Any December Songs?

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 08:40 AM

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES  -  Alabama Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2XD1A7HG9E MUDCAT Thread, Lyr Add: Christmas Memories    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172934&messages=1 CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

WHEN SANTA GOT STUCK UP THE CHIMNEY  -  Various recordings
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=When+Santa+Got+Stuck+Up+the+Chimney+song

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 10:03 AM

THE CREMATION OF SAM McGEE   -  Ed Mathis     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwPyu9FTAU

On a Christmas day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.

Various other recordings of “The Cremation of Sam Mcgee” on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+cremation+of+sam+mcgee+l
The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service from The Poetry Foundation    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 08:47 AM

2000 Miles
I can hear people singing
It must be Christmas time
I hear people singing
It must be Christmas time

Pretenders - 2000 Miles    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyGZlBdkaA

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 10:28 AM

THE WASSAIL OF FIGGY DUFF  -  Ayrshire Voices     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmvisa2lN5A
Link to Mudcat post above WASSAIL SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 10:33 AM

THE SANS DAY CAROL (The Holly Bears a Berry)
Many recordings of “ The Sans Day Carol “ on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Sans+Day+Carol
Sans Day Carol from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_Day_Carol

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 11:00 AM

UN FLAMBEAU,JEANETTE ISABELLA  -  Diane Taraz     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-qFn48d9s
Link to post above BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 06:40 AM

Many recordings of I’M THE MAN WHO SLITS THE TURKEYS’ THROATS AT CHRISTMAS     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I%27m+the+man+that+slits+the+Turkeys+throats+at+Christmas

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 06:30 AM

Thanks to GerryM for a further song about migrants
LADY OF THE HARBOR  -  Si Kahn     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUDcc4p5YSk
Various other recordings on Youtube    https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=Lady+of+the+Harbor


Link to post above SONGS ABOUT MIGRANTS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 06:58 AM

HURON CAROL -   Prairie Rose Rangers   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTlU2jO9VZI
Many other recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Huron+Carol

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 01:22 PM

THE WEXFORD CAROL   AKA WEXFORD LULLABY Various recordings    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wexford+caro l

Mudcat DT Wexford Carol Lyrics    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7708#:~:text=WEXFORD%20LULLABY%0A(%20John%20Renbourn)
Mudcat, Lyr ADD: Wexford Carol    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=270&messages=22

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 06:23 PM

A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW  -  Alabama Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqL-Kv4T5WI&list=PLyBnvt-PVepluInXlt-igUQujzzzwmPn0&index=8

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:34 AM

IT ONLY SEEMS FIVE MINUTES SINCE LAST CHRISTMAS- Trouble at' Mill (Dixon/Dixon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PnorkJOAL0
It Only Seems Like Five Minutes Since Last Christmas by Colin C McDonald.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7redvsSaunw

SANTA CLAUS BOOGIE
The Santa Claus Boogie - The Tractors     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUrWFBfz3SM

I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL WITH SANTA CLAUS     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRAgXt0Nxo

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:51 AM

LINK to Alphabetical Index of all the December songs above /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170618&messages=192#:~:text=INDEX%20OF%20DECEMBER%20SONGS

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 10:19 AM

LAST CHRISTMAS -   Wham     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5vC0Cxl44

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 10:39 AM

AULD LANG SYNE    Various recordings    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Auld+Lang+Syne
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE? -   The Carpenters     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sl1xhU7xpk
THE LAST NIGHT OF THE YEAR  -  Kantos Chamber Choir     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux4w-vw3acI

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 12:32 PM

The liner notes to Eileen McGann's recording of her song, SANDS, say, "Written on the beach, near midnight on New Year's Eve." There's a thread here, /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130078 with the subject, RE: ADD: Sands (Eileen McGann). The thread contains the full lyrics.

Subject: RE: Any December Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 11:21 AM

THE TAILOR’S BRITCHES aka THE BRISK YOUNG TAILOR

A dance one New Year’s evening the tailor did attend;
I’m sure that he would ne’er have gone if he could have seen the end.

The Tailor's Britches sung by John Greaves on The Yorkshire Garland. http://yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=49
Mudcat, Origins: Tailor's Britches (or breeches)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72395#top
Brisk Young Tailor   -  The Fianna Folk     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzlGKTiYW8
Music and Lyrics in Marrow Bones - English Folk Songs From The Hammond And Gardiner Mss. by Frank Purslow, fromGoogle Books    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Uld8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=the+briskyoung+tailor+english+folksong&source=bl&ots=E_E7
Mudcat DT, full Lyrics of "The Tailor's Breetches"    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7028