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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Jul 21 - 08:12 PM Songs and poems from the 26-27 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. "The Most Important Rule of Life" is my guess at a title for the very short song Claire Sherman sang (it's also about half the lyric, the other half being, "Never leave your wallet on the roof of your car."). Comments and corrections always welcome. Music to Me Cosmo Revisited (poem) Morley Main The Moon is a Silver Dollar Flash Companie You Don’t Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry) The Poor Lonely Widow The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring Grandfather was a Fiddler Humoresque Summerfly The Prophet King Henry Buckeye Jim On Board the Susianna Wreck of Number Nine (aka On a Cold Winter’s Night) Song for the Mira Hey Rain Plains of Waterloo Fear a Bhàta (The Boatman, Scots Gaelic) In the Heat of the Summer Worried Man Blues Turbines (poem) All the Salt Misery Farm Two Brethren Kathy’s Song Autumn to May Being a Pirate Steam Powered Aeroplane When I’m Drunk Paddy on the Railway Glorious Ale A Nice Quiet Day Will Ye Go to Flanders? Ballad of Springhill Librar-i-o The Most Important Rule of Life Close the Coalhouse Door A Mhic Mo Chroí ("Son of My Heart", in Irish Gaelic, a version of "Mrs. McGrath") Thirty-Foot Trailer Rolling Down the Ryburn Anderson's Coast Five Foot Flirt The Drowned Sailor On a Monday Morning Red-Winged Blackbird (Billy Edd Wheeler) I Believe, I Do Archimedes (The Lever) (takeoff on Leave Her, Johnny) Witch Hazel Fields of Athenry Orphan Child River Lay Down Beside Me Handful of Songs |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Aug 21 - 01:28 AM Songs/poems/tunes/monologues from the 2-3 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Dawn Berg sang a song with some overlap with "Died for Love" / "The Butcher Boy" but we don't have an accurate name for it. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Hayseed On a Sunday Guide Cats for the Blind (poem) Collapse of a Family Firm (monologue) Golden Slumbers Heigh-ho Don’t Think Twice, it’s Alright Shanandoah Paura Cigala ("Poor Cicada", in Occitan) Georgie Too Much of a Good Thing Seaview Bells Where the Morning Glories Grow Old Dolores Oakham Poachers The Dance Somebody Would Shout Out “Shop” Erin the Green Banks of Sweet Mossing Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother Candles Son Come Tell to Me The Frozen Jogger There Was an Old Piper You’re Still Gonna Die Damn Yankee Lad Bringing in the Sheaves Mathematics Rainbow Warriors The Emigrant (aka My Lovely Mountain Home, aka Carndaisy) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Wings of Song Well Well Well Never Gonna Cease My Wandering Cobweb of Dreams My Rival A Sailor's Farewell to His Horse The Bare Necessities Earl Grey (tune) Hawaiian Lullaby Jamie's Song Departure (poem) New Harmony Bitter Withy Froggy Went a-Courtin' Lincoln Park Pirates Vegematic Dear Old Shepherd's Bush Died for Love (?) (The Butcher Boy?) The False Knight upon the Road Rachel I Come and Stand at Every Door All Among the Garlic Till the Dance is Mine Tenting Tonight (aka Tenting on the Old Camp Ground) Smiling Aghado The Great Historical Bum I Used to Work in Chicago Eight More Miles to Louisville Windmills The S. S. Shieldhall Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Aug 21 - 08:43 AM Songs/poems/tunes/readings from the 9-10 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Jenny’s Gone Away The Vampire Cholera Camp Until it’s Time for You to Go Why We Wear Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer Lloraba la niña ("The girl was weeping", in Spanish) The Backblocks Shearer (aka Widgegoara Joe) I Come and Stand at Every Door Let Union Be Crabfish (aka Johnny Daddlum) Where the Wild, Wild Flowers Grow Searching for Lambs Green Grows the Laurel To Father Sheehy’s Head Town of Ole Dolores An Maidrín Rua (The Little Red Fox) The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls Sam Hall Eensy Weensy Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) Enola Gay Mary had a Little Lamb (Fenian boys parody) Fair Flower of Northumberland Joe Peel The Ring of the Nibelungs (abridged) The Mule Song One-Legged Horse (poem) Farewell to the House Four Strong Winds The Fair Haired Boy, Child Grove, Balqiddhr Lasses (whistle tunes) Sweet Inniscarra (aka The Exile’s Return) Ceres, Pluto and Eris, Oh, My Shanty Man's Life Enola Gay – The Day After (reading) Ramblin' Boy Oh Maritana August 6th and 9th, 1945 (poem) First Time/Last Time Forked Tongue Story Their Brains were Small and They Died A Ballad of Recursion (ttto Wee Willie Lost His Marley, aka Wor Geordie's Lost 'is Penka) Broken Token The Rare Ould Times Old Bangum The Sands o' the Shore Brigg Fair Black Panther The Fox Buddhist World Peace March 1982 (recitation) Walking Yankele (one verse in Yiddish, the rest in English translation) A Mhic Mo Chroí (Irish Gaelic version of Mrs. McGrath) The Great Storm is Over Interesting Times |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Aug 21 - 09:53 PM Songs/poems/readings from the 16-17 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Love at the Five and Dime Train to Glasgow (Poem) Rip Van Winkle Wind River Waltz William Taylor Armstrong (in French) Bold Riley Trouble in the Fields The Deserter When the Old Dun Cow Caught Fire Ballyhoe Song of Deal Prairie Lullaby So Long Ago (aka So Long Mississippi) The Sun’s Coming Over the Hill Deep River Blues Four Strong Winds Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright I Ain’t Nobody in Perticuler The Argument of His Book I’ll Tell Me Ma Safe Romance Bridges I’m a Rover, Seldom Sober He Moved Through the Fair Home Grown Tomatoes Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Across the Great Divide Stand-up Chameleon (poem) Farewell to the Haven Augustus & Catherine Lowlands Away A Bottle o’ the Best Good Morning Starshine George Collins Wave the Ocean Lyke Wake Dirge Maidin I mBéara ("Morning in Beara", in Irish Gaelic; tune, Londonderry Air) It's All About My Cat (poem, takeoff on "All Around My Hat") Sully's Pail Yesterday's Waltz Evil-Hearted Man San Antonio Rose Sailor Fireman (aka Fire Down Below) Boots of Spanish Leather Melting Pot (recitation) Ghost in the Music Their Brains Were Small and They Died From a Distance The Old Turf Fire Row On Matterhorn The Ballad of Soulful Sam It's Only a Wee Wee Liverpool Lullaby The Poacher (poem) Nine Times a Night Palace of the Czar (aka Shootin' with Rasputin, An Intimate Friend of the Czar, The Czar Song) What a Home Is (poem) The Convict Tolpuddle Man Velcro How Can I Keep From Singing |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Aug 21 - 05:56 AM Songs/recitations/monologues/poems from the 23-24 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Travellin’ Man Sweet Thames Flow Softly The River’s Tale (recitation) Living on the River A Bush Christening (monologue) Seven Deadly Sins O’Reilly From the County Cavan/Leitrim Bread and Gravy My Goodness, my Guinness Katie Did Hatton Woods May I Suggest Waist Deep in the Big Muddy A Song for Christy Ring The Water is Wide She was One of the Early Birds Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Pennsylvania Miss Otis Regrets Local Flowers Norland Wind Blank Space Broken Glass Rare Old Times I Love Little Baby Ducks The Four Angels Wild Side of Life (Covid version) Hard Times Come Again No More I Can’t Find my Invisibility Cloak (poem) The Rambling Irishman Winston’s New Shoes (monologue) Gluttony (to a Rossini tune) My Bonny Cuckoo Velcro A Chat With Your Mother Della and the Dealer Hang Me, Oh, Hang Me Old Wood is Best Sé fáth mo bhuartha (in Irish Gaelic) London Danny They All Walk the Wibbly Wobbly Walk An páistin fionn (English and Irish Gaelic) Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian I Like Beer The Vassar Hygiene Song Wildflowers The Sound of Sirens (parody of Sounds of Silence) Heat Detector Blodeuwedd Four Strong Winds I Still Miss Someone Log Driver's Waltz Saguaro Nobody Hugs a Hedgehog Too Darn Hot Love at the Five and Dime Interesting Times The Run of the Mill ACME Parody of Galway Bay Here's to You |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Sep 21 - 12:55 AM Songs/recitations/stories/poems/tunes from the 30-31 August 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. "Nine Gifts" is my name for a story Robert told about a Welsh couple who wanted a son. Comments and corrections always welcome. Little Ant I’m in Love with the Nearest Mirror Song for the Mira Lock-Keeper It’s in the Last Place You Look (poem) Matt Hyland Dog in the Microwave (aka The Wife of Lincolnshire) Ambletown (aka Home, Dearie, Home) My Darling Clementine (ttto "Bread of Heaven") Refugee The Mountain Whippoorwill (recitation) Song of the Dog Days I’m an Old Deckhand (takeoff on I'm an Old Cowhand?) Cuchulainn’s Son The Sea Maid and a reel (tunes) If Wishes were Fishes Old Skibbereen I Couldn’t Exert Myself (recitation) Maid on the Shore Down by the Glenside (aka The Bold Fenian Men) Take This Hammer He’s a Cowboy Jesus Gave Me Water Ti-Jean and the Devil (recitation) See No Evil I Want to Die Easy Lava So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh Lifeboat Prayer Brindisi (in English, ttto Libiamo né lieti calici, from Verdi's La Traviata) Refugee Blues (poem) Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby Prickle Holly Bush House of the Rising Sun Grief (poem) Triceratops (poem) Mama Bake a Pie, Daddy Kill a Chicken Leisure for Cats (poem) Old Whitby Harbour Hesitation Blues Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown Banana Boat Song Watching the Trains Come In Cadgwith Anthem / Robbers' Retreat Johnny Be Fair False Lover Won Back (aka Bonnie Love) And the Band Played "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" The Whole World is a Very Narrow Bridge (Gesher Tzar Me'od, aka Kol Haolam Kulo, in English and Hebrew) Nine Gifts (story) Like the Way I Do Soolaimon The Red Corvette Paramedic Rescue 101 Sunshine and Roadsides (poem) Hurricane Blues Newborough Beach (poem) Garden Song and Anti-Garden Song When Britain Really Ruled the Waves The Good in Living |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Sep 21 - 09:47 PM Songs/poems/monologues/stories from the 6-7 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. I didn't get a name for Jane's story/stories. Comments and corrections always welcome. Galveston Flood Last But One of the Mohicans (poem) Crossing the Bar Why Was I Always the Baddie? Uppards! (monologue) When I Go Milk ’em in the Morning Blues The Spotted Cow Home, Boys, Home A-Begging I Will Go Housewife’s Lament Which Side are You On? Montredon (in Occitan) The Vassar Hygiene Song Sin The Rose of the San Joaquin Why am I Always the Bridesmaid? The Literary Dustman Why We Wear (version of Wild Side of Life) O Kaimos (in Greek) There Was an Old Miller I’d Be a Reformer Tolpuddle Man The Duct Tape Madrigal Life Passes By White Squall The Losing of the Farm The Bells of Rhymney (stories) All the Weary Mothers of the Earth English Ale William Brown All Among the Barley Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (ttto Zorba's Dance) Accident at Bradford Colliery 1956 Brother Can You Spare a Dime James Connolly The Gasman Cometh Lay Down Beside Me Zen Gospel Singing Johnny's Practicing Zen (ttto What Can the Matter Be?) An Activist's Accomplishment (poem) John Golden and the Lawrence Strike (ttto A Little Walk with Jesus) Junk Food Junkie Here's to You Rounders Cloakmakers' Union Time has Made a Change in Me Kelly the Pirate Chicken Cordon Blues Now Westlin Winds Weary Winter Country Life Cold Mountain Tiny Fish for Japan Stitch in Time Ali: Díleachtín Gun Bhrí (in Irish Gaelic) Mayn Ru'e Platz (in English and Yiddish) Wasn't That a Mighty Storm (sometimes called "Galveston Flood") Storm Presence Hurricane Blues How Can I Keep From Eating Let the Mystery Be Joe Hill Step By Step Poverty Knock The Jute Mill Song Farewell to the House Padstow Farewell John of Dreams |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: leeneia Date: 08 Sep 21 - 10:03 AM It looks like that was good attendance, even though it was Labor Day. I'm glad the singaround is going well. I had three gatherings that day and couldn't be there. I'll be back. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Sep 21 - 01:48 AM Songs and poems from the 13-14 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Banks of Marble Peppers and Tomatoes A Love Song (poem) I Do Have My Little Bit of Pride Bold Riley King James and the Tinker Bird in the Bush/Three Maidens A-Milking/Drink Down the Moon/Three Pretty Maidens Gentleman Soldier Reconciliation Are You Lonesome Tonight + parody version All Shall Be Well Will Ye Gang Love Cycles One More Day Only Then Will Your House be Blessed My Love Comes Rolling Down Nutting Girl Wandering Star Quand les hommes vivront d’amour (in French) When I was a Lad I’m Movin’ On No. 2 Off to California My Boy Willie Follow the Heron The Kirk Soirée Limehouse Reach Sweet William’s Ghost A Seaman’s Wife Night Visiting Song Ragtime Cowboy Joe What Else Can I Do? Grey October Clouds Heights of Alma (aka Battle of Alma) When You and I were Young, Maggie I've Been Hiding My Light Under a Bushel (poem) Postcards of Scarborough The Hot Breath of a Salesman Bushes and Briars Yarmouth Town Norfolk and Good Annan Water New York Mining Disaster 1941 It's Nobody's Fault But Mine Solidarity Forever MacPherson's Rant (aka MacPherson's Lament, MacPherson's Farewell) That's Amore Crazy There is a Tavern in the Town Hruška (Peartree, in Czech) The Music of Strings There Are No Words East Texas Red Valparaiso in a Rowboat How Can I Keep From Eating? Take Your Time Parkette Alma Blank Space Sheffield Sings This is My Song (ttto Finlandia) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Sep 21 - 03:36 AM Songs and poems from the 20-21 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Eight Shillings A Week (We Are) Forced to be Contented A Pilgrim’s Way (poem) What is ’t to Us Don’t Dilly Dally on the Way Anger Moving Day On Peace Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright Farewell Johnny Miner At Ballyvaney Fair (poem) Lupin and the Poppies Your Long Journey Empty Pockets Blues (aka Barrels of Money Blues) All God’s Critters The Idle Welder Oops Jamboree Paper of Pins Old Zip Coon Price Tag Far Side Banks of Jordan Field Behind the Plow Cockleshells (version of Waly-Waly /Rue & Thyme) Lark in the Clear Air M.T.A. 3 Jolly Coachmen (aka Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl) Music in My Mother’s House Wooden Spoon Man of the Earth Mid-term Break (poem) Farewell to Grog (aka Come, Messmates, Pass the Bottle 'Round) Grumpy Old Men of Old England I Guess We’ll Go to Filey After All Pirate Jenny Going to the West Nell Flaherty's Drake So Will We Yet End of the Line Shanty Boys The Old Bog Road I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry I Wish You Were Here Paní Mámo Hosti Jedú (in Czech) A Chat with Your Mother People Say Strange Things Irish Wedding Song I'm so Glad I Got My 'Ligion in Time (aka Ain't Gonna Die, aka I'm So Glad) Poem LXV Unicorns Winds of Morning Rubber Blubber Whale River Come All You Bold United Men The Old Hearth Wall Gray Flannel Line (ttto Grey Funnel Line) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Bless This House Pirate Jenny's Granddaughter Don't Know the Words (for My Favourite Things) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Sep 21 - 07:42 AM Songs, poems, monologue from the 27-28 September 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. I'm not sure about the one I've called The Legendary Gendarmes. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Gayle for a clarification. Comments and corrections always welcome. Let Union Be Come and be Welcome The Verb To Be (poem) Will it Fill the Till? Epitaph to the Unknown Miner (monologue) Lady of Autumn Rory O’More Ned of the Hill I’m Drunk, I’m Drunk Railway Race to the North Come Write Me Down Chat with Your Mother My Donald Lo Bailèra (in Occitan) Farewell to the Old House The Coffee Shop in Pimlico Many a Mile I Have Gone Degree of Freedom Blues Success to the Farmer The Ball Playing Song When You Get to Heaven Oregon Take a Walk Working Man Moth Dark-Eyed Molly Horse Thief Gold Watch and Chain The Family of Woman and Man Oh What a Merry Land is England! I Had an Old Coat Suzanne Grannie (poem) Rafael & Abdullah Mrs Jones' Operation Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Whiskey-O (aka Whiskey Johnny) McDonalds Kitchen (ttto Streets of London) The High Walls of Derry (aka Johnny, Lovely Johnny) The Legendary Gendarmes (?) Zen Gospel Singing The Streets of Derry (aka Derry Gaol) Abstract Horny Blues Neocortex Tear Down the Walls (not the Fred Neil song) Day We Went to Rothesay The Man in Green Daily Growin' Slow Train Through Georgia Barrett's Privateers Oedipus Rex (Mark Graham, not Tom Lehrer) Twisted My Painting Box Ulysses Keep Hauling Vaccination (ttto Fascination) Doc's Guitar Are You Going to Salisbury Town? (ttto Scarborough Fair) Side By Side Cree Prophecy Hymn Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 29 Sep 21 - 08:18 AM Clarification for the above list: Working Man was the Rita MacNeil song, not Terry Conway or either of the others with the same title... |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Oct 21 - 04:54 AM Songs, poems, monologue and recitation from the 4-5 October 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. I didn't get a name for Storm's French poem, and I'm not sure whether Marian and Jerry did a song near the end. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Red River Valley Administerium (poem) Beulah Land You’re a Stick in the Mud, Mate Three-Volcano Day And Something Else Lo Grand Bailèra (The shepherdess, sung in Occitan) Roll the Old Zimmerframe Along The Cliffs of Baccalieu October Roses Shrimp Boat Lulabelle Hallowe’en (Violet Jacob) Nenagh Fair Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss I Still Miss Someone October Song Spanish is the Loving Tongue Small Stage in the Corner Wild Bird in a Purple Plum The Night I Appeared as Macbeth (monologue) Galway Shawl Come, Little Leaves See No Evil The New Periodic Table Awake Ye Drowsy Sleepers (version of Silver Dagger, known by many other names) Little Sadie To a Thesaurus (poem) You are Old, Father William (poem) Coal Tattoo Albert and the Privy (poem) The Fifth Day of October My Lagan Love Byker Hill Peace Train City of New Orleans War Horse Town (poem) My Lady of Autumn You Can't Take It With You When You Go These are My Mountains Lincoln Park Pirates Badman Ballad (aka Badman's Blunder) Elsie Marley Passengers Will Please Refrain (aka Humoresque) The Witch of the West (ttto The Witch of the Westmoreland) Two Lovely Black Eyes One I Love Commandment (poem) The Four Seasons I Wanna Be a Bonobo This is Halloween Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back James James Morrison Morrison Barbara Allen Middle English and Welsh Pie (recitation) In China or a Woman's Heart Autumn Leaves Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves, in French) (poem in French) How Will I Ever Be Simple Again? (song from Marian & Jerry?) Love Call Me Home October Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Oct 21 - 03:56 AM Songs, poems, monologue and story from the 18-19 October 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround [note – there was no 11-12 October singaround due to competing folk event attended by many of the regulars], probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Mary Ellen Carter Width (poem) I Fear IKEA (ttto The Wild Rover) The Seven Deadly Sins Grey October Champion at Drivin’ ’em Crazy (takeoff on Champion at Keepin' 'em Rollin', ttto The Limerick Rake) The Preacher’s Whisky Glass The Circle Game Ploughman Lads Pat Murphy’s Meadow Frog Went a Courtin’ The Village Pimp Lady of Autumn Caminito de Avilés (in Spanish) I Give Myself Very Good Advice The Devil’s Courtship (Alan Reid version) Leaves that are Green Say No to the Devil Sir Patrick Spens Life Gets Teejus, Don't It? (monologue) Valparaiso in a Rowboat Bratach Bana (in Scots Gaelic) The Deserter (sometimes called Ratcliff Highway, but there's also a very different song by that name) The Factory Lad Johnny Be Fair Now Westlin' Winds The Griesly Bride Dear Mum (poem) Bringing in the Sheaves The Battle of Trafalgar The Best of Autumn Mingulay Boat Song Drinks at the Cuba Sussex Drinking Song On One April Morning Bottle Against the Wall If I Were Free Bobby Shafto(e) A Bad Lad and a Cad (poem) Come Walk with Me Red-Haired Girl (An Cailin Rua in English) Vaccination (ttto Fascination) Marigolds Ivor the Driver An Cailin Rua (Irish Gaelic) Turning Toward the Morning The Song Goes On Carrying Nelson Home No News, or, How the Dog Died (story) Chopsticks Darcy Farrow Dance to Your Daddy What Then? (poem) Bright Sweaters in Fall Being a Pirate Johnny Todd In the Hills of Shiloh Fast Freight Take Your Time Nevada Jane In Worcester City George Collins Love Comes to the Simple Heart Hold On Jubilee |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Oct 21 - 06:43 PM Songs, poems, and stories from the 25-26 October 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Reuben James Suicide Town Dracula Song Madeira M'Dear Ghost Story Hang on to a Dream Bay of Biscay Wings of a Gull Heat Detector Al the Vegetable Man He Moved Through the Fair The Three Ravens Hey John Barleycorn Hallows’ Eve The Mary Ellen Carter Have You Seen the Ghost of John? Lyke Wake Dirge Lowlands Away To Die No More Twa Corbies (to tune of above) Loves the Rising Sun Jack and the Devil (story, aka Stingy Jack, Jack o' Lantern, etc.) Reedy Lagoon Down Home Blues The Blackbird’s Lament (Parody of If I Were a Blackbird) Ivor the Driver You're Always Welcome at Our House Cailleach Beara (ttto The Rose) Hey Nelly Nelly Dev'lish Mary The Wellerman (aka Soon May The Wellerman Come) Rua Dos Bobos (The House of Fools, in Portuguese) The Castle of Dromore (English, and Irish Gaelic) The Rose It Makes No Difference Now The Ghost's High Noon Old Dog Tray Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) The Headectomy Song Brahn Boots (poem) Broken-Hearted Lover's Stew (poem) Golden Slumbers Salisbury Plain (aka Flash Girls) October Roses Molly Malone Who's That Knockin' (updated version) Death and the Doctor Re: Your Brains Burning Gold Last Kiss Dark as a Dungeon Crow on the Cradle Zombie Jamboree Breaths The Hip Song La Llorona (story, in English) Bringing Mary Home Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Any More Sixteen Tons The Deathly Hallows (story) Bound for Transylvania (ttto Bound for South Australia) Early Snow Lay Down Beside Me How Woman Got Even With Man The Devil and the Farmer's Wife Crossing the Water |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Nov 21 - 04:44 AM Songs, poems, recitations and stories from the 1-2 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Wreck of the Old 97 Three Ravens Chronology (poem) Monster Mole Song A Cappella Fella Little Orphan Annie The Saucepan Cupboard (recitation) Tam Lin (Anais Mitchell version) Church on Sunday Davy Cross Dona Dona Ballad of William Bloat The Vampire Hallowe’en The Lincolnshire Vampire Lady Margaret Tam Lin (Betsy Johnston version) Ceres and Pluto and Eris...oh my! Spoon River Homemade Haircut Wallaby Stew The Witch of the West-Mer-Land Clark Colven Wilhelmsleod (A Dying Viking Addresses His Son) Whiskey in the Jar (aka Gilgarra Mountain, Kilgary Mountain) Buffalo Boy The Height of the Ridiculous (poem) Ghosts in Deptford (poem by Cicely Fox Smith, with anonymous sequel from https://www.olddeptfordhistory.com/2014/02/ghosts-in-deptford-cicely-fox-smith.html) The Comfort of Singing Voices (aka Until the Dark Time Ends) Urge for Going The Blacksmith Sundown Logs to Burn Welcome Cold November I'll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig Warning (poem) Dust if You Must (poem) A Boring Day In Memory of My Mother (poem) When the Old Man Came Home Sober Gentle Soldier of My Soul Their Brains were Small and They Died Unfortunate Miss Bailey The Stolen Child Footprints on the Moon Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair The Nutting Girl Remember that a Poor Tramp has to Live (aka The "Crickets" Tramp Song) He's Coming to us Dead (aka The Express Office) Vampire Rag Mockingbird (aka Hush Little Baby) (filk version) Death Letter Blues (preceded by one stanza of Coffin Blues) November (poem, aka "No!") Tia Miseria (Aunt Misery, story in English) Old Time Religion (filk version) If Wishes were Fishes Rock-a-bye Baby King Henry Katy Cruel Tom Pearce (aka Tam Pierce, Widdicombe Fair) Take Your Time Sing with Me A Bench by the Sea The Sinking of the Reuben James Crazy Kathleen Mavourneen Whiskey on a Sunday (aka The Ballad of Seth Davy, aka Come Day, Go Day) Morningtown Ride |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 04 Nov 21 - 09:25 AM was Dona Dona sung in English this week or in Yiddish - or bilingually - or some other language? |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 04 Nov 21 - 02:15 PM English, as i recall. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Nov 21 - 01:42 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the 8-9 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Erie Canal Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald In Flanders Fields (poem) The Florin and the Farthing (poem) Let Me Breathe Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha ("If this Street were Mine", in Portuguese) I'm a Woman John Condon Dancing at Whitsun (Parody of) The Last Thing On My Mind Ballad of Penny Evans Taps Shenandoah Be Kind to Your Parents Shule Aroon When this Bloody War is Over The Recruited Collier Beer, Beer, Beer (aka Charlie Mopps) Bless 'em All Blowin' in the Wind Lone Star Blues Lives in the Balance Piper's Refrain Agnes at Halloween Hangin' on the Old Barbed Wire Turning Toward the Morning Till We Meet Again Fire and Flame (aka When Halifax Burned) Christmas in the Trenches Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? Now I'm Easy Lost Gardeners of Heligan Back of the Bus No More Sacrifice Zones Stow Brow (aka The Drowned Lover, The Drowned Sailor, In Scarboro' Town, In Scarborough Fair Town, Stowborough Town, Washed Ashore, ....) When I'm Gone Battleship of Maine Tommy's Lot A Pacifist in Wartime (poem) Trenchant Soldiers My Mate (poem) Over the Lancashire Hills Marigolds Love Dance Between Activists (poem) Man Who Used to Be Wildwood Flower (aka I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets) Two Brothers Fiddler's Green Sinking of the Reuben James Farewell I'll Fly Away Lay Down Beside Me Sir Gav Gets Hitched The U-2 Song (takeoff on Sinking of the Reuben James) The Ball-Playing Song Frankie's Trade Watching Will Ye Go to Flanders So Long, Mom Nobody's Moggy Lands We are from Omsk Die Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers, in German and English) Crow on the Cradle Wounded in Action (recitation) Until Justice is Real Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Don't this Road Look Rough and Rocky Early Snow (New last verse for) Will Ye Go to Flanders Ode ("We are the music-makers....") Hymn Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Nov 21 - 10:03 PM Songs and poems from the 15-16 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Hobo’s Lullaby White Poppy Mother Earth’s Green Moss Code (poem) Doodlebug Baby I Ain’t Marching Any More Faraway Places Handsome Johnny Cry Me a River The Comfort of Singing Voices (aka Until the Dark Time Ends) What Is't to Us Cantares ("Songs", in Spanish) The Handsome Cabin Boy Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate Drinks at the Cuba The Boomerang Café The Fields of Athenry Universal Soldier You Are the Reason The Strange Man (aka The Surprising Old Man) Christians at War (takeoff on Onward Christian Soldiers) Mr Fox I Know it Won't Safe Romance The Bad Girl (in the DT as One Morning in May, aka The Bad Girl's Lament, When I was a Young Girl) Beans, Bacon and Gravy Talk to Me of Mendocino Normandy Orchards Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Some Little Bug Roses of No Man's Land Danny Boy This Pretty Planet The Quiet Faith of Man The Man I Killed Hunting the Cutty Wren (poem) Bungay Roger Hunting the Wren (Golden Hind version) Oregon Country Drover's Dream Down by the Salley Gardens The Trooper and the Maid (or Sixteen Come Next Sunday, or something) Yankee Bayonet We're All Cleaning Windows Old Tyler Sally Free and Easy Find Every Ballot (ttto Climb Every Mountain) One Thousand Men are Walking Blank Space Fall River Hoedown (aka Lizzie Borden) Will Ye Go to Flanders? No Man's Land (aka Green Fields of France, Willie McBride) Lullaby from Brave (in Scots Gaelic) Rowing Song (in Scots Gaelic, English, and Old Icelandic) But Not for Me River of Love When the Roses Bloom Again The Rose of York Quantum Mechanics (ttto Little Log Cabin on the Hill) Thanksgiving Song If I Were Free When All Thy Names are One |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Nov 21 - 06:13 AM Songs, poems and monologue from the 22-23 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Funiculi Funicula The Way Through the Woods (poem) Normandy Orchards The Road Not Taken (poem) Father’s Toys Down the Drain (monologue) A Stor Mo Chroi The Castle of Dromore Pretty Polly Stuff that Works Bored of the Dance (ttto Lord of the Dance, Simple Gifts) L'orage ("The Storm", in French) The Bonny Bay of Biscay-O Bushes and Briars Green Sally Gullah children's rhymes Bye and Bye Jambalaya Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) John Blunt (aka Get Up and Bar the Door, The Barring of the Door) Duna I've Got the Crud (ttto All For Me Grog) The Queen and the Soldier Winter Turns to Spring Indian's Farewell (aka When Shall We All Meet Again) The Tryphena's Extra Hand The Town of Castle d'Oliver Housewife's Lament Away Ye Merry Lasses Coachman's Whip (aka The Coachman) Reuben's Train (aka 900 Miles) English Ale Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys The Jeannie C Walking on the Waves Buckeye Jim Ain't No Place Like Home Here in California Thanksgiving Eve Master of the Sheepfold Raglan Road The Phoenix (poem) My Turkey Song A Brief Pageant of English Verse (poem) John (aka The Loo Song) Rag Dance Song What Would You Do If You Married a Soldier Brian O'Lynn Cúnla Love is Teasing Alexander Technique Rag (ttto Alexander's Ragtime Band) Uncle Dave's Grace Ca' the Yowes Marry Me, Penelope The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on his Pasta The Bronx Bird Watcher Red is the Rose Glorious Ale Song of the Soul Wild Goose It's My Party (and I'll Lie if I Want To) (ttto It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To) Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich) Swimming to the Other Side |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Dec 21 - 04:09 AM Songs, poems and instrumental from the 29-30 November 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog) Prospect Providence My Phone is Out of Order (poem) Ranky Tanky When Icicles Hang by the Wall Tracks in the Snow I Will Be the One La bèla de Mai (in Occitan) Your Mother is a Sociopath Jimmy Randal (version of Lord Randal) The Rosewood Casket Mexico Lindo y Querido Hunting the Hare The Darby Ram Follow the Heron Home The Bullhead Boat (aka Boating on a Bullhead) The Man in the Bed Land o' the Leal Windy Old Weather (aka Fish of the Sea) Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian Footprints on the Moon Hey There Farewell to Nova Scotia Christmas in LA Both Sides the Tweed Macpherson's Farewell (aka Macpherson's Rant, Macpherson's Lament) A Conversation with Baby (poem) Fathom the Bowl Light One Candle Christmas Caroling Ready for the Storm The Reach River Lover's Ghost (Child 248, The Grey Cock, Saw You My Father) The Boy Who Was Raised by Lemmings (poem) Lonely Little Lemming (poem) Darby Ram (nautical version) The Truth About Loch Ness The Scotsman The Apology (ttto Fathom the Bowl) Tit-Willow Ye Jacobites by Name Propane (ttto Cocaine) Row On Hal-an-Tow Blizzard of Lies When Father Papered the Parlor When Forsythia's in Bloom (ttto When the Yellow's on the Broom) Which Side Are You On? The Black Cook (aka The Black Devil, Three Jolly Black Tars, The Doctor Outwitted) Rock of Ages (Chanukah version) Ma'oz Tsur (Rock of Ages, in Hebrew) I am Cherry Alive (Throw It Out) The Window Sally Free and Easy Good King Wenceslas (in Latin) The Lochmaben Harper (aka The Blind Harper) Dimming of the Day Swimming to the Other Side Somewhere (There's a Place for Us) Dark Island Scotland the Brave (instrumental) Hands on the Wheel Hanukah in Santa Monica Hot Air Company Send in the Clowns Thanksgiving Song Crossing the Water |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Dec 21 - 10:57 PM Songs, poems, recitation and tunes from the 6-7 December 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Music to Me November Drinking Song Merry Christmas, You Suckers (poem) Christmas Song (poem) A Letter to Santa Claus Compliments Returned Bring Us Good Ale The Twelve Days After Christmas The Pickle Tree Carol (aka The Pickle Carol; ttto The Cherry Tree Carol) In the Bleak Midwinter My Skies Round and Round (aka The Goldfish) Ma bòna bregada (in Provençal) Bridges In the Pines (aka Black Girl) Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (in Swedish and English) When Soldiers Die on Battlefields (recitation) We Three Kings are Six Feet Apart (ttto We Three Kings) The Ookpik Waltz (tune) Somebody Would Shout Out Shop Molly Malone I Am Cherry Alive Down Among the Bushes of Jerusalem River (Bill Staines) and Planxty Irwin (tune) Going to the West Fairytale of New York (in Irish Gaelic and English) Wild, Wild Heart Christmas in LA Solstice Song Brightest and Best Black Waters The Nightingale Bird I Am a Pizza Roseville Fair The Poor Ditching Boy Snow Falls Let Me Die a Young Man's Death (poem) The Grudge of the Old (poem) Nasty Santa Ee By Gum Miss Hooligan's Christmas Cake Ave Maria River (Joni Mitchell) Starwalker I'm My Own Grandpa Wee Pot Stove Dirty Old Town Arthur McBride and the Sergeant The Women are Worse than the Men (version of Child 278, The Farmer's Curst Wife, aka The Devil and the Farmer's Wife, The Devil and the Ploughman, Lily Bulero, Killyburn Brae) Mrs Murphy The Song Goes On Sufganiyot Song Tidings of Candy and Toys (ttto God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen) The Stranger (Yn Joarree, in Manx and English) Old Zeb The War Between the States Rolling Down to Bethlehem (ttto Rolling Down to Old Maui) Father's Pants (ttto Cwm Rhondda) Circle of Steel Hanukkah in Santa Monica Ding Dong Ding (Christmas song from Julie Bidou) The Twa Corbies The Faith of Man Clementine (ttto Cwm Rhondda) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Dec 21 - 03:58 AM Partial list of the songs from the 13-14 December 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround (I had to leave in a hurry before proceedings ended), probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for the first part of the list; thanks to Felipa for additional information. Anyone who has access to any items that were performed after "McCassery (to the tune of Lord Franklin)", please post your information, and I'll edit it into this post (with attribution). If you have a copy of the chat that continues past McCassery, and you don't mind sharing it with me, please send it to me. Comments and corrections always welcome.
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Dec 21 - 08:10 PM I was unable to attend the singaround of 20-21 December 2021, but was able to put together this list of songs, recitations, monologue, video, and instrumental due to the efforts of Moorley Man and Joe Offer. As ever, comments and corrections are welcome. The Night before Christmas (aka A Visit from St. Nicholas) (ttto Sweet Betsy from Pike) I Am Christmas 12 Days of Christmas (by John Julius Norwich) (recitation) I’m a Little Fairy on the Christmas Tree The Happiest Christmas of All (by Weston & Lee) (monologue) Lorena (by H.D.L. Webster) The Beautiful Sing Kentucky Wassail The Tern and the Swallow Ay del chiquirritín (Spanish carol, in Spanish) Gettin’ in the Mood (Christmas version) Shepherds, Arise The Sailor’s Christmas Day (Richard Cotton, ttto Hearts of Oak) Gaudete Noël (On a Winter’s Night Long Ago) (by Hilaire Belloc) At the Turning of the Year (Anne Hills) Ciùin an oidhch/Silent Night (video made by Tony Becker) Halve, by yourself, that... (by Jim Burrill) Heart of My Home (by Della Mae group) Solstice Bells (by Mary Garvey) Bethlehem Charabanc Trip (by Gary Hogg) (recitation) Field Behind the Plow Wassail the Silver Apple (Mike O’Connor) Brightest and Best Chariots (by John Kirkpatrick) Christmas Memories (Evans) Old Time Religion The Mistletoe Bough Bells of Norwich Angels from the Realms of Glory (ttto Heartbreak hotel) Christmas Market (by Mike Harding) (recitation) Foxtrot Tango Calling (by Chad) Christmas Fairy (by Frances Dunlop) (monologue) Redwing Blackbird (David Francey) Mary had a Baby Santa Claus is COVID-secure (by Lancashire Hotpots) The Ballad of Robban's First Ride (Malvina Reynolds) Greensleeves/What Child is This? (piano solo) O Come O Come Emmanuel Come Walk with Me (by Steve Thomason) Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake Christmas in Killarney I Wonder as I Wander I Still Miss Someone Glory Hallelujah (Frank Turner) Jingle Bell Rock Loud Sing the Carol (by Howard Kaplan) In the Bleak Midwinter If You were Here a' Ghrian - Ode to the Sun James James Morrison Morrison (aka Disobedience) Wexford Lullaby King Herod Autumn to May Arrest these Merry Gentlemen Jeanette Isabella Pacheco A-Soalin' The Latke Ditty Long is the Winter Till the Sun's Return The American Stranger The Trees are All Bare Please to See the King Gaudy Tree |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Dec 21 - 03:54 PM Songs, poems, stories and instrumentals from the 27-28 December 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. For the first time, I was there from start of singing to finish, except for maybe 15 minutes when I got disconnected from the internet. Thanks to MoorleyMan for filling me in on what I missed. And I should thank, this week and every week, all the participants who are so good about giving titles and/or typing them in the chat. Comments and corrections always welcome. Christmas 1914 King John's Christmas (poem) A Snowflake from Hell (aka A Snowflake Fell) (poem) Christmas Chaos Theme Song from Red Dwarf Ned on the Hill The End of Another Year Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nelly Angels Watching Over Me The Little Husband Clementine (ttto Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer) The Banks of the Bann Here's to the Holly (variant of) Hangin' on the Old Barbed Wire Zat You, Santa Claus? Yule Tide Shanty The Strange Case of the Baffled Hermit (story) The Owl who was God Flora (aka The Lily of the West) Sweet Thang (aka Sweet Thing, but there's another song by that name) Victor Rag (instrumental) Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake The January Man Ben Backstay Permission to Dance A New Year Carol (aka Levy-Dew, aka Residue) Please, Dear Lord, Forgive Cold December At the Turning of the Year Bells Over Belfast In the Month of January Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven Leaving Belfast Town Journey of the Magi (story) Auld Lang Syne (instrumental) This Christmas Gonna Last All Night Music Makers Christmas at Four Winds Farm (poem) The Day After the Day After Boxing Day (poem) The Bores Head Out The Rolling English Road (poem) Global Warming Braw Sailing on the Sea Merry Christmas from the Family The Maid of Liosamanaigh Farmer's Carol The Garden Hymn Three Wishes (story) Propane (ttto Cocaine) Ale Brider Johnston's Motor Car (aka Johnson's Motor Car) Walking in My Winter Underwear Ring of Fire Mathematics The Jumblies (poem) Child Ballad Brief Eddi's Service (A.D. 687) (poem) (two versions of) Sussex Mummers' Carol Picardy (aka Jésus-Christ s'habille en pauvre; one stanza in French, remainder in English) Humpty-Dumpty Hearts Jolly Old Hawk Hello Susan Brown (aka Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees) Cearcall a'Chuain (The Ocean's Cirlce, in Scots Gaelic) Fairytale of New York Boxing Day The Christians and the Pagans Fa-Sol-La A-Soalin' Garden Song (with additional alcoholic stanza) Velcro I Bid You Goodnight |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Jan 22 - 02:32 PM Songs, poems, readings from the 3-4 January 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Comments and corrections always welcome. Bells of Norwich Strike Sound Nicholas Knox of Nottingham (reading) The End of Another Year Mum's Ukelele Jolly Bacchus (parody of) Any Dream Will Do (see https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163229) The Mavis They Should Have Asked My Husband (poem) The Snow Falls The Sheffield Wassail The False Lover Won Back Boney was a Warrior (aka Boney) The Tamosher (aka Gathering Rushes in the Month of May, aka Underneath Her Apron) The Fields of Athenry Friends Like These Le Chinois Early Morning Rain Precious Friend Sugar Wassail A Song for Just After Christmas Three Score and Ten Friend for Life Free Julian You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive The Lambs on the Green Hills My Get Up and Go Mariner's Hymn Snow Shanty Heavy Plant Crossing (poem) New Year's Resolution Song The Lifeboat Man Moving On Song The Loo Song My Young Man (secular version of) The Holly and the Ivy You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out Turn It Around Fiddler's Green The Music of Strings Jock o' Hazeldean Everything Possible No L Shawneetown Shutdown Blues Mo Ghille Mear (in English, with chorus in Irish Gaelic) Thirty Foot Trailer Hot Buttered Rum The Butcher Boy Vive la compagnie (covid version) When the Forsythia's in Bloom (ttto When the Yellow's on the Broom) Wild Mountain Thyme Three Wise Women The Turning of the Year To Women as Far as I'm Concerned (poem) The Grudge of the Old (poem) Soolaimon The January Woman (ttto The January Man) The January Man Let There be Morning Gloucestershire Wassail The Parting Glass Hippies and the Beatniks-o |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 11 Jan 22 - 05:59 PM I don't remember this happening before; no poems, recitations, readings, stories, or instrumentals, just songs at the the 10-11 January 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround. Here they are, in the order in which they were performed. Comments and corrections always welcome. Logs to Burn The Month of January Cinderella Song (to a Lieber-Stoller tune) The Court of King Caractacus Óró mo bháidín There was an Old Piper What's the Use of Wings Green Hills of Kerry (aka Sweet Tralee) Sea Coal Bring Us in Hot Tea Wee Pot Stove (aka In the Wee Dark Engine Room) A Good New Year to One and All Volt Ikh Gehat Koyekh (Yiddish and English) Dowie Dens of Yarrow The Wildebeest Song We Have a Dream Watercress-O (and one verse of Dowie Dens of Yarrow) They Were You If I Were a Carpenter Turning of the Year The Gallant Forty-Twa The Rosabella Why We Wear (ttto Great Speckled Bird, Wild Side of Life and several other country songs) I Ride an Old Paint Moving On (Homer & Jethro parody of Hank Snow original) All Among the Garlic (ttto All Among the Barley) The Rich Man and the Poor Man The January Man Choosing the Pantomime The Sushi Blues The Buffalo Skinners (aka The Trail of the Buffalo, The Range of the Buffalo, The Hills of Mexico) My Last Cigarette If You Could Read My Mind The Bird on Nellie's Hat The Yarn of the Nancy Belle Cowboy's Barbara Allen The Tyger Safe Romance The Hedgehog's Song Broom of the Cowdenknowes Burntollet Ambush The Black Cook Bless This House Time, Gentlemen, Time Sally, Free and Easy Where the Brumbies Come to Water Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys Hal-an-Tow Lone Pilgrim The Old Maid in the Garret My Grandfather's Clock Long March to Derry Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Activists (ttto Mamas ... Cowboys) Over the Rainbow My Love Come Rolling Down Kingfisher Penny for the Ploughboys The January Mom Engine 143 (aka "Wreck of the C. & O.", "The F.F.V.", "George Allen", and "The C. & O. Wreck") Enough Here's to You |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Jan 22 - 03:20 AM I was on a plane from JFK to LAX and missed the entire singaround of 17-18 January 2022. Here's a go at listing the songs & poems that were performed, based on the chat. I'll be happy to make additions, deletions, and corrections as they come to hand. Edit: My thanks to Felipa, MaJoC the Filk (Fermat reincarnated?), and Moorley Man for additions, deletions, and corrections. Let Union Be A Man's a Man for A' That The Land (poem) The Epitaph to the Unknown Miner (monologue) Rambleaway Somewhere to Begin Polly on the Shore (the Lester Simpson composition) Birmingham Sunday God Rest Ye Sober Underlings Santy Anno Dark-Eyed Sailor Down in the Valley The Ballad of Knocking Nellie The Tailor's Breeches The Red Hats of Ireland Battle Hymn of the Republic Gentle Arms of Eden Still Scared of You Whitebark The Times they are a-Changin' Lullaby Baby Blues Stepstone Dollymount Strand Come by the Hills Sink the Cheerio Trouble in the Fields Singing for Our Lives Love (John Lennon) The Gipsy Trail The Everlasting Circle Green Grass Grows All Around I Once Loved a Lass (aka The False Bride) Embraceable You Legacy Here We Come a-Wassailing You Shall Go Out With Joy Dem Deer Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger) Lorna the Library Book Burglar (poem) Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich? (monologue) Way Down Low A Frog, He Would a-Wooing Go Little Rosewood Casket Elizabeth Block - Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Activists Yon Green Valley O Sinner Man Vine and Fig Tree (Lo Yisa Goy) In de Vintertime 254 Shades of Gray Songs Stay Sung Unknown Blessings Nowhere in a Hurry Blues It Was Vaccination Caught in a Circle Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger Piney Wood Hills Where Teardrops Fall Thàladhainn Thu / Dream Angus (two songs, one in Gaelic, to the same tune) Once I had a Sweetheart Pretty Saro Haste Ye Back Fathers Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Scholars Kemo Kimo Farewell Here is My Home There Was an Old Soldier and He Had a Wooden Leg |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Jan 22 - 12:17 AM Songs, stories, poems, and instrumentals from the 24-25 January 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in, and several corrections. Comments and corrections always welcome. Night Rider’s Lament Dainty Davie Stamped Addressed Antelope (poem) The Truth About the Loch Ness Monster Today Ae Fond Kiss Atressi co·l signes fai (in Old Occitan) Somerset Wassail The Saucy Sailor (aka Jack Tar) The Gorilla Song When You're Gone I Say Your Name For He is an Englishman (dulcimer instrumental) Green Grow the Rashes-O Rolling Home (the trad one, not the John Tams one) Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast Saucy Anna Brother Moses Smote the Water White Coffins of Despair (ttto 1913 Massacre) Log Driver's Waltz When She Walks (I found many songs by that name on the net, but not the right one) Ye Banks and Braes The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Three Maritime folksongs (fragments; one of them was Seventeen Come Sunday) The Sow Took the Measles Across the Blue Mountain Satan's Jeweled Crown The Scotsman The Runcorn Ferry (recitation) Comin' Through the Rye Let There be Morning St. Paul's Song Sioux City Sue Aye Waukin-O Friends of the Cathedral (poem) Breathin' All the Poisons In Loch Tay Boat Song Tripe and Cow Heels Simple Gifts The Ways of Man Sin City Where Did You Get that Hat Like the Way I Do To a Moose (poem) Story (about deer killed on New Jersey roads) (Piano tune improvisation) I Will Stand Fast I Gave My Love a Cherry (aka The Riddle Song) MacPherson's Lament (aka MacPherson's Farewell) Lolly-Too-Dum Old Lang's Sign (ttto Auld Lang Syne) I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow The Year of Jubilo (aka Kingdom Coming) A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Lorena I Fall to Pieces Blackbirds and Thrushes / Hares on the Mountain Auld Lang Syne (piano instrumental) Ballad of Tim Evans (aka Go Down, You Murderer) We Shall Overcome Sacred Ground The Green Man The Concertina Song (ttto Hallelujah) Come See the Boys Go Round My Get Up and Go Gold Watch and Chain Mooses Come Walking If I Were a Moose |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Feb 22 - 01:44 AM Songs, stories, poems, monologues, recitations, and instrumentals from the 31 January, 1 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Man on the Flying Trapeze My Husband's Got no Porridge in Him Acupuncture (poem) Do not Disturb Magna Carta (monologue) The Man of Songs (poem) Santiano (in French) The Woodbridge Dog Disaster Gotta Travel On (aka Done Laid Around) Midnight on the Water Suffolk Miracle (aka Holland Handkerchief) Pleasant and Delightful Disaster at Sea (poem) Polly on the Shore (the Lester Simpson song, not the trad one) Mobile / Birth of the Blues Sam's Medal (poem) We Live in an Ocean of Life The Good Old Way A Dollar a Day Sloop John A Dido, Bendigo One More Minute Is Mise Raifteiri / I'm Raftery the Poet (Gaelic and English) Rolling Mills of New Jersey (takeoff on Rolling Hills of the Border) Ring of Fire Cowboy's Sweetheart The Snowdrop (story) Einstein the Genius Gabhaim Molta Bhride and Amhráin na Féidireachta (in Gaelic) The Portree Kid (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) This Old House When You and I were Young, Maggie Black Muddy River Black Jack David (recitation; Mike Heron take on trad material) Love and Lockdown A Shropshire Lad (poem) The Convict of Clonmell (aka The Gaol of Cluan Meala) Old Kimball (from the Stewball/Skewbald family, with floating verses from The Cuckoo) Thousands or More Spencer the Rover The Sow Took the Measles Spring Will Come Masochism Tango Red, Red Robin More Work for the Undertaker Brave Wolfe When I Go Benny's From Heaven (ttto Pennies From Heaven) When I'm Drunk When You Hear Them Cuckoos Hollerin' Just a Bowl of Butter Beans Congleton Bear When I Got Born (story) Isn't it Grand, Boys John Barleycorn Midnight on the Water Three fiddle tunes, on mandolin: Rachel (aka Texas Quickstep), Spootiskerry, Silver Spear See What the Boys in the Back Room will Have Brave Wolfe (not the same as the earlier one) Piano Leg (ttto Wayfaring Stranger) Gulf Coast Highway Man Walks Among Us We'll Pass Them On The Good Old Way I'll Fly Away Early Snow Don't Let It Bring You Down Speed of the Sound of Loneliness How Can I Keep From Singing? Circle Game (one verse) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Feb 22 - 09:24 PM Songs, stories, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the 7-8 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Worried Man Blues Eight Shillings a Week (ttto Fathom the Bowl) The News Where You Are (monologue) The Water is Wide Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Love on the Line Fruit Trees Fill My Garden One Night as I Lay Upon My Bed Sing Me Back Home San Francisco (in French) Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen Won't You Come and Sing for Me They All Asked for You Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail (aka Sirey Petes) Katie Bairdie Ellan Vannin (other spellings occur) The Green Man The Moon Behind the Hill Waly, Waly Cab, Cab, Cab Look Me Over Closely Mingulay Boat Song Hal-an-Tow The Coachman Me and Bobby McGee I Hold Your Hand in Mine Victoria Dines Alone Booth Killed Lincoln Birmingham Sunday (ttto I Once Loved a Lass) Crossing the Water The H'emmer Jane Pace Egging Song The Bonny Earl of Moray The Thatcher (story) This is My Spirit World (variant on This is My Father's World) Time to Spare Dona Nobis Pacem Times are Gettin' Hard, Boys Tomorrow is a Long Time Envelopes (poem) They Came for the Mime Artists (poem) Liverpool Lullaby I Love Susie in the Supermarket Edward Fiddlers Green Iko Iko Death and the Lady Leezie Lindsay Come Haste to the Wedding (one stanza only) Calling All Angels Watching the Trains Come In Lolly-Too-Dum I Think of You How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away Ballad of Crispus Attucks Gentle Maiden Waltz (piano instrumental) Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn (aka In Good King Arthur's Days, King Arthur's Servants) Heat Detector Harriet Tubman That's the Ticket This World Goes Round and Round The Last Song The Collier Lass (aka Polly Parker) Hughie the Graeme Early The Fox and the Huntsman (story) It's a Miracle The Orphan Train The One-Eyed Cook (aka The Drummer and the Cook) Sing With Me Bay of Biscay O The White Shepherd Here's the Tender Coming Bonnie George (or, James) Campbell Jubilee |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Feb 22 - 11:43 PM Songs, stories, poems, and instrumentals from the 14-15 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. A whole lotta love songs. Thanks to Moorley Man for the ones done before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. My Dog Sam The Power of the Dog Old Blue Will You Be My Valentine? Lies Country Life Scarborough Fair Valentine Haiku (poem) When Poppies Close their Crimson Eyes Happy Valentine's Day You're the Girl I Love Que serais-je sans toi? Så længe jeg lever (As Long as I Live, in Danish) Hallelujah, I Love Her So (sung as Hallelujah, I Love Him So) Tell Me Loving Emma My Inspiration is You One for My Baby Cucurrucucú Paloma (in Spanish) I Still Miss Someone They Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around (one stanza) The Elfin Knight We Never Mention Aunt Clara To the Beggin' I Will Go (aka The Begging Trade) Phoebe and Reuben (aka Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown) The Frozen Logger Riding on Top of the Car Shaggy dog story about a lorry driver Vicki's Secret My Funny Valentine Celestial Pie 's é fath mo bhuartha (The Cause of My Sorrow, in Irish Gaelic) Broom of the Cowdenknowes Waltz Across Texas Basin Street Blues An Vailintín Buan (The Eternal Valentine, in Irish Gaelic) The Rose South Wind (piano instrumental) The Bold Fisherman Song of the Soul I Never Cared for You Island in the Sun Valentine's Day Everything Possible Paradise Love Is Nelson's Battle Recipe Just You Wait The Telling Takes Me Home Souvenirs For Bobbi (as titled by songwriter, John Denver; recorded as For Baby by Peter Paul and Mary) The Bee Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes My Valentine I Live Not Where I Love Slow Romance Take Your Time Spanish is the Loving Tongue Down in the Fields where the Buttercups All Grow The Coster's Serenade Three short stories Suburbs of Eden Free Little Bird Confidence Wonderful Tonight Advice to the Lovelorn Max's Waltz Song for the Mira Mirabeau Bridge Scarlet Ribbons Sweet Violets Why Does Love Make You Stupid? The Shmuck Song Witch Hazel |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 22 - 03:44 AM Songs, poems, and recitations from the 21/22 February 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, in the order in which they were performed. One of the participants had a birthday coming up, and suggested others might sing him unusual birthday songs. Some obliged, mostly with very short songs, for which I didn't get a title, so I've just cited them below as "Birthday song". Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. Just the Facts, Ma'am Chimes of Freedom John Barleycorn (poem) In My Little World of Doom Gunner Joe Tumbling Tumbleweeds Evening in Inishbofin (poem) To My Father (poem) A Rebus Upon Mr Anthony Hall A Sailor's Life Willie's Lady I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Ziggy (Un garçon pas comme les autres) (A Boy Unlike the Others, in French) The Music Makers (based on Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy) Twenty-Third of February Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recitation) Song of the Contrabands (better known as Go Down, Moses; also, Let My People Go) Streets of London Hind Horn Fate's Decree Shingling the Rum Seller's Roof She Told Me to Meet Her at the Gate Downtown Zeno Exit The Cockle Gatherer The Year of Jubilo (aka Kingdom Coming) What You Do with What You've Got The Hippopotamus Song (sometimes called "Mud, Glorious Mud") The Midnight Special Irish Wedding Song Henry My Son (Lord Randall variant) Until It's Time For You to Go Tell Old Bill Sammy's Bar Sipping Cider Táim Breoite Go Leor (Lord Randall, in Irish Gaelic) The Only One for Me Mon Pays The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom Tommy Don't Lick That Pipe By Weary Well The Church of the Wholly Undecided (poem) Emma's Attitudes Don't Have Any More Mrs Moore Label in a Printer (ttto Little Boxes) When I First Came to This Land Still Believing The King of Ballyhooley Cadal Chan Fhaigh Mi (in Scottish Gaelic; aka Cadal Cha Dèan Mi) The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea No More Sacrifice Zones (to a tune reminiscent of Your Daughters and Your Sons) Birthday Song All Things Change Birthday Song Water is Life Birthday Song Rowing Home (ttto Rolling Home) Carry Freedom Home Sh'ma Yisrael and family song Viking Birthday Song (aka Barbarian Birthday Dirge, Mongol Hacker's Birthday Song, ttto The Volga Boatmen) Nessie, Come Up The Drunkard's Looking Glass I Wanna Be a Bonobo Rose of Allandale Yom Huledet Sameach (Happy Birthday, in Hebrew) West Texas Waltz Danville Girl Shenandoah Song for the Mira The Sheffield Apprentice If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake Birthday song (in Hebrew) This Old Man Should Go Back Home (ttto This Old Man) Birthday song (one stanza, might be called Every Moment We Are Free) Eyes of Amber Bring Me a Little Water Sylvie I Am Ready for the Storm If I Were Free A Tale of Jesus Cut the Cake Blowin' in the Wind The Parting Glass Bells of Norwich |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Mar 22 - 01:00 AM Songs, stories, videos, and readings from the 28 February / 1 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Joe for access to information about the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Derby Ram Pancake Race Gently Down the Stream of Time Fighting for Strangers Beautiful People Battle of the Books Oor Hamlet Solo le pido a Dios (in Spanish) The Flowers of the Forest The Wild Caribee Along the Colorado Trail Sarajevo As I Roved Out (aka The Deluded Lover) The Tailor's Britches King James and the Tinker Dancing in Front of the Guns Katherine's Wedding How Stands the Glass Around? (aka Why Soldiers Why?) You are My Sunshine King John and the Bishop of Canterbury Dear Old Shepherd's Bush Witch Hazel 9-5 Pollution Blues She Midnight Special Tell Old Bill The Slender Boy Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Under the Quarter Moon When All Men Sing Eli Jenkins' Prayer (aka Sunset Poem) The Twa Corbies Little Brown Dog (aka Autumn to May) In Honor of Vedran Smailovic (story) Ojibway Country Winds of Morning Cossack Lullaby (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian National Anthem (spoken, in English) Squid Jigging Ground Sons Of Colors of the Wind Gracias a la Vida (in Spanish) Cold Days of February A Tale of Jesus The Shores of Lough Brann Never Press Nine Old Dog Tray If I Should Wake Benjamin Bowmaneer I Ain't Marching Anymore Di Sapozhkelekh (also spelled Saposhkelekh, sung in Yiddish and English) Follow the Heron Home Rushes and Roars the Wide Dnieper The Sure Hope Voják (Soldier, in Czech) How Anarchy Could Function (ttto The Leaving of Liverpool) Tennessee Dodi Li (in Hebrew) Flowers of Joy Pretty Polly Story about houses burning down on South Coast of England Aunt Sue David of White Rock (in English and Welsh) Video of Ukrainian National Anthem A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky Daisy a Day Shiny-O Hineh Ma Tov (in Hebrew) Song of Peace (ttto Finlandia) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Mar 22 - 10:07 PM Songs and poems from the 7/8 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Deportee War Song Refugees (poem) Emma's Dilemma Pensioner McGee Hillbilly Heaven Painting the Shed (ttto Greensleeves) Will Ye Go to Flanders? (with added contemporary stanzas) Freeing Our Hearts (poems) No Nukes Prayer; Play Friends; Prism Now Westlin Winds I'm Shy, Mary Ellen Walls and Windows The Water is Wide Dink's Song The Minstrel Boy Waiting for the Ferry After You Die (poem) My Grandfather's Clock Ducks Are Flying (in Russian) If Ever I Cease to Love Hangman (aka The Prickly Bush, The Prickle Holly Bush, The Maid Freed from the Gallows) Vlad the Clown (ttto Battle Hymn of the Republic) From Me to You Proper Cup of Coffee Aye, Aye, Paisano Always Forty-Two (Blowing in the Wind meets Hitchhiker's Guide) When I was a Lad Little One (better known as Turn Around, also as Where Are You Going?) Over the Rainbow Easy and Slow Maggie (version of When You and I were Young, Maggie) Lo Yisa Goy (in Hebrew) The Uist Tramping Song (in Scottish Gaelic) Braes of Balquiddr (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167177&messages=58 for relation to Wild Mountain Thyme) Evergreen Between the Lines A Song of Peace (aka This is My Song, ttto Finlandia) Andorra Somewhere to Begin Fair Weather Friends If I Were Free Light Woyaya (We Will Get There) Only a Boy Pastures of Plenty We Need Each Other Now Farewell Farewell Blackbirds and Thrushes (aka Hares on the Mountain) Rock Salt and Nails It Could Have Been Me Evening Bell (in Russian) The Lone Pilgrim Tell it on the Mountain Hop, Hop, Hop (aka Early in the Morning, same tune as In and Out the Windows, William Brown/Keep that Wheel a-Turning) Leatherwing Bat (aka The Birds' Courtship, Hawk and Crow, ....) Pointing to the Moon Circle Round for Freedom Dona, Dona Season of Peace And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (same tune as My Lagan Love) Eve of Destruction Vive la Compagnie (aka Vive l'Amour) I Like Beer Buffalo Boy (aka Mountaineer's Courtship) Let There Be Peace on Earth |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 16 Mar 22 - 07:28 PM Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, instrumentals and stories from the 14/15 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Circle of Song Danny Farrell Recumbent Posture (monologue) Tribute to Irving Berlin The Cottager’s Reply (recited) Red is the Rose Fields of Athenry The Old Tobacco Box (aka There Was an Old Soldier) Santy Anno Coming Home The Mountain Polly on the Shore Three Fishers Barring of the Door Bold Fisherman The Greatest Story of All High Noon (poem) Open Water I Ain’t Nobody in Particular Nell Flaherty’s Drake Cockles and Mussels (aka Molly Malone) Smiles My Father and the Moy (recitation) My Singing Bird Dick Darby the Cobbler An Páistín Fionn Our Goodman (aka Three/Four/Five/Six/Seven Nights Drunk, and other titles) The Bard of Armagh (same tune as Streets of Laredo and several other songs) Love Potion Number Nine The King's Navy Jennifer's Rabbit Abide With Me My Johnny was a Shoemaker On the Middle Ground Sweet Cootehill Town (same tune as The Parting Glass) The Devil and the Smith (ttto Cliffs of Moher) Let Her Sleep Under the Bar (aka The Lady in Red) Mullah Nas'r Ud Din and the Banquet (story) I'll Tell Me Ma The Lovers' Tasks (aka The Elfin Knight, Scarborough Fair, The Riddle Song) Spring, Spring Dublin in the Rare Old Times When the Ship Comes In White Squall Not Tonight, Josephine (poem) Men's Bits (poem) The Bard (poem) Sister Josephine Summer (poem) Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now, and other titles) The Harp Without the Crown (aka The Gals of Dublin Town) Beidh Aonach Amárach (There Will Be a Fair Tomorrow, in Irish Gaelic) Song for Ireland Innisvaddy Annie (aka Up the Noran Water) Rathlin Head Isn't it Grand Boys Nothing So Grand as a War Beautiful Dreamer Jimmie McBride The Unquiet Grave Burning Gold Our Favorite Things (ttto My Favorite Things) How are Things in Glocca Morra? Dóchas Linn Naomh Pádraig (Our Hope is Saint Patrick, in Irish Gaelic) Slieve Gallion Braes (also spelled Gallon, Galleon, Gallen) Foggy Dew (the Irish one) Enniskillen Fusilier Ach Du Lieber Augustin (in German) Blood Red Roses St Patrick Battalion Finn McCool and the Beautiful Woman (story) Star of the County Down My Lagan Love Pi Day (recitation) Don't Call Me Early in the Morning The Maker I Just See You Twilight Danny Boy (on piano) Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:22 AM [Originally posted 23 Mar 22 - 10:34 PM] Songs and poems from the 21/22 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Run Come See Jerusalem Barrett’s Privateers AncientMariner-dot.com (poem) Lady of Negotiable Affection Ballad of Springhill Plaisir d’Amour À Landry (in French) Fiddlers’ Green Quaker Benediction Call Me Up in Dreamland False false Gardening No Birds in the Air, No Fish in the Sea Comment vouloir qu'une personne chante (in French) Akh ty nochka (O thou night, in Russian) Teen Angel Mountains of Mourne April Morning Lowlands Away The Cuckoo Love Potion Number Nine Can a Dockyard Matey Run The Really Strangest Dream Breaths Shanty Man's Life It Ain't Necessarily So We Shall Wear Midnight Freeing Our Hearts (poems) No Nukes Prayer; Play Friends; Prism Shenandoah The Anti-Garden Song (parody of Garden Song) Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven White Collar Holler Get Your Kicks on Route 66 Rock On Rockall Key of R Shoals of Herring I Sit and Think (poem) My Grandmother (poem) Fragments of Memories (poem) Tribute to Cole Porter Turn the Page Over (ttto The Wild Rover) Beyond the Forest (in Russian) The Frozen Logger Last Kiss Ben Kenobi Nobi (ttto John Kanaka) Buain A’Choirce (Reaping the Oats, in Scots Gaelic) The Last Clydesdales Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill Nevada Jane Man Walks Among Us We Hate to See Them Go (aka The Bankers and the Diplomats, aka The Bankers and the Diplomats are Going in the Army) The Floo'ers o' the Forest (are a' wede away) All Aboard for Blanket Bay We Should Be Going Home (ttto Rolling Home) The Dormouse and the Doctor Give Me the Fishes, Give Me the Loaves Life Passes By Everything Possible Hector the Hero A Blessing for Every Day (poem) Happy Birthday (Weird Al Yankovic) Fever Old Joe Clark Spinning Wheel The Wayward Wind Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos Babbling Brook Boulder to Birmingham Custard Creams (ttto John o' Dreams (which comes from Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6)) Starlight on the Rails Windmills The Rose of Allendale/Allandale The Vicar and the Frog An Chúilfhionn (The Coolin', The Fair-Haired One, in Irish Gaelic) Round Midnight Lift Every Voice and Sing |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:24 AM [Originally posted 01 Apr 22 - 07:59 PM] Songs, poems, stories, monologues and instrumentals from the 28/29 March 2022 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome. Mole in the Ground Kilkelly, Ireland The Deckchair Man (poem) Springtime in Yorkshire The Runcorn Ferry (monologue) Streets of Laredo Mother’s Lament Le parapluie (sung in French) Spring Song Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head The Gallant Shopper The Banks of Doon Labelled with Love Redwing Blackbird (Billy Edd Wheeler) A Bushel and a Peck Sarah Won’t You Come Out Tonight? Fiddlers’ Green Sammy’s Bar Scotch and Soda The Lumberman’s Alphabet Sam Hall Dark-Eyed Sailor The Barnyards of Delgaty Joanna The Ding-Dong Blues Looking Out My Back Door Two Farmers I'm in Love with Susan Waterbound Hey Jude A Gay Spanish Maid The Tinkerman's Daughter The Goodnight-Loving Trail Kelvin Grove The Bear with no Name (story) Hang Out Your Brightest Colors (aka Ballad of Michael Collinns) Wrinklies (poem) Caring Society (poem) A Nightingale Sank in Berkeley Square (ttto A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square) Peat Fire Flame As Time Goes By Haul Away Bread and Fishes Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song) Yellow on the Broom (ttto The Female Drummer/When I was a Fair Maid) Meditation Death Come Easy Satisfied Mind A Car-Washing Song John Willie Peckett (poem) Winter (reading, from Year Song) Goliath of Gath/Garth Henry My Son (version of Lord Randall) The Farmer in Cheshire (aka The Highwayman Outwitted / The Highwayman and the Farmer’s Daughter) The Fields of Athenry Hardcastle's Rake The Smoke-Off (poem) Try to Remember People Say Strange Things What I Like About Texas Jack Haggerty (aka The Flat River Girl) Golden Mansions Rambles of Spring Miss Rowan Davies (piano instrumental) Queen Elinor's Confession The Ash Grove (piano instrumental) The Freedom Come All Ye Farewell to the Gold Song for the Life Sweet Betsy From Pike Where'er You Walk Only Our Rivers Run Free Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf, not The Band) Lay Down Beside Me If I Were Free Here's to You |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:27 AM Songs and poems from the 4/5 April Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Titanic (...the great ship went down) Deportees Refugees (poem) Strangers (poem) Angling Villikins and his Dinah The Irish Rover Yankee Doodle – a bit later (1846) Takin’ Old Route Pitman’s Union Lo merle (The blackbird, in Occitan) Farewell Johnny Miner Ned on the Hill Small Birds Rejoice/Chevalier’s Lament Lovely Agnes Mitcham Line Shunty Vlad the Clown Follow the Heron The Weepin’ Willer If it Wasn’t for the Song The Water is Wide Lord Saltan & Young Auchanachie God Moves on the Water Last Train and Ride Lazy Bones The Coble of Cargill The Man with the Chainsaw Breaths Neocortex The Unquiet Grave Roads and Walls At 17 King Orfeo Ballad of John Williams All my trials Ask the Cat! Old Devil Moon Take Your Time House of the Rising Sun Faded Love Roseville Fair (Bill Staines via Les Barker) Greek Tragedy (poem) At the 'round Dr Freud Spring Harvest (poem) Mr Bluebird Sing Della and the Dealer On a Monday Morning Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia Spring Cleaning For Those in Peril from UV When Your Bells Have Turned Green (ttto Fiddler's Green) True Colors I Would I Were Three Ravens Whiskey on a Sunday (aka The Ballad of Seth Davey, also Come Day, Go Day) 1952 Vincent Black Lightning Four Strong Winds The Death of Robin Hood Hineh Ma Tov (in Hebrew, two tunes) Permission to Dance Stewball Would You Like to Play the Guitar (parody of Swinging on a Star) All the Good People Smut Morningtown Ride Planting a Rainbow (poem) Maple Sweet Rainbow Warriors Meditation Parting Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Apr 22 - 07:08 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 11/12 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. [Got some more information, made a few edits.] Mr Rabbit, Mr Rabbit The Darling Song The January June (recitation) Weather Lore The Man from God Knows Where (recitation) We Zoom The Trees they do Grow High The Hippies and the Beatniks-O Johnny Burke The Bramble and the Rose “Babble” (medley and simultaneous singing of a number of gospel songs) Stamp And Go Santy Anno (As I Was a-) Practising Top of the World Leaving Train Tinkerman’s Daughter John Barleycorn Love’s Old Sweet Song Wedding Song (in Ladino) Lullaby (in Ladino) Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight The Town of Mariupol Chicago Bones In the Sidings Now Norfolk and Good A Nice Quiet Day You'll Never Know How Much I Love You Vlad the Clown Java Jive Safe Romance Still Safe on Shore The Fisherman's Song All my trials Light the Winter's Dark Isle Au Haut Lullaby The Lamplighter (poem) The Speed of Slow (poem) No Telling Wreck of the Old 97 M. T. A. Song (ttto Wreck of the Old 97) The Almond Tree, or, The King's Love (story) (variant of) Bright Morning Stars Catahoula Aragon Mill In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle It Goes Like it Goes Tonight I Await (poem) Caitlin at the Window Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Three Ravens 2020 Go Down, Moses (aka Let My People Go) The Wayward Wind Darcy Farrow Philadelphia Lawyer The Errant Apprentice The Dove of Peace (aka Oh Tell Me Where the Dove has Flown) I'm Gonna Tell (On You) Come Love Come Chain Gang Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys Remember Your Name and Address Circle 'round On Children One More Minute John Hardy Rising Green Engine One-Forty-Three (aka The F.F.V., The C. & O. Wreck) Lay Down Beside Me Hard Nights Come Again No More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More) The Man in the Moon Shake and Shake the Ketchup Bottle (poem) I Eat My Peas with Honey (poem) Just Plant a Watermelon (aka Watermelon Song) When (poem) Until the Dark Time Ends (aka The Comfort of Singing Voices) Birdie Nee (aka The Eagle's Lullaby) My Mother Won't Let Me Play with You The Singer Sea Glass Buttermilk Hill (aka Shule Aroon, Siúil Rún, Shule Agra, Súil a Grá, Johnny has Gone for a Soldier, Gone the Rainbow) 'Cause He's a Cowboy Beautiful Dreamer Master of the Sheepfold May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You Some Velvet Morning |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Apr 22 - 01:06 AM Songs, recitations, poems, monologues and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 18/19 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Monique for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Days of ‘49 Sergeant William Bailey Jason & The Arguments (poem) Lolly Too Dum Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Spring (from Year Song) (recitation) George & The Dragon (monologue) Justice Among the Heather (aka Down the Moor) The Boat that First Brought Me Over Joan de la Rèula (sung in Occitan) Will Ye Go to Flanders? When Spring Comes In (aka The Spring Glee) Danny Boy Rawtenstall Annual Fair Streets of Laredo Parody Breaths Ocean of Life The Sick Note Gentle Arms of Eden Lovely Joan Na sera 'e maggio (in Neapolitan) Adir Hu (Passover song, in Hebrew) Blood Red Roses Get Away, Old Man, Get Away Mollymauk Song for Marianne Paul Revere’s Ride (poem) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Green Fields of England Brother Noah The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on his Pasta Child of Mine The Reluctant Cannibal Ranter’s Wharf Farewell Johnny Miner The Flowers of the Field (poem) The First and Last Man Zog, Maran (Tell Me, Marrano, in Yiddish) The Gallant Forty-Twa Spancil Hill Nothing to Show for it All One Time Only The Manchester Rambler Love's the Rising Sun Bread and Roses The Eagle's Gift – An Invitation (recitation) Jesus Christ (ttto Jesse James) Now is the Cool of the Day Scarborough Settler's Lament Hippopotamus Song Roses Across the Great Divide Run and Catch the Wind Lean On Me Mr Taxman (ttto Mr Sandman) Beautiful Noise On the Pulse of Morning (recitation) Crossing the Bar Hevenu Shalom Aleichem / Shalom Chaverim (medley, in Hebrew) ) Sweet Sorrow in the Wind A Seaman's Hymn Dream Plover (ttto Dream Lover) Mr Bojangles Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me The Prophet Ballad of the Carpenter The Chocolate Song Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Outside of a Small Circle of Friends (additional stanza to) Hippopotamus Song Grounds for Violence (ttto Sounds of Silence) Crazy Doney Gal Hunting the Duck That's the Way the World Goes Round The Boy Who Thought He Was a Cockerel (story) Changes |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Apr 22 - 12:02 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 25/26 April 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. My Own Grandfather (recitation) I Am My Own Grandpa It Takes a Soldier Cosmo, Prince of Denmark (poem) Strawberry Fair Disobedience Hackingham Palace Temperance A Nation Once Again Pretty Saro Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Bob Dylan’s Dream A los árboles altos (sung in Spanish) Swell My Net Full O Come Away Summertime Annan Water Blow Away the Morning Dew (aka The Lady's Policy, The Disappointed Lover, The Baffled Lover) New Garden Fields Kind Hands Dear Mr. Rogers With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (sometimes called "Anne Boleyn") Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk The Gum Tree Canoe Whisky in the Jar (aka Kilgary Mountain, Gilgarra Mountain) The Tailor & the Mouse Once I Was a Sailor The Rare Old Times Willow Weep Me No More Rio Grande (Great Lakes version) Wild Horses The Dock and the Nettle Downtown Zeno Exit Gentle Arms of Eden Now is the Month of Maying Things in Life Lullaby Isle Au Haut Lullaby We Ain’t Gonna Give it Back L’adieu de la mariée à ses parents (sung in French) Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Foggy Dew (Irish version) The Highwayman Hal-An-Tow Spot was Not Like the Rest (poem) Make You Feel My Love Singing in the May Tha mi duilich, cianail, duilich ("I am sorry, anguished, sorry" in Scottish Gaelic) No More Fish, No Fishermen (ttto of See Amid the Winter's Snow) John Ball Fortitude There is Nothing Like a Dane (ttto There is Nothing Like a Dame) Moving On Mayday Carol Que Bonita Bandera (in Spanish) Annie Laurie Oor Hamlet Husy (Geese, in Czech) Shanghai Lil Jamaica Say You Will Dragon Song One Morning in May (aka The Nightingale, The Bold Grenadier) Marion les roses (All Among the Roses, in French) Waterbound The Journey Calypso The Old Gray Squirrel Masters of War The Brown and the Yellow Ale One Hippopotami (ttto What Kind of Fool am I) The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan) How Drunkenness Came Into the World (story) As If He Knows A Bench by the Sea Anachie Gordon You of Little Faith Rest Well, Old Man (poem) Day is Done (ttto Taps) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 May 22 - 09:15 PM Songs, poems, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 2/3 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Scotch and Soda Lie Low Travel Irons (poem) Reg the Veg and the Charity Lady Ballad of Thunder Road Drunken Sailor Come Back in the Morning aka Prescription Calypso Turning Towards the Morning An druimeann donn dílís (My Dear Brown Cow) (in Irish Gaelic) The Gas Man Cometh Romance del Conde Olinos (in Spanish) Diana You Belong to Me Dandelion (by Humphrey & The Dumptrucks) Where oh Where do I Live? Malt and Barley Blues Two Brethren Rose the Riveter, Revisited Southbound Passenger Train Hard Times in the Mill Who Mowed the Lawns of Eden? Route 66 The Working Class Stranger Wait till the Work Comes Round Angel on my Shoulder Life is Music Can’t You See? Dream a Little Dream of Me Thugamar féin an samhradh linn (in Irish Gaelic) Freight Train On a Winter’s Night Dance up the Sun Kathy’s Song Blue Moon Do not go Gently (poem) Villanelle (by Berlioz, from Les nuits d’été) Roseville Fair May Time Dawns Count Me Out (poem) Hollywood Hope Lunenburg Town November Lament (recitation) Hang Them High The Book of Love (Magnetic Fields, not Monotones) Over the Rainbow Bring Them Home Union Maid Bluenose Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key The One-Legged Cowboy Buffalo Skinners Mary Ellen at the Church Turned Up The Moon Shone Bright Lean On Me My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms I'm an Old Cowhand The Blackest Crow (aka My Dearest Dear, Breast of Glass) Amazing Grace (alternating English and Scots Gaelic) Ta He Wa He La He (in Hawaiian) Japanese Garden in the Rain (recitation) St. Louis Blues The Farmer is the Man What Then (poem) The Wild West is Where I Want to Be Blue Boat Home (ttto Love Divine All Loves Excelling) Drift Away The Bedmaking Scarborough Fair Whiskey is the Life of Man (aka Whiskey Johnny) The Galway Shawl A Rìbhinn Òig Bheil Cuimhn' Agad Shiny-O Morris the Moose Think About Your Troubles Circle Round (or, Circle Chant) On Children (or, Your Children) Morningtown Ride |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 May 22 - 07:33 PM Songs, poems, monologues and riddles from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 9/10 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Cornish Lads Billy Boy (Malvina Reynolds rewrite) The Unquiet Grave Sisters of Mercy Useful French Phrases (poem) Trip to Gougane Lo comte Arnaud (sung in Occitan) Mack the Knife (bilingual version, part English and part German) Asparagus (monologue) Come to the Dance Courting is a Pleasure A la una yo naci (sung in Ladino) Strontium 90 Innisvaddie Annie Down by the Railroad Track Cawsand Bay Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys Fever Resurrection Packet Forgive and Forget Al di là (sung in Italian) Knocking Nellie Sunbeam and Sunshine Eggs and Marrowbones The Armadillo We’re All Cleaning Windows Blank Space Prudence The Faithful Horse There is a Tavern in the Town (in English, then in German) Banks of the Ohio Mudcat Love Rio Grande Poor Little Liza Jane Transylvania Shanty (ttto South Australia) Bluenose (Skilling & Martin) Boys of Barr na Sráide The Morning Glory (aka One for the Morning Glory, Here's to the Morning Glory) Song of Wandering Aengus Nancy Spain Barking (poem) Brown Stuff (riddle) Rutherford Coffee Bar (ttto Sisters of Mercy) Thanksgiving Eve Sally Free and Easy Old Age Rage The Bold Fisherman The Little Sparrow Run for the Roses Down to the River to Pray (in Scots Gaelic) Shule Aroon (Siúl a Rúin) (chorus in Irish Gaelic) Drop Hammer Rolling Down the Bay to Juliana Siúl a Ghrá (in Irish Gaelic) Fare Thee Well Cold Winter The Unquiet Grave Beautiful Soul A Wee Bird Cam tae My Apron Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song) The Verdant Braes of Skreen The Rambles of Spring Anathea Auprès de Ma Blonde (in French) Tomorrow Bonny Boy from Underneath My Apron Peace like a River Jerusalem The Knoxville Girl Sunny Goodge Street The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (fragment, in Middle English) (The) Colorado Trail (aka Along the Colorado Trail) You Are Beautiful Bagenal Harvey's Farewell (aka Bagenal Harvey's Lament, ttto Derwentwater's Farewell) Try to Remember (fragment) Parting Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 May 22 - 08:10 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 16/17 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. "Mountain Village" is a guess at a title for Jane's story. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Travelin’ man Verdant Braes of Skreen Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Door (poem) Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (or Shock Absorba the Greek) Bold Riley Nobody Knocking D’ ye Ken John Peel? Day by Day Two Sisters Los dos filhets del rei (sung in Occitan) Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Wild Women Don’t Cry Baby The Happy Zoomer (ttto The Happy Wanderer) Lichtbob Lassie Molecatcher St. Brendan’s Voyage The Mermaid Oh the Dishes A Dollar a Day Ay lu lu (sung in Yiddish) (possibly aka Shlof Shoyn Mayn Tayer Feygele? or, Unter Beymer?) Lives in the Balance The Barring of our Door Wagon Wheels A bhean úd thíos Today Scarborough Fair Rum, by Gum Bill Bailey Fresh Hops The Puppeteer (recitation) A waltz by Bob Pasquerello (may be in Fingerwaltzes collection) (solo piano) Where is our James Connolly Mountain Village (story) Earth Angel Don’t Despise the Deserter A September Song (recitation) The Dancing Teacher Wild Mountain Thyme How Could Anyone Trouble Just a Lie Queen of the Rails If I Could Be the Rain Queen of Waters I Can See Clearly Now Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Benjamin Bowmaneer The English Wedding (Le Mariage Anglais, alternating English and French) Off the Cold Coast of Iceland Bye Bye Blues First of May Blues Love Me a Little When I Have Seen I Happen to Know (poem) The Strange Case of Mr Donnybrook Boredom (poem) The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude (poem) Little Village Ordinary Man (Gordon Lightfoot, not Peter Hames) The Ballad of Minepit Shaw Diana For Tom McLean Barrett's Privateers Share the Road with Me Book of Love (Monotones) An Irish Song Follow the Heron Home Cuba Rock On Rockall Turning Toward the Morning I Think of You Take Your Time The Dandelion (poem) Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket (poem) Did You Ever Lose an Elephant Gentle Arms of Eden Angel from Montgomery |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 May 22 - 08:24 PM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 23/24 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Twelve Gates To The City World Turned Upside Down Questionnaire (poem) Be Gentle with my Heart Fruit Trees Fill My Garden Diga Joaneta (sung in Occitan) The Deserter She’s Like the Swallow Turtle Dove Reminds Me of You Fennario Cuchullain’s Son The Bard of Armagh Call to Song Betsy Bell & Mary Gray A Handful of Songs Farmer’s Toast Tonight He Belongs to Me Early One Morning Mrs. Fisher Dowie Dens of Yarrow Ceres, Pluto and Eris... oh my! The Seasons of the Year McCafferty The Watchman’s Gone Yorkshire Couple Going to Leave Old Texas Banks of the Nile I Pity the Poor Immigrant They Say it’s Wonderful The Snows they Melt the Soonest Mingulay Boat Song Hard Times Procrastination (poem) Where will the Last Flower Grow? The King’s Navy I will Follow Him I Fall to Pieces Where Shall I Be? I Think it's Gonna Work Out Fine Summertime The Spotted Cow (aka Crafty Farmer? Well Sold the Cow? The Crafty Ploughboy? The Yorkshire Bite?) Solid Ground Quit Your Lowdown Ways Catahoula Time to Spare Land of the Bottom Line Across the Great Divide Take Your Time Rio Grande Cherokee Bend Down Where the Drunkards Roll Will Ye Go to Flanders The Swaggering Jig (aka Bellaghy Fair) Turn, Turn, Turn Out of Nowhere I Wanna Die Easy Don't Buy the Liverwurst (ttto Down by the Riverside) The Man in the Moon What Else Can I Do (aka Nothing Less Will Do, The Election Song) Anchored in Love Nevada Jane May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You (piano solo) Hunting the Hare Caledonia Devilish Mary Walkin' on my Wheels Take Your Time Jubilee |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Jun 22 - 08:15 AM Songs, poems, recitations/readings and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 30/31 May 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. The Last Shanty The Earl o’ March’s Daughter I Have Blown it All Away (poem) Hard Case Cruel Sister Giving Her Away I Ain’t Marching Any More An Apartment in Sunny Spain La filha d’un païsan (sung in Occitan) A Prayer in Open D If it Weren’t For the Music Fathom the Bowl Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Woad Don Quixote Don’t Take Your Gun to School Nothing Rhymed Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recited) Old Abe Oleanna Down the Dials Death Letter Blues Sea Change Paper Houses Lili Marlene Universal Soldier Come Back Baby Promenade Terrorism (poem) Song for the Life In the Jailhouse Now I Come and Stand at the Schoolhouse Door Assault Rifles (poem) Self-knowledge (poem) Dirty Old Town Summerland (poem) Aisle After Hymn Faithless Love 500 miles Whiskey on a Sunday (aka Come Day, Go Day, also The Ballad of Seth Davey) Martin Said to his Man (aka Who's the Fool Now) The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1952 (story) Let Union Be The One on the Right was on the Left Jutland The Water is Wide Fire and Flame And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda recitation from David Valentine Taylor Nepudem Domu (We Won't Go Home, in Czech) Lyke Wake Dirge Poor Soldier Wayfaring Stranger (secular version) Second Front Song Homeward Bound Buddhist Monk, 1960s (reading) Man Who Used to Be Calypso Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) Tim McGuire Train Trip to Guildford Run and Catch the Wind Up with People Who Am I Now Mothers, Daughters, Wives (reading) Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Jun 22 - 08:34 AM Songs, poems, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Dancing at Whitsun June Song (parody of Dave Webber’s May Song) Partygate (poem) D-Day Song Whiskey in the Jar Down by the Sally Gardens Lamorna Bold Robert Emmet Steal my Heart Away Ratto al ballo (sung in Piedmontese) Summerfly Seeing Nellie Home Last Bus Home The Gam Georgia on My Mind Cut the Cake There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go The Old Rose & Crown Mineral Wells Coffee Shop Down in Pimlico Long Hot Summer Day Fisher Lads of Whitby Dark-Haired Gypsies Mill o’ Tifty’s Annie Transylvania Shanty Crackdown Addict For Free Big Yellow Taxi It Could be a Wonderful World Breaths Sam the Skull The Shearing’s Not for You Band o’ Shearers Kite at Sundown Trains and Boats and Planes Cumha an fhile (The Loneliness of the Poet, in Irish Gaelic) Cholesterol Get Your Butt Over Here (poem) Rosebud in June Hit the Road Jack Mary and the Seal I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound Somewhere Ahead D-Day Dodgers The Frozen Logger Play Friends (poem) What Else Can I Do (aka Nothing Less Will Do, The Election Song) Who Am I Now All Hooked Up (ttto All Shook Up) Simple Gifts Give Yourself to Love Chad Looked Over the Wall (aka Shortages) When Can I Have a Banana Again The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter John o' Dreams The Blue Train The Whale Song Buckingham Palace (revised for the Platinum Jubilee) The Boy Who Thought He Was a Cockerel (story) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Forgiven The Fox Son David (variant of "Edward") Our Favorite Things (ttto My Favorite Things) The Old Man's Wish You Are Not Alone Shores of Avalon Circle of Friends The Guillotine Three Little Fishies Open That Can Be Prepared Fave Swings (ttto My Favorite Things) Hero (poem) Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire (updated version) Call Me the Whale We Zoom (ttto Blue Moon) Zoomiversary Song (ttto The Parting Glass) The King's Breakfast (poem) Lay Down Beside Me River |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 16 Jun 22 - 08:44 AM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 June 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list, and also to Casey. Comments and corrections always welcome. Do-Re-Mi Bright Blue Rose As I Walked Out (poem) Bert and Jane What Have They Done to the Rain The Water is Wide The Rose and the Lily (version of Cruel Brother) Hunting the Hare Romance de Isabel (in Spanish) West Texas Waltz Jesus Jesus (sung in Irish Gaelic) Three Score and Ten The Shores of Normandy The Power and the Glory Who Do You Love Derby Ram Kentucky Babe Changeling's Lullaby Wanting Memories San Antonio Rose Old Dogs A Sailor's Grave That Look in his Eye Cape St. Mary's 254 Shades of Gray The Thunderstorm Approaches (poem) Hurricane Blues Miss Otis Regrets She Was One of the Early Birds Theme from Mahogany Come Fare Away (aka "Come Fare Away With Me"; also, "Marnie" is sometimes included in the title) Lovely Agnes More Hills to Climb Hope Eyrie Annan Water Peace Train Keep on the Sunny Side Golden Mansions Caravan Selchie Feher Laszlo Stole a Stallion Roseville Fair Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Remember All Those Years Ago (poem) Why Did They Have to Get Married Bruces' Song (aka Bruces' Philosophers Song) Down in Granny's Yard (aka Johnny's Lost his Marble) She's Like a Swallow Farewell to Whiskey (aka Johnny My Man) Roy O'Brien jingle So Will We Yet Dodi Li (in Hebrew) Je suis trop jeunette ("I am too Young", in French) Rosebud in June Fantasy Lover Crazy Their Brains Were Small and They Died In Self Defense (poem) Who Shot Sam To Cheer Him Up and Help Him on His Way Sea Glass Shallow Brown Sammy's Bar Thaïs Greensleeves (piano solo) Cold Haily Rainy Night The Dewy Ones Trouble Singing Through the Hard Times Zen Gospel Singing Makin' Whoopee (parody of) My Father's a Hedger and Ditcher A Bench by the Sea Hymn Song |
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