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HE BACK, SHE BACK - "Daddy shot a bear" - Shanty - ROUD#930 - SHARP EFSh 1914 p4 from John Short, Watchet, Somerset - Tune is variant of "Shule Agra" - possibly related to CLEAR THE TRACK

HE CALLED FOR A CANDLE - ROSEMARY LANE

HE COMES DOWN OUR ALLEY - STILL I LOVE HIM

'E DUNNO WHERE 'E ARE - Music Hall (Eplett/Wright) -- Gus Elen: TOPIC 12-T-396 1979

HE'S GONE (FAR) AWAY OVER JORDAN - TRUELOVER'S FAREWELL

HE'S GOT NO COURAGE IN HIM - "As I was a-walking one midsummers morning" - Ch "O dear O" - ROUD#870 - BSs - SHARP Ms (3var) - REEVES IOP pp160 from (Sharp Ms #483) John Wyatt, West Harptree, Somerset1904 -1 VICINUS BIN 1975 p76 Bs Preston Dist Central Lubrary

HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND - "He's got the whole world right in his hands" - ROUD#7501 - WARNER 1984 #168 p384 Sue Thomas coll 1933 - Sheet Music Lib No 1795-E12 (Mills Music 1951) Marion Kerby coll -- ODETTA (with gtr) rec USA: TRADITION TLP-025 1958/ VANGUARD SRL-624 1965 - MERRYMAKERS Steel Band (Antigua) rec by PK, London 1960: FTX-917

HE'S JUST AS GOOD AS GOLD - "My truelove is a shepherd lad" - WILLIAMS #338 Miss E King, Castle Eaton, Wiltsh (w/o)

HE'S ONLY AN OLD VILLAGE POSTMAN - "plodding up hill and dale - news to the people - reading all letters & postcards" Ch: "I don't work for a living - sooner stop out in the rain" (Work Song) - ROUD#10438 "I don't work for a living" -- Bob DAVENPORT (with piano): LEADER LER-2088 1973 - Tommy CHAPPLE rec by Michael Feist at "The Stag" Rackenford, Tiverton, Devon 1972 (see letter file) CASS-0330 "I don't work for a living" - George EDWORTHY rec by Sam Richards, Devon 1982: ("Sing up, George": PEOPLE'S STAGE PS-06) "I don't work for a living"

HE'S OVER THE HILLS - "He's owre the hills and he's whistling bonny - he's a bonny lad and they call him Johnny" - ROUD#6840 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1111 pp91 (25v/2m)

HE'S OVER THE HILLS - Jig - KERR MM 3 #295 p32 (D)

HE'S PROVIDIN' FOR ME - "There's a rose in yon garden" - "O dark was the nicht when I walked the braes" - ROUD#7005 - RIDDELL'S Airs "Make my bed easy" (Lord Ronald) - CHRISTIE TBA 1 1876 p170 "There's nae laddie coming" (diff wds - note) - DUNCAN Ms W3421 M99/ 322/ 431/ 806 "Waukin o' the Claes" - TOCHER 6 1972 p180-1 Kenneth Goldstein from Lucy Stewart 1960 - Ms in Paisley Central Lib has version taken down about 1827 from a tailor in Renfrewsh - Cf I'M A YOUNG BONNY LASSIE -- Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 27/6/55 (3 frag verses): FTX-365

HE'S YOUNG BUT HE'S DAILY A-GROWING - YOUNG AND GROWING

HE MANDU - (Alas) - Scots Gaelic Work Song -- Mrs Kate Mc LEOD & ch rec by The School of Scottish Studies, Leurbost, Island of Lewis 1955: TANGENT TNGM-110 1971

HE NEVER SAID A MUMBLIN' WORD - "O didn't Jesus die?" - ROUD#10068 - BROWN NCFL 3 pp626-7 - WORK ANS&S 1940 p103 -- Negro convicts rec by John Lomax & Alan Lomax, Angola, Louisiana 1933- 4: (Lib of Congress AAFS 116-7 A2) & Parchman, Miss 1935: AAFS 1856 B1-10" - Josh WHITE (voc/gtr): DECCA SPA-44 1969

HE PLAYED THE UKELELE AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN -- Instrum: Bob DAVENPORT & June TABOR with FLOWERS & FROLICS rec "Empress of Russia" Islington London: FREE REED FRR-016 1977 aft "Grandfather's tune" & bef "Mickey Mouse's son & daughter"

HE PULLED A DAGGER - OXFORD GIRL

HE ROLLED HER TO THE WALL - CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN

HE SAID HE WAS FROM THE COUNTY TYRONE - imitating singing style of an old man -- Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072

HE STOOD IN A BEAUTIFUL MANSION - IF THOSE LIPS COULD ONLY SPEAK

HE THAT COURTS A PRETTY GIRL - COME LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING BOWL

HE THAT WILL AN ALEHOUSE KEEP -- DELLER CONSORT: VANGUARD SRL- 7624 1965

HE THAT WILL NOT MERRY MERRY BE - "Now since we've met, let's merry merry be" - Ch: "Let him be merry merry there, whilst we be merry merry here" - Drinking Song mentioning Bridewell (prison) - ROUD#1233 - Complete Coll 1735 i p137 - BELL EB 1856 p459 "The Merry Fellows" - UNIVERSAL SONGSTER 1 p46 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 p588 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp49-50 (Ms#119) Charlers Ascott, Meysey Hampton, Gloucestersh "Now so merry we have met" & p51 W Mills, South Cerney, Gloucestersh 5v/ch (w/o) "Now we've met" - see JFSS 19 1915 p216-20 note on other songs of this type - Cf COME LANDLORD -- Derek & Dorothy ELLIOTT: LEADER LER-2033 1972

HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE - SHORTY GEORGE

HE WAS SUCH A NICE YOUNG MAN - "If pity dwells within your breast - some sympathy pray spare" - Many BSs incl BG 4 #330 - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp131-4 (w/o) - COLE "Funniest Songbook" (c1890) p57

HE WAS UNDER MY WINDOW - I SIT AT MY WINDOW

HE WENT IN LIKE A LION - "It's after 12 - wife gets wild - she breaks record of HOME SWEET HOME" - Comic Song of Uneasy Wedlock -- Norman WOODLIEF (voc/gtr): LEADER LEE-4045 1975

HE WADNA WANT HIS GRUEL - GRAT FOR GRUEL

HE WHO WOULD VALIANT BE - PILGRIM'S HYMN

HE WRAPPED ME IN HIS COAT - DUNDEE WEAVER

HEAD A-NODDIN' - OLD GREY BEARD

HEAD WITHOUT SENSE - Irish Gaelic -- Colm KEANE rec by Seamus Ennis, Cashel, Co Galway 1960: RPL LP 29885

HEADINGTON - Oxford - KIMBER - MORRIS -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

HEADLESS CROSS, THE - ("Heidless") -- CORRIES: WAVERLEY 258-06-944/ CASS-60-0991

HEADLIGHT, THE - Clog Hornpipe - KERR MM 2 #390 p43 (Bb)

HEADS O VIGON, DA ("Heids") - Shetland Reel-time version of "Atholl Highlanders farewell to Loch Katrine" from Yell -- CULLIVOE Traditional Fiddle Band: TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 bef "Out an in da harbour" "Sleep soond in da mornin" "Speed the Plough" & "Square da Mizzen"

HEALING -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS, A - HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS

HEALTH TO THE LADIES - Jig (A) - ALLAN #29 p7 (A) "A Health to the ladies" - BOWEN p27 "Heart to the Ladies" - COLE #3 p56 "Irishman's heart to the ladies" - MOYLAN 2 #326 p186 "Sweet Biddy Daly" from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #1084/ DMI #278 "Sweet Biddy Daly"

HEALTH TO THE LADS - GU MA SLAN LE NA GILLEAN

HEALTH TO OUR MASTER - HERE'S A HEALTH TO OUR MASTER

HEAR THE NIGHTINGALES SING - NIGHTINGALES SING

HEARKEN - HARKEN

HEART OF A MAN IS WORN WITH LOVE, THE - Tunebook Ms "La Nature" (G) #180 p426

HEART OF FIRE, LOVE - "Son of Allan" - KENNEDY-FRASER: SOTH vol 2 1917 pp19-22 "M'eudail, Meudail, Mac 'ic Aileen" Air coll from Kirsty McKinnon, Eigg, Hebrides with Gaelic words & transl by Kenneth McLeod

HEART OF MY KITTY, THE - Jig - FELDMAN p99 (Am) from Simon Doherty Junr - KITTY'S RAMBLES

HEARTLESS LADY, THE - GYPSY LADDIE

HEARTS OF GOLD - "Twas plowing of the raging seas" - ROUD#2022 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp68-70 Ship's Log 1832 (w/o)

HEARTS OF OAK - "Come cheer up my lads tis to glory we steer" - Many BSs - Air: Tunebook Ms 4/4 (D) #77 p199 -- THE SHANTEYMEN: ALLEGRO ALL-879 1968 instrum bef "Tom Bowling" & "Lass who loves a sailor"

HEARTY GOOD FELLOW, THE - CARTER - PENNY WAGER

HEARTY LASSES O' SHIELDS - Hornpipe - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #77 p22 (A)

HEARTY POACHER, THE - WHILE GAMEKEEPERS LIE SLEEPING

HEATHEN DEAR, THE - "Tis night where strays my heathen dear" - savage yell - queen of night - ROUD#2041 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp151-2 Ship's log 1832 (w/o)

HEATHER(Y) BREEZE, THE - Reel (G) - ALLAN #61 p15 - BREATHNACH 2 #149 p79 (G) 3pts - GIBLIN #19 p17 (G) - KERR MM 4 #122 p15 4pts (G) "The Heathery Breeze" - O'NEILL DMI #779 (not in MOI) 3pts (G) - ROCHE 1 #143 (Em) -- Paul SWEENEY (fid) rec Belfast 28/8/43: RPL 6372 (78) - Sean MAGUIRE (fid) with brother (gtr) rec by Seamus Ennis, Irish Folklore Commission nd (1948): RPL 21833 bef "Boys of the Lough"/ RTE radio prog June 1988 CASS- 0984 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1952: RPL 19532/ FTX-273/ Also long track of 13 mins (not on RPL) / TOPIC 12-T-398 1984 - rec by PK Ceilidhe Club, London with Margaret Barry (banjo) & Tommy MAGUIRE (mel) 1957: 7"RTR-0497/ FTX-268 aft "The Mountain Road" - Michael GORMAN (fid) with Margaret BARRY (banjo): TOPIC 12-T-6 1958 & 12-T-123 1965 - Mary HAREN (conc) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29884 - THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 bef "St Anne's" & "Peeler's Jacket" - Paddy MALONEY & Sean POTTS (whistles) with Peadar MERCIER (bodhran) Clare: CLADDAGH CC-15 1974 aft "Murphy's" - Micho & Gussie RUSSELL (whistles) Clare: TOPIC 12-TS-251 1975 - John KELLY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 - Leo ROWSOME (U- pipes) rec Dublin 1937-8: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Boil the breakfast early" - Joe SNANNON (USA U-pipes) rec Clancy Summer School July 1986 RTE radio prog 1988 - Gerry WIMSEY (whistle): TOPIC TSCD-662 Sailors aft "Ships are sailing"

HEATHER BROWN - "Girl with red hair on the road to the hills - by the old iron mine" comp by GM 1963 -- Graeme MILES (v/gtr): FTX-221-C90

HEATHER - BRAES OF BALQUIDDER - LASS AMONG THE HEATHER - MY HEATHER HILLS - QUEEN AMONG THE HEATHER - WILD MOUNTAIN THYME-

HEATHER HILLS - Jig - KERR MM 4 #248 p27 (D)

HEATHER JOCK - " H J's noo awa" - poaching - cattle theft - transportation - ROUD#2339 - Bss - FORD VSB 1 1899 pp143-6 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #60 pp135-7 from Ford

HEATHER ON THE MOOR - QUEEN AMONG THE HEATHER

HEATHERY HILLS - "I mind it well and I say it yet - to keep my tryst with Rory" (mentions the river Clyde) - ROUD#5295 - see also MY HEATHER HILLS -- Brigid TUNNEY, rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: : 7"RTR-0553/ RPL 18528 talk bef/ FTX-163 (3v)

HEATHS OF LUNEBURG, THE - WAR GAMES - comp by Graeme MILES

HEAVE AND BUST HER - Sea Shanty - HUGILL SSS p142 Words sent to him (no tune)

HEAVE AND GO - "O row - heave and go" - JFSS 20 1916 p305 "What is in the pot a-boiling?" coll by Cecil Sharp at Stratford-on-Avon 1914 - he thought it to be a version of SALLY BROWN

HEAVE AWAY, BOYS, HEAVE AWAY - Sea Shanty - ROUD#616 - GRAINGER #164 Charles Rosher, Chelsea, London 1906 - HUGILL SSS 1961 p308 2var - Cf HAUL AWAY BOYS

HEAVE AWAY CHEERILY O - "O the wind is free and we're bound for sea - as off to the south'ard we go" - ROUD#932 - DAVIS-TOZER 1887 - JFSS 20 1916 p309 coll Piggott from Dartmouth 1912 "Off to the South'ard we'll go" --- HARLOW "Chanteying Aboard American Ships" 1962 pp43-6 "The wind is free and we're bound to sea"

HEAVE AWAY, MY JOHNNY (or JOLLY BOYS) - WE'RE ALL BOUND TO GO

HEAVE, MY BOYS (AWAY) - HUGILL SSS 1961 p528 -- JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC 269 1992 gift from Sean Laffey CASS-1280

HEAVE ON THE TRAWL - SMACKSMAN

HEAVEN TO BE NEAR THEE -- Gordon TYRALL (voc with own gtr) from Clare's poem "The Midsummer Cushion" (c.1820): PUNCH MUSIC PM-001 1993 "Song" ("Sweet the pleasures…..")

HEAVENLY AEROPLANE, THE - RANDOLPH Ozark 1946 4 - Cf THE LINE TO HEAVEN -- WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-346 1978

HEAVENLY BLISS - "Trouble overwhelms us in the world" - HENDERSON VSB 1937 p132 BSs

HEAVENLY KING - Shape-note Hymn -- SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS: ROUNDER 0094 1978

HEAVENLY MEETING - Shape-note Hymn -- SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS: ROUNDER 0094 1978

HEAVENLY RADIO STATION, THE -- STANLEY BROTHERS in concert CASS 0477

HEAVENLY SWEET HOME - "Sweet home, happy rest of the heart" Ch: "Home sweet home" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

HEAVING THE JACK - "Round, boys, round" - Quarry Song -- Stone Quarrymen, rec Portland, Dorset July 1951: COLUMBIA SL-206 - Jack STEWKESBURY rec by PK 20/10/54: RPL 22481/ FTX- 203 with talk about "Fleeting-up" and use of Portland "Jacks"

HEAVING OF THE LEAD, THE - Sea Song - BSs - Alec ROWLEY Piano Arr "Sailor Tunes" #11 p12

HEAVING OF THE LEAD, THE - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G) #43 p184

HEBREW - ISRAEL - JEWISH

HEBRIDEAN SEA-REIVER'S SONG, A - "Na reubairean" - "Hug-orin-o" - KENNEDY-FRASER: 1907: SOTH vol 1 pp118-9 Air from Penny McDonald, Eriskay, Old Gaelic words from Kenneth McLeod --- Alasdair FRASER rec 25/7/58: RPL LP 27307 - Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: 1398-C60/ FTX-264

HEBRIDES - CORACLE OF St BRENDAN - ERISKAY LOVE-LILT - GHOST SONG - GLEN OF SPELLS - GRAIL GALLEY - HEBRIDEAN SEA-REIVER'S SONG - HERD LADDIE - LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE - LURE OF THE FAIRY HILL - MILKING CROON - MORAR REAPER'S SONG - PEAT FIRE FLAME - POTATO LIFTIN' - PUTTING OUT TO SEA - REIVING RAPTURE - ROCKS O' RODEL - SEA LONGING - SEA SORROW - SEAGULL OF THE LAND-UNDER-WAVES - SHIP AT SEA - SLEEP, MY LITTLE LOVE - SPREADING THE SEA-WRACK - UIST TRAMPING SONG - TIREE TRAGEDY - WAULKING - WEAVIN LILT - WILD SWAN - Books by Marjory KENNEDY FRASER: - JEFDSS 1952 p112 Folk Dances contributed by Tom Flett - 1954 p182 -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

HECHOT, LE -- George De la MARE & ch rec by PK, Clair Val, St Saviours Jersey 24/4/60: RPL LP 26236/ FTX-244

HECKETTY PECKETTY - "Needles and pins - matrimony and sorrow begins" - ROUD#3459 - SHARP Ms (1 v only) - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p123 from broadsde "The Old Maids of 95"

HECKLERS - ROVING HECKLER LAD

HECKLER'S WIFE, THE - BANKS OF SKENE

HEDGE SCHOOLMASTERS, THE - TRAVELLING SCHOOLMASTERS

HEDGEHOG, THE - THREE HUNTSMEN

HEDGEHOG PIE - comp by Thomas Armstrong -- Johnny HANDLE (acc): TOPIC 12-T-122 1965 & 12-TPS-145 1966

HEDGER, THE - NOBLEMAN AND THE THRESHER

HEDGINER, THE - CAROLINE FROM EDINBURGH

HEDYDD BACH BEN BORE - (Ben Bore's Little Lark) -- John THOMAS, rec by Seamus Ennis, Corwen, Denbighsh 3/9/53: RPL 20190

HEEL AND TOE POLKA, THE - Untitled -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

HEELBALL - OLD HEELBALL

HEENAN AND SAYERS - "Come all you lovers of the fisticuff" - Boxing Match took place at Farborough, Hampsh 17th April 1860 between English champion, Tom Sayers (1826-1865) and American, John C Heenan, "The Benicia Boy" - Other broadsides are "Heenan and King", "Heenan and the Black", "Heenan the Irish Yankee" - LAWS#H-20 NAB 1950/64 p240 - ROUD#2148 - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p253 (A different ballad altogether using tune of DONNELLY AND COOPER) - HINDLEY Curiosities Div 3 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #321 pp704-5 Frank Hillier 1960 --- BECK Folklore of Maine p267 FINGER p48 - HUBBARD Utah 1961 p362 - RICKABY BSSB 1926 p177 (2 versions - Minnesota) - PETERS Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin 1977 p.254 "The Bold Benicia Boy" ("It was down in merrie England") - WARNER TAFS 1984 p61 Frank Galusha: "The British-American Fight" between John Bull & Uncle Sam ("It was in the merry England, the home of Johnny Bull") - see also other boxing ballads such as JOHN MORRISEY -- Frank HILLIER, rec by Michael Cowerd, Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset 1959 RTR-0881/ FTX-029 --- John GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Minerva, NY 1940: FTX-921 - Warren FAHY, Australia: LARRIKIN LRC- 028 cass

HEID, THE - see also under HEAD - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

HEIGH HO, NOBODY AT HOME - Round ? -- NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-011 1972

HEIGH HO OVER THE DITCHES - Jig - LEDVEY 2 #76 p34 (D)

HEIGH HO SING IVY - ACRE OF LAND

HEIGH HO - GRINDER (Triple Jig)

HEIGHTS OF ALMA, THE - BATTLE OF ALMA

HEIGHTS OF BALACLAVA, THE - BALACLAVA

HEIR OF LYNNE, THE - "Of all the lords in fair Scotland" - CHILD Ballad #267 - ROUD#111 - HERD A&MSS 1869/1973 2 pp289-295 GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p293 (3var) - --- DAVIS TBV pp479-481 -- Elizabeth ROBB #315/ 333-4, Alex ROBB #343-4 Alex ROBB rec on Dictaphone by James M. Carpenter, N.E.Scotland 1929-35 - Ewan MacCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-626 1956 from his mother, Betsy Miller

HELEN AND HER STEAMBOAT - "the Steamboat Belle - when Helen went to Heaven the Steamboat went to Hell - And that's the end of Helen and her rides rides rides" - Children's Clapping & Stamping Game -- rec by Damian Webb, 32/2 St Joseph's Juniors Castleford Yorksh 1975: FTX-196 #18

HELEN OF KIRKCONNEL - "O that I were where Helen lies" - ROUD #8191 - SMITH Scotish Minstrel 4 p20 - WHITELAW BSS 1845 p227 - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) -- CORRIES: WAVERLEY 258-06-944/ CASS-60-0991

HELEN THE FAIR - ELLEN THE FAIR

HELG YN DREEAN - HUNTING THE WREN

HELGHYA ARSCOTT A DETCOTT - Cornish - HUNTING OF ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT

HELLO CENTRAL, GIVE ME HEAVEN - "Papa I'm so sad and lonely" - ROUD#4336 - STOUT Fl from Iowa pp56-7 -- Carter Family (Trio), Camden NJ 8/5/34: BLUEBIRD B-5529-A/ 7"RTR-0313-4

HELLO HANS - Anti-war Song comp by Harvey Andrews about a German boy in a prisoner-of-war cemetry -- Tony CAPSTICK with HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER RUB-004 1971 - Mari LITTLE: LEADER LER-2094 1973

HELLO, HELLO "who's your lady friend -- THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-245 1974

HELLO, MARY LOU - comp by Gene Pitney -- SPREDTHICK rec by PK, Soundpost Studios, Dartington, Devon 1975

HELLO, SOMEBODY - HUGILL SSS 1961 p256

HELLO STRANGER -- Carter Family (trio) rec NY 17/6/37: DECCA 5479-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

HELP ONE ANOTHER, BOYS - "In this sensational century"- ROUD#12900 - BS - WILLIAMS #592

HELPRINGHAM - Lincolnshire -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

HELSTON - Cornwall - Custom with songs held annually on May 8th - CAN YOU DANCE THE FLORA? - HAL AN TOW - JOHN THE BONE - MAY SONG - -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

HELTA DANCE - Shetland fiddle tune -- Talk about tune by Tom Anderson RTR-1080/ CASS-0965

HELVICK GROVE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #56 p15 (D) 5pts - Tunebook Ms #132 p52 (G) 5pts alt: "Helvic Head" - O'NEILL MOI #1072/ DMI #274 5pts "Walk out of it, Hogan"

HEMAN DUBH - (Hemandu) -- Mrs Mc DONALD rec by Fred Macaulay, Shader, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides 1957: RPL LP 24444

HEN AND ALL HER BROTH, THE - MAGGIE IN THE WOOD (Polka)

HEN AND CHICKENS - American Reel -- THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-32 1971 with "Flop-Eared Mule"

HEN CACKLE - OLD HEN CACKLE

HEN FERCHETAN - (Old Maiden) - "...wedi colli 'i chariad" - from Gymdeithas Alawon Gwerin Cymru 1925 Enid Parry (Wyth Can Werin) -- Siwsann GEORGE (with other voices) & Robin Huw Bowen (triple harp): SAYDISC CD-SDL-406 1993 Caneuon Traddodiadol Cymru (Traditional Songs of Wales)

HEN FFON FY NAIN - (Grandmother's Old Stick) - Welsh -- Ben PHILLIPS "Ben Bach" rec by Seamus Ennis, Lochtwrffin, Mathry, Pembrokesh 17/10/52: RPL 20192/ FTX-052 - John THOMAS, Corwen, Denbighsh 9/11/54 & 8/12/66: FTX-051 - Tom EDWARDS (65) rec by PK, Bryneglwys, Corwen, Denbighsh 9/11/54: 7"RTR-1039/ RPL 22425

HEN GOBLER BACH DU - (Little Black Cobbler) -- John THOMAS, rec by PK, Corwen, Denbighsh 9/11/54 & 8/12/66

HEN LADI FOWR BENFELEN - (A Buxom Old Blonde) - Welsh Seduction Ballad with "mowing the meadow" imagery to well-known "Ton y Melinydd" (Miller's Tune) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #63 -- Ben Phillips, rec by Seamus Ennis & Emrys Cleaver, Lochtwrffin, Pembrokesh 17/10/52: RPL 19069/ FTX-005 & FTX-052

HEN WLAD FY NADHAU - (Land of My Fathers) -- Choir & company at Nationa Eisteddfod 3/8/48: RPL 13202

HEN WR MWYN, YR - (The Gentle Old Man) - "Ple buoch chi neithiwr yr hen wr mwyn"- variant of LORD RANDAL - Welsh - JWFSS 1910 I pt2 #10-11 pp81-4 & JWFSS 1956-7 V pt1 p18 - BENNETT 1896 p84 - GWYNN WILLIAMS 1961 #19-20 pp26-7 (2var) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #64 coll Emrys Cleaver from Mrs Gaerwen Jones, Cerrig-y-drudion, Denbighshire - see LORD RENDAL - MY GOOD OLD MAN -- Emrys CLEAVER & Francis MON JONES (unaccomp) 8/9/53: RPL 20198 - Emrys CLEAVER 1954: FTX-005 - Emrys JONES, Cerrig-y-drudion 1955: RPL LP 26555 (won 1st prize at Pwllheli Bat Eisteddfod) - Siwsann GEORGE (voc) with Robin Huw Bowen (Celtic Harp): SAYDISC CD-SDL-406 1993 Caneuon Traddodiadol Cymru (Traditional Songs of Wales) from Kennedy FSBI

HENS - see also CHICKENS - ROOSTERS - CUCKOLD' CAP - MICKEY MACKEY HAD A HEN (K)

HEN'S CONCERT or HEN'S MARCH O'ER THE MIDDEN, THE - Descr piece - ROUD#13044 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1664 (1v/m) ("Tick tick tickalairy") - Tunebook Ms (D) #79 p165 "The Hen's Concert" - PHILLIPS FCTB p26 (from Dave Swarbrick: POLYDOR Special 236-514)-- Tom ANDERSON (fid) rec Lerwick Shetland 21/12/50: RPL 17008/ COLUMBIA SL-207 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998/ FTX-068 - Talk about tune by Tom Anderson RTR#1080/ CASS#0965 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Carrick Co Donegal 1953: FTX-370/ rec by David Hammond, Co Donegal 1975: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 - Elizabeth STEWART (piano) rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeen 1955: FTX-069 - Dave SWARBRICK (fid): ELEKTRA BY-6030 1967/ with Simon NICOL Radio 2: 4/3/87: CASS#0408 - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER- 2030 1971

HEN'S SCHOTTISCHE, THE - MAGGIE PICKENS

HENCHY'S DELIGHT - Jig - MITCHELL #104 (Am/G) "Unknown" from Willie Clancy - O'NEILL MOI #1032 2pts & DMI #215 (G) 3pts "Hinchy's Delight" - SHASKEEN 2 #39 p28 -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute) Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 [?] (S)

HENEBRY, Rev H. - "Handbook of Irish Music" publ by Cork Univ Press 1928 - presented hy PK to the EFDSS Library in 1952 (VWML No 2392) now a missing book. Contains theories about the natural scale used by Irish fiddlers.

HENNIGAN'S FAVOURITE JIG - like a Scots March - MOYLAN 2 #181 pp104-5 (A) from John O Leary (melodeon)

HENNESSY'S HORNPIPE - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #813 (G)

HENRY AND MARY ANN - HENRY CONNOR

HENRY AND NANCY - "As I roved out one morning in the springtime of the year" - ROUD #1539 - Broadsides titled "Henry & Nancy or The Lover's Parting" - JFSS 4:15 1910 p84 RVW: Mr Hilton South Walsham, Norfolk 1908 "Lovely on the Water"- PALMER 1983 RVW #66 pp104-6 Mr Hilton (verses added from Harkness bs) - Cf FAREWELL NANCY -- STEELEYE SPAN: B & C CAS-1029 1971/ CREST-17 1974 & STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977 - Frankie ARMSTRONG (voc/conc): TOPIC 12-TS-216 1972

HENRY AND RUTH - SEAMAN OF DOVER

HENRY BOHANNON AND THE FAIRY PIPER - Story -- Seamus ENNIS: FTX-302

HENRY CONNORS - "Come all you loyal lovers a tale I will unfold" - "My name is HC from sweet Castledawson" (Co Derry) - falls in love with his master's daughter - helped by the girl's mistress they plan to marry and go to Scotland but the father plants evidence that Henry is a thief and has him apprehended, gaoled & transported - LAWS #M-5 BBBA 1957 p182 "Henry Connors" - ROUD#2284 - HENRY SOP #128/ MOULDEN pp69-70/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp440-1 Mary Getty, Coleraine, Co Derry 1924/ John M O'Keenan & others, Castledawson. Co Derry 1926 14v/m "H the sailor boy" --- GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p191 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 pp899-900 Allan Hoven, Nfl 1952 "Young H" - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p73 Angelo Dornan 1954-60 "My Mary Anne" - LIVYERE June 1983 pp12-13 Kenneth Goldstein & Aidan O Hara: Carrie Brennan Nfl "Henry & Maryann" -- ERIN'S LOVELY HOME -- Paddy Mc CLUSKEY rec by PK, Clough Mills, Co Antrim 5/8/53: RPL 20033/ FTX-377 (1v only) learned from his father

HENRY GARDINER'S WALTZ - Tunebook Ms (D) 3pts #96 p486

HENRY HALL - CINDERELLA AT THE BALL (Children)

HENRY HUNT - WITH HENRY HUNT WE'LL GO

HENRY JOY McCRACKEN - "It was on the Belfast mountains I heard a maid complain" comp P J McCall - ROUD#3008 - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp120-1 -- McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5258 1965

HENRY LEE - YOUNG HUNTING

HENRY McDERMOTT ROE - Instrum Air - CRANITCH #101 p168 3/4 (G)

HENRY MARTIN - "There lived in Scotland three brothers - cast lots to sae who should go robbing the sea" - CHILD Ballad #(167)/ #250 "Henry Martyn" (5var) incl BG, one is called "Andrew Bartin" - ROUD#104 - BSs incl SBG 9:#141 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp29-32 Wm Cheetham, Horsforth, Yorksh & Flamborough, Yorksh (notes on song) - BARING GOULD SOW 1898 #52 (a) Roger Luxton, Halwell (b) Matthew Baker, Lew Down (Final verse in Orig Ed probably added by SBG so that pirate was not victorious/ not in Rev Ed) - SBG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp52-3 Roger Luxton - BG-SHARP Schools 1906 - SHARP- MARSON FSSS 1904 2 pp6-9 Lucy White, Hambridge, Som - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp30-31 & p117 Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 (notes on song & singer) "Salt Seas" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 2 pp6-9 Lucy White, Hambridge, Somerset - SHARP Sel Ed 1 1921 pp1-3 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp184-192 James Bale, Bridgwater, Som 1905/ James Hill, Dunmow, Essex 1912 1v/m/ Jack Barnard, Bridwater, Som 1906/ Mrs Rapsey, Bridgwater, Som 1906 1v/m/ Hugh Barratt, Cannington, Som 1906 (m/o)/ Mrs Mary Anne Ash, Cannington, Som 1906 1v/m/ George Say, Axbridge, Som 1908 1v/m/ Thomas Hendy, Ilminster, Som 1904 1v/m/ Henry Reed, Axbridge, Som 1908 1v/m/ Mrs Ellen Plumb, Armscote, Warwicksh 1911 (m/o)/ Robert Parish, Exford, Som 1907 (m/o)/ Capt Lewis, Minehead, Som 1907 - JFSS 1:2 1900 p44 Lucy Broadwood: Sussex (m/o) - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp162-3 Broadwood: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 - JFSS 2:4 (15) 1910 pp92-93 Priscilla Wyatt-Edgell: Mr Venton, Pynes, Exeter, Devon 1908 - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp301-3 Butterworth: Mr Hillman, Shoreham, Sussex/ RVW: Mr Verrall, Horsham & Mr Miles, Rusper, Sussex 1v/m/ Mr Miles, Rusper, Sussex 1908 (m/o)/ Hammond: Joseph Taunton, Corscombe, Dorset (m/o) - GRAINGER Ms #369 Septimus Lowe, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1908 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp78-9 James Shilton, Lechlade, Gloucestersh & Ms #117 Henry Shilton (w/o) - KIDSON FSNC 1927 - JFSS 8:34 1930 pp182-6 Hammond: William Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset (m/o)/ J Pomeroy, Bridport, Dorset (m/o)/ Kidson TT (1v/m) - SEEGER- McCOLL SI 1960 #47 p54 Sam Larner (with corrected text) "Lofty Tall Ship" - O SHAUGHNESSEY YB1 1975 pp43-44 & pp79-80 Grainger Cyl #71-3 Septimus Lowe, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1908 - ED&S 38:1 1976 Gwilym Davies: Jack Oakley, Steep, Hampsh 1973 6v/m "H Morton" - PALMER EBB 1980 #57 pp131-2 Phil Tanner 1937 (by permission of FOLKTRAX) "Young HM" --- SHARP FSSA 1917 ii #6 - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp61 & p394 "Bolender M" - BARRY Maine 1929 - EDDY Ohio 1939 - FLANDERS & OLNEY 1953 Ballads Migrant in New England pp.72-74 - FLANDERS Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England #4 pp5-44 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp177-8 Bruce Evans, Mo 1934 "Andrew Bardeen" - DAVIS Va 1960 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp32-33 Milas A Wakefield, Utah 1948 w/m "Andrew Bardean" - KARPELES FSN 1971 p103-6 Jos C Jackman, Patrick Bishop & John Neville Nfl 1929-30 - PETERS FSOW 1977 pp107-8 Fred Bainter, Wisc 1923 "There were once three brothers" -- Phil TANNER rec by Maud Karpeles, Gower, S Wales 1937 COLUMBIA-RO CA-16052 (78 rpm)/ CAEDMON TC-1146/ TOPIC 12-T-161/ FTX-057/ EFDSS LP- 1005 1968 - Bob ROBERTS (unacc) rec by PK, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1953: RPL 19986 talk bef/ FTX-047 & FTX-503 (cassette only) "Bold HM" - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: RPL LP 26075/ FTX-139/ rec by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger: FOLKWAYS FG-3507/ TOPIC 12-T-244 1974/ TSCD-662 Sailors "The Lofty Tall Ship" - A L LLOYD: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-627 1956 Butterworth, Sussex - Tony WALES (with gtr) 7"RTR-0089 dub from FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 (from C.Potter) - Jimmie MACGREGOR (voc/gtr) with Vic PITT (d/bass) rec by PK, London: EMI CLP 1362 1960/ FTX-093 - Bert JANSCH: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-143 1966- Cyril TAWNEY: POLYDOR Special 236- 577 1969 (Devon from JFSS) - Tom GILFELLON: LEADER LER-2079 1972 - John WRIGHT: TOPIC 12-TS-348 1978 from Tanner --- Warde H FORD, rec Calif 1938: AAFS L57 - Pamela MORGAN with FIGGY DUFF (Newfoundland F/ Group) Radio 2 19/1/89: CASS-15-0695

HENRY MY SON - LORD RANDAL

HENRY OF THE RAGING MAIN - YOUNG HENRY

HENRY STEWART - "Our gallant captain to us did say" - Scottish shore - ROUD#2773 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p204 Angelo Dornan 1954- 60 2v/m

HENRY THE FIFTH AND THE KING OF FRANCE -- "As our King lay musing upon his bed" - DIXON SOP 1846 words only from Francis King, a Skipton minstrel sung to tune of "Robin Hood and the Bold Pedlar" - BELL SOP (as DIXON) - BARING GOULD GCS - CHILD #164

HENRY THE POACHER (or HENRY'S DOWNFALL) - "Come all you wild and wicked youths wherever you may be " - transported to Van Dieman's Land for poaching - ROUD#221 - BSs also called "Young Henry the Poacher" ("YHTP") SBG 5:#176/ 8:#37 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp129-130 1v/m "YHTP" - JFSS 2 1906 pp166-7 RVW: Mr Anderson, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1905 "YHTP" - GRAINGER #240 Mr Burman, Redbourne, Lincolnsh 1906 "YHTP" - REEVES EC 1960 #91 p189 coll Gardiner "Me and Five More" - PALMER SOM 1972 pp73-4 Russell Bs Birmingham (w) & Sharp: Mr Gibbs (m), Evesham, Worcestersh 1909 - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp112- 113 Gardiner: Thomas Jones (w), Portsmouth, Hampsh & Hammond: George Hatherhill (m), Bath, Somerset "YHTP" - FMJ 1976 p161-4 Roy Palmer on broadsheet versions with ref to 1828 Poaching Act - RICHARDS-STUBBS 1979 p194-5 from Walter Pardon - PALMER 1983 #57 p91 coll RVW Norfolk Mr Anderson "YHTP" - see also POACHER'S FATE - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND -- Edwin THOMAS, rec by PK, Allerford, Somerset 3/5/52: RPL LP 23622/ FTX-405 - Harry COX, rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1/12/53/ rec 19/7/56: RPL LP 22914/ rec by Ewan McColl 1955: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 "The Transports" - Frank HINCLIFFE rec by Mike Yates with Ruairidh & Alvina Greig, Sheffield: TOPIC 12-TS-308 1977/ ROOT & BRANCH #1 EFDSS 1999 "Wild & Wicked Youths"

HENRY THE SAILOR BOY - HENRY CONNOR

HENRY'S COTTAGE MAID - "O pretty miss Will you Wed ? - Nancy - Henry - Ch: "Fal le dal" - ROUD#1436 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1970 p501-2 Mr Hoskyns, Rackenford, Devon 1904/ Wm Lockyer, Middlezoy, Som 1906 1v/m

HENRY'S COTTAGE MAID - Tunebook Ms - 6/8 (G) (duet arr) #116 pp216-7

HENRY'S DOWNFALL - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND

HENRY'S FANCY JIG - BUNG YOUR EYE

HENRY'S HORNPIPE - 1 - Tunebook Ms (G) #4 p86 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #78 p23 (A)

HENRY'S HORNPIPE - 2 - Tunebook Ms (D) #40 p104 similar to CORN RIGS

HENRY'S No 1 -- John HENRY (fid) rec by PK, Ballymote, Co Sligo 14/6/64: large Studio reel/ CASS-30-0963/ 7"RTR-0497/ FTX-153

HENRY'S SCOTCH REEL - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #61 p17 (G) alt: "Master Henry's Reel" - Tunebook Ms (G) #131 p314

HER BRIGHT SMILE HAUNTS ME STILL - "It's been a year since last we met" Ch: "Midnight on the seas" - comp by W T Wrighton (w) & J E Carpenter (m) in 1864 - ROUD#4353 - Many BSs incl BG 2 #216 --- CHAPPLE & CONCORD p165 - COLCORD SAS (Oak ed) pp161-2 - WARNER 1984 #157 p157 -- Mrs Eleazar TILLETT & Mrs Martha ETHERIDGE, her sister, rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Wanchese, Roanoke, NC USA 1951: FTX-926/ APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 (used as title of the CD) - O J ABBOTT rec by Edith Fowke, Hull, Quebec, Canada 1958 & John Heffernan, Peterborough, Ontario 1962

HER EYES ARE RED, HER LIPS ARE BLUE - "Doodah - and she could go the whisky too" - Kids song parody to CAMPTOWN RACES or SACRAMENTO -- Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959

HER FATHER'S CLERK - SLENDER THREAD OF LIFE

HER FATHER'S COACHMAN - LITTLE PENKNIFE

HER FATHER'S SERVANT MAN - DAUGHTER IN THE DUNGEON - MACINTYRE - SLENDER THREAD - LITTLE PENKNIFE

HER GOLDEN HAIR WAS HANGING DOWN HER BACK -- Douglas FOWELL (mel) & Brian GRIMLEY (triangle) rec by PK, Abbots Bromley, Staffs 6/9/54: RPL 21149/ FTX-110 - WINTLE Street Piano rec 1955: FTX-300

HER HAIR HUNG DOWN IN RINGELETS - ROVING KIND

HER MANTLE SO GREEN - MANTLE SO GREEN

HER SERVANT MAN - DAUGHTER IN THE DUNGEON

HERCHARD OF TAUNTON DENE - RICHARD OF TAUNTON DENE

HERD LADDIE, THE - ILLE RUNAIC (Hebridean)

HERD LADDIE, THE - "O for the innocent days I hae seen" seduces Jeannie hiding nearby - sung to tune of HILLS OF GLENORCHY/ BONNY STRATHYRE - ROUD#5594 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #429 (7var) - comp Wm Scott of Fetterangus, Aberdeensh

HERD LADDIE O' THE GLEN - comp by Willie Scott, Border shepherd, to the tune Bonny Strathyre as tribute to a dead friend whose funeral he had missed - ROUD#5128 -- Willie SCOTT: TOPIC 12-T-183 1968

HERD ON THE HILL - comp by Tom Clough for N-pipes -- John HEPPLE (N-pipes) with his father, George HEPPLE (fid) rec by PK, Haltwhistle, Northumb 1/7/54: RPL 20627 aft "Mallorca" & bef "Deil among the Tailors"/ TOPIC 12-T-283 1976 - Colin CAISLEY & Foster CHARLTON (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-227 1974 - Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-501 1974 aft "Derwentwater's Farewell" & "Jimmy Allen"

HERDING -see also COWHERDS & SHEPHERDS -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

HERDING LAMBS AMONG THE HEATHER - QUEEN AMONG THE HEATHER

HERDING SONG, THE - AMHRAN FOSUIOCHTA

HERDING THE CALVES - SEOLADH NA nGAMHNA

HERDSMAN'S DAUGHTER, THE - NIGHEAN A BHUACHAILLE BHOCHD (Manx Gaelic)

HERE AROUND THE HUGE OAK - "'ere around the huge oak that overshadows yon mill" ivy - ruined church - grandfather - WILLIAMS FSUT p83 from Henry Cook, Arlington, Glos (words only) - NEATH THE OAK IN THE GARDEN (Harry Scott)

HERE AND THERE - "Hither and Thither" (Dandling) - ANONN S'ANALL

HERE AWA, THERE AWA - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (Em) #121 p218 - McGIBBON p108 & other Scots collections

HERE COMES A BLUEBIRD - BLUEBIRD

HERE COMES A DUKE/ GYPSIES A-RIDING - DUKES A-RIDING

HERE COMES A POOR WIDOW - "she's left alone - she has no money to marry upon" - Kids Ring Game with window in centre & kissing - Cf "Widow of Babylon" in CHAMBERS: Popular Rhymes -- rec by James Ritchie, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 20/5/49: RPL 13868 (78)

HERE COMES A RUSSIAN JEW -- Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 27/6/55: FTX-365

HERE COMES Mr MACARONI - MACARONI (K)

HERE COMES POOR JACK - "a-howling" - ROUD#209 - GILLINGTON OCCSC 1910 pp22-3 Surrey - Begging Song cf NEEDLECASES

HERE COMES A LITTLE BLUEBIRD - BLUEBIRD

HERE COMES THE BRIDE - SALLY WAS A NAUGHTY GIRL

HERE COMES THE NURSE - "with a red hot poultice - dabs it on and takes no notice" incl "Goodbye to Dr Fletcher" -- Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 Salford as a child

HERE COMES THREE SAILORS - "three by three to court your daughter, fair lady - and down by the door we bend our knee - can we have lodging here?" - Kids Courting game - OPIE SG 1985 pp 109-113

HERE COMES TOMMY WITH HIS TAMBOURINE - NIGHT WAS DARK

HERE I AM AMONGST YE - Nonsense Song -- Joe HOLMES & Len GRAHAM: TOPIC 12-TS-401 1979

HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL GOOD LASSES - "Let the bumper toast go round" "pass the jug around" - ROUD#1235 - BSs - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p52 #341 Robert King, Castle Eaton, Wilts (w/o) "Here's a health to King George" - GUNDRY: Canow Kernow p49 (2 v) -- Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-154 1967 "Padstow Drinking Song" (coll from David Cooper, nr Padstow 1966)

HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL HUNTERS - "On a fine hunting morn" -- Barry Bridgwater rec by David Bland, Dunford Bridge, Yorkshire (a member of HOLME VALLEY BEAGLES): LEADER LEE-4056 1975

HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS - ROUD#859 - (CHILD#248 & ROUD#179) - BSs incl BG 6 #260 - UNIVERSAL SONGSTER 3 p326 - HENRY SOP #580 "Farewell darling" - - ORD BB 1930 p89 "Hearken ladies I will tell you" - REEVES EC 1960 179 coll Hammond, Dorset "Love it is pleasin'" - SEEGER- McCOLL SI 1960 p24 "Here's a health to all truelovers" from tinkers at Blairgowrie - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #159 p359 Jimmy McKee, Armagh --- CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p63 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p136 "Love is pleasin' coll Jean Ritchie from an Irish girl in New York - see GREY COCK - I AM A ROVER - LIGHT OF THE MOON - LOVE IS TEASING - RIPEST APPLES -- Jimmy McKEE, rec by PK, Armagh 10/7/52: RPL 18410/ FTX-015 & FTX-431 - Mary DORAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 24/7/52: RPL 18304 "Here's a H" - Willie MATHIESON, rec by Seamus Ennis, Turriff, Aberdeensh 16/7/52: RPL 18789 "I'm a rover, seldom sober" - Belle STEWART rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1961

HERE'S A HEALTH (UN)TO HIS MAJESTY - comp by Jeremiah Saville 1660 when Charles II was called back from exile in Holland -- ALBION Morris Men (with A-conc, elec gtr, drums): TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974

HERE'S A HEALTH TO JOLLY BACCHUS - Action Drinking Song - D'URFEY 1698-1720 1 & 3 p274 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 1 p117 "I am the Duke of Norfolk" or "St Paul's Steeple" (title in Playford) - also tune of "There was a bonny blade" (Dumb, dumb, dumb)

HERE'S A HEALTH TO KING GEORGE - "Come, come, my brave boys, let's be merry and free" - ROUD#1232 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p49 #97 L Couling, Kempsford, Gloucestersh 3v (w/o)

HERE'S A HEALTH TO MY MOLLY - LOVELY MOLLY

HERE'S A HEALTH TO OUR MASTER - "the founder of the feast" - Ch: "Drink, boys, drink" - Harvest Action Drinking Song - ROUD#310 DEAN SMITH: GUIDE: "Harvest Healths (iv)" - AKERMAN Wiltshire Tales 1753 - DIXON SP 1846 - BELL SP 1857 - LONG DIOW 1886 p112 Isle of Wight - LOWSLEY: "Glossary of Berkshire Words & Phrases 1888 p1 - BARRETT EFS 1891 #7 pp12-13 "Harvest Home Song"- BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp150-1 Mrs Squarey, Downton, Wiltsh "Harvest Song" Downton, Wiltsh with a note about carrying candles to light up the Mistress - see JFSS 3 p66 for a note on similar Harvest Songs - JFSS 6 1918 p15 Keel: John Keene, Thursley, Surrey 1913 "Master's Corn" - JFSS 7 1923 pp90-91 Hammond: Wm Miller, Wooton Fitzpaine,1v/m)/ Joseph Taunton, Corscombe, Dorset 1906 1v/m "A Health to Master Shepherd and Herds" - HAGGARD IWBM 1935 p86 Norfolk ("When ale was drunk out of doors") Norfolk c1935 (a) "In yon green wood there lies an old fox" (b) "Here's health unto our master" (c) "Now harvest is ended and supper is past" - WILLIAMS Ms #591 "Harvest Home Healths" - HARVEY BSR East Anglia 1936 p41 "Harvest Home Song" with notes about actions "Drink boys drink and see you do not spill" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #21 pp47-8 from Barrett - see HARVEST SONGS - SHEEPSHEARING TOAST -- Johnny COLLINS & friends: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-014 1973 (Broadwood) - Shirley COLLINS & group: DECCA SML 1117 [1974]/ (with conc): TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974 & 12-TS-380 1975

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE COMPANY - "and one to my lass" - ROUD#1801 - SHIELDS SRT 1981 p89 Lizzie O Hara, Glack, Co Derry 1969

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE FARMER - GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE JOLLY BLACKSMITH - TWANKYDILLO

HERE'S A POOR WIDOW - WIDOW FROM BABYLON (K)

HERE'S A SONG TO THE OAK - BRAVE OLD OAK

HERE'S ADIEU - ADIEU

HERE'S ADIEU TO ALL TRUELOVERS - ADIEU TO BOGIESIDE - GHOST OF WILLIE-O - GREY COCK - HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS - LIGHT OF THE MOON - YOUNG ALLAN

HERE'S APRIL AND MAY - JOLLY PLOUGHBOYS

HERE'S AWAY TO THE DOWNS - "Now my brave boys" - Hunting Song - downs - Diana - Cupid - Flora etc - ROUD#1243 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p65-66 #39 George Ash, Ampney Crucis, Gloucestersh 6v (w/o) from shepherd who learned it off an old morris dancer near Cirencester

HERE'S CUTTING AND CONTRIVING - COBBLER'S BILL

HERE'S FIRST TO THOSE FARMERS - "who do sell the corn" - ROUD#816 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p104 #25 Alfred Smith, Watchfield, Berks 6v (w/o) - Cf verses of RIGS OF THE TIME

HERE'S GOOD HARVEST, ME BOYS - comp by GM -- Graeme MILES: 230

HERE'S LUCK TO ALL MY COCKS AND HENS - COCKS AND HENS

HERE'S LUCK TO THE MAN - Toast --Jim & Wally FULLER (gypsies), rec by PK, Laughton, Lewes, Sussex 1952: FTX-140

HERE'S LUCK TO THE SWAN - "that crosses yonder brook" - poor - poor man's wife" - Toast - ROUD#1255 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p106 (no source given) (& Round About the Upper Thames pp300-1)

HERE'S MY SISTER, BETSY - TIME TO BE MADE A WIFE

HERE'S OLD BOB RIDLEY COME AGAIN - BOB RIDLEY-O

HERE'S ONE - Spiritual -- Pamela WARRICK-SMITH (v/ cello/ ch) GREENHAYS GR-90721 1990 CASS-0798 from her mother, Dorothy

HERE:S SUCCESS TO MR PLIMSOLL - PLIMSOLL

HERE'S THE MAN A-COMING - "In Lunnon town each day strange sayings will be springing" - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp175-6 (w/o)

HERE'S THE TENDER COMING - "pressing all the men - for the man-of- war" - Tyneside Pressgang Song - ROUD#3174 - BRUCE-STOKOE - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 p177 - WHITTAKER NCB - TERRY SSB 1931 (2v) - LLOYD FSE 19867 (2v) -- Johnny HANDLE (V/mel) RPL 21567 - Dave BURLAND: LEADER LER-2029 1971 - Frankie ARMSTRONG (unacc): TOPIC 12-TS-223 1973

HERE'S TO GOOD OLD - cider etc -- TROTTO: FOREST TRACKS FT-6003 1973 (S)

HERE'S TO MY/ THE GROG - ALL FOR THE GROG

HERE'S TO THE LADS - Rugby Song comp by GM 1961 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-227

HERE'S TO THE LADS AT THE FISHIN' AN' TRAWLIN' -- Robin HALL & Jimmie MacGREGOR: FONTANA TL-5296

HERE'S TO THE LAST TO DIE - About Indian Wars, written during cholera epidemic and sung during the mutiny -- Martin WYNDHAM- READ with THE DRUIDS: ARGO ZDA-147 1971

HERE'S TO THE MAIDEN - Jig - BALMORAL p30 (G) - HAYWOOD #9 p9 (D) KERR MM 3 #403 p44 (G)

HERE'S TO THE NOSE - "and up it goes"- Toast - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #566 "The Snuffer's Toast"

HERE'S TO YE A' - NEW YEAR TOAST

HERE'S TO YOU - TOM BROWN

HERE'S TWO OR THREE JOLLY BOYS - PACE-EGGING SONGS

HERE, MOWER, TAKE MY SHINERS BRIGHT - RECRUITING SERGEANT

HERE SITS A MONKEY - "in the chair chair chair - she lost all the trueloves she had last year - so rise upon your feet and greet the first you meet - the prettiest girl I know" - cow - elephant - hippopotamus -- "American Folksongs for Children" Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 CASS-1225-6

HERE WE ARE AGAIN - "happy as can be" -- THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-245 1974

HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING - WASSAIL SONG

HERE WE COME GATHERING - NUTS IN MAY (K)

HERE WE GO - LOOBY LOO (K)

HERE WE GO GATHERING - NUTS IN MAY (K)

HERE WE GO ROUND - MULBERRY BUSH (K)

HERE WE GO UP - UP AND DOWN AGAIN (Triple Jig)

HEREFORDSHIRE -- ARCHIE MEAD (Rooke) - BREAKDOWN - DIED FOR LOVE - LEDBURY PARSON - ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP - TO HEREFORD OLD TOWN - see Ella LEATHER - Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

HEREFORDSHIRE BREAKDOWN, THE -- Beatrice Hill (mel) rec by PK, Bromsberrow Heath 1952: FTX-115

HERMIT, THE - "There once was a hermit who lived in a dell" covered his nakedness with hat and girls begged to see it but it wasn't until he swiped at a knat that they were rewarded -"twas a miracle" -- Mike SHAIL (v/gtr/bass): 127

HERMIT, THE - SHEPHERD AND HIS FIFE

HERMIT OF ESKDALESIDE, THE - "It was in about the May Day time when the white flowers sweetly die - Guisboro - wild boar hunting -- Vin GARBUTT (gtr): LEADER LER-2102 1976 (d/tracked)

HERMIT OF KILLARNEY, THE - Song Air - Tunebook Ms (D) 2/4 #41 p183 - O'NEILL MOI 116 altern title: "When war was heard"

HERMITAGE, THE - Jig -- THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-222 1973 for "The Sylph" dance

HERO ELECTION BALLAD #4 -- SILLY WIZARD: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1158 1976

HERO REWARDED, THE - BOLD LIEUTENANT IN THE LION'S DEN

HEROD AND THE COCK - CARNAL AND THE CRANE - ST STEPHEN AND HEROD

HEROES OF OLD - Calypso -- "The Lion" (Decca) -- - West Indies Broadcast recs for PK: RTR-0445/ CD 945

HERRING GIBBERS, THE - "Come all you jolly young fellows and listen to my song" - ROUD#667 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 pp132-5 Mrs Freeman Bennett 1958/ Joshua Osborne 1960 Nfl/ 3 pp750-1 Martin Devau, Nfl 1959 "Hurling down the Pine"

HERRING'S HEAD, THE - "What'll you do with the herring's head?" - ROUD#128 - RYMOUR Club 1906 2 p52 Thomas Fraser, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightsh (w/o) "The Soo's ta'en the measles" ("What will we mak' o' the auld soo's heid?") - BARING GOULD Ms #194 (a) James Olver, Launceston, Cornwall HFS 1890 (b) James Masters, Bridestowe HFS 1891 (c) Words from Lucky Fewins, South Zeal (J D Prickman) "The HH" - SHARP Novello School Series vol 3 "The Red H" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #345 pp436-9 Alfred Emery, Othery, Som 1908/ John Trump, North Petherton, Som 1906 - JFSS 5:20 1916 pp283-6 Sharp: Louie Hooper, Hambridge, Som 1904/ Mr Trump/ Mr Chapman, Old Cleeve, Som 1906 (note by Lucy Broadwood on ritual origins) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p167 "Jolly Red H" various sources (w/o) - Essex Review 51 July 1942 pp124-5 Alfred Hills (w/o) - REEVES IOP 1958 #79 p179 Sharp: Louis Hooper, Hambridge, Som 1904 (w/o) - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 pp86-87 Sharp: Mr Trump "The Red H" - REEVES 1960 #110 (BG): J D Prickman (c): Lucky Fewins, South Zeal, Devon - HOLST-VAUGHAN WILLIAMS YOL 1961 #5 pp6-7 Ted Nevill, Little Bursted, Essex 1904 7v/m "The Jolly Harin'" - JEFDSS 1961 p79 Blackman version transcr by Michael Bell - GUNDRY 1966 p24-5 SBG: James Olver, Launceston, Cornwall 1890 - HAMER GG 1967 pp16-17 Harry Scott, Eaton Bray, Bedfordsh "Jolly H" - PURSLOW WS 1968 p52 Hammond: George Hatherill, Bath, Somerset 1906 - PALMER SOM 1972 pp5-6 Wm Prattinton Ms: Alderman Slayney, Bewdley, Worcestersh 1831 (tune by editor) - HAMER GGr 1973 pp23-4 Mr & Mrs Hall, Bedfordsh - ED&S 36:1 1974 p19 Joy Hyman: Herbert Chapman, Great Dunmow, Essex "The Yarmouth H" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #296 p651 Seamus Ennis, Dublin 1949 ("The Old man from Kinsale") - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp339-41 Carolyne Hughes - PALMER EBECS 1979 #138 p227-8 Mike Yates: John Doughty, Brighton, Sussex 1976 - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p75 from Pop Hingston, Dittisham, Devon - GARDHAM ERS 1982 p7 Alan Grey/ Ethel Grinsdale, Aldbrough, Yorks 1972 "Bolliton Sands" - OCCOMORE & SPRATLEY B&B 1979 pp21-2 Essex Review (w/m) - PALMER 1983 coll RVW #26 p43 - HOWSON SSIS 1992 p36 Ted Chaplin, Mellis, Suffolk (w/o) --- FUSON BKH 1930 p185 "What will we do with the OLD SOW'S HEAD?" -- Seamus ENNIS rec Dublin, 1949: RPL 13775/ rec by PK 1959: FTX-027 with banjo/ harmonica & whistle) (6v)/ FTX-079 - Mrs JOHNS, rec by PK, Kelly, Lifton, Devon, 1950 - Bill WESTAWAY rec by PK, Belstone, Devon 1952: RPL 17794 - Ted LAMBOURNE rec by Seamus Ennis, North Marston, Bucks 1952: RPL 18139 - Harry KNIGHT, rec by PK, Laughton, Sussex, 1952: RPL 18715 talk bef - Richard BLACKMAN rec by Bob Copper, Arundel, Sussex, 1954: RPL 22736/ CAEDMON TC 1225/ TOPIC 12-T-198/ FTX-427 - Edgar ALLINGTON, rec by PK, Brandon, Suffolk 1955: RPL LP 23622 (cumulative) - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1955: RPL 22025 (with talk) frag - Ben BAXTER rec by SE, Southrepps, Borfolk 1955: RPL 22022/ FTX-234 - Phoebe SMITH, rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: CAEDMON TC 1225/ TOPIC 12-T-198/ FTX-100/ rec by Mike Yates: VETERAN VT136CD 1998 - Harry SCOTT rec by PK, Eaton Bray, Bedfordsh 1958: RPL LP 26071/ FTX-307 A-ROVING #1 talk aft - Frank PURSLOW with John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK, London: DOBELL F- LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219 - KENNEDY FAMILY, rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1961: FTX-041 - Jack ELLIOTT & Ch, Birtley, Durham, 1963: RPL LP 29982/ LEADER LEA-4001 1969 "The Harrin's Heid" - DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-14 1968// EMI MFP 5223/ FTX-307 A-ROVING Radio Prog 1968 #2 with intro by Barney McKenna (song learnt from his uncle) - Ian & Lorna CAMPBELL Folk Group with Dave SWARBRICK: EMI MFP-1349 1969 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-4 1969 from Baring Gould - Isla CAMERON, Bob DAVENPORT & the RAKES rec by PK, London 1960: CONCERT HALL SVSC 2339 1970/ FTX-330 - John DOUGHTY rec by Mike Yates, Sussex: TOPIC 12-TS-324 1977/ TSCD-657 - Arthur BRACE, Kempston, Beds & Emma VICKERS, Burscombe, Lancash rec by Fred Hamer 1960's: EFDSS VWML-003 cassette 1989 - Bill HINGSTON rec by Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs, Totnes, Devon: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 - THE YETTIES on Radio 2 18/11/87: CASS-60-0556 with spoken parts - Mikeen McCARTHY: TOPIC TSCD-664 1998 Dances & Ditties - NEIL LANHAM NL-01 Jack TARLING rec by Neil Lanham, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95 (gift) CASS-1357

HERRING SONGS - (Gaelic) AMHRAN NA SCADAN - COME BUY MY FINE HERRINGS

HERTFORDSHIRE - English "Home" County near London - ALL JOLLY FELLOWS THAT FOLLOW THE PLOUGH - JAMES McDONALD - MAY CAROLS (Hitchin & others) - THRESHING SONG (Dolly and flail) - UNDAUNTED FEMALE - WHITSUNTIDE CAROL -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

HESLEYSIDE REEL - comp by Tommy Elliott of Gunnerton, Northumb - PHILLIPS FCTB p27 no source given -- CHEVIOT RANTERS Country Dance Band: TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 with "Circassian Circle" - Jack ARMSTRONG & BARNSTORMER'S BAND rec PK 1954: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999

HESSIAN'S MARCH - BENACHIE

HEWER, THE - "I needn't tell you what I do" (to "Nae Luck aboot the hoose" & "Keel Row" tune) from "The Pitman's Social Night" comp by Alexander Barras of West Stanley -- sung by Tommy GILFELLON with Alistair ANDERSON (concertina & ch), Colin ROSS (fid) & Johnny HANDLE (melodeon & ch): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

HEWIN' FOR THE ORE - Comp by GM descr conditions in mines -- Graeme MILES: FTX-228 & FTX-511

HEWLETT - comp by Turlough Carolan (1670-1738) - BRODY p133 - SULLIVAN 1 p2 -- PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-186 1973 - CHIEFTAINS #4 CLADDAGH CC-14 1973 - Mrs CROTTY'S Ceili Band, rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1981: FTX-250 aft "Childgrove" - Mike FENTON (auto-harp) Radio 2 2/12/87: CASS- 0432

HEXHAM LASSES, THE - DRUNKEN SAILOR

HEXHAM RACES - KENMORE LADS

HEXHAMSHIRE LASS, THE - "Hey for the buff and the blue" - ROUD#3182 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp64-5 - WHITTAKER NCB 1931 - see SATURDAY NIGHT -- Tom GILFELLON & HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: TOPIC 12-T-186 1968 - RIPLEY WAYFARERS Radio Folk on Two 1984 (?) CASS-0453

HEY ARISE AND COME ALONG - "Here I lie all alone" - ROUD#2317 (with FAREWELL TO FUNERY) - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp76-7 Mrs Arlington Fraser, Ont, Canada 1961

HEY BONNY MAY - "wi your truelovers gay" - Scots children's song/game - ROUD#12968 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1576 pp125-6 (15v w/o)

HEY BOYS UP GO WE - see ROBIN SPRAGGAN'S AULD GREY MARE - ANDERSON 1955/70 p19 Australian

HEY, CA' THRO' - Local Fife coast patriotism - JOHNSON MM --0 Ray, Joyce, Audrey & Priscilla FISHER: TOPIC 12-T-137 1966 - HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER 009 1975

HEY, CA' THRO' - Triple Jig - COLE p70 (D ends F#)

HEY CANNY MAN - POLWARTH 1969 p29 from Elliott family, Birtley, Co Durham -- Bob DAVENPORT: LEADER LER-3008 1971

HEY, DIDDLE DIDDLE - "the cat and the fiddle" -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

HEY DIDDLE DIS - Morris Processional -- R Kenworthy-Schofield (pipe & tabor) rec by PK 1957: FTX-325

HEY DONAL' HO DONAL' - "As I came o'er Strathmartine Mains" - ROUD#6258

HEY DOWN DERRY - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN

HEY FOR THE BUFF AND THE BLUE - HEXHAMSHIRE LASS

HEY FOR THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER - LIFE OF A SOLDIER

HEY GET ALONG JOSIE - JIM ALONG JOSIE

HEY, HEY, HONEY -- sung by THE BRIGHT LIGHT QUARTET with Robert BEANE (gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Weems, Va. USA 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

HEY HO SING IVY - ACRE OF LAND

HEY HO NOBODY AT HOME - Round -- NOTTS ALLIANCE "Folk on 2" 28/4/88 CASS-90-1051

HEY HO SING IVY - ACRE OF LAND

HEY JOCK MA CUDDY - "Hey Jock McCuddy - my cuddy is ower the dyke - and if you meddle my cuddy - my cuddy will gie ye a bite - hooch" - Children's Ring Game with leg kick at end - COWAN DOUGLAS/BRIGGS publ for Brownies by Girl Guides Assoc coll Perthsh, Stirlingsh & Dumbartonsh - OPIE SG 1985 #112 p400 tune: "Hokey Pokey"

HEY JOHN BARLEYCORN - "John Barleycorn's a hero bold" - ROUD#2141 - BSs incl BG 2:#142/ 5:#122/ 9:#76 "JB" - FORD VSB 1899 2 pp18- 19 (p227) (w/o) "JB" - ARTHUR 1970 p15 from George Attrill - COPPER S&SB 1973 pp216-7 George Attrill "John Barleycorn" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #277 p609 George Attrill 1954 - BLUNT- FOXWORTHY 1976 p24 - Broadside by Such -- George ATTRILL rec by Bob Copper, Stopham, Fittleworth, Sussex 25/11/54: RPL 22738 - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TOPIC 12-T-190 1969 Attrill - Bob LEWIS: TRANSATLANTIC XTRS-1150 1975 rec "Lewes Arms", Lewes, Sussex with story: "Lost Sheep"

HEY JOHNNY COPE - JOHNNY COPE - FISHERMAN'S WIFE

HEY JUMP AND ON YOU GO -- Jimmy MacBEATH: FTX-060 learned from his mother

HEY, LILEY -- THE TRAVELLERS Skiffle Group rec London SE17 23/7/57: RPL LP 23570

HEY, LITTLE LADDIE/ LASSIE, WILL YOU HAVE ME? - "O we will dance together - And bow just so" - Children's Action Song in double circle, boys inside facing out - OPIE SG 1985 #103 pp378-9 "Hey Little Lassie" gives dance directions - prob Swedish origin -- rec by Damian Webb, 24/4 St Mary's Windermere 1966/ RPL LP 30954/ FTX-195 #31 "lassies" - FTX-200 as an example of the feminine type of game but this may be teacher-influenced

HEY MY KITTEN - RIDE A MILE (Triple Jig)

HEY MY NANNY - Triple Jig - Tunebook Ms (D) #73 p27 - ROCHE 2 #262 p27 (D) "Up in the garret I am"

HEY THE BONNIE BREAST KNOTS - Highland - KERR MM 3 #195 p23 (A) - see BONNY BREAST KNOT(S)

HEY, THE DUSTY MILLER - DUSTY MILLER

HEYSHAM PACE-EGGING SONG - Lancashire -- CROOKFINGER JACK RPL Radio 2: 7/4/80: CASS-0416

 
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