SPACE - I'M THE URBAN SPACEMAN (Innes)
- INTERPLANETARY CAROL (S Carter) - MARTIANS HAVE LANDED IN WIGAN (B Wrigley)
- SPACEY JONES (P Seeger)
SPACE GIRL - "My mother told me I should never venture into
space - but I did" - Ewan MacColl made this parody on "The
Ghost Soldier Song" which was popular with American soldiers during
the First World War -- Shirley COLLINS with Jimmy Mc GREGOR (mandolin), Robin
HALL (gtr) & Vic PITT (d/bass) rec by PK, London: EMI DLP-1204 1960/ 093
- Lisa TURNER (voc/gtr) rec by PK, London 1963 "Calling the tune"
Radio Prog #6 25/2/63
SPACE ODDITY - comp by David Bowie -- ZIGGURAT rec by PK, Totnes,
Devon 1974: FTX-090 (including "reverse version")
SPACEMAN, THE - dance tune comp by Dorren Buckoke (?) (Dave Taylor)
SPACEMAN SAYS - "two legs together - over the Irish sea - Chelsea
- Sexy maniac - tick tack" - Children's Clapping Rhyme -- rec by
Damian Webb (36/9) St Patricks School, Huddersfield 1978: FTX-196
#40
SPAGNOLETTA, THE - comp Farnaby -- TROTTO: FOREST TRACKS FT 6004
Cs
SPAILPIN A RUIN - or "Caoineadh an Spailpin" - (The
Spalpeen's Lament) "One evening of late as I happened to stray"
- evening late - Tipperary - dig potatoes - ROUD#2358 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp216-8
Limerick -- Jerry HICKS rec by PK & Sean O Boyle 7"RTR-0565 "The
Cranbally Farmer" - Sean Mc DONAGH, Co Galway: CLADDAGH CC-9 1971 -
O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60
SPAILPIN A RUIN - (The Spalpeen's Lament) - Instr Air - CRANITCH
p114 -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-175 1967 - John DOONAN (piccolo):
TOPIC 12-TS-230 1974 - Micho RUSSELL (whistle), Doolin, Co Clare: FREE REED
FRR-004 1976 - HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER RUB-009 1975 - Tommy POTTS (fid) rec by
Diane Hamilton: GREENHAYS GR-705 1981
SPAILPIN FANACH, AN - (The Rambling Labourer) - Irish Gaelic
- tune: "The Girl I left behind me" -- Sean McDONAGH, Co
Galway: TOPIC 12-T-177 1968/ TSCD-670 1998/ CLADDAGH CC-9 1971
SPAIN-
- see also BASQUE COUNTRY- FMJ 1965 p38 Lucille
Armstrong "Giants & Dwarfs Avila" - BANTRY GIRL'S LAMENT
- BOLERAS SEVILLANAS - BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBY - SOLDIER'S DEATH - DUNDEE LASSIE
(Civil War mentioned) - Children -
SPANISH LADY - THERE CAME A GIRL FROM ITALY - THERE CAME THREE JEWS --
Recordings - see AREA Listing
SPALPEEN'S LAMENT, THE - SPAILPIN A RUIN
SPANIARD THAT BLIGHTED MY LIFE, THE -- Andrew FRANK (voc) with Michael HEBBERT
(conc): FREE REED FRR-009 1972
SPANIARD'S CRY, THE - Morris Dance tune -- Shirley COLLINS &
group: DECCA SML-1117 1974 with morris tunes - John WATCHAM (conc): TOPIC 12-TS-238
1974 with "The Sherborne Jig"
SPANISH CAPTAIN, THE - "You muses nine let you combine"
- LAWS#dD33 - ROUD#4079 - DOYLE OTSN 1966 (Doyle: Old-Time Songs & Poetry
of Newfoundland) 1940/ 1966 pp.63-64) - GREENLEAF-MANSFIELD BSSN (Ballads &
Sea Songs of Newfoundland) pp.275-276- left sunny Spain on board of "Margaretta"
bound for Newfoundland accompanied by Rosanna followed by her still fairer daughter
-- Anita BEST (unacc): AMBER MUSIC CD 9804-2 1997
SPANISH CAVALIER, THE - "A SC sat beneath the tree"
- ROUD#2684 - WILLIAMS Ms #153 Eli Dawes, Southrop, Gloucestersh (w/o)
SPANISH CLOAK, THE - Instrumental -- Finbar FUREY (whistle/U-pipes)
Eddie FUREY (gtr & bodhran) TRANSATLANTIC TRA-168 1968
SPANISH DANCE - Tunebook Ms 2/4 (D) #60 p364/ - 2: 2/4 (D) #61 pp364-5/
- 3 2/4 (D) #63 p365/ - 4: 2/4 (D) #63 p365
SPANISH DANCE -- TROTTO (zither, dulc & gtr): FOREST TRACKS FT- 6003
1963 "Pues que jamais"
SPANISH DOLLAR - Hornpipe - alt: "The Mountain" - KOHLER
1 p48 (G) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #165 p45 (G)
SPANISH FANDANGO, THE - Tunebook Ms (G) #103 p489 - WESTROP #113 p39
(D) 3pts - see OFFICER'S POLKA for English Dance with this name --
Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing
SPANISH FIGHT, THE - "Come all you bold Britons that ploughs
on the Main" - ROUD#296 - ASHTON RSS 1891 #2 Blackletter Broadside:
"The Famous fight at Malago" - KARPELES CSC 1974 #288 pp286-7
Joseph Jackson, Bourne, Lincolnsh 1911 "Come all you bold Britons"
- JFSS 8:33 1929 pp134-5 Thomas Wood: William Sparkes, Mount Bures, Essex 4v
("Barcelona"/ "Polly Oliver" tune - SPANISH PLAY
-- Bryan PEARSON with CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-138 1971
SPANISH GAMBOLIER, THE - "sat under a tree and on his guitar
played a tune there" Ch:"Say, love, say" - MUNCH Tristan
da Cunha 1970 p113 from Henry Green & Alice Swain
SPANISH IS A LOVING TONGUE -- Ronnie GILBERT: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 - Danny
DOYLE: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-26 1968
SPANISH LADIES - "Farewell and adieu to you SL" - Ch:
"We'll rant and we'll roar" - Capstan Shanty - ROUD#687 - Bss
incl BG 1:1:#27/ 4:#292/ 5:#145/ 6:#88/ 7:#123/ 9:#86 - CHAPPELL NEA 1838 p154
- DIXON SP 1846 pp234-5 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp234-5 (p454) (w/o) - CHAPPELL PMOT
1858 pp736-7 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 5 pp62-4 - SHARP Schools 5 - Sel Ed 2 pp97-99
(text revised by Capt Kettlewell) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #289 2 pp288 Capt
Lewis, Minehead, Som 1906 1v/m/ Charles Robbins, Marylebone, London 1909 (m/o)/
James Bale, Bridgwater, Som 1905 1v/m/ Robert Hughes, Buckingham 1922 (m/o)
- JFSS 2:8 1906 pp179-80 RVW: Mr Leatherday, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1905 - BECKETT
1914 p16 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #41 p32 - SHAY 1925 p10 (w/o) - HUGILL 1961 p385
- PALMER OBSS #54 p124 Marryatt/Chappell --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #97 pp257-8
Nelson Langille (w/o) - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p266 "The Ryans & the
Pitmans" incl local Newfoundland verses - KARPELES FSN 1971 pp155-6
#41 James Day, Nfl 1929 - EDWARDS OSB 1971 pp103-5 Cutting in Hurd Coll, Australia
"Comp (or written down) by Saul Mendelsohn (d1897) "The Drover"
("Brisbane Ladies")" - see RYANS AND PITMANS (Newfoundland
parody) -- Fishermen rec by PK, Cadgwith Cove, Cornwall 1956: RPL LP 23654
ch/1v/ch/ BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES RS-120 1963/ FTX-309
A- ROVING 1968 #3/ SAYDISC SDL-405 1994 - THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-86 1973/ Radio
2: 18/11/87: CASS-60-0556 - LARRIKINS: LARRIKIN LRC-028 CASS "Brisbane
Ladies"
SPANISH LADY - "Knock knock - twenty four robbers came a-knocking
at the door - I went there to let them in - They hit me on the head with a rolling
pin - SL turn around - touch the ground" etc - Kids Skipping Rhyme
(tune is first part only of "So Early in the Morning" (or "In
& Out the Windows") -- Lonlas School llansamlet, Swansea May 1982
(Welsh Folk Museum rec): SAYDSIC CD-SDL-338
SPANISH LADY - "As I was walking down the street, a SL I did
meet, patent slippers on her feet, and the baby in her arms - tinkle tinle tra
la" - One kid in front of a line of others - OPIE SG 1985 #87 pp343-4
SPANISH LADY, THE - "As I walked through Dublin City" "Yonder
stands a SL" - ROUD#3086 - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #746 p66 9var - CAREY
1915 Sussex "As I walked through London City" - Ethel Findlater's
version in TOCHER 5 p166 & Willie Mathieson's rec by Hamish Henderson 1952
in TOCHER 43 pp35-7 regarded nearer to "O No John" --- COX
FSOS pp465-466 John Raese, Davis W Va 1916 (w/o) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p7 no
source given - "Scouse" Liverpool version titled "Galway City"
in word file - see MADAM - NO JOHN - TWENTY EIGHTEEN - tune used for DORAN'S
ASS -- Matt LINEHAN rec by Radio Eireann, Co Kerry Nov 1948: RPL 21830 "As
I strayed through Dublin City" - Seamus ENNIS Dublin rec by PK, London
1958: CAEDMON TC-1143/ TOPIC 12-T-158/ FTX 169/
ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 "Dublin City" - Dominic BEHAN rec
by PK, London 1959 (15ips top track) RTR-0492 (Song mentions places in Dublin)
talk bef mentioning Rathmines, Dublin where Percy French lived and where Dominic
collcted this version from a man who got it from another Irishman in Cardiff
- RIPLEY WAYFARERS Derbysh: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-006 1971 - Frank HARTE (unacc):
TOPIC 12-T-218 1973 - Campbell CONNIFF (with bodhran & ch) with CHIEFTAINS
Concert in Manchester RPL Radio 2 19/6/91 CASS-60-0881 "Chester City"
- Jimmy HUTCHISON: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-1002 200 (from Dominic Behan)
SPANISH LADY, THE - instrumental -- John Mc KENNA (flute) with James
MORRISON (fid) & piano (b Leitrim) rec USA COLUMBIA 1928 CASS-0893 bef "Thady
Regan (My love she's but a lassie yet)" - Dave SWARBRICK (fiddle medley)
ELEKTRA BY-6030 1967
SPANISH LADY - MADAM - SLAIN AT WATERLOO
SPANISH MAIN, THE - "I was scarce eighteen when I started roving"
- courted for 3 years - ROUD#2296 - PEACOCK SNO 3 pp720-21 John Mahoney, Stock
Cove, Nfl 1951 - KARPELES FSNFL 1971 pp153-4 Fred Mercer, Upper Island Cove,
Nfl 1929
SPANISH MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER, THE - NO JOHN
SPANISH PLAY - "On the fourteenth day of August in Cadiz Bay
we lay" - Sea fight off Cadiz - ROUD#8097 - BS York Publ (BL c1870
2 #80) "Spanish Snow" - see also THE SPANISH FIGHT -- Davie
LAUGHTON rec by PK, Orkney 1955: FTX-189
SPANISH SCHOTTISCHE - SEVEN STEP POLKA
SPANISH SHAWL, THE - Instrumental air -- CORRIES: FONTANA STL-5465
1968 (learned from Brendan Byrne)
SPANISH SHORE, THE - FEMALE WARRIOR - GOOD LUCK SHIP - JOHNNY JARMIN
- WARD THE PIRATE
SPANISH WALTZ, THE - Tunebook Ms (G) 3 pts #4 p431/ (G) 3 pts #6 p432/
(G) 3 pts #7 p432/ (D) 3 pts #49 pp460-1 - see also SARABAND WALTZ --
Tom HUGHES & Wattie ROBSON (fids): SPRINGTHYME SPR 1005 1981 "Henry
Hughes Favourite"
SPANSIL HILL - TINKER'S BAND
SPARE ME THE LIFE - GEORDIE
SPARKING ON A SUNDAY NIGHT - "Sitting in a corner, on a Sunday
eve" - ROUD#1820 - SPAETH WSM 1927 pp95-6 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 3 pp91-2
Okla 1921 (w/o) - THOMPSON PS 1958 Ms NY "Sparking Sunday night"
1841-56
SPARROW, THE - In Welsh -- Mary HOPKINS (with orch) Radio 2: 2/3/88
CASS-0868
SPATTER THE DEW - Reel - ROCHE 1 #193 p74 (Am) written 2/4
SPATTER THE DEW - Triple Jig (Em) - Tunebook Ms #121 p47 4pts - O'NEILL
(not in MOI) DMI #446 4pts - ROCHE 1 #193 p74
SPEAK SOFTY, LOVE - comp by Rota - used as "godfather"
theme -- Gordon CUTTY (E-Conc) FREE REED FRR-006 1976
SPEAKING BIRD OF PARADISE, THE - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker)
- DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987
SPEAKING WALTZ - VICTORIA WALTZ
SPEALADOIR, AN - CUCKOO'S NEST (Hornpipe)
SPECTACLES - FOUR EYES
SPECTATOR'S LAMENT, THE - comp by GM 1961 about football supporters
-- Graeme MILES (voc/gtr): FTX-227
SPECULATION - LIAR'S SONG - RAM SONG
SPEECH - CANTE - FABLE - DIALECT - SPOKEN SONG - STORY - TALK
SPEED THE PLOUGH - Hornpipe/ Reel or Country Dance (G) - comp 1799 by
John Moorhead of Co Armagh, violinist, at Covent Garden Theatre in 1798 who
commited suicide in 1804 - (O NEILL IMM 1913 p367) - BALMORAL p8 (A) Reel -
BAYARD DTF #275 p230 2var - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #160 p84 (G) from Seamus Ennis
Dublin & CRE 3 #92 p45 - BRODY p264 (A) - COLE #8 p21 (A) - HAYWOOD #6 p50
(A) - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 #28 p10/ 1994 #28 p10 (G) - KERR MM 1 #6 p24 (A) -
KOHLER 1 p29 (A) 3pts "By James Muirhead 1800" - Tunebook Ms
#97 p302 (D) - MOYLAN #7 from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes) - PHILLIPS FCTB p44 (A)
(from J Scott Skinner: TOPIC 12-T-280) - SEATTLE p16 from Peter ROBSON (VWML)
- SHARP Country Dance Book Set 1 p8 - WESTROP #98 p34 (G) - WILSON p116 (G) -- Billy ANDREWS (U-pipes & banjo) rec Dublin 1930: TOPIC 12 T 262 1975
- National Motors Band rec 1933 on Radio 2: 28/12/88: CASS 60- 0849 - PK & HAYMAKERS Band rec at Village Barn Dance, Sidbury, Devon 1950: FTX-408
- George TREMAIN (mel) rec by PK, North Skelton, N Yorksh 2/4/53: RPL 19237/
FTX-329 - Cape Breton Island, NS Canada (fid &
guitar): ELEKTRA EKL-23 1955 10" LP - CULLIVOE Traditional Fiddle Band:
TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 "Square da Mizzen" aft "Heads
o Vigon" and bef "Out an in da harbour" & "Sleep
soond in da mornin" - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec by Pat Sky: FREE REED
FFR-001-2 1976 bef "Merry Blacksmith" & "Forge Music" - THE HOP with Nigel CHIPPENDALE: CASS 0484 - THE YETTIES on Radio 2: 1/11/89:
CASS-90-0569 - Joe HUTTON (N-pipes) rec by Burt Feintuch 20/4/90: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS
SFW-40473 1999
SPEED THE TRACTOR -- THE THREE MUSTAPHAS: CASS-0304 SQUARE ROOTS 1987
SPEEDWELL - (ship) - HENRY THE POACHER
SPELLAN THE FIDDLER - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1731/ DMI #911 (G) - TWEED
p42 (G) -- Sean MAGUIRE (fiddle) with Eileen HUNTER (piano) & Pat CONROY
& Steve Cooney (guitar) CELTIC MUSIC CM-CD-048 1990 (Gift of Dave Bulmer
Mar 2005) titled "Spellan's" bef "The Bees Wing"
SPENCE BROUGHTON - "To you, my dear companion, accept these
lines I pray" - last dying speech of a Sheffield man who was executed
at York 14th April 1792 for robbery of a postman - ROUD#1107 - Bs by John FORD
of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001) - SBG 1.1#31 & 9#100 - KIDSON
TT 1891 pp126-7 2var (notes) - NC 1927 (2nd version of tune in TT with a selection
of verses) -
SPENCE'S TENT - Hornpipe comp by James Hill - DIXON 1987
SPENCER THE ROVER - "These words were compos-ed by STR, who
travelled through England and most parts of Wales" - feels remorse
- returns home to his family - ROUD#1115 - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s
(Palmer Reprint 2001) - SBG 4#414, 5#146, 6#188 & 9#124 - MASON NRCS 1877
p44 Derbysh - KIDSON TT 1891 pp154-6 Yorksh - JFSS 6:21 1918 pp22-4 Frederick
Keel: W Tilbury, Thursley, Surrey/ W Wickham, Blackham, Surrey 1907 (m/o)/ Gilchrist:
suggests assonance suggests Gaelic origin & note about composers name being
given in song (Cf German & French trad) - GRAINGER #144 Samuel Stokes, Retford,
Nottinghamsh 1906/ #145 George R Orton, Barrow, Lincolnsh 1906 - WILLIAMS FSUT
1923 p130 James Harris, Southleigh, nr Witney, Oxfordsh/ #327 Daniel Morgan,
Braydon Wood, Wiltsh (w/o) - SING 9/1 Feb 1966 Copper - ED&S 30:4 1968 p130
W Tilbury from JFSS 1918 - STUBBS LOM 1970 pp66-7 Mrs Ursula Ridley, West Hoathly,
Sussex 1962 - COPPER SESB 1971 pp230-231 - COPPER SSB 1973 p264 - PURSLOW FD
1974 p85 Gardiner: George Blake, Southampton, Hampsh 1906 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975
#331 p717 7v/m Bob & Ron Copper - FOXWORTHY 1976 Janet Blunt coll Oxon 1913
- ANDREWS SOD 1979 Michael Blann Ms, Upper Beeding, Sussex 1v (w/o) - see NOTHING
ELSE TO DO -- James & his son, Bob COPPER of Rottingdean rec by Brian
George, Peacehaven, Sussex 1/3/51: RPL 16066 - Bob & Ron COPPER (cousins)
rec by PK, Peacehaven, Sussex 1955: EFDSS LP 1002 1963/ EFDSS CD-02 1998/ FOLK
LEGACY FSB-19/ FTX-029 & FTX-082/
TOPIC TSCD-534 2001 - Bob, John & Jill with Stephen FAUX (fid) 4x30 min
progs on Radio 2: Oct 1990/ CASS-60-1013-4 - Jim BARRATT rec by Bob Copper,
North Waltham, Hampsh 12/8/55: RPL 21861: FTX-416
- Shirley COLLINS & Dolly (flute-organ): TOPIC 12-T-170 1967 - Bob, Ron,
John & Jill (Bob's son & daughter): LEADER LEA-4046 1971 (boxed set)
- MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2085 1973 (from Mason)
SPENCER'S HORNPIPE - Tunebook Ms (A) #38 p103 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #166
p46 (A)
SPENCIE'S REEL - Shetland comp as "Miss Spencie';s Reel"
by John Anderson of Voe at a dancing held in House of Windows, Mid Yell 1759
-- THE CULLIVOE TRADITIONAL PLAYERS (leader Davie HENRY): LEADER LED-2052
1973 with "Lay de at dee" - Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fiddles)
with Willie JOHNSON (gtr) & Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978
with "Ferrie Reel" & "Lay dee at dee"
SPENDTHRIFT, THE - "Once I was big and little I grew"
- WILLIAMS Ms #272 Richard Gardner, Hardwick, Oxfordsh (w/o)
SPENNYMOOR HORNPIPE, THE -- Gordon CUTTY (E-conc) rec by PK, Kelloe,
Durham 24/6/54: RPL 20603/ 118
SPERMWHALE, THE - GREENLAND - WHALING SONGS
SPEY, THE - River in Moraysh &
Inverness-shire - BANKS OF THE SPEY
SPEY IN SPATE, THE - Reel comp J Scott Skinner -- Willie Macpherson
(fid) rec 21/5/59: RPL LP 24770 aft "The Bungalow" - Alistair
ANDERSON (Engl conc): LEADER LER-2007 1969 - Jerry HOLLAND, Buddy McMASTER &
Carl McKENZIE (Cape Breton fids) with Aly BAIN & Hilda Chaisson (piano)"Down
Home" (TV Series) in USA & Canada LISMOR LIF-7011 1986 CASS-0814
SPIDDLE SPADDLE - Jig - COLE #7 p72 "Puss in the corner"
- KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #172 p41 (D) - Tunebook Ms #99 p37 (D)
- MOYLAN 2 #348 p196 12/8 (G) from John O Leary (melodeon) "Cat in the
corner" - O NEILL MOI #871/ DMI #129 "The Cat in the Corner"
SPIDER, THE - "It was one summers morning as I lay on my bed"
- MASON NR&CS 1877 Derbysh - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp48-49 from Canon E Mason's
collecting/ text "disentangled and partly rewritten"
SPIDER AND THE FLY, THE - "Will you walk into my parlour?- said
the spider to the fly" - ROUD#13006 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield
1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) 8v incl "moral verse" - GREIG-DUNCAN 8
2002 #1670 p207 (2v/m)
SPIDER AND THE FLY, THE - 2/4 air - KERR MM 3 #376 p41 (A)
SPIDER IN THE GAFF, THE - Scots Pipe tune -- John BURGESS (H- pipes):
EMBER FA-2055 1968
SPIDERS - INCY WINCY SPIDER - OMENS
- LOOK ON THE WALL - ME GOSS ME GOSS ME GOLLY
SPIES - SPYING
SPIKE ISLAND LASSES - Reel - see also CLOICHINI BEAGA NA FARRAIGE --
Mary HAREN (A-conc) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29884 - John
KELLY (double reed conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975 aft "Blackberry Blossom"
- Sean O DWYER (conc) Dublin: TOPIC 12-TFRS-506 1977
SPIN, WHEEL, SPIN - SNIEU, QUEEYL, SNIEU (Manx Gaelic)
SPINNER'S WEDDING, THE - "The gaffer's looki worrit for the
flatts are in a steer - Jessie Brodie's gettin marrit" Ch: "Hurrah,
hurroo-a-daddy-o, best wishes to you, lassie" & present - ROUD#12503
-- Ray FISHER: TOPIC 12-T-86 1963
SPINNING - see also WEAVING SONGS
- WORK SONGS - BELL WETHER OF BARKIN - BOBBIN WINDER'S SONG - DELTIN SPINNING
SONG - DOWN DA ROATH - DROYLSDEN WAKES - HANDLOOM vs POWER - ISLAND SPINNING
SONG (Ulster) - SHETLAND SPINNING - SUNDAY MORNING'S MY WEDDING DAY - TARRY
WOOL - WHEN MOGGY BY THE FIRE SAT - WHIRLY WHORL (Erotic symbolism) - Irish
Gaelic - TUIRNIN LIN (Flax) - Scots
Gaelic -- ORAN SNIOMHA (Kennedy-Fraser) - THUG MI GAOL DHUIT
-- Recordings - see
SUBJECTS Listing
SPINNIN O'T, THE - WEE PICKLE TOW
SPINNING WHEEL - AS JEAN SAT BY HER SPINNING WHEEL
SPINNING WHEEL, THE - "Upon a sunshine summers day"
- Phoebe, Sylvia - hunting - Cloe spinning - ROUD#1090 - D'URFEY PPM - KIDSON
TT 1891 pp51-53 incomplete text (notes on song) - KIDSON NC 1927 - PLAYFORD
- RAMSAY 1724 -- Ewan McCOLL: "The Amorouse Muse": ARGO ZFB-66
1968
SPINNING WHEEL, THE - "Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning"
Ch: "Merrily, cheerily goes the wheel" - comp J F Walker -
HAYES Ballads of Ireland 1855 2 p361 3v words only -- Nellie WALSH (acc piano)
rec by Brian George, Wexford 17/10/48: RPL 13873 - Mick FOSTER (acc/gtr/voc)
& Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc): RITZ London LC-TV-1/ CASS-0956
SPINNING WHEEL, THE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #270 p30 (G)
SPINNING WHEEL, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1203/ DMI #479 (A) 4pts
SPINSTER'S LAMENT, THE - "They're all getting married but me"
(LBF) - ROUD#392 - STURGIS & HUGHES Songs from the Hills of Vermont 1919
pp10-13 - THOMPSON Pioneer Songster 1958 pp73-74 ("Come all pretty maidens,
some older, some younger") -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne
Warner 1940: FTX-922 (1v only)
SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS, THE - "teaching trees to dance"
incl bits of well-known carol tunes - comp ? -- Steve ASHLEY & Tinder
Box: ISLAND FOLK-1001 1975
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM -- Mick Tunney rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh
20./7/52: 7"RTR-0554
SPIRIT OF IRELAND, THE - March - ROCHE 2 #329 p57 (D) 4/4
SPIRIT OF LOVE WATCHES OVER ME, THE -- Carter Family (trio), Camden, NJ
13/10/32/ 7"RTR-0313-4
SPIRIT OF THE BORDER, THE - March comp by Tom Clough - SEATTLE 1990
p68 from W A Cocks coll arr 2pts -- Tommy BRECKONS (N- pipes) rec by PK 1954
7"RTR-0046 (with talk bef)
SPIRIT OF WHISKY, THE - Triple Jig - Tunebook Ms #197 p80
SPIRITS OF WHISKY, THE - Reel - title sometimes used as alternative
name for "Tenpenny Bit" (Jig) - BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-006
1994 aft "Cold Nights of Winter" & "Blue Yow" (Shetland)
SPIRITUALS - see also GOSPEL - SACRED
HARP -- DEEP RIVER - GET ON BOARD, LITTLE CHILDREN - GO TO SLEEP LITTLE BABY
- I'M SO GLAD WHEN THE SUN - IS THERE ANYBODY THERE? - JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE
OF JERICHO - KEEP YOUR LAMPS TRIMMED - LEAD ME TO THE ROCK - SOMETIMES I FEEL
LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD - TROUBLE SO HARD -
WATER BOY -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES
Listing
SPIRVIN'S FANCY - Reel (Gm) - COLE p12 - O'NEILL MOI #1337 & DMI
#593 "Thompson's"
SPITTING - WARTS
SPLAY-FOOT NANCE - ROUD#2401 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p67 Limerick 1v/m
SPLIT DOG, THE - Appalachian Story -- RICHARD CHASE, USA: TRADITION
TLP-1011 1957
SPONGER MONEY - from tourists in Jamaica -- West Indies Broadcast recs for PK: RTR-0445/ CD 945
SPOON RIVER - American Folksong arr 2 pianos orch -- John Amies on Percy
GRAINGER RPL Radio 3: 9/1/90 CASS-60-0826
SPOONS
- see BONES - RATTLES
SPORT OF THE CHASE, THE - Triple Jig (G) -- PHILLIPS FCTB p45 (from
Jimmy Powers): BOUNTY 6040) - ROCHE 3 #118 p36 -- May KEOGH (fid) with Tommy
DEMPSEY (acc): GAEL-LINN CEF-017 1967 - DOONAN FAMILY on Radio "Folk on
2" 30/9/87: CASS-0404
SPORTING BACHELOR, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #850/ DMI #111 (G)
SPORTING BOYS, THE - Jig - COLE #4 p59 (D)
SPORTING BOYS - BOYS OF PORTAFERRY (Reel)
SPORTING DAYS OF EASTER, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #281 p144 (Dm)
- FELDMAN p240 (G) from John Loughram, Donegal
SPORTING DOGS - comp by DD -- David DODDS rec by PK, Bristol 1979:
FTX-126
SPORTING LIFE - "I'm getting tired of hanging round"
-- Chas McDEVITT Skiffle Group (rec London 1957-9): ROLLER COASTER RC-CD-3007
1993
SPORTING NEIL (or NELLIE) - Reel- BREATHNACH 3 1985 #194 p87 (Dm) --
Tommy McCARTHY (conc) rec Clancy Summer School Singers Concert 1987 RTE radio
prog 9/11/88 CASS-60-0899 - Micho RUSSELL of Doolin, Co Clare (whistle) rec
by Bill Ochs at Ulster Community Colle, Stone Ridge, New York 11/19/93 PWCD
80001 1995/ FTX-155 aft "Amazing Grace"
& "St Annes Reel"
SPORTING PADDY - Reel (Em) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #133 p54 (Am) alt: "Irish
Pat" - HONEYMAN p29 "Colonel McBain"- KOHLER 1 p90
"Colonel McBain" - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #183 p43 4pts (Em/G)
alt: "Brian Boru"; "Dan Sullivan's"; "The Devonshire";
"The Duke of Clarence"; "General McBean"; "Sean Frank";
Sporting Nelly" - LEVEY 2 #63 p28 "Sporting Molly"
- MOYLAN 2 #201 p116 from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #1403/ DMI #645
(Em) "Colonel McBain" - ROCHE 1 #156 p62 "Sporting
Molly" -- DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-3 1967 - Micho RUSELL (whistle)
Clare: FREE REED FRR-004 1976 "Sporting Nelly"
SPORTING PAT - RAKISH PADDY (Reel)
SPORTING PITCHFORK, THE - see also RAMBLING PITCHFORK - CRANITCH #18
p131 (G)
SPORTING RACES OF GALWAY, THE - "As I roved out thro Galway
Town" - ROUD#3031 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp20-21 -- DUBLINERS: MAJOR
MINOR MMLP-3 1967/ CASS 90-0918 - Micho RUSSELL rec by Edward Harber & Phil
Ochs PWCD 80001 1995/ FTX-155 "A Song on
the Galway & Cliffs of Moher Races"
SPORTING YOUTH, THE - AMERICAN STRANGER
SPORTS - BOXING - COCK FIGHTING
- CRICKET - CYCLING - FOOTBALL - HORSERACING - HUNTING - MARBLES - MOUNTAINEERING
- MOWING MATCHES - PLOUGHING - REGATTAS - RUNNING - SHOOTING - SINGING CONTESTS
SPORTS O' GLASGOW GREEN, THE - "Ae morn in the sweet month of
July" - ROUD#5615 - ORD BB 1930 Geordie McINTYRE (unacc) recit--
TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973
SPORTS OF LISTOWEL, THE - Hornpipe - ROCHE 2 #236 p19 (##A)
SPORTSMEN AROUSE - INNOCENT HARE
SPORTY BOYS - Two Step comp Felix Burns -- Bill BLACK's Band on Radio
2: 20/9/89: CASS-0487
SPOT ON - Hornpipe -- Billy CONROY (whistle): TOPIC 12-TS- 239 1974
SPOTTED BITCH, THE - Hornpipe (G) possibly comp by James Hill - DIXON
1987
SPOTTED COW, THE - "One morning in the month of June, as from
my cot I strayed" - met with a pretty maid lost my SC"
- ROUD#956 - BSs incl BG 2#139, 5#124, 8#152 & 9#77 - VOC LIB 1822 #1402
p517 "One Morning" - KIDSON TT 1891 pp70-1 Charles Lolley,
Leeds/ Calverley, Yorksh 1v/m - BARING GOULD SOW 1889 #74 (a) James Parsons
(b) James Helmore, South Brent (words considerably altered) - SHARP Ms Jane
Wheller Langport Som - Cf 2 p49 - GRAINGER Ms #315 Mary Hawker, Broad Camden,
Gloucestersh 1906-7 "The Spotty Cow" - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p77
Donegal - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p71 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh (w/o) - KIDSON-MOFFAT
FSNC 1927 - PURSLOW WS 1968 p109 Hammond: Somerset 1905 - COPPER SESB 1971 pp232-3
Rottingdean, Sussex - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #142 Cox 7v/m - PALMER ECS 1979 #68
Hinchcliffe - ED&S 30/1 - Cf BRICKLAYER'S DREAM - Song using this tune:
PRETTY ROSALINE -- Jim COPPER rec by PK, Rottingdean, Sussex 1951: FTX-082
- Harry Cox rec by PK, London 1953/ Catfield, Norfolk 1956: FTX-013 (Vs 5-6 omitted)/ FTX-032 complete/ 16mm
film interview with Charles Parker 1962: FF-2217/ RPL LP 22915/ DTS LFX-4 1965/ - Bob COPPER
rec London 1955: RPL 21546/ Bob (voc/conc): FTX-239
- George ATTRILL rec by Bob Copper, Fittleworth, Sussex 1954: RPL 22739 - Charlie
WILLS rec by PK, Morcombelake, Dorset 1957: RTR-0084 (story of man wanting the
last 2v)/ FTX-097 (1 ch only) - Peter BELLAMY (voc/
conc): TOPIC 12-T-200 1970 - John COPPER (Bob's son): LEADER LEA-4046 1971 (boxed)
- STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1008 1972 Cox - Frank HINCHLIFFE Sheffield W
Yorks: TOPIC 12-TS-308 1977 - Harry COX & STEELEYE SPAN: Radio 2: 4/3/87:
CASS-0408/ Radio 2: 1985 CASS-90-0622
SPOTTED COW, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #983/ DMI #199 (D) 3pts
SPOTTEE - "Come all good people and listen to me - a comical
jest" - He waa a poor lunatic who lived in a cave between Whitburn
and Sunderland at the beginning of the 14th C - ROUD#3142 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE
1899 pp72-3 from the Bishopric Garland
SPOUT REEL, THE - CHRISTENING
SPREADING THE SEA-WRACK - KENNEDY-FRASER 1921 SOTH vol 3 pp123-6 Air
phographed by Kenneth McLeod with words by Marjory K-F - Marion TUDGE (vocal
accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: cass 1398-C60/ FTX-264
SPREE, THE - JOHNNY McINDOE
SPRIG OF HEATHER, A - "I gave my love a daffodil - Fernsdale"
- comp by GM 1965 -- Graeme MILES rec 1977: FTX-221
SPRIG OF SHILLELAGH - BLACK JOKE (Jig)
SPRIG OF MAY, THE - FLOWERING FIELDS
SPRIG OF THYME, THE - "Once I had plenty of thyme" -
ROUD#3 (with "The Gardener" (Child 219 & "Seeds
of Love") - ALBYN'S Anthology 1816 p40 James Hogg, Etrrick, Selkirksh
- KIDSON TT 1891 p69 Charles Lolley, Leeds, Yorksh (notes on song) - STOKOE-REAY
SBNE 1899 pp80-81 "The Willow Tree or Rue and Thyme" ("Beware
young maids beware") - BARING GOULD SOW 1895 #7 & Ms "Flowers
and Weeds" (a) James Parsons SBG 1888 publ (b) J Parsons: another version
with different words (c) J Dyer Mawgan-in-Pyder FWB 1891 (e) "Northern
Minstrelsy" 1892 "Rue and Thyme" (e) Campbell's Albyn's
Anthology p140 (1816) Cf "Dead Maid's Land" #cvii - SHARP-MARSON
FSS 5 pp16-19 George Say, Axbridge, Somerset 2v/m - SHARP Schools 8 - Sel Ed
1 p45- 47 - JFSS 4 p210 2var Sussex - JFSS 2:4 (9) 1906 p288-9 Kidson: nn, Nottingham
1v/m/ James Hogg, Ettrick, Selkirk from "Albyn's Anthology" 1816 p40
- JFSS 3:11 1907 pp77-78 Hammond: Sam Gregory, Beaminster, Dorset 1906 - GRAINGER
Ms #122 Joseph Taylor, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906/ #237 James A Penny: nn, Horncastle
Lincolnsh 1906 "I lent my back against an oak" - HAMMOND FSOD
1908 - JOYCE OIFM 1909 p189 3v "Gardener's Son" - WILLIAMS
FSUT 1923 p85-6 #451 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wilts (w/o) "I once had
plenty of Thyme"/ #536 "The Blighted Flower" (w/o)
- KIDSON GEF 1926 pp116-7 - BALDRY RSC 1939 p213 Harvey: "Ballads of East
Anglia" (w/o) "Old Thyme" - REEVES EC 1960 #116 p 229-237
Gardiner: David Marlow, Basingstoke, Hampsh 1906/ Hammond: Samuel Gregory, Beaminster,
Dorset 1906/ Miss Brown, Lydlinch, Dorset 1905/ James Dyer, Mawgan, Cornwall
1891/Bs (w/o) "The New Lover's Garland"/ Chap ("4 Excellent
Songs") (w/o) "The Maid's Lament for the Loss of her Maidenhead"
- PURSLOW MB 1965 p84 Gardiner: David Marlow, Basingstoke & Moses Blake,
Lyndhurst, Hampsh 1906 - SEDLEY 1967 p140 Lans - ED&S 29:4 1967 p113 Hamer:
Wm Bartle - HAMER GG 1967 pp4-5 Wm Bartle, Wredlingworth, Bedfordsh 1960 "Come
all you garners gay" - FMJ 1969 p350 Patrick O Shaunessy on R S Thompson's
review in previoud journal & discusses Grainger's transcr of song - PALMER
RVW 1983 #86 pp133-4 Billy Waggs, Orwell, Suffolk 1908 "The Red Running
Rue" - McCOLL-SEEGER 1977 p192 from Caroline Hughes "Running
running rue" --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 p53-4 Enos Hartlan NS "When
I was in my prime" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp357-8 Mrs May Kennedy McCord,
Springfield Missouri 1938 "Keep your garden clean" -- Wm
MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Fyvie, Aberdeeensh 1951 - Joseph TAYLOR rec by
Percy Grainger, Saxby-all-Saints, Lincolnsh 1908 (matrix 8747e): LEADER LEA-4050
1972 - Mary (his daughter) rec by PK 18/3/53: FTX-135
- James STEVENS, poet, rec by Maurice Brown re-rec by Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0589
"Let no man steal your thyme" - Alec BLOOMFIELD rec by PK,
Framlingham, Suffolk 14/5/52: FTX-099 "Stand
you up steady-O" - George (his father) rec by PK, Ipswich, Suffolk
27/8/52: RPL 21151 - Isla CAMERON rec by PK, London: EMI CLP-1220 1958 "Rue"
(learned from rec of Patrick Green) - Billy BARTLE, rec by Fred Hamer, Wrestlingworth,
Bedfordsh 19.8.60 (EFDSS VWML-003 1989): EFDSS CD-02 1998 "Come all
you Garner's Gay" - May BRADLEY rec by Fred Hamer, Ludlow, Shropsh
1965: VWML003/ TOPIC TSCD 662 1998 Sea "The Willow Tree" -
Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 1968: FTX-043
- Peggy SEEGER: "The Amorous Muse" Argo ZFB-66 1968 NS Canadian from
Enos Hartlan - GARRET SINGERS: ARGO ZFB-7 1970 - London MADRIGAL SINGERS: EMI
HSS-1215 1970 "Springtime of the Year" - Sheelagh McDONALD: B &
C CREST-17 1974 - Peter PEARS & Engl Chamber Orch cond Britten arr Grainger:
DECCA KSX-6410 1974 cass - Cyril POACHER rec by Tony Engle, Blaxhall, Suffolk:
TOPIC 12-TS-252 1975/ TSCD-662 "Plenty of Thyme"/ rec by Ginette
Dunn, Grove Farm 1974: MT-CD-303 1999 - PENTANGLE: ISLAND FOLK-1001 1975 (boxed)
-- Kathie O Sullivan (v/ harp) rec Asia-Pacific Union Festival of Radio Folkmusic:
12/10/79: CASS-15-0745 "The Red Rose Top" - BARNBRACK Irish
Party Sing-Song: CASS-60- 0927 nd - Barney O SHAMROCK: CASS-0929 nd "The
Bunch of T" - Mick FOSTER (acc/gui/voc) & Tony ALLEN (gtr/voc):
RITZ London LC-0003 nd CASS 0951 & LC TV1/ CASS-0956 "The Bunch
of T" - Peter PEARS (v) & Benjamin BRITTEN (piano) arr Percy GRAINGER
RPL Radio 3 9/1/90 CASS-60-0826 with "Pretty Maid milking her cow"-
Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147 "Waly Waly"(mixed) --- Jean RITCHIE (unacc): ELEKTRA
EKLP-2 1952 (10" LP) - La Rena CLARK Ont Canada: TOPIC 12-T-140 1965 "Thyme
tis a pretty flower"
SPRING AND WINTER - BARRETT - BARING GOULD Ms #165 from R Mortimer,
Princetown FWB 2v of THE FOUR SEASONS unpubl
SPRING DANCE - comp by BS -- Bob STEWART (psaltery): ARGO 207 1975
SPRING GARDEN, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1681/ DMI #888 (G)
SPRING GARDENS - "I'll gang to my colonel and I'll ask a pass"
- Alerted by a dream a soldier wants to visit his sweetheart, the gardener's
bride, and asks leave of the colonel "My mother's sick and like to die,
in SG she does lie" Ch: "Singing wake for eeden, eeden, aye
dum day" - He reaches the house by candlelight and she tells him his
dream has come true and he can "lay that night in the soldier's arms"
- in Greig's version he carries her off on his black horse Tam and waves
farewell to the gardener as he rides off - ROUD#6303 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1262
pp508-520 14var 16v/12m "The Auld Gardener's Wife" - TOCHER
26 1977 p93 coll by Alan Bruford, South Ronaldsay, Orkney
SPRING GLEE, THE - "When spring comes on, the birds do sing,
the primrose blooms, the cowslips too and the daffer-down-dillies"
- ROUD#439 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p222 #475 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o)
"When Spring comes in" - FMJ 1:4 1968 pp249-251 Hammond: Mrs
& John Brown, Fishponds Bottom, Dorset 1906 (w/o)/ Mrs Webb, Kings Norton,
Worcestersh 1906 (notes by Collinson 1v/m & PK - COPPER SESB 1971 pp238-9
family: Rottingdean, Sussex "When Spring comes in" - ANDREWS
SOD 1979 p43 Michael Blann Ms, Upper Beeding, Sussex "The Spring comes
on" -- Sam BENNETT rec by PK, Ilmington, Warwksh 1950: FTX-098
3v - James & his son, Bob COPPER of Rottingdean rec by Brian George, Peacehaven,
Sussex 1951: RPL 16062 "When Spring comes on" - Bob & Ron
COPPER rec by PK, Peacehaven, Sussex 9/5/55: EFDSS LP-1002 1963/ FOLK LEGACY
FSB-19 1964/ FTX-081/ TOPIC TSCD-534 2001 - BOB,
Ron, John & Jill (Bob's son & daughter) COPPER: LEADER LEA-4046 1971
(boxed)/ FTX-329/ 4x30 min progs Radio 2 Oct 1990/
CASS-1013-4 - George TOWNSEND rec by Tony Wales, Lewes, Sussex: EFDSS Folk Tape
102
SPRING INTO SUMMER -- Tony FRANKLIN (ocarina) rec by PK, Devon 1978:
124
SPRING RAIN - comp by J Goldsmith -- TINKERS: ARGO ZFB-35 1971
SPRING SEASON - comp by RN (?) -- Roger NICHOLSON (dulc) with Robert
JOHNSON (dulc): LEADER LER-3034 1972 - Dave SMALDON (dulc) ZIGGURAT:
FTX-090
SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER - "I call:" - Children's
Skipping Rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb (rec by Damian Webb 4/15) St Johns Junior,
Workington, Cumb 1960: FTX-197 #27
SPRINGFIELD MOUNTAIN - "On SM there did dwell" - about
a youth who is bitten by a poisonous snake - he calls for help but no-one comes
and he dies unattended - LAWS #G-16 NAB 1950/64 p320 - ROUD#431 --- SHARP Ms
1918 (3 var) - COX FSMWV pp12-14 Pa 1925 2v/m/ W Va (w/o)/ Providence RI (w/o)
"The Venemous Black Snake" - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp184-5 Mississippi
(w/o) - EDDY Ohio 1939 p248 7v - FLANDERS VSFB p15 - BELDEN Mo 1940 p100 - RANDOLPH
Ozark 1946-50 3 p167 5v (Mo) - COFFIN 1950 p103 - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp112-114
Fla 2var (w/o) - OWENS 1950 p27 Mass - BROWN NC 1952 2 p489 3 frags - LOMAX
ABFS & FSNA 1960 p13 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp167-170 ships log 1845 (w/o)
- WARNER TAFS 1984 pp91-2 John Galusha/ pp166-8 Lena Bourne Fish -- John
GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Minerva, NY 1940: FTX-921/
APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 - Lena Bourne FISH rec Warners 1941: FTX-922
- Henry KING (v/gt & mand): AAFS L-2 A8/ 7"RTR-0309 - Bascom Lamar
LUNSFORD, South Turkey Creek, NC: FOLKWAYS FA-2040 'Smoky Mountain Ballads'
- Burl IVES: COLUMBIA: RTR-0323-4 - Ed McCURDY (unacc & with gtr) rec by
Jac Holzman, NY USA: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-601 1955 (2var): - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo)
rec by PK, London 1957: FTX-914 - Alan LOMAX (voc/
gtr) Guy CARAWAN banjo) & John COLE (harmonica) rec by PK, London 1957:
TRADITION TLP-1029 1958 / FTX-904 "Rattlesnake"
- Peggy SEEGER (with banjo)rec by PK: EMI CLP 1174 1958/ FTX-942
"Fod" - Frank WARNER with Jeff & Gerret: MINSTREL JD-204
1976
SPRINGHILL MINING DISASTER 1891 - "Hark, the horn blows loud
and long" - ROUD#2713 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p185 Mrs Ruth Metcalfe,
Luisbourg, NS
SPRINGTIME IN BATTERSEA - Waltz -- Tommy WILLIAMS (duet conc) London:
FREE REED FRR 008 1976
SPRINGTIME OF THE YEAR, THE - POACHER - SPRIG OF THYME
SPRINGTIME OF THE YEAR, THE - "O well do I remember"
- Alfred WILLIAMS #713 (w/o)
SPRINGTIME PROMISES - comp -- PENTANGLE: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-205 1969
SPRINKLE COAL DUST ON MY GRAVE - "I'm just an old coal miner"
- ROUD8604 - KORSON CDOF 1943 pp65-6 -- Orville J. JINKS rec by George Korson,
Welch, W.Va. USA: Libr of Congress AFS L-60 "Songs & Ballads of Bituminous
Miners"
SPROTS O' BURNIEBOOSIE, THE - McFARLANE
SPURN POINT - "Good people all, pray listen well" -
Shipwreck of "The Industry" - ROUD#599 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893
H M Bower from Whitby, Yorksh (1v) - KIDSON EPS 1929 - JFSS !;5 1904 pp228-9
Kidson/ Bs "Industry off SP" - JFSS 2:4 1906 Gilchrist: W Bolton,
Southport, Lancash 1906 3v/m - JFSS 2:8 1906 p178 Mr Leatherday, Kings Lynn,
Norfolk 1905 (1v/m) - Percy GRAINGER #175 George Wray, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906
- PALMER RVW 1983 #55 pp88-9 Mr Leatherday & Hull Bs - see also HUMBER (river)
SPUTNIK - CATCH A FALLING STAR (K)
SPYING - WHEN JESUS CHRIST WAS HERE
ON EARTH
SQUADDIE'S DREAM, THE - "A sleeping S had a dream"
comp by GM 1972 3v comment on Ulster crisis -- Graeme MILES: FTX-224
SQUADDIE'S LULLABY, THE - "The bugle has blasted lights out"
- comp by GM 1956 - Dream of demobilisation from Army -- Graeme MILES: FTX-224
SQUARE DA MIZZEN - Shetland Reel -- Shetland TRADITIONAL BAND (Sextet)
rec 22/1/49: RPL 13196 aft "Lerwick L" "Scalloway Lasses"
& "Underhill"/ rec by Pat Shaw 1952: FTX-068
- CULLIVOE Traditional Fiddle Band: TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 aft "Heads
o Vigon" "Out an in da harbour" "Sleep soond in da mornin"
& "Speed the Plough"
SQUARE DANCING - Britain - CALLING -- Peter KENNEDY &
Pat SHAW calling with HAYMAKERS Band: DECCA 78 rpm: CASS-30-0570 - Phil CARDEW
CASS-30-0571 - Bristol Radio Prog "Everybody Swing" with Nibs Matthewa
& Pat Shaw calling 11/10/51 with PK & Haymakers Band incl "La
Russe": CASS-0468
SQUARE DANCING - Canada & USA - see also QUADRILLE - BIRD
IN THE CAGE -- Various squares by USA callers RTR-0301-2/ CASS-30- 0571-2
- COLUMBIA SL-211 Canada (fid) stepping & calling - Pete HARRIS (voc &
gtr) rec by John & Alan Lomax, Richmond, Texas May 1934: ROUNDER CD-11661-1821-2
1999 "Little Liza Jane" - LIB OF CONGRESS L-2 Asheville N C
rec 1941 - L9 Dallas Texas 1942 & Nashville Washboard 1941 - "Jonesy"
with Cliffie STONE: CASS- 60-0638 - Clayton McMICHEN (fid) with gtr & banjo
rec Alan Lomax DECCA 1949 7"RTR-0364 - Ed DURLACHER with the TopHands,
rec NY USA: ACTIVITY HYR 1-4 (4 LP's) 1965/75 - Dubs of Jack Williams Collection,
Bristol 1950: 7"RTR-0302/ CASS-1294 -- Neil MORRIS with Charlie Everidge
(mouth bow) rec by Alan Lomax, Mountain View, Ark 1959: ATLANTIC SD-1346/ FTX-902
"Wave the Ocean"
SQUARE EIGHT, THE -- Sam FAWCETT (Anglo conc) rec by PK, Baldersdale, Durham
31/3/53 RPL 19239 & 20534-5/ FTX-118 - Jake
HUTTON (fid) rec by PK, Bewcastle, Cumb 30/6/54: RPL 20612 (Uses "Tenpenny
Bit" tune) - Mrs MIDGLEY rec by PK, Dent, Sedbergh, W Yorks 22/11/54:
RPL 22324 Talk & tune of dance - Kit WHITE (mel) rec by PK, Muker, Upper
Swaledale, W. Yorksh 24/11/54: RPL 22326 talk bef/ 211
- John OLIVER (fid) rec by PK, Keswick, Westmorland 1959: FTX-410
- Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977 "Kit
White's"
SQUEEGEE BANDS -- Tim "Paddy" WALSH (talk) rec by Cyril Tawney,
Devonport 4/5/60: RPL LP 26310/ FTX-206
SQUEEZE YOUR THIGHS - MUNSTER BUTTERMILK (Jig)
SQUID-JIGGING GROUND, THE - "O this is the place where the fishermen
gather" - a rouser written by a Newfoundland teacher, Arthur R. Scammel,
which has become accepted as a folksong, describes how the fishermen go down
in their dories to the ground and, while they are waiting for the schools of
squids to come down,they get up to all sorts of shinanegans, everyone pulling
a joke on somebody else - so it has improvised verses in no special order -
ROUD#4429 - DOYLE OTSN 1940 pp66-7 - FOWKE & JOHNSTON FSC 1954 1 pp51-3
-- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59:
RPL LP 24897/ FTX-905
SQUIRE AND HIS SISTER, THE - BLACKBERRY FOLD
SQUIRE AND SALLY - SWEET NIGHTINGALE
SQUIRE AND THE CHAMBERMAID, THE - "Not far from town there lived
a squire" - he kisses her underneath the mulberry tree - the parson's
wife is jealous but the maid keeps her job - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp124-5 #492
Frank Barrett, Sevenhampton, Swindon, Wiltsh (w/o) 5v -- Frank PURSLOW &
John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK, London: DOBELL F- LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219
(from Gardiner coll, Hampsh)
SQUIRE AND THE FAIR MAID, THE - DOWN BY BLACKWATERSIDE - DOWN BY THE
RIVERSIDE
SQUIRE AND THE GYPSY GIRL, THE - "One spring morning a squire
was straying" - ROUD#1628 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #355 Harry Cox --
Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1953: DTS LFX-4 1965/ FTX-031
& FTX-032
SQUIRE AND THE MILKMAID, THE - BETSY - BLACKBERRY FOLD
SQUIRE AND THE THRASHER, THE - NOBLEMAN AND THE THRESHER
SQUIRE CURTIS - "A venerable white-haired man" - he
murders his wife, telling the servant that she's gone on a journey but the waiting
maid tricks him into confession and he is hung - ROUD#4741 - Sharp Ms #1087
from Jane Chapman W Harptree Somerset 1906 - REEVES IP p239-41 suggests this
sounds like a forgotten poem by Wordsworth, Coleridge or an imitator
SQUIRE DANIEL'S PARK - HENRY THE POACHER
SQUIRE FROM BALA, THE - BONEDDWR MAWR OR BALA
SQUIRE McCALLUM - "Dark was the night and blew the wind"
- LAWS#P28 - ROUD#566 -- Lennos GAVAN, rec by EF, Quyon, Quebec, Canada
1971: Edith Fowke Colll (FO 59)
SQUIRE OF EDINBURGH - GREEN WEDDING
SQUIRE OF TAMWORTH, THE - GOLDEN GLOVE
SQUIRE WHO LIVED IN THE WEST, THE - BROOMFIELD HILL
SQUIRE'S BRIDE, THE - GOLDEN GLOVE
SQUIRE'S DANCE, THE -- "Fanny" FRYER (mel) with Abingdon
Morris, rec by PK, London 12/5/56: RPL LP 23926/ FTX-116
SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER, THE - MARY ACKLIN - UNFORTUNATE SHEPHERDESS
SQUIRE'S LOST LADY, THE - PULL THE STRING
SQUIRREL, THE - "is a pretty thing - it carries a bushy tail"
followed by racoon, partridhe, possum etc - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #225 (vol 2 pp330-1)
3var: Mrs Wilson, Pineville, Bell Co., Ky 1917 (publ "Nursery Songs")/
Mr Eve Richards, St Peters School Callaway, Va 1918/ Mrs S.V.Cannady, Endicott,
Franklin Co., Va 1918 - Cf BILE DEM CABBAGE DOWN -- Leon BIBB: VANGUARD SRL-7624
1965
SRI LANKA - Ceylon --
Recordings - see AREA Listing