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STRABANE - AIR AODAN STRATH BAIN

STRABANE HIRING FAIR - HIRING FAIR

STRAGNE - RAKES OF STRAGNE

STRAND HORNPIPE, THE - LASS ON THE STRAND

STRANDS OF MAGILLIGAN, THE - AMERICAN STRANGER

STRANGE FRUIT - comp by Allen about Negro lynching -- Billy HOLLIDAY with trumpet/ piano: John Peel on Protest in 50s & 60s RPL Radio 2 7/3/87: CASS 90-0565 - Josh WHITE: DECCA CRLM- 1047 1971/ (LONDON LL-1341 & MERCURY MG-36052)/ CASS-0240 (break in middle of rec)

STRANGE TOWN - comp by GM 1961 about a visitor coming to town -- Graeme MILES (voc/banjo): FTX-229

STRANGER IN LONDON, A - "One night I was in Piccadilly" - ROUD#12860 -- Harry GREEN: (VETERAN VT135)

STRANGER MARCH -- Peter & Daniel WYPER (C/C# mel) & piano re- mastered from 78 rpm: TOPIC 12-T-376 1978

STRANGER ONCE IN WORCESTER, A - GOLD WATCH

STRANGER TO HIMSELF -- Sandy DENNY & FAIRPORT CONVENTION & Dave SWARBRICK (dulc): ISLAND FOLK-1001 1975 (boxed)/ HANNIBAL 1985

STRANGERS - BLACKSMITH COURTED ME

STRANGEST DREAM, THE - "Last night I had the S D" - comp by Ed Mc Curdy (Canadian-American) -- Perry FRIEDMAN (voc/ banjo) of Canada rec by PK, London: EMI DLP-1204 1960

STRAP THE RAZOR - STROP THE RAZOR

STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT - comp by Burns -- Jean REDPATH arr by Serge Hovey: Radio: 4/3/87: CASS-0408

STRATH BANN - AIR AODANN STRATHBHAIN

STRATHEARN - Strathspey - COLE p124 (Am) alt title: "Among the Haughs of Cromdale"

STRATHSPEY AND REEL SOCIETIES - BANCHORY - ORKNEY - SHETLAND

STRATHSPEYS - see also HIGHLAND SCHOTTISCHES & FLINGS -- A' WILLIE WE HAVE MISSED YOU - ALISTER McALISTER - BELLES OF CAMPBELTOWN - BLAIR DRUMMOND - BOATIE ROWS - BOG OF GIGHT - BONNIEST LASS IN A THE WORLD - BRAES OF AUCHTERTYRE/ BUSBY/ MAAS/ TULLIMET - BRECHIN CASTLE - BRIDGE OF DEE - BRIDGE OF PERTH - CALDER FAIR - CALEDONIAN HUNT - CAMERON HIGHLANDERS - CAMERON'S GOT HIS WIFE AGAIN - CAT THAT KITTLED IN JAMIE'S WIG - CLACHNACUDDIN - COLONEL Mc BAIN - COUNTESS OF BUCHAN'S - DAINTY DAVIE - DEAN BRIG O' EDINBURGH - DUCHESS OF ATHOL'S - DUCHESS OF GORDON - DUNCAN DAVIDSON - DUNNOTTAR CASTLE - DRUMMER - EARL OF CRAWFORD - EARL OF MOIRA - EWIE WI THE CROOKED HORN - FAIRBAIRN'S - FORBES MORRISON - FORTH BRIDGE - FORTY SECOND HIGHLAND REGIMENT - FRANK GILRUTH'S - GARTHLAND'S - GEORGE THE FOURTH - GILLIE CALLUM - GREY DAYLIGHT - HAME CAM OOR GIDE MAN - HAUGHS OF CROMDALE - I'M OWER YOUNG TO MARRY YET - JAMES WATT'S - JARNOVICHES' - JOHN ROY STEWART - JOHNNY WARD'S - LADY AMY STEWART'S - LADY BAIRD'S - LADY BINNING - LADY CHARLOTTE OF BRAID'S - LADY ELGIN'S - LADY LOUDEN'S - LADY LUCY RAMSAY - LADY MADELINA SINCLAIR - LADY MARY RAMSAY - LAIRD O DRUMBLAIR - LAIRD O McINTOSH - LAIRD O THRUMS - LASSIE WI THE YELLOW COATIE - LASSES LOOK BEFORE YOU - LASSES OF DONNYBROOK - LEYS O LUNCARTY - LOCH EROCH SIDE - LOCH NA GARR - LOOK BEFORE YOU - LORD ALEXANDER GORDON'S - LORD BYRON'S FAVOURITE - LORD JOHN CAMPBELL - LORD LYNDOCH - LORD MOIRA - LORD RAMSAY - MAGGIE LAWDER - MAN'S A MAN FOR A THAT - MARQUIS & MARCHIONESS OF HUNTLY - MARQUIS OF HUNTLY'S FAREWELL - MARQUIS OF HUNTLY'S HIGHLAND FLING - MASTER FRANCIS SITWELL - MILLER OF DRONE - MILLER OF DRONE - Miss CRAWFORD - Miss DRUMMOND OF PERTH - Miss HALDANE OF GLENEAGLES - Miss LYALL - Miss STUART'S - Miss DUMBRECK - Miss WARRENDER OF LOCHEND - Mr. JAMES Mc NICOL'S - Mr. WORTHLANDS - Mrs. ADYE'S - Mrs. GARDEN OF TROUP - MONY MUSK - MY LADY'S GOON HAS GAIRS ON'T - MY LOVE IS LIKE THE RED RED ROSE - NEW BRIG OF GLASGOW - NIEL GOW - NIEL GOW'S SECOND WIFE - NO LUCK ABOOT THE HOOSE - O LET ME I THIS AE NIGHT - OF A THE AIRTS THE WINDS CAN BLOW - OVER THE MOOR AMONG THE HEATHER - PADDY BARTLEY'S - PANMURE HOUSE - PERTHSHIRE VOLUNTEERS - PETER BAILIE'S PIG - PUSH ABOUT THE JORUM - REEL OF TULLOCH - ROY'S WIFE - ROYAL RECOVERY - RUFFIAN'S RANT - SANDY BUCHANAN'S - SAW YE JOHNNY COMING ? - SAW YE NAE MY PEGGY? - SEAMUS O BEIRN'S - SIR CHARLES DOUGLAS'S - SIR GEORGE CLARK'S - SMITH'S A GALLANT FIREMAN - SONG OF SIXPENCE - STIRLING CASTLE - STRATHEARN - STUMPEY - TARTAN ON THE HEATHER - TULLOCHGORUM - UP AN' 'WA THEM A', WILLIE - WELCOME TO YOUR FEET AGAIN - WELCOME WHISKEY BACK AGAIN - WHAT THE DEVIL AILS YOU ? - WHISTLE O'ER THE LAVE O'T - WHO WADNA FECHT FOR CHARLIE? - WIFE SHE BREWED IT -- Recordings - see MUSIC TYPES Listing

STRATHSPEYS: UNTITLED - FELDMAN p109

STRATTON CAROL OF THE MONTHS, THE - "January's when cold winds do blow" - ROUD#3320 - GUNDRY CK 1966 p45 Old Cornwall Winter 1936: Lizzie Kempthorne, Stratton, Cornwall -- Stratton Church bells & carol sung by Geoffrey SAVAGE (bass-baritone) of Morwenstow: "Sounds like North Cornwall": SENTINEL SENS-1011 1972 - Brenda WOOTON with Richard GENDALL: SENTINEL SENS-1016 1973 sung in Cornish "Caroll an Mysyow"

STRAUSS - QUICKSILVER POLKA - TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS

STRAW BEARS - JFLS 20 1909 Whittlesey Cambs - FRAMPTON 1984 "Whittlesey Straw Bear" booklet incl Plough Monday, Cambs -- Russell WORTLEY (reading journal quote): "Rattlebone & Ploughjack" ISLAND HELP-24 1976

STRAW BOYS - HUNTING THE WREN (Dingle, Co Kerry)

STRAW MAN, THE - Mrs. GREIG

STRAW SEAT, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #833/ DMI #97 (#D)

STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM - GINNIE PUG

STRAWBERRY BEDS or BLOSSOM - BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM (Reel)

STRAWBERRY FAIR - "As I was going to SF (singing, singing buttercups and daisies)" - ROUD#173 - RIMBAULT 1851 "Kitt hath lost her key" - BARING GOULD SOW 1898 #68 (incl Rev Ed) "We have been forced to re-write the words which are very indelicate" 5v/m (a) J Masters HFS Bradstone 1891 - Cf tune of HUNTSMAN'S CHORUS - FOLK mag 1960 "Buttercups and Oojahs" (Adapted words by Nolly Clapton) - REEVES EC 1960 #125 pp249-250 BG: James Masters, Bradstone, Devon 1891 5v (w/o) - PURSLOW CL 1972 p14 Hammond Dorset 1906 4v/m "Chilbridge Fair" (3rd v comp by Purslow) - PALMER EBECS 1979 #113 p189-200 BG: James Masters (orig words restored) 5v/m -- Frank PURSLOW with John PEARSE: DOBELL 77/ FTX-219 (coll Hammond) "Chilbridge Fair" - Cyril TAWNEY (voc/gtr): LEADER LER-2095 1976 (Baring Gould original)

STRAWBERRY GIRL, THE - SONG OF THE STRAWBERRY GIRL

STRAWBERRY LANE - ELFIN KNIGHT

STRAWBERRY TOWER - SCARBOROUGH

STRAWBERRY TOWN - BRAMBLE BRIAR

STRAWS - as musical instrument - FIDDLE with beating

STRAYAWAY CHILD, THE - Jig - comp by Margaret Barry (first part in a dream) and assigned to FOLKTRAX 1956 - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #178 p42 5pts (Em) - TWEED p3 (Em) -- sung by Margaret on her speech tape - 5"RTR-0521 (Uher 1956) with story/ 7"RTR-0524 (tape noise) - Michael GORMAN (fid): FTX-174/ ROUNDER 11661-1774-2 1998 - BOTHY BAND CASS-60-0885

STREAMS IN THE VALLEY, THE - Reel -- John Mc KENNA (flute) with James MORRISON (fid) & piano (b Leitrim) rec USA COLUMBIA 1928 CASS-0893 aft "Gardiner's Favourite" - Dan Mc NIFF (flute) rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 19/7/52: RPL 18542/ FTX-370

STREAMS OF BUNCLAUDY, THE - (version of "Streams of Lovely Nancy" (?)- see MAID OF BUNCLODY -- Nellie WALSH rec by Brian George, Wexford 17/10/48: RPL 13874

STREAMS OF LOVELY NANCY, THE - "O the streams of lovely Nancy divide in two (three) parts" - ROUD#688 - Many BSs incl BG 1:1:#102/ 4:#284/ 5:#238/ 6:#98/ 7:#17/ 9:#13 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp136-7 Heywood Sumner: Sussex "Faithful Emma" - BARING GOULD SOW 1895 #93 (incl Rev Ed) "The Streams of Nantsian" (a) Matthew Baker, Lew Down 1899 (b) Miss Templar, Teigngrace (c) J Olver, Launceston, Cornwall (d) Matthew Ford, Menhenniot- BG-SHARP Schools 7 - BG- HITCHCOCK 1974 pp80-1 Matthew Baker titled by publisher: "O the sweet dreams of Nancy" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #375 pp533-6 Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke, Somerset 1906/ Jack Barnard, Bridgewater, Somerset 1908 1v/m/ Mr Turner, Bridgwater, Somerset 1905 - JFSS 1:3 1901 pp122-3 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 5v/m "Come all you little streamers" - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp310-319 Jekyll & Butterworth: Ned Spooner, Midhurst, Sussex 1908/ Rev H Peckham: nn, Aldingbourne, Sussex (& notes) "CAYLS" - JFSS 7:27 1923 pp59-60 Hammond: George Dowden, Lackington, Dorset 1905/ Catnach BS London (w/o) - WILLIAMS Ms #714 (w/o) - HENRY SOP #520/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p259 "The Strands of Magilligan" - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p98 Hammond: George Dowden - REEVES EC 1960 pp251-3 Gardiner: Mrs Goodyear, Axford/ Wm Brown, Cheriton, Hampshire 1907/ SBG: Mathew Baker (w/o) - GUNDRY CK 1966 p23 (SBG) F W Bussell: James Olver, Launceston, Cornwall 1889 - COPPER SSB 1973 pp294-5 'Turp' Brown, Cheriton, Hampshire ("Won't get married till my sailor comes again") - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp142-4 Mary Osbourne, Dunboe, Co Derry 1969/ Tom Anderson, Clooney, Co Derry 1969 "The Strands of Magilligan" (Co Derry) (European Ethnic SRT-2) --- CREIGHTON MFS 1962 Angelo Dornan, NB 1954 "Nellie" - KARPELES FSFN 1971 #64 pp205-6 Mrs. James Doyle & Mrs. Maurice Flinn, Nfl 1930 "The Dreams of LN" - PRETTY SARO - STONE AND LIME -- Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1952 "On Yon Lofty Mountain" (1v only)/ ROUNDER-11661-1839-2 2000 - Victor "Turp" BROWN rec by Bob Copper, Cheriton, Hampshire Nov 1957: RPL LP 26349/ FTX-426/ TOPIC 12-T- 317 1977/ TSCD-652 1998 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-87 1973 (SBG Cornwall) "Sweet Streams of Nancy" - Shirley COLLINS (accomp): TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974 - Geoff JERRAM: FOREST TRACKS FT-2006 1975 (from Jekyll/ Butterworth) - Richard GENDALL (voc/ gtr): FTX-009 sung in Cornish "Dowrow Nantyan" - Jo FREYA SAYDISC SDL-402 (CD) 1993 (from Gilchrist)

STREAMS OF NANTYAN - Cornish -- Celtic Congess, Edinburgh 14/8/59: RPL LP 26595 Cornish Group

STREAMS OF POULAPHOUCA, THE - Reel - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #31 p13

STREET BANDS - BAND under INSTRUMENTS Listing

STREET CRIES - Britain & Ireland - BASKETS & CHAIRS - FIRE WINTER LOG-O - HOLLY AND IVY GIRL - MILK - ROSES AND CARNATIONS - SWEET BLOOMING LAVENDER - YOUNG LAMBS - WATERCRESSES-O - WON'T YOU BUY A BROOM (Bucks) - JFSS 15 pp97-195 - JFSS 22 pp55-79 - JFSS 19 p215 note - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p300 "Chairs, mackerel, rags, rabbit skins" (words only) - BALDRY RSC 1939 pp245-6 "Ancient cry of the Radish Boys of Yarmouth" ("Moredosher, moredosher") - JEFDSS 1944 pp188-9 - POLWARTH 1969 p36 24 different ones (Newcastle ?) - KARPELES CSC 1974 p583 --- HAM FAT MAN -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

STREET HAWKERS -VENDORS

STREET PIANO - see INSTRUMENTS

STREET SCENE - Recitation - comp by HK Rochdale Lancash in which a Lowry "matchstick" picture comes to life -- Harvey KERSHAW: TOPIC 12-T-204 1970

STREET SONGS - comp by GM 1962 (a) "Lothian Road" "There is a happy bunch"), (b) (Climb aboard old) "Tolly's Wagon" & (c) "When Newcastle come to play us" ("bleedin Blaydon Races") -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222

STREET SINGERS - BUSKERS - TRACY, Arthur

STREET LAMP - SAGA OF A STREET LAMP

STREET VENDERS - OYSTER GIRL - WALTNUT GIRL - WATERCRESS

STREETS OF DERRY/ SLIGO - GALLOWS

STREETS OF FORBES, THE - "Come all you Laclan men - sorrowful tale - Ben Hall - hunted & shot like a dog" - Australian Outlaw or Bushranger Ballad - see also LACHLAN TIGERS, THE -- Martin CARTHY (voc/gtr) with Dave SWARBRICK (fid) - Martin CARTHY: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ PHILIPS International 6382-022 1967 - Trevor LUCAS: TOPIC 12-TS-203 1971

STREETS OF GLORY - SOME OF THESE DAYS

STREETS OF LAREDO, THE - BARD OF ARMAGH - UNFORTUNATE LAD (RAKE)

STREETS OF LEEDS, THE - "My mother used to say to me" - comp by RK of Yapton, Leeds - ED&S mag 32/2 1970 p65 -- Rowland KELLETT rec by PK, London 1963: FTX-209

STREETS OF LONDON, THE - comp by John Hasted to Irish tune "Jack of all trades" -- Jim O CONNOR (with conc, gtr & ch) LONDON CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZFB-61 1967

STREETS OF LONDON, THE - comp by Ralph McTell (Essex) -- Mary O HARA: WARWICK WW 5072 1979

STREETS OF OLD LONDON, THE - UNFORTUNARE LAD (RAKE)

STREETS OF MORTLAKE, THE - comp by KH about Cleansing Dept -- Katie HEATH (v/gtr) on Radio 2: 21/4/80: CASS-0417

STREETS OF PORT ARTHUR, THE - UNFORTUNATE RAKE

STRENGTH (Physical fitness) see also AGGRAVATION - BOXING - DISPUTES - FEUDING - FINN McCOUL - GIANTS - PHADRIG CROHOUR - QUARRELS- SAMSON - WE ARE THE BARK-EAST BOYS (London Kids brag)

STREW STREW WITH ROSES - "life's rough path and let's be gay" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #931 p5 2v w/m

STRICHEN'S PLANTINS - "In Strichen you know pretty plantins do grow" - ROUD#6286 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1547 pp83-103 (37var) -- George HAY rec by Seamus Ennis, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 16/7/52: RPL 18786 (8v) "Forglen" ("All you that is young and gay come listen unto me")

STRIKE FOR BETTER WAGES, THE - started in SW India Dock, London 1889 by Ben Tillett, Tom Mann & John Burnes -- Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER (conc): "Angry Muse" ARGO ZFB-65 1968

STRIKE THE BELL - Sea Song/ Shanty - Parody of "Ring the bell, watchman" - HUGILL 1969 pp164-6 - SPIN mag 2/4 "Strike the bell, second mate" - PALMER OBSS 1986 #123 p248 from Hugill - CLICK GO THE SHEARS -- Bernard WRIGLEY (voc/ conc & fid): TOPIC 12-TS-241 1974 --- Jeff WARNER & group, USA: COLLECTOR COL-1928 1977

STRIKE THE GAY HARP - Jig - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #256 (C) 3pts "The Night Dance"- SHASKEEN 1 #53 p38 (D) - THE COLEMAN COUNTRY: CELTIC MUSIC CM-CD-048 1990 (Gift of Dave Bulmer March 2005) (talk bef) bef "Lough Gowna Jig"

STRIKE UP YOU LUSTY GALLANTS - WARD THE PIRATE

STRIKES - see also MINING - BEST DRESSED MAN OF SEGHILL - BLACKLEG MINERS - BOLD CONTRUCTION MEN (Faulkner) - DURHAM LOCK-OUT - GREAT STRIKE - I'M GLAD THE STRIKE'S DONE - LOCK OUT - MINER'S LOCK OUT - MY MASTER AND I - OAKEY STRIKE EVICTIONS - POOR MAN'S FAMILY (Longshoremen) - SHREWSBURY THREE - SOUTH MEDOMSLEY - SOUTHPORT - STOCKPORT STRIKE - TEN PER CENT -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

STRIKING TIMES - "Cheer up, cheer up, you sons of toil -" Ch: "It's high time the working men should have it their own way" - mentions, London, Liverpool, Stockport, Kidderminster & farming men of Suffolk - PALMER TOTT 1974 p309 text: Ashton MSB 1888/ new tune by Sandra Faulkner based on "The Dewy Rain"

STRING BANDS - FIDDLES

STRINGS - AUTO HARP - BANJO - BASS - BAZOUKI - CELLO - DULCIMER - FIDDLE - HARP - HARPSICHORD - LUTE - MANDOLIN - MOUTH-BOW - ZITHER -- African Selection

STRINGS TO MY BOW - ONE THING OR THE OTHER

STRIP THE WILLOW -- Instrumental: DAMBUSTER DAM-006/ CASS-0350

STRIPLING YOUNG, THE - "A S making his moan and aye he sings ochone ochone" - boy of 17 and she is 29 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #987 pp173-4 11v/m

STROKESTOWN LASSES - Reel (Co Roscommon) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #185 p43 (G ends Em) - Tunebook Ms #146 p319 -- Mick O'BRIEN (U-p[ipes in Bb): LOUGH-CD-007 1999 "Strokestown" (from Peter Carberry, Kenagh, Co Longford) aft "Bonny Blue-eyed Lassie" & Boys of Twenty Five"

STROLLING DOWN TO HASTINGS - AYLESBURY GIRL

STROLLING ROUND THE TOWN - ROUD#13322 -- Cyril POACHER rec by Ginette Dunn, Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974: MUSICAL TRADITIONS MT-CD-303

STRONSAY WALTZ, THE - Orkney -- members of The Orkney Strathspey & Reel Society rec by PK 15/7/55 / FTX-310 A-ROVING 1968 #4 bef "Jock Halcrow"

STROP THE RAZOR - Jig - COLE #4 p60 "The Razor Strop"- MITCHELL 1976 #29 p36 3pts from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #179 p42 3pts (G) - KERR 1 #43 p39 "Strap the Razor" - Tunebook Ms #90 p34 (G) 3pts "The Razor Strop" - LEVEY 1 #32 p13 (Dm) "Strap the Razor" - O NEILL MOI #1092 DMI #285 2pts "1st Setting"/ MOI #1093/ DMI #286 4pts "2nd Setting" - ROCHE 1 #103 p44 "Strap the Razor"

STRUAN ROBERTSON'S RANT - Strathspey (Em) - BALMORAL p2 - KERR MM 1 #1 p5 3pts - WILSON p57

STRUGGLE FOR THE BREECHES, THE - HE: "About my wife I mean to sing a very comic song" - SHE: "I hope that you will tell the truth" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) - ROUD#1316 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p268 #419 Alfred House, Latton, Wiltsh (w/o) -- cf WEARING OF THE BREECHES

STUART'S HORNPIPE - Tunebook Ms (D) #16 p92 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #177 p49 (D)

STUDENT BOY, THE - DIED FOR LOVE

STUMPEY - Strathspey, Reel or Highland (G or A) - BAYARD DTF #319 p275 "Hazel Dean" 3var - BALMORAL p9 (A) "Stumpie" Strathspey - HONEYMAN p34 (A) "Stumpie" - KENNEDY FTB 2 p16/ #67 p18 (A) - KERR MM 1 #3 p6 (A) - KOHLER 1 p54 (A) "Stumpie" - Tunebook Ms #55 p259 (G) 6pts "Strathspey" - MELLOR Welsh Folk Dances 1935 p9 - MITTEL #49 p18 (G) 5pts Strathspey - see HAP AN ROW - Cf DORNOCH LINKS ? -- Bill SANDISON (fid) rec Lerwick Shetland 22/1/49: RPL 13200/ rec by Pat Shaw 1952: FTX-068 (Reel) - Willie FRASER rec by Hamish Henderson, Glenlivet, Banffshire: TANGENT TNGM-109 with "Mason's Apron" - Willie Macpherson (fid) rec 21/5/59: RPL LP 24770 before Reel: "Marquis of Tullybardine"

STUPIDITY - BILLY MUGGINS - JOE MUGGINS

STUTTERING LOVERS, THE - "A wee bit over the lea, my lads, a wee bit over the green, the birds went into the poor man's corn, twas feared they'd never be s-s-s-een, my lads" - O LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 #12 p24 from Cathal O Byrne mentioning tune "Castles in the Air" -- John McLAVERTY rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0543/ RPL 18130 (He gave this song to Cathal O Byrne) - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM: TRADITION TLP-1042 1961 (M) - McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5258 1965 (M)

SUANTRAI CUARRAIGHE - ROCHE 3 #28 p8 (Am) 4/4

SUCCESS TO Mr. PLIMSOLL - Mr. PLIMSOLL

SUCCESS TO THE BLUES - ROUT IT HAS COME FOR THE BLUES

SUCCESS TO THE WEAVERS - "Ladies and gents -" -- OLDHAM TINKERS: TOPIC 12-TS-206 1971

SUCCESS UNTO THE COAL TRADE - "Good people, listen while I sing" - ROUD#3163 - STOKOE-REAY BSNE 1899 pp140-1 -- Tom GILFELLON speaking COLLIER'S PAY DAY over tunes of CUT & DRY DOLLY/ SUCCESS TO THE COAL TRADE/ MY LAD IS O'ER BONNY FOR THE COAL TRADE played by Colin ROSS (fid & N-pipes) & Alister ANDERSON (E-conc): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

SUCH A GENIUS I DID GROW - GENIUS

SUCH A NOBBY HEAD OF HAIR - "You've called on me to sing a song" - PALMER EBBB 1980 #72 p154 York broadside to tune from Gatty Ms in Birmingham Ref Lib

SUCH A PARCEL - ROGUES IN A NATION

SUCKLING PIG, THE - PARSON AND THE SUCKLING PIG

SUDAN -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SUDBURY FAIR - comp by Roger Watson for National Trust Fair -- Sue ADAMS with MUCKRAM WAKES: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-017 1974

SUDDENLY AFRAID - Mediaeval Passiontide Carol adapted to folktune by A L Lloyd -- Hedy WEST (flute instrum &. unacc): FONTANA STL-5432 1967/ CASS-0482

SUE COW - Blues -- Tom PALEY (voc/gtr): ARGO ZFB-3 1963

SUFFOLK -- BELL BSPE 1857 pp170-1 "Suffolk Harvest Home Song"- BARLEY MOW ("Blaxhall Ship") - BECCLES - BLOW THE CANDLES OUT (Brightwell: "Leiston girls") - BURY GAOL - HARES AND PHESANTS - HERE'S HEALTH (Harvest Home Song) - HORSE RACE SONG (Newmarket) - IPSWICH - LOCAL POACHING SONG (unidentified) - MARIA MARTEN (Murder) - MUDDLEY BARRACKS ("Bungay Roger") - PETER THE PAYNTER ("Bury Gaol") - SUDBURY FAIR - -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SUFFOLK MIRACLE, THE - "Come you people old and young" "It's of a farmer all in this town" - daughter has unsuitable lover so he sends her away - also called "The Holland Handkerchief" ("The HH") - CHILD #272 - ROUD#246 - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #34 p14 "The HH" air only from ms - WILLIAMS Ms #6190: Richard May, Fairford, Gloucestersh 10v (w/o) "The Lover's Ghost" - HENRY SOP #217/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp432-3: Wm Davidson, Ballyvoy, Co Antrim 1928 "The Lover's Ghost" - FMJ 1:5 1969 pp305-6 Alfred Williams Ms #90 Richard May - DAWNEY PG 1977 pp22-3 Butterworth & Jekyll Ms: Mr Smith, Stoke Lacy, Herefordsh 1907 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #18 pp51-2 Packie Manus Byrne learned from Gallaghers, his cousins in Donegal "The HH" - USA - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #37 pp261-6) 5var: Mrs Mary Sands, Allanstand, NC 1916/ T Jeff Stockton, Flag Pond, Tenn 1916/ Mrs Tom Rice, Big Laurel, NC 1916/ Adolphus Glenroy "Dol" Small, Nellysford, Nelson Co., Va 1918 (DC 2004) "There was an old and wealthy man"/ Mrs Frances Richards, St Peters School, Callaway, Va 1918 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp179-80 Ark "Lady Fair" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 2 pp407-8 Nfl - tune cf "Christmas is now drawing near at hand" -- John GOODLUCK with Roy HARRIS, Alan WALTERS, Dave PEARCE & Bob DIDDALL: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-015 1974 - Packie Manus BYRNE: TOPIC 12-TS-257 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-653 1998 "The Holland Handkerchief" - Nora CLEARY (unacc) intro by Tom Munnelly rec Clancy Summer School Singers Concert 1987 RTE radio prog 9/11/88 CASS-60-0899 "The HH" (radio interference)

SUFFRAGETTES - Protesters for women's right to vote -- Douglas KENNEDY talks about them: FTX-481-493

SUGAR BABE - "Shoot your dice and have your fun" --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #245 (vol 2 p357) Mrs Eliza Pace, Hyden, Leslie Co., Ky 1917

SUGAR CANDY -- Lorna CAMPBELL & chorus Folk Group: EMI MFP-1349 1969

SUGAR CANE - CAIN KILLED ABLE - CUTTER'S LAMENT - SIGN ON DAY (Australian)

SUGAR HILL -- Tom PALEY (voc/ banjo): ARGO ZFB-3 1969

SUGAR IN THE GOURD - Old time Appalachian fiddle tune - BRODY p269 (G) discog

SUGAR RAY ROBINSON - ROBINSON-TURPIN (BOXING) FIGHT

SUGH A' CHRUID-NEONAIDH - (Unnatural cowjuice) -- Murdo Mc LEAN & ch rec by Fred Macaulay, Shawbost, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides 1957: RPL LP 24443

SUIBHAN NI DHUIBHIR -- tune played by Paul RODGERS (melodeon) rec by Noel Hamilton, Torre Island, Co Donegal 1967: FTX-277

SUICIDE - (actual & contemplated) - BOLD SEA CAPTAIN - BUBBLING WATER - DROWNED LOVER - FOOTBOY - GAMHAIN GEAL BAN, AN - (The bright white calf) - LETTER THAT HE LONGED FOR NEVER CAME - ROBERT BROWN -- Bob ROBERTS rec by PK, Pinmill, Ipswich, Suffolk 1953: FTX-047 & FTX-452 Story about boat-builder taking his own life when got too old

SUIDHIDH SINN A BHAIN GU SOCAIR - (We will sit down at ease) - Scots Gaelic Love Song -- Mrs Christine SHAW rec by School of Scottish Studies, Harris 1959:TANGENT TNGM-110 1971

SUISIN BAN, AN - "Suisheen Bawn" or "Susan Bawn" - Set Dance - BREATHNACH FMDI 1971 p148 (G) from Michael Tubridy (flute) from Co Clare - ROCHE 2 #273 p30 (G) -- CHIEFTAINS #4 CLADDAGH CC-14 1973 (S) aft "O Keefe's Slide" & bef "Star above the garter"

SUIT OF CORDUROY, THE - "Most folk when they grow up at times they do pursue" - Moses and sons - Battersea Park -ROUD#1219 - BSs incl BG - COPPER ETR 1976 p222 "Corduroy" -- Charlie WILLS rec by PK, Bridport, Dorset 1968 RTR-0084/ FTX-097/ LEADER LEA-4041 1972 - Bob, Ron & John COPPER: LEADER LEA- 4047 1971 (boxed)/ FTX-238

SUIT OF GREEN, THE - "O it was a Sunday morning when my love and I sat in the room" - ROUD#3023 - PETRIE ed STANFORD 1905 #686 - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 #24 pp48-49 Cathal O Byrne, Belfast (with revised words) - HEALY OISB 2 1969 pp42-3 Bs (w/o) - O BOYLE IST 1976 pp86-7 (4v) notes - Charles Boyle learnt the song from his mother and he gave the song to Cathal O Byrne - ZIMMERMAN 1966 p170 Text & tune from Petrie p43 has note about significance of "green" see also WEARING OF THE GREEN -- Charles BOYLE rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: 7"RTR-0543/ RPL 18405 (1v only)

SUIT OF RUSSET GREY - KING WILLIAM AND THE KEEPER

SUKEY BIDS ME - Reel - COLE #7 p41 (G) - MITTEL #32 p14 (G) "Pucky bids me" - POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON

SULIS MUSIC- Trad arr by Stewart -- Bob STEWART (psaltery & synth): ARGO ZDA-207 1975

SULLIVAN'S JOHN - Trad/ Dunne (Chappell) -- SWEENEY'S MEN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA SAM-11 1969 & TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-37 1976

SULLIVAN'S MARCH - MONTROSE'S MARCH

SULTAN POLKA, THE - "Heel and Toe" Polka tune used for Children's Skipping or Single Ball Game: "One, two, three, four, five - once I caught a fish alive" - KERR MM 4 #393 p43 (D & G) 3pts "comp by D'Allbert"

SUMATRA -- Recordings -- see AREA Listing

SUMMER APPROACHES, THE - Air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (D) #220 p262 - McFadyen's "Beauties of Melody" p46 (D)

SUMMER COMES AND THE GRASS GROWS GREEN - "leaves are budding on every tree, ships are saling and I'll soon find tidings of Gramachree" - about a girl losing her truelove in a shipwreck - ROUD#2350 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p227 Jack Hennessy, Limerick 1857 "The S is come and the G is green" - JFSS 5 1915 pp97-8 Walter Ford: Michael Carolan, Corklieve, Co Mayo 1906 -- DEEP IN LOVE - JOHNNY, JOHNNY -- Seamus ENNIS Dublin rec by PK, London 1958: FTX-169

SUMMER EVENING DANCE - Poem by William Barnes -- THE YETTIES Radio 2: 8/8/90 read over music of "Dorset Four Hand Reel" CASS-1033-C60

SUMMER FLOWER - Schottische - ROCHE 3 #143 p45 (G & D) 3pts incl Trio

SUMMER HILL - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #186 p43 (D) "Summerhill" - Tunebook Ms (D) #41 p281

SUMMER HILL LODGE - Highland - Tunebook Ms (D) #116 p308

SUMMER IN IRELAND - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #165 p86 (D) - MAGUIRE #38 p10 (D) "Jackson's Number 9" - SHASKEEN 1 #23 p18 (D) alt titles: "The Cow with the crooked horn" "Hugh Gillespie's"

SUMMER IS COME - Irish Song -- Seamus ENNIS: FTX-169

SUMMER IS ICUMEN IN -- DELLER CONSORT: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

SUMMER TIME IS COMING, THE - WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

SUMMER TUNE - comp by David Kettlewell (?) -- TROTTO: FOREST TRACKS FT-6004 1974

SUMMER WAS OVER - "my flocks were all shorn" - ROUD#1265 - BSs: "A- courting I went I'd naught else to do" - 'Ware out, mother: Navvy in rthe cellar: Two more looking in the window" - GRAINGER #257 Sam Stokes, Retford, Nottingham 1906 - JFSS 8 1930 p217 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1v/m "'Ware out, mother"

SUMMER WILL COME, THE - TIOCAIDH AN SAMHRADH

SUMMER'S MORNING - WHITE COCKADE

SUMMER'S EVE-MEN DANCE - poem by Wm Barnes (1801-88) with music of 12C carol -- Trevor CROZIER'S BROKEN CONSORT: ARGO ZFB-80 1972

SUN, THE - SALLY GO ROUND THE SUN -- Romania: song "Sun & moon" Romanian pastoral: ELECTRECORD EPD 1017/ FTX-631-2

SUN SET - GROUND FOR THE FLOOR - SEASONS

SUN HAS GONE DOWN IN THE WEST, LOVE, THE - PROMISE

SUN HATH JUST PEEPED, THE - TALLY-HO HARK AWAY

SUN SHINES HIGH, THE - FALSE LOVER WON BACK

SUN WAS SUNK BEHIND YON HILL, THE - FARMER'S BOY

SUNBEAM - Jig -- Alistair ANDERSON (E-conc) with Tich RICHARDSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TFRS-501 1974 aft "One Horned Sheep" & "Turnpke Side"

SUNBEAM POLKA, THE - KOHLER 3 p242

SUNDAY - I WISH TONIGHT (K) - LINEN SONG - NEVER CUT YOUR NAILS ON A SUNDAY - SALLY GO ROUND THE SUN (K) -- EFDSS LP-1006 (Hamer coll) Mrs JOHNSTONE Beds "The Maid's Lament" I must go out on Sundays

SUNDAY IS MY WEDDING DAY - Jig (Em) - COLE #1 p62 - KERR MM 2 #265 p29 - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p77 "S was my WD"

SUNDAY MORNING'S MY WEDDING DAY - "I sit and sing by the fire and spin" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1065 p577 (7v w/o)

SUNDAY SCHOOL SONG, THE - ADAM WAS THE FIRST MAN

SUNDAY TRADING BILL, THE - "O dear O Lor' what shall we do" ref to Lord Chelmsford's Bill - HINDLEY: curiosities Div 2 p115

SUNDERLAND - Durham - Shanties rec by James Carpenter: FTX-141-2

SUNDERLAND LASSES -- Colin ROSS with Anthony & Carole ROBB, Alistair ANDERSON & Jim HALL (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-278 1978 with "Lads of Alnwick"

SUNDOWN -- Bascom Lamar LUNSFORD (75) (voc/ banjo) rec by Paul Clayton: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-645 1956

SUNNY BANKS, THE - MAIDS OF DONEGAL (Reel)

SUNNY DAN - Jig - LEVEY 2 61 p27 (C)

SUNNY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, THE - Appalachian -- CAMP CREEK BOYS (voc with mand/banjo/gtr & bass) rec Va USA: LEADER LED-2053 1973

SUNNY SIDE - KEEP THE SUNNY SIDE UP

SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET, THE -- Michael HEBBERT )conc): FREE REED FRR-009 1977

SUNNY SOUTH, THE - "In the sweet sunny South there was peace and content" - SHARP FSSA #186 (Vol 2 pp262-3 Mrs Lucy Cannady, Endicott, Va. 1918 (4v)/ Mrs Flech Miller, Pence Springs, W>Va 1918/ Mr & Mrs Dol Small, Nellysford, Va 1918 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p139 (w/o) -- Larry RICHARDSON rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314)/ RTR-0316

SUNSHINE HORNPIPE, THE - SHUNSTER'S

SUO GAN - ("Sleep my baby") -- Elwyn GRIFFITHS (v/gtr) 7"RTR 1038 sung in English

SUPERMARKET SONG, THE - comp by Dave Mangold, Denis Turner, Jim O Connor & Teachers Group dir by Ewan McColl working on radio- ballad songs -- John FAULKNER & Sandra KERR (banjo & ch) CRITICAS GROUP: ARGO ZFB-61 1967

SUPERNATURAL - YOUNG BENJIE (Child #86)

SUPERSTAR DREAM -- Adrian TUCKER (with harmonica, kazoo, gtr & drum set) rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 1975: FTX- 037

SUPERSTITIONS - GABRIEL'S HOUNDS - WEXFORD FISHERMEN -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

SUPPER IS NAE READY - "Roseberry to his lady said" - Epigrammatic Love Song of 2v expansion of 1v French from "Le Cabinet Satyrique 1618" (Gershon Legman traces song back a thousand years) - ROUD#2577 - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p103 Burns: MMC -- Ewan McCOLL: "The Amorous Muse" ARGO ZFB-66 1968 learnt from his father, Wm Miller of Stirling

SUR LE PONT D'AVIGON - ON THE BRIDGE OF AVIGNON

SUR LES MARCHES DU PALAIS - (trad learnt in the Loire Valley) - Rory & Alex McEWEN (with gtrs) rec by PK< London 1955: FTX-293 (talk bef by Alex)

SURINAM - GUYANA

SURPRIZ'D NYMPH, THE - "The four and twentieth day of May" - Virgin lady undresses to bathe in river with her lover in hiding - ROUD#2035 - D'URFEY PPM 1719-20 pp96-8

SURRENDER -- Tommy WILLIAMS (duet conc) London: FREE REED FRR- 008 1976 aft "O Sole Mio" & "Santa Lucia"

SURREY - George BELTON - George MAYNARD - Adrian TUCKER ("Skyport Ade") - SHOOTING GOSCHEN'S COCK-UPS -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SUSAN - BRITISH MAN-O-WAR - SWEET SUSAN

SUSAN AND HER LOVERS -GRAINGER Ms #351 Mr Tandy, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire 1908 - see SUSAN MY DEAR

SUSAN ANNA - Old Time Reel -- Tommy JARRELL (fid with voc) with Aly BAIN & others "Down Home" (TV Series) in USA & Canada LISMOR LIF-7011 1986 CASS-0814

SUSAN BAWN - SUISIN BAN

SUSAN MAGUIRE (or DYER) - SIUBAN NI DHUIBHIR

SUSAN MY DEAR - GRAINGER #329 A Lane, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh 1908 - SUSAN AND HER LOVERS

SUSAN GIRL -- Jean RITCHIE (voc) with Roger SPRUNG (banjo): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-620 1956 (M)

SUSAN STRAYED THE BRINY BEACH - "Poor S walked along the beach that skirted Sligo's shore" - LAWS #K-19 ABBB 1957 p149 - ROUD#1896 - Sam HENRY SOP #774/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp150-151 1938 - -- Lore & Language 7:2 1988 pp64-5 John Ashton & Julia Bishop: Wm White, Cull's Harbour, Nfl

SUSAN PYATT - LORD BATEMAN

SUSAN THE PRIDE OF KILDARE - PRETTY SUSAN

SUSAN'S ADVENTURES - BRITISH MAN OF WAR

SUSANNA - CAN'T YOU DANCE THE POLKA - DOWN IN UNION COUNTY - O SUSANNA - SUSIE ANNA

SUSANNAH CLARGY - LOVELY BANKS OF BOYNE

SUSIE - WHEN SUSIE WAS A BABY

SUSIE ANNA - TOCHER #44 1992 p119 "Three Wee Wifes" from David Husband rec by Wm Montgomery 1952 - AWAY DOWN EAST - HERE COMES Mr MACARONI - I SAW MY BOY FRIEND - SUSAN ANNA (Reel) - SUSANNA

SUSIE MAGUIRE - SUSAN DWYER

SUSSEX -- George BELTON - Bill BOTTING - Shirley COLLINS - COPPER FAMILY - Gabriel FIGG - Jean HOPKINS - George SPICER (Born Kent) - Scan TESTER - George TOWNSEND - Harry UPTON - Tony WALES - Edith WHEATLAND - DITCHLING CAROL - FARMER'S CURST WIFE ("The Sussex Farmer") - GOD BLESS THE MASTER ("Sussex Mummer's Carol") - HUNDRED YEARS AGO - MOLECATCHER - TO BE A GOOD COMPANION ("The Sussex Toast") -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SUSSEX FARMER, THE - DEVIL AND THE FARMERS WIFE

SUSSEX MOLECATCHER, THE - MOLECATCHER

SUSSEX MUMMER'S CAROL, THE - GOD BLESS THE MASTER - O MORTAL MAN - JOSEPH AND MARY - RIGHTEOUS JOSEPH

SUSSEX TOAST - TO BE A GOOD COMPANION

SUTHERLAND(SHIRE) -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SUTHERLAND REEL - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #187 p44 (A) - WILSON (with dance descr) p78

SUVLA BAY - "In an old Australian homestead..." letter - Ch: "Why do I weep?, why do I cry?" - "And now he sleeps in SB" -- Jack TARLING rec by Neil Lanham, Haverhill, Suffolk 30/4/95 (gift) - NEIL LANHAM NL-01/ CASS-1357-- Ruth SHERGOLD with ch rec by John Howson, Bampton, Oxfordshire on Radio 2: 4/1/96: CASS-1335

SVINEPER - Shanty - "The Dirty Old Pig" "The Old Brig" - Shanty - HUGILL 1961 p232

 
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