UP A LADDER, DOWN A LADDER - UP AND DOWN
UP A WIDE AND LONELY GLEN - QUEEN AMONG THE HEATHER
UP AGAINST THE WALL (FOR THE LONDON BALL) - "for the bonny bunch
of roses - mother mother may I go? - yes - buckles up her skirt - met lover
- kiss and a 123 - shook her head and said goodbye" - Long line with
one in front - RITCHIE GC 1965 p157 full descr of game - OPIE SG 1985 #91 pp349-352
"The Bonny Bunch of Roses" -- rec by Jean Ritchie, Norton
Park School, Edinburgh 20/3/49: RPL 13868/ rec by Alan Lomax, 1952: FTX-181/
rec by James Ritchie (master at Norton Park School) 16/12/53: RPL 19926
UP AND ABOUT IN THE MORNING - Jig - CRANITCH #13 p129 (D) 3pts - see
also HOW SHE GOT UP IN THE MORNING - UP IN THE MORNING EARLY
UP AND AWAY - Polka - SULLIVAN 3 #47 p19 from De Danaan -- Michael
COLEMAN (fid) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE 004 d/cass 1991 bef "Untitled
polka" - John Mc KENNA (flute) with Michael GAFFNEY (banjo) & piano
(b Leitrim) rec USA DECCA 1934 CASS-0893 bef "The Merry Girl"
UP AN' 'WA' THEM A', WILLIE - THERE'S NO GOOD LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE
UP AND DOWN AGAIN - Triple Jig - O'NEILL MOI #1160/ DMI #436 (G ending
D) alt: "Here we go up"
UP AND DOWN, ALL THE WAY TO LONDON TOWN - "swish swash all the
way to Kings Cross - leg swing to Berlin - Heel toe to Jericho" - Skipping
Rhyme -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181/
rec by James Ritchie 16/12/53: RPL 19927 - Liverpool schoolchildren rec by Sasha
Moorsom 18/7/58: RPL LP 25827
UP AND DOON DA HARBOUR - Shetland Reels -- Tom ANDERSON & Aly
BAIN (fids) with Willie JOHNSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-379 1978 with "Lucky,
can you link ony" & "Da Trig Bag"
UP AND DOWN THE HOUSE - "to catch a Mickey Mouse - send for
the cook to make a bowl of soup - how do you like the soup? - sick"
- Skipping rhyme -- rec by Damian Webb, Moss Park Junior Girls, Glasgow 1961:
FTX-190
UP AND DOWN THE LADDER - "as we have done before - stand and
face your partner - follow me to London" - Action, Counting-out or
Skipping rhyme -- St John's Junior School for Girls, rec by Damian Webb,
Workington, Cumberland 1960: DW 9/6/ RPL LP 26302/ FTX-194
#9 "Counting-out" - DW 17/3 rec Laurence St, Marshside
Workington 1961: FTX-197 #75 - rec by Sam Richards:
FOLKWAYS FE-3853 1981/ CASS-1292 "Digging ditches"
UP AND DOWN THE LAVEROCK - Adapted from 2 pts of pipe tune "Jig
o Slurs" by Andy Hunter, a regular visitor to the Higgins household
-- Lizzie HIGGINS: TOPIC 12-TS-260 1975
UP AND DOWN THE POLE - "Up and down the ladder - in dictation
- how many pigs went to the station? - shut your eyes and think right now -
123456 and out you go - with a slap across the face - just like that"
- Counting-Out Rhyme - RITCHIE GC p48 "Up the pole down the pole - out
goes the sausage roll" -- rec by Damian Webb, Keswick Juniors 1960:
DW 11/7 solo girl - DW 4/55 St Johns Junior School for Girls, Workington, Cumbweland
1960 "Up a pole down a pole/ monkeys chew tobacco/ how much do
they chew?"/ FTX-194 #8
UP AND DOWN THE RIVERSIDE - (Oxford-Cambridge boat race) - Rhyme --
ONE POTATO Film Soundtrack (London)
UP AND DOWN THE STREET - "a window made of glass - isn't our
wee Jeannie a bonny looking lass - she can dance, she can sing, she can show
her wedding ring - foe fie fie for shame - turn your back to the wall again"
- Ring Game - GOMME 1898 - HALLIWELL 1843 - OPIE SG 1985 #26 p145-7 - PORTER-GOWER
1995 p116-7 from Jeannie Robertson -- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 (learned
in Glasgow)
UP AN WAUR THEM A, WILLIE - "up an shake your pistol fit - an
tak her fae them a, Willie" - Ch: "An de diddle da"
- GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1268 p536 1v&Ch/m - air cf THERE'S NAE GOOD LUCK
ABOOT THE HOOSE
UP COMES I WITH MY LITTLE LOT - aka MY LOT TOOK THE CAKE - Music Hall
Song - ROUD#16631 - BG 7 #206 (G91) -- Lucky LUCKHURST (of London) rec by
PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332
UP HELLY AA - Shetland Annual Midwinter Custom at Lerwick with Song
comp T Manson - see also GUISER'S REEL - www.up-helly-aa.org.uk -- rec 25/1/49:
RPL 13158 Song:"Galley Song" (trad)/ "Norseman's Home"
(trad)/ Descr of scene in Gilbertson Park by S Munro/ Descr of burning of galley
by G Burgess - Willie HUNTER Junr (fid) with Willie JOHNSON (gtr) playing tune
of song rec 12/7/53: RPL 23322 - Interviews & music 1971 RPL 33916 - Interviews
& music 1978: (RPL 38010)
UP IN LONDON FAIR - SAILOR ON THE SEA
UP IN THE GARRET I AM - HEY, MY NANNY (Triple Jig)
UP IN THE LOFT - UP IN THE NORTH
UP IN THE MORNING EARLY - FARMER'S DAUGHTER
UP IN THE MORNING EARLY - Jig - KERR MM 3 #298 p32 (Em) - see also HOW
SHE GOT UP IN THE MORNING - UP AND ABOUT IN THE MORNING
UP IN THE NORTH - "a long way off - the donkey's got the whooping
cough - the doctor says that he must take: salt mustard vinegar pepper"
or "Penny on tne water, tuppence on the sea, thruppence on the railway
- out goes she" - Counting-Out or Skipping Rhyme - RITCHIE GC p138
ends with "Salt" -- children rec by PK, Guilden Mordern
School, Cambridgesh July 1956 FTX-201 & FTX-424
"Up in the loft" with "Salt" - rec by Damian
Webb, Threlkeld Junior School, Keswick, Cumberland 1962/ DW 20/3/ FTX-194
#13 "Penny on the water"
UP IN THE NORTH - NO SIGN OF A MARRIAGE
UP ON THE MOUNTAIN - Cowboy Song -- Dick CAMERON (voc/gtr) of Boston
rec by Seamus Ennis, London Oct 1956: RPL 22998
UP SLIGO - BASKET OF TURF & GEESE IN THE BOG
UP STAIRS IN A TENT - TIE THE BONNET
UP STEP'T JACK - GRAINGER ONS#32/ RNS#18 John Collinson, Lirkby Lonsdale,
Westmorland 1905
UP TAILS ALL - "Fly merry news among the crews" - D'URFEY
1698-1720 4 p176 "The Fryer & the Nun" - bawdy
UP THE CHANNEL -- Johnny DOUGHTY: TOPIC TSCD-662
UP THE GREEN MEADOWS - DIED FOR LOVE
UP THE KELLY'S - "Farewell Ben & Edward Kelly, those that
blame you are but few - dirty policemen did undo you - for that paltry sum of
gold" - Tune is like that of Murder Ballad: "Ruth Butcher"
- see also EDWARD KELLY -- Cyril DUNCAN (orig from England) rec Australia:
LARRIKIN 007 1976
UP THE MICKEY MOUNTAINS - "down by Donkey's Hollow - where the
hangman's waiting - to fit you with a collar" - Kids Rhyme - Strangeways
Gaol was backed by play hills called "The Mucky Mountains"
-- Ewan Mc COLL: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 (learned as a child in Salford Lancash)
UP THE RAW - "doon the raw" - "Tha's black
as a crow" - BRUCE- STOKOE NM 1882 - STOKOE-REAY 1899 pp122-3 --
Louis KILLEN & Colin ROSS (whistle): TOPIC 12-T-189 1963/ 12-TPS-114 1964
UP THE SIDES AND DOWN THE MIDDLE - Country Dance in 6/8 time and reel-time
- see also DOWN THE SIDES -- Bert PIDGEON (mel) & Alfie TUCK (tabour
& stick) rec by PK, Puncknowle. Dorset Oct 1950/ 7"RTR-008/ - COLUMBIA
SL-206 1952/ FTX-408 - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-
011 1976 bef "New Rigged Ship"
UP DA STROODS DA SAILOR GOES - Unusual Reel tune -- Tom ROBERTSON
(fid) rec by Tom Anderson Shetland RER-1081/ CASS 60-0435/ FTX-368
bef "Shiver Mizzen"
UP THE WAG - TRUANCY
UP TO THE RIGS OF LONDON TOWN - "As I walked London streets
one day, up Cheapside I made my way" - ROUD#868 - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p384
(4var) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #242 pp157-8 Henry Barratt, Randwick, Gloucestersh
1908/ Eliza Jane Duddridge, Mark, Som 1908 1v/m - JFSS 28 1924 p161 Gilchrist
Isle of Man tune only "In London Streets I went astray" - JFSS
35 1931 p272 Moeran Norfolk from Harry Cox 1927 "London Town"
- WILLIAMS #255 Joseph Kite, Curbridge, Witney, Oxfordsh (w/o) - REEVES IP 1958
#80 pp180-1 Sharp: Henry Barratt (w/o) - STUBBS LOM 1970 pp74-5 Jim Wilson,
Three Bridges, Sussex 1960 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #192 p423 Charlie Wills 1952
7v/m - PALMER EBECS 1979 #109 pp182-3 7v/m Walter Pardon - SHARP SG 2003 p52
6v & ch from Betsy Holland (gypsy) Huntshaw Cross, Devon 23 Aug 1907 - RIGS
AND SPREES OF LEEDS TOWN (parody) -- Charlie WILLS rec by PK, Morcombelake,
Dorset 1952/ again in 1963 on a visit with Cyril Tawney: CAEDMON TC 1143/ TOPIC
12-T-158/ FTX-017 & FTX-097/
FTX-310 A-ROVING 1968 #4/ LEADER LEA-4041 1972/
TOPIC TSCD-657/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 p2000 - Harry COX rec by PK, Sutton, Norfolk
1953: RPL 21482/ FTX-032 - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus
Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22038/ FTX-076
- Peter BELLAMY: TOPIC 12-T-200 1970 (from Harry Cox) - Tony ROSE: LEADER LER-2013
1970 - Bernard WRIGLEY (voc/gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-241 1974 - Walter PARDON, Knapton,
Norfolk: LEADER LED-2111 1977
UP DA STAIRS AND INTO BIDE - Old Shetland Reel -- Tom ROBERTSON (fid)
rec by Tom Anderson Shetland CASS 60-0435
UP TO NOW - comp by RD -- Robin & Barry DRANSFIELD & Brian:
TRANSATLANTIC TRA-322 1976
UP TO YOUR KNEES IN SAND - Reel - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #159 p74 (Em) -
SHASKEEN 1 #24 p19 (Em) -- Micho RUSSELL (whi) rec by RTE "Long Note"
prog June 1988 CASS- 0894
UP WAS I ON MY FATHER'S FARM - FARMYARD SONG
UP WITH THE LARK IN THE MORNING - "I like to be jolly in a moderate
way" - ROUD#2686 - WILLIAMS Ms #730 (w/o)
UPON A PLEASANT HILL I STOOD - WILLIAMS Ms #237 James Falconer, Brize
Morton, Oxfordsh (w/o)
UPON A SUNDAY MORNING - "When Spring was in its prime"
- BARING GOULD SOW #3 (a) Robert Hard South Brent 1888 (b) orig air by Francis
Mori 1853 probably publ song - BG wrote fresh verses
UPON A SUNSHINE SUMMER DAY - SPINNING WHEEL
UPON CHRISTMAS DAY - ALL IN THE MORNING
UPON THE BOUGH - Words by A P Herbert/ Music by Heather Wood (of YT)
-- THE YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-30 1973
UPPER DENTON - (Newcastle) - Hornpipe - KERR MM 3 #319 p35 (D)
UPS AND DOWNS, THE - AYLESBURY GIRL
UPSIDE DOWN - "When I was a bachelor, airy and young"
- HENRY SOP 694 from John Moore 13/3/37 - Text is parody on "The Foggy
Dew" - tune cf "Lazarus" (Sam Henry says "My
love, Nell") - PALMER TOT 1975 - see also OLD JEPSON BROWN (another
Upside Down Song)
UPSIDE DOWN -(K) - LITTLE MINNIE - MILLY MOLLY MOUNSY
UPSTAIRS IN A TENT - TIE THE BONNET
UPTON AMBUSH, THE - Irish Rebel Song -- THE FONTANAS: PICKWICK Hallmark
HM-544 1968 (M)
UPTON-ON-SEVERN DANCES, THE - coll by Maud Karpeles JEFDS I #2 1932
pp101-3 Stick & Handkerchief Dance from William Griffin, fisherman 1925
- Stick Dance publ FOSTER: 6 Morris Dances & Jigs EFDSS/ OUP 1938 - tune
provided was noted by MK from Malon Hamilton, East Orange, Vermont USA for the
dance: "Twin Sisters" -- ALBION Band: ISLAND FOLK- 1001
1975 (boxed)/ RATTLEBONE & PLOUGHJACK: ISLAND HELP-24 1976 - Rick SAUNDERS
(fid) & Simon Nicol (gtr) RPL Radio 2 25/11/87: CASS 0405
UR-CHILL AN CHREAGAIN - ("The Noble Church of Creggan")
- "Ag Uir-Chill a' Chreagain sea chodail me areir faoi bhron"
("By Creggan's noble vaults I slept last night in woe") - Co
Armagh - O CONNOR: SONGS OF THE NORTH OF IRELAND 1994 Ms p5 -- Seamus ENNIS
(U-pipes): GAEL-LINN CEF- 009
URCHNOC CHEIN MHIC CAINTE - Irish Gaelic -- O BOYLE Family: CEOLTA
GAEL OSS-2 1971 on d/cass 0938-C60
URGE FOR GOING, THE - "I had to let her go - summer time &
winter closing in" - comp Joni Mitchell -- Wally WHYTON: FONTANA
STL- 5476 1968
USED UP MINER, THE - "The rain was pouring wildly"
- ROUD#2830 - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp142-3 Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o)
USHAG VEG RUY - ("Little Red Bird") - Manx Lullaby
- DOUGLAS 2 1929 p32 composite - see Walter Gill - JFSS 28 p165 & 30 p310
-- Joan OWEN (unacc) rec Isle of Man 27/2/58: RPL LP 24012 - Joe WOODS talk
& song in Gaelic then song in English by Joe & his sister, Winifred
rec by PK, London: FTX-007
UTAH CARROLL - "You ask, my little friend why I'm always sad
and still" Unable to save the boss's daughter during a cattle stampede
by lifting her onto his horse - Utah goes off with the red blanket which caused
the stampede - he dies under their hooves but she is unharmed - LAWS #B-4 NAB
1950/64 p135 - ROUD#1929 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp224-6 Miss Lorene Gillespie Mississippi
(w/o)
UTTOXETER - Staffordshire --
Handbells rec by PK, Stafford 12/5/62: RTR-0896/ "The Swing Peel"
& "Early one morning"
UTTOXETER MURDER, THE - "In U town in Staffordshire"
- A gamekeeper, having got a farmer's daughter pregnant, opens her womb with
a pocket knife and removes two babes, leaving the body in thorns - neighbour
hear the cries and he is sent to prison - the gallows become his marriage bed
- SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #66 "The Oxford Murder"
VACANT CHAIR, THE - -"Songs of the Civil War" with the George MITCHELL Choir & Lansdowne Orchestra "The Blue and the Grey": WORLD RECORD CLUB T-629 sung by Rita Williams
VACATION IN HEAVEN -- STANLEY BROTHERS in concert CASS 0477
VACUUM CLEANER -- (RPL 35408) rec 1973
VALENCIA -- WINTLE Street Piano rec 1955: FTX-300
VALENCIA HARBOUR - Slow Air -- Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): CLADDAGH (TARA)
TA-1002 1973
VALLENCIENNE'S MARCH - Tunebook Ms (D) #19 p123
VALENTINE O HARA - "A bold young man named VOH" - Highwayman
- ROUD#2403 - JOYCE OIFM&S 1909 pp148-9 J McKenzie, Newtownard, Co Down
1v/m
VALENTINE'S DAY - "Good morning to you V" - ROUD#1142
- SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp668-9 Mrs Overd, Langport, Somerset 1904 ("VD
comes early in the morn") James Bishop, Priddy, Somerset 1905 "VD
comes but once a year")- WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p303 #731 nn, Eastleach,
Gloucestersh (w/o) "Children's Song on Valentine's Day" ("Morn't'ee,
morn't'ee Valentine - blow the oats against the wynd") ("Valentine's
Day comes once a year") 1v (w/o) - HAGGARD IWBN Norfolk c1935 2v (w/o)
("Good morrow, V") - HAMER GGr 1973 p20 Wm Wagstaffe, Bedfordsh
"Valentine Chant" - HAYING COCK - I DESIGNED TO SAY NO - MY
VALENTINE - SHIFT AND SPIN -- Mr Gentle (talk) followed by his sisters
& schoolmistress & children singing, rec by PK, Guilden Mordern School,
Cambridgesh 1956: FTX-424 "Good morning
Valentine" - ENGLISH TAPESTRY: FOLKSOUND FS-100 1974 (from Hamer Coll)
- LEADER LER-2032 1975 SWAN ARCADE (from Broadwood, Sussex)
VALETA, THE - Waltz -- Michael GORMAN (fid) of Sligo rec by PK, London
25/10/52: RPL 18710/ FTX-077 with talk - Sid RICHARDS
(mel) rec by PK, Curry Rivel, Somerset 1952: FTX-405
- Percy BROWN (mel): TOPIC 12-TS-229 1973/ TOPIC TSCD- 659 bef "Heel
& Toe Polka"
VALIANT DRAGOON, THE - BOLD DRAGOON
VALIANT LADY, THE - BRISK YOUNG LIVELY LAD
VALIANT LONDON APPRENTICE, THE - After killing the Kings son in Turkey,
he is thrown into the lion's den and tears the lions throats asunder thus gaining
the king's daughter as a reward - LAWS Q-38 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1064 p577
(frag 3v w/o) "The Honour of a London Apprentice"
VALIANT MONROE - GENERAL MUNROE
VALIANT SAILOR, THE - POLLY ON THE SHORE
VALIANT SOLDIER, THE - "There was a valiant soldier just lately
come from war" - He courts a rich lady but the father with 7 armed
men try to take his life - in a valley she holds his horse while he fights them
all - father relents and gives him daughter and all his riches - LAWS M-27 "The
Bold Soldier" ABBB 1957 pp183-4 - JFSS 3 1906 #26 p108 Merrick from
Henry Hills of Lodworth Sussex 6½v/m "Come all you maids of honour"
- WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p115 6v Oxfordsh "The Bold Dragoon" --
BARRY- ECKSTORM-SMYTH Maine 1929 p377 3var/m - BELDEN Mo 1940 p103 8v refs -
BROWN NC 1952-62 p287 4var - CHAPPELL R&A 1939 p88 3v/m (NC) - COX FSS 1925
p375 6½v refs (W Va) - CREIGHTON NS 1933 p25 7v/m - DAVIS Va 1929 p92
- FLANDERS-BROWN Vt 1939 p232 8v/m - GARDNER Mich 1939 p380 8v - HENRY 1938
p185 13v/7v (Tenn/Ga) - POUND AB&S 1922 p68 6v (La) - SCARBOROUGH Va 1937
p201 6½v - SHARP FSSA I p333 6v/m (NC) & frags/m (Va) - WARNER 1984
#55 p152 Fish 9v/m "Only a soldier" -- John KIRKPATRICK
& Sue HARRIS: TOPIC 12-TS-247 1974 - Harry BRASIL (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates,
Gloucester 1978: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985/ TSCD-668 1998 "The Bold Keeper"
(Note says related to Earl Brand (Child #7) & THE BOLD DRAGOON) --- Lena
Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1941: FTX-922
- Cas WALLIN rec by Mike Yates, Sodom Laurel, Madison Co NC USA: HOME MADE MUSIC
LP-001 1980 "The Little Soldier"
VALIANT VIRGIN, THE - BRISK AND LIVELY LAD
VALIANT WELSHMAN, THE - JOVIAL WELSHMAN
VALIHA - Malagasi circular tube zither - MALAGASI
VALLAFIELD - Shetland Jig -- Shetland TRADITIONAL BAND (Sextet) rec
22/1/49: RPL 13196 aft "Shaalds o Foula" & bef "Da
Brig"/ rec by Pat Shaw 1962: FTX-068
VALLEY BELOW - SWEET NIGHTINGALE
VALLEY O - TREE SONG
VALLEY OF KNOCKANURE, THE - comp by Brian Mc Mahon - Three young heroes
are surrounded and killed by the Black and Tans -- Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-T-153
1966 - Sean O SE with Sean O RIADA & CEOLTOIRI: GAEL-LINN CEF-016 1967
VALLEYS BELOW, THE - SWEET NIGHTINGALE
VALPARAISO - ROUNDING THE HORN
VALSE A LA REINE - Tunebook Ms (D) #106 p491
VALSE DE SOLEIL COUCHER - Cajun -- THE SUNDOWN PLAYBOYS: APPLE 44
1972 (45 EP)
VAN DIEMAN'S LAND - "Come all you gallant poachers ("GP")
that ramble free from, care" - 3 poachers, caught and transported to
VDL for 14 years, are sold to local farmers, yoked to ploughs, badly treated
and dream of home - a fellow prisoner, Susan Summers is married to the farmer
after he has bought her freedom and she treats the men better - ends with warning
to poachers - English first colonised Tasmania in 1803 and transportation of
convicts from 1804 to 1853 (note in Broadwood ETS p113) - LAWS #L18 (ABBB 1957
p176) - ROUD#519 - BS by FORD of Chesterfield (Palmer Reprint 2001) also "Henry's
Downfall" - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp361-3 8v (w/o) - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p247
5var - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #33 "G P" - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp2-3
& p113 Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 (notes on song & singer)
"GP" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp146-7 Robert Parish, Exford,
Somerset 1906/ Mr Gibbs, Evesham, Worcestersh 1909 1v/m - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp142-3
Lucy Broadwood: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 "The GP"
- WILLIAMS FSUT p263-4 #258 Eynsham Oxfordsh 6v & 1v comp text (w/o) "Poor
Tom Brown of Nottingham Town" - ORD BB 1930 p384 8v/m "The
Poacher's" - O LOCHLAIN ISB 1939 pp42-3 Cashel, Co Tipperary 1915 -
McCOLL SS 1953 p27 Ord - PINTO-RODWAY 1957 #77 p236 Catnach broadside - REEVES
IP 1958 #107 pp217-218 Sharp: Robert Parish (w/o) - SEEGER-McCOLL 1960 p88 Harry
Cox, Catfield, Norfolk - HUGILL 1961 p411 - BUCHAN 101SS 1962 p120 Ord - PALMER
SOM 1972 pp73-4 Sharp: Mr Gibbs, Evesham, Worcs 1909 "Come all you wild
& wicked youths"- KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #262 p573 Jimmy McBeath 5v/m
- McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp286-8 Charlotte Higgins, Blairgowrie, Perthshire
1963 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #52 pp101-2 RVW: Mr Broomfield, East Hornden, Essex
1904 - SHARP SG 2003 p72 6v from Rbt Parish, Exford, Somerset --- ANDERSON Australia
p17 - COLCORD R&G 1924 p172 4v - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp131-2 Ben Henneberry
- CREIGHTON-SENIOR NS 1950 p131 6v/m - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp269- 270 Ephraim
Ellerson Utah 1947 - LEACH Labr 1965 p708 5v (Nfl) - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 #122
pp304-5 & p404 James Langville 6v (refs) - see BLACK VELVET BAND - FAREWELL
TO STIRLING - FEMALE SAILOR (Sarah Collins) - HENRY THE POACHER - MAGGIE MAY
- OUTBOARD MOTOR MAN (Graham Penny) - RAMBLING YOUTH -- Seamus ENNIS rec
Dublin 20/9/49: RPL 13769 from O Lochlainn - Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax,
Edinburgh 1951: RPL 21533/ CAEDMON TC-1163/ TOPIC 12-T-195/ FTX-023
(vs 2 & 5 omitted)/ FTX-060 - Andrew STEWART
rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7/
FTX-184 - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean
O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL LP 24836/ FTX-157/ TOPIC
12-T-269 1975 - Ewan McCOLL (unacc) rec by PK, London: HMV 10-inch 78 rpm B10259
with "Lord Randall" - Ewan McCOLL with gtr: "Ballads &
Blues - Sea Music" Radio prog prod by Denis Mitchell 1956: CASS 0376 -
Dominic BEHAN with Robin HALL (gtr): COLLECTOR JEI-2 1958 (45 EP) from his mother
- Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: TOPIC 12-T-16 1959 - Enoch KENT rec by Bill
Leader TOPIC 1966/ ROOT & BRANCH #1 EFDSS 1999 - Shirley COLLINS & ALBION
Band: B & C PEG-7/ CREST-11 1971 collated version - Tim LYONS: LEADER LER-3036
1972 - Walter PARDON, Knapton, Norfolk: LEADER LED-2063 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-654
1998 - Cara DILLON rec by Colm O Rourke, Univ of Westminster: ROOT & BRANCH
#1 EFDSS 1999
VANCE SONG, THE - "Green are the woods where Sandy flows"
- condemned for murder Vance lashes out against those who sentenced him - regrets
leaving his countryside and bids farewell to his family - LAWS #F-17 NAB 1950/64
p200 - ROUD#2216 - HUDSON FSM 1936 pp246-7 Mrs Flora Stafford Swetnam Mississippi
(w/o)
VANDALS OF HAMMERWCH, THE - Morris Dance from Lichfield, Staffs -- MORRIS
ON: ISLAND HELP 5 1972
VANISHING LEPRECHAUN, THE - Jig - SULLIVAN 3 #4 p2 (G)
VARGUS'S JIG - DARLEY/ McCALL FC 1914 #78 p36
VARIATIONS
- (Instrumental) - FENWICK O BYWELL - GIVE ME YOUR HAND - JOHN PEEL
- JOHNNY'S SO LONG AT THE FAIR - KEEL ROW - LOVAT SCOUTS - MIDLOTHIAN PIPE BAND
VARSOVIANA - FATHER HALPIN'S TOPCOAT
VARSOVIANA, THE - Couple Dance in Waltz rhythm - KERR MM 4 p43 - MUNCH
Tristan da Cunha 1970 p121 from Alfred Green (accordion) - SEATTLE 1990 p65
3 versions: Geordie Taylor (fid) "Cock your leg up" (FOLKTRAX
121)/ Ned Pearson (Source: TOPIC 12 TS 283)
& Ned Pearson (fid) (same rec) - SULLIVAN 3 #36 p14 (G) "Verse of
Vienna" -- Tony CAPALDI & Bob SMITH'S Band: TOPIC 12-T-319 1977
- Fred PIDGEON (fid) rec by PK, Stockland, Devon 1951: FTX-087
- Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18682/
FTX-115 & another rec by Russell Wortley, 1954:
LEADER LED-2068 1976 - Michael GORMAN (fid) of Sligo rec by PK, London 25/10/52:
RPL 18710/ FTX-077 with talk about dance - Herbert
SMITH (fid) rec by PK, Blakeney, Norfolk 4/11/52: RPL 18707 talk bef/ FTX-328
- Ned PEARSON (fid) rec by PK, Cambo, Northumb 16/6/54: RPL 20621/ FTX-121
talk bef "Old & new tunes" - Geordie TAYLOR (fid) rec by
PK, Rennington, Northumb 30/11/54: FTX-121 - Hugh
QUINN (Talk & words sung) rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072
"Will you Wallace with me?" - Willie CLANCY (U-pipes)
rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-173 - George HOYLAND
(acc) rec by PK, Sheffield, Yorksh 1959: FTX-212
- Billy BOWMAN (acc) rec by PK, Cockermouth, Cumb 28-31/8/59: RPL LP 26583 -
BULWER Band rec Norfolk 1952: TOPIC 12 T 296 1976 - Mary SWAIN (talk) &
Percy LAVARELLO (mel) from Tristan de Cunha rec by PK, Gosport, Hampsh 1962:
FTX-609 "Tapioca's Big Toe" - "Scan"
TESTER (conc) rec by PK, Horsted Keynes, Sussex 1963: FTX-085/
rec by Reg Hall, Croydon 19/8/64: TOPIC 12-T-455-6 1990 - Roger NICHOLSON, Gerry
ROLF & Jake WALTON (dulcimers): ARGO ZDA-204 1974 (from Roche) - John WRIGHT
(harmonica) & 3 French var (fid): TOPIC 12-TS-348 1978 "La Valse
Vienne, La Schottische Anglaise & L'Angoise"
VAUCHEE D'ANE, LA (CHE-) - (Custom for drawing attention to marital
unfaithfulness) - see RIDING THE STANG -- Bill THOUME rec by PK, St Martin,
Guernsey C I 1/5/57: RPL LP 23845/ FTX-243 - Walter
BREHAUT rec by PK, Torteval, Guernsey, C I 2/5/57: RPL LP 23845/ FTX-243
"Le fauche d'ane"
VAUDEVILLE
- MUSIC HALL
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY (VWML of EFDSS) - Malcolm
Taylor (librarian) talking on Radio 2 1/4/87: CASS 90-0567
VAUGHAN'S FAVOURITE - Jig - COLE p64 (G)
VAUXHALL WALTZ - Tunebook Ms (D) #8 pp432-3
VEILLE HOULOGUE, LA -- Jack Peree rec by PK, Jersey, CI 24/4/60: RPL LP
26236 - (a) played by Richard Avery, Hogue Bie (banjo) (b) sung by Jack Perrez
with Eileen Sueur (acc) with talk bef: FTX-244
VELOCIPEDE - Hornpipe - COLE p110 (Bb)
VENDERS - STREET CRIES
VENDOME HORNPIPE - (F) - COLE #1 p112 - KERR MM 2 388 p43
VENEMOUS BLACK SNAKE, THE - SPRINGFIELD MOUNTAIN
VENEREAL DISEASE
- ON BOARD A NINETY-EIGHT - ROVING KIND - UNFORTUNATE LAD (RAKE)
VENEZUELA - "I met her in V" - comp by John Jacob Niles
-- "Ballads & Blues - Sea Music" Radio prog prod by Denis Mitchell
1956: CASS 0376
VENEZUELA
- SENORITA PANCHITA -- Recordings
- see AREA Listing
VENICE (or VENUS) POLKA, THE -- Jimmy GARSON Trio rec by PK, Dounby,
Orkney 12/7/55: RPL 22722 bef "Bluebell P"/ FTX-064/
rec Sean Davies DTS EF-2 1965 (45 EP) "The Venus Polka" bef
"Marquis of Lorne"- ANDERSON Band rec by PK, Orphir, Orkney
15/7/55: RPL 22726
VENUS AND ADONIS - "As I rode over yonder forest green - Doon
in yon garden as I was walking" - a maid like a Venus queen &
young sailor like fair Adonis" - sailor's father has died and left
him £503 which he wants to exchange for her kisses but she doesn't want
to wed a sailor, but the weather changes and he doesn't go off to sea so she
gives him his kisses - ROUD#1383 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp122-3 Mr Grantham, Surrey-Sussex
- GREIG- DUNCAN 5 1995 5 #1034 p392 8v/m "The Lass that loves a sailor"
VERDANT BRAES OF SKREEN, THE - FALSE YOUNG MAN
VERDURON, VERDURONETTE - YOUNG Canada 1956 p35 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #119
Torode - "La fille au cresson" ("The Watercress Girl")
-- Morrison TORODE rec by PK, St Peter's, Guernsey CI 6/5/57: RPL LP 28344/
FTX-012
VERSE OF VIENNA - VARSOVIANA
VERY GOOD SONG - "Very well sung - very good company - but the
singer is dry" - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p71 coll from Jack Hunt,
Ivybridge, Devon 1974
VERY SAME LORD -- THE SILVER LEAF QUARTET rec by Alan Lomax, Ark,
Va USA 1960: ROUNDER CD-1708 1997
VESSEL CUP CAROL, THE - WASSAIL
VEST AND CRAVAT - OLD VEST AND CRAVAT (Hornpipe)
VETERAN, THE - "Twas on one Sabbath morn the bells did chime
for church" - old soldier returns home but no-one knew him, forgotten
by all on earth - ROUD#1211 - COPPER SESB 1971 pp234-5 family song, Rottingdean,
Sussex
VICAR OF BRAY, THE - "In good King Charles' golden days"
- CHAPPELL NEA 1838 has tune in 3/4 time - PMOT 1958 II p652 note on p787 -
orig name of tune in 18C was "The Country Garden" - tune became
popular through song: "The Neglected Tar"
VICTORIA, Queen -- John STRACHAN (Talk): FTX-065
about Queen Victoria, John Brown & McHardy - GREHAN SISTERS with Paddy BYRNE
(whistle) Song about statue: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-160 1967 (M) & TRANSATLANTIC
TRA- SAM-11 1969
VICTORIA HORNPIPE, THE - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #189 p52 (A)
VICTORIA WALTZ, THE - KOHLER 1 p42 (D & G) 6pts -- Michael COLEMAN
(fid) Sligo rec Chicago 1930's: FTX-154 - Johnny
DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19575/ FTX-074
"Speaking or Exhibition Waltz" - Jimmy GARSON Trio rec by PK,
Twatt-by-Kirkwall, Orkney 12/7/55: RPL 22720/ FTX-064,
FTX-189 & FTX-255
"As I roved out" radio prog 1956/ FTX-389
"Speaking Waltz"- Tom HUGHES (fid): SPRINGTHYME SPR 1005 1981
"Kelso Hiring Fair"
VICTORIAN TEARJERKERS - BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER - FAITHFUL SAILOR BOY
- VOLUNTEER ORGANIST - WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN
VICTORIO - Shanty -- (a) James DYER/ (b) Andrew Salter & ch &
(c) Mark Page, Sunderland rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FTX-142
VICTOR'S RETURN, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #886/ DMI #137 (##A)
VICTORY, THE - NEWS OF THE VICTORY - ON BOARD THE VICTORY
VICTORY RAG - Instrumental -- Doc WATSON (gtr) with Merle (gtr) &
Rus SAVAKUS (bass): VANGUARD TFL-6083 1967 -- John JAMES (gtr instr) in concert
Radio 2: 24/5/82: CASS 0414
VIE D'UN VIER CHEVA', LA -- Ben AMY rec by Peter Kennedy, Jersey
CI 24/4/60: RPL LP 26236
VIELLE HOULOGUE, LA - ("The Old Clock" ie "My Grandfather's
Clock") -- Jack PEREE (with acc) rec by PK, Jersey CI 24/4/60: RPL
LP-26236/ RTR-0728-50/ Radio prog tape
VIETNAM -- Recordings - see
AREA Listing
VIEUX SOULARD ET SA FEMME, LE -- Clemo BREAUX & Joseph FALCON (voc/
fid/ gtr) 1928: COLUMBIA 14301D/ FOLKWAYS FP253/ FA 2953/ 7"RTR#0307/ FTX-912
VIEW, THE - comp by Fred Rooke -- Fred ROOKE: FTX-044
VIGILANTE MAN, THE - comp by WG -- Woody GUTHRIE (v/gtr/ harmonica):
John Peel on "Protest in the 1950s & 60s Radio 2: 7/3/87: CASS-0565-C90
- Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4
VILLAFJORD JACK - WILLAFJORD JACK
VILLAGE BORN BEAUTY, THE - "See that star-breasted villain to
yonder cot bound" - poor hedger's daughter - ROUD#2092 - HUNTINGTON
SWS 1964 pp299-300 ships log 1859 (w/o)
VILLAGE FETE, THE - Reel - MITTEL #51 p19 (D) "La Fete de Village"
VILLAGE MAID, THE - Tunebook MS 2/4 (G) #38 p347 - WILSON p93 4pts (with
dance descr)
VILLAGE MAID, THE - ANNAN'S WINDING STREAM
VILLAGE PRIDE, THE - MARY ACROSS THE WILD MOOR - PAISLEY OFFICER
VILLAGE PUMP, THE - "There's a pretty little village far away
where they grows new potatoes every day" - pub - policeman - Ch:
"The VP, the village P-U-M-P, pump" -- Bill SMITH (71), Bridgnorth,
Shropsh rec by his son Andrew (copy of cass with 25 songs): 5"RTR-0906
VILLAGE REEL - PRIDE OF THE BALL (Reel)
VILLAGER'S DANCE, THE - Tunebook Ms 6/8 (G) #17 p340
VILLIKINS AND DINAH - WILLIAM AND DINAH
VILLIKENS WALTZ -- Square Dance with Phil CARDEW CASS 30-0571
VINA --
Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS Listing
VINCENT BLYN'S No 2 - Reel - TAYLOR 1 p11 (Bm)
VINCENT CAMPBELL'S - Jig - TWEED p9 from Fran Meehan, Dublin piper
VINE - IN PRAISE OF THE VINE
VINGT-CINQ DE JUILLET, LE -- Anita BEST & Pamela MORGAN with
accomp: AMBER MUSIC (Newfoundland) ACD 9008 (from Willy Robin of Cape St Georges
via Gerald Thomas of Memorial University)
VINGT CINQUIEME DU MOIS D'OCTOBRE, LE - ("The 25th of October")
- MARCEL DUBOIS-ANDRAL 1954 pp230/245 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #120 Le Moigne
-- Jack Le FEUVRE rec by PK, Sark, CI 3/5/57: RPL LP 23842/ FTX-245
- George Le MOIGNE rec by PK, Perelle, Guernsey, CI 6/5/57: RPL LP 23839/ FTX-012/
RTR-0728-50/ Radio prog
VINTON'S HORNPIPE - (Bb) - COLE #7 p90 - HAYWOOD #14 p48
VINTNER, THE - FAIR MAID OF ISLINGTON
VINY RIDGE MARCH - RAVENHILL FLUTE & DRUM BAND in Radio Prog 1957 "Sing
Christmas" ROUNDER-CD-11661-1850-2 2000
VIOLETTA HORNPIPE - SHOWMAN'S FANCY
VIOLIN - FIDDLE, CELLO & DOUBLE
BASS -- Recordings
- see INSTRUMENTS Listing
VIOLIN, THE - comp by RD -- Robin & Barry DRANSFIELD & Brian:
TRANSATLANTIC TRA-322 1976
VIRGIN ISLANDS --
Recordings - see AREA Listing
VIRGIN MARY HAD A ONE SON - Carol --- Carol -- Peggy SEEGER (with
gtr): RPL LP 26265 (Unesco rec n/d)/ " in Radio Prog 1957 "Sing Christmas"
ROUNDER-CD-11661-1850-2 2000 - Joan BAEZ & Bob GIBSON: VANGUARD SRL- 7624
1965
VIRGIN PULLETS - Playford Country Dance - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p31 -
see PULLET WANTS A COCK
VIRGIN STURGEON, THE -- THE SHOWER-ROOM SQUAD: PICKWICK Hallmark CHM-693
1970
VIRGIN UNSPOTTED, THE - "the prophet foretold" - "In
Bethlehem City, in Judea it was" - Saviour Jesus - Carol - ROUD#1378
- BSs altern title "A Virgin most pure" - GILBERT CC 1822 p18
- SANDYS CC 1833 pp61-2 Cornwall (w/o) "A Virgin Most Pure"
- Good Christmas Box 1847 #2 p17 - SYLVESTER CC 1851 p61 - HUSK Nativity 1858
p30 & p192 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 p56-7 Northamptonsh & pp78-9 Herefordsh
- SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp440-441 Henry Thomas, Chipping Sodbury, 1907/ Elizabeth
Smitherd, Tewkesbury, Gloucestersh 1908 1v/m/ Walter Perry, Donnington Wood
1911 (m/o)/ Samson Bates, The Trench 1911 (m/o)/ Mrs Halfpenny, Lilleshall,
Shropsh 1911 (m/o alt "Bethlehem City") - SHARP EFCa 1911 pp36-7
Henry Thomas - JFSS 5:18 1914 pp24-6 Sharp: Samson Bates 1v/m/ Samuel Bradley
& Seth Vandrell, Lilleshall, Shropsh 1911 1v/m/ Mrs Halfpenny 1v/m/ Elizabeth
Smitherd 1v/m - JFSS 5:20 1916 pp324-6 Kidson: Mrs Kate Thompson, Knaresborough,
Yorksh 1896 1v/m/ J Arnold "Compleat Psalmodist" 1750 - (not in OXFORD
BC 1928) - FMJ 1977 pp252-4 Nfl "The Virgin whose purity" ---
JACKSON Down-East Spirituals (2nd edn., 1953) pp25-26 (Catherine Alderdice MS
songbook) -- Emily BISHOP rec by PK, Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordsh 1952 RTR
#0897/ RPL 18684 (1st v only)/ FTX-129 & FTX-504
(all verses) - Dartington Handbell Choir: SAYDISC SDLL-327 1981/ CASS - Maddy
PRIOR Carnival Band: SAYDISC SDL-366 1988 "A Virgin most pure"
- PUZZLEJUG "Let us be merry" PJ3 1996 (coll by Bob Patten & Andrew
Taylor from Charley Williams of Brockweir)
VIRGIN'S WREATH, THE - "I am a maiden sad and lonely" -
courted by a squire's son - ROUD#2101 - BARING GOULD Ms #193 (a) Henry Langdon,
Penrose, S Eval by Mr Lock (b) Peter Sandry FWB - BGCS 1895 pp62-3 (only two
verses so BG completed the song)
VIRGINALS
- HARPSICHORD -- Recordings
- see INSTRUMENTS Listing
VIRGINIA - BRAVE OLD SOLDIER - MAN
OF CONSTANT SORROW ("Old Virginny")
VIRGINIA, THE - Reel - MITCHELL #24 p34 from Willie Clancy -- Pat
MITCHELL (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-294 1976 with "Garret Barry's Reel"
- MOVING CLOUD Danish-Irish Folk Group: GO 0102 nd "Virginia Reel"
aft "Bird in the Bush" & "Bank of Ireland"
VIRGINIA HORNPIPE -1 - KERR MM 3 #357 p39 (Dm)
VIRGINIA HORNPIPE -2 - KERR MM 4 #309 p32 (Bb)
VIRGINIA REEL - BIG-FOOTED NIGGER
VIRGINIAN, THE - WRECK OF THE VIRGINIAN
VIRGINIAN LOVER, THE - Appalachian Song - SHARP 2 pp149-50 -- Dollie
NORTON (unacc) (neice of Jane Gentry) rec by Mike Yates, Sodom Laurel, Madison
Co, NC USA: HOME MADE MUSIC LP-001 1980 "The Silk Merchant's Daughter"
VIRGINIAN MAID'S LAMENT, THE - "Once I loved a lad and I loved
him as my life - in the lands o Virginia-O - but like a cruel knave he sold
me for a slave - and alas but I'm weary-O" - BUCHAN AB&SNS Edinburgh
1875 2 p205-6 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1095 p48 (2var 2v/1m)
VIRGINNY - "Come all you young fellows wheresoever you might
be - beware hard-hearted judges send us to V - Captain stands with rod - slaves
out of bond - land see no more - live 7 years more - adieu to V" -
ROUD#2802/2466 - FMJ 1967 p157 Gardiner: Mrs Goodyear 1907/ Gamblin Hampsh 1907
-- Cf LAWS NAB dA 35 p258 - LOMAX FSNA p99 Galusha - WARNER TAFS 1984 p92 John
Galusha, Minerva, NY 1939 "Virginia's Bloody Soil" ("Come
all you loyal Unionists")
VIRGIN'S WREATH, THE - "I am a maiden sad and lonely"
- BARING GOULD GCS 1895 (with valuable note on "maiden's garlands"
& reference to another version: "O my name it is Maria")
VIRTUOUS AMERICA - "What is right and what is wrong"
- ROUD2071 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 p180 ships log 1849 (w/o)
VIRTUTE ET INDUSTRIAL - Bristol Song -- Fred WEDLOCK (voc/gtr) SAYDISC
SD-245 1973
VISIT TO IRELAND, A - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #753/ DMI #39 (G)
VISIT TO THE QUEEN - from broadside in Oldham Library -- OLDHAM TINKERS:
TOPIC 12-TS-206 1971
VISITING - NIGHT VISITING
VITO, EL -- Joy HYMAN & Jennifer RICE (voc/gtrs) rec London 1961:
RPL LP 27099
VIVALDI -- Pete SHUTLER (Bowed psaltery) & YETTIES Radio 2: 4/11/87:
CASS-60-0555
VIVE LA - Air/ Polka - ROCHE 3 #46 p13 (D) 2/4
VIVE LA COMPAGNIE -- George De La MARE & company RTR-0728- 50/
Radio prog tape rec La Bottelerie St Ouens & Clari NOEL (v/fid) rec by PK,
St Helier, Jersey CI 28/4./60: RPL LP 26235 - Adolphus Le RUEZ rec by PK, Bonne
Nuit, Jersey: FTX-244
VLAXI ROMS - European Romany gypsy singers -- rec by Milena Hobschmannova
in Czech Slovakia Romania & Hungary 1967-1981 incl gypsy adaptations of
pop songs, ancient ballads, mouth music, balalaika, gtr, finger-clicking &
handclapping: RTR 1185-7/ FTX-608
VLY ON THE TURMUTS, THE - TURNIP-HOER
VOICE, THE - Studies of vocal technique, style, virtuosity etc --
A L LLOYD: "The Celtic World - Sound of the Voice" Radio 2: 8/10/68:
5"RTR-1210/ CASS-0614 - Radio Prog on "The Folksong Virtuoso"
re-broadcast Radio 3: 10/1/90 & 17/1/90 CASS-60-1050 - FTX-136
"Seeds of Love"
VOICE FROM THE TOMBS - "I was strolling one day in a lovely
green yard" - American hymn - WARNER 1984 #87 p220 3v -- Buna HICKS
& her 2 daughters rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NC 1951: FTX-923
VOLCANOS - TWELVE MEN
VOLTA -
Africa -- OCORA OCR 51 Lobi/ CASS 0112 (box) --
Recordings - see AREA Listing
VOLTA, LA - 16C Court Dance -- FUREYS with Bob STEWART (instrum):
BROADSIDE BRO-133 1974 - Roger NICHOLSON (dulc): ARGO ZDA-204 1974
VOLUNTEER, THE - Reel (#D) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #268 p138 - CRANITCH #60
p148 - SHASKEEN 1 #9 p8
VOLUNTEER ORGANIST, THE - comp by W B Gray - Preacher at Village Church
needs organist to substitute man away ill - old man, a drunkard, in old clothes
plays the sweetest music - each eye grew dim - the sermon couldn't compare -
the organ & organist volunteered to play" -- Fred JORDAN: TOPIC
12-TS-233 1974 (from father)
VOTE VOTE VOTE - comp by FW -- Frank WARREN rec Devon PEOPLE'S STAGE
C45 cass 1978
VOTE VOTE VOTE - "for General Robinson - in comes (somebody)
at the door - (-) is a fool like a monkey on a stool - so we don't want ( -)
anymore - Shut the door" - Skipping Rhyme - OPIE LLSC pp348-9 "Tom
Howard" (West Islington 1847) "Anthony Eden" (1955)
- RITCHIE SS p109 Labour/ Tory & RITCHIE GC p128 "Change Skipping"
- see also WE WANT (-) TO VANISH -- rec by Damian Webb: DW 3/6 (b) - DW 4/19
& DW 9/8 St Johns & St Michaels Juniors, Workington 1960/ RPL LP 26301/
FTX-197 #7 #31 & #46 - Dominic BEHAN (Dublin)
& Ewan Mc COLL (Salford): TOPIC 12-T-41 1959/ CASS-60- 0202 - OLDHAM TINKERS
TOPIC 12-TS-276 1975 "Mavis Johnson - she calls Michael in the row -
won't play with Mavis any more - that's a lie" - Isla St CLAIR: Various
childrens songs (unacc): Radio 19/4/89: CASS-10-0717
VOULEZ VOUS DANSER? - MADEMOISELLES DANCE