Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Jan 24 - 04:17 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 29/30 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Put it on the Ground Brave General Wolfe Forefathers (poem) Hauf Measures (monologue) Plots Granny's Old Armchair Innisvaddy Annie A Bottle o' the Best Lay Down (aka Candles in the Rain) Probably Probably Not (ttto Poverty Knock) I Know Why and So Do You Little River Trouble In Mind Old Dogs I Will Be the One Ring Around the Moon / Ring the Living Bell / Shine the Living Light Up in the Mornin' Early When I Have Seen Mon Vieux ("My Old Man", sung in French) Take These Chains from My Heart St. Patrick Battalion Prophecy of Love There was an Old Soldier (aka Old Tobacco Box; ttto Turkey in the Straw / Old Zip Coon) Hospice (poem) Dying at Home My Texas Girl Pride of Man We Never Mention Aunt Clara Octopus's Garden A Most Peculiar Man Leave Her Johnnie (traditional tune, with lyrics by Cicely Fox Smith) The Ballad Singer (poem) Song for Ireland The Quiet Life (poem) T'Owd Brahn Hen Pseudonyms La Pique (aka Flash Frigate, The Fancy Frigate, Don Pedro, The Liverpool Packet) Lovely Nancy Metyelitsa ("Snow Flurries", sung in Russian) Look what They've Done to My Song, Ma Soldier, Soldier A Lover's Heart Lily the Pink Glory of Love Blank Space I Still Miss Someone Shuttle Pantomime (poem) Shuttle Game Give Me the Roses Sorry the Day I was Married Young and Healthy The Cruel Mother Shelter Dreams Deferred How Woman Got Even with Man The Lost Words Blessing Heart of Gold The Quiet Faith of Man |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 23 Jan 24 - 11:13 PM Songs, monologues, poems, recitations, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 22/23 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much data, and to Felipa for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Quite Early Morning Lang May Yer Lums Reek The Acknowledged Expert (monologue) Teaching My Worm How to Swim (recited) Where Will the Last Flower Grow? The Lakes of Killin The First Storm of Autumn (poem) A La Tor De Marmanda (In The Tower of Marmanda) (in Occitan) Try to Remember Three Craws Crossing the Bar Cordova Bridges For Margaret Ann (concertina instrumental) Times are Getting Hard, Boys Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa' New Sounds in a Hard Rain (variation on A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall) The Rasta Masta has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta Did She Mention My Name? A Song for My Father Good Riddance (aka Time of Your Life) Lonesome Pine Special (The Sinking of the Good) Reuben James Ae Fond Kiss The Health Forecast (poem) Address To A Haggis (poem) The Weather Lore The Frozen Logger The Courtyard (poem) Erev Shel Shoshanim (Hebrew & English translation) Marching Inland Breaking Up is Hard to Do The Minstrel Boy Funiculi, Funicula Winter Wonderland Wait Till I Put on My Robe The Rigs o' Barley (aka Corn Rigs, aka Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs) Declaration (poem) Toast to the Lassies The Recruited Collier The Silver Tassie Waltz Into Winter Cawsand Bay (same tune as Molly Malone) The Cruel Mother Unseen Song Burning Gold The Natural Girl for Me Railroading on the Great Divide Such a Parcel o' Rogues in a Nation (aka Parcel o' Rogues in a Nation, aka Rogues in a Nation, aka Parcel o' Rogues) The Minstrel (amended version) The Garden Song Dark as a Dungeon We Shall Overcome The Procrastinator I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy Absentee January Lullaby Pianomaster (poem) Predicting in the Mainline The Isle of St Helena Aye Waukin' O (in Scottish English) / Cadal Cha Déan Mi (in Scottish Gaelic) Knitting Song (ttto Garden Song) Pretty Saro Windmills The Bonny Wee Thing The January Mom (ttto January Man) Quite Early Morning (reprise) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jan 24 - 06:11 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals, monologues, and readings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 15/16 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to MaJoC for additional information. Corrections and comments always welcome. Love Call Me Home The January June (ttto The January Man) Get Your Butt Over Here! (poem) The Ballad of Long Gone Jones (recited) Better Get Your Body Warmer On We Have Got a Power Cut (ttto Mary Had A Baby) The Rio Grande The Green Willow Tree (aka 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)) Sowing on the Mountain Skuld gammel venskab rejn forgo ("Should old friendship be purely forgotten?", sung in Danish ttto Auld Lang Syne) La finforleta (sung in Occitan) Hole in the Ground Pretty Boy Floyd Peace in the Valley The Minstrel and the Bear Here Comes the Sun The Leaving of Liverpool The Ball-Playing Song Keep Your Hands on the Plow (aka Gospel Plow, aka Hold On, with Civil Rights verses) Captain Wedderburn's Courtship Water from a Stone Battle Hymn of the Republic The Wind in the Wires The Shores of Old Blighty If We Only Have Love Changes Fifty Miles of Elbow Room The Cruel Mother (aka Greenwood Side-i-o, aka The Rose And The Lindsey O') Miss Rowan Davies (piano instrumental) Power and the Glory Now Westlin Winds Deportees Sand and Water Frozen Tears (poem) The Night Charlie Tended Weir (monologue) Wish I Could Be Nice and Warm The Drummer and The Cook A Bottle o' the Best How Do You Sleep at Night? Lay Down Beside Me A Change is Gonna Come Thirty Years Ago (ttto Twenty Years Ago) My Name is Morgan (but it Ain't J.P.) (aka Bill Morgan and His Girl) In the Month of January You Remember Me Victor Rag (guitar instrumental) We Have a Dream Dem Deer Hatikvah ("The Hope", in Hebrew) Rosa Parks Come See the Boys Go 'Round The Frozen Logger At the End of a Pointed Gun (ttto Erev Shel Shoshanim) Quotations from Martin Luther King (read) Tor House of Robinson Jeffers (poem) Lulu Walls I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (piano instrumental) The Highwayman Outwitted (aka The Highwayman and the Farmer’s Daughter, aka The Farmer in Cheshire) All the Answers Eight More Miles to Louisville Early Snow If I Were Free The January Woman (ttto The January Man) Poverty Knock Never Turning Back Follow the Drinking Gourd Somewhere to Begin Lyke Wake Dirge Love Call Me Home |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 09 Jan 24 - 04:04 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 8 January 2024, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for making a spreadsheet, and to MaJoC for spotting a typo. Corrections and comments always welcome. Days of '49 Tar Barrel in Dale Winter Poem (poem) The Sick Note New Year's Resolutions (poem) Christmas Hangover Ring Out, Wild Bells (poem) Proper Pluck The Battle of New Orleans (ttto Eighth of January) All My Trials Alle sømænd er glade for piger ("All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies", in Danish and English) Yule Tide Shanty Mr. Wonderful Diga Joaneta (in Occitan) Hot Asphalt Wayfaring Stranger Fiddlers' Green I Believe in You Seaman's Wife 254 Shades of Gray Ballad of Accounting Ee By Gum but I'm Cowd People Holding Hands Haul Away/Sail On They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around (aka Quit Kickin' My Dog Around, Kickin' My Dog Around, aka The Hound Dog Song) Winter Song (the one by Alan Hull) Deja Vu (poem) Blow the Man Down Saturday Morning (poem) Cinderella Condensed His Answer to Her Letter (monologue) Planxty Irwin, Farewell to Govan (guitar instrumentals) The Ways of Man We're Off to See the Wizard Lament for Owen Rowe, Humors of Castlecomer, Road to Lisdoonvarna (three tunes on concertina) Wee Pot Stove Lady Gethin , Up in the Air (dulcimer instrumentals) Lady Margaret Frobisher Bay All the Tunes in the World The View from Home Just Like John Barleycorn The Electric Blanket Calypso Moonlight on the Highway Trip Through Holyhead Morgan Megan, Pigtown Fling (dulcimer instrumentals) The Sneeze (poem) In the Bleak Midwinter (pro-Hamas version) Solstice Song (Long May it Shine) West Coast Lullaby A'Soalin' Lay Down Beside Me Stepstone (aka Goodbye to My Stepstone) You've Been a Friend to Me Trill, Ye Carolers, Trill (ttto Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill) Farewell Take this Hammer Bridges |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Dec 23 - 03:47 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 December 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Joe for the data. Thanks to Joan F for reminding me that Complainte pour Ste-Catherine was sung in English. Corrections and comments always welcome. Anybody know what Joe sang at the end as a "lullaby"? Gaudete Chariots Advent 1955 (poem) The Shortest Day (poem) Yorkshire Pudden! (monologue) Foxtrot Tango Calling Boar's Head Carol I Saw Three Ships Sussex Mummers' Carol Complainte pour Ste-Catherine (sung in English) Shepherds, Arise The Court of King Caractacus Noel A Nortonville Christmas, 1900 Eddi's Service (poem) My Old Man Is That You, Santa Claus? The Greatest Story of All There's a Song in the Air Peter Amberley (ttto Tramps and Hawkers) I Think That I've Been Here Before Long is the Winter Till the Sun's Return A Child Ballad Brief I'm Not Looking to See Them Here.(aka A Sight for Sore Eyes) The Innumerable Christ (poem) Candlelight Carol When I'm Gone Mary Did You Know I am Christmas Gaia's Lullaby Santa Baby Far Side Banks of Jordan Rebirth/Ascension (poem) Here's Hopin' Tommy Don't Lick That Pipe Gabriel's Message Snow and Snow (poem) The Christmas Fairy (monologue) Dear Santa Coventry Carol A Solstice Prayer (poem) Huron Carol In the Bleak Midwinter While Shepherds Watched (ttto Cranbrook) The Rattlin' Bog Black Clothes Nu er det Jul igen ("Now it's Yule Again," sung in Danish and English) Santa Lucia (sung in Danish and English) O Come, O Come Emmanuel Someday at Christmas Mary had a Baby The Friendly Beasts (The Children's Carol) Oreos The Christmas Driver The Frozen Logger A'Ghrian ("The Sun", in Scottish Gaelic) Light the Winter's Dark I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Drinking them Beers Velcro Christmas (poem) Ring Out, Solstice Bells Hymn Julian of Norwich |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Dec 23 - 08:56 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 December 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Hang on the Bell, Nellie Three Wise Women Knot (poem) The Happiest Christmas of All (monologue) When Icicles Hang by the Wall The Cutty Wren The Ballad of Five Fingers Donkey Riding (Xmas version) The Christmas Goose Miss Otis Regrets The Sailor's Christmas Day (ttto Hearts of Oak) Steamboat Bill Story about her brother's presents Turning Toward the Morning Crackdown Addict Moonlight on the Highway Violets of Dawn There Was a Chump Thought He Was King (ttto Good King Wenceslas) A Faded Coat of Blue The Christmas Goose (again) Go Go Pogo Hard Times The Caregiver's Wassail (ttto Gower Wassail) A Puppy Called Puberty (poem) The Recumbent Posture (monologue) Global Warming Ocho Kandelikas (sung in Ladino) Do the Rock of Ages Virgin Mary had One Son Must be Santa Carol of the Birds Dear Departed (ttto Velveteen) Annan Water Reflections in a Crystal Wind Song for a Winter's Night Haul Away, Joe God's Surprise (ttto Scarlet Ribbons) Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls) A Place in My Heart The Mission Hall Hymn Song The Old Dope Peddler Thanksgiving Prayer |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 06 Dec 23 - 04:37 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 4/5 December 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Pretty Boy Floyd A Snow Shanty Relationship Self-Assessment Form (poem) The Innkeeper (monologue) Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wynde Somerset Wassail (aka Ashen Faggot Wassail) O Come, O Come Emmanuel Mary Had a Baby (People keep a-comin') Pickle Tree Carol (ttto Cherry Tree Carol) The Thermal Vest (ttto The Cuckoo's Nest) On the Sunny Side of the Street The Gentleman Soldier It's Probably Coincidence Sea Change Ode by a Christmas Pudding at Sea Waltzing with Bears The Bitter Withy (aka Mary Mild, Holy Well) Joe and Me (aka Christmas Eve) Mary Rocked the Baby The Land Beyond the Blue (aka Tell My Mother) A Pair of Brown Eyes El Do Re Mi Wild Side of Life (ttto Great Speckled Bird) Po' Lazarus The Trees They are All Bare (The Coppers' Christmas Song) The African Eloquent (poem) Christmas Day in the Workhouse (monologue) Father's Toys Wearyall (poem) Santa Klutz is Coming to Town (ttto Santa Claus is Coming to Town) God Rest Ye Dour Diplomats (ttto God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. Could also be called Gambit and Ploy, or A Carol for UN Diplomats) A Carol for Sheltered Shut-ins Aunt Sue I Think it's Gonna Work Out Fine Birds Ships of Light Over the Hills and Far Away Fhir a Bhata (The Boatman, chorus in Scots Gaelic)) The Drummer and the Cook Walkin' After Midnight Jock o' Hazeldean The Big Society (ttto Fairytale of New York) Bubble-Up Economy Jingle Bells Before They Close the Minstrel Show Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (ttto Deck the Halls) Down in Yon Forest (aka Castleton Carol) The Man at the Nore I Fall to Pieces The Great Missoula Floods While Shepherds Watched (ttto Ilkla Moor / Cranbrook) Awayday (ttto Gaudete; mostly unconnected Latin phrases) S'vivon Sov Sov Sov (sung in Hebrew and English) Freedom Come A' Ye Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (ttto Northfield) Chariots Logs to Burn Carolan's Receipt for Drinking (instrumental) Captain O'Kane (instrumental) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Nov 23 - 08:37 PM Songs, poems,monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 27/28 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Jack was Every Inch a Sailor Annachie Gordon Family: Mary, and Joseph (poems) When Dacey Rode the Mule (monologue) Kilroy was Here Harvest Home & The Boys of Blue Hill (=The Lads of North Tyne) Winter (poem) Oh Shepherd, Oh Shepherd (aka The Sheep are in the Wilderness) I Would I Were Away in a Manger Mothers, Daughters, Wives The Fox (aka Old Daddy Fox) Racketeer Blues Time to Love Again The Orange and the Green (ttto The Wearing of the Green) Summertime Ghost Riders in the Sky The Ant and the Grasshopper A Poem of Thanksgiving (poem) Here's Hoping Flushed from the Bathroom of My Heart (ttto Great Speckled Bird) Fathom the Bowl Julian of Norwich (aka Bells of Norwich, All Shall be Well Again) She Belongs to Me The Good Morning (poem) Greasy Mac (recited) Girlfriends Waiting (poem) You Bash the Balrog (ttto Waltzing Matilda) Do You Hear what I Hear? Parting Friend Heave Away My Johnnies Two Young Brethren Sail Away, Ladies Holiday Dinner Party (ttto Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) Pigs Can See the Wind Lassie wi' the Yellow Coatie Bound for Glory Unchained Melody Boats to Build Dragon Song The Dreadnought Threads Widely Expanded (ttto Stormy Winds) Terrorism (poem) How Many More? Bill Bones' Hornpipe Bristlecone Pine The Power and Glory (Young) Rambleaway Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (in Irish Gaelic) Autumn Leaves Turkey in the Straw Field Behind the Plow Too Close to the Wind Ring them Bells Why Don't You Go Home? (ttto Sloop John B) Gold Watch and Chain God Bless the Grass The Outside Track Witch Hazel |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Nov 23 - 09:04 PM Songs, poems, monologues and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 20/21 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. John Ball Masters of War Flying (poem) Sam, The Famous Name of Small (monologue) Shortages (or Chad Looked Over the Wall) Telling the Bees Edward (aka What Put the Blood, Son Come Tell it Unto Me, My Son David, Henry) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (recitation) All I know The Keys of Canterbury (aka The Keys of Heaven, Paper of Pins, If You Will Walk With Me) Strike the Bell, Landlord (ttto Ring the Bell, Watchman! – also used for Click Go the Shears, etc.) Grimm the Collier of Croydon A Song of the Weather Haul Away Ceres and Pluto and Eris, ... Oh My! Swallow Song (same tune as Hebrew Tsur Mishelo, and Ladino Los Bilbilicos (which is also called La rosa enflorece)) Remember Me Where Did You Get That Hat? That Was the President Lily the Pink Lady of Autumn Queen of Waters The Last Hedgehog (poem) The Sniper (poem) When We All Sing (variant of When All Men Sing) Mrs McGrath Foolish, Incredibly Foolish (with added verse) Still Believing November Wood (poem) We Will All Go Together When We Go The Bird on Nellie's Hat People Get Ready In the Summer of His Years Thanksgiving Eve Lucky The Dormouse and the Doctor (poem) Mezi Horami ("Between the Mountains", sung in Czech) The Lily of the Net (ttto The Lily of the West, aka Flora) Lydia, the Tattooed Lady Making Babies by Steam (aka The Bold Tinker, Daniel O'Connell, O'Connell's Steam Engine) Uncle Dave's Grace (recitation) How Can I Keep from Eating (ttto How Can I Keep from Singing) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:39 PM Songs, poems and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 13/14 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. New River Train Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Lament; Gethsemane (1914-18); To His Love (3 poems) Homeward (poem) Trenchant Soldiers What Have They Done to the Rain? Fighting for Strangers The Tracks of my Tears False Knight on the Road It Could've Been Me New York Girls (with added verses; aka Can't You Dance the Polka) I'll Never Fall in Love Again The Faith of Man Racketeer Blues The Thorn Upon the Rose A Frog He Would A-Wooin' Go Fosterling (poem) Always Forty-Two (ttto Blowing in the Wind) How to Give a Cat a Pill... and a Dog Too (recitation) Would You Like to Play the Guitar? (ttto Swinging on a Star) Sojourn to the Countryside (poem) Apple Picker's Reel Freeborn Man of the Traveling People Dear Harp of My Country (ttto The Ash Grove) You've Been a Friend to Me Common Sailors The Lambs on the Green Hills (aka The False Bride / The Week Before Easter / I Once Loved a Lass / I Courted a Wee Girl) Lentil Soup Funiculi Funicula Lie Low Living in East Coker (poem) The Poppy (poem) A.I. Tripe and Cow Heels Carry My Song (poem) Keep the Customer Satisfied Benjamin Bowmaneer ?? ????? (Za liesom, "Beyond the Forest," sung in Russian) Na sera 'e Maggio ("One Evening in May," sung in Neapolitan) Hunter's Moon The Dancing Secret Love Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (sung in Irish Gaelic) Pilgrimage Have You Ever Been Lonely? Froggie Went A-Courtin' I Still Miss Someone White Collar Holler Farewell, Farewell The Folksinger's Lament (ttto The Limerick Rake) Goodbye to My Stepstone Meet Her at the Gate November (poem) Long A-Growin' (aka Daily Growing, The Trees They do Grow High, The Bonny Boy, Lady Mary Ann) Paper Of Pins The Two Brothers Normandy Orchards Deportees Farewell (about Kindertransport) My Blue Heaven The Halsway Carol Back tae Berwick, Johnnie If I Were Free Dillon Bay Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Nov 23 - 12:01 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 6/7 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dem Deer Spencer the Rover Dear Passenger (poem) The Poppy or The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem) Three Fatal Females Ae Fond Kiss Spider In the Bath Roll Alabama Roll Eency Weency Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) The Gown of Green Sussex Drinking Song Seaview Bells The Place I Am Bound My Friend Robert Bradley The Life of a Man Frankie's Trade Bring Flowers Dark-eyed Sailor Vicky's Secret Letyat utki ("Ducks are Flying", sung in Russian) Make You Feel My Love As the Bombs Rain Down The Half-Hitch Percy's Song Dreary Black Hills Spencer the Rover Come Into the Fire How Many Need Die? Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire Don't Think Twice, It's Alright The Circle Game When the Shanty Boy Comes Down Conversation The Roving Kind Brandy-O Rawtenstall Annual Fair Lucrezia My Town Irving the Rover (ttto Spencer the Rover) Blowing in the Wind South Australia (and one verse of Take Me Down the Harbour) What if God Smoked Cannabis The Old Dance Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (ttto "Cranbrook") Randwick Races (ttto Galway Races) Every Bush and Tree Where Ravens Feed I Ain't a-Marching Any More Bruach na Carraige Báine ("The Brink of the White Rocks", sung in Irish Gaelic) Sometimes When We Touch Threw It Out the Window Run and Catch the Wind Froggie Went a-Courting Last Trip Home How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Nov 23 - 10:44 PM Songs, poems, recitations, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 30/31 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan Frankel for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley) Graveyard (poem) Rest Quiet (poem) With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn; recited) The Monster Mole The Unquiet Grave Crazy Man Michael Away Ye Merry Lasses The Holland Handkerchief The Egg Plant that Ate Chicago Maggie's Farm She Moved Through the Fair Black Annis's Lair The Bergen The Goblins in the Churchyard I Am Cherry Alive Steam Packet A Family Story (story) The Body in the Bag Naughty Child (poem) Happy Halloween The Wind and the Rain King Henry The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer Hallow's Eve Procrastination (poem) The To-Do List (poem) The Tale of Stingy Jack (monologue) The Reluctant Monster Look For Me at Samhain (poem) Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Hard Travellin' Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret and Sweet William) Drink, Drink Duncan and Brady A Bhean Úd Thíos: ("The Woman Down Under" or "Fairy lullaby", sung in English) The Teddy Bears' Picnic Pokarekare Ana (Maori song, sung in English) St. Swithin's Day Sherry's Song In the Bath The Ash Grove Already Dead The Road to Dundee (aka The Road and the Miles to Dundee) Bilge Pump's Birthday Song (one verse only) Autumn (poem) Under My Bed Yuppies in the Sky (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) The Grey Cock Pop Goes the Weasel The Highwayman (Ochs setting) A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song) The Cat Came Back Casper the Friendly Ghost Child Ballad Brief King Henry Scarborough Fair John Condon Father's Pants (ttto Cwm Rhondda, Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, Bread of Heaven, God of Grace and God of Glory) Calon Lân ("A Pure Heart", ttto Pokarekare Ana) Greenwood Side-i-o (aka The Cruel Mother, Fine Flowers in the Valley, The Lady of York, Weelia Wallia) Molly Malone Lay Down Beside Me ACME Bound for Transylvania (ttto South Australia) How Long Will I Love You Dem Deer |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:29 PM Songs, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 23/24 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Man of the Earth Gunner Sam (monologue) Woodland Pursuits Night Walk (poem) Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Trim Rigged Doxy Autumn Song Dog in the Microwave As the Bombs Rain Down Vilikins and his Dinah Spanish Ladies When I Can't Play The Brandy Tree Blue Ghost Blues The Music of Strings Freight Train Gallipolis Come Away In Make You Feel My Love Going to the West (Three poems) Is This 1938 Again?; The Training Exercise; Mariupol You've Got a Friend Let There Be Angels My Last Farewell to Stirling Substitute Time We Made a Start (poem) Little Bit of Pride Song to a Seagull Champion at Drivin' 'Em Crazy (ttto Champion at Keeping Them Rolling) Scarborough Settler's Lament I Put a Spell on You The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic) The First Storm of Autumn (poem) The Castle of Dromore/Caislean Droim an Oir (aka October Winds; sung in English and Irish) The Pride of Petravore (aka Eileen Óg, Eileen Oge) Calling Doon the Line The Ballad of Sammy's Bar (aka The Last Boat's a-Leaving) Skin and Bone The Postman (ttto The Coachman) The Sinking of the Reuben James (ttto Wildwood Flower) The Nutting Girl Einstein the Genius Killing the Blues The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) Al Kol Eleh (in Hebrew) The Darby Ram A Place in the Halloween Choir Between the Wars Hearth and Fire |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Oct 23 - 04:59 AM Songs, poems, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 16/17 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos Sniper (poem) Soldier (poem) The Widder's Reekin' (monologue) I'm In Love With Ethel from the Cake Shop River Drivin' (My Girl's Waiting for Me) Listen to the Darkness Library Shanty Somewhere to Begin A l'ombreta d'un rosièr ("In the Shade of a Rosebush," sung in Occitan) Taking Nelson Home No More Tears All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies (Danish song, "Alle sømænd er glade for piger," sung mostly in English) Give Yourself to Love My Love Come Rolling Down Safe Romance Thorneymoor Woods East Virginia Blues Captain Kidd Sonny's Dream Westlin Winds Oseh Shalom ("Who Makes Peace", sung in Hebrew) Benjamin Bowmaneer Let Her Go Down Numbers (reading) The Poppy & The Inquisitive Mind of the Child (poem) Knockin' on Heaven's Door Earth Dancing in Front of the Guns Seaman's Hymn The Magpie I Love Suzie in the Supermarket The Rose 1805 (poem) Man Walks Among Us Freeborn Man Saucy Sailor Slow Train Through Georgia Doodle Let Me Go Freight Train Universal Soldier Awake, Awake (aka Drowsy Sleeper) Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) If I Were Free Dillon Bay Don't Fence Me In But Not for Me Cradle of the Dawn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:57 PM Songs, poems, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 9/10 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. October Song Summer's End (poem) My Brother Len The Widow at Windsor (poem) Marion jos un pomiò (sung in Occitan) Fair and Tender Ladies The Two Hunchbacks (story) Cheap Flights The Leaving of Liverpool Mean Old Bedbug Blues The Cliffs of Baccalieu Old Father Fall Answer the Knock at the Door Pointing to the Moon Skulkin Huntin' (story) We Gets Up in the Morn (aka Harvest Song) Frobisher Bay Shawnee Town Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Knoxville Girl Few Days (I Can't Stay in These Diggings) Where There's a Will There's a Way I Can't Find My Invisibility Cloak (poem) The Weekend Cowboy Slawit Sam (monologue) Will the Turtle Be Unbroken? Fire Down Below Johnny Be Good on the Concertina Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Weeping Willow Sailor's Prayer Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ("Hooray, You Are Coming Home", verses in English, chorus in Irish Gaelic) Permission to Dance Whoa Back Buck Lord Rothchild Blackwaterside Turtle Dove Whenever I See You Keep on the Sunny Side Goin' to the Zoo With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn) I Remember You Where Are You (Tonight I Wonder) The Border The Sound of Music Dimming of the Day |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Oct 23 - 05:39 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 2/3 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Life of a Man He's Not My Child (poem) The Battle Of Hastings (monologue) My Uncle Stan Irwinton La bèla Marion se'n va al molin ("Marion Went to the Mill," sung in Occitan) La Cárcel de Cananea ("Cananea Jail," sung in Spanish) Dogging Calling Me Home Bury Me Beneath the Willow When I'm Drunk October Song Changes Bonnie St. Johnstone Two Sisters Barbary Allen Grey October Jonah & The Grampus (monologue) My Brother Len Farewell to Tarwathie Things About Comin' My Way Spread A Little Happiness Fall Down Me Billy Answer to Weeping Willow Factory Girl So Early, Early in the Spring Our Town Must I Go Bound? Silver & Gold Polegnala e Todora ("Theodora is Dozing," fragment, sung in Bulgarian) Must I Go Bound? (fragment) Far From Their Home (with one verse in French) Skyscraper Wean (aka The Jeely Piece Song) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy On Top of Spaghetti (ttto On Top of Old Smokey) The Town I Loved So Well I Think Of You Annie McKelvie You Are My Sunshine You Are The Sunshine Of My Life |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Sep 23 - 03:03 AM Songs, poems, instrumentals, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 25/26 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Sound of Singing The Return of Albert (monologue) Confessions of a Song Writer Molly Malone The Irish Rover La Blanche Biche (The White Hind, sung in French) The Earl of March's Daughter E-Sorrows Away (ttto Sorrows Away) A Sailor's Life Sonnet #29 (ttto Clerk Saunders) Fall is Here For the Grandchildren (poem) I Will Stand Fast The Really Strangest Dream Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac The Good In Living The Journey Dan, An Honest Working Man Spirit Song Three Ha'pence a Foot (monologue) The Ark (poem) The Poor Budgie's Dead Dirty Old Town Look for Me at Samhain (poem) Somebody's Wrong (ttto Rosin the Bow) Mr Sandman Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) (ttto Pretty Polly) Sweet Thyme Aardvark Song Boney Was A Warrior Flying High, Flying Free More Wood Poor Lily, aka What A Waste 9-5 Pollution Blues I Wanna Be A Dog In Tall Buildings Cailín Deas Cruíte na mBó ("The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow", in Irish Gaelic) Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) The Banks of Inverurie The Minstrel Boy Hills Of West Virginia Hold On To Me, Babe An Chéad Mháirt de Fhómhair (The First Tuesday of Autumn, sung in Irish Gaelic)) Sir Roger is Dead The Belle of Broughton Two Hornpipes: Harvest Home & The Boys Of Bluehill (guitar instrumentals) Settle Down (aka I'm Going Down That Highway) Pack Up Your Sorrows Never Tire Of The Road Padstow Farewell (aka Farewell Shanty, aka Padstowe Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Sep 23 - 05:58 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Bringing in the Sheaves Obedience (poem) Diary of a Church Mouse (poem) The Barmaid and the Drayman Redemption Song Lily the Pink Liverpool Lullaby Birmingham Sunday Didn't I Dance? Silver Tassie Urge for Going Jack o' Diamonds is a Hard Card to Play The Rising of the Moon (the Kate Wolf song by this name) MacPherson's Rant Tomorrow Susannah's Footsteps It Rains Everywhere I Go The Hippopotamus Song The Boogeyman (ttto The Wellerman) September 11th The Cuckoo Do You Hear the Music? (poem) Coming Home Cold Rain and Snow The Ballad of Accounting The Outside Track Ride On The Secret God (poem) Safe Haven (poem) Sonia Snell (monologue) The Comic Song Purple People Eater Pleasant and Delightful Carry My Song (poem) September in the Rain The Anti-Shanty (Hose Me Down) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Bobby Shaftoe The Dundee Cat Humming to Myself Across the Western Plains (aka All For Me Grog, ttto Across the Western Ocean) The Dummy Line (fragment) Elsie Marley The Vinney Den Love Call Me Home We will Not Bow Down to Genocide James Cook Sophronie I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Epithalamium (song for the bride) (poem) Melting Pot (poem) Immigrant Eyes Granny's Old Armchair Pretty Polly Heave Away Cheerily, O Librar-i-o I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound Moon River Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max (ttto Dear Old Donegal) Generations of Change Locks and Bolts Sae Will We Yet |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Sep 23 - 08:55 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. No More Fish The Last Chance Saloon (poem) Recumbent Posture (monologue) An Affectation of Conceit Sister Josephine False Autumn (poem, from Year Song) Come Monday Joan Walker Tesco Shanty (aka The Housewife's Shanty) Why I'm Different (poem) Morning Blues Come Away In The Texas Rounder Strike the Bell Buckeyed Jim O, Cinnabon Geordie Black My Father's Song (poem) Little Sadie The Blackbird Goodbye to My Stepstone Ballad of Springhill Death (poem) Hector Cramp (monologue) Baldy The Bard of Armagh Hillbilly Heaven Pencil Thin Mustache Who Knows where the Time Goes? It's for You A Brush with Life (poem) Can't Get that Stuff No More I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Mail Myself to You Clear Away in the Morning Mullaghbawn Cosher Bailey I Wanna be a Bonobo Sweet Carnlough Bay I Can Hew The Barring of the Door (aka Get Up and Bar the Door) The Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I Wander) Generations of Change (tune resembles Streets of Laredo) As Tears Go By Joyce the Librarian Pay Me My Money Down The Shipkeeper Roll on Columbia There are No Words Your State's Name Here Velcro Follow the Heron |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Sep 23 - 10:55 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 4/5 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey much help. Corrections and comments always welcome. Free and Easy Words (poem) Places (poem) Testament (recitation) The Original Chauvinist Pig Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo) Summer's End (poem) Donkey Riding Sin (ttto The Parting Glass) See How the Winds Do Blow (aka Candlelight Fisherman) Life Passes By (sung in English, with one verse in French; "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit") Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now) Heritage (poem) Geronimo's Cadillac The Yellow Yorlin Old Fid O Sinner Man Light From the Lighthouse Bread and Roses Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Slaggy Island Farewell Harbors of Home Rocks and Trees Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? Early to Rise Another Life (poem) Queen Matilda (monologue) Come Along You Drunken Bums I Hold Your Hand in Mine The Summer Land (poem) The Deaf Woman's Courtship (aka Old Woman; Old Woman's Courtship) I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) The Dancing Years Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Birmingham Sunday (ttto I Once Loved a Lass, aka The False Bride) More Than Enough Inner-body Travel (poem) Jolly Mon Sing Joe Hill (aka I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night) Joe Hill's Last Will Sailor's Prayer Frankie's Trade Old Fastnet The Topman and the Afterguard Came to See Me Yesterday Midsummer Hymn Lucy Your Name is Light Einstein the Genius Brother Can You Spare a Buck? (ttto Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?) Man of Extinction (poem) Bunessan (piano instrumental; tune used for Morning has Broken) Jimmy's Song (aka Sing for the Boys) There is Power in a Union (ttto There is Power in the Blood) They're Taking it Away Interesting Times |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Aug 23 - 12:12 AM Songs, poems and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 28/29 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Good in Living Smuggler The Stealth Comma (poem) Wait Till the Work Comes Round (monologue) Springhill Mine Disaster The Ferryman Granville Willy Crossing the Bar Les Belles Etrangères (sung in French) Turpin Hero The Argo From Marble Arch to Leicester Square The Lass of Mohee Jumbo Stevens God Bless the Human Elbow Chairs to Mend White Coral Bells Once in a Very Blue Moon Help Me to Raise 'Em Bottle Against the Wall Queen of Waters Fred the Fireman Maggie Blues Raglan Road Community (If You Love the Water Let it Rain) All the Way Home Turning Toward the Morning Drugstore Truck Drivin' Man Talking About Norwich (poem) She Were Nobbut a Lass (poem) Early One Morning Mr. Nicotine Man (ttto Mr Tambourine Man) It Makes No Difference Our House Going and Staying Amazing Grace Making Up the Miles Quantum Mechanics Grey Funnel Line Sewing Shanty (Grey Flannel Line) (ttto Grey Funnel Line) Nancy Lee Highland Harry (ttto The Highlander's Lament) Three Fishers Light the Pipe The Dreadnought Julian of Norwich This World Goes Round and Round Fisherman's Wife Windward Away Hard Travelin' Stealin' For Sale by Owner The Minstrel Saints and Sinners The Song Goes On |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:39 PM Songs, poems and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 13/14 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. New River Train Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Lament; Gethsemane (1914-18); To His Love (3 poems) Homeward (poem) Trenchant Soldiers What Have They Done to the Rain? Fighting for Strangers The Tracks of my Tears False Knight on the Road It Could've Been Me New York Girls (with added verses; aka Can't You Dance the Polka) I'll Never Fall in Love Again The Faith of Man Racketeer Blues The Thorn Upon the Rose A Frog He Would A-Wooin' Go Fosterling (poem) Always Forty-Two (ttto Blowing in the Wind) How to Give a Cat a Pill... and a Dog Too (recitation) Would You Like to Play the Guitar? (ttto Swinging on a Star) Sojourn to the Countryside (poem) Apple Picker's Reel Freeborn Man of the Traveling People Dear Harp of My Country (ttto The Ash Grove) You've Been a Friend to Me Common Sailors The Lambs on the Green Hills (aka The False Bride / The Week Before Easter / I Once Loved a Lass / I Courted a Wee Girl) Lentil Soup Funiculi Funicula Lie Low Living in East Coker (poem) The Poppy (poem) A.I. Tripe and Cow Heels Carry My Song (poem) Keep the Customer Satisfied Benjamin Bowmaneer ?? ????? (Za liesom, "Beyond the Forest," sung in Russian) Na sera 'e Maggio ("One Evening in May," sung in Neapolitan) Hunter's Moon The Dancing Secret Love Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille (sung in Irish Gaelic) Pilgrimage Have You Ever Been Lonely? Froggie Went A-Courtin' I Still Miss Someone White Collar Holler Farewell, Farewell The Folksinger's Lament (ttto The Limerick Rake) Goodbye to My Stepstone Meet Her at the Gate November (poem) Long A-Growin' (aka Daily Growing, The Trees They do Grow High, The Bonny Boy, Lady Mary Ann) Paper Of Pins The Two Brothers Normandy Orchards Deportees Farewell (about Kindertransport) My Blue Heaven The Halsway Carol Back tae Berwick, Johnnie If I Were Free Dillon Bay Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Nov 23 - 12:01 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 6/7 November 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dem Deer Spencer the Rover Dear Passenger (poem) The Poppy or The Inquisitive Mind of a Child (poem) Three Fatal Females Ae Fond Kiss Spider In the Bath Roll Alabama Roll Eency Weency Spider (ttto Mary Ellen Carter) The Gown of Green Sussex Drinking Song Seaview Bells The Place I Am Bound My Friend Robert Bradley The Life of a Man Frankie's Trade Bring Flowers Dark-eyed Sailor Vicky's Secret Letyat utki ("Ducks are Flying", sung in Russian) Make You Feel My Love As the Bombs Rain Down The Half-Hitch Percy's Song Dreary Black Hills Spencer the Rover Come Into the Fire How Many Need Die? Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire Don't Think Twice, It's Alright The Circle Game When the Shanty Boy Comes Down Conversation The Roving Kind Brandy-O Rawtenstall Annual Fair Lucrezia My Town Irving the Rover (ttto Spencer the Rover) Blowing in the Wind South Australia (and one verse of Take Me Down the Harbour) What if God Smoked Cannabis The Old Dance Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (ttto "Cranbrook") Randwick Races (ttto Galway Races) Every Bush and Tree Where Ravens Feed I Ain't a-Marching Any More Bruach na Carraige Báine ("The Brink of the White Rocks", sung in Irish Gaelic) Sometimes When We Touch Threw It Out the Window Run and Catch the Wind Froggie Went a-Courting Last Trip Home How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 02 Nov 23 - 10:44 PM Songs, poems, recitations, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 30/31 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data, and to Joan Frankel for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dennis Wheatley (ttto Sally Wheatley) Graveyard (poem) Rest Quiet (poem) With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn; recited) The Monster Mole The Unquiet Grave Crazy Man Michael Away Ye Merry Lasses The Holland Handkerchief The Egg Plant that Ate Chicago Maggie's Farm She Moved Through the Fair Black Annis's Lair The Bergen The Goblins in the Churchyard I Am Cherry Alive Steam Packet A Family Story (story) The Body in the Bag Naughty Child (poem) Happy Halloween The Wind and the Rain King Henry The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer Hallow's Eve Procrastination (poem) The To-Do List (poem) The Tale of Stingy Jack (monologue) The Reluctant Monster Look For Me at Samhain (poem) Shelf Raiders in the Store (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Hard Travellin' Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret and Sweet William) Drink, Drink Duncan and Brady A Bhean Úd Thíos: ("The Woman Down Under" or "Fairy lullaby", sung in English) The Teddy Bears' Picnic Pokarekare Ana (Maori song, sung in English) St. Swithin's Day Sherry's Song In the Bath The Ash Grove Already Dead The Road to Dundee (aka The Road and the Miles to Dundee) Bilge Pump's Birthday Song (one verse only) Autumn (poem) Under My Bed Yuppies in the Sky (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) The Grey Cock Pop Goes the Weasel The Highwayman (Ochs setting) A-Soalin' (aka Souling Song) The Cat Came Back Casper the Friendly Ghost Child Ballad Brief King Henry Scarborough Fair John Condon Father's Pants (ttto Cwm Rhondda, Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, Bread of Heaven, God of Grace and God of Glory) Calon Lân ("A Pure Heart", ttto Pokarekare Ana) Greenwood Side-i-o (aka The Cruel Mother, Fine Flowers in the Valley, The Lady of York, Weelia Wallia) Molly Malone Lay Down Beside Me ACME Bound for Transylvania (ttto South Australia) How Long Will I Love You Dem Deer |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:29 PM Songs, monologues, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 23/24 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Man of the Earth Gunner Sam (monologue) Woodland Pursuits Night Walk (poem) Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Trim Rigged Doxy Autumn Song Dog in the Microwave As the Bombs Rain Down Vilikins and his Dinah Spanish Ladies When I Can't Play The Brandy Tree Blue Ghost Blues The Music of Strings Freight Train Gallipolis Come Away In Make You Feel My Love Going to the West (Three poems) Is This 1938 Again?; The Training Exercise; Mariupol You've Got a Friend Let There Be Angels My Last Farewell to Stirling Substitute Time We Made a Start (poem) Little Bit of Pride Song to a Seagull Champion at Drivin' 'Em Crazy (ttto Champion at Keeping Them Rolling) Scarborough Settler's Lament I Put a Spell on You The Grateful Dead Concert (ttto Teddy Bears' Picnic) The First Storm of Autumn (poem) The Castle of Dromore/Caislean Droim an Oir (aka October Winds; sung in English and Irish) The Pride of Petravore (aka Eileen Óg, Eileen Oge) Calling Doon the Line The Ballad of Sammy's Bar (aka The Last Boat's a-Leaving) Skin and Bone The Postman (ttto The Coachman) The Sinking of the Reuben James (ttto Wildwood Flower) The Nutting Girl Einstein the Genius Killing the Blues The Cockle Gatherer (in Scots Gaelic) Al Kol Eleh (in Hebrew) The Darby Ram A Place in the Halloween Choir Between the Wars Hearth and Fire |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 18 Oct 23 - 04:59 AM Songs, poems, readings and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 16/17 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos Sniper (poem) Soldier (poem) The Widder's Reekin' (monologue) I'm In Love With Ethel from the Cake Shop River Drivin' (My Girl's Waiting for Me) Listen to the Darkness Library Shanty Somewhere to Begin A l'ombreta d'un rosièr ("In the Shade of a Rosebush," sung in Occitan) Taking Nelson Home No More Tears All Sailors are Glad for Young Ladies (Danish song, "Alle sømænd er glade for piger," sung mostly in English) Give Yourself to Love My Love Come Rolling Down Safe Romance Thorneymoor Woods East Virginia Blues Captain Kidd Sonny's Dream Westlin Winds Oseh Shalom ("Who Makes Peace", sung in Hebrew) Benjamin Bowmaneer Let Her Go Down Numbers (reading) The Poppy & The Inquisitive Mind of the Child (poem) Knockin' on Heaven's Door Earth Dancing in Front of the Guns Seaman's Hymn The Magpie I Love Suzie in the Supermarket The Rose 1805 (poem) Man Walks Among Us Freeborn Man Saucy Sailor Slow Train Through Georgia Doodle Let Me Go Freight Train Universal Soldier Awake, Awake (aka Drowsy Sleeper) Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) If I Were Free Dillon Bay Don't Fence Me In But Not for Me Cradle of the Dawn |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:57 PM Songs, poems, stories, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 9/10 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. October Song Summer's End (poem) My Brother Len The Widow at Windsor (poem) Marion jos un pomiò (sung in Occitan) Fair and Tender Ladies The Two Hunchbacks (story) Cheap Flights The Leaving of Liverpool Mean Old Bedbug Blues The Cliffs of Baccalieu Old Father Fall Answer the Knock at the Door Pointing to the Moon Skulkin Huntin' (story) We Gets Up in the Morn (aka Harvest Song) Frobisher Bay Shawnee Town Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Knoxville Girl Few Days (I Can't Stay in These Diggings) Where There's a Will There's a Way I Can't Find My Invisibility Cloak (poem) The Weekend Cowboy Slawit Sam (monologue) Will the Turtle Be Unbroken? Fire Down Below Johnny Be Good on the Concertina Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Weeping Willow Sailor's Prayer Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ("Hooray, You Are Coming Home", verses in English, chorus in Irish Gaelic) Permission to Dance Whoa Back Buck Lord Rothchild Blackwaterside Turtle Dove Whenever I See You Keep on the Sunny Side Goin' to the Zoo With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (aka Anne Boleyn) I Remember You Where Are You (Tonight I Wonder) The Border The Sound of Music Dimming of the Day |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 04 Oct 23 - 05:39 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 2/3 October 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Life of a Man He's Not My Child (poem) The Battle Of Hastings (monologue) My Uncle Stan Irwinton La bèla Marion se'n va al molin ("Marion Went to the Mill," sung in Occitan) La Cárcel de Cananea ("Cananea Jail," sung in Spanish) Dogging Calling Me Home Bury Me Beneath the Willow When I'm Drunk October Song Changes Bonnie St. Johnstone Two Sisters Barbary Allen Grey October Jonah & The Grampus (monologue) My Brother Len Farewell to Tarwathie Things About Comin' My Way Spread A Little Happiness Fall Down Me Billy Answer to Weeping Willow Factory Girl So Early, Early in the Spring Our Town Must I Go Bound? Silver & Gold Polegnala e Todora ("Theodora is Dozing," fragment, sung in Bulgarian) Must I Go Bound? (fragment) Far From Their Home (with one verse in French) Skyscraper Wean (aka The Jeely Piece Song) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy On Top of Spaghetti (ttto On Top of Old Smokey) The Town I Loved So Well I Think Of You Annie McKelvie You Are My Sunshine You Are The Sunshine Of My Life |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 28 Sep 23 - 03:03 AM Songs, poems, instrumentals, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 25/26 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Sound of Singing The Return of Albert (monologue) Confessions of a Song Writer Molly Malone The Irish Rover La Blanche Biche (The White Hind, sung in French) The Earl of March's Daughter E-Sorrows Away (ttto Sorrows Away) A Sailor's Life Sonnet #29 (ttto Clerk Saunders) Fall is Here For the Grandchildren (poem) I Will Stand Fast The Really Strangest Dream Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac The Good In Living The Journey Dan, An Honest Working Man Spirit Song Three Ha'pence a Foot (monologue) The Ark (poem) The Poor Budgie's Dead Dirty Old Town Look for Me at Samhain (poem) Somebody's Wrong (ttto Rosin the Bow) Mr Sandman Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) (ttto Pretty Polly) Sweet Thyme Aardvark Song Boney Was A Warrior Flying High, Flying Free More Wood Poor Lily, aka What A Waste 9-5 Pollution Blues I Wanna Be A Dog In Tall Buildings Cailín Deas Cruíte na mBó ("The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow", in Irish Gaelic) Acquainted With The Night (Robert Frost) The Banks of Inverurie The Minstrel Boy Hills Of West Virginia Hold On To Me, Babe An Chéad Mháirt de Fhómhair (The First Tuesday of Autumn, sung in Irish Gaelic)) Sir Roger is Dead The Belle of Broughton Two Hornpipes: Harvest Home & The Boys Of Bluehill (guitar instrumentals) Settle Down (aka I'm Going Down That Highway) Pack Up Your Sorrows Never Tire Of The Road Padstow Farewell (aka Farewell Shanty, aka Padstowe Shanty) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 19 Sep 23 - 05:58 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 18/19 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Bringing in the Sheaves Obedience (poem) Diary of a Church Mouse (poem) The Barmaid and the Drayman Redemption Song Lily the Pink Liverpool Lullaby Birmingham Sunday Didn't I Dance? Silver Tassie Urge for Going Jack o' Diamonds is a Hard Card to Play The Rising of the Moon (the Kate Wolf song by this name) MacPherson's Rant Tomorrow Susannah's Footsteps It Rains Everywhere I Go The Hippopotamus Song The Boogeyman (ttto The Wellerman) September 11th The Cuckoo Do You Hear the Music? (poem) Coming Home Cold Rain and Snow The Ballad of Accounting The Outside Track Ride On The Secret God (poem) Safe Haven (poem) Sonia Snell (monologue) The Comic Song Purple People Eater Pleasant and Delightful Carry My Song (poem) September in the Rain The Anti-Shanty (Hose Me Down) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Bobby Shaftoe The Dundee Cat Humming to Myself Across the Western Plains (aka All For Me Grog, ttto Across the Western Ocean) The Dummy Line (fragment) Elsie Marley The Vinney Den Love Call Me Home We will Not Bow Down to Genocide James Cook Sophronie I'm an Old Deck Hand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) Epithalamium (song for the bride) (poem) Melting Pot (poem) Immigrant Eyes Granny's Old Armchair Pretty Polly Heave Away Cheerily, O Librar-i-o I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound Moon River Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max (ttto Dear Old Donegal) Generations of Change Locks and Bolts Sae Will We Yet |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 12 Sep 23 - 08:55 AM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 11/12 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much data. Corrections and comments always welcome. No More Fish The Last Chance Saloon (poem) Recumbent Posture (monologue) An Affectation of Conceit Sister Josephine False Autumn (poem, from Year Song) Come Monday Joan Walker Tesco Shanty (aka The Housewife's Shanty) Why I'm Different (poem) Morning Blues Come Away In The Texas Rounder Strike the Bell Buckeyed Jim O, Cinnabon Geordie Black My Father's Song (poem) Little Sadie The Blackbird Goodbye to My Stepstone Ballad of Springhill Death (poem) Hector Cramp (monologue) Baldy The Bard of Armagh Hillbilly Heaven Pencil Thin Mustache Who Knows where the Time Goes? It's for You A Brush with Life (poem) Can't Get that Stuff No More I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Mail Myself to You Clear Away in the Morning Mullaghbawn Cosher Bailey I Wanna be a Bonobo Sweet Carnlough Bay I Can Hew The Barring of the Door (aka Get Up and Bar the Door) The Bonny Light Horseman (aka Broken-Hearted I Wander) Generations of Change (tune resembles Streets of Laredo) As Tears Go By Joyce the Librarian Pay Me My Money Down The Shipkeeper Roll on Columbia There are No Words Your State's Name Here Velcro Follow the Heron |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Sep 23 - 10:55 PM Songs, poems, recitations, instrumentals and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 4/5 September 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey much help. Corrections and comments always welcome. Free and Easy Words (poem) Places (poem) Testament (recitation) The Original Chauvinist Pig Slithering (ttto Streets of Laredo) Summer's End (poem) Donkey Riding Sin (ttto The Parting Glass) See How the Winds Do Blow (aka Candlelight Fisherman) Life Passes By (sung in English, with one verse in French; "La vie s'écoule, la vie s'enfuit") Martin Said to His Man (aka Who's the Fool Now) Heritage (poem) Geronimo's Cadillac The Yellow Yorlin Old Fid O Sinner Man Light From the Lighthouse Bread and Roses Send Me to Glory in a Glad Bag Slaggy Island Farewell Harbors of Home Rocks and Trees Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? Early to Rise Another Life (poem) Queen Matilda (monologue) Come Along You Drunken Bums I Hold Your Hand in Mine The Summer Land (poem) The Deaf Woman's Courtship (aka Old Woman; Old Woman's Courtship) I'm a Hippie Freak (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) The Dancing Years Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Birmingham Sunday (ttto I Once Loved a Lass, aka The False Bride) More Than Enough Inner-body Travel (poem) Jolly Mon Sing Joe Hill (aka I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night) Joe Hill's Last Will Sailor's Prayer Frankie's Trade Old Fastnet The Topman and the Afterguard Came to See Me Yesterday Midsummer Hymn Lucy Your Name is Light Einstein the Genius Brother Can You Spare a Buck? (ttto Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?) Man of Extinction (poem) Bunessan (piano instrumental; tune used for Morning has Broken) Jimmy's Song (aka Sing for the Boys) There is Power in a Union (ttto There is Power in the Blood) They're Taking it Away Interesting Times |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 30 Aug 23 - 12:12 AM Songs, poems and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 28/29 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. The Good in Living Smuggler The Stealth Comma (poem) Wait Till the Work Comes Round (monologue) Springhill Mine Disaster The Ferryman Granville Willy Crossing the Bar Les Belles Etrangères (sung in French) Turpin Hero The Argo From Marble Arch to Leicester Square The Lass of Mohee Jumbo Stevens God Bless the Human Elbow Chairs to Mend White Coral Bells Once in a Very Blue Moon Help Me to Raise 'Em Bottle Against the Wall Queen of Waters Fred the Fireman Maggie Blues Raglan Road Community (If You Love the Water Let it Rain) All the Way Home Turning Toward the Morning Drugstore Truck Drivin' Man Talking About Norwich (poem) She Were Nobbut a Lass (poem) Early One Morning Mr. Nicotine Man (ttto Mr Tambourine Man) It Makes No Difference Our House Going and Staying Amazing Grace Making Up the Miles Quantum Mechanics Grey Funnel Line Sewing Shanty (Grey Flannel Line) (ttto Grey Funnel Line) Nancy Lee Highland Harry (ttto The Highlander's Lament) Three Fishers Light the Pipe The Dreadnought Julian of Norwich This World Goes Round and Round Fisherman's Wife Windward Away Hard Travelin' Stealin' For Sale by Owner The Minstrel Saints and Sinners The Song Goes On |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 22 Aug 23 - 05:02 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 21/22 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Texas Rangers The Rain on the Mountainside London (poem) A Classical Concoction The Convalescent (poem) Day Trip from Barnehurst (ttto Day Trip to Bangor) Sweet Thames Flow Softly The Outlandish Knight Ophelia Rambling Soldier Two Good Arms The Britannia Whatever Song Hanohano Hanalei (sung in Hawaiian) This Morning A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter The Coils of Love The Great Salish Sea Saturday Night Fish Fry If I had a Son Rolling Down to Old Maui The Cremation of Sam McGee (poem) Into the Sun I'll Follow the Sun Lockdown (poem) Bill the Burly Burglar Mules (poem) Michael Row the Boat Rawtenstall Annual Fair Could It Be?! (ttto Let It Be) Lady Franklin's Lament Isn't It a Lovely Day Today to be Caught in the Rain Peace on Earth Darlin', I Can't Love You Any More Roll the Cotton Down Fire in the City A Blacksmith Courted Me Shuttle and Loom Flutist (poem) Ukulele Lady To Althea from Prison Barrett's Privateers Tea (aka The Alcoholics' Anthem, ttto Men of Harlech) Thaïs (Alexandria) Run and Catch the Wind Garnet's Home Made Beer (ttto Barrett's Privateers) Now Westlin Winds (aka Song, Composed in August) Kaona o Lahaina (sung in Hawaiian, ttto Kawaipunahele) These Coal Town Days Hang Out Your Brightest Colours (aka Ballad of Michael Collins) Georgia on My Mind Farewell Rubber Blubber Whale Red River Valley I'll Fly Away Long Lost Friends Believe Me, Sligo Down on Penny's Farm Crazy Who Am I Now Little Brown Dog (aka Autumn to May) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 15 Aug 23 - 09:46 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 14/15 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Way Down Yonder in a Minor Key The Weight Jason and the Arguments (poem) My Classical Concoction Sam's Sturgeon (monologue) April Come She Will A Day Out of Time (poem) Roving Gambler Le Sire de Framboisy (sung in French) Up on Cripple Creek Old Rosin the Bow/Beau The Clearing Place Simpl Templ (poem) My, My, Mama It Makes No Difference Talkin' Guitar Blues Cripple Creek Darlin' Corey Midsummer Hymn Paddy Lay Back Old Men Sing Love Songs Sea Walls (poem) Advice to Poets The Convalescent (poem) Blow the Man Down Waiting Moonlight on the Highway Daniel and the Sacred Harp Roll, Alabama, Roll John o' Dreams One Misty Moisty Morning You Come Singing (poem) Aces, Straights and Flushes The Satnav (poem) Slow Train Comin' Bonny Portmore Three-Indictment President (ttto Purple People-Eater) The Scotsman The Good Boy The Last Words The Big Ship Sails On The Alley-Alley-O Changes Alabama's Crew (ttto Roll, Alabama, Roll) Sam's Medals (monologue) Dreams Have I Told You Lately If I had a Son The Portree Kid (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky) Peterloo Massacre You're So Indicted (ttto I'm So Excited) Blue Diamond Mines Pollution Bonny at Morn On a Monday Morning The Earth is Burning Love Call Me Home Farewell Shanty (aka Padstow Farewell, Cornish Farewell Shanty, 'Tis Our Sailing Time) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 08 Aug 23 - 06:27 AM Songs, poems, recitations, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 7/8 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Garden Song Temple Cloud (poem) May You Never The Bard (recited) Cliches Streets of Laredo The Leaving of Liverpool Aiken Drum Take It To The Limit Compère Guilleri ("Fellow Guilleri", in French) The Very Model of a Russian Major General (ttto Major General's Song) (Story/Anecdote re Fred Park) Somewhere to Begin Carnivale (poem) The L & N Don't Stop Here Any More The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry After You, Who? Auckland to the Bluff Lazy Bones Randy Dandy-O Cockney Alphabet (poem) London Transport Prayer (poem) Disobedience (aka James James Morrison Morrison) Serving Girl's Holiday The Lady Mary Sails I Come and Stand at Every Door Rolling Home Brigg Fair False Alarm (poem) The Press (poem) I'm A Silly Polysyllabist Beware of the Beautiful Stranger The Minstrel I am Stretched on Your Grave Freight Train Here is My Home The Lichtbob's Lassie Rolling Home (to Merry England) Brian O'Lynn (aka Brian O'Lynne, Briney Ole Lynn) Enola Gay (Utah Phillips) Hiroshima Memorial Candlelight Vigil (poem) The Age of Uranium (ttto The Age of Aquarius) The Little Girl of Hiroshima (aka I Come and Stand at Every Door; recited) Enola Gay (Andrew McCluskey) Down by the Embarras Summertime The Impossible Dream Keep Hauling Yellow Bird Damnyankee Lad (or, Damn Yankee Lad) Every Stranger Might Well Become Your Friend (poem) Why Not Say Hello Before We Say Goodbye Precious Years Back Home In Derry Blue Moon Cearcall a' Chuain ("The Ocean's Circle", in Scots Gaelic) Bridge Over Troubled Water Blue Mountain Dreams Deferred Crossing the Water |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 03 Aug 23 - 04:29 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 31 July / 1 August 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl Fare Thee Well, South Yorkshire I Want to be a Bitch (poem) Goldwatch Blues Carry My Song (poem) Slawit Sam (monologue) Shaun the Short-sighted Sheep Shearer Donny Boy (ttto Danny Boy) Pass Around the Bottle The Bitter Withy It's a Beautiful Day Todo Cambia ("It All Changes", sung in Spanish) The Loss of the Bay Rupert The Cuckoo Isabel Makes Love upon National Monuments Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend Alfie (recitation) Untrue Blues The Groovy Decade Blood Red Roses Going Home The Minstrel Sunrise, Sunset Three-legged Man I'm an Old Cowhand Ten in the Bed Travelling Man Green to Grey Blue Anchor Lane (recitation) The Rio Grande Th' Lesser Evil (monologue) The Cornet and the Flugelhorn I'm an Old Deckhand (ttto I'm an Old Cowhand) What Put the Blood Botany Bay I'm Moving On The Friar in the Well Morning Train Tatjiana Cocktails Hold the Woodpile Down Mrs. Murphy Good Ale (aka O Good Ale, aka Oh Good Ale, aka Good Ale Thou Art My Darling) The Maid of Australia Banks of Sicily Tin Soldier Come Sing a Song With Me Sing With Me In My Life Queen of the Silver Dollar Soon Cad é sin don té sin ("Nobody's Business", sung in Irish Gaelic) You Won't See Me The Sun's Comin' Over the Hill Bright Morning Star Blackjack Davy The Murderous Toy (ttto The Marvelous Toy) All the Salt Lessons of Time Windmills Changes |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 26 Jul 23 - 05:59 PM Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 24/25 July 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data and clarifications. Corrections and comments always welcome. Our House The Black and Bitter Night The Ghost in Clapham (poem) Mrs. Fisher All Around My Hat The Last of the Light Brigade (poem) La Place Pigalle (in English) Cordova Roll Alabama Roll Summer of My Dreams In the Hills of Shiloh My Baby Just Cares for Me The Moonshiner's Lament The Railway Porter's Song (aka Willie Lee) Old Smokey Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Santy Anno/The Plains of Mexico Neocortex When (poem) Low Income Retirement Blues (fragment of Saxon alliterative poem) Kubla Khan (subtitle: A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment. Poem) Tom of Bedlam She was One of the Early Birds Walking My Baby Back Home The Long and Winding Road House Carpenter (aka Daemon Lover) Frankie's Trade L-O-V-E Bring Me A Boat Die Gedanken sind Frei ("Thoughts are Free", sung in German) Salvation Band The Road To Tomorrow (poem) Spanish Beaches (ttto Spanish Ladies) Ernie Dunn (monologue) Mange Tout (in English) No John No What is Jennie Weeping For? Chemical Worker's Song (aka Process Man) A Silent, Lonesome Sound The Memory Stealer Cottonwood Canyon The Ballad of Johnny and Gertrude Newell Highway Sirey Petes (aka Tying a Knot in the Devil’s Tail) The Pride of Petravore (aka Eileen Oge) The Equestrian Statue Years After (poem) Your Friendship's My Comfort The White Hare (aka Howden Town) Hostí ("Guests", sung in Czech) Velcro (ttto Sweet Hour of Prayer) Wish I'd Met You Yesterday (ttto Yesterday) Heat Wave The Night Owl Homeward Turns Put On a Happy Face When First I Went to Caledonia (aka When First I Came to Caledonia) Old Man Time Holland's Meat Pies (ttto Ebony Eyes) Do Your Ears Hang Low? ACME Ukulele (ttto Hallelujah) How Can I Keep From Singing? |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 21 Jul 23 - 12:34 AM Songs, recitations, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 17/18 July 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for the data. Comments and corrections always welcome. Circle of Song Bed of Straw Going Down to the Well with Maggie (recited) Puck's Song (poem) The Masochism Tango When I First Came to This Land La lettre francaise (The French Letter (or The Condom), sung mostly in English) The Foggy Dew One, I Love Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini Gee But I Want to Go Home (aka Army Life) Joan the Leather Queen (ttto Jim the Carter Lad) Cheerly, Men Cold Missouri Waters Grand Coulee Dam Norton New Bell Wake Funeral Song Dirty Old Town The Black Fox Downtown Zeno Exit Mary Eloise Island Song Hazel's Hips Hobo on a Freight Train to Heaven Wanderin' Donny Boy (ttto Danny Boy) This Just Doesn't Seem to be My Day I'm Looking For a Hole to Put Nirex In (poem) Health and Beauty (monologue) High Germany Lovely Joan Voulez-vous promenade avec moi? (sung mostly in English) There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder Farewell to Nova Scotia So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya The Cat Song Nice Work if You Can Get It The Hungry Sea Detour Colin The Dog Don't this Road Look Rough and Rocky? The Moorlough Shore When 'omer Smote 'is Bloomin' Lyre (poem) General Guinness Weyhill Fair Do Virgins Taste Better? (ttto Irish Washerwoman) The Fields of Athenry A Hunting Song I Give Myself to You So Far Away The Ramblin' Rover Mister Noah I Wonder Where You are Tonight Across the Hills of Home (Jimmy's Song) Bottle of Wine (with one chorus in French) Do You Know the Way to San Jose? All Things Change You are Beautiful Worried Man Blues |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 13 Jul 23 - 08:37 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 10/11 July 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Goldwatch Blues A Housekeeper's Tragedy (poem) The Sons of Martha (poem) Holidays A Sailor's Life The Trees They Do Grow High She Moved Through the Fair Until it's Time for Me to Go / T’es pas un autre (sung in English and French) Bridge Over Troubled Water Still On the Bridge Carolina (sung in French) The Snake I's So Tired of Llving All Alone Bay of Fundy An Old Man's Advice South Australia Medley with Take Me Down the Harbor King Orfeo Pointing to the Moon Once I was a Sailor (ttto Three Jolly Rogues of Lin) Catfish John All the World is One Spanish is the Loving Tongue Will the Roses Bloom Where She Lles Sleeping? When I get to Heaven Sweet Thyme The Boy who was Raised by Lemmings (poem) Bungee Jumping for Lemmings (poem) Municipal (poem) Angling Villikins and his DInah Label in the Printer (ttto Little Boxes) If We Never Meet Again this Side of Heaven Goodbye Yellow Brick Road The Bold Princess Royal Tous les garçons et les filles (sung in French) The Orange Maid of Sligo I've Got the Crud Bound for Glory I'm Going Home Believe Me, Sligo Johnny Booker Farewell to the Gold Louise Fire Down Below Going to Damascus The Weepin' Willer Gas Food and Lodging Sheffield Sings I Wish You Were Here New Harmony Happy Birthday If I were a Blackbird The Old Orange Flute I'd Like to be a Cowgirl Highway in the Wind My Eldorado I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart Lovely Agnes Next Big River I'm Gonna Cross The Master of the Sheepfold |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 05 Jul 23 - 05:49 AM Songs, recitations, and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 3/4 July 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much of the data, and to Felipa for a correction. Corrections and comments always welcome. Power and the Glory C’est L’aviron (sung in French) Tommy (recitation) Tribute to Irving Berlin Sisters of Mercy Simple Gifts If I Had a Hammer L’amitié ("Friendship", sung in French) The Drowned Lover Canada Day Up Canada Way Rock Island Line The Last Bus Home The Physician Let Freedom Ring Peace Round Let’s Talk About the Weather Coming Home Song Bored Of The Dance (ttto Lord of the Dance) (Come and Take) Tea in the Arbour Pirates’ Battle of New Orleans (ttto The Battle of New Orleans) American Tune Cold Mountain The Wibbly Wobbly Walk Old Blevins Air An Somme (sung in Scots Gaelic) Einstein the Genius Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill All the Salt Gethsemane (recitation) Tribute to Cole Porter Designated Answerer Of Questions (ttto Dedicated Follower of Fashion) The Courtyard (poem) Crossing the Border Rocky Top I Get a Kick out of You Buttermilk Hill (version of Siúl a Rúin) The Bramble and the Rose Raise Your Voice Hardcastle's Rake I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes California We Have a Dream Non ho l'età ("I'm Not Old Enough", sung in Italian) Sing! When Coal Seam Gas was New (ttto When Jones's Ale was New) Last Trip Home Konícky ("Horses", sung in Czech) The Rope Battle of the Somme Your State's Name Here We Shall All Be Reunited The King's Navy Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Going Home All Things Change The Mill Roseville Fair |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 29 Jun 23 - 04:56 AM Songs, poems and recitations from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 26/27 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man and Casey for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Yellow Bird Lealholm Anthem (aka Bonny Hawthorn) The Book Of Kevin, Chapter 3 (poem) Gunga Din (recited) Blow The Man Down Walk With Me (or The Raucous Cry of the Gulls) (poem) The Plunge Kilbogie Roll Out! Heave That Cotton! Roll the Cotton Down L'aquila (sung in Italian) One Meat Ball Another Time and Place After Life Cancer (poem) Fire And Rain Ring Around the Moon Simple Simon (ttto Yankee Doodle) The Doctor The Moon Song The Song of the Sea When Our Old Age Pension Check Comes Thru Our Door Spancil Hill The Rare Old Times Waterloo Sunset Legacy (poem) Mandalay (Recitation) The Summer Lady (poem) Plaisir d’Amour (sung partly in French) Sauce Upon the Ceiling Robin Hood and Maid Marian Sammy’s Bar It All Depends on You Sweet Nora Lee Broke (poem) Testimony The Oakham Poachers (aka The Bold Poachers) Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth October Roses Windy Harbour Un Canadien Errant (sung in French) (parody of) My Favorite Things Impossible / It's Possible Stone Circles Nancy from London City of New Orleans Wooden Boat Thanks for the Song Jug of Punch Will Ye Go to Flanders Hippies and the Beatniks (ttto Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies) Detour (aka There's a Muddy Road Ahead) Once I Had a Sweetheart (or, Once I Had a True Love / I Once Had a True Love / A Maiden Sat A-Weeping / As Sylvie Was Walking / Bunch of Green Ribbons) We Are One (English version of Korean song, Ulineun hanaya?) Hillcrest Mine River Run When Jones' Ale was New Unforgettable Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Foggy, Foggy Dew Windmills Oak and Ash and Thorn Midsummer Hymn The Great Storm is Over |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 20 Jun 23 - 09:03 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 19/20 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Hang on the Bell, Nellie The 18th Day of June Death by Daffodils (poem) Magna Carta (monologue) Ballroom Dancing God Rest Ye Merry Underlings (ttto God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen) Land of the Silver Birch What Can We Do? Going, Gone Wait Until I Put On My Robe / The Doorbell Song Spanish Pipe Dream Dance the Shores of Jordan Summer to Autumn to Winter to Spring to Summer (poem) The Gipsy Warned Me Bleached White Jesus The Back Block Shearer Let My People Go (aka Go Down Moses) Brown Eyed Girl (version of) Our Good Man The Water Lily Summertime Wade in the Water On Board the Susiana Little Boxes in the Bathroom Steal Away Sally Free and Easy My Old Kentucky Home (piano instrumental) Oleanna My Romance I’m Gonna be an Engineer Carlisle's Haul Song of the Fugitive Rambler, Gambler Shady Grove River Rising Voices (poem) Ballad of John Putnam Detour (aka There's a Muddy Road Ahead) No More Auction Block (aka No More Auction Block for Me) Love Will Linger On Dawn Star (poem) I Can Touch the Night Sam Goes to It (monologue) The Suede Shoe Blues Who Put the Bomp Halelu Avdei Adonai ("Praise, O Servants of the Lord", sung in Hebrew) Ragged Old Truck Jock O' Hazeldean Sing with Me The Chain (poem) Liar's Lullaby Alabama John Cherokee Bye Bye Baby Song for the Mira Summer Sunlight Farmer's Toast (aka Godspeed the Plow) The Diggins-O Summertime, Summertime Radcliffe Highway (aka The Deserter ) Ballad of Springhill (aka Springhill Mining Disaster) Paper Planes The Folker (ttto The Boxer) Ways of the Lodge (poem) Gas Bill Blues Turning Toward the Morning (piano instrumental) Love Call Me Home Turning Toward the Morning |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 Jun 23 - 12:31 AM Songs and poems from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 12/13 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Does anyone know the title of the song I've recorded as "(Kipper Family parody of) Polly Bawn"? As this was our third anniversary, I would have sung "Oh, how we sang when the Zoom-round began/Offer was there, and Casebeer, and Kidman..." if only I had been able to expand the two lines into several stanzas. Johnny Verbeck I Remember Morley All that Lives On are Dreams (poem) An Infinite Melancholy (poem) William Brown Come to the Ancient Places (poem) The Dancing Teacher The Field Mouse’s Ball Steamboat A-Comin’ Children of the Lord (aka The Arky Arky Song, Rise and Shine) On Broadway La femme du Président (sung in French) But I Do (Kipper Family parody of) Polly Bawn Brown Baby Billy Bones’ Hornpipe Survivor Leave The Court of King Caractacus Stormy Monday Blues When I’m Gone The Old Figurehead Carver Sweet Thing (aka Slats in the Bed) On Morecambe Bay We’re All Cleaning Windows (Window Cleaning Shanty) Green Among the Gold Lovers and Losers Lynn’s Dream Drink Drink Dem Deer My Dixie Darling Eirigh Suas A Stóirín (sung in Irish Gaelic) Carolina in My Mind Fancy Forgetting I’m an Old Cow-Hand (from the Rio Grande) Lament to the Moon Matilda (poem) Aphrodite the Smelly Belly Dancer (or Shock Absorba the Greek) The Singer’s Request Country Life I'm a Woman I Don't Need Anything More King of the Road Wings of a Gull (or, Wings of a Goney) Stranger Blues Go to Work on Monday Miss Otis Regrets The Coffee Shop in Pimlico Bread and Fishes Roll On, Columbia If (poem; Boris Johnson party remix) Glory Hallelujah Casey at the Bat (poem) Lone Pilgrim Maid of Culmore June is Bustin' Out All Over Lassie Wad Ye Loo Me (aka Gin I Were a Baron's Heir) Ramblin' Round Ella's Song (aka We Who Believe in Freedom) Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (poem) Time is a Tempest Lovely Willie We Zoom (ttto Blue Moon) Zoomiversary Song (ttto The Parting Glass) Voices in the Spaces (ttto The Outback of Bohemia) (reworking of) Icarus Detour Dumbarton's Drums How Can I Keep From Singing |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Monique Date: 07 Jun 23 - 02:39 AM The Ukrainian song title is "Реве та стогне Днiпр широкий" in Cyrillic. This HTML Encoder Web Tool is the one I use to encode non-ASCII characters but there are others. |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 07 Jun 23 - 12:46 AM Songs, poems, monologues, stories, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 5/6 June 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data, and to Monique. Corrections and comments always welcome. Matilda Barrett’s Privateers The First Ship (poem) The Rio Grande Her Letter (monologue) Doodlebug Baby Quare Bungle Rye (sung in Polish) Comment Vouloir Qu'une Personne Chante ("How Can You Expect A Person To Sing?", sung in French) Derby Ram (“It’s a Lie” version) Ode to Billie Joe Lo Rossinhòu Messatgier ("The Messenger Nightingale", sung in Provençal dialect) The Garden Song His Eye is on The Sparrow The Punnet of Strawberries Under the Sea Corpus Christi Carol The Wonderful World of Sex María Chuchena (sung in Spanish) Like the Way I Do Red-Tail Hawk Michalek ("Young Michael", sung in Czech) Three Score and Ten Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos Play Me a Rock’n’roll Song I’m Not Looking to See You Here (Story about a gig) South Wind ("An Ghaoth Aniar", piano instrumental) Farewell to the Gold Bonny Bunch of Roses Till the End of the World Rolls Round Your Daughters and Your Sons The Shores of Normandy Mother (poem) Crazy Man Michael November Wood (poem) An Irish Airman Foresees His Death The Germans Bombed Our Chippy in the War Reve ta stogne Dnipr shy`roky`j ("The Wide Dnieper Roars and Groans", sung in Ukrainian; see title in Cyrillic characters in next message from Monique) Robin Hood's Golden Prize (Ed McCurdy tune) Bells of Rhymney Kilroy was Here Earl of March's Daughter Vatican Rag Come Away In Caged Bird The Scottish Summer The Really Strangest Dream Northwest Passage In the Twi-Twi-Twilight The Lowestoft Boat (ttto of A-Rovin') The Cruel Brother Rust on the Tracks The Lark in the Morning Don't Call Me Early in the Morning Little Maggie (accidentally ttto Darling Corey) My Shining Star You are Beautiful Dancing in Front of the Guns River |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 01 Jun 23 - 06:12 AM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 29/30 May 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Day-O (aka Banana Boat Song) The Proud Man Sir John’s Fancy (poem) Crocodile Song Strawberry Fair One Each Apiece All Round (monologue) Fido Boné Come Love, Come Proud Mary O! Den Skønne, Skønne Maj! (Danish May Song) The New Diggers’ Song The Wonderful Crocodile One Simple Act Of Kindness Testimony The Garden Gate So Long Mom Ballad Of Reuben James Divin’ Duck Blues Shores Of Normandy Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still Just Before The Battle, Mother The Nightingale (aka One Morning In May, The Soldier and the Lady, The Bold Privateer, The Grenadier and the Lady, To Hear the Nightingale Sing, The Fiddling Soldier, The Bold Grenadier, The Lady and the Soldier, Water Rattle) The Cuckoo Every Bush And Tree What’s Rain Got To Do With It? The Man On The Flying Trapeze Lord Franklin (Les Barker parody) Runner-Up The Wonder Horse (poem) I Remember, I Remember (monologue) Rover A Faded Coat Of Blue Jamaica Farewell A-Rovin’ Spread A Little Happiness Red Rockin’ Chair The Flowers of the Forest After Taps (poem) Man Who Used to Be Rabbit in a Log Dancing at Whitsun The Trees They Grow High (aka The Trees, They Grow So High; The Trees, They Do Grow High; Daily Growing; Long A-Growing; Lady Mary Ann; He's Young, But He's Daily Growing) Heat Detector Little Sadie Going Down to Tampa May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You (piano instrumental) The Sound of Music Summertime Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya My Dear Island (version of The Dark Island) Where Have All the Flowers Gone Forty-Five Years (with an extra verse) Coming to us Dead (aka Express Office) Little David Philosopher's Woes In the Boarding House (aka Midnight on the Ocean; Ain't We Crazy) Vaguely Remembered Daily Growing (see The Trees They Grow High, above) A Hole in the Bucket (Catie Curtis, not Trad.) Two Brothers All Through the Night |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: Joe Offer Date: 25 May 23 - 09:10 PM I can't tell you how many times this list has stopped me from singing a song I sang just last week..... ;-) |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 25 May 23 - 08:57 PM Songs, poems, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 22/23 May 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for most of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Dancing at Whitsun Diesel and Shale Sceptic Tank (poem) An Aisle, an Altar and a Hymn (or “I’ll Altar Hymn”) Indian Revelry (ttto Here’s to the Last to Die) Any Complaints Late Spring Garden (poem) Across the Blue Mountains C’était un petit matelot (sung in French) Diana Hey, Diana Ho (aka Hell of a Wedding) Quite Early Morning Feelin’ Good The Ghosts in the Churchyard Mathematics The Lambs on the Green Hills (aka The False Bride) A Shantyman Gone Aloft Leaving the Land Rose of the San Joaquin Barbara Ellen Do Re Mi Down Where the Drunkards Roll Community Care (poem) Why Did They Have to Get Married? The Outside Track Summertown Rent (ttto Summertime Blues) The Courtyard (poem) Sweet Dreams of You Uncle Rat You Are My Flower If My Friends Could See Me Now South Wind (tune) After the Storm Yiddle, On Your Fiddle, Play Some Ragtime The Killer in Me Somewhere to Begin This Love Will Carry Hard Times Come Again No More Òran Beinn Lì (sung In Scottish Gaelic) Hugs Poor Old Horse Irish Waltz The Wild Mountainside Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Jug Band Music Now I Walk in Beauty Earth Angel I'll Fly Away Dreams Deferred Share the Road |
Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround From: GerryM Date: 17 May 23 - 08:27 PM Songs, poems, monologues, and instrumentals from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom singaround of 15/16 May 2023, probably in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for much of the data. Corrections and comments always welcome. Let Union Be Sweet Sunny South Across the Plains of Africa (poem) Sam Small (monologue) The Barmaid and the Delivery Man Spotted Cow Handweaver and the Factory Maid L'aucèu en gabiòla ("The Bird in a Cage", sung In Occitan) The Congleton Bear I Am Australian Anne Boleyn (aka With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm) Coronation Blues I’m So Tired of Living Alone What’s Easy for Two is So Hard for One The Mushy One Deep River Blues The Man From Connemara I Hear America Singing Monday Monday Hear Lyrics Clearly Abide With Me The Lakes of Coolfin Dark Turn of Mind Husicky (Sung in Czech/Bohemian, ttto Little Goose Polka) The Isle of Eigg Pass in Time Ruins of War When My Ship Comes In I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag War Graves (poem) Two Graves (poem) Sally Simpkin’s Lament (monologue) I’m in Love with Ethel from the Cake Shop The Bonny Earl O’ Moray Father’s Whiskers Bat Masterson Theme I Know Why and So Do You We’re Not the Jet Set Turning Toward the Morning Messing About on the River Ae Fond Kiss Wine and Roses Draglines Three Fishers Buckeye Jim San Antonio Rose The Galway Shawl Fields of Gold Walking in Memphis My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying The Ballad of Minepit Shaw Farewell to the House I Must Go Home Tonight Green Grow the Rashes-O Oh, Susanna The Shepherd's Wife (piano instrumental) (The) Sunshine of Your Smile Winter Song Sweet Baby James The Morris Dancers (ttto English Country Garden) Ragtime Cowboy Joe Cool Clear Water |
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