NERVOUS FAMILY, THE - "We are all nervous, shake, shake, tremblin" - ROUD#12988

NET HAULING SONG - comp by McC for "Singing the Fishing" radio prog -- Ewan McCOLL: ARGO SPA-132 1971 & ARGO SPA-216 1972 - IAN CAMPBELL Folk Group: cass (box) TBX 513/1

NETHERLANDS - DUTCH - HOLLAND

NETTIE MOORE - "In a little white cottage where the trees are evergreen - Little cottage : Climbing roses : Music of the birds : Miss you Nettie Moore" - ROUD#6971 --- WPA Collection, Univ. of Virginia, Charlotteville, No.1001 -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, NH USA 1950: FTX-922 (1v only)

NETTLES & NETTLING - ROYAL OAK DAY

NEVER A PENNY OF MONEY - "There were three travellers" - D'URFEY 1698-1720 6 p177 "Without ever a stiver of money" -- Peter BELLAMY: FREE REED FRR-023/024 "Soldier's Three" (from Ravenscroft) - Ed McCURDY

NEVER AGAIN - comp by Richard THOMPSON -- Shirley COLLINS (voc/ piano): TOPIC 12-TS-380 1978

NEVER CHANGE THE OLD LOVE FOR THE NEW - GO AND LEAVE ME IF YOU WISH IT

NEVER CUT YOUR NAILS ON A SUNDAY - "A spruce linen draper was Mr John Low" - WILLIAMS #136 James West, Quenington, Gloucestersh

NEVER GET DRUNK ANY MORE - "I'll lay my head in some pretty girl's lap" - ROUD#4625 - D'URFEY 1698-1720 4 p47-8 6v "The Reformed Drinker" - JOHNSON Select Collection of English Songs 1783 2 p54 - CROFTON Popular Songs of Ireland 1886 p96 - Tune: "Malbrouk"-- Frank PROFFITT (voc/banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mountain, Watauga Co, NC: FTX-932/ FOLK LEGACY FSA-1 1962/ TOPIC 12-T-162 1966

NEVER GO A-RUSHING - "maids, in May" - SHARP/ KARPELES CSC 1974 #407 "Don't you go a-rushing" 2v only - LAYCOCK Coll, Torquay - STUBBS LOM 1970 p43 Jim Wilson, Three Bridges, Sussex 1960 3v/m - see RIDDLE SONG

NEVER GROW OLD - Waltz -- George PEGRAM (vocal/ banjo) with Clyde ISAACS (mandolin), Fred Cockerham (fiddle) & Jack BRYANT (gtr): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-235 1973

NEVER KILL THE BEES - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974: FTX-046

NEVER LEAVE YOUR MOTHER, TOM - MOTHER'S GRAVE

NEVER LET THE DEVIL GET THE UPPER HAND OF YOU - CRUEL MILLER

NEVER LET THE SAME BEE STING YOU TWICE -- Richard Rabbit BROWN (v/gtr) negro boatman, New Orleans (cf BALLING THE JACK): Paul OLIVER "Before the Blues" on Radio 2 3/12/87: CASS 0431

NEVER LOVE THEE MORE - DERWENTWATER'S FAREWELL

NEVER SAID A MUMBLING WORD -- Josh WHITE: (LONDON LL-1341 & MERCURY MG-36052)/ CASS-0240

NEVER TELL HER WHEN - "I rode my little horse" - from London to seek for a bride -"buxom widow, vintner's daughter" etc - promised/ swore I would marry but" - ROUD#1045 - BARING GOULD SOW #101 (a) John Hext, Post Bridge (b) Edmund Fry, Lydford 1889 - BG-HITCHCOCK FSWC 1974 pp64-5 Edmund Fry - Cf D'URFEY 1 p19 "Jolly Roger Twankydillo" - ROXBURGHE Ballads 7 p231 "An Answer to Unconstant William" - REEVES EC 1960 p159 Edmund Fry (w/o) - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p17 Ken Stubbs: George Townsend, Lewes, Sussex 1962 "I mounted my Neddy and away I did ride"

NEVER WED AN OLD MAN - "An old man came courting me" - "Maids when you're young" ("MWYY") - ROUD#210 - BSs "Never Maids Wed an Old Man" - HERD A&M Scotish Songs 1870 App p83-4 "Scan Love; Want of Love" - KIDSON TT 1891 p92 A Wardill, Goathland, N Yorksh "An Auld Man He Courted Me" - PETRIE 1904 version from Joyce - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 #228 p111 Co Limerick 1v/m "An Old Man he Courted" - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 2 #149 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #200 p30 Louis Hooper, Hambridge, Somerset 1904 "Never marry an old man" - SHARP Cf 2 p373 - JFSS 2:4 (9) 1906 p273 T C Smith, Rillington, Yorksh 1892 (m/o) "MWYY NWAOM" - KIDSON NC 1927 - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p34 Sam Larner "MWYY NWAOM" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p66 Gardiner: Mrs Davey, Alresford, Hampsh 1907 "An Old Man came courting me" - SEDLEY 1967 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #207 p464 Jeannie Robertson 1953 - VICINUS BIN 1975 p74 Bs facsimile (w/o) "Never Maids Wed An Old Man" - DAWNEY PG 1977 p32 George Butterworth & Francis Jekyll: Mrs Powell, Minster, Sheppey, Kent 1907 "An Old Man he courted me" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #100 pp168-9 Broadwood: Miss E Bull (Charlotte Few ?), Cottenham, Cambridgesh 1904 "Hey Down Derry" - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p130-1 Sharp - PALMER RVW 1983 pp183-4 Hooton Roberts, Yorksh 1907 (5v from Harkness Bs) "I courted an old man" - McCOLL-SEEGER TDIA 1986 p256 Belle Stewart (refs) - SEVEN MONTHS I'VE BEEN MARRIED --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p156 Mrs Salley A Hubbard, Utah 1947 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 #10 pp32-3 O J Abbot, Ontario 1958 "An Old Man he courted me" - FOWKE PBCFS 1973 pp140-1 O J Abbot (Prestige-International 25014) - - see also BATTLE WITH THE LADLE - I'D RATHER HAVE A YOUNG MAN - OLD GREY BEARD -- Jeannie ROBERTSON (tinker) of Aberdeen rec by PK, London 1953: RPL 21088-9/ CAEDMON TC-1143 1961/ rec by Alan Lomax, London 1953: ROUNDER 11661-1720-2 1998/ "Songs of Seduction" ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000/ rec by Bill Leader at concert in Angel Hotel, Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1967: TOPIC 12-T-158 1968 / TSCD 651 "An Old Man came courting me"/ EMBER FA-2055 1968/ FTX-019/ FTX-067 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: FTX-139/ rec by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger: FOLKWAYS FG-3507 1961 "MWYY NWAOM"/ ROUNDER 1161-1720-2 1998 - Dominic BEHAN: DOBELL F-LEUT-4 1962 - KERRIES: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-9 1967 - DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-14 1968/ EMI MFP 5223 - Peggy SEEGER: ARGO ZFB-64 1968 (Canadian from Fowke Coll) - Mike SHAIL & EEZUM SQUEEZUM: FTX-127 - Jo FREYA SAYDISC SDL-402 (CD) 1993 - Jane TURRIFF (voc with piano): TOPIC TSCD-665 1998 Courtship "What can a young lassie dae wi an auld man?"

NEVIS - Caribbean - LITTLE SALLY WATER - SOMETHING MAKE ME LAUGH - WHO STOLE THE COOKIE FROM THE COOKIE JAR? - Recordings - see AREA Listing

NEW BAILEY TREADMILL - "In Manchester NB we've got a new corn mill -" Ch: "So it's work, work, mind mind" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p254 text: Bs by Swindells of Manchester (Oldham coll)/ tune: Nae luck aboot the hoos'

NEW BEDFORD - Reel - COLE #7 p48 (D) 2/4

NEW BRIG OF GLASGOW, THE - Strathspey - COLE p125 (Gm)

NEW BRITAIN - New Guinea/ Melanesia -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

NEW BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN, A - "As I went out one morning in May" - ROUD#2751 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp93-4 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, New Brunswick, Canada

NEW CARELESS LOVE -- Sonny TERRY (harmonica) rec by Alan Lomax, New York City Dec 1938: ROUNDER CD-11661-1823-2 1999 "New Careless Love" & rec Washington DC May 1942 "Red Cross Store" & with Leadbelly "How Long Blues"

NEW CATHEDRAL AT CROSSMAGLEN, THE - "One morning early as day was breaking" - comp by local poet called: "Halfpenny" -- Peter REILLY (frag) rec by PK, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh 16/7/52: 7"RTR-0549/ RPL 18487/ FTX-431 - Michael QUINN rec by PK, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh 16/7/52: RPL 18488/ FTX-431

NEW CENTURY, THE #1 - Hornpipe - COLE #3 p90 (D) with dance directions - HAYWOOD #11 p46 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #126 p35 (D) - Cf O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #939 (G)

NEW CENTURY, THE #2 - Hornpipe - HARDING p17 - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #939

NEW CHRISTMAS - Reel - WILSON (with dance descr) p50 (G with 2nd strain in low G) "Old Scotch"

NEW CHUM CHINAMAN, THE - "O what's the use of talking, they won't let the white man live" Ch; "Goodbye Mrs Doolan, ta-ta Mrs Doyle, no more I'll roam round Ireland - bound for China - home and marry girl" - tune: "The Wearing of the Green" -- Warren FAHEY: LARRIKIN LRD-028 cass

NEW CHUM SHEARERS - Australian descr going to Races, cadging fags, Oxford bags, broke, back to shearing & all the girls he's kissed -- Warren FAHEY (voc/conc): LARRIKIN LRC-028 cass

NEW CHURCH ORGAN, THE - "They got a brand new organ, Sue" - WILLIAMS #648 (w/o)

NEW COLONIAL MARCH - comp by Hall -- Gordon CUTTY, Durham (E-Conc): FREE REED FRR-006 1976

NEW COPPERPLATE, THE - Reel - COPPERPLATE

NEW COUNTRY DANCE -1 - Tunebook Ms #158 p322 (G)

NEW COUNTRY DANCE -2 - Tunebook Ms #25 p343 (D) 6/8

NEW CUSTOM HOUSE, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #175 p80 (Dm)

NEW DEMESNE, THE - LADY COBBETT'S (Reel)

NEW DESERTER, THE - DESERTER

NEW DRURY - Reel - MITTEL #40 p16 (G)

NEW E'EN'S NIGHT SONG, THE - WE ARE A' St MARY'S MEN

NEW EMIGRATION TO AMERICA, THE - "One morning fair to take the air" - MOULDEN TAS 1994 p16 from balladsheet in F J Bigger coll (J2) in Belfast Public Library

NEW FASHIONED FARMER, THE - "Good people all I pray attend" - new and old styles of farming contrasted - ROUD#1476 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #27 pp57-59 RVW: John Denny, Nevinton, Essex 1904 (text from broadside in Sharp coll)

NEW FORTH BRIDGE, THE - or THE YOUNG ENGINEER, BRIDGE O'ER THE FORTH- "O where is that young lad ? - Gone to work on the Forth Bridge" comp by GM 1963 6v -- Graeme MILES: FTX-225

NEW FOUND ISLAND, THE - T-OILEAN UR

NEW FOUND OUT, THE - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #7 p5 - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #132 p32 (Am) - Tunebook Ms #85 p32 (Am) - LEVEY 1 #20 p8 has reel with this title - O'NEILL DMI #341 (not in MOI) "Billy McCormick" alt: "The New Lesson" - GALLOPING JIG

NEW GARDEN FIELDS - "Come all you pretty fair maids" - True Lovers meet - lovely Mary (orNancy) - picking flowers -ROUD#1054 - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - BARRETT EFS 1891 p52-3 - JFSS 2:8 1906 pp148-9 RVW: Mr Broomfield 1v/m/ J Punt, East Horndon, Essex 1904 - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp334-5 RVW: Mr Locke, Hollesby, Norfolk 1910 (m/o)/ Sharp: Henry Thomas, Chipping Sidbury, Gloucestersh 1907/ Butterworth Norfolk - WILLIAMS #460 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o) - HENRY SOP #637 "Lovely Nancy" (& Cf #780 "The Ploughboy") - REEVES EC 1960 pp195-6 Gardiner: Alfred Oliver, Axford, Hampsh 1907 (with text from Such broadside in JFSS 8) - PALMER RVW 1983 #19 p32 Mr Broomfield, East Horndon, Essex 1904 - see WHAT IS LOVE ? (where different air to song has been supplied editorially with a new text)

NEW GRUEL SHOPS, THE - "Good people all -" - Ch: "May providence protect the poor" - descr of "new" work houses - PALMER TOTT 1974 p264 text: Bs by Willey of Cheltenham (Madden 23/497)/ tune: "Seven Joys of Mary"

NEW GUINEA - see also PAPUA -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

NEW HEBRIDES - Melanesia became VANUATU on 31/7/80 -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

NEW HIGH LEVEL HORNPIPE, THE - First part of tune by James Whinham, Northumb & 2nd by Andrew Rankine, Scots accordionist - see also HIGH LEVEL HORNPIPE -- Will ATKINSON (harmonica) Northumb: TOPIC 12-TS-239 1974/ TOPIC TSCD-669 1998 aft "J B Milne"

NEW HOUSE, THE - Jig - TWEED (C)

NEW HUNTING SONG - "All you that are low spirited" mentions Bonaparte, Nelson, Wellington, Waterloo, Prince Albert - PALMER TOTT 1974 p299 text: Bs by Pratt of Birmingham/ tune: "A hunting we will go"

NEW IRELAND SONG - "O it's come all you new Ireland lads" - ROUD#2784 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp228-9 Wm Wilson, Ratters Corner, New Brunswick, Canada/ Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB "The Spanish Shore"

NEW IRISH GIRL, THE - IRISH GIRL

NEW KILLARNEY POLKA -- OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR 011 1976 aft "Bonny Breast Knots" "Getting Upstairs" & "Blue eyed Stranger (Poor but honest soldier)"

NEW LESSON, THE - NEW FOUND OUT

NEW LIBERTY SONG, A - "Awake, awake, ye Americans" - ROUD#2047 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp163-5 ships log 1776 (w/o)

NEW LIMERICK LASSES - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #147 p35 (D/Em) - Tunebook Ms #150 p320 (D/Em) - see also LIMERICK LASSES

NEW LINE LASSIE - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #148 p35 (Em) - Tunebook Ms #5 p268 (Em)

NEW LOUGH ISLE CASTLE - Reel -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: FTX-075 bef "Marry when you're young" & "Lord Gordon's"/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997

NEW LOVER'S GARLAND, THE - SEEDS OF LOVE

NEW MAIL COACH - Reel - - O'NEILL MOI #1302/ DMI #489 (D)

NEW MARRIED COUPLE, THE - JOYS OF WEDLOCK

NEW MEXICO - USA -- TAOS TRP-122 [nd] Cleofes VIGIL: 5 Alabados by Penitente singers - Cleofes ORTIZ Violinista de Nuevo Mexico UBIK 1986/ CASS-1215

NEW MOWN HAY, THE - "As I walked out into the field one May morning" - ROUD#545/ #865/ #2941 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp223-4 (w/o) - SHARP Ms 1905-8 3var - JFSS 13 1909 p257 RVW Hampsh 2v/m - GARDINER FSFH 1909 Hampsh - WILLIAMS #526 (w/o) "Amongst the NMH" - REEVES IP 1958 #14 p79 composite Sharp - PURSLOW WS 1968 p8 Hammond: Wm Gulliver, Alresford, Hampsh 1906 "All under the NMH" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #184 p414 William Rew 5v/m - PALMER 1983 #83 p129 "The dew is on the grass" - HOLLOWAY/ BLACK LEBB 2 1979 pp40-41 BS (SR: version of "Johnny Cock" ?)(w/o) - see BLOW AWAY THE MORNING DEW - HAYMAKING COURTSHIP - JOHNNY COCK -- William REW rec by PK, Sidbury, Devon 1954: FTX-017 (with banjo/v2 omitted)/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 - phonograph rec prob of Alfred Edgell, Chew Magna, Somerset rec by CJS 26.12.07: EFDSS CD-02 1998

NEW MOWN HAY, THE - "We leave our homes at break of morn" - ROUD#1193 - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp94-5 (compiled from versions sung in Bedfordsh, Lincolnsh and Sussex)

NEW MOWN MEADOWS, THE - SILVER TIPS (Reel)

NEW MUCKSPREADER, THE - "Fling it here" Tune: Villikens -- THE YETTIES on Radio 2: 9/12/87: CASS 60-0554

NEW NAMES FOR OLD - comp about marriage of convenience -- Cyril TAWNEY with Dennis McCallum (acc): ARGO ZFB-28 1972

NEW NAVIGATION, THE - "This day for our new navigation - sight of the barges - Brimingham lads" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p28 text by John Freeth in "A Warwickshire Medley or The Covivial Songster" 1780 to tune of "The Warwickshire Lad" by Charles Dibdin (1745- 1814)

NEW ORLEANS - City in Louisiana USA -- Mike Harding "Your Roots Are Showing" on Radio 2: 5/5/88 & 11/5/88: CASS-60-0544 Interviews, Preservation Hall, Sounds of Bourbon Street, Jazz Origins etc

NEW PARK - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #133 p32 3pts (G/Em/G) - Tunebook Ms #173 p69 (G) 3pts

NEW PITSLIGO - Aberdeenshire -- RTR 1164-9

NEW POLICEMAN, THE - "Pardon gents and ladies all" - ROUD#13133 - WILLIAMS #649 (w/o) - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1750 p273 "Rantin ravin Irish joys"

NEW POLICEWOMAN, THE - NANCY IN THE HOBBLE

NEW POTATOES - SALLY KELLY'S (Reel)

NEW PRIVATEER, THE - "It is of a young female in London did dwell" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) Her name is Julia and his George

NEW RESTAURANT, THE - "The food is terrible" - comp by Malvina Reynolds -- Hedy WEST (voc/banjo): FONTANA STL-5432 1967/ CASS- 0482

NEW RIGGED SHIP, THE - Jig - BAYARD DTF #588 p517 "The Raw Recruit" 8var - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p44/ 1994 #173 p44 (D) - KERR MM 3 #236 p27 - Tunebook Ms #143 pp408-9 (D) - WILSON p122 (C) - SHARP collected publ version from Billy Pennock's father, Neswell, at Goathland - see also THE RIGGED SHIP -- Billy PENNOCK (fid) rec by PK, Green End, Goathland, N Yorks 1/4/53: RPL 21491/ FTX-211 & (mouth-music) 301 - George TREMAIN (mel) rec by PK, North Skelton, N Yorks 2/4/53: RPL 19238/ FTX-329 - OAK: TOPIC 12-TS-212 1971 - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 aft "Up the sides" - THE YETTIES (from Thomas Hardy Ms): Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4/ CASS-15-0557

NEW RIGGED SHIP, THE - Shetland Reel - BOWEN p35 (##A) 3pts -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fids) with Willie JOHNSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978 with "Full Rigged Ship"

NEW RIVER SHORE, THE - "At the foot of yonders mountain where the fountain doth flow" "I am a lovely lady and I can love long" - LAWS #M-26 ABBB 1957 pp192-3 - ROUD#549 --- SHARP EFSSA 2 p188 Wm Wooton, Hindman, Ky 1917 "The Green Brier Shore" - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp137-8 Mrs James Palmer (w/o) - PARLER ABB 1963 p47 Mrs Lula Davis, Ark 1960 (w/o) "Red River Shore" - Lore & Language 7:2 1988 pp69-70 John Ashton & Julia Bishop: Wm White, Cull's Harbour, Nfl "The Red River Shore"

NEW ROAD, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1250/ DMI #523 (D) 3pts

NEW ROSS GIRL, THE - GAY OLD HAG

NEW ROUNDABOUT, THE - Polka - CRANITCH #39 p140 (D)

NEW St GEORGE, THE - "Leave the factory, leave the port and dance to the NSG" - comp by Richard Thompson & Ashley Hutchings -- ALBION Country Band: ISLAND FOLK-1001 (boxed) 1975 & HELP-25 1976 bef "La Rotta"

NEW SCOTLAND -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp by Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: FTX-905

NEW SEA SONG, A -- "Twas in the month of November" - stormy day - Swedish brig - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp262-3 ships log 1817 (w/o)

NEW SLAIN KNIGHT, THE - "O bonny was his cheek" - A knight has been to see his lady and they part with great affection - next day a stranger knight says he has found another slain on his way but he is the lover in disguise - CHILD 263 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1049 p484 (1v frag w/o story described)

NEW SONG, A - AS I WAS A-WALKING - DEATH AND THE LADY - GOLDEN GLOVE - GRANUAILLE - MANCHESTER MARTYRS - NO MY LOVE NOT I - ROCKS OF BAWN

NEW SONG ON THE TAXES, A - "All you young men an' maidens" - ROUD#3033 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp8-9 Co Galway 1930 (text mainly from BS)

NEW SOUTH WALES - Emigration to Australia -- CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM: CBS-63249 1968

NEW SPOTLIGHT, THE - Mining Song - comp by Johnny Pandrich 1965 about colliery officials who used car lamps to inspect incident where lamp cabin man was over-zealous -- Johnny HANDLE: TOPIC 12-TS- 270 1975

NEW STEAMBOAT - Reel -- James MORRISON (fid) Tom ENNIS (U-pipes) John MULLEN (piano) rec New York 1921-1935: TOPIC 12-T-390 1980 with "Bucks of Oranmore" & "Gardeners Daughter"

NEW TENPENNY, THE - Jig (Am) - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #32 p15 alt titles: "Are you shot?" "Ducks and the Oats"- O'NEILL MOI #930 & DMI #162 titled "The Tenpenny Bit" - see TENPENNY BIT

NEW TOPCOAT, THE - MY FATHER'S BOUGHT

NEW TRACTOR, THE -- "O come all you gay farmers intending to plough" - comp by Eddie Butcher - ROUD#2962 - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp128-9 Eddie Butcher, Aughil Crossroads, Co Derry 1961

NEW TRAMWAY - HORSE TRAMWAY

NEW TRIP TO THE FERRY - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #137 p33 (G ending D) - Tunebook Ms #50 p19

NEW WALTZ - Tunebook Ms#63 pp468-9 (duet arr) (D) 3pts

NEW WEDDING - Reel - COLE p25 (G) - LEVEY 2 #84 p38 (G)

NEW WIDOW WELL MARRIED, THE - Triple Jig - ROCHE 2 #266 p28 (Em) -- Dave SWARBRICK (fid): ELEKTRA BY-6030 1967

NEW YEALAND - LIZZIE LINDSAY

NEW YEAR - Britain & Ireland - BESUTHIAN (Scots) - BUFF BLOW - GET UP, GUDEWIFE (Hogmanay) - HAGMENA SONG - MINER'S DREAM OF HOME - TREES ARE ALL BARE - WASSAIL - WE ARE A' ST MARY'S MEN (North Ronaldsay) -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

NEW YEAR BEGGING RHYME -- Tom HORNER rec by PK, Swithinwaite, Wensleydale, W Yorks 22/8/59: 7"RTR-0065/ RPL LP 265843 (with talk about custom)

NEW YEAR TOAST - (Scots) Here's to the lasses that never gets fu' - aye proves true - lads that's aye filled in beer- HERE'S TO YE A' AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR "" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #638

NEW YEAR CAROL -- Arthur LEWIS rec by PK, Hope Bowdler, Shropshire 30/10/52: RPL 19336 Carol & talk about Christmas & New Year, carol-singing & hand-bell ringing

NEW YEAR CAROLS - AWAKE AWAKE - WE ARE A' St MARY'S MEN (N Ronaldsay)

NEW YEAR'S CAROL - "God in the Holy Trinity - there is 6 good days - My song is done I must be gone" - LEATHER-VAUGHAN WILLIAMS words completed from Sandys text of "The Moon shines bright" - Cf opening verses with "Christ made a trance" in JFSS 14 pp12- 14 - 15 pp6-7

NEW YEAR'S DAY HUNT AT KIRKSTILE - sung to "Joe Bowman" tune -- Billy IRVING with Billy BOWMAN (acc) rec by PK, Cockermouth, Cumberland 1959: RTR-0109 & 0111/ FTX-120

NEW YEAR'S EVE NIGHT - HAGMENA SONG - NORTH RONALDSAY

NEW YEAR'S GIFT, THE - Hornpipe comp by James Hill - DIXON 1987 p21

NEW YEAR'S SONG - "The old year is gone and the NY come"/ "I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year" - health to the master - ROUD#1066 & 1584 - SHARP/ MARSON FSS 5 pp70-71 Frederick Crossman, Huish Episcopi, Somerset - SHARP- KARPELES CDC 1974 #368 2 p505-6 Alfred Emery, Othery, Somerset 1908/ Frederick Crossman, Langport, Somerset 1909 "A Happy New Year" (2var) - SHARP SG 2003 P43 4v from Frederick Crossman - another from the same singer is THE QUEEN OF THE MAY

NEW YORK - CAN'T YOU DANCE THE POLKA - GUITY SEA CAPTAIN - MY GIRL'S A CORKER (K)

NEW YORK HORNPIPE - KERR MM 3 #353 p38 (A)

NEW YORK STREETS - "As I was walking up New York Street" - LAWS N10 - ROUD#552

NEW YORKSHIRE MARCH - Tunebook Ms#9 p117 (D)

NEW ZEALAND - HIGH WALLS OF DERRY

NEW ZEALAND - Maori - New Zealand -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

NEWBURN LADS - Instrumental - BRUCE-STOKOE 1886 -- Celebrated WORKING MEN'S Band (conc, fid & d/bass): TOPIC 12-T-86 1963

NEWBURY - Berkshire - BARBARA ALLEN (N Fair) - IF I WERE A BLACKBIRD (Peachey)

NEWCASTLE - NORTHUMBERLAND - TYNESIDE - DEWAR 1974 "Larn yersel Geordie" - BONNY TYNESIDE -- BILLY OLIVER'S RAMBLE - CANNY NEWCASSEL - CAPPY THE PITMAN'S DOG- COME (GEORDIE HAUD THE BAIRN) GIVE ME A SLICE OF YOUR BREAD - DANCE TO TH'DADDIE - FOLKS O' SHIELDS - FIRE ON THE QUAY - FOOTY AGAINST THE WA' - HIGH LEVEL (Hornpipe) - I WAS STATIONED AT LOW FELL - JOWL AND LISTEN LAD - KEEL ROW - LAMBTON WORM - MATTIE'S A GOOD BAIRN (Recit) - LOW LEVEL (Hornpipe) - NEIGHBOURS DOON BELAA - SWALWELL HOPPING - TILL THE TIDE COMES IN - UPPER DENTON (Hornpipe) - WHEN NEWCASTLE CAME TO PLAY US (Miles)

NEWCASTLE - Playford Country Dance - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p28 -- Jack ARMSTRONG'S NORTHUMBRIAN BARNSTORMER'S BAND rec by Alan Lomax 1951: SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 aft "Adam Buckham-O" - THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-222 1973 with "Nancy" (Tom Clough) & "Molly's Fancy" - TEST VALLEY Band (acc, bass, drums): FOREST TRACKS FT-3008 1975

NEWCASTLE BROWN - comp English Country Dance -- DRUIDS: ARGO ZDA- 158 1973

NEWCASTLE FISHERMEN, THE - WRECK OF THE NEWCASTLE FISHERMEN

NEWCASTLE HORNPIPE, THE - comp by James Hill (Bb) - alt: McCORMACK'S - PRINCE ALBERT'S - DIXON 21987 p41 - KERR MM 1 #30 p46 (Bb) - KOHLER 1 p86 "Prince Albert's Hornpipe by James Hill" - Gordon Cutty's Ms: "Prince Albert" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #127 p36 (A) -- Neil BOYLE (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Dunloe, Co Donegal 1951: 7"RTR-0593 aft "The Moving Clouds" (comp by Neil Boyle) - Hector McANDREW (fid) rec Aberdeen 13/7/67: RPL LP 30952/ FTX-272 aft Slow Air: "Gude wife admit the wanderer" - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER-2037 1973 - Bill HARDIE (fid + piano) Aberdeen: TOPIC 12-TS-268 1975

NEWCASTLE IS MY NATIVE PLACE - ROUD#3180 - STOKOE/ REAY SBNE 1899 pp190-191 "Newcassel"

NEWCASTLE LULLABY - "Sleep, bonny bairnie, behind the castle" - ROUD#2644 - Gilchrist: Miss Harrison, Newcastle, Northumberland 1912 1v/m

NEWCASTLE RACE WEEK - Tyneside Song comp by Fred Lawson -- Fred LAWSON (voc/gtr) rec by PK, Newcastle 15/6/54: / 7"RTR- 0032-3/ RPL 20611/ 425

NEWCASTLE SCHOTTISCHE - KOHLER 1 p83 (F)

NEWFOUNDLAND - Canada - see KARPELES: various collections incl negs & photgraphs of singers - MERCER 1979: NFL songs & ballads in print 1842-1974 - FMJ 1988 5/4 p503 Review of QUIGLEY 1985: "Close to the Floor" F/D in NFL - see BALAENA - BANKS OF - BOUND DOWN TO NEWFOUNDLAND - CASHMERE SHAWL - SHE'S LIKE THE SWALLOW -- "Daniel Monroe" "Feller from Fortune""My name it is Delaney" (some sung by collector Ken PEACOCK): COLUMBIA SL-211 Canada - FTX-905 Alan MILLS songs (with gtr) in French & English - Mrs Carrie GROVER rec by Maud Karpeles, Berwyn, Pennsylvania 1955: FTX-908 - Rufus GUINCHARD (fid), "Humouring the Tunes" SING SONG SS-9091 1990/ CASS-1214 - Anita BEST (solo unaccomp) "Crosshanded": AMBER 9804-2 1997 -- Recordings see under CANADA in AREA Listing

NEWFOUNDLAND - "St Patrick's Day in '65 from New York we set sail" - comp by Capt Gale White of Maitland, Colchester Co - ROUD#3280 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 p228 NS (w/o)

NEWFOUNDLAND SAILOR, THE - "was walking the Strand" Ch: "No, no, not I, my love, no not I" - ROUD#1685 - SHARP/KARPELES CDC 1974 #175 (2var) - SHARP Cf 2 p381 Manchester broadside & Lucy White's version with ch: "When fishes fly & swallows die then young men will be true" - PURSLOW FD 1974 p62 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 --- LEACH Labr 1965 p280 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 p304

NEWFOUNDLAND SAILOR, THE - "With a ring on his finger and a black rolling eye" - ROUD#1403

NEWFOUNDLAND SEALING SONG - "Come all ye lovers of Newfoundland" - ROUD#2719 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 pp198-9 NS 1950

NEWGATE'S GLOOMY PRISON - sung to PK & Sean O Boyle in 1953 by Harry LYNN but the BBC lost the recording

NEWGATE - BEDLAM - TYBURN HILL

NEWLY - NEW

NEWLYN - Cornwall - WILD AND WICKED YOUTH

NEWLYN - Song composed by Frank Ruhrmund -- Brenda WOOTON with Richard GENDALL: SENTINEL SENS-1016 1973

NEWMARKET HORSE-RACE - Jig - KOHLER 1 p82 (Gm) 4pts alt: "John Paterson's Mare goes foremost"

NEWPORT LASSES - Jig (D) - MOYLAN 1 #47 from Felix Doran (U- pipes) - TAYLOR 1 p18 "N Lass"

NEWPORT STREET - POISON IN A GLASS OF WINE

NEWPORT TOWN - "We have read in History pages" Black & Tan War 1918-20 -- Mary DORAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 24/7/52: RPL 18551/ FTX-166

NEWRY - Town in Co Down - GRADH GEAL MO CHROIDHE - JOHN MITCHEL - KEACH IN THE CREEL - KILLEAVY'S PRIDE - SLIEVE GALTEE MOUNTAIN - WILD AND WICKED YOUTH

NEWS - Voc Lib 1822 #755 p290 "The London Newspaper" (Song- story)- DEAR LITTLE MAIDEN - EVENING CHRONICLE EMPIRE NEWS (K) - MANCHESTER-LIVERPOOL EVENING POST (K) - POOR WEE JOCKIE CLARK -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

NEWS BOYS - Hornpipe (F) - COLE #8 p104 - KERR MM 2 #397 p44

NEWS FROM FRANCE - Quadrille Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #134 p32 (D) - Tunebook Ms #25 p343 (D)

NEWS FROM HOLLAND'S LEAGUER - HOLLAND'S LEAGUER

NEWS FROM MOIDART, THE - ROYAL CHARLIE

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL - Quadrille Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #135 p33 (G) - Tunebook Ms #7 p337 (G)

NEWS OF THE VICTORY, THE - Jig - HARDY Ms - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #136 p33 3pts (G)

NEWTON FAIR - comp by MG about Newton Abbot -- Martin GRAEBE rec by PK, Devon 1975: FTX-049

NEWTON LASSES - POLTHOGUE (Triple Jig)

NEWTON - Lancashire - PACE-EGG SONG

NEXT MARKET DAY, THE - "A maid going to Comber her markets to larn" "her markets to learn" - sell for mother - hanks of fine yarn - met young man - highway - learn you a tune - next market day - sat down together - grass it was green - maid home - took her to bed - ROUD#6547 - HAYWARD: Ulster Songs & Ballads p45 "The Comber Ballad" - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 pp 14-17 Frag of Tyrone Ballad adapted/ Ulster melody 4v - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p6 no source given - See letter from Wm Bruce Olsen 22/6/91 filed under song TOM BROWN about it being a version of "The Carman's Whistle" (1592) -- Frank McPEAKE Senr (with U-pipes) rec by PK, Belfast 9/7/52: 7"RTR-0545/ RPL 18293/ FTX-176/ FONTANA TL-5214 1964/ PRESTIGE International 13018 1961 - AFTERHOURS CASS-60-0920 1989 --- Susan REED (with harp): CBS-M-61359 1951 -

NEXT MONDAY MORNING - "As I was a-walking one morning in Spring" - "I'm going to get married NMM" - ROUD#579 (#235 ?) - BSs incl SBG 3:#27 "I shall be married on Monday morning" - JOYCE AMOI 1873 #17 "I'm going to get married on Sunday" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904-9 1 #3 pp6-7 & p59 "The sign of the Bonny Blue Bell" Som - SHARP School Ser 4 - Sel Ed 1 pp54-55 - Cf 1 p221 - SHARP- KARPELES CDC 1974 #119 pp473-4 Louie Hooper & Lucy White (sisters) 1903 "The Sign of the BBB" - JFSS 2:6 1905 pp51-3 Sharp: Lucy White & Louie Hooper, Hambridge, Som 1903/ Newcastle BS (w/o) - JFSS 35 1931 p260 Moeran Hickling Norfolk 1926 - WILLIAMS Ms #638 "Monday morning" - OPIE ODNR 1951 #464 - REEVES IP 1958 pp198-199 Sharp: Lucy White & Louie Hooper (w/o) - SHEPARD HSL 1973 p175 Williamson BS Newcastle - PURSLOW FD 1974 p60 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 "Married Next Monday Morning" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #137 p314 Harry Cox 1953 "NMM" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #86 pp149-150 RVW: F Bailey, Coombe Bissett, Wiltsh 1904 "Tuesday Morning" & BS: Birmingham Ref Lib --- SHARP FSSA #143 Mrs Ollie King, Sevierville, Tenn 1917 "I'm going to get married next Sunday" (Cf Joyce) - CREIGHTON NS 1950 p165 - BROWN NC 1952 #173 2 & 4 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p146 Mrs Salley A Hubbard, Utah (w/o) "I'm going to be married" - PARLER ABB 1963 p19 Ark (w/o) "The Farmer's Daughter" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 p559 Nfl -- Harry COX rec by PK, London 1953 & Catfield, Norfolk 1956: RPL LP 22915/ FTX-032/ DTS LFX-4 1964 "I'm going to be married" - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22036/ FTX-076 - Bungay Primary School rec 25/11/59: RPL LP 25951 (Version coll by Sharp) "Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell" - Frank PURSLOW: DOBELL F- LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219

NEXT PAY DAY - BABY DID YOU HEAR

NEXT PUDDEN KEN, THE - Scots cant meaning "The Lodging House" -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Seamus Ennis, Banff 1953: FTX-031 - comp by G S Morris of "Old Meldrum" - ROUD#1876A - BRUNE: RS 1965 from Davie Stewart & Robert Rodie, Glasgow - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #351 pp779-780 Jimmy McBeath - FMJ 3:1 1975 p52 Robin Hutchison (tinker) Aberdeen - McCOLL/SEEGER TSES 1977 pp355-357 Maggie McPhee -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax, 1951: FTX-031 & 058/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994/ rec by Seamus Ennis, Banffsh 4/7/52: RPL 18130 - COLLECTOR JES-10 1960 45-EP - TOPIC 12-T-173 1967 - Belle STEWART rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1954: FTX-185, FTX-058 & FTX-441

NICE PIECE OF IRISH PIG'S HEAD, A - "They talk about dishes for dinner" "Frog dish of Frenchman, John Bull roast beef, Germans sausage but Pat prefers" -- MAURICE rec by Reg Hall & Jimmy Power, Haughton's pub, Ross, Co Waterford 1965: TOPIC TSCD-657

NEXT SONG ON THE PROGRAMME, THE - "will be a dance sang by a female gentleman" -- Albert SMITH rec by Keith Summers, Butley, Suffolk Aug 1977: TOPIC 12-TS-375/ TSCD-664 1998 aft step-dance "Pigeon on the gate" (on jews harp)

NIAGRA FALLS - RIDING IN TROUBLE

NICE LITTLE JENNY - JENNY FROM BALLINASLOE

NICE YOUNG MAIDENS - "Here's a pretty set of us - all husbands at a loss - shall we long continue thus? - Now I've given you advice - you'll get husbands in a trice" - ROUD#2591 - BSs - POLWARTH FSN 1967 pp39-40/ FSFTN 1970 pp32-33 T Hepple Ms, Northumberland 1855 - RICHARDS/ STUBBS EFS 1979 pp123-4 Beamish Music Coll

NICHOLAS McAULIFFE'S SLIDE - MOYLAN 2 #244 p141 (G) from John O Leary (melodeon)

NICHOLAS WOOD - WHEN SHALL WE GET MARRIED?

NICKABAR - "There was a little boy - you dare Nickabar" - Kids story with word trickery -- 198 B9

NICK-NAMES - Isle of Portland, Dorset (see wordfile) -- "Lucky" LUCKHURST, London rec by PK, Devon: FTX-332 - TOPIC 12- TS-302 1976 KERSHAWS: "Gradely Folk" (poem)

NICKY TAMS - "When I was only ten years old I left the parish school" (mentions "HORSEMAN'S WORD" qv) - comp by G S Morris (?) publ James S Kerr Glasgow - ROUD#1875 - KERR 2 p2-3 - McCOLL SS 1953 p96 from David Johnson of Cupar - BUCHAN SS 1962 p48-9 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp316-8 John McDonald (Scots tinker) -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Seamus Ennis, Banffsh 1952: BBC 18777/ COLLECTOR JES-10 1960 (45 EP)/ TOPIC 12-T-173 1967/ TOPIC TSCD-655 (Rural) - Jimmy WHITE rec by PK, Whittingham, Northumb 9/6/54: RPL 20608 talk bef/ 425 "As I roved out" radio progr: Northumb - Davie STEWART (voc/ acc) rec by PK, Dundee, Angus, 1956: 180 - Jean REDPATH: ELEKTRA BY-6004 1966

NICOLE OF NANCY - Reel comp by Pete Mac 1988

NICOTINE BLUES - "I wake up in the morning - no damn good" - W & M from Martin Winsor 1958

NID NID NODDIN' - WE'RE ALL NODDIN'

NIEL GOW - Highland/ Strathspey or Reel (A) - Niel GOW (1727- 1807) - BALMORAL p12 (A) Strathspey - BAYARD DTF #1 "Niel Gow's Rant" & #2 (D) "Millgow's Reel" - COLE #8 p13 (A) 2/4 "Niel Gow's Reel" - HONEYMAN p34 (A) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #149 p35 (A) - KERR MM 2 #9 p4 (A) - Other Niel Gow Reels see: KERR MM 1 #7 p13 "Niel Gow's Wife" (Gm) & MM 2 #100 p13 "Niel Gow's Recovery" - Tunebook Ms #98 p302 (G)

NIEL GOW'S COMPLIMENTS RETURNED TO WILLIAM MARSHALL -- George HARVEY WEBB (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, London 9/1/54: RPL 21906

NIEL GOW'S DAUGHTER - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #150 p36 (C ends F) - Tunebook Ms #21 p274

NIEL GOW'S FAREWELL TO WHISKY - FAREWELL TO WHISKY

NIEL GOW'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER, RONALD -- George HARVEY WEBB (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, London 9/1/54: RPL 21905

NIEL GOW'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE - Slow Air comp by NG (publ Jeffreys) -- Hector Mc ANDREW (fid) rec Aberdeen 13/7/67: RPL LP 30952/ FTX-272 - ALY BAIN (fid): LEADER LER-2022 1971 -- Angus GRANT (H-fid) with William LAURIE (p-acc) & John Mc INTYRE (bass): TOPIC 12-TS-347 1978 with Strathspey & Reel

NIEL GOW'S LAMENTATION FOR JAMES MURRAY OF ABERCAIRNY - Lament comp by NG (publ Jeffreys) -- George HARVEY WEBB (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, London 9/1/54: RPL 21907 - Hector Mc ANDREW (fid) rec Aberdeen 13/7/67: RPL LP 30954/ FTX-272 bef "Lady Charlotte Campbell" - Alex Francis Mc KAY (fid) with Fr John Angus RANKIN(piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12 TS 354 1978 with strathpeys & reels

NIEL GOW'S STRATHSPEY - FELDMAN p191 (F) from Danny O Donnell, Donegal

NIEL GOW'S (SECOND) WIFE - Strathspey/ Slow Reel - COLE #4 p126 (Gm) - HONEYMAN p29 - WILLIAMSON p60 with details about Niel Gow (bn 1727) -- HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER 2037

NIGER -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

NIGERIA -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

NIGGER - JOLLY NIGGER BOY - KEYHOLE IN THE DOOR - NEGRO MINSTRELS

NIGGER, NIGGER, COME TO DINNER - "Half past two - roast potatoes, alligators - all for YOU" - Children's Playground Rhyme -- rec by Jean Ritchie, Sidbury C of E Junior School, Devon 1952: 7"RTR-0062

NIGGER TRADER BOATMAN -- Pug ALLEN & Paul BROWN (banjo) rec by Mike Yates, Stuart's Draft, Augusta Co, Va USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980

NIGHEAN A' BHAOIGHEALLAIGH - (O Boyle's Daughter) - Irish Gaelic -- Hudie DEVANEY, rec by PK, Ranafast, Co Donegal 24/5/53: RPL 19968

NIGHEAN A BHUACHAILLE BHOCHD (The Herdsman's Daughter) - sung by Douglas Farragher in Manx Gaelic rec by Fred Macaulay, Isle of Man, 1961: RPL LP 30510/ 445

NIGHEAN DONN AN BOIDCHE, AN - (My beautiful brown-haired girl) -- sung by Malcolm Angus Mc LEOD rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978

NIGHEAN MO RUIN - (The Girl I adore) -- Kathleen Mc DONALD rec by Fred Macaulay, Shader, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides 1957: RPL LP 24441

NIGHT AT THE FAIR, A - Jig (G) - MOYLAN 2 #28 pp17-18 from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #788/ DMI #63 - see also DAY AFTER THE FAIR

NIGHT BEFORE LARRY WAS STRETCHED - BSs - - UNIVERSAL SONGSTER 3 pp140-1

NIGHT BEFORE LARRY WAS STRETCHED - Triple Jig (Irregular length) - LEVEY 1 #110 p49 (Gm) - SKIPPER'S WEDDING -- Al O DONNELL (voc/banjo): TOPIC LER-2073 1972

NIGHT CAP, THE - Jig - GIBLIN #84 p38 (A) - KERR MM 3 #224 p26 (A) - O'NEILL MOI #723/ DMI #23 (G) - see Reel: MOLLY'S NIGHT CAP

NIGHT DANCE, THE - STRIKE THE GAY HARP (Jig)

NIGHT EXPRESS, THE - JIM BLAKE

NIGHT HER BLACKEST SABLE WORE - ROUD#8645 - D'URFEY 1707 p202

NIGHT HERDING SONG, THE - "O say, little dogies, why don't you slow down" - ROUD#4444 - LOMAX Cowboy Songs 1938 pp60-1 -- John A Lomax, Denison, Texas 1946: Lib of Congress AAFS L28 - Dick CAMERON (voc/gtr) of Boston rec by PK, London Oct 1956: RPL 22998

NIGHT OF RAGMAN'S BALL, THE - "Just pay attention for a while my good friends one and all" - ROUD#3006 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp124-5 & p213 Dublin 1913 (text mainly from Bs)

NIGHT OF THE FUN, THE - Triple Jig (Em) - COLE #3 p64 & #6 p67 "Dublin Boys" - GIBLIN #91 p41 "Dublin Streets" - KERR MM 2 #236 p26 "Dublin Streets" - Tunebook Ms #19 p7 (Em) - LEVEY 1 #19 p8 "Dublin Streets" - O NEILL (not MOI) DMI #452 "Last Night's Fun" & MOI #1164/ DMI #438 "Dublin Streets"

NIGHT OF THE MARLIN FAIR - MARLIN FAIR (AT FOGGIELOAN)

NIGHT SOIL - LAVENDER EXPRESS

NIGHT SOIL MAN - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE: 044

NIGHT VISITING - BARNEY MAVOURNEEN - BLOW THE CANDLE OUT - BOLD ENGLISH NAVVY - CLERK SAUNDERS - COURTIN COAT - COURTIN IN THE STABLE - DEVIL'S IN THE GIRL - DROWSY SLEEPER - FORTY LONG MILES - GO AWAY FROM MY WINDOW - GREY COCK - KEACH IN THE CREEL - LAIRD O WINDYWA'S - LIGHT OF THE MOON - MAN IN LOVE HE FEELS NO COLD - OPEN THE DOOR - RHYBUDD I'R CARWR (Welsh) - TITRWM-TATRWM (Welsh) - WHO'S AT THE WINDOW ? - WILLIE'S FATAL VISIT

NIGHT WE MADE THE MATCH, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1636 p863 (A)

NIGHT WAS DARK, THE - "the war was over - battlefield shed with blood - wounded soldier: God bless my home & dear old Scotland - won the Union Jack - that's that" - Kids Skipping Rhyme - RITCHIE SS p29 -- Norton Park School, Edinburgh rec Jean Ritchie 20/3/49: RPL 13869 - Em & Doreen ELLIOTT rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, Birtley, Durham: FOLKWAYS FG-3565 1962 "Here comes Tommy with his tambourine"

NIGHT WAS FINE, THE - COURTIN IN THE STABLE

NIGHTINGALE, THE - (name of ship) - "My love he was a rich farmer's son" - Cruel Parents have him pressed to sea - the ship is lost and his ghost appears - LAWS #M-37 ABBB 1957 p199 - ROUD#1093 - BARRETT EFS 1891 p47 Yeovil, Somerset - KIDSON TT 1891 p61 Charles Lolley, Howden, Yorksh 2v/m - GREIG/DUNCAN 1 p38 2var - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #108 - HENRY SOP #75 - TOCHER 1 1971 p3 Alan Bruford S Ronalsay Orkney -- Cyril TAWNEY (unacc): TOPIC 12-T- 110 1964 - Frankie ARMSTRONG (with fid): TOPIC 12-TS-232 1973 (says coll by Hammond from a Worcestersh woman) - Isabel SUTHERLAND: EFDSS LP-1007 1974 - Andrew CRONSHAW (instrum): TRANSATLANTIC XTRA- 1139 1974 - Peggy SEEGER (unacc) - Ewan McCOLL with Peggy SEEGER (gtr); concert Purcell Room: Radio 2: 6/7/81 CASS-0427

NIGHTINGALE, THE - Jig - FUREY p10 (A) - KERR MM 3 #263 p29 (G) - see also TUNEFUL NIGHTINGALE

NIGHTINGALE, THE - Clog Hornpipe - COLE #3 p117 (F) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #128 p36 (D)

NIGHTINGALE CLUB, THE - "in a village was held" - Drinking and Singing - VOC LIB 1822 #1296 p481 story-song

NIGHTINGALE IN THE EAST. THE - "On a dark lonely night on the Crimea's dread shore" - ROUD#2655 - HENDERSON VSB 1937 p152 BS (w/o)- SHEPARD BB 1962 p155 (w/o)

NIGHTINGALES SING, THE - "As I was out a-walking one morning in May" - "One was a lady and her beauty shone clear - the other was a soldier a bold grenadier" - "to watch the waters gliding and the nightingales sing" - LAWS #P-14 ABBB 1957 p255 "The Nightingale" or "One Morning in May" - ROUD#140 - Bss "Bold Grenadier" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #170 pp645-6 Jim Proll, Minksilver 1906/ John Wedlock, Chew Magna 1907 1v/m/ Lucy Durston, Bridgwater 1909 (m/o)/ Mrs Susan Williams, Haselbury Plucknett 1905/ Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke 1906 1v/m/ Mrs Trott, Langport, Somerset 1904 1v/m "The Bold Grenadier" - GRAINGER Ms #378 Archer Lane, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh - WILLIAMS #495 Edward Kemble, South Marston, Wiltsh (w/o) "To hear the NS" - JFSS 8:34 1930 pp194-5 Hammond: Wm Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset 6v/m "As I was a-walking"/ Mrs Poole, Beaminster Dorset (m/o) "Lady & Soldier" - BROCKLEBANK-KINDERSLEY DBFS 1948 p21 Hammond: Wm Bartlett - REEVES IP 1958 #17 p85 Sharp: Jim Proll/ Chester Lewis, Harlan Co, Ky 1917 "The Bold Grenadier" (w/o) - ED&S 26:2 1964 p39 PK: Raymond & Frederick Cantwell, Standlake, Oxfordsh 1956 "To hear the NS" (This version of the tune used for the composition by Bob Gale: DORSET IS BEAUTIFUL) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p60 Hammond: Wm Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset 1905 - BROCKLEBANK-KINDERSLEY DBFS 1966 p21 Hammond: Wm Bartlett "Grenadier & Lady" - SEDLEY 1967 p16 "The BG" broadside - STUBBS LOM 1970 p16 Jim 'Brick' Harber, Three Bridges, Sussex 1959 "The Bold Privateer" ("As I walked through the forest") - COPPER S&SB 1973 pp210-11 George Attrill, Stopham, Sussex "To hear the NS" - FMJ 2:4 1973 p288 Palmer: George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 "Hear the N sing" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #185 pp414-5 Raymond & John Cantwell 1956 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 p170-3 Caroline Hughes (gipsy) Dorset & Nelson Ridley (gypsy) 1962-6/ Nelson Ridley (gypsy), Essex 1973 "The Lady & the Soldier" - PALMER RVW 1983 #93 p144 Mr Garman, Ockley, Surrey 1903 "The Grenadier & the Lady" --- SHARP FSSA #145 (2 p192) 6v/m Tenn & Ky "The N" Chester Lewis, Harrogate, Claiborne Co., Tenn 1917/ Mrs Kate Thomas, St Helens, Lee Co., Ky 1917/ J.L.Baker, Berea, Madison Co., Ky 1917/ Miss Mary Ann Short, Pine Mt., Harlan Co., Ky 1917/ Mrs Margaret Dunagan, St Helens 1917 (publ.) - LOMAX CS 1910 p183 8v m (Texas) "Wild Rippling Water" - WYMAN-BROCKWAY LT Ky 1916 p68 6v m - SANDBURG AS 1926 p136 6v m - THOMAS DD 1931 p112 1v m (Ky) - CAMBIAIRE 1934 p92 6v - HENRY FSSH 1938 p200 6v Tenn - SCARBOROUGH 1937 p310 2 versions (Va) - HENRY FSSH 1938 p200 Cumberland Gap, Tenn (w/o) "The N" - EDDY Ohio 1939 p230 - BELDEN Mo 1940 p242 (2 versions) - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp266-9 Mrs Carrie Baber, Mo 1921/ Mrs Lee Stephens 1928 (w/o)/ Mrs Violet Savory Justis 1930 (w/o)/ Mrs Otto Ernest Rayburn, Ark 1930 1v (w/o)/ Mrs May Kennedy McCord, Mo 1942 (w/o) "One Morning in May" - MORRIS FSOS 1950 pp360-1 Mrs R R Brown, Fla (w/o) "One Morning in May"/ Mrs G A Griffin Fla "The Walls of Jericho" - BROWN NC 1952 #13 3 & 5 - FLANDERS-OLNEY 1953 p164 6v m (Mass) - MOORE BFSW 1964 pp211-212 Mrs Lou Gunter, Okl "The N" - LEACH Labr 1965 p744 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 2 pp594-5 Howard Morry, Nfl 1951 "The Soldier & the Lady" - KARPELES FSNFL 1971 pp232-3 John Parsons 1930/ Miss Florrie Snow Nfl 1929 (m/o) "The N" - Lore & Language 7:2 1988 pp57-58 Wm White, Nfl 1981 "How the N Sing" -- Walter HAYNE rec by PK, Abbotsbury, Dorset 1954 RPL 22437 "The Soldier and the Lady" - George ATRILL rec by Bob Copper, Fittleworth, Sussex 1954: RPL 22737 - Frederick & Raymond CANTWELL rec by PK, Standlake, Oxfordsh 1956: RPL LP 23537/ CAEDMON TC-1143/ TOPIC 12-T-158/ 017 (with fid/ vs 3-4 omitted)/ FTX-136/ "Songs of Seduction" ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 "The Soldier & the Lady" - Basil & WISBECH CHILDREN'S CHOIR rec by PK 23.7.56 7"RTR-0077/ FTX-424 "The Bold Grenadier" - Dominic BEHAN: MAJOR MINOR SMMLP-1967 (Cantwell) - Carolyne HUGHES rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: FTX-043 - YETTIES: ACORN CF-203 1969/ ARGO ZFB-16-1970/ CASS-15- 0568 (Cantwell) - Rebecca PENFOLD (gypsy) rec by PK, Winkleigh, Devon 1971: FTX-042 & FTX-136 - SPINNERS: EMI-6493 1972 - INN FOLK rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 1975: FTX-095 (from Cantwell) - Frank HINCHLIFFE, rec by Mike Yates, Sheffield, Yorksh: TOPIC 12-TS-308 1977 "Hear the N sing" - GRIMSBY BROADSIDE: TOPIC 12-TS-228 1973 (from Luke Stanley, Barrow-on- Humber, Lincs) - Arthur HOWARD, Yorks: HILL & DALE HD-006 1981 - Gary & Vera ASPEY (with conc) on Radio 2 "Folkweave" 29/11/79: CASS-0411 (amusing variant) - Ian CAMPBELL with Lorna Campbell Trio RPL Radio 2 1985 CASS-0622-C90 (Cantwell version)- - Various versions on PK's Lecture tape 19/11/82: CASS-0617 - Francis SHERGOLD with banjo & chorus rec by John Howson on Radio 2 radio prog 4/1/96: CASS-1335 --- Jean RITCHIE 2 versions (unacc/ gtr): ELEKTRA EKLP-2 1952 10" LP/ with dulc gtr & banjo: LONDON (SIRE) SES- 97014 [nd] "See the waters a-glidin" - Alan LOMAX (voc/ gtr) Guy CARAWAN (banjo) & John COLE (harmonica) rec by PK: TRADITION TLP-1029 1958/ FTX-904 "The Wild Rippling Water" - Neil MORRIS (voc & gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, Timbo, Ark., USA Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1707 1997 "The Irish Soldier & The English Lady" - Almeda RIDDLE of Arkansas: ROUNDER 0017 rec 1972 "The Nightingale Song"

NIGHTMAN, THE - FALSE KNIGHT ON THE ROAD

NIL MO SHLAINTE AR FONAMH - Song in Irish Gaelic in which a local Ballyvourney poet complains about having to give up drinking by the clergy until the local pub landlady persuades him to drink her health - CROININ 2000 Song #104 pp165-8 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Macroom, Co Cork 29/8/52: RPL 18760 "Nil se 'n-a la"/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 2000 "Nil Mo shlainte ar fonamh"

NIL SE 'NA LA - "Eiri' it' shui, fhir a ti" - Drinking song in which poet hears the pub landlady telling him to get up and dress himself and at the same time another woman's voice saying "not yet it's not yet morning" - he then recounts his neglected duties: herding sheep, calves at their mother's milk, cows loose in the pound with no-one to drive them, dogs barking. He knows he should be home but his socks are in the ale-house and shoes in the pub - CROININ 200 #105 pp168-171 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 29/8/52: RPL 18760/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 #25

NIMBLE FINGERS - Reel - COLE #3 p44 (C)

NIMBLE MOWER, THE - YN FOLDER GASTEY

NINE JOYS OF MARY, THE - JOYS OF MARY

NINE PINT COGGIE, THE - Reel - Athole Coll - FELDMAN p72 (A) from Johnny Doherty -- Mike McDOUGALL (fid) with Marie Mc LELLAN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 with other strathspeys & reels

NINE POINTS OF ROGUERY - Reel - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #264 p137 (Dm) from Johnny Doherty, Co Donegal 3pts - BRODY p202 discog - SULLIVAN 1 #21 (D) 3pts -- JOHNSTONS (Group): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-185 1968 & TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-11 1969 (S) with "Humours of Tulla" - THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LEADER LER-2086 1973 from Castle Ceili Band Dublin - Tommy PEOPLES (fid) with Paul BRADY (gtr) SHANACHIE 29003 1976/ CASS-0486 bef "Mistress on the Floor"

NINE POUND HAMMER -- Harry (voc/ mandolin) & Jeannie (voc/ gtr) WEST rec Appalachians: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-617 1956

NINE STALL STABLE, THE - Folk Tale told by Willie McPhee (tinker): DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

NINE TIMES A NIGHT - "A handsome young man from London came down" - Birmingham broadside -- Jon RAVEN (accomp): ARGO ZFB-29 1971

NINETY SEVEN - WRECK OF THE OLD NINETY SEVEN

NINEPINS - PIN REEL

NINETEEN-THIRTEEN MASSACRE - comp by Woody Guthrie about Miners having their Christmas Ball when the "scabs" come in -- Jack ELLIOTT (voc/gtr): TOPIC 12-TPS-166 1966 - Wally WHYTON: FONTANA STL- 5476 1968

NINETEEN YEARS OLD - "As I was walking one night near the Strand" - meets girl who turns out to be a woman with wooden legs, glass eyes etc. - ARTIFICIALS or FALSE PARTS theme - "Veritable Dungheap" Article #5 in MT (mustrad) -- Martin CARTHY from broadside (words in file) -- Delia MURPHY (voc with acc & gtr): TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-5028/ FTX 309 A-ROVING 1968 #3 "The damsel of 19 years old"

NINETEENTH OF FEBRUARY - Scots Reel - WILSON (with dance descr) p78

NINETY AND NINE - Moody & Sankey hymn based on Matthew 18 v12 - Copyright 1876 -- Frank PROFFITT: FOLKWAYS FA-2360 1962

NINETY EIGHT - ON BOARD OF A NINETY EIGHT

NINETY FIVE - JOHN OF PARIS

NINETY NINE AND NINETY - TWO SISTERS, THE

NINETY NINE YEARS IS ALMOST FOR LIFE - (Curtain/ Stacey) -- Lester FLATT & Earl SCRUGGS with THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: CBS CS-8751 1963

NINETY THIRD'S FAREWELL TO GIBRALTAR - FAREWELL TO GIBRALTAR

NINETY YEARS OF AGE - "My father had a little farm - at 21 I could manage well - but now I cannot do the work" - ROUD#619 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p294 (Ms#244) T Webb, Broadwell, Oxfordsh 2v (w/o)

NION A'BHAOILLIGH - (O Boyle's Daughter) - Irish Gaelic - O BAOIGHILL 1944 p46 Ranafast - DE NORAIDH 1965 p37 Munster - Cf 1st v of COSTELLO 1919 p4 "Mo Mhuirnin Bhan" Connaught - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #41 O Donnell -- Hudie DEVANEY rec by PK, Ranafast, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19968 - Conal O DONNELL of Ranafast, rec by PK, London: FTX-003

NIPPIN GRUND, DA - Shetland Reel -- Bill SANDISON (fid) rec Lerwick, Shetland 22/1/49: RPL 13200/ rec by Pat Shaw, Shetland 1952: FTX-068

NIPPORS - Jig -- FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec by Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 aft "Oyster Girl"

NIVVIE NIVVIE NICK NACK - "Which hand will you tak? - tak the richt or tak the wrong" - RITCHIE GC p5 Guessing hands - see DAVY DAVY NICK NACK

NIX MY DOLLY PALS FADE AWAY - "In a box of the stone jug I was born" - ROUD#12735