ROCHE HORNPIPE - KERR MM 3 #323 p35 (D)

ROCHESTER - Kent Chimney Sweeps Festival -- Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4

ROCHESTER CITY - IN ROCHESTER CITY

ROCK A BYE BABY- "on a tree top" - Lullaby - ROUD#2763 - MOTHER GOOSE - JEFDSS 6 1951 p82 Karpeles: Mrs Oscar Allen, Lynchburg, Va 1950 1v/m - LOMAX HHS 1967 p258 3v political parody - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #86 pp180-2 NB - WARNER TAFS 1984 #190 p431 Rebecca King Jones, Crab Tree Creek, NC "Rocky my baby by-o" -- CRITICS GROUP: "The Angry Muse" ARGO ZFB-65 1968 (from Lomax) - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross CASS-1173 - USA -- Rebecca KING JONES rec Warners 1940: FTX-926/ APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000 - Mrs Oscar Allen Lynchburg Va USA Sept 1950: RPL 17142/ FTX-908 - Caribbean - children, rec by AL, Brick Kiln Village, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER CD 1731 2002 "Baby, rock away"

ROCK ALL THE BABIES TO SLEEP - Lullaby - related to ROCKING THE CRADLE -- Neil MORRIS (voc & gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Timbo, Ark Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1707 1997

ROCK AND ROLL - Chorus used by cotton-loading shantymen - HOLD ON - JOHNNY BOWKER - KEEP THE SUNNYSIDE UP - ONE MORE DAY - WHEN GRANDMAMA MET GRANDPAPA

ROCK AND ROLL - "is laid in bed"- "is Elvis Presley dead? - wants to go to Heaven with a crown on his head - only room for Tommy Anjo - banjo" - Kids rhyme - see KEEP THE SUNNY SIDE UP -- Liverpool playground with teacher trying to keep order & calling: "Quiet" etc FTX-198 & 289 #29

ROCK AND WEE PICKLE TOW, THE - WEE PICKLE TOW

ROCK HORNPIPE, THE - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #153 p42

ROCK IN THE WEARY LAND - "My God is a rock" - Gospel Song -- Peter DAVIS & Georgia Sea Island Singers Group C rec by Alan Lomax, Williamsburg, Va Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1712 1998

ROCK ISLAND LINE, THE - "I arrived in St Louis on April the tenth" - CAZDEN 1 pp52-3 & note p121/ "I arrived in Fox River February the tenth" - LAWS #C-28 NAB 1950/64 p160 "The Fox River Line" (or "Rock Island Line") - ROUD#643 - IVES FSNB 1989 pp119-123 James Brown, South Branch, NB, Canada 1963 -- Kelly PACE with Charlie Porter, LT Edwards, Willie Hubbard, Luther Williams, Napoleon Cooper, Albert Pate, Willie Lee Jones rec by John A Lomax ("Leadbelly" was present at rec), Cumins State Farm, Gould, Arkansas Oct 2nd 1934 AAFS L-8 B5/ ROUNDER CD1500 1997/ 7"RTR-0309 - Tom BRANDON, rec by Edith Fowke, Ontario, Canada: FOLK LEGACY FSC-10 1962 - LITTLE RICHARD from "Vision Shared" composite LP on Radio 2: 28/12/88: CASS-60-0849

ROCK ON THE CLYDE, THE - Jig - MAGUIRE 1 #18 p5 (Em)

ROCK THE CRADLE - Miss JOHNSTON'S (Reel) - OLD MAN ROCKING THE CRADLE

ROCKABOUT MY SARO JANE - SARO JANE

ROCKET, THE - Railway Poem by Arthur Williams -- JACKIE & BRIDIE rec Concert Hall Radio 2: 7/4/80: CASS-0416

ROCKET HORNPIPE, THE - HONEYMAN #2 p50 (F) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #154 p42 (D)

ROCKING THE CRADLE - "The other night I chanced to go rambling - spied an old man making sad lamentation - the child not his own" Ch: "Crying o hi-ho, baby lie easy, perhaps your own daddy might never be known - I am sighing & sobbing, weeping & wailing" - ROUD#357 - CHAPBOOK 4/1 1967 (?) p14-15 Collinson from Doherty - SEDLEY 1967 p218 Doherty & Crampton Coll (?) - HEALY OISB 4 1969 pp120-122 BS (w/o) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #212 p469 John Doherty 1953 - TUNNEY SF 1979 p144 Doherty --- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 2 p117 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p175 Seamus Ennis "The Old Man's Lament" - PEACOCK NFL 1965 p478 "The Milkman's Lament" - MEREDITH-ANDERSON Australia 1967 p168 "The Wee One" - WARNER 1984 #166 p376 "Show me the man that never done wrong" - - see ROCK ALL THE BABIES TO SLEEP (USA) - SEOTHIN SEO - Parody: see CHARLADY'S SON, THE -- Seamus ENNIS rec by Brian George, Dublin 1949: RPL 13774/ copy of disc rec by Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0589 "The Old Man rocking the cradle" - Johnny DOHERTY (talk song & tune on fid) rec by PK, Glenties, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19533/ FTX-019 (song with fid) (v 2 omitted)/ FTX-074 (song & fiddle tune & variations)/ rec by David Hammond 1975: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 (song only) - Gwen HARRIS rec by Seamus Ennis, Pembrokesh, Wales 1953: RPL 20188 "Weeping & Wailing" - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim Dec 1954: RPL 22023 "Rock the cradle, John" (frag) - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24839/ FTX-158 - Paddy TUNNEY (followed by bagpipe lilting) rec by PK, London 14/10/58: 7"RTR-0560/ FTX-164/ TOPIC 12- T-165 1966 & 12-TS-289 1976/ TOPIC TSCD-651 1998 - Cyril TAWNEY: EMI 7-EG-8738 1962 (45EP) "Baby Lie Easy" - Tom GILFELLON: LEADER LER-2007 1969 --- Alwilda CULPEPER rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NC, USA 1940: FTX-926 - Anita BEST (Newfoundland): AMBER MUSIC CD-9804-2 1997 (long female version) titled "Hush O bye baby" (starts "As I roved out" - comes across a woman with baby weeping that her husband has left her - she dies & baby is left in care of a nurse)

ROCKING THE CRADLE - Instrumental Air - CLANCY-MITCHELL 1976 #130 p96 Tune of song air (G): "The Old Man rocking the Cradle" - ROCHE 1 #5 p8 (G) "Suantree" (Lullaby) -- Johnny DOHERTY (see above) - Padraig O KEEFE (fiddle with key used as a mute) rec by Seamus Ennis, Charlie Horan's Bar, Coalisland, Co Kerry 9/9/52 RPL 18753 bef "Foxhunter's Jig"/ TOPIC TSCD-309 (1977) 1994 - Paddy TAYLOR (tune on flute) Limerick of Limerick rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-171/ CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 aft "Priest in his boots" - MAGPIES Band (tune) rec by PK, Derby 1963: FTX-321 (from Tawney) - Finbar FUREY (U-pipes) with Eddie (gtr): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-168 1968

ROCKING THE CRADLE TO SLEEP - Air (same as previous?) -- John KELLY (fid): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975

ROCKLEY FIRS - "In RF where I was sought" - should have been caught - tried at Salisbury - not transported - "poaching is the life for me" - Rockley Firs, a poacher's haunt, near Malborough, Wilts - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp123-4 Wm Preston, Grafton, Oxfordsh 5v (w/o) "In RF" -- Shirley COLLINS (with recorder, fiddle, euphonium, concertina, percussion): TOPIC 12-TS-380 1978 using tune "Sweet Jenny Jones"

ROCKS OF BAWN, THE - "Come all you loyal heroes wherever you may be" - ROUD#3024 - HENRY SOP #139/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p42 Patrick Lagan (w), Coleraine & Jim Doherty (m) Magilligan, Co Derry 1926 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 #23 pp46-7 Ennis, Finglas, Co Dublin (mainly from BS) "A New Song on the ROB" (tune: cf WILLIAM AND PHYLLIS JFSS 8 p216) -- Seamus ENNIS rec by Brian George, Jamestown, Finglas Co Dublin 1947: RPL 12488/ copy of disc rec by Alan Lomax 1951: COLUMBIA SL-204 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1742 1998 - 7"RTR#0589/ FTX-518 - Dominic BEHAN with Robin HALL (gtr): COLLECTOR JEI-3 1959 (45-EP) from an aunt - Willie CLANCY (tune on U-pipes) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29883 - Bartley CONNELLY rec by SE Carna Galway 1960: RPL LP 29885 - Joe HEANEY Carna Galway: TOPIC 12-T-91 1963/ (PHILO 2004) - KESTY: FOLKTRAX 240 1980 - Willie CLANCY (tune on U- pipes) of Clare rec 1959-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980 CASS-0815/ FOLKWAYS FW-8781 1963 cass-0937 - Cathal McC0NNELL & THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH LOUGH-CD-006 1994

ROCKS OF CASHEL - Reel or Hornpipe - Galway - COLE #3 p48 (C) - DITSON p31 - LOWE 5 (1844) p7 (D)

ROCKS OF GIB-E-RALTAR, THE - "O the night that I got ,married" - ROUD#2174 - GREIG-DUNCAN Coll 1995 vol 6 #1118 pp103-5 4var 6v/1m - ORD BB 1930 pp331-2 (w/o) - MORTON CDGC 1973 pp140-1 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970 - Cf LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND, THE -- Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 27/6/55

ROCKS O' RODEL, (BY) THE - (Mouth Music from Skye) "An Cuilean Mara" ("Wee Sea Dog") - "Gang wi' me to the shore" - KENNEDY-FRASER MSOTH 1925 pp20-23 comp by M K-F & Kenneth McLeod after the style of a "port-a-beul"-- Marion TUDGE (mezzo-soprano) accomp by Inez Rempel (piano) 2003: cass 1398-C60/ FTX-264

ROCKS OF SCILLY, THE - "Come all you brisk young sailors bold" pressed to sea - thoughts of Polly - Plymouth Shipwreck 1802 - LAWS #K8 ABBB 1957 p144 - ROUD#388 - BARING GOULD SOW 1895 #52 "Wreck off Scilly" from James Parsons - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp108-9 James Parsons,- JFSS 5:19 p171-3 Hammond: Joseph Elliott, Todber, Dorset 1905 "SR" - COLLINSON-DILLON FSCM 1952 pp14-19 Harry Cox, Catfield, Norfolk - PURSLOW CL 1972 p87 Gardiner: George Collier, Sheet, Hampsh 1908 "SR" - TOCHER 26 1977 p92 - PALMER RVW 1983 #45 pp72-3 Mr Morris, Almeley, Herefordsh 1912 --- McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp140-142 NS (w/o) - CREIGHTON NS 1950 p200 - CREIGHT FSSNB 1971 pp138-9 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB - see LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND

ROCKY MOUNTAIN - BUCK CREEK GIRL - PIGTOWN FLING

ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT - American -- John BURKE (banjo) "Old Time Fiddle tunes for banjo" 1975 CASS-30-0807

ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, THE - "In the merry month of June, when first from home" - about an unfortunate labourer who travelled the road: Athlone, Mullingar, Holyhead & Liverpool but was always homesick for Dublin - ROUD#3012 - WEHMAN'S Irish Song Book No1 (nd) p67 - HENRY SOP #44/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp178-9 Robert Morton, Priestland, Co Antrim 1924 (near Giant's Causeway) - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp102-3 Text mainly from BS -- CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM: HALLMARK SHM 729 1963 - THE DUBLINERS cass (box) TBX 513/1 -- MOVING CLOUD Danish-Irish Folk Group: GO 0102 nd bef Triple Jig: "The Butterfly"- Kevin HORAN (with bodhran) ASH PLANT APCD002 1999 (Denmark)

ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, THE Instrumental - Triple Jig (#Am) - ALLAN #36 p9 - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #58 p29 3pts from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes) - BRODY p233 - COLE #8 p64 - GIBLIN #64 p32 - HAYWOOD #8 p4 (Gm) - KERR 2 p25 - LEVEY 1 #3 p2 - MITCHELL & SMALL #45 p91 from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes) - MOYLAN 1 #73 from Patsy Tuohey - O'NEILL MOI #1116/ DMI #411 (##Am) - PETRIE AMOI 1855 1 p175 - ROCHE 2 #257 p25 - Cf COMB THE HAIR AND CURL IT -- Billy ANDREWS (U-pipes) Dublin 1928: TOPIC 12-T-262 1975 - CHIEFTAINS 1: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-3 [nd] "comb your hair & curl it" with "Boys of Ballisodare" - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) Dublin: CLADDAGH CC-19 1975 - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER-2007 1969 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): CLADDAGH (TARA) TA- 1002 1973 (M) aft Air "By the River of Gems" -- Steve MEEKINS (fid) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NC, USA 1941:FTX-927 Reel with same name - AFTERHOURS CASS-0920-C60 1989

RODEL - ROCKS OF RODEL (Hebridean)

ROCUS'S REEL - American Country Dance -- Curly HERDMAN (fid) with Troy HERDMAN (gtr), Bob TANNER (mandolin) & Joe TANNER (banjo): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-242 1973

RODDY McCORLEY - "O see the fleet foot hosts of men" - court- martialled, convicted and executed on Friday Feb 28th 1800 - Catholic minority in North on Toome Bridge Co Antrim - ROUD#9756 - PETRIE AMOI 1855 2 p37 "Roddy McCurley" tune only - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 pp42-3 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p92 - For another song about him: see COME TENDER-HEARTED CHRISTIANS - SEAN SOUTH OF GARRYOWEN -- CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM: TRADITION TLP-1042 1961 - CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM with Pete Seeger (banjo) & Bruce Langhorne (gtr) rec with audience, CBS Studio NY: CBS 63516 1963 - FREEDOM FIGHTERS PICKWICK ALL-859 1967 - THE INN FOLK rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse, Totnes, Devon 1975: FTX-095

RODDY McCORLEY - Instr -- Sean MAGUIRE (fid) & Francis McPEAKE (U-pipes) rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0544/ RPL 18382 played as March aft "Sean O Neil's"- Chris DRONEY (tune on conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS- 503 1975

RODERICK DHU - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #174 p41 (Em) - Tunebook Ms #91 p300

RODNEY SO BOLD - "Last night at ten o'clock" - WILLIAMS #302 Miss Leah Serman, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordsh (w/o)

RODNEY SO BOLD - Instrumental - "To Rodney we will go" - SHARP Morris Book - See HONEYMOON (Country Dance) -- William KIMBER (conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 4/11/56: RPL LP 23504/ FTX-382-3/ TOPIC 12-T-249 1974

RODNEY'S - HONEYMOON REEL

RODNEY'S GLORY - BRAVE RODNEY'S GLORY

ROE - RIVER ROE

ROGARA DUFF - DUFF'S FANCY (Jig)

ROGER AND DOLLY - "Down in our village lived a parson and his wife" - ROUD#12889 - LONG DIOW 1886 p130 Isle of Wight (w/o) - WILLIAMS #64 Charles Messenger, Cerney Wick, Gloucestersh

ROGER IS DEAD - POOR ROGER (K)

ROGER THE MILLER - WORCESTERSHIRE WEDDING - YOUNG ROGER ESQUIRE

ROGER RUFF THE PLOUGHMAN - "I'm RRTP" - WILLIAMS #691 (w/o)

ROGER WAS A PLOUGHBOY - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1760/ DMI #931 (G) "Roger was a Plowboy"

ROGER'S COURTSHIP - (Roger & Nell) - "Twas early in the summer time and pleasant was the weather" - ROUD#1666 - DIXON SOP - BELL SOP (words only no source given) - HENRY SOP #820/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp257-8 1939 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p74 Gardiner: Hampsh 1906 - CL 1972 pp78-9 Hammond: Wm Gulliver, Old Alresford, Hampsh "Roger and Nell"

ROGERS O'NEILL - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1634/ DMI 862 (A) 4pts

ROGHA AN DUFF - BLACK ROGUE - DUFF'S FANCY (Jig)

ROGHA UN FHILE - Round Dance -- CUCHULAINN CEILIDHE BAND rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 19/7/52: RPL 18545/ FTX-370

ROGHAIRE DUBH, AN - (The Black Rogue) - see COME UNDER MY PLAIDIE -- Mary STAUNTON (mel) with gtr: F-ROOT-C-013 1999 aft "Cailleach An Airgid"

ROGUE HE DID THE SAME, THE - "I gaed to the market" or "I went to the town, like a proper woman should - Roguey did the same - Ach I knew the rogue he would" - ROUD#5132 - D'URFEY PPM 1698-1720 3 p87 "I went to the Alehouse" & 4 p311 "Pillycock" - "The Knave" by Charles "Mussel mou'd" Lesly 1770's printed by Chalmers of Aberdeen - FARMER 1897: Merry Songs & Ballads 1 p179 - KINLOCH Ballad Book pp82-3 - STEVENSON Choice Old Scottish Ballads --- RANDOLPH Roll me in your arms 1992 pp187-190 "The Rogue" - Doris Day rec song in 1940's: "I walked up the street like a good girl should"-- John STRACHAN rec by Alan Lomax, Fyvie, Aberdeensh 1951 - Ewan McCOLL rec Hyde, Chesh 1951: 7"RTR-0705/ DAT "Wasna he a roguey?" (frag to the reel-tune "The Drummer") - James LAURENSEN rec Tom Anderson, Fetla Shetland: "I gaed tae the well" - Lizzie HIGGINS, Blairgowrie, Perthsh: TOPIC 12-TS-260 1975 --- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffrey, NH USA 1940: FTX-922 (2v & ch) "That Rogue Reilly"

ROGUE, DARE YOU MEDDLE ME? - Reel - "touch mer if you dare" -- Joe HOLMES (fid): FREE REED FRR-007 1976 (learned from Paddy McCluskey, Lochgiel, Co Antrim)

ROGUES - CHEATS - CRIMINALS - RAKES - RASCALS

ROGUES IN A NATION - "Farweel to a' our Scottish fame - Bruce, Wallace - we're bought and sold for English gold - such a parcel of R in a N" - Jacobite - HOGG JR 1818-21 -- Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-79 1962 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1046 1976

ROGUE'S MARCH, THE - Napoleonic Song dating from 1727 & played when dishonoured men were discharged and "drummed out" of the Army -- Scots Guards & DRUIDS with vocal): ARGO ZDA-147 1971 - MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2093 1976

ROGUES OF LYNN, THE - THREE SONS O ROGUES

ROI A FAIT BATTRE TAMBOURS, LE - French Canadian Song -- Raoul ROY (voc/ gtr) rec London 7/4/59: RPL LP 24697

ROI RENAUD, LE - Trad French arr Antony Hopkins publ Chester -- Mary ROWLAND (voc/ harp) rec 13/7/60: RPL LP 25995

ROISIN DHU - (Little Black Rose or Dark Rosaleen) - Song in Irish Gaelic - Universal Irish Songbook 1884 p247 - MOFFAT: Irish Minstrelsy (Augener) - O'SULLIVAN p132 - ROCHE 1 #27 p15 & #65 p31 (D) 3/4 - SINGING MATCHES -- Sean McDONAGH rec by Alan Lomax, Carna, Co Galway 1951: 7"RTR-0591/ rec studio 30/7/53: RPL 19244 "Dark Rusheen" - Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20146/ FTX-272 (frags) - Dominic BEHAN: DOBELL F-LEUT-4 1962 - McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5258 1965 & DTS LFX-3 1965 - Seamus TANSEY (flute): TOPIC 12-T-184 1969 - Mary O HARA (unacc): DECCA GES-1095 1973 - Vail O FLATHARTA (unacc) of Connemara rec by Harry Bradshaw: CLADDAGH CC-45 1987

ROKE O'ER URRAH - (Fog over Urrah Moor) comp by GM 1969 -- Graeme MILES (voc/banjo): FTX-230

ROLAND AND CYNTHIA TAYLOR - Jig comp by Scottish musician, Bill Black -- Willie Taylor (fid) rec by Burt Feintuch 1990: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999

ROLAND AND OLIVER - BETTY AND HER DUCKS

ROLAND'S REEL -- RAYMOND ROLAND Quartet (Ceili Band): EMBER EMB- 3361 1965 with "Craig's Pipes"

ROLAND'S RETURN - Jig - ROCHE 1 #92 p41 (Dm)

ROLL, ALABAMA, ROLL - "In 1861 this ship her building was begun" - HUGILL 1961 p159 - PALMER OBSS 1986 #122 p247 from Hugill - The Alabama was the most successful Confederate shipping raider of the American civil war and wreaked havoc among the Northern merchantmen before being sunk by the USS Kearsage. Under treaty terms, Britain had agreed not to fit out warships for either side, but Liverpool sympathies were largely with the South, hence ships were built on Merseyside and fitted out in the Azores or elsewhere. The song is an adaptation from a Negro shanty, "Roll the Cotton Down", learnt from manxman, John Kaneen (note supplied to PK by Tony Davis) -- Mick GROVES & Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK 1961: EMI CLP-1500 1962/ FTX-291 - Colin WILKIE & Shirley HART: SAGA FID-2090 1967 - Terry YARNELL (& ch) CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137 1970 "The Alabama" - SWAN ARCADE: LEADER LER-2032 1973 - David DODDS with ch rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse, Devon Nov 1974: FTX-091

ROLL ALONG, COVERED WAGON -- Tommy CHAPPLE rec Michael Feist Hare Down, Knowstowe, Devon 1973: CASS-0330

ROLL ALONG, SILVER(Y) MOON - "As I went to my cot at the close of the day" - Ch: "Roll along SM, guide the traveller on his way, while the nightingale sings his sweet tune, there's no time so sweet as when truelover's meet, by the bright silvery light of the moon" - Her love was a bold fisherman singing "an old shanty song" and he buys her a ring - "soon to be married - cut down like a rose" - Comp by J W Turner 1847 (according to Gilchrist) tune of "Believe me if all those endearing young charms" - ROUD#906 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 #41 p128 Henry Cook, Arlington, Gloucestersh (w/o) "By thy sweet silver light bonny moon" - CROININ 2000 #123 pp191-2--- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp233-4 ships log 1847 (w/o) -- Packie Manus BYRNE of Donegal:TOPIC 12-TS-257 1975 "Lament to the Moon" (thinks he learned it in Co Antrim)

ROLL AND GO - "O Sally Brown, she's the girl for me, roll, boys, roll" - Shanty - ROUD#2628 - MASEFIELD Sailor's Garland 1906 pp313-4 - SHARP 1914 #10 p12 - SHAY 1925 p119 words only - HUGILL 1961 p170 ("Tommy's on the Topsail yard") - KINSEY Songs of the Sea 1989 p107 -- Group with female lead and men in chorus rec by Alan Lomax, 5/8/62, La Fortune, St Patricks, Grenada: ROUNDER 1700 1997 "Roll, roll, roll and go"

ROLL, BULLIES, ROLL - ROW, BULLIES, ROW

ROLL COLORADO - "from the mountains to the prairie" -- Sid HAUSMAN (voc & gtr) with banjo & bass: FOLK ALLIANCE Showcase Compilation FA-CD-03 1999

ROLL HER DOWN THE BAY - "Emma, Emma, let me be" Ch: "Roll her down the bay of Mexico" - Shanty - Lloyd learnt this from Ted Howard, Barry Rigger's Club 1954 -- A L LLOYD (& ch): TOPIC 12- TS-234 1974

ROLL HER IN THE RUSHES - 4-bar Reel/ Highland - KERR MM 4 #173 p20

ROLL HER ON THE MOUNTAIN - ROLLING DOWN THE HILL (Reel)

ROLL HIM ALONG - BLOW THE MAN DOWN (shanty)

ROLL ME FROM THE WALL - "When I was young some years ago from trouble I was free" - Young girl married to an old man - ROUD#2897 - MORTON FSU 1970 pp17-18 Frank Mills, Milltown, Co Tyrone -- Frank MILLS rec by Robin Morton, Milltown Benburb, Co Tyrone: MERCIER IRL-12 1970

ROLL ME OVER - ROLL YOUR LEG OVER

ROLL ME OVER IN THE CLOVER - "This is number one - the fun has just begun" - ROUD#10133 - GREEN Rugby Songs 1967 pp123-4 - De WITT Bawdy Barrack-Room Ballads 1970 pp113-5

ROLL ON - ROLL ALONG

ROLL ON THE GROUND --Thaddeus C WILLINGHAM sung with banjo rec by Herbert Halpert, Gulfport, Miss. 11/6/39 (talk before about superiority of 5 string): ROUNDER 1500 1997 #23

ROLL OUT THE BARREL - see also BEER BARREL POLKA, THE --Stone Quarrymen, rec by PK, Portland, Dorset 1954: FTX-203 - Percy LAVARELLO (mel) of Tristan de Cunha, rec by PK, Gosport, Hampsh 1962: FTX-609

ROLL OVER - THERE WAS TEN IN THE BED

ROLL OVER CECIL SHARP(E) - Mike HARDING: MOONRAKER M 007 nd

ROLL, ROLL, ROLL AND GO - ROLL AND GO

ROLL THAT BROWN JUG DOWN TO TOWN - "so earlie in the morning" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children"CASS-1225

ROLL THE CHARIOT ALONG - Shanty/ Spiritual - ROUD#3632 - HUGILL 1961 p151 & 1969 p204-6 "Roll the old chariot along" - ED&S mag 33/4 1971 p146 Song used for annual "Hurling" at St Columb Major, Cornwall --- SANDBURG AS 1927 p196-7 - WHITE ANFS 1928 p97 - GARDNER Mich 1939 #117 p287 - KINSEY Songs of the Sea 1989 p99 --- GARDNER-CHICKERING SSM pp287-- George SIMPSON, Dundee rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142 - Stone Quarrymen rec by PK, Portland, Dorset 20/10/54: RPL 22480/ FTX-203/ FTX-308 A-ROVING 1968 #2 - Harry HOUNSELL, Easton 1983: FF-1106 - Stan Hugill (with talk) "The Last Shantyman": on Radio 2: 30/1/91 CASS-0857 - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC-269 1992 gift from Sean Laffey CASS-1280 "Roll the Old Chariot" --- Lib of Congress AFS L68

ROLL THE COTTON DOWN - "O come all you cotton rollers - come roll the cotton down" Shanty - ROUD#2627 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 #4 2v/m - MASEFIELD SG 1906 pp311-2 - GRAINGER #365 Royston Clifford, London 1908/ #367 D M Kerr, London 1908 - BECKETT 1914 p4 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #26 p24 "Bound to Alabama" - SHAY 1925 p55 w/o - TERRY SB2 1926 pp40-1 - FOX SMITH BOS 1927 pp54-5 - BONE CB 1931 pp84-5 - HUGILL 1961 p152 (6var) & 1969 p182-3 - SPIN mag 9/1 1972 Hugill - RICHARDS- STUBBS EFS 1979 p54 - McCOLL/ SEEGER Ben Bright p13 - KINSEY SOS 1989 pp98-9 -- COLCORD SAS pp58-9 - HARLOW Chanteying Aboard American Ships 1962 pp144-5 - DOERFLINGER Songs of the Sailormen & Lumberman 1972 pp33-5 -- J S SCOTT rec by James M Carpenter, London c1928: FOLKTRAX 142 - Stanley SLADE rec by PK, Bristol 1950: RPL 17604/ FOLKTRAX 207 (!v only) - A H RASMUSSEN of Norway rec by PK, London 11/4/55: RPL 22349 talk bef & aft/ FTX-205 - Commander R F P HALLIDAY rec by PK, Jersey, CI 1954: FTX-205 - "Paddy" Tim WALSH rec by Cyril Tawney, Devonport 5/6/60: RPL LP 26311/ FTX-206 - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC-269 1992 gift from Sean Laffey CASS-1280

ROLL THE WOODPILE DOWN - Sea Shanty - ROUD#443 - WHITEHEAD & HARRIS 6 Sea Chanties 1925 pp14-16 -- JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC-269 1992 (gift from Sean Laffey) CASS-1280

ROLL YOUR LEG OVER - "If all the young girls were like fish in the ocean" - ROUD#10410 - Rowdy Rhymes (1952?) pp22-23 - CRAY Bawdy Ballads 1969 p117 --- SILVERMAN The Dirty Song Book 1982 p141 - Cf HARES ON THE MOUNTAINS -- THE SHOWER-ROOM SQUAD: PICKWICK Hallmark CHM-693 1970 & GRANDAD'S ARMY: PICKWICK Hallmark SHM-747 1971 - Mike SHAIL & EEZUM SQUEEZUM Band led by PK, Harberton, Totnes, Devon 1978: FTX-127

ROLLED AND TUMBLED - "Cried the whole night long" - Blues -- Rose HEMPHILL (voc & gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Senatobia, Miss Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1703 1997

ROLLED IN HER APRON - "Now as I was strolling down the Strand" - "Three pretty maids, a-rushing they went - one proved by child, before they did return, and she rolled it underneath her apron" - When she gets home the father hears the baby crying, "it's the birds singing, father" - finally discovers he asks about the father - "he was neither black, neither was he brown, it was by the sailor boy, up in London Town" - ROUD#898 - JOHNSON 1787 V p437 - 1803 SMM 5 p437 "She roun't in her apron" - BARING GOULD Ms #36 p74 (a) & (b) J Parsons (9v) & another set of words "A Sweet Pretty Maiden sat under a tree" words of another song substituted (c) Sam Fone, Mary Tavy 1892 (BG publ different set of song words titled "A Maiden Sweet in May") - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #169 1 p641-4 3var Somerset - REEVES IP 1958 #103 p210 Sharp & EC 1960 #132 p260 B-G "A Maiden Sweet" - SEDLEY 1967 p108 Lloyd; Sharp; Baring Gould - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #328 p714 Frank Hillier "The Parcel from a lady" ("Now as I was strolling down the Strand") - TOCHER 23 1976 p263 Alan Bruford from Bessie Whyte (tinker) "The Tamosher"" ("Two bonny lassies & they were dressed in blue, they went out, some rushes for to pu'") - Cf WILLIE O' WINSBURY -- "Jumbo" BRIGHTWELL rec by PK, Eastbridge, Suffolk 1956 "Under her Apron" - Frank HILLIER rec Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset 1959: FTX-029 (last v omitted) "The Parcel from a lady"

ROLLER BOWLER - GOOD MORNING, LADIES ALL

ROLLICKING BOYS, THE - BOYS OF TANDARAGEE

ROLLICKING IRISHMAN, THE - Jig (D) - ALLAN #13 p4 alt: "Father o' Flynn" - BALMORAL #2 p23 - BAYARD DTF #450 p429 3var - COLE #7 p56 "Top of Cork Road" ("TOCR") - CRANITCH #2 p125 "FOF" - FUREY p9 "TOCR" - HAYWOOD #17 p30 "TOCR" - JOYCE AMOI 1873 #48 - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 p37/ 1994 #162 p41 alt: "Yorkshire Lasses" - KERR MM 1 p38 & MM 4 #189 p22 "FOF" - MOFFAT-KIDSON MOE 1903 p286 "Yorkshire Lasses" - O'NEILL MOI #1031/ DMI #244 "TOCR" alt: "To drink with the devil" - ROCHE 1 #97 p42 "TOCR" -- John J KIMMEL (acc) rec 78prm disk 1906 intro by Nicholas Carolan on RTE radio prog 1985 CASS#0865 "Father O Flynn" - Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) Dublin (78rpm disks) 1937-8: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 "Top of Cork Road" with "Irish Washerwoman" - William KIMBER (conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1951: FTX-383 - Billy CONROY (whistle) rec PK, Ashington, Northumb 8/6/54: RPL 20623/ FTX-122 - McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5258 1965 - Jack ELLIOTT (harmonica), Birtley, Durham: LEADER LEA-4001 1969 (M) - Billy PIGG (N-pipes) with Foster CHARLTON (fid), John DOONAN (piuccolo) rec Alnwick Gathering: LEADER LEA-4006 1971 "Father O Flynn" -- Franklin GEORGE & Dick SUMMERS (fids) with harmony: SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-229 1972 "Top of Cork Road"

ROLLING DOWN THE HILL - Reel (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p17/ 1994 #69 p19 - KERR MM 1 #2 p3 "Roll her on the hill" - O'NEILL MOI #1508/ DMI #727 & Cf MOI #1508/ DMI # 572 "Roll her on the mountain" - Cf ROLLING IN THE RYEGRASS -- Jim LESLIE of Rousay (mel) rec by PK, St Ola, Orkney 18/7/55: RPL 22728/ FTX-064

ROLLING DOWN THE RIVER - SAUCY ARABELLA

ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAU - "Once more we are waft by the Northern gales" - Mau is the name of an Hawain Island (previously known as The Sandwich Islands) used as a base by American whalers working the Bering Straits - In the song they are longing for both women and warmer weather --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp27-9 ship's log 1858 (w/o) "RDTO Mohee" -- A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-T-174 1967 - Jeff WARNER & group, USA: COLLECTOR-1928 1977

ROLLING DOWN WAPPING - RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY

ROLLING EYE - AS I ROVED OUT - BLACK AND ROLLING EYE - ROVING KIND

ROLLING HILLS AND EMPTY MOORS - comp by GM 1965 -- Graeme MILES Middlesbrough: FTX-226

ROLLING HILLS OF THE BORDER - "When I die, bury me low , where I can hear the bonny Tweed flow" - Scottish Pastoral comp by Matt McGinn -- THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-32 1971

ROLLING HOME - "Call (or Pipe) all hands to man the capstan" Ch: RH to dear old England, RH dear land to thee" - Sea Song also used as Capstan Shanty - ROUD#4766 - based on a poem written by Charles Mackay in 1850 - WHALL 1910 p9 - SHAY 1925 p143 words only - HUGILL 1961 p181 - McCOLL-SEEGER Ben Bright, mariner p5 - PALMER 1986 #116 p238 from Bob Roberts - Tune see: KEVIN BARRY -- John McPHERSON rec by James M Carpenter, South Shields c1928:FTX-142 - Mountford SCOTT (with male ch) & Phil GREEN (acc) rec Bristol 2/7/43: RPL 6018/ FTX-207 - JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301

ROLLING HOME - BABY BOY - JOLLY SHLLING

ROLLING HOME - comp John Tams - "Round goes the wheel of fortune" -- BEGGAR'S VELVET (accapella group) Radio 2: 6/6/90 CASS 60- 0882

ROLLING HOME POLKA -- Paddy BREEN (vert flute) of Co Clare rec by PK, London 1952: FTX-078

ROLLING IN MY SWEET BABY'S ARMS -- STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: UNITED ARTISTS UAL-3050 1959 - Roy GUEST with THE TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID-5165 1963

ROLLING IN THE DEW - "O where are you going my pretty fair maid? - for it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids fair" - Alt titles: DABBLING IN THE DEW (SBG-CJS) - ROUD#298 - Wm PRYCE 1790 Archaeologica Cornu-Brittanica (An Essay to preserve the Ancient Cornish Language) has version in Cornish sung at Carclew in 1698 - HALLIWELL ENB 1842 p336 frag - FORD VS 1899 1 pp149-150 Hugh M'Aulay (c): Bathgate Ms Scotland c1874 6v (w/o) "Where are you going to, m p m?"- HECHT 1904 p155 Perthsh "Kind hearted Nancy" - BARING GOULD Ms #169 "Where are you going to, m p m?" (a) James Olver HFS Launceston (publ in CANOW KERNOW) (b) James Parsons FWB (words rewritten for Schools) - BOULTON Songs of the Four Nations 1913 #11 p58 "Where be going?" (contributed by Baring Gould) - SHARP FSS 2 #35 pp18-9 John Swain Donyatt Somerset words re-written by Marson "Dabbling" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #110 pp437-444 John Swain, Donyatt, Somerset 1904/ Peter Gill, Stroud, Gloucestersh 1912 1v/m/ Samuel Weekes, Priddy, Som 1905 1v/m/ Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke, Som 1906 1v/m/ Mrs Fanny Duff, Newport Shropshire 19011 1v/m/ Mrs Sherring, Marston Magna, Som 1905 1v/m/ Jim Thomas, Camborne, Cornwall 1914/ Alfred Edgehill, Chew Magna, Som 1907 1v/m "Dabbling" - BG-SHARP 1906 #23 Schools - SHARP Sel Ed 1916 pp66-67 Rev text using Halliwell - BUTTERWORTH FSSX 1912 #9 pp18-19 "Roving in the Dew" Sussex - GRAINGER Ms#289 Joseph Taylor, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906/ #290 Edgar Hyldon, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906/ #316 Wm Newman, Stanton, Gloucestersh 1907 - LEATHER 1912 p205 Mrs Ellen Powell, Westhope, Herefordsh 1907 "The Milkmaid's Song" - JFSS 4:17 1913 p282-6 7var: Butterworth: Mrs Cranstone, Billingshurst, Sussex 1907/ Jekyll: Ticehurst, Sussex 1906 (m/o)/ RVW: Mr Flack, Fowlmere, Cambridhesh 1907 (m/o)/ RVW: Mrs Powell, Weobley, Herefordsh 1909 (m/o)/ RVW: Mr & Mrs Verrall, Horsham, Sussex 1908/ Sharp: Peter Gill, Stroud, Gloucestersh 1912 1v/m/ Sharp: Mrs Fanny Duff, Newport, Shropsh 1912 1v/m - JFSS 25 1921 p232 Martin Freeman: Cork - OPIE ODNR 1951 #317 - REEVES IOP 1958 #24 pp100-1 Sharp: John Swain 1909 - REEVES EC 1960 #27 pp85-6 Hammond: Jane Hann, Stoke Abbott, Dorset 1906 - JEFDSS 9:4 1963 p191 George Maynard - BROCKLEBANK/KINDERSLEY DBFS 1966 Hammond: Jane Hann "The Milkmaid" - GUNDRY CK 1966 p28 BG: James Olver, Launceston, Cornwall - SEDLEY 1967 p83 Shirley Collins & Jekyll (Sussex) - PURSLOW CL 1972 p80 Gardiner: Charles Bull, Marchwood, Hampsh 1907 - COPPER S&SB 1973 p238-9 Leslie Johnson, Rustington, Sussex - FMJ 2:4 1973 p287-290 Palmer: George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1972 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #94 Cornish words of 1698 adapted by Talek "Pelea era why moaz, moes Fettow Teag?" 6v tune from Lashbrook/ #189 p420 Leslie Johnson - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp180-1 (2v from Jeannie Robertson) --- SHARP FSSA - COX FSOS 1925 pp392-3 W Va 2var (w/o) "The Milkmaid" - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp277-8 Oxford, Mississippi (w/o) "The Milkmaid" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 p330 Missouri 1926 "The Milking Maid" - BROWN NC 1952-62 3 p22 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp148-9 Susie Barlow, Utah 1948 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp104-5 C E Inkpen, Pasdiac, New Brunswick, Canada "My Pretty Maid" - see also AS I ROVED OUT - CLEAR AWAY THE MORNING DEW - WALKING IN THE DEW -- Walter EDE, Edinburgh rec by James M.Carpenter 1928-9 #18 - Dicky LASHBROOK (travelling chimney sweep) rec by PK, Kelly, Lifton, Devon 1952: RPL 17796/ FTX-010 - Fred JORDAN rec by PK, Diddlebury, Wenlock,Shropsh 30/10/52: RPL 18696 Talk bef & aft/ FTX-130 - Albert BEALE rec by PK, Kenardrington, Kent 1954: RPL 21157- Leslie JOHNSON, rec by Bob Copper, Fittleworth, Sussex 1954: RPL 22762/ FTX-017 & FTX-427/ TOPIC 12-T-317 1977 - George "Pop" MAYNARD rec by PK at his home, Copthorne Sussex 3/12/56: RPL LP 23093/ FTX-279/ TOPIC 12-T-286/ TSCD-660/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 - Shirley COLLINS (with auto harp) rec by Peter Kennedy: EMI DLP-1143 1956 10" LP "Dabbling in the Dew" - Jeannie ROBERTSON (COLLECTOR JES 4001) - Dave WILLIAMS (voc/mel): FOREST TRACKS FT-3008 1975 - Stanley ROBERTSON: North-East Folklore Archive/ Beecvhwood STAN CD-1099 1999 --- Jean RITCHIE (v/ dulc): GREENHAYS GR-90714 [nd] CASS-0801 "Dabbling in the Dew" - Graham TEW (& piano) on Radio 2 27/7/93 Georgina Boyes prog CASS

ROLLING ON THE RYEGRASS - Reel (D) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #208 p108 (D) - COLE #1 p15 "The Piper's Lass" & #8 p23 "Rathkeale Hunt" - CRANITCH p96 "R on the R" - GIBLIN 1933 #3 p11 (D) "R on the R" - KERR MM 4 p20 "Roll her in the rushes" - MOYLAN 2 #178 pp102-3 from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #1553/ DMI #766 (#D) alt: "Shannon Breeze" "Old Molly Ahern" & "Piper's Lass" - ROCHE 1 #150 p60 - SHASKEEN 1 #37 p26 - Cf ROLLING DOWN THE HILL -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute) Limerick rec by PK, London 1956:FTX-171/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 - Julia CLIFFORD & Denis MUPHY (fiddles): CLADDAGH CC-5 1973 - Todd DENMAN (U-pip[es) with gtr: FOLK ALLIANCE Showcase Compilation FA-CD-03 1999 bef "Congress Reel"

ROLLING KING - SOUTH AUSTRALIA

ROLLING MAIN - LOST ON THE ROLLING MAIN

ROLLING OF THE STONES, THE - "Have you been to the R of the S - tossing of the ball?" -- THE YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-30 1973 (gives comp as by Oscar Brand) - Jake WALTON (voc/lute/gtr) & Roger NICHOLSON (dulc): LEADER LER-2094 1976

ROLLING OFF A LOG - Jig - COLE p73 (C/G) - HARDING "Fairground Jig" G/D - Cf KERR 4 p24 "Kennedy" with Em in B music

ROLLING ON THE GRASS - "amongst the buttercups and daisies - fancy you're a child again" "To those who live in cities" incl spoken part about a menacing cow -- Arthur HOWARD rec by Ian Russell, S Yorks: HILL & DALE HD-006 1981

ROLLING RIVER - SHENADOAH

ROLLING RIVER - "O if I had a dog I would call him Hunter" - MACKENZIE 1928 pp270 & 402 Nova Scotia

ROLLING STONE, THE - "that gathers no moss" - "Since times are hard I'll tell you sweetheart" - she counters his arguments for going west to California - finally warns him of Indians and he decides to stay on the farm - LAWS #B-26 NAB 1950/64 p144 - ROUD#710 - FUSON BKH 1930 p100 Ky (w/o) - MAN ALL TATTERED AND TORN

ROLLIN' UNDER - Black Dance Song -- Bessie JONES & Group C Georgia Sea Island Singers with Nat RAHMINGS (drum), Ed YOUNG (fife), Hobart SMITH (tenor banjo) rec by Alan Lomax, Williamsburg, Va., USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1713 1998 "Reg'lar. Reg'lar rollin under" / also rec 1954: RPL 26146

ROLLING WAVE, THE - Slip Jig - CLANCY-MITCHELL #42 p46 (D) -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980 CASS-0815

ROLLY TROODUM - LOLLY TOODUM

ROLY POLY GAMMON & SPINACH - FROG AND MOUSE

ROMAN SOLDIERS - HAVE YOU ANY BREAD AND WINE? (K)

ROMAN WALL, THE - Jig comp by Adam Gray - SEATTLE 1990 p32 (says cf "The Eavesdropper" in O NEILL #17 -- Adam GRAY (fid) rec by PK, Bardon Mill, Northumb 1/7/54: RPL 20625/ TOPIC 12-T-283 1976

ROMANIA -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

ROMANY - see also GYPSIES - TRAVELLERS] - JFSS 3 p110 Merrick Verse of CAPTAIN GRANT - ATCHING TAN - ALL THROUGH MI RAKLI - CAN YOU POOKER ROMANY? - CASRO MANISHI - I'M A ROMANY RYE - MANDI POOV THE GRAI - WHILE GAMEKEEPERS LIE SLEEPING ("While the Yogger Mush lay Sleeping") -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

ROMANY RAI - I AM A ROMANY

ROME COUNTY - "In the beautiful hills way out in RC" (in East Tennesee) - Almeda RIDDLE of Arkansas: ROUNDER 0017 rec 1972

ROMILLA DISASTER, THE - "In Whitby town they tell a tale - those gallant Whitby folk - for the brave things they do - among the 80 dead" - Shipwreck comp by GM 1965 -- Graeme MILES Middlesbrough

ROMNEY - Kent - HAVE YOU COME UP FROM ROMNEY WAY?

RONALD - EDWARD

RONDO FROM THE OVERTURE of "THE SLAVE" - Tunebook Ms #176 p425 (G) 2/4

RONNIE COOPER - Reel - Michael SHANNON (fid): MS-01 "The Musical Blacksmith" (from Derrylin, Co Fermanagh)

ROO DUM DAY - AS I ROVED OUT

ROOKERY, THE - Jig - WHELAN'S

ROOM FOR COMPANIE - "Room for cuckolds - here comes a company" - PEPYS 1614 broadside - Song commemorates St Bartholomew's Fair - D'URFEY 1698-1720 VI p136 "Room for gentlemen" (Mayor & company) - SHARP: Morris Book - SIMPSON BBB 1966 p615 -- London CRITICS Group: ARGO ZFB-60 1966 - SINGING TRADITION (group of 4): TOPIC IMP-S-104 1972 - Son of MORRIS ON: EMI SHSM-2012 1976

ROOSEVELT, Franklin - BALLAD OF OCTOBER 16 (tune of JESSE JAMES)

ROOSTER, THE - Farmyard Song comp Alex Atterson (?) -- TROTTO: FOREST TRACKS FT-6003 1973

ROOSTER CROWS AT MIDNIGHT - "Christmas Day" - Kid's Song -- LEADBELLY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1126 1972

ROPE - HOW PADDY STOLE THE ROPE

ROPE WALTZ, THE - PERFECT CURE

RORY MOR & THE GRUAGACH GAIRE - Story -- Robin WILLIAMSON: PIG'S WHISKER PWM-003 1982 cassette with harp incl "Farewell to Whisky"

RORY O MORE - "I pray give attention high low rich or poor" - ROUD#6125 - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #770 p106 - WILLIAMS #692 (w/o) "R O'M's description of the London fashions"

RORY O MORE - Jig - BALMORAL p28 (G) - COLE #3 p62 (A) - FELDMAN p159 (G) from Francie & Mickey Byrne, Donegal - HARDING #185 p58 (G) - HAYWOOD #11 p28 (G) - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #164 p39 (A) alt: "Good Omens" "I'll follow you, my dear" - KERR MM 1 #18 p37 (A) - Tunebook Ms #198 p81 (G) & #199 p81 (D) - O NEILL MOI #856/ DMI #116 (G) "Rory o Moore" - WESTROP #86 p30 -- Paul SWEENEY (fid) rec Belfast 28/8/43: RPL 6373 (78) - Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18682/ FTX-115 "Untitled Jig"/ rec by Russell Wortley 1954: LEADER LED-2068 1976 (M) - ANDERSON Band rec by PK, Orphir, Orkney 15/7/55: RPL 22726 bef "Blackthorn Stick" - John FRASER (fid) rec by PK, Birsay, Orkney 20/7/55: RPL 22728/ FTX-064 - GILCURDON Trio rec Belfast 30/10/63: RPL LP 28256/ FTX-373 bef "Frost is all over" - Scots Guards Band: ARGO ZDA-147 1971 - Billy COOPER (ham dulc) Suffolk: TOPIC 12-T-240 1974/ TSCD-659

RORY O MORE TURNED TEETOTAL - "Young R O'M who to London had been" - ASHTON MSB 1888 p42

RORY'S REID COAT & RORY'S RED BREEKS - Jigs - see McRORY'S BREEKS -- Jimmy STEWART (mouth-music) rec by PK, New Pitsligo, Aberdeen 1955: FTX-301

ROSABELLA, THE - SAUCY ROSABELLA

ROSALIE, THE PRAIRIE FLOWER -- Billy BALLANTINE (piccolo) & Jimmy HUNTER (harmonica) rec by PK, Haydon Bridge, Northumb 6/7/54: RPL 20628/ FTX-121/ TOPIC 12-T-283 1976/ TSCD-669 1998 Northern Dances: bef "My Lodging" & "Blow the wind southerly"

ROSANNA - FAIR ANNIE - HENRY THE POACHER

ROSCARBERY - about 3rd West Cork Brigade - tune: "Memory of the Dead" -- Dominic BEHAN: TOPIC 12-T-44 1958

ROSCOMMON -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

ROSCOMMON HUNT - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #175 p41 (G) - Tunebook Ms #127 p312 (G)

ROSCOMMON MILITIA'S MARCH - Tunebook Ms #53 p145 (D)

ROSCOMMON REEL, THE - Miss PATTERSON'S SLIPPER

ROSE, THE - Ch: "O the rose, the broken down rose - the diamond of the ring - a broken heart will surely mend - and maybe so will mine" - "O lassie leave your milking pails" - "he wrote a letter to his love - and sealed it with a ring - and sent it with a messenger boy - a servant to the queen" - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1218 pp388-392 7var 6v/7m

ROSE, THE - Dance-tune - GRAHAM 1911 p6 "The Three Jolly Hunters" put to tune from old Curwen Ms - Sharp Morris Book - WILSON p98 (with dance descr)

ROSE AMONG THE HEATHER, THE - Strathspey (D) - KERR MM 1 #18 p20 - see also "Rose in the heather" (Jig) -- John BURGESS (H- pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969

ROSE AND THE THYME, THE - I WONDER WHAT IS KEEPING MY TRUELOVE TONIGHT?

ROSE BERRY - Man does not live by bread alone -- Ewan McCOLL: ARGO ZFB-12 1972

ROSE BUSH, THE - Jig - COLE p66 (G)

ROSE CONNOLLY - Ch: "Down in a willow(y) garden" - Singer has murdered RC by poison wine and running a "skeever" through her - his father has told his son that his money would free his son if he were to kill her, but the youth is to die at the gallows - LAWS #F-6 NAB 1964 p194 - ROUD#446 - Tune is a variant of "Rosin the Beau" --- COX FSOS 1925 pp314-5 W Va 2var (w/o) - LOMAX USA 1947 p267 - BROWN NC 1952 2 p248 - DAVIS Va 1960 p273 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p302 - PARLER ABB 1963 p48 Ark 1958 (w/o) "R Connalee" - WARNER TAFS 1984 #110 pp276-7 Frank Proffitt, Watauga Co, NC 1941 -- first commercial recording by G.B.Grayson & Henry Whitter from Fries, Va for Victor Recording Co 9th October 1928; Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris for Bluebird 1937; and Charlie Monroe & his Kentucky Pardners for RCA Victor 1947 - "The Pioneer Strain" broadcast introduced by Alan LOMAX, 1960 rec off air by PK instrumental of song played by Uncle Charlie Higgins (fiddle) & Wade Ward (banjo) rec by Alan Lomax: FTX-902 - Jean JENKINS (unacc) rec by PK, London 2/4/57: FTX-915 - Frank PROFFITT Snr (voc/gtr) rec by Frank & Anne Warner: FTX-931 - Frank PROFITT Jnr (voc/banjo): CLOUDLANDS (Tenn) CLC-008 1992 CASS-1356 - Texas GLADDEN with Hobart SMITH (fid) rec by Moses Asch, NYC, 1946 originally published on Disc Records: ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001 "Rose Connelly"

ROSE IN JUNE - "The RIJ is not so sweet" - ROUD#1202 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 1 p403 Wm Lockyer, Middlezoy, Som 1906/ Henry Thomas, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestersh 1907 1v/m -- SWEET ROSE IN JUNE

ROSE IN THE GARDEN, THE - Jig (D) - BREATHNACH 2 #150 (ii) p80 - see PRIMROSE MAID - ROSE OF CASTLETOWN -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19573/ FTX-273

ROSE IN THE HEATHER - Jig (D) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #37 p16 - CRANITCH p58 - MOYLAN 2 #11 p7 from John O Leary (melodeon) - SHASKEEN 2 #52 p39 -- Tommy MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12- TFRS-505 1976 descr as "Selection"

ROSE OF ALABAMA, THE - "You darkies all both bold and stout" - WILLIAMS #693 (w/o)

ROSE OF ALLENDALE, THE - "The morn was fair, the sky was clear" Mary leaves her Highland cot and goes off with a soldier to Africa's burning sands" - Words by Charles Jeffreys & Music by S Nelson - see GREIG Scottish Minstrelsie 3 1893 - ROUD #1218 - Many BS - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - COPPER ETR 1976 pp250-1 Rottingdean, Sussex --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp257-8 ship's log 1847 (w/o) (& (?) p260 ships's log 1848 (w/o) "Mary's cot" -- Bob, Ron John & Jill COPPER: LEADER LEA-4046 (boxed) 1971/ FTX-239 - Tich FRIER (voc/gtr) CELTIC MUSIC CM-014 1983 - Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London nn/ CASS-0957 1985 - Nic JONES: RPL Radio 2 rec 4/3/87: CASS-0408

ROSE OF ARDEE, THE - "When first to this country a wee boy I came, I placed my affection on a comely young dame - young weaver - flower of the country & the R of A" - Corry version mentions Banbridge, Belfast, Bangor & Co Down, Mallow & Kerry - ROUD#2816 - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - Cf OUR WEDDING DAY ("Comely Young Dame") --- HUDSON FSM 1936 pp129-130 Mississippi (w/0) "R of Ardeen" - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp84-5 Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o) -- Tom WILLETT rec by PK, Paddock Wood, Kent 4/9/63 RTR-0985 "The Flower of the Country" incl ch "Never change the old love for the new" - John CORRY rec by James P Foley, Castlederg, Co Tyrone 1986: FTX-178 "Lovely Nancy" with talk of cross-roads dance, fiddle & flute

ROSE OF AUGHNABROAN, THE -- Bobby CLANCY rec by Seamus Ennis, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1960: RPL LP 29885

ROSE OF BRITAIN'S ISLE, THE - "Attention give both high and low" "Come all you people, young and old" - Merchant's daughter, Jane, dwelling in Gloucester Square falls in love with her father's apprentice, Edwin, so her father has him sent to sea - she follows him dressed in man's attire but she is wounded by a cannon ball in battle off Spain - they return to find their father has died and left them his huge estate, he makes her his bride - LAWS N16 (BBBA 1957 p210-11) - ROUD#1796 - Harkness broadside has title: "The Blooming Rose of Fair Britain's Isle"- Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) --- McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p37 13½v p115-116 (refs) - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 #48 pp96-98 Ben Henneberry NS - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 #29 p65 10v & ch/m - KARPELES NFL 1971 #50 pp173-5 Mrs Lizzie Mahoney, Stock Cove, Nfl 1929 - FOWKE SSBNC 1981 pp61-3 Fenwick Hatt Ms NS c1883 (w/0) -- John KIRKPATRICK: TOPIC 12- TS-247 1974 (Newfoundland version)

ROSE OF CARACAS, THE - Calypso Instrumental -- Neville MARCANO "The Growling Tiger" (with Lord Iere, Indian Prince & group) rec by Alan Lomax, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 17/8/62: ROUNDER 1717 p1998

ROSE OF CASHMERE, THE -- Jean WARD: ARGO ZFB-29 1971 sung to tune of "The Waters of Tyne"

ROSE OF CASTLETOWN, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1314/ DMI #576 (A) "The Rose in the Garden" - ROCHE 1 #139 p56 (D)

ROSE OF ENGLAND, THE - comp by Nick Low after the Falklands War -- THE OYSTER BAND rec Radio 2: 18/5/88: CASS-15-0712

ROSE OF GLENSEE, THE - LASS O GLENSHEE

ROSE OF KILLARNEY - SWEET ROSE OF KILLARNEY

ROSE OF MOONCOIN, THE - "How sweet tis to roam" - ROUD#10611-- Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London nn/ CASS-0957 1985

ROSE OF MONEYMORE, THE - Liam O Connor's Draft Ms "Songs of the North of Ireland" 1994 p50

ROSE OF MY HEART - Waltz -- Clark KESSINGER (fid) accomp Gene MEADE (gtr) & Gene PARKER (banjo) rec by Charles Faurot, Union Grove, NC 1968: SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-231 1972

ROSE OF TRALEE, THE - "O the pale moon was rising o'er yonder high mountain" - words by C Mordaunt Spencer or Wm Pembroke - ROUD#1978 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p344 NS (w/o) - FOWKE SSBNC 1981 pp100-101 Fenwick Hatt Ms NS c1883 (w/o) -- THE FONTANAS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-868 1967

ROSE POLKA - comp Laybourne -- James BROWN (mel/ piano): TOPIC 12-T-376 1978

ROSE, ROSE AND UP SHE RISES - "so early in the morning" - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #257 (vol 2 p368) Mrs Talithah Powell, Berea, Madison Co., Ky 1917 "Up she rises" (tune of "Drunken Sailor" and "Ten Little Indians" type)

ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY - "Word has gone through all England" - Two sisters dress in men's clothes to wed 2 knights - CHILD #103 - ROUD#3335 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 #162 (w/o) - GREIG-KEITH LLTB 1925 pp78-81 Bell Robertson, New Pitsligo, Aberdeensh (w/o)

ROSE, THISTLE, SHAMROCK AND PRIMROSE, THE - FLOWER SHOW

ROSE TREE, THE - BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES-O - CROCKERY WARE - FALSE KNIGHT - FARMER'S DAUGHTER - FOX - KELLY GANG - NANCY HOGAN'S GANDER - SIXTEEN THOUSAND MILES FROM HOME

ROSE TREE, THE - Polka - JEFDSS 1956 p9 William Wells Morris version - BAYARD DTF #27 p28 "Old Dance" claimed to be a version but gives refs - BRODY p235 2 var (D) - COLE #6 p127 "I'll cloot my Johnny's grey breeks" (Strathspey) - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p28/ 1994 #117 p30 - Tunebook Ms #76 p198 (D) 2/4 "The RT in full bearing" - MOYLAN 2 #54 p32 from John O Leary (melodeon) "Bhiosa La I bPort Lairge" - WESTROP #38 p14 (Bb) - Tune used for: BABBITY BOWSTER (Kissing Dance) -- William WELLS (fid) with dancers rec 10/6/46: RPL 9827 (78) - John FRASER (fid) rec by PK, Birsay, Orkney 1955: FTX-064 - Jon RAVEN (cittern & tamb): BROADSIDE BRO-100 1968 - THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-222 1973 for "Square Eight" - SQUARE DANCE BAND RPL Radio 2 13/1/88 CASS-0422 aft "Miss Forbes" for "Square Eight"

ROSE WALTZ, THE - ROCHE 3 #144 p46 (D) 4pts

ROSEBUD IN JUNE, A - "It's a rosebud in June and violets in full bloom - sheepshearing go" - ROUD#812 - DEAN-SMITH Guide 1954 title is "Sheep-shearing Feast Song (i)" - BROADWOOD OES 1843 p22 Sussex & SS 1890 - REYNARSDON 1890 p22 Sussex - MASON NRCS 1877 p55 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 - SHARP EFS (Sel Ed) 2 pp44-6 & Schools - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #248 p180 Wm King "It's a R in J" - SHARP Cf 1 p77 "Sheepshearing Song" & p373 Farmer King - JFSS 1:5 1904 pp262-3 Sharp: Wm King, West Harptree, Somerset (performed at the Mid-Somerset Festival, Frome 1904)- JFSS 27 p76-82 notes - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p145 "Sweet R in J" Glos/Oxon 5v - PURSLOW MB 1965 Hammond Dorset 1906 - BROCKLEBANK/KINDERSLEY DBFS 1966 p27 Hammond: Shepherd & G Dowden, Lackington, Dorset - ED&S mag 32/2 1970 p58 2 tunes from Sharp Ms - COPPER S&SB 1973 p256 from George Fosbury Axfords Hants 1956 - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB 2 1979 pp133-4 Pitts BS London (w/o) - PALMER EBECS 1979 #11 pp32-33 from Mason NRCS "The Rosebuds in June" -- Carol NEWELL & children's choir rec by PK, Wisbech, Cambs 23.7.56 7"RTR-0077/ FTX-424 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1008 1972 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-87 1973 "My Rose in June" - Sylvia & Bill ROGERS: FOREST TRACKS FT-3007 1975 - Bob COPPER (unacc): TOPIC 12-TS-328 1977 from George Fosbury/ CASS-0198 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-4215 1981 Mason - THE YETTIES RPL on Radio 2: 18/11/87: CASS-60-0556 (coll Hammond)

ROSEBUD REEL - MOUNTAIN RANGER HORNPIPE

ROSEMARY, THE - "Was way up in Brummagrem" Ch: "Fol di rol - say, they're singing down Brummagen way" - Old boatman dreaming of the old days on the Black country Canals around Birmingham- Author P Dodds-- Jon RAVEN (voc/gtr): LEADER LER-2083 1973

ROSEMARY AND THYME - ELFIN KNIGHT

ROSEMARY LANE - "When I was in service in RL, I gained the goodwill of my master and dame" - similar to HOME DEAR HOME, but from female viewpoint - she lights a sailor to bed, is seduced and he gives her gold for the nurse's fee (Title also gets used for THE ELFIN KNIGHT) - LAWS #K-43 ABBB 1957 pp162-3 "Home dearie home" or "Bell Bottom Trousers" - ROUD#269 - BARING GOULD SOW 1889 #67 new words written to tune called "The Blue Flame" (a) taken down by W Crossing 1858 (b) Roger Luxton HFS Halwell 1889 (c) J Parsons FWB 1891 (d) Robert Hard SBG 1892/ BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 p90 W Crossing - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #178 pp671-9 Mrs Overd, Langport, Somerset 1904/ Mrs Hull, Langport, Som 1904 1v/m/ Shepherd Haden, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1909 (m/o)/ Mrs Anne Lacy, Drayton, Som 1905 1v/m/ Walter Locock, Martock, Som 1906/ Charles Webb, Puriton, Som 1906 1v/m/ Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke, Som 1906 1v/m/ Mrs Florence Chedgey, Stockland, Devon 1908/ Mrs Louie Hooper & Mrs Lucy White (sisters), Hambridge, Som 1903 - JFSS 6:21 1918 pp1-3 Frederick Keel: James Stacey, Fernhurst, Surrey 1913 5v/m/ Lucy Broadwood: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 1v/m/ Hammond: Wm Bartlett - GRAINGER #383 Wm Fishlock, Chiswick Ferry, Surrey 1908 - JEFDSS 1949 p18 Laurensen - REEVES IP 1958 pp181-2 Sharp: Mrs Overd/ Mrs Chedgey (w/o) - REEVES EC 1960 p223 Hammond: Wm Chubb, Beaminster, Dorset 1906 - ED&S 27:4 1965 p116 SBG Ms - RUGBY SONGS 1967 p41 "Once there was a servant girl whose name was Mary Jane" - PURSLOW WS 1968 p99 Hammond: Wm Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset 1905 - PALMER SOM 1972 p24 George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 "Young Sailor Bold" - PALMER EBBB 1980 #78 pp164-5 Mrs Lucy Woodall, Cradley Heath, Worcestersh 1976 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp166-7 John McDonald ("house in Aberdeen") - GARDHAM ERS 1982 p33 Walter Broadbank, Wyton Bar, Yorksh 1972 "BBT" ("Drury Lane") - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p217 Belle Stewart 4v "Bell-bottom Trousers" - PALMER OBSS 1986 pp179-180 John Johnson Coll Box 4 (w)/ Broadwood: Henry Burstow (m) "The Servant of RL" - TAWNEY GFL 1987 pp126-7 Bryan Bush & Ron Sallis, Wolverhampton, Warwicksh (w/o) - HOWSON SSIS 1992 p114 Charlie Stringer, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk (w/o) "The Serving Maid" --- GARDNER Mich 1939 p403 6v (Canadian) "Jack the Sailor Boy" -- Bruce LAURENSEN rec by Pat Shaw, Lerwick, Shetland July 1952: RPL 18648/ CAEDMON TC-1162/ TOPIC 12-T-194/ FTX-515 - Bob ROBERTS (mel) rec by PK, Pinmill, Suffolk 1958: FTX-208 - Frank PURSLOW & John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK, London: DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219 - Janet BROWN of Aberfoyle, Perthsh rec by PK, Wickford, Essex 1963: RTR-0876 "The Servant Lass of Maryhill" (Glasgow) - George DUNN, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh: LEADER LEE- 4042 1971 "Young Sailor Bold" - Chris WILLETT (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Paddock Wood, Kent: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985/ TSCD-661 1998 Travellers "Once I was a servant" - Bert JANSCH (with guitar): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-235 1971 - HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER 009 1975 - John MOLYNEUX (with gtr) rec PK, Harberton, Devon 22/6/78: CASS-0361 - Liz JEFFRIES: TOPIC TSCD-665 1998 Courtship -- NEIL LANHAM NL-01 Jack TARLING rec by NL, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95 (gift) CASS-1357 "Drury Lane"

ROSEMARY LANE - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #9 p6 (D) - MAGUIRE 1 #16 p4 (D)

ROSES AND CARNATIONS - London Street Cry - JFSS 19 p216 "Flowers" & 22 p59-60 -- Florrie PENFOLD rec by PK, London 1/12/58

ROSES BLOW, THE - O I HAE SEEN THE ROSES BLAW

ROSES RED AND VIOLETS BLUE - "carnations sweet and so are you - when far it's you I'll miss - and when we meet we'll have a kiss" - Kids hopping song in ring - OPIE LLSC p48 "Onions stink and so do you" (London)/ p171 "Cabbages are green" (London)/ p177 & p237 "Lemons are sour" (Glasgow) - RITCHIE SS p50 "Open that safe and I'll shoot you" -- rec by Damian Webb: DW 26/1&2 Susan (10) solo, Workington, Cumb 1964 - FTX-198 #9(a) group of girls & FTX-289 #7

ROSETTA AND HER GAY PLOUGHBOY - GAY PLOUGHBOY

ROSEWOOD CASKET, THE - "In a little RC that's resting on my stand - there's a pretty jar full of letters written by your sister - do not weep" - ROUD#426 - RICHARDSON 1927 p54 Appalachians - PTFS 6 1927 pp221-2 Texas "A Package of Old Letters" - SPAETH WSM 1927 pp35-37 "The Little RC" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp423-250 Ala 1925/ Mary E King, Tenn 1929 (w/o)/ Ashley Stennett, Tenn (w/o)/ Mrs Wm Franklin, NC 1930 (w/o) "The Little RC" - COX FSMWV 1939 pp73-5 Miss Agnes Poe, WVa 1926 1v/m/ Mrs Bert Hamrick, WVa 1925 --Rebecca King JONES rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NC 1940: FTX-926 - MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS with vocal rec by Alan Lomax, Va 1959: RPL LP 26145 - Tom MORGAN rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314) RTR-0316

ROSIE ANDERSON - "Hay Marshall was a gentleman as ever lived on earth" - He marries her but becomes jealous when he sees Lord Elgin dancing with her at an Assembly Ball in Perth and blames the servant, Betsy, for not looking after her, then sends her to London "till all the speech dies down" - restless HM goes to London and obtains a divorce - Rosie finds a regimental officer but he goes off - she still longs for HM declaring she'll die in Bedlam - the moral: "never forsake your own true love for any lord you see" -ROUD#2169 - FORD VSB 1 1899 pp222-5 (w/o) - CHRISTIE TBA 1 1876 p220 4dv/m Buchan - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #127 22v words only & notes - ORD BB 1930 p91-2 11v (w/o) - FMJ 1:2 1966 pp75-8 Shaw: J B Duncan (c) Mrs Gillespie 1905/ W WAllace 1911 23v -- Dave BURLAND: LEADER LER-2029 1971

ROSIE ANNA - ROSIE-O

ROSIE ANNE - "Fair RA sits at her father's door" - weeping - pregnant by her brother - ROUD#234 - CHILD #51 from HERD AMSS 1 pp91-2 (w/o) & MOTHERWELL "Lizzie Wan" - JEFDS 1932 pp53-4 Ella Bull & Percy Merrick: Mrs Dann, Cottenham, Cambs nd 4½ v/m "Lucy" - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p65 Bull & Merrick: Mrs Dann (as "Lucy Wan" but more likely a version of EDWARD) - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp81-2 Gardiner: Frank Harrington, Bartley, Hampsh 1908 --- SHARP FSSA #14 I p89 "Lizzie Wan" Manchester Clay Ky 6v/m -- Martin CARTHY: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ B & C PEG-6 1971 "Lucy Wan" - Dave BURLAND: LEADER LER- 2082 1972 "Lizzie Wan" - Hedy WEST (voc/banjo) with Bill CLIFTON (gtr): TOPIC 12-T-163 1967 (from Sharp)

ROSIE APPLE, LEMON OR PEAR - "a bunch of roses she shall wear - sword and pistol by her side - She's the one to be my bride - take her by the lily white hand - lead her across the water - Send her a kiss and say goodbye - she's the captain's daughter" - Children's Choosing game in RING - ROUD# 6492 - GOMME 1894 2 p117 has 12 versions - MASON NR&CS 1877 - GILLINGTON Old Isle of Wight & Old Surrey Singing Games 1909 - OPIE LLSC p339 "Rosie apple, lemon or tart - tell me the name of your sweetheart" - RITCHIE GC 1964 p148 - OPIE SG 1985 #33 pp164-6 refs & photo - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1579 p130 "Orange Blossom" (2var to tune of "The Wind blows high") -- Norton Park School Edinburgh rec 16/12/53: RPL 19926 "Chrissie Campbell fresh and fair" - Liverpool schoolchildren rec Sasha Moorsom 18/7/58: RPL LP 25827 - rec by Damian Webb 10/5 St Michaels Junior Girls, Workington, Cumb 1960/ FTX-195 #6 - DW 19/2&3 St Michaels, Workington, Cumb 1962 - DW 19/7 Dearham Juniors Maryport 1962 (different tune & game) - DW 23/7 Egremont Juniors 1965 (diff tune) - DW 26/7 St Marys Juniors Leyland Lancs 1967: FTX-195 #36 ("She's my lady's daughter") - Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969 (M) - "Rosie apple, lemon curd, tell me the name of your sweetheart" Cecilia COSTELLO on Radio 2 "Folkweave" 1979: CASS-0413

ROSIE MAY - "Come darkies listen unto me" - WILLIAMS #75 Joseph Bartlett, Down Ampney, Gloucestersh (w/o)

ROSIE MORN, THE - INNOCENT HARE - RED ROSY MORNING

ROSIE-O - "You may talk about your Bootle girls and round the corner Sally" - Sea Shantey - see also HAUL AWAY, ROSIE -- Reece BALDWIN rec by James M Carpenter 1928, Barry S Wales: FTX-141 - Bernard WRIGLEY (+ Ch): TOPIC 12-TS-234 1974 - THE SHANTEY CREW (unacc) Lancs Radio 22/3/89 CASS-15-0769 "Haul away for Rosie-O" -- BRIGHT LIGHT QUARTET rec by Alan Lomax & Shirley Collins, Weems, Va 6th April 1960: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997 "(Bye bye) Sweet Roseanne" -- - SAILORMAN JACK , NY 1987: CASS-1230

ROSIN BOX, THE - JOLLY BEGGAR

ROSIN THE BEAU - "I've travelled this wide world all over, and now to another I'll go" - ROUD #1192 - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp92-3 "Old RTB" - Cf KIDSON TT 1891 "The Mammy's Pet" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #698 2var - JOYCE OIFM 1909 p162 m only - SHARP Cf 2 p123 Louis Hooper - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #230 p125 Louie Hooper, Hambridge, Som 1904 2v/m - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp93-4 Wm & Patty Warren, South Marston, Wiltsh 7v/ch (w/o)/ #508 Edwin Warren, South Marston, Wiltsh (w/o) - HENRY SOP #695/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p51 Foreglen, Co Derry 1937 (text completed from WILLIAMS FSUT) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #281 p613 Mark Fuller & Luther Hills, East Dean, Sussex 1952 --- SPAETH REAW 1926 pp40-42 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp203-4 Mississippi (w/o) - CHAPPELL R&A 1939 p97 - BELDEN Mo 1940 pp255-8 Missouri (w/o) "Old R the B" - BROWN NC 1952 3 & 5 #32 p61 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 4 p171 - WARNER 1984 #159 pp360-2 Dick Tillett, Wanchese, NC 1972/ 1978 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p14 no source given - Cf TARPAULIN JACKET - UNFORTUNATE RAKE - melody used for EDDIE RICHARDSON - GRAVEYARD SHIFT - GREEN FIELDS - MEN OF THE WEST - ROSE CONNOLLY - THEN IT'S IRISHMAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING ? - fiddler plays tune in SHIP CARPENTER'S WIFE - WIFE FOR SALE -- Mark FULLER & Luther HILLS rec by PK, East Dean, Sussex 1952: RPL 18714 - Frank PURSLOW rec by PK, Bampton, Oxon 1961: FTX-025 (mel in ch) - Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR: COLLECTOR JDS-3 1960 - Walter PARDON rec Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk 1978: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-301 1984 "Rosin-a-beau" - Tune used for composed Gaelic Song "An Hunter" CIC-019 1988 CASS-0884

ROSIN THE BEAU - Instrumental - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p49 - KERR 1 #17 p29 as jig (G) "Old RTB" -- Michael COLEMAN (fid) Sligo rec Chicago: FTX-154 played as waltz "The Men of the West" - HAYMAKERS BAND led by PK rec London 1956: RPL LP 23649 bef "Love Port and Sherry"/ FTX-041

ROSLEA - BRACKAGH HILLS

ROSLIN CASTLE - "Twas in the season of the year" - also known as "The Howe o' Glamis" - stands on banks of R.Esk in Midlothian - ROUD#8408 - DIXON Fiddle Music of James Hill 1987 p45 -- Band of Scots Guards: ARGO ZDA-147 1971

ROSSA'S FARWELL TO ERIN - "Farewell to friends of Dublin town" - ROUD#3040 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp68-69

ROSSCREA COWS, THE - About how they are now sent to a factory instead of being driven on the road to market -- Micho RUSSELL Clare: TOPIC 12-TS-251 1975

ROSS-SHIRE - BONNY BANKS OF ROSS-SHIRE (JMcD) - IT RAINS IT HAILS (James Bowie Muir-of-Ord) - THERE WAS A LAD BORN IN KYLE -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

ROSSIGNOL, LE - Elizabethan - LONG DE VERT BOCAGE -- TROTTO (lute duet): FOREST TRACKS FT-6004 cass

ROSSLEA - BURNING OF ROSSLEA

ROSY - ROSIE

ROSY MORN, THE - FRED ROSY MORNING

ROSY NELL - "How oft we've talked of childhood's joys" - ROUD#2870 - FUSON BKH 1930 p99 Ky (w/o)