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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

 
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