Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround

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-

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!

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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)

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.

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.

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...

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 05:17 AM

Thanks Vikki!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround on Zoom - Mondays
From: Mysha
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:01 AM

Folk Song And Music Hall

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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."

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.

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)

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 Nichills 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 Nichills' 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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-

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 Nichills' 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

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.

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!!

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.

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 Nichills' 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

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"?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 06 Feb 21 - 07:33 AM

Yep, A Dollar A Day.

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.

---

In Folk Song in England, A.L. Lloyd has it listed both ways, McCassery and McCafferty - and McCaffery. -Joe O.-

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

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

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-

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?!!!

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.

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-

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 Nichills' 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

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'.

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.

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.

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-

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)

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

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.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround - On Zoom Mondays
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 04:56 PM

Thanks, SPB. I'll edit my post.

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 Me 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

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:08 AM

The Eggplant that ate Chicago?!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 Me 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