MY AUNT JANE -- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-0926 & 0927

MY AUNTIE JEAN - Song/ Polka - "in a tumble down biggin there lives my A J" - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #741 p55 (2var) -- John McDONALD (voc/ mouth music): TOPIC 12-T-263 1975

MY BARNEY - MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN

MY BEAUTIFUL BROWN-HAIRED GIRL - MO NIGHEAN DONN AN BOIDHCHE

MY BEAUTIFUL MUFF - BEAUTIFUL MUFF

MY BELOVED CORNELIA -- Billy BENNINGTON (h-dulc) rec by Jim COUZA, Barford, Norfolk 20/7/82 CASS-0871

MY BEST WISHES TO THE HOMELAND - MO DHURACHD DO'N TIR

MY BILLY BOY - MY BOY BILLY

MY BLACK HEN - HICKEDRTY PICKERTY

MY BLEEDING HEART - SINNER'S REDEMPTION

MY BLUE-EYED NELLY - "The bird was on the bough retiring to its rest" - ROUD#2665 - WILLIAMS Ms#230 John Falconer, Black Bourton, Oxfordsh (w/o) & Ms #642

MY BLUE-EYED SHIBEAG - "Shibeag of the brown locks" - KENNEDY-FRASER SOTH vol 2 1917 pp15-18 "COLL NURSE'S LILT" coll by Frances Tolmie

MY BOAT IS ON THE SHORE - GRAND OLD DUKE OF YORK

MY BONNY BLACK BESS - BLACK BESS

MY BONNY BLOOMING HIGHLAND JANE - "As I walked out one morning fair" - ROUD#2554 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1240 p474 6v w/o - BS incl BG - WILLIAMS Ms#641 "My Blooming H J" - Cf HENRY- HUNTINGDON p140

MY BONNY BONNY BOY - BONNY BONNY BOY

MY BONNY BOY - YOUNG AND GROWING

MY BONNY BROWN JANE - "I courted a wee lass when I was but young -I lost my wee lassie by courtin too slow" - HENRY #613 Huntington p396 -- Joe HOLMES & Len GRAHAM: FREE REED FRR-007 1976 "Bonny Brown Jane"

MY BONNY GATESIDE LASS - ("Maw Bonny Gyetside Lass") "Aw warn'd ye hevent seen me lass" - ROUD#3177 - STOKOE-REAY (tune: "All round my hat" or "Jack Pudding")

MY BONNY HIGHLAND LASSIE-O - HIGHLAND LADDIE

MY BONNY IRISH BOY - BONNY IRISH BOY

MY BONNY LABOURING BOY - BONNY LABOURING BOY

MY BONNY LAD - "Hev you seen owt o' maa bonny lad?" - TERRY 1921 - WHITTAKER NCB 1922 - DEAN-SMITH note p90: cf tune to "Blow the wind southerly" -- Isla CAMERON "Ballads & Blues: Sea Music" radio prog prod by Denis Mitchell 1956: CASS 0376/ rec by Alan Lomax, London 11/2/51 COLUMBIA SL-206 1952/ FOLKWAYS FW- 8871 1959 - Fred LAWSON (voc/gtr) rec by PK, Newcastle 15/6/54: RPL 20610/ 7"RTR-0032-3 - Isla CAMERON with Jack ARMSTRONG (N- pipes) rec by PK, London 1963: FTX-330/ SAYDISC SDL-416 1996 - Anne BRIGGS: TOPIC 12-T-207 1971 - CHEVIOT RANTERS Country Dance Band (tune as a waltz): TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 - Sylvia MOORE ensemble rec 1980: FTX-418 & FTX-425

MY BONNY LAD - MY BOY BILLY - MY JOHNNY LAD

MY BONNY LAD IS YOUNG - YOUNG AND GROWING

MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN - "He's gone, I am now sad and lonely" - ROUD#1422 - New Prize Medal Songbook #9 1872 "Bring back my barney to me"- Hylands Mammoth Hibernian Songster 1901 p161 - HENRY SOP #7 - JEFDSS 1953 p104 Mrs Costello "My Johnny" - CRAY "Bawdy Ballads" 1969 p23 "My God how the money rolls in" - PAGE SB "World War" p178 "Laying eggs in the sky" p 110 "The Second A I F" - "stage song favoured by Irish comedians from 1860's & American Universities close harmony groups" -- Cecilia COSTELLO rec by PK, Birmingham 11/8/51: FTX-098/ rec by Marie Slocombe 30/11/51: RPL 17034 "My Johnny"/ AS I ROVED OUT Radio prog Sea Songs 1956 (Marie Slocombe intro "My Johnny"): FTX-255 A followed by Spike Hughes orch arr with THE COUNTRY MAIDS, Orpington Junior Choir (leader: Sheila Mossman)/ LEADER LEE-4054 1975 - THE SHANTEYMEN: ALLEGRO ALL-879 1968 - GRANDAD'S ARMY: PICKWICK Hallmark SHM-747 1971 (Bawdy Army version) - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975 "My Barney"

MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN - Kids Action Song - tune also used for Kids Song: MY FATHER'S THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON (he cleans all the lavvies at night) -- rec by Damian Webb 14/4 St Marys Juniors, Edinburgh 1961

MY BONNY SAILOR BOY - BONNY SAILOR BOY

MY BONNY SCOTCH LADDIE - BONNET SO BLUE

MY BONNY UIST LASSIE - MO NIGHNEAG BHOIDHEACH

MY BONNY WEE HIELAN MAN - BONNY WEE HIELAN MAN

MY BOUGHLEEN DHOWN - BOUGHALEEN DHUN

MY BOY BILLY - "Where have you been all the day?" - CHILD App to #12 ("Lord Rendal") - ROUD#326 - BRONSON 1 p226-36 (29var) - JOHNSON Musical Museum 1787 - LONG DIOW 1886 Isle of Wight (w/o) - SHARP-KARPELES CDC 1974 #315 3var John Bradley, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwicksh 1911/ Lizzie Welch, Hambridge, Somerset 1904 1v/m Richard Adam, East Harptree, Somerset 1906- "MB Willie" (MBW) - SHARP Cf 2 p349 Lizzie Welch - Novello School 1908 vols 6. 7 & 9 - VC 1912 Worcestersh - Sel Ed 1 1921 pp98-99 "MBW" - TERRY 1 1921 p2 Northumb capstan shanty & WHITTAKER NCB 1921 - JFSS 8:34 1930 pp210-211 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset "Bonny Lad Highland Lad" - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp112-3 Mr Varner, Belfast 1912 "MBW" - OPIE ODNR 1951 #45 - SEEGER/McCOLL SI 1960 p28 Betsy Henry (McColl's mother) Auchterarder, Perthsh "MBW" - HUGILL SSS p451 - MORTON FSU 1970 pp11-12 Bob Williamson, Moy, Co Tyrone I" - see HIGHLAND LADDIE - LORD RENDAL - PRETTY LITTLE GIRL THAT I LOVE (Reel) - VALENTINE'S DAY - see Reel: PRETTY GIRL THAT I LOVE --- SHARP FSSA #89 - FUSON BKH 1930 p105 Prof Leon Denny Moses, Ky (w/o) "BB" - LOMAX ABFS 1934 p320 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp278-280 Mrs Kennon, Alice Bickerstaff, Miss Burdette, Mr Campbell, Mi (w/o) "BB" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp383-7 Mrs Franklin, NC 1931/ Mrs Stokes, Ga 1931 (w/o)/ Roy Bohanna, Tenn 1932 (w/o) "BB" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp391-3 Frank Payne, Mo 1933/ James Richmond, Ark 1930 2v (w/o)/ Myrtle Lain, Mo 1930 1v (w/o)/ Curt Boren, Ark 3v (w/o)/ 1v (w/o)/ Mrs Leonard Short, Mo 1940 3v (w/o)/ Louise McDowel, Mo 1941 1v (w/o) "BB" - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp420-2 Mrs McClellan, Fla - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp375-7 Mrs Salley H 1946, Mrs Elizabeth Jensen 1947 (w/o) & Mrs Thelma Clark Teudt 1947 (w/o), Utah "BB" -- Louisa HOLMES rec by PK, Dinedor, Hereford 1952: RPL 18690 - Andrew THOMAS rec by Seamus Ennis, Pembrokesh, Wales 1953: RPL 20193 & 22436/ FTX-052 & FTX-501 (with "Lord Rendal") - Jack ARMSTRONG (tune on N-pipes) rec by PK, Newcastle 1954: RPL 20605/ SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 aft "Bonny at Morn" & bef "Derwentwater's Farewell"/ SAYDISC CD-SDL-416 1996 - Fishermen rec by PK, Cadgwith, Cornwall 1956: RPL LP 23654/ FTX-010 - Bob DAVENPORT (voc/ fid/ conc): TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 - unnamed Irish traveller: LYRICHORD LL-178 1967 - Christine STEWART: TOPIC 12-T-179 1968 "My boy Tammy" - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 1968: FTX-043 - Tom GILFELLON & HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: TOPIC 12-T-186 1968 - Billy CONROY (tune on whistle): TOPIC 12-TS-219 1972 - USA -- Jean RITCHIE (voc/dulc): ELEKTRA EKLP-2 1952 10"/ (dulc) with Oscar BRAND (gtr) & Dave SEARS (banjo): RIVERSIDE RLP-12- 646 1957 - Jack LANGSTAFF (unacc): TRADITION TLP-1009 1957 (coll Edmonds) - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: 914 -- THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001 - Caribbean - children, rec by AL, Brick Kiln Village, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER CD 1731 2002 "Willie Boy"

MY BOY TAMMY - Highland (Em) - KERR MM 3 #205 p24

MY BRAW HIGHLAND LADDIE - Highland/ Quickstep/ March (Am) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #143 p34 (Am) - KERR MM 1 #10 p47 (Am) - Tunebook Ms #151 p320 (Am) - Cf HIGHLAND LADDIE

MY BRIGHT YOUNG LOVE - MO RUN GEAL OG

MY BROTHER BILL IS A FIREMAN BOLD - Children's Rhyme -- CORRIES: FONTANA STL 5484 1969

MY BROTHER ROBERT HAS GOTTEN A WIFE - WETHERS SKIN

MY BROTHER SYLVESTE - "My Brudda Sylvest" - Boxing Ballad - words by Jesse Lasky (1880-1958) and Sam Stern (b1883) and music composed by Fred Fisher (1875-1942)-- Elwyn GRIFFITHS & Geoffrey DRAKE (with gtrs) RTR 7"-1038 - F A BRACEY accomp by Paddy PALMER (Piano) rec by PK (learned from Phil Tanner): FTX-057 (2extracts)

MY BROTHER TOM - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #996/ DMI #211 (#D)

ME (MY) BROTHER'S HORSE - Romany Improvisation Song - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #350 coll Brune from Minty SMITH, Stone, Kent 1962 (photo in book FSBI of her sitting on her caravan)

MY CAILLIN VEG DHONE - (My Little Brown Girl) Manx Gaelic -- Joan OWEN (unacc) rec Isle of Man 27/2/58: RPL LP 24012

MY CANNY HINNY - "Where hes te been, maw canny hinny?" - BRUCE- STOKOE - STOKOE-REAY

MY CHAINMAKER LAD - "he's a masher" - ROUD#1126 - PALMER SOM 1972 p42 Lucy Woodall, Warley, Worcestersh 1970 1v/m

MY CHARMING BLUE-EYED MARY - HENRY SOP #785

MY CHARMING BUACHAL ROE - BUACHAILL RUA

MY CHARMING EDWARD BOYLE - EDWARD BOYLE

MY CHARMING MARY - FAREWELL DEAR ERIN - MARY NEAL

MY CHARMING MOLLY - CONSTANT JOHNNY - GOING TO CHURCH LAST SUNDAY

MY CHARMING MOLLY O - "Of all the lovely girls about that I do chance to know" Ch; "She is young, she is beautiful - entices me" - he wastes no time in wedding her - ROUD#1605 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p58 Gardiner: Dr Graham, Bournemouth Hampsh 1906

MY CHARMING WILLIE-O - "O come all young maids who are fair and slender - my love he went on board the tender" 7 years riding the bay of Mexico - Had I the gold of West Indies & silver in Mexico I'd give it all to the Queen of England - the rest of verses like THE GREY COCK -- John CORRY rec by J Foley, Co Tyrone 1985: FTX-178

MY CLOTHING WAS ONCE OF THE LINSEY WOLSEY FINE - POOR OLD HORSE

MY CLINCH MOUNTAIN HOME -- Carter Family (Trio) Camden, NJ 10/5/28/ 7"RTR-0313-4

MY COFFIN SHALL BE BLACK - "six angels at my back - 2 to sing & 2 to pray & 2 to carry my soul away" - RVW/HOLST YOL 1961 #16 p19 Mr Kinnaid Dunstan Northumb 1906 1v/m

MY COMELY YOUNG DAME - MY BONNY BROWN JANE - OUR WEDDING DAY

MY CONNOR - DEAR IRISH BOY

MY DADDY-O - Hornpipe - Tunebook Ms #223 p263 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #123 p35 (D)

MY DADDY WOULDNA BUY ME - Children's Rhyme -- Jeannie ROBERTSON (tinker of Aberdeen) rec by PK, London 1953: FTX-067

MY DARK HAIRED LAD - MO GHILLE DUBH DHONN

MY DARK-HAIRED MAID FROM CORNAIG - MO NIGHEAN DONN A CORNAIG

MY DARK SLENDER BOY - DRIMIN DONN DILIS

MY DARLING('S) ASLEEP - Jig - O NEILL MOI #925/ DMI #150 (D) - WILLIAMSON p78 -- May KEOGH (fid) with Tommy DEMPSEY (acc): GAEL-LINN CEF-017 1967 - Instrumental DAMBUSTER DAM-006/ CASS- 0350 - BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-006 1994 bef "Christmas Eve" - Brendan POWER (harmonica) with Chris Newman (gtr): PUNCH MUSIC PMCD-002 1994 aft "Connaughtman's Rambles" & bef "Kesh Jig" - MOVING CLOUD Danish-Irish Folk Group: GO 0102 n/d bef 3 other jigs

MY DARLING BLUE EYED MARY - BLUE EYED MARY

MY DARLING PLOUGHMAN - (APPRENTICE or SAILOR BOY) - "Come all ye lonely lovers" - ROUD#843 (with "Bonny Sailor Boy") - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #117 pp101-2 1v/2m "My Darling Sailor Boy" - TOCHER 12 1973 p156 Jimmy McBeath - MORTON CDGD 1973 p127 "The Dandy Apprentice Boy" (Fermanagh) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975#163 Jimmy McBeath -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Elgin, Moraysh 1951: CAEDMON TC-1142 1961/ TOPIC 12-T-157/ FTX-015 & FTX-059 - Frank STEELE, rec by Seamus Ennis, Whitehills Aberdeensh 8/7/52: RPL 18128/ FTX-261 (similar to McBeath version)

MY DARLING SLEEPS IN ENGLAND - Irishman concerned about his girl in Birmingham during the bombing in the Second World War (known as "The Blitz") -- Mary REYNOLDS rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22028

MY DASHING LITTLE HUNTER - "I have a good hunter as ever man did see" - WILLIAMS #125 John Taylor, Poulton, Gloucestersh

MY DEAR COMPANION - DEAR COMPANION

MY DEAR LOVED ISLE OF LEWIS - EILEAN LEODHAIS MO GHRAIDH

MY DEAR OLD MAN - GOOD OLD MAN

MY DEAR OLD WOMAN - SHEAN-BHEAN DHILEAS

MY DEAR SWEETHEART - BLACK IS THE COLOUR

MY DEAREST DEAR -"I must go to sea for the sake of you" - "the time grows near when you and I must part" - she dresses in men's attire and goes to Venice - shipwreck - he swims ashore but she drowns - ROUD 3601 - FSS 2:8 1906 p201 RVW: Mrs Verrall, Monks Gate, Sussex 1904 - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p38 Mrs Verrall - USA - SHARP FSSA #77 Mary Sands, Allanstand, Madisobn Co., NC 1916(DC 2004) - Cf FAREWELL, MY DEAREST NANCY - TRUELOVER'S FAREWELL (TURTLE DOVE) - WHEN I AM ON THE SEA - YOU ARE MY DEAREST DEAR -- Hally WOOD: ELEKTRA EKL-10 1953 - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK: FTX-915 - SWEENEY'S MEN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-37 1976 - (Doug WALLIN, Crane Branch, Madison Co., NC rec by MY 1983: MTCD 323-4) - Dolly Greer on Doc Watson Familty Tradition: ROUNDER CD 0129

MY DEARIE AIN THOU ART - Tunebook Ms #109 p212 (Bm) 2/4

MY DEARIE/LADDIE SITS UP OWER LATE - BRUCE-STOKOE - STOKOE-REAY - Nursery song to pipe-tune: "Dorrington Lads"

MY DEARS, YOU MUST KNOW - BABES IN THE WOOD

MY DIARY OF THE BLUES - comp by Adrian TUCKER

MY DOG AND I - GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN

MY DOG BUFF - Kids Singing Game -- Redriff Prim School, Bermondsey, London: TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969

MY DOG'S BIGGER THAN YOUR DOG - Children's Song comp by Tom Paxton -- Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR: DECCA ECS-2161 1974

MY EILEEN IS WAITING -- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60- 0926 & 0927

MY FATHER, A FARMER, WAS TITLED -- Nellie WALSH rec by Brian George, Wexford 17/10/48: RPL 13874

MY FATHER A HUSBAND'S GIVEN ME - MON PERE M'A DONNE-Z-UN-MARI

MY FATHER AND MOTHER WERE IRISH - LEPRECHAUN

MY FATHER BOUGHT ME A NEW TOPCOAT - "and Nellie stole the lining - Ah ha ha you needna run - you'll get your licks in the morning" - Children's Song - ROUD#12980 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1614 p172 (6v w/o) "The big big bunch o roses" - RITCHIE SS 1964 p103 -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181 - rec by James Ritchie 16/12/53: RPL 19925

MY FATHER BUILT ME A DANDY BOWER - FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVANTMEN

MY FATHER DID SO BEFORE ME - "I am a lusty lively lad now come to one and twenty" - D'URFEY 1698-1720 1 - PLAYFORD "Jamaica" - LOGAN PP 1869 from chapbook - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 2 p446 "My father was born before me" - BARING GOULD Rev Ed only #116 Sam Fone (tune only) HFS Devon 1895 - SOW "My mother -" (words from broadside)

MY FATHER DIED, I CANNOT TELL HOW - FOOLISH BOY

MY FATHER DIED A MONTH AGO - "and left me all his riches - a feather bed, a wooden leg and a pair of leather breeches" - Kids Rhyme sung to tune of GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME - POLWARTH 1969 p32 -- Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 Street Song from Salford - Em ELLIOTT rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, Birtley, Durham: FOLKWAYS FS-3565 with talk -- "The Films of Bess Lomax Hawes" DVD 2003 rec in Los Angeles, USA school playground 1967 (B/W) "My mother died"

MY FATHER GAVE ME WHEN HE WAS ABLE - A BOWL, A BOTTLE, A DISH & A LADLE

MY FATHER HAD A HORSE/ KNIFE etc - MY FATHER KEPT A HORSE

MY FATHER HAD A LITTLE FARM - NINETY YEARS OF AGE

MY FATHER HAD AN ACRE OF LAND - ACRE OF LAND

MY FATHER HAS FORTY GOOD SHILLINGS - BARGAIN

MY FATHER HE PROMISED ME HORSES - MAMMY'S PET

MY FATHER'S A DAIRY MAID - "On board the big coal boat" - Music Hall/ Bothy Ballad -- Frank STEELE of Whitehills rec by Hamish Henderson, Banff 1952: TANGENT TNGM-109 1971

MY FATHER'S A FARMER - "My Name It Is Kitty my age is 16, my father's a farmer on the green - twenty four times a day I look in the glass - my skin is as white" - SHARP Cf 2 p428 sung by John Voke (unpubl)

MY FATHER'S A HEDGER AND DITCHER - NOBODY COMES TO MARRY ME

MY FATHER IS THE CAPTAIN - "of the Eau-de-Cologn-i-o - and the E- de-C sank down - plain - over uppy" etc - Children's Two Ball Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb, 3/28 St Michael's Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: RPL LP 26303/ FTX-194 #25

MY FATHER IS THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON - "he cleans all the lavvies at night" - Kids Street Song to tune of MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN -- Barmulloch Primary School: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

MY FATHER KEEPS A PUBLIC HOUSE - EDWIN IN THE LOWLANDS LOW

MY FATHER KEPT A HORSE - "and my mother kept a mare" - ROUD#850 - Many BSs incl BG 8 #20, 9 #29- George Walker catalogue 1830s - SHARP Ms 1904 "The Irish Family" coll Hambridge Somerset - HAMMOND Ms 1906 (Dorset) - GARDINER Ms 1906 same title (Hants) - Frank WARRINER Coll (VWML) Cumberland 1930s - WILLIAMS Ms "The Song of the Stock" (no source given) - DUNSTAN CDFS 1932 Jim Thomas, Camborne, Cornwall 1931 "Sporting Song" with Chorus "Drunken Family" - TOCHER 9 1973 p26 coll Hamish Henderson - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #275 "The Irish Familie" Baldry - Tune Cf RING THE BELL, WATCHMAN (Australian: CLICK GO THE SHEARS -- Jim BALDRY rec by PK, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: RPL LP 23100/ FTX-025 "The Irish Familie" - Harold COVILL (Railway guard) of March, Cambridgesh 1962: 5"RTR-0874 / FTX-423/ CAEDMON TC-1225/ TOPIC 12-T-198 "One Happy Familie" (learnt from his Suffolk grandfather) - Harry COX (4v) rec by Charles Parker & Ewan McColl mid-60s: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 "A Happy Family" - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-4 1969 (from Dunstan) "My father had a horse - Jasper SMITH (gypsy): TOPIC 12-T-304 1977 "The Boozing Family"/ TSCD- 661 - Alf PEACHEY rec by Neil Lanham, Framsden, Woodbridge, Suffolk: NL-02 1995/ CASS-1358 "The Irish Family"

MY FATHER KNEW LLOYD GEORGE - LLOYD GEORGE

MY FATHER LEFT ME AN ACRE OF LAND - ACRE OF LAND

MY FATHER TURNED ME OUT OF DOORS - HARES IN THE OLD PLANTATIONS

MY FATHER WAS AN ENGLISHMAN - "an Englishman am I" - WILLIAMS #643

MY FATHER WAS HUNG FOR SHEEPSTEALING - FAGAN THE COBBLER

MY FATHER WAS TWICE MARRIED - "and a wife he left at home" - WILLIAMS #332 Jonathan Cole, Brinkworth, Wiltsh

MY FATHER WOULD HAVE ME MARRY OLD NELL - WILLIAMS #644

MY FATHER'S CASTLE WALL - YOUNG AND GROWING

MY FATHER'S GREY MARE - YOUNG ROGER ESQUIRE

MY FATHER'S HOUSE -- "is painted red - Oliver red" - Children's Ball Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb 11/19 Keswick Juniors, solo girl 1960: FTX-194 #46

MY FATHER'S SERVANT BOY - "Come all you old both great and small attend unto my fame" - Girl upsets her father's pland for her marriage to a gentleman and elopes with the serving boy - they go to Belfast and find a captain to take them to America and in Philadelphia find a true Irish friend who support them until he can find ewmployment and she rejoices in being better off than at home in Ireland - LAWS #M11 (ABBB 1957 p185-6) - ROUD#1910 - HENRY SOP #198/ HUNTINGTON 1974 pp481-2 J McKinnon, Craignagat, Co Antrim 1927/ #525/ HUNTINGTON pp483-4 1933 "You lovers all" - McCOLL/SEEGER TSES 1977 pp252-3 John McDonald (tinker) --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #39 p119 Nova Scotia 5v (w/o) Refs -- Mick McALINDEN rec by PK, Rostrevor, Co Down NI 1953: RPL 19351/ FTX-433

MY FINE MAID - MORWYN FFEIN I

MY FINE SAILOR BOY - Belfast Street Song -- BELFAST GIRL SINGERS rec 20/4/48: RPL 13163-4

MY FLORA AND ME - SHEPHERD'S LAMENT (FLORO)

MY FORMER WIFE - Jig (Am) - MITCHELL & SMALL #51 p97 from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #849/ DMI #110

MY FRIEND, ELIZABETH -- WINTLE Street Piano rec 1955: FTX-300

MY GAFFER'S BAIT - "Listen to me story…" - bait meaning his lunch-box -- Johnny HANDLE (voc with gtr) & Colin ROSS (harmonica) TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

MY GALLANT BRIGANTINE - "As I strolled the beach one evening from my GB" - sailor meets beautiful girl, she gives her address saying her husband would be glad to meet him - he tells her is married with newborn son - they stroll to her farm to meet husband and have dinner - LAWS #D-25 NAB 1950/64 o173 (LAWS remarks on "tongue-in-cheek" narrative which keep listener in suspense) - ROUD#648 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p142 Nova Scotia - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 pp218-223 3var Nfl

MY GENTLE COLEEN RUA - CAILIN RUA

MY GIRL'S A CORKER - "she's a New Yorker" - Children's Ring Game - OPIE SG 1985 #123 pp424-5 - orig comp by William Jerome and music by John Queen as "The Race Track Girl" 1895 - see also I'VE GOT A DAUGHTER -- rec by Alan Lomax, Aberdeen 1952: FTX-181 #18 - rec by Damian Webb, Moss Park Junior Girls Glasgow 1961: DW-15/4/ FTX-190/ RPL LP 27257 - rec St Annes Juniors Leyland Lancs 1968: DW 27/8 / FTX-195 #42 "My girl's a Quaker" - rec by Damian Webb, Tralee, Co Kerry 1960: IRE/4: FTX-179 "I've got a girl friend"

MY GOD CALLED THIS MORNING - Gospel -- Vocal Quartet (with gtr) rec Alan Lomax, Norfolk Va 1959: RPL LP 26147 "Calling the tune" #6 25/2/63

MY GOD IS A ROCK - ROCK IN THE WEARY LAND

MY GOLDEN BALL - MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS

MY GOOD LOOKING MAN - GOOD LOOKING MAN

MY GOOD OLD MAN - "O where are you going to, my G O M?" (spoken) "Going to the -" - dialogue between husband and wife - supper - eggs - infidelity - ROUD#240 - ROXBURGHE 1871 "The Jealous Old Dotard" or "The Discovery of Cuckoldry" - SHARP-KARPELES CDC 1974 #317 pp360-1 Capt Lewis, Minehead, Somerset 1909 "GOM" - SEDLEY 1967 collated from Roxburghe & Sharp - PURSLOW WS 1968 p81 Gardiner: E Quintrell, Helston, Cornwall - REEVES IP #36 pp115-6 Sharp: Capt Lewis "GOM" - REEVES EC 1960 #52 pp125-6 Gardiner: Fanny Stephens, St Columb, Cornwall (w/o) "GOM" - USA - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #230 (vol 2 pp338-9) 2var: Miss Polly Anne Kelly,Hindman School, Knott Co., Ky 1917/ The Misses Una & Sabrina Ritchie, Hindman School, Knott Co, Ky 1917 (DC 2004) "The GOM" - LOMAX OSC "Where have you been, MGOM?" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 3 pp171-4 Charles Ingenthron. Missouri 1940/ Reba & Wilmerf McDonald, Ark 1941/ Mrs Olga Trail. Ark 1941 2v/m "The Best Old Feller in the World" - McINTOSH FSSGIO pp33-35 Illinois 1933 "Kind Old Husband" - see Cajun version -- Jack ELLIOTT Birtley, Co Durham: LEADER LEA-4001 1969 (from John Bell Ms collated by Jack & Frank Rutherford) - USA - Jean RITCHIE (dulc) with Oscar BRAND (gtr) & Dave SEARS (banjo): RIVERSIDE RLP-12- 646 1957 - Folksongs of the Louisiana Cajuns" ARHOOLIE 359 "La Patate Chaude" ("Hot Potato") & "Le Vieux Soulard et sa Femme" ("Old Drunkard and his wife") - Cleoma BREAUX & Joseph FALCON in Cajun rec COLUMBIA 1928/ Anthology of American Folk Music Folkways SFW 40090 - Texas GLADDEN rec by Alan Lomax, Salem, Va 1941: AFS 5233 A2/ ROUNDER CD 1800 2001 "My Lovin Old Husband"

ME GOSS ME GOSS ME GOLLY - O MY GOSS

MY GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK - "My GF clock was too large for the shelf" Comp by Henry Clay Work (who also wrote THE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED) - Broadside parody, GRANDFATHER'S CAT, has "My GC was too large for the shelf" -- Richard AVERY (banjo instr) rec by PK, Hogue Bie, Jersey: RTR-0728-50/ Radio prog tape - Jack PEREE (with acc), rec by PK, Jersey, C.I. 24/4/60: RPL LP 26236/ FTX-214/ Radio prog tape - DIXIE RAMBLERS: FOREST TRACKS FT-3001 1973 - Bob FOYLE (tune on auto-harp): LONG MAN LM 4001 [nd] - THE YETTIES on Radio 2: 25/11/87: CASS 60-0556 - Jim COUZA (ham dulc) rec Bewdley Festival: on Radio 2: 26/10/88: CASS 30-0737 - Billy BENNINGTON (h-dulc instr) rec by Jim COUZA, Barford, Norfolk 20/7/82 CASS-0871

MY GRANDFATHER (or GRANDMOTHER) DIED - FOOLISH BOY

MY GRANDFATHER'S DAYS - "Give attention to my ditty -" descr the old days mentioning Chatham dockyard, Lord Brougham, Poor Law, German queen, steam railway, ball, Mackintosh - "now got omnibuses, patent cars, beds on springs, children got by steam" etc - PALMER TOTT 1974 p83 Bs by Russell of Birmingham/ tune used is "The Besom Maker" (Hammond)

MY GRANDMA - GRANDMA'S ADVICE

MY GRANDMOTHER - Song of 1798 Rising -- Nellie WALSH (unacc) rec by Brian George, Wexford 6/8/47: RPL 11221

MY GRANDMOTHER - Polka/ Reel - MITTEL #33 p14 (G)

MY GRANDMOTHER LIVED IN YONDER LITTLE LANE - GRANDMA'S ADVICE

MY GRANDMOTHER'S OLD ARMCHAIR - "My grandmother, she, at the age of 83" - Ch: "How they tittered, how they chaffed" - comp John Reed & popularised by Frank Crummitt (?) - ROUD#1195 - Bss incl SBG 2:#92 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #705 - WILLIAMS #658 (w/o) - Essex Review #51 July 1942 p122 Alfred Hills (c) 1v/ch (w/o)/ #60 April 1951 pp90-91 C V Chiswell (c): Great Easton, Essex 1906 ch only (w/o) "The Old Armchair" - OCCOMORE-SPRATLEY BB 1979 p18 Mrs Horsnell, Harlow, Essex - FMJ 5:3 1987 pp342-3 Ian Russell: Frank Hinchcliffe, Sheffield, Yorksh 1970 "Grandmother's Chair" --- SPAETH WSM 1927 pp204-6 "The Arm Chair" - COHEN FS for Camp 1966 p120 - WARNER TAFS 1984 #100 pp246-8 Lee Monroe Presnell, Beech Mountain, NC 1951 (says claimed by composers in NY & Boston but Anne thinks it English) "My Grandmother's Chair" -- Fred JORDAN of Diddlebury, Shropshire rec by PK, London 1962: FTX-130 - Bob DAVENPORT & MARSDEN RATTLERS: LEADER LER- 3008 1971 - TROTTO: FOREST TRACKS FT-6003 1973/ FREE REED FRR- 005 1976 - Ned WHEELER, Lower Swell, Glos rec by Peter Duddridge 1961: SAYDISC SDL-300 1979 cassette "Granny's Old Armchair" --- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffrey, NH USA 1940: FTX-922 (1v & ch) - Lee Monroe PRESNELL rec Warners 1951: FTX-923 with talk

MY GRANNY'S IN THE CELLAR - "I'm surprised you canna smell 'er - give me that home cooking" - Scots Children's Rhyme made on pop song -- CORRIES: FONTANA STL-5484 1969

MY GUM TREE CANOE - GUM TREE CANOE

MY HAND ON MYSELF - I PUT MY HAND ON MYSELF

MY HAT IS FROZEN TO MY HEAD - COLD BLOW AND A RAINY NIGHT

MY HEALTH IS NOT SO GOOD - Irish Gaelic - Man who kept taking the Teetotal Pledge & kept breaking it, comp for himself & priest - - Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Alan Lomax, Macroom, Co Cork 1951: FTX-160

MY HEART IS AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER - "As down the green lane I was walking" - KIDSON EPS 1929

MY HEART'S IN THE CLEVELANDS - pastoral comp by GM -- Graeme MILES (voc/gtr) Middlesbrough

MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS - "My heart is nae here - a-chasing the deer" - ROUD#5878 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #521 (4var/m) - ANON 1972 SONG OF SCOTLAND p72 piano accomp -- Bernard O SULLIVAN (tune on conc as waltz), Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-505 1976 with "The Dewdrop Waltz"

MY HEART'S TONIGHT IN TEXAS -- Carter Family (trio) rec Camden, NJ 11/12/34/ 7"RTR-0313-4

MY HEART IT IS SAIR - DEEP IN LOVE

MY HEART IS SAD I'LL TELL YOU WHY - GENTLE JENNY GRAY

MY HEATHER HILLS - Reel/ Hornpipe (D) - KERR MM 1 #2 p26 Country Dance - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #819 Hornpipe - Cf DURHAM RANGERS

MY HOME - (Mo Dhachaidh) - Highland Air/ Jig/ Waltz - BOWEN 1993 p22 (G/Gm) - KENNEDY FTB 1954 2I 1954 p28/ 1994 #126 p32 (##A) - O'NEILL MOI #1018/ DMI #233 (A) "Long John's Wedding" - see BONNY WEE LASSIE FRAE GOUROCK -- R McAULAY (bagpipe chanter) rec Benbecula, Hebrides 21/6/48: RPL 12962 bef "Highland Cradle Song"-

MY HOME IS ON THE HILL - TA MO THEACH-SA AR AN ARDAN

MY HONEY LOU -- Carter Family (trio) rec NY 9/6/36/ 7"RTR-0313-4

MY HONEY'S IN THE HOUSE - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #144 p34 (D) - Tunebook Ms #3 p267 (G) - O NEILL MOI #1491/ DMI #715 (D) alt: "My love is in the house"

MY HORSES AINT HUNGRY -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1225

MY HUSBAND'S GOT/ HAS NO COURAGE IN HIM - "Come a ye maids that do get wed, just try your luck afore ye tak him" - ROUD#870 - SHARP Ms 1904 3var (Somerset) - REEVES IP 1958 pp160-1 Sharp: George Wyatt 1904 (w/o) "O dear O" - SEDLEY 1967 p232 Sharp Ms - PURSLOW WS 1968 p83 Hammond: Jesse Steer, Stratton, Dorset 1906 - CHAPBOOK 3 #3 p2 "Rue all the day" coll by Arthur Argo from Rob Watt - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #213 p470 Lucy Stewart 1955 "Rue the Day" - Dungheap Article #8 in MT (mustrad) "O dear O" -- Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 1955/ FOLKWAYS FG-3519 1961 rec by Kenneth Goldstein - Frankie ARMSTRONG: ARGO ZFB-64 1968 - Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR: CHRYSALIS CHR-1101 1976

MY IRISH MOLLY O - IRISH MOLLY O

MY IRISH POLLY - IRISH GIRL

MY JOHNNY - MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN

MY JOHNNY - "O there's naught in this wide world but sorrow and woe" Girl's lament for her truelove pressed to fight in foreign wars - (to tune of "Green Bushes") -- Mary BROOKSBANK rec Festival Blairgowrie: TOPIC 12-T-181 1969

MY JOHNNY LAD - JOHNNYLAD

MY JOHNNY WAS A SHOEMAKER - gone to sea - be a captain - ROUD#1388 - SUMNER BM 1888 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 p181 Sumner BM - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1848 (1v/m) - JFSS 3 1907 pp32-34 J Kirk Maconachie, Aberdeensh 1v/m/ "The Comic Siongster" (m/o) - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp46-7 -- Shirley HART: SAGA FID-2090 1967 - STEELEYE SPAN B & C CREST-22 1970/ CS-12 1972

MY JOLLY JOLLY TAR - HERE'S TO MY HAT

MY JOLLY ROVING TAR - JOLLY ROVING TAR

MY JOLLY SAILOR BOLD - ASHTON RSS 1891 -- Sandra KERR (voc/ auto-harp) CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZFB-61 1967

MY JOLLY WAGGONER, DRIVE ON - "I won't have a carpenter he's stingy with his chips - various tradesmen - I'd rather have a waggoner- blacksmith - cowman - shepherd - mower - reaper - thresher - miller - Id rather have a waggoner to whip me" Ch: "Way Wo-utt" - ROUD#1302 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p236 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh 8v/ch (w/o)