Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 03:21 AM

Songs, instrumentals and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 4/5 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

What Did You Learn in School Today?
The Last Thing on My Mind (poem, parody of Tom Paxton song)
Where’s the Fuel Now? (ttto Who's the Fool Now, aka Martin Said to His Man)
Goldwatch Blues
Walk with Me Now / The Raucous Cry of the Gulls (poem)
When I First Came to this Land
I Wish I could be Nice and Warm
Windmills
Perrine était servante (sung in French)
If I had a Hammer
Mack the Knife
Henry Joy (aka Henry Joy McCracken)
Wade in the Water
Workin’ My Way Back to You Babe
What does it Matter?
Patrick Spencer (Bob Coltman version of Sir Patrick Spens)
My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
Early Morning Rain
I Ain’t Marching Anymore
Peggy Gordon
Oops! Jamboree! (parody of Whup Jamboree)
Night Ride Home
Yankee Doodle
Oh Sinner Man
Battle of New Orleans
An Irishman’s Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
The Rifleman's Song at Bennington
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Never Turning Back
At Seventeen
Rolling Down to Old Maui
America the Beautiful (piano instrumental)
Johnson Boy
America the Beautiful (sung)
The Roses of Prince Charlie
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
The Mermaid and the Swallow
Somewhere in America
East Virginia
Roll On Columbia
They Make the Laws (poem)
Rigs of Rye
A Sailor's Life
Bard of Armagh
A Jolly Holiday
Rolling Home
The Fiddle and the Drum
A Kiss in the Morning Early
The Star-Spangled Banner
Enough
May I Suggest
How Anarchy Could Function
Tomra's Song
O What a Merry Land is England
The Auld Triangle (aka The Old Triangle, The Royal Canal)
Toddling Home
The Wayward Wind
Black-Eyed Susie
But Mr Adams
Pipers Refrain
The Minstrel Boy
Sister, Sail
Ashokan Farewell (piano instrumental)
Carter Blues
The Battle of the Somme
I Only have Eyes for You
Highland Cathedral
This Land Ain't Your Land (parody of This Land is Your Land)
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
The Shirt Song
If I Were Free
Lay Down Beside Me
This is My Song (aka Song of Peace)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 05:34 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 11/12 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Going home (version of Frankie & Johnny)
Diamantina Drover
The Maid of Melrose Town (poem)
Boudicea
Sow Took the Measles
Dark-eyed Molly
Allergic to his Face (poem)
Widdecombe Fair
Scarborough Fair
A Terrible Beauty is Born
The Bold Princess Royal
The Worst Day Since Yesterday
I’ll be Your Baby Tonight
Black is the Color
Brown Baby
Le roi Eugène (sung in French)
If You Say Yes
The Music Makers
See No Evil
Snakes and Ladders
On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep
Melting Pot (poem)
Our Planet's Unfolding
Star of the County Down
Both Sides Now
Oak Ash and Thorn
The Orange Maid of Sligo
The Ballad of Soulful Sam
Rolling Home (to dear old England)
Bread and Roses
Folsom Prison Blues
Zen Gospel Singing
The Trees They Do Grow High (parody by Les Barker)
The Seasons’ Wheel (poem)
A Pirate Walked into a Bar
Mind Games
Early One Morning (Election Day parody)
Courting is a Pleasure (aka Lovely Molly)
All the Good Times are Past and Gone
Power and the Glory
Men of Worth
My Love Comes Rolling Down
Matty Groves
Scotch and Soda
Like the Way I Do
Monday, Monday
My Son John From the Isle of Man
Projectionist Woes (poem)
Text and Tweet (ttto Aragon Mill)
Hi Lili, Hi Lo
Breed Specific Legislation Ballad
Drinkin' Them Beers
Peat Fire Flame
Ring of Fire
Cotton Jenny
Fare Thee Well My Own True Love (aka Ten Thousand Miles)
Yesterday (parody by Dave Mann)
You Gotta Have Skin (ttto Heart)
Donegal Dreams
The Wild Geese (aka Norland Wind)
When the Ship Comes In
To My Old Brown Earth
Kite at Sundown

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 20 Jul 22 - 01:50 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 18/19 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Just the Facts, Ma’am
Now is the Cool of the Day
Mrs. Groves (poem)
Handweaver and the Factory Maid
Rest Quiet (poem)
Angling
Woodturner’s Love Song
Todo tiene que ver (sung in Spanish)
Blackwater Side
Uncle Tom Cobleigh Will Run (ttto Widdicombe Fair, Widdecombe Fair, Tom Pearce)
William Archer (version of Banks of the Bann)
Something Sort of Grandish
Billy Bones and his Dancing Cat
Ho, Boys, Ho
El Paso
Le grand frisé (sung in French)
I Give Myself to You
The Old Dance
Shanghaied
Ballad of Seth Davey (aka Whiskey on a Sunday)
Turn Around
The Castle of Dromore
Down Where the Drunkards Roll
Air Fa La La Lo
The King’s Navy
St. Brendan’s Fair Isle
Mrs McGrath
Ella's Song
Carter’s Blues
Bridge-Guard in the Karoo
The Moorlough Shore
Barrett’s Privateers
House Carpenter
Go To Work On Monday
Terms & Conditions (poem)
She Moved Through the Fair
Cool Water
Flying Song
Falling in Love
Lovin' Emma
The Fairy Fair Blues (ttto Folsom Prison Blues)
Some Enchanted Evening
Blue Bayou
Ten Thousand Miles (version of Turtle Dove)
Lynn's Dream
Beautiful Soul
Plains of Waterloo
Weggis Song (aka From Lucerne to Weggis)
The Maker
Going to the West
Stand Up for Jesus
The Woman in Your Life
Garnet's Homemade Beer (ttto Barrett's Privateers)
Jenny Wren (poem)
Ice Cream Weather
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
In the Heat of the Summer
Apprentice Song
Benjamin Bowmaneer
I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
Pretty Saro
Three Little Fishies
Newborough Beach
North Country Tragedy
Song of the Folk Nazi (read as a poem)
Blackbird
The Song Goes On
Skye Boat Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 30 Jul 22 - 08:56 PM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 25/26 July 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Life Gets Teejius Don’t It? (recitation)
Leonardo da Thingy (poem)
The Song Goes On
The Good Cook Stirs in the Alli-allium
Michael Row the Boat
When I Go
An Affectation of Conceit (=I’m in Love with the Nearest Mirror)
Roll the Cotton Down (halyard version) + verses of Roll the Kaiser Down (parody)
Savory fair
Mia, totsants s’apròcha (sung in Occitan)
Bring Me a Rose
Crossing the Bar
Isn’t Life Strange?
Banks of Red Roses
The Unquiet Grave
Where Shall I Be (when the first trumpet sounds)? (including verses by Rick Pollay)
If Our Lives were on Videotape
49th Birthday (story) + poem by Muriel Fisher
Row On
In My Life
Girl from the North Country
Alice White
Ride Cowboy Ride
Anac Cuain
I’m So Glad I Got My ‘Ligion in Time
Willie’s Lady
The Ball Playing Song
Hospice (poem)
No Thanks, Thanks
I’m Going Home to Georgia
Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
The Wayfaring Stranger (aka Poor Wayfaring Stranger, I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
Let There Be Morning
My Eldorado
Won't You Come Home, Disraeli (ttto Bill Bailey, Won't You Come Home)
Mickey Mouse wears a Boris Johnson watch (poem)
Too Many Icarus Moments (poem)
The Magpie
Joy to the World
High Germany
Make It, Mend It
Slithering Round Eden (ttto Streets of Laredo)
Pretty Flowers All Around
Fatty Molesworth
Jack Ashton
Autumn to May (aka Little Brown Dog)
All You Need is Love
Electricity
If You Love Me
Ratcliffe Highway
I Ain't Never Been Satisfied
The Ding Dong Blues
San Antonio Rose
After the Haircut (free verse)
First You Lose the Rhyming
The Lone Pilgrim
The Ballad of Penny Evans
Slow Train Through Georgia
Hard, Ain't it Hard
Parkette
Skye Boat Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 12:37 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 1/2 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Hallelujah I’m A Bum
Both Sides Now
Dipsticks & Seals (poem)
Fields of Athenry (parody)
Farewell He (ttto All Around My Hat)
I’m the Original Chauvinist Pig
The Rolling of the Stones
Wind River Waltz
Pack Up Your Sorrows
I Wish They’d Do It Now
Le Galant Indiscret (The Indiscreet Suitor, sung in French)
White Cottons of Despair (ttto Woody Guthrie’s 1913 Massacre)
Dink’s Song
Pancho & Lefty
Buck-eyed Jim
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
Swifts and Swallows
Slip Jigs and Reels
Elijah (ttto Delilah)
Caledonia
Where Did You Get That Hat?
Claudy Banks (with additional verse)
Mathematics
Times are Not What They Used to Be
The Horses of May Day
Bold Riley
Duncan Gray
Who Woulda Thunk It?
The Briar and the Rose
Down Under
Handsome Molly
Travelling Man’s Daughter (aka Tinkerman’s Daughter)
Smile
The Unfortunate Rake (same tune as Streets of Laredo)
I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
Jolly Roving Tar (aka Get Up, Jack; John, Sit Down)
This Bit is Mine (poem)
Women Always Lead Men From Behind
I’m Gonna be an Engineer
Darling Corey
Son Come Tell to Me (cowboy version of Edward)
Mezi Horami (Between the Mountains, in Czech)
The Bergen
The King's Navy
Tha mo ghaol air àird a'chuain (a broken token song in Scots Gaelic)
Catahoula
Give Ear to a Frolicsome Ditty
The Leaving of Liverpool
Crazy
Green Stamps (ttto Greensleeves)
Red-Haired Mary
Last Words
Related
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Joy of Living
Scrambled Eggs (ttto Yesterday)
Eilean Leodhais, tir nan gaisgeach (The Isle of Lewis, Land of Heroes, in Scottish Gaelic)
The Lammas Tide
See Here, She Said
The Wine Song
When Hippos Battle in the Mud
The Wild Side of Life
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
The Kangaroo Song (aka A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak)
Raise Your Voices
Lisa's Freight Train
Give Yourself to Love
Kisses Sweeter than Wine

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 02:09 AM

Songs, recitations, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 8/9 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Woodstock
Remember All Those Years Ago (poem)
We Are All The Souls On Earth (poem)
William Brown (aka Keep That Wheel a-Turning)
Drunk and Disorderly (parody ttto Lord of the Dance)
I’m a Wheel within Wheels within Wheels
Greasy Mac (recited)
Re Gilardin (sung in Piedmontese)
I Ain’t Marching Any More
Willie o’ Winsbury
You Belong to Me
Walkie in the Garden/Parlor
I’m an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
Home Lads Home
Song to a Seagull
White Cliffs of Dover
Long Summer Day
The Hole in the Ark (monologue)
She Moved Through the Fair
Love at the Five-and-Dime
Blues Chase Up a Rabbit
Le Chinois
The Vision (poem)
Sight for Sore Eyes
The Contender
The Carnival is Over
Catfish John
Let Me Be There
Son of the Earl of White Banners (sung in Scottish Gaelic)
Star of the County Down
Bring Back My Body to Me (parody ttto My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
The Irish Rover
Brigg Fair
Pearl the Preying Mantis (poem)
Red is the Rose
The Ballad of Springhill
Animalarkey
Five Folk Songs in Thirty Seconds
Adelaide's Lament
When First Unto this Country
Long Black Veil
Aardvark
Hiroshima Memorial Candlelight Vigil (poem)
Changes Olivia Newton-John presente!
Danny Boy Cat Parody
Ballad of Lewis Mills
Summerfly
Black Girl (aka In the Pines)
Last Song
The Music of Strings
You Never Know Just Who You're Going to Meet
Hard Times Come Again Once More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More)
Embraceable You
I Come and Stand at Every Door
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Jazzing (poem)
Dance Away
Archimedes (ttto Leave Her, Johnny)
Kingfisher
Drowned Sailor
Dreaming My Dreams with You
Have You Never Been Mellow
What's the Use of Wings
Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, aka Sailor's Farewell Hymn, aka 'Tis Our Sailing Time, aka Cornish Farewell Shanty)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 01:13 AM

Songs, recitations, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 15/16 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Early
Parking At Whitby (ttto Dancing at Whitsun)
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Verbosity
Sammy’s Bar
You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out
El enamorado y la Muerte (sung in Spanish)
Lunenberg Town
Harbo & Samuelson
Skewball (recited)
An Cailin Rua (The Red-haired Girl) (sung in English)
The Muffin Man Song (plus medley of nursery rhymes)
Where’ve You Been?
The Ramona
Old Times They Are a-Changin’ (parody of The Times, They Are a-Changin')
On the Cat (ttto Quartermaster’s Stores)
The Doctor
Danny Boy
Eat Bertha’s Mussels
Haul Away Boys
The Singer's Club in Enniscorthy (tune based on The Man who Came Home from Pretoria)
One I Love
Man with Blue Dolphin
The Irish Rover
Deep River Blues
My Grandfather’s Clock
The Queen and the Soldier
Silly Polysyllabist
The Last Battle
Rosin the Bow (aka Old Róisín the Beau, and other variations)
Bluenose
Wild Rover (ttto Banana Boat Song)
Blue Screen Broken Hearted Blues (updated to Zoom Room Blues)
Ballad of Penny Evans
Bonny Streets of Fyvie-o (aka The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie, Peggy-O, Fennario, The Maid of Fife, ...)
Where Shall We Go (poem)
How Beautiful Upon the Mountain
Tail Toddle
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Banks of Ponchartrain
Marcie
Scarlet Ribbons
Mrs Murphy
Greensleeves
Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
The Blind Boy's Dog
Bunessan (piano solo; tune used for Morning Has Broken)
Forty Years Ago (rewrite of Twenty Years Ago)
Charlie Porter
Make and Break Harbour
My Love is Like a Dewdrop
Lord Franklin (Les Barker parody)
Leanabh an Aigh (Blessed Child, in Scots Gaelic, ttto Bunessan)
All the Way Home
Swimming to the Other Side
True Confessions (poem)
Single Player
Let Me Be There
I Have a Dream
ACME
Where Do Dead Animals Go
The Fields of Athenry
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Music to Me

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 06:06 AM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 22/23 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Cat Came Back
I Wish We’d Sailed on the “Jeanie Johnston”
The Civilised World (poem)
Sam’s Racehorse (monologue)
Suede Show Blues
Barney Google
Public Bar (ttto Early One Morning)
False Autumn (poem)
If You Love the Water, Let It Rain
Cad é sin don té sin (sung in English translation)
Cawsand Bay
The Scotsman
The Lone Pilgrim
Roseville Fair (fragment)
Morning Has Broken
Wild Mountain Thyme
Fair Maid of Islington
Maginot Waltz
Dink’s Song
Bad Blood
I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River
Prairie Lullaby
One More Mile
Buddy Better Get on Down the Line
Ukrainian Now
Stewball
Remember Me
Who will Watch the Home Place?
Bygone Days (poem)
Marksman Sam (monologue)
Balding
April Come She Will
Streets of Laredo
????? ???? (Letyat utki) (Ducks are Flying, sung in Russian)
The Lord Into His Garden Comes (The Garden Hymn, extra verses from Meditations Among the Tombs)
A Bottle o’ the Best
A Capital Ship (aka The Walloping Window Blind)
The Coils of Love
The Rosabella
Down Where the Drunkards Roll
Billy Venero
Address on Death (poem)
The Laily (or Laidly, or Loathsome) Worm and the Mackerel (or Machrel) of the Sea
Far from the Home I Love
The Ballad of Michael Collins (aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours)
What'll I Do
The King's Navy
The Cobbler's End
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
My, My, Mama
Darling Nelly Gray
Dark-Eyed Molly
Braw Sailin' on the Sea
Caledonia
Blue Tail Fly (aka Gimme/Jimmy Crack Corn)
If I Could (poem)
Let's Choose Peace
Let's Fall in Love
When I First Came to this Land
The Vampire Come to Whitby
Do You Love an Orange (ttto Do You Love an Apple)
She's Someone's Grandmother
Dillon Bay
Sing, Sugar, Sing
Wild Blossoms
Hobo's Lullaby

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 08:24 PM

Songs, monologues, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 29/30 August 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Home Grown Tomatoes
Thorneymoor Woods
Aggie the Elephant (monologue, aka Little Aggie)
Woodhouse Colliery (poem)
Oblate Spheroids (poem)
Spanish Beaches (ttto Spanish Ladies)
High Germany
Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer
Ten in the Bed (aka Roll Over)
Black is the Colour
O Tell Me Where the Dove has Flown (tune is "Dove of Peace")
Frozen Logger
The Unquiet Grave (Jean Ritchie version)
The Rare Ould Times
The Countersigns
The Baby Tree
If it wasn’t for the ‘ouses in Between
Downed and Drowned
Egyptian Ella
Byker Hill
Till the Dance is Mine
The Keys of Canterbury
Ragged Old Truck
Elsie Marley
Our Ship is Ready
Isabella (adaptation of Keats’ poem)
What’s the Use of Wings?
Westlin Winds
Turn Turn Turn
Songs Stay Sung
The Mountain
Slow Train Through Georgia
Old Zip Coon
The Rich Man and the Poor Man
Doomsday Blues
The Atheist and the Bears (poem)
Violin Farm (monologue)
Hillbilly Heaven
Saucy Sailor
Disco Calypso
Isn't It Grand, Boys
As Time Goes By
In My Grandma's Garden
See You In September
As If He Knows
Sapozhkelekh (in Yiddish; chorus only)
Morning Come, Maria Gone
Guilt and Shame
Room for Company (aka Bartholomew Fair)
Broom o' the Cowdenknowes
As I Roved Out
The Song of the Volga Boatmen (in Russian; "Ey, Ukhnyem!" loosely translated as "yo heave ho!")
Heat Detector
Sweet Thang
The Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Hielan Laddie (often sung as "Donkey Riding")
I Heard You Sing a Song
Sunday Driver
Hungarian shepherds' dance (title unknown; jaw harp instrumental)
Dilmano Dilbero (in Bulgarian)
Awake You Drowsy Sleeper
In China or a Woman's Heart
One I Love
When I was a Cowboy
Rigs of the Time (contemporary verses)
The Recruited Collier
Bring Me a Boat
His Name was Juel
Look to the Rainbow
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 01:53 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 5/6 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Banks of Marble
Old Bones
Cargoes (poem)
Time to Pay the Ferryman (poem )
The Burghers of Calais (monologue)
Bill the Burly Burglar
Sam’s Gone Away (aka Aboard a Man o’ War)
The Ballad of Chris Moser
Schön ist der Morgen (Morning is broken, sung in German)
September Song
Brave Marin (sung in French)
Bury Me in My Overalls
Ludlow Massacre
How Could You Believe Me when I Said I’d Govern, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? (parody of How Could You Believe Me when I Said I Love You, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?)
When I Grow too Old to Dream
Mobile Bay
Cold Mountain
Queen Eleanor’s Confession
Gambling on the Sabbath Day
The Boys of Barr na Sraide
My Dearest Dear (aka The Blackest Crow)
Female Rambling Sailor
The Boxer
The Mill was Made of Marble
All Among the Barley
Your State's Name Here
The Day After Tomorrow
The Lemmings’ Reunion (poem)
The Magna Carta (monologue)
The Kamikaze Reunion Party (recitation)
My Father Was a Driver on the Northwest Railway
I Still Miss Someone
Shepherd, O Shepherd
Stixwould Harvest Song (aka Drink Good Ale)
Little Sadie
Take a Chance
That's He (ttto That's Him)
Try to Remember
McKinley's Rag (aka White House Blues)
Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Geritol Gypsy
False, False
Bonny Portmore
Who Built this House
Farewell to Nova Scotia
Logie o' Buchan
Do You Need Another Hand?
Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Before the Deluge
Tolpuddle Man
I've Been Workin' on the Railroad
I Can See Your Aura and It's Ugly
Medley: In the Sweet By-and-By/The Preacher and the Slave/Joe Hill
Me and My Uncle
The Scarecrow
Working Man
A Miner's Life (aka Union Miners, Miner's Lifeguard)
Satisfied Mind

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 02:05 AM

This website was down for a few days, which prompted me to write these verses, and to sing them at the Mudcat Singaround of 12/13 September 2022, to the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme:

Oh, the wintertime is here [in Australia],
And Mudcat's on the fritz.
How will I learn my songs?
I'm about to lose my wits.

Chorus:
Will ye load, Mudcat, load,
And we'll all browse together,
Downloading lyrics
From the electronic heather.
Will ye load, Mudcat, load?

If the website should crash,
Where will I find another?
Fresno State? Mainly Norfolk?
Or YouTube – what a bother!

Chorus

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 08:47 PM

Songs, recitations, monologues, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 12/13 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Right Said Fred
September Song
How To Give A Cat A Pill (recitation)
Brown Boots (monologue)
Plots
The Bells of Rhymney
Papeta Calhau (sung in Occitan)
I’m Marching Inland
So Handy
You’ll Get By
Dark as a Dungeon
Song of Deal
The Golden City
More Work for the Undertaker
Aged and Mellow
Empty Pocket Blues
Voodoo Queen Marie
The Anti-vaxxer and the Climber
My Meatless Day
The Nightingale Bird
Sleep on Beloved
I Still Miss Someone
The Iona Boat Song
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Roseville Fair
Waltzing’s for Dreamers
Happy Ever After (poem)
Angel of the North (poem)
Father William (recited)
I Love Susie in the Supermarket
Sally Free and Easy
Here I Am Amongst You
O Sinner Man
Embraceable You
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (piano instrumental)
The Gallant Shopping
Eppie Morrie
When a Knight Won His Spurs
Call the Lamas!
Will Ye Load, Mudcat, Load (ttto Wild Mountain Thyme)
(Parody of) Three Score and Ten
Death of Queen Jane
I Want to Buy Peroxide (parody of "I Wandered By a Brookside"?)
(Parody of) Parting Friends
Medley: Unst Boat Song and Þat Mælti Mín Móðir (My Mother Told Me) (in Norn, Old Icelandic, English, and Scottish Gaelic)
Isle au Haut Lullaby
The Bells
What Should I Wear to the Revolution
The Bold Tinker (aka Daniel O'Connell, O'Connell's Steam Engine, Making Babies by Steam)
Singing Through the Hard Times
Come By the Hills
Golden Mansions
Hills of Isle au Haut
How Could You Believe Me when I Said I’d Govern, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? (parody of How Could You Believe Me when I Said I Love You, when You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?)
Only Remembered
Bright Morning Stars

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 21 Sep 22 - 12:15 AM

Songs and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 19/20 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Railroading on the Great Divide
Home Lads Home
When I’m Gone (not the Phil Ochs song)
Beat the Retreat (monologue)
Absent Friends and You
America (My Country ‘tis of Thee)
L’Escriveta (sung in Occitan)
Barbara Allen
Little Boy Fishing off a Wooden Pier
The Mountain
Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk
Funerals
The Future Mrs ‘Awkins
Vicky’s Secret
Her Majesty
No Woman No Cry
Cheek to Cheek
Do Virgins Taste Better (ttto The Irish Washerwoman)
The Bergen
Barroom Girls
Goldwatch Blues
Spanish Pipedream
Charade
Bright Sweaters and Fall
Bonny at Morn
Die Gedanken Sind Frei (sung in German)
I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing (ttto "The Maids of Mourne Shore," the tune commonly used for Down By the Salley Gardens)
Maybe I Won’t Turn Up For Me Death
Sam Drummed Out (monologue)
Love is a Chain
Come All You Virginia Girls
When Your Bells Have Turned Green (ttto Fiddlers’ Green)
The Mary Ellen Starter (parody of The Mary Ellen Carter)
I Can See Clearly Now
There Is a Wall
General Guinness
Let’s All Go Join the Queue (ttto Let’s All Go Down the Strand)
Raven in the Storm
Killed by a Coconut
Banana Republics
San Francisco Bay Blues
Isle of St Helena
Medicine Wheel
In Spite of Ourselves
Stormy
Truth Cannot Be Silenced (ttto Die Gedanken Sind Frei)
The Unquiet Grave (ttto Star of the County Down)
Boat of Silver
Somewhere
The Way I Feel
Streets of London
Find Me an Island
Dimming of the Day
Singing Through the Hard Times
Lilibet's Gone (ttto Lavender's Blue)
All Around My Fat (ttto All Around My Hat)
Crossing the Bar

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Sep 22 - 08:24 AM

Songs, poems, recitations and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 26/27 September 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for over half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Old Joe Clark
Hard Times
The Widow’s Promise
Mandalay (poem) (by Les Barker, not Kipling)
Just a Little Rain
Molly Malone
Errol the Feral Cat
The Broken-down Showman (monologue)
Maiulin (sung in Italian)
Sussex Drinking Song
Till I’m Too Old to Die Young
Feeling Good
Unsaneh Tokef (recited)
Who by Fire
Chickens in the Garden
Wabash Cannonball
75 Septembers
Urge for Going
Strike at the Whale! (Pique La Baleine, sung in English)
Pointing to the Moon
Wee Pot Stove
Johnny MacEldoo
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Four Walls
Edward/Who Put the Blood?
(I Wish I had) Someone to Love Me
Camden
Across the Seas of Time (poem)
The Key of Always (poem)
Label in the Printer (ttto Little boxes)
Clementine
Bone Fido
Sam’s Medal (monologue)
Before I Gaze At You Again
How to Handle a Woman
The Heights of Alma
Evil-hearted Man
Song for Margaret (the one by Charlotte Peters Rock)
Deep Settled Peace (or, There's a Deep Settled Peace in My Soul)
The Isle of Eigg
Light the Pipe
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
I'm Leaving Facebook (ttto Farewell My Friends, aka Parting Friends, aka Canaan's Land)
Library-O
Last Trip Home
The Soldiers Story
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
One Time and One Time Only
Eyes of Night Owls (ttto Eyes of Eagles)
Bread and Fishes
Misalliance
Darcy Farrow
Frances Lee
Ecumenical Hora (ttto Hava Nagila)
The Family of Woman and Man
(When We Go) Rolling Home
One With the Darkness
Housewives' Shanty
Circle of Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 28 Sep 22 - 01:25 AM

I sang Ecumenical Hora at the most recent singaround. The lyrics were written by Murray Porath, the tune is that of Hava Nagila. The version I sang went

Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria;
Allahu Akbar!
Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria; Ave, Maria;
Allahu Akbar!

Nearer my God to Thee, nearer my God to Thee.
Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.
Nearer my God to Thee, nearer my God to Thee.
Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.

Hare! Hare Krishna!
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare,

Allelu! Allelu!
Kyrie Eleison,
Ommmmmmmm.

I don't know where I found these lyrics. Possibly on one of the Usenet newsgroups rec.music.folk or rec.music.filk, could be 30 years ago.

Track 17 of https://archive.org/details/filk_ovff_concert_1 is Murray Porath singing it at the 1984 Ohio Valley Filk Festival concert, but with very different lyrics from what I've posted here.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 05 Oct 22 - 08:44 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 3/4 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Your Daughters and Your Sons
October Song
The Tryphena’s Extra Hand (poem)
The Spider and the Yucca
Tom Lotch (monologue)
Three Wheels on My Budget (ttto Three Wheels on My Wagon)
The Bard of Armagh
Le roi a fait battre tambour (sung in French)
We’ve Got Work to Do
William-O (aka Bay of Biscay)
Lifeboat Horses
The Last Shanty (poem)
The Minstrel Boy
Neocortex
Trouble Child
Bells of Norwich
I Wish that the Wars were all Over
Urge for Going
Three Rows Over, Two Seats Down
Rawtenstall Annual Fair
Night Rider's Lament
Let Her Go Down
The Book of Kevin, Chapter Five
The Pub Landlord’s Labrador
Faraway People (recited)
Winter (poem)
Buffalo Gals
The Starling
Jamaica Farewell
Hard Time Come Again Once More (ttto Hard Times Come Again No More)
Don't Tell Mama
Oró sé do bheatha bhaile ("Welcome Home", in Irish Gaelic)
Arthur McBride (aka The Recruiting Sergeant, Arthur McBride and the Sergeant)
Ballad of the Microwave Poodle
These are My Mountains
Letyat Utki ("Ducks are Flying", in Russian)
The Best of Autumn
Hanging Johnny
Three Score and Ten
The Handsome Cabin Boy
The Fifth of October (ttto The Patriot Game/One Morning in May/The Nightingale)
Autumn Leaves
Soon It's Gonna Rain
Empty-Handed
Songs Stay Sung
Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda ("Alasdair, Son Of Gallant Coll" in Scots Gaelic)
Bridges

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 06:56 PM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 10/11 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Whitby Fisherman (ttto Blessed Quietness)
The Mary Ellen Carter
In Praise of VIA Rail (poem)
Hector the Objector
It Won't Last Very Very Long (monologue)
The Sick Note
Look for Me at Samhain (poem)
Autumn Song
Bessie’s Boil (monologue)
La esposa infiel ("The Unfaithful Wife", version of Seven Drunken Nights - Our Good Man, sung in Spanish)
The Sailor Fireman
How Brightly Beams the Morning Star
Miner’s Washing
The Tale of Old Bill Blunt
Reuben James
The Demon Lover (aka Night Visiting Song)
Steal Away and Pray
In the Sidings Now
The Equestrian Statue
The False Knight on the Road
Marching Inland
Slow Train Through Georgia
My Bonnie Lies Over the Oil Tank (ttto My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
Go Rest High on that Mountain
This is Halloween
He Had a Long Chain On
If You Know What I Mean
My Country 'Tis of Your People You're Dying
Living in the Stilts
Wandering
The Griesly Bride
A Strange Way to Go to be Free (poem)
Every Man Should Have a Shed
New Motorway's Coming (aka Folk Song 73) (monologue)
Pleasant and Delightful
Red is the Rose
The Street Where You Live
My Lady at Tesco (ttto My Lady of Autumn)
Killing the Blues
Fire Down Below
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn)
In My Life
The Long and Lonely Winter
Time to Love Again
Lyke Wake Dirge
Zombie Jamboree
The Fifth Day of October
Rosh Hashanah (ttto Oklahoma!)
The Siren
Oedipus Rex
Things We Said Today
Yesterday
Who Am I Now
I Hate to See You Cry
I Don't Know
Final Trawl

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 05:49 PM

Songs, poems, recitations, tunes, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 17/18 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Lady of Autumn
Carrying Nelson Home
How They Brought the Gnus from Ghent to Aix (poem)
Clancy of the Overflow (recitation)
Three Fatal Females
The Unquiet Grave
Turn the Page Over (ttto The Wild Rover)
Susanna Martin
Qu’allais-tu faire à la fontaine? (sung in French)
Oor Hamlet
Caisleán Droma-Mhor (= Castle of Dromore) (sung in Irish Gaelic)
Hobo's Lullaby
When the Old Man Came Home Sober
Apple Pickers’ Reel
Sweet Memories
Rio Grande
Man Walks Among Us
Silver Dagger
October Song
January Man
Planxty Irwin (tune)
Planxty Fanny Power (tune)
Brother Warrior
Last Trip Home
Four Walls
Harris and the Mare
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Easy and Slow (the Irish song, not the Si Kahn song)
Morningtown Ride
October Winds (aka Castle of Dromore, sung in English and in Irish Gaelic)
Breisleach (in Scots Gaelic)
The Old Chisholm Trail
Mrs Ravoon
(rewrite of) Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Speech at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (reading)
The Boys of the Chelsea School (monologue)
The Headless Horseman
The Owl and the Pussycat
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Loch Tay Boat Song
(rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold
Flicka från Backafall (Girl from Backafall, in Swedish)
The Anti-Vaxxer and the Climber
Half a Man
West Coast Lullaby
My Texas Girl
Mexican Hat Dance (tune is called Jarabe Tapatîo)
Baboon Climbs the Hill / Stellenbosch Boys
Coal in the Stone
Don't Fence Me In
Fair the Heather Grows
The Marvelous Toy
Watts Happening (ttto Don't Fence Me In)
We Should Be Going Home (ttto Rolling Home)
Hymn Song
Find a Way Home

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Oct 22 - 04:46 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 24/25 October 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half of the list, and to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Away Ye Merry Lasses
Mr. Fox (the one by John Pole)
Lucy Gray (poem)
The Monster Mole
We're Living At The Cloisters (monologue)
The Rains Have Come Again
The Ballad Of Springhill
Don Quixote (fragment)
Grey October
Vampire Rag
Didn’t I Dance?
Don’t Fence Me In
Sometimes I’m Calling For You
Lyke-Wake Dirge
Unfortunate Miss Bailey
The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta
Agnes at Hallowe’en (monologue)
The Congleton Bear
The Curmudgeon (recitation, parody of Poe’s The Raven)
Found Dying in the Street
Flirtin’ with Death
Carrying Nelson Home
Phantom of Samhain (poem)
Bringing Mary Home
Tails and Trotters
Tell Old Bill
The Toast Song
Legacies (poem)
The Reluctant Monster
Albert and the 'Eadsman (monologue)
The Preacher's Whiskey Flask
Look for Me at Samhain (poem)
The Spider
The Bell-Ringing
I Had an Old Coat
The Griesly Bride
Death and the Lady
'Illean bithibh sunndach ("Boys Be Happy", in Scottish Gaelic)
Lady Margaret
I Wanna Be a Bonobo
Hej Bystrá Voda ("Oh Fast-Flowing Stream", in Czech)
The Lowestoft Boat (ttto A-Rovin')
Mr Fixit (poem)
A Maiden Sat A-Weeping
Why I'm Different (poem)
Samhain (poem)
Knoxville Girl
Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, sung in English, except chorus in Hebrew)
Somewhere to Begin
Good Old Mountain Dew
Song Sung Blue
Over the Rainbow
Death of Queen Jane
Thíos Cois na Trá Domh (in Irish Gaelic)
Revolutionary Tea
Oregon or Die
Bound for Transylvania
King Henry
(version of) Butcher Boy
Light
The Good in Living

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 04:36 PM

Songs, recitations, poems, monologues, readings, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 31 October/1 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for about half the list. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Griesly Bride
The Lover’s Ghost
The Witch of Fife (recited/dramatized)
She’s a Witch
The Bard (recited)
Three Ravens
The Ballad of William Bloat (recited)
A Bhean Ud Thios (= "Oh Woman Down Yonder", sung in English)
Voces daba un marinero (= "The Sailor was Screaming Out", sung in Spanish)
The Merry Huntsman Reinvented (parody of The Merry Huntsman)
The Monster Mash (recited)
The Devil’s awa’ wi’ the Exciseman
Weela Weela Walya (aka Woman in the Woods)
October Roses
Red Samhain (sung in Russian)
The Unquiet Grave
Bound for Transylvania
A-souling
Du, du liegst mir im Herzen (sung in German)
Gentle Soldier of My Soul
I am Cherry Alive
Hillbillies in a Haunted House (recited)
Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Samhain (poem)
Moon over Bourbon Street
Camptown Races
We Sail the Ocean Blue / I'm Called Little Buttercup (bits)
Hallows' Eve
The Maids of the Northern Lights (poem)
Blood Count Dracula
Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers (monologue)
Tam Lin
Tragedy
Le Fantôme ("The Ghost", in French)
The Private Still
The Brown and Yellow Ale
The Widow's Promise
Tam Glen
Rise Again
The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic)
Look for Me at Samhain (reading)
The Devil and the Ploughman
The Stolen Child
IQ Testing (story)
The Vampire
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Tom Dooley
A Witch's Words to Her Familiar on Samhain (poem)
The Devil and the Smith
Take Me Out(-of-sync) to the Ballgame
The Kelpie's Lullaby
Sentimental Journey
Who were the Witches
The Highwayman (Ochs setting)
Zombie Jamboree
Quantum Mechanics
The Vicar of Bray
Mr Fox
All Scary Critters Got a Place in the Choir (ttto A Place in the Choir)
Ghost Song from Ruddigore ("Painted Emblems of a Race")
The Lincolnshire Vampire
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn)
The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle (sung as The Mudcat Ladies Magical Circle)
I Remember Loving You

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 09 Nov 22 - 04:45 PM

Songs, stories, recitations, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 7/8 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Monique for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Mr. Fox (story)
Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley)
Art (recitation)
Bonfire Night
Don Quixote
Lovely Joan
Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair
Banks of the Sweet Primroses
Ballade en novembre (sung in French)
The Devil at York Minster
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Oh Babe it Ain't No Lie
Tavern Down by the Harbor
Angels Rock Me to Sleep
Broke (recited)
Safe Romance
To the Princess Margaret on her Arrival at Holyrood
Willie McBride Rap
It was All for Our Rightful King
Too Stupid for Democracy
Delia's Gone
The Cat Came Back
Crazy from the Heart
Lady Franklin's Lament
Palace of the Czar (aka Shootin' with Rasputin)
Peace Begins in My Own Heart (ttto Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
Things in Life
Almost Every Circumstance
Lyke Wake Dirge
The Ship Hotel (poem)
Uncle Fred's Shed
Streets of Laredo
On the Sunny Side of the Street
The Black Velvet Band
The Dreadnought
(rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold
My Dearest Dear
Burning Gold
Woody Knows Nothing
Thirteen Florins on the Bar
Candles in the Rain
Wasn't That a Time
Keep on the Sunny Side of Life
Crazy
Sunrise, Sunset
Shirley
Sing with Me
From Me to You
Guy Fawkes (ttto Modern Major General)
Wash My Eyes
Manoa in the Rain
The Final Trawl
Song of the Weaver
If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus
Widows of War
Don't Fence Me In
Where Teardrops Fall
Watts Happening (ttto Don't Fence Me In)
Find Every Ballot (ttto Climb Every Mountain)
Nevada Jane
River of the Big Canoe
Julian of Norwich

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 12:20 AM

Songs, poems/recitations, monologues and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 14/15 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Jabberwocky (recitation)
Constant Lovers
Jenkins’ Ear (poem)
Home Fit for Heroes (poem)
The Germans Bombed our Chippy in the War
Sniper Sandy (monologue)
Pensioner Magee
Walk with Me (poem)
Scarborough Fair
In Thee is Gladness Amid all Sadness (ttto L'Innamorato; lyrics translated from the German, "In Dir ist Freude")
Las fielairas ("The Spinners", sung in Occitan)
(version of) Two Sisters
What is't to Us
Wheel of Fortune (aka Sad Experience Teaches Me)
John Condon
The Day We Went to Blackpool (ttto The Day We Went to Bangor)
Wind River Waltz
This Old World
The True Haunting
The Green Willow Tree (version of The Golden Vanity)
If I had the Copyright on the Word $%^&
Life Passes By (French original is "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit")
Bríd Óg Ní Máille ("Bridget O'Malley," sung in Irish Gaelic)
Somewhere to Begin
The Ferrybank Piper
I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog
Only Remembered
The Lost Words Blessing (I think the singer called it "The Blessing Song")
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella (instrumental)
Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger
Battle of the Somme
Philadelphia Lawyer
Wall of Death
Number Ten (poem)
Bungay Roger
The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem)
The Water is Wide (aka Waly, Waly)
Masochism Tango
Kitty Bairdie
When You Wish Upon a Star
Dream of a Child
Our Town
Seven Bridges Road
Zimmerframe Blues (ttto Summertime Blues )
Thanksgiving Eve
(To) Make You Feel My Love
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime
Downtown Zeno Exit
Eyes of a Painter
Cold Rain and Snow (aka Rain and Snow)
Casus Belli
Halsway Carol
(a different version of) Two Sisters
Air an Somme ("On the Somme", sung in Scots Gaelic)
River of Tears
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Farewell
All the Good People
Geritol Gypsy
Their Brains Were Small and They Died
(parody of) Mockingbird (aka "Hush, Little Baby")
The Road is Always Easy
If I Were Free
Railroading on the Great Divide

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GUEST,Guest Joan F
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 09:53 AM

I sang "Wheel of Fortune", could also be called "Sad Experience Teaches Me" in the 1st round but the line your helper gives as title *isn't* in the song.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 03:59 PM

Thanks, Joan, I'll edit. Was this the song you sang? http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Wheel_of_Fortune_or_Dublin_City.htm

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GUEST,Guest Joan F
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 11:37 PM

No, though it has pretty much the same tune as "Spanish Lady", Dublin City", etc. The ni Dhomnail sisters, whose name I always mis-spell, use my chorus only at the end of their "Spanish Lady".

Someone at the Somerville Armory when we were having pub sings inside there told me my song was supposed to have the last verse I used so I've used it ever since.

I know another song with much the same lyrics but sung to a variant of the "Willow Garden" tune.

Please use the titles I gave in my earlier post.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 06:53 AM

Joan, done.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Nov 22 - 05:01 PM

Joe asked me to put the name of the original version of "In Thee is Gladness" in the chat that Monday, but there was something wrong with my Chat and it wouldn't take typing.

The original version is called L'Innamorato,' and the composer was the Italian Giovanni Gastoldi, died 1622.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 10:13 PM

Songs, poems/recitations and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 21/22 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo)
Turning Toward the Morning
Distant Hills (poem)
Heart of the Heartland (poem)
Brindisi
The Tale of the Lonesome Prawn (monologue)
All Through the Night
Come Back in the Morning (ttto The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy)
The Holly and the Ivy
Pleasant and Delightful (spoken)
I'm Called Little Buttercup
Que se nos va la Pascua ("Easter is Leaving Us, Girls", sung in Spanish)
Folksinger's Ring (ttto Fiddler's Green)
The Old Woman Who Lived in the Wood
On Your Sleeve (poem)
Lobster Salad (recitation, aka Like Ya Would, Paddy's Dream, Kelly's Dream, Paddy Kelly's Dream)
Three Little Birds
A Friend of Mine is Going Blind
Kentish Beers
A Silent Lonesome Sound
When I'm Drunk
Worried Man Blues
Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's
To a Thesaurus (poem)
All Mixed Up
Johnny Todd
In the Summer of His Years
Rivers of Texas
Freedom Come All Ye
Changes
Somos el Barco (chorus in both Spanish and English)
Poor Ditching Boy
The Charge of the Late Brigade
I'm Not as Drunk as People Think I Am
Somebody Would Shout Out Shop (poem)
The Intergalactic Laxative
Winter (poem)
Bring Us in Good Ale
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (poem)
The Shape of Things
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Ain't Got the Blues Blues
Nine Times a Night
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Urge for Going
Down and Out Blues (better known as Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out)
One More Minute
In de Vintertime
The Lady Recruit
If You Say Yes
Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
Dance Ten, Looks Three
The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth (ttto Brisbane Ladies/Augathella Station/Spanish Ladies)
All the Money in the World
Savage Daughter
The Rose of York
See Me Tweet (ttto Ain't She Sweet)
Mary from Dungloe
Autumn Leaves
A Chat with Your Mother
Thanksgiving Eve
The Avant-Garden Song (ttto Garden Song)
Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 29 Nov 22 - 07:44 PM

Songs, monologues and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 28/29 November 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

A Handful of Songs
Goodnight-Loving Trail
The Mission Of Saint Launderette (poem)
At the Vicar's Fancy Ball (monologue)
Confessions of a Songwriter
Somerset Wassail
Skye Boat Song
Paure Satan ("Poor Satan", sung in Occitan)
Will Ye Gang Love
Kelly
November (poem)
Remember the Alamo
Rich People
Nobody Cares about the Railroads Any More
The Lupines and the Poppies
Water, Fire and Smoke
The Falcon Carol (aka Corpus Christi Carol)
Santa Anna
Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin'
9 to 5 Pollution Blues
My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
John O'Dreams (tune based on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6)
Riddles Wisely Expounded (aka The Devil's Nine Questions, Ninety-Nine and Ninety, Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom, ....)
Billy Barlow (version of Cutty Wren)
There's a Hole in the Bucket
Síscéal Nua Eabhrach ("Fairytale of New York," sung partly in English, mostly in Irish Gaelic)
Streets of Derry
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
Hard Times Come Again no More
You are Love
A Poem of Thanksgiving (poem)
Here's Hoping
Plenty for the Few
Steady as You Go
Simple Gifts
Logs to Burn
Until the Dark Time Ends (aka The Comfort of Singing Voices)
The House on the Moor (poem)
When Father Papered the Parlor (monologue)
Versification
Lock-keeper
This Old Mouse (ttto This Ole House)
Fiddler's Green
The Briar and the Rose
Babylon is Fallen
A Circle Game
The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones)
Sing Me the Old Songs
Rose of Desire
Do You Hear what I Hear
Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly)
Sloop John A
Come Back Liza
Uncle Dave's Grace
What's the Use of Wings
Gathering Time (poem)
Heaven
Thanksgiving Prayer
Nevada Jane
Come By the Hills
Crossing the Water

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 20 Dec 22 - 07:30 PM

At long last, songs and such from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 5/6 December 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Logs to Burn (poem and song)
When the Snows of Winter Fall
Christmas At Sea (poem)
Rag Dance Song
Father’s Christmas Toys
The Innkeeper
O Come Emmanuel
I Saw Three Ships (refugee version)
Nadal dels aucèls ("The Carol of the Birds", in Occitan)
Aunt Sue
My Songbird
Bluejay
Christmas 1914
Death or Glory Wassail
Christmas Eve
We've Got Work to Do
The Long and Lonely Winter
Jingle Bells
Who Comes this Night
Horniman Rag
How Anarchy Could Function
I'd Rather be Tending My Sheep
Yorkshire Wassail
Love Call Me Home
You're a Mean One Mr Grinch
Christmas Carol
The Lambskin Carol
Tennessee
Martin Short
Ciad turas mhic dhòmhnaill a ghlaschu (Scottish Gaelic and English, ttto Musselburgh Fair, tune also used in several Australian songs such as The Station Cook, The Great Northern Line, The Sandy Hollow Line)
(story about a young boy and a sled)
Follow the Heron Home
In Dulci Jubilo (in Latin and German)
Gaia's Lullaby
Help Me to Raise 'em
The Man that Slits the Turkeys' Throats at Christmas
Fever
Travelin' Man
Awayday (ttto Gaudete. Several languages, mostly Latin)
Turkeys (poem)
The Turkey's Reply
The Christmas Fairy
The Pickle Tree Carol
Mock Me (ttto Wagon Wheel)
Wasn't that a Mighty Day
Casey's Last Ride
Annexation (version of Yankee Doodle)
Lives in the Balance
While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
(alternative version of) Pleasant and Delightful
God Rest Ye Unitarians
Innocent's Song
Hard-Lovin' Loser
Personent Hodie (in Latin)
The Gambler
The Christmas Goose
Hearth and Fire
Tidings of Candy and Toys (ttto God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
A Foggy Day
Wayside / Back in Time
Farewell to the Gold
Wassail The Silver Apple
Please to See the King
Ballad of the Carpenter
Caravan Song
Take a Chance
If I Needed You

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 20 Dec 22 - 07:41 PM

Songs and such from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 12/13 December 2022, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Pickle Tree Carol
Dark December
The Lily of Arkansas
Christmas Countdown (recitation)
I'm a Little Fairy on the Christmas Tree
Sans Day Carol (aka The Holly Bears a Berry)
Crudités (ttto Gaudete)
Oh, What a Merry Land is England
Cantem Nadal (in Occitan)
Sing the Merry (aka Christmas Song)
Joe and Me (aka Joe and Mary)
When a Child is Born
Ordinary Town
Santa Baby
Fly Away
The Friendly Beasts
The Fields Lie Silent
Just a Single Life
Innocent's Song
The Christmas Song (aka Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Mistletoe Bough
Ai Pepito
The Baby of Mother Mary Turner
Footsteps of the Faithful
The Greatest Story of All
Homeless Wassail and (poem) Could Be, interleaved
Christ's Lullaby (in Scots Gaelic, Taladh Chriosda)
The Gardener (aka Proud Maisrie)
a' Ghrian (in Scottish Gaelic)
I Can't Dance
(New Age version of) Will the Circle be Unbroken
The King's Navy
Poor Johnny
Pretty Boy Floyd
Bethlehem Down
I'll Fly Away
I Count the Stars on Christmas Night (poem)
Forever (poem)
The Policeman's Song
The Christmas Goose
Calling All Angels
(story about a too-tall Christmas Tree)
Raglan Road
Ready for the Storm
Bells of St Mary's (fragment)
Adeste Fideles
Wexford Carol
Bleached-White Jesus
Permission to Dance
(poem)
Here's Hoping
Too Much of a Good Thing
The Pride of Springfield Road
White Christmas
Twelve Days Home for Christmas
William Bloat (ttto Raglan Road)
The Willow Tree
A-Soalin'
Christmas Memories
Holiday Dinner Party (ttto Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
Down in Yon Forest
Ding Dong Ding
Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire (ttto ...)
Thanksgiving Prayer
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Witch Hazel

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 03:32 PM

Songs and other offerings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 19/20 December 2022, mostly in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items that came after I left as the battery in my phone rapidly approached zero charge. Thanks to Felipa and Yorkshire Yankee for clearing up some of my confusion about the last few items on the list. Comments & corrections always welcome.

Gaudete
Homeless Wassail
I've had a Glass of Ginger Wine
Sozzled Santa
Hacia belén va una burra ("A Jenny Goes to Bethlehem", in Spanish)
Personent hodie
Ocho kandelikas (in Ladino)
A Solstice Prayer (poem)
Could it Be? (ttto Let it Be)
The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy
Rock of Ages (Maoz tzur) (sung in English mostly)
Zat You, Santa Claus?
Talk to Me of Mendocino
Doc's Guitar
A Brush with Life (poem)
Skillet Good and Greasy (aka Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy)
In the Bleak Midwinter
The End of Another Year
Halve, by yourself, that...
Hanerot halalu (in Hebrew and English)
Light is Returning
(story about too-tall Christmas tree)
Innocent's Song
Caught in the Coils of Love
A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song)
See, Amid the Winter's Snow
Coventry Carol
Sweet and Shiny Eyes
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Somewhere Along the Road
If I Were Free
Nursie Nursie (monologue)
I'll be Glad when it's All Over
Good King Wenceslas (ttto White Cockade)
The Summer Land (poem)
Helping not Oppressing (aka Striking, ttto Good King Wenceslas)
Metyelitsa ("Snow flurries", in Russian)
Jingle Bell Rock
Oy Chanike (in Yiddish)
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Song for a Winter's Night
Victor Rag
But I Do
Good King Wenceslas (sung in Latin)
Tracks in the Snow (aka Come Walk with Me)
Glory Hallelujah
All the World is Just a Narrow Bridge (Partly in Hebrew, "Kol ha'olam kulo")
Walking in my Winter Underwear (ttto Winter Wonderland)
Session on the Other Side
Three Wise Women
Hang Me, oh Hang Me (aka Been All Around this World)
S'vivon, sov, sov, sov ("Dreydl", in Hebrew)
Hot Buttered Rum
No Christmas in Kentucky
Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl (sung in Yiddish)
Christmas in the Trenches
Maoz tzur ("Rock of Ages") (sung in Hebrew)
Mary's Song
Blessings for lighting the Chanukiah
Witch Hazel

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 08 Jan 23 - 08:55 AM

Edited list of the items offered at the singaround of 26/27 December 2022, as scavenged from the chat and supplemented by personal communications. Additions and corrections eagerly solicited.

When You and I were Young, Maggie
Strike Sound
Ring Out, Wild Bells (recitation)
OH Winter (OH, as in Ohio)
Villancico (Carol, in Spanish)
Slithering
Sherborne
One Day After Christmas
I Still Miss Someone
Morrissey and the Russian Sailor
The Mitcham Line Shunty
Mary's Morning Song
The Twelve Days after Christmas
Frankie and Johnny
River (Joni Mitchell, not Bill Staines)
A Healing In This Night
Broke (poem)
The Boar's Head Carol
Coventry Carol
Saint Stephen
The Music of Strings
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Malpas Wassail
Chariots
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
A Shropshire Lad
In The Shadows (poem)
Plenty for the Few
Cinderella Rock
Joseph Not So Meek and Mild (recited)
The Lag's Song
Absent Friends
The Stranger - Yn Joarree
Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear
The Tinkerman's Daughter
Belleau Wood
The Music Theory Song
Good King Wenceslas
Winter Song
T'ord'nance Survey / Th' Ordnance at 'Burton
Extraordinary Love
Circle Game
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Champion at Drivin' them Crazy
Doc's Guitar (instrumental)
Bah, Humbug
Blue Skies and Meadows of Gold
New Year's Eve
Why I'm Different (poem)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Gentleman Porkers (variant of Gentleman Rankers)
Someday at Christmas
Unicorns
The Christians And The Pagans
I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas
Hunting The Cutty Wren (Les Barker)
Winter / When the Trees Are All Bare
A Bird Without Wings
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (in German)
Loud Sing the Carol
Best Friends (The Unicorn Song)
All Through the Night

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 02:10 PM

Songs, recitations, poems and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 9 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Comments and corrections always welcome.

John Ball
Penny for the Ploughboys
The Ballad of Cosmo McGrew (poem)
The Abandoned Coffee Cream
Joshu-Ah
The Time_Ts are a-Changing (ttto The Times They Are a-Changin')
The Water is Wide
Squalor
The Asteroid Light (ttto The Eddystone Light)
Perqué m'an pas dit (in Occitan)
Do You Sing Any Dylan? (recited)
Battle of New Orleans
Song of the Weather
Eggs and Marrowbones (aka The Old Woman from Wexford; Wikipedia and mainlynorfolk give a dozen other titles)
Cottonwood Canyon
Things Have Changed
McBryde-Argyle Station
Lowlands of Holland
Baby Rose
The Cold Within
A Cold Wind
The Coming of the Roads
Mean Old Bedbug Blues
It's Up to Us
(I Dreamed there were) Unicorns
Fire
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Lady Franklin's Lament (aka Lord Franklin)
Friends I've Made
The Month of January (aka In the Month of January, 'Twas in the Month of January, It was in the Month of January)
Hearth and Fire
Smeòrach Chlann Dòmhnaill (in Scots Gaelic)
The Farmer's Carol
Feels So Near
It's Too Late
Deportee (aka Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Rip Van Winkle
Tyranny (poem)
The Ladies of the January Army
The Writing of Tipperary
Simple Gifts
Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky)
The Three Little Piggs, Revised (story)
The January June
If I had a Hammer (aka The Hammer Song)
Bring Flowers
Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
Follow the Heron Home
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Daddy, What's a Brain? (ttto Daddy, What's a Train?)
Come See the Boys Go Round
The Rose of the San Joaquin (refers to, and same tune as, Tramps and Hawkers)
Fisherman's Luck
Price Tag
Someday Soon
I Would I Were
Drip Drop
Free and Easy for to Jog Along
Chì Mi'n Geamhradh (in Scots Gaelic)
Out in the Catskill Mountains (ttto Big Rock Candy Mountain)
Six Thousand Miles
Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears
Dead Presidents
Bright New Year
Mary Ann
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 05:08 AM

Songs, poems, readings, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 16/17 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Derby Ram
Will the Turtle be Unbroken? (ttto Will the Circle be Unbroken)
Salmon (poem)
Any Old Wind that Blows
The Pensioners’ Pantomime
When I First Came to This Land
Reinstalling Windows (ttto When I'm Cleaning Windows)
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Mon père avait un p’tit champ d’ pois ("My Father had a Small Field of Peas", in French)
We Shall Overcome
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Tá mé 'mo shuí ("I am Awake", in Irish Gaelic) (same tune as The Red-Haired Man's Wife, similar to Sisters of Mercy)
Battle of New Orleans
Poison Beer
Mary Brown Abolitionist
Molasses
Capstan Bar
The Turtle (poem)
We Have a Dream
Follow That Road
Staying Out All Night
Rattlesnake Mountain
He Went to Sleep and the Hogs Ate Him
The Franco Prussian War of the Spanish Succession (read)
Mo Chailín Bán (My Comely Lass, in Irish Gaelic) (similar tune to Dawning of the Day, On Raglan Road)
Flowers of the Forest
Woody Knows Nothing
Blackbird
Rolling Home to Old New England
It Isn't Matter Any More
A Year, a Day, and Twice Forever
The Backlegs of the Cow
Scarlet Raygun
Streets of Laredo
MacCrimmon's Lament
The Merry Golden Tree (version of The Golden Vanity)
Pangur Bán (poem, "White Pangur")
Doc's Guitar (instrumental)
The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, Eh
Shining Down on Sennen
The Old Cobbled Streets
Keys of Canterbury
In Contempt
My Granny's a Wild Flying Dove (ttto My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove)
Tomorrow
The Old Churchyard
Frankie and Albert
Nevada Jane
Pretty Saro
Rosa Parks
All the Pretty Little Horses (aka Hush-a-Bye)
Hold On to Me Babe
Homegrown Tomatoes
They're Taking it Away
The Boys of Barr na Sraide
Worried Man Blues
Honeysuckle Rose
The January Woman (ttto The January Man)
Cossack Lullaby (in Russian)
Paradise
Windmills
I Am the Wind
The Hard Cheese of Old England
Louisiana 1927
May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You
Custard Creams (ttto John O' Dreams)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 12:10 AM

Songs, poems, readings, stories and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 23/24 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Hunting the Cutty Wren (parody of The Cutty Wren, Hunting the Wren)
The Granemore Hare
The Song of Stars (poem)
A Brief Life (poem)
Two short eulogies to Les Barker (recited)
The Truth about the Loch Ness Monster
Long Black Veil
Filking on a Sunday Afternoon
untitled poem about Larry the Cat
Polly Von/Vaughan
Sally I’m Thinking of You (ttto That was Before I Met You)
Sweet William's Ghost
Woodstock
La serrana ("The Mountain Girl", in Spanish)
Green Grow the Rashes
The Air in America
Peter's Song
Turtledove Done Drooped His Wings
The Wendigo
No More Fish, No Fishermen (ttto See, Amidst the Winter's Snow)
Sardines
People Say Strange Things
Fair and Fause
The Verb To Be (reading)
Sodger Laddie
I'm Going to German
Boozing
Ballyronan Maid
The Storms are On the Ocean
Gil Morice (= Child Maurice)
The Wendigo Case (story)
My Heart's in the Highlands
Toast to the Lassies (poem)
Driving By Judy's
Pastures of Plenty
I'll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig
Amnesia (poem)
Scottish Food and Drink
High Germany
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Tell Old Bill
The Scotsman
Smile
You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'
Green Green Rocky Road
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal
Month of January (same tune as Leaving Derry Quay = Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore)
Dragon Song
Lizzy Lindsay
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
Johnny Macree (poem)
Goodbye Booze
Geritol Gypsy
It Could Have Been Me
When You and I were Young, Maggie (piano instrumental)
Holocaust Memorial Day (poem)
Has Anybody Seen (ttto Abraham, Martin and John)
Wedding Bell Blues
Jaquima to Freno
Amhrán Mhuinse (in Irish Gaelic)
An Cailín Álainn (in Irish Gaelic, same tune as Mingulay Boat Song)
Good Fish Chowder (aka Jerry Mulligan)
Going Home (ttto Rolling Home)
Keep Hauling
Dona, Dona
The Mistletoe Bough Mystery
Medhel an Gwyns ("Soft is the Wind")
Hymn Song

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 09:17 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 30/31 January 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

If I had a Hammer
A Sailor’s Life
The Royal Charter (poem)
Sugar in the Hold Below
The Weaver and the Factory Maid
Early One Morning
My Meatless Day (monologue)
When Icicles Hang by the Wall
The Cuckoo
The Coils of Love
I Can Hew
Bold Riley
The Shoemakers' Holiday (aka Round Boys Round Indeed)
Big River
I'm an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
Yo Soy un Pobre Vaquero ("I'm a Poor Cowboy", in Spanish)
Angels in the Snow
Mother, I Climbed
The Really Strangest Dream
Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War (aka Susan's Adventures in a Man-of-War)
With a Little Bit of Luck
Zog Nit Keynmol (alternating Yiddish and English stanzas)
Destroyer Benson (ttto The Sick Note = Why Paddy's Not at Work Today = Murphy and the Bricks, which was ttto The Garden where the Praties Grow)
Gabhaim Molta Bhride ("I Praise Brigid", in Irish Gaelic)
Amhrán ne Féidireachta ("Songs of Possibility", in Irish Gaelic)
Liza in the Summertime (aka She Died on the Train)
Looking for Trouble
To Where You Are
The Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich, All Shall Be Well)
Eliza (ttto Delilah)
The Photocopier (poem)
Label in the Printer (ttto Little Boxes)
The Parting Glass
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
Anathea
Way Down in the Mines
Metyelitsa ("Snow Flurry", in Russian)
Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
How Long, How Long Blues (aka How Long Blues, aka How Long, How Long)
How to Stand Still
Suburbs of Eden
If I Loved You
Destitution Road
When You and I were Young, Maggie
The Luckiest Sailor
Skin (ttto You've Got to Have Heart)
For the Sake of the Republic
Bloody Sunday (Joe Mulheron, not U2; ttto 1913 Massacre)
Goodbye Old Booze
The Unicorn Song (piano instrumental)
Ellan Vannin
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Time has Made a Change in Me
Hold on Tight

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Feb 23 - 11:11 PM

Songs, poems, spoken word, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Philadelphia Lawyer
Holland Handkerchief
The Four Trees (poem)
Song of Wandering Aengus (poem)
Spring song
Please Don’t Pull Our Local Down
Villikins and Dinah
Hard Case
Honoré, mon enfant ("Lord Randall", in French)
Faded Coat of Blue
You'll Get Used to It
The Gay Fusilier (same tune as Waltzing Matilda)
Baptism of Fire
Scuppernong Day
Falling in Love
Uncle Joe
I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand)
General Guinness
Seven Spanish Angels
San Antonio Rose
Chicken Cordon Blues
Up, Up, and Away
Who Shall Count for Thee?
I Don't Want to Get Well (aka I'm in Love with a Beautiful Nurse)
Duncan and Brady
Don't Sit on My Jimmie Shands
Cannily, Cannily
The Land Beyond the Blue
Shining Dancer (poem)
Angel in a Bar
Pokegama Bear
Sensodyne (ttto Reynardine)
Annabel Lee (poem)
Come Along You Drunken Bums
Walk with Me (poem, aka The Raucous Cry of the Gulls)
King of Scurf
The I Don't Know where I'm Going, But I'm Going Nowhere in a Hurry Blues
Marry the Man Today
West Shore Trail
(Lamentation for) Anac Cuan (aka Anach Cuan, Anach Cuain, Anac-cuain, Anacuin, ....)
Willie the Weeper
Land of the Bottom Line
The Orange and the Green
Casey ay the Bat (poem)
Oh to be Back with You
Now Our Meeting is Over (aka Meeting is Over, Land on the Shore)
Army Life
Gene-Modified Food (ttto Food, Glorious Food)
You're the Girl I Love
Qualification of a Scout (spoken)
Smoky Bars no Longer
Planxty Fanny Power (instrumental)
Military Life (aka The Jerk Song)
I'll be Seeing You
I Could Write a Book
The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones)
Even a Gray Day
Survivor Leave
Batter Your Sole (ttto Fathom the Bowl)
Last Trip Home
The Ballad of Crispus Attucks
Run and Catch the Wind
Up With People
Oh, Susannah
Across the Great Divide
When I'm Gone

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 15 Feb 23 - 07:45 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

One of The Roving Kind
Lovers & Friends
Just Another Love Song (poem)
Tom Lotch (monologue)
Love on the Dole
My Way through the Blue Cocoon
Cornflower Blue
Down by the Riverside
Ring of Fire
La mora cautiva (aka El dio de los torneos; "The Captive Moorish Girl", in Spanish)
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (poem)
Plaisir d'Amour (in French, and some English)
A House is Not a Home
Willie Taylor
Wonderful, Wonderful Day
Settling Down
The Day the Piddletrenthide Jug Band Hit the Charts
The Hellbound Train
Dark-Eyed Molly
The Ballad of Erica Levine
Vicky's Secret
Dark Old Waters
Loch Tay Boat Song
Take Off Your Old Coat
In My Prime
The Lovesick Maid (aka Curragh of Kildare, The Winter it is Past)
Song of the Swift
My Dearest Dear (aka The Blackest Crow)
An Vailintin Buan ("The Eternal Valentine," in Irish Gaelic)
The Dutchman
(I'm in Love with) A Wonderful Guy
All the Diamonds
Waltzing Matilda (piano instrumental)
Hal-an-Tow
Changes
Exercise 77 (aka Amourette)
I Will Love You in the Setting of the Sun (poem)
Love on the Line
The Book of Love (Stephin Merritt, not The Monotones)
Have I Told You Lately
The Shmuck Song (ttto Thirty Years a Princess and Never a Queen)
Somewhere
Gardening
The Wild Geese (aka Norland Wind)
The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn
Make You Feel My Love
The Bee
Blank Space
Love Call Me Home
Sufficiently Unique (poem)
Dawning of the Day
Bound for the Mountains and the Sea
Geordie
Oh, Boy!
He Stopped Loving Her Today
For All We Know
You'll Never Know
When You and I were Young, Maggie
Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me
You Are Love
The Devil's Courtship (version of Paper of Pins / The Keys of Heaven / The Keys of Canterbury / etc., etc.)
Slow Romance
Sing with Me
A Bench by the Sea
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Northern Tide
Regretting What I Said (full title: Regretting what I said to you when you called me at 11:00 on Friday morning to tell me that 1:00 Friday afternoon you were gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab, to go out to the airport, to catch a plane, to go skiing in the Alps for two weeks. Not that I wanted to go with you; I wasn't able to leave town, I'm not a very good skier, I couldn't expect you to pay my way, but after going out with you for three years, I don't like surprises.)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 11:38 PM

Songs, poems, spoken word, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich, aka All Shall Be Well Again)
I Don’t Like Mondays
Cattle Trucks (poem)
It Couldn’t Happen Now (poem)
Strawberry Fair
Dirty Old Town
Hill of Little Shoes (poem)
Shenandoah
Donna Lombarda (in Italian)
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (poem)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (spoken word)
The Gruen Watch Song
Roger's Courtship
Sweet Sunny South (aka Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South)
Master of the Sheepfold
Bring Me Back a Banana
Because Of (English version of Iranian "Baraye")
Old Brown's Daughter
Wade in the Water
Why Walk When You Can Fly
The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom
As Sylvie was Walking
Too Close to the Wind
Turning Toward the Morning
Down South Blues
Won't You Help Me to Raise 'Em
Where the Blarney Roses Grow (aka Blarney Roses)
The Village Ladies' Pancake Race
The Frozen Logger
Cobweb of Dreams
The Snow of Deep Midwinter (poem)
Ninety-Nine and Ninety (aka The Devil's Nine Questions, Riddles Wisely Expounded, ...)
South Australia (aka Bound for South Australia)
Clementine (aka Oh, My Darling Clementine)
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
I Love Susie in the Supermarket
Vegematic
The Southern Girl's Reply
Isle of Hope
The Last of the Great Whales (aka The Last Leviathan)
The Shores of Avalon
Maui Whales (ttto Rolling Down to Old Maui)
The Trimdon Grange Explosion
The Flowers of Bermuda
Woody Knows Nothing
Father's Grave
Row On
Ceres and Pluto and Eris, ... Oh My!
Poor Lazarus
The Great Salish Sea
Gunga Din (poem)
Harriet Tubman
Welcome to the Store
The Streets of New York
He Plays the Violin
Roger the Miller (aka My Father's Gray Mare)
Tunnel Tigers
The Ways of Man
Frobisher Bay
Love Makes Me Stupid
I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair
Farewell to Tarwathie
Just the Way You Look Tonight (piano instrumental)
How Woman Got Even with Man
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
Iko Iko (aka Jock-A-Mo)
Take Your Time
Dark as a Dungeon
Bubble Up Economy
The Leaving of Liverpool
Heartwood
Side By Side

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 02 Mar 23 - 06:05 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 27/28 February 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Down The Old Plank Road
Sea Coal
If Rivers Turned and Flowed Upstream (poem)
Another Year of Vanished Time (poem)
Mary Had a Little Bug (monologue)
A Brief Pageant of English Verse (recitation)
Reynardine
Yesterday (parody)
Spring
Don’t Fence Me In
Mon amant de Saint-Jean (My Lover of Saint-Jean, sung in French)
Polly Wolly Doodle
Concertina medley: Lament for Owen Roe, Humors of Castlecomer, Road to Lisdoonvarna
Hullabaloo Belay
God's Gonna Make Things Over (same tune as Cold Rain and Snow?)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Ten Thousand Miles (aka Turtle Dove, The Blackest Crow, My Dearest Dear, ....)
Ashokan Farewell (guitar instrumental)
A Proper Sort of Gardener
Bubble Up Economy
Heffle Cuckoo Fair
Seminole Blues
The Unquiet Grave
Celia Griffin
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
The Dream Tree
The Half-Hitch
I Ain't Afraid
The Handsome Cabin Boy
Miracle on St. David's Day (poem)
I Remember Loving You
Silver in the Stubble
It Was the Surprise More Than Anything (poem)
The Water is Wide
Gold Watch Blues
Spring Cleaning
The Drover's Dream
Grounds for Violence (ttto Sound of Silence)
Down the Back Alley
The Wild Tchoupitoulas (aka Meet de Boys on the Battlefront)
Folsom Prison Blues
How Can I Keep from Singing?
254 Shades of Gray
George Collins
Los Laureles (in Spanish)
Admiral Benbow (aka Brave Benbow)
Passing Through
Mingulay Boat Song
If Ever I Would Leave You
The Massacre of Glencoe

At this point, something happened to close the session down. People came back, one by one,
and an informal session began. We sang How Can I Keep From Eating?, Fare Thee Well Metrecal
(ttto Polly Wolly Doodle), and Gopher Guts before order was restored. The Singaround proper
continued:

Up Where We Belong
Lean on Me
Iko,Iko
Walker Behind the Wheel
There's the Day
The Green Cockade
Pity the Down-Trodden Landlord
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
The Music of the World a-Turnin'
Willie Moore
Who Am I Now
Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag
The Gower Wash Day (ttto The Gower Wassail)
February March
Somos El Barco (We Are the Boat, in English, chorus in Spanish)

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 09 Mar 23 - 10:48 PM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 6/7 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Thanks to Felipa for a correction. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Long Tall Texan
The North Wall
2 Percent (poem)
The hair dryer (monologue)
Springtime in Yorkshire (poem)
Pleasant and Delightful
Spring (poem)
People are Crazy
Romans and Britons
The Cliffs of Baccalieu
Silver Threads and Golden Needles
Cecila ("Cecile", in Occitan)
The Nutting Girl
As I Roved Out
Erin-Go-Bragh (aka Duncan Campbell)
Ordinary Killers
Iko, Iko
The Candlelight Fisherman
Turning Toward the Morning
Sandwood Down to Kyle
Crackdown Addict
A Whaler's Tale
Maginot Waltz
Oregon Inlet
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Lord Randall
Lydia the Tattoed Lady
When First Unto this Country
Finnegan's Wake
The Nearness of You
Looky Looky Yonder
A Tribute to Les Barker (poem)
Heave Away
Friendship
As Tears Go By
Dimming of the Day
Angel From Montgomery
Blackwaterside
From the Source Down to the Sea (poem)
Weather Lore
The Minstrel
Where Rainbows Never Die
The Mardi Gras Song ("La chanson des Mardi Gras" in English, with one chorus in French)
The Good in Living
Ned on the Hill
Spancil Hill
Ain't Nobody Got the Blues Like Me
Byker Hill segue into Elsie Marley
Taking Flight
The Prophet
These are My Mountains
Take Your Time
Travel These Ways
The Hamentashen Chorus (ttto The Hallelujah Chorus)
Share the Road with Me
Young Moon's Lament (ttto Yangtze River Shanty)
Daddy Take a Nap
The Minstrel Boy
Please Don't Bury Me
Fuigfidh Mise an Baile Seo ("I Will Leave this Town", in Irish Gaelic)
Smile
Donegal Rain
If I Were Free
Lay Down Beside Me
Blue Boat Home
The Widow's Promise
A Fine Time (ttto Lucille (Kenny Rogers, not Little Richard))
Sweep Horizons Clean
Jubilee

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 04:57 AM

Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 13/14 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in, and thanks to Waddon Pete for a correction. Did anyone recognize the tune used for "The Cruise of the Calabar"? Comments and corrections always welcome.

Time to Remember the Poor
Two Magicians
All Roads Lead to Rome (poem)
The Fruitmachineaholic
The Geebung Polo Club (poem)
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Farewell He
Rust on the Tracks
The Nightingale (American version)
I'll Twine Midst the Ringlets / Wildwood Flower
When the Boys are on Parade
Couldn’t Buy a House in San Francisco
The Bluebells of Scotland
The Last Minstrel Show
Trouble in Mind
Ain’t Got the Blues, Blues
The Final Trawl
I am Cherry Alive
Islip, Long Island (ttto Kilkelly)
Reuben Ranzo (sung in Swedish)
Slieve Gallon Braes
The Fox (aka Daddy Fox, The Fox Went Out, ....)
Bridgid O’Malley
He’s a Cowboy
Believe Me, Sligo
Nottamun Town
Fiddler's Green
Let Union Be (in All Our Hearts, aka Come My Lads)
Old Brown's Daughter
The Road Beside the Mill (poem)
A Spring Song
The Travelling Post Office (poem)
Red is the Rose
William Brown (aka Keep that Wheel a-Turning)
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
The Lovin' of the Game
Digging (poem)
Who Will Watch the Home Place?
Railroading and Gambling
A Circle Game (Not the Song by Joni)
The Jeannie C.
Ballad of Lewis Mills (ttto The Handsome Cabin Boy)
Song for Ireland
The Cruise of the Calabar (to a familiar tune, which I couldn't quite place – help?)
The Rare Ould Times
In and Around Nashville
Wild Rose of the Mountain
Isn't it Grand, Boys
Bread and Roses
I Can't Depend on Love
Honesty
(Australian version of) Gentle Annie
Aragon Mill
Engine 143 (aka The F. F. V., The Wreck on the C. & O., ....)
Cowboy Fireman (aka Trusty Lariat)
Mothers Teach Your Sons
Launderland (ttto Aragon Mill)
Wreck of the Old 97 (ttto The Ship that Never Returned)
Come Fare Away (aka Marnie)
Run and Catch the Wind
Up With People
The White Shepherd
Many a New Day
Morningtown Ride

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 09:44 PM

Songs, poems, monologues, instrumentals, and spoken word from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 20/21 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Life Is Hardest When You’re Dumb
Happy Anniversary, Darling (poem)
I Went To Market
Herbert Jones’s Mother
Balbas (monologue)
Froggy Went A Wooing-O
High Germany
The Girl With the Waterfall
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Daddy Be Gay
Dear Aunt May
Annachie Gordon
A Sailorman’s Port In a Storm
Thistle Song (Ttto Garden Song)
The Working Class Stranger
Lazy River
Rent War
Frost Diamonds
Down and Out Blues
Ramblin’ (aka Danville Girl)
Two Lovely Black Eyes
The Iron Moulder's Wedding
Beans Taste Fine
One of the Has-Beens
Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental)
Cold Missouri Waters
The Green Bed
Lobachevsky
The Old Orange Flute
Roseville Fair
Fear (poem)
Psychotherapy (ttto Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Mothers, Daughters, Wives (spoken)
When I First Came to This Land
The Burnt-Out Old Man (An Seanduine Dôite, in English)
The Kilnamartyra Emigrant
Fire Down Below
Step It Out, Nancy
Spring Song
Tom Joad (ttto John Hardy)
When an Old Friend Lays Down
We Irish
Ashfields and Brine
The One-Legged Cowboy
Roseville Fair (Les Barker version)
Dancers
To Make You Feel My Love
The Reel of Stumpie
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Yellow on the Broom (ttto The Female Drummer)
Rambling Irishman ("Lough Erne", in English)
What Did You Learn in School Today? (with added verses)
Turn the Page Over (ttto Wild Rover)
My Singing Bird
Stormy Winds (aka Shepherds are the Finest Men)
We Hate to See Them Go
All the Way Home
What Makes Me Love Him?
Captain Beaky (poem)
Ainnir Dheas na gCiabhfholt Donn (in Irish Gaelic)
Reedy River
In Apple Blossom Time
A Bench by the Sea
Aura Lee

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GUEST,Guest Joan F
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 11:08 AM

I read that the tune to "An Seanduine Doite" is "The Campbells Are Coming!".

How you feel about this depends on how you feel about the Campbells.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 29 Mar 23 - 01:37 AM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 27/28 March 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

The Dogs’ Party
The Night Paddy Murphy Died
Spot, The Eternal Dalmatian (poem)
The Spear Carrier
What Fortunes Guide a Sailor
Le garçon jardinier (sung In French)
Michael Row the Boat
Beautiful People
Going Home (monologue)
Anything Goes
Little Willie’s My Darling
Return to the Land
What Might Have Been
Sally Free and Easy
Party Lights
The Week Before Easter
To the Begging I Will Go
How Many Need Die?
Poverty Knock
The Strange Tale of the Plymouth Volare (aka Ghost Driver in the Sky)
Rambler, Gambler
Torn Screen Door
Cowboy's Dream
Witch Hazel
Voices, That's All
Feed the Stranger (poem)
Eawr Sarah's Getten a Chap
Mother Always Wants to Stay at Home
I'm Workin' My Way Back Home
Hillbilly Heaven
The Water is Wide
As I Roved Out (aka The Deluded Lover)
Bye Bye Baby
The Girls of Glossop Road
Miles and Miles of Texas
Come Spend a While With Me
Bali-Ha'i
Shepherdess
Yellow Metal (ttto Buffalo Skinners)
The Greatest Story of All
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Walk, Shepherdess, Walk (ttto Plaisir d'Amour/Can't Help Falling in Love)
Rose of Desire
Holy Now
Dream Angus (in Scots Gaelic and English)
Ojos Azules ("Blue Eyes", in Spanish)
Mary Anne
Lemon Tree
Friends Like These
Butterfly
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Keep You in Peace
The Great Storm is Over
Red Marbles
Keep You in Peace

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 04 Apr 23 - 06:43 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 3/4 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Flower Carol
The Gas Man Cometh
Farewell to Donald (Poem)
This Praying Mantis (Poem)
Father Forgive Them
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
The Man With the Single Hair (Monologue)
Mother’s Midlife Crisis
La Doncella Guerrera (sung In Spanish)
Mein Herr
A Mother’s Letter (Recitation)
Panther In Michigan
Si Me Quieres Escribir (sung In Spanish)
See See Rider
Hesitation Blues
The Foggy Dew
When I Have Seen
I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal
I Will Bring You Home
Jesus Gave Me Water
Ramble Away
Guenivere and the Fire
Some Little Bug
The Chivalrous Shark
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
What Could I Do? (Poem)
The Deserter
Simple Gifts (aka The Gift to be Simple)
The Society Upon the Stanislaus
‘Til I’m Dead
Go to Sleepy Little Baby
Pull Down Below
Candy Man Blues
Nine Apples of Gold
Bread and Fishes
Marianne
Piano Man
Ani Ma’anim ("I Believe", sung in Hebrew)
(rewrite of) Jerusalem of Gold
Cows With Guns
Ho Young Rider (fragment, aka The Apple-Cheeked Rider)
Miller Without Care (story, aka The Wise Miller, The Carefree Miller)
Ragged Old Truck
Silver Dagger
Already Dead
The Angels Rolled the Stone Away
Copshawholme Fair
Way Down the Road
Ho Young Rider (one stanza, see above)
The Unseen Song (aka Birdsong)
The Weight
Foolish Questions
Abdul Abulbul Amir
Peace Call
Friday Morning
Other Side to This Life
The Dolphins
People Get Ready
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (version of Froggie Went Courting)
The Irish Ballad
Windmills
Away With Rum
Safe Home

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 12 Apr 23 - 02:29 AM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 10/11 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Jesus Christ (ttto Jesse James)
Agamemnon
The Book of Kevin Chapter 1 (poem)
Spider by the Gwydir (monologue)
Wish I Could be Nice and Warm
Spring (poem)
You Bash the Balrog (ttto Waltzing Matilda)
Adir Hu (sung in Hebrew)
Bay of Fundy
La ragazza guerriera (sung in Italian dialect)
Haul Away (or Sail On)
Step Right this Way
Chickens in the Garden
Sweet William
Sheep Crook and Black Dog
Collier Laddie
Ready for the Storm
Aunt Sue
Canadee-I-O
When I was a Boy in Arkansas
The Widow Needs a Husband
You are Not Alone
The Pinery Boy
Sussex Shepherdess
Singing Up the Sun
At the Foot of Canal Street
Heave Away
Pitmen’s Union
When I was in My Prime
Desperate Dan
Wood River
Queen of the Silver Dollar
Zog, Maran ("Tell Me, Marrano", in Yiddish )
Night Rider’s Lament
When the Forsythia's in Bloom (ttto When the Yellow's on the Broom)
Sweet Thyme
Beacons at Beltane (poem)
Heart Tattoo
Llewellyn Walking
Lost on the Lady Elgin
Billy Riley
These Sad Poems (poem)
Respectable
Ma Nishtanah ("The Four Questions", in Hebrew and English)
The Unreconstructed Rebel (aka Good Old Rebel)
So Will We Yet
The Banks of the Dee
I'd Pluck a Fair Rose
Sea Change
Herring Our King
Winds of Morning
Charlie Porter
The Old Man's Wish
Across the Hills
The Blackest Crow (aka Dearest Dear)
Bells of Norwich (aka Julian of Norwich, All Shall be Well Again)
Harmony Road
Down By the Dockyard Wall
I'm the Man that Built the Bridges
River

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GUEST,Guest Joan F
Date: 16 Apr 23 - 11:29 PM

Its "Ma Nishtan*aw*". I sing Ashkenazi-Glitzianer ceremonial Hebrew, not modern conversational Israeli Hebrew.

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 22 Apr 23 - 02:02 AM

Songs, poems, monologues, recitations, and readings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 17/18 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Farthest Field
Old Thames-side
The Book of Kevin Chapter 2 (poem)
Black Velvet Band (parody)
Keys of Canterbury
7 Deadly Sins (redone)
Sally Sluppers (monologue)
Isn’t it Grand, Boys?
God Moves on the Water (aka Titanic, The Sinking of the Titanic)
April Morning
Donzela que vai à guerra (sung in Portuguese)
Funerals
Rearranging Deckchairs (ttto Handsome Cabin Boy)
One More Day
Friendless Mary
Blackwaterside
The Eagle and the Hawk (Magpie, not John Denver)
Their Brains were Small and They Died
Cool Water
The Briar and the Rose
Pintame Angelitos Negros (sung in Spanish)
Kol Ha'Olam Kulo ("Narrow Bridge", sung in Hebrew)
Botany Bay
Starbucks of County Down (ttto Star of the County Down)
Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler Song)
Tá Mé i Mo Shuí ("I am Awake", sung in Irish)
Blackberry Picking Song (poem)
These Songs
Sonny’s Dream
Funeral Song
The Sun Goes Down (poem)
Faded Rose (poem)
Mercedes Benz
Rest Quiet (poem)
Vanity
Hill of Little Shoes (recited)
The No Account's Funeral (monologue)
Loving Arms
The Prayer of the Children
Abilene
Brown Skin Girl
A Tale of Jesus (aka Baby Born)
Solid Ground
Invitation to a Funeral
The Tree of Life (reading)
What's the Life of a Man
The Call and the Answer
Black Angel Blues
Blue
Dink's Song
Mr Taxman (ttto Mr Sandman)
Last Call
The Secret of Life
Come Back Liza
Finnegan's Wake
If I Should Die Tomorrow (poem)
While Passing By the Green
The Ball-Playing Song
My Funeral
Daisy a Day
Cruel Mother (aka Greenwood Side-i-o)
Song of the Lower Classes
Crossing the Bar
The Drowned Sailor
My Love is Like a Dewdrop
Detritus (poem)
You'll Be Called
Hymn Song