T STANDS FOR THOMAS - FALSE YOUNG MAN

T B BLUES - TUBERCULOSIS

TA AN COILLEACH AG FOGAIRT AN LAE - Jig - MOYLAN 1 #49 from Seamus Ennis (U-pipes)

TA DHA GHABHAIRIN BHUI AGAM - (I have two little goats) - Irish words to the tune of HIGHLAND LADDIE -- Micho RUSSELL of Doolin, Co Clare (whistle & song) rec by Edward Harber & Bill Ochs PWCD 80001 1995/ 155

TA DO MHARGADH DEANTA - or TA DE BHEATHA ABHAILE (The Bargain is made or over) - 6/8 Donegal Wedding tune played on welcoming home the newly weds - the Ranafast version begins "Craith do Leggin's a Mhaghnuis" (Shake your leggings, O Manus) - Also known elsewhere as "Who'll be king but Charlie?" - see also ORO SE DE BHEATHA 'A' BHAILLE (Oro, Welcome Home) - FELDMAN 1979 p181 (Am) from Danny O Donnell -- Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec by Irish Folklore Commission, Co Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE 002 double cassette 1990 bef "Merry Sisters" (Reel)/ rec by Alan Lomax, Dunloe, Co Donegal Jan 1951 7"RTR-0566/ 24/4/51: RPL 16658 aft story & "Haste to the Wedding" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19575/ FTX-075 talk bef/ aft "Haste to the Wedding" bef "Welcome home, Graniu"/ TOPIC 12-TS-398 1984

TA ME MO SHUIDHE - (I'm awake or I'm sitting here) - mentions "Bean Soi" (Banshee or Fairy Woman) - O BOYLE IST 1976 pp88-9 (4v) with Engl transl & notes about "European Courtly Love Tradition" -- Una DOUGLAS of Derry rec by PK, Belfast 3/8/52: RPL 18341/ FTX-434 - Frank LUNNEY rec by PK, Carrick, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19357/ FTX-435 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-289 1976 3v

TA MO CHLEANHNAS DEANTA - (I'm for getting married) - Song in Irish Gaelic - Liam O Connor's Draft Ms "Songs of the North of Ireland" 1994 p188 -- Sarah & Rita KEANE of NE Galway: CLADDAGH CC-4 1968

TA MO MHADRA - BILLY O ROURKE (Jig)

TA MO THEACH-SA AR AN ARDAN - (My Home is on the hill) -- Sean Mc DONAGH of Carna, Co Galway rec studio 30/7/53: RPL 19244

TA RA BOOM DE AY - Music Hall Song popularised by Lottie Collins -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 cassette: Musical Box & Penny piano

TA SCAIRTEACH MHOR - (There's a great lament) - About a shipwreck on Aranmore -- Patsy RODGERS rec by Noel Hamilton, Torre Island, Co Donegal - transl given by Conal O Donell in PK's Co Donegal radio progr: 276

TA-TA - (Sailor's Farewell to his Sweetheart) - Welsh -- Owen WILLIAMS rec by Seamus Ennis, Cardigan 26/11/54: RPL 22830

TABHAIR DOM DO LAMH - (Give me your hand) - Air by Carolan - SULLIVAN p1 -- Sean O RIADA with CEOLTOIRI CHUALANN: GAEL-LINN 015 1967 - PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383-186 1973 - John DOONAN (piccolo), Newcastle: TOPIC 12-TS-230 1974 with variations - CHIEFTAINS on Radio 2: 4/3/87: CASS 0408

TABLA - Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing

TACKING OF A FULL RIGGED SHIP OFF SHORE - "The weather leach our topsails shiver" - ROUD#1845 - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp321-3 Ben Henneberry, Devils Island, NS, Canada

TADEEN THE FIDDLER - Jig or Slide (#D) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #38 p22 from Denis Murphy with note about Tadeen being blind - MOYLAN 2 #251 pp144-5 "Taidhgin an Asail's Jig" from John O Leary (melodeon) who learned from Tom Billy who called it "The Kitchen with no food"/ Jackie Daly called it "Where is the cat?"

TADY'S WATTLE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1416/ DMI #653 (G)

TAFARN Y RHOS - (The Tavern on the Moor) - Welsh - JWFSS 1953 4 pt 3 pp72-3 2var - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #71 Rev Gomer M Roberts from Sam Davies, Pontrhydyfen, Glamorgansh -- Emrys CLEAVER 1954: 005

TAFFIE - Percy GRAINGER Coll #238 James A Penny (c): Horncastle, Lincolnsh 1908

TAFFY THE WELSHMAN - "Well Taffy came out of the borders of Wales" - tune: "Robin Dhiog" (Lazy Robin) - SPIN mag 7/3 p27 from Mike Raven (mentions Nottingham Gaol)

TAGORE, Rabindranath - RPL 30558 (3 songs not in Lib)

TAHITI -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

TAIL OF MY COAT, THE - Jig - KERR MM 4 #220 p24 (G)

TAIL TODDLE - "Oor gude wife gan awa tae Fife" - Comic love song with mouth-music - ROUD#11275 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1716 p249 ("My gude wife's awa to Fife")- KERR 4 p10 - McCOLL SS 1953 p58 from Hamish Henderson - tune printed by Niel Gow during the 1780's and possibly Welsh in origin - see also TOMMY TODDLE -- Hamish HENDERSON rec by Alan Lomax, London 6/3/51: COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998 - 7"RTR#0680 - "Blin Robin" STEWART rec by Jean Ritchie 1951 - CLUTHA: ARGO ZFB 18 1971 - Ian CAMPBELL folk Group: ISLAND FOLK 1001 1975 (boxed) extract 1973 - Dollina Mc CLELLAND (v) with jaws harp & boneson Radio 2: 18/1/89: CASS#0696-C15 with Patsy SEDDON (harp)

TAIL TODDLE - Scots Reel -- Jimmy STEWART (fid) rec by PK, Aberdeen 1955: FTX-069 - Calum JOHNSTON (H-pipes) rec by the School of Scottish Studies, Barra, Hebrides: TANGENT TNGM 111 1972

TAILOR AND THE CROW, THE - "A Carrion Crow, sitting on an oak" - Ch "Fal de dal" - attempts to shoot crow but misses - ROUD#891 - HALLIWELL 1812 #87 from Sloane Ms 1489 written down in 1627 - RIMBAULT MI 1850 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp202-3 (w/o) "The Carrion Crow" - LONG DIOW 1886 pp160-1 (w/o) "The CC" - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 pp102-3 "The CC" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 2 p396-8 Sister Emma, Clewer, Berksh 1909/ Joseph Cornelius, Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset 1904/ James Lovell, Ball's Cover, Somerset 1908 1v/m "The CC" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p227 #393 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wilts (w/o) "The CC & the T" - JEFDSS 1:3 1934 pp136-7 Clare Newhouse: George Hill, Dursley, Gloucestersh ("Pork") - REEVES EC 1960 p256 Gardiner: Henry Stansbridge, Lyndhurst, Hampsh 1906 (w/o) - OPIE ODNR 1951 #87 p111 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p86 Hammond: Wm Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset 1905 - ED&S 29:4 1967 p105 Bs (w/o) "The CC" --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #222 (vol 2 pp324-5) "The CC" (2var): Mrs Tom Rice, Big Laurel, NC 1916/ Mrs W.L.Godfrey, Marion, McDowell Co., NC 1918 (publ) - PTFS 6 1927 pp230-1 Gabe Lewis, Tex (w/o) "The Killing of the Sow" - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp375-8 David Rogers, NS (w/o)/ Bs Rimbault: Old Nursery Rhymes (w/o) - BELDEN Mo 1940 p270 - BREWSTER Ind 1940 p290 - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp393-5 Mrs Griffin, Fla/Mrs Irene Harmon, Fla (w/o) "The CC" - CREIGHTON NS p244 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p133 Capt Charles Cates, NS "The CC" - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #156 pp375-8 from Rimbault: "Old Nursery Rhymes" (w/o) "The CC" - SHARP FSSA #222 -- Jack LANGSTAFF (with piano): TRADITION TLP-1009 1957 - Sandy PATON (voc/gtr) rec London 1/1/58: RPL LP 24201 - Frank PURSLOW & John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK: DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-4 1969 (BG Garland) - Robin HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR: DECCA ECS-2161 1974 USA version --- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp by Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24896/ FTX-905 "Kangaroo"("sitting on an oak") - Doc WATSON (voc/gtr) with Merle (gtr) & Rus SAVAKUS (bass): VANGUARD TFL- 6083 1967 "Sing Song Kitty"

TAILOR AND THE LOUSE, THE - "It's of a tailor and a louse" - Ch: "Hey ho the weaver" - Dr Funny-eye - ROUD#1016 - BARING GOULD SOW 1898 "The Tailor and the Mouse" - JFSS 8:34 1930 pp213-4 Hammond: George Udal, Halstock, Dorset 1906 8v/m (Ch: "Hey ho, the weaver") - JEFDSS 1936 p68 Gilchrist from Edinburgh Ms "Hech Hey, the Weaver Lad" (m/o) - REEVES EC 1960 p257 Hammond: George Udal (w/o) - cf PROUD TAILOR -- Shirley COLLINS with John HASTED (banjo), Ralph RINZLER (gtr), Guy Carawan (gtr) rec by PK, London 1958 (ARGO): SEE FOR MILES SEE-212 1987 - Dave HILLERY: TOPIC IMP-S-204 1972 - John KIRKPATRICK (conc) & Sue HARRIS (h-dulc): TOPIC 12-TS-355 1977 (from Hammond)

TAILOR AND THE SAILOR, THE - TAILOR IN THE TEACHEST

TAILOR BAWN "A dozen long years I am shaping, singing and making rhymes" - song comparing himself to Tailor Bawn and all the drinkers, potato-lifters, poachers etc who were related to Tailor Bawn - mentioning places in Co Kerry -- John LYONS: TOPIC 12-TS-248 1974 from Willie Clancy of Clare

TAILOR BOY, THE - A weaver courting a girl runs down his rival, the tailor, but the girl praises his trade - HENRY SOP #199

TAILOR BY TRADE, THE - WEARING OF THE BREECHES

TAILOR FELL THROUGH THE BED, THE - "thimble an a' - the blankets were thin and the sheets they were sma'" - JOHNSON SMM 1787 - McCOLL SS 1953 p59 from Johnson

TAILOR IN THE TEACHEST, THE - "It's of an old boatsman in Dover did dwell" - He comes home unexpectedly so his wife hides the tailor in his sea-chest - pretending not to be aware of its contents he has it carried to his ship to keep him away from his wife - LAWS Q-8 "The Boatsman and the Chest" ABBB 1957 p277 - ROUD#570 - BSs "The Bold Boatswain of Dover" incl SBG - SHARP Sel Ed 1 pp40-41 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #189 2 pp1-2 Charles Neville, East Coker, Som 1908 "The Boatsman & the Tailor" - Percy GRAINGER #ONS77/RNS35 Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905 "The Tailor & the Sailor" - Sam HENRY SOP #604/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp505-6 Joe M'Conaghy, Bushmills, Co Antrim 1935 - REEVES IP 1958 pp83-4 Charles Neville (w/o) - PURSLOW WS 1968 p16 Gardiner: James Channon (w), Ellisfield & Henry Blake (m), Bartley, Hampsh 1907-8 "The Bosun & the T" - TOCHER 27 1977 p94 Alan Bruford Orkney "The Bold Boatswain" --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #52 (vol I p338-340) "The Boatsman and the Chest" Mrs Mary Sands, Allanstand, NC 1916 (6v w/m)/ Mrs Margaret Dunagan, St Helens, Ky 1916 (17v w/m) - MACKENZIE NS 1928 #114 p291 (11v & refs) - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p112 (9v & refs) "The Boatswain & the T" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp191-2 Georgia (w/o) "The Sailor Boy" - EDDY Ohio 1939 p143 11v "The Jolly Boatman" - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp371-2 Fla 13v (ref to Boccaccio's "Decameron" novel 10 4th day) "The Tailor and the Sailor" - HUBBARD BSFU 1960 Utah 1947 "The Tailor in the Chest" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 pp306-11 Nfl 3var 1952/8 "The Old Bosun" -- Frank PURSLOW & John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK, London: DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219

TAILOR'S BREECHES, THE - "There was a brisk young tailor - lived at the Ram and the Gate - loved wine and women's company" - ROUD#1610 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p87 Hammond: Jacob Baker, Bere Regis & Robert Barratt, Piddletown, Dorset 1905 (w/o) Note says Hardy mentions song in novels and that a broadside version is concerned with a sailor's adventures in Covent Garden - Cf SAILOR'S FROLIC - RICHARDS-STUBBS 1979 pp144-5 coll Colin Wharton, Middlesbrough-- Frank PURSLOW & John PEARSE rec by PK, London: DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219 - Barry SKINNER: ARGO ZFB-34 1971 - UNION FOLK: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-007 1971 - THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-38 1972/ Radio 2: 25/11/87: CASS-60-0556 - Martin Carthy (Whitby version with new words & "New Year" rec by John Howson on Radio 2: 4/1/96: CASS-1335

TAILOR'S COURTSHIP, THE - "The tailor he came here to show" - ROUD#8730 - BUCHAN Sdecret Songs of Silence pp77-9

TAILOR'S COURTSHIP, THE - "I am a merry tailor that was born in Tyrone" - courted little Molly -- Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22025/ FTX-076 "The Airy Little Tailor"

TAILOR'S LAMENT, THE - SAILOR'S BRIDE

TAILOR'S THIMBLE, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #827/ DMI #91 -- John Mc KENNA (flute) with James MORRISON (fid) & piano (b Leitrim) rec USA COLUMBIA 1929 CASS-0893 bef the reel: "The Red Haired Lass "

TAILOR'S TWIST, THE - Hornpipe (D) - alt: "Capt Moss's" "The Jolly Butchers" - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #213 p98 - PHILLIPS FCTB p46 - ROCHE 2 #208 p9 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #179 p50 (D) -- James MORRISON (fid) & others rec New York 1921-1935: TOPIC 12-T-390 1980 with "Flowers of Spring" - John McKENNA (flute) early disc rec gift of Harry Bradshaw RTE - Tom TURKINGTON (fid) of Co Tyrone, rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0544/ RPL 18385/ FTX-375 aft "Wittle Dean" (learned from an old man called Mooney, Arboe, Nr Dungannon) - Paddy TAYLOR (flute) of Limerick rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-171 "The T's Thimble"/ CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 with "Loughill Hornpipe" - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): RTE-CD-199 1997 bef "Kelly's"

TAILOR'S WEDDING, THE - SKIVER THE QUILT (Jig)

TAILORS - see also BENJAMIN BOWMANEER - BUTCHER AND THE TAILOR'S WIFE - COMICAL TAILOR (Irish Gaelic)- DRINKING GOOD WHISKY - GAME COCK - JACK-A-NEEDLE - JOURNEYMAN TAILOR - KNICKERBOCKER LINE (Female T) - LITTLE PACK OF TAILORS - SLAP BUM TAILOR - THREE LITTLE TAILORS - UNFORTUNATE TAILOR - WEAVER - WEARING OF THE BREECHES - WEE TAILOR FROM TYRONE

TAILORESSES - KNICKERBOCKER LINE

TAIM CORTHA O BHEITH IM' AONAR IM' LUI - Macaronic - 2nd v: "One evening of late as I carelessly strayed" - He (a sailor in the broadside version) meets a maid in great moan who'll die if she doesn't get a man - after giving her a child he steers off - the last verse goes: "As down in the garden there grows a red rose, I'll pluck it and call it my own, the flower it will fade, so also the maid that is weary from lying alone" - McCARTHY Bawdy British Folksongs 124-5 "Weary of Tumbling alone" - CROININ 2000 #144 pp220-1 suggests originally English -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Balyvourney, Co Cork 1947: CBE 389/ FOUR COURTS CD-1 #28

TAIMSE AR AN mBAILE SEO -- Sean O SE with Sean O RIADA & CEOLTOIRI: GAEL-LINN CEF-016 1967 (M)

TAIMSE IM CHODLADH -"- Song Air - CRANITCH #97 p166 - ROCHE 1 #53 p27 (A) & #54 p27 (G) 3/4 "I am asleep and don't waken me-- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-184 1969

T-AINGHEAL DIONA - CORACLE OF St BRENDAN

TAINIG FEAR AN TAIGHE DHACHAIG - (Scots Gaelic) - CUCKOLD SONG

TAIWAN - Formosa -- COLUMBIA SL-214 ed by Alan Lomax, Japan

TAKE A GAL LIKE YOU -- Josh WHITE: (LONDON LL-1341 & MERCURY MG-36052)/ CASS-0240

TAKE A KISS OR LET IT ALONE - RAKES OF CLONMEL (jig)

TAKE FIVE - comp by Dave Brubeck -- ERIC with Nigel CHIPPENDALE (2 concertinas): CASS-0484 - Jim COUZA (H-dulc) with Frank EVANS (gtr) & Duncan BROWN (bass): SAYDISC SDL-335 1983

TAKE HER OR LEAVE HER - MUNSTER BUTTERMILK (Jig)

TAKE HER OUT AND AIR HER - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #1216 p60 "Kennaw's Reel" - SHARP Used for "Running Set" from Petrie ? - O NEILL MOI #1387/ DMI #631 (G) "Touch me if you dare" alt: "Johnny Reilly" - ROCHE 1 #174 p68 (G ending E) & 3 #85 p26 (Am) "Touch me if you dare" - TAYLOR 1 p10 (D) - Cf SHIPS ARE SAILING -- Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) rec Dublin 1937-8: TOPIC 12- T-259 1975 "Touch me if you dare" with "Kiss the maid behind the bar"

TAKE IT DOWN FROM THE MAST - Song of frustration & bitterness after the 1921 Treaty -- Dominic BEHAN: TOPIC 12-T-44 1958

TAKE IT EASY - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #1089/ DMI #282 (G) 3pts

TAKE ME POACHEN - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE: FTX-044

TAKE ME TO AN ISLAND -- Adrian TUCKER (with harmonica, kazoo, gtr & drums) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderpress, Devon 1975: FTX-037

TAKE MY FAREWELL OVER GUNNA - BHEIR MO SHORAIDH THAR GHUNNAIDH

TAKE MY KNITTING AND GO TO THE SHADE - OLD MAID'S SONG

TAKE PITY ON POOR JACK - JACK ASHORE

TAKE THE AIR AND WALK ABOUT - Jig -- Sean RYAN (whistle) of Galway with Alec FINN (bouzouki) of DE DANNAN RTE "Long Note" 9/11/88 CASS 60-0899

TAK(E) THE BUCKLES FRAE YOUR SHEEN - "for your dancing days are deen" - PORTER-GOWER 1995 p179 3v from JR - variant & tune of KELVIN GROVE - see SHEARIN'S NO FOR YOU -- Jeanny ROBERTSON Aberdeen rec by Alan Lomax, London 1953/ by PK 15/10/58/ (PRESTIGE 13006)/ FTX-067

TAK(E) THE ROAD -- Archie FISHER: DECCA SKL-5057 1970

TAKE 'EM FOR A RIDE -- Tom PALEY (voc/gtr): ARGO ZFB-3 1969

TAKE THIS HAMMER - THIS OLD HAMMER

TAKE YOUR CHOICE - Reel - TERENCE'S RAMBLE

TAKE YOUR HAND AWAY - PRIDE OF THE BALL (Reel)

TAK(E) YOUR AULD CLOAK ABOOT YE - "In winter when the rain rained cold" - ROUD#8207 - Many chapbooks & pocket songbooks - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - GILCHRIST A&M 1865 pp46-8 - SMITH Scotish Minstrel 1820 4 pp86-7

TAKE YOUR TIME - comp by Pete Munday -- THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-16 1970

TAKING AN EVENING'S WALK - EVENING'S WALK

TAKING BACK GEAR IN THE NIGHT - GERRY FUDGE

TAKING OF QUEBEC, THE - "On Monday morning when we set sail" - to meet French - General Wolfe - ROUD#624 (with "Bold General Wolfe") - HILL WFC 1904 pp5-6 Durrington, Wiltsh - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 pp332-3 Wm Nott, Meshaw, Devon - JFSS 21 p10 - JFSS 8 1930 pp179-180 Hammond: Sam Gregory/ Wm Bartlett (m/o) - SEEGER-McCOLL SI p93 Hammond - PURSLOW MB 1965 p4 Hammond: Sam Gregory, Beaminster & Wm Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset 1906/5 composite text - Cf BOLD GENERAL WOLFE - Note: the 62nd, the Wiltsh Regiment, was with Wolfe at Quebec

TAKING OF SEBASTOPOL, THE - "You British subjects all attend who live both far and near" - Alfred WILLIAMS Ms #716

TALADH - Jig - KERR MM 3 #290 p31 (C)

TALADH AN LEINIBH LEOIDICH - SLEEP MY CHILD

TALADH AN LEINBH LOSA - or TALADH CHRIOSTA - (The Christ Child Lullaby) - KENNEDY-FRASER 1 p26 -- Kate NICHOLSON & group of Crofters rec by Alan Lomax South Uist, Hebrides 1951: CAEDMON TC- 1224/ TOPIC 12-T-197 1969 - BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-006 1994 (transl by Kenna Campbell) - Scottish Crofter Group: ROUNDER 1719 1998 - Flora McNEIL (with baby on knee) " in Radio Prog 1957 "Sing Christmas" ROUNDER-CD-1850-2 2000

TALCAHUANO GIRLS - Whaling from London & Hull to Chile & peru - T is south of Valparaiso in Chile --- A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-T-174 1967 - Robin & Barry DRANSFIELD (voc/fid/gtr): RPL REC-95S 1970 - FREE REED FRR-018 1977

TALE OF ISAAC WHITE, THE - "One Sunday night poor Isaac White" - WILLIAMS Ms #140 F W Law, Somerford Keynes, Gloucestersh (w/o)

TALE OF GESTS, A - LIAR'S SONG

TALES - STORIES

TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS - comp by Strauss -- Handbell Ringers: SAYDISC cass SDL-274 1976

TALIDION MINION MENAI - (The Menai Straits) - Penillion Song in Welsh -- John THOMAS & his daughter, Elizabeth, rec by PK, Llangwm, Corwen, Denbighsh 1954: FTX-051

TALK - see also DIALECT - STORIES - Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

TALK LIKE THAT - comp by JW (street performer) -- Jim WOODLAND (v/elec gtr) RPL Radio 2 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550

TALK WITHIN SONG - CANTE-FABLE - SPOKEN SONG

TALKING BLUES - WHEN I GROW UP (Russco)

TALKING FOOTBALL POOLS - comp by Hugh James about failure to win (publ Bosworth) - see also BALLAD OF KNOCKING NELLY (Wrigley) about a Football Pool Collector -- Hugh JONES of Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK 1961 : EMI CLP-1500 1962/ FTX-291/ FONTANA STL-5485 1969

TALKING GUITAR BLUES -- Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL-7624 (set of 4 LPs titled "Folk Song & Minstrelsy" by The Book of the Month Club)

TALKING UNION -- THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001

TALKING WITH THE SOCIAL UNION - TOBACCO UNION

TALL & THIN - MATCHSTICKS - SOMEBODY'S TALL

TALLER THAN YOU OUGHT TO BE - "like a streak of water - Skinny Lizzy, skinnier than you ought to be - like a stick of celery" - Kids rhyme -- Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959

TALLOW CANDLES - JACK HALL

TALLY HO, HARK AWAY - "The sun has just peeped its head over the hill" - Foxhunting Song - Ch: "Tally ho" - ROUD#1182 - BS "The Fox Chase" - LONG DIOW 1886 p122 (w/o) - BARRETT EFS 1891 Northamptonsh - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p57 #14 T Bowker, Faringdon, Berksh 4v/ch (w/o)/ also #717 - PURSLOW CL 1972 p99 Gardiner; Wm Lugg, Launceston, Cornwall 1905 - PALMER EBECS 1979 pp210-211 Walter Pardon, Knapton, Norfolk 1978 - Tune see I WISH THEY'S DO IT NOW - WEARING OF THE GREEN

TALLY HO IN THE MORNING - "I never yet owned a horse or a hound" - "Tally ho" ch - hunting on foot - Tipperary Joe - ROUD#1242 - WILLIAMS FSUT p64 #717 Mrs Phillips, Purton, Wiltsh (w/o)

TALLY HO THE HOUNDS - PARSON HOGG

TALLY-I-O - TIDDY-I-O

TAM - TOM (TAM GIBB, TAMLIN, TAM O SHANTER etc)

TAM BUIE - BARGAIN WITH ME

TAMBOR DE YUCA -- Rodriguez Brothers from Calif (Indian drums): SMITHSONIAN Music from the Festival of American Folklife

TAMBOURINE SONG, THE - London Cockney Salvation Army Song -- Dominic BEHAN: DOBELL F-LEUT-4 1962

TAMBOURINES - see also BODHRAN & DRUMS -- Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing

TAMBURA - LUTE

TAMEEN'S REEL - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #159 p84 (G)

TAMING OF A SHREW, THE - Elizabethan Broadside Ballad - RITSON AS&B 1790 2 p242 from Sloan Ms - tune "Sweet, use your time" see SIMPSON BBB 1966 p695 - see also FROLICSOME DUKE, THE --- Peggy SEEGER & Ewan McCOLL (with conc & mand): "The Paper Stage" ARGO ZDA-98 1969

TAMISTON - "There lived a lass at T - at a place called Ramstone Brae - she courted lang wi Johnny Smith a square-wright to his trade - but when she saw Lord Elgin (or England) she loved that rovin blade" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1060 pp564-7 (4var 29v/2m)

TAMLYN - Reel - TAYLOR 1 p6 (Am)

TAMMY - TOMMY

TAMMY TODDLES - TOMMY TODDLES

TANDARAGEE - BOYS OF TANDARAGEE - HILLS OF TANDARAGEE

TANGANYIKA - TANZANIA

TANGLE EYE BLUES - Negro Work Song -- Group of convicts at Parchman State Pen, Miss rec by Alan Lomax 1947: FTX-916

TANGLEFOOT - OLD TANGLEFOOT (Hornpipe)

TANGLETALK - Children - I COME BEFORE YOU TO STAND BEHIND YOU - I WENT TO THE PICTURES TOMORROW - 'TWAS SUMMER IN THE ROCKIES

TANK, THE - Country Dance tune - Hardy Ms Dorchester - KERR MM 1 p29 (A) & 4 #307 p32 (Bb) - WESTROP #33 p12 (G)

TANNAHILL, Robert - of Paisley (1774-1810) - Scottish poet - sixth of nine children - father was a silk weaver - Robert wrote new words to existing Scots and Irish tunes and started publishing following his father's death in 1802 - BRAES OF BALQUIDDER - WILD MOUNTAIN THYME.

TANSEY'S FAVOURITE - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #136 p64 (G) - SULLIVAN 3 #53 p22 (G) from Planxty -- Seamus TANSEY (flute accomp): LEADER LEA-2005 1970 with "The Bride's Favourite" - STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977

TANTIVY TROT, THE - "Here's top the heroes of four-in-hand fame" Ch "Let the steam pot hiss tll it's hot - give me the speed of the TT" - PALMER 1978 - CLINGING 2005 #48 pp103-5 composed by R E Egerton Warburton (1803-91) of Arley, Cheshire

TANYARD SIDE, THE - "I am a rambling hero and by love I am betrayed/ ensnared" - "down by the TS" - LAWS #M-28 ABBB 1957 p194 - ROUD#1021 - BSs incl BG 2:#44/ 2:#206/ 5:#160 - O'LOCHLAINN ISB pp82-3 D McCullogh, Belfast 1912 "Down by the TYS" - O KEEFE FBIB 1955 p84 5v w/o --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp165-166 Patrick Williams 1929+ "Down by the TYS" - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p33 no source given -- Marcella HURLEY with ch rec by Brian George, Coomhala, Co Cork 1947: RPL 12490 - Tom & Chris (son) WILLETT (gypsies) rec by PK, Paddock Wood, Kent 1963 RTR #0985 "Down by the TS" - Phoebe SMITH: TOPIC 12-T-193 1970 - Frank QUINN (voc & fid) rec studio NY 1926 COLUMBIA 33077F/ TOPIC TSCD-660 1998

TANYARDS - "Bark Harvest" at Cricklade, Wiltsh - SHEPHERD AND THE MAIDEN -- Talk by George MAYNARD rec by PK, Copthorne, Sussex 1955 - Talk by Bill WILLIAMS, rec by PK, Gloucester 1957: FTX-415

TANZANIA - formerly Tangyanika -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

TAP ROOM, THE - Reel - COTTER "In the Tap Room" - HADEBECK p2 (Em) - SHASKEEN 2 #27 p20 (Em) - Cf BREATHNACH CRE 1 #177 p70 "The Ranting Widow" & #197 p76 "The Queen of May" - Cf MOUNTAIN LARK - YOUNGEST DAUGHTER

TAP THE BARREL - Reel (D) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #266 p138 (#D) from Julia Clifford, Co Kerry - HARDEBECK p2 (#D) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #189 p44 (D) - ROCHE 1 #145 p58 (##D)

TAPIOCA'S BIG TOE - VARSOVIANA

TAPPIT HEN, THE - Scotch Jig - KERR MM 4 #261 p28 (A)

TAPSCOTT - Shanty -- (a) Rees BALDWIN & (b) John FERRIES, South Shields rec by James M Carpenter, c1928: FTX-142

TAR - Musical instrument in Persia - LUTE

TAR - (Pitch) - HOT ASPHALT - PADSTOW HOBBY HORSE

TAR BARRELS (Annual Custom) - BURNING THE CLAVIE (Burghead, Moray) - OTTERY St MARY, (Devon)

TAR ROAD, THE - ROAD TO SLIGO

TAR THE YAWL - "again, the yawl again, the yawl again - the new-tarred yawl" - "father bought the tar yestreen" - ROUD#12985 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1622 p177 (v/m) "Tar the yoll"

TAR'S FROLIC, THE - "Give ear, brother seamen and listen awhile" - sailor discharged - gold in store - doxies - ROUD#1622 - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB 1 1975 pp259-260 Davenport BS London (w/o) "or the Adventues of a British Sailor"

TARA BROOCH, THE - Hornpipe - MAGUIRE 1 #86 p23 (C) - TWEED p41 (C) alt: "Athlone H"

TARBOLTON LODGE - Reel (Em) - ALLAN #56 p14 - BRODY p273 - MITCHELL #14 p28 from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - KERR MM 1 p12 - MOYLAN 2 #276 pp158-9 from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #780 "Cooleen Bridge" - SULLIVAN 2 p2 - SHASKEEN 1 #43 p30 (Bm) -- Michael COLEMAN (fid with gtr) rec New Jersey USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE d/cass-004 1991 bef "Longford Collector" & "Sailor's Bonnet"/ MORNING STAR 45001 (nd)/ FTX-154 - John DORAN (U-pipes) rec by Kevin Danagher IFLC Dublin 1947 on RTE radio prog 28/3/88 & 4/4/88 CASS 90-0914/ FTX-156 - Paddy TAYLOR (flute) of Limerick rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-171 - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER-2030 1971 - Mike Mc DOUGALL (fid) with Marie Mc LELLAN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 with other strathspeys & reels

TARDY WOOER, THE - WEARY WITH WOOING

TARMONS - Polka - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #76 p37

TARPAULIN JACKET, THE - RAKISH YOUNG FELLOW - WRAP ME UP

TARRA'S OLD HALL - SONS OF FINGAL

TARRY SAILOR, THE - JACK THE SAILOR

TARRY TROUSERS - "As I walked out one fine summer's morning" - mother talking to daughter - time to get married - ROUD#427 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 2 pp30-31 Anna Pond - SHARP Schools 7 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #142 pp547-8 Jane Gulliford, Combe Florey, Somerset 1908/ Anna Pond, Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset 1904 1v/m/ James Bishop, Priddy, Somerset 1905 - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FSEC 1907 pp6-8 Essex - BUTTERWORTH FSSX 1912 pp22-3 - JFSS 2:8 1906 pp153-4 RVW: Mrs Humphreys, Ingrave, Essex - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp313-5 Gardiner: Benjamin Arnold, Easton, Hampsh 1906/ RVW: Mrs Hall, North Waqlthasm, Hampsh 1909 1v/m - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp327-8 Jekyll: Mrs Powell, Minster, Kent 1910 1v/m/ Mrs Verrall, Horsham, Sussex 1908/ RVW: Jake Wills, Hadleigh, Suffolk 1907 (m/o)/ Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset (m/o)/ Sharp: James Bishop - COLLINSON-DILLON FSCM 1952 pp58-63 Wm Crampton, Smarden, Kent - O LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p243 3v words only - PURSLOW WS 1968 Gardiner: Mrs Hall, Basingstoke, Hampsh 1907 - PALMER RVW 1983 #85 p132 Jack Willis, Hadleigh, Suffolk 1907 "Broad-striped Trousers" (Soldier) -- see also MADAM --- CREIGHTON TSNS 1950 p212 2var - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p69 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp96-99 ships log 1847/8 (w/o) - PEACOCK NFL 1965 I p316 - SHARP FSSA #133 -- phonograph cylinder rec by RVW (?) prob Mrs Humphreys 1904: EFDSS CD-02 1998 - Frankie ARMSTRONG (voc + conc & gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-216 1972 RVW

TARRY WOO(L) - "is bad to spin - card it well before you begin - card it well and spin it too - Before you make it into TW" "For when carded, row'd & spun, then the wark is hofelins (halfways) done - but when woven dreet & clean, it may be cleading (clothing) for a Queen" - Knitting Song to tune (first part only): "Corn Rigs are bonny" - ROUD#1472 - HERD AMSS 1776 2 pp100-101 (w/o) - RAMSAY TTM 1794 - VOC LIB 1822 p201 - GOW, Nathaniel (1823) 1 p13 m/o - DICKINSON Dialect of Cumberland (quoted in Northall) - JFSS 2 1906 pp215-6 RVW John Mason, Dent, Yorksh 1904 - McCOLL SS 1953 p136 from Ramsay 5v/m - PALMER EBECS 1979 #12 pp33-34 RVW: John Mason -- Lizzie HAYGARTH & Mrs ROWE rec by PK, Dent, Sedbergh, W Yorksh 23/11/54: RPL 22326 with talk about "The Terrible Knitters of Dent"

TARS OF THE BLANCHE, THE - "You Frenchmen, don't boast of your fighting" - DIXON SOP words only from singing of charcoal burners in the New Forest - Tune not named and the song not repeated in later collections

TART AR AN OL - HUMOURS OF ROSS (Jig)

TARTAN - ON WITH THE TARTAN

TARTAN, THE - Words: Sydney Bell/ Music: Kenneth McKellar - ANON 1972 SONG OF SCOTLAND p30 piano accomp

TARTAN ON THE HEATHER, THE - Strathspey (A) - FELDMAN p80 (A) from Johnny Doherty

TARVES RANT, THE - "Come a ye gey young lads, come listen unto me" - ROUD#4847 - Bothy Ballad - GREIG: FSNE #'81 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #576 p391-6 (6var) - CHAPBOOK 2#6 p8 - BUCHAN SBB pp202-4 & 220 - "Songs & Ballads sung at Blairgowrie Festival Aug 1968 pp16-17 -- Davie STEWART (voc/acc) rec by PK, Dundee, Angus 1956: FTX-180/ rec by Alan Lomax London, 1957: ROUNDER 82161-1633-2 2002/ rec London TOPIC 12-T-180 1968/ TOPIC TSCD-655

TASKS, THE - ELFIN KNIGHT

TASSELS ON THE BOOTS - "Twas at a fancy ball I met my charmer fair" - ROUD#3276 - SPAETH WSM 1927 pp93-4 - PETERS FSOW 1977 pp158-9 Helene Stratman-Thomas (c): Wisconsin

TASTE DA GREEN - Shetland Triple time tune celebrating arrival of spring -- Peter SCOLLAY (fid) rec by Pat Shaw, East Yell Shetland Feb 1952: RPL 18651/ FTX-068 - DA FORTY FIDDLERS with Marjorie SMITH (piano): LEADER LED-2052 1973 with "Sail her ower da raftrees" & "Deil stick the minister" - Tom ANDERSON & Aly BAIN (fiddles) with Violet TULLOCH (piano): TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976 aft "Shetland Moods" & "De'il stick the minister"

TASTE THE GREENS - Reel -- CUCHULAINN CEILIDHE BAND rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 19/7/52: RPL 18545/ FTX-370 aft "Drowsie Maggie" & bef "Flowers of Edinburgh"

TATIE HOWKERS, THE - "Aa saw the TH" - ROUD#8250 - POLWARTH 1969 p30 Elliott Family, Birtley, Co Durham

TATIE SONG, THE - MURDER IN THE FISH SHOP

TATIE TIME - "O the tattie-time comes roun' each year" - ROUD#2162 - BRUNE 1965 p35 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #357 p788 Ronnie White 13v/m (probably comp in early 60's by a tinker poet) - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp312-5 from Willie Cameron, New Alyth, Perthsh "The Tattie-lifting Song" -- Ewan McCOLL: ARGO ZFB-12 1972

TATIES ARE BOILIN, THE - WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

TATTER JACK WALSH - Jig (D) - ALLAN #32 p8 (D) - BAYARD DTF App38 p588 "So now my dear Johnny" (note suggests it is related to "The Garden of Daisies") - COLE #5 p61 "Tatter Jack Welch" & #5 p72 (Dm) 3pts "To Cashel I'm going" - FUREY p18 "Father Walsh's Jig" with note about Wm John Walsh, flute- player, of Co Waterford who gave his clothes away to raise funds for the poor - KERR MM 1 #42 p39 "Father Jack Welsh" - Tunebook Ms #47 p18 (D) - LEVEY 1 #18 p8 "Tatther Jack Welsh" & Cf LEVEY 2 #85 p38 "Tatter the road" - O NEILL MOI #885/ DMI #136 "Father JW" - SHASKEEN 2 #43 p33 "T'Athair Jack Walsh" -- Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec by The Irish Folklore Commission Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE-002 d/cass 1990 aft "The Enchanted Lady" (Reel) - John & Vincent McCusker (fids) rec by PK, Kilcreevy, Co Armagh 31/5/52: RPL 18546/ FTX-372 - -- Terence McSHANE (fid), rec by PK, Clough Mills, Co Antrim 5/8/53: RPL 20029/ FTX-377 "Last of the fairies of Loughguile" - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec London 7/2/58: RPL LP 23931 bef "Paddy O Rafferty"/ FTX-374/ rec 1948: RTE-CD-199 1997 - Finbar FUREY (U-pipes) & Eddie (gtr): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-168 1968 - Micho & Gussie RUSSELL (whistles) Clare: TOPIC 12-TS-251 1975 - Davie STEWART (acc): TOPIC 12-T-293 1978 - Joe SHANNON (U- pipes) & Johnny McGREAVEY (fid) from Chicago rec at The Clancy Summer School July 1986 RTE radio prog 1988

TATTER THE ROAD - Single Jig (G) - LEVEY 2 #85 p38 (G) - O NEILL MOI #906/ DMI #381

TATTERED AND TORN - MAN ALL TATTERED AND TORN

TATTIES AND HERRIN' -- THE GUAGERS: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-001 1994 (from Aberdeen Libraries CITY ARTS CACD-101 1994)

TATTOED LADY, THE - "Way back in old Paris, I paid ten francs to see - tattooed from head to knee - under her jaw was the Royal Flying Corps and on her back was a Union Jack - home in Tennessee"-- NEIL LANHAM NL-01 Jack TARLING rec by NL, Haverhill, Suffolk 30.4.95 (gift) CASS-1357

TATWS LLAETH - (Potatoes & Buttermilk) - Welsh -- John THOMAS rec by PK, Llangwm, Corwen, Denbighsh 9/11/54 :RPL 22337/ FTX-051

TAUNTON - Somerset - GAOL SONG

TAVERN IN THE TOWN, THE - Instrumental - DIED FOR LOVE -- Nansi RICHARDS JONES instr) rec by PK, Penybontfawr, nr Oswestry, Shropsh Nov 1954: FTX-053 & FTX-351 - YETTIES on Radio 2 17/12/87: CASS 0379

TAVERN ON THE MOOR, THE - TAFARN Y RHOS

TAVISTOCK GOOSEY FAIR - "Twas just a month come Friday next" - ROUD#10683 - Devon Dialect Song comp by C John Trythall (comp of "Down pon ole Dartymoor") & publ by J H Larway London 1912 -- Hamlyn PARSONS rec Harberton: FTX-401 - Tony ROSE: LEADER LER 2013 1970 - Bill "Pop" Hingston, rec by Sam Richards, Dittisham, Devon 1970: PEOPLE'S STAGE-03 - Trevor CROZIER'S Broken Consort: ARGO ZFB-80 1972 - Derek CARTER (unacc) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse, Devon19/4/75: CASS-45-0620

TAVRIN GREEN - IRISH GIRL

TAXATION OF AMERICA, THE - "While I rehearse my story, Americans give ear" - ROUD#2822 - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp101-6 MS NY 1841-56 (w/o)

TAXES - COME ALL YOU BOLD BRITONS - INCOME TAX - NEW SONG ON TAXES

TAXIS - Children - CAB CAB CAB - I WENT TO THE PICTURES - BUMP, BUMP, HERE COMES A TAXI- CAB

TAY BRIDGE, THE - "is broken and I'm come to mend it - fal the doo a dido" - Children's game - ROUD#13075 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1622 p177 (1v/m)

TAYLOR'S FANCY - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #55 p24 (G) written 12/8

TAYLOR'S REEL - PADDY TAYLOR'S