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Subject: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:39 PM
-Joe Offer- The songs-of-the-month threads need one for December that does not include anything specifically about the solstice or midwinter holidays, those having their own. Here's a few to begin... ALPHABETICAL DECEMBER INDEX Below is an alphabetical index of 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 occur. 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. We will sometimes rearrange “late” posts to group them with the appropriate main area of discussion so that they are not overlooked. INDEX OF DECEMBER SONGS ÁIRD A' CHUAIN APPLE TREE WASSAIL ASHTABULA TRAIN WRECK A VINT-I-CINC DE DESEMBRE aka FUM FUM FUM AYE FOND KISS by Robbie Burns BALLAD OF JOHN MACLEAN BALLAD OF KATHLEEN CLARKE (THE) BALLAD OF OF LIFEBOAT 54 (THE) - Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir BALLAD OF MICHAEL COLLINS (THE) aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours BALLAD OF PENLEE (THE) - Anthony Phillips BALLAD OF SOLOMON BROWNE (THE) - Simon King BALLAD OF THE CARPENTER (THE) BALLAD OF THE TAY RAIL BRIDGE BALLAD OF THE TEA PARTY BALLAD OF ST. ANNE'S REEL (THE) BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS BAYOU SARA BLACKBIRD (THE) BLECKELL MURRYNEET (THE) BOAR'S HEAD CAROL (THE) BONNIE CHARLIE aka WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN? BOSTON BURGLAR (THE) BOSTON TEA PARTY SONG BOXING DAY BOYS OF PENLEE (THE) - Jim Wearne BOYS OF PENLEE (THE) - Stephen Richard BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA BULLFIGHT ON THE SAN PEDRO (THE) CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP CHERRY TREE CAROL (THE) CHRISTMAS AT SEA CHRISTMAS CAROL (A) byTom Lehrer CHRISTMAS HARE (THE) CHRISTMAS GOOSE (THE) CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHGATE CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES CHRISTMAS IS COMING, THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT CHRISTMAS MORNING CHRISTMAS SHOES (THE) CHRISTMAS SONG WRITTEN BY A COMPUTER CHRISTMAS TIME IN WASHINGTON written by Roy Acuff CHRISTMAS TIME'S A-COMIN' CHRISTMAS, MY ARSE by Ricky Tomlinson CHRISTMAS TRUCE SONG (THE) CHRISTMAS 1914 CHRISTMAS 1915 COLD DECEMBER FLIES AWAY CORNISH WASSAIL CORN,WATER,WOOD COWARDS OVER PEARL HARBOR COWBOY CAROL (THE) COWBOY CHRISTMAS CUTTY WREN (THE) DARK DECEMBER by Graeme Miles DECEMBER by Foxhunting DERRY'S WALLS DITCHLING CAROL (THE) EARLY PEARLY EARLY SNOW EDWARD VIII [It Was Love, Love Alone] EIGHT DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (THE) EL DESEMBRE CONGELAT (Catalan) ELLEN VANNIN EMPTY GARDEN aka Hey, Hey Johnny ERSKINE CHILDERS FAIRY ON THECHRISTMAS TREE (THE) FIRE AND FLAME FLORA McDONALD’S LAMENT FROZEN DECEMBER GET THAT COMMUNIST, JOE GIFT (THE) GLOUCESTERSHIRE WASSAIL GOOD KING WENSLASLAS LOOKED OUT GOWER WASSAIL(THE) HANUKKAH SONGS HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) aka So This Is Christmas HARVEY LOGAN HERE TODAY HEROD AND THE COCK HOT BUTTERED RUM HOMELESS WASSAIL HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT I AM A ROCK IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER IF YOU MISS ME AT THE BACK OF THE BUS I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON IRELAND BOYS HURRAH IRISH FREE STATE(THE) I SAW THREE SHIPS AKA On Christmas Day in the Morning JACOBITE SONGS JACOBSTOWE WASSAIL JOE McCARTHY'S BAND JOE McCARTHY IS COMIN' TO TOWN JOE McCARTHY'S LULLABY JOHN BROWN'S BODY JOHN FUDSTON JOHN MACLEAN MARCH JOSEPH JUST ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SONG KENTUCKY WASSAIL KINGSTOWN DISASTER (THE) KIT CARSON KITCHEN DANCE KWANZAA SONGS LAST FIERCE CHARGE (THE) LAST HANGING IN WEST VIRGINIA LAST TRAIN FROM POOR VALLEY LAST WAVE (THE) - Bates Motel LE RÉVEILLON DU JOUR DE L'AN [La Cuisinière] LIFEBOAT MONA (THE) LIFEBOAT SONG, SOLOMON BROWN PENLEE LIFEBOAT (THE) - by Russ Holland LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (THE) LOSS OF THE SAILOR’S HOME LULA VIERS MALPAS WASSAIL MARCH THE MORNING SUN MARY L. McKAY MARI LWYD SONG (THE) MASTER McGRATH MISS FOGARTY’SCHRISTMAS CAKE MORE WOOD NIGHTINGALE (THE) O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL OH, CALIFORNIA OLD SUNDAY DINNER (THE) O MAY, THY MORN ONE COLD DECEMBER DAY ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER PADDY LAY BACK PEARL HARBOR BLUES PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER - (Gil Boyd) performed by Piers Mortimer PERFECT FIELDS OF FREDERICKSBURG (THE) PERSONENT HODIE PIG AND THE INEBRIATE (THE) PLEASE DADDY, DON'T GET DRUNK THIS CHRISTMAS PLEASE MR CUSTER PORT ADMIRAL (THE) PRINCE CHARLIE STUART PROHIBITION SONGS REDNECK REINDEER (THE) REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR REMEMBER THE POOR [The Snow Is on the Ground] REVOLUTIONARY TEA RIVER ROLL ON JOHN RUN, RUN RUDOLPH SAINT STEPHEN AND HEROD SANTA CLAUS by Bo Diddley SANTA NEVER BRINGS ME A BANJO SEASON’S UPON US (THE) SKYE BOAT SONG (THE) SKIBBEREEN SOLOMON BROWNE (THE) - Hughie Jones SOLOMON BROWNE - Seth Lakeman SONGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON’S DEATH SONGS ABOUT JOSEPH STALIN SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA SONGS ABOUT THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER SONGS ABOUT SENATOR JOE McCARTHY SONGS ABOUT THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION SONGS ABOUT THE SIEGE OF DERRY SONGS SUNG BY WILL FYFFE STAGGER LEE STARRY, STARRY NIGHT STROUD WASSAIL SUDDENLY IT’S CHRISTMAS SWEET BABY JAMES THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS THOU GLOOMY DECEMBER THREE WISE WOMEN (THE) by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange THREE WISE WOMEN by Stanley Accrington THREE WISE WOMEN nbsp; by Lucinda Lucas THREE WISE WOMEN nbsp; by Kate ? TO DAUNTON ME TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY TRY NOT TO BE A CUNT IT’S CHRISTMAS TRY TO REMEMBER TWELVE DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (THE) VALLEY FORGE WAKE ISLAND WASSAILING SONG (THE)- Blur WASSAIL SONGS WHEN GRANDPA PLAYED THE BANJO WHEN THE SNOWS OF WINTER FALL WHEN THEY FLEW WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY WIFE OF USHER’S WELL (THE) WHIMPLE WASSAIL WISE WOMEN by Marco Frankland WHITE COCKADE (THE) WOUNDED KNEE SONGS WREN DAY SONGS WRIGHT! YORKSHIRE CAROLS YORKSHIRE WASSAIL YULE YOUNG FREEDA BOLT 1913 MASSACRE 23RD FLOTILLA (THE)
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:42 PM ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER One cold morning in December, I've reason to remember, I fell in love with such a charming girl. Her eyes were bright and tender, her form was tall and slender, Her hair it hung around her head in curls. Along the streets together, regardless of the weather, She took me to a house that stood quite near. She closed the door behind me, to me she said so kindly, "It's warmer in the bed, love, than down here." Sung by Walter Pardon (1978) Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcnQL8xI8WI Mainly Norfolk: One Cold Morning in December, Lyrics & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/onecoldmorningindecember.html Other recordings of” One Cold Morning in December “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=One+Cold+Morning+in+December |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:44 PM O MAY, THY MORN (by Robert Burns) O May, thy morn was ne'er so sweet As the mirk night o' December! For sparkling was the rosy wine, And private was the chamber: And dear was she I dare na name, But I will aye remember. Sung by Davy Steele (1998) Video |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:47 PM THOU GLOOMY DECEMBER (by Robert Burns) Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy December! Ance mair I hail thee wi' sorrow and care; Sad was the parting thou makes me remember— Parting wi' Nancy, oh, ne'er to meet mair! sung by Jean Redpath (1985) Video sung by Corrina Hewat (1998) Video |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:49 PM ONE COLD DECEMBER DAY Dick Justice (1929) Video Down by a western water tank One cold December day In the bottom of an empty car A dying hobo lay. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:55 PM December 1, 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins, as Rosa Parks takes a symbolic seat; December 20, 1956: US Supreme Court orders bus integration and the boycott ends. IF YOU MISS ME AT THE BACK OF THE BUS Digital Tradition /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2937 Link to 4 more Rosa Parks songs to be found in the INDEX of Mudcat Thread:Any November Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170494&messages=72#4122978 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 06:57 PM December 2, 1859: John Brown executed JOHN BROWN'S BODY Thread /mudcat.org/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=71356 Many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+brown%27s+body |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:14 PM SONGS ABOUT THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION December 6, 1917: an enormous explosion shatters Halifax, Nova Scotia. Songs about it include:
WIKIPEDIA: The Halifax_Explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion The Halifax Explosion Song Written by Daniel MacIntyre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFT0bWbqew FIRE AND FLAME Fire & Flame - The Longest Johns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_5PHU7vQu4 MUDCAT : Folk songs about the Halifax Explosion /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=149281 David Stone "Sacrifice", Songs-of-the-Halifax-Explosion hear tracks on Bandcamphttps://davidstone2.bandcamp.com/album/sacrifice-songs-of-the-halifax-explosion |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:24 PM December 11, 1936: King Edward VIII abdicates. EDWARD VIII [It Was Love, Love Alone] Mudcat Thread Edward The VIII - The Caresser with Gerald Clark & his Caribbean Serenaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN0ZYIyKDJY |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:27 PM December 17, 1777: The Continental Army takes up winter quarters at Valley Forge. VALLEY FORGE (by Bob Coltman) We came down here with our boots on our feet, We lost them somewhere in the snow and the sleet. Pennsylvania winters are some kind of cold -- What's left of your body won't comfort your soul. Mudcat Thread Sung by Joe Hickerson (1976) Video |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 07:28 PM THE BALLAD OF ST. ANNE'S REEL (by David Mallett) He was stranded in a tiny town on fair Prince Edward Island Waiting for a ship to come and find him A one horse place, a friendly face, some coffee and a tiny trace Of fiddling in the distance far behind him ............. Now the sailor's gone, the room is bare, the old piano's setting there Someone's hat's left hanging on the rack Some empty chairs, the wooden floor that feels the touch of shoes no more Awaiting for the dancers to come back And the fiddle's in the closet of some daughter of the town The strings are broke, the bow is gone and the cover's buttoned down But sometimes on December nights, when the air is cold and the wind is right There's a melody that passes through the town. Digital Tradition |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 09:18 PM December 11-15, 1862: Battle of Fredericksburg. THE LAST FIERCE CHARGE See Mudcat Thread for arguments that this piece was written about Fredericksburg, and for another composition about the battle. The Last Fierce Charge: Various recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+last+fierce+charge |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 09:24 PM December 9, 1911: Disaster at Cross Mountain Mine near Briceville, Tennessee. THE CROSS MOUNTAIN EXPLOSION Digital Tradition Cross Mountain Mine Disaster 1911- Tony Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwKp7FBEGG0 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 09:51 PM The various broadside ballads about naval combats against Turkish vessels ("The Royal Oak," "The Turkish Man-of-War," "Captain Mansfield's Fight," etc. etc.) are often supposed to have been inspired by an action on December 9, 1669, in which an English squadron under Admiral Kempthorne defeated nine Algerian ships. However, this thread points out that the 1669 battle may be the best known but not the only one, and that few or no specific details in the ballads link them to Kempthorne. (And when they give some date, it is not in December.) |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 10:25 PM THE WALKER OF THE SNOW (Poem, Charles Dawson Shanly, 1859; set to music by Sean Tyrrell.) To the cold December heaven came the pale moon and the stars, As the yellow sun was sinking behind the purple bars. The snow was deeply drifted upon the ridges drear That lay for miles between me and the camp for which we steer. Digital Tradition The Walker of the Snow - Sean Tyrrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ka5x60vOwE |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 10:35 PM December 8, 1959: The lifeboat Mona is lost during a rescue attempt in St. Andrews Bay, Fife. THE LIFEBOAT MONA by Peggy Seeger Remember December of fifty-nine The howling wind and driving rain Remember the gallant men who drowned On the lifeboat, Mona was her name. Digital Tradition "The Lifeboat Mona"- Peggy Seeger and others on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=THE+LIFEBOAT+MONA+by+Peggy+Seeger |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 11:07 PM December 5, 1885: The Mississippi steamboat Bayou Sara burns at the dock. BAYOU SARA Digital Tradition Recorded by Sara Grey and Ellie Ellis (sadly not yet to be heard online) and by Ed Siegler Video |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 16 Nov 21 - 11:24 PM December, 1917: Murder of Lula Viers. There is some great material online about this case. LULA VIERS Digital Tradition Recorded by, among others, Loretta Lynn. Video |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Tattie Bogle Date: 17 Nov 21 - 08:46 PM ELLEN VANNIN by Hughie Jones of The Spinners. Another maritime disaster. The Ellan Vannin Tragedy sung by Hughie Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91uH_J6B6JI Link to THE ELLEN VANNIN posted below |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 18 Nov 21 - 04:16 PM The Digital Tradition entry for The Walker of the Snow (see Levana's link on this thread 16 Nov) says "Sung by Davy Spillane on "Shadow Hunter," TARACD 3023, 1990". Davy Spillane plays on his album, but the singing is unmistakably that of Seán Tyrrell (r.i.p. 30 Oct 2021). I saw Seán and Davy at a gig once. Davy played uilleann pipes and whistle and I don't remember him singing anything. Walker of the Snow (via youtube) |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Nov 21 - 07:00 PM THE BOSTON BURGLAR I set my foot on an eastbound train one cold December day, And every station I passed by I could hear the people say: “There goes that Boston Burglar, in iron chains he is bound; For the breaking of the Union Bank he is sent to Charlestown. Mainly Norfolk :lyrics & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/thewhitbylad.html The Boston Burglar- Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4fB7_8tC0 Boston Burglar · Hedy West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSr9K55_-gs The Boston Burgler · James Keelaghan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc3u__gDeN8 Boston Burglar · Delia Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdA50AFLYY |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Nov 21 - 09:30 AM DARK DECEMBER by Graeme Miles Dark December(Graeme Miles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfLdLcvPMtg MUDCAT: Lyr Add: Dark December (Graeme Miles) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=117679 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST,Felipa Date: 20 Nov 21 - 06:27 PM ÁIRD A' CHUAIN Aird a' Chuain, Ardaigh Chuain (various renderings of the place name) is a song about someone abroad (in Scotland) missing home on the north Antrim coast of Ireland. One verse mentions Nollaig, which can mean either the month of December or the Christmas holiday. Is iomai Nollag a bhí mé féin i mBun Abhainn Doine Is mé gan chéill Ag iomainn ar a trá bán 'S mo chaman bán ins mo dhorn liom It is many a Christmas Day I had In Cushendun while still a lad; Hurling on the White Shore Strand With my good ash hurley in my hand. (singable translation by Seán Ó Gallochóír) https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10469#3797807 sung by Éamonn Ó Faogáin (youtube link) |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Nov 21 - 11:11 AM STARRY, STARRY NIGHTaka Vincent December 23, 1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear during a fit of depression. Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk Vincent (Don McLean song) From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_(Don_McLean_song) Various recordings of Starry, Starry Night on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=STARRY%2C+STARRY+NIGHT |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 21 Nov 21 - 02:52 PM SONGS ABOUT THE SIEGE OF DERRY See the August thread for a collection of songs about the Siege of Derry, 1689, part of a resistance against King James. Although the siege is annually commemorated on August 14, one of the most celebrated events (referenced in most songs) took place on December 7, 1688, when a group of apprentices shut the town gates against Jacobite forces. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Nov 21 - 05:17 PM DERRY'S WALLS 7 December 1688 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. From Wikipedia: Siege of Derry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Derry Wikipedia: Robert_Lundy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lundy Derry's Walls (Apprentice Boys Loyalist Song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXoRNA5mUY “Derry's Walls” From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry%27s_Walls "The Siege of Derry" by Alice Osborn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a07JICnCe50 Thanks for this one Felipa |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 21 Nov 21 - 06:28 PM HARVEY LOGAN Out of all the incidents in Harvey Logan's violent, roving, and criminal life, this ballad focuses on a barroom fight and shootout with the police that took place in Knoxville, Tenn. in December, 1901; the jailbreak which, in this account, sounds like it was immediately afterward, was actually in June, 1903. Article by Lyle Lofgren Digital Tradition Recording by Walt Gibson of Hazard, Ky. (collected by A. Lomax in 1937) Dock Boggs, 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QELhq0vXAO8 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Nov 21 - 07:18 PM Harvey Logan From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Logan |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Nov 21 - 10:02 AM SONGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON’S DEATH 8 Dec,1980 Ex-Beatle John Lennon was murdered in New York EMPTY GARDEN aka Hey Hey Johnny Elton John - Empty Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyy7Huc6KA HERE TODAY Paul McCartney/John Lennon - Here Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjwnWU6OsaI ROLL ON JOHN Bob Dylan - Roll On, John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9MCXJuG3KA&t=5s I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON The Cranberries - I Just Shot John Lennon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsN86H0yzrE |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Nov 21 - 08:53 AM PADDY LAY BACK "Paddy Lay Back" ('Twas a cold and dreary morning in December...) MUDCAT DT:Paddy Lay Back /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4580 Many recordings of "Paddy Lay Back" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Paddy+Lay+Back%22 Thanks for this song Levana |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Nov 21 - 10:45 AM Another beautiful song from Graeme Miles which mentions December: copied from another thread: WHEN THE SNOWS OF WINTER FALL (Graeme Miles) My yard is high with wood now, my cellar deep with coal, My windows are well battened; I’ve sealed each crack and hole, When the storms and winds come raging, I’ll not be touched at all, For I’ll be well protected, when the snows of winter fall. My sheep still wander freely, upon the lonely fell, In the field my horse is grazing, and my cattle feed as well, But come the bleak December, with its rain and sleet and squall, They’ll be safely penned and stabled, when the snows of winter fall. I look out from my doorway, to the trees on yonder rise, Soon the leaves will turn to yellow as the summer fades and dies, I’ll put on my coat of leather, and my love will don her shawl, How close we’ll draw together, when the snows of winter fall. Through the bitter cold and darkness, our hopes we will keep high, For we know the warmth of summer will come back by and by, Then we’ll walk into the sunshine wearing neither coat nor shawl, And together we will listen just to hear the cuckoo call. I am not a man of riches; I have little that is new, Some livestock and some chattels, amount to very few, But my love is here beside me; I need nothing more at all, She will give her love and comfort, when the snows of winter fall. My yard is high with wood now, my cellar deep with coal, My windows are well battened; I’ve sealed each crack and hole, When the storms and winds come raging, I’ll not be touched at all, For I’ll be well protected, when the snows of winter fall. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:26 AM TRY TO REMEMBER (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt) Deep in December, it's nice to remember Although you know the snow will follow Deep... Without a hurt the heart is hollow Deep... The fire of September that made us mellow Deep in December our hearts should remember, and follow Lots of recordings onlinehttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TRY+TO+REMEMBER+ Here's one by The Brothers Four: https://youtu.be/LUZpjW7QHGo |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:41 AM CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN’S COURTSHIP Child Ballad #46, Roud 36. I maun hae some winter fruit that in December grew And I maun hae a silken goon that waft gaed never through A sparrow's horn, a priest unborn this nicht tae join us twa Afore I'll lie untae your bed at either stock or wa'" Recording by Ewan MacColl: https://youtu.be/lqbbSoZVFM0 Mainly Norfolk: Lyrics and Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/captainwedderburnscourtship.html Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - Capt Wedderburn's Courtship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUHIVcFbyFU Captain Wedderburn's Courtship · Rossettistone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmCDpfEyu8g Captain Wedderburn's Courtship · Jean Redpath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5segw40_Q |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:46 AM WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY (Tom Lehrer) Your teeth will start to go, dear, your waist will start to spread. In twenty years or so, dear, I'll wish that you were dead. I'll never love you then at all the way I do today. So please remember, When I leave in December, I told you so in May. Recording by Tom Lehrer: https://youtu.be/8NOZH0y7VxE |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:52 AM PIG AND THE INEBRIATE It was early last December, as near as I remember I was walking down the street in tipsy pride No one was I disturbing, as I lay down by the curbing And a pig came up and lay down by my side As I lay there in the gutter, thinking thoughts I cannot utter A lady passing by was heard to say "You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses" And the pig got up and slowly walked away Recorded by Ed McCurdy: https://youtu.be/wc9pvw1z60M |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:04 AM THE NIGHTINGALE (Wreck) On the fifteenth day of December last, The wind did blow a most fearful blast. We lost our spars, likewise every sail. What a dismal wreck was the Nightingale! Couldn't find a recording, but here's some sheet music: http://www.loopendtuygh.nl/mediapool/56/567105/data/040_the_NIGHTINGALE.pdf The Nightingale · Cyril Tawney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLZFq2K70o Mainly Norfolk, The Nightingale, Lyrics & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/cyril.tawney/songs/thenightingale.html
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:09 AM MORE WOOD (Dillon Bustin) When the spring rolls around and I spade the muddy ground I have often found I lay my saw away, The shed is empty and yet you can make a bet That I'll forget to be cutting more wood. The old timers say to split a little every day And stack it away to season well, but From March to November I rarely do remember December will find me in a rut... Recording by Herdman, Hills and Mangsen: https://youtu.be/2-Pdg7GmLH0 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:13 AM HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT In March it is mud, it is slush in December The midsummer breezes are loaded with dust In fall the leaves litter, in muddy September The wall paper rots and the candlesticks rust Recording by Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen: https://youtu.be/bslMx_mhiBc More performances on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=housewife%27s+lament+youtube MUDCAT: Origins: Poor Old Woman/Housewife's Lament /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=129897 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Nov 21 - 12:25 PM Matt McGinn's BALLAD OF JOHN MACLEAN celebrates the Communist organizer's return to Glasgow on December 3, 1918 after having been jailed. Many recordings of "Ballad of John MacLean" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%22Ballad+of+John+MacLean%22+ MUDCAT: Digitrad /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=446>BR> There is also Hamish Henderson's JOHN MACLEAN MARCH Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics & Info for" John MacLean March " https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thejohnmacleanmarch.html Many recordings of " John MacLean March "on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Maclean%27s+March The John MacLean March Lyrics & Info from unionsong.com http://unionsong.com/u124.html Thanks to Levana Taylor for suggesting the above two songs. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GerryM Date: 01 Dec 21 - 12:52 AM SWEET BABY JAMES , by James Taylor Now the first of December was covered with snow So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston The Berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frosting With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go Recording by James Taylor: https://youtu.be/k2x0fPgAj_Y |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Dec 21 - 06:12 AM 16 Dec. 1773 American colonists boarded three ships in Boston harbour and emptied 342 chests of tea into the sea. Wikipedia:Boston Tea Partyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party REVOLUTIONARY TEA "Revolutionary Tea" Lyrics, Info & Music: The Minnesota Heritage Songbook https://mnheritagesongbook.net/the-songs/addition-song-without-recordings/revolutionary-tea/ BALLAD OF THE TEA PARTY The Ballad of the Tea Party, song lyrics http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Historic_Songs/Ballad-the-Tea-Party.phtml Ballad of the Tea Party · Hermes Nye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gi6Zh3VA1Y Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics: Ballad of the Tea Party http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Ballad_of_the_Tea_Party.htm BOSTON TEA PARTY SONG
The Boston Tea Party Song-Pharrell Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5Nh7mggx0 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Dec 21 - 06:54 AM December 7, 1941 - The U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese aircraft in a raid that lasted just over one hour and left nearly 3,000 Americans dead. REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR Carson Robison "Remember Pearl Harbor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyOyoHNkeC4 Remember Pearl Harbor (song) From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Pearl_Harbor_(song) PEARL HARBOR BLUES -Doctor (Peter) Clayton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg_0AT5LLqE COWARDS OVER PEARL HARBOR - Wilma Lee Cooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnyiE5u03M |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Dec 21 - 07:15 AM And another song about related events which was suggested by Levana Taylor is WAKE ISLAND Wake Island · Oscar Brand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvkdKinM4-0 MUDCAT :Origins, Oscar Brand's 'Wake Island' /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=98039#1936283 It's about a battle that took place December 8-23, 1941. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: open mike Date: 03 Dec 21 - 12:23 AM HERE ARE MY FAVORITES FOR CHRISTMAS TIME CHRISTMAS TIME'S A-COMIN' BEN."TEX" LOGAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRL5hTWidk4 HOT BUTTERED RUM TOMMY THOMPSON Many recordings of "Hot Buttered Rum "on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hot+Buttered+Rum+song Lyr Req: Hot Buttered Rum (Tommy Thompson) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1209&messages=49 CORN,WATER,WOOD ELLIOT, WALDMAN Corn, Water and Wood · Michael Martin Murphey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYUVtxf-XM COWBOY CHRISTMAS CONNIE KALDOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi5JO3kzeU EARLY SNOW TOM PAXTON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qCe9vfQzw Lyrics & Chords :Early Snow http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/tom-paxton/early-snow-crd-tom-paxton.htm IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER MERLE HAGGARD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TByT3QlWc THE GIFT STEPHANIE DAVIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEH2QJLSNMU CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES JOHN MCCUTCHEON Christmas in the Trenches - written and performed by John McCutcheon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJi41RWaTCs Wikipedia: "Christmas in the Trenches" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Trenches WE'RE GONNA SING CONNIE KALDOR MUDCAT: Lyr Add: We're Gonna Sing (Connie Kaldor and Bim) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53561#reply |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 03 Dec 21 - 05:28 AM THE PERFECT FIELDS OF FREDERICKSBURG by Larry Kaplan The mower cuts the lower field, The grass grows slow this year. Still, every week, all summer long I see that mower here. Around the fields of Fredericksburg, In this fair morning light, A place we call a monument Straight lines up Marye's Heights. A mile further down this hill, The river Burnside crossed, Who razed this town clear to the ground, Then every soldier lost. The engine drones, the mower slows Where young boys stood in fear. It stops for time to clean the blades Then slowly disappears. The broken walls, the soldiers' calls, The frightened guns are gone. Still, shops that sell the souvenirs Say, "Choose which side you're on." And children search for evidence To prove a war was here. And perfect fields of Fredericksburg Hide blood and bones, and tears. YouTube |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 03 Dec 21 - 05:31 AM In this video, Dermot Byrne has a story from the memoirs of Irish soldiers at the battle of Fredericksburg, concerning Irish troops on both sides singing "Ireland Boys Hurrah" together. The incident is also mentioned in the Mudcat thread about the song. IRELAND BOYS HURRAH YouTube search |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 03 Dec 21 - 01:13 PM KITCHEN DANCE by Larry Kaplan Was a lonely old night; longest night of the year. Biggest moon in the sky; biggest moon in ten years. There's a chill in the air; hear the wind in the trees. Says it's just another winter night. He doesn't mind. He says, "It suits me." Come a bump on the door, then a snap of the wind. But there hasn't been a single soul come calling here since I don't know when. Put the coffee pot down; better turn into bed. There ain't nothing like a little sleep To get these devils out of your head. CHORUS (after each verse): It's a lonely night; he could use a few songs. Needs a banjo and a fiddle, and a little tune that isn't too long. Dancing in the kitchen; talking 'bout the fishing last June. Flirting with the ladies. Would you take a look at that moon! In a minute or two he was deep in a sleep; But there were tunes in his ear and the music was sweet. Then he heard a voice call, "Roll the carpet back now. Put the chairs in the corner. If you want to dance, We're starting right now." There was singing all night; how that fiddle bow flew! Kids on the stairs, folks alone and in pairs; not a soul there he knew. Won't you come out tonight? Take a turn on the floor. So they spun him 'round a little, Then he spun himself around a bit more. Then the music grew dim; then they all disappeared. He sat up with a start. Where's the music he hears? Throws open the door; just a little new snow. Fire in the fireplace; it must have started minutes ago. Sun up in the trees. There ain't nobody there. But there's rosin on the table, and he can't remember moving them chairs. What a curious dream; what a wonderful night! Well, the winter gets long, but he's got a new song, And the moon is still bright. YouTube |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 Dec 21 - 06:43 AM MARY L. McKAY The record run of the "Mary L. McKay" (pseudonym of the schooner Effie M. Morrissey) happened in December, 1912. Various recordings of "Mary L. McKay" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Mary+L.+McKay MUDCAT: Lyr Add: The Mary L. Mackay / Mary L. McKay /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=91328T MUDCAT:lyrics in DT /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6686 Thanks go to Levana Taylor for this song |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: gillymor Date: 04 Dec 21 - 09:15 AM LAST TRAIN FROM POOR VALLEY Norman Blake It was good one time Everything was mighty fine The coal tipple rolled day and night And things they got slow For reasons I don't know And the chill winds they pulled into sight The mine's all closed down Everybody layin' around There wasn't very much left to do But to stand in that line Get your rations strict on time And woman I could see it killin' you CHORUS: Now the soft new snow of December Lightly falls my cabin round Saw the last train from Poor Valley Bringing brown-haired Becky Richmond bound Been comin' all night long Soon we'll be gone Leavin' crossed your mind everyday And then you said to me "Things are bad back home you see" I guess I'd better be on my way I should hate you now But I never could somehow A miner's wife you were not cut out to be It wasn't what you thought Just some dreams you bought When you left home and ran away with me Saw the last train from Poor Valley Bringing brown-haired Becky Richmond bound |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Dec 21 - 09:51 AM SONGS ABOUT SENATOR JOE McCARTHY December 2, 1954 - The U.S. Senate condemned Senator Joseph McCarthy for misconduct following his ruthless investigations of thousands of alleged Communists. Joseph McCarthy From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy GET THAT COMMUNIST, JOE -The Kavaliers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKW-oz1Lbw&t=27s THE SENATOR McCARTHY BLUES by Hal Block https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCp_oWHLki0 JOE McCARTHY'S BAND Joe Glazer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiW50wxZn-I "Joe McCarthy’s Band" is found on page 5 of The Big Little Person’s Book of Songs for Democratic Action(link is external). McCarthy is Comin’ to Town” JOE McCARTHY'S LULLABY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr-tlqWkrU |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Dec 21 - 10:11 AM JOE McCARTHY IS COMIN' TO TOWN Folk Singer Joe Glazer wrote this parody about Senator McCarthy titled “Joe McCarthy is Comin’ to Town” (1951) sung to the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.
You’d better beware, you’d better be good,
He’ll call you a pink, he’ll call you a red,
He knows when you’re subversive, he knows each move you make;
So you’d better play safe, don’t talk and don’t read,
If you’ve got a book whose cover is red,
If you go to church to pray or to wed,
Now if you are a teacher and you want to get ahead,
So, you’d better play safe, don’t talk and don’t read,
Be careful who your friends are, be careful what you say.
So, get rid of your brains and you’ll never go wrong, |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 05 Dec 21 - 10:23 AM DECEMBER by Foxhunting (Joseph Sutherland) Hear on Bandcamp |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 05 Dec 21 - 12:57 PM THE BLECKELL MURRYNEET Or, "Blackwell Merry Night" in more standard dialect -- a "merry night" in the borders, especially Cumbria, being a big party at a public house. This one, in a song written by Robert Anderson (1770-1833), took place on "the last of December" 1802 or 1803. "Blackwell Merry Night" on Mainly Norfolk Mudcat thread and DT Instrumental version ("loosely based") by a harp and guitar duo is the only online recording I found: YouTube |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Dec 21 - 05:19 PM JOHN FUDSTON concerns the execution of said murderer, which took place on December 29, 1825. MUDCAT, DT lyrics: John Fudston /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3241 On the twentieth of December, in the morning quite soon, He called to the sheriff to confess what he'd done; He confessed to his God for the crime he had done, He said he was a murderer, his race it was run. Thanks go to Levana Taylor for suggesting this song |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Dec 21 - 08:17 AM MASTER McGRATH The greyhound's triumph is stated in the song to have taken place in December, 1869. Various recordings of "Master McGrath" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Master+McGrath MUDCAT DT Lyrics: "Master McGrath" /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905,3905&SongI Thanks to Levana Taylor for this song. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 06 Dec 21 - 03:57 PM 6 Dec 1921, the Anglo-Irish treaty was signed. One war ended and another - the Irish Civil War - was soon to start. What songs would you recommend to mark the occasion? One that springs to mind for me is a relatively recent composition by Brian Moore (1946-2011) THE BALLAD OF MICHAEL COLLINS aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours Returning then to London town, who will take the blame? The Treaty lies before him, Michael Collins adds his name. There's a darker time upon the land, who will bear the load? An awkward hero in an armoured car on an Irish country road. Hang out your brightest colours and his memory now recall For each one wants a part of him, no one wants it all Brian singing under the name Cormac O'Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhMx_UI1fs LINK to post below from Felipa about more songs marking the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 08 Dec 21 - 01:02 AM December 28, 1879: The bridge over the Tay at Dundee collapsed taking a passenger train down with it. The event inspired a famous poem by Theodor Fontane and an infamous one by William McGonagall (see Mudcat thread), neither having been set to music as far as I know. BALLAD OF THE TAY RAIL BRIDGE by B Yellow The station was so dark, so quiet and still, There was nothing in the air, the air was bracing, Christmas day had passed, he was coming home, your loved one. And over the valleys people crying out loud, A storm was on its way, The memories of Christmas day flashed before your eyes, When the truth came out. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty36a9Z4gHE |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Dec 21 - 06:40 PM WOUNDED KNEE SONGS December 29, 1890 - Members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacred more than 200 Native American (Sioux) men, women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Wounded Knee-Vic Abram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ErFsomokn8 We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee-Redbone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-exUl-TnQ0 "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"-Buffy Sainte-Marie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJnwUbJoheo Big Foot-Johnny Cash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEwWXNN6bIs Wounded Knee · Nik Kershaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSoY1hj2ek "Gwaed Ar Yr Eira Gwyn"-Tecwyn Ifan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmUMjX1DWRg "Were You There?"-Grant Lee Buffalo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7plNcVqmX4 Wounded Knee · Walela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XowG1z6Ag0 Wounded Knee Massacre From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Dec 21 - 10:28 AM THE NIGHTINGALE [ Roud 1093 ; Laws M37 ; G/D 1:18 ; Henry H75a ; Ballad Index LM37 ; VWML HAM/3/13/5 ; Bodleian Roud 1093 ; trad.] On the fourteenth day of December last, The storm did blow a most fearful blast. We lost our spars, likewise every sail. What a dismal wreck was the Nightingale!” Mainly Norfolk: "The Nightingale" Lyrics & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/cyril.tawney/songs/thenightingale.html The Nightingale · Cyril Tawney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2deKpaMtI Link to NIGHTINGALE (THE) posted above |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Dec 21 - 05:37 PM PROHIBITION SONGS 5 December, 1933 - The 18th Amendment (Prohibition Amendment) to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. For nearly 14 years, since January 29, 1920, it had outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. Wikipedia: Repeal of Prohibition in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_Prohibition_in_the_United_States Just A Little Drink - Tennessee Happy Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXvUwA3UUis Prohibition is a Failure · The New Lost City Ramblers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYm5I6izh4Q The Goodbye Old Booze- New Lost City Ramblers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdTNkoe7mes
American Moonshine and Prohibition Songs, many tracks on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=American+Moonshine+and+Prohibition+Songs+all+tracks+Youtube |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 09 Dec 21 - 07:23 PM December 24, 1913: At a Christmas party organized by striking miners in Calumet, Michigan, someone shouted "Fire," and during the ensuing rush for the exit, 79 people, including 54 children, were crushed to death. It is very widely believed that the culprit was an opponent of the union. (Wikipedia) 1913 MASSACRE by Woody Guthrie Mudcat: here and related threads Traditional Ballad Index Wikipedia article about the song Well-known recordings of the song include those by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Alex Campbell. Live recording by Christy Moore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvnazELFb5k |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Dec 21 - 05:16 AM MUDCAT:Christmas Parodies I /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=28249#top |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 11 Dec 21 - 08:59 PM As I noted in my 6 Dec message, that date marked the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty. Another song for the occasion is THE IRISH FREE STATE by Patrick Galvin. It is the opening song in this video of a Treaty Songs programme at the (Irish) National Concert Hall, Dublin in Dec 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwGXdOtgeWY There's also a new song by Duke Special about ERSKINE CHILDERS . I haven't watched the full programme yet, but hope there will be some other noteworthy songs. I'm just about to listen to Karan Casey sing two songs she has written about Kathleen Clarke. LINK to post above on 06 Dec 21 from Felipa about songs marking the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 Dec 21 - 10:44 AM Felipa,here is another song about her: THE BALLAD OF KATHLEEN CLARKE By Paul Gillis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwjvTYqpK8 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 12 Dec 21 - 10:49 AM /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170729 THE KINGSTOWN DISASTER by Johnny McEvoy recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4S96bsaiQ8 It was Christmas Eve in eighteen ninety-five The biggest storm in years was blowing wild Never had we seen it’s like before As we drifted helpless towards the Kingstown shore
The wind was blowing like a wild banshee
Each man on board believed it was the end
How nobody died I’ll never know
Hold tight me boys we’ll throw to you a line
Then through the night there came a mighty roar
Splintered timbers scattered all around
Alex Williams was the cockswain’s name
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 Dec 21 - 06:58 AM THE BULLFIGHT ON THE SAN PEDRO is about the so-called Battle of the Bulls, an incident of Mormon history traditionally dated to December 12, 1846. MUDCAT: Lyr Add: The Bullfight on the San Pedro et al. /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2964#13720 Thanks for this one Levana Taylor |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 14 Dec 21 - 06:40 AM JACOBITE SONGS 22 Dec.1715 James Edward Stuart, son of James II, the deposed Catholic King of England, lands in north-east Scotland to lead a Jacobite rebellion. Many Jacobite songs on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jacobite+Songs More Jacobite songs https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&tbm=vid&q=jacobite+rebel+songs&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGj_Gd_OX0AhUBoVwKHTVEB Wikipedia : Jacobite songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jacobite_songs Extract from a Jacobite song in The National Archives Kew, Richmond https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1715/jacobite-song/
Link to THE WHITE COCKADE posted by Levana Taylor below |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 Dec 21 - 09:06 AM O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL has been identified by Professor Bennett Zon, the Head of the Department of Music at Durham University as a Jacobite song Article:‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ - Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Christmas Carol https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=7328 More on Wikipedia ( scroll down to Jacobite connection) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 Dec 21 - 09:15 AM SONGS ABOUT JOSEPH STALIN December 21 Josef Stalin leader of Soviet Russia leader was born as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin Wasn't Stallin' , many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stalin+wasn%27t+stallin Stalin Wasn't Stallin' ,From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Wasn%27t_Stallin%27 The Ballad Of Stalin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fxSMQFAkBE MUDCAT: Lyr Add:The Ballad of Stalin (songs about Stalin) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=39480 Just Like Me (Joseph Stalin Song) · Jeffrey Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8igbElE_y0 Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys - Advice To Joe 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosOQkKnNkc |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Dec 21 - 05:47 AM CHRISTMAS SONG WRITTEN BY A COMPUTER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89qjdBb9k8 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Dec 21 - 09:02 AM PLEASE DADDY, DON'T GET DRUNK THIS CHRISTMAS Many recordings of “Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PLEASE+DADDY+DON%27T+GET+DRUNK+THIS+CHRISTMAS+ |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 19 Dec 21 - 08:17 PM I AM A ROCK by Paul Simon Recorded by Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A A winter's day In a deep and dark December I am alone Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Dec 21 - 10:07 AM WHEN THEY FLEW 17th December, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, controlled airplane flights. They made four flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. When They Flew - Jonathan Sprout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UeXUYsUi4E
Another song about The Wright Brothers WRIGHT! |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Dec 21 - 06:33 AM WASSAIL SONGS Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvylJZczJrc&list=OLAK5uy_nXL9QITouGVeYSS2_gEqV4QP1zja_bsfA Wassail songs and Tunes http://www.cbladey.com/wassong.html MALPAS WASSAIL-Watersons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2BsU-dVdI Mainly Norfolk: Malpas Wassail Lyrics & Info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2BsU-dVdI APPLE TREE WASSAIL- Watersons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYsi7Y-ICYs&list=OLAK5uy_l0Vp2LdaqgA74qeeA3-7do0Bh0chzYguw&index=10 APPLE TREE WASSAIL-Peter Griggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W0wUo2rng4 THE GOWER WASSAIL -The Revels Chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH8DGS3K3jM GOWER WASSAIL -Steeleye Span https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwwEmQmSWs YORKSHIRE WASSAIL - Elektra Women's Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXM9G9uyt4 CORNISH WASSAIL - Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg4Ql4YEdbg JACOBSTOWE WASSAIL - Lynn Rowan · Will Rowan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5s4DK82OwU THE WASSAILING SONG- Blur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_fnMdIw3o&list=PLvh35o-hIL3zuLP0jOXsr1idvrm6lqRnR GLOUCESTERSHIRE WASSAIL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfncJavzoB8 STROUD WASSAIL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYigw7vzEk WHIMPLE WASSAIL- Jim Causley and assorted musicians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHMPs5lZwfE WASSAIL SONG - Dick Miles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJlnITRcTc&t=2s Many More Wassail Songs on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Wassail++songs |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Dec 21 - 05:02 PM KENTUCKY WASSAIL- · Cathy Barton · Dave Para · Caroline Paton · Sandy Paton · Skip Gorman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5A9yBXeYo |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 21 Dec 21 - 07:30 PM HOMELESS WASSAIL by Ian Robb "Wassail, wassail,all over the town, Our cup is white and our ale is brown" But huddled on the iron grate we poor and hungry curse our fate. This song was originated by Finest Kind and has been covered by many others. See thread. It's very much in the tradition of older works: THE DITCHLING CAROL And all remember, gentles gay: For you who bask in fortune's ray The year is all a holiday. The poor have only Christmas. See Mudcat, Mainly Norfolk, and YouTube search. REMEMBER THE POOR [The Snow Is on the Ground] Cold winter is come with its keen cutting breath, And the birds is all dropped from the trees. All nature seems touched at the finger of death, And the streams are beginning to freeze. When the hills and the dales are all covered in white And Flora attends us no more, When you sit by your fireside, reviving and hot, Will you grumble to think on the poor? Recorded by Jeff Warner, Waterson:Carthy, and others. See Mudcat and Mainly Norfolk. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 22 Dec 21 - 04:44 PM YORKSHIRE CAROLS recordings of the singing of carols in Yorkshire pubs and other public places https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=YORKSHIRE+CAROLS Dungworth and the Sheffield carols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNonVdwRT9A Hidden Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines (Ian Russell ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeH270_alTM |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Dec 21 - 04:53 PM BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella · The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square · Orchestra at Temple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voqg04JdZss Many other recordings of ' Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella' on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ring+a+Torch%2C+Jeannette%2C+Isabella |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Dec 21 - 04:59 PM KIT CARSON December 24 American frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809-1868) was born in Madison County, Kentucky. He was a soldier, trapper, guide and Indian agent in the Old West. Fess Parker - The Ballad of Kit Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t00-MsQVKA Kit Carson by Bruce Cockburn http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/kc.html Bruce Cockburn - Kit Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3mX1UoJQo |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 21 - 09:05 AM THE CHRISTMAS SHOES The Christmas Shoes - Many recordings on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Christmas+Shoes! BR> |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 21 - 09:25 AM HANUKKAH SONGS MUDCAT:Happy C/Hanukkah! (plus a song) /thread.cfm?threadid=28872&messages=14 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 21 - 05:42 PM CHRISTMAS AT SEA https://www.google.com/search?q=CHRISTMAS+AT+SEA+YouTube&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&oq=CHRISTMAS+AT+SEA+YouTube&aqs=chrome..69i |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 21 - 05:57 PM THE MARI LWYD SONG The Mari Lwyd was a tradition enacted at Christmas time in Wales Mari Lwyd on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd Lyrics, Recording & Info https://museum.wales/collections/folksongs/?id=2 Mari Lwyd performed by Carreg Lafar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nlqIhJnQrc Mari Lwyd performed in Wales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptel9C3Zhg Mari Lwyd - The Welsh Sources and Meaning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5pk-Hc758 Many More YouTube Videos about Mari Lwyd https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mari+lwyd+song |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 21 - 07:30 PM THE CHERRY TREE CAROL Wikipedia: The Cherry-Tree Carol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry-Tree_Carol The Cherry Tree Carol -Joan Baez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYaFGSG_x80 Many other recordings of The Cherry Tree Carol on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cherry+tree+carol The Qur’an and the Cherry-Tree Carol – David Halperin https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-quran-and-the-cherry-tree-carol-a-christmas-story/ Islam and Source Criticism: Part 1 http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2015/04/islam-and-source-criticism-part-1.html Wikipedia :Mary in Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: leeneia Date: 25 Dec 21 - 11:20 AM There's a Christmas song called COLD DECEMBER FLIES AWAY Here's a YouTube video with the melody: |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Dec 21 - 11:47 AM JUST ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SONG "Just Another Christmas Song"- Bill and the Belles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbmJTIHy3o And for a song of a different colour there's TRY NOT TO BE A CUNT, IT’S CHRISTMAS Try Not To Be A Cunt, It’s Christmas - Fascinating Aïda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2XdkBkTTk |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Dec 21 - 11:57 AM YULE Yule · Lisa Thiel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400WG-v3VO0 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Dec 21 - 10:27 AM HEROD AND THE COCK Mainly Norfolk Lyrics& Info:Herod and the Cock (Roud 306, Child 55) https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/herodandthecock.html Herod and the Cock · Watersons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwbY5aWSVQ Many other recordings of Herod and the Cock on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Herod+and+the+Cock Thanks for suggesting this one Reinhard |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Reinhard Date: 26 Dec 21 - 11:55 AM Is the premise from the beginning of the thread still valid? : "The songs-of-the-month threads need one for December that does not include anything specifically about the solstice or midwinter holidays, those having their own." |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 26 Dec 21 - 03:54 PM @Reinhard: excellent question. It was me who proposed having a separate non-holiday thread, but Geoff's the one running the "months" project, so if he thinks separating them out isn't a good idea, he's no doubt right. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Dec 21 - 05:24 AM PLEASE MR CUSTER George Armstrong Custer was born on December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio. Please Mr Custer Custer, many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Please%3B+Mr+Custer |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 28 Dec 21 - 07:35 AM I think having one thread for Christmas and St Stephen's day songs (and maybe other holidays such as Chanukah and Kwanza) and one for other December songs (secular Dec songs?) was a good idea. If Geoff doesn't mind the work, he could sub-divide the index by song type. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Dec 21 - 06:45 AM MARCH THE MORNING SUN Then men and dames give up your beds oh, maids and boys, you're yawning to hear the bells ring frosty round to tell it's Christmas morning Mainly Norfolk:Lyrics and Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/marchthemorningsun.html March the Morning Sun - The Young Tradition With Shirley and Dolly Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qFXIvxb-Q Thanks for suggesting this one Reinhard |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Dec 21 - 06:12 AM THE CUTTY WREN 26 December is sometimes called St Stephen's Day or Wren Day. The song is thought by some to represent the human sacrifice of the Year King, or the symbolic substitute slaughter of the wren as "king of the birds" at the end of the year for similar purposes, and such songs are traditionally sung on Boxing Day (26 December), just after the winter solstice. Saint Stephen's DayFrom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day Various recordings of The Cutty Wren on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Cutty+Wren MUDCAT: Origins: Any St Stevens Day songs?/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170749&messages=2#top |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 31 Dec 21 - 06:26 AM CHRISTMAS TIME IN WASHINGTON written by Roy Acuff Many & various recordings of “Christmas Time in Washington”on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CChristmas+Time+in+Washington%E2%80%9D%2C+written+and+sung+by+Steve+Earle |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:43 PM THE PORT ADMIRAL 'Twas at the landing-place That's just below Mount Wyse, Poll leaned against the sentry's box, A tear in both her eyes, Her apron twisted round her arms, All for to keep them warm, It being a windy Christmas Day, And also a snowstorm. Lyrics: Frederick Marryat (1837); Music: George Ward (1998) Mudcat YouTube |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 31 Dec 21 - 05:55 PM SAINT STEPHEN AND HEROD Wikipedia: Saint Stephen and Herod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen_and_Herod Bluegrass Messengers: Recordings & Info 22. St. Stephen and Herod http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/recordings--info-22-st-stephen-and-herod.aspx Thanks to Reinhard for suggesting this one |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jan 22 - 08:58 AM CHRISTMAS 1914 Christmas 1914 by Mike Harding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqaCSnyRMO8 Link to "Christmas in the Trenches "above |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jan 22 - 09:11 AM THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE SONG The Christmas Truce Song (A Game of Football)- Louis Skiffington & Andy Mort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGgXYGsqmw |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jan 22 - 09:16 AM CHRISTMAS 1915 'Christmas 1915'- Celtic Thunder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG3l-OBdcPI |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jan 22 - 01:50 PM CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHGATE Christmas in Southgate · Ry Cooder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yCMTm2zT8s |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jan 22 - 04:47 PM THE LIFEBOAT MONA Remember December fifty-nine, The howling wind and the driving rain, Remember the gallant men who drowned, On the lifeboat, Mona was her name Luke Kelly -The Lifeboat Mona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNHzSf-QZI Various recordings of The Lifeboat Mona on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Lifeboat+Mona+++ |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Jan 22 - 11:27 AM THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL Wikipedia: Boar's Head Carol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol The Boar's Head Carol - Many recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Boar%27s+Head+Carol |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Jan 22 - 06:54 PM HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) aka So This Is Christmas Recordings by various performers on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HAPPY+XMAS+(WAR+IS+OVER)+ |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jan 22 - 10:26 AM ASHTABULA TRAIN WRECK The Ashtabula Train Disaster was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876. The Hiram Rapids Stumblers -- Ashtabula Train Wreck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De5Gz662e2E Wikipedia: Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_River_railroad_disaster MUDCAT: Ashtabula Train Disaster 1876 songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=148645&messages=7 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 06 Jan 22 - 01:41 AM LE RÉVEILLON DU JOUR DE L'AN [La Cuisinière] (The New Year's Eve Dinner, or The Cook) "A réveillon is a long dinner held in the evening preceding Christmas Day and [on] New Year's Eve." (Wikipedia) Recordings: Originated by the Famille Larin, recorded circa 1960 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nWWD0moxs La Bottine Souriante has many live recordings of this song; here are ones from 1987 and 1996 Live by The Lost Fingers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-UvJzqoZE |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Jan 22 - 10:29 AM I SAW THREE SHIPS aka On Christmas Day in the Morning Wikipedia: I Saw Three Ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw Three_Ships Many recordings of " I_Saw_Three_Ships" on YouTube nbsp; https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I+Saw+Three+Ships Many recordings of "On Christmas Day in the Morning" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christmas+day+in+the+morning+song |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Jan 22 - 08:31 AM JOSEPH - Jake Thackray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTG-1d6rGQ |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 08 Jan 22 - 04:21 PM AYE FOND KISS by Robbie Burns https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=32222#422373 http://www.robertburns.org/works/358.shtml "When Burns's affair with Mrs Agnes M'Lehose ('Clarinda') came to an end, and he settled down to married life with Jean Armour, he still retained a strong affection for 'Clarinda'. They met in Edinburgh for the last time on 6th December 1791. She was then about to set sail for Jamaica in the hope of achieving reconciliation with her husband (a hope that was not to be realized). On 27th December, Burns sent her 'Ae Fond Kiss' from Dumfries, a song so genuine in its resigned passion that it makes the drawing-room songs of 'sensibility' he had previously written for her seem artificial and insignificant. Sir Walter Scott thought that 'Ae Fond Kiss' contained the 'essence of a thousand love tales'." as sung by Dougie MacLean Jean Redpath with Alisdair Fraser and San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 11 Jan 22 - 01:20 AM TO DAUNTON ME by Robert Burns The blude-red rose at Yule may blaw, The simmer lilies bloom in snaw, The frost may freeze the deepest sea, But an auld man shall never daunton me. Mudcat Lyrics and translation Recorded by Ewan MacColl and by Janet Russell |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Levana Taylor Date: 11 Jan 22 - 01:58 AM THE WHITE COCKADE The white cockade was a Jacobite symbol. A Mudcat thread discusses several songs by that title. Link to JACOBITE SONGS above Link to more Jacobite songs posted below by GUEST,henryp |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 15 Jan 22 - 07:38 AM BOXING DAY by Robb Johnson, also recorded in two different but both magnificent versions by Roy Bailey. Any undated hunting and anti-hunting songs set in winter could also fit on the 26th December. Mudcat thread with lyrics and tune: /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33441 The youtube offerings tend to come and go as it's under copyright but searching will usually turn one up. Here's one Diolch Boxing Day · Robb Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4v8FK7IyEA and anotherBoxing Day · Roy Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmKru6yYHjM |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST Date: 15 Dec 22 - 06:07 AM THE ELLEN VANNIN 3rd December 1909 The SS Ellan Vannin left the Isle of Man bound for Liverpool. She foundered on the Mersey approach channel and all 15 passengers and 21 crew were lost. The Ellan Vannin Tragedy - Hughie Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6g46ooCmk Other recordings of “The Ellan Vannin Tragedy” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ellan+Vannin++tragedy SS Ellan Vannin from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ellan_Vannin_(1883) Link to earlier post ELLEN VANNIN from Tattie Bogle |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Dec 22 - 07:34 AM CHRISTMAS IS COMING, THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT
Christmas Is Coming the Goose Is Getting Fat - Boogertown Gap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3sICMeiZk |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 18 Dec 22 - 01:26 PM WHEN GRANDPA PLAYED THE BANJO ”When Grandpa Played the Banjo” recording and lyrics from Bandcamp https://davetaylor1.bandcamp.com/track/when-grandpa-played-the-banjo |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Dec 22 - 06:52 AM THE BALLAD OF THE CARPENTER by Ewan MacColl Jesus was a working man, a hero as you shall hear Born in the slums of Bethlehem at the turning of the year, Yes, the turning of the year. Many recordings of” Ballad Of The Carpenter “ on YouTube https://www.google.com/search?q=THE+BALLAD+OF+THE+CARPENTER+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB775GB775&oq=THE+BALLAD+OF+THE+CARPENTER++ Information about the song from Rise Up Singing https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/ballad-carpenter |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Dec 22 - 04:25 AM A CHRISTMAS CAROL byTom Lehrer A Christmas Carol -Tom Lehrer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Dec 22 - 12:17 PM CHRISTMAS, MY ARSE by Ricky Tomlinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSDn6o2RN4A |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 21 Dec 22 - 05:53 PM THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE The Christmas Goose, recording by Will Noble and information from The Yorkshire Garland http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=40 The Christmas Goose · Kate Rusby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGJI2ftqi88 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 22 Dec 22 - 01:56 PM THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS Many and various recordings of “The 12 Days of Christmas” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=12+Days+of+Christmas THE EIGHT DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - Destiny's Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdndMXIVXw
TWELVE DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Dec 22 - 02:14 PM BBC Sounds In Tune 22 days left to listen; Folk duo Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones perform their new single - traditional Yorkshire Christmas song EARLY PEARLY - in the studio. Tracklist; (1 John Foster; While shepherds watched their flocks by night) 10 Trad. The Grey Goose and Gander 14 Trad. Early Pearly 17 Trad. The Christmas Goose Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones sing Early Pearly on Folk Radio https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2022/12/bryony-griffith-alice-jones-early-pearly/ Margaret Gardham sings “ Early Pearly “ on The Yorkshire Garland https://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=126 Link to THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE posted above BBC Radio 3 Sounds, In Tune https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fx2g |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Dec 22 - 12:08 PM SUDDENLY IT’S CHRISTMAS - Loudon Wainwright III https://youtu.be/ew6rVcL3Up8 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:09 PM RUN, RUN RUDOLPH - Chuck Berry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqVtqbzTdVs Run Run Rudolph - Foo Fighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nun2eNYeaQ |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:20 PM SONGS ABOUT THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER 19 December 1981 The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred off the coast of Cornwall, England. Penlee lifeboat disaster from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_lifeboat_disaster SOLOMON BROWNE- Seth Lakeman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCf-Esfjb8 THE BALLAD OF SOLOMON BROWNE - Simon King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfN4QzViBc THE BALLAD OF PENLEE - Anthony Phillips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtn4Yw7oe7U THE SOLOMON BROWNE - Paul Sirman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlR5RAc9LYs THE SOLOMON BROWNE - Hughie Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZ25s1pPiM THE BALLAD OF LIFEBOAT 54 - Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f5jLqY3SA PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER - (Gil Boyd) performed by Piers Mortimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWK-07X-Ik <BR> THE LIFEBOAT SONG, SOLOMON BROWN PENLEE LIFEBOAT - by Russ Holland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTr41HTpx0k PENLEE - Lyn Edmonds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkDAyKzcMR0 DON’T TAKE THE HEROES - Kimber's Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOfMMrr_IQ THE LAST WAVE - Bates Motel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMYNBLtpWiA THE BOYS OF PENLEE - Jim Wearne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vLSay95mY THE BOYS OF PENLEE - Stephen Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSIiaezDCl4 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 22 - 05:02 AM SANTA CLAUS by Bo Diddley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD2baClJefg |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 22 - 09:05 AM THE SEASON’S UPON US Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Dec 22 - 12:57 PM RIVER by Joni Mitchell River It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer, And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river, I could skate away on |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Dec 22 - 07:42 PM CHRISTMAS MORNING
Christmas Morning - Loudon Wainwright III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pgzRPPuQis |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST,Kristoffer Ross Date: 24 Dec 22 - 09:59 PM Depending upon which version one sings, THE OLD SUNDAY DINNER describes the eponymous meal as "the peace and goodwill in the month of December" The Old Sunday Dinner I included an unaccompanied version of it in a yuletide show last year. Charlie McGonigle (James Eoghain), singing " The Old Sunday Dinner" on ITMA plus information https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/old_sunday_dinner_charlie_mcgonigle_james_eoghain MUDCAT Origins: Ye Old Sunday Dinner /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=144188 Other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Old+Sunday+Dinner |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Dec 22 - 05:19 AM THE CHRISTMAS HARE by The Druids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmd0fQyQEY Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham sing Roger Watson's song The Christmas Hare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yweR7_z3Rdw MUDCAT Lyr ADD: The Christmas Hare (Roger Watson) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=63106&messages=9#reply |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Dec 22 - 06:43 AM TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Shall_Be_My_Dancing_Day |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Dec 22 - 09:08 AM WREN DAY SONGS 26 December Saint Stephen's Day from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day ”Saint Stephen, God's Knight (I shall you tell this ylke night)” from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/MSSSGK.html Saint Stephen and Herod [Child 22] from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/C022.html
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Dec 22 - 09:33 AM THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL Mainly Norfolk: The Wife of Usher's Well https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/thewifeofusherswell.html It was very close to Christmas time; The nights was long and cold. And the very next morning at the break of day Them babes come a-running home. The Wife of Usher's Well (Child 79) - Hedy West https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fmn8dCpLrug |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Dec 22 - 04:57 AM THE FAIRY ON THECHRISTMAS TREE The Fairy On The Christmas Tree -Gracie Fields https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMAzEr5mmu4 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Dec 22 - 12:59 PM THE REDNECK REINDEER Joe Diffie - Leroy The Redneck Reindeer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdnYAkqSes |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Dec 22 - 01:04 PM THE COWBOY CAROL Many Recordings of “ The Cowboy Carol” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cowboy+Carol |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Dec 22 - 03:19 AM 31 December 1942 The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement between warships of the German Navy and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA Battle of the Barents Sea From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Barents_Sea 23rd Flotilla from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Hopk112.html THE 23RD FLOTILLA sung on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9IAJhLjH4 Russian Convoy Escort's Song from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Tawn068.html THE KOLA RUN from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/PsSea152.html The Battle of Barents Sea oral documentary from World War II Chronicles https://soundcloud.com/wwiichronicles?platform=hootsuite |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Dec 22 - 09:36 AM THREE WISE WOMEN by Stanley Accrington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSwhPIPy2E Jolly Jock sings "3 wise women" by Stanley Accrington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Rh-2JFplc WISE WOMEN by Marco Frankland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFk9kFDLsk THE THREE WISE WOMEN by by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPauis-Dk8 THREE WISE WOMEN by Lucinda Lucas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtaBnQEyVm4 THREE WISE WOMEN nbsp; by Kate ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgZyTP_s-0 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 31 Dec 22 - 01:12 AM 31 December 1720: Charles Edward Stuart – Bonnie Prince Charlie, the “Young Pretender” – was born in Rome. As leader of the Scottish Jacobites, he attempted to depose George II, but was finally defeated at Culloden. THE BLACKBIRD The first broadside versions of this song date to 1650, obviously referring to Charles II, who was then in exile. It wasn't safe to refer to him by name, so the allegorical "blackbird" was used. It seems also to have been used of James II, and perhaps also to his son James III. However, the title came to be most strongly associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie. After the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the same situation arose as in 1650. It was generally not safe to speak of Charlie, so the Jacobites adopted various circumlocutions -- the "blackbird," the "moorhen," or simply "Somebody."
Moira Craig sang FLORA McDONALD’S LAMENT on her 2000 album On ae Bonny Day. She noted: The Steeleye Span version of this, PRINCE CHARLIE STUART, was one of the first songs I sang in public...it was only part of a Jacobite song Flora McDonald's Lament. It was found by John Moulden in the Kidson Collection in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, not far from where I first sang it. |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 31 Dec 22 - 11:45 AM THE LOSS OF THE SAILOR’S HOME 31 December, 1890 The Sailor's Home was wrecked near St Pierre & Miquelon carrying coal from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Fortune, Newfoundland. Loss of the Sailor's Home from The Ballad Index https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Pea960.html |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Jan 23 - 12:16 PM SANTA NEVER BRINGS ME A BANJO Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo · Kate Rusby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coDfMgwu3HI |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Jan 23 - 06:47 AM THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY Many Recordings of “ The Little Drummer Boy” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Little+Drummer+Boy |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 Jan 23 - 04:31 PM 6 December Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, is observed on 5 December or on 6 December in Western Christian countries, and on 19 December in Eastern Christian countries using the old church Calendar. PERSONENT HODIE Saint Nicholas Day from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas_Day Personent hodie from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personent_hodie Personent hodie from Classic fm https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/first-santa-song/ Intonent hodie voces ecclesiae- Anonymous 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJSUDI0f880 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jan 23 - 07:23 AM MISS FOGARTY’SCHRISTMAS CAKE - The Irish Rovers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8SfdNBUWVk |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jan 23 - 05:33 PM 8 December 1914. BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS Battle of the Falkland islands from The Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/Tawn059.html Information and some lyrics from "Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970" By Cyril Tawney (scroll down a little) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r01ACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&lpg=PT102&dq=%22One+day+at+Port+Stanley+The+lookout+man+did+see+Some+s |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Jan 23 - 07:02 PM KWANZAA SONGS 26 December to 1 January Kwanzaa , an annual celebration of African-American culture Kwanzaa from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa A Kwanzaa Song - Lovely Hoffman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2T3zRfIRc Happy Kwanzaa Song - Fanoko Singers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPR7jsc6JRw It's Kwanzaa Time - Steve Cobb, Chavunduka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxp6WIYSRDI O Kwanzaa - Karen Dubiner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dE5ECe2_E |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Jan 23 - 09:40 AM GOOD KING WENSLASLAS LOOKED OUT
MUDCAT Origins: Good King Wenceslas /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=161099&messages=20 |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Felipa Date: 08 Jan 23 - 08:00 PM LAST HANGING IN WEST VIRGINIA 16 December 1897 a real event commemorated in a song by T. Hall, recorded by Flatt and Scruggs. The December date is mentioned at the end of the song. I posted the lyrics and links to youtube today in a long Mudcat discussion thread Songs about capital punishment The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia - Flatt & Scruggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFjDC4EvVdg |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Jan 23 - 06:05 AM SONGS SUNG BY WILL FYFFE 14 December 1947. Death of Will Fyffe, Scottish music hall and performing artist. Will Fyffe from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Fyffe Will Fyffe - 16 recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m096Io6nzF98D06F4tRW3sRsC54iVSDZA 1.I Belong to Glasgow2.I'm the Landlord of the Inn at Aberfoyle3.Ye Can Come and See the Baby 4.The Engineer 5.A'm Fear'd for Mrs. McKie 6.The Spirit of a Man from Aberdeen 7.The Waddin' o' Mary Maclean 8.The Train That's Taking You Home 9.I'm 94 Today 10.He's Been on the Bottle Since a Baby 11.The Railway Guard 12.Uncle Mac 13.The Skipper of the Mercantile Marine 14. Corporall McDougal 15.It Isn't the Hen 16.Sailing up the Clyde MUDCAT Lyr Add: Music-hall songs sung by Will Fyffe /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=140776&messages=22#top |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Feb 23 - 05:59 PM OH, CALIFORNIA It could be the Christmas season Why I want to get away And just lately for no reason I've been thinking of LA Oh, California - a balladeer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3z4zXC9jQM |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 Feb 23 - 05:55 AM THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS Thank God It's Christmas - Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V5mtUff6ik |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: Monique Date: 15 Feb 23 - 07:17 AM EL DESEMBRE CONGELAT (Catalan) El desembre congelat confús es retira. Abril, de flors coronat, tot el món admira. Quan en un jardí d'amor neix una divina flor, d'una ro, ro, ro, d'una sa, sa, sa, d'una ro, d'una sa, d'una rosa bella, fecunda i poncella. El primer pare causà la nit tenebrosa que a tot el món ofuscà la vista penosa; mes, en una mitjanit, brilla el sol que n'és eixit d'una be, be, be, d'una lla, lla, lla, d'una be, d'una lla, d'una bella aurora que el cel enamora. El mes de maig ha florit, sense ser encara, un lliri blanc tot polit de fragància rara, que per tot el món se sent, de Llevant fins a Ponent, tota sa, sa, sa, tota dul, dul, dul, tota sa, tota dul, tota sa dulçura i olor, amb ventura. Arribaren els tres reis amb molta alegria, adorant el rei del cel en una establia. Oferint-li tres presents, com són or, mirra i encens. A la Ma, Ma, Ma, a la re, re, re, a la Ma, a la re, a la Mare pia, la Verge Maria. Amb contentament i amor celebrem el dia, en què el diví Senyor neix amb alegria. Si no tenim més tresor oferim-li nostre cor, que és la gran, gran, gran que és la fi, fi, fi que és la gran, que és la fi, que és la gran finesa de nostra pobresa. FROZEN DECEMBER Frozen December, Sorry, withdraws. The whole world admires April, crowned with flowers, When in a garden of love A divine flower is born, Of a ro-, ro-, ro-, Of a -se, -se, -se, Of a ro-, of a -se, Of a beautiful rose, Fecund and virgin. The first father caused The dark night That overshadowed the painful sight Of the whole world; But, one midnight, The sun shines that came out Of a beauti-, beauti-, beauti-, Of a -ful, -ful, -ful, Of a beauti-, of a -ful, Of a beautiful dawn That the sky falls in love with. The month of May has blossomed, Without being yet A white lily all well groomed With a rare fragrance, That can be felt throughout the world, From the East to the West, All its, its, its, All sweet-, sweet-, sweet-, All its, all sweet-, All its sweetness And smell, hopefully. The three kings arrived With great joy, Worshiping the king of heaven In a cowshed Offering him three presents, Such as gold, myrrh, and frankincense. To the Mo-, Mo-, Mo-, To the -ther, -ther, -ther, To the Mo-, to the -ther, To the pious Mother, the Virgin Mary. With joy and love Let's celebrate the day In which the divine Lord Was born with joy If we have no other treasure Let's give him our hearts, Which is the great, great, great, That's the re-, re-, re- Which is the great, which is the re-, Which is the great refinement Of our poverty. Live rendition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fe8xEmM71o El desembre congelat YT page (different versions) |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Feb 23 - 08:35 AM A VINT-I- CINC DE DESEMBRE aka FUM FUM FUM Fum, fum, fum from Mama Lisa’s World https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=622&c=45 “Fum,Fum,Fum"from Wikipedia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fum,_Fum,_Fum Fum,Fum,Fum - Musica Nostra Canta Nadal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2opnMO4BzRk Many other recordings of “ Fum, Fum, Fum on YouTube https:https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=FUM+FUM+FUM+
Thanks to Monique for this suggestion and for the following addition Verse on the Wiki page not on MLW and with no translation:
Qui dirà més gran mentida?
Who will tell the biggest lie? |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Feb 23 - 07:00 AM YOUNG FREEDA BOLT December 14, 1929 Freeda Bolt, from Floyd County, Virginia was murdered. Various recordings of ” Young Freda Bolt “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Young+Freda+Bolt++song Freeda Bolt from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeda_Bolt “ Young Freda Bolt“: Lyrics from Bluegrass Lyrics.com https://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/song/young-freda-bolt/ The Story of Freeda Bolt - Floyd County Ramblers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXwk5zGtRY |
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Subject: RE: Any December Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Mar 23 - 07:04 AM STAGGER LEE Christmas night 1895 In St. Louis, Missouri, Lee Shelton, nicknamed Stag Lee or Stack Lee, shot and killed his acquaintance William "Billy" Lyons in a bar room dispute about a hat. A Christmas Killing: Stagger Lee By Paul Slade http://www.planetslade.com/stagger-lee1.html Stagger Lee from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee Various recordings of ” Stagger Lee” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Stagger+Lee |
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