I LENT MY BACK AGAINST AN OAK - SPRIG OF THYME

I LIKE AN APPLE AND I LIKE A PEAR - STILL I LOVE HIM

I LIKE A GAME OF CROQUET - STARRY NIGHT FOR A RAMBLE

I LIKE COFFEE, I LIKE TEA - "I like sitting on a black man's knee" - Children's Skipping rhyme - RITCHIE GC p132 different words - OPIE LLSC p117 "I like radio and TV" from "The Times" 7/3/53 - see AN ANGEOL SAID TO ME "Would you like a cup of tea?" - GETTING UPSTAIRS -- rec by Damian Webb, 4/29 St Michaels Junior School for Girls - rec by DW, Workington Cumb 1960: RPL LP 26303/ FTX-197 #40

I LIKE TO GO A-WANDERING -- CASS 0378 "Old Hat Concert Party" Band on "Folk on Two" 17/12/87

I LIKES A DROP OF GOOD BEER - "Come one and all both great and small" (title = ch) - pleasures - wife Sally - ROUD#1502 - BSs incl SBG 5:#139/ 9:#87 - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp36-7 - FOLKSONG TODAY #3 1970 p14 - PALMER TOTT 1974 p168 text by Pratt of Birmingham/ tune of same name from Kidson Ms - ANDREWS SOD 1979 p17 Michael Blann (shepherd) Ms Upper Beeding, Sussex (w/o) -- Bernard WRIGLEY with Vera ASPREY (unacc ch): TOPIC 12-TS-241 1974 - Eddie UPTON & Band: FREE REED FRR-023-4 from Andrews

I LIVE IN CHINKIE CHINA - "a boy without a name" - Children's Skipping rhyme -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181 - also rec by James Ritchie 16/12/53: RPL 19926

I LIVE IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE - Music Hall - comp by Murphy (?) - Davison, "The British Music Hall" (1971) pp.128-131 --- John FOREMAN (& group) rec London 1966: FTX-331

I LIVE NOT WHERE I LOVE- "Come all you maids that live at a distance" "Farewell lads and farewell lasses" -ROUD#593 - BSs incl SBG 4:#454/ 6:#77 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 pp451-3 (new words) - JFSS 1:5 1904 p273 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex "Farewell lads" - MERRICK FSFS 1912 - SHARP ECFS 1908 5 pp207-9 Merrick: Sussex - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #124 pp489-90 Sharp: Robert Parish, Exford, Somerset 1907 "Farewell lads and lasses" - REEVES EC 1960 #70 p158 Hammond, Robert Barrett, Puddletown, Dorset 1905 (w/o) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p43 As Reeves (w/m) - SHARP SG 2003 p71 Frag from Rbt Parish and alternative text of 4v from Rbt Barrett - SIMPSON BBB 1966 p336 -- Lea NICHOLSON (+ virginals): LEADER LER-3010 1971 - Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR: B & C CAS-1035 1971/ PEG-PS1 1972/ CASS-45-0851 - Bill & Sylvia ROGERS (V/gtr): FOREST TRACKS FT-3007 1975 - Instrum DAMBUSTER DAM-006/ CASS- 0350 - Jo FREYA SAYDISC SDL-402 (CD & cass) 1993

I LIVED WITH MY GRANDMOTHER - GRAINGER #381 Mrs Mary Anne Roberts, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh

I LONG FOR TO GET MARRIED - "I'm a damsel so blooming and gay" - aged 23 - cherry tree - ROUD#1647 & #2947 - PURSLOW WS 1968 p88 Gardiner: George Blake, Southampton, Hampsh 1906 (augmented from Williams Ms#896) "O dear how I long to get married" - SHIELDS AIP 1969 pp6-7 - SHIELDS SRT 1981 p94 Eddie Butcher, Aughill Crossroads, Co Derry 1966 --- PEACOCK SNO 1965 2 p461 Nfl "I long to be Wedding" ("Come all good people, some older, some younger") - DON'T LET ME DIE AN OLD MAID (ROUD#802)

I LONG TO HAVE HER NEAR ME - "I love my love as I love my life" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #964 pp86-8 (3var 6v/m) "I love my love"

I LOOKED IN THE EAST - JORDAN

I LOST MY ARM IN THE ARMY - "I lost my leg in the Navy - and I found it in the gravy" -- Bert DRAYCOTT - rec by Sam Richards: FOLKWAYS FE-38553 1981/ CASS-1292

I LOVE MY DEAR MOTHER BEST -- Ralph THOMAS rec by Peter Duddridge, Ashton-under-hill, Glos 1963: 6"RTR-0872

I LOST MY GLOVES ON SATURDAY NIGHT -" found them Sunday morning" -- (2 versions) children at Valley Sec School, & adults at North Side, Anguilla & Trinidad version from San Juan Girl's School, Trinidad, rec by Alan Lomax 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 "Drop, Peter, drop"

I LOST MY LOVE - Jig/ Waltz (Am) - KERR MM 1 #1 p31

I LOST MY LOVE AND I CARE NOT - ROUD#2075 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1147 p192 (3v/m) "I've lost my love and I keena weel fu" - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp274-5 ships log 1849 1v (w/o) "Moll Brooks"

I LOST MY LOVE AND I CARE NOT - Jig - KERR 1 #1 p31 (Am) -- John & Vincent McCusker (fids) & Benignus (mel) rec by PK, Kilcreevy, Co Armagh 31/5/52: RPL 18548/ FTX-372/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 - Isabel SUTHERLAND (mouth music) rec by PK, London 1959: FTX-301 - Davie ROGERSON (fid): TOPIC TSCD-669 1998 aft "Tenpenny Bit" & "Rakes of Kildare"

I LOST MY LOVE IN THE CAIRNIE (or TERNEY) - "Y O U - I met her in the dance hall" - Children's Choosing Ring Game with one going round outside one way and the other the other - tune: "Malbrouck" ("e won't go home till morning") - OPIE SG 1985 #102 pp375-8 "I lost my lad" -- Bell DUNCAN Insch, Aberdeensh #259 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - rec by Damian Webb, Moss Park Junior Girls Glasgow 1961: DW-15/7 / RPL LP 27257/ FTX-190 & FTX-200 - rec by DW, St James's Junior Girls, Paisley, 1961: DW-16/9/ FTX-181 - Isabel SUTHERLAND rec by PK, London 1969: FTX-062

I LOST MY PAIR OF TROUSERS - Jingle - Cf LEATHER BREECHES -- Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20145/ FTX-271

I LOVE A BIG FULL JUG - MO GHRADH-SA AN JUR MOR

I LOVE A CHOCOLATE -- Cecil MOORE (tune on harmonica) rec by PK, Gunnerside, Richmond, W Yorksh 22/11/54: 5"RTR-0891/ RPL 22448 bef "O Susanna"

I LOVE A SAILOR BOLD - CUPID'S GARDEN

I LOVE CORRINA - CORRINA, CORRINA

I LOVE MY LOVE - BEDLAM MAID - DIED FOR LOVE - I LONG TO HAVE HER NEAR ME

I LO'E NAE A LADDIE BUT ANE - Jig/ Waltz (A) - KERR MM 1 #4 p31 - Cf MY LODGING -- JAMIESON BAND: RJ (fid) JJ (acc) M Stickle (mandolin) rec by Pat Shaw, Baltasound, Shetland Feb 1952: RPL 18652/ FTX-068 played as waltz "I love no a lassie"

I LOVE NO-ONE ELSE BUT YOU - BIG REASON BLUES

I LOVE SIXPENCE - JOLLY SIXPENCE

I LOVE THE WHITE GIRLS AND THE BLACK - LITTLE MORE CIDER

I LOVE YOU, JAMIE - DIED FOR LOVE

I LOVED A LASS - FALSE BRIDE

I LOVED A LASS, A FAIR ONE - "as fair as fair was seen" - Ch: "A-lairo lairo loo" -but now she's left me - (Words trad 16 Cent.English poem - tune comp by Alex) - Oxford Book of English Verse -- Rory & Alex McEWEN (with gtrs) rec by PK, London 1955: FTX-293 (talk bef)

I MADE UP MY MIND - TRAIL TO MEXICO

I MARRIED A JADE -- Nicholas HUGHES rec by PK, Forkhill, Co Armagh 15/7/52: 7"RTR-0549/ FTX-165

I MARRIED A WIFE - "of late to my unhappy fate - sad and dreary tongue" - ROUD#2536 - PALMER RVW 1983 pp181-2 John Norton, Robin Hood's Bay, Yorksh 1904 - WETHER'S SKIN

I MARRIED ME A WIFE - Children's Game -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181/ also rec by James Ritchie 16/12/53: RPL 19925

I MARRIED ME A WIFE - I SENT HER FOR EGGS

I MEAN TO GET DRUNK - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p183 from Ewan MacColl 1947 -- Becket WHITEHEAD rec by Seamus Ennis, Delph, Oldham, Lancash 24/5/52 "Drinking"

I MET A MAN WI A TARTAN SARK - HAUGHS OF CROMDALE

I MET HER IN THE GARDEN - GARDEN WHERE THE PRATIES GROW

I MET HER IN THE MORNING - WON'T YOU GO MY WAY?

I MET HER IN VENEZUELA - VENEZUELA

I MET MY LOVE THE OTHER DAY - comp by SC - uses a "Barbara Allen" tune-- Sydney CARTER (voc) with Donald SWANN (voc & piano) rec by PK, London 6/6/61: RTR-0419/ FTX-146

I MOUNTED MY NEDDY - NEVER TELL HER WHEN

I MUST AND I WILL GET MARRIED - FIT'S COME ON ME NOW

I MUST AWAY - GREY COCK

I MUST GO OUT ON SUNDAYS - MAID'S LAMENT

I MUST LIVE ALL ALONE - "As I was a-walking one morning by chance - I heard a maid a-making her moan" - ROUD#1059 - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp16-17 & 116 Henry Burstow, Sussex 1893 (text partly re- written) - JFSS 4 p151

I N-AIMSIR BHAINT AN FHEIR (At the Hay-cutting time) - "Down beside the sea live my own people" - "be saying the rosary every night when you're going to bed that I may be at home with you at the hay-cutting" - Irish Gaelic Emigrant's Song to CUCKOO'S NEST tune -- Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20145/ FTX-271 (talk bef & aft)

I NEVER KNEW - GRAINGER ONS#2/ RNS#56 Mrs Browskill, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905

I NEVER LOVED BUT ONE -- Carter Family (trio), Atlanta, Ga 23/2/32: BLUEBIRD B-6257-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I NEVER SAYS NOTHING TO NOBODY - "What a shocking world this is for scandal" Ch: "Fol-le-rol-lol-li-day" - neighbour, butcher, baker, publican, parson, newly married - ROUD#1680 - PURSLOW FD 1974 pp42-3 Gardiner: Henry King, Lyndhurst, Hampsh, 1906

I NEVER THOUGHT MY LOVE WOULD LEAVE ME -- Isabel SUTHERLAND: COLLECTOR JES-11 1960 (learned from Aggie Stewart, Banffsh) - June TABOR: TOPIC 12-TS-432 1983

I NEVER WILL MARRY - I'LL NOT MARRY AT ALL - LOVER'S LAMENT -- Carter Family (Trio) Camden, NJ 17/6/33: BLUEBIRD B-8350-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I NEVER WILL MARRY A MAN THAT'S RICH - hickory switch - poor man - beggar - ROUD#2774

I ONCE DID HAVE A DEAR COMPANION - DEAR COMPANION

I ONCE HAD A COUSIN CALLED - ARTHUR LE BRIDE

I ONCE HAD A BOY - BONNY SAILOR BOY

I ONCE HAD A SWEETHEART/ TRUELOVE - ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART

I ONCE HAD PLENTY OF TIME - SPRIG OF THYME

I ONCE KNEW A LITTLE GIRL - REJECTED LOVER

I ONCE KNEW A MAN WHO WAS - MAN ALL TATERED AND TORN

I ONCE KNEW A SINGLE YOUNG MAID - WILLIAMS Ms #598 (w/o)

I ONCE LOVED A BOY - BONNY BONNY BOY

I ONCE LOVED A LASS(IE) - FALSE BRIDE - GREEN GROW THE LAURELS

I ONCE LOVED A PRETTY GIRL - REJECTED LOVER

I ONCE LOVED A YOUNG MAN - WANDERING GIRL

I ONCE WAS A BOLD FELLOW AND WENT WITH MY TEAM - CARTER

I ONCE WAS A DAYSMAN - HIRING FAIR

I ONCE WAS A MERRY PLOUGHBOY - MERRY PLOUGHBOY

I ONCE WENT A-COURTING - "an old woman's daughter" - KIDSON EPS 1929

I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU -- RONSTEDZ SWING JAZZ rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1979: FTX-251

I PAID AND NEVER ASKED THE REASON WHY - "One cold morning in December I've reason to remember" - falls in love - she takes him to her house, seduces him and then a man appears in the bedroom -- Walter PARDON rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk 1978: TOPIC 12-TS-392/ TSCD-665 1998 "One cold morning in December"

I PAULA TEE PAULA TASKA - "umba umba ay" - Kids Ring game both used for skipping and for a "Rhumba Ring" with one in centre doing the rhumba - ROUD#112944 - RITCHIE SS 1964 p39 gives chorus only - OPIE SG 1985 #126 pp428-9 "O Alla Tinka" (no music) -- rec by Jean Ritchie, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 20/3/49: RPL 13869/ rec by Alan Lomax 1951: FTX-181/ COLUMBIA SL-43 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1741 1998/

I PICK THE NAMES OUT - ZING-A-ZING (Kids)

I PRAY, YOUNG MEN, GIVE ATTENTION AND LISTEN TO MY FROLICSOME SONG - FEMALE HIGHWAYMAN

I PREFER THE KILT - KEEL ROW

I PUT MY HAND ON MYSELF - "That's my brainboxer - eyeblinker - hornblower - telephones - foodtaster - rubbernecker - breadbasket - dancesitter - kneebender - globetrotters - icky icky doo - that's what I learned at my school - yea yea" - Kids Action Song - OPIE LLSC p39 has "chestprotector - chinchopper - mouthclicker - nosewiper" - see also MATTHEW THE MILLER -- rec by Damian Webb, Tralee, Co Kerry 1960: IRE/22/ FTX-179

I PRITHEE LOVE LET ME IN - IT RAINS, IT HAILS

I RECKON THE DAYS IS DEPARTED - LAST OF THE SINGERS

I RIDE AN OLD PAINT - "and I lead an Old Dan" Ch: "Ride around, little dogies" - Cowboy Song - see also GOODBYE, OLD PAINT - ROUD#915 -- Woody GUTHRIE & THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941: PRISM PLATCD 704 - 2001 - Burl IVES COLUMBIA RTR-0323-4 - Dick CAMERON (voc/gtr) of Boston rec London Oct 1956: RPL 22998 - Roy GUEST with THE TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID- 5165 1963

I ROAMED BENEATH A SUNNY SKY - COT WHERE I WAS BORN

I RODE MY LITTLE HORSE - NEVER TELL HER WHEN

I ROSE ONE BRIGHT MORNNG - I BINGED AVREE

I SADDLED MY HORSE - PENNY WAGER

I SAT BY THE SIDE OF A BROAD ROLLING RIVER - TYNE EXILE'S LAMENT

I SAT ON A BANK ON TRIFLE AND PLAY - JOLLY GOSHAWK

I SAT WITHIN THE VALLEY GREEN - WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (Reel)

I SAW A BOBBY ON THE CORNER - "dressed in navy navy blue - if it wasn't for the law I'd punch him on the jaw - and he wouldn't be a copper any more" - Kids song - sung to the tune of "Glory Glory Hallelujah" -- sung by solo boy from Bermondsey, London: FTX-198 #37 (a)

I SAW A HAWK IN DUNDALK/ MOUSE RUN UP THE WALL/ SPARROW TRAIL A HARROW etc - MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN (K)

I SAW A SWEET MAIDEN - BLUE KERCHIEF

I SAW MY BOY FRIEND - "walking down the street - Poor Susie Anna - under his arm he carried a box - dress - pocket - rose - bee - grave - Susie Anna ("Everlasting Circle") Children's Clapping Song - OPIE SG 1985 #141 p462 "O Susie Anna" tune "Fair Rosie" (Sleeping Princess) -- rec by Damian Webb, 34 #6 St Benedict Juniors, Garforth, Leeds, WYorks 1977: FTX-196 #31

I SAW MY LOVE COME PASSING BY ME - from John Peacock's "Favourite Collection of Tunes for the Northumbrian Pipes" c1800 - Northumbrian Minstrelsy -- Anthony ROBB (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-278 1978/ rec at home: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999

I SAW MY OWN BONNY LASSIE - FALSE BRIDE

I SAW THREE SHIPS - AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK

I SEE MARY AND JOSEPH -- Joseph SPENCE (v/gtr), Bahamas: ARHOOLIE 1061 1970

I SEE THE MOON - Children's rhyme -- Jean RITCHIE unacc: LONDON (SIRE) SES-97014 "God bless the moon"

I SENT A LETTER TO MY LOVE - "And on the way I dropped it - tis you tisnt you" or A-TISKET A-TASKET - Children's Ring Game with Choosing - GOMME I p109 "Drop handkerchief" & p305 "Kiss in the Ring" - see also DROP HANDKERCHIEF - WHO GOES ROUND MY HOUSE AT NIGHT ? (used as a preliminary to this game) - usually sung to an even-time version of the "Yankee Doodle" tune -- Children rec by PK, C of E Primary School, Sidbury, Devon 26/2/51: RPL 16074/ COLUMBIA SL-206 1952/ FTX-201 - Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 "Over over in amongst the clover" - rec by PK, Guilden Mordern School, Cambridgesh 1956: FTX-202 - rec by Damian Webb, 10/7 Girls at Workington Cumb 1960 - rec by DW, St James Girl School, Paisley, 1961: FTX-190 - rec by DW, Benedictine Juniors, Dumfries, 1961: FTX-190 incl "Blow out the candle" (shut your eyes) - Redriff Prim Schl, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969

I SENT HER FOR EGGS - "jam, butter, cheese, bread -the World must be coming to an end - och aye - I bought her a coffin she fell to the bootom - covered her in dirt and she jumped ut her shirt" - RITCHIE SS 1964 p115 "Guising Ballad" -- Children at Norton Park School, Edinburgh rec by Alan Lomax, 1952: RPL 19925: FTX-181 - rec Norton Park School Edinburgh 1953: RPL 19925 - Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR (Voc/gtr): COLLECTOR JES-5 1959 (45-EP) - Joe GORDON Folk Four: EMI CLP-1379

I SET OFF FOR TURKEY - LIAR'S SONG

I SHALL BE MARRIED NEXT MONDAY MORNING - NEXT MONDAY MORNING

I SHALL NOT BE MOVED - WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED

I SHOULD DEARLY LIKE TO MARRY - ROUD#12738 - BSs

I SHOULD LIKE TO BE A POLICEMAN - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp64-6 (w/o)

I SING HIGH AND I SING LOW - or THE GLEE SONG, IN HARMONY WE SING - comp by GM --Graeme MILES: FTX-226 #11

I SING OF A MAIDEN - "that is mak-e-less, king of all king, to her son she ches - He came so still to his mother's tower as dew in April" - Mediaeval Carol - SLOAN Ms (tune lost) - OXFORD Carols 1928 #183 p400 Tune by Martin Shaw -- Shirley with Dolly (flute organ) COLLINS: TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974 - Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147

I SING OF CHAMPIONS BOLD - WRESTLING MATCH

I SIT AT MY WINDOW - "O why was I born to be tormed so?" "I must needs love him still" - FMJ 1:3 1967 p150 Gamblin: Mrs Munday, Axford, Hampsh 1907 "He was under my indow both early and late" (H 978) -- Harry SCOTT, rec by PK, Eaton Bray, Bedfordsh 18/2/58: RPL LP 26071 (3v only)

I SOLD MY HORSE - FOOLISH BOY

I SOWED SOME SEEDS - LANDORD'S DAUGHTER

I SOWED THE SEEDS - SEEDS OF LOVE

I SPENT THE NIGHT - THUG MI 'N OIDHCHE GED B'FHAD'I

I STILL LOVE YOU - "I will try and make you love me again, dear" -- Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band rec 1930's: TOPIC 12-T-320 1977 as "Hesitation Waltz" - Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc): RITZ London nn/ CASS-0957 1985

I TAKES AFTER MY FATHER - "Ah teks efter me feyther" - GRAINGER ONS#34/ RNS#20 John Collinson, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland 1905

I THANK YOU MA'AM SAYS DAN - "What brought you into my room?" - ROUD#3044 - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp182-3 Dennis Devereux

I THINK I HEARD 'EM SAY - GOING DOWN TO WELDON

I TOILED UPON MY FATHER'S FARM - MY OLD BROWN COAT AND ME

I TOLD 'EM I'D MARRY BUT I NEVER TOLD WHEN - I MOUNTED MY NEDDY

I TOOK MY GAL TO THE BALL - I HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS

I TOOK MY LOVE TO THE FAIR - "Barbara to Yarm Fair - Joan to Whitby" - blessing the fishing fleet (custom) - "we never saw it all" - comp by GM 1966 -- GRAEME MILES (voc/ gtr): FTX-921-C90

I TOSS MY CAP INTO THE AIR - RAMBLING SAILOR

I TOUCHED HER ON THE TOE - JIM CROW - JOHNNY SMOKER - MATTHEW THE MILLER - ROLL ME OVER - VICTORIA

I TRACED HER LITTLE FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW - "Some lovers like the summertime when they can stroll " - ROUD#2660 - BSs incl BG 5:#240 - WILLIAMS #251 Mr Clark, Clanfield, Oxfordsh (w/o)

I TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE NORTH COUNTRY -- CASS-0330 Tommy CHAPPLE rec by Michael Feist at Hare Down, Knowstowe 1973 (see letter file)

I TRULY UNDERSTAND - "that you love another man" "Who will shoe your pretty little feet?" (Cf ballad LORD GREGORY) - American Mountain Song -- Shortbuckle ROARK & Family rec Bristol, Tenn, USA 1928 [NEW WORLD NW-226]/ CASS-0476-7

I VOYAGED LAST YEAR - SHEOL MI 'N UIRIDH

I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING -- Negro Camp Holler rec by Alan Lomax, Parchman State Pen, Miss, USA 1947: 916

I WANDERED BY A BROOKSIDE - "I wandered by a mill" - "could not hear brook or noise of mill wheel, grasshopper or bird - only breating of my own heart - then he comes" - ROUD#2418 - WILLIAMS #301 Miss Leah Serman, Stanto Harcourt, Oxfordsh (w/o) - COPPER ETR 1976 pp260-1 Family, Rottingdean, Sussex 4v/m "IWB the brookside" -- tune: NO PLACE LIKE HOME

I WANT MY FREEDOM NOW -- Martin Luther King SOUTHERN FREEDOM SINGERS, Greenwhich Theatre Cast: TOPIC IMP-S-102 1970

I WANT MY RIB - "Bring back my rib" -- "Snuff" JENKINS: CASS 0478

I WANNA GO HOME - "to my house in Boloney" - Kids Homesickness Rhyme -- Barmulloch Primary School, Glasgow: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

I WANT TO GO HOME - Army Song -- Rowland KELLETT (of Leeds) rec by PK, London 1963: FTX-209

I WAS A YOUNG MAN - DUNCAN Coll in FMJ ? -- Martin CARTHY: B & C CS-5 1972

I WAS BORN ABOUT TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO - TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO

I WAS BORN FOR SPORT - 3/8 Jig or Waltz - MOYLAN 1 #72 (G) from George Petrie (U-pipes)

I WAS BORNED FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO - mentions Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel etc - ROUDC#3127 - RICHARDSON AMS 1927 p101 Mrs SM Martin (w) Va & Myrtle Wheeley (m) Tenn

I WAS BORN IN THE LAND OF FRANCE - ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, WALES (K)

I WAS BROUGHT UP IN CONNAUGHT/ CORNWALL etc - SHEFFIELD APPRENTICE

I WAS GOING TO CHURCH/ MASS LAST SUNDAY - GOING TO CHURCH LAST SUNDAY

I WAS KISSED YESTREEN - KISSED YESTREEN

I WAS IN THE HAYSHED WITH MY FATHER - sung in both Welsh and English to the tune of MOCHYN DHU (The Black Pig) -- Hywel WOOD (gypsy) rec by PK, Bala, Merionethsh 11/11/54: RPL 22429/ FTX-053

I WAS ONCE A SAILOR - "Yes I was once a sailor lad" - ROUD#2021 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp66-7 Ship's log 1843 (w/o)

I WAS STATIONED AT LOW FELL - First World War Song -- Bill BOTTING rec by PK, Balcombe, Sussex 2/9/63 RTR-0907

I WENT HOME ONE NIGHT - CUCKOLD'S SONG

I WENT INTO A BAKER'S SHOP - I WENT TO A CHINESE RESTAURANT (K)

I WENT INTO MY STABLE - CUCKOLD'S SONG

I WENT INTO MY TRUELOVE'S HOUSE - ORCHESTRA

I WENT TO CALIFORNIA - I'M GOING TO KENTUCKY

I WENT TO CHURCH/ MASS ON SUNDAY - GOING TO CHURCH LAST SUNDAY

I WENT TO MARKET - COCKS AND HENS - FARMYARD SONG

I WENT TO PUT THE HORSES IN A FIELD - MANDI WENT TO POOV THE GRYS

I WENT TO SEE MY MOLLY - WILLIAM AND NANCY

I WENT TO THE MARKET -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp by Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24896

I WENT TO THE PICTURES TOMORROW - Kids Tangletalk -- FTX-198 B/20 (a) solo girl

I WENT TO THE TOWN (ALEHOUSE etc) LIKE A PROPER WOMAN SHOULD - ROGUEY DID THE SAME

I WENT TO VISIT THE ROSSES - CHAIGH ME 'NA ROSANN

I WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN -- Artus MOSER (voc/dulc) rec S Appalachians: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-617 1956

I WENT UP TO EXETER - song mentions Chagford - coll Hamlyn Parsons in Totnes area 1929 (see file) - WESTERN ANTIQUARIAN SOC 8 #4 Oct 1888 p74

I WENT WHERE LADS AND LASSES WENT - GRAINGER ONS#11/ RNS#34: Rev J A Wenham, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905

I WHIPPED MY HORSE - I FED MY HORSE

I'LL ASK MY MOTHER AND LET YOU KNOW - ROUD#12611 - BSs

I'LL AWAY TO YONDER MOUNTAINS - GRAINGER #236 nn, Horncastle, Lincolnsh 1906

I'LL BASH YOUR BRAINS IN FOR YOU - "Punch up the hooter, kick in the bracket, dry up drop dead get drowned" etc - Kids way of saying "go away" (jeers or fighting talk) -- FTX-198 A5

I'LL BE A GOOD FELLOW - GOOD FELLOW

I'LL BE ALL SMILES TONIGHT - "I'll deck my brow with flowers, the false one will be there" - BSs incl SBG 2 #224 -- Carter Family (Trio), Camden, NJ, USA 8/5/34: BLUEBIRD B-5529-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I'LL BE HOME SOMEDAY -- Carter Family (trio) Camden NJ 11/12/34: BLUEBIRD B-5911-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I'LL BE LEVEL WITH HER - "I never will forget her - I'll cut her throat and away I'll slope - I will so help me never" "Kind friends you won't believe me - I once weighed 20 stone" -- Herbert LAST, rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: FTX-099

I WILL BE MARRIED - NEXT MONDAY MORNING

I'LL BE SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY - AS I ROVED OUT

I'LL BE SO GLAD WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN - Hoeing by negro prisoners -- Ed LEWIS & group, rec by Alan Lomax, Parchman Penitentiary, Miss 1959: ATLANTIC SD-1346 [?]

I'LL BE THINKING OF YOU -- sung by Billy BENNETT accomp by piano (remastered from 78rpm): TOPIC TSCD-780 1978/ 1997

I'LL BE UP YOUR WAY NEXT WEEK - "While reading in the newspaper, the matrimonial part" - Music Hall - W & M from Doug Berry see Song file

I'LL BE YOUR SWEETHEART - M: Harry Dacre 1909 by Frank Dean rev Feldman 1944 (D.Taylor) - ROUD#13465 -- Cyril Poacher rec by Ginette Dunn, Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1975: Musical Traditions MT-CD-303

I'LL BEAT THE DRUM AGAIN - FEMALE DRUMMER

I'LL BREAK YOUR HEAD FOR YOU - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #72 p19 (Gm)

I'LL BUILD MY LOVE (MYSELF) A GALLANT SHIP - LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND

I'LL BUY MY LOVE A COAT OF FUR - comp by GM 1965 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222

I'LL CLING TO YOU LIKE THE IVY -- Tommy CHAPPLE rec by Michael Feist, Hare Down, Knowstowe 1973 (see letter file): CASS-0330

I'LL CLOOT MY JOHNNY'S GREY BREEKS - JOHNNY'S GREY BREEKS

I'LL COME BACK TO MY LITTLE SWEETHEART - LITTLE SWEETHEART

I'LL DREAM OF THEE NO MORE - "Farewell, farewell for ever" - SHEPARD BB 1962 p147 Bs Such London (w/o)

I'LL FOLLOW MY LOVE TO CARLOW - FOLLOW ME DOWN TO CARLOW - LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND

I'LL FOLLOW YOU MY DEAR - RORY O MORE (Jig)

I'LL GET WEDDED IN MY AULD CLAES - Northumbrian Instrumental - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p38 -- Billy PIGG (N-pipes): LEADER LEA- 4006 1971

I WILL GIVE MY LOVE AN APPLE - RIDDLE SONG

I'LL GIVE TO YOU A PAPER OF PINS - MADAM - ON A MOUNTAIN (K)

I WILL GO - Scots March -- Robin HALL & Jimmie MACGREGOR (voc/ gtrs) with Ian POWRIE BAND: FONTANA TL-5296 - AFTER HOURS Cass-2

I'LL GO AND ENLIST FOR A SAILOR - ROUD#1614 - SHARP: Morris Book: tune used for 2 dancers doing a dual jig: - BOWEN p15 (Em) 3pts - SHARP Notes 4 - tune originated from song: THE UNFORTUNATE TAILOR -- Morris jig tune: Helen KENNEDY (3 hole pipe & tabor) rec by PK, Suffolk 1961: FTX-041 - MORRIS ON: ISLAND HELP-5 1972

I'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING - A-ROVING

I'LL GO (GANG) NO MORE (NAE MAIR) TO YON TOON - Reel or Highland Schottische - BALMORAL p19 (F) for Quadrille - COLE #2 p12 3pts (A) "Oh, gang with me to yon town" Reel - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951/ 1994 #66 p18 (A) - KERR MM 2 #180 p21 (F) Reel - Tunebook Ms (G) #33 p278 - WESTROP #108 p36 (F) - WILLIAMSON p58 - WILSON p47 "The Lass in Yon town" -- Jack ARMSTRONG's NORTHUMBRIAN BARNSTORMER'S Band rec by Alan Lomax 1951: SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 (M) aft "Lovat Scouts" - Geordie TAYLOR (fid), rec by PK, Rennington, Northumb 1954: FTX-121 for dance: CIRCASSIAN CIRCLE with BONNY DUNDEE - Lindsay PORTEOUS (jews harp with N-pipes & bodhran): RPL Radio 2 18/1/89: CASS-15-0696 bef "Drops of Brandy"

I'LL GO SEE MY LOVE - GREY COCK

I'LL GO TO KANMORE - Song in Irish Gaelic - Priest meets an old friend, taking his hat saying he'll get it back when he pays his dues to the church - woman neighbour poet wrote verse on subject -- Seamus ENNIS rec by PK, London 1958: 169 one verse, transl & talk

I'LL HANG MY HARP ON A WILLOW TREE - WARRIOR'S GRAVE

I'LL HARNESS MY HORSES - SWEET ROSE IN JUNE

I'LL HAVE A COLLIER FOR MY SWEETHEART - "I went out to get some water" - ref to Ferranti (factory) where Harry Boardman's father worked - LLOYD CAYBM 1952 Widnes, Wigan, Lancash -- Harry BOARDMAN (voc & gtr) with mother & grandmother (speech before): TOPIC 12-TS-215 -1971 - Harry BOARDMAN (vocal & concertina): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

I'LL HAVE A ONE MAN - ONE MAN WENT TO MOW

I'LL HIRE A HORSE AND STEAL A GIG - TO PUSH THE BUSINESS ON (K)

I WILL IF I CAN - KENMORE LADS (Jig)

I'LL KISS THE BONNY LASS - Reel - KOHLER 1 p59 (Eb)

I'LL LAY YE DOON, LOVE - "I will trate you dacent" - mentions Inverury & Edinburgh toon - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp187-8 3v from Jeannie Robertson - tune "Galway Shawl" -- Jeannie Robertson: HMV 7EG-8534 - Enoch KENT, Geordeanna McCULLOCH: TOPIC 12-T-164 - Jean REDPATH: FOLK LEGACY FSS-49 - Norman KENNEDY: FOLK LEGACY FSS-34 - Tich FRIER (unacc): CELTIC MUSIC CM-014 1983 -- Jimmy HUTCHISON: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-1002 2000

I WILL LEAVE THIS TOWN - FUIGFIDH MISE 'N BAILE SEO

I'LL LIE NAE MAIR ALANE - "The winter has been cold and wet" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #989 p181 5v w/o

I'LL LIST IN THE WARS I'LL DIE - "So miss you mean to deceive me" - WILLIAMS Ms #599 (w/o)

I WILL LOVE YOU ALL MY LIFE -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London LC-0015/ CASS-0954 & LC TV1/ CASS- 0956

I'LL MAKE A DISH OF TEA - WE'LL SIT UPON THE GATE

I'LL MAK YE FAIN TO FOLLOW ME -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 bef "Shame for the Gear"

I'LL MARRY AND I WON'T BE A NUN - March or Two-Step -- Margaret BARRY with Michael GORMAN (fid) rec by Bill Leaderr & Reg Hall, Camden Town, London 17th May 1968: TOPIC TSCD-665 1998

I'LL MEND YOUR POTS AND KETTLES - Irish Air or Hornpipe - MITCHELL #92 p73 (G) Willie Clancy - O'NEILL MOI #57 (D) with many repeated notes - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p74 -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): FTX-302/ rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED FFR-001-2 1976

I'LL MOUNT THE AIR ON SWALLOWS WINGS - BEDLAM MAID

I'LL NEITHER SPIN NOR WEAVE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #1082/ DMI #271 (G)

I'LL NE'ER FORGET THE PARTING - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY

I'LL NEVER FORSAKE YOU -- Carter Family (trio) rec Chicago 4/10/40: OKEH 058843-B/ 7"RTR-0313-4

I'LL NEVER GET DRUNK ANY MORE - NEVER GET DRUNK ANY MORE

I'LL NEVER LEAVE THEE - Song Air - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (D) #140 p226

I'LL NO GANG HAME TO MA GRANNY NAE MAIR - "she's catterd ma seat and sh4e made me greet sair" -- Mabel SKELTON, Arbroath, Angus 14/7/64: RPL LP 28571

I WON'T BE A NUN - "There never was a nun, sir" - HENDERSON VSB 1937 Bs (w/o) - MITCHELL & SMALL #33 p74 (G) 4/4 from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes)

I WON'T HAVE A CARPENTER - MY JOLLY WAGGONER, DRIVE ON

I WO'T MARRY HER - Polka - MOYLAN 2 #81 p46 (D) alt: "Din Tarrant's Polka #2"

I'LL NOT MARRY AT ALL - FUSON BKH 1930 pp91-2 Ky "I'll not marry at all" - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p205 Angelo Dornan 1954-60 - see also I NEVER WILL MARRY -- MAN THAT'S RICH, A -- Lisa TURNER (voc/banjo) rec by PK 1963 "Calling the tune #6 25/2/63 "I'll not marry at all"

I'LL RAISE AN ARMY - "I'd rather die for England's rights than live in slav-e-ry" - JEFDSS 1946 p21 coll from Harry Cox by Francis Collinson -- Harry COX, rec by PK (frag)

I WILL ROCK YOU WI MY FOOT, LOVE - "I will bind you with my hands" - ROUD#13507 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1558 p111 (1v w/o)

I WILL SAIL THE SALT SEAS OVER - ROUD#2776 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p207 Angelo Dornan 1954-60 2v/m

I WILL PUT/ SET MY SHIP IN ORDER - DROWSY SLEEPER

I'LL SING OF MARTHA - "my dear wife" - hen-pecked husband - let me scrub the floor - ROUD#2467 - Trad Music 1 1975 p12 Mike Yates: Freda Palmer, Witney, Oxfordsh

I'LL SING TO YOU A STORY - Nonsense song - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp126-7 from Jeannie Robertson - Cf FOUR AND TWENTY FIDDLERS or HIGHLANDMEN

I'LL SING YOU A DITTY - GRAINGER ONS#84/ RNS #54 George Gouldthorpe, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905

I WILL SING YOU A SONG - CREEPING JANE - WILLIAM TAYLOR

I WILL SING YOU ONE-O - TWELVE APOSTLES

I'LL SIT DOWN AND WRITE A SONG - SWEET WILLIAM

I'LL SPREAD THE GREEN BRANCHES - BLACKDOG AND SHEEP CROOK

I WILL STAND BY MY FRIEND - "As we go on through life's career" - ROUD#12884 - WILLIAMS #519 Mr Bridgeman, Wanborough, Wiltsh (w/o)

I'LL STICK TO THE SHIP, BOYS -- Pete Nalder: FOLKSOUND FS-101 1975

I'LL TAKE THE GLASS -- "into my hands and drink to all that's here" - Toast - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #565 (1v no tune)

I'LL TAKE YOU HOME AGAIN, KATHLEEN - ROUD#12907 - See M Turner, The Parlour Song Book, pp121-124. Both 'Barney' and 'Kathleen' are included in a songster printed by Such (post 1886) titled A Grand Collection of Old Irish Ballads. A copy of this is in the Lucy Broadwood Collection of broadsides (Vaughan Williams Memorial Library). See also H Hunter and W Williams, eds., The Mohawk Minstrel Magazine, London, Francis Brothers and Day, 1898, vol 21. For the most informative study of the song to date, see Richard S Hill, 'Getting Kathleen Home Again', Notes of the Music Library Association, June 1948, pp338-353.- Golden Gate Songster 1 (May 1888) -- WINTLE Street Piano rec by PK 1955: FTX-300 -- THE FONTANAS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-868 1967 - Barney O SHAMROCK: CASS-0929 nd - Tim HART, Snape, Suffolk rec by Rod & Danny Stradling 1969: Musical Traditions MT CD 301-2

I'LL TELL MY MA - "when I go home, the boys won't leave the girls alone - they'll pull my hair and break my bones - I'' tell me ma when I get home" - Children's song for skipping - uses polka tune: KING PIPPIN POLKA - OPIE SG 1985 #95 pp356-8 "I'll tell mother" -- BELFAST GIRL SINGERS rec 20/4/48: RPL 13163-4 (coll by Hugh Quinn) - Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072 - KERRIES: MAJOR MINOR MMLP 9 1965 - Peg & Bobby CLANCY (duet): EMBER EMB-2057 1968 - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM & family rec Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary: PICKWICK Hallmark CHM- 630 1968 - JACQUI & BRIDIE: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-23 1968 - Em ELLIOTT rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, Birtley, Durham: FOLKWAYS FG-3565 1962 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60-0927 nd

I'LL TELL MY MAMMY - ELLEN ROSEBERG'S FANCY (Jig)

I WILL TELL YOU A STORY - MALTMAN & THE HIGHWAYMAN

I'LL TELL YOU OF A FELLOW - COMMON BILL

I'LL TRAVEL TO MOUNT NEBO - ALEXANDER

I'LL WAGER, I'LL WAGER - BROOMFIELD HILL

I WILL WALK WITH MY LOVE - BONNY BONNY BOY

I'LL WEAVE HIM A GARLAND - "How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain" - spangle - grove - breezes - ROUD#1247 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p72 Mrs Rowles, Witney, Oxfordsh 3v/ch (w/o)

I'LL WEAVE MY LOVE A GARLAND - BEDLAM MAID

I WON'T BE A NUN - Reel (G) - MOYLAN 1 #22 from Patsy Touhey (U- pipes)

I WISH A MERRY CHRISTMAS - WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

I WISH HE'D DO IT NOW -- BLACK GLOVE BAND: FOREST TRACKS FT-2008 1975 used as instrumental with NUTTING GIRL, MAGGIE MAY etc

I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE - (comp A.J.Piron) -- Martin WINSOR & Redd SULLIVAN at The Troubadour: DEACON DEA 1045 1971

I WISH I HAD NEVER KNOWN - "no man at all" "I wish I had the wings of an eagle" etc - grief - downfall - tyrant - ROUD#1452 - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 #166 pp635-6 Mrs Overd, Langport, Somerset 1904 & (?) part of another song - REEVES IP 1958 pp129-130 Mrs Overd (w/o) - SHARP SG 2003 6v from Emma Overd of Langport, Somerset with mention that it was also noted by Sharp from Jane Gulliford of Comble Florey

I WISH I HAD STAYED IN THE WAGON YARD -- Tom PALEY (voc/gtr/fid/banjo): ARGO ZFB-3 1969

I WISH I HAD THE SHEPHERD'S LAMB - yellow cow - herd of kine - Gaelic chorus - ROUD#2354 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p238 Co Limerick - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 pp64-7 words from & transl by P W Joyce AIM&S - tune from the Glens of Antrim -- Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147

I WISH I NEVER HAD SEEN YOU - Reel - MAGIC SLIPPER

I WISH I WAS A CHILD AGAIN - DIED FOR LOVE

I WISH I WAS A MOLE IN THE GROUND - MOLE IN THE GROUND

I WISH I WAS A SINGLE GIRL AGAIN - WHEN I WAS SINGLE

I WISH I WAS BACK IN LIVERPOOL - words comp by "scouser" Stan Kelly to music by Leon Rosselson - SPIN 1/7 p1 -- Mick GROVES & Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK 1961: EMI CLP-1500 1962/ FTX-291

I WISH I WAS EIGHTEEN AGAIN -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc): STYLUS MUSIC London SMC-263/ CASS-0953 1986

I WISH I WAS IN CARRICKFERGUS - CARRICKFERGUS

I WISH I WAS IN --- CITY - GOING TO CHURCH LAST SUNDAY - IRISH GIRL

I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE - DIXIE'S LAND - MINEHEAD HOBBY HORSE TUNE

I WISH I WAS IN HEAVEN - see also WORRIED LIFE BLUES - SOON ONE MORNING -- Fred McDOWELL (unacc) rec by Alan Lomax Como, Miss USA 1959: RPL LP 26148/ (voc & gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Como, Miss USA Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997 "Wished I was in Heaven above sitting down"

I WISH I WAS IN MINEHEAD, JOHNNY - DIXIE

I WISH I WAS IN NEW ROSS TOWN - IRISH GIRL

I WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN - COME ALL YOU YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - O WHAT A LIFE - SINGLE GIRL, MARRIED GIRL - WHEN I WAS A MAID - WHEN I WAS SINGLE O THEN

I WISH I WERE BACK ON THE FARM -- YETTIES RPL Radio 2 25/11/87: CASS-60-0556

I WISH I WERE ON YONDERS HILL - SHULE AGRA

I WISH, I WISH - DIED FOR LOVE

I WISH IT HAD BEEN A DREAM -- LOUVIN Brothers: CAPITOL 14989 (1958) 45-EP

I WISH MY GRANNY SAW YOU - "I'm Johnny Raw a civil chiel" - ROUD#5614 - ORD BB pp395-6 - Bell DUNCAN #272/ 476, Insch Abedrdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35

I WISH MY HEART WAS MADE OF GLASS - MY LOVE IS BUT A SAILOR BOY

I WISH MY LOVE WAS A RED RED ROSE - BOLD O DONOHUE - IRISH GIRL

I WISH PAY FRIDAY WOULD COME - "'Twas last Pay Friday afternoon" - Words by James Anderson, miner, Elswick, Newcastle (unpubl) -- Louis KILLEN (+ fid): TOPIC 12-T-189 1962/ rec 1963: RPL LP 29982 - Tom GILFELLON with Johnny HANDLE (melodeon) & Colin ROSS (whistle): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

I WISH THAT THE WARS WERE ALL OVER - "Down in the meadows the violets so blue" - Polly or Nell lamenting for her lover Robin - milking her cow - ROUD#2036 - BARING GOULD Ms 182 from Sam Fone, Black Down, Devon 1893 FWB 1893 (3v only) - BG-CS 1895 pp18-19 FW Bussell from Samuel Fone, "I would that the wars were well over" - JOYCE OIFM&S 1909 pp232-3 Co Limerick "Twas down in the meadows" - CAREY ASS 1976 pp74-5 Timothy O Connor Ms songbook c1778 (w/o) - PALMER RS 1977 p225 from SBG omitting 2nd verse - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p92 with last 2v from CAREY -- Sam RICHARDS & Tish STUBBS: SAYDISC SDL-280 1977

I WISH THAT YOU WERE DEAD GOOD MAN - ROUD#2383 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p59 1v/m "There's a chicken in the pot" ("for you young man" - tar with trousers on) - HENRY SOP #531/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp506-7 nn 1934 - Cf JACK THE SAILOR - SAUCY SAILOR

I WISH THERE WERE NO PRISONS - "I do don't you? The old treadmill makes me feel ill - oakum-picking - with me maulers (dukes)" - Song based on I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE but ref to treadmill makes it earlier (Treadmill installed in Brixton Female Prison in 1740) -- JAIL SONG -- George SPICER Kent, rec by Mike Yates, Selsfield, West Hoathley Sussex 26th May 1973: TOPIC 12-T-235 1974/ TSCD-664 1998

I WISH THEY'D DO IT NOW - "Now I was born in sweet Killarney one day while I was young" - "for the lass who'll have me now" - Tipperary - Blarney - "They don't do it now"- ROUD#1401 - GARDHAM ERS 1982 pp20-21 Freddy Bird, Aldborough, Yorks 1972/ p47 Jack Breckon, Esk Valley, Yorksh 1969 "The' doesn't do it now" -- Bob DAVENPORT (unacc ch): LEADER LER-3008 1971 - Tom BROWN (of Caister Norfolk) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 25/3/79 FTX-134 - Instrumental: Paul GROSS (fid) Michael PLUNKETT (recorder) Bill AGATE (harmonica/tamb) Jack NORRIS & Snowy HOWICK (harmonicas) Scan TESTER (conc) Reg HALL (mel) Bill Mc MAHON (spoons & effects) Mervyn PLUNKETT (percussion) rec by Mervyn Plunkett, "The Cat", West Hoathly, Sussex 5/10/57: TOPIC 12-T-455-6 1990

I WISH TONIGHT WAS SATURDAY NIGHT - "tomorrow will be Sunday - I'll be dressed in all my best - to go along with somebody" - Kids skipping game - RITCHIE GC p113 & 124 -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181/ rec by James Ritchie, 16/12/53: RPL 19925 - "One Potato Two Potato" Film Soundtrack - rec by PK, Kentish Town Church School, London 23/1/53: RPL 19004 - Keston Avenue School Old Coulsden Surrey April 1960: RPL LP 26349

I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS - "A pocket full of money, a cellar full of beer" - PALMER SOM 1972 p12 George Dunn, Staffordsh 1971

I WISH YOU A MERRY NEW YEAR - Jig - MITTELL #6 p5 (D)

I WISH YOU ALL GOOD NIGHT - Triple Jig - MITTEL #78 p32 (F)

I WISH YOU LOVE - comp by Trenet -- Gordon CUTTY (E-conc) FREE REED FRR-006 1976

I WISH YOUR MOTHER WOULD COME - "Come Geordie haud the bairn" - ROUD#3161 - ED&S 51:2 (1989) p20 Bs facsimile (w/o)

I WISHED TO BE SINGLE AGAIN - WHEN I WAS SINGLE

I WONDER AS I WANDER - Carol arr John Jacob Niles -- Cyril TAWNEY RPL Prog 1957 "Sing Christmas" ROUNDER-CD-11661-1850-2 2000/ CASS-0423-4

I WONDER I WONDER - "if coppers are fat" - Children's Rhyme -- FTX-198 A32 Boy in Stepney London

I WONDER WHAT IS KEEPING MY TRUELOVE TONIGHT? - ROUD#858 - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 p84-7 "The Rose and the Thyme" - GRAINGER ONS#40/ RNS#26: John Collinson, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland 1905 "I wonder what's keeping my love?" - ORD BB 1930 p187 As Greig (w/o) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #157 p357 Mary McGarvey, Co Donegal 1954 "Green Grass it grows bonny" - TUNNEY SF 1979 p87 -- Seamus ENNIS rec Dublin 20/9/49: RPL 13767/ FTX-169 - Mary McGARVEY (of Co Donegal) rec by Seamus Ennis for Radio Eireann, Armagh 1948: RPL 21831 "The Dew & the Thorn"/ FTX-015 "Green Grass it grows bonny" - Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax 1951/ rec by Seamus Ennis 5/7/52: RPL 18132 (remade as RPL LP 26506) / FTX-260 "Laddie wi the dark & rolling eye" - John CORRY rec by James P Foley, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, 1985: FTX-178

I WONDER WHAT'S THE MATTER? -- rec Darrington, Sandy Point, Texas AAFS L8 B3/ 7"RTR#0309

I WONDER WHEN I'M TO BE MARRIED? - COUNTRY COURTSHIP

I WONDER WHERE MARIA'S GONE? - "so early in the morning" - Children's game -SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #258 (vol 2 p369) Hillard Smith, Hindman, Knott Co., Ky 1917 (asung to "Drunken Sailor" type tune) - Cf PAW PAW PATCH - ROSE ROSE AND UP SHE RISES

I WONDER WHO'LL BE MY MAN? - "I won'er wha'll be my man?" - HENDERSON VSB 1937 Bs (w/o)

I WON'T - I WILL NOT

I'D BE SO GLAD WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN - Ed LEWIS & Group (vocal) rec by Alan Lomax: ATLANTIC SD-1346 1960

I WOULD I WERE ON YONDERS HILL - SHULE AGRA

I'D BE A BUTTERFLY - "born in a bower" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

I'D JUST AS SOON BE A BAGGAR AS A KING - I CANNOT EAT BUT LITTLE MEAT

I WOULD NOT BE A MONARCH GREAT - COUNTRY FARMER'S SON

I WOULDN'T LEAVE MY LITTLE WOODEN HUT FOR YOU - "Once upon a cannibal isle there dwelt a dark-eyed maid" - ROUD#2542 - FMJ 5:3 1987 pp344-5 Ian Russell: Stanley Marsden, Sheffield, Yorks 1971 - KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS

I WOULD NOT MARRY A FARMER - sailor, ploughman, blacksmith, weaver - ORD BB 1930 p150 "Oh but I'm weary" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p236 (w/o) "My Jolly Waggoner" - BLUE-EYED GIRL - LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #272 (Vol 2 p381) "Soldier boy for me" 2var: Mr Bridges, St Peter's Mission, Franklin Co., Va 1918/ Jake Sowder, St Peters School, Callaway, Va 1918 (Publ)

I WOULD RATHER HAVE A YOUNG MAN - "with an apple in his hand" - old man houses & land - ROUD#1340 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p305 #265 Filkins, Oxfordsh 1v (w/o) - Cf NEVER WED AN OLD MAN

I WOULD THAT THE WARS WERE ALL OVER - I WISH THAT

I WROTE MY LOVE A LETTER - GREEN GROWS THE LAUREL