GEAFTAI BHAILE BUI -- O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass
0938-C60
GEAY JEH'N AER - (The Sea Invocation) -- Joan OWEN (unacc)
rec Isle of Man 27/2/58: RPL LP 24012 - Joe WOODS talk & song in Manx Gaelic
then song in English by Joe & his sister, Winifred:
FTX-007
GED IS GRIANACH AN LATHA - (Although the day it may be sunny)
- Scots Gaelic - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 -- Flora McNEIL of Barra rec by PK 1967:
FTX-001 - Peggy Mc NEIL & group & Joan Mc
KENZIE & children rec Greenock, Renfrewsh 4/6/63: RPL LP 29714
GEE WHOA DONKEY - SWAGGERING BONEY
GEESE - FLIGHT OF THE WILD GEESE
(Jig) - FOX & THE GOOSE - GANDER IN THE PRATIE HOLE - GEESE IN THE BOG -
GREY GOOSE - OLD GREY GOOSE - OLD MOTHER GOOSE
GEESE IN THE BOG, THE - Jig (Am) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #53 p29 - COLE #9
p77 (D) - CRANITCH #6 p127 - FUREY p26 (A) says geese were soldiers hiding -
GIBLIN #88 p40 (D) - KERR MM 1 p40 - LEVEY 1 #61 pp24-5 - MITCHELL & SMALL
#50 pp96-7 4pts from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #1085/ DMI #279 (##A)
"The Geese in the Bogs" - ROCHE 1 #91 p40 3pts (3nd strain
has pizzicato low G imitating the sound of the geese) - SULLIVAN 2 #35 p14 -
see also LARK'S MARCH -- Michael COLEMAN (fid) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA
VOCE d/cass-004 1991 aft "Basket of Turf" - Rose MURPHY: TOPIC
1976/ OSSIAN OSS-21 1989/ CASS-1279 "Goose in the Bog"
GELD HIM, LASSES, GELD HIM - Caledonian Pocket Companion - Wm Vicker's
Ms Book -- Alistair ANDERSON (Engl-conc & gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-371 1978
GELDING OF THE DEVIL, THE - "Now listen a while and I will tell"
- ROUD#9312 - FARMER Merry Songs & Ballads (1897) 3 pp62-5
GELYNEN, A - (The Holly Tree) - Welsh -- AR LOG Concert Hall
Radio 2 13/9/82: CASS-0474
GEM SCHOTTISCHE - KOHLER 1 p89 (C) 2/4
GENERAL BURGOYNE'S MARCH -- The NE Concertina Players rec Newcastle
1992: CASS-1228
GENERAL GARIBALDI - KOHLER 1 p92 (D) Strathspey & Reel
GENERAL GATHERING 1745, THE - Jig (D) - KERR MM 2 #320 p35
GENERAL GRAHAM'S WALTZ - Tunebook Ms (G) 3pts #54 p463
GENERAL GUINNESS - "You've heard of General Wellington who won
at Waterloo" - ROUD#2914 - MORTON FSU 1970 pp84-6 Co Armagh -- Dick
Bamber rec by Robin Morton, Portadown, Co Armagh: MERCIER IRL-11
GENERAL HARDING - HARDING'S DEFEAT
GENERAL JINKS - "General Jinks of the Horse Guards Blue"
- BSs - Instrum dance tune: CAPTAIN JINKS
GENERAL KEAY'S GRAND SLOW MARCH - Tunebook Ms (D) #72 p159
GENERAL LUDD'S TRIUMPH - "No more chant your old rhymes about
bold Robin Hood" - "Ludd hero of Nottinghamshire" - PALMER
TOTT 1974 p286 text: Public Record Office H42/119 dated 27Jan 1812/ tune used
"Poor Jack" by Charles Dibdin adapted - HUNTING A LOAF
GENERAL McBEAN - SPORTING PADDY (Reel)
GENERAL MILAIS'S GRAND MARCH - Tunebook Ms (D) #73 p160
GENERAL MONK'S MARCH - Jig - PLAYFORD - Note in CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 p64
- THE DRUM MAJOR uses adaptation of this tune - see BELLE ISLE'S (often called
MONK'S MARCH) -- Tommy PEOPLES (fid) with Paul BRADY (gtr) SHANACHIE 29003
1976/ CASS-0486 aft "High Part of the Road"
GENERAL MONROE - "My name is George Campbell at the age of eighteen"
(O Lochlainn) who was betrayed by a woman on the battlefield at Ballynahinch
and hanged at Lisburn 13th June 1798 (3 days after the battle) - ROUD#1166 -
(Grainger:#2544) - BSs - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp130-1 nn, Belfast 1912 (text
from BS) - JIFSS 14: 35 - ZIMMERMAN IPSB 1966 p156 - HEALY OISB 2 1969 pp60-62
BS (w/o) - STUBBS LOM 1970 p33: George Townsend, Lewes, Sussex 1961 "G
Manroe"("My name is George Clokey") - O BOYLE 1976 p64 (5v)
from his father (tune hitherto unpubl/ notes) - FMJ 1992 p351 "Valiant
Monroe" Grainger Ms#330: Archer "Daddy" Lane Winchcombe Glos
1908 "O the music conveyed us to the fighting ground" - spyglass -
hides in pigsty --- PEACOCK NFL 1965 p998 - see also SALLY MONROE -- Frank
McPEAKE (unacc) rec by PK, Belfast 9/7/52: 7"RTR-0542/ RPL 18290/ FTX-176
with talk about song - Kathleen McPEAKE: DTS LFX-3 1965 - Arthur KEARNEY: TOPIC
12-T-153 1966 - IRISH COUNTRY FOUR: TOPIC 12-TS-209 1971 - Charlie McGONIGLE
(unacc) Inishowen, Co Donegal ITSC 001 CASS-0887 "Gen Owen Roe"
GENERAL SCOTT AND THE VETERAN - "An old crippled veteran to
the wars" - American Civil War Song - Gen Winfield Scott was hero of
1812 - although he came from Virginia he sides with the Union - ROUD#7456 -
WARNER 1984 #13 p69 -- John GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1941:
921
GENERAL TAYLOR - SANTY ANNA
GENERAL WOLFE - BOLD GENERAL WOLFE
GENERALS ALL - DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
GENERATIONS OF CHANGE - Words by Matt Armour to trad tune about East
Neuk of Fife -- Cilla FISHER & Artie TRESIZE: TOPIC 12-TS- 405 1979/
Radio 2 29/9/89: CASS-0487
GENEROUS FARMER, THE - "once soaking his clay" - ROUD#1305
- BSs
GENEROUS GIFT, THE - NOBLEMAN AND THRESHER
GENEROUS LOVER, THE - Song about cruel parents - JIFS coll Lloyd from
Mary Hackett, Limerick 1947 -- Frankie ARMSTRONG: ARGO ZFB-64 1968
GENETTE AND GENOE - "You are going far away from your poor Genette"
- ROUD#391 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp245-6 Ship's log 1849-52 (w/o)
GENIUS, THE - "When once a very little boy" - ROUD#12899
- WILLIAMS #30 Wm Mills, Ablington, Gloucestersh (w/o)
GENTLE ANNIE - "You wilt come no more, G A" - ROUD#2973
- BSs - WILLIAMS #518: Mr Bridgeman, Wanborough, Wiltsh (w/o)
GENTLE ANNIE - Australian Song from David Lumsden of Ardbourne --
Martin WYNDHAM-READ: LEADER LER-2028 1971 - Vin GARBUTT: TOPIC 12-TS-378 1977
- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60-0926 & 0927 nd - Mick FOSTER
(acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (mand): RITZ London LC-0008 nd/ CASS-0952
GENTLE ANNIE - "Thou wilt come no more GA" - ROUD#2656
- Many BSs incl BG 5 #79 and parodies on song - WILLIAMS Ms #Wt5118
GENTLE BOY, THE - "Twas on one dark and stormy night"
- boy lamenting - why doesn't his father's ship return ? - ROUD#2973 - BETHKE
AV 1981 p117 Ted Ashlaw, Hermon, NY 1972 -- (Ted Ashlaw, rec by Robert Bethke,
Hermon, NY 1972: PHILO 1022)
GENTLE COLEEN RUA, THE - "O fairy girl, O darling girl, if I
were near thee now" - ROUD#9308 -- Mary MURPHY rec by PK, Brackialislea,
Draperstown, Co Derry 21/5/53: RPL 19975
GENTLE DARK EYED MARY - March (Bm) - KERR MM 1 #19 p48
GENTLE FAIR JENNY - WETHER'S SKIN
GENTLE GWEN - GWENNO FWYN
GENTLE JENNY GRAY - "My heart is sad - I'll tell you why"
-- ROUD #12883 - BSs - WILLIAMS #485 John Lewis, Burton, Wiltsh (w/o)
GENTLE JOHN - Kids Ring Game - OPIE SG 1985 #28 pp154-6
GENTLE MAIDEN, THE - Song Air - ROCHE 3 #35 p10 (G) 6/8 alt: "The
Men of the West" - tune is slowed version of ROSIN THE BEAU -- THE
FONTANAS: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-544 1968 - Billy PIGG (N-pipes) with Foster
CHARLTON (fid) & John DOONAN (piccolo): LEADER LEA-4006 1971 - Jack ARMSTRONG
with Pat JENNINGS (N- pipes duet): SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 - Jim COUZA (H-dulc)
with Eileen MONGER (Harp): SAYDISC SDL-335 1983 aft "As I roved out",
"Miss Hamilton" & "Christine's Waltz" (Couza) --
Colin ROSS (N-pipes) rec by Burt Feintuch, Portsmouth, NH 20/8/98: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS
SFW-40473 1999 aft "Jock o Hazeldean"
GENTLE MOTHER -- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60-0926 & 0927
nd - Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London LC-TV-1/
CASS-0956
GENTLE OLD MAN, THE - HEN WR MWYN
GENTLE PHILIP FANY -- Seamus ENNIS rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED FFR-001-2
1976
GENTLE SHEPHERDESS, THE - SAILOR AND THE SHEPHERDESS
GENTLE SWEET JENNY "My heart is sad I'll tell you why"
- ROUD#12883 - BSs
GENTLEMAN GAY - "A pretty young lass she was raking the hay"
- KIDSON FSNC 1922 (words by Ethel Kidson)
GENTLEMAN NEAR LONDON, THE - WILLIAM AND HARRIET
GENTLEMAN SOLDIER or THIEF, THE - SENTRY BOX
GENTLEMEN OF HIGH RENOWN - BOLD REYNOLDS
GENTLY, JOHNNY, MY JINGALO - MATTHEW THE MILLER
GENTRY - DUKES - EARLS - LADIES - LORDS - ROYALTY
GEORDIE - GEORGIE
GEORDIE BLACK - "My name is G B I'm getting very old"
- ROUD#3507 - LLOYD CABM p67 - POLWARTH 1969 p27 Tune from Jack Elliott and
words comp by R Harrison
GEORDIE GILL - "Of a the lads I see or know" - comp
by Robert Anderson 1804 to the tune "Andrew with his cutty-gun"
- ROUD#1536/ #2524 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE pp110-111 - FMJ 4:4 1983 pp358-9 Lucy
Broadwood Ms (m/o) - PALMER RVW 1983 pp16-17 Mr Carruthers, Carlisle, Cumberland
1906
GEORDIE HAUD THE BAIRN - COME GIVE ME A SLICE OF YOUR BREAD
GEORDIE McKAY - Scots - courting a girl "with a glint in her eye"
-- Richard GREEN (with auto-harp) rec by Peter Duddridge, Cheltenham, Glos,
1963: 4"RTR-0878
GEORDIE McINTYRE - MUCKIN' O' GEORDIE'S BYRE
GEORDIE McPHEE - Story told by Andrew Stewart (tinker): collected by
Hamish Henderson: DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987
GEORDIE MOIR - "Lasses are in toon and country - that wishes
to keep a guid name - Dinna gang near the Schoolhill - when Shakin Geordie he's
at hame" - Ch: "For he's my bonny hosein' laddie - stocking
merchant I adore - aye he's tossed in Abertdeen - my curly-headed GM"
- ROUD#6772 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1081 p14 (2v&ch/m)
GEORDIE WEIR - "I am a soft country chippie and my name is G
W" - Glasgow Street Song -ROUD#6331 - MacCOLL-SEEGER TDIA 1986 from
Belle Stewart
GEORDIES - NEWCASTLE - NORTHUMBERLAND
- TYNESIDE
GEORDIE'S JIG - comp by George Hepple - SEATTLE 1990 p33 gives the 2
versions: George Hepple (fid) & George Mitchell of Cheviot Ranters --
THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 used for "Cumberland Reel"
- George HEPPLE (fid): TOPIC 12-TS-239 1974
GEORDIE'S PENKER - "Wor Geordie's lost his penker"
(marble) - SPIN mag 3/2 p15 - POLWARTH 1969 p17 from Len Elliott "Wor
Geordie" -- Jack Elliott rec by PK, Birtley, Co Durham 12/12/62
- Armagh Rhymers cassette
GEORDIELAND "68" - Recitation with sound of trains shunting
-- Bob DAVENPORT & THE MARSDEN RATTLERS: LEADER LER-3008 1971
GEORGE ALOE AND THE SWEEPSTAKE - "Along the coast of High Barbaree"
- CHILD #285 - see notes LAWS ABBB 1957 pp157-8 #K-33 High Barbary" - (ROUD#134)
- ASHTON RSS 1891 #11 "The Sailor's Only Delight" - SHAY 1925
p58 - PALMER OBSS #8 p13 Ashton "The Sailor's Only Delight"
(w/o) - Cf BOLD PRINCESS ROYAL - HIGH BARBAREE
GEORGE BARNWELL - GEORGIE BARNWELL
GEORGE BRABAZON - PLANXTY GEORGE BRABAZON
GEORGE CAMPBELL - GENERAL MUNROE
GEORGE COLLINS - "walked out one May morning" - Water-sprite
takes revenge on her unfaithful lover - CHILD #42 "Clerk Colvill"/
#85 "Lady Alice" - ROUD#147 - BRONSON 2 (43var) - BUCHAN GSOB
1825 pp92-93 Aberdeensh (w/o) "Clerk Colvill and the Mermaid"
- MASON 1877 - MASON NRCS 1908 p46 "Giles Collins" - HALLIWELL
NR 1812 - NOTES & QUERIES 1 418 & 2 354 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp106-7
Sister Emma, Clewer, Berks 1909 - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp299-302 Guyer 4var Hampsh
- JFSS 2:4 (15) 1910 pp106-9 Guyer: Henry & Philip Gaylor, Minstead/ George
Blake 1v/m, St Denys/ Henry Stansbridge 1v/m, Lyndhurst, Hampsh 1906 (Discussion
by Barbara Cra'ster with cf with Breton & "Lady Alice"
texts) - HAGGARD IWBN 1935 pp170-1 Norfolk (w/o) "Giles Collins &
Lady Annice" - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 pp44-5 Gardiner: Henry Stansbridge,
Lyndhurst, Hants - JEFDSS 1961 p72 Enos White transcr by Michael Bell - PURSLOW
WS 1968 pp46-7 Gardiner: Henry Blake, Bartley, Hants 1908 - COPPER SSB 1973
pp246-7 Enos White --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #25 "Giles Collins"
#25 Mrs Dora Shelton, Allanstand, NC 1916/ Mrs Hester House, Hot Springs, NC
11916/ Miss Mary McKinney, Henderson Co., NC 1914/ Mr Dana Norton, Flag Pond,
Tenn 1916/ Miss Viney Norton, Big Laurel, NC 1916/ Mrs Anna Bailey, Mine Fork,
Burnsville, NC 1918 - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp89-90 Mrs Samuel Harmon, Tenn 1930/
Joel Boyd, Va (w/o)/ Mrs Ewart Wilson, NC 1v (w/o) - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp139-140
Lisbeth Hayes, Ark 1920 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp107-111 Mrs Belle Holt Hubbard (w/o)/
John Miller McLachlan, Mi 1932 (w/o)/ Mary Ila Long, Mi (w/o) "G Collum"/
Frankie Stewart, Mi (w/o) "G Promer" - BROWN 2 1952 p131 -
COFFIN-RENWICK 86/241 - DAVIS Virginia 1960 - CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p85 J S Muise,
NS 1947 4v (w/o) - HENRY-MATTESON p2 - KARPELES FSFN 1971 #12 pp67-8 Mary Tibbs,
Trinity, Nfl 1929 - PEACOCK NFL 1965 p738 - WARNER TAFS 1984 #96 p239-241 Lee
Monroe Presnell, NC 1951 - Cf LORD THOMAS - LORD LOVEL -- Enos WHITE rec
by Bob Copper, Axford, Hampsh 25/7/55: RPL 21857/ CAEDMON TC-1145/ TOPIC 12-T-
160/ FTX-426 & FTX-502/
TOPIC 12-T-317 1977/ TSCD-653 1998 - A L LLOYD rec by AL & PK 22/4/51: FTX-056/
RIVERSIDE RLP-12-623 - Shirley COLLINS with Dolly (flute organ): TOPIC 12-T-170
1967 - Ewan MacCOLL & Peggy SEEGER "The Long Harvest": ARGO ZDA-72
1967 - Martin CARTER: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-012 1972 - Tom GILFELLON: LEADER
LER-2079 1972 (Gardiner version) - Dave BURLAND: FOLKSOUND FS-100 1974 Critics
version --- Hedy WEST: TOPIC 12-T-163 1967 - Frank PROFFITT (voc & banjo
& unacc)/ rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt. Watauga Co, NC USA 1962:
FTX-933/ rec Sandy Paton: FOLKWAYS FA-2360 - Lee
Monroe PRESNELL rec by Frank & Anne Warner: FTX-923/
APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000 - Jean RITCHIE with dulc & banjo: LONDON (SIRE)
SES-97014 "Johnny Collins"
GEORGE JONES - CHARLES AUGUSTUS ANDERSON
GEORGE KEARY - KELLY THE PIRATE
GEORGE MORRIS - Song comp by John McDonald about famous singer of Bothy
Ballads ("Cornkisters") -- John MACDONALD (voc/mel) rec by PK,
Pitgaveny, Elgin, Moraysh 23/7/55: FTX-061 #17 talk
bef
GEORGE OGILVIE - LIVERPOOL LANDLADY
GEORGE PRIVETT'S POLKA -- OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 bef
"Percy Brown's"
GEORGE PROMER - GEORGE COLLINS
GEORGE REILLY - "On a bright summer's morning the weather being
fair" - Sailor asks her to forget about her lover and tells her Reilly
was his messmate and was killed by French cannonball but eventually he reveals
himself - LAWS #N-36/37 ABBB 1957 pp221- 222 - ROUD#267 - BSs incl BG 3:#133/
9:#146 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1039 pp428-430 (3var 6v/2m) "G Riley"
- GREIG-KEITH LL 1925 p138 --- SHARP FSSA 2 p23 Va - BREWSTER - COX - THOMPSON
PS 1939 pp51-3 Stevens-Douglas Ms NY 1941-56 (w/o)
GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN - "The stones, the stones - that built
GR's oven" - ROUD#1319 - BS by Pitts - Also called MY DOG AND I - Gloucestershire
Drinking Song with text originating from The Gloucestershire Society founded
1687 when Roman Catholics and Dissenters, Presley Green, united against Cromwell's
dictatorship - Ridler stood for Charles I, the oven for the Cavaliers - Best
known example of a "secret toast" surviving in tradition - see also
"Poor Tom", Lodsworth Harvest Supper Song in in JFSS 3 pp68-70
and its congeners in JFSS 5 pp275-6 & JFSS 28 pp182-3 References to tune
in CHAPPELL NEA 1838 pp161-2 & PMOT 1858 pp290-1 - As "Bobbing Joe"
it is used for MORRIS DANCE - see DEAN-SMITH p68 - BELL SOP 1857 pp199-202/p419
with notes about each verse - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #391 p579-80 Wm Hedges,
Chipping Camden/ Sharp: George Gardiner, Oakridge, Gloucester (with mention
of Blakeney Quarry) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp291-2 #169 Gloucestersh (w/o) - KIDSON
GEF 1926 pp80-1 -- SONGWAINERS, Cheltenham, Gloucestersh: ARGO ZFB-31 1971
GEORGE THE FOURTH - KING GEORGE THE FOURTH
GEORGE WASHINGTON - LADY WASHINGTON
GEORGE WASHINGTON NEVER TOLD A LIE - "So he ran round the corner
and stole a cherry pie" -- rec by Damian Webb, Tralee, Co Kerry
1960: IRE/36/ FTX-179 also includes CHARLIE CHAPLIN
WENT TO FRANCE - Pope's ARKANSAS MOUNTAINEERS with fid & gtr rec Memphis
Tenn 1928 (NEW WORLD NW-226)/ CASS-0476-7
GEORGE WHITE'S FAVOURITE - Reel (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #97 p42 - FUREY
p42 "Corakerry Lass" -- Paddy BREEN (vert flute) of Clare,
rec by PK, London 1952: FTX-078 - Michael GORMAN
(fid) of Co Sligo with Margaret BARRY (banjo), rec by PK, London, 1956: FTX-174/
TOPIC 12-T-288 1976 "Carracastle Lasses"/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420
1997 "Traditional Dance Music of Ireland" - Felix DORAN (U-pipes)
rec by PK, Clones, Co Monaghan 1964: FTX-172/ TOPIC
12-T-288 1976 "Last of the Travelling Pipers"/ OSSIAN OSS 63 on CASS-1278
bef "Ivy Leaf"
GEORGIA
SEA ISLANDS - I GOT A HOME - WALK, BILLY ABBOTT - WALK
ON THE BAY -- Recordings see
AREA Listing
GEORGIA - (Ex USSR) - RUSSIA
GEORGIA ON MY MIND --
RONSTEDZ SWING JAZZ rec PK, Totnes, Devon 1979:
FTX-251
GEORGIA RAILROAD - American Dance-Song -- Martin SIMPSON (dulc) RPL
Radio 2 "Folkweave" 29/11/79: CASS-0411
GEORGIANA - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #51 p14 (G &
D) - Tunebook Ms #29 p344
GEORGIE (or GEORDIE) - "As I crossed over London's Bridge one
misty morning early" - hearing that G is to be condemned for deer-poaching,
his girl friend goes to the High Court to plead for him, but she is too late
for he is already condemned to be hung - CHILD #209 - ROUD#90 - BSs "The
Maid's Lamentation for the Loss of her Georgy" or "The Life
of Georgey" incl BG 5:#43 - BRONSON - JOHNSON SMM 1787 4 pp356-7 (346A)
("There was a battle in the North") - KIDSON TT 1891 pp24-6
nn, Howden, Yorksh (notes on song) - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p223 (11var) - BROADWOOD
ETSC 1908 pp32-3 & p117 Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 "Georgie"
(notes on song & singer) - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1 pp5 & pp58-9 Mrs Overd
- SHARP Sel Ed 2 pp24-25 - SHARP Schl Ser 5 - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 pp174-180
Mrs Overd, Langport/ Mrs Lucy White (her sister), Hambridge 1904 1v/m/ Wm Mantle,
Bridgwater 1906 1v/m/ Mrs Callow, Stockham Cross 1908 1v/m/ Charles Neville,
East Coker 1908 1v/m/ James Fudge, East Combe 1908 (m/o)/ Mrs Glover, Huish
Episcopi 1904/ Charles Young, Puriton, Somerset 1906 1v/m/ Mrs Wixey, Buckland,
Gloucestersh 1909/ Wm Bailey, Cannington, Som 1906 (m/o) - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp164-5
Lucy Broadwood: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 "Banstead Downs"
- JFSS 2:6 1905 pp27-8 Sharp: Mrs Overd/ Lucy White 2v/m - JFSS 2:8 1906 p208
RVW: Mr Deadman, Rodmell, Sussex 1906 "As I walked over London Bridge"
- JFSS 3:12 1908 pp191-2 Grainger: Joseph Taylor, Brigg, Lincs 1906 (m/o) -
JFSS 4:15 1910 pp89-90 RVW: Wm Debbidge, Acle, Norfolk 1908 - JFSS 4:17 1913
pp332-3 RVW & Butterworth: Mr Newby, Reydon, Suffolk 1910 (m/o)/ RVW: Mr
Jefries, Mitcham, Surrey 1907 1v/m/ Hammond: Mrs Bartlett, Halstock Leigh 1v/m/
Robert Gale, Powerstock, Dorset (m/o)/ Sharp: Charles Neville (m/o)/ Wm Mantle,
Bridgwater, Somerset 1908 "Georgie" - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FSEC
1907 pp47-9 Cambridgesh - CLAY FFS c1908 p1 Mary Haynes, Hartlebury, Worcestersh
1908 "Spare me the life of Georgie" - GRAINGER #137 Joseph
Taylor, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906/ #310: Mary Anne Roberts, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh
1909 - GILLINGTON SOR 1911 (frag under title of "The Warminster Song")
- ORD BB 1930 p408 (23v & tune) "Gight's Lady" & p456
"My Geordie-O" (7v & ch words only) - KIDSON FSNC 1927
- JEFDSS 1958 p148 Cox version transcr by Michael Bell - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p42-3
Sharp: Charles Neville - REEVES EC 1960 pp119-20 Gardiner: Mrs Barnes, Medstead,
Hampsh 1907/ Hammond: Sergeant Fudge, East Combe, Somerset 1907 (w/o) "Georgie"
- SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p81 Betsy Henry (McColl's mother), Auchterarder,
Perthsh (with text augmented from Greig FSNE) ("Will ye gang to the
highlands?") - PALMER SOM 1972 p77 from CLAY - FMJ 3:1 1975 pp73-4
Mike Yates: Levi Smith (gypsy), Surrey 1974 "Georgie" ("What
did Georgie done on Shooter's Hill?") - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp91-5
Henry Hughes, Levi Smith & Nelson Ridley (gypsies) - HOLLOWAY & BLACK
LEBB 2 1979 pp155-6 Bs Jennings London "The Maid's Lamentation for the
loss of her Georgy" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #42 pp83-85 from CLAYs - ED&S
42:3 1980 pp16-18 Ian Russell: Don Easter, Rotherham. Yorks 1979 "Georgie"
--- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #34 (vol 1 pp240-3) 6var: William F.Wells, Swannanoah,
NC 1916/ Mrs Jane Gentry, Hot Springs, NC 1916/ Mrs Sarah Buckner, Black Mt.,
NC 1916/Mrs Laura Virginia Donald, Dewey, Va. 1918/ Mrs Molly E.Bowyer, Villamont,
Va 1918/ Mrs Julie Boone, Micaville, NC 1918 - COX FSS p135 (w/o) - DAVIS TBV
p435 (w/o) - JAFL xxxii 504 (w/o) - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp161-5 George Underwood,
Mo 1928/ Mrs Elizabeth Waddell, Mo 1930 1v (w/o)/ Mrs Emma Dusenbury, Ark 1930
(w/o)/ Mrs George Dunaway, Ark 1942 "The Life of Georgie" -
CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p27 Nathan Hatt, NS 1952 - PARLER ABB 1963 p21 Mrs Evelyn
Skaggs, Ark 1954 (w/o) "Georgie" -- Isaac TROUP #052, Alex
CLARK #277, Bell DUNCAN #285/ 287-8/ 295, Mrs William DUNCAN #295 rec on Dictaphone
by James M.Carpenter, N.E. Scotland 1929-35 - Louis HOOPER rec by Douglas Cleverdon
7/2/42: RPL 4014 (78 rpm) "Geordie or Bohenny" - Alec BLOOMFIELD
rec by PK, Benhall, Framlingham, Suffolk 1950: FTX-040/
FTX-502/ rec by PK 14/5/52: RPL 21150 "Young
George Oxbury" - George BLOOMFIELD, his father, rec PK, Ipswich 1952:
RPL 21151 - Harry COX, rec by PK, Sutton, Norfolk 9/10/53: RPL 21481 "Georgie"
talk bef & aft/ CAEDMON TC 1146/ TOPIC 12-T-161/
FTX-502 (1v only)/ rec by Mervyn Plunkett 9/58: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 (speaks
word "lady" at end) - Mary TAYLOR (daughter of Joseph who sang
to Percy Grainger) rec by PK, Saxby-all-Saints, Lincolnsh 1953: FTX-135
- Teresa MAGUIRE rec by Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL LP 24842 "The
Jersey" - A L LLOYD: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-624 1956 - Shirley COLLINS: COLLECTOR
JEB-3 1959 (45 EP) - John PEARSE (voc/gtr) with talk bef "Calling the tune"
#8 11/3/63 - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 1968: FTX-043
- Levi SMITH (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Epsom, Surrey: TOPIC 12-T-253 1975/
TOPIC TSCD-661 Travellers "Georgie" - Frankie ARMSTRONG: ARGO
ZFB-64 1968 from Mrs J Butcher, Brentford, Essex - Shirley & Dolly COLLINS:
EMI SHVC-771 1970 - Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR: CHRYSALIS CHR-1101 1976 ---
Jean RITCHIE (unacc) rec New York Sept 1950: RPL 16042 - Mrs Carrie GROVER rec
by Maud Karpeles, Berwyn, Pa USA 31/7/55: RPL 23792/ FTX-908
- Paul CLAYTON (voc/ gtr) of Boston Mass rec by PK, London 7/5/57: RPL LP 23448
- Joan BAEZ: VANGUARD SVXL-100 1963 - Doc WATSON (voc/gtr) with Merle (gtr)
& Rus SAVAKUS (bass): VANGUARD TFL- 6083 1967 - Jo FREYA SAYDISC SDL-402
(CD) 1993
GEORGIE BARNWELL - "Near Cheapside there lived a butcher"
- GB was the young "London apprentice" who was kept in the
shop, but a naughty woman squeezes his hand, and seduces him in the countryside
- in last verse he shoots his uncle who was studying his good books - ROUD#546
- BSs "Georgie Barnwell" incl SBG 5:#85- RITSON Ancient Songs 1790
- ASHTON MSB 1888 pp116-8 Bs (w/o) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp232-3 #355 'Wassail'
Harvey, Cricklade, Wilts 6v/ #578 (w/o) "G Barnell" -- Sandra KERR
(voc/ gtr & dulc) with London Critics Group: ARGO ZFB-60 1967 (tune by Ewan
MacColl) - BULLY WEE rec S Yorks Festival on Radio 2: 17/5/82: CASS-0415 "Cheapside"
GEORGIE GAIR - ANDREW WITH HIS CUTTY GUN
GEORGIE JEEMS - LORD GREGORY
GEORGIE, PORGIE, PUDDING AND PIE -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum
& Vince Cross CASS#1173 with schoolchildren mixed with studio
GEORGINA - JENNY JONES (K)
GERMAN BANDS - JERUSALEM CUCKOO
GERMAN BOYS ARE AWFULLY FUNNY - "this is how they earn/spend
their money - boopserada out goes she" - Children's Skipping - see
German version of ENNA MEENA - HA HA VERY FUNNY (German Bunny) -- rec by
Damian Webb, 16/14 St James's Junior Girls Paisley 1961: FTX-190
GERMAN CLOCK or WATCHMAKER, THE - "An Old German Clockmaker
to England once came, Benjamin Snooks was that old German's name"
- ROUD#241 - Bss - EFDSS FOLKSONG TODAY 3 1970 p10 arr Albert Shaw, Staffs -
see also GERMAN MUSICIANER - WONDERFUL GERMAN MUSICIAN -- Charlie WILLS rec
by PK, Bridport, Dorset 1968 RTR-0084/ FTX=097/
LEADER LEA-4041 1972 - George HOLMAN & George SPICER rec by PK, "The
Cherry Tree", Copthorne, Sussex 1955: 7"RTR- 0232/ FTX-280
- George SPICER, Kent rec by Mike Yates, Selsfield, Sussex: TOPIC 12-T-235 1974
- Danny DOYLE: MAJOR MINOR MM-LP-26 1968 "The German Clockminder"
- Mike SHAIL & EEZUM SQUEEZUM Band rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1979: FTX-127
"The German Clockwinder" - Bob DAVENPORT: LEADER LER-2088 1973
"The Durham Clockmaker" - Bill SMITH (71), Bridgnorth, Shropsh
rec by his son Andrew (copy of cass with 25 songs): 5"RTR-0906 - THE YETTIES
on Radio 2 17/12/87: CASS-0379
GERMAN FLUTE, THE - BANKS OF THE ROSES
GERMAN MEASLES - I HAD THE GERMAN MEASLES
GERMAN MUSICIANER, THE - "I'm a poor married man and I'm near
broken-hearted" - ROUD#241 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 p458 Harry Cox 1953
- Cf THE CLOCKMAKER - WONDERFUL GERMAN MUSICIAN -- Harry COX, rec by PK,
Catfield, Norfolk 1953: FTX-019 & FTX-032/
DTS LFX-4 1965 - STAVERTON BRIDGE rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Devon
3/7/70 7"RTR-0141/ FTX-144
GERMAN OFFICER CROSSED THE RHINE, A - Army Ballad -- GRANDAD'S ARMY:
PICKWICK Hallmark SHM-747 1971
GERMAN REEL - Tunebook Ms (G) #163 p323
GERMAN SCHOTTISCHE, THE - KERR MM 1 #35 p46 Duet with "Home
Sweet Home" (G) - see SCHOTTISCHES
GERMAN TOUR, THE - Scots Nationalist Song (Jim Mc Lean) -- Nigel
DENVER: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-1 1967
GERMAN WALTZ - 1 - Tunebook Ms (G) 3pts #39 p451
GERMAN WALTZ - 2 - Tunebook Ms (G) 3pts #64 p469
GERMAN WALTZ - 3 - Tunebook Ms (G) #104 p490
GERMAN WALTZ - 4 - Tunebook Ms (D) 3pts #112 p493
GERMAN WALTZ - MITTEL #71 p28 (G) 3pts - see also GRAND GERMAN WALTZ
GERMANY - GATHERING CORN - WEE WEE
GERMAN LAIRDIE -- Recordings
see AREA Listing
GERRY COMMANE'S REEL - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #203 p90 (G)
GERRY CRONIN'S REEL - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #114 p56 (C)
GERRY FUDGE - "Come all good people and listen you might"
- ROUD#2327 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp150-151 Albert Sims, Ont 1958/60 "Taking
gair in the night" - PEACOCK SNFLO 1965 1 pp145-6 Kenneth Pink, Rose
Blanche, Nfl 1959 "Taking back gear in the night" - FOWKE PBCFS
1973 pp54-55 Albert Sims
GERRY'S ROCKS - JAM AT GERRY'S ROCKS
GERRY'S SLOW TUNE - from Jeremy Dyde, Suffolk - tune Scandinavian in
character -- Tony HALL (melodeon) with Nic JONES (fid/gtr) & Tommy Moynihan
(mand/bouz/whistle): FREE REED FRR-012 1976
GET A LITTLE TABLE - DON'T FORGET THE CRADLE
GET ALONG, JOSEY - JIM ALONG JOSIE
GET ALONG LITTLE DOGIES - "As I was a-walking one morning for
pleasure" Cowboy Song - ROUD#827 - THORP "Songs of the Cowboys"
1921 pp70-1 - LOMAX - OSC pp237-9 - LOMAX ABFS pp385-9 - LOMAX FSUSA 1947
pp204-5 - COMBS FSSS 1967 p232 - SILBER "Songs of the Great American West"
1967 pp173-6 - WHITE "Git along little dogies" 1975 pp16-26
-- Alan LOMAX (voc with gtr) with Guy CARAWAN (banjo) rec by PK:: EMI CLP-1192
1958/ FTX-941 - Pete SEEGER (voc/banjo): TOPIC TOP-33
1958 45-EP - Roy GUEST with THE TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID-5165
1963 - THE WEAVERS: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965
GET AWAY, OLD MAN - "Now listen all you maidens about to choose
a man" "A young man;s heart is full of love - get away old man get
away"--Minstrel Song sung by children in Leeds - Cf SHOO FLY, DON'T
BOTHER ME -- Rowland KELLETT of Leeds, rec by PK, London, 1963:
FTX-209 - Jack TARLING rec by NL, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95: NEIL LANHAM NL-01
(gift) CASS-1357 "An old man he is old"
GET IN UNION - "Jesus a-listenin" - Bessie JONES
& Group B Georgia Sea Island Singers rec by Alan Lomax, St Simon's Island,
Ga. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1713 1998
GET LOST, YOU BIG SLOB - & other jeers: "Blow up - DDT (drop
dead twice) - Go and play with the traffic - marbles - rattle the telegraph
wires" etc - Juvenile pugnacity - OPIE LLSC - JEERS -- Children's
Voices: FTX-198 & FTX-289
GET ME DOWN MY PETTICOAT - QUEER ONE
GET ON BOARD, LITTLE CHILDREN -- Paul ROBESON with Ch & Orch: PHILIPS
GL 5765 1958 - Martin Luther King Southern Freedom Songs: Greenwich Theatre
Cast: TOPIC IMP-S-102 1970
GET ON DE TRAIN - Sand Jig - KERR MM 2 #420 p47 (G)
GET OUT OF MY SIGHT OR I'LL BOX YOUR EARS - Jig - LEVEY 2 #26 p11 (Am)
"Bagpipe tune"
GET THAT WATER BOILED, SON - Tea-Boy's Warning - comp
by GM -- Graeme MILES: FTX-228
GET THE RIGGER - Polka - JER THE RIGGER
GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN - Union Song -- THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec
NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001
GET TO BED - "and what's the use?" - Sally - Kime-i-o
- Winding yarn - Chicken roost - ROUD#2701 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p135 NS
GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR-O - "It fell upon the Martinmas time"
"There was an old couple lived under the hill" - CHILD #275 -
ROUD#115 - BSs - HERD AMSS 1769 2 pp159-160 - PITMAN-BROWN Songs of Scotland
1877 - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887)/ KENNEDY 1887 (biog) p64 extra verse
- MOFFAT Minstrelsy 1894 - GREIG-KEITH LL 1925 #92 p216 (2var)- GREIG-DUNCAN
4 p455 (4var) - McCOLL SS 1953 p38 from Herd - BUCHAN 101SS 1962 no source given
- SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 1 p195 George Humphreys, London 1914 "Bar up
the Old Door" - PURSLOW MB 1965 #47 p47 Hammond: Mrs Searle, Dorchester,
Dorset 1906 "John Blunt" - PALMER EBBB 1980 #107 pp211-213 Carpenter
#178: James Christie --- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 p186 Mrs Marie Wilbur/ Mrs Lavinia
Bone, Mo 1930 1v (w/o) - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 pp239-40 Thomas Walters Nfl "Bar
the door-o" -- James CHRISTIE #170/ 178, James MASON #188, Mrs Annie
KIDD #193, Bell DUNCAN #290/ 292 rec on Dictaphone by James M.Carpenter, N.E.
Scotland 1929-35 "The Barrin' the Door" - Lorna CAMPBELL with Folk Group & Dave SWARBRICK: EMI MFP-1349 1969 - Ewan MacCOLL: RIVERSIDE
RLP-12-622 1956 from Greig - Tony ROSE: LEADER LER-2024 1971 (Hammond coll)
"John Blunt" - Mike SHAIL (voc/ gtr) rec by PK, Totnes 1979:
FTX-127 "John Blunt" --- Ed McCURDY
(with gtr) rec by Jac Holzman, New York: RIVERSIDE 12-601 1955
- Sheffield Folk Chorale (Graham & Eileen Pratt): GRAIL CD-005 2003 "John Blunt"
GET UP EARLY - Single Jig - O'NEILL MOI #770/ DMI #369 (Gm) - Minor
version of MURSHEEN DURKIN
GET UP, GET OUT - comp by MMcG -- Matt McGINN: ELEKTRA EVK-253 1966
GET UP, GUDEWIFE - "and shake your feathers - dinna think that
we are beggar - we're only bairns come out to play - Rise up, Mr X, and gie's
oor Hogmanay" New Year Begging Song - GREIG- DUNCAN 3 1987 #639 - see
also HAGMENA SONG
GET UP, JACK - JOLLY ROVING TAR
GET UP OLD WOMAN AND SHAKE YOURSELF - Jig - GROWLING OLD WOMAN GET
YOU HOME - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE: FTX-044
GETTING A WIFE - "Come hither, man John, since thou art my son
- you'll know then to get thee a wife, son Jan" - Parental advice -
UNIVERSAL SONGSTER c1830 II p368-9 "Poor Bob" (7v) - BARING
GOULD Ms #31 "Poor Robin" & SOW 1899 #31 "Jan's
Courtship" (a) sent by R Rowe (b) sent by W Webber, Tiverton (c) sent
by C Spence Bate, South Brent (publ words altered) -- Archer GOODE rec by
Gwilym Davies, Cheltenham, Glos: FTX-417
GETTING UPSTAIRS - Minstrel Song & Morris Dance tune - SHARP Morris
Book - BAYARD DTF #170 & #183 -- William KIMBER (Anglo conc) rec studio
21/3/46: RPL 9825 (78)/ rec Headington, Oxford 21/6/48: RPL 12962 with dancers/
rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1956: FTX-383 - TOPIC
12- T-249 1974/ TOPIC TSCD 600 - "Son of Morris-on": EMI SHSM-2012
1976 - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 aft "Bonny Breast Knots"
& bef "Blue-eyed Stranger" & "New Killarney Polka"
- FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec by Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 aft
"Whistling Prince" & "Mudgee's Schottische" (Australian)
- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 CASS-1225 "Such
a GU" -- Gordon TYRRALL ( gtr & whi) Punch Music PM-001 1993 from
Kimber bef "Over the hills to glory"
GETTING WED - comp by Allen Clarke (Teddy Ashton) born Bolton, Lancs
1863 (He founded "Labour Light" 1891 -- Harry BOARDMAN (+ banjo):
TOPIC 12-T-188 1968 adapted tune
GEUD MAN OF BALLINGIGH, THE - Country Dance - PLAYFORD -- Winsome
BARTLETT (3 hole pipe & tabor) rec by Jean Ritchie, Dartington, Totnes,
Devon 1953