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Subject: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 05:37 AM

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Can you suggest any songs associated with the month of August ie: (A) Any songs with August in the title (B) Any songs with an August date given in the lyrics (C) Any songs referencing an event that is known to have occurred in August even if the lyrics do not actually say so.
It would be very helpful to have links to performances of the songs and also more sources of information about them.

Below is an alphabetical index of the titles collected in this thread so far. If a title in this index is clicked then you should be jumped to the section of the thread in which most of the discussion and links for that title occurs. If you just want to add a new post to this thread use the “Post to this thread” or POST buttons to jump to the end of the thread. I shall sometimes rearrange “ late” posts to group them with the appropriate main area of discussion so that they are not overlooked.When I add to someone’s post I make this clear by doing so beneath an orange line like the one below. - Regards, GeoffLawes



INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS
ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN
ACCORDING TO THE ACT
ADMIRAL BENBOW
ADMIRAL BENBOW aka BRAVE BENBOW
AGONISING CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT by La Poudre
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT by The Pretzel Boys
ALMA
ANACREONTIC SONG (THE)
ANNIE YOUNG (THE)
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
APPRENTICE BOYS OF DERRY
APRIL COME SHE WILL
AQABA
ASSASSINATION IN SARAJEVO
AT THE PURCHASER’S OPTION
AUGUST by Arthur Lee and Love
AUGUST by Julia Nunes
AUGUST by Rilo Kiley
AUGUST by Taylor Swift
AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER
AUGUST DAY SONG
AUGUST IS OVER
AUGUST SONG
BALLADE DE JEAN SAINT MALO (LA)
BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (THE)
BALLAD OF DAVY CROCKETT (THE)
BALLAD OF HERBERT LEONARD MILLS (THE)
BALLAD OF MARILYN MONROE (THE)
BALLAD OF RICHARD NIXON (THE)
BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT (THE)     aka BANNA STRAND
BALLAD OF BRAVEHEART WILLIAM WALLACE (THE)
BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE SONGS
BANG BANG, ALL FOR YOU SOPHIA
BANKS OF THE NILE (THE)
BERLIN WALL SONGS
BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD (THE)
BATTLE OF OTTERBURN (THE)
BATTLE OF THE NILE (THE)
BERLIN WALL
BLUES FOR LEON TROTSKY
BLYTH SANDS
BONEY WAS A WARRIOR
BONNIE AND CLYDE
BONNIE UND CLYDE
BRIGG FAIR
BRITISH GRENADIERS (THE)
CAESAR AUGUSTUS
CANDLE IN THE WIND (Marilyn Monroe version)
CANDLE IN THE WIND
CAPTAIN AVERY
CAPTAIN WEBB
CASTLEBAR RACES (THE)
CHANSON DE ROLAND
CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE
CHATSWORTH WRECK
CHEVY CHASE
CHOLERA CAMP
CIRCLE GAME (THE)
COCA COLA COWBOY
COLD WIND IN AUGUST
COLLIER THE LASS (THE)
COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR
COME BE MY LIGHT
COME JOIN THE ABOLITIONISTS
CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIER(THE)
COVER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES (THE)
CYPRUS BRIG
DANCING ON THE BERLIN WALL
DAY IN THE LIFE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (A)
DEAR AUGUST
DEATH OF EMMET TILL (THE)     AKA The Ballad of Emmet Till
DEATH OF EMMET TILL (THE) - by The Ramparts
DERRY'S WALLS
DICKIE'S SUCH AN ARSEHOLE
DIC PENDERYN
DOG DAYS OF AUGUST
DONIBRISTLE MINE DISASTER
EMMET’S GHOST
ENGLAND’S MOTORWAYS
FANNY ADAMS
FAREWELL LINCOLN CASTLE
FARRAGUT’S BALL
FIRST DAY IN AUGUST (THE)
FOL THE DAY-O
GALE OF AUGUST ’27 (THE)
FROM GALWAY TO GRACELAND
FUNAMBULIST
GALWAY RACES (THE)
GAVRILO
GEORGE BUSH DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE
GLORY, GLORY APPRENTICE BOYS
GO DOWN MOSES
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY
GOODMAN, SWERNER AND CHANEY
GOOD MORNING MR COLSTON
GRAF ZEPPELIN
HANG OUT YOUR BRIGHTEST COLOURS - The Ballad of Michael Collins
HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN
HARBO AND SAMUELSON
( HAVE YOU SEEN ) BRUCE RICHARD REYNOLDS?
HELL NO WE AIN’T ALRIGHT
HENRY MARTIN aka LOFTY TALL SHIP
HERE'S TO THE STATE OF RICHARD NIXON
HE'S MISTRA KNOW- IT- ALL
HEY YORKSHIRE !
HIROSHIMA
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI RUSSIAN ROULETTE
HORNCASTLE FAIR
HOUND DOG
HUMBOLT’S GROOVE
HYMNS BY JOHN NEWTON
I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE
I’M LENIN, I’M TROTSKY
IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT
INDEPENDENT JAMAICA
IT’S BEEN A LONG,LONG TIME
JACK ASH SOCIETY (THE)
JACKSON POLLOCK
JACK THE RIPPER
JULY
JOHN BULL AND BONAPARTE
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY (THE)
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY SONG (THE)
JUST ONE AT A TIME
LAMMAS DAY SONGS
LAUGHING BOY(THE) by Brendan Behan
LEGEND OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (THE)
LENIN UN TROTSKY
LE 31 DU MOIS D’AOÛT
LE P’TIT BONHEUR
LES BOHEMIENS
LIMEJUICE SHIP (THE)
LINDEN LEA
LIZZIE BORDEN
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON (THE)
MACK THE KNIFE
MAN ON WIRE
MARILYN MONROE
MASSA KILLA ME HE WON’T
MATHEW HENSON SONG
MATTERHORN
MEN BEHIND THE WIRE (THE)
MENDLE
MEXICO
MICHAEL
MOTORWAY (SONG)
MOTHER THERESA’S SONG
MY GENERATION
MY GIRL’S A YORKSHIRE GIRL
MY NAME IS EMMET TILL
MY SKY SAILOR
NAT TURNER
NELSON MANDELA
NEW GARDEN FIELDS
NO MORE HEROES
NO TIME FOR LOVE
NOW WESTLIN WINDS
OH! YOU BABE RUTH
OLD PENDLE
ON ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT
OULD LAMMAS FAIR
OWD WOMAN IN YORKSHIRE(THE)
OVER THE EBRO
PARIS AU MOIS D’AOÛT
PASO DEL EBRO
PENDLE WITCH SONG
PENDLE WITCHES (THE)
PETERLOO SONGS
POWDER MONKEY (THE)
PUCK FAIR
QUEEN OF THE SEA
QUISQUEYANOS VALIENTES
REBEL GIRL
RICHIE HAVENS AT WOODSTOCK
RIDING ON TOP OF THE CAR
ROAD TO BARCELONA (THE)
ROLANDSKADET
ROOM FOR COMPANY or BARTHOLOMEW FAIR
RULE BRITANNIA
RUM AND COCA COLA
SADDLEWORTH RUSHCART SONGS
SARAJEVO
SCARBOROUGH FAIR
SECOND OF AUGUST (THE)
SEIGE OF UNION STREET (THE)
SHED A LITTLE LIGHT
SHROPSHIRE LAD (A)   aka Captain Webb
SHUTTING THE GATES OF DERRY
SING A SONG OF YORKSHIRE
SLAVE NO MORE
SLAVERY DAYS
SLEEPWALKING
SOLDIER SONGS OF WORLD WAR ONE
SOME BUGGER FROM YORKSHIRE
SONG OF ALIZON DEVICE The (PENDLE WITCH SONG No 1)
SONG OF FREEDOM
SONG OF ROLAND (THE)
SONG OF THE DOG DAYS
SONGS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA
SONGS ABOUT ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT
SONGS ABOUT ANNIE OAKLEY
SONGS ABOUT BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW
SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH
SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF GORIZIA
SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE NILE
SONGS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
SONGS ABOUT EMMET TILL
SONGS ABOUT FREDERICK DOUGLASS
SONGS ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA
SONGS ABOUT JOHN MACLEAN
SONGS ABOUT KEIR HARDY
SONGS ABOUT LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
SONGS ABOUT MARCUS GARVEY
SONGS ABOUT MARILYN MONROE
SONGS ABOUT NAT TURNER
SONGS ABOUT LEON TROTSKY
SONG ABOUT TROTSKY
SONGS ABOUT MOTHER THERESA OF CALCUTTA
SONGS ABOUT PHILIPPE PETIT
SONGS ABOUT RICHARD NIXON
SONGS ABOUT SACCO AND VANZETTI
SONGS ABOUT SLAVERY
SONGS ABOUT SLAVERY (MORE)
SONGS ABOUT THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
SONGS ABOUT THE PENDLE WITCHES
SONGS ABOUT WILLIAM WALLACE
SONGS APPROPRIATE FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY
SONGS BY LADY NAIRNE
SONGS BY WOODY GUTHRIE
SONGS COLLECTED BY LUCY BROADWOOD
SONGS COMPOSED BY GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
SONGS FOR YORKSHIRE DAY
SONGS OF FELA KUTI
SONGS SUNG BY DEREK BRIMSTONE
SONGS SUNG BY FLORRIE FORDE
SONGS SUNG BY NORMA WATERSON
STAR SPANGLED BANNER (THE)
STORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (THE)
STREETS OF STAITHES (THE) by Vin Garbutt
STUCK IN THE AUGUST RAIN
SWEEP! CHIMNEY SWEEP
(SWEET) FANNY ADAMS
SWISS COTTAGE MANOEUVRES
TALKIN’ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY PARANOID BLUES
TALL TALL GRASS (THE)
TEENAGE KICKS
TEAR ME DOWN
TESTIMONY OF PATIENCE KERSHAW (THE)
THE '68 NIXON
THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE
THIRTY THIRD OF AUGUST(THE)
TO BE A PILGRIM aka He Who Would Valiant Be
TOLL FOR THE BRAVE
TOO MANY MARTYRS
TOUJOURS L'R 100
TRAPPER BOY’S DREAM (THE)
‘TWAS IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY aka SHE SAID THE SAME TO ME
TWO YOUNG BRETHREN
UNEASY RIDER
WALLACE (THE)
WALK ON BY
WEARING OF THE GREEN
WE’LL KNOCK THE HELIGO INTO HELIGO
WE’RE STOLE AND SOLD FROM AFRICA
WE WILL NEVER ALLOW ANOTHER ATOM BOMB TO FALL
WILD BILL HICKOK SONGS
WILLIAM WALLACE (THE KNIGHT OF ELDERSLIE)
WIND OF CHANGE
WHITBY SOUVENIRS
WHO KILLED NORMA JEAN?
WITH HENRY HUNT WE’LL GO
VERY STRANGE JOURNEY OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT (THE)
WONDERFUL GUY (A)
YORKSHIRE BORN AND BRED
YORKSHIRE SONG
YOU HAVEN'T DONE NOTHIN'
YOUR NEW SAINT
ZHURAVLI / CRANES
2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY
’03 BONNIE AND CLYDE
'97 BONNIE AND CLYDE
1,00 CANDLES 1,000 CRANES




Here is a famous August song to start us off:

BRIGG FAIR

It was on the fifth of August, the weather fair and fine,
Unto Brigg Fair I did repair; for love I was inclined.


Mainly Norfolk info:  
https://mainlynorfolk.info/joseph.taylor/songs/briggfair.html
Joseph Taylor   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmgUM4LbS4
The Full English - Brigg Fair  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZm6l-Q2mk
Brigg Fair -Shirley Collins     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHvm0ToT3U
Brigg Fair Martin Carthy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOwhMRgTdw
Brigg Fair · Roy Bailey    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r2r3IftyOE
Brigg Fair · Jackie Oates    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI44p3gmm8

British Library:  Percy Grainger's collection of ethnographic wax cylinders   https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2018/02/percy-grainger-ethnographic-wax-cylinders.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: JHW
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 08:25 AM

I'm sorry to say I recorded Raglan Road with August (morn). Realising I'd sung August rather than Autumn I repeated it to save another take.


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Subject: RE: Au 31 du Mois d'août
From: Felipa
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:23 PM


LE 31 DU MOIS D’AOÛT
   
Au 31 du Mois d'août
A French naval song about a battle with the British. Lyrics are on screen on the youtube video, and there are background notes and translation to English at https://batalladevitoria1813.org/french-napoleonic-songs-au-31-de-mois-daout/

more video recordings:
Mikaël Yaouank & co.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZvNFHM0Axk&t=1s


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:26 PM

The aforementioned 31st of August French song has been previously posted on Mudcat with both lyrics and translation
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=39712#564162


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:50 PM


PARIS AU MOIS D’AOÛT
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/paris-au-mois-daout-paris-month-august.html Paris au mois d'août (Paris in the Month of August)
writers Georges Garvarentz, Charles Aznavour

LE P’TIT BONHEUR
staying with French-language songs, the singer-songwriter French-Canadian Félix LeClerc was born and died in August. (August 2, 1914 – August 8, 1988) His song Le p'tit bonheur featured in a Mudcat Monday night singaround and is posted at
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169209, message date 23 Jan 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsA9rZ-3FMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hafFjvs3uP8 (with English translation subtitles)
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David Kidman usually joins the Mudcat singaround. He is presently presenting songs of Keith Marsden, coming up to the anniversary of Marsden's death on 10 Aug. 1991. David sang Morley Main at another song circle last night (23 July) but that apparently is about a disaster that happened in a different month, Oct, in 1872. The lyrics of Morley Main and of several other Keith Marsden songs can be found posted in Mudcat.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 01:59 PM


AUGUST by Arthur Lee and Love
The wonderful Arthur Lee and Love -
Love - August (1969).


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 02:48 PM

STUCK IN THE AUGUST RAIN - Jethro Tull


Stuck in the August Rain

LFF


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:10 PM

THE GALWAY RACES

As I rode down to Galway town to seek for recreation
On the seventeenth of August me mind being elevated
There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station
Me eyes began to dazzle and I'm goin' to see the races.



The Dubliners - The Galway Races   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTT-g0y9nsc

Various other YouTube recordings of The Galway Races https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Galway+Races


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:11 PM

NOW WESTLIN WINDS
(Robert Burns)

Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns
Bring August's pleasant weather;
The moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather;
Now waving grain, wide o'er the plain,
Delights the weary Farmer;
The moon shines bright, as I rove at night,
To muse upon my Charmer.


Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics ,recordings & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/nowwestlinwinds.html
Various recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Westlin+Winds
   
See Tattie Bogle’s note on this song

Tattie Bogle's additional note on this song     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=170145#reply:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20August%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20Tattie%20Bog


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:16 PM

CYPRUS BRIG

There is no mention of August in the lyrics of this song, but the notes in the DT say:

The seizure of convict ships by convicts happened a number of times.
This particular event occured in August 1829, and a manuscript in the
Mitchell Library has a poem of 48 lines that commemorates the seizure.
Titled 'Seizure of the Cyprus Brig in Recherche Bay' it is printed in
Geoffrey Ingleton's True Patriots All and attributed to Frank MacNamara
(Frank the Poet).


Wikipedia Cyprus mutiny   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_mutiny
Australian Folk Songs: Lyrics & Recording of Cyprus Brig    http://folkstream.com/027.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 03:44 AM

August, die she must.
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold.
September, I remember
A love once new has now grown old.


APRIL COME SHE WILL

Simon & Garfunkel    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYD-DIggB2k


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 06:14 AM

RULE BRITANNIA

The song was sung in public for the first time 1 August 1740.

Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule,_Britannia!
Thomas Arne: Rule, Britannia!     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E53mX2SwsG4
Many more Youtube recordings     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=RULE+BRITANNIA


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 06:22 AM

THE STREETS OF STAITHES
by Vin Garbutt


One fine August day as I was making my way
Along the hardship-troubled streets of Staithes,
I saw the seagulls flying in the grey northern sky
Heard the shifting chorus of the waves


The Streets of Staithes - Vin Garbutt    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqBClTN1WAk
MUDCAT: Lyr Req: Streets of Staithes (Garbutt/Slater)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=81277    


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 09:29 AM

NELSON MANDELA
5 August 1962Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for attempting to overthrow South Africa’s apartheid rule.

Lion in a Cage (Nelson Mandela) - Dolores Keane    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXxi5OgNzo


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 09:41 AM

1,000 CANDLES 1,000 CRANES
The Small Potatoes song 1000Candles/1000 Cranes mentions the month of August.
I've a picture in my mind
Of two women slowly walking
August 6th, 1985
Walking to church to light a candle


1,00 CANDLES 1,000 CRANES on antiwarsongs.org : LYRICS & video recording   
https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=58789&lang=en


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 10:35 AM

HIROSHIMA
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively.
Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Hiroshima - David Rovics – Recording & Lyrics    https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=3208&lang=en

Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette with lyrics     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyek0MdrBNo

Information on another "Hiroshima" song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 01:46 PM

more Hiroshima
COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR
sung by Pete Seeger

words in Turkish by Nazim Hikmet, English translation by Jeanette Turner. Tune "The Great Silkie" attributed to James Waters
in the digital tradition under the title HIROSHIMA

origins and DT correction thread also includes Yüksel Pazarkaya's German translation, set to a tune by Zulfu Livaneli; and links to recordings in Greek and Japanese as well.

I'm only seven though I died
In Hiroshima long ago
I'm seven now as I was then
When children die they do not grow


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 01:56 PM

WE WILL NEVER ALLOW ANOTHER ATOM BOMB TO FALL
Hiroshima Song (We Will Never Allow Another Atom Bomb to Fall) posted by GUEST,999 on 6 Aug 2011

A song by Ishiji Asada and Koki Kinoshita©1955
English words by Ewan MacColl

All that men have created with their hands
And their minds, for the glory of the world we live in,
Now it can be smashed, in a moment destroyed,
Deadly the haryest of two atom bombs.

Then, people of the world, you must watch, and take care
That the third atom bomb never comes

Lyrics in Japanese as well as in English translation:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/genbaku-o-yurusu-maji-hiroshima-song-we-will-never-allow.html
Last year at Hiroshima day, I sent a Japanese friend a link to some videos. I think this was the song Pete Seeger sang in Japanese in one video. Junko said his Japanese pronunciation was good.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 06:08 PM

GerryM beat me to it with Westlin’ Winds, but worth pointing out that the original title was “Song composed in August “.
See GerryM’s post on this song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 04:32 AM


SWEEP! CHIMNEY SWEEP
7 August 1840 Britain bans the employment of climbing boys as chimney sweeps.

Mainly Norfolk song info:   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5q-ZQgRMUI
Sweep, Chimney Sweep · Steeleye Span    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8fpF4Efle4
Sweep! Chimney-Sweep- The Copper Family    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5q-ZQgRMUI
The Chimney Sweeper (words William Blake)- Greg Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrCO153LdM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Ged Fox
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 09:15 AM

ADMIRAL BENBOW
Benbow's last battle was 24th August 1702, so "
Come all you seamen bold","
Other youtube recordings of “Admiral Benbow”https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Admiral+Benbow
Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info:    https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/admiralbenbow.html
Bob & Jacqueline Patten English Folk Music Collection    https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Bob-and-Jacqueline-Patten-Collection/025M-C1033X0258XX-1800V0
Link to ADMIRAL BENBOW aka BRAVE BENBOW posted below


TOLL FOR THE BRAVE
Also, the Royal George went down on 29th August 1792, so "
Toll for the Brave."
Tune Information and Lyrics from contemplator.com     https://www.contemplator.com/sea/tollbrave.html

Link to post below by henryp about TOLL FOR THE BRAVE


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 06:38 PM

Should be 1782 above, not 1792.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 07:46 PM

Basically, after May, the songs run out a lot. May is the month of rejuvination and celebration.

Hurrah for May,


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: leeneia
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 01:14 AM



SONG OF THE DOG DAYS
Here are the lyrics to my "Dog Days Song." It doesn't specify August, but what can I say.

Song of the Dog Days - to the tune of The Four Maries

1.The weatherman warns of the heat wave;
with cirrus like feathers on high,
while the towering form
of a thunderstorm
surges up in southeastern sky.

2. The grasshoppers buzz by the roadside
so lively, despite the long drought,
and starlings wheel
over yellow fields
getting ready to head for the South.

3. So why do we call these the dog days?
In the heat there is nary a breeze.
And a sane dog's goal
is a nice cool hole
in the shade of the big leafy trees.

4. The butterflies visit the zinnias, [ZEEN yahs]
soft orange, bright yellow and tan.
There's the ghostly blur
of a hummingbird
finding nectar wherever it can.

5. The songbirds have gone into hiding
while distant coyotes give tongue,
and a redtail cries
from the pale blue skies
keeping track of its wandering young.

6. Come up on the porch, and we'll visit.
We'll all have a glass of iced tea.
There's Mary Lou
and Peggy Sue
and Mrs. Carmichael and me.

================
Creative Commons License: Song of the Dog Days lyrics by Eileen KCMO Chase is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 05:39 AM


HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN
There's Hares On The Mountain, as considerably (and tenderly) rewritten by Chris Wood, with the bit about enjoying your ice-cream in the hot August sun and getting nothing done:

If all you young girls were like hares on the mountain
We'd soon get our boots on and go out a-walking.
But if all you young girls were like swans in the water
We'd soon take those boots off and dive in there after.

And if all you young girls were like stars in the dark
We'd chase round the world to avoid the dawn's spark.
And if all you young girls were like the sun in the morning
We'd sit bleary-eyed just to see the day dawning.

And if all you young girls were like rain from the sky
We'd stand out in T-shirts and shun all things dry.
And if all you young girls were like the hot August sun
Then we'd sit out with ice-cream and get nothing done.

And if all you young girls flew south like the swallow
There's be nothing for it but to up sticks and follow.
But if all you young girls were like my own true lover
Then all you young men would love them as I love her.


There's a Youtube of him and Andy Cutting singing it in a folk club. It's very grainy but it's wonderful.
Chris Wood & Andy Cutting - Hares On The Mountain   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDsWOZz3eec


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 10:05 AM

I take it that was you, Geoff - cheers for making my post look more respectable! :-)


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Jul 21 - 06:06 PM

AUGUST by Taylor Swift
Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_(song)
Taylor Swift – August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn_0zPAfyo8


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 30 Jul 21 - 01:10 AM

A Wonderful Guy

I'm as corny as Kansas in August,
I'm as normal as blueberry pie.
No more a smart little girl with no heart,
I have found me a wonderful guy!

From Rodgers & Hammerstein, South Pacific.



A WONDERFUL GUY
A Wonderful Guy (from "South Pacific") - Jane Morgan   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dXjL15ZI8
FULL LYRICS   https://genius.com/The-original-broadway-cast-of-south-pacific-a-wonderful-guy-lyrics


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 07:43 PM

PETERLOO SONGS
16 August 1819The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire.
Wikipedia info:    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre

WITH HENRY HUNT WE’LL GO
With Henry Hunt We'll Go (feat. Bob Diehl) · Harry Boardman · Dave Hillery 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFuH-7D6Vf4
With Henry Hunt We'll Go -The Critics Group: Frankie Armstrong, John Faulkner, Brian Pearson, Denis Turner, Terry Yarnell  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGvFtjw9fMU

"The Oldham Tinkers singing "Peterloo"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHG2iKY33WY
Oldham Tinkers Website: Lyrics ‘Peterloo’   http://www.oldhamtinkers.com/peterloo.html

4 songs from ‘The Road to Peterloo’: Pete Coe, Brian Peters & Laura Smyth https://worldlisteningpost.com/2020/03/04/coe-peters-smyth-the-road-to-peterloo/
History Workshop: The Ballads of Peterloo    https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/s2-e3-the-ballads-of-peterloo/

MUDCAT: Lyr Req: Peterloo Massacre (Harvey Kershaw)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23907&messages=112&page=3#top


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 06:16 PM

4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany

SOLDIER SONGS OF WORLD WAR ONE    https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Soldier_Songs_of_World_War_I


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 08:43 PM

Piedmont bluesmen John Cephas & Phil Wiggins's "Dog Days of August"
(Flying Fish, 1984) carries a song of the same name, written by Cephas & Wiggins.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Aug 21 - 04:31 AM

DOG DAYS OF AUGUST
Cephas and Wiggins - "Dog Days of August"    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ert0I3o0w20


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 02 Aug 21 - 05:48 PM

THE OULD LAMMAS FAIR https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=37238#518884
The fair is held in Ballycastle annually in late August.

A Mudcat discussion of "Lammas" https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23976#269972
(see also Lughnasa aka Lúnasa)


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Aug 21 - 06:15 PM

OULD LAMMAS FAIR
Many Youtube recordings    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ould+Lammas+Fair

More Information on Lammas Day from henryp


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 03 Aug 21 - 05:27 AM

I'm back as my incorrect rendering of August for Autumn is playing out.
Summer seems to have ended with July this year.(2021)
Useful reminders here though. Westlin Winds and good old Vin. "If its Staithes you've come to see you've come too late". What a prediction of our times.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 06:30 AM


(SWEET) FANNY ADAMS

On Saturday the twenty-first of August,
My poor Fanny and her sister went to play
With another little girl, Minnie Warren,
Little thinking of danger on her way.


MUDCAT Lyr Req: Sweet Fanny Adams   
/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=69336
Information about Sweet Fanny Adams Murder     https://stmargarets.london/archives/2010/12/the_sad_story_of_sweet_fanny_adams.html
YouTube video documentary of the case   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkhajGakubs
Vashti Vincent - Fanny Adams   https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Peter-Kennedy-Collection/025M-C0604X0904XX-0001V0
The Execution of Frederick Baker, Lyrics from Traditional Music Library     http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Execution_of_Frederick_Baker.htm
Fanny Adams from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 10:59 AM

NEW GARDEN FIELDS

On the seventeenth of August, the eighth month of the year
Down the new garden fields where T just met my dear,
She appeared like some goddess or some young divine,
And come like a torment to torture my mind.


Collected by RVW from Mr Broomfield, a woodcutter, at East Horndon, Essex on 22 April 1904. From Bushes and Briars by Roy Palmer.


Info , music&lyrics    
https://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/week-208-new-garden-fields/


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 01:28 PM

Lammas Day, also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August. While Loaf Mass Day is traditionally a Christian holy day, Lughnasadh is celebrated by Neopagans around the same time.

"I wish you strength to bring you pride,
And a love to keep you clean,
And I wish you luck, come Lammastide,
At racing on the green."

Link to posting from Felipa on this topic

A Shropshire Lad VIII (Farewell to barn and stack and tree) by A E Housman
From Loveliest of Trees by the Polly Bolton Band


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 04:12 AM


24 August,1875Matthew Webb (Captain Webb) started his attempt from Dover in Kent, to become the first person to swim the English Channel.

A SHROPSHIRE LAD    aka Captain Webb
A Shropshire Lad- John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyJJZOFQdI
John Betjeman - A Shropshire Lad    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jnT4tOl_qQ
Mudcat: Lyr Add: A Shropshire Lad (John Betjeman)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94240

CAPTAIN WEBB  -   'Tim's Band'     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKc_gYRRRs


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 01:32 PM

I wonder why you don't include more Mudcat links. The thread starts with lots of links to recordings of Brigg Fair. A set of lyrics is in the DT https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=921 I haven't looked to see discussions of the song.

commenting today because
It was on the fifth of August
The weather fair and mild
Unto Brigg Fair I did repair
For a love I was inclined


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:16 AM

Trying to think of songs I knew but didn't learn and have never sung (for the few outdoor do's)
I remembered SWISS COTTAGE MANOEUVRES Jonathan Kelly.

'On a Christmas cake day, one Friday in August
In a bookshop in Charing Cross road'


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:39 AM


Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres (Original) · Al Stewart     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv0UlzUwic4


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 07:34 AM

August 6th, 1938, the republican Army crossed the River Ebro to fight Franco’s fascists in the Spanish Civil War

OVER THE EBRO
Over the Ebro · The Young'uns   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68KuqcJvShM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 09:14 AM

And the Spanish song EL PASO DEL EBRO aka Ay Carmela
Many recordings on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+El+Paso+del+Ebro


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 04:39 PM

Yes was Al Stewart, 1967 album. Was thinking I was past it. Confirmed. Only 54 years ago and I forgot.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 05:13 PM

Hello Felipa , above you said "I wonder why you don't include more Mudcat links. " I do try to include them if they look interesting but making the links in to " blue clickies" is not straightforward and I sometimes abandon the task. It is not as simple as running them through the " clicky maker".


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 12:04 PM

another one to add to the Hiroshima songs is ZHURAVLI / CRANES
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=106885#2211631

In the author Rasul Gamzatov's native Dagestan, there is a an annual White Cranes Festival held 22 Oct, so I should remember to also add the song to the Oct song list when it starts.

There is yet another August connection as well as Hiroshima, however,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuravli
"The poem's publication in the journal Novy Mir caught the attention of the famous actor and crooner Mark Bernes who revised the lyrics and asked Yan Frenkel to compose the music. When Frenkel first played his new song, Bernes (who was by then suffering from lung cancer) cried because he felt that this song was about his own fate: 'There is a small empty spot in the crane flock. Maybe it is reserved for me. One day I will join them, and from the skies I will call on all of you whom I had left on earth.' The song was recorded from the first attempt on 9 July 1969. Bernes died on 16 August 1969, about five weeks after recording the song, and the recording was played at his funeral. Later on,'Zhuravli' would most often be performed by Joseph Kobzon. According to Frenkel, 'Cranes' was Bernes' last record, his 'true swan song.'"
A link to more Hiroshima themed songs


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 05:06 PM

9 Aug 1972 Introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland

9-11 Aug, "The Ballymurphy Massacre" - only this year, it was officially declared that the 11 people killed in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast were innocent of any terrorist offences.

THE MEN BEHIND THE WIRE     THE MEN BEHIND THE WIRE (Mudcat thread)

NO TIME FOR LOVE (Mudcat thread)

BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE SONGS
BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE SONG youtube video, song by Gerard McConnell, background info on screen, lyrics on page.

Ballymurphy Massacre Song recording on youtube, lyrics on screen

Pádraig Mór on youtube Ballymurphy Massacre, words by T Docherty, on youtube

Lyrics for both Ballymurphy Massacre songs are at Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170214


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 05:19 PM

NO TIME FOR LOVE
No Time for Love If They Come in the Morning recorded by The Men of No Property

No Time for Love performed by its composer Jack Warshaw

MUDCAT:Lyr Req: No Time for Love (Jack Warshaw)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=84944&messages=13


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 08:55 AM

MY SKY SAILOR

On 24 August 1921, the airship R.38 (designated ZR-2 by the USN) was destroyed by a structural failure while in flight over the city of Hull.

Yorkshire Garland: Lyrics, Recording & Info   
http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=132


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 09:10 AM

Geoff, why is it more complicated to link to Mudcat threads than to other sites?


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Aug 21 - 09:38 AM

DEAR AUGUST
PJ Harding, Noah Cyrus - Dear August    
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uIIqbiv3X74&list=RDAMVMuIIqbiv3X74


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 12:57 PM

12 August - the annual commemoration of the siege of Derry, N Ireland
though this year the Apprentice Boys Parade held on 14 Aug. because that is a Saturday. It will be scaled down from the usual massive event, because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10894#77974 SHUTTING THE GATES OF DERRY
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=36749#669429 DERRY'S WALLS

Derry Walls sung with lyrics on screen
same recording with photographs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7yolZ_Ga6Y

a search for Apprentice Boys songs on youtubes brings up a few other songs
APPRENTICE BOYS OF DERRY APPRENTICE BOYS OF DERRY there are a few other videos of this song, "Let me tell you of the story of fame and gallantry"
GLORY, GLORY APPRENTICE BOYS     GLORY, GLORY APPRENTICE BOYS

there is also a commemoration in December, Lundy's Day
The Trial of Lundy - Title not capitalised, because this material is not a song and it pertains more to Dec than to Aug
It was a long siege .... 18 Apr 1689 – 1 Aug 1689
"The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by a first attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when 13 apprentices shut the gates. This was an act of rebellion against James II." Wikipedia


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 03:55 AM

THE THIRTY THIRD OF AUGUST
Waylon Jennings The 33rd of August   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jw-7J09RY


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 09:11 AM

DONIBRISTLE MINE DISASTER
Swan Arcade – Donibristle Mine Disaster    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uL26TJzKYM

On the twenty sixth of August our fatal moss gave way
Scottish Mining Website info  http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/86.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 04:34 PM

THE FIRST DAY IN AUGUST
Song The First Day In August-Carole King    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAnMd24pd4


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: RTim
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 09:42 PM

"AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER Counting Crows....

If you need it..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4DeQrKoIAY

They're waking up Maria
'Cause everybody else has got someplace to go
She makes a little motion with her head
Rolls over, and says she's gonna sleep
For a couple minutes more
I said I'm sorry to Maria
For the cold-hearted thing that I have done
I've said I'm sorry by now, at least once
To just about everyone
She says, "I have forgotten what I'm supposed to do today"
And it slips my mind what I'm supposed to say
We're getting older and older and older and older
And always a little further out of the way
You look into her eyes
And it's more than your heart will allow
In August and everything after
You get a little less than you expected somehow

Well, I stumbled into Washington Square
Just as the sun began to rise
And I walked across the lawn to the cathedral
And I lay down in the shadow of St. Mary's in the sky
I'm just one of these late model children
Waiting for the king
But there ain't no sign of Elvis in San Francisco
It's just me and I'm playing this rock and roll thing
She wants to be just like me
And I want every damn thing that I can see
You know, one day you're Daddy's little angel
The next day, you're everything he wanted you to be

They dress you up in white satin
And they give you your very own pair of wings
In August and everything after
I'm after everything

Well, I got my reservations
And I got my seven-million dollar home
I got the number of some girl in North Dakota
Who's always wide awake
So I never have to spend the night alone
I got this nasty little habit
Of peeking down the shirts of all the little girls
As they pass me by
And I know you wonder when it all catches up to me
And they finally bring me down
Do you think I'm gonna cry?
Well listen, I already got my disease
So get your fucking filthy hands off of me
I hope you weren't expecting me to be crucified
The best that they can do
Is just to hang me from the nearest tree

It's midnight in San Francisco
And I'm waiting here for Jesus on my knees
In August and everything after
I need somebody else to bleed for me

In August and everything after
I need somebody else to bleed for me

Well, I came down from San Francisco
Because I had confidence and a military mind
But now everyone I know is turning showgirl
And dancing with their shirt off
In some Las Vegas hotel line
So I'm going to New York City
Cause it got a little sleazy here for me
And when I find myself alone
You know I'm never going home
You make the changes
The changes that you need
But I no longer know how to pray
I live in a dog town and it's a Dalmatian parade
I change my spots over and over
But they never seem to fade away

I am the last remaining Indian
Looking for the place where the buffalo roam
In August and everything after
Man, them buffalo ain't never coming home

In August and everything after
Man, them buffalo ain't
They ain't never coming home
No

In August and everything after
Man, them buffalo ain't never coming home


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 06:53 AM

AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER
August And Everything After Song ( Lyrics )- Counting Crows/   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_lj0F-mDY
                See RTim’s post above


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 09:04 AM

TWO YOUNG BRETHREN

There is April, there is May, there is June and July
What a pleasure it is for to see the corn grow.
In August we will reap it, we will cut, sheaf and bind it
And go down with our scythes for to mow.


MAINLY NORFOLK: Lyrics & Info   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/twoyoungbrethren.html#:~:text=Mainly%20Norfolk%3A,-English%20Folk%20and
Two Young Brethren · The Copper Family     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYTncpoIrDQ


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 08:44 PM

MATTERHORN written by Fred B. Burch and Mel Tillis.

We started out from Bern one sunny August morn
There was just the four of us against the Matterhorn
There was Albert the Australian and John the Irishman
Me and Bill from Britain, mad dogs in the sun


Recording by The Country Gentlemen
Other recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=matterhorn+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Aug 21 - 05:47 PM

COLD WIND IN AUGUST
Cold Wind in August · Van Morrison    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2kmMohN-AE


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 21 Aug 21 - 07:27 PM

AUGUST SONG
August Song- Roommate    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYoQtOTQDk


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Aug 21 - 10:20 AM

THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD

(Dick Miles)

1.On the 22nd of August with glistening sword and shield.
Brave Richard king of England,did fight at Bosworth Field.
He led his troops in battle,and death did bravely face
The White Rose did fall never more to be replaced.
   Chorus.A horse, a horse,my kingdom for a horse.

2.Fight on stout hearted swordsman for king and country fight.
and aim you well bold archers the enemy well fright.
oh take you heed Northumberland and false Lord Stanley.
Have courage me lads for victorious we shall be.
   Chorus.

3. So thick and fast the arrows around the king did fly
when to the south marching up the hill false Stanley he did spy.
he mounted on his charger,to fight all for his crown
The White Rose did fall never more to leave the ground
Chorus

4.Unseated from his charger as on the ground lay he
surrounded and out numberd by lord stanleys infantry
they quickly stoop to kill as hawks high in the sky
The White Rose did fall theselast words he then did cry
Chorus

5.and so the last of the House of York to death did come at last
He ruled his people fairly and the law for bail he passed
a good and noble ruler by the Tudors so disgraced.
The White Rose did fall never more to be replaced.
Chorus.


copyright, Dick Miles.



Battle of Bosworth Field-Dick Miles on YouTube   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHql-Taq8DA
MUDCAT: Battle of Bosworth Field (Dick Miles)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=112658
Link to THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD posted below by The Sandman


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Aug 21 - 07:15 PM

August 2, 1876 Gambler and gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok was killed.

WILD BILL HICKOK SONGS

Wild Bill Hickok · Johnsburg 3 (Bucky Halker)   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfwgE4hRvRk
Colter Wall "Wild Bill Hickok"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBbkxeFUysQ
The Burial of Wild Bill    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquWA_qJRWM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 05:42 PM

WHITBY SOUVENIRS

In the early hours of morning
At the end of an August day.
I went down to take a farewell walk,
By the sands of Whitby Bay.
The summer sun still lingered there,
On the breath of the dreaming sea,
And the waves were turning, half awake,
As I walked along to the quay.

I went out along the West Pier,
And on past the harbour light,
The stars had never seemed quite so close,
Nor had ever burned so bright.
The moon curled low above the waves,
And the breeze, as if in play,
Made a million shards of moonlight dance,
With the shadows out on the bay.

In the darkness I stood gazing,
For how long I could not say,
‘til my truant mind returned with time,
And ushered me away.
Between the river and the sea,
I walked back towards the shore,
And I felt as close to Whitby then,
As the moss grows close to the moor.

In the early hours of morning
At the end of an August day.
I went down to take a farewell walk,
By the sands of Whitby bay.
And now, whatever time may pass,
Or wherever fortune steers,
That walk, the moon, the sea and stars,
Are my Whitby souvenirs.

©Geoff Lawes



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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Tom Patterson
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 08:16 PM

August 24th 1917



A song that recalls an incident in Blyth, Northumberland where young soldiers of the Warwickshire Regiment were preparing for service in the First World War.

BLYTH SANDS

The sun was out early that warm August day
Our Warwickshire lads had been sent far away
To a camp in the North East preparing for war
Most not yet twenty so young and so raw.

They'd been marching all morning in sweltering heat
Sweating, exhausted half dead on their feet
Arriving at Blyth Town they were ordered to rest
Bathe in the North Sea before their next test.

Six hundred soldiers ran onto the beach
Laughing and joking along the tide's reach
But the joy of that moment would soon turn to grief
When the pull of the current took men underneath.

Lt Colonel Chatterley sat high on his horse
Anxiously watching more waves changing course
His charges were swimming near to the land
But the wild swirling sea was beyond his command

Sgt John Riley was just back from France
He dived in to save them but stood little chance
Some waded out bravely grabbed five with their hands
But nine lives were taken that day on Blyth Sands.

The youngest to die was a boy from Kings Heath
His father stood dumbstruck in sheer disbelief
"This cannot have happened", poor Mrs Blunn said
She couldn't accept that her Jesse was dead.

At the inquest on Monday there were questions to ask
Coroner Rutherford had the sad task
"To swim there was madness", one fisherman claimed
But the jury decided no one should be blamed.

Lt Colonel Chatterley etc


Tom Patterson

This song is on You Tube at Tom Patterson Singer Songwriter    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7iga4_SC0s


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Aug 21 - 12:11 PM

AUGUST DAY SONG
August Day Song- Bebel Gilberto    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3q0iaAVJA


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 08:55 AM

From Boxing the Compass by Roy Palmer; THE SECOND OF AUGUST

A New Song composed by the wounded Tars at the Siege of Boulogne

On the second of August, eighteen hundred and one,
As we sailed with Lord Nelson to the port of Boulogne
For to cut out some shipping, which prov-ed in vain
To our misfortune they were all moored with chain.

Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 06:16 PM

IT’S BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME

On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered, ending World War Two The song "It's Been A Long, Long Time" by the Harry James Orchestra with singer Kitty Kallen reflected the feelings of relief that there would be no more killing, that men and women would be returning from overseas, and families could be reunited It became one of the biggest hits from immediately after the war in 1945 and 1946.

It's Been a Long, Long Time- Kitty Kallen    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP0tHmoc1rs


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Reinhard
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 09:33 AM

FOL THE DAY-O - Nancy Kerr

Though the end of time is long before us
We are hunted like the Oldham hare
Let us sing like it’s the 5th of August
And our lovers wait beyond the fair


Mainly Norfolk info and lyrics
https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/folthedayo.html
Fol the Day-O - Nancy Kerr & James Fagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYnDiyJmAvM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Sep 21 - 05:54 PM

AUGUST by Rilo Kiley
August- Rilo Kiley    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23LtMxEWg8


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Sep 21 - 03:13 AM

LYRICS of August by Rilo Kiley     https://www.google.com/search?q=august+rilo+kiley+lyrics&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&oq=August-+Rilo+Kiley+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 10 Sep 21 - 09:10 AM

Alma Mahler was born 31 August 1879. Tom Lehrer wrote a song about her.

ALMA

The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma – the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.

Recording by Tom Lehrer.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Sep 21 - 10:02 AM

Hear Tom and see Alma     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWFEy1lVUMI


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Sep 21 - 04:54 PM

AUGUST by Julia Nunes
August - Julia Nunes    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ9CUKybUHM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Sep 21 - 06:33 AM

AUGUST IS OVER
We the Kings - August is Over    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Fzs9dWBJ8


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Nov 21 - 06:55 PM

LAMMAS DAY SONGS

Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass"), also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August.
Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is a Gaelic festival which corresponds to the English Lammas and is also held on 1 August.


Wikipedia: Lammas   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas
Wikipedia: Lughnasadh     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lughnasadh
MUDCAT: Lammas    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23976     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43e5Ty0BwO8
Lammas · Lisa Thiel    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4GEyHfENE
Ruby Murray - The Old Lammas Fair     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDJTpUDYXXo
Many recordings of “The Old Lammas Fair” on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Old+Lammas+Fair
Lughnasadh-song-Omnia    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbE03jjw15M


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Nov 21 - 09:12 AM

SONGS ABOUT RICHARD NIXON

August 9, 1974. In light of his loss of political support and the near-certainty that he would be impeached and removed from office, President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency.

Richard Nixon From Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

THE BALLAD OF RICHARD NIXON- Joe Glazer   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU6SJPoW9OY

From Wikipedia : Songs about Richard Nixon     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Richard_Nixon

DICKIE'S SUCH AN ARSEHOLE    Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dickie%27s+Such+An+Asshole

MEXICO   - Jefferson Airplane     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWVjAWvhAGg

HE'S MISTRA KNOW - IT - ALL   by Stevie Wonder    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=He%27s+Misstra+Know-It-All

IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT- The Honey Drippers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEsS5kFb8

YOU HAVEN'T DONE NOTHIN'    -   Stevie Wonder     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2ma2mfyhU

THE LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON - Manic Street Preachers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_G_R_1gMfc


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Nov 21 - 08:13 PM

Phil Ochs,HERE'S TO THE STATE OF RICHARD NIXON, https://youtu.be/lqLtsp4xVAA


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 11 Nov 21 - 08:17 PM

Denver, Boise and Johnson,THE '68 NIXON. https://youtu.be/OLs8QwKTAZY


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 10:06 AM

Michael Collins died by gunfire at Béal na Blath, Co. Cork 22 Aug, 1922

HANG OUT YOUR BRIGHTEST COLOURS - The Ballad of Michael Collins
by Brian Moore (1946-2011)
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53176#817022

performed by the author/composer under the name Cormac O'More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhMx_UI1fs

The bark of a dog breaks the silence like a bitter last hurrah   
And a raven spreads its wings for flight over fields near Béal na Blath   
A rifle still clasped to his breast, hanging low his head   
A black August day in the County Cork, Michael Collins is dead   

Hang out your brightest colours and his memory now recall   
Each one wants a part of him, no one wants it all


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Subject: RE: Michael (Collins) by Johnny McAvoy
From: Felipa
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 10:31 AM

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7850   MICHAEL  by Johnny McEvoy

there are plenty of Johnny McEvoy recordings of Michael which you can watch on youtube   
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Michael-Johnny+McEvoy+

On a far off August day, cold young men in ambush lay
On a roadside, by a hill where flowers grow
So much hate for one so young, who was right and who was wrong
Though a thousand years may pass, we'll never know

Chorus
Candles dripping blood, they placed beside your shoulder
Rosary beads, like teardrops on your fingers
Friends and comrades standing by
In their grief they wonder why, Michael,
In their hour of need you had to go


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Jun 22 - 06:29 PM

SADDLEWORTH RUSHCART SONGS

From An August Bank Holiday Lark by Deborah McAndrew for Northern Broadsides

When the Saddleworth Rushcart was revived in 1974 the Morris men also resurrected an old song, sung by their predecessors. To the traditional tune of ‘Brighton Camp’ the Rushcarters sing the following words, taken directly from the banner of the Greenfield village ‘Armistice Cart’ of 1918:

Oh the Rushcart lads are bonny bonny lads
The Rushcart lads are bonny
Oh they dance round 'cart and whistle like a lark
And that’s as good as ony

With heft and heart we pull the cart
In August bright and sunny
The Rushcart lads are bonny bonny lads
The Rushcart lads are bonny

They shoulder t’gun to fight the hun
Fight as good as ony
Oh the Rushcart lads are bonny bonny lads
The Rushcart lads are bonny

Saddleworth Morris Men sing part of the above song    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PXW-IE7TZ0

With the kind permission of the Saddleworth Morris Men, Deborah McAndrew has used this song in the play, just altering the words slightly for the first Act when the young men have not yet gone to fight. On Rushcart Day the song is woven with another song, composed for this production by the great folk singer Mike Waterson just before he died. Director Barrie Rutter commissioned his friend, Mike, to write the song knowing that he was dying and would never see it performed.

Cut the rushes, pile them high
Stack them ‘til they reach the sky
So the church be warm and dry
Oh we are all rushcarters

On our hats a bright bouquet
Sing the summer, dance the day
Come we will, if come we may
Oh we are all rushcarters

We are not rich, we are not poor
We do not beg from door to door
You have seen us all before
We are all rushcarters

Through the village, up the hill
Round the green and by the mill
Bearing rushes, dancing still
We are all rushcarters

Dance we did in days of yore
Like our fathers did before
We will dance for evermore
We are all rushcarters


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Jun 22 - 06:22 PM

GOODMAN, SCHWERNER AND CHANEY
August 4, 1964 - Three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were found murdered and buried in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had disappeared on June 21 after being detained by Neshoba County police on charges of speeding. They were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to increase black voter registration.

Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney-Tom Paxton    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cunIbeqFrJw
Other recordings of 'Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney'on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Goodman%2C+Schwerner%2C+and+Chaney++song
Lyrics and Information about 'Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney' song “     https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=10010&lang=en


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 21 Jul 22 - 10:59 PM

THE SIEGE OF UNION STREET written by Alistair Hulett

The liner notes say, "The Unemployed Workers Union was formed ... during the Great Depression to fight evictions by heartless landlords of destitute families for non-payment of rent.... Matters came to a head in Union Street in the inner city suburb of Erskineville in Sydney, when over a thousand militants fought a pitched battle with police that lasted several days."

The first stanza goes,

You should have seen us down at Erko
Fourteenth August, Saturday night
To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham
Calls went out, "Workers unite!"
We built a bloody great wall
With planks and boards full seven foot tall
We didn't mind the howling winds and sleet
When we stood round the fire at Union Street

Other sources (e.g.,
http://jcmhood.squarespace.com/newtown-eviction) say the siege took place in Newtown, not in the neighboring suburb of Erskineville, and on 19 June 1931, not 14 August (and those were both Fridays, not Saturdays), but this nitpicking does not detract from the power of the song.

Here's a recording of Alistair, accompanied by Dave Swarbrick: https://youtu.be/ioD8AvSfp2c


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Jul 22 - 05:50 AM

Thanks for the contribution GerryM I have posted your interesting link on another (old) mudcat thread
MUDCAT: Lyr Add: Siege of Union Street (Alistair Hulett) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=118813&messages=4#top


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jul 22 - 09:29 AM

August is a wicked month, John Hartford
aka THE TALL TALL GRASS
The Tall Tall Grass · John Hartford    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-CZqzDnzI
MUDCAT: Lyr Req: August is a wicked month    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=47486


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Jul 22 - 12:02 PM

2 August 1511 Privateer, Henry Barton was killed, and his ship The Lion captured. A ballad about him and his adventures was written and eventually his name was transformed into Henry Martin

HENRY MARTIN   aka LOFTY TALL SHIP
Henry Martin (song) from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martin_(song)
Many recordings of “ Henry Martin “ by different singers on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=henry+martin+song
Many recordings of “ Lofty Tall Ship “ by different singers on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lofty+Tall+Ship++song
Mainly Norfolk: Henry Martin / The Lofty Tall Ship, Information and lyrics     https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/henrymartin.html
MUDCAT DT Lyrics: HENRY MARTIN /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2591/mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2591
MUDCAT DT Lyrics: ANDREW BARTON /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=278

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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Jul 22 - 06:19 PM

SONGS ABOUT JOHN MACLEAN

24 August 1879   Birth of revolutionary Scottish socialist John Maclean.

John Maclean (Scottish socialist) from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maclean_(Scottish_socialist)
”The Ballad of John Maclean” - Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ballad+of+John+MacLean
Lyrics of The Ballad of John Maclean” from John Maclean Internet Archive     https://www.marxists.org/archive/maclean/works/ballad.htm
“John Maclean March “ -Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=John+MacLean+March    
The John Maclean March from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_John_Maclean_March
The John MacLean March: Lyrics and Information from Mainly Norfolk    https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thejohnmacleanmarch.html
MUDCAT DT Lyrics & Music     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6504

Hamish Henderson makes reference to Maclean in the final verse of his "Freedom Come-All-Ye"
Sae come aa ye at hame wi freedom
Never heed whit the houdies croak for Doom
In yer hous aa the bairns o Aidam
Will fin breid, barley-bree an paintit room
Whan MacLean meets wi's friens in Springburn
Aa thae roses an geeans will turn tae blume
An a black laud frae yont Nyanga
Dings the fell gallows o the burghers doun.


Many recordings of "Freedom Come-All-Ye" on YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Freedom+Come-All-Ye%22


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 03:43 AM

SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE NILE

1st to the 3rd of August 1798. The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay was fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt
Battle of the Nile from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile

THE BATTLE OF THE NILE
Many Recordings of “ The Battle of The Nile“ on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=THE+BATTLE+OF+THE+NILE+song

THE BANKS OF THE NILE
Many recordings of Banks of the Nile on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Banks+Of+The+Nile
Lyrics to “The Banks of the Nile “ from Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics     http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Battle_of_the_Nile.htm

THE POWDER MONKEY
Powder Monkey, The (Soon We'll Be in England Town) from The Balllad Index   
http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/CrNS057.html
The Powder Monkey sung by Norman Allin Bass Singer rare 78 rpm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3I8Y-vXjSQ
Ballad Sheet and Lyrics of “The Powder Monkey “ from the National Library of Scotland
    https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/74897245?mode=transcription


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 12:27 AM

On this day in 1798, the British fleet arrived off Egypt and discovered Brueys's dispositions, and Nelson ordered an immediate attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6-CsdO4LY Fotheringay

The Young Tradition sang The Banks of the Nile in 1968 on their last LP, Galleries. Heather Wood added in the Mudcat Café thread Origins: Banks of the Nile: “Sandy Denny learned it from us but put her own inimitable stamp on it.”


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 22 - 12:44 AM

LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
On this day in 1831, New London Bridge was opened by King William IV.

Until the mid-eighteenth century the Old London Bridge was the only crossing on the Thames in London. It was damaged in a major fire in 1633, but in the fire of 1666 this damage acted as a fire break and prevented the flames from further damaging the bridge and crossing to the south side of the Thames. With its 19 narrow arches, it impeded river traffic and flow. Central piers were removed to create a wider navigational span. Widening and the removal of its houses was completed in 1763, but it remained relatively narrow and needed continual and expensive repairs. In the early nineteenth century it was decided to replace the bridge with a new construction. New London Bridge was opened in 1831 and survived until it was replaced in 1972. At that time, the 1831 bridge was dismantled and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Wikipedia

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down, my fair Lady.


    "London Bridge Is Falling Down" from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_Is_Falling_Down    
Many recordings of "London Bridge Is Falling Down" on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=london+bridge+is+falling+down+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 10:11 AM

15 August , 1939. Birth of Norma Waterson, Hull folk singer.

SONGS SUNG BY NORMA WATERSON
Norma Waterson from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Waterson
Many of Norma’s recordings on Youtube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Norma+Waterson++all+songs+on+YouTube


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 06:31 AM

August 4, 1961. Barack Obama the 44th U.S. President was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

SONGS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA

Songs about Barack Obama from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Barack_Obama
There's No One As Irish As Barack Obama - Corrigan Brothers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk
There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_No_One_as_Irish_as_Barack_O%27Bama
Welcome Home President Barack O'Bama - Corrigan Brothers     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNHx_5wo_nE
Corrigan Brothers There's Still No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama - Featuring President Barack O'Bama    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMJ63zD-NY

Crush On Obama- Leah Kauffman    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
” Crush on Obama” from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_on_Obama

” Welcome To The Future” - Brad Paisley     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Yg9wjctRw
”Welcome to the Future from Wikipedia”     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Future#Music_vi


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 07:22 PM

ADMIRAL BENBOW     aka   BRAVE BENBOW
The Action of August 1702   was a series of naval engagements during which Admiral John Benbow was hit by chain shot while fighting French ships in the West Indies. As a result of leg wounds received, Benbow later died at Port Royal, Kingston, Jamaica on 4 November 1702.

Action of August 1702 from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_August_1702
John Benbow from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benbow
"Admiral Benbow" -Paul Clayton     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99-PGCcwT1M
"Admiral Benbow" - Kimber’s Men    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylE_DN0vk00
"Admiral Benbow" - June Tabor    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-j4SKhclSg
"Brave Benbow" - Paul Gwynne Phillips    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-EcgYgWyr8
"Brave Benbow" - Laura Smyth and Ted Kemp    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYAvbqrpyE
"Admiral Benbow" - Bob Copper     https://sussextraditions.org/record/admiral-benbow-5/
Mainly Norfolk : Admiral Benbow    https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/admiralbenbow.html

Link to ADMIRAL BENBOW posted above by Ged Fox


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 22 - 06:17 PM

7 August 1890   Birth of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World.The song “ Rebel Girl” was written about her by Joe Hill.

REBEL GIRL
   
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn
The Rebel Girl from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Girl
Many recordings of “ The Rebel Girl” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22The+Rebel+Girl%22


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Aug 22 - 03:39 AM

ok.
it is in my songbook The Sailors Dream which is available from my websitehttp://www.dickmiles.com
but here it is for mudcat.

THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD
(Dick Miles)

1.On the 22nd of August with glistening sword and shield.
Brave Richard king of England,did fight at Bosworth Field.
He led his troops in battle,and death did bravely face
The White Rose did fall never more to be replaced.
   Chorus.A horse, a horse,my kingdom for a horse.

2.Fight on stout hearted swordsman for king and country fight.
and aim you well bold archers the enemy well fright.
oh take you heed Northumberland and false Lord Stanley.
Have courage me lads for victorious we shall be.
   Chorus.

3. So thick and fast the arrows around the king did fly
when to the south marching up the hill false Stanley he did spy.
he mounted on his charger,to fight all for his crown
The White Rose did fall never more to leave the ground
Chorus

4.Unseated from his charger as on the ground lay he
surrounded and out numberd by lord stanleys infantry
they quickly stoop to kill as hawks high in the sky
The White Rose did fall theselast words he then did cry
Chorus

5.and so the last of the House of York to death did come at last
He ruled his people fairly and the law for bail he passed
a good and noble ruler by the Tudors so disgraced.
The White Rose did fall never more to be replaced.
chorus.

copyright, Dick Miles.
this song was written about 1984,and recorded on Cheating the Tide GVR227,with Martin Carthy playing guitar.
my inspiration was a book called The Daughter of Time,by Josephine Tey,I realised that Richard the Third,had been unfairly treated by historians,and particularly by William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was writing at a time when if you criticised the existing monarchy you could be executed,and had to be careful not to upset the ruling Tudor dynasty,who were close relatives of Henry the Seventh.
I think this tune is suited to open guitar tuning,I played it in emodal or Eminor,but I would of course be happy for anyone to sing the song,and do it just how they want.
I am not sure but I think the tune is in the dorian mode. Dick Miles
Link to THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD posted above by The Sandman


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Aug 22 - 03:46 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHql-Taq8DA


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 09:34 AM

‘TWAS IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY aka SHE SAID THE SAME TO ME

Lyrics for “ ‘Twas in the Month of August In the Middle of July” AKA “She Said the Same to Me” from Traditional Ballad Index.    http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/San038.html
Information in Vaughn Williams Library    https://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/13616
She Said the Same to Me - Stephen Griffith   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPyl8WNk4pE
Lyrics for: She Said The Same To Me
   http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/irish-songs-ballads-lyrics/she_said_the_same_to_me.htm


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 03:28 PM

SONGS BY WOODY GUTHRIE

July 14, 1912.   Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie from Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
Category:Woody Guthrie songs from Wikipedia (34 pages)    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Woody_Guthrie_songs
Woody Guthrie’s Greatest Hits: My Dusty Road LP (FULL ALBUM) on YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d02aedT8Uc


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 06:57 AM

15 August, 1856   Birth of Keir Hardie, Scottish trade unionist and politician who was a founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader.

SONGS ABOUT KEIR HARDY

Keir Hardie from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie
Let's be clear about Keir - Robb Johnson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onKQJmvnT0
Labour Election songs in support of Keir Hardie, 1906    https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/10126


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 08:21 AM


15 August 1969 Richie Havens was the first act to take to the
WOODSTOCK stage on this day in 1969
Joni Mitchell


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 09:26 AM

Woodstock - dia 15 de Agosto de 1969 - Richie Havens (I Can't Make it Anymore)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezb2KkGJUww
Complete Woodstock 1969 recordings of Richie Havenshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7MarlixBRY


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 03:45 PM

HARBO AND SAMUELSON
Jerry Bryan's song says that
HARBO AND SAMUELSON finished rowing across the Atlantic on August the First.


Harbo and Samuelsen by Pint and Dale    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYSr8QMfnKs
The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelsen (Live) (feat. Don Sinetti & Bill Walach)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrby_Ep-Wg0


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 04:21 AM

AQABA
16 August 1888: TE Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, was born in Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIUhmMPoKis
Aqaba

June Tabor; I have suggested ideas to people, as with Bill Caddick and “Aqaba”.

Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics: Aqaba   http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Aqaba.htm


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 06:36 AM

SONGS ABOUT LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

Manic Street Preachers TE Lawrence on a Bike   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpJHPOq1HWc
“The Ghost” - Running Wild     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj-7yP3fG9g
T. E. Lawrence from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 07:51 AM

16 August 1977. The king of rock ’n’ roll Elvis Presley died in the bathroom of his home in Memphis, Tennessee.

Richard Thompson FROM GALWAY TO GRACELAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLSZXHXFsss
Galway to Graceland

List of songs about or referencing Elvis Presley, from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_or_referencing_Elvis_Presley


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 04:26 AM

August 17, 1887 Marcus Garvey was born

SONGS ABOUT MARCUS GARVEY
“Marcus Garvey” - Sinéad O'Connor (    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47V8MNcRbc
Marcus Garvey - Tarrus Riley     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZppi1f_1eY
Them Never Love Poor Marcus - The Mighty Diamonds    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv6cVi0NYpU
”Oh Marcus” - Leroy Smart    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f6ml6cTtdE
“Old Marcus Garvey”- Burning Spear     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsrcrceVsUU
Songs about Marcus Garvey (Tribute To The Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey) By DJ Ray Ranking     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLvsyT10QI


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 09:24 AM

SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH


22 August, 1485.   
The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses fought in England between the Houses of Lancaster and York.

Battle of Bosworth Field from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field

BALLAD OF BOSWORTH FIELD from The Ballad Index    https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/BdTBOBoF.html

BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD - Dick Miles    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHql-Taq8DA
MUDCAT: Battle of Bosworth Field (Dick Miles)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=112658

BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD - Tredegar     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44nJ-UFWAbo


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Aug 22 - 06:04 AM

13 August ,1831 Dic Penderyn aka Richard Lewis, Welsh labourer was hanged after being involved in The Merthyr Rising.

DIC PENDERYN
Dic Penderyn from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dic_Penderyn
Dic Penderyn (The Ballad of Richard Lewis)– Martyn Joseph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPJpqhmkOM
Dic Penderyn- Sweet Liberties    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCp0n0_-blM
Dic Penderyn (Yn Fyw) - Meic Stevens     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSCiFhEZIfY
Merthyr Rising from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Rising


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 06:02 AM

Aug 24, 1935. wreck of the Annie Young en route from Fox Island to Labrador

THE ANNIE YOUNG

On the twenty-fourth of August the truth I will relate,
In nineteen hundred and thirty-five those poor men met their fate.


The Annie Young Lyrics from disastersongs.ca   
The Song Of The Annie Young (Walter Hayman) https://disastersongs.ca/the-annie-young/

Annie Young Story (Ocean Show Band)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taUyUWKMgj8
Full lyrics and video for "The Song Of The Annie Young" (Walter Hayman)   http://gestsongs.com/20/annie.htm


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 05:19 PM

16 August, 1766     Birth of Scottish songwriter Lady Nairne - famous for writing more than 80 songs including "Charlie is my darling", "Will ye no' come back again?", "The Rowan Tree", "Wi' a Hundred Pipers' and "Caller Herrin’ ”.

SONGS BY LADY NAIRNE
Carolina Nairne from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Nairne
”Will Ye No Come Back Again”- Many recordings on YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Will+Ye+No+Come+Back+Again
"Charlie is my Darling" - Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Charlie+is+my+Darling%22+
"The Rowan Tree"- Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+rowan+tree+song+
"Caller Herrin'"-Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=caller+herrin+song
"Wi" a Hundred Pipers” - Many recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Wi%27+a+Hundred+Pipers%27+song
Songs by the Baroness Nairne from electricscotland.com (with links to lyrics)    https://electricscotland.com/nairne/songsndx.htm
MUDCAT : Lady Nairne biography    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167259&messages=13#top


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Chris Lamb
Date: 28 Aug 22 - 09:51 PM

ROOM FOR COMPANY or BARTHOLOMEW FAIR (lyrics in Digitrad)

The Bartholomew Fair was one of London's pre-eminent summer charter fairs. A charter for the fair was granted by Henry I to fund the Priory of St Bartholomew; and from 1133 to 1855 it took place each year on 24 August within the precincts of the Priory at West Smithfield ...The fair was suppressed in 1855 by the City authorities for encouraging debauchery and public disorder. (Wikipedia). The 24th of August is celebrated in Western Christianity as the Feast of St Bartholomew.


Mainly Norfolk: Bartholomew Fair / Room for Company   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/danny.spooner/songs/bartholomewfair.html
Room For Company · Ewan MacColl     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l99HDlDhKk
Various recordings of “ Bartholomew Fair “ on YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bartholomew+Fair++song
Bartholomew Fair from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Fair


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 29 Aug 22 - 07:52 AM

29 August 1782: The 100-ton battleship HMS Royal George - the largest warship in the world at the time of her launch in 1756 - sank off Spithead. Royal George was heeled over by rolling the ship's starboard guns into the centreline of the ship. Royal George quickly filled with water and sank, taking with her around 900 people, including up to 300 women and 60 children who were visiting the ship in harbour.

TOLL FOR THE BRAVE - "On the Loss of the Royal George"; Tune, Handel's march for Scipio (1725); Words by William Cowper; Sung by Ged Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7qo_k0UEc
Toll for the Brave

HMS Royal George sank at anchor off Portsmouth as told in Cowper's poem;
Toll for the Brave! the brave that are no more;
All sunk beneath the wave, fast by their native shore.

Link to post above by Ged Fox about TOLL FOR THE BRAVE


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Aug 22 - 10:36 AM

SONGS ABOUT FREDERICK DOUGLASS

August 11, 1841 Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, spoke before an audience in the North for the first time. During an anti-slavery convention on Nantucket Island, he gave a powerful, emotional account of his life as a slave. He was immediately asked to become a full-time lecturer for the Massachusetts Antislavery Society.

Frederick Douglass From Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
"Farewell Song of Frederick Douglass", performed by Jonathan Rhodes, tenor & Lee Wright piano    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53djcD77iA
Rare sheet music celebrates Frederick Douglass    https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/rare-rediscovered-song-honoring-frederick-douglass-to-be-performed-for-the-first-time-in-a-
Slave Song by Adolphus C. Hailstork  https://songofamerica.net/song/slave-song/
Agitate (Frederick Douglass)-Jonathan Sprout    https://www.songsforteaching.com/africanamericanhistory/agitate.htm
The Fugitive's Song    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661459/#:~:text=The%20cover's%20text%20states%20that,of%20his%20brothers%20in%20bonds


Link to post below about Fredrick Douglass radio programme


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 11:22 AM

SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON

Aug 16, 1777. General John Stark & local militia routed the British at the Battle of Bennington, a battle of the American Revolutionary War .

Battle of Bennington from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington
Many and varied recordings of “Riflemen of Bennington “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Riflemen+of+Bennington
MUDCAT DT: Riflemen’s Song at Bennington     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6901,6901,6901,6901,6901,6901,6901,6901&SongID=6901,6901,6901,6901,6901,6901,6901,690
MUDCAT: Bennington Rifles /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33197#reply
Web Article “ MORAL SONGS COMPOSED TO BE SUNG AUGUST THE 16TH, 1788, AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON “ https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/862126
The Riflemen's Song at Bennington from Digital Tradition    http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiRIFLEBEN;ttRIFLEBEN.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 04:03 AM

31 August 1688 John Bunyan, the Puritan preacher and author most famous for his popular allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, died on August 31, 1688.

TO BE A PILGRIM    aka   He Who Would Valiant Be   is an English Christian hymn using words of John Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress. It first appeared in Part 2 of The Pilgrim's Progress, written in 1684. The words were modified extensively by Percy Dearmer for the 1906 The English Hymnal.

At the same time it was given a new tune by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who used a melody taken from the traditional song "Our Captain Cried All Hands" which he collected [from Mrs Verrall] in the hamlet of Monk's Gate [near Horsham in West Sussex] – hence the name of "Monks Gate" by which the melody is referred to in hymn books. Wikipedia

I can never forget singing this at school;
Hobgoblin nor foul fiend can daunt his spirit;
He knows he at the end shall life inherit.
Then fancies fly away; he'll fear not what men say;
He'll labour night and day to be a pilgrim.

Our Captain Cried All Hands

Many recordings of “He Who Would Valiant Be” on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=He+who+would+Valiant+Be

Mainly Norfolk: Our Captain Cried All Hands / Fountains Flowing    https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/ourcaptaincriedallhands.html


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 05:54 AM

I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE

31 August 1900. Coca-Cola first went on sale in Britain.

I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke

January 18, 1971 Bill Backer, creative director on the Coca-Cola account for the McCann Erickson advertising agency, was flying to London to meet up with Billy Davis, the music director on the Coca-Cola account, to write radio commercials with two successful British songwriters, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, to be recorded by the New Seekers, a popular British singing group. [This great song was written in almost 24 hours and campaign’s directors tried to film the clip as quickly as the song.] The new budget eventually topped $250,000, a staggering amount in that era.

Davis allowed a group of studio singers to record the new song lyric to "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke." They called themselves "The Hillside Singers" in order to identify with the TV image. Within two weeks of the release of the Hillside Singers recording, it was on the national charts. Two weeks after that, Davis was able to convince the New Seekers to find the time and record their version of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)," the new title for the song version of "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke."

He took them to the studio on a Sunday and produced the record which became the Top 10 hit, followed by the Hillside Singers' version as No. 13 on the pop charts. The song was recorded in a wide range of languages and sold more sheet music than any song in the previous 10 years. The Coca-Cola Company donated the first $80,000 in royalties earned from the song by writers and publishers to UNICEF under an agreement with the writers.

Creating the ad


Link to Mudcat post below with more Coca Cola songs


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 05:23 PM

SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF GORIZIA

6 August-17 August, 1916 The Sixth Battle of the Isonzo also known as the Battle of Gorizia was the most successful Italian offensive along the Soca (Isonzo) River during World War I.

”O Gorizia, tu sei maledetta” – Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.google.com/search?q=o+gorizia+tu+sei+maledetta+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&oq=O+Gorizia%2C+tu+sei+maledetta &
”Oj, Doberdob!” - Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Oj%2C+Doberdob!
Sixth Battle of the Isonzo from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Battle_of_the_Isonzo
MUDCAT -100 years ago: Gorizia/Doberdo     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=160371&messages=3    


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 05:23 PM

HORNCASTLE FAIR
Horncastle Horse Fair was held in August for three weeks and was once the largest of its kind in the U.K.

Horncastle Fair from The Ballad Index   
http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/OSLi08.html
Mainly Norfolk: Horncastle Fair https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/horncastlefair.html
Horncastle Fair · Vikki Clayton    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbVXIYndOI0
Horncastle Fair -Ray Elliott     https://christopherhinkins.com/ray-elliott/


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 04:36 AM

CANDLE IN THE WIND

31 August 1997 Diana,Princess of Wales died in a car crash.

Candle In The Wind - Elton John     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxyf1caYbbU
Many Covers of “Candle in the Wind” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=candle+in+the+wind+cover
Candle in the Wind from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_in_the_Wind


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Sep 22 - 08:15 AM

August 13, 1860. Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter, was born

Annie Oakley from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley#Depictions_in_arts_and_entertainment

SONGS ABOUT ANNIE OAKLEY

Andy Pratt - Avenging Annie   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__7OrOxoQxI
Avenging Annie - Roger Daltrey · Rod Argent · John Entwistle    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKEyRdP1SM
Avenging Annie - The Raisins     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0nDkTkZ1fw
The Annie Oakley Song    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFWpDzjBMk


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Sep 22 - 03:34 AM

SONGS COLLECTED BY LUCY BROADWOOD

Lucy Broadwood, English folksong collector and researcher, was born on 9 August, 1858 and died on 22 August, 1929.


Lucy Broadwood from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Broadwood
Lucy Broadwood Collection from The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/LEB
Listed English County Songs from The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/books/englishcountysongs.html
Traditional Song Forum video talk by Martin Graebe about Sabine Baring-Gould and Lucy Broadwood.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asR8nRga5hg


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Sep 22 - 12:35 PM

SONGS SUNG BY FLORRIE FORDE

16 August 1876. Florrie Forde, music hall performer was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
"Florrie Forde" from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florrie_Forde    


       Selected songs sung by Florrie Forde
"Down at the Old Bull and Bush"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZlkScbpwbg
"She's a Lassie from Lancashire"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru0zkdcNXs
"Oh! Oh! Antonio!"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raydJ-HYSc
"'Tis a faded picture" sung by Florrie Forde in 1910    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldefzqmHug
"Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xy4eDKTaQA
"Flanagan"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYok1Qu328
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQ6ZI55Lpo
"Hold Your Hand Out, Naughty Boy"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtWC5L1sXt8
"Good-bye-ee!"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU2IrTIkrYA
"A Bird in a Gilded Cage"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K5obJD1aJ8
" Swing Me Higher Obadiah (1907)"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhC2qIFxe7Y
"I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPQ3cpn-Unc
"Now I Have to Call him Father"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyPYzkuVnTU
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkXIKAfe2s
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzsbJjhjZBA
“ Florrie Forde - Are We To Part Like This? "     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y7UqCHOcPQ
Many more recordings by Florrie Forde on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09D8FA6D5912E7F4


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 07:07 PM

THE MATHEW HENSON SONG
8 August, 1866   Birth of African American explorer Matthew Henson. He accompanied Robert E. Peary on several Arctic expeditions and reached the North Pole

”Matthew Henson” From Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Henson
Matthew Henson tribute song – music,lyrics and voice by Enty3way Music, choirs, mixed and mastered by Sanchesqui.ng     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6v-_5UDXIw


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Sep 22 - 06:40 AM

THE BALLAD OF DAVY CROCKETT

August 17, 1786 David Crockett was born in eastern Tennessee.

Davy Crockett from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett

Many recordings of “ Ballad of Davy Crockett “ on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ballad+of+David+Crockett    
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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Sep 22 - 05:56 PM

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE
Aug 19, 1812.     the U.S.S. Constitution defeated and captured H.M.S. Guerriere.

Various recordings of “The Constitution and the Guerriere” on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Constitution+and+the+Guerriere+song+
USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution_vs_HMS_Guerriere


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Sep 22 - 08:51 AM

August 23, 1927.   Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed.

SONGS ABOUT SACCO AND VANZETTI

Sacco and Vanzetti from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballads_of_Sacco_%26_Vanzetti

Links to YouTube Recordings of Guthrie’s “Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti”
Many recordings of "The Flood and the Storm" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22The+Flood+and+the+Storm%22+
Many recordings of "I Just Want to Sing Your Name" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22I+Just+Want+to+Sing+Your+Name%22+
Many recordings of "Old Judge Thayer" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Old+Judge+Thayer%22+
Many recordings of "Red Wine" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Red+Wine%22++song+Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "Root Hog and Die" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Root+Hog+and+Die%22+Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "Suassos Lane" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Suassos+Lane%22+++Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "Two Good Men" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%22Two+Good+Men%22++++Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "Vanzetti's Letter" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Vanzetti%27s+Letter%22+++Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "Vanzetti's Rock" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Vanzetti%27s+Rock%22++++Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "We Welcome to Heaven" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22We+Welcome+to+Heaven%22+++Woody+Guthrie
Many recordings of "You Souls of Boston" on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22You+Souls+of+Boston%22+++Woody+Guthrie

Many recordings of The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti (aka Here’s to You) on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Ballad+of+Sacco+%26+Vanzetti
Sacco's Letter To His Son - Pete Seeger    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XdMB4t4wPk


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 09:30 AM

SCARBOROUGH FAIR

In medieval times, Scarborough Fair lasted 45 days and started every year on August 15th

Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjUDUshHdQ
Many other recordings of “Scarborough Fair” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Scarborough+Fair+
Scarborough Fair (ballad) from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Sep 22 - 06:31 PM

CAPTAIN AVERY
20 August 1659 The pirate Henry Avery, also known as Henry Every, was born at Newton Ferrers,near Plymouth, Devon, England.

Henry Every from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every
   
A Copy of Verses, Composed by Captain Henry Every, Lately Gone to Sea to seek his Fortune     https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Copy_of_Verses,_Composed_by_Captain_Henry_Every,_Lately_Gone_to_Sea_to_seek_his_Fortune
MUDCAT Tune Req: Captain Avery / Two English Travellers    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171692&messages=5#top
Information about Avery from Traditional Music.co /Naval Songs & Ballads     http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/navel-songs-ballads/naval-songs-ballads%20-%200052.htm
Captain Every from The Ballad Index    http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/BdCapEve.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Felipa
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 04:20 PM

The Porrajmos, or Porajmos (translated 'the Devouring') is the term used to describe the Nazi genocide of Europe's Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) population. While these travelling people are included among the victims of genocide who are commemorated in the International Holocaust Memorial Day (27 Jan, beginning of the liberation of Auschwitz), 2 AUGUST is the European Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma

"On 2 August, we commemorate the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS on that night in 1944 despite their fierce resistance. In memory of all 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe, the European Parliament declared this date the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma in 2015."

Mudcat thread Lyr Req: Rom Song about Holocaust has references to Aušvits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5yItOCSEM
and https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/collections-highlights/music-of-the-holocaust-highlights-from-the-collection/music-of-the-holocaust/auschwitz

and lyrics in French, LES BOHEMIENS by Tony Gatlif and Delphine Mantoulet (Sung by Catherine Ringer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6fMZbtXFk

and lyrics in English, Your New Saint by Larry (Lorcan) Otway

Link to YOUR NEW SAINT by Lorcan Otway on MUDCAT Thread, Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=128093#saint:~:text=Subject%3A%20Lyr%20Add%3A%20THE%20NEW%20SAINT%20(Lorcan%20Otway)%0AFr


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Jul 23 - 04:48 AM

THE BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT    aka BANNA STRAND

3 August 1916 Execution by hanging at Pentonville Prison, of Irish revolutionary Roger Casement.

The Ballad of Roger Casement, from Execution Ballads    
https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/958
The Ballad of Roger Casement, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPnptC3JjJw
Various recordings of “ Banna Strand” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lonely+banna+strand+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 06:13 PM

August 2, 1864 until August 23, 1864. The Battle of Mobile Bay, a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War, during which Rear Admiral David G. Farragut issued orders which became the famous catchphrase, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

FARRAGUT’S BALL
Farragut’s Ball   -  Dan Milner, Gabriel Donohue    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0tZgN4WL4
Battle of Mobile Bay from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mobile_Bay

David Farragut from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut

Admiral Farragut; Civil War Figures, from Tennessee Civil War 150    https://video.wnpt.org/video/admiral-david-farragut-figures-tennessee-civil-war-150-exszv/


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 06:46 PM

August 1866 The music hall song "Champagne Charlie" premièred at the Princess' Concert Hall in Leeds.

CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE
Champagne Charlie (song) from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_Charlie_(song)
Various recordings of “Champagne_Charlie “on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=champagne+charlie+george+leybourne
Champagne Charlie Is My Name - recordings on YouTube of Blind Blake’s version of the song    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=champagne+charlie++-+Blind+Blake


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Aug 23 - 03:01 AM

THE BALLAD OF HERBERT LEONARD MILLS

August 3, 1951    The murder of Mabel Tattershaw, by Herbert Leonard Mills, in Sherwood Forest, Nottingham,England.

Ballad of Herbert Leonard Mills - Big Al Whittle    
https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/the-ballad-of-herbert-leonard-mills
Herbert Leonard Mills: Murderpedia entry     https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mills-herbert-leonard.htm


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 11:37 AM

SONGS ABOUT MARILYN MONROE

August 5, 1962    American film star Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills.


MARILYN MONROE sung by The Ian Campbell Folk Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=827lPUAWiZ0
Mudcat, Lyr Add: Marilyn Monroe (Sydney Carter/Rory McEwen)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=133310

WHO KILLED NORMA JEAN?    sung by Pete Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Sy1Gn4V58
Recording, Lyrics and Information from Sing Out     https://singout.org/who-killed-norma-jean/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Sy1Gn4V58

CANDLE IN THE WIND Elton John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80rHyABCb20
Candle in the Wind from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_in_the_Wind

THE BALLAD OF MARILYN MONROE - Red River Dave McEnery     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLEEjW17mc

Talking About Marilyn Monroe in Song by Steve Pafford     https://www.stevepafford.com/monroe/

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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 10:04 AM

FAREWELL LINCOLN CASTLE

4 August 1941. Maiden voyage of the paddle steamer PS Lincoln Castle. She was a coal-fired side-wheel paddle steamer which ferried passengers across the Humber from the 1941 until 1978. She was the last coal-fired paddle steamer still in regular services in the UK.    

Farewell Lincoln Castle - Spare Hands    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2FS0wGyO8
Farewell Lincoln Castle Lyrics and information from Spare Hands     https://www.sparehands.org.uk/lincoln-castle/
P.S. Lincoln Castle Humber Ferry -Borassick Steve     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpq-bAe78ok
Lincon Castle from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Lincoln_Castle


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 10:31 PM

10 August On this day in 1842, the Mines Act was passed by the British Parliament, forbidding women and children to work underground.

I praise your good intentions, Sir, I love your kind and gentle heart
But now it's 1842, and you and me, we're miles apart
A hundred years and more will pass before we're walking side by side
But please accept my grateful thanks. God bless you Sir, at least you tried

In August 1842 the Children's Employment Commission drew up an act of Parliament which gave a minimum working age for boys in mines, though the age varied between districts and even between mines. The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 also outlawed the employment of women and girls in mines. In 1870 it became compulsory for all children aged between five and thirteen to go to school, ending much of the hurrying. It was still a common profession for school leavers well into the 1920s.

The 1969 song THE TESTIMONY OF PATIENCE KERSHAW by Frank Higgins (recorded by Roy Bailey and The Unthanks) is based on the testimony of Patience Kershaw (aged 17) when she spoke to the Children's Employment Commission. Her testimony includes: "The bald place upon my head is made by thrusting the corves ... I hurry the corves a mile and more underground and back; they weigh 3 cwt ... The getters that I work for are naked except for their caps ... Sometimes they beat me if I am not quick enough". It was published in My Song Is My Own (compiled by Kathy Henderson, Pluto Press, 1979). Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhACB1ZPQM&t=7s
Unthanks

Many other recordings of “ The Testimony of Patience Kershaw” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Testimony+of+Patience+Kershaw
Mudcat DT, Lyrics: The Testimony of Patience Kershaw /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5724
Hurrying from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrying
Whatever Happened to Patience Kershaw? From Live Journal of Nicholas Whyte    https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3620489.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Aug 23 - 03:59 AM

PUCK FAIR

10–12 August The Puck Fair takes place annually in Killorglin, County Kerry and is one of Ireland's oldest fairs.

Puck Fair · P.J. Murrihy · Seamus Shannon    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7_aBBq-_uM
Puck Fair from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_Fair
MUDCAT Folklore: Puck Fair in Co. Kerry    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=66572


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Aug 23 - 04:08 AM

SONGS APPROPRIATE FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

12 August International Youth Day

MY GENERATION by The Who     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc
THE CIRCLE GAME by Joni Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHjHU_Z8d8
TEENAGE KICKS by The Undertones     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg

International Youth Day from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Youth_Day


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Aug 23 - 05:50 AM

SONGS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

3 August 1492 Columbus sailed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships on his first voyage across the Atlantic towards the unknown continent of America.

Columbus (Didn't Find America) · Show of Hands   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulNuGpv8io
Christopher Columbus - Fats Waller    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christopher+columbus+fats+waller
Christopher Columbus · Guy Mitchell    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pE5Jqv8lk8
Christopher Columbus - Burning Spear     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK9-i62yktg
Christopher Columbus - Ken Boothe     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW752jKUqAU

Christopher Columbus from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Aug 23 - 06:59 PM

5 August 1388, or 19 August (according to English sources) The Battle of Otterburn, part of the continuing border skirmishes between the Scots and English.

CHEVY CHASE, and   THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN contain parallel biographical and historical information.

The Ballad of Chevy Chase from Wikipedia    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase
Facsimile copies of The Ballad of Chevy Chase from the English Broadside Ballad Archive of the University of California, Santa Barbara    http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/search_combined/?ss=chevy+chase
Many recordings of “Chevy Chase” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+ballad+of+chevy+chase+song
   

Battle of Otterburn from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otterburn
The Battle of Otterburn (Border Reiver Ballad) - Ungern Sternberg     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndRwoAMWyY
“The Battle of Otterburn” from Mainly Norfolk     https://mainlynorfolk.info/june.tabor/songs/thebattleofotterburn.html
Many recordings of “The Battle of Otterburn” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+battle+of+otterburn+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 23 - 10:15 AM

Subject: RE: Any August Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Sep 22 - 09:30 AM SCARBOROUGH FAIR
In medieval times, Scarborough Fair lasted 45 days and started every year on August 15th.

In 1891 Kidson published a version "sung by a ballad singer in Whitby streets twenty or thirty years ago".
And he got a second version from Mr. A. Wardill, a railway pointsman of Goathland, refrain; Rue, parsley, rosemary and thyme.
The Whitby and Pickering Railway, one of earliest railways in Yorkshire, had opened throughout on 26 May 1836.
Cecil Sharp in 1913 collected a tune and three verses from Richard Hutton, aged 65, also in Goathland.
Ewan MacColl claims he collected the famous melody from Mark Anderson (1874–1953), a retired lead miner from Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham in 1947.

Jim Boyes, born Bridlington, 1945, and Belinda O'Hooley, born Leeds, 1971, notably perform Kidson's words to Mr Wardill's tune on Sensations of a Wound, The Long, Long Trail of Robert Riby Boyes. (No Masters NMCD44 2015).
Robert Riby "Croppie" Boyes, Jim's grandfather, was bred and born in Scarborough. Jim also chose the song because of the reference to the shirt, which leads to a song later in the story.

Pete Coe and Alice Jones sing the same version on the Yorkshire Garland page, The Search for Frank Kidson; https://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/kidson.cfm Scarborough Fair


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 23 - 10:22 AM

15 August 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica.

BONEY WAS A WARRIOR
For Boney was a Corsican
Way hey ya
A rortin, snortin Corsican
John Francois

JOHN BULL AND BONAPARTE (1803) Tune – “Blue Bell of Scotland”;
When and O when does this little Boney come?
Perhaps he’ll come in August! Perhaps he’ll stay at home;
But it’s O in my heart, how I’ll hide him should he come.


Songs About Napoleon Bonaparte from Shannon Selin    
https://shannonselin.com/2018/01/songs-about-napoleon-bonaparte/
Various recordings of “ Boney was a Warrior" on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boney+was+a+warrior+song
Boney (Was a Warrior) from Mainly Norfolk    https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/boney.html
Link to post SONGS ABOUT NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, in Mudcat thread Any May Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169613#napoleonbonaparte:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20May%20songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20Geo


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Aug 23 - 05:42 AM

21 August 1940. Leon Trotsky, was assassinated in Mexico City, Mexico

SONGS ABOUT LEON TROTSKY
BLUES FOR LEON TROTSKY / Lev Davidovich - Daniel Kahn ,Psoy Korolenko     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPDcQT9AZU
SONG ABOUT TROTSKY     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJAjH2FYnM
NO MORE HEROES - The Stranglers    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2np37JNEg
No More Heroes (The Stranglers song) from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Heroes_(The_Stranglers_song)
LENIN UN TROTSKY - Kapelye     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSp3bNQqAq8
I’M LENIN, I’M TROTSKY     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKQjD25i0r4
MUDCAT,Origins: Russian Song (I'm Lenin, I'm Trotsky)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=155349&messages=21#top

Leon Trotsky from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky


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From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 07:22 AM

CAESAR AUGUSTUS
Caesar Augustus - Richard Cootes

LFF


19 August AD 14 Roman Emperor Augustus died Augustus from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 04:55 PM

THE ROAD TO BARCELONA
25 August 1936 Death of Felicia Browne, the first British volunteer to die in the Spanish Civil War. She was killed in action on the Aragón front near Tardienta while serving as part of a band of raiders attempting to dynamite a Nationalist munitions train.

The Road To Barcelona Words and music by Patrick Dexter Vocal by Eilís Dexter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ki_HNVqKk
(n.b.)Her name was Felicia not Felicity as given in this YouTube recording.

Felicia Browne from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Browne
Felicia Browne from Spartacus Educational     https://spartacus-educational.com/WbrowneF.htm
“Felicia Browne and the Spanish Civil War by Anne Newman”    https://www.anart4life.com/felicity-browne-and-the-spanish-civil-war/


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 23 Aug 23 - 03:23 AM

26 August 1910 Birth of, Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.

SONGS ABOUT MOTHER THERESA OF CALCUTTA

MOTHER THERESA’S SONG - Laura Tompkins     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9aV94AVaY
COME BE MY LIGHT - Students from Maronite College of the Holy Family Come Be My Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50ztI1n-xrY
JUST ONE AT A TIME Sarah Logan ,Ankita Sachdev, Kiran Pradhan,Tushar Apte     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHOOk-Pok0

Mother Theresa from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
International Day of Charity from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Charity
Information about UN Charity Day     https://www.un.org/en/observances/charity-day


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 24 Aug 23 - 10:43 AM

THE GALE OF AUGUST ‘27
The Gale of August, '27 from Mainsail Café    
https://mainsailcafe.com/songs/the-gale-of-august-27
Vaughan Williams Library entries for Roud #9431    https://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/9431
1927 Nova Scotia hurricane from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927_Nova_Scotia_hurricane


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 04:40 AM

28th August 1833 The Slavery Abolition Act received its Royal Assent in the UK and came into force the following year, on 1 August 1834.

SONGS ABOUT SLAVERY
SLAVE NO MORE- Angeline Morrison     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZFAxU3P0E
‘Slave No More’ (Evaristo Muchovela)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iskr7M5kg6c
MASSA KILLA ME HE WON’T - recording       https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/2126/song_48_1mp3-15777.mp3
”Lyrics and Music for “Massa Killa Me He Won’t “     https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/18580/d3549-13-3-27.jpg
GOOD MORNING MR COLSTON- Reg Meuross     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAb0bQimFrQ
AT THE PURCHASER’S OPTION - Rhiannon Giddens     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vy9xTS0QxM
COME JOIN THE ABOLITIONISTS   -   Deborah Anne Goss     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYYmXDD8u_M
WE’RE STOLE AND SOLD FROM AFRICA- Addie Graham     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCeTXdF859g
NAT TURNER - Various Artists     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XzsDOKoHz8
AGONISING CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8ltr16rvg
LA BALLADE DE JEAN SAINT MALO  -   Zachary Richard
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nbAFG9VIPM

Slavery Abolition Act 1833 from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation- Documentary Film. (Art in History and Politics 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmytdAYr-s0
Slave Songbook : Origin of the negro spiritual     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zeshN_ummU
Anti-Slavery Songs sung by Gordeanna McCulloch and Bob Blair, from Bulldozia     https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/anti-slavery-songs/

Link to post below with more songs about slavery: /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170145&messages=153#reply:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20August%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%2

Link to post below SONGS ABOUT NAT TURNER


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 09:27 AM

I like LINDEN LEA for this time of year

Information about Linden Lea from Mainly Norfolk    
https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/lindenlea.html
Linden Lea recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Linden+Lea+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 10:14 AM

Some more Songs about Slavery:

AGONISING CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS
In Those Agonizing Cruel Days · Mac Traynham · Jenny Traynham   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pw7E3eSDY
Those Agonizing Cruel Slavery Days - Neil Adam     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLM1OnyKe4k
Agonizing, Cruel Slavery Days · Alden "Max" Smith     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8ltr16rvg
Those Cruel Slavery Days - Buck Mountain String Band    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Hej6f-h44

SLAVERY DAYS - Burning Spear     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL3rt6RTqps

SONG FOR FREEDOM     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXpVaV73k4

Link to post in Mudcat thread Any June Songs? about     BRISTOL SLAVER 2020    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#bristolslaver:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20June%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20GeoffL


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 04:14 AM

SONGS SUNG BY DEREK BRIMSTONE

29 August 1932 Derek Brimstone , British singer was born at Islington, London.

Derek Brimstone: brief biography from Musician Bio.org    
https://musicianbio.org/derek-brimstone/
Derek Brimstone recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=derek+brimstone+all+tracks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=derek+brimstone+all+tracks
MUDCAT - Derek Brimstone Youtube videos    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=161141


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 04:10 PM

28 August On this day in 1963, black civil rights leader Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a dream...” speech to a rally of 200,000 people in Washington.

ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler. The song itself is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968, respectively. Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN4ZlST1tGc&t=28s
Dion

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-martin-luther-king-songs-tribute/     Best Martin Luther King Songs: 10 Moving Tributes


Link to post about Martin Luther King by Felipa in Mudcat thread Any January Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169254#martinlutherking:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20January%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20
Link to Mudcat thread:,Lyr Req: SHED A LITTLE LIGHT (James Taylor)/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=35451&messages=9#:~:text=Friendly%20%2D%20Home-,Lyr%20Req%3A%20Shed%20a%20Little%20Light%
James Taylor "Shed A Little Light"   -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRiRJOIWCM


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:37 PM

SONGS ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA
August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, a devastating Category 5 Atlantic hurricane resulted in 1,392 fatalities and caused damage estimated between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding areas.
GO DOWN MOSES
Recording and information about “Go Down Moses “ by Natalie Merchant, from Song Facts    
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/natalie-merchant/go-down-moses

HELL NO WE AIN’T ALRIGHT by Public Enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TejX2rUeY

GEORGE BUSH DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE by Kanye West     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kMsI4cIxI
George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Doesn%27t_Care_About_Black_People

Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
Songs about Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Hurricane_Katrina


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From: GerryM
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 08:31 PM

Another Katrina song is THE COVER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES,    by Truckstop Honeymoon , on their CD, Great Big Family. They lived in New Orleans, were out of town when Katrina hit, and were surprised to see a picture of their home, or, rather, the water covering it, on the cover of the New York Times. Here's a live performance on Youtube: https://youtu.be/SyHvBiV3N7c?si=OX8_RCHjhQGHsHZp


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 07:24 PM

CHOLERA CAMP
Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling


Since August, when it started, it's been stickin' to our tail,
Though they've 'ad us out by marches an' they've 'ad us back by rail;


Cholera Camp · Cockersdale   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi7MxPydeU&list=OLAK5uy_nrx0heiAa5TkTNGDE4h6kNiHUy9b3UR3A&index=10
Cholera Camp · Peter Bellamy    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW37xlsMPPM
Bellowhead Cholera Camp     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrDRhFgF8hI
Cholera Camp Lyrics and information from Mainly Norfolk    https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/choleracamp.html
Cholera Camp [Kipling poem set to music]     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjMjwbUuGo


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 04:05 PM

The airship R-100 arrived in Saint-Hubert, Montreal in the early morning of August 1, 1930 after a voyage of almost 79 hours covering 3,364 miles (5,414 km). This was the first long-range international flight under the Imperial Airship Scheme.

The airship stayed there for 12 days with over 100,000 people visiting the airship each day. Nevil Shute, the senior stress engineer for R100, wrote that a song was composed by La Bolduc to make fun of the people's fascination with R100. Shute, Nevil (1954). Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. Wikipedia

TOUJOURS L'R 100 · La Bolduc
«Viens-tu avec moi son père, on va aller à Saint-Hubert
Va donc att’ler ta jument pis on va aller voir l’R-100
Mais regard-moi donc ti-Noir t’as mis ta ch’mise à l’envers
Il y a un trou dedans qu’est aussi grand que l’R-100.»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMasaSDz4I
La Bolduc


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 04:10 PM

28 August On this day in 1963, black civil rights leader Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a dream...” speech to a rally of 200,000 people in Washington.

ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler. The song itself is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968, respectively. Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN4ZlST1tGc&t=28s
Dion

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-martin-luther-king-songs-tribute/     Best Martin Luther King Songs: 10 Moving Tributes

Link to post about Martin Luther King by Felipa in Mudcat thread Any January Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169254#martinlutherking:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20January%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20
Link to Mudcat thread:,Lyr Req: SHED A LITTLE LIGHT (James Taylor)/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=35451&messages=9#:~:text=Friendly%20%2D%20Home-,Lyr%20Req%3A%20Shed%20a%20Little%20Light%
James Taylor "Shed A Little Light"   -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRiRJOIWCM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 04:05 PM

The airship R-100 arrived in Saint-Hubert, Montreal in the early morning of August 1, 1930 after a voyage of almost 79 hours covering 3,364 miles (5,414 km). This was the first long-range international flight under the Imperial Airship Scheme.

The airship stayed there for 12 days with over 100,000 people visiting the airship each day. Nevil Shute, the senior stress engineer for R100, wrote that a song was composed by La Bolduc to make fun of the people's fascination with R100. Shute, Nevil (1954). Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. Wikipedia

TOUJOURS L'R 100 · La Bolduc
«Viens-tu avec moi son père, on va aller à Saint-Hubert
Va donc att’ler ta jument pis on va aller voir l’R-100
Mais regard-moi donc ti-Noir t’as mis ta ch’mise à l’envers
Il y a un trou dedans qu’est aussi grand que l’R-100.»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMasaSDz4I
La Bolduc


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 10:14 AM

Some more Songs about Slavery:

AGONISING CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS
In Those Agonizing Cruel Days · Mac Traynham · Jenny Traynham   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pw7E3eSDY
Those Agonizing Cruel Slavery Days - Neil Adam     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLM1OnyKe4k
Agonizing, Cruel Slavery Days · Alden "Max" Smith     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8ltr16rvg
Those Cruel Slavery Days - Buck Mountain String Band    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Hej6f-h44

SLAVERY DAYS - Burning Spear     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL3rt6RTqps

SONG FOR FREEDOM     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXpVaV73k4

Link to post in Mudcat thread Any June Songs? about     BRISTOL SLAVER 2020    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169898#bristolslaver:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20June%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20GeoffL


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From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 04:14 AM

SONGS SUNG BY DEREK BRIMSTONE

29 August 1932 Derek Brimstone , British singer was born at Islington, London.

Derek Brimstone: brief biography from Musician Bio.org    
https://musicianbio.org/derek-brimstone/
Derek Brimstone recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=derek+brimstone+all+tracks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=derek+brimstone+all+tracks
MUDCAT - Derek Brimstone Youtube videos    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=161141


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:37 PM

SONGS ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA
August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, a devastating Category 5 Atlantic hurricane resulted in 1,392 fatalities and caused damage estimated between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding areas.
GO DOWN MOSES
Recording and information about “Go Down Moses “ by Natalie Merchant, from Song Facts    
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/natalie-merchant/go-down-moses

HELL NO WE AIN’T ALRIGHT by Public Enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TejX2rUeY

GEORGE BUSH DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE by Kanye West     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kMsI4cIxI
George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Doesn%27t_Care_About_Black_People

Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
Songs about Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Hurricane_Katrina


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 07:24 PM

CHOLERA CAMP
Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling


Since August, when it started, it's been stickin' to our tail,
Though they've 'ad us out by marches an' they've 'ad us back by rail;


Cholera Camp · Cockersdale   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi7MxPydeU&list=OLAK5uy_nrx0heiAa5TkTNGDE4h6kNiHUy9b3UR3A&index=10
Cholera Camp · Peter Bellamy    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW37xlsMPPM
Bellowhead Cholera Camp     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrDRhFgF8hI
Cholera Camp Lyrics and information from Mainly Norfolk    https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/choleracamp.html
Cholera Camp [Kipling poem set to music]     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjMjwbUuGo


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 08:31 PM

Another Katrina song is THE COVER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES,    by Truckstop Honeymoon , on their CD, Great Big Family. They lived in New Orleans, were out of town when Katrina hit, and were surprised to see a picture of their home, or, rather, the water covering it, on the cover of the New York Times. Here's a live performance on Youtube: https://youtu.be/SyHvBiV3N7c?si=OX8_RCHjhQGHsHZp


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jul 24 - 01:33 PM

1 August Yorkshire Day

SONGS FOR YORKSHIRE DAY
YORKSHIRE SONG   -   Anna Shannon     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PoDcyIdhQ
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY  - Sam Turner       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BXgDZEM_Is
ON ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT   Many reordings on Youtube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ilkla+Moor+Baht+%27At+song
SING A SONG OF YORKSHIRE      -   Ruth Strangeway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zqMcjRMwo
YORKSHIRE BORN AND BRED  -   Steve Saville     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Rht-XVMYE
HEY YORKSHIRE !   -   Hirsty's Daily Dose     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP84i5ZlF0M
MY GIRL’S A YORKSHIRE GIRL  -   Kevi n McDermott &Ralph Richey     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdnTzVx_zqw
THE OWD WOMAN IN YORKSHIRE  -   Steve Gardham     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7YtA3t3u7s
The Old Woman in Yorkshire , information and recording from The Yorkshire Garland site https://yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=6

Many other Yorkshire songs in the Song Listing and Database of The Yorkshire Garland     https://yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm
Yorkshire Day 2024 from The Yorkshire Society https://theyorkshiresociety.org/what-we-do/yorkshire-day/


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Jul 24 - 05:42 AM

Link to     INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Jul 24 - 03:40 PM

Yorkshire Day - Don't forget SOME BUGGER FROM YORKSHIRE by Bernard Wrigley!

Some Bugger from Yorkshire' – Bernard Wrigley recording on Bandcamp  
https://bernardwrigley.bandcamp.com/track/some-bugger-from-yorkshire
Mudcat, Lyr Req: Some Bugger from Yorkshire (B Wrigley)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=93865


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 27 Jul 24 - 04:20 AM

A wee correction to Gerry M’s post from 24th July 2021 re “Now Westlin Winds”. (Missed it at the time!)
It should be:
Now Westlin’ winds and slaughterin’ guns
Bring AUTUMN’S pleasant weather
(Not August’s).
The only time that August is mentioned is in the alternative title “Song Composed in August”.
All correct in the linked text in mainly Norfolk.


Link to GerryM 's post above NOW WESTLIN WINDS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Jul 24 - 11:17 PM

Tattie Bogle, I'm sure you're right, but that implies – horror of horrors! – that the Digital Tradition is wrong. It gives August, not Autumn.

Link to Mudcat DT Lyrics for NOW WESTLIN WINDS    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4291


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Jul 24 - 08:24 AM

1 August 1779 Birth, in Frederick County, Maryland, of Francis Scott Key, writer of the US national anthem, TheStar-Spangled Banner.

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER    Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=THE+STAR+SPANGLED+BANNER
The Star-Spangled Banner from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
THE ANACREONTIC SONG from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song
"To Anacreon in Heaven" sung, with lyrics displayed, on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPLFLH3BHU
Various other recordings of The Anacreonic Song on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22To+Anacreon+in+Heaven%22


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 31 Jul 24 - 04:06 AM

Gerry M: definitely “Autumn’s pleasant weather” (not August’s) in any books of Burns’ poetry, and in the copy held in the National Library of Scotland.
But it seems I have mis-spelled slaughterin’ - should be slaught’ring - which is as the DT has it.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Aug 24 - 06:02 AM

2 August 1997     Death of Fela Kutti, Nigerian musician and political activist.
Fela Kuti from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti

SONGS OF FELA KUTTI
Fela Kutti songs on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSx_RyMYooNKnxTl80983w
Fela Kuti Song list from Songfacts     https://www.songfacts.com/songs/fela-kuti


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Aug 24 - 05:49 AM

August 3,1804   After a five-year-long expedition to Latin America, the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt returned to Bordeaux, France. His scientific journey contributed significantly to the understanding of the natural world and laying the foundation for modern scientific exploration.

SONGS ABOUT ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT ( Pretzel Boys)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NlJJ7piCY
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT ( La Poudre)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZlAm54fjXk
THE VERY STRANGE JOURNEY OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT   -   The Shrugs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNfDyWF3TI
HUMBOLT’S GROOVE   -  Retrogott feat. El Temba     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuHUCe7Wmg4


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Aug 24 - 09:37 AM

August 4, 1892 Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

LIZZIE BORDEN   -   Chad Mitchell Trio    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdF428jC6vw
Lizzie Borden from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Aug 24 - 03:54 PM

As a semi-irrelevant aside, about forty or fifty years ago I read the opinion of a "leading" meteorologist of the time that, in their opinion, August should be regarded as an autumn month. Well, I spent the Augusts of both 1975 and 1976 in the northern Highlands, and anyone of a certain age (me included) who was in Scotland at that time will attest that those remarkable Augusts were anything but "autumnal!" And in Burns' time the climate was much colder than it is today.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Aug 24 - 09:01 AM

August 5 1932 Clyde Barrow, with an accomplice, killed Deputy Eugene C. Moore at Stringtown, Oklahoma. This was the first law officer killed by Barrow and his gang.
Bonnie and Clyde from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde

SONGS ABOUT BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW
THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Georgie Fame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMBlJpjWqY
THE STORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDE  -   Flatt & Scruggs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdsfuttVYjU
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Mel Torme     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwG4hS0V_c
THE LEGEND OF BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Merle Haggard     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfp4jxRuizM
The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde   -   Tammy Wynette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGf2-61U6D0
BONNIE UND CLYDE   -   Die Toten Hosen     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaR4RQAE2fc
BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Serge Gainsbourg Brigitte Bardot     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPm5_X3Ykg
’03 BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Jay-Z & Beyoncé     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idU3XPCpZvw
'03 Bonnie & Clyde from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2703_Bonnie_%26_Clyde
'97 BONNIE AND CLYDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NyoAiROoVI
97 Bonnie & Clyde from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2797_Bonnie_%26_Clyde


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Aug 24 - 09:31 AM

5th August 1305 William Wallace, was captured by the English forces near Glasgow. He was then transported to London to face trial and execution for leading the resistance against English domination.

SONGS ABOUT WILLIAM WALLACE
THE WALLACE  -   MD Donnelly     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR5her2eCS8
WILLIAM WALLACE (THE KNIGHT OF ELDERSLIE)   -   Alastair McDonald     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcD0gWk7Z9w
THE BALLAD OF BRAVEHEART WILLIAM WALLACE   -   Song Lyrics by Joel Sattler https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=310719


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Aug 24 - 05:49 PM

7 August 1888 The first of the murders committed by Jack the Ripper took place in London's East End.

JACK THE RIPPER  -   Lord Sutch & The Savages     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCOFkyeGNs
Various songs about Jack the ripper on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+the+ripper+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 09:23 AM

7thAugust 1974     French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, walked a high wire between twin towers of the World Trade Center

SONGS ABOUT PHILIPPE PETIT
MAN ON WIRE  -  27     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCS8uznSoUY
SLEEPWALKING  -   Ste van Holm     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k9XZyPf76c
FUNAMBULIST  -   Cormorant     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCDASDQvvU

Philippe Petit from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit#:~:text=The%20song%2C%20%22Man%20on%20Wire,Petit's%20World%20Trade%20Center%20walk.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 06:51 PM

8 August 1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world journey. The entire circumnavigation (including stops) took 21 days, 5 hours, and 31 minutes. It was the fastest circumnavigation of the globe at the time.
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin

GRAF ZEPPELIN  - Attila the Hun      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xcUzC0LXM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 08:55 PM

Chris Wood's version of Hares On The Mountain. It's August in the third verse! What a lovely song: do YouTube it...


If all you young girls were like hares on the mountain
We'd soon get our boots on and go out a-walking.
But if all you young girls were like swans in the water
We'd soon take those boots off and dive in there after.

And if all you young girls were like stars in the dark
We'd chase round the world to avoid the dawn's spark.
And if all you young girls were like the sun in the morning
We'd sit bleary-eyed just to see the day dawning.

And if all you young girls were like rain from the sky
We'd stand out in T-shirts and shun all things dry.
And if all you young girls were like the hot August sun
Then we'd sit out with ice-cream and get nothing done.

And if all you young girls flew south like the swallow
There's be nothing for it but to up sticks and follow.
But if all you young girls were like my own true lover
Then all you young men would love them as I love her.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 09:00 PM

Oops, I see I posted about that song three years ago! Still, isn't it lovely...

Link to Steve Shaw's post above HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 24 - 06:07 AM

AUGUST 10th ,  2008   Death, at age 65, of American singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes

WALK ON BY  -   Isaac Hayes     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loAY27W5IY

Isaac Hayes top hits on YouTube nbsp;   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=isaac+hayes+top+hits+
Isaac Hayes from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 24 - 05:16 AM

10 August 1842: The Mines Act was passed by the British parliament, forbidding women and children to work underground. (continued)

THE COLLIER LASS; Words collected in a printed broadside by Frank Kidson
Tune compiled from two traditional tunes by Mike Harding www.vwml.org/record/FK/11/107/2 Roud Number: V7863 Traditional

My name’s Polly Parker, I’m come o’er from Worsley
My father and mother work in a coal mine
My family’s large, we’ve got seven children
And so I am forced to work down the coal mine

By the greatest of dangers each day we’re surrounded,
I hang in the air by a rope and a chain.
The mine may fall in; I may be killed or be wounded
May perish by firedamp or the fire of a train.

From Coal mining with folk arts and poetry Produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), June 2014
Written by Jayne Ambrose (NCMME), Sue Bousfield and Bryony Griffith Edited by: Frances Watt

THE TRAPPER BOY’S DREAM https://lobmusiclibrary.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/the-colliers-rant-and-other-miners-ballads/

It shouldn’t be any surprise to learn there’s a large section in Lloyd’s book concerning songs about pit accidents and disasters. Mining today still has its dangers, but nothing compared to the perils of working in a Victorian-era mine. In his notes to this song, Lloyd gives the following information:

The explosion at the West Moor Colliery, Killingsworth, [in 1845] occurred between two shifts. The gas was ignited by the candle of a little boy who was allowed to proceed before the men. There had been a fatal explosion at West Moor in January of the previous year, but nothing had been done to improve safety.

His description of a ‘little boy’ makes me wonder whether the mine owner ignored the recently enacted Mines and Collieries Act. Here’s a couple of verses.

‘I thought that at my post I sat, upon my duty bent,
When suddenly there came a sound as if the mine was rent:
And then the earth rocked to and fro, and I strove for help to call
For o’er my head a mass of coal hung ready to fall.

‘It swayed and tottered, still it hung, as held by secret power,
and as I gazed such horrid faces round me seemed to lower.
Grim demons looked with scowling eye, and nearer then they came.
They smote and dashed me to the earth and turned my heart to flame.’

No recording to be found of this.


Various recordings of The Collier Lass on Youtbe    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Collier+Lass+swong

Link to post above by henryp about: The Mines Act of 10 August 1842 & THE TESTIMONY OF PATIENCE KERSHAW


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Aug 24 - 09:43 AM

AUGUST 11th 1956     Death, in an automobile accident, of American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock
   
JACKSON POLLOCK  -   Daphne Eckman     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-d7rkqCKVc
Jackson Pollock from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 01:05 AM

On 15 August 1771, Sir Walter Scott, creator of the historical novel, was born in Edinburgh.
His home, Abbotsford, is open to the public at Tweedbank in the Borders.

SINGER'S REQUEST (Nic Jones, adapted from Scott)
See Mudcat thread Origin: Singer's Request / Minstrel's Request

Now the sun it does decline; pour the beer and pour the wine.
We can lead your thoughts astray from the world and from the day.

CHORUS Dark the night and long till day; do not bid us further stray.
Dark the night and long till day; do not bid us further stray.

We sing songs of history, love and war and mystery.
We can lead you from despair, or can chill the darkening air.
CHORUS

You may choose to pass us by with a cruel or scornful eye.
We will see the ending through, then we'll turn and say to you:
CHORUS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 01:51 AM

On 15 August 1960 Britain’s first motorway restaurant was opened on the M1 at Newport Pagnell.

Decameron, formed in 1968 in Cheltenham by Johnny Coppin and Dave Bell, had a Motorway Song with a chorus based on the motorway sign;

A petrol pump
A knife and fork
A cup of tea
And a P

I don't think that they ever recorded it.

THE MOTORWAY SONG (Rosselson)   - The Black Family       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmIFNvIxvbk
2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY   - Tom Robinson Band       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrnEc_3mYo

ENGLAND’S MOTORWAYS   (Ewan MacColl)   - Thomas Doran       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1JqBy6lHK0
England's Motorway · Blackwater Céilí Band · Emmet Mulholland · Dermot Mulholland    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHj2R4EhdE
England's Motorway (My Little Son) · Philomena Begley    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOS6ckdSIo


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 02:02 AM

On 15 August 1969: The three-day Woodstock festival began in upstate New York. More than 400,000 people watched artists such as The Who, Santana and Jimi Hendrix, but massive traffic jams, adverse weather and a shortage of food led to the event being declared a disaster area.

Woodstock written by Joni Mitchell
Also recorded by Matthews Southern Comfort

Link to post above by henryp about WOODSTOCK

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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 06:01 AM

.... and by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, which was used as the outtro for the film of the event.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – WOODSTOCK    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM2dzjWYGLc


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 11:38 AM

Aug 15 778 AD   Battle of Roncevaux Pass at which Roland was killed.

Battle of Roncevaux Pass from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass

THE SONG OF ROLAND  -   Michael Kelly     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNrzCoASqSI
Song of Roland - Rosalind Jehanne     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLUf3vG9VdA

ROLANDSKADET   -   Erik Bye     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXWgoKP1AOU
CHANSON DE ROLAND   -   dArtagnan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_XSdQmGp0


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Aug 24 - 04:54 AM

14 August 1956 Death of German playwright, songwriter and poet Bertolt Brecht .

Berthold Brecht from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
List of Songs with Lyrics by Berthold Brecht from Wikipedia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_with_lyrics_by_Bertolt_Brecht

MACK THE KNIFE     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mack+the+knife+bertolt+brecht
Mudcat Thread,Chord Req: Mack the Knife chord formations    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77038
Mudcat Thread, Folklore: Beggars opera vs. Threepenny opera /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77270

Many Bertolt Brecht songs on YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bertolt+Brecht+songs


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Aug 24 - 06:20 AM

16 August 1948 Legendary American baseball player Babe Ruth died at age 53.

OH! YOU BABE RUTH;     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUxBvcS8n0


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Aug 24 - 06:37 AM

August 17, 1883 The first public performance of the Dominican Republic’s national anthem, Quisqueyanos Valientes.

QUISQUEYANOS VALIENTES
Dominican National Anthem - "Quisqueyanos Valientes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ED30PNAuU
National Anthem of the Dominican Republic from Wikipedia   https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_nacional_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_Dominicana


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Aug 24 - 10:51 AM

August 13, 1952  Willa Mae Thornton recorded "Hound Dog" at Radio Recorders Annex in Los Angeles , the day after its composition.
August 18 1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" reached No 1 in the charts.

Hound Dog (song) from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song)

HOUND DOG  - Elvis Presley       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxQdKbhPoBM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Aug 24 - 07:10 PM

24 August 1803 Irish revolutionary James Napper Tandy died in France. He is memorialized in the Irish ballad The Wearing of the Green.

THE WEARING OF THE GREEN    
The Wearing of the Green from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wearing_of_the_Green#:~:text=The%20best%2Dknown%20version%20is,rebel%20leader%20exiled%20in%20 .
Lyrics and tune recording of The Wearing Of The Green     https://www.ireland-information.com/irishmusic/thewearingofthegreen.shtml
James Napper from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Napper_Tandy
Various recordings of The Wearing of the Green on YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Wearing+of+the+Green


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Aug 24 - 05:52 AM

August 25 1945 John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence officer, was killed by Chinese communists Later,this inspired the foundation of the John Birch Society.

SONGS ABOUT THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY

THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY   -   The Chad Mitchell Trio     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCYSVZhPoU
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY SONG   -   Tom Paxton     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRDumFXqOV0
TALKIN’ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY PARANOID BLUES   -   Bob Dylan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AylFqdxRMwE
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues fromWikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkin%27_John_Birch_Paranoid_Blues

THE JACK ASH SOCIETY  -   Pete Seeger     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xX3IfQEH_E

UNEASY RIDER  -   Charlie Daniels    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJrRwTTqm0o&t=1s
I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Burch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
And I ain't even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife


John Birch Society from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Aug 24 - 12:08 PM

August 27, 1798 The Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, when Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clashed with the British Army.The Battle of Castlebar would later become known as the "Castlebar Races" or "Races of Castlebar".
Battle of Castlebar from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castlebar

THE CASTLEBAR RACES  -   Rob McHale     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7z1NEBEQE4


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Aug 24 - 12:06 AM

28 August 1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream” speech to a rally of 200,000 people in Washington.

"Abraham, Martin and John" is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler. The song itself is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968, respectively.

It was first recorded by Dion, in a version that was a substantial North American chart hit in 1968–1969. Near-simultaneous cover versions by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and Moms Mabley also charted in the U.S. in 1969, and a version that same year by Marvin Gaye became the hit version in the UK. It was also a hit as part of a medley (with "What the World Needs Now Is Love") for Tom Clay in 1971, and has subsequently been recorded by many other artists. Wikipedia

I Have A Dream Martin Luther King Jr with Lyrics
Let Freedom Ring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxRe6rCdYVA Dion


Link to post above by henryp ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 24 - 05:27 PM

August 28 1914 The first major naval action between British and German naval forces during the First World War, the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

WE’LL KNOCK THE HELIGO INTO HELIGO   -   Sung by Laurence Rubenstein accompanied by Denese Coulbeck.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap32LeqW4tg
"We'll Knock the Heligo Into Heligo Out of Heligoland" sung by Arthur Fields, baritone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JzWbqcQq8
We'll Knock The Heligo-- Into Heligo-- Out Of Heligoland! from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Knock_The_Heligo--_Into_Heligo--_Out_Of_Heligoland!
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_Bight_(1914)


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 24 - 09:35 AM

29th August 1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda (40 miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean) were voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson - Hirta Songs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0E2QR7A2g
Hirta from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirta
Lost songs of St Kilda     https://www.lostsongsofstkilda.com/
On this day 1930: The evacuation of St Kilda, from The Scotsman   https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/on-this-day-1930-the-evacuation-of-st-kilda-581945


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Aug 24 - 06:13 AM

30th August 1936 The RMS Queen Mary won the Blue Riband by setting the fastest time for a transatlantic crossing.

QUEEN OF THE SEA  - Alex Mendham & His Orchestra      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uFz4AF-cfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElFGB1KStxg
Queen Of The Sea "Queen Mary"by Horatio Nicholls from Songfacts  -   https://www.songfacts.com/facts/horatio-nicholls/queen-of-the-sea-queen-mary

RMS Queen Mary from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Sep 24 - 07:18 PM

August 6, 1962 Jamaica became independent after centuries of British and Spanish rule.

INDEPENDENT JAMAICA  -   Lord Creator     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJbq2U7ODk



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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Sep 24 - 05:04 AM

8th August, 1963 Britain’s Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963), article from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)#:~:text=stolen%20the%20train!%22-,Robbers%20and%20accomplices,to%20recr

(HAVE YOU SEEN) BRUCE RICHARD REYNOLDS?   -   James Donal Faulkner     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnc0kxwB_E
Have You Seen Bruce Richard Reynolds - Alabama 3     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QbmRgKuWa8
Bruce Richard Reynolds  -   Nigel Denver   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSKTxGhJDY4
Bruce Richard Reynolds - Co Jo    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAp6S735D4o


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Sep 24 - 11:16 AM

18–19 August 1612 Pendle witch Trials took place at Lancaster Assizes.
Pendle witches from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witches

SONGS ABOUT THE PENDLE WITCHES    
OLD PENDLE  -   The Pendlefolk     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-g8Wvttrj8
THE PENDLE WITCHES   -   Cobalt Tales     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNT-6cuEuZE
PENDLE WITCH SONG     by Ursula Holden Gill     https://ursulaholdengill.bandcamp.com/track/pendle-witch-song
THE SONG OF ALIZON DEVICE (PENDLE WITCH SONG No 1)         https://soundcloud.com/something-memorable/the-song-of-alizon-device
MENDLE  -   Mr. Fox    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQN9XyGcuyE


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Sep 24 - 07:05 AM

13 August 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall started.

BERLIN WALL SONGS
BERLIN WALL  - Rai Thistlethwayte       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX1Al6RlZ4
DANCING ON THE BERLIN WALL   - Rational Youth       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZr4KnpYhCE
TEAR ME DOWN  - Hedwig and the Angry Inch       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZ5F2CKlZE
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL  - Pink Floyd       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMtSisXjYZo
WIND OF CHANGE  - Scorpions       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Sep 24 - 06:04 PM

August 28, 1955 Murder of Emmet Till
Emmett Till from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till#

SONGS ABOUT EMMET TILL
THE DEATH OF EMMET TILL     AKA The Ballad of Emmet Till  -   Bob Dylan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-0vClQa1Hw
THE DEATH OF EMMET TILL   -  The Ramparts     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4fJ1s_W84
MY NAME IS EMMET TILL   -   Emmylou Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlHAr5IZhp8
EMMET’S GHOST  -   Eric Bibb    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_OBMr-SvM4
TOO MANY MARTYRS   -   Phil Ochs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwh3UwElu6c (A song about Medger Evers which also refers to Emmet Till)


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:17 PM

August 10, 1887 The Great Chatsworth Train Wreck occurred 3 miles (5 km) east of Chatsworth, Illinois, in the United States. About 85 were killed and many were injured.

CHATSWORTH WRECK  -   Johnsburg 3 (Bucky Halker)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcYc4-R3JE

Lyrics from Mudcat DT /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6040
Great Chatsworth train wreck from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Great_Chatsworth_train_wreck


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Sep 24 - 06:57 AM

30 August 1860   Britain’s first tramway opened in Birkenhead, near Liverpool.

RIDING ON TOP OF THE CAR    Various recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Riding+on+Top+of+the+Car


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Sep 24 - 04:23 PM

31 August 1900 Coca Cola is sold for the first time in Britain.

RUM AND COCA COLA  - The Andrews Sisters       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxL2uNr7bk
Rum & Coca Cola -Lord Invader   - Rupert Westmore Grant     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFKnLfOEwqI
Coca Cola Commercial - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - 1971https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q

THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE  -   The Who     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oCp5dV61g4
COCA COLA COWBOY  - Mel Tillis       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7j5qOcbR0


Link to post above from henryp I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Sep 24 - 07:13 AM

Link to     INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 02 Nov 24 - 07:31 PM

Geoff\Anyone interested in Frederick Douglass ^
mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170145#songsaboutfrederickdouglass
might like to listen to this BBC programme from 2018.
NB no music.

Frederick Douglass - 2018
BBC Radio4 - In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818 and, once he had escaped, became one of that century's most prominent abolitionists.
He was such a good orator, his opponents doubted his story, but he told it in grim detail in 1845 in his book 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.' He went on to address huge audiences in Great Britain and Ireland and there some of his supporters paid off his owner, so Douglass could be free in law and not fear recapture.
After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, he campaigned for equal rights for African-Americans, arguing against those such as Lincoln who had wanted freed slaves to leave America and found a colony elsewhere. "We were born here," he said, "and here we will remain."


With :
Celeste-Marie Bernier
Professor of Black Studies in the English Department at the University of Edinburgh

Karen Salt
Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies at the University of Nottingham

Nicholas Guyatt
Reader in North American History at the University of Cambridge

Producer: Simon Tillotson.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qb0kc


Link to post above SONGS ABOUT FREDERICK DOUGLASS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Nov 24 - 07:07 PM

4 August, 1725 Birth of John Newton English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist, at Wapping, London. He is noted for being author of the hymns “Amazing Grace” and “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”.
John Newton from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton

HYMNS BY JOHN NEWTON
Amazing Grace · Judy Collins   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3G-suuZgK4
Many more recordings of Amazing Grace on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amazing+grace+hymn
Amazing Grace from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace
Many recordings of “ Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Glorious+Things+of+Thee+Are+Spoken.+
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Things_of_Thee_Are_Spoken


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Nov 24 - 06:31 AM

5 August 1916 English composer, George Butterworth was killed at Pozières, Somme, France, during World War One.
George Butterworth, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth

SONGS COMPOSED BY GEORGE BUTTERWORTH    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhHUg8xSoZUHxYeq8dAJoTOewOvP-Alw8


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Nov 24 - 04:55 PM

August 1695 British grenadiers mounted an assault on the French-held fortress of Namur during the Nine Years War. This is reputed to be the event which sparked the writing of the song THE BRITISH GRENADIERS
The British Grenadiers from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_Grenadiers

Various recordings of “ The British Grenadiers“ on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+British+Grenadiers+Song+
How Soldiers in the Seven Years War originally sang "The British Grenadiers"    https://www.militaryheritage.com/british-grenadiers.htm

Grenadier from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadier


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Nov 24 - 12:53 PM

THE LAUGHING BOY    by Brendan Behan
't was on an August morning, all in the morning hours
I went to take the warming air all in the month of flowers
And there I saw a maiden and heard her mournful cry:
Oh, what will mend my broken heart? I've lost my laughing boy!


The Laughing Boy - The Brendan Behan Pig and Whistle Band    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5VMdqoRl5c

The Laughing Boy by Brendan Behan performed by McKenna, Carroll, Rowsome     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZRyXGkqJxc
The Laughing Boy/An Buachaill Geal Gáireach, RTE Radio programme about the song    https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22137880/
Lyrics and recording of the poem “The Laughing Boy “ from Poets Corner     https://poetscorner.blog/2019/03/20/the-laughing-boy/


Link to Index of Any November Songs?   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=170494#indexnovember:~:text=below.%2D%20Regards%2C%20GeoffLawes-,INDEX%20OF%20NOVEMBER%20
Link to Index of Any December Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170618#4126401:~:text=From%3A%20Levana%20Taylor%20%2D%20PM%0ADate%3A%2016%20Nov%2021%20%2


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Nov 24 - 06:14 PM

20th August 1867. The Merchant Shipping Act 1867 was passed by the UK Parliament requiring that lime or lemon Juice and other anti-scorbutics must be provided and kept on board ships. This was intended to prevent scurvy amongst ships’ crews. This gave rise to the term “lime-juicers” when referring to British sailors and in the USA this eventually resulted in the term “limey” being used as a slang term for British folk in general.   Limey from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey

THE LIME JUICE SHIP Mainsail Café     https://mainsailcafe.com/songs/limejuice-ship
Many other recordings of ”Lime Juice Ship” on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lime+Juice+Ship

ACCORDING TO THE ACT   - Hughie Jones       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hm3wRrB2E0
According to the Act from The Ballad Index    http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/FaE042.html


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Nov 24 - 05:31 AM

August 21, 1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion, a rebellion of enslaved Virginians in Southampton County, Virginia.

SONGS ABOUT NAT TURNER

“The Ballad of Nat Turner-“ Mbiyu Chui William K. Moore     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHYDCAVVJ8
”The Ballad of Nat Turner“ Scott Gillespie    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaO0WpQ5p_8
”Nat Turner” · Reef The Lost Cauze    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QxfmvFodd8

Link to post above SONGS ABOUT SLAVERY


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