FTX-518 - THE WHITE COCKADE

Soldiers & their Sweethearts

One of the most popular songs of the Post-war Revival has been the title song, a recruiting ballad. Is it because it's about a detail of a soldier's clothing, a good tune, or the type of harmony the singers use? Whichever, the type of songs on this album seem to have an enduring quality. Irish singer, Jim O Neill, from Armagh, has a "penchant" for this type of song. 17 songs are concluded with a patriotic flute-and-drum march-tune from the North of Ireland.

1. THE BANKS OF THE NILE - Sidney Richards, Curry Rivel, Somerset - 1952 - 2'16"

2. THE BLACK HORSE - Jim O Neill, Markethill, Co Armagh 1952 - 5'03"

3. THE BONNET O' BLUE - Jean Matthew, Longside, Aberdeensh 1952 - 3'14"

4. THE FEMALE DRUMMER - Harry Cox, Catfield, Norfolk 1953 - 3'56"

5. THE GALLANT HUSSAR - Roise Green, Arranmore, Co Donegal 1954 - 3'28"

6. GREEN GROW THE RUSHES-O - Patrick Green, Ballinalee, Co Longford 1947 - 3'18"

7. HANDSOME POLLY-O - "The Bonny Lass o' Fyvie" Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954 - 2'45"

8. HIGHER GERMANIE - Phoebe Smith (gipsy from Kent) Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956 - 1'55"

9. JACKIE FRASER - Frank Steele, Banff 1952 - 2'39"

10. JOHNNIE HARTE - Teresa Maguire, Armagh 1955 - 3'37"

11. THE MOORLOUGH SHORE - Jim O Neill - 3'35"

12. THE PAISLEY OFFICER - "The Village Pride" Thomas Moran - 3'59"

13. PRINCE CHARLIE STUART - (a) Paddy Tunney (1st v) & Brigid Tunney, his mother, Belleek, Fermanagh 1952 (remainder of song) - 2'26"

14. THE ROCKS OF BAWN - Seamus Ennis (of Dublin) London 1958 - 2'56"

15. SHULE AROON - Elizabeth Cronin, Macroom, Co Cork 1951 - 1'59"

16. THE WHITE COCKADE - The Keld Singers, Upper Swaledale, Richmond, W.Yorks 1954 - 2'54"

17. WILLIE TAYLOR - Jim O Neill - 5'51"

18. March: O DONNELL ABU - Ravenhill Drum & Flute Band, Belfast 1953 - 1'18"

Recorded & edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1979.

#1. LAWS #N-9 - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #25 & 27- GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p13 (13var) - HENRY SOP #238/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp296-7 Co Antrim - ORD BSB 1930 p298 w/o (connects with Battle of Aboukir, Egypt 1801 - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p30 - MORTON CDGD 1973 p139 Co Fermanagh "Texas Isle" - PALMER RS 1977 p171 Text: Ord & tune: John Clare Ms - PALMER RVW 1983 #108 pp165-6 --- McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #201 pp108-112 & pp113-114 "Dixie's Isle" w/o American Civil War var ("We're ordered down to New Orleans") - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 p216 (notes & refs) - CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p147.

#2. JIFSS 2 p33 "The Airy Bachelor" - HENRY SOP #586/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p80 Co Antrim - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 #17 Seamus Ennis's mother, Dublin.

#3. VOC LIB 1822 p537 - LOGAN PP 1869 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp118-9 Goathland, Yorksh (notes on song) - FORD VSB 1899 p212/ 2 p1-3 Perthsh w/o - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #524 4v w/o & 4 1990 #856 2var/m - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #384 2 pp556-7 - HENRY #644 - ORD BB 1930 pp295-6 w/o As Ford - JFSS 8 1930 pp191-2 - JEFDSS 1931 p191 --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp275-7 ships log 1856 w/o - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp97-100.

#4. RYMOUR Club 1906 1 pp139-40 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p488 - ORD BB 1930 p311 w/o - SHARP Ms 2 p235 - HENRY SOP #497/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p326 Co Derry - PURSLOW WS 1968 p41 - STUBBS LOM 1970 pp34-5 - PALMER RS 1977 p163 Broadside with tune from Clare Ms -- Margaret JEFFREY (tinker) rec Blairgowrie 1954: FTX-183 - Vashti VINCENT rec by PK, Sixpenny Handley, Wiltsh 1954: FTX-406 - George STONE & quarrymen rec by PK, Portland, Dorset 1954: FTX-203 - Tom BROWN (of Caister, Norfolk) with Bertha rec by PK, Devon 1979: FTX-134.

#5. FORD VS 1899 1 p254 & 2 pp91-93 - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp24-25 - SHARP Morris Book - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #150 - JOYCE OIFM 1909 #290 p137 m/o - GALWEY 1910 p27 - HENRY SOP #243a/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp473-4 1928 m/o/ #243b: HUNTINGTON pp473-4 Co Antrim - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp42-3 - HAMER GGr 1973 pp42-3 Shropsh --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp141-2 Ms diary, Utah w/o (refs).

#6. CHAPPELL NEA 1838 p734 "The Manchester Angel" - FORD 1899 p6 - JFSS 27 1923 p52 & p57 "Soldier and True Love - ORD BB 1930 p73 "The Bonny Lassie's Answer" --- CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p79 "Nellie" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 p568.

#7. FORD VS 1899 p121 "Bonny Barbara-O" - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #15 2var - GREIG- DUNCAN 1 p197 26var - ORD BB 1930 pp304-5 17v w/o "The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie-O" ("Green grow the birks on sweet Ythanside") - McCOLL SS 1953 p66 Henderson from George Hay - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p220 Sheila MacGregor, Blairgowrie, Perthsh - PALMER EBBB 1980 #95 pp192-3 Notes & Queries 1s 6 1852 p343 (w) & Kidson (m) Leeds Mercury "Pretty Peggy of Derby-O" -- Willie Kemp: FTX-360 - John STRACHAN, rec by Alan Lomax, Fyvie 1951: FTX-065.

#8. JOYCE AIM 1873 #93 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p256 4var - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 1 pp42-3 (notes on song) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #131 pp509-10 - JFSS 2:6 1905 pp25-6 - JFSS 7 1923 pp10-11 - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp82-83 - ORD BB 1930 p359 "Wars of Germany" comp W Motherwell & p360 "In Low Germanie" by Alan Cunningham - TOCHER 1 p30 Ethel Findlater, Orkney - PALMER RVW 1983 pp140-1 Mr Flint West Grinstead Sussex 1908 --- PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 p679 -- Elizabeth CRONIN, rec Macroom, Cork 1952: FTX-160.

#9. LAWS #N-7 - RYMOUR Club 1906 1 pp10-15 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p452 - GREIG FSNE I #45 - JFSS 2:9 1906 pp227-8 --- SHARP FSSA #65 pp385-395 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p139 Wm Ireland, NB 1954 "Jack Munro"/ p143 "Johnny's gone a-sailing" -- Thomas MORAN, rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: FTX-076 --- Mrs Victoria MORRIS rec by Maud Karpeles, Va 1950: FTX-908 - Jean RITCHIE: FTX-920 "Jackaro".

#10. HENRY SOP #106/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp443-4 Co Antrim - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 #88 pp174-5 Co Cavan - MORTON CDGD 1973 p84 John Maguire.

#11. HENRY SOP #27A & 34B/ MOULDEN pp102-103/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp371-2 Co Derry "The Maid of Mourne Shore" - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp123-4 Co Derry 1969 -- European Ethnic SRT-3.

#12. LAWS #N-2 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p496 2var w/o - HENRY SOP #120/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp332-333 1926 "Blythe & Bonny Scotland" - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp96-7 Co Derry "India's Burning Sands" --- GRAY Maine Lumberjacks 1924 p85 - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp143-6 w/o "Bonnie Scotland" - FLANDERS-BARRY 1939 p19 - GARDNER- CHICKERING Mich 1939 p222 - CREIGHTON-SENIOR NS 1950 p192 - DOERFLINGER 1951 p308 NY & NB - CREIGHTON MFS 1962 pp158-9 - IVES FSNB 1989 pp153-7.

#13. JOYCE OIMS 1909 p155 tune: "The Praise of PC" - Sam HENRY SOP #533/ MOULDEN pp138-9/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p292 Co Antrim "So dear is my Charlie to me" - TUNNEY SF 1979 p162.

#14. HENRY SOP #139/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p42 Co Derry - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 #23 pp46-7 Seamus Ennis, Dublin.

#15. STANFORD: Irish Melodies - BURNE SFL 1883 (gipsies) - GRAVES Irish Song Book - HORNCASTLE Music of Ireland 1844 - MOFFAT Minstrelsy of Ireland - KIDSON TT 1891 - PETRIE 1902 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp236-7 Limerick "S Aroon" - JFSS 2:9 1906 pp253-4 Kidson, Liverpool "Johnny has gone for a soldier" - JFSS 3:10 1907 pp26-31 Co Waterford/ Hampsh (notes) - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp180-1 Lancash "Shule shule" - KIDSON EPS 1929 - HUGILL 1961 p347 1v - ZIMMERMAN IPSB 1966 p32 Note about Wild Geese "S Aroon" --- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp400-402 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p131 "I dyed my petticoat red" -- Cecilia COSTELLO rec by PK, Birmingham 1951: FTX-098.

#16. DIXON BP 1841 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp229-231 w/o "The Summers Morning" - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp52-3 "The Soldier's Farewell" - KIDSON TT 1891 pp113-114 Yorksh (notes on song) "The Summer Morning"/ p115 1v/m - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 pp110-112 "The Sad Recruit" (arr for 2 voices) - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp68-9 "It Was One Summer Morning" - BARING GOULD SOW #38 "Green C" Rev Ed 1905 "White C" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #123 "My truelove's lost" 2var - JFSS 3 1901 p96 Merrick "My truelove's lost" - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp151-3 Carey: Sussex "The Orange & the Blue" - GUNDRY CK 1966 p43 Cornwall 1924 "The Green C" - PURSLOW WS 1968 p15 "The Blue C" - SPIN 8/2 pp14-15 "The Bradshaw Chorus " - POLWARTH FSFTN 1970 pp24-25 "The Summer's Morning" - COPPER SESB 1971 pp282-3 Rottingdean, Sussex -- Bob COPPER (voc/ concertina): FTX-238.

#17. LAWS #N-11 - CHRISTIE TBA 2 1881 p208 - ASHTON MISB 1888 pp259-261 w/o - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #101 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p438 6var - SHARP-MARSON FSS 5 pp46-50 Somerset - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #214 pp63-64 - JFSS 1:5 1904 pp254-5 Kidson: Whitby, Yorksh "WT & Sally Brown" - JFSS 3 1908 pp218-219 - JOYCE OIFM 1909 pp235-6 Co Clare 1876 - JFSS 5:18 1914 pp68-9 Grainger: Lincolnsh 1906 m/o/ Sharp: Somerset 1909 - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp161-5 - HENRY SOP #213/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p334 & #757 - KIDSON EPS 1929 - ORD BB 1930 pp315-6 w/o - TOCHER 26 1977 p85 S Ronaldsay Orkney - PALMER OBSS 1986 #53 p122 --- SHARP FSSA 1917 1 pp373-6 - KARPELES FSFN 1971 #49 pp171-2 -- Joseph TAYLOR phonographed by Percy Grainger Saxby-all-Saints, Lincs 1906: FTX-135.