OLDHAM'S BURNING SANDS - Learned from Laurie Cassidy - Ch: "Ichikoo" (Wilson, Keppel & Betty) -- Oldham TINKERS: TOPIC 12- TS-206 1971

OLDHAM CHAP'S VISIT, THE - VISIT TO THE QUEEN

OLDHAM EDGE - "Owdham Edge" divides Lancs and Yorks -- John HOWARTH & OLDHAM TINKERS: TOPIC 12-T-204 1970

OLDHAM PENSIONER, THE - from broadside in Local History Lib - set to tune of "The Limerick Rake" -- Oldham TINKERS: TOPIC 12-TS- 206 1971

OLDHAM RECRUIT, THE - "When I was a little lad some 15 years ago" - contains speech between verses - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

OLDHAM TOWN - WHITE HARE

OLDHAM WORKSHOPS - "When I'd finished off my work -" Ch: "With my whack row-di-dow" - descr of life in cotton weaving factory - PALMER TOTT 1974 p65 bs by Cadman of Manchester (Kidson Coll vol 9 p163)/ tune: The Bold Dragoon (Davidson's Universal Methodist nd [1854 ?] vol 1 p403).

OLEANNA - arr Pete Seeger from Norwegian - SING OUT Reprint 2 p27 - THE LIVERPOOL SPINNERS CONTOUR 6870-529

OLIFJORD JACK - Shetland Reel -- Tom ANDERSON (fid) rec Lerwick 21 & 25/12/50: RPL 17007 aft "Villafjord Jack" - Talk about tune by Tom Anderson RTR-1080/ CASS-0965 - DA FORTY FIDDLERS with Marjorie SMITH (piano): LEADER LED-2052 1973 with "Willafjord Jack"

OLIVER - "Jump Oliver, Kick, Stride, Twist - Children's Skipping game -- rec by PK, Kentish Town Church School, London 23/1/53: RPL 19003/ FTX-202 with descr following game by Valerie

OLIVER CROMWELL - POOR ROGER IS DEAD (K)

OLIVER CROMWELL LOST HIS SHOE - "in the battle of Waterloo - by 1, 2, 3" "It happened on a Monday, Tuesday" etc - Children's Skipping game - RITCHIE GC p143 "Queen Elizabeth" -- Norton Park School rec by Jean Ritchie, Edinburgh 20/3/49: RPL 13869 - rec by Damian Webb 3/8 & 9/16 St Johns Junior Girls, Workington 1960 FTX-197 #15

OLIVER JACK - OLIFJORD JACK

OLIVER TWIST - "he can't do this - so what's the use of trying - No 1 touch your tum, 2 shoe, 3 knee, 4 floor, 5 dive & 6 splits" - Children's Skipping or Two Ball Rhyme - RITCHIE GC p92 -- rec by Damian Webb 15/8 Moss Park Junior Girls, Glasgow, 1961: FTX-190 - children rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381

OLLERTON TOWN - (Nottinghamsh or Cheshire) - HUNTING SONG

OLLICHA BOLLICHA - "Sister Collolicha - 1, 12, 123, 1234" etc Children's Cumulative number Two Ball Game -- rec by Damian Webb 3/35 St Michael's Junior School for Girls Workington, Cumberland 1960: RPL LP 26303/ FTX-194 #23

OLLIE CONWAY'S REELS -- Tommy Mc MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12- TFRS-502 1975

OLLISTRUM JIG - O'NEILL DMI #326 (D & G)

OLNEY - Buckinghamsh -- RPL 24911 1959 & RPL 28432 1961 (not in Lib) Pancake Race

OLYMPIC HORNPIPE, THE - HONEYMAN #3 p52 (Bb/F) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #133 p37 (Bb)

OM POM PEY - EM POM PEE

OM SI GOM - PLAYING ON THE OLD BANJO

OMAGH - County in Ireland - BELLES OF OMAGH - MORNING STAR (Reel) - BREAKING OF OMAGH GAOL - HIRING FAIR - PRETTY LITTLE GIRL FROM OMAGH - SWEET OMAGH TOWN -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

OMAN -- (RPL 30510)

OMENS - Children - "When I sea feather, pin, horseshoe, money spider, piece of coal, brick etc - OPIE LLSC p212 Beetles, birds, blind men, bridges, cats, chimney sweeps, cross-eyed women, dogs, dung, funerals, hares, hats, hay carts, horses, ladders, lady drivers, ladybirds, leaves, nuns, oil patches, rabbits, rain, sailors, snow, trains, wooden legs -- FTX-199 (Opie coll.)

OMENS - AMBULANCES - BIRTHDAYS - BUS TICKETS - COINCIDENCES - COLLAR TURNED UP - COLOURS - FINGER-CRACKING - LADDERS - LADYBIRDS - LOVE BUMPS - LUCKY CHARMS - LUCKY NUMBERS - ONE FOR SORROW - PAVEMENTS - ROYAL MAIL - STONE-COUNTING - WARTS - WHITE HORSES - WISHING STONES

OMIE WISE - NAOMI WISE

OMNIA VINCIT AMOR -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 (S) bef "Banks of Helicon"

OMNIBUS, THE - Hornpipe poss by James Hill - DIXON 1987 p33 (G)

OMNIBUS STRIKE - "O crikey what a tussle" (tune "Comrades" - Broadside: Carnell: Hewins MSS #549/550J Coll Sheffield Univ Library

ON A BRIGHT AND ROSY MORNING - RED ROSY MORNING

ON A BRIGHT SUMMER'S MORNING - PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL

ON A BRITISH MAN O WAR - BRITISH MAN O WAR

ON A BRITISH SUBMARINE - "It happened on a sunny day in 1954" - comp by CT (also TITLED "The Cheering of the Queen") -- Cyril TAWNEY (voc/gtr) rec by PK at Festival CSH London 1959 : RTR-0492/ with Jimmie Mc GREGOR (mand) rec by PK, 6/2/59: EMI CLP-1362 1960 "A Pinch of Salt" - used on "Calling the tune" #8 11/3/63/ FTX-093 - Cyril TAWNEY with YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-28 1972

ON A COLD AND FROSTY MORNING - frag of Traveller's Song -- Rosie STEWART rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CAS-60-0966-7/ FTX-184

ON A FINE HUNTING MORN - HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL HUNTERS

ON A MAY DAY MORNING EARLY - Song tune 6/8 - WESTROP #55 p19 (G) Country Dance

ON A MONDAY MORNING - comp CT -- Cyril TAWNEY (unacc): ELEKTRA EUK- 253 1966 - Johnny HANDLE: LEADER LER-2030 1971 - Cyril TAWNEY with Dennis McCALLUM (acc): ARGO ZFB-28 1972

ON A MOUNTAIN STANDS A LADY "who she is I do not know - all she wants is gold and silver - nice young man - so come in so-and- so while I go out to play" - Children's Ring Game or Skipping Rhyme - GILLINGTON 1909 singing game variants: "The KOH" (Surrey), "Lady on the mountain" (Isle of Wight) & "There stands a lady on the Ocean" (Hampsh) - GOMME 1 p320 (Ring) (7var) "There stands a lady" - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1588 p143 (1v/m) "There's a lady over yonder" - RITCHIE 1964 GC p165 - OPIE SG 1985 #36 pp174-8 "Lady on a mountain" - see also MADAM -- Norton Park School Edinburgh rec Jean Ritchie 20/3/49: RPL 13868 "On the mountain" - rec by PK, Kentish Town Church School, London 23/1/53: RPL 19003/ FTX-202 (game drescr bef) - RPL 26349 Old Coulden Surrey 1960 - St Peters RC School East Grinstead Sussex rec Damian Webb 1959 (Skipping) DAT Reel #11 - rec by Damian Webb 3/3 St John's Junior School for Girls Workington Cumb 1960: FTX-197 #19 & FTX-289 #7/ RPL LP 26302 Skipping - rec by Damian Webb 4/7 St Michaels Junior Girls, Workington; FTX-197 #44 Skipping - rec by Damian Webb 12/13 Noblehill Juniors Dumfries, 1960: FTX-190 - rec by Damian Webb 18/7 Pickering Junior Girls 1961 - FTX-197 - Keston Avenue School, Old Coulsden Surrey April 1960: RPL LP 26349 - OPIE coll - FTX-198 A9 London - Clancy children (girl & boy) rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #30 "I'll give to you a paper of pins" - Peg & Bobby CLANCY rec Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary: PICKWICK Hallmark CHM-630 1968 - Pete ELLIOTT & family rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, Birtley, Durham: FOLKWAYS FG-3565 1962 - Oldham TINKERS: TOPIC 12-TS-276 "lives a lady"

ON A PRIMROSE BANK - BEHIND THE GREEN BUSH

ON A SUMMER'S NIGHT - "while out a-stroling" - pretty maid - eyes rolling - ROUD#1497 - DUNN FOS 1980 p73 Bob Hart, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974

ON BOARD OF A MAN-OF-WAR - BRITISH MAN O WAR - PRESS GANG - SAM'S GONE AWAY

ON BOARD OF A NINETY EIGHT - "When I was young and scarce eighteen" - mis-spent youth - Press gang - storm - battle - blood - VD & hospital - ROUD#1461 - GRAINGER #396 Samuel Golstock, Wittersham, Kent - JFSS 8 1906 p176-8 RVW Mr Leatherday, Kings Lynn Norfolk 1905 - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FSEC 1908 pp21-5 Mr Leatherday - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp102-3 --- PEACOCK NFL 1965 p1012 -- Roy HARRIS (unacc): TOPIC 12-TS-232 1973 Kidson - Peter BELLAMY: LEADER LER-2089 1975 his own tune

ON BOARD OF THE BUGABOO - "Come all you tender-hearted lads" Canal Boat Song - O LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p225 words only

ON BOARD OF THE KANGAROO - "O once I was a waterman and lived at home at ease" - ROUD#925 - BSs - Comp by Harry Clifton & publ 1856 - GREIG- DUNCAN 6 1995 #1211 pp365-7 5var 7dv/3m - SHARP Ms Cf 2 p321 (frag) "My true love she is beautiful" - HUGILL 1961 p474 "Aboard the K" -- MEREDITH Australia 1967 p60 "Ilford Bay" - CROININ 2000 #109 pp174-5 -- Stanley SLADE with Phil GREEN (P/acc) rec Bristol 8/6/42: RPL 4612 (78 rpm): FTX-207 & 515 - "As I roved out" radio prog 1956 FTX-255 - Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Alan Lomax, Macroom, Co Cork 1951: rec by Seamus Ennis 29/8/52: RPL 18760/ FTX-160/ FOUR COURTS CD1#5 "On board the K" - YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-86 1973 "Aboard the K"-

ON BOARD OF THE VICTORY - "I am a young girl whose fortune is great" - ROUD#2278 - BS - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p42 Grace Clergy, East Petpeswick, Nova Scotia, Canada 1951 -- STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1151 1977 Composite version with Ch: "Brave LORD NELSON" - ("pressganged & died upon the main")

ON BOARD THE GALLEE - TWO CHOICES - PRETTY JENNY

ON BOARD THE LEICESTER CASTLE - PADDY LAY BACK

ON BROADBURY DOWN - BROADBURY GIBBET

ON CARRICK DOWN - Co Donegal - see RUAIBH AG NI gCARRAIG -- Mc PEAKE FAMILY: PRESTIGE International 13018 1961

ON CHRISTMAS DAY - "it happens so - down in the meadows forth to plough - up comes sweet Jesus hisself at last - for the breaking of our Lord's birthday" - Carol - ROUD#1078 - GILLINGTON OCCSC 1910 pp16-17 (gipsies) New Forest "In Dessexshire as it befell" - LEATHER/RVW 12TC 1920 #8 Mrs Esther Smith, Dilwyn, Herefordsh (mother of May Bradley) - HAMER GG 1967 pp54-5 May Bradley, Shropsh - PALMER RVW 1983 #41 pp64-5 Mrs Esther Smith (tune only/ text from Leather/RVW) - DEAN-SMITH p77 note says this concerns the morality of the husbandman ploughing on Christmas day - ED&S 28:1 1966 p20 Hamer: May Bradley 1959 -- May BRADLEY rec by Fred HAMER, Ludlow, Shropsh 1959 (EFDSS LP- 1006 1971 Garners Gay LP)/ EFDSS CD-02 1998 - Jean & Elaine CARRUTHERS (THE VALLEY FOLK): TOPIC 12-T-192 1968 from May Bradley

ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT - "all Christians sing" - Christmas Box #24 Sussex Carol - ROUD#597 - SHARP/KARPELES CSC 1974 #347 2 pp444-5 Wm Bailis(s), Buckland, Gloucestersh 1909/ Thomas Landry, Church Stretton, Shropsh 1923 - JFSS 7 1905 p127 James C Culwick: S Staffordsh 1v/m/ RVW: Mrs Verrall (m/o)/ Lucy Broadwood: Mr Grantham, Holmwood, Surrey (notes cf RVW & earlier Broadwood & Sandys "Hark, hark what news") - SHARP EFC 1911 #10 pp24-5 Wm Bayliss - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ETC 1919 pp8-10 Mrs Verrall, Monks Gate, Sussex - HAMER GG 1967 p54 May Bradley (daughter of Esther Smith who sang to Mrs Leather) - SHARP SG 2003 p31 Wm Baylis, Buckland, Gloucestershire from Sharp Ms "On Christmas Time" -- Emily BISHOP rec by PK, Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordsh 13/10/52 RTR-0897: RPL 18685/ FTX-129 & FTX-504 - May BRADLEY rec by Fred Hamer: EFDSS LP-1006 1971 - Maddy PRIOR & Carnival Band: SAYDISC SDC-366 1988 - PUZZLEJUG "Let us be merry" CD-PJ3 1996 (from Emily Bishop)

ON COMPTON DOWNS - "Once I was a shepherd boy kept sheep on Compton Downs" - WILLIAMS Ms#197 Shadrach Hayden, Bampton, Oxfordsh

ON GOSPORT BEACH - PLYMOUTH TOWN

ON ILKLA MOOR BA T'AT "Where has thou been sin I saw thee ?" - Author supposed to be Thomas Clark who wrote it in 1805 to a corruphted version of the hymn-tune "Cranbrook" (see letter from I H Copley of Brighton 6/1/76 giving details of composer - WALFORD DAVIES New Fellowship Songbook 1931 #68 p78 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #303 Douglas Kennedy learnt it in N Wales from Wilfred J Hall of Ilkley, Yorks -- Unnamed male singer & ch rec Redmire nr Leyburn Wensleydale Yorksh 1940: RPL 2521 (78 rpm) - Douglas KENNEDY rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1958: FTX-041

ON'T BE EST DA VONG - Shetland Reel from playing of late Henry Thomson of Vidlin - a fishing "meathe" or land mark -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fids) with Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978 with two other Thomson reels

ON JUDAH'S PLAINS - Carol -- Wool, Dorset 22/12/48; RPL 14662

ON MONDAY MORNING - TAKING OF QUEBEC - WEEKS WORK WELL DONE

ON PARADE March -- Billy BENNINGTON (ham dulc): TOPIC 12-TS-229 1973 - rec Jim COUZA Barford, Norfolk 20/7/82 CASS-0871

ON RICHMOND HILL - LASS OF RICHMOND HILL, THE

ON St PATRICK'S DAY IN THE MORNING - St PATRICK'S DAY

ON SATURDAY NIGHT - LINSCOTT 1939: "FS of Old New England"-- Sandy PATON (voc/ gtr) rec London 1/1/58: RPL LP 24201 "Tittery Nan Tum Tario"

ON SPRINGFIELD MOUNTAIN - SPRINGFIELD MOUNTAIN

ON THE BANKS OF ALLAN WATER - ALLAN WATER

ON THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND - BANKS OF

ON THE BANKS OF THE CLYDE - BANKS OF CLYDE - BANKS OF THE CLYDE - BURNING SANDS OF EGYPT - UNFORTUNATE RAKE

ON THE BANKS OF THE CLYDE - "stood a lad and a lassie" - Geordie - Sal - lover dead - funeral -SR#(2) & #1784 - BS "The Scotch Brigade" (same song ?) - HAMER GG 1967 p26 Alf Wildman, Bedfordsh - HOWSON SSIS 1992 pp8-9 Manny Aldous, Great Bricett, Suffolk (w/o) -- Geof LING rec Keith Summers, Blaxhall, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-292

ON THE BANKS OF THE DON - "there's a dear little spot" - Canadian Folk Music Bulletin 39/2 Summer 2005 p25 from O J Abbott

ON THE BANKS OF THE FOYLE - BANKS OF

ON THE BANKS OF THE O B D -- McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5214 1964 (M)

ON THE BANKS OF THE PAMANAW - "While strolling out one evening" - in spite of all her family being dead and her lover's desertion an Indian girl refuses an offer to "a paleface counteree" and vows to stay by the river - LAWS #H-11 NAB 1950/64 pp235-6 - BECK 1957 p112 12v/m - LOMAX AB&FS 1934 p451 from Beck

ON THE BANKS OF THE LITTLE EAU PLEINE - BANKS OF

ON THE BANKS OF THE OHIO - BANKS OF THE OHIO

ON THE BANKS OF THE PONTCHARTRAIN - LAKES OF PONTCHARTRAIN

ON THE BANKS OF THE REEDY LAGOON - Australian -- Martin WYNDHAM- READ (unacc) Radio 2: 12/11/87: CASS-0425

ON THE BANKS OF THE ROSES - BANKS OF THE ROSES - BANKS OF RED ROSES

ON THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO - SACRAMENTO

ON THE BANKS OF THE SWEET DUNDEE - BANKS OF SWEET DUNDEE

ON THE BATTLEFIE:D FOR MY LORD -- The Belleville Acapella Choir rec by Alan Lomax, Va. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1711 1998

ON THE BRIDGE OF AVIGNON - Children Singing game in English transl from French -- Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London: TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969

ON THE CROFT, ON THE CROFT - "where we played pitch and toss - and the copper came and chased us away - so we hit him on the head - with a bloody big lump of lead - and the sly little beggar ran away" -- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 learned as a child in Salford

ON THE DOLE - "I'm one of the nuts of the fashion - I sign on mondays at nine" Ch: "So I sign now and then and on Fridays they pay me - for pushing the pen there's no doubt - it's cash for nowt if you sign on the dole with me" "Paid too much - drawn all stamps up till now" - Patsy Burke -- Tom BROWN (of Caister Norfolk) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 25/3/79: FTX-133

ON THE DOWNHILL OF LIFE - OLD MAN'S ADVICE

ON THE FENS OF TREDEGAR - AR BEN WAUN TREDEGAR

ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS - TWELVE DAYS

ON THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER - "last when my love and was parted" - fight the French - she offers to accompany him - ROUD#1397 - DAWBEY PG 1977 pp30-31 Butterworth MS: 'Skinny' Crow, Filby, Norfolk 1913

ON THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY/ DECEMBER - PRINCESS ROYAL

ON THE GREEN - Polka -- Billy BENNINGTON (ham dulc) Norfolk: TOPIC 12-TS-229 1973

ON THE GREEN AUTUMN STUBBLE - CHONNLAIGH GHLAIS AN FHOGHMHAIR

ON THE GREEN GRASSY SLOPES OF THE BOYNE -- RAVENHILL Flute & Drum Band rec Belfast 9/5/59: RPL LP 25646

ON THE HILLS OF GLEN COE - PRIDE OF GLENCOE

ON THE HUMBER BANKS - "Young lovers all I pray draw near" - false lover William - pregnancy and Wm murders girl - ROUD#1169 - STUBBS LOM 1970 p56 Ern 'Rabbidy' Baxter, Chelwood, Sussex 1962

ON THE LOVELY BANKS OF LEE - LOVELY BANKS OF LEE

ON THE MOVE - "tonight" Air Force Song of World War II originated in the Middle East - "Pack the equipment all ready for shipment" - "Blighty Boat" coming home - ROUD#2569 - SEEGER/McCOLL SI 1960 p75 Charles Coutts, Aberdeen 1956 -- Ewan McCOLL (with gtr): TOPIC 12-T-130 1965

ON THE RIVER BANK - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1473/ DMI #702 (G/D)

ON THE ROAD - Clog Hornpipe - COLE #5 p116 (D/A) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #134 p37 (Bb/F)

ON THE ROAD FROM GLEN TO CARRICK - Reel - FELDMAN p167 (D) 5pts -- Francie BYRNE (fid) Donegal: CLADDAGH 4-CC-44 1987 cass

ON THE ROAD WITH LIDDY - "I'm on the road with Liddy with 500 head of fats" - describes Australian drover's journey -- A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-TS-203 1971

ON THE ROPERY BANKS - SANDGATE LASS

ON THE SEA SHORE - DROWNED LOVER

ON THE SIGN OF AN OLD WILTSHIRE INN - "Come my dearf brother, let's comfort each other" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p306 Ms#520 Wiltsh

ON THE SLY - Reel - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #639 (Am)

ON THE TOP OF MOUNT ZION - American Gospel Song -- Buna HICKS (voc/fid) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mountain, NC USA 1959: FTX-927/ APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000

ON THE TWENTY-FIRST - (or TWENTY-FOURTH) OF APRIL (or MAY) - MY TRUELOVE'S GONE A-SAILING

ON THIS CARPET - O THIS PRETTY LITTLE GIRL OF MINE

ON THIS HILL - TREE IN THE WOOD

ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY - "I there loved a girl in the long long ago" - "I lost my sweetheart by courtin too slow" - ROUD#414 - SHARP MSS, Folk Words pp.2311-2312 / Folk Tunes p.3173 --- KINCAID Favorite Old-Time Songs & Mountrain Ballads 2 1929 p38 - LUNSFORD & STRINGFIELD 30 and 1 Folksongs 1929 p54 - FUSON BKH 1930 pp119-120 Ky (w/o) - Journal of American Folklore 45 1932 pp105-8 - SULZER Twenty five Kentucky Folk Ballads 1 1936 p24 - SCARBOROUGH Song Catcher in Southern Mountains 1937 pp272-282, 429 - COX FSMWV 1939 pp35-36 Ky 1925 - HENRY Folk-Songs from the Southern Highlands 1938 pp273-5 - Family Herald & Weekly Star (Montreal) Old Favourites section 9 Jun 1948 - MORRIS Folksongs of Florida 1950 pp134-5 - OWENS Texas Folk Songs 1950 p97 - LOMAX Folk Songs of North America 1960 p221 - AMBURGEY: Kentucky Folklore Record 9:1 1963 pp17-8 - SOLOMON Sweet Bunch of Daisies (1991) pp28-9 - BURTON & MANNING Folksongs 1 pp.50-51 - see also MY HORSES AINT HUNGRY - 'WAY DOWN THE OHIO -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, New Hampshire 1940: FTX-922 (5v + talk) "Down by old Smokey" - I.G.GREER rec by Duncan Emrich, Thomasville, N.C. 1945: Library of Congress AFS L-14 'Anglo-American Songs & Ballads' - Obray RAMSEY (voc/banjo) rec S Appalachians RIVERSIDE RLP-12- 617 1956

ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI - "all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meat ball, when somebody sneezed" - Kids Song parody on ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY -- rec by Damian Webb 24/6 Fairfield Juniors Cockermouth Cumb 1966/ RPL LP 30954

ON TOP OF YON MOUNTAIN - OLD SMOKEY - RYE WHISKEY

ON WINGS OF SONG - comp by Mendelssohn -- Handbell Ringers: SAYDISC cass SDL-274 1976

ON WITH THE TARTAN - Jig - KERR MM 3 #247 p28 (Bm)

ON YON LOFTY MOUNTAIN - STREAMS OF LOVELY NANCY

ON YONDER HILL THERE SITS A HARE - "full of worry grief and care" - May she live to run again -- Geordie HANNA rec by Robin Morton, Co Tyrone: TOPIC TSCD-668 1998 Hunting & Poaching

ON YONDER HILL THERE STANDS A CREATURE - MADAM

ON YOUR FEETIKEN - POTATO LIFTIN'

ONAGH'S LOCK - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #141 p34 (Em) - Tunebook Ms #39 p348 (Dm)

ONCE I COULD RIDE IN MY COACH - ADIEU TO OLD ENGLAND

ONCE I COURTED A BONNY LITTLE GIRL/ A FAIR YOUNG WOMAN/ A LADY BEAUTY BRIGHT - CHARMING BEAUTY BRIGHT

ONCE I COURTED A PRETTY GIRL - JOLLY TAR - SHE BUNDLED ME INTO THE HOG TUB

ONCE I HAD A BLUE-EYED LOVER - BLUE-EYED LOVER

ONCE I HAD A COLOUR - FALSE HEARTED LOVER

ONCE I HAD A DAUGHTER - gone abroad - Germany - returns from battle - ROUD#2778 - CREIGHTON FSSNB p212 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, New Brunswick, Canada

ONCE I HAD A MAIDEN FAIR - Country Dance - PLAYFORD -- John KIRKPATRICK (3-row acc): LEADER LER-2033 1972 with "The Hole in the Wall"

ONCE I HAD A PRAYERBOOK - PRAYER BOOK

ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART - "A maiden sat a-weeping down by the seashore" - ROUD#170 - Tune in "The Beggar's Wedding" 1729 publ 1731 - Wright's Flute Tutor c1733 - BARING GOULD SOW #39 (Ms#40) (a) James Parsons SBG 1888 (b) W Aggett, Chagford FWB 1891 - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp42-3 James Parsons "The Forsaken Maiden" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #168 pp638-640 Henry Tidball, Wedmore, Somerset 1907/ George Say, Axbridge, Somerset 1908 1v/m - JFSS 3:11 1907 pp91-2 Hammond; Mrs Hann, Stoke Abbot/ Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1906 "As Sally sat a-weeping" - JFSS 5:18 1914 pp62-4 Sharp: George Say & Henry Tidball - JEFDSS 1932 p52 Mrs Aston of Coleford, Gloucestersh living Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia 1911 - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p14 Mrs Aston (text amplified from other versions) "As Sylvie was walking" - REEVES EC 1960 #44 p113 Baring Gould: James Parsons 1888 (w/o) "The Forsaken Maiden" - ED&S 26:3 1964 p69 Sharp: Henry Tidball - SEDLEY 1967 p132 - PURSLOW CL 1972 p74 Hammond: Mrs Russell "Poor Sally sat a-weeping" - TUNNEY SF 1979 p153 wds only - Cf Singing Game: "Sally sits a-weeping" - ED&S 43:2 1981 pp7-8 Maurice Ogg: Edith Leaning, Coleby, Lincolnsh "I once had a sweetheart" - Paddy Tunney suggests possibly the matrix of OUR WEDDING DAY -- Isla CAMERON (unacc) at The London Ceilidh Club, CSH, 1957: 7"RTR-0497/ FTX-268 "Once I had a truelove" - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-T-139 1965 "I once had a truelove" - PENTANGLE: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-205 1969 (S) - Phoebe SMITH (gypsy): TOPIC 12-T-193 1970 "Once I had a truelove - Jo FREYA SAYDISAC SDL-402 cass 1993 "As Sylvie was walking" (Penguin) - THE WILCOX THREE "The Greatest Folksongs ever sung" RCA CAMDEN CDN-158 "Sylvie"

ONCE I KNEW A PRETTY FAIR MISS - REJECTED LOVER

ONCE I LOVED A BONNY BOY - "vowed we'd be married" - Ship was bound for the Isle of Man - tune like that of OUR WEDDING DAY - see ONE PENNY PORTION -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24835/ FTX-159

ONCE I LOVED A LASS - GREY COCK

ONCE I LOVED A MAIDEN FAIR -- OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 aft "Belle Isle March"

ONCE I LOVED A PRETTY GIRL - REJECTED LOVER

ONCE I LOVED A YOUNG MAN - FAREWELL HE

ONCE I LOVED IN FOND AFFECTION - GO & LEAVE ME IF YOU WISH IT

ONCE I WAS A SERVANT - ROSEMARY LANE

ONCE I WAS A SHEPHERD'S BOY - "kept sheep on Compton Down" (about 2 m from Illesley) it was called a market town" - all about a storm on the Down Ch: "Fol de rol" - SHARP/KARPELES CDC 1974 #255 pp196-7 Shadrach "Shepherd" Haden, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1909 - SHARP SG 2003 p50 7v & ch from Haden

ONCE I WAS COURTED - BONNY BONNY BOY

ONCE I WAS MADE A SHEPHERD - SHEPHERD AND THE MAIDEN

ONCE I WAS SINGLE - WHEN I WAS SINGLE O THEN

ONCE I WAS YOUNG - LIMBO

ONCE IN CHINA - CHINA MAN WITH THE MONKEY NOSE

ONCE ON A MORNING OF SWEET RECREATION - HURRY THE JUG

ONCE THERE LIVED A CAPTAIN -- John REILLY: TOPIC TSCD-667 1998

ONCE THERE WAS A PRETTY MAID - "in London town did dwell - courted by jolly sailor - SR#1581 - JFSS 2:4 1906 pp290-1 Kidson: Liverpool 1v/m

ONCE UPON A TIME - "Eenst upon a time, when I was young and bonny - eenst I had a bonny lad but noo I hae nae ony" - ROUD#3361 - CHAPBOOK 3/1 p20 has expanded version with verses added by Ray Fisher - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp217-8 from Jeannie Robertson & notes -- Jeannie ROBERTSON of Aberdeen rec by PK, London 1953: FTX-067/ (HMV 7EG-8534)/ (LISMOR LIFL-7001 "Up the Dee and doon the Donn") - Ray FISHER (voc/gtr): TOPIC 12-T-137 1966

ONCE UPON A TIME - THREE SIX NINE (Children)

ONCE WHEN I WAS A SERVANT - ROSEMARY LANE

ONE AND ALL - "Away brave boys to Dublin" - Napoleonic Song - Royal Cornwall Light Infantry dates from 1811 -- Keith KENDRICK & DRUIDS: ARGO ZDA-147 1971

ONE AND ALL - Hornpipe - MITTEL #65 p25 (G)

ONE AND TWENTY - "My father was a farmer - longed to wear uniform - hobbled home on crutches" -- GARDNER/CHICKERING Mich 1939 -- Charlie CLISSOLD rec by Gwilym Davies, Hardwick, Glos - Roy LAST Suffolk: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-302 1984

ONE AND TWENTY - Jig (Em) KERR MM 1 #21 p32 "Ane an' twenty Tam"

ONE AND TWO OF PIPERING, THE - ACE AND DEUCE

ONE BOTTLE MORE - Jig - MUG OF BROWN ALE

ONE BUMPER AT PARTING - "though many…" - ROUD#12872

ONE BY THE NECK - Jig - MAGUIRE 1 #36 p9 (G)

ONE COLD AND FROSTY MORNING - "a gentleman among the olden time" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1225 1v

ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER "- I've reason to remember" - Come along old boy - Never ask the reason why -- Walter Pardon, rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Suffolk c1982: TOPIC 12-TS-392/ TOPIC TSCD-665 1998

ONE COLD WINTER'S MORNING - ALL ON ONE WINTER'S MORNING

ONE DAY A POOR BOY - CAPTAIN'S APPRENTICE

ONE DAY FOR RECREATION - Macaronic Engl & Irish Gaelic - Courting a maid singing like an angel - she asks about him - rake ? - father etc - CRANITCH p44 m/o -- Peggy SCANLON (Noone) rec Alan Lomax,. Coolea, Co Cork 1951: 7"RTR-0590

ONE DAY I CHANCED TO ROVE - "by yon shady grove" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #965 p89 4v/m

ONE DAY I WILL - Sacred -- Jeff WARNER (v/gtr/conc) with Jeff DAVIS (v/ mand/fid) FF-90431 CASS-0815

ONE DAY IN OCTOBER - BELL RINGING SONG

ONE DAY IN THE STREET - THAT'S HOW WE GET SERVED

ONE DIME BLUES -- Mrs Etta BAKER (gtr): TRADITION TLP-1007 1956-7

ONE EVENING FAIR - DOWN BY BLACKWATERSIDE - TODD'S SWEET RURAL SHADE

ONE EVENING OF LATE - TAIM CORTHA O BHEITH IM' AONAR IM' LUI

ONE EVENING SO CLEAR - "in the meadows did pass - beatiful lass scarce 16 - round her waist a girdle of green - O William why seek another ? - died of pure love" - ROUD#3311 - BARING GOULD SOW #41 (a) Wm Huggins, stonemason, Lydford (good words) 1891 (b) J Peake, Liskeard, Cornwall 1888 (words completely altered for Orig Ed and song omitted in Rev Ed) - GUNDRY CK 1966 p29 BG: Will Huggins (w)/ J Peake (m)

ONE EVENING WHILE STROLLING DOWN RIVER - ERIN'S GREEN SHORE

ONE-EYED COBBLER, THE - BLINKIN ONE-EYED COBBLER

ONE EYED FIDDLER - comp Hornpipe ? -- Paul Wilson & Ben van Weede (fiddles): SAYDISC CP-115 1980 bef "Cliff H"

ONE EYED REILLY, THE - "As I was sitting by the fire talking to old Reilly's daughter" - Ch: "Iddy aye ay" - COLLINSON-DILLON SFC 1946 pp10-11 (from Jack Dillon) - Cf LEAN AND UNWASHED TIFFY (Tawney) -- CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM with Pete Seeger (banjo) & Bruce Langhorne (gtr) rec with audience, CBS Studio NY: CBS 63516 1963 - Oscar BRAND: DERO-1985 CASS-0235 "The Best of the Worst"

ONE FINE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT - "two dead men got up to fight - back-to-back they faced each other - drew their swords and shot each other" - Kids Tangletalk - OPIE has examples from Bodleian c1480 and 1830 "Two dead horses ran a race" -- FTX-198 B21 solo girl

ONE FINE MORNING - TARRY TROUSERS

ONE FINGER - KEEP MOVING -- Group of children rec by Alan Lomax, San Juan's Government Girls School, Trinidad: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 "Some like it hot, some like it cold"

ONE FOND KISS - AE FOND KISS

ONE FOR SORROW - "two for joy, 3 for a letter, 4 for a boy, 5 for silver 6 for gold, 7 for a secret@s never been told, 8 for beauty, 9 for luck 10 for happiness, 11 for pluck" - Kids Divinbation Rhyme -- FTX-199 B6 Walworth, London

ONE FOR THEE -- Story about apple-stealing -- Ben JARVIS Pocklington cobbler E Yorks rec by Jim Eldon 1982-8 SD-005 1988 CASS- 0992

ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER - "Folks allus say as they git old" - BALDRY RSC 1939 p95 Norolk ? (w/o)

ONE GOD MADE US ALL - COME ALL YOU WORTHY CHRISTIAN MEN

ONE HORNED - BOB WITH ONE HORN & BOB WITH TWO HORNS (Reels)

ONE HORNED COW, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #142 p35 (Em) - Tunebook Ms #95 p35 (Dm) - O'NEILL MOI #1077/ DMI #277 - O'NEILL DMI #325 (not in MOI) (D&G) "Martin's One-horned Cow"

ONE HORNED SHEEP, THE - HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK (Jig)

ONE LEGGED CHICKEN - I'M A BOW LEGGED CHICKEN

ONE LITTLE ELEPHANT - "went out one day - upon a spider's web to play - had such tremendous fun, he sent another elephant to come - Two" - Kids Circle Song with one outside imitating the elephant - OPIE SG 1985 #99 pp367-9 Similar versions in France, Belgium, Norway, Spain, Canada & USA

ONE LITTLE GRAIN OF SAND - American trad (?) part comp by Graeme Miles

ONE LITTLE WORD -- Carter Family (trio), Camden, NJ 8/5/34/ 7"RTR-0313-4

ONE MAN BAND - Britain - One person with more than one instr -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

ONE MAN WENT TO MOW - "went to mow my meadow" - Cumulative - ROUD#143 - SHARP-KARPELES CDC 1974 #339 "One man shall mow" - JFSS 7 1923 pp88-90 Hammond: Wm Brown, Nether Compton, Dorset 1906 "One Man shall shear my wethers"/ George Moore, Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset 1906 "One Man came over the plain"/ Gilchrist - SHARP Sel Ed 2 p129 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p288 #280 nn, Kencot, Oxfordsh (w/o) "Mowing down the meadow" - REEVES EC 1960 #100 p200 Gardiner: Charles Woodhouse, Micheldewver, Hampsh 1906 (w/o) "The Haymaking Song" - STUBBS LOM 1970 pp50-51 George Townsend, Lewes, Sussex 1960 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p67 Hammond: Mrs Stone, Dorchester, Dorset 1906 "One man shall shear my wethers" - PURSLOW FD 1974 p61 Hammond: George Moore, Hazlebury Bryan, Dorset 1905 "Mowing down the meadow" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 pp644-5 Wm Rew 1954 "The Counting Song" - PALMER RVW 1983 pp3-4 Mr Wetherill, Bourne End, Buckinghamsh 1904 "I had one man" --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp196-7 Richard Hartlan, NS 1929+ "The One Man" -- Mr BILES Melplash Dorset 19/9/43: RPL 6797 (78) 1 verse only - William REW rec by PK, Sidbury, Devon 1950: 7T-009/ rec by PK 13/10/54: RPL 22321/ FTX-027 (with conc)/ FTX-086 "Counting Song" ("I've a one man, I've a two men") - Bungay Primary School rec 25/11/59: RPL LP 25951 (Version coll by Sharp)

ONE HAPPY FAMILY - MY FATHER KEPT A HORSE

ONE MAY MORNING - TOSSING OF THE HAY

ONE MAY MORNING - "As I went out OMM as it happened to be" - ROUD#2633 - JOHNSON SMM 1787 4 #397 p410 Scots "As I went ae May Morning" w/m - JFSS 3 1907 p113 Hammond: Robert Barratt, Piddletown, Dorset 1905 1v/m - REEVES IP 1958 p109 Sharp: John Vincent, Priddy, Somerset 1905 (w/o) "I'm a day too young"

ONE MICHAELMAS MORN - BLACKBERRY GROVE

ONE MIDSUMMER EVENING - BRUCE'S LINES

ONE MISTY EVENING - FEASGAR AGUS CED ANN

ONE MISTY MOISTY MORNING - "I met an old man clothed in leather - to celebrate caps they off did fling" - Source ? -- STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1046 1973 & STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977

ONE MORE DAY - "Only one more day, my Johnny" "O rock and roll me over" - Shanty - ROUD#704 - DAVIS-TOZER 1887 #36 Pumping - WHALL 1910 p147 Pulling or Homeward Bound - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #25 p23 (1v) for pulling - SHARP 1914 p18 Capstan - BELLMAN mag 1917 Robinson - COLCORD SOAS pp110-111 - SHAY 1925 p141 wds only - TERRY SB 2 1926 pp4-5 -HUGILL SSS 1961 p489-91 - HARLOW SAAS 1962 pp41-2 - ED&S mag 42/2 1980 Article by Roy Palmer - KINSEY SOTS 1989 p66 - see GREY FUNNEL LINE - JOHNNY BOWKER -- Andrew SALTERS rec by James M Carpenter, Greenock c1928: FTX-142 - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC-269 1992 gift from Sean Laffey CASS-1280 - -- Percy GRAINGER (piano roll): LARRIKIN LRF-034

ONE MORE DAY OF WOE - "One more day you go - and we'll be out tomorrow - No more writing, no more books - no more teacher's dirty looks - Kids "End of school" rhyme - Opie says this rhyme knows no class boundaries whether colliers or cabinet- minister's children - see NO MORE LATIN NO MORE FRENCH -- FTX-198 B7 Opie rec Chorus of London boys, followed by Oxford boy: "No more Latin, no more Greek, no more Upper- schooler's cheek" - FTX-289 #32

ONE MORE MILE - comp by JR about girl married to an engine driver seldom home -- Jean RITCHIE (voc & group): GREENHAYS GR-70725 1995

ONE MORNING FOR RECREATION - JENNY ON THE MOOR

ONE MORNING IN MAY - BIRDS IN THE SPRING - JUST AS THE TIDE WAS FLOWING - NIGHTINGALES SING - PRETTY CAROLINE - PRETTY ROSALEEN - SPOTTED COW - SWEET NIGHTINGALE

ONE MORNING IN THE WINTER - HOLMBECK HUNTING SONG

ONE MORNING VERY SOON - YOUNG ROGER OF THE VALLEY

ONE MORNING FAIR - BLACKWATERSIDE - BUTCHER BOY

ONE MORNING IN JUNE - Macaronic Engl & Irish Gaelic -- Joe HEANEY: TOPIC 12-T-91 1963 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-264 1975

ONE MORNING IN THE SPRING - "I went on board to serve the king - when I came back to her father's hall - married another man - if I had gold - quit my ways on a mountain high" - coll RVW Norfolk frag - words added from SHARP FSSA NC version using tune of "Black is the colour" -- Cyril TAWNEY: TOPIC 12-T-110 1964

ONE NIGHT A-COURTING - MO SHORAIDH NULL DO BHARRAIDH

ONE NIGHT AS I LAY ON MY BED - DROWSY SLEEPER - FOGGY DEW - IT RAINS IT HAILS - NOT LAST NIGHT - POLLY OLIVER

ONE NIGHT AT TEN O CLOCK - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 pp32-33 Samuel Fone, Black Down, Devon

ONE NIGHT SAD AND LANGUID - NAPOLEON'S DREAM

ONE NIGHT UPON MY RAMBLES - RINORDINE

ONE NOBLE KNIGHT - LOVELY JOAN

ONE O - TWELVE APOSTLES

ONE O'CLOCK THE GUN WENT OFF - "- Kids Skipping Song - RITCHIE SS p14 I dare not stay no longer - if I do, mother will say: Playing with the boys up yonder - the only one that I love best: Is my bonny bonny Johnny-O" -- Norton Park School Edinburgh rec 16/12/53: RPL 19927

ONE OF THE HAS-BEENS - "a sheaer I mean - once was a ringer" Ch:"I'm as awkward as a new-chum" - Australian Shearer's Song -- Warren FAHEY & Group (+ conc): LARRIKIN LRC-028 cass

ONE OF THESE DAYS - "my brother" "when the Lord call me home" - Gospel Song -- Willis PROCTOR & Georgia Sea Island Singers Group A rec by Alan Lomax, St Simon's Island, Ga Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1712 1998

ONE PENNY - PENNY WAGER

ONE PENNY PORTION - "A sailor courted a farmer's daughter - that lived convenient to the Isle of Man - HENRY SOP #634/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p472 Bushmills, Co Antrrim 1936 10v/m --- CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p44 10v - see ONCE I LOVED A BONNY BOY

ONE POOR WIDOW LEFT ALONE - SILLY OLD MAN

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO - "Three potato four, 5 p 6 p, 7 p more - OUT" - Children's Dipping or Counting-Out Rhyme - RITCHIE GC p41 Explan of game - British Film Institute Experimental FILM "One Potato Two Potato" by Leslie Daiken and PK 1953: Soundtrack see 7"RTR-0020 -- rec by Damian Webb 4/1 & rec by Damian Webb 4/61 St John's Junior School for Girls rec rec by Damian Webb Workington Cumb 1960: RPL LP 26302/ FTX-194 #6 Counting out to hold the rope - rec by Damian Webb 14/12 St Mary's Juniors Edinburgh solo boy -

ONE SPANIARD CAME - CAME FROM SPAIN (K)

ONE STEP - (similar rhythm to Schottische or Barn Dance) - see DOWN ON THE FARM - SHUFFLING SAM -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

ONE SUMMERS EVENING - BROKEN TOKEN, THE

ONE SUNDAY MORNING - AS I ROVED OUT - RICHARD OF TAUNTON DENE - SILLY GALOOT

ONE THING OR THE OTHER, THE - "At the age of 21 I was in the prime of life" -- ROUD#2131 - SHARP Ms 1903 Somerset - HENRY SOP #70 "I've two or three strings to my bow" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #209 p466 Michael Gallagher --- PEACOCK SNO 1965 pp312-3 James Decker, Parson's Pond, Nfl 1958 7v/m -- Michael GALLAGHER rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/53: RPL 20024/ FTX-019 (with fid) "The Twins" - Frank PAINE, rec by PK, Hambridge Brewery, Somerset 25/1/57: 5"RTR-0941

ONE THURSDAY EVENING - "as I went out at late" - goes to his love's house but her comrade tells him to wait but she never appears "If ever I return to Scotland again - from England from Ireland from France and from Spain" - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1204 pp355-7 2var 10v/3m incl tune of "Sailor from Dover"

ONE TIME AND ONE TIME ONLY - comp Tom Paxton -- Danny DOYLE: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-26 1968

ONE TOUCH OF NATURE - TOUCH OF NATURE

ONE TWO AND THREE - GAME OF CARDS

ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

ONE TWO, HOW DO YOU DO? - "I do very well - with a house to myself - a knocker and a bell - with a dog as well" - Children's Skipping Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb 4/26 St John's School for Girls, Workington 1960: FTX-197 #6 - rec by Damian Webb 9/7 /RPL LP 26301 & RPL LP 26303/ FTX-197 #37

ONE TWO POM POM - MORE WE ARE TOGETHER

ONE, TWO, THREE - up to 100 - children rec by AL, Brick Kiln Villah=ge, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER CD 1731 2002

ONE TWO THREE - (A-LAIRY, A-LOOPA etc) - Children's counting & Two Ball Rhyme with its own language: "plainsi-loopa, baker, bakerola, long-man, in-man, tall-man, short-man, right-leg, left-leg" - "dropsie, upsie, stampsie, headsie, shouldersie, hipsie, kneesie, toesie, heelsie, bounsie, wallsie etc" - OPIE LLSC p108 London, Reading & Montreal Canada - RITCHIE GC p80 - see - LOOPA, MOTHER BROWN - OPEN THEGATE AND LET ME IN, SIR - See also the Two-Ball Game: "Ordinary Clapsie" or "Ordinary Movings" - rec by Damian Webb 4/40 St John's Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: DW-4/40/ FTX-194 #15 - Children at C of E Primary School, Sidbury, Devon rec by PK 26/2/51: RPL 16076/ FTX-201 with talk about game bef also atmosphere while game is learned from the older kids - rec by Jean Ritchie, Sidbury C of E Junior School 1952: 7"RTR-0062 - rec by Alan Lomax, Aberdeen 1952: FTX-181 #12 - rec by PK, Kentish Town Church School, London 23/1/53: RPL 19004 (game descr) - rec by Damian Webb St John's Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: DW-4/49/ FTX-194 #19 "I saw John Mc Laira - sitting on his umber-rairer - eating chocolate bon-bons"- Doreen ELLIOTT (with talk) rec Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, Birtley, Durham: FOLKWAYS FG-3565 1962 --- Brick Kiln village, Nevis/ El Soccorro Central Government School, Port of Spain, Trinidad 1962 rec by Alan Lomax: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE - "once I caught a fish alive - Why did you let him go? - because it bit my finger so" - Children's Skipping or Single Ball Game usually sung to HEEL AND TOE polka tune - See THE SULTAN POLKA - RITCHIE GC p81 -- rec by Damian Webb, Laurence St., Marshside, Workington, Cumb 1961: DW 17/4/ FTX-197 #76 - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

ONE TWO THREE FOUR, FIVE SIX SEVEN - "all good children go to Heaven - when they die their sins are forgiven - 1234 567 - John was given to the devil - over his head the ground was level - 8 9 10 11" - Children's Counting Out rhyme -- see also SEVEN STEP POLKA (DOUBLE SCHOTTISCHE) - Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959

ONE TWO THREE, THE BOYS ARE AFTER ME - I WISH TONIGHT WAS SATURDAY NIGHT

ONE VERY KEEN WINTER - SHEEP UNDER THE SNOW

ONE WAY STREET GIRL - comp by IT - Ian THOMAS (with guitar) of Maerdy, Rhondda, S.Wales rec by PK, Gloucester 1986: FTX-039

ONESY ONESY, MISS THE ROPES OUT - "2-sy turn around (trails are out) - 3-sy 3-sy chop the sticks - 4-sy 4-sy do the splits" - Children's Skipping Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb 3/2 St John's Junior School for Girls Workington Cumb 1960: FTX-197 #34/ RPL LP 26303 (4 lines) - rec by Damian Webb 4/24 (2 lines only): FTX-197

ONLY A FRIEND - Curt MANN rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Mann's Harbour, N.C. 1941 4v: APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000

ONLY A MINER - HARD WORKING MINERS

ONLY A SOLDIER - BOLD DRAGOON

ONLY DAUGHTER, THE - POOR MAN'S ONLY DAUGHTER

ONLY GIRL I EVER LOVED, THE - "but she doesn't live here any more" -- sung by Billy BENNETT accomp himself on orchestra (remastered from 78rpm): TOPIC TSCD-780 1978/ 1997

ONLY ONE MORE DAY - ONE MORE DAY

ONLY ONE MORE DRINK - "said the hardy Bushman as he laid across the bar" - he pays for drinks all round - Parody on THE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED -- Cyril DUNCAN (from England): LARRIKIN 007 1976

ONLY OUR RIVERS - Song comp Michael Mc Connell -- PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-186 1973

ONTARIO - POOR LITTLE GIRLS OF ONTARIO

ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS - I'M A SKYSCRAPER MAN

OOT - OUT

OPEN THE DOOR, GATES - CASTLE GATE - GRANDY NEEDLES - HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON - IT RAINS, IT HAILS

OPEN THE DOOR FOR THREE - Triple Jig (G) - Tunebook Ms #10 p4 - O NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #449 -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute) of Limerick rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-171 untitled

OPEN THE DOOR SOFTLY -- Archie FISHER: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1070 1968

OPEN THE DOOR - THINK OF THE POOR - "please to let the New Year in" - ROUD#230 - PALMER SOM 1972 p11 George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 1v/m -- George DUNN rec Roy Palmer, Quarry Banks, Staffordsh: LEADER LER-4042 1973 (M)

OPEN THE GATE AND LET ME IN, SIR- "I am soaking to the skin - just to post my letter" - Kids rhyme -- Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 followed with ONE TWO THREE A-LAIRI

OPEN THE WINDOW - "One night as I lay on my bed" - JFSS 11 p78-80 - REEVES EC 1960 #101 p201 Gardiner: Charles Bull, Marchwood, Hampsh 1907 (w/o) - see DROWSY SLEEPER -- Shirley COLLINS & Dolly (flute organ): DECCA SML-1117 1974

OPEN THROAT - THROAT SINGING

OPENING OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY, THE - "On the fourth day of July -" Ch: "You may travel by steam or so the folk say" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p46 text: bs by Russell of Birmingham (BM 1876 e2); tune used "The Bold Trooper" (Kidson EPS nd [1926] p84)

OPERA - WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT? (mentions Opera house) -- RUBINI CC1 Harry PLUNKET GREENE & others from 78 rpm

OPERA HOUSE, THE - Hornpipe - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #135 p38 (G/D)

OPERA POLKA - KERR MM 3 #437 p50 (C/G) - MIDDLETON'S Album p38 (D/G)

OPERA REEL - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #152 p36 4pts (D)- KERR MM 4 #55 p9 4pts (D) - WILSON p81 4pts (D)

OPERETTA QUADRILLE TUNE -- Billy CONROY (whistle) rec by PK, Newcastle 1954: FTX-122

OPIE COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - Over 20, 000 historical children's books from the Bodleian Library in Oxford including 800 published before 1800: www.umi.com & www.proquest.co.uk/products

OPOSSUM, THE - WAY DOWN YONDER IN A CEDAR TREE

OPTIMIST, THE - Hornpipe - MAGUIRE 1 #76 p20 (Eb)