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SASH MY FATHER WORE, THE - Orange Party Song - see HAT MY FATHER WORE -- RAVENHILL Flute & Drum Band rec Belfast 9/5/59: RPL LP 25646 - Richard HAYWARD: FONTANA FJL-506 1965 - THE LOYAL ORANGEMEN: PICKWICK ALLEGRO ALL-864 1967

SASKATCHEWAN - In the bad years of the 1930s the farmers of the prairies were hard struck with dust-storms, grasshopper plagues and drought and things were pretty bad - they called them the "dirty thirties" - and somebody came up with a song to the tune of the old gospel hymn "Beulah Land" - and this song spread all over the prairies and different verses cropped up in the various regions - ROUD#4525 - FOWKE-MILLS CSIS 1960 pp208-11 -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897/ FTX-905

SATAN'S WALL - "Take one brick out of SW" - Gospel Song -- Willis PROCTOR & Georgia Sea Islands Singers Group A rec by Alan Lomax, St Simon's Island, Ga Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1712 1998: "Eli, you can't stand"

SATIN DOLL -- RONSTEDZ SWING JAZZ rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1979: 251

SATISFIED - from Mississippi John Hurt -- SPREDTHICK rec by PK 1975 - Debbie McCLATCHEY (v/banjo) on Radio 2: 15/8/90/ CASS-60-1010 "When I get over on the other side"

SATURDAY COWBOYS - comp by Wrigley & Dutton - Children at the cinema - Charlie Chaplin, Lassie, Rin-tin-tin -- Bernard WRIGLEY (+ group of children & drums): LOOFY LOO-006 1984 CASS

SATURDAY NIGHT - "Of hammers and files no more heard the din is" Ch: "SN, boys, SN - What stirrings in Sheffied on SN" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p92 text: "Songs relating to Sheffield with ch added from parallel bs by Wrighton of Birmimgham (Harvard Univ)/ tune: "Nottingham Ale or Lilliburlero"

SATURDAY NIGHT - Morris Dance -- "Son of MORRIS ON": EMI SHSM-2012 1976

SATURDAY NIGHT - BONNY WEE TRAMPING LASS - CUCKOLD SONG - HERE WE GO LOOBY LOO (Kids) - I WISH THE NIGHT WAS (Kids) - LEFT RIGHT (Kids)

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORN - Country Dance - PLAYFORD 1651 - see AYE FOR SATURDAY NIGHT -- John WRIGHT (baroque fid): TOPIC 12-TS-348 1978 - John KIRKPATRICK & Sue HARRIS: TOPIC 12-TS-408 1980 with "Millfield"

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY TOO - ROUD 6704 - BROWN NCFL 3 p533 - LOMAX FSNA pp499-500 learned from his father, John Lomax, who sang it when he worked on a frontier farm in Bosque County, Texas in the 1860s. A Work song used for the non-rhythmic jobs such as ploughing, harrowing or cotton-picking, where the Negro slave hooped or hollered in solo -- Alan LOMAX (voc/gtr), Peggy SEEGER (banjo): PYE Nixa NPL-18013 1958/ FTX-941

SATURDAY NIGHT I LOST MY WIFE - "Sunday morning I found her" - Children's Ball-bouncing -- Mrs COSTELLO: Birmingham & Midland Folk Centre "Picture of Birmingham" (with rec by Charles Parker) Radio 2 "Folkweave" 1979: CASS-0413

SATURDAY NIGHT AT SEA - "A sailor loves a gallant ship" - ROUD#2020 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp65-66 ship's log 1843 (w/o)

SATURDAY NIGHT IS HALLOWE'EN NIGHT - TAM LIN

SATURDAY NIGHT SMASH - Tune: "Dorset Four Hand Reel" (Break Down Hornpipe) -- THE YETTIES on Radio 2: 9/12/87: CASS-60-0554

SATURDAY NITE SPECIAL - Cajun Song in French -- THE SUNDOWN PLAYERS APPLE-44 1972 45-EP

SAUCHEN TREE, THE - "Dear lassie ever mind the time - sae happy ha we been" - "Will you gang to yon sauchen tree - where birdie sing sae sweet ?" - Scots Duet with happy ending - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #984 pp167-9 (3var 13v/m)

SAUCY ANNA LEE - "From this moment and forever, he is nothing more to me" - ROUD#474 - BROWN, North Carolina Folklore 4 1957 pp212-213 ("Now I almost wish I'd written")-- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner, East Jaffray, N.H., USA 1940: FTX-922 (Last part of song/fragmentary)

SAUCY BOLD ROBBER, THE - "O come all you good people that go out a- tippling" - robbed lord and lady - Lawyer Morgans - ROUD#1464 - JFSS 2 1906 pp165-6 RVW: Mr Anderson, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1905 "The Bold Robber" - VAUGAN WILLIAMS FSEC 1907 pp34-5 Mr Anderson

SAUCY LIGHT DRAGOON, THE - "Come all you saucy landladies" - ROUD#1323

SAUCY PLOUGHBOY, THE - "Come all you pretty maidens and listen unto me" - lark and thrush - ROUD#1462 - BARING GOULD SOW (not in Rev Ed) words rewritten - original begins "As I went down to Salisbury Plain twas on a market day" (Salisbury Girl whose garter came untied) - HASELBURY GIRL - ROUT HAS COME FOR THE BLUES) - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp104-5

SAUCY ROSABELLA, THE - Shanty - ROUD#8343 - SHARP Ms John Short, Watchet, Somerset - HUGILL 1961 p178 "A-rolling down the river" or "The Saucy Arabella" - KINSEY SOS 1989 pp142-3 -- J S SCOTT rec by James M Carpenter, London c1928: FTX-142 - Museum Trust, Appledore CA-5 "Over the bar" - Johnny MAGEE & Johnny COLLINS rec Sidmouth Radio 2: 24/5/82: CASS-0414 - JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301

SAUCY SAILOR, THE - "Come, my own love, come, my true love" "You are ragged love, you are dirty, love & your clothes they smell of pitch and tar" - Because he is a poor and ragged sailor she refusas to marry - then he discloses his wealth and she wants him, but Jack would now prefer a country girl without fortune - LAWS #K-38 ABBB 1957 p190-1 - ROUD#531 - BSs incl SBG 5:#76/ 9:#50 - BARRETT EFS 1891 p55 "SS Boy" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p105 - BARING GOULD SOW 1895 #21 (a) James Parsons SBG 1888 (publ) (b) Mary Suckerly, Huckaby Bridge FWB 1890 (c) Langhorne, Carmarthen (d) Lucky Fewins FWB, S Zeal 1894 - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp94-5 James Parsons "SS" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 4 pp42-3 Thomas Hendy 8v/m composite text - SHARP Cf 1 p33 - Schools 1906 - Sel Ed 1921 1 pp68-9 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #299 p311 John Vincent, Priddy, Som 1905/ Louie Hooper & Lucy White (sisters), Hambridge, Som 1903 1v/m/ James Lovell, Balls Cover, Som 1908 1v/m/ Mrs Beechy, Shipston-on-Stour, Worcestersh 1911 (m/o)/ Thomas Hendy, Ilminster, Som 1905 1v/m/ Abraham Laurence, Ilminster, Som 1906 (m/o)/ Eliza Woodberry, Ash Priors, Som 1907/ Henry Larcombe, Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset 1906 (m/o) - GRAINGER #318 Wm Newman, Stanton, Gloucestersh 1907 - BUTTERWORTH FSSX 1913 pp10-11 Sussex "Come, my own one" - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp342-5 George Butterworth: Mr Webb, Stanton St John, Oxfordsh 1907 1v/m/ Walter Searle, Amberley, Sussex 1907/ RVW: nn, Essex (m/o)/ Mr Stacey, Hollycombe, Sussex 1904 1v/m/ Sharp: James Lovell (m/o)/ Mrs Eliza Woodberry (m/o)/ Henry Larcombe (m/o)/ Thomas Hendy (m/o)/ Mrs Beechy (m/o) "The SS Boy" - REEVES EC 1960 Hammond: Mrs Gulliver 1905 (w/o) "The SS Boy" - HUGILL 1961 p461 - FMJ 5:5 1986 pp623-624 Bob Copper 1v/m "JT" --- SHARP FSSA #168 (vol2 p235) Mrs Molly Broughton, Ky 5v/m 1917 - COX FSOS 1925 p389 Mrs Barker, WVa 6v (w/o) "The Jack of Tar" - FLANDERS-BROWN Vt 1932 p151 6v - CREIGHTON- SENIOR NS 1950 p202 6v/m 2var - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp374-5 Agnes Gores, Fla 6v/m "JT" - DOERFLINGER 1951 p294 5v/m (NS) - KARPELES FSFN 1971 #62 pp201-2 Richard Adams, Nfl 1929 -- Emily BISHOP rec by PK, Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordsh 13/10/52: 7"RTR-0897/ RPL 18678/ FTX-129 & FTX-514 "Jack Tar" - Frankie ARMSTRONG (voc/ conc): TOPIC 12-TS-216 1972 - STEELEYE SPAN CHYRSAALIS CHR-1008 1972/ CHR-1199 1978 & STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977 - Bernard WRIGLEY (unacc): TOPIC 12-TS-241 1974 - Tim RADFORD: FOREST TRACKS FT-3007 1975 - Johnny DOUGHTY: TOPIC TSCD-652 1998

SAUCY WARD - WARD THE PIRATE

SAULT'S OWN HORNPIPE - O'NEILL MOI #1660/ DMI #877 (G)

SAUNDERS BANE - WILSON p55 (with dance descr) "Old Scotch"

SAUSAGE MEAT MACHINE, THE - "Once there was a butcher, his name was Johnny Rybeck" - USA - Prairie Home Companion Folksong Book 1988 p139-40 - ROUD#12763

SAUTEUSE - Jig - Tunebook Ms #5 p336 (D) 6/8 - Cf WILSON p153 (D)

SAVE YOUR MONEY WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG - "Come all you good fellows I'll sing to you a song" - ROUD2325 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp134-5 Jim Doherty, Ont 1957 -- Jim Doherty rec by Edith Fowke, Ont, Canada: (FOLKWAYS FM-4052)

SAVIOUR'S LOVE, THE - "Have you not heard of our dear SL?" - Carol - ROUD#2116 - LEATHER-RVW TTC 1920 pp24-25 W Hirons, Dilwyn, Herefordsh 3v/m (selected from long homiletic carol on 7 deadly sins) - full text in "A Good Christmas Box" publ Dudley 1847 - JFSS 7 pp135-6

SAVOURNEEN DEELISH - Air - ROCHE 1 #47 p24 (D) 4/4 -- Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) rec Dublin 1937-8: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Clare's Dragoons" (March)

SAW - MUSICAL SAW - TRAMP

SAW YE JOHNNY COMING? - Song & Strathspey - Cf MAGUIRE 1 #73 p20 (C) "We saw you coming" (Hornpipe) - WILSON p40 "Old Scotch"

SAW YOU MY FATHER? - "Or saw ye my mither?" - ROUD#179 - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - CHAMBERS: SSPB pp285-7 - UNIVERSAL SONGSTER 2 p261 - SMITH: Scotish Minstrel 1813 pp109-110 - GREY COCK

SAW YOU MY FATHER? - Air - Tunebook Ms #147 p228 (D) 2/4

SAW YE NAE MY PEGGY? - Tunebook Ms #153 p231 (Em) 6/4 - McGIBBON & others -- Tom Robertson rec by Tom Anderson RTR-1081/ CASS-0435 "Saw do no my Peggy?"

SAW YE OUT O MA LAD? - DOWN THE WAGON WAY

SAW YE THE COTTON SPINNERS? - ROUD#13073 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1628 (2var w/o) "Fa saw the Forty-Second?"-- Hamish HENDERSON rec by Alan Lomax, London 6/3/51 7"RTR-0680: 4 versions (a) Jacobite (b) 1848 rising in Lanarksh (c) Boer war when Black Watch sent to S Africa "Wha saw the Forty-Second?" & (d) 1914-18 war France "Ya Ya, ye hielan bastard"

SAWING - Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

SAWNEY KAIL CUNNIE - "the Laird o Kail Caup" - Children' rhyme - ROUD#13035 - GREIG-DUNCAN #1692 p221 (1v w/o)

SAWNEY OGILVIE'S DUEL WITH HIS WIFE - "Good people, give ear to the fatalest duel" - comp by Thomas Whittle (d1756) - ROUD#3156 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp124-5

SAXE'S MINUETTE - Tunebook Ms #53 p358 (G) 3/4

SAXON DANCE, THE - Edinburgh Repos 2 p24 - Tunebook Ms #119 p398 (D) 3pts 2/4

SAXOPHONE --- Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing

SAY "HOW" AFTER EVERYTHING I SAY - HOW

SAY OLD MAN CAN YOU PLAY THE FIDDLE? -- played by Earl COLLINS (fiddle), Missouri-Oklahoma 1970 on DVD 2003 Films of Bess Lomax Hawes (B/W)

SAYINGS - PROVERBS - WEATHER

SAYS JONE TO HIS WIFE - JONE O GREENFIELD'S RAMBLE

SAY'S THE CAPTAIN - SMUGGLER'S SONG

SAZ - Long-necked Turkish lute - LUTES

SCADY ROCK - Girl drowned in Lough Neagh, N Ireland - ROUD#6986 -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24838 (talk on RPL LP 24837)/ FTX-157

SCAIRLAVEG ---- Willy TAYLOR (fid), Joe HUTTON (N-pipes) & Will ATKINSON (harmonica): TOPIC TSCD-669 1998 aft "Kelso Accordion & Fiddle Club" & "Linda McFarlane"

SCALLOWAY LASSES, DA - Shetland Reel - Scalloway was the original capital of the Shetlands - BRODY #252 (Am) from Boys of the Lough -- Shetland TRADITIONAL BAND (Sextet) rec 22/1/49: RPL 13196 aft "Lerwick Lasses" & bef "Underhill" & "Square da Mizzen"/ rec by Pat Shaw 1952: FTX-068 from Peter Fraser - Willie HUNTER (fid) & Wiilie JOHNSON (gtr) of Lerwick Shetland rec London 14/10/58: RPL LP 24378 aft "Lerwick Lasses" & bef "Underhill" - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER-2007 1969 - BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LEADER LER-2090 1974

SCAN TESTER'S POLKAS -- OAK: TOPIC 12 TS 212 1971

SCANBHEAN NA gCARTAL - Reel -- Denis MURPHY & Julia CLIFFORD (fiddles), Kerry: CLADDAGH CC-5 1973 (M) with "Tom Billy's"

SCANDAL - I NEVER SAYS NOTHING TO NOBODY - See also GOSSIP

SCANTLING LINE, THE - FOX RIVER LINE

SCAPA FLOW - comp by John Junner -- Elsie JOHNSTON (accordion) daughter of Ethel FINDLATER rec by PK, Dounby, Orkney 12/7/55: RPL 22647 - Orkney STRATHSPEY & REEL Society (fids with acc & gtrs) rec by PK, Kirkwall, Orkney 16/7/55: RPL 22723 aft "Mirlands Polka" - ANDERSON Band rec PK, Orphir, Orkney 15/7/55: RPL 22726/ FTX-064/ FTX-255 "As I roved out" radio prog 1956/ FTX-389 - Jim LESLIE (mel) rec by PK, St Ola, Orkney 18/7/55: RPL 22728/ FTX-064/ FTX-363

SCARBOROUGH - THREE SCORE AND TEN

SCARBOROUGH FAIR - ELFIN KNIGHT - MAY DEW

SCARBOROUGH SANDS - SCARBOROUGH BANKS - ROUT IT HAS COME FOR THE BLUES

SCARBOROUGH'S BANKS - "Twas in Scarboro's fair town" - When she learns her truelove has been lost at sea, she asks the waves to wash his body ashore - she hugs and kisses the dead body then dies herself, being buried in Robin Hood's churchyard - LAWS #K-18 ABBB 1957 p149 "Scarboro Sand" (or "The Drowned Sailor") - ROUD#185 - BSs "Stow Brow" ("In SB, in SB a damsel did dwell") - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p40 12var - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #83 - ORD BB 1930 pp332-3 w/o - KIDSON TT 1891 pp112-3 nn, Flamborough, Yorksh "The DS" ("On Stowbrow") - BARING GOULD SOW 1895 #32 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 2 (freely edited) "The Drowned Lover" ("DL")- SHARP ECFS 1908 4 pp162-4 Oxfordsh "The DL" - SHARP Sel Ed 1921 1 pp52-53 "The DL" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #57 James Beale & Mr Jarvis, Bridgwater, Somerset 1905 2v/m/ James Bishop, Priddy, Som 1905/ Wm Pratley, Ascott-under-Wychwood" 1911 1v/m/ James Ridler, Whitby, Yorksh 1912 "The DL" - JFSS 3:4 1909 pp258-9 RVW: Wm Bone, Medstead, Alton, Hampsh 1907/ George Cooper, Southampton, Hampsh 1906 (w/o) "In London Fair City" - KIDSON SNC 1927 "The Drowned Sailor" ("On Stowbrow") notes - PURSLOW CL 1972 p24 Gardiner: Wm Bone- PALMER RVW 1983 #39 pp61-2 Wm Bone 1909 (?) - HOWSON SSIS 1992 p107 Harold Smy, Ipswich, Suffolk (w/o) "Scarborough" - "Veritable Dungheap" article #3 in MT(mustrad) --- BROWN NC 1952 2 p105 & 4 p329 7v/m - CHAPPELL 1939 p70 tv/m (NC) - KARPELES FSNFL 1971 p161 Mrs Bridget Hall, Nfl 1929 "Arbour Town" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 pp722-5 Charlotte Decker/ Mrs Freeman Bennett, Nfl 1958 "Strawberry Tower" --- WARNER TAFS 1984 #151 pp346-7 C K 'Tink' Tillett "S Sand" -- see DROWNED LOVER ("My love is gone") which is probably a parody on this song -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682/ FTX-512 - Jean MATTHEWS rec by Seamus Ennis, Turriff, Aberdeenshh 16/7/52: RPL 18785/ FTX-261 - Harry COX rec by PK, London 1953/ rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 19/7/56: RPL LP 22914/ FTX-033 "Scarboro's Banks"/ rec by Leslie Shepard 10/10/65: TOPIC TSCD 512 (D) 2000 "In Scarborough's Fair Town" - Harry & Ben BAXTER rec by Seamus Ennis, Southrepps, Norfolk Feb 1955: RPL 22019 "Robin Hood Bay" - "Velvet" William BRIGHTWELL (age 91) rec by PK, Leiston, Suffolk 1956: FTX-099 - Annie MARKWELL accomp by her husband, John (mel) rec by PK, Lowestoft, Suffolk 1956: FTX-099 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 7/3/59: RPL LP 26076/ TOPIC 12-T- 244 1974/ TOPIC TSCD-652 1998/ rec by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger (FOLKWAYS FG-3507) "In Scarboro' Town" - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-167 1966 "Stow Brow" - Dave BURLAND: LEADER LER-2082 1972 (from Kidson) - Frank VERRILL rec by Maggie Sands in singer's home, Staithes, Yorks 1988: TOPIC TSCD-662 Sailors "Stowborough Town" --- Tink TILLETT rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Wanchese, NC USA 1940: FTX-926

SCARECROW, THE - comp by Bill Caddick -- June TABOR: TOPIC 12-TS-432 1983

SCARECROWS - WOEFUL SCARECROW

SCARLATTI, Alessandro - GIA IL SOLE DAL GANGE

SCARLET AND THE BLUE, THE - MERRY PLOUGHBOY

SCARLET FLOWER, THE - "She's gentle as the saffron" - ROUD#2677 - BSs WILLIAMS Ms #701 (w/o)

SCARLET RIBBONS - comp by Danzig & Segal -- Joe GORDON: EMI CLP-1379 1960

SCARTAGLEN JIG - MOYLAN 2 #131 p77 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon) -- Denis MURPHY & Julia CLIFFORD (fiddles), Kerry: CLADDAGH CC-5 1973 aft "Padraig O Keefe's"

SCARTAGLEN POLKA - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #263 p136 from Denis Murphy, Co Kerry - CRANITCH p71 (D) - MOYLAN 2 #41 p25 & #110 pp63-4 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon) both learned from John Clifford - SULLIVAN 1 p17 -- CHIEFTAINS 2: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-4 [nd] (M) cass aft "Sweeney's" & "Denis Murphy's" - Sam RICHARDS & Co rec Devon PEOPLE'S STAGE C-45-cass 1978 aft "Maggie in the Wood"

SCARTAGLEN SLIDE, THE - CEOL 5.1 untitled - MOYLAN 2 #85 p48 (G) 12/8 from John O Leary (melodeon) - TROIR 6.5 "Donal O Connor's"

SCATH, AN - (The Boat) - Cornish (RG) -- Brenda WOOTON with Richard GENDALL: SENTINEL SENS-1016 1973

SCATTER THE MUD - Jig (Am) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #23 p10 - MITCHELL #34 p40 4pts from Willie Clancy - MOYLAN 1 #57 from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #967/ DMI #187 -- Felix DORAN (U-pipes) rec by PK, Clones, Co Monaghan 1964: FTX-172 - Jackie McCARTHY (conc) & Tommy KEANE (U-pipes) 1987 RTE radio prog 9/11/88 CASS-60-0899 aft "The fair haired boy"

SCATTERY ISLAND SLIDE, THE - SULLIVAN 2 #40 P16 from John Kelly of Dublin -- John KELLY (double reed conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12- TFRS-504 1975

SCAVENGER BRIGADE, THE - "I courted three girls all at once" - Ch:"Always out on duty, in sunshine or in storm, march in file, Indian style, the SB" - 1st v gives the brigade "a week of women" Monday - Sunday, the 2nd mentions Capt McManus from Clare who "hates the North like poison" always curse and swear - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #490 1v (w/o) - SSSA 1952/26/B13 John Strachan ("It's myself a decent Irish lad arrived from Donegal") -- Bob McCREESH rec by Seamus Ennis, Armagh, Co Armagh 11/8/54: RPL 21838/ FTX-516

SCEILPIN DREINAN, AN - (The Hawthorn Bush) - Irish Gaelic Love Song -- Bartley CONNELLY rec by Alan Lomax, Carna, Co Galway 1951: 7"RTR- 0591 (talk bef & aft)

SCENES OF MANCHESTER, THE - "I sing, where the arts and sciences are flourishing" "Manchester's improving daily" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p62 text: The London Singer's Magazine pp12-13 an original comic song by Mr S Blackshaw ans sung at the theatres/ tune: "The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve"

SCENT WAS GOOD, THE - "as to the wood" Ch:"For 10 miles hence o'er brook and fence, the eager hunters rise" - ROUD#1873 -- Cyril Ford rec by David Bland, Upperthong, Yorksh 1973 : HOLME VALLEY BEAGLES): LEADER LEE-4056 1975

SCEW BALL - SKEWBALL

SCHOFIELD TOWN - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY

SCHOLAR, THE - Hornpipe or Reel (D) - alt: "The Poor Scholar" - ALLAN #41 p10 - GIBLIN #23 p18 (G) Reel - KERR MM 1 #9 p34 - LEVEY 1 #39 p16 - O'NEILL MOI #1640/ DMI #867 - TWEED p17 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #157 p43 (D) - Cf SOUTH SHORE (Hornpipe) -- Frank LEE'S TARA CEILIDH Band: REGAL ZONOPHONE MR-1386 (78 rpm) CASS-0892 aft "Ships are Sailing" - Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec Irish Folklore Commission Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE-002 d/cass 1990 labelled "Hornpipe" - JACKIE HEARST TRIO of Newry Co Down rec Belfast 20/9/52: RPL 18183/ 373 bef "Rakes of Malo" - Joe TUNNEY (mel) rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 19/7/52: RPL 18544 aft "Miss Monaghan" & "Green Mountain" - THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 aft "Sheehan's" & bef "Shaskeen" - Alistair ANDERSON (E-conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-501 1974 aft "Flannel Jacket" - Sean RYAN (whi) of Galway with Alec FINN (bouzouki) of DE DANNAN RTE "Long Note" 9/11/88 CASS-60-0899 bef "London Lasses"

SCHOOL - ADULTS - see also CHILDREN - EDUCATION - TRAVELLING SCHOOLMASTERS - LEACH-PALMER "Folk Music in School" 1978 -- - BLACK AND WHITE - BUILD A BONFIRE - COME TO MY SCHOOL - DINGA DINGA DING - DOWN AT OUR SCHOOL - HOB-NAILED BOOTS WOT FATHER WORE - IN OUR TOWN - JUST IN THE HEIGHT OF HER BLOOM (boarding school lasses) - MAISTIR SCOILE - MONDAY EVENING GO TO SCHOOL - MY WEE SCHOOL - NO MORE ENGLISH - OLD SCHOOLMASTER (Reel) - OUR WEE SCHOOL - ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT - WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL - WHEN I WAS A LADDIE - Children - AT LIVERPOOL THERE IS A SCHOOL - END OF SCHOOL - I PUT MY HAND ON MYSELF - MY TEACHER'S GOT A BUNION - ONE MORE DAY OF WOE - PLAYING TRUANT - SCHOOL DINNER - THERE IS A SCHOOL -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

SCHOOL BOARD MAN, THE - "One morning at half-past eight -" Ch: "Send yor bairns te skeul" - comp by Thomas Armstrong about School Welfare officer's visit - PALMER TOTT 1974 p150 from Topic -- Johnny HANDLE & Tom GILFELLON (acc): TOPIC 12-T-122 1965

SCHOOL DAYS - comp by JH (Pandrich) about his own experiences & memories -- Johnny HANDLE: TOPIC 12-TS-270 1975

SCHOOL DAYS OVER - comp by Ewan McColl for Radio Ballad, "The Big Hewer" - boy in a mining village accepting the inevitable symbol of manhood -- Ray & Archie FISHER (voc/gtr): TOPIC 12-T- 137 1966

SCHOOL DINNERS -- FTX-198 & FTX-289 #5 "snakes eyes - frogspawn- rock of Gibraltars - doshwater- yum yum pick your bum - green snot pie - dead dog's giblets - dead cats eyes - cup of sick to wash it down" - children rec by Sam Richards: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 "concrete chips - semolina - get well quick - ach" (tune of "Frere Jacque"

SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY, THE - YSGOL YN Y WLAD

SCHOOLMASTERS - BRAES OF TURRA - MAISTER SCOILE

SCHOOL YARD SONG - comp by HO -- Harry OGDEN (voc/ gtr & fid): TOPIC 12-T-204 1970

SCHOONER ANNIE, THE - "Young and bold I pray make bold and listen to my tale" - ROUD#3227 - LIVYERE 2:1 Aug-Oct 1982 pp15-16 Kenneth Goldstein: Dorman Ralph, St Johns, Nfl - LIVYERE June 1983 pp10-11 Kenneth Goldstein & Aidan O Hara: Carrie Brennan, Dunville, Nfl "The Schooner Huberry"

SCHOONER PERSIAN'S CREW, THE - PERSIAN'S CREW

SCHOTTISCHES - In Ireland often known as "Germans" - see also BARN DANCE - ONE STEPS - STRATHSPEYS -- KERR MM 1 #34 & #35 p46 (D) "German Schottische" (with "Home Sweet Home" - MM 3 #443 p51 (D) - RAVEN p155 Fred Pigeon's & p156 William Kimber -- BELLMAN - BIDDY BARRY - BROOK STREET POLKA - CASTLES IN THE AIR - DOUBLE - HALF STEP - HAZEL DELL- IDEAL - ITALIAN - JERSEY - KITTY COME - MOONLIGHT - MUDGEE - NEWCASTLE - OLD TIMES - PLAIN -SAMMY'S - SEVEN STEPS - SUMMER FLOWER - THISTLE - UNCLE JIM'S - WOODLAND FLOWERS -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

SCHOTTISCHE HORNPIPE -- Bob CANN (mel) rec by PK, South Zeal, Devon 26/5/52: RPL 17795/ RPL 19591 aft "Uncle George's" (Cliff) & bef "Tommy Roberts"/ rec by Tony Engle, S Tawton, Devon: TOPIC 12- TS-275 1975 with "Cokey Hornpipe"

SCHUYLKILL - BANKS OF THE SCHUYLKILL

SCILLY ISLES, THE - CORNWALL - ROCKS OF SCILLY - WRECK OF DELAWARE - WRECK OFF SCILLY - Bill CAMERON - Clifford JENKINS - Vic TRENWITH - Peter Kennedy was freezing cold in Penzance, bought fisherman's sweater in Newlyn but contrast of warm sun in Scilly - went there in 7-seater "Rapide" biplane - there were Spanish fishing vessels in the harbour at the time -- THE YETTIES ARGO ZFB-32 1971 "Lamorna" - Bill CAMERON, Clifford JENKINS (with accordion) Vic TRENWITH (guide with song of seals): 217 - RTR-0851/ 1018-9 - Selection by PK for a talk he gave to The Cornish Society in Bath Nov 1985: CASS-0624-C60

SCILLY ROCKS - ROCKS OF SCILLY

SCISSORS BILL - Union ("Wobly") Song by Joe Hill - McCOLL/ SEEGER Ben Bright p23

SCOLDING WIFE, THE - "I married with a SW about 20 years ago" - ROUD#2381 - Bs "The Fire Shovel"- JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp70-71 2v/m - JFSS 5 1916 p114 James B Duncan: Mrs Mathieson, Torphins, Aberdeensh "The Scaudin' Wife" 1v/m - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p103 from Grieg FSNE - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #214 pp470-471 Bill Westaway, Belstone, Devon 1950 --- Carrie P GROVER A Heritage of Songs p192 (photo-copy in file) 5v similar to Westaway -- Bill WESTAWAY rec by PK, Belstone, Devon 1950: 7T-0012-3/ FTX-019 & FTX-241 - Charlie WILLS rec by PK, Bridport, Dorset 1959 (frag only)

SCOLDING WIFE, THE - "Some men they do delight in hounds" - ROUD#3295 - GARDINER FSFH 1909 pp (?)

SCOLDING WIFE, THE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #178 p42 (G)- LEVEY 2 #4 p2 (G) - O'NEILL MOI #1430/ DMI #667 (##G) alt: "The Last Word" - PETRIE AMOI 1855 1 p188

SCOLDING WIVES - DUMB MAID - FARMER'S CURST WIFE - PENSIONER'S COMPLAINT - POOR MAN'S LABOUR - TURN THE MANGLE - WEEK'S WORK WELL DONE

SCOLLAY'S REEL -- J SCOLLAY (fid) & P SCOLLAY (gtr) rec by Pat Shaw, Shetland 1952: FTX-068

SCOOTERS - BOOTSY HAD A LITTLE BOY - WE THREE KINGS

SCORNFUL DAME, THE - COME WRITE ME DOWN YE POWERS ABOVE

SCORNFUL NANCY - RAMBLING BEAUTY

SCORTON SILVER ARROW - or THE BOWMEN OF YORKSHIRE - comp by GM -- Graeme MILES: FTX-227 #11

SCOTCH AIR - (by HOOK) - Tunebook Ms #179 p244 (D) 4/4

SCOTCH AND MALTESE AIR - Jig - Tunebook Ms #49 p19 (D)

SCOTCH CAP, THE -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 bef "Scotland"

SCOTCH CONTENTION - WILSON (with dance descr) p45

SCOTCH HORNPIPE, THE - (D) - COLE #8 p86 - KERR MM 2 #343 p38

SCOTCH HORNPIPE, A - GIBLIN #54 p28 (G) & #55 p29 (C & A) - Tunebook Ms #111 p394 (D)

SCOTCH JENNY - FLAX IN BLOOM

SCOTCH LADDIE, THE - BONNET SO BLUE

SCOTCH LASSIE-O - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #179 p42 (D) - Tunebook Ms #179 p328 (D)

SCOTCH MARY - Reel (Am) - alt: KNOCKNAGOW - FELDMAN p168 3pts (Em/Bm) - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 #55 p16/ 1994 #55 p16 (Am) - Tunebook Ms R67 p292 (Am) - MITCHELL & SMALL #9 p47 from Patsy Tuohey (U-pipes) - MOYLAN ! #18 from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes) - O NEILL MOI #1510/ DMI #729 alt: "My love is far away" - ROCHE 1 #175 p68 (Dm) "Scotch Sally" -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by Seamus McMathuna, Co Donegal COMHALTAS CEOLTAIRI EIREANN CL-10 1974 titled "Baile na Finne"

SCOTCH MUSICK, THE - Polka -- Absie MORRISON rec by Alan Lomax, Landis, Ark., Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1707 1997

SCOTCH POLKA -- Fred PIDGEON (fid), rec by PK, Stockland, Devon 1951: FTX-087

SCOTCH QUICKSTEP - Tunebook Ms #178 p425 (D) 2/4

SCOTCH REEL - Tunebook Ms #168 p419 2/4 (G)

SCOTCH SALLY - SCOTCH MARY (Reel)

SCOTCH SANDY - Tunebook Ms 047 p353 (G) 2/4 - SANDY IS MY DARLING

SCOTCHMAN IN AMERICA, THE - Highland (G) - KERR MM 2 #215 p24

SCOTCHMAN MARRIED TO AN ENGLISH WIFE, THE - I'M MARRIED TO AN ENGLISH WIFE

SCOTCHMAN'S BONNET, THE - Highland/ Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #180 p42 (#D) - Tunebook Ms #43 p281

SCOTS LANGUAGE - CHILDREN'S GAMES - GAELIC - LOWLANDS -- Children - BEE BAW BABBITY - HARRY LAUDER - I'M GAUN AWAY IN THE TRAIN - I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING - ROBERT BURNS

SCOTLAND - ABERDEEN - ANGUS - ARGYLL - AYR - BANFF - BERWICK - BUTE - CAITHNESS - CLACKMANNAN - DUMFRIES - DUNBARTON - DUNDEE - EAST LOTHIAN - EDINBURGH - FIFE - GLASGOW - HEBRIDES - INVERNESS - KINCARDINE - KINROSS - KIRKCUDBRIGHT - LANARK - MID-LOTHIAN - MORAY - NAIRN - ORKNEY - PEEBLES - PERTH - RENFREW - ROSS & CROMARTY - ROXBURGH - SELKIRK - SHETLAND - STIRLING - SUTHERLAND - WEST LOTHIAN - WIGTON - Performers - Jim CAMERON - May CAMERON - CLUTHA - CORRIES - Barbara DICKSON - Archie FISHER - Dick GAUGHAN - Alasdair GILLIES - Joe GORDON - Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR - HONEYNAN'S BAND - Tom HUGHES - Hamish IMLACH - Annie & Calum JOHNSTON - Chrissie LEATHAM - Jimmy McBEATH - John McDONALD - Jim McHARDY - Flora McNEIL - John MEARNS - Jean REDPATH - Adam RENNIE'S SCD BAND - Calum RUAGH - Jeannie ROBERTSON - Willie ROSS - Willie SCOTT - Belle, Cathie & Sheila STEWART - Davie STEWART - Lucy STEWART - John STRACHAN - Isabel SUTHERLAND - - Children - AWAY UP IN SCOTLAND - BEE BAW BABBITY - HARR LAUDER - I'M GOING AWAY ON THE TRAIN - I'M A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL - I'VE A LADDIE IN AMERICA - I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING - I LOST MY LOVE IN THE CAIRNIE - I WAS ON MY WAY TO SCOTLAND - JEANNIE BEARDY - MY FATHER BOUGHT A NEW TOPCOAT - MY WEE JEANNIE - MY WEE SHOE - PORRIDGE - ROBERT BURNS WAS BORN IN AYR - TEACHER TEACHER LET ME IN - WE ARE THREE WEE GALLUS GIRLS - YOU CANNOT SHOVE YOUR GRANNY OFF A BUS --- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SCOTLAND - Love Songs - BLEACHER LASSIE - BONNY JENNY SHAW - BONNY UDNY - BONNY WEE LASSIE - BONNY WOODS O' HATTON - BONNY YTHANSIDE - BRAES )' STRATHBLANE - BUNDLE AND GO - BURNS AND HIS HIGHLAND MARY - CAROLINE FROM EDINBURGH - CORNCRAKE - DAINTY DAVIE - DOWN BY THE MAGDALEN GREEN - EPPIE MORRIE - FORGLEN - GALLOWA HILLS - KELLYBURN BRAE - KISSIN'S NAE SIN - LASSIE GATHERING NUTS - LET ME IN THIS AE NIGHT - LICHT BOB'S LASSIE - LOGAN'S BRIGHT WATER - MILL, MILL-O - MORMOND BRAES - O GIN MY LOVE - PLANTINS O' LOCHIFORD - PRIDE OF GLENCOE - PRINCE CHARLIE STUART - ROAD AND MILES TO DUNDEE - SPINNING WHEEL -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SCOTLAND IS MY AIN HAME - HIGHLAND WEDDING

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE - Song words by Hanley/ McClurg -- Kenneth McKellar arr Bob Sharples: DECCA DFE-6575 (45EP) 1959

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE - Instrum Pipe March - ANON 1972 Song of Scotland p21 piano arr of melody - BRODY p252 (G) discog -- Jimmy SHAND (mel with piano & drums): FTX-361 - Ian BURNETT (acc) rec by Seamus Ennis, Aberdeensh 12/7/52: RPL 18780 - Bob KEIGHTLY (fid) Scan TESTER (conc) Jack NORRIS & Reg HALL (conc) Bill Mc MAHON (spoons & effects) & Mervyn PLUNKETT (percussion) rec by Mervyn Plunkett, West Hoathly, Sussex 11/5/61: TOPIC 12-T- 455-6 1990 with "Happy Wanderer" - Donald (whistle) & Isaac (harmonica) HIGGINS: TOPIC 12-T-179 1968 - The Jim CAMPBELL BAND "Songs for dancing": MILLER MER 356 1972

SCOTS, (COME) OVER THE BORDER - Jig - OVER THE BORDER

SCOTS FARMLIFE - BOTHY BALLADS

SCOTS PASTORAL - FLOWER OF SCOTLAND (Roy Williamson) - ROLLING HILLS OF THE BORDERS (McGinn)

SCOTS WHA HAE - "wi Wallace bled" or BANNOCKBURN - Robert Burns Song - Bss -- Hamish HENDERSON leads chorus at Edinburgh Ceili rec by Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0680 - Robin HALL (with gtr): COLLECTOR JES-3 1959 (45-EP) - Nigel DENVER: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-1 1967 Scots Nationalist Version arr Jim Mc Lean - CORRIES: EMI SCX-6511 1972

SCOTS WHA HAE - Reel/ Highland - KERR MM 3 #202 p24 (##A) - Tunebook Ms #053 p188 Highland "Scots we ha, We Wallace Bled" (Am) & #169 p325 (D) 2/4 Air

SCOTT SKINNER, John - Aberdeensh fiddler-composer\ 1905-10 - Alistair ANDERSON - Angus GRANT - George HARVEY WEBB - Hector Mc ANDREW - Willie Macpherson -- BRIDE'S REEL - BUNGALOW - DAVID ADAMS - DEVIL AND THE DIRK - DUNCAN ON THE PLAINSTONES - FORBES MORRISON - IRON MAN - J SCOTT SKINNER - LAIRD O DRUMBLAIR - LORD HUNTLEY'S CAVE - MARQUIS O TULLYBARDINE - ,SANDY GRANT - SPEY IN SPATE -- TOPIC 12-TS-268 1975 from REGAL & RENA discs (on some tracks he used a "Stroh" fiddle) piano accomp: Laird o Drumblair/ Baker Reel/ Will ye no come back again/ Freebooter (Is your war pipe asleep?/ McPherson's Rant/ Tullochgorum & var/ East Neuk of Fife & var/ Birlin Reels/ McKenzie razer/ Fairy Dance/ German Schottische/ Goodbye Gramin/ S:Johnny Steele/ R:James Hardie/ Maggie Cameron/ Athole Brose/ Devil in the Kitchen/ HS:Forbes Morrison/ Sean Trews/ Whistle o'er the lave o't/ Wha widna fecht for Charlie? On same LP Bill HARDIE plays Scott Skinner compositions accomp by his son, Alasdair on piano/ Bill HARDIE playing Scott-Skinner "Stroh" fid rec Tom Anderson CASS-0436 - Willie Macpherson (fid) rec 21/5/59: RPL LP 24770 - Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fiddles) with piano: TOPIC 12-TS-281 - Alistair ANDERSON (N- pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-371

SCOTT SKINNER - WALTZES -- Geof PURVIS (fid) & Alan Coulson (acc) Northumb: TOPIC 12-TS-267 1975 "Our Highland Queen" & "Piper's Wait"

SCOTT'S LAMENTATION FOR BARON LOUGHMORE - John & Harry Scott -- Mary ROWLAND (voc/ harp) rec 13/7/60: RPL LP 25995

SCOTTISH M P, THE - Scots Nationalist Song (Jim Mc Lean) -- Nigel DENVER: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-1 1967

SCOTTISH POETS - Story -- Jimmy Mc BEATH rec by Alan Lomax 1953: 060

SCRANKY BLACK FARMER, THE - "Up from the low country my course I did steer - to the parish o' Kinnethmont" - Alt title: "At the Tap o' the Garrioch" - in the lands of Leith-hall" - ROUD#2872 - RYMOUR Club 1906 1 pp23-4 Gavin Greig- GREIG-DUNCAN 1 #357 - see SLEEPY TOON

SCRAP METAL MAN NAMED DAVIE, THE - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974: FTX-045

SCRAPERS - -- Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing

SCRAPING UP SAND IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - LIZA JANE

SCUDDIN' THROUGH THE WHINS - Reel - learned from an old fiddler, Stewart Martin -- John REA (ham dulc): TOPIC 12-TS-373 1979

SCULLY CASEY'S JIG - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #38 p19 (Dm) from Bobby Casey (fid) Co Clare

SCYTHING - PUTTING OUT TO SEA (Hebridean) -- Mary McNeil: FTX-191

 
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