfolk: The Haughs of Cromdale - Lyrics and information https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thehaughsofcromdale.html |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Jul 22 - 05:22 PM THE SMUGGLERS OF BUFFALO It was on the thirteenth of April as I lay on my bed, A'thinking of the sorrows that crowned my aching head; And surrounded I was by officers, and with them I was forced to go To serve a dreary sentence in the jails of Buffalo. The Smugglers of Buffalo - Greg Hodapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3wQiU7Z298 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Jul 22 - 09:15 AM Monday, April 27th, 1863 The steamer Anglo Saxon of the Canadian Line ran ashore and was completely lost at Clam Cove, Cape Race, owing to a thick fog LOSS OF “ THE ANGLO SAXON” SS Anglo Saxon (1856) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Anglo_Saxon_(1856) Information about the song from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/JMOC062.html A SORROWFUL LAMENTATION ON THE ANGLO – SAXON On the 17th of April, in the year of sixty-three We sailed away from Liverpool with spirits light and free Lyrics and Information about “ A Sorrowful Lamentation on the Anglo-Saxon “ from Disaster Songs in Canada https://disastersongs.ca/sorrowful-lamentation-on-the-anglo-saxon- a/ Lyrics and information from The National Library of Scotland https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/74893867?mode=transcription
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Felipa Date: 25 Feb 23 - 05:36 PM THE REASON I LEFT MULLINGAR by Pat Cooksey https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1331 as sung by Noel McLoughlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGSLV42Nxxw CHORUS: I remember that bright APRIL morning When I left home to travel afar, But to work till you're dead For one room and a bed Is not the reason I left Mullingar. MUDCAT DT : THE REASON I LEFT MULLINGAR (P. Cooksey) /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6884 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Mar 23 - 04:17 AM SONGS ABOUT JESSE JAMES April 3rd 1882American outlaw, Jesse James, was shot in the back by Bob Ford. The Ballad of Jesse James - Michael Martin Murphey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFxgeuf3QL4 Many more recordings of “The Ballad of Jesse James " on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ballad+of+Jesse+James
Jesse James from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,RJM Date: 16 Mar 23 - 04:27 AM There are 7 songs about April Fools Day Link to APRIL FOOL posted above Link to APRIL FOOL’S DAY MORN posted above Any more titles, recordings or information about April Fool's Day songs ? |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Apr 23 - 04:36 AM On 8 April 2013, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, died. THE GROCER by Ewan MacColl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g62fJPEa804 MARGARET ON THE GUILLOTINE - Morrissey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsq3H_6XuFA THE DAY THAT THATCHER DIES - Hefner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxgsW57u2Vs PINOCHET AND MARGARET THATCHER - Deborah Holland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUz_mc1r95I WHO’LL TAKE THE BALL FROM MAGGIE THATCHER? - The Corries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJLsyQdEpas THATCHERITES Billy Bragg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkXQm7tSCY THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING / PISS ON THATCHER’S GRAVE by The Maggie Thatcher Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_gALEe0nfA COMPANY POLICY - Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6LzNnea_ws BALLAD OF ‘84 - Dick Gaughan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhVNgoKEWlw THATCHER’S SONG aka MRS THATCHER'S SONG - Sean Brady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chfm5xMfCDs Link to Thatcher songs posted above |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Apr 23 - 09:37 AM JACK THE RIPPER 3 April 1888 Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram became the first victims of Jack The Ripper at Whitechapel in the east end of London. Jack the Ripper from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper - Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD4GP_76S8 Jack The Ripper - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXCt0ftVJe0 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 Apr 23 - 05:46 PM 5 April 1815 Mount Tambora, a volcanic mountain on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia, began to erupt and then exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption contributed to global climate anomalies in the following years. 1816 became known as the "year without a summer" because of the impact on North American and European weather. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FROZE TO DEATH Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death-Pete Sutherland and Cindy Mangsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS5OMWzJ5TI Information from About The Song https://aboutthesong.com/Blog/eighteenhundred ”Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death”, from The Social Historian https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death/ Mount Tambora from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora Year Without a Summer from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer#:~:text=The%20year%201816%20is%20known,the%20years%20of%201766%E2%80%932000. ”1816, The Year Without a Summer” - Rasputina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxeXHMHOcqQ |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Apr 23 - 09:25 AM FOSTER’S MILL April 9, 1812. Foster’s Mill near Wakefield, England was stormed by an armed crowd of around three hundred who were inspired by the Luddites and smashed up the machinery and attempted to set the building on fire. Foster's Mill -The Short Sisters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGxqe4iLvE Swan Arcade - Foster's Mill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgXJMKbU0Fk Foster's Mill recording and information from The Yorkshire Garland http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=63 Information & recording from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/facts/traditional/fosters-mill MUDCAT DIGITRAD Lyrics FOSTERS' MILL @displaysong.cfm?SongID=2097 MUDCAT,Origins: Foster's Mill /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169601&messages=4 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Apr 23 - 02:38 AM From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Oct 21 - 06:00 PM; The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War. From Mainly Norfolk; Martin Simpson sang Hills of Shiloh in 2019 on his Topic album Rooted. He noted: From 1977 to 1988, I worked with June Tabor. We performed a very wide selection of material including a set of songs from, or inspired by, the American Civil War. June performed Shel Silverstein's Hills of Shiloh in that set, a song which portrays a broken woman whose partner has been killed in the war, a fact that she cannot accept after 40 years. Silverstein was a great writer and illustrator of children's books and a very successful writer of songs. A Boy Named Sue, Sylvia's Mother and The Ballad of Lucy Jordan are among his best known. Mick Peat of Derby suggested that I should record the song. Thank you, Mick. June Tabor sings THE HILLS OF SHILOH ; Have you seen Amanda Blaine in the Hills of Shiloh? Walking in the morning rain in the Hills of Shiloh? Have you seen her at her door Listening for the cannon roar And the man who went to war from the Hills of Shiloh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5DvXjrNRi8 Hills of Shiloh Judy Collins BALLAD OF SHILOH - Donald Thomas Parsons & The Smokehouse Band Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTnSG_RXSgc; BATTLE OF SHILOH - Wayne Erbsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8e_zNJLSzAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8e_zNJLSzA Link to SHILOH HILL posted above THE BATTLE OF SHILOH HILL / The Rebel Soldier - Vocals & Guitar – Mickey Clark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szz4rkiFNf0 Link to post above SHILOH HILL |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Apr 23 - 07:25 AM On April 5, 1994 the Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died by suicide in his Seattle home after struggling with drug addiction and depression. Coope Boyes & Simpson sing BROKEN HEARTED AMONG THE PINES , their powerful tribute to Kurt Cobain, in session on the Radcliffe & Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2, 29th June 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKcHd92inc Coope Boyes and Simpson Broken Hearted Among the PInes - Random Canyon Growlers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYn9Tx7UlHc ABOUT A BOY by Patti Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgWXsQPB9r4 Article from Far Out Magazine about Patti Smith’s song About a Boy” https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/patti-smith-song-tribute-kurt-cobain/
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Apr 23 - 08:50 AM 25 April, the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings at at Anzac Cove in 1915 ALL AND EVERYONE All and Everyone - PJ Harvey from Songfacts https://www.songfacts.com/facts/pj-harvey/all-and-everyone Pj Harvey - All and everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Mgm3N4jg4 Link to post above with other SONGS ABOUT THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Apr 23 - 01:39 PM From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Jun 22 - 12:19 PM 9 April, 1806 Birth date of English engineer and inventor Isambard Kingdom Brunel. HUMOURS OF WHISKEY Traditional c. 1825 Verses: Attributed to Joseph Lunn (1784-1863) Original Title: Paddy's Panacea Earliest Date of Circulation from print or manuscript: 1901 from the publication by Manus O'Connor - Old Time Songs And Ballad Of Ireland What'll make the lame walk? What'll make the dumb talk? The elixir of life and philospher's stone! And what helped Mr. Brunel to build the Thames Tunnel? Oh! Wasn't it poteen from Malin Inishowen? Humours of Whiskey sung by Colm R. McGuinness Tge Thames Tunnell was built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard using the tunnelling shield newly invented by the elder Brunel and Thomas Cochrane. It is now part of the London Overground linking Wapping and Rotherhithe. Various other recordings of “Humours of Whiskey “on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Humours+Of+Whiskey+song Link to post above SONGS ABOUT ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Apr 23 - 12:58 PM SONGS ABOUT THE KINDER SCOUT TRESPASS 24 April 1932 The Kinder Scout Trespass in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, to highlight that walkers were denied access to areas of open country. Mass trespass of Kinder Scout from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_trespass_of_Kinder_Scout THE MANCHESTER RAMBLER sung by Ewan MacColl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENYMwuCG2Y Many other recordings of “The Manchester Rambler “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Manchester+Rambler The Manchester Rambler (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchester_Rambler How Trespassing 'Crystallised' Ewan MacColl's Songwriting by Chris Long from BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17783987 Link to post below of GUEST,henryp which gives extra verses to THE MANCHESTER RAMBLER written by John Tams YOU CAN You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932) · Chumbawamba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqg1PgEPLZU The Young'uns and Boff Whalley on Kinder Scout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LNS2mv0fc&t=22s You Tube doesn’t give titles for all the songs sung in this Young’uns video. The Manchester Rambler is one song but can anyone give titles to the other songs so we can then search on the internet for them? And though notspecifically about the Kinder Scout Trespass another related song is RIGHT TO ROAM - Johnny Campbell feat: Commoners Choir & The Skelmanthorpe Brass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83T5-A7BK0Y |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 09 Apr 23 - 12:20 PM The other two (?) songs in The Young'uns and Boff Whalley on Kinder Scout video Geoff posted are THE GREAT TOMORROW , which isn't a Kinder Trespass specific song:https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=en&id=59515 And FROM BELOW by the Commoners Choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkIlWD1PKs https://www.commonerschoir.com/writing.php Above link also has lyrics for For the Common Good (Magna Carta song). From Below Step by step… With a compass and a cap For a sing-song and a scrap Are we bound by the lines upon the map? Hell no! ‘Cos real change comes from below Chorus: From below, from below Real change comes from below It’s a place we call our own From stone to boundary stone Will they take away the right to roam? Hell no! ‘Cos real change comes from below Chorus For every footprint on the land For all the banners and the banned Should we keep to the landlord’s plans? Hell no! ‘Cos real change comes from below Chorus From below, from below Real change comes from below Down in the soil where the ideas grow Real change comes from below (Hope they don't mind!) |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 09 Apr 23 - 12:35 PM Just realised the Young'uns'own song TRESPASSERS wasn't mentioned in the original post. It's from their 2023 album Tiny Notes which is excellent and available via bandcamp: https://theyounguns.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-notes |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Apr 23 - 05:00 PM John Tams added new verses to The Manchester Rambler to bring it up to date, and set it to The Farmer's Toast. Nothing changes, it all stays the same. They're selling the moorland for profit and gain. They've sold all the rivers and bought all the rain, And you can't go up there, you're disturbing the game. Cod's roe, caviar, milk stout and champagne, Gold cards and dole cards, but never the twain. That's the game, that's their game. Nothing changes, it all stays the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchwCSqS284 Manchester Rambler by John Tams and Barry Coope Tam and Barry Link to THE MANCHESTER RAMBLER posted above |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 Apr 23 - 08:53 AM SONGS ABOUT MARY McKINNON 16 April 1823. execution of Mary McKinnon of Edinburgh for murder Mary McKinnon from The National Archive of Scotland https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12725134 MARY McKINNON’S IAMENT http://www.campin.me.uk/Embro/Webrelease/Embro/13law/text/Lament.htm McKINNON’S GHOST http://www.campin.me.uk/Embro/Webrelease/Embro/13law/text/McKinnon.htm BBC Sounds Radio 4 Programme Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley: Mary McKinnon https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f7q008 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Apr 23 - 06:18 AM 21 April 1916 . Three days before the Easter Rising began in Dublin, a German submarine put Roger Casement ashore at Banna Strand in Tralee Bay, County Kerry. THE BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT aka THE LONELY BANNA STRAND On the twenty first of April, good Friday at the dawn. A German boat was seen to float outside of Carrahane. 'With twenty thousand rifles, all ready for to land. And waiting for a signal from the shores of Banna Strand. Lonely Banna Strand (The Ballad of Roger Casement) · Derek Warfield & the Young Wolfe Toneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5U-OIPtP8 Many other recordings of Banna Strand on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=banna+strand+song Roger Casement from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement Banna Strand (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banna_Strand_(song)
(Another) BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT aka ROGER CASEMENT https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/958 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Apr 23 - 11:42 PM On this day in 1912: The Titanic sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage. Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads (1952) Harry E. Smith 1927 When the Great Ship Went Down Written By Traditional & William & Versey Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhSS6x6bx4A&t=10s When that great ship went down Performed by Andy Irvine at the opening of the Titanic Museum in Belfast. Link to post above SONGS ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Apr 23 - 06:08 AM On this day in 1989: Britain’s worst football disaster happened at Hillsborough, Sheffield, when 96 fans were crushed to death during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The very moving WHEN SATURDAY CAME by Robb Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipbUFhxuZ8 When Saturday Came Recorded at Transmission Studios on Thursday 25th August 2011 by Ali Gavan. Video by Robb and Arvin. Hillsborough Disaster Tribute Song - Always On Our Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDgl6q5mpBo This is a song written by Matt Caffrey and Ronnie Elliott. (Liverpool, England). It is dedicated to those who lost their lives at the Hillsborough Tragedy. See also Any March songs? 28 March On this day in 1991: A jury returned a verdict of accidental death at the end of an inquest into the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans who died in the Hillsborough stadium disaster in Sheffield in 1989. Link To MUDCAT Post from GUEST,henryp : Any March Songs? :WHEN SATURDAY CAME /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169401#whensaturdaycame:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20March%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20GU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 Apr 23 - 07:05 PM 16 April 1797. The Spithead Mutiny began at Spithead near near Portsmouth,England. THE SEVENTEEN BRIGHT STARS Come all you bold Britons, to the sea do belong, Of the seventeen bright stars I will sing you a song. On the fifteenth of April at Spithead we lay; Lord Britport he hove out a signal to weigh, But one and all we refused to obey. Mainly Norfolk: The Seventeen Bright Stars https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/theseventeenbrightstars.html Short recorded extract by AL Lloyd, Alistair Anderson and Bobby Campbell from Apple Music https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-seventeen-bright-stars-feat-alistair-anderson/1617190135?i=1617190142 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Apr 23 - 06:08 PM 2 April 1801 The Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 , also known as the First Battle of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, was a naval battle in which a British fleet fought and defeated a smaller force of the Dano-Norwegian Navy anchored near Copenhagen. Draw near, ye gallant seamen, while I the truth unfold Of as gallant a naval victory as ever yet was told. The second day of April last, upon the Baltic main, Parker, Nelson, and their brave tars fresh laurels there did gain. NELSON’S VICTORY AT COPENHAGEN - Martyn Wyndham-Read · Alistair Anderson · Bobby Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zL2xwn4dk Nelson's Victory at Copenhagen, full song lyrics from Mainsail Café https://mainsailcafe.com/songs/nelsons-victory-at-copenhagen#:~:text=Nelson's%20Victory%20at%20Copenhagen%20(song)%20%2D%20Mains Battle of Copenhagen (1801) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801)#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Copenha CLAP OF THUNDER - Lamwoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_bSktwXHE |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Apr 23 - 01:47 AM On this day 17 April in 1860: The first boxing world title fight took place near Farnborough, Hampshire, when Tom Sayers took on American John Heenan. After 37 rounds – two hours and 27 minutes – the match was declared a draw. HEENAN AND SAYERS from Mainly Norfolk You ranting lads and sporting blades, come listen to my song. I'm sure that it will please you well and it won't detain you long. 't was the seventeenth of April and thousands went with joy To see the English champion and the bold Benicia Boy. This story of the glorious boxing fight between John Carmel Heenan and Tom Sayers was recorded in 1962 by A.L. Lloyd accompanied by Steve Benbow on guitar for the Topic EP Gamblers and Sporting Blades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISGvLPC35mA Heenan and Sayers Heenan and Sayers - Jon Doran and The Northern Assembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY379id2feI Heenan and Sayers from Mainly Norfolk https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/heenanandsayers.html#:~:text=The%20fight%20between%20the%20heavyweight,be%20dispersed%20b Various Ballads about Tom Sayer's from Bodleian Library http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/subject/Sayers%2C%20Tom%2C%201826-1865/?query=&f_Subjects=Sayers,%20Tom,%201826-1865&f_S Happy Land of Caanan, the Sayers and Heenan Version http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/10000/07903.gif John C. Heenan from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Heenan Tom Sayers from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sayers |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Apr 23 - 12:17 PM SONGS ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF LORD LEITRIM 2nd April 1878. Lord Leitrim assassinated in the north of County Donegal in Ireland . Ye men from Tipperary, have ye heard from Donegal, How Rory and his gallant men caused Lord Leitrim's sad downfall? It was on the second of April in the year of seventy-eight. I hope the youth of Ireland will keep memory of that date. Facebook page of Jim Carroll who gives information which prompted this posthttps://www.facebook.com/jim.carroll.73594/posts/pfbid0cfnxhXZCrByhL3kaXcd7jL4wkRABBm6HMo64X1BAzQoGr9W7hP6CBWcAgZNCJjDTl?from_cl Another Ballad on the Shooting of Lord Leitrim fom duchais.ie https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658448/4656705/4660852
Lord Leitrim · Jody Stecher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydQugOfmDQ Leitrim (a brief history) - song by Mick Blake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6rXQjlN9g Lord Leitrim assassinated Part of a series of articles published in the Leitrim Observer https://www.loughrynn.net/assassination-of-lord-leitrim William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clements,_3rd_Earl_of_Leitrim Thanks to Jim Carroll for the following link about Lord Leitrim which gives access to more recordings and information. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZGpIqVZsXBkbB73gzQ6IfCNxXihMLIw7Nok#folder=15960411103&tpl=publicfoldergrid
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Apr 23 - 05:45 PM 19 April On this day in 1775: In Lexington, Massachusetts, the opening shot was fired – by a British general – in the United States War of Independence. This was the shot “heard around the world”. CONCORD HYMN (original title "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775 which sparked the American Revolutionary War. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. At Concord's Independence Day celebration on July 4, 1837, it was first read, then sung as a hymn by a local choir using the then-familiar tune "Old Hundredth". Wikipedia Concord Hymn performed by the Choir of First Parish Church Concord,Ma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ApkEnMCwc ; |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Apr 23 - 07:47 PM SONGS ABOUT THE ZOO 27 April 1828 The world's first scientific zoo was opened in London. WE’RE GOING TO THE ZOO - Julie Felix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTe9rhLC2XE AT THE ZOO - Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKLBne1CoI ZOO - Red Velvet https://soundcloud.com/taedess/red-velvet-red-flavor-x-zoo Zoo (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(song) WALKING IN THE ZOO "Walking in the Zoo"from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_the_Zoo Lyrics for "Walking in the Zoo" from Monologues.co.uk http://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-W/Walking-In-Zoo.htm THE ZOOOLOGICAL GARDENS - The Dubliners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxecS31al7Q Brendan Behan: The Zoological Gardens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVbPuGvdw0k London Zoo from Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Zoo |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Apr 23 - 08:09 AM ONCE TO EVERY MAN AND NATION
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 23 Apr 23 - 10:28 AM As I posted this in another thread and it's probably the most well-known local song about the Bay of Pigs Invasion, which tried to take place (but failed) at Playa Girón on 17–20 April 1961, let's have it here too. PLAYA GIRÓN Silvio Rodríguez - Playa Girón https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfe_gzBfrfU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Apr 23 - 12:03 PM Another song about the Bay of Pigs Invasion is BROTHERS - Randy Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZWLpl9oQqs Information about “ Brothers” from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/facts/randy-newman/brothers |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Apr 23 - 07:08 PM WILLIAM GLENN On the first of April, then we set sail, Blessed with a fine and a prosperous gale. And we were bound for New Barbary With all of our whole ship's company. William Glenn - Nic Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRCk9P-zFQ Lyrics, recording and information from Mainly Norfolk about Captain Glen / William Glenn / Sir William Gower / The New York Trader https://mainlynorfolk.info/tony.rose/songs/captainglen.html |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Apr 23 - 11:41 PM 25 April On this date in 1915, Australian, New Zealand, British and French forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8 Eric Bogle Link to post above about AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Apr 23 - 01:21 PM Further to Felipa Date: 21 Feb 22 - 05:55 PM https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171051 THE DANCE OF THE CHERRY TREES recorded, and presumably written by, John Spillane. Loveliest of Trees A. E. Housman - 1859-1936 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. From Loveliest of Trees by Polly Bolton Band 1996 SHEPHERD MUSIC SHEP CD 01 A setting of poems taken from "A Shropshire Lad" by A.E. Housman. Polly Bolton, John Shepherd and Steve Dunachie; verses read by Sir Nigel Hawthorne. Link to post above by Felipa DANCE OF THE CHERRY TREES (THE) |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Apr 23 - 01:54 PM Subject: Lyr Add: Sultana (steamboat disaster 1865) From: GUEST,Rick Pollay Date: 24 Apr 23 - 03:01 PM The Sultana, Art Thieme. Tune: "Blue Mountain Lakes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADW7JhfmVz0 It was April 24th of 1865. On the Father of Waters, side-wheelers did glide. From New Orleans to St. Louis town, Right on her schedule, she glided on down. Burning down, down, down. Burning down. She landed at Memphis on April 26th, Gave care to the wounded and care to the sick. Some stronger soldiers unloaded her hold, Carried out canned goods and bodies so cold. Burning down, down, down. Burning down. The steamboat Sultana, built for 376 passengers, was severely overcrowded at Vicksburg with over 1,953 paroled Union solder/prisoners, 22 guards from the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, over 70 fare-paying cabin passengers, and 85 crew members, for a total of 2,130 people. Seven miles above Memphis, the patched boilers exploded and fire ensued. The official death count by the United States Customs Service was 1,547. Link to post above THE SULTANA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Apr 23 - 02:10 PM HARRY BELAFONTE SONGS Sky News, 25 April 2023; Harry Belafonte, the singer and actor who became a civil rights activist, has died at 96. Reluctantly nicknamed "The King of Calypso", he was largely responsible for bringing Caribbean music to an international audience in the 1950s, and the first singer - in any genre - to sell a million records in a year. Just last year, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, becoming the oldest person ever to receive the honour. Alongside his sparkling Hollywood career, he was a committed activist, working closely with Martin Luther King Jr during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE Day-O Harry Belafonte, all songs on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harry+belafonte+all+songs |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Apr 23 - 06:52 AM 28 April On this day in 1789 the crew of HM Armed Vessel Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied in the Friendly Islands in the South Seas, eventually settling on Pitcairn Island. In 1985, David Essex co-wrote and starred as Fletcher Christian in the West End musical Mutiny! based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The score produced two more hit singles, including TAHITI , his tenth Top 10 success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpuB5GInnAk Tahiti |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Apr 23 - 07:03 PM THE BOUNTY The Bounty (Trad / P M Adamson) - P. M. Adamson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF43QMiBaY Mutiny on the Bounty from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Apr 23 - 06:26 PM LITTLE MARY PHAGAN 26 April 1913 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the factory of the National Pencil Company where she worked in Atlanta .This resulted in the lynching of Leo Frank, the factory superintendent after his trial and conviction for the murder . Various recordings of “Little Mary Phagan” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=little+mary+phagan+song Mary Phagan, American Murder Victim from Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Phagan Little Mary Phagan - Rosa Lee Carson (Moonshine Kate) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MydWpM7C4OY Another song about Mary Phagan THE GRAVE OF LITTLE MARY PHAGAN - Fiddlin John Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7rDtQrwoM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 23 - 04:19 AM THE LOSS OF THE ALBION April 22, 1822. It was the first of April from New York we set sail, Kind Neptune did protect us with a sweet and pleasant gale Until about the twentieth a storm then did arise, The raging billows loud did roar and dismal were the skies MUDCAT Digital Tradition, Lyrics @displaysong.cfm?SongID=6636,6636 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 23 - 11:04 AM Information about THE LOSS OF THE PACKET SHIP ALBION from Shannon Selin https://shannonselin.com/2017/04/wreck-packet-ship-albion/ |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 May 23 - 05:26 PM Been trying to post this for several days, so here's hoping that (a) it'll take, and (b) it hasn't been done before! Ahem: The one Dust Bowl Ballad that mentions the date of the great dust storm of 1935: THE GREAT DUST STORM (Dust Storm Disaster) On the 14th day of April of 1935, There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky. You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black, And through our mighty nation, it left a dreadful track. From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line, Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande, It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down, We thought it was our judgement, we thought it was our doom. The radio reported, we listened with alarm, The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm; From Albuquerque and Clovis, and all New Mexico, They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw. From old Dodge City, Kansas, the dust had rung their knell, And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill. From Denver, Colorado, they said it blew so strong, They thought that they could hold out, but they didn't know how long. Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks, And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks. And the family it was crowded into their little room, They thought the world had ended, and they thought it was their doom. The storm took place at sundown, it lasted through the night, When we looked out next morning, we saw a terrible sight. We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown. It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns, It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm. We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in, We rattled down that highway to never come back again. Woody Guthrie Great Dust Storm Disaster- Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvI7BmuUBXU Dust Bowl Ballads from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl_Ballads |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Joe Offer Date: 28 May 23 - 06:24 PM How 'bout SO LONG IT'S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH (Woody Guthrie)? I've sung this song, and I'll sing it again Of the place where I lived, on the wild windy plain In a month called April, a county called Gray Here is what all of the people there say: (Well, it's...) So Long It's Been Good to Know You -Woody Guthrie on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Jun 23 - 09:23 AM 15 April 1988 Death of British actor, Kenneth Williams who sang many folk song parodies as Rambling Sid Rumpo , originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series Round the Horne. SONGS SUNG BY RAMBLING SID RUMPO https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l9wbwhy5ksWIVaDza4sFDKYB--uGWP5K8 Rambling Syd Rumpo from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambling_Syd_Rumpo#cite_note-Ganderbag-1 Kenneth Williams from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Williams |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 Jun 23 - 02:28 PM THE GOOD OLD CAUSE April 1660 General John Lambert tried to raise an army against the restoration of The Crown in favour of the Commonwealth by issuing a proclamation calling on all supporters of the "Good Old Cause" to rally on the battlefield of Edgehill, but he was arrested before arriving at the battlefield. Ballad: The Downfall Of The Good Old Cause https://web.archive.org/web/20090125135724/http://www.poemsonline.org/poem/cavalier-songs/downfall-of-the-good-old-cause/ Hey Boys, Up Go We from Folktune Finder https://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/15867 The Good Old Cause – The Dolmen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4i6hBET8U Good Old Cause rom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Old_Cause |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jun 23 - 03:58 AM April 7, 1915 Birth of singer Billie Holiday SONGS SUNG BY BILLIE HOLIDAY Billie Holiday from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday Many recordings by Billie Holiday on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Billie+Holiday++top+tracks |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Jun 23 - 06:44 PM Apr 30, 1900. Death of "Casey" Jones, railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. CASEY JONES Casey Jones from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones Casey Jones [Laws G1] from The Ballad Index http://balladindex.org/Ballads/LG01.html Many recordings of Casey Jones on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Casey+Jones+song |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Jun 23 - 04:56 PM SONGS ABOUT EMELIANO ZAPATA April 10 1919. Death of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata ” Zapata's Blood”- Rage Against the Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSekAZFTuHA Emiliano Zapata from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata ” Zapata Se Queda” - Lila Downs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuRgIqxTnY Corrido de la Muerte de Emiliano Zapata - La Milpa de Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gyA0vSa91U Link to post below from ,henryp :VIVA ZAPATA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 14 Jun 23 - 09:11 AM Apr 13, 1743 Birth of Thomas Jefferson , the third president of the United States. SONGS ABOUT THOMAS JEFFERSON Thomas Jefferson from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Jefferson and Liberty - Pete Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLkOqeQe0XM The Thomas Jefferson Song - Mr. Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTTWwsyA_cU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Jun 23 - 12:27 PM THE HERTHA AYRTON SONG 28 April 1854 Birth,in Portsea, Hampshire, England, of Hertha Marks Ayrton,suffragette, mathematician, scientist and inventor of the practical form of arc lighting . Hertha Ayrton from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton The Hertha Ayrton Song Lyrics from electric voice theatre https://minervascientifica.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Hertha-Ayrton-Song-Lyrics.pdf |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Jun 23 - 05:26 PM Further to SONGS ABOUT EMELIANO ZAPATA Date: 07 Jun 23 - 04:56 PM Andy Irvine sings VIVA ZAPATA at Dent Festival 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSk-FD_4pSk Viva Zapata Link to post above SONGS ABOUT EMELIANO ZAPATA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Jun 23 - 09:20 AM SONGS SUNG OR WRITTEN BY HEDY WEST April 6, 1938 Birth of American singer and songwriter Hedy West. Hedy West from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_West Songs sung by Hedy West on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=By+Hedy+West |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Jun 23 - 06:23 PM THE KENTUCKIAN SONG - Eddy Arnold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LKrJX3jA6c I see my darling in each spray of summer sunlight I see my darling in the leaves that fall I see her walking in the rainy April sadness And hear her name in every bluebird call. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Jun 23 - 03:54 AM SONGS ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by stage actor John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth · Tony Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ_z6V7nMlY John Wilkes Booth - dud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khLP3iejkgE Mudcat: Lyr Req: John Wilkes Booth /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=27479&messages=13#top Lyrics to Song, on the death of President Abraham Lincoln from the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/resource/amss.cw105410.0/?st=text The Assassin's Vision J.W. Turner · University of St. Mary's Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZz73GyOW8 ”Give Us Just Another Lincoln” - Sheet music and information from Johns Hopkins University https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/008/035 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Mar 24 - 07:53 AM Apr 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln BOOTH KILLED LINCOLN / BOOTH SHOT LINCOLN Booth Killed Lincoln · Cisco Houston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-sMBrOx-XA Various recordings of Booth Shot Lincoln on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=booth+shot+lincoln+song Mudcat, Lyr Req: Booth Shot Lincoln / Booth Killed Lincoln /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=40567&messages=11 THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN by Dennis Lee Nowick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3t9fvo0nlo ON THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - American Pioneer Singers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VU_M5Fa-N0 "On the Death of President Abraham Lincoln Lyrics by Silas S. Steele https://electionsongs.com/12-on-the-death-of-president-abraham-lincoln Song on the Death of President Abraham Lincoln from The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection https://www.lincolncollection.org/collection/categories/item/?cat=18&page=37&item=105836 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Apr 24 - 05:26 PM APRIL FOOL by Patti Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcR3I3Qk1XU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Apr 24 - 01:29 AM Another vote for April Fool's Day Morn by Loudon wainwright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woaZiqmpah8" Who were his English and Irish companions? Link to post above from Geordie Downie , APRIL FOOL’S DAY MORN |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Apr 24 - 01:06 PM THE DEATH OF LITTLE KATHY FISCUS April 8, 1949, Kathy Fiscus, a three-year-old girl died after falling into a well in San Marino, California. The failed rescue attempt received nationwide attention in the US as it was carried live on radio and on television. On April the 8th, the year '49, Death claimed a little child, so pure and so kind. Kathy they called her, met her doom that day. I know it was God that called her away. Recordings and information on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Death+Of+Little+KATHY+FISCUS+ Death of Kathy Fiscus as sung by Glenda Sue Richardson, Mountain View, Arkansas from The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1224 Kathy Fiscus from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus Mudcat, ADD/Origin: Death of Little Kathy Fiscus (Osborne) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10213&messages=16#top |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Apr 24 - 11:13 AM April 9 1898 American actor and singer Paul Robeson was born. Paul Robeson from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson Paul Robeson Playlist on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL644F31FFC8571789 1. DEEP RIVER & CURLY HEADED BABY 2. JOE HILL 3. SUMMERTIME 4.BALLAD FOR AMERICANS 5.JERUSALEM 6. ODE TO JOY 7. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD? 8. NEARER MY GOD TO THEE 9. LAND OF MY FATHERS 10. LOCH LOMOND 11.OLD MAN RIVER 12. THE MINSTREL BOY 13.IT AINT NECESSARILY SO 14. DRINK TO ME ONLY THINE EYES 15. NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I SEEN 16.THE HOUSE I LIVE IN 17. SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT 18.SONG OF FREEDOM 19.THAT’S WHY DARKIES WERE BORN 20.TREES 21. CONGO LULLABY 22.MA CURLEY HEADED BABY 23.JUST A WEARYING FOR YOU 24. BALM OF GILEAD 25. A PERFECT DAY 26.ERISKAY LOVE LILT 27. KILLING SONG 28. COBBLERS SONG 29.STAR VICINO 30. SCANDALIZE MY NAME! 31.DIDN’T MY LORD DELIVER DANIEL 32.MIGHTY LAK A ROSE 33. LOVE SONG 34. RIVER STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR 35.THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE 36. CLIMBING UP THE MOUNTAIN 37.OLD FOLKS AT HOME& WAY DOWN UPON THE SWANEE 38. STEAL AWAY 39.THE BLIND PLOUGHMAN 40. PASSING BY 41.THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM 42.NATIVE LAND 43. SONG OF THE PLAINS 44. STAND STILL JORDAN 45. NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL 46. ON MY JOURNEY & MOUNT ZION 47. WHEN IT’S SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH 48.THE BANJO SONG 49.MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME 50. LE CANADIEN ERRANT 51. ANTHEM FOR THE USSR 52. MEXICAN LULLABY 53.JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO 54. THE FOUR INSURGENT GENERALS 55. PAUL ROBESON MELODY 56. AT DAWNING 57. SKYE BOAT SONG 58. THE PEAT BOG SOLDIERS 59.THE PUREST KIND OF GUY 60. LITTLE PAL 61. DEEP RIVER 62.FROM BORDER TO BORDER 63. SHORTENIN BREAD 64. LET US BREAK BREAD TOGETHER ON OUR KNEES 65. OLD FOLKS AT HOME & SWANEE RIVER 66. SILENT NIGHT 67. MARY HAD A BABY 68. IT TAKES A LONG PULL TO GET THERE 69. POOR OLD JOE 70. OH NO JOHN 71. WANDERER 72.OH, HOW PROUD OUR QUIET DON. 73. CHEE LAI 74. GOSPODI GOSPODI 75. HO HO-WAGON SONG 76.JUST KEEPIN ON 77.MAMMY 78. THE FOUR RIVERS 79. CRADLE SONG 80. GOT THE SOUTH IN MY SOUL 81. DEEP RIVER & CURLY HEADED BABY 82. THE BANJO SONG
PAUL ROBESON sung by World Inferno Friendship Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgujrPPYNXs |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 Apr 24 - 06:41 AM April 15, 2013 The Boston Marathon bombing, a terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and hundreds injured. Boston Marathon bombing from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing SONGS ABOUT THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING I DON’T HAVE A SONG FOR THAT - Ben Johnston and Jordan Lucero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-9rN8rJkXM NEW BEGINNING - Noah Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YBtDcRnXA 4 -15-13 - Dropkick Murphys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjsXEpVc8w0 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GerryM Date: 11 Apr 24 - 12:44 AM Six Irish convicts, sentenced to fourteen years deportation to Western Australia, were whisked away by the American whaler, The Catalpa, in April of 1876. THE CATALPA (Trad.) (usually sung to the tune of Rosin the Bow) A noble whale ship and commander Was called the Catalpa, they say, She came out to Western Australia And took six poor Fenians away Chorus: So come all you screws, warders and jailers Remember Perth Regatta Day. Take care of the rest of your Fenians Or the Yankees will steal them away. Seven long years they had served here And seven long more had to stay, For defending their country, old Ireland. And for that they were banished away. You kept them in Western Australia Till their hair began to turn grey, When a Yank from the States of America Came out here and stole them away. Chorus Now all the Perth boats were a-racing, And making short tacks for the spot; But the Yankee tacked into Fremantle And took the best prize of the lot. The Georgette gave chase with bold warriors With orders the Yanks to arrest But she hoisted her star-spangled banner Saying “You will not board me, I guess.” Chorus Now they've landed safe in America And there will be able to cry, “Hoist up the green flag and the shamrock. Hurrah, for old Ireland we'll die.” Many recordings on the web. Here's one by Raymond Crooke: https://youtu.be/Ec228_a89WQ?si=C8w1NxDJ0evasK1m More songs about The Catalpa THE CATALPA RESCUE,1876 by Éilis Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OSNUjNqx0 CATALPA RESCUE by Beyond the Pale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcZm21Xxv4 CATALPA RESCUE by Catalpa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bBEazM66c THE GOOD SHIP CATALPA by Padraig Grimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-b7uqzm0Eo TAKE CARE OF YOUR FENIANS OR THE YANKEES WILL STEAL THEM AWAY - Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0fYxNIByQ Mudcat, Origins: The Catalpa /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130098 Mudcat Digitrad lyrics /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1117,1117 Catalpa Rescue from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue BR> |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 Apr 24 - 04:17 AM WRECK OF THE OLD ‘49 Well, I'll sing you a song 'bout the old Forty Nine The fastest engine on the Santa Fe line On the fourteenth of April, she made a desp'rate dash And she got there on time and she did not crash! Wreck Of The Old 97 · Johnny Cash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PauEAvUbQLg Many recordings of ‘ Wreck Of The Old 97’ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Wreck+Of+The+Old+97 The Wreck of the Old 97 - History and Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ggBWk-Q_NY Wreck of the Old ’49 - Shel Silverstein https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-wreck-of-the-old-49-lyrics |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Apr 24 - 11:15 AM April 1923 Hundreds of emigrants left the Scottish Western Isles and sailed for Canada on the SS Marloch and SS Metagama. Donald MacDonald wrote the song Fagail Bhornais about this. FAGAIL BHORNAIS - Mairi MacInnes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWYVtpntB4Y Fagail Bhornais -several other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Fagail+Bhornais Mudcat: Lyr Add: Fagail Bhornais (Donald Macdonald /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172513&messages=3 Emigration from Stornoway from Stornoway Historical Society https://stornowayhistoricalsociety.org.uk/emigration/ Metagama exodus shows how 1,500 people left the Western Isles a century ago article from P& J Website https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/5592385/metagama-exodus-1500-people-left-western-isles-century-ago/ Information from "Scotish News"https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/5592385/metagama-exodus-1500-people-left-western-isles-century-ago/ GUR MI BHA GÒRACH A' FÀGAIL BHÒRNAIS :Information about the song and recording from Tobar an Dualchais https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/34645?l=en |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Apr 24 - 05:43 AM APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH by Rob Scallon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMn5omIBwk |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Apr 24 - 05:28 PM APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTHwritten by Tor Thomassen performed by The Late Great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jL4zGkX7to |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Apr 24 - 03:10 AM 24 April On this day in 1965: The Pennine Way – 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border – was officially opened. Pete Coe sang his own song The Pennine Way in 1989 on his LP A Right Song and Dance; Want of employment causes me to roam Far from the valley where I have made my home, Like many a one before me returning when I may, Just another pilgrim on the Pennine Way. THE PENNINE WAY - Pete Coe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2tFww3yIfE Pilgrim On The Pennine Way Jon Boden https://www.afolksongaday.com/?p=1800
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Apr 24 - 08:34 AM April 1808 It is said that this is when Naomi Wise went missing. Her drowned and battered body was later found in a river Infrormation from Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15846775/naomi-wise
THE BALLAD OF OMIE WISE Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ballad+of+Omie+Wise |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: FreddyHeadey Date: 30 Apr 24 - 08:39 AM v1 of I REMEMBER by Molly Drake We tramped the open moorland in the rainy April weather And came upon the little inn that we had found together The landlord gave us toast and tea and stopped to share a joke And I remember firelight I remember firelight I remember firelight And you remember smoke YouTube Molly Drake https://youtu.be/ZYo2ryZ3wUs Unthanks https://youtu.be/3-iIuU0tE24 score https://youtu.be/zNfXQqBOXPY score musescore.com/user/2730651/scores/6710183 Pretty well the only mention of Molly Drake on mudcat; with a link to a 2013 BBC radio programme & link to info about her music on CD. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=152972 Recording and information from Beautiful Song of the Week 506 https://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/week-506-i-remember-by-molly-drake/ |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 May 24 - 06:18 PM DO AWAY WITH APRIL - Sarah Vaughan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEKwTbRfjo |
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