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LOT'S WIFE - "How prone are professors to rest upon this" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

LOTHIAN HAIRST, THE - "-On August the 12th frae Aberdeen we sailed" travelled by sea to the harvest" - ROUD#2165 - RYMOUR Club 1906 1 pp25-6 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #404 (10var) - ORD BB 1930 p264 (w/o) - TOCHER 7 1972 p209 from Willie Mathieson, Aberdeensh - Cf PADDY IN GLASGOW -- Hector CAMPBELL, Ythan Wells, Aberdeensh #056 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - John STRACHAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Crickie, Aberdeensh 21/4/52: RPL 17810/ 066 - Frank STEELE rec by SE, Whitehills, Aberdeensh 8/7/52: RPL 18128 - Rob WATT rec by Bill Leader, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh: TOPIC 12-T-180 1968

LOTHIAN ROAD - Street song comp by GM 1962 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-222-90

LOTTERY - (The Casting or Drawing of lots) - CASTING LOTS - LADY AND THE APPRENTICE

LOTUS CLUB, THE - Clog Hornpipe - COLE p120 (F & C) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #103 p30 (G/D)

LOUDON'S BONNY WOODS - LORD MOIRA

LOUGH ALLEN - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1321/ DMI #582 (A) alt: "Box about the fireplace" "The Mill Stream"

LOUGH ALLEN'S BANKS/ SIDE - SHANNON SIDE

LOUGH BRAN - SHORES OF LOUGH BRAN

LOUGH ERNE - "I am a rambling Irishman - sailed to Amerikay" Ch: "Tantinana" On board he dreams of his Nancy but in Philadelpia he links up with lassies - Cf MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY -- Cathal O CONNELL (unacc & ch): LEADER LER-2090 1974 (learned from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Antrim) - Dick GAUGHAN: TOPIC 12- TS-419 1981 (from Cathal)/ with Brian McNEIL (fid), Phil CUNNINGHAM (keyboards & whi) & Stewart ISBISTER (e/bass): CASS- 90-0894 followed by Jig "First Kiss at parting"

LOUGH ERNE'S SHORE - "One evening as I went a-fowling" - HENRY SOP #597 - O BOYLE 1976 p68 (4v) from Paddy Tunney with extensive notes on "Aisling" (Vision) Poetry - TUNNEY SF 1979 p115 -- Paddy TUNNEY rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 19/7/52: 7"RTR-0555/ RPL 18538 talk bef/ FTX-163

LOUGH GOWNA - Jig - MAGUIRE 1 #15 p4 (A) - THE COLEMAN COUNTRY: CELTIC MUSIC CM-CD-048 1990 (Gift of Dave Bulmer March 2005) aft "Strike the Gay Harp"

LOUGH ISLE CASTLE - March -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by David Hammond: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 aft "Drunken Piper"

LOUGH LYNN - WOODLANDS OF LOUGH LYNN

LOUGH OONEY - "O you bards of this nation" about a drowning - Murray - Juno - Columbia - ROUD#2927 - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp58-60 & p113 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970

LOUGH SHEELINSIDE - Eviction Ballad -- Margaret O REILLY (unacc) Co Cavan rec RTE "Long Note" prog June 1988 CASS-0894

LOUGHANURE TUNE, THE - Mouth music - ROAD TO BALLYNURE-- Neil BOYLE rec by PK, Dunloe, Co Donegal 23/8/53: RPL 20016/ 170 Story, tune of song, tune lilted, then played on fiddle

LOUGHILL HORNPIPE, THE - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #229 p104 (G) from Paddy Taylor (flute) Limerick - Loughill is in Co Limerick -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute), Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 [?] aft: "Tailor's Twist"

LOUGHREA JIG, THE - Co Galway - FROST IS ALL OVER

LOUGHREA LASSES - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #112 p27 (Em) - Tunebook Ms #123 p311 (Am)

LOUGHSIDE HORNPIPE or REEL, THE - (Bb) -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Carrick, Co Donegal 1953: FTX-370/ rec by David Hammond 1975: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 (with talk about being comp locally)

LOUGHTON MAY CAROL - Bletchley, Buckinghamshire -- Mrs C A Perry rec by PK, Loughton, Bletchley 7/9/54: RTR-0117/ RPL 21149/ FTX-307 May Carol & talk

LOUIS QUINN'S HORNPIPE -- Jimmy Hogan (acc) rec by PK, London 8/3/58 - RPL LP 23969/ FTX-371/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997

LOUISIANA LOWLANDS - "Way down Louisiana, not many years ago" (incl verse of "The Golden Vanity") - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp278-9 Prof A McMechan 1929

LOUSY TAILOR, THE - BUTCHER AND THE TAILOR'S WIFE

LOUTH - Co in S Ireland - DROGHEDA WEAVER'S MARCH - MARCHING TO DROGHEDA - TURFMAN FROM ARDEE -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

LOVAT SCOUTS - March -- Curly McKAY (acc) & Willie KEMP ("tromp" or jews harp): TOPIC TSCD-657 aft: "Glenduarel Highlanders" & "Kenmore" bef "Money Musk" - Jack ARMSTRONG's NORTHUMBRIAN BARNSTORMER'S Band rec by Alan Lomax, 1951: SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 aft "Ward's Brae" & bef "I'll gang nae mair to yon toon" - Joe HUTTON (N-pipes) Northumberland: TOPIC 12-TS-227 1974

LOVE - COMIC COURTSHIP - COURTING - CRUEL PARENTS - CUPID - DIED FOR LOVE - FAREWELL - SEDUCTION - UNEASY WEDLOCK - WEDDINGS

LOVE - COURTSHIP (ENCOUNTERS) - AS I ROVED OUT - BLACKBERRY GROVE - BONNY LASSIE O THE MORNIN (Foley) - BONNY TAVRIN GREEN - BONNY WEE WINDOW - CA THE YOWES - COLIN AND PHOEBE - COME WRITE ME DOWN - COUNTRY COURTSHIP - DAWNING OF THE DAY - DOWN BY THE GROVES OF TULLIG - EASTER SNOW - FALSE BRIDE - GEORDIE McKAY - GREASY COOK - GREEN GROW THE LAURELS - GREENWOOD LADDIE - HALF DOOR - HALF PAST TEN - HARRY THE TAILOR - HEATHERY HILLS - I'M A STRANGER IN THIS COUNTRY - I'LL MARRY AND I WON'T BE A NUN - JOHNNY LOVELY JOHNNY - JUST AS THE TIDE WAS FLOWING - KISSIN'S NAE SIN - LION'S DEN - LONG AND WISHING EYE - LURGAN STREAM - MADAM - MOUNTAIN STREAMS - NEXT MONDAY MORNING - NO SIR - OLD CARAVEE - OLD GREY BEARD - ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER - PLOUGHBOY - POLWARTH ON THE GREEN - QUEEN AMONG THE HEATHER - ROSEMARY LANE - SIXTEEN YEARS MAMA - SPOTTED COW - WHEN A MAN'S IN LOVE - WHEN YOU GO A-COURTING - WHISTLE AND I'LL COME - YOUNG PEGGY - YOUNG ROGER EQUIRE

LOVE - COURTSHIP - Children - ALL THE BOYS IN OUR TOWN - GREEN GRASS - HERE COMES A DUKE A-RIDING - HERE COMES THREE SAILORS - LUSTY WOOER - SIX VIRGINS - THERE CAME THREE JEWS - WIDOW FROM BABYLON

LOVE - COURTSHIP - Talk about - TOCHER # 48-9 pp379-383 Ethel Findlater talking to Alan Bruford about Courtship & Marriage 1969

LOVE - FALSE (UNREQUITED) - ABROAD AS I WAS WALKING - ALL YOU THAT'S PIERCED BY CUPID'S DARTS - APRON OF FLOWERS - AT TWENTY ONE - BANKS OF THE SWEET PRIMROSES - BINSIN LUACHRA - BLACKSMITH COURTED ME - BONNY BONNY BOY - BONNY GREEN TREE - BONNY IRISH BOY - BONNY LASSIE'S ANSWER - CASTLE DOLLIFORD - CUCKOO - DAWNING OF THE DAY - DEEP IN LOVE - DELUDED LOVER - DIED FOR LOVE - DONAL OG - DON'T COME AGAIN - DOWN BY BLACKWATERSIDE - DRITHEARAIN O MO CHROIDHE - DROWSY SLEEPER - FALSE BRIDE - FALSE YOUNG MAN - FAREWELL FALSE HEARTED YOUNG MAN - FAREWELL HE - GO AND LEAVE ME IF YOU WISH IT - GO AWAY FROM MY WINDOW - GOING TO CHURCH LAST SUNDAY - GRAIH FOALSEY (Manx) - GREEN BUSHES - GREEN GRASS IT GROWS BONNY _ GREEN GROWS THE LAUREL -GREY HAWK - I'VE A SWEETHEART IN AMERICA (Kids) - I LOVED A LASS A FAIR ONE - I'VE A SWEETHEART IN AMERICA (K) - I SIT AT MY WINDOW - TWAS ON ONE APRIL MORNING - IRISH GIRL - IT'S BRAW SAILING ON THE SEA - TWAS ON ONE APRIL MORNING - JOHNNY, LOVELY JOHNNY - LASS WITH BONNY BROWN HAIR - LITTLE BENCH OF ROSES - LONESOME - LOVE IS BONNY - LOVE IT IS A KILLING THING - LOVELY BANKS OF BOYNE - LOVELY BANKS OF LEA - MAGHERACLOONE - MAID OF BUNCLODY - MARY OF KILMORE - MILLER'S DAUGHTER - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY - MYLECHRANE - NOBLEMAN'S WEDDING - O NO WE NEVER MENTION HER - OLD SOLDIER - ONCE I HAD A COLOUR - ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART/TRUELOVE - ONE THURSDAY EVENING - OUR WEDDING DAY - RAMBLE-AWAY - RAMBLING BOYS OF PLEASURE - RAREY'S HILL - RASHY MUIR - REJECTED LOVER - ROY'S WIFE OF ALDIVALOCH - SARAH SCOTT - SEEDS OF LOVE - SHEFFIELD PARK - SHULE AGRA - SINNERING O ME - SLANEY SIDE - SLIEVE GALTEE MOUNTAINS - SPRIG OF THYME - SWEETHEARTS I'VE GOT PLENTY - TANYARD SIDE - TAVRIN GREEN - TWO YEARS OWER YOUNG - WANDERING GIRL - WANTON WIFE OF CASTLEGATE - WHEEL OF FORTUNE - WHEN I WAS YOUNG - WILLIAM BROWN - YON GREEN VALLEY - YOU GIRLS OF EQUAL STATION - YOU HAVE LAIN WRONG, LASSIE - YOU RAMBLING BOYS

LOVE - TRUE - ALL ROUND MY HAT - BLACKSMITH COURTED ME - BONNY BLUE-EYED LASSIE - BONNY LABOURING BOY - BUACHAL NA GRAGHAIL BRABEE (in English) - BUACHAILL RUA (in Engl) - FALSE LOVER WON BACK - GAMHAIN GEAL BAN, AN - (The bright white calf) - HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS - I AM A MAID THAT'S DEEP IN LOVE - LOCKS AND BOLTS - MY DARLING PLOUGHMAN BOY - OUR WEDDING DAY - SAILOR IN THE NORTH COUNTERIE - SUN IS GONE DOWN IN THE WEST, LOVE - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

LOVE - SEDUCTION - BANKS OF SKENE - BARLEY STRAW - BARLEY RAKINGS - BEDMAKING - BEGGARMAN'S BAG - BEEHIVE - BLOW THE CANDLE OUT - BOLD ASTRLOGER - BOLD DRAGOON - BONNY BLACK HARE - BRICKLAYER'S DREAM - BUNCH OF NUTS - BUTCHER AND THE PARSON - BUXOM LASS - CAPTAIN THUNDERBOLT - CHANDLER'S WIFE - CHRISTMAS GOOSE - COMING HOME FROM THE WAKE - CORRACHREE - COURTING COAT - CUCKOO'S NEST - DEVIL'S IN THE GIRL - DICKIE THE MILLER - DING DONG - DOWN AMONG THE BARLEY STRAW - DOWN THE GREEN FIELDS - DUNDEE WEAVER - FOGGY DEW - FOOTY AGIN THE WA - FRIAR IN THE WELL - GAME COCK - GOWN SO GREEN - HERD LADDIE - I'LL LAY YE DOON, LOVE - IT RAINS IT HAILS - JIMMY MURPHY - KEEPER - LANCASHIRE LASS - LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER - LITTLE FARM - LOW DOWN IN THE BROOM - MATTHEW THE MILLER - MOLECATCHER - MOWER - QUEEN OF MAY - RAP- TAP-TAP - ROAD TO YOUGHAL - ROGUEY - SAILOR'S FROLIC - SEA CAPTAIN AND THE SQUIRE - SQUIRE AND THE CHAMBERMAID - SHOEMAKER'S KISS - STRAWBERRY FAIR - TAILOR IN THE TEACHEST - TAILOR'S BREECHES - THRASHING MACHINE - THREE MAIDENS - TAIM CORTHA O BHEITH IM' AONAR IM' LUI (WEARY OF LYING ALONE) - TINKER BEHIND THE DOOR - TROOPER'S HORSE - UNDERNEATH HER APRON - WEAVER - WIDOW OF WESTMORLAND'S DAUGHTER - WILL THE WEAVER - WIND BLEW THE BONNY LASSIE'S PLAIDIE AWA

LOVE AND FREEDOM - "As I went out to the market place what do you think I seen? - but a fine young fiddler laddie whistling o'er the green - singing ho daughter..." - from Mai Hernon, Coolaney, Co Sligo -- MOVING CLOUD Danish-Irish Folk Group: GO 0102 nd with reel: "O Dwyers"

LOVE AND LIBERTY - GAOL SONG

LOVE AND LIVER - "My toggery I took out of pawn" Ch: "Dumble dum deary" - Nonsense Song (Cf Nottgingham Fair) - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

LOVE AND PORTER -- Peg & Bobby CLANCY (Duet): EMBER 2057 1968

LOVE AND WHISKEY - Triple Jig - BOB AND JOAN

LOVE AT THE ENDINGS - Reel - comp by Ed Reavy - SHASKEEN 1 #32 p23 (D)

LOVE BUMPS - (boy and girl bumping heads) - Kids Omen - see also LOVE SIGNS -- FTX-199 B/7 (b)

LOVE CALIFORNIA STYLE - comp by JT -- Jeremy TAYLOR (v/gtr) rec Purcell Room, Festival Hall, London Radio 2: 7/4/80: CASS-0416

LOVE DISGUISED - WILLIAM AND MARY

LOVE FAREWELL - "John & Mary making posies" Ch: "March, my lads with colours flying" - primroses - Colonel calls - ROUD#1301 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p235 #106 John Pillinger, Lechlade, Gloucestersh (w/o) -- Mick HENNESSY (unacc): ARGO ZDA-147 1971 "Come all brave boys"

LOVE GREGORY - LORD GREGORY

LOVE HAS BROUGHT ME TO DESPAIR - DIED FOR LOVE

LOVE HENRY - YOUNG HUNTING

LOVE HER FOR EVER - Tunebook Ms #159 pp414-5 (G) 4/4

LOVE IN A HURRY - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #113 p28 (D) - Tunebook Ms #100 p303 (D)

LOVE IN A VILLAGE - Polka (G) - BALMORAL p19 Reel for Quadrille

LOVE IN THE EAST - Jig - MITTELL #12 p6 (D)

LOVE IN THE TUB - "Come all ye young people and listen awhile" - vintner in love with merchants daughter - she hides in barrel while vintner offers to buy whatever it contains - happy ending - LAWS #N-25 ABBB 1957 p216 (or "The Merchant Outwitted") - ROUD#556 - BELDEN BSM 1955 pp233-5 Fred Bingaman, Mo 1910 (w/o)

LOVE IS BONNY -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682

LOVE IS TEASING - "love is pleasing" - ROUD#1049 - BARING GOULD Garland 1895 - Alfred WILLIAMS #496 Mrs George Lee, South Marston, Wiltsh "Love it is easing" - Sam HENRY SOP #15 "Johnny Johnny"/ #580 "Farewell darling"/ #641 "Ripest apples" - REEVES EC 1960 #84 p179 Hammond: Mrs Gulliver 1905 "Love it is pleasing" & pp97-8 "O love is hot" - SEDLEY 1967 p150 & p164 --- LOMAX FSNA 1960 p136 NY Irish "Love is Pleasure" -- See APRON OF FLOWERS - JOHNNY JOHNNY - LOVE IT IS A KILLING THING - Also used as chorus for DIED FOR LOVE - HERE'S A HEALTH TO ALL TRUELOVERS - LIGHT OF THE MOON -- Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: 072 includes parody: "Maid on the Shelf" - David HAMMOND rec by Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1958: 7"RTR-0564 ("Derry Gaol" or "Gallows Song") - Isabel SUTHERLAND (voc) with Steve BENBOW (gtr) & John COLE (harmonica) rec by PK, London 1959: FTX-062 - Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK 1961: EMI SCX- 493 1972/ FTX-291 - Jean REDPATH (voc/gtr) ELEKTRA BY-6004 1966 from Isabel - Alex CAMPBELL: TRANSATLANTIC TRA- SAM-6 1969 - Noel MURPHY: VILLAGE THING VTS-025 1972 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-0927 - JACKIE & BRIDIE rec Concert Hall Radio 2: 7/4/80: CASS-0416 --- Jean JENKINS rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-915 - Jean RITCHIE (voc/dulc): ELEKTRA EKLP-2 19520 10"LP

LOVE IS THE CAUSE OF MY MOURNING - Song Air - Tunebook Ms #148 p229 (G ends D) 3/4 - McGIBBON

LOVE'S WORSE THAN SICKNESS - TRUELOVER'S FAREWELL

LOVE IT IS A DIZZINESS - "I once lived quietly and never thought to marry" - Ch: "Love O love, lassie, love it is a dizziness - it wouldna let a puir body gang about their business" - GREIG- DUNCAN 5 1995 #934 pp10-13 (6v/5m)

LOVE IT IS A KILLING THING - IRISH GIRL

LOVE IT IS EASING - "When I was young and well beloved" - WILLIAMS #496 (w/o)

LOVE JOHNNIE - JOHNNY SCOTT

LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS - DAUGHTER IN THE DUNGEON

LOVE-LINKS - Jig - COLE p72 (A)

LOVE OF GOD RAZOR/ SHAVE, THE - IRISH BARBER

LOVE OF MY HEART - GRADH (GEAL) MO CHROIDHE - GRAIH MY CHRIE

LOVE, PORT AND SHERRY - Quadrille Jig - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 p39 (D) - Tunebook Ms #6 pp336-7 -- HAYMAKERS BAND led by PK rec London 25/3/56: RPL LP 23649/ FTX-041

LOVE SIGNS - Children - COLLARS TURNED UP - COLOURS - COINCIDENCES - FINGER CRACKING - LOVE BUMPS - LUCK - LUCKY NUMBERS

LOVE SOMEBODY YES I DO - SOLDIER'S JOY

LOVE SONG IN THE YEAR 1769 - "Down by a shady bower, nigh to a pleasant green" - ROUD#2087 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 ship's log 1769 (w/o)

LOVE TOKEN, THE - WELCOME SAILOR

LOVE TOKENS - BROKEN TOKENS - DOWN IN YON VALLEY (cuffs) - LADY OF THE LAKE

LOVE WALTZ - KOHLER p74 (F)

LOVE WAS ONCE A LITTLE BOY - ROUD #2664 - BSs incl BG 4 #405 - WILLIAMS Ms: Wt #493 Miss A Cross, South Marston, Wiltsh (w/o) - SHEPARD HSL 1973 p186 Bs Pitts London (w/o)

LOVE WILL FIND A WAY - SOME RIVAL HAS STOLEN

LOVE WILL NEVER NEVER CONQUER ME -- McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5258 1965

LOVE, WILL YOU MARRY ME? - "Some say the devil's dead and buried in Killarney/ more say he rose again/ and joined the British Army"-- Bobby CLANCY rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #34 - DE DANAAN CASS-0879 with vocal

LOVE, WILL YOU MARRY ME? or BRAES OF MAAS - Highland Schottische - KENNEDY FTB 1 1950 #75 - BOWEN p51 3 var: "Braes o' Mar" from Tom Hughes (SPRINGTHYME SPR 1005) - COLE #1 p93 2/4 written as a Hornpipe 3pts (F) alt: "Ladies Triumph" (with dance directions) - HAYWOOD #21 p55 "Highland Fling" - HONEYMAN p12 "The Braes of Mar" Strathspey - ROCHE 2 #286 p35 (G) "Love, won't you marry me?" - BAYARD DTF #284 p237 "Old Aunt Katie" 2var Highland -- Paddy BREEN (vert flute) Clare rec by PK, London 1950: FTX-078 "Some say the devil's dead" - Johnny PICKERING (fid), rec by PK, Markethill, Co Armagh 12/7/52: 7"RTR-0546/ RPL 18386/ 431 "The Braes of Maas" with "Green grow the rashes-O" - Live performance by 2 accordions, 2 tambourines, dancing & voices rec near Listowel, Co Kerry (Doc Rowe collection): TOPIC TSCD-666 1998 "Highland Fling"

LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG - "Once in the dear old days beyond recall" - words by Clifton Bingham Feb 1882/ music by (?) - BS -

LOVE'S TALE - CUPID'S GARDEN

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM - Jig (G) - KERR MM 2 #256 p28

LOVELY ANNIE - FAREWELL MY DEAREST NANCY- JOHNNY LOVELY JOHNNY - POLLY OLIVER'S RAMBLES

LOVELY BANKS OF BOYNE, THE - "For I am a youthful damsel - Young Flora - on the lovely B of B" - false Love on man's part - LAWS #P-22 ABBB 1957 p259 - ROUD#995 - MORTON FSU 1970 pp28-9 Hugh Lees, Enniskillen, Fermanagh "The Banks of Boyne" --- SHARP FSSA #185 (Vol 2 p261) Mrs Margaret Jack Dodd, Beechgrove, Va 1918 "Susannah Clargy" ("There was a lady lived in Cain - SC was her name") - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p384 & p409 Neil O Brien

LOVELY BANKS OF LEA, THE - False Love Exile - Lloyd says tune related to UNDERHEATH HER APRON (Gathering rushes in the month of May) -- Mary CONNORS (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1/8/52: RPL 18587/ FTX-168 - Paddy TUNNEY (from Mrs Connors) rec by PK, London 14/10/58: 7"RTR-0560/ FTX-164 "Mary on the banks of the Lea" - Peta WEBB: TOPIC 12-TS-223 1973 (from Mary Connors)

LOVELY BANNA STRAND -- Sheila STEWART (daughter of Belle) rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, Perthsh July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7

LOVELY CAROLINE - CAROLINE FROM EDINBURGH TOWN

LOVELY FAR OFF CITY - Carol -- CLANCY BROTHERS (Tom, Pat, Liam & Bob): SHENACHIE 52017 1987

LOVELY GLENSHESK - Pastoral - Emigration from Antrim - see also GLENESK WATERSIDE -- Len GRAHAM: TOPIC 12-TS-401 1979

LOVELY IRISH BOY, THE - MY LOVELY IRISH BOY

LOVELY ISLE OF SAINTS - "Farewell farewell my native shore" - WRIGHT Irish Emigrant Ballads & Songs (Bowling Green Univ Press 1975) "The Evicted Farmer's Farewell" - - John CORRY, Co Tyrone 1986: FTX-178

LOVELY JAMIE - "This one and that one will court him" - "to fight in the Lowlands of Holland they stole lovely Jamie from me" - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 pp60-3 "The Lover's Curse" (3v adapted by the editor from an old ballad Co Donegal)

LOVELY JANE FROM ENNISKEA - "One evening fair in lovely June I carelessly did stray" - Broken Token type Love Song - ROUD#2901 - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp7-8 & p101 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970 - tune similar to ROCKS OF BAWN -- John MAGUIRE rec by Robin Morton, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970: LEADER LEE-4062 1973

LOVELY JIMMY - LOVELY WILLIE - TWO CHOICES

LOVELY JOAN - "as she sat milking all alone" - "One noble knight it was indeed mounted on his milk-white steed" - Offers his purse of gold in exchange for her maidenhead, but she says that although she is to be married on the morrow, the gold will be better than 20 husbands - while he is looking around for a bed she jumps on his horse and rides to her truelovers gate, leaving the knight without horse or gold and the empty purse to hold - ROUD#592 - BSs incl BG 1:1:#59/ 9:#200 - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 "Common ballad air" - SHARP-MARSON EFSS 4 pp48-9 James Proll, Monksilver, Somerset - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #212 p60 Jim Proll "Sweet LJ" - MERRICK FSFS 1912 Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex - JFSS 1:5 1904 p270 Merrick: Henry Hills 1v/m "One Noble Knight" (rest of "Words objectionable") - JFSS 2:4 (15) 1910 p90 RVW: Christopher Jay, Acle, Norfolk 1908 (last v) {This is the tune used in George Butterworth's "Folksong Suite") - JFSS 4 1913 pp330-1 William Hurr, Southwold, Suffolk 1919 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp46-7 #469 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh 10v (w/o) "Sweet LJ" - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p64 RVW: Christopher Jay 8v/m - SEDLEY 1967 Words of "Crafty Maid's Policy" (3v only) Crampton/ Merrick - PURSLOW CL 1972 p95 Gardiner: Mrs Hall, North Waltham, Hampsh 1909 10v "Sweet LJ" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #64 pp120-1 RVW: Christopher Jay, Acle, Norfolk 1908 5v - PALMER RVW 1983 #82 pp127-8 William Hurr, Southwold, Suffolk 1919 -- Shirley & Dolly COLLINS (flute organ): POLYDOR 582-025 1968 (from RVW) - Andrew CRONSHAW (instrum): TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1139 1974 - SPREDTHICK (Group) rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 1975 - Polly BOLTON & group with women's voices Radio 2 17/10/90 CASS-60-1017 - Jo FREYA SAYDISC SDL-402 (CD) 1993

LOVELY JOHNNY - SHEPHERD'S LAMENT

LOVELY JOHNNY - "Where the high walls of Derry look dismal and grey" - ROUD#443 - MORTON FSU 1970 pp23-24 Davy Menish, Tarthlogue, Co Armagh -- Cf LONESOME SCENES OF WINTER -- Davy Menish rec by Robin Morton: (MERCIER IRL-11)

LOVELY KATE OF LISKEHAUN - "You gentle muses I pray excuse" - ROUD#3048 - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp196-7 & 217

LOVELY LAD, THE - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #406 (D) as Single Jig

LOVELY LASS TO A FRIAR CAME, A -- GARRET SINGERS: ARGO ZFB-7 1970

LOVELY LUCERNE -- Billy BENNINGTON (h-dulc) rec by Jim COUZA, Barford, Norfolk 20/7/82 CASS-0871

LOVELY MARY - FAREWELL MY DEAREST NANCY - MARY, THE PRIDE OF CLOONKEEN

LOVELY MARY OF THE SHANNON SIDE - (Gaelic metrics Cf NIGHEAN AN BHAOILLIGH in BOYLE: Cnusacht de Cheoltai Uladh) -- Patrick CONLON rec by PK, Forkhill, Co Armagh 15/7/1952: 7"RTR-0549/ FTX-431

LOVELY MARY TO THE SEA DO NOT GO - FAREWELL MY DEAREST NANCY

LOVELY MOLLY - "I once was a ploughboy but a soldier I'm now" Ch: "O Molly, lovely Molly I delight in your charms" - HENRY 1923 2:282 - PORTER-GOWER 1995 2v & ch from Jeannie Robertson -- (PRESTIGE 13075) - Lizzie HIGGINS: TOPIC 12-T-185/ TSCD-655 (Jacobite Song)

LOVELY MOLLY - "Here's health to my Molly" - ROUD#6996 - HENRY SOP #149 "Pining day and daily" & #709 "If I were a fisher" (Lough Neagh) - Cf verses of OUR WEDDING DAY -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Ballinderry, Co Antrim 1955: FTX-159

LOVELY MOLLY - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1298/ DMI #563 (#Em)

LOVELY MOLLY - CA THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES - CONSTANT JOHNNY - FAREWELL MY DEAREST NANCY

LOVELY NANCY - ADIEU MY LOVELY NANCY - CUPID'S CHAINS - FAREWELL MY DEAREST NANCY - RAMBLING BEAUTY

LOVELY NANCY - "One fine summer's morning" - Sailor asks what she is doing so far from home - waiting for her true love who's been away 3 years and describes him in glowing terms, so he pulls out the other half of the ring - LAWS N-33 & ABBBB 1957 p220 - ROUD#1449 - BARING GOULD Ms #101 (a) Elizabeth Burgoyne, Stoke Fleming (words partly forgotten) publ re-written in GCS - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #146 pp559-560 Job Francis, Shipley, Sussex 1908 "Faithful N" --- CREIGHTON-SENIOR TSNS 1950 p187 - see TWAS ON ONE APRIL MORNING -- Michael GALLAGHER, rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: FTX-514 - Ian CAMPBELL & Dave SWARBRICK: TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 (from Sharp) - Robin MORTON & Cathal McCONNELL (unison unacc) of THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH (Group): LEADER LER-2090 1974 (from Pat Magee, Balintra) - Richard GENDALL (voc/gtr): FTX-009 "Nancy Hegar" (sung in Cornish)

LOVELY NANCY - Jig or Waltz - DUNSTAN CSB p50 - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p35/ 1994 #139 p35 (G) - Tunebook Ms #73 p197 (G) "Humours of Glyn" (perhaps wrongly titled)/ #164 p237 (D) 4 pts & #70 p370 (with variations) (D) 6pts - see HUMOURS OF GLIN -- Sean MAGUIRE Senr (whistle) of Co Cavan rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: 7"RTR-0542/ RPL 18377 talk bef & played as jig/ FTX-376 - Peter KENNEDY (mel): FTX-323 (as Waltz) - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 aft: "Sherborne Jig" (as Waltz)

LOVELY NYMPH - Tunebook Ms #172 p240 (G) 3/4

LOVELY ON THE WATER - HENRY AND NANCY

LOVELY PRINCESS - THERE WAS A LOVELY PRINCESS

LOVELY ROSIE - BELLE ROSE

LOVELY SALLY - Air - ROCHE 1 #55 p27 (G) 3/4

LOVELY STORNOWAY -- Rhona McLEOD: BELTONA (Decca) LBA-58 1968

LOVELY SUSAN, THE MILKMAID - "'Twas in the grove as I did walk to view the meadows round" - a sailor, Henry, returns to find his truelove Susan milking her cows and that she has a baby - ROUD#1683 - PURSLOW FD 1974 p54 Gardiner: Mrs Goodyear, Axford, Hampsh 1907 1v with rest of text from Heppel BS

LOVELY SUSAN, THE PRIDE OF KILDARE - PRETTY SUSAN

LOVELY SWEET BANKS OF THE BRIDE - "Come all who approve of sport and pleasure" - ROUD#2693 - JFSS 3 1907 pp6-9 2var Broadwood: Bridget & Michael Geary, Cappoquin, Co Waterford 1906

LOVELY WILLIAM - SPRIG OF THYME - WILLIAM OF THE WAGON TRAIN

LOVELY WILLIE - "It happened one evening at the playing of ball" - Girl, courted by one of high rank, falls in love with one of low degree - Cruel father stabs boy to death and as Willie is laid in the grave, his grieving sweetheart looks forwards to her own death - LAWS #M-35 ABBB 1957 p198 - ROUD#1913 - HENRY SOP #587/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p433 nn, Prolusk, Co Antrim 1935 "Sweet William" - O LOCHLAIN ISB 1939 Cathal O Byrne Belfast (who got it from John McLaverty (rec) - TUNNEY SF 1979 p138 (from Liam Andrews) --- BARRY p35 5d (Me) - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p107 "Lovely Johnny" (has "Green grow the laurels" verse) - GARDNER-CHICKERING 1939 (Mich) p103 6d - KARPELES FSFN 1971 #66 pp210-11 Michael Corbett, Nfl 1929 "The Father in Ambush" ("L Jimmy") - LEACH Labrador #19 p172 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 p456 Clara Stevens, Bellburns, Nfl 1959 "Green grow the laurels"- RANDOLPH OFS 1946-50 1 pp417-8 Col Ray R Denoon, Springfield, Missouri 1928 3dv "Lovely William" - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p107 Freed Redden/ Ned McKay NS 1957 "Lovely Jimmy" - Cf JEW'S GARDEN -- John McLAVERTY rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0542/ RPL 18310 "Lament for Willie"

LOVER AND DARLING, THE - FAIR MAID, WILL YOU CALL ME YOUR DARLING?

LOVER AND HIS LASS -- LIVERPOOL SPINNERS (Group) rec by PK, London: EMI EMC-3044 1974

LOVER IN THE NIGHT - GREY COCK

LOVER, Samuel - Irish song composer - ANGELS WHISPER - WHISTLING THIEF

LOVERIN LOVELL - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974: FTX-046

LOVERS, THE - IT RAINS IT HAILS - STANDING STONES

LOVER'S CURSE, THE - LOVELY JAMIE

LOVER'S FAREWELL, THE - "Young people all come lend attention" - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp80-81 Mrs C S McClennan, Fla. USA (w/o) -- Carter Family (Trio) Memphis, Tenn USA 24/5/30: 7"RTR-0313-4

LOVER'S GHOST - GREY COCK - LIGHT OF THE MOON - SUFFOLK MIRACLE

LOVER'S HEART - comp by Andy M Stewart & Phil Cunningham - "Twas in the flowery garden when first she caught my eye" -- ROGUE'S GALLERY on Radio 2 13/4/88 CASS-90-0848

LOVER'S LAMENT, THE - "As I was a-walking down by the seashore" - Ch: "My love is gone - I'll ne'er see him more" - LAWS#K18 - ROUD#185 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - BARING GOULD #32 (a) James Parsons HFS 1888 (b) H Whitfield, Plymouth 1889 (c) J Woodrich (words altered by BG) SOW 1905 pp64-5 "The Drowned Lover" - Sharp Ms Wpp634-5/ Mp557 - SHARP HEFS 1916 pp86-7 - SHARP-KARPELES pp260-6 - PURSLOW WS p38 Gardiner: Hampsh - CHARMING BEAUTY BRIGHT -- Colin DAVIS rec by AL & PK Players Theatre, London 1951: " RTR 0085 - Bob COPPER rec by PK: FTX-239 - WHIRLIGIG: FOLK ALLIANCE Showcase Compilation FA-CD-03 1999 "The Constant Lovers" - USA - Texas GLADDEN rec by Moses Asch, NYC 1946 originally on Disc Records: ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001 "I'm never to marry or Down by the Seashore"

LOVER'S PARTING - FAREWELL NANCY - HENRY AND NANCY

LOVER'S QUARREL, THE - MADAM

LOVER'S QUARRELS - Song tune/ Jig 6/8 - WESTROP #52 p18 (D) Country Dance

LOVER'S RETURN, THE - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

LOVER'S STONE, THE - STANDING STONES

LOVER'S TASKS, THE - ELFIN KNIGHT

LOVIN' HANNAH - GOING TO CHURCH LAST SUNDAY

LOVIN' HENRY - KNIGHT AND THE SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER - YOUNG HUNTING

LOVING NANCY - RAMBLING BEAUTY

LOW BACKED CAR, THE - "When first I saw sweet Peggy, 'twas on a market day - as she sat in her LBC" - composed by Sam Lover - ROUD#6958 - BSs incl Baring-Gould Coll Vol6, #99 7 vol 9 #121 (Research Pubns. Index) - WILLIAMS Ms#505 Edwin Warren, South Marston, Wiltsh (w/o) - Walton's Treasury of Irish Songs & Ballads 1947 pp16-17 - O KEEFE FBIB 1955 p37 4v w/o - Tune used for WITH HENRY HUNT WE'LL GO --- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, N.H., USA 1940: FTX-922 (1v & ch incomplete)

LOW BACKED CAR, THE - Jig (G) - HAYWOOD #13 p29 (G) Jig or Country Dance - KERR MM 2 #257 p28 -- Leo ROWSOME (played as a waltz: U-pipes) rec London 1926: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Day Dreams"

LOW DOWN DIRTY BLUES -- Son HOUSE (voc & gtr), Robinsonville, Miss., USA 1942: ROUNDER 1700 1997

LOW DOWN IN THE BROOM - "Twas on last Easter Monday, the day appointed was - for me to go down in the broom to meet my bonny lass" - ROUD#1644 - LONDON Mag 1760 p486 - VOC LIB 1822 #1529 p567 - FORD 1899 p234/ 2 pp40-43 9v (w/o) - JFSS !;3 p94-5 Merrick:Mr Hills, Lodworth, Sussex 1900 (Note: Grainger used verses from this for BRIGG FAIR) - SHARP Ms Cf I p32 - MERRRICK FSFS 1912 Henry Hills - ORD BB 1930 p.161 - McCOLL SS 1953 p64 from CHAMBERS Songs of Scotland: tune of a Scots version used by Burns for "My love is like a red red rose" - PURSLOW WS 1968 p70 Gardiner: James Channon, Ellesfield, Hampsh 1907 (w)/ George Smith, Fareham, Hampsh 1906 (m) (text collated with another version & BS) - CAREY ASS 1976 pp30-31 Timothy O Connor Ms songbook c1778 -- Frank PURSLOW rec by PK, London: DOBELL F- LEUT-1 1950/ FTX-219 - Frankie ARMSTRONG (with recorder): TOPIC 12-TS-216 1972 from Merrick

LOW DOWN IN THE BROOM - KERR MM 2 p17 Strathspey (above title) & 3 p6 "The Red Red Rose"

LOW FELL - STATIONED AT LOW FELL

LOW LEVEL HORNPIPE, THE - (Bb) - COLE #3 p120 (Bb) "Souvenir (Lancashire) Hornpipe" comp by B.F.Dietrich - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #164 p45 (G) "The Souvenir" - Cf HIGH LEVEL HORNPIPE -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 199535/ FTX-074/ rec by David Hammond 1975: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978

LOW PARK - Reel - FELDMAN p239 (G) from John McKeown, Co Donegal

LOWE'S POLKA - TONY LOWE'S

LOWER ORMOND - KITTY IN THE LANE (Reel)

LOWER THE FUNNEL - or THE FISH AND CHIP SHIP - "Take the wax out of your ears" Ch: "LTF stop the ship, reef the anchor chain" - BEST: SONG FEST p40 "EeLee Ay Lee Oh" - FOLK SONG TODAY No1 1966 -- Bob ROBERTS (voc/ mel) rec by PK, Pinmill, Ipswich Suffolk 1958: FTX-208 & FTX-218/ TOPIC 12-TS-361 1978/ TSCD-652 1998 "The Fish and Chip Ship" - Peter KENNEDY (voc/banjo): FTX-307 A-ROVING Radio Prog #1

LOWLAND (LONESOME) LOW - GOLDEN VANITY

LOWLAND RANT - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #114 p28 (G) - WILSON (with dance descr) p71

LOWLAND WILLY - "It was o'er the downs at early days" - Ch: "My bonny, bonny LW" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001)

LOWLANDS - SCOTS (LANGUAGE)

LOWLANDS (AWAY) - "Five dollars a day is a white man's pay" - Shanty - ROUD#681 - LONG DIOW 1886 pp145-6 (w/o) - JFSS 3:12 1908 p233 & p235-6 Piggott/ Grainger from John Perring, Dartmouth, Devon 1908 "A Dollar and a half a day"- WHALL 1910 p81 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #13 p12 "L Away" - DAVIS-TOZER 1887 #10 - SMITH MOW 1888 p15 - SHARP 1914 #29 p34 (Cornwall) & #18 p21 (Somerset) - JFSS 3 1908 pp223-4 Grainger #157: Charles Rosher, Chelsea, London 1906/ pp235-6 Piggott & Grainger #402: John Perring, Dartmouth, Devon 1908 - JFSS 8:32 1928 p97 J E Thomas: John Farr, Gwithian, Cornwall 1927 - HENRY SOP (?) - SHAY 1925 p48 (words only) - HUGILL SSS 1961 p65-2 (4 versions) & 1969 p130-1 - GUNDRY CK 1966 p40 John Farr - SEDLEY 1967 Sakm Henry text collated - ED&S 28:3 1986 p73 Terry (SB 1): Capt John Runciman - Tune used for THE SINKING OF THE GRAF SPEE --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p277 Pictou, Nova Scotia -- William FENDER rec by James Carpenter, Barry, S Wales 1928 : FTX-142 - Isla CAMERON (unacc) "Ballads & Blues" - Sea Music" Radio prog prod by Denis Mitchell 1956: CASS-0376 - Ian CAMPBELL Group with Dave SWARBRICK (fid): TOPIC 12-T-110 1964/ 12-TPS-205 1966 - Shirley HART: SAGA FID-2090 1967 - THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974 aft: "Saltpetre Shanty" & " Away down South" - JENKINS EAR Guernsey F/Group FGC 269 1992 (gift from Sean Laffey) CASS-1280 - JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301 --- ODETTA (with gtr) rec USA: TRADITION TLP-1025 1958 (from Frank Hamilton) - Anita BEST & Pamela MORGAN with accomp: AMBER MUSIC (Newfoundland) ACD 9008 "Lowlands Low" (from Caroline Brennan of Ship Cove, Placentia Bay)

LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND, THE - "The night that I was married and laid in marriage bed" - sea captain - press gang - see CHILD #92 App - ROUD#484 - BSs incl BG 6:#16 - HERD AMSS 1776 2 p2 (w/o) - LOGAN PP 1869 p23 - JOYCE AMOI 1873 - JOYCE OIFMS 1906 - CHRISTIE TBA 1 1876 - JOHNSON SMM 1877 - ASHTON RSS 1891 #59 w/o "The Maid's Lamentation for the Loss of her True Love" - FORD VS 1899 1 p54-6 w/o - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #116 pp99-100 (4var 6v/1m) - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #135 p214 - SHARP Sel Ed 2 pp16-17 - BARING GOULD SOW #103 "I'll build myself a gallant ship" (a) J Watts, Thrushelton (b) Richard Cleave, Forest Inn, Huckaby "The Bold Dragoon" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 2 pp38-39 Robert Dibble "The Low low LOH" - Sel Ed 2 pp16-17 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 1 pp108-9 Robert Dibble, Bridgwater, Somerset 1905/ Wm Pittaway, Burford, Oxfordsh 1923 1v/m/ Thomas Taylor, Ross, Herefordsh 1921 1v/m/ Walter Locock, Martock, Som 1906/ Lucy White, Hambridge, Som 1903 1v/m/ Benjamin Horler, East Harptree, Som 1904 - JIFSS vol 2 1905 (2var) - JFSS 1:3 1901 pp97-8 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp307-9 RVW: Wm Bone, Medstead 1909 & Stephen Phillimore, Andover, Hampsh 1906 - JFSS 4 1913 pp345-6 Geo Butterworth: Tom Anstey, Beckley, Oxfordsh 1907/ George Knight, Horsham, Sussex "Come all you little Irish girls" - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp170-171 Walter Ford: Mr Bodding, Elstead, Surrey 1907 "Abroad as I was walking" - JFSS 7 1923 p63-66 Ford VSB m/o/ Hammond: Wm Bartlett, Wimborne, 1905/ Mrs R Gale, Powerstock, 1906 m/o/ Mrs Sartin, Corscombe, Dorset, 1906 m/o "The L of Germany" - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp214-5 - HUGHES ICS2 1914 p70 Co Derry 4v opening with "Last night I was a married" - ORD BB 1930 pp330-1 3var: Scots/ Engl/ Gibraltar - GRAINGER Ms #390 Joseph Leaning, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1908 - WILLIAMS #456 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh - HENRY SOP #180/ HUNTINGTON pp149-150 John Henry Macaulay, Ballycastle, Co Antrim 1927 8v/m "Holland is a fine place" - REEVES IP 1958 pp151-2 Sharp: Robert Dibble (w/o) - REEVES EC 1960 p181 Gardiner: Mrs Goodyear, Axford, 1907/ Stephen Phillimore, Andover, Hampsh/ Hammond: Wm Bartlett (w/o) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p54 Gardiner: Wm Bone, Medstead, Hampsh 1907 - SEDLEY 1967 p176 Hammond/ Smith - JEFDSS 1955 p242 Tunney version - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p223 (4v words only) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p54 Gardiner Hampsh 1907 - MORTON CDGD 1973 p140 "The Rocks of Gibraltar" - MacCOLL-SEEGER 1977 p78 from Jeannie Thompson - ED&S 41:1 1979 p14 Mike Yates: Johnny Doughty, Camber, Sussex 1977 "Come all ye little Irish girls" - PALMER 1983 #38 p60 RVW Hampsh --- SHARP FSSA #26 (vol 1 p200) Philander Fitzgerald, Nash, Va 1918(3v only) - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp339-340 Mrs Lee Stephens, Mo 1928/ Mrs Emma L Dusenbury, Ark 1928 (w/o) "The Lily of Arkansas" ("My father built th'bow, th'ship that sailed th'sea") - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p39 no source given -- Cf LOVELY JAMIE ("The Lover's Curse") - tune cf CHARLIE MACKIE - ROCKS OF SCILLY - YOU ARE MY DEAREST DEAR (Ritchie) -- Brigid TUNNEY rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/53: RPL 20026/ FTX-513 - Paddy TUNNEY rec by PK 14/10/58: 7"RTR-0557/ FTX-164/ rec by Sean O Boyle 1958: 7"RTR-0565/ TOPIC 12-T-165 1966/ CAEDMON TC-1162/ TOPIC 12-T-194/ TSCD-652 1998 - Duncan BURKE rec by PK, Perth 22/6/55: FTX-502 - Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 27/6/55 (1v): FTX-365 - Isla CAMERON rec by PK: EMI CLP-1220 1958 (RVW Hampsh version) - Peggy CLANCY rec by Seamus Ennis, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1960: RPL LP 29886 (Tunney) - Tommy MAKEM (with whistle) & Eric WEISBERG (gtr/banjo): TRADITION TLP-1044 1961 - Ewan MacCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: ARGO ZDA-75 1967 (Baring Gould Devon & Christie) - McPEAKES (tune only - pipes, sticks and harp): FONTANA STL-5433 1967 - Martin CARTER: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-012 1972 - STEELEYE SPAN: B & C CREST-22 1970/ CS-12 1973 with Dave Mattocks on drums (Tunney version) - Dave WILLIAMS (unacc): FOREST TRACKS FT-3001 1973 C90 - Anita BEST & Pamela MORGAN with accomp: AMBER MUSIC (Newfoundland) ACD 9008 (from Jack Lake of Darby's Harbour & Pius Power of Clattice Harbour, Placentia Bay)

LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #185 & 2 #145 - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #115 p28 (Em) alt: "I'll follow my love to Carlow"; "Silverminers"; Tralee Lasses" - KERR MM 4 #116 p14 (Em) & #178 p20 (Em) "The Bundle of Straw" - Tunebook Ms #147 p319 (Em) - MOYLAN 2 #202 p117 (G) from John O Leary (melodeon) "The Hare's Paw" & MOYLAN 2 #149 p87 (G) "Kennedy's Favourite" - O'NEILL MOI #1296 & DMI #561 "Jim Kennedy's Favourite" alt: "The Hare's Foot" - Cf BILLY IN THE LOWLANDS -- Denis MURPHY (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Kerry 9/9/52: RPL 18756 titled "Kennedy's Favourite" bef "Woman of the House"

LOWRIE - "It was in the year 1903" - Soldier's cante-fable - "Lowrie" means enlistment - ROUD#5772 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p187 (2var)

LOWRY - Painter - MISTER LOWRY (Bernie Parry)

LOYAL LOVER, THE - BEDLAM MAID - CONSTANT LOVER

LOYAL SAILOR - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

LUBIN LOO - LOOBY LOO

LUBIN'S RURAL COT - "Returning homewards o'er the plain" - Scots love song - ROUD#6263 - BSs - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #955 p60 (5v/m) - FORD VS&B pp178-80

LUCAN SPA or SPREE - Hornpipe - Tunebook Ms #3 p86 (D) (Co Dublin) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #104 p30 (A)

LUCIA - St LUCIA

LUCK - see BIRTHDAYS - COINCIDENCES - GOOD LUCK CHARMS - HORSESHOES - LADDERS - LADYBIRD - OMENS - PAVEMENTS - ROYAL MAIL - WHITE HORSES - WISHING STONES

LUCK PENNY, THE - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #14 p8 3pts - CRANITCH #9 p128 3pts (interesting var) - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #108 p27 (G) 3pts - KRASSEN p69 - O'NEILL MOI #1098/ DMI #290 3pts -- Tom TURKINGTON (fid) of Co Tyrone rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1958: 7"RTR-0565 - Jimmy HOGAN (mel) with Brian GREEN (drums) & Bobby HALL (piano) rec by PK, London 8/3/58: RPL LP 23969/ FTX-371 aft "O Malley's Frolic"/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 - KILFENORA CEILI BAND (West Clare): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-283 1974

LUCKY BAWDIN'S - Reel - COLE #8 p44 (Bm) "Scotch"

LUCKY BIRDING - HALEY PALEY

LUCKY, CAN YOU LINK ONY? - Shetland Reel -- J SCOLLAY (fid) rec by Pat Shaw, Shetland July 1952: RPL 18650/ FTX-068 - ALY BAIN (fid) & Mike WHELLANS (gtr): LEADER LER-2022 1971 - Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fids) with Willie JOHNSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978

LUCKY ELOPEMENT, THE - "I am a young fellow than ran out my land and means" - damsel - mother did me degrade - drunkard - ROUD#2559 - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp86-7 Bs w/m

LUCKY FARMER'S BOY, THE - FARMER'S BOY

LUCKY HOLLER - "Today I may get lucky, boys, I just don't know" - Prison Song - ROUD#10431 -- Ed LEWIS, rec Alan Lomax, Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary, Miss, USA 1959: ATLANTIC SD-1346 1960

LUCKY IN LOVE -- John Mc KENNA (flute) & piano (of Co Leitrim) rec USA DECCA 934 CASS-0893 bef "Bloom of Youth"

LUCKY JAFFRAY - CHINA MERCHANT

LUCKY PENNY - LUCK PENNY

LUCKY PLOUGHBOY, THE - comp by Ogston/ Macdonald -- John McDONALD (voc/mel) rec by PK, Pitgaveny, Elgin, Moraysh 23/7/55: FTX-061 #16

LUCY ANNA - ROUD#9127 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #15 p14 "Poor LA" - HUGILL SSS 1961 p379 "Poor LA" Hugill also has LUCY LONG & LUCY LOO -- J S Scott, rec by James M Carpenter, London c1928: FTX-142

LUCY CAMPBELL - Highland Strathspey or Reel (D) - BREATHNACH 1 #154 p61 4pts from Tommy Potts (fid) - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #185 p97 4pts - COLE p36 - CRANITCH p121 4pts - Cf KERR CMM 10 p4 "Miss Lucy Campbell" (strains reversed) - LMs #31 p277 (D) 3pts & #151 pp422-3 (D) 8pts - MITCHELL #13 p28 (D) 3pts from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - Cf ROCHE 1 #164 p64 "Miss Campbell" -- Michael COLEMAN (fid) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE d/cass-004 1991 - Tommy POTTS Progr 2 cassette - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 bef "Nip the Bunny" & "Mr Rew's Polka" - Tommy PEOPLES (fid) with Paul BRADY (gtr) SHANACHIE 29003 1976/ CASS-0486 aft "Salamanca" - Tony McMAHON (accordion) with Martin BYRNES & Andy BOYLE (fids) rec Camden Town 1960s: TOPIC TSCD-603 1997 bef "Toss the feathers" --- Mary Mc DONALD (fid) Mary Jessie Mc DONALD (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 with other strathpeys & reels - - THE BOTHY BAND rec Paris Theatre, London 15/7/76: Strange Fruit SFRSCD-063 1996 bef "The Laurel Tree"

LUCY LONG - "Was you ever down the Broomielaw? - sing Miss LL" - Shanty - ROUD#7413 - BSs incl BG 3 #9 - SHARP 1914 #22 p25 John Short, Watchet, Somerset - TERRY - HUGILL SSS 1961 #96 p396 "Miss LL"

LUCY LOO - "Rock-a-block chock-a-block - Rolling down to Trinidad - to meet Miss LL" - Cf LUCY LONG - HUGILL SSS 1961 p397

LUCY WAN - ROSIE ANN

LUCY NEAL - "I was born in Alabama" - BSs incl BG 1.2 #122, 3 #214 & 7 #214 - CHRISTY Ethiopian Minstrelsy pp893-4

LUCY'S FLITTIN' - "Twas when the wan leaf frae the birken was fallin" - Jamie laments her flitting (leaving the farm for another job) and eventually her death - ROUD'#2641 - BSs - comp by William Laidlaw (1780-1845) publ Wm Hogg "The Forest Minstrel" Edinburgh 1810 where air is given as "Paddy O Rafferty" - FORD VSB 1899 1 pp170-2 (w/o) - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1248 p487 (10v w/o) - JFSS 5 1915 pp104-106 Broadwood: from John Potts, Innerleithen, Peeblesh 1907 1v/m

LUDDITES, THE - GENERAL LUDD'S TRIUMPH - HUNTING A LOAF -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

LUIBIN O LUTH -- Mary O HARA (voc/harp): DECCA GES-1095 1973

LULA GAL - "tie my shoe" "Jawbone walk and a j talk" "I have not seen my j since" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226

LUL HA LAY - Cornish Lullaby (arr RG) -- Brenda WOOTON with Richard GENDALL: SENTINEL SENS-1016 1973

LULA WALLS - "One evening it was dark" "I know a maiden sweet and fair" - ROUD#3338 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 3 pp101-102 Mrs Dan Pierce, Mo 1928 - BROWNE AFL 1979 pp226-8 Miss Drucilla Hall, Mrs Mary Crowder & Mrs Mittie Aldrich, Ala 1952 -- Carter Family (Trio) Camden, NJ 15/2/29: 7"RTR-0313-4

LULIE - "When you come to my house - come on your toes - if you aint got the money throw round the calico" - SHARP FSSA #201 (vol 2 p276) Mrs Julie Boone, Micaville, NC 1918 (1v only)

LUL-HA-LAY - Sung in Cornish: Transl: "Hush-a-bye my little one - the sheep are far from home - the cows are to the far far field - and won't be home till noon" -- Richard GENDALL (in English & Cornish with guitar): FTX-125

LULL ME BEYOND THEE - Playford Country Dance - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p20

LULLABIES - see under LILTS

LULLABY - "Sleep, baby, sleep" - BARING GOULD SOW #49 from Anne Bickle (frag) (Words by BG)

LULLABY OF BIRDLAND - Jazz comp -- RONSTEDZ SWING JAZZ rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1979: FTX-251

LULLY LULLAY - Carol -- Maddy PRIOR & CARNIVAL BAND: SAYDISC SDC- 366 1988

LULU - SKIP TO MY LOU (K) - TINY TIM (K)

LULU IS OUR DANCING PRIDE - Song tune 2/4 - WESTROP #59 p21 (C) Country Dance

LUM HAT WANTIN' A CROON, THE - Words by David Rorie (Paterson Publ) -- Rory McEWEN rec by PK, London 1958

LUMBER CAMP SONG -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897

LUMBERING BOY - HARRY DUNN

LUMBERJACKS - LOGGERS

LUMBERMAN'S ALPHABET, THE - ALPHABET SONG

LUMBERMAN'S LIFE, THE - "is a weary life" - ROUD#838 - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p362 Ephraim Tattrie (w/o) - GRAY S&BML pp53-7 - ECKSTORM-SMYTH MOM pp33-8 - BARRY MWS p60

LUMLEY KETTLEWELL - Graham PRATT rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1978: FTX-048

LUMP OF SPICE CAKE, A - YORKSHIRE TOO

LUMPS OF PUDDING - "When I lived at home as a boy" - mother gave me L of P - ROUD#1595 - D'URFEY PPM 1719 6 pp300-1 - HERD A&MSS 1869/1973 2 p221 - LONG DIOW 1886 pp112-113 (w/o) - SHARP Ms Miss Hayes, Keswick, Cumb 1911 "L OP and lumps of pie" -- Shirley COLLINS with Etchingham Steam Band: DECCA SML-1117 1974 - John WATCHMAN: TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974

LUMPS OF (PLUM) PUDDING - Morris Dance --John KIRKPATRICK with Sue HARRIS, Martin CARTHY, Martin BRINSFORD & Fi FRASER: "Plain Capers" Morris Dances from the Cotswolds: FREE REED FRR-010 1976 (from Bledington Oxfordsh)

LUNATIC ASYLUM - ROUND THE LUNATIC ASYLUM

LUNEBURG - WAR GAMES (G Miles)

LURE OF THE FAIRY HILL, THE - "Gilbhinn" - Far I see the fairy hill" - KENNEDY-FRASER 1921 SOTH vol 3 pp102-6 Noterds at Islay House from the singing of the Islay bard, Islay, Hebrides (Note says "For an early version of words see Mythical Ballads in Campbell's "Leabhar na Feinne" p211) - Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: cass 1398-C60. FTX-264

LURE OF THE MINES, THE - DARK AS A DUNGEON

LURGAN BRAES - "The summer time being in its prime" - ROUD#6273 - BSs - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1909 p335 (9v w/o)

LURGAN STREAM - "When to this country I first came my mind from love was free" she agrees to go with him over the sea and leave Letterkenny & other places in Co Fermanagh - ROUD#6881 -- Mary Ann Connelly rec by Keith Summers, Wattlebridge, Newtonbutler, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh Aug 1980: TOPIC TSCD-665 1998

LURI - comp by Fred ROOKE

LUSITANIA, THE - RANSON SOWC 1948 p76 incomplete learned from broadsheet

LUSTY WOOER, THE - "who do you woo? - my dildin my doldin - your fairest daughter -then there she is" - Singing game reported 1737 but none recorded in this century - OPIE SG 1985 pp74-5

LUTE MUSIC - ALMAINE - DOWLAND - -- Julian BREAM rec 1957: RPL 23338 - FOREST TRACKS FT-6004 cass - LEADER 2094 1976 Jake WALTON lute-gtr

LUTE SONG -- Billy FAIER (5-str banjo) with Frank HAMILTON (gtr): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-813 1957

LUTES - SARANGI - SITAR - VINA -- Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing

LUTON - Bedfordsh - LIMERICK DITTY

LUXEMBOURG - custom - Echtenach - jumping on one leg -- (RPL 31766)

LUXEMBOURG POLKA -- Gordon CUTTY (Engl Conc) FREE REED FRR-006 1976

LYDDY MARGOT - FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM

LYING - D O Sullivan p173 - IT'S A LIE - GEORGE WASHINGTON - LANCASHIRE LIAR - LIAR'S SONG - RAM SONG - SUCKING PIG - Gaelic - TOCHER #44 1992 pp104-109 from "Willie Matheson by Ian Paterson 1977 - AMHRAN NA mBREAG - RANNAN BREIGE

LYING TALE, A - LIAR'S SONG

LYING WOMAN, THE -- sung by Christine and Katherine SHIPP (sisters aged 19 & 20) rec by Herbert Halpert, Byhalia, Miss. 13/5/39: ROUNDER 1500 1997 "Sea Lion Woman"

LYKE WAKE (DIRGE), THE - MOORMAN Yorkshire Dialect Poems 1916 p101 -- Graeme MILES (voc/conc): FTX-230 - PENTANGLE: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-205 1969 - THE YOUNG TRADITION (Group): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-13 1969 & ISLAND FOLK-1001 (boxed set) 1975

LYKE-WAKE WALKER'S DIRGE, THE - or WILLIAM COWLEY - comp by GM 1969 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-227

LYNCH'S HORNPIPE - Tunebook Ms #51 p110 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #105 p30 (A)

LYNN TO PORTSMOUTH - "we were bound - our cargo it was wine - Spanish privateer - crew of 14 men & two boys fought 110 Spaniards - O that every Englishman would fight as well as we" - ROUD#7006 - TOCHER ii 1973 p100 Alan Bruford South Ronaldsay Orkney

LYON'S FAVOURITE - MORRISON'S (Jig)

LYON'S REEL - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #44 p19

LYRE - ETHIOPIA - KENYA - UGANDA -- Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing

 
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