RAB RORISON'S BONNET - "Ye'll a' hae tell o' Rab Rorison's bonnet" - ROUD#13037

RABBIT CHASE, THE - "I'm not a one for hounding down" - comp by GM who's never caught a rabbit yet ! -- Graeme MILES: 221

RABBIT IN THE GARDEN - "Go in my garden eatin up my cabbage" -- Ace JOHNSON (voc & harmonica) rec by John Lomax, Clemens State Farm Apr 1939: ROUNDER CD-11661-1821-2 1999

RABBIT PIE - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE 1975: FTX-044

RABBIT SONG - comp by Bonny Sartin (of Yetties) -- Pete SHUTLER & YETTIES RPL Radio 2 14/11/87: CASS-60-0555/ RPL Radio 2 1/11/89: CASS-90-0569

RABBIT SONG, THE - comp by Stanley Pinsent, Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland - "O Jack & John went tailing snares - Aha me boys ..." - words in song-file

RABBITER, THE - "I've heard about the fortunes that the Rabbiters make out back" Ch: "For the men who scalp the rabbiters are the Sydney Market boys" -- Warren FAHEY & Group: LARRIKIN LRC-028 CASS

RABBITS AND HARES - BROOMDASHER - HA HA VERY FUNNY (K) - HOP OLD RABBIT, HOP (K) - IN A COTTAGE IN A WOOD (K) - MORTAL UNLUCKY OLD CHAP - OLD Mr RABBIT (USA) - PINCH AND PUNCH (Kids - Change of month sayings) - TINKER AND THE LANDLORD - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p300 Strret cry "Rabbits skins" (words only)-- Arthur Grimley (or Quigley?) rec by Damian Webb, Garforth 1977 Talk about rabbit-shooting DW ,35 (Reel 5)

RACA BREA MO CHINN - Song in Irish Gaelic -- Sean O SE with Sean O RIADA & CEOLTOIRI: GAEL-LINN CEF-016 1967

RACES AT CARRICK, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #836/ DMI #99 (D)

RACHEL - American Mountain Dance tune -- Curly HERDMAN (fid) with Troy HERDMAN (gtr), Bob TANNER (mandolin) & Joe TANNER (banjo): SAYDISC MAatchbox SDM-242 1973

RACHEL RAE - Reel & Hornpipe (D) composed by John Lowe father of Joseph, fiddler/composer (1797-1866) who published collection of 6 books in 1844 - ALLAN #83 p21 (G) "The Bashful Bachelor" Hornpipe - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #174 p91 "Moving Bogs" ("MB") from Johnny Doherty - COTTER #42 "The Flowers of Limerick" - CRANITCH p91 (D) "MB" - HONEYMAN #2 p7 - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 p13/ 1994 #52 p15 - KERR MM 1 #2 p4 & MM 4 p11 "The MB" - KOHLER 1 p93 - O'NEILL MOI #1443 (D) & MOI #1489/ DMI #713 (D) Reel "Courting them all" alt: "The Bashful Bachelor" "The MB" & "Don't bother me" - Cf O'NEILL MOI #1452/ DMI #685 (G) "Miss Wallace" - SHASKEEN 2 #28 p21 (#D) -- Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Dunloe, Co Donegal Jan 1951 7"RTR-0566 - Sean MAGUIRE (4 fiddles), Belfast rec by PK 1952: 7"RTR-0544/ FTX-375 Hornpipe "The Bashful Bachelor" - Willie Macpherson (fid) rec 21/5/59: RPL LP 24770 aft "Mrs McLeod" & bef "Mason's Apron" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by David Hammond, Co Donegal 1975 GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 bef "Fairy Dance"

RACING- see under SUBJECTS

RACISM - BLACK - BROWN - COLOUR - DARK - NEGRO -

RACKET HORNPIPE - KERR MM 3 #354 p39 (C)

RACKYMAN DOO - RING DANG DOO

RADIO - see also THEME TUNES -songs- GRESFORD DISASTER - HEAVENLY RADIO STATION - EELLY EELLY ALLEY O, LISTEN TO THE RADIO - WIRELESS WAILS - see also under ENGLAND - IRELAND - SCOTLAND -- Recordings - see under SUBJECTS

RADIO BALLADS -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

RADSTOCK JIG, THE - POLL HALFPENNY

R A F MARCH PAST - comp by Walford Davies -- Gordon CUTTY (E-conc) FREE REED FRR-006 1976

RAFFERTY AND CAFFERTY - "He gets up on his stump & says: My name is Barney Rafferty" - Home Rule - Vote for Rafferty, the poor man's candidate - (spoken interjections i e "Stump-speech") see FAHEY: "Joe Watson - Traditional singer" -- Joe WATSON: LARRIKIN 007 1976

RAFTSMEN, LES - French Canadian see also LOGGERS -- Alan MILLS accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: FTX-905

RAG FAIR - "I am a rambling fellow - London Town" - Usual story of sailor accosting a girl, first with kisses then money, going up to bed and the girl subsequently disappearing along with his gold watch and money - LAWS K-41 "Gold Watch" BBBA 1957 p161-2 --- GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p110 7v/m "Gold Watch" -- Frank PURSLOW with John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK: DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ 219 (coll Hammond, Sherborne, Dorset 1905)

RAG TIME - Instrumental with speech played by Eldred DECENT (fife), Selwyn WATHEY (snare drum) & Joseph REID (bass drum) rec by AL, Irishtown, St Kitts, July 1962: ROUNDER CD 1731 2002

RAGE, THE - Highland/ Single Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #164 p39 (A) - Tunebook Ms #153 p321 (D)

RAGGED BEGGARMAN, THE - DIRTY BEGGARMAN

RAGGY LEVEE - O RAGGY LEVEE

RAGGLE TAGGLE GYPSIES - GYPSY LADDIE

RAGHAD-SA IS MO CHEAITI - Irish Gaelic Air -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute) Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 1971

RAGHAD-SA O THUAIDH LEAT, A BHO - Milking Song - She sings to her cow wishing it safe from harm - CROININ 2000 #121 pp186-7 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Brian George, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 7/8/47: RPL 12614/ FTX-160/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 #11

RAGS - ALEXANDER'S - BEAUMONTS - BLACK MOUNTAIN - DILL PICKLE - ENTERTAINER - PEACOCK - PORCUPINE - UNION - VICTORY - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p300 Street cry "Rags" (w/o)

RAGS AND BONES - see also TRAVELLING CANDYMAN -- Tom POTTER (75), rec by PK, Hawkhurst, Kent 4/9/63: RTR-0985/ FTX-428

RAGS TO RICHES - BAGS OF INVERURIE - BOLD FISHERMAN- BARNSLEY ANTHEM - BONNY BLUE-EYED LASSIE - BONNY HAWTHORN - CHARMING MOLLY - EPSOM RACES - HARD TIMES - I CAN'T CHANGE IT - GALWAY GIRL - GROUND FOR THE FLOOR - GYPSY GIRL - GOLDEN GLOVE - GREEN MOSSY BANK - I NEVER WILL MARRY A MAN WHO IS RICH - I WISH PAY FRIDAY WOULD COME - IF I WERE BACK HOME - LAWYER LEE - MADAM WILL YOU WALK? - NOBLEMAN'S LADY - OPEN THE DOOR - POOR OLD WEAVER'S DAUGHTER- POOR WOMAN FROM SANDY ROW - REMEMBER THE POOR - REQUEST OF THE POOR - RIGS OF THE TIME - SHILLING OR TWO - SONG ON THE TIMES -- Children - ALL THAT GLITTERS - EMIGRANT'S SONG - HERE'S A POOR WIDOW - HERE'S LUCK TO THE SWAN (toast) - I KNOW A MILLIONAIRE - MOTHER WILL YOU BUY ME ? - MY FATHER DIED A MONTH AGO - MY MA'S A MILLIONAIRE - MY NAME IS SWEET JENNY - MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTMAN - RAGTIME MILLIONAIRE - REMEMBER THE POOR - SELLING FATHER'S FEATHER BED - YOUR OLD ONE'S A LAVATORY CLEANER -RPL 19337 Charlie WILSON talks about Christmas "dole", meat coal & clothing

RAGS TO TATTERS - Reel - comp ? -- Dave SWARBRICK (fid): ELEKTRA BY-6030 1967

RAGTIME - RAGS - JOPLIN, Scott -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

RAGTIME ANNIE - American Hoedown - BRODY p225 discog -- THE KENTISH TRAVELLERS Folk Dance Band rec London 10/10/61: RPL LP 26960 - Bob RUNDLE (whistle) rec by PK, Devon 1978: FTX-124 - Peter MILN (fid) with John SCOTT (gtr) & Martin RIGBY (drums) rec Gloucester 16/7/93 with "Chinese Breakdown"

RAGTIME MILLIONAIRE - "All you people take your hat off to me" comp Irving Jones -- William MOORE (v/gtr): Paul OLIVER "Before the Blues" RPL Radio 2 3/12/87: CASS-0431

RAHEEN, THE - Reel - TWEED p21 (D)

RAIBH TU AR AN gCARRAIG?, AN - "Were you at the Rock/Carrick?" - Irish Gaelic Song -- O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971/ d/cass 0938-C60

RAIBH TU AR AN gCARRAIG?, AN ("Were you at the rock?") - Instrumental Air - CRANITCH #99 p167 3/4 (Em) - ROCHE 1 #61 p30 (Dm) 3/4 -- Seamus ENNIS (U- pipes) rec Dublin 22/9/49: RPL 13778/ rec by Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0588/ COLUMBIA SL-204 1952/ rec by PK, London 1958: FTX-374 - Festy CONLAN (whistle): TOPIC 12-T-184 1969 - Denis MURPHY & Julia CLIFFORD (fiddles), Kerry: CLADDAGH CC-5 1973

RAIL - see also TRAIN -- Britain & Ireland -ALICE WHITE (A Bell) - BECAUSE IT WOULDNA PAY (J Handle) - BLACK AND A ROLLING EYE (Left holding the baby ) - BOLD ENGLISH NAVVIE - CAMBORNE HILL - CHARMING YOUNG WIDOW - COSHER BAILEY - DO YOU REMEMBER? (G Miles) - Dr BEECHING'S LONG AXE (G Miles) - DOWN BY THE DARK ARCHES (Walter Pardon) - FIREMAN'S NOT FOR ME (McColl) - GREENOCK RAILWAY (no rec) - HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE (Hornpipe) - IN COMES THE TRAIN (Fureys) - IN THE SIDINGS (Cyril Tawney) - INDIAN LASS (McBeath) - IRON HORSE - JESSIE THE BELLE AT THE BAR (no rec) - JIM BLAKE AND THE NIGHT EXPRESS (Findlater) - KHAKI TROUSERS - LAVENDER EXPRESS (M Graebe) - LEFT HOLDING THE BABY - LEICESTER RAIL ROAD - LINE TO HEAVEN (Emily Bishop) - LOCOMOTIVE HORNPIPE - MAN THAT TOOK THE TRAINS AWAY (G Miles) - MIDNIGHT FLYER (G Cottam) - NAUGHTY JEMIMA BROWN (Pardon) - NAVIGATORS - NAVVIE ON THE LINE - NEW TRAMWAY (Cinnamond) - NORTHBOUND TRAIN (Russco) - NORTON-FITZWARREN RAILWAY DISASTER (no rec) - OUR OLD NAN'S A MAZER (Colville) - PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY - PAIR OF KHAKI TROUSERS - PLEASE MR CONDUCTOR - RADIO BALLAD (John Axon) - RAILWAYMAN'S FAREWELL TO DARLINGTON (GM) - ROCKET (recit by Jackie & Bridie)) - TERRIBLE RIDE BY RAIL - THEY'VE GONE AND CLOSED OUR RAILWAY (Peter King) - TREN O BALA I FFESTINIOG - TRIP FROM OLDHAM - UNDERGROUND TRAIN (Calypso) - WEDDING OF LUCKY McGRATH - WRONG TRAIN (Rooke) -- Children - AS I ROSE UP ONE MORNING - CATCH QUESTIONS - DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI - ENGINE, ENGINE ON THE LINE - I'M GAUN AWA ON THE TRAIN - I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING - PADDY (or PENNY) ON THE RAILWAY - UP IN THE NORTH - USA - see also BRIDGES - TRAINS - ALONG THE RAILWAY - BUDDY CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? - CANNONBALL BLUES - CHILD OF THE RAILROAD ENGINEER (no rec) - DALLAS RAILWAY - EAST COAST LINE - EVERY MONDAY MORNING (John Henry USA) - THE G S & F - GOSPEL TRAIN - IF LOVE WAS A TRAIN (Michelle Shockd) - JOHN HENRY - LAST OLD TRAIN'S A LEAVIN (J Ritchie) - LAST TRAIN AND RIDE (R McTell) - LAST TRAIN TO GLORY (W Guthrie) - LEICESTER RAILROAD - LITTLE BLACK TRAIN - MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW (F Proffitt) - MICK McGILL - ONE MORE MILE (J Ritchie) - PAULINE - PLEASE MR CONDUCTOR - PRETTIEST TRAIN (Negro Work Song) - REUBEN'S TRAIN - SHULL'S MILLS (F Proffitt) - STEEL LAYING HOLLER - TRACK LAYING SONG - TRAIN (harmonica) - THIS TRAIN (USA) - TRAIN THAT NEVER RETURNED - TRANS CANADA HIGHWAY - WABASH CANNONBALL - WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Jimmy Rodgers) - WHEN THE TRAIN COMES ALONG (children - Peggy Seeger) - WRECK OF THE VIRGINIAN - Recordings - see under SUBJECTS

RAILROAD BILL - "so mean and so bad" - Like Jesse James, Morris Slater was an outlaw of the 1890s and like Lazarus pushed into crime by the cruel and oppressive conditions of the Alabama turpentine camp where he toiled in forced labour. He was caught and brutally murdered in an 1897 ambush. - LAWS#M-3 - ROUD#4181- LEACH & BECK: Journal of American Folklore 63 (1950) pp.279-280 - LOMAX: ABFS pp.118-120 - LOMAX: FSNA pp.568-569 - SHAY, My Pious Friends & Drunken Companions (1927) pp.92-94 - SANDBURG, AS pp.384-385 - WORK, American Negro Songs & Spirituals (1940) p.240 - CARMER, Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) p.124 -- Mrs Etta BAKER (gtr): TRADITION TLP-1007 -1956-7 - Paul CLAYTON (voc/ gtr) of Boston Mass USA rec by PK, London 7/5/57: RPL LP 23448 - Guy CARAWAN (voc/ banjo), Peggy SEEGER (gtr), John COLE (harmonica) & Sam STOKES (bass): PYE Nixa NPL-18013-1958/ FTX-942 - Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 - Hobart SMITH (voc with guitar) rec by Alan Lomax, Bluefield, Va Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1705 1997/ rec by Moses Asch NYC 1946: ROUNDER 1799 2001

RAILROAD BLUES -- "Snuff" JENKINS (banjo/ fid & group) dub (no details): CASS-0478 A13

RAILROAD BOY, A - BUTCHER BOY

RAILROAD BUM, THE - TEN THOUSAND MILES FROM HOME

RAILROAD & RAILWAY - RAIL

RAILWAY, THE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #262 p29 (G) -- FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec by Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset 1980: CASS-1187 aft "Fiery Clock Face"

RAILWAY BOY, THE - BUTCHER BOY (Joan Baez)

RAILWAY PORTER. THE - "comes from Bonny Dundee" - Ch:"Change for Auchtamuchter - unless you want to go to Tobermory" (mentions the Queen) -- JACKIE & BRIDIE rec Concert Hall Radio 2: 7/4/80: CASS-0416

RAILWAY WHISTLE, THE - or "The Blessings of Hot Water Travelling" - "Of all the wonders of the age -" "Eastern Counties Railway" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p58 text: bs by Broadhurst of Norwich (Pub Lib) used tune: "Rakes of Malo"

RAILWAYMAN'S FAREWELL TO DARLINGTON, THE - comp by GM 1962 - Because of Dr Beeching's cuts he is off to join the Infantry -- Graeme MILES: 222

RAIN - DONEY GAL - GRUMBLING FARMERS - IT'S RAINING IT'S POURING - JEWS DAUGHTER ("It rained a mist") -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

RAIN A SUP - Jig (Quadrille) - - MOYLAN 2 #47 p28 (G)

RAIN AND SUNSHINE - Love Song comp by IP -- Ivor PICKARD (voc/gtr): LONG MAN LM-4001

RAIN COME WET ME - "sun come dry me" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2 pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children"CASS-1225

RAIN CROW BILL - Instr -- Doc WATSON (harmonica) with Merle (gtr) & Rus SAVAKUS (bass): VANGUARD TFL-6083 1967

RAIN, RAIN, RAIN - American Gospel Song -- Steve BENBOW (v/gtr) with Stella (v) & Pete TURNER (bass) "Skiffle Cellar" rec by PK, Soho, London 1/7/58 CASS-60-0828/ FTX-091

RAINBOW, THE - ship - CAPTAIN WARD - FEMALE WARRIOR - GOOD LUCK SHIP - JOHNNY JARMIN

RAINBOW 'MID LIFE'S WILLOWS - LOCKS AND BOLTS

RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER - Spiritual or Work Song -- Pamela WARRICK-SMITH GREENHAYS GR-90721 1990 CASS-0798

RAINBOW WILLOW - LOCKS AND BOLTS

RAINDROP WALTZ, THE - ARCHIE'S FANCY

RAINY DAY, A - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1196/ DMI #473 (Am) -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec Dublin 22/9/49: RPL 13779 bef "Merry Blacksmith" & "Miss Lane's Fancy"/ rec by PK: FTX-374/ rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED FFR-001-2 1976 aft "Merry Blacksmith" & bef "Silver Spear"

RAISING OF YOUR HANDS, THE - YONDER SHE COMES

RAISING THE STANDARD - March -- Billy BENNINGTON (h-dulc) rec by Jim COUZA Barford, Norfolk 20/7/82 CASS-0871

RAJASTHAN - INDIA -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

RAKE OF CARNTEEL - (Co Tyrone) - SEACHRAN CHARN tSIAIL

RAKE OF POVERTY, THE - SON OF A GAMBOLIER

RAKES - see also RIGS -- KILDARE - LIMERICK - RAMBLING BLADE - TANDARAGEE - UNFORTUNATE RAKE

RAKES MARCH, THE - Jig - Tunebook Ms 139 p55 (Dm)

RAKES OF CASTLEBAR, THE - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #165 p39 (G) - Tunebook Ms #137 p316 (Am) Reel - AIRD 3 #474 "Lochiel's awa to France but he'll come again" - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #247 p128 (Am) from John Maguire of Co Cavan - O'NEILL DMI #639 "On the Sly" -- John MAGUIRE (whistle) rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: 7"RTR-0544/ RPL 18377 talk bef/ 376 "The Gosson that bate his father"/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997

RAKES OF CLONMEL, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #158 p38 3pts (Am) alt: "Take a kiss or let it alone" - KERR MM 1 #29 p38 - Tunebook Ms #136 p54 3pts - LEVEY 1 #30 p12 3pts - MITCHELL & SMALL #53 p99 from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #902/ DMI #149 3pts alt: "The Boys of the Lough" (also the name of a reel) "Cluain Meala" in North Waterford on the border with Co Tipperary

RAKES OF FRISHMEN - Jig - KERR MM 1 #48 p40 (G)

RAKES OF KILDARE, THE - "As I roved through the town ("Cill Dara") to view the pretty lasses" - ROUD#1698 - HEALY OISB 1 1967 pp129- 130 BS (w/o) - see OLD PETTICOAT

RAKES OF KILDARE, THE - Jig - ALLAN #25 p7 - BAYARD DTF #603 p533 "Old March" - BRODY p226 (Am) - COLE p60 (G) - GIBLIN #95 p42 (Am) - HARDING #34 p12 "Barndoor Jig" - HAYWOOD #23 p14 (Am) "Barn Door" - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #159 p38 (Am) alt: "Arthur McBride" "The Fair of Drumlish" "The Galbally Farmer" - KERR MM 1 #21 p37 - LEVEY 1 #1 p1 - O'NEILL MOI #847/ DMI #108 3pts & MOI #939 "The Barndoor Jig" - ROCHE 1 #87 & 3 #103 - WILLIAMSON p70 -- Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-320 1972 - JACKIE HEARST TRIO rec Belfast 20/9/52: RPL 18181/ FTX-373 aft "Larry O Gaff" & "Frost is all over" - John McDONALD (mouth music) rec by PK, Elgin, Moray 1955: FTX-061 & FTX-301 - GILCURDON TRIO rec Belfast 30/10/63: RPL LP 28256/ FTX-373 bef "Saddle the Pony" & "Muckin o Geordie's Byre" - Paddy TUNNEY TOPIC TSCD-660 "The Old Petticoat" with words & mouth music - Davie ROGERSON (fid): TOPIC TSCD-669 1998 Northern Dances aft "Tenpenny Bit" & bef "I lost my love and I care not"

RAKES OF KILKENNY, THE - Triple Jig - HALL (1818) p6 "Jackson's Rakes of Kilkenny" (D) - Tunebook Ms #145 p57 (##A) - LEVEY 2 #43 p19 (D) - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #451 "The Highway to Kilkenny" (G/Em) - WILSON p29 (D)

RAKES OF MALO, THE - "Go to any town or city" Ch; "Beau-ing, belle-ing, dancing, drinking/ Breaking windows, cursing, sinking/ Ever raking, never thinking, live the R of M" - VOC LIB 1822 p100 - CROFTON 1886 PSI p249 - HATTON & MOLLOY 1890s p164 "R of Mallow" - BARBEAU- SAPIR 1926 p121 "A Saint Malo" A French song with similar tune - SPALDING LOI 1978 p345 - tune used for BARROW BOY'S LAMENT - BELLS OF CANTERBURY - BOBBIN WINDERS SONG - MICKEY MACKEY HAD A HEN (K) - SANDY'S MILL

RAKES OF MALO, THE - Polka or Highland rhythm for Morris (G) - BAYARD DTF #190 p145 7var - HAYWOOD #8 p35 - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p27/ 1994 #111 p29 3pts "R of Mallow or Marlow" with alt B music - KERR MM 3 #371 p41 - MITTEL #31 p14 - O'NEILL MOI #1814 p341 4pts (not in DMI) - LEVEY 1 #64 p26 - SHARP Dance Notes 1 p16 "Rigs o' Marlow" -- Mark ANDERSON (mel) rec by Alan Lomax, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham 20/4/50: 101 & 211 - Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-320 1977 - William KIMBER (A-conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 4/11/56: RPL LP 23504/ FTX-382 "Rigs o'Marlow" in Highland Schottische tempo & 382 complete dance/ TOPIC 12-T-249 1974 - Peter BERESFORD (fid) rec by PK, Langstrothdale W Yorks 1954: FTX-211 for dance: "Ninepins" - Jack ELLIOTT (harmonica) Birtley Durham: LEADER LEA-4001 1969 - NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-011 1972 aft "Morpeth Rant" - THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-245 1974 for "Dashing White Sgt" - Son of MORRIS ON: EMI SHSM-2012 1976 "Rigs o'Marlow" - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 aft "Dannish Waltz or Officer's Polka" & "Indian Polka" --- Billy FAIER (banjo) with Frank HAMILTON (gtr): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-813 1957

RAKES OF MALLOW, THE - Irish Instrumentals -- O LEARY'S MINSTRELS: REGAL ZONOPHONE MR- [?] (78) CASS- 45-0892 - Ceilidh in Sarah Makem's kitchen Keady Armagh rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow 1951: FOLKWAYS 1960 "Field Trip: Ireland"/ OSSIAN OSS-15 1989 CASS-0797 aft "Girl I left behind me" - JACKIE HEARST TRIO of Newry Co Down rec Belfast 20/9/52: RPL 18183/ FTX-373 aft "Scholar" (Reel) - GILCURDON Trio rec Belfast 30/10/63: RPL LP 28256/ FTX-373 aft "Girl I left behind me" & bef "Mason's Apron" - Chris DRONEY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-503 1975 aft "Sailor's Polka" - Bernard O SULLIVAN & Tommy MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS 1976 with "I have a bonnet"

RAKES OF SOLLOHOD, THE - Triple Jig O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #454 (G)

RAKES OF STRAGNE - Reel - KERR MM 4 #170 p20 (D) 3pts

RAKES OF WESTMEATH, THE - Triple Jig (Em) - COLE #8 p65 - LEVEY 1 #40 p16 - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #416 - WILSON p30

RAKING THE HAY - HAYMAKING COURTSHIP

RAKISH HIGHLANDER, THE - Reel - COLE #8 p4 (Em) - see also HIGHLANDER'S KNEEBUCKLE

RAKISH HIGHLANDMAN, THE - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #160 p38 (Em) - WILSON p96

RAKISH PADDY - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #145 p58 (D) - FELDMAN p12 from Johnny Doherty (fid) - GIBLIN #27 p19 (D) - HONEYMAN p16 (Dm) "Caper Fey" - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #166 p39 (C/Dm) alt: "The Castle Street Reel"; "The Deer's Horns"; "Glastertown's Downfall"; "Sporting Pat" - KERR MM 1 p14 - Tunebook Ms #37 p279 (Dm) "Caber Feigh" - MITCHELL #63 p58 from Willie Clancy (U- pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #1533/ DMI #749 - PHILLIPS FCTB p40-41 (from James Morrison: SHANACHIE 33001) - ROCHE 1 #133 p54 - WILLIAMSON p69 - O'HALLORAN'S REEL -- James MORRISON (fid) rec New Jersey, NY USA/ LP MORNING STAR 45001 with "Wheels of the World" - John BURGESS (H-pipes) rec by Alan Lomax Edinburgh 1951: COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998 "Caberfeidh" - John DORAN (U- pipes) rec by Kevin Danagher IFLC Dublin 1947 on RTE radio prog 28/3/88 & 4/4/88 CASS#0914-C90 with "Bunch of Keys" - Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) Clare rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-173/ rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-39 1980 CASS#0816 - Noel MURPHY (banjo): FONTANA STL-5496 1969 - Finbar FUREY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1077 1969 - FAIRPORT CONVENTION: ISLAND ILPS-9115 1969/ CASS-0189/ FOLK-1001 (boxed) 1975 aft "The Lark in the Morn" - Tommy POTTS (fid): CLADDAGH CC-13 1971 - COLEMAN Society (fids): LEADER LEA-2044 1972/ CELTIC MUSIC CM-CD-048 1990 (Gift of Dave Bulmer March 2005) aft "The woman of the house" - CHIEFTAINS 1: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-3 [nd] cass aft "Kitty goes a-milking" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by Seamus McMathuna, Co Donegal: COMHALTAS CEOLTAIRI EIREANN CL-10 1974/ RTR dub - Felix DORAN (U-pipes) TOPIC 12-T-288 1976/ OSSIAN OSS-63 on CASS-1278- Con CASSIDY (fid) Donegal: CLADDAGH 4-CC- 44 1987 cass - Rose MURPHY on TOPIC 1976/ OSSIAN OSS-21 1989/ CASS-1279 - Peter MILN (fid) with Daniel JAMES (bass) John SCOTT (keyboards) & Martin RIGBY (drums) rec Gloucester 16/7/93 with "Ragtime Annie"

RAKISH YOUNG FELLOW - "I once was a RYF" - Ch: "Wrap me up in a tarpaulin jacket" - ROUD#829 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #228 pp119- 121 Wm Nott, Meshaw, Devon 1904/ Tom Griffiths, Bridgwater, Som 1905 "The Tarpaulin Jacket" (tune cf "Young Jane and her gallant hussar") - ED&S 36 or 37:1 1975 p16 Michael Yates: Mary Haynes Sussex 1974 - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p21 Sharp: Wm Nott, Devon 1904 (Ch: "I've sailed through stormy weather") -- - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 - PEACVOCK SNO 1965 3 pp880-881 Nfl "A Rambling Young Fellow"- Bill WILLIAMS rec by PK, Gloucester 1957 - Sam LARNER rec by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger, Winterton, Norfolk 1959: FOLKWAYS FG-3507 "The Reckless Young Fellow" - Paul Wilson & Ben van Weede (fiddles): SAYDISC CP-115 1980 (S) CJS - Walter PARDON rec Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-301 1984 ("My ship she's lying at anchor")

RAM SONG, THE - "As I went up to Derby, upon a Derby day" ("DR" = "The Derby Ram") - ROUD#126 - KINLOCH 1827 "The Ram o'Diram" - JEWITT BSD 1867 pp115-9 Derbysh 15v (w/o) (with var & notes) "DR" - N&Q 1890, 1891 & 1904/ Derby N & Q 1932 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp44-7 nn, Morton, Derbysh/ Mrs Hipkins, Northumberland "DR"/ H M Bower: Mrs Hartley, Thorpe, Yorksh "The Old Tup" - FORD VS 1899 pp135-7 1900 p124 11v (w/o) "The Ram o' Bervie" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #645 5var "Ram o' Diram" - GREIG FSNE 1906- 14 #14 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #325 2 p375-8 Henry Corbett, Snowshill, Gloucestersh 1909/ Jack Barnard, Bridgwater, Somerset 1909/ Anne Dyke, Kingbury, Somerset 1905 1v/m "DR" - ROBINSON "The Bellman" mag 1917 shanty - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp43-4 #26 Alfred Smith, Watchfield, Wiltsh "The Ram"/ #527 "As I rode up through London Street" ("all on a market day")/ #712 "Speculation" (w/o) - JEFDSS 1946 p23-30 Ivor Gatty: "Old Tup and its Ritual" & versions - COLLINSON-DILLON FSC 1946 pp12-13 "DR" - OPIE ODNR 1951 #129 p145 notes about early versions - REEVES IP 1958 #26 pp102-3 Sharp: Sister Emma, Clewer, Somerset 1909 (w/o) "DR" - REEVES EC 1960 #31 p92 Hammond: T Gale, Nettlecombe, Dorset 1906 (w/o) "DR" - HUGILL 1961 p437 Shanty - HAMER GG 1967 p21 A Wildman, Bedfordsh "The Ramsey Ram" - HAMER GGr 1973 pp51-2 Robert S Brader, Lincolnsh "D Tup" - HUGILL 1973 p51 & p70 Lincs - CRAY Bawdy 1969 p17 - ED&S 37:2 1975 Palmer: Grace & Gordon Brooks, Leicester & Bob Moon, Brimington, Derbysh 1973 "D Tup" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #304 pp660-1 Wm Rew, Sidbury, Devon 1950/54 "The R Song" - PALMER ECS 1979 #145 p237 "The Derby Tup" Leics - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p67 'Nobby' Clarke, Swimbridge, Devon 1976 "The Exmoor R" - ED&S 42:2 1980 p4 coll Capt John Robinson "The Bellman" Jul- Aug 1917 "DR" - O SHAUGHNESSEY LLL 1973 pp2-3 Brian Dawson, Lincoln "DR" - PALMER EBECS 1979 pp237-8 from ED&S 1975 "D Tup" - ED&S 42/2 p4 Article by Roy Palmer - GARDHAM ERS 1982 p5 Annie Sykes, Hull, Yorksh 1967 "DR" - CROININ 2000 #48 pp100-101 "DR" --- SHARP FSSA #141 Trotter Gann, Sevierville, Tenn.1917/ Mrs Alice Sloan, Barbourville, Knox Co, Ky 1917/ Mrs Margaret Jack Dodd, Beechgrove, Va 1918 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp273-4 Miss Lois Womble, Mi (w/o) "The R of D" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp175-8 Mrs Samuel Harman, Tenn 1930 (w/o) "The Old Big Sheep"/ Wm Maxwell Barclay, NJ (w/o) "DR" - BREWSTER BSI 1940 pp319-21 Edith Del Hoins 1935 & Dr Claude Lomax, Ind 1936 (w/o) "DR" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp398-400 Charles Ingenthron, Mo 1940/ Frank Playter Mo 1920 (w/o)/ Mrs Effa M Wilson Mo 1940 2v (w/o) "DR" - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp390-1 Mrs Susie S Barlow & London Milais, Utah 1948 "DR" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 pp10-11 Clarence Bennett, Nfl 1958 "DR" - MEREDITH-ANDERSON Australia 1967 p112 & 120 - SHARP FSSA #141 (3 versions) - WHITE 1928 p201 - FUSON BKH 1930 p58 Sallie Lyttle Hatton, Ky (w/o) "Darby's Sheep" - JAFL 18:51 & 39:173 - Cf OLD EWE WITH ONE HORN - THUNNERIN SORT OF A LIE -- Hector CAMPBELL, Ythan Wells, Aberdeensh #197-8 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - William REW rec by PK, Sidbury, Devon 1950 & 28/5/52: FTX-027 (with A-conc) (Vs 1-4 & 7)/ RPL 22321 (1954)/ rec by Jean Ritchie 1952 (Maxell tape) - Arthur LENNOX (+ch) rec by Alan Lomax, Aberdeen 1951: CAEDMON TC-1225/ TOPIC 12-T-198 1969 "The R of D" - Charlie WILLS rec by PK, Bridport, Dorset 1952: RPL 18689/ FTX-097/ LEADER LEA-4041 1972 "DR" - Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Macroom, Co Cork 29/8/52: 162/ rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 24/11/52: FOUR COURTS CD-2 #17 "DR" - Ben BAXTER rec by Seamus Ennis, Southrepps, Norfolk 1955: RPL 22022/ 234 - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL LP 24841 ("Monaghan town") - Steve BENBOW (v/gtr) with Stella & Pete TURNER (bass) "Skiffle Cellar" rec by PK, Soho, London 1958 CASS 60-0828: SPCD-091/ rec for Radio Luxemburg "Have Guitar will travel" 1960 RSL Studio: RTR-0495 - Paddy LAWN rec by Sean O Boyle, Lisnacarick, Co Fermanagh 1958: 7"RTR-0564 "The Pettigo Ram" (Co Donegal) - George HOYLAND rec by PK, Sheffield, Yorksh 1959: 7"RTR-0208/ FTX-212 "Old Tup" & Play - John Henry COLLINS rec by Fred Hamer, Lansalos, Pelynt, Cornwall 1960: VWML-003 1989 cass "The Ram" - A L LLOYD with gtr & ch rec "Princess Louise" Folksong Club, London in Radio Prog 1957 "Sing Christmas" ROUNDER-CD-11661-1850-2 2000/ TOPIC 12-T-51 1960 - Steve BENBOW: EMI CLP-21603 1963 - MAGPIES Band (instrum) rec by PK, Derby 1963: FTX-321 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-136 1965 & 12-T-167 1966 "Skipton Ram" (Yorkshire Tup) has ch "Clear the road this morning, blow, boys, blow" (from Jack Beresford, Buckden) - Alf WILDMAN rec by Fred Hamer, Beds: EFDSS LP-1006 1971 - Tommy CHAPPLE rec Michael Feist at Hare Down, Knowstowe 1973 CASS- 0330 (see letter file) "What a lie! ("T'Owd Tup") & "Exmoor Ram" from Nobby Clark, Swimbridge, Devon 1974 - Shirley COLLINS (& group): TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974 (Kathleen Gentle version from Archive) - David DODDS with ch rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse Nov 1974: FTX-091 "Devonshire R" - Martin GRAEBE (2 pt harmony) rec by PK, Devon 6th Nov 1974: 10" RTR-049 "The Yorkshire Tup" (Granny Croslands version from Grenoside, Sheffield - mentions Derby) - MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2093 1976 Chesterfield "Old Tup" Play & Song - Nobby CLARKE rec Sam Richards, Devon: TOPIC 12-TS-349 1979 - Mike SHAIL & EEZUM SQUEEZUM rec by PK, Devon 1978: FTX-127 - Bob MILLS rec Sam Richards, Alresford, Hampsh: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 "DR" - Sid STEER rec by Cyril Tawney, Holbeton, Devon 1963: TOPIC TSCD-657 1998 Fun & frolics "DR" --- Pete HARRIS (voc & gtr) rec by John & Alan Lomax, Richmond, Texas May 1934 "He Rambled" - Charles Ingenthron rec California 1941: AAFS L-12 - Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1940: FTX-922 (2v only) - Bascom LUNSFORD (75) (voc/ banjo) rec by Paul Clayton: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-645 1956 "Didn't he ramble" - Billy FAIER (banjo) with Frank HAMILTON (gtr): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-813 1957 - Guy CARAWAN (v/banjo) & Peggy SEEGER (v/gtr) rec London 11/1/58: RPL LP 24212/ rec by PK, EMI CLP-1174 1958/ FTX-942 - Lawrence OLDER rec by Sandy Paton, Middle Grove, NY, 1963: FOLK-LEGACY FSA-15 - Cas WALLIN rec by Mike Yates, Sodom Laurel, Madison Co, NC USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980 7v - Doug WALLIN rec by Mike Yates 24/5/83 10v VWML-007 d/cass-1026 1992

RAM AND THE GATE, THE - TAILOR'S BREECHES

RAMBLE IN THE WEST, A - comp by R Stewart -- FUREYS with Bob STEWART (instrum): BROADSIDE BRO-133 1974 [?]

RAMBLE-AWAY - "As I was a-going to Birmingham Fair" - ROUD#0171 - Broadsides by Jackson, Birmingham & Such "Birmingham Street" - BSs "Young R" incl SBG 5:109/ 8:101/ 9:65 - KIDSON TT 1891 p150 Yorksh 1v/m "Brocklesby Fair (Lincs)" - BARING GOULD Ms 1891#151 "Young Ramble Away" ("Tavistock Street") (a) James Parsons HFS 1891 (b) Samuel Fone FWB 1893 (unpubl) - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 3 #78 James Bishop "Brimbledon Fair" (words adapted) - SHARP Sel Ed 2 #23 pp56-7 (modal air) "Brimbledon F" - SHARP Cf 2 p267 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #281 2 pp269-270 James Bishop, Priddy, Somerset 1905 2v/m/ Jim Woodland, Stocklinch, Somerset 1904 1v/m "Brimbledown F" - JFSS 8:31 1927 pp22-23 Sharp: Jim Woodland 1v/m rec Mike Yates rec Mike Yates - WILLIAMS #683 (w/o) - REEVES EC 1960 p93 SBG: James Parsons, Devon 1891/ Hammond: Robert Barratt, Puddletown, Dorset 1905 (w/o) "Derry Down Fair" - ED&S New Year 1961 p9 Sharp: 'Soldier Jim' Woodland "Young R" - SEDLEY 1967 p81 Hammond & Sharp - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #166 p366 Alec Bloomfield 1952 - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p113 Baring Gould - SHARP SG 2003 p100 frag from Jim Woodland, Stocklinch, Somerset 1903-4 "Brimbledown Fair" & 5v & ch from Wm Barrett, Piddletown, Dorset "As I was goibg to Derry Down Fair" -- Alec BLOOMFIELD rec by PK, Framlingham, Suffolk 1950 & 1952: FTX-099 "Burlington Fair" - Cyril TAWNEY rec Festival Hall: EMI CLP-1910 1965/ LEADER LER- 2095 1976 (from Baring Gould) - Shirley COLLINS (voc/gtr): TOPIC 12- TPS-145 1966 - Al O DONNELL: LEADER LER-2073 1972 - Jumbo BRIGHTWELL rec by Tony Engle Eastbridge, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-261 1975

RAMBLER, THE - Jig - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #31 p14 (Am)

RAMBLER FROM CLARE, THE - "The first of my rambles that ever was known" - Tyrone - stranger - next Tralee - courting Sally McGhee - ROUD#1531 - BSs - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp194-5 Limerick - CAREY TEFS 1915 pp8-9 Surrey/ Sussex - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp149-51 Clive Carey: Stephen Spooner, Midhurst, Sussex 1911 - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1968 pp136-7 text mainly from BS - HEALY OISB 3 1969 pp120-1 BS (w/o) --- WARNER TAFS 1984 #59 p158 Lena Bourne Fish -- Martha GILLEN rec by Seamus Ennis, Antrim 1954: RPL 21840/ FTX-434 - JOHNSTONS TRANSATLANTIC TRA-169 1968 coll by Christy Moore --- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, New Hampsh 1941 USA: FTX-922

RAMBLER FROM CLARE, THE - Jig (Am) - COLE #6 p58 (Am) - O'NEILL MOI #1009/ DMI #223

RAMBLER IN CORK, THE - Reel - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #777 (G)

RAMBLER'S REST - UP STAIRS IN A TENT (Reel)

RAMBLING BEAUTY, THE - "Once I courted a fair young woman" - merchant's daughter is rejected by a sailor who later finds her begging in the street, he gives her money but eventually she ends up in Bedlam - warning t women not to reject the first love - LAWS #P-12 ABBB 1957 p254 "Nancy" - ROUD#1689 - CHRISTIE 2 1881 p6-7 5v/m - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1213 pp370-5 (6var 12v/2m) - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #142 10v - ORD BB 1930 pp176-7 - PURSLOW FD 1974 p76 Gardiner: Wm Hall, Catherington, Hampsh 1908 - rec from Willie Mathieson by Hamish Henderson 1952 in TOCHER 43 (1991) pp34-5 - USA - SHARP FSSA #163 2 p226 Mrs Lawson Grey, Montvale, Va 1918 "Loving Nancy"/ Mrs Margaret Dunagan, St Helens , Lee Co., Ky 1917 (DC 2004 "Scornful Nancy") - BELDEN Mo 1940 p191 5v - see BEDLAM MAID - TWO LOYAL LOVERS

RAMBLING BOY, THE - WILD AND WICKED YOUTH

RAMBLING BOYS OF PLEASURE, THE - "and a fair maid who never changes her mind" - ROUDR#386 - VOC LIB 1822 p529 - PURSLOW FD 1974 p77 Gardiner: David Marlow, Basingstoke, Hampsh 1906 - O BOYLE IST 1976 p84 (4v) notes that it has similar text & tune to DOWN BY THE SALLY GARDENS (inspired by Yeat's poem) - Cf IRISH GIRL --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp95-6 Ben Henneberry, Devil's Island, Nova Scotia 1929+ - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #53 pp117-8 Angelo Dornan "You RBofP" - JAFL 28 pp161-2 - see also VAN DIEMAN'S LAND -- Winnie RYAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1/8/52: RPL 18586/ FTX-167 - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL LP 24839/ FTX-159 (part only)/ TOPIC 12-T-269 1975 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-T-165 1966 - Tim LYONS: LEADER LER-3036 1972 (from Paddy Tunney) - Len GRAHAM (unacc) Sidmouth Festival on Radio 2: 16/11/82 CASS-15-0784 from Len Holmes

RAMBLING COMBER, THE - "Ye combers all, both great and small" - ROUD#1473 - HAMMOND FSOD 1908 Dorset - PALMER TOTT 1974 p200 from Hammond - PALMER EBECS 1979 #13 pp35-36 Broadwood: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 -- Mr Hillier rec by PK, Plymouth 1972 - John KIRKPATRICK (unacc): LEADER LER-2033 1972 Hammond/ RPL Radio 2 12/10/82: CASS-60-0548

RAMBLING COWBOY, THE - "Come all you rambling cowboys" - LAWS #P-1B ABBB 1957 pp248-9 - ROUD#262 - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp354-8 Tenn (w/o) - Cf MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY

RAMBLING GAMBLER, THE - ROUD#12708 - LOMAX -- Alan LOMAX (voc/ gtr) "Texas Folk Songs" incl Cowboy Songs with Guy CARAWAN (banjo) & John COLE (harmonica) rec by PK: TRADITION TLP-1029 1958: FTX-904

RAMBLING HERO, THE - SLANEY SIDE

RAMBLING IRISHMAN, THE - "I am a RI I travel this country o'er" - ROUD#360 - CLIFFORD Irish Folksingers Album 1957 - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p191 Sheila McGregor (daughter of Belle Stewart, Blairgowrie) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 pp800-801 Mary Doran (tinker) Belfast 1952 --- FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp92-3 Tom Brandon 1962 - Cf RAMBLING ROYAL - ROVING GAMBLER (Laws H-4) - ROVING JOURNEYMAN -- Tom McGETTIGAN (v/fid) & All-Irish Orch (78rpm disk) rec USA 1930s intro by Nicholas Carolan on RTE radio prog 1985 CASS- 0865 - Paddy BREEN, of Co Clare, rec by PK, London 1952: FTX-078 - Mary DORAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1952: RPL 18552 talk bef/ FTX-166 - "Jim" SWAIN rec by Bob Copper, Angmering, Sussex 1954: RPL 22763 "William Riley" - Teresa CLIFFORD of Belfast rec London Apr 1955: RPL 22373 - Sheila STEWART (now McGregor) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1955: FTX-182 - Harry BRAZIL (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Gloucester: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985 - Dolores KEANE (acc) CASS-60-0879 --- Glen TOMASETTI (voc/ gtr) , Australian, rec PK, 1962: 4"RTR-1078 (Stereo 15ips) "Denis O Reilly" - Tom BRANDON Ont Canada 1962: FOLK LEGACY FSC-10

RAMBLING LABOURER, THE - SPAILPIN FANACH (GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME)

RAMBLING MINER, THE - "I am a miner stout and bold - to raise both tin and copper too" about "courting the girls" in each place; mentions Callington, Redruth and Merthyr Town - PALMER TOTT 1974 p130 text: bs (Firth Coll, Sheffield Univ Lib)/ tune used "Rambling Sailor" (Baring Gould Ms #87)

RAMBLING PITCHFORK, THE - FISHERMAN'S WIDOW

RAMBLING RAKE, THE - Set Dance/ Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1785/ DMI #959 (Am) - ROCHE 3 #188 p66 (Am) from O NEILL with corrections

RAMBLING ROBIN - comp by Peter Bellamy -- Noel MURPHY: VILLAGE THING VTS-025 1972 - Peter BELLAMY (voc) with Chris BIRCH (fid/gtr): LEADER LER-2089 1975 (S)

RAMBLING ROVER - "There are sober men - never kissed a girl - from Orkney to Dover - men over 90 - together we'll face the World" - Drinking Song comp by A Stewart -- Tich FRIER with Archie FISHER & Allan Barty: CELTIC MUSIC CM-014 1983

RAMBLING ROYAL, THE - "I am a rambling Royal from Liverpool I come" - Soldier's girl friend in Birkenhead persuades him to desert - he knocks out the guardroom corporal and gets free but the sergeant and officers find him sleeping in a barn and this time he's locked up in the glasshouse - he jumps out of the window and knocks down three - having got free he boasts he can fight Marine officers or Orangemen and make them run - see LAWS "James Ervin" J-15 ABB p135 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #53 p123-4 from Phil Colcough of Liverpool - CLINGING 2005 #35 pp76-7 - Cf RAMBLING IRISHMAN, THE -- Tony CAPSTICK with HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER RUB-004 1971 bef "Arthur Mc Bride"

RAMBLING SAILOR (or SOLDIER), THE - "I am a sailor/soldier stout and bold" (LAWS P8/ ROUD#518) - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "R Sailor" - In Scotland known as "Dickie Johnston" - LONG DIOW 1886 p141 (w/o) - BARING GOULD Ms #87 "R Soldier" SOW 1898 from Roger Hannaford, Widecombe 1890 (words altered) "R Sailor" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 4 pp2-3 George Wyatt, West Harptree Som - Sel Ed 1 pp64-5 - SHARP Cf 2 395 "Sailor" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #298 6var G Wyatt/ Wm Nott, Meshaw, Devon 105/ Shepherd Shadrach Haden, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1914/ Tom Creedy, Bridgwater, Som 1906/ Thomas Downing, Marylebone, London 1908/ John Fry, Tormarton, Gloucestersh 1907 - JFSS 3:11 1907 p108 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey Dorset 1907 - JFSS 5 1914 pp61-2 Sharp T Downing/ Haden - WILLIAMS #684 (w/o) - REEVES EC 1960 #100 p216-218 B-G: Roger Hannaford, Widecombe. Devon 1890 p217 BG: BS Whiting Birmingham (w/o) "R Soldier"- ED&S 29/4 1967 p122 Letter "Village Down" - HAMER GG 1967 pp12-13 Wm Bartle, Bedfordsh "R Sailor" & p74 Nick Broad, Cornwall "R Soldier" - SPIN mag 1969 7/1 p23-7 Hugill - PURSLOW MB 1965 p72 Gardiner: George Digweed, Micheldever, Hampsh 1906 "R Soldier" - DAWNEY PG 1977 pp36-7 Butterworth: Mr Verrall, Horsham, Sussex 1909 (has 3rd v: "When first to Gloucester town I came" - PALMER RS 1977 p276 Sharp Ms & broadside - PALMER RVW 1983 #110 pp167-8 Mr & Mrs Verrall - PALMER OBSS 1986 #92 p194 Sharp - Cf WILLIAM THE SAILOR -- Chris WILLETT (gypsy) Kent: TOPIC 12-T-84 1962/ TSCD-662 (Sailors) - Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR (unacc): B & C CREST-23 1968/76/ CASS-45-0853 - THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974 - Peter VERRALL (?) phonograph rec by RVW 1907: EFDSS CD-02 1998

RAMBLING (or JOLLY) SOLDIER - Shape-note Hymn -- SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS: ROUNDER 0094 1978

RAMBLING SHOEMAKER - JAMES IRVINE

RAMBLING THROUGH WAPPING - RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY

RAMBLING YOUNG FELLOW, THE - RAKISH YOUNG FELLOW

RAMBLING YOUTH, THE - "I'm a R Y that was led astray" - Jack the sailor - out of work - Green Street - "that's why I'm called the Rambling Boy" - ROUD#3083 -- see RAMBLING SAILOR above -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24837/ FTX-159/ TOPIC 12-T-269 1975

RAMILLIES, THE - FATE OF THE RAMILLIES

RAMS - EWES - RAM SONG

RAMS HORN, THE - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

RAMSEY RAM, THE - RAM SONG

RAN FOSUIOCHTA, AM - ("The Herding Song") -- Maggie McDONAGH (40) rec by Alan Lomax, Feenish Island, Connemara 1951: COLUMBIA SL- 204 1952

RAN TANNING - RIDING THE STANG

RANAHAN'S MARCH - CALEDONIAN MARCH

RANDAL - LORD RANDAL

RANDOLPH TURPIN FIGHT, THE - ROBINSON-TURPIN FIGHT

RANDOM (NOTES), THE - attributed to James Hill in Northumbrian Piper's Tune Book but may be "Rondeau" a French Cotillion - DIXON 1987 p48 -- Billy PIGG (N-pipes): LEADER LEA 4006 [1971] (M) - Anthony ROBB (N-pipes) with Carole ROBB (flute): TOPIC 12-TS-413 1980 with "Starry Night for a ramble" (described as 18th C 3-pt French Cotillion tune) - Pauline CATO (N-pipes): SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999 bef "Cliff Hornpipe"

RANDWICK RACES - "We arrived at Randwick Races in a taxi from Clovelly" - Australian - to tune of WHISKY IN THE JAR -- John DENGATE (voc/gtr): LARRIKIN LRD-9012 1981

RANDY-DANDY-O - Shanty - GALLOPING RANDY DANDY

RANDY WIVES OF GREENLAW, THE - Reel - COLE p43 (D) "The Randy Wife of Greenlaw" -- Alistair ANDERSON (E-conc): TOPIC 12- TFRS-501 1974 aft "Fateful Head" & bef "John Mc Neil's" - Wayne ROBERTSON (elec accordion ) & Nigel JELKS (mandolin) rec by Burt Feintuch, Rothbury 1995: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999 aft "Mrs Wedderburn"

RANT, THE - Tune used for THE CRAFTY FARMER

RANTER PARSON, THE - RANTING PARSON

RANTER'S WHARF - comp by J Connelly based on belief that dead sailors become seagulls - girl is Betty Watson who drowned after an affair with a sailor -- THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-86 1973

RANTIN LADDIE, THE - "My father he fee'd me far far away - far away as Kirkcaldy - he's fee'd me tae an old widow wife - Wi her lives a BRL" - features the Earl of Aboyne - CHILD #240 - BRONSON 4 p508 - GREIG-KEITH 1925 193-4 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #976 pp131-8 6var18v --- COFFIN 137-8 -- William MATHIESON #009, Hector CAMPBELL #195, Jeannie CAMPBELL #195, Alex CLARK #277, Bell DUNCAN #268-9/ 280-1/ 297, Wm STILL #302, Alex CAMPBELL #304/ 306 rec on Dictaphone by James M.Carpenter N.E.Scotland 1929-35 - William MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: (m/o) 7"RTR 0682 - Ella WARD (w/o in file) - Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-622 1956 from his father

RATTLING LADS OF SUNDERLAND, THE - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #147 p41 (D)

RANTING PARSON, THE - "It is of a sly ranter parson" - Farmer's wife tricks him by putting bees in his bed - PALMER RVW 1983 #89 p138 Mr Earle, Leith Hill, Surrey 1904 much of text from Ford of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "Ranter Parson"/ BS Chesterfield "RP & Cunning Farmer's Wife"

RANTING RAKE, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #916/ DMI #303 "Alt tune for HASTE TO THE WEDDING"

RANTING ROVING LAD - "My love was born in Aberdeen" -ROUD#709 - HERD AMS 1776 2 pp179-180 (w/o)

RANTIN ROVIN ROBIN - comp by Robert Burns -- Robin HALL (with gtr): COLLECTOR JES-3 1959 (45-EP)

RANTIN WILLIE MAIR'S WIFE - "'s awa wi young McKeelikin" - GREIG- DUNCAN 6l 1995 #1214 p376 (1v/m)

RANZO - (Wild Goose Shanty) - ROUD#2626 - GRAINGER #RNS 91 Tom Roberts, / #163 Charles Rosher, Chelsea London 1906 - WHALL 1910 p63 suggests "Ranzo" may be short form of Lorenzo, but Danish sailors sing about Daniel Rantzau (1529-69) commander who fought against Sweden in the 3 or 7 year war - ROUD#3282 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #19 p18 "O what did you give for your fine leg o' mutton?" & #28 p25 1v - JFSS 18 p38-9 coll Sharp in Newcastle & Gilchrist in Lancash - SHARP 1914 #19 p22 "The Bully Boat" & #32 p37 "Poor Old RR" John Short Watchet Som (tune Cf "Off to California") - SHAY 1925 w/o - BONE, Capstan Bars 1931 pp55-6 - HUGILL 1961 p240 & 1969 p174-6 - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha 1970 p67 from Old Sam Swain w/o --- MACKENZIE NS 1928/ 1963 p265 Nova Scotia "Wild Goose shanty" - LINSCOTT 1938 p144 - DOERFLINGER 1951 p23 -- (a) Walter Ede, Edinburgh #18 (b) Jack Murray, Aberdeen (c) David Atkinson, Glasgow & (d) Thomas Carfrae, Sunderland "Ranzo Boys"/ (a) Jimmy CRONIN, London (b) Jack MURRAY, Aberdeen & (c) James WRIGHT, Leith rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142 "Ranzo Ray" - Stanley SLADE, Bristol March 1950 - Stan HUGILL with "York & Albany" Crew rec by PK, London: CLP-1524 1962 "Ranzo Ray"/ FTX-035 - Louis KILLEN & ch: TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 "The Wild Goose" - A L LLOYD (& ch): TOPIC 12-TPS-205 1966 - Colin WILKIE & Shirley HART: SAGA FID-2090 1967 "WG" - Martin WYNDHAM-READ (& ch): TOPIC 12-TS-234 1974 --- Noble B. BROWN rec by Helene Stratman-Thomas & Aubrey Snyder, Woodman, Wisconsin 1946 American Library of Congress AAFS-L26 "Reuben Ranzo"

RAP-A-TAP-TAP - FARMER'S SERVANT

RAP 'ER TO BANK - Durham Miner's Song - POLWARTH 1969 coll by Walter Toyn - DALLAS SOT 1974 p195 Toyn coll -- Jack ELLIOTT Birtley Durham rec Festival Hall: EMI 7-EG-8911 1965 7"EP (M) EP/ LEADER LEA-4001 1969 - THE FETTLERS Middlesbrough 1966 tape (2"reel)

RAPE OF GLENCOE, THE - comp by Jim McLean -- THE TAVERNERS: LEADER LER- 2080 1973

RARE BOG, THE - TREE SONG

RARE OLD TIMES, THE - Peter St John (Emma Music/ Celtic Music) -- Barney O SHAMROCK: CASS-0929 nd

RARE WILLIE - DOWIE DENS O YARROW

RAREY'S HILL - "It was on a Saturday's evening when I went to Dundee" she meets him on hill, they go to the fair then sleep at the back of the courtin mill, and then the usual - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1133 pp1426 (7var 7v/5m) also titled: "The Courting Mill, False or Jilted Lover" - contains verses like WHITE COCKADE: "O may he never prosper"

RASHY MUIR, THE - "As I cam through yon RM - how spied I in my truelove's door" - Song of a false truelove (ending with "I lent my back against an oak" as in SPRIG OF THYMER) - GREIG- DUNCAN 6 1995 #1215 pp377-9 (5var 7v/3m)

RASPBERRY STRAWBERRY GOOSEBERRY JAM - "tell me the name of your young man - by 123, ABC - wha will you be married in? - silk satin cotton rags - what is the cake going to be made of? cement sand jelly fruit - what are you going to go in? coach carriage wheelbarrow milkcart - how many bridesmaids? - where will you go for your honeymoon?" etc - Kids Skpping Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb 3 /26 & 9/1 St Michaels Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumb July 1960/ RPL LP 26301/ FTX-197 #1 & FTX-289

RASSLIN' TIL THE WAGON COMES -- KID AND COOT: COLUMBIA 14363/ B&B 008

RAT RACE, THE or WILL SOMEBODY TELL ME HOW? - comp by SC -- Sydney CARTER (voc) with Donald SWANN (voc & piano) rec by PK, London 6/6/61: RTR-0417/ FTX-146

RATCATCHER'S DAUGHTER, THE -- Ashton, Modern Street Ballads pp.142-144 - Shepard, Broadside Ballad p.152 - Cole, Funniest Song Book in the World (c1890) p.229/ 275 - Madden Collection (London Printers 5) [VWML mfilm No.78] Item nos.325-6/.358 - Northampton Central Lib. Coll. - Waites & Hunter, Illustrated Victorian Songbook (1984) pp.69-71 - Madden Collection 17 (Country Printers 2) [VWML mfilm No.84] Item no.358 - Madden Collection (London Printers 6) [VWML mfilm No.79] Item no.179 - Burstow, Reminiscences of Horsham (1911) p.119 - New Concert Room Songster (1854) pp.63-64 - C.R. Johnson's Sale Catalogue: Misc. No.J72 - T. Pearson's Catalogue of Songs, No.260 -- "Lucky" LUCKHURST of London rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1978: FTX-331

RATCATCHER'S DAUGHTER, THE - WESTROP #12 p5 (C) m/o Country Dance

RATCATCHER'S SONG, THE - comp by GM 1966 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222

RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY - London - CRUISING ROUND YARMOUTH - DESERTER - LITTLE BACK PARLOUR - ROLLING DOWN WAPPING - ROVING KIND

RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY - "As I was a-walking one morning in London" - Sailor calls in a tavern and is short-changed - his watch stolen so he he fights his way out and gets back to his ship - ROUD#598 - MAYHEW London Labour 4 p228-9 has descr of dancing houses on "The Highway" (Full text in Word file) - Sharp Ms "Rambling through Wapping" - JFSS 2:8 1906 p172 RVW: Mrs Howard, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1905 - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p85 RVW Mrs Howard - WILLIAMS #353 'Wassail' Harvey, Cricklade, Wiltsh (w/o) "Down RH" - SPIN 3/1 p11 Hugill - HUGILL 1961 p200 & 1969 p211-3 - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p85 RVW: Mrs Howard - DUBLINERS SONGBOOK p50 - PURSLOW CL 1972 p75 Gardiner: Isaac Hobbes, Micheldever, Hampsh 1906 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #75 pp1590160 Keith Summmers: Jimmy Knights, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1978 - PALMER 1986 OBSS #94 p197 Gilchrist Ms --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 p263 ships log 1847 (w/o) "Down Wapping" -- (a) John FERRIES, South Shields, Durham & (b) Jimmy Cronin, London rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142 - Jim BALDRY rec by PK, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: RPL LP 23100/ CAEDMON TC-1162/ TOPIC 12-T-194/ FTX-515 - Stan HUGILL rec by PK, London 1954: FTX-035 - Frank PURSLOW with Perry FRIEDMAN (banjo) rec by PK, London: EMI CLP-1327 1960/ FTX-093 - Steve BENBOW: EMI CLP- 1603 1960/ FTX-292 (RVW version) - Jim O CONNOR & London CRITICS Group: ARGO ZFB-61 1967 - THE YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM- 30 1973 - Jimmy KNIGHTS rec by Keith Summers, Woodbridge, Suffolk: (TOPIC 12TS-375 1978)/ rec by Neil Lanham, : NL-02 1995 CASS 1358

RATHAD NA mBURCACH - Irish Song & Instrumental Air -- Neil BOYLE (fid) _ rec Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0593 bef "Lord of Mayo" & also bef "Drimin Duinn" & another rec aft "Girls of Keady" - rec by PK, Dunloe, Co Donegal 1952: (sung & tune on fid): FTX-170 Poteen Song in Irish Gaelic & dance-tune from it

RATHAWAUN - Jig - SULLIVAN 3 #7 p3 (D) from Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford/ Planxty -- Denis MURPHY & Julia CLIFFORD (fiddles), Kerry: CLADDAGH CC 1973 with "Hare in the Corn"

RATHFRILAND ON THE HILL -- Joe BRANNIGAN rec by PK, Rostrevor, Co Down NI 28/7/53: RPL 19352/ FTX-433

RATHKEALE HUNT - ROLLING IN THE RYEGRASS

RATS - INTOXICATED RAT - RATCATCHERS - STANLEY THE RAT

RATTIGAN'S - Reel (G) - CRANITCH #79 p155 -- KILFENORA CEI BAND (West Clare): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-283 1974 (S) - Vin GARBUTT (whistle): LEADER LER-2081 1975

RATTLE MUTTON PIE - "There was an old farmer in Tetford" - 7 servants - an old ewe is put in the pie - contains verse about horse being "all very thin" - ROUD#1408 -- Mr Hill rec by Fred Hamer Tetford. Lincs, 1967: VWML-003 1989 cass

RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE - MADAM WILL YOU WALK?

RATTLE THE BOTTLES - Reel - COLE #2 p48 (G) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #167 p39 (G) - PETRIE 1 (Edinburgh 1790) p12 (D)

RATTLE THE CASH - Jig (G) - COLE #7 p77 - KERR MM 2 #239 p26

RATTLES -- BONES, SPOONS & RATTLES

RATTLESNAKE - SPRINGFIELD MOUNTAIN

RATTLING BOG - TREE IN THE WOOD

RATTLING BOYS OF PADDY'S LAND - BOYS OF PADDY'S LAND

RATTLING IRISH BOY, THE - JIM, THE CARTER'S LAD

RATTLING OLD GREY MARE AND I - COUNTRY CARRIER

RATTLING OF CHAINS, THE - "In London I courted as fair a beauty bright" - ROUD#405

RATTLING ROARING WILLIE - Song usually attrib to Robert Burns - CHAPPELL - JOHNSON MM 1788 #194 signed "Z" - KINSLEY 2 #216 p407 tune + 3v - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #776 p118 2½v only -- DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-14 1968/ EMI MFP 5223 - Paddy Reardon with Mrs CROTTY'S Band rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1980: FTX-250 - SWEENEY'S MEN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-37 1976 - KESTY rec by PK, Bristol: FTX-240

RATTLING ROARING WILLIE - Triple Jig (A)- COLE #8 p71 (##A) - KERR MM 1 #216 p25 & MM 3 #216 p25

RAVELLED HANK OF YARN, THE - Reel (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #102 p43 "The cat that ate the sidecomb" - MITCHELL #2 p21 from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #1207/ DMI #483 "Kate Kelly's Fancy" alt: "Ho awake" - Cf AMBROSE MALONEY'S - FAREWELL TO CONNAUGHT -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4- CC-32 1980 CASS-0815 aft "Ladies Pantalettes" - John KELLY (fid) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 aft "Carney's" & "Gilbert Clancy's"

RAVEN - CROW SONG

RAWTENSTALL ANNUAL FAIR - still sung in Lancashire - possibly comp by Lee-Weston - on 78 by Randolph Sutton -- Lee NICHOLSON (voc/conc): TOPIC 12-T-188 1968

RAY HORROCK'S REEL - dance tune (DT)

RAYMOND - Shape-note Hymn -- SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS: ROUNDER 0094 1978

RAYMOND'S FROLIC - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #161 p39 (Am) - Tunebook Ms #6 p3 (Am)

RAZOR STROP - STROP THE RAZOR

RAZOR'S IN THE AIR - "Come my love and go with me" - "Coon Song" sung by 1st Battalian Imperial Yeomanry after action against the BNoers -- DRUIDS: ARGO ZDA-147 1971

RAZORBACK STEAK -- Jimmy DRIFTWOOD (voc/ gtr/ banjo/ mouth bow): RCA Victor LSP-1994 1959

RAZZLE DAZZLE, THE - Barn Dance - ROCHE 3 #161 p55 (D)