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W P AND A, THE - ("The Works Progress Administration") - "Where did you get that pretty dress?" Ch: "On W P & A" (repeated) - WARNER 1984 #138 p316 7v -- Frank PROFFITT (voc/gtr) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt., Watauga Co., NC USA 1959: FTX-933/ APPLESEED APR-CD-036 2000

WABASH - BANKS OF THE WABASH

WABASH CANNON BALL, THE - "Out from the wide Pacific to the broad Atlantic shore" - ROUD#4228 - RANDOLPH Ozark FS 4 pp363-4 - BOTKIN & HARLOW Treasuiry of Railway Folklore p462 - MILBURN: Hobo's Horn Book 1930 pp189-191 -- Carter Family (Trio) rec Atlanta, Ga 24/11/29 7"RTR-0313-4 - (PHILLIPS BBL-7410 & 7552) CASS-0239 Roy ACUFF with SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS - Lonnie DONEGAN: PICKWICK Hallmark HMA-204 1956/1965

WADE HAMPTON'S - Hornpipe (Bb) - COLE #7 p101 comp by Frank Livingston - KERR MM 2 #381 p42

WAE'S ME FOR PRINCE CHARLIE - "A wee bird cam to oor ha' door" - tune: Gypsy Laddie - comp by William Glen (b Glasgow 1789) publ 1816 - Jacobite Song - supposed to have taken place immediately after trhe failure of the last attempt of the exiled Stuarts to regain their forefather's throne when Prince Charlie had to flee for his life, £30,000 being offered for his head, when he spent many weeks in hiding and privation in the Western Highlands and islands before making his escape to France - SMITH Scotish Minstrel 3 pp90-91 - - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) see Kennedy-Fraser: "David Kennedy" (Biog) p25 with Kennedy's original introduction to the song (w/o) - GREIG-DUNCAN 7 pp367-8 -- Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-79 1962

WAGES - EMPLOYMENT - PAY - SWAGGERING FARMERS - WAITING FOR THE DAY

WAGERS - BROOMFIELD HILL - CAMPBELL THE ROVER - JOCK HAMILTON - PENNY WAGER - YOUNG ALLEN

WAGON DRIVER'S SONG - comp by Ernie Green -- THE TEES-SIDE FETTLERS: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-016 1974

WAGON LOAFERS, THE - Boer War Song in which 55th Imperial Yeomanry make a joke about their own cowardice - tune: "John Brown's Body" -- Mick Hennessy (voc/ conc): ARGO ZDA-147 1971

WAGON TRAIN - BRONCO LANE

WAGONER, THE - "Saw ye oot o my lad, gannin doon the wagon way? - wi his pockets full o money & his bag full o hay" - Tyneside Song - BELL 1812 - WHITTAKER NCB 1921 has another tune - SEDLEY 1967 p34 - see MY LAD'S A CANNY LAD -- Johnny HANDLE (voc/gtr) TOPIC 12-T-189 1962/ rec Birtley Durham 1963: RPL LP 29982

WAGONER'S LAD, THE - "Sad is the misfortune of all womankind" - SHARP FSSA #64 - ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY -- Buell KAZEE (voc/5-str banjo) 1928 (BRUNSWICK-213B)/ FOLKWAYS FP-253/ 7"RTR-0306/ FTX-911 - Jean JENKINS (v/banjo) rec by PK, London 2/4/57: FTX-915 - Bert JANSCH (v/banjo): TRANSATALANTIC TRA-143 1966

WAISTCOAT AND BRITCHES - GOLDEN GLOVE

WAIT FOR THE WAGON - "Will you come with me, Phyllis dear?" - ROUD#2080 - JOHNSON OFS nd pp429-431 Comp by R Bishop Buckley (d 1867) - WILLIAMS #514 John Goddard, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, Wiltsh (w/o) --- THOMPSON PS 1958 pp151-3 Stevens-Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o) - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp285 ships log 1853 (w/o) -- Harry HOLLAND & Bert Palmer, nephew rec by PK 13/10/54: RTR-7-0252

WAIT FOR THE WAGON - Song tune used for Morris & Country Dances - WESTROP #22 p8 (F) Country Dance -- Beatrice HILLS (mel) rec by PK, Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordsh 1952: FTX-115 "Nelly's Tune" - Douglas FOWELL (mel) & Brian GRIMLEY (triangle) rec by PK, Abbots Bromley, Staffordsh 1954: RPL 21149/ FTX-110 used for "The Horn Dance"

WAIT TILL THE WEEK COMES ROUND -- Gus ELEN: TOPIC 12-T-396 1979

WAIT TODAY, LOVE, TILL TOMORROW - WEAVING LILT

WAITING AT THE CHURCH -- Canon WINTLE Street Piano rec by PK 1955: FTX-300

WAITING FOR A TRAIN -- UNION FOLK: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-007 1971 - Jimmy Rodgers on Colin Irwin's "Acoustic Roots: Railroads": Radio 2: 3/5/89; CASS-0354 Side B

WAITING FOR ME PAY DAY - Parody on "Oats and Beans" comp by Mike Harding about life in Lancashire over two generations -- Marie LITTLE (unacc): LEADER LER-2084 1973

WAITING FOR THE DAY - (or "The Collier Brig") - "The worst old ship that ever did weigh, sailed out of Harwich on a windy day - and we're waiting for the day - when we get our pay" -- "Bob" A W ROBERTS rec PK, Pinmill, Suffolk 25/10/53: FTX-047 & FTX-515/ COLLECTOR JEB-6 1959 (45-EP)/ TOPIC 12-TS-361 1978/ rec by PK at sea off Harwich 22/5/54: RPL 21153/ AS I ROVED OUT Radio prog Sea Songs 1956: FTX-255/ SAYDISC SDL-405 1994 - Bernard WRIGLEY (voc/ concs): TOPIC 12- TS-241 1974 - Cyril TAWNEY (v/gtr) Radio 2: 25/1/89: CASS- 0743-C15

WAITING FOR THE FERRY - "Last thing at night - river divides true love and me" - comp by GM 1962 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222

WAITING FOR YOU - I'M WAITING FOR YOU (Reel)

WAITS - see NETTLE SSE p104 - Originally watchmen who patroled streets at night, marking the hours and playing on the "wayte", popular name for the shawm - precursor of the oboe

WAIT'S CAROL - "The Old Year now away has fled" - OXFORD Book of Carols #28 p60 "Greensleeves" (1642) - see also YORK WAITS -- Geof & Penny HARRIS & ARKY'S TOAST: LEADER LER 2092 1975

WAKE UP - CROW-FISH MAN - DROWSY SLEEPER

WAKE UP IN AN ALLY - GOING DOWN (Russco)

WAKE UP IN THE MORNING - EARLY IN THE MORNING (USA Prison Song)

WAKE UP, SUSAN - BREAKDOWN

WAKES IN THE MORNING - "Mummy…(and other names) "pukkah" is the servant -- Edith Perrin of West Indies rec by Frank & Anne WARNER 1941: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000

WAKEFIELD GAOL - "Good people all give ear I pray -" Prisoner describes his arrival and life in prison - PALMER TOTT 1974 p250 text: Bs by Harkness of Preston (Madden 18/1117)/ tune: "Kirtle Gaol" in Mackenzie B&S of Nova Scotia 1928

WAKERS - KNOCKER-UPPER - SERENADING

WAKES - DEATH - FUNERAL - FINNEGAN'S WAKE - FUNERALS - IRISH WAKE

WALES - Wyn Thomas (ed) A Bibliography: Traditional Music in Wales vol 2 publ by Gwasg Gee, Denbigh 1996 ADAR MAN Y MYNYDD- AR FORE DYDDD NADOLIG (Carol) - AR GYFE HEDDIWR BORE (Carol) - BACHGEN BACH O DINCER - BISHOP OF BANGOR'S JIGG - BLODAU 'R FLWYDDYN - CAN MERTHYR - CAN Y BUGAIL - CAN Y CARDI - CAINC YR ARADWR - CLYWCH CLYWCH - COSHER BAILEY - DAVID OF THE WHITE ROCK - ENETH GADD EEI GWRTHOD - GWILYM'S DELIGHT (Jig) - GRIFFITH AP CYNAN'S DELIGHT - GWCW - HEN FERCHETAN - HEN WR MWYN - HRAETH - INSIWRANS AGENT - LADY OWEN'S DELIGHT - LISA LAN - LLANDAFF (Cardiff) - LLONGAU CAERNARFON - MAER DDAER YN GLASU - MARI LWYD - MARWNAD YR EHEDYDD RHYBUDD I'R CARWR - SAITH NOS OLAU - TITRWM TATRWM - TRI MANNER TOM - WELSH MORRIS DANCE - YSTWFFWL (Door Knocker) -- Children - COCA COLA - CROSS THE WATER - I AM A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL - I'M GOING TO KENTUCKY - MICKEY MOUSE IN HIS HOUSE - OVER THE GARDEN WALL - SOMEBODY UNDER THE BED - SPANISH LADY - see POOR JACKIE IS ILL/ GWETHU GWELI PLU FY NHAD see SELLING FATHER'S FEATHER BED/ BWGAU Y FFYNON see BOGEY AT THE WELL - tune used for Children's Rhymes: COME TO MY SCHOOL - FOUND A PEANUT -- see FOX LIES SLEEPING, THE/ MARI FACH YN CRIO see MARY LIES A-WEEPING - see POOR JACKIE IS ILL/ GWETHU GWELI PLU FY NHAD see SELLING FATHER'S FEATHER BED/ BWGAU Y FFYNON see BOGEY AT THE WELL -- RPL 7663 rec 1943: JACK BACH YN SAL - SAYDISC SDL-338 rec 1982 (Welsh Folk Museum): BOB YN AIL I MEWN AC ALLAN see DUSTY BLUEBELLS/ Y LLWYNOG A'R LEIR - Medley: Rita WILLIAMS SINGERS with Orchestra: SOCIETY SOC-1023 - Welsh Language - ADAR MAN Y MYNYDD- AR FORE DYDDD NADOLIG (Carol) - AR GYFE HEDDIWR BORE (Carol) - BACHGEN BACH O DINCER - BISHOP OF BANGOR'S JIGG - BLODAU 'R FLWYDDYN - CAN MERTHYR - CAN Y BUGAIL - CAN Y CARDI - CAINC YR ARADWR - CLYWCH CLYWCH - COSHER BAILEY - DAVID OF THE WHITE ROCK - ENETH GADD EEI GWRTHOD - GWILYM'S DELIGHT (Jig) - GRIFFITH AP CYNAN'S DELIGHT - GWCW - HEN FERCHETAN - HEN WR MWYN - HRAETH - INSIWRANS AGENT - LADY OWEN'S DELIGHT - LISA LAN - LLANDAFF (Cardiff) - LLONGAU CAERNARFON - MAER DDAER YN GLASU - MARI LWYD - MARWNAD YR EHEDYDD RHYBUDD I'R CARWR - SAITH NOS OLAU - TITRWM TATRWM - TRI MANNER TOM - WELSH MORRIS DANCE - YSTWFFWL (Door Knocker) -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

WALK A DOLLY WALK - Play party song -- rec by John & Ruby Lomax, Burkeville, Texas Oct 1940: ROUNDER CD-11661-1821-2 1999 (see also "Old Aunt Dinah" & "Let's go a-hunting)

WALK A MILE - Triple Jig - RIDE A MILE

WALK ALONG - WALKALONG

WALK AROUND - HEY DADDY - Plantation Song & Dance with Break - KERR MM 2 #411 p46 (C)

WALK, BELIEVER DANIEL -- Bessie JONES with Georgia Sea Island Singers rec by Alan Lomax 1959: RPL LP 26150

WALK, BILLY ABBOTT - sung by Willis PROCTOR & group rec by Alan Lomax, St Simon's Island, USA 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

WALK HIM ALONG, JOHNNY - Shanty - SHARP EFC 1911 #33 p38 "General Taylor" from John Short Watchet Somerset - he also sang SANTY ANNA - HUGILL 1961 p78 "Walk me along, Johnny"

WALK IN THE PARLOUR - fiddle tune -- Sid HEMPHILL vocal & "quills" (panpipes) with Lucius SMITH (banjo) rec by Alan Lomax, Senatobia, Miss. USA Sept 1959: ROUNDER CD-1701 1997

WALK JAWBONE - "In Caroline where I was born" - ROUD#7728 - Minstrel Song -- Dan TATE (unacc frag) rec by Mike Yates, Fancy Gap, Carroll Co Va 6/8/79 & tune titled "Black-eyed Girls" Howard HALL (banjo), Hillsville, Carroll Co, Va 4/8/79 VWML-007 d/CASS 1026 1992

WALK ON THE BAY - Nat RAHMINGS (drums) with Hobart SMITH (banjo) & Ed YOUNG (cane fife) rec by Alan Lomax, Williamsburg, Va. USA May 1960: ROUNDER 1708 1997

WALK OUT OF IT, HOGAN - HELVICK GROVE (Jig)

WALK RIGHT IN - populrised by Gus Cannon -- ROOF TOP SINGERS: FONTANA 2711700-TF (45 EP) 1962

WALKALONG JOHN - Shanty - ROUD#7824 - BSs incl BG Coll vol 1/12#72 "Johnny Brook from Chickalaw" - BULLEN 1914 #6 p6 "Walk along, Rosey" 1v - HUGILL 1961 p391 "Miss Susianna Brown" - -- RANDOLPH Ozark FS 2 pp383-4 -- William FENDER rec by James M Carpenter, Barry, S Wales c1928: FTX-142 "Walk along you Saucy Anna"--- Mike & Peggy SEEGER (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children"CASS-1226 "with your paper-collar on"

WALKER SHORE TO BYKER HILL - BYKER HILL

WALKER STREET - Hornpipe/ Reel (G) - alt: "The Traveller" - COLE #4 p45 Reel - KOHLER 3 p202 Hornpipe - O NEILL MOI #1495/ DMI #719 (G) "The Traveller" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #191 p53 (G) -- THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 aft "Drowsy Maggie" & "Ships are sailing" - Roger NICHOLSON (dulc), G Rolf (banjo) & Trevor Crozier (mouth bow): ARGO ZDA- 204 1974 medley with "Soldier's Joy"-

WALKER'S HORNPIPE - Tunebook Ms #41 p104 (G) "Mr Walker's"

WALKING OWER DA RIVER - Shetland Reel (AEAE tuning) -- Andrew POLSON (fid) Whalsay Shetland: TANGENT TNGM-117 1973 with "Greig's Pipes"

WALKING THE FLOOR - Jig which includes playing an octave lower -- John Neil Mc LEAN (fid) with Phyllis McLEOD (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978

WALKING TUNE, THE -- Percy LAVARELLO (mel) of Tristan de Cunha rec by PK, Gosport, Hampshire 1962: FTX-609

WALKING UP THE GREEN GRASS - WE GO WALKING

WALLABUG - "Bought an old cow from Farmer Jones - she weren't nothing but skin & bones" Ch: "Wallabug, wallabug, you can't fool me" - WARNER 1984 #164 p371 -- Martha Ann MIDGETTE rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Mann's Harbour, NC, USA 1941: FTX-926

WALLACE, THE - Scots Nationalist Song (Jim Mc Lean) -- Nigel DENVER: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-1 1967

WALLACE'S CROSS - Polka - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #69 p35 (D)

WALLACE'S HORNPIPE - Tunebook Ms (D) #13 p90 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #192 p53 (D)

WALLACE'S LAMENT AFTER THE BATTLE OF FALKIRK - Tunebook Ms 6/8 (G) #214 p260

WALLFLOWERS - "Water water wallflowers growing up so high - we are all young ladies and we shall surely die excepting (-) - fie fie fie for shame - turn your face to the wall again" - ROUD#6307 - Ring Game - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1595 pp150-151 (4var) "Water water w" - GOMME 2 p329 has 35var - GOMME-SHARP 1912 School Series p4 coll Somerset - RITCHIE GC p59 with descr & variants - POLWARTH 1969 p33 - OPIE SG 1985 #25 pp143-5 -- rec by Alan Lomax, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181/ rec by James Ritchie 16/12/53: RPL 19926 - Ewan Mc COLL (Glasgow): TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 - rec by Diane Hamilton, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 1961: RTR-0381 #21 "measles" mentioned - 60 yr old lady rec by Damian Webb, Cockermouth, Cumb 21/8/62 - Game revived at St Michaels Girls, Workington Cumb rec by Damian Webb 1963: DW 22/1/ FTX-195 #22 "Walty Walty W" - Redriff Primary School, Bermondsey, London TOPIC IMP-A-101 1969

WALLINGTON - "Show me the way to W" - ROUD#2178 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp148-9 w/m -- W J STAFFORD (N- pipes) rec 22/10/49: RPL 14010 - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: TOPIC 12- T-186 1968 - Colin ROSS & Anthony & Carole ROBB (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-278 1978 aft "My Laddie sits ower late"

WALLOP THE POTLID - Jig (D) - HARDEBECK p20 - O'NEILL MOI #1048/ DMI #258 6pts & O'NEILL MOI #1087/ DMI #281 4pts "Wallop the Spot"

WALLS OF JERICHO, THE - NIGHTINGALES SING

WALLS OF LIMERICK, THE - MOYLAN 2 #49 p29 (D) 6/8 from John O Leary (melodeon) "Paddy Spillane's Jig" - ROCHE 2 p294 (D) Reel/ 3 #137 p42 (D) 2/4 - GALOP HEY

WALLS OF LISCARROLL, THE - Jig - O NEILL MOI #704/ DMI #8 (G) alt: "Lads on the mountain" - ROCHE 1 #89 p40 (Em) - WILLIAMSON p79 - OLD WALLS OF LISCARROLL -- CHIEFTAINS 1: TARA (CLADDAGH) TA-3 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-250 1974/ CLADDAGH CC-19 1975 CASS - Mike & Gussie RUSSELL (whistles): TOPIC 12-TS-251 1975

WALLS OF OLD STOCKTON, THE - "I looked over the Tees - old buildings pulled down" - comp by GM 1968 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222-C90

WALNEY COCKFIGHTING SONG - BONNY GREY

WALNUT GIRL, THE - "Now as I was a-walking one bright and summer's morning" - Nellie - Ten a penny - ROUD#2520 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp146-7 from Nelson Ridley (gypsy) Kent 1974

WALPOLE COTTAGE - comp by Pat Shaw in honour of Mrs Margaret Grant, SW Area Organiser for the EFDSS -- Instrum DAMBUSTER DAM 006/ CASS-0350

WALSH'S HORNPIPE - (Am) - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #312 p159 from Denis Murphy of Kerry - CRANITCH #90 p161 - MOYLAN 2 #119 p69 (##A) from John O Leary (melodeon) - SULLIVAN 1 p13

WALSINGHAM - Elizabethan ballad tune -- Roger NICHOLSON (dulc) & Jake WALTON (lute): ARGO ZDA-204 1974

WALTER BULWER'S POLKA - BULWER'S POLKA

WALTER GROVES - LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD

WALTZ COUNTRY DANCE -- Billy BALLANTINE rec by PK 1950: FTX-119

WALTZ DUETTER - Tunebook Ms (G) (duet arr) #33 p448

WALTZ OF "RIONDINO" - Tunebook Ms (G) #107 p491

WALTZ OF LEIPSIC - Tunebook Ms (D) #108 p491

WALTZ OF VIENNA - VARSOVIANA

WALTZ ME, WILLY -- Tufty SWIFT (mel) with Alan & Sue HARRIS: FREE REED FRR-017 1977

WALTZER - Tunebook Ms (with var) (D) 12 pts (6var) 21 pp440-1/ (G) 4 pts #32 p447

WALTZES - see also MINUETS, MAZURKAS & VARSOVIANAS - Untitled - see also under GRAND - SLOW - WALTZ DUETTER - WALTZER - KENNEDY FTB I p37 "3 Waltz-ons" - Tunebook Ms (D) 3 pts #5 p431/ (1st & 2nd pts) - (G) (duet arr) #14 p436/ (G) 3 pts #22 p442 (bar omitted)/ (D) #23 p442/ (D) 6 pts #24 p443/ (D) 4 pts #26 p444/ (D) 3 pts #31 pp446-7/ (G) 3 pts #34 p449/ (G) 4 pts #36 p450/ (D) 4 pts #38 p451/ (G) #41 pp452-3/ (G) 3 pts #47 p459/ (G) 4 pts #55 p464/ (D) #58 p465/ (G) 3 pts #59 p466/ (D) #60 p466/ (Em) #61 p466/ (D) 4 pts #68 p471/ (D) 3 pts #68 p471/ (G) 3 pts #73 p473/ (A) 4 pts #75 pp474-5/ (Am) 3 pts #76 p475/ (D) 3 pts #79 pp476-7/ (G) 3 pts #80 p477/ (G) 3 pts #81 p477/ (G) 6 pts #83 pp478-9/ (D) 3 pts #84 p479/ (D) 3 pts #86 p480/ (G) 5 pts #89 p481/ (D) 3 pts #89 p482/ 3 pts #92 p483/ (D) 4 pts #94 pp484-5/ (D) #101 p488/ (D) 3 pts #102 p489/ (D) #110 p492/ (G) 4 pts #116 p495/ (D) #117 p496/ (D) 3 pts #121 p498/ (D) #122 p498/(G) 4 pts #118 p496/ (D) 4 pts #119 p497/ (D) 4 pts #120 p497/ (D) #123 pp498-9/ (D) #124 p499/ (G) 3 pts #125 p499/ (G) 4 pts #126 p500 (last tune)

WALTZES -- Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES Listing

WALTZING MATILDA - supposed to have been written by Banjo Paterson 1894 but others claim to have known it previously - MEREDITH-ANDERSON Australia1967 p72 - tune used for GAY FUSILER (Coe) - WHO'LL BE A SOLDIER FOR MARLBOR)O AND ME ? - see HOLLYWOOD BOPPER'S BALL -- Josh WHITE (Voc/gtr): DECCA SPA-44 1969/ (LONDON LL-1341 & MERCURY MG-36052)/ CASS-0240 - A L LLOYD & ch: TOPIC 12-TS-203 1971

WALTZING OVER THE WATER - "Ring Dance" in 2/4 time -- Reg REEDER (h-dulc) rec by Jim COUZA, Saxmundham, Suffolk 21/7/82: CASS-0873 from Dolly Curtis & Oscar Woods (mel) with talk

WALY WALY - "up the bank, waly waly doon the brae" - CHILD #204 "Jamie Douglas" - ROUD#87 (Jamie Douglas Child#204/ ROUD#187) - BELL EB 1856 pp136-8 "When I fell sick" (w/o) - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - PERCY Reliques 3 pp145-9 - HERD AMSS 1776 1 pp81-2 (w/o) - JOHNSON SMM 2 p166 #158 & 5 #446 p458 - BUCHAN 101SS pp32-3 - McCOLL SS 1953 p79 from Child - see APRON OF FLOWERS - WATER IS WIDE -- Mrs Julia ADCOCK rec by PK, Watton, Norfolk 1950: 7-RTR-0009 "False Lover" ("There is a flower so I am told") - Isabel SUTHERLAND rec by PK, London: 7"RTR-0694/ EFDSS LP-1007 1974 -- Bob BLAIR: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-1001 2000 (from "Tea-Table Miscellany", Scots Musical Museum)

WANDERERS MUSINGS, THE - Song Air - ROCHE 3 #34 p10 (G) 6/8 alt: "The Works of the Land"

WANDERER'S WANDERING - Jimmy Rogers (?) -- Elwyn GRIFFITHS (voc/ gtr) 7"RTR-1038

WANDERING BARD, THE - "I'm a WB from Dublin" - WILLIAMS #732 (w/o) - Jackson (Birmingham) Bs has "I'm the WB from Manchester"

WANDERING BOY, THE - "My name is Dan Largen Cocklorum Cochlane" - WILLIAMS #733 (w/o) - POOR LITTLE FISHERMANS/ ORPHANS/ SAILORS/ SMUGGLERS/ SOLDIERS BOY

WANDERING DOWN - Spiritual -- MATTHEWS Brothers, rec by PK, Logan Rock, Lands End, Cornwall: FTX-217

WANDERING FELLOW - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974: FTX-045

WANDERING GIRL, THE - "I once loved a young man as dear as my life" - unfaithful - mother despises him - ROUD#1691 - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - SHARP Ms Mrs Overd - PURSLOW FD 1974 p90 Gardiner: James Channon, Ellisfield, Hampsh 1907 --- SHARP FSSA (Va) - Cf WAGONER'S LAD - ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY -- Freda PALMER rec by Mike Yates, Witney, Oxfordsh: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975/ TSCD-660 1998

WANDERING MINSTREL, THE - MERRY MAIDEN (Jig)

WANDERING MINSTREL, THE - March - ROCHE 3 #206 p79 (D)

WANDERING OF CARROLL, THE - song in Gaelic -- Sean Mc DONAGH rec Carna, Co Galway 20/8/47: RPL 12053

WANDERING PIPER, THE - Highland Air -- John BURGESS (H-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969

WANDERING PIPER, THE - Story - TOCHER #44 1992 pp85-9 told by Willie McPhee (tinker of Perth) to Scottish Ethnology Class, Edinburgh Univ 1991

WANDERING SHEPHERD LADDIE, THE - comp by J McD -- John McDONALD: TOPIC 12-T-263 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-670 1998

WANDERING SHEPHERDESS, THE - "In the county of Essex there lived a squire" - daughter loves shepherd boy - father disapproves - ROUD#1151 - HAMER GGr 1973 pp64-5 Miss Wilson, Lancash

WANDERING THROUGH THE CHURCHYARD - ROWN I'N RHODIO MYNWENT EGLWYS

WANDERING TINKER, THE - Reel -- Wayne ROBERTSON (elec accordion ) & Nigel JELKS (mandolin) rec by Burt Feintuch, Rothbury 1995: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999 aft "Torryburn Lasses" & bef "Marry Me Now"

WANDSWORTH - London - SHOOTING GOSCHEN'S COCK-UPS

WANTON SEED, THE - SOWER

WANTON TRICK. THE - "If anyone long for a musical song - a pleasant young maid on an instrument played - a youth in that art - Derbyshire Dick" - D'URFEY PPM 1698-1720 2 94 & 4 92 14v/m/ BRADLEY p90 - PINTO-RODWAY 1957 #164 p442

WANTON WIDOW, THE - BARGAIN WITH ME

WANTON WIFE OF CASTLEGATE, THE - Drinking & Infidelity - "She likes the bubbling game - meets with the jolly boating man with gold & silver - husband wears the horns - here's to tipplers" -- THE WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-T-167 1966 - David DODDS rec by Peter Kennedy, Dartington Ciderhouse, Devon 25/10/74: CASS-60-0553

WAP AN ROW - mouth-music -- Hamish HENDERSON rec by Alan Lomax, London 6/3/51: COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998

WAPPING - DOWN WAPPING - RAMBLING THROUGH W - RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY - TIT FOR TAT

WAR - see AIRMEN - BATTLE OF - CRIMEA - FRENCH - GREAT - NAPOLEONIC - PEACE - PENINSULA - PROTEST - SAILORS - SOLDIERS -- ANY COMPLAINTS? - BALLAD OF WADI MAKTILLA - BENGHAZI - BETWEEN THE WARS - BLESS EM ALL - BLOODY ORKNEY - BLUE AND THE GREY (Russco) - BOBBY WEARS THE HOWARD'S BADGE - BOX (poem) - BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER - BROWNED OFF - C R E - CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES - CRANES OVER HIROSHIMA - FAREWELL TO SICILY - FLYING FORTRESS - GHOST ARMY OF KOREA - GIRL THAT MAKES THE THING - GROUP OF YOUNG SWADDIES - HAND ME DOWN ME PETTICOAT - I LOST MY ARM IN THE NAVY - I WANT TO GO HOME - I WAS STATIONED AT LOW FELL - I'LL HANG MY HARP - JOIN THE BRITISH ARMY - LAUREL HILL - LITTLE SWEETHEART - LORD ROBERTS & KITCHENER - MERRY PLOUGHBOY - MINSTREL BOY - NORTH OF AMERIKAY - ON THE MOVE TONIGHT - PEAT BOG SOLDIERS - REBEL WAR SONG (Scotland 1745) - RED PETROL - ROSE OF ENGLAND (Falklands) - ROYAL ARTILLERY - ROYAL ENGINEERS - RUMOURS OF WAR - SALVATION ARMY - SEA FIGHTS - SECOND FRONT - SEVEN YEARS IN THE SAND - SOLDIERS - TWO BROTHERS - WE BEAT THEM ON THE MARNE - WHEN THIS RUDDY WAR IS OVER - WHERE WERE YOU TOMMY ADKINS ? - WILL OF THE WAGGON TRAIN (Peninsular) - WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - YOUNG DONALD CAMPBELL - YOUNG TROOPER - Children -- BROKEN HEARTED I WANDERED - DOWN IN THE WATER TEN FEET DEEP - HAVE YOU ANY BREAD AND WINE ? - LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN - IN NINETEEN FIFTY FOUR - NIGHT WAS DARK - NOW THE WAR IS OVER - OLIVER CROMWELL - QUEEN ELIZABETH - - Recordings see under SUBJECTS Listing

WAR - Calypso "Duel" - Neville MARCANO, "Growling TIGER, & Lord Airey with group & flute, fiddle & guitar, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 1936: ROUNDER 1700 1997/ with Lord IERE (Randolph Thomas) and INDIAN PRINCE (Robert Haytasingh) with fiddle, quatro, bass, flute, chac-chac rec by AL, 17/8/62: ROUNDER 1725 2000

WAR GAMES - or THE HEATHS OF LUNEBURG - Comp by GM 1955 about military exercises 25m SE of Hamburg -- Graeme MILES: FTX-224

WAR OF INDEPENENCE (USA) - NORTH OF AMERIKAY - SONS OF LIBERTY

WARBLING WAGGONER, THE - JOLLY WAGGONER

WARD THE PIRATE - CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW

WARD'S BRAE - Polka tune -- Jack ARMSTRONG's NORTHUMBRIAN BARNSTORMER'S Band rec by Alan Lomax 1951: SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 bef "Lovat Scouts" - John HEPPLE (N-pipes) & his father, George (fid), rec Peter Kennedy, Harbottle, Northumberland 1954: RPL 20627/ TOPIC 12-T-283 1976 with "Whittingham Green Lane" (Ellis) - Jack ARMSTRONG (N-pipes) rec by PK, London 1969: CONCERT HALL SVSC-2339 1970/ 45-330 with "Whittingham Green Lane" (Ellis)

WARD'S JIG - JIMMY WARD'S

WARE OUT, MOTHER - SUMMER WAS OVER

WARFARE IS RAGING - GIRL VOLUNTEER

WARK O THE WEAVERS, THE - WORK OF THE WEAVERS

WARLIKE LADS OF RUSSIA, THE - Harkness Bs -- Nic JONES: FOLKSOUND FS-100 1974

WARLIKE SEAMEN - DOLPHIN

WARLIKE LAIRD O SKENE, THE - LAIRD O SKENE

WARLOCK'S STRATHSPEY. THE - Strathspey comp by Robert Lowe c1844 -- Mike McDOUGALL (fid) with Marie Mc LELLAN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 with "Bog an Lochainn" & other strathspeys & reels

WARM STUFF - PIGTOWN FLING (Reel)

WARMING PAN, THE - "The Old Pretender", son of James 2nd was thought to be a foundling introduced into the palace in a WP -- Peggy SEEGER (unacc): "The Angry Muse" ARGO ZFB-65 1968

WARMINSTER SONG, THE - GEORGIE

WARNING DEATHS, THE - SILVER DAGGER

WARNINGS - LOOK OUT

WARPIPER'S DRONE, THE - GIBLIN #31 p21 (G)

WARRIOR, THE - "In the days of old when knights were bold" - WILLIAMS Ms #734 (w/o)

WARRIOR'S CHANT, THE - DORO FEINNE

WARRIOR'S GRAVE, THE - "I'm off to the wars again (lady he loves will be married to his master" - he had pretended to be - so he is off to Palestine to fight the Saracens - warriors grave - ROUD#1444 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1203 pp353-4 (3var 4v/2m) "I'll hang my harp" - ORD BB 1930 pp56-7 D S Allen (W?M) - WILLIAMS #735 (w/o) ("I'll hang my HEART on a weeping willow tree") -- Walter PARDON, Knapton, Norfolk: LEADER LED-2111 1977 "I'll hang my harp on a willow tree"

WARRIOR'S LITTLE BOY, THE - "One summer's eve I did perceive" - Boy leading his blind aged ex-soldier father - Newfoundland Univ Coll M 1739 - BSs by Sanderson & Such -- Peter PRATT (frag) rec by PK, Toab, Orkney 1955: 5"RTR-1077

WARS OF GERMANIE, THE - "O woe be to the orders that marched my love awa" Ch: "O wae be to the bluidy wars in High Germanie" - ROUD#5608 - CHRISTIE TBA - McCOLL SS 1953 p104 from Christie - ORD BB 1930 says comp by W Motherwell

WARS OF GERMANY - JACK MONROE

WARS OF TROY, THE - "Twas on a Sunday morning about the hour of ten" - LAWS#N8/ ROUD#551 - FOWKE: "Family Heritage" pp56-7-- LaRena CLARK, rec by Edith Fowke Ont, Canada 1966 (FO32)

WARSON HUNT, THE - "Come all you jolly hunters bold" - BARING GOULD SOW #42 from James Parsons Lew Down 1888 (not in Rev Ed/ words altered by SBG particularly towards the end of song)

WARTS - "Wart wart follow the corpse - beestings - snakeskin - bought it off for sixpence - spittle on them first thing in the morning - pebbles in a matchbox and drop it in middle of a crossroad" (transcripts in Children's File) - OPIE LLSC -- FTX-199 B25-30

WARWICKSHIRE - BIRMINGHAM - BENNETT, Sam - HENRY THE POACHER ("Warwick Gaol") - NEW NAVIGATION ("Warwickshire Lad, The") - POACHER'S FATE - SINNERS REDEMPTION (Carol: All ye that are to mirth inclined) -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

WARWICKSHIRE CAROL, A - "All you that are to mirth inclined" - SINNER'S REDEMPTION

WARWICKSHIRE MILITIA'S SLOW MARCH - Tunebook Ms (D) #61 p149

WARWICKSHIRE RHA - (ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY), THE - MERRY PLOUGHBOY

 
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