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DO COME BACK AGAIN - REJECTED LOVER

DO DO PITY MY CASE - "in some lady's garden" "beds to make" "supper to make when I get home" "floor to sweep" "baby to feed" -- "American Folksongs for Children" Peggy SEEGER unacc (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 CASS-1226

DO EVERYONE AS YOU CAN - "John Henry Sharp is my name" VICINUS BIN p71 Broadside

DO IT YOURSELF SONG, THE - comp by FW -- Fred WEDLOCK with Chris NEWMAN (gtr) on Concert Hall Radio 2 23/8/82: CASS-10-0724

DO LET ME 'LONE, SUSAN - "Hurrah, me Loobo Boys" - HUGILL SSS 1961 p379

DO LET ME GO, GIRLS - "It's of a merchant's daughter" - Ch: "Doo me ammer do" - Shanty - ROUD#3221 - WHALL 1910 #125 - SHARP Chanties 1914 #8 p9 Mr Short - TERRY 1921 from Mr Short, Watchet, Somerset - HUGILL SSS 1961 p380 - ED&S 28:3 1986 p76 Terry -- Bert LLOYD (with conc & ch): TOPIC 12-TPS-205 1966 - YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-16 1970 for Capstan - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC 269 1992 gift from Sean Laffey CASS-1280

DO ME AMMER DO - YELLOW GIRLS

DO, MY JOHNNY BOWKER - JOHNNY BOWKER

DO NOT - DON'T

DO RE MI - comp by WG about Dust bowl workers who hadn't got the "dough" -- Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 set of 4 LPs titled "Folk Song & Minstrelsy" by The Book of the Month Club) - Woody GUTHRIE on Tom Paxton 2 progs by Tom Paxton: on Radio 2 30/9/87 & 7/10/87: CASS 0425 - Rab NOAKES with Dick GAUGHAN, Bert JANSCH & Rory McLEOD

DO THUGAS GRA CLEIBH DUIT - "a speirbhean, ar dtuis" - A young man asks a woman's hand in marriage, but has heard her mother disparaging him for excess drinking and music-making in the pubs - he promises to settle down but she is not persuaded.- JFSS 6/5 #25 Sept 1921 295-99 #70 (8vv) coll by Martin Freeman in Bhaile Mhuirne with 4 more verses - CROININ 2000 #53 pp104-6 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Diane Hamilton, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 1955: FOUR COURTS CD-2 #24

D'YE KEN JOHN PEEL - JOHN PEEL

DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN MAN? - MUFFIN MAN

DO YOU KNOW WHAT? - "No, he died before my time" - Children's "Word Trickery" -- FTX-198 (educated girl solo)

DO YOU REMEMBER? - "the railways - iron ships - aeroplane - battlefield" - comp by GM 1972 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-229

DO YOU SEE MY BILLY COMING? - BEDLAM

DO YOU WANT ANY MORE? - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #741/ DMI #33 (D)

DO YOU WANT YOUR OLD LOBBY WASHED DOWN? - "Well I live in the house with a neat piece of land - on my own - maid cries out as she passes" -- Bob DAVENPORT with THE RAKES & Ron SUMMERS (drums): LEADER LER-2088 1973

DOBBIN'S FLOWERY VALE - "One morning fair as Phoebus bright" - LAWS #0-29 ABBB 1957 p20 - ROUD#999 - BSs - HENRY SOP #85/ HUNTINGTON pp300-301 1925 8v/m (written by McGowan, shoemaker, Chapel Lane, Armagh) - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 p162-3 & 216 - MORTON FSU 1970 p55-6 Tom Todd, Roughan, Co Armagh - O BOYLE 1976 p58 (4v only)-- CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #143 pp39-40 Abgelo Dornan, NB 1954-60 "Overn's FV" - DOERFLINGER 1951 p318 "Irish Girl's Lament" -- Sarah MAKEM, rec by PK, Keady, Co Armagh 1952: 7"RTR-0547 (not RPL) - also from Frank TOAL at Keady: 7"RTR-0547 - Bob McCREESH rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Armagh 1954: RPL 21998 - Robert CINNAMOND, rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24836/ FTX-158 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-289 1976 - SKYLARK on Radio 2 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550

DOCKLAND GIRLS - "Keep away from the DG" - or THE WHALE OF A TALE comp by GM 1971 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-227 #5

DOCKYARD BLUES -- Brian ROBERTS (harmonica & jews harp) with Ian THOMAS (voc with guitar) of Rhondda, S.Wales rec by PK, Gloucester 1986: FTX-039

DOCKYARD GATE, THE - "Come all you married men seamen bold - when you are out of sight" - sailor husband absent at sea - ROUD#1739 - KIDSON EPS 1929 - JFSS 2:4:9 1906 p265 Kidson: nn, Whitby Yorksh 1v/m - JFSS 3:1:(10) 1907 p37-38 Gilchrist: Wm Bolton, Southport, Lancash - PURSLOW MB 1965 p26 Gardiner: Frederick Fennemore, Portsmouth, Hampsh 1907 - PALMER 1986 OBSS #126 p270 from Guyer -- Sam LARNER, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: FTX-139 & FTX-515/ rec Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger 1959: FOLKWAYS FG-3507 1961 "Now is the time for fishing" - Dick SNELL CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137 1970 - Harry UPTON rec Mike Yates, Balcombe, Sussex 1975: TOPIC SP1- 4 1977

DOCKS - GREAT NORTHERN RIVER - MAGGIE MAY - OVER YONDER BANKS - STRIKE FOR BETTER WAGES

DOCTOR ANGUS - Military Two-step -- Tom EDMONDSON (accordion): TOPIC 12-TS-267 1975

DOCTOR BEECHING - RAILWAYMAN'S FAREWELL - THEY'VE GONE AND CLOSED OUR RAILWAY

DOCTOR BEECHING'S LONG AXE - comp by GM 1972 - DO YOU REMEMBER? - Graeme Miles: FTX-229

DOCTOR BURKE'S REEL - MAGUIRE 1 #68 p18 (D) from Joe Burke -- RAYMOND ROLAND Quartet (Ceili Band): EMBER EMB-3361 1965 titled "Burke's Reel" with "The Provence"

DOCTOR, DOCTOR, HOW'S YOUR WIFE? - LITTLE FAT DOCTOR

DOCTOR GILBERT - Reel (Em) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #180 p71 & CRE 2 #228 p119 (Bm) from Johnny Doherty (fid) Co Donegal - CRANITCH p118 - FELDMAN p67 "The Dispute at the Crossroads" from Johnny Doherty (Em) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #34 p10 (Em) from Michael Gorman - SULLIVAN #180 p71 -- Michael COLEMAN (fid) of Co Sligo, rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE 004 d/cass 1991 bef "Queen of May"- Michael GORMAN (fid) of Sligo rec by PK, London 25/10/52: RPL 18708/ FTX-077/ TOPIC 12-T-6 1958/ TOPIC 12-T-123 1965 & TOPIC 12-TPS-114 1969 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec O Doherty & Feldman, Donegal TOPIC 12-TS-398 "The Dispute at the Crossroads" - Paul DAVEY (harmonica) rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 4/12/71 CASS-60-0909

DOCTOR JOHN STAFFPORD - CAROLAN'S RECEIPT FOR DRINKING

DOCTOR MACK - "D M once more employs the burden of my song" - ROUD#1861 - MELBREAK Hunt SFP p79 Cumb -- Leslie Garside rec by David Bland, Upperthong, Yorksh: LEADER LEE-4056 1975

DOCTOR MACKENZIE'S A VERY NICE MAN - "he teaches the children all he can" - Kids Skipping rhyme with counting - OPIE LLSC p364 Note about Dr Faustus being a good man appeared in "Infant Amusements" 1797 #11 -- rec by Damian Webb, 18/12 Pickering Junior Girls Yorksh 1961 - FTX-197

DOCTOR Mc LEOD OF ALNWICK - comp by BP -- Billy PIGG (N-pipes): LEADER LEA-4006 1971

DOCTOR O'NEILL - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #701/ DMI #6 (D) 5pts -- Jimmy POWER, Lucy FARR & Andy BOYLE (fids) accomp by Reg HALL (piano) rec Camden Town 12/3/67: TOPIC TSCD-603 1997 aft "Farewell to Erin"

DOCTOR OUTWITTED, THE - BLACK COOK

DOCTOR PETER'S HORNPIPE - FELDMAN p194 (D) from Danny O Donnell, Donegal

DOCTOR PRITCHARD - "O come a' you people great and small" - poisoned his mistress - jealousy caused loss of life - Glasgow - DP was last person to be publicly hanged in Scotland - ROUD#2507 - FMJ 3:1 1975 p58-9 Robin Hutchison (tinker) rec by Peter Hall, Aberdeen

DOCTOR STAFFORD AND THE WEAVER'S DAUGHTER - "One evening as I walked by the rocks of Mile" ROUD#3868 - Bss

DOCTOR TAYLOR - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1359/ DMI #613 (G)

DOCTOR WHITTAKER'S HORNPIPE - comp by Tom Clough -- THE CUT AND DRY BAND (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-413 1980 with Tom Clough's "Nancy"

DODGER SONG, THE - "O the candidate's a dodger..." - Ch: "We're all dogin'" - lawyer - preacher - merchant - farmer - sheriff - general - refers to "The Draft" (Conscription) - Cf THE RIGS OF THE TIME -- Lee HAYS & THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001 - THE WEAVERS: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 set of 4 LPs titled "Folk Song & Minstrelsy" by The Book of the Month Club) "Dodgin'"

DODO - LAMENT TO THE DODO (G Miles)

DOES YOUR HEART BEAT TRUE TO ME? - Ch: "It's in the silent night when the moon shines bright" - ROUD#12961 - Bs - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1546 p82

DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW YOU'RE OUT? - "I am the laughing stock of all" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001)

DOFFER'S SONG - YOU MAY EASILY KNOW A DOFFER

DOFFIN MISTRESS, THE - "O do you know her or do you not?" - Belfast Linen Factory Mill Doffer's Song - ROUD#2133 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #220 p500 John McLaverty 1952 - see also OVER THERE - YOU MIGHT EASILY KNOW A DOFFER -- BELFAST GIRL SINGERS rec 20/4/48: RPL 13163-4 (coll by Hugh Quinn) - Charles BOYLE rec by PK 7/7/52: RPL 18407 (1v only) "Billy Gillaspie" - John McLAVERTY rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: RPL 18375 talk bef/ 021 (2v only) - Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 4/5/55: FTX-072 with talk about doffers and hecklers - Anne BRIGGS: TOPIC 12-T-86 1963 - London CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZFB-64 1968 - Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR: CHRYSALIS CHR-1101 1976 McLaverty version/ Folk Electric Folk: FTX-123 - Bertha (of Belfast) with Tom BROWN (of Caister Norfolk) in ch rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 25/3/79: FTX-134 with talk about working as one in Belfast - Marianne GREEN (from Hugh Quinn) with Martin O Hare (bodhran) rec at Session Studio 2003

DOG AND GUN - GOLDEN GLOVE - IN THE COUNTY OF INNOCENT - JENNY FROM BALLINASLOE

DOG IS BETTER THAN YOU, A - MONEY IS KING (Calypso)

DOG TICK -- "American Folksongs for Children" Mike SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 CASS-1226

DOG TRAY - "On the green banks of Shannon where Sheelagh was nigh" - ROUD#2668 - Bss

DOGGER BANK, THE - WATCH HER CATCH HER

DOGGIE PUTTER, THE - "My dear friends come gather round" - coal mining - ROUD#1883 - LLOYD CAYBM 2 1978 pp63-4 Bert Draycott -- Bert DRAYCOTT rec Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs, Fishburn, Cleveland, Yorksh: FOLKWAYS FE-38553 1981/ CASS-1292

DOGS - BOSWELL'S LURCHER - BRONCO LANE - CHAMPION HE WAS A DANDY - DARLASTON DOGFIGHT - DIXIE'S DOG (Licence) - ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG - FARMER'S DOG (Recit) - FIVE MILES FROM GUNDAGAI - GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN - GOLDEN GLOVE - LOST PUPPY (Gaelic) - MY DOG'S BIGGER (Paxton) - OLD BLUE - OLD MAN AND THE LITTLE LAP DOG - OLD MAN JONES - OLD SHEP - SPORTING DOGS - TWENTY POUND DOG (Fight) - WHILE GAMEKEEPERS LIE SLEEPING - Children - AUSTRIAN YODELLER - BINGO -- Recordings see SUBJECTS Listing

DOGS AMONG THE BUSHES - Reel (G) - FUREY p51 says it was composed by William Delaney, piper who was transported to Van Dieman's Land for courting a nobleman's daughter _ O'NEILL MOI #1274/ DMI #542 -- Willie CLANCY (whistle): TOPIC 12-T-175 1967 - PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-186 1973 bef "Jenny's Wedding" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec David Hammond 1975: GAEL- LINN CEF-072-3 1978 aft "Kitty's gone a-milking" & bef "Merry Sisters"

DOGS AND FERRETS/ POACHERS - WHILE GAMEKEEPERS LIE SLEEPING

DOG'S-MEAT MAN, THE - "In Gray's Inn Lane not long ago" - ROUD#7515 - London Melodist (c1831)pp184-5

DOG'S MEETING, THE - Recitation - MORGAN 1967: Rugby Songs p50 -- MEREDITH-ANDERSON 1967 p160 Australian version - see also THE FARMER'S DOG (Another Recit by Jose) -- Charlie JOSE rec by PK, Boscastle, Cornwall 1975: FTX-096

DOH RAY ME - Kids Rhyme - see NEBUCADNEZZAR - THREE MONKETS -- DECCA (ECLIPSE) ECS-2161 1974 sung by Killermont Young Singers Glasgow with YOU CANNA SHOVE YOUR GRANNY OFF A BUS sung by Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR

DOHERTY'S FANCY - PET OF THE PIPERS

DOHERTY'S JIG - DROPS OF BRANDY

DOHERTY'S SLIP JIG - LARK IN THE MORNING

DOHERTY'S REEL - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #149 p70 (D) & #177 p80 (Am) "John Doherty's Reel"

DOHERTY'S WAKE - "In the county of Kerry so blithe and so merry" - ROUD#2761 - CREIGHTON FSSNB pp151-2 Angelo Dornan, NB 1954-60

DO-IN DO O DIDLE O - AMHRAN FOSUIOCHTA

DOINA - type of free-style song -- Romania: ELECTRECORD EPD 1016

DOLE -- talk about Christmas meat, coal & clothing distribution: Charlie WILSON (talk) rec by PK, Empingham, Rutland 21/10/52: RPL 19337

DOLE BOYS, THE - "We are two jolly scroungers" (1v frag from Bert Draycott from Beamish Museum Music Coll) - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1974 p19

DOLLAR AN' A HALF A DAY, A - LOWLANDS AWAY

DOLLAR AINT A DOLLAR ANY MORE, A -- Pete SEEGER (with 5-string banjo): EMI (Music for Pleasure) MFP 50114 (Released by agreement with Folkways) Capitol Records Inc 1964

DOLLAR MAMIE - Work Song -- Ed LEWIS with John L. MOORE, James CARTER & Henry MAS(ON rec by Alan Lomax, Lamberty Penitentiary, Camp 11., Miss Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997

DOLLARD'S - FATHER DOLLARD'S (Hornpipe)

DOL-LI-A - "Fresh aw come from Sandgate Street" - ROUD#2611 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp86-7 - WHITTAKER NCB 1921 - ED&S 28:4 1966 p104 from Whittaker - POLWARTH FSN 1967 p20 from John Bell Ms -- Louis KILLEN: TOPIC 12-T-189 1962 - FETTLERS (with ch) rec Middlesbrough 1966 (small reel) - THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974

DOLLY AND HODGE - "As Dolly sat milking her cow - kicks over milking pail & throws Dolly on the ground - "Young Hodge come back and I'll let you" Comic courting Song - ROUD#1285 - Many BSs titled "Bonny Hodge" incl BG 1.1 #62 - BG Ms #174 incl bs (Foxley) & "The Tom Tit" - BARING GOULD from the two Misses Hamley, Lew Trenchard FWB 1892 (unpubl) - SHARP Cf I p333 "Dolly sat milking her cow" (4v) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp214-5 #17 Wm Jeffries, Longcot, Berksh 3 v (w/o) - Cf DAME DURDEN - THRESHING SONG (Cambs)

DOLLY BENNINGTON'S POLKA -- OLD HAT CONCERT PARTY - 1 hour progr on Radio 2 10/10/90 CASS-60-1016

DOLLY GRAY -- WINTLE Street Piano rec by PK 1955: FTX-300

DOLLY PEPPER - HIGH LOW DOLLY PEPPER

DOLLY'S BRAE - "A party of Orangemen marched this way" (victorious Ribbonmen) - ZIMMERMAN IPSB 1966 p311 -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24838/ FTX-157 - RAVENHILL Flute & Drum Band rec Belfast 9/5/59: RPL LP 25646 - THE LOYAL ORANGEMEN: PICKWICK ALLEGRO ALL-864 1967

DOLPHIN, THE - (Ship)- "It was the 14th of July, in Liverpool we did lie" (Jack French) - ROUD #690 - BSs incl SBG 3:#156/ 7:#253 "The London Man-o'-war" "On the Twenty-first" or "Fourteenth day of August in Plymouth sound we lay" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p90 "The Saucy Dolphin" (w/o) - BARING GOULD SOW Rev Ed #111 from an old man at St Erth, Cornwall "The Marigold" - KARPELES CSC 1974 #287 2 p283-5 Capt Lewis, Minehead, Somerset 1904/ Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke, Som 1906 "The London Man-o-war" or "The Royal Delamere" - GRAINGER ONS#20/ RNS#11 Alfred Hunt, Wimbledon, Surrey 1905 "The Warlike Seamen" - JFSS 5 1915 pp167-98 Clive Carey from Moses Mansfield, Haslemere, Surrey "The Royal Oak" - JFSS 8:31 1927 pp14-5 Sharp: Capt Vickery, Minehead, Som 1904 - TERRY SSB 1931 "Lion Man-o-War"(same source as Sharp) - JEFDSS 1954 p150 Copper with transcr of 2 pts by Francis Collinson "Warlike Seamen" - REEVES IP 1958 pp146-7 Sharp: Capt Lewis (w/o) - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p58 Sam Larner, Winterton, Norfolk 1958 - PURSLOW WS 1968 p67 Gardiner: Richard Hall, Itchen Abbas, Hampsh 1905 "The London Man o War" - COPPER SESB 1971 pp284-5 Family song, Rottingdean, Sussex "Warlike Seamen" - PALMER RVW 1983 #70 pp110-111 Mr Locke (m) Rollesby, Norfolk & J B Cooding (w), Southwold, Suffolk 1910 "Liverpool Play" incl letter from Sean Laffey 21/3/94 with words of "The Nottingham and Mars" (to tune of "The Dolphin") about Phil Sausmarez of Guernsey, who fought in war of "Jenkin's Ear" (1739-44) as second in command to Anson on board "The Centurion", who captured the largest prize ship of the time laden with gold bullion off Macau. This paid the Navy costs for two years and as a reward Sausmaerez was able to buy back his family home, Sausmarez Manor and establish himself as the main supplier of Navy sweathers and to design a new uniform in "Navy Blue", but he was killed on board "The Nottingham" off Brest in October 1746 after a successful engagement with "The Mars" -- LOSS OF THE LONDON - ROYAL OAK -- Jim & John & sons: Bob & Ron COPPER of Rottingdean rec by Seamus Ennis, Peacehaven, Sussex 1952: RPL 17986 (2 part harmony)/ TOPIC TSCD-534 2001 - Bob & Ron rec by PK, Peacehaven, Sussex 1955: CAEDMON TC- 1162/ TOPIC 12-T-194 "Warlike Seamen"/ FTX-081 & FTX-513/ 4x30 min progs on Radio 2 Oct 1990: CASS-1013-4/ SAYDISC SDL-405 1994 - Bob, Ron & John COPPER: LEADER LEA-4048 (boxed) 1971 "The Irish Captain" or "The Warlike Seamen" - Jack FRENCH rec by PK, Blaxhall, Suffolk 10/10/53: RPL 19983 "Liverpool Play"/ FTX-036 & FTX-513 - Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 19/7/56: RPL LP 22915/ FTX-033 "The Dolphin" - Leslie LAWSON rec by Seamus Ennis, Norfolk Feb 1955: RPL 22022 "The Dolphin" - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: 139/ rec by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger: FOLKWAYS FG-3507 "The Dolphin" - Peter BELLAMY & Chris BIRCH: TOPIC 12- T-200 1970 (Copper version) - STAVERTON BRIDGE rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Devon 3/7/70 7"RTR#0142/ FTX-144 "The Irish Captain" - Steve & Geof JORDAN (unacc harmony): FOREST TRACKS FT-2006 1975 (Gardiner version) - Lilian Lugg rec Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs, Exeter, Devon: FOLKWAYS FE-38553 "Fourteenth of December"

DOLPHIN, THE - (Ship) - PALMER OBSS 1986 #51 p117 "The Dolphin's Return" - Text from FIRTH NS&B 1907 p243 from Madden & tune (quoted) "The Lilies of France" 1768

DOMESTIC SERVANTS - SERVANTS

DOMHNALL O MAOLAINE - A Donegal version, on the same theme, as the Munster song EAMONN MAGAINE (Eamonn Magaine) publ in HARDEBECK: FUINN FIADHA FUINIDH #M-32 (Govmt publ, 1937 Dublin) - O SULLIVAN 1960 p166 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #30 from Conal O Donnell -- Conal O Donnell rec by PK, Glenties, Co Donegal 12/8/53: RPL 20151/ FTX-003

DOMINICA - ARIYELO - BONJOUR MA COUSINE - DIS SOLDA (Ten Soldiers) - EARLY IN THE MORNING (Peanut Vendor) - ELIZA KONGO - MOSQUITO ONE (My Mother Said) MWEN LEVE LINDI BON MATIN (I wake up early Monday morning) - ON THE CARPET (O This Pretty Little Girl Of Mine) - ROLLING SHILLING - ROUND & ROUND THE VILLAGE - SI SI MARIA - SIKOLA OLA VANNI (Chocolate with Vanilla) - TRA LA LA VOUMBE - VANLA VANTE (Wind is blowing) - WENT TO JAMAICA - WHAT SHALL I PUT IT IN? - YOU LIE YOU LIE -- Recordings see AREA Listing

DOMRA - Russian stringedd instrument played pizzacato -- Recordings see INSTRUMENTS Listing

DON KELLY'S GIRL
- ZEB TURNEY'S GIRL

DON NIPERI SEPTO - Story about girl at Hiring Fair & fairy -- Seamus ENNIS (with whistle) rec Pat Sky: FREE REED "40 yrs of Irish Piping" FFR-01-2 1976

DONAGHADEE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #281 p31 (C)

DONALBANE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #35 p10 (A ending D) - KERR MM 4 #11 p4 - WILSON p80

DONALD & HIGHLAND MAID- CAIRN O MOUNT

DONALD BLUE - Bothy Ballad - "My name is DB do you ken me fu well ?" - ROUD#3799 - FORD 1899 p48-9 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #581 (12var) - ORD 1930 p52-3 Note to Joe Gordons rec says usually sung to "Johnny Cope" tune but he uses its original -- Joe GORDON: EMI CLP-1379 1960

DONAL(D) BLUE - Broadsides - Shetland Reel -- Fraser HUGHSON (fid) rec Tom Anderson Shetland RTR-1081/ CASS-60-0435 - Mike WHELLANS (gtr & Bodhran): LEADER LER-022 1971 DA FORTY FIDDLERS with Marjorie SMITH (piano): LEADER LED-052 1973 with "Jack broke da prison door" - Tom ANDERSON, Aly BAIN, Trevor HUNTER, Davie TULLOCH (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 aft "Jack broke da prison door"

DONALD CAMPBELL - Redcoats -- Bella MacGREGOR, Blairgowrie (her own comp to tune: "Galway Shawl")

DONALD COUPER -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 aft "Shame fa the gear"

DONAL DHU - "My name is DD, I'm an outlaw bold and true - she's the dear maid to me - Margaret Kelly" - ROUD#2396 - JIFSS 20 pp60-61

DONALD Mc GILLAVRY - Jacobite Song about rising of 1735 or 1745m - HOGG -- Ewan MacCOLL: TOPIC 12-79 1962

DONALD Mc LEAN - Highland 6/8 Pipe March -- John BURGESS (H- pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969 with "Paddy's Leather Breeches" - John Willie CAMPBELL (fid) Kevin Mc CORMICK (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 titled "D Mc Lean's Farewell to Oban" with strathspey & reel

DONALD Mc MASTER'S STRATHSPEY - comp by Dan Hugh McEachern, Cape Breton -- Dan Joe & George Mc Innis (fiddles) with Marie Mc Lennan (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 with "Glengarry's March"

DONALD MALONE or MULLEN - DOMHNALL O MAOLAINE

DONALD MONROE - "Ye sons of North Britain used for to range" - War Ballad - Scots involved in American Revolution ! - emigrates to America leaving 2 sons who follow later - younger killed by the rebels including their father - LAWS #J-12 ABBB 1957 p134 - ROUD#521 - RYMOUR Club 1 p189 1v/m & 2 pp163-5 Alyth, Perthsh "Monro" - TOCHER 9 1973 p10 coll Hamish Henderson (12v) --- McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp323-4 Alexander Murphy, NS (w/o) - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp124-5 Ben Henneberry, NS 1929+ (refs) - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p218 - JAFL 26 p183 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 pp812-6 Thomas Walters, Nfl 1958/ Austin Hardy, Nfl 1951 "You sons of North Britain"/ Ned Rice, Nfl 1951 1v/m "Daniel M" - BETHKE AV 1981 pp113-4 Ted Ashlaw, Hermon, NY 1972 "Two Sons of North Britain" (PHILO 1022) - Lore & Language 7:2 1988 pp58-9 John Ashton & Julia Bishop: Wm White, Nfl "Old Monroe"

DONALD NA GREINE - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #10 p7 (G) "Donall na Greine" from Micho Russell - COLE #3 p65 (D) "Bully for you" (D) - HAYWOOD #23 p32 (A) - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #30 p9 3pts (D) "Donal O'Grady" alt: "You may talk as you please" - KERR MM 3 #225 p26 (A) "Thady you gander" - Tunebook Ms (Am) 3pts #113 p43 - Tunebook Ms (G) #155 p62 (G) - O NEILL MOI #984/ DMI #200 (D) 3pts titled "Daniel of the Sun" alts: "Donald O Grady" "The Bucky Highlander","Thady you Gander", "Potatoes and Butter" & "Sunny Dan" -- THE TEES- SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974 titled "Thady you gander" with "Paddy Carey" "Whistling Thief" & "Peeler & the goat" - Micho RUSSELL (whistle) Clare: FREE REED FR-004 1976

DONALD O MALONE or MULLEN - DOMHNALL O MAOLAINE

DONALD OF DUNDEE - Reel - MITTEL #35 p15 (D/Bm/D) 3pts

DONALD OG - DONALL OG

DONALD THE SON - Slow Jig -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29883

DONALD WILLIE AND HIS DOG - Slip-Jig from South Uist -- JOCK TAMSON'S BAIRNS: TOPIC 12-TS-424 1982 with "Peter McKinnon of Skeabosh" (Skye)

DONALD'S RETURN TO GLENCOE - PRIDE OF GLENCOE

DONALL DONN -- Enoch KENT (voc/ gtr): TOPIC 12-TPS-114 1964

DONALL O MAOLAINE - DOMHNALL O MAOLAINE

DONALL OG - "Young Donald" - Irish Gaelic - O DUIBHGINN 1960 many variant texts - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 # 31 Rodgers -- Kitty RODGERS rec by Noel Hamilton, Baile Thior (Torre Island) 1967: FTX-003 - Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953 - Maire AINE NI DHONNCHADHA, Connemara: CLADDAGH CC-6 1970 - Seamus ENNIS: GAEL-LINN CEF-009 [nd] - O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60

DONALL OG - ("Charming Cailin Ruadh") - Song in English - Traveller finds a maid complaining - the bugle sounds and she bids adieu - (transl from Gaelic by Frank O Connor) -- Michael CRONIN of Macroom Co Cork rec by Alan Lomax, Dublin 1951: 7"RTR- 0587 - Kate MAUDE rec by PK, London 1968 tape - Joyce FISHER (voc/ gtr): TOPIC 12-T-137 1966 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS- 264 1975 - Roger NICHOLSON (dulc): LEADER LER-2094 1976 tune only Instrum - CHIEFTAINS 2: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-4 cass - Instrum DAMBUSTER DAM-006/ CASS-0350

DONCASTER HORNPIPE, THE -- Gordon CUTTY (Engl conc) rec by PK, Kelloe, Durham 24/6/54: RPL 20602/ FTX-118

DONE IT ALL WRONG - "Hope my luck will change" -- "Skyport Ade" (Adrian TUCKER) with harmonica, kazoo, gtr & drum set rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 1975: FTX-037

DONE OVER - "The little bantam emperor is fairly now done over" - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB 2 pp190-191 Broadside - "by T Best the well-known angler" tune "Bow Wow Wow" - about Napoleon

DONEGAL -County in NW Ireland - see also TORY ISLAND - ATLANTIC ROAR - BIDDY YOU ARE SO HANDSOME - COUNTRY I WAS BORN IN GRAVEL WALKS (reel) - HILLS ABOVE DRUMQUIN - HILLS OF DONEGAL - HILLS OF GLENSWILLY - LET THEM COME TO IRELAND - MAIDS OF DONEGAL (Reel) - ON CARRICK DOWN - PAT O DONNELL - RAM SONG (Pettigo) - STAR OF DONEGAL - ST COLMKILLE -- Recordings see AREA Listing

DONEGAL BARN DANCE -- BOYS OF THE LOUGH (fid lead) on Radio 2 13/1/88 CASS-0422

DONEGAL BOYS - MAGIC SLIPPER

DONEGAL COW, THE - Gaelic children's song transl by Seamus Ennis -- Seamus ENNIS with orch (arr Spike Hughes) in "As I roved out" radio progr CASS-0458

DONEGAL (POLKA) MAZURKA - PHILLIPS FCTB p15 (G) from Johnny Doherty: COMHALTAS CEOLTOIRI 10)- SULLIVAN 3 #34 p13 from F.Kennedy & M.Mooney

DONEGAL REEL, THE - ("Una Bean ut Chuinneagain") - ALLAN #66 p17 - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #36 p11 (D) "The Donegal" - Cf O'NEILL MOI #1220 & DMI #497 "My Love is Fair and Handsome" alt: "I wish I never had seen you" & "Magic Slipper" -- Sean MAGUIRE (fid) with Francis Mc PEAKE Junr (U-pipes) rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0544/ RPL 18381/ FTX-375 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Carrick, Co Donegal 1953: FTX-370/ rec by David Hammond Donegal 1975: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 - Packie BYRNE & GREHAN Sisters (uke-banjo, whi & spoons) TRANSATLANTIC TRA-160 1967 - KILFENORA CEILI BAND (West Clare): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-283 1974 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED "40 yrs of Irish Piping" FFR-001-2 1976

DONEY GAL - "We're alone, Done gal, in the rain and hail" Ch: "Rain or shine" - ROUD 3587 - LOMAX Cowboy songs pp8-11 - LOMAX OSC pp250-1 from singing of Louise Henson, San Antonio, Texas - LOMAX FSNA pp377-8 - ROUD#3587 -- Alan LOMAX (voc/gtr), Peggy SEEGER (voc/banjo), John COLE (harmonica) & Sam STOKES (bass): PYE Nixa NPL-18013 1958/ FTX-941 - Peggy SEEGER (unacc) rec by PK, Cider Press, Dartington, Devon Dec 1971 5"RTR- 0802 - "American Folksongs for Children" Mike with Peggy SEEGER: ROUNDER C-8001 (2 parts) 1987 CASS-1225

DONIBRISTLE DISASTER, THE - "On the 26th August our fatal moss gave way" happened 26th August 1901 - COAL mag from J Ferguson. Markinch, Fife 1951 - LLOYD CABM 1952 - MacCOLL SS 1953 p144 from Lloyd - DALLAS SOT 1974 p206

DONKEY - see also ASS - BANDY-LEGGED MULE - DORAN'S ASS - FLOP-EARED MULE - HIGHER THE MOUNTAIN (K) - IF I HAD A DONKEY WOT WOULDN'T GO - 'TWAS SUMMER IN THE ROCKIES (K) - JERUSALEM CUCKOO - MATTHEW MARK LUKE AND JOHN (K) - MILLER'S SHE-ASS - PADDY AND THE ASS - SONG OF THE ASS - TINKER'S BAND - UP IN THE LOFT (K) - UP IN THE NORTH (K) - WICKED OLD DONKEY

DONKEY DANCE, THE -- Percy LAVARELLO (mel) from Tristan de Cunha rec by PK: FTX-609

DONKEY DRIVER, THE - JERUSALEM CUCKOO

DONKEY REEL, THE - FLOP EARED MULE

DONKEY-RIDING - HIGHLAND LADDIE - RIDING THE STANG - VAUCHE D'ANE

DONNELLAN, Philip - broadcaster, film maker & folk collector - died 16.2.99 aged 75 (see Musical Tradition Newsletter #11) - see Sam LARNER

DONNELLY AND COOPER - "Come all you true-bred Irishman & listen unto me" - ROUD#2147 - BSs - WEHMAN Brothers p41 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 p52-3 "Dan Donnelly was born in Townend St Dublin 1788 & died 1820, The fight took place in 1815" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 from Patrick Campbell - MORTON FSU pp77-9 Co Armagh - see MYLER 1976: "Regency Rogue" Dan Donnelly his life and legends with ballad on p62 - see MORRISSEY AND THE RUSSIAN SAILOR -- Patrick "Wings" Campbell rec by PK, Forkhill, Co Armagh 15/7/52: 7"RTR-0549/ RPL 18485/ FTX-029 (vs 2-4 & 9) & FTX-165 (with talk about learning the song from his father who learned it from his father and how they fought with bare fists in those days) - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, near Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ CASS=45-1245/ FTX-143 "Dollary" (frag)

DONNYBROOK - FLOWERS OF EDINBURGH - GOING TO DONNYBROOK - OFF TO DONNYBROOK (Jigs)

DONNYBROOK - Reel - LEVEY 2 #65 p29 (G ends B) "Donny Brook"

DONNYBROOK BOY, THE - Jig (D) - COLE #8 p75 (F) "Kitty of Oulart"- KERR MM 1 #12 p36 - O'NEILL MOI #1090/ DMI #284 "Kitty of Oulart" -- Paul SWEENEY (fid) rec Belfast 28/8/43: RPL 6373 (78) - Moira Ni Hussey (Irish harp) accomp Chris NEWMAN (gtr) Concert Hall Radio 2 16/3/89: CASS-90-0715 aft "Gander in the pratie hole" & bef "Queen of the Rushes"

DONNYBROOK FAIR - "She promised to bring me back to DF" - FMJ 3:1 1975 pp26-7 Tom Munnelly from Mick Connors (tinker) Co Carlow 1971 - Cf THE PLOUGHBOY/ LARK IN THE MORN - BEGGAR'S SONG

DONNYBROOK FAIR - OFF TO DONNYBROOK (Jig)

DONSIDE - "I once had a sweetheart in D did dwell" - French Wars; 42nd Reg; Egypt; Duke of Wellington; comes home & fights over his girl friend - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p239 22var - CHAPBOOK mag 3/1 p16 from Mrs Chapman, Govie - TOCHER 11 1973 p117 2var

DON'T BE ANGRY WITH ME, SERGEANT -- YETTIES with military band: ARGO ZDA-100 1974

DON'T BE TEASING - Jig - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #350 (D)

DON'T BOTHER ME - RACHEL RAE (Reel)

DON'T COME AGAIN - "O the first place that I saw me love it was at a ball" - lassie's answer was always no and then he uses the negative and warns others to do the same -- ROUD#412 (with "Rejected Lover") - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp72-3 Eddie & Grace Butcher, Aughill Crossroads, Co Derry 1975 -- Cf BONNY WEE LASSIE'S ANSWER - REJECTED LOVER -- Eddie & Grace BUTCHER, Co Derry: LEADER LED-2070 1976

DON'T DO IT TONIGHT - "the moon is shining bright" - watercresses, barley - ROUD#1500 - DUNN FOS pp84-5 from Percy Ling, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974

DON'T FORGET THE CRADLE - "Some people think it silly to lead a single life" Ch: "Get a little table - then a little chair - then a tidy house in a tidy square - Get a little wife and then a little tin - Then don' forget the cradle to rock the baby in" - Comp - or "Lincolnshire Wedding Song" - ED&S 43:2 p9 Ogg: Ruth Robinson, Winteringham, Lincs "Get a little table" -- The BROADSIDE, Grimsby Group: TOPIC 12 TS 228 1973 - THE YETTIES on Radio 2 4/11/87 CASS 60-0555 - Brian DAWSON with BROADSIDE Group rec at Club on Radio 2 9/11/82 CASS-15-0760

DON'T GET TROUBLED IN YOUR MIND - Appalachian -- Dent WIMMER (fid) & Sam CONNOR (banjo) rec by MikeYates, Boones Mill, Franklin Co Va USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980

DON'T GO A RUSHING - RIDDLE SONG

DON'T GO DOWN THE MINE, DADDY - Disaster Song comp by Geddes "A miner was leaving his home" -- John FOREMAN (& group): REALITY BY-1004 1966 - Ruth BURDON (of Bristol) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

DON'T HAVE ANY MORE, Mrs MOORE - Music Hall Song popularised by Lilly Morris -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 on penny piano

DON'T LET ME DIE AN OLD MAID - "One day as I was walking I saw a lovely maid" - ROUD#802 - BS: Catnach, London - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 oo16-17 Mrs Hockin: Mary Langworthy, Stoke Fleming, Devon "Some at Eighteen" - BG-HITCHCOCK FSWC pp76-77 Mary Langworthy "Maids at Eighteen" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 p23 Mrs Chedzey, Puriton, Somerset 1906 2v/m "The Unmarried Maiden's Lament" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp297-8 #208 Charles Tanner, Bampton, Oxfordsh "Here's my sister Betsy" - HENRY SOP #138/ HUNTINGTON pp256-7 Mrs Sarah Crawford, Thorndale, Coleraine, Co Derry 1926 "The Black Chimney Sweeper" - REEVES WEC 1960 p264 Hammond: Wm Miller, Wooton Fitzpaine, Dorset 1906 (w/o) "Tinker Tailor" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p27 Hammond: Wm Miller, Wooton Fitzpaine, Dorset 1906 - ED&S 27:5 1965 p147 Mary Langworthy "Maids at Eighteen" - ED&S 30:1 1968 p87 Gardiner: Wm Bone, Medstead, Hampsh 1909 --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp159-160 Mrs Susie Barlow, Utah 1948 "The Old Maid"- FOWKE TSSO 1965 #26 pp68-9 Ont "Come all you true lovers" - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #21 pp52-3 Capt Jeffreys, NB "Black Chimney Sweeper" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 2 p461 Freeman Bennett Nfl 1958 "I long to be wedding" - see also I LONG TO GET MARRIED - OLD MAID'S SONG - TIME TO BE MADE A WIFE

DON'T LET NOBODY BURN DOWN BURMA ROAD -- Joseph SPENCE (+ g) Bahamas: ARHOOLIE ARH-01061 1972

DON'T LET THE FIRE FALL ON YOU -- MERRYMAKERS Antigua Steel Band rec by PK, London 27/5/61: RPL LP 26584/ FTX-917

DON'T LET YOU..... -- J C SULPHIN rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) FOLKWAYS FA 2314/ RTR-0316

DON'T LOVE NOBODY -- J C SULPHIN rec Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) FOLKWAYS FA-2314/ RTR-0316

DON'T SEND MY BOY TO PRISON - Cockney Song (Geoffries/Jones) "then I'll have to go out to work" -- sung by Billy BENNETT with banjo & ch (remastered from 78rpm): TOPIC TSCD-780 1978/ 1997 - Tommy CHAPPLE rec by Michael Feist at "The Stag" Rackenford 1972: CASS- 0330 (see letter file) "Don't send my mother" - Wally WHYTON: FONTANA STL-5476

DON'T STOP MY ARF A PINT OF BEER - Music Hall -- Gus ELEN: TOPIC 12-T-296 1979 - Emily HOWE & Elsie Jaggard (sisters) rec by John HOWSON in "Songs sung in Suffolk" on Radio 2 16/1/96: CASS-1336 at 11.50

DON'T TELL I, TELL EE - comp by Trevor Crozier & Kevin Sheldon -- Trevor CROZIER'S BROKEN CONSORT: ARGO ZFB-80 1972

DO NOT (DINNA) THINK, BONNY LASSIE - ROUD#12948 - Bss

DON'T THINK TWICE -- Alex CAMPBELL on Radio 2 28/2/90/ CASS- 30-1039

DON'T YOU BE FOOLISH, PRAY -- Nic JONES: LEADER LER-2014 1970 from broadside

DON'T YOU GO A-RUSHING - "DYGAR maids I say" - RIDDLE SONG

DON'T YOU PUT ME DOWN - comp by AC -- Alex CAMPBELL: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-6 1969

DON'T YOU ROCK ME DADDY-O - SAIL AWAY LADIES

DON'T YOU SEE MY BILLY COMING? - Mad Song - ROUD#968 - JFSS 2:4 (9) 1906 pp292-3 Kidson: Kate Thompson, Knaresborough, Yorksh 2v/m

 
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