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Subject: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Jul 21 - 05:37 AM
-Joe Offer- Can you suggest any songs associated with the month of August ie: (A) Any songs with August in the title (B) Any songs with an August date given in the lyrics (C) Any songs referencing an event that is known to have occurred in August 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. Below is an alphabetical index of the titles collected in this thread so far. If a title in this index is clicked then you should be jumped to the section of the thread in which most of the discussion and links for that title occurs. If you just want to add a new post to this thread use the “Post to this thread” or POST buttons to jump to the end of the thread. 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 INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN ADMIRAL BENBOW ADMIRAL BENBOW aka BRAVE BENBOW AGONISING CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT by La Poudre ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT by The Pretzel Boys ALMA ANACREONTIC SONG (THE) ANNIE YOUNG (THE) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL APPRENTICE BOYS OF DERRY APRIL COME SHE WILL AQABA ASSASSINATION IN SARAJEVO AT THE PURCHASER’S OPTION AUGUST by Arthur Lee and Love AUGUST by Julia Nunes AUGUST by Rilo Kiley AUGUST by Taylor Swift AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER AUGUST DAY SONG AUGUST IS OVER AUGUST SONG BALLADE DE JEAN SAINT MALO (LA) BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (THE) BALLAD OF DAVY CROCKETT (THE) BALLAD OF HERBERT LEONARD MILLS (THE) BALLAD OF MARILYN MONROE (THE) BALLAD OF RICHARD NIXON (THE) BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT (THE) aka BANNA STRAND BALLAD OF BRAVEHEART WILLIAM WALLACE (THE) BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE SONGS BANG BANG, ALL FOR YOU SOPHIA BANKS OF THE NILE (THE) BERLIN WALL SONGS BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD (THE) BATTLE OF OTTERBURN (THE) BATTLE OF THE NILE (THE) BERLIN WALL BLUES FOR LEON TROTSKY BLYTH SANDS BONEY WAS A WARRIOR BONNIE AND CLYDE BONNIE UND CLYDE BRIGG FAIR CAESAR AUGUSTUS CANDLE IN THE WIND (Marilyn Monroe version) CANDLE IN THE WIND CAPTAIN AVERY CAPTAIN WEBB CASTLEBAR RACES (THE) CHANSON DE ROLAND CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE CHATSWORTH WRECK CHEVY CHASE CHOLERA CAMP CIRCLE GAME (THE) COCA COLA COWBOY COLD WIND IN AUGUST COLLIER THE LASS (THE) COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR COME BE MY LIGHT COME JOIN THE ABOLITIONISTS CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIER(THE) COVER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES (THE) CYPRUS BRIG DANCING ON THE BERLIN WALL DAY IN THE LIFE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (A) DEAR AUGUST DEATH OF EMMET TILL (THE) AKA The Ballad of Emmet Till DEATH OF EMMET TILL (THE) - by The Ramparts DERRY'S WALLS DICKIE'S SUCH AN ARSEHOLE DIC PENDERYN DOG DAYS OF AUGUST DONIBRISTLE MINE DISASTER EMMET’S GHOST ENGLAND’S MOTORWAYS FANNY ADAMS FAREWELL LINCOLN CASTLE FARRAGUT’S BALL FIRST DAY IN AUGUST (THE) FOL THE DAY-O GALE OF AUGUST ’27 (THE) FROM GALWAY TO GRACELAND FUNAMBULIST GALWAY RACES (THE) GAVRILO GEORGE BUSH DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE GLORY, GLORY APPRENTICE BOYS GO DOWN MOSES GOD’S OWN COUNTRY GOODMAN, SWERNER AND CHANEY GOOD MORNING MR COLSTON GRAF ZEPPELIN HANG OUT YOUR BRIGHTEST COLOURS - The Ballad of Michael Collins HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN HARBO AND SAMUELSON ( HAVE YOU SEEN ) BRUCE RICHARD REYNOLDS? HELL NO WE AIN’T ALRIGHT HENRY MARTIN aka LOFTY TALL SHIP HERE'S TO THE STATE OF RICHARD NIXON HE'S MISTRA KNOW- IT- ALL HEY YORKSHIRE ! HIROSHIMA HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI RUSSIAN ROULETTE HORNCASTLE FAIR HOUND DOG HUMBOLT’S GROOVE HYMNS BY JOHN NEWTON I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE I’M LENIN, I’M TROTSKY IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT INDEPENDENT JAMAICA IT’S BEEN A LONG,LONG TIME JACK ASH SOCIETY (THE) JACKSON POLLOCK JACK THE RIPPER JULY JOHN BULL AND BONAPARTE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY (THE) JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY SONG (THE) JUST ONE AT A TIME LAMMAS DAY SONGS LEGEND OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (THE) LENIN UN TROTSKY LE 31 DU MOIS D’AOÛT LE P’TIT BONHEUR LES BOHEMIENS LIMEJUICE SHIP (THE) LINDEN LEA LIZZIE BORDEN LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON (THE) MACK THE KNIFE MAN ON WIRE MARILYN MONROE MASSA KILLA ME HE WON’T MATHEW HENSON SONG MATTERHORN MEN BEHIND THE WIRE (THE) MENDLE MEXICO MICHAEL MOTORWAY (SONG) MOTHER THERESA’S SONG MY GENERATION MY GIRL’S A YORKSHIRE GIRL MY NAME IS EMMET TILL MY SKY SAILOR NAT TURNER NELSON MANDELA NEW GARDEN FIELDS NO MORE HEROES NO TIME FOR LOVE NOW WESTLIN WINDS OH! YOU BABE RUTH OLD PENDLE ON ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT OULD LAMMAS FAIR OWD WOMAN IN YORKSHIRE(THE) OVER THE EBRO PARIS AU MOIS D’AOÛT PASO DEL EBRO PENDLE WITCH SONG PENDLE WITCHES (THE) PETERLOO SONGS POWDER MONKEY (THE) PUCK FAIR QUEEN OF THE SEA QUISQUEYANOS VALIENTES REBEL GIRL RICHIE HAVENS AT WOODSTOCK RIDING ON TOP OF THE CAR ROAD TO BARCELONA (THE) ROLANDSKADET ROOM FOR COMPANY or BARTHOLOMEW FAIR RULE BRITANNIA RUM AND COCA COLA SADDLEWORTH RUSHCART SONGS SARAJEVO SCARBOROUGH FAIR SECOND OF AUGUST (THE) SEIGE OF UNION STREET (THE) SHED A LITTLE LIGHT SHROPSHIRE LAD (A) aka Captain Webb SHUTTING THE GATES OF DERRY SING A SONG OF YORKSHIRE SLAVE NO MORE SLAVERY DAYS SLEEPWALKING SOLDIER SONGS OF WORLD WAR ONE SOME BUGGER FROM YORKSHIRE SONG OF ALIZON DEVICE The (PENDLE WITCH SONG No 1) SONG OF FREEDOM SONG OF ROLAND (THE) SONG OF THE DOG DAYS SONGS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA SONGS ABOUT ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT SONGS ABOUT ANNIE OAKLEY SONGS ABOUT BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF GORIZIA SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE NILE SONGS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SONGS ABOUT EMMET TILL SONGS ABOUT FREDERICK DOUGLASS SONGS ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA SONGS ABOUT JOHN MACLEAN SONGS ABOUT KEIR HARDY SONGS ABOUT LAWRENCE OF ARABIA SONGS ABOUT LEON TROTSKY SONG ABOUT TROTSKY SONGS ABOUT MARCUS GARVEY SONGS ABOUT MARILYN MONROE SONGS ABOUT MOTHER THERESA OF CALCUTTA SONGS ABOUT PHILIPPE PETIT SONGS ABOUT RICHARD NIXON SONGS ABOUT SACCO AND VANZETTI SONGS ABOUT SLAVERY SONGS ABOUT SLAVERY (MORE) SONGS ABOUT THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY SONGS ABOUT THE PENDLE WITCHES SONGS ABOUT WILLIAM WALLACE SONGS APPROPRIATE FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY SONGS BY LADY NAIRNE SONGS BY WOODY GUTHRIE SONGS COLLECTED BY LUCY BROADWOOD SONGS COMPOSED BY GEORGE BUTTERWORTH SONGS FOR YORKSHIRE DAY SONGS OF FELA KUTI SONGS SUNG BY DEREK BRIMSTONE SONGS SUNG BY FLORRIE FORDE SONGS SUNG BY NORMA WATERSON STAR SPANGLED BANNER (THE) STORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (THE) STREETS OF STAITHES (THE) by Vin Garbutt STUCK IN THE AUGUST RAIN SWEEP! CHIMNEY SWEEP (SWEET) FANNY ADAMS SWISS COTTAGE MANOEUVRES TALKIN’ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY PARANOID BLUES TALL TALL GRASS (THE) TEENAGE KICKS TEAR ME DOWN TESTIMONY OF PATIENCE KERSHAW (THE) THE '68 NIXON THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE THIRTY THIRD OF AUGUST(THE) TO BE A PILGRIM aka He Who Would Valiant Be TOLL FOR THE BRAVE TOO MANY MARTYRS TOUJOURS L'R 100 TRAPPER BOY’S DREAM (THE) ‘TWAS IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY aka SHE SAID THE SAME TO ME TWO YOUNG BRETHREN UNEASY RIDER WALLACE (THE) WALK ON BY WEARING OF THE GREEN WE’LL KNOCK THE HELIGO INTO HELIGO WE’RE STOLE AND SOLD FROM AFRICA WE WILL NEVER ALLOW ANOTHER ATOM BOMB TO FALL WILD BILL HICKOK SONGS WILLIAM WALLACE (THE KNIGHT OF ELDERSLIE) WIND OF CHANGE WHITBY SOUVENIRS WHO KILLED NORMA JEAN? WITH HENRY HUNT WE’LL GO VERY STRANGE JOURNEY OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT (THE) WONDERFUL GUY (A) YORKSHIRE BORN AND BRED YORKSHIRE SONG YOU HAVEN'T DONE NOTHIN' YOUR NEW SAINT ZHURAVLI / CRANES 2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY ’03 BONNIE AND CLYDE '97 BONNIE AND CLYDE 1,00 CANDLES 1,000 CRANES Here is a famous August song to start us off: BRIGG FAIR It was on the fifth of August, the weather fair and fine, Unto Brigg Fair I did repair; for love I was inclined. Mainly Norfolk info: https://mainlynorfolk.info/joseph.taylor/songs/briggfair.html Joseph Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmgUM4LbS4 The Full English - Brigg Fair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZm6l-Q2mk Brigg Fair -Shirley Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHvm0ToT3U Brigg Fair Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOwhMRgTdw Brigg Fair · Roy Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r2r3IftyOE Brigg Fair · Jackie Oates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI44p3gmm8 British Library: Percy Grainger's collection of ethnographic wax cylinders https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2018/02/percy-grainger-ethnographic-wax-cylinders.html |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: JHW Date: 24 Jul 21 - 08:25 AM I'm sorry to say I recorded Raglan Road with August (morn). Realising I'd sung August rather than Autumn I repeated it to save another take. |
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Subject: RE: Au 31 du Mois d'août From: Felipa Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:23 PM LE 31 DU MOIS D’AOÛT Au 31 du Mois d'août A French naval song about a battle with the British. Lyrics are on screen on the youtube video, and there are background notes and translation to English at https://batalladevitoria1813.org/french-napoleonic-songs-au-31-de-mois-daout/ more video recordings: Mikaël Yaouank & co. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZvNFHM0Axk&t=1s |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:26 PM The aforementioned 31st of August French song has been previously posted on Mudcat with both lyrics and translation https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=39712#564162 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:50 PM PARIS AU MOIS D’AOÛT https://lyricstranslate.com/en/paris-au-mois-daout-paris-month-august.html Paris au mois d'août (Paris in the Month of August) writers Georges Garvarentz, Charles Aznavour LE P’TIT BONHEUR staying with French-language songs, the singer-songwriter French-Canadian Félix LeClerc was born and died in August. (August 2, 1914 – August 8, 1988) His song Le p'tit bonheur featured in a Mudcat Monday night singaround and is posted at https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169209, message date 23 Jan 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsA9rZ-3FMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hafFjvs3uP8 (with English translation subtitles) ---------------------- David Kidman usually joins the Mudcat singaround. He is presently presenting songs of Keith Marsden, coming up to the anniversary of Marsden's death on 10 Aug. 1991. David sang Morley Main at another song circle last night (23 July) but that apparently is about a disaster that happened in a different month, Oct, in 1872. The lyrics of Morley Main and of several other Keith Marsden songs can be found posted in Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,Modette Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:59 PM AUGUST by Arthur Lee and Love The wonderful Arthur Lee and Love - Love - August (1969). |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Long Firm Freddie Date: 24 Jul 21 - 02:48 PM STUCK IN THE AUGUST RAIN - Jethro Tull Stuck in the August Rain LFF |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GerryM Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:10 PM THE GALWAY RACES As I rode down to Galway town to seek for recreation On the seventeenth of August me mind being elevated There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station Me eyes began to dazzle and I'm goin' to see the races. The Dubliners - The Galway Races https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTT-g0y9nsc Various other YouTube recordings of The Galway Races https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Galway+Races |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GerryM Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:11 PM NOW WESTLIN WINDS (Robert Burns) Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns Bring August's pleasant weather; The moorcock springs, on whirring wings, Amang the blooming heather; Now waving grain, wide o'er the plain, Delights the weary Farmer; The moon shines bright, as I rove at night, To muse upon my Charmer. Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics ,recordings & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/nowwestlinwinds.html Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Westlin+Winds See Tattie Bogle’s note on this song Tattie Bogle's additional note on this song /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=170145#reply:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20August%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20Tattie%20Bog |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GerryM Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:16 PM CYPRUS BRIG There is no mention of August in the lyrics of this song, but the notes in the DT say: The seizure of convict ships by convicts happened a number of times. This particular event occured in August 1829, and a manuscript in the Mitchell Library has a poem of 48 lines that commemorates the seizure. Titled 'Seizure of the Cyprus Brig in Recherche Bay' it is printed in Geoffrey Ingleton's True Patriots All and attributed to Frank MacNamara (Frank the Poet). Wikipedia Cyprus mutiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_mutiny Australian Folk Songs: Lyrics & Recording of Cyprus Brig http://folkstream.com/027.html |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Jul 21 - 03:44 AM August, die she must. The autumn winds blow chilly and cold. September, I remember A love once new has now grown old. APRIL COME SHE WILL Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYD-DIggB2k |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Jul 21 - 06:14 AM RULE BRITANNIA The song was sung in public for the first time 1 August 1740. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule,_Britannia! Thomas Arne: Rule, Britannia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E53mX2SwsG4 Many more Youtube recordings https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=RULE+BRITANNIA |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Jul 21 - 06:22 AM THE STREETS OF STAITHES by Vin Garbutt One fine August day as I was making my way Along the hardship-troubled streets of Staithes, I saw the seagulls flying in the grey northern sky Heard the shifting chorus of the waves The Streets of Staithes - Vin Garbutt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqBClTN1WAk MUDCAT: Lyr Req: Streets of Staithes (Garbutt/Slater) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=81277 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Jul 21 - 09:29 AM NELSON MANDELA |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Phil Cooper Date: 25 Jul 21 - 09:41 AM 1,000 CANDLES 1,000 CRANES The Small Potatoes song 1000Candles/1000 Cranes mentions the month of August. I've a picture in my mind Of two women slowly walking August 6th, 1985 Walking to church to light a candle 1,00 CANDLES 1,000 CRANES on antiwarsongs.org : LYRICS & video recording https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=58789&lang=en |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Jul 21 - 10:35 AM HIROSHIMA The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki Hiroshima - David Rovics – Recording & Lyrics https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=3208&lang=en Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette with lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyek0MdrBNo Information on another "Hiroshima" song |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 25 Jul 21 - 01:46 PM more Hiroshima COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR sung by Pete Seeger words in Turkish by Nazim Hikmet, English translation by Jeanette Turner. Tune "The Great Silkie" attributed to James Waters in the digital tradition under the title HIROSHIMA origins and DT correction thread also includes Yüksel Pazarkaya's German translation, set to a tune by Zulfu Livaneli; and links to recordings in Greek and Japanese as well. I'm only seven though I died In Hiroshima long ago I'm seven now as I was then When children die they do not grow |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 25 Jul 21 - 01:56 PM WE WILL NEVER ALLOW ANOTHER ATOM BOMB TO FALL Hiroshima Song (We Will Never Allow Another Atom Bomb to Fall) posted by GUEST,999 on 6 Aug 2011 A song by Ishiji Asada and Koki Kinoshita©1955 English words by Ewan MacColl All that men have created with their hands And their minds, for the glory of the world we live in, Now it can be smashed, in a moment destroyed, Deadly the haryest of two atom bombs. Then, people of the world, you must watch, and take care That the third atom bomb never comes Lyrics in Japanese as well as in English translation: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/genbaku-o-yurusu-maji-hiroshima-song-we-will-never-allow.html Last year at Hiroshima day, I sent a Japanese friend a link to some videos. I think this was the song Pete Seeger sang in Japanese in one video. Junko said his Japanese pronunciation was good. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Jul 21 - 06:08 PM GerryM beat me to it with Westlin’ Winds, but worth pointing out that the original title was “Song composed in August “. See GerryM’s post on this song |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Jul 21 - 04:32 AM SWEEP! CHIMNEY SWEEP 7 August 1840 Britain bans the employment of climbing boys as chimney sweeps. Mainly Norfolk song info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5q-ZQgRMUI Sweep, Chimney Sweep · Steeleye Span https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8fpF4Efle4 Sweep! Chimney-Sweep- The Copper Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5q-ZQgRMUI The Chimney Sweeper (words William Blake)- Greg Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrCO153LdM |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Ged Fox Date: 27 Jul 21 - 09:15 AM ADMIRAL BENBOW Benbow's last battle was 24th August 1702, so "Come all you seamen bold"," Other youtube recordings of “Admiral Benbow”https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Admiral+Benbow Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info: https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/admiralbenbow.html Bob & Jacqueline Patten English Folk Music Collection https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Bob-and-Jacqueline-Patten-Collection/025M-C1033X0258XX-1800V0 Link to ADMIRAL BENBOW aka BRAVE BENBOW posted below TOLL FOR THE BRAVE Also, the Royal George went down on 29th August 1792, so "Toll for the Brave." Tune Information and Lyrics from contemplator.com https://www.contemplator.com/sea/tollbrave.html Link to post below by henryp about TOLL FOR THE BRAVE |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST Date: 27 Jul 21 - 06:38 PM Should be 1782 above, not 1792. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,Jiggers Date: 27 Jul 21 - 07:46 PM Basically, after May, the songs run out a lot. May is the month of rejuvination and celebration. Hurrah for May, |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: leeneia Date: 28 Jul 21 - 01:14 AM SONG OF THE DOG DAYS Here are the lyrics to my "Dog Days Song." It doesn't specify August, but what can I say. Song of the Dog Days - to the tune of The Four Maries 1.The weatherman warns of the heat wave; with cirrus like feathers on high, while the towering form of a thunderstorm surges up in southeastern sky. 2. The grasshoppers buzz by the roadside so lively, despite the long drought, and starlings wheel over yellow fields getting ready to head for the South. 3. So why do we call these the dog days? In the heat there is nary a breeze. And a sane dog's goal is a nice cool hole in the shade of the big leafy trees. 4. The butterflies visit the zinnias, [ZEEN yahs] soft orange, bright yellow and tan. There's the ghostly blur of a hummingbird finding nectar wherever it can. 5. The songbirds have gone into hiding while distant coyotes give tongue, and a redtail cries from the pale blue skies keeping track of its wandering young. 6. Come up on the porch, and we'll visit. We'll all have a glass of iced tea. There's Mary Lou and Peggy Sue and Mrs. Carmichael and me. ================ Creative Commons License: Song of the Dog Days lyrics by Eileen KCMO Chase is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 28 Jul 21 - 05:39 AM HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN There's Hares On The Mountain, as considerably (and tenderly) rewritten by Chris Wood, with the bit about enjoying your ice-cream in the hot August sun and getting nothing done: If all you young girls were like hares on the mountain We'd soon get our boots on and go out a-walking. But if all you young girls were like swans in the water We'd soon take those boots off and dive in there after. And if all you young girls were like stars in the dark We'd chase round the world to avoid the dawn's spark. And if all you young girls were like the sun in the morning We'd sit bleary-eyed just to see the day dawning. And if all you young girls were like rain from the sky We'd stand out in T-shirts and shun all things dry. And if all you young girls were like the hot August sun Then we'd sit out with ice-cream and get nothing done. And if all you young girls flew south like the swallow There's be nothing for it but to up sticks and follow. But if all you young girls were like my own true lover Then all you young men would love them as I love her. There's a Youtube of him and Andy Cutting singing it in a folk club. It's very grainy but it's wonderful. Chris Wood & Andy Cutting - Hares On The Mountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDsWOZz3eec |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 28 Jul 21 - 10:05 AM I take it that was you, Geoff - cheers for making my post look more respectable! :-) |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Jul 21 - 06:06 PM AUGUST by Taylor Swift Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_(song) Taylor Swift – August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn_0zPAfyo8 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GerryM Date: 30 Jul 21 - 01:10 AM A Wonderful Guy I'm as corny as Kansas in August, I'm as normal as blueberry pie. No more a smart little girl with no heart, I have found me a wonderful guy! From Rodgers & Hammerstein, South Pacific. A WONDERFUL GUY A Wonderful Guy (from "South Pacific") - Jane Morgan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dXjL15ZI8 FULL LYRICS https://genius.com/The-original-broadway-cast-of-south-pacific-a-wonderful-guy-lyrics |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 31 Jul 21 - 07:43 PM PETERLOO SONGS 16 August 1819The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire. Wikipedia info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre WITH HENRY HUNT WE’LL GO With Henry Hunt We'll Go (feat. Bob Diehl) · Harry Boardman · Dave Hillery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFuH-7D6Vf4 With Henry Hunt We'll Go -The Critics Group: Frankie Armstrong, John Faulkner, Brian Pearson, Denis Turner, Terry Yarnell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGvFtjw9fMU "The Oldham Tinkers singing "Peterloo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHG2iKY33WY Oldham Tinkers Website: Lyrics ‘Peterloo’ http://www.oldhamtinkers.com/peterloo.html 4 songs from ‘The Road to Peterloo’: Pete Coe, Brian Peters & Laura Smyth https://worldlisteningpost.com/2020/03/04/coe-peters-smyth-the-road-to-peterloo/ History Workshop: The Ballads of Peterloo https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/s2-e3-the-ballads-of-peterloo/ MUDCAT: Lyr Req: Peterloo Massacre (Harvey Kershaw) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23907&messages=112&page=3#top |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Aug 21 - 06:16 PM 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany SOLDIER SONGS OF WORLD WAR ONE https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Soldier_Songs_of_World_War_I |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,Jerome Clark Date: 01 Aug 21 - 08:43 PM Piedmont bluesmen John Cephas & Phil Wiggins's "Dog Days of August" (Flying Fish, 1984) carries a song of the same name, written by Cephas & Wiggins. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Aug 21 - 04:31 AM DOG DAYS OF AUGUST Cephas and Wiggins - "Dog Days of August" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ert0I3o0w20 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 02 Aug 21 - 05:48 PM THE OULD LAMMAS FAIR https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=37238#518884 The fair is held in Ballycastle annually in late August. A Mudcat discussion of "Lammas" https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23976#269972 (see also Lughnasa aka Lúnasa) |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Aug 21 - 06:15 PM OULD LAMMAS FAIR Many Youtube recordings https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ould+Lammas+Fair More Information on Lammas Day from henryp |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,JHW Date: 03 Aug 21 - 05:27 AM I'm back as my incorrect rendering of August for Autumn is playing out. Summer seems to have ended with July this year.(2021) Useful reminders here though. Westlin Winds and good old Vin. "If its Staithes you've come to see you've come too late". What a prediction of our times. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 Aug 21 - 06:30 AM (SWEET) FANNY ADAMS “On Saturday the twenty-first of August, My poor Fanny and her sister went to play With another little girl, Minnie Warren, Little thinking of danger on her way.” MUDCAT Lyr Req: Sweet Fanny Adams /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=69336 Information about Sweet Fanny Adams Murder https://stmargarets.london/archives/2010/12/the_sad_story_of_sweet_fanny_adams.html YouTube video documentary of the case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkhajGakubs Vashti Vincent - Fanny Adams https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Peter-Kennedy-Collection/025M-C0604X0904XX-0001V0 The Execution of Frederick Baker, Lyrics from Traditional Music Library http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Execution_of_Frederick_Baker.htm Fanny Adams from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Aug 21 - 10:59 AM NEW GARDEN FIELDS On the seventeenth of August, the eighth month of the year Down the new garden fields where T just met my dear, She appeared like some goddess or some young divine, And come like a torment to torture my mind. Collected by RVW from Mr Broomfield, a woodcutter, at East Horndon, Essex on 22 April 1904. From Bushes and Briars by Roy Palmer. Info , music&lyrics https://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/week-208-new-garden-fields/ |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Aug 21 - 01:28 PM Lammas Day, also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August. While Loaf Mass Day is traditionally a Christian holy day, Lughnasadh is celebrated by Neopagans around the same time. "I wish you strength to bring you pride, And a love to keep you clean, And I wish you luck, come Lammastide, At racing on the green." Link to posting from Felipa on this topic A Shropshire Lad VIII (Farewell to barn and stack and tree) by A E Housman From Loveliest of Trees by the Polly Bolton Band |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Aug 21 - 04:12 AM A SHROPSHIRE LAD aka Captain Webb A Shropshire Lad- John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyJJZOFQdI John Betjeman - A Shropshire Lad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jnT4tOl_qQ Mudcat: Lyr Add: A Shropshire Lad (John Betjeman) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94240 CAPTAIN WEBB - 'Tim's Band' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKc_gYRRRs |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 05 Aug 21 - 01:32 PM I wonder why you don't include more Mudcat links. The thread starts with lots of links to recordings of Brigg Fair. A set of lyrics is in the DT https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=921 I haven't looked to see discussions of the song. commenting today because It was on the fifth of August The weather fair and mild Unto Brigg Fair I did repair For a love I was inclined |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,JHW Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:16 AM Trying to think of songs I knew but didn't learn and have never sung (for the few outdoor do's) I remembered SWISS COTTAGE MANOEUVRES Jonathan Kelly. 'On a Christmas cake day, one Friday in August In a bookshop in Charing Cross road' |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:39 AM Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres (Original) · Al Stewart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv0UlzUwic4 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Aug 21 - 07:34 AM August 6th, 1938, the republican Army crossed the River Ebro to fight Franco’s fascists in the Spanish Civil War OVER THE EBRO Over the Ebro · The Young'uns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68KuqcJvShM |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Aug 21 - 09:14 AM And the Spanish song EL PASO DEL EBRO aka Ay Carmela Many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+El+Paso+del+Ebro |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,JHW Date: 07 Aug 21 - 04:39 PM Yes was Al Stewart, 1967 album. Was thinking I was past it. Confirmed. Only 54 years ago and I forgot. |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Aug 21 - 05:13 PM Hello Felipa , above you said "I wonder why you don't include more Mudcat links. " I do try to include them if they look interesting but making the links in to " blue clickies" is not straightforward and I sometimes abandon the task. It is not as simple as running them through the " clicky maker". |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GUEST,Felipa Date: 08 Aug 21 - 12:04 PM another one to add to the Hiroshima songs is ZHURAVLI / CRANES https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=106885#2211631 In the author Rasul Gamzatov's native Dagestan, there is a an annual White Cranes Festival held 22 Oct, so I should remember to also add the song to the Oct song list when it starts. There is yet another August connection as well as Hiroshima, however, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuravli "The poem's publication in the journal Novy Mir caught the attention of the famous actor and crooner Mark Bernes who revised the lyrics and asked Yan Frenkel to compose the music. When Frenkel first played his new song, Bernes (who was by then suffering from lung cancer) cried because he felt that this song was about his own fate: 'There is a small empty spot in the crane flock. Maybe it is reserved for me. One day I will join them, and from the skies I will call on all of you whom I had left on earth.' The song was recorded from the first attempt on 9 July 1969. Bernes died on 16 August 1969, about five weeks after recording the song, and the recording was played at his funeral. Later on,'Zhuravli' would most often be performed by Joseph Kobzon. According to Frenkel, 'Cranes' was Bernes' last record, his 'true swan song.'" A link to more Hiroshima themed songs |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 08 Aug 21 - 05:06 PM 9 Aug 1972 Introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 9-11 Aug, "The Ballymurphy Massacre" - only this year, it was officially declared that the 11 people killed in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast were innocent of any terrorist offences. THE MEN BEHIND THE WIRE THE MEN BEHIND THE WIRE (Mudcat thread) NO TIME FOR LOVE (Mudcat thread) BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE SONGS BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE SONG youtube video, song by Gerard McConnell, background info on screen, lyrics on page. Ballymurphy Massacre Song recording on youtube, lyrics on screen Pádraig Mór on youtube Ballymurphy Massacre, words by T Docherty, on youtube Lyrics for both Ballymurphy Massacre songs are at Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170214 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: Felipa Date: 08 Aug 21 - 05:19 PM NO TIME FOR LOVE No Time for Love If They Come in the Morning recorded by The Men of No Property No Time for Love performed by its composer Jack Warshaw MUDCAT:Lyr Req: No Time for Love (Jack Warshaw) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=84944&messages=13 |
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Aug 21 - 08:55 AM MY SKY SAILOR On 24 August 1921, the airship R.38 (designated ZR-2 by the USN) was destroyed by a structural failure while in flight over the city of Hull. Yorkshire Garland: Lyrics, Recording & Info http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=132 |
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