POOP POOP - BUMP, BUMP, HERE COMES A TAXI CAB

POOR - POVERTY - RAGS TO RICHES

POOR AND SINGLE SAILOR, THE - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

POOR ANTHONY - "Was ever a man so vext with a trull" - D'URFEY IV p154 8v/m - SIMPSON BBB 1966 p685 "Step Stately" & p160 "Daniel Cooper"

POOR ANXIOUS WOMAN, A - "sat watching one day her husband her sailor return" but another bluejacket reports his death - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha 1970 p61 from Fred Swain - p150 from Arthur Repetto

POOR BETSY WAS A SAILOR'S BRIDE - FORGET ME NOT

POOR BILL BROWN - DEATH OF BILL BROWN

POOR BOY - LOGAN COUNTY JAIL

POOR BOY AND THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER, THE - Story -- Michael DOHERTY rec Co Donegal Jan 1951: RPL 21214-5/ FTX-073

POOR BOY BLUES -- John DUDLEY (voc/ gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Dairy Camp Parchman Miss 1959: RPL LP 26149 - Pamela WARRICK-SMITH GREENHAYS GR-90721 1990 CASS-0798

POOR BUT HONEST - SHE WAS POOR BUT SHE WAS HONEST

POOR BUT HONEST SOLDIER, THE - Song -- John GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NY 1941: FTX-921 uses "Gallant Hussar" tune - John ADAMS (& acc): ARGO ZDA-147 1971 "The Sodger's Return"

POOR BUT HONEST SOLDIER, THE - dance-tune - SHARP Morris "The Blue-eyed Stranger" Dance-notes 1/16 - KERR 4 p7 "The Soldier's Return" (D) - Tunebook Ms #68 p196 (G) 4/4 -- William KIMBER (conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 114/11/56: RPL LP 23504/ FTX-384/ TOPIC 12-T-249 1974 complete dance - Jim SMALL (harmonica) rec Cheddar, Somerset 1980: 138 - John KIRKPSATRICK (conc) & Sue HARRIS (oboe): TOPIC 12-TS-295 1976 - John KIRKPATRICK with Sue HARRIS, Martin CARTHY, Martin BRINSFORD & Fi FRASER: Morris Dances from the Cotswolds: FREE REED FRR-010 1976 with "Willow Tree" - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 aft "Bonny Breast Knots" & "Getting Upstairs" & bef "New Killarney Polka" - Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977 aft "Winster Processional" - Paul Wilson & Ben van Weede (fiddles): SAYDISC CP-115 1980 "Blue eyed Stranger" - Hamish MOORE (cald wind pipes) with gtr & sound of old meal mill Radio 2: 20/9/89: CASS-0487

POOR CAROLINE OF EDINBURGH TOWN - CAROLINE OF EDINBURGH TOWN

POOR COTTON WEAVER, THE - "I'm a poor cotton wayver as many a one knows" "John O Grinfilt's Junior" - a parody on the Napoleonic song: "John o' Greenfilt's Ramble" - ROUD#937 - BSs - HARTLAND Ballads & Songs of Lancashire (not in Lib) from Droylesden noted from Becket Whitehead of Delph near Oldham - PALMER TOTT 1974 p207 titled "John o Grinfield"/ text: Bs by Harkness of Preston (Madden 20/72)/ tune: Kidson Garland p94 - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p38 Becket Whitehead, Oldham, Lancs 1947 - see JONE O GREENFIELD'S RAMBLE -- Ewan McCOLL (Jimmy Miller) rec by Alan Lomax, London 12/2/51: COLUMBIA SL-206 1952 (says learnt from a Mrs Whitehead)/ ARGO ZFB-65 1968/ ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 - A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-T-86 1963 - Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR: CHRYSALIS CHR-1101 1976

POOR COUPLE, THE - POOR OLD COUPLE

POOR DOG TRAY - "On the green banks of Shannon when Shelagh was nigh" -ROUD#2668 - BS - HEALY OISB 3 1969 pp138-9 BS (w/o)

POOR DRUNKARD, THE - "As I was a-walking one morning down town" - "When I was a young man, I took great delight - drinking & smoking - until spent my store - I'll walk the streets up & down - landlady dressed in silk gown - my coat is tore at the elbow - unable to maintain wife and children - a silly drunkard I have ruined them all" - ROUD#1165 - JFSS 35 1931 p276 Bob Miller, Sutton, Norfolk 1924 4v/m "The Drunkard" - FMJ 1:5 1969 pp310-311 from Williams #63 Charles Messenger, Cerney Wick, Gloucestersh (w/o) 7v - see also POOR MAN'S LABOUR -- STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1123 1976 (comp tune) - Bob SMALL, pub, Devon rec by Sam Richards: TOPIC 12-TS-349 1979 - Wiggy SMITH rec by Gwilym Davies & Paul Burgess, Elmstone Hardwick, Glos 1995: TOPIC TSCD-663 1998 "When I was young man"

POOR ELLEN SMITH - "where was she found - shot through the heart - lying cold on the ground" - In song Peter claims to have been falsely accused and tells of his capture and sentence to hang, adding: "My soul will be free when I stand at the bar" - Peter de Graff murdered ES Aug 1893 Forsyth near Mt Airy NC - While he waited for his execution he called for a guitar and this song was composed and sung by him - so great was the feeling, for and against De Graaf that it was declared a misdemeanour to sing this song at any large gathering for fear of causing a riot (note from Richardson) - LAWS #F-11 ABBB 1957 p196-7 - ROUD#448 - COMBS Midi 1925 p219 18v (ky) In this version he marries after murder - BROWN NC 1952-62 3 - DAVIS MTBV 1960 Va - FUSON BKH 1931 p132 Ky (w/o) admits his guilt - HENRY FSSH 1938 p315 Frag NC - HUDSON FSM 1936 p193 Mississippi 7v "The ES Ballet" - RICHARDSON AMS 1927 pp32-3 App 10v/m (p106 has note about his execution) -- Estil C.BALL(voc & gtr), rec by Alan Lomax, Rugby, Va USA 1959: ROUNDER 1702 1997 - Hobart SMITH (voc & banjo) rec Saltville, Va 1942: ROUNDER 1799 2001 - Frank PROFFITT rec by Frank & Anne Warner (voc & dulcimer) Beech Mt, Watauga Co, NC 1962: FTX-932/ FOLKWAYS FA-2360 1962 - Frank PROFFITT Jr (voc/banjo): CLOUDLANDS (Tenn) CLC-008 1992 CASS-1356 - Homer CORNETT rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt, NC 1959: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 - Texas GLADDEN rec by Moses Asch, NYC 1946 originally on Disc Records: ROUNDER 1800 2001

POOR FISHER BOY, THE - POOR LITTLE FISHERMAN'S BOY

POOR FROZEN OUT GARDENERS - BROKEN-HEARTED GARDENER

POOR GRACIE IS DEAD - POOR ROGER IS DEAD (K)

POOR HARD-WORKING MAN, THE - "O I am a PHWM" - ROUD#3284 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp349-350 NS (w/o)

POOR HORSE BURIED AT SEA - BAS AN EICH - POOR OLD HORSE

POOR HOWARD - "is dead and gone" - "left me here to sing this song" - ROUD#11673 -- Mrs Maud LONG rec by Maud Karpeles, Hot Springs, NC, USA Sept 1950: RPL 17146/ FTX-907 "Pretty Little Girl with the blue dress on" - William MARSHALL (fid) & Howard HALL (banjo) rec Mike Yates, Hillsville Carroll Co Va USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980 "Pretty Little Girl with a red dress on" - Calvin COLE (banjo) rec by Mike Yates Hillsville Carroll Co Va 4/8/79 VWML-007 d/CASS 1026 1992 "Crazy about Song" ---Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226 "Pretty Little Girl with the red dress on" - Chas McDEVITT Skiffle Group (rec London 1957-9): ROLLER COASTER RC-CD-3007 1993

POOR IRISH STRANGER, THE - "O pity the PIS" -ROUD#1629 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) - SBG 5:#43/ 8:#187 - JFSS 1:3 1901 p116 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 - JFSS 3 1907 p10 Broadwood: John Searle, Pulborough, Sussex 1901 - JFSS 5 1914 Sharp: John Murphy, Marylebone, London 1908

POOR JACKIE IS ILL - POOR ROGER (K)

POOR JACK'S FIRST LEAVE - JACK ASHORE

POOR JENNY/ MARY SITS A-WEEPING - "On a bright summers day - weeping for lover - pray tell me who your lover is?" - Children's Ring Game with Choosing - ROUD# 2118 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 23002 #1606 pp166-7 (3var/m) "O Mary stands a weeping" - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 p76 Mrs Lawson: Upton-on-Severn, Worcestersh - GOMME 1898 2 p46 (43var) - HAMMOND Dorset 1908 - GILLINGTON OCCSC 1910 p9 Hampsh "Mary sat weeping" - OPIE SG 1985 #80 pp325-9 "Poor Jenny" (tune cf CUPID'S WALTZ & "Duchess of Bedford's Waltz" in Tunebook ms #52 p462 (G) 3pts - PORTER- GOWER 1995 pp120-1 Jeannie Robertson "What's poor Mary weepin for?" (tune is related to "Buffalo Girls") -- Children at Sidbury C of E Primary School, Devon rec by PK 1951: RPL 16074/ FTX-201 - Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072 - Tony WALES (with gtr) 7"RTR-0089 dub from FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 - Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 (as learned in Manchester) - rec by Damian Webb, DW 10/1 St Michaels Juniors Workington, Cumberland 1960 "Poor Mary" FTX-195 #2 - rec by Damian Webb 13/4 St Johns Juniors 1961 used on "Song of Childhood" (32nd take) - OLDHAM TINKERS: TOPIC 12- T-188 1968 "Coalhole Medley" - Ray & Archie FISHER: TOPIC 12- T-137 1966 (from Jeannie Robertson) "What's poor Mary weeping for?" - Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969 - Welsh version from Ysgol Maenofferen, Blaenau Ffestiniog May 1977 rec by Welsh Folk Museum: SAYDISC CD-SDL-338 1983 "Mari Fach Yb Crio" ("Mary lies a-weeping") - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

POOR JOHNNY'S DEAD - "I hear his knell" - ROUD#1334 - Alfred WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p301 Ms#185 David Ball, Aston, Oxfordsh (w/o)

POOR JOLLY SAILOR LADS - "Come all you pretty fair maids, a line to you I'll write" - ROUD#1664 - JFSS 7 1923 Hammond: Joseph Elliott - PURSLOW CL 1972 p70 Hammond: Joseph Elliott, Todber, Dorset 2v from another song - see SAILOR'S FAREWELL

POOR LABOURING MAN - WE POOR LABOURING MEN

POOR LAZARUS - "Po' Lazarus"- comes from the Mississippi delta - "got tired of bad food and low pay in the levee camp and held up the pay clerk and took the whole pay-roll!" - LAWS I-12 LOMAX AB&FS p91 - LOMAX OSC p308 - see also LAZARUS - Lib of Congress 3089 A1 (Miss.) - 355 B (Fla) - 2709 A1 (Fla) - 1305 B1 (Ala.) - 17 recs mainly from Negro prisons -- Male Chorus rec by Alan Lomax, Lambert, Mississippi Penitentiary USA 1959: RPL LP 26147 - Alan LOMAX (voc with gtr) with Alex KORNER (gtr) using name "Nick Wheatstraw" rec by PK: EMI CLP-1192 1958/ FTX-941 - BRIGHT LIGHT QUARTET (fishermen) rec by AL, Weems Va,, USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1701 & 1705 1997

POOR LEONARD - LAKE OF COOLFIN

POOR LITTLE FISHERMAN'S BOAT, THE - FISHERMAN'S BOAT

POOR (LITTLE) FISHERMAN'S BOY, THE - "Down in the Lowlands a poor boy (girl) did wander" - incl Shipwreck - LAWS #Q-29 ABBB 1957 p287 "The Fisherman's Boy" - ROUD#912 - BSs "The Fisherman's Boy" & "The Poor Fisherman's Boy"- Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - SBG 4:#365/ 7:#3/ 9:#189 (also have "The Poor Little Fisherman's Girl") - RYMOUR Club 2 p36 George Riddell (cx) 1v/m "The F's B" - GREIG FSNE 1906-14- #52 7v - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #961 pp77-82 5var 8v/m "The Fisherman's Boy" "High in the highlands a poor boy did wander" & #1077 4v w/o "The Fisherman's Girl" - BARING GOULD Ms - SHARP Ms Cf 1 p325 & Broadside Book p5 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 2 pp563-4 John Edbrook, Bishop's Nympton, Devon 1904 "The Orphan Boy" - WILLIAMS #672 (w/o)/ #285 Mrs Ellen Trinder, Northmoor, Oxfordsh (w/o) "Down in the Low Country" - KIDSON EPS 1929 - JFSS 8:31 1927 pp38-9 Gilchrist: Wm Wickham, Blackham, Sussex 1907 1v/m/ Mrs Kidson Yorksh (m/o) - POLWARTH FSN 1967 - POLWARTH FSFTN 1970 pp30-31 T Hepple Ms Northumb 1855 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #40 Gilchrist: Wm Wickham 1v/m (rest from broadside) "The PL Fisher Boy" - Cf ALL ROUND MY HAT (tune) - POOR LITTLE ORPHAN BOY - POOR LITTLE SAILOR'S BOY - POOR LITTLE SMUGGLER'S BOY - POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY --- EDDY Ohio 1939 p178 7v - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p200 6v - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p189 Utah "F's Girl"- WARNER TAFS 1984 #144 p333 Etheridge & Tillett "F's Girl" - JAFL 35 p366 -- Micho RUSSELL rec by John Tams & Neil Wayne, O Connors Bar, Doolin, Co Clare 1974: TOPIC 12-TS-251 1975/ TSCD-652 1998 --- Martha ETHERIDGE & Mrs TILLETT rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Roanoke, NC USA 1951: FTX-926/ APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000 "The Fisherman's Girl"

POOR (LITTLE) FISHERMAN'S GIRL, THE - "It was down in the country a poor girl was weeping" - ROUD#2809 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

POOR LITTLE GIRLS OF ONTARIO, THE -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp by Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897/ FTX-905

POOR LITTLE JOE - "While strolling one night mid New York's gay throng" - orphan singing for his bread - ROUD#3111 - BSs by Sanderson Edinburgh/ Such London/ Kidson Leeds p3/ BG vol 7 #182 - COX FSOS 1925 p445 Maud Groves, Deepwell W Va 1915 (w/o) - COX FSMWV 1939 p86 E Blanche Sisson, W Va 1929 1v/m - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp190-191 Utah 1891 2var (w/o)

POOR LITTLE LIZA - Shanty - ROUD#4698 - DAVIS & TOZER pp24-5 - HUGILL SSS 1961 p345 "Eliza Lee" -- J S SCOTT rec by James M Carpenter London c1928: FTX-142 - Group of men from Andros Island, rec by Alan Lomax, Nassau, Bahamas Aug 1935: ROUNDER CD-11661-1822-2 1999 "Blow, Liza, blow" (AAFS 299B)

POOR LITTLE MARY ANN - "As I was a-walking one cold frosty morning" he hears maid weeping behind a rock on the beach as William sails by but he returns and makes her his bride and they live happily ever after in a snug little cottage on the Isle of Wight - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) gives alt title "The Smuggler's Bride"

POOR LITTLE ORPHAN BOY, THE - ORPHAN BOY

POOR LITTLE ORPHAN GIRL, THE - ORPHAN GIRL

POOR (LITTLE) SAILOR'S BOY, THE - "It was on a dark and stormy night" - Lady takes him in as she has lost her own son (Same story and references as POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY - LAWS #Q-2 - ROUD#258 - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "The Sailor Boy" ("The bitter wind blew keen and cold") - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha p58 from Alice Swain --- WARNER TAFS 1984 pp352-3 Eleazar Tillett, Wanchese NC 1941 -- Bill CAMERON rec by PK, St Mary's, Scilly Isles 1956: FTX-217 "The Poor Sailor Boy" - Rowland KELLETT Leeds rec by PK, London 1963: FTX-209 -- Mrs TILLETT rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Roanoke, NC USA 1951: FTX-926

POOR (LITTLE) SMUGGLER'S BOY, THE - "My father and mother was happy to dwell" - "One cold cloudy morning, as abroad I did steer" - ROUD#618 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) - SBG 1:1:#30/ 4:#302/ 5:#80/ 6:#98 - ASHTON MSB 1888 (w/o) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 p670 Jack Barnard, Bridgwater, Somerset 1906 - HAGGARD IWBN 1935 p24 Norfolk (w/o) - see also POOR LITTLE SAILOR/ FISHERMAN/ SOLDIERS BOY -- Harry COX rec by PK, Sutton, Norfolk 9/10/53: RPL 21479/ FTX-033 "The Smuggler's Boy" / rec by Leslie Shepard 9/10/65: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 "The PSB" - Bob ROBERTS rec by PK, Pinmill, Ipswich, Suffolk 12/7/56: RPL LP 23100/ FTX-047/ SAYDISC SDL-405 1994 - Angela BRASIL (gypsy child) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1955: FTX-183 & FTX-512/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994 - Herbert LAST rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1955: FTX-099 - Walter PARDON rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-301 1984 - Sam FRIEND rec by Neil Lanham, Framsden, Woodbridge, Suffolk: NL-02 1995 (?) CASS-1358 "The PSB"

POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY, THE - "The snow was fast descending" - the poor boy says his mother is dead and his father away at war - because her own son has fallen in battle, she takes him in, saying he can stay as long as he likes - LAWS #Q-28 "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" ("SPLB") ABBB 1957 p287 - ROUD#258 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #387 p567 Mary Anne Clayton, Chipping Camden, Gloucestersh 1909 1v/m/ Walter Wilcock, Marylebone, London 1908 "The Orphan Boy" - SHARP Ms Cf 2 p229 Wm Spearing ("Lady Kate") - WILLIAMS #177 Wm Wise, Alvescot, Oxfordsh (w/o) "P Old SB" --- COX FSS 1925 p275 Elmer K Merinar & Mrs Noland, WVa 1915-6 (w/o) "The SPLB" - FUSON BKH 1930 pp61-2 Ky (w/o) "The SB" - SHOEMAKER Penn 1931 p74 - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p201 refs - STOUT Iowa 1936 p117 - BELDEN Mo 1940 p273 Hattie Williams & Mrs Turley, Mo 1909 (w/o) "A SPLB" - BREWSTER BSI 1940 pp304-306 Mrs Dora Ward, Mrs A J Hopkins, Mrs Minnie Beloat, Ira V Rothrock & Mrs Elizabeth Craig Lenington, Ind 1935-6 (w/o) "The SPLB" - BROWN NC 1952 2 p396 & refs - LEACH Labr 1965 p124 "The Friendless S B" -- IRISH SOLDIER BOY - POOR LITTLE SAILOR'S BOY - SOLDIER BOY -- Alec BLOOMFIELD rec by PK, Framlingham, Suffolk 1950: FTX-099 & FTX-516 - George BLOOMFIELD (Alec's father) rec by PK, Ipswich, Suffolk 1952 (4v only)

POOR LITTLE SWEEP- "On a cold winter's morn as the snow was a falling" - ROUD#2672 - BSs by Carrall York/ Catnach & Pitts London/ Collard Bristol/ Fordyce Newcastle/ Pearson Manchester/ Sanderson Edinburgh/ Walker Durham - WILLIAMS #673 (w/o)

POOR LOLETTE -- Leon BIBB: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

POOR LONELY WIDOW, THE - "If you'll give attention - 3 husbands already" Ch: "I can dance, I can sing - I'm as good now as ever - fond of my whisky and good in a row - Just 45, both witty and clever - I wonder if anyone will marry me now ?" - COPPER S&SB 1973 p228 John Johnson, Reigate, Surrey 4v/m - tune "Sweet Jenny Jones" - Cf CHARMING YOUNG WIDOW

POOR MAN IN THIS WORLD - "I worked all the winter time - through the Spring" Ch: "There aint a thing for a poor man in this world" - comp by FP Senr- WARNER 1984 #117 p287 -- Frank PROFFITT (v/dulc) rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1964: FTX-931 - Frank PROFFITT Jr (voc/banjo): CLOUDLANDS (Tenn) CLC-008 1992 CASS- 1356 "Poor Man"

POOR MAN POOR MAN - NOBLEMAN AND THE THRESHER

POOR MAN'S ONLY DAUGHTER, THE - "Tis down in the valley my father does dwell" - ROUD#1293 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p228 #463 David Sawywer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh 4v (w/o) "The Only Daughter" -- Charles Carfrae, Totnes, Devon "Down in Mexico" (text in Wordfile)

POOR MAN'S FAMILY, THE - "I am a simple labouring man" - "White man's children they must starve - put down like a worm in the ground" - Ch:"Then it's give us good pay for every day - we're out on strike for the PMF" - ROUD#7461 - (mentions Chinese & Italians) - tune Cf "The Mountain Dew" --- Family Herald & Weekly Star (Montreal) Old Favourites section 17 Jul 1929 - CAZDEN AFSB 1958 2 p377 - WARNER 1984 #26 p99 -- John GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NY 1941: FTX-921 "The Longshoreman's Strike"

POOR MAN'S HEAVEN - "Kind friends gather near, I want you to hear - a dream that I had last night" - Hill-Billy Song - Carson Robison publ Southern Music - PALMER TOTT 1974 p324 coll by A L Lloyd from Jumbo Brightwell, Eastbridge, Suffolk 1935 -- Mr GODDARD rec "Eels Foot", Thebburton, nr Leiston, Suffolk 13/5/39: RPL 2166

POOR MAN'S LAMENT, THE - "I get up early every morning, all at my wife's desire - don't be led astray - upon my wedding day" - BARING GOULD Ms - PURSLOW CL 1972 p71 Gardiner Hampsh 1906 "Poor Man's Sorrows" - see similar song with ch: SINGLE MEN'S WARNING

POOR MAN'S SORROWS, THE - "When I was a young man I was a rover" - "Once I was a brisk young bachelor - poor man's labour is never done" - ROUD#150 - JFSS 18 p65-7 Shepherd Haden, Bampton, Oxon 1909 "Poor Man's Labour" - FMJ 1:2 1966 pp80-81 James Duncan: Mrs Harper, Scotland 1907 "When I was a Young Man" - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp71-2 Gardiner: Charles Chivers (w), Basingstoke, Hampsh 1906 & Hammond: Jane Hann (m), Stoke Abbot, Dorset 1906 - POOR DRUNKARD -- ALBION Band: ISLAND HELP-25 1976

POOR MAN'S TROUBLES -- (?) (fid) rec Concert in Virginia nd RTR-0322

POOR MAN'S WISH, THE - "Give me a little humble cot - a bit of garden round" - ROUD#1463 - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp112-3 6v/m - Cf CONTENTED COUNTRYMAN - OLD MAN'S SONG

POOR MAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE - "When I was a young man I lived rarely" Ch: "With my whack fal lor -" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p138 text: Bs by Wood of Birmingham/ tune: "Brisk Young Bachelor" (Sharp sel ed 1921 vol 2 pp60-1)

POOR MARY ANN - 2/4 Welsh Air - KERR MM 3 #373 p41 (D)

POOR MARY IN THE SILVERY TIDE - SILVERY TIDE

POOR MARY OF THE MOOR - MARY ACROSS THE WILD MOOR

POOR MARY STANDS/ SITS A WEEPING - POOR JENNY SITS A WEEPING (K)

POOR MURDERED WOMAN, THE - "It was Hankey the Squire as I have heard say - hunted all day - nothing could they find but a PMW laid on the cold ground - Leatherhead Common - body taken to an inn" - ROUD#1064 - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp70-71 & p121 Rec Charles J Shebbeare: Mr Foster, Milford, Surrey 1897 (notes) - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp186-7 Rev C Shebbeare from Mr Foster, Milford, Surrey 1867 -- Martin CARTHY (voc/gtr) with Dave SWARBRICK (mandolin): FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ PHILIPS international 6382-022 1967 - Shirley COLLINS & ALBION Band: B & C PEG-7/ CREST-11 1971

POOR NELL AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEP - "It's of a lusty lawyer, the truth I have to tell" - ROUD#555 (Kate and her Horns) - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 pp100-102 Captain Lewis, Minehead, Som 1905/ Jack Barnard, Bridgwater, Som 1906

POOR OLD CHIMNEY SWEEPER, THE - CHIMNEY SWEEPER

POOR OLD COUPLE, THE - "There was an couple and they were poor they lived in a house that had but one door" - ROUD#491 - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 #45 pp100-101 - BG SOW #118 "Old Man who can't keep his wife at home" (with notes referring to Boccacio: Decameron) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #191 Charles Neville, East Coker, Somerset 1908/ Henry Reed, Axbridge1908/ Mrs Hill, Bridgwater 1907 "The PC" - SHARP School Series - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp94-5 #499 Mrs May, South Marston, Wiltsh (w/o) "There was an old couple" - BALDRY RSC 1939 p83 Peter Upcher (c) Norfolk (?) (w/o) "The Cruel Wife" - REEVES IP 1958 pp174-5 Sharp: Henry Reed (w/o) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p71 Hammond: Mrs Seale, Dorchester, Dorset 1906 - HAMER GG 1967 p37 Mrs Edith Church, Bedforsh - PALMER EBECS 1979 #102 pp171-2 RVW: Mrs Verrall, Horsham, Sussex 1906 "It's of an old couple" - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p132 Sharp Axbridge Somerset - HOWSON SSIS 1992 pp11-12 Manny Aldous, Great Bricett, Suffolk (w/o) "Cleverly Done Said He"--- SHARP FSSA #184 (Vol 2 p260) Mrs E.J.Snipes, Marion, NC 1918 (3v only) -- Ben BAXTER rec by Seamus Ennis, Southrepps, Norfolk 1955: RPL 22159/ FTX-234 "Old Man that was poor" - Jan WITCHET, Pete HARRIS & COMMONER'S MUCK (with gtr, mand & ch): FOREST TRACKS FT-3007 1975 Dorset - Alf PEACHEY rec by Neil Lanham, Framsden, Woodbridge, Suffolk: NL-02 1995 (?) CASS-1358

POOR OLD CROW - CROW SONG

POOR OLD DICEY RILEY - DICEY RILEY

POOR OLD GRANUAILE - "My dream to some with joy will come" - ROUD#3068 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 p205 (Music p6)

POOR OLD HORSE - (see also POOR OLD MAN (Dead Horse) - "My clothing was once of the linsey wolsey fine" - ROUD#513 - Many Bs incl SBG 1:1:#104/ 4:#409 (w/o) - HENDERSON VSB 1937 p128 Bs (w/o) - - - BELL SP 1857 pp184-6 Richmond, Yorksh (w/o) "The Mummers Song" - MASON NRCS 1877 - BARING GOULD SOW #77 1895 (a) Matthew Baker, Lew Down HFS 1888 (b) J Parsons (words re-written) - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp86-7 Matthew Baker - FORD 1899 p280 "The Old Man's Horse" & "The Auld Mare's Dead" - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp60-61 Wm Topliff: "Melodies of the Tyne & Wear" - SHARP/MARSON FSS 1904 1 pp70-71 Louis Hooper SHARP Sel Ed 2 1921 pp88-89 Michael Johnson Ilmington, Warwicksh - SHARP/KARPELES CSC 1974 #378 p540 6var: C Shire, Langport, Som 1904/ Michael Wm Johnson, Ilmington, Warwicksh 1911 1v/m/ Lucy White & Louie Hooper, Hambridge, Som 1904/ Charles Tanner, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1909/ W Tucker, Ashcott, Som 1907/ George Wilcox, Shapwick, Som 1909 (m/o) - SHARP Cf 1 p165 - GRAINGER #93 Tom Roberts, Chelsea, London 1908/ #246 Thomas Stark, Broughton, Lincolnsh 1906 - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp22-23 - JFSS 1:3 1901 pp75-6 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex ?1899 - JFSS 1:5 1904 pp260-1 Mr Barber, Kendal, Westmorland Music Festival - JFSS 2:4 (9) 1906 pp263-4 Kidson: BS Such London (w/o)/ Mr Mooney, Liverpool/ Charles Dickinson 1v/m - 1947 Guilden Sutton - 1950 Chesh Soulcakers - 1959 Sharp unpubl Som - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p155 #217 Charles Tanner, Bampton, Oxfordsh/ p156 John Eggleton, Blunsdon, Wiltsh (w/o) - JEFDSS 1949 DNK on "Dramatic Elements in the Folk Dance" - REEVES IP 1958 #77 pp175-6 Sharp: Charles Tanner/ Lucy White & Louie Hooper, Hambridge, Som 1904 - REEVES EC 1960 #106 pp211-213 Hammond: Beatrice Crawford, West Milton, Dorset 1906 (notes about song & ritual) - PURSLOW WS 1968 p93 Gardiner: Richard Haynes, East Stratton, Hampsh 1908 - Lore & Language 1:9 1973 pp7-8 Rory Greig: W Pakmer & C Ralphs, Dore, Yorksh 1971 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #140 p229-230 Mason "The Old Horse" ("By leave you gentlemen all") - RICHARDS/STUBBS TEF 1979 p74 Kidson: Mr Barber Westmorland --- HUNTINGTON SWS pp279-281 ships log 1842 2v (w/o) --- see also "The Dead Horse Shanty"(POOR OLD MAN) - HOP, OLD RABBIT, HOP- I FED MY HORSE -- Frank COLE rec by Bob Copper, Hampsh 1955 tape - Bob ARNOLD & YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-83 1972 - Dave TOWNSEND & JUMPLEADS (45-Single) FMS-103 1983 - MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2085 1973 Derbysh Mummers - Harry Plunket GREENE (1865-1936) RUBINI CC-1 (arr by CJS from old 78 rpm) - Ian CAMPBELL Group: TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TOPIC 12-T-190 1962 (from Kidson) - Hodden McDONALD: TOPIC 12-T-181 Scots Gaelic Song "Bas an Eich" - Edward SAXTON (unacc) from grandfather Bradford Yorksh rec Mike Storey & Stephen Gaunt 1963: 4"RTR- 0886 (horse has "carried his money over hedges" but now too old and "obliged to eat the short grass that grows against the wall") -- Jack TARLING rec by NL, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95 (gift) NEIL LANHAM NL-01 CASS-1357 "Poor ol' hoss"

POOR OLD JEFF (of Tennessee) Minstrel Song -- Bill SQUIRES (unacc) singing his father's song: Video Soundtrack with talk: CASS-30-0860/ FF-2207

POOR OLD JOE - Minstrel Song -- Richard GREEN (with auto-harp) rec by Peter Duddridge, Cheltenham, Glos, 1963: 4"RTR-0878 aft "When the Saints" & bef "Swanee River"

POOR OLD MAID, THE - "In a lonely garret an auld maid sat with the candle burning dim" - ROUD#895 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 p467 Johina Leith, Stenness, Orkney 1955 - Cf OLD MAID IN THE GARRET - UNMARRIED MAIDEN'S LAMENT -- John FINDLATER rec by PK, Dounby, Orkney 1954: FTX-093 & FTX-189 - Johina LEITH rec by PK, Stenness, Orkney 18/7/55: RPL 22650/ FTX-019/ FTX-389

POOR OLD MAIDS - "Fourscore and ten of us" - AMERICAN SONGSTER p166 "Auld Maid's Lament" - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #229 (vol 2 p337) Mrs Alice Wilson, Pineville, Bell Co., Ky 1917 ("Poor old Maid" starts"We're a lonely dismal crew") - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp384-5 Fla - BROWNE AFL 1979 pp157-160 3var Alabama 1952-3

POOR OLD MAN, THE - "They say old man you're horse will die" - "The Dead Horse Shanty" - ROUD#513 - DAVIS/TOZER 1887 #47 - GRAINGER #168 Charles Rosher, Chelsea, London 1906 - BULLEN- ARNOLD 1914 #29 p25 1v - SHARP 1914 #42 p52 John Short, Watchet Som with note about ceremony & paying off first month's wages - SHAY 1925 p24 & p120 "Poor Old Joe" (w/o) - BALDRY RSC 1939 p156 from Whall (w/o) - HUGILL 1961 p554 - FMJ 3:1 1975 p39-40 Mike Yates: Johnny Connors, London: ("What brought you down from Kerry, says the P O M?") - ED&S 42:2 1980 Roy Palmer: Capt John Robinson in "The Bellman" 14 July - 4 Aug 1917 -- Andrew SALTERS, Greenock & James HENDERSON, Dundee rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142 (5 other shanteymen rec) - Stanley SLADE (unacc) rec by PK, Bristol 1950: RPL 17604/ FTX-207 1v only - Bob ROBERTS (unacc) rec by PK, Pinmill, Ipswich, Suffolk 1958/ (voc/mel): TALKING BOOK 2-1501-26 1960 EP/ FTX-208 - Bristol FOLK TRADITION RPL REC-111 1971 - Stan HUGILL (with talk) "The Last Shantyman": Radio 2: 30/1/91 CASS-0857 --- Capt Leighton ROBINSON rec by Sam Eskin, Mill Valley, California, 1951; American Library of Congress AAFS-L26

POOR OLD MAN, THE - PLEASE GIVE A PENNY

POOR OLD MAN OF SIXTY - "and his wife of sixty two" - WILLIAMS #674

POOR OLD WEAVER'S DAUGHTER, THE - "Across the fields one sweet May morn" - light as any fairy - ROUD#1277 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp191-2 #76 Joseph Bartlett, Down Ampney, Gloucestersh 5v (w/o) -- George MAYNARD rec by PK, Copthorne, Sussex, 1955: RPL LP 23093/ FTX-279/ TOPIC 12-T-286 1976 5v/ TSCD-655 (Rural) "The WD"- Frank HINCHCLIFFE rec by Mike Yates & Ruairidh & Alvina Greig, Sheffield, Yorksh: TOPIC 12-TS-308 1977 "The Poor Old WD"

POOR OLD WOMAN, THE - Hornpipe/Reel (Am) - KERR MM 1 #8 (17) p35 "Poor Ould Woman" Irish Reel - LEVEY 2 #46 p20 (Gm) Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1590-1/ DMI #836 (Am) "Jerry Daly's Hornpipe" - ROCHE 2 (2 Settings) #228 & #229 p16 (Am)

POOR OLD SOLDIER'S BOY - POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY

POOR OLD WORN OUT SAILOR, THE - "One summer eve all labour o'er" - "thro our village came a-beggin" - woman takes him in - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1076 p591 (10v/m)

POOR ORPHAN BOY, THE - ORPHAN BOY

POOR PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY - PADDY

POOR PILGRIM OF SORROW - comp by I.D.Beck -- Mount Olivet Regular Baptist Church, Blackey, Kentucky rec by Alan Lomax Sept 1954: RPL LP 26146 & ROUNDER CD-1704 1997/ ROOT & BRANCH #1 EFDSS 1999/ Baptist Hymns & White Spirituals from the Southern Mountains NEW WORLD NW- 294 1977

POOR PIT COLLIER BOY, THE - " I am a poor pit collier boy working undertground - I hope the rope won't snap as I go up and down" - tune: "No place like home" -- Elwyn GRIFFITHS of Abertillery, Mon rec by PK, London 1963 7"RTR-1038/ FTX-511

POOR PUSSY - "sitting so cosy close by the fire" - Children's song - ROUD#13520 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1673 p209 (2var/m)

POOR ROBERT EMETT - BOLD ROBERT EMETT

POOR ROBIN - GETTING A WIFE

POOR ROBIN'S MAGGOT - Country Dance -- Giles FARNABY'S DREAM Band: ARGO ZDA-158 1973

POOR ROGER IS DEAD- "and lies in his grave - planted an apple tree over his head - apples got ripe and all tumbled down - old wman picking them up - Roger got up and gave her a thump" - Children's Ring Game - ROUD #797 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp94-5 Suffolk "Oliver Cromwell" - RYMOUR Club 1906 2 pp76-7 Alan Reid: Kingarth, Isle of Bute 1911 "The Lodger is Dead" - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1596 p152 "Poor Gracie is dead" (6v) - JFSS 5:20 1916 pp295-6 Florence Arkwright (c): nn, Worksworth, Derbysh "Sir R" - GRAINGER #225 Schoolchildren, Scawby, Lincolnsh 1906 - GILLINGTON OHSG 1909 - GOMME 1894 2 6 11var "Cock Robin" from Derbysh & Deptford Kent - BALDRY RSC 1939 pp19-20 Mrs Page, Trimingtham, Norfolk (w/o) "Sir R" - RITCHIE GC p158 descr street variants "Poor Tommy" --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #259 (vol 2 p370) 2var: Mrs Mollie Broghton, Barbourville, Knox Co., Ky 1917/ Mrs E.J.Snipes, Marion, NC 1918 "Old Roger" - PTFS 6 1927 pp229-230 L W Payne: Mrs J G Burr, Austin, Texas "Columbus is dead" - FUSON BKH 1930 p186 Mrs Lottie M Lawson, Ky (w/o) "Old Grumbler" - see also OLIVER CROMWELL LOST HIS SHOE -- rec 13/11/42 sung in Welsh: RPL 7663 (78rpm) "Jack bach yn sal" ("Poor Jackie is ill") - Norton Park School rec by James Ritchie, Edinburgh 20/3/49: RPL 13868 - rec by Damian Webb 10/4 St Michael's Junior Girls, Workington, Cumb 1960 "Cock Robin is dead" FTX-195 #5/ & 200 - rec by Damian Webb 15/3 Moss Park Juniors, Glasgow, 1961: FTX-190 - rec Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London: TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969 - Hazel BIBBINGS rec by Sam Richards, Plympton, Devon: FOLKWAYS FE-38553 1981/ CASS-1292 - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

POOR SAILOR BOY, THE - POOR LITTLE SAILOR BOY

POOR SALLY - DEATH OF QUEEN JANE

POOR SALLY SITS A-WEEPING - ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART - POOR JENNY SITS A WEEPING

POOR SHEPHERD, THE - SHEPHERD AND HIS PIPES

POOR SHEPHERDS - SHEPHERDS LIFE

POOR SMUGGLER'S BOY, THE - POOR LITTLE SMUGGLER'S BOY

POOR SOLDIER, THE - HAPPY STRANGER

POOR SOLDIER, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #155 p37 (G)

POOR SOLDIER, HUNGRY AND COLD, THE - "All out on the snow they are tonight" - WARNER 1984 #132 p308 - see POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY --- Frank PROFFITT (unacc) rec by Frank & Anne Warner , Beech Mt., Watauga Co., NC 1959: FTX-933 (3v)/ APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000

POOR SOLDIER'S BOY, THE - POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY

POOR STRANGER, THE - HAPPY STRANGER

POOR TOM - "O yesterday in the morning gay" - Round - ROUD#1563 - JFSS 1:3 1901 pp68=70 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1899/ Gordon Arkwright (c): Berksh -- Shirley & Dolly COLLINS (with others & instruments): TOPIC 12-TS-380 1978

POOR TOM BROWN - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND

POOR TOM IS DEAD AND GONE - "Drink right or else you're wrong" - Sharp Ms 2019 - JFSS 3 1901 p68 Merrick Sussex - At Harvest Home suppers drinking song with preliminary spoken part: "Who raps there?" then sung "Yesterday in the morning gay - parted Tom and I" - Cf JAMES MORRELL

POOR TOMMY IS DEAD - POOR ROGER IS DEAD (K)

POOR TRADESMEN'S LAMENTATION, THE - "Neighbours, countrymen and friends" - WILLIAMS #171 (w/o)

POOR WAYFARING PILGRIM - WAYFARING STRANGER

POOR WEE JOCKIE CLARK - "he sells the "Evening Star" - ROUD#2135 - McCOLL SS 1953 p95 "Fairther's Old Coat" from his father, William Miller of Stirling - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #236 p522 Lucy Stewart 1955 -- Bob CLARK rec by PK, Whittingham, Northumb 9/6/54: RPL 20629/ FTX-021 & FTX-425 "P W Johnnie C" - Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 1955

POOR WIDOW - WIDOW OF BABYLON (K)

POOR WIDOW LEFT ALONE - SILLY OLD MAN

POOR WILL AND THE JOLLY HANGMAN - comp by Richard Thompson & Dave Swarbrick -- FAIRPORT CONVENTION: ISLAND FOLK-1001 (boxed) 1975

POOR WOMAN FROM SANDY ROW, THE - "There came a PWFSR - without a farthing she did go - she has 6 wee children in a row - that PWFSR" Ch: "One could bake - sew - make a roly-poly-o - this is all you're going to know" with parody & ball-bouncing verse -- Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072

POOR WOUNDED SOLDIER, THE - "As a jolly old farmer sat smoking his clay" - farmer gives him food - ROUD#1305 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp239-240 #379 'Tibby' Barrett, Highworth, Wiltsh 4dv (w/o)

POOR YOUNG GIRL, A - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #35 pp14-15 air only from ms Co Dublin