OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM - ROUD#745 - TOCHER 14 [1974] p209 "The Bonnie Hoose o' Ivy" Alan Bruford from Mrs J Leith, Stenness, Orkney 9/8/73 - see FARMYARD SONG - OLD SOW

OLD MAID IN A GARRET, THE - "O I've often heard it said" - ROUD#802 - BSs Sanderson (Edinburgh) "Don't let me die an old maid" - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 pp16-17 Mrs Hockin (c): Mary Langworthy, Stoke Fleming, Devon (re-written text) "Some at Eighteen" - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp76-7 Mary Langworthy - SHARP-KARPELES CDC 1974 #197 Mrs Chedzey, Puriton, Somerset 1906 2v/m "Unmarried Maiden's Lament" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p297-8 #208 Charles Tanner, Bampton, Oxfordsh 2v/ch (w/o) "Here's my sister, Betsy" - HENRY SOP #138/ HUNTINGTON pp256-7 Mrs Sarah Crawford, Thorndale, Coleraine, Co Derry 1926 "The Black Chimney Sweeper" - REEVES EC 1960 #133 p264 Hammond: Wm Miller, Wooton Fitzpaine, Dorset 1906 (w/o) "Tinker Tailor" "Come all pretty maids" - BUCHAN 101SS 1962 Note: goes back to 17C Martin Parker broadsheet "The Wooing Maid" with ch: "Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty - O if ye lack a maid, come take me for pity" - ED&S 27:5 p147 BG: Mary Langworthy - PURSLOW MB 1965 p27 Hammond: Wm Miller "Don't let me die an old maid" - ED&S 30:1 1968 p87 Gardiner: Wm Bone, Medstead, Hampsh 1909 --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp159-160 Utah 1948 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp68-9 Ont 1961 "Come all you true lovers" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 2 p461 Nfl 1958 "I long to be wedded" -- Isabel SUTHERLAND rec by PK, London 1959: FTX-062/ EFDSS LP-1007 1974 - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM: CBS 63249 1968 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60- 0927 nd

OLD MAIDS - DON'T LET ME DIE AN OLD MAID - I LONG FOR TO GET MARRIED - POOR OLD MAID - TIME TO BE MADE A WIFE

OLD MAID'S LAMENT, THE - "In a lonely garret an old maid sat" - ROUD#6280 -- Mrs Johina LEITH rec by PK, Stenness, Orkney 18/7/55: RTR 1054 / RPL 22650/ FTX-189

OLD MAID'S LAMENT, THE - "There lived an auld maid doon by yon burn braes"- ROUD#895 - TOCHER #18 1975 pp75-6 Hamish Henderson: Willie Mathieson, Ellon, Aberdeensh 1952

OLD MAIDS OF GALWAY, THE - (##G) - Reel - COLE #8 p12 - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #80 p36 "Mayo Lasses" - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #151 p36 (G) - O'NEILL MOI #1417/ DMI #654 (G)

OLD MAID'S SONG, THE - "I'm bound to be an old maid" - ROUD#719 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 pp63-5 2var Ark (w/o) - BROWNE AFL 1979 pp155-6 Mrs Nola Browne 1951 & Drucilla Hall, Millport, Alabama 1952 (w/o) "I'm bound to be an old maid" ("Take my knitting and go to the shade") - DON'T LET ME DIE AN OLD MAID -- Pete SEEGER (with 5-string banjo): EMI (Music for Pleasure) MFP 50114 (Released by agreement with Folkways) Capitol Records Inc 1964

OLD MAN AND HIS WIFE, THE - FATHER GRUMBLE

OLD MAN AND THE CHURNSTAFF, THE - MARROWBONES

OLD MAN AND THE LITTLE LAPDOG, THE - "I've often heard of an old man and now I'm caught" Cruel parents - wishes for his death - SHARP-KARPELES CDC 1974 #199 "An old man he courted me" - JEFDSS 1937 p130-2 "The Old Man from Lee"

OLD MAN AND THE OLD WOMAN, THE - Nova Scotia instr -- (fiddles, gtr & piano): SMITHSONIAN Music from the Festival of American Folklife

OLD MAN BELOW, THE -"If you want to get married I'll tell you where to go" - ROUD#11270 -- Doc WATSON (voc/gtr) with Merle (gtr) & Rus SAVAKUS (bass): VANGUARD TFL-6083 1967

OLD MAN CAME COURTING/ OVER THE LEE, THE - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN - OLD GREY BEARD

OLD MAN CAN'T KEEP HIS WIFE AT HOME - "herself must have good cheer" - BARING GOULD SOW (Rev Ed) #118 BG composed song from story remembered by fiddle informant at Sheepstor, Devon who taught him tune (Cf Bocacio's Decameron) - see POOR OLD COUPLE

OLD MAN DIED, AN - OLD ROGERUM

OLD MAN DILLON - MUG OF BROWN ALE

OLD MAN FOX - FOX AND THE GOOSE

OLD MAN FROM OVER THE (LEE) SEA - OLD GREY BEARD

OLD MAN HE COURTED ME, AN - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN

OLD MAN IN THE WOOD - FATHER GRUMBLE

OLD MAN JONES - comp by Bill Caddick about tramp in shopping centre of Wolverhampton with 2 dogs -- John KIRKPATRICK (conc): TOPIC 12-TS-247 1974

OLD MAN OF THE VILLAGE - written by JH 1971 dedicated to High Spen "D" villages where pits were closed, development prohibited & property condemned, purchased or demolished -- Johnny HANDLE: TOPIC 12-TS-270 1975

OLD MAN QUINN - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1649/ DMI #871 (D) 3pts

OLD MAN ROCKING THE CRADLE, THE - ROCKING THE CRADLE

OLD MAN SAID TO HIS DAUGHTER DEAR - DYWETSE'R HEN DDYN WRTH EI FERCH

OLD MAN THAT LIVED IN THE WOOD, THE - FATHER GRUMBLE

OLD MAN THAT WAS POOR, THE - POOR OLD COUPLE, THE

OLD MAN WEATHER - "A busy old fellow was the weatherman - has no time to play" - Weather man : Busy little fellow : What would we have to talk about - ROUD#6967 -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, NH USA 1940: FTX-922 (2v only)

OLD MAN'S ADVICE, AN - "My grandfather worked when he was very young" - ROUD#1482 - PALMER 1979 #36 from WP 29/3/78 -- Walter PARDON rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: TOPIC 12-TS-392 1982

OLD MAN'S DANCE - Jig - KERR MM 2 #410 p46 (Am) - see also GREENSLEEVES -- Sam FAWCETT (A-conc) with description of "Old Man's Dance" (like that coll by Cecil Sharp at Wyresdale) rec by PK, Baldersdale, Co Durham 31/3/53: RPL 20534/ FTX-118

OLD MAN'S DELIGHT, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #819/ DMI #85 (A)

OLD MAN'S NOT FOR ME, AN - SEAN DUINE CHA GHABH MI IDIR

OLD MAN'S MARE'S DEAD, THE - "Auld mannie's mear's deid" - ROUD#5880 - sung by David Kennedy (1825-1887) - FORD VSB 1 pp143-5 & p280 "The Auld Mare's Dead" - CHAMBERS SSPB pp141-4 - JOHNSON SMM 5 p500 #485 - CHRISTIE TBA 1 pp194 & 223 - Scotish Minstrel pp96-7 - WHITELAWBSS 1845 p128 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #494 pp290-1 --- CREIGHTON Maritime 1962 p130 "The Old Blind Horse"

OLD MAN'S SONG, THE - comp by AC - Cf Stan Kelly's Lullaby "Dirty Kid" -- Alasdair CLAYRE (voc/conc): ELEKTRA EKL-253 1966

OLD MAN'S SONG, THE - "At the turn of the century" - comp by Ian Campbell - SPIN mag 6/21 p26-7 -- Noel MURPHY & Group: VILLAGE THING VTS-25 1974

OLD MARE, THE - BRIAN O LINN

OLD MAUI - Shanty -- SAILORMAN JACK , NY 1987: CASS-1230 - JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301

OLD MELDRUM TOON - "O cruel were my parents that stole my love frae me - cruel the big ship that took him to the sea" Ch: "Tooral ooral" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #513 "O Cruel" (5v)

OLD MERCHANT OF LONDON, THE - LONDON MERCHANT

OLD MIDDLESBROUGH MARKET - "is being pulled down" comp by GM 1961 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-222

OLD MIKE - 4-bar Reel/ Highland - KERR MM 4 #184 p21 (Am) "Ould M"

OLD MILITIA DRUM - MERRY PLOUGHBOY

OLD MILITIA SONG - "From Dorchester we marched away" - ROUD#2634 - JFSS 2 1907 pp121-2 Hammond: Mr Taunton, Corscombe, Dorset

OLD MILK CHURN, THE - Triple Jig (Gm) - COLE p77 "The Old Dutch Churn" - LEVEY 2 #15 p6 "Milk the Churn"

OLD MILKING COW - CUCKOLD'S SONG

OLD MILL, THE - CRUEL MILLER

OLD MILLER OF DERBYSHIRE, THE - MILLER'S LAST WILL

OLD MINER, THE - "I am an old miner aged fifty and six" - ROUD#3194 - Peter Kennedy: Jim Ellwood, clog-dancer, Newcastle (possibly his own comp) - ED&S 28:5 1966 p137 Jack Elliott, Birtley, Durham "I am an old miner" -- Bob DAVENPORT (unacc): LEADER LER-3008 1971 - THE SINGING TRADITION: TOPIC 12-TS-210 1971

OLD MINER, THE - "O who'll replace this old miner ?" comp by performer (unnamed) - ROUD#1136 - PALMER SOM 1972 p94 Nuneaton, Warwicksh 1960s -- Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR on Folk on Two 1987: CASS-0378-

OLD MISER, THE - "It's of an old miser in London did dwell" - in which the Old Miser's daughter goes to the sailor's ship and tries to purchase him with gold but the Captain refuses saying: "He was sold the other day a transport to me - I will take your young sailor far over the Main - He will ne'er come to England to court you again" Last (v4): she says: "I'll go home to my cottage and lay myself down - and all my long life for my sailor I'll mourn" - ROUD#3913 - BSs incl BG 1.1 #70, 4 #324, 7 #177LONDON MERCHANT -- Leslie BANE rec by Seamus Ennis, Southrepps, Norfolk Oct 1956: RPL 23383 "The Miser of London" (sings 1st v then stops sings 3 later verses) - Mary SWAIN of Tristan de Cunha rec by PK, Gosport, Hampsh 1962: FTX-609 "The Old Miser in London"

OLD Mr RABBIT - "What you gonna do when your meat gives out, babe?" "Catching rabbits into no sin" -- Dan TATE rec Mike Yates, Fancy Gap, Carroll Co, Va USA 4/8/79 VWML-007 d/CASS-1026 1992 - Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1225

OLD Mrs CUDDLEDEE or MUDDLEDEE - KAFOOZALUM

OLD Mrs WILSON - "how do you do?" CD Tune - BOWEN p27 (D) from Billy Pennock - Cf "OLD MOTHER OXFORD -- Billy PENNOCK (humming tune) rec by PK, Goathland, N Yorks 1954: FTX-211 used for "Square Eight" dance

OLD MOLE, THE - PLAYFORD -- Country Dance Band: FTX-321

OLD MOLL - GOOD MORNING MOLL

OLD MOLLY AHERN - ROLLING ON THE RYEGRASS (Reel)

OLD MOLLY HARE - "what you doin there?" - ROUD#7781 - American dance tune - RANDOLPH OFS 2 p359 - TALLEY NFR pp18-9 - SEEGER "American Folksongs for Children" 1948 p99 -- Franklin GEORGE (fid) of W Virginia with Pat DURNFORD (banjo): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-229 1972 - Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 pts) 1987/ CASS-1225

OLD MUNROE - DONALD MUNROE

OLD MOTHER CASEY - Is this "Old Mrs Wilson""Billy O Rourke" or what ? -- Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977

OLD MOTHER CRAWLEY - "O come all you young seamen I'd have you beware" Ch: "And sing: tooral-li-day" - She & Mother Rogers come alongside ships in Plymouth Sound in bumboat offering soft tack, butter, sugar, tea, sausages, eggs & collect money next morning, with her girls, saying: "Far better slops than you'll get from the Jew" - Last v has orders for Botany Bay so ashe will not get her money - ROUD#1057 - REEVES EC 1960 pp199- 200 George Lovett (w/o) - PURSLOW WS 1968 p91 Gardiner: George Lovett, Winchester, Hampsh 1906 (7v) -- NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-011 1972

OLD MOTHER GOOSE - Triple Jig - COLE p56 (G) - HAYWOOD #6 p4 (G) "Lep Up"

OLD MOTHER HOOLIGAN - ROBIN'S COURTSHIP

OLD MOTHER HUBBARD - Nursery Rhyme -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS#1173 with schoolchildren & studio performers

OLD MOTHER LEE - CRUEL MOTHER, THE

OLD MOTHER OXFORD - SHARP Morris Bk also has another version:"Old Molly Oxford" - JEFDSS 1956 p6 Wm Wells - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p16 -- William WELLS (melodeon) with dancers rec 2/5/46: RPL 9827 (78) - William KIMBER (conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1951/ rec 4/11/56: RPL LP 23504/ FTX-326 complete dance (rec 1945)/ TOPIC 12-T-249 1974 - William WELLS rec by PK, Bampton, Oxon Oct 1952 "Old Tom of Oxford" - Kenworthy SCHOFIELD (3 hole pipe & tabor): FTX-325 - Rollo WOODS (conc): FOREST TRACKS FT-3008 1975 - John KIRKPATRICK with Sue HARRIS, Martin CARTHY, Martin BRINSFORD & Fi FRASER: "Plain Capers" Morris Dances from the Cotswolds: FREE REED FRR-010 1976 "Old Molly Oxford" (Leafield or Field Town, Oxfordshire version)

OLD MOTHER SHIPTON - Recitation of her prophesies - INGLEDEW B&SY 1860 p123 - MORTON: CALL OF LONDON Knaresborough, Yorkshire - see also OLD HAG'S RHYME -- Luke STANLEY rec by PK, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnsh 1953: RPL 19032

OLD MUSKETEER, THE - "Neath a vine-covered porch sat an OM" - ROUD#2669 - Broadsides WILLIAMS Ms#662 (w/o)

OLD NANNY GREY (chanted) "will you leave me down to play - we won't run away" - "Yes" or "No" - children's chasing (?) game -- children rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #15

OLD NANNY WITCH "she couldn't sew a stitch - she picked up a penny and she thought she was rich" -- children rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #10

OLD NEVER COULD -"Owd Never-could" - Black Country Recitation in which various characters appear in Court & which finishes with a poem -- Tom LANGLEY: TOPIC 12-TS-210 1971

OLD NINETY-SEVEN - "One bright Sunday evening" - American Railroad Song - BROWN NCFS 2 pp 512-521 -- INN FOLK rec by PK, Ciderpress, Totnes, Devon 1975: FTX-095

OLD NORA - Jig -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29883

OLD OAK TREE, THE - "Cold & wintry was the night" - dogs of the hunt sniff out body of a girl murdered by Squire Nathaniel and a knife and note are found - warning to maidens not to linger as they pass the Old Oak tree" - LAWS #P-37 ABBB 1957 p270 - ROUD#569 - Cf JFSS 4 p186 "The Poor Murdered Woman Laid on the cold ground" Surrey (8v) - HENRY SOP #207/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp417-8 10v - MORTON FSSU 1970 p24 - MORTON CDGD 1973 p141 --- DOERFLINGER 1951 p283 (8v) NS tune from Greenleaf - FLANDERS- BARRY 1939 p74 (20v) m (Quebec via Vt) - GREENLEAF/MANSFIELD NFL 1933 p116 (10v) "Squire Nathaniel & Betsy" - LEACH Labr 1965 #12 p52 (2var) - PEACOCK SNO 1965 p628 Nfl -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24839 (talk bef)/ FTX-158 - Robin MORTON: LEADER LER- 2086 1973 (collated version) - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-264 1975 (from Cinnamond) - Mary Ann Carolan rec Roly Brown, Drogheda, Co Louth: (TOPIC 12-TS-362 1982)

OLD OAK TREE, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #199 p100 (D) from Johnny Doherty, Co Donegal

OLD ORANGE FLUTE, THE - "In the county Tyrone, in the town of Dungannon" - ROUD#3013 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp100-101 Belfast c1912 (text mainly from BS) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p85 -- CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM with Pete Seeger (banjo) & Bruce Langhorne (gtr) rec with audience, CBS Studio NY: CBS 63516 1963

OLD ORANGE FLUTE, THE - as March -- Seamus ENNIS rec by PK, London 1958: FTX-079 - RAVENHILL Flute & Drum Band rec Belfast 9/5/59: RPL LP 25646 - THE LOYAL ORANGEMEN: PICKWICK ALLEGRO ALL-864 1967

OLD PAINT - I RIDE AN OLD PAINT

OLD PALS -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc): STYLUS MUSIC London SMC-263/ CASS-0953 1986

OLD PEADAR CARTHY FROM CLONMORE - March - Co Carlow - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #64 p29 (F)

OLD PENSIONER, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1315/ DMI #577 (D)

OLD PETTICOAT, THE - "As I was going into the fair of Athy I saw an old petticoat hanging up high - I took off my trousers and hung them up nigh - to keep that old petticoat warm" (mouth-music for 2nd part of tune) tune of "The Rakes Of Kildare" - ROUD#12940 -- Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC TSCD-660 1998

OLD PIGEON ON THE GATE, THE - Reel - CRANITCH p94 (G) - HONEYMAN p33 (D) - KERR MM 4 #112 p14 (G) "Pigeon on the Gale"

OLD PIKE - "I once knew a man by the name of Pike" - riggins- gold diggings - California - loses all - ROUD#3213 - McINTOSH FSSGIG pp47-9 Illinois 1951

OLD PIPE MARCH - ROCHE 3 #200 p77 (##A)

OLD PIPER, THE - "There was an old piper - this was all the tune that he could play" - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 #70 p140 (3v) (comp by Carl Hardebeck & hitherto unpubl )-- Frank McPEAKE (voc/ U-pipes) of Belfast rec by PK, London 10/1/53: RPL 21154/ FTX-176 - McPEAKE Family: TOPIC 12-T-87 1962 - Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR: DECCA ECS-2161 1974 - John WRIGHT (with googa) CHANT DU MONDE LDX-74434 "The Jew's harper" - Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gui/voc): RITZ London LC-0003/ CASS 0951 "The Fiddler"

OLD PITCHER, THE - GRAINGER Ms ONS#24/ RNS#15 Alfred Hunt, Wimbledon, Surrey 1905

OLD PLAID SHAWL, THE - "Not far from old Kinvara in the merry month of May - a little Irish coleen in an O P S" - comp by Francis A Fahy - ROUD#6351 - Walton's Treasury of Irish Songs & Ballads 1947 p166 - HEALY Old Irish Street Ballads 1 pp271-2 - O KEEFE FBIB 1955 p53 8v w/o --- GREENLEAF & MANSFIELD Ballads & Sea Songs of Newfoundland 1933 pp212-3 - FOWKE: Canadian Folk Music Journal 7 1979 p31 -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, NH USA 1940: FTX-922 (1v only)

OLD PUBS, THE - "When I was young, a pub was a pub" Ch: "They're knocking down the old pubs" - comp by JH 1963 - SPIN mag 3/9 p29 - see also DANNY'S -- Johnny HANDLE (& ch): ELEKTRA EKL- 253 1966/ TOPIC 12-TS-270 1975

OLD QUARRY KNOWES, THE - "It's weel I mind the joys I had" - Bss: Sanderson (Edinburgh) - ROUD#6147 - FORD VSB 1 pp154-5 - GREIG- DUNCAN 4 1990 p522 (2var) -- Jimmy McBEATH rec (with ch) rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh 17/7/51: ROUNDER 82161-1834-2 2002 "The Auld Quarry Knowes" / FTX-059

OLD RAG SHOP - "I sell britches, coats of corduroy" - ROUD#3203 - ED&S 43:2 1981 pp9-10 Maurice Ogg: Lincolnsh

OLD RAMILLIES - FATE OF THE RAMILLIES

OLD RATTLER -- Grandpa Jones (with banjo) Tenn: SMITHSONIAN Music from the Festival of American Folklife

OLD RESTING CHAIR, THE - Shetland Polka comp by T Anderson -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN, (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 with "Hamnavoe Polka" & "Maggie's Reel"(comp Anderson)

OLD RICH MERCHANT, THE - JACK MONROE

OLD RIGADOO, THE - LITTLE BEGGARMAN

OLD (AULD) ROBIN GRAY - "When the sheep are in the fold" - comp by Rev W Leeves (1748-1828) - ROUD#2652 - BARING GOULD Bs vol 1,1 #3 & vol 5 #210 - WILLIAMS #420 (w/o)

OLD (AULD) ROBIN GRAY - DIXON 1987 p44 according to Stokoe a Slow Air played by Gateshead fiddler James Hill (D) - Tunebook Ms #216 p261 (G) 4/4 -- Tom HUGHES & Wattie ROBSON (fids): SPRINGTHYME SPR 1005 1981

OLD ROCKY ROAD - IF I HAD THE WINGS

OLD ROGER IS DEAD - POOR ROGER (Kids)

OLD ROGERUM - "An old man died and he went up to Heaven-O" "Skiddly" -- children rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #2 (with tin-whistle bef & aft)

OLD ROGUEY GRAY - ROGUE

OLD ROLLING CORK - March - ROCHE 3 #207 p79 (D)

OLD ROSIN THE BEAU - ROSIN THE BEAU

OLD RUSTIC BRIDGE BY THE MILL - "I am thinking tonight of the old rustic bridge" Ch: "Beneath it the streams gently ripple" - comp Joseph Skelly publ c.1914 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1254 p496 (3v w/o) -- Tommy CHAPPLE rec by Michael Feist at Hare Down, Knowstowe 1973 (see letter file) CASS-0330 - Tom HUGHES & Wattie ROBSON (fids): SPRINGTHYME SPR 1005 1981

OLD SAILORS NEVER DIE - Instrumental -- Merritt BODDLE (flute) & strings (gtr, cuatro, mandolin, gourd, boom pipe, banjo rec by AL, Gingerland, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER CD 1731 2002

OLD SANTY ANNA - SANTIANNA

OLD SCHOOLMASTER, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1441/ DMI #678 (C)

OLD SCOTCH MOTHER MINE - comp by Ray McKAY & Joseph Maxwell (no date given) - ANON: A SONG OF SCOTLAND p34 piano accomp publ by Music Sales, London 1972- additional verse in Songwords file

OLD SCOTTISH LASS, THE -"I'm a stranger in this country - has verse about catching train & leaving her at the station -parody on INDIAN LASS -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Sean Davies, CSH London 1966 : TOPIC 12-T-173 1967/ TOPIC TSCD-665 1998 "I'm a stranger to this country"

OLD SEA HORSE - POOR OLD MAN

OLD SHADY BOREEN, THE - Song Air - ROCHE 1 #9 p9 (D) 6/8

OLD SHEP - "When I was a boy and Old Shep was a pup" - ROUD#1499 - DUNN FOS 1980 pp78-9 Percy Webb, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974 -- Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc): STYLUS MUSIC London SMC-263/ CASS-0953 1986

OLD SHOES AND LEGGINGS - OLD GREY BEARD

OLD SIMEON - "Now God be with OS for he made cans for many a one - To whom drinkst thou, Sir Knave?" - Journeyman Jenkin - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p299 Ms#184 David Ball, Aston, Oxfordsh (w/o)

OLD SIMON - "In comes OS intending for to woo" - courting young maid - ROUD#1248 - WILLIAMS FSUT p77 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o)

OLD SINGING MAN, THE - LAST OF THE SINGERS

OLD SIR ROBERT BOLTON HAD THREE SONS - SIR LIONEL

OLD SIR SIMON THE KING - "In a humour I was late" - D'URFEY 3 p143 (4v) - HALLIWELL 1812 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 1 p262 tune in Gay's "Beggar's Opera" - GOMME 1898 verse of "Looby Loo" - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1739 p264 (2var m/o) - OPIE ODNR 1951 #475 p384 (notes) - KINSLEY Burns #277: Burns used tune for "The Case of Conscience" (see "Merry Muses" p23 last words of each vese being "cunt") - FMJ 1972 p181-3 Dr Cannon's article on bagpipe music --- SIMPSON BBB 1966 p545 p416 "King's Jig" - John KIRKPATRICK (voc/mel) & Sue HARRIS (oboe): TOPIC 12-TS-295 1976

OLD SIMON - "In comes OS intending for to woo" - ROUD#1248 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p77 6gv (words only) - She marries him for love and his riches

OLD SKEWBALL - SKEWBALL

OLD SLIPPER SHOE, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #277 p142 (Dm)

OLD SMOKEY - ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY

OLD SMUGGLER'S SONG - SMUGGLER'S SONG

OLD SNOWBALL - BOLD REYNOLDS

OLD SOLDIER, THE - "been long at war - came to old England to try his affair" - met with Peggy who leaves her husband and baby taking his money and goes with the soldier - husband curses carpenter who built the ship, plumber who plumbed it so deep and wthe wind and weather - soldier drives Peggy away so she returns begging for bread - at first she is refused but eventually he takes her in to look after the baby - GREIG- DUNCAN 6 1995 #1129 pp125-6 (9v/m)

OLD SOW, THE - made famous by Albert Richardson of Sussex on Regal Zonophone gramophone record - FOLK SONG TODAY 3 1970 local version from Jack Henderson, Sandy, Beds - Cf COCKS AND HENS - FARMYARD SONG - OLD JOHN WALLIS - OLD MACDONALD - ROOSTER -- Albert RICHARDSON: TOPIC TSCD-657 - FREDDY (with whistling ch), "Eels Foot", Leiston, Suffolk 13/5/39: RPL 2169 - Wisdom SMITH rec by Mike Yates, Cheltenham: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975 "The Galloway Man" - Bill COOPER rec by Gwilym Davies, Witcombe Glos: FTX-417 - Arthur HOWARD (with snorting ch) rec Ian Russell, S Yorks: HILL & DALE HD-006 1981 "I bought 3 pigs at Marsden Fair"

OLD SOW'S HEAD, THE - "What will we do with the OSH?" - ROUD#128 - FUSON BKH 1930 p185 Ky (w/o) - HERRRING SONG

OLD SPORTSMAN, THE - FURZE FIELD

OLD STABLE JACKET, THE - WRAP ME UP IN MY OLD S J

OLD STEAMER, THE - dance tune comp by Bryon Bonnett 1988

OLD STORYTELLER, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1752/ DMI #924 (G)

OLD (AALD) STUIR BACK AGAIN, DA - Shetland Reel -- R D ANDERSON (fid) rec by Pat Shaw, Baltasound, Unst, Shetland Feb 1952: RPL 18651/ FTX-068

OLD (AALD) SWAARA - Shetland Lament (from Walls) - very Norse in character - originally played for fishermen who were lost during Haaf Fishing in the 18th Century - "Swaara" is heavy knitted woolen underwear, old rags or even tobacco - JFSS 1962 p132 Version from John Stickle transcribed by Pat Shaw -- Peter FRASER (fid) of Finniegarth, Wall, Shetland rec by Pat Shaw, Lerwick, July 1952: RPL 18621/ FTX-068 - Tom ANDERSON (fid): TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 (from Peter Fraser) - Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fids): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978

OLD SWANSEA TOWN ONCE MORE - SAILOR'S FAREWELL

OLD TANGLEFOOT - Hornpipe (A) - COLE #8 p99 "Can be used as a Clog" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #132 p37 (G/D)

OLD TAR RIVER, THE - "goin to run tomorrow" - timber-hauling shanty -- John DAVIS & Group B Georgia Sea Island Singers rec by Alan Lomax, Frederica, Ga. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1713 1998

OLD TOBACCY BOX, THE - "There was an old man and he had a wooden leg - he had no tobaccy no tobaccy could he beg - another old fellow cunning as a fox always had tobacco in his OTB" --

OLD TORN PETTICOAT, THE - Reel - BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-007 1999 bef "Humours of Ballinahinch" & "Longford Reel"

OLD THRESHING SONG - CHINER'S SONG

OLD THYME - SPRIG OF THYME

OLD TIME DANCES -- Harry DAVIDSON & his orchestra: CASS-0277- 80

OLD TIMES NEAR GALTYMORE - March - ROCHE 3 #203 p78 (D) - Galtymore is in Co Tipperary

OLD TIMES'S SAKE - "Down in a lane 2 men quarreled over a girl they both admired" - "let's forget & forgive" - Music Hall -- Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) frag rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ CASS-45-1245/ 143 - Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

OLD TIMES WALTZ - ROCHE 3 #156 p52 (G)

OLD TIPPECANOE - "The times are bad and want curing" Presidential Electioneering Song to tune of "Crusader's Marching Hymn" (MALBROUK) in praise of William Henry Harrison who earned this nick-name from battle of that name in 1840 when he defeated both British & Indians under Tecumseh - JACKSON, Early Songs of Uncle Sam p.120 - WARNER 1984 #73 p178 - see also THEN IT'S IRISHMEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING? -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, NH USA 1940: FTX-922

OLD TIPPERARY - Jig - also called "Leitrim Jig" or "Munster Lass" - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #16 p8 - MITCHELL #17 p30 from Willie Clancy - CEOL RINCA #16 Munster version from Clancy - SULLIVAN 2 #33 p14 (Em) "The Leitrim Jig" -- GLENSIDE CEILI BAND: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-159 1967 - GREHAN Sisters & Packie BYRNE (uke-banjo & spoons) TRANSATLANTIC TRA-160 1967 "Leitrim Jig" - John KELLY (fid): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 with "When we were drinking & kissing the ladies" - Pat MITCHELL (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-294 1976

OLD TOM OF OXFORD - OLD MOTHER OXFORD

OLD TOMMY KENDALL - THIS OLD MAN

OLD TORN PETTICOAT - Reel (or Slide) (Am) - FUREY p48 "Lass from Mullingar" - MAGUIRE 1 #40 p11 (Am) from Joe Keegan - MOYLAN 2 #82 p47 from John O Leary (melodeon) "The Worn Torn Petticoat" - SULLIVAN 3 #20 p8 12/8 Slide: "WTP" - TREOIR 7 #1 -- Paddy TUNNEY (mouth music): TOPIC 12-TS-264 1975 - PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-301 1974 bef "Dublin Reel" & "Wind that shakes" - Tommy Mc MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-502 1975 with "Tommy People's Favourite"

OWD TOWLER -- "Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn" - Hunting song - Ch: "With a heigh ho chivvy" - ROUD#1240 - Many broadsides incl BG 1.1#198, 4#293, 6#80, 6#257 & 7#1107 - Tune comp by Shields (?) - VOC LIB 1822 p178 (w/o) - Cavendish Song Book - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p61 Ms#510 F Fulford, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltsh (w/o) 3dv/ch -- Becket WHITEHEAD rec by Seamus Ennis, Delph, nr Oldham, Lancash 24/5/52: RPL 18136/ AS I ROVED OUT "Collector's Corner " Radio prog 1954 introduced by Seamus Ennis followed by tune played by PK (melodeon): FTX-257 - Jim SMALL (harmonica) rec Cheddar, Somerset 1980: FTX-138

OLD TOWLER - 6/8 (D) - DOUGLAS Dances of Yorks Dales uses tune for "The Huntsman's Chorus" instead of tune of that name - KERR 3 #400 p44 (D) "Old Jowler" - KOHLER 1 p63 - Tunebook Ms #57 pp362-3 (G) 3pts -- Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18682/ FTX-115 - Mark ANDERSON (mel) rec Teesdale 1952: FTX-211 played slow - George TREMAIN (mel) rec by PK, North Skelton, N Yorks 2/4/53: RPL 19236/ FTX-329 played for Country Dance/ TOPIC TSCD-668 1998 "Huntsman's Chorus" - Peter Kennedy (mel) & Anthony CHARLTON (N-pipes) in AS I ROVED OUT "Collector's" Radio prog 1954: FTX-257 - HAYMAKERS BAND led by PK rec London 25/3/56: RPL LP 23649/ FTX-041 aft "Jockie to the Fair" - Bob RUNDLE (mel) rec by PK 1978: FTX-124 - Jim SMALL (harmonica) Cheddar Somerset 1980: FTX-138

OLD TRIANGLE, THE - comp by Dominic Behan -- Dominic BEHAN: MAJOR MINOR SMMLP 6 1967 - TRADLADS TLCD-001 1997 (Denmark)

OLD TRUE BLUE, THE - CHEER, BOYS, CHEER

OLD TRUNKLES - TRUNKLES

OLD TUP, THE - RAM SONG, THE -- George "Cavill" HOYLAND rec by PK, Chapeltown, Sheffield, W Yorks 21/8/59 talk about custom song & play/ 7"RTR-0208/ RPL LP 26582/ FTX-212 - WATERSONS TOPIC 12-T-167 1966 (from Beresfords Buckden Yorks) - Roy HARRIS Christmas Nottinghamsh "Tupper's Song" TRADITION TSR-011

OLD TURF FIRE, THE - "and the hearth swept clean" - Douglas Hyde: Love Songs of Connacht 1893 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p47

OLD UNCLE PENGERRY - KEENLY LODE

OLD VEST AND CRAVAT, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1698/ DMI #896 (D) alt: "John Doe" "Wicked Yeoman"

OLD VILLAGE POSTMAN, THE - HE'S ONLY AN OLD VILLAGE POSTMAN

OLD VIRGINIA - HARD TIMES IN OLD VIRGINIA

OLD VIRGINNY - MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW

OLD WALLS OF LISCARROLL - Jig - COLE p54 (C & A)

OLD WATTIE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #300 p32 (Am)

OLD WETHER'S SKIN - WETHER'S SKIN

OLD WHEEL OF FORTUNE, THE - Reel -- James BYRNE (fid) Donegal: CLADDAGH 4-CC-44 1987/ CASS

AULD WIFE AND THE PEAT CREEL, THE - KEACH IN THE CREEL

OLD WIFE O' COVERDILL, THE - Jig - SHARP SDNE 3 coll by Rev John Tinkler for Ampleforth, Yorks, Sword Dance -- Bob WAITE (mel) rec by PK, Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon, Yorks 1/12/54: RPL 22323 "Old Lass from Dallowgill" - Helen KENNEDY (conc) rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1961: FTX-041 - Gerry MURPHY (conc), Tony ROBB (ten banjo) & Bob Diehl (fid): TOPIC 12-TS-215 1971 (with Rush Cart tune)

OLD WIFE'S DANCE, THE - Highland Jig -- John BURGESS (H- pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969 with "Kitchen Maid" & "Irish Washerwoman"

OLD WITCH, THE - Story - JACOB Fairy Tales 1892 - Cf Arthur Ransome's "Old Peter's Russian Tales" -- Hugh LUPTON rec by PK 1983: FTX-304-C90

OLD WITCH WOMAN, THE - Cumulative type Story -- Jeannie ROBERTSON of Aberdeen rec by PK, London 1953: FTX-067

OLD WITCHET - CUCKOLD'S SONG

OLD WOMAN, THE - Tunebook Ms #35 p181 (G) 6/8

OLD WOMAN ALL SKIN AND BONE, THE - SKIN AND BONE LADY

OLD WOMAN AND THE PEDLAR, THE or THE LITTLE MARKET WOMAN "There was a little woman as I've heard tell" - MASON NR&CS 1877 - BARING GOULD-SHARP Schools - OPIE ODNR pp427-9

OLD WOMAN AND THE PIG, THE - "There was an old woman to market did go" - "um um um" - ROUD#746 - PALMER EBBB 1980 p42 coll by Carpenter: Sam Bennett, Ilmington, Warwksh --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #235 (vol 2 pp343-4) "The Old Woman and the Little Pigee" 2var: Mrs Sophia Rice, Big Laurel, Madison Co., NC 1916/ Mrs Ellen Webb, Can River, Burnsville, Yancey Co., NC 1918 (publ) DEAD PIG -- Jean RITCHIE (voc/dulc): ELEKTRA EKL-25 1954 10"-LP - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: FTX-914 - Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts)"American Folksongs for Children" 1987 CASS-1225 "The Little Pig" (with "Oink" grunts)

OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY, AN - CAST IRON INVENTIONS

OLD WOMAN DRINKING HER TEA, THE - "Come all you young gentlemen give ear to my song" - "she has such a habit of drinking her tea" - ROUD#1310 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp251-2 Ms#408 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh 7v (w/o)

OLD WOMAN OF BLIGHTER TOWN/ CLINTON/ SLAPSADAM/ YORKSHIRE, THE - MARROWBONES

OLD WOMAN IN THE GARDEN - "scratching with a hoe" Ch: I'm going to pick my banjo right to the promised land"- ROUD#7478 - WARNER 1984 #125 p299 (4v & ch) - BAKE THEM HOECAKES BROWN -- Frank PROFFITT (voc/ banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, N C 1959: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000

OLD WOMAN LAME AND BLIND - "As I was going over London Bridge - I heard a woman crying" Riddle type Song - ROUD#2441 - D'URFEY 5 p29 10v/m "The Old Woman's Wish" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 2 p653 - SHARP/ KARPELES CSC 1974 #392 p581 Bill Bailey, Cannington, Somerset 1907 --- SIMPSON BBB 1966 p552

OLD WOMAN LAMENTING HER PURSE - Air - ROCHE 1 #78 (Bm) 6/8

OLD WOMAN TOSSED UP, THE - "in a basket (or blanket) - thirty three times as high as the moon" - LEVEY 1 #11 p5 (A) "....blanket" - MASON NR&CS 1877 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p228 Ms#214 Charles Tanner,Bampton, Oxfordsh 2v (w/o) - see SLAVES TO THE WORLD -- Seamus ENNIS rec by PK, London 1958: 079 - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross CASS-1173

OLD WOMAN TOSSED UP, THE - SHARP Morris Book - KERR 1 #10 p31 (A) "The Wee Pickle Tow" - O'NEILL 771/- (A) -- BAYARD DTF 1982 #567 p504 (9var) "Captain Collins" - see OLD DAME HOOK - WEE PICKLE TOW -- William KIMBER (song words & tune on conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1951/ rec by PK 4/11/56: RPL LP 23504/ FTX-383/ complete dance rec 1946: TOPIC 12-T- 249 1974 - MORRIS ON: ISLAND HELP-5 1972 - John KIRKPATRICK & co: LEADER LER-2033 1972

OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Children's Skipping rhyme)

OLD WOMAN WHO SWALLOWED A FLY, THE -- Leslie LAWSON rec by Seamus Ennis, Norfolk 1955: RPL 21904

OLD WOMAN'S PURSE OF MONEY, THE - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #34 p15 - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #140a & 140b p34 (D) - Tunebook Ms #120 p46 & 196 p80 "The Old Woman's Money" & #196 p80 (G) "The Old Woman's Purse" - O'NEILL MOI #721 & DMI #21 - SULLIVAN 1 p11 "The Hag with the money" - OLD WOMAN LAMENTING HER PURSE -- Michael RUSSELL (fife) rec by Seamus Ennis, Doolin, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29885 - Finbar FUREY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1077 1969 (S) - Paddy TAYLOR (flute) Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 197 with "Fasten the leg on her" - STEELEYE SPAN: B&C CAS-1029 1971 & CS-5 1972 with "Brian O Linn"

OLD WOMAN'S SONG - FOUR SCORE YEARS

OLD WOMAN'S STORY, AN - MARROWBONES

OLD YEAR'S NIGHT - NEW YEAR'S EVE

(OLD) OWD YOWE - OLD EWE

OLD ZIP COON - TURKEY IN THE STRAW