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25 Feb 05 - 08:06 AM (#1420534) Subject: Acceptable folk months From: greg stephens This subject has come up in the adjective thread, but I think it deserves a slot to itself. The suggestion was made (by duellingbouzoukis I think) that May was the only acceptable folk month. Well, I'm sure he is right that it is the most popular folk month, but I'm sure we can rack our brains and come up with some more contenders. I'll kick off with "Rosebud in June", and Spenser the Rover went home on the fifth of November. Any others? By the way, the song "The Months of the Year" is not permitted, too easy. |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:08 AM (#1420538) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Sooz (at work) Brigg fair was on the 5th August. There is certainly nothing to commend February! |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:09 AM (#1420540) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: RobbieWilson true, February made me shiver |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:10 AM (#1420542) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Elfcall Dave Goulder's January Man ? Elf |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:11 AM (#1420545) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Elfcall O'Neills March or O'Sullivan's March ? I'll get me coat Elf |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:13 AM (#1420547) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Ethan's Granny On a Friday it fell, in the month of ApRIL |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:19 AM (#1420555) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: RobbieWilson On Grafton street in November, we tripped lightly along the ledge |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:19 AM (#1420556) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Leadfingers Trad Irish - The 23rd of June Incredible String Band - October Song |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:29 AM (#1420566) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Hard Roper Cold Days of February (Robin Williamson) |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:32 AM (#1420570) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,neovo It was in the Month of January On one April Morning - don't know which one though! |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:35 AM (#1420574) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: treewind January Man goes through ALL the months, of course. June 18 gets mentioned in quite a lot of songs... Anahata |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:40 AM (#1420583) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Chris Amos The Bold Princess Royal set sail on the 14th of Feb. Chris |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:41 AM (#1420584) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: RobbieWilson Near Bannbridge town , in the County Down One morning last july |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:43 AM (#1420586) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: RobbieWilson On Raglan Road of an August day I saw her first and knew |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:44 AM (#1420589) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Elfcall Ethan's Granny - pls put me out of my misery which song do your lyrics come from? Elfcall |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:48 AM (#1420591) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Elfcall I suppose 18th of June is mentioned in most 'Waterloo' songs likewise October 21st for Trafalgar. Elf |
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25 Feb 05 - 08:56 AM (#1420599) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,ICULATING MADLY Seriously, are there ANY months that DON'T get a mention? |
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25 Feb 05 - 09:07 AM (#1420610) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Ethan's Granny Hello Elfcall. It's Copshawholme Fair - the version floating round in my head is by Spiers and Boden! |
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25 Feb 05 - 09:35 AM (#1420638) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST Hi Ethan's Granny - I finally worked it out after switching off the other music in my office and Spiers and Boden were exactly what I had in mind. I then had to put it on of course - thanks anyway. Elf |
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25 Feb 05 - 09:36 AM (#1420639) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Ethan's Granny You're allowed to have music in your office? All we get is the hum of computers - and each other singing bits of anything that floats around the ether and catches in our vocal cords (or should that be "vocal chords"?). At the moment mine all tend to be Spiers and Boden - usually Prickle Eye Bush which doesn't mention any discernable time of year. |
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25 Feb 05 - 09:45 AM (#1420645) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST There is a folk song I have heard containing the line "All in the month of February", but I can't remember what it's called or who I heard do it! I know I didn't dream it. I suspect it may have been Bob Fox. muppitz x |
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25 Feb 05 - 11:39 AM (#1420738) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Kevin Sheils October winds lament around The Castle of Dromore |
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25 Feb 05 - 11:47 AM (#1420749) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Mary Humphreys Twas 1824, March the 18th day - Greenland Whale fishery. On the 23rd of March, my boys, we hoisted our topsail- The Whale catchers Do whaling & March always go together, I wonder? Mary |
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25 Feb 05 - 11:51 AM (#1420755) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: sian, west wales There's a Welsh one that knocks off a whole springtime in one swell foop: Blodau'r flwyddyn yw f'annwylyd Ebrill, Mai, Mehefin hefyd ... My love is all the flowers of the year April, May, June also ... siân |
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25 Feb 05 - 11:57 AM (#1420772) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: breezy To welcome in the May -o september in the rain ....come she will |
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25 Feb 05 - 12:12 PM (#1420789) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Sooz April come she will (derived I think from an old English madrigal called April is in my mistress' face) |
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25 Feb 05 - 12:20 PM (#1420798) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Noreen Great minds....: Songs for each month |
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25 Feb 05 - 12:23 PM (#1420801) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST "April is in my mistress' face" Keep it clean please |
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25 Feb 05 - 12:28 PM (#1420805) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Mary Humphreys The Welsh cuckoos certainly seem to like the same months, even when they transfer to the Southern hemisphere: Fy amser i ganu yw Ebrill a Mai A haner Mehefin, chi wyddoch bob rhai My time for singing is April & May And half of June, as everyone knows..... Y Gwcw Fach Lwydlas, from Wladfa ( Patagonia) Argentina Mary |
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25 Feb 05 - 02:12 PM (#1420903) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Les from Hull Mary - March was the month to sail for the Greenland Fishery. The ice would be clearing from the fishing grounds by the time you got there. It wouldn't work so well in the southern hemisphere. |
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25 Feb 05 - 02:25 PM (#1420916) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,leeneia in the moon of winter-time, when all the birds had fled |
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25 Feb 05 - 03:17 PM (#1420960) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Uncle_DaveO "It fell about the Martinmas, When muirmen win their hay...." Dave Oesterreich |
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25 Feb 05 - 03:20 PM (#1420963) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Uncle_DaveO And Woodie Guthrie's great dust storm song: On the fourteenth day of April Of 1935 There came the worst of dust-storms that ever filled the skies." Dave Oesterreich |
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25 Feb 05 - 05:22 PM (#1421037) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Charmion It was on the twenty-third of June, the day before the fair, And Ireland's sons and daughters were all assembled there. The young, the old, the brave and the bold came to sport and thrill, There were curious combinations at the fair of Spancil Hill. And those muir men -- if I remember correctly, it's Lammas tide (beginning of August) when they get their hay in. Martinmas is in the middle of November. |
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25 Feb 05 - 06:11 PM (#1421091) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Willa There are a couple of songs about the Peterloo massacre (August) |
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25 Feb 05 - 06:17 PM (#1421097) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Willa ...and 'My love is like a red red rose' (June) |
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25 Feb 05 - 07:52 PM (#1421138) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Don(Wyziwyg)T On the first day of June 18 hundred and six ("The Irish Rover") brings the year into the equation. Since Dave Goulders' "January Man" covers all the months, I think we need to know whether there are any years in say the last 200 that don't get into a song. Discuss! Don T. |
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25 Feb 05 - 09:24 PM (#1421185) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST What a bloody stupid, navel gazing thread! |
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25 Feb 05 - 09:30 PM (#1421191) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: SINSULL March 29th, Nineteen and ten The little brig Daisy did sail... On the 3rd of June Billy Jo McCallister jumped off the Kallahatchie bridge. I'll leave now |
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25 Feb 05 - 10:26 PM (#1421204) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Mudlark The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies And she never hollers cuckoo til the 4th day of July |
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26 Feb 05 - 10:47 AM (#1421468) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: MBSLynne Fair Maids of February. Andy Barne's "Turn turn you seasons turn" mentions October. As I racked my brains, I came up with a lot of pop songs with months in too.... "January, sick and tired you've been hanging on me..." "It might as well rain until September" "It was the third of June another sleepy dust Delta day...." Love Lynne |
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26 Feb 05 - 11:11 AM (#1421481) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Joe_F May we hope that Abby Sale will weigh in with his Happy/Happy? file? --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Sovereignty is the polite old-fashioned name for totalitarianism. :|| |
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26 Feb 05 - 02:10 PM (#1421630) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,whiterainbow They took us jolly sailor lads a fishing for the whale On the fourth day of August in 1864 bound for Greenland, we set sail..... And then there's..... High on the storm torn coast of Iceland, February 68 Ross Clevland out of Hull lay hiding, with anxious eyes, her skipper waits.. These songs are more to do with the sea, but never mind, they still mention months. WR |
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26 Feb 05 - 03:16 PM (#1421679) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Don(Wyziwyg)T "Sovereignty is the polite, old fashioned name for totalitarianism" I think Not! No co-relation between the two. Sovereignty is the short way of expressing the desire to determine your own fate, and not be ruled by outsiders. Totalitarianism is a purely internal style of government. Don T. |
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26 Feb 05 - 05:13 PM (#1421772) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Liz the Squeak Martinmas is 11th November - that being the saints' day. There is often a little spell of good weather around this time, known as St Martin's summer, so called, to commemorate the burial procession at Tours, when the trees blossomed and the flowers bloomed. Ellan Vannin tragedy occurred in December.... It looks like September is the least mentioned month..... not a lot seems to happen then.... LTS |
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26 Feb 05 - 05:13 PM (#1421773) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Uncle_DaveO Charmion corrected me, saying: And those muir men -- if I remember correctly, it's Lammas tide (beginning of August) when they get their hay in. Martinmas is in the middle of November. Mea culpa, mea culpa! That's what I get for dumping half-remembered bits into threads. Lammastide it was! Dave Oesterreich |
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27 Feb 05 - 02:31 AM (#1422081) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Liz the Squeak Lammas or loaf mass, celebration of the bread made from the first of the harvest... usually early to mid August. Another little threadkilling fact. LTS |
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27 Feb 05 - 02:54 AM (#1422088) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: DMcG Liz: The Battle of Alma inspired a couple for 18th September. All: A much more challenging feat is to see how much of the calendar you can fill. We have a few above 18th September - Battle of Alma 11th November - Martinmas 4th August - Greenland Fisheries .. and so on. I'd been on Mudcat a couple of months when I suggested we try to make a calendar covering every day if we could and, as often happens when you say something like that, was immediately told it had already been done. |
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27 Feb 05 - 09:29 AM (#1422219) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: greg stephens Well, I think liz the Squeak is right. September is missing from the list we have so far(leaving out any songs which set out to mention all the months of the year specifically). I have no doubt, however, that Masato Sakurai or some similar person will soon be round to point out half a dozen September songs. |
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27 Feb 05 - 10:18 AM (#1422232) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Leadfingers Main cat is down - we have been thrown out of Mudchat three times in the last hour, so I am reading the forum !! Lets add Flanders and Swann - All the months again 'A Song of the Weather' -January brings the snow etc !! |
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27 Feb 05 - 11:15 AM (#1422246) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,DMcG Sorry, greg, you've lost me. The Battle of Alma is in the DT, (on the 20th September; they only set sail on the 18th I see). Was my reference to this disqualified under the Mornington Crescent Sunday closing rule? |
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28 Feb 05 - 12:58 AM (#1422637) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Pauline L Eighth of January Try to remember the kind of September (not really folk) Shine on, shine on harvest moon Up in the sky I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June, and July (Do I get four points for this?) A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam Born on the fourth of July |
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28 Feb 05 - 03:38 AM (#1422666) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: greg stephens Sorry, I didnt spot the Battle of Alma in September when I flicked through. Very good then, we have all months covered. |
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28 Feb 05 - 02:41 PM (#1423114) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: SINSULL Try to remember a finer September... |
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28 Feb 05 - 02:42 PM (#1423115) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: SINSULL See you in September See you when the summer's through... |
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28 Feb 05 - 02:55 PM (#1423123) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: SINSULL September Songs http://supersearch.mudcat.org/@NewSSResults |
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28 Feb 05 - 03:26 PM (#1423147) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Allan C. 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 |
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28 Feb 05 - 03:42 PM (#1423169) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: My guru always said January's almost over, February comes soon... |
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28 Feb 05 - 04:18 PM (#1423219) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: GUEST,Lara I went to Blaydon Races, twas on the 9th of June |
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28 Feb 05 - 08:03 PM (#1423445) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Snuffy Didn't Wolfgang (or someone) start a thread with links to a site attempting to give songs for every day of the year? I can't seem to find it here. |
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10 Mar 05 - 10:39 PM (#1431982) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: YorkshireYankee "She went down last October..." (Mary Ellen Carter) October Roses |
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11 Mar 05 - 03:22 AM (#1432065) Subject: RE: Acceptable folk months From: Splott Man Twas the week before Easter - March this year (Or should that be the week before Miskin?) May crops up in Willy Moore Tunes - The 8th of January, First Day of August (translated from the Welsh) |