Any May songs?

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 May 25 - 11:40 AM

28 May 1987   German amateur aviator, Mathias Rust, flew without official authorization from Helsinki, Finland, and landed near Red Square in Moscow.
Mathias Rust, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

FLY TO MOSKOW   - Modern Trouble       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKLDy0UEOcg

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 May 25 - 05:13 AM


MAY 29  - Gabriela South       South https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ex1iefYii4

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 May 25 - 05:25 AM

29 May 1660 Charles II returned to England and the restoration of the monarchy began.

ENGLAND’S PLEASANT MAY-FLOWER or CHARLES THE SECOND CAME HOME THE TWENTY NINTH OF MAY (1660) , article with lyrics and recording from The University of Exeter     https:// https://stuarts.exeter.ac.uk/education/sample-texts/anonymous-ballad/
Charles II of England, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England
The Twenty-Ninth Day of May, article and music from the Traditional Tune Archive     https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Twenty-Ninth_of_May_(1)_(The)

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 May 25 - 05:44 PM


MAY FLOWERS  - Llewellyn the Great       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daM813rySKg

Link to Index of Any May Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169613#4100012:~:text=INDEX%20OF%20MAY%20SONGS%0AADIRONDACK%20MOUNTAINS(THE)
Link to Index of Any June Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#4108028:~:text=OF%20JUNE%20SONGS-,AIR%20BALLOON,-ALABAMA(THE)
Link to Index of Any July Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170041#4111432:~:text=the%20one%20below.-,AIR%20AN%20SOMME,-AMELIA%20EARHEART%E2%80%99S%2

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 May 25 - 06:04 AM

30 May 1619English Ranter, Abiezer Coppe was born in Warwick.
Abiezer Coppe, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiezer_Coppe
Abiezer Coppe, article from Spartacus Educational     https://spartacus-educational.com/Abiezer_Coppe.htm

ABIEZER COPPE   - Roy Bailey       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq8gapnJdb8
ABIEZER COPPE   - Attila The Stockbroker & Barnstormer       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKcq3KnoUo

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 May 25 - 06:45 AM

31 of May 1162 (or possibly 1 May 1162) The birth date of Genghis Khan.
The birth date of Chinghis Khaan as determined through Mongolian astrology, article from UNESCO https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/knowledge-bank/birth-date-chinghis-khaan-determined-through-mongolian-astrology
Genghis Khan, article rom Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan

GENGHIS KHAN  - Jim Eldon       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiO0dAwhQUE

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 31 May 25 - 08:34 AM

Genghis Khan, he could not keep / All his kings supplied with sleep...

From Bob Dylan, YOU AIN’T GOING NOWHERE  https://youtu.be/DQK6nBnZHLE?si=InD6RP-4WSB9D4Ry

Occasionally, Dylan would sing instead, "Genghis Khan and his brother, Don / Could not keep on keeping on."

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 May 25 - 07:03 PM

26 May to 4 June 1940 The Dunkirk Evacuation was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France.
Dunkirk Evacuation, article from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation

THE FIRES OF CALAIS   - James Kellaghan       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxYqIMySek
THE LITTLE SHIPS OF DUNKIRK  - NickBot Jams       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2cW82ktnMc

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jun 25 - 10:51 AM


KILRUSH  - Josie Baker       https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/songs/cmc/kilrush_jbaker.htm
Oh on a morning in May, with my hooks well fixed,
My rod and my line, down by Kilrush.

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Jun 25 - 07:37 PM

OXFORD MAY SONG  -Telling the Bees       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buFtxsHcfDw

Link to Index of Any May Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169613#4100012:~:text=INDEX%20OF%20MAY%20SONGS%0AADIRONDACK%20MOUNTAINS(THE)
Link to Index of Any June Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#4108028:~:text=OF%20JUNE%20SONGS-,AIR%20BALLOON,-ALABAMA(THE)

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jun 25 - 06:15 PM


MAY DAY SONG FOR NORTH OXFORD  - Eton College Chapel Choir       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YRA1DtNElA

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 08 Jun 25 - 05:57 PM

ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAIN   - Sandy Paton · Caroline Paton      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmM_gT_APQ

One morning, one morning, one morning in May
I overheard a married man to a young girl say
"Arise you up, Pretty Katie, and come along with me
Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny

Mudcat DT Lyrics, Across the Blue Mountain   /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=125
Mudcat thread, Tune Req: Across the Blue Mountains    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=47014#top
Mudcat thread Lyr Req: Across the Blue Mountains (Sally Rogers)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=65759

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Link to post above from henryp  ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Jun 25 - 07:16 PM

PEARLY MAY BLUES   - Muddy Waters       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs9aHdiGV10

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 06:05 AM

2 May 1869 Tthe Folies Trévise, later renamed the Folies Bergère, was opened in Paris.
Folies Bergère, article rom Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folies_Berg%C3%A8re >

FOLIES BERGÈRE   - Judi Dench       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZyjVhKdW0

Link to Index of Any May Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169613#4100012:~:text=INDEX%20OF%20MAY%20SONGS%0AADIRONDACK%20MOUNTAINS(THE)
Link to Index of Any June Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#4108028:~:text=OF%20JUNE%20SONGS-,AIR%20BALLOON,-ALABAMA(THE)

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Jul 25 - 07:00 PM

THE BANKS OF THE NILE  - The Banks of the Nile · A. L. Lloyd       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgTqoaaUKU
Opening line        It was on a Monday morning, the 29th of May

Subject: RE: Any May songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 May 26 - 06:53 AM

1 May to 15 October 1851 The Great Exhibition. The song “ No Irish Need Apply”was allegedly originally written as a response to the widely held belief that Irish men were banned from working on the great exhibition of 1851.
The Great Exhibition article from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition
No Irish Need Apply, article from Folk Song and Music Hall     https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/no-irish-need-apply/

THE GREAT EXHIBITION  - Steven Schofield   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebChZEFbEgE&list=RDebChZEFbEgE&start_radio=1
THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851  - History by Metal   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafFMFS2A5U&list=RDzafFMFS2A5U&start_radio=1
NO IRISH NEED APPLY  - Recordings on YouTube by Pete Seeger, Frank Harte, Clover's Revenge, The Weavers, The Wakes, and many others   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=No+Irish+Need+Apply+song