JOHN ADKINS - "Poor drunkards take warning by me - intoxication my ruin has been" -- Monroe PRESNELL rec by Frank & Anne Warner, N. Carolina 1951: FTX-923

JOHN AIRY AND ST PETER - Story -- Seamus ENNIS: FTX-302

JOHN AND MARY - LOVE FAREWELL - WHEN SHALL WE GET MARRIED?

JOHN AND SUSAN - "Twas in the land of cider" - ROUD#12557 - BUCHAN Secret Songs of Silence (1820s) pp126-7 - FARMER: Merry Songs & Ballads (1897) 3 pp256-8

JOHN AND THE FARMER - CRAFTY FARMER

JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO, JOHN - (not the version comp by Robert Burns) -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax, 1951: FTX-058/ & rec London 14/11/53: ROUNDER 82161-1834-2 2002 - CLUTHA: ARGO ZFB-18 1971 - Marie LITTLE: LEADER LER-2084 1973

JOHN ANDERSON'S ELDEST DAUGHTER - dance tune composed by Niel Gow & published in 1790's - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p60

JOHN, ANDY AND DONALD - composed by BS -- Belle STEWART rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie July 1955: 7"RTR-1211/ CASS-0966-7

JOHN APPLEBY - "was a man's name - lived near the sign of the kettle" - wife Jane Slade or Joan Quiet - alehouse - ginshop - ROUD#1292 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp132-3 Sam Willett, Cuckfield, Sussex (popular with Kent hop-pickers) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp225-6 #92 Edward Griffin, Hatherop, Gloucestersh (w/o) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p46 Hammond: Wm Miller, Wooton Fitzpaine, Dorset 1906

JOHN ARMSTRONG - JOHNNY ARMSTRONG

JOHN AXON - RADIO BALLADS

JOHN B SAIL, THE - SANDBURG: AS 1927 -- Group led by Cleveland SIMMONS, rec by Alan Lomax, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas July 1935: ROUNDER CD-11661-1822-2 1999 "Histe up the John B Sail"

JOHN BAIN'S SISTER'S WEDDING - Jig - KERR MM 3 #287 p31 (Am)

JOHN BARBOUR - WILLIE O WINSBURY

JOHN BARLEYCORN - BARLEYCORN

JOHN BARLEYCORN'S A HERO BOLD - HEY, JOHN BARLEYCORN

JOHN BARLOW - TOM BARBER

JOHN BIRD BELL - "Ye parents who have tender hearts" - KIDSON TT 1891 pp128-130 "The Awful Execution of JBB" Broadside last dying speech of JBB

JOHN BLUNT - GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR-O

JOHN BOWE'S REEL #1 - MOYLAN 2 #318 p182 (#D) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN BOWE'S REEL #2 - MOYLAN 2 #182 (#D) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN BOWLIN - ROUD#1760 - GRAINGER ONS#86/ #288 George Gouldthorpe, Brigg, Linconsh 1905

JOHN BRENNAN'S - Reel - SHASKEEN 1 #7 p7

JOHN BROUGHT THE LETTER - READ 'EM JOHN

JOHN BROWN'S BODY -"lies a-mouldring in the grave" or "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" - ROUD#771 - HUGILL 1961 p442 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp158-60 ship's log 1861 (w/o) "Old Aunt Becky won't you set em up again?"---WARNER TAFS 1984 #130 p305 "Marching On" -- Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-3320 1977- Paul ROBESON with ch & orch: PHILIPS GL 5765 1958 --- Various American Square Calls CASS-30-0572 - Frank PROFFITT rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1951: FTX-931 - "Old Abe": FOLKWAYS FA-2360

JOHN BROWN'S BODY - "the teacher hit me with a ruler - the ruler broke in two so he hit me with a shoe - and I aint going to school no more - Olay" - Children's rhyme also used for Ring game - ROUD#771 - GREIG-DUNCAN #1629 p180 (2v w/o) "JB's Snapsack" - OPIE LLSC p374 Market Rasen, Lincolnsh - tune also used for "I saw a bobby on the corner" -- Dominic BEHAN (tune used for "Our landlady is oh so very fat"): TOPIC 12-T-41 1959/ CASS 60-0202 - FTX-198 "Ally-Ally-Ally-loo-yah" (also has "Father hit me with a walking stick") - rec by Damian Webb, 27/3 St Anne's Leyland Lancash 1968; FTX-195 #39 by 12 girls in Ring Game - children rec by Sam Richards: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 -"Songs of the Civil War" with the George MITCHELL Choir & Lansdowne Orchestra "The Blue and the Grey": WORLD RECORD CLUB T-629 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Solist Val Doonican

JOHN BROWN'S DREAM - Appalachian dance tune -- Hobart SMITH (fiddle): TRADITION TLP-1007 1956-7 -- Hobart SMITH (fid) rec by AL, Williamsburg, Va 1959: ROUNDER 11661-1799 p2001 "The Devil's Dream"

JOHN BRUCE OF THE FORNET - "Martinmas term I gaed to the fair" - aka "AULD JOCKEY BRUCE O' THE FORNET/ FORENIT/ CORNER" (Skene, Aberdeenshire) ROUD#3937 - GREIG FSNE #133 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 #372 (5var) - ORD BS&B pp229-230 - BUCHAN SBB pp194-5 - KERR 1950 Cornkisters -- Wm & Mrs MATHIESON #009 & 011 & Bell DUNCAN #435, Insch, Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Davie STEWART (voc/acc) rec by PK, Dundee, Angus 1956: FTX-180/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994/ rec by Alan Lomax, London 1957: ROUNDER 82161-1633-2 2002

JOHN BULL - "was a bumpkin born and bred" - Gloucestersh countryman's first time in Church - VOC LIB 1822 #703 p267 also has "Johnny Bull" (cante-fable): VOC LIB 1822 p208 "Johnny Bull"

JOHN BULL AND HIS CREW - "Be sure you're well provided for" - ROUD#2779 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p210 Angelo Dornan 1954-60

JOHN BULL, SCOTTIE AND THE IRISHMAN - "John Bull he was an Englishman and went to tramp one day - with threepence in his pocket - meets Paddy McGhee and they both meet a Scottie and ask to borrow money - they buy bread and whisky and sleep in a haystack then wake and compare dreams - the Irishman's dream and the reality was that he had eaten the loaf - ROUD#3272 - HEALY OISB 3 1969 pp107-8 Bs (w/o) "Paddy McGhee or The Three Dreams" --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp366-8 Utah 1947 "The Three Dreams" - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #72 pp156-7 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB -- Angelo Dornan rec by Helen Creighton, NMM (7"-33 LP) 1971

JOHN BULL'S EPISTLE - "My Coly Strong my Jo Cole what have you been about?" - ROUD#2051 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp172-4 ship's log 1817 (w/o)

JOHN BULLY - BULLY IN THE ALLY

JOHN CAREY'S DAUGHTER - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1757/ DMI #929 (D)

JOHN CHEROKEE - "O this is the tale of JC" Ch: "Alabama - JC" - Shanty - ROUD#4693 - HUGILL SSS 1961 p439 "Alabama" --- COLCORD SAS pp98-99 -- Stan HUGILL & The York and Albany Crew, rec by PK, London: EMI CLP-1524 1962/ FTX-035 - "Folk on 2" 28/4/88 CASS-90-1051

JOHN CLIFFORD'S POLKA #1 - MOYLAN 2 #109 p63 (G) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN CLIFFORD'S POLKA #2 - MOYLAN 2 #339 pp191-2 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN COLE - JACK HALL

JOHN COLLIN'S FANCY POLKA - MOYLAN 2 #262 p150 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN CROSSED THE WATER - Negro convicts rec by John Lomax, 1934: Lib of Congress rec 165 B1 -- Alan LOMAX (voc with gtr) with Alex KORNER (gtr) named as "Nick Wheatstraw" rec by PK: EMI CLP-1192 1958/ FTX-941

JOHN DAMERAY - Sea Song -- Brian PEARSON (& Ch) CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137 1970

JOHN DOE - OLD VEST AND CRAVAT (Hornpipe)

JOHN DOHERTY'S REEL - DOHERTY'S

JOHN DORY - CHILD #284 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 ii p67 - SIMPSON BBB 1966 p399 - PALMER OBSS 1986 p1 from Ravenscroft@s DEUTEROMELIA -- London MADRIGAL SINGERS: EMI HQS-1215 1970

JOHN EDWARD - "John Edward something funny was" - ROUD#12558 - BUCHAN: "Secret Songs of Silence" (1820s?) pp19-21

JOHN FENWICK'S THE FLOWER AMONG THEM - see also SIR JOHN FENWICK'S -- Colin ROSS (N-pipes & fid) Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc) Carole ROBB (flute) & Anthony ROBB (N-pipes): TOPIC 12- TS-278 1978

JOHN GILES - JOE MUGGINS

JOHN GORDON -- Alex CAMPBELL: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-6 1969 (M)

JOHN GRUMLIE - FATHER GRUMBLE

JOHN GUNN - Song about a rejected Scots beggarman -- McCALMANS rec RPL Concert Hall Radio 2: 31/3/80: CASS-0418

JOHN HARDY - "was a desperate little man" - threatens to kill the first man who wins his money gambling (Frank Proffitt says he shot the Sheriff) - American murder ballad from West Virginia, same area as JOHN HENRY with which it is sometimes confused - LAWS I-2 & NAB 1964 p246-7 - ROUD#3262 - BROWN NCFL vol 2 1952 p563 - COX FSS 1925 p178 (notes about location of execution) - LOMAX USA 1947 p306 - RANDOLPH-SHOEMAKER Ozark 1947 volII p144 - SHARP FSSA vol 2 p35 - WHITE Amer Negro F/S - TOM JODE (Woody Guthrie) -- CARTER FAMILY (v/ auto-harp/gtr) 1928: (VICTOR 40190A)/ FOLKWAYS FP-253/ FA-2953/ 7"RTR-0306/ FTX-911/ on 2 Woody Guthrie progs by Tom Paxton: Radio 2 30/9/87 & 7/10/87: CASS-0425 - Lee Monroe PRESNELL (v/banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1951: FTX-927 - Frank PROFFITT (v/ banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1961: FTX-932/ FOLKWAYS FA-2360 1962 - Burl IVES COLUMBIA RTR -0323-4 - Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 set of 4 LPs titled "Folk Song & Minstrelsy" by The Book of the Month Club - Kyle CREED & Bobby PATTERSON (banjo instrumental): LEADER LED-2053 1973 - Jean JENKINS (voc/ banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: FTX-915 - Roy GUEST with THE TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID-5165 1963

JOHN'S GONE TO HILO - TOM'S GONE

JOHN HAY'S BONNY LASSIE - Song Air - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (G) #155 p232

JOHN HENRY - "was a poor little boy, sitting on his father's knee" - he has a successful contest with a steam-drill but it costs him his life - LAWS I1 & NAB 1964 p246 (gives bibliog references) - see also MY LITTLE JOHN HENRY -- Mrs Etta BAKER (gtr): TRADITION TLP-1007 1956-7 - Ed McCURDY (with gtr) rec by Jac Holzman, NY, USA: RIVERSIDE 12-601 1955 - Bascom Lamar LUNSFORD (75) (voc/ banjo) rec by Paul Clayton: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-645 1956 - Jean JENKINS (Randolph) (voc/ banjo) rec by PK at the London Ceilidhe Club, 1957: 7"RTR-0497/ FTX-268/ (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: FTX-915 - Earl TAYLOR and his Stoney Mountain Boys rec by Alan Lomax 1959: UAL 3049/ FTX-789 - MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS with vocal rec by AL, Va, USA 1959: RPL LP 26145/ / "The Pioneer Strain" broadcast introduced by Alan LOMAX, 1960 rec off air by PK: FTX-902 - WILLIAMSON brothers & Curry 1927/ OKEH 45127/ FTX-911 - Film of Woody GUTHRIE by Paul Lee: FF-3302 - Pete SEEGER (with 5-string banjo): EMI (Music for Pleasure) MFP 50114 (Released by agreement with Folkways) Capitol Records Inc 1964 - Josh WHITE: DECCA CRLM-1047 1971 Notes by Alan Lomax/ (LONDON LL-1341 & MERCURY MG 36052/ CASS-0240 - Snuffy JENKINS rec by Mike Seeger: "American Banjo" tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314) 7"RTR- 0316 - Glen STONEMAN (fid) with George STONEMAN (banjo) & James LINDSAY (gtr) rec by Alan Lomax Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1702 1999 (instrumental) - LEADBELLY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1126 1972 - ODETTA: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 - George PEGRAM (banjo) with Clyde ISAACS (mandolin), Fred Cockerham (fiddle) & Jack BRYANT (gtr): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM- 235 1973 (instrumental) - Mike with Peggy SEEGER (banjo) (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226 incl EVERY MONDAY MORNING version of JOHN HENRY - Group of ditch-diggers, rec by John A & Alan Lomax, Murrell's Inlet, S. Carolina, 1937: ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 "Ten Pound Hammer" - Sid HEMPHILL (fid & voc) with Lucius SMITH (banjo); Will HEAD (bass drum) & Alec Askew (gtr) rec by AL, near Sledge, Miss., USA Aug 1942: ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 & 1823 1999 - Ed LEWIS (voc with axe strokes) rec by AL, Camp B, Miss State Pen, Lambert Miss Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1705 1997 - Peggy SEEGER (auto-harp instrumental) rec by PK, Cider Press, Dartington, Devon Dec 1971: 5"RTR-0802

JOHN HOBBS - "A jolly shoemaker, JH, JH - he married Miss Carter - no lady was smarter - but he caught a Tartar - did H. JH" - Wife Auction - Uneasy Wedock - FOXWORTHY 1976 p18 coll Janet Blunt

JOHN IN THE MIST - SEAN SA CHEO

JOHN JAGO - OLD CORNWALL 1957 -- Cyril TAWNEY "Children's Songs" ARGO ZFB-4 1969

JOHN JOE'S - Single Jig -- KILFENORA CEILI BAND (West Clare): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-283 1974

JOHN, JOHN, JOHN - "go and put your trousers on - all the ladies down below are single, don't you know" -- Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

JOHN KANAKA - "I heard I heard the old man say" - Shanty (Barbadoes) - ROUD#8238 - Cf MOBIL BAY - HUGILL SSS 1961 p288 & 1969 p187 - KINSEY, Songs of the Sea 1989 pp94-5 - see also KANAKA LOVE SONG (Australia) -- Stan HUGILL rec London 1954: RPL 20225/ rec by PK with "The York & Albany" Crew: EMI CLP-1524 1962/ FTX-035 - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC-269 1992 (gift from Sean Laffey) CASS-1280

JOHN KELLY'S SLIDE - (D) - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #47 p22 - BRODY p148 (D) - MOYLAN 2 #287 p166 from John O Leary (melodeon) -- John KELLY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 with "Tom Keane's Reel" - CHIEFTAINS 3: ISLAND 9379

JOHN LEE - "An old lady named Keyes" murdered and burnt in her home at Babbacombe, near Torquay. John Lee, "the man they couldn't hang", though claiming innocence, was convicted of murder at Exeter Assizes on Feb 4th 1885. Three attempts at execution were made at Exeter Gaol but each time the mechanism failed and, after 12 years, on the 18th of December 1907, he was allowed to leave Portland Prison and to walk free to visit his aged mother at Newton Abbot - DAVIES HC nd p3 Hants "A Terrible scene has been witnessed at the scaffold" these were the words taken from a scrapbook with tune added by collector -- Bill WESTAWAY rec by PK, Belstone, Okehampton, Devon 1951: 7T-012-3/ FTX-086 & FTX-241 - FAIRPORT CONVENTION: ISLAND ILPS- 9176 1971 (comp based on the event but not on the traditional song)

JOHN, LITTLE, JOHN - JEAN, PETIT JEAN

JOHN, LITTLE LAD - JEAN, PETIT COQ

JOHN LOCKE'S POLKA - coll by Cecil Sharp from gypsy fiddler - THREE JOLLY SHEEPSKINS -- John KIRKPATRICK & Sue HARRIS: TOPIC 12-TS- 408 1980

JOHN LOVE - Murder by poison - ROUD#5836 - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 #206 p56

JOHN McALPINE - Strathspey (A) - KERR MM 1 #3 p3

JOHN McCALL'S MARCH TO KILBOWIE COTTAGE -- John BURGESS (H- pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969

JOHN McCANN - MARY NEAL

JOHN McCANTY'S COURTSHIP - "On the first day of May at the close of the day" - ROUD#2367 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp198-200 Co Limerick

JOHN McDONALD'S JIG -- John BURGESS (H-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969 with others

JOHN McFADYEN OF MELFORD - March -- Alex GRANT rec by PK, Carrbridge, Inverness 1955: FTX-069

JOHN McGOLDRICK AND THE QUAKER'S DAUGHTER - "You muses nine with me combine, assist me with your aid" - ROUD#3047 - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp195- 6 Sparling Imin pp240-1 Omagh chapbook 1826 & Bs text

JOHN McKENNA'S REEL - MOYLAN 2 #243 pp140-1 from John O Leary (melodeon) - see also HAPPY DAYS OF YOUTH

JOHN McLEAN'S MARCH - words comp by Hamish Henderson to trad pipe tune -- CLUTHA: ARGO ZFB-18 1971

JOHN McNAB - "nainsel to maister be auld's ta forty five" - ROUD#13012 - GREIG-GARDINER 8 2002 #1764 p280 (1v/m)

JOHN McNEIL'S - Reel (A) - BOWEN p44 - FELDMAN p187 from Danny O Donnell, Donegal -- Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc): TOPIC 12 TFRS-501 1974 aft "Fateful Head" & "Randy Wives of Greenlaw"

JOHN MAGEE - IN PRAISE OF JOHN MAGEE

JOHN MAHONEY'S - Jig - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #23 p12 (D)

JOHN MITCHELL - "I am a true-born Irishman - JM is my name"- ROUD#5163 - HENRY SOP #179 words from printed ballad sheet - O'LOCHLAIN MISB 1965 p54 Tune: The Perfect Cure - Note says he was author of "The Jail Journal", classic of Rebel Ireland - escaped from Van Dieman's Land 1815 & died Newry 1875 - GALVIN ISP 1962 p45 - ZIMMERMAN IPSB 1966 p239 "Mitchel's Address" - MacCOLL-SEEGER TDIA 1986 p234 from Sheila MacGregor - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p98 - - Sarah MAKEM, rec by PK, Keady, Co Armagh 11/7/52: 7"RTR-0551/ RPL 18411/ FTX-161 (2v only) - Sheila STEWART, rec by PK, Blairgowrie 1955 (tune: "Granuaile") : 7"RTR-1211/ CASS-0966-7 - Joe HEANEY: TOPIC 12-T-91 1963 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-T-153 1966 - Johnny Mhairtin Learai (unacc) Galway CIC-013 CASS-0900

JOHN MORRISEY - "Come all you bold Irishmen and listen to me" - Boxing Ballad - LAWS #H-19 NAB 1950/64 pp239-40 "Morrisey and the Black" - ROUD#1884 - fight starts at 6am. Up to 14th round M is taking hard blows but revives and knocks out the Black in the 25th round - MACKENZIE 1928 p334 (Nova Scotia) - GREENLEAF 1933 p355 (Nova Scotia)- PARLER ABB 1963 p37 Fred Smith, Ark 1954 (w/o) - see also MORRISEY AND THE RUSSIAN SAILOR

JOHN NORTH - comp by Vin Garbutt -- THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974

JOHN OF BADENYON - "When first that I became a man" - 20 years old - ROUD#2592 - POLWARTH FSN 1967 pp30-2 - POLWARTH FSFTN 1970 pp26-8 T Hepple Ms Northumberland 1855

JOHN O CONNOR - comp by Turlough Carolan (harpist) - PLANXTY CONNOR

JOHN O DWYER OF THE GLEN - Air - ROCHE 1 (2 Settings) #32 p16 (Am) 4/4 & #33 p17 (G) 3/4

JOHN O DWYER OF THE GLENS - Set Dance (6 bars in 1st and 12 in 2nd strain) - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #967 (##A) 4/4

JOHN O GRINFIELD - JONE O GREENFIELD'S RAMBLE - POOR COTTON WEAVER

JOHN O HALLORAN - comp by McCarthy - Irishman in search of work in England - Camden Town - God forsaken land - shovel - Loved Mayo girl in Liverpool - Dirty bed-lice - Sgt Death will call me home -- Danny DOYLE (voc/gtr): MAJOR MINOR MMLP-26 1968

JOHN O HAZELGREEN - JOCK OF HAZELDEAN

JOHN O NEILL'S - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1265/ DMI #533 (D)

JOHN OF PARIS - Quadrille Jig - BALMORAL p29 (G) used for "Ninepins" dance - KENNEDY FTB 1954 2 p44/ 1994 #190 p48 (G) alt: "Ninety Five" - KERR MM 1 #3 p27 (A) - O'NEILL MOI #1826 (not in DMI) "The New School" (G) - KARPELES: Gisburn Processional -- Fred PIDGEON (fid) rec by PK, Stockland, Devon 1951 FTX-087 - Bob RUNDLE (mel) & Tony FRANKLIN (banjo) of Camborne, Cornwall rec by PK Devon 1978: FTX-124 with "Canned Peas"

JOHN O REILLY - Jig - KERR MM 4 #238 p26 (F) - LEVEY 2 #3 p2 (G) "John O Really the Active"

JOHN O SHEA - JOHNNY O SHEA

JOHN PATERSON'S MARE GOES FOREMOST - NEWMARKET HORSE-RACE

JOHN PEEL - "D'ye ken JP with his coat so grey" - ROUD#1239 - Hunting Song comp by John Woodcock Graves & William Metcalf/ Tune: "Where will Bonnie Annie lie?" (1st part of reel: "Bonnie Annie") - ROUD#1239 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp108-9 - GRAHAM DSON 1910 p22 - McMECHAN, The Song and its Author 1915 (w/o) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p56 #118 Charles Ascott, Meysey Hampton, Gloucestersh 4v/ch (w/o) - JEFDSS 1941 pp80-4 notes on tune "The Red House" and connection with song by Anne Gilchrist) - MELBREAK Hunt SFP 1971 p2 Cumberland - ED&S mag 40:1 1978 p32 Keith Gregson - GREGSON CSB 1980 pp44-5 - MacCOLL-SEEGER TDIA 1986 p214 One verse parody from Belle Stewart -- HORN OF THE HUNTER - tune used in Children's Skipping Game: MOTHER BOUGHT A CHICKEN -- Unnamed male singer & Chorus, Ambleside, Westmorland, 28/3/40: RPL 2520 (78 rpm) & RTR-0110 - Mickey MOSCROP rec by Norman Alford & Robert Forrester: (REYNARD RR-002) - J R MITCHELL, rec Carlisle 1954: story of song: RTR-0112/ Radio Prog 1954: CASS-30-0612 - FTX-120 - Radio prog - Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK 1961: EMI CLP-1500 1962/ 291 (incl harmonica) - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-154 1967 --- Oscar BRAND: (DERO 1985) CASS-0235 "The Best of the Worst" (Bawdy version)

JOHN PEEL - Instrum - HAYWOOD #24 p40 (F) - KERR MM 3 #387 p43 (A) 2/4 -- Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band 1930: TOPIC 12-T-320 1977 tune only - Jimmy SHAND (mel + piano) BELTONA BL-2291/ FTX-361 tune only - Billy CONROY (tune on whistle with variations) rec by PK, Ashington, Northumb 8/6/54: RTR-0047-8/ RPL 20624/ FTX-122 talk bef about inspiration for his variations - Fred CLARKE (variations on melodeon) rec by PK, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland 22/11/54: RPL 22448/ FTX-120 - Cecil MOORE (tune on harmonica) rec PK, Gunnerside, Richmond, W Yorksh 22/11/54: RPL 22448 bef "Beautiful Swaledale"/ FTX-310 A-ROVING 1968 #4

JOHN PEEL'S ECHO - HORN OF THE HUNTER

JOHN R BIRCHALL - "My name is JRB and that I'll never deny" - Birchell tells of luring Benwell to his death, pretending innocence during his trial and bids farewell to his wife before dying on the gallows - LAWS #E-26 NAB 1950/64 p189 "The Murder of F C Benwell" - ROUD#2255 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp126-7 Emerson Woodcock, Ont 1962

JOHN RAEBURN - JIMMY RAEBURN

JOHN REILLY - (or WILLIE REILLY) - "One day while I was out walking - down by a riverside" "JR is my truelove's name" - To escape being shot by her cruel father, her boy-friend, JR, leaves Ireland for America with £1000 donated by her mother - he buys land and returns for his sweetheart - the ship is wrecked on the return voyage and both die - she leaves a note written in blood blaming her father - LAWS #M-8 ABBB 1957 p183-4 "Riley's Farewell" - ROUD#270 - BSs "Riley the Fisherman" - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp390-1 BS (w/o) "Riley's Farewell" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p49 (6var) - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 #88 1 pp357-360 Benjamin Warren, Taunton, Som 1907/ Capt Vickery, Minehead, Som 1907 "R sent to America" - JFSS !:5 1904 pp256-7 Mrs Thompson, Knaresborough, Yorksh "Young R the F" - JFSS 2:8 pp214-5 RVW: Mr & Mrs Truell, Gravesend, Kent 1904 1v/m - JFSS 19 p147 Sussex - JIFS I 5 "One evening fair to take the air" - GARDINER FSH 1909 Hampsh "Young R" - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p29 Limerick "One Evening Fair" - CAREY TEFS 1915 pp6-7 Surrey/ Sussex - HENRY SOP #468/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p306 George Graham, Coleraine, Co Derry 1939 "James R, the sailor lad" & #234 Moneycannon Co Antrim 1932 - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp12-13 "Young R the F" - JFSS 5 pp256-7 - JFSS 8 1906 pp214-5 RVW Mr & Mrs Truell - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp147-8 Carey: Frank Albery, Borden Wood, Sussex 1911 - HENRY #468/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp441-2 Moneycannon, Co Antrim & Co Derry 1932 "JR the Sailor Lad" - HOLST-VAUGHAN WILLIAMS YOL 1961 #2 p2 7v/m Mr & Mrs Truell, Gravesend, Kent 1904 "Riley Song" - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 #7 p14 "Reilly, the fisherman" - PALMER SOM 1972 pp95-6 George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 - PURSLOW CL 1972 p44 or 114 (?) Gardiner: Robert Giles, Portsmouth, Hampsh 1907 "Young R" - ANDREWS SOD 1979 Michael Blann Ms 2v (w/o) "Riley Song" - PALMER RVW 1983 #56 pp90-1 RVW: Mr Anderson, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, 1905 --- McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp126-7 NS (w/o) "R's Farewell" - CHAPPELL R&A 1939 p66 - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p182 - JAFL 52 p31 - GARDNER & CHICKERING BSSM 1939 pp382-4 Mich - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp262-4 Mrs T R Wheeler, Mo 1927/ Mrs Cinderella Kinnaird Mo 1939 (w/o) "JR'S Courtship" - CREIGHTON TSNS 1950 p171 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p161 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 pp102-3 Mrs Edward Gallagher, Chebucto Head, NS 1950 "Young R" - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp105-8 ships log 1847 (w/o) - PEACOCK SNO 3 pp698-699 Nfl "O Reilly the F" - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp133-4 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB "Johnny R" - KARPELES FSFN 1971 pp163-4 Miss Mary Gallahue, Stock Cove, Nfl 1929 "R the F" - WARNER TAFS 1984 #147 pp338-340 C K 'Tink' Tillett, Wanchese, NC 1940 - see also GEORGE REILLY - YOUNG REILLY -- Sarah MAKEM rec by PK, Keady, Co Armagh 11/7/52: 7"RTR-0547/ RPL 15411 (1v)/ FTX-161 "Willie Reilly" - Harry COX rec by PK, London 1/12/53 & Catfield Norfolk 19/7/56: RPL LP 22914/ FTX-033 - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24840/ FTX-159/ TOPIC 12-T-269 1975 "Young Willie O Reilly" - Unnamed Irish tinker: LYRICHORD LL-178 1967 - "Willie Reilly" - John REILLY rec by Tom Munnelly. Dublin 1967: FTX-175 - George DUNN rec by Roy Palmer, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh: LEADER LEE 4042 1973 --- Tink TILLETT rec by Frank & Anne Warner, N Carolina 1940: FTX-926 - Peggy SEEGER (voc/ gtr) rec London 14/8/56: RPL LP 23195 - Jack LANGSTAFF (with piano): TRADITION TLP-1009 1957 (arr Howard Brockway) - Pete SEEGER (voc & banjo): TOPIC TOP-33 1958 45-EP - ODETTA: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

JOHN REILLY - (or GEORGE REILLY) - "As I walked out last summer evening" - sailor - LAWS #N-36-37 ABBB pp221-2 "John (George) Riley 1 & 2" - ROUD#267 - GRAINGER #371 George R Orton, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1908 "John Riley" - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #24 p10 "O Reilly from Co Cavan" - HENRY SOP #826/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p308 George Graham, Coleraine, Co Derry "James Reilly" - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp186-7 E Gilshenan, Virginia, Co Cavan (text mainly from BS) "O Reilly from the Co Cavan" or "The Phoenix of Erin's Green Isle" - HEALY OISB 4 1969 pp103-4 (w/o) "Young Riley" --- THOMPSON PS 1958 pp51-3 Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o) - ROBERTS & AGEY ITP 1978 pp99-101 Charles Doll: Mrs Elmar Mitchell, Whitley Co, Ky 1957 "John Riley"

JOHN RETURNED FROM SEA - "A story, a story, well-known" - WILLIAMS #271 Ricard Gardner, Hardwick, Oxfordsh (w/o)

JOHN ROCHE'S FAVOURITE - Highland - ROCHE 2 #285 p35 (G)

JOHN ROY STEWART - Strathspey (Dm) - HONEYMAN p25 - KERR 2 #183 p21 "John Roy Stuart"

JOHN RYAN'S POLKA - SULLIVAN 1 p15 (D) -- PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-301 1974 aft "Denis Murphy's" & "£42 cheque" - FLOWERS & FROLICS rec "Empress of Russia" Islington London: FREE REED FRR-016 1977 aft "Huntsman's Chorus" & bef "Broom's Reel" - Mrs CROTTY'S CEILIDHE BAND rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1980: FTX-250 aft "Denis Murphy's Polka" - FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec by Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 bef "Duke of Perth"

JOHN SMITH -- "my fellow fine - can you shoe this horse o mine?" - ROUD#12964 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1565 p114 (2var w/o)

JOHN SNEDDON, THE MINER BOY, THE - "My love he is a MB that works down underground" - ROUD#9711 - LLOYD CAYBM 1952/1978 p99 "Johnny Sneddon" from John Doherty (song p200) - DALLAS SOT 1974 p207 -- Johnny DOHERTY (sung) rec by PK, Glenties, Co Donegal 1953 (4v): 7"RTR-1222/ RPL 19588 - Jane HOLLAND accomp by her son Robert (gtr), rec by Alan Lomax, Blantyre 1953 (2v): FTX-409 & FTX-511

JOHN SOLD THE COW WELL - YORKSHIRE BITE

JOHN STENSEN'S REEL -- Brendan POWER (harmonica) with Chris NEWMAN (gtr): PUNCH MUSIC PMCD-002 1994 "New Irish Harmonica" (learned from Martin Nolan, Dublin piper) aft "Drunken Landlady" & "Wind that shakes the barley"

JOHN STEWART - Reel -- Tommy PEOPLES (fid) rec at "Fiddlesticks" Festival organised by Traditional Music Society of University College, Cork 1991: NIMBUS NI-5320 aft "The Jug of Punch"

JOHN SULLIVAN - "One and all on you I call" - Murder that took place near the pass of Keimaneigh, west of Ballingeary, Co Cork - Sullivan confesses murdering Denis Ring for which he was condemned to death - ROUD#5302 - CROININ 2000 #153 pp232-3 "The Cappabwee Murder" -- Elizabeth CRONIN, rec by Alan Lomax, Macroom, Co Cork 1951/ rec by Seamus Ennis 11/9/52: RPL 19022/ FTX-160/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 #20 "The Cappabwee Murder"
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JOHN THE BAPTIST -- John & Beverley MARTIN: ISLAND FOLK-1001 (boxed) 1978

JOHN THE BON(E) - or CAN YOU DANCE THE FLORA? - "John the Bon went marching on - till he met with Sally Dover" - GILBERT 1823 (tune only) "a speciman of Celtick music" - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 ref to tune - DUNSTAN 1929 p31 "The Helston Furry, Flurry, Flora or Faddy Dance" - GUNDRY 1966 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #93 Cornish version by Talek & Ylerwyth "Jowan Bob" - There was a Jon Bon who was MP for Helston in the 14th Century but no mention of Sarah Dover in the records (Mordon) - see under HELSTON -- Skinner's Bottom GLEESINGERS rec by PK, Redruth, Cornwall 22/11/56: RPL LP 23654/ FTX-010 & FTX-218/ FTX-307 A- ROVING Radio Prog 1968 #2 - Shirley COLLINS & ALBION CD Band: B & C (PEG &) CREST-11 1971 - SPINNERS EMI SCX-6493 1972 - Trevor CROZIER (unacc) with Giles FARNABY'S DREAM BAND:ARGO ZDA-158 1973 - Richard GENDALL (voc/gtr) 1975: FTX-009 (sung in Cornish)

JOHN THE REVELATOR -- THE BELLEVILLE A-CAPELLA CHOIR rec by Alan Lomax, Belleville, Va. USA 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

JOHN THOMPSON - JOHNNY THOMPSON, SCOTTISH GOALIE

JOHN TO JOAN - "Quoth John to Joan, wilt thou have me?" Ch: "I cannot come every day to woo" - ROUD#1596 - BELL BSPE 1857 p155 (w/o) "The Clown's Courtship" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1859 1 p87 "Quoth J to J" - LONG DIOW 1886 p121 Isle of Wight (w/o) "Said Jan to Joan" - JFSS 6 p58-9 -- DEAN-SMITH relates this type of song to dialogues in English Folk Plays - also titled "Joan to Jan" "The Clown's Courtship"

JOHN WALSH'S POLKA #1 - MOYLAN 2 #260 p149 (G) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN WALSH'S POLKA #2 - MOYLAN 2 #261 pp149-150 4pts (G) from John O Leary (melodeon)

JOHN WARD'S JIG -- BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-007 1999 aft "Green Linnet" & bef "Mama's Pet"

JOHN WESLEY - "JW was a minister" - old brown coat buttoned up before" Ch: "old grey marew - little ghost - daughterrs - sons - old straw hat" - ROUD#3467 - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p186 coll by Bob Patten, Lynton, Devon -- Jon RAVEN (voc with melodica/gtr): BROADSIDE BRO-100 1968 parody on hymn: I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY (tune: "Lazarus")

JOHN WHITE - "Come all you tender-hearted Christians" - Last v: "Come sign & send a petition to England's Queen" - Soldier in 7th Hussars, born Leeds, of Irish parents, he was sentenced to 300 lashes for striking his sergeant - ROUD#1641 - PURSLOW WS 1968 p59 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 - PALMER RS 1977 p107 Hammond: Mrs Russell -- John TIMPANY & Audrey SMITH: WESTWOOD WRS-031 1973

JOHN WILLIE'S DREAM - "One night of late I chanced to stray" - Cf McKENNA'S DREAM -- Peter REILLY rec by PK, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh 16/7/52: 7"RTR-0549/ RPL 18487/ FTX-165 (6v)

JOHN WHITE'S MOTHER - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #791/ DMI #65 (D)

JOHN WILLIE'S FERRET - comp by Kearns - Ch: "I was there - so were you = Mayor & Vicar & Council - the night JW took his ferret to a do" -- Bernard WRIGLEY (+ bass conc): LOOFY LOO-007 1984 cass

JOHN WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR - ROCHE 2 #339 p60 (Am) 2/4 March