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WICKED COOK, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs publ by Mallinson 1997 #195 p45 (G) - Tunebook Ms #80 p30 (G) - Cf COOK IN THE KITCHEN, THE

WICKED LADY CHATTERLY - - comp by SC -- Sydney CARTER (voc) with Donald SWANN (voc & piano) rec by PK, London 6/6/61: RTR-0418/ FTX-146

WICKED OLD DONKEY, THE - "Now the WOD lived down by the mill - he easts his fill" Ch: O Molly, O Molly" (last few words in secret whisper) -- Rebecca KING JONES rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NC 1940: FTX-926

WICKED POLLY - "Young people hear and I will tell" - sinful girl who would "go to frolics to dance and play" plans to turn to God when she's old however she becomes sick and dies in agony realising that her soul will go to hell - LAWS #H-6 NAB 1950/64 pp232-3 - ROUD#505 - COX FSOS 1925 pp411-412 Joseph Wesley Saer, W Va 1916 (w/o)

WICKED WIFE, THE - MARROWBONES (Dundee)

WICKED YEOMAN, THE - OLD VEST AND CRAVAT (Hornpipe)

WICKLOW - County in Ireland - DUNLAVIN GREEN - JAMES MACDONALSD (Murder) -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

WICKLOW HORNPIPE, THE - MOYLAN 2 #226 p130 from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #1579/ DMI #828 (D) - SHASKEEN 1 #65 p47 alt: "Delahunty's", "Sonny Murray's" "The Home Brew" "The Road to Boyle" & "The Iron Gate"

WICKLOW LASSES - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #196 p45 (G) - Tunebook Ms #101 p303 (G)

WICKLOW LASSES - Slip Jig - Tunebook Ms #115 p44 (Em)

WICKLOW MILITIA SLOW MARCH - Tunebook Ms (G) #22 p125

WICKLOW RANGERS - GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME

WIDDLE WADDLE - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #197 p46 (G) - Tunebook Ms (G) #178 p328

WIDE WORLD OF WATERS, THE - "From -" - ROUD#2097 - HUNTINGTON SWES 1964 pp308-9 ships log 1832 (w/o) (title assigned by editor)

WIDECOMBE FAIR - TOM PEARCE

WIDE AWAKE - Reel (A) - COLE #1 p13 - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #198 p46 (A) - O'NEILL MOI 1422/ DMI #659 "Young Arthur Daly"

WIDE MISSOURI, THE - SHENANDOAH

WIDLIECOMBE FAIR - BEGGARS AT THE FAIR

WIDOW, THE - Jig - HAYWOOD #50 p22 (Bb) - WILSON p60 "Old Scotch"

WIDOW BRADY, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #734/ DMI #31 (D)

WIDOW BROWN, THE - SLOW MEN OF LONDON

WIDOW BY THE SEA, THE - "It's just one year tonight love since I became your happy bride - changed a mansion for a cottage" - Ch; "All alone" - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1259 p505 (3v&ch w/o) "A Lone Widow"

WIDOW CANTWELL'S FANCY, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1732/ DMI #912 (G)

WIDOW FROM BABYLON, THE - "Here's a poor widow from Babylon - with six poor children all alone - one can bake and one can brew - one can shape and one can sew - one can sit at the fire and spin - one can bake a cake for a king - come choose you east - come choose you west - come choose the one that you love best" - Courting Game in Ring - ROUD#12975 - KERR Guild of Play 1912 - OPIE SG 1985 pp113-116 "W from Babylon" (from Kerr) - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1598 p155 "W of Sandilands" ("There's poor Mary she is gone") -- Norton Park School, Edinburgh, rec by Jean Ritchie 20/3/49: RPL 13868 "Here's a poor widow" ("Merry ma tanzie")

WIDOW MACHREE - Song Air/ Jig (A) - COLE #5 p59 (D) - HAYWOOD #16 p30 - KERR MM 1 #14 p37 "The Widow Magee"

WIDOW OF DOVER, THE - or "William Rudd, the miser" - comp by GM 1966 - he was a drunkard who beat his wife so she poisoned his steak pie and laughed under her veil at his funeral - Graeme MILES: FTX-226 #8 & FTX-231 #3 (Different takes)

WIDOW OF WESTMORLAND'S DAUGHTER, THE - "There once was a WOW" -- ROUD#228 - Seduction - found by A L Lloyd in a 19th C ballad book, he put a tune to it - SHIELDS SRT 1988 Eddie Butcher -- A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-T-135 1966 ("Grenadier Guards") - STAVERTON BRIDGE (Group) rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Devon 3/7/70 7"RTR#0410-2/ FTX-144 - Eddie BUTCHER rec by Hugh Shields, Aughil Crossroads, Co Derry: LEADER LEA-4055 1972 "The Queen's Lifeguards" - John KIRKPATRICK (voc & 12 str gtr): LEADER LER-2033 1972 - FAIRPORT CONVENTION Reel & Song on Radio 3/2/88: CASS 0397 - Dave SWARBRICK & Simon NICOL: CASS

WIDOW WOMAN, THE - THREE LITTLE BABES

WIDOWS - WIDOW FROM BABYLON (K)

WIDOWS ALONE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #196 p45 (D) - KERR MM 3 #282 p31 (C)

WIDOW'S CURSE, THE - NELL FLAHERTY'S DRAKE (Jig)

WIDOW'S DAUGHTER, THE - WIDOW OF WESTMORLAND

WIDOW'S OLD BROOM, THE -- Charles INGENTHRON rec Calif: AAFS Library of Congress L12

WIEGENLIED - comp by Brahms -- Handbell Ringers: SAYDISC cassette SDL-274 1976

WIFE AUCTIONS - VOC LIB 1822 p569 "Twas at Smithfield" - see IN PRAISE OF JOHN MAGEE - JOHN HOBBS - SHIP CARPENTER'S WIFE

WIFE BORROWING & SWAPPING - BROWN & YELLOW ALE - CHESHIRE GATE - NEIGHBOUR BROWN

WIFE FOR SALE - "This is to give notice that" Ch: "Ding a dong" - SPIN mag 4/2 pp18-19 Wolverhampton F./S Club (Bilston Ballad) -- Jon RAVEN: BROADSIDE BRO-100 1968/ ARGO ZFB-29 1971/ with Nic JONES (voc/fid) & Tony ROSE (voc/conc) (3 voices): LEADER LER-2083 1973

WIFE OF COVERDILL -- Arthur MARSHALL (mel) of Loftus rec by PK, Scarborough, N Yorkshire 7/4/53: RPL 19239/ FTX-111 - TOPIC 12-TS- 215 1971 TRANSPENNINE Group (fid, banjo & conc) "T'owd wife o' Coverdill" & "Lass o' Dallogill"

WIFE OF KELSO, THE - MARROWBONES

WIFE OF THE BOLD TENANT FARMER, THE - Land League ballad -- Regal Zonophone record by John Griffin in 1890's - see also BOLD TENANT FARMER -- Joe HEANEY rec by Dick Swettenham & Bill Leader at Olympic Studios, London 1962: TOPIC 12-T-91 1963/ TSCD-658 1998

WIFE OF THE SOLDIER, THE - comp by Bertold Brecht & Johnny Scott -- Martin CARTHY: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ B & C PEG-6 1971 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1151 1977

WIFE OF USHER'S WELL, THE - "There was a lady in merry Scotland" - CHILD #79 - ROUD#196 - Walter SCOTT'S Poetical Works 1833-4 pp262 & 258 - BURNE 1883 p541 Shropsh - "The Widow Woman" - LEATHER FLH 1912 p19 9v Herefordsh - SHARP Ms 1var #2795 - REEVES IP 1958 Janet Blunt - FOLK SONG TODAY 5 1971 John Brune: Andrew McKENZIE (tinker) - PALMER EBBB 1980 #15 pp44-47 Carpenter: Mrs Annie Kidd, Rothienorman, Aberdeensh - - - SHARP FSSA 1917/ 1932 #22 (vol 1 pp150-160 12var: Mr Sol & Miss Virginia Shelton, Alleghany, NC 1916/. Miss Linnie Landers (blind), Carmen, NC 1916 (DC 2004)/ T.Jeff Stockton, Flag Pond, Tenn 1916/ Mrs Dora Shelton, Allanstand, NC 1916/ Mrs Gentry, Hot Springs, NC 1916/ Mrs Zippo Rice, Rice Cobe, Big Laurel, NC 1916/ Mrs Rosie Hensley, Carmen, NC 1916/ Mrs Susan Sawyer, Black Mountain, NC 1916/ Mrs L.K.Flannery, Berea, Madison Co Ky 1917/ Mrs Minnie Pope, Clear Creek, Wasioto, Bell Co., Ky 1917/ Mrs Vestie Thompson, Pineville, Bell Co., Ky 19117/ George W.Gilison, Oneida, Clay Co., Ky 1917/ Napoleon Fitzgerald, Beechgrove, Va 1918/ Mrs Virginia Reynolds, Meadows of Dan, Va 1918/ Mrs Effie Mitchell, Burnsville, NC 19118/ Mrs Lucy Penland, Bolden's Creek, Burnsville, NC 1918/ Sam Rathbone, Shoal Creek, Burnsville, NC 1918/ Mrs King, Birds Creek, Sevier Co., Tenn 1917 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp93-95 Mrs Flora Stafford Swetman, Mississippi (w/o) "The Three Little Babes" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp70-72 Mrs Mary Tucker, Ga (w/o)/ Mr & Mrs John Oliver Tenn 1931 (w/o) - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp122-4 2var Missouri "The 3LB" - PARLER ABB 1963 p38 Ark (w/o) - ED&S 44:3 1982 pp9-10 Mike Yates: Mrs Eunice Yeatts McAlexander, Meadows of Dan, Va 1978 "The 3LB" - SPIN 6/5 pp12-3 Meadows of Dan -- CARPENTER 1928-9 (1var) Mrs Annie Kidd - Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: "The Long Harvest" ARGO ZDA-70 1967 (Walter Scott & Alabama versions) - NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-011 1972 (collated version) - Pete & Chris COE: LEADER LER-2077 1972 (frm Ray Fisher) - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1091 1975 (possibly incl composed verses) - STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977 --- I G GREER NC 1941: AAFS L-7 - Texas GLADDEN rec by Alan Lomax, Salem Va 1941/ AFS 5231 B1/ ROUNDER 11661-1800 2001/ AAFS L-57/ FTX-902 "The Three Little Babes" - Miss LANDERS rec by Maud Karpeles, Jonesboro, Tenn, USA Sept 1950: RPL 17147/ FTX-907 "Three Little Babes" - Phyllis BURDETT rec by Helen Hartness Flanders, Vermont, USA: MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE LP 1953 - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 2/4/57: FTX-915 - Sandy PATON (with gtr) rec London: COLLECTOR JEA 1958 (45-EP) (from Richard Chase) - Eunice Yeatts Mc ALEXANDER rec by Mike Yates, Meadows of Dan, Patrick Co, Va, USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980 "The Three Little Babes" - Sara WEST (v/banjo with fid & gtr) Radio 2: 24/10/90/ CASS- 1015-C60 (Composite version)

WIFE SHE BREWED IT, THE - Strathspey - BOWEN p37 from Tom Hughes (Fid): SPRINGTHYME SPR 1005

WIFE WRAPPED IN WETHER'S SKIN, THE - WETHER'S SKIN

WIG, THE - Triple Jig - HAYWOOD #10 p5 (Am)

WIG CRUSADE, THE - comp by LR -- Leon ROSSELSON Radio 2: 17/5/82: CASS-0415

WIGAN - Lancash - JACK ALL ALONE - MARTIANS HAVE LANDED

WIGGY VOO - Music Hall Song popularised by Marie Lloyd -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 cass: Disc musical box

WIGHT - ISLE OF WIGHT - Recordings - see AREA Listing

WIGTOWNSHIRE - PORTPATRICK (nr Stranraer) (Jig) -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

WILD AND RECKLESS HOBO - "had left his happy home" -- Texas GLADDEN (voc) with her brother Hobart SMITH (harmony vocal) rec by Alan Lomax, Salem, Vaq 1946: ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001(3v only)

WILD AND WICKED YOUTH, THE - "In Newlyn/ Newry Town I was bred and born" "I am a wild and wicked youth - I love young women and that's the truth" - A list of achievements in Highway Robbery in the city ("robbed Lady Mansfield in Grosvenor Square"), before he is caught ("Fielding's gang they did me pursue") leaving his family in sorrow as he goes to the gallows - LAWS #L-12 "The Rambling Boy" ABBB 1957 p172 - ROUD#490 - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p259 3var "The Roving Blade" - BARRETT EFS 1891 #19 pp34-5 "The Flash Lad" - BARING GOULD Ms #142 "The Highwayman" (a) James Townsend, Holne, Devon HFS 1890 (b) Sam Gilbert, Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall 1891 (publ in CANOW KERNOW) - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 p56-7 J Townsend - SHARP-MARSON FSS 5 pp512-3 - Sel Ed 2 pp79-81 "The Robber" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #243 2 p160-3 Joseph Laver, Bridgwater, Som 1906/ Charles Ash, Crowcombe, Som 1908/ Charles Neville, East Coker, Som 1909 "The Rambling Boy" ("Newry city"/ "Dublin town") - JFSS !:3 1901 pp114-5 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1899 "In Newry Town" - JFSS 2:4 (9) 1906 pp291-2 Kidson: Liverpool "The Highwayman" - JFSS 8:34 1930 pp190-1 Hammond: Mrs Webb, Kings Norton, Dorset 1906 "Adieu, adieu hard was my fate" - JFSS 35 1931 p277-89 2var tune (Norfolk) - GRAINGER ONS#85/RNS#55 George Gouldthorpe, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905 "The Saddler's Boy"/ #279 J Hornsby, Crosby, Lincolnsh 1906 "Wild & Wicked Youth"/ #300 George Wray, Brigg 1906 "The Sheffield Highwayman" - GRAINGER #300 George Wray, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906 "The Sheffield Highwayman" - WILLIAMS #448 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh/ #352 'Wassail' Harvey, Cricklade, Wiltsh (w/o) "Down Covent Garden" - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp96-7 Yorksh "The Highwayman" ("In Newry town") - DUNSTAN CDFS 1932 p24 "The Highwayman" ("In Bodmin") - COLLINSON-DILLON SFC 1946 pp30-34 Harry Cox "Newlyn Town" - COLLINSON-DILLON FSCM 1952 p32 - REEVES IP 1958 pp178-9 Sharp: Joseph Laver, Bridgwater, Som 1906 "The Rambling Boy" ("In Kerry City") - REEVES EC 1960 pp152-4 BG: James Townsend, Devon & Gardiner: Charles Woodhouse, Micheldever, Hampsh "The Highwayman" - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p70 "The Newry Highwayman" - GUNDRY CK 1966 p30 BG: Sam Gilbert, Mawgan, Cornwall 1891 "The Highwayman" ("In Dublin City") - PALMER SOM 1972 p69 Hammond: Mrs Webb "Adieu, adieu" - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp107-8 Hammond: Mrs Webb "Wild and Wicked Youth" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #326 p712 Bob Scarce, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1953 "Newlyn Town" - PALMER RVW 1983 #79 pp123-4 Robert Hurr, Southwold, Suffolk 1910 ("In London town") --- COMBS 1925 p215 (Ky) - FUSON BKH 1931 p63 Ky (w/o) "The Rich Rambler" - CAMBIARE 1934 p43 (Ky) - HENRY 1938 pp327-8 Tenn (w/o) "The Wretched Rambling Boy" - BELDEN Mo 1940 p136 - RANDOLPH 1946-5o II p84 Missouri & Ark - BROWN NC 1952-62 p355 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p161 NS Canada 1953 "It's down in Old Ireland" - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p262 Utah "In Steve's Green" - FOWKE TSO 1965 #16 pp44-5 O J Abbott, Ont Canada "A Bold and Undaunted Youth" - WARNER TAFS 1984 #101 pp248-250 Lee Monroe Presnell "The Rambling Boy" -- Elijah BELL rec "Windmill", Sutton, Norfolk 27/10/47: RPL 16415 "Babylon Square" - Amos BECKETT rec by Seamus Ennis, Wilmslow, Buckinghamsh 1952: RPL 23930 "The Gallows Tree" - Harry COX rec 1947: RPL 16417/ rec by PK, Sutton, Norfolk 1953: RPL 21482 "Newlyn Town"/ FTX-034/ EFDSS-LP 1004 - Bob SCARCE rec by PK, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1953: CAEDMON TC-1163/ TOPIC 12-T-195/ FTX-029 (also accomp version with elec bass)/ FTX-036 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donnellan, Winterton, Norfolk 13/9/59: RPL LP 26076/ FTX-139 "At Seventeen I took a Wife" (talk aft) - "SBY" rec by PK, Yiewsley, West Drayton, Middx 1/3/58 - JOHNSTONS: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-185 1968 "The Newry Highwayman" - Roger NICHOLSON (dulc) with Robert JOHNSON (dulc): LEADER LER-3034 1972 using "Female Highwayman" tune - "Jumbo" BRIGHTWELL rec Tony Engle, Eastbridge, Leiston, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-T-261 1975/ TSCD-653 1998 (Tragic Ballads) "Newry Town" - Walter PARDON, Knapton, Norfolk: LEADER LED-2063 1975 "The Rambling Blade" - THE WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975 Barrett - Gordon HALL (unacc) Radio 2: 24/8/88: CASS-15-0734 "In Horsham Town" --- Justus BEGLEY (voc/gtr) rec Alan Lomax Ky 1937: AAFS L-7 - Carter Family (trio) rec NY 14/10/41: 7"RTR-0313-4 "Rambling Boy" - Lee Monroe PRESNELL rec Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mountain, NC 1951: FTX-923 - Guy CARAWAN (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: RPL LP 24129/ FTX-919 "I am a rake and a rambling blade" (Lomax)

WILD AND WICKED YOUTHS - HENRY THE POACHER - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND

WILD BILL JONES - "One day as I was rambling round" "just a- foolin, I met up with that WBJ" American Feud Song - LAWS #E- 10 NAB 1950/64 p180 - SR#2246 - SHARP FSSA 1917 2 p74 - RICHARDSON AMS 1927 pp36-37 Appal - SPAETH WSM 1927 pp134-5 - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp323-4 Hettie Twiggs NC 1931 & Bonnie Ball (w/o) - CHAPPELL FSR&A 1939 p193 - RANDOLPH 1946-50 2 p105 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp239-240 Mrs Randolph Criss, Mississippi (w/o) - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p270 - WARNER TAFS 1984 #139 pp317- 318 Frank Proffitt, Watauga Co, NC 1959 -- Harry (v/banjo) & Jeannie (voc/gtr) WEST rec S Appalachians: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-617 1956 - Frank PROFFITT (voc/ fretless banjo): rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt., Watauga Co., NC, USA 1959: FTX-933/ FOLK LEGACY FSA-1 1963/ TOPIC 12-T-162 1966 --- Martin SIMPSON (V/gtr) Radio 2 "Folkweave" 29/11/79: CASS-0411

WILD BOAR - SIR LIONEL

WILD BOY - I'VE BEEN A WILD BOY

WILD CAT BLUES -- "Bez" Brian ROBERTS (solo harmonica) of Rhondda, S.Wales rec by PK, Gloucester 1986: FTX-039

WILD COLONIAL BOY, THE - "There was a WCB Jack Dolan (or Duggan) was his name" - Jack Dolan robs the rich and gives to the poor but 3 troopers, Kelly Davis & Fitzroy, try to capture him - he fights with 2 pistols, shooting Kelly, but the other two kill him - LAWS #L-20 (ABBB 1957 p177) - ROUD#677 - HENRY SOP #750/ HENRY-HUNTINGTON 1990 pp120-121 Co Derry 1938 & version from Auckland, New Zealand - DUNN FOS 1980 pp85-86 Percy Webb, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974 - HOWSON SSIS 1992 pp138-9 Fred Whiting, Kenton, Suffolk (w/o) - Tune: Cf BOLD JACK DONAHUE -- - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p317 Louis Gratto NS (w/o) --- ANDERSON SAFS 1955/70 p122 from Manifold - LAHEY GAFS 1965 p76 - MANIFOLD 1964 - EDWARDS AUFS 1972 p25 Mick Dolan, Machans Beach, Queensland -- Margaret BARRY (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 19/8/56: FTX-070/ TOPIC 12-T-6 1958/ 12-T-123 1965/ SAYDISC CD SDL-411 1995 - A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-51 1960/ 12-TS- 203 1971 - THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-869 1967 - Ian CAMPBELL Folk Group with Dave SWARBRICK: EMI MFP-1349 1969 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60-0927 nd - Fred WHITING rec by John Howson VETERAN TAPES 1987/ ROOT & BRANCH #1 EFDSS 1999

WILD COLONIAL BOY, THE - Instrumental -- Paddy BREEN (vert flute) of Co Clare rec PK, London 1952: FTX-078 used as waltz - BULWER Band Norfolk 1962: TOPIC 12-T-296 used as waltz - FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec by Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 aft "My Susie" & bef "Joseph Baker"

WILD DOG O SNILESWORTH, THE - comp by GM 1971 about sheepstealing by black mongrel dog 5v -- Graeme MILES: FTX-221

WILD FIRE CHASE, THE - Reel - ROCHE 1 #152 p60 (A)

WILD GEESE - FLIGHT OF THE WILD GEESE

WILD GOOSE, THE - "Did you ever see a WG floating on the ocean ?" Canadian comp song - ROUD#328 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp255 & p401 Ephraim Tattrie NS (w/o) -- Tom KINES acc by Russell THOMAS: (RCA VICTOR PC/PCS-1014)/ CASS-0233

WILD GOOSE GRASSES -- THE WEAVERS: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

WILD GOOSE SHANTY, THE - RANZO

WILD HILLS O WANNIES, THE - Song comp by George Armstrong - Waltz (Am) - tune is var of jig: "The Tenpenny Bit" - Sheet Music copy - BOWEN p21 - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p37/ 1994 #147 p37 as Waltz -- Jack ARMSTRONG (N-pipes) rec by PK 15/6/54: RPL 20604/ SAYDISC SDL-252 1972/ CONCERT HALL & FTX-330 bef "Fair Flower of Northumberland" - SAYDISC (CD) SDL-416 1996 - Billy BALLANTINE (piccolo) rec by PK, Wark, Northumb 29/6/54: RPL 20616/ FTX-119 talk bef - Billy PIGG (N-pipes): LEADER LEA 4006 1971 & TOPIC 12-TS-227 1974 - THE CUT AND DRY BAND (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-413 1980 with "Swallow's Tail"

WILD HORSES AT STONEY POINT - PIGTOWN FLING (Reel)

WILD IRISH BOY, THE - GREEN GROW THE LAURELS

WILD IRISHMAN. THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #197 p46 4pts (D) - Tunebook #45 p351 (D) 4pts - see MAID AT THE SPINNING WHEEL - NORA KISTA -- Seamus TANSEY (flute) accomp Reg HALL (piano): LEADER LEA-2005 1970 with "O Rourke's" - BAKER'S WELL (U-pipes & fid) RTE "Long Note" radio rec: CASS

WILD IRISHMAN, THE - Reel (D) - ALLAN #52 p13 - CRANITCH #64 p150 - FELDMAN p106 from Simon Doherty - SULLIVAN 2 p6 from Keenan - Cf BOIL THE BREAKFAST EARLY -- Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec Irish Folklore Commission, Co Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE-002 d/cass 1990 (M) aft "Fermoy Lasses" - John Mc KEOWN (fid) rec by PK, Castlecaulfield Co Tyrone 23/7/52: RPL 18550 aft Jig: "Tell her I am" & bef Hornpipe: "Kildare Fancy" - COLEMAN Society (fiddles): LEADER LEA-2044 1972 - Francie BYRNE (fid), Co Donegal: CLADDAGH 4-CC-44 1987 cass/ RTE "Long Note" prog 17/8/89 CASS-60-0897 "The Glenties Reel" - Ciaran TOURISH, Dermot McLAUGHLIN, Seamus & Kevin GLACKIN (fids) rec at "Fiddlesticks" Festival organised by Traditional Music Society of University College, Cork 1991: NIMBUS NI-5320 aft "Pinch of Snuff"

WILD MAN BLUES -- Louis ARMSTRONG & his HOT FIVE: BRUNSWICK E.22725/ B&B 002

WILD MAN OF BORNEO, THE - Cumulative - Last v: "The left whisker on the flea on the hair of the tail of the dog of the daughter of the wife of the WMB - and they've all come to town" - ROUD#2145 - SHARP Ms #1838 "The WM from Poplar" (Somerset) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #311 p669 Ben Phillips -- CREIGHTON-SENIOR NS 1950 p258 -- Ben "Bach" PHILLIPS, rec by Seamus Ennis, Lochtwrffin, Mathry, Pembrokesh 1952: RPL 19067/ FTX-FTX-027/ FTX-052 (vs 1-3 & last) - Tom DENLEY rec by Gwilym Davies, Brockhampton, Cheltenham, Gloucestersh 1957: FTX-415

WILD MOOR - MARY ACROSS THE WILD MOOR

WILD MOOR OF HOGRAH, THE - "Nought I know for the doing gives such pleasure - walk among heather" - comp by GM 1965 - New City Songster -- Graeme MILES: FTX-221

WILD MORRIS - MORRIS OFF

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, THE - "O the summertime is coming" Ch: "Will you go, lassie, go? And we'll all go together to pull WMT all around the blooming (purple) heather" - comp by Francis McPeake Senr (the music copyright of Frank's composition was assigned to Folktrax in 1961 and published by Warner Chappell) - ROUD#541 - JFSS 31 [1928] p77 Gilchrist on origins incl "Braes of Balquidder" in turn drawing on Gaelic: "Brochan buirn" & "The Sinner's Invitation" from Wesleyan Sacred Harp: "Dadmun's Melodeon" - publ by PK in FOLK mag #1 1962 (EFDS Publ/ Chappell) - SING OUT Reprints vol 6 1964 p48 "Will you go lassie go?" rec McPeake Family of Belfast (PRESTIGE International 13018) and The Clancy Brothers (COLUMBIA CL- 1909) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p3 no source given "Will you go, lassie, go?" - see also BRAES O BALQUIDDER - FAIR AT BALNAFADDEN -- Frank McPEAKE (voc/ U-pipes) rec by PK, Belfast 9/7/52: 7"RTR-0542/ RPL 18290/ with his son Francie (U-pipes) with talk/ rec PK: EMI DLP 1143 1956 10" LP "Folk Song Today"/ FTX-176/ PK talking about rec on Radio 2 1985 CASS 0622-C90/ FTX-308 A-ROVING #2 - McPEAKE FAMILY Trio: Frank, Francie & James (harp) rec by PK, London 1961: FTX-071/ SAYDISC CD SDL-411 1995/ PRESTIGE INT-13018 1961 - KERRIES: MAJOR MINOR MMLP 9 1967 - CORRIES with audience: FONTANA STL-5484 1969 - The Liverpool SPINNERS: EMI EMC-3044 1974 - TANNAHILL WEAVERS RPL Radio 2: 13/4/88 CASS-90- 0848 - Isla St CLAIR accomp by Danny Prendergast (gtr) Concert Hall Radio 2: 16/3/89: CASS-90-0715

WILD OATS - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub by Mallinson 1997 #198 p46 (D) - Tunebook Ms #150 p59 (D)

WILD PRIVATEER, THE - "Annie, lovely Annie ship lies at anchor waiting for me - Willie, dear Willie, stay at home - Your parents slight me & brother despises me - return when wars are over" - see also IRISH PRIVATEER, THE (also sung by Cinnamond) -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL 24837/ FTX-159

WILD RIPPLING WATER, THE - NIGHTINGALES SING

WILD ROSE OF THE MOUNTAIN, THE - Reel - American Mountain fiddle tune with last note held -- Michael PUNZAK (fid) rec by PK, Bristol 1982: FTX-910

WILD ROSES - "Go out and gather WR" - Mrs Molly Davidson, Hyden, Ky., USA Oct 1917 (1v only) C# Ms Coll Tunes p4104

WILD ROVER, THE - "I've been a WR for many's the year, and spent all my money" Ch: "Nay no never, never no more, I never will play the WR no more" - When he returns to his tavern he is well received util his money appears to be exhausted, then the landlady's smile changes to a frown and she will give no credit, he'll go to his parents hoping they'll pardon their prodigal son - ROUD#1173 - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp353-4 (w/o) - SHARP Ms Cf 2 p163 incl Such broadside - (not in SHARP-KARPELES) - WILLIAMS Ms #476 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o) - DUNSTAN CDFS 1932 p40 Wm Rickard, Egloshayle, Cornwall - SEEGER- McCOLL SI 1960 p50 Sam Larner - STUBBS LOM 1970 p84 George Townshend, Lewes, Sussex 1961 - PURSLOW CL 1974 Gardiner: Henry Lee, Whitchurch, Hampsh 1906 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #288 p621 Gabriel Figg 6v/m - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp329-331 Charlotte Higgins, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1963 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #111 p353 from Ashton with "now well-known" tune --- American Songster 1845 pp162-4 (Roud) - SPAETH 2 WSM 1927 pp190-191 (w/o) - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 #65 pp134-135 Mr Faulkner NS - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p274 James Jepson, Utah 1947 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p257 "The Moonshiner" (no source given) --- EDWARDS OSB 1971 pp264-5 Bill Auld, Cairns, Queensland 1967 "WR no more" - MEREDITH-ANDERSON 1967 pp69, 87, 127 -- Richard GENDALL (voc/ gtr) FTX-009 "An Gwndryas" (The Rover) sung in Cornish - Alec BLOOMFIELD (gamekeeper) rec by PK, Benhall, Framlngham, Suffolk 1952: RPL 21150/ FTX-040 - Amos BECKETT rec by Seamus Ennis, North Marston, Bletchley, Buckinghamsh 1952: RPL 18139 - Jimmy McKEE rec by PK, Co Armagh 1952: RPL 18409/ FTX-431 - Jack KELLY rec by PK, Tempo, Co Fermanagh 1952: 7"RTR 0550 (unusual version with chorus) - Gabriel FIGG rec by PK, West Chiltington, Sussex 1953: FTX-025 - Charlotte HIGGINS rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, Perthsh July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 7/3/58: FTX-139/ 16mm film interview with Charles Parker 1962: FF-2217 / FOLKWAYS FG-3507 1961 - Cyril TAWNEY (with ch & gtr): EMI 7-EG-8738 1962 45-EP - Jimmy McBEATH rec by PK & Sean Davies 1965: FTX-260/ TOPIC 12-T-173 1967 - Dominic BEHAN: MAJOR MNOR SMMLP-6 1967 - CORRIES: FONTANA STL-5484 1969 - THE DUBLINERS: cass TBX 513/2 - DRANSFIELDS (fid/gtr) LEADER LER-2026 1971 - Alex CAMPBELL (voc/ gtr) rec by PK, "Tradfest" concert Dartington Ciderpress, Devon 1975: FTX-364 "Asked for Scotch whisky - put my hand in my sporran" - THE YETTIES on Radio 2: 2/12/87 & 9/12/87: CASS-0554-C60 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-0927-C60

WILD ROVER, THE - Parody -- Alistair McDONALD (v/gtr) on Radio 1/3/89: CASS-15-0728

WILD ROVER, THE - Instrumental -- Bob FORRESTER with Alf ADAMSON'S BAND: TOPIC TSCD-669 1998 bef "Coupshawholm Fair" & "Yon Flowery Garden"

WILD SIDE OF LIFE, THE -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc): STYLUS MUSIC London SMC-263/ CASS-0953 1986

WILD SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - "To all intended emigrants I pen this simple lay" - Warning about Emigration to America - ROUD#2888 - HENRY #540 5v - O LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 pp223-4 App words only - MORTON FSU 1970 pp44-45 Wilson McAdam, Derrinraw, Co Armagh - SLIEVE GALLON BRAES -- Mary MURPHY rec by PK, Brackalislea, Draperstown, Co Derry 21/5/53: RPL 19972/ FTX-435 (also sang "Slieve Gallon Brae") - Wilson McADAM rec by Robin Morton, Co Armagh: MERCIER IRL-12 1970

WILD STORMY DEEP - "On the WSD with Jesus I'll sleep" Ch; "My soul was sad, my heart was sore, out on the stormy sea, I spoke to God in humble ways & there he appeared to me" - WARNER 1984 #95 p234 Cornett 3v/ch -- Homer CORNETT (voc/gtr) rec by Frank & AnneWarner, NC USA 1959: FTX-923/ APPLESEED APR-CD-1036 2000 - Frank PROFITT Jr (voc/banjo): CLOUDLANDS (Tenn) CLC-008 1992 CASS-1356

WILD SWAN OF THE WEST - "Swan o the West, mate o my heart - Westward I's fly towards Jura" - KENNEDY-FRASER SOTH vol 2 1917 pp11-14 "Eala fo leon" Air & words memorised by Kenneth McLeod in the Isle of Eigg, Hebrides with imaginative background story by Marjory K-F -- ZIGGURAT rec by PK, Ciderpress, Totnes, Devon 1974: FTX-090

WILD, WILD BERRY, THE - LORD RANDALL

WILDERNESS LADY, THE - "A lord's house in London, great merriment held" - drink to King William" - ROUD#2295 - KARPELES FSFN 1971 pp136-7 Mrs Bridget Flanagan, Avondale, Nfl 1929 ("King William & the Keeper" ?)

WILDWOOD FLOWER - "I'll twine in the ringlets of my raven black hair" - ROUD#757 - American Bluegrass (Carter Family) - DAVIS FSVa p86 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 4 pp316-7 Vance Randolph 1893 1v (w/o) & Stella Buchanan Ark 1941 w/m - BURTON & MANNING 1 pp102-3 -- Carter Family (Trio): 7"RTR-0313-4 - (PHILLIPS BBL-7410 & 7552)/ Buddy STARCHER: CASS-0239 - Eugene COX rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314)/ RTR-0316 - THE HIGHWAYMEN (incl auto-harp): UNITED ARTISTS ULP-1002 1962 - Derroll ADAMS (banjo/harmonica): VILLAGE THING VTS-017 1972 - George PEGRAM (banjo) with Clyde ISAACS (mandolin), Fred Cockerham (fiddle) & Jack BRYANT (gtr): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-235 1973

WILKINS AND DINAH - WILLIAM AND DINAH

 
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