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SAL'S GOT A SUGAR LIP - American Dance-song -- Jimmy DRIFTWOOD (with mouth-bow): UNITED ARTISTS UAL-3050 1959

SAL'S SONG - AUNT SAL'S SONG

SALADIN MUTINY, THE - CHARLES AUGUSTUS ANDERSON

SALAMANCA, THE - Hornpipe/ Reel (D) - ALLAN #39 p10 - BAYARD DTF #98 p58 "Boyle's Reel" - BREATHNACH CRE 1 p58 & CRE 2 #209 p108 3pts as Reel from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes) Dublin - COLE #5 p6 - GIBLIN #38 p23 as Reel - KENNEDY FTB 1954 2 p8/ 1994 #30 p10 - KERR MM 1 #26 p45 as Hornpipe - LEVEY 1 #54 p22 "Reel or Hornpipe" - MOYLAN #8 from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes) & #33 from Mike Carney - O'NEILL MOI #1348/ DMI #603 - PHILLIPS FCTB p42 from Tommy Peoples: COMHALTAS CEOLTOIRI 13) - ROCHE 1 #134 p54 -- Frank LEE'S TARA CEILIDH Band: REGAL ZONOPHONE MR-1106 (78 rpm) CASS-0892 bef "Flogging R" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19589/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997/ FTX-075 talk before about father & family/ rec by David Hammond 1975: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978/ bef "Flood on the Holm" (Scott-Skinner) - RAVENHILL Flute & Drum Band rec Belfast 9/5/59: RPL LP 25646 bef "Connaughtman's Rambles" & "Blackthorn Stick" - Dave SWARBRICK (fid): ELEKTRA BY-6030 1967 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): RTE-CD-199 1997 rec 1948 bef "Hand me down the tackle", "Merry Blacksmith" & "Beauty Spot"/ GAEL- LINN CEF-009 1965/ rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED FFR-001-2 1976 bef "Duke (Lord) Gordon's" - Tommy PEOPLES (fid) with Paul BRADY (gtr) SHANACHIE 29003 1976/ CASS-0486 bef "Lucy Campbell" - Rose MURPHY on TOPIC 1976/OSSIAN OSS-21 1989/ CASS-1279

SALAMANDER, LA - Quadrille or Reel - Tunebook Ms #152 p421 (D) 2/4 3pts

SALE OF A WIFE - "Attend to my ditty you frolicsome folk" - ROUD#2898 - SHIELDS SRT 1981 p139 BS Mayne Belfast (w/o)

SALFORD - Lancashire - DIRTY OLD TOWN (McColl) -- TOPIC 12-T-41/ CASS 60-0202 Streets of Song: Ewan McCOLL & Dominic BEHAN "Down in Broughton runs the Irwell" "Gimme some steam" (game descr) "Poor Mary" "Ickywick" "Policeman, policeman" "My father died" "On the croft" "We are the boys of Percy Street" "In Miller Street" Broomstick-maypole Song "We come to greet you" "We're off in a motor car" "Paddy Knight" etc

SALFORD FAIR - "Come Dick and Sam and Boll and Jack" - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

SALISBURY - Wiltshire - GAOL SONG - HASELBURY GIRL - MALTMAN AND HIGHWAYMAN- SAUCY PLOUGHBOY

SALISBURY PLAIN - FOOTBALL MATCH - MARR-I-ED TO A MER-MAI-ED - ROUT HAS COME FOR THE BLUES

SALISBURY PLAIN - comp by Ashley Hutchings & Bob Pegg -- Mr FOX: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-226 1970

SALLY (AND BILLY) - BROWN GIRL

SALLY AND THE SAILOR - SAILOR FROM DOVER

SALLY ANNE - American Mountain Dance Tune - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #240 (vol 2 p351) sung by Mrs Delie Hughes, Cane River, Burnsville, Yancey Co., NC 1918 (DC 2004) - BRODY p244-5 (2 versions) (D & G) discog - Cf SAIL AWAY LADIES -- George STONEMAN (banjo) rec by Alan Lomax Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1702 1999 - Buna HICKS (fid) rec Frank & Anne Warner, NC 1959: FTX-927/ APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000 - Doc WATSON: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS CD SF 40029/30

SALLY AND HER LOVER - LADY LEROY

SALLY BROWN - "was a bright mulatto - Way ay roll and go" - Shanty - ROUD#2628 - DAVIS-TOZER 1887 #1 - SMITH MOW 1888 p20 - BRADFORD-FAGGE 1904 - WHALL 1910 p64 - SHARP EFC 1914 #28 p33 London (note about scales) - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #5 p6 Capstan - GRAINGER #202 Charles Rosher, Chelsea, London 1907/ #387 Royston Clifford, London (?) 1908 - JFSS 8 1928 p97 J E Thomas: John Farr, Gwithian, Cornwall 1926 - JFSS 20 p305 Sharp "What is in the pot a-boiling ?" "Heave and go" Gilchrist heard it in Jamaica - JFSS 32 p97 - SHAY 1925 p85 (w/o) - HUGILL 1961 p162 (3 versions) - GUNDRY CK 1966 p40 John Farr - HUGILL 1969 p125-6 --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #108 pp275-6 NS 2var (w/o) - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p337 see also SHALLOW BROWN -- (a) J.S.Scott, London (b) Robert Yeoman, Dundee & (c) George SIMPSON, Dundee rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142 - Stanley SLADE with male ch & Phil GREEN (p-acc) rec Bristol 1943/ with PK & THE HAYMAKER'S BAND (Unacc Chorus) rec Bristol 1950: RPL 17610/ FTX-207 - Bruce LAURENSEN rec by Pat Shaw, Lerwick, Shetland July 1952: RPL 18647 - A H RASMUSSEN of Norway rec by PK, London 1955: RPL 22348/ FTX-205 "Charlie Brown" - THE SPINNERS: FONTANA STL-5431 1967 - THE SHANTEYMEN: ALLEGRO ALL-879 1968 Instrum medley aft "Life on the ocean wave" & bef "Homeward Bound" - A L LLOYD (& ch): TOPIC 12-TS-234 1974 - SWEENEY'S MEN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-37 1976 --- "Sailor" Dad HUNT rec by AL: LIB of CONGRESS L-2 --- Reginald SYNDER (chantynman) with 4 crew rec by AL, Newcastle, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER 1731 2002 "Feeny Brown is the belle of Bermuda"

SALLY FREE AND EASY - comp by CT -- Cyril TAWNEY (voc/gtr) rec by PK 1961: FTX-092/ ARGO ZFB-28 1972 - CORRIES: FONTANA STL-5484 1969 - Larry DALEY (with ch) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse, Totnes, Devon Nov 1974

SALLY GARDENS, THE - Reel (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #100 p43 - BRODY p246 - MOYLAN 2 #154 p89 from John O Leary (melodeon) - see also DOWN BY THE SALLY GARDENS -- Jimmy HOGAN (mel) of Tipperary with Brian GREEN (drums) & Bobby HALL (piano) rec by PK, London 8/3/58: RPL LP 23969/ FTX-371/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 bef "Mason's Apron" - Dave SWARBRICK (fid) (SONET SNTF-763) CASS-0167 aft "Miss Monaghan" & "Hare's Foot"

SALLY GO ROUND THE ROSES - comp by Jaynetts/ Sanders/ Stevens -- PENTANGLE: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-205 1969

SALLY GO ROUND THE SUN - "moon, chimney pots, on a Sunday afternoon - woo!" - Children's Ring Game - GOMME 1868 2 p149 version from Deptford Kent - GOMME/ SHARP 1912 p12 School Series 5 coll CJS Somerset - OPIE SG 1985 #111 pp398-400 music -- rec by Damian Webb 10/9 St Michael's Junior School for Girls, Workington Cumb 1960: RPL LP 26302/ FTX-196 #9 "Sally go round the Moon"/ DW 30/4 Turpin Green Methodist Juniors, Leyland, Lancash 1969: FTX-196 #7 - children rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 - Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969 --- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children"CASS-1225-6 (1v)

SALLY GOODIN - "I had a piece of pie" - Appalachian song/ dance tune - ROUD#739 - BRODY p246 (2 versions) (A) discog - BROWN NC 1952-62 3 p126 - KERR MM 2 #416 p47 (G) "Grapevine Twist" - RANDOLPH Ozark 1946-50 2 p350 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p236 - JAFL 28 p128 -- Clayton McMICHEN (fid) for Square Dancing with gtr & banjo rec by Alan Lomax DECCA (78) 1949 7"RTR-0364 aft "Ida Red" - Juniie SCRUGGS rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314)/ RTR-0316 - Mrs Donald SHELTON (lilting) rec by Maud Karpeles, Flag Pond, Tenn USA Sept 1950: RPL 17145/ FTX-907 - Mrs Edd PRESNELL (dulc): TRADITION TLP-1007 1956-7 - Clark KESSINGER (fid) accomp Gene MEADE (gtr) & Gene PARKER (banjo) rec by Charles Faurot, Union Grove, NC 1968: SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-231 1972 (M) - Lonnie AUSTIN (elec organ): LEADER LEE-4045 1975 - Ted BOYD (banjo) with Junior SHIVLEY (gtr) rec by Mike Yates, Endicott, Franklin Co, Va, USA - Neil MORRIS acc on the mouth bow by Charlie Everidge rec by Alan Lomax, Timbo, Ark Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1707 1997 - played by Earl COLLINS (fiddle), Missouri-Oklahoma 1970 on DVD 2003 Films of Bess Lomax Hawes (B/W)

SALLY GRAY - "Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret" - Cumberland Dialect Song - Words by Robert Anderson 1802 - tune: "The Muckin o' Geordie's Byre" - mentions "Collop Monday" - ROUD#1365 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp8-9 Cuimberland - GRAHAM p14 - JFSS 3 pp71-2 - JFSS 3:10 p41 Sydney Nicholson: J W Brown, Carlisle Cumberland 1905 - FMJ 54:4 1983 pp355-7 Gilchrist Ms (w/o)/ Bernard Parker, Wigton, Cumbria & John Parker, Carlisle (m/o) -- Unnamed male singer rec Ambleside, Westmoreland 1940: RPL 2520 (78 rpm)

SALLY'S GONE TO DORCHESTER - Dorset - Four Hand Reel - tune is variant of COME DANCE AND SING ? -- Andrew CURTIS sings tune for FOUR HAND REEL & talks about local dancing rec by PK, Corfe, Dorset 1954: RPL 21477/ FTX-408

SALLY-I-O - SING SALLY-O - TALLY-I-O

SALLY IN OUR ALLEY - Tune used for BIRMINGHAM SALLY-O (var of "Cold and Raw")

SALLY IN THE GARDEN -- John BURKE (b) "Old Time Fiddle tunes for banjo" 1975 CASS-30-0807

SALLY IS THE GIRL FOR ME "- Last week I was twenty one" - master set me free - money - spree - ROUD#2108 - UDAL DFL 1922 pp327-8 Procs Dorset Field Club #27 1907 (w/o)

SALLY JANE - "O samgolay, that is bound to - When I was singing, O lazy hound - starved to death" - American Spiritual - Cf JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO -- J B SUTTON rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Elizabeth City, NC USA 1941: FTX-926

SALLY JOHNSON - American -- John BURKE (b) "Old Time Fiddle tunes for banjo" 1975 CASS-0807-C30

SALLY KELLY'S - Reel (Em) - BALMORAL p20 (Dm) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #235 p122 (Em) "Miss Kelly's Favourite" alt: "New Potatoes" - FELDMAN p188 (Em) from Danny O Donnell, Co Donegal "Sally Kelly's Reel" - see also Miss KELLY'S

SALLY LUKER -- "Fanny" FRYER (mel) with Abingdon Morris, rec by PK, London 12/5/56: RPL LP 23926/ FTX-116

SALLY MAGEE - Jig - O'NEILL DMI #314 (not in MOI) (G)

SALLY MONRO(E) - "My name it is Charles (James or Jimmy) Dickson , a blacksmith by my trade" - Family opposition to marrriage - LAWS #K11(ABBB 1957 pp145-6) - ROUD#526 - BSs Sanderson & others - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #74 15v - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p53 (10var) - ORD BB 1930 pp115-6 14v (w/o) - WILLIAMS Ms #326 Daniel Morgan, Braydon Wood, Wiltsh (w/o) - HENRY #571/ HUNTINGTON p441 John Elliott, Turfahun, Co Antrim 1934 - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 p291 Guyer: George Blake, Southampton, Hampsh 1906 "Charles Dickson" - JEFDSS 1949 p17 Laurensen - TOCHER 9 1973 p8 Alan Bruford: John Goar, Toab, Orkney (11v) - PURSLOW FD 1974 pp82-3 Gardiner: George Blake - PALMER OBSS 1986 #90 p190 from Greig -- Hector & Mrs CAMPBELL #348, Ythan Wells, Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Bruce LAURENSEN rec by Pat Shaw, Shetland 1952 - Angela BRASIL (gypsy from Gloucester - age 15) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1954: FTX-183 - Mrs Kate NEWLANDS (83-travelling draper) rec by PK, roadside near Kirkwall, Orkney 1954: 5"RTR-1055/ FTX-189 - Robin Morton & BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LEADER LER-2090 1974 (Greig with "General Munro" tune) - Harry BRAZIL (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Gloucester 1978: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985/ TOPIC TSCD-661 1998 "Sally Morrow"

SALLY MY DEAR - KNIFE IN THE WINDOW

SALLY PICKER, THE - Hornpipe - ROCHE 2 #218 p13 (G) 2/4

SALLY RACKET - CHEERLY MAN - HAUL HER AWAY -- STAVERTON BRIDGE rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Totnes, Devon 3/7/70 7"RTR#0141/ FTX-144

SALLY SAT A-WEEPING - ONCE I HAD A TRUELOVE

SALLY SAUCER - LITTLE SALLY SAUCER

SALLY TO HER BEDCHAMBER - "Now S to her bed this night she made great (?)" - Jimmy - ROPUD#2758 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p140 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB 1v/m

SALLY TWIGS, THE - BITTER WITHY

SALLY WALKER - "Rise SW - rise if you can (sitting on a saucer) - rise SW and choose your man - Now you are married, full of joy - first a girl and then a boy - kiss and go" - Children's Choosing/ Ring Fame (with girl crouching in centre) or Skipping - ROUD#4509 - GOMME 2 p149 (48var) - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1586 pp140-2 (5var) "Rise SW"/ "Little SW" - OPIE SG 1985 #43 pp167-171 - Cf THREE LITTLE SANDY GIRLS (Opie says "a modern Scots version") -- St Johns Junior Girls, Keswick rec by Damian Webb 1960: DW 11/1 / RPL LP 26302/ FTX-195 #10 "Rise SW" -- rec by Damian Webb 3/21 St Michaels Juniors, Workington Cumb 1960: FTX-197 - Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP- A-101 1969 --- Brick Kiln Village children rec by Alan Lomax, Nevis 1962: ROUNDER CD-17116 1997 - Mattie GARDNER, Ida Mae TOWNS & Jesse Lee PRATCHER (voc & handclapping) rec by Alan Lomax, Como, Miss., USA Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1703 1997 "Little SW"

SALLY WAS A NAUGHTY GIRL - MARY WAS A BAD GIRL

SALMON FISHERS, THE - "Cam ye by the salmon fishers - cam ye by the roperie - saw ye by dear sailor laddie - saling on the raging sea? - Sit ye doon my bonny lassie - tak yer bairnie on yer knee - drink a health to a jolly sailor - he'll come back and cherish thee - Sailors they are bonny laddies - ah but they are neat and clean - they can kiss a bonny lassie - in the dark and no be seen" - Aberdeen kids song known in 1959 - OPIE SG 1985 #82 p333

SALMON TAILS UP THE WATER - FISHER'S FROLIC

SALOME - I'M CALLED SAMPSON - I'M SHIRLEY TEMPLE

SALONIKA - "My husband's in Salonika I wonder if he's dead" - "right away my soldier boy" -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London LC-0008 nd/ CASS-0952

SALT - FAREWEWLL TO THE BRINE

SALT CREEK - Mountain dance tune - is this the same as SALT RIVER ? - Cf tune of TRAIN ON THE ISLAND -- Jass Johnston (?) (fid in AE tuning) rec at Festival Concert in Virginia [nd] RTR-0322 "Slate Creek" - Dent WIMMER (banjo) rec by Mike Yates, Floyd, Floyd Co Va 8/8/79 VWML-007 d/CASS-1026 1992

SALT MARKET, THE - MARGADH AN T-SALAINN

SALT MUSTARD VINEGAR PEPPER - Kids Counting Out Rhyme - see UP IN THE LOFT -- Keston Avenue School, Old Coulsden, Surrey April 1960: RPL LP 26349

SALT PEOPLE, THE - "On Greatham Marshes - mud flats - torches - salt crystals glitter beneath the moon" - comp by GM 1951 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-222

SALT RIVER - Mountain dance tune - see also SALT CREEK - BRODY 1983 pp248-9-- Franklin GEORGE (banjo) W Virginia: SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-229 1972

SALT SEAS - HENRY MARTIN

SALTPETRE SHANTY - HUGILL 1961 p518 -- THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974 bef "Way Down South" & "Lowlands"

SALTY DOG - "Eph Late was a cow-punching boy" - Country Song orig rec by Clara Smith 1926 - ROUD#11661 LOMAX 1938 Cowboy Songs pp110-112 -- Austin ALLEN (v/ ten banjo) & Lee ALLEN (kazoo/ gtr) rec Memphis Tenn 1930 "New SD" - Roy GUEST with THE TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID-5165 1963

SALTY THING -"Poontang little, Poontang small - poontang stretches like a rubber ball - O my babe took my salty thing" - Early Erotic Blues Rag --Jimmie SMOTHERS (guitar) rec by Alan Lomax & Harold Spivacke, State Farm, Va June 1936: ROUNDER CD-11661-1823-2 1999

SALTY TWIGS - BITTER WITHY

SALUTE TO THE TREES - or "The Ash and the Willow" comp by GM 1963 about the Seasons -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-226

SALVATION ARMY, THE - I'M A SKYSCRAPER MAN (K) - NIGHT WAS DARK (K) - TAMBOURINE SONG -- Streets of Song TOPIC 12-T-41: Ewan McCOLL & Dominic BEHAN "Holy Moses" & "Taller taller"- Rowland KELLETT Leeds rec by PK, London 1963: FTX-209 - Julie FELIX: FONTANA STL-13117 1969 "Away with rum, by gum" TRADITION TSR-017 Roger WATSON "Salvation Band" with school band - Interview with General Booth rec by Ken Luke of Totnes Hospital Radio, Devon 28/7/84

SALVATION ARMY FREE FROM SIN - "went to Heaven in a corn beef tin - the tin upset and down they fell - Instead of going to Heaven they went to -" - Kids Rhyme -- Pat ELLIOTT rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, Birtley, Durham: FOLKWAYS FG-3565 1962

SALVATION BAND - comp by Roger Watson, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts -- THE DRUIDS: ARGO ZFB 22 [1970] - Roger WATSON with Western Mare School Band: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-017 1974

SAM BASS - "was born in Indiana - it was his native home" - LAWS E4 - ROUD#2244 - LOMAX Cowboy p150 (Robin Hood type theme) -- Alan LOMAX (voc/ gtr) Guy CARAWAN (banjo) rec by PK, London: TRADITION TLP- 1029 1958/ FTX-904

SAM FIRTH - ROTHERHAM STATUTES

SAM HALL - "O my name it Sam Hall chimney sweep" - Monologue based on JACK HALL revived as "Sam Hall" about 1845-50 by comic singer G W Ross (Kidson quoted by Sharp) - LAWS #L-5 ABBB 1957 p167 "Sam Hall" - ROUD#369 (Cox:#16058) - SHARP Ms #1716 heard in Manchester - HUGILL 1961 p449 - CRAY Bawdy Ballads 1969 p12 4var --- SING OUT Reprint 1 p64 - PETERS FSOW 1977 pp184-5 Dakota 1923 "Samuel Small" -- John McPHERSON, rec by James Carpenter, Sunderland 1928: 141 "Johnny Hall" - "Lucky" LUCKHURST of London rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-331

SAM'S GONE AWAY - "On board a man-of-war" - Sea Shanty -- JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301

SAM HOLT - "O don't you remember black Alice SH?" - Australian parody on "Alice Benbow" with theme of miscegenation - see ALICE BENBOW - MAID OF AUSTRALIA - MEREDITH Overlanders Songbook p166 -- "Swagman" Jack Pobar: LARRIKIN 007 1976

SAM, SAM THE DIRTY MAN - "washed his face in a frying pan - combed his hair with a donkey's tail - scratched his belly with his big toe nail" - Kids Rhyme - see OLD DAN TUCKER (Minstrel Song) -- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 learned as a child in Salford Lancs

SAM SHUTTLE AND BETTY REEDHOOK - Words from a broadside about early cotton weaving mill in Lancs with clog-fighting -- Harry BOARDMAN (acc): TOPIC 12-T-204 1970

SAM STEELE'S WALTZ & SCHOTTISCHE -- Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977

SAM THE CARTER'S LAD - JIM THE CARTER

SAMBO CAESAR - call & response song of "bongo" repertory performed at wakes -- Cyprus SMITH (leader) & others with accomp on "croix-crois sticks" rec by Alan Lomax, Diego Martin, Trinidad 25/4/62: ROUNDER 1700 1997

'SAMBO EARA - Irish Gaelic -- MAIRE AINE NI DHONNCHADHA, Connemara, Co Galway: CLADDAGH CC-6 1970/ FOLKWAYS FW-8781 1963 cass- 0937

SAMBO'S RIGHT TO BE KILT - "Some tell me tis a burning shame to make the niggers fight" - Music by Samuel Lover/ Words by Charles Halpine (see also IRISH ASTRONOMY & WE'VE DRUNK FROM THE SAME CANTEEN) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p78

SAMBO'S SONG - comp by Alan Bell - c1730 a negro boy was deposited with a landlord on Sunderland Point, south of Lancaster, 60 years later the local schoolmaster erected a monument to Sambo -- THE TAVERNERS: LEADER LER-2080 1973

SAME OLD STORY, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1540/ DMI #756 (G)

SAMMY - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974: FTX-046

SAMMY DEAD O - Children's game - "Sammy plant piece of corn down the gully -mm "-- Group of girls rec by Alan Lomax, San Juan Girl's Government School, Trinidad 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997

SAMMY SHUTTLEWORTH - about a Lancashire rip-roaring night out - Cf MICK Mc GILLIGAN'S BALL -- Mike HARDING (voc + conc & tenor horn): TOPIC 12-T-204 1970

SAMMY'S BAR - "I went down to SB when the last boat's are leaving" - comp by CT -- Cyril TAWNEY (voc/gtr) rec by PK, London: EMI DLP- 1204 1960/ ELEKTRA EUK-253 1966/ with Dennis McCALLUM (acc): ARGO 28 1972 "The Ballad of SB"

SAMMY'S MARCH - Tunebook Ms #160

SAMMY'S SCHOTTISCHE - comp by Felix Burns -- Peter LEATHAM (mel + piano) rec 1930's (?): TOPIC 12-T-376 1978

SAMOA -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SAMSON - I'M CALLED SAMSON

SAMUEL PLIMSOLL - Mr. PLIMSOLL

SAMUEL YOUNG - "Come all you people old and young" - lived in London, Kentucky Starte, went to fight in Mexico, giot sick & died - SHARP FSSA #192 (vol 2 p271) Mrs Sina Boone, Shoal Creek, Burnsville, NC 1918 (6v)

SAN ANTONIO ROSE - Bluegrass Instr -- Brian GOLBY (fid) & Band on Vic Smith radio prog on "History of the Fiddle" June 1973: CASS- 0437

SAN FRANCISCO - FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO BAY BLUES - comp by Jesse Fuller -- Ralph McTELL talks about him & Fuller singing song with harmonica, kazoo, guitar footbass: Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87: CASS-0423-4 -- - Wally WHYTON: FONTANA STL-5476 1968 - Alex CAMPBELL on Radio 2: 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550

SAN MIGUEL - comp by Bowers -- Lonnie DONEGAN: PICKWICK Hallmark HMA-204 1956/1965

SAND DANCES & JIGS - (Hornpipe) - KERR MM 2 #398 & #400 p4/ #412 & #413 p46 "Negro"/ #415 p47 "The Mountain Sprite"/ #416 p47 "Grapevine Twist" (version of Sally Goodin") & #420 p47 "Get on de train"/ KERR MM 4 #276 p29 (A) -- Sean MAGUIRE (fiddle) with Eileen HUNTER (piano) & Pat CONROY & Steve Cooney (guitar) CELTIC MUSIC CM-CD-048 1990 (Gift of Dave Bulmer Mar 2005)

SANDAY WALTZES - Orkney Island -- Jimmy & Billy MAYAL (fiddles) from Sanday rec by PK, Orkney July 1955: FTX-064/ AS I ROVED OUT Radio prog on Sea Songs 1956 : FTX-255

SANDGATE LASS ON THE ROPERY BANKS, THE - "On the Ropery banks Jenny was sitting" - ROUD#3178 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE pp184-5 (tune: "Fy let us away to the bridal")

SANDGATE LASSIE'S LAMENT, THE - "I was a young maiden truly" Ch: He's an ugly body" - ROUD#3170 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp162-3 -- Johnny HANDLE & HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: TOPIC 12-T-186 1968 - HLR (used as a jig): TOPIC 12-TS-219 1972 - Tish STUBBS (with fid, harmonica & mandolin) PEOPLE'S STAGE C45 cass 1978 - Lorna CAMPBELL Trio (voc/ gtr/ bsnjo) Radio 2: CASS-90-0622

SANDHILL CORNER - Northumbrian pipe tune -- W J STAFFORD (N- pipes) rec 22/10/49: RPL 14010

SANDING - i e decorating floors with sand -- Recordings - see SUBJECT Listing

SANDMOUNT, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 #170 p78 "Mick Hand's Reel" also called "The Sandpiper" -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute) of Co Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 aft "Bunch of Keys" --- Joe BURKE (harmonica) & Marie Mc LENNAN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978 "The Sandpoint" aft "Glencoe March"

SAND'S HORNPIPE - ALLAN #104 p26 (G) - MAGUIRE 1 #92 p25 (Am)

SANDS OF DEE, THE - "O Mary go and call the cattle home" - CLINGING 2005 #40 pp86-7 poem by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) publ in "Alton Locke" (1850) tune by Roy Clinging

SANDSHARK, THE - "The S feeds on the sailor bold" - "Devil's Reef" -ROUDR#2100 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp317-8 ship's log 1858 (w/o)

SANDWOOD DOWN TO KYLE - comp by DG -- Dave GOULDER: ARGO ZFB-10 1970

SANDY - SANTA'S CANDY

SANDY AND NAP - "Twa emperors once had a bit of a spree" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p149

SANDY BOAR - OLD SOW

SANDY BUCHANAN'S - Strathspey (C) - COLE #2 p123 - KERR MM 2 #218 p24

SANDY CAMERON - Reel -- Hector Mc ANDREW (fid) rec Aberdeen 13/7/67: RPL LP 30952/ FTX-272 aft "Blair Drummond"

SANDY DAWE - "There was a man, a man indeed, who sowed his garden full of seed - When the seed began to grow" - BLAKEBOROUGH Wit & Customs N Yorkshire 1898 p269 - OPIE ODNR 1951 #322 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #6 pp29-30 Christine Briggs of Ayrsh, Birmingham - see NEBUCADNEZZAR (Children's rhyme)

SANDY GIRLS - THREE LITTLE SANDY GIRLS (K)

SANDY GRANT - Reel comp by J Scott Skinner -- Willie Macpherson (fid) rec 21/5/59: RPL LP 24770 aft "Devil among the tailors" & bef "Mrs. Mc Leod's"

SANDY IS MY DARLING - Highland/ Reel - Tunebook Ms #47 p353 (G) 2/4 & #70 p293 (G) & #168 p416 (G) 2/4 - KERR 3 p18 (Am) -- Alex Francis McKAY (fid) Cape Breton NS: TOPIC 12-TS-353

SANDY'S A SAILOR - I CAN WASH A SAILOR'S SHIRT

SANDY Mc FARLANE - "a strapping young chiel" - Comic Courtship - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1001 p239 (1v w/o)

SANDY MURRAY - JOHNNY TODD

SANDY RIVER BELLE -- Taylor KIMBLE (fid) with THE KIMBLES (fid, banjo, gtr, auto-harp & bass), Carroll Co, Virginia USA MOUNTAIN MUSIC 4174 1974 - John BURKE (b) "Old Time Fiddle tunes for banjo" 1975: CASS-30-0807

SANDY SLEE - "At Carlisle Fair last Martinmas" - ROUD#12515

SANDY'S MILL - "If ye've been ayont Dundee" - ROUD#2875 - RYMOUR Club 2 1906 - Nonsense verses to the tune of "The Rakes Of Malo" - Isabel's father's party piece -- Isabel SUTHERLAND: TOPIC 12-T- 151 1966

SANDY'S O'ER THE LEA - Highland/ Reel - KERR 1 p9 4 pts (D) - Tunebook Ms R70 p293 "Sandy's Scotch Reel" (G) -- Fraser HUGHSON (fid) rec Tom Anderson Shetland RTR-1081/ CASS-60-0435 "Sandy ower sa Lea" (used for "Shetland Reel") - P S PETERSON (fid), rec Tom Anderson, Papa Stour, Shetland RTR-1079

SANDY'S SCOTCH REEL - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #177 p41 (G) - Tunebook Ms #70 p293

SANDY'S THE LADDIE - "Sandy is my darling" - see SCOTCH SANDY - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #749 p73

SANSA - AFRICAN THUMB PIANO

SANTA CLAUS - "Please don't think I'm SC" (tune: Lindy Lou) -- Irving JONES (v/gtr) Paul OLIVER "Before the Blues" on Radio 2: 3/12/87: CASS-0431

SANTA LUCIA -- Tommy WILLIAMS (duet conc) London: FREE REED FRR-008 1976 aft "O Sole Mio" & bef "Surrender"

SANTA'S CANDY - "In me you see a funny looking chap" - Ch: "I'm not so green as you may seem" champion kind of a fellow - he's out shooting ducks, then goes to the theatre, while another fellow courts his wife Bella - ROUD#5143 - tune: like the last part of "The Trooper Lad" - Songs & Ballads sung at Blairgowrie Festival 1968 pp8-9 -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Peter Hall in private house, 1971: TOPIC 12-T-303 1978/ TSCD-657/ CASS-0193

SANTUR - Harmonising zither: India Iran & Turkey - DULCIMER

SANTA ANNA - "SA's dead and gone" - Shanty - ROUD#207 - DAVIS- TOZER 1887 p40 - SMITH MOW 1888 - BULLEN 1891 #35 - WHALL 1910 p89 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #16 p15 (1v/m) - SHARP 1914 #33 p38 "General Taylor" - JFSS 3:12 1908 p236-9 Grainger: Charles Rosher, London (Ms#98 & #150) 1906/8/ Royston Clifford, London 1908 - 18 p33 - SHAY 1925 p91 (w/o) "Plains of Mexico" - HUGILL 1961 p82 & 1969 p127-9 "Santianna" --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp262-3 Richard Hines, River John, NS (w/o) - LOMAX FSNA 1960 Rasmussen version - see also CAN'T YOU DANCE THE POLKA - WALK HIM ALONG, JOHNNY -- (a) Jimmy CRONIN, London & (b) William FENDER, Barry, rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142 (7 other shantymen rec) - Charles BOYLE rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: 7"RTR-0543/ RPL 18405 talk bef - A H RASMUSSEN of Norway rec by PK, London 11/4/55: RPL 22348/ 205 "Maxmillian's Daughter" - ODETTA rec by Jack Hawkins, San Franscisco, USA 1956: TRADITION TLP-1010 1957 - Steve BENBOW (voc/gtr) with Jimmie Mc GREGOR (mandolin) Perry FRIEDMAN (banjo) & Vic PITT (d/bass) rec by PK, London: FTX-292/ EMI CLP- 1362 1960 "Santy Anno" (from Lomax) - Roy GUEST & Steve BENBOW FOLK FOUR: SOCIETY SOC-919 1963 - THE WEAVERS: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 - A L LLOYD (& ch): TOPIC 12-TPS-166 1966 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-142 1966/ 12-TPS 1966 "Plains of Mexico" - Colin WILKIE & Shirley HART: SAGA FID-2090 1967 "S Anno" - DRUIDS: ARGO ZFB-22 1970 "General Taylor" - THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-32 1971 - STEELEYE SPAN: B & C CS5 1972 - Instrumental: DAM-006/ CASS-0350 - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC-269 1992 gift from Sean Laffey CASS-1280 - JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301 - THE OYSTER BAND

SAOIL A MHOR AM POS THU? - (Morag, Will you marry?) -- Mary SMITH & ch rec by Fred Macaulay, S Bragar, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides 1957: RPL LP 24444

SAPLING WILLOW, THE - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974: FTX-045

SARABAND WALTZ, THE -- George ARMSTRONG (fid) rec by PK, Barrasford, Northumb 1954: FTX-121

SARABANDA - Instrumental by Corelli -- Bert JANSCH (with guitar): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-235 1971

SARACEN WARS - I'LL HANG MY HARP

SARAH - "She's proud and she's beautiful" -- (Albert RICHARDSON on 78rpm) - Tony WALES (with gtr & father in ch) 7"RTR-0089 dub from FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 - Jackie BOOTH rec by Gwilym Davies, Stroud, Gloucestersh 1979: FTX-417

SARAH BLOOM - "A pretty girl came courting me" - WILLIAMS Ms #72 Wm Moss, Coln St Aldwyns, Gloucestersh (w/o)

SARAH BRANDLEY - Love Song in Irish Gaelic - she had someone else so he waited for her daughter -- Bartley Connelly rec by Alan Lomax, Carna, Co Galway 1951: 7"RTR-0591 (with talk aft)

SARAH COLLINS - FEMALE SAILOR

SARAH JANE - (comp by R) -- RUSSCO (voc with 12-str gtr) rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 5/11/75: FTX-094

SARAH MARIA CORNELL - "Kind Christians all I pray attend" - ROUD2044 - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp155-7 Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841- 56 (w/o) - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp156-8 ship's log 1845 (w/o)

SARAH SALE - "As I walked round by the walls of Newgate" - WILLIAMS Ms #219 Charles Tanner, Bampton, Oxfordsh (w/o)

SARAH SCOTT - "Behind yon hill where heather blooms a cottage remote stood" - she dreams of her shepherd Willie's unfaithfulness to a richer farmer's only child and Sarah invites him to see her grave before she dies at her mother's breast - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1164 p246 (22v w/o)

SARAH SYKES - "To me said mother t'other day" - courting - dairy - ROUD#2107 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - UDAL DFL 1922 pp328-9 Procs Dorset Field Club #27 1906 (w/o) -- Charlie JOSE (unaccomp) rec by PK, Boscastle, Cornwall 1975: FTX-096

SARAH WILSON - "is my name" - grief and shame - betrayed by William - ROUD#177 - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp85-6 Gardiner: Job Reed, Southampton, Hampsh 1906

SARAH'S YOUNG MAN - "My first love was S and none could be fairer" - Manchester Square - tea and muffins - soldier - ROUD#1957 - IVES FSNB 1989 pp130-133 James Brown, South Branch, NB 1963

SARANGI - or "Sarandra" - bowed string instrum with sympathetic strings held vert like cello with finger-nail stopping -- COLUMBIA SL-215 India

SARATOGA HORNPIPE - COLE #6 p101 (F) - KERR MM 2 #380 p42 (F) - ROCHE 3 #169 p59 (D)-- Andrew CRONSHAW (steel pans) with Rory McLEOD (harmonica) Radio 2: 16/5/88: CASS-15 0766

SARATOGA REEL - COLE p15 (A)

SARAWAK - see also KALIMANTAN -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SARDINIA - see ITALY

SARDINIA - Sacred Harp Spiritual #296 attributed to 18th C French composer, George Castil -- Alabama Sacred Harp Singers rec by Alan Lomax, Fyffe, Ala Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997

SARK - Channel Islands - Recordings - see AREA Listing

SARK DANCE, THE - NO MORE FANCY GIRLS FOR ME

SARO JANE - "I got a wife with 5 little children" Ch: "Nothing to do but sit down and sing: Rock-about my little SJ" - American children's song - LOMAX USA 1947 p133 & FSNA 1960 #277 p528 4v/m Uncle Dave Macom "Rock About, my Saro Jane" -- Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: FTX-915 - ODETTA: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

SARSFIELD - WHEN SARSFIELD SAILED

 
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