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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Haruo Date: 21 May 24 - 01:31 AM I'm a bit surprised not to see TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM ("Spring Has Now Unwrapped Her Flowers" here. This is the original song to the tune now best known as "Good King Wenceslas". It's a May Day flower carol. Here's a link to a fasola shapenote score of one verse in Latin and three in English from my under-construction "Shape Note Daily Lectionary Hymnal". Haruo The "Original" song with Lyrics circa 13th Century on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8PgukSLX0 Many other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tempus+Adest+Floridum
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 10:54 PM On 21 May 1851: Gold was discovered in Australia. Within a few weeks of the reports of Hargraves’ discoveries, songs were appearing about the rush to Ophir. One such song was published in Bell’s Sydney Life and Sporting Reviewer on 31 May 1851, under the heading On the Gold-digging Epidemic now raging in New South Wales. It’s off to the diggings we’ll go, Whether they let us or no. We’ll scramble for gold Through wet, dirt or cold, And it’s off to the diggings we’ll go. It’s off to the diggings we’ll go, And perhaps without striking a blow We may fill up our bags, And then mounting some nags, We’ll cut to the …. oh oh. Gold’s called the elixir of life; It certainly causes some strife; Some of the turmoil created by the goldrushes can be appreciated in these verses from New Words to an Old Song, again about the rush to Ophir, and written by William Walker ‘on the breaking out of the Gold Diggings, 1851’. The world is now turned upside-down, And everything seems queer, For all the men are leaving town, And prog gets dreadful dear. To talk of love now no one thinks, The men have got so cold Their heads are stuffed with nothing, but – This cursed, filthy gold. A woman’s voice sounds dull and tame, In her no charm now lives; But spades and picks are harmony, And gold the music gives. Songs from the Australian Goldfields, Part 1: Gold mania by ROSS A. BOTH and WARREN FAHEY Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 13, October 2015 |
Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 22 May 24 - 07:15 PM And yet another song about The Manchester Ship Canal is THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL NAVVY - Ian Woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-ACXwSJyM And yet another is BRING THE SEA TO MANCHESTER - Jon Raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7ihIOLxmI&list=OLAK5uy_k5aFUmD66dw9WdPtvl30S2OCxccw9SoIw And a snitch of a recording by Nick Dow https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester.htm
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 May 24 - 08:16 PM 24 May 1915 John Condon was killed in action in a gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres. JOHN CONDON written by Mary Dillon John Condon - Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWK-0dVUQbk John Condon - Fairport Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7wU1tpU5hs John Condon - Rebecca Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxNTFhhmeE John Condon - Flossie Malavialle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-db-DaEk6Eg John Condon - Janet Dowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip27e6xZK8w John Condon (British Army soldier) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Condon_(British_Army_soldier) Mudcat Thread, Lyr ADD: John Condon - about WWI soldier /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=82078&messages=43#top |
Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 May 24 - 11:02 PM More Manchester Ship Canal songs; the construction of the Ship Canal caught the imagination of contemporary writers and continues to do so today. ‘Tales from the Towpath’ was a BBC Radio 2 programme first broadcast on 27 May 1997. It tells the story of the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. The programme featured Mike Harding, the Albion Band, Bridgewater Brass Ensemble and Mikron Theatre Company. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/AV/tales_from_the_towpath.htm Original songs; 36 miles Away from the Sea Tales of the Towpath We Can't Get the Wares Away The Ganger's Wife Your Loving Son, Dan Big Ditch Flood A Modern Marvel Manchester Ship Canal recorded by Pumpkin Pie https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester_ship_canal_2.htm Manchester Ship Canal by John Gill recorded by Hindle Wakes https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester_ship_canal_gill.htm NEW SONG ON THE PROPOSED SHIP CANALTo enable large vessels to be navigated from Liverpool to Manchester Text is from a broadside which stated it was to be sung to the air "Grandmother's Chair". https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/N/new_proposed_canal.htm SEAPORT TOWN OF MANCHESTER or Prosperity to the Ship Canal Text is from the broadside printed by Jack Harkness, Printer, Church Street, Preston. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/S/seaport_manchester.htm |
Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Richard Mellish Date: 27 May 24 - 01:01 PM > From: GUEST,henryp - PM > Date: 21 May 24 - 11:15 PM > On 21 May 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened. [Pedant mode on] Yes but the song quoted in the rest of that post is not about the Ship Canal but about one of the older canals serving Manchester. As described here, insofar as the place names make any sense, they refer to a "voyage" from somewhere on the eastern side of Manchester, past Wilson's Brewery and ending "just south of Salford station". |
Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 May 24 - 07:18 AM Friday, May 30, 1907 Bertha Boronda cut her husband's penis off with a razor while in bed believing that her husband Frank had visited a place of prostitution. BAD BERTHA by squirrel Butter https://soundcloud.com/squirrelbutter/bad-bertha Bertha Boronda from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Boronda |
Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 May 24 - 07:40 AM Correct, Richard! It mentions Pomona Bay. Just for curiosity, the song (Away down to) Pomona originated in Manchester. The Pomona Palace and Gardens (named after the Roman goddess of fruit trees and orchards) were in Cornbrook, Hulme; the site was later used to build the Pomona Docks at the terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal. Inglis Gundry notes in his introduction to Canow Kernow (published by the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1966): '...the process of balladry still goes on. In the Logan Rock Inn at Treen a popular song called Way down Albert Square is gradually being transformed into a folk-song called Lamorna." |
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