WHACK AT THE WHIGS - CURL THE WIG

WHACK FOL THE DIDDLE - "We'll sing you a song peace and war" - comp by Peadar Kearney (Dominic Behan's Uncle) - O LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p250

WHALE CATCHERS, THE - "On the 23rd of March, my boys" - ROUD#3291 - JFSS 3 1901 pp101-2 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1900 - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p100 Merrick: Henry Hills --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp11-13 Ship's Log 1833 - similar but not the same song as GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY -- A L LLOYD (acc): TOPIC 12-T-174 1967

WHALE OF A TALE, THE - DOCKLAND GIRLS

WHALEMAN'S LAMENT, THE - "Twas on the briny ocean" - Pacific - Cape Horn - bad conditions - ROUD#2000 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp15-17 ships log 1856 (w/o)

WHALER, THE - GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY

WHALER'S LAMENTATION, THE - CEASE RUDE BOREAS

WHALERS OF BALALLAN, THE - MUCAN BALLALAN (Scots Gaelic)

WHALING - BALAENA - BARK GAY HEAD - BARK OCEAN ROVER - BLUE NOSE - COAST OF PERU - CRUEL SHIP'S CAPTAIN - CRUISE OF THE DOVE - DAVY LOWSTON - DESOLATION - DIAMOND - ECLIPSE - EELIE BOB - FAREWELL TO STROMNESS - FAREWELL TO TARWATHIE - GO TO SEA NO MORE - GREENLAND BOUND - GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY - HUMPBACK WHALE - JACK WAS EVERY INCH A SAILOR - LITTLE POT STOVE - MERRY BOYS OF GREENLAND - MUCAN BHALALLAN - NOBLE FLEET OF WHALERS - PADDY AND THE WHALE - ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI - SONG OF THE WHALES (USA) - TALCHUANO GIRLS - WEARY WHALING GROUNDS - WHITBY WHALER - WOUNDED WHALE - YARMOUTH FISHERMAN'S SONG - Recordings - see SUBJECTS Listing

WHALING SONG - WHALE CATCHERS -- Lucy STEWART (frag) rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 1955: FTX-365

WHARFEDALE - SONG OF THE UPPER WHARFEDALE

WHARCLIFFE HIGHWOOD - HOUNDS ARE OUT

WHAT A FINE HUNTING DAY - WE'LL ALL GO A-HUNTING TODAY

WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS - I'VE A SWEETHEART IN AMERICA - WHEN THIS BLOODY WAR IS OVER -- George PEGRAM (vocal/ banjo) with Clyde ISAACS (mandolin), Fred Cockerham (fiddle) & Jack BRYANT (gtr): SAYDISC Matchbox SDM 235 1973

WHAT A FUNNY LITTLE PLACE TO HAVE ONE - "Now a fellow who has just got wed - honeymoon in a railway tunnel - I couldn't in a place like that" - Comic Nonsense Song -- Bob HART rec Snape, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-225 1973

WHAT A LEMON - "will ye gie me - gin I gie you a bride" - children's game - ROUD#13076 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1587 p 143 (1v/m)

WHAT A MORNING - O LORD WHAT A MORNING

WHAT A MOUTH - "What a north and south, blimey what a mouth he's got" - comp & sung by Harry Champion - Music Hall (Magazine) 26 (Aug 1982) pp.46-52 - Cf MY SAILOR LOVE coll by Fred Hamer -- Bill BURNHAM (voc) & Bill FRENCH (voc/ piano) rec by PK, "The Cock & Monkey", Bermondsey, London 13/2/54: RTR-0118 & 0226/ RPL 21159/ FTX-331

WHAT A RAGE SO BAD - POLKA MAD

WHAT A SHOCKING WORLD FOR SCANDAL - I NEVER SAYS NOTHING TO NOBODY

WHAT A TIME -- The Belleville Acapella Choir rec by Alan Lomax, Va. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1711 1998

WHAT A VOICE - ALISON CROSS - DIED FOR LOVE

WHAT AILS YOU? - Hornpipe -- James SWIFT (fid) rec New Jersey, NY USA nd "The Wheels of the World" LP MORNING STAR 45001 aft "Hough's Favourite"

WHAT ARE FOLK MADE OF? - "piggins and tails and puppy dog tails" - "little girls young ladies, young men, old women, old men, bachelors, husbands, babies" etc - ROUD#821 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #241 pp241-5 (6var/m) "What folk are made of" --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #227 (vol 2 pp334-5) 2var: Mrs Mollie Broghton, Barbourvillwe, Knox Co., Ky 1917/ Mrs Ellen Jones, Goose Creek, Manchester, Clay Co., Ky 1917 - AMERICAN SONGSTER p96 ("Lawyers, old maids, dandies, actors, steamboats, New York") - CREIGHTON NB 1971 #80 p171 "Song of All Nations" ("Can you tell me what an Irishman's made of?") 16v/m - WHAT'LL WE DO WITH THE BABY-O?-- Jean RITCHIE (dulc) with Oscar BRAND (gtr) & Dave SEARS (banjo): RIVERSIDE RLP 12-646 1957 (M)

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE BABY-O? - WHAT YOU GOING TO DO?

WHAT ARE YOU ON HOLIDAY? - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE: FTX-044

WHAT ARE THE WORMS FOR? - comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE rec 1974 FTX-046

WHAT BLOOD IS THIS?/ WHAT BROUGHT THE BLOOD? - EDWARD

WHAT CALL HAVE YOU TO ME NED? - Jig (G ends D) - LEVEY 2 #49 p21 - ROCHE 1 #122 pp50-51

WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE? -"do with an old man?" - Aunty Kitty - ROUD#1295 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p331 #137 4v (w/o) -- Cilla FISHER: TOPIC 12-TS-405 1979 (from Jane Turiff) - Alison McMORLAND & Peta WEBB: TOPIC 12-TS-403 1980 (from Jane Turiff, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh)

WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? - O DEAR WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE?

WHAT CAN YOU DO? - PUNCHINELLA

WHAT DID THE BUZZARD SAY TO THE CROW? -- Hobart SMITH (fid) & Fred Galligher (gtr) rec by AL, Saltville, Va 1942: ROUNDER 1799 2001

WHAT DID YOUR SAILOR LEAVE YOU? - "when he went to sea?" - He left me a sweet baby" - ROUD#2546 - BARING GOULD Ms #201 from Robert Hard, South Brent Devon 1892/ "The Horn Fair Garland") - REEVES EC 1960 p277 BG: Robert Hard (w/o)

WHAT DO ALL THE YOUNG MEN MEAN? - "that do the lassies slight - snuffing tobacco, vanity, pumps, ribbons, snuff box, cursing & swearing but marriage alters their pride" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #649 (4var) "To Men"

WHAT DO YOU SEE? - from schoolchildren at Denby, Derbysh -- RIPLEY WAYFARERS Derbsh: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-006 1971

WHAT DO YOU THINK I HAVE MADE? - HERRING SONG

WHAT HARM HAS JESUS DONE? - "Tell me what harm has Jesus done you?" - cup of vinegar - never spoke a murmuring word - ROUD#2285 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p174 Charles Owens NS 1953

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO - (comp by R) -- RUSSCO rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 5/11/75: FTX-094

WHAT IF A DAY? - comp by Dolly Collins -- THE YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-30 1973

WHAT'S A LABOURER'S LOT IN THIS COUNTRY OF FREEDOM? - WILLIAMS Ms #738 (w/o)

WHAT'S A' THE STEER? - Highland Schottische (G) - BALMORAL p16 "What's a' the steer kimmer?" - KERR MM 1 #14 p20

WHAT IS LOVE? - "Pray attention pretty maiden" - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 new words to air of "New Garden Fields" but different to that in BARRETT

WHAT'S POOR MARY WEEPING FOR? - POOR JENNY SITS A-WEEPING

WHAT IS THE COLOUR OF THE SOUL? - Comp by JD -- Jimmy DRIFTWOOD with gtr & audience: SMITHSONIAN Music from the Festival of American Folklife

WHAT'S THE LIFE OF A MAN? - "Any more than a leaf - a man has his seasons - so why should he grieve?" - ROUD#848 - SHARP Ms Cf 2 p99 & Broadside Coll 2060 p26 "The Fall of a Leaf" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #356 p473 "Leaves of Life" - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p238 #513 Thomas Dunn, Stratton St Margaret, Wiltsh (w/o) - ED&S 32:3 p96 Stubbs: Harry Holman - STUBBS LOM 1970 pp80-1 Harry Holman, Copthorne, Sussex - DAVIES HC 1972 p8 (w) Odiham, Hampsh - HAMER GGr 1973 pp25-6 Harry Scott, Eaton Bray, Bedfordsh - KENNEDY FSBI p576 Jim Small 1950 - COPPER ETR 1976 pp226-7 Rottingdean Sussex - PALMER EBEC 1979 #129 p216 RVW: J W Wright, Coombe Bissett, Wiltsh 1904 -- Jim SMALL Cheddar Somerset rec by PK, Bristol 1950: RPL 14627/ FTX-023/ FF-2205 - Jim COPPER rec by PK, Rottingdean, Sussex 1951 tape - Bob COPPER (voc/conc): FTX-239 - Bob (solo unacc) in 4x30 min progs Radio 2 Oct 1990/ CASS 60-1013-4 - Gabriel FIGG rec by PK, West Chiltington, Sussex 1958 RTR-0895 - Harry SCOTT rec by PK, Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordsh 1958: RPL LP 26071 talk aft/ FTX-307/ A-ROVING Radio Prog 1968 #2 & PK plays tune on melodeon "The Fall of the Leaf" - THE YETTIES rec Towersey Festival: ACORN CF-210 1968 "The Leaf" - TROTTO (with h-dulc, fid etc): FOREST TRACKS FT- 6003 1973 (Jim Small version) - Jumbo BRIGHTWELL, rec by Tony Engle, Eastbridge Suffolk: TOPIC 12-T-261 1975 - Harry HOLMAN rec by Mike Yates, Copthorne, Sussex: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975 - Harry UPTON rec by Mike Yates Balcombe, Sussex (SP-104) - Cyril TAWNEY (talk bef): Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4

WHAT'S THE MATTER NOW? - "My 17 years scarce over, Damon a-wooing came" Ch: "O dear what ails me?" - the swain plays her up even when they are married ! - BARING GOULD Ms #156 taken down from Mr Fletcher, Lifton, Devon by Lucy Broadwood and taught by her mother about 1830 (4 lines forgotten) unpubl

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MOTHER? -- Carolyne HUGHES (gypsy) rec by PK, near Blandford, Dorset 19/4/68: 7"RTR-0120/ CASS=45-1245/ FTX-143

WHAT'S THE USE OF HAVING A WIFE? - "to keep her all your life - shilling a week for poeder & paint - sixpence worth of Glauber salts - asks for her wages - fifty bob a week" - Kids Rhyme -- Dominic BEHAN of Dublin: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959

WHAT'S YOUR NAME? - "Mary Jane - what's your number ? - cucumber - where do you live? - down the lane - what's your address? - watercress - what's your shop? - Lollipop" - Children's Repartee - - Ewan Mc COLL (Glasgow): TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 - Peter Opie: FTX-198 B8(d) 2 girls (spoken) - OLDHAM TINKERS: TOPIC 12-TS-276 "What street? Sweaty feet?"

WHAT'S THE TIME, Mr WOLF? - "One o'clock, 2, 3 " etc "Dinner Time" - Catching Game - OPIE LLSC p44- rec by Damian Webb 17/6 Laurence St, Marshside Workington, Cumberland 1961: FTX-197 #84

WHAT JOYS CAN COMPARE - HUNTING THE HARE

WHAT KIND OF SHOES YOU GONNA WEAR -- The Belleville Acapella Choir rec by Alan Lomax, Va. USA Apr 1960: ROUNDER CD-1711 1998

WHAT MAN WOULD BE WITHOUT A WOMAN? - "Though much is said and sung about a woman's tongue" - BS by Ford (Chesterfield)1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001)

WHAT MEANS THIS ROUT? - POST BELOW

WHAT SHALL I DO? - HIGHLAND LADDIE (Reel)

WHAT SHALL I WEAR TO THE WEDDING? - WHEN SHALL WE GET MARRIED?

WHAT SHALL WE DO? - comp by Adrian TUCKER

WHAT SHALL WE DO WHEN WE ALL GO OUT? - "to play" "We will ride our 3-wheel bike" "pull our wagons round" -- Mike & Peggy SEEGER with gtr, auto-harp (ROUNDER C-8001 2pts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" CASS-1225-6

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? - DRUNKEN SAILOR - McGREGOR'S MARCH

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE BABY-O? - BABY-O

WHAT SHOCKING HARD TIMES - "Good people all both great and small" Ch: "There never was such hard times in England before" mentions Russia and "Cotton Lords of Lancashire" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p223 text: Bs by Bebbington of Manchester (Kidson Bss vol 10 p90)/ used tune "The Plains of Waterloo" (Kidson TT p121)

WHAT THE DEVIL AILS YOU? - Strathspey - COLE p126 (C) - Cf MAGGIE PICKENS

WHAT THE MINER DOES FOR YOU - "It's me that keeps your fire going - I dig the coal that keeps you warm" -- Mrs Annie COSGRAVE rec by Alan Lomax 1953 FT409 & FTX-511

WHAT WILL BECOME OF ENGLAND? - "if things go on this way" - how the Working Man is cast down - Cf COME ALL BOLD BRITONS - HARD TIMES OF OLD ENGLAND - RIGS OF THE TIME -- Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 1953: EFDSS LP-1004 1965/ FTX-034

WHAT'LL I WEAR AT THE WEDDING, JOHN? - WHEN SHALL WE GET MARRIED? - RASPBERRY JAM (Children)

WHAT'LL WE DO WITH THE BABY-O? - "What you going to do with the baby-O ? - Wrap him up in calico" - mammy-O, lassie-O, laddie-O, daddie-O - Tune: Heel and Toe polka - ROUD#826 - SHARP FSSA 1917/ 32 #228 (vol 2 p336) 1v/m Mrs Alice Wilson, Pineville, Bell Co., Ky 1917 (Publ) - RITCHIE -- Jean RITCHIE (voc/dulc) with Roger SPRUNG (fid): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-620 1956 - Frank PROFFITT (voc/ fretless banjo) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mt., Watauga Co., NC 1959: FTX-932/ FOLKWAYS FA-2360 1962 -Peggy SEEGER with Mike (jews harp) (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 "American Folksongs for Children" C ASS-1226

WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THE MONEY? - Maddy Prior & June TABOR on Folk on Two 17/12/87: CASS 0378

WHAT WILL WE TELL THEM? - comp by RD -- Robin & Barry DRANSFIELD & Brian: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-322 1976

WHAT WILL YOU MAKE OF? - HERRING'S HEAD

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? - "if you married a soldier ?/ if the kettle boils over" - POLWARTH 1969 p34 - CROININ 2000 #191 pp296-7 - Tune is FROST IS ALL OVER - see also BONNY WEE HIELAN MAN -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Brian George, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 7/8/47: RPL 12614/ rec by Alan Lomax, Ballymakerra, Macroom, Co Cork 1951: 7"RTR-0589 & DAT/ COLUMBIA SL-204 1952/ rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow 2/11/52: FOLKWAYS FW-8872 : Field Trip: Ireland 1960/ OSSIAN OSS-15 1989 CASS 0797/ FOUR COURTS CD-2 #14/ rec by Seamus Ennis, 1957: FTX-160 "The taties are boilin'"/ SAYDISC CD SDL 411 1995 aft "Cucanandy-O" - Mary DELANEY, blind Irish tinker Radio 2: 1/4/87: CASS-90-0567 "What will we do?" (if we marry a soldier?) Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes & vocal) rec by Jean Ritchie & George Pickow: ELLIPSIS 4070 "Celtic Mouth music"

WHAT (ARE) YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE BABY-O? - BABY-O

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ME? - comp by AF -- Archie FISHER: DECCA SKL- 5057 1970

WHEAL RODNEY - Cornish Tin miner's song - ROUD#3316 - GUNDRY CK 1966 p55 -- Sam RICHARDS, Tish STUBBS & Paul WILSON (known as STAVERTON BRIDGE Group): SAYDISC SDL-66 1975

WHEATLEY PROCESSIONAL - (Oxfordsh) - MORRIS ON

WHEEL, THE - GREAT BIG WHEEL

WHEEL ABOUT AND TURN ABOUT - JIM CROW'S RAMBLE

WHEEL FELL OFF THE HEARSE, THE -- Lucky LUCKHURST (of London) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-332

WHEEL OF FORTUNE, THE - "When I was young, I was well beloved by all young men in the country - I left father mother sister brothers friends & acquaintances - I'd have locked my heart in a chest of gold, and pinned it up with a silver pin" - ROUD#1075 - CHRISTIE TBA I 1876 p260 - DUNCAN "When I was young" - HENRY SOP #79/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p383 5v/m "The False Lover" - FMJ 3:3 1976 pp231-2 Bs Hoggett (Durham) - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp156-7 Tom Anderson, Clooney, Co Derry 1969 (European Ethnic SRT-2) - see also WHEN FORTUNE TURNS THE WHEEL -- Tom KINES acc by Russell THOMAS: (RCA VICTOR PC/PCS 1014)/ CASS 0233

WHEEL OF FORTUNE, THE - OLD WHEEL OF FORTUNE - ROLLING HOME

WHEEL THE PERAMBULATOR, JOHN - "wheel it nice and slow - careful how you go" "First time I took the baby out" - Dentist, castor oil, nagging wife, float? - ROUD#1765 - DUNN FOS 1980 pp71-2 Percy Webb, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974 -- Tom POTTER (75), rec by PK, Hawkhurst, Kent 4/9/63: RTR-0985/ FTX-428 "WTP, Tom" - Bob DAVENPORT & RAKES with Ron SUMMERS (drums): LEADER LER-088 1973 - Percy WEBB (+ch) Suffolk: TOPIC 12-S-243 1974 - Tom BROWN (of Caister Norfolk) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1979: FTX-133 - Bill SMITH, of Shropsh, rec by his son, Andrew, January 1982: CASS#1359 r/cd May 2000

WHEELS OF THE WORLD, THE - Jig - BREATHNACH CRE 3 1985 #34 p16 (G) "Rothai an Domhain" - CRANITCH p108 (G) - O'NEILL MOI #777/ DMI #54 (G) - ROCHE 1 #84 p38 alt: "The day after the fair" - Cf DAY AFTER THE FAIR - NIGHT AT THE FAIR

WHEELS OF THE WORLD - Reel (D) - BRODY #168 p66 - FUREY p44 says it was composed as an air by a blind piper c1800 and made into a dance tune - MITCHELL #56 p54 from Willie Clancy (U-pipes) "The Old Wheels of the World" -- James MORRISON (fid) rec New Jersey, NY USA nd "The Wheels of the World" LP MORNING STAR 45001 aft "Rakish Paddy"/ SHANACHIE 29003

WHEELWRIGHTS - WE POOR LABOURING MEN -- SAYDISC SDL 247 (c) Cotswold talk

WHELAN'S - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #1044/ DMI #253 (##A) aka "The Humours of Dingle" - SHASKEEN 1 #56 p40 (Em/D) aka "The Rookery"" TheMist in the Meadow" "Mist in the Glen" - SULLIVAN 3 #8 p4 (Em) - Cf THE CARRAROE - MORRISON'S JIG -- Agnes WHITE (fid) rec by Alan Lomax 1951: 7"RTR-0590 aft "The Irish Washerwoman" - RAYMOND ROLAND Quartet (Ceili Band): EMBER EMB-3361 1965 "Whelan's" aft "Canny's Jig" - Pat WARD (fid) rec Kinross Folk Festival 1975: SPRINGTHYME SPRC 1003/ CASS-1313 1988 titled "The Rookery" aft "Pat Ryan's Fancy"

WHELAN'S - Reel - HUMOURS OF LOUGHREA -- Jimmy HOGAN Trio rec by PK, London 8/3/58 - SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997