Song Chain

Subject: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 12 - 04:26 PM

The idea of this thread is the same as the word association game. One song should link to the next, by a name or a writer. Or some other srong link.

This is my starter, easy because there are a few songs which mention Nancy.

TOO CLOSE TO THE WIND

Farewell to you, my faithful Nancy
And a thousand times adieu;
For the constable comes up from Brackley Market
And a hundred volunteers too.
No more will we hide in the forest
For fear they might run us to ground
For the wild sea, we'd sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

For twenty years, we have roved the highways
Of Northamptonshire.
From Daventry* down to the southern byways
We robbed both the rich and the poor.
For ofttimes our families were starving
And the highway it kept them alive,
So the wild sea, we sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

Tonight I lie in a darkened dungeon
Condemned on the gallows to die,
While the man who gave us away is only
Bound for Australia.
No man could be found to defend us
Naught but abuse came our way,
For the wild sea, we'd sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

The clouds they rise over Northampton market,
And the crowds pour into the town,
And the people will throng in the streets until sunset,
'Til the hangman cuts us down.
And fifty children of Culworth
Their fathers are taken away,
For the wild sea they sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Crowhugger
Date: 08 Jan 12 - 04:59 PM

If subject in the title counts as a strong enough link: Blow the Wind Southerly. (No need to re-post when the lyrics are already on another thread.)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 12 - 05:25 PM

Nice one. Yes if the words are already in the DT, then a title and a link will suffice. Save Max's bandwidth.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Jan 12 - 05:26 PM

I (somewhere) have the MacCalans' CD it's on and I even learned the song. I think one of them may have written it.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Jan 12 - 05:43 PM

Oops
I'm guessing this is trad? I was going to suggest Allan Taylor's "Land of the North Wind" if it wasn't. If it was, I'd suggest "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy".

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Bert
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 12:04 AM

Fare thee well my Nancy
ten thousand times adieu
I'm off to sail the ocean girl
once more to part from you
once more to part from you fine girl
you're the girl that I adore
and still I live in hopes to see
Old Swansea Town once more

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: doc.tom
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 07:04 AM

I wish I was with Nancy,
I, O, I, O,
On the second floor, with two bob more,
I'd live and die with Nancy,
I, O, I, O,
I'd live and die with Nancy,

Oh the thing that first set me heart in a flutter
Was her Balmporal boots as she cruised the gutter
Down the Strand, Down the Strand,
Down the Strand, Down the Strand,

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 07:39 AM

Leaving Nancy Eric Bogle.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 09:08 AM

From An Australian Folksong a Day
Sign-On Day (Trad.)

It's sign-on day at the Dance Palais
And we're down to a quid or two
But we'll cut a quick ton if you give us the run
And we'll see the season through

Chorus:
You can have Maria,
Sophia and Madelaine,
But we'll take the sugar
That comes from sugarcane

We've cut down on the rivers
And up at Mossman too,
But give us the cane with the Herbert strain
And we'll see the season through

The ganger is a gun, me boys,
The cook can make a stew,
If he drops the cane inspector in,
We'll see the season through

Our hands are raw, but two bob more
Will make them seem like new,
If we get enough pay we'll cut all day
'Til we see the season through

There's grog of sorts in other parts,
But Cairns has got the brew
That we'll drink and drink and drink and drink
When we've seen the season through

From Ron Edwards Great Australian Folk Songs. "Learnt from Bill Oliver, Redlynch, North Queensland, 1960. The song refers to signing on for work on the cane-fields near Cairns. Signing-on would often take place at a local hall, in this case The Grand Palais.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 09:22 AM

Nancy Spain

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: saulgoldie
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 09:24 AM

Heave away my bully bully boys,
Heave away, heave away.
Heave away my bully bully boys,
And we're bound for Australia.

Saul

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Noreen
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 09:33 AM

BULLY IN THE ALLEY

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 10:24 AM

WHIPLASH! -- THE WRECK ON THE C & O

And when she blew for Hinton, her engineer was there
George Alley was his name, with bright and wavery hair

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 10:38 AM

The Wreck of the Old 97

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 11:27 AM

Virgil Cain is my name and I drove on the Danville train

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 12:00 PM

Bell ringing song:

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5890

This is thanks to Vaughan, as I have 'and all the bells were ringing' from his song worming its way through my head!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 12:31 PM

Perhaps we should point out the connect to the previous song as we go?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 01:42 PM

Egloshayle Ringers because it is another of the Cornish Bell ringing Songs. Egloshayle is just off the Bodmin road on the way in to Wadebridge. The church is on the right and the ringers are buried in the church yard.
When I first moved in to Callington [of the previous song] I went on a tour of the town which ended up in St Mary's church. The guide explained there was a lost song about the bell ringing competition held for Queen Victoria's diamond Jubilee but no one knew what had happened to it. So, I stood in the bell tower and sang it!


Come all you jolly ringers and listen to my tale,
I'll tell you of five ringers bold that lived in Egloshayle.
By ring or ray, by night and day, none with them could compare
The fame of these five ringers bold was a true delight to hear.

Chorus (after each verse):
Lanlivery men, St. Tudy men, St. Mabyn and St. Kew,
But these five boys from Egloshayle could all the rest out-do.
There was Craddock the cordwainer, he rang the treble bell.
John Ellery was the second man and few could him excel.
The third was Pollard the carpenter, the fourth was Thomas Cleeve,
And Goodfellow the tenor man he rang them round so brave.

Now Craddock was the captain, he stepped along with his toe
And casting of his eye about he commanded them where to go.
They rang so brave with courage bold; it did their hearts revive
Sweet music then was quickly heard with a one, two, three, four, five.

They went down to Lanlivery and took away the prize,
They went up to St. Tudy and they've done the same likewise.
There's Stratton men, St. Mabyn men, St. Issey and St. Kew,
But these five boys from Egloshayle could all the rest out-do.

With this little core they ran so sure, no changes did they fear,
No man did ever lose his turn, 'twas a joy to see and hear.
And people all for miles around did tell o'er hill and vale
The tale of these five ringers bold that lived in Egloshayle.

Now to conclude this merry tale, the ringers' health I'll join.
Stand every man and pass the flask and drink their health in wine.
So here's to Craddock, Ellery, and here's to Thomas Cleeve,
To Pollard and to Goodfellow who rang them round so brave

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 06:12 PM

The Bell Ringing (a.k.a. The Men of North Lew)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 09 Jan 12 - 07:19 PM

Hee hee, Vicki, got that already! Your thinking cap will have to go on again!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jan 12 - 05:19 AM

The Bells Phil Ochs/ E A Poe.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 10 Jan 12 - 05:25 AM

"O what will you give me say the sad bells of Rhymney"..........

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Jan 12 - 10:47 AM

'.......hurrah, me nancy boys, do let me go!'

[swiftly grabbing smock!]

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jan 12 - 11:17 AM

What a great new game!!!!

(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

~S~

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: deepdoc1
Date: 10 Jan 12 - 10:13 PM

Nancy Whiskey
Trad/Gaelic Storm


    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

(extended instrumental)        

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

I am a weaver, a Calton weaver.
I am a brash and a roving blade.
I got silver in my britches.
And I follow a roving trade

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

As I walked into Glasgow city.
Nancy Whiskey I did smell.
I walked in, sat down beside her.
Seven long years I loved her well.

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

The more I kissed her, the more I knew her.
The more I loved her, the more she smiled.
I forgot my mother's teaching,
Nancy soon had me beguiled.

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

Woke up early in the mornin',
lying half way off the bed.
I tried to rise but was not able.
Nancy damn near knocked me dead.

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

I'll gang back to the Calton weaving;
surely make those shuttles fly.
I'll make more at the Calton weaving
than ever I did at the roving way.

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

all ye weavers, ye Calton weavers,
all ye weavers where e're ye be.
Beware of Whiskey, Nancy Whiskey.
She'll ruin you she ruined me!

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskaaay-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskaaay-o
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

    Whiskey whiskay Nancy whiskey
    Whiskey whiskay Nancy-o

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 10 Jan 12 - 10:52 PM

So I'll go with

"Whiskey You're the Devil"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 03:27 AM

What's the link between the Bells of Rhymney and Hurrah me Nancy Boys, do let me go. Sorry if I'm being thick.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 04:42 AM

The Devil and the Feathery Wife

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 06:23 AM

Five nights drunk

(link is wife)

Five nights drunk

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 07:46 AM

As we're in Boozing mode...

"Drink old England Dry"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: doc.tom
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 08:16 AM

Give me the punch ladle (to drink old England Dry)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Barnacle (at work)
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 08:26 AM

Give me the punch ladle, I'll fathom the bowl ...

to

The Barley Mow

Here's good luck to the pint pot, good luck to the barley mow
To the pint pot, half a pot ... and the brown bowl

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: BillE
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 08:43 AM

John Barleycorn

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 09:47 AM

The sheep's in the meadows
The kye's in the corn
Thou's ower lang in thy bed
Bonny at morn.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 01:38 PM

Handel's Messiah..... All we like sheep.....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 02:36 PM

The Derby Ram

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Songbob
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 03:58 PM

Don't know where you can find all the lyrics, but there's this, which ties into "derby:"

Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it the knobby one,
In just the proper style.
I should like to have one,
Just the same as that.
Where'ere I go, they shout, "Hello!
Where did you get that hat?"

From Bob Carlin's singing. I don't know that I ever got all the words, but think I must have. However, I can't access my home PC from work, so...

Bob

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 04:06 PM

All around my Hat

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 04:14 PM

Twanky Dillo

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 04:38 PM

The Blacksmith

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 05:15 PM

THE CELLAR DOOR by John Clare

By the old tavern door on the causey there lay
A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray,
And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop
As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop;

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 05:24 PM

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songster/16-simon,-the-cellarer.htm

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 05:39 PM

Simon the Cellarer had a high-backed chair, but Peggy had a LOW-BACKED CAR

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 05:58 PM

Larry Doolan had a Jaunting Car

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 11 Jan 12 - 08:25 PM

I'll motorise that as...

"O'Rafferty's Motor Car"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 05:00 AM

THE NIGHT THAT O'RAFFERTY'S PIG RAN AWAY.

O'Rafferty's pig was a wonderful animal,
Built like a battleship solid and stout,
His ignorance it would have disgraced any cannibal,
Impudence written all over his snout.
The night he got loose there was such a commotion,
That women were screaming and men turned pale,
They were running and jumping, colliding and bumping,
And everyone making a grab at his tail.

Then Mickey Malone the heavyweight champion,
Ran at the pig wit a big rolling pin,
He struck it a blow but caught Mrs.Mulroe,
Her bustle was shifted up under her chin.
Widow Malone fell through a shop window,
In pickles and jam and red herrings she lay,
She had salmon and skippers all over he knickers,
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.

It ran into the police court and looked at each prisoner,
It swallowed the bible, said the judge infra dig,
And because of your actions I'll postpone the case
But the local solicitor said they must all try the pig.
The pig looked at Reilly the principle witness,
Then ran into the grocers next door to McCanns,
He rolled in the butter, then dashed in the gutter,
And that's how he kept slipping right out of their hands.

Fat Mrs. Doyle she ran like an elephant,
Puffing and blowing with Mrs.Maguire,
She fell on the ground and begorra the sound,
Was just like the burst of a pneumatic tyre.
Flanagan he then got the pig in a corner,
He jumped on his back and ran into a drain,
At twenty to seven his home was in heaven,
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.

A bloodthirsty crowd led by old Denis Cassidy,
Chased it with vengeance from Derry to Cork,
And didn't he swear when the pig with audacity,
Jumped on a tram while he had to walk.
It ran through the legs of old Councillor Duffy,
A man of great standing and lofty ideas,
When they collided old Duffy backslided,
And down went the standing of twenty-five years.

Burke's wooden leg it was broken and shattered,
Her lay on his back shouting for Doctor Lamont,
Barney O'Toole says don't be a fool,
It's a hammer and saw and a joiner you want.
Then came the news that the pig had been captured,
The town had a thanksgiving supper they say,
And cabbage and bacon were lawfully taken,
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 08:31 AM

And cabbage and bacon were lawfully taken,
The night that O'Rafferty's pig ran away.

BILE DEM CABBAGE DOWN

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 09:17 AM

Then they changed him again, it was all in her arms
To a big black dog to bite
But she held him tight, she feared him not
He did not hear a fright, a fright
He did not hear a fright

http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5686

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 09:19 AM

oops, missed a bit from the link
Tamlyn

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 12:22 PM

TAMLYN
Lady Margaret, she's taken out her silver comb
Made haste to comb her hair

SPANISH LADY
First she tossed it, then she brushed it,
On her lap was a silver comb
In all my life I ne'er did see
A maid so fair since I did roam.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Songbob
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 12:59 PM

Roam?
Rome?

Off one night one a toot with Brutus,
He got pickled as a Roman neutue,
Woke next morning, feeling solemn,
Couldn't see the end of his Roman column...

I'm glad, glad, very, very glad,
I'm glad I'm a gladiator.
Ancient Rome, that's me home,
Fried fish and chips by the old hippadrome.
I'm glad, glad, very, very glad,
From me helmet to me toes.
My old dad was a Roman glad, and he left me his Roman nose.

Next?

Bob

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 01:23 PM

Helmet......

Goliath of Gath

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 05:18 PM

Goliath fell down in a swoon on the sward.

THE OLD MAID (4)
And give me a croft at the foot o' a hill
Wi' gowans upon the green sward
In sight an' in sound o' a clear sparkling rill
A peat stack and a bonnie kailyard

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 05:25 PM

But let me be gudewife to a clouthie gudeman

Barring of the Door

It fell upon the Martinmas time
And a gay time it was then, oh
When our goodwife got puddings to make
And she's boiled them in the pan, oh.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Jan 12 - 07:57 PM

We've come for some figgy *pudding*,
And a cup of good cheer.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 04:48 AM

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Merry may the Maid Be.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 05:23 AM

Butter and Cheese and All!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 05:58 AM

The Farmer's Toast

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 07:10 AM

I have lawns, I have bowers

EARLY ONE MORNING

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 07:26 AM

Sweet nightingale.

"valley below".

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 08:01 AM

Holmfirth Anthem

1. Abroad for pleasure as I was a-walking
On one summer summer's evening clear (repeat 1st 2 lines)
There I beheld a most beautiful damsel
Lamenting for her shepherd swain (bis)

2. The fairest evening that e'er I beheld thee
Evermore with the lad I adore
Wilt thou go fight the French and Spaniards
Wilt thou leave me thus my dear?

3. No more to yon green banks will I take thee
With pleasure for to rest myself and view the lambs
But I will take thee to yon green gardens
Where the pretty flowers grow

( Early one morning Flowers)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 08:16 AM

The Shepherd's Wife's song

Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe
As doth the king, at every tide or sithe--
    And blither too,
For kings have wars and broils to take in hand,
Where shepherds laugh and love upon the land.
    Ah then, ah then,
If country loves such sweet desires gain,
What lady would not love a shepherd swain?

    Robert Greene

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 09:12 AM

Searching for lambs

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 10:01 AM

"So hero-like the sun did shine"

Oh, rare Turpin, Hero!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Selchie - (RH)
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 04:48 PM

As he rode over Salisbury plain,
He met Lord Judge with all his train:
Then hero-like he did approach,
And robbed the Judge as he sat in his coach.
O rare Turpin, hero,
O rare Turpin, O.

-------------------------

As I was a-walking on Salisbury Plain
I heard such a fuss and to-do
For the lassies were crying and tearing their hair
For the rout had just come for the Blues
The rout had just come for the Blues.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 08:07 AM

High Germany ( rout)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 12:57 PM

Lowlands [as opposed to High Germany]

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 01:49 PM

The Golden Vanitee

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 14 Jan 12 - 03:32 PM

Golden Apples of the Sun

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 07:05 AM

u<>Dr. Finlay

A snippet I recall,

'........he travels far
in his little car
And all the lassies say
You should never eat an apple
'cos it keeps the doctor away!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rknbn22sV8

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 08:20 AM

Adam lay i-bowndyn,

bowndyn in a bond,
Fowre thowsand wynter

thowt he not to long

And al was for an appil,

an appil that he tok.
As clerkes fyndyn wretyn

in here book.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 08:31 AM

Ten Thousand Miles Away

A short hop from 'Fowre thowsand

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 08:41 AM

This has got to be breaking the rules of the game.


From the film TEN

Ravel's Bolero was in the score

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:27 AM

Lily Bolero

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:40 AM

Lilli Burlero

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: terrier
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:14 AM

I knuw I'd speld it rong :)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:29 AM

The song of love is a sad song,
Hi Lilli, Hi Lilli , Hi lo
The song of love is a song of woe,
Don't ask me how I know,
The song of love is a sad song, for I have loved and I know.
I sit by the window and watch the rain,
Hi Lilli, Hi Lilli Hi lo,
Tomorrow I'll probably love again,
Hi Lilli, Hi Lilli Hi lo

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:39 AM

"Low high, low high,low high,low,
Eeny meeny miny mo"

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:46 AM

1. Ain't no mo' cane on this Brazos, my boy
Oh, oh, oh
We done ground it all into molasses,
Oh, oh, oh

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 04:24 AM

She took him in her own white hand,
And led him to the table,
Here's cakes and wine for you my love,
Eat and drink while you are able.


The Light Dragoon

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 04:30 AM

From Odetta's Ain't No More Cane On the Brazo's

Go down old Hannah
Don't you rise no more
If you rise again tomorrow
It be my judgement day fo shore


Go Down Old Hannah

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 05:27 AM

damn cross posting... ignore my last

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 05:33 AM

He came down the lane on his walking cane
And his old grey beard kept wagging

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 09:58 AM

Hand me down my walking cane,
I'm gonna leave on the midnight train
'Cos all my sins been taken away!

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 10:39 AM

Train...

I'm the Man that Put the Engine in the Chip Shop by Dave Goulder

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 01:23 PM

from previously posted Dave Goulder song

I started as a cleaner back in nineteen forty nine

to this

It was back in the days of forty nine
Heave away Santy Anno
Back in the days of the good old times
Way out in Californi o

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 06:45 AM

On Board A '98

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,The Walrus (in the library)
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 07:14 AM

Keeping with the idea of serving on warships-

"On Board of a Man of War"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 07:17 AM

What a shame! I wasn't fast enough to link "Little piecer" with "On board a 98" - the only two songs I know which mention cocoa!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 07:35 AM

Eric Idle's theme song for the BBC sit com One Foot in the Grave. Oblique link. Ignore if you don't get it / or think it's in any way appropriate....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 09:52 AM

OH I'M AS HAPPY AS A YOUNG SPRING CHICKEN

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 09:52 AM

Okay. My link would be On board of a Man o' Warboys - oblique, tangential, irrelevant as I say. Anyway, back on track (from One Foot in the Grave - which echoes the final sentiments of '98) to

All Around the Greenwood (The Christmas Goose)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 09:55 AM

Cross post there, but Snuffy wins by a nose! So:

The Cow that Ate the Piper

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 10:36 AM

So he tucked up the legs and he took to his pegs

The Pegging Awl (A L Lloyd version)


As I was a-walking one morning in May
I met a young maid and her gown it was gay.
I step-ped up to her and back she did fall,
She want to be played with a long pegging awl.

I said, "Pretty fair maid, will you travel with me,
On to foreign countries, strange things for to see?
And I will protect you whate'er may befall
If you'll follow four love with the long pegging awl.

It was home to her parents she then went straightway
And unto her mother these words she did say:
"I'll follow my true love whate'er may befall,
I'll follow my love with his long pegging awl."

"Oh daughter, oh daughter, how can you say so?
For young men are false as you very well know;
They'll tell you fine things and the devil and all,
And leave you big-bellied with the long pegging awl."

"Oh mother, oh mother, now do not say so.
Before you were sixteen, you very well know,
There was father and mother and baby and all,
You followed my dad for his long pegging awl."

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 10:55 AM

Nice one. One of my 'new' songs for 2012 that.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 11:15 AM

Silver dagger

Dont sing love songs you'll wake my mother

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 11:40 AM

Arghhh! Wrong post! It should have said:

Nice one. One of my 'new' songs for 2012 that. Which links to one of my new ones for 2011 which I first performed in public at The Punchbowl in January last year.

Lord Thomas & Fair Eleander

*

Okay - seeing we're on with Silver Dagger, and Max Hunter, here's an alternative version...

VERSE 1
A youth once courted a handsome lady
He loved her as, he loved his life
He often vowed, was his intention
To make 'er his lawful wedded wife

VERSE 2
O, when his parents came to know this
They strove t' part them day an' night
Saying, Son, O Son, don't be so foolish
For she's to poor, to be your bride

VERSE 3
And when this lady, come to know this
She quick resolved, what she would do
She wondered forth an' left th city
This pleasant place, no more to view

VERSE 4
She wondered down beside th river
There she prepared herself, for death
Saying, here I am, a youth unmarried,
An' I must die, in dark destress

VERSE 5
Well, she pulled forth a silver dagger
She plunged it in, her snow white breast
O, first she reeled an' then she staggered
Saying, my true love I'm goin' to rest

VERSE 6
Her sweetheart begin, in th valley
He thought he heard, his love one's voice
He ran, he ran, like one destracted
Saying, my true love, I fear your lost

VERSE 7
Well, he picked up th bloody body
He turned it over in his arms
Sayin, neither man or God can save you
An' you must die in all your charms

VERSE 8
Well, he picked up th bloody dagger
He stabbed in thru his own true heart
Saying, let this be a lawful warnin'
T' all who keeps true loves apart

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 05:48 PM

And yon pretty maid, with the silver-headed pin,
Pray open the door and let us come in



The Gower Wassail

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Cats
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 05:58 PM

Rillaton Wassail. Written by Mike O'Connor for the hamlet of Rillaton, Cornwall



Wassail. Wassail, then let us sing wassail,
Wassail, wassail, then let us sing wassail

By light of star and light of moon the night of twelve is coming soon
We shall to the orchard go, for mother Mary told us so.

With drums and guns we sing an shout to drive the king of Winter out
Frighten every spirit dark and wash away the devils mark.

Then we shall make the sign of 3 to consecrate the apple tree
Cider in the flowing bowl will free the spirit, warm the soul.

Then our wassail will light the flame and let the spirit rise again
From root and seed to bud and bloom, to raise the sap and bless the womb

For if the tree takes back his power he'll bear the blossom, bear the flower
Rich will every branch appear with apples for the coming year

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 08:52 PM

Another mother Mary...

LET IT BE
(John Lennon and Paul McCartney)

When I find myself in time of trouble, mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be.
And tho' they may be parted, there is still a chance that they
will see.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,
There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines
on me.
Shines until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary sings to me
There will be no sorrow, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,
There will be no sorrow, let it be.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 04:19 AM

His children came around him with their prittle prattling stories
With their prittle prattling stories to drive care away
Now they are united, like birds of one feather
Like bees in one hive, contented they'll be


Spencer The Rover

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 05:34 AM

"So now he is a living in his cottage contented
With woodbine and roses growing all around his door
He's as happy as those who have thousands of riches
Contented he'll stay and go a rambling no more

Thousands or More

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 08:02 AM

With the mention of cotages, I'll lower the tone a little....

"See the quiet country cottage
Where her grieving parents live
'Though they drink the fizz she sends them
Still they never can forgive...

Oh it's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Ain't it just a bleedin' shame..."


Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 09:21 AM

Ain't it just a bleedin' shame..."


l stepped up to her, more closely to view her,
When on me she cast a look of disdain,
Saying, "Young man, stand off me and do not come near me
l work for my living and think it no shame."

Factory Girl
Although we always sing it as 'Factory Girl'

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 11:31 AM

"I work for my living..............."

Sometimes a shuttle flies out,
Gives some poor woman a clout,
There she lies bleeding and nobody's heeding
Who's going to carry her out?

Poverty Knock

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 12:53 PM

I'm a four loom weaver, as any man knows,
I've nowt to eat an' I've pawned all me clothes,
Clogs are all brocken an' stockin's I've none
Tha wudden gee tuppence for all I've geeten on!

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 20 Jan 12 - 09:02 PM

"...Tha wudden gee tuppence for all I've geeten on!"

"I've got sixpence, jolly, jolly sixpence,
I've got sixpence to last me all my life,
I've got tuppence to spend & tuppence to lend
And tuppence to send hope to my wife"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 09:35 AM

When we have all sheared our jolly, jolly sheep,
What joy can be greater than to talk of their increase.

Rosebud in June

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 09:47 AM

Click go the shears boys, click, click, click

Then I loose that one, not very good on Aussie songs, Joybell, where are you? Help!

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 08:44 PM

Boys and girls, come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day.
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
And join your playfellows in the street.

Come with a whoop, and come with a call,
Come with a good will or come not at all.
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A penny loaf will serve us all.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 08:53 PM

2Oh the Shearing's not for You"

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 12 - 04:41 AM

Banks of the Condamine

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 22 Jan 12 - 05:17 AM

"Oh I'll cut off my yellow hair and go along with you
I'll dress myself in men's attire and be a shearer too
I'll cook and count your tally, love while, ringer, you will shine?
And I'll wash your greasy moleskins on the banks of the Condamine."

this cross dressing makes me think of...


Martinmas Time

It fell out upon one Martinmas time
When snow lay on the border
There came a troop of soldiers here
To take up their winter quarters

And they road high and they rode north
And they rode o'er the border
And there they met with a nice, little girl
She was a farmer's daughter

Well, they made her swear a solemn oath
A salt tear in her eye
That she would come to the quarter gates
When no one would her spy

But she's gone to the barber's shop
And to the barber's shop went soon
She made them cut off her long, yellow hair
As short as any dragoon

And she's gone to the tailor's shop
And dressed in soldier's clothes
With two long pistols down by her side
A nice, little boy was she

And she's gone to the quarter gates
And loudly she does call
"There comes a troop of soldiers here
We must have lodgings all"

And the quartermaster, he comes down
He gives her half a crown
"Go find your lodgings in the town
Tonight there is no room"

So she moved closer to the gates
And louder she does call
"Room, room, you gentlemen
We must have lodgings all"

And the quartermaster, he comes down
He gives her eighteen pence
"Go find your lodgings in the town
Tonight here comes a wench"

So she took a pistol from her side
She blew it loud and shrill
"You're all very free with your eighteen pence
You're not for a girl at all"

And she took the garter from her knee
The ribbon from her hair
She tied them 'round the quarter gates
A token she'd been there

And when they found that it was her
They tried to have her taken
She slapped her spurs to her horse's side
She galloped home a maiden

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Jan 12 - 05:43 AM

Antepenultimate verse ~~ surely a whistle she took from her side?

"Room, room, you gentlemen"

Room for company
Here come good fellows...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 22 Jan 12 - 01:23 PM

Horse-coursers, carriers, blacksmiths and farriers,
Room for company in Batholomew Fair


Country Carrier

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Jan 12 - 02:01 PM

Much too much to list here from The Carter Family ~~

But how about a Wildwood Flower or two?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 22 Jan 12 - 09:10 PM

MtheGM ,

"...Antepenultimate verse ~~ surely a whistle she took from her side?

"Room, room, you gentlemen"...

Apologies, I cribbed the entire text from a web site and I'm afraid I didn't check it

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 06:31 AM

When I woke from my dreaming, my idol was clay
All portion of love had all flown away.


The Unquiet Grave

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 10:26 AM

Cold blows the wind tonight my love,
And softly falls the rain,
I never had but one true love,
In greenwood she lies slain
FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 10:38 AM

A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 10:39 AM

And speaking of slain in the greenwood :-

It is rumoured in the kitchen, an it's whispered in the hall,
The broom blooms bonny, the broom blooms fair,
That the King's daughter gans wi' a bairn by her brother,
And they darenae gae doon tea the broom any mair

(Sheath & Knife)

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 10:53 AM

Oh the broom, the bonny bonny broom
The broom o'Cowdenknowes'

Broom o'Cowdenknowes

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 11:04 AM

Be she green or grey; be she black or fair,
Let her be a woman - I shall seek nae mair!
Buy broom buzzems etc....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 12:53 PM

When Yellow's on the Broom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 01:14 PM

Oh the brown and the yellow ale

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 03:15 PM

Whether to marry fair Eleander now -
Or bring the brown girl home, home home...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 06:07 PM

Vemen tzu nemen un nisht farshnemen...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 02:31 PM

And I'll gang nae mair a'rovin',
A—rovin' in the nicht.
I'll gang nae mair a'rovin',
Though the moon shine ne'er sae bricht


The Jolly Beggar

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 25 Jan 12 - 08:48 AM

From a Jolly Begger to a Wooing Rogue

Come live with me and be my Whore,
And we will beg from door to door,
Then under a hedge we'll sit and louse us,
Until the Beadle comes to rouse us.
And if they'll give us no relief,
Thou shalt turn Whore and I'll turn Thief,
Thou shall turn Whore and I'll turn Thief.

If thou canst rob, then I can steal,
And we'll eat Roast-meat every meal:
Aye we'll eat roast meats every day,
And throw our mouldy Crusts away,
And twice a day we will be drunk,
And then at night I'll kiss my Punk,
And then at night I'll kiss my Punk.

And when we both shall have the Pox,
We then shall want both Shirts and Smocks,
To shift each others mangy hide,
That is with Itch so pockifi'd;
We'll take some clean ones from a hedge,
And leave our old ones for a pledge,
And leave our old ones for a pledge.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 25 Jan 12 - 10:10 AM

My father's a hedger and ditcher
My mother does nothing but spin
They say I'm a pretty young girl
But the money comes slowly in

Hedger and Ditcher

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jan 12 - 11:47 AM

Old Maid in a Garrett

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 25 Jan 12 - 08:24 PM

As I went down yon heathery moor,
I met a bonnie wee lassie,
She winked at me and passed me by,
And oh but she was handsome,

With me twatikan notikan nuntin ni
With me twatikan notikan ni do

Where are you going my bonnie wee lass
Where are ye going my honey
Quite mannerly she answered me,
"On a message for me mammy"

Oh what's your age me bonnie wee lass
Oh what's your age me honey
Quite mannerly she answered me
"I'll be 16 come next Sunday"

Oh where do ye live my bonnie wee lass
Oh where do you live my honey
Quite mannerly she answered me
"Oh down in yon green valley"

Oh where do you lie me bonnie wee lass
Oh where do you lie me honey
Quite mannerly she answered me
"In a bed behind me mammy"

Will ye marry me my bonnie wee lass
Will ye marry me my honey
Quite mannerly she answered me
"Will ye wait till I ask me mammy"

If I go down tomorrow night
When the moon is shining clearly
Will ye open the door and let me in
And your mammy she won't hear me

As went down to the house
Her mammy chanced to hear me
She pulled her daughter by the hair
And hit her three times over

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 12 - 04:05 AM

Connection?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 26 Jan 12 - 04:14 AM

And oh but she was handsome,

Handsome Cabin Boy

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: billybob
Date: 26 Jan 12 - 08:12 AM

Loving Hannah.

My love is young and handsome
her waist is neat and small
and she is so goodlooking
and thats best of all.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 12 - 09:09 PM

"...My love is young and handsome
her waist is neat and small..."

The Cuckoo's Nest

"...Some like a girl who is pretty in the face
and some like a girl who is slender in the waist
But give me a girl who will wriggle and will twist
At the bottom of the belly lies the cuckoo's nest..."

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: The Walrus
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:23 AM

Sorry, the last post was me.

Tom

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:31 AM

wrote him a letter in red rosy lines
He wrote back an answer all twisted and twined
Saying: Keep your love-letters and I will keep mine,
You write to your love and I'll write to mine.


Green Grows The Laurel

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 07:03 AM

The Wearing of the Green

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 10:18 PM

Green grow the rushes, ho!

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 01:09 PM

Rushes = Moses

Moses Ri-Toora-Li-ay


Traditional



The policeman walked out, oh so proud on his beat
When a vision came to him of stars on his sleeve
"Promotion," he whispered "I'll try for today
So come with me Moses Ri-toora-li-ay"

"Come tell me your name" says the limb of the law
To the little fat man selling wares on the straw
"What's that sir? Me name sir? Why, 'tis there on display
And it's Moses Ri-toora-li-loora-li-ay"

The trial it came on and it lasted a week
One judge said German another said Greek
"Prove you're Irish" said the policeman "and beyond it say nay"
And we'll sit on it Moses Ri-toora-li-ay"

The prisoner stepped up there as stiff as a crutch
"Are you Irish or English or German or Dutch?"
"I'm a Jew sir, I'm a Jew sir, that came over to stay
And my name it is Moses Ri-toora-li-ay"

"We're two of a kind" said the judge to the Jew
You're a cousin of Briscoe and I am one too
This numbskull has blundered and for it will pay"
"Wisha, that's right" says Moses Ri-toora-li-ay

There's a garbage collector who works down our street
Who once was a policeman, the pride of his beat
And he moans all the night and he groans all the day
Singing "Moses Ri-toora-li-loora-li-ay"

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 01:38 PM

Moses supposes his toeses are roses

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 04:09 PM

That's Mysterious Mose.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 09:30 AM

I believe (Old Man)
I believe (Old Man)
I believe (Old Man)
That Old Man Mose is dead!

From Louis Armstrong, 'They is all folk-songs, aint never heard a hoss sing one!'

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 09:34 AM

I knew her old father, old man.
I knew her old father, old man.
I knew her old man
He blowed in the band
Goin' up Camborne Hill comin' down

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 12:44 AM

Maids, when you're young, never wed...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 10:41 AM

For an old man he is old,
For an old man he is grey,
But a young man's heart is full of love
Get away, old man, get away!

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 10:46 AM

Old Man River

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 10:48 AM

Duncan Gray

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 11:11 AM

Well, well... much to my surprise, this one's not in the DT already:

Oh there come a young man to my Daddy's door
My Daddy's door
My Daddy's door
There come a young man to my Daddy's door
Come seekin' me to woo

Chorus (between each verse):
And ah but he was a bonny young man
A brisk young man and a braw young man
Ah but he was a bonny young man
Come seekin' me to woo

I took him in, into the bring (kitchen)
I gave him bread & ale to drink
But ne'er a broon eye would he blink
Until his wain was foo

There lay a broon dog before the door
Before the door, before the door
There lay a broon dog before the door
And there he tripped & fell

Then out come the old man & high(sp?) did he shout
And out come the old wife and Lord, did she lout (sp?)
And all 12 neighbours gathered about
And there he lay, it's true

Then out come I with a sneer & a smile
And I said "Young man, you have us beguiled
You came here to woo, now you're all defiled
And we'll ha' no more o' you!"


Heard some people sing this at a local festival in the Detroit area when I was a teenager and fell in love with it; afraid I don't know anything else about it really, except they introduced it as a song about the "utter humiliation" of a young man who was apparently more interested in the food than the girl he was supposedly "wooing"...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 11:19 AM

Tried searching on a third phrase and did find something in the DT after all; clearly the same song, but with a lot of different words:
Brisk Young Lad

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Feb 12 - 08:35 AM

Brisk Young Widow

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 20 Feb 12 - 09:33 AM

It's of a brisk young Tailor my story I'll relate,
He lived at an inn called the Ram and the Gate,
The Ram and the Gate was the place where he did dwell,
And wine and women's company he loved exceeding well!

FC

What did the tailors do wrong to become the butt of so many folk lyrics?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 03:50 AM

And wine and women's company he loved exceeding well!

THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 06:17 AM

It fell about the Martinmas time
And a gay time it was then o
That our good wife had puddings to make
And she boiled them in the pan o.

The Barring Of The Door

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 07:26 AM

Black White Yellow and Green

(The strangest plum puddings that I've ever seen).

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:22 AM

The Brown and the Yellow Ale

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Stringsinger
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:54 AM

What would be really interesting to me would be a song chain showing variants of
existing folk songs and their metamorphoses through the ages.

Example: The Ballad of Robert Kidd (Pirate)
Sam Hall.
What Wondrous Love is This (shape note hymn)

The stanzaic forms are similar indicating influences that changed the variants.

Variations for example of the Binorie Ballad, The Twa Sisters, The Wind and the Rain, etc.

Or The Three Ravens, Billy MacGee Macgaw, and possibly the melodic content for Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya'.

Every folk song in tradition has an antecedent either in music or in story content.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 07:30 PM

Then why not start one?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:37 AM

From:

A board of elder and a board of holly,
Oh, the brown and the yellow ale
And three great yards of a shroud all about me.
Oh, love of my heart


Earl Richard

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 08:06 PM

She's pretty & fine, this yellow gal....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:42 PM

HENRY MY SON

What color were those eels, Henry my boy?
What color were those eels, my pride and joy
Green and yeller. Green and yeller.
Mother be quick I got to be sick and lay me down to die.

(BTW, I learned it as: "What color was them eels..."   and: "Mother be quick, I think I'm sick...")

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:56 PM

Henry Martin - in the DT

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:58 PM

Martin said to his men,
"Fie, man, fie!"

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 08:43 PM

BIG MUDDY

"We were knee/waist/neck deep in the Big Muddy,
But the big fool said to move on."

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:06 AM

Oh it's six weeks come Sunday since ma laddie's went awa,
He's awa tae join the regiment o the gallant Forty Twa.

The Gallant Forty Twa'

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:57 AM

He's awa tae join the regiment

Early one morning, one bright summers' day
Twenty-four ladies were making their way
A regiment of soldiers were marching nearby



Drummer Boy

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:22 AM

I wish the Queen of England would send for me in time
And place me in some Regiment all in my youth and prime

Rocks of Bawn

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:59 AM

.....I listed in a REGIMENT and a drummer I became
    And there I learned to play upon the drum-a-dum-dum

The Female Drummer

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 08:02 PM

Fareweel Ye Banks O' Sicily:

The drummie is polisht, the drummie is braw
He cannae be seen for his webbin ava
He's beezed himsel' up for a photy and a'
Tae leave wi' his Lola his dearie

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:35 PM

Ich bin die fesche Lola, der Liebling der Saison!
Ich hab' ein Pianola zu Haus' in mein' Salon....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 06:03 AM

Salon, it's been good to know ya

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 06:40 AM

I got to the camp and I learnt how to fight
Fascists in daytime, mosquitoes at night
I got my orders to cross o'er the sea
So I waved goodbye to the girls I could see,


Jamie Foyers

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:09 PM

The original, Napoleonic Jamie Foyers died thus:

But mounting the ladder for scaling the wall,
By a shot from a French gun young Foyers did fall;


The Keech in the Creel

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 03:38 PM

Keep the home foyers burning.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 04:36 PM

Wir betreten Feuertrunken,
Himmliche, dein' Heiligtum.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 04:21 AM

Engine No 9

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 06:43 AM

Revolution No. 9 (Beatles, White Album)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: saulgoldie
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 10:41 AM

"White's Squall" by Stan Rogers.

Saul

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 11:55 AM

Were you being tongue in cheek about 'White's Squall', Saul? Probably just a typo! (or another song).

Anyway:

and her lover's gone into a white squall

to
My love it will endure dear, like a beacon in the squall
The Oggy Man

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 06:01 PM

A Man's a Man for A' That.
In the DT

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 11:27 PM

From all that dwell below the skies
Let faith and hope and love arise
Let beauty, truth and good be sung
In every land by every tongue

(TtTO the Doxology)
I remember singing this during the services of/at the Unitarian church my family attended when I was a kid...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 05:18 PM

Back to Beethoven!

Alle Menschen werden Brüder
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 11:17 PM

Doxology ~~ For Thine is the Kingdom

(Song? ~ Well, there are surely plenty of choral and solo vocal settings of the Paternoster!)

And as for Freude, schöne Götterfunken ~~

Why, Dr Freud, O Dr Freud,
How I wish you had been differently employed...

~M~