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Subject: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Jun 20 - 02:46 PM We started the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround in June, 2020, and it has been a wonderful gathering every Monday since then. I don't know how long it will go on, but I hope to stay with it until it fades away. I have an ulterior motive for this singaround - to add song research material for Mudcat. Gerry Myerson has recently been compiling lists of songs such at the singaround, and many people have submitted the lyrics to the songs they sang. I'm going to use this thread to serve as a home for those lists and lyrics. Gerry will be a moderator of this thread. -Joe- |
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Subject: ADD-Don’t Know the Words.(for My FavoUrite Things) From: YorkshireYankee Date: 30 Jun 20 - 01:49 AM And here are the words for my UK vs US English parody of "My Favorite Things", as a number of people seemed interested. (I've posted it in a Mudcat thread before now, but I've revised it since then, so might as well share the updated version.) Below the lyrics, I've added a glossary, for those who may not be familiar with all the terms. Don’t Know the Words... (for My FavoUrite Things) TTO: Rodger & Hammerstein’s My Favorite Things New words: Vikki Appleton Fielden Jelly is jam here, and jello is jelly The car has a boot and my foot wears a wellie Mention “sultanas”, I think "Eastern Kings" Don’t know the words for my favourite things Summat is not where you go when you’re climbing Jumper is not someone into sky diving Bob is Your uncle, the Beeb is your aunt Don’t know the words to explain what I want If my languish causes anguish; if you think me sad Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so bad Beer’s sold by landlords instead of bartenders Don’t tell the clerk that your man needs suspenders Braces are not always worn on your teeth Rubber is nothing to do with a sheath I stand in line; over here it’s called queueing Lines are engaged but they never need wooing You stop while five while I stay until four Knob isn’t always a thing on a door If I speak, luv, like a freak, luv; if you think me mad Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so bad Biscuits are sweet but a tart can be racy, a Nice bit o’ crumpet might wear something lacy Crackers are not always eaten with cheese Folks don’t wear flannels but you can wear fleece Chips come with haddock; and crisps in a packet Soccer is football and baseball’s not cricket Stockings have ladders and Cricket has runs Baps is the word for my favourite buns If you’re thinkin’ I’ve been drinkin’; if I seem a cad Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so bad Two pints of bitter was not a bad notion Held up two fingers and caused a commotion I didn’t quack but you called me a duck Muffler’s not something to quiet a truck You call me luv; I don’t know who you are, pet But when I say shag, ducks, I only mean carpet Met a cute bloke at the Anchor & Bull Kept my hands off him but he said I pulled I get confused but I can’t ask my granny My knickers are knackered and show off my f...reckles You can go barking though you’re not a dog, Everyone goes to the loo in a swamp... (um, bog!) If my diction causes friction; if I’m misconstrued Oh, won’t you remember I’m just a poor Yank, and that’s why I talk... so rude! =========== GLOSSARY UK/Yorkshire word – US word ------------------------------------ jelly – Jello jam – jelly preserves – jam boot – (car) trunk wellie (short for Wellington) – boot sultana – raisin (sort of: raisins and a sultanas are produced from the same grape but a raisin is dried naturally, and a sultana is dipped in veg oil and acid and then dried.) summat – something (I think it's a corruption of somewhat) jumper – sweater Bob's your uncle – you're all set/in good shape Auntie Beeb – the BBC landlord – pub owner suspenders – garter braces – suspenders rubber – condom queue – line line – telephone line engaged – busy stop – stay while – until knob – dick biscuit – cookie tart – loose woman nice bit of crumpet – very attractive woman (usually young) cracker – very attractive woman flannel – washcloth fleece – warm jacket (often woolen) chips – french fries crisps – potato chips football – soccer ladder – run (as in stocking) steps – ladder baps – bread rolls holding up two fingers is like flipping the bird to someone – rudest possible gesture (but it's ok if you do it like a peace sign). meduck/ducks – dearie muffler – scarf silencer – muffler luv – darlin' pet – dear shag – have sex with pulled – successfully picked up/scored knickers – undies pants – underpants knackered – worn out fanny – pussy (as in woman's "front bottom") barking – mad bog – bathroom (Brits think we're rather silly to call it a bathroom, especially if there's not even a bath in it) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Richard Mellish Date: 14 Jul 20 - 06:04 AM Joe said > Feel free to post whatever you like here (especially lyrics to songs you have sung or will sing) Here's the one that I sang last night, North Sea Oil Down by the North Sea shore, a while before now, While seeking me fortune and rambling around, I met a little mermaid, very pretty as I recall And I asked this fond creature where I might find oil. "Well I know a little oil well not very far from here And I've been watching over it with the tenderest care And no-one's been near there since I was a child And I think you'd find profit to drill there a while." So I set up my rig and I made a fine stand, And this sweet little creature gave me a helping hand, Saying "Daddy, oh Daddy, it makes my blood boil When you set up your rig to go boring for oil." Well I kissed this little creature ten thousand times o'er As we toiled there together all on the sea shore, With a pillow under her fish-tail, for fear it should soil. I spat on me auger and went boring for oil. Well I hadn't been drilling three minutes or four. At a few inches depth, boys, the gusher did pour. And she wriggled and giggled, and she said with a smile "Oh bear down on that auger, for I think you've struck oil." But it was just a few days after, a thought came in me head, For the end of that auger was rusty and red. And I took it to the doctor, and he said with a smile "I think you struck shale when boring for oil." I got it from my own recording of Bert at Dingle's Folk Club in London on 4th April 1973. I have deliberately not checked the above words against the recording, so feel free to spot any folk-processing that I may have done over the years. In his introduction he refers to earlier versions, so maybe I was wrong in saying that this is one that was entirely his own work rather than his improved version of an existing song, but I suspect that in this form it is mostly his work. Then again, maybe someone would like to go looking for the earlier versions. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: YorkshireYankee Date: 14 Jul 20 - 08:26 PM Here's the link I mentioned last night: FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL The intersection of folk and music hall, the songs and social history http://folksongandmusichall.com/ It's the creation of John Baxter: "This site features a collection of Songs sung in the Music Halls, the stories of those songs and the people who sang them, and how these songs relate to traditional music of the British Isles. I hope it will encourage people to sing the songs, so where possible I include videos and links to sheet music . "It also has my blog about the social history of Music Hall. I hope to comment on various ways in which it relates to the social history of folksong. I am mostly bringing together information found by others – though I occasionally delve in Victorian newspapers..." Really been enjoying these sessions; great songs, great singing! Thanks again to Joe, Noreen and Casey. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: YorkshireYankee Date: 14 Jul 20 - 08:44 PM Oops, forgot to turn the link into a blue clicky... FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL: The intersection of folk and music hall... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Noreen Date: 15 Jul 20 - 05:17 AM Thanks Vikki! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays From: Mysha Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:01 AM Folk Song And Music Hall |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom-Today!!! From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 20 Jul 20 - 08:22 PM Here are the lyrics I used for Do Youi Think That I Do Not Know. Do you think that I do not know Henry Lawson They say that I never have written of love, as a writer of songs should do They say that I never could touch the strings with a touch that is firm and true They say I know nothing of women and men in the fields where Love's roses grow I must write, they say, with a halting pen do you think that I do not know? My love-burst came, like an English Spring, in days when our hair was brown And the hem of her skirt was a sacred thing and her hair was an angel's crown The shock when another man touched her arm, where the dancers sat in a row The hope, the despair, and the false alarm do you think that I do not know By the arbour lights on the western farms, you remember the question put While you held her warm in your quivering arms and you trembled from head to foot The electric shock from her finger-tips, and the murmuring answer low The soft, shy yielding of warm red lips do you think that I do not know She was buried at Brighton, where Gordon sleeps, when I was a world away And the sad old garden its secret keeps, for nobody knows to-day She left a message for me to read, where the wild wide oceans flow Do you know how the heart of a man can bleed do you think that I do not know I stood by the grave where the dead girl lies, when the sunlit scenes were fair Neath white clouds high in the autumn skies, and I answered the message there But the haunting words of the dead to me shall go wherever I go She lives in the Marriage that Might Have Been do you think that I do not know I used a tune by Chris Kempster. Another well-known musical setting is by Slim Dusty. Best recording, for my money, was by Declan Affley. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom-Today!!! From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 20 Jul 20 - 08:30 PM Here are the lyrics I sang for Tumba-bloody-rumba. TUMBA-BLOODY-RUMBA He looked for work at muster-time, we tried him as a rider, We tried him as the rouseabout and as the cook’s off-sider. He said he'd sailed the seven seas, he’d been up in Alaska, He’d been in every western state from Texas to Nebraska. Chorus (repeat after each stanza): He said he’d shorn a sheep or two and cut a bit of lumber, And waged war on the kangaroos at Tumba-bloody-rumba. We tried him as a shearer, we tried him as a stacker, We tried him digging rabbits out. He wasn’t worth a cracker. He had a shop in Singapore, he owned a pearling lugger, He was a champ at baccarat, Australian Rules and rugger. He never showed his aptitude at jobs he was allotted, But showed his skill upon the booze, and cigarettes he blotted. He said he’d climbed the Matterhorn, he’d been a union leader, And years ago in Adelaide he was a pigeon breeder. We tried him digging fencing posts, we tried to find his caper, Until that happy pay-day when he got his piece of paper. I wonder what he's up to now, perhaps back on the lumber, Or shooting kanga-bloody-roos at Tumba-bloody-rumba. Authorship in dispute, set to music by Warren Fahey. If you want the tune, there's a recording by Warren on Youtube. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - Doors open NOW!!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Jul 20 - 06:08 PM Sung by Chris Lamb today. Zoom Song By Ruairidh Greig Chorus Off we go it’s time for a Zoom, A poem, a song or even a tune. Off we go, it’s time for a Zoom, Meeting together but not in one room. Coronavirus has split us asunder But thanks to this program, it’s really a wonder We can all get together, though many miles apart And share our performances straight from the heart. Make sure you’ve selected “Original Sound” It’s quite beneficial, most people have found And try to sit with some light on your face Your grins and your grimaces might go to waste. Always remember be nice to your host If you forget, you will suffer the most And if you don’t mute when you know that you should You may well find you’ve been muted for good. Please don’t make your intro too long, It shouldn’t go on and on and on. There’s plenty of others still waiting to sing So don’t be a Zoom Hog, it isn’t the thing. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Richard Mellish Date: 28 Jul 20 - 11:52 AM After last week's singaround I forgot to post the words of the song that I had sung, and I've now remembered. I had folk-processed it a little, but here it is as sung by Adam McNaughtan, whose song it is. Old Annie Brown Oh Glasgow is ruthless: our town can be cruel tae its own And Glasgow's indifference left an old woman alone. Six months she lay dead, before her body was found. Fa' the Calton she came And her name It was Old Annie Brown. She had stayed in the East End o' Glasgow for all of her days. Looked after her folks when her brothers were wed and away. And Annie was fifty when she saw her mother laid down. There was never the chance o' a man For Old Annie Brown So she thought she would stay in the Calton that she knew sae well. But the city was changing, faster than Annie could tell. And the people who could moved out as the district came down. There were few neighbours there To care About Old Annie Brown Now she bought all her food in a big London Road superstore. And the manager said "We get old folk in here by the score. So how should I notice if one of them isn't around? But record my regret For the death Of Old Annie Brown". Dae you know the old woman that stays five or six doors away. What would you do if you didn't see her today? If you missed her all week would you, maybe, take a look round? Don't wait till you miss her Her name might be Old Annie Brown. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Rex Date: 28 Jul 20 - 12:49 PM Many thanks to Joe and the other hosts who set this up. Good to do something with my fellow 'Catters again. I sang the following popularly known as the Gol Darned Wheel. I present it here as written by James Barton Adams, The Cowboy and the Wheel in 1897. My version was truncated in deference to many more performers with songs to sing. The Cowboy and the Wheel - James Barton Adams From The Denver Evening Post: Thursday, April 29, 1897. I kin take the toughest broncho in the wild an' wooly West, An' kin back him an' kin ride him, let him do his level best; I kin handle any critter ever wore a coat o' hair, An' I've had a lively tussle with a 'tarnal grizzly bear. I kin rope an' throw a long-horn o' the wildest Texas brand, An' in Injun disagreements I kin play a leadin' hand; But at last I met my master, an' I shorely had to squeal, When the boys got me a-straddle of a Gol darned wheel. It was at the Eagle Rancho on the Brazos whar' I fust Run across the durn contrivance 'at upset me in the dust- Natrally up an' throwed me, stood me on my cussed head, "Trumped my ace in lightin' order," so old Ike, the foreman, said. 'Twas a tenderfoot 'at brought it; he was wheelin' all the way From the sunrise end o' freedom out to San Francisco Bay. An' he tied up at the rancho fur to git outside a meal, Never thinkin' we would monkey with his Gol darned wheel. Arizony Jim begun it, when he said to Jack McGill There was fellers fo'ced the limit braggin' o' their ridin' skill, An' he reckoned there's a puncher not a million miles away As imagined as a rider he was tolerable gay. Then he ventured the admission that same fellow as he meant Was a purty handy critter, fur as ridin' bronchos went, But he'd find he was a buckin' 'ginst a dif'rent sort o' deal Ef he'd throw his leather leggin's 'crost that Gol darned wheel. Sich a slur upon my talent made me hotter 'n a mink, An' I told him I could back it fur amusement or fur chink; That 'twas nothin' but a plaything fur the kids an' that he mout Have his idees sort o' shattered if he'd trot the critter out. Then they helt it till I mounted, an' I give the word to go, An' the shove they give to start me wa'n't unreasonably slow. But I never split a cuss-word, never made a bit o' squeal- I was buildin' repatation on that Gol darned wheel. The grade was mighty slopin' from the rancho to the creek, An' we went a galleyflutin', like a crazy lightnin streak, Went a whizzin' an' a dartin', fust to this side, then to that, The contrivance sort o' wobblin' like the flyin' of a bat. I kep' pullin' on the handles, but I couldn't check it up, Yanked an' sawed an' jerked an' hollered, but the durn thing wouldn't stop. An' a sort o' sneakin' idee through my brain begun to steal That the devil helt a mortgage on that Gol darned wheel. Holy Moses and the prophets, how we split the Texas air! The breezes made whip crackers o' my somewhat lengthy hair. An' I sort o' comprehended as, adown the hill we went, There was bound to be a smash-up 'at I couldn't circumvent. Them cow-punchers kep' a-yellin', "Stay right with her, Uncle Bill!" "Hit 'er with the spurs, you sucker!" "Turn her muzzle up the hill!" But I never made an answer; I jest let the cusses squeal- My attention was all focussed on that Gol darned wheel. I've a sort o' dim and hazy recollection o' the stop- O' the airth a spinnin' round me, an' the stars all tangled up, Then there come a intermission, which extended till I found I was lyin' at the rancho, with the boys all gethered 'round. An' a medico was sewin' on my skin whar' it was ripped, An' ol' Arizony whispered, "Wal, ol' boy, I guess yer whipped," An' I told him I war' busted from sombrero cl'ar to heel- Then he grinned an' said, "You'd orter 'see the Gol darned wheel." |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Richard Mellish Date: 18 Aug 20 - 08:18 AM In yesterday's singaround I sang a song that I call "The Young Promised Land", which I learnt from my recording of one of series of radio programmes narrated by Bert Lloyd under the title "Folk Songs of Australia". I have never met it anywhere else, but Google has just found me an index where the first line "I once was a station-hand, two quid a week" appears on page 943, with the title The Buckjumper. I think the tune has been used for several songs. It's perhaps best known as The Green Bushes. I've just listened to the recording and have a few small corrections that I may or may not make to how I've been singing it. I once was a station hand; two quid a week In the years that's gone by on the old Bogan Creek. I was asked by a squatter, and he says "Try your hand And break in that filly: she's a young promised land". He said "She's a wild 'un of four years or so." But he knew that of outlaws I'd ridden a few. Three days she was handled. I saddled and rode her. To grass me she tried but a failure I showed her. The antics she cut was a caution to me. I was bobbing about like a cork on the sea. She pitched and the rooted, she spun (arse?) about But in ten minutes' time, boys, she rolled her tongue out. It was pitch, root and buck like a bird on the wing. It was that sort of bucking that grassed poor Jack King. She hit the fence twice but gave never a stagger And she rooted as mad as if stabbed by a dagger. Then off came the saddle, for the girth strap was weak. And she left a hoof mark on the old saddle seat. Well she stood and she snorted: she seemed in her glee. The saddle was down and the filly was free. She ran round the stockyard, just three times or four Seeming to glory in the fray that was o'er. She came mincing up to me: I put out me hand And that was the last of the young promised land I caught the short rein that hung from her jaw And I jumped on her bare back: there was fireworks galore, Till her muscles they twitched to her heart's broken sound. She fell dead in her tracks, boys, and lay on the ground. Her jaw was all broke where her sharp hooves had struck. "Thank God." says the foreman, "That's a bit of good luck." |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 19 Aug 20 - 03:46 AM Richard, The Buckjumper is in Ron Edwards, Great Australian Folk Songs. Edwards writes, The Buckjumper is an unpublished song from the collection of English folklorist A. L. Lloyd. He sent this to me in 1972, and I gather that he collected it when he was in Australia in the late 1920s. Oddly enough I have on tape an account of an almost identical incident recounted to me by an ex-horsebreaker. It goes to the tune "Villikins and his Dinah." Richard's lyrics are almost identical to the lyrics in Edwards. The only significant differences are 2nd stanza, 1st line, Edwards has: Three days she was handled, then I saddled and rode her. 4th stanza, 5th line, Edwards has: She minced up to me "arse-about" is correct Promised Land is capitalized in Edwards; I wonder whether that was the name of some well-known racehorse. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 31 Aug 20 - 05:35 AM I'm hoping to sing Used To Be A River, written by Sydneysider Craig Edmondson. I haven't found lyrics nor video anywhere on the web, so I'll post them here. The song, as Craig sings it, is not suitable for unaccompanied singing, so I've rearranged it as a call-and-response song, with the responses in parentheses. Used to Be a River Craig Edmondson 1. This used to be a river (used to be a river) But now it is a sewer (now it is a sewer) But it used to be a river, And I wonder where the river got to go. Chorus: These changes, I have seen, I have seen To the people and the places Dear to me, dear to me. 2. This used to be a mountain (used to be a mountain) But now it is a golf course (now it is a golf course) But it used to be a mountain, And I wonder where the mountain got to go. Chorus 3. This used to be a forest (used to be a forest) But now it is a Kmart (now it is a Kmart) But it used to be a forest, And I wonder where the forest got to go. Chorus 4. You used to be my baby (used to be my baby) But now you are a stranger (now you are a stranger) But You used to be my baby, And I wonder where my baby got to go. Chorus (once or twice, as the spirit moves you) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!! From: GerryM Date: 18 Nov 20 - 11:22 PM I tried to make a list of all the songs/poems that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 16/17 November 2020. I came in half an hour into proceedings, but MoorleyMan has filled me in on what I missed (thanks!). And there were a few where I didn't get a name, just a topic. Here's what I have: Right Said Fred My Bag For Life Has Just Died (poem) Frankie's Trade I Don't Need You Les Filles des Forges (in French) Ranter's Wharf Bring Us Good Ale A Chat with Your Mother Le P'tit Bonheur Frankie and Johnny Rolling and Tumbling Viva La Quince Brigada Shocking Murders in Whitechapel Rupert the Ranger Everybody Knows Me in My Old Brown Hat Jamboree Jones Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Congo River I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free The Rains Have Come Again We'll Chant Away Until Dawn And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Thiepval [Shout Out Shop] Vegematic I Still Miss Someone Le Chinois Mary was an Only Child I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Such a Nice Girl, Too No Sun, No Moon Ballad of Dog Dually Cannily, Cannily Rock Me Baby Whaleroad Light of a Clear Blue Morning Do Me Ama Turn the Lathe Gently King of Rome The Willow Tree Sally Free and Easy Fanny Blair The Barley Mow Lie If I Want To Gray Goose Song for Vic (Borneo) The Half-Hitch Captain Kidd Eensie Weensie Spider More Hills to Climb (Parody of) Galway Bay My Own Dear Galway Bay The Shape of Things Gone Shopping Lincoln Park Pirates Beans Taste Fine [Song about masking] Shift and Spin Appliance Time Again Little Sadie Andy's Gone with Cattle Lady River The Last Adieu Irn Bru Not Spenser [Song based on The Bold/Beaux Gendarmes] To All the Cats I've Loved Before Pirate Jenny Witch Hazel |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 19 Nov 20 - 02:08 PM Noreen - I own up! It was myself who sang Song For Vic... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 25 Nov 20 - 09:05 PM Here's my list of songs that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 23/24 November 2020. I came in half an hour into proceedings, so I missed maybe half-a-dozen at the beginning. I didn't get a name for the song Jerry O'Neill sang, about singing folk songs to a very noisy, non-folkie audience. Also, Steve Belsey sang a shanty, all I got was the repeated phrase, "a dollar a day". Laura Martin sang two songs in Gaelic, I only got one of the titles, Fear a Bhata. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: Dido, Bendigo The Solo Sock I Haven't Told Her, She Hasn't Told Me When All Men Sing L'alouette et le pinson Lovers Heart A Dollar a Day [?] She's Someone's Grandmother River Driving Sailor's Grave Megan Murphy 254 Shades of Gray Song for Wind and Tree [Jerry O'Neill] The Key of R It Bruised Her Somewhat Thanksgiving Eve The Bergen Now I'm Easy Give Me a Man with a Nose Barbara Allen Zuleika Rose of San Antone The Barring of the Door Logs to Burn The Hawk and the Crow Thanksgiving Prayer Windmills Oor Hamlet Sammy's Bar Revisited Plains of Waterloo The Verdant Braes of Skreen Caledonia Fear a Bhata [and another Scots/Gaelic song] Here's Hoping Country Life Sweet is the Melody Midnight on the Water Gartan Mother's Lullaby For the Beauty of the Earth Ding Dang Dong Go the Wedding Bells Piano Leg [Broken Token-2] Hi Jolly the Camel Driver Uncle Dave's Grace Let's Go Where All the Crowd Goes The Rasta Masta Pretty Boy Floyd Courting in the Kitchen Dark-Eyed Daughter How Can I Keep From Purring Someday Soon (Retired version) Where Have All the Flowers Gone Crazy Amazing Grace (in Gaelic) Lay Down Beside Me Yorkshire Song She Didn't Dance, Dance, Dance Dying at Home Nancy Whiskey Ballad of Charlie David My Lady of Autumn |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 03 Dec 20 - 11:12 PM Here's my list of songs that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 30 November / 1 December 2020. I came in a little late, so I missed a few at the beginning. I'm not at all sure I got the right title (is fada liom uaim I) for a song Martin Ryan sang. Ed Silberman sang a short song which I took down as Drink Canada Dry, but I'm not at all sure that's right. David Allan Coe recorded a song by that name, but I think it was a longer song than what Ed sang. I'm not sure whether Tell Me I'm Wrong is the name of the song Mel Barrett sang about a party he didn't like, so I've included some alternate possibilities. I totally missed the title of Hazel Richings' (first) song. I didn't get titles for Laura Martin's short Gaelic and Bulgarian songs. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: Three Volcano Day Carol for Twelfth Day Senor Don Gato The Clouds are Gwine to Roll Away Duct Tape Bill Bones' Hornpipe The False Bride Song for the Mira A North Country Maid Bring Us In Good Ale For Ireland I'll Not Tell Her Name (in Irish Gaelic) (Ar éirinn Ní n-Eósainn) Strangely Moved Alabama John Cherokee Home on the Front Range The Ditchling Carol A Most Unpleasant Way, Sir Spare Hand Lament Cold Mountain Transformations [Promeny; Czech version of Two Magicians] Harvest Home Carefree the Bird (Rew di ranno, in Welsh) Shame and Scandal Old Woman who Lived in a Wood How Lovely are Thy Dwellings Fathom the Bowl Peaceful Harbor We Ain't Gonna Give It Back Far Side Banks of Jordan Past Carin' Bonnie Susie Cleland Arthur McBride Cold Coast of Ireland Land o' the Leal Quiet Land of Erin (Ardaí Cuain, in Irish Gaelic) [Song by Martin Ryan in Irish Gaelic] (is fada liom uaim I) (?) Give Me Your Hand [Thoir dhomh do lámh, in Scots Gaelic] Drink Canada Dry [?] Waltzing's for Dreamers Better Times Will Come The Rout of the Blues Tell Me I'm Wrong [Tell Me I Blew it Again? All that Talk About Lionel? It Wasn't My Kind of Party?] [Song by Hazel Richings] Blood, Blood, Glorious Blood [short song in Gaelic] [short song in Bulgarian] Time to Go Song of the Soul The Blizzard Kentucky in the Morning Wanderin' Appletree Wassail Rag Dance Song (La Guignolee) South Australia Lives in the Balance She was a Sweet Little Dicky Bird Blues Chase Up a Rabbit Thanksgiving Prayer Nevada Jane The Family of Woman and Man And the Band Played "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Home Among the Gumtrees Do Virgins Taste Better? Dark Island The Hielan Man Old Colony Times Dark Island (different lyrics) Give to Me Your Dark Eyes (in Serbo-Croatian) Fear a Bhata The Scotsman Safe Home Lay Down Beside Me The Farewell Shanty |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 04 Dec 20 - 06:31 PM Gerry - the first 2 songs sung were The Key Of R When All Men Sing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 09 Dec 20 - 04:27 AM Here's my list of songs that were performed, in order, at the Singaround on 7/8 December 2020. I came in a little late, so I missed a few at the beginning. I need help on two titles. I've written "Hamble Bums" for a song Steve Belsey sang, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Elizabeth Block sang a song I've written down as "Mary Had a Baby – Who Was the Father?" but I'm not at all sure that's right. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks all welcome. Here's what I have: Green Groweth the Holly Sussex Drinking Song Carol for the Twelfth Day Little Boxes on the Monitor Twas a Month Before Christmas Sailing Down My Golden River The Thermal Vest Token Local Yokel The Fisherman's Song Bluddle-Uddle-Um-Dum (aka The Dwarfs' Washing Song) Fairytale of New York (in Irish) Rockin' My Baby to Sleep Hamble Bums (??) Ballad of Harry Moore The Christmas Bells are Ringing Neocortex We Three Kings are Six Feet Apart A New Year Carol (aka Levy-Dew, aka Residue) The Manchester Chambermaid (aka The Christmas Goose, aka The Cornstalk) The Stranger Hot Buttered Rum Bare-legged Kate The Fatal Lozenge (Poem) The Wine Song Carolling and Crumpets Come My Lads Walk On Boy Crudités Moreton Bay Deep River Blues An Orkney New Year's Carol (aka Queen Mary's Men) I'm Movin' On No. 2 Greensleeves The Man that Slits the Turkey's Throat at Christmas Happiness (poem) Black Clothes Mary Had a Baby - Who Was the Father? (?) Come By the Hills King of Rome Mansfield Royal Visit Mathematics Where've You Been John Ball A'Soalin' Carol of the Birds The Bergen Ashokan Farewell (instrumental) Ballad of the Carpenter Merry Christmas from the Family Circle of Steel Fourteen Million People Sally Gee The World's Worst Magician (poem) God Rest Ye (parody) Snowbird The Galway Shawl God Rest Ye Unitarians Baby Born There's a Song in the Air So Here's to You |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: MoorleyMan Date: 09 Dec 20 - 07:39 AM I was #3, and this is how things started: Joe Offer - On A Monday Pelagie - Deja Vu (poem) Me - Homeless Wassail after that you missed Monique and Waddon Pete, then possibly only one or two more before you got in. I'm sure someone else will be able to fill in your gaps each week if you're late to the party. Cheers! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: GerryM Date: 20 Jan 21 - 05:52 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories/speeches that were sung/recited, in order, at the Singaround on 18/19 January 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined, and thanks to SPB for some corrections. I didn't get a name for Jane Nicholls story about the elephant, nor for Storm's song which I've recorded as "To Make this World a Place where All are Free". Jane Nicholls' contribution about a bus ride in wartime London was more a reminiscing than a story, I wouldn't expect it to have a title. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Let Freedom Ring (speech) We Shall Overcome (one verse) When The Tees Ran Warm Glad to Meet You, Glad to Greet You Bridie and the Pole Babylon is Fallen Lee Hays monologue from The State of Arkansas Cottage Cheese (story) We've Come a Long Way Ballade en Novembre (in French) The Ploughboy's Dream I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground The Chevalier's Lament If it Wasn't for the Song Dragging the River When I was a Lad (Allan Sherman) Blowin' in the Wind Ella's Song Battle Hymn of the Republic The Sushi Blues Capetown The Really Strangest Dream Common Sailors I'll Go Have the New Jab Barges Steal Away There'll Come a Day Your Daughters and Your Sons Farewell to the Gold If I Were Free Early Snow Rolling Home to Old New England A Cowboy Lives The Boy and the Elephant (?) (story) The Bergen We Shall Not Give Up the Fight Stone by Stone Tatties and Herrin' A Man's a Man for a' That Flowers of Bermuda Angel from Montgomery Can the Circle be Unbroken Old Songs Home To Make this World a Place where All are Free (?) Sandwood Down to Kyle Punch and Judy Man Health to the Company Lift Every Voice and Sing Caledonia (Dougie MacLean) Ae Fond Kiss Snowy Breasted Pearl (in Irish and English) Rosa Parks Pedlar of Lidice (story) The Quaker's Cow (story) The Times They are a'Changin' I Still Breathe A Couple of Drunken Swells Thirsty Boots Ye Banks and Braes The Battler's Ballad Ballad of Maxton Field The Valiant Soldiers, aka Marching Song of the First Arkansas Colored Regiment Across the Great Divide Don't Call Me Early in the Morning Big Iron (story about a double-decker bus in wartime London) Gonna Take Us All Idlers and Skivers Java Jive Let the Good Guys Win Sailor's Lullaby Three Drunken Maidens We Shall Overcome How Can I Keep From Singing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 21 Jan 21 - 07:21 AM For the last 34 years it has just had working title Swells Parody. I suppose now is as good as any time to give it a proper title: A Couple of Drunken Swells |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Now!! From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 21 Jan 21 - 07:25 AM I am pretty certain that Clement's version in Manavilins which I've arranges is called Common Sailors. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 26 Jan 21 - 04:34 AM Here are the lyrics for he song HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY which I sang on 25 January zoom session. The tune is ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI. I’m not sure if this is the right place but I see you have one or two song lyrics in this thread. (Should we do a separate thread for new zoom songs? (Or maybe there is already and I didn’t find it!)) HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife we Gryffindors undergo, We don't give a damn when the term is done how many facts we know. But there is one girl, that we know for sure, will still at her studying be, We’ll drink butter beer and give a cheer to the girl Hermione. Yes her name’s Hermione, it is, Her name’s Hermione, We will win house cup, when the year is up Thanks to our Hermione Once more we fail at the Potions class, wicked recipes Snape has made, But Hermione read, and with level head, she has brewed the winning grade, While Crabb and Goyle set their hair on fire, and Malfoy makes a scowl, When Hermione reads every word she needs, She’ll be outstanding in every owl. A Ravenclaw some said she’d be, but they couldn’t be more wrong, Though her mind is sharp, she’s a lion’s heart, and her will is mighty strong, She is sometimes gruff, like a Hufflepuff, but there’s a sparkle in her eye, Though her bloods not pure, she will endure and triumph by and by. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Mrrzy Date: 26 Jan 21 - 01:32 PM Hey, can anybody tell me what keys I sing in? Longer question in the Xylo thread. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:03 PM Well, Mrr, your range is alto to high tenor, but I don't know from keys. You sing good. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 27 Jan 21 - 10:05 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 25/26 January 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined, and thanks to others who supplied me with titles. I made up a name for Jane Nicholls' story about the box in the attic, and for Charlotte Oliver's reply to Lady Franklin's Lament. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Bells of Norwich (Julian of Norwich - Sydney Carter) Now Westlin Winds Hermione (to the tune of Rolling Down to Old Maui) Backblock Shearer Parachutiste (in French) Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa' Ode to a Vegetarian Haggis (poem) Jumbo Stevens Johnny Lad Ye Banks and Braes (aka Banks O' Doon) If It Wasnae for Your Wellies Seven Faded Letters I Ain't Got No Home Slave's Lament Let's Have a Ride on your Bicycle To Daunton Me Loch Lomond Mill Mill O Night Visiting Song Bogie's Bonnie Belle Are You A Grotty Yachty Gay Spanish Maid Dumbarton's Drums Neocortex Pack Up Your Sorrows The Times They Are a-Changin' Mingulay Boat song Chemical Worker's Song Wife to a Cocky Farmer Reply to Lady Franklin's Lament (?) Andrew and His Cutty Gun On Susan's Floor Ae Fond Kiss Lowlands Heart's Home Henry Martin Flower in the Wildwood Rosario Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation (aka Parcel of Rogues, aka Rogues in a Nation) Ca' the Ewes Imagine a Girl (poem) Leave Us, Donald, Leave Us We Shall Be Renewed King of Rome A Man's a Man for A' That (aka Is There For Honest Poverty?) West Virginia Boys How Will I Ever Be Simple Again? Time is a Tempest The Bonny Earl of Moray Charlie on the MTA My Love is Like a Dewdrop Nepudem Domu (We Won't Go Home, in Czech) Till the Dance is Mine Far Side Banks of Jordan Dumbarton's Drums Whiskey in the Jar (aka Gilgarra Mountain, aka Kilgary Mountain) Sam's Gone Away Since Then The Bonniest Lass In China or a Woman's Heart In the Morning (poem) The Polished Box in the Attic (story) Scarborough Settler's Lament Jamie Foyers O Whistle and I'll Come to Ye, My Lad Braw Lads o' Gala Water Health to the Company How Can I Keep From Singing |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 28 Jan 21 - 05:04 AM There's 12 keys to choose from, 24 if you count minor, 84 if you go modal, and with microtonal it stretches to infinity. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST,Gallus Moll Date: 29 Jan 21 - 04:42 PM Wow! Lots of Scottish songs!! Sorry I missed it, been immersed in Celtic Connections, only a few more days to go.... Still not sure if I have overcome my microphone problem,shall find out on Sunday at Glasgow Ballad Workshop session (fingers crossed) - hope to join you a week on Monday!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 31 Jan 21 - 01:59 PM Ha ha; I’ve now found the thread for posting new Mudcat zoom songs Here are the lyrics for he song HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY which I sang on 25 January zoom session. The tune is ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI. (Copied from the Mudcat worldwide sing around on zoom Monday’s — or something like that!) HERMIONE by DANIEL KELLY It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife we Gryffindors undergo, We don't give a damn when the term is done how many facts we know. But there is one girl, that we know for sure, will still at her studying be, We’ll drink butter beer and give a cheer to the girl Hermione. Yes her name’s Hermione, it is, Her name’s Hermione, We will win house cup, when the year is up Thanks to our Hermione Once more we fail at the Potions class, wicked recipes Snape has made, But Hermione read, and with level head, she has brewed the winning grade, While Crabb and Goyle set their hair on fire, and Malfoy makes a scowl, When Hermione reads every word she needs, She’ll be outstanding in every owl. A Ravenclaw some said she’d be, but they couldn’t be more wrong, Though her mind is sharp, she’s a lion’s heart, and her will is mighty strong, She is sometimes gruff, like a Hufflepuff, but there’s a sparkle in her eye, Though her bloods not pure, she will endure and triumph by and by. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 05 Feb 21 - 09:40 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 1/2 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. I didn't get a title for Fred Maslan's song, "Sailing to Victoria" is a guess. I'm guessing "Always Belay" and "In Praise of Men" as the names for Jane Nicholls' stories. "I May Not Have Long" is a guess for Storm's song. Digital Tradition has six versions of Hieland Laddie, and Tony said the one Joe put in the chat wasn't what he (Tony) was singing. I didn't catch a title for Sadie's poem for The Birthday of Francis J. Child. "Liza Jane" comes in many flavors with varying titles. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Deportee Cosmo Revisited (poem) Stone By Stone Sail, O Believer The Death of Romeo and Juliet What Will We Do Groundhog Candlelight Fisherman Candymaker Will Ye Go To the Indies, My Mary Three Score and Ten The Housewive's Shanty Ranter's Wharf Spencer the Rover Sailing to Victoria (?) (Princess Marguerite) Go to Sea Once More Mise Raifteirí an file / The End of the Winter (in Irish and English) Walkin' After Midnight Bird on a Wing I Thrive When I'm Drunk Ain't No More Cane on the Brazis The Bunch of Rushes Song for the Mira When the Boys are On Parade Always Belay (story) Billy Gray The Burning of Auchindoun Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring Rolling Down the Ryburn Wynken, Blinken, and Nod Avalon is Risen Tecumseh Valley Flower of Sweet Strabane A Dollar a Day English Country Folk Club Beeswing Lessons of Time Nevada Jane When the Green Man Walks the Forest You Tell Me Newborough Beach (poem) Wildwood Flower It's All Just Talk Spring Will Come Je Suis Trop Jeunette Crafty Maid's Policy The Lodger I May Not Have Long Let Union Be Hieland Laddie (??) Reg, the Lonely Glow Worm Trouble in the Fields McCassery The Galway Shawl Mingulay Boat Song Second Front Song 9 to 5 Pollution Blues (Poem for) The Birthday of Francis J. Child Bob the Kelpie (Goodbye) (Little) Liza Jane A Tree Song (aka Oak, Ash and Thorn) See Here, She Said Kishmul's Galley Burma Shave I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Cornflower Blue Somebody's Grandmother Windmills John Of Dreams The Human Cannonball (poem) The Field Behind the Plow If You Had a Brain You Would be Dangerous Henry the Accountant Eyes of a Painter Polwarth on the Green Left Hand Lost In Praise of Men (story) Along the Road of Time |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST,Felipa Date: 06 Feb 21 - 07:31 AM re the song list for 1 Feb = should "McCasserly" be "McCafferty"? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 06 Feb 21 - 07:33 AM Yep, A Dollar A Day. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 06 Feb 21 - 06:59 PM SPB, thanks! I will edit the list. Felipa, I was wondering the same thing, but Prof Google tells me that it's done both ways, and Jim Lucas definitely sang it as McCassery.
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!!! From: The Sandman Date: 08 Feb 21 - 01:53 PM i am not saying i am right, but i have only ever heard it as mcCafferty in over 50 years on the uk folk scene, mcCafferty seems to be definteley the most popular name |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 09 Feb 21 - 04:43 AM First heard from Hazel Richings, she with the silky smooth to die for voice. I sang this beautiful song 08/02/21. Yorkshire Song by Anna Shanon When heather's bloom has faded long….. and turned to brown When pheasant chides his bright alarm When rolling mist the valley shrouds…. in silent arms Once more I know this place to be my home I heard the curlew cry today…. on windswept heath A plaintive call on rising wing And as I watched from ragged lines….. of weathered trees My heart stirred from her place to go with him There's not one thing I would not give…. to be as he To circle here in joyous flight And on these moors my life to live…. to simply be My spirit to go on in hill and scree I wish that I could write a song….. that had no words Of beauteous things and journeys run For many is the time I've tried….. and tales begun But with beauty such as this the words won't come When heather's bloom has faded long….. and turned to brown When pheasant chides his bright alarm When rolling mist the valley shrouds….. in silent arms Once more I know this place to be my home |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Feb 21 - 04:47 AM Barrie, I'll certainly agree with that description of the "silky smooth to die for voice." It's such a pleasure to hear Hazel sing. But hey, the rest of us sing pretty good, too. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 09 Feb 21 - 07:59 AM I just checked my records after last night's magnificent singaround, and i find that i sang Anna Shannon's Yorkshire Song there myself on the very first edition of the Singaround, 8th June last year! It's truly one of those songs that haunts you for ever. But hey, doesn't time fly?!!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 09 Feb 21 - 08:16 AM would it not be handier to have this thread be for lists of which songs are sung each week (presently given in an exceeding long discussion of everything and anything to do with the Mon night song session), with links to the lyrics in their own threads? If the lyrics are not already on Mudcat, they deserve their own threads. A group of songs with related themes would suit being together in a thread, but here we are going to have songs which have little in common apart from having been sung at the same singing circle. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Feb 21 - 02:39 PM Oh, no doubt that will happen in time, Felipa. In fact, it's happening now to a great extent. But it takes time. I'm trying to keep the main announcement thread clear for announcing coming singarounds. It's fine to post other things there, but eventually they will be moved to more permanent homes. It's a very easy thing for me to move a message to another thread. For the most part, I have been starting or refreshing threads during the Singaround for songs that aren't common or that we don't have full information for, and then researching and discussing the songs over the coming week. Gerry Myerson and others started building lists of songs sung at the singarounds, so we started this thread for those lists and as a temporary resting place for lyrics. Monique is managing a thread for songs from the Singaround that are not in English. We've been trying our best to document sources for lyrics and to ensure we have correct and proofread lyrics in the "origins" and "DTStudy" threads. But until lyrics have been checked, it's nice to keep them elsewhere until they're ready for "origins" threads. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:24 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/shared, in order, at the Singaround on 8/9 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. As usual, I made up names for Jane Nicholls' stories, "The Flood and the Family" and "Two Lads and a Foal". "God Bless the Birds" seemed like a good title for Elizabeth Block's takeoff on "God Bless the Grass". "Are You Out There" is a guess for a song Hazel Richings sang. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Mr Rabbit, Mr Rabbit The Green Man The Nightingale Lawd, How Come Me Heah La Chanson des Vieux Amants The Jabberwonky (poem) Ancient Mariner.com (poem) Don't Fence Me In Yorkshire Song Pretty Polly Bells of Rhymney The Wild Raparee Roger's Courtship Follow the Heron Carrigdhoun Just as the Tide is/was Flowing The Rare Ould Times Innisvaddie Annie The Boys of Mullachbawn The Flowers in the Valley Tarzan of the Apes (aka Everyone Calls Me Tarzan) Be a Man, Joe The Sailor's Grave Lynn's Dream The Cat Came Back Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (funeral song from Cymbeline, set to Norwegian folk ballad Heiemo og Njkkenn) Millie's Waltz Aura Lee [with bonus Allan Sherman parody] Johnny Give Me The Pitmen Poets Seven Drunken Nights Folk Song Army Homeless Beaver The Prisoner Song (aka I Wish I Had Someone, aka I Wish I Had Someone to Love Me, aka Someone to Love Me) Springhill Mining Disaster The Flood and the Family (story) The Overflowing Catbox Blues The Bonny Broom The Barnyards of Delgaty The Hippopotamus Down the Mountainside Donal Og The Seven Wonders Painting Box Fair Weather Friends I Think of You Cape Farewell Ye Banks and Braes If You had a Brain You'd Be Dangerous Political Noncooperator (poem) Union-Busting Time in Massachusetts Bold Doherty The Queen of Tarts (poem) Maybe Someday Sally, Free and Easy The Rich Man's House Everything's Fine Right Now Sammy's Bar Shepherd O Shepherd Harwich Ladies (TTTO Spanish Ladies, aka Brisbane Ladies, aka Augathella Station, aka The Drover, ....) Slunécko (in Czech; title means "Sun") Crackdown Addict I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Just Coorie In An Empty Table Lorena Poor Boy Go Tell Aunt Rhody The Land of Bright Gold Santiana Two Lads and a Foal (story) The Olive Tree God Bless the Birds (TTTO God Bless the Grass) Little Piece of Wang John Henry Buy Broom Besoms Blind Mary (instrumental) Magic Penny Eight More Miles to Louisville Are You Out There (??) Miners Lullaby Po' Lazarus Strike the Bell 500 Miles Henry the Accountant The Final Trawl |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 12 Feb 21 - 05:25 AM The title in Czech is Slunécko, which is a diminuitive of slunce which translates as Sun. Wasn't too happy with the performance though, I think neres or tiredness got the better of me, and maybe I should do new material firth time round. The other title - according to the Sheet Music is 'Everyone Calls Me Tarzan'. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 12 Feb 21 - 06:54 AM Thanks, SPB. I've added the Czech. I went back and forth between "Everyone Calls Me Tarzan" and "Tarzan of the Apes" as I saw each given as the title by various sources, so I've edited to show both as alternatives. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GUEST Date: 16 Feb 21 - 05:46 AM Last Night we played Can y Bugail by Geraint Jarman & Meic Stephens (There should be a To Bach/Circumflex over the 'A' in 'Can', but I can't work out the HTML!). I promised the lyrics for this morning, but I need to delve a bit deeper, so please bear with me. I have an English translation, but I will wait until I have the Welsh as well before posting. Thanks for a great evening(UK), we will be back. Splott Man and Dame Pattie Smith EPNS. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Feb 21 - 06:37 PM Splott Man, it's great to post lyrics you sang to this thread, and thank you very much for that. Be aware, though, that I will eventually move such posts to other places, like Monique's "songs not in English" thread. If you posted something and can't find it, clicking on your name in any post should bring it up. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 17 Feb 21 - 03:55 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/tunes that were sung/recited/played, in order, at the Singaround on 15/16 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. I couldn't find any trace of a song called "Dark-haired Mary" – was that maybe a tune, not a song? I couldn't find any song called "Don't Believe in a Woman", or any version of Pretty Saro associated with Aunt Molly Jackson, or any song set on Clinch River and connected to Pretty Saro or to Aunt Molly Jackson. Corrections, additions, and random wisecracks always welcome. Here you go: Follow That Road Something in the Way She Moves Dark-haired Mary La Calha (The Quail) (in Occitan) Spinning wheel song If Love Doesn't Bother You It Doesn't Bother Me (tune) Anathea The Quiet Land of Erin (Ard Ti Cuain, chorus in Irish) River (with instrumental bridge Planxty Irwin) Plains of Kildare (aka Skewball, aka Stewball and Griselda, ....) When Black Hands Saved Me From the Blue Alabama John Cherokee Get On a Wagon Rolling West Cân y Bugail gan (Song of the Shepherd, in Welsh) Machynlleth (tune) Blarney Roses The Prince of Denmark's March (tune) Week Before Easter Catfish John Vicky's Secret Lochmaben Harper (aka The Blind Harper) Coulters Candy Mingulay Boat Song The Factory Girl Web of Birdsong Lincoln and Liberty Caledonia From Little Things Big Things Grow Tanglewood Tree The Lost Highway Thyme it is a Precious Thing Time is a Tempest My Country 'Tis of Thee Across the Great Divide A Place Called England Benjamin Bowmaneer How Can I Miss You Stern Old Bachelor Binsey Poplars (poem) Red River Valley Ranter Parson Seventeen in Aberdeen The Hippopotamus Song Gartan Mother's Lullaby The Spider Follow the Heron Lassie Lie Near Me Whitby Fisherman The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe Cold Blow and the Rainy Night Big Muddy The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow Sonora's Death Row Mrs. McGrath Shanty Town 254 Shades of Gray How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door City of New Orleans Forever and a Day Rachel Caledonia Dimming of the Day Queen of Waters Back to Broome West Texas Waltz Beautiful Noise Vive l'Amour If I Were Free Cape Breton Lullaby Blowin' in the Wind Don't Believe in a Woman Ill Wind Twa Corbies Lies Crossing the Bar Hallelujah (Wheatley) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 21 - 01:55 AM Here's my list of songs/poems/letters/stories that were sung/recited/read/told, in order, at the Singaround on 22/23 February 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. Here you go: John Ball Song for Mira Roll the woodpile down Dyslexia or The Y Files (poem) Down by the River Sallia (aka Weela Wallia) Gottingen (in French) When Did You Leave Heaven? The Three Ravens Adio Querida (or Adio Kerida) (in Ladino) Now that the Buffalo's Gone I Likes a Drop of Good Beer Song of the Fugitive The Bantry Girl's Lament Scarborough Settler's Lament Surely What Does the Lord Require of You? Down the Dials Baltimore Fire Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea I Do Adore Her George Washington's letter to the Hebrew congregation of Newport (reading) Brockagh Braes Pistol-Packin' Mama William Stone Dan O'Hara Blackwaterside Cossack Lullaby (in Russian) Skibbereen My My Mama Second Class Wait Here I'm Gonna Be an Engineer Your Little Hand Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now?) Love is Kind Spirit Song The Fur Rendezvous Song Queen Elinor's Confession The Flower of Magherally, O Susquehanna The L and N Don't Stop Here Any More Snowin' on Raton Laurel Hill Deep River Blues I'm an Old Cowhand Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Queen Elizabeth and the Three Knights (joke) Bold Riley-O Voják ("Soldier", in Czech) Geritol Gypsy The White Shepherd Come Back, Liza Blues Chase Up a Rabbit Price Tag All the Fine Young Men The Green Man Bournemouth The Old Carmarthen Oak Ten Hours a Day Scarborough Fair Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (in French) If I Needed You Lay Down Beside Me White Collar Holler Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 24 Feb 21 - 12:46 PM The Czech song was called Voják which translates as Soldier. I wouldn't call it a lullaby - the first verse translates to The translation of the three verses: (1) When I didn't die in the war, I also will not die back home. (2) When I didn't die on the French meadows, I will not die by my sweetheart. (3) When I didn't die alongside the Austrians, I will not die with my lords. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays From: GerryM Date: 24 Feb 21 - 04:56 PM Thanks, SPB. I'll edit my post. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Mar 21 - 07:58 PM Here's my list of songs/poems/stories that were sung/recited/told, in order, at the Singaround on 1/2 March 2021. Thanks as ever to Moorley Man for filling me in on the ones that came before I joined. Some uncertainties: I couldn't find any song called "Death and the Doctor" – is that title right? All I could find for Ring of the Nibelungen was a cycle of four operas, and I doubt that's what Joe sang. "I Wish I Had a Charm" is my guess at a title for Storm's poem, and "Where God Leads Me I Will Go" is my guess at a title for his song. Here you go: Death and the Doctor Doonaree Ring of the Nibelungen Finest You Ever Saw (aka The Finest of Them All) Treigladau (Mutations) (poem) Frobisher Bay La Más Bella Niña (in Spanish) Isn't It Grand Boys When I Can't Play Barnagh Hill Scarborough Fair Cuckoo's a Bonny Bird Bangum and the Boar Blann's Beer Red Iron Ore Miner's Lifeguard The Revel Still Scared of You Strike the Bell Second Mate Bugeilio’r Gwenyth Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat, English and Welsh) I Am a Little Collier (macaronic, English and Welsh) How Snow Got Its Color (story) The Rare Ould Times The Jack-Ass Song Ten Hours a Day Row On Murrumbidgee Water Ballad of Springhill (aka Springhill Mining Disaster) Adieu to Dear Cambria Die Gedanken Sind Frei (in German) Queen Amang the Heather Let Now the Harp Sheep Stealer The Coster's Serenade Geritol Gypsy Teannaibh Dlùth is Togaibh Fonn (in Scottish Gaelic) Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Sow Took the Measles Last Boat In I Wish I Had a Charm (poem) Where God Leads Me I Will Go Bheir Mi O The Yorkshire Couple Painting Box When Forsythia's in Bloom Witch Hazel Chinese White Air Earth (poem) The Midas Touch (poem) The Plover Catcher Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (in Yiddish and English) Young Companions (aka Bad Company, Bad Companions, I was Born in Pennsylvania, ....) Story of Taliesin (story) Avondale The Lifeboat Mona Lady Margaret It's Up to Us Drover's Dream Obedience (poem) Rose of Allendale Frog in the Well The Ash Grove (in Welsh) Maleny Washing Line When the Coal Comes from the Rhondda The Drunkard's Looking Glass Lay Down Beside Me The Poor Orphan Child The Eggplant that Ate Chicago Times are Getting Hard Boys Hob-i-derry-dando Three Ravens Process Man (aka The Chemical Worker's Song) Gentle Arms of Eden A Handful of Songs |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:08 AM The Eggplant that ate Chicago?! |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Mar 21 - 04:39 PM Felipa, yes, a novelty song from the 60s. Here it is on YouTube. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Mar 21 - 10:21 PM I came to the singaround of 8/9 March 2021 late and left early, so I owe even greater thanks to others than usual. Moorley Man & Mrrzy, independently, supplied me with the performances from before my joining, and Joe sent me the chat transcript so I could reconstruct what happened after I left. Here's the list of songs, poems, and tunes – corrections eagerly solicited. In the Jailhouse Now The Dutch in the Medway Captain Wedderburn's Courtship Jolly Wagoner Les Djinnes (poem) Planxty Irwin (tune) Jamie Allen (tune) Mon Amie la Rose (in French) Willie 'ole Lad The Yellow Bittern Making Babies by Steam Keemo Kimo (aka Sing Song Kitty) The Duke's Late Glorious Success Over the Dutch Cab, Cab, Cab Sylvie A Dialogue Between a Believer and his Soul King Henry The Reaper's Revenge Rosie the Riveter Hard Times of Old England Lovely Nancy Burning Gold Boomer Johnson We Don't Need the Men The Quilting Party (aka Seeing Nellie Home) Go Tell Aunt Rhody This World Goes 'round and 'round The Lasses O' Bonnie Dundee Female Drummer Drover's Boy Darling Nellie Gray March of the Women Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms We Were There The Tryphina's Extra Hand The Curragh of Kildare (aka The Irish Lovers) Sandgate Dandling Song The Winter with His Grisly Storms Liverpool Lullaby Short Jacket and White Trousers Whup Jamboree Blackleg Miner Maid on the Shore The Last Battle People Say Strange Things Mothers Teach Your Sons Memories of Maxine (poem?) Time to Thank the Women Killing the Blues Housewife's Lament MacCrimmon's Lament All the Way Home Rosa's Lovely Daughters Harriet Tubman Bread and Roses Wall Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Welcome Idris Strike Song Streets of Five-i-o Poverty Knock Little Red Hen (Poem) John Golden and the Lawrence Strike Maid of Fyvie Northwest Passage February March Oh, Didn't He Ramble Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out Rebecca Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Mar 21 - 05:26 AM Thanks to Mrrzy for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half, and to Joe for the chat transcript, also to Moorley Man. Here are the songs/poems/stories/tunes from the 15/16 March 2021 singaround: Rivers of Babylon Anchor God If I Were a Duck Us Goldfish (poem) Shantyman Essequibo River (in Creolese) Can Vei la Lauzeta (in Occitán) The Private Still (aka The Gauger) In My Backyard The Flying Cloud Medley: The Fountain in the Park, Sipping Cider Through a Straw, and several others I Had An Old Coat Henry My Son (aka Green and Yellow) Our Lady of the Hospital Mountains of Mourne When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Oranges and Lemons The Dear Little Shamrock Yarns of the People (poem) Sea Change The Roving Journeyman Who Knows Where the Time Goes? A Miners Life (aka Miners Lifeguard) Moving Day My Own Dear Native Land For Just One Dime (take-off on Northwest Passage) Haul Away Snow The Kerry Dance Motherland Mull of Kintyre Where Did You Get that Hat? If You're Irish Come into the Parlor Windsong The Whitby Lad (aka Botany Bay, The Boston Burglar) Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Rockin' Robin (to the tune of All I Have to Do is Dream) San Antonio Rose The Orange and the Green The Gallant Hussar The Carter (aka Fairie Pie) I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground Lobster Salad (aka Paddy's Dream, Kelley's Dream) Story about Newfoundlanders abroad The Garden Where the Praties Grow Story in Your Eyes Raglan Road The Galway Shawl Bold Fenian Men (aka Down By the Glenside) Cameronian Cat Song for Mary Ann The Joy of Living Like the Way I Do Welcoming Paddy Home (aka Welcome Poor Paddy Home) Boolavogue (tune) The Praties They Grow Small (aka The Famine Song) An Old-Fashioned Wedding You Are Still My Boy On Yonder Hill there Sits a Hare My Own Dear Galway Bay I Wish I Were a Maid Again, or The Blackbird, or The Butcher Boy, or Died For Love Let it be a Dance Mary Ann, or The Roving Gardener Click Go the Shears Have Some Madeira, M'Dear Holla Hi Holla Ho! Old Man in His Garden Red is the Rose The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede Long Long Time The Foggy Dew (aka Down the Glen) The Youth of the Heart Penguins Do You Love an Apple Gilgarry Mountain (aka Whiskey in the Jar) Somebody Threw a Tomato at Him Hymn Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Mar 21 - 07:05 AM Thanks to Moorley Man for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half. Here are the songs/poems/riddles/tunes from the 22/23 March 2021 singaround: Ghost Riders In The Sky The Volunteer Organist Inconsonants (poem) Devinhola (in Occitan; title means "riddle") Knock a Man Down The Soldier Castle Garden On The Banks Of Allan Water 2 Original Tunes in Memory of Izzy Young Away To The Mountain's Brow 9-5 Pollution Blues It's Good To See You Lonely Person Banks Of The Sweet Primroses Bridge Guard In The Karroo New Garden Fields Willie o' Winsbury Any Dirty Work Today? Stolen Child Mary Hamilton (aka The Four Maries) Croppy Boy 'Illean Bithibh Sunndach (in Gaelic) Brennan on the Moor Library-O Ken Supiense (Ladino for Who Knows One, which is English for Echad Mi Yodea, which is Hebrew) The Devil's Courtship Yellow on the Broom Spring Song Mussels in the Corner Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Going to the West The Patriot Game New Harmony Michael, Row the Boat Ashore Over the Hills and Far Away Ballad of the Carpenter The Foggy Dew (bachelor) The Foggy Dew (bachelor, short) The Moon Going Home Moving Father's Grave The Woodbridge Dog Disaster Summer Sunlight Gartan Mother's Lullaby Swing Me Maple Sweet Our Favourite Things (parody of My Favorite Things) How Will I Ever Be Simple Again Down the Long Road Rural Lad (poem) Maple Syrup Time Sweet Rose of Allandale (aka Sweet Rose of Allendale) Je Suis Trop Jeunette (in French) The Galway Shawl A Whaler's Tale My Own Dear Galway Bay Another Train First Lullaby (partly in French) De Colores (in Spanish) The Answer's Ireland San Francisco Bay Blues John Cherokee Isle au Haut Lullaby Devil Versus the Widow (aka The Widow and the Devil, aka The Widow's Promise) Desperate Dan Angels Come and Gather Logie O'Buchan Never on Sunday The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring Zog, Maran ("Tell Me, Marrano" in Yiddish) The Song Goes On |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:11 PM Thanks again to Moorley Man for covering for me for the first hour-and-a-half, and thanks to Joe Offer. Here are the songs and poems from the 29/30 March 2021 singaround: Circle of Song If Music Were My Life The Lost Elephants of Denbigh (poem) Pull Down Below Lo Soldat Desconegut (The Unknown Soldier, in Occitan) Rhubbub Guitare et Tambourin (in French) Paddy on the Railway The Road to Dunmoor To Cheer Him Up and Help Him on His Way I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) The Wheels of the World Stewball & Griselda The Meeting of the Waters The Earl Of March's Daughter Across the Blue Mountains To An Anchor God (aka Second Mariner's Song) Sheepstealer The Male Female Highwayman Donald Where's Yer troosers? The Flower Carol Theme from The Secret of Roan Innish (Mist Covered Mountains) The Gallant Shopper Mrs Murphy Mollymauk I Think of You The Pace Egging Song Look Down On Me Tennessee Goodnight-Loving Trail How Can I Keep From Purring Ode to the Little Brown Shack The Ever-Given (to the tune of The Titanic) Stand Up for Judas The Covid Blues (to the tune of If I Only Had a Brain) Norland Wind (aka The Wild Geese) Pretty Saro The Latke (to the tune of The Coo Coo) Sally Free and Easy You Singers All The Curragh of Kildare Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (in French) Nogies Creek On One April Morning Amourette (formerly known as Exercise 77) Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Vecherniy Zvon (Evening Bells, in Russian) I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am My Sweet Wyoming Home The Maid From Bunclody (aka Bunclody, aka The Streams of Bunclody; also spelled Buncloudy, Bunclaudy) Watching the Trains Come In Pointing to the Moon Chocolate Rabbit We've Got To Sail Away Blues Chase Up a Rabbit (aka Blues Jumped the Rabbit, Rabbit Foot Blues, Rabbit Blues, Jackrabbit Blues, and Cool Colorado) Go Down Moses (aka When Israel was in Egypt's Land, aka Let My People Go) Gentle Annie The Bonny Ship The Diamond Whiskey on a Sunday (aka Come Day, Go Day) When They Buy Up All the Air Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow? Man Come Into Egypt Starlight Upon the Sea Thanksgiving Eve The Flower of Magherally The Slave's Lament Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill Bonny Banks o' Fordie (aka Babylon) You Are Beautiful Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Plant a Radish Dayenu |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:19 PM Latkes was sung to the tune of "The cuckoo" rather than the "coo coo". The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies. And she never hollers "cuckoo" [coo coo?] till the fourth day of July." I learned the song before I moved to a place where I heard many cuckoos, and they holler in May. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Apr 21 - 10:16 PM Felipa, it's a folk song, recorded by many artists, using many different titles and spellings and lyrics. I learned the song from David Holt's album, Reel And Rock, and his spelling was The Coo Coo. Clarence Ashley called it Coo Coo Bird. It was called "The Coo Coo Bird" on Doc Watson, The Vanguard Years. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:12 AM Songs & poems from the 5/6 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround. Thanks to Moorley Man, Pelagie, and Joe Offer for help with the items that preceded my joining the proceedings. Comments and corrections always welcome. Sweet Betsy From Pike Out On The Ocean The Shipping Forecast (poem by Les Barker) Staying Out All Night Nous Quittons Les Paques (in French) The Tourist's Complaint Evening Prayer from "Hansel & Gretel" Avondale Wullie's Drowned In Yarrow The Hobnail Boots That Father Wore Annan Water Click Go Your Joints (by Emma Elliott) (Wrap Me Up in My) Tarpaulin Jacket One Time and One Time Only (by Tom Paxton) The Silly Hug Song Fairy Faire Blues When Spring Comes In My Happiness Life Passes By She Was Just Going Home (to the tune of "The Grey Funnel Line") Log Driver’s Waltz I Knew You Were the One Hody hody doprovody (A Czech Easter presentation) Home on the Range Curragh of Kildare We are the Music Makers Cosher Bailey’s Engine South Wind Foggy Dew (Irish version) The Eagle and the Dove Otago Sweet Michael Molly and Tenbrooks The Mormond Braes The Banks of Sweet Mossen A Song for Our Time Bheir Mi O (in English, chorus in Irish) Moreton Bay Die Gedanken Sind Frei (in English and German) Coming Home Song Towels Turkey Reveille (aka Turkish Revelry, aka The Sweet Trinity, aka The Golden Vanity, aka The Golden Willow Tree, aka The Weeping Willow Tree, aka Sinking in the Lonesome Sea, aka The Gallant Argosy, aka The Old Virginia Lowlands, aka Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)) Aragon Mill Red is the Rose Wayfaring Stranger The Iron Moulder's Wedding Summertime I'm Shy Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Ainster Harbor Easter Lilies Geordie Crawdad Down By the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men) Truth Cannot Be Silenced (to the tune of Die Gedanken Sind Frei) North Sea Holes Wonders Still the World Shall Witness Lord of the Dance Custard Creams (to the tune of John o' Dreams = Tchaikovsky's Pathetique) Isle Au Haut Lullaby (Hay Ledge Song) I'll See You in My Dreams Bonny Ship the Diamond Drunk's Express Northern Tide The Ways of Man April Fool Blow the Candles Out Michael Row the Boat Ashore Tell Old Bill Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog) Here is My Home |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Apr 21 - 03:55 AM Songs, poems and stories from the 12/13 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, quite possibly in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Waltzing Mathilda (Queensland version) The Jeannie C Me To Lýchno Tou Astrou (in Greek) Captain Indecisive (poem) Frog Song Woman With a Shovel Le Soldat Mécontent (French) Weary Blues From Waitin' Dead Dog Scrumpy Three Drunken Maidens Window Cleaning Shanty / We're All Cleaning Windows The Swallow / La Golondrina (sung in English) Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy The Killer in Me Diana Hanson Will Ye Go To Flanders Lovely Agnes Lazy Bones The Minstrel My Love is Like a Dewdrop On One April Morning All Trades Advice to the Lovelorn Ballad of John Williams Animal Farm The Riley Boys Changes Tackety Boots (recitation) Come All You Virginia Girls Your Name is What? The Further Adventures Of Albert (poem) The Big 5-0 Thomas Was A Little Glutton (poem) Rum And Sailors The Coffee Shop In Pimlico Close The Coalhouse Door Ill Wind Rio Grande The Man From Luddenden Dean Mask of Life Wings of a Goney (aka The Weary Whaling Grounds) The Lone Pilgrim Lovely Nancy The Pharmacist Eli, Eli Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate City of New Orleans Wayfaring Stranger The Candlelight Fisherman House of the Rising Sun The Titanic (version at https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7052) Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Song of the Lower Classes Canning Salmon Roots Yuri Gagarin Methodist Pie The Old Woman and Her Pig (story) (aka Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!, aka The Pig Who Would Not Jump Over the Stile) (singable version at http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/songs/277.html) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine The Jews Did Not Kill Jesus The Lightship Threescore and Ten Silver Dagger Betrayed by Love Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments Unreconstructed Rebel (aka I'm a Good Old Rebel) Wave Goodbye, Wave Hello When I'm Gone Dropkick Me, Jesus Faretheewell, Titanic Side by Side |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Rusty Dobro Date: 14 Apr 21 - 02:59 PM Re ‘Woman with a Shovel’ at Monday’s singaround, I have had a chance to listen to Peter Krug’s’ ‘chainsaw’ song, so now I know where those stray lyrics came from, back in the days before internet searches. All knowledge is to be found in the Mudcat, eventually....M |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Apr 21 - 03:33 PM Was Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates in Master and Commander? |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 14 Apr 21 - 07:21 PM Mrrzy, well-spotted! According to Wikipedia, "The song sung in the wardroom is 'Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates', a British Navy song written in the early 1800s and arranged in 1978 by Jim Mageean from his album Of Ships... and Men." |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Apr 21 - 09:45 PM Songs, poems and stories from the 19/20 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, quite likely in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. "He Puts Out Fires" is a line in several songs, some squeaky clean, some smutty – I don't know which was sung, so I gave a few references. "The Flatmate and the Frying Pan" is a name I thought up for the story Jane Nicholls told. Comments and corrections always welcome. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life England Green and England Grey An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables (poem) He Puts Out Fires (https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=31622 ? The Fireman's Song? My Brother Bill?) Library-O The Forsaken Nymph Kumbaya Hal-an-Tow And Janey Mac I'm Nearly 40 Vamos Mujer (in Spanish) The Tale of the Whale Last Remaining Tree I Knew You Were the One A Bushel and a Peck A Dog's Life The Foggy, Foggy Dew Grandpa's Advice Oh, Mr. Porter The Old Dun Cow Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain The Hippopotamus Song Silence is a Delicate Thing The Jolly Waggoners Joshua On Board the Susianna Sir Patrick Spens John Ball Ceres and Pluto and Eris, Oh, My Fisher's Brae Tom Bowling Let the Mystery Be Sonya Snell (poem) Twas On One April Morning The Women of Dundee Canadee-i-o Mother Earth All the Good Times are Past and Gone The Phantom Flasher (to the tune of "The Keeper") Thyme it is a Precious Thing (aka Bunch of Thyme) Salvation Jane Andy's Gone with Cattle The Highwayman Right Field Albert at the Hallé (poem) Row Your Boat (from Bagpuss) The King, He had a Date (to the tune of God Save the King) The Herring's Head (aka Herring Song, aka Jolly Herring, aka The Red Herring, aka The Herring) Glorious, Glorious My Land is a Good Land Shenandoah You Can't Throw Anything Away ... If (poem) Crazy The Prodigal Son Buttercup Joe Starý Mcdonald mel Farmu (Old MacDonald had a Farm, in Czech) Mrs Willis Going to Damascus Scarborough Settler's Lament Rising Green Won't You Come and Sing for Me A Bench by the Sea The Joy of Living Rainbow Warriors My Old Man Beidh Aonach Amarach (in Irish Gaelic) Look to the Rainbow The Frog and the Crow Geronimo's Cadillac The Overlander (aka Queensland Drovers) The King of Rome The Shirt Song Here is My Home The Flatmate and the Frying Pan (story) Windmills |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Apr 21 - 02:53 PM I have posted the lyrics for “Fisher’s Brae” along with a map of where it is as a Lyr Add thread. The song I sang on Monday last. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 27 Apr 21 - 09:23 PM Songs, poems and cante fables from the 26/27 April Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Ashes on the Sea Ancient Festival of Leafblowers (poem) And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Follow Me 'Ome The Woodpecker Filhas que Sètz a Maridar (In Occitan) Old Cape Cod A Tavern in the Town In Shame Bachelor's Complaint J'ai Passé Devant ta Porte (in Cajun French) The Deserter My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose (poem) Give Us the Vax! Privacy In the Olden Days A Rainy Night in Soho Working Class Stranger The Sailor Girl Andy Lindon's Boathouse Brother Noah Jack in the Green Cosher Bailey The Walls Have Ears Middle-Aged People Faded Coat of Blue Beware, O Take Care Down in the River to Pray (In Scots Gaelic) Shenandoah The Female Drummer Early Snow The Last Trip Home One Starry Night L. A. Freeway A' Bhean Iadach (Scots Gaelic cante fable) (other versions of this song are called A' Bhean Iadach, Bean Mhic a' Mhaoir, Bean Mhic a' tSaoir, Bean Ga Bàthadh, A' Bhean Ud(aí) Thall) The Manchester Rambler The Foggy Dew (the one about the Easter uprising) Sew on a Sequin Bold Thady Quill The Old Rebel Flag in the Rear Gracias a la Vida (in English) Blues Run the Game The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington Palace Grand (aka Lady Mary) George and the Dragon (poem) A Sailor's Life Leatherwing Bat (aka The Birds' Courting Song) Mockingbird Hill Don't Think Twice, It's All Right The Mouse's Song (cante fable, aka The Cat and the Mouse) The One-Legged Cowboy A Kiss for No Reason Geese (Husy, in Czech) Old Roger Rum (aka Hi Roger Rum [and other variations], aka The Rich Man and the Poor Man) The Land Beyond the Blue The Woman in Your Life Paramedic Rescue 101 Song of Peace (to the tune of Finlandia) Lay Down Beside Me The Family of Woman and Man Dark-Eyed Sailor Anderson's Coast Cockroach in a Folk Club Waltzing with Bears The Lincolnshire Poacher Me and Bobby McGee Some Enchanted Evening Rolling Home to Old New England |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 05 May 21 - 06:18 PM Songs and poems from the 3/4 May Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Moorley Man for roughly the first half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome. Texas Rangers Learning (poem, Les Barker) A Place Called England Country Roads Common Bill Voici le Mois de Mai (in French) Banks of the Bann First of May Blues Marions les Roses (in French) Wie Lieblich ist der Maien (in German) The Gas Man Cometh Sing Us Something We Know Bring Flowers of the Rarest River of Time Someone that You Used to Know Goin’ Home All Our Love The Doctor Sportsmen Arouse (aka The Innocent Hare) Love’s Mystery Just as the Tide was Flowing Precious Friend The Lightkeeper’s Daughter Hold the Fort Herring Our Joy Bring Me Back You Weaverville The Cuckoo Hills of Isle Au Haut Down by the Brazos (Alaska version) Lava Dobby’s Farewell Braes o’ Balquidder (also Balquhidder, Balquhither) The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia The Covid Front Line (poem) by Peter Branson A Pilgrim’s Way On Mother Kelly's Doorstep Yellow Yorlin The Higler Streets of Forbes You Are Not Alone The Green Dove and the Raven Union Maid Power and the Glory Levellers and Diggers (aka The Diggers' Song) Shenandoah I Wish You Were Here Vegematic Union Cat The Brave Volunteer (aka One Morning in May, aka The Nightingales Sing) Rambler Gambler Hal An Tow Merry May Folk When May Day Comes Nightingales Sing The Rosabella The Sinking of the St. Luke Country Life Singing Land Joe Hill's Last Will Men of the Fields Rambles of Spring The Shirt Song Dance Up the Sun River |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 May 21 - 06:08 AM Songs, stories, and poems from the 10/11 May Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list. Thanks to SPB for the other title for I Wish I was Single Again. Thanks to MoorleyMan for information on "Never Turning Back"/"Keep on Moving Forward" and on "The Roses of No Man's Land". I made up the names, "The Woman Who Couldn't Speak" and "The Words are Easy, but the Doing is Hard" for the stories Jane Nicholls told. Comments and corrections always welcome. Living On the River England (Den Miller) Welsh Mobile Technology (recitation) Beans, Beans Taste Fine Swim, Sam, Swim Dabob Bay I'd Rather be Lonely La Finforleta (in Occitàn) I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy Anachie Gordon Never Turning Back (aka Keep on Moving Forward) Peace in the Valley (If it wasn't for) The 'ouses in Between Faded Coat of Blue Falling Behind Tom Woods I Wish I was Single Again (aka I Married a Wife) Tomorrow (the apology song) Cadi Ha (in Welsh) Staines Morris Buy my Fresh Herbs The Doffing Mistress Us Poor Fellows Ashes on the Sea Tha mo Ghaol air Àird (in Scots Gaelic) Banks of Claudy The Roses of No Man's Land Tráthnóna Beag Aréir (in Irish) Jimmy Randall My Son Davey Compared with the Alternative Mrs McGrath Fires of '98 John Ball The Woman Who Couldn't Speak (story) Crawdad Before they Close the Minstrel Show Cape Ann Perfumes of Arabia Lockdown (poem) Garden Song Anti-Garden Song (in part) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right To Morrow (recitation) When Jones's Ale was New Jenny Mothers, Daughters, Wives C'est le Mai (in French) Nine to Five Pollution Blues I Ain't Never Been Satisfied (version of Little Sally Walker?) Flow Gently Sweet Afton Bold Saint George Aloysius Betrayed by Love The Gallant Hussar James Connolly Noah's Ark Shanty (aka In Frisco Bay, aka A Long Time Ago) Bogie's Bonnie Belle Cry Me a River The Words are Easy, but the Doing is Hard (story) Travelling Down the Castlereagh Sammy's Bar (One for the) Morning Glory Columbus Stockade Blues Senorita Mia Ballad of Patch-Eye and Meg Velcro Ode to Joy (EU lyrics) All Through the Night |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 May 21 - 08:34 AM Songs and stories from the 17/18 May 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 made up the name, "Behind Every Story, There is a Little Truth" for one of the stories Jane Nicholls told, but I came in too late to hear her other story. Comments and corrections always welcome. When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes To Our Door With God On Our Side Ballade en Novembre (in French) Come Lasses and Lads Another Time and Place Ae Fond Kiss Baltic Street The Bonny Bay of Biscay-O The Violin My Texas Girl Time to Love Again Rags and Old Iron The Rooster Ten Thousand Miles from Home A Couple of Swells It Isn’t Nice On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at Buenos Dias Argentina People Like You Free in the Harbour Crossing the Water Rosemary’s Sister Coming Hame (aka Coming Home) (Story) April Come She Will Railroading on the Great Divide Lay Down Your Weary Tune When the Breakers Go Back on Full Time Five-Foot Flirt The Ways Of Man Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room Peace Call John Barleycorn Johnny Todd Broken Down Squatter I Once Loved a Lass (aka The False Bride, aka The Week Before Easter, ....) Young Edmund Thais Lay Down Beside Me Blank Space Give Me Just a Little More Time (Acme version) Muhlenberg County (aka Paradise) Sixteen Tons Good Old Colony Times Dear Old Shepherd's Bush I Ain't Marchin' Anymore The Merry Minuet New Cut Road Freight Train (version of Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey) Thirty Years Ago (rewrite of Twenty Years Ago) Lonesome Valley Hinei Ma Tov Dancing at Whitsun The Wooden Spoon Lament of the Computer Widow Behind Every Story, There is a Little Truth (story) Jerusalem Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (in Irish Gaelic) Dinki Di D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (parody of D-I-V-O-R-C-E) I Live Not Where I Love Orphan Train Knock on the Door (with added lyrics) Oregon or Die I Love Not Where I Live Health to the Company (Covid-safe version) Pretty Flowers All Around Across the Great Divide |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 May 21 - 08:09 PM Songs and poem from the 24/25 May 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Mrrzy for roughly the first half of the list, and to MoorleyMan and Joe Offer for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Leaving Home (Charlie Poole's version of Frankie and Johnny) The Men of the Hood Banana Republics Giroflé girofla (in French) Let Me Breathe Plegaria a un Labrador (in Spanish) McGowan's Banshee Darlin' Corey It Would Never Have Worked Kitty Bawn O'Brien The Salt Marsh Seven Spanish Angels Stripey and Blondie Dink's Song Silver Dagger The Prophet Black Hills Waltz My Organ Recital (aka Side Effects) The Star of Bannock For Months and Months and Months The Unquiet Grave Sister, Sail! Geordie medley: Come Up And See Your Granny / Cushie Butterfield / Wherivvor Ye Gan Ye're Sure te Find a Geordie (in dialect) / Blaydon Races Masters of War The Jeannie C. Old Shep Fhir a Bhata (the boatman; sung mostly in English with a Scots Gaelic chorus) The Big Hewer Sixteen Tons The Jamestown Homeward Bound Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Sammy's Bar That's Australia House of the Rising Sun Sweet Betsy From Pike Just Like a Woman Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Overheard on a salt marsh [poem] Raggle Taggle Gypsies, Eh The Heat Detector Down By the Riverside Jutland Lay Down Your Weary Time Medley of Towing Shanties On a Monday Morning Being a Pirate A Begging I Will Go Do You Love an Orange All Among the Garlic Three Score and Ten Claudy Banks The Helium Miner's Song Let It Be a Dance The Wee Magic Stane A Maid in Bedlam Brisbane Ladies (aka Augathella Station, takeoff on Spanish Ladies) We've Got to Sail Away A Begging I Will Go (update by Grit Laskin) Who Can Sail? Wild Goose Shanty (aka Ranzo) Diamonds and Rust Blow the Candles Out Goodnight Irene Four Strong Winds |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Jun 21 - 05:08 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the 31 May, 1 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to Pelagie for roughly the first half of the list, and to MoorleyMan and Joe Offer and Rusty Dobro for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. There's a Hole in My Bucket Arnold (poem) Little Golden Hair (monologue) The Girl With The Dreamy Eyes Guitarra en Duelo Mayor ("Guitar in Mourning Major," in Spanish) Too Many Lakes Freight Train My Favorite Picture of You Amore grande amore mio (in Italian) Sugar in the Hold No Man’s Land Summer in Dublin Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out Low Bridge, Everybody Down (aka "Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal," "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal," "Erie Canal Song") South London Idler (parody of Manchester Rambler) Cold Mountain O Freedom A Terceira Lamina (in Portuguese) Do You Need Another Hand? Draft Dodger Rag Battle Hymn of the Republic Bruach Na Carraige Báine ("The Edge of the White Rocks," in Irish Gaelic) General Taylor The Man who had the Dumb Wife You’ve Been a Friend to Me Darcy Farrow The Wreck of the Dandenong Soldier’s Joy Annan Water I Once Loved A Lass The Fastest Mobile Library In the West Freedom on the Wallaby Dancing at Whitsun Dancing on the Edge of Time (poem) Beat the Retreat on Thy Drum (aka "Sam, Sam, Beat the Retreat") Summer Wine Bad Man's Blunder Sweet William's Ghost Call the Lamas What are You Fighting For? No Charge (poem, parody of Harlan Howard / Mabel Montgomery work of the same name) Grandad Goes Dancing at Mayday (to the tune of Dancing at Whitsun) Banks of the Roses More Work for the Undertaker Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon Invitation to a funeral Only Remembered (For What They've Not Done) The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna (poem) Dublin Blues I've Been Everywhere Young Moon's Lament (version of Yangtze River Shanty) Send Us a Postcard What Shall We Drink to Tonight? The Weirdest Dream (to the tune of Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream) Only Remembered Buddhist Monk 1960 (recitation) There's a Grave on the Hillside Normandy Orchards The Navvies The Faith of Man |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom TODAY!! From: YorkshireYankee Date: 07 Jun 21 - 08:36 PM Here's a little something I wrote to mark the occasion: Mudcat Time to the tune of Summertime Mudcat time, and the zoomin' is easy Folks are hummin' and the singin' is fine Well Joe Offer's here, and we're all so good lookin' So mute, little 'Catters, your number's assigned Now ev'ry Monday, we all rise up singin' From around the world, we laugh and we cry For some it's mornin', and for others it's evenin' Till Joe sends us off with some sweet lullabye Mudcat time, and the helpers are busy Thanks to Casey, Mrzzy, Dave and Arlene Gayle and Gerry, et aussi cher Monique And last but not least, Dawn and Noreen Mudcat time, and the zoomin' is easy Folks are hummin' and the singin' is fine Well Joe Offer's here, and with gas we are cookin' So sing, little 'Catters, time to shine! |
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Subject: ADD: Help Me Make It through the Zoom (PattyClink) From: pattyClink Date: 08 Jun 21 - 11:16 AM With apologies to Mr. K, here are the extra verses sung at the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround celebration of 1 year of online gatherings. HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE ZOOM (Patty Clink) Now it's Monday on the Zoom, and I don't have my song chose, But you let me babble on, kindly cohost crew and Joe. Make my audio do right, though I have no earthly clue As I suck up all my time, help me make it through the Zoom. I don't care if I mumble, sing words you can't understand Let the devil take the title, Lord, I just love to make you guess They say folksong's dead and gone, and for us there is no room But we prove them wrong each week, help me make it through the Zoom, We're a very special group, help us make it through the Zoom. Noreen, Casey, Mrrzy, Dave; Arlene, Gerry, Monique, Gayle, Blessings on you and dear Joe, you help us make it through the Zoom. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Jun 21 - 08:31 PM Songs/poems/recitations/tunes from the 7-8 June 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. Circle of Song Lies The Verb to Be (poem) Yorkshire Pudden (monologue) La Mort de l’Ours (Death of the Bear, in French) John Condon The Music Makers (based on Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy) Anniversary Song Darcy Farrow Can Vei la Lauzeta Mover (“When I See the Lark Beat His Wings” in Occitan) The Pride of Erin’s Isle Friends Like These The Power and the Glory The Calico Printer’s Clerk Join In Help Me Make It Through the Night (with added verses, "Help Me Make It Through the Zoom") Leytyat Utki (in Russian) Kinisalo (Macedonian) Let’s Do It (aka Ballad of Barry and Freda) Gens du Pays Siúil a Rúin (in Gaelic) Crackdown Addict Down the Dials (monologue) Lovers and Friends I Come for to Sing If Love Doesn’t Bother You, It Doesn’t Bother Me (tune) Happy Birthday to You Dink’s Song Two-Bit Cayuse Sheòl am Bàta (The Boat Sailed Over the Ocean, in Scots Gaelic) Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Sam the Skull (aka The Glasgow Cat) The World Turned Upside Down Rosemary's Sister On Again! On Again! Sixteen Tons Mockingbird Hill Big Rock Candy Mountain The Charladies' Ball Sir William Gower Abdullah Bulbul Emir The Leather Thimble (story) Lady River Sensing the Plan (poem) Heaven Stuff That Works Mudcat Time (to the tune of Summertime) Shelter at Home (poem) Sea Glass Beware of the Beautiful Stranger The Master of the Sheepfold Lament to the Moon A Noise Annoys an Oyster Yorkshire Song The Willow Tree Sea Change She Told Me to Meet Her at the Gate Boney was a Warrior Buckeye Jim The River, Where She Sleeps The Sunday Driver The Mountains of Mourne Don't Think Twice, It's All Right The Kirk Soiree The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill Our Life is More than Our Work Play Friends (poem) What are You Fighting For? Don't Know the Words... (for My Favo(u)rite Things) Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (in Hebrew and English) The Oreo Song Crossing the Water |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Jun 21 - 07:53 AM Songs/poems/stories from the 14-15 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and to Monique for two corrections. I don't know whether there was a title to the entry I've given as "Traditional Portuguese story". Comments and corrections always welcome. Love Call Me Home Man on the Flying Trapeze Madeira, M’Dear ? The Wee Lass on the Brae Conseils à la mariée (Advice to the Bride, in French) Ode in Praise of the City of Mullingar The Maid of Australia Romance de la Pérdida de Alhama (in Spanish) An Buachaillín Donn (The Brown Boy, in Gaelic) The Reason I Left Mullingar The Grumpy Old Men of Old England Bridges Banks of Yarrow (aka Wullie’s Drowned in Yarrow) Le Chant des Partisans (in French) Wild Rover Crazy Come Write Me Down Seán Ó Duibhir a Ghleanna (Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen, in Gaelic) The Reluctant Mariner Aces, Straights and Flushes Joshua Swimming with the Fish I Give Myself to You A Thousand Songs Traditional Portuguese story The Ballad of St. Peter (aka Pray) Calypso Sentenced to Death Amazing Grace Schooldays Over Rocking at the End of Time Bheir Mi O (aka Eriskay Love Lilt) Napoleon's Farewell to Paris The Golden Vanity My Dog Sam The Crow on the Cradle Pangolins (poem) Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie Glorious Ale James Connolly Proud Maisrie (to the tune of Scarborough Fair) Know When to Move Midsummer Hymn The Southern Girl's Reply Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I'll Wander) Unwed Fathers Bang went the Chance of a Lifetime Time to Love Again Consciousness (poem) The Green Man Banjo Pickin' Girl She's Someone's Grandmother Michael Row the Boat Ashore The Two Conneeleys (chorus in Irish Gaelic) My Old Man Some Little Mice Sat in a Barn to Spin The Hunting Song The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) I Fall to Pieces Four Strong Winds Jack Ashton North Country Tragedy Must I Go Bound It's a Pleasure to Know You The Terror Time |
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Subject: RE: an Buachaillin Donn at Mudcat singaround From: Felipa Date: 23 Jun 21 - 03:06 PM I didn't attend on 14 June, but if "Buachaillin dhoun" was indeed sung in Irish, than the title should be spelled "An Buachaillín Donn" (the brown-haired lad) - "Dhoun" is an Anglicised spelling. The song also known as "Mo Bhuachaillín Donn", my brown-haired boy, which is sung mainly in English. This site mistakenly translates the title as "the fair-haired boy". Donn means brown; fair haired would be "bán" or "fionn". https://www.irish-folk-songs.com/mo-bhuachailliacuten-donn-lyrics-and-chords.html same song https://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/an_buachaillin_donn Mudcat has the same song posted as "BOUCHALEEN DHOUN" but that is not Irish spelling; it is a rough transliteration. I've now convinced myself that it was this song which was sung at the mudsing in question, a song in English with a few words in Irish Gaelic included. [I have edited the song list in accord with this post. Thanks! Gerry] |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: MoorleyMan Date: 23 Jun 21 - 07:47 PM In my defence as a humble scribe, the title listed would have been taken directly from the chat entry... |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jun 21 - 08:22 PM I make no excuse for our imperfections. It's what makes us quaint.... |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 24 Jun 21 - 07:33 AM Songs/poems/monologue from the 21-22 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. I'm not sure about the title, "The Forest and the Tree", given for the song by mg. Comments and corrections always welcome. Cool Water Carrying Nelson Home Hole in the Ark (monologue) Last of the Steam-Powered Trains Al the Vegetable Man Sea Fever (poem) La guignolée (The Rag Dance) I Brought My Father with Me Sammy’s Bar Casey Jones (variant of Jay Gould’s daughter) Rosebud in June Do You Have Wine? (Imate Li Vino, in Bulgarian) Country Life The Valley of Knockanure The Water is Wide (Australian version) When Father Papered the Parlour The Dance is Mine Summertime I Get a Kick out of You East Texas Red Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Blarney Roses Long Summer Day Too Old to Die Young I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal Spancil Hill Dh’ èirich mi Moch Madainn Chèitein (I Arose Early One May Morning) Great God A’Mighty (semi-sung poem) Lament to the Moon Által Mennék (I’d Like to Cross the Tisza by Boat, in Hungarian) No Place to Fall Oak and Ash and Thorn Before They Close the Minstrel Show The Forest and the Tree Vincent Bonnie Banks o' Fordie (aka Bonnie Banks o' Airdrie, aka Babylon, ....) Coil Away the Trawl Warp (aka The Smacksman) Home Remodeling Blues Touch Not the Cup (to the tune of Long, Long Ago) I'm Romeo (to the tune of Long, Long Ago) Birmingham Sunday Bachelor Ben (poem) Why I Refuse to Say Goodbye Leave Her, Johnny Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me Arky's Toast The 23rd of June (aka The Jug of Punch) Rising (poem) Sojourner Truth's Battle Hymn Until the Dark Time Ends Watching When I Have Seen The Liar (version of Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago) A-Begging I Will Go (Grit Laskin update) The Express Office (aka He's Coming to us Dead, aka The Boys in Blue) Gypsy Laddie (aka Raggle-Taggle Gypsy, aka Black Jack Davey, aka Gypsy Davey, ....) The Wild Side of Life & It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Cha Bhí Mí Buan (in Scots Gaelic) Shipyard Slips (aka The Island Men) Names Farewell Lazy Afternoon Hei Huomenta Suomi ("Hello, Good Morning Finland", Finnish language version of City of New Orleans) Heaven Kilgarry Mountain (aka Whiskey in the Jar) Four Wet Pigs Out of the Window (aka Our Wedding Day) Josie Henry the Accountant (to the tune of John Henry) Leader of the Band North Country Tragedy A Bench by the Sea Magnolia Wind Witch Hazel |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jun 21 - 06:17 AM Songs/poems/tune from the 28-29 June 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome. John Ball The Blood Donor (poem) Silver Dagger Aly’s Waltz (fiddle tune) One Volcano Day Oleanna Wheel Your Perambulator Red River Valley It Could Have Been Me Harp Without a Crown McCaffery The Seana Waltz Early in the Morning Daisy Bell/A Bicycle Built for Two Scarborough Fair Already Dead The Flower of Magherally Salty Dog Oh Napoleon! In the Heat of the Summer Trois Jeunes Marins Porteurs de Lettres (in French) Elizabeth Mantle of Green Exile The Laird o’ Drum The Bonny Bunch of Roses Waltzing with Bears The Far Side Banks of Jordan Long Ago and Far Away The Log Driver’s Waltz The Diphthong (poem) Strictly Working Class Two Maidens Went Milking One Day The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More Unreconstructed Rebel The Last Thing on My Mind Home From the Sea I Saw Three Ships Dos Land iz Dayn Land ("This Land is Your Land", in Yiddish) Boney (aka Boney was a Warrior) Doonaree Light Woody Knows Nothing The Green Linnet Six Nights Drunk (Brian Peters update, with added Canadian touches) Isle of Eigg The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo He Got Better Things for You 254 Shades of Gray Rocky Road to Dublin My Granny's a Wild Flying Dove The Rare Ould Times Long Promised Road Raglan Road The Ballad of Harry Lewis My Home Town Walkin' By Myself I Think of You Granny's Old Armchair So Here's to You (aka When First We Met) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Felipa Date: 30 Jun 21 - 04:33 PM "Comments and corrections always welcome." I sang Out of the Window at the 21-22 June 2021 session. I did sing the version which is in the DT under the title Our Wedding Day. It is not the same song as, is not "aka", "She Moved through the Fair". The songs have some relation, much discussed in a thread on Mudcat*. But Pádraic Colum just used one verse of Out of the Window in "She Moved through the Fair". *https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=869#3572943 Joe Offer sang the song described as "Here's to You" at this week's song circle. According to the DT, the song by the late Alan Bell is entitled When First We Met. "Here's to you," makes me think of Tom Paxton's "Ramblin' Boy". Most recordings do refer to the song as "So Here's to You". I've also heard "When First We Met" aka "So Here's to You" called "The Parting Glass"; and that could so easily be confused by a popular song of the same name ("Of all the money that e'er I spent I've spent it in good company ..." I thought it worth clarifying just which parting song Joe sang. chorus: So here's to you, and our time together. I will share with you a parting glass, And bid adieu with some smile and laughter, Our time apart will be short, and pass. There was actually at least one other song sung after Joe's official close, but I don't remember what song it was. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jun 21 - 07:30 PM "There was actually at least one other song sung after Joe's official close, but I don't remember what song it was." Felipa, I sang a few lines of the Phil Ochs song, Links on the Chain, but maybe that's not what you're thinking of. If anyone can remember a full song that came after the close, I'll be happy to edit it into the list. I have made the other corrections. |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:02 AM Songs/poem/reading from the 5-6 July 2021 Mudcat Worldwide Singaround, probably in the order in which they were performed. Thanks to MoorleyMan and Pelagie for roughly the first half of the list, and thanks to Joe and Monique for further information. "ttto" stands for "to the tune of." Comments and corrections always welcome. Only Remembered Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (poem) O Mary Don’t You Weep The Intoxicated Rat Triste es lo cèl (in Occitan) Winds of Morning Three Score and Ten Wildwood Flower The Erie Canal The Mower Songwriter, Songmaker, and Traveller Sons of Liberty Where Did They Go? Linin' Track The Rigs of Rye Trouble in Mind Mary Had a Little Lamb Clementine ‘Arry, ‘Arry, ‘Arry Coal Town Road Ladies of the Bay Dance for the Love I Will Stand Port of Call (parody of) Sidewalks of New York Bring Me Li'l Water, Silvy Go Tell Aunt Rhody Jimmy Joe Till I’m Too Old to Die Young Teen Angel (ttto Amazing Grace) Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird a' Chuain (My Love is on the High Seas, in Gaelic) Mesmerised by You This is My Father’s World The Two Sisters (aka Wind and Rain) Hang on the Bell, Nellie The Total Eclipse of Scotland (reading) Lord Rendal I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal Aunt Sue This Land is Whose Land? (ttto This Land is Your Land) Summer's End Battle of the Somme Safe Romance Mezi Horami (Between the Mountains, in Czech) Nasty Nell Gathering Storm Queen of Skye Both Sides the Tweed Epistle to Derroll Amazing Grace Jimmy Crack Corn (aka Blue-Tail Fly) Way Down the Road Tumbalalaika I Wish You Were Here Johnie Cock (aka Johnny O'Breadisley, Jock o'Braidislee, etc.) Come and Go with Me to that Land Since I Laid My Burden Down Young Lady (ttto Polly Von, aka Polly Vaugh(a)n, Molly Bawn, The Fowler, The Shooting of His Dear, etc., etc.) Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Bring Me Back You River of the Big Canoe(s) Philosophers Song The King's Shilling Starfish Song Power and the Glory Last Boat In Cold Missouri Waters Lay Down Beside Me Quantum Mechanics (ttto Little Old Log Cabin on the Hill) Holio (ttto Sweet Betsy from Pike) This is My Song (ttto Finlandia) |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jul 21 - 02:51 AM Songs/poems/tunes/monologue/story from the 12-13 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. Comments and corrections always welcome. Fishin’ Blues The Anchor Watch (poem with sung refrains) Seasons Turn Sonia Snell (monologue) Three-Volcano Day Whiskey In The Jar The Herring Girl Hesitation Blues Kyrkløt & Polska (tunes; Waiting For A Bus) Diamantina Drover Old Men Sing Love Songs The Haying Song Two Sisters I’m an Old Deck-Hand Orange Maid of Sligo What’ll I Do Chant de l’oignon The Spring of ‘65 Windy Old Weather Joshua Gone Barbados Raven in the Storm The Mountains of Mourne Cowboy Fireman Hippopotamus Song All the Good People Oh the Dreadful Wind and the Rain Billy O’Shea The Old Orange Flute Early Snow The Green Faerie Dog (Scottish story) Old Whitby Harbor Day is Done You Went the Wrong Way Old King Louie Whitby Fisherman The Marie Depreste (poem) Otter Hunting in Ribblesdale The Green Eye of the Yellow God (poem) Three Wishes If You've Only Got a Moustache The Bold Princess Royal Wild Side of Life & It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels Sweet Thang The Diggins-Oh The Farmer's Boy Unfortunate Miss Bailey The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Living Planet Essiquibo River (partly in Guyanese Creole) Breed-Specific Legislation Ballad Wild Goose Nation Lessons of Time Nevada Jane Call to Song That's the Way it's Gonna Be A Begging I Will Go (Grit Laskin version) Mni Wikoni (partly in Lakota) Early |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Jul 21 - 07:23 PM Songs/recitations/poems/tunes/monologues from the 19-20 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, and Felipa for additional information. Comments and corrections always welcome. Let Union Be Testimony of Patience Kershaw Sarah (recitation of a testimony) Happy Days are Here Again Deep River Blues Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight Windmills Pull Down, Lads Cross the Mississippi All the Good People O’Donovan’s Daughter Not Sixteen Til Sunday (parody of Seventeen Come Sunday) Cockleshells Bonny Eloise, the Belle of the Mohawk Vale Thrift Store on the Corner Toddling Home (monologue) Land of the Bottom Line Shenandoah Please Don’t Bury Me Harvest home, Boys of Blue Hill/Lads of North Tyne (tunes) Streams of Bunclody The Irish Rover Gypsy Laddie Caledonia Fair and Free Lambeg Drummer Away with Rum/Rum by Gum (with one chorus each of S-A-V-E-D and Salvation Army/Nickel on the Plate) Brighten the Corner Where You Are Bampton Fair Bheir Mi O (aka Eriskay Love Lilt) Salvation Band Have You Got any News of the Iceberg? Housewife’s Lament The Final Trawl Jamie Douglas (aka Waly, Waly) Slow Train Through Georgia The Glass of Beer (poem) A Chat with Your Mother What Will I Leave Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Safe Romance The Minstrel Paddy Lay Back Home-Grown Tomatoes The Tea-Total Society Bring Us in Hot Tea Don't Slay that Potato The Humours of Whiskey (aka Stick to the Craythur, Paddy's Panacea) The One-Eyed Cook The Handweaver and the Factory Maid Amelia Earhart's Last Flight When I'm Gone Wayfaring Stranger I Ain't a Martian Any More (one stanza take-off on I Ain't a-Marching Any More) 'Tis a Gift to be Stupid (one-stanza take-off on Simple Gifts) China and a Woman's Heart I am the Wind Do Virgins Taste Better (ttto Irish Washerwoman) New Orleans Rag Song of the Lower Classes A Bench by the Sea Hard Times Come Again No More Look Down on Me Bonnie at Morn |
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Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jul 21 - 02:34 PM Dang! I missed some good songs. Thanks to Casey and Noreen for hosting while I was off seeing the sights of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. |
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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 (in Irish Gaelic) 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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