WOBLY SONGS - UNION SONGS
WOE'S ME FOR PRINCE CHARLIE - WAE'S ME
WOE'S MY HEART - "that we should sunder" - Song Air
- Tunebook Ms 4/4 (D) #139 p225 - McGIBBON & others
WOEFUL WIDOW, THE - Jig - O'NEILL DMI #307 (not in MOI) (G)
WOEFUL SCARECROW, THE - "Who would have a S's life? - said the
S full of woe" - comp by GM 1964 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-221
WOKE UP THIS MORNING -- Martin Luther King: " Southern Freedom
Songs: Greenwich Theatre Cast: TOPIC IMP-S-102 1970
WOLFE, General - BOLD GENERAL WOLFE - BRAVE WOLFE - HOW STANDS THE GLASS
AROUND?
WOLFE AND SAUNDERS - Admiral Saunders commanded the Navy in the St Lawrence
and assisted General Wolfe when W stormed the Heights of Quebec -- Sam RICHARDS
& Tish STUBBS: SAYDISC SDL- 280 1977
WOLFE'S PRAISES -- THE YETTIES RPL Radio 2 8/8/90 "War" CASS-1033-C60
WOLFE TONE - GRAVE OF WOLFE TONE
WOLVERHAMPTON - COME ALL YOU BLADES
- HAMPTON LULLABY
WOLVISTON MILL - "Green & pleasant were the meadows when
my love and I walked out - kissed her by the walls of WM - now lashing with
rain" - comp by GM 1970 -- Graeme MILES, Middlesbrough, Yorksh:
221
WOLVISTON PARK SHOOT - "Well one morning I'm strolling"-
carrion crow chorus - comp by GM 1962 -- Graeme MILES: FTX-222-C90
WOMAD "World of Music and Dance" organisation forf which PK
had the idea and was a founder member with the first meeting being held at Okehampton,
Devon in 1979 -- "Raindrops pattering on banana leaves"
rec WOMAD Festival Shepton Mallet incl China, Bolivia, Echo & the Bunnymen,
Burundi Drummers, Peter Gabriel etc WOMAD 001/ CASS-0078 - incl Ekome, XTC,
Ghana, The Beat, Prince Nico, Mighty Sparrow, Rico Reggae, Morris Pert, Peter
Townsend etc Double Benefit LP/ CASS-0079 & 0080 - Talking Book incl Penguin
Cafe, Trinidad, Ben Badoo, Willie Clancy etc CASS-0081-4
WOMAN FROM WEXFORD - MARROWBONES
WOMAN NEVER KNOWS WHEN HER DAY'S WORK'S DONE - "Now just attend
to me married men of each degree" - ROUD#2690 - ASTON MSB 1888 pp5-8
(w/o) - WILLIAMS #750 (w/o)
WOMAN OF LEIGH, THE - "Come all you young lovers and listen
to me" - ROUD#3192 - ED&S 27:4 p117 John Paddy Browne: Devizes,
Wiltsh 1962
WOMAN OF THE FAIRY MOUND - SEOTHIN SEO
WOMAN OF THE HOUSE, THE - Reel (G) - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #86 p38 - CRANITCH
p88 - MOYLAN 2 #209 pp120-1 & #210 p121 "O'Keefe's Woman of the
house" from John O Leary (melodeon) - O NEILL MOI #1300/ DMI #565 --
Michael COLEMAN (fid with piano) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE d/cass VV-004 1991
aft "Morning Dew" - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes) rec by Alan Lomax
1951: COLUMBIA SL-204 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1742 1998/ 7"RTR#0588 - Michael
GORMAN (fid) & Margaret BARRY (banjo) rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-174
aft "Hare in the heather"/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 - Denis
MURPHY (fid) rec by Seamus Ennis, Charlie Horan's Bar, Coalisland, Co Kerry
9/9/52: RPL 18756/ TOPIC TSCD-309 (1977) 1994 aft "Kennedy's Favourite"
- Willie CLANCY (whistle): TOPIC 12-T-184 1969 - COLEMAN SOCIETY (fiddles):
LEADER LEA-2044 1972/ CELTIC MUSIC CM-CD-048 1990 (Gift of Dave Bulmer March
2005) bef "Rakish Paddy" - Vincent CAMPBELL (fid) Co Donegal:
CLADDAGH CC-44 1987 titled "Woman of the house on the floor"
aft "Jackson's Bean a ti ar lar" - Bobby CASEY (fid) &
John McLAUGHLIN (spoons) accomp Reg HALL (piano) rec Camden Town 19/2/67: TOPIC
TSCD-603 1997 aft "Bank of Ireland" & bef"The Morning
Dew"
WOMAN SWEETER THAN MAN - Jamaican coll by Cliff Hall -- Cliff Hall
& Liverpool SPINNERS rec by PK, London, 1961: EMI CLP-1500 1962 / FTX-291/
SCX-6493 1972
WOMAN THAT HATH A BAD HUSBAND, A - FAIR GIRL, MIND THIS WHEN YOU MARRY
WOMAN WARRIOR, THE - "Let the females attend" - D'URFEY
PPM 1698- 1720 V p8 11v/m - She lived in Cow Cross, nr West Smithfield, changed
her apparel and entered herself on board in the quality of a soldier & sailed
to Ireland, lost her toes at the Siege of Cork and died on return to London,
as she entered the city
WOMAN'S LAMENT IN BATTLE - GOL NA MBAN SAN AR
WOMAN'S WORK - LADY, WHAT DO YOU DO ALL DAY?
WOMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE, A - "I'm a poor hard-working female
ever since I've been wed" - ROUD#1717 - ROXBURGHE 1871 3 p302 - ASHTON
CB 1887 p20 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 2 p558 - SHARP ECFS 1920 4 p170/ Var Counties
1912 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #206 pp41-2 Sharp: Wm Hitchman, Faringdon, Berksh
1907 - PALMER EBBB 1980 EBBB #105 Sharp: Wm Hitchman -- Sam RICHARDS, Tish
STUBBS & Paul WILSON (known as STAVERTON BRIDGE): SAYDISC SDL- 266 1975
- Harry UPTON rec by PK, Balcombe, Sussex 1963 RTR-0912/ FTX-428/
rec by Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-TS-285 1976
WOMEN - Britain & Ireland
- Frankie ARMSTRONG - Margaret BARRY - Shirly BLAND - Anne BRIGGS
- Isla CAMERON - Clare CLAYTON - Shirley COLLINS - Elizabeth CRONIN - Sandra
KERR - Sarah MAKEM - Maddy PRIOR - Jeannie ROBERTSON - Phoebe SMITH - Belle
STEWART - Lucy STEWART - Isabel SUTHERLAND - June TABOR - Brigid TUNNEY
WOMEN - Britain & Ireland - BONNY BOY
- FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE - GIRL THAT MAKES THE THING - I KNOW MY LOVE - IF THERE
WASN'T ANY WOMEN IN THE WORLD - JOHNNY SANGSTER - JOLLY BACHELOR - LADLE SONG
- LADY WHAT DO YOU DO ALL DAY? - LIBERTY FOR SAILORS - MOUSTACHE SONGS - MY
GOOD-LOOKING MAN - OLD MAID IN A GARRET - OLD MAID'S SONG - SORRY THE DAY I
WAS MARRIED - STILL I LOVE HIM - WANDERING GIRL - WHAT DO ALL THE YOUNG MEN
MEAN? - WHAT MAN WOULD BE WITHOUT A WOMAN ? - WHEN I WAS A MAID - WHEN THE BOYS
BARGED IN - WHISTLE DAUGHTER WHISTLE - YOPU GIRLS OF EQUAL STATION -- Peggy
SEEGER/ Frankie ARMSTRONG & Sandra KERR: ARGO ZFB 64 1968 - Canada
& USA - BACHELOR'S HALL
- Elsewhere -- Ethiopia A1 men singing
about beauty of girls with drum & 1-str fid & lyre: OCORA OCR-75 B1
One man with drum is looking for girls - Songs from Czech, Romania, Greece,
Africa, Vietnam, Turkey, Hungary, Ireland, Brazil with talk about group (Australian)
on FOLK ON TWO 18/10/89: CASS-0164"Blind Man's Holiday"
WOMEN ALL TELL ME I'M FALSE TO MY LASS, THE - "if you don't
like them, let them alone" - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 2 p680 says publ on
broadsides between 1740-50 "It is still one of the most popular bacchanalian
songs"
WOMEN ARE WORSE THAN THE MEN - FARMER'S CURST WIFE
WOMEN LOVE KISSING AS WELL AS THE MEN - "A slave to a fair from
my childhood I've been" - ROUD#2039 HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp228-9 ships
log 1768 (w/o)
WOMEN'S LAND ARMY, THE - comp by WDT -- Willam David THOMAS rec by
PK, Gilfach, Maesteg, Glamorgansh S Wales 29/6/52: RPL 18213 with talk bef
WOMEN'S LIBERATION -- Douglas KENNEDY talks about it in connection with
folk dancing: FTX-481-493
WOMEN'S ROCK, THE - GREEN GATES (Reel)
WOMEN'S THE JOY AND THE PRIDE OF THE LAND - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1067
p579 (2v w/o)
WONDER HORNPIPE, THE - Probably comp by James Hill, Gateshead fiddler
(Bb & F) - DIXON 1987 p17 - BALMORAL p31 (G/D) - COLE #7 p95 (Bb/F) "Princess
H" & Cf #3 p119 (Bb/F) "Tammany Ring" (Clog) -
HONEYMAN pp409-41 (Bb/F) written in "Newcastle", "Sand Dance"
and "Sailor's" styles - KENNEDY FTB 2 p3/ #10 p5 (G/D) - KERR
MM 1 #29 p46 (Bb/F> - O'NEILL MOI #1740 (not in DMI) (G) "The Southern
Shore" - SHARP "Sword Dances of N Engl" used for Grenoside
-- Willie STARR (acc) & piano rec 1930's: BELTONA BL/ FTX-363
- William KIMBER (conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1951: FTX-383
- Stephen BISHOP (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 1952: FTX-115
"Swansea H" - George HOYLAND (acc) rec by PK, Grenoside Sheffield
W Yorksh 1959: FTX-212 - Joe HUTTON (N-pipes): TOPIC
12-TS-239 1974
WONDERFUL CROCODILE, THE - CROCODILE
WONDERFUL MUSICIAN, THE - "O a WM in Germany did dwell"
- Ch: "he could play: Big drum, kettledrum, fiddle flute or piccolo"
- ROUD#2489(1615) - Cf GERMAN CLOCKMAKER, CLOCKMENDER, MUSICIANER -- Thomas
MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954 (3v)
WONDERFUL SUCKING PIG, THE - "You all have heard of the Christmas
goose and the wonderful great Pie" Ch: "Tol-lol-le-rol-lol"
- ROUD#1615 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p100 Gardiner Hampsh - ED&S 36:4 1974 p141
Gardiner: Albert Stride, Dibden, Hampsh 1907 - Cf WONDERFUL CROCODILE - GREAT
MEAT PIE - RAM SONG
WONDERFUL WORKS - WHEN JESUS CHRIST WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD
WONDROUS LOVE - "O what WL is this, O my soul" - tune
in "Captain Kidd" pattern - Cf WAKE UP - DROWSY SLEEPER - Walker
SOUTHERN HARMONY 1835 - PULLEN JACKSON 1934 #88 p114 - CHASE 1956 p150 - BURL
IVES Songbook 1953 p165 (Major Capt Kidd tune) - DELAWARE Co-op: "Songs
of All Time" p49 - RITCHIE: SFC 1955 p168 -- rec by Alan Lomax, Jasper,
Alabama 1942 AAFS L-11 A3/ 7"RTR#0309 - Jean RITCHIE rec USA: TRADITION
TLP-1011 1957 - Horton BARKER: FOLKWAYS FA- 2362 1962 - rec Concert in Virginia:
RTR-0322 - THE YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-30 1973 - Jean RITCHIE
& Others (Choral arr): LONDON (SIRE) SA-7530 1977
WON'T YOU BUY A BROOM? - "There's a large one for a lady - I've
come from a far country" -- Ted LAMBOURNE rec by Seamus Ennis, North Marston,
Bletchley, Buckinghamsh 25/6/52: RPL 18139
WON'T YOU BUY MY PRETTY FLOWERS? "Underneath the gaslight's
glitter" - ROUD 12906 - BSs - Coll in Newfoundland w/o
WON'T YOU BUY MY SWEET BLOOMING LAVENDER? - SWEET BLOOMING LAVENDER
WON'T YOU COME HOME, BILL BAILEY? - Music Hall Song popularised by Victoria
Monks -- SAYDISC SDL-232 1972 CASS: Street Piano
WON'T YOU COME TO ME IN CANADA? - "Across the broad Atlantic
on Canada's domain" - London Music Hall Song popularised by Kitty Rayburn
- dates from late 19c when Donald Sifton, Canadian minister for Immigration,
was offering free land on the western prairies (Note by MY) - Walter PARDON
rec by Mike Yates, Knapton, Norfolk 1978: ROOT & BRANCH #1 EFDSS 1999
WON'T YOU GO MY WAY? - "I met her in the morning" -
ROUD 8289 - SHARP EFC 1914 #46 p61 John Short Watchet Somerset - TERRY SB2 1926
p38 - HUGILL 1961 p505 -- Stanley SLADE rec by PK, Bristol, March 1950: RPL
17604/ FTX-207 (2v only)
WON'T YOU LET ME GO ALONG WITH YOU? - GREEN GROW THE RUSHES
WON'T YOU TELL ME WHY, ROBIN? - ROUD#2691 - WILLIAMS #751 (w/o)
WOO'D AN MARRIED AN A - "The bride cam oot o' the byre"
- ROUD#7159 - sung by the Scottish Singer, David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - GREIG-DUNCAN
7 p171 - HERD AMSS 1869 2 pp115-7 - CHAMBERS SSPB pp206-210 - JOHNSON SMM 1
pp10-11 #10 - WHITELAW BSS 1845 p543 - SMITH: Scotish Minstrel 1820 2 p52-3
WOO'D AN MARRIED AN A - Triple Jig - KERR MM 3 #215 p25 (A) - ROCHE
2 #266 p28 (G) "New widow well married" - WILSON p23 (G) "Very
Old Scotch"
WOODCOCK, THE - Jig - O'NEILL MOI #975/ DMI #193 (G)
WOODCOCK HILL - Hornpipe - ROCHE 2 #205 p8 (D)
WOODCUTTER, THE - JOLLY WOODCUTTER
WOODEN-ENDED REEL - Tune played by Leadbelly on melodeon in 1940's ?
- Cf similar tune from Chris Droney on TOPIC 12-TFRS-504 -- Tony HALL (melodeon)
with Nic JONES (fid/gtr) & Tommy MOYNIHAN (mand/ bouz/ whistle): FREE REED
FRR-012 1976
WOODEN LEGS - ARTIFICIALS
WOODEN WATCH, THE - "A stranger once in Worcestershire"
- ROUD#1311
WOODLAND FLOWERS - (Whispers/ Voices) - Barn Dance or Plain Schottische
said to be comp by Felix Burns but may be traditional -- Michael COLEMAN
(fid with piano) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE 004 d/cass 1991 with others - Bob
SMITH'S Band rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-319 1977 - Bob CANN (mel): TOPIC 12-TS-275
1975/ TSCD-659 bef "Uncle Jim's Barn Dance" - Harry COX (mel)
rec by Frank Purslow 9/4/60: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 - Gordon CUTTY (E-conc)
FREE REED FRR-006 1976 - Tommy WILLIAMS (duet conc) London: FREE REED FRR-008
1976 - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 with "Oscar Wood's Jig"
- Reg REEDER (h-dulc) rec Jim COUZA, Saxmundham, Suffolk 21/7/82 CASS-0873
WOODLAND MARY - GRAINGER Ms #270 - Billy Jordan, Kirton-in-Lindsey,
Lincolnsh 1906
WOODLAND REVELS - or is this meant to be "Woodland Flowers"
? -- FLOWERS & FROLICS rec "Empress of Russia", Islington,
London: FREE REED FRR-016 1977
WOODLAND WHISPERS, THE - Waltz -- Phil BREEN (fid) rec by PK, Belleek
Co Fermanagh 19/7/52: RPL 18543/ FTX-370
WOODLANDS OF ENGLAND, THE -- Cathy LeSERF & ALBION BAND on Radio
2: 25/2/85: CASS-0441
WOODLANDS OF LOUGH LYNN, THE -- Michael MORAN (son of Thomas) rec by Thomas
Moran Jnr, Mohill, Co Leitrim (copy tape) 5"RTR-0606
WOODMAN, THE - "Far removed from noise and smoke/ hark I hear
the woodman's stroke" - Thomas FORD's Ballads Chesterfield 1830s
WOODPECKER, THE - "I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled"-
ROUD#12680 - Many BSs - Vocal Library (1820) p463
WOOD'S HORNPIPE - KERR MM 2 #356 p39 (G) - WILSON p140 (A) - KENNEDY
FTB 1998 #197 p54 (A)
WOODS OF FANAID, THE - COILLTE FHANADA (Triple Jig)
WOODS OF MICHIGAN, THE - HARRY DUNN
WOODS OF KILKENNY, THE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1693'/ DMI #892 (D)
WOODSMEN - ALPHABET SONG - FORESTERS
- LOGGERS - LUMBERJACKS
WOODSTOCK TOWN - DIED FOR LOVE (Carey ASS)
WOODY GUTHRIE, BOBBY DYLAN AND ME - (comp by R) -- RUSSCO rec by
PK, Dartington, Devon 5/11/75: FTX-094
WOOING SONG OF A YEOMAN OF KENT'S SON - "I have a house and
land in Kent" Ch: "I cannot come every day to woo"
- DIXON SOP words only as in Melismata 1611 - BELL SOP with ref to tune in CHAPPELL
PMOT 1858 p90 - Chappell points out similarity to the text of "John
to Joan" & tune of "The Three Ravens"
WOOLOOMOOLOO - "On the day that I was born" Ch: "I
was watched with constant care - and they used to cut my hair" - descr
of happening of a wild lot of native Australians -- Mrs Susan COLLEY: LARRIKIN
LRD-007 1976 - Andy SAUNDERS (unacc & group): LARRIKIN LRD-9012 1981
WOP SHE AD IT-I-O - RUMPSY BUMPSY
WOR - OUR
WORCESTER CITY
- CRUEL SHIP'S CARPENTER
WORCESTERSHIRE - BROADSIDE MAN -
CRUEL SHIP'S CARPENTER - GOLD WATCH - HENRY THE POACHER (convict in Van Dieman's
Land) - NOT FOR JOE - POISON IN A GLASS OF WINE - WOODEN WATCH - YOUNG ALVIN
-- Recordings see AREA Listing
WORCESTERSHIRE WEDDING, THE - "An old woman clothed in grey"
- Daughter deluded by Roger and has a baby - Millers name is Hodge - ROUD#1694
- JFSS 3 1907 pp119-121 Hammond: Mrs Marina Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 - PURSLOW
FD 1974 Hammond: Marina Russell - see also ROGER'S COURTSHIP - ROGER OF THE
VALLEY - YOUNG ROGER ESQUIRE
WORD OF ADVICE, A - "Come all sporting husbands wherever you
may be -" Ch: "Down derry down" - about the dangers
of drunkenness - SBSs incl BG 4#463 - PALMER TOTT 1974 p172 text: Bs by Bonner
& Henson of Bristol (Madden 23/70)/ tune: Derry Down (Chappell 677)
WORD TRICKERY - see OPIE LLSC pp50-53
- ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME - BEAR BEHIND - - COPPERS - DEAD HORSE - DO YOU
KNOW WHAT? - HOW - IF YOUR BOB DON'T GIVE OUR BOB - JUST LIKE ME - MIND YOUR
OWN BUSINESS - NICKABAR - THREE MONKEYS ON THE TABLE
WORK -- see also AXE - BOAT-PULLING
- CHURNING - COTTON MILLS - HOEING - MILKING - MILL SONGS - QUARRYING - ROWING
- SCYTHING - SHANTIES - SHEEPSHEARING - SKIFFLE - SPINNING - STREET CRIES -
UNEMPLOYMENT - WAULKING - WEAVING - DREAM (Employment Exchange) - EE KALAZEE
- HE'S ONLY AN OLD VILLAGE POSTMAN (I DON'T WORK FOR A LIVING) - HIS DAYS WORK
WAS DONE - IRISH HOP-POLE PULLER - LIVING HERE IN LONDON (Irish unemployment)
- MONDAY MORNING - STOP THAT CLOCK - THREE NIGHTS AND A SUNDAY - THREE NIGHTS
AND A DOUBLE SUMMER TIME - WAITING FOR THE DAY --
USA
- AWAY DOWN IN COLUMBUS GEORGIA - BE MY WOMAN, ROSIE - BLACK BETTY
- BLACK WOMAN - CARRIE BELLE - DOLLAR MAMIE - EARLY IN THE MORNING - GO DOWN,
OLD HANNAH - HAMMER RING - HARD TIMES IN OL VIRGINIA - HE'S ONLY A VILLAGE POSTMAN
- I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING - IT MAKES A LONG TIME MAN - JODY - JUMPIN JUDY -
LINING THE TRACK - LONG JOHN - MURDERER'S HOME - NO MORE MY LAND - OLD ALABAMA
- OLD DOLLAR MAMIE - PICK A BALE OF COTTON - PICKIN COTTON - POOR BOY - PRETTIEST
TRAIN - PRISON BLUES - RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER - ROCK ISLAND LINE - SINK EM
LOW - STACKALEE - TANGLE EYE BLUES - W P & A - WHOA BUCK--
Recordings - see MUSIC-TYPES
WORK, FIGHT AND PRAY - Black Gospel Song -- Pamela WARRICK-SMITH
GREENHAYS GR-90721 1990 CASS-0798
WORK OF THE IRISH, THE -- SPINNERS "The Spinners are in town": FONTANA 6309-014 1970
WORK OF THE WEAVERS, THE - comp by David Shaw, Forfar weaver (d1856)
- ROUD#374 - FORD VSB 1899 1 p247-9(w/o) - RYMOUR Club 1906 1 pp39-40 George
Gardiner: Mr Spence, Brechin, Angus - ORD BB 1930 p391 6v/ch (w/o) - McCOLL
SS 1953 p130 from Ford - SEEGER- MNcCOLL SI 1960 p45 Rev Dabid Johnston, Cupar,
Fifesh - BUCHAN 101SS 1962 from Ford - SING OUT Reprint 2 p8 - see also TO THE
WEAVERS GIN YE GO - WEAVER'S MARCH -- Ewan McCOLL rec by Alan Lomax, Hyde,
Chesh 1951: 7"RTR-0705 - John MEARNS (unacc) rec Aberdeen 25/2/54: RPL
20084 - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM: TRADITION TLP-1042 1961 - CLANCY
BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM with Pete Seeger (banjo) &
Bruce Langhorne (gtr) rec with audience, CBS Studio NY 1963: CBS 63516 - MAGPIE'S
Band (as jig tune for dancing) rec by PK, Derby 1963: FTX-321
WORKS OF THE LAND, THE - WANDERER'S MUSINGS (Air)
WORK'S OUTING, THE - Ch: "There were 60 crates of Guiness -
the day our Social Club had a day beside the sea" - crisps, darts,
dancng, songs - tune is variant of "The Soor Milk Cairt" --
Geordie McINTYRE (acc 2 concertinas): TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973
WORKER'S SONG, THE - comp by Ed Pickford -- Tom GILFELLON: TOPIC
12- TS-282 1976 - Dick GAUGHAN: TOPIC 12-TS-419 1981/ with Brian McNEIL (fid),
Phil CUNNINGHAM (keyboards & whistle) & Stewart ISBISTER (e/bass) CASS-90-0894
WORKHOUSE - NEW GRUEL SHOPS
WORKHOUSE SONG - "In London streets I saw a sight"
-- Ruth BURDON (frag) rec Sandwich, Kent 27/2/82: CASS-90-0626
WORKING CHAP, THE - "I'm a WC as you may see" - Ch:
"Nae matter, friends, whateer befa, the uir folk they mun work awa"
- "Don't call a man a drunken sot becase he wears a ragged coat"
- ORD BB 1930 p51 4v/ch & music - McCOLL SS 1953 p72 (from Ord)
WORKING CLASS - PROP OF THE LAND - SONG ON THE TIMES
WORKING IT SLOW -- Rufus & Ben QUILLIAN: PARAMOUNT 14584-D/ B&B
011
WORKING ON A BUILDING -- George PEGRAM (vocal/ banjo) with Clyde
ISAACS (mandolin), Fred Cockerham (fiddle) & Jack BRYANT (gtr): SAYDISC
Matchbox SDM-235 1973
WORKING STEER, THE - COURTING IN THE STABLE
WORLD --
Recordings - see AREA Listing
WORLD IS OLD, THE - Carol -- Jean RITCHIE family & friends GREENHAYS
GR-90717 1987 CASS-60-0792
WORLD IT WENT WELL WITH ME THEN, THE - WHEN I WAS SINGLE
WORLD MUST BE COMING TO AN END, THE - I SENT HER FOR EGGS
WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, THE - "Through eating too much supper"
- PALMER TOTT 1974 p321 text: Bs (Kidson vol 10 p247)/ tune: "Upside
Down" (from Sam Henry Coll)
WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, THE - Reel - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #993
(D) "Canny Sugach" "The Merry Merchant" or "Merchant's
Daughter"
WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, THE - comp by Leon Rosselson based on "The
Digger's Song" - see trad song with this title: UPSIDE DOWN -- Paul
WILSON rec Devon (from Leon Rosselson) PEOPLE'S STAGE C45 cass 1978 - Leon ROSSELSON
& Frankie ARMSTRONG (with gtr) Radio 2: 13/9/82: CASS-0474 - with Roy BAILEY
(gtr) (talk bef) rec RPL Concert Hall Radio 2: 29/3/83 CASS-15-0786 - Dick GAUGHAN:
TOPIC 12-TS-419 1981/ with Brian McNEIL (fid), Phil CUNNINGHAM (keyboards &
whi) & Stewart ISBISTER (e/bass) CASS- 90-0894
WORMS - CHURCHYARD SONG - NOBODY
LOVES ME
WORMWOOD SCRUBS - CURLY WILLIAMS
WORN OUT SAILOR, THE - "One evening of late when our labours
were o'er" - village street - begging charity - ROUD#1971 - FOWKE SBBNC
1981 pp59-60 Fenwick Hatt Ms c1883
WORN TORN PETTICOAT, THE - OLD TORN PETTICOAT
WORRELL'S HORNPIPE - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #198 p54 (A)
WORRIED LIFE BLUES - see also SOON ONE MORNING - I WISH I WAS IN HEAVEN
-- David "Honeyboy" EDWARDS rec by Alan Lomax, Clarksdale, Miss.
20/7/42: ROUNDER CD 1500 1997 - Fred McDOWELL (voc/ gtr) rec by Alan Lomax,
Miss USA 1959: RPL LP 26148
WORRIED MAN BLUES - "It takes a worried man to sing a worried
song" - ROUD#4753 -- Carter Family (Trio) Memphis, Tenn 24/5/30:
7"RTR-0313-4 - STANLEY BROTHERS in concert CASS-0477 --- MAGPIES
Band (used for dancing practice) rec by PK, Derby 1963: FTX-321
WORST CARLE IN A' THE WORLD, THE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #248 p28 (##A)
WORST OLD SHIP, THE - WAITING FOR THE DAY
WOTCHER -- Bob DAVENPORT & June TABOR with FLOWERS & FROLICS
rec "Empress of Russia", Islington, London: FREE REED FRR-016 1977
WOULD THAT I WERE IN BALLINDERRY - BALLINDERRY
WOUNDED FARMER'S SON, THE -"A farmer's son so sweet" "keeping
of his sheep" - falls asleep - ROUD#1431 - BS by Pitt "Wounded
Farmer's Son" (6v) - Bs by FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint
2001) - BARING GOULD GCS 1895 pp40-1 from Will Ford, Holne, Devon - SHARP-MARSON
FSS 3 - Novello School Series 1 - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #97 pp386-7 Mrs Pike,
Somerton, Somerset 1906/ Mrs Pike, Exford, Somerset 1907 - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp194-6
Lucy Broadwood: Mrs Joiner, Chiswell Green, Hertfordsh 1914 & Hammond: Mrs
Gould, Morcombelake, Dorset 1906 - FMJ 1976 pp165-6 Pitts Bs London (w/o)
WOUNDED HUSSAR, THE - "Alone to the banks of the dark rolling
Danube, fair Adelaide roamed when the battle was o'er" - ROUD#2699
- comp by Thomas Campbell - BSs - Vocal Library 1822 #1187 p443 - 1 verse transcr
by Seamus Ennis from Padraig O Keefe --- CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p159 David Slaunwhite
1950 6v/m
WOUNDED HUSSAR, THE - 3/4 - EDINBURGH REPOSITORY 1 (1818) p111 (Gm)
- HARDY Ms - Tunebook Ms #6 p172 (Am) - ROCHE 3 #15 p4 (G major - perhaps an
error) "Where the Augbeg flows" - O SULLIVAN 1958 Carolan 1
#133 p235 "Captain O'Kane" (Em) (as Doherty) Bunting pencilled
a note in Ms saying "Good set of Wounded Hussar" - SCOTT SKINNER
8 (1903) p161 (Em) -- Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL
19578/ 074 - SHEELIS on Radio 2: 24/8/88: CASS-0733-C15
WOUNDED OLD SOLDIER, THE - I'M GROWING OLD
WOUNDED WHALE, THE - "See the sun from her ocean bed rises"
- ROUD#2004 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp23-27 ships log 1836/43 (w/o)
WRAGGLE TAGGLE GYPSIES, THE - GYPSY LADDIE
WRAP ME UP IN MY OLD STABLE JACKET - ("Tarpaulin Jacket")
- Note by Purslow: comp by Whyte Melville (G. J ?). Melville. (1821-78) Air
by Charles Coote. - Cf : ADIEU TO ALL JUDGES & JURIES - RAKISH YOUNG FELLOW
- MEREDITH-ANDERSON 1967 p226 "The Dying Stockman" & p264
"Cant-hook & wedges" -- Harry ILLES rec by PK, Lower
Swell, Gloucestersh 12/2/57: 415 "Stable
Jacket"
WRAP UP - "rowl up, the feetie on't - we never knew we had a
bairn, till we heard the greetin on't" - WHITTAKER NCB 1921
WREATH, THE - "There went a maid and plucked the flowers"
- ROUD#2090 - HUINTINGTON SWS 1964 pp297-8 ships log 1847 (w/o)
WREATHE THE BOWL - Song Air or Jig - HAYWOOD #22 p31 (A)
WRECK, THE - GRAINGER #399 Samuel Holdstock, Wittersham, Kent 1909
WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC, THE - "Dear friends come listen to the
tale" - ROUD#3279 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp229-235 Robert Langville
(w/o)
WRECK OF THE GILDEROY, THE - "There was many a corpse was wash'd
ashore" - ROUD#3292 - JFSS 2 1906 p242 Gilchrist: W Bolton, Southport,
Lancash 1v/m
WRECK OF THE GLENALOON, THE - "Only a ripple and them just a
puff" - ROUD#1965/ 3288 - MACKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp387-8 Neil O Brien
(w/o) - IVES FSNB 1989 pp172-6 Thomas Cleghorn 1964
WRECK OF THE INDUSTRY - SPURN POINT
WRECK OF THE JEANNE GOUGY, THE - comp by GM 1963 about a ship sunk at
Lands End in which 12 sailors died -- Graeme MILES (voc/gtr): FTX-223
WRECK OF THE "JOHN B", THE -- THE WILCOX THREE "The Greatest Folksongs ever sung" RCA CAMDEN CDN-158
WRECK OF THE MARY JANE, THE - "Come all you dryland sailors
bold" -"O I'm going to sing of a ship and crew" Ch: "Farewell
to naughty MJ - she'll never sail again" - ROUD#3026 - O'LOCHLAINN
ISB 1939 pp40-41 Cathal O Byrne, Belfast (text mainly from BS - Canal Boat Song
(?) - Cf CRUISE OF THE CALABAR -- Bruce LAURENSEN rec by Pat Shaw, Shetland
1952 (4v & ch)
WRECK OF THE NEWCASTLE FISHING FLEET, THE - Cathal O Boyle: Songs
of Co Down - Peter SLOAN rec by PK, Rostrevor, Co Down 28/7/53:
RPL 19353/ 433 (with talk bef) - Marianne GREEN
(unaccomp) rec at Session Studio 2003
WRECK OF THE NORTHFLEET, THE - "Come listen all you feeling
people" - emigrant ship - ROUD#1174 - JFSS 2:8 1906 pp191-2 RVW: Mr
Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1905 - STUBBS LOM 1970 pp86-7 Harry Upton, Balcombe,
Sussex 1963 - PALMER OBSS 1983 #126 p253 Johnny Doughty - ED&S 56:2 Summer
1994 "The Ballad and the story" contrib by George Frampton
-- Harry UPTON rec by PK, Blcombe Sussex, 1963: FTX-428
& FTX-512/ rec by Mike Yates 1972: TOPIC 12-T-258 1975
WRECK OF THE OLD NINETY SEVEN, THE - "They give him his orders
at Monroe, Virginia" - trying to make up time on the Southern Railroad
the engineer loses brake control between Lynchburg and Danville and dies in
the wreck with his hand on the throttle - LAWS #G-2 NAB 1950/64 pp213-4 - ROUD#777
- COX FSMWV 1939 pp8-9 Helen Clayton Matthews W Va 1925 pp10-11 Celia McCue
W Va 1925 -- THE TRAVELLERS Skiffle Group rec by PK, London, SE17 23/7/57:
RPL LP 23570 - Lester FLATT & Earl SCRUGGS with THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS:
CBS CS-8751 1963 - Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL-7624 1965 - Taylor KIMBLE (fid)
with THE KIMBLES (fid, banjo, gtr, auto-harp & bass), Carroll Co, Virginia
USA MOUNTAIN MUSIC MM-4174 1974 - Texas GLADDEN (voc) and her brother, Hobart
SMITH (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Salem, Va 1946: ROUNDER 11661-1800-2 2001
WRECK OF THE RAMILLIES, THE - LOSS OF
WRECK OF THE VIRGINIAN, THE - Railroad Song -- Blind Alfred REED
(with fid) rec 1927: Vic Smith prog on "History of the Fiddle" June
1973: CASS-0437
WRECK OFF SCILLY, THE - ROCKS of SCILLY
WRECKED SHIP, THE - GOLDEN VANITY
WRECKS - SHIPWRECKS
WREN, THE - HUNTING THE WREN - JOY, HEALTH, LOVE AND PEACE - MUMMERS
(Ireland)
WREN'S HORNPIPE, THE - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #314 p160 (Am) - O'NEILL (not
in MOI) DMI #945 (Am) "The Wren H"
WRETCHED RAMBLING BOY, THE - WILD AND WICKED YOUTH
WRASTLING CRIB, THE - Danced with door-key on the ground at Winster
- see CJS Dance Notes I p41 (MK)
WRESTLING - TRUBSHAW AND GREEN
WRESTLING MATCH, THE - "I sing of champions bold" -
BARING GOULD SOW #60 (not in Rev Ed) from James Olver HFS Launceston, Cornwall
(missing lines composed by SBG)
WREXHAM HORNPIPE, THE - Denbighsh - see also SWANSEA HORNPIPE --
Nancy RICHARDS (triple harp) rec 3/11/59: RPL LP 25589/ FTX-351
WRIGHT'S HORNPIPE - KERR MM 3 #321 p35 (D)
WRITE ME DOWN THE POWERS ABOVE - COME WRITE ME DOWN
WRONG TRAIN - Norfolk dialect song comp by FR -- Fred ROOKE: FTX-044
WULLAFJORD (JACK) - WILLAFJORD JACK
WYLAM AWAY - Northumbrian Pipe tune -- Colin ROSS (N-pipes): TOPIC
12-TS-219 1979 with variations
WYLIE CARLE - MARROWBONES
WYLIE WIFE, THE - Ballad - CHILD #290 - No other sources located according
to Bronson -- Bell DUNCAN, Insch, Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by
James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: BBC REC-95
WYNADEBLA Shetland Reel -- THE SHETLAND FIDDLERS Tom ANDERSON & Aly
BAIN: LEADER LED-2052 1973 with "Soldier's Joy"
WYRES MEGAN - ("Megan's Grand-daughter") - used for
Penillion "Yr Nadolig" (Christmas) -- LLANSANNAN CHOIR PARTY
rec by PK, Llansannan, Denbighsh 8/11/54: 7"RTR-1036