THRASHING MACHINE, THE - THRESHING MACHINE

THRASHING TIME, THE - THRESHING TIME

THREAD THE NEEDLE - "thread the needle, E-I-O" - Street dance orig performed on Shrove Tuesday, Easter Monday and May Day "boy, 1 2 3 - if you want a bonny lass - just take me" "Brother Jack if ye were mine - I would give you claret wind - Claret wine's gude and fine - through the needle- ee, boys" - "Thread the needle" street processional dance-game in which a woman would be caught by lowering the arch over her to kiss her - OPIE SG 1985 #1 pp33-43 refs & photo refs - American play-party versions: "Needles eye that doth supply - the thread that runs so true - Many a beau have I let go - for the sake of kissing you"- custom also noted by PK from Mr K.A.Ward of Kislingbury, Northants 1955 which had the verse: "Hold up, hold up your gates on high - And let Queen Bess's men go by -It is so dark we cannot see - To thread the tailor's needle" - see also PANCAKE SONG - GRANDY NEEDLES - THROUGH THE NEEDLE EYE -- Herbert PRINCE rec by PK, Warminster Wiltsh 6/10/54 talk about custom RPL 21474/ SAYDISC SDL (CD) 425 1997 (Revised and enlarged version of LP) - Caribbean -- Children at The Valley Sec School rec by Alan Lomax, Anguilla 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 "Aunty Nanny thread the needle" - children, rec by AL, Brick Kiln Village, Nevis July 1962: ROUNDER 1731 2002 with "Loose me, Johnny, loose me"

THREE AND DEUCE - Reel - MITTEL #46 p17 (D)

THREE AROUND THREE - FMJ 7/1 1995 pp62-73 Note by Wilf Darlington on "Go George I can't endure you", an aria set to a "French tune" in "No Song No Supper" 1790 and its connection with the dance "Three Around Three" which Maud Karpeles collected at Salcombe, Devon in 1930s - KERR MM4 p32 "Three Times Three" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #182 p50 (D) - see GO, GEORGE, I CAN'T ENDURE YOU - PLEASURES OF THE TOWN -- OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR 011 1976 aft "Curly headed Ploughboy" & "Quaker" - FAIRLANDS FAMILY BAND rec by Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 with Sussex "Bonny Breast Knot"

THREE BABES, THE - WIFE OF USHER'S WELL

THREE BEGGARS - "three by three" - Children's game - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1568 p117 (5v) "Here's three beggars"

THREE BLADES, THE - CAMPBELL THE ROVER

THREE BLIND MICE - "see how they run" - WILLIAMS #267 Filikins, Oxfordsh -- Tune used in well-known version of Children's Song is 2nd part of a Quadrille tune -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-173

THREE BROTHERS - CAME FROM SPAIN

THREE BROTHERS IN FAIR WARWICKSHIRE - "All for TBIFW" - ROUD#3207 - ED&S 45:1 1983 pp2-4 Mike Yates: Danny Brazil, Gloucester 1978/ Bloomer Bs Birmingham facsimile & discussion

THREE BUTCHERS, THE - (WILSON, GIBSON & JOHNSON) - "It's of three jovial sportsmen as I've heard people say" - carrying the money they've taken at the market, they hear a woman crying for help and discover her lying "stark naked with her hair pinned to the ground" - Wilson & Gibson are frightened of being robbed and ride on but, Johnson, "being a valiant man", gets off and releases her and puts her up behind him on his horse - as they ride along, she gives "three piercing cries" and her three accomplices appear - Johnson fights all three but, while he is killing the third one, the woman stabs him from behind - in so doing "she has killed the finest butcher boy that ever the sun shined on" - LAWS #L-4 ABBB 1957 pp166-7 - ROUD#17 - BSs: "The Three Merry Butchers and Ten Highwaymen" - BS by Ford (Chesterfield)1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "Bold Johnson" - SBG: 1/1:#13/ 4:#176/ 6:#113/ 9:#94/ 9:#221 "Ips, Gips & Johnson" - ROXBURGHE 1871 8 p59 - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp403-5 8v (w/o) - LONG DIOW 1886 (w/o) "The Jolly Butchers" - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 p42 Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 10v/m (notes on song & singer) - BARING GOULD Ms #172 from J Bennett FWB Chagford, Devon (8v) unpubl - SHARP Ms Cf 1 p57 - Schools 1908 7 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp274-9 Shepherd Haden, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1909/ Thomas Symes, Bredon Puckington, Somerset 1903/ Eliza Hutchings, Langport, Somerset 1v/m/ Wm Hedges, Chipping Camden, Gloucestersh 1909 (m/o)/ Wm Bayliss, Buckland, Gloucestersh 1909 (m/o)/ George Lawrence, Hambridge, Somerset 1905 (m/o)/ Wm Bayliss, Buckland, Gloucestersh 1909 1v/m/ Stephen Collins, London 1908 1v/m - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 #36 9v - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 #186 p3 13var - JFSS 1;4 1902 pp174-6 Lucy Broadwood: Henry Burstow - JFSS 8:31 1927 pp2-3 Sharp Tom Symes 1v/m "Three Jovial B" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p275 #344 Thomas King, Castle Eaton, Wiltsh (w/o) "Two Jolly B" - HENRY SOP #185/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp128-9 Samuel Leighton, Islandmore, / 1927 "The Three Huntsmen" ("Wilson, Gilmore & Johnson") - REEVES IP 1958 pp215-6 Sharp: Tom Symes (w/o) "The Two Jovial B" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p89 Hammond: Frank Stockley (w), Wareham Dorset & Wm Cousins (m), Bath 1906 - HEALY OISB 3 1969 pp72-3 BS (w/o) "Three Huntsmen Tragedy" - COPPER SSB 1973 pp254-5 George Fosbury "Young B Boy" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #135 p723 Bob Scarce 1953 "Three Jolly Sportsmen" - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp118-21 Caroline Hughes (gipsy), Dorset 1962/6 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #44 pp87-88 RVW: James Punt, East Hornden, Essex 1904 1v & Catnach Bs in Sharp coll --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #60(vol 1 pp370-2) 4var: Mr Dana Norton, Flag Pond, Tenn 1916 (10v)/ Miss Linnie Landers (blind girl), Carmen, NC 1916/ Master James Agy, Barbourville, Ky 1917 (13v)/ Mrs Mary F.Gross, Peaks of Otter, Va 1918 - COX FSOS 1925 p302 W Va 1917 (w/o) "Jackison & Dickison" - CREIGHTON NS 1932 pp208-9 Ben Henneberry, 1929+ "The Three Gallant Huntsmen" - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 #37 - FLANDERS-BARRY Vt 1939 p238 - RANDOLPH 1946-50 1 p375-7 Mary Drain, Ark 1941 "Dixon & Johnson" - CREIGHTON-SENIOR NS 1950 p120 2var (In one version Johnson pursues woman & kills her) - BROWN NC 1952 2 & 4 #80 - MORRIS FSOS 1950 pp385-6 Mrs Griffin, Fla - LEACH Labr 1965 p160 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 p517 James Decker, Nfl 1858 "The Jolly Butcherman" - KARPELES NFL 1971 #32 pp132-3 Mrs Irene Barratt 1929 & Myrtle Parsons, Nfl 1930 -- Wm ROSS #046, James MASON #180 & Wm CHRISTIE #182-3 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M. Carpenter 1929-35 - Elijah BELL "Windmill" Sutton Norfolk 27/10/47: RPL 16416 "Johnson" - Paddy DORAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 25/7/52: RPL 18551 "Three Jolly Sportsmen"/ FTX-168 - Bob SCARCE rec by PK, Blaxhall, Suffolk 10/10/53: RPL 19984/ CAEDMON TC 1164/ TOPIC 12 T 196/ FTX-029 - Harry COX rec by PK, London 1953/ rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 19/7/56: RPL LP 22914 "Two Jolly Butchers"/ (7vs) rec by Leslie Shepard 9/10/65: TOPIC-TSCD-512(D) 2000 - Ben BAXTER rec by Seamus Ennis, Southrepps, Norfolk 1955: RPL 22158/ FTX-234 "Two Jolly Butchers" (frag) - Rory McEWEN (with 12 string gtr) rec by PK, London 1955: FTX-293 - Ernest JEFFREY (75) rec by PK Wisbech, Cambridgesh 1956: FTX-423 - Joe THOMAS rec by PK, Constantine, Cornwall 22/11/56: RPL LP 23654 Frag/ FTX-218 - George FOSBURY rec Bob Copper, Axford, Hampsh 26/7/55: RPL 21858 2v/ FTX-426 "The Young Butcher Boy" (tune of "Bold Fisherman") - Tony ROSE: LEADER LER-013 1970 Broadwood - Roy BAILEY, Martin CARTHY (gtr) & Peter KNIGHT (mand): LEADER LER-021 1971 (Hammond coll) - Steve JORDAN: FOREST TRACKS FT-007 1975 - SWEENEY'S MEN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-37 1976 - Walter PARDON rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-301 1984 "Two Jolly B" - Nelson Penfold (gypsy), rec by Sam Richards: FOLKWAYS FE-38553 1981/ CASS-1292 "The Two B" --- Peggy SEEGER (voc/gtr) rec London 14/8/56: RPL LP 23195 "Johnson"- Rory Mc EWEN rec by PK: EMI CLP-220 1958/ FTX-293 "Johnson"

THREE CAPTAINS, THE - THREE SEA CAPTAINS

THREE CHEERS FOR BRAVE CONNELLY -- AFTERHOURS CASS-60-0920 1989

THREE CHILDREN - CRUEL MOTHER

THREE (BLACK) CROWS - THREE RAVENS

THREE COUNTIES MEET -- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60- 0926 & 0927 nd

THREE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS, THE - "Jesus, John & Stephen" - comp by GM -- Graeme MILES: FTX-229

THREE CRIPPLES, THE - "from London on the spree" - they pulled out their arms and legs until soldiers came and then they screwed them on again - ROUD#2422 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #324 2 p374 Fred Webb, Bloxham, Oxfordsh 1922 - REEVES IP 1958 pp207-8 Fred Webb (w/o)

THREE CROWS OR RAVENS - TWO CROWS

THREE DAUGHTERS, THE - Story -- Seamus ENNIS: 302

THREE DAY MILLIONAIRE, THE - comp by Mike Waterson about trawlermen of Kingston-upon-Hull -- WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975

THREE DOGS, THE - Folk Tale told by John Stewart (tinker): DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987 -- originally in Gaelic as "Tri Coin nan Srang Uaine" (The Three Hounds with the Green Strings)

THREE DREAMS, THE - JOHN BULL

THREE DROPS OF POISON - LORD RANDAL

THREE DRUNKEN MAIDENS - "Twas 3 DM came from the Isle of Wight" - LOGAN PP 1839 p241 - BARING GOULD SOW 1898 #94 incl Rev Ed from Edmund Fry, Lydford 1890 Ms has 2 Bs (Last verse may be SBG's composition)-- Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR: B & C CAS-1035 1971/ CS-5 1972/ CASS 45-0851 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1053 1974 & STEELEYE SPAN: Orig Masters: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 (D) 1977"Drink down the moon" - Mike SHAIL (voc/gtr): FTX-127

THREE DUKES A-RIDING - DUKES A-RIDING

THREE DUKES WENT A-FISHIN' - DUKE OF GRAFTON

THREE ENGLISH BLADES, THE - CAMPBELL THE ROVER

THREE EYNSHAM CHAPS WENT OUT ONE DAY - THREE POACHERS POOR

THREE FARMERS, THE - THREE HUNTSMEN

THREE FEATHERS, THE - Folk Tale told by Alec Stewart (tinker) - DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

THREE FITTIT POT, THE - Folk Tale told by Willie McPhee (tinker): DOUGLAS Aberdeen UP 1987

THREE FLIES, THE - "There were three once on a time" Ch: "but they too saucy were by half - and I can't sing if you do laugh" - ROUD#1290 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p220 #65 Charles Messenger, Cerney Wick, Gloucestersh 3v (w/o) - Nonsense song to test sobriety in public house singing

THREE FLOWERS, THE - "One time when walking down a lane" comp by Norman G Reddin - a '98 Song/ March -- Nellie WALSH (unacc) rec by Brian George, Wexford 6/8/47: RPL 11219 - Paddy WALSH rec by BG, Galway 16/8/47: RPL 12491 - THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 used as march bef "Moon behind the hills" - THE FONTANAS: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-544 1968

THREE GALLANT HUNTSMEN - THREE BUTCHERS

THREE GALLANT SONS - "Canty Auld wife" - comp BS -- Belle STEWART rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1955: FTX-182

THREE GERMAN OFFICER'S CROSSED THE RHINE - "taboo taboo" -- Gordon HALL Radio 2: 31/11/90 CASS-60-1032

THREE GYPSIES - DUKES A-RIDING - GYPSY LADDIE - LOST LADY FOUND

THREE HALFPENCE A DAY - Jig - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #364 (Am) "from Ms"

THREE HAND REEL, THE - RAVEN p157 from Beatrice Hill, Herefordsh -- Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18680/ Beatrice Hill (mel): FTX-115 (tune is titled "Cottage Hornpipe" but is a variant of "Fisher's H")

THREE HEALTHS, THE - Jacobite -- Archie Fisher, Barbara DICKSON, & John McKINNON: LEADER LED-3002 1969

THREE HEARTY YOUNG POACHERS - "in the country do dwell" - Sweetlips & Reuben - stick up wooden pheasants - not caught - ROUD#1690 - PURSLOW FD 1974 Gardiner: John Hatch, Winchester, Hampsh 1907

THREE HUNTSMEN, THE - THREE BUTCHERS

THREE HUNTSMEN, THE - "Three men went a-hunting & nothing could they find" - ROUD#796 - COLE: A Choice of Inventions 1632 - HALLIWELL 1843 #290 p64 - ROXBURGHE 1971-80 I p105 from Cole - BURNE 1884 p556 - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p345 "The Hedgehog" - BARING GOULD Bk of Nursery Songs p7/ SOW 1905 (Rev Ed only#75)Ms #136 from Edmund Fry, Lydford - BG-SHARP Schools 1906 p50 - SHARP Ms 3 unpubl var - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #331 pp390-5 Jim Thomas, Camborne, Cornwall 1914/ Lucy White, Hambridge, Somerset 1904/ Robert Feast, Ely, Cambridgesh 1911 (refs & notes)/ Wm Cornelius, South Petherton, Somerset 1907 - GRAHAM DSON 1910 #4 p6 words from Edwin Waugh's "Old Cronies" set to tune: "The Rose" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp67-8 #472 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh/ #274 George Keen, High Cogges, Oxfordsh (w/o) "The 3 Jolly Huntsmen" & p179/ Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh "Twas of 3 Jolly Welshmen" - OPIE ODNR 1951 #525 p421 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p90 Gardiner Hants 1908 - HAMER GGr 1973 pp37-8 Worcs "The Englishman, Irishman & Scotchman" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #306 Hywel Wood "3 Men went a- hunting" - SPIN Mag 5/2 pp10-11 - CLINGING 2005 #50 p108 (words only) from Ms at Cecil Sharp House sent by D B Pemberton June 1960 --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #214 (vol 2 p303) Mrs Emma Chisholm, Nellysford, Va 1918 (3v only) - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p12 "Cape Ann" (from Songs of the Hutchinson Family NY 1843) - see also BEAU RATTLE -- George ENDACOTT rec by PK, South Zeal, Devon 27/5/52: RPL 17797/ 086/ rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow: FOLKWAYS FW 8871 1959 - Hywel WOOD (gypsy) rec by PK, Bala, Merioneth 11/11/54: RPL 22429/ CAEDMON TC 1225/ TOPIC 12 T 198/ FTX-027 (1st 3v)/ FTX-053 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-4 1969 (from Endacott) - Joe GORDON Folk Four: EMI CLP-1379 1960 with "Katie Birdie" & "World must be coming to an end" "Calling the tune #6 25/2/63 - Charlie HILL: TOPIC 12-T- 349 1979 (Endacott) - Bill SMITH., Shropsh rec by his son Andrew July 1982: CASS#1359 r/cd May 2000 "3 Men went a-hunting" --- Sandy PATON (voc/gtr) rec London 1/1/58: RPL LP 24201 (from LINSCOTT 1939)

THREE JEWS - CAME FROM SPAIN (K)

THREE JOLLY BACHELORS - Ch: "Two thumbs, four fingers, a head, two elbows, two knees, two feet and a back, keep moving" - "See-o See- o See-o" - Action Song - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p79 words only

THREE JOLLY BOYS - ALL OF A ROW

THREE JOLLY BREWERS - WHEN JONES'S ALE WAS NEW

THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS, THE - THREE BUTCHERS

THREE JOLLY FISHERMEN - "while the merry merry bells do ring" Solo: "Make haste" All: "You be too late - What fish, me dear, I cannot wait - for me fine fry of herring, my bonny silver herring" - SHARP Ms as tune for a dance (?) - PALMER OBSS 1986 #99 p207 from T Calvert, N Yorksh 1971

THREE JOLLY FISHERMEN - "There were 3JF - just come home from sea - they cast their nets into the sea" - Kids in ring with three in the middle - ROUD#12776 - OPIE SG 1985 #108 pp386-8 music

THREE JOLLY HUNTSMEN - BEAU RATTLE - THREE HUNTSMEN

THREE JOLLY JACK TARS - BLACK COOK

THREE JOLLY POST-BOYS - COME LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING BOWL

THREE JOLLY SAILOR BOYS - "There were TJSB who lately came on shore - they spent their money with a right good will - and wished they has some more - as we go round and round - and he who loves a jolly jolly lass must kiss her" - Children's Ring Game - GOMME 2 p282 has 6 versions "Three Sailors" -- rec by Damian Webb 19/5 Dearham Junior Girls, Maryport, Cumb 1962: FTX-196 #14 laughter over kissing

THREE JOLLY SHEEPSKINS - Hornpipe coll by E M Leather from John Locke, gypsy fiddler, Herefordsh publ by Sharp for "Sword Dances of N England" - see also JOHN LOCKE'S POLKA - THREE SHEEPSKINS - SHEARING THE SHEEP (Irish Reel) -- RATTLEBONE & PLOUGHJACK "Sheepskins" played on bagpipes: ISLAND HELP-24 1976 - John KIRKPATRICK & Sue HARRIS: TOPIC 12-TS-408 1980 - (conc d/tracked) Radio 2: 17/10/90 CASS-60-1017 - Jim SMALL (harmonica), Cheddar, Somerset 1980: FTX-138

THREE JOLLY SNEAKSMEN - "they all set out" - Highwaymen hold up a coach of three ladies - ROUD#1652 - PURSLOW WS 1968 p111 Gardiner: Thomas Jones, Portsmouth, Hampsh 1907

THREE JOLLY SPORTSMEN - THREE BUTCHERS

THREE JOVIAL WELSHMAN - BEAU RATTLE - THREE HUNTSMEN

THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE, THE - AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK (K)

THREE KNIGHTS, THE - CRUEL BROTHER

THREE KNIGHTS OF SPAIN - CAME FROM SPAIN (K)

THREE LEAVES OF SHAMROCK, THE - "Take them to Phelim - they're Shamrocks from his dear mother's grave" - "When leaving dear old Ireland in the merry month of June" - Such BS London "written by Tom Maguire"- CROININ 2000 #185 pp283-4 -- Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, nr Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ CASS-45-1245/ FTX-143

THREE LITTLE BABES, THE - WIFE OF USHERS WELL

THREE LITTLE BOATS WENT OUT TO SEA - AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK

THREE LITTLE DRUMMERS, THE - Jig - MOYLAN 2 #138 p81 (Em) from John O Leary (melodeon) - O NEILL MOI #969/ DMI #189 alt: "The Spirits of Whisky" - ROCHE 1 #102 p44 (Em) "The Little Drummers" - Cf TENPENNY BIT

THREE LITTLE PIGS - comp by Sam Hinton -- Guy CARAWAN (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 7/7/57: RPL LP 24129/ FTX-919

THREE LITTLE SANDY GIRLS - "sitting (or "weeping") by the shore" - Children's Ring game with actions (or Skipping rhyme) - ROUD#4509 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1585 p139 (1v) "Three Little Sand Maidens" (choosing) - COWAN DOUGLAS/BRIGGS publ for Brownies by Girl Guides Assoc (coll Lowland Counties of Scotland) - RITCHIE GC p166 "The Little Sandy Girl" - OPIE SG 1985 has this under "Sally Waters" #34 pp167-171 - tune: "Castles in the Air" (see "Best bed's the feather bed") -- rec by Damian Webb, 14/3 St Mary's Juniors 1961 - rec by DW, 15/1 Moss Park Junior Girls, Glasgow, 1961 "Three Wee Sandy Girls" (with crying): FTX-190 - Norton Park School, Edinburgh rec by Jean Ritchie 1949: RPL 13868 (Ring Game with girl kneeling in centre weeping) - rec by DW, 18/10 Pickering Junior Girls, Yorksh 1961 sung following "I'm a little girl guide" (perhaps as a second verse) --- Group of children rec by Alan Lomax, San Juan's Government Girls School, Trinidad: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 "SG"

THREE LITTLE TAILORS - "dancing in a lantern - for a bit of candle" - ROUD#2447 - SHARP Schools 2 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #399 p589 Sister Emma, Clewer, Somerset 1909 1v/m with 5v comp by Sharp

THREE LONG STEPS - BANKS OF THE SWEET PRIMEROSES

THREE LORDS - CAME FROM SPAIN (K)

THREE LOVELY LASSIES O BANNION, THE - BARGAIN SONG

THREE LOVERS COME FROM SPAIN - CAME FROM SPAIN (K)

THREE MAIDENS TO MILKING DID GO - "and the wind it did blow high - tossed their milking pails to and fro" - ROUD#290 - CHRISTIE TBA 2 1881 p256 "A Young Maid a-milking did go" - KIDSON TT 1891 pp72-3 Mr Holgate, Leeds, Yorksh 1v/m - STOKOE-REAY 1899 - BARING GOULD 1889-92 #90 "The Black Bird" rewritten but restored in Sharp's Rev Ed 1905 (a) Rger Hannaford (b) John Voysey (frag) Lew Down - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p229 Glos - JFSS 4:15 1910 pp93-4 Wyatt-Edgell: Exeter Devon "3 Pretty Maidens milking did go"/ Christie TBA - JFSS 31 p22 Sharp Headingtom Oxford 1923 "Three Maidens a-walking did go" (the last song Cecil Sharp collected) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p229 #154 Eli Dawes, Southrop, Gloucestersh (w/o) - KIDSON/MOFFAT 1927 p62 text rewritten by Gilchrist with 2 trad vs - PINTO/RODWAY 1957 #230 from Nottingham broadside - REEVES IP 1958 #102 p208 Sharp Somerset - REEVES EC 1960 #131 p259- 260 BG: Roger Hannaford, Lower Widdecombe, Devon 1890 (w/o) - JEFDSS 1961 p75 Hewett transcr by Michael Bell - PURSLOW MB 1965 p2 Hammond: Wm Poole, Taunton, Somerset & Robert Barratt (m), Piddletown, Dorset 1905 "The Bird in the Bush" (A fair maid a-milking did go") - SEDLEY 1967 Hammond tune - COPPER SSB 1973 pp280-1 Fred Hewett - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #191 p422 Fred Hewett 1955 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp181-3 Caroline Hughes 1962-66 - PALMER 1979 #67 BG - PALMER RVW 1983 #1290 pp182-3 Hooton Roberts, Yorksh 1907 (4v added from Ms) "The Milkmaids"- SHARP SG 2003 p108 1v from Mrs Truby, 83, Headington Union, Oxford Sept 12 & 13th 1923 & 5v from Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke, Somerset "Three Maids a milking" -- Mrs Vashti VINCENT rec by PK, Sixpenny Handley, Wiltsh 1954: FTX-406 - Fred HEWETT rec by Bob Copper, Mapledurwell, Hampsh 1955: RPL 21860/ TOPIC 12-T-317/ TOPIC TSCD-660 Amorous Encounters/ FTX-017 (v 4 omitted)/ FTX-426 - Frankie ARMSTRONG: TOPIC 12-T-135 1966 - Shirley COLLINS: TOPIC 12-T-170 1967 - Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 1968: FTX=043 - Ewan McCOLL "Wanton Muse" ARGO ZFB-67 1968 - Bob ARNOLD & YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-83 1972 - Cyril TAWNEY (unacc): LEADER LER-2095 1976 - Lal & Norma WATERSON: TOPIC 12-TS-415 1981 (from SBG) Radio 2: 27/7/93 Georgina Boyes prog CASS with Watersons bef Richard Dyer BENNNETT (voc/ gtr) "2 Maidens" with "la-la-las" & whistle

THREE MAIDS A-RUSHING - UNDERNEATH HER APRON

THREE MEN OF BRISTOL CITY - LITTLE BILLY

THREE MEN WENT A-HUNTING - THREE HUNTSMEN

THREE MERRY TRAVELLERS, THE -"they would go travel the North Counterie - without ever a stiver (Dutch coin = penny) of money" - D'URFEY 1698-1720 6 p177 - BRADLEY 1968 #60 pp176-7 17v

THREE MONKEYS ON THE TABLE - "the first was called Do the second ray - what was the third one? (they usually say to me) - Kids Word Trickery -- 198 B14

THREE NIGHTS AND A SUNDAY DOUBLE TIME - Ch: "I work all day and all night - to hell with you Jack I'm all right" - works as a waiter at "The Bay Horse" - Heaven is "Dunlopillo" in the sky - go to the other place where he can work" - comp by Matt McGinn -- Geordie McINTYRE (acc): TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

THREE O DONNELLS, THE - "As I roved out one morning" - TUNNEY SF 1979 p145 w/o -- Johnny DOHERTY rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19587/ 074

THREE OLD CROWS - THREE RAVENS

THREE OLD JEWS - CAME FROM SPAIN

THREE OLD MAIDS ON A SAUCER BRIM - TWO SISTERS

THREE OLD MEN OF PAINSWICK, THE - Notes & Queries 1872 as Poem - Norton Coll II pp212-3 "The Painswick Ancients" Story from FARMER "A Wanderer's Gleanings" pp172-4 from an old man between Painswick & Cranham, Glos - BRIGGS A2 p216 Story & Poem versions

THREE OXFORD SCHOLARS - "just come from the College" - An old ram in the cellar was thought to be the devil - tune Cf "Dargason" - "Irish Washerwoman" - ROUD#1668 - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp100-101 Gardiner: Thomas Bennet, S Petherwin, Cornwall 1905 (mention of version coll by Baring Gould)

THREE PART JIG, THE -- Chris DRONEY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-503 1975 with "Moate Hunt"

THREE PENNY BIT, THE - SILVER TIPS (Reel) - see also FOUR PENNY BIT (Reel) - TENPENNY BIT (Jig)

THREE POACHERS POOR - "went out one night, to find some game, the moon shone bright" Ch: "Singing: Laddy-i-o" - ROUD#1268 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp150-1 #347 Wm King, Castle Eaton, Wiltsh 6v/5v (w/o) "Southrop & Eynsham (Oxfordsh) Poaching Songs" - JFSS 19 p197 Broadwood Herts "The Poacher's Song" -- Amos BECKETT rec by Seamus Ennis, North Marston, Bletchley Bucks 25/6/52: RPL 18141 - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-154 1967 (M) "Eynsham Poaching Song" tune coll by R D Puddefoot from Ivinghoe, Leighton Buzzard, Beds - Sam RICHARDS, Tish STUBBS & Paul WILSON known as STAVERTON BRIDGE (Group): SAYDISC SDL-266 1975 "Eynsham Poaching Song"

THREE PRETTY MAIDS - "walked out one afternoon" - KIDSON Garland 1928 words rewritten - JFSS 18 pp64-5 - Cf THREE MAIDENS A- MILKING DID GO

THREE PRETTY MAIDENS - "as they was a-walking" - 3 gentlemen came riding by - ROUD#2555 - JFSS 5 1914 pp64-65 Sharp: Wm Hedges, Chipping Camden, Gloucestersh 1909 1v/m

THREE RAVENS , THE - TWO CROWS

THREE ROBBERS, THE - THREE BUTCHERS - UNDAUNTED FEMALE

THREE ROGUES - THREE SONS O ROGUES

THREE SAILORS - HERE COME THREE SAILORS (three by three) (K) - THREE JOLLY SAILOR BOYS (K)

THREE SAILORS WENT TO SEA SEA SEA - "to see what they could see see see - but all that they could see see see - was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea - chop - knee - toe - sea-chop - kneechop" etc - Two Ball Rhyme - OPIE SG 1985 #144 pp467-8 music "A Sailor went to sea" -- rec by Damian Webb, Tralee. Co Kerry 1960: IRE/15/ FTX-179

THREE SCORE AND TEN - "boys & men were lost from Grimsby Town" "From Yarmouth down to Scarborough" - PALMER OBSS 1986 #138 p274 Noted by N A Hudleston, Wardill Yorks 1956 -- THE WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TPS-166 1966 - KESTY rec by PK 1980: FTX-240 - Tommy MORRISEY & chorus rec by John Howson, Cornwall on Radio 2: 10/11/95: CASS-1335

THREE SEA CAPTAINS, THE - (Scots Song) Jig & Set Dance (10 bars in 2nd Strain) (G) - ALLAN #115 p29 - KENNEDY FTB 1 1954 2 p44/ 1994 #191 p48 - O NEILL MOI #1787/ DMI #961 "The Three Captains" - ROCHE 3 #189 p67 4/4 "The Three Captains" from O NEILL slightly altered - A McGOUN'S Repository of Scots & Irish Airs Glasgow c1790 -- Tom TURKINGTON (fid) of Co Tyrone, rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0545/ RPL 18385/ FTX-375 talk bef - CHEVIOT RANTERS Country Dance Band: TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 - YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-86 1973 - Tommy MAHON (conc) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS 1976 - John REA (h-dulc) Antrim: TOPIC 12-TS-373 1979 - Dave SWARBRICK (fid) (SONET SNTF-763)/ CASS-0167 with Reel: "Kate Dalrymple" - Mary Faith RHODES (ham-dulc): UNDERDOG DB-1940 1980

THREE SHEEPSKINS - "are all of a colour" - ROUD#2606 - POLWARTH FSN 1967 p47/ FSFTN 1970 p45 J Bell Ms Northumberland 1812 - see also THREE JOLLY SHEEPSKINS -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 aft "Kilt the coat, Maggie"

THREE SHIPS COME SAILING IN - AS I SAT ON A SUNNY BANK (K)

THREE SISTERS - "Once three sisters went a walk - down by the banks of Airdrie-O - met a robber on the way - took the first one by the hand - will you be a robber's wife? - No - took out his penknife and ended her sweet life - second sister - took the third one by the hand - 'birled' her round till she could not stand" - Children's Game based on ballad BABYLON (or The Bonny Banks of Fordie-o - Child #14 -

THREE SISTERS, THE - TWO SISTERS ROUD#8 - OPIE SG 1985 #60 pp263-5

THREE SIX NINE - "the goose drank wine - the monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line - the line broke, the monkey got choked - and they all went to Heaven in a little row boat" - clapping song - OPIE SG 1985 #135 pp449-50 based on "Once upon a time", the opening words of a storyteller cites example c1750

THREE SONS O' ROGUES, THE - "There lived a man in London, and a violent man was he - three sons on a board & he turned them out of doors, because they would not sing" - "miller, weaver & a little tailor, 3 scamping rogues together" 2nd v: "Miller stole corn, weaver yarn, tailor broadcloth" Last v: "Miller drowned in his pond, weaver hanged by his yarn, devil ran away with the tailor" - ROUD#130 - DEAN-SMITH Guide: "King Arthur's Servants" - MASON 1877 p7/ NRCS 1908 p7 Mitford, Northumberland "King Arthur's Servants" - BROADWOOD 1893 pp20-21 Lancash "King Arthur" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #704 (5var) "King Edward" "Victoria" - SHARP Ms 3 var 2 unpubl - School Series 3 Somerset "The 3 Sons" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #322 "The 3 Sons" - HEWETT N&C 1900 Devon "The Devil and the Tailor" - WHITTAKER 1921 #23 p48 Mason - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p194 Wiltsh "When Arthur ruled this land" - PURSLOW WS 1968 p62 Gardiner: Frank Harrington, Bartley, Hampsh 1908 "King Henry's 3 Sons" - STUBBS 1970 p42 Henry Steele, Balcombe, Sussex 1962 "In Good King Arthur's Days" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #307 pp664-5 George Endacott 1950/2 "Three Scamping Rogues - PALMER EBECS 1979 #31 pp65-6 Lucy Broadwood: Worcestersh "Good King Arthur" - SHARP SG 2003 p68 Usual 4v from Emma Overd, Langport, Somerset "King George" --- SHARP FSSA 1917 #141 - COX FSOS 1925 pp480-481 W Va (w/o) ("In good old colony times") - HUDSON Miss 1936 p273 - HENRY 1938 p175 - GARDNER Mich 1939 p460 - BELDEN Mo 1940 p224 - BREWSTER Ind 1940 p319 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 p416 Missouri "In Good Old Colony times" & p398 (?) - CREIGHTON NS 1950 p241 - BROWN NC 1952 2 & 4 #176 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 #1 p1 "In Good Old Colony Times" - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p373 Utah 1947 (w/o) "3 Roguish Chaps" - PEACOCK NFL 1965 I p10 -- George ENDACOTT rec by PK, South Zeal, Devon 1950 7"RTR-012- 3/ rec PK 1952: RPL 17797/ FTX-027 & FTX-086 "Three Scamping Rogues" (with tambourine) - Jack (George's nephew) rec by PK, Chagford, Devon 1954: RPL 22323 "Three Sons on a board" - "Pop" George MAYNARD rec by PK at his home, Copthorne, Sussex 3/12/55: RPL LP 23093/ FTX-279/ TOPIC 12-T-286 1976/ TSCD-657 - Frank PURSLOW & John PEARSE (gtr) rec by PK, London: DOBELL F-LEUT-1 1960/ FTX-219 - THE HIGHWAYMEN: UNITED ARTISTS ULP 1002 1962 - Cyril TAWNEY rec by PK, Festival Hall London: EMI CLP-1910 1965/ ARGO ZFB-4 1969 - DRUIDS: ARGO ZFB-22 1970 "The Farmer's 3 Sons" - Roger NICHOLSON (A-dulc) with Robert Johnson (dulc): LEADER LER- 3034 1972 "Rakes of Malo" tune - Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147 "King Arthur's 3 Sons" --- Billy FAIER (banjo) with Frank HAMILTON (gtr): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-813 1957

THREE SOUTHROP CHAPS WENT OUT ONE DAY - THREE POACHERS POOR

THREE STAIRS UP - MURDER MURDER POLICE

THREE STRINGS TO MY BOW - "I am a girl that's forsaken" - ROUD#4788

THREE TIMES ROUND - OUR GALLANT SHIP (K)

THREE TIMES THREE - Hornpipe - KERR MM 4 #305 p32 (F)

THREE TUNES, THE - Country Dance coll by PK in South Armagh - Tunes: (1) "Haste to the Wedding", (2) "Astley's Ride" & (3) "The German Beau" -- Hugh SAVAGE (fid) rec by PK, Kilcreevy, Co Armagh 27/7/52 - Sean MAGUIRE (fid) rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: 7"RTR-0545/ RPL 18549 with "The Sweets of May" FTX-375

THREE WEE MICE - "getting (or sitting ?) - singing Olly Wolly Diddle dolly day - the ash was tin, so they all fell in - olay" (sung to the tune of "Polly Wolly Doodle") - Rhyme -- Barmulloch (Glasgow) Primary School: TOPIC 12 TS 226

THREE WEE SANDY GIRLS - THREE LITTLE SANDY GIRLS (K)

THREE WEE WIFES - "Will you lend me ma washin line?" - rhyme coll by Bill Montgomery, Dundee in TOCHER 44 (1992) p119

THREE WEEKS WE ARE WED - DESERTED HUSBANMD

THREE WHITE HORSES - WHITE HORSES

THREE WISE OLD WOMEN - "were they, were they" -ROUD#3271 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 p439 Ark (w/o)

THREE WORTHY NOBLE COUNTRY DUKES - HORSE RACE SONG

THREE YOUNG DRUMMERS - TROIS JEUNES TAMBOURS

THREE YOUNG SOLDIERS - TROIS JEUNES SOLDATS

THRESHERS, THE - Hornpipe - ROCHE 3 #168 p59 (D)

THRESHING - see also FARM MACHINERY - MUG OF BROWN ALE - NOBLEMAN AND THE THRESHER - THERE WAS A POOR THRESHERMAN

THRESHING MACHINE, THE - "There was an old farmer in ---- it is said" - ROUD#1491 - Bss incl SBG - REEVES IP 1958 #100 p206 Sharp: Wm Nott 7v (w/o) - CRAY BB 1969 p145 "The Sewing Machine" - PALMER EBECS 1979 #73 pp133-4 Sharp: Wm Nott, Meshaw, Devon 1904 7v/m --- IVES FSNB 1989 pp92-94 Wilmot McDonald, Glenwood, NB 1963 -- Anne O Neill (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1952: RPL 18582/ CAEDMON TC-1143/ TOPIC 12-T-158/ FTX-167/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 - Ewan McCOLL: ARGO ZFB-67 1968 from Anne O Neill - THE YETTIES rec Towersey Festival: ACORN CF-201 1968/ ARGO ZFB-32 1971 - George SPICER rec by Mike Yates, West Hoathly, Sussex: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975 - Mike SHAIL & EEZUM SQUEEZUM rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1978: FTX-127 - (Harry UPTON rec by Mike Yates, Balcombe, Sussex: TOPIC SP-104) - Joe DAVIES rec by Sam Richards, Devon: TOPIC 12-TS-349 1979 (mentions "Taunton" Somerset) - George PROTHEROE rec Gwilym Davies, Charlton Kings, Glos: Tape 49 A17

THRESHING OF THE WHEAT, THE - "Early in the dawning of a winter's morn" "Thwack, thwack" - Seduction Ballad - D'URFEY 1698-1720 4 p232

THRESHING SONG, THE - "It's all very well to have a machine"- ROUD#874 -- Bob & Ron COPPER rec by PK, Peacehaven, Sussex 9/5/55/ EFDSS LP 1002 1966/ COLUMBIA SL- 206 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1741 1998/ TOPIC TSCD 354 2001 - Frank Bond rec by Bob Copper, North Waltham 13/8/55: RPL 21858 - FTX-426 - Shirley COLLINS: TOPIC 12-TS-238 1974 "The Chiner's Song"

THRESHING SONG - "One day while I be threshing her corn" - in love after seeing Dolly in church he feels queer and has to put down his flail -- Arthur ABBS (85) rec by PK, Whaddon, Cambridgesh (nr Royston, Hertfordsh) 24/7/56: FTX-423 (story before song with spoken parts)

THRESHING TIME - comp by HC to the tune:of "The Painful Plough" -- Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 19/7/56: RPL LP 22915 "Thrashing Time"

THRIFTY HOUSEWIFE, THE - WILLIE WENT TO WESTERDALE

THRIFTY WIFE, THE - Reel - MITTEL #47 p18 (Bm)

THROAT SINGING -- Recordings - see MUSIC TYPE Listing

THROUGH ALL THE WORLD BELOW - Columbian Harmony 1825 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p70

THROUGH BUSHES AND BRIARS - BUSHES AND BRIARS

THROUGH LONESOME WOODS O - "I took my way, so dark, so dark as dark could be, which don't you think was grief to me - You're not the man that I love best - I'll keep my heart for a better friend" - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p110 Gardiner Ms

THROUGH MOORFIELDS - FAIR MAID IN BEDLAM

THROUGH MY WINDOW - LITTLE BIRD

THROUGH THE FIELDS - Reel - Miss THORNTON'S

THROUGH THE GROVES - "As through the groves" - "Abroad for pleasure as I was walking" - ROUD#607 & #1861 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp55-7 (notes on song) - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp285-6 Guyer & RVW: E Shergold, Southampton, Hampsh - JFSS 6:21 1918 p8-10 Frederick Keel: George Stacey, Abinger Hammer, Surrey "As through the Groves" & from printed music sheet (J Perkins) "The Holmfirth Anthem" - KIDSON NC 1927 - see THROUGH THE WOODS - TWAS THROUGH THE GROVES -- THE WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-142 1966 - HOLME VALLEY BEAGLES: LEADER LEE-4056 1975 (S) - Tony HALL (melodeon) with Nic JONES (fid/gtr) & Tommy Moynihan (mand/ bouz/ whistle): FREE REED FRR-012 1976 "The Holmfirth Anthem" - Robin (voc/gtr) & Barry (voc/fid) DRANSFIELD: FREE REED FRR-018 1977 - Arthur HOWARD: HILL & DALE HD-006 1981

THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE - THREAD THE NEEDLE (K)

THROUGH THE PINE - MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS

THROUGH THE STRAITS - REIVING RAPTURE

THRO' THE WOOD, LADDIE - Tunebook Ms 3/4 (G) #150 p230

THROUGH THE WOODS - "as we were walking" - lambs - birds - asks her to sit down - dies - ROUD#1478 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp621-2 Richard Adams, East Harptree, Somerset 1906/ Louie Hooper, Hambridge, Somerset 1903 2v/ch/m - JFSS 2:6 1905 p37 Louie Hooper "Down in the Groves"

THROW AWAY YOUR RAKE - HAYMAKING COURTSHIP

THROW ME ANYWHERE, LORD -- Bessie JONES & Group A Georgia Sea Island Singers rec by Alan Lomax, St Simon's Island, Ga. USA Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1713 1998 "Buzzard Lope" - The Georgia Sea Island Singers on "The Films of Bess Lomax Hawes"DVD 2003 rec St Simon's Island 1964 (B/W)

THROW ROUND YOUR CALICO - LULIE

THRUNTON WOODS -- Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc) with Tich RICHARDSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-371 1978 aft "Hawk Polka"

THRUSH IN AUSTRALIA, THE - SONG OF THE THRUSH

THRUSH IN THE STRAW, THE - Jig (Em) - MOYLAN 2 #234 pp135-6 from John O Leary (melodeon) -- Denis MURPHY, Julia CLIFFORD & Padraig O KEEFE (fiddles) rec by Seamus Ennis, Charlie Horan's Bar, Coalisland, Co Kerry 9/9/52: RPL 18751/ TOPIC TSCD-309 (1977) 1994 aft "Apples in Winter" & "The Maid on the Green" - Seamus ENNIS (whistle): TRADITION TLP-1013 1958/ EMBER EMB- 2054 1964

THUG MI GAOL DHUIT - ("I gave you love and affection") - Scots Gaelic Spinning Song -- Calum JOHNSTON of Castlebay, Barra, Hebrides rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh 14/6/51: COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743

THUG MI 'N OIDHCHE GED B'FHAD 'I - ("I spent the night - although 'twas long - watching the brothers") - Scots Gaelic - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #24 - LINGUAPHONE 1950 FS from Barra p36 -- Flora McNEIL of Barra rec by PK 1967: FTX-001

THUGAMAR FEIN AN SAMRADH LINN - ("We have brought the summer with us") Processional May Day Song -- Sean O SE with Sean O RIADA with CEOLTOIRI CHUALANN: GAEL-LINN 015 1967

THUMB SUCKING - WHEN BILLY WAS ONE - WHEN I WAS ONE

THUNDER HORNPIPE - TRUMPET

THUNNERING SORT OF A LIE, A - Ch; "It's a lie" (repeated) Cf THE RAM SONG -- Robert LENG & Jossy "Pop" MAINPRIZE, E Yorks fishermen rec by Jim Eldon 1982-8 SD-005 1988 CASS-0992

THURSDAY - FRANK TAYLOR - ONE THURSDAY EVENING - TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY

THURSDAY NIGHT - Jig - comp by Pat Shaw -- DRUIDS: ARGO ZFB-22 19790

THY VOICE IS NEAR ME IN MY DREAMS - WILLIAMS Ms #725 (w/o)

THYME - SPRIG OF THYME - SWEET THYME (Connolly/ Meek)