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WEAK DONKEYS - Line Game -- Talk by Don & brother Lionel ELLIS, rec by Peter Duddridge Chipping Campden, Gloucestersh 1962-5: SAYDISC SDL-222 1972 & CASS called "Stackaboomer" (played when Morris Dancing)

WEALDEN MEN - THOSE WEALDEN MEN

WEALTH - POVERTY AND RICHES

WEALTHY FARMER, THE - FATHER GRUMBLE

WEALTHY FARMER'S SON, THE - "Come all you pretty maidens fair - attend unto my song" - Farmer's son : Nancy : Lover's disguise : Broken ring token - ROUD#1061 - Many BSs incl SBG.1.1#95 (Research Pubns. Index) - Thomas Ford of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) p11 "The F's S" - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp26-27 & p116 Mr Buttifant: Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp158-9 Broadwood: Henry Burstow - JFSS 4 1910 p86 RVW: W Debbidge, Acle, Norfolk 1908 1v/m - JFSS 7 1923 pp12-13 Moeran: James Sutton, Winterton, Norfolk 1915 "The F's Son" - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp90-91 - VICINUS BIN 1975 p43 Bs facsimile Midgley, Halifax (w/m)

WEALTHY MERCHANT, THE - JACK MONROE

WEALTHY SQUIRE, THE - MY PARENTS REARED ME TENDERLY

WEAR A SMILE FOR ME - comp by Steve VERGE-- ZIGGURAT rec by PK 1975: 090

WEARING OF THE BLUE, THE - CANADA-I-O

WEARING OF THE BRITCHES, THE - "Come all young men, where'er you be, and listen to my lamentation" - courted a girl - made her my wife - strife - ROUD#1588 - LONG DIOW 1886 pp164 (w/o) "The Breeches" ("Will's wife used often to declare") - JOYCE AIM 1873 p58 - SHARP Ms 1903 Somerset "Tailor by trade" - Cf 1 p212 (not in SHARP-KARPELES 1974) - REEVES IP 1958 #98 p203 Sharp Somerset - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 p472 Joe Tunney 1958 - Cf STRUGGLE FOR THE BREECHES -- Patrick KEOWN rec by PK, Garrison, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0554/ RPL 18525/ FTX-019 (Vs 4 & 6 omitted) - Joe TUNNEY of Belleek, Co Fermanagh rec by PK, London 14/10/58: 7"RTR-0558/ CAEDMON TC-1144/ TOPIC 12-T-159 "Tailor by trade" - Paddy TUNNEY rec by Bill Leader, Camden Town 1965: TOPIC 12-T-165 1966 ("from Pat McKeown")/ TSCD-665 1998 - John WRIGHT: TOPIC 12-TS-348 1978 (from Sharp Collection)

WEARING OF THE GREEN, THE - "Farewell for I must leave thee my own my native shore" - Political Song - ROUD#3278 - ZIMMERMAN IPSB 1966 - HEALY OISB 4 1969 p72 Such Bs (London) - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p87 - tune used for: I WISH THEY'D DO IT NOW, GILLIGAN - SUIT OF GREEN - NEW CHUM CHINAMAN - TALLY-HO HARK AWAY -- Dominic BEHAN with Robin HALL (gtr): COLLECTOR JEI-2 1958 (45EP) - FREEDOM FIGHTERS PICKWICK ALL-859 1967 & ALL- 869 1967 - Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK, London: EMI CLP-1500 1962

WEARING OF THE GREEN, THE - Rhyme (K) -- Dominic BEHAN of Dublin "stick your nose in margerine - for they're hanging men and women - upside down on Stephen's Green" (parody) : TOPIC 12-T-41 1959/ CASS-60-0202

WEARING OF THE GREEN - Dance (Polka) - see KEYHOLE IN THE DOOR - THE Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK 1961: EMI CLP 1500 11962/ FTX-291 (harmonica, mandolin & guitar) - GILCURDON Trio (instrumental) rec Belfast 30/10/63: RPL LP 28256/ FTX-373 aft "Minstel Boy" - Art WINTER (mel), Hilary BURGESS (fid) & Will TESTER (tamb) rec by Mervyn Plunkett, "Trevor Arms", Glynde, Sussex 1958: TOPIC 12-T-455-6 1990 - RAVENHILL Flute & Drum Band rec Belfast 9/5/59: RPL LP 25646 -- Franklin GEORGE (H-bagpipes) Bluefield, W Virginia USA: SAYDISC Matchbox SDM-229 1972 with "All the way to Galway" (applause following)

WEARING OF THE HORNS, THE - "So fleet runs the hare and so cunning runs the fox" - Weyhill is near Andover, Hampsh - Michaelmas Day is 10th October - ROUD#2455 - JFSS 8:31 1927 pp37-40 K Eggar (c): Farnham, Hampsh 1911 1v/m- see also HORN FAIR -- Dave HILLERY, Steve TURNER & ch: TOPIC IMP-S-104 1972 - John KIRKPATRICK & Sue HARRIS (oboe): TOPIC 12-TS-247 1974

WEARY CUTTERS, THE - "O the WC, and O the weary sea - I'll give him a guinea to steal my laddie ashore" - Tyneside Pressgang Song collated by Frank Rutherford from various sources -- Pat ELLIOTT (fem vocal) Birtley Durham: - TOPIC 12-TS-219 1972 - STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1071 1975

WEARY FARMERS, THE - "There's some that sing of Cromer Fair" - ROUD#2181 - FORD VS 1899 1 pp249-251 (w/o) - ORD BB 1930 pp211- 121 (w/o)

WEARY GALLOWS - GALLOWS SONG

WEARY OF TUMBLING ALONE - TAIM CORTHA O BHEITH IM' AONAR IM' LUI

WEARY ON THE GILL STOUP - "What a mischief whisky's done, Gary many a one stark-naked run" Ch: "Weary on the gill stoup brings muckle grief at hame-O" - Scottish Temperance Song - ROUD#6047 - GREIG- DUNCAN 3 1987 #597

WEARY PUND O' TOW, THE - "The weary pund, the weary pund" - ROUD#435 - sung by The Scottish Singer David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - CHAMBERS SSPB pp203-5 - SMITH: SM 3 p88 - UNIVERSAL SONGSTER 2 p365 - WHITELAW 1845 p580 - McCOLL SS 1953 pp139-140

WEARY WAITING - "waiting on you - I shall not wait no longer - 3 times have I whistled on you - Coming yes or no?" - Kids Wall Song - OPIE SG 1985 #92 p353

WEARY, WEARY LIFE - O WHAT A LIFE

WEARY WITH WOOING - "In London town lived a man and a maiden" - Scots Courtship - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #895 p450 "The Tarry Wooer" (15var) - ORD BB 1930 pp83-4 (w/o) "The Tardy Wooer"

WEARY WITH YOU ALL THE DAY - Pipe Reel - GO IMMEDIATELY

WEARY WHALING GROUNDS, THE -- A L LLOYD: TOPIC 12-T-174 1967 tape - Bristol FOLK TRADITION: RPL-111 1971

WEATHER - RAIN - SNOW - WIND - GLOOMY WINTER'S NOO AWA - OLD MAN WEATHER - ON A COLD AND FROSTY MORNING -- Children - ALL IN TOGETHER - CHEER UP THE HA'PENNY BUS (snow) - FROSTY WEATHER - GOODBYE WHEN YOU ARE AWAY - HAVE A CIGARETTE, SIR - IT'S RAINING POURING - 'TWAS SUMMER IN THE ROCKIES - LORD SAID TO NOAH - OPEN THE GATE - OUR FEET'S COLD - SMOKING GLASS (Eclipse) - SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER - UNDER THE MOON - WIND, THE WIND

WEATHER FORECAST SONG, THE - comp by FW -- Fred WEDLOCK with Chris NEWMAN (gtr): Concert Hall Radio 2: 23/8/82: CASS-10-0724

WEATHER SAYINGS - TOCHER #47 1993-4 pp 310-14 from Charles & Gladys Simpson, Keith, Banffshire & others rec by Margaret Bennett 1985

WEAVE AND SPIN - MILL HAS SHUT DOWN

WEAVER, THE - Scotch Jig - KERR MM 4 #262 p28 (A)

WEAVER, THE - "As I roved out one moonlight night - under her apron she carried a loom" (contains names of weaving patterns) Ch: "To me right whack fal - laid her down upon the grass" - ROUD#2311 - FOWKE Ont 1965 #13 p38 from O J Abbott -- O J Abbott rec by Elizabeth Fowke, Ont., Canada: (PRESTIGE International 25014)/ LEADER LEE-4057 1974 - Tom KINES (acc Russell THOMAS): (RCA VICTOR PC/PCS-1014)? CASS-0233

WEAVER AND HIS WIFE, THE - dance tune comp by Andrew Rankine (?)

WEAVER AND THE FACTORY MAID, THE - "When I was a tailor I carried my bodkin and shears" - weaver - thimble - ROUD#3085 - PALMER TOTT 1974 p133 from Lloyd -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL LP 24835/ FTX-157/ TOPIC 12-T- 269 1975 "The Weaver" - A L LLOYD with Alf EDWARDS (conc): TOPIC 12-T-86 1963 - Maddy PRIOR & STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1046 1973/ ISLAND: FOLK-1001 1975 (boxed)

WEAVER HAD A WIFE, THE - MAJOR AND THE WEAVER

WEAVER LAD, THE - "O once I was a WL and lived at Shuttle Ha'" 2v & "Whack for" chorus - ROUD#5976 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #477 2v/m

WEAVER OF WELLBROOK, THE - comp by Ben Brierley - GRAHAM 1910 p8 tune: "The Star"

WEAVERS, THE - 6/8 Slide or Highland - BRODY p286 (D) from Chieftains -- THE CHIEFTAINS #4 CLADDAGH CC-14 1973 aft "Star above the garter"

WEAVER'S AND DOFFER'S SONG - YOU MAY EASILY KNOW A DOFFER

WEAVER'S DAUGHTER, THE - DOCTOR STAFFORD - POOR OLD WEAVER'S DAUGHTER

WEAVER'S DAUGHTER, THE - "It was on a charming fine summer's weather" - her love came to "the town of sweet Noreen" her name is Nancy - ROUD#8209 - HUGHES 1909 p7-9 Fragment of Ulster Ballad from Co Donegal

WEAVER'S GARLAND, THE - "Sweet dear and loving wife" - DIXON SOP (w/o) with note about The Lustring Act of 1700 which caused the silk-weavers of Spitalfield and their wives and families to sing this song in the streets of London

WEAVER'S MARCH, THE - Playford 1728 "Frisk Jenny" - James Aird Glasgow 1782 - Burns used tune for his "Gallant Weaver" - see also THE WORK OF THE WEAVERS -- CELEBRATED WORKING MAN'S BAND: TOPIC 12-T-96 1963 - Tony HALL (melodeon) with Nic JONES (fid/gtr) & Tommy Moynihan (mand/bouz/whistle): FREE REED FRR- 012 1976 (from CWM Band)

WEAVER'S SONG, THE - "Down in Ched on a summers day" Ch: "Clattering shuttle and whirling wheel (imitation of sound of loom), lads & lasses working in rows" (descr of types of cotton) - Comp by Lancash poet, John Trafford Clegg - Tune by Dave Hillery adapted from Yorkshire "Pannier Man" -- Harry BOARDMAN (voc/ banjo/ mandolin): TOPIC 12-TS-215 1971

WEAVING - see also HAND-LOOM - MILL SONGS - O BOYLE IST 1976 p71 note on Weaver poets - BILLY SUET'S SONG - BONE-LACE WEAVER - BURY NEW LOOM - CALTON WEAVER - CLOGS - COTTON MILLS - COUNTY OF TYRONE - DASHING STEAM-LOOM WEAVER - FOGGY DEW - FOUR LOOM WEAVER - GRAT FOR GRUEL - HAND LOOM WEAVER'S LAMENT - HENRY HUNT - I AM A WEAVER BY MY TRADE - JOLLY WEAVER (Reel) - JUG OF PUNCH - LITTLE PIECER - MAID OF BALLADOO - MERRY LITTLE DOFFER - NANCY WHISKY - POOR COTTON WEAVER - POOR OLD WEAVER'S DAUGHTER - POVERTY KNOCK - RAMBLING COMBER - SAM SHUTTLE & BETTY REEDHOOK - SHURAT WEAVER'S SONG - STOCKINGER - SUCCESS TO THE WEAVERS - SWEET LISBWEEMORE - TEN PER CENT - TO THE WEAVERS GIN YE GO - WEE WEAVER - WORK OF THE WEAVERS

WEAVING - TOCHER #50 1995 -

WEAVING LILT - (A' BHEAIRT-FHIODA) - "Wait today, love, till tomorrow" - Gaelic Song from Malcolm & Annie Johnson, Barra - with English words by Kenneth McLeod - KENNEDY-FRASER SOTH vol 2 1917 pp6-10 "A' Bheairt-Fhiodha" Air & Gaelic words from Malcolm & Annie Johnson, Barra -- Mary O HARA (voc/ harp) rec 24/8/56: RPL LP 24936 - Margaret McARTHUR with piano in radio prog on Marjory Kennedy-Fraser from Aberdeen 1985: 263 - Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX 147 - Marion TUDGE (vocal accomp by Inez Rempel on piano) 2003: cass C60-1398/ FTX-264

WEBB, Father Damian, OSB - Collector of children's games -- Talk about games rec 1976: RPL 38158/ RTR-0984-7/ FTX-200 "Life & Death of a Singing Game" - talk about his archive: rec 1980: (RPL 41020) - PROFILE GMOR-130 1976 Mass for Young People rec St Benedicts, Garforth, Yorksh

WEBBER'S LAST WALTZ - Tunebook Ms (D) 3 pts #71 p472

WEBBLEY, THE - Bampton Morris Dance - JEFDSS 1955 p6 William Wells -- Billy WELLS (talk about dance) rec by PK, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1952: FTX-384

WEDDED LIFE, A - "You single and you married folks" Ch: "So women all take my advice - bang him neatly with the poker" - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Roy Palmer Reprint 2001)

WEDDERBURN'S REEL - WILSON p77 (Dm)

WEDDING, THE - NOBLEMAN'S WEDDING

WEDDING, THE - Reel (G) - KERR MM 1 #4 p34 - O'NEILL DMI #597 (not in MOI)

WEDDING AT BALLYPOREEN, THE - "Your attention I crave to a true Irish bard - piping figuring and dancing" - ROUD#3277 - Ballyporeen is near Cahir, Co Tipperary - Former President of the USA, Ronald Reagan's family came from here - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #619 (4var) - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #47 - HENRY SOP #93 10v - HEALY OISB 3 1969 pp23-5 Bs (w/o) - Folk Song Research 4 #4 April 1986 - KERR MM 1 #58 p41 (G) m/o "W of B" - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #996 (G) Jig m/o --- MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp342-3 Alexander Murphy NS (w/o) -- John McLAVERTY rec by PK, Belfast 8/7/52: : 7"RTR-0543/ RPL 18375 (talk bef)

WEDDING AT BALTRAY, THE - "Twas in the pleasant summer time" - ROUD#2990 -- Mary Ann CAROLAN, rec by Roly Brown, Drogheda, Co Louth c1982: TOPIC 12-TS-362

WEDDING DAY - CRUEL MILLER - OUR WEDDING DAY

WEDDING DAY, THE - Song air - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G) #175 p242

WEDDING DAY - Hornpipe - KERR MM 3 #359 p39 (F)

WEDDING IN THE DARK, A - WEE TAILOR FROM TYRONE

WEDDING JIG, THE -- Frank CASSIDY (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Donegal Dec 1953: RPL 23094/ FTX-370 - Dermot McLAUGHLIN (fid) rec at "Fiddlesticks" Festival organised by Traditional Music Society of University College, Cork 1991: NIMBUS NI-5320

WEDDING MARCH - John FRASER (fid) rec by PK, Birsay, Orkney 1955: FTX-189/ FTX-389

WEDDING MARCHES - RIDE'S A BONNY TING - UNST BRIDAL MARCH

WEDDING OF BLYTH, THE - - HIGH LEVEL RANTERS: LEADER LER-2007 1969 with "Andrew Carr"

WEDDING OF LUCKY McGRATH, THE -- Jimmy STEWART rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, Perthsh, July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7/ FTX-184

WEDDING OF McGUINESS, THE - "to his cross-eyed pet" - words comp by George Bruce Thompson, New Deer (Orig title: "Sheelicks") - tune: "The Devil among the tailors" - GREIG FSNE 1908-14 #114 -- John McDONALD rec by PK, Pitgaveny, Moraysh 1955: FTX-061 - Joe GORDON Folk Four: EMI CLP- 1379 1960

WEDDING RING, THE
- Reel - COLE p45 (Gm) Scotch

WEDDING RING - RING MY MOTHER WORE

WEDDING SONG - "Now some people thinks it jolly for to lead a single life" - joys of marriage - ROUD#1155 - HAMER GGr 1973 pp78-9 Luther Stanley, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnsh

WEDDING THAT WASN'T, THE - Recitation -- Charlie JOSE rec by PK, Napoleon Inn, Boscastle, Cornwall 1975: FTX-096

WEDDINGS - Scotland - TOCHER # 48-9 pp379-383 Ethel Findlater talking to Alan Bruford about Courtship & Marriage 1969 - "Shetland Weddings & Preliminaries "pp383-386 rec by AB 1970- BACHELORS YOU KNOW - BARGAIN - BARGAIN WITH ME - BILLY JOHNSON'S BALL - COME WRITE ME DOWN YE POWERS ABOVE - COUNTRY COURTSHIP - CRUEL MILLER - DON'T FORGET THE CRADLE - ENSILVER SONG - FAR AWAY WEDDING - GETTIN WEDS - HAULING HOME SONG - HIGHLAND WEDDING - JOAN TO JAN - KITTY'S WEDDING - LET'S AWA TO THE WEDDING - MARLIN FAIR - NEVER WED AN OLD MAN - NEW NAMES FOR OLD - NICE YOUNG MAIDENS - O IT WAS MY CRUEL PARENTS - OUR WEDDING DAY - PADDY FROM ROSSLEA - PHIL THE PIPER'S WEDDING - SEVEN MONTHS I'VE BEEN MARRIED - TA MO MHARGADH DEANTA - WEDDING SONG - WHEN SHALL WE GET MARRIED? - YOU'VE BEEN LONG AWAY - Children - BUMP, BUMP HERE COMES A TAXI-CAB - DOWN IN THE VALLEY/ YONDER MEADOW - HERE'S A POOR WIDOW - RASPBERRY JAM - ROSIE APPLE LEMON OR PEAR - UP AND DOWN THE STREET - Instrumentals - BARGAIN IS MADE - BRIDE IS A BONNY TING - BRIDAL MARCH - BRIDE'S REEL - FARDER BEN DER WELKOMER- FOUR POSTS OF THE BED - HASTE TO THE WEDDING - HONEYMOON - JOHN BAIN'S SISTER'S WEDDING - WOO'D AN MARRIED AN A' -- Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

WEDHEN WAR AN VRE, AN - Cornish - TREE SONG

WEDLOCK - MARRIAGE - UNEASY WEDLOCK

WEDNESBURY COCKING, THE - (Staffordsh) "At Wedgefield wakes" Fighting cocks - BS: J. Russell's List of Slip Songs, No.130 -- Jon RAVEN with brother, Michael (mand/gtr): BROADSIDE BRO-100 1968 "W Cocking" - Jon RAVEN with Nic JONES (fid) & Tony ROSE (conc): LEADER LER-2083 1973 "W Wakes"

WEDNESFIELD - Wolverhampton, Staffordsh - BLACK COUNTRY LOCKSMITH

WEE COOPER O FIFE, THE - WETHER'S SKIN

WEE CROPPY TAILOR, THE - GAME COCK

WEE DAFT ARTICLE, THE - "I'm a jolly servant lass, my name is Mary Ann" Ch: "Awa ye WDA ye arna worth a particle - you havn't got the common sense it takes to make a man" - ROUD#2739 - HENRY SOP #833/ MOULDEN p151/ HUNTINGTON p257 Ballinascreen, Co Derry 1939 3v - McCOLL SS 1959 p43 from Samuel Wylie of Falkirk "You'll get no Mary Ann" - TOCHER 22 1976 p247 McColl: Paisley, Renfrewsh 1953 1v/m -- Mary MURPHY rec by PK, Brackalislea, Draperstown, Co Derry 21/5/53: RPL 19973/ FTX-434 (learnt from her schoolteacher, Master Mc Loughlin from Derry City)

WEE DOCH AND DORIS - Music Hall Song popularised by Harry Lauder -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 CASS: Penny Piano "Just a wee Doch & Doris"

WEE DRAPPIE O'T, A - "O life is a journey, we a hae to gang" - Scots Drinking Song - ROUD#3610 - FORD VS 1899 pp181-3 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #560 (3var) - ORD BSB 1930 p370 10v - McCOLL SS 1953 p122 from Sam Wylie of Falkirk(?) -- Bob BLAIR: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-1001 2000 (omits "Temperance" verse included by Ford)

WEE DUCK, THE - DUCK OF DRUMMUCK

WEE FALORIE MAN, THE -- BELFAST GIRL SINGERS rec 20/4/48: RPL 13163-4 (coll by HQ) - Hugh QUINN rec by PK, Belfast 1955: FTX-072

WEE FAR DOWN, THE - "Give me whisky out of the bottle, says the WFD" - ROUD#9738 -- Mary MURPHY rec by PK, Brackalislea, Draperstown, Co Derry 21/5/53: RPL 19973/ FTX-434 (learned from an uncle in the USA)

WEE GERMAN LADDIE, THE - WEE, WEE GERMAN LAIRDIE

WEE KERRY COW, THE - "Tis in Connaught or in Munster that yourself may travel wide" - ROUD#9739 -- Maureen MELLY rec by PK, Belfast 2/8/53: RPL 19355

WEE LASS ON THE BRAE, THE - LASS ON THE BRAE

WEE LITTLE TOTTUM, THE - "Some say to get married is no the best plan - but I never was so happy till I got a man" - "I soon got a ween - a wee little tottum to toddle its leen" - Ch: "To gang toddlin but and toddlin ben" - the pleasures of children - ROUD#5591 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1995 5 #1072 pp583-7 (5var 5v/5m)

WEE MAGIC STANE, THE - comp by John McEvoy -- Robin HALL & Jimmie Mc GREGOR: COLLECTOR JES-5 1959 45EP - Isabel SUTHERLAND (voc) with Perry FRIEDMAN (banjo) rec by PK, London: EMI DLP-1204 1960/ FTX-093

WEE MELODIE MAN - "I'm a wee melodie man - a rufty tufty Tony man - I always do the best I can - I follow the wee melodie man" - Ball or Ring Game with one in centre imitating different musical instruments - OPIE SG 1985 #116 pp406-9 -- rec by Damian Webb 4/36 St Johns Junior Girls, Workington, Cumberland 1960: FTX_194 #42 "There was a WMM" - rec by Damian Webb 11/23 Keswick Junior Girl solo 1960

WEE MIDGIE MARE, THE - "There was a race at Easterkirk" - Border Song about a fast race horse - ROUD#5870 - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 1983 #325 from Bel Robertson (w/o)

WEE O HARA - to the tune: "British Grenadiers" -- Hamish HENDERSON rec by Alan Lomax London 6/3/51: 7"RTR-0680

WEE ONE, THE - Australian - MEREDITH-ANDERSON 1967 from Sloane NSW -- Martin WINDHAM-READ: LEADER LER-2028 1971

WEE PADDY MOLLOY - "It's up to Dubl;in I do go" - "Oh when I went up to Dublin so very neat and trim" - ROUD#5297 -- Brigid TUNNEY rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 1952: 7"RTR-0553/ FTX-163

WEE PICKLE TOW, THE - "There was an old wife had a wee pickle tow - An she wid gang try the spinnin o't - that was the beginnin o't" - ROUD#5506 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #474 & #476 (5var) - HAYWARD Ulster Songs & Ballads pp.80-81

WEE PICKLE TOW, THE - Waltz 3/4 or March 6/8 - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 p31 (G) "Pickle Tow" as Waltz - ROCHE 2 #315 (A) "O Sullivan's More's March" - Cf OLD WOMAN TOSSED UP

WEE TAILOR FROM TYRONE, THE - "O I am a little tailor I was born in Tyrone" - "courted lovely Mollie" Mollie becomes lady's maid : Letter from lady proposing marriage : Will marry in the dark : Turns out to be Mollie - ROUD#2931 - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp87-89 & p120 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970

WEE TOON CLERK, THE - KEACH IN THE CREEL

WEE WEAVER, THE - "I am a WW confined to my loom" - ROUD#3378 - TUNNEY SF 1979 p81 -- Brigid TUNNEY rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0555/ RPL 18527/ FTX-163/ STEELEYE SPAN: FTX-123/ STEELEYE SPAN: B & C CREST-9 1971/ CS-12 1973 - Paddy TUNNEY: TOPIC 12-TS-264 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-670 1998

WEE WEAVER, THE - Instrumental -- Johnny Doherty rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: FTX-073

WEE WEE GERMAN LADDIE, THE - ("LAIRDIE") - "Wha the deil ha'e we gotten for a king?" - ROUD#2573 - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - HOGG JR 1818-21 1 p83 - McCOLL SS 1953 p112 from Hogg - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p95 (1v/m from McColl's father William Miller of Stirling with rest of text from Hogg) - BUCHAN 101SS pp28-9 - WHITELAW 1845 Book of Scottish Song p.520 (from Hogg) -- HEDGEHOG PIE: RUBBER RUB-009 1975

WEE WEE HOOSIE BY THE SEA, THE - "In the County of Fife..." sailor proposes to Polly and says he will live by himself and keep hens - then she accepts and they have 3 children -- Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147

WEE WEE MAN, THE - "As I was walking all alone"/ "Twas down by Carterhaugh - and the man & the hall no more were seen" - CHILD #38 - ROUD#2865 - HERD AMS 1776 (w/o) - BELL EB 1856 pp186-189 (w/o) -- STEELEYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CHR-1046 1973

WEE WEE MAN, THE - ROUD#10447 - MORGAN 1968 "More Rugby Songs" p.142 -- Arthur ARGO: Lyrica Erotica vol 2: PRESTIGE INT-13048 - Jim COUZA (voc/ h-dulc) rec by PK, Bristol 1982: FTX-909 (from Argo) "The Wee Wee Tot"

WEE WEE MAN, THE - Jig (Am) - KERR MM 1 #14 p32

WEE WIFIKIE, THE - "There was a WW an she gaed to the fair - got drunk - merchant cut her hair" Comic Song comp by Aberdeen tailor, William Walker 1770-80 - ROUD#5857 - JOHNSON SMM 1787 1 p506 - FORD VS 1899 p23 - WEHSE #457 - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 1983 #286 (2var)

WEE WILLIE WINKIE - "a through the toon" - tune: "Castles in the Air" - TOCHER 14 1974 p240 "Wee Davie Daylicht" ("keeks ower the sea, glower ower the hill") -- Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173 (not trad tune)

WEE WINDOW, THE - BONNY WEE WINDOW

WEE WOMAN IN OUR TOWN, THE - MARROWBONES

WEEK ALL ROUND, THE - SIX GIRLS

WEEK BEFORE EASTER, THE - FALSE BRIDE

WEEK O' THE FAIR, THE - WHOLE WEEK OF THE FAIR

WEEK'S MATRIMONY, THE - "On Sunday morning I went out for a spree and met a maid as fair as could be" - ROUD#1692 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) - HEALY OISB 4 1969 pp130-131 BS (w/o) - PURSLOW FD 1974 pp91-2 Hammond: Amos Hallett, Lyme Regis, Dorset 1906 -- Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1953: FTX-034 (16vs)/ rec by Mervyn Plunkett 21/10/59: TOPIC TSCD-512(D) 2000

WEEK'S WORK - "Monday, Tuesday" etc - About the Motor Car - learning it then it rains -- Eddie BUTCHER, Co Derry: FREE REED FRR-003 1976

WEEK'S WORK WELL DONE, A - "When I was a bachelor, bold & young, I courted a girl with a clattering tongue" - "On Monday morning I married a wife - thinking to live a sober life" - When he discovers his wife is a scold, he goes to the wood and cuts a twig to beat her, each day recounts the development and how the devil eventually comes to take her away - LAWS #Q-6 ABBB 1957 p276 "The Holly Twig" ("HT")- ROUD#433 - BARING GOULD SOW Rev Ed #117 p238 words adapted/ Ms #183 from Robert Hard, S Brent 1892 - SHARP- KARPELES CSC 1974 #201 2 pp31-2 Mrs R Sage, Chew Stoke, Somerset 1907/ Stephen Adams, Hunnington, Worcestersh 1909 "HT" - JFSS 3:4 (13) 1909 pp315-7 RVW: Wm Alexander, Basingstoke, Hampsh 1909 8v/m/ Moses Mills, Preston Candover, Hampsh 1909 "On Monday morning" (Kidson believed it was sung by Grimaldi, the clown) - GRAINGER #110 Joseph Taylor, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906 "The Bachelor bright & brave"/ ONS#25/ RNS#16 Alfred Hunt, Wimbledon, Surrey 1905 "When I was young and a bachelor brave" - REEVES IP 1958 pp164-5 Sharp: Mrs R Sage (w/o) "On Monday Morning I married a wife" - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 RVW: Wm Alexander - PURSLOW MB 1965 p98 Gardiner: Alfred Porter, Basingstoke, Hampsh 1906 - HEALY OISB 4 1969 pp133-4 BS (w/o) "A Week's Marriage"- O'SHAUGHNESSEY YB1 1975 pp7-8 & pp64-65 Grainger: Joseph Taylor "The Bachelor" - PALMER RVW 1983 #67 pp106-7 Mr Hilton, South Walsham, Norfolk 1908 "HT" - USA - SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #53 (vol I p341-3) 3var: N.B.Chisholm, Woodridge, Va 1914/ Mrs Tina Dooley, Montvale, Va 1918 (DC 2004) Joe Blackett, Meadows of Dan, Va 1918 "The HT" - HUDSON FSM 1936 p174 Mabel Mooney, Oxford, Mississippi 1936 7v/m "The Bachelor bold & young" - BROWN NC 1952-62 II & IV #184 p455 (2var) refs - CHAPPELL R&A 1939 p77 (2var:NC) - HENRY 1938 pp154- 5 Mrs Mary Tucker Ga 1930 9v (w/o) - LOMAX OSC 1941 p134 - RANDOLPH Ozark 1946-50 3 p71 -- Steve JORDAN (voc with acc & ch): FOREST TRACKS FT-2006 1975 --- Ollie GILBERT rec by Alan Lomax, Timbo, Ark. USA Oct 1959: ROUNDER CD-1707 1997 "Willow Green" - Texas GLADDEN rec by AL, Salem, Va 1941: AFS 5232 A2/ ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001 "The Scolding Wife"

WEEKEND SONG, THE - "Once we used to walk, my love, down by a rushing stream" - Environmental song - no longer fish, trees, grass, wlld birds, but Acid Rain & poisonous winds - future for children? - will robin sing? - Words by Geordie McIntyre to tune: "The Verdant Braes of Skreen" (FALSE YOUNG MAN) -- Geordanna McCULLOCH: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

WEEL MAY THE BOATIE ROW - BOATIE ROW

WEEL-A-WEEL WAILE - CRUEL MOTHER

WEEPING - CRYING

WEEPING MARY - Shape-note Hymn -- SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS: ROUNDER 0094 1978

WEEPING WILLOW, THE - "My heart is broken with grief and sorrow" "Some say my love has proved unfaithful"/ My heart is sad and I am weeping" - ROUD#410 - RICHARDSON AMS 1927 p56 Appal - FUSON BKH 1930 p126 Evie Owens Ky (w/o) -- Bascom Lamar LUNSFORD (75) (voc/ banjo) with Freda ENGLISH (voc/gtr) rec by Paul Clayton: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-645 1956

WEEPING WILLOW - Appalachian -- Parley GREY & Bobby PATTERSON (banjo instrumental): LEADER LED-2053 1973

WEEPING WILLOW BLUES - Blind Boy Fuller -- SPREDTHICK rec by PK, Ciderhouse, Dartington, Devon 1975: 089

WEEPING WILLOW TREE, THE - BUBBLING WATER - WARRIOR'S GRAVE

WEEVILY WHEAT - "Your WW aint fit to eat" - American Mountain Song - ROUD#729 - RICHARDSON AMS 1927 p86 Appal - Cf OVER THE WATER TO CHARLIE -- Jean RITCHIE (with A-dulc & fiddle): LONDON (SIRE) SES- 97014 Play-party game "Over the river to feed my sheep" - Guy CARAWAN (v/banjo) rec by PK, London 1957; FTX-919 - Sandy PATON (voc/gtr) rec London 1/1/58: RPL LP 24201 "Over the water to Charlie"

WEILA WEILA - CRUEL MOTHER

WELCH - WELSH

WELCOME, THE - GALLOWAY TOM (Jig)

WELCOME COLD NOVEMBER - "Out of season, out of rhyme" - comp by Pete & Chris Coe about kids when cold weather comes around at Northwich, Cheshire -- Pete COE (voc with conc, flute & ch): LEADER LER-2098 1976

WELCOME HERE AGAIN - Reel - COLE #2 p3 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #194 pp45 (D) - Tunebook Ms R069 p292 - O NEILL MOI #1499/ DMI #722 (D) "Welcome Home"

WELCOME HOME, CHARLIE - ROYAL CHARLIE - Alex CAMPBELL #260 Wells of Ythan, Aberdeenshire rec by James M.Carpenter 1928-9 "Welcome Royal Charlie" (Strathspey type tune & rhythym)

WELCOME HOME - COLONEL ROBERTSON OF STEWAN'S WELCOME HOME - DORD FAINNE - ORO SE DE BHEATHA 'A' BHAILLE

WELCOME IN, YOUNG SHEPHERD - "The sweet month of May is now coming in" - "maidens & sweethearts like lambkins do play" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #101 - Cf JFSS 3 1906 p120 Merrick, Sussex: Mr Hills could only remember frag 1v/m "The Pleasant Month of May"

WELCOME, LITTLE BONNY BRID - "Tha's welcome little bonny brid, shouldna cme justwhen he did" - baby turns out to be girl not boy at time of unemployment in Lancs cotton strife 1862-4 because of American Cotton Blockade - Poem by Samuel Laycock - tune adapted by HB - Could be used as dandling song or Lullaby -- Harry BOARDMAN (voc/conc): TOPIC 12-TS-215 1971

WELCOME MY BONNY LAD - "come when ye will" - "trust me true I'll be" - "thrice welcome my bonny lad ever to me" - ROUD#6733 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #997 p210 (2var 4v/m)

WELCOME SAILOR, THE - "As I walked out one night when darkness was all over" - Sailor learns from the weeping girl that her lover has been away for 7 years and she fears him dead - he produces a token which he says wsas given to him by the sailor before he died requesting him to marry her - when she wishes to remain true he reveals his identity and all ends well - LAWS #N-29 ABBB 1957 p218 "A Seaman and his Love" - ROUD#604 - ROXBURGHE 1871 3 p127 17v - A 17C broadside names Cuthbert Birket as author - ASHTON RSS 1891 #74 (w/o) - JFSS 3 1907 pp95-7 Hammond: Joseph Elliott, Todber, Dorset "Midst of Might" - HENRY SOP #581/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp318-9 Maggie Brownlow, Cloyfin, Co Derry 1935 "The Love Token" ("Down by the seaside I spied a ship sailing") - BROCKLEBANK-KINDERSLEY DBFS 1966 p3 Hammond: Joseph Elliott "Midst of Night" - ED&S 32:3 1970 p103 Bs Catnach London --- GARDNER-CHICKERING BSSM 1939 Mich 6v confused text (w/o) "A Seaman and his Love"

WELCOME TABLE, THE - JACOB'S LADDER

WELCOME THE HARVEST HOME - "O Come let us see how your liquors be - Fill up a glass and drink to each lass" - Jack - Sue - John - Tom - dancing - ROUD#1294 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p230 #473 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh 7v (w/o)

WELCOME TO CORK - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #733/ DMI #30 (G) -- THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 bef "Barney O Neill" & "Maurice's Car"

WELCOME TO DUBLIN - Jig - O'CONNELL'S WELCOME

WELCOME TO LIMERICK - PHIS FLIUCH

WELCOME TO YOUR FEET AGAIN - Strathspey (Am) - HONEYMAN p15 - KERR 1 #5 p13

WELL - "What's the use without water? - to put your rubbish in" - Repartee (K) -- FTX-198 B10 (b)

WELL A DAY - GOODING CAROL

WELL BELOW THE VALLEY, THE - MAID AND THE PALMER

WELL DONE, LIAR - MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN

WELL DRESSING - Derbysh but orig more widely distrib -- Customs slides

WELL FAIRED (LASSIE) MAID, THE - "As I went over yon high high hill - met a weel-faured maid - kisses her first and wed her next - well worth a croon" - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 958 pp68-70 (6var 9v/m) -- Alex ROBB #320 & 324, New Deer Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35

WEEL HODDLED LUCKY -- Robin WILLIAMSON (harp): CLADDAGH CCF-12 1984 bef "Lochmaben Harper"

WELL I KNOW WHAT KITTY WANTS - MAGGIE IN THE WOOD

WELL MANNERED BRIDGET - in Irish Gaelic -- Kitty GALLAGHER rec Gweedore, Co Donegal 24/8/47: RPL 12053

WELL MET - CARPENTER'S WIFE - COLIN AND PHOEBE - HUSBANDMAN & SERVANTMAN

WELL MET, PRETTY MAID - SWEET NIGHTINGALE

WELL MET WELL MET - CARPENTER'S WIFE

WELL OF St KEYNE - Trad Cornish -- Brenda WOOTON with Richard GENDALL & Mike SAGAR (gtr): SENTINEL SENS-1016 1973

WELL OF SPRING WATER, THE -- Micho RUSSELL rec by Neil Wayne, Doolin, Co Clare: FREE REED FRR-004 1976

WELL RUNG TOM - "Well rung Tom boy" - owl - cuckoo - ROUD#1342 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p305 #737 1v (w/o)

WELL SOLD THE COW - YORKSHIRE BITE

WELLADAY CHRISTMAS TOO SOON GOES AWAY - Yorksh Carol -- VALLEY FOLK: TOPIC 12-T-192 1968

WELLINGTON - DIDO AND SPENDIGO - DEATH OF WELLINGTON - DRINK OLD ENGLAND DRY - GENERAL GUINNESS - LITTLE BONEY - NAPOLEON

WELLINGTON'S ADVANCE - Jig - BAND CALL - O NEILL MOI #813/ DMI #84 (Am)

WELLINGTON'S COMING - Triple Jig - Tunebook Ms #169 p067 (Em) - Cf O'NEILL MOI #813/ DMI #84 (Am) Double Jig "Wellington's Advance"

WELLINGTON'S MEDAL - Clap Dance with with change of tempo from jig to reel time -- Joe HOLMES & Len GRAHAM: FREE REED FRR-007 1976 as "Duet Lilt"

WELLINGTON'S REEL - LORD WELLINGTON

WELSH - WALES

WELSH HARPER, THE - "Over the sunny hills I stray" - Thomas FORD, Chesterfield 18930s (3v) p2 - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (D) #189 p248 -

WELSH HORNPIPE, A - Tunebook Ms (G) #6 p89 "Welch H"

WELSH HORNPIPE, A - KERR MM 1 #20 p45 (G)

WELSH MORRIS DANCE - WILLIAMSON BFT 1976 p44 from Walsh's "Dancing Master" c1735

WELSH WALTZ, A- Tunebook Ms (G) #78 p476 "Welch W"

WELSHMAN FROM WENS - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #193 p45 (F) - KERR MM 3 #259 p29 (G)

WELTON HUNT, THE - "The day being appointed which proved bright and clear" (Welton is near Carlisle) - ROUD#1864 -- Joe Thompson rec by Norman Alford & Robert Forrester, Wreay, Rocliffe, Cumberland 1953: REYNARD RR-002

WENCHING ASHORE - BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS

WENSLEYDALE -- "Burning the Bartle" rec by PK, West Witton, W.Yorkshire & Song and talk by Tom HORNER rec by PK, Swithinwaite 22/8/59: RPL LP 26583/ FTX-265

WENSLEYDALE LAD, THE - "We worked with me father & mother at home - spree - factory - Leeds Church (pews called "tubs") - HOLROYD's Collection of Yorkshire Ballads 1892 -- Mike WATERSON: TOPIC 12-TS-332 1977

WERE YOU AT THE ROCK? - RAIBH TU AR AN gCARRAIG?

WERE YOU EVER IN ROUNDSTONE TOWN? - HIGHLAND LADDIE

WERTENTANZ WALTZ, THE - Tunebook Ms (D) 3 pts #37 p450

WESLEY, John - JOHN WESLEY -- Jon RAVEN: BROADSIDE CRO-100 "Songs of the Black Country"

WEST ALONG THE ROAD - Reel -- Sonny MURRAY (conc) rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-506 1977 aft "Chancy Cheory"

WEST CLARE REEL, THE - UP TO YOUR KNEES IN SAND

WEST COAST OF CLARE, THE -- PLANXTY: POLYDOR Super 2383- 186 1973

WEST CORK REEL -- John KELLY (conc): TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 1975

WEST COUNTRY -- "Souvenir of the West Country": HMV OU 2174/ CASS-0365 - Ditties & Dances (Selection from PK recs): C60-CASS-0632

WEST COUNTRY COUPLE, THE - NO SIGN OF MARRIAGE

WEST COUNTRY WAGER, THE - BROOMFIELD HILL

WEST END, THE - Hornpipe (D) - HONEYMAN #3 p39 written out for both "Sand Dance" and "Sailor's" styles & #3 p45 "Kirk's Hornpipe" - KENNEDY FTB 2 1954 p10/ 1994 #38 p12 - Tunebook Ms H8 p88 (D) "Rickey's Hornpipe"(D) -- CHEVIOT RANTERS Country Dance Band: TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 with "Morpeth Rant"

WEST GALLERY MUSIC -- Radio 2: 17/10/90 CASS-60-1017

WEST HAM - PLAY UP SIDBURY

WEST HARTLEPOOL - MATCH FACTORY FIRE

WEST INDIES - CARIBBEAN

WEST'S AWAKE, THE -- CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM: HALLMARK SHM 729 1963

WEST LIMERICK POLKA -- Paddy TAYLOR (flute) Limerick: CLADDAGH CC-8 1971 (?) aft "Morrison's" & bef "Hanley's Delight"

WEST MABOU REEL - local Cape Breton comp -- Alex Francis Mc KAY (fid) with Fr John Angus RANKIN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 with other strathpeys & reels

WEST OF IRELAND, THE - "One summer's morn as I walked forth all in the foggy dew" - girl from Wof I - he makes her welcome - she refuses his hand - he goes to the alehouse and says adieu - coll by Cathal from Seamus & Packie McBrien, Derrylin, Co Fermanagh 1960s -- Cathal McCONNELL & THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH CD-006 1994

WEST PERCY HUNT, THE - comp by John Mowat to tune: "Bold Reynard" -- Jimmy WHITE rec by PK, Whittingham, Northumb 9/6/54: RPL 20607/ FTX-425 (talk bef)

WEST THE HILL - Hornpipe - BREATHNACH 3 1985 #228 p103 (G)

WEST VIRGINIA - JOHN HARDY

WEST VIRGINIA MINE DISASTER -- Jean RITCHIE: LONDON (SIRE) SES-97014

WEST WIND, THE - Reel - BREATHACH CRE 1 #72 p33 - MOYLAN 1 #4 from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) - Cf KERR MM 4 #95 p12 5pts (G) "West Winds" - MITCHELL DMC #33 p39 (from Willie Clancy) -- Willie CLANCY (U-pipes) with Bobby CASEY (fid) of Co Clare rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-173 - Willie CLANCY (U-pipes): CLADDAGH 4-CC-32 1980/ CASS-0815 bef "Sean Reid's" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec Co Donegal: TOPIC 12-TS-398 1964 dubbed to DAT 2/94 "untitled" aft "Hudie Gallagher's March" - FUREYS with Bob STEWART (flute & gtr): BROADSIDE BRO-133 1974 (?)

WEST WYCOMBE BAND, THE - "I was an artful dodger once but now you'll understand" ROUD#3217 - ED&S 55:3 1993 pp14-15 Horace Harman Ms Buckinghamsh (w/o)

WEST'S HORNPIPE - (D) - KERR MM 1 #25 p45 - WILSON p139 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #195 p54 (D)

WESTER SNOW - EASTER SNOW

WESTERING HOME - arr by Sir Hugh Roberton for Glasgow Orpheus Choir & publ Curwen -- Noel MURPHY: FONTANA STL-5496 1969 (in Scots Gaelic) - CORRIES: EMI SCX-6511 1972 - The Jim CAMPBELL BAND "Songs for dancing" Scottish Dance Party: MILLER MER 356 1972 - Diana BLACKETT- ORD (N-pipes) TOPIC 12-TS-227 1974

WESTERN COWBOY - "When I was a cowboy out on the Western Plain - run into Jesse James" -- LEADBELLY (voc with 12-str gtr) rec by John Lomax, Louisiana State Pen, Angolo, La USA July 1934: ROUNDER CD-11661-1823-2 1999 - Percy RIDGE rec by John Lomax, State Pen, Huntsville, Texas USA May 1934: ROUNDER CD-11661-1823-2 1999 (This is version of THE CUCKOLD SONG)

WESTERN HOBO -- Carter Family (Trio), Atlanta, Ga 24/11/29: 7"RTR-0313-4

WESTERN HOME - HOME ON THE RANGE

WESTERN HORNPIPE, THE -- Michael COLEMAN (fid with piano) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE d/cass 004 1991 aft "Stage H"

WESTERN LASSES, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1552/ DMI #765 (C) 3pts

WESTERN LILT, A - Jig - ALLAN #5 p3 (Bm)

WESTERN OCEAN - ALL FOR THE GROG

WESTMEATH - Co in Ireland - BUCKS OF WESTMEATH - CONNAUGHTMAN'S TRIP TO BELFAST (from Athlone) - HUMOURS OF BALLYMANUS - MAID OF ATHLONE - TRIP TO ATHLONE (Jig)

WESTMEATH BACHELOR, THE -- BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS- 60-0926 & 0927 nd

WESTMEATH JIG, THE -- Sean MAGUIRE (fid) with his father, John MAGUIRE Senr (whistle) of Co Cavan rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: 7"RTR-0544/ RPL 18378/ FTX-376 bef "Fisherman's Widow" & "Tongs by the Fire" (talk bef)

WESTMINSTER GRAND MARCH - Tunebook Ms (D) 3 pts (2-pt arr) #30 pp130-1

WESTMORLAND - CARTMEL HUNTING SONG - MUSICAL STONES (Xylophone) Borrowdale & Skiddaw - WIDOW OF WESTMORELAND'S DAUGHTER, THE -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

WESTPORT NEW GROVE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 1997 #195 p45 (Am) - Tunebook Ms #134 p315 (Am)

WESTRON WYNDE -- Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR: B & C CAS-1035 1971/ CREST-17/ CASS-45-0851

WET IS THE NIGHT - FLIUCH AN OIDHCHE

WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA, A - written by Allan Cunningham - ROUD#2014 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp49-50 ships log 1844/77 (w/o)

WET WET WET - LAMORNA

WETHERSKIN, THE - "There was a good man came in from the plough": married Ruggleton's daughter of Iero : Shrewish wife - CHILD #277 "The Wife wrapped in W S" - ROUD#117 - BRONSON 1976 p467 - DEAN-SMITH GUIDE title is "Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero" - SCOTTISH STUDENTS SONGBOOK 1891 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 Suffolk "Robin-a-Thrush" - FORD VSB 1899 p192 (1 pp223-6) 10v (w/o) (note mentions Peter Kennedy's great grandfather, David Kennedy's singing) "The (Wee) Cooper o Fife" " - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 p322 - GREIG-KEITH LL 1925 p219 - MASON NRCS 1908 p4 Mitford family, Northumberland "Robertin Tush" - SHARP-MARSON FSS 4 pp52-3 Miss Gooding - Schools 10 - Sel Ed 2 pp62-3 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #202 1 pp196-8 Miss Gooding, Somerton, Somerset 1907/ Charles Spindler, Pitminster, Som 1908 "Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero" / 2 p33 Sister Emma, Clewer, Berksh 1909 "Robin a Thrush" - JFSS 2:9 1906 pp223-5 Gilchrist: Glasgow Weekly Herald 3/3/06 1v/m "My brother Robert has gotten a wife"/ Wm Wells, Sunderland Point, Lancashire 1906 1v/m "The Wee Cooper o Fife" - JFSS 5:20 1916 pp260-261 Sharp: Charles Spiller, Pitminster, Somerset 1908 "The Daughter of Peggy-O" - McCOLL SS 1953 p138 from Scottish Student's Songbook - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p29 Sharp: Charles Spiller - SPIN mag 3/.10 p25 "Wee Cooper of Fife" from Janet Hall of Glasgow - FOLK SONG TODAY #5 coll Gilchrist - ANON 1972: SONG OF SCOTLAND p24 arr piano - PURSLOW FD 1974 p78 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 "Robin-a- Thrash" - PALMER EBECS 1979 Dave Hillery: Jack Beeforth, Wragby, Yorksh 1974 "Willie went to Westerdale" - PALMER EBBB 1980 #108 pp213-4 Duncan: Mrs Gillespie, Glasgow 1905 "The C of Fife" --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #39 (vol 1 pp2714) 5var: N.B.Chisholm, Woodridge, Va 1916/ Miss Mary Large, Lee Co.Ky 1916/ Mrs Margaret Dunagan, St Helens, Lee Co.,Ky 1917/ Miss Polly Ann Kelly, Hindman School, Knott Co., Ky 1917/ Mrs Eliza Pace, Hyden, Leslie Co., Ky 1917 - HUDSON FSM 1936 p123 Mrs Theodosia Bonett Long, Mi (w/o) "The Old Man who lived in the West" - BELDEN Mo 1940 p94 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp187-8 Frank Payne, Mo 1933 "Dan Doo" - COFFIN-RENWICK 1950 #246 p274 - CAZDEN 1958 II p503 - FLANDERS ABTSNE 4 p77 - GROVER p68 Wisconsin - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp38-9 Mrs Susie Barlow, Utah 1948 "Jennie Fair Gentle Rosemarie"/ James Jepson, Utah 1947 (w/o) "The Wife wrapped in WS" - PARLER ABB 1963 pp10-11 Fred Smith, Ark 1958 (w/o) "Dan Doo" - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 p155 NB "I have a wife" - PETERS FSOW 1977 pp170-1 Charles Dietz, Wis 1946 "Dan Doo" - WARNER TAFS 1984 #44 p136 Lena Bourne Fish "The Old Wether's Skin" & #103 pp264- 6 Frank Proffitt "Dan Doo" -- ROBERTSON #7 rec by James M.Carpenter New Deedr, 1928-9 (8var) "The Wee Cooper o Fife" - Annie PATERSON (82 of Harray) rec by PK, St Andrews, Toab, Orkney 18/7/55 5"RTR-1065/ FTX-189 frag -- Rory & Alex McEWEN (with gtr) rec by PK, London 1955: FTX-293 - Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-623 1956 from parents - Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: "The Long Harvest": ARGO ZDA-74 1967 2 Greig & 2 USA versions - Mary O HARA (voc/harp): DECCA EMERALD GEM-GES-1116 1974 - STAVERTON BRIDGE rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Devon 3/7/70 7"RTR#0140 (3var): FTX-144 --- Lena Bourne FISH rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1940: FTX-922 - "The Old WS" - Frank PROFFITT (voc/gtr/banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NC 1959: FTX-931/ rec Sandy Paton: FOLKWAYS FA-2360 "Dan Doo" - Burl IVES COLUMBIA RTR #0323-4 - Jean JENKINS (voc/banjo) rec by PK, London 2/4/57: FTX-914 - Pete SEEGER (voc & banjo): TOPIC TOP-33 1958 (45 EP) - Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: 905 "I married a wife" - Broadwood piano arr "Robin-a-thrush" with Priscilla SAVAGE in Radio 2: 21/7/93 prog by Georgina Boyes CASS

WEXFORD - County in S Ireland - RANSON SOWC 1948 - BOOLAVOGUE - BOYS OF WEXFORD - COUNTY WEXFORD - GALTEE FARMER - KELLY THE BOY FROM KILLANE - MAID OF BUNCLODY - SLIEVE GALTEE MOUNTAINS - SWEET COUNTY WEXFORD -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

WEXFORD CAROL, THE - (or "Enniscorthy Carol") - "Good people all..." - Christmas -- BOYS OF THE LOUGH CD-006 1994 (from Frank Harte)

WEXFORD FISHERMEN, THE - "There is an old tradition sacred held in W Town - that says: Upon St Martin's Eve no net shall be let down" - comp by John Boyle O Reilly - RANSON SOWC 1948 p21 7v w/o - O KEEFE FBIB 1955 p104 w/o

WEXFORD GIRL - CRUEL MILLER

WEXFORD HORNPIPE, THE -- Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) rec Dublin 1937-8: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Rights of Man" & "Dunphys"

WEXFORD LASS, THE - LAWS#P34 - ROUD#263 -- Marie HARE, New Brunswick, Canada: FOLK LEGACY FSC-9 1962

WEXFORD LASSES, THE - Reel - O'NEILL MOI #1390/ DMI #634 (D)

WEXFORD MASSACRE, THE - Cromwell (comp by M J Barry 1649) -- THE GREHAN SISTERS: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-160 1967

WEXFORD MUMMERS - DROCKETTY'S MARCH - MUMMER'S JIG AND REEL - NANCY HOGAN'S PIG

WEXFORD MURDER, THE - CRUEL MILLER - JAMES MACDONALD

WEXFORD REEL, THE - BREATHNACH 2 1976 #215 p112 (D)

WEXFORD'S MILITIA'S MARCH - Tunebook Ms (G) #37 p136

WEYHILL - HAMPSHIRE - DICK GILES VISIT - WEARING OF THE HORNS

 
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