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THA DO RIOGHACHD LAN DO GHLOIR - ("Your Kingdom is full of Glory") - Scots Gaelic Evangelical Hymn -- Miss Murdina Mc DONALD rec by The School of Scottish Studies, Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides: TANGENT TNGM-110 1971

THA MI FO CHURAM AIR CULTHAIBH EIRINN -- Norman MORRISON, Calpay Harris, Hebrides 10/6/57: RPL LP 24972

THA M'INNTIN RAOIR - (Last night my mind was...) - Scots Gaelic mouth-music -- Christine PRIMOROSE: ELLIPSIS CD-4070 1997 "Celtic Mouth Music"

THA MI SOITH (Scots Gaelic Fairy Lullaby) -- Rhona McLEOD: BELTONA (Decca) LBA-58 1968

THA MO GHAEL AIR AIRD A' CHUAIN - ("Jamie's on the Stormy sea") - Scots Gaelic -- sung by Tommy Mc DONALD rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978

THA MULAD, THA MULAD - ("There is sorrow"/ "Sadness on me") - Scots Gaelic "Margaret stole my sweetheart" - Lament for the lass of her virginity mentioning her sister Margaret who lied on her and stole her sweetheart --Mrs McCormick & group, rec by Alan Lomax, Benbecula, Hebrides 1951/ RTR#1104 - Mrs Annie Nicholson & group rec by AL, S Uist, June 1951: RTR-1096 #4/ COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 & 1743 1998 (text and trans incl) -

THA THIDE AGAM EIRIGH - ("It is time for me to rise") - Scots Gaelic Love Song -- Angus K Mc IVER rec by The School of Scottish Studiies, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides 1968: TANGENT TNGM-110 1971

THACKER'S HORSES - Cumberland Dialect Song - Policeman charges Thacker with maltreating his horses but magistrate takes Thacker's side and rebukes policeman -- Ewan McCOLL rec 1951: 7"RTR-0705

THADE JANEY BUCKLEY'S JIG - MOYLAN 2 #255 p146 (A) from John O Leary (melodeon)

THADELO SULLIVAN'S HORNPIPE #1 - MOYLAN 2 #112 p65 (##A) from John O Leary (melodeon)

THADELO SULLIVAN'S HORNPIPE #2 - MOYLAN 2 #189 p110 (G) from John O Leary (melodeon)

THADELO SULLIVAN'S HORNPIPE #3 - MOYLAN 2 #246 p142 (D) from John O Leary (melodeon)

THADELO SULLIVAN'S POLKA - MOYLAN 2 #104 p61 & #190 p110 (##A) from John O Leary (melodeon)

THADELO SULLIVAN'S SLIDE - MOYLAN 2 #76 pp43-4 (##A) from John O Leary (melodeon)

THADY CASEY'S FANCY - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #160 p74 (Bm)

THADY REGAN - SPANISH LADY

THADY YOU GANDER - DONALD NA GREINE

THADY'S WATTLE - Hornpipe - LEVEY 2 #52 p21 (G)

THAILAND -- CANTOMETRICS

THAINIG FEAR AN TAIGHE DHACHAIG - CUCKOLDS SONG

THAME FAIR - comp by R D Puddefoot from Ivinghoe, Leighton Buzzard, Beds - ARTHUR 1970 p24 -- Dave BURLAND & Nic JONES (fid): LEADER LER-2082 1972

THAMES HEAD WASSAILER'S SONG - WASSAIL

THAMES HORNPIPE - KERR MM 3 #365 p40 (Bb/F)

THAMES WATERMAN, THE - LONDON WATERMAN

THANK YOU, MA'AM, SAYS DAN - "What brought you into my house?" - ROUD#3044 - HENRY SOP #184 & 689/ HUNTINGTON pp496-470 Gerald Crofts (w) Dublin & Joseph M Crofts (m), Dublin - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp182-3 Dennis Devereux, Dublin

THART FA NA H-OILEAN - ("Round about the Islands") - Irish Gaelic Song about a man given to drink and becausae of it is refused by a girl -- Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20143/ FTX-271 talk aft

THAT DANG BOAT - BOAT THAT FIRST BROUGHT ME OVER

THAT'S ALL RIGHT, BABY --Moses "Clear Rock" PLATT rec by John & Alan Lomax, Central State Farm (Pen), Sugarland, Texas USA 1933: ROUNDER 11661-1821-2 1999 (see also "St James' Hospital" ("I used to go dashing"); "Old Joe Clark" & "Long Summer Day")

THAT'S HOW WE GET SERVED WHEN WE'RE OLD - "One day in the street I just happened to meet" - ROUD#12893 - WILLIAMS #719 (w/o)

THAT'S MY RABBIT, MY DOG CAUGHT IT - American Mountain -- Draper WALTER & family (fid, jug, piano, gtr, washboard) of Ky rec Indiana, USA 1933: (NEW WORLD NW-226)/ CASS-0476-7

THAT'S ONCE - Appalachian Story -- Richard CHASE, USA: TRADITION TLP-1011 1957

THAT'S THE TIME TO REMEMBER THE POOR - REMEMBER THE POOR

THAT'S WHAT I LEARNED AT MY SCHOOL - I PUT MY HAND ON MYSELF

THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT - HOKEY POKEY

THAT'S WHERE I MET WITH MY DARLING - COTTAGE BY THE MILL

THAT LONESOME VALLEY - "You've got to walk TLV, you've got to walk it by yourself" "Now Daniel was a bible hero in the den of hungry lions, John" etc - American hymn -- Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 2/4/57: FTX-915

THAT NIGHT IN BETHLEHEM - Carol in Irish Gaelic -- Christy O LEARY with THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-006 1994

THAT OLD BLACK MULE OF MINE - "My mule is neither lame or slow" - ROUD#6969 -- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Ann Warner, East Jaffray, New Hampsh: FTX-922

THAT OLD VIOLIN TUNE - Waltz - ROCHE 3 #157 p52 (D & G) 4pts

THAT ROGUE REILLY - ROGUE

THATCHING - COTTAGE WELL THATCHED WITH STRAW - NEATLY THATCHED CABIN -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

THAXTED BELLS - "O little boys of London town" - ROUD#12859 -- Harry GREEN (VETERAN VT-135)

THEARA NA WARAGA - Jig - Tunebook Ms (Am ends C) #76 p28 - O NEILL 1114/398 - Co Donegal Wedding March - ROYAL CHARLIE

THEATRE - BETSY BAKER - MUSIC HALL - MUMMERS - KNICKERBOCKER LINE - RING DOWN THE CURTAIN - YOU CANNA PUT IT ON TO SANDY -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

THEE DOESN'T DO IT NOW - I WISH THEY'D DO IT NOW

THEIR ULSTER PEACE - comp by VG -- Vin GARBUTT: TOPIC 12-TS-378 1977

THEME TUNES - Radio & TV - ARCHERS - AS I ROVED OUT - FOOTBALL CRAZY (Match of the Day) - GREAT SILKIE - HOUSEWIVES CHOICE - JOHNNY TODD - LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE - MAIGRET - ROVING JOURNEYMAN - TAKE FIVE - TELSTAR - TRUMPET HORNPIPE (Captain Pugwash)

THEN GIVE ME A HUT IN MY OWN NATIVE LAND - "out in the Bush - with a dear native girl" - tune of cowboy type like part of "Home on the Range" - see also MAD OF AUSTRALIA, THE -- Dave De HUGARD (voc/banjo): LARRIKIN LRD-9012 1981

THEN IT'S IRISHMEN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? - "With lagging and hanging around" - American Civil War song to the tune of "Rosin the Beau" - see OLD TIPPECANOE - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p79

THEN MY LOVE AND I WILL BE MARRIED - WHEN ROSES GROW ON THISTLE TOPS

THEODORE - Old English Dance - WILSON p110 4/4 (G) (with dance descr)

THERE ARE NO LIGHTS ON OUR CHRISTMAS TREE - comp by Cyril Tawney -- Jacqui McDONALD & Bridie O DONNELL: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-23 1968

THERE CAME A DUKE (GYPSY/ KNIGHT) A-RIDING - DUKES A-RIDING

THERE CAME A GIRL FROM ITALY - "Spain, Portugal - and this is how she came - ooshala" - Children's Skipping game with actions -- rec by PK, Kentish Town Church School, London 1953: RPL 19003/ FTX-202 game descr after - ONE POTATO Film Soundtrack - rec by Damian Webb (DW 15/10) Moss Park School Junior Girls, Glasgow 1961 "There came a girl from France Spain & USA": FTX-190

THERE CAME A POOR WOMAN FROM SANDY ROW -- BELFAST GIRL SINGERS rec 20/4/48: RPL 13163-4 (coll by Hugh Quinn)

THERE CAME A YOUNG LAD - BRAW YOUNG LAD

THERE CAME THREE GYPSIES - GYPSY LADDIE

THERE CAME THREE JEWS/ KNIGHTS/ LORDS etc - CAME FROM SPAIN (K)

THERE CHANCED TO BE A PEDLAR BOLD - ROBIN HOOD & THE BOLD PEDLAR

THERE DID THREE KNIGHTS COME FROM THE WEST - CRUEL BROTHER

THERE DWELT A MILLER, HALE AND BOLD - MILLER O DEE

THERE GOES A MAN JUST GONE ALONG - JAIL SONG

THERE GOES OLD TOM --Tom POTTER (75), rec by PK, Hawkhurst, Kent 4/9/63: RTR-0985/ FTX-428

THERE GOES THE FARMER - "to his plough, the fisherman to his net & hook - herdsman, woodsman, keeper, huntsman, miller, butcher, baker, constable, undertaker, soldier" etc "me no skill or trade" - comp by GM 1972 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-221

THERE GROWS A BONNIE BRIER - CUCKOO'S NEST

THERE'S A BABBIE IN THE HOOSE - to tune of "Rothsay O" -- Hamish HENDERSON rec by Alan Lomax, London 6/3/51 7"RTR-0680

THERE'S A BIRD ON MY HEAD - comp by SC -- Sydney CARTER (voc) with Donald SWANN (voc & piano) rec by PK, London 6/6/61: RTR-0416-9/ RTR-1094/ FTX-146

THERE IS A BIRD ON YONDERS TREE - DIED FOR LOVE

THERE'S A BOY OVER THERE - I'M A TEXAS GIRL - MOTHER BOUGHT A CHICKEN

THERE'S A BROWN GIRL IN THE RING - BROWN GIRL

THERE'S A CHICKEN IN THE POT - "for you young man" - tar with trousers on - ROUD#2383 - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 p59 1v/m - Cf I WISH THAT YOU WERE DEAD GOODMAN

THERE IS A FOUNTAIN - FOUNTAIN OF CHRIST'S BLOOD

THERE IS A HAPPY LAND --"Lucky" LUCKHURST (of Edmonton, London) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332 -- Jean RITCHIE (v/ dulc): GREENHAYS GR-90714 nd CASS-0801 aft "Go and tell Aunt Rhody"

THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING ON TRISTAN -- Basil LAVARELLO of Tristan de Cunha, rec by PK, Gosport, Hampsh 1962: FTX-609

THERE'S A LITTLE SANDY GIRL - THREE LITTLE SANDY GIRL:S (K)

THERE IS A SCHOOL IN LIVERPOOL - "and in that school there is a stool - And on that stool there sits a fool - and his name is 'Arry 'Oole" - Kids Jeer - also has "Dunce Dunce Double D cannot say his ABC - put a penny on the wall you're the biggest fool of all" (Cardiff boy) and "Alan Hill aint no good - chop him up for fire wood - when he's dead burn his head - make him into ginger bread" (Suffolk girl) -- FTX-198

THERE IS A TAVERN/ ALEHOUSE - DIED FOR LOVE

THERE'S AN IRISHMAN BESIDE ME - Humorous ditty -- Annie JOHNSTON rec by Seamus Ennis, Barra, Hebrides June 1955: RPL LP 23995

THERE'S AN OCEAN BETWEEN US - CAOLAS EADAR MI IS IAIN

THERE'S BOUND TO BE A ROW - BOUND TO BE A ROW

THERE IS BUT ONE GOD - IN THOSE TWELVE DAYS

THERE'S MANY A LONG STEP BETWEEN MY LOVE AND ME - 'S IOMAIDH COISCEIM FADA EADAR MISE GUS MO GRADH

THERE'S MY THUMB, I'LL NE'ER BEGUILE THEE - Air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G) #144 p227 - STUART for Ramseys Coll pp140-1 & others

THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOOT THE HOOSE - NO LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE

THERE'S NO PLEASURES CAN COMPARE WITH THE HUNTING OF THE HARE - SOMERSETSHIRE HUNTING SONG

THERE'S NOBODY COMES TO MARRY ME - "Last night the dogs did bark" - father a hedger and ditcher - Ch: "O dear what shall I do?" - WILLIAMS FSUT p226 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh 3v (w/o) - Cf WHISTLING THIEF

THERE'S NO-ONE TO LAY MERCY ON ME - "O once I was happy and young" - Lullaby -- Irene McQUEEN rec by AL, Aug 1962, La Fortune, St Patricks, Grenada Aug 1962: ROUNDER CD 1728 2001

THERE'S NOT A CLOUD SAILING BY - FURZE BLOOM

THERE'S NOTHING TO BE HAD WITHOUT MONEY - "You gallant & swaggering blades - like to wear good clothes" - EVANS Old Ballads 1784 -- Ted CULVER (voc/gtr) London Critics Group: ARGO ZFB-60 1967

THERE'S SOMEBODY IN WITH DINAH - "playing on the ol banjo" -- Billy BALLANTINE (piccolo) rec by PK, Wark, Northumb 29/6/54: RPL 20617/ 119 aft "Please give a penny to the poor old man" talk bef & aft about Nigger Minstrels & frag of song: "Uncle Ned"

THERE'S SOMEBODY UNDER THE BED - SOMEBODY UNDER THE BED

THERE IS SOMEBODY WAITING FOR ME - SOMEBODSY'S WAITING FOR ME

THERE'S SURE TO BE A ROW - BOUND TO BE A ROW

THERE'S THREE BRAVE LOYAL FELLOWS - Jacobite -- Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-79 1962

THERE'S THREE GUID FELLOWS - Triple Jig - KERR MM 3 #285 p31 (Am)

THERE'S THREE FAMED HORSES - FELTON LONNINJ

THERE LIVED A LADY IN THE WEST - DOWIE DENS O YARROW

THERE LIVED AN OLD MAN AT THE TOP OF THE KNOWES - GLOWEROWERUM

THERE LIVED AN OLD MAN IN DOVER - MAN FROM DOVER

THERE LIVED THREE BROTHERS - HENRY MARTIN]

THERE SAT TWO LOVERS - FAIR MARGARET & SWEET WILLIAM

THERE SHE GOES - "there she goes - peery heels and pointed toes - look at her feet, she thinks she's neat - Black stocking and dirty feet" - Children's Rhyme -- Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959

THERE SHE STANDS A LOVELY CREATURE - MADAM

THERE STANDS A COTTAGE - OPEN THE DOOR

THERE STANDS A LADY - MADAM

THERE WAS A BATTLE IN THE NORTH - GEORGIE

THERE WAS A CRAFTY MILLER - MILLER'S LAST WILL

THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

THERE WAS A FARMER FAIR AND BOLD - Percy GRAINGER #RNS86 Tom Roberts, Chelsea, London 1908

THERE WAS A FARMER HAD THREE SONS - THREE SONS O ROGUES

THERE WAS A FARMER HAD A DOG - BINGO

THERE WAS A FROG LIVED IN A WELL - FROG AND THE MOUSE

THERE WAS A HAGGIS IN DUNBAR - MASON NR&CS 1877

THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER - MILLER'S LAST WILL

THERE WAS A JOVIAL BEGGAR - A-BEGGING WE WILL GO

THERE WAS A JOVIAL TINKER - WHEN JONES ALE WAS NEW

THERE WAS A LAD BORN IN KYLE - Scots March -- John McDONALD (mel) of Glenfinnan, Inverness rec by PK, London 1953 7"RTR-0687 bef "March from Rob Roy" (Drunken Sailor)

THERE WAS A LADY ALL SKIN AND BONE - CHURCHYARD SONG

THERE WAS A LADY IN HER FATHER'S GARDEN - YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR

THERE WAS A LADY LIVED IN THE WEST - TOM BARBER

THERE WAS A LADY LIVED IN YORK - CRUEL MOTHER

THERE WAS A LADY IN MERRY SCOTLAND - WIFE OF USHER'S WELL

THERE WAS A LADY IN THE EAST - SLENDER THREAD OF LIFE

THERE WAS A LADY IN THE WEST - RIDDLE SONG

THERE WAS A LITTLE BIRD - "sat on a clat" - WILLIAMS #721 (w/o)

THERE WAS A LITTLE DOG - "sitting by the fireside" - MASON NR&CS 1877 - different from that in OPIE ODNR p153

THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN - "and he had a little gun and his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead - and the drake flew away with a quack, quack, quack" - Joan - duck - ROUD#1289 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p220 #131 Mrs Mary Bond, Quenington, Gloucestersh 3v (w/o) - OPIE ODNR p289 -- children rec Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on- Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #14 "over the mountains he did run/ bum bum bum"

THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN - CRABFISH

THERE WAS A LITTLE WOMAN - OLD WOMAN & THE PEDLAR

THERE WAS A LOVELY COTTAGE ONCE - CRIPPLE BOY

THERE WAS A LOVELY PRINCESS - SLEEPING BEAUTY

THERE WAS A MAN - "and he went mad - he jumped into a paperbag" - Improvisation Nonsense Song - ROUD#2424 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #328 Barrington Fiddlers, Hambridge, Somerset 1903 "James Morrell's dead" or "James Morrow" - OPIE ODNR 1951 #6 Mummers Play & 498 "Old Man of Thessaly" - POLWARTH 1969 p30 Elliott family, Birtley Co Durham --- SEEGER American f/s for children 1948 p76 -- Jack ELLIOTT Birtley Co Durham: LEADER LEA-4001 1969 Kids Rhyme: "There was an old man - he went mad - he run up the steeple - He pulled out his tallywag and piddled on the people" - Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1225

THERE WAS AN OLD AND A WEALTHY MAN - SUFFOLK MIRACLE

THERE WAS AN OLD COUPLE - POOR OLD COUPLE

THERE WAS AN OLD FARMER - FARMER'S CURST WIFE - MUTTON PIE

THERE WAS AN OLD JAYNOR - TWO SISTERS

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN - GRAINGER #354 Mr Tandy, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh 1908

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AND HE HAD A WOODEN LEG - OLD TOBBACCY BOX

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AND HE WAS POOR - POOR OLD COUPLE

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN CAME OVER THE LEA - OLD GREY BEARD

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN THE NORTH COUNTRIE - TWO SISTERS

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN LIVED IN YORKSHIRE - HIGHWAYMAN OUTWITTED

THERE WAS AN OLD MILLER - MILLER'S LAST WILL

THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN - MARROWBONES - SKIN AND BONE

THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN LIVED UNDER THE HILL - SHOEMAKER'S KISS

THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN SHE HAD NA BAIRNS - MUSH A DOODY

THERE WAS A PIG WENT OUT TO DIG - "Kitty alone" - cow to plough - "Christmas day" - ROUD#1369 - MASON NRCS 1877/ 1908 Mitford family - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 p28 from Mason - JEFDSS 1946 pp31-6 - tune: var of "Greensleeves" -- Jean RITCHIE (voc with dulc) & Robert ABRAMSON (harpsichord) rec by David Hancock: TRADITION TLP- 1031 1959 - Engl Chamber Orch cond Britten arr Percy Grainger: DECCA KSX-6410 1970 cass

THERE WAS A POOR THRESHERMAN - "his family was great - nothing to eat to maintain them all" -- Harry HOLMAN rec by Frank Purslow & Ken Stubbs, Cherry Tree, Copthorne, Sussex, May 1960: TOPIC TSCD-670 1998 "

THERE WAS A RICH MERCHANT - DISGUISED SAILOR - LADY'S LOST JEWEL - LONDON MERCHANT - PRESS GANG - SILK MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER - WILLIAM AND DINAH - WILLIAM AND HARRIET

THERE WAS A RICH MERCHANT - "in London did dwell" - sent to live with her uncle - ROUD#1158 - HILL WFC 1904 Britford, Wiltsh

THERE WAS A SHIP - GUILTY SEA CAPTAIN

THERE WAS A SQUIRE - GREEN WEDDING - TWO SISTERS

THERE WAS A STAR - CARNAL AND THE CRANE

THERE WAS A WEALTHY FARMER - "who lived here nigh by" - in her dress a fortune sewn - ROUD#2755 - CREIGHTON FSNB 1932 pp83-4 Angelo Dornan, Elgin, NB

THERE WAS A WOMAN - MARROWBONES

THERE WAS A YOUNG COUPLE - "a-skating away - on a cold and frosty morning - the ice was thin and they both fell in" - Kids ring around couple in the centre - OPIE SG 1985 #107 pp385-6

THERE WAS A YOUTH - BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER

THERE WAS AN OLD CHAP - KING & THE COUNTRYMAN

THERE WAS AN OLD FARMER - "he had an old sow" - and describes the various tradesmen butcher, waggoner, cowman, milk lad and servant involved CLINGING 2005 #49 pp106-7 collected by Duncan Broomhead from Ted Staley of Over Peover, Cheshire1982

THERE WAS AN OLD FROG - FROG AND THE MOUSE

THERE WAS AN OLD LORD - TWO SISTERS

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN - GREEN BROOM

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AND HE WENT MAD - THERE WAS A MAN

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AND HE WAS POOR - POOR OLD COUPLE

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AND SONS HE HAD THREE - Ch: "Wind well, Lion, good hunter" - BELL SOP words only - believed to be a nursey version of SIR LIONEL

THERE WAS AN OLD SERGEANT - Army Song -- GRANDAD'S ARMY: PICKWICK Hallmark SHM-747 1971

THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN - "who lived in a shoe" - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBA -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

THERE WAS ONCE A GIRL IF YOU PLEASE - "went for a sailor - all on the salt seas - she knew how to climb up the rigging"- she asks the captain not to beat her because she is his true-love -- Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147

THERE WAS ONCE A SCOTTISH KNIGHT - FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND

THERE WERE TEN IN THE BED - "and the little one said: Roll over - nine in the bed" - Children's Two Ball Game -- rec by Damian Webb 21/3 Burrow Walls Northside Workington Cumb 1962: FTX-197 #87 (11 yr old girl solo)

THERE WERE THREE BROTHERS - HENRY MARTIN

THERE WERE THREE MEN - LITTLE BILLY

THERE WERE THREE SHIPS - AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK(K)

THERE WERE TWO SAILORS - SAILORS SAILING ON THE SEA

THERE WERE THREE JOLLY SAILOR BOYS - THREE JOLLY SAILORS

THERE WERE THREE KINGS - JOHN BARLEYCORN

THERE WERE THREE WORMS ON YONDER HILL - DIED FOR LOVE

THERE'LL BE JOY, JOY, JOY -- Carter Family (trio), Camden NJ 11/12/34/ 7"RTR-0313-4

THESE LINES WERE COMPOS-ED BY - SPENCER THE ROVER

THEY ALL LAUGHED - comp by George Gershwin - see also S'WONDERFUL -- SPREDTHICK rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1975: 089

THEY'RE ALL GETTNG MARRIED BUT ME - SPINSTER'S LAMENT

THEY GO WILD OVER ME - Wobbyly (Union) Song McCOLL/ SEEGER Ben Bright p22 1v only

THEY'VE GONE AND CLOSED OUR RAILWAY - comp by Peter King to tune of "This Old House" about the "Bluebell and Primrose Line" that went so slow there was the opportunity to step off and pick the flowers bwside the line -- Steve BENBOW (voc/ gtr) with Vic PITT (bass) & chorus rec PK Jan 1959 RTR-0494/ 093

THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE - Song Air or Jig - HAYWOOD #15 p29 (G)

THEY SAY THAT THE ARMY -- GRANDAD'S ARMY: PICKWICK Hallmark SHM- 747 1971

THEY TOLD ME THAT IN GAOL - JACK HALL

THEY WANTED A SONGBIRD IN HEAVEN - "so God took Caruso away" -- Michael HEBBERT (conc solo instr): FREE REED FRR-009 1977

THEY'LL BE THE LADS - "to see the job through" - "It's the moulder to the foundry" - comp by GM 1961 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-332 (4v)

THEY'LL NEVER GET THEIR MAN - YOU MAY EASILY KNOW A DOFFER

THEY'RE QUEER FOLK I' THE SHAWS - QUEER FOLK

THIAR I gCONNACHTA (Over in Connaught) -- sung by Jimmy Meenan rec by Noel Hamilton, Torre Island, Co Donegal 1967: FTX-276 (radio prog)/ FTX-277 (field rec)

THICK LIES THE MIST ON YONDER HILL - Strathspey -- John BURGESS (H-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969

THIEF OF LOUGH ERNE, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #963/ DMI #186 3pts (G)

THIEF UPON DA LUM, THE - "Da Teif upon da lum" (chimney) - Shetland Reel -- Gibbie GRAY (fid) rec by The School of Scottish Studies, Unst, Shetland: TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 aft "More Grog's Comin" & "The Lass that made the bed for me"

THIEVING - HIGHWAYMEN - REIVING - ROBBING -- BLACK VELVET BAND - HENRY CONNOR - HOW PADDY STOLE THE ROPE - Children - I'M A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL - NICK-A-BAR (Story) - WHO GOES ROUND MY HOUSE AT NIGHT ? - WHO STOLE THE COOKIES

THIEVING - "For thieving is a wicked trade" - Newgate Gaol - new policeman - ladies go a-thieving -- ROGUE'S GALLERY on Radio 2: 13/4/88 CASS-90-0848

THIEVING MAGPIE, THE - Hornpipe - ROCHE 3 #172 p60 (D)

THIG A CHUNNEAG, THIG - ("Come Butter come") - Annie JOHNSON while churning rec by Alan Lomax, Barra, Hebrides, June 1951: COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998

THIN PEOPLE - (K) - OPIE LLSC p168 "Skinnies" - see MATCHSTICKS - MY TEACHERS GOT A BUNION - POLICE - TALLER THAN YOU OUGHT TO BE

THING, THE - D'URFEY 1698-1720 6 p105 1v, about "it"

THINK OF ME - MAGGIE

THINK OF YOUR HEAD IN THE MORNING - "Tom Jenkins who never could drinking avoid" - ROUD#12892 - WILLIAMS #722 (w/o)

THINKING TONIGHT OF MY BLUE EYES - "O when I'm thinking" part of a pop song -- unnamed Irish traveller: LYRICHORD LL-178 1967 (M) 1v only

THIOS I DTEACH A'TORRAIMH - ("Down at the Funeral or Wake House") - Irish Gaelic - Encounter by man of girl in a funeral house - AN tULTACH Aug 1928 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 # 47 Devaney - Sheila has other verses not sung by Hudie and somewhat different tune - "Bothar Buidhe" mentioned in Sheila's talk is THE YELLOW ROAD publ in Father Murphy: AMHRAIN CHUIGE ULADH (Drumdealgan Press, Dundalk) -- Hudie DEVANEY rec by PK, Ranafast, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19968/ FTX-003 - Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20146/ FTX-272

THIRD MILLENIUM, THE - "As I was in the garden - year 1999" -- Jack the Lad: ISLAND FOLK-1001 1975 (boxed)

THIRSTY BOOTS - comp by Anderson -- Jackie McDONALD & Bridie O DONNELL: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-23 1968

THIRTEEN PENCE A DAY - comp about Soldier Lad -- Cathy LeSURF with FIDDLER'S DRAM Radio 2: 31/3/80: CASS-0418

THIRTY FOOT TRAILER, THE - comp by Ewan McColl for "Traveller's" Radio prog - lamenting the old days & old ways, canting tongue, horse-dealing, clothes pegs & hawking etc -- WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-142 1966 - Ewan McCOLL & Family (voc/ conc/ whi/ gtr/ talk bef): Radio 2: 6/7/81: CASS-0427

THIRTY SEVEN BUS, THE - comp by M Toner -- Hamish IMLACH: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-31 1973

THIRTY YEARS AGO - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1632/ DMI #860 (G)

THIS COUNTRY OF MINE -- RUSSCO rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 5.11.75: FTX-094

THIS DAY WILL BE REMEMBERED - BATTLE OF BULL RUN

THIS DRINK IS TO THE HEALTH OF THE HERO - BIDH AN DEOCH SO AIR SLAINTE AN ARMAIN

THIS FAIR MAID TO THE MEADOW'S GONE - APRON OF FLOWERS

THIS IS MORRIS DANCING - WINSTER WAKES

THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE - Jacobite -- Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-79 1962

THIS IS NAE MY PLAID - "The ground o mine was mixed wi blue - IO got it frae the lad I loe" - Ch: "This is nae my plaid - bonny tho the colour be" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1063 p576 5v/m

THIS OLD COAT (HAT, SHIRT) OF MINE - ALL FOR THE GROG

THIS IS THE NIGHT MY JOHNNY SET - "and promised to be here" - GREIG DUNCAN 4 1990 #798 p177 (4var)

THIS IS THE TRUTH - TRUTH SENT FROM ABOVE

THIS IS THE WAY - "the gentlemen walk - wash our clothes" etc - (K) Rhyme --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #264 (vol 2 p373) "Early Sunday morning" sung by Miss Annie Smelser, Montvale, Bedford Co., Va 1918 (publ) -- Norton Park School, Edinburgh rec 16/12/53: RPL 19925 - Nursery Rhymes OXFORD 1988 Nigel PEGRUM & Vince CROSS CASS-1173

THIS IS THE WAY WE DO IT - "O we can play on the big bass drum" etc -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

THIS LADY SHE WEARS A DARK GREEN SHAWL - "Dance to your partner" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226

THIS LAND IS MY LAND - "and I love it" - comp by CT ? (given on label as "Trad") to tune of "Botany Bay" -- (Cyril TAWNEY with Dave GOULDER & Fred WOODS: ARGO ZFB-17 1970)

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND - comp by WG -- Woody GUTHRIE 2 progs by Tom Paxton: RPL Radio 2 30/9/87 & 7/10/87: CASS-0425

THIS LAND OF OURS - Canadian version of THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND -- Linda DREW (v/gtr) rec Cecil Sharp House, London 9/4/64 4.5"RTR-0409

THIS LIFE IS ALL CHEQUERED - Jig - BLACK ROGUE

THIS LITTLE PIG - "went to market" - finger-counting -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173 comp

THIS OLD HAMMER -- LEADBELLY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1126 1972 - ODETTA (with gtr) rec USA: TRADITION TLP-1025 1958 - Mike & Peggy SEEGER with 12- string guitar (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1226

THIS OLD MAN - "he played ONE, he played knick-knack on my thumb" - KIDSON 80 Singing Games (tune: "Italian Monfrina") - coll by Cecil SHARP (Used in the film "Inn of the Seventh Happiness" for which royalties were paid to the Sharp Estate) - JEFDSS 1937 p124 Gilchrist Manchester action song "Jack Jintle" - FELLOWSHIP SONGBOOK #88 (source not given) --- PEACOCK NFL 1965 I p21 "Old Tommy Kendal" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER with auto-harp (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1225-6

THIS PRETTY LITTLE GIRL OF MINE - PRETTY LITTLE GIRL OF MINE (K)

THIS TOWN IS NOT YOUR OWN - comp by Shay Healey -- Finbar & Eddie FUREY (voc/gtr): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-168 1968/ FTX-309 A-ROVING 1968 #3

THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY - Gospel Song - ROUD 4702 - LOMAX ABFS pp593-4 - FSNA p484 - COHEN 1981 "Long Steel Rail" pp629-32 - Cf: IT JUST SUITS ME -- Alan LOMAX (v/gtr), Peggy SEEGER (v/banjo), Guy CARAWAN (v/banjo), John COLE (harmonica) & Sam STOKES (bass): PYE Nixa NPL-18013 1958/ FTX-941 - Pete SEEGER (with 5-string banjo): EMI (Music for Pleasure) MFP 50114 (Released by agreement with Folkways) Capitol Records Inc 1964 - Sandy DENNY Radio 2: 28/2/90 CASS-30-1039

THIS WAY HEN-ER-Y - "all day long - here comes this one, just like the other one" - game for couples in long line - OPIE SG 1985 #114 pp402-4 music

THIS WORLD GOES ROUND - comp by Tom Paxton -- TINKERS: ARGO ZFB-35 1971

THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME - Frank PROFFITT (unacc) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt., Watauga Co., NC 1941: FTX-933

THISTLE, THE - Highland Schottische (A) - KERR MM 1 #9 p19

THISTLE GROWS ON ROBBIE'S GRAVE, A - "Upon that Monday morning" - comp by Graeme Miles - Folktrax 1981

THISTLE HORNPIPE, THE - HONEYMAN #1 p53 (Bb) - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #180 p50 (A)

THISTLE SCHOTTISCHE, THE -- Jimmy SHAND (mel) & piano: 361

THISTLES GROW ON ROBBIE'S GRAVE - comp by Graeme MILES

THOIR A'NALL AM BOTUL - ("Bottle Song") - TOCHER 34 (1980) p230 ORAN A' BHOTUIL - Scots Gaelic -- Alasdair GILLIES: BELTONA LBA 55/ 7"RTR 0706

THOIR A NALL 'UGAM - Mouth music -- Neil GILLIES rec by Seamus Ennis, Barra, Hebrides, June 1955: RPL LP 23995

THOIR MO SHORAIDH CEUD SORAIDH - ("Bear my greetings a hundredfold") -- Murdo Mc LEAN & Ch rec by Fred Macaulay, S Bragar, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides 1957: RPL LP 24444

THOMAS AND NANCY - "The Bosun's shrill whistle had sounded - causing Nancy and Thomas to part" - She sadly watches his ship sail away - shipwrecked she finds his body floating near the shore and dies of grief - LAWS #K15 (ABBB 1957 p148) - ROUD#3232 - WILLIAMS #199 Shadrach Haydon, Bampton, Oxfordsh (w/o) --- GREENLEAF BSSNFL 1933 p114 7v/m

THOMAS AND SALLY - SWEET NIGHTINGALE

THOMAS BURKE - PLANXTY THOMAS BURKE

THOMAS FAREWELL - SAILOR'S FAREWELL

THOMAS FRIEL'S JIG -- Tommy Mc MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12 TFRS-502 1975 aft "Martin Talty's" & bef "Joe Cunnean's"

THOMAS HALLORAN - ACQUITTAL OF THOMAS HALLORAN

THOMAS HANLEY - Nottinghamshire poacher - see also OLD FAT BUCK -- Roger WATSON of MUCKRAM WAKES: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-017 1974

THOMAS HEGAN - FANNY BLAIR

THOMAS O WINSBURY - TOM BARBER

THOMAS THE RHYMER - "True Thomas lay on Huntley bank" - CHILD #37 - ROUD#219 - BELL EB 1856 pp116-9 (w/o) - GOSS BB 1937 Sir Walter Scott - ORD BB 1930 p422 "Sir John Gordon" 25v no tune - TOCHER 27 1977 pp175-8 from Duncan Williamson -- Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-621 1956 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1053 1974 & STEELEYE SPAN: "Original Masters" LP: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977

THOMOND BRIDGE - Hornpipe - ROCHE 2 #214 o11 (F)

THOMPSON CATTY - Old Set Tune -- Willie CLANCY (whistle) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare 1960: RPL LP 29883/ FTX-173

THOMPSON'S HORNPIPE - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #181 p50 (Gm)

THOMPSON'S JIG - PHILLIPS FCTB p48 (F) from Angus Chisholm: SHANACHIE 14001

THOMPSON'S LASS - comp by GM 1965 about courting a factory girl -- Graeme MILES: 222-C90

THOMPSON'S REEL - SPIRVIN'S FANCY

THOMSON'S DIRK - Highland Reel -- John BURGESS (H-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969

THORN, THE - Air - DUFF 2 p10 - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G) #166 p238

THORN BUSH, THE - CUCKOO'S NEST

THORNEYMOOR WOODS - "In Thorneymoor Woods in Nottinghamshire" - Thorney Wood Chase, formerly part of Sherwood Forest near Newark-on-Trent, was enclosed about 1790 - ROUD#222 - BSs: "The Lads of Thorny Moor Woods" by FORD of Chesterfield (Palmer Reprint 2001) - BROADWOOD OES 1843 - SS 1890 - DIXON SP 1846 - BELL BSPE 1857 pp214-6/ 434 "Thornehagh-Moor Woods in Nottinghamshire" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 - MASON NRCS 1877 pp57-8 "In Thorney Woods" - REYNARDSON 1889 p12 Sx "The Poacher's Song" - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp50-51 John Broadwood Sussex bef 1840 "The Nottinghamsh Poacher" - SHARP- KARPELES CDC 1974 #272 pp235-6 Edwin Thomas,. Dulverton, Somerset 1914/ Kathleen Williams (gipsy), Puddlebrook, Herefordsh 1921 "Thorneymoor Woods" - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp198-200 Broadwood: Fred Page, Chiswell Green, Hertfordsh 1898 "Thorny Woods"/ Gilchrist: Mr Gasson, Blackham, Sussex 1907 "Thornyholme W" - JFSS 7:26 1923 pp14-5 Moeran: Ted Goffin, Catfield, Norfolk 1921 1v/m - WILLIAMS #723 "Thornymoor Wood is in Nottinghamshire" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p58 Hammond: Mrs Webb, Kings Norton, Worcestersh 1906 "Thornaby Woods" - PALMER SOM 1972 p71 Charles Parker: George Dunn (chainmaker), Quarry Bank, Staffordsh 1971 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #259 pp570-1 Harry Cox - McCOLL/SEEGER TSES 1977 pp292-5 Nelson Ridley (gypsy) Essex "Thornaby Woods" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #50 pp96-8 George Dunn -- Cf DEATH OF BILL BROWN - HUNTING SONG ("Ollerton Town") - see also THOMAS HANLEY, Nottinghamsh poacher --- EDDY Ohio 1939 p154 -- Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1956: RPL LP 22915/ FTX-023 - Mrs DUNSBY rec by PK, Yiewsley, West Drayton, Middx 1958 - Chris WILLETT (gypsy) rec by PK, Paddock Wood, Kent 1963 RTR-0985 "In Thorney Park in Buckinghamshire" - Anne BRIGGS: TOPIC 12-T-207 1971 - Roy BAILEY with Martin CARTHY (gtr) & Peter KNIGHT (fid): LEADER LER-3021 1971 Hammond - George DUNN: LEADER LEE-4042 1973 - Jasper SMITH (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Epsom, Surrey: TOPIC 12-T-253 1975/ TSCD-668 1998 "Thornymoor Park" - SPREDTHICK rec PK, Totnes, Devon 1975: 089 "Nottingham Poachers" - Walter PARDON rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-301 1984 "Thornaby Woods" - Vic LEGG rec by John Howson on Radio 2: 16/1/96: CASS-1335

THOSE BOLD WHITBY FISHERMEN - "there are none yet so brave" - the sea that's their bread" - comp by GM 1971 -- Graeme MILES (voc/ gtr): FTX-223

THOU HAST LEARNED TO LOVE ANOTHER - ROUD#2065 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp249-251 ships log 1842 (w/o)

THOSE WEALDEN MEN OF LONG AGO - "You Cricketing men" - Comp by GM about Kent 1961 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-227 #6 - FTX-231 #1

THOU'S BLACK AS A CROW - UP THE RAW

THOU WEALTHY MAN OF RICH POSSESSIONS - MIDNIGHT MESSENGER

THOUGH DARK BE OUR SORROWS - St PATRICK'S DAY

THOUGH I LIVE NOT WHERE I LOVE - I LIVE NOT WHERE I LOVE

THOUGH I SAILED IN MY IGNORANCE -- men, women & stamping, Cape Breton Is: ELEKTRA EKL-23 1955 10"-LP

THOUGH TYNESIDE COAL AND FURNACE REEK - FOLK O SHIELDS

THOUSAND CURSES ON LOVE, A - MILE MARBHAISG AIR A'GHAOL

THOUSANDS ARE SAILING TO AMERIKAY - "O you brave Irish people - train (convoy)" Ch: "Ah good luck to them - safe may they land" - Emigration during famine of 1840 - ROUD#2904 - MORTON CDGD 1973 p37 - MOULDEN TAS 1994 p4 John Maguire -- John MAGUIRE rec by Robin Morton, Rosslea, Co Fermanagh: LEADER LEE-4062 1973 - Eddie BUTCHER rec by Hugh Shields, Magilligan, Co Derry: FREE REED FRR-003 1973

THOUSANDS OF BOTTLES I'VE CRACKED IN MY TIME - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (D) #142 p226

THOUSANDS OR MORE - "The time passes over, so cheerful and gay, since we've learned a new act to drive sorrows away" - ROUD#1220 - COPPER ETR 1976 p240 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #284 p617 Jim Copper 1951 -- Bob COPPER (solo) & Jim, his father, (solo) rec by Seamus Ennis, Rottingdean, Sussex 24/4/52: RPL 17989/ TOPIC TSCD-534 2001 - Bob & his cousin, Ron COPPER rec by PK 1955: FTX-025 (v 2 omitted) & 082 - Bob & his son, John COPPER: LEADER LEA-4046 1971 (boxed) - Bob, John & Jill 4x30 min progs on Radio 2: Oct 1990/ CASS 60-1013-4 - OAK: TOPIC 12-TS-212 1971 - Trevor CROZIER'S BROKEN CONSORT: ARGO ZFB-80 1972 - Mike WEST & Ch rec by PK, "Napoleon Inn", Boscastle, Cornwall 1975: FTX-096

 
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