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BURD ELLEN - FAIR ELLEN

BURDENS - REFRAINS

BUREN'S GROVE - "The day is hot we will leave the spot" - ROUD#2787 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p33 Mrs Clem O Connor, NB 1954-60

BURFORD - Oxfordsh -- Recordings see AREA Listing

BURGESS HORNPIPE - KERR MM 2 #330 p36 (D)

BURGHEAD - Elgin, Moraysh- BURNING THE CLAVIE

BURGLAR MAN, THE - "I will tell you a story" - Comic American song -- Bob CARPENTER (v/gtr) rec by Alan Lomax Rugby Va 1959 RPL LP 26145 - rec by Alan Lomax, Galax, Va Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1702 1999 (talk bef)

BURGLAR SONG, THE - "Two prisoners sat talking" "As I came home home one evening after working hard all day I found the fire had gone out and my wife she'd run away" so he starts drinking and getting into bad company and becomes a burglar - he enters large mansion & shoots his own child - "O Lord I've shot my child" - ROUD#8105 -- Wally FULLER (gypsy) rec by PK, Laughton, Lewes, Sussex 11/11/52: RPL 18719/ FTX-140 - John McPHEE (tinker) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1955: FTX-183 "The Two Prisoners" - Marty POWERS, rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie: : 7"RTR-1211/ CASS-0966-7/ FTX-184 "The Two Convicts" - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ CASS-45-1245/ FTX-143 "O Lord, I've shot my child"- NEIL LANHAM NL-01 Jack TARLING rec by NL, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95 (gift) CASS-1357 "The Convicts Song"

BURGLARY - BOLD ARCHER - BOSTON BURGLAR - COURT HOUSE

BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE - SIR JOHN MOORE

BURIED ALIVE - IRISH WAKE

BURIED IN KILKENNY -- Mary DELANEY: TOPIC TSCD-667 1998 Ballads

BURKE AN' HARE - "To help the folk at medical school" Ch: "An its doon the close an up the stair - aye, but an ben with Burke an Hare - Burke's the butcher an Hare's the thief - and Knox is the man that buys the beef" End: "It's the gallows tree for William Burke and a pauper's grave for Hare" - TOCHER 5 1972 p140-1 coll Peter Cooke

BURKE'S CONFESSION - "William Burke in Ireland I was born" - GREIG- DUNCAN 2 1983 #192 p27

BURKE'S ENGINE - CARRICK-ON-SUIR

BURKE'S REEL - DOCTOR BURKE'S

BURKE'S STREET - RATHAD NA MBURCACH

BURKERS - (i e body-snatching from Edinburgh for the two doctors, Burke & Hare) Story of an old widow woman -- Recordings see SUBJECTS Listing

BURKERS AND THE BARREL, THE - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker): DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

BURKERS AND THE CUDDY, THE - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

BURKERS AND THE DOG'S TAIL, THE - Folk Tale told by Alec Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

BURKERS AT CRIEFF - Folk Tale told by Willie McPhee (tinker): DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

BURLINGTON BERTIE FROM BOW - Music Hall Song popularised by Ella Shields -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 cass: 48 note Penny piano

BURLINGTON FAIR - RAMBLE AWAY

BURLY BANKS OF BARBRY-O, THE - BABYLON

BURN DIVOT, THE - Northumbrian tune comp -- George HEPPLE (fid & acc): TOPIC 12-TS-239 1974

BURN O WEINA - Shetland Reel -- THE SHETLAND FIDDLERS (incl Tom ANDERSON, Aly BAIN, Bobby JAMIESON & Willie Barclay & John HENDERSON: LEADER LED-2052 1973

BURN THAT RAN WINE, THE - Folk Tale told by Belle Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

BURNE, Charlotte - Collector in Shropshire -- ARGO ZFB-29 1971 "Cold blows the wind": John RAVEN - TOPIC 12-TS-355 1977 "Gypsy Laddie": John KIRKPATRICK

BURNIE BOOSIE - BRAES OF BARLEYBUSHEL

BURNING, THE - Text from an old Norfolk Miscellany (John Moreton) possibly relarted to LADY MAISRY - Tune comp -- Peter BELLAMY: LEADER LER-2089 1975

BURNING HILLS OF EGYPT, THE - "Over the BHOE under a broiling sun" - Cf THE BURNING SANDS OF EGYPT -- John GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner, New York 1941: FTX-921 - Geof LING, Blaxhall Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-292 1972 "On the banks of the Clyde"

BURNING OF AUCHINDOUN, THE - CHILD Ballad #183 "Willie Macintosh" -- Ewan MacCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-628 1956 - Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR: CHRYSALIS CHR-1101 1976 - Stanley ROBERTSON: North-East Folklore Archive/ Beecvhwood STAN CD-1099 1999

BURNING OF BARTLE, THE - see under SUBJECTS - "Bartle-burning"

BURNING OF ROSSLEA, THE - "On a fine Monday morning about eight o'clock" - Ch: "Sing to ri-tor-al-aye-ay" - Volunteers "B-men" - ROUD#2937 - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp152-3 Nell Mullarky, Gragnagore, Co Fermanagh 1970

BURNING OF THE GRANITE MILL, THE - "Was in Fall River City" - recounting horrors of disaster in which all could have been saved - LAWS #G-13 NAB 1950/64 p218 - ROUD#1823 - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp257-8 Tom Henneberry 1929 "GM"

BURNING OF THE PIPER'S HUT, THE - Scots pipe tune - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 from Bobby McLeod on BELTONA BL2610

BURNING SANDS OF EGYPT, THE - Highland Pipe March - tune used for THE ROAD TO THE ISLES publ by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser (PK's great-aunt) -- Alec STEWART (H-pipes) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1958: FTX-182/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-416 1996

BURNING THE BARTLE - BARTLE

BURNING THE CLAVIE - Annual Christmas Eve and New Year fire custom at Burghead, Elgin, Moraysh - CHAPBOOK mag #3/5 p16 - TOCHER #44 1992 pp91-103 interview by Emily Lyle with 3 b/w photos

BURNINGHAM BOYS, THE - MAN FROM DOVER

BURNINGS - FIRE CUSTOMS

BURNS, Robert - AYE SHE LIKIT THE AE NICHT - DAINTY DAVIE - GUAGER - HIGHLAND LAMENT - MILL, MILL-O - MODIEWACK - O GIN MY LOVE - ROBERT BURNS WAS BORN IN AYR (K) - THISTLE GROWS ON ROBBIE'S GRAVE (Graeme Miles) - SCOTS WHA HAE - YE HAE LIEN WRANG, LASSIE -- Robin WILLIAMSON Radio 2 25/11/87: CASS- 0405 - Jean REDPATH arr by Serge Hovey: Radio 4/3/87: CASS-0408

BURNS, Felix - Composer of Scots Two-steps & Barn Dances - at age of 16 was in minstrel shows - b Perth 1864 d Carlisle 1920 - DANCING DUSTMAN -- Bill BLACK & Band RPL Radio 2 20/9/89: CASS- 0487 SPORTY BOYS

BURNS AND (HIS) HIGHLAND MARY - "In green Caledonia there ne'er were two lovers" "Ye banks and braes and streams around - castle of Montgomery"- LAWS #0-34 ABBB 1957 p242 - ROUD#820 - Many BSs incl SBG 1:1:#26/ 4:#371/ 7:#12 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp84-86 His mother/ Charles Lolley's mother 1v/m, Yorksh (notes on song) "HM" - KIDSON NCS (tune different to "Katherine Ogie" to which Burns set his version) - FORD VSB 1899 1 pp124-6 14v/m (w/o) - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1249 pp488-492 4var 14v/2m - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - GRAINGER #194 Wm Clark, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnsh 1906 - JFSS 5 1915 pp99- 100 Lucy Broadwood: Bridget Geary, Camphire, Co Waterford 1906 1v/m "HM" - ORD BB 1930 pp354-5 (says written by a W Scotland policeman called Thompson who emigrated to Canada) "The Parting of B & HM" - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p193 from Sheila Macgregor --- CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #56 pp125-6 Angelo Dornan - CREIGHTON TSNS 1950 p159 - CREIGHTON MFS 1962 pp88-9 Elsie McDougall, NS 1950/ Freeman Young (m/o) - DOERFLINGER 1951 p312 - see also BURNS AND HIS HIGHLAND MARY -- Brigid TUNNEY rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0555/ RPL 18526/ FTX-163 - Sarah MAKEM: TOPIC 12-T-182 1968 - (Mary Ann CAROLAN rec by Roly Brown, Drogheda, Co Louth c1982: TOPIC 12-TS-362 "HM") --- Hally WOOD, USA: ELEKTRA EKL-10 1953 from Doerflinger

BURN'S HORNPIPE - COLE #6 p111 (D) - KOHLER 1 p67 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #23 p8 (D) - see also BYRNE'S - STATEN ISLAND

BURN'S REEL - -- Liam DONNELLY (fid) rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0544 aft "Josie McDermott's Reel"

BURNT CABBAGE - Reel comp Michael Gorman -- Michael GORMAN (fid) of Co Sligo rec by PK, London 1952: FTX-174 with story of how tune came to be composed

BURNT OUT OLD FELLOW, THE - SEAN DUINE DOIGHTE

BURREN REEL, THE -- Bernard O Sullivan & Tommy Mc MAHON (concertinas) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-502 1975 aft"Kilrush Races" & "Clogher Road" - Chris DRONEY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS- 503 1975 titled "Burren No 1" with "Droney's Favourite"

BURWASH CAROL, THE - "Hail happy morn who with thee smiling brings" - ROUD#3215 - ED&S 49:3 1987 p12 K H McDermott Mss Burwash, Sussex

BURY GAOL - PETER THE PAYNTER

BURY ME BENEATH THE WILLOW - WILLOW TREE

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE -- Richared DIGANCE "Acoustic Roots" Radio 2 10/5/89 CASS-0428

BURY NEW LOOM, THE - LLOYD: FSIE 1967 - from broadside Swinbdells, Manchester 1804 -- Harry BOARDMAN (+ mel); TOPIC 12-T-188 1968

BUS HORSES - Children's Game -- "Lucky" LUCKHURST of London rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332

BUS TICKETS - Children's Divination of Success in Love & Marriage - FTX-199

BUSES - CHEER UP THE HA'PENNY BUS - MOTOR BUSES

BUSH, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH 1 #105 p44 (##A) - MITCHELL 3 p22 from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) "The Old Bush" - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #781 "Captain Rock" -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) & Bobby CASEY (fid) rec by PK, London 1952: FTX-173 - Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec 1958-1973 CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980

BUSH BELOW THE GARDEN, THE - Shetland Reel -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN Trevor HUNTER & Davie TULLOCH (fiddles) with Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 aft "Put hame the borrowed claes" & "Who'll dance wi wattie ?"

BUSH IN BLOOM, THE - Reel (G) - ALLAN #42 p10 - GIBLIN #47 p26 - O'NEILL MOI #1242/ DMI #515 - ROCHE 1 #144 p58 (G)

BUSH OF AUSTRALIA, THE - MAID OF AUSTRALIA

BUSH ON THE HILL, THE - Jig - TWEED (A) p8 from American fiddler, Brian Conway -- CASS-0815

BUSHEL OF HOPS, A - comp GM -- Graeme MILES: FTX-231

BUSHES AND BRIARS - "Through bushes and through briars I lately took my way" - ROUD#1027 - Bss incl BG - JFSS 2 1906 pp143-5 RVW: Charles Potipher, Ingrave, Essex 1903 - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FSEC 1907 Pottipher - REEVES EC 1960 p68 Hammond: George Dowden, Lackington, Piddlehinton, Dorset 1905 (w/o) - SEDLEY 1967 p166 RVW with text collated frin 2 broadsides in BM - PURSLOW FD 1974 p89 Hammond: George Dowden, Lackington, Dorset 1905 "Through B&B" - PALMER RVW 1983 #16 pp27-8 Charles Potipher & Fortey Bs London -- ONCE I HAD A COLOUR -- Isla CAMERON (unacc) rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow: FOLKWAYS FW-8871 1959 - London Madrigal Singers: EMI HQS 1215 1970 - June TABOR: FOLKSOUND FS- 100 1974 (Folk Review) - Roy Palmer talks about R Vaughan Williams RPL Radio 2 29/3/83 CASS-15-0787 with phonograph rec of Mrs Humphries (of Ingrave, Essex ?) - Vicky CLAYTON (with gtr & keyboards) RPL Radio 2 28/2/90 CASS-30-1039 - Phonograph rec of Mrs Humphreys of Ingrave: EFDSS CD-02 1998

BUSINESS IS BLOOMING - ROVING GRAVEDIGGER

BUSK AND GO - CUTTY'S WEDDING - GO TO BERWICK, JOHNNY (K)

BUSK, BUSK, BONNY LASSIE - BONNY GLENSHEE

BUSKING - see also ONE-MAN BAND -- Recordings see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

BUSTA - Shetland Reel - BOWEN p50 (D)

BUT THE HOOSE AND BEN THE HOOSE - BLACK JOCK

BUTCHER AND THE CHAMBERMAID, THE - "It's of a brisk young butcher ("BYB") as I have heard them say" - ROUD#167 - BSs "The Leicester(shire) Chambermaid" incl SBG 6#23/ 6:#56/ 8:#39 - ORD BB 1930 pp158-9 9v (w/o) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p13 Hammond: Alfred Scannell (w) Mere, Dorset 1905 & George Hatherill (m) Bath, Somerset 1906 "The BSB" - PALMER EBECS 1979 §38 pp75-76 David Hillery: Jack Beeforth, Wragby, N Yorksh 1974 "The BYB" - see CORNSTALK -- Harvey NICHOLSON with chorus cheers & applause rec by Norman Alford & Robert Forrester, Wreay, Rockcliffe, Cumberland: REYNARD Records RR-002 1953)/ TOPIC TSCD-660 1998 "The Coupshawholm Butcher" mentions Newcastle & Morpeth to buy cattle - Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR (banjo): B & C CREST-23 1968/76/ CASS-45-0853 - Jon RAVEN & co: ARGO ZFB-29 1971 - Mr HILL, rec by Fred Hamer, Tetford, Lincs: EFDSS VWML-003 cass talk about song

BUTCHER AND THE COBBLER, THE - COBBLER AND THE BUTCHER

BUTCHER AND THE PARSON. THE - Hammond Ms -- Frank PURSLOW (acc guitar): DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219 - DRUIDS: ARGO ZFB-22 1970 - Paul Wilson & Ben van Weede (fiddles): SAYDISC CP-115 1980

BUTCHER AND THE TAILOR'S WIFE, THE - "There was a lousy tailor in London town did dwell - he had a handsome wife and her name was Mary Bell" - She tells the tailor that, because tomorrow the butcher is going to lay with her, he must be under the bed with a sword - ROUD #1528 - SHEPARD BB 1962 Williamson Bs Newcastle - PALMER RVW 1983 #7 pp10-12 RVW: Mr Gothard, Wilburton, Cambridgesh 1906 "The Lousy Tailor" - WEHSE 319 -- Nic JONES: LEADER LER-2014 1970 from Sharp

BUTCHER('S) BOY, THE - "In Jersey/ London city where I did dwell" - finds note and hanging from a beam - LAWS #P-24 ABBB 1957 p260 - ROUD#409 - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #157 p606-8 "Sheffield Park" - JFSS 2:8 1906 pp159-60 RVW Ingrave or Chigwell, Essex "In Jessie's City" - JFSS 9 1906 [also] p293 "Early early" mixed with "Sweet William" coll Kidson Lincs - JFSS 7 1905 p74 Hammond Dorset 1905 "In Yorkshire Park" - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha 1970 p80 from Lily Green & Alice Swain - PURSLOW CL 1972 p105 - HAMER 1973 p18 "A Sailor comes home late" Bedfordsh - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 p2327-9 Carolyne Hughes - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp236-8 11v from Jeannie Robertson --- SHARP FSSA 1917 #101 "The Brisk Young Lover" - SANDBURG ASB 1927 p324 "London City" - SPAETH 2 WSM 1927 pp128-9 "In Jersey City" - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #59 pp157-160 & p398 Ellen Bigney, NS/ Mrs Willard Thompson (w/o) - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp33-4 Edward Hartley, NS 1929+- HUDSON FSM 1936 pp160-161 Mrs Easley, Mi (w/o) - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp195-199 Rachel Tucker, Ga 1930 (w/o)/ Mrs Mary King, Tenn (w/o)/ Nancy Gianmotti, Jersey City, NJ (w/o)/ Thaddeus Napiorski, Jersey City 1929 (w/o)/ Elizabeth Albers, Jersey City 2v (w/o)/ Mrs Henry Gray, Ind 1v (w/o)- LEACH 1955 p737 - BELDEN Mo 1940 p201-7 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp226-230 Mrs Bessie Anderson Mo 1928/ Mrs Violet Savory Justis (w/o)/ Mrs Ruth Hains (w/o)/ Otto Rayburn 1v (w/o)/ Mrs Lilian Short 1941/ Mrs Gladys McCarty, Ark 1941 1v (w/o)/ Mrs Wasson, Ark 1v (w/o)/ Ms Ark 1v (w/o) - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp334-6 Mrs Hornbeak, Fla "A Railroad Boy" - LEACH 1955 p737 - BROWN NC 1952 2 p271 - COX (2) p430 - THOMPSON PS 1958 p387 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p65 Mrs Salley Hubbard, Utah (w/o) - CAREY ASS 1976 pp72-3 Timothy O Connor Songbook c1778 (w/o) "In Woodstock town in Oxford shore" - PETERS FSOW 1977 p204 Mabel Hawkins, Wis 1923 - ROBERTS-AGEY ITP 1978 pp106-8 Buell Kazee, Magoffin Co, Ky 1954 - WARNER TAFS 1984 #86 pp218-9 Buna Hicks, NC "A Rude and Rambling Boy" - EDWARDS (Australia) p180-1 - Cf DIED FOR LOVE (Tavern in the town) - CRUEL MILLER - SHEFFIELD PARK -- Mrs Julia Barnes, rec by PK, Chideock, Dorset 1952: RPL 18694 "Jersey City" - "Kirsty" Susan Hutchison (cousin of Davie Stewart?) rec by PK (see Davie STEWART) - Jack LE FEUVRE rec by PK, Sark 1957: RPL LP 23842/ FTX-245 "O mother dear" - Tommy MAKEM (with whistle) & Eric WEISBERG (gtr/ banjo): TRADITION TLP-1044 1961 - May BRADLEY, rec byFred Hamer, Ludlow, Salop: EFDSS VWML-003 1989 cass "The Willow Tree" - UNION FOLK: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-007 1971 - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7" RTR0120/ FTX-143 - Jasper SMITH (gypsy): TOPIC 12-TS-304 1977 - Ruth BURDON of Sandwich, Kent rec herself on cassette Feb 1982: CASS-90-0626 (frag) "Hanging by a rope" - Caitriona Ni Cheannabhain (unacc) Galway CIC 013 CASS-0900 --- Buell KAZEE (voc/5-str banjo) 1928 (BRUNSWICK 213A 1928)/ FOLKWAYS FP253/ 7"RTR- 0306: FTX-911 "The B's Boy" - Buna HICKS rec Warners, Beech Mountain, NC 1941: FTX-923 "A Rude and Rambling Boy" - Ed McCURDY (with gtr) rec Jac Holzman, NY USA: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-601 1955 from Ohio - Frank PROFFITT (v/gtr) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt, Watauga Co., NC 1959: FTX-932/ FOLK LEGACY FSA-1 1962/ TOPIC 12-T-162 1966"One Morning Fair" - Hedy WEST: TOPIC 12-T-163 1967 "Down in Adairsville" - Joan BAEZ (v/gtr) nd CASS 60-0813 "The Railway Boy" - Almeda RIDDLE of Arkansas, USA: ROUNDER 0017 rec 1972 - Melcena SMITH & Elias FAZER rec by John Storm Roberts, Tortola, Virgin Islands 1982: ROOT & BRANCH #1 EFDSS 1999 - Garnett & Norah ARWOOD (unacc with fid bef & aft) Pigeon Roost, Mitchell Co, NC 21/5/83 VWML-007 d/CASS-1026 1992 "Crazy about Song" rec by Mike Yates - Frank PROFITT Jr (voc/banjo): CLOUDLANDS (Tenn) CLC-008 1992 CASS-1356 "Morning Fair"

BUTCHER BOY, THE - Polka (D) - COLE #6 p81

BUTCHER OF GLOUCESTER, THE - Dublin street ballad - Butcher kills a man he thought was his son's girls father - BEHAN IS 1965 #14 "New music & words by Wolfe Stephens"

BUTCHERS - CRUEL MILLER - DIED OF LOVE - SWEET MARY ANNE - THREE BUTCHERS

BUTCHER'S BOY, THE - Clog Dance - KERR MM 2 #418 p47 (D)

BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER, THE - "It was in Newcastle a rich butcher did dwell" "never again kiss in the dark" Lover's Trick - GREIG- DUNCAN II p422 (words only)

BUTCHER'S LIST, THE - "I shall have heart for Mrs Johnson" - Local comp with delivery list "by heart" -- Bill LOWNE rec Seamus Ennis, Cley-on-sea, Norfolk 1955: RPL 22173

BUTCHER'S MARCH, THE - Jig (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #27 2var: (i) & (ii) 4pts p16 _ COLE #5 p70 - GIBLIN #68 p33 "The Butcher's Jig" - Tunebook Ms (G) #104 p39 - MOYLAN 1 #68 from Tom Kearney (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #867/ DMI #127 - SHASKEEN 2 #51 p38 (with note about original 6pt jig publ in 18thC associated with a May Eve Long Dance) -- James MORRISON (fid) Tom ENNIS (U- pipes) John MULLEN (piano) rec New York 1921-1935: TOPIC 12-T- 390 1980 with "Paddy in London" & "Sligo Bay" - Leo ROWSOME (U- pipes) rec London 1926: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Kitty's Rambles" & "Donnybrook Fair" - John FAHEY (fid): DECCA W-4180-B (78 rpm disk) - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec 1948: RTE-CD-199 1997 bef "When the cock crows it is day"& "Sixpenny Money"

BUTCHERS OF BRISTOL, THE - Hornpipe/ Reel - MOYLAN 1 #38 from Tom Kearney (U-pipes) - see also CAMPBELLS ARE COMING

BUTCHER'S SHOP, THE - HOP HOP HOP

BUTLER'S HORNPIPE - Tunebook Ms (G) 3pts #24 p96 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #24 p9 (D/D/G)

BUTLINS - "A man and his wife he decided one day" -Holiday : Butlins : Wife to shower : Back to chalet : Shirt over head : Wrong man - ROUD#5398 -- Jeff Wesley, Whittlesbury, Northamptonshire : (VETERAN-116 1988)

BUTTER - CHURNING - MO LEASTAR BEAG

BUTTER AND CHEESE AND ALL - GREASY COOK

BUTTERCUP JOE - "Now I be a true-bred country chap and I do come from Wareham" Text & tune from Wm Warmington, Wareham - ROUD#1635 - WILLIAMS #540 (w/o) - PURSLOW WS 1968 p22 Gardiner: Richard Hall, Itchen Abbas, Hampsh 1905 - ED&S 33:2 1971 p61 Tony Wales: P Laker, Brighton, Sussex -- DANDY HUSBAND -- (Albert RICHARDSON: ZONOPHONE (?) "The Old Sow" on reverse side) - Tony WALES (with gtr) 7"RTR-0089 dub from FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 from P.Laker, Brighton - (Harry UPTON rec Mike Yates, Balcombe, Sussex 1975-77: TOPIC SP-104) - CASS-0330 Tommy CHAPPLE rec Michael Feist at "The Stag" Rackenford 1972 & Hare Down, Knowstowe 1973 (see letter file) - YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-38 1972/ Radio 2 8/8/90 "War" CASS-60- 1033 - Charlie JOSE, rec by PK, Boscastle, Cornwall 1975: FTX-096 - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ CASS-45-1245/ FTX-143 - Gwen HANNIS, rec by Gwylim Davies, Cranham, Glos 1987: FTX-417 -- NEIL LANHAM NL-01 Jack TARLING rec by Neil Lanham, Haverhill, Suffolk 30/4/95 (gift) CASS-1357

BUTTERCUPS - DOWN IN THE FIELDS WHERE THE BUTTERCUPS ALL GROW

BUTTER'D PEASE - Country dance tune - BAYARD DTF #224 - Voc Lib p523 - WALSH, John: "Caledonian Country Dances" Bk 1 (London 1744) p29 - WILSON p87 (with dance descr) -- Peter BERESFORD (fid) rec by PK, Buckden, W Yorks 1956: FTX-211 - Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977 bef "Mulberry Bush"

BUTTERFLIES - I'D BE A BUTTERFLY

BUTTERFLIES IN THE RAIN - comp by Myers -- Gordon CUTTY (Engl Conc) FREE REED FRR-006 1976

BUTTERFLY, THE - English Country Dance - SHARP CD Bk -- Giles FARNABY's Dream Band: ARGO ZDA-158 1973 - Jim SMALL (harmonica), rec Cheddar, Somerset 1980: FTX-138

BUTTERFLY, THE - Polka - ROCHE 3 #146 p47 (D/A & Trio in G)

BUTTERFLY, THE - Triple Jig - comp by Tommy POTTS (fid): CLADDAGH CC-13/ RTE Radio Progr cass - BOTHY BAND 1st LP (?) - Instrum DAMBUSTER DAM-006/ CASS-0350 - MOVING CLOUD Danish-Irish Folk Group: GO 0102 nd aft song: "Rocky road to Dublin"

BUTTERMILK - A-BEGGING BUTTERMILK I WILL GO

BUTTERMILK MARY - Jig (A) - COLE #9 p64 "Buttermilk Mary's Jig" - FUREY p17 (G) - O'NEILL MOI #1002/ DMI #217 (A) - BAND CALL

BUTTERMILK MARY - Reel - SWEENEY'S BUTTERMILK

BUTTERWORTH, George - Composer - ED&S mag 47/3 Autumn 1985 p10 Article by Michael Barlow -- Talk about him by Douglas Kennedy: FTX-481 & FTX-493 - Louis KILLEN: TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 "The Ship in Distress" - Roy HARRIS TOPIC 12-TS-232 1973 "Valiant Sailor" - Shirley COLLINS TOPIC12-TS-238 1974 "Come all you little streamers" - Orchestral arr "Banks of Green Willow" Radio 2 27/7/93 Georgina Boyes prog CASS-1259

BUXOM BLADE, THE - "In London lived a BB" - WILLIAMS #305 Mrs Rowles, Witney, Oxfordsh (w/o)

BUXOM DAIRY MAID, THE - and THE PLOUGHBOY - Ch: "Hi ho up and hi ho down - love makes the world go round" - ROUD#12570 - BSs -- Jean WARD & Jon RAVEN: ARGO ZFB-29 1971

BUXOM LASS, THE - "As I walked out one morning I met a BL" "with courage like a lion" etc - Seduction - ROUD#833 - PURSLOW WS 1968 Hammond: H Hooper, Byer, Dorset 1907 - Jackson Bs in B-G coll (Br Mus ref L R 271a 1 vol 2 p111) - Cf THE MOWER

BUXOM OLD BLONDE, A - HEN LADI FOWR BENFELEN

BUY A BOX OF MATCHES OFF THE POOR OLD MAN - PLEASE GIVE A PENNY

BUY A BROOM - "From Teutschland I come" - Ch: "O buy of a wanderer a Bavarian Broom" - ROUD#13229 - BSs incl Thomas FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer 2001) - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1845 p311 (1v/ch/m) -- Ted LAMBOURNE rec by Seamus Ennis, North Marston, Bletchley Bucks 25/6/52: RPL 18139

BUY A BROOM - Waltz/ Country Dance: Waltz into Reel - GALES Pkt Companion (c1800) 1 p1 3/8 (D) - KERR MM 4 #424 p47 (D) Waltz - Tunebook Ms (D) #29 p445 - see PORTUGUESE WALTZ - POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON -- Peter BERESFORD (fid), rec by PK, Buckden, Yorks: FTX-211

BUY BROOM BESOMS - "If you want a B" Ch: "BBB buy them when they're new - fine heather rangers, better never grew" - ROUD#1623 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1893 p20-21 - WHITTAKER NCB 1921 - SEDLEY p224 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 489 4var - ED&S 27:4 1965 p108 Northumbrian Minstrelsy - Cf BESOM MAKER -- Ian CAMPBELL Group; TOPIC 12-TPS-145 1966 - Johnny HANDLE: LEADER LER-2007 1969 - Jack ARMSTRONG (N-pipes): SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 with other tunes - Bob DAVENPORT with Jack ARMSTRONG (N-pipes) rec by PK: CONCERT HALL SVSC-2339 1970/ FTX-330 - John TIMPANY & Audrey SMITH: WESTWOOD WRS-031 1973 - SPREDTHICK rec by PK Dartington, Devon 1975 - Janet RUSSELL (new words) Radio 2 7/10/87: CASS-0401

BUZZARD LOPE, THE - THROW ME ANYWHERE LORD -

BWGAN Y FFYNNON - (The Bogey at the well) - Welsh Skipping rhyme -- rec 13/11/42: RPL 7663 (78)

BWMBA - (Boomba) - Welsh - JWFSS 1922 2 pt3 #128 p194 Llanwddyn Merionethsh "Pan Oeddwn i Gynt yn Fachgen" - JWFSS 4 pt2 Andrew Thomas "Can yr Hen Wyddeles" - GWYNN WILLIAMS 1961 #60 p67 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #54 Phillips -- Ben "Bach" PHILLIPS rec by Seamus Ennis, Lochtwrffin, Pembrokesh 17/10/52 19068/ FTX-005 & FTX-052 - Andrew THOMAS Pembrokesh 1953: RPL 20195

BY ANNAN'S WINDING STREAMS - or The Village Maiden -- Alan ROGERSON of Dumfries rec by him & his brother with generator dubbed from copy tape from Louis Killen 1957: 5"RTR-0063

BY CHANCE IT WAS - "I met my love" - BARING GOULD Ms#1 (a) James Parsons, Lew Down Sept 1888 (b) tune from a Devon cook - BG SOW 1889 & Rev Ed 1905 - Cf "Searching for Lambs"

BY LOCH ETIVE'S SIDE -- Pipe Major Wm Ross, rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh Castle 1951: FTX-188 - CASS-0445 - SAYDISC (CD) SDL-416 1996 "Bagpipes of Britain & Ireland" bef "High Road to Gairloch"

BY SWEET SLANEYSIDE - Song of 1798 Rising (T D Sinnett) -- Nellie WALSH (unacc) rec Wexford 6/8/47: RPL 11221

BY THE COTTAGE DOOR - Sentimental song comp 1920s by Nonnie Presson -- PERRY COUNTY MUSIC MAKERS with zither & gtr rec Tenn 1930 (NEW WORLD NW-226)/ CASS-0476-7

BY THE DANGERS OF THE OCEAN - BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES-O

BY THE FORT HOW SAD WAS I - March (D) - BOWEN p42 - FELDMAN p245 from John McKeown, Co Donegal

BY THE GREEN GROVES - BIRDS IN THE SPRING

BY THE HUSH ME BOYS - "It's by the hush me boys I'm sure that's to hold" - Paddy's narration - sold horse and plough - Ch: "Here's to me boys - take advice - to America not be coming - there is nothing here but war and cannons roar" - Emigrant wishing to be home in Ireland -ROUD#2314 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp52-3 O J Abbot, Ont 1957 - FOWKE PBCFS 1973 -- O J ABBOTT rec by Edith Fowke, Ontario, Canada 1958: LEADER LEE-4057 1974/ ( FOLKWAYS FM-4051)

BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON - JOLLY SHILLING

BY THE LIGHTNING WE LOST OUR SIGHT - BLIND SAILOR

BY THE MOLE ON YOUR BUBBIES - "so round and so white" - ROUD#12544 - CONVIVIAL SONGSTER (1782) p111 -The Masque c1785 pp83-4

BY THE RIVER OF GEMS - COIS ABHAINN NA SEAD

BY THE SEASIDE - LAN Y MOR

BY THE SHIPYARD WALL - comp by GM -- Graeme Miles: FTX-227

BY THE SIDE OF THE ZUYDER ZEE - Used as a waltz -- Alex BISSET (mel/piano) rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-319 1977

BY THY SWEET SILVER LIGHT, BONNY MOON - ROLL ON SILVER MOON

BY YOUR LEAVE - LARRY GROGAN - POOR OLD HORSE

BYE, BABY BUNTING - "Daddy's gone a-hunting" Nursery rhyme -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross CASS-1173 Brooksward Middle School followed by studio performance with comp tune

BYE BYE MY DARLING - GRAINGER ONS#1/ RNS#1 John Grainger, London 1905

BYE BYE, SKIPPER - Parody on "Bye bye, blackbird" "Tell me, skipper, tell me true - you can't get a crew to sail with you - skipper bye bye" -- Mike WATERSON (& ch): TOPIC 12-TS-332 1977

BYE 'M BYE - American Number Song -- Peggy SEEGER (voc/banjo) with Guy CARAWAN (v/gtr): rec by PK: EMI CLP-1174 1958/ FTX-942 - Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987/ CASS-1225 "American Folksongs for Children"

BYKER HILL AND WALKER SHORE - Collier's Song mentioning the dance-tune "Elsie Marley" - WHITTAKER NCB 1921 - LLOYD CAYBM 1952 -- FETTLERS, Middlesbrough 1966 tape - Martin CARTHY (gtr) with Dave SWARBRICK (fid) instrumental: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ cass TBX 513/2 - Martin CARTHY: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ PHILIPS international 6382-022 1967 - Tom GILFELLON & HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: TOPIC 12-T-186 1968/ at National Garden Festival, Gateshead on RPL Radio 2 27/7/90 CASS-1034 with story bef - THE YOUNG TRADITION TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-13 1969 - David DODDS & Larry DALEY (with drum) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse 25/10/74: CASS-60-0553

BYRNE'S HORNPIPE - KERR MM 3 #337 p36 (D)

BYRNE'S HORNPIPE - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #208 p84 - COLE #6 p108 "Byrne's Favorite" - DARLEY #84 p39 - O'NEILL MOI #1638/ DMI #865 - FELDMAN p235 "Byrne's Reel" - KERR MM 2 #374 p41 "Byrne's Favorite Hornpipe" - SULLIVAN 2 #44 p18 - WILLIAMSON p57 with "Waterloo Hornpipe" from Davies "Caledonian Repository" 1829 -- Michael COLEMAN (fid with piano) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE 004 d/cass 1991 (M) bef "Tommy Hill's" - Padraig O KEEFE with Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford (fiddles) rec by Seamus Ennis, Charlie Horan's Bar, Coalisland, Co Kerry 9//9/52: TOPIC TSCD-309 (1977) 1994 - CHIEFTAINS 2: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-4 cass aft "Callaghan's" - TRADLADS TLCD001 1997 (Denmark) bef "Cronin's"

 
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