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GLADSTONE, THE - comp by J. Scott Skinner - PHILLIPS FCTB p22 (from Jean Carignon (Canadian fiddler): PHILO 2001) -- JOCK TAMSON'S BAIRNS: TOPIC 12-TS-424 1982 "Gladstone's Reel" with "Shetland Fiddler's Society" Strathspey & "Grant's Reel" - ALTAN: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-001 1994 (from GREEN LINNET GLCD 1137 1993

GLASGOW - DIALECT - Matt McGINN [songmaker] - BONNY WEE LASSIE FROM GOUROCK - BLACK COOK - BOTTLING SONGS - BLEACHER LASSIE - CONVICT MAID - CRAIGPARK (Hornpipe) - DUKE STREET GAOL - FEEIN TIME (G Fair) - FOOTBALL SONG - FOREMAN O' ROURKE - GALLUS BLOKE (K) - GEORDIE WEIR - GOVAN BILLIARD HALL - HAMILTON MILITIAMAN - HANOVER SQUARE (Hornpipe) - I LOST MY LOVE IN THE CAIRNEY (K) - I SENT HER FOR EGGS (K) - JOCK HAWK - JOHNNY LAD - LASS FROM GLASGOW - LET GLASGOW FLOURISH - LOCHIEL'S WELCOME TO GLASGOW - LODGIN WI BIG AGGIE - MACDONALD'S FIRST VISIT - NEW BRIG O GLASGOW - O'REILLY AND BIG O'NEIL - PADDY IN GLASGOW - QUEEN ELIZABETH II - SOUR MILK CART - THREE CROWS - THREE NIGHTS AND A SUNDAY - WEE MAGIC STANE - WEEKEND SONG - WHEN I CAME TO GLASGOW - WORK'S OUTING - YOU CANNA SHOVE YOUR GRANNY OFF A BUS -- Recordings see AREA Lising

GLASGOW - children - MY MA'S A MILLIONAIRE - MY WEE SCHOOL - MURDER MICKEY MOUSE (Coming round the mountain) - THREE WEE MICE (Polly Wolly Doodle) - THE ICE WAS THIN - MOTHER'S IN THE KITCHEN - FOOTBALL CRAZY - MAMA'S GONE TO MEET MA DADDY (Old Dan Tucker) - MY FATHER TOLD ME - MY FATHER'S THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON - I WANNA GO HOME - I'M A SKYSCRAPER WAIN

GLASGOW BARBER, THE - "When first I sailed over from Belfast to Greenock" - Queen Street - ROUD#2908 - MORTON FSU 1970 pp50-1 Brian Maguire, Follom, Co Fermanagh - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp71-2 & 116 John Maguire, Tonaydumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970 - see also IRISH BARBER -- (Brian Maguire rec by Robin Morton, Follom, Co Fermanagh: MERCIER IRL 11)

GLASGOW FAIR - FEEIN' TIME - WHOLE WEEK OF THE FAIR

GLASGOW FOOTBALL SONGS - FOLLOW FOLLOW (Marching through Georgia) - HAMPDEN IN THE SUN (Calypso) - THE ONLY CATHOLIC IN THE RANGER'S TEAM (not signing Catholics satire) - WHO D'YE THINK YOU'RE KIDDING, WILLIE WADDELL ? (Parody on " Mr Hitler") - I'D RATHER BE A DARKIE (Coming round the mountain) -- Terry DICK with CLUTHA: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973 with game atmosphere

GLASGOW GREEN - "As I went out one morning fair - down Clydesdale's banks to take the air - I spied a maid wi yellow hair and twa bewitching een" - "you're surely mad to trust a rovin mason lad" - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1130 pp127-131 (6var 7v/4m)

GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS, THE - Highland Schottische -- Willie STARR (acc & piano) rec 1940's: FTX-363

GLASGOW HORNPIPE, THE - O'NEILL MOI #1648/ DMI #870 (G)

GLASGOW PEGGY - "Highland lads are brisk and braw" - CHILD #228 - ROUD#95 - GREIG-DUNCAN #4 1990 #850 p307 (13var) - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p23 Wm Miller (Ewan's father) Stirling -- Mrs Mary Stewart ROBINSON #147-8, Bell DUNCAN #279/ 282, Mrs Andrew THOMPSON #293-4, Alex STEPHENS #303/ 306, Ellen RETTIE #316/ 339 rec on Dictaphone by James M. Carpenter, N.E.Scotland 1929-35 - Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-623 1956 from father - Alex CAMPBELL: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-6 1969 --- Almeda RIDDLE of Arkansas: ROUNDER 0017 rec 1972 "Peggy of Glasgow"

GLASGOW PIPE TUNES - Marches: - GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS VOLUNTEEER MARCH - HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY'S WELCOME - GLASOW KEELIES MARCH - NINETY THIRD'S WELCOME -- CLUTHA: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

GLASGOW SHIPS - AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK

GLASS - GLASTONBURY TOWN - HILL OF GLASS - MY LOVE IS BUT A SAILOR BOY

GLASS-HARMONICA - i.e. glasses filled with varying amounts of water -- Harry GUBBINS playing on brandy glasses: "Sounds like North Cornwall": SENTINEL SENS-1011 1972

GLASS OF OLD WINE, A - "While I have my bottle I'll never complain" - VOCAL LIBRARY c1822 #1582 p586 "In a glass of old wine" (words only)

GLASS OF POTEEN, A - Jig (G ends E) - KERR MM 2 #243 p27

GLASTERTOWN'S DOWNFALL - RAKISH PADDY (Reel)

GLASTONBURY TOWN - "As I was walking through G T - the streets were paved with glass" - Seduction Song - ROUD#1484 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #176 pp666-7 Wm Spearing, Ile Brewers, Som 1906 - FMJ 1:4 1968 pp261-4 Hammond: Wm Haines, Sherborne, Dorset 1906 ("windows made of clay")/ Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 3v (w/o)/ Sharp: Wm Spearing 1904 "streets paved with glass" - Cf MY VALENTINE #177 p668 - FMJ 1968 p261-4 Purslow about Hammonds

GLAUNTAUNE, THE - FRISCO HORNPIPE

GLAW KESER ERGH OW-CUL YMA - Cornish - IT RAINS, IT HAILS

GLAZIER'S DAUGHTER, THE - BETSY

GLEANERS, THE - "Under the hedgerow, out of the sun" - WILLIAMS #579 (w/o)

GLEANN CAM - (The Crooked Glen) - Gaelic Love Song (This could be the same as "Crookie Den" given by Wilson as the original name for the tune now called "Highland Laddie"?) -- Michael CRONIN of Macroom Co Cork rec by Alan Lomax, Dublin 1951: 7"RTR-0587

GLEANNTAN FROLICS - Slide or jig - MOYLAN 2 #192 p111 (D) 12/8 from John O Leary (melodeon)

GLEANNTAN REEL, THE - CEOL 2.4 "Donal a'Clumper's Reel" - MOYLAN 2 #207 pp119-120 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon)

GLEES - BRIGHT SHINING MORN - GIPSY'S GLEE - MERRY MOUNTAIN CHILD - SPRING GLEE - THROUGH THE GROVES

GLEE SONG - I SING HIGH AND I SING LOW

GLEN ALN - Hornpipe comp by harmonica-player Willie "Moothie" Atkinson -- Billy ATKINSON (harmonica), Northumb: TOPIC 12-TS- 267 1975 - THE CUT AND DRY BAND (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-413 1980 with "Barrington Hornpipe"

GLEN COTTAGE - Polka - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #72 p36 & #78 p37 (Em) & (Am) - SULLIVAN 2 #22 p9 (Gm)

GLEN EGAN - Reel - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #154 p82 (G) 3pts from Denis Murphy (fid) Co Kerry

GLEN IS MY OWN, THE - Pibroch -- Jimmy STEWART (fid), rec by PK, Aberdeen 1955: FTX-069

GLEN ISLA NEAR BONNY GLENSHEE (Alyth, Perthshire) - BONNY GLENSHEE

GLEN LUSS - Strathspey - HAYWARD #23 p56 (Am) - Cf KERR CMM 1 #4 p10 "Glen Lyon"

GLEN OF AHERLOW, THE - "My name is Patrick Sheehan, my years are thirty-four" - LAWS #J11 - ROUD#983-- Lucy FARR (fid): TOPIC TSCD-658

GLEN OF SPELLS, THE - "Laoidh an Amadain Mhoir" - "Lay of the Great or Mighty Fool" - "To Lochlan, land of music sweet" - KENNEDY-FRASER 1917 SOTH vol 2 pp38-41 Air coll by Patuffa K-F & words collected & collated by Kenneth McLeod - Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: 1398-C60/ FTX-264

GLEN OGLE - Reel (D) - KERR MM 1 #5 p24

GLEN ROAD TO CARRICK, THE - Slow Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #182 p82 (G) from Johnny Doherty -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by Seamus McMathuna, Co Donegal COMHALTAS CEOLTAIRI EIREANN CL-10 1974/ RTR- dub/ with story about how tune came to be made - Francie BYRNE (fid) Co Donegal RTE "Long Note prog 13/6/89 CASS-60-0897 Seamus GLACKIN (fid) rec at "Fiddlesticks" Festival organised by Traditional Music Society of University College, Cork 1991: NIMBUS NI-5320

GLENALOON, THE - WRECK OF THE GLENALOON

GLENBEIGH HORNPIPE - SULLIVAN 3 #26 p10 (G) from De Danaan

GLENCOE - Ballachulish, Argyll- PRIDE OF - RAPE OF

GLENCOE MARCH, THE - March & Reel comp by Dan R McDonald - BOWEN p36 (D) 3pts -- Joe BURKE (harmonica) with Marie Mc LENNAN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978 with Reel: "Sandpoint" & Untitled jig - Buddy McMASTER (Cape Breton fid) with Aly BAIN "Down Home" (TV Series) in USA & Canada LISMOR LIF-7011 1986 CASS- 0814

GLENCOLMKILLE - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #176 p80 (D)

GLENDOAN FANCY - Reel - ALLAN #43 p11 (Am)

GLENDUAREL HIGHLANDERS, THE - March -- P/M Jock RIACH (H-pipes) rec by Seamus Ennis 9/7/52: RPL 18133 (remade as RPL LP 26506)/ Curly McKAY (acc) & Willie KEMP (tromp or jews harp): TOPIC TSCD-657 bef "Kenmore/ Lovat Scouts/ Money Musk"

GLENESK - GLENSHESK WATERSIDE - LOVELY GLENESK

GLENGARIFF HORNPIPE - O'NEILL MOI #1611/ DMI #851 (G)

GLENGARRY GATHERING, THE - Highland Pipe March by Angus Mc Kay (publ Paterson) - KERR MM 3 #417 p46 2/4 (##A) "Glengarry's March" -- Hector Mc ANDREW (fid) rec Aberdeen 13/7/67: RPL 30952/ FTX-272 bef Strath: "Blairdrummond" --- 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 "Donald Mc Master's Strathspey"

GLENKINDIE - CHILD #67 - BRONSON 2 p59 - COLLINSON from Miss Gordon (Aberdeensh), Matlock, Derby 1953 -- Mary THAIN 189 rec by James M. Carpenter 1928-9 (3var):

GLENKINDIE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #53 p15 (G) - KERR MM 4 #121 p15 (G) Strathspey - WILSON p62 (G) "Glenkindie's Reel" -- Mary THAIN #189 rec on Dictaphone by James M. Carpenter, N.E.Scotland 1929-35

GLENLIVET - Reel (Am) - KERR MM 1 #9 p24 "Glenlivat"

GLENLOGIE - "There were four and twenty nobles stood at the king's ha" - CHILD #238 - ROUD#101 - BRONSON 3 A-10 - DUNCAN Ms W11/ M2 - GREIG- DUNCAN 5 1995 #973 pp106 19var 25v - CHRISTIE TBA 1 pp54-5 "BJoB" - ORD BB 1930 p412 "Bonnie Jean o' Bethelnie" 27v (w/o) (notes about "The Queen's "Progress") -- James CHRISTIE #177, Mrs Alex CAMPBELL #198, Alex CLARK #278, Bell DUNCAN #285/ 290, Ellen RETTIE #316/ 338, Peter BARNETT #317, Alex ROBB #342 rec on Dictaphone by James M. Carpenter, N.E.Scotland 1929-35 - John STRACHAN rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire 16/7/51: ROUNDER 82161-1835-2 2002/ CAEDMON TC-1146/ TOPIC 12-T-161/ FTX-065 & FTX-503 - Shirley & Dolly COLLINS: EMI SHVL-771 1970 - John ADAMS rec by Hamish Henderson, Ballidalloch, Banffsh: TANGENT TNGM-119 (D) 1975

GLEN'S CHIMES - American Old Time Performer's Tune -- E J MAINER BAND rec by Alan Lomax, Concord, NC USA 1959: RPL LP 26150/ ATLANTIC SD-1350

GLEN'S CLOG HORNPIPE - (F/C) - HONEYMAN #1 p49 - KOHLER 1 p95 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #72 p21 (G/D)

GLENS OF MAYO, THE - Jig - - O'NEILL MOI #1078/ DMI #270 (G/Em)

GLENS OF AHERLOW, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #174 p79 (Em)

GLENSHESK WATERSIDE - "How often have I wandered forth" - local comp according to Sam Henry attributed to schoolmaster Mc Anley who taught in Glenshesk - Scots-Irish Pastoral Song - Glenshesk is in County Antrim, Northern Ireland whereas Glen Esk is in Angus, in Scotland, and Edzell is on the river Esk - see EDZELL'S BONNY BRAES - LOVELY GLEN ESK - sung to tune of "The Star of Co Down" - HENRY #19 gives name of author -- Denis CASSLEY rec by PK, Glenshesk, Co Antrim 7/8/53: RPL 20022/ FTX-377

GLENSIDE COTTAGE - Reel - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #296 p150 (Em)

GLENSIDE POLKAS, THE -- GLENSIDE CEILI BAND: TRANSATLANTIC TRA- 159 1967 (M)

GLENSWILLY - HILLS OF GLENSWILLY

GLENTAUN REEL, THE -- Denis MURPHY & Julia CLIFFORD (fiddles), Kerry: CLADDAGH CC-5 1973 aft "Galtee Rangers"

GLIN COTTAGE POLKA, THE - MOYLAN 2 #237 pp137-8 (Am) from John O Leary (melodeon) - see also GREEN COTTAGE POLKA - BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH CD-007 1999

GLISE DE SHERBROOKE - BIG SHIP

GLITTERING DEWDROPS - E-CHOING HORN

GLITTERING MONEY - "When I received my ladyship's pay" - SHARP Ms 2627 John Webb, Pillerton, Somerset

GLOBE HORNPIPE - (Bb) - COLE #4 p90

GLOBE TROTTER, THE - Hornpipe (Bb) - COLE #8 p89 "can be used as a Clog"

GLOOMY WINTER'S NOO AWA - "soft whistlin breezes blow" - Many BSs - composed by Robert Tannahill -- Dougie McLEAN: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-001 1994 (from Dunkeld Records DO-10 1990)

GLOOMY WINTER'S NOO AWA - Song Air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (Em) 3pts #210 p259

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO - Carol -- Maddy PRIOR & CARNIVAL BAND: SAYDISC SDL-366 1988

GLORIOUS ANGEL FROM ABOVE, THE - Carol of the Passion used by Sussex Tipteers at conclusion of their Folk Play - BROADWOOD, Sussex 1890 - JFSS 7 pp130-1 - JFSS 13 pp261-3 (under title: "God bless the master" or "From morn to morn")

GLORIOUS DEVON -- Peter DAWSON on 78rpm ZONOPHONE 588 (1909?) with "Young Tom o' Devon"

GLORIOUS YEAR - GLORISHER = ED&S 46:1 Spring 1984 p9 Article on "Dearest Dickie/ Happy Clown" by Philip S Heath Coleman

GLORISHER(S) - Used for Cotswold Morris - SHARP Morris Book "Glorishears" - BOWEN p15 (D ends A) -- Bertie CLARK (fid) rec by PK, Bampton, Oxford 1955: FTX-384 - John KIRKPATRICK (conc) & Sue HARRIS (oboe): TOPIC 12-TS-247 1974 - R KENWORTHY SCHOFIELD (3-h pipe & tabor): FTX-325 - "Son of Morris-on": EMI SHSM-2012 1976 - John KIRKPATRICK with Sue HARRIS, Martin CARTHY, Martin BRINSFORD & Fi FRASER: "Plain Capers" Morris Dances from the Cotswolds: FREE REED FRR- 010 1976 Headington version

GLORY, GLORY -- ODETTA rec by Jack Hawkins, San Franscisco, USA 1956: TRADITION TLP-1010 1957

GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH - JOHN BROWN'S BODY

GLORY IN THE MEETING HOUSE - This mountain tune won player a $500 prize -- Luther STRONG (fiddle with foot stomping) rec by Alan & Elizabeth Lomax, Hazard, Kentucky, 18/10/37: ROUNDER CD 1500 1997

GLORY OF LOVE - comp by B Hill -- Joseph SPENCE (voc/ gtr), Bahamas: ARHOOLIE 1061 1972

GLORY OF THE NORTH, THE - Period Dance -- Lea NICHOLSON (conc/gtr): LEADER LER-3010 1971 (Jacqueline Emett & Kevin Sheldon: from CHAPPELL PMOT 1858)

GLORY OF THE WEST, THE - Period Dance from Playford -- Amanda LOWE (h-dulc): GRINNIGOGS International GRIN-CD-941 1994 bef "Jenny Pluck Pears"

GLORY REEL, THE - FELDMAN p162 (G) from Francie & Mickey Byrne -- Francie & Mickie BYRNE (fids) rec by Kieron McMahon 1957 Kilcar Donegal: RTE "Long Note prog 17/8/89 CASS-60-0897

GLOUCESTER: - Jackie DALEY & Seamus CRAY (fid/mel) play 2 Slides rec at Glos F/Club on Radio 2 "Folkweave" 29/11/79: CASS-0411 - CASS-0339 Roger CUDBY Memory Bank (local speakers) 1985 - CASS-0340 Keith REID: Short talk about Docks interviewed by Tracey Masey rec by PK Nov 1985 - Reg ROBINSON talk about Gloucester, Fred Harvey & Army Song CASS-0433 - Talk about Barton Fair, Trams etc CASS-0466

GLOUCESTERSHIRE - COPPIN, Johnny - MORRIS - MUMMERS - COTSWOLD CRAFTS - GLOUCESTER - GREEN WILLOW BAND - MARSHFIELD PAPERBOYS - MAY SONG Paxford nr Chipping Camden (in County file) - see also CHEESE ROLLING (at Cooper's Hill, Brockworth) - COTSWOLDS - CRAFTS - FOREST OF DEAN - MUMMERS (Marshfield "Paperboys") -- Recordings see AREA Listing

GLOUCESTER HORNPIPE, THE - RAVEN 1985 p156 -- Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18680/ FTX-115/ LEADER LED-2068 1976 #1 variant of "Liverpool" or "Boney's" (Man from Newry)

GLOUCESTER LAD, THE - BRISK AND LIVELY LAD, THE

GLOUCESTER MINER, THE -- Instrumental: DAMBUSTER DAM-003/ CASS 0348

GLOUCESTER REEL - MITTELL #23 p12 (G) "Gloster Reel"

GLOUCESTER VOLUNTEERS, THE - "Come all you brisk young fellows that love your native land" - WILLIAMS #91 Wm Simms, Fairford, Gloucestersh (w/o)

GLOUCESTER - BUTCHER OF GLOUCESTER (Dublin Street Ballad) - FEMALE SAILOR BOLD (Jane Thornton) - GIRLS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE - STARK NAKED ROBBERY (Coach from London) - BELLE ISLE MARCH - BISLEY FOOTBALL - BUFF BLOW - BUTCHER OF GLOUCESTER - CHERRY TREE CAROL - COLEFORD JIG - COME MY LADS AND LET'S BE JOLLY - FEAST SONG - FEMALE SAILOR BOLD - GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN - GHOST ARMY OF KOREA - GIRLS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE - GOOD MORNING PRETTY MAID - GOOD MORNING TO YOU, VALENTINE - GOSSIP JOAN - HAWKESBURY VOLUNTEERS - JOHNNY OCHRE - JOLLY SHILLING - JOVIAL FORESTERS - KEEPER - MILKMAID'S SONG - NOBLEMAN'S LADY - ROBIN HOOD'S HILL - SHERBORNE JIG - SOUTH CERNEY (Mummers Play) - TETBURY or CICITER (Cirencester) MOP - WASSAIL - WHEN I TOOK MY NANCE TO CHURCH - WHEN I WENT TO MARKET TO BUY ME A PIG - YUBBERDON MAWMS

GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAGEDY - "Near Gloucester town I hear" broadsides - altern titles: "The Lovers Downfall", "Lovers Farewell to the World", "Unnatural Mother"

GLOUNTANE SLIDE, THE - CRANITCH #22 p133 12/8 (D)

GLOVE AND THE LIONS - LION'S DEN

GLOVE MAKING -- Cyril TAWNEY: TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 "The Nightingale" Somerset singing while making gloves

GLOVES - GOLDEN GLOVE - PRIDE OF GLENCOE

GLOWEROWERUM - "There lived an old man at the back/ top of the knowe" Ch; "To be the guid wife o' bobbie G" - Lowden (?) or Fair - ROUD#1101 - FORD VS 1 1899 pp131-3 Scot (w/o) - KIDSON TT 1891 pp96-7 Dumfriessh - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 #816 p210 6var - "A glowerowerum" is a situation having a wide prospect

GLYN CYNON WOODS - COED GLYN CYNON

GNEEVGULLIA POLKA, THE - MOYLAN 2 #64 pp36-7 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon) from Padraig O Keefe

GNOME, THE - Not much fun being one - comp by MW -- Miles WOOTON (v/gtr): LONG MAN LM-4001

GO AND DIG MY GRAVE - Bahaman hymn -- Peggy SEEGER & Guy CARAWAN (with banjo & gtr) rec London 11/1/58: RPL LP 24213

GO AND LEAVE ME IF YOU WISH IT - "Once I loved in fond affection" -"Bring me back the one I love" "My true love is but a sailor boy" "Never change the old love for the new" - "I wish my heart was made of glass" -- Lament for false lover - ROUD#459 - BSs incl SBG 2:121/ 2;252 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1145 pp188-191 (6var 6v/2m) - GREIG FSNE 1909 2 169 (w/o) - ORD BB 1930 pp181-2 3v (w/o) - HENRY SOP #722 - PATTEN SS 1987 pp74-5: Amy Ford, Low Ham, Somerset 1973 (w/o) --- SPAETH WSM 1927 pp32-33 (w/o) "Now go and leave me if you wish" -- COLUMBUS STOCKADE - DEAR COMPANION -- Mrs MATHIESON #010 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Anne O'NEILL (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1/8/52: RPL 18582/ FTX-167 "Who's that knocking at my bedroom window?" - Dodie CHALMERS rec Seamus Ennis, Turiff, Aberdeensh 16/7/52: RPL 18784/ FTX-261 - Jim SMITH rec by SE, Southrepps, Norfolk 1955: RPL 21903 - Davie STEWART (v/acc) rec by PK, Dundee, 1956: FTX-180 - Tom WILLETT (gypsy) rec by PK, Paddock Wood, Kent 4/9/63 RTR-0985 - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR0120/ FTX-143 "My truelove was a sailor lad" - Rita & Sarah KEANE, Galway: CLADDAGH CC-4 1968 - Charlie WILLS, rec by PK, Bridport, Dorset 1968 RTR-0084/ FTX-097/ LEADER LEA-4041 1972 - Amy FORD rec by Bob & Jacqueline Patten, Low Ham, Somerset 1973 cass - Percy WEBB, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-243 1974

GO AND PUT YOUR TROUSERS ON - JOHN, JOHN, JOHN

GO AND TELL AUNT NANCY (or RHODY) - "the old grey goose is dead"- ROUD#3346 --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #236 (vol 2 p345) "The Old Grey Goose" sung by Mrs Laurel Jones, Burnsville, Yancey Co., NC 1918 - Cf NANCY HOGAN'S PIG -- - Mr & Mrs Ernest STONEMAN 1926 OKEH 45125] FOLKWAYS FP-253/ FA-2953/ 7"RTR-0307 aft "Mountaineer's Courtship" - Jean RITCHIE (v/ dulc) rec USA: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-620 1956 with "Dance t your Daddie"/ TRADITION TLP-1011 1957/ GREENHAYS GR-90714/ CASS-0801 bef "There is a happy land" - Almeda RIDDLE rec by Alan Lomax, USA 1959: FTX-785 #14/ ATLANTIC SD-1350 1960 "American F/S for Children"

GO AS YOU PLEASE - Hornpipe - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #73 p21 (G/D)

GO AWAY - I'LL BASH YOUR BRAINS IN (K)

GO AWAY FROM MY WINDOW - see NIGHT VISITING - DROWSY SLEEPER - RHYBUDD I'R CARWR (Welsh)

GO DOWN, OLD HANNAH - Work Song - Central State Prison rec by John & Alan Lomax, Sugarland, Texas 1933: AAFS L-8 B1/ 7"RTR-0309 - LEADBELLY (Hudie Ledbetter): TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1126 1972 - Lomax in Cajun film: FF-3306

GO DOWN, YOU BLOOD RED ROSES - BLOOD RED ROSES

GO DOWN, YE MURDERERS - comp Ewan MacColl 1953: Timothy John Evans was exec for the murder of his wife's child & died protesting his innocence - later Christie, the mass murderer, confessed -- Ewan MacCOLL & Peggy SEEGER (accomp) rec by Bill Leader: TOPIC 12-T- 16 1959/ ROOT & BRANCH #2CD 2000

GO FROM MY WINDOW - "Begone, begone, my Willie, my Billy" (BG) - "my love, my dear - you cannot find lodging here" - roud#966 - Earliest known version publ John Wolfe, London 1587-8; another in Act 3 of Beamont & Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle" (Mike Yates: note on Wisdom Smith's version) - D'URFEY 1698- 1720 4 p43-4 "Arise, arise, my Juggy, my Peggy" - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 150 (2 tunes - 1 from Fitzwilliam Virginal Bk - PMOT 1858 140-2 - BARRETT EFS 1891 #26 p46 - BARING GOULD SOW #126 (Rev Ed #41) (a) J Woodrich who got it from an old man in Bideford, Devon 1874 (b) R Hard 1892 "Begone, Willy, my silly" with text re-written under title of "Come to my window" also with notes on 16th & 17th C texts - BG Ms has another version of tune from R Hard 1892 - MOFFAT- KIDSON Minstrelsy of England 1903 - REEVES EC 1960 p122 Baring Gould: James Parsons (?) - FMJ 3:1 1975 pp75-6 Mike Yates: Wisdom Smith (gypsy), Cheltenham, Gloucestersh --- KARPELES FSFN 1971 pp239-40 Kenneth Monks, Kings Cove, Nfl 1929 --- See COLD BLOW AND A RAING NIGHT - DROWSY SLEEPER - OPEN THE WINDOW -- Ronnie GILBERT: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 - Shirley (v) & Dolly COLLINS (accomp): EMI SHVC-771 1970 - Wisdom SMITH (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Kent: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985

GO GEORGE I CAN'T ENDURE YOU - PILLING & SCHOFIELD 1973 "Down Back o't' Shoddy" (4 North Country Dances) - see THREE AROUND THREE

GO HOME AND GET SOME OF YOUR FATHER'S GOLD - BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW

GO IMMEDIATELY - Highland Pipe Reel - GLEN pt17 p25 alt title: "Weary with you all the day" -- Calum JOHNSTON (H-pipes) rec by The School of Scottish Studies, Barra: TANGENT TNGM-111 1972

GO IT, NEDDIE - "My toggery I took out of pawn" - Bss - WILLIAMS #580 (w/o)

GO NO MORE A-RUSHING - "maids in May" - cherry - chicken - ring - Version of RIDDLE SONG -ROUD#330 - MASON NR&CS 1877 (under title "A Paradox" with riddling verses) - tune in Fitzwilliam Virginal Book under title "Tell me, Daphne" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 p158 - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp84-5

GO TO BERWICK, JOHNNY - "You'll go, you'll go - busk and go" - ROUD#13031 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1689 p220 "Busk and go to Berwick, Johnny"

GO TO BERWICK, JOHNNY - Triple Jig - Tunebook Ms (Bm) 3/4 #54 p20 "Berwick Johnny" - ROCHE 2 #261 p26 (Bm) "Berwick Jockey" - WILLIAMSON p58 - SEATTLE p57 5pts (G) - WILSON p25 (G) 3/2 "Berwick Johnney"

GO TO ITALY - Mountain dance tune -- Bascom Lamar LUNSFORD (75) (banjo) rec by Paul Clayton: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-645 1956

GO TO SEA NO MORE - "Now when I arrived in Frisco, boys I went on a jolly good spree" Ch: "No more, no more, I'll go to sea no more" - sailor meets Angeline who takes him home then he meets 'Shanghai' Brown who ships him on board of a whaler bound for the Arctic - LAWS #D-7 NAB 1950/64 pp164-5 "Dixie Brown" ("DB") - ROUD#644 - FOLK mag #2 CONTRIB BY PK from Halliday - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 #62 p69 A L Lloyd (no source given) "Off to sea once more" ("When first I landed in Liverpool") - HUGILL SSS p582 "Shanghai Brown" - SPIN mag 6/1 p18 1968 - PALMER OBSS 1986 #124 p250 from Lloyd --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp255-6 Harry Sutherland (w/o) "DB" - DOERFLINGER 1951 p107 - NO MORE I'LL GO TO SEA -- John VASS (shantyman), rec by James M Carpenter, Shandwick, Invergordon, E Ross, Scotland c1928: FTX-141 - Commander R F P HALLIDAY rec by PK, Jersey, C I, 1957: FTX-205 - Tim "Paddy" WALSH, rec by Cyril Tawney, Devonport 5/4/60: RPL LP 26310/ FTX-206 - A L LLOYD (accomp): TOPIC 12-T-174 1967 --- Louis KILLEN (& group): COLLECTOR (USA) COL-1928 1977

GO TO SLEEP, LITTLE BABY - Lullaby - "(Hush little baby don't you cry), mother's going to give you a mocking bird" - ROUD#6374 - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #234 (vol 2 p342) "The Mocking Bird" 2var: Mrs Julia Boone, Micaville, Yancey Co., NC 1916/ Mrs Lucy Cannady, Endicott, Franklin Co., Va 1918 - MOTHER WILL YOU BUY ME? Lullaby- OWENS: Texas Folk Songs p.268-- Bessie JONES, rec by Alan Lomax, Simon Islands, Ga 1959: ATLANTIC SD-1350 1960 - Texas GLADDEN (voc) rec by AL, Salem, Va Aug 1941: AFS 5233 A4/ ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001/ rec by AL Salem, Va Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1702 1999 "Whole heap of little horses" - "The Pioneer Strain" broadcast introduced by Alan LOMAX, 1960 rec off air by PK: FTX-902 - Jean RITCHIE (voc/dulc): ELEKTRA EKLP-2 1952 !02 LP "Hush little baby" - Joan BAEZ: VANGUARD SVXL-100 1963 - Mike with Peggy SEEGER (gtr) "American Folksongs for Children": (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 CASS-1226 (2var) "Hush 'n bye" - Vera Ward HALL rec by AL, Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997 has chorus "Come up, horsie, hey hey"

GO TO THE DEVIL AND SHAKE YOURSELF - Jig (D) - BREATHNACH 3 CRE #37 p13 (G) from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes) Dublin "When sick it is tea you want" - COLE #9 p52 - HARDY Ms 191 (a) - KENNEDY FTB p35 - Tunebook Ms (D) #12 p339 (erroneously labelled "Nancy's Fancy" & (Em) #93 p35 - LEVEY 1 #13 p6 (Em) - MITTELL #4 p4 - O'NEILL MOI #1091/ DMI #358 - WILSON p86 -- Seamus ENNIS (U- pipes): CLADDAGH (TARA) TA-1002 1973 bef "Humours of Drinagh"- Brendan POWER (harmonica) with Chris Newman (gtr): PUNCH MUSIC PMCD-002 1994 "New Irish Harmonica" (learned from harmonica player Tommy Reilly) bef "Maid behind the bar" - played by Paul RODGERS (melodeon) rec by Noel Hamilton, Torre Island, Co Donegal 1967: FTX-277 with two other jigs

GO YE IN BY YONDERS TOWN - "tis there you'll hear me sighing" - Children's street song - part of a ballad ? -- BELFAST GIRL SINGERS rec 20/4/48: RPL 13163-4 (coll by Hugh Quinn) - Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: 072

GO YOUR WAY, MY LOVE - comp -- Anne BRIGGS (v/gtr): TOPIC 12-T-207 1971

GOAT IN THE GREEN, THE - Quadrille Jig - MOYLAN 2 #71 p41 (Em) from John O Leary (melodeon)

GOATS - BOILED GOAT'S MILK (Jig) - CAN YR BUGAIL - CHEVRE - CIAPIN-AR-LEATHSTUAIC - COPEMAN'S BILLY

GOATH ANIAR-ANEAS, AN - Double Jig -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980 CASS-0815

GOATHERD, THE - Pipe Jig -- Angus GRANT (H-fid) with William LAURIE (P-acc) & John Mc INTYRE (bass): TOPIC 12-TS-347 1978 with "The Curlew"

GOATHLAND - N Yorksh - PENNOCK, Bill - FYLINGDALE FOX HUNT, THE

GOBBY-O, THE - Jig (Am) - COLE #6 p55 alt: "Jefferson and Liberty" - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 42/ 1994 #199 p55 - KERR MM 1 #26 p33 - Tunebook Ms #032 p345 - LEVEY 2 #16 p7 - O NEILL MOI #844/ DMI #105 alt: "The Bay of Bantry" - PETRIE AMOI 1 p103 - ROCHE 3 #112 p35 - WILSON p121 (Gm) -- Havelock NELSON (piano) rec Belfast 11/8/60: RPL LP 26255 - MAGPIES Band, rec by PK, Derby 1963: FTX-321

GOD BE WITH YE, KERRY - Song of 1798 Rising -- Nellie WALSH (unacc) rec by Brian George, Co Wexford 6/8/47: RPL 11221

GOD BLESS THE BASTARD KING OF ENGLAND -- Oscar BRAND: CASS-0235 "The Best of the Worst"

GOD BLESS THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY - "Now once I was a helpless child" - VICINUS BIN 1975 p33 Pearson Manchester Pub Lib

GOD BLESS THE MASTER - O MORTAL MAN, REMEMBER WELL

GOD BLESS THE MASTER "of this house" - "O Righteous Joseph wedded was" - Carol - ROUD#1066 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 p505-6 Alfred Emery, Othery, Somerset 1908/ Frederick Crossman, Langport, Somerset 1909 "A Happy New Year" - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp80-83 & p122 Mummers, Horsham, Sussex ("Righteous Joseph"/ "O Mortal Man") - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp261-3 RVW: Daniel Wigg, Preston Candover 1909/ Rev H Peckham: Aldingbourne, Sussex 1v/m - GILLINGTON OCCSC 1910 pp18-19 Surrey (tune "Joys of Mary") used by Wassailers and at also at the end of Mummers Play - JFSS 2 1905 pp129-131 Lucy Broadwood: A Glaysher, Rogate, Sussex 1880- 81/ Mrs Small, Lodsworth, Sussex/ E T Hedgecocks, Strettington, Sussex ("Righteous Joseph") (also under SR#1551)/ Gardiner: John Carter, Twyford, Hampsh - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp261-3 RVW: Daniel Wigg, Preston Candover, Hampsh 1909/ Rev H Peckham: nn, Aldingbourne, Sussex 1v/m - COPPER SSB 1973 pp272-3 Frank 'Mush' Bond - PALMER RVW 1983 pp56-7 Daniel Wigg, Prestron Candover, Hampsh 1909 -- Frank BOND rec by Bob Copper, North Waltham, Hampsh 1955: RPL 21862/ TOPIC 12-T-317

GOD BLESS THE MOON - I SEE THE MOON

GOD BLESS THE MOONSHINER - MOONSHINE

GOD BLESS THE UNEMPLOYED - Anthem comp by Lea Nicholson - Lea NICHOLSON (voc/ conc/ gtr) & Stan ELLISON (voc/gtr), Ian WHITEMAN (organ), Sam Charters (percussion) & chorus: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-254 1972

GOD BLESS YOU ALL - GOD REST YOU MERRY GENTLEMEN

GOD'S A-GONNA CUT YOU DOWN -- ODETTA rec by Jack Hawkins, San Francisco, USA 1956: TRADITION TLP-1010 1957 - ODETTA: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965

GOD MADE A TRANCE - CHRIST MADE A TRANCE

GOD MADE THE WORLD - "that mother for you" - Sacred Song -- Andrew STEWART (tinker) rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, Perthsh July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7

GOD PROSPER WELL OUR NOBLE KING - CHEVY CHACE

GOD REST YOU MERRY GENTLEMEN - "Come all you worthy gentlemen" - Carol - ROUD#394 - BSs - Political version 1820 - SANDYS CC 1833 pp102-4 Cornwall (w/o) - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 pp146-7 (2 tunes) & PMOT 1858 pp752-5 - RIMBAULT CC 1846/63 - HUSK Songs of the Nativity 1868 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 5 pp68-69 Mr Rapsey, Bridgwater, Somerset "A Christmas Carol" - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #352 2 pp455-6 Robert Feast & Tom Ison, Ely, Cambridgesh 1911/ Sharp: Thomas Taylor, Ross, Herefordsh 1921 (m/o)/ John THomas, Camborne, Cornwall 1913 1v/m/ Mr Rapsey, Bridgwater, Somerset 1906/ Samson Price, Little Stretton, Shropsh 1923 1v/m - JFSS 2:4 (9) 1906 p281 T C Smith: nn, Scarborough, Yorksh 1v/m - JFSS 5 1916 T Miners & H E Piggott: Mrs Miners, Penponds, Cornwall 2v/m "God bless YMG" - JFSS 14 p3 Notes by Mrs Leather - JFSS 4:17 1913 p338-341 George Butterworth: Mr Lockly, High Ercall, Shropsh 1908 1v/m/ Mrs Cranstone, Billingshurst, Sussex 1911/ RVW: Mr Colcomb, Weobley, Herefordsh (m/o)/ Mr Wiltshire, Fowlmere, Cambridge (m/o) - JFSS 5 1916 pp318-9 Miners & Piggott: Mrs Miners, Penponds, Cornwall 1915 2v/m - JFSS 18 p95 Lucy Broadwood with "Flat Pavan" for cf - JFSS 19 p212-3 - GILLINGTON OCCSC 1910 pp6-7 New Forest gypsies (Dorset/ Hampsh) - SHARP EF Carols 1911 pp13-16 Mr Rapsey "CAY Worthy G"/ Tom Ison, Ely, Cambridgesh "God Bless YMG" - LEATHER FLH 1912 - LEATHER-RVW TTC 1920 pp14-15 Mrs Johnson/ Mrs Smith, Dilwyn, Herefordsh - WILLIAMS #581 (w/o) - OXFORD Carols 1928 #11 Sandys & #12 Rimbault - JFSS 8 1929 pp119-20 J E Thomas: Mrs Ricka, Treswithian, Cornwall 1925 "God bless YMG" - JEFDSS 1:2 1933 pp98-100 Marie Howes: Jean Betteridge/ Bella Linsley, Castle Barnard, Durham "God bless you all" - SHEPARD HSL 1973 p185 Bs (w/o) "God Rest You"- FMJ 1976 p247 "G bless Y M G" Newfoundland - PALMER BHE 1979 p98 - well-known tune is "Chestnut" - see CRAVEN CHURN SUPPER SONG -- tune by Roger NICHOLSON (dulc) with Robert JOHNSON (dulc): LEADER LER-3034 1972 - Maddy PRIOR & CARNIVAL Band: SAYDISC SDL-366 1988 - Ewan McCOLL & chorus at "Cheshire Cheese" Castleton, Derbyshire/ Charlie BATE & ch, Plymouth, Devon/ Bryan NEWEY SKIFFLE GROUP etc. in RPL Prog 1957 "Sing Christmas" ROUNDER-CD-11661-1850-2 2000

GOD SAVE IRELAND - March - ROCHE 2 #352 p63 (D) 4/4-- WOLFE TONES: CASS-0958

GOD SAVE THE KING (QUEEN) - see also NATIONAL ANTHEM - VOC LIB 1822 #1292 p479 (4v) by H Carew - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 #88 p591-707 & PMOT 1858 p691-707 - GRAND BUGLE QUICKSTEP

GOD SENT FOR US THE SUNDAY - WILLIAMS #142: Jane Ockwell, Poulton, Gloucestersh (w/o)

GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH - "Here's health to the farmer & G S T P" - ROUD#1475 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp44-6 Bs (w/o) "God-speed the plow and bless the corn-mow" ("Husbandman & Servingman") - SUMNER BM 1888 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #22 pp49-50 Sumner BM

GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH - "Dear Joseph, dear Joseph Why serious today?" - SHARP SG 2003 p40 3dv from Wm Cornelius, South Petherton, Somerset 10th April 1901 (noted two other songs from him)

GOD'S DEAR SON, WITHOUT BEGINNING - Carol - GILBERT CC 1822 (tune is a variant of "Chestnut") - Also in "A Good Christmas Box" publ Dudley 1847 -- Richard GENDALL (Voc/gtr): FTX-009 sung in Cornish

GODAMIGHTY DRAG - LOMAX OSC p198 from "Track Horse" in Texas Penitentiary -- Alan LOMAX (voc/ gtr) rec by PK: TRADITION TLP- 1029 1958/ FTX-904

GODDESS OF LIFE - YOU'LL TAKE THE PRIZE

GODDESSES - PLAYFORD Country Dance 1651 - BOWEN p30 4pts (Gm) -- R Kenworthy SCHOFIELD (pipe & tabor) rec by PK: FTX-325 - STAVERTON BRIDGE rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Devon 3/7/70 7"RTR-0142/ FTX-144 - ASTON Folk Dance Band, Birmingham: TOPIC IMP-S-104 1972

 
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