I AINT GOING TO STUDY WAR NO MORE - DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

I AM A BOLD UNDAUNTED YOUTH - BANISHED LOVER

I AM A BO'SUN TO MY TRADE - JACK WILLIAMS

I'M A BOW LEGGED CHICKEN - "and a knock-kneed hen" - Children's Ring Dance with actions - OPIE SG 1985 #128 pp431-3 "Tennessee Wig-walk" orig comp as action song by Norman Gimbel music by Larry Coleman 1953 -- rec by Damian Webb, 28/3 St Mary's Juniors, Chorley, Lancash 1969: FTX-196 #1 - rec by DW, 31/8 St Theresa Juniors, Crossgates, Leeds 1975: FTX-196 #15 - rec by DW, Tralee, Co Kerry 1960: IRE 17 & 22/ FOLKTAX-179 "I'm a one-legged chicken" - Children rec Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 "Two Fat Ladies" - Isla St CLAIR: Various childrens songs (unacc): on Radio 19/4/89: CASS-10-0717 "B L Chicken & Sailor" (separate items)

I AM A BRISK AND BONNY LAD/ LASS - BRISK AND BONNY - COUNTRY LASS - MY MOTHER DID SO BEFORE ME

I AM A BRISK LAD BUT MY FORTUNE IS BAD - SHEEPSTEALER

I AM A BRISK YOUNG SAILOR - HANDSOME CHAMBERMAID

I AM A BRISK YOUNG SAILOR - "all on the seas I'm bound" captured he returns home to his love Nancy - ROUD#1042 - REEVES EC 1960 p155 Gardiner: Richard Hall, Itchen Abbas, Hampsh 1905 (w/o) - PURSLOW WS 1968 p54 Richard Hall (text amended from another version)

I AM A COACHMAN - "out on the high road - blacksmith - a-kissing & courting - fisherman - pleasures of trade " - ROUD#1043 - REEVES EC 1960 p156 John Hallett, Mosterton, Dorset 1906 3v (w/o)

I'M A DAMSEL SO BLOOMING AND GAY - WILLIAMS #596 (w/o)

I'M A DAY TOO YOUNG - "As I walked out one May morning - come a- trippling o'er the plains to me" Ch: "With my fol-fol-lol" - ROUD#2633 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #174 John Vincent, Priddy, Somerset 1905 "As I walked out" - REEVES IP 1958 #30 p109 John Vincent (w/o)

I'M A DONE, JOHNNY, NOO - LEA BOY'S LASSIE

I AM A DONKEY DRIVER - JERUSALEM CUCKOO

I AM A DUTCH GIRL - I AM A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL

I AM AN ENGLISHMAN BY BIRTH - DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH

I'M A FOUNDRYMAN BY TRADE - "I've never done no other" - comp by GM 1961 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-225

I AM A FREEBORN MAN - FREEBORN MAN

I'M A GENT - "I'm a gent (x3) ready made" - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp75-6 Bs (w/o)

I AM A GIRL GUIDE DRESSED IN BLUE - "These are the actions I can do" - Children's Skipping Game with actions - RITCHIE GC p132 -- rec by Damian Webb, (Portugal) 10/5 East Grinstead 1959 - rec by DW, 4/9 St Johns Juniors, Workington 1960: FTX-197 #9 & #21 - rec by DW, 4/20 Workington, Cumberland 1960 Clapping "dressed in green" -- rec by Damian Webb, 9/10 - rec by DW, 18/10 Pickering, Yorksh Junior Girls 1961 follows with I'M A LITTLE SCOTCH GIRL - St Peter's RC School, East Grinstead, Sussex rec by DW 1959 DAT Reel 11

I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL - "I served with old Bob Lee three years about" - ROUD#823 - COX FSOS 1926 pp281-2 from "Gems of the Confederacy" 1903 (w/o) - HUDSON FSM 1936 p259-260 Mrs Burnette, Mi (w/o)

I AM A JOVIAL RANGER - TRAVEL THE COUNTRY ROUND

I AM A KING'S DAUGHTER - LORD GREGORY

I'M A LAD THAT'S FREE AND EASY - FREE AND EASY

I AM A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL - "from Holland I come - I wear a pretty apron - baggy troosers - go away I hate you - why do you hate me? - because you stole my necklace - here is your necklace - pray God forgive me - now we're getting married - now I've got a baby - push chair - old and weary - dead and buried - pretty angels (or fairies)" - Children's Game in two lines - sometimes with change of rhythm - also titled "I'm A Pretty Little Dutch Girl" -ROUD#13205 - OPIE SG 1985 #72 pp307-9 - to Waltz tune "Poor Jenny" Or "Buy A Broom" - see also I'M A PRETTY LITTLE DUTCH GIRL -- rec by Damian Webb, 12/14 Noblehill Junior Girls, Dumfries, 1960: FTX-190 (mentions "Dundee") - rec by DW, 20/7 Moss Bay Juniors, Workington, Cumb 1962: FTX-195 #20 - rec by DW, 31/3 St Theresa's, Leeds Yorksh 1975 - Lon-las School, Llansamlet, Swansea May 1982 rec by Welsh Folk Museum: SAYDISC SDL-CD-338 1983 "I am a Dutch girl/ boy"

I AM A LITTLE ORPHAN (GIRL) - "my mother she is dead - my father is a drunkard and won't buy any bread" - Children's "French" skipping song - ROUD#12943 - RITCHIE GC p117 "German" rope skipping with one rope laid on the ground for alternate side-jumping & p124 Skipping - ORPHAN GIRL -- rec by Jean Ritchie, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1949: RPL 13869/ rec by Alan Lomax 1951: COLUMBIA SL-207 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998/ FTX-181 - rec by Damian Webb, St Mary's Junior School, Edinburgh 1961: 14/1/ FTX-198 & FTX-289 #7 - Josephine Donnelly, solo girl (aged 9) rec by Damian Webb, Workington, Cumberland 1961: 17/9 & 18/1 as slow "Traditional Christmas song" (learned from Scots rec) - Isabel SUTHERLAND: EFDSS LP-1007 1974

I'M A LITTLE SANDY GIRL - THREE LITTLE SANDY GIRLS

I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT - "short and stout" -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173 comp sung in cockney

I AM A MAID THAT'S DEEP IN LOVE - MAID IN SORROW

I AM A MAIDEN SAD AND LONELY - VIRGIN'S WREATH

I AM A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW - MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW

I AM A MAN OF HONOUR - "from Virginia I did come - I courted a pretty fair maiden - Miss Polly was her name" - Texas GLADDEN rec by Alan Lomax, Salem, Va 1946 (1v only): ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001

I'M A MAN THAT'S DONE WRONG TO MY PARENTS - "I'm a man that's in sorrow and trouble" - ROUD#1386 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 p160 (Dorset/Somerset) - UDAL DFL 1922 Herbert Pentin: Procs of The Dorset Field Club 27 1906 (w/o) --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p271 Mrs Amanda Buys Shelton, Utah 1947 (w/o) "I did wrong to my parents" - EDWARDS AUFS 1972 pp49-50 Mick Dolan, Machans Beach, Queensland, Australia 1970 -- Wally FULLER (gypsy) rec by PK, Laughton, Sussex 11/11/52: RPL 18718 talk aft/ FTX-140 - Harry UPTON, rec by Mike Yates, Balcombe, Sussex: TOPIC SP-104 1977

I'M A MAN YOU DON'T MEET EVERY DAY - I'M THE MAN

I AM A MILLER TO MY TRADE - "I am a jolly miller come frae the mill o S'alloch" - ROUD#503/ (Buchan Miller:#888) - GARDINER Ms 3var Hampsh 1906 - SHARP Ms 2var Somerset 1906-7 - REEVES IP 1958 #63 p56 "The Miller and the Lass" coll Sharp (Somerset) - BUCHAN SS 1962 p86-7 from Lucy Stewart of Fetterangus coll Kenneth Golstein - FOLK mag #2 (ed by Peter Kennedy) 1962 John Mcdonald - PURSLOW CL 1972 p60 coll Gardiner Hampsh- KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #218 p514 John McDonald "The Buchan Miller" --- CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p31 NS "The Miller" (Singer made the millsounds combining his elbow and hand on the table) - Cf MILLER AND THE LASS - MILLER OF DEE -- James TROUP #195Huntly, Aberdeensh & Alex ROBB #320 & #323 Strichen rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - George S MORRIS rec 1930's: FTX-360 "The Buchan Miller" (with "father and son" speech & mill machinery sounds) - John STRACHAN rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire 16/7/51: FTX-021 "The Jolly Miller"/ ROUNDER 82161-1835-2 2002 "The Miller o Stralloch" - John McDONALD (voc/ mel), rec by PK, Pitgaveny, Elgin, Moraysh 1955: CAEDMON TS-1144/ TOPIC 12-T-159/ FTX-021 & FTX-061 #12 - Lucy STEWART, rec by PK, Fetterangus 1955 - Davie STEWART: TOPIC 12-T-181 1968/ TSCD-655 (Rural) - Cindy & Joyce FISHER: TOPIC 12-T-137 1966 from Lucy Stewart - Ray FISHER (banging on back of gtr) rec Towersey Festival on Radio 2 14/4/84: CASS-15-0765 - Ray & Cilla FISHER (voc/ beating on the back of gtrs) rec Bewdley Festival: on Radio 2 26/10/88: CASS-30-0736 (from Lucy Stewart)

I'M A MORTY UNLUCKY OLD CHAP - ROUD#5182 - Devon dialect song comp by William Weeks (d 30/12/32) publ Pollard, Exeter 1900 - see photocopy of words in file -- Jack HUNT, rec by PK, Moreleigh, Devon 1969: FTX-086 & FTX-402 - Charlie JOSE rec by PK, Boscastle Cornwall 1975: FTX-096 - Tommy CHAPPLE rec by Michael Feist at "The Stag" Rackenford 1972 & Hare Down, Knowstowe 1973 & Herbert Cook rec Chittlehampton, Devon 1974 (see letter file): CASS-0330 - Derek CARTER (unacc) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderpress, Devon 19/4/75: CASS-0620-C45 - Jim SAUNDERS (with chorus) rec by Sam Richards, "Rockford Inn", Exmoor, Somerset: TOPIC 12-TS-349 1979

I'M A NORTH COUNTRY MAN 'N REDESDALE BORN - JACK AND TOM

I AM AN OLD MINER - OLD MINER

I'M A ONE-LEGGED CHICKEN - I'M A BOW-LEGGED CHICKEN

I AM A PILGRIM - ROUD#7341-- Walter PARHAM (voc with harmonica added) rec Southern Appalachians: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-617 1956

I AM A POOR GIRL AND MY LIFE IT IS SAD - "My love is a bandsman and plays on the drum - courted by a rakish young man - bunch of green ribbons" - Winnie said it was a Galway Song - possibly a mix of THE FEMALE DRUMMER - IF I WERE A BLACKBIRD - LOVE IT IS A KILLING THING - tune cf: THE BLACKBIRD OF AVONDALE -- Winnie RYAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1/8/52: RPL 18588/ FTX-167 - Peta WEBB: TOPIC 12-TS-223 1973 (from Winnie Ryan)

I'M A POOR POOR FARMER - "what am I going to do?" - comp -- YETTIES on Radio 2 17/12/87: CASS-0379

I AM A POOR STRANGER AND FAR FROM MY HOME - HAPPY STRANGER

I'M A POOR WANDERING SAILOR - NEEDLECASES

I AM A PRETTY LITTLE DUTCH GIRL - "as pretty as can be - and all the boys in our town are crazy over me" - ROUD#12986 - Kids Clapping Game Song - OPIE SG 1985 #136 pp450-2 music - See also I AM A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL -- rec by Damian Webb, 14/7 St Marys Juniors Edinburgh 1961 - rec by DW, 18/3 Workington Cumb 1961 solo voice - FTX-196

I AM A PRETTY WENCH - "and I came a long way hence" - ROUD#1256 - WILLIAMS FSUT pp122-3 #449 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o)

I AM A RAKE AND A RAMBLING BOY - RAMBLING BLADE

I'M A RAMBLER - MANCHESTER RAMBLER

I'M A RAMBLING YOUTH - RAMBLING YOUTH

I'M A ROARING REPEATER - "of Democrat fame" "My name is Mike Dolan Im one of the boys" - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p82

I AM A ROMANY - "I were born in an old gypsy's wagon" - ROUD#4844 - Carolyne Hughes called it "The Song of the Thrush" -- Wally FULLER (gypsy) of Kent, rec by PK, Laughton, Sussex 11/11/52: RPL 18718/ FTX-140 - Phoebe SMITH (gypsy) of Kent, rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: FTX-100/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994/ VETERAN VT136CD 1998 "Old Gypsy's Wagon" - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 1968: FTX-043

I'M A ROVER AND THAT'S WELL KNOWN - describes the pleasures of a roving life - ROUD#1112 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp147-8 Mr Holgate & Charles Lolley 1v/m, Yorksh - WILLIAMS #411 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh (w/o)- REEVES IP 1958 p185 Sharp: Robert Dibble, Bridgwater, Som 1905 (w/o) -- Charles ROSE, Evesham, Worcs rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 #205 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-142 1966

I AM A ROVER SELDOM SOBER - version of ballad "The Grey Cock" - ROUD#859 - BUCHAN-HALL 1973 p96 from James Grant of Aberdour - PORTER- GOWER 1995 pp129-130 6v from Jeannie Robertson -- Willie MATHIESON Lomax tape - DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP 3 1967 "I'm a rover" - Jacqueline McDONALD & Bridie O DONNELL: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-23 1968 - Alex CAMPBELL: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-6 1969 "I'm a rover"/ on Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS- 0423-4/ with concertina): cass TBX 513/3 : - Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER (with audience) rec Cecil Sharp House: on Radio 2 12/11/87: CASS-0425

I AM A ROVING NAVVY MAN - ROVING JOURNEYMAN

I'M A ROVING BLADE - GOOD BROWN ALE & TOBACCO

I AM A SAILOR UNTO MY RIGHT - SAILOR AND THE GHOST

I'M A SILLY OLD MAN - GREENSLEEVES

I'M A SKYSCRAPER WAIN - "I live on the 19th floor" Ch: "You canna fling pieces oot a 20 storey flat - 700 hungry wains will testify to that" see KIDSFILE -- Barmulloch Primary School: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

I'M A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD - Gospel -- Congregation of Independent (Baptist) Church rec by Alan Lomax, Tyro, Miss USA 1959: RPL LP 26148 - sung by THE PEERLESS FOUR with piano, drum & hand-clapping by small congregation rec by AL, Norfolk, Va. USA 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

I'M A SOLDIER IN THE HEAVENLY CHOIR -- The Belleville Acapella Choir rec by Alan Lomax, Va. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1711 1998

I'M A STRANGER FROM AMERICA - AMERICAN STRANGER

I'M A STRANGER TO THIS COUNTRY - INDIAN LASS - FLASH COMPANY

I'M A TEXAS GIRL - TEXAS GIRL

I'M A TIGHT LITTLE BIT OF AN IRISHMAN -"father died - left an old pig and a loom" - ROUD#5344 - EDDY B&S from Ohio p310 -- Paddy TUNNEY (sung too low) rec by PK, Beleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0553

I AM A UNION WOMAN - comp by Aunt Molly Jackson (d 1966) -- Peggy SEEGER: "The Angry Muse": ARGO ZFB-65 1968

I AM A USEFUL MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE - Song in Irish Gaelic -- Kitty GALLAGHER rec Gweedore, Co Donegal 24/8/47: RPL 12053/ rec Alan Lomax, Jan 1951 7"RTR-0566

I AM A WEAVER BY MY TRADE - FMJ 1977 p261-274 "Weaver in love" article by Roy Palmer with various versions incl Kidson Mss "T'owed Weaver" & version coll by ALLloyd "The Weaver & the Factory Maid" from Wm Oliver, Widnes, Lancs 1951

I'M A WEAVER TO MY TRADE - YORKSHIRE WEAVER

I'M A WEE MELODIE MAN - WEE MELODIE MAN

I'M A YOUNG BONNY (or WEE ROVING) LASSIE - "and my fortune's been bad - courted by sailor - the lad I loe dearly lies a distance frae me" - ROUD#387 -- Cf HE'S PROVIDING FOR ME - IF I WERE A BLACKBIRD -- Blanche WOOD & Jessie MURRAY, her aunt, Portnockie, Banffsh, rec by Alan Lomax & again at Edinburgh Ceili 6/7/51: 7"RTR-0679/ FTX-512 - Jessie: "I'm a wee roving lassie"/ RPL 21532/ CAEDMON TC-1142/ TOPIC 12-T-157/ FTX-515/ EMBER FA-2055 1968 - Isabel SUTHERLAND with John COLE (harmonica) rec by PK, London, 1959: 7"RTR-0652/ FTX-062 - Ray FISHER rec Towersey Festival on Radio 2 14/4/84: CASS-15-0765

I AM A YOUNG GIRL WHOSE FORTUNE IS GREAT - ON BOARD THE VICTORY

I AM A YOUNG MAN - BACHGEN IFANC YDWYF

I'M A YOUNG MAN - Jig (D) - KERR MM 1 #5 p31

I'M A YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY - "It was down in Northamptonshire" - The country bumpkin fares better than the sly townsman - ROUD#1510 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #110 pp184-5 Tony Engle from Cyril Poacher, Blaxhall, Suffolk -- Cyril POACHER, rec by PK, The Ship, Blaxhall, Suffolk 10/10/53 (tape)/ rec by Tony Engle, Grove Farm: TOPIC 12-TS-252 1975/ Musical Traditions MT-CD-303

I AM A YOUNG WEAVER - COUNTY OF TYRONE

I'M AFLOAT - "on the fierce rolling tide" - Many BSs incl BG 1.2 #117, 3 #11 & #42

I'M ALMOST DONE - ALMOST DONE

I AM AN - treat as "I AM A"

I'M AS FREE A LITTLE BIRD AS I CAN BE - FREE LITTLE BIRD

I'M AS TROUBLED A YOUNG MAN - "she left me alone and went off with another YM" - CROININ 2000 #50 p103 from Elizabeth Cronin (w/o)

I AM ASLEEP - TAIMSE IM CHODLADH

I'M BOUND FOR THE RIO GRANDE - RIO GRANDE

I'M BOUND TO BE AN OLD MAID - OLD MAID'S SONG

I'M BOUND TO FOLLOW THE LONGHORN COWS - ROUD#5765 - LOMAX: Cowboy p19 - LARKIN Singing Cowboy pp162-3 -- Alan LOMAX (voc/ gtr) with Guy CARAWAN (banjo) rec by PK: TRADITION TLP-1029 1958/ FTX-904

I AM BUT A POOR GIRL - IF I WERE A BLACKBIRD

I'M CALLED SALOME/ SAMSON - Children's Action song mentioning Betty Grable, Marilyn Munro, Ginger Rogers & Salome - OPIE LLSC p115 Betty Grable rhymes -- rec by Damian Webb, 16/11 St James Junior Girls Paisley Glasgow 1960/ RPL LP 27257/ FTX-181

I'M DENNY BLAKE FROM COUNTY CLARE - WHERE THE GRASS GROWS GREEN

I'M EMLYN JONES - Rugby football Song comp by GM 11961 about "the egg-shaped ball" -- Graeme MILES: FTX-227

I'M GLAD THE STRIKES DONE - comp by Tyneside journalist, Thomas Kerr in 1890 - Johnny HANDLE (voc/ accordion) with Alister ANDERSON (E-conc) & Tom GILFELLON (Ch): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

I'M GOING AWAY - comp by SB on tune of "The Truelover's Farewell or Turtle Dove" -- Steve BENBOW (voc/ gtr) rec by PK, London 1960: FTX-292

I'M GOING AWAY - USA trad song leaving Alabama for West -- Peggy SEEGER (voc/ banjo) rec at the McColl-Seeger Tribute Concert Cecil Sharp House: on Radio 2: 12/11/87: CASS 0425

I'M GOING AWAY IN THE TRAIN - I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING

I'M GOING BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA - "and I never expect to see you any more" - ROUD#789 - BROWN 1952 3 p326 - WARNER 1984 #124 p297 -- Frank PROFFITT (+ banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt, Watauga Co, NC 1959: FTX-933/ FOLK LEGACY FSA-1 1962/ TOPIC 12-T-162 1966

I'M GOING BACK TO THE RED CLAY COUNTY -- ODETTA: VANGUARD SRL- 7624 1965

I'M GOING DOWN THIS ROAD FEELING BAD - BANJO-PICKIN GIRL

I'M GOING FOR A SOLDIER, JENNY - HENDERSON VSB 1937 p141 Bs (w/o)

I'M GOING HOME - "My baby sister's cryin/ mother/ father" Ch: "O yes" -comp by EW -- Ervin WEBB with a group of prisoners rec by Alan Lomax, Parchman Farm Dairy Camp, Miss. USA Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 & 1703 1997 followed by interview

I'M GOING SOMEWHERE ("I'm gaun some wye") - LEA BOY'S LASSIE

I'M GOING TO BE MARRIED - NEXT MONDAY MORNING

I'M GOING TO BE MOTHER TODAY - "Now on last Sunday, I shan't forget, o it was a day" - father undertakes cooking during wife's illness but eventually goes out and leaves family -- Johnny DOUGHTY rec by Mike Yates & Camilla Saunders, Brighton, Sussex 1976: TOPIC 12-TS-324/ TSCD-664 1998 Dances & Ditties

I'M GOING TO GEORGIA - CUCKOO

I'M GOING TO GET MARRIED NEXT SUNDAY - NEXT MONDAY MORNING

I'M GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY - "I'm going to volunteer" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 (2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children"CASS-1225

I'M GOING TO KENTUCKY - "I'm going to the Fair - to see the senorita with flowers in her hair - o shimmy shimmy - shimmy if you dare - round and round she goes - and where she stops nobody knows" - Children's Ring Game with one in centre doing actions - OPIE SG 1985 #122 pp420-3 music & photo -- rec by Damian Webb, 28/1 St Anne's, Leyland, Lancash 1968: FTX-200/ FTX-195 #43 - rec by DW, 31/6 St Theresa Juniors, Crossgates, Leeds 1975: FTX-196 #13 "As I was going to Hockey" - rec by DW, 33/1 Dingwall Primary 1976 "I was on my way to Scotland" - rec by DW, 36/3 St Patrick's Juniors, Huddersfield, Yorksh 1978: FTX-196 #34 "As I was going to Turkey" - rec by DW, IRE/8 Tralee, Co Kerry 1960 "We're going to Kentucky" - Lonlas School, Llansamlet, Swansea Wales May 1982 (Welsh Folk Museum rec): SAYDISC CD-SDL-338 1983 "I went to California"

I'M GOING TO LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR MY LORD -- Bessie JONES with Georgia Sea Island Singers Group B rec by Alan Lomax on St Simon's Island, Ga Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1712 1998/ RPL LP 26150

I'M GOIN TO LIVE ANYHOW TILL I DIE - "Well sticks and stones gonna break my bones" -- Miles PRATCHER (voc & gtr) with Bob PRATCHER (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Como, Miss Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-11703 1997

I'M GOING TO PICK MY BANJO - OLD WOMAN IN THE GARDEN

I'M GOING TO SETTLE DOWN - Music Hall -- Gus ELEN rec 1930's?: TOPIC 12-T-396 1979

I'M GOING TO TELL GOD HOW YOU TREAT ME - JACOB'S LADDER

I'M GOING TO THE WOODS - HUNTING THE WREN

I'M GOING UP TO LONDON - LIAR'S SONG

I'M (A-) GOING WHERE MY TROUBLES WILL BE OVER - LITTLE WHITE ROSE

I'M GROWING OLD - "If a friend calls on me in my little cot" Ch; ...my locks they are grey - mark on my forehead to show - no more shall I dance with the young and the gay" (Battle of Waterloo veteran) - SHARP Cf 2 p111 Matthew Peate, Rose Ash, Devon 1904 3v/ch - see also CHEER BOYS CHEER (ALTHOUGH I'M SEVENTY-TWO) also sung by Bill Westaway -- Bill WESTAWAY rec by PK, Belstone, Okehampton, Devon 7/8/50: 7-T-012-3/ -FTX-241, FTX-407 & FTX-516

I'M HIS ONLY DAUGHTER - "Down in a valley my father does dwell" - ROUD#1293

I'M IN FOR SIN, AMEN - PARSON AND THE CLERK

I'M IN HASTE - ACROSS THE FIELDS THE OTHER MORN

I'M JOLLY FU' - MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN

I'M LOOKING FOR A JOB - comp by Matt McGinn -- TAVERNERS: LEADER LER- 2080 1973

I'M LOOKING FOR THE BULLY -- Sid HARKREADER & Grady MOORE (v/fid/gtr) rec 1927 & other recs based on it incl BLACK BULLIES rec 1907: Paul OLIVER "Before the Blues" on Radio 2 3/12/87: CASS-0431

I'M MARRIED TO AN ENGLISH WIFE - "and it's O dear me" she claims everything is English -- Togo CRAWFORD rec by PK, Mossdale, Kirkcudbrightsh 20/7/54: FTX-262

I AM MY MAMMY'S YOUNGEST CHILD - SOLDIER'S JOY

I'M NEVER TO MARRY - LOVER'S LAMENT

I'M NO COMIN' OOT THE NOO - BONNY WEE JEANNIE MACKAY

I'M NOT GOING TO STUDY WAR NO MORE - DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

I'M NOT SO GREEN AS YOU MIGHT SEEM - YOU CANNA PUT IT ON SANDY

I'M NOT SO MUCH AT SINGING - MAN BEHIND THE PLOUGH

I AINT MARCHING ANY MORE - Anti-War Song comp by Phil Ochs -- Hedy WEST (voc/ gtr): FONTANA STL-5432 1967/ CASS-0482

I AINT GOING TO STUDY WAR NO MORE -- Prisoners in Penitentiary, untsville, Texas, rec (16mm film) by Pete Seeger 1966: FF-3301

I'M OBLIGED TO LIE ALONE - "As I was a-walking one morning by chance" - PALMER 1979 #62 p117 coll Broadwood Sussex: "As I was a-walking"

I'M OFF TO CHARLESTOWN - "My massa and my mistress dey am both gone away" - - Many BSs incl BG 2 #91, 5 #36 & 6 #120

I'M OFF TO CHARLESTOWN -- 2/4 Air - KERR MM 3 #395 p43 (D)

I'M OFTEN DRUNK AND SELDOM SOBER - "Many cold winter's nights I've travelled" - Cattle Drovers Song - ROUD#3135 - BSs incl BG 4:#240 - see also I'M A ROVER SELDOM SOBER -- Davie STEWART rec by Alan Lomax, London, 1956: FTX-462/ rec by Hamish Henderson, Dundee 1955: TOPIC 12-T-293 1978/ TSCD-663 1998

I'M ON MY JOURNEY HOME - Sacred Harp Closing Hymn - attributed to Mrs S.Lancaster of Georgia -- Alabama Sacred Harp Singers rec by Alan Lomax, Fyffe, Ala Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997

I'M ON MY WAY -- ODETTA rec by Jack Hawkins, San Francisco, USA 1956: TRADITION TLP-1010 1957

I'M ONE OF THE CHAPS WOT SINGS - "No doubt a song you've heard" - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB2 1979 Bs (w/o)

I'M ONE OF THE RACE - CHEER, BOYS, CHEER

I'M ONLY A POOR GIRL - IF I WERE A BLACKBIRD

I'M ONLY A POOR LITTLE UNI-A - "JR keeps on picking on me" (Parody on TV series -- children rec Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292

I'M O'ER YOUNG TO MARRY YET - ROUD#6142 - BSs incl BG 6 #53 - COLE Funniest Songbook in the World (c1890) p101 - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #900 p475 (1v only)

I'M O'ER YOUNG TO MARRY YET - Reel/ Strathspey/ Jig (D) - COLE #3 p9 Reel & #2 p127 Strathspey (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1/ 1994 #57 p16 (Bm) - KERR 1 p9 (Bm) Reel & MM 2 #310 p34 (Bm) in 6/8 jig time - Tunebook Ms (G ends B) #63 p289 - WILSON p33 (C)

I'M PLEASED TO MEET YOU - MY NAME'S BILL

I'M POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN - "I live in a caravan - Full stop. comma, comma, dash dash, full stop" - Kids Clapping rhyme - OPIE LLSC p112 has 4 rhymes - RITCHIE SS 1964 p35 variant versions - OPIE SG 1985 #146 pp471-2 music "Popeye the Sailor Man" -- rec by Damian Webb, 34/7 Garforth Preston Lancs 1977

I'M READY NOW - Reel - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #259 p134 (A) - O NEILL MOI #1362/ DMI #615 (D) alt: "Your Mother's Fair Pet"

I'M RIDING ALONG ON A FREIGHT TRAIN - boy leaving his mother "the boy who may never come home" -- Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

I'M SATISFIED - "When I was single I primpted and shined" - ROUD#3120 - RICHARDSON AMS 1927 p58 Appalachians

I'M SATISFIED - "with my girl" -- Chas McDEVITT Skiffle Group (rec London 1957-9): ROLLER COASTER RC-CD-3007 1993 (2 versions)

I'M SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY - AS I ROVED OUT

I'M SHIRLEY TEMPLE - "the girl with curly hair - I've got dimples and wear my skirts up here - I know Clark Gable and every one like that - O Salome we're off to see S - skirts in the air" - Children's Ring Game with star in middle - Cf DIANA DORS - RITCHIE SS 1965 p46 - OPIE LLSC p112 - RITCHIE SS p46- OPIE SG 1985 #120 p417-19 music -- rec by Damian Webb, 29/4 Dillon family, Broadfield, Leyland, Lancash 1969: FTX-197 #88 Different solo voices for each line "My name is ST" - rec by DW, Tralee, Co Kerry 1960: IRE/25/ 179 - rec by Sam Richards: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981 (with "Salome")

I'M SICK IN THE HEAD AND I HAVEN'T BEEN TO BED - ACROSS THE WESTERN OCEAN

I'M SITTING ON THE STILE, MARY - ROUD#2661 - BSs Sanderson, Edinburgh (also titled "The Irish Emigrant") SBG 2:#5/ 3:#20/ 3:#46 - WILLIAMS #604 (w/o) "The Irish Emigrant" --- BROWNE AFL 1979 p127 nn, Alabama 2v (w/o)

I'M SITTING HERE - TA ME MO SHUIDHE

I'M SIXTY THREE AND IT SEEMS TO ME - "I'm just as young as I used to be - so I take me pint and I take my glass and I sit in the chimney corner" (Tune: "Cock o the North" ?) -- Bill SMITH (71), Bridgnorth, Shropsh rec by his son Andrew (copy of cass with 25 songs): 5"RTR-0906 (1v only)

I'M THE BOY FOR BEWITCHING THEM - LET US AWAY TO THE WEDDING

I AM THE FORESTER - SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER (Child 114)

I'M THE KING OF THE CASTLE - "get down you dirty rascal" -- children rec Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #12 - "One potato Two Potato" film soundtrack

I'M THE MAN YOU DON'T MEET EVERY DAY - "My name is Jock Stewart" - "I've a neat little cabin that's built out of mud" - ROUD #975 - BSs incl BG 2:#61 - WALTON NTISB 2 p81 (w/o) - PATTEN SS 1987 pp58-9 Amy Ford, Low Ham, Somerset 1974 (Cassette) - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp139-140 5v from Jeannie Robertson --- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 3 pp239-240 Springfield, Mo 1935 (w/o) - KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS -- Jeannie ROBERTSON: [PRESTIGE 13006] - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1958: CAEDMON TC-1163/ TOPIC 12-T-195 - Amy FORD rec by Bob & Jacqueline Patten, Low Ham, Somerset 1974 CASS - "Folk on 2" 28/4/88 CASS-90-1051

I'M THE URBAN SPACEMAN - Bonzo Jug Band number comp by Innes -- Lea NICHOLSON (+ conc, bass cnc, gtr, percussion): LEADER LER-3010 1971

I AM THE WEE FALORIE MAN - "O a rattling roaring Irishman" -- Hugh QUINN, rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072 - Bob CLANCY (voc/ gtr) rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #33 4v with pause between each

I AM THE WOMAN OF SORROW - SEA SORROW

I'M THINKING, EVER THINKING - "by night as well as day - where the 3-leaf shamrock grows" - Emigrants Song -- Rita & Sarah KEANE, Galway: CLADDAGH CC-4 1968

I'M THINKING OF THOS DAYS - CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS

I AM THINKING TONIGHT OF MY BLUE EYES -- Carter Family (Trio) Camden, NJ 10/5.28: BLUEBIRD B-5122-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I'M TIRED - Gospel -- Vocal Quartet (with gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Norfolk, Va USA 1959: RPL LP 26147 - sung by THE BRIGHT LIGHT QUARTET rec by Alan Lomax, Weems, Va. USA 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

I'M TIRED OF LIVING ALONE - O DEAR HOW I LONG TO GET MARRIED

I'M TOO FAT TO DO IT - "It is a fact I'm very stout" - BSs incl BG 6 #150 - HENDERSON VSB 1937 p71 Bs (w/o)

I AM TOO YOUNG - DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

I'M TROUBLED - ROUD#414 - LOMAX FSNA p208 -- Peggy SEEGER (with gtr): RPL LP 26265 (Unesco rec n/d)/ "Calling the tune" #8 11/3/63

I'M WAITING FOR YOU - Reel (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #176 p92 (G) - FUREY p52 "Waiting for you" says it was composed by flute- player, Willie Johnston, because his girl-friend was never on time to meet him - O'NEILL MOI #1486/ DMI #711 - Cf LEITRIM REEL -- KILFENORA CEILI BAND (West Clare): TRANSATLANTIC TRA- 283 1974

I'M YORKSHIRE THOUGH IN LONDON - YORKSHIREMAN IN LONDON

I AND FIVE MORE A-POACHING WENT - GALLANT POACHER

I'ANSONS RACEHORSE - LITTLE DUN MARE

I ASKED A SWEET ROBIN ONE EVENING IN MAY - COLD WATER SONG

I BAGS BE FIRST - FIGGY

I BELONG TO GLASGOW - song played as a waltz -- The Jim CAMPBELL BAND "Songs for dancing" Scottish Dance Party: MILLER MER 356 1972 - THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-245 1974

I BINGED AVREE - "O I rised one bright morning" "O tae bing avree for the bornies"- ROUD#2159 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 pp770-1 John Brune: Davie Stewart, Dundee, Angus 1961 -- Davie STEWART rec by John Brune, Aberdeen 1961: FTX-031 (with acc) (10v) & 441/ rec by Alan Lomax, London 1957: ROUNDER 82161-1633-2 2002 "Last night I was in the granzie"

I BOUGHT A BAR OF CHOCOLATE -- Liverpool schoolchildren rec by Sasha Moorsom 18/7/58: RPL LP 25827/ FTX-309 A-ROVING 1968 #3

I BOUGHT A MARE AT DERRY FAIR - ROUD#9376 - Tinker Song (mentioning Crossmaglen, Co Armagh) -- rec "Puck Fair", Killorglin, Co Kerry 11/8/47: RPL 13383

I BOUGHT MYSELF A COCK etc - COCKS AND HENS - LIAR'S SONG

I BOUGHT THREE PIGS - OLD SOW

I BRIDLED MY NAG - PENNY WAGER

I BUILT MY LADY A FINE BRICK HOUSE - "in a garden - farewell - Swing a lady up & down & promenade around" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER: ROUNDER C-8001 (2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226

I BURIED MY WIFE AND DANCED ON TOP OF HER - Jig -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) of Co Clare rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-39 1980 CASS- 0816

I CALL - SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER

I CALLED FOR SOME LIQUOR - PENNY WAGER

I CAN DO THE ROCK AND ROLL - KEEP THE SUNNY SIDE UP

I CAME HOME DRUNK - CUCKOLD SONG

I CAN HEW - Miners Song comp by David Dodds (tune reminioscent of BLACKLEG MINERS) - see EE AYE, AA CUD HEW (Pigford) -- David DODDS with Don & Sarah MORGAN("Curate's Egg") rec by PK, Soundpost Studios, Totnes, Devon 1978: FTX-126 & FTX-511

I CAN PLAY UPON MY - - JOHNNY SMOKER

I CAN WASH A SAILOR'S SHIRT - "I can wash it clean - bleach it on the green" - Last v: I've been east - west - Aberdeen - Bonniest lass that I eer I met was on a sailor's sleen" - ROUD#8252 (#12924) "Sandy is a sailor" -- Annie JOHNSTON rec by Seamus Ennis, Barra, June 1955: RPL LP 23995 (4v) - Lizzie HIGGINS on "Folk on 2" 28/4/88 with other children's songs "Did you ever miss your mother?" & "I choked on a tatie"/ TOPIC TSCD 652 1998 rec by Bill Leader at Royal Hotel Aberdeen 1973

I CANNOT CALL HER MOTHER - "The wedding rite is over" orphans - step-mother - ROUD#2091 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp289-299 Ships log 1853 (w/o)

I CAN'T CHANGE IT - Song of Uneasy Wedlock - "The Sweet By an By" "wooden leg - chop her up for firewood" -- Michael CRONIN of Cork rec by Alan Lomax, Dublin 1951: 7"RTR-0587

I CANNOT COME EVERY DAY TO WOO - JOAN TO JOHN

I CANNOT EAT BUT LITTLE MEAT - "Let the back and the sides go bare, brave boys" - ROUD#1573 - JOHNSON Select Coll of Engl Songs 1783 2 #52 p71 - EVANS Old Ballads 1784 2 p246 "The Indolent Man" with notes about words: "Trowle" and "Maltworm" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 1 p72 inc in "Gammer Gurton's Needle" 1575 to tune "Sellenger's Round" (John Dory) altered to common time - SCOTTISH STUDENTS SONGBOOK 1891 p190 - HACKWOOD 1909 says song supposed to have been quoted by Washington Irving in his sketch "Little Britain" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #486 "A King canna swagger" (only 3 lines of words) - SHARP-MARSON FSS 4 pp6-7 Robert Parish - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #377 p539 Robert Parish, Exford, Somerset 1907 2v/m "The Beggar" ("I've sixpence in my pocket and I've worked hard for it") - SHARP Sel Ed 2 pp66-67 -- Dave BURLAND: LEADER LER-2029 1971 from Sharp

I CAN'T FIND BRUMMAGEM - (Birmingham) - "Full twenty years or more have passed" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p78 bs by Jackson of B - comp James Dobbs performed at Theatre Royal B in 1828 to tune of DUNCAN GRAY -- Richard HAMILTON (voc with gtr & harmonica):TOPIC 12-TS-210 1971

I CAN'T GET A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY - comp by M Stewart - ROUD#2499 - FMJ 3:1 1975 pp50-51 Maggie Stewart, Aberdeen

I CAN'T GET MY WINKLE OUT - "isn't it a sin?" -- Jack TARLING rec by NL, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95: NEIL LANHAM NL-01 (gift) CASS-1357

I CANNOT GET TO MY LOVE - WATER OF TYNE

I CANNOT LET YOU IN - IT RAINS IT HAILS

I CANNOT MIND MY WHEEL - "mother" - SHEPARD 1973 Broadside by Bebbington, Manchester

I CANNOT STAY ALONG THIS SHORE - GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY

I CAN'T TELL WHY I LOVE YOU -- WINTLE Street Piano rec by PK 1955: FTX-300

I CANNA WASH - LAIRD O' DRUM
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I CARE FOR NOBODY - JOLLY MILLER

I CHANCED TO RISE - SOMETHING LACKING

I CHANGED THE GREEN WILLOW - GREEN GROW THE LAURELS

I CHOKED ON A TATIE - Children's rhyme -- Lizzie HIGGINS on "Folk on 2" 28/4/88 with "Can I was a sailor's shirt ?" & "Did you ever miss your mother ?"

I COME BEFORE YOU TO STAND BEHIND YOU - "to show you the hairs of my old bald head - Next Monday being Good Friday there'll be a Housemaid Meeting's for men only" - Children's Tangletalk --chorus of young girls: FTX-198

I COME FROM THE COUNTRY - "my name it is Giles" - ROUD#1744 -- (Harry UPTON rec Mike Yates, Balcome, Sussex 1975: TOPIC SP-104)

I COURTED A BONNY LASS/ MAIDEN, WEE GIRL(etc) - FORLORN LOVER

I COURTED AN OLD MAN - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN

I COURTED A WEE GIRL/ LASSIE - FALSE BRIDE - OUR WEDDING DAY

I COURTED FOR LOVE - CHARMING BEAUTY BRIGHT

I DESIGNED TO SAY NO BUT MISTOOK AND SAID YES - "As I was walking in yon shady grove young Colin came after and spoke of his love" - Valentine's Day - Midsummer Fair - ROUD#1459 - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp88-89 - HENRY SOP #472

I DID LOSE MY WIFE - J'AI PERDU MA FEMME

I DID SEE MY OWN TRUELOVE - CHUNNAIC MISE MO LEANAN

I DID WRONG TO MY PARENTS - I'M A MAN THAT'S DONE WRONG

I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE - O I DO

I DON'T CARE - RIDE A MILE

I DON'T CARE IF I DO - JOE MUGGINS

I DO NOT INCLINE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #955/ DMI #179 (G)

I DON'T LOVE NOBODY - Appalachian -- CAMP CREEK BOYS (voc): LEADER LED-2053 1973

I DON'T MEAN TO TELL YOU HER NAME - "It's with my village fair, no lassie can compare" - Ch: "No, no, no" (but the last choruus is changed to: "yes, yes, yes - on that day I'll tell you her name" - ROUD#1271 - Many BSs incl BG 22 #78 & #176 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp163-4 #450: David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wilts 5v/ch (w/o) - PINTO-RODWAY 1957 #126 p353 Nottingham BS (w/o)

I DON'T MIND IF I DO - ROUD#847 - GRAINGER Ms #272 Lincolnsh 1906 - Alfred WILLIAMS Ms #328 Wiltsh - KIDSON EPS 1929 - GUNDRY CK 1966 p58 Bill Cameron - Gwilym Davis: Hampsh coll (nd) p5 "I don't care if I do" - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp46-7 & 111 John Maguire "Joe Higgins" - DUNN FOS 1980 pp66-8 Cyril Poacher, Blaxhall, Suffolk - PATTEN SS 1987 pp22-3 Amy Ford, Low Ham, Somerset 1970 (cassette) --- MEREDITH-ANDERSON Austraia 1967 p263 "O bedad then says I" (Dan Murphy) - IVES FSNB 1989 pp97-9 NB 1974 "Pat Murphy" -- Bill CAMERON (Senior) with ch, rec by PK, St Mary's, Scilly, 1956: RPL LP 23654/ FTX-217 - Steve BENBOW (voc/ gtr) rec by PK, London 1960: FTX-292/ EMI CLP-1327 1960 "I don't mind if I do" (Dan Murphy) - Amy COOK of Wooton-under-Edge, Glos., rec by Peter Duddridge, Evesham, Worcs: SAYDISC SDL-222 1972 & cass CSDL-222 with talk "Joe Buggins" - John MAGUIRE rec by Robin Morton Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, 1970: LEADER LEE-4062 1973 - Cyril POACHER rec by Tony Engle, Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-252 1975/ MT-CD-303 "J Moggins" - Bill SMITH (71), Bridgnorth, Shropsh rec by his son Andrew (copy of cass with 25 songs): 5"RTR-0906 "John Giles" - Amy FORD, rec Pattens, Low Ham, Somerset CASS # --- Dave MATHIAS: LARRIKIN LRD-007 1976 played on melodeons as an "Old Time Waltz" "My Name Is Dan Murphy"

I DON'T THINK MUCH OF YOU - "Your attention now I crave" - "Now since you've called on me to sing" - ROUD#1602 - BSs incl BG 7:#23 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p18 Gardiner: Thomas Bennett, South Petherwin, Cornwall 1905 "Compliments Returned"

I DON'T WANT YOUR MILLIONS MISTER -- Peggy SEEGER (voc/ gtr): RPL LP 26265 (Unesco rec n/d)

I DON'T WORK FOR A LIVING - HE'S ONLY AN OLD VILLAGE POSTMAN

I DREAM IT EVERY DAY - "I'm lying in the meadow - aeroplane - press button - anti-bomb- pollution - careless civil servants" - comp by GM 1956 -- Graeme MILES (voc/gtr): FTX-229

I DREAMED LAST NIGHT OF MY TRUE LOVE - LOCKS AND BOLTS

I DREAMT I SAW MY DEAR OLD MOTHER -- Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 1968 CASS-45-1245 "Truest friend of all" - Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

I DROPPED THE BABY - "in the dirt - I asked the baby did it hurt and all the l;ittle thing could say was whack, whack, whack" - Cf OVER THE GARDEN WALL -- Dorothy Howard, of Texas rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NYC 1949: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000

I DREW MY SHIP INTO THE HARBOUR - ROUD#3956 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 - STOKOE REAY 1899 pp35-36 -- Johnny HANDLE: LEADER LER-2030 1971 - Tony CAPSTICK with HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER RUB-004 1971

I DROVE MY COACH TO EPSOM - BROKEN DOWN GENTLEMAN

I DYED MY PETTICOAT RED - SHULE AGRA

I FANCY I CAN SEE HIM NOW - WILLIAMS #597 (w/o)

I FED MY HORSE - "in a poplar's trough" - ROUD#7499 --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #219 (vol 2 p311) Mrs Jane Gentry, Hot Springs, Madison Co., NC 1916 "I whipped my horse" -- Mrs Maud LONG rec by Maud Karpeles, Hot Springs, Madison Co., NC, USA Sept 1950: RPL 17146/ FTX-907

I FELL IN LOVE WITH A PRETTY GIRL - FERRY HINKSEY TOWN

I FOUND A PEANUT - "Where d'you find it ? - In the dustbin - Green & mouldy - Then I ate it - got the gutsie - (appendicitis - split her open) - Died" - Children's Ring Game with actions - tune "My Darling Clementine" - ROUD#10077 --- SANDBURG AS pp382-3 "I found a horseshoe" -- rec by Damian Webb, 24/7 rec Fairfield Juniors Cockermouth Cumberland 1966 "Made up song" / RPL LP 30954 - rec by DW, 32/8 St Josephs Juniors, Castleford, Yorksh 1975/ FTX-196 #24

I GAVE MY LOVE A CHERRY - RIDDLE SONG

I GOT A HOME -- played by Nat RAHMINGS (drums) with Hobart SMITH (banjo) & Ed YOUNG (cane fife) rec by Alan Lomax, Williamsburg, Va. USA May 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

I GOT A LETTER THIS MORNING - "Oh yes" - ROUD#11609 - SEEGER "American Folksongs for Children"1948 p144 -- Peggy SEEGER with Mike (harmonica) (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 CASS-1226

I GOT FOOLED - comp by Hamish Imlach -- Hamish IMLACH: TRANSATLANTIC TRA- SAM-31 1973 (S)

I GOT RHYTHM -- RONSTEDZ SWING JAZZ rec by PK, Harberton, Totnes, Devon 1979: FTX-251

I HAD AN AUNTIE MONICA - AUNTIE MONICA

I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT - comp Jimmy Rogers -- SPREDTHICK rec by PK, Soundpost Studios, Dartington, Devon 1975

I HAD A HANDSOME FORTUNE - gambling - drunk - to Germany - ROUD#1993 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp203-5 Ships log 1847 (w/o)

I HAD A LITTLE BOX/ DOG etc - LIAR'S SONG

I HAD A LITTLE COCK - COCKS AND HENS

I HAD A LITTLE LAIRDIE - "that sat upon my thoom" - ROUD#12962 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1563 p113 (2v w/o)

I HAD A LITTLE MONKEY - TINY TIM

I HAD A LITTLE MOPPET - MASON NR&CS 1877 - OPIE ODNR p313

I HAD A LITTLE NUT TREE - Nursery Rhyme -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

I HAD A LITTLE SAUSAGE - Kids Rhyme -- Bungay Primary School Suffolk May 1960: RPL LP 26349

I HAD A LITTLE SWEETHEART - ROUD#7505 -- Mrs Matty S DAMERON rec by Maud Karpeles, Stuarts Draft, Va USA 19/8/55: RPL 23799/ FTX-908 talk after about learning songs

I HAD AN OLD FATHER - "and a noble estate" - WILLIAMS #428 Minetyy, Wiltsh (w/o)

I HAD AN OLD HOSS - "he was such a kicker - put a plaster on his arse" - an old cat/ little wife - Ch: "It was all done with sheepskin, beeswax, tons of pitch and plaster - the more I tried to pull it off, by God, it stuck the faster"- ROUD 974 - Minstrel Song publ in American Songsters with title "Aunt Jemima's Plaster or Beeswax" -- Harry COX rec by Mervyn Plunkett, Catfield, Norfolk 9/58: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000

I HAD A TEDDY BEAR - TINY TIM

I HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS - "If you could only see the girl I took to the fancy ball" - ROUD#2798 - SHAY MPFDC 1927 pp75-7 James E Harris - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 3 p250 Ray Tolliver, Ark 1937 - BROWNE AFL 1979 pp362-4 Mrs R Van Iderstine, Ala 1953

I HAD IN MY POCKET BUT ONE PENN-IE - PENNY WAGER

I HAD NAUGHT ELSE TO DO - SUMMER WAS OVER

I HAD ONE MAN - ONE MAN WENT TO MOW

I HAD THE GERMAN MEASLES - "I had them very bad" incl "Here comes Doctor Bannister" - Kids rhyme - OPIE SG 1985 #138 pp455-6 "I had the Scarlet Fever" tune: I'M A PRETTY LITTLE DUTCH GIRL -- rec by Damian Webb, Tralee, Co Kerry 1960: IRE/23/ FTX-179

I HARDLY THINK I WILL - COMMON BILL

I HAVE A BONNET TRIMMED WITH BLUE - "Why don't you wear it? So I do" - HUGHES: ICS vol 4 18-19 "a polka fragment" - OPIE SG 442 - CROININ 2000 #70 pp124r-5 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis 1947: FTX-162/ rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 24/11/52: FOUR COURTS CD-2 #6 - Mary O HARA (voc/ harp) rec 24/8/56: RPL LP 24936

I HAVE A BONNET TRIMMED WITH BLUE - Polka - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #68 p35 (G) -- Eddie MOORE (fid) rec by PK, Beleek, Co Fermanagh 1953: FTX-370 aft "Jenny Lind" - Bernard O SULLIVAN & Tommy MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-505 1976 with "Rakes of Malo"

I HAVE A GOOD HUNTER - MY DASHING LITTLE HUNTER

I HAVE A HOUSE AND LANDS IN KENT - WOOING SONG OF A YEOMAN OF KENT'S SON

I HAVE AN AUNTIE MONICA - AUNTIE MONICA

I'VE A LADDIE IN AMERICA - I'VE A SWEETHEART

I'VE A ONE MAN - ONE MAN SHALL MOW

I HAVE A SHILLING - JOLLY SHILLING

I'VE A SWEETHEART (or LADDIE) IN AMERICA - "I've another in Dundee - i - e - I've another in Australia - left 3 honey-babies" - Children's Skipping Rhyme - RITCHIE GC p125 Skipping - Tune derived from WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS -- Norton Park School Edinburgh rec by James Ritchie 20/3/49: RPL 13869 "sweetheart" - rec by Damian Webb, 15/9 Moss Park Junior Girls Glasgow 1961 "laddie": FTX-190

I HAVE A SWEETHEART OF MY OWN, SIR - PRETTY FAIR MAID

I HAVE A TREE IN MY RIGHT HAND - "kiss the one yoou love best" - children's game in five-four metre -- The Rose of Sharon Singers Group rec by Alan Lomax, Blanchisseuse, St George, Trinidad 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997

I HAVE A WIFE - WETHER'S SKIN

I HAVE A WIFE OF MY OWN - JACK WON'T SELL HIS FIDDLE (Triple Jig)

I'VE BEEN A WILD BOY - "I'd have you understand - brought up in luxury - keeping bad company I lost my store - I'll be wild no more" - ROUD#3366 --- MEREDITH & ANDERSON Folksongs of Australia 1 pp176-7 -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffrey, NH USA 1940: FTX-922 (2v & ch) - Sally SLOAN, rec by John Meredith, Lithgow, NSW, Australia: LARRIKIN LRF-136 (`'Garland for Sally')

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A RAMBLER - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY

I'VE BEEN DRIVING ON BALD MOUNTAIN -- ODETTA: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

I'VE BEEN RAMBLING ALL THIS NIGHT - May Carol - ROUD#305 - JFSS 1:4 1902 p182 Sir Ernest Clarke: Hinwick, Bedfordsh - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp89-99 J F Frye: Debden, Essex 1857 - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp84-5 & p123 Hinwick - ED&S 38:2 1976 Hinwick

I'VE BEEN ROAMING - "- I've been roaming" - ROUD#2821 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) - REEVES IP 1958 p129 Sharp: Jack Barnard, Bridgwater, Somerset 1908 "I've been a roving" (parody of original) --- THOMPSON PS 1939 pp96-7 Stevens- Douglas Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o)

I'VE BEEN TO AUSTRALIA-O - "and back" "One time I wasn't pleased at home - so away I did go unto Australia-O" "Devil take Australia, I'll list with John Bull" Tune: "The Old Alarm Clock" (i e "The Garden Where The Praties Grow") -- Deelan AILLEY (voc/ conc): LARRIKIN LRD-9012 1981

I HAVE BEEN TO CLAPHAM - YORKSHIRE HORSE STEALER

I'VE BEEN TO FRANCE AND I'VE BEEN TO DOVER - "I've travelled this wide world all over" - Drinking forfeit Song - ROUD#2854 - BROADWOOD Sussex Songs 1890 (2var with notes from a lecture by F E Sawyer) - REYNARDSON Sussex Songs 1890 #21 p42 "Drinking Song" mention of another song - JFSS 1:3 1901 p71 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1899 1v/m -- Tony WALES (with gtr) FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 (from Broadwood)/7"RTR-0089 - Liverpool schoolchildren rec by Sasha Moorsom 18/7/58: RPL LP 25827 "I've been to Holland"

I'VE BEEN TO THE EAST - "I've been to the west - been to South Carolina - there I spied a pretty yellow girl and I'm going back to marry her" (words given before playing tune)- Cf CHARLIE HE'S A NICE YOUNG MAN -- Steve MEEKINS (fid) NC rec (on paper disc) by Frank & Anne Warner, Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, Outer Banks, N.C. USA 1941: FTX-927/ APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000

I HAVE BEEN TRAVELLING TWENTY LONG YEARS - OLD FARMER

I'VE COME TO SEE (OUR) JENNY JONES - JENNY JONES

I HA'E COURTED MAGGIE MANY A DAY - MAGGIE'S SMILE

I'VE DRUNK ONE AND I'LL DRINK TWO - TO BE A GOOD COMPANION

I HAVE EAT AND WHAT HAVE I EAT? - MALLARD

I'VE F'UN' A BIRD'S NEST - HUNTING THE WREN

I HAVE FOUR BRETHREN OVER THE SEA - RIDDLE SONG

I'VE GOT A COAT - ALL FOR THE GROG

I'VE GOT A DAUGHTER - "lives in the ocean - I'd do anything to keep her alive - whoo - she's got a pair of hips just like two battleships - that's where my money all goes - toesi, kneesie elbow, clap" - Kids ring with one running outside - OPIE SG 1985 #123 pp423-5 (music suggests derived from MY GIRL'S A CORKER)

I'VE GOT A GIRL FRIEND - MY GIRL'S A CORKER (K)

I'VE GOT A MOTHER - Folk Hymn -- Jean RITCHIE: RIVERSIDE RLP-12- 620 1956

I'VE GOT NO USE FOR WOMEN -- Burl IVES COLUMBIA RTR-0323-4

I'VE GOT SIXPENCE - JOLLY SHILLING

I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE - after Alford -- Handbell Ringers: SAYDISC cassette SDL-274 1976

I HA'E LAID A HERRIN' IN SA'T - Song - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #890 p442 (1v only)

I HA'E LAID A HERRIN' IN SA'T - Jig (A) - KERR MM 2 #316 p35 -- Tom EDMONDSON (accordion) rec by PK, Harbottle, Northumberland 1955: FTX-363 with "Quaker's Wife" & "Linton Man"

I'VE LIVED IN A WOOD - GROUND FOR THE FLOOR

I'VE LIV-ED IN SERVICE - "seven long years - A fancy I took to a maid, sir" - ROUD#1483 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #37 pp74-5 RVW: Mrs Verrall, Monks Gate, Horsham, Sussex 1904

I'VE LOST MY LOVE - I LOST MY LOVE

I'VE NEVER SEEN A STRAIGHT BANANA -- THE YETTIES on Radio 2 2/12/87 : CASS-60-0554

I HAVE NO MONEY - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #137 p74 (D) - O'NEILL MOI #1356/ DMI #610 (C) -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): CLADDAGH (TARA) TA-1002 1973 (M) aft "Stay for another while" & bef "Cushogue" - Marcus (flute) & P J HERNON (mel) with gtr, bodhran & piano CLADDAGH CEFC-141 1989 CASS-0886 aft "Kerrryman's Daughter"

I HAVE NO ONE TO LOVE ME - "It was on last Sunday evening, just about the hour of three" - ROUD#4291 -- Carter Family (Trio): BLUEBIRD B-5356-A Camden, NJ 10/5/28/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I HAVE NOT SAID HOW MUCH I LOVE HER - Tunebook Ms 3/8 (G) #213 p260

I'VE ONLY BEEN DOWN TO THE CLUB - "Last night I was out rather late" (explaining to his wife that he is not drunk) - ROUD#4941 --- SHAY More Pious Friends & Drunken Companions 1928 pp93-4 - HARRISON: Western Folklore 1952 p183 -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffrey, NH USA 1940: FTX-922 (2v only)

I'VE PACKED UP MY BAGS - comp by M McG -- Matt McGINN (Voc/gtr): ELEKTRA EUK-253 1966

I'VE TRAMPED THESE HILLS - about Youth Hostel - comp by GM 1964 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-226

I'VE TRAVELLED - COLLIER LADDIE - ROSIN THE BEAU

I'VE WANDERED IN EXILE - "midst cold-hearted strangers far from my home and the beautiful; Lea" - Song learned from Lucy Farr, Galway -- Peta WEBB: TOPIC 12-TS-223 1973

I HEARD IT ON THE RADIO - NUCLEAR DETERRENT

I'S THE B'Y THAT BUILDS THE BOATS - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p315 or 375 ? Quadrille III "Form the line" - tune called "Back of the Mall" -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by Peter Kennedy, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897

I'ZE YORKSHIRE THOUGH IN LONDON - YORKSHIREMAN IN LONDON

I JUMPED ABOARD A CHINAMAN SHIP - "under, over, stand to attention, like a soldier, quick march 123" - Children's Two Ball bouncing with actions -- rec by Damian Webb, 4/53 St Johns Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: FTX-194 #26

I KEEP MY DOGS - WHILE GAMEKEEPERS LIE SLEEPING

I KEN WHAUR I'M GOING - I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING

I KEPT A COACH/ PACK OF HOUNDS - BROKEN DOWN GENTLEMAN

I KNEW BY THE SMOKE - "that so gracefully curled" - ROUD#12680

I KNOW A BOY - Kids Counting rhyme -- Keston Avenue School, Old Coulsdon, Surrey April 1960: RPL LP 26349

I KNOW A GIRL - "her name is Ruby Murray - she's got a face like the back of a lorry" -- FTX-198 Liverpool girl sung in playground

I KNOW A LITTLE GIRL - "Sly and deceiptful - every little tick she tucks - she goes out and tells the people - long nose, ugly face - turn away from me" - Kids Skipping Game - OPIE LLSC p- 175 -- Liverpool schoolchildren rec by Sasha Moorsom 18/7/58: RPL LP 25827 - FTX-198/ FTX-309 A-ROVING 1968 #3

I KNOW A MILLIONAIRE -- THE YETTIES on Radio 2 1/11/89: CASS 90-0569

I KNOW A NIGGER BOY - "he's double-jointed - he gave me a kiss and may be disappointed - he gave me another - how many kisses 12345" - Children's Skipping game with divination counting - RITCHIE GC p132 "Plain" skipping - rec by Damian Webb, 3/12 -- rec by Damian Webb, 4/13 good - rec by DW, 9/3 St Johns Juniors, Workington 1960: FTX-197 #3 #25 & #52 - rec by DW, 17/4 Workington 1961

I KNOW A TEDDY BEAR - TINY TIM

I KNOW AN OLD LADY - "who swallowed a fly - comp by AM -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897/ VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

I KNOW A WOOD - comp by Fred ROOKE

I KNOW IT MUST BE TRUE -- "Boasting Song" sung by Fred WHITING rec by John HOWSON in "Songs sung in Suffolk" on Radio 2 16/1/96: CASS-1336 at 3'10"

I KNOW MY LORD'S GOING TO LEAD ME OUT -- MUNROE Brothers: SMITHSONIAN Music from the Festival of American Folklife [nd]

I KNOW MY LOVE - "by his way of walking" - "If my love leaves me what will I do?" - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 pp70-3 Old Song West Irish 3v from Co Limerick Ed Note: "In Galway and Clare this was sometimes sung in alternate verses of Irish and English" - O KEEFE FBIB 1955 p122 4v w/o - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 no source given -- DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-14 1968/ EWMI MFP 5223 - Noel MURPHY: FONTANA STL-5496 1969 - Mary O'HARA (voc/ harp): DECCA GES-1095 1973 - THE CORRIES: EMI SCX-6511 1972/ CASS-0991 - COLLABORATION London Celtic Rock: on Radio 2 7/10/87: CASS-0401 rec Cambridge Festival

I KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #722/ DMI #22 (G)

I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING - "and I know who's going wi me" - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 pp22-4 Old Song from Co Antrim 4v & 1st repeated - "Dear knows" is the Ulster equivalent of "Goodness knows" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #933 pp8-9 "Simmer's a pleasant time" 1v & ch/3m - PORTER-GOWER 1995 p113 "I ken whaur I'm going" from Jeannie Robertson - Cf LEA BOY'S LASSIE - also used as Children's Ball bouncing or Skipping game song -- Children rec by Alan Lomax, Aberdeen 1952: FTX-181 #17 "Im gaun awa in the train" - rec by Damian Webb, St James's Junior Girls, Paisley, Glasgow 1961: DW-16/17/ RPL LP 27257/ FTX-181 #22 ("Bonny Jimmie wears a tartan kilt" "Ha ha ha ha he he he he ho ho ho ho I canna keep frae laughing" - ball-bouncing) - PRESTIGE 13006 Jeannie Robertson - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM & family rec Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary: PICKWICK Hallmark CHM-630 1968 - Peg & Bobby CLANCY (Duet): EMBER FA-2057 1968 - Mary O HARA: WARWICK WW 5072 1979 (Herbert Hughes)

I KNOW WHERE THERE'S A - BLACKBIRD'S NEST

I KNOW WHERE ZULU'S LIVE - Skipping rhyme - Bungay Primary School Suffolk May 1960: RPL LP 26349