Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 26 Apr 23 - 07:00 PM

Songs, recitations, poems, instrumentals, monologues, and stories from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 24/25 April 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in, and to Casey for clarification. Comments and corrections always welcome.

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Old Figurehead Carver (recited)
Hector the Objector
The Deserter
Hard Case
The Brandy Tree
Earth
The Sultana (ttto Blue Mountain Lakes)
La fille soldat (in French)
Hangin' on the Old Barbed Wire
Sally Free and Easy
Eleanor's Song
Duncan and Brady
The Cowboy's Dream
Marions les roses
By George! (poem)
The Yellow Bittern
The Gallant Shopping
This Ole House
The Little Moles (poem)
The Rasta Masta Has to Ask for Special Pesto on His Pasta
The Grand Old Dame Britannia
Medley:Ae Fond Kiss, Westlin Winds, Will Ye No Come Back Again (guitar instrumentals)
Don’t Fence Me In
The Green Man
Poets Corner (monologue)
Shakespeare's Plots
False Autumn (poem)
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
Early
The Ploughboy's Dream (to the tune, Forest Green, also used for "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "O Lord of Life, To Thee We Lift", "I Sing the Mighty Power of God",....)
The Wild Colonial Boy (ttto Ghost Riders in the Sky)
Will Ye Go to Flanders
Now is the Cool of the Day
My Funeral
Remember Your Name and Address
The Rainbow King (story)
Here is My Home
Cocaine Done Killed My Baby
Am I Born to Die (aka Idumea)
Donny Boy (ttto Danny Boy)
John-John (poem)
DP Dept. (ttto Wor Geordie's Lost His Panker)
All is Welcome Here
Oor Hamlet
Black Panther
God Bless England
Dumbarton's Drums
Nevada Jane
All Things Change
Song of Patriotic Prejudice
Absent Friends
If I Loved You
All the Fine Young Men
Greenland Whale Fisheries
Windmills
River of the Big Canoes
Talking to the Driver
Call Me the Whale
Custard Creams

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 03 May 23 - 02:32 AM

Songs, poems, and readings from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround 1/2 May 2023, in the order in which they were presented. Thanks to Casey and Moorley Man for the items presented before I came in. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Singing in the May
Hayfield (poem)
This Place (poem)
The Saga of Fred and Hilda
Penguins (read)
Scarborough Fair
Annan Water
The Spotted Cow
Creation Song
Arise Arise (aka May Day Carol, Northill May Song, The First of May, Cambridgeshire May Carol, Bedfordshire May Day Carol, ....)
Workingfolk Unite (ttto Redwing)
Union Maid (ttto Redwing)
Moskva (in Russian)
Pussy Willows, Cattails
Everybody Thanks the Driver
William and Polly
All Hail to Dear Mary (aka 'Tis the Month of Our Mother)
How Anarchy Could Function
C'est le mai joli mai (in French)
One Morning in May (aka Soldier and the Lady)
Would You Call it Treason
Beacons at Bealtaine (poem)
May Day Carol
Singing Up the Sun
Talkin' Nothin' Blues (read)
Down Among the Heather (aka Heather Down the Moor)
Rambler Gambler
Who is to Blame
When Spring Comes In
The Red Funnel Lion (poem)
Raphael and Abdulla
I've had a Glass of Gin-Ginger Wine
Amarillo by Morning
By the Banks of the Roses
Elsie Marley
As I Roved Out
Man Smart, Woman Smarter
On the Plane
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn
Destroyer Benson (ttto The Sick Note; see 30/31 January 2023)
Darcy Farrow
The Devil and the Ploughman
Bring Flowers of the Fairest (aka Bring Flowers of the Rarest)
Le Chinois
First of May Blues (aka Black, White, Yellow and Blues)
Across the Blue Mountains (aka Good Morning, Good Morning in May)
Rose of San Antone
Isis
The Good in Living
All the Good Times are Just Begun (ttto All the Good Times are Past and Gone)
Lavender's Blue
Hope
Glad that I Live am I (x2)
Bread and Roses
Come Back, Liza
Medley: 1st stanza of La rosa enflorece (aka Los bilbilicos; in Ladino), 1st stanza of Tsur Mishelo (same tune, in Hebrew), A Swallow Song (same tune)
A Life at Sea
Rough and Rocky
Eight More Miles to Louisville
On the Street Where You Live
One Small Star
Bless This House

Subject: RE: Songs from the Mudcat Worldwide Singaround
From: GerryM
Date: 10 May 23 - 01:25 AM

Songs, poems, and monologues from the Mudcat Worldwide Zoom Singaround of 8/9 May 2023, quite likely in the order in which they were presented. Most of the work was done by Casey and Moorley Man. Comments and corrections always welcome.

Oak and Ash and Thorn
The Seasons (poem)
Halt, Who Goes There? (monologue)
If I were the King
Vaquí lo polit mes de mai (sung in Occitan-Provençal)
I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down (aka St Louis Blues)
Compliments Returned
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Poor Lazarus
Railroad Blues (aka Brakeman's Blues)
I Like a Good Drop of Beer
Mrs McGrath
Wreck of the Old 97
The Madman
AI Writes Better Songs
Beep Beep
I Ain't Nobody in Perticular
Summer Boy
My Yiddishe Mama
Saint Aubin Sur Mer
The Sun Goes Down; Red Roses; Maybe Then I'll be a Rose (poems)
Faithless Nellie Gray
Love in the Launderette
Blackwaterside
My Favorite Words (ttto My Favorite Things)
Wreck of the Dandenong
The Two Brothers
I'm Gonna Rise When the Rooster Crows
Angeline the Baker (aka Angelina Baker)
I Just Steal Away and Pray
Reconciliation
To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl
Liberty Rag
Common Sailors
Thirsty Boots
I Will
Redwing Blackbird
Thíos i dTeach an Tórraimh ("Down at the Wakehouse", sung in Irish Gaelic)
Singing in the May
Blue Mountain
Bratach Bana ("The White Banner", sung in Scots Gaelic)
An Mhaighdean Mhara (Irish language song with associated story)
The Roses o' Prince Charlie
Three-Legged Man
The Song of the Meda
Lullaby

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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