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'SE FA MO MHIUGHRACH - (The Cause of my Sorrow) -- Francis (U- pipes) & James (harp) Mc PEAKE FAMILY TRIO of Belfast rec by PK, London 1961: 071

'SE FATH MO BHADHARTHA - (The Cause of my Sorrow) Song -- Una DOUGLAS of Derry rec by PK, Belfast 3/8/52: RPL 18341/ 434

'SE FATH MO BHADHARTHA - (The Cause of my Sorrow) Slow Air - CHIEFTAINS 1: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-3 [nd] bef jig: "Lark on the Strand"

'SE MO BHEACHD ORT A BHAIS -- Christie CAMPBELL acc by A K Morrison (piano) rec by Seamuis Ennis, Sutherland 29/7/55: RPL LP 23995

SE OAKUM MO PHRIOSUN - Song in Irish Gaelic - BREATHNACH FMDI 1971 p135 4v & music sung by Sean ac Donncha of Carna rec in studio in Dublin

SEA -see also SHANTIES - STORM & SHIPWRECK - A-ROVING - ADIEU SWEET LOVELY NANCY - ADMIRAL BENBOW - ALPHABET - ANDREW ROSS - APPRENTICE LAD - BAY OF BISCAY-O - BOSTON HARBOUR - CAMPANERO - CANDLELIGHT FISHERMAN - CAN'T YOU DANCE THE POLKA - CAPTAIN COLSTON - CAPTAIN KIDD - CAPTAIN NIPPER - CAPTAIN ON THE SEA - CAPTAIN'S APPRENTICE - CAPTAIN'S BALL - COME LOOSE EVERY SAIL - CRABFISH - CROCODILE - CRUEL SHIP'S CARPENTER - CRUISING ROUND YARMOUTH - CRUISE OF THE CALABAR - CUMBERLAND AND THE MERRIMAC - CUMBERLAND CREW - DARK-EYED SAILOR - DOLPHIN - DRUNKEN SAILOR - FAREWELL TO STROMNESS - FEMALE CABIN BOY - FEMALE WARRIOR - FIDDLER'S GREEN (Connolly) - FITTING OUT - FLASH FRIGATE - GO TO SEA NO MORE - GOOD SHIP VENUS - GOSPORT NANCY - GRACE DARLING - GREAT BIG SEA - GREEN BEDS - GREENLAND WHALEFISHERY - HEARTS OF GOLD - HEARTS OF OAK - HER BRIGHT SMILE HAUNTS ME - HOME, DEAR HOME - HENRY MARTIN - HERE'S TO THE GROG - HERRING SONG - HIGH BARBAREE - I'LL GO AND ENLIST - INDIAN LASS - JACK THE SAILOR - JACK TAR ON SHORE - JAMESTOWN HOMEWARD BOUND (USA Liverpool mentioned) - JARVIS BAY - JOHNNY TODD - JOLLY ROVING TAR - KANGAROO - LAKES OF PONTCHARTRAIN - LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL - LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE - LIGHT IN THE WINDOW - LITTLE BILLY - LIVERPOOL LOU (Dominic Behan) - LOWER THE FUNNEL - LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND - MAGGIE MAY - MAINSAIL HAUL - MAN AT THE NORE - MARY ANN McHUGH (Percy French) - MERMAID - MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN - NANCY FROM YARMOUTH - OGGY SONG - ON BOARD OF THE KANGAROO - PADDY LAY BACK - PAUL JONES - POLLY ON THE SHORE - POOR ANXIOUS WOMAN - POOR LITTLE SMUGGLER'S BOY - PULL THE STRING - QUAKER - RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY - ROSEMARY LANE - SAILOR CUT DOWN - SAMMY'S BAR (Tawney) - SCARBOROUGH BANKS - SHANNON SIDE - SHIP IN DISTRESS - SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED - SHIP TO OLD ENGLAND CAME - SHOALS OF HERRING (McColl) - SHOTLEY STEW - SILVERY TIDE - SOLDIER AND SAILOR - SPANISH LADIES - STILL I LOVE HIM - STORMY WEATHER, BOYS - SWEET WILLIAM - TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY - TOM BOWLING - TOPSAIL SHIVERS IN THE WIND - TRADER - UNFORTUNATE RAKE - WAITING FOR THE DAY - WHEN I AM ON THE SEA SAILING - WILL WATCH - WILLIAM TAYLOR - YOUGHAL HARBOUR - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR - Instrumental - ATLANTIC ROAR - BOLD PRINCESS ROYAL - BATTLE OF NILE - CAPTAIN BYNG --HURRICANE - I'LL GO AND ENLIST - LADY BEHIND THE BOAT - MY LOVE IS ON THE OCEAN - NELSON & VICTORY - SAILOR'S BONNET - SAILOR'S TRIP TO LIVERPOOL - SCAPA FLOW- SHIPS ARE SAILING - STORMY WEATHER -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

SEA, THE - "The sea, the sea, the open sea" - ROUD2019 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 ships log 1847 (w/o)

SEA AROUND US, THE -- THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL- 869 1967

SEA CAPTAIN, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1674/ DMI #882 (D) alt: "Young lads prepared for marriage"

SEA CAPTAIN AND THE SQUIRE, THE - "It's of a SC who was married of late" - while her husband was away at sea a neighbouring squire calls on her with his entourage: a cook, coachman, housemaid, footman and butler, who sleeps in the garret with her - when her husband returns 9 months later, he notices her condition and calls a doctor when she complains of sickness - that night both the maids and she herself all give birth - her husband forgives her "for the jokes sake", so she tells him about the squire and explains that it was his servants that got the maids with child - LAWS Q-12 BBBA 1957 p278-9 - ROUD#947 - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 #194 pp16-17 Capt Lewis, Minehead, Somerset 1905/ Eliza Small, Langport, Som 1908 (m/o) - REEVES IP 1958 pp191-2 Sharp: Capt Lewis --- COMBS Midi 1925 p159 13v (W Va)

SEA CAPTAINS - CAPTAIN GLEN - CAPTAIN ON THE SEA - MAID ON THE SHORE - PERJURED MAID - TWO LOYAL LOVERS

SEA CHEST, THE - FITTING OUT

SEA COAL MAN, THE - comp by GM 1957 based on the street call of coal-seller who collects the coal washed up along the seashore -- Graeme MILES (voc/banjo), Middlesbrough: FTX-225

SEA CRAB - CRABFISH

SEA INVOCATION - GEAY JEH'N AER

SEA LION WOMAN - LYING WOMAN

SEA LONGING - "An Ionndrainn-Mhara" - "Sore sea longing in my heart" - KENNEDY-FRASER 1917 SOTH vol 2 pp225-9 Air coll by Marjory & Patuffa K-F from Anne Monk, Benbecula, Hebrides with word frag adapt & transl by Kenneth McLeod -- Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: 1398-C60/ FTX-264

SEA MARTYRS, THE -- Terry YARNELL, John FAULKNER & Dick SNELL CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-138 1971

SEA RAN HIGH, THE - "The wind blew hard and the SRH" - ROUD#2027 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp81-2 ships log 1833 (w/o)

SEA-REIVER'S SONG - HEBRIDEAN SEA-REIVER'S SONG

SEA, SEA, SEA - "O why are you worrying me - ever since I left Dover I felt the boat would go over - if I once reach the shore I'll say au revoir to the" -- Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

SEA SERPENT, THE - CROCODILE

SEA SORROW - "Am Bron Mara" - "Beul a mhire" - "Mouth of gladness"- KENNEDY-FRASER: 1907 SOTH vol 1 pp114-117 Air from Mary McDonald, Mingulay, Hebrides -- Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: 1398-C60/ FTX-264

SEA WEED - SPREADING THE SEA-WRACK

SEA WIDOWHOOD -"Bantrachas-cuain" - KENNEDY-FRASER: 1907 SOTH vol 1 pp114-117 sung to the same tune as SEA SORROW

SEACHRAN CHARN tSIAIL - (The Rake of Carnteel) "Ar mo tharraingt siar go Carn tSiail dom" - O CONNOR: SONGS OF THE NORTH OF IRELAND 1994 Ms p106

SEAGULL, THE - comp by GM 1966 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-223

SEAGULL OF THE LAND-UNDER-WAVES, THE - "Faoileag tire-fo-thuinn" - KENNEDY-FRASER: SOT Hebrides vol 1 pp84-7 (4v) Old Skye Air from Frances Tolmie with words by Kenneth McLeod -- Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: 1398-C60/ FTX-264

SEAGULL, SEAGULL - "take a message for me" -- Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626

SEAGULLS -- Story - Jossy "Pop" MAINPRIZE & Robert LENG rec by Jim Eldon 1982-8 of Flamborough Fishermen, E Yorks Gypsies & Ben JARVIS, Pocklington cobbler SD-005 1988 CASS-0992

SEAGULLS CRY - Hebridean - Engl transl from Scots Gaelic - Jilted man goes to sea finds himself always looking for a better land -- Dave STYLES with ZIGGURAT rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1974: FTX-090 - Derek Moffat with McCALMANS (featuring whistle) rec Concert Hall Radio 2: rec 31/3/80: CASS-0418 - SILEAS (2 harps) played as a reel Radio 2: 6/6/90 CASS-0882-C60

SEAL, THE -- Instrum - DAMBUSTER DAM-006/ CASS-0350

SEALLAIBH CURAIGH EOGHAINN - (Look at Ewen's coracle) - Scots Mouth Music -- Mrs Annie ARNOTT rec School of Scottish Studies Hebrides: TANGENT TNGM-110 1971

SEALS - GREAT SILKIE - NEWFOUNDLAND SEALING SONG - SONG OF THE SEALS

SEAMAN AND HIS LOVE, A - WELCOME SAILOR

SEAMAN FINE - BON MARAIN

SEAMEN BOLD - SHIP IN DISTRESS

SEAMAN OF DOVER, THE - "A Seaman of Dover with excellent art" - squire's daughter from Kent - ROUD#2812 - BELL BSPE pp84-5 Bs (w/o) "The Beautiful Lady of Kent" --- THOMPSON PS 1939 pp37-43 Stevens-Douglas Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o) "Henry and Ruth"

SEAMEN'S ALPHABET, THE - ALPHABET SONG

SEAMEN'S CLUB, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1768/ DMI #934 (G)

SEAMAN'S DISTRESS, THE - MERMAID

SEAMUS MAC MURCHAIDH - (James McMurrough) - Irish Gaelic - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #44 - Liam O Connor's Draft Ms "Songs of the North of Ireland" 1994 p149 (Seamus McMurphy) -- Eamonn DOOGAN rec by Noel Hamilton, Baile Thiar (Torre Island), Co Donegal 1967: FTX-003

SEAMUS MEEHAN'S - Reel - TWEED p33 (Bm)

SEAMUS O BEIRN'S HIGHLAND -- James BYRNE (fid) Donegal: CLADDAGH 4-CC44 1987 cass

SEAMUS O CONNOR'S SONG - ORAN SHEAMUIS UI CHROCHUIR

SEAN BAWN'S FANCY - Song Air or Waltz - Tunebook Ms #70 p196 (D) 3/4

SEAN BRISTE MOR, AN - (The Old Trousers) - Song in Donegal Gaelic -- Conal O DONNELL of Co Donegal rec by PK, London 1967: Radio Prog 2/11/68 (with translation over his own singing): FTX-276

SEAN BUI - OVER THE WATER TO CHARLIE

SEAN DROCHAID - Reel -- Angus GRANT (H-fid) (unacc): TOPIC 12-TS-347 1978 aft Gaelic Air: Iain Ghlinn Cuaich"

SEAN DUINE CHA GHABH MI IDIR - (An Old Man's not for me at all) - Scots Gaelic - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #23 - Cf SCOTTISH STUDIES 1960 p34 "Bodachan cha phos mi" - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN -- Flora McNEIL Barra 1967: FTX-001

SEAN DUINE CHA PHOS MI - Scots Gaelic Waulking Song -- Morag Mc LARTY & children rec Greenock, Renfrewsh 4/6/63: RPL LP 29714

SEAN DUINE DOIGHTE, AN - (The Burnt-out Old Fellow or The Cuckold Old Man) - Irish Gaelic - AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS 26/9/08 - AN t-ULTACH July 1928 - AN AGHAIDH Sept 1936 - O SULLIVAN 1960 p74 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #45 O Donnell - O Neill in his preface to "The Music of Ireland" says it is the source of the Scots "Campbells are Coming" and "Mrs McLeod's Reel", but Sheila Gallagher's is a somewhat different tune, chorus and some words of verses -- Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20145/ FTX-271 - Conal O DONNELL rec by PK, Glenties, Co Donegal 12/8/53: RPL 20151/ FTX-003 - SEAN O DOIGHTE (The Cuckold Old Man) sung by Conal O Donnell with Peter Kennedy & Noel Hamilton in chorus in radio prog about Co Donegal 1968: FTX-276 - O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60 - Micho RUSSELL: FREE REED FRR-004 1976 - Bridgit FITZGERALD rec USA: ELLIPSIS CD 4070 1997

SEAN FRANK - SPORTING PADDY (Reel)

SEAN KEANE'S - Reel -- PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-186 1973 (S)

SEAN KEANE'S POLKA - MOYLAN 1 #40 (Am)

SEAN LIBH - "Fare you well (or Safety to you) - comp by Dominic's uncle, Peadar Kearney -- Dominic BEHAN (acc): TOPIC 12-T-44 1958

SEAN MAGUIRE - Reel - comp by Bert Murray and named after the Irish fiddler/ whistler from Co Cavan living in Belfast -- Willie HUNTER (fid) & Wiilie JOHNSON (gtr) of Lerwick Shetland rec London 14/10/58: RPL LP 24378 aft "Laird o Drumblair"

SEAN Mc DONAGH - SEAN PHAIDIN

SEAN McGOVERN'S POLKA - CRANITCH p67 (D)

SEAN O DIGHE -- Sean O SE with Sean O RIADA with CEOLTOIRI CHUALANN: GAEL-LINN 015 1967

SEAN O DUIBHIR A 'GHLEANNA - (John O Dwyer of the Glen) - Song & Set Dance - comp by Canon Sheehan who fought against his cousin, Edmund and Cromwell during war 1649-52 - tune is reminiscent of OUR WEDDING DAY - Tunebook Ms #39 pp182-3 (Bm) 4pts 3/4 - ROCHE 1 #69 p33 (Am) 3/4 & ROCHE 3 #190 p67 4/4 (!st Strain 6 and 2nd Strain 12 bars) -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) of Co Clare rec 1958-73: CLADDAGH 4-CC-39 1980 CASS-0816 given as "Set Dance" - THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 used as a waltz - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-T-153 1966 - John LYONS: TOPIC 12-TS-248 1974 -- Seamus ENNIS (Song & Air on U-pipes): rec 1948: RTE-CD-199 1997

SEAN O DWYER - Set Dance -- Thady CASEY (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, Clare 1960: RPL LP 29885

SEAN O NEIL'S - March -- Sean MAGUIRE (fid) & Francis McPEAKE (U- pipes) rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0544/ RPL 18382 bef "Roddy Mc Corley"

SEAN PHAIDIN - (Sean Mc Donagh) -- PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-186 1973

SEAN REID'S FANCY - Reel (G) - CRANITCH #76 p154 - MITCHELL #15 p29 (G) from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) with Bobby CASEY (fid) of Clare rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-173 - Willie CLANCY (U-pipes): CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980 CASS- 0815 aft "West Wind"

SEAN RYAN'S - RYAN'S

SEAN SA BRISTE LEATHAIR - (John & his leather breeches) -- Mary O HARA (voc/ harp): DECCA GES-1095 1973

SEAN SA CHEO - (John in the mist) - Pipe tune -- Neil BOYLE (fid) rec by PK, Dunloe, Co Donegal 23/8/53: RPL 20015/ FTX-170 - Bobby CASEY (fid) of Co Clare, rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-173 - Micho RUSSELL (whistle), Doolin, Co Clare: FREE REED FR-004/ rec by Edward Harber & Bill Ochs PWCD 80001 1995/ FTX-155 bef "The Boy in the Gap"

SEAN SOUTH OF GARRYOWBN - King/ Costello with Behan's own words to tune of "The Braes of Yarrow" -- Dominic BEHAN: TOPIC 12-T- 44 1958 - McPEAKES: FONTANA STL-5433 1967 - THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-869 1967

SEAN TRACY - Irish fredom fighter born Tipperary who was killed in Talbot St Dublin - many songs about him -- Dominic BEHAN: TOPIC 12-T-44 1958

SEAN (TRIUBHS) TREWS - Reel - WILSON p59 4pts (Dm) "Shon Truish Willichan" (There is a note added about the name being confounded with CHANT RUSSE) - see WHISTLE O'ER THE LAVE O'T - WHO WIDNA FECHT FOR CHARLIE? -- (H-pipes) Cape Breton Island, NS: ELEKTRA EKL-23 1954-5

SEARCHING FOR LAMBS - "As I walked out one May morning" - ROUD#576 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 4 pp50-51 Mrs Sweet - Sel Ed 1921 1 pp74-5 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #94 1 p373 Mrs Sweet, Somerton, Som 1907/ James Bishop, Priddy, Som 1905/ Mrs Bray, Langport, Som 1904/ Mrs Susan Williams, Haselbury Plucknett, Som 1906 - JFSS 34 p215 Hammond Dorset - HENRY SOP #548 "One morning clear" 5v to tune: "The Winding Banks of Erne" - REEVES IP 1958 pp192-3 James Bishop (w/o) -- Bungay Primary School rec 25/11/59: RPL LP 25951 - GARRET SINGERS: ARGO ZFB-7 1970 - Tony ROSE: LEADER LER-2024 1971 (from Sharp) - Chris & Janet RIDLEY (accomp): HURLER HURLS-008 1972 (45 EP) (sung to own tune on 2 notes with sheep sounds & bells)'/ "Sounds like North Cornwall": SENTINEL SENS-1011 1972 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-87 1973 (from Sharp) - Roger NICHOLSON (A-dulc), Jake WALTON (hurdy-gurdy/ gtr/ percussion) & Andrew CRONSHAW (ch-harp/ whistle/ flute): LEADER LER-2094 1976 Instr arr

SEARCHING FOR YOUNG LAMBS - "As Young Johnny walked out one midsummer morn - and where did he hide himself only under a thorn" - Johnny tells a young shepherdess where to find her lost lambs - she goes to look and he follows after with "a long and wishing eye" - while the lambs sport he makes love to her - they get married with the resolve to combine their flocks - LAWS #O-9 ABBB 1957 p230 "Branded Lambs" - ROUD#1437 - D'URFEY 1698-1720 4 p136 "The Northumberland Bagpipe" - Printed 1750 in "Six English Songs" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #966 p90 4v w/o "The Strayed Lamb" - BARING GOULD SOW 1895 #11 "As Johnny walked out" (a) James Parsons SBG 1888 (b) old man at Widecombe (T S Cayzer) (c) 3v sent by old lady in Exmouth - SHARP Ms & Cf 1 p109 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #99 1 pp390-2 Wm Nott, Meshaw, Devon 1904/ John Edbrook, Bishop's Nympton, Devon 1904 1v/m - JOYCE OIFM 1909 pp180-1 Limerick 4v/m - REEVES IP 1958 p148 Sharp: William Nott, Meshaw, Devon 1904 (w/o) - STUBBS LOM 1970 p63 George Maynard 1961 "S for L" - COPPER S&SB 1973 pp252-3 George Fosbury, Axford, Hampshire "Young Johnny" 3v - PURSLOW FD 1974 p2 Hammond: Mrs Gulliver, Combe Florey, Somerset 1905 "As Johnny was walking" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #134 pp310-311 George Spicer, Copthorne, Sussex 1956 "The Long and Wishing Eye" (collated text) --- CREIGHTON-SENIOR NS 1950 p133 6v/m -- Edwin THOMAS rec by PK, Allerford, Somerset 3/5/52: RPL 17782/ FTX-405 - George SPICER rec by PK, Copthorne, Sussex 4/2/56: RPL LP 23093/ FTX-013 (vs 1-3 only) "The Long and Wishing Eye"/ rec by Mike Yates, Selsfield, Sussex: TOPIC 12-T-235 1974 - Bob COPPER (unacc) from George Fosbury: TOPIC 12-TS-328/ CASS-0198/ FTX-239 "Young Johnnie" - CASS-0330 Nobby Clark rec by Michael Feist, Swimbridge, Devon 1974 (see letter file)

SEASICKNESS - SEA, SEA, SEA

SEASIDE - I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE

SEASONAL - ALL JOLLY FELLOWS - CHRISTMAS - COB COALING - GLEE SONGS - MAY SONGS - MONTHS OF THE YEAR - NEW YEAR - PACE-EGGING - PANCAKE SONG - PLOUGHBOY'S PRAISE - SALUTE TO THE TREES - St CLEMENT'S DAY - SEASONS - SHROVE TUESDAY - SOULING - SPRING GLEE - THRESHING TIME - WASSAIL - WE ARE A' St MARY'S MEN - WREN HUNTING

SEASONS - FOUR SEASONS - SEASONS OF THE YEAR - SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER (K) - THIS COUNTRY OF MINE (Russco)

SEASONS, THE - "The hills are clad in purple - dreaming of sunshine - merry laughing summer - autumn with gentle eyes of twilight - stole my heart away" - Scots Pastoral Song -- Lizzie HIGGINS (daughter of Jeannie Robertson) Aberdeen: TOPIC 12-T-185 1969

SEASONS, THE - "Come all you lads and lasses I'd have you give attention" - ROUD#1180 - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp40-41 - PALMER EBECS 1979 pp214-5 - see also FOUR SEASONS

SEASONS, THE - Jig - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #77 p35

SEASONS OF MY HEART, THE - "Of course we have our differences" - Irish Love Song -- Mick FOSTER (voc) & Tony ALLEN (piano): RITZ London LC-0012/ CASS-0955

SEASONS OF THE YEAR, THE - "The sun has gone down and the sky it looks red" - farming year - ROUD#169 - BROADWOOD ECS 1993 p143 John Burberry, Sussex 1892 - LEATHER Herefdsh 1912 p207 "The Four Seasons of the Year" - CAREY TEFS Surrey-Sussex 1915 "The Green Grass" - JFSS 3 p77 Sussex - COLLINSON-DILLON FSCM 1952 pp38-42 Mr Rose, Surrey - COPPER SFES 1971 p208 "The Ploughshare" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #1 pp17-18 Carey TEFS - FOUR SEASONS - MONTHS OF THE YEAR -- Bill WESTAWAY rec by PK, Belstone, Devon 1950: FTX-241 - Jim COPPER rec Rottingdean Sussex 1/3/51; RPL 16065/ Bob & Ron COPPER rec by PK 9/3/55: EFDSS LP- 1002 1963/ FOLK LEGACY FSNB-19 1964/ FTX-081 - Bob, John & Jill with Stephen FAUX (fid) 4x30 min progs RPL Radio 2 Oct 1990/ CASS-60-1013-4 "The Season's Round" - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-154 1967 "Green Grass" (Carey) - YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-155 1967 - Bob & his son, John COPPER: LEADER LEA-4049 (boxed) 1971

SEAWEED - DULAMAN -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing-

SEAWEED - "Last summer time I took a trip to Dover by the sea" -- Harry UPTON rec by Mike Yates, Balcombe, Sussex 1975: (TOPIC SP-104 1977)

SEBASTOPOL - "Cheer boys cheer" - Shanty - HUGILL 1961 p429 - PATRICK SHEEHAN

SEBASTOPOL - TAKING OF SEBASTOPOL

SECOND FRONT SONG, THE - Black Watch Song - some Anti-Americanism - tune: "Musselbergh Fair" (Midlothian) -- Ewan MacCOLL (+ banjo): TOPIC 12-T-130 1965

SECOND QUADRILLE - Tunebook Ms #2 p335 (D) 6/8

SECOND THOUGHTS BEST - COME WRITE ME DOWN

SECOND VICTORY, THE - Jig - TWEED p4 (Am)

SECOND WEDDING, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1440/ DMI #677 (G)

SECRETARY'S SONG, THE -- Janet RUSSELL on Radio 2: 7/10/87: CASS- 0401 & Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4

SEDBERGH (FOX) HUNT 1952 -- J Moore SEDGWICK rec by PK, Sedbergh, Yorks 1959: FTX-120

SEDGFIELD - Durham -- Sedgefield has an annual Shrovetide football match

SEDGEFIELD FAIR - "Owd Dickie Thompson 'e ad a grey mare - up to the jigs of Sedgfield Fair" - ROUD#294 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #112 pp187-8 David Hillery: Jack Beaforth, Wragby, Yorksh 1974 - Cf BRIAN O LINN - TOM PEARCE -- THE WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS- 415 1981 - rec at Farnham Folk Day on Radio 2: 4/1/83 CASS-15-0788

SEDGEFIELD LAD, THE - "A sorry tale I'll tell with shame" - a ballad of 17v comp by GM in 1964 about a young man who goes up to London and wants to get back to his village -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-221-C90

SEDUCER OUTWITTED, THE - "It's of a young gentleman in this country did dwell" - maid wagers she will outwit him - ROUD#2949 - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp100-1 Charlie Somers, Bellarena, Co Derry 1969 & Bs facsimile (w/o) (European Ethnic SRT2)

SEDUCTION - BAWDY - LOVE-SEDUCTION - UNEASY WEDLOCK

SEE AND VIEW THIS GLASS OF LIQUOR - QUEEN'S HEALTH

SEE AUNT DINAH - "I'm goin away" -- Bessie JONES & Group C Georgia Sea Island Singers rec by Alan Lomax, St Simon's Island, Ga. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1713 1998

SEE FROM OCEAN RISING - Tunebook Ms #194 p251 (D) 4/4

SEE HOW THE MONEY ROLLS IN - O HOW THE MONEY ROLLS IN

SEE ME DANCE THE POLKA - "A fig for your set of Lancers, Quadrilles & Cotillion too" - comp by George Grossmith ? - SPAETH WSM 1927 p238 3v -- Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072 - Bill GORRINGE (tune on fid) rec by Mervyn Plunkett, Cuckfield, Sussex 1958: TOPIC 12-T-455-6 1990 - FLOWERS & FROLICS (tune by band) rec "Empress of Russia" Islington London: FREE REED FRR-016 1977/ Radio 2: 13/4/88 CASS- 0848-C90 aft "Down the road"

SEE ME NANNY-O - Shanty - "Women belly full of hair" - Reginald SYNDER (chantynman) with 4 crew rec by AL, Newcastle, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER 1731 2002

SEE OLD DINAH - see also SHEEP, DON'T YOU KNOW THE ROAD - BUZZARD LOPE & ROLLIN' UNDER -- Vocal group with leader (fife, gourd banjo, drum & jawbone) rec by Alan Lomax, Georgia Sea Islands USA 1954: RPL 26146

SEE SAW MARGERY DAW - " - has got a new master" - ROUD# 13028 - MASON NR&CS 1877 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1683 p216 (1v/m) - OPIE ODNR pp297-8 -- children rec Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #22 "S-S Ducketty Daw"

SEE SEE MY BABY - "come out and play with me - and bring your dollies three - climb up the apple tree - for ever more more more" - Children's Skipping Rhyme - OPIE SG 1985 #148 pp474-5 "See See My Playmate" -- rec by Damian Webb 36/5 St Patricks Huddersfield 1978: FTX-196 #36 "See see my plainsie" (clapping) -rec by Damian Webb, Tralee, Co Kerry 1960: IRE/26/ FTX-179 "Shut the door"

SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN - "Well, it's one kind favour I ask of you - long lane that's got no end - dig my grave with a silver spade" - Southern Spiritual popularised by Blind "Willie Johnson -- Hobart SMITH (voc/ gtr), Va.: Baptist Hymns & White Spirituals from the Southern Mountains NEW WORLD NW-294 1977/ Hobart SMITH (gtr & vocals) rec by Alan Lomax, Salem, Va Aug 1959: ROUNDER CD-1704 1997

SEE THAT RAINBOW SHINE -- Jean RITCHIE & others: - LONDON (SIRE) SA-7530 1977

SEE THE ANGELIC HOST APPEAR - Carol -- Jim SMALL, Cheddar, Somerset 1980: FTX-138

SEE THE CONQUERING HERO COMES - March - KERR MM 4 #373 p40 (G) - Tunebook Ms #112 p213 (G) 2/4

SEE THE SOLDIERS MARCHING ALONG - KEEP THE SUNNY SIDE UP

SEE THIS PRETTY LITTLE GIRL OF MINE - PRETTY LITTLE GIRL OF MINE

SEE THOSE RIBBONS GAILY STREAMING - BOLD RECRUIT

SEEDS OF LOVE, THE - "I sowed the S of L and I sowed them in the Spring" - ROUD#3 (with "The Gardener" (Child 219) & "Sprig of Thyme") - Bss incl SBG 8:#221 - CAMPBELL 1816 1 p40 Roxburghsh - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1180 p278 2var 5v w/o/ #1181 p279-280 11v/m "Wounded in Love"/ #1182 p281 2v&ch/m "Forsaken Folk maun live" - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 p93 & PMOT 1858 p520 - DIXON SP 1846 - BELL SP 1857 pp220-1 or pp440-1 (w/o) gives author of song (?) - JOYCE AMOI 1873 p75 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p189 Co Limerick "The Gardener's Son" - BRUCE-STOKOE 1882 p90 - LONG DIOW 1886 pp129-130 (w/o) "The Gardener's Choice" - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp58-9 Mrs Wilson: nn, Northamptonsh/ BS (w/o)/ Surrey-Sussex (m/o)/ West Country (m/o) - STOKOE-REAY 1899 - BARING GOULD 1889 #107 (omitted from Rev Ed) New text: air from Thomas Paddon, Holcombe Burnell used for "Showers and Sunshine" (possibly a re-write of "The Sower" & Ms #107 "Dead Maid's Land" (Sprig of Thyme) - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 pp2-4 & pp57-8 John England, gardener, Hambridge, Somerset, Sept 1903 (The first song Sharp collected) - Sel Ed 1 pp42-44 - SHARP Ms 27var - Cf 2 p55 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #153 pp577-588 14var: Joseph Alcock, Sibford Gower, Oxf 1922/ George Say, Axbridge, Som 1908 2v/m/ Alfred Emery, Othery, Som 1908 1v/m/ John England, Hambridge, Som 1903/ John Holt, Haselbury Plucknett, Som 1905 1v/m/ Mrs Welch, Ile Brewers, Som 1904 1v/m/ Farmer King, Mendip, Som 1904 1v/m/ Richard Barnard, Priddy, Som 1905 (m/o)/ Mrs Overd, Langport, Som 1904 1v/m/ Mrs Glover, Huish Episcopi 1904 1v/m/ Henry Thomas, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestersh 1907 1v/m/ Jim Squires, Holford, Som 1904 1v/m/ Mrs Jarrett, Bridgwater, Som 1908/ Wm Tucker, Ashcott, Som 1907 - JFSS 1:3 1901 pp86-89 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 - JFSS 1:4 1902 p209 Lucy Broadwood: Mr Ede (m/o) & Mr Sparks (m/o) Dunsfold, Surrey/ Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1v/m - JFSS 2:6 1905 pp23-5 Sharp: John England 1vm/ Wm Spearing, Ile Brewers, Som 1904 1v/m/ Farmer King 1v/m/ Mrs Welch 1v/m - JFSS 5:18 1914 p93 Sharp: Alfred Emery Ottery, Somerset 1908 1v/m - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #17 Aberdeensh - HAMMOND MSs #S40 Mrs GULLIVER, Combe Florey, Somerset Apr/May 1905 #422 John Greening, Bridport, Dorset May 1906/ #D445 Mrs R GALE, Powerstock, Dorset May 1906 #D454 John Northover, Uploders, Dorset May 1906/ #D455 Henry WAY, Bridport, Dorset May 1906/ #D485/ Jane HANN, Stoke Abbot, Dorset June 1906 #D508 Sam DAWE, Beaminster, Dorset June 1906 - GRAINGER #342 'Daddy' Shepherd, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh 1908 - MERRICK Sussex 1912 - BUTTERWORTH Sussex 1913 p6 - CAREY TEFS 1915 pp16-17 Surrey- Sussex "The Red Rosebud" - WHITTAKER 1921 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp86-7 #372 Mrs Goodfield, Crudwell, Wiltsh (w/o) - JFSS 8 1927 pp19-21 Sharp: Joseph Alcock/ Henry Thomas 1v/m - REEVES IP 1958 pp194-6 Joseph Alcock (with discussion) - JEFDSS 1959 p202 Jim Squires & his father's version coll by Sharp 1904 (The first song rec under BBC Folk Collecting Scheme) - REEVES EC 1960 #116 p229 SBG: Thomas Paddin, Holcombe Burrell, Devon 1889 "The Dead Maid's Lament" (w/o)/ pp235-6 Chapbook "5 Excellent New Songs" (w/o) - JEFDSS 9:4 1963 pp190-191 PK: George Maynard 1956 - HAMER GG 1967 p14 Harry Scott, Eaton Bray, Bedfordsh - SEDLEY 1967 p138 Hammond Dorset "Bird in a cage" - FOLK SONG TODAY 3 1970 Broadwood - PALMER SOM 1972 pp49-50 Sharp: Joseph Alcock - FMJ 2:4 1973 p279 Palmer: George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #167 p367 George Maynard 1956 7v/m - ED&S 39:1 1977 p21 Lucy Broadwood: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp190-3 Caroline Hughes (gypsy) Dorset 1962/6 ("Sprig of Thyme")- PALMER EBECS 1979 #84 pp146-7 Sharp: John England - PALMER RVW 1983 p133-4 Billy Waggs, Orwell, Suffolk 1908 "The Red Running Rue" - SHARP SG 2003 p47 7v from John England Hambridge, Somerset 22nd August 1903 --- CREIGHTON NS 1932 p53 - EDDY ohio 1939 p87 -- see also DEAD MAID'S LAND - SPRIG OF THYME - ROYAL ROSE --Bill SQUIRES (his father sang this song to Cecil Sharp in 1904) rec by PK, Holford, Somerset 1/5/52: RPL 17778/ FTX-136 preceded by Sharp variant sung by Shirley Collins (1v only) & Pat Shaw with piano:FTX-136 / Video made by PK in 1983/ Radio 2: 27/7/93 Georgina Boyes prog on CASS - George MAYNARD rec by PK, "The Cherry Tree", Copthorne, Sussex 23/3/56: RPL LP 23092/ FTX-015/ TOPIC 12-T-286 1976/ with other versions sung by Mervyn PLUNKETT, Kenneth STUBBS & Jean HOPKINS: FTX-280/ - Bill BOTTING rec by PK, Balcombe, Sussex 2/9/63 RTR-0907/ FTX-428 - Harry UPTON rec by PK, Balcombe, Sussex 5/9/63 RTR-0912 (1v only) - Gabriel FIGG rec by PK, West Chiltington, Sussex 1958 RTR-#0907/ rec by Joy Hyman 27/11/64: RPL LP 29821 "Seeds of Spring" - - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, Dorset 1968: FTX-043 (a version of "The Sprig of Thyme") - Cyril TAWNEY (v/gtr/ch) rec by PK, London: EMI 7- EG-8738 1962 45-EP/ (v/gtr) rec Sidmouth 1979 Radio 2: 31/3/80: CASS 0418 - LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS: EMI HQS-1215 1970 - George DUNN rec by Roy Palmer, Quarry Bank, Warwickshire 14/6/71: MT CD 317-8 ("Chainmaker") - Martin CARTER: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-012 1972 (from Sedley) - Fred JORDAN: TOPIC 12-TS-233 1974 (Sharp version) - Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR (voc/gtr) CASS 45-0852 "The Gardener" - Roger NICHOLSON (dulc) & Andrew CRONSHAW (flute): LEADER LER-2094 1976 Instrumental - Robin (voc/ gtr) & Barry (voc/fid) DRANSFIELD: FREE REED FRR-018 1977 - Fi FRASER (v) & Ralph JORDAN (gtr) Radio 2: 10/8/88: CASS-90-0549 "Bird in a cage" - Bob HAWSON (?) (solo unacc) with OLD HAT CONCERT PARTY on Radio 2: 10/10/90 CASS-60-1016

SEEDSMAN, THE - SOWER

SEEKER AFTER PEACE - (comp by R) -- RUSSCO rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 5/11/75: FTX-094

SEEKING SERVICE - BARGAIN WITH ME

SEILG A' GHEARRFHIAIDH - HARE AND HOUNDS

SEILG A' MHADAIAIDH RUAIDH - FOX CHASE

SEIMIDH EOGHAININ DUIBH - (Dark-haired Jimmy Owen) - Irish Gaelic - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #46 -- Conal O DONNELL of Ranafast, Co Donegal rec by PK, London 1962: FTX-003

SEIZURE OF THE E A HORTON, THE - "Ye sons of Uncle Samuel come listen for awhile" - An international incident 8th Oct 1871 when a Canadia cutter seized the Horton and imprisoned her crew for illegally fishing in Canadian waters. The captain and men recapture her at night and sail triumphantly back to Gloucester Mass - LAWS #D-28 NAB 1950/64 p174 - ROUD#1840 - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp314-5 Ben Henneberry, Devils Island, NS

SELF, THE - Jig - see SYLPH, THE -- Geordie TAYLOR (fid) rec by PK, Rennington, Northumb 30/11/54: FTX-121

SELINA - Jig - WILSON p125 (F) (with dance descr)

SELKIRK -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SELLENGER'S ROUND - Country Dance - PLAYFORD - similar tune is "Belle qui tiens ma vie" -- R Kenworthy SCHOFIELD (3-hole pipe & tabor) rec 18/7/51: RPL LP 23571/ FTX-325 - DAMBUSTER DAM-003 CASS-0348

SELLER SOLD, THE - Dialect recit by A J Coles ("Jan Stewer") -- Mabel GOODWIN rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1979: FTX-412

SELLING FATHER'S FEATHER BED - GWSERTHU GWELY PLU FY NHAD

SELMA, ALABAMA - comp by WW April 1965 -- Wally WHYTON: FONTANA STL- 5476 1968

SEND BACK MY BARNEY - MY BONNY LIES OVER THE OCEAN

SEND ME A LETTER, LOVE - GOODBYE, BERTHA, WHEN YOU ARE AWAY

SENEGAL -- AFRIDISK 45/101-2 (45 EP) Senegambian Amigo JENG & others (Wooloff) - FOLK ROOTS F-ROOT-001 Kausa KUYATEH & others - ROGUE FMSL-2017 1989 Pascal DIATTA & Sona MANE

SENILITY - AGE

SENORITA PANCHITA - Calypso about a Spanish girl from Venezuela -- Neville MARCANO "The Growling Tiger" (with group) rec by Alan Lomax, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 17/8/62: ROUNDER 1717 p1998 (2var)

SENTENCED TO DEATH - "The grey dawn has crept o'er the stillness of morning" - WILLIAMS Ms #276 Mrs Winfield, Holwell, Oxfordsh (w/o)

SENTINEL HORNPIPE - (D) - COLE #4 p86 - KERR MM 2 #370 p41

SENTRY BOX, THE - "It was on a Monday morning" Ch: "He took me into a SB, wrapped up in a Soldier's Cloak" ("SC") - ROUD#178 - BSs "Gentleman Soldier" ("GS" & "The Sentry" - KARPELES CSC 1974 #171 p650 Thomas Hendy, Illminster, Somerset 1905 "The Sentry" - GRAINGER #242 George Henry Beedham, Burringham, Lincolnsh 1906 "The Sentry" - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp156-7 Gilchrist: Mr Coomber, Blackham, Sussex 1907 2½v/m "The GS" (with version from LEVEY Dance Music of Ireland c1879 & ref to Welsh, to Kipling & cf tune of Scots "Drumdelgie") - REEVES IP 1958 p197 Sharp: Thomas Hendy - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 pp40-1 Gilchrist: Mr Coomber "The GS" - PURSLOW CL 1974 p88 Gardiner: Richard Laney, Axford, Hampsh/ Hammond: Mrs Gulliford, Coombe Florey, Somerset - PALMER 1977 p134 broadside text with tune from John Clare Ms - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p29 as instrumental jig tune --- COLE OFT 1940 p57 "SC" (Jig in D) -- Martin CARTHY: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ B & C PEG-6 1971 "GS" - DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-14 1968/ EMI MFP 5223 "The GS" - THE SPINNERS: EMI SCX-6493 1972 "SC" - Mike SHAIL & EEZUM SQUEEZUM rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1979: FTX-127 "GS"

SEOITHIN SEO -"A bhean ud thios ar bruach an tsruthian" - Fairy Lullaby or "Woman of the Fairy Mound" - A woman taken by the fairies and held in their "sidh" (fairy fort) implores another woman washing clothes in the river to tell her husband and instruct him as to how she can be freed - CROININ 2000 #128 pp 197-9 - Air popularly believed in Ireland to have been the Christ Child Lullaby sung to the infant Jesus by the Virgin Mary - Seamus Ennis suggests the lullaby draws on one composed by Tomas O Ceallaigh - ROCKING THE CRADLE (similar tune with English words) -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Brian George, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 1947: RPL 11988/ rec by Alan Lomax, Ballymakeera. Macroom, Co Cork 1951: RPL 21535/ COLUMBIA SL-204 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1742 1998/ FTX-160 - Maire O SULLIVAN rec by AL, Ballydickey, Co Cork: COLUMBIA SL-204 1952 - Kitty GALLAGHER rec by AL, Gweedore, Co Donegal Jan 1951 7"RTR- 0566 - Frank McPEAKE Senr (with U-pipes) rec by PK, Belfast, 9/7/52: 7"RTR-0545/ RPL 18293 talk bef/ FTX-176 - Maggie DIRRANE rec by Maud Karpeles & Sidney Robertson Cowell, Inishowen, Aran Islands, Co Galway: FOLKWAYS P-1002 1957/ FTX-421 - Seamus ENNIS of Dublin rec by PK, London 1958: FTX-079 & FTX-169/ rec by Joan Halifax Aug 1964: ROUNDER 1719 1998 - McPEAKE FAMILY Belfast rec by PK, London 1961: FTX-071 - Peg CLANCY rec Diane Hamilton, Carrick- on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #36 "O who is that a-lying here" (Engl transl) - Mary O HARA (voc/ harp): DECCA GES-1095 1973

SEOITHIN SEO (2) -"A bhean ud thios ar bruach an tsruthian"- a mother puts her child to sleep (1) in a gold crib, (2) in a linen sheet on the floor and (3) on a fine sunny day at Christmas - PETRIE 142-6 -CROININ 2000 #129 pp200-202 (w/o)

SEOLADH NA NGAMHAN FAOI'N BHFASAIG - (Herding the Calves) - "A' lorg na ngamhan 'sea chuireas-sa mo leanbh…" - The poet recounts how he sent his daughter to herd the cows but she fell into bad company, implying that some local braves had their way with her and the father is seeking redress - CROININ 2000 #130 pp202-3 -- Sean Mc DONAGH rec by Seamus Ennis, Carna, Co Galway Aug 1954: RPL 21828

SEOLAIM ARAON NA GEANNA RONHAINN - Irish Gaelic Air -- Paddy MALONEY & Sean POTTS (whistles) with Peadar MERCIER (bodhran) Clare: CLADDAGH CC-15 1974

SEOTHO-LEO, A THOIL - "A eigse an aitis o Chaiseal go Boinn" - the poet laments a lost love and the fact that his poetry is no longer respected - instead he would prefer food and drink - CROININ 2000 #131 pp203-5 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Brian George, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 7/8/47: RPL 11988/ rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow: FOUR COURTS CD-2 #20

SEPARATED LOVE - FALSE LOVE - TRUE LOVE

SEPT ANS SUR MER - Cajun -- sung by Elita, Mary & Ella HOFFPAUIR rec by John A & Alan Lomax, New Iberia, La., USA June 1934

SERAFINA - Shanty - HUGILL 1961 p397

SERENADE, LA - Tunebook Ms #127 p401 (G) 4/4

SERENADING -- COLUMBIA SL-216 Spain "alborada" panpipe morning tune/ A18 4 men with pestle & mortar - OCORA OCR-49 Tibett Conch shell calling monks to prayer - OCR-73 Mexico Spanish style with 5 metal-strung gtrs

SERENADING SONG, THE - "Thus Damon knocked at Celia's door" - ROUD#12541 - D'URFEY 6 1720 pp36-7

SERGEANT CAHILL'S FAVOURITE - Single Jig - O'NEILL MOI #834/ DMI #373 (G)

SERGEANT EARLY'S DREAM - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1419/ DMI #656 (Am) -- AFTERHOURS CASS-60-0920 1989

SERGEANT EARLY'S JIG - O'NEILL MOI #725/ DMI #25

SERGEANT JACK NACKERTY - "I'll tell yers about - cheer up, lads, bless you all" - A kind of Army monologue comp by GM 1957 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough: FTX-224

SERGEANT MORRIS'S SONG - "You madcaps of England - come over to Flanders - Marlborough's wars" - Tom Morris -- John ADAMS of DRUIDS: ARGO ZDA-147 1971

SERGEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE - Play by Arden contains the songs: "The Black Horse", "Blow away the morning Dew" (Baffled Knight)," John Barleycorn" and "Six Jolly Miners" from our collection.

SERGEANT NEILL - "If you want your praties sprayed" - ROUD#2921 - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp29-30 & 105 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh

SERGEANT STACK'S FAVOURITE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #1028/ DMI #241 (A)

SERGEANT WILLIAM BAILEY - Anti-recruitment Song comp by DB's uncle Peadar Kearney - tune cf "Stafford Gaol" -- Dominic BEHAN (acc): TOPIC 12-T-44 1958

SERGEANT'S LAMENTATION, THE - "Each loyal man if such there can be found about grouse" - ROUD#3070 - O'LOCHLAIN ISB 1939 pp208-209 & p78 (m) John Smith, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan

SERIOUS TOM - "Here's ST sits over his bowl - single life is a life of joy" pipe and bowl - single life a life of joy" - ROUD#1608 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p76 Gardiner: James Channon, Ellisfield, Hampsh 1907 Hants 1907 -- Steve JORDAN & Geoff JERRAM (with ch): FOREST TRACKS FT-2006

SERPENT - Musical instrument - ED&S 37/3 1975 p96 John Timpany

SERVANT BOY, THE - MY FATHER'S SERVANT BOY

SERVANT JOHN - GRAINGER #RNS84 Dean Robinson, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1908

SERVANT LASSIE, THE -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682

SERVANT LASSES, THE - "Ye braw servan' lasses" - sung to pipe tune, "The Hills o' Glenorchy" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #654 (5var)

SERVANT MAID IN HER FATHER'S GARDEN - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

SERVANT MAN, THE - "My father kept a SM, and quickly you shall understand" - Her father finds out and swears to send him across the main - He sees her in the hall and carries her to the kitchen wqhere he proposes marriage (part of longer story ?) - ROUD#1398 - DAWNEY PG 1977 p42 Butterworth: Mr Searle 1911 - see FATHER'S SERVANT MAN - IRON DOOR - McINTYRE - SLENDER THREAD OF LIFE

SERVANTS - Domestic Service - HUSBANDMAN & SERVANTMAN - ROSEMARY LANE -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

SERVES 'EM FINE - American Mill Song comp by Dave McCann -- Hedy WEST: FONTANA STL-5432 1967/ CASS-0482 followed by instrumental

SERVING GIRL'S HOLIDAY - "I've waited longing for to play" -- Maddy PRIOR (voc/dulc): B & C CAS-1035 1971/ CASS-45-0851

SERVING MAID IN HER FATHER'S/MASTER'S GARDEN, A - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

SERVINGMAN AND HUSBANDMAN - HUSBANDMAN AND SERVINGMAN

SET DANCES - usually of Irregular length (see also QUADRILLES) - ACE AND DEUCE OF PIPERING - BLACKBIRD - BRAVE RODNEY'S GLORY - BUONAPARTE'S RETREAT - GARDEN OF DAISIES - HUMOURS OF BANDON - HUNT - JOB OF JOURNEYWORK - JOCKEY TO THE FAIR - KING OF THE FAIRIES - LODGE ROAD - MAGGIE PICKENS - MORGIANA - ORANGE ROGUE - PLANXTY DRURY - PRINCESS ROYAL - St PATRICK'S DAY - SEAN O DUIGIR AN GLEANNA - SUISIN BAN - THREE SEA CAPTAINS - YOUGHAL HARBOUR -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

SETH DAVY - Glyn Hughes comp after research into a street puppeteer in Liverpool who died 50 years before - see also WHISKY ON A SUNDAY -- THE SPINNNERS: FONTANA STL-5495 1969

SETTLE-CARLISLE RAILWAY - W & M by Mike Donald - FOLK SONG TODAY 5 1971 p10

SEVEN - SAITH (Welsh)

SEVEN AGES OF MAN, THE - AGES OF MAN

SEVEN AND SIXPENCE - SHE COST ME

SEVEN BRETHREN, THE - EARL BRAND

SEVEN DAYS IN THE WEEK - "On the first 6 days we lived in trees" - Anti-Nuclear Song comp Ewan McColl - see also THE FOUR SEASONS -- Peggy SEEGER (v/gtr) rec McColl-Seeger Tribute Concert Cecil Sharp House on Radio 2: 12/11/87: CASS- 0425 - Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR Folk on Two 17/12/87: CASS-0378/ Radio 2: 28/12/88: CASS-60-0849

SEVEN DEADLY SINS - comp by McLean -- rec by DUBLINERS

SEVEN GYPSIES - GYPSY LADDIE

SEVEN HUNDRED ELVES- "from out orf the wood - foul and grim they were" comp ? -- STEELEYE SPAN: CHYSAL IS CHR-1053 1974 - STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977

SEVEN IRISHMEN, THE - "All you that love the shamrock green" - emigration to America and then recruited into the American army - New York - SR#3104 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p69 -- (Joe HEANEY, Connemara, Co Mayo c1973: PHILO 2004)

SEVEN JOYS OF MARY, THE- JOYS OF MARY

SEVEN JUMPS - FLOWER OF TAFT

SEVEN KING'S DAUGHTERS - OUTLANDISH KNIGHT

SEVEN LINKS ON MY CHAIN - ERIN'S LOVELY HOME

SEVEN LITTLE KIDS - comp by Leslie Haworth - THE LIVERPOOL SPINNERS CONTOUR 6870-529

SEVEN LONG YEARS - "I've been bound to my trade" with ch: "I'll romp & I'll rove" to "Lazarus" tune - SHARP FSSA 2 #102 p79 - see MARION

SEVEN LONG YEARS I'VE HAD A GOOD WIFE - WILLIAMS Ms #702 (w/o)

SEVEN LONG YEARS IN STATE PRISON - "sitting in a cell all alone - (thinking of days when young) - If I had the wings of an angel - fly to my darling" (says he loves another) -- Martha Ann MIDGETTE & her mother, rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Main's Harbour, NC USA 1941: FTX-926

SEVEN MONTHS I'VE BEEN MARRIED - "and all to my grief" - "I'm ruined - never marry an old man" - still a maid - ROUD#1650 - PURSLOW MB 1968 p163 Gardiner: Frank Phillips, Stoney Cross, Hampsh 1909 - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN

SEVEN NIGHTS DRUNK - CUCKOLD'S SONG

SEVEN SLEEPERS, THE - EARL BRAND

SEVEN STEP POLKA, THE - or SCHOTTISCHE - alt titles: "Double S" "Cross S" "Italian S" or "Maltese Schottische" - Pat Shaw in JEFDSS 1962 p134 DA FLOOER O TAFT compares it to Danish dance "Syvspring" the "Seven Jumps" - HUMPHRIES : Dances for a Party 1957 incl words "1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good children go to heaven - penny on th water, tuppence on the sea, thruppence on the roundabouts and round go we" - MUNCH Tristan da Cunha 1970 p120 "Shottee" from fiddler Andrew Swain - Mrs Wilkes (see tape) Gloucester had: "Old George, dear George, can you tell the truth? OG, dG, bless the little youth, Turn the light a wee bit higher Go and tell your Aunt Maria (line repeated) The baby's got another tooth" - KOHLER 1 p89 (D) "Dutch Polka" -- Alexander PRINCE (conc) rec 1912: NEOVOX #125/ 19409 cass "Hop Scotch" - The DORSET TRIO (fiddle/ cello/ bass) rec Kingston, nr Corfe Castle, Isle of Purbeck 17/9/43 RPL 6678 (78rpm)/ TOPIC 12-TS-240 1974/ TOPIC TSCD-659 Dances of S England "Italian Schottische" & "The Monkey Hornpipe" - Peter KENNEDY & HAYMAKERS BAND rec Sidbury, Devon, Nov 1950: COLUMBIA SL-206 1952/ FTX-407 - Fred PIDGEON (fid) rec by PK, Stockland, Devon 1951: FTX-087 - Bob CANN (mel) rec by PK, South Zeal, Devon 26/5/52: RPL 17795 - Vincent (fid) & Benignus (mel) McCUSKER rec by PK, Kilcreevy, Co Armagh 31/7/52: RPL 18547/ FTX-372 "The Spanish Schottische" - Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18681/ 115 "Cross Schottische" - George ARMSTRONG (fid) rec by Peter Kennedy, Barrasford, Northumb 1954: FTX-121 with "Nancy Till" - Percy LAVARELLO (mel) of Tristan de Cunha rec by PK, Gosport 1962: FTX-609 - Mrs WILKES rec by Ms K F Davis Gloucester 1962(?) "Old George" words sung - Bob RUNDLE (mel) rec by PK, Devon 1978: FTX-124 - SHETLAND (40) FIDDLER'S: TD 5363 (45 EP) variant/ aft "Bonny Polka" & bef "Sister Jean" (My mother said)

SEVEN UP - Hornpipe - KERR MM 2 #358 p39 (G)

SEVEN VIRGINS, THE - UNDER THE LEAVES OF LIFE

SEVEN WONDERS, THE - "I heard it said yesterday morning" Ch: "Ring ting tithery too" - Numerative nonsense song - source oer comp ? -- Maddy PRIOR & June TABOR (with psaltery & other instr): CHRYSALIS CHR-1101 1976

SEVEN WONDERS, THE - BIG GRAND COULEE DAM - SAITH RHYFEDDOD, Y (Welsh) -- instrumental arr of Welsh song by Spike Hughes in AS I ROVED OUT Radio prog 1956: FTX-253

SEVEN YEARS DID I HAVE A SWEETHEART - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

SEVEN YEARS IN DUBLIN - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY

SEVEN YEARS IN THE SAND - "seems a long time somehow" - Anthem of Middle East Air Force Regiment - ROUD#2568 - SEEGER-McCOLL SI p75 Herbert Smith, Oldham, Lancash 1948 -- Ewan McCOLL (voc) & Peggy SEEGER (gtr): TOPIC 12-T-130 1965

SEVEN YEARS ON THE SEA - SEPT ANS SUR MER

SEVEN YEARS O'ER YOUNG - "Twas in between twa bonny woods and valleys" - ROUD#564 & LAWS #P-18 (?) - ORD BB 1930 pp170-171

SEVEN YELLOW GYPSIES - GYPSY LADDIE

SEVENTEEN BRIGHT STARS, THE - "Come all you bold Britons" "Diddle" chorus - About a mutiny at Spithead - a petition was sent to the Admiralty - each took an oath not to sail on the "Queen Charlotte" - Lord Spencer was sent to Portsmouth - Bridport - Howe, Pitt (PM) Dundas (Tres) -- A L LLOYD (voc/+ fid, conc & ch): TOPIC 12-TS-332 1973

SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY - AS I ROVED OUT

SEVENTY-FOURTH HIGHLANDERS'S FAREWELL TO EDINBURGH, THE - Pipe March -- Alex STEWART (H-pipes) rec Blairgowrie Perthshi: TOPIC 12-T-138 1965 - Davie STEWART ("cantering" mouth music): TOPIC 12-T-293 1978

SEVENTY NINTH (HIGHLANDERS) FAREWELL TO GIBRALTAR, THE - Pipe March comp by P/M MCDonald -- Peter WYPER (mel) & piano rec 1930's: TOPIC 12-T-376 1978 - Ian BURNETT (acc) rec by Seamus Ennis, Aberdeensh 12/7/52: RPL 18780 - Cape Breton NS (fid & piano): ELEKTRA EKL-23 1955 - Bruce CARDWELL (N-pipes/ gtr) KESTY Group 1980: FTX-240 - DAMBUSTER DAM-003 CASS-0348 - EDWARD II on Radio 2: 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550

SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT'S QUICKSTEP, THE - Tunebook Ms #181 p427 (G) 2/4 & Ms #167 p418 (G) 2/4

SEVENTY TWO TODAY - CHEER, BOYS, CHEER

SEWERS - DOWN BELOW (S Carter) - SNOWDEN ROAD TRAGEDY (G Miles)

SEWING MACHINE, THE - "I'm one of those unlucky chaps - fall in love" Ch; "Young girl's hair in curls who worked at a SM" - PALMER EBBB 1980 #65 p144 RVW Norfolk 1911 rtext from Manchester broadside

SEX - Adults - NINE TIMES AT NIGHT - SEA CAPTAIN AND SQUIRE - Children - I'M SHIRLEY TEMPLE - SPACEMAN SAYS - UNDER THE BRAMBLE BUSHES

SEXTON, SEXTON, RING THE BELL -- Eddie UPTON with Nigel CHIPPENDALE (zither): CASS-0484

SEXUAL LIFE OF A CAMEL, THE -- THE SHOWER-ROOM SQUAD: PICKWICK Hallmark CHM-693 1970

SEYMOUR, John -- Gypsies of Britain: Radio series talking about gypsies: RTR-0991-2/ CASS-1237-9

SEYMOUR'S FANCY - Reel - WILSON p85 (with dance descr)

SGEAL BHALRUS - (The Story of Walrus) - Irish Gaelic - Walrus is probably a metathesis of "Labhras" christian name Lawrence - Song tells of a beggarman being put out of a public house because he has no money - 2nd v has "Plague on money, he's a tricky fellow and doesn't care what company he keeps" -- Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20146 (2v sung twice with frag of another Gaelic song)/ FTX-271 (with talk)

SGIAN DUBH - Jig (Bm) - KERR MM 2 #319 p35

 
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