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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 May 25 - 07:54 PM 10May 1872 American reformer Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to be nominated for U.S president when the Equal Rights Party selected her as its candidate. Victoria Woodhull, article rom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull LOVE TO LOVE (The Victoria Woodhull Song) - - Elisa Korenne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xF7dFAYKos VICTORIA WOODHALL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE1e7_D2rco
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 May 25 - 07:16 PM 7 May 1763 Pontiac's War began when Pontiac led 300 followers in an attempt to take Fort Detroit by surprise from the colonial British. Pontiac (Odawa_leader), article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_(Odawa_leader) PONTIAC - Lyle Lovett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEk7_Y4JRA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEk7_Y4JRA0 BIG CHIEF PONTIAC - Omar and The Howlers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfSDW5JAOKc |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 25 - 06:17 PM May 6, 1937The airship Hindenburg disaster occurred at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. Hindenburg Disaster, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster THE HINDEBERG DISASTER - Lead Belly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZinOUXOdrfo HINDENBERG - The Williamson Playboys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOfQshtjFeA WHEN THE HINDENBERG LANDS TODAY - Sherman & Larsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr5aihf3Z9w |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 25 - 06:58 PM 5 May 1760 Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers was executed at Tyburn in London after being convicted of murdering his valet. Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Shirley,_4th_Earl_Ferrers THE BALLAD OF THE 4TH EARL FERRERS - Lieutenant Leek (feat. Immie Mason) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOaZTwquPo |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST Date: 05 May 25 - 06:32 PM The Maid Of Ballydoo (Trad) (sung by Tommy Makem) 'Twas on a summer's morning all in the month of May Down by yon flowery arbor I carelessly did stray I there espied a charming maid most pleasant to my view And the title that she gave herself was the Maid of Ballydoo I boldly stepped up to her and unto her did say Are you Aurora or Flora Queen of May Or is it the fair Helen that appears all in my view But the title that she gave herself was the Maid of Ballydoo I took her by the lily white hand and by the waist so small I showed her my father's garden down by the river Bann Where the sheep and the lambs do sport and play, the trout and salmon too And says I, Sweet maid, don't be afraid for to leave old Ballydoo Well it was with great persuasion that I got her for to give consent And had in hand together it was Hilltown down we went There we drank liquor of the best and some of the mountain dew And she soon forgot the vows she made when leaving Ballydoo It was a summer's evening all in the month of June As I was sitting silently, condoling at my loom My scissors they cut sweetly and my shuttle nimbly flew When I first composed these verses on the Maid of Ballydoo |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Felipa Date: 05 May 25 - 06:41 AM Irving Berlin was born 11 May 1888 " Songwriter Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was born (as Israel Isidore Baline) in Tyumen, Russia. At the age of four, Berlin moved with his family to New York City and later began singing in saloons and on street corners to help his family following the death of his father. Although he could not read or write musical notation, he became one of America's greatest songwriters, best known for songs such as God Bless America, White Christmas, There's No Business Like Show Business, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Puttin' On the Ritz, and Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." (https://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/may.htm) |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? Swedish song Majvisa From: Felipa Date: 05 May 25 - 06:35 AM Swedish song Majvisa https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=563314876797488 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 25 - 05:11 AM May 4, 1886 The Haymarket Affair was a bombing and its aftermath at a labour demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Haymarket affair, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair HAYMARKET SQUARE - - Ross Altman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjtxRhAevsU |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: mayomick Date: 04 May 25 - 06:10 AM As I roved out (On a bright May morning) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaAbKxxfgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaAbKxxfgg Link To Post above AS I ROVED OUT
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 May 25 - 05:11 AM 4 May 1972 Richard Moore, in Derry, Northern Ireland, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, fired by then Captain Charles Innes of the Royal Artillery regiment. Richard Moore; The Original Rubber Bullet , article by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie from The people v Rubber Bullets https://rubberbullets.longlead.com/chapter/rubber-bullet-history-northern-ireland RICHARD MOORE - The Young'uns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDNggaE-_b4 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 May 25 - 12:53 PM THE BOY AND THE MANTLE (Three Tests of Chastity) , Roud 3961 ,Child 29 - Steeleye Span https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbeQwyrAKfk opening verse On the third of May to Carlisle did come A courteous child with much wisdom. A kirtle and mantle the boy had on, With rings and broaches full richly adorned. The Boy and the Mantle, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Mantle Boy and the Mantle, The [Child 29], article from The Ballad Index https://balladindex.org/Ballads/C029.html The Boy and the Mantle recorded by Raymond Crooke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWCF98_e1Jw The Boy and The Mantle -Allan Taylor (BUT the Lyrics start in the third month of the year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YysSM03qek&list=RD2YysSM03qek&start_radio=1&rv=2YysSM03qek BOY AND THE MANTLE (THE) (Three Tests of Chastity) , Roud 3961 ,Child 29 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 May 25 - 07:38 PM 2 May 1194 King Richard I of England gave Portsmouth its first royal charter. Portsmouth, article rom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth RIDING DOWN TO PORTSMOUTH Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=riding+down+to+Portsmouth+ PORTSMOUTH SONG - Nick Paisley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKACOfwFOU8 PLAY UP POMPEY - Portsmouth F.C. Supporters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DrQZVnsh1o&list=OLAK5uy_nSnyoDzk-uD7U-bx-vK8DWCmxJnVFC6V8 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 May 25 - 12:45 PM 1 May 1900. The Scofield_Mine_Disaster occurred at the Winter Quarters coal mine, near the town of Scofield, Utah. Scofield_Mine_Disaster from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Mine_disaster SCHOFIELD MINE DISASTER Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Scofield+Mine+Disaster+song Mudcat Thread, ADD: Scofield Mine Disaster (Utah Phillips) - /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7624&messages=12#reply |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 May 25 - 06:17 AM 30 April /1 May Walpurgis Night Walpurgis Night, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night WALPURGISNACHT - Faun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLgM1QJ3S_I WALPURGIS NIGHT - The Coffinshakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cZuttdXtU WALPURGIS NIGHT - The Cry of the Witch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CjszDVR8A Mudcat thread, Songs for Walpurgis Night (April 30) https:thread.cfm?threadid=137390&messages=11#top Link to Index of Any May Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169613#4100012:~:text=INDEX%20OF%20MAY%20SONGS%0AADIRONDACK%20MOUNTAINS(THE) |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 May 24 - 07:40 AM Correct, Richard! It mentions Pomona Bay. Just for curiosity, the song (Away down to) Pomona originated in Manchester. The Pomona Palace and Gardens (named after the Roman goddess of fruit trees and orchards) were in Cornbrook, Hulme; the site was later used to build the Pomona Docks at the terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal. Inglis Gundry notes in his introduction to Canow Kernow (published by the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1966): '...the process of balladry still goes on. In the Logan Rock Inn at Treen a popular song called Way down Albert Square is gradually being transformed into a folk-song called Lamorna." Link to Index of Any June Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#4108028:~:text=OF%20JUNE%20SONGS-,AIR%20BALLOON,-ALABAMA(THE) |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 May 24 - 07:18 AM Friday, May 30, 1907 Bertha Boronda cut her husband's penis off with a razor while in bed believing that her husband Frank had visited a place of prostitution. BAD BERTHA by Squirrel Butter https://soundcloud.com/squirrelbutter/bad-bertha Bertha Boronda from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Boronda |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Richard Mellish Date: 27 May 24 - 01:01 PM > From: GUEST,henryp - PM > Date: 21 May 24 - 11:15 PM > On 21 May 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened. [Pedant mode on] Yes but the song quoted in the rest of that post is not about the Ship Canal but about one of the older canals serving Manchester. As described here, insofar as the place names make any sense, they refer to a "voyage" from somewhere on the eastern side of Manchester, past Wilson's Brewery and ending "just south of Salford station". |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 May 24 - 05:45 AM EDWARD BOYLE aka My Charming Edward Boyle In the time I well remember, it was in the month of May When Flora’s flowery mantle bedecked the meadows gay. Various recordings of “Edward Boyle “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=++Edward+Boyle+song |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 May 24 - 11:02 PM More Manchester Ship Canal songs; the construction of the Ship Canal caught the imagination of contemporary writers and continues to do so today. ‘Tales from the Towpath’ was a BBC Radio 2 programme first broadcast on 27 May 1997. It tells the story of the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. The programme featured Mike Harding, the Albion Band, Bridgewater Brass Ensemble and Mikron Theatre Company. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/AV/tales_from_the_towpath.htm Original songs; 36 miles Away from the Sea Tales of the Towpath We Can't Get the Wares Away The Ganger's Wife Your Loving Son, Dan Big Ditch Flood A Modern Marvel Manchester Ship Canal recorded by Pumpkin Pie https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester_ship_canal_2.htm Manchester Ship Canal by John Gill recorded by Hindle Wakes https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester_ship_canal_gill.htm NEW SONG ON THE PROPOSED SHIP CANALTo enable large vessels to be navigated from Liverpool to Manchester Text is from a broadside which stated it was to be sung to the air "Grandmother's Chair". https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/N/new_proposed_canal.htm SEAPORT TOWN OF MANCHESTER or Prosperity to the Ship Canal Text is from the broadside printed by Jack Harkness, Printer, Church Street, Preston. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/S/seaport_manchester.htm |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 May 24 - 08:16 PM 24 May 1915 John Condon was killed in action in a gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres. JOHN CONDON written by Mary Dillon John Condon - Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWK-0dVUQbk John Condon - Fairport Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7wU1tpU5hs John Condon - Rebecca Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxNTFhhmeE John Condon - Flossie Malavialle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-db-DaEk6Eg John Condon - Janet Dowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip27e6xZK8w John Condon (British Army soldier) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Condon_(British_Army_soldier) Mudcat Thread, Lyr ADD: John Condon - about WWI soldier /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=82078&messages=43#top |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 22 May 24 - 07:15 PM And yet another song about The Manchester Ship Canal is THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL NAVVY - Ian Woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-ACXwSJyM And yet another is BRING THE SEA TO MANCHESTER - Jon Raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7ihIOLxmI&list=OLAK5uy_k5aFUmD66dw9WdPtvl30S2OCxccw9SoIw And a snitch of a recording by Nick Dow https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/M/manchester.htm
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 May 24 - 08:07 AM Here's another song about the Ship Canal; THE SHIP CANAL SONG, or THE MARY, sung by Gary and Vera Aspey on From the North, Topic 1975. A hundred years before the building of the Ship Canal, the River Irwell was a busy waterway with packet boats drawn by teams of horses and supplemented by a square-rigged sail. They started at any hour of the day or night, timed to catch the ebb tide at Runcorn, where passengers for Liverpool were transferred to a larger boat. The Mary was the first seagoing vessel to make the journey to Manchester on October 20, 1840. The Ship Canal Song was published on a handbill in 1840 by Wilmot Henry Jones of Market Street, Manchester. Ian Woods added the chorus calling for support for the building of the Ship Canal, which was opened by Queen Victoria in 1894. The Ship Canal Song - Gary and Vera Aspey on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O03Ie1ylC6U Another song on YouTube about this theme from Gary & Vera Aspey is Manchester Ship Canal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JerOXpAgM |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 11:15 PM On 21 May 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened. From Mainly Norfolk with thanks; Harry Boardman sang THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL to the tune of The Girl I Left Behind Me on his and Dave Hillery’s 1971 Topic album Trans Pennine. They noted: The Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894, was of tremendous economic importance, both to Lancashire and the country as a whole, changing as it did one of the world’s greatest commercial and trading centres from a land-locked city to an important inland seaport. The Manchester Canal comes from an undated printed sheet and was supplied by Paul Graney of Manchester. The notion of describing a mere canal voyage in terms of the dangers of the deep has been very popular in times past, to judge by the number of versions on the go, one of the best known of which is The Calibar. Harry Boardman sings The Manchester Canal O the S.S. Irwell left this port the stormy sea to cross. They heaved the lead and went ahead on a voyage to Barton Moss. No fair ship e’er left the slip from this port to Natal Than the boats that plough the waters of the Manchester Canal. The third day out or thereabout, a great storm swept the main. The captain called his officer, I just forget his name. “You see that light there on the right?” “Aye, aye,” he did exclaim. “Well it’s the Wilsons’ Brewery lightship at the end of Ancoats Lane.” The Manchester Canal · Harry Boardman · Dave Hillery · Bob Diehl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKI2vqgxgQ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 10:54 PM On 21 May 1851: Gold was discovered in Australia. Within a few weeks of the reports of Hargraves’ discoveries, songs were appearing about the rush to Ophir. One such song was published in Bell’s Sydney Life and Sporting Reviewer on 31 May 1851, under the heading On the Gold-digging Epidemic now raging in New South Wales. It’s off to the diggings we’ll go, Whether they let us or no. We’ll scramble for gold Through wet, dirt or cold, And it’s off to the diggings we’ll go. It’s off to the diggings we’ll go, And perhaps without striking a blow We may fill up our bags, And then mounting some nags, We’ll cut to the …. oh oh. Gold’s called the elixir of life; It certainly causes some strife; Some of the turmoil created by the goldrushes can be appreciated in these verses from New Words to an Old Song, again about the rush to Ophir, and written by William Walker ‘on the breaking out of the Gold Diggings, 1851’. The world is now turned upside-down, And everything seems queer, For all the men are leaving town, And prog gets dreadful dear. To talk of love now no one thinks, The men have got so cold Their heads are stuffed with nothing, but – This cursed, filthy gold. A woman’s voice sounds dull and tame, In her no charm now lives; But spades and picks are harmony, And gold the music gives. Songs from the Australian Goldfields, Part 1: Gold mania by ROSS A. BOTH and WARREN FAHEY Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 13, October 2015 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 May 24 - 10:20 PM On 21 May 1688: Poet and satirist Alexander Pope was born in London. Peace o’er the world, her olive branch extends, And white-robed innocence from heaven descends. Swift fly the years and rise the expected morn; O, spring to light! The auspicious Babe be born! PEACE O’ER THE WORLD is the signature carol of village communities in the Hope Valley of the Derbyshire Peak District. The text can be found on broadsides and is based on Alexander Pope’s extensive poem Messiah, first published in 1712. The text is set to a tune by Richard Furness of Eyam, c.1820. ‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire by Ian Russell THE FORTY-FIRST KATHARINE BRIGGS MEMORIAL LECTURE, 16 NOVEMBER 2021 Bella Hardy sings “Peace O’er The World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o790Mu07IFg Peace O'er the World from Foolow in Derbyshire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dleat14Wm7A And at 0.50 in the above video I think Ian Russell is one of the people singing?
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Haruo Date: 21 May 24 - 01:31 AM I'm a bit surprised not to see TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM ("Spring Has Now Unwrapped Her Flowers" here. This is the original song to the tune now best known as "Good King Wenceslas". It's a May Day flower carol. Here's a link to a fasola shapenote score of one verse in Latin and three in English from my under-construction "Shape Note Daily Lectionary Hymnal". Haruo The "Original" song with Lyrics circa 13th Century on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8PgukSLX0 Many other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tempus+Adest+Floridum
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 May 24 - 05:37 PM 23 May 1706 The Battle of Ramillies, a battle in the War of the Spanish Succession was fought in the Spanish Netherlands, present day Belgium. WILL YE GO TO FLANDERS? Many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Will+Ye+Go+To+Flanders Mudcat, Origin: Will Ye Go to Flanders /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10176 Mudcat DT LYRICS: Will Ye Go to Flanders? /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7897 Battle of Ramillies from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramillies |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 May 24 - 06:30 PM May 20, 1946 Birth of Cher SONGS OF CHER Cher Song list from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/songs/cher Cher songs playlist recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_T3wyHe_vMLVTxa4k4bGQhQ8pGm7ZT1R Cher from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 May 24 - 04:49 AM 18 to 20 May 1944 The deportation of the Crimean Tatars to exile inCentral Asia. 1944 - Jamala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCG2rw4ZXTY 1944 (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_(song) Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 May 24 - 06:45 AM LO MES DE MAI Lyrics and recording https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=7357 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 May 24 - 09:07 AM May 13, 1960 death of American old-time fiddler and one of the earliest stars of what would come to be known as country music. SONGS OF GID TANNER AND THE SKILLET LICKERS on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=songs+of+the+Skillet+Lickers Gid Tanner from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gid_Tanner# |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 May 24 - 08:41 AM LA BÈLA DE MAI (No recording yet ) Lyrics and translation from Mudcat thread " Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English" /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=169209#4127559:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Lyr%20Add%3A%20Mudcat%20singaround%20songs%20N |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 May 24 - 10:44 AM Sunday 19 May 2024 Whitsun WHITSUNTIDE CAROL aka The Whitsun Song Various recordings of The Whitsuntide Carol on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Whitsuntide+Carol The Whitsun Song · John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpO_nW8tvbU MUDCAT: Lyr Add: WHITSUNTIDE CAROL /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13130&messages=8 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 May 24 - 07:16 AM Whitsun falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. This usually comes in late May or early June. In 2024 the date will be May 19, because of an early Easter. Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three holiday weeks for the medieval villein; on most manors he was free from service on the lord's demesne this week, which marked a pause in the agricultural year. It continued to be a holiday for workers. The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's words for ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS , first published in the Church Times in 1864, were sung in 1865 by the children of Horbury Bridge as they marched up the hill to St. Peter’s, Horbury, in the annual Whit Tuesday procession. Eventually, the hymn was set to the tune 'St Gertrude', composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Horbury Church; This year is the 100th anniversary of the death of Fr Sabine Baring-Gould, who was curate of Horbury from 1864-1867 under Canon John Sharp. We are pleased to be able to mark the centenary of Fr Sabine’s death in the parish for which he wrote ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ over Whit Weekend 2024. The weekend opens on Friday, 17th May at 7pm with a concert at Horbury Working Members’ Club with award-winning folk artists Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes, who present ‘Ghosts, Werewolves and Country Folk – Songs and Stories of Sabine Baring-Gould’. Our celebrations then come to a climax with the re-enactment of the Whit Walk on Sunday, 19th May at 2pm. Various recordings of 'Onward, Christian Soldiers'on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Onward+Christian+Soldiers+ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 May 24 - 05:50 PM SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon She wore it in the spring time, in the early month of May Recordings of “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon " on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=she+wore+a+yellow+ribbon+song+ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/facts/traditional/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon#:~:text=Songfacts%C2%AE%3A&text=The%20song%2Fpoem%20has%20a Mudcat DT Study: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53527 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 May 24 - 07:07 PM CAWSAND BAY In Cawsand Bay lyin', the Blue Peter Flyin' The hands all turn'd up, oh, the anchor to weigh; There came off a lady, as fresh as a May-Day Who, looking up modestly, these words did say Various recordings of “Cawsand Bay “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cawsand+bay+song Mudcat, Origins: Cawsand Bay /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171250 Mudcat DT Lyrics /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1123 Mudcat, Cawsand Bay: who was Elinor Ford? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=151266 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 May 24 - 05:42 AM BEN, BEN VENI MAG - Cantovivo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD40rqBXCJA
Translation from the Piedmontese courtesy of Cattia Salto, Google Translate and Monique
Mistress, if you don't want to believe that May has arrived,
Look at our bride, how well dressed she is
Look at our bride what a beautiful dress she has
Look at our bride what a beautiful hat she has
Look at our bride, what a beautiful ring she has
[We enter this house if there are good people
Oh, you mistress if you want to pay
[To you mistress who paid
To you mistress, who have not paid, |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 May 24 - 04:49 AM DO YOU EVER REMEMBER - Molly Drake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVGANfB8l_Q Do you ever remember? Now you are so far away Things that we used to laugh about Crazy things we'd say There were so many May times When every word was a song There were so many gay times Before it all went all so wrong |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 08 May 24 - 05:27 PM Still nobody helping me with my question about "The first of May" (12th post in this thread, 31st March 2021). I have been asking various people in the hope that that they might know who wrote it but no luck yet. Robin |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 May 24 - 01:18 PM [Verse 1] 'Twas in the merry month of May, when balmy winds first blow I met my love in Arisaig where rhododendrons grow I met my love in Arisaig in the shadow of Craig Mor The sun shone on the Isle of Eigg, far from the silver shore The sun shone on the Isle of Eigg, far from the silver shore ISLE OF EIGG - Robin Laing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhyH7HF0qB0 Many other recordings of The Isle of Eigg on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Isle+of+Eigg+%C2%B7+Robin+Laing+lyrics
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 May 24 - 05:50 AM NA SERA 'E MAGGIO (A Night in May ) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Na+sera+%27e+maggio+ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 24 - 09:31 AM VAQUÉ LO POLIT MES DE MAI Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Vaqu%C3%AD+lo+polit+mes+de+mai+ |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST Date: 05 May 24 - 03:16 PM POLLY ON THE SHORE Come all you wild young men And a warning take by me, Never to lead your single life astray And into no bad company. As I myself have done, It being in the merry month of May, When I was pressed by a sea-captain And on board a man-o-war I was sent. We sailed on the ocean so wide And our bonny bonny flag we let fly. Let every man stand true to his gun For the Lord knows who must die. Oh our captain was wounded full sore And so were the rest of his men. Our main mast rigging it was scattered on the deck So that we were obliged to give in. Oh our decks they were spattered with blood And so loudly the cannons did roar; And thousands of times have I wished myself at home And all along with my Polly on the shore. She's a tall and a slender girl, She's a dark and a-rolling eye, And here am I lie a-bleeding on the deck And for her sweet sake I would die. So farewell to my parents and friends, Farewell my dear Polly too. I ne'er would have crossed this salt sea so wide If I had been ruled by you. Many and various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Polly+on+the+Shore Note that there is the song Polly on the Shore as above from the tradition but also another, modern song sung by some such as the Voice Squad |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 May 24 - 06:48 PM May 1st, 1945. Katharina_Jacob, teacher and member of the German Resistance movement against National Socialism , was rescued by Russian troops from an SS death march . THEY ALL SANG THE INTERNATIONALE by David Rovics Lyrics and recordings of "They All Sang the Internationale", from Songs of Social Significance https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/they-all-sang-the-internationale/ Katharina Jacob from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Jacob |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 May 24 - 04:49 PM C’EST DANS LE MOIS DE MAI - Ariko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk3ht6ifVws |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 May 24 - 12:19 PM C’EST LE MAI - Malicorne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFlx0b7e_ak Thank you for this traditional French song Monique |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 May 24 - 11:59 AM FAIR IS ROSE AS BRIGHT MAY DAY The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzHrfTeAQzc |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 May 24 - 06:11 AM First of May by the BeeGees - See other thread! Link to post above FIRST DAY OF MAY by The Bee Gees Link to Dave’s other thread /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173277&messages=1#:~:text=Friendly%20%2D%20Home-,First%20of%20May%20%2D%20The%20BeeGees,- |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 May 24 - 04:58 AM WHEN ROSY MAY COMES IN WI’ FLOWERS (aka THE GARD'NER WI' HIS PAIDLE) written by Robert Burns sung by Tony Cuffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqZvrOxFcU Mudcat , Lyr Req/Add: The Gard'ner wi' His Paidle (R Burns) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=56534 The Gardener Wi' His Paidle Christine Sparks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwVewkZN2E Also from Burns', DAINTY DAVEY Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers, To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers; And now comes in the happy hours, To wander wi' my Davie. Dainty Davie - Eddi Reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_w4rGTVN8 Link to Post above DAINTY DAVIE |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Jun 23 - 10:49 AM JIM HARRIS In nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the last daylight in May, Jim Harris in the Ronald P. from St. Kyran's sailed away; “Jim Harris”- Matthew Byrne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubm7Z4QCle4 Jim Harris - The Punters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itaIs6XNYKo Lyrics and information about Jim Harris from Disaster Songs https://disastersongs.ca/jim-harris/ |
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