OLD ABE - MARCHING ON
OLD ABEL GRAINGER - "lived a-most alone" - WILLIAMS
Ms#657
OLD ADAM AND EVE - WHEN ADAM WAS FIRST CREATED
OLD ADAM THE POACHER - BARING GOULD SOW Rev Ed only #120 Wm Andrews,
Sharpstor FWB (words written by SBG to tune from ms of violin tunes)
OLD AGE - "The subject of my little song" - WILLIAMS
MS#74 Arthur Halliday, Culkerton, Gloucestersh (w/o)
OLD ALABAMA - Negro work song -- rec by Alan Lomax, Parchman State
Penitentiary, Miss., USA 1947: FTX-916
OLD ALARM CLOCK, THE - Humorous song about IRA Bombings 1938-9 - Words
by Phil Kelly - tune is "Garden where the praties grow" - -
Dominic BEHAN: TOPIC 12-T-44 1958 - DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-3 1967
OLD ALBERT'S FINAL WOOD - Song about the game of Bowls comp by GM 1961
-- Graeme MILES (voc/ banjo): FTX-227
OLD ALE - "When I was a little boy, my father did say"
- ROUD#214 - PATTEN SS 1987 Charlie Showers, Drayton, Somerset 1973 (w/o)
-- Charlie Showers rec by Dave Bland: CASS-1159
OLD AND NEW COURTIER, THE - "The Queen's old courtier -
Christmas - bagpipe and beer - (Opening sung in monotone) -- SONGWAINERS
Cheltenham: ARGO ZFB-31 1971
OLD ARBOE - "Ye Gods assist my poor wearied notion"
- Arboe is near Dungannon, Co Tyrone - ROUD#2984 - HENRY SOP #505/ HUNTINGTON
1990 p157 Nancy Tassier, Arboe, Co Tyrone - O BOYLE IST 1976 p80 with notes
about song (source not given) - Liam O Connor's Draft Ms "Songs of the
North of Ireland" 1994 p63 "Old Cross of Arboe" -- Paddy
TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-289 1976 - Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc):
RITZ London nn/ CASS-0957 1985
OLD ARK, THE - "Who built the ark, Noah, Noah" - ROUD#472
- CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp164-5 Bruce Hutchins, North Head, New Brunswick, Canada
OLE ARK'S A-MOVERIN', THE - Redd SULLIVAN & 44 Skiffle Group,
rec by PK at The London Ceilidhe Club 1957: The London Ceilidhe Club,
27/10/1957: FTX-268
OLD ARKANSAS - ARKANSAS TRAVELLER
OLD ARMCHAIR, THE - MY GRANDMOTHER'S OLD ARMCHAIR
OLD AS THE HILLS - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #1017/ DMI #232 (A)
OLD AUNT DINAH - "ho pee ho pee" - Cowboy "runt"
or chant - ROUD#11803 - BROWN NCFL 3 p554 -- "Butter Boy"
(age 13) ("Eephing") rec by John Lomax, Smithers Plantation,
Huntsville, Texas Apr 1934 (also rec "Raise a rukus") &
Henry TRUVILLION (voc) rec by John & Ruby Lomax Burkeville, Texas Oct 1940:
ROUNDER CD-11661-1821-2 1977
OLD AUNT KATE - "she baked a cake - she baked it on the garden
gate - and that's the way she took me in" - Cumulative song - SCARBOROUGH
OTNFS -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER: ROUNDER C-8001 (2pts) 1987 "American
Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226
OLD AUNT SALLY - Song 6/8 - WESTROP #58 p20 (G) Country Dance
OLD BABY FARMER, THE - MRS DYER
OLD BACHELOR, THE - "I am a man unmarried" - about
a silly old codger who married a young birdie and has to be instructed by his
mother-in-law (A L Lloyd) - ROUD#1649 & #3771 - GREIG-DUNCAN 7 pp210-211
- LYLE ACC 1975 Andrew Crawfurd MS (c): John Smith, Lochwinnoch, Refrewsh c1820
(w/o) --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp345-6 Christopher Brown, River John, Nova Scotia,
Canada (w/o) -- A L LLOYD (+fid & E-conc): TOPIC 12-T-135 1966
OLD BALD EAGLE -"Sail around - today I'm gone" - SHARP
FSSA 1917/32 #265 (vol 2 p374) Hillard Smith, Hindman, Knott Co., Ky 1917
OLD BANGUM - SIR LIONEL
OL' BANJO, DE - Minstrel Song Instr -- Jimmy SHAND (mel, piano &
drums): BELTONA BL-2395/ FTX-361
OLD (OWD) BARTLE - see under SUBJECTS "Bartle-burning"
OLD BAZAAR IN CAIRO, THE - ELECTRO-PATHETIC BAND: Radio 2 on 30/9/87:
CASS-0404
OLD BEDSTEAD, THE - "Twas down in Bedfordsh, in an old fashioned
town" - parent's house - childhood memories - ROUD#1194 - WILLIAMS
FSUT 1923 p262 (Ms#22) W Baxter, Watchfield, Berksh
OLD BEGGAR MAN, THE - GABERLUNZIE MAN
OLD BETTY LARKIN - BETTY LARKIN
OLD BIG SHEEP, THE - RAM SONG
OLD BILL - Sad story of a hyperchondriac - comp by BW -- Bernard
WRIGLEY (voc/ conc): TOPIC 12-TS-241 1974
OLD BILLY RILEY - BILLY REILLY
OLD BITCH FOX, THE - CHIVVY CHIVVY-O
OLD BLACK BOOGER, THE - OLD GREY BEARD
OLD BLACK DOG -- Paul CLAYTON of Boston Mass USA rec by PK, London
7/5/57: RPL LP 23448
OLD BLACK DUCK - FOX AND THE GOOSE
OLD BLACK JOE - comp by Stephen Foster -- ELLIOTT Family Birtley
Durham (tune on banjo): LEADER LEA-4001 1969 with "Golden Slippers"
OLD BLACK MULE, THE - "My mule is neither lame or slow"
(name: Balaam) Ch: "He'll shake his head - OBM of mine" --
Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1941: FTX-922
2v & ch only
OLD BLACKTHORN, THE - RISING SUN
OLD BLIND DRUNK JOHN - I SAW A MOUSE
OLD BLIND HORSE, THE - "O listen and I will sing you a song"
- legacy - old man's will - ROUD#2703 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 pp130-1 NS Canada
1950
OLD BLUE - "I had a dog and his name was Blue - good dog too"-
ROUD#4313 - LOMAX OSC pp111-2 - JAFL 39 1926 p177 - HUDSON FSM pp201-2 --
Burl IVES COLUMBIA RTR-0323-4 - Guy CARAWAN (voc/ banjo) rec by PK, London 7/7/57:
RPL LP 24129/ FTX-919/ EMI CLP-1174 1958/ FTX-942
OLD BLUE MAN, THE - comp by GM 1965 about a megalithic stone on Wharfedale
Moor -- Graeme MILES (voc with conc effects): FTX-226
OLD BOB RIDLEY-O - BOB RIDLEY-O
OLD BOG GROUND, THE - Reel - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #771 (G)
OLD BOG HOLE, THE - "O the pigs are in the mire and the sow
in rthe grass - a man without a wife is little better than an ass" - Ch:
"O gramachroidhe mavourneen - could you fancy the bouncing young Barney
Magee?" - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #743 p61 (3var) - BARNEY MAGEE
OLD BOG ROAD, THE - "My feet are here on Broadway"
- view of emigrant in America - comp by Teresa Brayton - O KEEFE FBIB 1955 p107
5v w/o -- Barney O SHAMROCK: CASS-0929 - Leo ROWSOME (tune on U-pipes) rec
Dublin 1937-8: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Boolavogue"
OLD BOGIE - BOGIE'S BONNY BELLE
OLD BOSUN - TAILOR IN THE TEACHEST
OLD BRAG'S, THE - SLASHERS
OLD BRASS LOCKET, AN - "While sttrolling by the margins of the
sad sea waves" - WILLIAMS Ms#500 Albert Spackman, South Marston, Wiltsh
(w/o)
OLD BRIDGE BY THE MILL, THE -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN
(gtr/voc): RITZ London LC-0012/ CASS-0955
OLD BRITANNIA - GRAND OLD DAME
OLD BROOM DASHER, THE - GREEN BROOMS
OLD BROWN ALE - GOOD ALE
OLD BROWN HEN, THE - "T'Owd brahn 'en" - comp by Gerald
Short of Chesterfield, Derbyshire - Why kill the hen if she keeps laying daily?
-- MUCKRAM WAKES (unacc): LEADER LER-2093 1976
OLD BROWN SAT IN THE ROSE AND CROWN - "- Cf WHEN THE OLD DUNCOW
CAUGHT FIRE -a-talking about the war - another half pint and we'd a been
in Berlin - do you want to lose the War?"-- Albert SMITH
rec by Keith Summers, Butley, Suffolk Aug 1977: TOPIC 12-TS-375/ TSCD-664 1998
OLD BROWN SLIPPER - Slip Jig - BREATHNACH II 1976 #99 p53 G
OLD BROWN'S DAUGHTER - "There lives an ancient party" -
"she's a proper sort of girl" - Class barrier to marriage - "If
I were a Lord Mayor. a marquis or an earl - I'd marry OB's girl" - she
keeps a shop - ROUD#1426 - BSs -- Walter PARDON, Knapton, Norfolk: LEADER
LED-2063 1975
OLD BULL AND BUSH, THE - DOWN BY
OLD BULLOCK DRAY, THE - "Now the shearing is all over - I mean
to get away, boys, when I go to town" Ch: "So roll up your bundle"
- Tune: "Ring the bell, Watchman" - PATERSON Old Bush
Song -- "Swagman" Jack POBAR: LARRIKIN 007 1976
OLD BUSH REEL - BUSH REEL
OLD CARATHEE - "O me name is Paddy McAnulty of Co Down - looking
for wife - drinks - invited me out to wagon - Julia - hawker" - Tinker
comp -- John REILLY, tinker, rec by Tom Munnelly, nr Boyle, Co Roscommon
5/10/67: FTX-175/ TOPIC 12-T-359 "Old Caravee"/
TSCD-665 1998 "Old Carathee"
OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL, THE - "Come along boys and listen to my
tale" - ROUD#3438 - LOMAX Cowboy Songs 1938 pp28-37 -- Moses "Clear
Rock" PLATT rec by John & Alan Lomax, Central State Farm (Pen), Sugarland,
Texas USA 1933: ROUNDER 11661-1821-2 1999 (see also "St James' Hospital"
("I used to go dashing"); "That's All Right Baby"; "Old
Joe Clark" & "Long Summer Day") - Roy GUEST with THE
TENNESSEE 3 & Jack FALLON (bass): SAGA XID-5165 1963
OLD CHURCH BELLS, THE - "O those OCB, those merry balls"
- WILLIAMS Ms#53 Henry Temple, Barnsley, Gloucestersh (w/o)
OLD CHURCH HORNPIPE, THE - by James Hill - DIXON 1987 p35 from Billy
Pigg rec in School of Scottish Studies (SF/1965/7)
OLD CHURCHYARD, THE - "O come with me - out to the OC"
-- Almeda RIDDLE: "Ballads & Hymns from the Ozarks" ROUNDER
0017 rec 1972
OLD CISSY LEE - BALLAD OF CISSY LEE
AULD CLETTENROE - Shetland reel -- Tom ANDERSON (fid) & Willie
JOHNSON (gtr) rec by Pat Shaw, Lerwick, Shetland July 1952: RPL 18648 - Tom
ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281
1976 aft "Jack is yet alive" - Talk about tune by Tom Anderson
RTR-1080/ CASS-0965
OLD CLUCK HEN -- Frank PROFFITT: FOLK LEGACY FSA-1 1962
OLD COCK CROW, THE - "Behold am I a jolly farmer" Ch:"I
like to hear the OCC - hurrah for the life in the country" - PALMER
EBBB 1980 #20 from Derek & Dorothy Elliott -- Jim LAMBERT with Kit JONES
(conc & ch) rec Redmire, Leyburn, N Yorks 28/3/40: RPL 2523 2v & ch
-- TRADITION SOUND TSR-025 1976
OLD COPPERPLATE, THE - CRANITCH p84 - SHASKEEN 1 #42 p29 (Am) also has
"The New C" (included under COPPERPLATE) - TWEED p23 (Am)
OLD COUPLE, THE - FATHER GRUMBLE
OLD CUFFE STREET - CUFFE STREET
OLD CORN LIQUOR - "I got drunk and lost my hat" - ROUD#7865
- BROWN NCFL 3 p74 --- Rob TATE (banjo) rec by Mike Yates, Fancy Gap, Carroll
Co, Va., USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980
OLD COUNSELOR, THE - COUNCILLOR'S DAUGHTER
OLD COUNTRY CHURCH, THE - "Praying in the OCC" - Appalachian
-- CAMP CREEK BOYS rec Va: LEADER LED-2053 1975
OLD COUNTRY SQUIRE, THE - CHEER, BOYS, CHEER
OLD COUPLE THAT LIVED IN THE WOOD, THE - FATHER GRUMBLE
OLD COUPLE THAT LIVES NEAR HELL, THE - DEVIL & FARMER'S WIFE
OLD COUPLE THAT WERE POOR, THE - POOR COUPLE
OLD COW OF KINLOUGH, THE - "Down in Kinlough and old man that
was there - so many faults - couldn't sell her" -- Thomas MORAN
rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22038/ FTX-076
OLD CROW, THE - THREE CROWS
OLD DADDY FOX - FOX AND THE GOOSE
OLD DADDY REYNOLDS - "jumped out of the wood" - WILLIAMS
Ms#241 John Chambers, Broadwell, Oxfordsh (w/o)
OLD DAME HOOK - "she had a brown mare - turned her out but didn't
know where" (mentions Addington Hill) - contrib by Mrs Wilkes of Gloucester
rec from Kay Davis (see Library tape & corresp) - Cf TOM PEARCE
OLD DAN TUCKER - "O D T was a fine old man" - attrib
to Dan Decatur Emmett 1840 (comp of Blue Tail Fly, Boatman's Dance, Early
in the Morning and Dixie publ 1859) but Emmett probably based it on existing
trad - ROUD#390 - BARING GOULD Ms vol 1 #10 "Dan Tucker lived in a nice
little hut" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp142-3 #6 Edward Archer. Coleshill,
Berksh & Robert Godwin, South Marston, Gloucestersh (w/o) "Old Anne
Tucker" ("and my Aunt Sal") --- SPAETH 1928 p42 - LOMAX 1947
p132 - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha 1970 p106 from Henry Green - SAM SAM THE DIRTY
MAN (Children) -- Mrs ETHERIDGE (instr on googa) rec by Frank & Anne
Warner, NC USA 1940: FTX-927 - Perry RIEDMAN (voc/
banjo) rec by PK, London 21/6/58: RPL LP 24566 - Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL
7624 - Dan TATE (unacc) rec by Mike Yates, Fancy Gap, Carroll Co, Va. USA 15/8/79
VWML-007 d/CASS-1026 1992
OLD DARK KNIGHT IN THE WOOD - FALSE KNIGHT IN THE ROAD
OLD DAYS, THE - Talk -- Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co
Donegal 24/8/53 RPL 20150 - William REW Devon 1954 RPL 22322 "A family
spree" - John STRACHAN Aberdeensh 1955 RPL LP 23220 - Jersey C I 1960
RPL 26236 - Bill BAILEY (Aged 101) Devon: FTX-086 -
Jeannie ROBERTSON life story: FTX-187 - Tommy WILLIAMS
London FREE REED FRR-008 - rec Peter DUDDRIDGE 1962-5: SAYDISC SDL-222 1972
OLD DEVIL'S DREAM - DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS
OLD DOC JONES - "was a fine old man - he told ten thousand lies
- gentleman and lady sail away - and choose just who you please" -
Ring with couple in centre who choose partners of opposite sex - SHARP FSSA
1917/32 #256 (vol 2 p368) played by children at Pine Mountain Settlement School,
Harlan Co., Ky 1917
OLD DOG TRAY - "The morn of life is past" - ROUD#2667
- GRAINGER Ms#247 Thomas Stark, Broughton, Lincolnsh 1906 --- THOMPSON PS 1958
pp157-8 Stevens-Douglass MS NY 1841-56 (w/o)
AULD DOHERTY'S GHOST - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS
Aberdeen UP 1987
OLD DOLLAR MAMIE - Negro Work Song -- rec by Alan Lomax, Parchman
State Pewnitentiary, Miss USA 1947: FTX-916
OLD DONALD - Scots March -- Michael HEBBERT (conc): FREE REED FRR-009
1977 played as a Slow March - Mrs CROTTY'S Ceili Band rec by PK, Totnes, Devon
1980: FTX-250 aft "Flowers of Edinburgh"
& bef "Roxburgh Castle"
OLD DORRINGTON - "was a most terrible Turk" - WILLIAMS
MS#101 Mrs Mackie, Lechlade, Gloucestersh (w/o)
OLD DROVE ROAD - Hornpipe -- CHEVIOT RANTERS Country Dance Band:
TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 used for "Drops of Brandy" dance
OLD DROVER, THE - GAME COCK
OLD DUNCOW, THE - "I go many a mile over hedge and stile"
- ROUD#9473 - HENRY/ HUNTINGDON SOP #492 p238 - see also WHEN THE OLD DUNCOW
CAUGHT FIRE -- Paddy McCLUSKEY, rec by PK, Clough Mills, Co Antrim 5/8/53:
RPL 20032/ FTX-377
OLD DUNGARVAN OAK, THE - Co Waterford -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc)
& Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London nn/ CASS-0957 1985
OLD DUTCH CHURN, THE - OLD MILK CHURN (Triple Jig)
OLD ELM TREE, THE - "There's a lonely path by the deserted mill"
- old bridge - ROUD#2795 - DEAN FC 1922 pp27-28 (w/o) - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 4
pp170-1 Missouri 1940 (w/o) - BELDEN BSM 1955 p221 Missouri (w/o)
OLD ENGLAND LONG EXPECTED - DEATH OF NELSON
OLD ENGLAND FORTY YEARS AGO - ROUD#2824 - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp112- 118
Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o)
OLD ENGLISH ALE - "I have been East and I have been West- liquor
me call IPSE" - Tune is like "Banbury Bill" - D'URFEY
4 pp106-7
OLD ENOCH - "was aged he wished to be still" - fat
pork tub - bill - man steals pork - dabs - ROUD#2851 THOMPSON PS 1958 pp189-191
Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o)
OLD ERIN FAR AWAY - ERIN FAR AWAY
OLD EWE WITH ONE HORN, THE - "There was an owd yowe wi only
one horn - broke butcher's legs - sent to fight King" Ch: "So
turn the wheel round so bonny" - ROUD#1762 - JFSS 7 (1905) p79 Percy
Grainger Lincs & PENGUIN 1959 p82 - Cf EWIE WI THE CROOKIT HORN - RAM SONG
- RATTLE MOUNTAIN PIE -- Dean ROBINSON rec on phonograph by Percy Grainger,
Lincolnsh 1908: FTX-135/ LEADER LEA-4050 1972
OLD FAMILIAR FACES - "Now Tomkins was a traveller and he travelled
out of town", met a chap named Brown - homesick for family and singing
in pub - gets married but at seaside wants to go home - ROUD#12596 -- Jimmy
KNIGHTS rec by Neil Lanham, Little Glemham, Woodbridge, Suffolk: NL-02 1995/
CASS 1358 "Tomkins was a traveller"
OLD FARMER, THE - "I have been travelling twenty long years"
- merits of farming - miller - soldier - none so rare - ROUD#1178 - JFSS 6 1918
p15 Frederick Keel: John Keene, Thursley, Surrey 1913 1v/m "Sheep-shearing
Song" - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp30-31 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #24 pp51-53 -
ANDREWS SOD 1979 p19 Michael Blann MS: Upper Beeding, Sussex (w/o)
OLD FARMER AND HIS YOUNG WIFE, THE - CUCKOLD'S SONG
OLD FARMER OF NEWTON, THE -- Bob Rodgers rec by PK, Frodsham, Cheshire
1/11/54 FTX-107
OLD FARMER'S SERVANT, THE - RAP TAP TAP
OLD FAT BUCK, THE - "In Thorneymoor Woods in Nottinghamshire"
- Thorney Wood Chase, formerly part of Sherwood Forest near Newark-on-Trent,
was enclosed about 1790 - ROUD#222 - BSs: "The Lads of Thorny Moor Woods"
- BROADWOOD OES 1843 - BEROADWOOD SS 1890 - DIXON SP 1846 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp214-6/
434 "Thornehagh-Moor Woods in Nottinghamshire" - CHAPPELL PMOT
1858 - MASON NRCS 1877 pp57-8 "In Thorney Woods" - REYNARDSON
1889 p12 Sx "The Poacher's Song" - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp50-51
John Broadwood Sussex bef 1840 "The Nottinghamsh Poacher" -
SHARP- KARPELES CDC 1974 #272 pp235-6 Edwin Thomas,. Dulverton, Somerset 1914/
Kathleen Williams (gipsy), Puddlebrook, Herefordsh 1921 "Thorneymoor
Woods" - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp198-200 Broadwood: Fred Page, Chiswell Green,
Hertfordsh 1898 "Thorny Woods"/ Gilchrist: Mr Gasson, Blackham,
Sussex 1907 "Thornyholme W" - JFSS 7:26 1923 pp14-5 Moeran:
Ted Goffin, Catfield, Norfolk 1921 1v/m - WILLIAMS #723 "Thornymoor
Wood is in Nottinghamshire" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p58 Hammond: Mrs Webb,
Kings Norton, Worcestersh 1906 "Thornaby Woods" - PALMER SOM
1972 p71 Charles Parker: George Dunn (chainmaker), Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971
- KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #259 pp570-1 Harry Cox - McCOLL/SEEGER TSES 1977 pp292-5
Nelson Ridley (gypsy) Essex "Thornaby Woods" - PALMER EBECS
1979 #50 pp96-8 George Dunn -- Cf DEATH OF BILL BROWN - HUNTING SONG ("Ollerton
Town") - see also THOMAS HANLEY, Nottinghamsh poacher --- EDDY Ohio
1939 p154 -- Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1956: RPL LP 22915/ FTX-023
(vs 2,4 & 8 omitted) "Thorneymoor Woods" - Mrs DUNSBY rec
by PK, Yiewsley, West Drayton, Middx 1958 - Chris WILLETT (gypsy) rec by PK,
Paddock Wood, Kent 1963 RTR-0985 "In Thorney Park in Buckinghamshire"
- Anne BRIGGS: TOPIC 12-T-207 1971 - Roy BAILEY with Martin CARTHY (gtr) &
Peter KNIGHT (fid): LEADER LER-3021 1971 (Hammond coll) - George DUNN: LEADER
LEE-4042 1973 - Jasper SMITH (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Epsom, Surrey: TOPIC
12-T-253 1975/ TSCD-668 1998 "Thornymoor Park" - SPREDTHICK
rec PK, Totnes 1975 "Nottingham Poachers" - Walter PARDON rec
Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-301 1984 "Thornaby
Woods"
OLD FATHER GRIMES - "that good old man" - ROUD#764
- COX FSOS 1925 p490 Mrs Boyd, Morgantown, W Va 1916 (w/o) "Old Grimes"
- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 pp177-8 W E Hale, Joplin, Missouri 1913
OLD FAVOURITE - Single Jig or Slide - SULLIVAN 3 #16 p6 (G) from John
Keenan
OLD FIGARY O - Jig - COLE p62 (D)
AULD FISHER'S FAREWELL TO COQUET - "Come bring to me my limber
gad" comp by Robert Roxby & Thomas Doubleday c1825 - ROUD#3160
- STOKOE-REAY SBNE pp134-5 - see also ANGLER'S SONG TO COQUET
OLD FISHERMAN AND THE DEVIL, THE - Story told by Belle Stewart (tinker):
DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987
OLD FLAMES - "Down town tonight I saw an old friend"
-- Barney O SHAMROCK: CASS-0929 nd - Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN
(gtr/voc): RITZ London LC-0008 nd/ CASS-0952 & LC TV 1/ CASS- 0956
OLD FOLKS AT HOME - SWANEE RIVER
OLD FOULA REEL, THE - Shetland tune with 2 lower strings raised to A
& E - BOWEN p49 (A) -- Tom ANDERSON, Aly BAIN, Trevor HUNTER, Davie TULLOCH
(Fiddles): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 with "Wynadepla"
OLD FOX, THE - FOX SONG
OLD FRIEND - GARDENER AND THE PLOUGHMAN
AULD GARDENER'S WIFE, THE - SPRING GARDENS
OLD GERMAN CLOCKMAKER/ MUSICIANER, THE - GERMAN CLOCKMAKER/ MUSICIANER
OLD GOSPEL SHIP, THE - "I'm going to take a trip in that OGS"
- Gospel hymn -- Ruby Vass (voc/ gtr) rec Hillsville, Va: Baptist Hymns
& White Spirituals from the Southern Mountains NEW WORLD NW-294 1977 - rec
by Alan Lomax, Salem, Va Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1704 1997
OLD GRANDFATHER BRIAN -- Bob TOWNSEND rec by Gwilym Davies, Witcombe,
Gloucestersh: 417
OLD GRANDMA - "when the West was new" - ROUD#4543 -
PEACOCK SNO 1 pp81-2 - FOWKE-JOHNSTON FSC 1 pp94-5 -- Alan MILLS (Canadian)
accomp by Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897/
FTX-905
OLD GRANNAU WEAL - GRANUAILLE
OLD GRAYSON - "he rode hard by the State Line - Tarheels take
warning" - Sheriff in Tenn-N C who accused them of being drunk in order
to collect fines - ROUD#7469 -- Frank PROFFITT (voc/gtr) rec by Frank &
Anne Warner, Beech Mountain, Watauga Co, NC 1962:
FTX-932 (with talk)
OLD GRENADIER MARCH -- John KIRKPATRICK RPL Radio 2 12/10/82: CASS-60-0548
OLD GREY BEARD - "A dottered aul' carle cam ower the lee - with
his OGB newly shaven" - "My mother bid/ told me" - ROUD#362
- RAMSAY TTM 1724 "The Young Lass contra Old Man" - HERD AMS
1776 2 pp33-4 "Carle came oer the Craft" - VOC LIB 1822 - BELL
BSPE 1857 pp237-8 nn, Morpeth, Northumb (w/o) "There was an old man
came over the Lea" - MASON NRCS 1877 - JOHNSON SMM 1853 #134 2 p141/
#416 p429 "The Carle he cam o'er the craft"/ "The Auld Man
He Came over the Lea" - KIDSON TT 1891 p92 - FORD VSB 1899 1 p128 (141-2)
4v (w/o) "The Carle he cam ower the Craft" - GREIG-DUNCAN 4
1990 #815 p207 "The carle he cam o'er the croft" (4var) - SHARP-KARPELES
CSC 1974 #198 2 p24-6 Jane Chapman, West Harptree, Somerset 1906/ Sally Gummer,
Hambridge, Somerset 1904/ Mabel Annie Jones, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordsh 1921 1v/m
"My mother bid me"/ pp27-28 Mrs Overd, Langport, Somerset 1904/
James Hill, Dunmow, Essex 1912 "An Old Man he courted me"/
- GRAHAM 1910 p10 Edwin Waugh Lancs "I'll not have him" - WILLIAMS
FSUT 1923 p73 #161 Mrs Russell, Crudwell, Wiltsh (w/o) "The OG Man"
- JEFDS 1937 p130 G E McCleay: Coggeshall, Essex "Old Man from Lee"
- PENGUIN BEFS 1959 pp76-7 McCleay - SEEGER- McCOLL SI 1960 p11 Brendan
Behan, Dublin 1957 "His OGB" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p65 Gardiner:
Henry Purkiss, Cadnam, Hampsh 1908 "OGB a-wagging" - PALMER
SOM 1972 p22 Folk-Lore 10 1899 pp193-4 Rouse: G Haywood, Newbold, Warwicksh
1898 "There was an old man came over the sea" - KENNEDY FSBI
1975 #139 p316 Jeannie Robertson 1953 - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp205-6 from Jeannie
Robertson "A Dottered Auld Carle" & notes --- SHARP FSSA
#108 2 p93 - COX FSS 1925 p489 - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp301-2 Virginia Wilson, NC
1931 "His OGB a-shining"/ Mrs Rachel Brackett, Ga 1932 (w/o)
"O but I won't have him" - EDDY Ohio 1939 p132 - GARDNER-CHICKERING
Mich 1939 p413 - BELDEN Mo 1940 p264 - BREWSTER Indiana 1940 p255 - LOMAX OSC
1941 p132-4 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp291-4 Myrtle Lain, Mo 1929/ Wilma &
Reba McDonald, Ark 1941 "The Old Black Booger"/ Mrs Isabel
Spradley, Ark 1933 "Shoes, Boots & Leggings" - MORRIS FSOF
1950 pp376-8 Mrs Ruth Simmons, Fla "The Old Man"/ Mrs Maynard, Fla
(w/o) "My mother she told me"/ "Shoes, boots and leggings"
- BROWN NC 1952 3 p17 - CAZDEN AFSB 1958 2 p488 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp152-3
Marie Murray, Utah 1948 (w/o) "His OGB Newly Shaven"/ Mrs Sally
Hubbard 1947 "The Old Man's Courtship" - ARNOLD FSOA p22 -
OWENS TFS p217 - WARNER TAFS 1984 #165 pp373-4 Sue Westcott - Alex ROBB #319
& Elizabeth ROBB #320 Strichen, Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by
James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Jeannie ROBERTSON (tinker of Aberdeen) rec by PK,
London 1953: FTX-013 (last v omitted)/ CAEDMON TC-1142/
TOPIC 12-T-157/ TOPIC 12-T-181 1968/ (PRESTIGE 13075)/ - Ewan Mc COLL (Scots)
& Peggy SEEGER (with gtr) "Overshoes & Leggings": RIVERSIDE
RLP-12-637 1956 - Frankie ARMSTRONG (unacc): TOPIC 12-T-135 1965 "Old
man from over the sea" - KERRIES: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-9 1967"O
dear what shall I do ?" ("hair in a Crew cut") - Alice CLARK
rec by Sam Richards, Devon: TOPIC 12- TS-349 1979 "Head a-noddin"
--- recs by John Lomax: Lib of Congress 1936-7 - Uncle E DUNFORD (v/ harmonica/
fid/ gtr/ bsnho/ auto-harp) 1929 (VICTOR V-40060B) FOLKWAYS FP- 253/ 7"RTR-0306/
FTX-911 "Old Shoes & Leggins" - Sue WESTCOTT rec by Frank
& Anne Warner, Manteo, NC 1941: FTX-926 - Alan
LOMAX (voc/ gtr) with Guy CARAWAN (banjo) rec by PK: EMI CLP-1192 1958/
FTX-941 "Old shoes and leggings" - Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp
Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 1959: RPL LP 24897/ FTX-905
- Tom PALEY (voc/auto-harp): ARGO ZFB-3 1969 "Old Shoes & Leggings"
OLD GREY CAT, THE - Reel (Em) - KERR MM 1 #8 p28 -- THE KENTISH TRAVELLERS
Folk Dance Band rec London 1961: RPL LP 26960 aft "Huntsman's Chorus"
- Fred CAMERON (mel) with piano acc: TOPIC 12-T-376 1978
OLD GREY DUCK, THE - "she stawl her nest" - ROUD#3302
- DUNSTAN CDFS 1932 p4 Camborne, Cornwall 1v/m - GUNDRY CK 1966 p51 Kennedy:
Pendeen, Cornwall 1956 - see DAME, WHAT MAKES YOUR DUCKS TO DIE? -- Chorus
of Miners in Pub, rec by PK, Pendeen 1956: FTX-217
- Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-4 1969 - Brenda WOOTON with Richard GENDALL: SENTINEL
SENS-1016 1973 sung in Cornish "An Hos Los Coth"- Charlie JOSE
rec by PK, Napoleon Inn, Boscastle, Cornwall 1975:
FTX-096 - Jim SMALL rec Cheddar, Somerset 1980: FTX-138
OLD GREY GANDER, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #232 p116 (Am) - O'NEILL
MOI #1345/ DMI #600 (Am)
OLD GREY GOOSE, THE - Song -- Jean RITCHIE (unacc) rec New York Sept
1950: RPL 16043
OLD GREY GOOSE, THE - Jig (Em) - MOYLAN 2 #172 pp98-9 6pts from John
O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL DMI #214 (not in MOI) 6pts - PHILLIPS FCTB p23
(from Michael Coleman: SHANACHIE 33002) "The Grey Goose" -
SHARP CD p10 for "Running Set" - TAYLOR 1 p20 (Em) 6pts - Cf
O'NEILL MOI #1085/ DMI #279 (D) "The Geese in the Bogs" --
Michael COLEMAN (fid with piano) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE 004 d/cass 1991
"The Grey Goose" - Michel O SULLIVAN (piano) with Colm MURPHY
(Bodhran) & Mel MERCIER (bones) RTE radio prog 9/11/88 CASS-60-0899
OLD GREY HORSE - "The first I knew that Old Charlie could talk"
- ROUD#2799 - SHARP EFSSA 2 p220 Mrs Margaret Jack Dodd, Beechgrove, Va 1918
"The Horse's Complaint" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 2 pp415-6 Fred
Woodruff, Lincoln, Ark 1941 "The Drunkard's Horse"/ Missouri
(w/o) - BROWNE AFL 1979 pp408-9 Ala (w/o) "The O Gray H" ("Last
Monday morning being troubled in mind")
OLD GREY HORSE, THE - American Mountain Instrumental -- Obed PICKARD
(jews harp/ voc) rec Atlanta 1927 (NEW WORLD NW-226)/ CASS-0476-7 "danced
with a girl with a hole in her stocking" (Cf BUFFALO GIRLS)
OLD GREY MARE - BRIAN O LINN - SOUR MILK CART - TOM PEARCE
OLD GREY MARE, THE - "O it's happy was the day but soon it passed
away" - retired race horse in his own words - ROUD#3039 - Composed
by Corrigan, local policeman-poet O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp70-71 Dublin text mainly
from BS ("Good fellows all that's straight and tall") --
Peter REILLY rec by PK, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh 1952: 7"RTR-0548/ RPL 18307
talk bef: FTX-165
OLD GREY MARE, THE - "she aint what she used to be - long long
years ago" - Children's Ball Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb 16/2 Moss
Park Junior Girls 1961 solo - rec by DW 16/6 Better take with cry of "Bango"
at end
OLD GREY MARE, THE - "Once I had an old grey mare - she couldn't
see she couldn't hear" - found in a mud-hole flat on her back - skinned
and put in the loft - someone stole her hide --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #223 (vol
2 pp326-8) 3var: Harry, Ralph & Dayton Norton, Rocky Fork, Unicoi Co., Tenn
1916/ Jeff Stockton, Flag Pond, Unicoi Co., Tenn 1916/ Mrs Julie Boone, Micaville,
Yancey Co., Va., 1918 - JAFL xxvi p123
OLD GREY MULE - JOHNSON'S OLD GRAY MULE
OLD GRUMBLER - FATHER GRUMBLE - OLD ROGER
OLD GYPSY'S WAGON - I AM A ROMANY
OLD HAG, THE - Cante-Fable in Irish Gaelic -- Colm KEANE rec by Alan
Lomax, Carna, Co Galway 1951 7"RTR-0566 with "Spinning song"
and mouth music
OLD HAG IN THE CORNER, THE - Triple Jig - ROCHE 2 #268 p28 (Em) "Ruffle
the Old Hag in the Corner" -- Havelock NELSON (piano) rec Belfast
11/8/60: RPL LP 26255 "Ruffle..."
OLD HAG IN THE KILN, THE - Single Jig/ Slide - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #88
p46 Dm 12/8 - MOYLAN 1 #71 12/8 (G) from Dinny Delaney (U- pipes) "The
Old Hag in the Kiln" - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #321 (D) "Old
Hag, you have killed me" - SULLIVAN 1 p8 (G) -- Pat MITCHELL (U-pipes):
TOPIC 12-TS-294 1976 solo album (learnt from phono cylinder of Dinny Delaney
1903) - Tommy PEOPLES (fid) with Paul BRADY (gtr) SHANACHIE 29003 1976/ CASS-0486
aft "Silver Slipper"
OLD HAG WITH THE PURSE (MONEY) - Jig - CRANITCH p54 - O'NEILL MOI #721
& DMI #21 or "Old Hag with the money" -- Michael GORMAN
(fid) "Old Hag with the money" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by
PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19578 talk bef/ FTX-074
OLD HAG YOU HAVE KILLED ME - STOP IT, OLD HAG
OLD HAG'S RHYME - TUNNEY SF 10979 p103 - see OLD MOTHER SHIPTON - SHAPARD
History of Street Literature 1962/9 p182 has repro of broadside -- Paddy
TUNNEY: 7"RTR-0553/ FTX-164
OLD HAT, THE - WHEN MY OLD HAT WAS NEW
OLD HEELBALL - "you're boozing again" "Sure, my name
is McShaw - I'm a toff" - MORTON FSSU 1970 p86 -- Sally McCreery
rec Robin Morton, Corbrackey, Armagh: MERCIER IRL-12 1970
OLD HEN CACKLE - "The Old Hen she cackle - she cackles a lot"
- ROUD#11058 - TALLY Negro Folk Rhymes pp44-5 -- Frank PROFITT (voc/ banjo)
rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt., NC., USA 1959: 927
OLD HEN CACKLE - instrumental - OLD CLUCK HEN (CACKLING HEN) --Clayton
McMICHEN (fid) for Square Dancing with gtr & banjo rec by Alan Lomax: DECCA
(78 rpm) 1949 7"RTR-0364 - Oren JENKINS rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo
tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314) RTR-0316
"Old Hen she cackled"
OLD HERRING'S HEAD, THE - HERRING SONG
OLD HICKORY - Hornpipe - HONEYMAN #3 p54 (Bb) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #130
p36 (D)
OLD HIGH REEL, THE -- SKYLARK (Irish group) Radio 2: 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550
AALD HILL GRIND, DA - Shetland Boston/ Two Step/ Jig -- Shetland
TRADITIONAL BAND (Sextet) rec 22/1/49: RPL 13196 bef "From Upon 'im"
& "Garster's Dream"/ rec by Pat Shaw 1952: FTX-068
- DA FORTY FIDDLERS with Marjorie SMITH (piano): LEADER LED-2052 1973 with "From
upon him"
OLD HOG OR NONE -- Son of MORRIS ON: EMI SHSM-2012 1976
OLD HORNED SHEEP, THE - HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK (Jig)
OLD HORSE - POOR OLD HORSE
OLD HOUSE, THE - FROM THE BROW OF THE HILL
OLD HOUSE, THE - "Lonely I wandered through scenes of my childhood
- tis time I passed on" -- Tom BROWN (of Caister Norfolk) rec by
PK, Harberton, Devon 25/3/79: FTX-133
OLD (AULD) HOOSE, THE - Highland or used as waltz - KERR MM 3 #207 p24
(G) Highland -- Willie KEMP & Curly MACKAY: FTX-360
Waltz
OLD HULK, THE - "When age had rendered some old hulk"
- ROUD#2007 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp32-34 ships log 1854 (w/o)
OLD HUNDREDTH - Hymn tune - tune used for DEATH AND THE LADY -- Jack
FISHER (conc) rec by Gwilym Davies, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh: FTX-417
OLD INDIAN, THE - INDIAN'S LAMENT
OLD INN, THE - Scotch Jig - KERR MM 4 #265 p28 (A) "Auld"
OLD IRONSIDES - Hornpipe (G) - COLE #1 p119 (G) "Lancashire
Clog" - KERR MM 2 #365 p40 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #131 p37 (G)
OLD JACK - "e came from honest working stock - of all the lads
in the foundry O J e was the best" - Gold watch syndrome comp by GM
1961 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-225
OLD JEPSON BROWN - "was a worn out clown - pub Bethnal Green
- Brown upside down - widow Mrs Birch - child on his head - all the people shouted
out" - Cf WHEN THE OLD DUNCOW CAUGHT FIRE -- Arthur HOWARD rec by
Ian Russell S Yorks: HILL & DALE HD-006 1981
OLD JEW, THE - Instr -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12
1984 aft "Lady Cassilis's Lilt" & bef "Broom o
the Cowdenknowes"
OLD JOCKEY BRUCE O THE FORNET - JOHN BRUCE O' THE FORNET
OLD JOE - local Nashville "slave" tune first rec by Sid Harkreader
(fiddle) 1927 -- Nashville (Tenn) Washboard Band rec by Alan Lomax, July
1942: ROUNDER CD-11661-1823-2 1999
OLD JOE CLARK - Square dance tune with improvised verses - "I
used to live on a mountain top" - "Old Joe sat at the garden gate"
- ROUD#3594 - SHARP FSSA 1932 #183 (Vol 2 p259) 7v sung by Mrs Margaret Jack
Dodd, Beechgrove, Va 1918 - LOMAX AB&FS pp277-80 -- Moses "Clear
Rock" PLATT (unacc vocal) rec by John & Alan Lomax, Central State Farm
(Pen), Sugarland, Texas USA 1933: ROUNDER 1821 1999 (see also "St
James' Hospital" ("I used to go dashing"); "That's
All Right Baby"; & "Long Summer Day") - Nathan HICKS
(voc/dulc) & Frank PROFFITT (gtr) rec by Frank & Anne Warner N C 1940:
FTX-927 "Rock, rock, OJC"- Perry
FRIEDMAN (voc/ banjo) rec by PK, London 21/6/58: RPL LP 24566 - Mike & Peggy
SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children"
CASS-1225 -- THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001 "Round
and round Hitler's Grave" -- played by Earl COLLINS, fiddle, Missouri-Oklahoma
1970 on DVD 2003 Films of Bess Lomax Hawes (B/W)
OLD JOE CLARK - Instrumental - BRODY p207 discog -- Ben JARRELL (v/fid)
& Frank JENKINS (banjo) of Surrey Co NC rec Ind 1927 (NEW WORLD NW-226)/
CASS-0476-7 - Clayton McMICHEN (fid) for Square Dancing with gtr & banjo
rec Alan Lomax DECCA (78 rpm) 1949 7"RTR#0364 bef "Pretty Little
Widder" - Hobart SMITH (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Saltville, Va 1959: ROUNDER
1799 2001 - THE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS rec Alan Lomax, Galax, Va 1959: ATLANTIC
SD 1350 - Wade WARD (banjo) rec by AL, Galax, Va 1959: ROUNDER-CD-1702 1997
- Jimmy DRIFTWOOD (bow) & Pete SEEGER (banjo): VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965/ (bow)
rec by Mike Fenton Aug 1988 CASS-60-0803 - Clark KESSINGER (fid) accomp Gene
MEADE (gtr) & Gene PARKER (banjo) rec Charles Faurot, Union Grove, NC 1968:
SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-231 1972 - Curly HERDMAN (fid) with Troy HERDMAN (gtr),
Bob TANNER (mandolin) & Joe TANNER (banjo): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-242 1973
variants
OLD JOE MUGGINS HE A MUSKET HAD - GRAINGER Ms ONS#50/ RNS#40 Wm Hilton,
Keelby, Lincolnsh 1905
OLD JOE'S JIG - Cathal O Connor from Matt Molloy & Liam O Flynn
(probably orig pipe tune) -- BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LEADER LER-2086 1973
OLD JOE THE BOAT IS GOING OVER - O JOE
OLD JOHN BLYTHE - TOM PEARCE
OLD JOHN BRADDLE-UM - LYELL JOHNSTON NCFS 1915 - "Old Jack Saddler"
in Mummers Play at Nether Poppleton, Yorksh coll by Ron Smedley -- Francis
SHERGOLD rec by PK, Bampton, Oxon 26/11/61/ rec by John Howson on Radio 2 prog
4/1/96: CASS-1335 - Bob BLAKE story: "Courting with a light"
rec Lewes Arms, Lewes: TRANSATLANTIC XTRS-1150 1975
OLD JOHN WALLIS - "come riding by" - old mare - John
Brown - cow - hens - Ch:"rumble dum deary" - Farmyard Song
- HAMER GGr 1973 pp73-4 Robert S Brader - BRIAN O LINN - TOM PEARCE -- Robert
S BRADER rec by Fred Hamer, Scunthorpe, Lincolnsh 1967 VWML-003 1989 CASS-1224
OLD JOHN'S JIG - CRANITCH p51 (Am) -- Tommy PEOPLES (fid) with Paul
BRADY (gtr) SHANACHIE 29003 1976/ CASS-0486 bef "Queen
of the Fair"
OLD JOHNNY BOOKER - ".. was a helpless old nigger"
- Minstrel Song - ROUD#1329 - Broadsides "Old Johnny Boker"-
WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p304 1v (w/o) "Johnny Bowker" - O SHAUGHNESSEY
LLL pp8-9 Bryan Dawson: Harry Blackburn, Washingborough, Lincolnsh 1973 "Johnny
Poker" - see also JOHNNY OCHRE -- Ted LAMBOURNE rec by Seamus Ennis,
North Marston, Buckinghamsh 25/6/52: RPL 18139 - Bob & Mrs HEWETT rec by
Bob Copper, Mapledurwell, Hampsh 1955: FTX-426 -
Ruth SHERGOLD rec by PK, Bampton, Oxon 26/11/61 - MUCKRAM WAKES (with piano,
trombone etc): LEADER LER-2093 1976 "Old Joe Biggin" (Bugger)
coll by Frank Sutton - Jack ELLIOTT: TOPIC TSCD-664 1998 "O J Booger"
--- Tom PALEY (+ fid & gtr): ARGO ZFB-3 1969 "Johnny Booker"
from Cousin Emmy & Jerry Jordan
OLD JOHNNY WALKER - "'s dead and gone" - BUFFALO GIRLS
OLD JOHNNY WALLIS -- Bob BRADER: TOPIC TSCD-664 1998
OLD JONAS - Story coll by Charles Gardner, Bretforton, nr Evesham --
SONGWAINERS Cheltenham: ARGO ZFB-31 1971
OLD JUBILEE, THE - WILSON p105 2/4 (D) (with dance descr)
OLD KIMBALL - STEWBALL
OLD KING COLE - "was a merry old soul" - ROUD#1164
- HERD AMSS 1776 2 pp183-5 (w/o) - JOHNSON SMM 1787 5 #473 pp486- 7 "Our
Auld King Coul" - KING, Dr Wm (b1663) "Useful Transactions"
with "4 & 20 fiddlers" ch - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 #16 p40 tune
compared to "British Grenadiers" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1958 p633
from Gay's "Achilles" trad version (notes) - MASON NRCS 1877 pp10-
11 Mitford Family, Northumberland - FORD 1899 VS 1 pp167-170 Scots - DUNCAN
W212 M260 (2v only) - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1710 pp246-7 (3var/m) - SHARP Ms
Oxon & Som - GRAINGER #258 Thomas Button, Thealby, Lincolnsh 1906 - WILLIAMS
#661 - OPIE ODNR 1951 p134 (notes) - REEVES EC 1960 #45 p114 Hammond Dorset
1906 "4 & 20 Fiddlers" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #302 pp658-9
Bill Westaway 1952 --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp197-199 Richard Hartlan, NS "OK
Coul" - see FOUR AND TWENTY - TWANKYDILLO -- Peter CHRISTIE Stonehaven,
Kincardinesh #166 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 -
Bill WESTAWAY rec by PK, Belstone, Okehampton, Devon 1952: RPL 17793/ CAEDMON
TC-1225/ TOPIC 12-T-198/ FTX-027 (vs 1 & 6)
- John THOMAS rec by PK, Pendeen, Cornwall 1956: FTX-010
& FTX-217 - THE SHOWER-ROOM SQUAD: PICKWICK
Hallmark CHM-693 1970 - YETTIES: ARGO ZDA- 100 1974 Trad RAF Version - THE KING
SINGERS Radio 19/4/89: CASS-10-0717 - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum &
Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173 treated as a Jazz number - Martin GORMAN (with ch):
TOPIC TSCD-657 --- Jean RITCHIE (tune on A-dulc): ELEKTRA EKL-25 1954 10"-LP
OLD KING COLE - Instrumental - HAYWOOD #4 p34 (Am) Country Dance - WESTROP
#54 p19 (Gm)
OLD LADY ALL SKIN AND BONE, THE - LADY ALL SKIN & BONE
OLD LADY OF DUNDEE, THE - MARROWBONES
OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY, THE - I KNOW AN OLD LADY
OLD LAMMAS FAIR AT BALLYCASTLE-O - LAMMAS FAIR
OLD LAMPLIGHTER, THE -- YETTIES RPL Radio 2 4/11/87: CASS-60- 0555
OLD LANG SYNE - (AULD LANG SYNE) - "Should auld acquaintance
be forgot?" - Ch: "For auld lang syne my dear" - ROUD#6294
- BSs incl BG 4#376, 5#230, 6#33 & 9#186 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #538 "The
Nabob" & 6 1995 #1143 pp184-6 (4var 7v/2m) - appears on many broadsides
- SMITH SM 1820-4 "When silent time wi lightly foot" by Susan
Blamire (Possibly the original of Burns tune) - VOC LIB 1822 - UNIV SONGSTER
1834 3 p31 - HAYWOOD #17 p38 (F) - Tunebook Ms #163 p236 (G) 2/4 - WESTROP #78
p27 (G) - WILSON p48 - ANON 1972 Song of Scotland p 20 piano accomp - NOT BOUAN
VIER TEMPS (Channel Islands version) - MY SHEPHERD LAD AND ME -HOW GREEN YOU
ARE (K) -- James STILL, Burghead, Moray #150 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by
James M.Carpenter 1929-35 - tune played on musical box & church bells: SAYDISC
SDL-327 1981/ CASS - THE CAST: Mairi Campbell & Dave FRANCIS: LIVING TRADITION
LTCD-001 1994 (from CULBURNIE Records CUL-CD-104 1993) Variant to usual Burns
tune --- Indian Village Band rec nr Delhi 1951: RPL 18083
OLD LANGALEE - Jig - KERR MM 2 #258 p28 (G) - KERR MM 3 #226 p26 (A)
OLD LEATHER BREECHES - LEATHER BREECHES
OLD LEGACY, THE - LEGACY
OLD LOUGHILL - Set Dance Tune -- Paddy TATYLOR (flute) of West Limerick
rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-171
OLD LOVES NEVER DIE -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc):
STYLUS MUSIC London SMC-263/ CASS-0953 1986