POP ALONG POLKA, THE - LINHOPE LOUP
POP EYE - I'M POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN
POP GOES THE WEASEL - "Up and down Jamaica Street riding on an eagle - That's the way the money goes: PGTW" - Children's Dance Game - see KATIE BIRDIE - LITTLE PACK OF TAILORS - OPIE SG 1985 #47 pp216-8 -- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 learnt in Glasgow - children rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #2a (with whistle bef & aft) not usual tune or words
POP GOES THE WEASEL - Country Dance/ 4/4 Reel or 6/8 Jig (G) - BALMORAL p27 (6/8) - BAYARD DTF #631 p553 (3var) - COLE #6 p24 6/8 (G) (with dance directions) - HAYWOOD #18 p12 6/8 (A) - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p20/ 1994 #82 p22 (G) 4/4 Reel version - O'NEILL MOI #1368/ DMI #620 (G) 4/4 Reel "How the money goes" - WESTROP #44 p16 (G) Country Dance -- Fred PIDGEON (fid) rec by PK, Stockland, Devon 1951: FTX-087 - Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 1952: FTX-115/ LEADER LED-2068 1976 - James FUSSEY (fid) rec by PK, East Halton, Lincolnshire 27/3/53: RPL 21491/ FTX-423 "Country Dance" - Geordie TAYLOR (fid) rec by PK, Rennington, Northumberland 30/11/54: RPL 22445 used for "The Pin Reel" dance - William KIMBER (conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1956: FTX-238 - Roger TRIM 2 versions (Reel/ Jig) on Hardy's fiddle CASS-15-0557
POPE, THE - GYPSY NAILSMITH - TEMPLEGLANTINE REEL
POPEYE - I'M POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN
POPPY LEAF, THE - Hornpipe - COLE #3 p97 (G) - #143 p40 (G) -- Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc, mand, gtr): LEADER LER-2074 1972 with "The City Of Savannah"
POPULAR SONGS - see under tunes for BARN DANCES & WALTZES
PORCUPINE RAG - comp by DS? -- Dave SWARBRICK (mand) & Martin CARTHY (gtr) with Diz DIZLEY: ELEKTRA BY 6030 1967/ Radio 2: 28/12/88: CASS-60-0547
PORK - CARRION CROW
PORRIDGE IS MADE, THE - "you don't need a spade - you just need to hold out your tinnie - you're welcome t call at the big mansion house called Berlinnie, ha-ha" - Kids rhyme -- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 learned from Sylvia Rapoport, Glasgow
PORRIDGE - see AWAY UP IN SCOTLAND -- rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181 with descr of Children's Skipping game "Porridgie" (waves: high low & medium) - Douglas KENNEDY talking about his life 481-493
PORT A BEUL - MOUTH MUSIC (in Scotland)
PORT A BHODAICH - Strathspey - KOHLER 1 p22 (A) 4pts
PORT AN DA GHADHAR - Highland/ Slide (Em) 12/8 - MOYLAN 1 #69 from Seosamh Breathnach
PORT AN DEORAI - Triple Jig - CRANITCH #32 p137 (Em)
PORT ASKAIG -- Pipe Major Wm Ross, rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh Castle 1951: FTX-188 - CASS-0445 - SAYDISC (CD) SDL-416 1996 aft "Leaving Ardtonish"
PORT LAIRGE - CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM with Pete Seeger (banjo) & Bruce Langhorne (gtr) rec with audience, CBS Studio NY: CBS 63516 1963 solo by Liam
PORT 'IC ARTAIR - (Mc Arthur's Tune) - Strathspey - John Willie CAMPBELL (fid) Kevin Mc CORMICK (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 bef untitled reel
PORT NA bPUCAI - Air -- Paddy MALONEY & Sean POTTS (whistles) with Peadar MERCIER (bodhran) Clare: CLADDAGH CC-15 1974
PORT TOM BILLY - Jig - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #13 p7 (D)
PORTABELLA - Country Dance -- Giles FARNABY'S DREAM Band: ARGO ZDA- 58 1973
PORTADOWN - PARK IN PORTADOWN
PORTER FAIR - SWAGGERS
PORTLAND, Dorset - see QUARRYING under SUBJECT Listing
PORTLAND FANCY - Amercian Quadrille Jig - BAYARD DTF 1982 #641 p564 (In Waltz time) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 p48 (A/D) 4 pts -- HAYMAKERS Band: FTX-324
PORTLAW REEL - CHICAGO
PORTNOCKIE GIRL - (or ROAD) - "I've often trod P road - but another girl has ta'en my part" - In future she'll shun his company, but if she gets a name of her own, she'll welcome him - ROUD#5583 -- Blanche WOOD Banffsh rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh Ceili 6/7/51: RPL 21528/ COLUMBIA SL-207 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998
PORTO RICO - MUST I GOT TO PORTO RICO (PUERTO RICO)
PORTPATRICK - Stranraer, Wigtownshire - Jig (G) - KERR MM 3 #251 p28 - O'NEILL DMI #356
PORTREE BAY (Skye) - 6/8 pipe march -- Angus GRANT (H-fid) with William LAURIE (P-acc) & John Mc INTYRE (bass): TOPIC 12-TS-347 1978 with "Pipe Major Sam Scott" - (with piano & bass) rec Edinburgh Folk Festival Radio 2: 14/4/84 CASS-15-0764
PORTROE JIG, THE - MAGUIRE 1 #26 p7 (G)
PORTRUSH - MELANCHOLY MARTIN (Triple Jig)
PORTSMOUTH - Hampshire - BANKS OF THE NILE - CUPID'S GARDEN - DUKE OF BEDFORD - JOE THE MARINE (& Polly from Portsmouth) - RIDING DOWN TO - ROVING KIND - SEVENTEEN BRIGHT STARS - TOM PEARCE ("Portsdown Fair")
PORTSMOUTH -- TOPIC 12-T-258 1975 Mary Anne HAYNES rec by Mike Yates "Riding down to P"
PORTSMOUTH - Air - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 2 p605 -- Terry POTTER (harmonica) & Ian HOLDEN (acc): TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974
PORTSMOUTH CITY - "As I was walking PC" - Drinking & Seduction - He goes with a prostitute and loses his clothes - ROUD#1665 - PURSLOW CL 1972 p73 Hammond: George Moore, Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset (Ch: "20. 18, 16, 14") - Cf MADAM - NANCY WHISKY
PORTSMOUTH HORNPIPE, THE - OFF TO CALIFORNIA
PORTUGUESE - BRITISH MAN-O-WAR
PORTUGUESE FANDANGO - Tunebook Ms #35 p449 (D) 3pts
PORTUGUESE WALTZ - Tunebook Ms #113 p494 (D/Dm) 4pts (Cf BUY A BROOM)
POSADH SEANGAININ - Reel (Gm) - FUREY p40
POSAIDH GLEGHEAL, AN - Irish Gaelic song - Mary Haynes comp by blind poet, Raftery - tune like GALLOWS SONG ("Derry Gaol") -- Jerry HICKS rec by Sean O Boyle 1958: 7"RTR-0564
POST - (MAIL) - HE'S ONLY AN OLD VILLAGE POSTMAN - I SENT A LETTER - LETTERS - MAILDAY BLUES - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY - OPEN THE GATE - POLICEMAN POLICEMAN - ROYAL MAIL - TO MY SON IN AMERICA - TWOPENNY POSTMAN
POST BELOW, THE - "What means this rout this noise this roar?" - ROUD#2086 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp292-3 ship's log 1835 (w/o) title assigned by editor
POST CAPTAIN, THE - "When Sterwell heard me first impart" - ROUD#2673 - BSs - Alfred WILLIAMS #675
POST OFFICE, THE - "In a PO bred, what a life, sure, I've led" - with spoken parts - VOC LIB 1822 #981 p372
POSTBOY'S HORNPIPE, THE - WILSON p 127 (G) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #144 p40 (G)
POSTMAN'S KNOCK, THE - Morris Song & Dance - Janet Blunt coll Adderbury Oxon -- Martin CARTHY (with conc, bass & drums): SON OF MORRIS ON: EMI SHSM-2012 1976
POSTMAN'S KNOCK - Hornpipe -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19534/ FTX-074
POSTPONED - Music Hall Song sung by T E Dunville, comedian comp 1887 publ Francis Day & Hunter but Bob Arnold's tune is a variant -- Bob ARNOLD & YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-83 1972
POTATO FAMINE IN IRELAND 1845 -- Nicholas CAROLAN talk with musical illustrations on Radio 2: 7/4/95: CASS 1308
POTATOES - PRATIES - ROTTEN POTATOES - TAILOR BAWN - TATIES - TATTIE TIME - TATTIES AND HERRIN - WHAT WOULD YOU DO? - WHERE ARE YOU GOING, MARY ANNE? - Children -- I CHOKED ON A TATIE - ONE POTATO TWO POTATO
POTATOES AND BUTTERMILK - TATWS LLAETH
POTEEN (POITIN) - EXCISEMEN - BLACKBOARD OF MULLAGHMORE - GLASS OF POTEEN (Jig) - GAUGER SONGS - PADDY SHINEHAN'S COW - PADDY THE COCKNEY
POTEEN STILL, THE - Song Air - ROCHE 3 #6 p2 (D) 6/8 "The Poitin Still"
POLTHOGUE - Triple Jig (D) - COLE #9 p51 "Pothouge" (G) - KERR 2 p28 "Humours of Ballymanus" (C) - Tunebook Ms J66 p25 "Newton Lasses" - O'NEILL 1124/417 "H of B" - ROCHE 2 #256 p25 "H of B"
PORTLAND STONE QUARRIES - Recordings - see PERFORMERS Listing
PORTUGAL -- Children - THERE CAME A GIRL FROM ITALY - - Recordings - see AREA Listing
POTATO LIFTIN', THE - "Or a Bhonnagan" - "A Grandame's Lilt" - "On your feetiken, my dear" - KENNEDY FRASER MSOTH 1925 pp16-9 -- Marion TUDGE (mezzo-soprano) accomp by Inez Rempel (piano) 2003: cass 1398-C60/ FTX-264
POTTERY CANAL SONG, THE - from Phil Tanner of Gower S Wales -- F A BRACEY rec by PK, London 23/12/64: FTX-057
POTTINGER'S REEL - comp by T Anderson for Willie Pottinger, a deceased fiddler -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fids) with Willie JOHNSON (gtr) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978 aft "Silvery Voe" & "Mrs Babs Anbderson"
POUCA, THE - Reel - MAGUIRE 1 #56 p15 (D)
POULE QUI COUVE, LA - (The hen that lays) - Breton -- GOADEC sisters:ELLIPSIS CD-4070 1997 "Celtic Mouth Music" from KELTIA MUSIQUE KMCD 11
POULES HUPPEES, LES - (from "Massif Central Tune-book" by Mel Stevens) - Gordon TYRRALL (voc/ gtr & whi) Punch Music PM-001 1993
POULETTE GRISE, LA - Canadian -- Tom KINES acc Russell THOMAS: [RCA VICTOR PC/PCS-1014/ CASS-0233
POUND OF TOW, THE - "If your wife and my wife were in a boat together" - ROUD#2378 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p121 Francis Hogan, Brenormore, Co Tippperary 1884 1v/m
POUND STREET LASSES - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #159 p37 (D) - Tunebook Ms #182 p329
POUNDS SHILLINGS AND PENCE - Children's Two Ball rhyme - OPIE p363 "Teacher had no sense - she came to school to act the fool" -- rec by Damian Webb 4 /47 St Johns Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: FTX-194 #18 - Tim & Robin (sons of Harry) BOARDMAN Lancs: TOPIC 12-T-204 1970
POURQUOI - BIRDS COURTING SONG
POVERTY AND RICHES - RAGS TO RICHES
POVERTY IS NO SIN - "Poor Kate with nosegay basket trim" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) - Alfred WILLIAMS Ms#676
POVERTY KNOCK - Weaver's Song about "Keeping one eye on the clock" coll by Tony Green, Batley, Yorks from Tom Daniels - LLOYD 1967 p328 -- Roy BAILEY with John KIRKPATRICK (jews harp), Martin CARTHY (dulc) & Peter KNIGHT (fid): LEADER LER-3021 1971 - Jon RAVEN with Nic JONES (fid), & Tony Rose (conc): LEADER LER-2083 1973 - SPINNERS: EMI EMC-3044 1974
POWDER MONKEY JIM - Shanty - "Listen well a yarn I have to tell" - Ch: "Soon we'll be in London Town, sing we lads - yo-ho" CREIGHTON NS 1932 p115 "The Chanty Song" - MUCH Tristan De Cunha 1970 p47 from Fred Swain "Little PMJ" -- William RENNIE rec by James M Carpenter, South Shields, Durham c1928: FTX-142 - P E "Jack" CHEESEMAN rec by PK, London 1960: RTR-0092 (dub) & 0897 (original)/ FTX-428 - Arthur HOWARD rec by Ian Russell, Yorksh: HILL AND DALE HD-006 1981 (a very complete version)
POWERS OF PUNCH, THE - Jig - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #352 (G) 4pts
POWERS OF WHISKY, THE - SLASHERS (Jig)
POX - VENEREAL DISEASE
PRAIRIE - LIFE IN A PRAIRIE SHACK
PRAIRIE FLOWER, THE -- Billy BALLANTINE (piccolo) & Jimmy HUNTER (harmonica): TOPIC TSCD-669 1998 Northern Dances: aft "Rosalie" & bef "My Lodging"
PRAISE FOR THE STEELMEN - comp by GM 1957-- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-228
PRAISE O' HUNTLEY, THE - "I've been abroad, I've been at home - Many's the footstep I hae gaen - I've been at school as ye may learn - But noo I've come to Huntley" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 #349 (7var)
PRAISE OF THE DAIRY, THE - "I purpose for to sing" - BELL SOP words only c1637 to tune: "Packington's Pound" - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 pp113-4 - PMOT 1858 pp123-4
PRAISE SONGS - SACRED
PRAM - PERAMBULATOR
PRATIES ARE DUG, THE - Jig - FROST IS ALL OVER
PRATIES GROW - GARDEN WHERE THE PRATIES GROW
PRATIES THEY ARE (GROW) SMALL, THE - "over here" - 1798 Famine Song - ROUD#4455 - O KEEFE 1955 p31 "Over Here" (3v only) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p99 - Paddy Galvin text see WORDFILE -- Nellie WALSH (unacc), Wexford 6/8/47: RPL 11223 "Over here" - Brendan BEHAN rec Dublin 1953: RTR-0595 - Seamus ENNIS (unacc) Dublin rec by PK, London 1958: FTX-079 - McPEAKES: FONTANA TL-5258 1965 - Mary O HARA (voc/harp): DECCA MLO-22 1967 - Lorna CAMPBELL with Folk Group & Dave SWARBRICK: EMI MFP-1349 1969
PRAY GOODY - Air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (Am) #156 p232
PRAY PRETTY MISS - "will you come out - to help me in my dancing? - No - Then you are a naught miss" - Kids Ring game with centre person holding a handkerchief - Cf CUSHION DANCE - OPIE SG 1985 #41 pp206-7
PRAY YOU ME, GIVE ATTENTION - FEMALE HIGHWAYMAN
PRAYER - "To thee of God whose awful voice" -ROUD#2081 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp286-8 ship's log 1834 (w/o)
PRAYER BOOK, THE - "I gave my love a PB - inlaid well with gold" - he loans it to his sweetheart but from that moment she doesn't speak or want him any more - cruel father - CROININ 2000 #175265-6 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Macroom Co Cork 14/9/52: RPL 19022/ FTX-162/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 #12
PRAYERMASTER - CHARLIE THE PRAYERMASTER (Jig)
PRAYERS - see also TOASTS - DYING MAN'S PRAYER - LANDLORD'S PRAYER
PRAYERS - SACRED
PREAB SAN OL - (Royally Drunk) - "Siomai sli sin a bios ag daoine" (Many are the ways that folk employ) - DUBLINER'S SONG BOOK p48 transl from Gaelic "Preab San ol" "Another Round" "Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure?" -- Noel MURPHY: FONTANA STL-5496 1969 - Mrs CROTTY'S CEIL BAND rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1980: FTX-250 - O CONNOR: SONGS OF THE NORTH OF IRELAND Ms 1994 p172 - O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60
PREACHERS - MINISTERS - PARSONS - PRIESTS - SEXTONS - VICARS
PREACHING FOR BACON - "It's of a Methodist parson whose name it was George" - tinker - blacksmith - ROUD#1317 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp278-9 #410 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh (w/o) 10v
PRECENTORS - leading Psalm singing - MURRAY, Iain
PREGNANCY -- Fred ROOKE (comp): FTX-044 "Pregnant Sally"
PRENTICE BOY, THE - "I'm a prentice boy my name is Bob" - Ch: "With my master's gun I fought my way to glory" - enlists in the Spanish Army - CLINGING 2005 #34 pp74-5 collected by H E D Hammond from Lt Col Gostwyck-Gostwyck from Chester with tune and chorus from Henty Athrelpo of Bath 1907
PRENTICES - APPRENTICE BOY - CRUEL MILLER - CUPID'S GARDEN - GUILTY SEA CAPTAIN
PRESENT FASHIONS - "Good people give attention" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001)
PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S - Hornpipe (Bb) - version of HIGH LEVEL HORNPIPE (?) - COLE #5 p101 comp by Harry Carleton - KERR MM 2 #379 p42 -- Alastair ANDERSON (Engl conc) with Tich RICHARDSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-371 1978 aft "Blake's H"
PRESIDENT PARKER - DEATH OF PARKER
PRESLEY, Elvis - Children - ROCK AND ROLL IS VERY BAD
PRESS GANG, THE - "It's of a rich gentleman (merchant) in London did dwell" - ROUD#601 - Broadside has his truelove telling his fortune and, in so doing, exposes his identity - under #601 - ASHTON RSS 1891 #55 (w/o) "The Sailor's Misfortune and Happy Marriage" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 2 pp73-4 Jack Barnard, Bridgwater, Som 1907/ Mrs Sherring, Marston Magna, Som 1905/ Mrs Lock, Muchelney Ham, Som 1904 - JFSS 8 1927 pp9-10 Sharp: Jack Barnard - JFSS 35 p266 "Sailor's Misfortune & Happy Marriage" - HENRY SOP 108/ MOULDEN 1979 p123/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp329-330 Magilligan, Co Derry 1925 "The Rich Merchant's Daughter" --- KARPELES FSFN 1971 pp167-8 Nfl 1930 -- Toni ARTHUR (unacc): TOPIC 12-T-190 1969
PRESS GANG, THE - "As I walked along the Street, the PG there I chanced to meet - on board of a Man-of-war-o - all they told me was shocking lies - flogged me with tarry strand - hung me by his thumbs and cut me till the blood did run" - ROUD#662 - SHARP/KARPELES CSC 1974 #294 p299 Thomas Taylor, Ross, Herefordsh 1921 "On board of a man of war-o" - JFSS 7 1922 pp11-12 Moeran: James Sutton 1915 - JFSS 8:31 1927 p14 Sharp: Thomas Taylor "On board of a man of war-O" - MOERAN SFSN 1924 pp16-19 James Sutton, Winterton, Norfolk - REEVES IOP 1958 #62 p155 Sharp: Thomas Taylor (w/o) "Man of War" - SHARP SG 2003 p30 Jack Barnard from Sharp Ms - Cf NELSON'S DEATH which has last line of each verse: "On board of a Man-o-war" -- Terry YARNELL CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137 1970 (S) - Roy HARRIS (voc + conc & fid): TOPIC 12-TS-2312 1973 - Mike WATERSON: TOPIC 12-TS-332 1977 "Man-o-war"
PRESS GANG - "As I walked up of London street" - MASON NR&CS 1877 - JFSS 26 pp11-12
PRESS GANG CAME TO WILLIE, THE - POLWARTH NCS 1969 p15 Mrs Hale, Bedlington, Northumberland 1v/m
PRESS GANGS - see also RECRUITMENT - TOCHER #29 Hebridean account during Napoleonic wars - BANKS OF THE SWEET DUNDEE - DISGUISED SAILOR - HERE'S THE TENDER COMING - GLOUCESTER LAD - I'M A YOUNG BONNY LASSIE - LIBERTY FOR THE SAILORS - LOVER'S LAMENT - MARR-I-ED TO A MER-MAI-ED - NIGHTINGALE - ON BOARD A NINETY-EIGHT - POLLY ON THE SHORE - PRETTY PLOUGHBOY - SAILOR LADDIE - WEARY CUTTERS
PRESSED I WAS FROM MY OWN TRUE LOVE - "Come all you pretty young sailors bold" - (she is called Polly) "when the foaming billows roar/ when the stomy wynds do blow" -- Harry Cox on video copy of 16mm film with Charles Parker & Sam Larner: FF-2217
PRESTON - Lancashire - COTTON LORDS OF PRESTON - Preston Guild Ceremony held every 20 years -- (RPL 18286-7 rec 1952)
PRESTON'S REEL - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #104 p53 (G)
PRESTONPANS - East Lothian - Jacobite Battle 1741 - see also JOHNNY COPE -- Archie FISHER (instrumental): LEADER LER-3002 1969
PRETTIEST TRAIN - Negro Work Song -- Prisoners, Parchman State Penitentiary, Miss, USA 1947: FTX-916
PRETTY APRON, THE - Highland March -- John BURGESS (H-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969 with others
PRETTY BABES IN THE WOOD - BABES IN THE WOOD
PRETTY BETSY - BLACKBERRY FOLD
PRETTY BETSY OF DEPTFORD - "was fair to be seen" - sixteen - loved sailor William - ROUD#1723 - JFSS 1:3 1901 p129 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 2v/m
PRETTY BLUE HANDKERCHIEF, THE - BONNY BLUE HANDKERCHIEF
PRETTY BOY FLOYD - Outlaw Song comp Woody Guthrie - A film by Paul Lee, 1988, presenting the legendary Oklahoma dust-bowl poet and international folk hero, with Alan Lomax, Arlo & Jack Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and more: FF-3302 - Alan LOMAX (voc/gtr) RPL LP 21373/ used on PK's prog "Calling the tune" #6 RPL Home Service Feb 1963 - Woody GUTHRIE on 2 progs by Tom Paxton: Radio 2: 30/9/87 & 7/10/87: CASS-0425 - Jack ELLIOTT (voc/gtr): ISLAND FOLK-101 (boxed) 1975 - Christy MOORE CASS- 90-0878
PRETTY BROWN GIRL, THE - CAILN DEAS DONN (Jig)
PRETTY CAROLINE - "One morning in the month of May when brightly shone the day" - "A lock of hair and a ring of gold, Young William he did show" - ROUD#1448 - SHARP Novello School Series 7 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #145 pp557-8 Mrs Bray, Langport, Som 1904. Shadrach Clifford, Armscote, Warwicksh 1912/ Wm Pittaway, Burford, Oxford 1923 - WILLIAMS FSUT #677 (w/o)
PRETTY CHAMBERMAID, THE - "Not far from town a country squire" - ROUD#1257 - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB 2 1979 pp53-4 Catnach Bs London (w/o) - PALMER EBBB 1980 pp226-7 BS BL 1876 e.3
PRETTY CROWIN CHICKENS - LIGHT OF THE MOON
PRETTY DRUMMER BOY, THE - FEMALE DRUMMER
PRETTY FAIR FIELD - TREE IN THE WOOD
PRETTY FAIR MAID, A - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR
PRETTY FLOWERS - (HOLMFIRTH ANTHEM) - THROUGH THE GROVES
PRETTY FRANCES - ROUD#2648 - GRAINGER #226 Schoolchildren, Scawby, Lincolnsh 1906
PRETTY (PURTY) GIRL, THE - PRETTY LITTLE GIRL THAT I LOVE (Reel)
PRETTY GIRL MILKING HER COW, THE - CAILIN DEAS CRUIDHTE NA mBO
PRETTY GIRLS OF MAYO, THE - SWEENEYS
PRETTY HORSES - ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES
PRETTY JENNY - TWO CHOICES
PRETTY LASS, THE - Polka - LMs Q#135 p405 Bm 2/4
PRETTY LITTLE BABY - VIRGIN MARY HAD A ONE SON
PRETTY LITTLE DEAR, THE - "One morning very early - a strange thoought came in my head" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - TRIUMPH (Country dance)
PRETTY LITTLE GIRL FROM OMAGH, THE -- Larry CUNNINGHAM: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-11 1969
PRETTY LITTLE GIRL OF MINE - "she brought me many a glass of wine - on the carpet she must kneel - choose - first a girl and then a boy - kiss together and run away" - Childrens Ring Game - ROUD#8371 - GOMME 2 p67 24var (incl Symondsbury) - GRAINGER Ms #220 schoolchildren, Scawby, Lincolnsh 1906 "On This Carpet" - OPIE SG 1985 #19 pp125-7 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1572-3 p121-2 "This pretty girl of mine" & "Hokey Pokey" ("Down on the carpet we shall kneel") -- rec by PK, Sidbury, Devon 26/2/51: RPL 16074/ FTX-201 - group of school children rec by Alan Lomax, La Plaine, Dominica 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 "Down to the carpet (you must go)"
PRETTY LITTLE GIRL THAT I LOVE, THE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #160 p38 (G) - Tunebook Ms #50 p284 (G) - ROCHE 1 #177 p68 (G) "The Purty Girl"
PRETTY LITTLE GIRL WITH THE RED DRESS ON - POOR HOWARD
PRETTY LITTLE MERMAID, THE - "Down In The Diving Bell at the bottom of the sea" -- Tommy MORISSEY( learned from Charlie BATE) , Padstow, Cornwall rec by John Howson on Radio 2 16/1/96: CASS-1335
PRETTY LITTLE MISS - ABROAD AS I WAS WALKING - AS I ROVED OUT
PRETTY LI'L RECKLESS BOY -- Jean RITCHIE (dulc) with Oscar BRAND (gtr) & Dave SEARS (banjo): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-646 1957
PRETTY LITTLE SARAH - UNDERNEATH HER APRON
PRETTY LITTLE SUSIE - PAW PAW PATCH
PRETTY LITTLE VILLA DOWN AT BARKING - Music Hall comp Darewski -- Gus ELEN: TOPIC 12-T-396 1979
PRETTY LITTLE WIDDER -- Clayton McMICHEN (fid) for Square Dancing with gtr & banjo rec Alan Lomax DECCA (78 rpm) 1949 7"RTR-0364 aft "Old Joe Clark" bef "Shortnin Bread"
PRETTY MAGGIE MORRISSEY - Hornpipe (G) - ALLAN #77 p20 - CRANITCH #83 p159 - ROCHE 3 #182 p64 "Ciumais na Mona" -- Michael COLEMAN rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE d/cass 004 1991 titled "O Neill's Hornpipe" (aft "Liverpool H") - Willie CLANCY (U- pipes) of Co Clare rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-39 1980 CASS-0816 with "Chief O'Neill's Favourite" - Vin GARBUTT (d-tracked: whistle, gtr & mand): LEADER LER-2102 1976 learned from Bernie Harrington (Irish fiddler)
PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW, THE - "Twas on a fine summers morning when the birds sweetly tuned from each bower" - ROUD#3139 - Many BSs incl BG 7#116 - GRAINGER Ms#120 from Joseph Leaning, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906 - see CAILIN DEAS CRUIDHTE NA mBO, AN -- Nicholas HUGHES, rec by PK, Forkhill, Co Armagh 15/7/1952: 7"RTR#0549 - Martha GILLEN rec Seamus Ennis, Co Antrim 1954: RPL 21840/ FTX-434 - Simey CROTTY rec by Roly Brown, Ross, Co Clare 1976-7: TOPIC 12-TS-369 "An Cailean Deas" ("One evening fair to take the air") - Peter PEARS & Engl Chamber Orch cond by Benjamin Britten arr Percy Grainger: DECCA KSX-6410 1974 - Peter PEARS (v) with Benjamin BRITTEN (piano) arr Percy GRAINGER RPL Radio 3 9/1/90 CASS 60-0826 with "Sprig of Thyme"
PRETTY MAIDS OF BULGADEN - nr Kilmallock, Co Limerick - Reel - ROCHE 1 #166 p65 (Em/G)
PRETTY MEG O' WESTERDALE - comp by GM 1965 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-221
PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW, THE - CAILIN DEAS CRUIDHTE NA mBO
PRETTY MISS WILL YOU WED? - HENRY'S COTTAGE MAID
PRETTY MOHEE - INDIAN LASS
PRETTY MOLLY BRANNIGAN - Air -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec 1958- 73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980 CASS-0815 bef Reel "Green Fields of America"
PRETTY NANCY OF YARMOUTH - NANCY OF YARMOUTH
PRETTY PEGGY O - BONNY LASS O' FYVIE O
PRETTY PEGGY - Jig - KERR MM 4 #231 p25 (A)
PRETTY PEGGY - Strathspey/ Reel - in Niel Gow's Collection (D) - BALMORAL p12 - Tunebook Ms #134 p223 (D) 4/4 - O'NEILL MOI #1476/ DMI #704 (D) -- George HARVEY WEBB (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, London 9/1/54: RPL 21906 aft Strathspey: "Jessie Smith" - OSSIAN IONA IR-001 1978 "Pretty Pegg"
PRETTY PLOUGHBOY, THE - "It's of a brisk young ploughboy" - meets a girl while ploughing, but her cruel parents have him pressed and "they send him to the wars to be slain" - she dresses as a sailor and goes to the captain of his boat, pays him "handfuls of gold" and returns happily with him - LAWS #M-24 ABBB 1957 p191 "The Jolly Plowboy" - ROUD#186 - BS by Ford (Chesterfield)1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - LONG DIOW 1886 p138 Isle of Wight (w/o) - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p442 "The Jolly P" - KIDSON TT 1891 pp145-6 Yorksh 2v/m - FORD VS 1899 p284 8v/m - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #117 8v - BARING GOULD SOW #59 1889"The Ploughboy's Song" words altered slightly ("The Simple Ploughboy" is title in Rev Ed) from James Masters, Bradstone HFS 1889/ BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp84-5 James Masters "Ploughboy's Song" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 5 pp20-23 Charles Ash, Crowcombe, Som - BG- Sharp Schools - SHARP Cf 1 p277 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #218 - GRAINGER Ms 58/50: Dean Robinson, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905 - JOYCE OIFM 1909 #412 p223 Paddy Connors, Kilfinane. Co Limerick 5v/m "The Ploughboy" - LEATHER FLH 1912 pp208-9 R Hughes Rowlands: John Morgan, Dilwyn, Herefordsh 1905 - MERRICK Sussex 1912 - JFSS 1:3 pp132-3 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 6v/m - JFSS 2:8 1906 p146 Mr Pottipher, Ingrave, Essex 1904 1v/m & BS - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp303-310 Butterworth: Mr Hillman, Shoreham, Sussex 1909/ L P Wyatt-Edgell: W Bryant, Cowley, Devon 1912/ RVW: Rusper, Sussex 1908/ R Hughes Rowland: John Morgan, Dilwyn, Herefordsh 1905/ Essex & Broadwood complete phonograph transcr - JFSS 35 p268 m Norfolk & Lancs - WILLIAMS #5 Jonas Wheeler, Buscot, Berksh (w/o) - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp18-19 - HENRY SOP #105 "The Jolly P" - ORD BB 1930 p233 8v - O'KEEFE Book of Ballads 1955 - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS-HOLST 1961 #13 p16 Mr Potipher Ingrave Essex 1904 5v/m - SHEPARD BB 1962 p151 Catnach BS London (w/o) - O'KEEFE FBIB 1955/68 p19 5v w/o "The Ploughboy" - PURSLOW FD 1974 p73 Hammond: John Ball, Blandford, Dorset 1905 Dorset 1905 - MORTON CDGD 1973 p\126-7: John Maguire Co Fermanagh "The Gay P" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #94 pp160-161 Walter Pardon - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p93 parody "The British Factory Boy" broadside by Harkness to tune from Peacock - PALMER RVW 1983 #102 pp155-7 David Penfold, Rusper, Sussex 1908 text from Harkness BS Manchester - ED&S 53:3 1991 p12 Such BS London --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #59 (vol 1 p369 N.B.Chisholm, Woodridge, Va 1916 "The Simple Ploughboy" - MACKENZIE NS 1928 p130 "The Jolly P" - CHAPPELL R&A 1939 p127 (NC) - CREIGHTON- SENIOR NS 1950 p176 9v/m - BROWN NC 1952-62 #103 p322 (w/o) - (?) CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p103 NS "The Jealous Lover" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 pp224-5 Mary Ann Galpin, Codroy, Nfl 1961 - KARPELES NFL 1971 p165 -- Wm STILL, Cummingstown, Burghead, Moray #303 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 "The Jolly Ploughboy" - Harry COX rec "The Windmill", Sutton, Norfolk 1947: RPL 16415/ rec by PK, Norfolk 1953: EFDSS LP-1004 1965/ FTX-033 (9v with tune on fiddle)/ EFDSS CD-02 1998 from Decca/ TOPIC TSCD-652 1998 ("Sea") from DECCA OC 87-88 (78rpm) London studio 1934/ rec by Charles Parker & Ewan McColl mid 1960s: TOPIC TSCD-512(D) 2000 with tune on fiddle rec by Frank Purslow 9/4/60 - Charles GILLIES rec by Seamus Ennis, Angus 11/2/53: RPL 19020 "He whistled and he sang" (sung to tune: "Within a mile o Edinburgh" - John Mc ILWEE rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Derry (label says erroneously: Co Antrim): RPL 21841/ FTX-435 "The Jolly Ploughboy" - George BURTON rec Bob Copper, Southwater, Sussex 16/10/54: RPL 22734 frag/ FTX-426 - YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-155 1967 (from Harry Cox) - Walter PARDON, Knapton, Norfolk: LEADER LED-2111 1977
PRETTY POLLY - CRUEL SHIP'S CARPENTER (GOSPORT TRAGEDY) - KNIFE IN THE WINDOW - MOLL BOY'S COURTSHIP - OUTLANDISH KNIGHT - POLLY DEAR NOW I MUST LEAVE YOU - POLLY OLIVER - POLLY VAUGHAN
PRETTY POLLY - "If I were a fisherman down by the waterside" - ROUD#1795 - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #54 p23 air only - CREIGHTON SBNSA 1932 p94 Nova Scotia 1v/m
PRETTY POLLY OLIVER - POLLY OLIVER
PRETTY POLLY PERKINS - "I'm a broken hearted milkman of Paddington Green" - composed by Harry Clifton - ROUD#430 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1212 pp368-9 3var 7v w/o - WILLIAMS #680 (w/o) - HENRY SOP #132/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp398-9 Mrs E Glen, Limavady, Co Derry 1926 - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha 1970 p100 from John Green - tune used for Australian ONE OF THE HAS-BEEN -- John FOREMAN (& orch) REALITY RY-1004 1966/ FTX-331 - "Lucky" LUCKHURST (of London) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332
PRETTY PRICKING THING, THE - "My pretty fair maid, fain would I know - what thing it is will breed deligh ?" Ch: "With a humbledum grumbledum" - D'URFEY 4 p71 "The Riddle" 5v/m - BRADLEY p33 As D'Urfey gives composer as Samuel Ackroyde
PRETTY ROSALINE - "One morning in the month of May so sweetly shone the sun" - KIDSON EPS 1929 to tune of "The Spotted Cow"
PRETTY SAILOR, THE - LITTLE LOWLAND MAID
PRETTY SALLY - BROWN GIRL
PRETTY SALLY - "O once I was a ploughing boy but a soldier I am now" - Soldier's life is better - broken token - ROUD#1446 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #133 p517 Mrs Susan Williams, Haselbury Plucknett, Som 1905 - JFSS 8:32 1927 pp18-19 Sharp: Mrs Susan Williams - PURSLOW FD 1974 p74 Gardiner: Mrs Goodyear, Axford, Hampsh 1907
PRETTY SARO - "I came to this country in 1849" - "At the foot of yonder mountain" - ROUD#417 - SHARP FSSA #142 Wm C Wooton, Hindman, Knott Co., Ky 1917 "The Green Brier Shore" - CHASE AFT&S 1956 p152 (Chase says related to English "Come all you little streamers" "Sweet England" "Linden Lea") - STONE AND LIME --- HUDSON FSM 1936 pp164-5 Missisippi (w/o) - HENRY FSSH 1938 p283 NC (w/o) -- Sandy PATON (with gtr) rec London COLLECTOR JEA-1958 (45 EP/M) from CHASE - Shirley COLLINS with John HASTED (banjo), Ralph RINZLER (gtr), Guy Carawan (gtr) rec by PK 1958 (ARGO): SEE FOR MILES SEE-212 1987 - Guy CARAWAN (voc/recorder) & Peggy SEEGER (banjo) rec by PK, London 11/1/58: RPL LP 24212/ rec by PK, London: EMI CLP-1174 1958/ FTX-942 - Doc WATSON (unaccomp): VANGUARD TFL 6083 1967 - DANNY DOYLE: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-26 1968 unusual tune - Shirley COLLINS & Davy GRAHAM (gtr): DECCA LF-4652 1969/ ISLAND FOLK- 1991 (boxed) 1975 - Jean RITCHIE: GREENHAYS GR-90714 nd CASS- 0801 - New song on tune "Sweet Rose" Bert JANSCH Radio 2: 13/4/88 CASS-90-0848
PRETTY SUSAN, THE PRIDE OF KILDARE - "When first from sea I landed" - A poor sailor loves a rich girl but she is courted by a rich Lord so he goes back to sea but never find another Susie - LAWS #P-6 ABBB 1957 p251 - ROUD#962 - Bs by FORD (Chesterfield) 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) other broadsides by SUCH (London) BEBBINGTON (Manchester) FORTH (Pocklington) WALKER (Durham & Gilbert (Newcastle) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #160 pp618-619 Wm Briffett, Bridgwater, Som 1905 "The P of K" - JFSS 6:21 1918 pp11-12 Frederick Keel: John Keene, Thursley, Surrey 1913/ Anne Gilchrist: Mr Gasson, Highfields, Sussex 1906 - WILLIAMS #343 Thomas King, Castle Eaton, Wiltsh (w/o) - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1968 pp164-5 text mainly from BS - STUBBS LOM 1970 p62 George Maynard 1959 - PURSLOW FD 1974 p75 Gardiner: Isaac Hobbs, Micheldever, Hampsh 1906 - PALMER RVW 1983 pp1-2 Mr Copas, Cookham Dean, Berksh 1904 "The P of K" --- BROWN NC 1952-62 p368 5v - GARDNER Mich 1939 p216 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp131-3 ships log 1847 (w/o) "The P of K" - SHARP SG 2003 p34 Wm Briffitt "The P of K" --- CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp108-9 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB - NC F/L vol 2 p368 -- Bert EDWARDS rec by PK, Little Stretton, Shropsh 30/10/52: RPL 18699 "Lovely Susan" - George 'Pop' MAYNARD, rec by PK, Copthorne, Sussex 1955: FTX-280 (Note: Tune similar to Cantwell's "Nightingales Sing" - THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974 bef reels "Cook in the kitchen" & "Fairy Reel" - Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147
PRETTY SYLVIA - FEMALE HIGHWAYMAN
PRETTY THING AT THE FAIR, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #156 p38 (##A) - Tunebook Ms #102 p38
PRETTY WENCH, THE - CARTER IS THE LAD
PRETTY YOUNG LASS SHE WAS RAKING THE HAY - GENTLEMAN GAY