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BROADSIDE, A - FEMALE WARRIOR

BROADSIDES (early printed song-sheets) - BALLADS - BROADSIDE MAN - SWEET FANNY ADAMS - TITANIC - CATNACH: see ROUD-SMITH 1985 - Folk Song Research vol 2/ 2 Sept 1983 - see National Library of Scotland:www.nls.uk/broadsides -- Recordings see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

BROADSIDE MAN, THE - comp John Conolly & Bill Meek - Folk Song Today No 5 1971 p30 -- YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-16 1970 & SPA-A-132 1971

BROADSWORD HORNPIPE, THE - HONEYMAN #3 p51 4pts (Bb/F/D) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #19 p7 (G/D/G/Em)

BROADWOOD FAMILY - John & Lucy - Letters to Lucy: JEFDSS 1964 p233-268 Margaret Dean-Smith - Lucy ED&Smag 30/1 1968 p14 Frank Howes - see AUNT LUCY BROADWOOD (Bob Pegg) -- "As They Roved Out" radio progr 1959: RPL LP 25787-91 - Tony ROSE LEADER: LER- 2013 1970 "The 3 Butchers" - 1973 SWAN ARCADE: LEADER LER-2032 (2 songs) - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TOPIC 12-T-190 1969 "Merchant's Daughter" - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975 "King Pharim" - Shirley & Dolly COLLINS & others: TOPIC 12-T-380 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-415 1981 "Brave Ploughboy" (Wassail) (Rev B Surrey)

BROCKAGH BRAE - "One night as I lay slumbering in my silent bed alone"-- Geordie HANNA rec by Robin Morton, Derrrytresk, Co Tyrone 1977: TOPIC TSCD-654 1998 (Emigration Ballads)

BROCKLESBY FAIR - RAMBLEAWAY

BROCKWEIR - Gloucestersh (nr Chepstow, Mon) - WASSAIL SONG

BROGIE MOR - "Lay on them, B M, with your rue-i-addy-O - thump him sore" - Belfast "gateway" game - tune is first part of "The Rose Tree" -- Hugh QUINN rec PK Belfast 1955: FTX-072

BROKEN BANN BRIDGE - Hornpipe - FELDMAN p194 (A) - MAGUIRE 1 #82 p22 (G) "Broken Bridge" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #20 p8 (G) -- Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Dunloe, Co Donegal Jan 1951 7"RTR-0566 aft "Mrs McLeod's": FTX-073 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK Donegal 1953: RPL 19579/ FTX-273

BROKEN DOLL, A - Music Hall Song popularised by Clarice Mayne -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 cass: Street Piano

BROKEN DOWN GENTLEMAN, THE - "When I was young and in my prime" - mispent youth - Epsom Races - bankrupt - poverty - ROUD#383 - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #234 pp132-5 Sally Gummer, Hambridge, Somerset 1904/ Susan Williams, Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset 1908/ Wm Hedges, Chipping Camden, Gloucestersh 1909 "I kept a pack of hounds" - GILLINGTON 8HFS 1907 pp46-47 Hampsh - GRAINGER #123 Joseph Taylor, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906 "When I was young and in my youthful ways" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p87 #2 Charles Hambridge, Buscot, Berksh (w/o) - KIDSON EPS 1929 Yorks - PURSLOW WS 1968 p21 Gardiner: George Blake, St Denys, Hampsh 1906 - COPPER SSB 1973 pp208-9 George Attrill, Stopham, Sussex "Off to Epsom Races" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 p701 George Attrill 1954 "Epsom Races" - O'SHAUGHNESSEY YB1 1975 pp16-17 & pp67-68 Grainger: Joseph Taylor, Saxby-all-Saints, Lincolnsh 1906 (notes) - PALMER EBBB 1980 #70 pp151-2 George Attrill "Off to Epsom Races" - PALMER RVW 1983 pp122-3 Mr Warner, Hadleigh, Suffolk 1907 (text completed from another version) "Eggleston Hall" -- George ATTRILL rec Bob Copper, Sussex 1954: RPL 22737/ FTX-029/ TOPIC 12-T-317 1977 "Epsom Races" - Gabriel FIGG rec PK West Chiltington Sussex 1958 RTR- 0895 - Bill WHITING rec Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975

BROKEN DOWN ROSE, THE - ROSE

BROKEN DOWN SQUATTER, THE - "Come stompy old man let us shift while we can" Ch: "And the banks are all broken they say" - tune WE'LL ALL GO A-HUNTING TODAY - see FREEHOLD ON THE PLAIN -- Kate & LARRIKINS Group Australia: LARRIKIN LRC-028 cass

BROKEN HEARTED BRIDE, THE - NOBLEMAN'S WEDDING

BROKEN HEARTED GARDENER -"I'm a broken-hearted gardener and I don't know what to do" - "She's my myrtle, my geranium" -- ROUD#7966 - Bs by Pitts & others - PALMER TOTT 1974 p230 "Poor Frozen-out gardeners" text: Bs by Sharp of London (Nottingham Univ)/ tune used "Dives and Lazarus" (Chappell 748)

BROKEN HEARTED I WANDER - BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN

BROKEN HEARTED MILKMAN, THE - POLLY PERKINS

BROKEN LANTERN, THE - Jig - COLE p71 (C)

BROKEN LEGGED CHICKEN, THE -- HIGH LEVEL RANTERS Newcastle: LEADER LER-2030 1971

BROKEN PIECE OF GOLD, THE - "Down in the town of Marlborough a farmer did dwell" - daughter loves servant John, but father hears them breaking gold & confines her but has happy ending - ROUD#2465 - FMJ 1:3 1967 p155-6 Gardiner: Frank Harrington, Bartley, Hampsh 1908 2v/m/ (Guyer): James Lake, Dummer, Hampsh 1906 (w/o) (Hammond had a version sent to him from Marlborough, Wiltsh)

BROKEN PLEDGE, THE - Reel (D) - CRANITCH #70 p152 - O'NEILL MOI #1178/ DMI #458 (D) - TWEED p25 (Dm) - WILLIAMSON p88 -- Michael GORMAN (fid) of Sligo rec by PK London: FTX-174/ (his nephew on fid): TOPIC TSCD-663 1998 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK (?) - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED "40 yrs of Irish Piping" FFR-001-2 1976

BROKEN SIXPENCE, THE - Reel - COLE p51 (G)

BROKEN STATUES - comp by GT - Gordon TYRRALL (voc/ gtr) Punch Music PM-001 1993

BROKEN TANNER -- Jack ELLIOTT (jaws harp): LEADER: LEA-4001 1969

BROKEN TOKEN SONGS - BLACKBERRY FOLD - BRITISH MAN-O-WAR (handkerchief) - BROKEN PIECE OF GOLD - CHAIN OF GOLD - DARK- EYED SAILOR - JACK BEFORE YOU GO - JOHN REILLY - PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL - LOVELY JANE FROM ENNISKEA - MACDONALD OF GLENCOE - PERJURED MAID - PRETTY SALLY - GOSPORT BEACH- WEALTHY FARMER'S SON - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

BRON BINN, AM - (The Sweet or Melodious Sorrow) or "Righ Arstair" (Arthur of the Hosts) - Scots Gaelic Song which has become mixed with Arthurian Legend - Article by Linda Gowans "The Living Tradition" #4 Mar/Apr 1994

BRONCO LANE - "had a pain ("went to Spain"), so they sent for Wagon Train" - Children's rhyme on TV programs in 1950s - for ball-bouncing & skipping - rec by Damian Webb, 4/52 St Michael's Junior Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: FTX-194 #29 Ball-bouncing- rec by Damian Webb, 3/24 St Michaels Junior Girls Workington 1960; FTX-197 #63 Skipping - FTX-198 A/3 London - Children's Voices: FTX-289

BROOK STREET POLKA - Schottische -- Jack NORRIS (mel) rec MP & PG West Hoathly, Sussex 11/5/60: TOPIC 12-T-455-6 1990

BROOKSIDE, THE - GRAINGER #232 Samuel Stokes (?) Retford, Nottingham 1906

BROOKSIDE HORNPIPE, THE - COLE #1 p91 (Bb)

BROOM - BESOM MAKER - GREEN BROOM - POOR OLD CHIMNEY-SWEEPER (betrothal by jumping over one!)

BROOM, THE - Reel -- Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) rec London 1926: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Star of Munster" & "Milliner's Daughter"

BROOM CUTTER, THE - GREEN BROOM

BROOM (-STICK or BRUSH DANCE, THE - ED&S mag xxxvi/1 1974 p30 Comberton, Cambridgeshire -- Recordings see MUSIC TYPES Listing - THE DARTMOOR PIXIES led by Bob Cann filmed at South Tawton, Devon 1971: FF-1101

BROOM O THE COWDENKNOWES, THE - "It was on an ev'ning sae saft and sae clear" - CHILD #217 - ROUD#92 - HERD AMSS 1776 1 pp98-99 (w/o) "Bonnie May" - PERCY - JOHNSON SMM 1787 - MOTHERWELL (14var) - RAMSAY TTM 1724 - THOMSON Orpheus Caledonius - Pocket Songster 1823 pp41-3 w/o - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 p459 "Broom the bonny broom" - WHITELAW p288 - PLAYFORD 1651 - Gay's "Beggar's Opera" - BRONSON McBeath's version - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #838 p268 (12var) - MacCOLL SS 1953 p68 from Ramsay - TOCHER 5 p164 Alan Bruford from Findlaters "The Maid of the C" - see THE LASSIE GATHERING NUTS -- Ethel FINDLATER rec by PK, Brechan, Dounby, Orkney 1955: FTX-063 & FTX-502/ 7"RTR-0690 tape from Ernest Marwick 1967 "The Maid of the C" - Stanley ROBERTSON (with chorus) rec by Bill Leader, The Royal Hotel, Aberdeen 1973: TOPIC TSCD-656 1998 "The Ballad of the Ewe Buchts" - Jimmy McBEATH: TANGENT TNGM-119/D 1975 - Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP- 12-623 1956 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TPS-145 1966 - Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 aft "The Old Jew"

BROOM OF THE COWDENKNOWES, THE - Instr - PLAYFORD "The Bonny Bonny Broome" - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p28 - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (Em) #135 p224

BROOM'S REEL -- Jack ELLIOTT (harmonica): LEADER LEA-4001 1969 - FLOWERS & FROLICS rec at "The Empress of Russia" Islington, London: FREE REED FRR-016 1977 aft "Huntsman's Chorus" & "John Ryan's"

BROOM SELLERS - JEFDSS 1944 p189 Collinson from Kent; "Broomsellers Cry" - BUY A BROOM - GREEN BROOM

BROOMDASHER, THE - "There was a nasty BD" (ie rabbit-catcher) - ROUD#1733 - FMJ 3:1 1975 pp72-3 Mike Yates: Levi Smith, Surrey 4v/m ("stark-naked" belief by thief that he was invisible) -- Levi SMITH (gipsy) rec Mike Yates Surrey 1974: TOPIC 12-T-253 1975

BROOMFIELD (HILL) WAGER, THE - "I'll wager, I'll wager" - CHILD#43 - ROUD#34 - BSs: "The Merry Broom Fields or The West Country Wager" - HERD AMSS 1776 1 p168 (w/o) - DIXON SOP 1846 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp77-80 or pp297-300 (w/o) "The Merry Broomfield" - GREIG-KEITH LLTB 1925 p31-3 Alex Robb, New Deer, Aberdeensh 1906 1v/m/ another (w/o)/ Mrs Gillespie, Glasgow 1v/m ("Leddrin thee thoo an' a") - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p458 (w/o) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 1 pp35-40 Wm Biffet 1907/ Jack Barnard 1916/ Elizabeth Seeley, Bridgwater 1908 (m/o)/ Mrs Chedgey, Wick1907 1v/m/ Mrs Martha Bradley, North Petherton 1907 1v/m/ Mrs Overd, Langport 1904/ Mrs Mary Ann Milton, Washford, Somerset 1905 1v/m/ Mrs Priscilla Cooper, Stafford Common, Devon 1907 1v/m - JFSS 10 1908 p14 magical sign of broom - JFSS 3 1907 11 p69 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset - JFSS 2:4 (15) 1910 pp110-116 Edgar C Robinson: Miss Ann Hiles, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnsh/ Sharp: Wm Briffet, Bridgwater, Somerset 1907 "The Bonny Broomfields"/ Mary Anne Milton, Washford, Somerset 1v/m/ RVW Mrs Powell, Weobley, Herefordsh/ Hammond: Mrs Perry, Cheddington, Dorset (w/o)/ M Amherst: George Turvey, Foulden, Norfolk 1v/m "The Squire who lived in the West" - JFSS 7:27 1923 pp31-4 Hammond: Mrs Perry, Cheddington, Dorset 1906/ Hammond & Jerboult: Mr Conybeare, Combe Florey, Somerset 1905 1v/m "The Merry Broomfield" - JFSS 8 1927 pp1-2 Sharp: Martha Bradley 1v/m & Jack Barnard, Bridgwater, Somerset - JFSS 8 1929 pp127-8 Thomas Wood: Maurice Cardy, Bures St Mary, Essex 1928-9 "The Young Squire" - GILLINGTON SOR (?) 1911 p18-9 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p75 #210 Charles Tanner, Bampton, Oxfordsh (w/o) "The Maid's Wager" - Sam HENRY SOP #135/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p414 John M'Loughlin, Ballycastle, Co Antrim 1926 - REEVES IP 1958 pp93-4 Wm Briffet (w/o) - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p26 Mrs Powell, Herefordsh - JEFDSS 9:4 1963 Ken Stubbs: George Maynard - ED&S 29:3 1967 p82 Maurice Cardy from JFSS 8 1929 - SEDLEY 1967 p90 + "William Grismond" p92 - PALMER SOM 1972 pp30-31 George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 - FMJ 2:4 1973 pp288-9 Roy Palmer: George Dunn - PURSLOW FD 1974 p11 Gardner: Moses Mills, Preston Candover, Hampsh 1907 (notes) - DAWNEY PG 1977 p29 George Butterworth MS: Ipswich, Suffolk 1812 "Merry Bloomfield" - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp63-66 Caroline Hughes - PALMER EBECS 1979 #65 pp121-3 Walter Pardon - RICHARDS- STUBBS EFS 1979 p82 Walter Pardon - PALMER RVW 1983 #24 pp40- 41 Mr Kemp, Herongate, Essex 1904 (text slightly restored) "Merry Green Broom Fields" --- HENRY FSSH 1938 pp53-4 Mrs Samuel Harmon Tenn 1930 (w/o) - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp8-9 Mrs Sally Hubbard, SLC & James Jepson, Hurricane (w/o), Utah "The Hard-hearted Young Man" -- Bell DUNCAN #283/ 286/ 291, Robert NICOL #300, Jean ESSLEMONT #303, Mary Stewart ROBERTSON #306 rec on Dictaphone by James M.Carpenter, N.E.Scotland 1929-35 - Cyril POACHER with ch rec by PK, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1953: CAEDMON TC-1145/ TOPIC 12-T-160/ FTX-036/ TOPIC 12-TS-252 1975 ("Hold the wheel")/ rec by Ginette Dunn, Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974: MT-CD-303 - George "Pop" MAYNARD rec by PK, "The Cherry Tree", Copthorne, Sussex 1956: RPL 23092/ FTX-280 "A wager, a wager" - Ewan McCOLL with Peggy SEEGER (dulc) rec by PK, Cider Press, Dartington, Devon Dec 1971 5"RTR-0802/ RIVERSIDE 12-623 1956/ "The Long Harvest"/ "from his father, Wm Miller": ARGO ZDA-68 1967 - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ FTX-143 - Sandra KERR: ARGO-64 1968 - Tim HART (v) & Maddy PRIOR (v/banjo): B & C CREST-23 1968/76/ CASS-45-0853 - Dave & Toni ARTHUR (fid/whi): LEADER LER-2017 1970 "Pretty Ploughboy" tune - Trevor CROZIER'S Broken Consort: ARGO ZFB-80 1972 - Graham PRATT (with guitar): FTX-048 - Walter PARDON rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: TOPIC 12-TS-392 1982/ TSCD 600 ("Hidden English") - Jim ELDON cante-fable version from Nancy Smith (gypsy) E Yorksh - ALBION BAND Radio 2 7/10/87: CASS- 0401 - Jo FREYA SAYDISC SDL-402 (CD) 1993

BROOMHILL'S BONNY DOCHTER - "Twas of a summer feeing time" - Bothy Ballad - ROUD#2175 - ORD BB 1930 p232-233 (w/o) - GREIG- DUNCAN 4 1991 #723 p31 (10var)

BROOMIELAW, THE - "Harvest coming on and the times bad at home" - ROUD#5859 - DUNCAN Ms from Mrs Gillespie -- Bell DUNCAN #476 Lambhill, Oyne, Aberdeensh rec by James M.Carpenter on Dictaphone cylinder 1929-35

BROONIE, THE - Story - TOCHER #44 1992 pp125-129 told by Mrs Betsy White of Montrose to Ethnology Class Edinburgh Uniov 1987

BROSE AND BUTTER - "Gie my love brose brose" - ROUD#12585 - BURNS Merry Muses of Caledonia & FARMER Merry Songs & Ballads 1897 1 pp264-5

BROSE AND BUTTER - Triple Jig - KERR MM 3 #294 p32 (D)

BROSNA SLIDE, THE - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #53 p24 Mary Bergin (whistle) - MOYLAN 2 #84 p48 (G) 12/8 from John O Leary (melodeon)

BROTHER, DID YOU WEEP? - comp Ewan McColl 1967 -- Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER (gtr) "The Angry Muse": ARGO ZFB-65 1968

BROTHER GREEN - The last farewell of a Civil War Yankee -- Doug WALLIN, Sodom Laurel, Madison Co NC 23/5/83 VWML-007 d/CASS- 1026 1992 "Crazy about Song" rec Mike Yates (tune: "Barbara Allen" type - PK)

BROTHER TAR'S SONG, THE - ADMIRAL BENBOW

BROTHER'S REVENGE, THE - (Child 11)

BROUGH HILL FAIR - comp by Artisan - Words in Songfile -- ARTISAN at National Garden Festival, Gateshead on RPL Radio 2 27/7/90 CASS-1034

BROWN AND YELLOW ALE, THE - "I was walking the road one fine day" - asked if woman was his daughter, no wife, could she be lent for an hour and a quarter but kept her a day and a quarter - Transl from Gaelic by James Stevens - BEHAN IS #13 --James Stevens rec by Maurice Brown RPL in 1947/ copy of disc rec Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0589 & DAT/ COLUMBIA SL-204 1951/ 7"RTR-0589 - THE VOICE SQUAD: LIVING TRADITION LTCD001 1994 (from HUMMING BIRD HBCD-0002 1992)

BROWN BOOTS - Funeral Song by Stanley Holloway -- COSMOTHEKA rec Bewdley Festival: RPL Radio 2 26/10/88: CASS-30-0738

BROWN BOY - comp by David Campbell, Guyana -- SPINNERS: FONTANA STL-5495 1969

BROWN EDOM - "It fell about a Martinmas time" - CHILD #98 - ROUD#482 - GREIG-DUNCAN Coll 1995 vol 5 #994 pp205-6 12v w/o - GREIG-KEITH 1925 pp72-3 both from Bell Robertson, New Pitsligo, Aberdeensh (w/o)

BROWN EYED GYPSIES - GYPSY LADDIE

BROWN-EYED GIRL, THE - PRIMROSE GIRL (Reel)

BROWN EYED KATE - KERR MM 4 #230 p25 (A)

BROWN GIRL, THE - LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELEANOR

BROWN GIRL, THE - "When first to this country a stranger I came" - He returns to his girl and reminds her that her parents had disapproved of her low estate - "I'm as brown as brown can be" - LAWS #0-2 ABBB 1957 p227 - ROUDSR#889 - Bebbington Bs "The Bonny Brown Girl" --- DEAN FC 1922 pp75-6 (w/o) - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p37 Bernard Young, NS 1951 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp31-32 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB 1954-60 -- Patrick McKEOWN rec by PK, Garrison, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0554 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1123 1976

BROWN GIRL, THE - "It's of a brisk young sailor boy from Dover Town he came" - CHILD #295 - LAWS #P-9 ABBB 1957 pp252-3 "The Rich Irish Lady" or "The Fair Damsel from London" (or "Sally and Billy" "The Sailor from Dover" "Pretty Sally" etc") - ROUD#180 - ASHTON RSS 1891 #70 (w/o) "Sally and Billy" - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1219 pp393-404 (13var) 12v/4m "The Sailor from Dover" ("Pretty Sally" or "Pretty Molly") - BARING GOULD Ms#111 (a) J.Woodrich (unpubl) (b) Will Setter sang it to the tune for "The Green Bed" - SHARP Cf 2 0279 - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #v47 pp218-219 Mrs Lucy Durston, Bridgwater, Somerset 1909/ Mrs Lock, Muchelney Ham, Som 1904 "The Sailor from Dover" - JOYCE OIFM 1909 #153 p78 Co Donegal 1v/m "Am I the Doctor you wished for to see?" - JFSS 8:31 1927 p5-7 Sharp: Mrs Lucy Durston, Bridgwater, Somerset 1909 - HENRY SOP #72/ MOULDEN 1979 p12/ HUNTINGTON 1990 nn, Kilsowen Co Derry 1925 "Am I the doctor?" - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp20-21 "The DS" - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p92 Sharp: Mrs Durston --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #44 (vol 1 pp295-304) 11var: Mrs Mary Sands, Allanstand, NC 1916/ Mrs Tom Rice, Big Laurel, NC 1916/ Mitchell Wallin, Allanstand, NC 1916/ Wm Riley Shelton, Alleghany, NC 1916/ N.B.Chisholm, Woodridge, Va 1916/ Mrs Moore, Rabun Co., Ga 1909 (9v w/o)/ H.D.Kinnard, Berea, Madison Co., Ky 1917/ Joe Blackett, Meadows of Dan, Va 1918 (11v w/m)/ Mrs Virgina Bennett, Burnsville, NC 1918 (10v)/ Mrs Frances Richards, St Peters School, Callaway, Va 1918 (8v)/ Mrs Polly Patrick, Manchester, Clay Co., Ky 1917 (1v w/m) - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp128-130 Mrs Theodosia Bonnett Long Mi (w/o) "The Rich Lady from London" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp134-5 Mrs Samuel Harmon, Tenn 1930 (w/o) - BARRY 1939 - BELDEN Mo 1940 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp205-212 Mrs Anna Baker, Mo 1934/ Mrs Maggie Chadwick, Ark 1942 2v (w/o)/ Mrs Sylvia Hill, Mo 1940 (w/o) "Pretty Sally of London"/ Mrs Wilson, Mo 1942 (w/o) "The Rich Lady"/ Mrs Lilian Short, Mo 1940 "Fair Sally"/ Charles Ingenthron, Mo 1941 "A Rich Lady from London" - BROWN NC 1952- 62 - COFFIN-RENWICK 1950 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p46 Mrs Lottie Marsh Heed, Utah 1947 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 p111 ships log 1845 "Pretty Sally" - KARPELES FSFN 1971 pp108-110 George Taylor, Nfl 1930/ Mrs Mary Mahoney, Nfl 1929 "Pretty Sally" - JAFL 32, 39 p110 & 63 p259 "The Rich Irish Lady" - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p10 no source given - see also BONNY BROWN GIRL - LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELEANOR -- A L LLOYD: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-625 1956 "The Dover Sailor" (from Sharp Somerset) - Frankie ARMSTRONG: TOPIC 12-TS-216 1972 --- Horton BARKER rec by Maud Karpeles, Chilhowie, Va. USA Sept 1950: RPL 17144/ FTX-908 "Pretty Sally" - Recs made at a Concert in Virginia nd RTR #0322 - Peggy SEEGER: RPL (?) "The Rich Irish Lady" - Mrs Jessie SHEILOR rec by PK Meadows of Dan, Patrick Co, Va 1975: FTX-903

BROWN GIRL IN THE RING - "and she looks like a sugar and a plum plum plum" - West Indies Children's Game-song - LEVIN 1974 - SPIN 2/8 p3 from Nadia Cattouse - PLAINSY AT THE BUS STOP (K) -- Girls Government School rec by Alan Lomax, San Juan, Trinidad 1962: & children in Anguilla: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 - with trumpet & gtr: West Indies Broadcast recs for PK: RTR-0445/ CD 945 - BONEY M: CASS-30-0581

BROWN HARE OF WHITEBROOK, THE - "Going down the dale by Alphin they heard John Andrew's horn" - comp by Ammon Wrigley, Saddleworth (d 1941) - ROUD#1870 -- Stuart KAYE, Holme Valley Beagles, Upperthong, Yorksh 1973: LEADER LEE-4056 1975

BROWN JUG, THE - Song Air - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (G) #45 p185 - "Dear Tom"

BROWN LADDIE - MY FATHER'S A FARMER

BROWN RIGG -- Jack ARMSTRONG's NORTHUMBRIAN BARNSTORMER'S Band rec Alan Lomax, Newcastle 1951: SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 aft "Howlet & the Weasel"

BROWN ROBIN - CHILD 97 - ROUD#62 - BUCHAN AB&S 2 pp285-290 (w/o) "BR & Mally" (There is a bird in my father's orchard") - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1932 p343 (9v & 4v w/o) - BRONSON TTCB 2 pp479-81 Version 1 from Ritson-Tytler-Brown Mss p63

BROWN ROBIN'S CONFESSION - WILLIAM GOWER

BROWN THORN, THE - DROIGHNEAN DONN

BROWN'S HORNPIPE - Miss BROWN'S

BROWN'S REEL - BALMORAL p19 (C) for Quadrille

BROWNDEAN LAWS, THE - BRUNDEN LAWS

BROWNE'S POLKA - PERCY BROWNE'S

BROWNED OFF - Second World War Song comp Ewan MacColl 1940 -- Ewan MacCOLL (v/gtr): TOPIC 12-T-130 1968 - YETTIES: ARGO ZDA- 100 1974

BROWNIESIDE POLKA, THE -- CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-245 1974

BRUACHNA CARRAIGE BAINE (Brink of the White Rock) Song in Armagh Gaelic -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-175 1967

BRUBECK, Dave - TAKE FIVE

BRUCE'S LINES - "I went out one evening the skies being clear" - comp by a Mr Bruce, parish minister of Forfar - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1195 pp303-8 (7var 7v/8m some titled "Bonny Annie")

BRUCE'S MARCH - CALEDONIAN MARCH

BRUISE THE PEASE - Single Jig - ROCHE 3 #108 p34 (Dm)

BRUMMAGEM - BIRMINGHAM

BRUNDEN LAWS, THE - (Browndean Laws) - "It was yin nicht in sweet July" - a farm place on Roxburghshire- Northumberland border on the top of the Cheviots, Edgerson near Carter Bar - TOCHER 5 1972 p150 Collinson from James Cockburn, Mellandean, Kelso 1952 -- further verses sent by James McIntoss 1955 - speel-climbing -- Johnny DODD, rec by PK, Bellingham, Northumb 10/7/54/ FTX-425 - Sheila STEWART rec Sidmouth Festival "Folk on Two" 1984 CASS-0453"As I came in by Inverness-shire"

BRUNSWICK WALTZ - KERR MM 1 #7 p50 (G) - MITTEL #71 p28 (G) - WILSON p147 (F)

BRUNTFOOT - possible title to Shetland tune given as "Untitled" -- Andrew POLSON (fid), Whalsay, Shetland: TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 (M) aft "Black Jock" & bef "Ladies Breast Knots"

BRUSH YE BACK MY CURLY LOCKS - "an lace my middle sma" "an nane shall ken my rosy cheeks that my maidenheid's awa" - PORTER- GOWER 1995 p219 3v from Jeannie Robertson -- Enoch KENT & The Reivers: (TOPIC 12-T-128)

BRUTON TOWN - BRAMBLE BRIAR

BRYAN - BRIAN

BRYCE ANDERSON - Jig named after accordionist-leader of Cheviot Ranters -- THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-222 1973 for "The Sylph" dance with "Orig" & "The Hermitage"

BRYN CAMBRON - CAMBORNE HILL

BUACHAILL AN CHIUIL DUALAIGH, A -- sung by the O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60

BUACHAILL CAOL DUBH, AN - (The Dark Slender Boy) -- O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60

BUACHAILL CAOL DUBH, AN - Air/ Reel (G) - CRANITCH #96 p165 - MOYLAN 1 #42 Reel from Willie Clancy & #54 Jig from Willie Clancy "An Buachaill Dreoite" - PETRIE 1855 1 p19 - ROCHE 1 #24 p14 (Gm) 4/4 & #25 p14 (G) 3/4 -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) of Co Clare rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-39 1980 CASS-0816

BUACHAILL O'N SLIAB - March - ROCHE 2 #346 p61 (G) 2/4

BUACHAILL NA GRAGHAIL BRABEE - (Golden-haired Lad) (sung in English) "Molly, Lovely Molly" Conversation between lad & Molly leading to happy marriage - mentions Killarney & Tralee -- Michael CRONIN rec Alan Lomax Dublin 1951: 7"RTR-0587 & DAT

BUACHAILLE NAN EILEAN - KENNEDY-FRASER: SOTH vol 2 1917 pp 2830 "To the Lord of the Isles" from the traditional singing of Kenneth McLeod

BUACHAILLIN BUI, AN - (Jig) - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): RTECD-199 1997: aft "Pipe on the Hob"

BUACHAILLIN BAN, AN - FAIR HAIRED BOY (Jig)

BUACHAILLIN DONN, THE - Song of false love - sung in English - PETRIE I #254 Eb omitted in key signature - JOYCE OIFM 1909 #81 "My true love dwells on the mountain" - JFSS 18 1914 p57 coll Sharp "My Boughleen Dhown" - HIUGHES ICS 4 56-8- CROININ 2000 #35 pp83-4 - see also THE BANKS OF SUIR -- Maureen Melly rec by PK, Belfast 2/8/53: RPL 19354/ FTX-434

BUACHAILLIN DONN - Instr -- Tommy POTTS (fid): CLADDAGH CC-13 1971

BUACHAILL RUA, THE (BUACHAL ROE) - "Come all you pretty fair maids give ear and join with me" - sung in English - she sings of her true love, a soldier who was wounded and taken prisoner fighting against England so she write to the Queen to pardon him and eventually he is set free so she can crown him with laurels on the banks of Lough Erne's shore - CROININ 2000 #152 pp229-231 incl Mrs Cronin's version written in her own handwriting -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Alan Lomax, Macroom, Co Cork 1951: FTX-162/ RPL 19023/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 #18 - Annie LUNNEY (daughter of Bridget TUNNEY) of Belleek, Co Fermanagh, rec by PK, Belfast 3/8/52: RPL 18540/ FTX-434 "Buachal Roe" - Joe TUNNEY (with Paddy in last verse) rec by PK, London 14/10/58: 7"RTR-0559/ FTX-164 "My Charming Buachal Roe"

BUBBLING WATER - Contemplated suicide lamenting soldier, William Phipps -- "Lucky" LUCKHURST (of London) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332

BUCHAN BOBBY, THE - Eric SIMPSON (unacc singer) rec Aberdeensh: SLEEPYTOON SLPYMC001 1999 (Cass)

BUCHAN MILLER, THE - I AM A MILLER TO MY TRADE

BUCHAN PLOOMAN, THE - "I bothied for a six month" - Bothy Ballad comp by George Morris - KERR I Book 1 p18-9 - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p247 from Belle Stewart given under title: "The Cairn"

BUCHAN ROAD, THE - "'Twas in the year 1808" when a turnpike through Buchan was made straight - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #460 (6var)

BUCK CREEK GIRL(S) - - "Cripple Creek Girls don't you want to go to Somerset?" - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #241 (vol 2 p352) 2var: Miss Lizzie Abner, Oneida School, Clay Co., Ky 1917(publ)/ Mrs Wilson, Pineville, Bell Co., Ky 1917 "Buck Creek Girls" - Cf PIGTOWN FLING -- John BURKE (b) "Old Time Fiddle tunes for banjo" 1975 CASS-30-0807 "Buck Creek Girl" - Hobart SMITH (fid), Charley Debuck (banjo) & Fred Galligher (gtr) rec by AL, Saltville, Va 1942: ROUNDER 1799 2001 "Rocky Mountain"

BUCK DANCE -- Mance LIPSCOMB b1895 (gtr) Texas (talk bef) Paul OLIVER "Before the Blues" Radio 2 25/11/87 & 3/12/87: CASS-0431 - Hobart SMITH (banjo) rec by Alan Lomax, Saltville, Va 1942: AFS 8725 A2/ ROUNDER 1799 2001 --- Tom PALEY (+ guitar): TOPIC 12-TPS-145 1966 - Roger NICHOLSON & Gerry ROLF (Appal dulcimers): ARGO ZDA-204 1974

BUCK OF TIPPERARY, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 p5 (D ends Em) - Tunebook Ms (D) #131 p51

BUCKED AND SCORNED -- ODETTA rec Jack Hawkins, San Franscisco, USA 1956: TRADITION TLP-1010 1957

BUCKET OF THE MOUNTAIN DEW, THE - MOUNTAIN DEW

BUCKETS OF WATER - DRAW A BUCKET (K)

BUCKIN MULE. THE - KICKING MULE

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - DASHING YOUNG LAD FROM BUCKINGHAM - OLD FAT BUCK (Chris WILLETT) - LOUGHTON MAY CAROL - OLNEY PANCAKE RACE CUSTOM -- Recordings see AREA Listing

BUCKLEY'S FAVOURITE - Reel (G) - COLE #2 p14 - O'NEILL DMI #1211/ DMI #487 "Buckley's Fancy"

BUCK'S ELEGY, THE - UNFORTUNATE RAKE

BUCKS A-HUNTING GO - WHEN BUCKS A-HUNTING GO

BUCKS OF MOURNEBEG, THE - Castlederg, Co Tyrone - Frag of "Molly Maguire" (Free Ireland Movememt) Song -- John CORRY rec by James P Foley Castlederg Co Tyrone 1985

BUCKS OF ORANMORE, THE - Galway - Reel (D) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #248 p128 4pts - KENNEDY FTB 2 publ Mallinson 1997 #13 p5 (D) - KERR MM 4 #57 p9 & #167 p19 titled "Bucks of Cranmore" (misprint ?) - Tunebook Ms #79 p296 - MOYLAN 1 #10 (simplified transcription) & p85 (original) from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes) - MITCHELL #32 p38-9 8pts from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #1199/ DMI #476 4pts - ROCHE 1 #149 p59 -- James MORRISON (fid) & Tom ENNIS (U-pipes) with John MULLEN (piano) rec New York 1921-1935: TOPIC 12-T-390 1980 with "New Steamboat" & "Gardeners Daughter" - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec by Alan Lomax 1951: COLUMBIA SL-204 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1742 1998/ 7"RTR-0589/ rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED "40 yrs of Irish Piping" FFR-001-2 1976 Also has another track with "Sligo Maid's Lament"/ RTE-CD-199 1997 aft "Fair-haired Girl" - CHIEFTAINS #4 CLADDAGH CC-14 1973 Sean KEANE (fid) - John WRIGHT (jaws harp): CHANT DU MONDE LDX-74434 1974 - Bernard O SULLIVAN (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS 1976 - Paddy KEENAN (U-pipes) rec Kilburn National 24/7/78: RPL/ Strange Fruit SFRSCD-063 1996 aft "Garret Barry's (Tune the fiddle)"

BUCKS OF WESTMEATH, THE - Jig - LEVEY 1 #16 p7 (A) 3pts - O'NEILL MOI #979/ DMI #383 (G ending C) given as Single Jig

BUCKSKIN BREECHES - Triple Jig - ROCHE 3 #117 p36 (G ending D)

BUD OF ROSES, THE - Song Air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (D) #197 p252

BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME ? - Song of those laid off the American railroads -- Andrew FRANK with Michael HEBBERT (conc): FREE REED FRR-009 1977

BUDDY FUREY'S - Polka - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #71 p35 (Am)

BUDDY, WON'T YOU ROLL? - from Uncle Dave Macom -- Hedy WEST (+ banjo): FONTANA STL-5432 1967 (S)/ CASS-0482

BUDELBIN'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND - FAREWELL TO IRELAND

BUENA VISTA - "From Rio Grande's waters to the icy lakes of Maine" - ROUD#2829 - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp135-139 Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o)

BUFF AND BLUE - Highland - KENNEDY FTB 2 publ Mallinson 1997 #14 p5 (G) - Tunebook Ms (G) #110 p306 - Cf MITTELL #25 p12 (D) "Blue and Buff"

BUFF BLOW -- New Year Custom Song (Gloucestersh) - George MAISEY rec by Gwilym Davies, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham 1976: FTX-417 - PUZZLEJUG "Let us be merry" CD-PJ3 1996

BUFF'S GRAND MARCH, THE - Tunebook Ms (G) #5 p114

BUFFALO, THE - CHASE THE BUFFALO

BUFFALO GALS - "As I was rambling down the street" - "I danced wi a girl wi a hole in her stockin" - ROUD#738 - "The Songs of the Day" (c1870) p271 - PALMER 1979 #136 p224 "Bell Tune" from FOLKLORE vol 47 1936 p395-6 & vol 49 1938 p217-8 from St Michaels-on-Wyre in Fylde Lancs --- SPAETH 2 WSM 1927 p108 -- Tony WALES (with gtr) 7"RTR-0089 dub from FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 "Horsham Boys" from "A Parliamentary History of Horsham (Sussex) 1295-1885"

BUFFALO GALS - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p28/ 1994 #115 p30 also called "Old Johnny Walker"- ROCHE 3 #129 p39 (G) Used for Quadrille Set - see Mr NOAH (Flamborough Sword Dance ditty) - GARDHAM 1982 #5 p9 "Old Johnny Walker" from Flamborough - BAYARD HCT 1944 #1 & DTF 1982 167 p113/ 336/ 454/ App 18 (10var) - Rhyme used at Dent in Yorkshire for Square Eight: "Old Jack Fawcett had a pig, had a pig, had a pig, OJF had a pig, it died and then he killed it"-- Peter BERESFORD (fid) rec by PK, Buckden, W Yorks: FTX-211 "My little donkeys lost his shoe" played for "Square Eight" dance - Harry BOARDMAN (with N-pipes fid mand & drum): TOPIC 12-TS-236 1973 "Beltane Song" - Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977 aft "Lady of the Lake" -usa- Nathan HICKS (voc) & Frank PROFITT (gtr) rec Warners NC 1959: FTX-927 - Jimmy EANES & Shenandoah Valley Boys: MELODISC MLP 12-116 "Calling the tune" #6 25/2/63 "Round Town Girls" - Franklin GEORGE & Dick SUMMERS (fids): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-229 1972 "Round Town Girls" - Clark KESSINGER (fid) accomp Gene MEADE (gtr) & Gene PARKER (banjo) rec Charles Faurot, Union Grove, NC 1968: SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-231 1972 "Round Town Gal" - Frank WARNER with Jeff & Gerret: MINSTREL JD-204 1976 - Bookmiller SHANNON (5-str banjo) rec by Alan Lomax, Timbo, Ark., Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1707 1997

BUFFALO HOLLOW -- Peggy SEEGER (v/banjo) RPL Radio 2 24/8/78: CASS-0412 1v only

BUFFALO JUMP - Song about Canadian Indians -- Dougie McLEAN (v/gtr): CASS-30-0702 with talk

BUFFALO SKINNERS - "Twas in the town of Jacksboro" - LAWS B10 Also called "The Hills of Mexico" (NAB p137) - ROUD#634 - CARMER p172 - THORP Songs of the Cowboys 1908 pp31-3 "Buffalo Range" - LOMAX:Cowboy Songs p335 - LOMAX AB&FS p390 - LOMAX FSUSA p174 -- Pete HARRIS (voc & gtr) rec by John & Alan Lomax, Richmond, Texas May 1934 (see also "Jack o Diamonds" "He Rambled" (Ram Song) & "Little Liza Jane" with square dance calls) - John LOMAX: Lof C 2075A & 2088 B - Alan LOMAX (voc with gtr) rec by PK: EMI CLP- 1192 1958/ FTX-941 - Roy GUEST with THE TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID-5165 1963 - Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL- 7624 1965 [?] set of 4 LPs titled "Folk Song & Minstrelsy" by The Book of the Month Club)

BUFFOON, THE - Morris Dance Tune - SHARP Morris tune from Sam Bennett, Ilmington, Warwicksh (used for Adderburuy ?) -- John ROSE (fid) & Paul HOOKE (guitar): TOPIC 12-TS-210 1971 - (conc) NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-011 1972 - John KIRKPATRICK with Sue HARRIS, Martin CARTHY, Martin BRINSFORD & Fi FRASER: "Plain Capers" Morris Dances from the Cotswolds: FREE REED FRR-010 1976 from Adderbury Oxfordsh followed by "Fool's Jig"

BUG AND THE FLEA, THE - or "The Pride of Idaho" -- Rowland KELLETT of Leeds rec by PK, London: FTX-209

BUGABOO, THE - FOGGY DEW

BUGEILES Y WYDDFA (The Snowdon Shepherdess) - Welsh -- Ben PHILLIPS rec by Seamus Ennis, Lochtwrffin, Mathry, Pembrokesh 17/10/52: RPL 19069/ FTX-052

BUGEILO'R GWENITH GWYN (J Thomas) -- Mair JONES (harp) rec 8/10/47 National Eisteddfod: RPL 13202

BUGERBOO - FOGGY DEW

BUGLE HORN, THE - English Country Dance - WILSON p114 2/4 (G) (with dance descr) - see LADY IN THE BOAT (Jig with this name)

BUGLE PLAYED FOR ME, THE - FOOLISH BOY

BUGLE QUICKSTEP, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 p5 (3 titled "Bugle Quickstep #11" (D ends Bm) 3pts, #12 (D) 3pts & #13 (A ends E7) 4pts - see also under QUICKSTEPS

BUGLE WALTZ, THE - Tunebook Ms (D) 4 pts #93 p484

BUILD A BONFIRE - " - put the teacher on the top" -- rec Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION MEN, THE - comp John Faulkner -- STAVERTON BRIDGE Folk Group: SAYDISC SDL-266

BUILDING OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, THE - FREEMASON KING

BUILDING WORK - BOLD CONTRUCTION MEN (John Faulkner) - CROOKED JACK (Behan) - O'REILLY AND BIG McNEIL

BUINNEAN BUI, AN - "that ne'er broke out" (The Yellow Bittern) - Song in Irish Gaelic - ROUD#9734 - O BOYLE: CNUASACHT DE CHEOLTAI ULADH 1944 #1 p5 - SULLIVAN IFMS 1952 p124 - Liam O Connor's "Songs of the North of Ireland" 1994 Ms p183 -- Sean McDONAGH, Carna, Co Galway 1951 rec on acetate disc: 7"RTR-0591 & DAT/ COLUMBIA SL-204/ CLADDAGH CC-9 1971 - Bobbie CLANCY rec by Seamus Ennis, Carrick-on Suir, Co Tipperary 1960: RPL LP 29886 - Tim LYONS: LEADER LER-3036 1972

BULGARIA - - MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER AND THE RING (Rooke) -- Recordings see AREA Listing

BULL AT THE WAGON -- played by Earl COLLINS (fiddle with guitar), Missouri-Oklahoma 1970 on 2003 Film of Bess Lomax Hawes (B/W)

BULL BAITING - BULLARD'S SONG - YE THREE TALL MEN

BULL FROG, THE - FROG'S WEDDING

BULL MORGAN McCARTHY - "Now me name is BMMcC from Thrim" - ROUD#3276 - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp336-7 John Brown, River John, NS (w/o)

BULLARD'S SONG, THE - "Come all you bonny boys who love to bait the bonny bull" (at Stamford, Lincolnsh) - PALMER TOTT 1974 p112 text: Chambers "Book of Days" vol 2 1863 p566 tune from Country Folklore; Lincolnsh 1908 263-4

BULLDOG GOIN BITE ME - "come hold your dog" - shanty -- Reginald SYDER (chanteyman) & crew of 4 rec by AL, Newcastle, Nevis & George SWEENEY (gtr), Alvin PRENTICE (gtr), Joseph REID (baha (boom piped) & Selwyn WATHEY (spoon) rec by AL, Irishtown, St Kitts, July 1962: ROUNDER CD 1731 2002 #25 & #31 (2 variants)

BULLGINE, THE - CLEAR THE TRACK - RUN WITH THE BULLGINE

BULLOCK BELLS AT NIGHT - "keep me awake to delight - you can get no sleep at the mill" - Australian -- Cyril DUNCAN: LARRIKIN LRK-007 1976

BULLOCKIES BALL, THE - Ch: "O me hearties that was a party - lots of grog" etc - Australian drinking song - uses FINNEGAN'S WAKE tune -- Trevor SHEARSTON'S Group: LARRIKIN LRD-9012 1981

BULLOCKIES TOAST, THE - "Here's to you as good as you are - here's to me bad as I am" Australian drinking song -- Clarrie PETERS (mel): LARRIKIN LRK-007 1976

BULLOCK-MAN FRAE MIDTOWN, THE - "O it was yin Monday morning I parted frae Drummore" - Local Dumfries Song - ROUD#9241 -- Togo CRAWFORD rec by Seamus Ennis, Mossdale, Kircudbrightsh 28/5/53: RPL 21863 (7v)/ FTX-262

BULLOCKS - FIVE MILES FROM GUNDAGAI - PLOUGHING (with bullocks)

BULLOCKY-O - "I'm thinking of bullock-driving-O, don't you know" - Australian -- Cyril DUNCAN: LARRIKIN LRK-007 1976

BULLROARER -- Recordings see INSTRUMENTS Listing

BULLS WON'T BELLOW, THE - "I used to be as happy as the little birds above" -- Harry WESTAWAY (frag) rec by PK, Belstone, Devon Aug 1950 7T-010 FTX-241 - Bill WESTAWAY (frag), his brother 7T-012-3 FTX-241 - John PACKER,Cheddar Somerset 13/5/50 (words in Song file)

BULLY BOAT, THE - RANZO RAY (Shanty)

BULLY FOR YOU - Jig - DONALD NA GREINE

BULLY IN THE ALLEY - Sea Shanty - "So help my bob..." - ROUD#8287 - SHARP EFC 1914 #35 p40 from John Short Watchet Som - HUGILL 1961 p523 -- James FORMAN, rec by James Carpenter, Leith, Edinburgh 1928: FTX-141 (Also rec from Edward Robinson, Sunderland - ROGUE'S GALLERY: on Radio 2: 26/10/88: CASS-15-0735/ RPL Radio 2 13/4/88 CASS-90-0848 - Group of men from Andros Island rec by Alan Lomax, Grantstown, Nassau, Bahamas Aug 1935: ROUNDER CD-11661-1822-2 1999 "John Bully" (AAFS 499A)

BULLY OF THE TOWN - Appalachian Dance tune -- Mrs Etta BAKER (gtr): TRADITION TLP-1007 1956-7

BULWER'S POLKA -- OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 - FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 "Walter Bulwer No 1" bef "In the Toyshop"

BUMP, BUMP, HERE COMES A TAXICAB - "ready for the wedding at half past three" - Kids Skipping Rhyme - RITCHIE SS p31 -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1952: 7"RTR-0720/ 181 (also in the "Singing Street" cine-film of Edinburgh children's games 1953)

BUMPER ALLEN'S DELIGHT - Reel - ROCHE 3 #79 p24 (D)

BUMPER AT PARTING, A - Triple Jig (D) - HAYWOOD #9 p5 - KERR MM 3 #302 p32

BUMPERS - CROFTON 1886 Popular Songs of Ireland p94 Tune: "Lilliburlero"

BUM-BOATS - OLD MOTHER CRAWLEY

BUNCH OF CLOVER, THE - ORANGE ROGUE

BUNCH OF CURRANTS, THE - Jig - LEVEY 1 #60 p24 (G) - O'NEILL DMI #404 "I'm a silly old man" - Version of "Basket of Oysters" (Greensleeves)

BUNCH OF CURRANTS, THE - Reel - MAGUIRE 1 #63 p17 (Em) from his father, Jack Maguire

BUNCH OF GREEN RUSHES - BUNCH OF RUSHES - GREEN BED OF RUSHES

BUNCH OF HAWS, THE - Triple Jig - MAGUIRE 1 #93 p26 (G)

BUNCH OF KEYS, THE - Reel - BRODY p59 (2var: G & A) one called "Old b of k" - CRANITCH #80 p155 3pts -- John DORAN (U-pipes) rec Kevin Danagher IFLC Dublin 1947 on RTE radio prog 28/3/88 & 4/4/88 CASS 90-0914 aft "Rakish Paddy" - Michael GORMAN (fid): TOPIC 12-T-6 1958 - Margaret BARRY & others: TOPIC 12- T-123 1965 - Paddy TAYLOR (flute) Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 [?] bef "Sandmount" - Jimmy HOGAN Trio rec by PK London 1958: FTX-371/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 "Traditional Dance Music of Ireland" titled "The Boys of the Spuds" - Tommy POTTS (fid): CLADDAGH CC-13 1971 aft Air "Parting Glass"/ intro by Seamus Ennis on RTE radio prog 1985 CASS#0865 aft "The Parting Glass" - John KELLY (fid) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 - Rose MURPHY on TOPIC 1976/ OSSIAN OSS-21 1989/ CASS-1279 -- Martin BYRNES (fid) accomp Reg HALL (piano) rec Camden Town 26/2/67: TOPIC TSCD-603 1997 aft "Eileen Curran"

BUNCH OF NUTS, THE - CLUSTER OF NUTS

BUNCH OF PEELERS WENT OUT ONE DAY, A - PEELERS & THE GOAT

BUNCH OF ROSES, THE - BLOOD RED ROSES - BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES-O - BUD OF ROSES

BUNCH OF ROSES - "show me your dress, hat, watch, hair, shoes, slip, friend: You dance the rhumba" single child dances down and back between parallel lines of facing partners -- children rec by Alan Lomax, San Juan Government Girls School, Trinidad 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 "Coming down with a bunch of roses"

BUNCH OF ROSES, THE - Jig - GREENSLEEVES

BUNCH OF ROSES, THE - Reel - COLE #2 p36 (G)

BUNCH OF RUSHES, THE - "Early one summer morning abroad as I did walk for sport" - pleasant arbour - Song of False Love - see BINNSIN LUACHRA (Gaelic) - ROUD#831 - Many Bs - JFSS 3:10 1907 pp17-21 Lucy Broadwood: Bridget Geary & Michael Geary, Cappoquin, Co Waterford 1906 (incl Gaelic "An Binnsinn Luachra" macaronic text) - HAMMOND FSFD 1908 - BROCKLEBANK- KINDERSLEY p28 Hammond: Robert Barratt, Puddletown, Dorset - PURSLOW MB 1965 p8 Hammond: Robert Barratt, Piddletown, Dorset 1905 "The Bonny Bunch of Rushes" - REEVES EC 1960 118-9 - HENRY SOP "The Tossing of the Hay" Cf 4th Century Chinese Love song "Plucking the Rushes" & French: "Jeanneron prend sa facille" - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB1 1975 pp50-51 Bs (w/o) --- American Songster p209 - HENRY 1938 635 - CREIGHTON FSNB 1971 54 Angelo Dornan NB 2v/m 1954-60 "The Bonny Bunch of Rushes Green" ("I'll deck you out in splendour with costly jewels my Arabian queen" ) -- Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-264 1975 "The Reaping of the Rushes Green" - Philip McDERMOTT: TOPIC TSCD-668 1998 Hunting & Poaching --- Peggy SEEGER "The Amorous Muse": ARGO ZFB-66 1968 --- Angelo Dornan rec by Helen Creighton, St Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada NMM (7"-33 LP) 1971 - O J ABBOTT rec by Edith Fowke, Ontario, Canada: LEADER LEE- 4057 1974

BUNCH OF RUSHES, THE - Set Dance/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 1954 2 p6/ 1994 #21 p8 - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (Dm) #165 p237 - O'NEILL MOI 136 "The Little Bench of Rushes" or "Bunch of Green Rushes" or "Life is all chequered" - Cf JOB OF JOURNEYWORK -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): TRADITION TLP-1013 1958 [?]/ EMBER EMB-2054 1964 - John REA (H-dulc) Co Antrim: TOPIC 12-TS-373 1979/ TSCD-652 1998 (Sea) "The Bonny Bunch of Roses"- John KELLY (fid/conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 (Reel) "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" - Michael PUNZAK (fid) rec by PK, Bristol 1962: FTX-910 (from O'Neill)

BUNCH OF THYME, THE - FALSE YOUNG MAN - SPRIG OF THYME

BUNCH OF WATERCRESSES, THE - WATERCRESS GIRL

BUNCLAUDY or BUNCLODY - MAID OF BUNCLODY - STREAMS OF BUNCLAUDY

BUNCRANA TRAIN - comp by D Sullivan -- McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5214 1964

BUNDLE AND GO - Song - "Frae Clyde's bonny hills where the heather was blooming" - Courtship Song - ROUD #3329 - FORD VSB 1 pp35-7 2var w/o - ORD BB 1930 p138-140 2var w/o ("The winter is gone love") - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #888 p439 3var - SHARP Broadside Coll 2060 p163 Liverpool starts "Clyde's Bonny Banks" (6 v) - ORD BB 1930 (w/o) -- see BONNY WEE LASSIE WHO NEVER SAID NO - UNFORTUNATE RAKE -- Mrs Andrew THOMPSON, Spey Bay, Banffsh #294 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Sheila GALLAGHER, rec by PK, Middledore, Gweedore, Co Donegal 24/8/52: FTX-271 - Jeannie ROBERTSON rec by PK 1953: FTX-186 (8v)/ TOPIC 12-T-96 1959 - John MAGUIRE, Co Fermanagh: LEADER LEE-4062 1973

BUNDLE AND GO - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #52 p28 - COLE #7 p54 "Bundle and go" - FELDMAN p85 from Johnny Doherty (fid) (A) - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #191 p44 (Em) alt: "An Cliabh Mona" "The Disconsolate Buck" "The Lass from College Land" "Wandering Harper" "The wee Wee Man" - KERR MM #27 p38 - LEVEY 2 #39 p17 - LEVEY 2 #39 p17 - O'NEILL MOI #970/ DMI #32 "The Basket of Turf" - Tune used for the song: BUNDLE AND GO -- John DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19585/ FTX-273/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 2000 "Bundle and go" - John REA (ham dulc) Antrim: TOPIC 12-TS-373 1979 - Walter BULWER (fid): TOPIC TSCD- 662 Sailors

BUNDLE OF STRAW, THE - LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND

BUNDLING - BRUNDEN LAWS

BUNDLING SONG - comp by GP "I did all my courtin tied up in a sack" -- Graham PRATT (v/gtr) rec RPL Concert Hall Radio 2 16/11/82 CASS-15-0783

BUNG THE BARREL - the most widespread of all Boys Playground or Street Games involving "Leap Frog" and known by a large number of regional names - OPIE CGSP 1969 pp255-262 "Hi Jimmy Knacker" & "Skin the cuddy" -- Lucky LUCKHURST (of Edmonton, London) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332

BUNG YOUR EYE - "As a jolly Exciseman was walking down the street/ One day as Jack was walking along a Bristol/ London street" - ROUD#2404 - LOGAN PP 1869 p416 (Note says "Bung Your Eye" was cant for a type of gin) - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p405 3var - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #225 2 pp113-4 Mrs R Sage, Chew Stoke, Somerset 1907 - HENRY SOP #700/ MOULDEN p105/ HUNTINGTON 1970 pp277-8 Frank Thompson, Priestland, Co Antrim 1937 "Mind your eye" - CHAPBOOK mag vol 2 #6 p5 from Molly Stewart (Irish tinker) --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 p78 "Jack the sailor" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 pp895-6 Gordon Willis, St Johns, Nfl 1952 "Young Bung'er eye" -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682 "Jolly Exciseman" (2v only) - CLANCY brothers & Tommy MAKEM: TRADITION TLP-1042 1961 - DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MM-LP-14 1968/ EMI MFP 5223 "Quare Bungle Rye" - Bobby CLANCY (solo): EMBER EMB-2057 1968 - Bernard WRIGLEY: TOPIC 12-TS-211 1971 - Kathryn TICKELL (N-pipes) RPL Radio 2 10/8/88: CASS-90-0549 "Mary the Maid"

BUNG YOUR EYE - Jig (Am) - HAYWOOD #46 p21 (Gm) "The Brisk Young Lad" - KENNEDY FTB 1 #198 p50/ 1994 #198 p50 "Mary the Maid" - KERR 1 #3 p31 "There came a young man" - WILLIAMSON p50 - Tunebook Ms J#194 p79 "Henry's Fancy Jig" - O'NEILL MOI #895/ DMI #142 (##A) "The Jolly Old Man" -- Kathryn TICKELL (N-pipes) Radio 2 10/8/88: CASS-90-0549 "Mary the Maid"

BUNGAY ROGER/ TOWN - MUDDLEY BARRACKS

BUNKER HILL - title used for THE HUNTSMAN'S CHORUS tune in the USA -- Jimmy DRIFTWOOD (v/gtr/mouth bow): RCA Victor LSP-1994 1959

BUNKER HILL - Reel - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #787 (#D) 3pts "Bunker Hill" - ROCHE 1 #186 p71 "Bunker's Hill" - TWEED p14 (D) 3pts -- Jimmy HOGAN Trio rec by PK, London 1958: FTX-371/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 "Traditional Dance Music of Ireland" with "Tommy Whelan's"

BUNYAN - PILGRIM'S HYMN

BUONAPARTE - BONAPARTE

 
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