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SKARA BRAE - March comp by JG about the famous archaeological site in Orkney -- Jimmy GARSON Trio rec by PK & Sean Davies, Dounby Orkney 1964: DTS-EF2 1965 (45 EP)

SKATING - THERE WAS A YOUNG COUPLE

SKELTON - Village in Clevedon, N Yorkshire - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp16-17 H M Bower: John Fawcett, Skelton "Sword Dance Song" ("A foxtail, a foxtail is not on my back to be seen") -- George TREMAIN (mel) rec by PK, N Skelton, N Yorksh 2/4/53: RPL 19236-8 Local Sword (North Skelton) & Country Dance tunes & RPL 20537 Talk about Sword Dance teams etc/ FTX-329

SKENE - BANKS OF - LAIRD O' - VERDANT BRAES OF -

SKEWBALL - "Come gentlemen sportsmen, I pray listen all" - Horse race on plains of Kildare for which the favourite was a grey mare called "Miss Portly" owned by Sir Ralph Gore - halfway round the course, Skewball, so-called for being a white horse with patches of bay, assures his rider of winning a fortune - he beats the mare and together they drink a toast to their win - LAWS #Q22 (ABBA 1957 pp283-4) - ROUD#456 - VOC LIB 1822 p526 (could be sung to "The Rakes Of Kildare") - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB 1 1975 pp246-8 Evans BS London (w/o) I--- LOMAX AB 1934 p68 20v negro var: "Stewball" - BROWN NC 1952-62 p371 2var - FLANDERS-BARRY Vt 1939 p172 7dv/m notes & ref - SCARBOROUGH "On the Trail of Negro FS" pp61-2 -- A L LLOYD with Steve BENBOW (gtr): TOPIC 12-TPS-114 1964 - STEELEYE SPAN: B & C CREST-9 1971/6/ CS-12 1973 & STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977 --- Texas GLADDEN rec by Alan Lomax, Salem, Va 1941: AFS 5233 B: ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001 "Old Kimball"

SKI-ING -- TOPIC 12-TS-237 THE OLDHAM TINKERS

SKIBBEREEN - "O father dear, I often hear you talk of Erin's Isle - revenge for Skibbereen" - Eviction and emigration during the famine with burning of cottage - S is in Co Cork the southernmost part of Ireland - ROUD #2312 - WALSH: Songs of the Gael - HUGHES ICS2 1914 p76 Co Tyrone 6v - GALVIN ISR 1962 p46 --- FOWKE TSSO 1965 #18 pp48-9 O J Abbott, Ont (Folkways FM-4051) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p100 (pervasive air used for many local compositions in Ireland) - see PARLIAMENT SONG - Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: FTX-271 - John CORRY rec by James Foley, Castlederg, Co Tyrone 1985: FTX-178 - Vin GARBUTT: TOPIC 12-TS-378 1977 - Bill MEEK, Killinchy, Co Down: FOLK LEGACY FSE-21 - Freddy McKAY: TOPIC TSCD-658

SKIBBEREEN LASSES, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1469/ DMI #698 (##A)

SKIFFLE - The name for this type of "washboard" sound and music was christened by John Hasted, Redd Sullivan & PK -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

SKILLET GOOD AND GREASY -- Sid HEMPHILL (fid & voc) with Lucius SMITH (banjo); Will HEAD (bass drum) & Alec Askew (gtr) rec by Alan Lomax, nr Sledge, Miss., USA Aug 1942: ROUNDER CD-11661-1823-2 1999

SKILLET POT - comp by Michael Hipkiss (?) -- Tim LYONS: LEADER LER-3036 1972

SKIMMITY-RIDING - RIDING THE STANG - ROUGH MUSIC

SKIN AND BONE(S) LADY (or WOMAN), THE - "There was a lady (or Old Woman) all skin and bone" - "Will I be so when I am dead?" - (Churchyard "Shock or Shudder Song" with a loud scream at the end of the song) - ROUD#501 - PETRIE AMOI 1855 1 p165 from Dublin street singers in his boyhood/ 1902 p166 - RYMOUR Club 1906 1 pp108-9 Edinburgh (w/o) "TWALAS&B" - JEFDSS 4 1941 p43 Petrie "TWALAS&B" - SEEGER-MacCOLL SI 1960 p104 from JEFDSS - PALMER EBB 1980 pp172-3 from JEFDSS --- BELDEN BSM pp502-3 - BREWSTER BSI p268 - BROWN NCF 1922 3 pp189-193 - BUSH FSCWVa 3 pp12-13 - COX FSS pp482-3- EDDY B&SO pp206-7- FLANDERS-BROWN 1932 p180 Vt "The Skin and Bone Woman" - HUDSON FTM p43 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp301-2 Missouri "TS&BW" - RITCHIE SFC pp11-12/ Swapping Song Book p74 - WOLFE FSMTenn 1997 pp 135-6-- Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-4 1964 (from Molly Spooner of Yelverton, Devon) - Jo FREYA: SAYDISC SDL-402 (CD) 1993 - Mr Erwin rec Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs: FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 "The worms crept out" --- Anon rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Poplar Bluffs, Iowa, USA 1941: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 (7v & ch) "There was an Old Woman all skin and bone" - Jean RITCHIE (with a-dulcimer) rec at concert 1985: FTX-920

SKIN THE PEELER - Triple Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #65 p25 (Bm) - COLE p72 & Cf p69 "Barney's Goat" - ROCHE 2 #255 p24 "Skin the Peelers"

SKINNER'S BOTTOM - Cornwall - Glee-singers - PERFORMERS

SKINNIES - "skinny-flints" - TALL & THIN -- FTX-198 & FTX-289

SKIP TO MY LOU - "Lost my partner, what shall I do?" - Children's Ring Game in UK & USA - ROUD#3593 - OPIE SG 1985 #78 pp119-120 -- rec by Damian Webb, Moss Park School, Glasgow 1961: DW15/6 / RPL LP 27257/ FTX-181 - rec St Anne's School, Leyland, Lancs 1968: DW-28/2/ FTX-195 #44 "Little Red wagon painted blue" --- LEADBELLY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1126 1972 - Jean RITCHIE: ELEKTRA EKL-25 1954 - Richard CHASE (harmonica): TRADITION TLP-1007 1956-7 - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957: FTX-914 - Guy CARAWAN (voc/gtr) & Peggy SEEGER (voc/banjo) rec London 11/1/58: RPL LP 24213/ rec by PK: EMI CLP-1174 1958/ FTX-942 - Perry FRIEDMAN (voc/ banjo) rec by PK, London 21/6/58: RPL LP 24566 - Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226

SKIPPER AND HIS BOY, THE - "The seas ran high and the wind blew wild" - ROUD2680 - BSs - WILLIAMS Ms #705 & #706 (w/o) "The Skipper & his child"

SKIPPER'S WEDDING, THE - "Good neighbours I'm come to tell you" - Moll to wed blind Willie - fiddle - Words by William Stephenson the elder (1763-1836) to tune: "The Night before Larry was stretched" - ROUD#2620 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp24-26

SKIPPERY SAM - Hornpipe (D) - FUREY p63 his own comp (?)

SKIPPING - CHILDREN

SKIPPIN' BARFIT THROUGH THE HEATHER - "Says I my dear what brought you here ? - I been pulling the sloes and minding my yowes - Gatherin a my yowes and lambs together - she was kilted barefit among the heather" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #963 p85 (7v/m) "So early in a summer morning" -- Jessie MURRAY rec by Alan Lomax, Portnockie, Banffsh & Edinburgh Ceili 1951 7"RTR-0679/ "Skipping barfit through the heather"

SKIPPING ROPE, THE - Hornpipe (D/A) - COLE p119 "Skip-Rope - Clog" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #161 p44 (D/A)

SKIPTON - RAM SONG

SKIVER THE QUILT - Jig - COLE #2 p66 (A & Dm) - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #170 p40 (G with F nat) - KERR MM 1 #37 p39 (Am) - LEVEY 1 #72 pp28-9 (G) - O'NEILL MOI #848/ DMI #109 (Am) "The Tailor's Wedding" - SHASKEEN 1 #54 p39 (G/Em) "The Tailor's Wedding" (alt: sometimes "The Legacy")

SKYE - Island in the Hebrides, Scotland - BONNY ISLE OF SKYE - CHARLIE MACKIE - PORTREE BAY

SKYE BOAT SONG, THE - "Over the sea to Skye" - Original Words comp Sir Harold Boulton to air, partly based on an old sea shanty, comp by Annie McLeod publ in SONGS OF THE NORTH (Cramer). Now generally sung to words by Robert Louis Stevenson "Sing me a song of a lad that is gone" "Mull was astern, Rum on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow" etc publ in THE SCOTTISH STUDENT SONGBOOK p206 using Sir Harold's refrain - KERR MM 3 #410 p45 (#D) 6/8 m/o - see SIUBHAIL A BHIRLINN -- SPINNERS "The Spinners are in town": FONTANA 6309-014 1970 - Concert with James GALWAY (flute) Radio 2: 19/6/91 CASS-60-0881

SKYE CROFTER(S) - Highland pipe march - SEATTLE 1990 p34 (D) from Billy Pigg -- Billy PIGG (N-pipes): LEADER LEA- 4006 1971/ TOPIC 12-TS-227 1974/ SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999 (rom School of Scottish Studies archive rec 1964)

SKYLARK, THE - Reel -- John WRIGHT (jews harp): TOPIC 12-TS-230 1974

SKYLARK, THE - PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL

SKYPORT BLUES, RAG -- Adrian TUCKER (with harmonica, kazoo, gtr & drum set) rec by PK, Soundpost Studios, Totnes, Devon: FTX-037

SKYSCRAPERS - I'M A SKYSCAPER WAIN -- TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973 "Streets of Glasgow" kids game

SLACK AWAY YER REEFY TACKLE - Shanty - HUGILL 1961 p503

SLACK YOUR ROPE, HANGMAN - MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS

SLAIN AT WATERLOO - "As I strayed out one fine summer's evening" - Lover's Lament for a fallen battle hero - William reveals the scars of battle or broken token and proposes marriage - LAWS#N-31 & N-32 ABBB 1957 pp219-220 "Waterloo 2" & "Plains of Waterloo" - ROUD#622 (Var of ROUD#960) - HENRY SOP #608 - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp137-8 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970 "Smith at W" --- MACKENZIE NS 1928 #69 pp182-4 (w/o) "Waterloo" - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p172 - GARDNER-CHICKERING BSSM 1939 p227 Mrs Allan McClellan, Mich 1935 (w/o) "Bloody W" - CREIGHTON MFS 1962 pp56-7 NS 1951 2var "Plains of W" - PEACOCK NFL 1965 p1014 - FOWKE TSSO 1965 pp54-5 O J Abbott, Ont "P of W" - CREIGHTON FSNSB 1971 p76 Angelo Dornan "P of W" - PENGUIN BCFS 1976 pp154-5 Fowke - Livyere June 1983 Ken Goldstein & Aidan O Hara: Carrie Brennan, Dunville, Nfl "Fane W" -- Dorothy FURBUR rec by Seamus Ennis, Cheshire 1952: RPL 18137 "The Plains of W" - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: FTX-158 - Len GRAHAM: FREE REED FRR-007 1976 "William Smith at famed W" --- O J ABBOTT rec by Helen Creighton, Ontario: FOLKWAYS FM-4051

SLAINTA RU FILIS - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (Am) #48 pp186-7

SLAN AGUS BEANNACHT LE BUAIREAMH AN tSAOIL -- O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60

SLAN LE MAIGH - (Farewell to Maigue) - BOWEN p42 (G) - Irish Air to 18c Limerick poem

SLANEY SIDE, THE - "I am a rambling hero and by love I was betrayed" - LAWS#M28 - ROUD#1021 - BS Lindsay cat - HUGHES ICS2 1914 p37 Co Kerry 5v - HENRY SOP #52/ HUNTINGTON SOP pp429-430 Co Derry - PEACOCK NFL 1965 p592 - River Slaney in Co Carlow, Wexford & Wicklow - BY SWEET SLANEYSIDE -- John McLAVERTY rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52 on tape 7"RTR-0543 - Phil FURLONG rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Wexford: (RPL 18762)

SLANTY GART - LORD Mc DONALD

SLAP BUM TAILOR, THE - who was consigned to Limbo prison for correcting a woman who insulted him - BS: Theophilus, Birmingham -- Roy PALMER (& ch): TOPIC 12-TS-210 1971

SLAP DAB - AMATEUR WHITEWASHER

SLASHER - Reel - LEAGUE AND SLASHER

SLASHERS - Jig (D) - (Kinnegad, Mullingar, Co Westmeath) - COLE #3 p63 (D) "Land of Sweet Erin" (with dance directions) - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 #169 p43/ 1994 #169 p43 alt: "Barley Meal" - KERR MM 1 #26 p38 "Brian O Linn" & MM 2 #245 p27 "Kinnegad Slashers" - Tunebook Ms #40 p15 (D) 3pts "The K Slashers" - LEVEY 1 #83 pp32-3 3pts "The K Slashers" - O'FARRELL Pocket Companion for the Irish Pipes 1804 vol 3 - O'NEILL MOI #901/ DMI #148 3pts "The KS" alt: "Paddy digging for gold","Twin Sisters" & "Powers of Whisky" - ROCHE 1 #90 p40 -- Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18682/ FTX-115 "The Old Brags" - John REA (H-dulc), Co Antrim: TOPIC 12-TS-373 1979

SLATE CREEK - SALT CREEK

SLATES - TILES

SLATTERY'S MOUNTED FOOT -- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS- 60-0926 & 0927 nd

SLAVE, THE - title of tune in old notebook in possession of Peter Hill of Littleworth, Glos - see MASON, John "The Sloe"

SLAVE HO -- Aldwin COOPER & Ch CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137 1970

SLAVE'S DREAM, THE - "I had a dream, a happy dream" - ROUD#2681 - WILLIAMS Ms #164: Tetbury, Gloucestersh (w/o)

SLAVERY - CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS - FLYING CLOUD - FREEDOM SONGS - JORDAN - LORD BATEMAN - WHEN THAT I WAS WEARY

SLAVERY CHAIN -- Martin Luther King: "Southern Freedom Songs" by Greenwich Theatre Cast: TOPIC IMP-S-102 1970

SLAVERY DAYS - "I'm thinking now today of the years that's past away" - ROUD#12897

SLAVES TO THE WORLD - "should be tossed in a blanket" - mill - hill - ROUD#1345 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p306 (#707) 1v (w/o) - OLD WOMAN TOSSED

SLEDBURN FAIR - "O oft I've heard tell of SF" - Nell - Old Dobbin - Harry the ostler - ROUD#2543 - KIDSON EPS 1929 - FMJ 5:2 1986 p167 Kidson Ms: Miss E Kayhurst, Westmoreland 1902

SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP - LULLABY

SLEEP I CANNOT FIND - CADAL CHA DEAN MI

SLEEP, MY LITTLE CHILD - "Hero my tenderling - Sail through thy child-sleep" - The first song in KENNEDY FRASER SOTH vol 2 1917 pp2-5 "Cradle Spell of Dunvegan", Gaelic words from Neil McLeod, bard of Skye transalated into English by Kenneth McLeod and set to to "Taladh an Leinibh Leoidich" collected by Kenneth McLeod & Marjory K-F from Bella McDonald, Berneray, Isle of Lewis -- Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147

SLEEP ON MOTHER -- SILVER LEAF QUARTET of Norfolk: OKEH 8644/ B&B 014 (Tune: "Swanee River"):

SLEEP ON, MY KATHLEEN DEAR - Song Air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G) #184 p246

SLEEP ON TILL DAY - Song Air - FRASER & other Scots coll

SLEEP SOOND I' DA MORNING - Shetland Reel comp by "Mad" John Goudie - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p55 -- THE SHETLAND FIDDLERS Bobby JAMIESON & Willie Barclay HENDERSON: LEADER LED-2052 1973 with "Yellow haired lassie" - William HUNTER Senr (fid) with Willie JOHNSON (gtr): TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 aft "Sillocks & Tatties" - CULLIVOE Traditional Fiddle Band: TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 aft "Heids o Vigon" & "Out an in da harbour" bef "Speed the Plough" & "Square da Mizzen" - THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LEADER LER-2086 1973 aft "Two Wedding Marches" - Tom ANDERSON, Aly BAIN, Trevor HUNTER, Davie TULLOCH (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano) : TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 aft "Jack broke da prison door" & "Donald Blue"

SLEEPING BEAUTY - BIRTHDAYS (bad luck pricking finger) -- OPIE: FTX-199

SLEEPING BEAUTY, THE - "There was a lovely princess" - "long long ago - she lived in a big high tower - witch (or fairy) came in to see her - cast a spell upon her - pricked her little finger - fell asleep for a hundred years - trees grew all around her - handsome prince came riding - cut trees down one by one - kissed her hand to wake hger - there was a happy wedding" - Children's "Sleeping Beauty" Ring game with actions - HENRY SOP #599 "Fair Rosa" - OPIE SG 1985 #61 pp266-9 "Fair Rosie" -- rec by PK, Kentish Town Church School, London 23/1/53: RPL 19003/ FTX-202 - rec by Damian Webb: DW 12/5) St Andrews Junior Girls, Dumfries 1960/ FTX-190 (has final verse "The wedding guests went ding-dong"/ FTX-196 - rec by Damian Webb 36/16) St Benedict Juniors, Garforth., Leeds, Yorksh 1976: FTX-196 #44 "The Princess lived in a big high tower" (fairy casts the spell) - Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP-A 101 1969 "Briar Rosebud" - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173 "Long long ago" (usual tune) - CINE-FILM by PK "ONE POTATO TWO POTATO" contains shortened version filmed at Kings Cross, London 1953

SLEEPING GAMEKEEPER, THE - HARES IN THE OLD PLANTATIONS

SLEEPING MAGGIE - "O are you sleeping Maggie?" - ROUD#4897

SLEEPING MAGGIE - Highland or Reel (Bm) - COLE #8 p19 - FELDMAN p240 "Sleepy M" (Co Tyrone) - KENNEDY FTB 1954 2 p20/ 1994 #85 p22 3pts "Sleeping Moggy" - KERR MM 3 p6 "S Maggie" 3pts & MM 4 #164 p19 3pts "Sleepy Maggy" - KOHLER 1 p73 (D) - Tunebook Ms #112 p307 (Bm) 3pts "Sleeping Moggy" - O'NEILL MOI #1424/ DMI #661 (Bm) 3pts - SEATTLE p18 source given as LW - WILLIAMSON p62 - WILSON p58 - Cf DROWSIE MAGGIE - JENNY'S CHICKENS -- Michael COLEMAN (fid) Sligo rec USA: FTX-154 - Calum BEATON (H-pipes) rec by The School of Scottish Studies, Stoneybridge, S Uist, Hebrides 1970: TANGENT TNGM-110 19711 aft "McLeod's" & bef "Reel o Tulloch"

SLEEPYTOON (O' KENNETHMONT) - "Twas on a Mart'mas term-time" - Bothy Ballad describing the various farm workers - "We've got a cook aboot oor hoos, her tongue it'll flake a bell - she'll listen to aa the talk that was, an rin i'to hoose to tell" - ROUD#3775 - GREIG-DUNCAN I #356 (6var) - comp by George S Morris (?) -- John MEARNS & group rec by Alan Lomax, Aberdeen 14/7/51: COLUMBIA SL-207 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998 - 7"RTR#0681 - Jimmy McBEATH rec by Seamus Ennis, Portsoy, Banffsh 7/7/52: RPL 18126/ FTX-260 - Ian CAMPBELL Folk Group with Dave SWARBRICK: EMI MFP-1349 1969 - John McDONALD Moray: TOPIC 12-T-263 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-655 (Rural) - Ray & Cilla FISHER (unacc) rec Bewdley Festival: Radio 2: 26/10/88: CASS#0736-C30 - Jock DUNCAN (unacc singer) rec Aberdeensh: SLEEPYTOON SLPYMC001 1999 (Cass)

SLENDER THREAD OF LIFE, THE - "There was a lady in the East (West)" - She falls in love with Jimmy, her father's clerk - threatened by him she shoots herself - or the father shoots her and then himself - while the mother faints, Jimmy either takes a knife or shoots himself and cuts the slender thread" - ROUD#2298 - JFSS 19 1915 pp139-142 Carey from the Stemp family of gipsy origin Trotton Sussex 1911 "The Lady's Daughter of the West" (9½v/m) tune of each verse noted --- KARPELES NFL 1971 #68 p214 "There was a lady in the East" - PEACOCK NFL 1965 3 pp726-8 3var (title as Karpeles)

SLIABH - SLIEVE (Mountain)

SLIABH GEAL gCUA NA FEILE - (Bright Mountain) - Irish Gaelic Air -- Mary O HARA (voc/harp): DECCA GES-1095 1973 - Paddy MALONEY & Sean POTTS (whistles) with Peadar MERCIER (bodhran) Clare: CLADDAGH CC-15 1974

SLIABH NA mBAN - (The White Mountain or The Mountain of Women) - CRANITCH p105 -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec London 7/2/58: RPL LP 23931/ FTX-374 - Felix DORAN (U-pipes) rec by PK, Keele University 1965: FTX-172 - Finbar FUREY (U-pipes) with Eddie (gtr) TRANSATLANTIC TRA-168 1968

SLIAM NA GABALL - Polka -- Chris DRONEY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-503 1975 with "Lakes of Sligo"

SLIDE HORNPIPE, THE - HONEYMAN #2 p54 (Bb/F) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #162 p44 (G/D)

SLIDES - Irish name for Highland Scottisches - BROSNA - CALLAGHAN'S - CHASE ME CHARLIE - CUIL AODHA - DAN O KEEFE'S - DANNY AB'S - DENNIS MURPHY'S - DINNY MESCAL'S - DINGLE REGATTA - GLOUNTANE - JOHNNY MICKEY'S - MICK DUGGAN'S - O'KEEFE'S - DAN O KEEFE'S - DENIS ENBRIGHT'S - JIM KEEFE'S - JOHN KELLY'S - JOHNNY MURPHY'S - MICHAEL MURPHY'S - NELL O' SULLIVAN'S - PADRAIG O'KEEFE'S - SCARTAGLEN - SCATTERY ISLAND - STAR ABOVE THE GARTER - TOM BILLY'S FAVOURITE - TOORMORE - WEAVERS

SLIEVE FEIDLIM - Air - ROCHE 3 #27 p8 (Gm) 3/4

SLIEVE GALLEN - ROCHE 3 #57 p16 (Gm) 3/4 - FAREWELL TO SLIEVE GALLEN

SLIEVE GALLON BRAE(S) - "As I went out walking one morning in May" - ROUD#1420 - HARDEBECK 1910 arr with Gaelic text - HENRY SOP #784 6v - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 #9 p18 - Cf WILD SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - Liam O Connor's Draft Ms "Songs of the North of Ireland" 1994 p59 "Sliabh Gallen's Brae" -- Frank & Francie McPEAKE (U- pipes) of Belfast rec by PK, London 1953: RPL 21155 bef "Mrs McLeod's Reel" / FTX-176 - McPEAKE Family: PRESTIGE International 13018 1961 - Kathleen & Frank McPEAKE: TOPIC 12-T-87 1963 & TOPIC 12-TPS-166 1966 - Mary MURPHY rec by PK, Draperstown, Co Derry 1953: RPL 19972/ FTX-435 (also sang "Wild Slieve Gallon Brae") - John McILWEE rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Derry 1954: RPL 21997 - Packie Manus BYRNE: EFDSS LP-1009 1969 - HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER RUB-009 1975

SLIEVE GALTEE MOUNTAINS - ROUD #2329 - JOYCE OIFM&S p103 "At the foot of Newry Mountain" - see also GALTEE FARMER -- Winnie RYAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 24/7/52: RPL 18301 talk aft/ FTX-166 - John REILLY (tinker) rec by Tom Munnelly, nr Boyle, Co Roscommon 1967: 175 "At the foot of Newry Mountain"

SLIEVE GULLION - see also SLOPES OF SLIEVE GULLION (Triple Jig) -- Frank "Wings" CAMPBELL (talk about mountain, witch & Finn McCoul) rec by PK, Forkhill, Co Armagh 15/7/52: RPL 18486/ FTX-165

SLIEVE NA mBAN - Air - (The White Mountain) - Tunebook Ms #44 p185 (Am) 4/4 - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #812 (G) "Slievenamon" - ROCHE 3 #54 p15 (G) 4pts - MOUNTAIN OF WOMEN -- Frank LEE'S TARA CEILIDH Band: REGAL ZONOPHONE MR-1105 (78 rpm) CASS 0892 - Felix DORAN (U-pipes) rec by PK, Clones, Co Monaghan 1964: FTX-172 - Mary O HARA (unacc): DECCA MLO-22 1967 - FUREYS with Bob STEWART (instrum): BROADSIDE BRO-133 1974 with "Garret Barry's Jig" - Sean RYAN (whi) of Galway with Alec FINN (bouzouki) of DE DANNAN RTE "Long Note" 9/11/88 CASS- 60-0899 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60-0927 nd

SLIEVE RUSSELL - Jig -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): CLADDAGH (TARA) TA- 1002 1973 (M) bef "Sixpenny Money"

SLIGHTED SOLDIER, THE - "A soldier he comply made as he walked out one day ... my mammy says I must not kiss a soldier"- mentions King David and Goliath & Jerusalem, Turk or foe - SHARP FSSA 1932 #175 (vol 2 p247) Solomon Williams, Webb's Creek, Sevier Co., Tenn 1917

SLIGHTLY FADED - comp by Campbell - a song about prostitution -- Jacqueline McDONNELL & Bridie GALLAGHER: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-23 1968

SLIGO - Irish County - BENBULDEN - GALLOWS - LADS OF DOOCASTLE (Reel) - MAID OF MULLAGHMORE - ORANGE MAID OF SLIGO - PADDY KILLORAN'S REEL - TRIP TO KILLAVIL (Jig) - TRIP TO SLIGO (Jig) -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

SLIGO AIR - ROCHE 3 #1 p1 (G) 3/4

SLIGO BAY - Jig -- James MORRISON (fid) Tom ENNIS (U-pipes) John MULLEN (piano) rec New York 1921-1935: TOPIC 12-T-390 1980 with "Paddy in London" & "The Butcher's March"

SLIGO BETTISON - comp by RW -- Roger WATSON with GARDEN GNOME CEILIDH BAND & MUCKRAM WAKES: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-017 1974

SLIGO CHORUS, THE - Reel - - O'NEILL MOI #1273/ DMI #541 (G)

SLIGO FANCY - Hornpipe - MARQUIS OF LORNE

SLIGO LASSES, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1392/ DMI #636 (G)

SLIGO MAID, THE - ORANGE MAID OF SLIGO

SLIGO MAID, THE - Reel (Am) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #124 p51 - BRODY p259 - CRANITCH #53 p146 - KERR MM 4 p20 "Sligo Reel" - Tunebook Ms #57 p286 (Am) a single reel version - MITCHELL #121 p91 from Willie Clancy - SULLIVAN 2 p4 -- Michael COLEMAN (with piano) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE VV-004 d/cass 1991 aft "The Crooked Road to Dublin" - Richard O MEALY (U-pipes) rec Belfast 1943:RPL /RTE "Long Note" radio prog 11/7/88 CASS 60-0898 "Sligo Lasses" - Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) rec Dublin 1944: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Collier's Reel" - Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec by The Irish Folklore Commission, Co Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE 002 double cassette 1990 bef "Molloy's Fav" - Paddy TUNNEY (lilting) rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0553/ rec by Sean O Boyle 1958: 7"RTR-0565 bef "Bag of Spuds" - Michael GORMAN (fid) Sligo rec by PK, London 1956: 174 - Sean MAGUIRE & Bill MONTGOMERY (fids/ talk bef) rec by PK, Belfast 1952: 7"RTR-0544/ FTX-375 bef "Hunter's House"(by Ed Reavy) - Dave SWARBRICK (fid): ELEKTRA BY-6030 1967 - Festy CONLON (whistle) & Tim LYONS (acc): TOPIC 12-T-184 1969 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1123 1976 - Mick FOSTER: RITZ London LC-0008 nd/ CASS-0952 (unacc mouth music)

SLIGO MAID'S LAMENT, THE - Reel -- Seamus ENNIS (whistle) rec Dublin 22/9/49: RPL 13779 aft 3 Single Jigs: "Tipperary Wedding" "Dark girl in blue" & "Humours of Lisheen"/ rec Pat Sky: FREE REED FFR-001-2 1976 aft "Bucks of Oranmore"/ RTE-CD-199 1997 aft "Mountain Lark" & bef "Flax in Bloom"

SLIGO MILITIA'S GRAND MARCH - Tunebook Ms (D) #52 p145

SLIGO REEL, THE - COTTER - "Tommy McMahon's" - KERR MM 4 #168 p20 (High D) - SHASKEEN 1 #8 p7 (G)

SLING THE FLOWING BOWL - "Come, come, my jolly lads, the wind's abaft" - ROUD#2015 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp51-2 ships log 1847 (w/o)

SLIP JIGS - TRIPLE JIGS

SLIPPER HORNPIPE, THE - O'NEILL MOI #1596/ DMI #841 (D)

SLIPPERY STANE, THE - "There's slippery stanes where'er you gang - at ilka body's door" - comp by Hamilton Nimmo (1836-92) - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #666 (3 frag versions) -- John MEARNS (unacc) rec Aberdeen 25/2/54: RPL 20085

SLIPS ON SHOW - CLOTHING DISORDER

SLOE, THE - MASON, John

SLOAN WELLESLEY - "In the County of Armagh two boys went a-fowling - both drowned in the River Bann" - ROUD#3600 - HENRY SOP #585 -- Robert Cinnamond rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24837 talk bef/ FTX-187

SLOCKIT LIGHT, DA - comp by TA -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN, (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 with "Smith o' Couster" & "Da Grocer" (Anderson comp)

SLOOP JOHN B -- Joseph SPENCE (voc/ gtr) Bahamas: ARHOOLIE 1061 1972 rec at a concert

SLOOP OF WAR - SWALLOW (Reel)

SLOPES OF SLIEVE GULLION - Triple Jig - MAGUIRE 1 #95 p26 (G)

SLOW AIRS - under AIRS

SLOW BY THE SHADOWS - "of dark Gleanarigh" - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 pp25-7 Words by Seosame MacCathmhaoil/ Air from Co Donegal

SLOW MARCHES - MARCHES

SLOW MEN OF LONDON, THE - (or WIDOW BROWN) - "There dwelt a widow in this town" "There were 3 lads in our town" - ROUD#12564 - D'URFEY 1719 6 pp93-6 - BUCHAN Secret Songs of Silence p123 - (Note: Slow is Lowlands speech for slain (killed))

SLUMBER SONG - ARRANE SAVEENAH

SLY MONGOOSE - Jamaican -- THE LIVERPOOL SPINNERS: FONTANA STL-5431 1967

SLY PATRICK - Jig or Country Dance - HAYWOOD #14 p29 (G)

SLY REYNARD - "looked forth from a farmer's hen-roost" - BARING GOULD-SHARP Schools 1906

SMACKSMAN, THE - "Once I was a schoolboy and lived at home at ease" - Ch: "Heave away the trawl, my boys" -ROUD#1788 - ED&S 30:1 1968 p9 Joy Hyman: Charlie Geering, Hastings Old Town, Sussex 1967 "Heave on the trawl my boys" - PALMER OBSS 1986 #135 p269 Sam Larner - see COD-BANGING (possibly the same song) - ON BOARD THE KANGAROO -- Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donnellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: RPL LP 26075/ CAEDMON TC-1162/ TOPIC 12-T-194 1969/ TOPIC 12-T-244 1974 "Once I was a schoolboy " - 'Skipper' BALL rec on board trawler "Wave Crest" 1958: RPL LP 26954 "When I was a prentice boy" - Joe SPICER (fisherman age 68) rec by PK, Hastings, Sussex 4/9/63/ RTR #0912/ FTX-428/ FTX-515 "Heave on the trawl" - Tom BROWN (of Caister Norfolk) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 25/3/79 133 (with talk about Winterton, Sam Larner & other local singers)/ SAYDISC SDL-405 1994 - "Songs sung in Suffolk" rec by John Howson on Radio 2: 16/112/96: CASS 60-1336 at 7mins

SMALL BIRDS AND TURTLE DOVES - ARISE AND PICK A POSY

SMALL BIRDS WHISTLE, THE - EARLY EARLY ALL IN THE SPRING

SMALL COALS AND LITTLE MONEY - CRAWHALL 1877 -- W J STAFFORD (N- pipes) rec 22/10/49: RPL 14010 - CELEBRATED WORKING BAND: TOPIC 12-T-86 1963 - Kathryn TICKELL (N-pipes): LOUGH-CD-007 1999 bef "Lisheen Reel"

SMALL COALS FOR NAILERS - Reel (Em) - HONEYMAN p14 - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p54

SMASH, JEMMY , LET US BUSS - X-Y-Z

SMASH THE WINDOWS - Jig (D) - ALLAN #35 p9 - BRODY p259 - COLE #3 p59 - HAYWOOD #29 p15 - KENNEDY FTB 1 p40/ 1994 #157 p40 alt: "Roaring Jelly" - KRASSEN p47 - KERR MM 1 p40 "RJ" & MM 4 #192 p22 - MOYLAN 2 #223 pp128-9 12/8 Slide from John O Leary (melodeon) - Single Jig - O'NEILL MOI #965/ DMI #386 - PHILLIPS FCTB p43 -- Billy ANDREWS (U-pipes) Dublin 1928: TOPIC 12-T-262 1975 - JACKIE HEARST TRIO of Newry Co Down rec Belfast 20/9/52: RPL 18180/ FTX-373 titled "The Gates of Derry" bef "Biddy the bowl wife" & Lannigan's Ball" - Jack ARMSTRONG'S Band rec by PK, Newcastle 1954: FTX-121 - George HOYLAND (mel) rec by PK, Wortley, Sheffield, Yorksh 20/8/58: FTX-212 - MARSDEN RATTLERS: TOPIC 12-T-181 1968 - THE CHEVIOT RANTERS: TOPIC 12-TS-245 1974 - RATTLEBONE & PLOUGHJACK (conc & dancers): ISLAND HELP-24 1976 "Molly Dance" from Girton, Cambs - Richard O MEALY (U-pipes) on Radio Belfast 1943: RTE "Long Note" radio prog 11/7/88 CASS-60-0898 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): RTE-CD-199 1997

SMASHING OF THE VAN, THE - MANCHESTER MARTYRS

SMELL (STINK) - DIESEL AND SHALE - GRAND-DAD'S SWEATY FEET - PADDY ON THE RAILWAY - Children - JEERS - INK PINK PEN AND INK - MATCHSTICKS "Pig snout" - MISCHIEF NIGHT - MY MOTHER IS A BAKER -- Children's voices: FTX-198 & FTX-289

SMELL OF THE BOG, THE - Hornpipe - TWEED p41 (G) from Joe Burke

SMILE AWHILE - Song tune used as a Waltz -- Alec BISSET (mel/+ piano) rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-319 1977

SMILES AND TEARS OF ERIN, THE - Reel (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #101 p43 source not given - FUREY p57 says it was supposed to have been composed by Elizabeth Edgeworth, Co Westmeath

SMILING SHORE, A - comp by Andrew Cronshaw -- June TABOR: TOPIC 12- TS-432 1983

SMILING TOM - "I am what you call a yokel, you'll agree with me I'm sure" - ROUDSR#2682 - Alfred WILLIAMS #708 (w/o)

SMITH AT WATERLOO - SLAIN AT WATERLOO

SMITH O' COUSTER - comp by TA -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976

SMITH'S A GALLANT FIREMAN, THE - Song - i e Blacksmith's own fire - Song written to the dance-tune by John Harrison (b Forglen 1814 & d Liverpool 1889) - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #461 3var - KERR 1 p4 (D) - Jimmy Stewart called his fiddle tune "Bogen's Wife" (meaning "Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch") - tune used for HOOCH ON, MY BONNY LASS (1v mouth tune) -- Jimmy McBEATH (song frag from his father): FTX-060

SMITH'S A GALLANT FIREMAN, THE - Strathspey/ Reel - HONEYMAN p10 alt: "Carrick's Rant" - KENNEDY FTB 2 p15/ #61 p17 (D) "Bonny Lass" - KERR CMM 1 p4 "The Smith's a gallant fireman" (Title of song written by John Harrison (1814-1889) - tune used for HIGHLAND RORY - ROY'S WIFE OF ALDIVALLOCH - Tunebook Ms R#61 p288 "Bonny Lass are you going to leave me?" - older players in Scotland call it "Bogen's Wife" a mouth-music version was titled "Hooch on, my bonny lass" -- Ian BURNETT (accordion) rec by Seamus Ennis, Banffsh 12/7/52: RPL 18780- Jimmy STEWART (fid tune) rec by PK, Aberdeen 1955: FTX-060 - Charlie BREMNER (fid) rec by Hamish Henderson, Glenlivet Distillery, Banffsh 1956: TANGENT TNGM-109 1971

SMITH'S FAVOURITE - Hornpipe - WITTLE DEAN

SMITH'S DELIGHT - Reel (D) - COLE #4 p46 "Smith's Reel" - KERR MM 2 #241 - MOYLAN 2 #284 pp162-3 "Kitty's Wedding" from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #1602/ DMI #846

SMITH'S HORNPIPE - COLE #3 p92 (Bb) (with dance directions) - KERR MM 2 #325 p36 (D) - O'NEILL MOI #1602/ DMI #846 (D) "Kitty's Wedding"

SMITHFIELD MARKET FIRE, THE - comp by Dallas -- Fred DALLAS with the ORIGINAL RIVERSIDERS Skiffle Group rec by PK, London 1958: RPL LP 24159 - Fred DALLAS with Perry FRIEDMAN (banjo) rec by PK: EMI DLP-1204 1960/ FTX-093 "Smithfield Market Burning"

SMOKE AMONG THE POPLARS - "All my life I've know'd 'em - long tall row of Lomardys" - Song by GM about land and trees being bulldozed for a new factory -- Graeme MILES (with hammer noise): FTX-228

SMOKE OVER BELFAST, THE - LETTER FROM IRELAND

SMOKE STACK LAND, THE - "I was born in the SSL - where big ships glide - tall cranes stand by - "itchy feet" take him to Manchester, Birmingham, London, merchant ship and "Adolf;s War" comp by GM -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222

SMOKING - TOBACCO - Children - HAVE A CIGARETTE SIR ? - MARY WAS A BAD GIRL - SHE SAT NEATH THE LILACS (cigar) - UP OR DOWN THE POLE - WE ARE THE MERCY GIRLS

SMOKING GLASS - "watch the moon up high - kicked the sun up the bum - cased it from the sky" - Kids Rhyme -- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 (learnt in Salford as a child - eclipse of sun)

SMOKY & GUINESS -- RUSSCO rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 5.11.75: FTX-094

SMOKY HOUSE, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1504/ DMI #725 (Am)

SMUGGLER'S BOY, THE - POOR LITTLE SMUGGLER'S BOY

SMUGGLER'S BRIDE, THE - POOR LITTLE MARY ANN

SMUGGLER'S REEL, THE - COLE p51 (A)

SMUGGLER'S LULLABY - ARRANE BEN DROGH HRAGHTALAGH

SMUGGLER'S SONG, THE - "O for a smuggler's life, my lads" - ROUD#3305 - DUNSTAN CDFS 1932 p19 Capt T Collett: John Gay, Cornwall "Old Smuggler's Song"

SMUGGLER'S SONG - "Says the captain" (comp by John Mead Faulker) - Moonfleet -- Martin GRAEBE rec by PK, Devon 6th Nov 1974: 10"-RTR-049

SMUGGLER'S SONG, THE - Rudyard Kipling -- David DODDS (with drum) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse, Totnes, Devon Nov 1974

SMUGGLING - see also ILLICIT BREWING --- BOSTON SMUGGLER - MARGARET AND THE MARY - MICK McGEE - MICK MILES - WILL WATCH -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

SNAIL, THE - "crawls out with his house on his back" Ch: "Creep creep creep" - ROUD#1284 - BARING GOULD Ms - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p213 #313 John Eggletron, Blunsdon, Wiltsh 5v/ch/ #69 Mrs B A Brown, Colesbourne, Gloucestersh (w/o) --- HUDSON FSM 1936 pp275-6 Miss Mary Ila Long, Mi (w/o) -- Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB- 4 1969

SNAIL SNAIL - "come out of your hole" - ROUD#911 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp275-6 Mississippi (w/o)

SNAKE, THE - Reel -- GLENSIDE Ceilidhe Band: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-159 1967 with "Jackie Coleman's"

SNAKE BAKED A HOECAKE - "and set a frog to watch it" - SHARP FSSA 197/32 #238 (vol 2 p346) Mr Ebe Richards, St Peters School, Callaway, Va 1918

SNAKEBIT HOEHANDLE, THE - Appalachian Story -- RICHARD CHASE, USA: TRADITION TLP-1011 1957

SNEAKING - TELL TALE TIT (K)

SNEEZING - JACK IN THE BOX (K)

SNIEU, QUEEYL, SNIEU - (Spin, wheel, spin) - Manx Gaelic - MOORE 1928 - DOUGLAS 1928 I p22 from Moore arr Arnold Foster - JFSS 28 [1924] pp112-4 "Arrane Queeyl-Nieuee" from Clague & Moore with associated Cante-Fable "The Lazy Wife" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #82 Douglas from Mrs Callow, Cardle Veg, Maughold, 1918-20 -- Winifred WOODS rec by PK, London 1965 she gives English words then Joe WOODS, her brother, sings 3v in Gaelic

SNOB AND THE BOTTLE, THE - "Good people, attend to my song" - advice to tradesmen and drinkers - ASHTON MSB 1888 p38 (8v w/o)

SNORING - IT'S RAINING IT'S POURING

SNOW - BLANCHE COMME LA NEIGE - CRUEL WINTER'S NIGHT - LASS O LECHT - FROST AND SNOW

SNOW IS ON THE GROUND, THE - REMEMBER THE POOR

SNOW ON THE HILLS, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1306/ DMI #569 (G)

SNOW IT MELTS THE SOONEST, THE - "when the winds begin to blow" - ROUD#3154 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp120-1 Thomas Doubleday (author ?): Newcastle 1821

SNOWBIRD ON THE ASHPLANT -- played by Earl COLLINS, fiddle, Missouri 1970 on DVD 2003 Films of Bess Lomax Hawes (B/W)

SNOWDEN SLEIGHTS - "Born Selby and fowling is my trade" - comp by Blanchard & Morgan - descr duck-shooting in Yorkshire -- Bryan BLANCHARD (unacc): LONG MAN LM-4001

SNOWDEN ROAD TRAGEDY - comp by GM 1961 about 4 engineers who died in a sewer -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222

SNOWFLAKE, THE - comp by JC -- Jim COUZA (H-dulc) with Eileen MONGER (harp), Michael PUNZAK (fid): SAYDISC SDL-335 1983 aft "The Flowers of England" (JC)

SNOWMAN, THE - Mrs APRIL AND THE SNOWMAN

SNOWS THEY MELT THE SOONEST, THE - Northumbrian Love Song - BLACKWOODS Mag 1821 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 tune: "My love is listed" (White Cockade) -- Archie FISHER (with gtr): TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1070 1968 - Anne BRIGGS (unacc): TOPIC 12-T-207 1971 - Tom GILFELLON (unacc): TOPIC 12-TS-282 1976 - Dick GAUGHAN: TOPIC 12-TS-419 1981 (from Archie Fisher)/ with Brian McNEIL (fid), Phil CUNNINGHAM (keyboards & whi) & Stewart ISBISTER (e/bass) CASS 90-0894 - Johnny HANDLE (unacc) RPL LP 31567

SNUFFER'S TOAST, THE - HERE'S TO THE NOSE

SNUG IN THE BASKET - Instrumental comp -- Dave SWARBRICK (fid) & Martin CARTHY (gtr): FONTANA 17490 1967 (EP)

SNUG IN THE BLANKET - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #589/ DMI #138 (#D) 3pts

 
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