NAME: Donkey, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer's donkey is smart but, best of all, he is fast. The singer races him in the Derby. "The signal it was given me boys and off the horses flew." His donkey is "the last one out but the first one in"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (for USBallinsloeFair, according to site irishtune.info, Irish Traditional Music Tune Index: Alan Ng's Tunography, ref. Ng #2616)
KEYWORDS: pride racing animal
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1147
RECORDINGS:
Murty Rabbett and Dan Sullivan, "The Donkey" (on USBallinsloeFair)\
Harry Upton, "I Am a Donkey Driver" (on Voice14)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.26(204), "Jerusalem Cuckoo" ("I am a donkey driver, I'm the best that's in the line"), unknown, n.d.; also Firth c.26(296), "Jerusalem Cuckoo"
NOTES: Why do I get the feeling this isn't really about a donkey? - RBW
Rabbett's version on USBallinsloeFair, as well as Upton's on Voice14, and the Bodleian broadsides, name the donkey "Jerusalem Cuckoo." Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 14" - 8.9.02 notes that "Jerusalem" is cockney rhyming slang for "donkey": Jerusalem artichoke = moke = donkey. - BS
File: RcThDonk
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NAME: Donnelly
DESCRIPTION: A tinker meets a woman: coming from the ball and he soldering against the wall; in the wood and his budget stood; in the bar to "have it again"; in the bed and says "We should be wed"; at the door and trips her on the floor. She should go with him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: drink bawdy tinker sex wordplay
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #863
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "Donnelly" (on IRTravellers01)
Martin Howley, "Donnelly" (on IRClare01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Duchess and the Tinker
The Highland Tinker
Tim the Tinker
NOTES: Notes to IRClare01: "This has been around since at least 1675 when a fourteen-verse version was entered in the Stationers Register but since then it has been slimmed down somewhat, while still retaining its celebration of bawdry." - BS
This apparently is lumped by Roud with his #863, which includes several Tinker-who-can't-keep-his-mind (or other body parts)-on-the-job songs. But Ben Schwartz and I would separate this from both "The Tinker" and "The Jolly Tinker" by the nature of the wordplay and the fact that the tinker is interested quite specifically in one woman. - RBW
File: RcDonnel
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NAME: Donnelly and Cooper
DESCRIPTION: Boxers Donnelly (Irish) and Cooper (English) meet. Odds are on Cooper. First Donnelly is knocked down, then Cooper, then Donnelly again; (referee) Kelly's pretty daughter exhorts Donnelly to get up and win. He does,and Miss Kelly congratulates him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1854 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(77b)); c.1845 (broadside, NLScotland L.C.1270(017))
KEYWORDS: pride fight sports
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1815 - Donnelly (1788-1820) and Cooper fight in Kildare
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 317, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 27, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text)
OLochlainn 26, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2147
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(77b), "Donnelly and Cooper," The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1854; also 2806 c.15(226), 2806 c.8(245), Firth c.19(16), Harding B 11(934), Harding B 11(935), Harding B 19(45), Johnson Ballads 2271B[some illegible words], "Donnelly and Cooper"
LOCSinging, as200750, "Donnelly and Cooper That Fought on Kildare," Johnson (Philadelphia), 19C 
NLScotland, L.C.1270(017), "Donnelly and Cooper," James Kay (Glasgow), c.1845 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Donnelly & Oliver" (broadside Murray, Mu23-y3:015, "Donnelly & Oliver" ("You muses I beg you will lend me your aid, I'll sing of brave Donnelly a true Irish blade"), James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Murray Mu23-y3:037, "Donnelly And Oliver," unknown, 19C) (subject)
cf. "Morrissey and the Black" (theme)
cf. "Morrissey and the Russian Sailor" (tune, theme)
cf. "Heenan and Sayers" (tune, theme)
SAME_TUNE:
"I'm the Boy Can Do It" (per broadside Bodleian Harding B 17(77b))
NOTES: Michael Padden and Robert Sullivan's _May the Road Rise to Meet You_, p. 211, devotes much space to Dan Donnelly, "a carpenter by day and a pub brawler by night," who was very popular with his people: on "September 14, 1814, he drew forty thousand fans to a fight -- a seventeen-round win over an Englishman" (note that, under the boxing rules of the time, rounds were not timed but ended with one fighter or the other knocked to the ground. The fight ended when he stayed down for half a minute).
They add that Donnelly was "as prodigious a drinker as he was a fighter," which apparently contributed to his demise at age 32. - RBW
File: K317
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NAME: Donnybrook Fair: see Widdicombe Fair (II) (File: K289)
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NAME: Donzella and the Ceylon, The
DESCRIPTION: The Donzella and the Ceylon set out from Lunenburg on February 1. After fourteen days, the Ceylon arrives in Puerto Rico, followed ten hours later by the Donzella. On the way back, the Ceylon runs into a storm and sinks
AUTHOR: Daniel Smith
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship racing storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1890 - The Donzella and the Ceylon race from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to Ponce, Puerto Rico. Captain Charles Swain of the Ceylon outraced his brother, Captain Nathan Swain of the Donzella, by ten hours in a fourteen-day race. The Ceylon sank on the way home
1896 - The loss of the Donzella
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 192-194, "The Donzella and the Ceylon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4087
NOTES: This song is item dD44 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doe192
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NAME: Doodle Dandy
DESCRIPTION: "Doodle, doodle, doodle dandy, Cornstalks, rum, and homemade brandy, Indian pudding and pumpkin pie, And that'll make the Yankees fly! Ev'ry Yankee shall have on his back A great big pumpkin in a sack, A little molasses and a piece of pork...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: food soldier
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 192, "Doodle Dandy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa192 (Full)
Roud #16407
NOTES: Said by Roy Walworth (the Warners' informant) to have been sung by Washington's troops as they marched for New York in 1783 after the British left the town following the American Revolution. - RBW
File: Wa192
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NAME: Doom of Floyd Collins, The: see Floyd Collins [Laws G22] (File: LG22)
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NAME: Doon the Moor: see Heather Down the Moor (Among the Heather; Down the Moor) (File: HHH177)
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NAME: Doors of Ivory: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
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NAME: Doran's Ass [Laws Q19]
DESCRIPTION: Drunken Pat lies down to rest on his way to Biddy's. A jackass lies down next to him. In his stupor, Pat caresses the beast -- only to be awakened by a horrid braying. He flees to Biddy's, to be told that it was only Doran's Ass
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1859 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(946))
KEYWORDS: drink humorous animal
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws Q19, "Doran's Ass"
Peacock, pp. 50-52, "Doran's Ass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 75, "Doran's Ass" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 43, "Doran's Ass" (1 text)
OLochlainn 84, "Doran's Ass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 138, "Paddy Doyle" (1 text)
DT 530, DORANASS
ADDITIONAL:
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 260-262, "Doran's Ass" (1 text)
Roud #1010
RECORDINGS:
Horton Barker, "Paddy Doyle" (on Barker01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(946), "Doran's Ass" ("One Paddy Doyle lived near Killarney"), J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1855-1858; also 2806 c.15(157), 2806 c.15(235), 2806 c.15(237), Harding B 19(93), Firth c.26(40), Harding B 11(947), Harding B 11(3492), Firth b.27(457/458) View 3 of 4, 2806 c.15(236), Harding B 19(15), "Doran's Ass"; 2806 b.11(255), Harding B 11(151), "Doran's Ass" or "[The] Straw Hat"; Harding B 11(2961), 2806 b.11(251), "Pat Doran's Ass"
Murray, Mu23-y1:135, "Dorran's Ass," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(070), "Dorrn's Ass" (sic.) unknown, c.1860 [despite the title, the animal is called "Doran's Ass" in the text]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Courtin' in the Stable (The Workin' Steer)" (plot)
cf. "Jock Gheddes and the Soo" (plot)
File: LQ19
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NAME: Dors Le Petit Bibi (Sleep Little Baby)
DESCRIPTION: French. "Dors dors le p'tit bibi." Sleep little baby. Mama's beautiful little baby. If tomorrow is nice we will go to grandfather's.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (NovaScotia1)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage lullaby nonballad baby
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Mrs Laure Irene McNeil, "Lullaby" (on NovaScotia1)
File: RcDlPBi
===
NAME: Dottered Auld Carle, The: see Old Man Came Over the Moor, An (Old Gum Boots and Leggings) (File: R066)
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NAME: Double Tragedy, The
DESCRIPTION: "Bright lights were in the hall, Everyone seemed happy and gay" at a dance when a drunk and angry Tom Roach strides in. His friend McCord tries to calm him; Roach shoots him. Frank Adams tries to shoot him, but kills Mrs. Walton instead
AUTHOR: Otho Murphy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder party dancing death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 24, 1891 - the Pioneer Day tragedy at Monticello, Utah
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 245-247, "(Double Tragedy)" (1 text)
File: Burt245
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NAME: Double-Breasted Mansion on the Square, The
DESCRIPTION: "I once was young and gallant and drove a span of grays...." The young man was rich, with property and servants. But he "lost a lot at Keno" and now he has nothing left; he spends most of his life thinking about what he has lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1885 (Lane County Herald)
KEYWORDS: gambling poverty hardtimes cards
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 25, "The Little Old Sod Shanty" (7 texts, 2 tunes, with the "H" text going here)
Roud #11209
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (tune) and references there
File: FCW025H
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NAME: Douglas Tragedy, The: see Earl Brand [Child 7] (File: C007)
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NAME: Dove, The: see Lonesome Dove (I - The Minister's Lamentation) (File: R607)
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NAME: Dowie Dens o Yarrow, The [Child 214]
DESCRIPTION: Many men feel that a woman (their sister?) should be separated from her lover/husband. They set out in a band to kill the lover. He manages to kill or wound most of them, but one of them kills him from behind. In many texts the lady dies of sorrow
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1768 (Percy collection)
KEYWORDS: courting fight death family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord,High)) US(MA,NE,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (22 citations)
Child 214, "The Braes o Yarrow" (18 texts)
Bronson 214, "The Braes o Yarrow" (42 versions+2 in addenda)
Dixon XIII, pp. 68-70, "The Braes o' Yarrow" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 291-293, "The Braes of Yarrow" (1 short text plus a fragment, 1 tune; the "A" text is a composite lost love song with single stanzas from "The Braes o Yarrow," "The Curragh of Kildare," and others beyond identification; as a whole it cannot be considered a version of Child #214) {Bronson's #37}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 235-237, "The Dewy Dens of Darrow" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #42}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 255-259, "The Braes of Yarrow" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {A=Bronson's #42}
Leach, pp. 568-571, "The Braes o Yarrow" (1 text, with a Scandinavian text for comparison)
Friedman, p. 99, "The Braes o' Yarrow" (1 text which incorporates most verses of "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow")
OBB 150, "The Dowie Houms of Yarrow" (1 text)
FSCatskills 45, "The Dens of Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 24, "The Braes o Yarrow" (1 text, which Cox lists here though it is so worn down that it might as well be considered a lyric piece; the plot is entirely gone, compare the Hamilton text in Percy)
Ord, pp. 426-429, "The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
MacSeegTrav 17, "The Braes o' Yarrow" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 19, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 77, "The Dewy Dells of Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 10, "The Braes O' Yarrow" (1 text)
Niles 54, "The Braes o Yarrow" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 54-55, "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 115-116, "The Dowie Houms o Yarrow" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 179, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (1 text)
cf. Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 362-367, "The Braes of Yarrow" (1 text, said to be William Hamilton's adaption of this song)
DT 214, YARROW1*
Roud #13
RECORDINGS:
Liam Clancy, "Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (on IRLClancy01)
Ewan MacColl, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (on Lomax43, LomaxCD1743) {Bronson's #33}
John MacDonald, "The Dewie Dens of Yarrow" (on Voice03)
Willie Scott, "The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow" (on Voice17)
Davie [Davy] Stewart, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #24}
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(120), "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow," unknown, c. 1890 [scan largely illegible but probably this piece]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow" [Child 215]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Lady and the Shepherd
The Dreary Dream
In the Lonely Glens of Yarrow
NOTES: Several scholars, among them Norman Cazden, have claimed that this song is the same as Child 215, "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow." Certainly there has been exchange of verses. However, I (following Leach), would maintain that there is a difference: "The Dowie Dens" is about opposition to a marriage; "Willie Drowned" is about the loss of a love.
A brief summary of the whole discussion is found in Coffin's notes in Flanders-Ancient3. It's not clear what he believes, except that the two songs are a mess and quite mixed. Which can hardly be denied. - RBW
File: C214
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NAME: Dowie Houms o Yarrow, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
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NAME: Dowie Houms of Yarrow, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
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NAME: Down Among the Budded Roses
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells his sweetheart that she should not forget the promise she made to him among the roses. "Down among the budded roses/I am nothing but a stem." He asks her to be his in heaven, where their hearts will be united forever. Or something like that
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Charlie Poole)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer tells his sweetheart that, though they have parted, she should not forget the promise she made to him among the roses in the lane. "Down among the budded roses/I am nothing but a stem." He says they will never meet again on earth, but asks her to be his in heaven, where their hearts will be united forever. Or something like that
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness love promise farewell parting separation death nonballad lover
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rorrer, p. 72, "Budded Rose" (1 text)
Roud #6577
RECORDINGS:
[Clarence] Ashley & [Gwen] Foster, "Faded Roses" (Vocalion 02666, 1934)
[Walter "Kid" Smith & the] Carolina Buddies, "Down among the Budding Roses" (Jewel 20004/Oriole 8004/Perfect 144/Romeo 5004. 1930)
Happy Valley Family, "Down Among the Budding Roses" (Perfect 6-08-53, 1936)
Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers, "Budded Roses" (Brunswick 268, 1928)
Daddy John Love, "Budded Roses" (Bluebird B-6675, 1936)
Asa Martin, "Budded Roses" (Perfect 13089, 1935)
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers, "Budded Rose" (Columbia 15138-D, 1927)
Red Fox Chasers, "Budded Roses" (Supertone 9492, 1929)
Shelton Bros., "Budded Roses" (Decca 5180, 1936)
Kid Willliams & Bill Morgan, "Down Among the Budded Roses" (Homestead 16116, c. 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again" (a line or two)
cf. "Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me (I)" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Whitey & Hogan, "Answer to Budded Roses" (Decca 5817, 1940)
NOTES: This sounds like nothing so much as a stripped-down version of "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again", minus the soldier bit. But except for that line, the lyrics seem to be independent, so I split them. I index this one mostly to keep the two straight. It's unclear, incidentally, whether the singer is dying or lighting out for the territories. - PJS
File: RcDATBR
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NAME: Down at the Station
DESCRIPTION: "Down at the station, early in the morning, See the little pufferbellies all in a row. See the stationmaster pull the little handle. Puff, puff, toot, toot, off we go!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976
KEYWORDS: train nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 198, "Down at the Station" (1 text)
Roud #10746
NOTES: Amazing what you learn to think of as a folk song once you start compiling a ballad index! This is one of perhaps only two songs from my mother's tradition (the other being "White Coral Bells"). I had not thought of it as a folk song (in fact, for decades I hadn't thought of it at all) till it showed up in Pankake. - RBW
File: PHCFS196
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NAME: Down at the Wangan
DESCRIPTION: "Down at the Wangan across the street From Gifford's Corner the fact'ry boys meet, Waiting for Johnny come down and pay, Down comes old Matthew, 'No pay today.' Stick to the fact'ry boys ...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: factory work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 11, "Down at the Wangan" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #9200
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "This is a fragment of a song made up in Newcastle in the 1880's or early 1890's. A wangan is a storage house ... where supplies are stored for the use of a lumber camp. By extension, used of any storage place. The song told of Matthew Russell, who ran a spool factory.... Workmen often had to wait a long time for their pay in the 1880's, though it wasn't so much of a hardship in those days, since business was done mostly on credit." - BS
File: MaWi011
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NAME: Down By Blackwaterside
DESCRIPTION: Girl lies with a man, who dresses and prepares to leave her. She reproaches him, saying "That's not the promise you gave to me." She tells him she's the most loyal girl in the world, but now she'll marry him only "when fishes fly and the seas run dry"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Johnson)
KEYWORDS: sex promise abandonment 
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England(South)) US(MA,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 151, "Down By Blackwaterside" (1 text, 1 tune plus another text in the notes)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 108-109, "Blackwater Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 65, "Down by a Riverside" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 57, "As I Strolled Out One Evening" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 468, BLKWTRSD*
Roud #564
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "Blackwater Side" (on Briggs2, Briggs3)
Liam Clancy, "Blackwater Side" (on IRLClancy01)
Paddy Tunney, "Blackwaterside" (on Voice10)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(122), "Distress'd Maid" ("As I walk'd out one May morning"), W. Wright (Birmingham), 1831-1837; also Harding B 11(904), Harding B 28(123), "Distress'd Maid"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Camden Town" (plot)
cf. "The Lovely Irish Maid" (plot, lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Blackwaterside
Black Water Side
I Am Too Young
The Squire and the Fair Maid
The Distress'd Maid
NOTES: The voice keeps changing, from a bystander to the woman to (possibly) the man. This song should not be confused with "The Black Water Side" (Laws O1). - PJS
Roud in fact lumps this with Laws P18, "Pretty Little Miss." But that entry is one of his mass lumps, of many songs about untrue lovers. While there is much sharing between songs of this type, it seems better to split them.
Kennedy lumps this with "The Lovely Irish Maid," and I have to admit that there are strong points of contact, both lyric and in plot. This song, however, appears to take a slightly different direction, so I have, with much hesitation, split them. - RBW
File: K151
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NAME: Down by de Ribberside: see Down By the Riverside (Study War No More) (File: San480)
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NAME: Down by Jim Long's Stage
DESCRIPTION: "As I roved out one day in June 'twas down by Jim Long's stage, I met my true love's father" who has other plans for Eliza; singer threatens to take her away "to be me darlin' wife." Father reveals singer has passed the test and can "wed her in the fall"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: love marriage dialog father
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, p. 22, "Down by Jim Long's Stage" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 111, "Down By Jim Long's Stage" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7294
NOTES: A stage is "An elevated platform on the shore ... where fish are landed and processed for salting and drying ...." [per Dictionary of Newfoundland English, University of Toronto Press, 1999].
According to GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador site the author is "unknown, but probably Mark Walker. - BS
File: Doyl3022
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NAME: Down by Sally's Garden: see You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Down by Sally's Garden) (File: FowM059)
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NAME: Down by the Brook: see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
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NAME: Down by the Fair River: see Gra Geal Mo Chroi (II -- Down By the Fair River) (File: CrMa069)
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NAME: Down By the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)
DESCRIPTION: An old woman sings about the "bold Fenian men" she had seen "marching and drilling" 50 years earlier. They died in the glens and amid strangers. "Wise men have said that their cause was a failure, But they stood by old Ireland and never feared danger"
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney (source: Hall, notes to Voice08)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (recording, Margaret Barry)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion death nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Margaret Barry, "The Bold Fenian Men" (on Voice08)
DT, GLNSFEN*
Roud #9266
NOTES: The Fenians were an Irish Independence organization -- but they were also among the most absurdly inept plotters in history. The depth of their feelings are illustrated by the fact that they kept on after an endless litany of failures. (For examples, see "A Fenian Song," "The British Man-of-War," and "The Smashing of the Van (I).") - RBW
Hall, notes to Voice08, re "The Bold Fenian Men": "Peadar Kearney wrote [it] ... around the time of the 1916 Easter Rising."
Regarding "Some died by the glenside; some died amid strangers" this comment at Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 8" - 1.3.03: "The Fenian Irish independence movement began in the 1860s with attempted risings in the USA, Canada and Ireland."
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 8" - 1.3.03: "In the song, the 'old woman' represents the Spirit of Ireland." In this connection see notes to "Eileen McMahon" and references there. - BS
This seems to be known in tradition mostly under the title "The Bold Fenian Men," but Kearney's original title apparently was "Down by the Glenside." Kearney was also the author of the Irish national anthem "The Soldier's Song"; for more on him, see the notes to "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." - RBW
File: RcDbtGle
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NAME: Down by the Green Bushes: see Green Bushes [Laws P2] (File: LP02)
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NAME: Down by the Greenwood Side: see The Cruel Mother [Child 20] (File: C020)
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NAME: Down By the Riverside (Study War No More)
DESCRIPTION: "I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield Down by the riverside... And study war no more." The singer describes coming to heaven, and living in peace with Jesus.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (recording, Fisk University Jubilee Quartet)
KEYWORDS: war religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 624, "Old Satan's Mad" (5 text, of which the short "A" text is probably "Free at Last"; "B" is a variation on "Down By the Riverside (Study War No More)"; "C" has the "Old Satan's Mad" stanza but a "climbing Zion's walls" chorus; D" is an unidentifiable fragment perhaps related to "I Belong to that Band; and "E" is also a fragment, perhaps of "Free At Last")
Sandburg, pp. 480-481, "Ain' Go'n to Study War No Mo'" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 566, "Down by de Ribberside" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 50, "Study War No More" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 281, "Study War No More" (1 text)
DT, WARNOMOR
Roud #11886
RECORDINGS:
Elkins Payne Jubilee Singers, "Down By the Riverside" (Paramount 12071, 1923)
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, "I Ain't Goin' to Study War No More" (Columbia A3596, 1922; rec. 1920)
[Lester] McFarland & [Robert] Gardner, "Down By the Riverside" (Vocalion 5127, 1927)
Golden Echo Quartet, "Study War No More" (Deluxe 1005, 1945)
Missouri Pacific Diamond Jubilee Quartette, "Study War No More" (OKeh 8472, 1927)
C. Mae Frierson Moore, "Going to Study War No More" (Paramount 12323, 1925)
Oak Ridge Quartet, "Ain't Gwine to Study War No More" (Capitol 40057, 1947)
Pete Seeger, "Study War No More" (on PeteSeeger14) (on PeteSeeger15) (on PeteSeeger44) (on PeteSeeger48)
Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry, "Study War No More" (on SeegerTerry)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "Down By the Riverside" (Decca 48106, n.d. but probably 1950s)
File: San480
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NAME: Down by the Sally Gardens
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets his sweetheart by the Sally Gardens; she bid him to "take love easy," but he is foolish and does not. He is now filled with remorse
AUTHOR: Words: William Butler Yeats / Music: Traditional
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889
KEYWORDS: grief courting youth lover
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 182, "Down By The Sally Gardens" (1 text)
DT, SALLYGRD*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), p. 598, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Down by Sally's Garden)"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Down By the Salley Gardens
NOTES: This is barely a ballad, but there is the skeleton of a narrative, and it seems to have entered the repertoire. - PJS
It seems to have had roots in tradition, though. See "Down In my Sally's Garden" and "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure." - RBW
File: FSWB182
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NAME: Down by the Sea Shore: see I Never Will Marry [Laws K17] (File: LK17)
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NAME: Down by the Seaside
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets young woman and asks her to walk with him. She declines; she's searching for her true love. Looking through an opera glass, she spies his ship; hearing that he has been shot, she despairs; if he died for honor, she will die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (recorded from George Maynard)
KEYWORDS: grief virtue love separation death ship lover sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1712
RECORDINGS:
George Maynard, "Down By the Seaside" (on Maynard1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" (part of plot, lyrics) and cross-references there
cf. "Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19]" (plot)
NOTES: This is a conundrum; it starts out as a classic John-Riley-lover-in-disguise ballad, but halfway through does not take the usual sharp turn of revealing the stranger to be the lover returned. Instead, it proceeds in a straight line to the young man's death and the woman's bereavement. - PJS
File: RcDBTSS
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NAME: Down By the Tan-Yard Side: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
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NAME: Down by the Weeping Willow Tree
DESCRIPTION: "Dig my grave and let me lie, love (x3), Down by the weeping willow tree." "Make it long and deep and wide, love." "Dig my grave with a golden spade, love." "Let me down with a golden chain, love." "Cover me over with the sod, love."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: burial death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 268, "Down by the Weeping Willow Tree" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade" (lyrics)
NOTES: The lyrics of this are largely identical with "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade," and I thought seriously about lumping them. But I hesitantly separate them (pending discovery of additional versions) on the basis of the refrains and the much more spiritual feel of "Silver Spade." - RBW
File: Br3268
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NAME: Down Came an Angel: see Christ Was Born in Bethlehem (File: MA189)
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NAME: Down Fell the Old Nag
DESCRIPTION: "Down fell the old nag, dead between the shafts." The crew, rather than haul the cart home themselves, declare, "We'll harness up the old woman, and put her in the shafts, and make her pull the whole lot home"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: husband wife horse death hardheartedness
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 144, "Down Fell the Old Nag" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA144
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NAME: Down in a Coal Mine: see Down in the Coal Mine (File: Wa026)
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NAME: Down in a Licensed Saloon
DESCRIPTION: "Where is my wandering boy tonight? Down in a licensed saloon. Down in a room all cozy and bright, Filled with the glare of many a light, Ruined and wrecked by the drink appetite..." The mother recalls the boy's youthful charms and regrets his downfall
AUTHOR: W.A. Williams
EARLIEST_DATE: 1892 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: drink mother children
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 335, "Down in a Licensed Saloon" (1 text)
Roud #7807
NOTES: Published under the caption "An answer to, 'Where is My Wandering Boy To-night?'" - RBW
File: R335
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NAME: Down in Arkansas: see Down in the Arkansas (File: R349)
===
NAME: Down in My Sally's Garden
DESCRIPTION: The thrush sings sweetly in Sally's garden. The singer recalls meeting her in the garden, and the time they fondly shared. In the end, "My heart became love-weary When I at last must go." "I left my Sally weeping Down by an ivied dell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H828, p. 286-287, "Down in My Sally's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 124-125, (no title) (1 text, with at least the first verse being related to this)
DT, SALGARD2*
Roud #3819
NOTES: This may have influenced the Yeats poem, "Down by the Sally Garden," though that poem may also have been inspired by "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure." Or both may have played a part. - RBW
File: HHH828
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NAME: Down in the Arkansas
DESCRIPTION: Odd snippets with the refrain "Down in the Arkan (x2) Down in the Arkansas. The sweetest girl I ever saw Was down in the Arkansas." Example: "I had a cow that slobbered bad... Asked (the doctor) what to do for it. He said to teach that cow to spit."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (recording, Myers & Hanford)
KEYWORDS: humorous animal courting
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 349, "Down in Arkansas" (2 texts)
Roud #7626
RECORDINGS:
Bill Cox, "Down in Arkansas" (Supertone 9714, 1930)
Golden Melody Boys, "Way Down in Arkansas" (Paramount 3087, 1928; Broadway 8134, n.d.)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Down in Arkansas" (Vocalion 15034, 1925)
[Pee Wee] Myers and [Ford] Hanford, "Down in Arkansaw" (Victor 18767, 1921)
Pickard Family, "Down in Arkansas" (Brunswick 348/Conqueror 7251, 1929; Banner S-6283/Challeng 993/QRS 9002, c. 1929; rec. 1928)
Riley Puckett, "Down in Arkansas" (Columbia 15139-D, 1927; rec. 1926)
Reaves White County Ramblers, "Down in Arkansas" (Vocalion 5224, 1928)
Almeda Riddle, "Down in Arkansas" (on LomaxCD1707)
Art Thieme, "Down in the Arkansas" (on Thieme04)
File: R349
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NAME: Down in the Coal Mine
DESCRIPTION: The miner sings, "I am a jovial collier lad, as blythe as blythe can be / And let the times be good or bad, it's all the same to me...." He describes his dark and dirty life and his lack of culture, but points out how all are dependent on him.
AUTHOR: J. B. Geoghegan (or "Geehagen")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1872
KEYWORDS: mining nonballad work
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Britain
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Warner 26, "Down in the Coal Mine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 128-129, "Down in the Coalmine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 171-172, "Down in a Coal Mine" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOWNCOAL
Roud #3502
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go)" (part of tune)
File: Wa026
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NAME: Down in the Diving Bell (The Mermaid (II))
DESCRIPTION: Singer, a sailor, sees amazing sights while down in the diving bell (including the Atlantic Cable used as a clothesline). He courts and marries a mermaid and they live happily, if wetly, ever after
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (Broadside Bodleian Harding B 11(965))
KEYWORDS: courting marriage wedding sea humorous sailor mermaid/man
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5013
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Mermaid (Down in the Diving Bell)" (AFS 4199 A2, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(965), "Down in the Diving Bell," J. Harkness (Preston) , 1840-1866
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mermaid" (subject matter)
cf. "The Merman (Pretty Fair Maid with a Tail)" [Laws K24] (plot)
cf. "Married to a Mermaid" (theme of marrying a mermaid)
NOTES: I call this "Down in the Diving Bell" to differentiate it from "The Mermaid", and because it seems to have entered tradition under that title. The origin is almost certainly music-hall or vaudeville. - PJS
Bodleian Harding B 11(965) has no reference to the Atlantic cable (which would have set an early date of 1865; an article on the diving bell was printed in 1771 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (source: _The History of the Diving Bell_ by Arthur J Bachrach, Ph.D. on the Historical Diving Society site.)) - BS
File: RcDitDB
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NAME: Down in the Lehigh Valley: see The Lehigh Valley (File: EM198)
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NAME: Down in the Meadow (Down in the Valley II)
DESCRIPTION: Singing game/skipping rhyme "Down in the (meadow/valley) where the green grass grows," a girl shines like a rose (or hangs out her clothes). She and a young man court (and marry)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1898 (Gomme)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 59, "Skipping (Down in the Valley)" (1 text)
Roud #12967
File: SNR059
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NAME: Down in the Place Where I Come From
DESCRIPTION: "Down in de place where I come from, Dey feed dose coons on hard-parched cawn, Dey swell up an' dey get so far Day dey couldn't get deir heads in a Number Ten hat." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: animal food clothes
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 284, (no title) (1 fragment)
NOTES: Anyone who has had to deal with an urban raccoon will know how true this is; trash is so abundant and convenient that the critters tend to take over yards and even houses. It's also reported that many of them are ending up with severe dental problems.... - RBW
File: ScNF284A
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NAME: Down in the Town of Old Bantry (The Black and Tan Gun)
DESCRIPTION: An Irish soldier is dying in Bantry "shot by a Black-and-Tan gun" He asks his comrades to bury him "out on the mountain Where I can see where the battle was won" They bury him, return to Dublin "with our victories over and won."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recording, Tommy McGrath)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion Civilwar IRA dying soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1920-1921 - The Black and Tan War
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
ST RcBlTaGu (Full)
Roud #12938
RECORDINGS:
Tommy McGrath, "Down in the Town of Old Bantry" (on Voice08)
NOTES: The "Black and Tans" were British reinforcements to regular British soldiers sent to Ireland in 1920. (source: _Michael Collins: A Man Against an Empire_ copyright by and available on the History Net site) For more information see RBW note for "The Bold Black and Tan" - BS
Although details in the song are lacking, its setting in Bantry is quite reasonable; the south of Ireland was noteworthy for the fury of the contest with the English, with Cork being probably the single most active IRA center. Robert Kee, in _Ourselves Alove_, being volume III of _The Green Flag_, devotes pp. 102-103 to the atrocities committed by both side in Bantry.
The sad irony is that, once the Irish fought off the British, and achieved the Free State (see the notes to "The Irish Free State"), they proceeded to have a civil war (see "General Michael Collins"). That by implication dates this song to 1921 or 1922, before it became clear that the "victory" of the Black and Tan war just led to more violence. Of course, many Irish songwriters have tended to write about their successes and ignore the subsequent failures. - RBW
File: RcBlTaGu
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NAME: Down in the Tules
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, down in the tules, a-wranglin' around, I'd give a month's pay just to be in town." A cowboy complains about his hard work. He goes into town and parties, concluding "Saturday night's over, it's back to the hills;" partied out, he wants to go home
AUTHOR: Jim McElroy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: cowboy work home party
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 73, "Down in the Tules" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: "Tules," Ohrlin explains, are the reed grasses that grow by bodies of water. This gives rise to the secondary meaning "boondocks, outskirts." - RBW
File: Ohr073
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NAME: Down in the Valley
DESCRIPTION: "Down in the valley, valley so low, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow." The singer tells of his deep, unrequited love for (his/her) sweetheart. (He) bids farewell: "If you don't love me, love whom you please." (He says to write to Birmingham Jail.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation prison lyric
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Belden, p. 488, "Down in the Valley"; pp. 488-489, "Bird in a Cage" (2 texts)
Randolph 772, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 281, "Down in the Valley (Birmingham Jail)" (1 text plus a fragment); also probably 282, "I Sent My Love a Letter" (3 texts, of which "A" is likely to be this piece and "C" is a mess with some "Down in the Valley" verses and others about Lulu, though it's not clear which Lulu; "B" is "Green Grows the Laurel (Green Grow the Lilacs)")
Fuson, p. 142, "Bird in the Cage" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 148, "Down in the Valley"; 213, "Bird in a Cage" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 19, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 147-149, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 150, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 58, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 902-903, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 33, "Down In The Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 290, "Down in the Valley" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 150, "Down In The Valley" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 201-202, "Down in the Valley"
DT, DOWNVALY*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 212, (no title) (1 fragment)
Roud #943
RECORDINGS:
[Tom] Darby & [Jimmie] Tarlton, "Birmingham Jail" (Columbia 15212-D, 1927)
Ezra Hill & Henry Johnson, "Birmingham Jail" (Challenge 15750, 1929)
Frank Proffitt, "Down in the Valley" (on Proffitt03)
Riley Puckett, "Down in the Valley" (Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22464, n.d.)
Pete Seeger, "Down in the Valley" (on LonesomeValley) (on PeteSeeger17)
Unidentified group of singers, "Down in the Valley" (on JThomas01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlotte the Harlot (III)" (tune)
cf. "Bull Connor's Jail" (tune)
cf. "The Stolen Bride" (tune)
cf. "Billy My Darling" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Hang Your Head Over (Suck Your Big Toe) (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 110)
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton, "Birmingham Jail - No. 2" (Columbia 15375-D, 1929; rec. 1928); "New Birmingham Jail" (Columbia 15629-D, 1930 -- note that two different takes were issued under this record number)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Birmingham Jail
NOTES: "Birmingham Jail" (sometimes credited to E.V. Body) is considered by some a separate song, but it can hardly be distinguished from "Down in the Valley." The same can be said of Sandburg's and Belden's "Bird in a Cage" texts; it lacks the "Down in the Valley" stanza, but the other verses are common. - RBW
This song is often called "Birmingham Jail," particularly on early recordings; there is also, however, another song called "Birmingham Jail", which is part of the "Sweet Thing/Crawdad Hole" family, and no relation to this. - PJS
File: R772
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NAME: Down in the Valley to Pray
DESCRIPTION: "As I went down in the valley to pray, Studying about the good old way (or: My soul got happy and I stayed all day)." "Oh, (sinners/mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters, etc.), let's go down, you better go down, Down in the valley to pray."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 553, "As I Went Down in the Valley to Pray" (3 short texts with significant variations)
DT, DOWNVALL
Roud #4928
RECORDINGS:
Delta Big Four, "Moaner Let's Go Down in the Valley" (Paramount 13009, 1930; on VocalQ2)
Price Family Sacred Singers, "I Went Down Into the Valley to Pray" (OKeh 40796, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Can't Cross Jordan"
File: Br3553
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NAME: Down in the Willow Garden: see Rose Connoley [Laws F6] (File: LF06)
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NAME: Down in Yon Forest: see The Corpus Christi Carol (File: L691)
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NAME: Down On Me
DESCRIPTION:  Floating verses: "Down on me, down on me..." "I wonder what Satan is growling about..." "Mind my mother how you walk on the cross..." "Satan's mad and I'm so glad..." Refrain: "...Seems like everybody in this whole wide world is down on me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (recording, Dock Reed)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses nonballad religious Devil
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12256
RECORDINGS:
Mary Pinckney, "Down on Me" (on BeenStorm1)
Dock Reed, "Down on Me" (AFS 4058 A1, 1940; on LC10)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "That's All Right" (floating verses)
File: RcDoOnMe
===
NAME: Down on Penney's Farm: see Down on Penny's Farm (File: LoF147)
===
NAME: Down on Penny's Farm
DESCRIPTION: "Hard times in the country, Down on Penny's farm." The renters are subjected to dreadful conditions: Bad land, houses with "no windows but the cracks in the wall," low income, high expenses -- and a threat of going on the chain gang for debt
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Bently Boys)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes work farming poverty landlord nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 147, "Down on Penney's Farm" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, p. 362, "Down on Penny's Farm" (1 text)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 66 "Down on Penny's Farm" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 216-217, "Down on Roberts' Farm" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 119, "Robert's Farm" (1 text)
Roud #6687
RECORDINGS:
Bently Boys, "Down on Penny's Farm"  (Columbia 15565-D, 1930; rec. 1929; on AAFM1, HardTimes1)
Pete Seeger, "Penny's Farm" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
On Tanner's Farm
NOTES: Bascom Lamar Lunsford has the "Roberts' Farm" version from a Claude Reeves of North Carolina, who claimed to have written it around 1935. It would seem, however, that this was only a local adaption. - RBW
Bob Dylan wrote a parody/pastiche of this song entitled "New York Town". -PJS
And, of course, Gid Tanner produced a version about his own farm! - RBW
File: LoF147
===
NAME: Down on Roberts' Farm: see Down on Penny's Farm (File: LoF147)
===
NAME: Down on Tanner' Farm: see Down on Penny's Farm (File: LoF147)
===
NAME: Down on the Banks of the Ohio: see Banks of the Ohio [Laws F5]
 (File: LF05)
===
NAME: Down on the Farm (I)
DESCRIPTION: Susie Slick and Tommy lay on the grass, where she wiggles her ---, as in all such teasing songs.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 216-221, "Down on the Farm" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Teasing Songs" (specifically "Suzanne Was a Lady," "The Ship's in the Harbor," "There Once Was a Farmer," "Two Irishmen, Two Irishmen")
cf. "Butcher Town"
File: RL216
===
NAME: Down on the Farm (II)
DESCRIPTION: "When a boy I used to dwell in a home I loved so well, Far away among the clover and the bees." The singer describes the happy life on the farm, the family among whom he worked -- and the changes since his "boyhood's happy days down on the farm."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: farming family father mother home death separation return
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 210, "Down on the Farm" (1 text plus mention of 3 more; also a text of "Down on the Farm (III)")
Roud #4375
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee" (theme)
File: Br3210
===
NAME: Down on the Farm (III)
DESCRIPTION: "Down on the farm 'bout half past four, I slip on my pants and sneak out the door" to start the long, hard rounds of farm life. He notes that, despite great labors, he has "less cash now than I had last spring." Farm life proves the existence of hell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: farming work hardtimes poverty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 210, "Down on the Farm" (The "E" text is this, appended to "Down on the Farm (II)")
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer Is the Man" (theme)
cf. "The Humble Farmer" (theme)
NOTES: The notes in Brown imply that this is a parody of "Down on the Farm (II)." It may perhaps be an answer to that song, but it does not appear to be direct parody; the lyrics are not related and the stanza form different. - RBW
File: Br3210A
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NAME: Down on the Pichelo Farm
DESCRIPTION: "I got a gal named Dinah, The people cain't out-shine her, And I'll take a kiss if I find her
Down on the Pichelo farm." "Her father's name was Moses, Her shoes was out at the toeses... Down on the Pichelo farm." "An a rig jag jig jag jig jag (x3)..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: playparty farming
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 572, "Down on the Pichelo Farm" (1 text)
Roud #7662
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (floating lyrics)
File: R572
===
NAME: Down on Your Knees
DESCRIPTION: Thomas Fitzgerald enters hell. He is accused: "While on earth your shortlived reign All your delights were torture's dreadful pain." Lucifer prepares him for sentence: "Down on your knees." He is sentenced to eternal pain
AUTHOR: Bernard Wright (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (O hOgain's _Duanaire Thiobraid Arainn_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: punishment death Devil judge
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 98, "Down on Your Knees" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan: Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald was High Sheriff for County Tipperary in 1798. "He would have people seized on the street, and, ignoring all and any protestations or proof of innocence, would have them savagely flogged.... Bernard Wright of Clonmel, commemorated his experiences in this acrostic piece of verse upon reading of Fitzgerald's death. Fitzgerald's words to Wright -- 'Down on your knees, rebellious scoundrel, and receive your sentence' -- are the reason for the title." - BS
Thomas Pakenham gives a generally pro-British history of 1798 in _The Year of Liberty_, but on p. 283, he gives this description of Fitzgerald, a later-day Judge Jeffries: "At his trial in 1799 [for his brutality] Fitzgerald was to claim that only by 'cutting off their heads' could some people be made to talk. There was laughter in the court. The terrible thing was that Fitzgerald was not joking. His judicial policy, as summed up by the judge in his own case, reads like a speech of the Red Queen's: sentence first, then execution, then trial." (Pakenham's refence is actually to the Queen of Hearts in _Alice in Wonderland_, the chapter "Alice's Evidence": "Sentence first -- verdict afterward." Not that it matters who said it. What matters is who practiced it.) - RBW
File: Moyl098
===
NAME: Down the Moor: see Heather Down the Moor (Among the Heather; Down the Moor) (File: HHH177)
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NAME: Down the River
DESCRIPTION: Recognized by the chorus, "Down the river, down the river, Down the (river to the) Ohio." The full version tells of the river ("Oh the river is up and the channel is deep") and the crew of the boat working on it.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Wolford)
KEYWORDS: river playparty work
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 592, "Down the River" (1 text)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 564, "Down the River" (2 texts, 1 tune)
MWheeler, p. 38, "Down the Rivuh, Down, Boys" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment which might or might not go with this song)
DT, DOWNRIVR* DOWNRIV2*
Roud #7677
NOTES: The playparty version of this piece simplifies the story immensely. Randolph, for instance, has a text which runs simply
Bridges all out and the water mighty deep,
Down the river we all got to go,
Bridges all out and the water mighty deep,
Down the river to the Ohio.
Down the river, down the river,
Down the river we all got to go
Down the river, down the river,
Down the river to the Ohio. - RBW
File: R592
===
NAME: Down the Road (I)
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses, usually not terribly cohesive. Various choruses: "Down the road, down the road/I've got a sugar baby down the road"; "Bound to go, bound to go/Over the road I'm bound to go"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Uncle Dave Macon)
KEYWORDS: love humorous nonballad nonsense floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE,Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 208-209, "Over the Road I'm Bound" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, "Down the Road" (Mercury 6211, 1949)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Down the Road" (AAFS 1802 A1, 1935)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Over the Road I'm Bound to Go" (Brunswick 329, 1929)
Sonny Osborne, "Down the Road" (Kentucky 564, n.d.)
Marion Rees, "Down the Road" (AAFS 837 B3, 1936)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "Down the Road" (on Watson01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Letter from Down the Road"
cf. "On the Road Again"
cf. "Kassie Jones" (Furry Lewis's version)
cf. "Ida Red" (tune)
NOTES: Even for Uncle Dave, these words are incoherent. And -- hot dog! -- that's saying something. -PJS
File: CSW208
===
NAME: Down the Road (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer races his pony Polly for 60 pounds and beats Jones's cob. Jones proposes a rematch and Polly wins again. Soon after this Polly dies and is buried after a sad funeral procession.
AUTHOR: Fred Gilbert (source: Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 7" - 1.3.03)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Recorded by Gus Elen, according to Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 7" - 1.3.03)
KEYWORDS: burial death funeral racing horse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #15128
RECORDINGS:
Fred Jordan, "Down the Road" (on Voice07)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Creeping Jane" [Laws Q23] (theme)
File: RcDowRd2
===
NAME: Down Went McGinty
DESCRIPTION: McGinty bet that McCann could not carry him up a wall. McGinty was right, and "Down went McGinty to the bottom of the wall And though he won the five, He was more dead than alive." McGinty's adventures lead to more falls, prison, death, etc.
AUTHOR: Joseph Flynn
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Geller)
KEYWORDS: gambling humorous injury prison children party death ghost
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 134-136, "Down Went McGinty" (1 text, partial tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 120-123, "Down Went McGnty" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 235-237, "Down Went McGinty" (1 text)
DT, DWNMGNTY*
Roud #4870
File: SRW134
===
NAME: Down, Down Derry Down: see The Crafty Farmer [Child 283; Laws L1] (File: C283)
===
NAME: Down, Down, Down
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the conditions at the Oak Hill mine "that goes down, down, down." He was warned against the mine, but took a job anyway; now he complains of the wet, and the work, and the poor pay
AUTHOR: William Keating?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947
KEYWORDS: mining work hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 56, "Down, Down, Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 867-873, "Down, Down, Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOWNDOWN*
Roud #4758
File: LxU056
===
NAME: Downey's Our Member
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Now Downey's our member you all understand, So beware of the boar, the bull and the ram." The government does nothing. The worthless and crooked politicians are named.
AUTHOR: Leonard Hulan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: moniker political
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 779-780, "Downey's Our Member" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9812
NOTES: Peacock gives no date for this song except to say that "the events described in this political ballad have long since ceased to be controversial." The animal symbolism, if that what it is, escapes me; one verse is "The next thing we heard of out here on the coast Some kind of a bull with a ring through its nose, And then a boar pig and a certified ram, And a spring fitted harrow to tear up your land." - BS
File: Pea779
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NAME: Downfall of Heresy, The
DESCRIPTION: Gladstone, supported by the Queen, has undone Cromwell's proclaimed Church. Salvation comes only through the true Church and not "where every man could preach" following Luther. "The Parson now must emigrate And leave his handsome dwelling place"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 19C (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(128))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 26, 1869 - Irish Church Disestablishment Act
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann, p. 99, "A New Song on the Downfall of Heresy" (1 fragment)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(128), "A New Song on The Downfall of Heresy" ("Good people all attention pay"), P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 99: "We find many allusions to the 'Wheel of Fortune', an image of the precariousness of things in life..... It provided the Irish ballad-writers with a refrain suggesting the idea of revolutionary changes" and Zimmermann quotes part of a chorus slightly different from the one found here. The Bodleian version is 
The lofty wheel is moving round 
The side that's up is getting down
A rotten Creed can not be sound
When lost is the foundation
Zimmermann p. 99 is a fragment; broadside Bodleian 2806 b.9(128) is the basis for the description.
Gladstone drafted the Irish Church Disestablishment Act and Queen Victoria intervened in its behalf. The act "ends the legal link between Church and state in Ireland, abolishes the tithe and ecclesiastical courts.... It confiscates the Church's property...." (Source: "26 July 1869 Irish Church Disestablishment Act" on the Channel4.com site) - BS
By 1869, Catholics no longer suffered significant legal discrimination in Ireland (they could own property, join parliament, etc.) -- except in one regard. They still paid tithes to the Anglican church. Not directly -- the Tithe War had taken care of that (see, e.g., "The Battle of Carrickshock"). But landlords were still required to come up with the money. This particular rule was still around mostly because the tithes had supported many otherwise-useless clergy members. The Disestablishment Act did its best to phase them out.
This sounds minor today. It was not minor at the time. Even if you ignore the predictable sectarian complaints, the Protestant Ascendency was written into the Act of Union. British law has a great deal of respect for precedent; this was more like Americans amending the constitution than simply pasing a law.
The irony, of course, is that the act, as it gave greater rights to the majority of the Irish, created grievances among the Protestants. Which would cause trouble later on, since the Protestants no more wanted to be ruled by Catholics than the Catholics wanted to be ruled by Protestants.
We should note incidentally that Queen Victoria was not particularly fond of disestablishing the Church -- though that may be because the proposal came from Gladstone, whom she disliked and strongly disagreed with. - RBW
File: BrdDownH
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NAME: Downward Road, The
DESCRIPTION: "Well, brother, the downward road is crowded... with unbelieving souls." The song lists various endangered sinners and their fated condemnation. "When I was a sinner, I loved my distance well, But when I come to find myself I was hangin' over Hell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: religious Hell warning nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 256, "The Downward Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11945
File: LoF256
===
NAME: Draftee's Blues: see I Got My Questionnairy (File: CNFM137)
===
NAME: Dragoon and the Lady, The: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Dramdrinker, The
DESCRIPTION: "Good morning, Mr. Dramdrinker. How do you do? How have you been since I parted from you? How did you come by the bruise on your head...?" The singer had fanily, fortune, friends; all are now lost to drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: drink death family poverty abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 470-471, "The Dramdrinker" (1 text)
Roud #7831
File: Beld470
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NAME: Draw a Bucket of Water
DESCRIPTION: "Draw a (bucket/pail) of water For my lady's daughter; My father's a king and my mother's a queen, My two little sisters are dress'd in green... Pray thee, fine lady, come under my bush."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: playparty royalty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #652, p. 259, "(Draw a pail of water)"
Roud #11635
File: BGMG652
===
NAME: Dreadful Ghost, The: see The Sailor and the Ghost [Laws P34A/B] (File: LP34)
===
NAME: Dreadful Massacre of Sixmilebridge, The
DESCRIPTION: "Upon the 21st day of July, Those fine young youths were compell'd to die, In Sixmilebridge, in the County Clare, To see the elections was what brought them there." An Orange troop attacked the crowd with musket and bayonet.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence murder Ireland lament political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 21, 1852 - "Seven people were killed in an election riot at Sixmilebridge" (source: Zimmermann) 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 62, "A Lament Written on the Dreadful Massacre of Sixmilebridge" (1 text)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "Several soldiers were found guilty of wilful murder." - BS
File: Zimm062
===
NAME: Dreadnaught, The: see The Dreadnought [Laws D13] (File: LD13)
===
NAME: Dreadnought, The [Laws D13]
DESCRIPTION: A song describing a run on the "Dreadnaught" from Liverpool to New York. Other than a concluding wish for captain and crew, most of the song is a catalog of places the ship visits
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: sea travel ship shanty sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1853- Launch of the Dreadnaught, the most famous of the transatlantic packets
1869 - Wreck of the Dreadnaught
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW) Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws D13, "The Dreadnaught"
Rickaby 42, "The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doerflinger, pp. 126-128, "The Dreadnought" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 170-171, "The Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 101-103, "Cruise of the Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 122-123, "Goodbye, Fare-Ye-Well" (1 text, version D of "Homeward Bound") [AbEd, p. 106]; pp. 464-469, "The Flash Frigate," "The Dreadnaught," "The Liverpool Packet" (5 texts, 4 tunes and several fragments) [AbEd, pp. 344-348]; p. 124, "Goodbye, Fare-Ye-Well" (the "d" text is "The Dreadnought" with a "Homeward Bound" chorus) [AbEd, p. 106]
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 102-104, "The Dreadnought" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H194, pp. 99-100, "The Zared" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 227-229, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 140-141, "Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 19, "Liverpool Packet" (1 text)
DT 614, DREDNGHT*
Roud #924
RECORDINGS:
Stanley Baby, "The 'Dreadnaught'" (on GreatLakes1)
Bill Barber & Cadgwith fishermen, "The Liverpool Packet" (on LastDays)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Londonderry Love Song" (the ship Zared is mentioned in that song and some versions of this)
cf. "The Flash Frigate (La Pique)" (tune)
cf. "Yankee Tars" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Bound Away
NOTES: The Dreadnought, one of the best-known of the packets, was launched in 1853 and wrecked off Cape Horn in 1869. It should not be confused with the battleship (launched in 1905) which started the "Dreadnaught Revolution" and a pre-World-War-I arms race.
Huntington, in the notes to this song in SHenry, writes, "Perhaps Laws is correct in including 'The _Dreadnaught_' as American; however, it derives from a broadside ballad about a British naval vessel, 'La _Pique_.'"
That "The Dreadnought" and "The Flash Frigate (La Pique)" share a tune is undeniable, and _La Pique_ was the earlier ship. I'm not sure that absolutely proves that "The Flash Frigate" is older, though.
There is some confusion about the spelling of the ship's name. Laws called it the _Dreadnaught_, and earlier editions of the Index followed him because, well, I didn't notice. Every reference I have checked, however, gives the title of the ship involved (as well as the later battleship) as _Dreadnought_ (with an o rather than an a).
Incidentally, _Dreadnought_ had about as interesting a career as a ship on the Liverpool/New York run could have. Those interested in a brief summary may consult Octavius T. Howe and Frederick G. Matthews, _American Clipper Ships 1833-1858_ (Volume I), pp. 139-146; the book also reproduces two paintings of the ship. - RBW
File: LD13
===
NAME: Dream of General T. F. Burke, A: see Burke's Dream [Laws J16] (File: LJ16)
===
NAME: Dream of the Miner's Child, The
DESCRIPTION: "A miner was leaving his home for his work When he heard his little child scream." She had dreamt of his death in the mines, and begs him not to go to work that day. But he must go to work. (In some versions the song ends with a mining disaster)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph); for "Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad" the earliest date is 1910 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: father work mining children dream disaster death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Green-Miner, p. 113-115, "Dream of the Miner's Child" (2 texts, 1 tune, plus a text of "Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad")
Randolph 859, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (1 text)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 141-142, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MINERCHD*
Roud #2334
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (OKeh 40498, 1925) (Columbia 15046-D [as Al Craver], 1925) (Victor 19821, 1925) (Cameo 812/Lincoln 2429, 1925; Romeo 332, 1927) (Pathe 32150/Pathe 032150/Perfect 12229, 1925) (Edison 51649 [as Vernon Dalhart & Co.], 1925) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5085 [as Vernon Dalhart & Co.], 1925) (Gennett 3197, 1926; Challenge 505, 1927; Herwin 75502, n.d.; rec. 1925) (Banner 1672/Domino 3642/Oriole 545/Paramount 33176/Regal 9978, 1926; rec. 1925) (Vocalion 5086/Vocalion 15217, 1926)
Morris Brothers, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (Bluebird B-8841, 1941)
Arnold Keith Storm, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (on AKStorm01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Les Reeder" (theme)
cf. "Blockader Mama" (theme)
File: R859
===
NAME: Dreary Black Hills, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer arrives in the Black Hills to find "loafers and bummers" filling the streets of Cheyenne -- but there is no gold to be found. He misses his home, and warns others against going there; all they are doing is making the railroad speculators rich
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: gold hardtimes railroading
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1875 - Announcement that gold has been found in the Black Hills
FOUND_IN: US(MA,Ro,So)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Belden, pp. 249-350, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Sandburg, pp. 264-265, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 176, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 438-440, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 24, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 87, pp. 185-186, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text)
Larkin, pp. 95-97, "Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 59, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dreary Black Hills" (source notes only)
DT, DREARBLK*
Roud #3604
RECORDINGS:
Harry Stephens, "The Dreary Black Hills" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Captain Old Blue" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Captain Old Blue (File: PrivCOBl)
File: San264
===
NAME: Dreary Dream, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
===
NAME: Dreary Gallows, The: see Gallows [Laws L11] (File: LL11)
===
NAME: Dreary Life, The: see A Cowboy's Life (File: LoF187)
===
NAME: Dreary Weather: see Dark and Dreary Weather (File: R750)
===
NAME: Drei Reiter Am Thor
DESCRIPTION: "Es ritten drei Reitter zum Tore hinaus, Ade! Fein's liebchen schaute zum Fenster heras, Ade!" Tune in 6/8. Translates roughly as "three riders from Tore" and seems to be an all purpose love song.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Baltzer's _Knurrhahn_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage love horse
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Colcord, p. 96, "Drei Reiter Am Thor" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Saltpeter Shanty (Slav Ho)" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Es ritten drei Reiter zum Tor hinaus
NOTES: Colcord says this is a German folksong dating from the 16th century. It was included in "Songs of American Sailormen" as an example of how its tune ended up being used for an entirely different English shanty, "Slav Ho!" I found another source which listed the title as "Es ritten drei Reiter zum Tor hinaus" and gave a date of 1777. - SL
File: Colc096
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NAME: Drifting and Drifting
DESCRIPTION: "Well I'm drifting and drifting just like a ship out to sea (x2), Well I ain't got nobody in this whole world who cares for me." "Nobody wants me, nobody seems to care." "Gonna pack my suitcase, gonna move on down the line."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: loneliness nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, p. 132, (no title) (1 text); p. 165, (no title) (partial text)
File: CNFM132
===
NAME: Drihaureen O Mo Chree (Little Brother of My Heart)
DESCRIPTION: The singer's brother "is gone to the wars now proud England united with France" and is killed on the battlefield. "The dark narrow grave is the only sad refuge for me Since I lost my heart's darling, my driharin o mo croi"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1856 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(985))
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness war death brother
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn-More 28, "Drihaureen O Mo Chree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 148-149, "Mo Drathereen O Mo Chroi" (1 text)
Roud #2360
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "Driharin O Mo Croi" (on NFABest01)
Brigid Tunney, "Dritherearin-o-Mo-Chroidhe" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
Paddy Tunney, "Drahaareen-O Mochree" (on IRPTunney02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(985), "Drecharian O'Machree," Wm. Wright (Birmingham), 1842-1855; also Firth b.25(126), Harding B 11(1963), "Drecharian O'Machree"; 2806 b.11(269), "Dechrarian O'Machree"; 2806 b.11(190), Firth c.26(199), "Dreearian O'Macree[!]"; 2806 b.9(264), 2806 c.15(199), Harding B 19(106), "Drah Harion O Machree"; Harding B 26(150), Harding B 26(149), 2806 c.8(120), "Drahareen O Ma Chree"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jimmy Mo Veela Stor" (tune according to OLochlainn-More, p. 207)
NOTES: NFABest01: Best says "As far as I can make out Driharin O Mo Chroi means 'little brother of my heart' in the Irish language. Tom [Antle] pronounced it 'Dreery o Machree.'" The broadside version's differences from Best's version are best illustrated by a LONG DESCRIPTION of the broadside:
"I am a young fellow that always lov'd rural sport" in Erin's towns and cities "until I was deprived of my Dreearian O'Machree." My brother was pressed and taken or killed in battle. We used to ramble and work together. Our father and mother are dead. I wish to be sent where my brother is and "like a true loyal brother I'd fight for him manfully Or die in the arms of my sweet Dreearian O'Machree."
The broadside ends with a riddle:
The name of a nymph that Jupiter did admire
The head and tail of a fowl you must inquire
The name of a beast exchang'd in a letter or three
Will tell you the name of my Drecharin O'Machree.
John Moulden -- researcher at the "Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change" at National University of Ireland, Galway
whose subject is "the printed ballad in Ireland" -- offers the following comment on riddles like this:
A riddling verse, indicating the name of the praiseworthy (usually female) person at the end of a love song, is a standard device in Irish sheet ballads. There is a fair number of such -- all are characteristically difficult of interpretation. However -- Jupiter's favoured nymphs can be discovered and it seems likely that this will provide a first name. The name of an animal with some letters shifted around will presumably give the surname.
Dr. Simon Furey (PhD in Folk music research, but not Irish -- from Sheffield University) illustrates an approach to solving the riddle [with my liberties taken in piecing together a number of messages and a contribution by Dr. Furey's wife]: 
How about "John" for the first name? Io for the nymph and hen (h+n) for the fowl.
The only thing [for John's surname] I can think of is "Cow":
In the old children's game of cows and bulls (guessing letters or numbers, a bull is a letter/number correctly guessed in the correct position and a cow is a letter/number correctly guessed but in the wrong position); a cow was marked with an o and a bull with an x. At least it was when I played it at school in the 1950s in England, if memory serves. 
So we have cow as a beast with one letter or three, and "Cow" is one spelling of an old Kilkenny name. The "beast exchanged" is a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk, where the cow was exchanged for beans. Which of course gives another possible link because of John=Jack.
So perhaps our mystery person is John Cow, aka Sean Cough.
John Moulden and Dr Furey are quoted [or their ideas mangled] with permission.
This may bear on dating the song: while Tunney-SongsThunder in 1991 has "He went to the war where proud England united with France," on IRPTunney02 in 1963 he has "He went to the wars to fight against England for France"; Brigid Tunney's version on IRTunneyFamily01 omits the verse altogether.
Considering the "England united with France" line in Best's version and the possible late date of 1855 for the broadside it is at least possible that this refers to the Crimean War. [Effectively certain, I would say; it's too early for World War I, and the Crimean War is the only other significant occasion on which they were allied. Unless Best's version was a Canadian World War I adaption; after all, the Canadians were fighting in France with the French and British. The text from IRPTunney02 sounds more like one of the Wild Geese, though, with the occasion perhaps being the War of the Spanish Succession. - RBW]
The spelling I am following for the NAME is from OLochlainn-More 28. That version, it is worth noting, follows the broadside but without the riddle.
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Dearthairin O Mo Chroi" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) -BS
File: RcDOMCLB
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NAME: Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!
DESCRIPTION: Working on the northern railroad the, crew proceeds from Gambo in the east, westward to the Hall's Bay Line, to Codroy on the west coast of Newfoundland. The crew are named.
AUTHOR: John Devine
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: railroading work moniker
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 781-782, "Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4436
RECORDINGS:
Ken Peacock, "Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!" (on NFKPeacock)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (theme, tune and references there)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Drill ye Tarriers
NOTES: The song follows the workers along about 400 miles of the 550 mile length of the defunct Newfoundland railroad. The passage today would be closely approximated by driving Trans-Canada 1.
Certainly derivative of "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" both as to theme and tune though only a few lines are carried over.  Ironically, one of the common lines is the "you're docked for the time you were in the sky" though the point is lost since the preceding explosion has been dropped. Further, the senses of hard times and of a tall tale have also been lost. - BS
File: Pea781
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NAME: Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
DESCRIPTION: Describing, in extravagant terms, the hard life of the (Irish) railroad workers -- subjected to long hours, blast, short pay (and that docked for any or no reason). And always the order comes again, "Drill, ye tarriers, drill!"
AUTHOR: words: Thomas Casey/music: Charles Connolly
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (play, "A Brass Monkey")
KEYWORDS: work railroading hardtimes talltale
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 553-559, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 14-18, "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 217, "Drill, Ye Tarriers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 112-113, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 442, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 43-44, "The Tarriers' Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 329, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 130, "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text)
DT, DRILLTAR*
Roud #4401 and 4436
RECORDINGS:
George J. Gaskin, "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill" (Berliner 064-1/Berliner [Canada] 4, 1899)
Chubby Parker, "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill" (Conqueror 7893, 1931)
Dan W. Quinn, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (Victor 3155, c. 1901)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!" (tune)
NOTES: This is believed to have originated with an Irish comedy team, (Thomas F.) Casey and (Charles) Connelly, in the 1880s. It has gone almost verbatim into oral tradition; variations in the text are very few.
Very nearly the only exception to this uniformity is the Chubby Parker recording, which is longer than the popular version, and a genuine song about railroad life rather than a humorous item. Cohen, based on this and a few hints in nineteenth century writings, wonders if there may not have been some ancestral text in existence before 1888. If so, that version has been almost completely displaced by the Casey version.
I seem to recall, in my youth, a bunch of us understanding "tarriers" as "terriers," with resulting very odd notions of what the song was about. - RBW
File: LoF217
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NAME: Drimindown
DESCRIPTION: "Bad luck to ye Drimon and why did you die?" I'd sooner have lost my son and hut. When I found her "I rolled and I bawled and my neighbors I called." "I thought my poor Drimindoon never would fail."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (Creighton-Maritime)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Macaronic w. Gaelic. An old man loses a cow but can't tell how; he laments that as he went to mass, he saw his cow, drimindown, sunk into (water, mire). He cries and raises the neighbors; after the cow sinks, she rises again "like a bunch of black wild berries". Ch.: "Ego so ro Drimindown ho ro ha/So ro Drimindown nealy you gra...."
KEYWORDS: death lament nonballad animal grief corpse drowning farming foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 176, "Drimindown" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Dibblee/Dibblee, p. 78, "Drimindown" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 19, "Drimmin Dubh Dheelish" (1 text)
Roud #2712
RECORDINGS:
Ernest Sellick, "Drimindown" (on MRHCreighton)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Maid on the Shore, The (The Fair Maid by the Sea Shore; The Sea Captain)" [Laws K27] (tune)
cf. "If It Wasn't For Dicky" (lyrics)
cf. "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (lyrics)
cf. "The Barrymore Tithe Victory" (subject: cows, tithes, and the name Drimon).
NOTES: The description is based on Creighton-Maritime with help from the notes for Creighton/MacLeod 88(3) in _Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia_. Creighton/MacLeod has three versions in English (two with chorus in Irish Gaelic).
Is this an allegory or really about a country-man's lament for the death of his cow? There are Jacobite songs in which a cow is named Drimin and denotes Ireland allegorically. H Halliday Sparling, in _Irish Minstrelsy_ (1888), gives three examples of this in other songs:
"O Say, My Brown Drimin" by James Joseph Callanan, p. 309 [Also in Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry, pp. 183-184 -RBW];
"Drimin Dubh"--from Druim-fionn dubh dilis "dear black white-backed (cow)" by Samuel Ferguson, p. 148.
"Drimin Donn Dilis" by John Walsh, p. 203.
ibiblio site The Fiddler's Companion: DEAR BLACK COW [1] (Druimin Dubh). AKA and see "The Black Cow." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Dorian. Standard. AAB. The words lament the loss of a cow, comparing it to the celebrated mythological Irish cow which could never be fully milked. In Bunting's 1840 collection he gives a few verses of a political song in which "the black cow" serves as a "very whimsical metaphor, the cause of the exiled monarch." [I must admit, in reading Creighton's first version, I thought of Bonnie Prince Charlie. The more so as many residents of Nova Scotia fled there after the Jacobite rebellions. - RBW]
Other writers, notably George Petrie, Patrick Walsh, Margaret Hannegan, Seamus Clandillon and Redfern Mason, believe "Drimin/Druimin Dubh" (or "Dhriman Dhoun Deelish" "Drimin donn Dilis" etc.) also note the title's symbolizm (sic.) with Ireland. Cazden (et al, 1982) finds that, "with sufficiently imaginative adjustment," the melody resembles the "Drimindown" tune family, which includes O'Neill's "The Sorrowful Maiden" and Cazden's own Catskill Mountain (New York) collected ballad "The Maid on the Shore."
For an exhaustive discussion of text and tune history see "Drumion Dubh(Drimindown,Irish)" on Bruce Olsen's web site. The earliest complete text he finds "is from The Universal Songster, III, p. 45, London: Jones and Co., 1828."
For another copy of "O Say, My Brown Drimin" by James Joseph Callanan (Sparling p. 309) see Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 183-184, "O Say, My Brown Drimin". This is an example of Drimin as Ireland.
Zimmermann p. 56: "the strangest allegorical name for Ireland in Irish songs of the eighteenth century is 'Druimfhionn Donn Dilis': 'dear brown cow'. Petrie gave for this rather incongruous name the explanation which has been proposed for some of the women's names applied to Ireland, namely that it might have been suggested by the title or refrain of an older popular song which furnished the tune. In political broadside ballads of the Tithe War, the cow was still accepted as the symbol of Ireland. (See song 41["The Barrymore Tithe Victory"])." - BS 
 I believe this was the song, originally Irish, which Lead Belly adapted into "If It Wasn't For Dicky," which the Weavers in turn made into, "Kisses Sweeter than Wine." Really. - PJS
File: CrMa176
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NAME: Drinane Dhun: see The Drinaun Dun (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree) (File: HHH206)
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NAME: Drinaun Dun, The (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree)
DESCRIPTION: Irish Gaelic. The singer complains of being "captivated" by a young man, whose disappearance has caused her to wander. She shelters under the blackthorn. She tells of her love, wishes she had a boat to follow him, and warns girls to marry when they can
AUTHOR: D F McCarthy (per O'Conor)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor); probably by 1855 (Petrie Collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H206, p. 289, "The Drinaun D[h]un" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 63, "Drinane Dhun" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 263-264, "The Drynaun Dun" (1 text)
cf. Kennedy 32, "An Draighnean Donn" (1 Irish Gaelic text plus translation, 1 tune; it is not clear that the English version of Henry has any relation to Kennedy's Irish text)
Roud #2363
RECORDINGS:
Sean Dirrane, "An Droighnean Donn (The Blackthorn)" (on Aran1)
NOTES: Not to be confused with "Draigheanan donn" by Robert Dwyer Joyce, a love song about a man who dreams of being home again with "her sweet loving kisses, 'neath the Drinan Donn." (source: _Irish Minstrelsy_ by H Halliday Sparling (1888), p. 301).
Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 143-144, "The Drinan Dhun" seems like a different translation of the same song. There are lines that are close but if translation were not a complicating factor I would consider these to be separate songs. - BS
File: HHH206
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NAME: Drink Old England Dry
DESCRIPTION: Singer calls on his companions to drink, for the English are at war with the French (Germans, Russians). The singer vows to show the enemy "British play": "We'll fight until we die/Before that they shall come and drink old England dry."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1890 (Rev. J. Broadwood, "Sussex Songs")
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer calls on his companions to drink, for the English are at war with the French (Germans, Russians). The singer vows to show the enemy "British play"; "With our swords and with our cutlasses, We'll fight until we die/Before that they shall come and drink old England dry." A national hero (Lord Raglan, Lord Roberts, Churchill) swears he shall be true to his country and crown, and that cannons will rattle and bullets fly before they drink old England dry
KEYWORDS: promise fight violence war drink France Germany Russia nonballad patriotic ritual
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,Mid,North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 270, "Drink Old England Dry" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DRNKENGL*
Roud #882
RECORDINGS:
Rowland Whitehead & chorus, "Drink Old England Dry" (on FSB8)
NOTES: Anne Gilchrist dates the original of this song to the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It was sung by a group known as The Boggens who would go around the village of Haxey (Lincolnshire) during the week preceding the day of the Hood Game, a combat ritual game. - PJS
The Napoleonic date is of course possible, but I personally think it's older. The British have, of course, fought the French for as long as both nations existed. But the reference in Kennedy's text to fighting the *Germans* "with our swords and our cutlasses" argues against such a date -- and postponing to the World Wars hardly helps.
Personally, I'd guess (very tentatively) that this dates to one of the "Succession Wars" of the eighteenth century. During the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), for instance, Britain was allied with Austria against France (e.g. Battle of Dettingen, 1743), and sometimes Prussia (which started the war, then backed out, then went back in). It therefore fits the situation better than the Napoleonic era.
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) doesn't fit quite as well, since the German states were mostly on the same side as England in opposing France -- but it has the advantage of bringing in a Churchill before Winston (and note that the Kennedy text does not refer to *Winston* Churchill, merely "Churchill"): The Duke of Marlborough's name was John Churchill.
This, of course, is not to deny that the song could be adapted to later wars, as in the version collected by Cecil Sharp, which was adapted to the Crimean War by the insertion of Lord Raglan (the British commander on the Black Sea front) into the song. - RBW
File: K270
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NAME: Drink That Rot Gut
DESCRIPTION: "Drink that rot gut (x2), Drink that red eye, boys, It don't make a damn wherever we land, We hit her up for joy." A call for drink and a celebration of its effects. The cowboys have "lived in the saddle and ridden trail"; now they will enjoy themselves
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916
KEYWORDS: drink cowboy nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, p. 169, "Drink That Rot Gut" (1 tune)
Saffel-CowboyP, p. 196, "Drinking Song" (1 text)
Roud #8030
File: LxA169
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NAME: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
DESCRIPTION: "Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine, Or leave a kiss within the cup And I'll not ask for wine." The singer prefers his lady's love to "Jove's nectar," and says that her breath makes even a dead wreathe grow
AUTHOR: Words: Ben Jonson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1616 (as part of "To Celia," in "The Workes of Benjamin Jonson"); tune in print by 1780
KEYWORDS: love nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 260, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 202-203, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes"
DT, DRNKTOME*
RECORDINGS:
Massanutten Military Quartet, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" (Columbia 15751-D, 1932)
File: FSWB260A
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NAME: Drinking Gourd, The: see Follow the Drinking Gourd (File: Arn062)
===
NAME: Drinking of the Wine
DESCRIPTION: "Drinking (of the) wine, wine, wine, Ought to been there for a thousand years, drinking wine." In its full form, apparently a spiritual on the Eucharist
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad religious wine
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 48, "Drinking Wine" (1 fragment)
Roud #7851
RECORDINGS:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Drinking of the Wine" (on BLLunsford01)
NOTES: The editors of Brown, having only the chorus (and that without the reference to "holy wine" found in Lunsford's version) classified this as a drinking song. Lunsford's version makes it a spiritual of sorts. But it's the same chorus, from the same area; same song in my book. - RBW
File: Br3048
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NAME: Drinking Song (I): see Drink That Rot Gut (File: LxA169)
===
NAME: Drinking Strong Whiskey
DESCRIPTION: Singer "being tipsy from drinking strong whiskey ... straight to the raygions of dead men did go." He finds the souls in Hell weary and wonders "if souls who go up to heaven" ever stray among mortals; those in Hell would surely not be permitted that.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (IRTunneyFamily01)
KEYWORDS: dream drink Hell
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 125, "Drinking Strong Whiskey" (1 text)
Roud #5293
RECORDINGS:
Brigid Tunney and Paddy Tunney, "Drinking Good Whiskey" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
File: TSF125
===
NAME: Drive Dull Care Away
DESCRIPTION: "Oh why should we at our lot complain or grieve at our distress? ... while we're here with our friends so dear we'll drive dull care away." Be satisfied with your state, "have a contented mind," and "make the best of life"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: nonballad friend
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 81-82, 244, "Drive Dull Care Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DULLCARE*
Roud #13988
RECORDINGS:
Charles Gorman, "Drive Dull Care Away" (on MREIves01)
NOTES: Ives-DullCare reproduces a note seeming to push the earliest date at least to 1775. - BS
File: IvDC081
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NAME: Drive It On
DESCRIPTION: A formula song in which the singer gives the lady inches one, two, three, etc., until she is content.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy shanty humorous sex
FOUND_IN: Australia Britain(England) US(MW,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 323-325, "Drive It On" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 268-271, "Drive It On" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #10223
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" (tune) and references there
cf. "Yo Ho, Yo Ho"
cf. "Roll Me Over"
cf. "Put Your Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Gave Her Kisses One
Drive It Home
I Gave Her Inches One
The Inches Song
NOTES: Descended from a pumping chanty, this formula song survives largely on college campuses. - EC
File: EM323
===
NAME: Drive the Cold Winter Away (In Praise of Christmas)
DESCRIPTION: "All hail to the days that merit more praise Than all of the rest of the year...." The singer bids rejoicing come in for the Chritmas season. Various Christmas activities are detailed, each intended to "drive the cold winter away."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1719 (Pills to Purge Melancholy)
KEYWORDS: Christmas party nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Logan, pp. 293-297, "Drive the Cold Winter Away" (1 text)
OBC 5, "The Praise of Christmas" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN67, "All hayle to the dayes"
cf. Chappell/Wooldridge I, p. 173, (no title, but called "Drive the cold winter away" in the notes) (1 tune)
DT, DRIVCOLD ALLHAIL*
ST Log293 (Full)
SAME_TUNE:
O fain would I marry/[Title missing] (BBI ZN2003)
I often have known/The father hath beguil'd the sonne (BBI ZN1311)
All you which lay clame/Hang Pinching (BBI ZN154)
Come, come my brave gold/Gathergood the Father and Scattergood the son [missing title from Stat. Reg. Entry, Apr. 9, 1638] (BBI ZN569)
Be merry, my hearts, and call for your quarts/A Health to all Good=Fellows (BBI ZN383)
To all my good Friends these presents I send/A New Song, called Jacke Dove's Resolution (BBI ZN2630)
NOTES: The Oxford Book of Carols credits the first two verses to D'Urfey. Though D'Urfey was the first to print these stanzas, the existence of the song in the Pepysian collection casts the usual doubts on these authorship claims. Playford also published the tune. - RBW
File: Log293
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NAME: Drive, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes a log drive and jam, and praises the "river rats" and "jack" who break up logjams with their peaveys.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 33, "The Drive" (1 text)
Roud #8854
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Badger Drive" (theme)
File: Be033
===
NAME: Driven into Spaniard's Bay
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on the very first day of March, To the ice, boys, we were bound." A storm blows up, bringing them very close to the ice while they are blinded by snow; they finally anchor in Spaniard's Bay and head out on Match 17
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Murphy, The Seal Fishery)
KEYWORDS: storm ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 26, "Driven into Spaniard's Bay" (1 text)
File: RySm026A
===
NAME: Driver Boy, The [Laws G12]
DESCRIPTION: A teenage boy is too sick to drive his mule in the mines. His drunken father, thinking him lazy, beats him repeatedly. The boy dies of pneumonia; the father repents too late
AUTHOR: John A. Murphy (1900)
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: father mining disease death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws G12, "The Driver Boy"
DT 787, DRIVRBOY
Roud #3253
NOTES: The author of this song claims to have been an eyewitness and to have stepped in to keep the father from beating his son. It was, however, too late to save the boy from his pneumonia - RBW
File: LG12
===
NAME: Drivin' Steel
DESCRIPTION: "If I could drive steel like John Henry, I'd go home, baby, I'd go home." Of the troubles of a steel driver: "This old hammer killed John Henry/Bill Dooley, Can't kill me...." "I'm goin' home and tell Little Annie, No mo' trials, baby, no mo' trials."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: work railroading
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 150, "Drivin' Steel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #790
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Swannanoah Tunnel" (theme, lyrics)
cf. "Take This Hammer" (theme, lyrics)
NOTES: I suspect this piece is a variant of "Swannanoah Tunnel," but the tunes are slightly different and I have yet to find common verses, except for the floater about the hammer that killed John Henry, so for the moment I am keeping them separate. - RBW
File: San150
===
NAME: Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron
DESCRIPTION: The speaker admires his darling as, on successive days of the week, she does various laundry-related tasks, all the while she is ironing, which action he apparently adores.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: love clothes work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) US(SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp-100E 82, "Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 117, "Hanging Out the Linen Clothes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 205, "The Linen Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SMTHIRON*
Roud #869
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Smoothing Iron
File: ShH82
===
NAME: Driving Logs on the Cass [Laws C22]
DESCRIPTION: A crew of loggers led by Miller have hard times, caused especially by the incompetent cook, "Old Black Joe." Despite logjams, the drive is successful until the river's water falls too low. The loggers head home gratefully
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: logger cook river lumbering
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws C22, "Driving Logs on the Cass"
Beck 28, "Driving Logs on the Cass" (1 text)
DT 839, LOGCASS
Roud #1928
File: LC22
===
NAME: Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover
DESCRIPTION: A mother bids farewell to her shanty-boy son on the banks of the Plover. She blesses him, but warns him that "Driving saw-logs on the Plover, You'll never get your pay." Eventually Johnny returns, having been driven from the camp without his pay
AUTHOR: William N. Allen ("Shan T. Boy")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby); reportedly composed 1873
KEYWORDS: work logger mother separation money
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Rickaby 20, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-Lumbering #60, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 396-397, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SAWLOGPL*
Roud #2797
RECORDINGS:
Pierre La Dieu, "Driving Saw-Logs On The Plover" (Columbia 15278-D, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Falling of the Pine" (tune)
NOTES: Sung to a variant of the tune "Tramps and Hawkers/Paddy West."
This song is item dC29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW- RBW
File: San396
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NAME: Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve: see Boundless Mercy (Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve) (File: Br3528)
===
NAME: Drought, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the troubles of Australia during drought, and observes, "You curse this bloomin' country for she's only fit for black." The singer notes that, if you survive until it rains, then the flies and mosquitoes will torture you instead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: hardtimes Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 158-159, "The Drought" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wearing of the Green (I)" (tune)
File: MCB158
===
NAME: Drover's Dream, The
DESCRIPTION: The drover is on watch when he dozes off. He sees "a very strange procession" -- a clothed kangaroo and a dingo, dancing birds, a bandicoot playing the flute. He is awakened by a crash as the boss asks, "Where the !!! are all the sheep?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: dream animal Australia boss sheep
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 202-203, "The Drover's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 160-161, "The Mustering Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 265-267, "The Drover's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5473
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "The Drover's Dream" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd4)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. Rock'd in the Cradle of the Deep" (this song quotes that)
File: MA202
===
NAME: Drover's Song, The: see Brisbane Ladies (File: FaE162)
===
NAME: Droving Song, The
DESCRIPTION: At the end of St Patrick's day a young man fails to return home from a day with his friends. A search gang finds him frozen to death in a crack in the ice. They take him home and bury him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: burial death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 70, "The Droving Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab070 (Partial)
Roud #9984
NOTES: Leach-Labrador believes the accident took place in the nineteenth century near Forteau, Labrador. - BS
File: LLab070
===
NAME: Drowned Lover, The: see Scarboro Sand (The Drowned Sailor) [Laws K18] (File: LK18)
===
NAME: Drowned Lovers, The: see The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water [Child 216] (File: C216)
===
NAME: Drowning Lady, The (The Witch Song): see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] AND Johnny Sands [Laws Q3] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Drowning of John Roberts, The [Laws C3]
DESCRIPTION: John Roberts tries to break up a logjam and is swept into the river. He comes to the surface three times, then disappears; his body is found three days later
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: logger death drowning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1852 - John Roberts drowns on the West Branch of the Union River
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws C3, "The Drowning of John Roberts"
DT 717, JONROBTS
Roud #2222
File: LC03
===
NAME: Drowning of Patrick Martin, The
DESCRIPTION: Apprentice blacksmith Patrick Martin, out swimming with a friend, drowns in Orwell Bay. His body is retrieved with difficulty and his family mourns.
AUTHOR: Brian Doherty
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Dibblee/Dibblee)
KEYWORDS: drowning memorial
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 69-70, "The Drowning of Patrick Martin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12464
NOTES: Dibblee/Dibblee: "Patrick Martin was drowned circa 1907 at the age of 24 years."
Orwell is on the south coast of Queens, Prince Edward Island. - BS
File: Dib069
===
NAME: Drowning of Young Robinson, The
DESCRIPTION: Robinson and (Wesley) go hunting by the Bann in winter. The ice is thin, and they fall through. Wesley can swim, and escapes; Robinson vanishes. Wesley summons help, but Robinson is drowned. Family and friends mourn
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: death river drowning mourning
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H585, p. 147, "Sloan Wellesley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 104, "In the County of Innocent"; p. 105, "The Dog and the Gun" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #3600
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Dog and the Gun
NOTES: Morton regards this as an adaption of Laws Q33, "The Lake of Cool Finn (Willie Leonard)." There are similarities, especially in the scenes of mourning at the end, but calling the one an adaption of the other seems more than is called for. - RBW
File: HHH585
===
NAME: Drowsy Sleeper, The [Laws M4]
DESCRIPTION: A young man comes to his love's window and bids her ask her parents' permission to marry him. They will refuse it; her father is prepared to kill him. Depending on the version, he leaves, or one or the other lover (or both) commits suicide or die of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1830 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(183a))
KEYWORDS: courting father mother death suicide
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (31 citations)
Laws M4, "The Drowsy Sleeper"
Belden, pp. 118-123, "Bedroom Window (The Drowsy Sleeper)" (6 texts plus two fragments which might float, 1 tune)
Randolph 52, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (6 texts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 83-85, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 52D)
Eddy 31, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (3 texts plus a fragment, 4 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 22, "Who Is Tapping at My Bedroom Window?" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 3 more, 2 tunes; some of the unprinted texts may have "Silver Dagger" elements)
BrownII 71, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts plus 3 excerpts; the "B" text is a "Silver Dagger" mix; the "D" excerpt contains "Fair and Tender Ladies" verses)
Chappell-FSRA 45, "Wake Up" (2 texts)
Hudson 46, pp. 161-162, "Willie and Mary" (1 text); also 37, pp. 151-152, "Annie Girl" (1 text, which conflates 2 verses of "The Drowsy Sleeper" [Laws M4], 2 or 3 of "Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady)" or "No, John, No: or similar, and 3 verses probably of "Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token)" [Laws N42])
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 139-142, collectively titled "Awak! Awake!" but with inidividual titles "Katy Dear, or Willie Darling," ""Mollie Dear, Go Ask Your Mother," "Drowsy Sleepers," Little Willie" (4 texts; 2 tunes on p. 399)
Doerflinger, p. 314, "Who's That at My Bedroom Window? (The Drowsy Sleeper)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 28, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts plus a fragment and mention of 3 more, 2 tunes)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 24, "Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 733-734, "Who Is At My Window Weeping?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 30, "Who Is At My Bedroom Window?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 727-730, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts)
FSCatskills 51, "Awake, Awake, Ye Drowsy Sleepers" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Warner 188, "Wake, O Wake, You Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 72-73, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 57, "Awake! Awake!" (10 texts, 10 tunes)
Sharp-100E 47, "Arise, Arise" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 46, "Arise! Arise!" (1 text, 1 tune, from different informants)
Sandburg, p. 144, "Kind Miss" (1 short text, 1 tune, primarily "Wheel of Fortune" but with one verse of "The Drowsy Sleeper")
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 200-201, "[Drowsy Sleeper]" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H722, pp. 343-344, "The Sweet Bann Water" (1 text, 1 tune, erroneously listed in the text as Laws M34)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 549-550, "The Shining Dagger" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 21, pp. 51-52, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text; the second text is perhaps influenced by "The Silver Dagger")
JHCox 348, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts)
Darling-NAS, pp. 114-115, "Awake, Awake, My Old True Lover" (1 text); also pp. 115-116, "Oh, Molly Dear" (1 text, very mixed, with verses from this song, from "East Virginia, and some floaters); also pp. 116-117, "Who's That Knocking" (1 text, even more mixed and with a "Little Sparrow" verse)
Silber-FSWB, p. 193, "Don't Sing Love Songs" (1 text)
DT 327, SHIPORDR* SHIPORD2* SILVDAG3* SILVDAG4*
Roud #402
RECORDINGS:
Dillard Chandler, "Awake, Awake" (on OldLove)
Lester A. Coffee, "Awake, Arise, You Drowsy Sleeper" (AFS, 1946; on LC55)
Kelly Harrell, "O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother" (Victor 20280, 1926; on KHarrell01 -- with several verses from "East Virginia" inserted in the song)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Little Satchel" (on NLCR17, NLCRCD2)
Oaks Family, "Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper" (Victor 23795, 1933; on TimesAint01)
Ken Peacock, "Who Is At My Window Weeping?" (on NFKPeacock)
B. F. Shelton, "Oh Molly Dear" (Victor V-40107, 1929; on ConstSor1)
Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles, "Sleepy Desert" (Paramount 3282, 1931; on TimesAint03)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(183a), "The Maidens Complaint ," T. Birt (London), 1828-1829; also Firth c.17(25), "Awake, Drowsy Sleeper"; Harding B 28(233), "The Drowsy Sleeper"; Harding B 25(452), "Cruel Father" or "The Maiden's Complaint"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Silver Dagger (I)" [Laws G21]
cf. "I Will Put My Ship In Order" (plot)
cf. "Greenback Dollar" (plot)
cf. "Go From My Window (I)"
cf. "One Night As I Lay on My Bed"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Silver Dagger
Awake, Awake
NOTES: I put [the Silber "Don't Sing Love Songs" text] under "Drowsy Sleeper" rather than "Silver Dagger" because, although a dagger is mentioned, no one uses it. - PJS
In the absence of any other basis, this is a good criterion. The two songs have cross-fertilized heavily; drawing the line can be extremely difficult, especially for fragmentary forms. - RBW
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 28(233): she refuses bread and water; "single I will go to my grave." Broadside Bodleian Firth c.17(25): she says she will go to Botany Bay to be with Jim and asks for her portion of 500 pounds; father gives in and says "you and your true love shall be married, And that will ease you of all your pain." - BS
File: LM04
===
NAME: Droylsden Wakes
DESCRIPTION: Man and woman alternately brag and insult each other over their prowess at spinning.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: bragging weaving ritual dialog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 36, "Droylsden Wakes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3290
NOTES: "This Lancashire dialogue song was once associated with a folk ceremonial attached to the local 'wakes' or annual holiday." - A. L. Lloyd. The role of the woman was played by a man in woman's clothing; the two participants sat on a cart with a spinning-wheel spinning flax and collecting money from onlookers. - PJS
File: VWL036
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NAME: Drum Major, The (The Female Drummer)
DESCRIPTION: A girl enlists "voluntarily in a regiment of foot" to follow her lover. A soldier sees her bathing; she is called before the officers. They call her lover and request that he pay the postage on a letter from his love. He pays the postage. They are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation disguise soldier cross-dressing trick
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H797, p. 327, "The Drum Major" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1678
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(78), "The Female Drum Major" ("Come all you true lovers and batchelor's sweet"), unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.17(131), 2806 c.17(130)[almost entirely illegible], "The Female Drum Major"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
cf. "The Soldier Maid" (subject)
NOTES: The story in the Bodleian broadsides is somewhat different from SHenry but there is enough similarity in lines to convince me that these are the same. Here is a description for the broadsides: A girl enlists "who carries the drum, In search of her true love to Flanders is gone." Besides being a drummer who "excelled them all," she distinguished herself in battle ("she fought with such courage, I mean by the sword, Until that her fame it came up to the board"). A soldier sees her bathing; she is called before the officers. They hear her story and the captain dresses her "in silks so fine, in woman's apparel." They call Jacklare, her lover. They kiss. The captain gives her "fifty pound, In reward for her service as we do hear. The King settled on her three hundred a year." They marry. - BS
File: HHH797
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NAME: Drumallachie
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on a chill November night... I overheard a fair maid... 'My love is far frae Sinnahard And fair Drumallachie." The singer asks her of her trouble, tries to convince her to marry him, then reveals he is her long-lost lover
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation marriage disguise reunion
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 34-37, "Drummallochie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2481
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
NOTES: Of the myriad Broken Token songs, this seems among the most literary, yet it seems fairly widespread in Scottish tradition. Most of the references are clearly Biblical:
"King David had a faithful friend": This is of course Saul's son Jonathan, and their love for each other is repeatedly mentioned in 1 Samuel (e.g. 18:1, 20:41).
"When Jacob saw his long-lost son": Refers to the reunion of Jacob and Joseph (Genesis 46:19f.)
Various versions also refer to a fair Queen of Scotland. In the case of Mary Stewart, this makes some sense, since she was known for her looks. One version, however, refers to Victoria. Whether this dates the song, or is just a funny error, I do not know. - RBW
File: Ord034
===
NAME: Drumboe Castle
DESCRIPTION: "Twas the Eve of St. Patrick's by the dawn of the day, The hills of Tirconnel looked sombre and grey When... Four Irish soldiers were led forth to die." They had come "to fight for the Gael," but were captured, imprisoned, and shot at Drumboe
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland prison execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: March 14, 1923 - Execution of Tim O'Sullivan, Charles Daly, John Larkin, and Dan Enright at Drumboe in Donegal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 100-101, "Drumboe Castle" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 80, "The Woods of Drumbo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13466
NOTES: Galvin lists this as an Irish song of rebellion, but this is rather an exaggeration; the British had no part in it.
The four men were Irishmen condemned (without trial) by Irishmen. The worst of it is, they were innocent of the crime of which they stood accused (which had been ordered by Liam Lynch while they were imprisoned), but were killed because they were convenient. - RBW
File: PGa100
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NAME: Drumdelgie
DESCRIPTION: Bothy work is described: rising early, working hard in bad weather (but with praiseworthy horses). At the end, the singer bids farewell to Drumdelgie: "Fare ye weel, Drumdelgie, I bid you all adieu, I leave ye as I got ye, A damned unceevil crew."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: farming work
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
DBuchan 66, "Drumdelgie" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix)
Ord, pp. 209-211, "Drumdelgie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2180
RECORDINGS:
Norman Kennedy, "Drumdelgie" (on ESFB2)
Davie Stewart, "Drumdelgie" (on FSB3)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gentleman Soldier" (tune)
cf. "Harrowing Time" (tune)
File: DBuch66
===
NAME: Drumglassa Hill
DESCRIPTION: A confusing song, in which Johnston, and probably Mrs. Johnston, sail for America, and the singer (Johnston? someone else?) hopes to return to Ireland, and there live a life of hunting and enjoying the beautiful scenery
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: Ireland emigration hunting homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H703, pp. 210-211, "Drumglassa Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The best explanation I can think of for this song is that the singer is leaving his hound, Bellman, in the hands of another as he goes over the sea, and is describing how he hopes to return. But even that leaves some loose ends. - RBW
File: HHH703
===
NAME: Drummallochie: see Drumallachie (File: Ord034)
===
NAME: Drummer and His Wife: see Father Grumble [Laws Q1] (File: LQ01)
===
NAME: Drummer and the Cook, The
DESCRIPTION: A drummer is in love with a cook. He sneaks in to see her one night, she gives him a meal and he chokes on a bone. She tries to knock it out of him and wakes the house. The master comes down, chases them, the drummer falls into his drum, both get fired.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Terry)
KEYWORDS: cook shanty nightvisit humorous courting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, p. 460, "The Drummer and the Cook" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DRUMCOOK, DRUMCOO2*
Roud #3136
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sailor's Consolation" (similar chorus)
NOTES: [Regarding the date:] Hugill says this is from one of Richard Runciman Terry's books, unfortunately he didn't specify which one [It appears to be Shanty Book 2, and the informant, interestingly, was named James Runciman - RBW]. Terry supposed that this was a music hall song which was taken wholesale into the shanty repertoire. He says he learned it from Cap'n John Runciman, who in turn had it from the cook of the Blyth brig _Northumberland._ Harry Belafonte recorded this in the 1950s. - SL
File: Hugi460
===
NAME: Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The [Laws A15]
DESCRIPTION: "On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground The dead and wounded lay. Amid them was a drummer boy Who beat the drum that day." One of the many Federal casualties at Shiloh was a young drummer boy. He is mourned and buried by older survivors.
AUTHOR: Will S. Hays
EARLIEST_DATE: 1862 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar death youth
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh. The army of U.S. Grant is forced back but, reinforced by Buell, beats off the army of A.S. Johnston. Johnston is killed. Both sides suffer heavy casualties (Shiloh was the first battle to show how bloody the Civil War would be)
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws A15, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
Randolph 239, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" (1 text)
BrownII 230, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" (1 text plus two excerpts, one of which approximates the whole song)
DT 364, DRUMRBOY*
Roud #773
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Vicksburg" (lyrics)
File: LA15
===
NAME: Drummer Boy of Waterloo, The [Laws J1]
DESCRIPTION: Young (Edwin) is leaving home to serve as a drummer boy at Waterloo. Though his mother is terrified for him, the lad knows no fear. But at Waterloo he is fatally wounded; he sends a dying message to his mother and is buried by moonlight on the battlefield
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(995))
KEYWORDS: war death burial mother youth
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Britain Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws J1, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo"
Eddy 58, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (1 text plus 2 short fragments perhaps of this song, 3 tunes)
Randolph 82, "Young Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 10, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (2 texts, 1 tune)
JHCox 82, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" ( text)
SHenry H728, p. 88, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 123, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 70, "Drummer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 389, YOUNGED*
Roud #1804
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(995), "Drummer Boy of Waterloo," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth c.14(303), Firth c.14(304), Firth b.25(540), Firth b.25(431), Johnson Ballads 1170, "Drummer Boy of Waterloo"; Harding B 15(89b), "Drummerboy of Waterloo"
LOCSinging, sb10084a, "Drummer Boy of Waterloo," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also as103200, as103210, "Drummer Boy of Waterloo"
SAME_TUNE:
Woodland Mary (per broadsides LOCSinging sb10084a, LOCSinging as103200, Bodleian Harding B 11(995))
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb10019b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
File: LJ01
===
NAME: Drummer Maid, The: see The Soldier Maid (File: DTsoldma)
===
NAME: Drummond's Land: see David's Flowery Vale (File: HHH212)
===
NAME: Drunk Last Night
DESCRIPTION: "Drunk last night, drunk the night before, Gonna get drunk tonight like I've never been drunk before. For when I'm drunk I'm as happy as can be, For I am a member of the Souse family." The singer calls for beer and is glad that there are few to drink it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 235, "Drunk Last Night" (1 text)
Roud #10191
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Was Drunk Last Night" (initial line)
File: FSWB235
===
NAME: Drunkard (I), The: see Drunkard's Doom (I), The (File: R306)
===
NAME: Drunkard Father, The: see Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now (File: R308)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Child (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, father, do not ask me why the tears roll down my cheek... It breaks my heart to think that I must be a drunkard's child." The child recalls how much better things were when mother was alive and father was sober. (S)he asks father to turn to God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recording, Henry Whitter)
KEYWORDS: drink orphan
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 331, "The Drunkard's Child" (1 text)
Roud #7803
RECORDINGS:
Frank J. Smith, "The Drunkard's Child" (Columbia 15137-D, 1927; rec. 1926)
Henry Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners, "The Drunkard's Child" (OKeh 40169, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drunkard's Lone Child" (plot)
File: R331
===
NAME: Drunkard's Courtship, The: see The Courting Case (File: R361)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Doom (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a man at a bar. His son begs his to come home; his wife is ill and his children starving. The drunkard instead takes another drink. A year later, the singer learns the drunkard is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: drink death funeral
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Belden, pp. 468-469, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
Randolph 306, "The Drunkard" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 142, "Temperance Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 21, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
Warner 82, "Drunkard's Doom"; 83, "A Drunkard's Warning" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 104-105, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 174-175, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 131, "Temperance Song" (1 text)
JHCoxIIB, #31A-B, pp. 203-206, "Temperance Song," "The Drunkard" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 357-358, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 265, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Drunkard's Doom" (source notes only)
ST R306 (Partial)
Roud #3113
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "I Saw a Man at the Close of Day" (Victor V-40324, 1929; on GraysonWhitter01)
Oliver Moore, "The Drunkard's Doom" (Challenge 422, 1928)
Doc Watson & Fred Price, "I Saw a Man at the Close of Day" (on WatsonAshley01)
NOTES: The Warner texts are rather complicated, not fitting exactly with any of the various drunkard songs, and not matching each other either. It may be that the second has become mixed. I file them here because they fit best and they probably aren't worth separate entries; there is too much cross-influence. - RBW
File: R306
===
NAME: Drunkard's Doom (II): see The Drunkard's Dream (I) (File: R307)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Dream (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets (Dermot) and expresses surprise at how healthy and prosperous he looks. Dermot explains that he had had a dream which showed him the consequences of his actions. Awakening in relief, Dermot has reformed his ways
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1842 (broadside, Bodleian Firth b.25(31))
KEYWORDS: dream drink love promise wife
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Belden, pp. 469-470, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text)
Randolph 307, "The Drunkard's Dream" (2 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 254-256, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 307A)
Eddy 101, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 129, "The Drunkard's Dream" (2 texts)
BrownIII 22, "The Drunkar's Dream (I)" (1 text plus 2 excerpts and mention of 2 more)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 366-372, "The Drunkard's Dream" (4 texts; 3 tunes on pp. 455-456)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 73, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 193, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 67, "The Husband's Dream" (1 text)
DT, DRUNKDRM*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 210-211, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text)
Roud #722
RECORDINGS:
Morgan Denmon, "Drunkard's Dream" (OKeh 45327, 1929)
Betty Garland, "Drunkards Dream" (on BGarland01)
Frank McFarland, "Drunkard's Dream"  (Brunswick 203, 1928; Supertone S-2027 [as Kentucky Mountain Boys], 1930; rec. 1927)
Charlie Oaks, "The Drunkard's Dream" (Vocalion 15195, 1926)
Riley Puckett, "The Drunkard's Dream" (Columbia 15035-D, 1925)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(31), "The Husband's Dream", Birt (London), 1833-1841; also Harding B 11(3168), Firth c.22(81), Harding B 18(264), Harding B 18(265), Johnson Ballads 552, Harding B 11(1609), Harding B 11(1608), "The Husband's Dream"
NOTES: This song seems to have followed different paths on different sides of the Atlantic: In the U. S., it is "The Drunkard's Dream"; in Europe, "The Husband's Dream." But both versions are about drunken Dermot and his dream; while odds are that one version or the other was reworked in broadsides, I say they're the same song. - RBW
Is this a sequel to "The Wife's Dream" or is that, if it exists, just a prequel to "The Husband's Dream?"
In "The Wife's Dream" Mary explains her happy disposition though married to a drunkard by a dream she had: having wished her husband dead, she dreamed that he were and was happy at waking to find him alive but unreformed. She hopes "by patience I can change, my husband's wandering life" and then she'd "bless the hour that dream was sent to his neglected wife." 
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3669), "The Wife's Dream", Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also Firth b.27(135), Harding B 15(375a), Firth c.26(53), Harding B 11(4203), Harding B 11(4207), Harding B 11(4208), Harding B 11(4205), Harding B 18(745), Firth b.26(253), "The Wife's Dream"; Harding B 11(4206), "Wife's Dream!" 
There is another "Answer to the 'Wife's Dream'": "The Drunkard Reformed" in which Dermot was about to murder Kathleen in a jealous drunken rage, but is saved in time by her prayer: 
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3249), "The Reformed Rake", E. Hodge's (London), 1846-1854; also Firth b.26(205), Harding B 11(996), Harding B 11(997), Harding B 17(79a), "The Drunkard Reformed" - BS
File: R307
===
NAME: Drunkard's Dream (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "The drunkard dreamed of his old retreat, Of his cozy spot in the taproom seat." As he carouses, "Like a crash there came to the drunkard's side His angel child who that night had died." The drunkard sets down the glass; the host asks why he hesitates.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink death father children
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 23, "The Drunkard's Dream (II)" (1 text)
Roud #7856
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (theme) and references there
File: Br3023
===
NAME: Drunkard's Hell, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a drunkard, has a vision of the part of hell to which drinkers are sent. The vision is enough to scare him away from drink. He goes home to find his wife crying over their child's body. He says the child is in heaven, and that he will sober up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Lomax)
KEYWORDS: drink children death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 20, "The Drunkard's Hell" (2 text plus an excerpt and a fragment)
Randolph 313, "The Drunkard's Hell" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 265-266, "The Drunkard's Hell" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 313A)
Fuson, p. 110, "The Drunkard's Hell" (1 text)
DT, DRNKHELL*
Roud #721
RECORDINGS:
Wade Mainer, "The Poor Drunkard's Dream" (Bluebird B-8273, 1940)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Dark and Stormy Night
File: R313
===
NAME: Drunkard's Hiccoughs (Drunken Hiccups)
DESCRIPTION: Fiddle tune, with words often assembled from other drinking songs. The singer describes his quest for a drink, a woman, a home, directions, or perhaps the ability to stand up straight.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (W. R. Thomas)
KEYWORDS: drink fiddle nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 404, "The Drunkard's Hiccoughs" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 343-344, "The Drunkard's Hiccoughs" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 404A)
Roud #7682
File: R404
===
NAME: Drunkard's Hiccups: see Rye Whisky (File: R405)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Horse, The
DESCRIPTION: Conversation between a man and his horse. The man beats the horse; the horse tells the man to leave him alone, as the beast is just doing its job. (They continue on their round of taverns)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: animal horse drink
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SharpAp 160, "The Horse's Complaint" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 318, "The Drunkard's Horse" (2 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 269-270, "The Drunkard's Horse" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 318A)
Roud #2799
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "Barefooted in front and no shoes on behind" (AFS 4209 B3, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
NOTES: I can't help but think that this story was influenced by the Biblical account of Baalam's Ass (Numbers 22:22-35), which also has a beast of burden talking back to its owner after the owner beat the beast. - RBW
File: R318
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NAME: Drunkard's Lone Child, The
DESCRIPTION: "Out in the gloomy night sadly I roam, No one to love me, no friends and no home, Nobody cares for me, no one would cry Even if poor little Bessie should die." Bessie is alone: "Father's a drunkard and mother is dead." She hopes father will sober up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink orphan children
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 309, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (4 texts plus an excerpt, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 257-259, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 309A)
BrownIII 25, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text plus a fragment and mention of 1 more)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 191-192, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 477, "Bessie, the Drunkard's Lone Child" (source notes only)
DT, DRNKCHLD* DRNKCHL2*
Roud #723
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "Drunkard's Lone Child" (on Boggs1, BoggsCD1)
Walter Coon, "Father's a Drunkard and Mother is Dead" (Conqueror 7271, 1929)
Arthur Fields, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (Grey Gull 4200, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Beggar Boy" (lyrics)
cf. "The Drunkard's Child (I)" (plot)
cf. "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Cohen, in his edition of Randolph, has extensive notes on thie origin of this song; they boil down to, "Something is fishy here." - RBW
File: R309
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NAME: Drunkard's Ragged Wean, The
DESCRIPTION: "A wee bit ragged laddie gaes wandering through the street, Wading mong the snow Wi' his wee bit hacket feet... he's the drunkard's ragged wee ane. The poor child is poor, ill-clothed, ill-fed, and unable to play with other children. The singer urges pity
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: drink children poverty hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCoxIIB, #32, pp. 207-208, "The Drunkard's Ragged Wee Ane" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CoxIIB32 (Partial)
Roud #3112
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(212), "The Drunkard's Raggit Wean," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890; same broadside as LC.Fol.70(97a); also RB.n.168(150), "The Drunkard's Raggit Wean," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 1847-1907
NOTES: Although collected in California (apparently the only American collection), Cox's text is of Scottish origin (as the dialect shows). My guess, looking at it, was that it began life as a Scottish broadside, and the NLScotland texts seem to confirm this.
NLScotland also has a broadside sequel, NLScotland,  LC.Fol.178.A.2(018), "The Reformed Drunkard, An Answer to the Raggit Wean," Robert McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849(?). - RBW
File: CoxIIB32
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NAME: Drunkard's Ragged Wee Ane, The: see The Drunkard's Ragged Wean (File: CoxIIB32)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Song
DESCRIPTION: "I have traveled over these foreign countries, Into a broad and distant range, I give advice to you thoughtless husbands." A drunkard works, spends his wages on drink, beats his children; his wife and children flee into the cold and die
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: drink children river drowning suicide death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 123, "Drunkard's Song" (1 text)
NOTES: Thomas's notes seem to state that this song was by Jimmie Mutters, the singer. It however appears to be a more generic song. - RBW
File: ThBa123
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NAME: Drunkard's Special: see Four Nights Drunk [Child 274] (File: C274)
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NAME: Drunkard's Story, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer started out a successful businessman, happily married. But then, despite his wife's pleadings, he took to drinking. In time this used up all his money, and his family wound up in the street. Now even saloon keepers scorn the man who cannot pay
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink poverty
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randoph 324, "The Drunkard's Story" (1 text)
Roud #7798
File: R324
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NAME: Drunkard's Warning, A: see The Drunkard's Doom (I) (File: R306)
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NAME: Drunkard's Wife (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The drunkard's widow warns young girls against marrying a drunk. Her marriage has turned her old. She describes the symptoms of a drunk, and tells how her husband killed their children, then himself, and left a drunkard son
AUTHOR: Words: M. W. Knapp/Music: L. L. Pickett
EARLIEST_DATE: 1894 (songbook known to Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink marriage husband wife children murder
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 332, "The Drunkard's Wife" (1 text)
Roud #7804
File: R332
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NAME: Drunkard's Wife (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "Don't go out tonight, my darling, Do not leave me here alone, Stay at home with me, my darling, For I'm lonely while you're gone." The wife's pleas fail; he sets out for the bar; later, "They have brought me back my darlin, Dead he lies upon the floor!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: drink husband wife death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 137, "The Drunkard's Wife" (1 text)
ST Fus137 (Partial)
Roud #4286
File: Fus137
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NAME: Drunken Captain, The: see Canso Strait (File: Doe183)
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NAME: Drunken Hiccups: see Rye Whisky (File: R405)
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NAME: Drunken Maidens
DESCRIPTION: (Three/four drunken maidens) come to a tavern and go on a spree. After eating and drinking for hours, they run up a tally of (40 pounds). They are forced to give up clothes and riches (and maidenheads?)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch; Lloyd reports a version from the 1760s)
KEYWORDS: drink party poverty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Logan, pp. 240-242, "The Four Drunken Maidens" (1 text)
Kinloch-BBook VIII, p. 30, (no title) (1 text, a 3-stanza fragment but almost certainly this piece)
DT, DRNKMAID* FRDNKMD*
ST Log240 (Full)
Roud #252
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Four Drunken Maidens" (on Lloyd2)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Three Drunken Maidens
File: Log240
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NAME: Drunken Sailor, The (Early in the Morning)
DESCRIPTION: Walkaway (stamp and go) shanty. The sailors ask, "What shall we do with the drunken sailor (x3), Early in the morning. Way, hey, and up she rises (x3), Early in the morning." Various suggestions are offered, few of them pleasant.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1841
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor drink punishment
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 48, "The Drunken Sailor, or Early in the Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 61-62, "Early in the Morning" (1 text)
Smith/Hatt, p. 36, "What You Going To Do With a Drunken Sailor" (1 text)
Bone, pp. 40-41, "Early in th' Morning" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 78, "The Drunken Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 25-26, "The Drunken Sailor (Up She Rises)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 134-135, "Drunken Sailor" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 109-110]
Sharp-EFC, VII, p. 8, "Drunken Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 257, "Up She Rises" (1 text, 1 tune, actually a playparty which shares only the chorus and a variant of the tune with "Drunken Sailor")
Silber-FSWB, p. 92, "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 205-206, "Drunken Sailor (Monkey's Wedding -- John Brown Had a Little Injun -- Ten Little Injuns)"
DT, DRNKSILR
Roud #322
RECORDINGS:
Cadgwith Fishermen, "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?" (on LastDays)
Richard Maitland, "The Drunken Sailor" (AFS, 1936; on LC26)
Pete Seeger, "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?" (on PeteSeeger31)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Maria"
cf. "Ten Little Indians (John Brown Had a Little Indian)" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "The Mustering Song" (tune & meter)
cf. "I Had a Wife" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
What Shall We Do for the Striking Seamen? (Greenway-AFP, pp. 233-234)
What Do You Do with a Dirty Family? (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 231)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Hooray an' Up She Rises"
Up She Rises
NOTES: A modern verse: "Put him in charge of an Exxon tanker..." - PJS
Bone says of this that it "must be of failry recent date, for only in a comparatively large ship could there be room on deck for 'walking' a light sail aloft, the operation at which [this] was generally used. It was not a chanty often sung. I remember it chiefly as a showy accompaniment when all hands were employed on deck and there was an atmosphere of good humour with us." - RBW
File: Doe048
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NAME: Dry Bones (I): see I Saw the Light from Heaven (Dry Bones (I)) (File: RcISTLFH)
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NAME: Drynaun Dun, The: see The Drinaun Dun (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree) (File: HHH206)
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NAME: Dublin After the Union
DESCRIPTION: Pitt "the conjurer" is bringing the country to Dublin: turnips growing in the Royal Exchange, vermin in the Parliament House, .... "Give Pitt, and Dundas, and Jenky, a glass, Who'd ride on John Bull, and make Paddy an ass"
AUTHOR: Edward Lysaght (1763-1810) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1811 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Ireland humorous nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1801 - Act of Union of Ireland and Great Britain
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 150, "Dublin After the Union" (1 text)
NOTES: The 1801 Act of Union abolished the Dublin parliament. Follow-up reforms that Pitt hoped for were not forthcoming. [The most notable of these non-reforms being the extension of the franchise to Catholics; not only did the Act of Union deprive Ireland of her parliament, but meant that her representatives in the British parliament would be Protestant. - RBW] The song sees Dublin -- its business as capital shut down -- literally going to seed.
Henry Dundas (1742-1811) - Friend and subordinate of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (see "Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville" at the Wikipedia site). I don't know what part he played in Union.
Jenky is, apparently, Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828)(see, for example, part 12 fn 19 of _Byron's Poetical Works, Vol 1_ by Byron at fullbooks.com site), foreign secretary (1801) and home secretary (1804-6, 1807-9) (source: _Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2d earl of_ at encyclopedia.com site). I don't know what part he played in Union.
Pitt, Dundas and Jenky appear together in other songs (see for example: _About the Hastings Diamond and Its Ballad_ at the JJKent site; "A Gentleman's Wig" in _The Pearl_ No. 18, Dec 1880 at the immortalia.com site)
The ass as symbol of Ireland is illustrated by "The Ass's Complaint" and explained in the notes for "The Ass and the Orangeman's Daughter." - BS
We should note that the prediction here was far from true. Union didn't do much for Ireland economically, but that didn't harm Dublin much; as the major city and shipping point to Britain, it attracted most of the people who had nothing else to do with their lives.
It is true that the people of Dublin lived in absolute squalor;  Robert Kee (_The Bold Fenian Men_, being Volume II of _The Green Flag_, p. 195) writes, "The poverty and squalor of much of Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century appalled all who encountered it. A government report issued in 1914 assessed that of a Dublin population of 304,000, some 194,000, or about sixty-three percent, could be recokined 'working classes'. The majority of these working classes lived in tenement houses, almost half of them with no more than one room to each family. Thirty-seven per cent of the entire working class of Dublin lived at a density of more than six persons per roon; fourteen per cent in houses declared 'unfit for human habitation.'"
Nonetheless it was the most productive place in Ireland. And it was the only part of the country where the population grew. This was most clear during the famine years, though it continued until (and even after) the First World War.The population chard in Ruth Dudley Edwards, _An Atlas of Irish History_, second edition, p. 233, makes this clear. It shows the percentage change in the populations of Ireland's counties between the 1841 and 1851 census tallies. The declines are often dramatic. Roscommon lost 31% of its population; Mayo, Longford, and Monaghan, 29%. Most were over 20%; the lowest figures were for Antrim, Down, and Wexford, at 11%. Except for Dublin. Ireland as a whole lost 20% of its population in this period -- but the population of the county of Dublin *rose* 9%. - RBW
File: Moyl150
===
NAME: Dublin Bay (Roy Neal)
DESCRIPTION: "They sailed away on that gallant ship, Roy Neal and his fair young bride."  Despite this happy situation, Roy spends most of his time kissing his wife's tears away. Finally the ship strikes a rock, and Roy and his wife are lost in Dublin Bay.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1860 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1015))
KEYWORDS: love death ship sea marriage
FOUND_IN: US(So) Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 691, "Dublin Bay" (1short  text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 156, "Dublin Bay" (1 text)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 95, "Roy Neil and His Fair Young Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "Dublin Bay" (source notes only)
DT, SWTDUBLN
Roud #785
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1015), "Dublin Bay," A. Ryle and Co. (London), 1845-1859; also Firth c.12(369), Harding B 11(1014), "Dublin Bay"; Harding B 11(3363), "Roy Neil" or "Dublin Bay"
LOCSinging, sb10097b, "Dublin Bay," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
SAME_TUNE:
Bublin Bay (NLScotland, L.C.1269(173b), "Bublin Bay" ("They sailed away in a gallant barque"), unknown, 1857 -- listed as to the tune of "John Grumlie" but with so many lyrics from "Dublin Bay (Roy Neal)" that it coud almost be considered the same song still -- plus the long introduction asks for the pianist to play "Dublin Bay")
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb10097b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: R691
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NAME: Dublin City: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
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NAME: Dublin Jack of All Trades
DESCRIPTION: Roving Jack arrives in Dublin and becomes a porter, pastry cook, baker, coffin maker, preacher .... listing the Dublin sites for each of his many occupations. He can't keep a job but places his "chief delight in courting pretty maids"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(255))
KEYWORDS: worker rake cook clergy
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 40, "Dublin Jack of all Trades" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3017
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(255), "Dublin Jack of All Trades"("I am a roving sporting black, they call me Jack of all trades"), J.F. Nugent & Co. (Dublin), 1850-1899; also 2806 c.15(234), 2806 c.15(36), 2806 c.7(15), "Dublin Jack of all Trades"
NOTES: OLochlainn begins "I am a roving sporting blade" which improves an internal rhyme with "trades" but loses a play on "black Jack" and "Jack of Spades" - BS
There is an old-time country item, "Jack of All Trades," recorded by the Prairie Ramblers and by "Weary Willie" (Frank Luther) and Carson J. Robison, as well as more recently by Bob Bovee and Gail Heil. That has been credited to "Howard Johnson," though I wouldn't be surprised if Robison is largely responsible. That follows the same "gimmick" of a guy who can't keep a job, though the part about chasing girls is absent. I suspect but can't prove influence. - RBW
File: OLoc040
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NAME: Duck from Drummuck, The: see The Wee Duck (The Duck from Drummuck) (File: HHH228a)
===
NAME: Duck-Foot Sue
DESCRIPTION: "I'm going to sing to you About a girl I love so true, She's chief engineer with the White Star Line, And her name is Duck-foot Sue." He details her odd looks ("teeth like bits of pipe"), her proposal "if you don't marry me I'll bust,"  and her appetite.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: courting marriage humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 227, "Duck-Foot Sue" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 129-130, "Duckfoot Sue" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9553
File: MA227
===
NAME: Duckfoot Sue: see Duck-Foot Sue (File: MA227)
===
NAME: Duffy's Hotel
DESCRIPTION: The singer advises those who want enjoyment to visit the hotel in Boiestown. He describes the wild parties, the fights, the mad rush to collar a diseased chicken, and the peculiar visitors. He concludes by setting out for home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Doerflinger)
KEYWORDS: party fight
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 268-269, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 38, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 144-148, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 12, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doe268 (Partial)
Roud #1961
File: Doe268
===
NAME: Dugall Quin [Child 294]
DESCRIPTION: Dugall Quin comes to court Lissie. He asks her if she would love him if he were poor (she would). She asks if he would like her if she were rich (he would). Despite her parents' opposition (since they think him poor), she goes with him and is well-off.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: courting poverty money
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 294, "Dugall Quin" (1 text)
Roud #3928
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lizie Lindsay" [Child 226]
File: C294
===
NAME: Duggan's Dancing School
DESCRIPTION: Paddy Duggan, once a cattle slaughterer, opens a dancing school that exceeds the dancing halls of London and Paris. "When in this hall there is a ball they come from far and near.... in summertime it is a pretty sight" The singer wishes Duggan luck.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: dancing party nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 22, "Duggan's Dancing School" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: McB1022
===
NAME: Duke of Argyle, The [Laws N1]
DESCRIPTION: A woman follows her lover Alexander to battle. He is slain on the banks of the Nile, but she continues to fight. Even though she remains in soldier's clothing, the Duke (of Argyle) comes to court her. She remains true to her slain Alexander
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: battle death love courting cross-dressing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws N1, "The Duke of Argyle"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 39, "The Duke of Argyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 811, DUKARGYL
Roud #1915
File: LN01
===
NAME: Duke of Argyle's Courtship, The
DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever hear of a loyal Scot...." He courts a girl, begging her to marry. She refuses; she has no proof he can care for her. He persists; so does she. He reveals he is Duke of Argyle, and rejects her after she changes her mind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection nobility
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 197-198, "The Duke of Argyle's Courtship" (1 text)
Roud #3797
NOTES: Ord suggests "The hero of this ballad was probably John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, who commanded the Royal army at the Battle of Sheriffmuir." The reference is to John Campbell, Second Duke of Argyll (1678-1743), a proponent of the Act of Union in 1707, British commander in Spain from 1711, and an opponent of Jacobitism who, as Ord says, commanded the Royalist forces in Scotland. I see no real reason to consider him the hero of this song, though. - RBW
File: Ord197
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NAME: Duke of Athole's Nurse, The [Child 212]
DESCRIPTION: The Duke's (?) new leman bids his nurse (and former leman) bring her love a message. The nurse gathers her (seven) brothers to kill him instead. He asks the tavern's landlady to hide him; she disguises him as a baking maid. The brothers fail to kill him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1802/3 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment brother disguise cross-dressing escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(North))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (6 texts)
Bronson 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (9 versions)
Leach, pp. 566-568, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (1 text)
DT 212, DUKATHOL*
Roud #3393
NOTES: The opening of this song is a bit confused. Whose love is the new leman? The Duke's? The nurse's former love? Someone else's? It hardly affects the plot, but the pronouns are confusing. - RBW
File: C212
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NAME: Duke of Bedford, The: see Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (File: FO078)
===
NAME: Duke of Buckingham, The: see The Duke of Buckingham's Hounds (File: Br3218)
===
NAME: Duke of Buckingham's Hounds, The
DESCRIPTION: The (Duke of Buckingham) goes out to hunt fox with his good hounds. The names of the hounds are given. The fox cleverly crosses the water. One old hound at last catches the fox. All rejoice at its fate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell; there is an undated broadside in the Roxburghe collection)
KEYWORDS: hunting death nobility animal dog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
BrownIII 218, "The Duke of Buckingham" (1 fragment)
Chappell-FSRA 102, "The Bardy Train" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 352-353, "A Fox Chase" (1 text)
BBI, ZN75, "The Fox-Chace... Duke of Buckingham's Hounds"
ST Br3218 (Partial)
Roud #584
NOTES: I have no idea why Chappell's texts are titled "The Bardy Train"; that phrase does not appear in either text. - RBW
File: Br3218
===
NAME: Duke of Gordon's Daughter, The [Child 237]
DESCRIPTION: Jean, the Duke's daughter, loves Captain Ogilvie. Gordon, to stop the match, convinces the King to demote Ogilvie. Jean marries Ogilvie. They go to Gordon in poverty; he is turned away. Ogilvie inherits Northumberland; he brings home his wife and children
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1794
KEYWORDS: nobility rejection love courting soldier elopement children
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 237, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (1 text)
Bronson 237, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (14 versions+1 in addenda)
OBB 94, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (1 text)
DBuchan 56, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (1 text)
DT 237, DUKGORD*
Roud #342
File: C237
===
NAME: Duke of Grafton, The: see Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (File: FO078)
===
NAME: Duke of York, The: see The Noble Duke of York (File: FSWB390B)
===
NAME: Dulcina
DESCRIPTION: "As at noone Dulcina rested In a sweete and shady bower, Came a shepherd and requested In her lap to sleep an hour." The song obliquely describes what might have happened, but the singer admits ignorance of what actually happened
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1707 (Pills to Purge Melancholy; registered 1615)
KEYWORDS: love courting
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 153-155, "Dulcina" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 160-161, "Dulcina" (1 tune, partial text)
BBI, ZN195, "As at noon Dulcina rested"
ST Perc3153 (Full)
Roud #9916
SAME_TUNE:
In the month of February/The true Lovers Good-morrow... brace of Valentines (BBI ZN1481)
Thou who art so sweet a creature/A delicate new ditty... Posie of a Ring (BBI ZN2595)
What doth aile my loue, so sadly/A pleasant new Song, betwixt a Saylor and his Loue (BBI ZN2793)
From Oberon in Fairy Land/The mad-merry prankes of Robbin Good-fellow (BBI ZN933)
Of late it was my chance to walke/A penny-worth of Good Counsell (BBI ZN2114)
In the gallant month of June/The desperate Damsell's Tragedy (BBI ZN1478)
All you Young-men who would Marry/A Prouerb old, yet nere forgot, Tis good to strike while the Irons hott (BBI ZN160)
Jewry came to Jerusalem/Two pleasant Ditties, one of the Birth, the other of the Passion of Christ (BBI ZN1551)
The golden god Hyperion/An excellent new ditty.. Dulcina complaineth for the absence of.. Coridon (BBI ZN988)
NOTES: This is probably not an actual traditional song (though an attempt to attribute it to Raleigh failed). It is so often cited, however, that I thought it best to include it (there are eight or nine broadsides in the Broadside Ballad Index using this tune).
Izaak Walton's _Compeat Angler_ also refers to this tune (Chapter II). - RBW
File: Perc3153
===
NAME: Dumb Wife, The (Dumb, Dumb, Dumb) [Laws Q5]
DESCRIPTION: A husband's new wife is a perfect housekeeper but is mute. The man takes her to a doctor, who is able to cure her impediment -- only to have her talk all the time. The husband again appeals for help; the doctor says that nothing can silence her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1698 (Pills to Purge Melancholy)
KEYWORDS: doctor husband wife disability humorous
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws Q5, "The Dumb Wife (Dumb, Dumb, Dumb)"
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 32-34, "Dumb, Dumb, Dumb" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 394, "The Dumb Wife Cured" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 92, "The Scolding Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 135, "The Wife Who Was Dumb" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 199, "The Dumb Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 183, "The Dumb Wife" (2 texts)
BBI, ZN143, "All you that pass along"
DT 519, DUMBDUMB*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 262-263, "Dumb, Dumb, Dumb" (1 text)
Roud #434
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 39(145), "The Dumb Maid" or "The Young Gallant Trappan'd" ("All you that press along"), W. Onley (London), 1689-1709; also Harding B 28(80), "The Dumb Wife's Tongue Let Loose"; Harding B 11(2258), Harding B 16(325a), "[The] Dumb Wife"; Harding B 18(146), "The Dumb Scold"
LOCSinging, as103240, "The Dumb Scold", J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also sb10090b, "The Dumb Scold" 
SAME_TUNE:
Cruiskeen Lawn (tune [cited as "Cowskeen Lawn"] per broadsides Bodleian Harding B 18(146), LOCSinging as103240 and LOCSinging sb10090b)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Bonnie Blade
NOTES: Broadsides LOCSinging as103240, LOCSinging sb10090b and Bodleian Harding B 18(146) are triplicates. 
Broadside LOCSinging as103240: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: LQ05
===
NAME: Dumbarton's Drums
DESCRIPTION: "Dumbarton's drums, they sound so bonny When they remind me of my Johnny." The singer tells of how Johnnie, "Dumbarton's caddie," courts her. She expects that someday he will be a captain and she his lady.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1797 (_Scots Musical Museum_ #161)
KEYWORDS: love courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 281, "Dumbarton's Drums" (1 text)
DT, DUMBDRUM* DMBDRUM2*
ST FSWB281A (Full)
Roud #8669
NOTES: First appearing seemingly in the Orpheus Caledoneus (for the text, see the Digital Tradition DMBDRUM2), this was originally a rather flowery piece. Somehow it entered the Beers family tradition, which endowed it with a magnificent tune (not the same as that in the _Scots Musical Museum_) and much simpler if not particularly inspired words. It is the Beers version which has become extremely popular in pop-folk circles. - RBW
File: FSWB281A
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NAME: Dummer Sheener's Gang, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you a song of a sheener's gang, I've got 'em all taped up to a man, There's long and short and thin and fat, But every man knows just what he's at." Each man's work is listed, from Jimmy Bailey "who runs the concern" to the lowest corn-fetcher
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: drink work
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 274-275, "The Dummer Sheener's Gang" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #874
NOTES: Just in case it isn't obvious, this is a moonshining song. - RBW
File: CoSB274
===
NAME: Dummy Line (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Concerning possibly the worst, slowest train in history, which comes "Across the prairie on a streak of rust." Passengers who complain are instructed to get out and walk, but point out that they are not expected until the train arrives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (cited by Cohen)
KEYWORDS: humorous railroading train
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 254-255, "The Rummy Dummy Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 485-490, "On the Dummy Line" (the main text and tune are "The Dummy Line (II)," but there are selections from and discussion of this song)
DT, DUMYLINE
Roud #15359
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "On the Dummy Line (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES: There is a song called "Riding on the Dummy," by Sam Booth & Frederick Carnes, published in 1855. It's not this song. See Norm Cohen's _Long Steel Rail_ for a full discussion. [There is also another "Dummy Line" song; see "On the Dummy Line (II)" for discussion. - RBW]
Uncle Dave Macon's "On the Dixie Bee Line," about a Ford car, is a parody of this song. - PJS
File: DTdumyli
===
NAME: Dummy Line (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "Some folks say that the dummy won't run, Now, let me tell you what the dummy done, Left Saint Louis 'bout half past one, Rolled into Memphis at the seein' of the sun." Stories of riding on the Dummy Line, possibly without a fare
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: train travel
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 485-490, "On the Dummy Line" (1 text plus fragments of several other "Dummy Line" songs, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 244-245, "De Dummy Line" (1 short text, 1 tune); p. 239, "Railroad Song" (1 fragment)
BrownIII 435, "The Dummy Line" (2 short texts; "B" is a mixed text that seems to be mostly a "May Irwin's Frog Song (The Foolish Frog, Way Down Yonder)" type, with a "Some Folks Say a Nigger Won't Steal" verse)
Roud #11776
RECORDINGS:
Robert N. Page, "Ride and Shine on the Dummy Line" (Victor 21067, 1927)
Pickard Family, "On the Dummy Line" ((Perfect 12625/Banner 0744/Conqueror 7574/Oriole 1995/Challenge 882/Jewel 5995/Pathe 32546/Regal 10049/Cameo 0344/Domino 4585/Romeo 1357/Paramount 3218, 1930; Broadway 8150 [as Pleasant Family], n.d.)
NOTES: This is rather a conundrum, because the texts of "The Dummy Line (I)" and "The Dummy Line (II)" have similar choruses, and most are fragments, and they've mixed a lot, as well as gathering a lot of floating verses; see Cohen for a discussion. In general, though, "The Dummy Line (I) involves an extremely slow train, while this one involves a faster, but perhaps strangely-managed one.
It appears, in the original version, that the trip was from Saint Louis to Memphis -- a distance of nearly 300 miles, implying (depending on the time of the year and hence the time of sunset) a speed between 40 and 75 miles an hour, quite good for a train at the turn of the twentieth century.
Scarborough's "Railroad Song" text (p. 239) is even stranger, because it has the train go from Saint Louis to Tampa in an afternoon. That's a distance of 900 miles, meaning that the train had to move at a speed of at least 125 miles per hour even at the summer solstice!
It may be that the Scarborough text confused "Saint Louis" (Saint Louie?) in the song with Saint Lucie, Florida, on the Atlantic coast almost due east of Tampa. That's a distance of about 125 miles, give or take a few river detours, implying a speed of 25-30 miles per hour. Hardly high-speed -- but not really Dummy Line numbers, either. Alternately, Saint Louis might be a variation on "St. Pete/Petersburg." In which case the speed is ridiculously slow. - RBW
File: ScNS139A
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NAME: Dunbar the Murderer
DESCRIPTION: "Awake, sad muse, awake and sing, And softly touch the mournful string...." "Oh brutal man... Two blooming children you have slain, A little paltry gold to gain." "The mother dear the lads did send To Dunbar's home some months to spend."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Supplement to the Ulster County Almanac)
KEYWORDS: murder children money
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 91-92, (no title) (1 excerpted text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Children in the Wood  (The Babes in the Woods)" [Laws Q34] (plot)
NOTES: Burt notes an obvious similarity to "Babes in the Woods." Since her (printed) source evidently does not link the song to any actual historical event, it may well be a song composed in imitation of that piece. - RBW
File: Burt092
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NAME: Duncan and Brady [Laws I9]
DESCRIPTION: Policeman Brady walks into Duncan's bar and attempts to arrest the latter. Duncan, unwilling to have his business ruined, shoots Brady. Neither Brady's family nor those around Duncan seem to care much; Brady's wife looks forward to getting his pension
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles)
KEYWORDS: murder family
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I9, "Brady (Duncan and Brady)"
BrownII 248, "Brady" (1 text)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 85-87, "Duncan and Brady" (3 texts; the second is incomplete and may well be a version of "Joseph Mica (Mikel) (The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver) (Been on the Choly So Long)" [Laws I16] with some Brady lyrics mixed in; both the second an third start with lines from "Twinkle Twinke Little Star")
Sandburg, pp. 198-199, "Brady" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 596, "Duncan and Brady" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 660, DUNCBRAD
Roud #4177
RECORDINGS:
Arthur "Brother-in-Law" Armstrong, "Brady" (AFS 3978 B3, 1940)
Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles, "Been on the Job Too Long" (Paramount 3210, 1930; on TimesAint01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (lyrics)
cf. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (lyrics)
NOTES: The notes in Brown describe a history of this ballad which bears little resemblance to the song itself: Brady is not a policeman but the criminal in the piece, shot by deputy Albert Bounds around 1900. It is noteworthy that Laws quotes none of this. - RBW
File: LI09
===
NAME: Duncan and Janet M'Cleary: see Duncan MacCleary (File: FVS302)
===
NAME: Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh) [Laws Q20]
DESCRIPTION: Duncan Campbell, although he comes from Argyle in Scotland, is known as Erin-Go-Bragh. A policeman mistakes him for an Irishman and abuses him. Campbell returns the favor, then flees before anyone can stop him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1850 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3725))
KEYWORDS: abuse police
FOUND_IN: US(Ap) Canada(Mar) Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws Q20, "Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh)"
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 49-51, "Erin-Go-Bragh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 319, "Erin-go-Bragh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 17, "Erin Go Bragh" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 387, "Erin-Go-Bragh" (1 text)
Mackenzie 134, "Duncan Campbell" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 112, "Erin-Go-Bragh (Ireland Forever)" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 197, "Clay Morgan" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT 531, ERNGOBRA*
Roud #1627
RECORDINGS:
John Strachan, "Erin-Go-Bragh" (on FSB7)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3725), "Duncan Campbell," M. Stephenson (Gateshead), 1838-1850; also Firth b.25(539), 2806 c.14(79), Firth b.26(199), Harding B 11(1026), 2806 b.10(198), Harding B 20(83), "Duncan Campbell"; Firth c.26(15), "Erin Go Bragh" ("My name's Duncan Cambell, from the shire of Argyle") 
Murray, Murray, Mu23-y1:068, "Duncan Cambell," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Mu23-y1:025, "Duncan Campbell," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland,  L.C.1270(003), "My Name Is Duncan Campbell," unknown, c. 1845; also L.C.Fol.70(57b), "Duncan Campbell," unknown, c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Villikens and his Dinah" (tune) and references there
NOTES: From the commentary to broadside NLScotland, L.C.1270(003): "This song was written in the nineteenth century, and the mention of the police puts it post-1829, when the 'Peelers' were first established." - BS
A clever but not quite certain bit of logic, since the song generally refers to "policemen," not "Peelers," and that word is older. (Also, the first Peelers served in Ireland in 1817; the concept of a unified police force then came to Britain in 1829). - RBW
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 17 differs from the common version in two ways. First, instead of being Duncan Campbell from Scotland, the hero is Paddy from Ireland (Athy), which changes it from a ballad of common cause between the Scotsman and Irishman. Second, the hero is taken by the crowd as a "bold rascal that has killed our police"; usually, he escapes. - BS
File: LQ20
===
NAME: Duncan M'Callipin (The Tranent Wedding)
DESCRIPTION: "It was at a wedding near Tranent, When scores an' scores on fun were bent... 'Shame tak' the hindmost,' quo' Duncan M'Callipin." A typical story of a wild wedding, the associated broose race, and the behavior of the various guests
AUTHOR: Peter Forbes?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: wedding humorous talltale
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 42-45, "Duncan M'Callipin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5982
File: FVS042
===
NAME: Duncan MacCleary
DESCRIPTION: "Duncan MacCleary, an' Janet his wife, Duncan MacCleary, he played on the fife: Janet she danced until she cried wearie." They live a life of quiet happiness, though he is blind and hears little. When he dies, she soon follows after
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love death dancing home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, p. 302, "Duncan and Janet M'Cleary" (1 text)
Roud #12586
File: FVS302
===
NAME: Duncan Macleerie: see Duncan MacCleary (File: FVS302)
===
NAME: Dundee, It's a Pretty Place
DESCRIPTION: "Dundee, it is a pretty place, Surrounded by a wall, Where brave Argyll did won the field With sword and cannon ball."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1634 (Hunt's Psalter)
KEYWORDS: battle
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H10c, p. 2, "Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Earl of Errol" [Child 231] (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This seems to be known only as a "choir rhyme" in the Sam Henry collection, from 1924, used to teach choirs a tune when, as Presbyterians, they were not supposed to sing the actual words. Normally, this would not be reason to consider the piece traditional.
This text, however, or at least the first three lines, are known from Hunt's 1634 psalter, and they are also similar to lyrics in "The Earl of Errol." That says to me that this stanza, in some form or other, kicked around in tradition.
I'm not sure which battle is described in this song. Logically, one would guess that it's Archibald, eighth Earl and first Marquis of Argyll (1598-1661)  -- but his military feats as a Covenanter came *after* 1634.
Archibald's father Archibald, the seventh Earl (d. 1638) was also a soldier, though his success was mixed, but he did his campaigning in the Highlands.
The other Earls of Argyll, insofar as I can follow their careers, are no better candidates (e.g. the fifth Earl was Mary Stuart's field commander at Langside, but that was a lost battle nowhere near Dundee).
Two battles are listed as taking place in Dundee, but they are dated 1645 and 1651 -- again, after the date of the psalter describing Argyll fighting at Dundee. - RBW
File: HHH10c
===
NAME: Dunderbeck
DESCRIPTION: The German Dunderbeck invents a steam-powered machine to turn any sort of meat into sausages. Thus vanish all the rats and cats of the town. When Dunderbeck's machine breaks down, he tries to fix it; his wife accidentally starts it with him inside.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: technology disaster animal humorous food
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 488, "Donderbeck's Machine" (2 texts)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 80, "Dunderbeck" (1 text, tune referenced)
Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Dunderbeck" (1 text)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 139-140, "The Sausage Meat Machine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 515-516, "Son of a Gun -- (Son of a Gambolier; Dunderbeck; and Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech)"
DT, DUNDER*
Roud #4461
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Son of a Gambolier" (tune & meter) and references there
cf. "O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Johnny Rebeck
Johnny Rebec
Johnny Robeck
File: R488
===
NAME: Dungannon Convention, The
DESCRIPTION: "The church of Dungannon is full to the door" with Volunteer warriors. In spite of "English oppression" the volunteers stood ready to protect England from a foreign fleet. At Dungannon the delegates swore "We've suffered too long, we'll suffer no more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: September 8, 1783 - Irish Volunteer Society Convention in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone (Source: Moylan) (but see the NOTES)
FOUND_IN: England Ireland patriotic political
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 5, "The Dungannon Convention" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan p. 1: "On St Patrick's Day, 1778, the first company of Belfast Volunteers was formed in response to the danger of a possible war between Britain and France. The movement spread like wildfire and soon there were companies in all parts of Ireland. At their height they numbered 100,000 members. By the following year they had become politicized and swung their weight behind the so-called Patriot Party, those in favour of legislative independence from the British parliament and the removal of impediments to Irish commerce." - BS
According to Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 187, "In February 1782 [Henry] Grattan arranged a convention of some 250 delegates from the Volunteers, who met in the parish church of Dungannon." The result was, in effect, a declaration of parliamentary independence.
Robert Kee, on p. 32 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_) relates that "In 1780 Grattan for the first time tried to get the Irish House of Commons to vote an Irish Declaration of Independence. He was then unsuccessful, owing to the Crown's effective control of the majority in Parliament, through the system of patronage. By the end of the following year, however, the Volunteers outside Parliament had become much stronger. They were now said to number eighty thousand men, and in 1782 a convention of democratically elected Volunteer delegates was held at Dungannon, a sort of parliament outside Parliament, backed by potential physical force for the first but by no means the last time in Irish history."
The pressure was enough that, later that year, the Irish parliament gave in and voted independence unanimously (Kee, p. 33). Under that pressure, the British granted the parliament most of what it asked  -- repealing even the infamous Poyning's Law that said the British parliament could override the Irish. (For further details, see the notes to "Ireland's Glory.") There would be more Dungannon Conventions, but the 1782 edition was the Really Big Deal. - RBW
File: Moyl005
===
NAME: Dungarvon Whooper (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The cook in a Dungarvon River lumber camp dies. The crew suspect the skipper murdered him. That night "fearful whoops and yells the forest fill" and are heard around "the Whooper's grave" until "God's good man" prays that they stop.
AUTHOR: Michael Whelan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: murder burial lumbering ghost ritual clergy
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 13, "The Dungarvon Whooper -- I" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi013 (Partial)
Roud #9198
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Where the Silvery Colorado Sweeps Along" (tune)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Rev Edward Murdoch, the Roman Catholic parish priest at Renous, felt seriously enough about the matter to come up to Dungarvon and read the church service of exorcism. It is said that after this the evil spirit which was responsible for the horrible sounds was heard no more. But people still say they sometimes hear the Whooper, and they fear to visit the grave by the Whooper Spring. The Dungarvon River is a branch of the Main Renous River, which it joins above Quarryville....
"The train on the Canada Eastern Railway, between Fredericton and Newcastle, named for the Whooper, made its last run in 1936." - BS
For a less mysterious explanation of the origin of the name "Whooper," see the notes to "The Dungarvon Whooper (II)." - RBW
File: MaWi013
===
NAME: Dungarvon Whooper (II), The
DESCRIPTION: The night a group of fishermen "reached Dungarvon ... the Dungarvon Whooper was the terror of the night." All the beasts fled and the fishermen "felt very sure We could beat any Whooper ... And when he saw that he was beat He was forced to run away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: fight fishing humorous ghost
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 14, "The Dungarvon Whooper (II)" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi014 (Partial)
Roud #9199
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Rev Edward Murdoch, the Roman Catholic parish priest at Renous, felt seriously enough about the matter to come up to Dungarvon and read the church service of exorcism. It is said that after this the evil spirit which was responsible for the horrible sounds was heard no more. But people still say they sometimes hear the Whooper, and they fear to visit the grave by the Whooper Spring. The Dungarvon River is a branch of the Main Renous River, which it joins above Quarryville....
"The train on the Canada Eastern Railway, between Fredericton and Newcastle, named for the Whooper, made its last run in 1936."
Manny/Wilson note on authorship: Someone "says this satiric song was made up by Everett Price, Billy's brother, but Billy [the singer] himself says it was written by his grandfather, Abraham Munn." - BS
Manny and Wilson offer two explanations for the origin of the name "Whooper." One, found in their notes to "The Dungarvon Whooper (I)," link it to a mysterious death and later exorcism in the area, described above and in the notes to the other "Whooper" song.
In their notes on this version, they mention the name being associated with the train on the occasion of a run with a lot of rowdy woodsmen aboard. - RBW
File: MaWi014
===
NAME: Dungiven Cricket Match
DESCRIPTION: The boys of Dungiven challenge the team from Derry to a cricket match. Both teams turn out, and bring crowds of supporters. The contest, naturally, is hard-fought, but Dungiven wins. The singer lists the team members
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: sports moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H669, p. 179-180, "Dungiven Cricket Match" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13539
File: HHH669
===
NAME: Dungiveny Priory Church
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders out, enjoying nature, when he comes to "the old church not far from Dungiven." He praises the artistic quality of the site, and bids nature to love him. He notes that life is fleeting, and bids farewell to the spot
AUTHOR: James Maxwell ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: rambling burial
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H187, pp. 162-163, "Dungiven Priory Church" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13463
NOTES: Dungiven Priory is one of the most famous religious sites in Ireland, and is famous as the graveyard of the O'Cahan family. For details, see the notes to "The Banks of the Roe." - RBW
File: HHH187
===
NAME: Dunlavin Green
DESCRIPTION: At the time of the 1798 Rebellion, Captain Saunders betrays some of his own men to execution at Dunlavin Green. Some of the martyrs are named and mourned, and Saunders is cursed.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann); 1820 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion execution lie army Ireland betrayal death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1798 - "Nineteen members of the Saundersgrove corps of yeomen, and nine of the Narraghmores, imprisoned in Dunlavin as United Irish sympathisers, were led out and summarily executed." (source: Moylan)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Hodgart, p. 202, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text)
PGalvin, pp. 94-95, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 53, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 9, "Dunlavin Green" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Moylan 55, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3010
NOTES: The 1798 rebellion collapsed even before it properly began, and many of the leaders were betrayed (the United Irish leaders were taken in March, and the rebellion did not take place for many months after that).
Captain Saunders led a Yeoman (Irish militia) company, and on May 22, shortly before the actual rebellion, he assembled his men and urged those who were rebels to come forward.
About twenty of the rebels, leaderless and hoping for mercy, revealed themselves. They were arrested and sent to Dunlavin.
Two days later, with rebels threatening the town, a total of 28 rebels (19 of them from Saunders's company) were summarily executed. (This seems to have been both in fear of and as an example to the rebels outside.) Such behavior was against British rules, and was condemned by many even on the English side, but as always, the atrocities were remembered longer than the regrets of the more civilized faction of the Loyalists. - RBW
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Dunlavin Green" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998)) - BS
File: Hodg202
===
NAME: Dupree [Laws I11]
DESCRIPTION: Betty asks Dupree for a diamond ring; he promises her one. He sets out for the jewelry store and steals a ring, but shoots a policeman as he escapes. Unwilling to leave Betty and/or unable to flee, he is captured, convicted, and hanged
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1930 (recording, Willie Walker)
KEYWORDS: murder robbery execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 15, 1921 - Frank Dupree robs an Atlanta jewelry store
Sept. 1, 1922 - Dupree hanged
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I11, "Dupree"
Friedman, p. 396, "Dupree" (2 texts, but only the second is I11; Laws considers the first to be E24)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 752, "Dupree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 239-240, "Dupree" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 73, "Betty And Dupree" (1 text, possibly modified by Brownie McGhee)
DT, BTTYDPRE
Roud #4179
RECORDINGS:
Teddy Grace, "Betty and Dupree" (Decca 2602, 1939)
Art Thieme, "Betty & Dupree Blues" (on Thieme06)
Kingfish Bill Tomlin, "Dupree Blues" (Paramount 13057, 1931; rec. 1930)
Brownie McGhee, "Betty and Dupree" (on AschRec2)
Willie Walker, "Dupree Blues" (Columbia 14578-D, 1931 [ec. 1930]; on BefBlues1, RoughWays1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Frank Dupree" [Laws E24] (plot)
File: LI11
===
NAME: Durant Jail, The: see The Cryderville Jail (File: LxU090)
===
NAME: Durham Field [Child 159]
DESCRIPTION: Edward III is at war in France, so the king of Scotland invades England. In battle, he fares badly and is taken prisoner to London. Edward has returned. The Scottish king admits an English yeoman is worth a Scottish knight.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: fight war prisoner
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1327-1377 - Reign of King Edward III of England
1346 - Battle of Durham. King David of Scotland defeated and taken prisoner by the English, even though their main army was fighting in France
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 159, "Durham Field" (1 text)
OBB 126, "Durham Field" (1 text)
Roud #3998
File: C159
===
NAME: Durham Jail: see The Cryderville Jail (File: LxU090)
===
NAME: Durham Strike (Durham Lockout)
DESCRIPTION: "In our Durham County I am sorry for to say, That hunger and starvation is increasing every day." The mine is shut down; "the masters have behaved unkind." The miners face great hardship but hope to prevail if others will support them.
AUTHOR: probably Tommy Armstrong (1848-1919)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Lloyd, "Come All Ye Bold Miners")
KEYWORDS: mining strike hardtimes
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1892 - the Durham Strike
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacColl-Shuttle, p. 14, "The Durham Strike" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DURHLOCK*
NOTES: This song refers to the great Durham Coal Strike of 1892. The company wanted to impose a pay cut of 10%. The miners -- who, naturally, were already living on next to nothing -- went on strike. But coal is easy to come by; after two months, the miners were forced to return to work -- and to take an even larger pay cut.
Tommy Armstrong seems to have devoted his energy to mining and labour poetry; the three songs by him listed in _Granger's Index to Poetry_ are "The Oakey Street Evictions," "The Row Between the Cages," and "The Trimdon Grange Explosion."
The Digital Tradition lists this to the tune of "Tramps and Hawkers/Paddy West," but the tune in MacColl/Shuttle is not that though it looks like it might be related. - RBW
File: MacCS014
===
NAME: Dus Ha My A Gan Dhys (Come and I Will Sing You): see Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You) (File: ShH97)
===
NAME: Dusty Bluebells: see I am the Master (Dusty Bluebells) (File: HHH048a)
===
NAME: Dusty Miller, The
DESCRIPTION: "Hey the dusty miller [(x2)], Dusty was his coat, dusty was his colour, dusty was the kiss That I got frae the miller." "Hey the dusty miller, With his dusty coast, He will spend a shilling Ere he win a groat."
AUTHOR: adapted by Robert Burns, but the extent of his changes is not clear
EARLIEST_DATE: 1788 (Burns)
KEYWORDS: miller courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 107, "(O the dusty miller)" (1 text)
DT, DSTYMILR*
Roud #5959
File: MSNR107
===
NAME: Dutchman, Dutchman, Won't You Marry Me?: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
===
NAME: Dutchman's Song
DESCRIPTION: "Amongst the pines and hemlocks ... we gathered round the table" in the Dutchmens' bunk house to play poker.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: lumbering cards
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-NovaScotia 114, "Dutchman's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1820
NOTES: The description is based on a "fragment of a lumberman's song" in Creighton-NovaScotia. - BS
File: CrNS114
===
NAME: Dweley: see The Jawbone Song AND Crawdad, etc. (File: R259)
===
NAME: Dying Aviator, The
DESCRIPTION: The aviator has crashed and is surrounded by the refuse of the wreck. He advises his comrades to gather the sundry pieces which have pierced him; "there's a lot of good parts in this wreck." He is granted admission to heaven, since the Air Force is Hell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: parody technology pilot flying
FOUND_IN: Australia US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp.142-143, "The Dying Aviator" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 228-229, "The Dying Aviator" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 436-437, "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket and The Handsome Young Airman" (2 text, 1 tune, with the "B" text going here and the "A" text being "Wrap Me Up...")
Lomax-FSNA 234, "Stand to Your Glasses" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TARPJKT2*
Roud #3454
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket" (tune & meter)
NOTES: Although clearly a parody of "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket," Meredith and Anderson claim there is a British version sung to "My Bonnie."  Lomax's version was collected among U.S. troops in Korea. - RBW
File: MA142
===
NAME: Dying Bagman, The: see Wrap Me Up in my Tarpaulin Jacket (File: FR439)
===
NAME: Dying Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: "On a summer day as the sun was setting... A young boy lay on a bed of fever.... I am dying, mother, I am surely dying, And Hell is my awful doom...." The young man heard God's voice, but chose to go sporting with his friends. Now he pays the price
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death farewell Hell youth mother
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 597, "The Dying Boy" (1 text)
Roud #7552
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Death is a Melancholy Call" [Laws H5] (theme)
cf. "Wicked Polly" [Laws H6] (plot)
File: R597
===
NAME: Dying British Sergeant, The
DESCRIPTION: The British soldier recalls sailing to America to suppress the rebels. Told to expect easy duty and a swift victory, the soldiers instead find an implacable enemy; "Freedom or death! was all their cry." The singer is mortally wounded and bids farewell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931
KEYWORDS: war death patriotic
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Warner 6, "The British Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, p. 195, "Our Fleet," "Our British Troops," "American Boys" (3 fragments, first three of seven "Quatrains on the War"; the date in "Our Fleet" should of course be 1776, not 1770)
Scott-BoA, pp. 69-71, "The Dying Redcoat" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DYSARGE* DYSARGE2*
Roud #2801
NOTES: As "The Dying Sergeant," his song is item dA29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Wa010
===
NAME: Dying Californian (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells a comrade he is dying. He confesses to a firm belief in God. He sends messages to his father and mother. He wishes his wife to know that he thought of her while dying, and bids her care for his children
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1850
KEYWORDS: dying farewell religious
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,Ro,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Belden, pp. 350-351, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
Randolph 183, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 179-182, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 183)
Eddy 126, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson 92, pp. 221-222, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 177, "Californian Brothers" (1 text)
FSCatskills 86, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 187-189, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 15, "The California Brothers" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 90, pp. 191-193, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
JHCox 49, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dying Californian" (source notes only)
DT, DYINGCAL
Roud #2283
BROADSIDES:
LOCSheet, sm1855 580660, "Dying Californian" or "The Brother's Request" ("Lie up nearer, brother, nearer"), Oliver Ditson (Boston), 1855 (tune)
LOCSinging, sb10096b, "The Dying Californian" ("Lay up nearer, brother, nearer, for my limbs are growing cold"), J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also as103250, as10325a, "The Dying Californian" 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Mine Brakeman (The True and Trembling Brakeman)" [Laws G11] (lyrics)
cf. "The Dying Californian (II)" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
The Dying Fifer (File: BrII227) (per broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29))
NOTES: This appears, under its own name, in the Sacred Harp, credited to "Ball and Drinkard 1859." - RBW
Broadside LOCSheet sm1855 580660 has the cover sheet attribution "Poetry from the New England Diadem Music by A.L. Lee"
Broadside LOCSinging sb10096b: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
Broadside LOCSheet, sm1857 620570, "Prayer of the Dying Californian," Oliver Ditson (Boston), 1857 (tune) shares lines with "The Dying Californian." The cover sheet attribution is "Arranged from the Spanish of Marechio by E. Williams Denison." - BS
File: R183
===
NAME: Dying Californian (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "Comrades come gather round me for I am dying now." He has messages for father and mother. He sends his ring back to Mary but keeps "a token, she gave it me, from which I cannot part ... I must slumber here alone on San Francisco shore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: dying request father mother wife separation
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 58, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2283
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Californian (I)" (theme)
NOTES: Roud does not distinguish this song (which seems to have been known only in Canada) from the much more popular "Dying Californian (I)." - RBW
File: CrSNB058
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy (II), The: see Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie [Laws B2] (File: LB02)
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy (III), The: see The Dying Ranger [Laws A14] (File: LA14)
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy I, The: see The Streets of Laredo [Laws B1] (File: LB01)
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy of Rim Rock Ranch
DESCRIPTION: The dying cowboy is "Riding away... Where the sun is sinking low." He bids goodbye to all parts of the cowboy's life -- the sounds, the sunrises, the girl he loves. He bids his comrades to remember him "when you're far from the rimrock."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: cowboy death farewell
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 120, "The Dying Cowboy of Rim Rock Ranch" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #11098
File: FCW120
===
NAME: Dying Cowgirl, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer goes west as a youth. Once there, he turns  to a life of cattle rustling (perhaps chasing strays?). One night, in a storm, he finds a cowgirl helpless on the ground. She says she will meet the singer in heaven, and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (recording, Gene Autry)
KEYWORDS: cowboy death parting love
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 146-147, "The Dying Cowgirl" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DYCOWGRL*
Roud #4775
RECORDINGS:
Gene Autry, "The Dying Cowgirl" (Conqueror 8193, 1933)
NOTES: McNeil believes -- with justice -- that the Florida text cited here (collected from Louise Sanders of Perry, Florida) is incomplete, but can find no other texts. One may speculate that the girl was fatally wounded while trying to protect her herd from the singer's band of rustlers. - RBW
File: MN1146
===
NAME: Dying Crap Shooter's Blues: see Saint James Infirmary (File: San228)
===
NAME: Dying Fifer, The
DESCRIPTION: "When the battle was hot and raging Shot and shell around did fly... When I heard a piercing cry." The ship's fifer is mortally wounded. He sends dying messages to his mother and the rest of his family
AUTHOR: C. G. Wright?
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1865 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 31(29))
KEYWORDS: death battle sailor
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownII 227, "The Dying Fifer" (1 text)
Smith/Hatt, pp. 94-95, "Our Fifer Boy" (1 text)
Roud #1977
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 31(29), "Our Fifer-Boy," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "James Bird" [Laws A5] (tune)
cf. "The Dying Californian (I)" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29))
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29) seems to be exactly the source for Smith/Hatt, word-for-word, including parenthesis and headnote "Composed by C.G. Wright, on board the U.S. Steam-ship Mississippi, (New Orleans.) Air: James Bird; or Dying Californian."
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS

File: BrII227
===
NAME: Dying From Home and Lost (Companions, Draw Nigh)
DESCRIPTION: "Companions draw nigh, They say I must die... Only a sigh, only a tear, Only if sister or mother was here Only a hope to comfort and cheer, Only a word from the Book so dear." The dying singer seeks some sort of Christian comfort before the end
AUTHOR: S. M. Brown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1892 (Songs of Zion)
KEYWORDS: death Bible religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 609, "Companions, Draw Nigh" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 429-431, "Companions, Draw Nigh" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 609A)
BrownIII 61, "Dying From Home and Lost" (1 text)
Roud #7547
NOTES: Randolph reprints a clipping that allegedly explains this song. A young man was fatally wounded in a construction accident. He asked for a hymn, or for the reading of some Bible verses; neither could be supplied (the other workers knew no relevant songs, and no Bible was at hand). The young man lamented his death away from home, family, and the comforts of church.
It should be noted that neither the date nor the name of the young man is supplied. - RBW
File: R609
===
NAME: Dying Girl's Message, The
DESCRIPTION: "Raise the window, mother darling, For no air can harm me now." The dying girl remembers the man who falsely courted her. She bids her mother return the ring he gave her with her blessing. She sees Jesus, bids farewell (and dies)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: death love betrayal ring
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Belden, pp. 217-218, "The Dying Girl's Message" (2 texts)
Randolph 707, "The Dying Girl's Message" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3530
RECORDINGS:
Mabel Cawthorne, "The Dying Girl" (on FolkVisions2)
Vernon Dalhart, "The Dying Girl's Message" (Columbia 15051-D, 1926; rec. 1925.) (Brunswick 2927, 1925/Supertone S-2010, 1930) 
Sid Harkreader, "The Dying Girl's Message" (Vocalion 15075, 1925)
Asa Martin, "The Dying Girl's Message" (Supertone 9179, 1928)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "The Dying Girl's Farewell" (OKeh 40384, 1925) (Victor 21129, 1927)

CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Nun" (tune, meter, floating lyrics)
NOTES: Belden suggests a connection between this and Tennyson's "The May Queen" -- based seemingly on the meter. This strikes me as an extreme stretch. "The May Queen" has a few incidental lyric similarities, and mentions a lover dying for love -- but the speaker is not the one dying; she is unrepentantly exultant that she is to be the Queen o' the May. - RBW
File: R707
===
NAME: Dying Hobo, The [Laws H3]
DESCRIPTION: An old hobo lies dying as winter approaches. He speaks of the "better land... where handouts grow on bushes" that he is destined for, sends a message to his girlfriend, and dies. His partner "swiped his (coat and hat) and caught an eastbound train"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: railroading train death friend robbery
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws H3, "The Dying Hobo"
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 367-372, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text plus a large collection of alternate verses, 1 tune)
Randolph 837, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text)
BrownIII 360, "The Dying Hobo" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Hudson 112, pp. 251-252, "The Dying Hobo"; 113, p. 252, "The Hobo's Death" (2 texts)
Lomax-FSNA 219, "Around a Western Water Tank" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 131, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text)
JHCox 56, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dying Hobo" (source notes only)
DT 644, DYINHOBO LTTLSTRM
Roud #1937
RECORDINGS:
Burnett & Rutherford, "Little Stream of Whiskey" (Columbia 15133-D, 1927 (rec. 1926); on BurnRuth01)
Travis B. Hale & E. J. Derry, Jr., "The Dying Hobo" (Victor 20796, 1927)
Kelly Harrell, "The Dying Hobo" (Victor 20527, 1926; on KHarrell01 -- a rather strange version combining the first verse of "The Dying Hobo" with a story, taken from "George Collins," of a girl mourning her dead lover)
Dick Justice, "One Cold December Day" (Brunswick 367, 1929 -- like the Harrell recording, this starts with a "Dying Hobo" verse, then parallels "George Collins")
George Lay, "The Dying Hobo" (AFS 12,050 A19, 1959; on LC61)
McMichen's Melody Makers, "The Dying Hobo" (Columbia 15464-D, 1929; rec. 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" (lyrics)
cf. "The Hobo's Last Ride" (plot)
NOTES: Several sources list this as a parody of "Bingen on the Rhine." Laws, however, does not mention the connection; perhaps he knew versions with different tunes? - RBW
File: LH03
===
NAME: Dying Hogger, The
DESCRIPTION: "A hogger on his deathbed lay, His life was oozing fast away...." He does not want a tombstone, merely memorials of his career. He asks to be buried in the shade of the watertank, "And put within my cold, still hand, A monkey-wrench and the old oil can."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: railroading train death burial lastwill
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 186-187, "The Dying Hogger" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13615
File: San186
===
NAME: Dying Irish Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: Burt is wounded in battle at Santiago Bay, Cuba, "while Victoria shall reign." He tells his friend, Bill O'Shea, to break the news of his death to his mother and to tell O'Shea's sister Mary that he still loves her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: army battle death Ireland friend mother soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 15, 1898 - destruction of the U. S. S. Maine
Apr 19, 1898 - Although the Spanish have agreed to all American demands, including peace with the Cuban rebels, the U. S. issues a sort of preliminary declaration of war, listing U. S. goals
Apr 24, 1898 - Spain declares war on the U. S.; the U. S. will next day do the same, backdating it to April 21
May 19, 1898 - The Spanish fleet enters Santiago Bay
July 2, 1898 - The Spanish fleet at Santiago, acting under orders from Madrid, sails out into the teeth of the American fleet and is destroyed
July 10, 1898 - U. S. troops attack Santiago
July 17, 1898 - U. S. troops capture Santiago
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 44, "The Dying Irish Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab044 (Partial)
Roud #9988
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell to Slieve Gallen" (plot, themes, setting)
NOTES: The ballad must have originally referred to "Columbia" rather than "Victoria." - BS
Or, just possibly, "Victoria" is correct and "Santiago Bay" is wrong, meaning the song might date to some other battle in British history during the reign of Victoria; other  than the first verse, there are no real time or place references. - RBW
File: LLab044
===
NAME: Dying Miller, The: see The Miller's Will (The Miller's Three Sons) [Laws Q21] (File: LQ21)
===
NAME: Dying Mine Brakeman, The (The True and Trembling Brakeman) [Laws G11]
DESCRIPTION: The young mine train motorman is horrified to discover that, because he could not stop in time, he has run over his brakeman. The dying brakeman speaks to his sister and sends messages to his parents
AUTHOR: Orville J. Jenks (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Aulton Ray)
KEYWORDS: mining death farewell family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1915 - Death of the brakeman
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws G11, "The Dying Mine Brakeman (The True and Trembling Brakeman)"
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 257-260, "The True and Trembling Brakeman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 695, "The True and Trembling Brakeman" (1 text)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 92, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 783, TREMBRAK*
Roud #8599
RECORDINGS:
Cliff Carlisle, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (Superior 2669/Champion 16295 [as the Lullaby Larkers], 1931; Champion 45029, 1935; Montgomery Ward M-8036, 1939)
Jess Johnson, "The Dying Brakeman" (Champion 16255, 1931)
Carter Family, "The Reckless Motorman" (Decca 5722, 1938)
Bradley Kincaid, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (Melotone 12184, 1931; Conqueror 8091, 1933; Vocalion 02683, 1934; Panachord [UK] 25901, 1937; Polk 9064/Panachord [Australia] P-12184, both n.d.)
Paul Mason, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (OKeh 45479, 1930)
New Lost City Ramblers, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (on NLCR05)
Aulton Ray, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (Gennett 6129/Herwin 75552/Champion 15277/Challenge 269/Bell 1186 [as Carl Bunch]/Superior 385, all 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Californian (I)" (words)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Reckless Motorman
NOTES: Reportedly written by Jenks in the three months following the accident in 1915. Jenks was one of those involved in taking the brakeman's body from the wreckage. Cohen observes that this may be a case where a singer took traditional materials and reworked them, but there is no clear evidence of a version of this song (as opposed to "The Dying Californian" and its relatives) predating Jenks. - RBW
File: LG11
===
NAME: Dying Minister, The: see The Dying Preacher (Hick's Farewell) (File: R617)
===
NAME: Dying Newsboy, The: see Poor Little Joe (The Dying Newsboy) (File: R716)
===
NAME: Dying Nun, The
DESCRIPTION: The dying nun asks that the window be opened so that she can feel the cool air and see the sky. She remarks that it is hard to die. She thanks Sister Martha for her care. She cherishes the ring she received from Douglas, and says she will join him soon
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: death clergy reunion separation love ring
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Belden, pp. 218-219, "The Dying Nun" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Randolph 706, "The Dying Nun" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 455-457, "The Dying Nun" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 706A)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 124-125, "The Dying Nun" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dying Nun" (source notes only)
Roud #3532
RECORDINGS:
Foreman Family, "The Dying Nun" (Victor V-40165, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Girl's Message" (tune, meter, floating lyrics)
File: R706
===
NAME: Dying Outlaw, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come gather around me, my comrades and friends, The sun it is setting on life's short day.... Oh bury me on the lone prairie Where the hooves of the horses shall fall." The singer, killed by a "red-coated foeman,"  asks that his pony be buried with him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958
KEYWORDS: death burial outlaw police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1873 - Establishment of the North West Mounted Police, who wore red jackets (hence the "red-coated foeman" of the song)
FOUND_IN: Canada(West)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 139-141, "The Dying Outlaw (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 118, "The Dying Outlaw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10957
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Streets of Laredo" [Laws B1] and references there
NOTES: A Canadian member of the "Dying Cowboy/Unofrtunate Rake" family. Despite the line in the refrain, it does not seem to have been influenced by "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie." - RBW
File: FMB139
===
NAME: Dying Ploughboy, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, a ploughboy, feels a blood vessel burst in his chest; although his doctor tells him he'll be all right, he senses death is near. He bids farewell to his friends, his team of horses, and his plough
AUTHOR: Rev. R. H. Calder?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: disease farewell death dying farming horse friend worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 108, "The Dying Ploughboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 235, "The Dying Ploughboy" (1 text)
Roud #2514
NOTES: Ord lists this as by the Reverend Calder of Glenlivet, who granted permission to print it. The curiosity, in that case, is how MacColl and Seeger found a tune for the thing, and how it came to be so widespread. - RBW
File: McCST108
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NAME: Dying Preacher, The (Hick's Farewell)
DESCRIPTION: "The time is swiftly rolling on When I must faint and die, My body to the dust returned And there forgotten lie." The dying preacher bids farewell to his wife and remembers his family fondly. He bids his fellow preachers to do their work well
AUTHOR: probably Rev. Berryman Hicks 1778-1839)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1835 (Southern Harmony)
KEYWORDS: religious clergy death farewell
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 617, "The Dying Preacher" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 530, "Hicks' Farewell" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 73-74, "Hick's Farewell" (1 text)
SharpAp 122, "Hicks's Farewell" (6 texts, 6 tunes)
DT, DYPREACH* HCKSFRWL*
ADDITIONAL: Original Sacred Harp, 1971 Denson Revision, p. 83, "The Dying Minister" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2869
RECORDINGS:
Dillard Chandler, "Hick's Farewell" (on OldLove)
Texas Gladden, "Hicks' Farewell" (on LomaxCD1702)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "Hick's Farewell" (on FOTM, WatsonAshley01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Preacher's Legacy" (theme)
cf. "The Iron Mountain Baby" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Minister's Last Goodbye
NOTES: In the Sacred Harp (which has a much-shortened text), this is called "The Dying Minister" and the tune is said to have been written by E. Dumas in 1854.
The attribution of this song to someone named Hicks seems strong, given the number of versions with his name in the title, but of course there were a lot of, um, hick preachers out there. The most famous Hicks in American religious history is surely Elias Hicks (1748-1830), a Quaker who eventually caused a split within that denomination. But this *really* doesn't sound like the work of a Quaker.
That leaves Berryman Hicks, whose career was researched by Jackson (_White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands_, pp. 203-205). He was a "noted revivalist," and a poet and violinist. Though this attribution too has its problems; he became "financially embarrassed for a large amount," and was apparently dropped from his (Baptist-affiated) church. On the other hand, that might explain the cranky tone of the piece.
The mid-nineteenth century seems to have witnessed a number of these "Preacher's Confession" sorts of pieces. No doubt it was the usual situation of the elderly frowning on the degenerate morals of the young.  - RBW
Properly speaking, this should be "Hicks's Farewell." - PJS the nitpicker
And I thought I was the only one who remembered such things! Of course, this particular error is more that of the transcriber than the singer....  - RBW
"More sung against than singing?" - PJS
File: R617
===
NAME: Dying Queen, The: see Queen Eleanor's Confession [Child 156] (File: C156)
===
NAME: Dying Ranger, The [Laws A14]
DESCRIPTION: A cowboy/soldier tells of his sister left alone at home. His comrades promise to treat her as their sister. The wounded man dies happy. (Other details occur in localized versions; the verses -- and the dying hero -- vary widely)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: death family farewell
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws A14, "The Dying Ranger"
Belden, pp. 397-398, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
Randolph 188, "The Dying Cowboy" (2 texts, 2 tunes) AND 216, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doerflinger, pp. 274-276, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 19, "The Shades of the Palmetto" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ohrlin-HBT 50, "Ranger's Prayer" (1 text, not recognized as a version of this song, but with the same plot, metrical pattern, and some lyrics); 52, "The Dying Ranger" (1 text, 1 tune) 
JHCox 64, "The Dying Ranger" (1 text)
JHCoxIIB, #10, p. 144, "The Dying Ranger" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 243-245, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 53, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 17-20, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 689, DYRANGR DYNGCWBY
Roud #628
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "Dying Ranger" (on Boggs3, BoggsCD1)
Cartwright Brothers, "The Dying Ranger" (Victor V-40198, 1930; Montgomery Ward M-4460, 1934; on WhenIWas2)
Buell Kazee, "The Dying Soldier" (Brunswick 214, 1928)
Glenn Ohrlin, "The Dying Ranger" (on Ohrlin01)
Luther Ossenbrink, "The Dying Ranger" (Champion 16095 [as West Virginia Rail Splitter]/Supertone 9665 [as Arkansas Woodchopper], 1930)
Johnny Prude, "The Dying Ranger" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28)
Marc Williams, "The Dying Ranger" (Brunswick 497, c. 1930)
File: LA14
===
NAME: Dying Rebel, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer finds a wounded man dying. He asks to be given last rites. He has been deceived by the French and betrayed by a friend. His wife and brother are dead, his children alone. Unwittingly, he caused his landlord's death at pikemen's hands. He dies
AUTHOR: William Ball (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: "shortly after 1798" (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: betrayal rebellion death France Ireland injury family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1798 - Irish rebellion against British rule
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 138, "The Dying Rebel" (1 text)
NOTES: William Ball was a writer of humorous verse about Irish history; in this index, see "Cockledemoy (The French Invasion)," "Do as They Do in France," "The Dying Rebel," "Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)" -- though he doesn't seem to have made much impression on the wider world of literature; I have been unable to find any of his writings in any of my literary references.
I wonder if this isn't an answer to something like "Betsy Gray." - RBW
File: Moyl138
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NAME: Dying Redcoat, The: see The Dying British Sergeant (File: Wa010)
===
NAME: Dying Seal-Hunter, The
DESCRIPTION: "I can hear their sirens blowing As they steam to hunt the foe Where the young whitecoats are growing...." The dying man asks to watch as his ship sails away. He recalls the work of sealing, and bids farewell to the people and life he is leaving
AUTHOR: Otto Kelland ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Kelland, Anchor Watch, Newfoundland Stories in Verse)
KEYWORDS: death hunting ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 149, "The Dying Seal-Hunter" (1 text)
File: RySm149
===
NAME: Dying Sergeant, The: see The Dying British Sergeant (File: Wa010)
===
NAME: Dying Soldier (I), The (Erin Far Away II) [Laws J7]
DESCRIPTION: A dying soldier asks a comrade to send a lock of his hair from India to his mother in Ireland. He sends his sister and brothers word of his death in the fight against the Sepoys. He dies and is buried.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: war soldier death family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1857-1858 - Sepoy Mutiny in India. The inhabitants of Northern India revolt against the East India Company on behalf of their ancestral customs (many of which, such as the murder of widows, were abhorrent to Western opinion)
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Ireland Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws J7, "The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away II)"
Rickaby 50, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 166, "Old Erin Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H816, p. 92, "Old Ireland Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 827, DYSOLDR*
Roud #893
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away I)" [Laws J6] (plot, theme) and references there
NOTES: This song is frankly so close to Laws J6 that I find it impossible to tell them apart. Even the first lines in Laws's sample versions are similar. Laws does not give reasons for the distinction. One should therefore examine the references for both songs. - RBW
File: LJ07
===
NAME: Dying Soldier (II), The: see The Dying Ranger [Laws A14] (File: LA14)
===
NAME: Dying Soldier to His Mother, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the field of battle, mother, All the night alone I lay; Angels watching o'er me, mother, Till the breaking of the day." The soldier thinks of his mother, sends farewells to family, wishes he could repay mother, and bids farewell
AUTHOR: Words: Thomas MacKellar?/Music: William U. Butcher?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1863 (Dime Songster #11)
KEYWORDS: battle death soldier mother
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownII 228, "The Dying Soldier to His Mother" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 108-109, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 227 (no title) (1 short text)
ST BrII228 (Partial)
Roud #6568
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
On the Field of Battle, Mother
File: BrII228
===
NAME: Dying Soldier, (III) The
DESCRIPTION: "A youth lay on the battlefield of France's blood-stained soil ... The Red Cross nurse beside him ..." Nurse promises to send a letter, book and bible to his mother and his love to his sweetheart
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: promise war death France lament soldier love separation
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, pp. 65-66, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 86, "Blood-Stained Soil" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4428
NOTES: Leach-Labrador says "This is a World War I song, made in Newfoundland according to the singer" - BS
As you see, Bennett Schwartz, who indexed this song, dates it to World War I, and this seems almost certainly correct. The red cross nurse dates it after the Crimean War, which leaves only the World Wars as possibilities; the dates of the collection argue for the first war. - RBW
File: Doyl3065
===
NAME: Dying Stockman, The: see Wrap Me Up in my Tarpaulin Jacket (File: FR439)
===
NAME: Dying Youth, The: see Death is a Melancholy Call [Laws H5] (File: LH05)
===
NAME: E-choin' Horn, The: see The Echoing Horn (File: K246)
===
NAME: E-ri-e, The
DESCRIPTION: About a "terrible storm" on the Erie Canal. "Oh, the E-ri-e was a-rising And the gin was a-getting low, And I scarcely think we'll get a little drink Till we get to Buffalo." Humorous anecdotes of a highly hazardous voyage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: canal humorous cook animal wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 144, "It's Let Go Your Bowline" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 180, "The E-ri-e" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 45, "The E-ri-e" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 470-471, "The E-ri-e" (1 text, 1 tune); see also pp. 455-457, "Ballad of the Erie Canal" (1 text, composite and probably containing stanzaswhich belong here); pp. 459-463, "The Erie Canal Ballad" (8 texts, some fragmentary, the fourth of which appears to belong here)
Darling-NAS, pp. 333-335, "The Erie Canal" (1 text)
Arnett, p. 56, "The Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 87, "Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 43, "E-ri-e" (1 text)
DT, ERICANL1 ERIECNL3*
Roud #6599
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Erie Canal" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07a)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Raging Canal (I)" (plot)
cf. "A Trip on the Erie (Haul in Your Bowline)" (plot)
cf. "The Erie Canal"
cf. "The Calabar" (theme)
cf. "Stormy Weather Boys" (subject)
cf. "The Farmington Canal Song" (theme)
cf. ""The Wreck of the Mary Jane"" (theme)
cf. "The Wreck of the Varty" (theme)
cf. "On Board the Bugaboo" (theme)
cf. "Changing Berth" (theme)
cf. "The Wreck of the Gwendoline" (theme)
cf. "The Fish and Chip Ship" (theme)
NOTES: The Erie Canal, as originally constructed, was a completely flat, shallow waterway. The barges were drawn along by mules. Thus, apart from getting wet, storms posed little danger, and the only way one could run aground was to run into trash that had fallen into the canal.
As for needing a distress signal ("We h'isted (the cook) upon the pole
As a signal of distress"), one could always step off onto dry land....
The Lomaxes, in _American Ballad and Folk Songs_, thoroughly mingled many texts of the Erie Canal songs (in fairness, some of this may have been the work of their informants -- but in any case the Lomaxes did not help the problem). One should check all the Erie Canal songs for related stanzas. - RBW
File: LxU045
===
NAME: E. A. Horton, The [Laws D28]
DESCRIPTION: The E. A. Horton is taken by Canadian authorities and her crew imprisoned. The captain leads his men on a daring escape; they recapture their ship and sail home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sea prison escape
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 8, 1871 - Canada seizes the E. A. Horton (then in Halifax harbor) on a charge of fishing inside Canadian territorial waters
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws D28, "The E. A. Horton"
Flanders/Olney, pp. 239-241, "The Schooner E. A. Horton" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 144, "Seizure of the E J Horton" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 753, EAHORTON*
Roud #1840
File: LD28
===
NAME: E. C. Roberts, The: see Red Iron Ore [Laws D9] (File: LD09)
===
NAME: E. P. Walker
DESCRIPTION: E. P. Walker's thresher gets caught and fails to work. Someone drops in a wrench; the engineer can't be found. Another farmer buys a different threshing machine. Cho: "E.P. Walker mounted to the separator/E.P. Walker, with his oilcan in his hand...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (composed)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: E. P. Walker, a thresher, gets caught in the machinery, then the machine repeatedly fails to work. Someone accidentally drops in a monkey wrench; they try to stop the machine, but the engineer can't be found. Finally another farmer, not wanting to take a chance, goes and buys a different brand of threshing machine. Cho: "E.P. Walker mounted to the separator/E.P. Walker, with his oilcan in his hand...Took his farewell trip to the thresher's land"
KEYWORDS: farming harvest technology work worker
FOUND_IN: Canada(West)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Frank Hanson, "E. P. Walker" (on Saskatch01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (tune, structure, a few lyrics) and references there
NOTES: According to Barbara Cass-Beggs, "This song was composed in the fall of 1912, during the delays in threshing, by the young homesteaders who made up the threshing crew. E. P. Walker's threshing machine was the first to be brought into the newly settled district of Malvern Link.... All the names are authentic and so are the incidents.... The song was very popular and is still remembered."
A very local traditional song, but traditional nonetheless. The song was collected from Winnifred Turner of Swift Current, Sask., whose late husband was one of the farmers mentioned. - PJS
File: RcEPWalk
===
NAME: Eamon An Chnuic (Ned of the Hill)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Ned of the Hill sings at Eileen's bower asking that they marry though he has no wealth. Although her castle is guarded she escapes from the tower and goes with him. He spends his life wandering Ireland seeking shelter from his outlawry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (IRClancyMakem03)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage poverty elopement love exile outlaw
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, NEDHILL* NEDHILL2* NEDHILL3
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Eamon An Chnuic" (on IRClancyMakem03)
NOTES: Sleeve notes to IRClancyMakem03: "Edmond O'Ryan, the hero of this Gaelic song, was born in Kilnamanagh, County Tipperary, before the wars of 1690. After the defeat of James II, whom he supported, he was outlawed and had his estates confiscated.... The song, in describing the outlaw driven by pain and beating on the closed door of his beloved, symbolized the lonely cause of Ireland." - BS
There seems to be some confusion about (O')Ryan; the Digital Tradition notes to NEDHILL2 say he was displaced after the Boyne, but by *Cromwell*, who of course had been in his grave for more than thirty years at the time of the Boyne.
There is another O'Ryan item, in Kathleen Hoagland, _1000 Years of Irish Poetry_ (1947), p. 171, "Ah! What Woes Are Mine"; it's just possible that this is another translation of "Eamon An Chnuic," but if so, it's a very different one. Hoagland also dates O'Ryan to the period after the Boyne.
A search of six different books of Irish history covering this period revealed no references to (O')Ryan.  And tales certainly grew about him -- one version has it that he was eventually betrayed for the reward money, only to have his murderer learn that his proscription had been lifted. The form of this song varies, too; in some texts, O'Ryan is seeking his love; in others, merely shelter from the English.
Clearly, whatever the historical truth, the tale has grown in the telling. - RBW
File: RcEaAnCh
===
NAME: Earl Bothwell [Child 174]
DESCRIPTION: A tale of the woes of Scotland. David [Riccio], the Queen's servant, is murdered with twelve daggers. King and Queen quarrel over this. Bothwell takes the king and hangs him. This produces such anger that the Queen flees to England
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: royalty nobility murder death exile betrayal
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1542 - Mary Stewart, at the age of eight days, becomes Queen of Scotland. She later becomes Queen of France by virtue of her marriage to the French King Francis III.
1560 - Death of Francis III. Mary eventually returns to Scotland to rule it directly for the first time
1566 - Murder of David Riccio (falsely called "Lord David), secretary to Mary Stewart (rumour had it that he was her lover, but there is no evidence of this)
1567 - Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley, Mary's husband (he was in a house which blew up, but from the state of his body it appears that he was dead before the explosion). Mary Stewart soon after (forcibly?) married to James Hepburn, the fourth Earl of Bothwell (here called "Bodwell"). She was deposed not long after
1568 - Mary escapes to England
1578 - Death of Bothwell
1587 - Execution of Mary Stewart by Elizabeth I of England
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 174, "Earl Bothwell"  (1 text)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 213-218, "The Murder of the King of Scots" (1 text)
Roud #4004
NOTES: Henry Lord Darnley was Mary Stuart's cousin (and heir if she remained childless), and after their marriage he was addressed as King. Darnley is thus the "king" of this ballad and Mary Stuart the Queen. The Queen of England is, of course, Elizabeth I (reigned 1558-1603). Mary Stuart was Elizabeth's heir.
(A spelling note: The Scottish spelling of Mary's name was "Stewart." Since, however, she spent much of her youth in France, she used the French spelling "Stuart.") - RBW
File: C174
===
NAME: Earl Brand [Child 7]
DESCRIPTION: (Earl Brand) falls in love with a high lady against her father's will. They flee together, but are overtaken. Earl Brand slays almost all the pursuers, but is himself sorely wounded. They flee on, but at last Earl Brand must stop and dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: courting death fight
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland) US(Ap,MA,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (35 citations)
Child 7, "Earl Brand" (9 texts)
Bronson 7, "Earl Brand" (42 versions plus 2 in addenda)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 131-139, "The Child of Elle" (2 texts, one being that of the Percy Folio and the other the result of Percy's reconstruction of the text)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 6-7, "The Brave Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune) {cf. Bronson's #1b}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 35-40, "The Seven Brothers" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #6, #28}
Randolph 3, "Rise Ye Up" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #27}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 228-230, "Lord William and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 128-130, "Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Davis-Ballads 4, "Earl Brand" (4 texts plus 1 of "The Bold Soldier," 2 tunes entitled "The Seven Brothers, or The Seven Sleepers";"The Seven Brothers, or Lord William"; 1 more version mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #24, #40}
Davis-More 5, pp. 26-34, "Earl Brand" (4 texts, 4 tunes; the "CC" text looks mixed)
BrownII 3, "Earl Brand" (2 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more)
Hudson 2, pp. 66-68, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 115-116, "Earl Brand" (1 text, properly titled "Sweet William," plus an untitled excerpt)
Brewster 4, "Earl Brand" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune) {Bronson's #35}
Greenleaf/Mansfield 2, "Lord Robert" (1 text)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 2, "Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #10)
Leach, pp. 66-71, "Earl Brand" (2 texts)
OBB 38, "Earl Brand"; 39, "The Douglas Tragedy" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 68, "Earl Brand (The Douglas Tragedy)" (1 text+1 fragment)
Warner 79, "Sweet Willie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 404-406, "The Douglas Tragedy" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 33, "Earl Brand"; 49, "The Douglas Tragedy" (2 texts)
Niles 5, "Earl Brand" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Gummere, pp. 206-208+349-350, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
SharpAp 4 "Earl Brand" (12 texts, 12 tunes) {Bronson's #13, #15, #14, #12, #11, #19, #20, #39, #26, #16, #36, #18}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 3, "The Seven Sleepers" (1 text, 1 tune -- a single traditional verse filled out from other printed sources by the editor) {Bronson's #20, but Bronson has a different text}
Mackenzie 2, "The Seven Brethren" (1 text)
Hodgart, p. 29, "Earl Brand (the Douglas Tragedy)" (1 text)
TBB 13, "The Douglas Tragedy (Earl Brand)" (1 text)
JHCox  2, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 51-54, "The Douglas Tragedy" (1 text)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 7-8, "Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 216, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
cf. BBI, ZN2487, "There was a bold seaman, a ship he could steer"
DT 7, DOUGTRAD* DOUGTRD2
Roud #23
RECORDINGS:
I. G. Greer & Mrs. I. G. Greer, "Sweet William (Earl Brand)" (AFS; on LC12)  {Bronson's #34a/b}; Professor & Mrs. Greer, "Sweet William & Fair Ellen - Pts. 1 & 2" (Paramount 3236, 1930)
Henry McGregor, "The Douglas Tragedy (Earl Brand)" (on FSBBAL1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erlinton" [Child 8] (plot)
cf. "The Bold Soldier [Laws M27]" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sweet Willie
Jolly Soldier
Lord William's Death
William and Ellen
Brandywine
The Child of Ell
Fair Ellender
Sweer William and Fair Ellen
As He Rode Up to the Old Man's Gate
NOTES: Child admits that he has "only with much hesitation" separated this from "Erlinton" [Child 8], and many others have inclined to join them. Scott viewed "A Child of Elle" (the Percy text of this piece) as a forerunner of "Erlinton."
Two of Niles's versions seem to be mixed texts; both relate a conversation between the knight and his horse, and end with the intertwined rose-and-briar. (This is not uncommon in American versions; Robert Shiflett, of Brown's Cove, Virginia, had a similar mixed version.) The second, "William and Ellen," consists primarily of these elements; little is left of the plot of "Earl Brand."
Quite a few people (e.g. Eddy) list "The Bold Soldier" [Laws M27] as a version of this balled, and some few of these may have slipped into the above list. - RBW
File: C007
===
NAME: Earl Colvin: see Lady Alice [Child 85] (File: C085)
===
NAME: Earl Crawford [Child 229]
DESCRIPTION: Lady Crawford marries the Earl at a young age, and soon bears a son. She thinks Crawford loves the child more than he loves her. They quarrel and separate. Both wish to reconcile, both think the other has refused to do so, both die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1873
KEYWORDS: love separation children jealousy death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 229, "Earl Crawford" (2 texts)
Bronson 229, "Earl Crawford" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 589-592, "Earl Crawford" (1 text)
DT, CRAWFRD*
Roud #3880
File: C229
===
NAME: Earl of Aboyne, The [Child 235]
DESCRIPTION: The Earl goes to London, leaving his wife behind. She hears that he has been courting others. When he returns, she makes a fine show but disdains him. He prepares once again to depart, and says she may not go with him. She dies for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love separation death accusation infidelity rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 235, "The Earl of Aboyne" (12 texts, 1 tune)
Bronson 235, "The Earl of Aboyne" (9 versions)
Ord, pp. 464-465, "The Lord o' Aboyne" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 593-595, "The Earl of Aboyne" (1 text)
Roud #99
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Bonny Peggy Irvine
NOTES: This rather confused story seems to have no historical basis (at least not based on the names in the ballad). - RBW
File: C235
===
NAME: Earl of Errol, The [Child 231]
DESCRIPTION: The Earl of Errol weds Kate Carnegie, perhaps for the sake of her large dowry. Kate complains that "Errol is no' a man." Errol disproves the charge by having an illegitimate child. Kate wishes to abandon him; he will not give up her dowry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Edinburgh Magazine)
KEYWORDS: marriage pregnancy infidelity
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1658 - Wedding of Gilbert Hay, tenth earl of Errol, to Catherine Carnegie. The marriage was childless, and apparently unhappy (there was some sort of hearing in 1659), but lasted, at least officially, until Errol's death in 1674
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 231, "The Earl of Errol" (6 texts)
Bronson 231, "The Earl of Errol" (6 versions)
DBuchan 38, "The Earl of Errol" (1 text)
Kinloch-BBook IX, pp. 31-36,"Earl of Errol" (1 text)
Roud #96
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dundee, It's a Pretty Place" (floating lyrics)
File: C231
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NAME: Earl of Mar's Daughter, The [Child 270]
DESCRIPTION: The earl's daughter brings home a dove, who at night turns into a man and begets seven sons by her. When a man woos the earl's daughter, the earl decides to kill the bird and have her marry. The bird returns with an avian army and reclaims his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828 (Buchan)
KEYWORDS: love courting bird childbirth father marriage rescue
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 270, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
Bronson 270, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 version)
Leach, pp. 641-645, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
OBB 25, "Earl Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
DT, MARDAUGH
Roud #3879
File: C270
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NAME: Earl of Murray: see The Bonny Earl of Murray [Child 181] (File: C181)
===
NAME: Earl of Westmoreland, The [Child 177]
DESCRIPTION: Following the failure of his revolt, Neville of Westmoreland flees to Scotland and is taken to Hume Castle. Neville at last sails for Seville, and is given office by the queen. He fights the heathen and is victorious, and receives various rewards
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: rebellion exile nobility royalty battle fight
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 177, "The Earl of Westmoreland" (1 text)
Roud #4007
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rising in the North" [Child 175] (subject)
cf. "Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas" [Child 176] (subject)
NOTES: For the background to this song, see the notes on The Rising in the North" [Child 175]; also "Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas" [Child 176].
The song itself is almost pure fiction; the only truth is in the introduction, in which Neville flees to Scotland, goes to Hume, and sails to the Continent. (In reality, he spend the rest of his life in exile in Flanders.)
One suspects that this story somehow got mixed up with a romance. I have this odd feeling the legend of Guy of Warwick is involved (though the only clear similarity between the two is that both fought pagans); Guy was not a Neville, but the most famous Earl of Warwick in English history was of the Neville family (though a cadet branch). - RBW
File: C177
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NAME: Earl Rothes [Child 297]
DESCRIPTION: Lady Ann is enamored of Earl Rothes, though he is married. Her (parents?) promise to care for her well if she will forget him. She says she will stay with Earl Rothes until her child is born. Her young brother vows revenge. But she stays with the Earl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love courting infidelity nobility family
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 297, "Earl Rothes" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 682-683, "Earl Rothes" (1 text)
Roud #4025
File: C297
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NAME: Early in the Morning (I): see The Drunken Sailor (Early in the Morning) (File: Doe048)
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NAME: Early in the Morning (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Early in the morning, just about the break of day, You ought to see me grab my pillow Where my good gal used to lay." The singer is going up river; he complains about his girl, his life, his failure to listen to mother, the need to travel to escape jail
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: travel separation mother prison
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, pp. 104-105, "Early in the Mornin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10038
File: MWhee104
===
NAME: Early in the Spring: see Early, Early in the Spring [Laws M1] (File: LM01)
===
NAME: Early Monday Morning
DESCRIPTION: "Early Monday morning the maid came at the door With her shoes and stockings in her hand and I don't know what before. I tied up her garter so neatly and so trim She threw her arms apart and I hugged her quietly in"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: courting clothes
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 32-33, "Early Monday Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2275
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cindy" (floating verses there and many other songs)
NOTES: Creighton-Maritime: "[The singer] probably knew more verses but, being questionable, he refrained from singing them."
From _Jefferson Democrat_,Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Missouri, FRIDAY, 23 DECEMBER 1870 "JEFFERSON COUNTY SIXTY YEARS AGO - .... If, by chance, a young lady fell heir to a pair of shoes -- as times improved -- when she went abroad she always carried her shoes and stockings in her hand until near her journey's end, when she would stop and put them on, smooth back her hair, and all was right." (Source: rootsweb pub site) See a similar note in _Early Settlers of Sangamon County -- 1876_ by John Carroll Power at rootsweb site.
Note also the following from "The Maid of Ballymore": Markie Bawn's sweetheart has just told him she will marry if he gets her parents consent. "Markie Bawn he was overjoyed at hearing the good news, And to make him go the quicker, he tied on his shoes. He went straight to my mama ...." Markie may as well been trying to make a good impression, which he does. - BS
File: CrMa032
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NAME: Early One Morning
DESCRIPTION: "Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing in the valley below, Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me; How could you use a poor maiden so?" She laments the young made who made promises and then betrayed her for a new girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1866 (Hullah, "The Song Book")
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Early One Morning" (1 text)
DT, EARLY1AM*
Roud #12682
File: FSWB185
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NAME: Early One Morning in the Month of July
DESCRIPTION: "Early one morning in the month of July We finished our crops and laid them all by." The singers depart from their girls. They exhort their patriots to fight hard: "We're bound to whip the Yankees, we'll do it or die." They praise Lee and insult Butler
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar farming separation
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 377, "Early One Morning in the Month of July" (1 text)
Roud #11749
NOTES: This is, perhaps, a reference to recruiting some (Civil War) regiment or company: Companies usually formed when an eminent person (usually a man who hoped to be an officer) signed up all the willing men in an area to form a unit.
What unit, though, cannot be told from Brown's fragment. The natural assumption is that it is July 1861, but this renders the reference to Lee and Butler mysterious; Lee did not assume command of the Army of Northern Virginia until 1862, and by that time Butler was in New Orleans.
The closest Lee and Butler came to crossing swords was in the 1864 campaign, when Butler commanded the Army of the James which miserably failed to capture Petersburg by surprise. But by that time, the Confederacy had every man it could find under arms -- by means of a draft. No summer soldiering! - RBW
File: Br3377
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NAME: Early Spring: see The Sailor and His Bride [Laws K10] (File: LK10)
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NAME: Early Sunday Morning: see This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes (File: Br3096)
===
NAME: Early, Early in the Spring (II): see The Croppy Boy (I) [Laws J14] (File: LJ14)
===
NAME: Early, Early in the Spring [Laws M1]
DESCRIPTION: The singer is (pressed and) sent to sea. (He writes to his true love, but her father withholds the letters.) When he returns, her father tells him she has wed another. He accuses her of unfaithfulness and swears to spend the rest of his life at sea
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (Logan; broadside version appears to date to the seventeenth century)
KEYWORDS: separation courting love poverty sailor pressgang
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So) Britain(England) Canada (Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (19 citations)
Laws M1, "Early, Early in the Spring"
Belden, pp. 163-164, "Early, Early in the Spring" (2 texts)
Randolph 81, "Early, Early in the Spring" (4 texts plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 77-80, "Early, Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 81D)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 144-145, "The Disappointed Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 87, "Early, Early in the Spring" (2 texts plus 1 excerpt)
Hudson 41, pp. 155-156, "Early in the Spring" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 328-331, "Early, Early in the Spring" (3 texts, the third very short; 2 texts on p. 444)
SharpAp 125, "Early, Early in the Spring" (5 texts, 5 tunes)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 154-155, "Early Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 98, "Early Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 549-550, "The Letters of Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 63, "Early, Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 66, "The Trail to Mexico" (5 texts, 1 tune, of which only the "C" and "D" texts go here; "A" and "B" are "The Trail to Mexico" and "E" is "Going to Leave Old Texas")
Logan, pp. 28-30, "The Disappointed Sailor" (1 text)
JHCox 111, "Early in the Spring" (3 texts plus mention of 1 more)
JHCoxIIA, #18, pp. 79-80, "'Twas Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2863, "When I went early in the Spring"; cf. ZN1423, "In e'ery street I hear 'em sing"
DT 429, EARLYSPR*
Roud #152
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "It Was Early, Early All in a Spring" (on Voice15)
Margaret Dirrane, "'Twas Early, Early in the Spring" (on Aran1)
Sam Hazel, "Early, Early in the Spring" (AFS 3095 A2, 3095 B1, 1939)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Trail to Mexico" [Laws B13] (plot)
NOTES: Several texts of this song, including Belden's "B" and one found by Lomax, convert the sailor to a cowboy. It is quite likely that this is a deliberate recension, and so perhaps worthy of separate listing. But Laws does not distinguish the versions, so we don't either. But cf. "The Trail to Mexico" [Laws B13]. - RBW
File: LM01
===
NAME: Earsdon Sword-Dancer's Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "Good people, give ear to my story, I've called in to see you by chance; Five lads I have brought blythe and merry." The company welcomes in the new year. The gentlemen are introduced: The sons of Nelson, Elliot, etc. They prepare for the sword dance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 154-155, "The Earsdon Sword-Dancer's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR154 (Partial)
Roud #610
NOTES: There are a number of songs of this type, which Roud generally lumps under his #610. But they are at the very least different recensions of the same source.
The first character mentioned in this song, Elliot, is George Augustus Elliot, Lord Heathfield (1717-1790), who was governor of Gibraltar from 1776 until his death; from 1779-1783, he defended The Rock during the so-called "Great Siege."
Adam Duncan (1731-1804) was the British admiral at the Battle of Camperdown (1797). The British fleet was still feeling the after-effects of the Spithead and Nore mutinies (for which see "Poor Parker"), and was desperately trying to hold back the Dutch fleet which hoped to support a French invasion of England.
Dutch commander Johann William de Winter (1750-1812) knew his fleet was weak (of the eleven ships lost by the Dutch, the British declined to take any into their navy), but he did at one point try to break out; the British managed to concentrate against him and win a bloody strategic victory, forcing the remnant of the Dutch fleet back into the Texel harbors.
If you've read this far, you doubtless know who Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was, so I won't delay you with his story.
So too for Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), victor at Waterloo and designer of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the defensive positions guarding Portugal from French attack.
The final character mentioned is "the son of the Great Buonaparte" (the original Corsican spelling of Napoleon's surname). Napoleon (1769-1821) had only one legitimate son, the Duke of Reichstadt (1811-1832), though there were illegitimate offspring. Not in England, of course. - RBW
File: StoR154
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NAME: Ease that Trouble in the Mind: see Went to the River (I) (File: R258)
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NAME: East Bound Train, The: see Going for a Pardon (File: R721)
===
NAME: East Colorado Blues: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: East Virginia (Dark Hollow)
DESCRIPTION: "I was born in (east Virginia); North Carolina I did go. There I met a pretty woman, And her name I did not know." The singer grieves that her parents would marry her to another. "I'd rather be in some dark hollow... than see you be another man's darling"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation grief
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
BrownIII 279, "Must I Go to Old Virginia" (1 text, with a distorted first line and many floating bits; Roud lumps it with "Porto Rico")
SharpAp 167, "In Old Virginny" (4 texts, 4 tunes, but "C" is "Man of Constant Sorrow" and "D" is a collection of floaters)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 80 "East Virginia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 134-135, "[Old Virginny]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 65, "Old Virginny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 27 "East Virginia Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 115-116, "Oh, Molly Dear" (1 text, very mixed, with verses from this song, from "The Drowsy Sleeper" [Laws M4], and some floaters); pp. 275-276, "East Virginia (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 44, "East Virginia" (1 text)
DT, EASTVIRG*
Roud #3396
RECORDINGS:
Clarence "Tom" Ashley, "Dark Holler Blues" (Columbia 15489-D, 1929)
[Clarence] Ashley & [Gwen] Foster, "East Virginia Blues" (Vocalion 02576, c. 1933)
Carter Family, "The East Virginia Blues" (Bluebird B-5650/Montgomery Ward 4550/victor 27494, 1934)
Logan English, "East Virginia" (on LEnglish01)
Betty Garland, "I Was Born in East Virginia" (on BGarland01)
Kelly Harrell, "O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother" (Victor 20280, 1926; on KHarrell01 -- primarily a version of "The Drowsy Sleeper" but with several verses belonging here)
Roscoe Holcomb, "East Virginia" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
Buell Kazee, "East Virginia" (Brunswick 154B, 1927; on AAFM3); "East Virginia" (on Kazee01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "East Virginia" (on NLCR01); "Dark Holler Blues" (on NLCR16)
Pete Seeger, "East Virginia Blues" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01)
Pete Steele, "East Virginia" (on PSteele01)
Doc Watson, "East Virginia" (on RitchieWatsonCD1)
Doc Watson & Clarence (Tom) Ashley, "Dark Holler Blues" (on FOTM)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister" (tune)
cf. "Greenback Dollar" (words, tune)
cf. "Little Birdie" (floating lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Carter Family, "East Virginia Blues, No. 2" (Romeo 5482/Conqueror 8535, 1935)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Dark Holler Blues
File: JRSF134
===
NAME: East Virginia Girls: see Come All You Virginia Girls (Arkansas Boys; Texian Boys; Cousin Emmy's Blues; etc.) (File: R342)
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NAME: Eastbound Train, The: see Going for a Pardon (File: R721)
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NAME: Easter Snow
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a beautiful girl and asks her to come home with him to "Easter Snow." He says she will see foxhunters and other exciting things. She tells him that she is pledged to another who lives far from Easter Snow
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection hunting
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Kennedy 128, "Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H66, pp. 369-370, "Wester Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 43, "The Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 29-30, "Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2122
RECORDINGS:
Brigid Tunney, "Easter Snow" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
NOTES: There is a lot going on behind the scenes of this commonplace (even banal) text. "Easter Snow" or its variants is conceded to be a folk variant of "Estersnoew," a region in Roscommon. This in turn is a wearing-down of a Gaelic name -- but Kennedy (based on Petrie Coll) gives the Gaelic as "Iseart Nuadhain," while Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list the title in Petrie/Stanford as "Diseart Nuadhain, no Sneachta Casga." In any event, it appears that there is a Gaelic tune and a Gaelic name behind the song. - RBW
File: HHH066
===
NAME: Eastern Light, The [Laws D11]
DESCRIPTION: A sailor, having spent his money on a drunken spree, ships on board the "Eastern Light," fishing on the Grand Banks. The captain drives the crew hard until they are forced to return to Gloucester
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925
KEYWORDS: sea work fishing ship
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws D11, "The Eastern Light"
Doyle3, pp. 63-64, "Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 117, "Song about the Fishing Banks" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 105-106, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 63, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 820, EASTRNLT
Roud #2235
NOTES: [According to the Digital Tradition,] the year is 1873 -- 1863 [according to]  Doyle3 -- and Eastern Light was built in 1866. - BS
File: LD11
===
NAME: Eastern Train, The: see The Harvard Student (The Pullman Train) (File: R391)
===
NAME: Easy Rider
DESCRIPTION: "Easy rider, see what you have done... Made me love you, now your man done come." The singer expresses regret about the relationship between men and women, but hopes to do better in the future
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Ma Rainey)
KEYWORDS: love courting husband infidelity floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Sandburg, pp. 246-247, "C. C. Rider" (2 short texts, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 22, "Easy Rider" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, p. 19, "(See See Rider)" (1 tune, partial text); cf. pp. 152-153 (apparently a combination of this song with "Satisfied") (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 75, "Easy Rider" (1 text)
DT, EASYRIDR*
Roud #10056
RECORDINGS:
Texas Alexander, "Easy Rider Blues" (Vocalion 02856, 1934)
Bea Booze [pseud. for Muriel Nichols], "See See Rider Blues" (Decca 8633, 1942; Decca 48055, n.d.)
Jimmie Davis, "Easy Rider Blues" (Bluebird B-5570, 1934)
Scott Dunbar, Celeste Dunbar & Rosie Dunbar, "Easy Rider" (on MuSouth05)
Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Easy Rider Blues" (Paramount 12474, 1927)
Tom Johnson & John Copeland, "See See Mama" (on MuSouth05)
Sam McGee, "Easy Rider" (Vocalion 5254, c. 1929; rec. 1928)
Ma Rainey, "See See Rider Blues" (Paramount 12252, 1925)
Leo Soileau, "Easy Rider Blues" (Paramount 12808, 1929)
Chuck Willis, "C. C. Rider" (Classic Wax CW-0004, rec. 1957)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Birdie" (theme)
cf. "Chilly Winds" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Vesta and Mattie's Blues" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang's "b" definition [of "easy rider"], "a woman who is sexually promiscuous or easily seduced", is the one that applies here. (Another definition, interestingly enough, is "guitar.") - PJS
File: LxU022
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NAME: Ebenezer, The
DESCRIPTION: The sailor recalls a dreadful voyage: "Ev'ry day was scrub and grease her." The first mate was "the dirtiest man you ever seen"; the second had left his former line when it "got too hot." The food was bread "as tough as any brass" and over-salted meat
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship sailor abuse hardtimes food
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 200-201, "The Ebenezer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 476-477, "The Ebenezer" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 354-355]
DT, EBENZER*
Roud #8237
File: Doe200
===
NAME: Echo Canyon
DESCRIPTION: Describes the building of a railroad through Echo Canyon; Mormons work hard and cheerfully. In the fall they will meet their women; in the future the locomotive will gather Saints from afar, bringing them to Zion (Utah) while the wicked are swept away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (recorded by L. M. Hilton)
KEYWORDS: pride virtue train railroading technology dancing party moniker worker
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1868 - Brigham Young contracts with Union Pacific to furnish Mormon labor for the building of the transcontinental railroad
FOUND_IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, ECHOCNYN*
Roud #4749
RECORDINGS:
L. M. Hilton, "Echo Canyon Song" (on Hilton01)
NOTES: This almost got the "nonballad" keyword, but there's a thin thread of narrative, albeit in the present tense. - PJS
File: RecEchCa
===
NAME: Echo Mocks the Corncrake, The
DESCRIPTION: "The lass that I loved first of all was handsome, young, and fair." He recalls their happy life. He contrasts the complex, expensive demands of city life with the joys of rural citizenship. He waits for the corncrake to bring back the summer weather
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love courting bird home
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 325-327, "The Corncraik Amang the Whinny Knowes" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H18b, p. 272, "The Whinny Knowes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, p. 182, "The Corncrake Among the Whinny Knowes" (1 text)
DT, CORNCRK*
Roud #2736
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(39), "The Corncraik Amang the Whinny Knowes" ("Oh, the lass that I had first of a'"), The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1868 could not be downloaded and verified. - BS
File: HHH018b
===
NAME: Echoing Horn, The
DESCRIPTION: At the dawn of day the echoing horn calls to the foxhunt; the fox breaks, the dogs chase, the horses leap fences and stiles. When the fox is killed, the hunters take his brush, then go home and drink while their wives give great delight
AUTHOR: unknown, possibly Thomas Arne
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Williams)
KEYWORDS: sex death hunting sports nonballad animal dog wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 246, "The E-choin' Horn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #878
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Reynard ('A Good Many Gentlemen')" (theme)
cf. "Bold Reynard the Fox (Tallyho! Hark! Away!)" (theme)
cf. "Joe Bowman" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Glittering Dewdrops
When Morning Stands on Tiptoe
NOTES: In some versions, including "Glittering Dewdrops," the animal being hunted is a hare. Kennedy notes a song "with the same title" being sung in Thomas Arne's operetta "Thomas and Sally," 1761, but without seeing the text I'm not willing to cite this as earliest date, although this song certainly has a composed air about it. - PJS
File: K246
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NAME: Ed Hawkins
DESCRIPTION: "Come stand around me young and old And see me welcome death so bold." The singer warns others of his misdeeds, says that he is arraigned for murder and sentenced to die; he prepares for the afterlife and declares, "I do not fear to meet the grave."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: prisoner death murder punishment
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 165-167, (no title) (1 text, 1 tune; also a fragment on p. 164 allegedly about the same event and by the same author)
NOTES: According to Thomas's informant, "Ed [Hawkins] was promised to seven women, married four, killed seven men, and was scarce twenty-one when he died on the scaffold." Both the songs recorded by Thomas show the singer as penitent -- but neither mentions Hawkins by name; they are not the standard goodnight by any means. - RBW
File: ThBa165
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NAME: Ed's Thoughts
DESCRIPTION: Recitation; the speaker and comrades try to break a logjam. The jam breaks but Ed McCoy is pinned under a small log. A big log knocks it loose. Asked what he was thinking, Ed answers, "My best girl I never thought of/I was afraid my lice would drown."
AUTHOR: Probably Marion Ellsworth
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation; the speaker and his comrades Ed McCoy and Bob Joy, are loggers attempting to break a logjam on the Au Sable river; the jam breaks and all head for the shore, but Ed is pinned under a small log. A big log comes along, but instead of crushing Ed, it knocks the small one away, freeing him. Asked if he thought of home, mother and his girlfriend, he answers, "My best girl I never thought of/I was afraid my lice would drown."
KEYWORDS: lumbering humorous logger work recitation escape
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 101, "Ed's Thoughts" (1 text)
Roud #8881
NOTES: This, like the other pieces probably written by Ellsworth, does not seem to have entered oral tradition. - PJS
File: Be101
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NAME: Eddystone Light: see The Keeper of the Eddystone Light (File: PBB120)
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NAME: Edgartown Whaling Song: see Hearts of Gold (File: SWMS068)
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NAME: Edinburgh Town: see Caroline of Edinborough Town [Laws P27] (File: LP27)
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NAME: Edom o' Gordon: see Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon [Child 178] (File: C178)
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NAME: Educated Feller: see The Zebra Dun [Laws B16] (File: LB16)
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NAME: Edward (II): see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Edward (III) (Edward Fitzgerald)
DESCRIPTION: Surrounded by "ruthless villains" as he slept, Edward wakes and stabs Swan but is seriously wounded by Ryan and Sirr. "Proclaim that Edward's blood is spill'd! By traitor's hand, by coward Sirr, Revenge! Revenge! for Edward's kill'd."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: rebellion fight betrayal death Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 4 1798 - Lord Edward Fitzgerald, head of the military committee of the United Irishmen dies in Newgate, Dublin after being wounded and arrested by Major Henry Charles Sirr on May 19; Wexford Rebellion begins May 26, 1798 (source: The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site entry for [Lord] Edward Fitzgerald)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 8, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 52, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Bidden to the Wake of Fair" (from William Shields' opera _Rosina_, published in 1782, according to Moylan) (tune)
cf. "Henry Downs" (character of Major Sirr) and references there
NOTES: Zimmermann 8: Fitzgerald, hiding in Dublin, is betrayed [by Francis Magan who received a reward] and wounded and captured by a raiding party. Members of the raiding party named in the ballad are Major Sirr, Major Swan and Captain Ryan. One of his captors [Ryan] is killed. Fitgerald was taken to Newgate jail where he died.
For a brief biography of Lord Edward Fitzgerald(1763-1798) see The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site entry for [Lord] Edward Fitzgerald.
For more about Major Sirr see "Henry Downs," "The Major" and "The Man from God-Knows-Where." - BS
Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798) was a younger son of the Duke of Leinster. He spent time in the British army, but the French Revolution turned him against monarchy. If Thomas Pakenham (_The Year of Liberty_, p. 38 and following) is to be believed, he was not really very bright -- but the United Irishmen still found him useful, because he was handsome and gallant, a good Man on Horseback to inspire recruiting. The brains of the movement -- Thomas Addis Emmet and the like -- knew a good thing when they saw one.
Of course, they had to do something with him to keep him attached to the movement. And he was a hothead. By mid-1798, the moderates were trying to calm things down -- but all of the leaders, except Fitzgerald, were in custody by May. Soldiers had come to Fitzgerald's home in March and found his wife shoving incriminating papers into the fire (see Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 80). Fitzgerald was still at large but unable to show himself. He and the few other free leaders decided to rebel even without the French. On May 12, the English place a reward of a thousand pounds on Fitzgerald's head.
On May 18, Fitzgerald barely avoided capture. The next day, as he suffered from a severe cold, Major Swann and Captain Ryan arrived at his door and tried to arrest him. Fitzgerald stabbed Swann three times, then Ryan 12 or more times, but Swann was able to run for help, and Ryan grabbed Fitzgerald's legs even while dying. Major Sirr, who was commanding a guard outside, arrived and shot Fitzgerald in the shoulder. He was taken into custody, and died of his wounds and blood poisoning on June 4 (Pakenham, pp. 92fff, 235ffff. Golway, pp. 81-84)
There were several spies involved. In addition to Francis Magan, a member of the United Irish executive, Thomas Reynolds was to betray the organization's plans (Pakenham, pp. 43-44).
For the general context of the aftermath of Fitzgerald's arrest and the 1798, see the notes to "Boulavogue." Fitzgerald is also mentioned in "The Green above the Red" and "The Shan Van Voght."
There is a recent biography of Fitzgerald, Stella Tillyard, _Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary_ (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997). It seems to have been fairly popular, but it has no footnotes, an extremely thin bibliography, and -- as I discovered upon trying to read it -- it casually assumes things it cannot possibly know. It appears to me to be more a historical novel than an genuine biography. - RBW
File: Zimm008
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NAME: Edward [Child 13]
DESCRIPTION: A mother questions her son about his recent deeds and the blood on his weapon. After many evasions, he reveals that he has killed his brother.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: murder brother questions
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England) US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Ireland
REFERENCES: (34 citations)
Child 133, "Edward" (2 texts)
Bronson 13, "Edward" (25 versions -- of which, however, #10 is actually "Lizie Wan" -- plus 2 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 433, "Edward" (notes only)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 82-84, "Edward, Edward" (1 text)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 111-112, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 6, "What Blood on the Point of Your Knife" (3 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes) {A= Bronson's#9, B=#6a, D=#23}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 21-23, "What Blood on the Point of Your Knife" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 6A) {Bronson's #9}
Eddy 6, "Edward" (1 fragmentary text that might be this or "Lizie Wan")
Flanders/Olney, pp. 100-101, "Edward" [listed in error as Child 12] (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}; see also "Edward Ballad" on pp. 96-100, which is closer to "The Twa Brothers"
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 208-212, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Davis-Ballads 7, "Edward" (4 texts plus a fragment; two tunes entitled "What Is That On the End of Your Sword," "Edward"; 1 more version mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #19, #22}
Davis-More 8, pp. 60-67, "Edward" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 7, "Edward" (3 texts)
Hudson 5, pp. 70-72, "Edward" (2 texts)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 6, "Eward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 180-184, "Edward" (3 texts, with local titles "Edward," (no title), "The Murdered Brother"; 3 tunes on pp. 404-406) {Bronson's #5, [b], #3}
JHCoxIIA, #4, pp. 16-18, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 85-88, "Edward" (3 texts)
OBB 65, "Edward, Edward" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 156, "Edward" (2 texts)
PBB 63, "Edward" (1 text)
Niles 10, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 9, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Gummere, pp. 169-170+342, "Edward" (1 text)
SharpAp 8 "Edward" (10 texts, some of them fragmentary, 10 tunes; the "B" and "F" fragments might be "Lizie Wan") {Bronson's #13, #20, #11, #1, #7, #16, #14, #15, #12, #8}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 8, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Hodgart, p. 119, "Edward" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 5, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 7, "Edward" (2 texts)
LPound-ABS, 9, pp. 23-24, "Edward" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 59-60, "How Come That Blood?" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 56-58, "Edward" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 223, "Edward" (1 text)
DT 13, EDWARD1* EDWARD2*
ST C013 (Full)
Roud #200
RECORDINGS:
Mary Ellen Connors, Jeannie Robertson, Thomas Moran, Angela Brasil [composite] "Edward" (on FSBBAL1) {cf. Bronson's #3.1 in addenda}
Mary Delaney, "What Put the Blood?" (on Voice17)
Charles Ingenthron, "Edward" [singer calls it, "The Little Yellow Dog," but the LC folklorists retitle it "Edward"] (AFS; on LC12) {Bronson's #6(b)}
Jean Ritchie, "Edward" (on JRitchie02)
Jeannie Robertson, Paddy Tunney, Angela Brasil [composite] "Edward" (on FSB4) {cf. Bronson's #3.1 in addenda}
Paddy Tunney, "Son, Come Tell It To Me" (on IRPTunney01); "What Put the Blood?" (on Voice03); "What Put the Blood on Your Right Shoulder, Son" (on IRPTunney02)
Mrs. Crockett Ward, "Edward" (AFS; on LC57)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lizie Wan" [Child 65] (plot,lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Son Davie, Son Davie
What's That Blood On Your Sword?
The Murdered Brother
Dear Son
NOTES: This song and "Lizie Wan" have cross-fertilized so heavily (especially in the ending, where the murderous son is cross-examined) that it is often not possible to tell fragmentary versions apart. Eddy's text, for instance, has only the questions and answers, and might be either song. - RBW
File: C013
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NAME: Edward Ballad: see The Twa Brothers [Child 49] (listed in Flanders/Olney as Child 13) (File: C049)
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NAME: Edward Boyle
DESCRIPTION: Edward Boyle, helped by friends, leaves his lover, parents and Ireland for America. The singer recalls his flute playing. She curses Columbus: many lovers mourn his follower's return. If she had gold she would give it up for one glimpse of Edward Boyle.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1991 (Tunney-SongsThunder)
KEYWORDS: love emigration separation America Ireland nonballad music
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 139-140, "Edward Boyle" (1 text)
Roud #2906
File: TST139
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NAME: Edward Hickman (Marian Parker IV)
DESCRIPTION: Hickman kidnaps Marian Parker, hoping to gain a ransom. After briefly treating her well, he kills her and flees. At last captured, he is tried and sentenced to be hanged. His mother laments his fate
AUTHOR: Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Andrew Jenkins)
KEYWORDS: murder execution trial abduction mother
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 14, 1927 - Kidnapping and murder of twelve (eleven?)-year-old Marian Parker
Dec 17, 1927 - Discovery by her father of the girl's mutilated body
Oct 19, 1928 - Execution of William Edward Hickman for the murder
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 257, "Edward Hickman" (1 text)
Roud #4106
RECORDINGS:
Blind Andy [pseud. for Andrew Jenkins], "The Fate of Edward Hickman" (OKeh 45197, 1928) [The flip side is also a Marian Parker ballad]
Edd Rice, "Fate of Edward Hickman" (Vocalion 5216, c. 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Marian Parker (I)" [Laws F33] (subject)
cf. "Marian Parker (II)" (subject)
cf. "Marian Parker (III)" (subject)
NOTES: This is item dE49 in Laws's Appendix II. Laws lists a total of four Marian Parker ballads (the others are F33, dF56, and dF57). This, one of two by Andrew Jenkins and appearing in the Brown collection, has the opening stanza, "Oh, come all ye good people And listen while I tell The fate of Edward Hickman, A boy we all know well." - RBW
File: LdE49
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NAME: Edward Lewis
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, we heard a different signal All up and down the Clinchfield Line Since the hand of Edward Lewis Pulls no more old 99." The singer says that those along the line will miss Lewis, an engineer, and says that he has gone on to better things.
AUTHOR: Words: Jack Hartley?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: railroading death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 291, "Edward Lewis" (1 text)
Roud #6635
File: BrII291
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NAME: Edward Mathews
DESCRIPTION: "Poor Edward Mathews, where is he? Sent headlong to eternity." "O! V. P. Coolidge, how could you So black a deed of murder do?" "The hay for cattle which he drove You swore within your heart to have." Coolidge murders Mathews and hopes for forgiveness
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder food
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 83-87, "(Edward Mathews") (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: According to Burt, this happened near Waterville, Maine, where V. P. Coolidge tried to steal a load of hay from Edward Mathews, failed, tricked the fellow into giving him a mortgage (!), and then killed him. But she is unable to provide a date. - RBW
File: Burt083
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NAME: Edward Sinclair Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "When first I saw Edward Sinclair He was a grown up boy." Sinclair's life is recounted as he starts his lumber mill: "when he was defeated He would always try again." His sons carry on the firm and some key employees are named.
AUTHOR: Patrick Hurley of Cassilis "probably about 1902" (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: commerce lumbering ship moniker family boss
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 15, "The Edward Sinclair Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi015 (Partial)
Roud #9197
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of Mullen Stream" (regarding Sinclair's lumber operation)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Edward Sinclair ... was a prominent Miramichi lumber operator in the 1880's and 1890's.... The locality was known as Bridgetown after the Intercolonial Railway bridge was built." - BS
File: MaWi015
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NAME: Edward, On Lough Erne Shore
DESCRIPTION: Edward has been transported for seven years. His lover, left alone on Lough Erne's shore, remembers their days together. Now she weeps all night: "my rose is fading and my hopes decay." She wishes she could go to him "like a moon o'er the ocean"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1991 (Tunney-SongsThunder)
KEYWORDS: love transportation separation Ireland nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 141-142, "Edward, On Lough Erne Shore" (1 text)
File: TST141
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NAME: Edward's Abdication
DESCRIPTION: "Come hearken good friends to this story so true... Concerning the love of this bonny young prince, The King of his own countree." Although his family is opposed, he insists on marrying the woman he loves. Finally, in disgust, he "cast off his crown."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: royalty love marriage
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1936 - Abdication of Edward VIII and his marriage to Wallis Simpson
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 262, (no title) (1 text)
ST ThBa262A (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "King Edwards" (theme of Edward VIII)
NOTES: Thomas does not indicate a tune for this, other than saying that it is to an English ballad; I strongly suspect it uses "The House Carpenter."
It's worth noting that Edward VIII was *not* a "young prince" when he met the (then-still-married) Mrs. Simpson. Edward's dates were 1894-1972, meaning that he married at 42.
Edward, an easygoing man brought up by strict parents, had by then displayed a strong attraction to married women. In that context, it's perhaps no surprise that Bessie Wallace Warfield Simpson (1896-1986), who was on her second marriage when he met her, gained his attention above all.
When George VI died early in 1936, it became increasingly important that the middle-aged prince marry, but he wanted no one except Mrs. Simpson (who was not divorced until late in that year). This posed many problems: She was not young (meaning that producing an heir might be problematic), she was divorced, she was a commoner, she was American. Edward finally abdicated at the end of 1936, married Mrs. Simpson a few days later, and assumed a career of quiet bitterness against the monarchy. - RBW
File: ThBa262A
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NAME: Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34]
DESCRIPTION: Edwin, now rich, returns to his sweetheart after years at sea. At her advice, he goes to her father's inn in disguise. Her father murders him for his money. The girl learns the truth and turns in her father, who is executed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(2031))
KEYWORDS: murder father money execution love punishment separation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(Lond,South),Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (22 citations)
Laws M34, "Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low"
Belden, pp. 127-128, "Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
Randolph 140, "Young Edmond Dell" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
BrownII 79, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (2 texts)
Chappell-FSRA 36, "Amy and Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 35, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 12, "He Ploweed the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
SharpAp 56, "Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (11 texts, 11 tunes)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 220-222, "Young Edmund of the Lowlands" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 641-642, "Young Edmond of the Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 32, "Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 106-108, "Young Edmon Bold" (1 text, 1 tune; the text, from manuscript, is slightly damaged as well as very curiously written)
Mackenzie 27, "Young Edmund" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 703-705, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (2 texts)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 42, "Young Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 49, The Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 57, "The Ploughboy of the Lowlands" (1 text, 1 tune)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 106-107, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H113, p. 434, "Young Edward Bold/The Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 106, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 120-121, "Young Emily" (1 text)
DT 330, EDWRDLOW*
Roud #182
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "Young Edmund" (on Voice17)
Ollie Gilbert, "The Diver Boy (Edwin in the Lowlands Low)" (on LomaxCD1701)
Geordie Hanna, "Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low" (on Voice03)
Louis Killen, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands" (on ESFB2)
Doug Wallin, "Young Emily" (on Wallins1) (on Chandler01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2031), "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth c.12(289), Johnson Ballads 214, Harding B 15(394a), Harding B 11(1459), Firth c.12(301), Harding B 11(4363), Harding B 11(4361), "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low"; Harding B 11(1433), "Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low"; Harding B 11(4362)[some lines illegible], "Young Edwin in the Low-Lands Low"; Harding B 25(2133), Harding B 16(315b), "Young Edwin of the Lowlands Low"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lovely Willie" [Laws M35] (plot)
cf. "Come All You Worthy Christians" (tune)
cf. "Dives and Lazarus" (tune)
cf. "The Lover's Curse (Kellswater)" (themes)
SAME_TUNE:
Bushes and Briars (per broadsides Bodleian Harding B 11(2031), Bodleian Johnson Ballads 214, Bodleian Harding B 11(1459))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Young Emma
NOTES: In Harry Cox's version on Voice17, Emma -- after singing the "shells in the ocean" verse found in "I Never Will Marry" -- then "sick and broken-hearted to Bedlam had to go, And her shrieks were of young Edmund who ploughed the lowland low." In that, and most of the rest of its text, it follows the Bodleian broadsides. Newfoundland versions -- all from the northern Avalon Peninsula -- seem based on the broadsides, keep or modify the "shells in the ocean" verse, and drop the Bedlam verse (which, I suppose, has no local meaning); see Karpeles-Newfoundland 32, Peacock, pp. 641-642 [the verse is almost unrecognizable] and "Young Edmund in the Lowlands" in _Songs of Newfoundland_ at the "MacEdward Leach and Songs of Atlantic Canada" site. A good, but not infallible, clue that the broadside version is being followed is the opening: "Come all you feeling lovers and listen to my song, While I unfold concerning gold, that guides so many wrong." Greig also has a broadside-based version that modifies "shells in the ocean" and drops the Bedlam verse (Greig 123 p. 1, "Young Emma," _Folk-Song of the North-East_). BS
The version in the Warner collection is unusual in that Edmund is murdered by a robber rather than by the father, and the truth does not come out for seven years. This version also makes no mention of Edmund's money. - RBW
File: LM34
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NAME: Edwin and Mary
DESCRIPTION: "When the proud British foe was invading the soil, Oppressing the young men of freedom and toil, Edwin bid his fair Mary adieu." He sets out "to fight over the waves." After long absence, Mary laments him; he "rushed from his ambush" to comfort her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: love separation war reunion
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Chappell-FSRA 65, "Edwin and Mary" (1 text)
DT, DARKBRIT*
Roud #9070
NOTES: Although this starts with a mention of British invaders, it continues with an account of the young man fighting on or across the ocean. Given how small the American navy was in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, I have to suspect that this is a slightly patched up British song (very likely, given its ornateness, a broadside). - RBW
File: ChFRA065
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NAME: Eenie Meenie Minie Mo (Counting Rhyme)
DESCRIPTION: "Eenie meenie minie mo, Catch a (nigger/tiger) by the toe, If he hollers, let him go, Eenie meenie minie mo."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Leather); Simpson and Roud report an 1885 collection in Canada
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NE) Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Linscott, p. 5, [no title] (1 text, the second of three "counting out" rhymes)
Leather, pp. 128-129, "Counting-out rhymes" (sundry short texts, not quite the same as the American versions but too close to separate)
Roud #13610
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Bit" (lyrics)
NOTES: A child's counting-out rhyme, used e.g. for choosing who is "it" in a game of tag. I remember, at about age ten, trying to convince other children that this was *not* random and that the counter could always pick who was "it" using this scheme. I suppose I was fortunate that they didn't listen, or I'd have been "it" every time.
More interesting is the fact that we (middle-class kids in Minnesota in about 1970) gave the second line as "Catch a tiger by the toe," compared to the seemingly-older version involving catching a "nigger." Did we modify it to "tiger" because none of us knew the meaning of the racial slur, or did our parents firmly straighten us (or our older classmates, who taught us the rhyme) out? I've no clue.
Simpson and Roud's _Dictionary of English Folklore_ (article on Counting Rymes) suggests that the British original was "chicken" or "tinker," with "beggar" also used. This seems reasonable in context, but I've yet to encounter any of these forms in real life.
It may seem odd to include this in a Ballad Index; it certainly isn't a ballad -- but it is a song, and clearly of the folk variety.
Linscott lists this among three Counting Out Rymes, with the other two being related to each other but not evidently related to this. I have not seen the others elsewhere. - RBW
File: Lins005
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NAME: Eensy Weensy Spider, The
DESCRIPTION: "The eensy weensy spider went up the water spout, Along came the rain and washed the spider out. Along came the sun and dried up all the rain So the eensy weensy spider climbed up the spout again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: bug
FOUND_IN: US(MS)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #579, p. 234, "(Incey wincey spider, climbed the water spout)"
Roud #11586
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Eency Weency Spider
NOTES: The Baring-Goulds say that one is to enact the spider's adventures with fingers. I seem to recall seeing this, somewhere, some time in my youth -- but, 40 or so years later, I can't imagine how it was done. Still, it seems a folk game. That would, at least, explain why no two authors seem to spell the words the same way.
It certainly inspired parodies. There are two, both fairly silly, in the Digital Tradition. - RBW
File: BGMG579
===
NAME: Eggs and Marrowbones: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Eggs In Her Basket: see The Basket of Eggs (File: VWL018)
===
NAME: Eight Famous Fishermen, The
DESCRIPTION: Eight famous fishermen are "descendents of Adam and offsprings of Cain." The eight are named and described. Then Helen Creighton is described "a-looking for tales And all that she found was six fish without scales"
AUTHOR: Edward Deal
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: fishing humorous moniker nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 192-193, "The Eight Famous Fishermen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2718
NOTES: After murdering his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8), God "put a mark" upon Cain (4:15), the nature of which is not described (though it didn't keep him from having children -- see 4:17-24).
If one takes the Bible literally, these descendants should have been wiped out in the flood, but there are quite a few later references to Cain's offspring -- e.g. Grendel in _Beowulf_. - RBW
File: CrMa192
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NAME: Eight Little Cylinders
DESCRIPTION: "Eight little cylinders sitting facing heaven, One blew its head off, then there were seven. Seven little cylinders used to playing tricks, One warped its inlet valve...." And so on, till the last cylinder "gave its efforts up And ascended up to heaven"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: technology
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 226-227, "Eight Little Cylinders" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer" (counting)
cf. "Ten Little Injuns" (counting)
File: FaE226
===
NAME: Eight Mile Bridge (Roger O'Hehir)
DESCRIPTION: Roger reports being brought up by honest parents. He runs off with Jane Sharkey, abandons her, and is pursued by her father. He is captured several times, escapes several times, flees to England, is taken again, and will be hanged shortly
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: elopement thief prison escape punishment execution
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H486, pp. 120-121, "Eight Mile Bridge" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, RGROHEHR
Roud #13371
File: HHH486
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NAME: Eight-Pound Bass, The
DESCRIPTION: Ice-fishing for bass on the Nor'West Miramichi river. "For I did fish in vain, I tried and tried again, I walked around the hole till I was lame, Away up on Whitney's Flats, Amongst the Nor'West brats, But that eight-pound bass I longed for never came"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: fishing river humorous moniker derivative
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 16, "The Eight-Pound Bass" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi016 (Partial)
Roud #9196
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Letter That Never Came" (tune and structure)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "This song was made up in the 1890's or early 1900's.... The eight-pound bass ... was the most salable size.... Sandy Ives says the Bass is a parody of The Letter That Never Came, to be found in Sigmund Spaeth's _Weep Some More, My Lady_, and the Bass has essentially the same tune. From another source I am told the origin of our song was The Beefsteak that I Ordered Never Came." - BS
File: MaWi016
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NAME: Eileen
DESCRIPTION: "In a town by the sea by the Castle Duneen" Eileen loves "a young fisher laddie" lost in a storm the day before they were to be wed. She dies of a broken heart and is buried by the shore where they used to meet. Now his ghost is heard calling her there.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (NFOBlondahl03)
KEYWORDS: love death mourning fishing sea storm ghost
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Eileen" (on NFOBlondahl03)
NOTES: Blondahl03 has no liner notes confirming that this song was collected in Newfoundland. Barring another report for Newfoundland I do not assume it has been found there. There is no entry for "Eileen" in _Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index_ by Paul Mercer. - BS
The legend doesn't seem to be known in Britain either; at least, I can't find a relevant reference in Peter Underwood's _Gazeteer of British, Scottish & Irish Ghosts_. An argument from silence, I concede. - RBW
File: RcEileen
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NAME: Eileen Aroon
DESCRIPTION: The singer compares Eileen to a gem and a flower but "dearest her constancy." If she were not true her lover would never love again. But while all else changes she, like truth alone, "is a fixed star"
AUTHOR: English translation by Gerald Griffin (1803-1840) (source: Sparling)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (Sparling)
KEYWORDS:  love lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 341-343, 501, "Eileen Aroon"
DT, EILAROON* (cf. EILAROO.NOT)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 117-118, "Eileen Aroon" (a translation from the Irish very unlike the usual English version); pp. 415-417, "Aileen Aroon" (the Griffin version) (2 texts)
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Eileen Aroon" (on IRClancyMakem02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Robin Adair" (tune)
cf. "Sadly to Mine Heart Appealing" (portions of Stephen Foster's tune)
File: RcEilAro
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NAME: Eileen McMahon
DESCRIPTION: "One night as I lay on my pillow, A vision came into my view, Of a ship sailin' out on the ocean." On deck is a beautiful girl "banished from Erin's green shore." She talks of her life as an exile. The singer wakes from his dream to see his mother's face
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recording, Margaret Barry)
KEYWORDS: love exile emigration beauty courting marriage dream mother Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #9282
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "Eileen McMahon/Green Grow the Rushes" (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman, "Eileen McMahon" (on Voice04)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Granuaile" (theme; also the aisling format) and references there
cf. "Caitilin Ni Uallachain (Cathaleen Ni Houlihan)" see references there and note re aislings, below.
cf. "Fergus O'Connor and Independence" see note re aislings, below, re Sheela na Guira.
cf. "Poor Old Granuaile" see references there and note re aislings, below, re Grace O'Malley.
cf. "Erin's Green Shore" (theme)
cf. "Granuwale" (theme)
cf. "The Blackbird of Avondale" or "The Arrest of Parnell" (theme)
NOTES: Frank Harte, in his notes to "Granuaile" [from Grace O'Malley](on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) writes: "The older Gaelic poets when they wished to write on the wrongs that Ireland has suffered at the hands of the English since the invasion of Ireland in 1169, they often adopted the type of poem called 'The Aisling'. In the 'aisling', the poet is found reflecting on Ireland's woes .... He sometimes falls asleep, and in his sleep the vision of a most beautiful woman ... appears to him. The vision tells him that she is 'Ireland' ...." Zimmermann, pp. 54-55, notes that "in allegorical songs, written according to the aisling form or otherwise, the personification of Ireland is often individualized and humanized enough to be called by a proper name; this helps to identify her as a real woman.... In the eighteenth century there were many other names, but it is often difficult to decide whether a song was written originally about some particular person and acquired only later an allegorical meaning, or directly to the country known as Sile Ni Ghadhra [Sheela na Guira], Caitilin Trial [Kathleen Thrail], Caitlin Ni Uallachain [Kathleen Ni Hoolihan]..." Eileen McMahon seems to fit the pattern. 
Fred McCormick comments on the "strange offering from Margaret Barry, Eileen McMahon, which turns out to be a recasting of the aisling, 'Erin's Green Shore'." (Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Reviews - Volume 4" by Fred McCormick - 29.1.99) The only connection I see is that both are in the aisling pattern. - BS
Plus the mentions of "Erin's green shore." When listening to the song, I was instantly reminded of "Erin's Green Shore" [Laws Q27]. The tune, however, is closer to the "Botany Bay" family.
I note that this song appears to be known only from the repertoire of Margaret Barry, though most of the themes are common.
For more on aislings, see the notes to "Granuaile." - RBW
File: RcEilMcM
===
NAME: Eileen, The Flower of Kilkenny
DESCRIPTION: "I once loved a girl in Kilkenny and a beautiful creature was she, I loved her far better than any and I know this young damsel loved me. She's the beautiful flower of Kilkenny...." He left her, "sailed over seas," but still thinks of their sad parting.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: love emigration parting beauty lament
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 76, "I Once Loved a Girl in Kilkenny" (1 text)
DT, BOYSKILK
Roud #6369
File: GrMa76
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NAME: Eire: see Erin (File: OCon059)
===
NAME: Ej Bor Vi Sorja, Ej Bor Vi Klaga (Oh We Must Not Grieve, We Must Not Grouse)
DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty. "We must not grieve"... either because the various tasks they have to do have been made easier somehow, or because complaining will get them into trouble. Last line of each verse is repeated for chorus.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty sailor work
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 549-550, "Ej Bor Vi Sorja, Ej Bor Vi Klagag" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
File: Hugi549
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NAME: Eki Dumah!
DESCRIPTION: Short verses in pidgin English, i.e. "Sailorman no likee bosun's mate." Chorus: "Kay, kay, kay, kay! Eki Dumah!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 488-489, "Eki Dumah!" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 361-362]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Kay, Kay, Kay
NOTES: Hugill says that while he picked this up in the West Indies, he suspects that it originated aboard ships where the crews were predominately Lascaris from India. The words are a mix of pidgin English and Hindi. - SL
File: Hugi488
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NAME: El Abandonado: see Abandonado, El (File: San295)
===
NAME: El Amor Que Te Tenia (The Love That I Had)
DESCRIPTION: Spanish. "El amore que te tenia, me bien, En uno ramo quedo." "The love that I had for you, my dear, hanging from a branch remained." The singer's great love was blown away by a wind. He is going to San Diego. He advises that she not look for him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love separation foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 362-364, "El Amor Que Te Tenia" (1 text plus translation, 1 tune)
File: LxA362
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NAME: El-A-Noy: see The Plains of Illinois (File: FSC089)
===
NAME: Elanoy: see The Plains of Illinois (File: FSC089)
===
NAME: Elder Bordee: see Sir Andrew Barton [Child 167] AND Henry Martin [Child 250] (File: C167)
===
NAME: Elderman's Lady, The: see The Alderman's Lady (File: Pea783)
===
NAME: Eldorado Mining Disaster, The
DESCRIPTION: "With sorrow we remember, the middle of July, When those six noble miners were all destined to die." The song describes the slow death of the trapped miners, and describes the pathetic farewell message "Poor Dawkins" wrote
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: mining death disaster Australia
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July, 1895 - Collapse of the Eldorado Mine near Chiltern, Victoria, Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 206-207, "The Eldorado Mining Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Poor Dawkins
File: FaE206
===
NAME: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
DESCRIPTION: "In Ixlington there was a man Of whom the world might say That still he was a godly man...." The man befriends a stray dog. The dog goes mad and bites the man. All expect the man to die, but he recovers 
AUTHOR: Oliver Goldsmith?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1819 (Journal from the Diana)
KEYWORDS: dog death disease
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 295-296, "Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2088
NOTES: On its face, this looks about as likely to be traditional as a the flip side of an Elvis Presley single. But Huntington found a printing in addition to his manuscript copy, so here it is. - RBW
File: SWMS295
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NAME: Eleven More Months and Ten More Day
DESCRIPTION: Singer is in jail; he went on a spree after seeming to find his wife unfaithful. In jail he plays baseball, meets a man who is to be hung, and has other mildly humorous adventures
AUTHOR: Arthur Fields & Fred Hall
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recordings, Vernon Dalhart & Lem Greene)
KEYWORDS: captivity jealousy infidelity accusation execution prison sports humorous prisoner
FOUND_IN: US Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #13327
RECORDINGS:
Jim Baird [pseud. for Bill Elliott] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Victor 23658, 1932; Montgomery Ward M-4328, 1933)
Billy Cotton & his band, "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Harmony 1416-H/Velvet Tone 2522-V, 1932)
Vernon Dalhart, "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Columbia 15512-D [as Al Craver]/Harmony 1095-H [as Mack Allen]/Velvet Tone 2095-V [pseudonym unknown], 1930)
Lem Greene [possibly a pseud. for Vernon Dalhart] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (OKeh 45418, 1930) 
Lone Star Ranger [pseud. for John I. White] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Banner 0649/Conqueror 7509/Jewel 5904/Romeo 1268, 1930; Conqueror 7727, 1931; Broadway 8150/Challenge 877/Perfect 12598, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Four Nights Drunk" [Child 274] (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Jim Baird [pseud. for Bill Elliott] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days, pt. 2" (Victor 23670, 1932)
Billy Cotton & his band "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days, pt. 2" (Harmony 1416-H/Velvet Tone 2522-V, 1932)
Frank Dudgeon, "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days #2" (Champion 16580, 1933)
NOTES: This essentially non-traditional song is included here for one reason only: the verse describing the prisoner's wife's possible infidelity is straight out of "Four Nights Drunk."  Folk process in action. - PJS
There have in fact been a couple of seemingly-traditional collections, far from the song's source, so I think it's become "folk" in a small way -- not unusual for a Dalhart song. It appears the song was first published in 1930, shortly before the first recordings, but I haven't seen a copy of the actual sheet music. - RBW
File: RcEMMTMD
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NAME: Eleven Slash Slash Eleven
DESCRIPTION: A song of the cowboy's life: Finding himself in jail, but released by the sheriff (a former cowboy), going to town and "mak[ing] the tenderfoot dance"; playing cards with a crooked gambler. The conclusion: "You'll find every dirty cuss exactly the same."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928
KEYWORDS: cowboy work gambling rambling cards prison
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 78, "The Old Chisholm Trail" (2 texts, 1 tune; this is the "B" text)
Roud #3438
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Chisholm Trail (I)" (tune & meter)
NOTES: Since, as it has been remarked, the song "The Old Chisholm Trail" is longer than the trail itself, it is possible that this is simply a version of that piece (Roud lumps them). However, except for its tune and the cowboy theme, it lacks the distinctive features of the earlier song. I have therefore (tentatively) listed them separately. - RBW
File: FCW078
===
NAME: Eleven to Heaven
DESCRIPTION: "I will sing you 11." 11:gate of heaven, 10:Big Ben, 9:sunshine, 8:day-break, 7:key of heaven, 6:crucifix, 5:narrow eye, 4:narrow door, 3:eternity, 2:broad heresy, 1:upon the right eye, enter over t'other eye, who can sing and dance as well as me?
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: cumulative nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, p. 785, "Eleven to Heaven" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #133
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Children Go Where I Send Thee" (theme and structure)
cf. "Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You)" (theme and structure)
NOTES: Roud lumps this with the great "Green Grow the Rushes-O" family -- but the similarity is only in format.
The references here are even less Biblical than is usual in songs like this, though the "narrow door" is doubtless suggested by the "narrow ('straight') gate" of Matt. 7:13, etc. - RBW
File: Pea785
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NAME: Eleventh Street Whores, The
DESCRIPTION: A sailor (?) rows his boat up to the Eleventh Street whores, has sex, laments contracting gonorrhea, and curses the Eleventh Street whores.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy disease whore sailor curse
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman II, pp. 600-601, "The Eleventh Street Whores" (1 partial text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
File: RL600
===
NAME: Elfin Knight, The [Child 2]
DESCRIPTION: A man (sometimes an "Elfin" knight) and a woman exchange tasks. He offers to marry her if she performs his (impossible) tasks; she shows how she feels by making equally unperformable requests
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1673 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: courting magic bargaining dialog paradox tasks
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All),Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Canada(Newf,West) Ireland
REFERENCES: (38 citations)
Child 2, "The Elfin Knight" (13 texts)
Bronson 2, "The Elfin Knight" (56 versions plus 6 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 3-11, "The Elfin Knight" (4 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #3, #23}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 51-78, "The Elfin Knight" (12 texts plus 3 fragments, not all from New England; 8 tunes; the "N" text appears to be "My Father Had an Acre of Land") {A=Bronson's #47C=Bronson's #6; F=Bronson's #45}
Belden, pp. 1-3, "The Elfin Kinght" (3 texts)
Randolph 1, "The Cambric Shirt" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #40}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 13-15, "The Cambric Shirt" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 1A) {Bronson's #40}
Eddy 1, "The Elfin Knight" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #39, #43}
Gardner/Chickering 47, "A True Lover of Mine" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Davis-More 2, pp. 8-13, "The Elfin Knight" (3 texts, all short, one reconstructed)
BrownII 1, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text plus an edited excerpt and a fragment)
Chappell-FSRA 1, "The Cambric Shirt" (1 fragment)
Brewster 1, "The Elfin Knight" (4 texts plus a fragment, though the "D" text is not a conversation but a series of requests from the singer to his mother; it may be a related song)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 194-196, "Scarborough Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Linscott, pp. 169-171, "Blow, Ye Winds, Blow or The Elfin Knight" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Leach, pp. 51-53, ""The Elfin Knight" (2 texts)
Peacock, pp. 6-7, "The Cambric Shirt" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Friedman, p. 7, "The Elfin Knight" (2 texts)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 138-139, "A True Lover of Mine" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #32}
FSCatskills 40, "Petticoat Lane" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 15, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text)
SharpAp 1 "The Elfin Knight" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #30, #48}
Sharp-100E 74, "Scarborough Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #21}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E1, "The Lovers' Tasks (The Elfin Knight)" (1 slightly edited text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #30}
Niles 2, "The Elfin Knight" (3 texts, 3 tunes, all rather degenerate)
Lomax-FSNA 7, "Strawberry Lane" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #23, with some modifications}
Chase, pp. 112-113, "The Cambric Shirt" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 26 ,"The Elfin Knight" (1 text)
DBuchan 41, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 1, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  54-55, "Whittingham Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #22, with key changed}
OLochlainn-More 99, "Rosemary Fair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 86, "Can you make me a cambric shirt" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #70, p. 79-80, "(Can you make me a cambric shirt)"
Darling-NAS, pp. 19-23, "The Elfin Knight," "The Elfin Knight," "Every Rose Grows Merry in Time," "Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee" (4 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 151, "Scarborough Fair" (1 text); p. 152, "Cambric Shirt" (1 text)
BBI, ZN821, "The elfin knight sits on yon hill"
DT 2, SCARFAIR*
Roud #12
RECORDINGS:
Sara Cleveland, "Every Rose Grows Merry in Time" (on SCleveland01) {Bronson's #34.1 in addenda}
Bob & Ron Copper, "An Acre of Land" (on FSB4)
Liz Jefferies, "Rosemary Lane" (on Voice15)
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "The Elfin Knight" (on SCMacCollSeeger01)
Thomas Moran, "Strawberry Lane (The Elfin Knight)" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
Lawrence Older,  "Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee" (on LOlder01)
Anna Underhill, "The Elfin Knight" (on FineTimes)
Margaret Winters, "Cambric Shirt" (on JThomas01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Father Had an Acre of Land" (theme)
cf. "O'er the Hills and Far Away (I)" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Devil's Courtship
Rosemary and Thyme
The Wind Hath Blown My Plaid Away
My Father Gave Me an Acre of Ground
The Parsley Vine
The Shirt of Lace
Redio-Tedio
NOTES: The song "My Father Had an Acre of Land" is sometimes listed as a variant of this, but falsely. The basic point of Child #2 is the dialog making impossible demands; in "My Father Had an Acre of Land," the song simply boasts of impossible deeds
The now well-known refrain "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" does not appear original to the song, but has been associated with it at least since 1784, when a version appeared in Gammer Gurton's Garland. - RBW
File: C002
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NAME: Elisha Thomas
DESCRIPTION: "Unhappy man! I understand You are condemned to die. In a few days you must away To vast eternity." The murderer is lectured about the need to turn to God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder religious
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 237, (no title) (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: Burt claims this relates to the death of one Elisha Thomas, executed on June 5, 1788 for the murder of Peter Downe. There is no evidence of this in the verses she cites, which are standard moralizing relieved only slightly by the idea that God might have mercy on the sinner. - RBW
File: Burt237
===
NAME: Eliza: see The Young Maid's Love (File: HHH058)
===
NAME: Eliza Jane (I): see Li'l Liza Jane (File: FSWB037)
===
NAME: Eliza Jane (II): see Liza Jane (File: San132)
===
NAME: Ella Dare: see The Two Letters (Charlie Brooks; Nellie Dare) (File: R735)
===
NAME: Ella Lea
DESCRIPTION: "If you will listen to me I will sing you the song Of the unfortunate Ella Lea." The singer recalls loving Ella. He wishes she would be return to him; "life without thee is lonely." But "thou hast learned to love another."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 211-212, "Ella Lea" (1 text)
Roud #7949
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" (lyrics)
cf. "Anna Lee (The Finished Letter)"
cf. "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This song, at least as recorded by Belden, seems badly confused. The first two lines, and the second verse, imply Ella Lea is the singer. But in the third line of the first verse, we read, "The girl that I love is handsome and fair, and I called her my sweet Ella Lea."
What's more, the verse are of the form 4 long lines, 6 long lines, 4 short lines, 4 short lines. It seems clear that it's a composite -- perhaps of "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" and "Anna Lea." But it adds other material, too. The result is a mess I can't disentangle. RBW
File: Beld211B
===
NAME: Ella M Rudolph, The
DESCRIPTION: Ella M Rudolph sails with a crew of eight, including Mary Jane Abbott. When the ship strikes a rock in a storm the only survivor "was hurled into the cliff." He reaches Levi Dalton's door. A rescue party finds Mary Jane's body washed ashore
AUTHOR: Hugh Sexton and Dukey Blackwood
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 6, 1926 - Ella M. Rudolph with Captain Blackwood en route from St John's to Port Nelson with a cargo of fish was stranded in a storm at Brook Cove in Trinity Bay (Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 32, "The Ella M Rudolph" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LeBe032
===
NAME: Ella Speed (Bill Martin and Ella Speed) [Laws I6]
DESCRIPTION: Ella Speed goes out to "have a li'l fun." Her man, Bill Martin, finds out and shoots her because she has been unfaithful to him. He is sentenced to (hanging/life imprisonment).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: murder punishment death trial
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws I6, "Ella Speed (Bill Martin and Ella Speed)"
Sandburg, pp. 28-29, "Alice B." (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 117-118, "Bill Martin and Ella Speed" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 658, ELLASPED*
Roud #4175
RECORDINGS:
Huddie Ledbetter [Lead Belly], "Ella Speed" (AFS 120 B5, 1933)
File: LI06
===
NAME: Ellen of Aberdeen
DESCRIPTION: "My earthly pleasures now are fled, My joyful days are done, Since Ellen in her grave was laid...." Orphaned at 11, the girl grew sick at 17 before she could marry the singer. He sees to her burial, and now waits to join her in heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love orphan death burial
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 400-401, "Ellen of Aberdeen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2179
File: Ord400
===
NAME: Ellen Smith (II): see Poor Ellen Smith (I) (File: CSW143)
===
NAME: Ellen Smith [Laws F11]
DESCRIPTION: Peter Degraph claims that he has been falsely accused of murdering his sweetheart Ellen Smith. He describes his apprehension and sentence. He will be hanged, but says "My soul will be free when I stand at the bar"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: murder execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1893 - Peter Degraph (sometimes spelled De Graff) is sentenced to die for the murder of Ellen Smith
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws F11, "Ellen Smith"
BrownII 305, (No title; in a section headed "Ellen Smith and Peter De Graff" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Hudson 67, pp. 193-194, "The Ellen Smith Ballet" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 65, pp. 188-189, "Ellen Smith" (1 text)
Fuson, p. 132, "Poor Ellen Smyth" (1 defective text, too short to classify with certainty; Laws places it here though I would incline to classify it with "Poor Ellen Smith (I)")
Darling-NAS, pp. 204-206, "Poor Ellen Smith" (2 text, of which the "B" text goes here and the "A" text with "Poor Ellen Smith (I)")
DT, ELLNSMT2*
Roud #448
RECORDINGS:
Green Bailey, "The Fate of Ellen Smith" (Supertone 9372, 1929; on ConstSor1)
Henry Whitter, "Ellen Smith" (OKeh 40237, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Poor Ellen Smith (I)"
SAME_TUNE:
How Firm a Foundation (Bellevue) (Original Sacred Harp/Denson Revisions. 1971 edition, p. 72)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Poor Ellen Smith
NOTES: The crime took place near Mount Airy, North Carolina. Folklore has it that DeGraph sang this song as he awaited execution. Richardson reports that "So great was the feeling, for and against Degraph, that it had to be declared a misdemeanor for the song to be sung in a gathering of any size for the reason that it always fomented a riot."
Paul Stamler notes that various versions of this song end with Degraph sentenced to prison rather than execution. This may be derived from the other ballad, "Poor Ellen Smith," which often ends before sentence is passed. The two often exchange verses.
To distinguish this from the other Ellen Smith ballad (which begins "Poor Ellen Smith, How was she found, Shot through the heart, Lying cold on the ground"), refer to these stanzas:
Come all kind people, my story to hear,
What happen'd to me in June of last year.
It's of poor Ellen Smith and how she was found,
A ball in her heart, lyin' cold on the ground.
 ...
I choked back my tears, for the people all said
That Peter Degraph had shot Ellen Smith dead!
My love is in her grave with her hand on her breast
The bloodhound and sheriff won't give me no rest. - RBW
File: LF11
===
NAME: Ellen Smith Ballet, The: see Ellen Smith [Laws F11] (File: LF11)
===
NAME: Ellen the Fair (Helen the Fair) [Laws O5]
DESCRIPTION: The narrator, a nobleman, sees and falls in love with Ellen, who is very beautiful although she is only a flower seller. He woos and wins her. The noble ladies all envy her beauty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1823 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads fol. 17)
KEYWORDS: nobility courting poverty beauty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws O5, "Ellen the Fair (Helen the Fair)"
Mackenzie 41, "Ellen the Fair" (1 text)
DT 470, ELLNFAIR
Roud #359
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads fol. 17, "Helen the Fair," J. Catnach (London), 1823 ; also Harding B 11(1060), Harding B 16(80b), Harding B 11(1682), Firth c.26(18), Harding B 11(48), Harding B 11(3327), Harding B 16(79d), "Ellen the Fair"; Harding B 11(1519), Firth b.27(332), Johnson Ballads 858, Harding B 11(237A), Harding B 22(390), Johnson Ballads fol. 33, Harding B 11(2549), "Helen the Fair"
LOCSinging, as113270, "Sweet Helen the Fair," L. Deming (Boston), n.d.
File: LO05
===
NAME: Ellie Rhee (Ella Rhee, Ella Ree)
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls Ella Rhee, beautiful and kind, with whom he used to live (before the war). (He wonders why he ran away; he is free but is no longer with Ella.) He wishes he were by her (grave). He laments, "Carry me back to Tennessee...."
AUTHOR: Septimus Winner ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (War Songs and Poems of the Confederacy; the Winner song was copyrighted 1865)
KEYWORDS: love separation death burial home slave freedom
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 412, "Ella Rhee" (1 text)
Randolph 860, "Ella Rhee" (1 fragment)
ST R860 (Full)
Roud #7428
NOTES: Randolph's informant, who knew only the chorus, says this is about an Indian girl. The other texts I've seen, Brown's and that in Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Confederacy_, allow but do not require this. The version in Brown looks like more propaganda: "Don't run away; see what you'll lose?"
Septimus Winter's 1865 song "Ellie Rhee" ("Carry Me Back to Tennessee") is said by Spaeth (_A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 128) to be based on Ella Ree, by C. E. Steuart and James W. Porter, published 1853. - RBW
File: R860
===
NAME: Ellon Fair
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas in the merry month of May... To Ellon Fair I bent my way... With hopes to find amusement." The singer hires out to a "skrankie chiel," who seems to promise good conditions but demands much work without offering good food or pay. 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: farming work money
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 262, "Ellon Fair" (1 text)
Roud #2166
File: Ord262
===
NAME: Elsie M Hart, The
DESCRIPTION: Elsie M Hart heads "for a port down in White Bay." Caught in a storm of sleet and snow they hope to spend the night near Plate Cove. With foresail split they run aground. The captain and another man go to Plate Cove and the people there help the crew.
AUTHOR: Mike Keough
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 18, 1935 - Elsie M. Hart wrecked near Plate Cove, Bonavista Bay. (Lehr/Best)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 33, "The Elsie M Hart" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LeBe035
===
NAME: Elsie Marley
DESCRIPTION: "Elsie Marley's grown so fine, She won't get up to serve the swine, But lies in bed till eight or nine." "Di' ye ken Elsie Marley, honey, The wife that sells the barley, honey?" Stanzas tell of how Elsie leads an elaborate lifestyle
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: work clothes drink death
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Scotland))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 70-71, "Elsie Marley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 152, "Elsie Marley is grown so fine" (4 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #246, p. 155, "(Elsie Marley has grown so fine)"
DT, ELSMARLY*
Roud #3065
NOTES: According to Stokoe, Alice "Elsie" Marley was an innkeeper's wife in Pictree who, afflicted by fever, wandered from her bed and drowned in a flooded coalpit. Stokoe gives no other particulars (such as a date; the Baring-Goulds say 1768, and claim Elsie was born c. 1715), but this would explain what is otherwise a very strange song, with no real plot and an odd mix of praise and censure: Elsie is dead and being prepared for burial. - RBW
File: StoR070
===
NAME: Elsie Marley Is Grown So Fine: see Elsie Marley (File: StoR070)
===
NAME: Emerald Isle, The
DESCRIPTION: "Of all nations under the sun, Dear Erin does truly excel." The boys are hearty and the girls beautiful. St Patrick drove out the vermin and blessed the shamrock. We have had heroes since with Brian Boroimhe "leathered the Danes black and blue"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1821 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.17(116))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 23, 1014 - Battle of Clontarf. Brian Boru defeats a combined force of Vikings and rebels from Leinster, but dies in the battle
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 153, "The Emerald Isle" (1 text)
Roud #13396
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(116), "The Emerald Isle" or "St. Patrick's Will", G. Thompson (Liverpool), 1789-1820 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave" (character of Brian Boru)
NOTES: The reference is to Brian Boru (c.940-1014) king of Munster (976), High King of Ireland (1002), died on Good Friday April 23, 1014 during the Battle of Clontarf against the Vikings (source: NationMaster Encyclopedia site). - BS
For more details, see the notes to "Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave." - RBW
File: OCon153
===
NAME: Emigrant (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "At dawn of the morning the ship shall be sailing That takes me away from the land of my birth ... It's nought but oppression that tears us asunder." He bids farewell to the dances, colleens, and stories.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: emigration farewell sea ship nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 16-17, "The Emigrant" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Roud #7353
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Irish Emigrant's Lament" (plot)
NOTES: Ranson: "This song is popular all over the county." - BS
(Given how few the reports of it are, I rather suspect Ranson is confusing this with one of the oh-so-many-other emigrant songs. - RBW
File: Ran016
===
NAME: Emigrant (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "A young aspiring Irishman ... leaving Queenstown quay in Cork" for the Yankee shore on the Teutonic in 1894; "we all gave many a wail, As we took ... one parting glimpse of lovely Inisfail." The ship safely passes icebergs and lands on Ellis Island.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: emigration farewell sea ship America
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 52-53, "The Emigrant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7350
NOTES: The liner _Teutonic_ was put into service at Belfast in 1889, sailing from Queenstown to Sandy Hook from that year until 1907, when Queenstown was dropped in favor of service to Cherbourg. In 1911, the ship began to sail to Montreal. She was converted to a troopship during the First World War, and scrapped in 1921. (Source: Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_).
According to John Malcolm Brinnin, _The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic_, p. 305, the ship had one other distinction: She was armored. The ship, which sailed for the White Star line, was the first liner designed to be capable of conversion into an auxiliary cruiser. She also was among the first to truly dispense with sail-carrying masts (Brinnin, p. 306). I doubt any of this affected her performance as a liner, though. - RBW
File: Ran052
===
NAME: Emigrant from Newfoundland, The
DESCRIPTION: "Dear Newfoundland have I got to leave you To seek employment in a foreign land? Forced by our nation by cruel taxation...." He thinks back to good times around St John's but now must emigrate to work. He hopes the younger generation may stay at home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: grief emigration farewell unemployment hardtimes lament poverty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 360-361, "The Emigrant from Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea360 (Partial)
NOTES: The lyrics of this song remind me very much of "Farewell, Charming Nancy" [Laws K14], though only a few words are actually the same; the Dorian tune also seems related. - RBW
File: Pea360
===
NAME: Emigrant's Farewell to Donegal, The
DESCRIPTION: It is 1846 and the singer is leaving Donegal. His father's five acres cannot support the family. He proposes to his sweetheart, she agrees, they marry and leave for America where "no rents or taxes we pay at all"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1846 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: marriage emigration farewell hardtimes America Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1845-1847 - The Irish potato famines
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 57, "A New Song Called the Emigrant's Farewell to Donegal" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(81), "A New Song Call'd the Emegrants Farewell to Donegall," P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (subject: The Potato Famines) and references there
NOTES: The ballad takes place during the famine years in Ireland. - BS
For background on the famines, see the notes to "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)." - RBW
File: Zimm057
===
NAME: Emigrant's Farewell to Donside, The: see A Health to the Company (Come All My Old Comrades) (File: CrSe222)
===
NAME: Emigrant's Farewell, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to Ireland; he will admire his home even though he will never return. He bids his sweetheart come with him. He notes how all the best folk of Ireland are going away. He mentions the gold and alcohol available in the New World
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration farewell poverty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H743, pp. 200-201, "The Emigrant's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GRNFLDAM*
Roud #15034
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Green Fields of America (I)" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Green Fields of America
File: HHH743
===
NAME: Emma Hartsell [Laws F34]
DESCRIPTION: Emma Hartsell is found with her throat cut. Two blacks, Tom [Johnson] and Joe [Kiser], are accused of the crime and hanged from a dogwood tree. Even Joe's last request for a drink of water is refused
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: murder execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 30, 1898 - Rape and murder of Emma Hartsell. Joe Kiser and Tom Johnson are arrested, but -- despite protestations of innocence -- are lynched before they can be tried
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws F34, "Emma Hartsell"
BrownII 296, "Emma Hartsell" (1 text plus 1 excerpt and mention of 3 more)
DT 728, HARTSELL
Roud #2272
NOTES: Based on the notes in Brown, it appears that the facts in this particular case can never be known. The notes comment that racial hatred was at a high pitch due to attempts to give Blacks the vote in North Carolina.
The known facts are that Hartsell was raped, then killed by having her throat cut. Kiser came to town to report finding the body, and was arrested. Johnson was arrested soon after, on what basis it is not clear.
That night, a mob attacked the jail, seized the prisoners, and lynched them. The cynic in me suspects that the actual murderer was probably a leader of the lynch mob. - RBW
File: LF34
===
NAME: Emmet's Death
DESCRIPTION: "He dies to-day." The judge smiles because "a demon dwelt where his heart should be." The jailer has a tear in his eye because Emmet had "spoke in so kind a way." A girl "lacked the life to speak ... despair had drank up her last wild tear."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I)
KEYWORDS: execution patriotic judge prisoner Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is hanged
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, p. 69, "Emmet's Death" (1 text)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 73-74, "Emmet's Death" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, p. 248, "Emmet's Death"
ST OCon069 (Partial)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(17), "Emmet's Death", unknown, n.d. 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Robert Emmet" (subject) and references there
NOTES: Hayes's text is attributed to "S.F.C." - BS
For the sad background of this typically Irish story, see the notes to "Bold Robert Emmet." - RBW
File: OCon069
===
NAME: Emmet's Farewell to His Sweetheart
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, love, farewell, love, I now must leave you." Emmet declares he has never deceived her. "Oh, never in the moonlight we'll roam, love." He asks her to promise to "come to my grave when all others forsake me." He hears "the death token."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 40(3))
KEYWORDS: love farewell execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is hanged
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, p. 109, "Emmet's Farewell to His Sweetheart" (1 text)
Moylan 160, "Emmet's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 22, "Emmet's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5224
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 40(3), "Emmet's Farewell To His Love", J.F. Nugent and Co.? (Dublin?), 1850-1899 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Robert Emmet" (subject) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Robert Emmet's Farewell to Sarah Curran
NOTES: For the sad background of this typically Irish story, see the notes to "Bold Robert Emmet."
Robert Kee, in _The Most Distressful Country_ (being volume I of _The Green Flag_), p. 169, reports that Emmet's girlfriend was Sarah Curran, dauughter of the lawyer John Philpot Curran (1750-1817). Curran had defended the 1798 conspirators at their trials, and opposed the Act of Union -- but his daughter had gone farther, writing letters to Emmet which supported rebellion. He disowned her. - RBW
File: OCon109
===
NAME: En Revenant de la Jolie Rochelle: see C'est L'Aviron (Pull on the Oars) (File: FJ058)
===
NAME: En Roulant Ma Boule
DESCRIPTION: French: "En roulant ma boule roulant...." Typical plot: Three ducks are paddling. A prince comes to hunt. Though he aims for a black duck, he hits the white one with its diamond eyes and its golden feathers. The owner is upset
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: bird hunting nonsense foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Que) US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 56-57, "En Roulant Ma Boule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 26-28, "En roulant ma boule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 41, "En Roulant Ma Boule" (1 English and 1 French text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Lawrence Older,  "En Roulante" (on LOlder01)
NOTES: Said to have originated in the fifteenth century. Bastardized versions are common, probably due to the song's popularity. Fowke reports, "[This] is probably the most popular of French-Canadian songs. Marius Barbeau has listed ninety-two different Canadian versions which all tell much the same story but differ widely in melody and refrain." Its popularity with the voyageurs may help explain its wide distribution. - RBW
File: FJ056
===
NAME: En Roulante: see En Roulant Ma Boule (File: FJ056)
===
NAME: Enchanted Isle, The
DESCRIPTION: The singers recalls traveling to Rathlin, where he hears the tale of the Enchanted Isle, which rises from the seas when a mermaid sings. Home to a beautiful city, many have tried to make it stay above the waves, but it always escapes
AUTHOR: Luke Aylmer Conolly ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: magic sea
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H550, pp. 176-177, "" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13537
NOTES: Sam Henry lists several other instances of folklore of islands rising from the waves. Variations on the theme are common, and go back to antiquity; this seems to be one of the few cases of moving lands with no hostile intent (other than aggravating the spectators, anyway). - RBW
File: HHH550
===
NAME: Engine 143: see The Wreck on the C & O [Laws G3] (File: LG03)
===
NAME: Engineer, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, an old engineer, tells his friend (and fireman?) Joe about the wreck on the Elgin branch, where two locomotives collided in a storm and his daughter was killed. He looks forward to the day when his own death will reunite him with his child
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (recording, Lester Coffee -- but he says he learned it c. 1893)
KEYWORDS: age grief train death railroading work crash disaster storm wreck children
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #8586
RECORDINGS:
Lester A. Coffee, "The Engineer" (AFS 8419 A, 1946; on LC61)
NOTES: The local references place the story in northern Illinois, which was Lester Coffee's home. - PJS
File: RcThEngi
===
NAME: Engineer's Child, The: see The Child of the Railroad Engineer (The Two Lanterns) (File: R685)
===
NAME: English Lady Gay, The: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9]; also "The Brown Girl" [Child 295] (File: LP09)
===
NAME: English Miner, The (The Coolgardie Miner, Castles in the Air)
DESCRIPTION: A newly-arrived prospector sits and dreams of his home and his family left behind. "He was thinking of home, sweet home, far away o'er the restless foam...." (While he is so distracted, a native comes up and kills him)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: homesickness loneliness mining death
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 115-116, "Castles in the Air"; pp. 180-181, "The Coolgardie Miner" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
File: MA115
===
NAME: English Orphan, The
DESCRIPTION: "My home is in England, my home is not here, But why should I murmur when trials appear? The woman that took me, God has taken away." The child, left alone and friendless, still trusts in Jesus and asks for help to get to heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: orphan religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 565, "An English Orphan" (1 text)
Roud #11887
NOTES: No author for this seems to be known, but it's clearly composed; oral tradition doesn't tend to preserve such hideously stupid items. - RBW
File: Br3565
===
NAME: English Round, An: see Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (File: FlBr187)
===
NAME: Enniscorthy Fair
DESCRIPTION: A Galtee farmer sells a mare at Enniscorthy fair. The buyer clips and trims it like a racehorse. Fooled, the farmer buys it back for double his price. His wife recognizes the mare and calls him a fool for trimming it because it will get sick.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1985 (IRTravellers01)
KEYWORDS: farming humorous horse trick hair
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5312
RECORDINGS:
Bill Cassidy, "Enniscorthy Fair" (on IRTravellers01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Galtee Farmer
The Galtee Mare
The Rusty Mare
File: RcEnniF
===
NAME: Enniskillen Dragoon, The: see Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon) (File: E150)
===
NAME: Entre Paris et Saint Dennie (Between Paris and Saint Dennie)
DESCRIPTION: French. The king's son asks a shepherdess to sing. She would sing if not for her sorrow at losing her brother and husband in the war. He asks which she regrets more. She says she will find another husband but will never have a brother.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage grief war death music husband brother royalty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 155, "Entre Paris et Saint Dennie" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The shepherdess's answer is reminiscent of Lady Margaret's plea in Child 7: "True lovers I can get many a ane, But a father I can never get mair." - BS
File: CrMa155
===
NAME: Eppie Morrie [Child 223]
DESCRIPTION: Willie and his gang steal away Eppie Morrie to make her his bride. The minister refuses to marry them without her consent. Willie forces her to bed and attempts to rape her; she fends off his attempts. In the morning she demands the right to return home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: abduction rape rejection escape sex
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 223, "Eppie Morrie" (1 text)
Bronson 223, "Eppie Morrie" (1 version)
PBB 51, "Eppie Morrie" (1 text)
DBuchan 37, "Eppie Morrie" (1 text)
DT 223, EPPMORR*
Roud #2583
RECORDINGS:
Jimmy McBeath, "Eppie Morrie" [fragment] (on FSBBAL2)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lady of Arngosk [Child 224]" (plot)
cf. "Walter Lesly" [Child 296] (plot)
NOTES: Like Willie Macintosh [Child 183; see comment there], the only known tune for this song is that given by Ewan MacColl. - (AS)
Though we note the fragment collected from Jimmy McBeath, which was not known to Bronson. - RBW
File: C223
===
NAME: Epsom Races
DESCRIPTION: A fine young man dresses and rides off to the Epsom Races. There he gambles away (ten thousand pounds). After a bad harvest, the landlord confiscates his property and his family mourns when he is confined to debtor's prison
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906
KEYWORDS: racing gambling poverty prison family hardtimes
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 318, "Epsom Races" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 208-209, "Epsom Races" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #383
File: K318
===
NAME: Equinoxial: see Father Grumble [Laws Q1] (File: LQ01)
===
NAME: Ere You Ask a Girl to Leave Her Happy Home
DESCRIPTION: "By a dear old mother's side Stood her eldest boy, her pride... As the lad began to tell Of the girl he loved so well... The dear old mother said, My boy, ere you are wed... You must have employment... Ere you ask a girl to leave her happy home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love marriage work unemployment mother
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 861, "Ere You Ask a Girl to Leave Her Happy Home" (1 text)
Roud #7532
File: R861
===
NAME: Erie Canal (II), The: see The E-ri-e (File: LxU045)
===
NAME: Erie Canal, The
DESCRIPTION: "I've got a mule, her name is Sal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal." "Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, for we're going through a town...." About the long, slow trip along the Erie Canal -- and the mule the singer works with
AUTHOR: Thomas S. Allen?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905
KEYWORDS: canal animal nonballad work
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Sandburg, pp. 171-173, "The Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 457-458, "The Erie Canal" (1 text plus a separate verse which may or may not be part of the same song); p. 464, "Erie Canal" (2 texts, the first going here while the second is "The Raging Canal (I)"); p. 466, "(A Trip on the Erie)" (the second song files under the title "A Trip on the Erie," but is actually this piece); pp. 467-469, "Low Bridge, Everybody Down or Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 102-103, "The Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 126, "The Erie Canal" (1 text)
DT, ERIECANL*
Roud #6598
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Low Bridge Everybody Down" (Columbia 15378-D, 1929)
Pete Seeger, "Erie Canal, "  (PeteSeeger31) (on PeteSeeger46)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Trip on the Erie (Haul in Your Bowline)"
cf. "The E-ri-e" (plot)
cf. "The Raging Canal (I)"
cf. "Bullhead Boat" (subject)
NOTES: The Erie Canal, as originally constructed, was a small, shallow channel which could only take barges. These vessels -- if such they could be called -- were normally hauled along by mules.
The Lomaxes, in _American Ballad and Folk Songs_, thoroughly mingled many texts of the Erie Canal songs (in fairness, some of this may have been the work of their informants -- but in any case the Lomaxes did not help the problem). One should check all the Erie Canal songs for related stanzas. - RBW
File: San171
===
NAME: Erin
DESCRIPTION: "... Sons of green Erin, lament o'er the time, When religion was war, and our country a crime ...Drive the Demon of Bigotry home to his den, And where Britain made brutes now let Erin make men. Let my sons like the leaves of the shamrock unite"
AUTHOR: William Drennan (1754-1820)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 19(24))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, pp. 59-60, "Erin" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 361-362, "Eire"  (1 text)
H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 39-40, 499, "Eire" ("When Eire first rose from the dark-swelling flood")
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 19(24), "Erin", unknown (Dublin), 1798 
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 19(24) imprint states "Dublin, June, 1798." - BS
Which date was, in fact, the height of the Irish rebellion. In mid-May, the English had tried to disarm the Irish at various points. The last ten days of May saw risings in Kildare. Wexford rose starting May 26.
But the collapse came almost as fast as the rising: On May 28, Kildare was relieved and General Dundas took thousands of surrenders at Knockallen. On June 5, the rebels were beaten at New Ross. Henry Joy McCracken was defeated at Antrim on June 7. (see the notes to "Henry Joy McCracken (I)). June 13 saw Munro's rebellion crushed at Ballynahinch. Vinegar Hill was stormed on June 21. There were further sporadic attempts at revolt, but odds are that the rebellion was already failing by the time this item was in circulation.
William Drennan also wrote "The Wake of William Orr." - RBW
File: OCon059
===
NAME: Erin A'Green
DESCRIPTION:  The singer is forced by Peggy's father and brothers to leave Armathy for Canada on the day they were to be married. "It's for loving this fair one, and that was a small crime, That I am transported away for a time" but he will return to Erin a'green.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: love transportation separation Canada Ireland brother father
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 11, "Erin A'Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrSNB011 (Partial)
Roud #2789
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's Lovely Home" [Laws M6] (theme) and references there
File: CrSNB011
===
NAME: Erin Far Away (I) [Laws J6]
DESCRIPTION: An Irish soldier lies fatally wounded in India. He asks his brother to tell his parents that he died nobly. He asks his brother to mark has grave so that his love can plant a shamrock on it. He dies and is buried; the other soldiers return to Erin
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: war death dying farewell soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1857-1858 - Sepoy Mutiny in India. The inhabitants of Northern India revolt against the East India Company on behalf of their ancestral customs (many of which, such as the murder of widows, were abhorrent to Western opinion)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws J6, "Erin Far Away I"
Creighton-NovaScotia 71, "Erin Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 84-85, "Old Erin Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 548, ERINWAY1
Roud #1805
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Soldier (I) (Erin Far Away II)" [Laws J7] (plot, theme)
cf. "The Soldier's Letter" (plot)
cf. "The Last Fierce Charge" [Laws A17] (plot)
cf. "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again" (plot)
cf. "The Blessed Zulu War" (plot)
NOTES: This song is frankly so close to Laws J7 that I find it impossible to tell them apart. Even the first lines in Laws's sample versions are similar. Laws does not give reasons for the distinction. One should therefore examine the references for both songs. - RBW
File: LJ06
===
NAME: Erin Go Braugh! (I)
DESCRIPTION: "I'll tell you a story of a row in the town, When the green flag went up and the Crown rag went down." The Irish, though inexperienced, rebel against the English, and cause a captain to die of "lead poisoning." The leaders are hailed.
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: rebellion death Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1916 - Easter Uprising
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 321, "Erin Go Braugh!" (1 text)
DT, ERNGBRA2
NOTES: For background on the Easter Rising, its hopelessness, and its quick fizzle, see the notes, e.g., on "The Boys from County Cork"; also "James Connolly" and "Lovely Banna Strand." It seems almost typical that this song focuses on the bravery of the rebels -- and not their complete ineptness, poor organization, bad communications, and ignominous surrender after only a week.
The fact that most Irish songs of rebellion present pictures idealized to the point of falsehood may not be coincidence; it may show why the English and Irish never understood each other.
Peadar Kearney wrote Ireland's national anthem, "The Soldier's Song," plus "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)"; it would be no surprise if he wrote this song, but I need better documentation than I have. For more on Kearney, see the notes to "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." - RBW
File: FSWB321A
===
NAME: Erin Go Bray
DESCRIPTION: In "Jacobin" dialect the singer loves Irish whiskey and girls and meat "while Pat may go starve in his hovel."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: France Ireland humorous nonballad political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 26, "Erin Go Bray" (1 text)
NOTES: Moylan: "'Erin go Bray' expresses the loyalist view of the benefits likely to accrue to Ireland from an alliance with revolutionary France. The title and burden lampoons the United Irish slogan Erin go Bragh." - BS
File: Moyl026
===
NAME: Erin the Green
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams that Napoleon has landed in Ireland, saying, "Rise up my friend." "He was the hero we longed for to see. The bells of the chapel resounded a ditty To welcome Napoleon to Erin the Green"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: dream Ireland nonballad patriotic Napoleon
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 130, "Erin the Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 39-40, "Erin the Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Welcome Napoleon to Erin the Green" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) - BS
For the likely background to this song, see the notes to "The Shan Van Voght." - RBW
File: Moyl130
===
NAME: Erin-Go-Bragh (II): see Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh) [Laws Q20] (File: LQ20)
===
NAME: Erin, My Country (The Harp of Erin)
DESCRIPTION: "Erin, my country, although thy harp slumbers," the singer loves her still. The singer describes the beauties of Ireland. "Cold, cold must the heart be and void of emotion That loves not the music of Erin-go-bragh"
AUTHOR: William McComb ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1890 (Kenedy)
KEYWORDS: Ireland music nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H478, p. 176, "Erin, My Country" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 42, "Erin, My Country"; pp. 93-94, "Erin, My Country" (2 texts)
Roud #2683
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2747), "O Erin! My Country," J. Harkness (Preston), n.d.; also 2806 b.10(191), 2806 c.15(290), "The Harp of Erin"
Murray, Mu23-y1:063, "The Harp of Erin," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall" (theme)
NOTES: The thematic connection with Moore's "The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall" is so obvious that it need not be elaborated. I'm sure there is cross-influence. But the songs are distinct. - RBW
File: HHH478
===
NAME: Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament) [Laws O29]
DESCRIPTION: The singer chances to see a young couple talking. He is about to take ship for America. She repeatedly expresses her fear that he will forget her. He promises to be true. They kiss; he departs; the singer leaves
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: separation emigration promise parting
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws O29, "Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament)"
Doerflinger, pp. 318-319, "The Irish Girl's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H85, pp. 300-301, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 82, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 85-87, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 13, "Overn's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 484, ERINVALE
Roud #999
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(585), "Erin's Flow'ry Vale," unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.15(56), "Dobbin's Flowery Vale"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mullinabrone" (plot, lyrics)
cf. "Caledonia (III -- Jean and Caledonia)" (plot)
cf. "Maid of Dunysheil" (plot)
cf. "Killyclare (Carrowclare; The Maid of Carrowclare)" (plot)
cf. "The Blooming Star of Eglintown" (plot)
cf. "Faithful Rambler, The (Jamie and Mary, Love's Parting)" (plot)
NOTES: For the relationship of this song to "The Irish Girl," see the notes on that song. - RBW
File: LO29
===
NAME: Erin's Green Linnet
DESCRIPTION:  Singer asks why a maid weeps. "I once had a Linnet, the pride of this nation, By the fowler he was taken." The Linnet sung throughout Ireland and "upon Tara's old hill" and "famed Mullingar," championed Emancipation in 1829. Now he is lying in Glasnevin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: death Ireland memorial patriotic political bird
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 56, "Erin's Green Linnet" (1 text)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 92-94, "Erin's Green Linnet" (1 text)
Roud #12903
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(23), "O'Connell's Green Linnet," H. Such (London), 1863-1885; also Harding B 19(40), 2806 c.8(41), Harding B 26(173)[some words illegible with heading "Linnet" as "Linne;"], "Erin's Green Linnet"; Firth c.16(83), "The O'Connell, Erin-go-bragh"; Harding B 19(39), "The Green Linnet" 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's King (Daniel Is No More)" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Kerry Eagle" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
NOTES: "1829 saw Catholic 'emancipation,' allowing them every political right open to Protestants of equivalent position" (- RBW). O'Connell led the movement of 1840-1843 to repeal the act that joined Ireland and Great Britain as the United Kingdom with "monster meetings" at Tara and Mullingar and other places (cf. "Glorious Repeal Meeting Held at Tara Hill" and "The Meeting of Tara"). Zimmermann: "O'Connell died at Genoa, on his way to Rome, 15th May, 1847." (p. 233) "In accordance with his wish his heart was brought to Rome and his body to Ireland. His funeral was of enormous dimensions, and since his death a splendid statue has been erected to his memory in Dublin and a round tower placed over his remains in Glasnevin" (source: "Daniel O'Connell" by E.A. D'Alton in _The Catholic Encyclopedia_ on the New Advent site. - BS 
File: Zimm059
===
NAME: Erin's Green Shore [Laws Q27]
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams of meeting a beautiful girl in a green mantle. She tells him she (is a relative of Daniel O'Connell and) has come to awaken her countrymen who sleep on Erin's shore. The singer awakens and hopes the girl finds success
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1835 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1085))
KEYWORDS: Ireland dream patriotic clothes
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Laws Q27, "Erin's Green Shore"
O'Conor, p. 38, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 262-263, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, tune referenced: see OLochlainn 6)
Zimmermann 27, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 27, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 282-283, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text)
Randolph 75, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 73, "Erin's Green Shores" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 151, "Erin's Green Shore" (3 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 69, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 362-365, "Erin's Green Shore" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-NovaScotia 79, "The Mantle of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 164-165, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 140-141,245, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 152-153, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "Erin's Green Shore" (source notes only)
DT 351, ERINGREN* ERINSHOR*
Roud #280
RECORDINGS:
Packie Dolan, "Erin's Green Shore" (Montgomery Ward M-8619, c. 1941)
Tom Lenihan, "Erin's Green Shore" (on IRTLenihan01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1085), "Erin's Green Shore," G. Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also 2806 b.10(182), Firth b.25(216), Johnson Ballads 1397, 2806 b.11(109), 2806 c.15(247)[title and beginning lines illegible], Harding B 11(1951), "Erin's Green Shore"
LOCSheet, sm1855 590170, "A Dream" or "Erin's Green Shore," Stayman and Brothers (Philadelphia), 1855 (tune)
LOCSinging, as200830, "Erin's Green Shore," Johnson's Cheap Printing Office (Philadelphia), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Eileen McMahon" (aisling format)
cf. "Granuaile" (aisling format) and references there
cf. "Poor Old Granuaile" (theme)
cf. "Granuwale" (theme)
cf. "Kate of Glenkeen" (tune)
cf. "The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine" [Laws C2] (tune)
cf. "Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb)" [Laws C14] (tune)
cf. "The Maid with the Bonny Brown Hair" (tune)
cf. "The Patriot Queen" (theme: beautiful woman to rally Erin)
cf. "The Blackbird of Avondale" or "The Arrest of Parnell" (theme)
cf. "The Patriot Queen" (theme: beautiful woman to rally Erin)
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
NOTES: Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was an Irish patriot who worked vigorously for Catholic freedom. He did not take part in the 1798 rebellion, but promoted Irish and Catholic rights for many years, and in 1829 saw Britain lift the ban on Catholics in parliament. One of the greatest of the peaceful Irish leaders, his tragedy is that eventually neither side trusted him.
Creighton's version, "The Mantle of Green," should not be confused with Laws N38, "The Mantle So Green."
For a discussion of this type of song as a example of the genre known as the "aisling," see the notes to "Granuaile." - RBW
Broadside LOCSheet sm1855 590170: "words by James Sanford, music by A. Fletcher Stayman"; the date "created and published by Stayman and Brothers" of 1855 is later than the Bodleian Harding B 11(1085) broadside date. - BS
File: LQ27
===
NAME: Erin's Isle (The Boat That Brought Me Over)
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a boy from Erin's Isle just landed here today... Sure they told me England was the place Where everything was gay. Bedad, says I, if that's the case, Sure that's the spot for me." He gets seasick and swears if he gets home not to go again
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: parting travel sea ship England Ireland family disease
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 68, "Erin's Isle" (1 text)
Roud #3097
File: GrMa068
===
NAME: Erin's King (Daniel Is No More)
DESCRIPTION: A maid sings "Erin's King, brave Dan's no more." Daniel O'Connell's career is reviewed: elected for Clare but did not take the oath, brought Emancipation, defended Father Maguire, defended accused conspirators at Doneraile, led us at Tara and Mullaghmast.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: death Ireland memorial patriotic political lament
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 15, 1847 - Daniel O'Connell dies on the way to Rome (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 54, "Erin's King" or "Daniel Is No More" (1 text)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 94-96, "Brave Dan's No More" (1 text)
Roud #9278
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(35), "Erin's Lament for O'Connell," H. Such (London), 1849-1862; also 2806 c.15(211), 2806 b.10(39), Harding B 19(101), "Erin's King" or "Daniel is No More"; 2806 b.10(41), 2806 b.10(33), "Erin's King" or "Brave Dan's No More"; Harding B 13(345), "Lines to the Memory of Daniel O'Connell"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's King (Daniel Is No More)" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Kerry Eagle" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
SAME_TUNE:
The Riots in Belfast (Healy-O(SBv2, pp. 102-104)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "When O'Connell was elected first Catholic M.P., he refused to take the old oath against transubstantiation" (cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1828)); "In 1827, he defended successfully Rev Thomas Maguire, a popular Catholic priest scandalously accused by a Miss Annie McGarrahan."; "In 1829, he obtained the acquittal of several peasants from Doneraile, County Cork, accused of a murder-attempt on an unpopular magistrate"; "Mullaghmast and Tara were the seats of two 'monster meetings' in 1843" (cf. "Glorious Repeal Meeting Held at Tara Hill" and "The Meeting of Tara"). - BS
The exact site of O'Connell's death is variously listed; Zimmermann says Genoa; Robert Kee in _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_), p. 258, says Lyon. All agree that he was on pilgrimage to Rome; he had given his last appeal to the House of Commons shortly before, saying "Ireland is in your hands" (Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 327; Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 117; Kee, p. 258 note his belief that a quarter of the population of Ireland would die if not given aid. This is a slight but understandable exaggeration: Of eight million Irish, about a million died and a million left the country.)
Hearers of the speech noted how far he had fallen, his voice was gone and most of his mental and physical force spent. Disraeli described him as a "feeble old man muttering from a table" (Golway, p. 117). The doctors said he needed rest. He ended up getting the longest rest of all. He was 71.
O'Connell's heart was taken to Rome; the rest of his body was returned to Ireland.
The love the people felt for him is shown by the many songs about him, and the several about his death -- though relatively few went into tradition. - RBW
File: Zimm054
===
NAME: Erin's Lament for her Davitt Asthore
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams of Richmond prison and Erin as a woman weeps for the loss "of her Green Linnet Davitt ashtore." She sings that he was trapped by the fowler, refused bail, and was caged nine years. The singer wakes to find the dream true.
AUTHOR: Broadside signed P. Hanley (Source: Zimmermann and broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(229))
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: dream prisoner Ireland patriotic bird
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 83, "The Green Linnet" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(229), "The Green Linnet" or "Erin's Lament for her Davitt Asthore," unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Michael Davitt" (subject of Michael Davitt) and references there
cf. "Erin's Green Shore" [Laws Q27] (theme)
cf. "Poor Old Granuaile" (theme)
cf. "Eileen McMahon" (aisling format)
cf. "Granuaile" (aisling format) and references there
cf. "Granuwale" (theme)
cf. "The Blackbird of Avondale" or "The Arrest of Parnell" (theme)
NOTES: Zimmermann: In Irish "a stoir" = my treasure. - BS
Although Michael Davitt (1846-1905) did spend many years in involuntary servitude, he never spent nine consecutive years in prison. AFenian from 1865, he was convicted in 1870 of gun-running and sentenced to fifteen years. In 1877, he was given a ticket-of-leave, and went on to found the Land League (for which see, e.g. "The Bold Tenant Farmer"). He ended up imprisoned again for just over a year in 1881-1882.
For a discussion of this type of song as a example of the genre known as the "aisling," see the notes to "Granuaile." - RBW
File: Zimm083
===
NAME: Erin's Lovely Home [Laws M6]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a gentleman's servant, falls in love with his employer's daughter. They plan to flee abroad. But the girl's father stops them as they board the ship; he has the young man transported for seven years. The girl promises to wait for him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1856 (Journal from the Catalpa)
KEYWORDS: love elopement transportation separation
FOUND_IN: US(So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Laws M6, "Erin's Lovely Home"
O'Conor, p. 25, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text)
McBride 24, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 89, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-100E 54, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H46, pp. 438-439, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 102, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 199-201, "Aran's Lovely Home" ( text)
Ord, pp. 106-107, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 77, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 10, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 64-65, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 38, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text)
DT 431, ARANHOME*
Roud #1427
RECORDINGS:
Michael "Straighty" Flanagan, "Erin's Lovely Home" (on IRClare01)
Mary Anne Haynes, "Erin's Lovely Home" (on Voice04)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1087), "Erin's Lovely Home," A. Ryle and Co. (London), 1845-1859; also 2806 b.11(123), Harding B 11(1086), Harding B 11(1088), 2806 b.11(20), 2806 c.15(248)[some illegible lines], 2806 c.8(297), Harding B 11(1089), "Erin's Lovely Home"
Murray, Mu23-y1:111, "Erin's Lovely Home," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Henry Connors" [Laws M5] (plot)
cf. "Erin's Lovely Home" [Laws M6] (plot)
cf. "William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9]" (plot)
cf. "Jock Scott" (plot)
cf. "Matt Hyland" (plot)
cf. "Richard and I" (plot)
cf. "Erin A'Green" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Old Erin's Lovely Vale
Seven Links on My Chain
File: LM06
===
NAME: Erin's Lovely Lee
DESCRIPTION: Singer leaves Queenstown for New York with the Fenian boys March 6, 1863. They are met by Yankees who ask about the Manchester three, Wolfe Tone's body, Captain Mackey and O'Dwyer. He thinks of going home "to float a Fenian boat down Erin's lovely Lee"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967 (recording, Willy Clancy)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar America Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, ERINSLEE*
Roud #5327
RECORDINGS:
Willy Clancy, "Erin's Lovely Lee" (on Voice04)
NOTES: Many Irishmen fought on both sides of the American Civil War. Eventually the Fenian Brotherhood supported Civil War participation as "a training ground for the coming battle in Ireland." (source: _A Brief History of the Fenian Brotherhood_ at the Mike Ruddy site). See the notes to "Kelley's Irish Brigade," "Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade" and "What Irish Boys Can Do" for more information.
Some of the references are anachronistic. 
See "The Smashing of the Van (I)" regarding the Manchester three. The event [would take] place in 1867.
See "The Grave of Wolfe Tone" regarding his burial. Tone died in 1798.
Zimmermann p.67: "William Mackey commanded the Fenians at Ballyknockane, County Cork, in an attack upon the police barracks during the rising of 1867."
See "Michael Dwyer" and "Michael Dwyer (II)" regarding "bold O'Dwyer, the Wicklow Mountain lion." Dwyer's mountain men fought in the early years of the nineteenth century.
Robert Emmet, who was hanged in 1803 is also mentioned. - BS
Since the song is badly anachronistic (implying composition well after the fact), we might mention the one ship commissioned specifically for the Fenian movement, the submarine _Fenian Ram_. According to Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_, p. 183, this was planned in 1876, started in 1878, and finished in 1881. The goal was to use it against British warships. Like most Fenian gadgets, nothing came of it -- though it did go on exhibit during World War I to raise money for the survivors of the Easter Rising.
For a bit more on Captain Mackey (whose 1867 exploits were too minor even to earn mention in most of the histories I checked), see the notes to "Bold Jack Donahoe." 
The other historical figure mentioned in the song is "Crowley." This appears to be another anachronism, because Crowley was associated with the 1867 Fenian Uprising. Acording to Robert Kee, _The Bold Fenian Men_, being volume II of _The Green Flag_, "The last dramatic action [in the aftermath of Ballyhurst, for which see 'Burke's Dream' [Laws J16]] was fought on the last day of March, when three leaders of the successful raid on Knockadoon coastguard station, Peter O'Neill Crowley, McLure and Kelly were surprised in Kilclooney Wood in County Tipperary. After a running action among the trees Crowley was killed and the other two arrested -- one with a small green flag and a manual of military tactics in his pocket." - RBW
File: RcErLoLe
===
NAME: Erin's Lovely Shore
DESCRIPTION: The singer is "an Irish exile girl." She thinks about the past at home. She dreams she returns to Ireland on an ocean liner and meets her grown sister; she cannot understand the talk because it is Gaelic. She wakes. She warns others to stay in Ireland.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: homesickness exile dream Ireland ship
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 25, "Erin's Lovely Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Presumably from the late nineteenth century, since the first real ocean liner was the _Great Eastern_ of 1858 (for background, see e.g. Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_, Houghton Mifflin, 1997), and the first successful ocean liner was the _Oceanic_ of 1870. So we must presume the song in its current form is post-1870. But Irish was already in decline by then; the sooner after that the song appeared, the more it makes sense. - RBW
File: McB1025
===
NAME: Eriskay Love Lilt, An: see Bheir Me O (File: DTnheirm)
===
NAME: Erlinton [Child 8]
DESCRIPTION: (Erlinton) has a daughter, whom he confines to protect her virtue. A young man nonetheless spirits the daughter away. The lady's guards pursue; the young man slays all but one, and they escape.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: courting death fight escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 8, "Erlinton" (3 texts)
OBB 37, "Erlinton" (1 text)
DT, ERLINTON
Roud #24
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Earl Brand" [Child 7] (plot)
cf. "The Bold Soldier [Laws M27]" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Robin Hood and the Tanner's Daughter
NOTES: Child himself admits that it is "only with much hesitation" that he has separated "Erlinton" from "Earl Brand," and if they are in fact distinct, there has clearly been cross-fertilization. - RBW
File: C008
===
NAME: Escape of James Stephens, The
DESCRIPTION: Stephens escapes from Richmond. Foolish statements are attributed to the Queen, the Marquis, and Lord Wodehouse. The attempt to recapture him is ridiculed: "But one thing you'll not do, That is get from 'Parley-voo', The bird that thither flew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1879 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 18(151)); OLochlainn-More 3 refers to a newspaper story in 1868 in _The Irishman_
KEYWORDS: prison escape France Ireland humorous patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES:  Sep 15, 1865 - _The Irish People_ newspaper raided and leaders arrested; Stephens in hiding
Nov 11, 1865 - Stephens arrested; scheduled for trial Nov 27, 1865.
Nov 24, 1865 - Escapes Richmond prison (source: Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 3A, "The Escape of James Stephens" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(151), "The Escape of Stephens, the Fenian Chief," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy" (subject) and references there
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (tune)
NOTES: The Fenians were an organization devoted to freeing Ireland. The organization was founded in 1858 by James Stephens, and quickly spread; the British government felt the need to suppress the group in 1865. Stephens and others were taken prisoner; although he escaped, it turned him cautious; he no longer had the nerve to take aggressive action. That pretty well killed the group as an active set of rebels; their attempt at an Irish rebellion failed in 1867.
For more on Stephens, see the notes to "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy." - RBW
Broadside Harding B 18(151): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OLcM003A
===
NAME: Escape of Meagher, The
DESCRIPTION: "In the year '48 he was taken, you know, Next on board a ship he had for to go" Meagher escapes in Van Dieman's Land. The police chief refuses to track him "for you know we are Irishmen" He lands safe in New York, greeted by 16,000.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: transportation trial escape America Australia Ireland police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 1852 - Thomas Francis Meagher escapes from Tasmania to America. "[S]entenced to death after the attempted insurrection in 1848, [he] had been reprieved and transported to Tasmania." (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 61, "The Escape of Meagher" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads fol. 340[some words are illegible], "The Escape of Meagher," unknown, n.d.
LOCSinging,sb30363a, "A new song, on the Escape of Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish Exile," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859 
NOTES: Zimmermann: "He [Meagher] had given notice of his intention to leave the penal colony, but it seems that the police officers were afraid to arrest him. The news of his escape and of his triumphal reception in America reached Ireland several months later and was hailed with delight." - BS
Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) was one of the more amazing characters in Irish history. As a young man, he thought Daniel O'Connell's campaigns for reform too peaceful, declaring that he did not believe that "the God of Heaven withholds his sanction from the use of arms.... I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon" (Robert Kee, _The Most Distressful Country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, pp. 254; Peter and Fiona Someset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 225). As a result, he came to be called "Meagher of the Sword."
Ironically, he put forth this view in an English (Stonyhurst) accent (Kee, p. 247).
Along with John Mitchel (for whom see "John Mitchel") and William Smith O'Brien (for whom see "The Shan Van Voght (1848)"), he in 1847 split from Young Ireland to found the Irish Confederation (Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 116). Kee, p. 255, is of the opinion that no one intended the split to be permanent, but notes that, as far as the campaign for Irish rights was concerned, "[t]he damage proved irrevocable."
They went on to try to organize a rising. The British arrested them in March 1848 on charges of sedition. The juries deadlocked in the cases of Meagher and Smith O'Brien, who therefore went free (Kee, pp. 267-268). They responded by going back to their old tricks. This time they tried outright rebellion, and it was a complete disaster (for this too seee the notes to "The Shan Van Voght (1848)" ). O'Brien Smith and Meagher were found and arrested again; this time, they were transported (Fry/Fry, pp. 237-238; Kee, p. 287); sentenced to death, they were reprieved and sent to Tasmania. This song of course chronicles Meagher's escape, in which he reportedly had help from another Young Irelander (Kee, p. 287); if the Irish had been as good at organizing protests and revolts as they were at organizing escapes, they might have gained independence much sooner.
In America, where he lived by lecturing and writing, Meagher gradually turned less radical; when James Stephens approached him in the United States, he said it would be "unworthy" of him to support a revolution (Golway, p. 132).
For his career in the American Civil War, see the notes to "By the Hush." After the war, he was appointed territorial governor of Montana, but drowned in the Missouri River after only a short time in office. His body was not found, but it is likely that he was drunk at the time; there were many reports at the time that he had taken to drink, and his military record was not unspotted. - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging sb30363a: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: Zimm061
===
NAME: Escape of Old John Webb, The: see Billy Broke Locks (The Escape of Old John Webb) (File: LoF004)
===
NAME: Escuminac Disaster (I), The
DESCRIPTION: June 19, 1959 "around Escuminac A sudden storm did appear. Oh, wicked waves! Oh, wailing wind!" The men that went out with their nets in the afternoon were in the wrecked fishing fleet in Miramichi Bay. Though 35 were lost, heroics saved some.
AUTHOR: Bernadette Keating of Chatham (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: rescue drowning fishing sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 19, 1959 - 22 salmon boats and 35 crewmen from Escuminac lost in a storm (Manny/Wilson)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 17, "The Escuminac Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi017o (Partial)
Roud #9195
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: A source for information about the disaster is _The Ecuminac Disaster_ by Roy Saunders. - BS
The Escuminac tragedy was one of those defining moments for its community. Manny/Wilson report that performers sang no fewer than five songs about it at the 1959 Miramichi Folk Festival, and another in 1960 -- one, in fact, a tribute to the area by one of the drowned men. Of these six, they reported three, including this one, written by a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
It's interesting to note that Keating is probably still alive. One wonders what has become of her since. - RBW
File: MaWi017o
===
NAME: Escuminac Disaster (II), The
DESCRIPTION: This is the story of the Escuminac Bay disaster. Thirty-five were lost salmon-fishing in the storm but some were saved. "A drive for funds for the widows And for those who lost souls at sea Was organized in New Brunswick To help raise their families"
AUTHOR: Alex Milson of Chatham (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: rescue drowning fishing sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 19, 1959 - 22 salmon boats and 35 crewmen from Escuminac lost in a storm (Manny/Wilson)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 17a, "The Escuminac Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi017a (Partial)
Roud #9194
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: A source for information about the disaster is _The Ecuminac Disaster_ by Roy Saunders. - BS
The Escuminac tragedy was one of those defining moments for its community. Manny/Wilson report that performers sang no fewer than five songs about it at the 1959 Miramichi Folk Festival, and another in 1960 -- one, in fact, a tribute to the area by one of the drowned men. Of these six, they reported three, including this one. - RBW
File: MaWi017a
===
NAME: Eskimo Lullaby
DESCRIPTION: The text literally translates as, "Hello, my little girl, my little girl. / [We have received] a gift of a little lady. / She doesn't really know anything yet."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954
KEYWORDS: Eskimo lullaby
FOUND_IN: Canada(Nor)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Johnston, p. 20, "An Eskimo Lullaby" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "An Eskimo Lullaby" (on NFOBlondahl04)
File: FJ020
===
NAME: Eskimo Weather Chant, An
DESCRIPTION: "Cha-yun-ga a-cin U-wan-ga a-cin Cha-yun-ga a-cin U-wan-ga na-lu-vit, Cha-yun-ga a-cin U-wan-ga a-cin." "Here I come again, Here I come again, Here I come again, Dost thou not know me...."
AUTHOR: unknown (English words by Alan Mills)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: nonballad Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: Canada(North)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 8-9, "An Eskimo Weather Chant" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FMB008
===
NAME: Essequibo River
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "Essequibo River is the king o' rivers all. Buddy tan-na wa we are somebody O! (2x) Ch: Somebody O, John, somebody O! Buddy tan-na wa we are somebody O!" Verses are similar: Essequibo captain/boson/maidens is/are the king/queen of all.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong sailor river
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 416-417, "Essequibo River" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd,pp. 317-318]
NOTES: The Essequibo River is in Guyana, and is the largest river between the Orinoco and the Amazon. - SL
It is, in fact, the most significant geographic feature of Guyana. Not too far from the Atlantic coast, at the confluence of the Essequibo, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni rivers is the Bartica, one of the few significant towns in this poor, strongly rural nation. Webster's Geographic Dictionary says that it was the point of departure to the local gold and diamond fields, which I suspect explains why it has a shanty about it. - RBW
File: Hugi416
===
NAME: Estersnowe: see Easter Snow (File: HHH066)
===
NAME: Et Nous Irons a Valapariso
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Consists of four verses and four different choruses. Verses have general sailing themes. Choruses borrow from "Homeward Bound" and "Blow the Man Down." Mostly in French, some choruses in English.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty
FOUND_IN: England France
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 129-130, "Et Nous Irons a Valapariso" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Blow the Man Down" (partial tune)
cf. "Homeward Bound (I)" (partial tune and chorus)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Goodbye, Farewell (French)
NOTES: Note on French shanties with English choruses - Hugill supposes the beginnings of this practice date to the American Revolution when due to blockades in New England, many of the whaling families of that region transported themselves to Milford Haven and Dunkirk, reforming the sperm whaling industry there. This influx of New England whalers into Dunkirk would also have influenced the shanties in that part of the world. - SL
File: Hugi129
===
NAME: Euabalong Ball
DESCRIPTION: "Oh who hasn't heard of Euabalong Ball, Where the lads of the Lachlan... Come bent on diversion from far and from near." Description of rowdy annual party among shearers and other sheep-station workers, all get drunk and have a grand time
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: dancing drink party worker
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 98-99, "Euabalong Ball" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Euabalong Ball" (on Lloyd4, Lloyd10)
File: RcEBALL
===
NAME: Eumerella Shore, The
DESCRIPTION: "There's a happy little valley by the Eumerella Shore Where I've lingered many happy hours away...." The singer rejoices to be free of the squatters, or even to be able to steal their cattle. He encourages his animals to enjoy their freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: Australia farming freedom outlaw
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1861 - Sir John Robertson (called Jack Robertson in the song) passes the New South Wales Free Selection Act, allowing the poorer members of the population freer access to land
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 155-156, "The Eumerella Shore";  p. 238, "The Noomanally Shore" ; pp. 278-279, "The Neumerella Shore" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 106-107, "Eumerella Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 272-273, "The Umeralla Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Darling Nelly Gray" (tune)
NOTES: Manifold notes that Australia boasts a Eumerella River in Victoria, while New South Wales has a Umerella (Numerella) River. The reference to John Robertson implies a New South Wales setting -- but of course the song could have spread.
Manifold thinks this is a satire of the free selection movement, and I think he is right. (For a more positive view of the situation, see "The Old Bullock Dray.") - RBW
File: MA155
===
NAME: Eureka!: see We're Coming, Arkansas (We're Coming, Idaho) (File: R343)
===
NAME: Evalina: see Dear Evalina (File: R823)
===
NAME: Evangelist's Song, The: see The Pioneer Preacher (File: Hud082)
===
NAME: Evening Train, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer hears laughter at the train depot, but he himself is crying as they put the casket in the baggage coach. He and his child mourn the death of the child's mother
AUTHOR: Hank and Audrey Williams
EARLIEST_DATE: 1949 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: death mother wife train
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 341-342, "The Evening Train" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Even Cohen admits that this is not a traditional song; he included it mostly as a demonstration of how old styles of song still came to be even after the hillbilly country boom was over. - RBW
File: LSRai341
===
NAME: Ever After On: see Late Last Night When Willie Came Home (Way Downtown) (File: CSW166)
===
NAME: Ever Since Uncle John Henry Been Dead: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: Evergreen, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer finds an evergreen in Inishowen. "They are few and far between in dear old Donegal." The thrush and blackbird sing there, near the river; "nothing can be seen, Like the charming little valley that grows the evergreen"
AUTHOR: Charlie Harkin (source: McBride)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: lyric bird Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 23, "The Evergreen" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This song is accurate about Donegal's trees, for good climatological reasons. Ireland is fairly far north, but with a climate that is both wet and temperate due to the Gulf Stream -- and also rather cloudy. Evergreens are largely an adaption to dry, cold climates where there are relatively few clouds: Their design is intended to gather maximum sun while losing relatively little water. In a wet but cloudy climate, they are at a severe competitive disadvantage. A check of any atlas with decent climate maps (I used Goode's World Atlas) will show that the southern and eastern parts of the country are covered with deciduous forests. But Donegal, in the far northwest, is dominated by heaths and moors; trees of any kind are rare. - RBW
File: McB1023
===
NAME: Every Mail Day
DESCRIPTION: "Every mail day (x2) I gets a letter... O Son, come home, Lord, Lord, Son come home." "I couldn't read it... to keep from crying... to save my soul"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (recording, Adie Corbin)
KEYWORDS: prison nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 173, "Mail Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa173 (Partial)
Roud #7490
RECORDINGS:
Adie Corbin, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 178 B1, 1933)
(Elder) Sykes Jones, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 364 B, 1935)
J. B. Sutton, "Mail Day Blues" [excerp?t] (on USWarnerColl01)
Unidentified convict, Parchman Farm, Mississippi, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 1862 B, 1937)
File: Wa173
===
NAME: Every Night When the Sun Goes In
DESCRIPTION: "Every night when the sun goes in (x3), I hang down my head and mournful cry." The singer says she is leaving, and wishes the train would come to take her home. When her apron was low, he would follow her everywhere; now it is high, he ignores her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: seduction suicide pregnancy betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SharpAp 189, "Every Night when the Sun Goes In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 149-150, "Every Night When the Sun Goes In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 180, "Every Night When The Sun Goes In" (1 text)
DT, EVRYNITE*
Roud #3611
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (lyrics, plot)
cf. "Careless Love" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is so close to "The Butcher Boy" that I was almost tempted to list them as one. The introductory theme of returning home, however, separates the songs. - RBW
File: LxA149
===
NAME: Every Rose Grows Merry in TIme: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
===
NAME: Every Time I Feel the Spirit
DESCRIPTION: "Every time I feel the Spirit Moving in my heart, I will pray." The singer sees God speaking with fire and smoke, asks to be part of it, and is confident in God's care
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Morehouse Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 257, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 360, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (1 text)
Roud #12358
RECORDINGS:
Marian Anderson, "Ev'ry Time I Feel de Spirit" [medley with "No Hiding Place"] (Victor 2032, 1940)
Birmingham Jubilee Quartet, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Columbia 14176-D, 1926)
Famous Garland Jubilee Singers, "Everytime I Feel the Spirit"  (Banner 32433/Romeo 5135, 1932; Conqueror 8358 [as Bryant's Jubilee Singers]; rec. 1931)
Fisk University Jubilee Singers, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Columbia 562-D, 1926)
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, "Everytime That I Feel the Spirit" (Bluebird B-8328/Montgomery Ward M-8776, 1940; rec. 1939)
Golden Leaf Quartet, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Brunswick 7050, 1929, rec. 1928)
Rev. H. B. Jackson, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (OKeh 8804, 1930; rec. 1929)
C. Mae Frierson Moore, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Paramount 12323, 1925)
Morehouse Quartet, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (OKeh 40268, 1925; rec. 1923)
Norfolk Jubilee Quartette, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Paramount 12268, 1925)
Pace Jubilee Singers, "Everytime I Feel the Spirit" (Victor V-38019, 1929)
Plantation Jubilee Singers, "Everytime I Feel the Spirit" (Supertone 9300, 1929)
Richmond's Harmonizing Four, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Decca 48108, rec. 1943)
Stalsby Family, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Decca 5866, 1940)
File: FSWB360B
===
NAME: Everybody Works but Father
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes his father's indolence and the rest of the family's industry. Eventually his father takes a job while everyone else relaxes. Chorus: "Everybody works but Father, he hangs around all day... Everyone works around our house but my old man."
AUTHOR: Jean Havez
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (sheet music published)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer describes his father's indolence and the rest of the family's industry. Eventually his father takes a job to clean up Decatur St.; now he works while everyone else vacations. Chorus: "Everybody works but Father, he hangs around all day/Feet stretched out by the fire, smoking his pipe of clay/Mother takes in washing and so does sister Ann/Everyone works around our house but my old man"
KEYWORDS: work father family worker humorous
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Everybody Works but Father" (OKeh 45056, 1926)
Billy Murray, "Everybody Works But Father" (Victor 4519, 1905)
Riley Puckett, "Everybody Works but Father" (Columbia 15078-D, 1926)
Bob Roberts, "Everybody Works But Father" (CYL: Edison 9100, 1905)
Unknown baritone, "Everybody Works But Father" (Busy Bee 1219, c. 1906)
Frank Wilson, "Everybody Works But Father" (Victor 4727, 1906)
File: RcEBWBF
===
NAME: Everybody's Gal is My Gal
DESCRIPTION: "Everybody's gal is my gal. My partner's gal is my gal too. If you ain't might keerful, I'll take 'er right away from you." "If you got a good gal, You better pin 'er to your side, 'Cause if she flags my train, I'm gonna let 'er ride."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 438, "Everybody's Gal is My Gal" (1 short text)
Roud #11778
File: Br3438
===
NAME: Everybody's Got to Be Tried
DESCRIPTION: "Now, it's everybody's got to be tried (x3), You got to go to judgment, you got to be tried." "Every sinner's got to be tried." "Now you take, every drunkard's got to be tried." "Every liar's got to be tried...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: religious trial nonballad punishment
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5738
RECORDINGS:
Frank Proffitt, "Everybody's Got to Be Tried" (on FProffitt01)
File: RcEBGTBT
===
NAME: Everyday Dirt: see Will the Weaver [Laws Q9] (File: LQ09)
===
NAME: Everywhere I Go My Lord
DESCRIPTION: "Everywhere I go, Everywhere I go my Lord... Somebody's talkin' 'bout Jesus. Well my knees been acquainted with the hillside clay... And my head's been wet with the midnight dew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (recording, Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, p. 61, "(Somebody's Talking About Jesus)" (partial text); p. 247, "Everywhere I Go My Lord" (1 tune, partial text)
RECORDINGS:
Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward, "Somebody's Talking About Jesus" (on NFMAla5) (on ReedWard01)
File: CNFM061A
===
NAME: Evil-Hearted Man
DESCRIPTION: "Well, I woke up this morning, I was feeling mighty bad, My baby said 'Good morning," Hell, it made me so mad, Because I'm evil, well, evil-hearted me." He abuses the woman, not caring if she leaves, "'Cause I got forty-leven others If it comes to that."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: abuse abandonment
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 77, "Evil-Hearted Man" (1 text)
DT, EVILMAN*
File: FSWB077B
===
NAME: Ewe Buchts: see The Broom of Cowdenknows [Child 217] (File: C217)
===
NAME: Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn
DESCRIPTION: In praise of the ewie -- "a' wha kent her could hae sworn Sic a ewie ne'er was born, Hereabouts or far awa'." All who knew the ewie (i.e. a still) loved her products -- but now she is missing or dead, (taken by revenuers)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (_Scots Musical Museum_, #293)
KEYWORDS: drink animal separation
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 271, "The Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn" (1 text+1 in appendix, 1 tune)
DT, CROKHORN*
Roud #2140
RECORDINGS:
Lucy Stewart, "The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn" (on FSB10)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Blockader's Trail" (subject)
cf. "The Moonshine Can" (subject)
cf. "The Black Stripper" (subject, theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Yowie Wi' the Crookit Horn
NOTES: This humorous song seems innocent enough, but the Rev. John Skinner found its subtle meanings sufficiently problematic that he produced a "clean" version about an actual sheep! This found its way into print before most of the versions about the illicit still, but there can be little doubt about which is older. - RBW
File: K271
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NAME: Ewing Brooks (Maxwell's Doom) [Laws E12]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, Ewing Brooks, departs England and assumes the name [Walter] Maxwell in America. He murders a man out of petty jealousy, then flees west, ending in New Zealand. Extradited to the U.S., he is condemned to die despite his family's plea
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: exile murder execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1885 - Hugh M. Brooks, who used the name Walter Lennox Maxwell, murders Charles Arthur Preller
Aug 10, 1888 - Execution of Brooks (apprehended after fleeing to New Zealand)
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws E12, "Ewing Brooks (Maxwell's Doom)"
Belden, pp. 413-415, "Maxwell's Doom" (2 texts)
Randolph 156, "Ewing Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 148-151, "Ewing Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's )
DT 690, EWNGBROK
Roud #890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charles Guiteau" [Laws E11] (tune & meter)
File: LE12
===
NAME: Excel, The
DESCRIPTION: "Being on a Sunday morning when the wind did roar and rage There was twenty-two of the Excel crew met with a watery grave; There was men, women and children stood on her quarter deck, When a heavy sea broke over her and swept them from the wreck"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 11, 1885 - Excel is wrecked at Black Island, Labrador, "with a loss of about twenty-two men, women and children" (Lehr/Best, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 34, "The Excel" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Lehr/Best quotes a news story describing the loss - BS
File: LeBe034
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NAME: Execution of Michael Fagan, The
DESCRIPTION: Joe Brady and Dan Curley have been executed. Michael Fagan is to be executed at Kilmainham Jail. "That vile informer Carey ... In high renown in some foreign town" will be followed by the widow's curse. Fagan bids friends adieu and prays God for mercy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: execution murder betrayal Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: The Phoenix Park murders (source: primarily Zimmermann, pp. 62, 63, 281-286.)
May 6, 1882 - Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke are murdered by a group calling themselves "The Invincible Society."
January 1883 - twenty seven men are arrested.
James Carey, one of the leaders in the murders, turns Queen's evidence.
Six men are condemned to death, four are executed (Joseph Brady is hanged May 14, 1883; Daniel Curley is hanged on May 18, 1883), others are "sentenced to penal servitude," and Carey is freed and goes to South Africa.
July 29, 1883 - Patrick O'Donnell kills Carey on board the "Melrose Castle" sailing from Cape Town to Durban.
Dec 1883 - Patrick O'Donnell is convicted of the murder of James Carey and executed in London (per Leach-Labrador)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann, p. 28, "Lines Written on the Execution of Michael Fagan" (1 fragment)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(366), "Lines Written on the Execution of Michl. Fagan" ("Thrice has the English hangman sailed thro' Dublin bay"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Phoenix Park Tragedy" (subject: the Phoenix Park murders) and references there
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 62: "The Phoenix Park murders and their judicial sequels struck the popular imagination and were a gold-mine for ballad-writers: some thirty songs were issued on this subject, which was the last great cause to be so extensively commented upon in broadside ballads."
Zimmermann p. 28 is a fragment; broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(366) is the basis for the description. - BS
File: BrdExMiF
===
NAME: Execution of Robert Schramle, The
DESCRIPTION: "Not a bark was heard, not a warning note, As we o'er to the calaboose hurried." The vigilantes break into the prison, take the prisoner, hang him, and "left him alone with the devil"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder prison execution
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 169, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Burt connects this with the execution in Colorado of Robert Schramle, accused of killing Henry Thiede on October 11, 1877, but there is no supporting evidence in the song that I can see. (To be fair, there is no counter-evidence, either.) If Burt's connection is correct, the vigilante execution took place on December 9, 1877. - RBW
File: Burt169
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NAME: Exile of Erin (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin." He looks across the ocean toward Erin, mourns for his lost country and remembers "friends who can meet me no more." He thinks of his family. "Erin, an exile, bequeaths thee his blessing"
AUTHOR: probably Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) (but see the note re broadside shelfmark L.C.Fol.70(118a))
EARLIEST_DATE: 1805 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: homesickness exile Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 41, "The Exile of Erin" (1 text)
Moylan 126, "The Exile of Erin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4355
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(38), "The Exile of Erin", W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also 2806 b.11(216), 2806 b.10(90), 2806 c.15(300), Harding B 25(593), Harding B 28(209), Harding B 11(3066), Harding B 11(1655), Harding B 16(325b), Harding B 11(3069), Harding B 11(3067), Harding B 11(2496), 2806 b.10(72), Harding B 11(3068), Harding B 17(86a), Harding B 11(740), Harding B 11(378), Harding B 11(4398), Harding B 11(1105), Harding B 11(3748), 2806 c.15(299), "[The] Exile of Erin"; Harding B 26(178), "The Exile o' Erin " 
LOCSinging, as103590, "Exile of Erin", George S. Harris (Philadelphia), 19C; also as100640, "The Exile of Erin" 
Murray, Mu23-y2:048, "The Exile of Erin" unknown (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(118a), "The Exile of Erin", unknown, c.1885
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Plains of Emu (The Exile of Erin II)" (theme)
NOTES: Note that there is an early parody: Bodleian, Harding B 16(61c), "The Cottage Maid", J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819.
Broadside NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(118a): The commentary states "There appears to be some doubt over the authorship of 'The Exile of Erin'. Many believe it to be the work of the Scottish-born poet, Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), who is said to have been inspired by an encounter with an Irish exile named McCann. It has also been suggested, however, that it was the work of the Irish ballad writer George Nugent Reynolds (1770-1802)." - BS
Possibly the confusion was inspired by the several other songs with the same or similar titles? There seems to be no doubt that Campbell wrote *a* piece called "The Exile of Erin" (and, if Stevenson's _Home Book of Verse 2_ is to be credited, it's this poem). - RBW
File: OCon041
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NAME: Exile of Erin (II), The: see The Plains of Emu (The Exile of Erin II) (File: FaE036)
===
NAME: Exiled Crofter's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: "We're awa, we're awa frae the auld country, To a far awa land, far o'er the sea." "In the wee crofter's garden...  nae crofters' families appear on the scene... They are chased ower the ocean that sportsmen may reign." The singer wishes he were home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord), reportedly from a Canadian book published 1812
KEYWORDS: home separation emigration
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 366, "The Exiled Crofter's Lament" (1 text)
Roud #4597
NOTES: Obviously a composed item about the Highland Clearances, and probably not traditional -- but surprisingly effective. - RBW
File: Ord366
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NAME: Exiled Irishman's Lament, The (The Exiles of Erin)
DESCRIPTION: "Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt," but the lease expires and the singer is forced to leave. His home burns though he obeys the law. "I supported old Ireland... We have numbers, and numbers do constitute pow'r -- Let us will to be free"
AUTHOR: George Nugent Reynolds (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1804 (_Paddy's Resource_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: exile Ireland patriotic home
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 100, "The Exiles of Erin" (1 text)
Moylan 25, "The Exiled Irishman's Lamentation" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13387
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(150), "Erin Go Bragh!" ("Green was the fields where my forefathers dwelt"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 [same as LOCSinging sb10111b]
LOCSinging, sb10111b, "Erin Go Bragh!" ("Green was the fields where my forefathers dwelt"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(150)]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Slieve Gallen Braes" (theme)
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb10111b and Bodleian Harding B 18(150): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon100
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NAME: Exiles of Erin, The: see The Exiled Irishman's Lament (The Exiles of Erin) (File: OCon100)
===
NAME: Express Office, The (He Is Coming to Us Dead)
DESCRIPTION: An old man enters the express office and enquires after his boy. Told that this is not the train depot, the man points out "He's coming in a casket, sir, He's coming to us dead." His mother had expected just that result "when he joined the boys in blue."
AUTHOR: Gussie L. Davis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: soldier death burial corpse train family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 300-303, "He's Coming to Us Dead" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 696, "The Express Office" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 458-460, "The Express Office" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 696A)
DT, COMEDEAD* CMNGDEAD
Roud #3513
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "He Is Coming To Us Dead" (Victor 21139, 1927; on GraysonWhitter01); (Gennett, unissued, 1927)
Wade Mainer, "He Is Coming To Us Dead" (King 585)
New Lost City Ramblers, "He Is Coming To Us Dead" (on NLCR14)
Molly O'Day, "A Hero's Death" (Columbia 20441, 1948)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Boy in Blue
The Boys in Blue
NOTES: Cohen notes that the tune sung by G. B. Grayson (which is now more or less the standard) is not the same as the original Davis tune, with a 32-bar verse and a 16-bar chorus, compared to Grayson's 8-bar tune with no chorus. He speculates that Davis may simply have been rewriting an existing piece, perhaps from the Civil War. - RBW
File: R696
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NAME: Eyes of Texas, The
DESCRIPTION: "The eyes of Texas are upon you All the live-long day. The eyes of Texas are upon you, You cannot get away. Do not think you can escape them From night till early in the morn. The eyes of Texas are upon you Till Gabriel blows his horn."
AUTHOR: Words: John Lang Sinclair
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (University of Texas Community Songbook)
KEYWORDS: parody nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 42, "The Eyes of Texas" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 309, "I've Been Working on the Railroad -- (The Eyes of Texas)"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Nose of Oklahoma Smells You (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 248)
NOTES: Fuld reports that this text was written by Sinclair in 1903 for use in a minstrel show. The text was inspired by a remark by University of Texas President William L. Prather. - RBW
File: FSWB042B
===
NAME: Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
DESCRIPTION: "Ezekiel saw the wheel, Way up in the middle of the air... And the big wheel (run/turn) by faith, and the little wheel (run/turn) by the grace of God. (There's) a wheel in a wheel, Way in the middle of the air."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (recording, Biddle University Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Courlander-NFM, p. 52, (no title) (1 text, probably partial)
Sandburg, pp. 488-492, "Ezekiel, You and Me" (1 heavily composite text, 1 composite tune; this song produces stanza 1)
Silber-FSWB, p. 357, "Ezekiel Saw The Wheel" (1 text)
Roud #12241
RECORDINGS:
Biddle University Quartet, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Pathe 22400, 1920/Perfect 11225, 1925)
Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (OKeh 40250, 1925; rec. 1924)
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Columbia A3370, 1921; Silvertone 3283 [as Border Male Quartet], n.d.; rec. 1920)
Hall Johnson Negro Choir, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Victor 36020, 1930)
Hampton Institute Quartette, "Exekiel Saw de Wheel" (Musicraft 232, prob. 1939)
Norfolk Jubilee Quartette, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Paramount 12217, 1924)
Pace Jubilee Singers w. Hattie Parker, "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel" (Victor 21582, 1928)
Paul Robeson & Lawrence Brown, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Victor 20604, 1927)
West Virginia Collegiate Institute Glee Club, "Ezekial Saw de Wheel"  (Brunswick 3498, 1927; Supertone S-2126 [as Harmony Glee Club], 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rock, Chariot, I Told You to Rock"
cf. "John Done Saw That Number"
NOTES: This is based on Ezekiel's vision in Ezekiel 1. - RBW
File: CNFM052
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NAME: Face on the Barroom Floor, The
DESCRIPTION: A drunk enters a bar; he tells his story in exchange for drink. He was a painter, but his girlfriend saw a portrait he was painting, and took up with the fellow, then died. The singer turned to drink; he offers to draw her face on the floor, and dies
AUTHOR: Hugh Antoine D'Arcy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887
KEYWORDS: drink abandonment death love
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
JHJohnson, pp. 21-24, "The Face on the Barroom Floor" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 126-127, "The Face on the Bar Room Floor" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST JHJ021 (Partial)
Roud #9123
RECORDINGS:
Harold Selman, "The Face on the Bar Room Floor, pts. 1 & 2" (OKeh 45249, 1928)
NOTES: Originally titled "The Face Upon the Floor," this qualifies as a folk song only in the sense that certain sorts of people are very fond of quoting it. It has been widely published; _Granger's Index to Poetry_ lists nine citations. - RBW
File: JHJ021
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NAME: Factor's Garland, The [Laws Q37]
DESCRIPTION: The factor shows his kindness by paying for a dead man's burial and paying the fee of a girl who would otherwise be hanged. It is eventually revealed that the girl is a king's daughter. After many complex adventures, he marries the girl; they have a son
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Journal from the Nellie)
KEYWORDS: rescue marriage money royalty
FOUND_IN: US(NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws Q37, "The Factor's Garland"
Flanders/Olney, pp. 154-162, "The Factor's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 81-82, "The Factor's Garland" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 60, "The Turkish Factor" (1 text)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 268-271, "The Turkey Factor in Foreign Parts" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Factor's Garland" (source notes only)
DT 545, FACTRSNG
Roud #572
NOTES: There may be a slight hint in here of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical book of Tobit, which is also motivated by the generosity of the hero in burying the dead. But, if so, it's come a long way. - RBW
File: LQ37
===
NAME: Factor's Song, The: see The Factor's Garland [Laws Q37] (File: LQ37)
===
NAME: Factory Girl (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a beautiful girl, an orphan who works in a factory (linen mill). He courts her, but she must leave to go to work. He offers to marry her. She again rejects him. She eventually marries well -- perhaps to the singer, perhaps to a squire
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Gardiner)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty marriage money orphan factory technology
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Kennedy 221, "The Factory Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H217, p. 368, "The Factory Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FACTGIRL* FACTGRL2
ADDITIONAL: Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), p. 7, "The Factory Girl" (text, music and reference to Decca F-3125 recorded Aug 12, 1932)
Roud #1659
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "The Factory Girl"  (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
Bill Cassidy, "The Factory Girl" (on IRTravellers01)
Sarah Makem, "The Factory Girl" (on Voice10)
NOTES: The date and master id (GB-4733-1) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
File: K221
===
NAME: Factory Girl (II), The: see No More Shall I Work in the Factory (File: Grnw122)
===
NAME: Faded Coat of Blue
DESCRIPTION: "My brave boy sleeps in his faded coat of blue, In a lonely grave unknown lies that heart that beat so true." Dying, he bids farewell to mother. The singer is confident they will meet in heaven "Where a robe of white is given for a faded coat of blue."
AUTHOR: J. H. McNaughton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Buell Kazee)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar death farewell
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Hudson 126, pp. 266-267, "The Faded Coat of Blue" (1 text)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 227-228, "The Faded Coat of Blue" (1 text)
DT, FADECOAT*
ST HCW227 (Full)
Roud #4293
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Faded Coat of Blue"  (Bluebird B-5974/Montgomery Ward M-4543, 1935; Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22656, n.d.; rec. 1934)
Buell Kazee, "Faded Coat of Blue" (Brunswick 206/Brunswick 3802, 1928; Supertone S-2045, 1930)
NOTES: Written during the Civil War (or so I've heard, though I've also seen claims that it's a Spanish-American war song), this was apparently collected by A. P. Carter and recorded by the Carter Family in 1934. I know of no other collection in tradition. - RBW
[A]s far as the Carters' being the only collection in tradition -- doesn't Buell Kazee count? His record was issued made and issued in 1928, or six years before the Carter Family's. - PJS
And, of course, we can now add Hudson's version. - RBW
File: HCW227
===
NAME: Faded Flowers
DESCRIPTION: "I've been gathering wild flowers on the hillside To wreathe upon your brow. But so long you've kept me waiting They ate dead and faded now." When he loved her, she turned him loose; now she wants him back, but he loves another. She will remain true
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment return loneliness flowers
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 216-217, "Faded Flowers" (1 text)
Roud #6983
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Parting Words" (floating lyrics)
File: Beld216
===
NAME: Fagan the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (File: R102)
===
NAME: Fain Waterloo, The: see The Mantle So Green [Laws N38] (File: LN38)
===
NAME: Fair and Free Elections
DESCRIPTION: "While some on rights and some on wrongs Prefer their own reflections The people's rights demand our song The right of free elections." In praise of democracy and its good effects. Listeners are urged to "stand by the ballot box"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (recording, Oscar Brand)
KEYWORDS: political nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 284, "Fair and Free Elections" (1 text)
DT, FAIRFREE*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Wonder what the author would have thought of politics, 1990s style. - RBW
Not to mention Florida, 2000? - PJS
File: FSWB284
===
NAME: Fair and Handsome Girls
DESCRIPTION: 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Come All You Fair and Tender Girls
File: WB2080
===
NAME: Fair and Tender Ladies
DESCRIPTION: Lyric song, in which the narrator, a woman, laments the falseness of men. She sadly remarks, "Oh if I were some little sparrow / And had I wings so I could fly / I'd fly away to my own true lover / And when he courted, I'd deny."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting love betrayal nonballad bird lyric
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (21 citations)
Belden, pp. 477-478, "Little Sparrow" (2 texts)
Randolph 73, "You Fair and Pretty Ladies" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 121-122, "You Fair and Pretty Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 73A)
BrownII 71, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts plus 3 excerpts; the "D" excerpt contains "Fair and Tender Ladies" verses)
Hudson 51, p. 167, "Young Ladies" (1 text)
BrownIII 254, "Little Sparrow" (4 texts plus 1 excerpt and 1 fragment; the "F" text, however, is primarily "The Butcher Boy" or an "I Wish I Wish" piece of some sort)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 312-313, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, with local title "Come All Ye Maids and Pretty Fair Maidens"; tune on p. 440)
Brewster 80, "Little Sparrow" (1 text)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 55 "Little Sparrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 17, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 99, "Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune); see also 70, "Love is Pleasin'" (1 text, 1 tune, of four verses, one of which goes here, one belongs with "Waly Waly," and the fourth could be from several sources)
SharpAp 118, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (18 texts, 18 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 45, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 185-186, "[Come All Ye Fair]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 18, "Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 88-89, "Little Sparrow" (1 text, 1 tune); p. 145, (no title) (1 tune, partial text)
JHCox 140, "You
Tunney-SongsThunder, p. 160, "The Little Swallow" (1 text)ng Ladies (Little Sparrow)" (2 texts, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 24 "Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 164, "Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies" (1 text)
DT, FAIR&TEN*
Roud #451
RECORDINGS:
Sheila Clark, "Come All Ye Fair Ladies" (on LegendTomDula)
Sara Cleveland, "Come All You Maidens" (on SCleveland01)
Martha Hall, "Young and Tender Ladies" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
Sarah Hawkes, "Little Sparrow" (on Persis1)
Roscoe Holcomb, "Willow Tree" (on Holcomb1, HolcombCD1)
Pete Seeger, "Come All Fair Maids" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01); "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (on PeteSeeger05)
BROADSIDES:
Murray,  Mu23-y1:105, "The Wheel of Fortune," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [extremely mixed, with the "Wheel of Fortune" verse, a thyme stanza, a bit of "Fair and Tender Ladies," a "Queen of Heart" verse, and more]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Peggy Gordon" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, Johnny, Johnny" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Rambleaway" (theme)
cf. "Lora Williams" (tune)
NOTES: Hudson for some reason lists this as a British import, without offering supporting evidence. Paddy Tunney's Irish version is about all I can find in support of his claim. - RBW
File: R073
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NAME: Fair Annie [Child 62]
DESCRIPTION: (Annie's) lover is going off to fetch a bride. On his return, he orders Annie to serve his new bride. She does, but that night weeps for her lost lover. The new bride hears and visits her; they find they are sisters. The bride leaves her husband to Annie
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love marriage abandonment adultery sister
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,NE,SE) Ireland
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Child 62, "Fair Annie" (10 texts)
Bronson 62, "Fair Annie" (7 versions)
SharpAp 16 "Fair Annie" (1 text, 1 tune){Bronson's #4}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 446-448, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Davis-Ballads 15, "Fair Annie" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Leach, pp. 196-201, "Fair Annie" (2 texts)
OBB 42, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 114, "Fair Annie" (2 texts+2 fragments)
PBB 50, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 16, pp. 114-118, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 247-251+355, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Hodgart, p. 44, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
DBuchan 9, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
TBB 3, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
SHenry H126, p. 510, "Fair Annie" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 62, FAIRANNI* FAIRANN2*
Roud #42
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Thomas o Yonderdale" [Child 253] (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Sister's Husband
Rosanna
NOTES: Child makes much of the relationship between this song and the lai "le Freisne" of Marie de France. That there are similarities cannot be denied; in the lai, a woman bears twins, and leaves one at a convent to preserve her reputation, and eventually the separated reunite.
But the lai is much concerned with the mechanisms of separation and reunion, which are of no consequence at all in the ballad. It is possible that the two pieces are independent, or at best, entirely separate redactions of a very brief fragment of plot. - RBW
File: C062
===
NAME: Fair Annie of the Lochroyan: see The Lass of Roch Royal [Child 76] (File: C076)
===
NAME: Fair at Batesland, The
DESCRIPTION: The poet wanders into town on the day of the Batestown Fair. He signs up for the bronc-riding contest, drinking a bit while he waits. The poet drawn "an old brown mule," and gets thrown. Abused by the crown, gets "a job a-herdin' sheep"
AUTHOR: Raymond Runnels
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 76, "The Fair at Batesland" (1 text)
File: Ohr076
===
NAME: Fair at Turloughmore, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come tell me, dearest mother, What makes my father stay, Or what can be the reason he's been so long away?" She tells how the father went to Turloughmore and was killed in an attack by the Peelers. She hopes "their souls are happy"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Duffy)
KEYWORDS: Ireland death police trial
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1843? - Police fire after an attack and kill Callaghan, Greally, and Mullen (see notes)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 93-94, "The Fair at Turloughmore" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 31, "The Sorrowful Lament for Callaghan, Greally and Mullen" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FAIRTURL*
ADDITIONAL: Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 196-197, "The Sorrowful Lament for Callaghan, Greally and Mullen"
Roud #3042
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charles Guiteau" [Laws E11] (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Duffy: "The circumstance on which it is founded took place two years ago, at the fair of Darrynacloughery, held at Turloughmore. A faction fight having occurred at the fair, the arrest of some of the parties led to an attack on the police -- after the attack had abated or ceased, the police fired on the people, wounded several, and killed three men whose names stand at the head of the ballad. They were indicted for murder and pleaded the order of Mr Brew, the stipendary magistrate, which was admitted as a justification. Brew died the day before the day appointed for his trial." - BS
The second stanza of this song, in the Galvin text, begins "Come all you tender Christians, I hope you will draw near," as in "Charles Guiteau" and its relatives. The tunes and the rest of the song, however, appear unrelated. - RBW
File: PGa093
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NAME: Fair Beauty Bride, A: see Charming Beauty Bright [Laws M3] (File: LM03)
===
NAME: Fair Betsy: see Betsy Is a Beauty Fair (Johnny and Betsey; The Lancaster Maid) [Laws M20] (File: LM20)
===
NAME: Fair Brown
DESCRIPTION: Bluesy verses about a poor man's life: "Fair brown, O fair brown, What makes you hold your head so high?" The "Norfolk women" are planning to get money from the "poor workin' man"; they play sick; they drink. The singer says he will not marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love courting poverty betrayal hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 486, "Fair Brown" (1 text)
Roud #11760
File: Br3486
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NAME: Fair Captive, The
DESCRIPTION: An infant white girl is abducted and raised by Indians. She considers herself fully Indian, albeit with skin paled by moonlight. When the Indians and whites make peace, she's returned to her parents; betrothed to a white, she runs off on her wedding day.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (recording, Warde Ford)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: An infant white girl is abducted and raised lovingly by Indians, taken as daughter by the chief. She considers herself fully Indian, albeit with skin paled by moonlight. When the Indians and whites make peace, she's returned to her parents; betrothed to a white man, she runs off on her wedding day. (She dies of grief in the woods, mourned by the chief's son)
KEYWORDS: captivity wedding return separation abduction escape baby family Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #15491
RECORDINGS:
Pat Ford, "The Fair Captive" (tr. only; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Warde Ford, "The Fair Captive" (AFS A4201 B1, 1938, tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Robert Walker, "The Fair Captive" [fragment] (tr. only; in AMMEM/Cowell)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Aged Indian" (plot elements)
cf. "Olban (Alban) or The White Captive" [Laws H15]
cf. "The Aged Indian (Uncle Tohido)" (plot elements)
NOTES: Ford mentions that his source, Charles E. Walker, learned it about 1900 from another singer. It's quite literary-sounding. It's not, however, the same song as, "Olban/The White Captive -- not even close. 
Ford also recorded a fragment, AFS A4205 A2, which is misidentified on the on AMMEM website as "The Fair Captive." It's not -- it's "The Lady Leroy." - PJS
It's interesting to see what is almost certainly a "white" song with such sympathy for Indians. - RBW
File: RcTFC
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NAME: Fair Caroline: see Caroline of Edinborough Town [Laws P27] (File: LP27)
===
NAME: Fair Charlotte: see Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte) [Laws G17] (File: LG17)
===
NAME: Fair Do, The
DESCRIPTION: Rosslare's Fair Do's crew leave her at Pier Head where the competition "moulded her model and measured her mast, And said, 'tween themselves, 'Let us build one as fast.'" Nevertheless, Fair Do beats Pier's Spitfire by four minutes and takes the cup.
AUTHOR: John Walsh of The Burrow, Rosslare
EARLIEST_DATE: 1943 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: ship racing sports moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 39-40, "The Fair Do" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cod Liver Oil" (tune) and references there
File: Ran039
===
NAME: Fair Eleanor (I): see Lord Thomas and Fair Annet [Child 73] (File: C073)
===
NAME: Fair Eleanor (II)
DESCRIPTION: Johnny meets Eleanor "in the middle of the night" to go "and married we will be." In the woods he tells her to strip and he "will be your butcher." She begs for mercy but he stabs her to death. He is imprisoned "in Castlebury jail" until he dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: courting betrayal murder prison burial
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 608-609, "Fair Eleanor" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea608 (Partial)
Roud #9796
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4]" (plot)
cf. "Pretty Polly (II)"
File: Pea608
===
NAME: Fair Ellen: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Fair Ellender: see Lord Thomas and Fair Annet [Child 73] (File: C073)
===
NAME: Fair Fanny Moore [Laws O38]
DESCRIPTION: Fanny marries poor Henry rather than wealthy (Randall). When Henry is away, Randall appears and demands her life (or her love). (When she refuses,) he stabs her. Randall is hanged; Henry wanders distracted until he dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: murder execution marriage jealousy
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws O38, "Fair Fanny Moore"
Belden, pp. 139-141, "Fair Fannie Moore" (2 texts)
Randolph 141, "Fair Fanny Moore" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
FSCatskills 64, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 77, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 720, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 97, pp. 206-207, "Fair Fanny Moor" (1 text)
JHCox 150, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 58-59, "Fanny More" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 610-611, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "Fair Fanny Moore" (source notes only)
DT 337, FANMOORE FANMOOR2
Roud #1001
RECORDINGS:
Ken Maynard, "Fannie Moore" (Columbia, 1930; on TimesAint01)
File: LO38
===
NAME: Fair Flo-ella, The: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Fair Florella: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
===
NAME: Fair Flower of Northumberland, The [Child 9]
DESCRIPTION: A Scots soldier is captured and imprisoned. He captivates the gaoler's daughter, promising to marry her if she will free him. As soon as he is over the Scots border, he abandons her, saying he is already married. Her mother comforts her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1597 (book reprinted in 1859); 1790 (Ritson)
KEYWORDS: courting prison escape trick lie abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(North))
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Child 9, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (7 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 9, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (7 versions)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  94-96, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Ord, p. 192, "The Flower o' Northumberland" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 71-74, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (1 text)
OBB 71, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (1 text)
Niles 6, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
DT 9, FAIRFLWR* FAIRFLR2*
Roud #25
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Young Andrew" [Child 48] (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Deceived Girl
The Sinful Maiden
Sin's Reward
NOTES: Niles claims that all three of his informants used this song to draw a moral; in two instances they gave it a religious tone. This, obviously, is absent from all the Scottish versions. This is another instance where one questions the veracity of Niles's collections; there are no other American versions of this ballad known. - RBW
File: C009
===
NAME: Fair Flowers of Helio: see The Cruel Mother [Child 20] (File: C020)
===
NAME: Fair Gallowa': see The Boy That Found a Bride (Fair Gallowa') (File: HHH665)
===
NAME: Fair Janet [Child 64]
DESCRIPTION: (Janet/Annet/Maisry) loves Sweet Willie, but is told by her father she must marry a French lord. She bears Willie's child and has him take it to his mother. At her wedding she hasn't strength to dance, but dances with Willie and dies. (Willie dies.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love pregnancy marriage childbirth dancing death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Child 64, "Fair Janet" (7 texts)
Bronson 64, "Fair Janet" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 205-208, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
OBB 52, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 213-217+351-352, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
TBB 14, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
DT 64, FAIRJAN
Roud #44
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Liv'd Ance Twa Luvers In Yon Dale
File: C064
===
NAME: Fair John and the Seven Foresters: see Johnie Cock [Child 114] (File: C114)
===
NAME: Fair Julian Bond: see William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9] (File: LM09)
===
NAME: Fair Lady of London: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9] (File: LP09)
===
NAME: Fair Lady of the Plains, A (Death of a Maiden Fair) [Laws B8]
DESCRIPTION: A 'fair maiden" is notable for herding cattle, drinking liquor, and using a six shooter. She is killed by Indians while working with her husband. The cowboys ride to seek revenge.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: death cowboy revenge
FOUND_IN: US(So,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws B8, "Fair Lady of the Plains (Death of a Maiden Fair)"
Randolph 189, "A Fair Lady of the Plains" (5 texts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 182-184, "A Fair Lady of the Plains" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 189A)
Larkin, pp. 148-150, "Fair Lady of the Plains" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 42, "Fair Lady of the Plains" (2 texts, 1 tune)
DT 375, LDYPLAIN
Roud #3130
File: LB08
===
NAME: Fair Lucy: see Lizie Wan [Child 51] (File: C051)
===
NAME: Fair Maid by the Seashore, The: see The Maid on the Shore (The Fair Maid by the Sea Shore; The Sea Captain) [Laws K27] (File: LK27)
===
NAME: Fair Maid of Ballyagan
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a beautiful girl in a village in Aghadowey. He courts her, but she eventually rejects him for a wealthy suitor. He departs, "Intending never to meet again," but he cannot forget her. He curses wealth and the one who has it
AUTHOR: Andrew Orr
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection money
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H67, p. 365, "Fair Maid of Ballyagan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6883
File: HHH067
===
NAME: Fair Maid of Glasgow Town
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a pretty girl and asks if she will marry him. She points out that he is a stranger, and adds that she has a fiancee. He starts to leave. She calls him back and says she will marry him. He says he's not interested.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H579, p. 345, "Fair Maid of Glasgow Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5546
NOTES: Too bad they didn't marry; they deserved each other. I doubt there has ever been a song where two people both rejected the other in the space of sixty seconds. Except on a soap opera, of course. - RBW
File: HHH579
===
NAME: Fair Margaret and Sweet William [Child 74]
DESCRIPTION: Margaret learns that her lover is to be wed. After the wedding, she (or her ghost) visits the wedding chamber and asks the husband if he is happy with his wife. He says that he would prefer her. But when he calls at Margaret's home, she is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy); c.1720 (broadside, Bodleian Douce Ballads 1(72a))
KEYWORDS: marriage questions death ghost
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont)
REFERENCES: (37 citations)
Child 74, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (3 texts)
Bronson 74, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (79 versions, 4 of which are in one or another appendix, presumably because of the commonplace title and lack of text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 134-139, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #31}
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 124-127, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text); cf. pp. 308-312, "Margaret's Ghost" (a rewritten version, possibly by the eighteenth century poet David Mallet)
Belden, pp. 48-52, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William (4 texts)
Randolph 16, "Lady Margaret" (2 texts plus 2 fragments, 3 tunes) {A=Bronson's #43, C=#20, but very possibly not this song, D=#44}
Eddy 12, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #25}
Gardner/Chickering 5, "Sweet William and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #58}
Flanders/Brown, pp. 213-214, "Lady Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 80-85, "Prince William and Lady Margaret"/"Lady Margaret and King William" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 122-147, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (7 texts plys 2 fragments, 5 tunes)
Davis-Ballads 19, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (12 texts plus 3 fragments, of which the "I" and "O" fragments might not be this song; 8 tunes entitled "Sweet William and Lady Margaret," "Lady Marget," "Fair Margaret and Sweet William," Lady Margaret," "Lady Margaret and Sweet William"; 13 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #30, #51, #50, #59, #14, with alterations, #55, #23, #39}
Davis-More 19, pp. 138-145, "Fair Margaret and Sweet Williams" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 20, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 1 more)
Chappell-FSRA 10, "False William" (1 text)
Hudson 11, pp. 87-90, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 103-105, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, properly titled "Lady Margaret," plus a quotation; tune on p. 390)
Brewster 11, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (4 texts plus a fragment, the latter short enough that it might be from something else; 1 tune) {Bronson's #13}
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 12-13, "Sweet William and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 20 "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (8 texts plus 9 fragments, 17 tunes){Bronson's #33, #73, #24, #35, #34, #14, #59, #15, #62, #52, #12, #67, #42, #41, #70, #47, #74}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 16, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, 1 tune, composite and abridged) {Bronson's #67}
Karpeles-Newfoundland 8, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #68}
Peacock, pp. 383-384, "Fair Marjorie's Ghost" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 7, "William and Margaret" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 247-250, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 94, "Sweet William and Lady Margery" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 139-142, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBB 62, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 52, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William (1 text+1 fragment)
Niles 29, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gummere, pp. 200-202+348, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, pp. 131-132, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, perhaps abridged, 1 tune) {Bronson's #78}
Abrahams/Foss, p. 180, "(Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 tune, with no source listed; partial text)
LPound-ABS, 16, pp. 40-43, "Sweet William" (1 text)
JHCox 11, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (7 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #10, #26}
Silber-FSWB, p. 220, "Lady Margaret" (1 text)
DT 74, LADYMARG LADYMAR2*
Roud #253
RECORDINGS:
Martin Howley, "The Old Armchair" (on IRClare01)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Little Marget" (on BLLunsford02) {cf. Bronson's #69}
Jean Ritchie, "Sweet  William and Lady Margaret" (on JRitchie02)
Pete Seeger, "Little Margaret" (on BroonzySeeger1); Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (on PeteSeeger16)
Art Thieme, "Fair Margaret & Sweet William" (on Thieme06)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 1(72a), "Fair Margaret's Misfortune" or "Sweet William's Frightful Dreams on His Wedding Night: With the Sudden Death and Burial of Those Noble Lovers," S. Bates (London), c.1720; also Douce Ballads 3(27a), "Fair Margaret's Misfortunes" or "Sweet William's Dream on his Wedding Night, With the Sudden Death and Burial of Those Noble Lovers"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Colin and Lucy" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Lady Margot and Sweet Willie
Lady Maggie
Lyddy Margot
NOTES: A fragment of this ballad is found in John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's 1611 play "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," Act II, scene viii:
When it was grown to dark midnight
And all were fast asleep,
In came Margaret's grimly ghost
And stood at William's feet.
Child and Bronson both have cutting remarks about the history of this song, which was rewritten "in what used to be called an elegant style" by David Malloch/Mallet, while "a print of c. 1711 was probably occasioned by someone's invention of a fresh tune, not the least folkish in character." (This is the basis of Bronson's "A" group of tunes.)
Grieg/Keith see this as much the same ballad as Child #73, and Bronson sees similarities in the tunes, but concludes that the melodies, like the texts, justify separating them. (Note that "Fair Margaret" is *not* a murder ballad!)  - RBW
See a parody attributed to David Malle: broadside Bodleian, Firth b.22(f. 79), "William and Margaret" ("'Twas at the silent solemn hour"), S. Watts (London), 1785; also Harding B 5(58), "A Lamentable Ballad" or "The Tragical End of William and Margaret" ("When all was wrap'd in dark midnight"); Harding B 5(57), "William and Margaret" - BS
File: C074
===
NAME: Fair Marjorie's Ghost: see Fair Margaret and Sweet William [Child 74] (File: C074)
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NAME: Fair Mary of Livingston: see Fair Mary of Wallington [Child 91] (File: C091)
===
NAME: Fair Mary of Wallington [Child 91]
DESCRIPTION: Of seven sisters, five have died in childbirth. The sixth would prefer not to marry, but is made to wed. She expects to die in childbirth, and does, with the child cut out of her after three days labor. The seventh sister can expect the same fate.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: family marriage childbirth death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 91, "Fair Mary of Wallington" (7 texts)
Bronson 91, comments only
OBB 81, "Fair Mary of Wallington" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 236-240+354, "Fair Mary of Livingston" (1 text)
DBuchan 15, "Fair Mary of Wallington" (1 text)
Roud #59
File: C091
===
NAME: Fair Nottamun Town: see Nottamun Town (File: WB2006)
===
NAME: Fair o' Balnaminna, The (The Lass Among the Heather)
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets a shepherdess and offers to marry her. She is happy at home with her parents. He asks for a parting kiss. They "kissed and kissed again" She approves and he will ask her father (or "she's his lassie" or they marry with "bairnies").
AUTHOR: Hugh McWilliams (source: Moulden-McWilliams)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1831 (Moulden-McWilliams)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage dialog sheep
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
ADDITIONAL: John Moulden, Songs of Hugh McWilliams, Schoolmaster, 1831 (Portrush,1993), p. 15, "The Lass among the Heather"
Gavin Greig, Folk-Song in Buchan and Folk-Song of the North-East (Hatboro,1963), XLIV, p.1, "The Fair o' Balnaminna"
Roud #2894
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(331), "The Blooming Heather" ("As I was coming home"), unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.14(60), "Blooming Heather"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bonnie Lass Among the Heather" (theme) and references there
NOTES: For the relationship between this song and Paddy Tunney's "Bonnie Lass Among the Heather," see the notes to the latter piece. - (BS, RBW)
File: UNFoBal
===
NAME: Fair of Rosslea, The
DESCRIPTION: Monday, November 8 Frank Hynes meets Dolan at the fair of Rosslea. They agreed to match their dogs in a hunt the next Friday at Annerlaw. The hunt is described as some number of hare are killed, and the dogs are named.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1980 (recording, Philip McDermott)
KEYWORDS: death hunting animal dog moniker Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12935
RECORDINGS:
Philip McDermott, "The Fair of Rosslea" (on Voice18)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Huntsman's Horn" (subject: competitive hare hunt from the huntsman's point of view)
cf. "Killafole Boasters" (subject: competitive hare hunt from the huntsman's point of view) and references there
NOTES: Rosslea is in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. - BS
File: RcFaRoss
===
NAME: Fair Princess Royal, The: see The Bold Princess Royal [Laws K29] (File: LK29)
===
NAME: Fair Rosa: see Sleeping Beauty (Thorn Rose, Briar Rose) (File: HHH599)
===
NAME: Fair Rosamond
DESCRIPTION: ""'I have a sister,' young Clifford said, 'A sister no man knows...." "...I would not for ten thousand worlds Have King Henery know her name." But Henry overhears, and writes a letter to her. The ending appears confused
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: love royalty disguise
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1154-1189 - Reign of Henry II
c. 1176 - Death of Rosamund Clifford
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Linscott, pp. 193-195, "Fair Rosamond, or Rosamond's Downfall" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, ROSACLIF
Roud #3729
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Queen Eleanor's Confession" [Child 156] (subject)
cf. "Rosamund Clifford" (subject)
NOTES: For the confusing history of Rosamund Clifford and King Henry II, see the notes to "Rosamund Clifford."
It's interesting to note the extreme lustiness attributed to King Henry II here. This seems to be an exaggeration. Henry obviously was not a dutiful husband to Eleanor of Acquitaine, but neither do we have records of extensive extracurricular activities. This may be a confusion with his grandfather Henry I, who had on the order of fifty illegitimate children by nearly the same number of mothers. - RBW
File: Lins193
===
NAME: Fair Rosamund Clifford: see Fair Rosamund (File: Lins193)
===
NAME: Fair Sally: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9]; also "The Brown Girl" [Child 295] (File: LP09)
===
NAME: Fair Town of Greenock, The
DESCRIPTION: John lives in Greenock and is called with the "Eighteenth Royal" to fight in India. Jane asks him not to leave. He is killed by a French sword. His last words are "Greenock and sweet Bannockburn," as are hers when she heard the news of his death.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1986 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: courting army battle separation death lover soldier India
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 27, "The Fair Town of Greenock" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lad in the Scotch Brigade (The Banks of the Clyde)" (theme)
cf. "The Paisley Officer (India's Burning Sands)" [Laws N2] (theme)
NOTES: This song reminds McBride of "The Paisley Officer." It's a similar theme but "The Lad in the Scotch Brigade" is even closer: the war is different -- Egypt instead of India -- but it does share a line ("She threw her arms around him and cried, 'Do not leave me,'") and the girl's home "on the Banks of the Clyde." The British fought the French in India in the eighteenth century (source: "Rivalries in India: AD 1748-1760" in _History of the British Empire_, p. 4, at Historyworld site). - BS
This song is rather a curiosity. Greenock of course is in Scotland, and the girl lives by the Clyde, and who but a Scot would toast Bannockburn?
And yet, it's found in Ireland. And then there is the reference to the Eighteenth Royal.
It happens that the Eighteenth Foot was the Royal Irish Regiment , according to Ian S. Hallows, _Regiments and Corps of the British Army_, p. 319; it was disbanded in 1922 (when the Irish Free State was formed). (This unit should not be confused with the present Royal Irish Regiment, which is an Ulster unit. This is not to deny the distinction of the latter regiment; it's just not the same as the Eighteenth Foot.)
The site http://www.waterfordcountymuseum.org/exhibit/web/Display/article/31/2/?lang=en lists two occasions on which the Eighteenth served in Indian. The list of battle honours for the Eighteenth (found at http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/018RIrish.htm) does not appear to include any Indian campaigns, but it did fight in Afghanistan, which is surely close enough. This unit did not fight the French at this time, of course, but it did serve in Madras, which had been the site of Anglo-French quarrels a century earlier.
So how did a seemingly-Irish regiment end up in a seemingly-Scots song? Don't ask me.... - RBW
File: McB1027
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NAME: Fair Tyrone
DESCRIPTION: The singer's thoughts turn back to Tyrone. He describes the various places in the area, and recalls the flowers' beauty and the birds' songs. His fondest memories are of Tyrone
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H189, pp. 173-174, "Fair Tyrone" (1 text with many variants, 1 tune)
Roud #13533
File: HHH173
===
NAME: Fairy Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: "A mother came when stars were paling," crying, calling on the fairy king to return her son. She has no answer and concedes that "In this world I have lost my joy; But in the next we ne'er shall sever, There will I find my fairy boy"
AUTHOR: Samuel Lover
EARLIEST_DATE: 1840 (broadside, LOCSheet sm1840 371930)
KEYWORDS: grief death baby supernatural separation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 150, "The Fairy Boy" (1 partial text)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol II, pp. 145-146, "The Fairy Boy"
Roud #9293
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 15(101a), "The Fairy Boy", D. Batchelar (London), 1836-1842; Harding B 18(156), Firth c.18(191), Harding B 15(101b), "[The] Fairy Boy" 
LOCSheet, sm1840 371930, "The Fairy Boy", George Willig (Philadelphia), 1840 (tune) 
LOCSinging, sb10130a, "The Fairy Boy", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also as103670, "The Fairy Boy" 
NOTES: O'Conor: "When a beautiful child pines and dies, the Irish peasant believes the healthy infant has been stolen by the fairies, and a sickly elf left in its place." This is a note taken without attribution from _The Ballad Poetry of Ireland_ by Charles Gavin Duffy (Dublin, 1845), p. 79. [Of course, the notion of the changeling is common in British folklore. - RBW]
O'Conor sometimes omits the end of a song when it won't fit on the page and there is no space available on another page. This is one example. "Digging for Gould" is another.
Broadside LOCSinging sb10130a: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon150
===
NAME: Fairy King's Courtship, The: see John MacAnanty's Courtship (The Fairy King) (File: HHH056)
===
NAME: Fairy Lullaby, The
DESCRIPTION: Irish Gaelic: Singer laments: it's a year since she was taken from her husband and brought to the fairy hill. She gives instructions for spells to release her; if she is not rescued in time, she will become queen of the fairies. She croons to her baby
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage homesickness abduction rescue death magic ritual lullaby supernatural husband
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Maire O'Sullivan, "The Fairy Lullaby" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
NOTES: In Lomax's interpretation, the woman has died shortly after marriage, and is in the last day of her year with the fairies, rocking a fairy child. If she is not rescued, she can never reassume mortal form - PJS
File: RcTFL
===
NAME: Fais Do Do, Colas
DESCRIPTION: Creole French: "Faies do do, Colas, mon petit frere, Fais do do, t'auras du gateau, Papa e aura, Et moi j'un aurai, Tout un plein panier." The little brother is urged to go to sleep, perhaps with the promise of a reward.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: lullaby family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 155, "Fais Do Do, Colas" (1 short text)
File: ScaNF155
===
NAME: Fais Do Do, Minette
DESCRIPTION: Creole French: "Faies do do, Minette, Chere pitit cochon du laite. Fais do do, mo chere pitit, Jusqu' a trappe l'age quinze ans." Minette is urged to go to sleep for fifteen years, when she will have "the martine" for a husband
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: lullaby nonballad marriage
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 154-155, "Fais Do Do, Minette" (1 short text plus translation, 1 tune)
File: ScaNF154b
===
NAME: Faithful Lover, or The Hero Rewarded, The: see The Lady of Carlisle [Laws O25] (File: LO25)
===
NAME: Faithful Rambler, The (Jamie and Mary, Love's Parting)
DESCRIPTION: "I am a young man delights in sport; To a strange country I mean to steer, And leave my home... Also the girl that I love dear." The girl promises to be true, but says that he will forget her. He says he will be faithful, and wishes her good fortune
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H825, pp. 299-300, "The Faithful Rambler" (1 text, 1 tune); H788, p. 300, "Love's Parting (Jamie and Mary)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6896 and 6897
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament)" [Laws O29] (plot) and references there
NOTES: Neither Sam Henry nor the notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann hint that these two are the same song. But they have identical plots, and there are extreme lyric similarities in both the first verse (about the young man who must ramble) and the scenes where the lovers promise faithfulness. If they aren't originally one song, they have cross-fertilized to the point where they might as well be. - RBW
File: HHH825
===
NAME: Faithful Sailor Boy, The [Laws K13]
DESCRIPTION: A sailor and his true love bid a tearful farewell on the deck of the ship as it is about to sail. He dies on the voyage; his shipmates deliver the girl a letter in which he says they will meet in heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1859
KEYWORDS: sailor separation death
FOUND_IN: US(MA,SE) Ireland Britain Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws K13, "The Faithful Sailor Boy"
Doerflinger, p. 164, "The Sailor Boy" (1 short text, 1 tune)
SHenry H543, p. 103, "The Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune); also probably H678, p. 89, "The Irish Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 32-33, "The Faithful Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 60, "The Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 68, "The Faithful Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 111, "The Faithful Sailor Boy" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Chappell-FSRA 33, "Sailor Boy" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 61-62, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text)
DT 559, FTHFULSL
Roud #376
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(64a), "The Sailor Boy," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
NOTES: G. W. Persley has been listed as the author of this piece, but the song appears older.
The Sam Henry text "The Irish Soldier Boy" lacks many of the elements of fuller versions of this song, and also has a slightly different form. But it has so many elements in common with Laws K13 that I think it must be listed here. If it isn't Laws K13, it's swallowed several verses whole. - RBW
File: LK13
===
NAME: Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh dear! what can the matter be Bony's so long coming here. He promised to bring us a budget of freedom" but he did not come from Calais to Dover, he deserted us "just as the crisis drew near." The loyalists laugh while he "minds his own interest"
AUTHOR: William Ball (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: "shortly after 1798" (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion Ireland humorous nonballad Napoleon
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 38, "Faithless Bony" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" (tune)
NOTES: For another broadside on "Boney" coming to England, to the same tune, see Bodleian, Harding B 25(1115), "Little Boney A-Cockhorse ("Oh dear! little Boney's a coming"), J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819 
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Barry Gleeson acc. Mick Willis, "Faithless Bony" (on "The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes) - BS
Like so many of the Irish complaints about France, this is rather unfair (for the context, see the notes to "The Shan Van Vogt"); France had failed utterly at Bantry Bay, but that wasn't Napoleon's fault. And he didn't promise anything to Wolfe Tone or anyone; he knew all along that an Irish invasion wouldn't pay. Had the rebellion of 1798 in fact gone off properly (meaning that the whole country had risen at one time, rather than a handful of uncoordinated local rebellions), the forces Napoleon sent (with General Humbert, Napper Tandy, and Tone; a total of about 4000 men and arms for many more) might well have allowed the Irish to win a pitched battle. But the 1798 rebellion had failed completely before the French arrived.
William Ball was a writer of humorous verse about Irish history; in this index, see "Cockledemoy (The French Invasion)," "Do as They Do in France," "The Dying Rebel," "Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)" -- though he doesn't seem to have made much impression on the wider world of literature; I have been unable to find any of his writings in any of my literary references. - RBW
File: Moyl038
===
NAME: Faithless Husband
DESCRIPTION: "One day a faithless husband Unto a maiden said, You know, Bess, though I'm married, I hate the one I've wed." He begs the girl to marry him; she replies "If you love me, leave me But don't be untrue." She says she will wait; he should not leave his wife
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Darby & Tarlton)
KEYWORDS: love courting infidelity virtue
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 807, "Faithless Husband" (1 text)
Roud #7424
RECORDINGS:
Tom Darby & Jim Tarlton, "Faithless Husband" (Columbia 15552-D, 1930)
File: R807
===
NAME: Falcon (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The Falcon sets out with 35 passengers. The ship is near home when the wind blows up. The engine fails and the ship runs aground. The singer recalls the dead and pities the widows and orphans
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: death wreck ship storm
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 5, 1868 - Reported date of the Falcon wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H95, p. 107, "The Falcon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9042
File: HHH095
===
NAME: Falcon's Song: see Chanson de la Grenouillere ("Song of Frog Plain," Falcon's Song) (File: FMB121)
===
NAME: Falcon(II), The: see The Corpus Christi Carol (File: L691)
===
NAME: Fallen Boney
DESCRIPTION: "The crown has Boney abdicated ... And Louis is again reinstated." When he was Consul he was successful but, crowned, became a "lawless tyrant." He replaced Josephine with Louisa. "He might been happy still in France Had he but rul'd with moderation"
AUTHOR: Hugh McWilliam (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1816 (McWilliam's _Poems and Songs on Various Subjects_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Napoleon wife royalty
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 202, "Fallen Boney" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Louis is, of course, Louis XVIII (1855-1824), the younger brother of the pre-revolutionary king Louis XVI, who was brought back to the throne when Napoleon fell.
Napoleon's decision to replace his wife Josephine Beauharnais (1763-1814) was entirely practical; he did not withdraw his favor from her children (or even with her, really, since he died with her name on his lips). But he needed an heir, and she had not given him one. So he went for another woman.
The bit about ruling with moderation is generally right; Napoleon did a fine job of creating a civil code for France; most of the Code Napoleon was retained by the restored monarchy, and much survives to this day. But Napoleon couldn't bring himself to sit still making laws for long. And, frankly, he developed that problem while he was still Consul. - RBW
File: Moyl202
===
NAME: Falling Leaf
DESCRIPTION: Falling Leaf (so named because she was born in autumn) is the beautiful daughter of a chief. One day she meets a "worn and weary" hunter, and falls in love with him. But he vanishes; "his fate was never known" and she spends her life alone and mourning
AUTHOR: F. A. M. Stuart and W. Eben Miles
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: love courting Indians(Am.) separation grief mourning
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 765, "Falling Leaf" (3 texts, 3 tunes; Cohen considers the "C" text separate)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 516-518, "Falling Leaf" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 765A)
Roud #7409
RECORDINGS:
Paul Hamblin, "Fallen Leaf" (Victor V-40280, 1930)
L. K. Reeder, "Falling Leaf" (OKeh 45026, c. 1926; rec. 1925; on MakeMe)
Sue & Rawhide, "Falling Leaf" (OKeh 45577, 1934)
File: R765
===
NAME: Falling of the Pine
DESCRIPTION: Speaker tells of working in lumber camps: "When daylight is a-breakin'/From our slumbers we awaken/When our breakfast we have taken/Our axes we will grind...And the woods we'll make to ring/By the falling of the pine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: recitation lumbering work logger nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Rickaby 17, "The Falling of the Pine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 10, "Falling of the Pine" (1 text)
Fowke-Lumbering #3, "The Falling of the Pine" (1 fragment, tune referenced)
ST Be010 (Partial)
Roud #4560
RECORDINGS:
Martin McManus, "The Falling of the Pine" (on Lumber01)
Lester Wells, "The Falling of the Pine" (AFS, 1938; on LC56)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
cf. "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (tune)
File: Be010
===
NAME: False Bride, The (The Week Before Easter; I Once Loved a Lass)
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports that the woman he once loved is going to be wed to another. He mopes around in various ways -- e.g. looking for flowers out of season. His friends fail to lift his spirits. He declares his intent to die in hopes of forgetting her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1675 (broadside, Bodleian Douce Ballads 1(83a)); also printed in the reign of James II (1685-1688)
KEYWORDS: love infidelity courting marriage death wedding lyric
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(South,Lond)) Ireland Canada(Newf) Australia
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 187-188, "I Think by This Time He's Forgot Her" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 152, "The False Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 175, "It Wasna My Fortune to Get Her" (1 text)
OLochlainn 86, "The Lambs on the Green Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 441-442, "The False Maiden" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 31, "The False Bride" (2 texts, 3 tunes)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 37, "The False Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2765, "A week before Easter"; ZN2766, "The week before Easter"
DT 848, FLSEBRDE FLSEBRD2* FLSEBRD3* FLSEBRD4 FLSEBRD5* FLSEBRD6* FLSEBRD7* FLSEBRD8
Roud #154
RECORDINGS:
Harry Burgess, "A Week Before Easter" (on Voice15)
Bob Copper, "The False Bride" (on FSB1)
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "I Loved a Lass" (on SCMacCollSeeger01)
Sarah Makem, "I Courted a Wee Girl" (on Voice01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 1(83a), "The Forlorn Lover" ("A week before Easter"), F. Coles (London), 1663-1674; also Douce Ballads 3(32a), "The Forlorn Lover"
NLScotland, R.B.m.143(128), "It Was Not My Fortune To Get Her," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Bonny Brown Jane"
cf. "If I Were a Fisher" (floating verses)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Forlorn Lover
I Ainse Loved a Lass
I Loved a Lass
The Week Before Easter
Three Weeks Before Easter
Six Weeks Before Easter
NOTES: Some versions (for example, "I Loved A Lass" on SCMacCollSeeger01) include a verse close to Opie-Oxford2 318, "A man in the wilderness asked me": "A man in the wilderness asked me, How many strawberries grow in the sea? I answered him, as I thought good, As many as red herrings grow in the wood" (earliest date in Opie-Oxford2 is 1716). [Also in Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #142, p. 114. - RBW]
Is it significant that this verse is not in any of the printed versions that I consulted: Peacock, Karpeles-Newfoundland, Bodleian broadsides or Greig _Folk-Song of the North-East_ 24? - BS
File: K152
===
NAME: False Knight on the Road, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: False Knight, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: False Lamkin: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
===
NAME: False Lanky: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
===
NAME: False Lover Won Back, The [Child 218]
DESCRIPTION: A man saddles his horse to leave his lover (and her unborn child). She follows him from place to place, begging him to return. At each stop he buys her a gift and tells her to go home. At last he repents and buys her a wedding ring
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: abandonment hardheartedness marriage love
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) US(So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 218, "The False Lover Won Back" (2 texts)
Bronson 218, "The False Lover Won Back" (5 versions)
Belden, p. 78, "The False Lover Won Back" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 575-576, "The False Lover Won Back" (1 text)
OBB 72, "Young John" (1 text)
DT 218, BONLOVE*
Roud #201
RECORDINGS:
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "The False Lover Won Back" (on SCMacCollSeeger01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Foot Is in the Stirrup"
File: C218
===
NAME: False Lover, The
DESCRIPTION: "When I was young, I was well beloved By all young men... When I was blooming... This false young man he decieved me." The girl tells how the false lover abandoned her, hopes for better fortune, and wants God to bring him to trial for his falsehood
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H790, p. 383, "The False Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1075
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list this as a variant of "Wheel of Fortune" and "Love is Pleasing." Similarly Roud. The theme, of course, is the same as the latter (but that's commonplace). It has only a half stanza in common with "Wheel of Fortune," and less than that in common with "Love is Pleasing." It's at least as close to "Dear Companion." I firmly believe it's a separate song. - RBW
File: HHH790
===
NAME: False Maiden: see The False Bride (The Week Before Easter; I Once Loved a Lass) (File: K152)
===
NAME: False Mallie
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, did ye hear how Mall was courted... By a young sailor brisk and bold?" Jamie goes to war, and Mallie breaks her vow and marries another. When he returns and finds her false, he goes mad, and ends up in Bedlam cursing her name and her deeds
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation betrayal sailor madness
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 183-184, "False Mallie" (1 text)
Roud #5529
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lovely Annie" (theme: a man driven "mad" by a woman's infidelity) 
cf. "The Green Bushes" [Laws P2]," particularly the "Nut Bushes" version (theme: a man driven "mad" by a woman's infidelity) 
File: Ord183
===
NAME: False Nancy: see Nancy (II) (The Rambling Beauty) [Laws P12] (File: LP12)
===
NAME: False Sir John, (The): see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
===
NAME: False True Love: see The False Young Man (The False True Lover) (File: SKE42)
===
NAME: False True Lover: see Fare You Well, My Own True Love (The Storms Are on the Ocean, The False True Lover, The True Lover's Farewell, Red Rosy Bush, Turtle Dove) (File: Wa097)
===
NAME: False True Lover (II), The: see The False Young Man (The False True Lover) (File: SKE42)
===
NAME: False Young Man, The (The False True Lover)
DESCRIPTION: The lover invites (her) old true love in; it has been most of a year since she saw him. He will not come; he has another love. She recalls how he could make her believe "the sun rose up in the west." She stays at home (with the cradle) (and curses him)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918
KEYWORDS: love courting separation betrayal pregnancy curse
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 42, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 58, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 164, "False True Love" (1 text)
DT, FALSTRUE
Roud #419
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Young Hunting" [Child 68] (lyrics)
cf. "A False-Hearted Love" (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This is clearly a conflate song; the first verses are from American texts of "Loving Henry"; the end is from some sort of betrayal song. - RBW
And one verse seems to be lifted from "House Carpenter." - PJS
File: SKE42
===
NAME: False Young Man, The (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out)
DESCRIPTION: The young man greets the girl after a long separation and asks her to sit down with him. She will not; "You've given your heart to another one...." She remembers his strange oaths, and says young men will prove true when fish fly like birds.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (collected by Olive Dame Campbell; in SharpAp); +1876 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs I_)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation infidelity lie rejection lyric
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont) Britain(England(South),Scotland) Ireland US(Ap,MA,SE)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
BrownII 83, "As I Stepped Out Last Sunday Morning" (2 texts); 162, "The One Forsaken" (1 text, entirely of floating lyrics, but some of them, and the theme, are this song)
Ord, p. 174, "The Fause Young Man" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More 8, "The Verdant Braes of Skreen" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 2, "As I Roved Out" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 94, "The False Young Man" (10 texts, 10 tunes)
Scarborough-SongCatcher,  p. 41, "Come Along, My Own True Love" (1 text, with a first verse that might have floated in from "Young Hunting" or the like); pp. 270-272, "The False Young Man" (3 short texts plus an excerpt, with local titles "Come Along, My Own True Love," "Set You Down, My Own True Love," "As I Walked Out One May Morning"; 1 tune on p. 428 )
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 166-168, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 50, "As I Walked Out" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 153, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H593, pp. 389-390, "My Love John" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ166 (Partial)
Roud #419
RECORDINGS:
Frank & Francis McPeake, "The False Young Man" (on FSB1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "False, False Hae Ye Been To Me, My Love" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Johnny's The Lad I Love
White Oak Mountain
Rocky Mountain Side
NOTES: In America, this has become almost purely lyric (consider "White Oak Mountain":
"I will never believe a young man any more
Let his eyes be blue, black, or brown
Save he were on the top of a high gallows tree
A-swearing he wished to come down!") -- so much so that I originally classified the versions separately. But there are enough intermediate forms to prove identity.
The song also mixes somewhat with "Foggy Mountain Top," itself a largely mixed and incoherent piece. Short lyric texts might perhaps go with either. - RBW
File: FJ166
===
NAME: False-Hearted Knight, The: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
===
NAME: False-Hearted Lover, A
DESCRIPTION: A complaint toward a false love: "There is more than one, there is more than two, There is more pretty boys than you." ""You slighted me for another girl." "The loss of one is the gain of two [sweethearts]" "I wish to the Lord you had never been born."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal floatingverses nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 141, "A False-Hearted Love" (1 text)
Roud #6574
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The False Young Man (The False True Lover)" (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This is one of those lost-love  items, mostly lyric, largely composed of floating elements -- the sort of song that largely defies classification. I know of no other versions of this precise mix. - RBW
File: BrII141
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NAME: False-Hearted Lover, The: see The Yellow Handkerchief (Flash Company) (File: K360)
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NAME: False, False Hae Ye Been To Me, My Love
DESCRIPTION: The singer laments that her love is false, ans says "I'm afraid that you're ne'er mair mine." She compares her fate to climbing a tree too high, or rowing against a stream. She says she will yet climb a still taller tree and come down to a true love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (collected from Christina MacAllister)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 60, "False, False Hae Ye Been To Me, My Love" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
DT, FALSTOME*
Roud #8276
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The False Young Man (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out)"
NOTES: MacColl and Seeger note that this is a member of the large class of betrayal songs combined with a demand for, or a curse of, the impossible; "The False Young Man" is another song with this sort of thing. They note that the final stanza, about climbing a higher tree, floats (though it doesn't always show up in the songs they list). But they also regard this as a separate song.
I incline to agree. While it is a typical item of this type, the lyrics are unusual enough to warrant separate classification. - RBW
File: McCST060
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NAME: Famed Waterloo: see The Mantle So Green [Laws N38] (File: LN38)
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NAME: Famine Song: see Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small) (File: SBoA148)
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NAME: Famous Flower of Serving-Men, The [Child 106]
DESCRIPTION: Fair (Elise) has lost father, then husband. She disguises herself as a man and seeks service at the king's court, becoming chamberlain. When only an old man is about, she reveals herself in song. The old man tells the king she is female; he marries her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Percy); title found in the Stationer's Register in 1656
KEYWORDS: death family royalty servant disguise cross-dressing marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,West),Scotland(Aber)) US(MW,NE) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Child 106, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 106, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (7 versions+5 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 227-232, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 traditional text plus assorted variants and a songster version) 
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 86-90, "The Lady Turned Serving-Man" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 127-129, "Sweet William" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 77-88, "The Famous Flower of Servingmen" (4 texts plus a fragment, the "A" text being from "The Charms of Melody" rather than tradition; 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
MacSeegTrav 13, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 62-63, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
OBB 153, "The Lament of the Border Widow"; 166, "The Lady Turned Serving-Man" (2 texts)
PBB 29, "The Lament of the Border Widow" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2994, "You beauteous Ladies great and small"
DT 106, FLRSERV1* FLRSERV2* BRDRWDO*
ADDITIONAL: John S. Roberts, The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland (n.d.), pp. 248-249, "The Border Widow's Lament"
Roud #199
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "My Brother Built Me a Bancy Bower" (on IRTravellers01)
Caroline Hughes, "The Famous Flower of Servantmen" (on FSBBAL1) {Bronson's #3.3 in addenda}
Jasper Smith, "The Small Birds Whistle" (on Voice11)
NOTES: "The Border Widow's Lament" is given in Child's introduction to "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men," and has been described as "a self-sufficient fragment" of the longer ballad. - KK, RBW
Bronson has extensive notes about the complicated history of this ballad, where both text and tune seem to have suffered from editorial activiety. - RBW
The title of Jasper Smith's version on Voice11 is from a verse lifted from "The Croppy Boy." The notes for the ballad make it a version of "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" [Child 106]. At best it is an abridgement and corruption of the first verse of the Percy fragment in Child's headnote to "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" added to the lily-bower verse of Child/Border Widow [shamrock-bower here to go with "Old Ireland free"]; here is Percy: "My mother showed me a deadly spight; She sent three thieves at darksome night; They put my servants all to flight, They robbed my bower, and they slew my knight." Here is a description of Jasper Smith's "The Small Birds Whistle": A girl runs away with a man who leaves her with a baby; her father builds her a bower but "Then my father he owed me a dreadful spite. He sent nine robbers all in one night To take my baby and to do me harm" and that ends the story. - BS
File: C106
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NAME: Famous Light Brigade, The
DESCRIPTION: "It was a famous story, proclaim it far and wide, And let your children's children re-echo it with pride, When old Cardigan, the fearless, his name immortal made, When he charged through that Russian valley with his famous Light Brigade."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: battle disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 25, 1854 - Battle of Balaclava
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 276-277, "The Famous Light Brigade" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H829, p. 91, "Balaclava" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9419
NOTES: It would be an exaggeration to say that the final century of the existence of the Russian and Ottoman Empires was devoted to a contest between the two of them for control of the Dardanelles. But the exaggeration would be mild. The Russians made many attempts in the nineteenth century to gain control of the straights. The Crimean War came about because one of their attempts was so blatant that the British and French felt it simply had to be stopped.
The war was a disaster for both sides; both suffered heavy losses -- due to both bad logistics and bad generalship -- coupled with minimal gains. In the whole incompetent war, few results were as bad as the fate of the Light Brigade.
The charge of the Light Brigade is, of course, one of the most famous disasters in military history. It took some work to bring about the disaster, though. The first stage of the combined British/French invasion, which resulted in the Battle of Alma, went well enough if you ignore the severe casualties caused by disease (for background, see the notes to "The Heights of Alma (I)" [Laws J10]). After Alma, the allies could perhaps have tried a direct run for Sebastopol. With the defences weak and the Russian army defeated and scattered, it might have worked (see Royle, pp. 261-262. For references, see the Bibliography at the end of this entry).
The allies didn't try it. British commander Lord Raglan discussed it with the French, but they refused (Palmer, p. 103). So the allied army moved slowly  to be prepared for a possible siege -- and thus made the siege inevitable. The allies moved to the south of the city, set up new supply bases, and generally dawdled.
The dawdling gave the Russians time to strengthen Sebastopol (as well as to get their troops reorganized). And, with the city more defensible, it also gave the Russians troops with which to attempt offensive moves of their own (Royle, pp. 263-264). On October 25, five weeks after the Battle of Alma, with the British, French, and Turkish allies closing in on Sebastopol, the Russians finally counterattacked at Balaclava. With a force reported to total 25,000 men, they struck at the weak British east flank (Royle, p. 265).
This was potentially a war-winner for the Russians (Royle, p. 267); if they could take Balaclava Harbor, which was the sole British supply port (Woodham-Smith, p. 197), the British would be entirely cut off from supplies and the French potentially flanked. And the British had suffered so many losses (primarily to disease rather than battle) that they didn't have enough reserves to garrison Balaclava and maintain their other operations (Woodham-Smith, p. 207). But, of course, the Russians muffed it.
The first Russian charge was a partial success, routing part of the Turkish force (Palmer, p. 125, says that the Turks lost half their numbers; the allies still blamed them for fleeing).
Still, the Russians were atop the only real road from Balaclava to the British camp -- meaning that they controlled the British supply line unless they were driven back (Woodham-Smith, p. 213). This finally convinced Raglan that he had to do something. He ordered up two divisions of infantry -- and sent Lord Lucan an order which moved the cavalry out of the way (Woodham-Smith, pp. 214-215).
But the British were lucky. They had only a handful of infantry guarding the path to Balaclava itself, but that handful consisted of Highlanders under the command of Colin Campbell -- the one really top-flight officer of the war. Plus they were armed with rifle muskets, rather than the old smoothbores, giving them enough firepower to stop the Russian cavalry (Royle, pp. 266-267; Woodham-Smith, p. 216).
Meanwhile, Lord Raglan, thinking that Campbell would be overwhelmed (as, by rights, he should have been) ordererd the Heavy Brigade  to counterattack. Because he was far away, the Russian attack had faltered by the time the messge reached the cavalry (Woodham-Smith, p. 218). Fortunately, the Heavy Brigade had a commander who, if he had little experience, had a brain and a willingness to listen to his more knowledgeable staff officers. General Scarlett, against immense odds and on terrain whch favored the Russians, waited until the enemy had halted, and sent out an amazing counter-charge (Woodham-Smith, pp. 219-223).
The charge of the Heavy Brigade disorganized the Russians but was not in sufficient force to push them back completely (the heavies were outnumbered by at least two to one; Woodham-Smith seems to think the ratio was eight to one). The Russians halted their charge and pulled back to a more secure position (Royle, p. 270) -- but they still threaten the British supply line. Any additional force the British could scrape up might tilt the balance. And there was the Light Brigade -- the other half of the cavalry division -- unengaged.
It was at this point that the deficiencies of the British command arrangements really came out.  There were officers in the British army with combat experience, but most of them -- e.g. the officers of the Indian army -- were kept out of the Crimea due to snobbishness; Farwell, p. 69. The handful of other experienced officers were all very old -- e.g. commander-in-chief Lord Raglan had fought at Waterloo (where he had lost his right arm;  (Woodham-Smith, p. 156), but was 65 years old at the start of the Crimean campaign (Woodham-Smith, p. 131).
The cavalry division was commanded by Lord Lucan, who had purchased his commission. The commander of the Light Brigade, Lord Cardigan, was also an officer by purchase; James, p. 337, says that prior to the Crimea his "only previous experience of hostile fire had been when he had fought a duel fourteen years before."
Cardigan, in fact, had once been dismissed from regimental command for incompetence (Woodham-Smith, pp. 43-44, with the pages before that abundantly documenting why he had to go).  Indeed, Cardigan in this period had shown obvious signs of psychosis; Woodham-Smith, p. 7, says he had suffered a fall early in his life which left him subject to almost uncontrollable fits of rage. But he managed, by assiduous nagging, to secure a new  appointment (Woodham-Smith, p. 47). This caused such outrage that Parliament investigated -- but Parliament finally gave in when the military in effect drew a line in the sand and said, "Don't Interfere" (Woodham-Smith, p. 49).
Nor was Cardigan in position to learn on the job (even assuming he was capable of it); in the period after the Crimean landing, the horses were too broken down for him to do an scouting (Woodham-Smith, pp. 170-171). To top it all off, by the time of Balaclava, his was sleeping in his yacht in Balaclava harbor rather than among his men (Woodham-Smith, p. 201). Basically, he showed up in mid-morning, gave nonsense orders, ran down his men and horses, and left for the night to enjoy himself.
Lord Lucan was a little more concerned for his soldiers, and he at least had some field experience, unlike Cardigan, but it was slight and many decades old (Woodham-Smith, p. 132); he couldn't even learn the new manual of command (Woodham-Smith, p. 146). The entire army knew that Cardigan was an impetuous fool, and Lucan they called "Lord Look-On" for his caution (Woodham-Smith, pp. 177-178).
It might not have mattered quite so much had Lucan and Cardigan not been sworn enemies; Lucan had married (Woodham-Smith, pp. 15, 28) and abandoned (Woodham-Smith, pp. 127-128) Cardigan's sister. They should not have been in the same army, let alone in the same division. Lord Raglan tried to keep them separate (Woodham-Smith, pp. 132, 144, 148, etc.), but that just made things worse; Cardigan treated Raglan's concession as a right, and complained whenever Lucan came near him. And Lucan felt, correctly, that he had repeatedly been bypassed. Determined not to give Lord Raglan further grounds for undercutting him, Lucan responded by turning into the sort of cardboard officer who obeys every command with literal precision, regardless of whether it made sense (Woodham-Smith, p. 205).
When the Heavy Brigade counterattacked to regain the lost positions in the heights by Balaclava, the Light Brigade probably should have joined their charge (Palmer, p. 127; Royle, p. 270), but brigade commander Cardigan had been too often accused of impetuosity and decided to sit tight until orders arrived (Woodham-Smith, p. 224).
If the Russians were allowed time to rebuild their position, the whole fruit of the Heavy Brigade's work might be lost.  And the infantry that was supposed to show up to take part in the battle was late (Royle, p. 272; Woodham-Smith, p. 226). When Lord Raglan -- who really should have tried to move closer to the scene of the action -- saw the Russians regrouping and preparing to haul off captured guns, he determined that something must be done. He sent an order to the Light Brigade to attack. But the order was imperfectly clear -- and it appears that the copy received by Lucan differed from what Raglan had dictated (Woodham-Smith, p. 226). Lucan decided that the order meant he should wait until the infantry arrived.
An exasperated Raglan then sent an order for the Light Brigade to attack an overrun battery. Unfortunately, he seems to have had a problem expressing his orders precisely (Woodham-Smith, p. 177) -- and this one was singularly bad. Woodham-Smith has a photo of the message slip (facing p. 101); it is nearly illegible and gives no precise directions as to what he wants done; as written, it seems to say little more than "Charge!" So everything depended on the officer who carried the message.
And the messenger chosen was a bad one; Captain Edward Nolan seems to have been chosen not for his military sense but because he was an excellent horseman (Royle, p. 273). And a good horseman was needed, because Raglan was positioned too far from the front and there was much broken ground to be covered.
When Nolan reached Lord Lucan, Cardigan's division commander, he delivered the order to charge the battery. Unfortunately, from Lucan's position, the battery Raglan had been looking at was invisible (Woodham-Smith, p 230). And the written order was unclear. When Lucan angrily asked for clarification, Nolan cavalierly pointed at a visible enemy battery and said that the enemy was there (Palmer, p. 129; Royle, p. 273; Woodham-Smith, p. 231). Lucan saw no choice but to order Cardigan to charge. Apparently Lucan and Cardigan both thought the order as given was nonsense -- but they obeyed it (Royle, p. 274).
Maybe, if they had been more willing to talk to each other, the disaster might not have happened. But they weren't willing to talk. Lucan relayed Raglan's order as he understood it, and the charge was made. It was, in a way, the perfect role for Cardigan (Woodham-Smith, p. 235); it required no brains, and his spit-and-polish drill at least meant that the men made the charge as if on the parade ground. But they were still attacking in the wrong place.
The assault was crushed. Nolan -- who improperly joined the charge (Palmer, p. 127; Royle, p. 274) -- was killed at the first rush. At least 107 men were killed with him (Royle, p. 274; Palmer, p. 132, says 113 were killed and 134 wounded). Casualties among horses were even higher; Royle, p. 274, says that 397 were destroyed; Palmer, p. 133, gives the number as 475. The loss of the horses was very difficult loss to make up; many horses had died on their way to the Crimea, and the British still hadn't learned how to ship them (Woodham-Smith, p.139). Between loss of horses and loss of men, only 195 cavalrymen were fit for battle at the end of the day, out of 673 soldiers who made the charge (Palmer, p. 132).
A French officer said it best: It was "magnificent, but not war." ("C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre" -- Haswell, p. 98)
It was, however, the end of the battle of Balaclava -- really little more than a skirmish: The Russians were stopped less by actual fighting than by the showy (but ineffectual) charge of the Heavy Brigade, and the Light Brigade rode into oblivion and immortality, which Tennyson would commemorate three weeks later (Royle, p. 276). Perhaps Lord Raglan had might have done more had his cavalry survived. With it ruined, there was no chance (Palmer, p. 133). The only real significance of the battle was that it set the stage for the Battle of Inkerman which followed.
Lucan and Cardigan were both sent home before the end of the war, mildly disgraced -- but even though Lucan was given most of the blame (Royle, pp. 275, 277), neither was forced out of the army, and both would eventually be promoted to higher posts (Royle, p. 278). I would have to say that Lucan was scapegoated -- yes, he was incompetent, and should not have held the command he did. But the real blame lay elsewhere -- with Cardigan, for refusing to admit his incompetence. With Raglan, for not dealing with the Lucan/Cardigan situation. With Raglan again, for sending an incomprehensible order by an irresponsible messenger. And with Captain Nolan, for giving a false interpretation to that incomprehensible order. Of them all, it is probably Raglan who bears the greatest blame.
Tennyson was telling nothing less than the truth when he said of the battle that "someone had blundered." In fact, several someones. But, somehow, in a portion of the population, the steadiness under fire came to be seen as more important than the useless waste, and Balaclava commemorated accordingly (Royle, p. 265). James, p. 388, reports a popular ballad, which appears to be this, praising the battle, and notes that it seemed to inspire a World War I parody (p. 443).
>>BIBLIOGRAPHY<<
Farwell: Byron Farwell, _Queen Victoria's Little Wars_ (1972; I used the 1985 Norton edition)
Haswell: Jockk Haswell, _The British Army: A Concise History_ (Thames and Hudson, 1975)
James: Lawrence James, _Warrior Race: A History of the British at War_ (Abacus, 2001)
Palmer: Alan Palmer, _The Crimean War_ (Dorset, 1987)
Royle: Trevor Royle, _Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856_ (Abacus, 1999)
Woodham-Smith: Cecil Woodham-Smith, _The Reason Why_ (McGraw-Hill, 1954) - RBW
File: Doe276
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NAME: Famous Wedding, The: see The Nobleman's Wedding (The Faultless Bride; The Love Token) [Laws P31] (File: LP31)
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NAME: Fanny Blair
DESCRIPTION: Eleven-year old Fanny Blair falsely accuses a young man of molesting her. He is tried and sentenced to death, although the community doubts his guilt. He begs to be buried at home rather than in the prison yard, and hopes God will pardon the child.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Journal from the Java)
KEYWORDS: accusation lie abuse rape punishment trial execution
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 103, "Fanny Blair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-100E 46, "Fanny Blair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 229-231, "Fanny Blair" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FANBLAIR* FANBLAI2*
Roud #1393
NOTES: In Sharp's version the crime is robbery, and Fanny Blair is not the victim but an accomplice who is turning king's evidence.-PJS
As Paul's note shows, details of the crime and punishment in this ballad vary, and the girl's age varies from eleven to eighteen. - RBW
File: WB2103
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NAME: Fanny More: see Fair Fanny Moore [Laws O38] (File: LO38)
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NAME: Fanny's Harbour Bawn
DESCRIPTION: The singer spies his love in the arms of another and loses the ensuing fight. He claims that "baymen," like his opponent, look harmless enough but they are good fighters. The singer refrains from courting and encourages others to do the same.
AUTHOR: Mark Walker (see notes)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: love courting fight
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doyle2, pp. 34-35, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 185-188, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 texts, 3 tunes)
Lehr/Best 36, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 112-113, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4418
NOTES: Doyle claims that the song is an account of a real fight that happened "over half a century ago" (from 1940) in Labrador. He also explains that a "bawn" is a beach for drying fish and that the girl was said to have been from Conception Bay where, apparently, the singer is also from (Carbonear). The singer's cursing of the northern "bayman" from Bonavista is perhaps typical of the social status conflicts on the island. - SH
Attribution to Mark Walker is from _Taking Apart "Tickle Cove Pond"_ in Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, vol. 29, 2002 by Philip Hiscock, p. 35. The other songs attributed to Walker in that article are "The Antis of Plate Cove," "Lovely Kitty/Katie-Oh," "The Race on Tickle Cove Pond," "Labrador Squalls," "Down By Jim Long's Stage," "The Girls from Sweet Bay," "Nellie Neil, Me Little Kettie," "Tickle Cove Pond II," "Gains I Owe in Many Lands" and "a single-stanza fragment about a local merchant hiring a Tickle Cove crew to go fishing in the north of Newfoundland." 
[Hiscock repeats the attribution] in _Ten things to consider about "The Star of Logy Bay"_ in Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, Summer 2003, Vol 37.2, p.7. - BS
File: Doy34
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NAME: Far Above Cayuga's Waters
DESCRIPTION: "Far above Cayuga's waters, with its waves of blue, Stands out noble Alma Mater, glorious to view." In praise of Cornell University: "Hail to thee our Alma Mater, Hail! all hail! Cornell!"
AUTHOR: Music: H. S. Thompson. Words: Archibald C. Weeks amd Wilmot M. Smith
EARLIEST_DATE: 1876
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 49, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 102, "Annie Lisle -- (Far Above Cayuga's Waters)"
DT, CRNLALMA
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Far Above Cayuga's Waters (Parodies)"
SAME_TUNE:
Far Above Cayuga's Waters (Parodies) [File: EM348]
NOTES: For some reason, this seems to be the most popular of all official college songs. Of course, it is also the most parodied (see the cross-references).
The tune, "Annie Lisle," is dated by Fuld to 1858; the source of the words is uncertain, but Fuld credits them to the authors listed here. They were probably written in 1872, but first published in 1876. - RBW
File: FSWB049
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NAME: Far Above Cayuga's Waters (Parodies)
DESCRIPTION: To the theme of the Cornell anthem ("Far Above Cayuga's Waters/Alma Mater"), any of a series of parodies: "High Above a Theta's Garter," "Far above Cayuga's waters Rises such a smell," etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad parody virginity derivative
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 348-350, "High Above a Theta's Garter" (2 texts, 1 tune)
cf. Fuld-WFM, p. 102, "Annie Lisle -- (Far Above Cayuga's Waters)"
Roud #10284
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Far Above Cayuga's Waters"
NOTES: The Cornell Song is perhaps the most-parodied of all college songs. One version is among the very few folk songs my father learned by genuine oral tradition (at the University of Michigan): "Far above Cayuga's waters Rises such a smell, Some say it's Cayuga's waters, We say it's Cornell." - RBW
File: EM348
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NAME: Far Away, Far Away
DESCRIPTION: "Where now is that merry party I remember long ago... They have all dispersed and wandered, Far away, far away." Many are married, moved, wandering, dead. The singer points out that "nothing in this world can last... What is coming, who can say?"
AUTHOR: Words: Miss M. Lindsay / Music: Mrs. J. W. Bliss
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Heart Songs)
KEYWORDS: separation friend
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 866, "Far Away, Far Away" (1 text)
Roud #7536
RECORDINGS:
Loman D. Cansler, "Far Away" (on Cansler1)
File: R866
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NAME: Fare Thee Well Cold Winter: see Farewell He (File: FSC41)
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NAME: Fare Thee Well, Babe
DESCRIPTION: "Fare thee well, O Babe, fare thee well (x2), I done all I could do try'n to git along with you." The singer declares he loves the woman, but "Fo' I'll be mistreated I'll kill myself an' you." He maintains he treated her well but she didn't want him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love separation abandonment
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 204-205, "Fare Thee Well, Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15576
NOTES: This is one of those songs that illustrates Laws's comments about the instability of Black balladry. This may well be a version of something else -- but between the floating lines, the repetitions, the common plot, and the fact that the Lomaxes are always fiddling with texts, I can't be sure of the original song.
It reminds me a bit of "Going Down This Road Feeling Bad," but the motivation is different. - RBW
File: LxA204
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NAME: Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to his love, telling her he must go to sea to obtain riches. She replies that life without him is miserable, so she dresses as a man and accompanies him. A day out of London the ship sinks. She is drowned; he survives to mourn.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904
KEYWORDS: love separation cross-dressing death ship wreck dialog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 38, "Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1035
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell, Charming Nancy"
cf. "Farewell, Sweet Mary"
cf. "The Paisley Officer (India's Burning Sands)" [Laws N2]
File: VWL038
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NAME: Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon)
DESCRIPTION: The soldier is leaving his beautiful Enniskillen. He grieves to leave home and his fair darling, but when war arises, he has no choice. (He rejoices following his safe arrival home, and hopes never to leave again)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1760))
KEYWORDS: war parting soldier return grief courting separation father
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Ireland Britain(Scotland) Canada
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Eddy 150, "Fare Ye Well, Inniskillen" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
SHenry H631, p. 294, "Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen"; H98b, pp. 472-473, "The Inniskilling Dragoon" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Ord, p. 306, "The Enniskillen Dragoon" (1 text)
Fowke/MacMillan 74, "The Enniskillen Dragoon" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 78, "The Enniskellen Dragoon" (1 text)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 63-64, "The Enniskilling Dragoon" (1 text)
DT, (ENNISDRG*?) ENNISDR2*
ADDITIONAL: Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), pp. 12-13, "The Inniskilling Dragoon" (text, music and reference to Decca F-3374 recorded Dec 31, 1932)
Roud #2185
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1760), "Inniskillen Dragoon", J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also 2806 c.15(251), Harding B 11(1293), Harding B 11(4221), "Inniskillen Dragoon"; Harding B 19(103), Harding B 26(169), 2806 c.15(124), Firth c.14(179), Firth c.14(181), Firth b.26(199), Harding B 18(617), "Enniskillen Dragoon"
Murray, Mu23-y1:074, "Inniskillen Dragoon," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
LOCSinging, sb10110a, "Enniskillen Dragoon", H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860 
NLScotland, L.C.1270(005), "Inniskillen Dragoon", James Kay (Glasgow), c.1845
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Damsel Possessed of Great Beauty"
cf. "Wyandotte's Farewell Song"
NOTES: The reference to the soldier setting out for Spain probably implies a date during the war of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) or the Peninsular phase of the Napoleonic Wars.
Roud lists Sam Henry #631 as a separate song (#6890), but since he has only the one item by that number, it seems better to lump. - RBW
Broadsides NLScotland L.C.1270(005)[c.1845], Bodleian Firth c.14(179)[n.d.], Bodleian Firth c.26(211)[1855-1858] and Bodleian Firth b.26(199)[1847-1852]: a final verse is added in which they marry when the war is over.
Broadside LOCSinging sb10110a: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
The date and master id (GB-5416-1/2) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
File: E150
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NAME: Fare Ye Well, Inniskillen: see Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon) (File: E150)
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NAME: Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea
DESCRIPTION: Willie tells Maggie he is going to sea and they agree to be true. In some seaport he writes "a girl named Flora bore down on me Fare you well, Maggie darling, across the blue sea.... on me don't depend." She writes "Fare you well, Willie darling...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: grief infidelity parting sea sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 443-444, "Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea443 (Partial)
Roud #6458
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Heave Away" (some words and theme)
NOTES: See Lehr/Best 49, "Heave Away!" - BS
File: Pea443
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NAME: Fare You Well, My Darling
DESCRIPTION: Fare you well, my darling, Oh fare you well my dear, Don't grieve for my long absence While I'm a volunteer." The singer urges the girl not to grieve, though he is traveling far away (to Pensacola). She says she will wait for his return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love soldier separation
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Belden, pp. 380-381, "Fare You Well, My Darling" (1 text)
Randolph 736, "Fare You Well, My Darling" (1 text)
BrownIII 376, "The Soldier's Farewell" (2 texts)
Roud #3582
NOTES: The Ozark (Belden, Randolph) and North Carolina (Brown) versions of this song aren't absolutely parallel; it's possible that they are separate songs with a lot of parallel words. But given the thematic similarity, it seems reasonable to lump them. - RBW
File: R736
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NAME: Fare You Well, My Own True Love (The Storms Are on the Ocean, The False True Lover, The True Lover's Farewell, Red Rosy Bush, Turtle Dove)
DESCRIPTION: The true lover bids farewell, promising to be true. He asks, "Who will shoe your pretty little foot?" Various floating verses follow, in which the traveller may or may not return and the young woman may or may not grieve at her fate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden); +1881 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs II_)
KEYWORDS: love separation lyric floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (24 citations)
Bronson 76, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (23 versions, of which at least #17, and possibly others, e.g. #12, #13, and #19, perhaps even #8 and #23, should be placed here)
Warner 97, "Red Rosy Bush" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 44, "Fare You Well, My Own True Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 480-482, "The False True-Lover" (2 texts)
Davis-Ballads 21, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (of the various texts in the appendices, at least some, e.g. "D," "H," and "I," belong here, as does the fourth tune, "Cold Winter's Night"); 40, "James Harris (The Daemon Lover)" (the 2 texts in the appendix seem to belong here with some "House Carpenter" verses mixed in) {#21AppA=Bronson's #8}
Davis-More 26, pp. 199-206, "Lady Alice" (3 texts plus a fragment, 4 tunes -- but the fourth, fragmentary, text and tune could as well be this)
Friedman, p. 78, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (3 texts, 1 tune, with the "C" text apparently being this ballad)
SharpAp 114, "The True Lover's Farewell" (9 texts, 9 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 37, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Sharp-100E 55, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 18, "Oh Who Will Shoe My Foot?" (8 texts, 5 tunes, with the "A," "D," and "E" texts probably belonging here) {A=Bronson's #12, D=#19}
BrownII 22, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (2 texts, which are clearly true versions of "The Lass of Roch Royal", but both have the "Storms are on the ocean" verse -- in the "B" texts, it's the chorus. Either the two songs combined to produce the North Carolina versions, or that song is the source for the Carter versions)
Chappell-FSRA 72, "Who Will Shoe Your Feet?" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 109, "Fare You Well, My Own True Love" (1 text, probably combined with another song); 258, "The False True-Lover" (5 texts); also perhaps 249, "The Turtle-Dove" (1 text, a complex mix of floating verses, some of which may belong here; compare the Lunsford recording of the same name); 264, "Storms Are on the Ocean" (2 texts, with the "Storms" chorus though both have the "Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town" verse and the "A" text also has a "Blow Gently, the Winds on the Ocean" type verse)
Hudson 53, p. 53, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text plus mention of 3 more; the printed text, amazingly, lacks the "pretty little foot")
Brewster 13, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (1 text plus 8 fragments; the "A" text is this; "B"-"I" are "Pretty Little Foot" versions)
Gardner/Chickering 9, "A Lover's Farewell" (1 fragment, with the first verse ["Oh see that pure and lonesome dove"] probably this and the second being "go dig my grave, go dig it deep....")
Sandburg, pp. 3-7, "He's Gone Away" (1 text, 1 tune); 98-99, "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (3 texts, 1 tune; of the three texts here, "B" is definitely this piece, "C" is a short fragment of Child 76; the "A" is a one-stanza "pretty little foot" text)
Lomax-FSNA 108, "Winter's Night"; 109, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 44, "The Storms Are on the Ocean" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 137, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, p. 268, "Red Rosy Bush" (1 text); p. 270, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 142, "The Storms Are On The Ocean" (1 text) p. 151, "He's Gone Away" (1 text); p. 153, "Turtle Dove" (1 text)
DT, REDRSOY* REJCTLVR* STRMOCAN* (TUTRLDOV) (TURTDOV2) FRWLMRNN TENTHMIL* (TURTDOV2*)  (HESGONE* ?)
Roud #49
RECORDINGS:
The Carter Family, "The Storms Are On the Ocean" (Victor 20937, 1927); (Okeh 03160, 1936)
A. P. Carter Family, "Storms are on the Ocean" (Acme 993, c. 1949)
Delmore Brothers, "The Storms Are On the Ocean"  (Bluebird B-8613, 1941)
Aunt Molly Jackson, "Ten Thousand Miles" (AFS, 1939; on LC02)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Little Turtle Dove" (Brunswick 229, 1928; on BLLunsford01; a composite of all sorts of floating verses, a few of which may be from this song)
Lewis McDaniel & Gid Smith, "It's Hard to Leave You, Sweet Love" (Victor 40287, c. 1929)
Neil Morris, "The Lass of Loch Royale" (on LomaxCD1701)
New Lost City Ramblers, "It's Hard to Leave You, Sweet Love" (on NLCR16)
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson, "Storms Are On the Ocean" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchiteWatsonCD1)
Ruby Vass "10,000 Miles" (on Persis1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (floating lyrics) and references there
cf. "The Lass of Roch Royal" [Child 76] (floating lyrics)
cf. "Mary Anne"
cf. "Sugar Baby (Red Rocking Chair; Red Apple Juice)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "I Truly Understand You Love Another Man"
cf. "Way Down the Old Plank Road"
NOTES: This song is officially a catch-all. The problem is, what to do with all the lost love pieces *with* some hint of a plot plus the floating element "Who will shoe your pretty little foot." After some hesitation, we decided on a four-part primary division (with some exceptions):
* "The Lass of Roch Royal" for the ballad of that title
* "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" for fragments too short to classify at all
* "Mary Anne" for the versions specifically about that girl
* This, for everything else.
There probably are recensional variants within this song family; it's just too big and too complex. But the particular items are such a mess that we finally gave up trying to sort them. - RBW
File: Wa097
===
NAME: Farewell and Adieu to You Spanish Ladies: see Spanish Ladies (File: ShH89)
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NAME: Farewell Ballymoney (Loving Hannah; Lovely Molly)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, meeting is a pleasure between my love and I; I'll go down to yon low valley to meet her by and by...." The young (man) watches his love turn away from him. He laments her infidelity. (He departs from the town and goes to America)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Joyce)
KEYWORDS: courting separation emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland Australia US(Ap,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Randolph 749, "Black-Eyed Mary" (1 text plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
BrownII 82, "The Lover's Lament" (4 texts plus a fragment, "E," that is probably "Handsome Molly")
Meredith/Anderson, p. 172, "Lovely Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 44, "The Irish Girl" (1 text, 1 tune, a confused and conflate mix of this song and "The Irish Girl")
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 95-96, "Loving Hannah" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H625, pp. 342-343, "Dark-Eyed Molly"; H615, p. 343, "Farewell Ballymoney" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Peacock, pp. 465-466, "In Courtship There Lies Pleasure" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 71, "Courting Is a Pleasure" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 155, "Going to Mass Last Sunday" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 37, "Going to Mass Last Sunday" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 63, "I Went to Mass on Sunday" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 103, "Loving Hannah" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT,  LOVHANNA
Roud #454
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "Going to Mass on Sunday" (fragment) (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
Jean Ritche, "Lovin' Hannah" (fragment) (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "In Eighteen-Forty-Nine" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Dark and Dreary Weather" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Handsome Molly"
cf. "The Irish Girl" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Blazing Star of Drum (Drim, Drung)" (theme)
cf. "I've Travelled This Country (Last Friday Evening)" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Courting is a Pleasure
NOTES: The setting of this song varies widely. One stanza, however, is fairly characteristic:
I went to church last Sunday, (this line may vary)
My true love passed me by;
I could see her mind was a-changing
By the rolling of her eye.
Unfortunately, this stanza also shows up in some versions of "The Irish Girl"; these two songs seem to have mixed badly
I believe the old-time country song "Handsome Molly" to be a form of this piece (and most experts agree), but it has achieved such a degree of independent circulation that it is listed in the Index as a separate song. - RBW
I think I should make clear that although I think "Handsome Molly" is indeed derived, vaguely, from "Farewell Ballymoney," it has acquired so many extraneous verses that *don't* duplicate "Farewell B." verses that they've crowded all the originals out except "Went to Church Last Sunday," which I think constitutes speciation, although only just.
Oh, and I've had a communication from Sandy Paton about a talk he had with Jeannie Robertson. Virtually all the versions of the song that are called "Loving Hannah," including the excellent recent one by revival singer Bill Jones, are derived from Robertson's version, and hers came from...Jean Ritchie, when she was over in Britain on a Fulbright, collecting songs that were related to her family's songs. So if it's from Britain, and called "Loving Hannah," it's "really" from Kentucky.
No wonder folklorists drink. - PJS
File: R749
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NAME: Farewell He
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids "Fare thee well, cold winter, and fare thee well cold frost. Nothing have I gained, but a lover I have lost...." After seeing him with another girl, she swears off of him, "He's no lad for windy weather; let him go then; farewell he"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting farewell abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Belden, pp. 491-492, "Adieu to Cold Weather" (1 text plus mention of 2 more)
FSCatskills 41, "My Love Is Like a Dewdrop" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 751, "Adieu to Dark Weather" (6 texts plus an excerpt, 5 tunes, all more or less related to this piece, though some are rather mixed; some of the texts reverse the male and female roles and some have a chorus)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 491-493, "Adieu to Dark Weather" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 751A)
Gardner/Chickering 42, "Farewell He" (1 text); 43, "My Love Is on the Ocean" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 179, pp. 146-147, "To Cheer the Heart" (1 text)
SHenry H504, p. 347, "Farewell He" (1 text, 1 tune); compare also H241, p. 346, "The Blackbird and Thrush" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FAREWELH* (RONDHAT5* -- a mixed version also incorporating "All Around My Hat")
Roud #803; also 3729
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dark and Dreary Weather" (stanza form, floating lyrics)
cf. "I've Two or Three Strings To My Bow" (subject)
cf. "Love Me or No" (subject)
cf. "The Blackbird and Thrush" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Wounded Spirit" (subject)
cf. "Parting Words" (subject)
cf. "There Comes a Fellow with a Derby Hat" (subject)
cf. "Oh, Where Is My Sweetheart?" (subject)
cf. "Like an Owl in the Desert" (subject)
cf. "I'll Cheer Up My Heart" (subject)
cf. "The Days Are Awa That I Hae Seen" (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Fare Thee Well Cold Winter
NOTES: Cohen seems to think that the Ozark versions of this piece, known from Belden and Randolph, are a separate song, and it is possible that he's right and that it simply swallowed elements of "Farewell He." But since the swallowing was nearly complete, it seems better to lump them. In this, unusually, I agree with Roud.
The situation is similar with Gardner and Chickering: Their "My Love Is on the Ocean" has distinct first and last stanzas:
My love is on the ocean, O let him sink or swim,
For in how own mind he thinks he's better than I am.
He think that he can slide me as he slided two or three,
But I'll give him back the mitten since he's gone back on me.
Final verse:
Go tell it to his mother; I set her heart at ease.
I hear she is a lady that's very hard to please.
I hear that she speaks of me that's hardly ever done.
Go tell it to her, I do not want her son!
It will be evident, however, that this text fits the tune of "Farewell He," and the material in between, including the chorus, is "Farewell He." Indeed, of Gardner and Chickering's texts, the one they call "Farewell He" actually looks less like the song of that title, except that it uses that key phrase!
So, once again, I lump (this time disagreeing with Roud).
The whole family cold probably use a thorough study, including both these songs, the Ozark versions, and "Dark and Dreary Weather." -  RBW
File: FSC41
===
NAME: Farewell My Friends (Parting Friends; I'm Bound for Canaan)
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, my friends, I'm bound for Canaan, I'm trav'ling through the wilderness. Your company has been delightful... I go away behind to leave you, Perhaps never to meet again, But if we (n)ever have the pleasure, I hope we'll meet on Canaan's (shore)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Jackson)
KEYWORDS: religious separation nonballad friend
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 564-565, "Parting Friends" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thomas-Makin', p. 170, "Farewell to Carter County" (1 short text, possibly this piece though with only three stanzas it is hard to tell)
Roud #15559
NOTES: The Sacred Harp contains a piece called "Parting Friend," and two entitled "Parting Friends." None is the same as this piece. - RBW
File: LxA564
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NAME: Farewell Tamintoul
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, Tamintoul! for the hour's come at last When I can only think of thy joys in the past. For destiny bears me away from the glen." The singer departs, and hopes someday to return to the place where he found hospitality and friendship
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord), with a seeming collection date of 1881
KEYWORDS: home separation
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 365, "Farewell, Tamintoul" (1 text)
Roud #4594
File: Ord365
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NAME: Farewell to Alvah's Woods and Braes
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to Alvah, "The place of my nativity." He recalls the happy times on Deveron's banks. But 'My ship it lies in readiness, My loving friends I'll bid goodbye." He will be buried where there is none to shed a tear -- but leaves anyway
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: home emigration
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 349, "Farewell to Alvah's Woods and Braes" (1 text)
Roud #4590
NOTES: Ord was told that people in Banff called this "The Poacher's Farewell," but the song contains no hint of transportation that I can see. What it does have is echoes of many other songs -- e.g. "The Earl of Errol" or the like ("Oh, Alvah it's a bonnie place"), "Trooper and Maid" ("He turned him right and round about"), etc. They aren't really cross-referenceable; it's just that this is built from many common phrases. - RBW
File: Ord349
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NAME: Farewell to Bonny Galaway
DESCRIPTION: "Ae night as I lay on my bed, The thought of love came into my head." He travels "To see the bonnie lassie lived in Galaway." Her father objects; her mother said she will "have her married to a lord's son." The girl makes him welcome; they flee Galaway
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: love courting father mother elopement
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Gardner/Chickering 76, "Farewell to Bonny Galaway" (1 text)
ST GC076 (Partial)
Roud #3694
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "One Night As I Lay On My Bed" (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This is so close to "One Night As I Lay On My Bed" (with which it shares both lyrics and theme) that I thought about lumping them. But that seems to be mostly a nightvisiting song; this is a song of elopement. So I split them. - RBW
File: GC076
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NAME: Farewell to Fiunary
DESCRIPTION: "The wind is fair, the day is fine, And swiftly, swiftly runs the time... That wafts me off from (Fiunary). Eirich agus tiugainn, O!" The singer recalls all the ancient places he has visited, and bids farewell to friends and family
AUTHOR: Norman McLeod ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: home travel family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 208-211, "Farewell to Fiunary" (1 text)
DT, FAREFUNE
Roud #2317
NOTES: The Gaelic chorus translates as something like "Arise and come away" -- similar to the English chorus in the Digital Tradition text. - RBW
File: FVS208
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NAME: Farewell to Greta
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, my home in Greta, my sister Kate farewell...." Ned Kelly, with a price on his head, plans an attack on his foes. His sister points out the number of his foes, and urges him instead to take to the woods with his gang
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: outlaw Australia family sister farewell
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1855 - Birth of Ned Kelly
1880 - Execution of Kelly. His last words are reported to have been "Such is life."
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 114-115, "Farewell to Greta" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 66-67, "Ned Kelly's Farewell to Greta" (1 text, 2 tunes)
DT, NEDKELLY
File: FaE114
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NAME: Farewell to Mackenzie
DESCRIPTION: "Now Willie's awa frae the field o' contention, Frae the land o' misrule and the friends o' dissension: He's gane owre the wave as an agent befittin' Our claims to support in the councils o' Britain." The people send their leader off with good hopes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1862 (Lindsey, "Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie")
KEYWORDS: Canada political nonballad
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1828 - William Lyon Mackenzie first elected to represent Canada in the British parliament
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 72-74, "Farewell to Mackenzie" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Rebel Song" (subject)
cf. "Un Canadien Errant" (subject)
cf. "Saint Helena (Boney on the Isle of St. Helena)"
NOTES: Fowke and Mills say that "No tune was suggested for the verses at the time [of writing], but the lines follow the pattern of "The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee." All I can say is, if this wasn't based on "Saint Helena (Boney on the Isle of St. Helena)," it wasn't based on anything.
Following the expulsion of the American invaders in the War of 1812, the government of Canada fell increasingly into the hands of oligarchs. Mackenzie founded a paper in Upper Canada, the _Colonial Advocate_, dedicated to reforming the system. Thugs destroyed his press, but in 1828 Mackenzie was elected to parliament -- only to be expelled for allegedly libelling the government.
The Canadians responded by re-electing him in 1832 (only to have him expelled again) and gathering 25,000 signatures on a petition to King William IV (reigned 1830-1837; the "King Willie" of the song) for redress of grievances. This was the situation at the time the poem was written, if its inscription ("Markham, April 10, 1832") is to be believed.
Sadly, the attempts at reform failed, leading the radicals to rebel in 1837. A thousand pound bounty was placed on Mackenzie's head -- but no one was willing to claim it. Still, Mackenzie and thousands of others were forced to flee to America when the rebellion failed. - RBW
File: FMB072
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NAME: Farewell to Miltown Malbay
DESCRIPTION: Singer recalls his "bright and pleasant youth ... in Clare" He names the places he walked and danced and people he met. Church bells ring and men pray. "If e'er I find this act devout beyond the ocean foam" he'll be reminded of his last day home.
AUTHOR: Tomas O hAodha (Tom Hayes)(1866-1935) of Miltown Malbay (source: Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1922 (O hAodha, _The Hills of Clare and Other Verses_, according to Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
KEYWORDS: emigration parting nonballad moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 5, "Farewell to Miltown Malbay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5228
RECORDINGS:
Kitty Hayes, "Farewell to Miltown Malby" (on IRClare01)
Tom Lenihan, "Farewell to Miltown Malbay" (on IRTLenihan01)
File: RcFtMiMa
===
NAME: Farewell to Nova Scotia
DESCRIPTION: Even on a calm and beautiful night, the singer cannot rest. The wars force him to return to sea. He  bids "Farewell to Nova Scotia, the sea-bound coast... When I am far away on the briny ocean tossed, will you ever heave a sigh and a wish for me?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton/Senior)
KEYWORDS: sea farewell Canada
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 44-45, "Nova Scotia Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 19, "Farewell to Nova Scotia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 264-265, "Nova Scotia Song" (1 text (compilation), 1 tune)
DT, FARWELNS*
Roud #384
File: FJ044
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NAME: Farewell to Old Bedford
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell to old Bedford, I'm bound for to leave you. Likewise those pretty girls I nevermore shall see." The singer has been forced away by his parents, and intends to "drown away sorrows in a bottle of wine" and ignore his troubles
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: family drink exile travel rambling
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Warner 99, "Farewell to Old Bedford" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, OLDBDFRD*
ST Wa099 (Full)
Roud #16399
RECORDINGS:
Lee Monroe Presnell, "Farewell to Old Bedford" (on USWarnerColl01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell Lovely Nancy" (meter)
cf. "Adieu to Bon County" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: I have to suspect that this is a worn-down, possibly reworked, version of something else (e.g. "Farewell, Charming Nancy") -- but I can't identify with any real probability what the original song was. It may well go back to the same ancestor as "Adieu to Bon County," but there has been a lot of drift in between. - RBW
File: Wa099
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NAME: Farewell to Slieve Gallen
DESCRIPTION: The singer writes to warn Irishmen against emigrating to America. He arrived in the U.S. strong and ready to work, but no work was to be had. Forced into the army, he was disabled and wishes he were back in Ireland
AUTHOR: John Canavan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: poverty emigration soldier injury war disability
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 15, 1898 - destruction of the U. S. S. Maine
Apr 19, 1898 - Although the Spanish have agreed to all American demands, including peace with the Cuban rebels, the U. S. issues a sort of preliminary declaration of war, listing U. S. goals
Apr 24, 1898 - Spain declares war on the U. S.; the U. S. will next day do the same, backdating it to April 21
May 19, 1898 - The Spanish fleet enters Santiago Bay
July 2, 1898 - The Spanish fleet at Santiago, acting under orders from Madrid, sails out into the teeth of the American fleet and is destroyed
July 10, 1898 - U. S. troops attack Santiago
July 17, 1898 - U. S. troops capture Santiago
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H795, p. 198, "Farewell to Slieve Gallen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2888
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "By the Hush" (plot)
cf. "The Dying Irish Boy" (plot, themes, setting)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Wild Slieve Gallon Braes
NOTES: The singer is ashamed "to think I'd backed the Stars and Stripes against the sons of Spain." I assume this is because the Spanish periodically tried to help the Irish against the English (for their own purposes, of course).
The reference to service, and being wounded, on a battleship "when the Spanish fleet was captured and sent to Ego Bay" makes little sense; the Spanish fleet was completely destroyed at Santiago, and the Americans suffered one killed and one injured. Nor can this be referred to the Battle of Manila Bay; there were no soldiers along, and, again, the Spanish fleet was destroyed; the Americans suffered eight casualties, all injuries.
Presumably the author conflated an amphibious landing with one of the many land battles, where American losses were much higher, due mostly to the complete ineptitude of the American generals and staff. - RBW
File: HHH795
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NAME: Farewell to Sweet Glenravel
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to the beauties of his childhood home in Glenravel. He admits childhood cannot linger; now "I cross the deep blue ocean to toil with busy men." He hopes to be able to return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H727, pp. 193-194, "Farewell to Sweet Glenravel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13551
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH727
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NAME: Farewell to Tarwathie
DESCRIPTION: Sailor bids farewell to Tarwathie, his girl and his friends as he sets off for the Greenland whaling grounds. He describes the harsh conditions in Greenland, saying they'll not tarry there, but head for home as soon as possible
AUTHOR: George Scroggie ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love farewell separation whaler
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, TARWATHI*
Roud #2562
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Farewell to Tarwathie" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd9)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Green Bushes" (tune)
cf. "The Grand Hotel" (tune)
File: DTtarwat
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NAME: Farewell to the Banks of the Roe
DESCRIPTION: The singer, dying, recalls the "land where the shamrock grows green" and "Mary with snowy white bosom." He lists all the things he enjoyed in Ireland which he cannot do in his new home. He bids farewell to all these lost joys
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: homesickness death emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H791, p. 218, "Farewell to the Banks of the Roe" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH791
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NAME: Farewell to Whisky (Johnny My Man)
DESCRIPTION: The wife goes to the ale-house her husband so often frequents. She reminds him of his poor home and the children starving and lonely. He comes out of his stupor, recognizes his wife, and declares he will never return to the ale-house
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: drink hardtimes virtue family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 327-328, "Johnnie, My Man" (1 text)
Kennedy 272, "Farewell to Whisky" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H807, p. 514, "Johnny M' Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 367-368, "Oh Johnnie, My Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FARWHIS JONMYMAN FRWLWHSK
Roud #845
RECORDINGS:
Jessie Murray, "Farewell to Whisky" (on FSB3, but credited to Lucy Stewart in Kennedy)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:064, "Johnie My Man," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Murray, Mu23-y4:030, "Johnnie My Man," unknown, 19C
File: K272
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NAME: Farewell, Ballycastle
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to Ballycastle; "From friends... I go to the land of a stranger." He promises to think of Ireland in his exile, and admits, "How often I'll sigh for the dear ones behind me, To whom, with my loves one, I now bid farewell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation farewell
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H210, p. 188, "Farewell, Ballycastle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13544
File: HHH210
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NAME: Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14]
DESCRIPTION: The sailor bids his sweetheart farewell. She does not wish to part, and offers to go with him. He tells her that she simply is not strong enough for life at sea. They part sadly. Some texts warn girls against trusting sailors
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1855 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: sailor parting
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE) Britain(England(South,North)) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws K14, "Farewell, Charming Nancy"
Sharp-100E 30, "Farewell, Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H755, p. 297, "Johnnie and Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 22, "Farewell, Dearest Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 98-99, "Adieu Lovely Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 101, "Charming Nancy" (2 texts plus mention of 2 more)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 373-373, "Lovely Nancy" (1 short text; tune on p. 456)
Chappell-FSRA 38, "Charming Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 51, "Farewell Nancy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 40, "Lovely Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 44, "Jimmy and Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 404, FRWLNANC*
Roud #527
RECORDINGS:
Nora Cleary, "Farewell, Lovely Mary" (on Voice12)
A. L. Lloyd, "Farewell, Nancy" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd3)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1704), "The Sailor's Farewell" ("Fare you well dearest Nancy, since now I must leave you"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Pleasant and Delightful" (plot, lyrics)
cf. "Farewell to Old Bedford" (meter)
cf. "Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear"
cf. "Adieu to Bon County" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Farewell, Lovely Nancy
The Sailor and His True Love
NOTES: This should not be confused with "Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy", which does not include most of the elements of this song. - PJS
The editors of Sam Henry do not list their version,"Johnnie and Molly," here. This is understandable, as the text lacks the characteristic first line, "Farewell, lovely Nancy, for now I must leave you." But the plots of the two songs are the same, they scan the same way, and they have many lyrics in common. Same song, sez I. - RBW
The Bodleian broadside and one of the Karpeles-Newfoundland texts lacks the ending warning to girls against trusting sailors.
Creighton-SNewBrunswick, as much as there is of it, fits the pattern and some of the lines. Roud puts the fragment here but the note in Henry p. 304 notes that Creighton-SNewBrunswick 44 is "a fragment that may be a very different version." It seems close enough for me. - BS
Entirely agreed; it lacks the first two lines "Farewell, Lovely Nancy" -- but informant Angelo Dornan remembered only half of the first stanza; one suspects they were part of the version he learned. And the rest is the same. - RBW
File: LK14
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NAME: Farewell, Darling: see O'Reilly from the County Leitrim (File: HHH580)
===
NAME: Farewell, Dear Rosanna [Laws M30]
DESCRIPTION: Rosanna's parents send her lover away and cause her to marry a squire. Her lover is lost at sea with all his shipmates save one, who tells Rosanna the sad news. She kills herself with a silver dagger.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: death suicide love
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws M30, "Farewell, Dear Rosanna"
SharpAp 172, "Farewell Dear Rosanna" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Combs/Wilgus 96, pp. 168-169, "Rosanna" (1 text)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 120-122, "[Farewell, Dear Roseannie]" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2063, "O where's my Rosinda? shall I never more"
DT 586, FRWLROSN
Roud #788
File: LM30
===
NAME: Farewell, Dear Roseannie: see Farewell, Dear Rosanna [Laws M30] (File: LM30)
===
NAME: Farewell, Dearest Nancy: see Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14] (File: LK14)
===
NAME: Farewell, Lovely Nancy: see Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14] (File: LK14)
===
NAME: Farewell, Mother
DESCRIPTION: The soldier intends to survive: "Just before the battle, mother... when I saw the rebels marching, To the rear I quickly flew." "Farewell, mother! for you'll never See my name among the slain. For if I only can skedaddle... I'll come home again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: Civilwar parody humorous battle mother cowardice
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-CivWar, p. 14, "Farewell, Mother" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, JSTBATT2*
Roud #4263
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Just Before the Battle, Mother" (tune)
File: SCW14
===
NAME: Farewell, Nancy: see Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14] (File: LK14)
===
NAME: Farewell, Sweet Mary
DESCRIPTION: The singer points out to Mary that her parents disapprove of him and that he is "ruined forever / By the loving of you." He enters the army; when he returns, his love is lost. He drowns his sorrows in drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting drink separation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Belden, p. 487, "Poor Stranger a Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text, a short item which seems to combine "The Poor Stranger," "Farewell, Sweet Mary," and perhaps some floating items)
Eddy 82, "Farewell, Sweet Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 146, "Farewell, Sweet Mary" (1 text)
DT, (YONDRMTN* -- a version which is mostly "Pretty Saro" but has points of contact with this also)
Roud #414
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh Lily, Dear Lily" (floating lyrics)
cf. "In Eighteen-Forty-Nine" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Wagoner's Lad" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear"
cf. "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (floating lyrics)
File: E082
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NAME: Farewell, Sweetheart (The Parting Lovers, The Slighted Sweetheart)
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, sweetheart, so fare you well, You've slighted me, but I wish you well... I wouldn't serve you as you've serve well." The singer claims "You are my love till I am dead," and says "I still love you, God knows I do." He prepares to die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal nonballad death separation burial floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 756, "Farewell, Sweetheart" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 75-76, "The Parting Lovers" (1 text)
BrownII 167, "My Little Dear, So Fare You Well" (3 texts plus mention of 2 more)
BrownIII 261, "The Slighted Sweetheart" (1 text)
ST R756 (Partial)
Roud #7398 and 11422
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (lyrics)
NOTES: The Brown versions of this instantly made me think of "The Butcher Boy." They aren't really the same song; none of the Brown versions mention suicide or pregnancy. But several of the texts have picked up lyrics from that ballad -- or, perhaps, were adapted from it in an attempt to clean up the song. The whole thing is quite commonplace, even cliched.
I'm not sure why the editors of Brown split the "Slighted Sweetheart" text from the others; they have the same plot and the same first lines. Perhaps just a failure to notice their identity? - RBW
File: R756
===
NAME: Farewell, The: see It Was A' For Our Rightful' King (File: SMM5IWAF)
===
NAME: Farfar Soldier, The: see The Forfar Soldier (File: FVS163)
===
NAME: Farm Servant, The (Rap-Tap-Tap)
DESCRIPTION: The farm servant, is told to mind the business "as servants always do." He minds the business of his master's wife, who says he manages his equipment far better than the master. The master rewards the servant for minding the business so well
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Gardiner manuscript)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The singer, a farm servant, is told by his master to mind the business "as servants always do." He does, including the business of his master's wife, who says the servant manages his equipment far better than the master. When the master returns, he rewards the servant for minding the business so well; the servant remarks that had the master known what he was up to, he would not have been rewarded
KEYWORDS: farming wife adultery marriage infidelity sex bawdy humorous servant
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 211, "Rap-tap-tap" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, RAPTPTAP*
Roud #792
RECORDINGS:
Bob Hart, "The Farmer's Servant" (on Voice05)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Farm Servant" (on Lloyd1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Chandler's Wife" (theme)
cf. "The Coachman's Whip" (theme)
cf. "The Jolly Barber Lad" (theme)
NOTES: Lloyd notes that this song had not shown up in print as of the date of recording. - PJS
This was more a matter of suppression than rarity, however; Kennedy noted versions found in the Gardiner MS from 1905 and the Hammond MS in 1906. - RBW
File: DTraptap
===
NAME: Farmer and His Bride, The: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: Farmer and the Devil, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
===
NAME: Farmer and the Shanty Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: Two girls compare their fiancees. The farmer's sweetheart praises her love because he is always at home. The other girl points out that the shanty boy always comes home with his pay, while bad crops can ruin a farmer. The farmer's girl concedes the point
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love work dialog logger farming lumbering
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,So) Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Rickaby 10, "The Shanty-boy and the Farmer's Son" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 106, "The Mossback" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Warner 33, "Shanty Boy, Farmer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 443-445, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H676, p. 45, "Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-Lumbering #52, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 20-23, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 446-447, "The Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 53, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 42, "Trenton Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SHANTYBO*
Roud #670
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Shanty boy" (AFS 4202 B2, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Peter Amberley" [Laws C27] (tune)
cf. "The Husbandman and the Servingman" (plot)
cf. "Soldier Boy for Me (A Railroader for Me)" (theme)
cf. "The Plooman Laddie" (theme)
cf. "The Farmer" (theme)
cf. "I Love My Sailor Boy" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Shanty Boy Wins
The Mossback
File: Wa033
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NAME: Farmer Comes to Town, The: see The Farmer Is the Man (File: San282)
===
NAME: Farmer In His Den, The: see The Farmer in the Dell (File: DTfrmrde)
===
NAME: Farmer in the Dell, The
DESCRIPTION: "The farmer in the dell (x2), Hi ho the merry-o, the farmer in the dell." "The farmer takes a wife...." And so forth through a variety of creatures and things, typically ending with "The cheese stands alone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Newell)
KEYWORDS: animal family nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Linscott, pp. 7-9, "The Farmer in the Dell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 83, "(The Farmer in his den)" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 224, "The Farmer in the Dell"
DT, FRMRDELL*
Roud #6306
RECORDINGS:
Tony Wales, "Four Children's Singing Games (The Farmer in his Den)" (on TWales1)
SAME_TUNE:
The Pumpkin on the Vine (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 153)
File: DTfrmrde
===
NAME: Farmer Is the Man, The
DESCRIPTION: A description of the life of the farmer, "the man who feeds them all." He comes to town "with his wagon broken down" and "lives on credit till the fall." At last he comes to town with his crop -- and loses the profit to the bank
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Fiddlin' John Carson)
KEYWORDS: farming work poverty commerce money
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Randolph 492, "The Farmer, He Must Feed Them All" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 282-283, "The Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 267-269, "The Farmer is the Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 66, "The Farmer is the Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 879-880, "The Farmer Comes to Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 120-121, "The Farmer Is the Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 360-361, "The Farmer Is the Man" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 57, "The Farmer Is The Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p. 213, "The Farmer Is the Man" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 118, "The Farmer Is The Man" (1 text)
DT, FARMERIS*
Roud #5062
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "The Farmer Is The Man That Feeds Them" (Okeh 40071, 1924; rec. 1923)
Frank Wheeler & Monroe Lamb, "The Farmer Feeds Them All" (Victor 23537, 1931; Montgomery Ward M-4334, 1933)
Pete Seeger, "The Farmer is the Man" (on PeteSeeger13) (on PeteSeeger23)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Down on the Farm (III)" (theme)
cf. "The Humble Farmer" (theme)
cf. "The Laddie That Handles the Ploo" (theme)
cf. "The Praise of Ploughmen" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (Montgomery Ward M-4848, 1935)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (on NLCR09)
NOTES: Although there is no firm authorship information, this song is thought to date from the populist movement of the 1890s. - (PJS)
Sounds logical to me. Greenway, however, dates it to the period after the Civil War. - RBW
"Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" is a variant form of "Farmer is the Man"; the message and words are close enough that I have lumped them as one song. - PJS
File: San282
===
NAME: Farmer Michael Hayes: see The General Fox Chase (File: Zimm068A)
===
NAME: Farmer, He Must Feed Them All, The: see The Farmer Is the Man (File: San282)
===
NAME: Farmer, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer overhears a girl singing the praise of her farmer boy. A farmer needs no clock to awake him. He brings home money to his wife. Kings have cares, but farmers are free. Nobles are dependent on farmers, who are always generous to strangers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H676, pp. 41-42, "The Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13356
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (theme)
File: HHH676
===
NAME: Farmer's Boy, The [Laws Q30]
DESCRIPTION: A lost boy comes seeking a home, or at least shelter for a night, saying that he can perform all farm tasks. The farmer's wife and daughter convince the farmer to take him in. He serves so well that he marries the farmer's daughter and becomes his heir
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Journal from the Elizabeth); a possibly-related broadside is said to date from before 1689
KEYWORDS: farming work marriage
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Ont) Britain(Scotland,England(North,South))
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws Q30, "The Farmer's Boy"
Belden, pp. 272-273, "A Farmer's Boy" (1 text)
Randolph 118, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 111-113, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 118)
BrownIII 88, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Warner 37, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 118-119, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text)
Kennedy 247, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 28, pp. 69-71, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text)
Creighton/Senior, p. 158, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 216-218, "A Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Farmer's Boy" (source notes only)
DT 538, FARMRBOY FARMRBO2
Roud #408
RECORDINGS:
O. J. Abbott, "The Farmer's Boy" (on Abbott1)
Warde Ford, "The Farmer's Boy" (AFS 4215 A2, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Tony Wales, "To Be a Farmer's Boy" (on TWales1)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:045, "The Farmer's Boy," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Boy" [Laws Q29] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
cf. "The Hobo from the T & P Line" (plot)
cf. "Peter Amberley" [Laws C27] (tune)
File: LQ30
===
NAME: Farmer's Curst Wife, The [Child 278]
DESCRIPTION: The Devil comes to claim a farmer's wife. She causes great trouble in Hell, attacking the imps with all the vigor she had once used on her family. For safety's sake, the Devil is forced to return her to her family (not necessarily to their joy)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: family Devil humorous Hell wife feminist
FOUND_IN: US(All) Britain(England(South,North),Scotland(Aber,Bord)) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (47 citations)
Child 278, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #41}
Bronson 278, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (71 versions+2 in addenda)
SharpAp 40, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (6 texts plus 1 fragment, 7 tunes) {Bronson's #31, #54, #53, #35, #56, #66, #50}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 326-333, "The Farmer's Cursed Wife" (4 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune) {Bronson's #61}
Belden, pp. 94-97, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts)
Randolph 36, "The Old Man under the Hill" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #63}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 63-66, "The Old Man Under the Hill" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 36A) {Bronson's #63}
Flanders/Brown, pp. 226-228, "The Scolding Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #13}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 49-51, "Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #60}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 99-135, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (15 texts plus 5 fragments, 13 tunes) {L=Bronson's #60, M=#13}
Linscott, pp. 188-191, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 46, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (13 texts, 7 tunes; 2 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #37, #54, #11, #46, #24, #36, #25}
Davis-More 40, pp. 316-327, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (7 texts plus a fragment, 5 tunes) {BB=Bronson's #33; EE=#10}
BrownII 45, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
Chappell-FSRA 20, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 fragment)
Hudson 24, pp. 124-125, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts)
Brewster 24, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #65}
Gardner/Chickering 154, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (4 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #27, #23}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 95-99, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (5 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #4, #38}
Creighton-NovaScotia 9, "Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Peacock, pp. 265-268, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Mackenzie 15, "The Devil's Song" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 660-662, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 452, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 172-173, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 75, "The Farmer and the Devil" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 89, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 137, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Niles 60, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 27, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #54}
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 34-35, "The Devil and the Ploughman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
OLochlainn 54, "The Women Are Worse Than the Men" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #7}
Scott-BoA, pp. 152-154, "The Farmer's Curst Wife (The Devil and the Farmer)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 92, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 131-132, "[Little Devils]" (1 text, 1 tune) {cf. Bronson's #52}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 25, "The Little Devils" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #52}
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 26 "Old Lady and the Devil" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 39, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
Beck 43, "The Curst Wife" (1 text)
JHCox 164, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 58, "The Devil And The Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 99-101, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 81-83, "The Farmer's Curst Wife"; "Randy Riley" (2 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 22, "The Devil and The Farmer's Wife" (1 text)
BBI, ZN960, "Give eare, my loving countrey-men"
DT 278, DEVLWIFE  DEVLWIF2* DEVLWIF3* DEVLWIF4*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 274-275, "Killyburn Brae" (1 text)
Roud #160
RECORDINGS:
James "Iron Head" Baker, "The Rich Old Lady" (AFS 201 B1, 204 A1, 206 A1, all 1934);  "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (AFS 617 A4, 1936)
Horton Barker, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (on Barker01) {Bronson's #33}
Bill Cox, "Battle Axe and the Devil" (Vocalion 04811, 1939)
George Davis, "Buggerman in the Bushes" (on GeorgeDavis01)
Texas Gladden, "The Devil and the Farmer" (Disc 6082, 1940s)
Carrie Grover, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (AFS, 1941; on LC58) {Bronson's #67}
Thomas Moran, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2)
Lawrence Older,  "Randy Riley" (on LOlder01)
Bill & Belle Reed, "Old Lady and the Devil" (Columbia 15336-D, 1928; on AAFM1) {Bronson's #32}
Jean Ritchie, "Little Devils" (on JRitchie02) {cf. Bronson's #52}
Pete Seeger, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (on PeteSeeger16) (on PeteSeeger24); "Old Woman and the Devil" (on AschRec2)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1855), "The Sussex Farmer", J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Devil Came to My Door" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Old Woman and the Devil
The Farmer and the Devil
The Carle o' Killyburn Braes [Burns]
The Battle Axe and the Devil
The Farmer's Wife
NOTES: Linscott lists this as being sung to "Liliburlero," but Bronson (who knew though he did not print Linscott's version; it's his "g") says it is "not so close to our pattern here." - RBW
Compare, for example, Bill & Belle Reed, "Old Lady and the Devil" verse 1 ("There was an old man lived the foot of the hill If he ain't moved away he's a-living there still") with Opie-Oxford2 541, "There was an old woman" ("There was an old woman Lived Under a hill, And if she's not gone She lives there still"). [Also in Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #4, p. 28. - RBW]  Neither of Child's versions use this verse (earliest date in Opie-Oxford2 is 1714). - BS
File: C278
===
NAME: Farmer's Daughter, The: see Treat My Daughter Kindly (The Little Farm) (File: R668)
===
NAME: Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy, The: see The Farmer and the Shanty Boy (File: Wa033)
===
NAME: Farmer's Three Sons, The: see In Good Old Colony Times (File: R112)
===
NAME: Farmers, The: see Three Jolly Huntsmen (File: R077)
===
NAME: Farmington Canal Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh! Captain Dick's a gay old bird, Yes he is, upon my word! But that ain't no excuse For his whiskers to be filled with terbacker juice!" The crew of the ship and their voyage are described
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: canal ship moniker
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Linscott, pp. 195-196, "The Farmington Canal Song" (1 text, 1 tune fitted by Linscott)
DT, FRMCANAL*
Roud #3730
NOTES: In the aftermath of the great success of the Erie Canal, a large number of canals were opened in the American Northeast. Few succeeded. The Farmington Canal connected New Haven, Connecticut with Northampton, Massachusetts, and was one of these short-lived connections. - RBW
File: Lins195
===
NAME: Farmyard: see I Had a Little Rooster (Farmyard Song) (File: R352)
===
NAME: Farmyard Song, The: see Old MacDonald Had a Farm (File: R457)
===
NAME: Farther Along
DESCRIPTION: "Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder Why it should be thus all the day long." "Farther along we'll know all about it; Farther along we'll understand why." The singer wonders about the troubles of life, but is sure it will make sense in the end
AUTHOR: credited to W. B. Stephens & J. R. Baxter
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (recording, Stamps Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 289, "Farther Along" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 356, "Farther Along" (1 text)
DT, FARALONG
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys, "Farther Along" (OKeh 05766/Conqueror 9433, 1940; Conqueror 9667, 1941; Columbia 20480, c. 1948)
Harmonizing Four, "Farther Along" (Vee Jay 845, rec. 1957)
Rev. R. A. Harris, "Farther Along" (AFS 5438 B3, 5441 B 3, 1941)
Johnson Family Singers, "Farther Along" (Columbia 20867, 1951)
Wade Mainer, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-8023 [as Mainer's Mountaineers]/Montgomery Ward M-7560, 1938)
Charlie Monroe's Boys, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-7922/Montgomery Ward M-7574, 1938)
Pineridge Boys, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-8263/Montgomery Ward M-8473, 1939)
Pete Seeger, "Farther Along" (on PeteSeeger32)
Stamps Quartet, "Farther Along" (Okeh 04236/Vocalion 04236, 1938; Columbia 20337, c. 1948; Columbia 37760, 1947)
J. B. Whitmire's Blue Sky Trio, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-8512/Montgomery Ward M-8508, 1940)
File: FSWB356B
===
NAME: Farval, Farval, Fortjusande Mo (Farewell, Farewell Fascinating Maid)
DESCRIPTION: Scandinavian shanty. Sailor saying farewell to his sweetheart. Several sentimental verses about pressing her hand, tender whispers and kisses, etc. Translation of chorus: "Farewell, farewell, fascinating maid, we shall soon return again."
AUTHOR: Ossian Limborg (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty foc's'le farewell sailor
FOUND_IN: Scandinavia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 495-497, "Farval, Farval, Fortjusande Mo" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
En Sjoman Alskar Havets Vag
Aland Song
NOTES: A note from _Sang under Segel_ says this was written down aboard the barque _Chili_â from Gavle in 1888 by Harold Sundholm, and according to a correspondent in _Svenska Dagbladent_ (5/20/1934) it was written by a captain named Ossian Limborg around 1870. Hugill's source told him it was a very popular song in Finnish ships, but was a forebitter, not sung for work. - SL
This is a rather curious statement, since Finnish is not a Scandinavian or even an Indo-European language. Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are separate languages in name only; they remain largely mutually intelligible and would almost certainly be called dialects if they weren't the languages of different countries. But Finnish is a separte thing. This song could come from Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish -- perhaps even Icelandic. But it's demonstrably not Finnish. - RBW
File: Hugi495
===
NAME: Fatal Acquantance, The: see Pearl Bryan (III) [Laws F3] AND Pearl Bryan (IV) (File: LF03)
===
NAME: Fatal Flower Garden: see Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter [Child 155] (File: C155)
===
NAME: Fatal Oak, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Tis a mournful story I relate, Of three young men who met their fate." The logging team takes their raft downriver and stops for the night. The captain says the site is bad. Come morning, an oak crashes and kills the three loggers.
AUTHOR: Mrs. Abbie Payne?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: logger death river
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 29, "The Fatal Oak" (1 text)
Roud #9060
NOTES: Rickaby's source stated that this song was "written by Mrs. Abbie Payne," but I suspect Payne merely wrote it out. Surely an actual author would have produced a more coherent place -- as the song stands it reads as though the Captain deliberately condemned his men to death by not mocing the campsite.
The accident is said to have taken place on the Kickapoo river in the early 1870s.
This is item dC39 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Rick116
===
NAME: Fatal Rose of Red
DESCRIPTION: A girl bids her uncle to wear a red rose. He will not; a red rose once shattered his life. He had a fight with his sweetheart. He bid her to wear a white rose if she forgave him; otherwise a red. A rival switched notes; he learned the truth years later
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Leo Boswell)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: A girl bids her aged uncle to wear a red rose. He will not; a red rose once shattered his life. He had a fight with his sweetheart, and bid her to wear a white rose if she forgave him; otherwise a red. But a rival switched the note, and she wore a red rose. He saw it, and fled. It was not until years later that he learned the truth, after he came home and she was dead.
KEYWORDS: love courting separation trick rejection
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 808, "The Fatal Rose of Red" (1 text)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 141, "The Fatal Rose of Red" (1 text)
Roud #7425 and 13940
RECORDINGS:
Leo Boswell, "The Fatal Rose of Red" (Columbia 15290-D, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Tragic Romance" (theme)
cf. "After the Ball" (theme)
File: R808
===
NAME: Fatal Run, The
DESCRIPTION: "Frankie's mother came to him, with his dinner under her arm." She warns her boy of all the crews killed making up for lost time. The lad says he has to take his dead father's place as an engineer. He dies on Dead Man's Curve, and the mother mourns again
AUTHOR: Cliff Carlisle
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Cliff Carlisle)
KEYWORDS: train death mother warning
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 181-182, "The Fatal Run" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #14012
RECORDINGS:
Cliff Carlisle, "The Fatal Run" (Champion 45162=Decca 5398, 1931)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3] (lyrics)
NOTES: Another composed song with no evidence that it has gone into tradition. Cohen notes that some lines (notably "There's many a poor man has lost his life, making up for lost time, If you will run your engine right, you'll never be behind time") are directly derived from "The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3]. - RBW
File: LSRai181
===
NAME: Fatal Snowstorm, The [Laws P20]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, out in a severe snowstorm, sees a woman with a baby. She laments the cruelty of her parents and of the child's father, who left her for money. She warns against such deceivers, kisses the frozen child's lips, and dies herself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1813 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(342a))
KEYWORDS: storm family baby death
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws P20, "The Fatal Snowstorm"
MacSeegTrav 71, "The Fatal Snowstorm" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 154, "The Forsaken Mother and Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 16, "A Wint'ry Evening" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 447-448, "The Forsaken Mother and Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 62, "The Fatal Snowstorm" (1 text)
DT, FATALSNW*
Roud #175
RECORDINGS:
 Mrs Jack [Vera] Keating, "The Wintry Winds" (on Ontario1)
Tom Lenihan, "A Wint'ry Evening" (on IRTLenihan01)
Paddy Tunney, "The Month of January" (on Voice06)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(342a), "Winter's Evening" or "The Deploring Damsel" ("'Twas one winter's evening when fast came down the snow"), J. Evans (London), 1780-1812; also Harding B 25(2088), "The Winter's Evening" or "Deploring Damsel"; Harding B 11(1824), "It Was One Winter's Evening"; or "Deploring Damsel"; Harding B 15(388a), Harding B 25(2087), Harding B 11(3152), Harding B 28(102), "Winter's Evening"; 2806 c.17(315) , 2806 c.17(316), "Oh Cruel" or "Winter's Evening"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary of the Wild Moor" [Laws P21] (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
It Was On a Cold and Winter's Night
File: LP20
===
NAME: Fatal Wedding Morn, The
DESCRIPTION: The girl receives a letter from her fiancee, saying he will be back the next day (after a year's absence) to be married. All is made ready, but he never comes; instead, a message announces he is dead. The bride dies of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love death separation grief marriage
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 767, "The Fatal Wedding Morn" (1 text)
Roud #7410
NOTES: Obviously not to be confused with the better-known "The Fatal Wedding." - RBW
File: R767
===
NAME: Fatal Wedding, The
DESCRIPTION: A woman comes to the church doors as a wedding begins. She is refused admittance, but at last she is granted entrance to save her freezing child. She objects to the wedding; her baby's father is the bridegroom. The baby dies; the father kills himself
AUTHOR: Words: William Windom / Music: Gussie L. Davis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1893 (copyright notice)
KEYWORDS: wedding infidelity baby abandonment suicide death
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Randolph 766, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 141-143, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text plus 1 excerpt and a reference to 1 more, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 110-112, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 272, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text)
Hudson 69, pp. 195-197, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text)
Brewster 81, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
LPound-ABS, 63, pp. 140-142, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 153-155, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fatal Wedding" (source notes only)
DT, FATALWED
Roud #3273
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Fatal Wedding" (Columbia 15051-D, 1926; rec. 1925)
Bradley Kincaid, "The Fatal Wedding" (Gennett 6363/Supertone 9211, 1928) (Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22215, n.d.) (Vocalion 02684, 1934)
Charlie Oaks, "The Fatal Wedding" (Vocalion 15144, 1925; Vocalion 5076, c. 1927)
Steely+Graham Redhead Fiddlers, "The Fatal Wedding" (Brunswick 460, 1930; rec. 1929)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "The Fatal Wedding" (Edison 52026, 1927)  (CYL: Edison [BA] 5355, 1927) (Cameo 8220/Romeo 600/Lincoln 2825, 1927) (Pathe 32278/Perfect 12357/Challenge 666/Banner2158/Domino 3984/Oriole 946 [as Sim Harris]/Regal 8347, 1927; Homestead 16498 [as Sim Harris], c. 1929) (Okeh 45084, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out" (theme)
cf. "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (tune)
File: R766
===
NAME: Fate of Harry Young, The
DESCRIPTION: Harry Young murders the city marshal of Randolph, Missouri and escapes. Cornered, he kills six policemen and flees to Texas. Taken at last, he is returned to Springfield, Missouri for trial
AUTHOR: Eugene Hilton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Springfield Leader and Press)
KEYWORDS: police murder escape prison trial
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 2, 1932 - Harry and Jennings Young kill six policemen who are on Harry's trail
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 172, "The Fate of Harry Young" (1 fragment)
Roud #5488
NOTES: The final days of Harry Young were eventful. Having killed the six policemen in a shootout at the family farmhouse, Harry and his brother Jennings fled to Texas (the home state of Harry's new bride). Captured in Houston, the brothers killed themselves (apparently on the advice of their mother, who was herself in prison in Missouri). - RBW
File: R172
===
NAME: Fate of John Burgoyne, The
DESCRIPTION: "When Jack, the King's commander bold, Was going to his duty, He smiled and bowed... At every blooming beauty." He led his forces from Canada toward Ticonderoga and western New York, but was cut off and forced to surrender
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: war rebellion battle humorous
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 17, 1777 - Surrender of John Burgoyne at Saratoga
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 75-76, "The Fate of John Burgoyne" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: After two frustrating years, the British in 1777 evolved a complex plan to overcome the American rebels. It involved three converging columns. Howe, the British Commander in Chief, would lead an army north from New York. St. Leger would strike from Lake Ontario into western New York. And John Burgoyne, "Gentleman Johnny" (1722-1792), would head south from Montreal through the Champlain and Ticonderoga. The three would rendezvous near Albany.
The plan was a failure. Howe eventually headed off to Philadelphia, doing nothing to support the other two columns. He left a few troops in New York with General Clinton; they eventually set off to help Burgoyne -- but started too late. St. Leger was driven off by Benedict Arnold and others.
But the isolated Burgoyne suffered the worst defeat. After driving the rebels from Ticonderoga, he continued on his way south, leaving him with a long and tenuous supply line. A raid on Bennington, which was intended to bring in supplies, instead resulted in the loss of many of his best troops (see "Rifleman's Song at Bennington"). He ended up at Saratoga, with limited supplies and his men getting sick. He finally tried to fight his way through the American army of Horatio Gates. It didn't work, and he was forced to surrender. (For background, see e.g. Don Cook, _The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American colonies 1760-1785_, pp. 275-280).
This was the first great Colonial victory of the war. Some five thousand British troops were taken. As a result, France increased its part in the war. Howe's refusal to support Burgoyne had led to a disaster.
Burgoyne would come out of the matter surprisingly well (see Cook, pp. 300-301). The Americans would not parole the soldiers captured at Saratoga (see Richard M. Ketchum, _Saratoga_, pp. 435-436), but they did parole Burgoyne and send him home. The British refused to give him the court-martial -- but Burgoyne was a Member of Parliament, and took his case there, arguing that his orders had been too rigid (debateable) and that the cabinet had not forced Howe to properly support him (undeniable). In popular opinion, he was considered to be vindicated, though an honest assessment would surely show that he brought many of his troubles on himself. The government responded to his parliamentary tactics by ordering him to rejoin his troops in their American prison camps. He ignored the order, and was rehabilitated when the Whigs gained power; he served for a time in Ireland, and wrote plays nearly to the end of his comfortable life. - RBW
File: SBoA075
===
NAME: Fate of Old Strawberry Roan, The: see (references under) "The Strawberry Roan" [Laws B18] (File: LB18)
===
NAME: Fate of Talmadge Osborne, The
DESCRIPTION: Talmadge Osborn does not get out of the way of a backing train in time, has his hands cut off, and dies. The company is not liable according to the "Johnson Law." Singer warns listeners to walk carefully, lest they be killed by a train
AUTHOR: unknown, but probably Ernest Stoneman
EARLIEST_DATE: Late 1920s (recording, Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Talmadge Osborn, a man who behaves oddly, does not get out of the way of a backing train in time, has his hands cut off, and dies. The company is not liable according to the "Johnson Law." He is taken home; people say "Many a man's been murdered by the railroad/And laid in his cold, lonesome grave." Singer warns listeners to walk carefully, lest they be killed by a train, and that their high-living ways may put them on the county road for six months
KEYWORDS: disability warning train death railroading drink injury hobo floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 371, "There's Many a Man Killed on the Railroad" (1 fragment, 1 tune, with only the "There's man been killed on the railroad" stanza, which could be from this, or "The C. & O.," or others)
Roud #12188
RECORDINGS:
[Ernest Stoneman and] The Dixie Mountaineers, "The Fate of Talmadge Osborne" (Edison 52026, 1927) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5369, 1927); Ernest V. Stoneman, "The Fate of Talmadge Osborne"  (OKeh 45084, 1927)(Victor 20672, 1927) (one of these is on RoughWays1, misspelled "Talmedge")
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3] (floating verses)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Death of Talmadge Osborn
NOTES: Stoneman, who knew Osborn(e), remembers that he used to hop freights while drunk, probably the cause of his fatal accident.
The "Many a man killed on the railroad" verse seems to have been spliced into this song as a bridge, having been collected from tradition earlier.
The "Johnson Law" absolved a railroad from liability for accidents occurring on its right-of-way. PJS
File: RcTFOTO
===
NAME: Fate of the Cumberland Crew, The: see The Cumberland Crew [Laws A18] (File: LA18)
===
NAME: Fate of the Nancy Bell, The
DESCRIPTION: An old sailor recounts the aftermath of a shipwreck. 10 survivors wash up on an island and after a month, proceed to draw lots as to who will be eaten by the rest. At the end the narrator is rescued as he is finishing off the last of the others.
AUTHOR: William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1866 (_Fun_ magazine)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship wreck cannibalism humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Harlow, pp. 194-196, "The Fate of the Nancy Bell" (1 text)
PBB 105, "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell" (1 text)
ST Harl194 (Partial)
NOTES: Harlow's version leaves out the first seven verses of the original. - SL
Grigson claims that this piece was early set to music and gives the impression that it became traditional. That it was set to music is clear; that it was highly popular is also clear (_Granger's Index to Poetry_ lists no fewer than 20 anthologies containing it, which is a higher total than I can recall for any folk piece). But I've seen no evidence, apart from Harlow, that it was actually traditional. - RBW
File: Harl194
===
NAME: Fateful Blow, The
DESCRIPTION: Fragment: "My partners they come after me/To go on a night's spree/Ten times I did refuse them/They wouldn't let me be/Ten times I did refuse them/To the sorrow of my heart/This caused a loving husband and darling wife to part"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: marriage violence drink husband wife
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SharpAp 174, "The Fateful Blow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3641
File: ShAp2174
===
NAME: Fath Mo Mhulaid a Bhith Ann: see An Iounndrain-Mhara (Sea-Longing) (File: K011)
===
NAME: Father Get Ready When He Calls You
DESCRIPTION: "Father get ready when he calls you (x3) To sit on the throne with Jesus. Away up in Heaven (x2), Father get ready... To sit on the throne...." "Mother get ready when he calls you" "This world is a trouble and sorrow" "We'll all be happy in the morning"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 142-144, "[Father Get Ready When He Calls You]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 44-45, "Father Get Ready" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7406
File: JRSF142
===
NAME: Father Grumble [Laws Q1]
DESCRIPTION: Grumble says he can do more work in a day than his wife can do in three. She offers to exchange tasks for a day; he agrees. She gives him a long list of household chores and sets out to plow. He fails in most of his tasks and admits his wife's superiority
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1825
KEYWORDS: contest husband wife work humorous feminist
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(Lond)) Ireland US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (25 citations)
Laws Q1, "Father Grumble"
Belden, pp. 225-228, "Father Grumble" (5 texts)
Randolph 74, "Father Grumble" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 124-126, "Father Grumble" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 74A)
Eddy 43, "Father Grumble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 172, "Old Grumble" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 191-193, "The Wife of Auchtermuchty" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 104-105, "John Grumlie" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 248-250, "The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 180, "Father Grumble" (2 text -- one of them "Darby and Joan" -- plus mention of 2 more)
Hudson 59, pp. 175-176, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 243-244, "Father Grumble" (1 text, with local title "There Was an Old Man"; tune on p. 420)
Brewster 40, "Father Grumble" (3 texts)
SharpAp 188, "The Drummer and His Wife" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Leach, pp747-748, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 443, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 41-43, "The Old Man Who Lived in the Woods" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 10, "Father Grumble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 579-580, "The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H702, pp. 504-505, "The Wealthy Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 36, pp. 82-84, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
JHCox 156, "Father Grumble" (7 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 188, "Little Phoebe"; p. 189, "Old Man In The Wood" (2 texts)
BBI, ZN1410, "In Auchtermuchty lived a man" (?)
DT 343, WIFEWORK WIFEWRK2* WIFEWRK3*
Roud #281
RECORDINGS:
Margaret MacArthur, "Old Mr. Grumble" (on MMacArthur01)
Jean Ritchie, "Father Grumble" (AFS; on LC14)
Pete Seeger, "Equinoxial" (on PeteSeeger12)
SAME_TUNE:
Bublin Bay (NLScotland, L.C.1269(173b), "Bublin Bay" ("They sailed away in a gallant barque"), unknown, 1857 -- listed as to the tune of "John Grumlie" but with so many lyrics from "Dublin Bay (Roy Neal)" that it coud almost be considered the same song still -- plus the long introduction asks for the pianist to play "Dublin Bay")
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
John Grumlie
Equinoxial
Old Daddy Grumble
NOTES: According to the notes in Brown, "St. John Honeywood of Massachusetts [around 1800] dressed [this] up as 'Darby and Joan," and his version has achieved something like traditional currency; at least, a text clearly enough derived from it is one of the items in our North Carolina collection." - RBW
File: LQ01
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NAME: Father in Ambush, The: see Lovely Willie [Laws M35] (File: LM35)
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NAME: Father is Drinking Again
DESCRIPTION: "I've been wandering all day in the cold and the rain To see my poor father again. He's been gone since last night.... She sent me to find him and bring him to her... God... help the poor child Whose father is drinking again"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink family children
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 325, "Father is Drinking Again" (1 text)
Roud #7799
File: R325
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NAME: Father McFadden: see Come All You Roman Catholics (File: TSF013)
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NAME: Father Murphy (I)
DESCRIPTION: Father Murphy defeats the Camolin cavalry and the Cork militia. At Tubberneering he turns the army back to Dublin "but our ranks were tattered and sorely scattered." Outnumbered by English, Scots, and Hessians, he would have won with French reinforcement.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion Ireland clergy patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 26, 1798 - Beginning of the Wexford rebellion
May 27, 1798 - The Wexford rebels under Father John Murphy defeat the North Cork militia at Oulart
May 28, 1798 - Murphy's rebels capture Enniscorthy
May 30, 1798 - Battle of Three Rocks, which led the loyalists to abandon Wexford to the rebels
June 4, 1798 - after a dangerous wait, the United army occupies Gorey
June 5, 1798 - The Wexford rebels attack the small garrison (about 1400 men, many militia) at New Ross, but are repelled
June 21, 1798 - The rebel stronghold a Vinegar Hill is taken, and the Wexford rebellion effectively ended
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn 27, "Father Murphy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 64, "Father Murphy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 66-67, "Father Murphy (2)" (1 text)
ST OLoc027 (Partial)
Roud #3020
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Boulavogue" (subject: The Wexford Rebellion and related topics)
cf. "Sweet County Wexford" (subject: The Wexford Rebellion and related topics)
cf. "Come All You Warriors" (subject of Father Murphy and the Wexford rebellion)
cf. "Some Treat of David" (subject of Father Murphy and the Wexford rebellion)
cf. "Father Murphy (II) (The Wexford Men of '98)"
cf. "Come All You Warriors" (subject of Father Murphy and the Wexford Rebellion)
cf. "The Battle of Kilcumney" (subject of Father Murphy after Vinegar Hill)
NOTES: This song is thought to be the original upon which P.J. McCall based his 'Boolavogue'. While the latter piece was written one hundred years after the event, this song was in circulation within a couple of years of 1798." On the other hand, see the notes to "Sweet County Wexford." The ballad is recorded on two of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Jerry O'Reilly, "Father Murphy" (on "The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes) 
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Father Murphy" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998))
Harte's notes that: Father Murphy was among the Catholic clergy allied with the United Irishmen; "the Catholic church was fiercly opposed to the United Irishmen"; "the 1798 rebellion had its roots with the Presbyterians in the North, and it was they who put forward the basic objectives of 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Catholic Emancipation'; even in Wexford itself, many of those who were initially involved with the united Irishmen and took part in the planning of the rebellion were Protestants."
For a different ballad on the same subject see broadside
Bodleian, Harding B 19(101), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford Men of '98" ("You Roman catholics throughout this nation"), W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867; also 2806 c.8(51), 2806 b.10(11), Harding B 26(188), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford Men of '98" - BS
This other broadside is also found in Healy-OISBv2, pp. 64-66, "Father Murphy (1) or the Wexford Men of '98."
For historical background to this piece, see the notes to "Boulavogue." 
Murphy's own history is interesting. Born around 1753, the son of a farmer, he had the sort of early education a Catholic could expect (i.e. very little) and had to go to Spain to be ordained. By 1798, he was curate of Boulavogue in Wexford. As far as is known, he was not a member of the United Irishmen.
His actions seem to have been somewhat equivocal. According to Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, pp. 77-78, when the government in 1798 was pressuring people to sign an oath promising not to join the United Irishmen. Murphy and his parishioners signed only under pressure.
But according to Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty_, pp. 147-148, it appears he initially opposed violent resistance -- he helped draw up a petition of loyalty to George III, and Pakenham and Golway both note that he encouraged his parishioners to lay down their arms.
Robert Kee (_The Most Distressful Country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, p. 109), more neutral than either, supports the belief that Murphy's desire for peace was real, on the reasonable grounds that, if anyone had been planning a Wexford rising, it would have been better organized.
Whatever Murphy's true feelings, he didn't hesitate after word came of the massacre at Dunlavin (for which see "Dunlavin Green") and other atrocities. There were also stories -- partly true -- of the success of rebellions in Kildare and elsewhere. On May 26, Father Murphy agreed to lead the Wexford rebels -- who, however, were by now largely disarmed.
That night, though, the "Camolin cavalry" -- a small patrol led by local gentleman John Donovan and a Lt. Bookey -- came upon Murphy's rabble, called upon the Irish to disperse, and -- being outnumbered and in the dark where their firearms weren't that helpful -- were routed with some loss, including their two officers.
This skirmish wasn't really a battle -- the forces involved numbered in the dozens, and neither side was planning a fight -- but it heartened the  rebels. And started everybody shooting at everybody else. (Father Murphy's home and chapel were burned in the following days.) The rebels proceeded to raid the empty house of Lord Mountnorris, who was supposed to command in the district. They rounded up some other arms as well, often killing the residents of the homes holding the weapons.
The battle with the North Cork militia at Oulart was equally improbable. Accounts of the conflict from various sources differ so much that I can't even recognize them as the same battle -- Pakenham, e.g., makes it a case of British military ineptitude; Golway and others stress Irish discipline. Pakenham's account, which at least relies upon verifiable military records, seems the least unreliable:
The militia, under Colonel Foote, were almost untrained, and numbered only about 125 men; many had already deserted, and some had even joined the rebels. They were outnumbered roughly ten to one by Murphy's rebels, though Murphy's troops had even less cohesion than the militia.
Foote of course refused to attack uphill against those odds, and the rebels refused to come down. But when Foote's back was literally turned, his second in command Major Lombard ordered a charge. The attacking force was killed to the last man, even after the troops started to surrender and proclaimed themselves Catholic. (Not all atrocities in Ireland were committed by the British!) Foote brought three soldiers back alive from an engagement he hadn't even commanded.
On May 28, the rebels launched a surprisingly disciplined attack on Enniscorthy. The garrison retired to Wexford, but abandoned that town two days later.
Then things started to go bad. The Irish started to dawdle. But, as Kee notes (p. 114), "The lack of almost any coherent strategic plan, or indeed of any true leadership, was to be the rebels' undoing. Their determination and bravery in the field... was to prove remarkable.... But their discipline even in battle was poor. The Reverend James Gordon wrote, 'As they were not, like regular troops, under any real command of officers, but acted spontaneously... they were watched in battle one of another, each fearing to be left behind in case of retreat, which was generally swift and sudden.'"
They finally arrived at New Ross -- a key stop on the road to Waterford -- on June 5. Their leader, Bagenal Harvey, devised a sort of plan of attack, but gave no detailed instructions then or later, exerted no control over the battle, and had no reserve to exploit success. The rebels broke into the town, and seemingly had the battle won -- and promptly collapsed.
The next attack, on Arklow on June 9, was led by Father Murphy himself, and it too was repulsed, with heavy casualties.
After that, it was a matter of survival, and even that didn't take long. The English commander in the region, General Lake, assembled his forces and slaughtered most of the remaining rebels at Vinegar Hill on June 21.
Murphy's initial opposition to rebellion did not help him; he was eventually captured in Tullow, County Carlow and hanged. According to Golway, p. 87, Murphy was tortured before his death, and refused to talk. This sounds suspiciously like the death of Jesus, though, and Golway's strange footnote system does not appear to cite a source for this. For a discussion of the matter, see the entry on "Some Treat of David," which details Murphy's death.
The statement that Murphy could have won with French help is sort of true; when small French forces did come to Ireland, they were able to fight the British garrisons on even terms, which the United Irishmen never did. The French might also have helped by supplying the rebels with a hint of tactical reality. But experience seems to indicate that the Irish would have ignored them.
But while Napoleon talked about invading Ireland, and even started to try to assemble the ships, he never really seemed ready to make the push. Ireland had no resources to pay his army and navy, and in 1798, with the world seemingly at his feet, Napoleon's big need was cash.
In the end, the French fleet and army assembling at Toulon did not go to Ireland; it went to Egypt. Perhaps just as well for them; by 1798, the Nore mutiny was over, and the Battle of Camperdown had shown that the English did have naval superiority. The French made it to Egypt, mostly by confusing Nelson's scouts. They could never have gotten to Ireland that way. A few ships came, too late, but Wexford was never their destination; it was considered peaceful. In any case, a success in Wexford alone would not have freed Ireland. - RBW
File: OLoc027
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NAME: Father Murphy (II) (The Wexford Men of '98)
DESCRIPTION: Remember '98 when we lost Father Murphy. The victories are listed until Kilkenny. "Father Murphy was taken ... The blessed priest they burned him sore." The time is coming. "We'll be commanded by some pious teacher Like Father Murphy and his Shelmaliers."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: battle execution rebellion Ireland clergy patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 26, 1798 - Beginning of the Wexford rebellion
May 27, 1798 - The Wexford rebels under Father John Murphy defeat the North Cork militia
June 5, 1798 - The Wexford rebels attack the small garrison (about 1400 men, many militia) at New Ross, but are repelled
June 21, 1798 - The rebel stronghold a Vinegar Hill is taken, and the Wexford rebellion effectively ended
July 2, 1798 - Father Murphy (1753-1798) captured, executed and cremated.
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 11B, "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford Men of '98" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 64-66, "Father Murphy (1) or The Wexford Men of '98" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(238), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford men of '98," W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867; also Harding B 26(188), 2806 b.10(11), 2806 c.8(51), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford men of '98"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Father Murphy (I)" (subject of Father Murphy) and references there
NOTES: One line of Zimmermann 11B and the Bodleian broadsides seems unusual to me: "On our retreatment burned Scullabogue"; Zimmermann explains: "After the battle of Ross, about one hundred Protestant prisoners, including women and children, were burnt alive in the barn of Scullabogue used as a temporary jail by the insurgents, (5th June, 1798)." In the texts, there are no bad consequences attributed to, or justification ascribed to, this act. For example, this act is not why "we" lost; 
If we had conduct to march on forward 
And not returned back to Gorey town, 
We would have saved the lives of ten thousand heroes 
That died in Arklow God rest their souls. 
It was by their means Father Murphy was taken ...
I expect there must be other examples of acknowledged terrible acts by the singer's "side" that have no acknowledged terrible consequences, but I don't know them. My point is not that I am surprised at an "atrocity" on the singer's "side" but that it is acknowledged. There were atrocities as well on the British side but are they recorded in songs from that side? Perhaps my quote is out of context; the preceding part of the verse is 
When reinforcement came down upon us, 
Just in the evening, with fire and smoke, 
We were forced to leave them, the town then blazing, 
On our retreatment burned Scullabogue." 
For more information see "The Scullabogue Massacre 1798" by Daniel Gahan, _History Ireland_, Autumn 1996, republished on the Republican Sinn Fein site.
For one of innumerable Biblical examples with weak justification and acknowledged bad consequences for the singer's "side" see Genesis 34 (Dinah and Shechem). Even Psalms 137, "Fair Babylon, you predator, a blessing on him who repays you in kind what you have inflicted on us; a blessing on him who seizes your babies and dashes them against the rocks!" is not recounting an actual event and wishes it conditional upon God's blessing after claiming justification. - BS
This is one of those instances where feelings are so strong that genuine historical perspective is hard to come by. Thomas Pakenham, in _The Year of Liberty_, pp. 198-199, describes Scullabogue: "a ghastly scene...which was to leave a still more indelible mark on Irish history [than the Battle of New Ross]."
At least a hundred Loyalist prisoners, and perhaps as many as two hundred, were penned in a barn, jammed so tightly that they could not all sit down. The majority of those imprisoned were male Protestants, but there were some women, children, and Catholics.
Somehow a rumor started that British forces were executing captured soldiers. The officer in charge of guarding prisoners refused to engage in retaliations. But after three alleged orders came to kill the prisoners, one allegedly endorsed by a priest, the guards shot some three dozen prisoners and burned the rest in the barn where they were confined. It was pretty definitely the worst atrocity of the 1798 rebellion.
Interestingly, the pro-British Pakenham does not list any consequences either. 
Robert Kee, on p. 118 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (volume I of _The Green Flag_) devotes only a couple of sentences to Scullabogue, and in effect justifies it by the condition of the Irish peasantry. Jim Smyth's _The Men of No Property_ mentions it only in passing (p. 179) as a "sectarian atrocity." My other pro-Irish histories do not seem to mention the massacre at all.
Similar uncertainty seems to surround the fate of Father Murphy himself. For this, see the notes to "Some Treat of David"; also "Father Murphy (I)" and "Boulavogue." For the general situation at New Ross, leading to Scullabogue, see "Kelly, the Boy from Killane." - RBW
File: Zimm011B
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NAME: Father Murphy of the County Wexford: see Boulavogue (File: PGa028)
===
NAME: Father Tom O'Neill: see Tom O'Neill [Laws Q25] (File: LQ25)
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NAME: Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas in a Pennsylvania town not very long ago, Men struck against reduction of their pay." The mill owner intends to starve the union into submission; in the process, "Father was killed by the Pinkerton men." The singer appeals to politicians to help
AUTHOR: William W. Delaney (Willy Wildwave)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1892 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement strike hardtimes political orphan
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1892 - Homestead Strike
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 235-236, "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, p. 200, "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men" (1 text)
Burt, p. 185, "(Father was Killed by the Pinkerton Men)" (1 text)
DT, PINKMEN*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Homestead Strike" (subject)
NOTES: For the details of the Homestead Strike, see "The Homestead Strike."
Incidentally, the Pinkertons were not above murder if it met their ends. A famous example was the case of Frank and Jesse James and their mother and stepfather, Dr. Reuben Samuel and Zerelda Cole James Samuel. On January 28, 1875, a gang of Pinkertons firebombed their home in hopes of catching the James brothers. They didn't -- but they did kill Archie Peyton Samuel and do such damage to Mrs. Samuel's hand that it had to be amputated (see Ted P. Yeatman, _Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend_, pp. 134-137).
The Pinkertons were eventually charged with murder (Yeatman, p. 143), but the case never came to trial (p. 147). - RBW
File: SWM235
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NAME: Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now
DESCRIPTION: Each hour the child comes into the tavern, saying, "Father, dear father, come home with me now." Each hour brings worse news: Brother Benny is sick, Benny is calling for you, Benny is dead.
AUTHOR: Henry Clay Work
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: drink death father brother family disease
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Randolph 308, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (1 text, 1 tune, with the chorus lost and "brother Benny" turned into "little Jenny"!)
BrownIII 24, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (2 texts)
Fuson, p. 144, "The Drunkard Father" (1 text)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 56-58, "Come Home, Father" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 356-357, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 263, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "Come Home, Father" (source notes only)
DT, COMEHOME*
Roud #839
RECORDINGS:
The Blue Sky Boys, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home" (Bluebird 8522, 1940)
James Scott & Claude Boone, "Father Dear Father Come Home" (Decca 5566, 1938)
Peerless Quartet, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now" (Victor 19716, 1925)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Drunkard's Dream (II)" (theme)
cf. "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Come Home, Father
NOTES: Work's title for this piece was "Come Home, Father." Said title seems to be dead in tradition. - RBW
In the words of W. C. Fields, "Father, dear father, come home with me now...and bring a jug with you." - PJS
File: R308
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NAME: Father, Father, I Am Married: see Will the Weaver [Laws Q9] (File: LQ09)
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NAME: Father's Whiskers
DESCRIPTION: "We have a dear old daddy For whom we daily pray, He's got a set of whiskers, They're always in the way." The whiskers are so extensive that they are put to a variety of absurd uses: Straining gas, feeding cattle, serving as camouflage in war
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: father family humorous nonballad hair
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 262-263, "My Pappy's Whiskers" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 241, "Father's Whiskers" (1 text)
DT, FATHWISK
Roud #13619
File: FSWB241A
===
NAME: Fathers, Now Our Meeting Is Over: see Now Our Meeting Is Over (File: Wa084)
===
NAME: Fathom the Bowl
DESCRIPTION: In praise of drink, perhaps linked with a complaint about one's wife or a reminiscence of one's dead father. Each verse ends with the cry, "Bring (me/in) the punch ladle, (and) (I'll/we'll) fathom the bowl."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889 (Baring Gould)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,Lond))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 268, "Bring in the Punch Ladle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FATHOMBL*
Roud #880
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Punch Ladle
File: K268
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NAME: Faughan Side, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the beauty of the streams and plants of Faughan. "But still I had the notion Of going to Amerikay." He bids farewell to friends, admits he will miss home -- and miss his girl ten times more. He hopes to return and wed her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation home
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H621, pp. 191-192, "The Faughan Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2292
File: HHH621
===
NAME: Faughanvale
DESCRIPTION: The singer thinks of Faughanvale as he rambles. He asks the listener to show him a spot equal to it. He praises the people and fields and festivals. He tells where he has rambled, claiming none can compare. He wishes he were a poet to praise it better
AUTHOR: Thomas Young (Killwill)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home rambling
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H796, pp. 163-164, "Faughanvale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13461
File: HHH796
===
NAME: Faultless Bride, The: see The Nobleman's Wedding (The Faultless Bride; The Love Token) [Laws P31] (File: LP31)
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NAME: Fause Foodrage [Child 89]
DESCRIPTION: A lady courted by three kings weds one who is then slain (by one of the rivals/a rebel). Her not-yet-born child will be spared if female. She bears a boy, switches him with a baby girl. When grown the boy is told his heritage and avenges his father.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1802 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: royalty death murder children trick revenge
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 89, "Fause Foodrage" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Bronson 89, "Fause Foodrage" (3 versions)
OBB 70, "Fause Foodrage" (1 text)
DBuchan 14, "Fause Foodrage" (1 text)
DT 89, KINGLUVE
Roud #57
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jellon Grame" [Child 90] (theme)
NOTES: Some texts of this ballad share a verse with Elizabeth Halket Wardlaw's "Hardeknute" (for which see Volume II of Percy's _Reliques_; at that time, the authorship of Wardlaw (1677-1727) had not been established). This caused Scott to wonder about the authenticity of the piece, but Child thought the informant might have taken the verse from the "tiresome and affected Hardyknute, so much esteemed in her day." - RBW
File: C089
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NAME: Fause Knight Upon the Road, The [Child 3]
DESCRIPTION: A grown man (knight, churl, demon) meets a schoolboy on the road. The schoolboy matches wits with the man, finding a defense or matching insult for each thrust, and so survives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Motherwell, _Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern_)
KEYWORDS: contest Devil virtue questions
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US(Ap,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (21 citations)
Child 3, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #8}
Bronson 3, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (10 versions plus 2 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 11-14, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text)
Belden, p. 4, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 46-47, "The False Knight on the Road" (1 text) {Bronson's #10}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 79-81, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #10}
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 119-121, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 2, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
Davis-More 3, pp. 14-15, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (1 fragmentary text)
Brewster 2, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Creighton/Senior, p. 1, "The False Knight upon the Road" (1 text plus 1 excerpt, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Creighton-NovaScotia 1, "False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
Manny/Wilson 51, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 13, "Harpkin"; 14, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (2 texts)
Niles 3 "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 2 "The False Knight Upon the Road" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #5, #6}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 2, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 197, "(O, where are you going?)" (1 text)
TBB 31, "The False Knight upon the Road" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 20, p. 48, "The False Knight" (1 text)
DT 3, FALSKNGT* FALSKNT2*
Roud #20
RECORDINGS:
Edmund Henneberry [and Kenneth Faulkner], "The False Knight Upon the Road" (on NovaScotia1) {Bronson's #9}
Duncan McPhee, "The False Knight Upon the Road (on FSBBAL1)
Frank Quinn, "The False Knight [Up]on the Road" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Devil and the Schoolchild
The False Knight
The Smart Schoolboy
The Knight on the Road
NOTES: One of Child's three texts is "Harpkin," which he places in an appendix. The two are distinct in plot ("Harpkin" is apparently a contest between two rivals; "The Fause Knight" involves an innocent youth), but the form of the two is so similar that they cannot be reliably distinguished.
Bertrand Bronson discusses the original form of this ballad in "The Interdependence of Ballad Tunes and Texts" (first printed in the _California Folklore Quarterly_, II, 1944; see now MacEdward Leach and Tristram P. Coffin, eds, _The Critics and the Ballad_. The relevant discussion is on pages 80-82).
American versions of this piece can be quite degenerate. Pound's text, for instance, sounds very much like a schoolyard quarrel, except that one of the disputants is "false knight Munro." But he sounds just like a bully: "Give your lunch to my dog or I'll throw you down the well." The boy responds by throwing Munro down the well first. - RBW
File: C003
===
NAME: Fause Young Man, The: see The False Young Man (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out) (File: FJ166)
===
NAME: Fayette Brown, The
DESCRIPTION: When sailors go on strike, the owner of the lake schooner Fayette Brown hires a crew of non-union Blacks; their failings are described. The singer drinks a health to owners and captains, but "bad luck attend any dirty scut that sails the Fayette Brown"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (recording, Stanley Baby)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: When sailors go on strike, the owner of the lake schooner Fayette Brown hires a crew of non-union Blacks; their failings are described, and it's said they'd wish themselves elsewhere when the snowflakes began flying. The singer drinks a health to ship-owners and captains, and "every lofty schooner that carries a union crew", but "bad luck attend any dirty scut that sails the Fayette Brown"
KEYWORDS: curse strike labor-movement ship work sailor scab worker Black(s)
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1868 - Fayette Brown built at Cleveland
late 1870s - Sailors strike for union recognition
1891 - Fayette Brown sinks after collision
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #4623
RECORDINGS:
Stanley Baby, "The 'Fayette Brown'" [fragment] (GreatLakes1)
File: RcFayBro
===
NAME: Faythe Fishing Craft, The
DESCRIPTION: In a sudden night-time storm "each coast-boat to shore quickly flew. Not so with us Wexfordmen," One of two skiffs was sunk "by a huge mountain wave" killing five men. The other skiff was driven on shore near Curracloe. The five lost are named.
AUTHOR: Mr. Twomey
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck fishing
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 12, 1833: the Faythe fishing craft was capsized by a gale (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 52)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 12-14, "The Faythe Fishing Craft" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7345
NOTES: Curracloe and Blackwater are on the Wexford coast - BS
File: Ran012
===
NAME: Fear a Bhata: see Fhear a Bhata (Fhir a Bhata: I Climb the Mountains) (File: HHH834)
===
NAME: Featherin' Oot and In
DESCRIPTION: Singer has a "fine gyang featherin' out and out and ae/Featinerin' oot and addie." Men buy her fine things because of it, and they want her to go to bed for it. Her mother is an 'auld bitch'; so is her granny, but both do well because they also have it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (collected from Maggie McPhee)
KEYWORDS: sex clothes bawdy humorous whore
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MacSeegTrav 39, "Featherin' Oot and In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2519
File: McCST039
===
NAME: Feckless Lover, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer hears Johnny knock on the door. Her mother overhears and drives Johnny away. Now Johnny turns away in fear every time he sees the singer. She refuses to lament; a young man "scared of an auld woman's tongue" does not deserve her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (San Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting mother abandonment humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H216, p. 265, "The Feckless Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6920
File: HHH216
===
NAME: Feeing Time (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "A frien' and I struck frae  Mulguy" for Glasgow; they meet a girl on her way to feeing day. The singer lures her into a pub, and they drink the day away. She says she has lost her fee; he promises to wed her, and she is "glad she lost the feeing time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love courting drink work marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 323-325, "The Feeing Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 82-83, "The Feeing Time" (1 text)
Roud #2516
RECORDINGS:
Michael Gallagher, "The Hiring Time" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:036, "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C; also Murray, Mu23-y1:037, "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C [not the same as the preceding], Murray, Mu23-y3:023, "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [also distinct]
NLScotland, L.C.1270(018), "The Feeing Time," unknown, c. 1845; also L.C.Fol.178.A.2(067), "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay (Glasgow), c. 1870, L.C.Fol.70(35b), "The Feeing Time," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Hiring Fair" (plot)
SAME_TUNE:
Craigmaddie Muir (per broadsides Murray, Mu23-y1:036, Mu23=y3:023, NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(067))
NOTES: Not to be confused with "The Feein' Time (II)," which is a complaint about work similar to "The Barnyards o' Delgaty."
To earn one's fee was to go to a hiring fair and be taken on for a position. - RBW
File: Ord082
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NAME: Feeing Time (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Singer goes to Glasgow seeking a job, and is hired by a farmer. He describes the bad working conditions: the servant-maids give food to the dog instead of to the workers; the horses won't work. He'll bundle up his "auld bit rags and gang the road I cam" 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1969 (collected from John MacDonald)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad horse worker rambling travel
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 104, "The Feein' Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FEETIME*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Walk the Road Again" (lyrics)
cf. "The Barnyards o' Delgaty" (theme)
cf. "Copshawholm Fair" (subject)
NOTES: Somehow, the last verse of "I Walk the Road Again" seems to have made it across the Atlantic and gotten translated into Scots. - PJS
Not to be confused with "The Feeing Time (II)," which is a song about a courtship.
To earn one's fee was to go to a hiring fair and be taken on for a position. - RBW
File: McCST104
===
NAME: Felix the Soldier
DESCRIPTION: Felix reports, "They took away my brogues... And a soldier of me made...." "But the Injuns they were sly, and the Frenchies they were coy, so they shot off the left leg of this poor Irish boy." Back home, his family grieves but Felix is glad to be safe
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: soldier war injury
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1754-1763 - French and Indian War (the hottest phase of the colonial conflict between France and England)
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Warner 50, "Felix the Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 18, "Felix the Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FELXSOLD*
Roud #2805
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Kerry Recruit" [Laws J8] (theme)
cf. "Mrs. McGrath" (theme)
File: Wa050
===
NAME: Feller from Fortune: see Lots of Fish in Bonavist' Harbour (Feller from Fortune) (File: FJ122)
===
NAME: Feller That Looks Like Me, The: see The Fellow that Looks Like Me [Laws H21] (File: LH21)
===
NAME: Fellow that Looks Like Me, The [Laws H21]
DESCRIPTION: The singer is stopped and made to pay a bill he never incurred, then beaten up for wronging a girl he does not know, and finally arrested and convicted for a crime he didn't commit. Only when the police find "the fellow that looks like me" is he freed
AUTHOR: J. F. Poole
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: humorous reprieve courting infidelity accusation trial police prisoner
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws H21, "The Fellow that Looks Like Me"
Randolph 463, "The Fellow that Looks Like Me" (1 text)
Mackenzie 145, "The Fellow That Looks Like Me" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fellow That Looks Like Me" (source notes only)
DT 707, LOOKSME
Roud #2187
RECORDINGS:
Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, "The Feller That Looks Like Me" (Brunswick 184, 1927)
Asa Martin, "The Fellow That Looks Like Me" (Supertone 9642, 1930)
Charlie Newman, "The Fellow That's Just Like Me" (OKeh 45116, 1927)
File: LH21
===
NAME: Felton Lonnin (Pelton Lonnin') (I, II, III)
DESCRIPTION: Pipe tune, with assorted incidental lyrics: "The kye's come hame but aw see not ma hinny, The key's come hame but aw see not ma bairn." Or "There's three fames horses frae Felton Lonnin.'" Or "The swine cam jumpin' down Pelton Lonnin'."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay), who attribute one set of words to 1793
KEYWORDS: music animal love separation beauty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 150-151, "Felton Lonnin'" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #3166
NOTES: This piece presents a genuine puzzle to the collector: Three songs, or one? Stokoe's first version, a fragment, certainly looks traditional. The third probably is, too, it looks a bit like a singing game. The second looks more like a broadside.
None of the versions seems very well known. And they all use the same tune, described as a pipe tune. I finally decided to lump them. Roud does the same.
The first text was expanded by Johnny Handle into a full-grown missing-love song and recorded by Ray Fisher, but only the first two verses and the tune are traditional. - RBW
File: StoR150
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NAME: Female Drummer (I), The: see The Soldier Maid (File: DTsoldma)
===
NAME: Female Drummer (II), The: see The Drum Major (The Female Drummer) (File: HHH797)
===
NAME: Female Highwayman, The [Laws N21]
DESCRIPTION: (Sylvie) decides to test her love's faithfulness. Dressed as a (male) robber, she stops him on the road. He gives her his watch and gold, but refuses to hand over his diamond ring. She lets him go, satisfied of his faithfulness, and later reveals herself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 25(1877))
KEYWORDS: outlaw cross-dressing disguise love
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont) Britain(England(South)) Australia Ireland
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Laws N21, "The Female Highwayman"
Warner 58, "Pretty Sylvia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 133-134, "The Female Highwayman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 27, "Wexford City" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 25, "Silvy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 342-343, "Gold Watch and Chain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 129, "Zillah" (1 text), "The Diamond Ring" (1 text)
Manny/Wilson 52, "The Female Highwayman (Nelly Ray)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 334, "Sylvia" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H35, pp. 327-328, "The Female Highwayman" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 451, FEMHWAY* SOVAY*
Roud #7
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Sovay, the Female Highwayman" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd3)
Tim Walsh, "Sylvia" (on FSB7)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1877), "Sylvia's Request, and William's Denial" ("Fair Sylvia on a certain day, Drest herself in man's array"), J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also 2806 c.16(131), Harding B 11(4362), Firth c.17(26), Harding B 11(3723), Harding B 15(326b), Harding B 15(327a), "Sylvia's Request, and William's Denial"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sovay, Sovay
Sophie
Sylvia's Request and William's Denial
NOTES: According to Patrcik Pringle, _Stand and Deliver: Highwaymen from Robin Hood to Dick Turpin_, chapter 7, "Wicked Ladies," there were a few known instances of female highwaymen during their great era in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
He mentions specifically Mary Frith ("Molly Cutpurse"), though she was first and foremost a fence rather than a highway(wo)man (to be a highwayman, one had to have a horse, and a pistol generally helped, too). She supposed was the subject of Dekker and Middleton's 1611 play "The Roaring Girls" but her death is dated 1659.
Pringle does not mention a case similar to that in this song.
Jerome S. Epstein, who transcribed the Warner version of Lena Bourne Fish, noted the peculiar tonal peregrination of the tune -- it appears to be in the key of C, but uses all of the following tones (ascending the scale): B C D E F F# G A Bb C. He comments that this sort of modal modulation is very rare in folk song -- but in fact the result, except for that one stray Bb and the ending on C, is pretty close to the Dorian version of "Sovay" I have heard. It sounds to me as if it's a Dorian tune partly and imperfectly moved to Ionian.
Mackenzie's peculiar name for the girl, Zillah, recalls Lamech's wife in Genesis 4:19-23, but I don't know if that is significant. - RBW
File: LN21
===
NAME: Female Rambling Sailor
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you people far and near And listen to my ditty" of a girl who disguises herself and goes to sea after her impressed lover is drowned. She proves a brave sailor, but at last is killed and her sex discovered. The singer wishes her well in death 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (Broadside NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(147))
KEYWORDS: love separation pressgang death sailor cross-dressing
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, RMBSAIL3
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y4:042, "Female Rambling Sailor," unknown, 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(147), "Female Rambling Sailor," unknown, c. 1870
File: DTrmbsl3
===
NAME: Female Sailor Bold [Laws N3]
DESCRIPTION: (Jane Thornton) dresses as a sailor to seek her lover, a captain. When she reaches New York, she learns that he is dead. She serves at sea for several years before returning to London. There her sex, and eventually her story, are revealed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: cross-dressing sea love
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws N3, "Female Sailor Bold"
Creighton-NovaScotia 34, "Female Sailor Bold" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 591, FSAILBLD
Roud #1699
File: LN03
===
NAME: Female Smuggler, The
DESCRIPTION: The smuggler's daughter dresses in men's clothes to serve her father. She fights off a raider, but eventually is taken by "the blockade." During her trial, she reveals her sex. Her bravery commends her to a gentleman, who gains her pardon and marries her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Shay)
KEYWORDS: cross-dressing ship sailor trial punishment reprieve marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 234-235, "The Female Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 333-334, "The Female Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 190-194, "The Female Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FEMLSMUG
Roud #1200
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y4:034, "The Female Sailor," unknown, 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Fair Phoebe and her Dark-Eyed Sailor)" [Laws N35] (tune, per broadsides Bodleian Johnson Ballads 2483, Bodleian Harding B 11(498), Bodleian Harding B 11(499))
File: CoSB234
===
NAME: Female Warrior, The (Pretty Polly) [Laws N4]
DESCRIPTION: A girl boards ship to learn the sailor's craft. After some years in service, her ship encounters a pirate/raider. The captain is quickly slain, and the girl assumes command. She overcomes the enemy. In some texts she goes to London to be rewarded
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1830
KEYWORDS: cross-dressing battle pirate death ship drink 
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar,Ont) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws N4, "The Female Warrior (Pretty Polly)"
Eddy 47, "The Female Warrior" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 85, "Pretty Polly" (1 text)
Mackenzie 84, "As We Were A-Sailing" (1 text)
Doerflinger, pp. 143-144, "The Female Warrior" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 124-125, "The Beauty of Baltimore" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 83, "The Rainbow" (1 text, 1 tune, perhaps this piece; see note)
BBI, ZN1749, "Margaret my sweetest, Margaret I must go" (listed as Laws N4 though the description sounds more like N8)
Roud #492
RECORDINGS:
Bob Hart, "A Broadside" (on Voice08)
Cyril Poacher, "A Broadside" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 16(93a), "Female Captain," unknown, n.d.; Bodleian, Firth c.13(255), "Down by the Spanish Shore", W. Harris (Birmingham), n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary Ambree" (plot)
NOTES: The song "The Rainbow" collected by MacColl and Seeger from Nelson Ridley in 1974 has lyrics from this song, and their notes makes it clear they identify it with this piece. Ridley's text is hopelessly confused, with no plot and some repetition of lyrics; Paul Stamler notes that it "almost [sounds] like the 'maid' being referred to is actually the ship." - PJS, RBW
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 2" - 11.9.02: "Frank Kidson noted a Yorkshire set of this song and comments that as it concerns a sea battle between the English and the Spanish, it must be of some considerable age. (_Traditional Tunes_ 1891, pp. 99-100).... Kidson also notes the connection between the ship 'The Rainbow' and one of the same name that is to be found in the ballad of 'Captain Ward'...." [ Kidson's text ends "Good health unto this damsel who fought all on the main, And here's to the royal gallant ship called Rainbow by name."; Cyril Poacher's text for that on Voice02 is slightly different; Bob Hart's text on Voice08 names the ship "The Royal."] - BS
Apart from the pirate, incidentally, this song bears some resemblance to an actual happening -- though the song predates the event. In 1856, the clipper _Neptune's Car_  was to sail from New York to San Francisco under Captain Joshua Adams Patten.
Unfortunately, shortly before the ship set sail, Patten's first mate broke his leg and had to be left ashore. The company hired another mate, but he quickly quarrelled with Patten (indeed, since Patten was racing two other vessels around Cape Horn, he may have been a ringer, hired by someone to slow the passage of the _Neptune's Car_). Patten had him arrested.
That left Patten as the only qualified navigator in the crew -- and, as it turned out, he was suffering from tuberculosis. After about a week of trying to work two shifts, he collapsed. This during the most dangerous part of the passage, during what proved to be an unusually stormy September in the area of the Cape.
Salvation for the ship came in the form of Patten's wife Mary Ann Patten, a teenager who was pregnant for the first time -- but whom Joshua Patten had taught navigation on a previous voyage.  With the help of the crew and the second mate, she took over the ship, brought her through Cape Horn, and eventually got it to San Francisco. It was a slow passage, but they made it.
The ending isn't very happy; Joshua Patten, who was barely 30, died in mid-1857, and Mary Ann Patten, not yet 25, had contracted his tuberculosis and died in 1861. But she *had* successfully brought the _Neptune's Car_ around Cape Horn. Possibly the story -- which was widely reported, and which brought Mary Ann Patten a thousand dollar reward from the company insuring the _Neptune's Car_ -- could have helped make this song popular. - RBW
File: LN04
===
NAME: Fency King and the English King, The: see King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France [Child 164] (File: C164)
===
NAME: Fenian Man-of-War, The: see The British Man-of-War (File: FSC013)
===
NAME: Fenian Song (I), A
DESCRIPTION: "The Queen's Own Regiment was their name, From fair Toronto town they came, To put thie Irish all to shame, The Queen and Colonel Booker." But the loyalist forces are routed: "See how they run from their Irish foe, The Queen's and Colonel Booker!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958
KEYWORDS: Canada battle political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 31, 1866 - Some 1200 Fenians under General O'Neill invade the Niagara area
June 2, 1866 - The Fenian's victory at Lime Ridge near Ridgeway
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 100-101, ""A Fenian Song (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 1, "A Fenian Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FENIANSG*
Roud #4531
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Fenian Song" (subject)
cf. "The Fenian Song (II)" (theme)
NOTES: Many Irish immigrants in America retained their hatred for Britain. The Fenians were an organization devoted to freeing Ireland. The organization was founded in 1858 by James Stephens (who had been active in the revolution of 1848 and survived partly because he was reported dead; for his story, see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy"), and quickly spread; the British government felt the need to suppress the group in 1865. Stephens and others were taken prisoner; although he escaped, it turned him cautious; he no longer had the nerve to take aggressive action. That pretty well killed the group as an active set of rebels; their attempt at an Irish rebellion would fail in 1867.
But the Fenian movement did not die; individuals kept trying things, though none of their tricks amounted to much. This song chronicles an early example.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, when the U.S. and Britain were not on the best of terms over the Alabama Claims and the like, the Fenians conceived the idea of invading Canada and holding it hostage for Ireland's freedom. They thought that the American government would go along.
Unfortunately, they were not united; according to Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, pp. 143-144, by 1866 the American Fenians were split into two groups, one led by John O'Mahony, the other by the more radical Thomas Sweeney.
Mahony, the more rational and established leader, nonetheless let himself be goaded into action, staging a sort of demonstration against Canada: "Members of his decimated Fenian Brotherhood began converging on the town of Eastport in Maine.... The small army went into action on April 15, invading Indian Island, a small chunk of Canada... Washington sent troops and warships to Eastport, and O'Mahony's Fenians immediately withdrew."
That didn't deter the Sweeney faction.
On May 31, 1866, the Fenian General John O'Neill led 1200 men from Buffalo into the Niagara area. The Canadian government mustered various forces to deal with them. One of these was the Queen's Own Rifles, at that time hardly better than a militia regiment. Through a mixup, the Rifles did not wait for the rest of the Loyalist forces, but a detachment under Lt. Colonel Alfred Booker attacked the Fenians.
The result was a complete rout of the Loyalists. It did the Fenians no good, however. Within days the Canadian forces had assembled, and they were much larger, better equipped, and better trained than the Fenians. O'Neill retreated, and the Fenians never amounted to much thereafter. Eventually the U.S. government put a stop to their border raids.
For the aftermath of this story, see "An Anti-Fenian Song."
The Fenians, of course, eventually evolved into other independence organizations. A member of one of those organizations perhaps summed up why they failed so often: They just weren't single-minded enough. Tim Pat Coogan, in _Michael Collins_, p. 116, reports a quote from Vinnie Byrne, a member of one of those later organizations:
"Collins was a marvel. If he hadn't done the work he did, we'd still be under Britain. Informers and drink would have taken care of us."
That is perhaps too strong; there were other determined leaders in the 1916-1920 period. But the Fenians didn't have a one of those other leaders, let alone a Collins. So they wasted their energy on schemes like this.
For information on the founding of the Fenians, see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy." For their one major success in one of their gimmicks, see "The Fenian's Escape (The Catalpa)." For other examples of the Fenians' ineffectiveness, see "The British Man-of-War" and "The Smashing of the Van (I)." - RBW
File: FMB100
===
NAME: Fenian Song (II), The
DESCRIPTION: If you happen to walk out Someone in your ears are humming, And they'll ask if you know When the Fenians are a coming.... They dare not 'vade our soil, Nor try to work us wrongful"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: violence nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 31, 1866 - Some 1200 Fenians under General O'Neill invade the Niagara area
June 2, 1866 - The Fenian's victory at Lime Ridge near Ridgeway
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Mackenzie 149, "The Fenian Song" (1 text)
Roud #3285
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Fenian Song" (theme)
cf. "A Fenian Song (I)" (subject)
NOTES: Mackenzie: "The so-called Fenian Brotherhood was formed in New York in 1857. Its main purpose, apparently, was to 'set Ireland free,' but among its subsidiary projects was an invasion of Canada from the United States. In Canada there was for a time a good deal of excitement accompanied by the drafting and training of young men for the purpose of sweeping back the threatening tide." Mackenzie thinks this fragment was "probably a Canadian recruiting song." - BS
For additional background to the Fenian invasion of Canada, see "A Fenian Song (I)." For the organization's founding, see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy."  - RBW
File: Mack149
===
NAME: Fenian's Escape, The (The Catalpa)
DESCRIPTION: The Catalpa, an American whaler, wanders by Perth on regatta day. (Six) Fenians, having spent years in chains, flee for the ship. Although the Georgette tries to interfere with the escape, the Irishmen get aboard and are taken to America
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: rebellion prisoner escape ship whaler
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1876 - The Catalpa Rescue
FOUND_IN: Australia Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
O'Conor, p. 55, "The Fenian's Escape" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More 48, "The Fenians' Escape" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 56-57, "The Catalpa" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 20-21, "The Catalpa" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FENESCAP*
Roud #5480
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries" (tune)
NOTES: This is one of the more successful of the various crazy Fenian exploits.
To start with the prisoners: Thomas Darragh, Martin Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, Robert Cranston, and James Wilson had been transported for life in 1866 for their role in the United Irish Brotherhood's planned uprising -- not really a fair sentence, given that nothing much actually happened, but the British didn't want any more interference in Ireland.
The _Catalpa_ (a three-masted bark built 1844) alternated between merchant service and whaling until 1874, when she was purchased by John T. Richardson. In that year, under the command of George S. Anthony (Richardson's son-in-law), the ship set out on what was ostensibly a whaling trip.
By this time, the six Fenians had earned their tickets-of-leave (i.e. the right to work on their own), and had been contacted by four rescuers. On April 17, 1876, the ten boarded a rowboat sent out (and commanded) by Anthony. It took them 28 hours to reach the _Catalpa_, pursued by the mail steamer _Georgette_, but they made it.
The _Georgette_ later overhauled the _Catalpa_, and threated to stop her, but Anthony claimed the protection of the American flag, and actually got away with it. The ship made it to New York on August 19, 1876, and was given a hero's welcome at New Bedford a few days later.
Ironically, Anthony ended up in a certain amount of trouble because he hadn't done enough whaling on the trip to cover expenses. - RBW
File: FaE056
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NAME: Ferd Harold Blues: see Alabama Bound (Waterbound II) (File: BMRF598)
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NAME: Fergus O'Connor and Independence
DESCRIPTION: Remember O'Connell's victory over Vesey in '29. Don't vote now for "those tithe-eating gentry." "Be advised by the clergy our Lord sent to guide you, And vote for brave Fergus and Sheela na Guira." Send Fergus to London. Repeal the Union.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1832 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 43, "A New Song in Praise of Fergus O'Connor and Independence" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War) and references there
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (II)" (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
NOTES: The context is "The Tithe War": O'Connell's Catholic Association was formed in 1823 to resist the requirement that Irish Catholics pay tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland. The "war" was passive for most of the period 1823-1836, though there were violent incidents in 1831 (source: _The Irish Tithe War 1831_ at the OnWar.com site)
Zimmermann: "Fergus O'Connor, before becoming the most prominent spokesman of the Chartist movement in England, was elected M.P. for Cork in 1832 and 1835."
The reference to 1829 and Vesey has to do with the July 1828 election in which Daniel O'Connell defeated Vessey Fitzgerald as Westminster MP from County Clare (see "The Shan Van Voght (1828)").
The last line of each verse is a variation of "Vote for brave Fergus and Sheela na Guira" or "Repeal the Union for Sheela na Guira." Zimmermann's tune is "Sighile Ni Ghadra." The following note is from Andrew Kuntz's "The Fiddler's Companion" site: "'Sheela Nee Guira' was one of the numerous allegorical names of Ireland; and this song['Sighile Ni Ghadhra'] was a patriotic one, though it could be sung with safety in the time of the Penal Laws, as it was in the guise of a love song." - BS
When England pushed Ireland into the Parliamentary Union after the 1798 rebellion, William Pitt had wanted to make a great concession: He wanted to permit Catholics to vote.Parliament rejected this out of hand, meaning that the Members for Ireland ended up being all Protestant. Even had one been elected, they could not in good conscience take the membership oath, which reviled Catholicism. (See Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 100.)
But there was nothing in the law which prevented Catholics from running.
In 1828, at the height of his popularity, O'Connell decided to do just that. William Vesey Fitzgerald, a Member for Clare, had taken a government position, and so had to contest a by-election for his seat.
The irony is, Vesey Fitzgerald was "an emancipationist [i.e. he stood for giving Catholics voting rights], a kind and popular landlord... and the son of a Patriot in Grattan's parliament." In other words, the sort of man Ireland needed. But his was the seat that was available. O'Connell ran against him, and won by 2057 votes to 982. (Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, pp. 220-221). In 1829, the British Parliament gave in and passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, opening all but the very highest offices to Catholics (though another act raised the property requirement for voting, meaning that most Catholics were still excluded).
Fergus (or Feargus) O'Connor (1794-1855) was one of the first to take advantage of the new conditions. In 1832, he was elected to Parliament from County Cork on the Repeal platform (calling for the repeal of the Union of Ireland and Great Britain). He was expelled in 1835 for being too poor, leading him to found a newspaper, the _Northern Star_, in 1837. He is said to have gone insane in 1850.
Incidentally, O'Connell would later say that the zeal of men like O'Connor actually hurt the cause of Repeal; they pushed him to bring it up in the British parliament too soon, causing the measure to go down in flames in 1834 (see Robert Kee, _The Most Distressful Country_, being Volume I of _The Green Flag_, pp. 190-191).
For a song more obliquely talking about the events of this period, see "The Ass's Complaint." - RBW
File: Zimm043
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NAME: Ferryland Sealer, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, our schooner and our sloop in Ferryland they do lie, They are already rigged to be bound for the ice...." The singer describes the provisioning of the ship, the path she follows, the work of sealing. He rejoices as they return home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (collected from Leonard Hulan)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship travel
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fowke/MacMillan 16, "The Ferryland Sealer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 120-121, "Ferryland Sealer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 22-23, "Ferryland Sealer" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FERRSEAL
Roud #4533
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Noble Fleet of Sealers"
NOTES: Although this song has been published in several sources, it appears likely that the only source is Leonard Hulan. It has some slight similarities to "A Noble Fleet of Sealers," but seems to be to a separate piece. - RBW
Peacock also has his version from Leonard Hulan. However, he claims a similar "variant" of "this fine old sealing song... was noted from George Decker in Rocky Harbour." Of course, Decker may have learned his version from Hulan who lives about 85 miles as the crow flies up the west coast from Decker. - BS
File: FowM016
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NAME: Festive Lumber-jack
DESCRIPTION: "I've been around the world a bit, an' seen beasts great an' small... He leaves the woods with his bristles raised... He's known by men of science as the festive lumberjack." The lumberjack's exploits end when his drink money runs out
AUTHOR: Ed Springstad and "a negro called Bill" ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: logger humorous drink money bragging
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 23, "The Festive Lumber-jack" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Rick095 (Partial)
NOTES: According to Rickaby's informant, Ed Springstad, this song was composed in Crystal, North Dakota around 1900. From the sound of it, most of the real work of composition was by "Bill." Rickaby also says the song was well-known in Minnesota. I know of no supporting evidence. - RBW
File: Rick095
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NAME: Fethard Life-Boat Crew (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The Mexico, from America to Liverpool, is "dashed to pieces along the beach of Burrow's lonely shore." The Fethard Lifeboat crew "launched their boat at Fethard Quay ... to save the shipwrecked sailors." The lifeboat itself is wrecked.
AUTHOR: James Mahony of Bride St, Wexford
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS:  drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor rescue
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 20-21, 1914 - The Mexico wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 44, "The Fethard Life-Boat Crew" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mexico" (subject) and references there
cf. "The Hantoon" (tune)
NOTES: Ranson: Tune is "The Hantoon" on p. 46.
February 20, 1914: "Nine members of the Fethard lifeboat were drowned when going to the assistance of the Norwegian steamer _Mexico_.... Eight of the Mexico's crew were saved by the five lifeboat survivors. All but one of the stranded survivors were saved with great difficulty the next day." (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, pp. 52-53) - BS
We note that at least four poems were written about this disaster (see the cross-references); one suspects a campaign to raise money for someone's family. - RBW
File: Ran044
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NAME: Fethard Life-Boat Crew (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Schooner Mexico strikes Keeragh Rock. Nine of the life-boat crew are lost but Kelly reaches Mexico and gets a line to those that reach the rocks. Mexico crew is hauled to shore. One dies "from cold and exposure" before they are rescued three days later.
AUTHOR: Matthew Barden
EARLIEST_DATE: 1943 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor rescue
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 20-21, 1914 - The Mexico wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 58-59, "The Fethard Life-Boat Crew" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mexico" (subject) and references there
NOTES: February 20, 1914: "Nine members of the Fethard lifeboat were drowned when going to the assistance of the Norwegian steamer _Mexico_.... Eight of the Mexico's crew were saved by the five lifeboat survivors. All but one of the stranded survivors were saved with great difficulty the next day." (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, pp. 52-53) - BS
We note that at least four poems were written about this disaster (see the cross-references); one suspects a campaign to raise money for someone's family. - RBW
File: Ran058
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NAME: Fethard Life-Boat Crew (III), The
DESCRIPTION: Mexico and its rescuers in the Fethard life-boat are wrecked in a storm on Keeragh Rock on the Wexford coast. "The crew of the gallant Mexico, though terror-stricken, too, They rendered all assistance to the drowning life-boat crew"; 9 rescuers drown
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 20-21, 1914 - The Mexico wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 122, "The Fethard Life-Boat Crew" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mexico" (subject) and references there
NOTES: February 20, 1914: "Nine members of the Fethard lifeboat were drowned when going to the assistance of the Norwegian steamer _Mexico_.... Eight of the Mexico's crew were saved by the five lifeboat survivors. All but one of the stranded survivors were saved with great difficulty the next day." (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, pp. 52-53) - BS
We note that at least four poems were written about this disaster (see the cross-references); one suspects a campaign to raise money for someone's family. - RBW
File: Ran122
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NAME: Few Days
DESCRIPTION: "Well, I pitched my tent on this campground, Few days, few days, And I give old Satan another round, And I am going home. I can't stay in these diggings, few days, few days, I can't stay in these diggings And I am going home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad mining
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 644, "Tree in Paradise" (3 short texts; the "A" version combines "Few Days" with a "Tree in Paradise" text; "B" is too short to classify easily; "C" seems to be mostly "All My Trials"; there may also be influence from "Is Your Lamps Gone Out" or the like)
Lomax-ABFS, p. 566, "Few Days" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, (FEWDAYS -- the mining parody)
Roud #15561
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Zaccheus Climbed the Sycamore Tree" (lyrics)
NOTES: This originated as a hymn, and later was adapted by miners to describe their lives. Since, however, the miners' version took over the hymn in its entirety, simply tacking new verses on the end, we really can't separate the pieces.
Spaeth lists a song by Albert Holland, "Few Days" or "I'm Going Home," from 1854. It certainly sounds like the same song, but I can't prove it. - RBW
File: LxA566
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NAME: Fhear a Bhata (Fhir a Bhata: I Climb the Mountains)
DESCRIPTION: Song of longing with a Gaelic chorus. The singer asks where is her lover, the boatman. When will she see him? Her friends/other boatmen say he is unfaithful. She waits long, and looks far for word of her lover, fearing she has been forgotten
AUTHOR: Jane Finlayson (late 18th century)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation sailor foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) Ireland Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H834, pp. 289-290, "The Boatman/Fear a Bhata" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 786-787, "Fhir a Bhata" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FBHATA* THEBOATM*
ADDITIONAL: Bell/O Conchubhair, Traditional Songs of the North of Ireland, pp. 26-28, "Fear an Bhata" ("The Boatman") [Gaelic and English]
Roud #4356
NOTES: The Lesley Nelson-Burns site Folk Music of England Scotland Ireland, Wales & America collection is the source for the translation -- by Lachlan MacBean -- used as the basis for the DESCRIPTION, as well as for the attribution. That site's entry for the song credits Craig Cockburn with the data and includes other important information. However, MacBean's translation, apparently copied from _The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands_ edited by Alfred Moffat (Bayley & Ferguson, Glasgow), pp. 18-19 in the soft-cover edition printed ca 1960, pp. 26-27 in the hard-cover edition printed ca 1908, is written to be sung to the original music and so may not exactly carry the sense of the Gaelic. The translation of the chorus is from a note sent by George Seto whose site includes, among other subjects, Cape Breton Music and -- more to the point here -- an index of published Gaelic songs. 
The chorus
"Fhir a bhata, na horo-eile, Gu ma slan dut,
's gach ait an teid thu"
meaning
"O my boatman, na horo eile, Wishing health to you,
And [at] each place, will you come (return) [to me]?"
includes untranslated phrases such as "na horo eile." Creighton and MacLeod, _Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia_ (National Museums of Canada 1979) refers to these phrases as "Gaelic vocables" (e.g., p 181). My take on this is that they are untranslatable in the same sense that the yodel of a Jimmy Rodgers blue yodel is transcribable into French but not translatable.
Peacock notes that this "is called a milling song ... used to accompany the work of shrinking wool homespun.  The wet cloth is alternately kneaded and pounded on a large table by several people either seated or standing. A leader sings the verses, and everyone comes in on the chorus." "Milling wool" and "waulking tweed" is the same process. For a note on the process and the songs see "Waulking" by Craig Cockburn at the Silicon Glen site- BS
In a way, this isn't really a single song, because the translated version has circulated on its own. But it seemed better to lump to prevent confusion. - RBW
File: HHH834
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NAME: Fhideag Airgid, An: see The Silver Whistle (File: K009)
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NAME: Fiddle-Dee-Dee: see The Fly and the Bumblebee (Fiddle-Dee-Dee) (File: Lins196)
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NAME: Fiddle-I-Fee: see I Had a Little Rooster (Farmyard Song) (File: R352)
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NAME: Fiddler's Bitch, The
DESCRIPTION: In this cante-fable, a captain wagers his ship against a fiddler's violin, betting that he can bed the fiddler's virtuous wife.  The captain wins.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy fiddle wife seduction humorous infidelity wager
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 346-347, "The Fiddler's Bitch" (3 texts, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN1521, "It was a Rich Merchant man"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Polly Wolly Doodle" (tune)
cf. "Redesdale and Wise William" [Child 246] (plot)
cf. "The Twa Knights" (plot)
NOTES: The unidentified melody in Randolph-Legman I is the blackface minstrel song "Polly-Wolly-Doodle." - EC
This plot, of course, occurs repeatedly in folklore and mythology (some versions of the account of the love affair of Aphrodite and Ares, first narrated in the Odyssey VIII.266ff., are similar) -- but one may doubt whether this bawdy version has any classical roots. - RBW
WBO reports, on the basis of the British broadside "The Merchant and the Fidlers wife," that "Legman's cante-fable designation is nonsense." - WBO,RBW
File: RL346
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NAME: Fiddling Soldier: see One Morning in May (To Hear the Nightingale Sing) [Laws P14] (File: LP14)
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NAME: Field Calls
DESCRIPTION: "Field Call" is a term for a musical segment sung by field workers. Many had lyrics, and some sort of communicative purpose. Others were wordless laments, and are listed here
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: (undatable)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 83-84, (no title) (3 texts, 3 tunes)
NOTES: It should be evident that this list of field calls is very incomplete. - RBW
File: CNFM083
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NAME: Field of Monterey, The
DESCRIPTION: "A bugle horn is chanting now, A chorus far and free, And ev'rything rejoices For the glorious victory." The Americans have won a signal victory, but the singer grieves because her love has been slain in the bloody battle
AUTHOR: Marion Dix Sullivan ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Heart Songs; a ballad with this title, by Sullivan, was published 1846)
KEYWORDS: battle war Mexico death separation grief
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sept 20-24, 1846 - Battle of Monterrey (part of the Mexican War). General Zachary Taylor captures the city, but the fight is bloody
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 665, "The Field of Monterey" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7366
File: R665
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NAME: Fielding: see Charles Augustus (or Gustavus) Anderson [Laws D19] (File: LD19)
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NAME: Fiery Clock Fyece, The
DESCRIPTION: "O Dick, what's kept ye a' this time?... O hinny, Dolly, sit thee doon.... The Newcassel folks hes catch'd a moon An' myed it a bonny clock-fyece." The singer tells of the lighted clock a St. Nicolas's church, and how people were amazed
AUTHOR: Robert Nunn
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay); Nunn died 1853
KEYWORDS: nonballad technology
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 82-83, "The Fiery Clock Fyece" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3144
File: StoR082
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NAME: Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest: see Dead Man's Chest  (File: LxA512)
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NAME: Fifteen Ships on Georges' Banks [Laws D3]
DESCRIPTION: A great storm strikes Georges' Banks in February, 1862. Fifteen ships from Gloucester are caught in the storm; all ships are lost and most if not all of the crews. The sad fate of the families of the lost is mentioned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: storm disaster ship sea death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 24, 1862 - The great storm of George's Banks. Fifteen ships are lost; thirteen of them go down with all hands
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws D3, "Fifteen Ships on Georges' Banks"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 129, "George's Bank" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 781-783, "Fifteen Ships on George's Banks"
Darling-NAS, pp. 182-183, "Fifteen Ships of Georges' Banks" (1 text)
DT 610, GEORGES
Roud #2229
File: LD03
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NAME: Fifty Cents: see I Had But Fifty Cents (File: R485)
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NAME: Fight for Home and Honor, A: see The Homestead Strike (File: Gil198)
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NAME: Fightin' Booze Fighter, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports, "I'm a howler from the prairies of the west; If you want to die with terror, look at me..." and goes on to describe how terrible he is. The chorus replies "He's a killer and a hater! He's the great annihilator!" and so forth
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933
KEYWORDS: cowboy fight
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 35, "Cowboy Boasters" (5 texts, 2 tunes; this is the "A" text)
Roud #11214
NOTES: The Fifes seem to think this is a traditional example of cowboy boasting. I can't bring myself to believe it; it's too contrived. - RBW
File: FCW035A
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NAME: Fighting For Strangers: see Our Captain Calls All Hands (Fighting for Strangers) (File: Pea416)
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NAME: Filer, The
DESCRIPTION: Recitation. On a spree, Jim McCloud tells his foreman to cut off his leg, as it's loose. The foreman offers to cut Jim's head (his "weakest part") off instead. Jim answers that a foreman doesn't need to use his head, but a filer does, so he'll keep it
AUTHOR: Probably Marion Ellsworth
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation; Jim McCloud is a filer of saws in a lumber-camp; a drinker, he's sometime gone for a week at a time. After one of these sprees, he tells his foreman to cut off his leg, as it's loose. The foreman says that's too hard a job for him, and offers to cut Jim's head off instead, "as that is your weakest part." Jim replies that while a foreman doesn't need to use his head, a filer does, so he'll keep it.
KEYWORDS: lumbering work drink humorous recitation
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 99, "The Filer" (1 text)
Roud #8878
NOTES: This, like the other pieces probably written by Ellsworth, does not seem to have entered oral tradition. - PJS
File: Be099
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NAME: Filipino Hombre, A
DESCRIPTION: "There was once a Filipino hombre Who ate rice pescado y legumbre. His trousers were wide, and his shirt hung outside, And this, I may say, was costumbre." In mixed English and pidgin Spanish, the singer demeaningly describes the Filipino's family
AUTHOR: Captain Lyman A. Cotten
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: political family death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1898 - The U.S. captures the Philippines from Spain. The Americans were unwilling to grant the islands independence, so many soldiers had to be sent to garrison the islands. Neither side had much regard for the other
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 434-435, "A Filipino Hombre" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: San434
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NAME: Fill, Bowl, Fill
DESCRIPTION: A servant outwits a king, beds the queen, and marries the princess in this cante-fable.  When the king orders the servant to fill a bowl with song, the servant cleverly retells the story of his triumph, until the king relents.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous seduction servant royalty
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 348-350, "Fill, Bowl, Fill" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
NOTES: For folktale references, see Vance Randolph, Who Blowed Up the Churchhouse (NY: Columbia University Press, 1952), pp. 185-186; and his Pissing in the Snow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), pp. 47-50. - EC
File: RL348
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NAME: Fille de la Garnison, La (The Garrison Girl)
DESCRIPTION: French. A soldier's mistress dresses as a boy to follow him without losing her honor. At an inn, the hostess said "I can tell... that you are a camp follower."  When she claims to be a boy the hostess challenges "him" to make love with her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting love army cross-dressing mistress soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 335-336, "La Fille de la Garnison" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Pea335
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NAME: Fille Soldat de Montcontour, La (The Girl Soldier of Montcontour)
DESCRIPTION: French. A girl dresses as a boy and joins her lover's regiment. She asks him why he is crying. He has a letter from his mom that his mistress left home seven years ago. She reveals that she is his mistress. They marry with great regimental ceremony.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting marriage army war cross-dressing mistress soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 338-339, "La Fille Soldat de Montcontour" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Pea338
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NAME: Fillimeeooreay: see Paddy Works on the Railway (File: LxU076)
===
NAME: Finding of Moses, The
DESCRIPTION: "In Agypt's land, contaygious to the Nile, Old Pharo's daughter ... saw a smiling babby in a wad of straw ...'Tare-an-ages, girls, which o' yees owns the child?'"
AUTHOR: probably Michael J. Moran (Zozimus)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: Bible humorous baby
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn, p. 230, "The Finding of Moses" (1 fragment)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 514, in a note to "Night Before Larry Was Stretched"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Moses" (plot)
NOTES: OLochlainn: "...Zozimus, who was in life Michael Moran, born ... Dublin, about the year 1794 ... composed a notable ballad on The Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes, which begins On Egypt's plains where flows the ancient Nile, Where Ibix stalks and swims the Crockadile.... It underwent many changes ... and a number of versions are extant. A fragment of one [is presented here]."
Sparling's text, exactly as complete or incomplete as OLochlainn, is in not quite as broad a slang. Sparling also attributes it to "the celebrated blind 'Zozimus' who sang his own songs." A more complete version is Frank Harte's _Songs of Dublin_: Moses' mother is picked up, by coincidence, to be his nurse. - BS
The story of Moses being abandoned by his parents (who had to hide him to prevent him from being killed) is told in Exodus 2:1-10. The picking of his mother, in the Bible, is no coincidence. His sister (presumably Miriam, but the girl is not named at this time) has followed the baby along the Nile, and when the time comes, offers to find a nurse for the baby. Naturally she chose Moses's own mother (Exodus 2:7-8). - RBW
File: OLOc230
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NAME: Fine Broom Besoms (When I Was wi' Barney)
DESCRIPTION: After singing the besom-selling chorus, the singer recalls wandering far from the home where "my mother's spinnin', Barney at the loom." She dreams of her youth when she danced with Barney. "Now the summer's over... I am tired at last."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: work home separation
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H17a, p. 60, "Fine Broom Besoms" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1623
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Buy Broom Besoms (I Maun Hae a Wife)"
NOTES: The besom-seller's cry, "Buy broom besoms, wha will buy them noo? (Fine heather ringers), better never grew" is obviously very old, and inspired Burns in 1796 to write "Wha will buy my troggin."
The street call isn't really a song, though, and it evidently invited completion, as I am aware of at least three texts with this burden:
* I Maun Hae a Wife, probably Scottish, in which the old besom-maker desperately seeks a companion.
* The Sam Henry text "Fine Broom Besoms," in which the singer misses Barney. This looks to me to be a composite of two pieces; I wish we could isolate the Barney text. It looks very beautiful in the nostalgic Irish sort of way.
* The Besom Maker, a song of seduction, printed as a broadside. - RBW
File: HHH017a
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NAME: Fine Flowers in the Valley: see The Cruel Mother [Child 20] (File: C020)
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NAME: Fine Lady Gay, The: see The Wife of Usher's Well [Child 79] (File: C079)
===
NAME: Fine Sally: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9]; also "The Brown Girl" [Child 295] (File: LP09)
===
NAME: Fine Times in Camp Number Three
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls his listener to hear two verses about lumberjacks (and then sings ten verses!). He levels some snide comments at dishonest workers, then lists all the workers on the crew (without naming names)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes logger work lumbering
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #23, "Fine Times in Camp Number Three" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4361
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rigs of the Times" (lyrics)
NOTES: I have to suspect that this is a composite song. The first verse says it's only two verses -- but the version sung by LaRena Clark has ten stanzas. The third is straight out of a Canadian version of "Rigs of the Times." My feeling is that Clark's version of "Fine Times in Camp Number Three" contaminates that with parts of "Rigs of the Times," with which it probably shared a tune. - RBW
File: FowL23
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NAME: Finest Waitress, The
DESCRIPTION: "The finest waitress I ever did see Is the handsome girl that waits on me... Polite she is to young and old, I'm sure she has a heart of gold." He praises her work, and concludes "May unseen angels ever be Near the fair blonde girl who waits on me."
AUTHOR: Edgar Hamm?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: nonballad food servant
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 250-251, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Thomas comments on this piece, "Many a mountain lad thinks on verse." On the evidence, this particular mountain lad didn't think at all -- at least with his brain. - RBW
File: ThBa250
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NAME: Finikin Lass (Finnigan Lasses)
DESCRIPTION: The singer marries a boarding school bred lady who does nothing but read novels. One day he catches her in the cellar "paying the rent." "I'd rather marry the devil than wed with a boarding school lass." "So beware of the Finnegan lasses"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1205))
KEYWORDS: shrewishness infidelity marriage beauty clothes humorous scatological wife
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 269-271, "Finnigan Lasses" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2382
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1205), "The Finical Lass," W. Stephenson (Gateshead), 1821-1838; also Harding B 25(652), "The Finical Lass"; Firth c.20(5), "Finikin Lasses"; Johnson Ballads 827, "The Finiken Lass"
NOTES: For a definition of "finikin," specifically "precise in trifles, idly busy," see TheFreeDictionary site.  The word is like current "finicky."
There is also a parody at Bodleian, Harding B 11(1206), "The Finiken Man," J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844 - BS
File: Pea269
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NAME: Finished Letter, The: see Anna Lee (The Finished Letter) (File: R775)
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NAME: Finn Waterside
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders out and hears his true love call him to Finn waterside. Her(?) parents are sending/exiling her(?) to America. She says she loves only him. He (or she) bids farewell to the local beauties
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H240, p. 192, "Finn Waterside" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13548
NOTES: This song, at least in the Henry version, is very confusing; with no indication of speakers, it is not clear whether the girl or the boy is being exiled (let alone for what reason), nor whether the final scene is a parting by the one being exiled or a promise by the other to come along, accompanied by a farewell to the old home. - RBW
File: HHH240
===
NAME: Finnegan's Wake (II): see Molly McGlocklin (File: RcMolMcG)
===
NAME: Finnegan's Wake [Laws Q17]
DESCRIPTION: Tim Finnegan, never entirely sober, falls from a ladder and cracks his head. Taken home unconscious, his wife holds a wake that soon gets out of control. Splashed with whiskey, Tim awakens and resents being thought dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1861 (broadside, LOCSinging sb40523b)
KEYWORDS: injury drink fight party
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws Q17, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" [Laws Q17]
Eddy 146, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 169, "Finnigan's Wake" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 86, "Tim Finnigan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 136, "Tim Finigan's Wake" (1 text)
OLochlainn 91, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 219, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text)
Gilbert, p. 120, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 partial text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 232, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text)
DT 528, FINNWAKE*
Roud #1009
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Finnigan's Wake" (on IRClancyMakem01)
Warde Ford, "Finnegan's Wake" [incomplete] (AFS 4212 A3, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Jack Swain, "Finnigan's Wake I" (on NFMLeach)
John Terrell, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" (Berliner 1869, 1898)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(254), "Finnigan's Wake," W.S. Fortey (London), 1858-1885; also Harding B 11(3620), Harding B 11(3619), Firth c.26(209), Harding B 11(1207), "Finnigan's Wake"
LOCSinging, sb40523b, "Tim Finigan's wake," H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Irish Wake" [Laws Q18]
cf. "The Bullockies' Ball" (theme)
cf. "Doherty's Wake" (subject)
SAME_TUNE:
The French Musician (per broadside LOCSinging sb40523b)
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb40523b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: LQ17
===
NAME: Finnigan Lasses: see Finikin Lass (Finnigan Lasses) (File: Pea269)
===
NAME: Finnigan's Wake: see Finnegan's Wake [Laws Q17] (File: LQ17)
===
NAME: Finvola, the Gem of the Roe
DESCRIPTION: "In the land of O'Cahan... Deep sunk in a valley a wild flower did grow, And her name was Finvola, the gem of the Roe." A young man in tartan comes and falls in love with her. Now she is dead (?); the locals grieve
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: death love
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H786, pp. 139-140, "Finvola, the Gem of the Roe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2291
NOTES: Yes, this song (or at least the Henry text) is as confusing as the description implies. It's not clear what the young man is introduced for, nor even if Finvola dies or is stolen away. - RBW
File: HHH786
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NAME: Fire Down Below
DESCRIPTION: "There is fire in the lower hold, There's fire down below, Fire in the main well, The captain didn't know." All places where fire has arisen (or might arise), from mast to keel, are listed. It perhaps started in the galley, and "The cook he didn't know"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Smith/Hatt)
KEYWORDS: fire ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Colcord, p. 117, "Fire Down Below" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 123-125 "Fire Down Below" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Hugill, pp. 519-522, "Fire Down Below" (5 texts, 5 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 378-381]
Sharp-EFC, XXIV, p. 27, "Fire! Fire!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 39, "Fire in the Foretop" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 83, "Fire Down Below" (1 text)
DT, FIREBELO
Roud #813
File: FSWB083A
===
NAME: Fire in the Foretop: see Fire Down Below (File: FSWB083A)
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NAME: Fire of Frendraught, The [Child 196]
DESCRIPTION: Brothers Lord John and Rothiemay are enticed by Lady Frendraught to stay at Castle Frendraught to end their feud. Their room is set afire by night. Lord John's servant offers to catch him out the window, but it is too late. Lord John's wife is heartbroken
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1794 (Ritson)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The brothers Lord John and Rothiemay are enticed by Lady Frendraught to stay at Castle Frendraught to seal a compact between their feuding families. Their room is set afire by night. Lady Frendraught expresses mild regret for killing Lord John, but none for Rothiemay. Lord John's servant offers to catch him (but not poor Rothiemay) out the window, but it is too late. When Lord John's wife hears the news, her heart is broken.
KEYWORDS: fire feud betrayal brother family trick
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: October 8/9, 1630 - The Frendraught Fire
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 196, "The Fire of Frendraught" (6 texts)
Bronson 196, "The Fire of Frendraught" (4 versions)
Friedman, p. 267, "Fire of Frendraught" (1 text)
OBB 145, "The Fire of Frendraught" (1 text)
DT 196, FRNDRGT*
Roud #336
NOTES: In terms of feud, this wasn't notably worse than much of what passed in Scotland; the survival of the song may be due to its religious associations (this was the reign of Charles I, when Puritanism was on the rise but the king appeared to be so High Church as to be soft on Catholicism).
C. V. Wedgwood writes in _The King's Peace_, p. 120,
"In 1630 a principal member of Huntly's family [Huntly was one of the leading Catholics] had perished with several companions in a fire at Frendraught, a house belonging to the Crichtons. The Crichtons, though apparently reconciled, were hereditary enemies of the Gordons, and foul play was suspected. If the horrible business had indeed been a murder and not an accident, it was probably the result of personal enmity and nothing more, but a religious motive was suspected. The Catholics told a tragic tale of the heroism of the young victim who has expounded the true faith to his companions as the flames crept up the tower in which he was trapped."
Rosalind Mitchison, in _A History of Scotland_, second edition, pp. 169-170, says this of the affair:
"[A] famous dispute... lay across Aberdeenshire in the 1630s, the affair of the burning of the tower of Frendraught, part of the Crichton homestead which went up in flames one night in October 1630 with a son of Huntly and Gordon of Rothiemay, and their attendants, inside. It was never established that this was more than a ghastly accident, but the Gordons were passionately resentful. Huntly [the chief of the Gordons] took the quarrel to the Privy Council. The Council investigated repeatedly, tortured a servant or two for information, executed a hanger-on of no great social status, but failed to gain evidence against Crichton of Frendraught. Dissatisfied, Huntley let in broken men from the Highlands to ravage Crichton land, and for years the north-east was troubled by burnings, looting, and kidnappings."- RBW
File: C196
===
NAME: Fire on the Mountain, Run, Run, Run
DESCRIPTION: Singing game, with text "Fire on the mountain, run, run, run."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton/Senior)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 260, "Fire on the Mountain, Run, Run, Run" (1 extremely short text)
Roud #4618
NOTES: Probably a lost fragment of something. But with only one line of text, we can hardly tell what. Roud, quite improbably, lumps it with "Jim Along Josie." - RBW
File: CrSe260
===
NAME: Fire Ship, The
DESCRIPTION: In naval euphemisms, a sailor meets a whore, takes her in tow, and empties his shot locker. She steals his money and clothes, and he discovers she has given him "fire down below."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1612 (London broadside, "Watten's Town End")
KEYWORDS: bawdy sailor sex warning whore disease
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(NW,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Hugill, pp. 171-172, "The Fire Ship" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 138-139]
Cray, pp. 68-71, "The Fire Ship" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 237-239, "The Fire Ship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 205-206, "The Fire Ship" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHJohnson, p. 61, "The Fire Ship" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 26, "The Fireship" (1 text)
DT, FIRSHIP
Roud #8344
RECORDINGS:
Guy Mitchell, "The Fire Ship" (Columbia 78-39067, 1950 -- a cleaned-up version, needless to say)
The Weavers, "The Roving Kind" (Decca 27332, 1950; on WeaversCD1 -- another cleaned-up version)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Firelock Stile" (plot)
cf. "The Sewing Machine" (plot)
cf. "The Wayward Boy" (plot)
cf.  "While Hanging Around Town" (plot)
cf. "A-Rovin'" (plot)
cf. "Ball of Yarn" (plot)
cf. "Boring for Oil" (plot)
cf. "Eleventh Street Whores" (plot)
cf. "Footprints on the Dashboard" (plot)
cf. "The Gay Caballero" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
She Had a Dark and a Rovin' Eye
A Dark and a Rolling Eye
NOTES: Legman has extensive notes on this ballad in Randolph-Legman I. - EC
A "fireship," as the term was usually used, was a small craft set on fire and floated into a larger vessel (or fleet) to set it afire or at least force it off-course. Hence the analogy to a prostitute who spreads disease.
Most printed and recorded versions of this have been cleaned up to some extent. - RBW
File: EM068
===
NAME: Fire, Maringo
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "Lift him up and carry him along, Fire maringo, fire away. Put him down where he belongs, Fire maringo, fire away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1884 (Charles Nordhoff's _The Merchant Vessel, a Sailor Boy's Voyages_ 1884)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, p. 16. "Fire, Maringo" (1 text, quoting Nordhoff's _The Merchant Vessel_)
DT, FIRMRING
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Fire, Marengo
NOTES: Some dispute on the origin; Hugill says that Doerflinger mentions this as being of Negro origin (but I couldn't find any mention of it in _Shantymen and Shantyboys_ [nor could I - RBW]); however, Hugill himself thinks it is Irish, citing the use of the word "maringo" which he says is found is many Irish folk-songs. - SL
File: Hugi016
===
NAME: Fire! Fire!: see Fire Down Below (File: FSWB083A)
===
NAME: Fireball MacNamara's Address to his Pistols
DESCRIPTION: MacNamara talks to his pistols on the morning of a battle. He tells how he will kill foes. He fought at Vinegar Hill. Steel, not words, will "drive foreign foes from the land" "One eloquent blow ... Would gain you more glory than ages of speech"
AUTHOR: Michael Hogan (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1880 (Hogan's _Lays and Legends of Thomond_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 128, "Fireball MacNamara's Address to his Pistols" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan: "John 'Fireball' MacNamara ... was a noted duellist and adventurer. He was reputed to have taken part, incognito, in the battle of Vinegar Hill [June 21, 1798; see, for example, the references for 'Boulavogue'], and he seconded Daniel O'Connell during the latter's duel with D'Esterre in 1815 [see references for 'Kerry Eagle']." - BS
File: Moyl128
===
NAME: Firelock Stile
DESCRIPTION: A woman is crossing Firelock Stile, she catches her clothes on a nail. A man is dazzled by the sight; she says if he'd like to play, the price is 20 guineas. Six weeks later "she gave him some fire to keep him from cold." He curses her and warns others.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recorded by Harry Cox)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: As a woman is crossing Firelock Stile, a nail catches hold of her clothes, and various private parts are exposed. A young man is dazzled at the sight; she tells him she's amazed at his gaze, but if he'd like to play, the price is 20 guineas. He would, he pays, they do, and six weeks later "she gave him some fire to keep him from cold." The young man curses her and warns others. Chorus: "On her rump-a-tump tooral tooral laddie-dy/Rump-a-tump tooral tooral day"
KEYWORDS: disease sex warning commerce bawdy whore
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 173, "Firelock Stile" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FIRELOK
Roud #1780
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "Firelock Stile" (on FSB2CD)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
NOTES: A stile was a wooden "stepping-over" place used for crossing fences; per Kennedy, it afforded prostitutes a chance to display their charms without being arrested for indecent exposure. "Firelock," of course, refers to the effect of the clap the young man catches. - PJS
File: K173
===
NAME: Fireman Save My Child: see No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child) (File: San208)
===
NAME: Fireship, The: see The Fire Ship (File: EM068)
===
NAME: First Arrival -- "Aurora" and "Walrus" Full
DESCRIPTION: "The first arrival from the ice Has just come in today; The good old ship Aurora And her colors waving gay." The ship arrives full of seals on Saint Patrick's Day. Captain Kean is celebrated. The Walrus is the next to arrive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Old Home Week Songster)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 72, "First Arrival -- 'Aurora' and 'Walrus" Full" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Arrival of the 'Grand Banks' and 'Virginia Lake' With Bumper Trips" (theme, ships)
cf. "Arrival of 'Aurora,' Diana,' 'Virginia Lake' and 'Vanguard,' Loaded" (theme, ships)
cf. "The Sealer's Song (II)" (ships)
File: RySm072
===
NAME: First Arrival from Sea Fishery S. S. Fogota, 1912
DESCRIPTION: "The first arrival from the front Is just come in today; The little ship Fogota WIth her colors waving gay." The Fogota had set out early and taken a fine load of seal. Now they return to cheers. The singer wishes captain and crew well
AUTHOR: apparently Johnny Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Burke's Ballads)
KEYWORDS: ship travel hunting return
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 82, "First Arrival from Sea Fishery S. S. Fogota, 1912" (1 text)
File: RySm082
===
NAME: First Come in it was a Rat, The: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
===
NAME: First Day Of Christmas, The: see The Twelve Days of Christmas (File: FO213)
===
NAME: First Families of Fall River
DESCRIPTION: "Old Roger Corey, old Doctor Turner, old Frank Brayton, old Hannah Leighton, old Mary Carter, old Squire Brightman, Buck Ben Durfee, and old Oliver  Read!  ...  Long Gesh, short Gesh, corner Gesh, and Gesham's Gesh...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: nonballad moniker
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Linscott, pp. 198-199, "First Families of Fall River" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3732
NOTES: The ultimate moniker song (i.e. list of people associated with a particular place or occupation): This doesn't even really say who they are; it just lists their names. - RBW
File: Lins198
===
NAME: First Night's Courtship, The
DESCRIPTION: "When I was a big boy, wi' the thoughts o' the joy," the youth meets Maggie at the fair. After some persuasion, they return to her barn. Her father comes out raging, but they have locked the barn. They flee when he seeks another entrance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: courting sex father children home
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Gardner/Chickering 167, "The First Night's Courting" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST GC168 (Partial)
Roud #3706
NOTES: Though seemingly known only from the Michigan collection, this song originated in Scotland and still retains its Scots feeling. I'm surprised it isn't more widespread. - RBW
File: GC168
===
NAME: First Noel, The
DESCRIPTION: "The first Noel the angels did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay." The shepherds and the Wise Men see signs and come to see and pay homage to the King (Jesus)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1823 (Gilbert, "Some Ancient Christmas Carols")
KEYWORDS: Jesus Christmas religious
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
OBC 27, "The First Nowell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 376, "The First Noel" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 226-227, "The First Noel"
DT, FRSTNOEL*
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "The First Noel" (on PeteSeeger37, PeteSeeger42)
SAME_TUNE:
No L (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 203)
NOTES: Allegedly based on a Cornish carol found in manuscript in 1817, and perhaps printed in eighteenth century broadsides. - RBW
File: FSWB376A
===
NAME: First Nowell, The: see The First Noel (File: FSWB376A)
===
NAME: First of the Emigrants, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is leaving England for Australia. He describes how the voyage began, and the difficult passage itself. Now settled in Australia, and prosperous, he prepares to go back to England in far better style than he left
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: emigration travel ship money return
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 149-151, "The First of the Emigrants" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 523-525, "Bound to Australia" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 383-384]
DT, FRSTEMIG*
Roud #9434
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jock Stewart (The Man You Don't Meet Every Day)" (tune, meter, chorus)
File: Doe149
===
NAME: First Time I Saw My Love, The: see My Generous Lover (File: RcMGL)
===
NAME: Fish and Brewis
DESCRIPTION: In summer we fish and jig squid. In spring we log and "make just enough to have fish and brewis. If the cutting is bad then we'll go in the hole, there's no other redemption but live on the dole"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: fishing lumbering hardtimes nonballad food
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 123-124, "Fish and Brewis" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9962
NOTES: Peacock: "Brewis (pronounced 'brews' in Newfoundland) is hard-tack soaked overnight in water, boiled up with cod-fish the following morning, and garnished with 'scruncheons' (bits of fried pork fat). Fish and brewis is supposed to be the traditional Sunday breakfast in some parts of Newfoundland. I [Peacock] personally find it virtually indigestible at any time of the day. It is one of those national dishes like the Scotch haggis which mercifully has passed from popular usage so that its peculiar attributes may be more fully appreciated at infrequent ceremonial meals." - BS
Of course, un-soaked hardtack was also nearly inedible (especially to those with poor teeth); its only virtue was that it didn't decay. Something had to be done to make it swallowable, even if the result tasted like, well, wet flour. - RBW
File: Pea122
===
NAME: Fish and Chip Ship, The
DESCRIPTION: A fresh-water crew sets out "on a four-wheeled craft ... with a cargo of fried fish" The ship hits a Christmas tree. The wind blows off the skipper's wooden leg. The crew gets drunk on engine oil. The ship sinks but the crew escapes and saves the cargo.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (recording, Bob Roberts)
KEYWORDS: commerce ship wreck humorous talltale sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1854
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "The Fish and Chip Ship" (on Voice02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
File: RcTFaCSh
===
NAME: Fish and Chips
DESCRIPTION: John and Mary stop at Rabiotti's for fish and chips. They walk down George's Street. Mary plays Rule Britannia on her melodeon. Sunday they plan to marry "with the whole afternoon for our honeymoon Down by the Liffey's side"
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: courting wedding river food music Ireland humorous river
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 249-250, "Fish and Chips" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Tan-Yard Side" (tune) [OLochlainn 41]
NOTES: The Liffey River runs about 80 miles from County Wicklow through Dublin to Dublin Bay. - BS
Peadar Kearny wrote, among other things, the Irish national anthem "The Soldier's Song" and "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." This seems a bit out of character, but I suppose every topical poet deserves a day off. For more on him, see the notes to "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." - RBW
File: OLcM249
===
NAME: Fish of the Sea, The: see Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) (File: LxA496)
===
NAME: Fisher Who Died in His Bed, The
DESCRIPTION: "Old Jim Jones the fisher, the trapper, the trawler, ... the fish-killin' banker ... died in his bed." Song tells about his trawling, trapping, catching cod, salting, tobacco chewing, sailing, "his fishing days ended...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: death fishing sea ship memorial nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 127-128, "The Fisher Who Died in His Bed" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4551
File: Pea127
===
NAME: Fisherman of Wexford, The
DESCRIPTION: The rule that none fish Wexford Bay St Martin's Eve was broken once: "upon that holy day Came a wondrous shoal of herring." Against women's cries the men went out to "sweep the Bay"; only two boats are saved when "a human shape" waves them back to shore.
AUTHOR: John Boyle O'Reilly
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck fishing supernatural recitation
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 10, 1762: 70 are lost in Wexford Bay fishing disasters (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 52)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 21-23, "The Fisherman of Wexford" (1 text)
NOTES: Ranson: The ballad states that "Upon St Martin's Eve no net shall be let down ... within the scope of Wexford Bay." No one knows when or how the rule was established. "Down to recent years no fisherman would dare put to sea on St Martin's Eve. This ballad is very popular on the Wexford coast. I have never heard it sung, but it is often recited." - BS
File: Ran021
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NAME: Fisherman's Alphabet, The
DESCRIPTION: "'A' for abundance, this we all need ..." boats, caplin, dawn... zephyr. Chorus: "So merry... are we No mortals on earth are like fishers at sea; Blow high or blow low we're jogging along. Give us a fair cull and there's nothing goes wrong."
AUTHOR: Words: Chris Cobb
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: nonballad wordplay fishing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 125-126, "The Fisherman's Alphabet" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #159
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumberman's Alphabet" (Theme and structure)
NOTES: To "cull" is to grade fish. - BS
File: Pea125
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NAME: Fisherman's Boy, The [Laws Q29]
DESCRIPTION: A poor boy, cast adrift, wanders alone, crying that his mother died and his father was lost at sea. At last a kind woman takes him in and has her father find him work. The boy serves well until he grows up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1856 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1211))
KEYWORDS: orphan family servant
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So) Canada(Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws Q29, "The Fisherman's Boy"
Eddy 67, "The Fisherman's Boy" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 99, "The Poor Fisherman's Boy" (1 text)
DT 537, FISHBOY
Roud #912
RECORDINGS:
Micho Russell, "Poor Little Fisherboy" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1211), "Fisherman's Boy," W. Jackson and Son (Birmingham), 1842-1855
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
File: LQ29
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NAME: Fisherman's Daughter, The
DESCRIPTION: "I've been caught in a net by a dear little pet...  She's a fisherman's daughter, lives over the water, She's going to be married next Sunday to me." He describes her beauty, her cheeriness, her singing. He looks forward to the wedding
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage fishing
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 786, "The Fisherman's Daughter" (1 text)
Roud #7417
NOTES: I somehow doubt this song originated in the Ozarks. - RBW
File: R786
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NAME: Fisherman's Girl, The
DESCRIPTION: A poor girl is crying out in the street. She has lost parents and friends, and is left alone. As she passes a fine house, the owner calls her in. It proves to be her brother, and she is allowed to live happily there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Eddy)
KEYWORDS: brother mercy orphan poverty
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Eddy 66, "The Fisherman's Girl" (1 text)
Warner 144, "The Fisherman's Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fisherman's Girl" (source notes only)
ST E066 (Full)
Roud #2809
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, APS.4.86.5, "The Fisherman's Girl," unknown, c. 1830
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Boy" [Laws Q29] (plot)
cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
cf. "The Orphan" (theme)
File: E066
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NAME: Fisherman's Luck: see The Frog (Fisherman's Luck) (File: MCB279)
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NAME: Fisherman's Son to the Ice Has Gone, The
DESCRIPTION: "The fisherman's son to the ice has gone, On the quarter deck you'll find him; His belt and sheathe he has girded on...." The singer tells of finding and taking the seals, then returning to "Fair Terra Nova's daughters"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Murphy, Songs Sung by Old Time Sealers of Many Years Ago)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship reunion derivative
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 134, "The Fisherman's Son to the Ice Has Gone" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Minstrel Boy" (form)
NOTES: No tune is indicated for this, but -- as the lines quoted show -- it is patently a seal-hunting version of "The Minstrel Boy." - RBW
File: RySm134
===
NAME: Fisherman's Son to the Ice is Gone, The: see The Sealer Lad (The Fisherman's Son to the Ice is Gone) (File: RySm069)
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NAME: Fishermen of Newfoundland, The: see The Flemings of Torbay [Laws D23] (File: LD23)
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NAME: Fishermen's Song (We'll Go to Sea No More)
DESCRIPTION: "O blithely shines the bonnie sun Upon the Isle of May, And blithely rolls the morning tide Into St. Andrew's Bay." "When haddocks leave the Firth of Forth, And mussels leave the shore, When oysters climb up Berwick Law, We'll go to sea no more."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Montgomerie)
KEYWORDS: fishing food
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 184, "(O blithely shines the bonnie sun)" (1 short text)
NOTES: This occurs in several anthologies of fishing poems, and I'm pretty sure I met is somewhere in the dim and misty past. I can't find any folk collections, other than the perhaps dubious one in Montgomery, but on the other hand, no one seems to know who wrote this. So I am, very hesitantly, indexing it.
It is ironic to note that this is largely coming true: Pollution and overfishing have nearly destroyed the fish stocks around the British Isles, and the small fishing vessels are nearly as extinct as the fish.
The Isle of May is a speck of land just about halfway between the north and south shores of the Firth of Forth, right at the spot where the Firth opens into the North Sea. It is thus the gateway from the Firth into the open ocean. - RBW
File: MSNR184
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NAME: Fishes, The: see Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) (File: LxA496)
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NAME: Fishing Blues
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes pleasures of fishing, boasting, "I'm going fishing, you're going fishing. You can bet your life, your (lovely/ugly/loving) wife I'll catch more fish than you...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas)
KEYWORDS: fishing
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 106, "Fishing Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Thomas, "Fishing Blues" (Vocalion 1249, 1928; on AAFM3)
NOTES: The song is not in blues form; Henry Thomas was more of an African-American "songster" than a blues singer, tracing his musical style back to pre-blues traditions, including playing a rack of quills. - PJS
File: ADR106
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NAME: Fishing on the Labrador
DESCRIPTION: The A&J Humby lands two fishermen at Goose Cove and heads for Labrador to hunt seals and trap cod. The crew are all named. They had a good summer. "We're a crowd of bold sharemen."
AUTHOR: Moses Harris
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: fishing hunting sea ship moniker
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 37, "Fishing on the Labrador" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The one line refrain is shared with "A Crowd of Bold Sharemen," an entirely different ballad about a summer of conflict. A shareman shares in expenses and profits. - BS
File: LeBe037
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NAME: Fishy Crab, The: see The Sea Crab (File: EM001)
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NAME: Fishy, Fishy in the Brook
DESCRIPTION: "Fishy, fishy in the brook, Daddy catch him on a hook, Mommy fry him in a pan, Johnny eat him like a man."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: fishing food
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #876, p. 326, "(Fishy, fishy in the brook)"
Roud #16338
File: MGMG876
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NAME: Fit Comes On Me Now, The: see I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit) (File: SKE53)
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NAME: Fit, The: see I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit) (File: SKE53)
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NAME: Fitch-Austin Feud, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, come and listen to my story Concerning that fierce, bloody fight Between the Fitch and Austin families." The Austins set out, armed, to repair a telephone pole; the Fitches, unarmed, resist. Several are killed. The singer warns against feuding.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: feud death technology
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 23-24, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: It seems most unlikely that this piece had any circulation in tradition; it's not good poetry, and quite confusing (at least if you don't know the participants). But with no source indicated, here it files. - RBW
File: ThBa023
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NAME: Five and a Zack
DESCRIPTION: "I've been a few miles, I've crossed a few stiles, I've been round the world, there and back." He recalls is the place where the sanctimonious timekeeper "stung me for five and a zack." He expects to go to hell, with his complaint written on his tombstone
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: money boss death Hell burial
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, p. 96, "Five and a Zack" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: A "zack" is a sixpence. - RBW
File: PASB096
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NAME: Five Bob to Four
DESCRIPTION: The singer complains of MacRose, "a little podgy," who lowered the daily rate for threshers from five bob to four. The singer curses him: "I hope his cows the measles take, his hens refuse to lay...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: money work curse
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 59-60, "Five Bob to Four" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA059
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NAME: Five in the Bed
DESCRIPTION: "Two at the foot, Two at the head, And one in the middle Makes five in the bed."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 158, "Five in the Bed" (sixth of 12 single-stanza jigs) (1 text, probably just a floating verse)
Roud #16413
File: Fus158B
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NAME: Five-Gallon Jar, The: see The Big Five-Gallon Jar (File: Doe111)
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NAME: Flag of the Free
DESCRIPTION: "Could we desert you now, Flag of the free, When we a solemn vow, Flag of the free, You from all harm to save, Made when we crossed the wave, And you a welcome gave...." The Irish immigrants promise to support the American flag against tyrants
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: Civilwar freedom patriotic nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 224-225, "Flag of the Free" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Eileen Aroon" (tune)
cf. "Robin Adair" (tune)
File: SBoA224
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NAME: Flag with the Thirty-Four Stars, The: see The Northern Bonnie Blue Flag (File: SBoA218)
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NAME: Flambeau d'Amour (Torch of Love)
DESCRIPTION: French. A father puts his daughter in a tower to keep her from her lover.  She lights a torch to signal him to come to her. He tries but drowns in a storm. She finds his body. She cuts her vein to mix their blood and bring him back to life. She dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting drowning suicide sea storm father lover
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 671-672, "Flambeau d'Amour" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The belief that blood not only sustains but *is* life is ancient; the Bible, e.g., says so in Leviticus 17:11, 14. And, of course, in Christian belief, the shedding of Jesus's blood brought life to those otherwise doomed.
There is also the interesting point that to mingle blood is often to make a covenant -- the girl's sacrifice might also be a pledge of fidelity.
Other folk beliefs might also be involved, e.g. the belief that the blood of virgins could cure various diseases, such as leprosy. - RBW
File: Pea671
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NAME: Flash Frigate, The (La Pique)
DESCRIPTION: "I sing of a frigate, (a frigate of fame/La Pique was her name/do not mention her name), And in the West Indies she bore a great name," but she is a horrible place to serve; the crew is worked hard and punished severely. Listeners are urged to avoid her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Shay)
KEYWORDS: sailor hardtimes ship punishment
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 178-180, "The Flash Frigate" (1 text, 1 tune, which nowhere mentions the ship's name)
ST ShaSS178 (Partial)
Roud #2563
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dreadnought" [Laws D13] (tune)
NOTES: Many versions of this song, including Shay's, do not give the ship's name -- some, indeed, explicitly say the name is secret. But Shay says, without hesitation, that the song describes H. M. S. _La Pique_, described as a "blood ship" for its hard discipline.
The ship had a long career in the West Indies. According to Terrence Grocott's _Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars_, in 1798 she was captained by David Milne and helped capture _La Seine_ but ran aground in the process. Milne would later undergo a court-martial for losing _La Seine_ (which ship he had been given after the loss of his own), but was acquitted.
Milne's discipline may nonetheless have had some effect; he was in the vicinity of Portsmouth at the time of the Spithead mutiny, and in fact became a hostage of the delegates, but _La Pique_ is not listed as one of the mutinous ships in Appendix III of James Dugan's _The Great Mutiny_.
For a seemingly fictional account of another "blood ship," plus information about the horrid case of the _Hermione_, see the notes to "Captain James (The Captain's Apprentice)."
A new British _Pique_, a 40-gun frigate captured by Charles Ross, was in service by 1805.
The final complaint, that working the ship leaves sailors invalids, is quite true; sailors' work was hard at the best of times, and often left men crippled; on a ship which ignored the human needs of the men, such injuries were naturally more common. - RBW
File: ShaSS178
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NAME: Flash Jack from Gundagai
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes all the places he has sheared -- and some of the problems he's faced. He declares, "They know me round the country as Flash Jack from Gundagai." When possible, he prefers "Shearing for old Tom Patterson on the One Tree Plain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929
KEYWORDS: sheep work rambling Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 146, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 134-135, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd10) (Lloyd4, Lloyd8)
File: FaE146
===
NAME: Flash Stockman, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a stockman by me trade, And me name is Ugly Dave, I'm old and grey and I've only got one eye...." The stockman boasts of his amazing skill at his trade -- so great that "You can cut me fair in two, For I'm much too bloody good to be in one."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933
KEYWORDS: bragging horse work Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 166-167, "The Flash Stockman" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FaE166
===
NAME: Flat River Girl, The: see Jack Haggerty (The Flat River Girl) [Laws C25] (File: LC25)
===
NAME: Flat River Raftsman, The: see Jack Haggerty (The Flat River Girl) [Laws C25] (File: LC25)
===
NAME: Fleeing Servant, The: see The Miller's Daughter (The Fleeing Servant) (File: KinBB06)
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NAME: Fleischmann's Yeast: see Uncle Joe and Aunty Mabel (File: EM374)
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NAME: Flemings of Torbay, The [Laws D23]
DESCRIPTION: Two "fine young men" of Torbay are cast adrift for six days. They are unconscious by the time they are rescued by the coal ship "Jessie Maurice." Cared for by the captain, they are taken to Quebec 
AUTHOR: Johnny Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: sea rescue fishing
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May, 1888 - Rescue of the two Torbay sailors
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws D23, "The Flemings of Torbay"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 141, "The Fishermen of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 912-915, "The Flemings of Torbay" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Leach-Labrador 76, "Flemings of Torbay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 115, "The Flemmings of Torbay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 202-203, "The Flemings of Torbay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, pp. 50-51, "The Fishermen of Newfoundland; or, the Good Ship Jubilee" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 322, FLMTORBY
Roud #1821
NOTES: Schooners left manned dories in different strategic places to fish. Getting lost from the schooner was almost a constant hazard. - SH
According to the notes in Creighton-Nova Scotia, the end of this story was not quite as happy as the song might imply; the two brothers both had their legs amputated. Creighton's informant said that Queen Victoria herself paid for artificial legs, but Creighton could not verify this; the Flemming brothers were dead and Johnny Burke no longer remembered the details. - RBW
File: LD23
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NAME: Flemmings of Torbay, The: see The Flemings of Torbay [Laws D23] (File: LD23)
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NAME: Flies Are On the Tummits, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer has been farming all his life but "the only thing that flourishes is the damnation weeds." Flies are on his turnips... his live stock "eat me up and never turn out right." "No matters what I sell is cheap, but what I buy is dear"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (recording, Ted Laurence)
KEYWORDS: farming hardtimes nonballad animal bug chickens horse sheep
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1376
RECORDINGS:
Ted Laurence, "The Flies Are On the Tummits" (on Voice20)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat" (theme of poor living for farmers)
cf. "The Turnip-Hoer" (them of a turnip farmer's life)
NOTES: Roud lumps this with "The Turnip-Hoer," with which it shares some lyrics, but Ben Schwartz and I both consider the general plots distinict enough to split them. "The Turnip-Hoer" is about the singer's employment history; "The Flies Are On the Tummits" about the hard life of a farmer.
Widespread growing of turnips, incidentally, was a relatively recent practice (turnips, after all, are bitter and rather unpleasant to eat); they are grown because they replenish the soil, and can be farmed on a field that would otherwise have to lie fallow (see Derek Beales, _From Catlereight to Gladstone: 1815-1885_, p. 36). - RBW
File: RcFAOtT
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NAME: Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
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NAME: Flodden Field [Child 168]
DESCRIPTION: King James vows to fight his way to London. Queen Margaret tries to prevent him, and Lord Thomas Howard supports her. James vows to punish them when he returns -- but he never returns; the English slay him and twelve thousand men at Flodden
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1633
KEYWORDS: war royalty family promise death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 9, 1513 - Battle of Flodden. James IV and the pride of Scotland's chivalry die in battle with the Earl of Surrey's English army
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 168, "Flodden Field" (1 text plus long appendix)
Roud #2862
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Flowers o' the Forest" (subject)
NOTES: King James IV was unusually long-lived for a Stewart king; he lived all the way to forty (1473-1513). But it wasn't for lack of trying; he twice went to war with England. The first attempt, in support of Perkin Warbeck, was in 1502, and accomplished nothing.
To cement the post-1502 peace, James IV married Margaret Tudor, the elder daughter of England's King Henry VII. (This was the marriage that eventually brought the Stewarts to the throne of England.) But that didn't prevent his warmongering. In 1513, the new English king Henry VIII was away in a sort of a mock campaign against France. James decided to go to war.
Unfortunately for James, the defense of the border was in the hands of Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey (1443-1524). Surrey was the son of John Howard, Richard III's Duke of Norfolk, and had fought for Richard III at Bosworth. But with Richard dead, Howard was given a partial pardon (being given the Surrey earldom though not the Norfolk dukedom). This may have been because, with Richard and the elder Howard dead, Surrey was the best soldier in England.
However that may be, Surrey gathered an army to meet the invading Scots. The two forces are believed to have been about equal in size, but Surrey outmaneuvered the Scots and inflicted a crushing defeat, killing James, the cream of his army, and about a third of his troops -- a defeat which came to be commemorated in the popular lament "The Flowers o' the forest.". Surrey lost perhaps 5%-10% of his own men.
Scotland -- as always when a new monarch came to the throne -- was plunged into chaos. The border was safe for many years. Surrey received the Norfolk dukedon, which has remained in the Howard family ever since. - RBW
File: C168
===
NAME: Flora: see The Lonesome (Stormy) Scenes of Winter [Laws H12] (File: LH12)
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NAME: Flora MacDonald's Lament
DESCRIPTION: "Over hill and lofty mountains Where the valleys were covered with snow... There poor Flora sat lamenting... Crying, 'Charlie, constant Charlie, My kind, constant Charlie, dear.'" She hopes to meet him again, and repeats her refrain
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites love separation beauty royalty
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1720-1788 - Life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie"
1722-1790 - Life of Flora MacDonald
1745-1746 - '45 Jacobite rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie
Apr 16, 1746 - Battle of Culloden. The Jacobite rebellion is crushed, most of the Highlanders slain, and Charlie forced to flee for his life.
Jun 28-29, 1746 - Aided by Flora MacDonald, and dressed as her maidservant, Charles flees from North Uist to Skye in the Hebrides.
1774-1779 - period of Flora MacDonald's residence in North America
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 368, "Flora MacDonald's Lament" (1 text)
Roud #5776
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Twa Bonnie Maidens" (subject)
cf. "Skye Boat Song (Over the Sea to Skye)" (subject)
cf. "Flora's Lament for her Charlie" (theme)
cf. "So Dear Is My Charlie to Me (Prince Charlie)" (theme)
NOTES: This is one of those ironic little songs because it's so false-to-life. It is apparently not the same as James Hogg's poem of the same title, and the editors of Brown apparently think it was inspired by Flora MacDonald's brief and unhappy visit to what was in the process of becoming the United States.
The problems with this song include the fact that Bonnie Prince Charlie never showed any actual evidence of involvement with Flora MacDonald. The love of his life, if he had one, was Clementina Walkinshaw; his later marriage (in 1772) was a political match, and produced no children.
Flora MacDonald certainly did not spend her whole life mourning; in 1750 married another MacDonald (the son of MacDonald of Kingsburgh); they went to America in 1774. During the Revolutionary War, her husband was (ahem) a British loyalist, and was commissioned a brigadier. He was captured by the rebels in 1776. Flora, reduced to poverty and reportedly with two of her children dead, sold most of her valuables and returned to England in 1779; her husband was released and followed in 1781.
The song also reports that "Flora's beauty is surprising, like bright Venus in the morning"; this too seems to be a bit of romanticism. There is a portrait by Allan Ramsay (now in the Bodleian Library, and reproduced, e.g., facing page 216 of Clennell Wilkinson's _Bonnie Prince Charlie_ and on p. 180 of Fitzroy Maclean's _An Illustrated History of Scotland_ -- though that copy is too small and dark to be useful), and while she was not ugly, I doubt she would win a beauty contest. - RBW
File: Br3368
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NAME: Flora, the Lily of the West: see The Lily of the West [Laws P29] (File: LP29)
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NAME: Flora's Lament for her Charlie
DESCRIPTION: Flora and Charlie go "out for to gaze, On the bonny, bonny banks of Benlomond." Both are leaving and they will never meet again. She describes him. "My true love was taken by the arrows of death, And now Flora does lament for her Charlie"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1849 (broadside, NLScotland RB.m.168(178))
KEYWORDS: love separation Scotland nonballad Jacobites
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y3:013, "Flora's Lament For Her Charlie," R. McIntosh (Glasgow), 19C.
NLScotland, RB.m.168(178), "Flora's Lament for her Charlie," R. McIntosh (Glasgow), c.1849
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "So Dear Is My Charlie to Me (Prince Charlie)" (subject)
cf. "Loch Lomond" (verses) and references there
cf. "Flora MacDonald's Lament" (theme)
NOTES: Broadside NLScotland RB.m.168(178) is the basis for the description.
The first two verses are very close to "Loch Lomond," as described in the notes to that song.
The commentary to broadside NLScotland, RB.m.168(178) notes that, after her involvement in Charles's escape, Flora "was tracked and was imprisoned by the Hanoverians and she spent a year in the tower of London. She was eventually released in 1747 and died in 1790." Charlie is Charles Edward (1720-1788), grandson of James II. - BS
There are several of these "Flora's Lament" type songs, some of which may in fact be the same. (This looks rather like "Flora MacDonald's Lament with a "Loch Lomond" preface tacked on.) This one gets one thing mostly right: Charles Stuart and Flora MacDonald never did meet again. But it was hardly along-sundered love; Flora married as early as 1750. For details, see "Flora MacDonald's Lament,"- RBW
File: BdFLfhC
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NAME: Florence C. McGee, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls hearers to learn of the Florence C. McGee. The ship sets out from Tampa in 1894, heading up the Atlantic coast, when a storm strikes. She runs aground and is wrecked. The owners come to observe their loss
AUTHOR: Llewelyn Murphy?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: ship storm wreck
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 286, "The Florence C. McGee" (1 text)
Roud #6639
File: BrII286
===
NAME: Florizel, The: see The Wreck of the Steamship Florizel (File: Doy31)
===
NAME: Floro: see Sheepcrook and Black Dog (File: HHH030a)
===
NAME: Flow Gently Sweet Afton
DESCRIPTION: "Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream." The singer praises the river, and bids it not to disturb Mary's sleep
AUTHOR: Words: Robert Burns
EARLIEST_DATE: 1793 (The Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: river love
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 253, "Flow Gently Sweet Afton" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 228, "Flow Gently Sweet Afton"
DT, FLOWAFTN*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Away in a Manger" (tune)
NOTES: Burns obviously had a tune for this, but the common melody was copyrighted in 1838 by Jonathan Edwards Spilman.
Available records do not seem to indicate whether Burns wrote this song before or after the death of his beloved Mary Campbell. - RBW
File: FSWB253A
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NAME: Flower Carol, The (Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers)
DESCRIPTION: "Spring has now unwrapped the flowers, Day is fast reviving, Light in all her growing powers Towards the light is striving." Hearers are urged to praise God, who brings flowers to life in the spring -- and also resurrects humanity
AUTHOR: (translation claimed by the authors of the Oxford Book of Carols)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (OBC; tune from Piae Cantiones, 1582)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad flowers
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OBC 99, "Flower Carol" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 59, "The Flower Carol" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Good King Wenceslas" (tune)
NOTES: Properly this does not belong in the Index at all, since it is not  folk song. Its inclusion is based on a curious mistake by Jean Ritchie. She and her family grew up singing "Good King Wenceslas," presumably for its tune. She wanted to include it in her songbook. But she had read the critique of J. M. Neale's "Wenceslas" text (see the notes to that song; I for one would consider them dead-on). So, instead of including "Wenceslas" in her book, which at least had the virtue of being traditional in her family, she included this text from the _Oxford Book_.
The irony is that the "Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers" is no more original than "Good King Wenceslas" (since it's a translation), and it's also quite feeble -- and, apparently, it is even more recent than Wenceslas!
Just like "Good King Wenceslas," however, the tune (one of many great tunes from the Piae Cantiones) has carried "The Flower Carol" far: checking my small collection of pre-1960 hymnals, none contain it, but it seems to be, um, popping up in many newer hymnals. - RBW
File: RitS059
===
NAME: Flower o' Northumberland, The: see The Fair Flower of Northumberland [Child 9] (File: C009)
===
NAME: Flower of Benbrada, The
DESCRIPTION: "One evening fair, to take the air, By Curraghlane I chanced to stray." He sees a beautiful woman, comparing her to goddesses. "This lovely fair beyond compare, She now intends to go away." He will not tell her name, but hopes he has praised her truly
AUTHOR: Francey Heaney
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: beauty emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H537, p. 239-240, "The Flower of Benbrada" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9476
NOTES: Although the author refuses to give the name of the emigrating beauty, Sam Henry says she was one Lizzie Donarghy, who went to America at an uncertain date.
The references to the classic goddesses in this song are unusual. The reference to Flora, who makes things blossom, is not rare, but I don't recall ever seeing a song referring to Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera who symbolized youth and was a cup-bearer to the Olympians. I can't remember mention of Proserpine, either.
The mix of names is itself interesting -- Flora was a Roman goddess with no Greek counterpart; Hebe is a Greek name (Latin Juventas); Proserpina is the Latin name of Greek Persephone. - RBW
File: HHH537
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NAME: Flower of Corby Mill, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sets out to praise the Flower of Corby Mill. He describes meeting her on his was to Butler's Fair. At the fair, he and his friends drink deep and toast the girl. He refuses to name her lest her parents be angry, but she is a mill worker.
AUTHOR: William Brownlee (source: Tunney-SongsThunder)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: beauty drink
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H612, pp. 242-243, "The Flower of Corby Mill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 176-178, "The Flower of Corby Mill" (1 text)
McBride 30, "The Flower of Corby's Mill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2928
NOTES: Tunney-SongsThunder: "Corby Mill was almost certainly situated on the Clough River and was built in 1789 by Ben Shaw."
Other hidden name songs include "The Flower of Benbrada," "The Lovely Banks of Mourne," "The Santa Fe Trail," "Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hi (For Ireland I Will Not Tell Whom She Is)," "The Pride of Kilkee" and "Drihaureen O Mo Chree (Little Brother of My Heart)" - BS
File: HHH612
===
NAME: Flower of Corby's Mill, The: see The Flower of Corby Mill (File: HHH612)
===
NAME: Flower of Craiganee, The: see Craiganee (File: HHH749)
===
NAME: Flower of Dunaff Hill, The: see The Flower of Sweet Dunmull (File: HHH001)
===
NAME: Flower of France and England, O, The
DESCRIPTION: "As I was on my rambled, I came from Dover to Carlisle..." The singer goes to "The Grapes" to lodge. One of the serving girls is very pretty -- "the flower of France and England,O"; they are much attracted to each other and before long are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: beauty courting marriage travel
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 188-190, "The Flower of France and England, O" (1 text)
Roud #5532
NOTES: Most scholars believe that the reference in the third line of the song to the town being "full of rebels" refers to the Jacobite Rising of 1745 (and Prince Charles's army did indeed spend time in Carlisle). But there is no other hint of this, and indeed, there were earlier conflicts (going back to the Wars of the Roses and even before) which might cause the singer to find "rebels" (i.e. people who disagreed with his politics) in Carlisle. - RBW
File: Ord188
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NAME: Flower of Glenleary, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Crossgar's sunny hills are bespangled with flowers," but the singer yearns for Mary, the flower of Glenleary. He describes her beauty, and asks, "Fair maid of my dreams, did we meet here to sever?" He prays that she will be his
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H22a, pp. 232-233, "The Flower of Glenleary" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7986
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Braes of Balquhidder" (tune)
File: HHH022a
===
NAME: Flower of Gortade, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls upon the muses to describe the Flower of Gortade. He compares her to many classical queens and beauties. The girl, Margaret O'Kane, must leave for America, and hopes Ireland will someday welcome her back
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: beauty emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H178, pp. 233-234, "The Flower of Gortade" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 120-121, "The Flower of Gortade" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2740
NOTES: This is a strange piece in many ways. Sam Henry credits it to "[the] local blind poet Kane, in honor of his sister," but his text seems composite: four eight-line stanzas of classical allusions in praise of the woman, and then two first-person stanzas in which she prepares to depart.
In addition, the classical allusions are rather a mess. Homer is called a great poet, but one who "sang of Athenians and Spartans so bold." Spartans are certainly mentioned in the Iliad -- Helen of Troy was properly Helen of Sparta, and Menelaus became King of Sparta as her husband. Mentions of the Athenians and Athens are few, however. Menestheus King of Athens brought fifty ships to Troy, but was so obscure a figure that the Greeks couldn't even agree if he died there.
In the next few lines, the poet commits the common abomination of referring to Greek goddesses by their Latin names.
Hector is described as having "consorts" (plural), but he had only one wife, Andromache.
The story then shifts to the story of Susanna, which is Biblical/Apocryhal (one of the Additions to Daniel). And so it goes. - RBW
File: HHH178
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NAME: Flower of Magherally, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on a summer's morning, The flowers were a-blooming-0, Nature all adoning... I met my love near Banbridge town, My charming blue-eyed Sally-o." The singer describes her beauty, wishes he could offer her wealth, and hopes to marry her even without it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H220, pp. 243-244, "The Flower of Magherally, O!" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 59, "The Flowers of Magherally" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3009
NOTES: This instantly made me think of "Sally in Our Alley." The metrical form is quite close, and there are a few similar phrases in the tune, but there really doesn't appear to be kinship. - RBW
File: HHH220
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NAME: Flower of Sweet Dunmull, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer says he dwells in Ireland, and describes the beautiful scenes from the hill of Dunmull. From there he can see the ship to take him away. He could survive leaving it all, but how can he part from Nancy? He hopes someday to return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation farewell home
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H1, p. 191, "The Flower of Sweet Dunmull" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 31, "The Flower of Dunaff Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2744
File: HHH001
===
NAME: Flower of Sweet Erin the Green, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer supposes her true love is "far from sweet Erin the green." He "vowed to be constant and true." She denied him and now blames herself for their separation. She warns maids "never your true love despise." She sees no peace but "yon dark silent grave"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love sex separation Ireland nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 144-145, "The Flower of Sweet Erin the Green" (1 text)
Roud #2790
File: TST144
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NAME: Flower of Sweet Strabane, The
DESCRIPTION: (The singer recalls meeting "Martha, the Flower of Sweet Strabane.") If he were King of Ireland, he would wish nothing better than her hand; she is the fairest girl he has seen. But she rejects him; he sails to America to start a new life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Grieg); the notes in IRMBarry-Fairs says it was published in a Derry newspaper in 1909
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection emigration beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H224a, pp. 390-391, "The Flower of Sweet Strabane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 58-59, "Martha, the Flower of Sweet Strabane" (1 text)
DT, FLWRSTRB*
ADDITIONAL: Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), p. 9, "The Flower of Sweet Strabane" (text, music and reference to Decca F-3374 recorded Dec 31, 1932)
Roud #2745
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "The Flower of Sweet Strabane" (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
McBride 32, "The Flower of Street Strabane" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: According to Sam Henry, this was composed in the 1840s -- it could hardly be much earlier given its current contents. Henry was of the opinion that it fell into two families, the first including the introductory verse about meeting Martha, the second beginning with the stanza about being King of Ireland. - RBW
McBride: "[John] McGettigan would have been responsible for its popularity as he recorded it on a record and was therefore taken back from America by returned emigrants in the 1930's and 40's."
The date and master id (GB-5416-1/2) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
File: HHH224a
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NAME: Flowers o' the Forest, The
DESCRIPTION: Based on a pipe tune lamenting the battle of Flodden: "I've heard them lilting, At the yowes milking, Lasses a-lilting... Noo they are moanin On ilka green loaning. The flowers o' the forest are a' wede away." The song grieves for the men lost
AUTHOR: Words: Jane Elliot (1727-1805)/Music: Traditional
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (tune probably dates to the sixteenth century)
KEYWORDS: battle death mourning separation Scotland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 9, 1513 - Battle of Flodden. James IV and the pride of Scotland's chivalry die in battle with the Earl of Surrey's English army
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, FLWRSFOR*
Roud #3812
RECORDINGS:
Helen Blain, "Flowers o' the Forest" (Pathe 20017, 1916)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Flodden Field [Child 168]" (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Lament for Flodden
File: BdFlOTF
===
NAME: Flowers of Fochabers, The
DESCRIPTION: "It was on the bonnie banks o' Spey To muse I sat me down." The singer sees a beautiful girl, the flower of Fochabers. He asks her to take pity on him. She turns him down. He declares that, when he dies, it will be for Petty Clapperton
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: beauty love rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 204, "The Flower of Fochabers" (1 text)
Roud #5538
File: Ord204A
===
NAME: Flowers of Magherally, The: see The Flower of Magherally (File: HHH220)
===
NAME: Flowery Garden: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
===
NAME: Flowery Nolan
DESCRIPTION: At seventy one, Flowery Nolan, "a terror to all men," decides to marry. He marries the only acceptable candidate. When he tells his wife they would not sleep together -- "you are only but my serving maid" -- she goes home to her father's house.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1985 (IRTravellers01)
KEYWORDS: age marriage sex rejection husband wife
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #16693
RECORDINGS:
Mikeen McCarthy, "Flowery Nolan" (on IRTravellers01)
NOTES: Jim Carroll's notes to IRTravellers01: "Arranged or 'made' marriages were very much an accepted part of rural life in Ireland up to comparatively recent times... Women from poor house-holds which were unable to support the whole family would readily marry older farmers looking for a housekeeper, or maybe widowers with young children to care for."
IRTravellers01: Mikeen McCarthy tells, on the record, that Flowery Nolan was an old bachelor who only talked about getting married until he was 71. Then he advertised for a wife and the song tells how it went. The moral: "Never marry an old man Till you're fed up of your life, Or then you'll be coming home again Like Flowery Nolan's wife." - BS
File: RcFlowNo
===
NAME: Floyd Collins [Laws G22]
DESCRIPTION: Floyd Collins is trapped in a cave from which a rescue party cannot free him. He tells his parents that he had dreamt this would happen. At last, still trapped, he dies
AUTHOR: Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: disaster dream death family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 30, 1925 - Floyd Collins is trapped in a "sandhole" cave near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, where he is caught by a landslide. He was discovered by his brother the next day, but attempts to rescue him failed
Feb 16, 1925 - Collins is found to be dead
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,Ro,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws G22, "Floyd Collins"
BrownII 212, "Floyd Collins" (1 text plus 2 excerpts)
Gardner/Chickering 125, "Floyd Collins" (2 texts)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 110-111, "The Doom of Floyd Collins" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 223-224, "Floyd Collins" (1 text)
DT 769, FLOYDCOL
Roud #1940
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "The Death of Floyd Collins" (Okeh 40363, 1925)
Dalhart Texas Panhandlers, "Death of Floyd Collins" (Columbia 15064-D, 1926)
Vernon Dalhart, "Death of Floyd Collins" (Victor 19821, 1925) (Columbia 15031-D [as Al Craver], 1925) (Banner 1613, 1925; Conqueror 7068, 1928) (Edison 51609 [as Vernon Dalhart & Co.], 1925) (Gennett 3197Champion 15048, 1926; Challenge 160/Challenge 315, 1927; rec. 1925)  (Bell 364, 1925) (Victor 19821, 1925) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5049 [as Vernon Dalhart & Co.], prob. 1925)
Charlie Oaks, "The Death of Floyd Collins" (Vocalion 15099, 1925; Vocalion 5069, c. 1927)
Harry Smith, "The Death of Floyd Collins" (OKeh 45260, 1928)
NOTES: As the dates of the recordings show, this is really a popular song. But the number of versions collected show that it did become a folk song.
There are various claims about the authorship of this song. Brown quotes Thomas to the effect that it was written by one Adam Crisp. Laws, following Wilgus, accepts the attribution to Andrew Jenkins, who wrote other songs which became traditional. The attribution to Jenkins seems certain, however. Paul Stamler cites the the statement of OKeh records A&R man Polk Brockman, who commissioned the song from Jenkins. - RBW
File: LG22
===
NAME: Floyd Frazier (Ellen Flannery) [Laws F19]
DESCRIPTION: Floyd Frazier kills Ellen Flannery and hides her body. A search is started after her orphaned children are found crying. Her body is discovered, and Floyd is arrested. He confesses to the crime; the singer hopes he will be hanged
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: murder children orphan
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws F19, "Floyd Frazier (Ellen Flannery)"
Combs/Wilgus 68, pp. 155-157, "Floyd Frazier" (1 text)
DT 735, FLOYFRAZ
Roud #695
File: LF19
===
NAME: Flunky Jim (Gopher Tails)
DESCRIPTION: Jim, the son and "flunky" of the farm, has shabby clothes, but intends to get a new ones with money from gopher tails. His father says his clothes are too small, but he has almost enough tails to buy new clothes, after which he will hand down his old ones
AUTHOR: Words: Dan Ferguson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963 (recording, Mel Bowker)
KEYWORDS: poverty clothes farming hunting hardtimes family father animal
FOUND_IN: Canada
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #4555
RECORDINGS:
Mel Bowker, "Flunky Jim", also listed as "I Am the Flunky of the Yard (Gopher Tails)" (on Saskatch01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wearing of the Green (I)" (tune) and references there
NOTES: During the Depression of the 1930s, the Canadian government offered a bounty on gopher tails to encourage trapping them. Mel Bowker, who recorded this song, was the grandson of Dan Ferguson. - PJS
File: RcFluJim
===
NAME: Fly and the Bumblebee, The (Fiddle-Dee-Dee)
DESCRIPTION: "Fiddle-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dee, The fly has married the bumblebee, Says the fly, says he, 'Will you marry me, and live with me, sweet Bumblebee?'" The fly promises not to sting the larger insect. Parson Beetle marries the two. All ends happily
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1740 (Wiltshire MS, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: bug marriage clergy courting
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Linscott, pp. 196-198, "Fiddle Dee Dee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 88, "A cat came fiddling out of a barn" (2 texts); 168, "Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dee" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #179, pp. 128-129, "(A cat came fiddling out of a barn)"; #276, p. 164, "(Fiddle-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dee)"
Roud #3731
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Frog Went A-Courting" (theme)
NOTES: In the Mother Goose "cat came fiddling" texts, it is not a fly but a mouse that marries the bumblebee. It's not clear which combination is more original -- the wedding of two insects is less utterly illogical, so it might be an improvement, but the mouse might also come in by way of confusion with "Frog Went A-Courting" or the like. - RBW
File: Lins196
===
NAME: Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal: see Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss (File: CSW066)
===
NAME: Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune: "Fly around my pretty little miss/Fly around my daisy/Fly around my pretty little miss/You almost drive me crazy." Floating verses: "The higher up the cherry tree/The riper grow the cherries..." "Going to get some weevily wheat..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (collected by Cecil Sharp, but some of the floating verses also show up in SharpAp 88, "Betty Anne," which he collected in 1916)
KEYWORDS: love dancing nonballad floatingverses dancetune
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 66, "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 286, "Fly Around, My Blue-Eyed Girl" (4 texts, but the "D" text is mostly "Shady Grove"); also 78, "Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees" (7 texts plus 1 excerpt and mention of 1 more, but almost all mixed --  all except "H" have the "Coffee grows" stanza, but "A" also has verses from "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss"; "and "C" through "H" are mostly "Little Pink"; "B" is mixed with "Raccoon" or some such)
Hudson 145, p. 293, [no title] (1 fragment, the single stanza "The higher up the cherry tree")
SharpAp 268, "The Higher Up the Cherry Tree" (1 text, 1 tune); also 88, "Betty Anne" (1 text, 1 tune, with lyrics from "Shady Grove," "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss" and "Going Across the Sea")
Darling-NAS, p. 254, "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 39, "Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal" (1 text)
DT, BLUEYEGL*
Roud #5720
RECORDINGS:
Frank Blevins & his Tar Heel Rattlers, "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" (Columbia 15210-D, 1927; on TimesAint01, LostProv1)
Frank Bode, "Susanna Gal" (on FBode1)
Samantha Bumgarner, "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" (Columbia 146-D, 1924)
The Hillbillies, "Blue Eyed Girl" (Vocalion 5017, c. 1926)
Clint Howard et al, "Pretty Little Pink" (on Ashley02, WatsonAshley01)
Buell Kazee, "Dance Around My Pretty Little Miss" [fragment] (on Kazee01)
Bradley Kincaid, "Pretty Little Pink" (Brunswick 464, 1930) (Supertone 9666, 1930) (one of these is on CrowTold01, but we don't know which)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss" (on NLCR03, NLCR11, NLCRCD1)
Lee Sexton, "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss" (on MMOKCD)
Hobart Smith, "Fly Around, My Blue-Eyed Girl" (on LomaxCD1702)
Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" (Columbia 15709-D, c. 1931; rec. 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Weevily Wheat" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Coffee Grows (Four in the Middle)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Up and Down the Railroad Track" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Missus in the Big House" (meter)
cf. "Seventeen Come Sunday" [Laws O17] (floating lyrics, some tunes)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Blue-Eyed Girl
NOTES: My guess is that this is a modified version of "Weevily Wheat." But Paul Stamler thinks it's separate, and certainly it's picked up a lot of floating material. So we classify the two separately.
This should not be confused with Laws P18, "Pretty Little Miss." - RBW
File: CSW066
===
NAME: Flying Cloud, The [Laws K28]
DESCRIPTION: Singer Edward (Hollohan) abandons the cooper's trade to be a sailor. At length he falls in with Captain Moore, a brutal slaver. Moore later turns pirate. When his ship is finally taken, the remaining sailors are sentenced to death
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1894 (Wehman)
KEYWORDS: sailor slavery pirate execution gallows-confession
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,NE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont)
REFERENCES: (23 citations)
Laws K28, "The Flying Cloud"
Belden, pp. 128-131, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doerflinger, pp. 135-139, "The Flying Cloud" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 173, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 223-225, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text plus 1 fragment)
Creighton-NovaScotia 62, "Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 842-845, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Leach-Labrador 58, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 111, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 223-226,245, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 145-147, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 586, "The Flying Cloud" (1 tune, included in Hugill's entry on "Dixie Brown"; he states that it has been used for several forebitters, "Arthur Hollander" [i.e. "The Flying Cloud"], "Girls of Cape Horn" ["Rounding the Horn"], "The Sailor's Way," and "Go To Sea Once More" ["Dixie Brown"])
Rickaby 41, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 778-781, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 411, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 2, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 115, "The 'Flying Cloud'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 9, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 183-186, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 504-507, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 845-847, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 98-100, "The Flying Cloud" (1 text)
DT 409, FLYCLOUD*
Roud #1802
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Flying cloud" [fragment] (AFS 4202 B1, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Clifford Wedge, "The Flying Cloud" (on MREIves01)
NOTES: Doerflinger notes that there is no pirate ship known to have carried the name "The Flying Cloud." He suggests that the story is based on the book _The Dying Declaration of Nicholas Fernandez_, based loosely on the life of one of Benito de Soto's pirate crew (Fernandez was executed in 1829). Doerflinger shows the title page of the book on p. 336.
Laws and others, though, note that most of these elements are commonplace.
Belden lists various other ships called by the name, but they were all legitimate vessels, including the clipper mentioned below that set the record, anchor to anchor, sailing from New York to San Francisco.
I wonder if the pirate's name "Moore" might have been inspired by the Moors, since the Barbary pirates were sometimes called (not very correctly) Moors.
The song feels fairly old, but the impression may be false. Most of the earliest references seem to be from about 1890,  as if the song were composed in the 1880s or so.
Jonathan Lighter speculated, "My impression is that the song very possibly originated in the 1880s or a bit earlier, perhapsÊin a dime novel as no early broadside has ever been discovered. The evocative name 'Flying Cloud' may have been chosen because the fame of the real ship had long been forgotten by the general public."
If so, then the ship name was inspired by the clipper _Flying Cloud_, built 1851, which twice set records for the New York-to-San Francisco run in the 1850s. Though to call a slaver by that name hardly seems a fitting tribute.
(Horace Beck explains this by positing that the slaving verses are not integral to the piece; he speculates that the whole thing is a composite of two songs.) - RBW
File: LK28
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NAME: Flying Colonel, The
DESCRIPTION: "With a shit-eating grin on his face," the terrified pilot of a stricken bomber brings his plane home while other crew members bail out.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: Probably World War II vintage
KEYWORDS: bawdy war desertion technology flying
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 404-406, "The Flying Colonel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10401
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Ship that Never Returned" [Laws D27] (tune & meter) and references there
cf. "The Wreck of Old 97" [Laws G2] (tune)
NOTES: Internal references would date this to the WW II saturation bombing campaign upon Germany. This seems to be one of the few air force songs to have achieved oral currency apart from mimeographed or Xeroxed songbooks. - EC
File: EM404
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NAME: Flying Dutchman, The (Vanderdecken) [Laws K23]
DESCRIPTION: The crew has just escaped a harsh wind on a dark night when the Flying Dutchman appears. The fearful captain orders the crew to take in the sail. The Dutchman fails, as always, in its attempt to enter Table Bay. The sailors pity doomed Vanderdecken
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1881
KEYWORDS: storm ghost ship supernatural
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws K23, "The Flying Dutchman (Vanderdecken)"
Doerflinger, pp. 148-149, "The Flying Dutchman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, p. 45, "The Flying Dutchman" (1 text)
DT 406, FLYDUTCH*
Roud #1897
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.13(92), "The Flying Dutchman", H. Such (London), 1863-1885; Harding B 11(963) [last verse illegible], "The Flying Dutchman"; Firth c.26(130), "The Flying Dutchman!"
File: LK23
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NAME: Flying Trapeze, The
DESCRIPTION: "Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn, Like an old coat that is tatter'd and torn." The singer's young girlfriend has left him for a trapeze artist. This man, who "flies through the air with the greatest of ease," induced her to run away and join his act
AUTHOR: George Leybourne and/or Alfred Lee
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868
KEYWORDS: love abandonment sports betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(MA,So)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 69-72, "The Flying Trapeze" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 748, "Once I Was Happy" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp.  63-65, "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 338-340, "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 270, "The Man On The Flying Trapeze" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 230, "The Flying Trapeze"
DT, FLYTRAP2* (FLYTRAPZ*)
Roud #5286
RECORDINGS:
Aaron Campbell's Mountaineers, "Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Chamption 45038, 91935)
Harry "Mac" McClintock, "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Victor 21567, 1928)
Walter O'Keefe, "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Victor 24172, 1932)
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(124a), "Flying Trapeze," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1874
NOTES: Credited to George Leybourne (for whom see the notes on "Champagne Charlie"), but this song, like that one, may be mostly the work of the "arranger," Alfred Lee. Or the tune may be borrowed; at least, Johann Strauss used it as an "English Folk Melody" in 1869. - RBW
File: RJ19069
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NAME: Fod
DESCRIPTION: "As I went down to the mowin' field Hu-ri tu-ri fod-a-link-a-di-do, As I went down... Fod! As I went down... A big black snake got me by the heel." The injured singer sits down and watches a woodchuck fight a skunk (and complains about the smell)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (recording, Henry King & family)
KEYWORDS: animal nonsense humorous injury dancing fight
FOUND_IN: US(SW,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 213, "Fod" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 222, "Fod" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, p. 159, "A Mighty Maulin'" (twelfth of 12 single-stanza jigs) (1 text, perhaps from this though it's just a loose verse)
ST LoF213 (Full)
Roud #431
RECORDINGS:
Henry King, "Fod!" (AAFS 8)
Henry King & family, "Fod" (AFS 5141 B2, 1941; on LC02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "(I Can't Be) Satisfied" (words)
cf. "Springfield Mountain" (words)
NOTES: Roud catalogs this as a version of Springfield Mountain. Oy.
I stuck Fuson's single stanza  ("As I went down to my old field, I heard a mighty maulin'; The seed-ticks was a-splittin' rails, The chiggers was a-haulin'") here because it sounds like it might be a loose verse of something similar, and because there is nothing else much like it. Round gives it its own number, 16395, but it's probably a floating verse from something. - RBW
File: LoF213
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NAME: Fogan MacAleer
DESCRIPTION: "There lived in bonny Scotland a man named MacAleer ... he had the queerest notions ... don't you know what I mean?" He asks the blacksmith's help to buy Lauchlan Ban's mare. The blacksmith tricks MacAleer so that he marries Ban's daughter Mary instead.
AUTHOR: Lawrence Doyle
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: marriage bargaining trick humorous horse father derivative
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 156-159, 245, "Fogan MacAleer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13989
RECORDINGS:
Joseph Walsh, "Fogan MacAleer" (on MREIves01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Jolly Barber Lad" (see Notes)
NOTES: Ives-DullCare refers to "the Scottish custom of having a go-between approach the prospective bride's father to arrange for a marriage." Ives finds a manuscript of "a song called 'The Jolly Barber' which was clearly Doyle's model for this song." The key fragment here is "don't you know what I mean?"; the song is apparently indexed here as "The Jolly Barber Lad."- BS
File: IvDC156
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NAME: Foggy Dew (II), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer goes out one morning and spies a beautiful girl. He asks her to marry. At first she hints of another lover, but when he approaches her again, she agrees to marry "if I know that you'll be true."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: love courting
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
FSCatskills 76, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 520-521, "Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 147, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text)
ST FSC76 (Partial)
Roud #973
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf."The Foggy Dew (III)" (tune)
NOTES: Although there are occasional similarities of both text and tune, this piece is not to be confused with Laws O3, "The Foggy Dew (The Bugaboo)." - RBW
File: FSC76
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NAME: Foggy Dew (III), The
DESCRIPTION: "As down the glen one Easter morn" the singer is passed by a silent army who raise the green flag over Dublin. The Irishmen who died fighting for others had better died fighting for Ireland. "But the bravest fell ... who died at Eastertide"
AUTHOR: Canon Charles O'Neill (1919) (source: "The Foggy Dew" in _Wars & Conflict 1916 Easter Rising Rebel Songs_ by Franke Harte on the BBC site)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (IRClancyMakem03)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion Easter Ireland patriotic derivative
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 24, 1916 (Easter Monday) - beginning of the Easter Rebellion
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, FOGGDEW4*
Roud #973
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "The Foggy Dew" (on IRClancyMakem03)
Liam Clancy, "The Foggy Dew" (on IRLClancy01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Foggy Dew" (II) (tune)
cf. "The Boys from County Cork" (subject)
NOTES: By the time of World War I, most of the people of Ireland were basically loyal to the British crown; they wanted Home Rule, but as part of the British Empire (see, e.g., "Home Rule for Ireland"). Very many of them volunteered for the British army, and very many of them died in the trenches of Flanders.
A relative handful of the Irish wanted complete independence; naturally none of them volunteered. A handful of that handful, led by Padraig Pearse, planned rebellion (see the notes, e.g., to "The Boys from County Cork").
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a small force (probably between a thousand and 1500 men) attacked Dublin. The center of the rebellion was the General Post Office, where Pearse read the proclamation of independence (which, since he read it in Irish, was mostly ignored by the Anglophone population). Over the building rose two flags: One, the harp on a green background, the traditional Irish flag; the other was the new tricolor whose orange and green bands stood ironically for a united Ireland.
The whole thing was a fiasco. The rebels surrendered April 29. At first, the people cursed and spat at them -- after all, they had ruined Dublin and killed about 250 civilians. Had the British left bad enough alone, imprisoning the rebels but no more, all might have been well. But they started court-martialling the commanders on the spot; three leaders including Pearce were executed May 3, and twelve more in the next nine days. Gradually public opinion began to change: the fool rebels became martyrs for Ireland, and when the next rising came, after the war, Britain could not brush it aside.
It says something about Irish politics that this song is allowed to be a slur on the memory of the Irishmen who fought for Britain in World War I. Unlike the Dublin rebels, the loyal Irish killed no civilians. Their casualty rates were higher (the Easter Rebellion saw 64 killed and 12 executed, meaning the casualties were somewhere between 4% and 8%; roughly 11% of the soldiers in the British Army died), and the wounds more frightful. And they spent years in trenches and mud, and died of gas and shrapnel and hanging on barbed wire rather than clean deaths by bullet. The loyalists did not intrigue with the authoritarian regime of Wilhelm II. This is clearly the song of a man who had not been a soldier and had never been to Flanders.
The two men mentioned in the song are, of course, Padraig Pearse, the organizer of the rebellion, and Eamon de Valera, a lesser leader who survived because he was an American citizen; he would eventually become the primary leader of the hard-line anti-English faction, helping lead Ireland to its Civil War but also guiding its destiny for many decades thereafter. For the stories of both men, see again the notes to "The Boys from County Cork." - RBW
File: RcTFDIII
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NAME: Foggy Dew, The (The Bugaboo) [Laws O3]
DESCRIPTION: The singer courts the girl and takes her to bed "to keep her from the foggy dew." In the morning they go their separate ways. In due time the girl bears a son. The further course of the song varies; in some texts he marries her, in some she dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1815
KEYWORDS: courting seduction weaving pregnancy bastard
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,Ro,SE,So) Britain(England) Canada(Newf,Ont) Australia
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Laws O3, "The Foggy Dew (The Bugaboo)"
Randolph 105, "The Foggy Dew" (4 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 99-101, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 105A)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 257-263, "The Foggy Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cray, pp. 61-64, "The Foggy Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 137, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 14-15, "Foggy, Foggy Dew"; 460-461, "The Weaver" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Combs/Wilgus 107, pp. 183-184, "The Bugaboo" (1 text)
Kennedy 174, "The Foggy Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 43, "The Foggy Dew-I"; 44, "The Foggy Dew-II" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 123-125, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 518-519, "Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 37-38, "Foggy, Foggy Dew" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 83, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 126-137, "The Foggy Dew" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 159, "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2840, "When first I began to court" (?)
DT 333, FOGGYDEW* FOGGDEW2 FOGGDEW5 BOGLEBO*
Roud #558
RECORDINGS:
Bob Atcher, "Foggy, Foggy Dew" (Columbia 20538, 1949)
Phil Hammond, "The Foggy Dew" (on FSB2, FSB2CD)
Bradley Kincaid, "The Foggy Dew" (Decca 12024, n.d.)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Foggy Dew" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd5)
Pete Seeger, "Foggy Dew" (on PeteSeeger32)
Doug Wallin, "The Foggy Dew" (on Wallins1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sligo Town" (theme, floating lyrics)
NOTES: This ballad should be [called] "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" to distinguish it from the Irish lyric love song "The Foggy Dew."
The original of this ballad is traced to a broadside ballad dating to 1815 in the collection of the antiquarian bookseller John Bell of Newcastle now in the King's College Library. See A.L. Lloyd, Folk Song in England (London, 1967). - EC
It will be observed, however, that the item ZN2840 in the Broadside Index dates to 1689. I have not been able to verify whether this is actually "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" itself or something similar. - RBW
File: LO03
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NAME: Foggy Mountain Top
DESCRIPTION: Floating fragments: "If I was on some foggy mountain top/I'd sail away to the west...." "If I'd listened to what my mama said/I would not have been here today/Lying around this old jail cell/Just a-weeping my poor life away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: love prison floatingverses nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
[Randolph 799, "If I Was On Some Foggy Mountain Top" -- deleted in the second printing]
BrownIII 365, "The Foggy Mountain Top" (1 text)
SharpAp 112, "The Rocky Mountain Top" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 42-43, "Foggy Mountain Top" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 66, "Foggy Mountain Top" (1 text)
DT, FGGYMTTP
Roud #11735
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "The Foggy Mountain Top" (Victor V-40058, 1929)
Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle, "Foggy Mountain Top" (Columbia 20920, 1952)
Monroe Bros., "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" (Montgomery Ward M-4749/Bluebird B-6607, 1936)
New Lost City Ramblers, "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" (on NLCREP1, NLCRCD1) (NLCR16)
Ola Belle & Bud Reed, "Foggy Mountain Top" (on Reeds01)
NOTES: Some versions of this never-entirely-coherent song seem to have mixed with "The False Young Man, (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out)" to yield mixed forms such as "White Oak Mountain." It can be hard to tell, with shorter versions, which is which. - RBW
File: CSW042
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NAME: Foggy, Foggy Dew: see The Foggy Dew (The Bugaboo) [Laws O3] (File: LO03)
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NAME: Folkestone Murder, The
DESCRIPTION: (Switzerland John) asks Caroline to walk with him. Her mother tells her she should take her sister Maria along. He stabs both girls and cuts their names into the turf. The murderer is taken and sentenced to death; in the last verse he bids farewell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Gardiner ms.)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: (Switzerland John) asks Caroline of Dover to walk with him to Shorncliffe Camp; she agrees, but her mother tells her it's not fit for them to walk alone, and that she should take her sister Maria along. They go, but before they reach Folkestone he stabs both girls to death despite their entreaties for mercy and cuts their names into the turf. Their parents grieve; the murderer is taken and sentenced to death; in the last verse he bids farewell, tells others to take warning, and hopes to meet Caroline in heaven
KEYWORDS: grief courting violence warning crime execution murder punishment death gallows-confession family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: August 3, 1856 - Caroline and Maria Beck murdered in Folkestone
January 1, 1857 - Tedea (Dedea?) Redanies hanged for the crime
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 320, "The Folkestone Murder" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 61, "Maria and Caroline" (1 text)
Leach-Labrador 11, "Mary and Sweet Caroline" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #897
NOTES: Although the song is not properly a gallows-confession, the last verse is (it seems tacked on, and is similar to the warnings found at the end of many songs of this type). - PJS
File: K320
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NAME: Folks on t'Other Side the Wave, The
DESCRIPTION: "The folks on t'other side the wave Have beef as well as you, sirs." The listener (clearly England) is reminded that the Americans are much like them, but will resist attacks on them -- and can hold off the English simply by running away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776
KEYWORDS: political warning rebellion
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 62-63, "The Folks on t'Other Side the Wave" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Published as a broadside in 1777, this piece was a highly accurate portrayal of the situation in the American Revolutionary War. Most of the colonists were actually loyal to Britain, but would fight if their rights were threatened. What is more, the colonists could win the war simply by not giving up.
This latter assessment was a good prediction of the way the war was fought. The British won the majority of the battles of the war -- but the fact that they were fighting thousands of miles from their bases meant that the Americans needed to win only ONE decisive battle. It took the colonials six years, but they finally did win such a battle -- at Yorktown. - RBW
File: SBoA063
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NAME: Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd: see Follow the Drinking Gourd (File: Arn062)
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NAME: Follow Me Up to Carlow
DESCRIPTION: "Lift, Mac Cahir Oge, your face... Curse and swear, Lord Kildare! Feagh will do what Feagh will dare -- Now, FitzWilliam, have a care...." The singer hails the Irish rebels and their victory over FitzWilliam
AUTHOR: Words: P. J. McCall
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion battle bragging
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1569-1573 - First "Desmond Rebellion"
1579-1583 - Second "Desmond Rebellion"
1580 - Feagh MacHugh defeats Lord Grey of Wilton at Glen Malure
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 90-91, "Follow Me up to Carlow" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FLLWCRLO
NOTES: The rebellions of the sixteenth century occurred at a time when English rule in Ireland was still very weak and incomplete, and began not as battles between Irish and English but as civil wars between Irish chieftains. The English, to preserve their power, often interfered with these quarrels.
An example was the conflict between the Earl of Ormond and the Earl of Desmond. Both were summoned to London, but Ormond was soon freed, while Desmond (Gerald Fitzgerald) and his cousin, James FitzMaurice Fitzgerald, spent time in English prisons.
The flashpoint came in 1569, when the Englishman Sir Peter Carew claimed certain of the holdings of Fitzgeralds and the Butlers in Carlow. The problem was made worse when, in 1570, the Pope excommunicated Elizabeth of England. FitzMaurice started a rebellion (quashed in 1573), though Desmond himself, crippled and irresolute, took no part.
Desmond spent some time in a sort of protective custody, but eventually escaped and was briefly frightened from his lethargy. He tried to create a strong position, and Elizabeth's new deputy, William FitzWilliam, did not at that time have the strength to oppose him.
FitzMaurice fled Ireland in 1575, having been set aside by his cousin Desmond. But he returned in 1579 with foreign aid (though only about 300 soldiers reached Ireland; the remaining 3000 men he had been promised had been frittered away before FitzMaurice set sail). FitzMaurice was soon killed, but the Europeans continued to meddle, and new forces landed. Desmond was finally forced into rebellion, and the English forced to send reinforcements, but the rebellion was put down by 1583.
The battle of Glen Malure was an extremely minor by-blow of the second rebellion, and led to nothing. It was, however, one of the few Irish triumphs of the campaign. The story is that the tune was composed on the spot; whether true or not, P. J. McCall added the words to commemorate the event. - RBW
File: PGa090
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NAME: Follow the Drinking Gourd
DESCRIPTION: A guide to slaves fleeing to freedom. Various landmarks are described, and the listeners are reminded, "For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom." Above all, they are reminded to "follow the drinking gourd." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Texas Folklore Society)
KEYWORDS: slave freedom
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 227-228, "Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 62, "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 99-100, "The Drinking Gourd" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FOLGOURD
Roud #15532
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (on PeteSeeger46)
NOTES: The "Drinking Gourd" is, of course, the Big Dipper, pointing north to the Ohio River, New England, Canada, and freedom. - RBW
File: Arn062
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NAME: Fond Affection, A: see Dear Companion (The Broken Heart; Go and Leave Me If You Wish To, Fond Affection) (File: R755)
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NAME: Fond of Chewing Gum
DESCRIPTION: The singer "fell in love with a pretty little girl" who was "fond of chewing gum." He describes their courting, always recalling the gum. When they are to be wed, she cannot say "I do" because her mouth was full of gum. Now he avoids gum-chewers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Pound)
KEYWORDS: courting love marriage separation food humorous
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 368, "Fond of Chewing Gum" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 297-299, "Fond of Chewing Gum" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 368A)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 158, "Chewing Gum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Chewing Gum" (1 text)
Roud #3714
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Chewing Gum" (Victor 21517, 1928)
Lake Howard, "Chewing Chewing Gum" (Perfect 13128/Melotone M-13355/Oriole 8449, 1935; on CrowTold02)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Chewing Gum" (on NLCR10) (on NLCR12)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Railroader for Me (Soldier Boy for Me)" (floating verses)
NOTES: The Carter Family version of this song includes a number of floating verses ("I wouldn't have a lawyer/Now here's the reason why/Every time he opens his mouth/He tells a great big lie"; "Mama don't 'low me to whistle/Papa don't 'low me to sing/They don't want me to marry/I'll marry just the same"). Their absence in the Randolph text implies that they are intrusions. - RBW, (PJS)
File: R368
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NAME: Fooba-Wooba John: see Martin Said To His Man (File: WB022)
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NAME: Foolish Boy, The: see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
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NAME: Foolish Frog, The: see May Irwin's Frog Song (The Foolish Frog, Way Down Yonder) (File: Br3189)
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NAME: Foolish Shepherd, The: see The Baffled Knight [Child 112] (File: C112)
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NAME: Fools of '49, The: see The Fools of Forty-Nine (File: San107A)
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NAME: Fools of Forty-Nine, The
DESCRIPTION: Crowds head for California and the gold fields. En route they suffer poverty, hunger, and disaster -- and few find gold. "Then they thought of what they had been told, When they started after gold: That they never, in this world, would make their pile."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Put's Original California Songster)
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes gold mining
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Sandburg, p. 107, "(The Fools of '49)" (1 text found under "Sweet Betsy from Pike")
Scott-BoA, pp. 184-185, "The Fools of Forty-Nine" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FOOLS49
Roud #8058
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "That Is Even So" (plot)
File: San107A
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NAME: Foot and Mouth Disease, The
DESCRIPTION: An Englishman plunders a girl's father's land, leaving only the sheep he thinks have "foot and mouth" disease. If the singer marries her they can "save the herds and my father's life." The diseases "from England Were the cloven hoof and the dirty tongue"
AUTHOR: Joseph Plunkett (per OLochlainn)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: marriage farming hardtimes England Ireland patriotic sheep father disease
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 8A, "The Foot and Mouth Disease" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3069
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Youghal Harbour" (tune)
File: OLoc008A
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NAME: Foot of the Mountain Bow, The: see The Foot of the Mountain Brow (The Maid of the Mountain Brow) [Laws P7] (File: LP07)
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NAME: Foot of the Mountain Brow, The (The Maid of the Mountain Brow) [Laws P7]
DESCRIPTION: Jimmy woos Polly with a promise to work hard. He offers her crops, horses, and servants. She says he spends too much time and money at the inn. He observes that the money is his and he will do with it as he will. He leaves her; she regrets her words
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (OLochlainn); c.1867 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(179))
KEYWORDS: courting money rejection
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Laws P7, "The Foot of the Mountain Brow (The Maid of the Mountain Brow)"
Gardner/Chickering 39, "The Foot of the Mountain Bow" (1 text)
FSCatskills 27, "The Maid on the Mountain Brow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 74, "At the Foot of the Mountain Brow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 45, "Maid of the Mountain Brow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 42, "The Maid of the Mountain Brow" (1 text)
SHenry H84+H688, p. 364, "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 19, "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 52, "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 494, BRNKNOWE
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 282-283, "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe" (1 text)
Roud #562
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe" (on IRClancyMakem01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(179), "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Howe," P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867; also 2806 c.8(236), 2806 c.8(294), "The Maid of Sweet Brown Howe"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Largy Line" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Largy Line (File: HHH781)
File: LP07
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NAME: Footboy, The
DESCRIPTION: A father learns his daughter loves a servant. He dismisses the servant, plants a ring on him, and has him arrested for robbery and hanged. The daughter climbs onto the gallows with him, stabs herself, and asks that they be buried in the same grave.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Fowke/MacMillan)
KEYWORDS: love ring robbery execution death betrayal trick suicide servant
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/MacMillan 80, "The Footboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3580
RECORDINGS:
cf. "Mary Acklin (The Squire's Young Daughter) [Laws M16]" (ring plot)
cf. "William Riley's Courtship" [Laws M9] (plot)
cf. "Henry Connors" [Laws M5] (plot)
cf. "Jock Scott" (plot)
NOTES: [A] similar story line to "William Riley," "Henry Connors," and "Mary Acklin" except that in none of those songs is the young man executed or does the girl kill herself.
According to Fowke/MacMillan, [this] song uses a metre and type of repetition more often found in older ballads. The fact that the servant is hanged suggests that it dates from an earlier periods than those in which the man is transported. The term "footboy" for a young manservant has a medieval flavour: it was in common use at the time of Shakespeare but had largely disappeared by the nineteenth century. - SL
File: FowM080
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NAME: Footprints in the Snow
DESCRIPTION: Singer goes to visit his girlfriend, but she's gone out for a walk. He follows her footprints in the snow, finds her, and proposes. She accepts, and he says he'll never "forget the day/When Mary (Lily) lost her way/I found her footprints in the snow"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1876 (sheet music -- probably not the original)
KEYWORDS: courting love marriage
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, FTPRINTS
Roud #2660
RECORDINGS:
Big Slim Aliff, "Footprints in the Snow"  (Decca 5316, 1937; rec. 1936)
Buckley & Skidmore "Footprints in the Snow" (Continental 8030, n.d.)
Cliff Carlisle, "Footprints in the Snow" (Decca 5720, n.d.; Decca 46105, 1947; rec. 1939)
Dusty Ellison & his Saddle Dusters, "Footprints in the Snow" (4-Star 1155, n.d. but post-World War II)
Rambling Red Foley, "I Traced Her Little Footprints in the Snow" (Conqueror 8304, 1934)
Bogue Ford, "Footprints in the snow" (AFS 4209 B1, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Clint Howard et al, "Footprints in the Snow" (on Ashley02, WatsonAshley01)
Bradley Kincaid, "Footprints in the Snow" (Varsity 8038, 1939) (Majestic 6011, 1947)
Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, "Footprints in the Snow" (Columbia 37151 1946; Columbia 20080, n.d.,; rec. 1945) (Decca 28416, 1952)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 2837, "Footprints in the Snow" ("Some lovers like the summer time, when they can stroll about"), unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 11(1660), Harding B 11(1661), "I Traced Her Little Footmarks in the Snow"
NOTES: This has become a bluegrass standard, and I suspect it was composed by one of the "brother acts" of the 1930s, possibly the Monroe Bros.? - PJS
Touched up, perhaps. But it's older, as the sundry recordings show (and that's not a complete list -- Vernon Dalhart also recorded the piece). - RBW
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 11(1660) states "This song is the sole Copyright of Mr. Geo. Lewis....,29,Quay Street, Manchester.
_Country Music Sources_ by Guthrie T Meade Jr with Dick Spottswood and Douglas S. Meade (Chapel Hill, 2002), p. 214 states "Harry Wright, w&m[words and music],1880s/Geo. Russell Jackson, wds, C.W.Bennett,m,1886; Ref: (1)WCS[Wehman's Collection of Songs(NYC:Henry J. Wehman,1884-94),42 issues](July, 1891);....." Steve Roud, in a BALLAD-L note: "A copy of the sheet music obviously came up on Amazon at some point in the past.... in fact it's there twice, as 1876 and 1878 [for Harry Wright]." In fact it's there [http://babynames.tk/cgi-bin/amazon_products_feed.cgi?mode=books_uk&page_num=1&search_type=AuthorSearch&input_string=Harry+Wright&locale=uk] three times: as "I traced her little footmarks in the snow. [Song, begins: 'Some lovers like'.]" in 1876, and as "Footmarks in the Snow ... for the Pianoforte" and as "I traced her little footmarks in the snow. [Song.]" in 1878.
Incidentally, the 1931 record by Bernice (Si) Coleman and the West Virginia Ramblers ("Footprints in the Snow" on _West Virginia Hills_ Old Homestead OHCS-141) uses words much closer to the broadsides than those on the later records I have heard by Bill Monroe (and, consequently, by Flatt and Scruggs).- BS
File: DTftprin
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NAME: Footprints on the Dashboard
DESCRIPTION: A father asks if the singer was the one who did the pushin', and left footprints on the dashboard upside down. The singer replies it was he, and now he has trouble passing water, "so I guess we're even all around."
AUTHOR: unknown (music by Antonin Dvorak)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964  (music published 1894)
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous disease sex
FOUND_IN: Australia US(MA,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cray, pp. 239-240, "Footprints on the Dashboard" (1 text, tune cited)
Randolph-Legman II, pp. 702-703, "Footprints on the Dashboard" (4 texts)
DT, HUMORESQ*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
cf. "Humoresque" (tune)
NOTES: This is sometimes incorporated bodily into "Humoresque." - EC (As see, e.g., the Digital Tradition version - RBW)
File: EM239
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NAME: For A' That and A' That (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Be gude to me as lang's I'm here, I'll maybe win away' yet, He's bonnie coming o'er the hills That will tak' me frae ye a' yet, For a' that and a' that, And thrice as muckle's a' that...." She describes her love, and hopes he will make her well-to-do
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 196, "For A' That and A' That" (1 text)
Roud #5536
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Man's A Man For A' That" (lyrics, stanza form)
NOTES: Ord thinks this Burns's model for "A Man's a Man for A' That." Certainly the form of the verses, and the "For a' that and a' that" chorus in line five of each verse reveal kinship. In addition, the Burns song is reported to be based on an item "The Jolly Beggars." Plus, this is a rare piece; so it's possible that the relationship goes the other way --  i.e. this might be a rewrite of the Burns song designed to be less political. Or, rather, less *overtly* political, perhaps reminding listeners of the other version.... - RBW
File: Ord196
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NAME: For A' That And A' That (II): see A Man's A Man For A' That (File: FSWB297A)
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NAME: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
DESCRIPTION: "For he's a jolly good fellow (x3), Which nobody can deny." (Other verses, if any, come from the other versions of this song)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1870 (tune dates to 1783 or earlier)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 250, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" (1 text, with verses from all parts of the "Malbrouck" family)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 231-233, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow -- (Malbrouk -- We Won't Go Home till Morning! -- The Bear Went over the Mountain)
DT, JOLLGOOD*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "We Won't Go Home Until Morning" (tune) and references there
NOTES: For the history of this tune, see the entry on "We Won't Go Home Until Morning." - RBW
File: FSWB250
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NAME: For Seven Long Years I've Been Married
DESCRIPTION: "For seven long years I've been married, I wish I had lived an old maid... My husband won't work at his trade." She complains about how hard her life is; her husband has broken his promises and wasted her wealth on drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: husband wife drink poverty hardtimes marriage warning technology
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Gardner/Chickering 44, "Seven Long Years" (1 text)
BrownIII 29, "Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (2 texts)
Roud #724
RECORDINGS:
Kelly Harrell, "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (Victor 21069, 1927; on KHarrell02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" (theme)
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)" (theme)
cf. "Do You Love an Apple?" (theme, floating lyrics)
cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme)
NOTES: Kelly Harrell's version of this song appears to be modernized (it mentions automobiles and their failings), and the whole thing may be an update of one or another of the songs in the cross-rederences -- but it doesn't follow the standard pattern of any that I recognize, so I am forced to file it separately.
The notes in Brown say that this piece is found in Randolph's _Ozark Folksongs_, II 417. It's not in the second edition, however. It is true that a song on that page has been deleted -- but the deleted song is "Beautiful Brown Eyes." - RBW
File: RcFSLYBM
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NAME: For Six Days Do All That Thou Art Able: see Six Days Shalt Thou Labor (File: Br3228)
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NAME: For the Fish We Must Prepare
DESCRIPTION: Summer is near. "For the fish we must prepare" Fix traps, trawls, lines, clothes, yoke goats and fix fences so goats don't eat the catch, spay hens, catch and freeze bait, get government seed for the garden.
AUTHOR: Chris Cobb
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: fishing nonballad work gardening animal
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 130-131, "For the Fish We Must Prepare" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9963
File: Pea130
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NAME: For the Victory at Agincourt: see The Agincourt Carol (File: MEL51)
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NAME: Foreign Lander
DESCRIPTION: "I've been a foreign lander full seven long years and more...." The singer has "conquered all my enemies," but is defeated by his love's beauty. He offers illustrations of how faithful he is, and would give anything to marry her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation travel soldier
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 64-66, "[I've Been a Foreign Lander]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5711
RECORDINGS:
Martha Hall, "Foreign Lander" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
NOTES: The Ritchie versions of this song mention a "Queen Ellen." England never had a "Queen Ellen"; in fact, I know of no Queen Ellen of any nation.
England did, however, have three Queens Eleanor: Eleanor of Aquitaine (wife of Henry II), Eleanor of Provence (wife of Henry III), and Eleanor of Castile (first wife of Edward I). - RBW
File: JRSF064
===
NAME: Foreman, Well Known Jerry Ryan, The: see Jerry Ryan (File: Doyl3068)
===
NAME: Forfar Sodger, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer grows up in Forfar, where he is rather a cut-up. After many adventures, he joins the army. He loses a leg in the Peninsular War, but it does not bother him; "Snug in Forfar now I sit, And thrive upon a pension."
AUTHOR: David Shaw
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford); author Shaw died 1856
KEYWORDS: soldier injury money
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 163-166, "The Farfar Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune); cf. pp. 166-168, "The Perthshire Pensioner" (1 text, a Crimean War item adapted from the above and probably not a folk song in its own right)
DT, FORFARSL*
Roud #2857
SAME_TUNE:
The Perthshire Pensioner (Ford-Vagabond, pp. 166-168)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Forfar Soldier
NOTES: It will be obvious that the author of this song did not in fact have to live off the sort of pension paid by the British government in the early nineteenth century....
At least some versions of the song mention the singer being taught the "rule of three." This is a statement about proportions -- in effect, "if a is to b as c is to d, what is d?" (an equation in three known and one unknown term, hence the name). In modern fractional notation, we would say that a/b=c/d, and that the rule tells us that d=bc/a. A trivial calculation today, but it let minimally educated people calculate such things as the price of a fraction of a pound when the price for a whole pound was known. - RBW
File: FVS163
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NAME: Forget You I Never May
DESCRIPTION: "Fare thee well, for once I loved you Even more than tongue can tell, Little did I think you'd leave me, Now I bid you all farewell." The singer tells how (s)he loved him, asks why he is unkind, and ends, "I'll forgive you, But forget you I never may."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal farewell
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 737, "Forget You I Never May" (1 text)
BrownII 154, "You Are False, But I'll Forgive You" (3 texts)
Roud #460
RECORDINGS:
Buell Kazee, "You Are False But I'll Forgive you" (Brunswick 217, 1928/Supertone S-2047, 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Can Forgive But Not Forget (Sweetheart, Farewell)"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
You Were False
Fare Thee Well
NOTES: Roud links this with a large number of other lost-but-not-forgotten love songs. In most cases, however, the link seems more thematic than textual. - RBW
To me this reeks of a Victorian parlor-song origin. I expect the sheet music to turn up any day now. - PJS
File: R737
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NAME: Forglen (Forglen You Know, Strichen's Plantins)
DESCRIPTION: The singer comes across young lovers who are preparing to part. The man wishes he did not have to go, but he has no choice. He praises her in many lyric ways, some not obviously complimentary: "Your love is like the moon That wanders up and down."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love separation parting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 79-80, "Forglen You Know" (1 text)
Roud #6286
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Curragh of Kildare" (lyrics, form)
NOTES: Versions of this take whole stanzas from the "Curragh of Kildare/Winter It Is Past" family; whether there is dependence I don't know.
The reference to David and his family being banished probably refers to 1 Samuel 22:3-4; although David himself had fled Saul three chapters earlier, this is the first reference to his family going into exile (in Moab).
The reference to Lazarus appears to be the Lazarus of Luke (16:19-31), not the Lazarus of John, even though Luke's Lazarus is simply the subject of a parable, not a real person; this is not the only instance in traditional song of this Lazarus being treated as real. - RBW
File: Ord079
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NAME: Forsaken Lover, A: see On Top of Old Smokey (File: BSoF740)
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NAME: Forsaken Mother and Child, The: see The Fatal Snowstorm [Laws P20] (File: LP20)
===
NAME: Fort Thomas Murder, The: see Pearl Bryan (III) [Laws F3] AND Pearl Bryan (IV) (File: LF03)
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NAME: Fortune My Foe (Aim Not Too High)
DESCRIPTION: "Fortune my foe, why dost thou frown on me? And will thy favour never better be?" The singer laments the sad fortune that has stolen his love away, and hopes for ease. Notable primarily for the tune, often cited under the title "Aim Not Too High"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1610 (W. Corkine's Instruction Book for the Lute)
KEYWORDS: love separation nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 76-79, "Fortune" (1 tune, with partial texts of "Fortune My Foe" and "Aim Not Too High")
BBI ZN912, "Fortune my foe, why dost thou frown on me"
DT, FORTFOE*
ST ChWI076 (Full)
SAME_TUNE:
A Caveat for Young-men/Give ear to me you youngmen whilst I write (BBI ZN963)
The Great Assize../Here is presented to the eye (BBI ZN1135)
The Disturbed Ghost/Good Christain people all pray lend an ear (BBI ZN992)
A Looking- Glass for Traytors [executed Dec. 3, 1678]/Let all bold Traytors here come take a view (BBI ZN1614)
The true manner of the Kings Tryal/King Charles was once a Prince of great state (BBI ZN1578)
A Pill against Popery/Kind countrymen give ear unto these lines (BBI ZN1565)
A Godly Guide of Directions/Good people all I pray you understand (BBI ZN1034)
Newes from Hereford..Earthquake [Oct. 1, 1661]/Old England of thy sins in time repent (BBI ZN2135)
The Godly Mans Instruction/Good people all I pray hear what I read (BBI ZN1031)
Sad News from Salisbury. Dreadful Frost and Snow.. 23d. of December, 1684/Good Christians all that live both far & near (BBI ZN999)
Dying Tears [death of Henry, son of K. Chas. I, 13 Sept., 1660]/Great are the wonders that our God has done (BBI ZN1072)
The Bloody- minded Husband... John Chamber/Good people all I pray attend, and mind (BBI ZN1025)
The Bloody Murtherer..James Selbee/All you that come to see my fatal end (BBI ZN115)
The Gunpowder Plot/True Protestants I pray you to draw near (BBI ZN2674) [cf. in this Index "Guy Fawkes"]
The Downfall of Pride/In London liv'd a wealthy merchants wife (BBI ZN1439)
The Distressed Gentlewoman/Good people all, I pray you now draw near (BBI ZN1032)
The Royal Court in Mourning.. Death.. King William/England, thy Sun have shined many years (BBI ZN828)
The Young-Mans A. B. C./Accept dear Love, these shadows of my grief (BBI ZN6)
..Strange and Wonderful Storm of Hail.. 18th of May 1680../Good Christians all attend unto my ditty (BBI ZN997)
Criminals Cruelty.. Tho. Wise.. murdered Elizabeth Fairbank.. executed.. Oct. 1684/Oh! this would make a stout heart lament (BBI ZN2048)
Englands Miseries..preserving ..Royal Brother.. last horrid Plot/Old England now rise up with one accord (BBI ZN2134)
Looking- glass for a Christian Family/All you that fear the Lord that rules the sky (BBI ZN133)
Looking-Glass for all true Christians/O hark, O hark, methinks I hear a voice (BBI ZN2012)
The Despairing Lover/Break heart and dye, I can no longer live (BBI ZN449)
The Young Man's Counsellor/All you that to begin the world intend (BBI ZN149)
[Title lost. Naval Warfare of 1692]/To God alone, let us all Glory give (BBI ZN2641)
The Kentish Wonder/You faithful Christians, whereso'er you be (BBI ZN3008)
The Young- Mans Repentance/You that have spent your time in wickedness (BBI ZN3127)
Dying Christians friendly Advice/You mortal men who vainly spend your youth (BBI ZN3073)
Truth brought to Light/Amongst those wonders which on earth are shown (BBI ZN178)
A Lamentable List.. Prodigious signs.. 1618.. 1638/You who would be inform'd of forraine news (BBI ZN3147)
A Warning for Swearers/All you that do desire to hear and know (BBI ZN124)
A True Relation of the Great Floods/Oh, England, England! 'tis high time to repent (BBI ZN2002)
[missing title, Fire on London bridge]/It grieves my heart to write such heavy news (BBI ZN1510)
The Hartford-shires Murder/All melting hearts come here and.. (BBI ZN93)
A wonderfull wonder/Look downe, O Lord, upon this sinful land (BBI ZN1715)
Death's loud Allarum/Lament your sinnes, good people all, lament (BBI ZN1599)
You that the Lord have blessed with riches (BBI ZN3134)
Now to discourse of man I take in hand/A discourse of Man's life (BBI ZN1982)
What woeful times we have now in our land/A Looking- Glass for all true Protestants (BBI  ZN2812)
Behold, O Lord, a Sinner in distresse/A Godly Song, entituled, A Farewell to the world (BBI ZN400)
Give thanks, rejoyce all, you that are secure/A Sad and True Relation of a great fire or two (BBI ZN972)
Brave Windham late/Iohn Flodder and his Wife,... burning Town of Windham. .xi day of June 1615 (BBI ZN448)
Who please to heare such news as are most true/The lamentable burning..Corke..1621 (BBI ZN2912(
All Christian men give ear a while to me/The Judgement of God..John Faustus (BBI ZN59)
Aim not to high in things above thy reach/An excellent song..consolation for a troubled mind  (BBI ZN37)
As I lay slumbering in my bed one night/St. Bernard's Vision  (BBI ZN224)
Ay me, vile wretch, that ever I was born/complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feuversham in Kent (BBI ZN369)
Listen a while dear friends I do you pray/sad judgement..Dorothy Mattley.. 1660 (BBI ZN1698)
You disobedient children mark my fall/Save a Thief from the Gallows (BBI ZN3006)
Kind countreymen, and our acquaintances all/The lamentation of Edward Bruton [Mar. 18, 1633] (BBI ZN1563)
Now, like the swan, before my death I sing/.. lamentation of..John Stevens..[executed Mar. 7, 1632 (old style)] (BBI ZN1933)
England, give prayse unto the Lord thy God/A joyfull new ballad..Victory obtained by my Lord Mount-joy.. 2 of December last [1601] to [Jan. 9, 1602] (BBI ZN825)
I pray give ear unto my tale of woe/..cruel murder.. upon..Abraham Gearsy (BBI ZN1320)
Great God that sees all things that here are don/Anne Wallens Lamentation,. murthering ..husband...22 June 1616 (BBI ZN1077)
Vnhappy she whom fortune hath forlorne/Lamentation ..Master Pages Wife of Plymouth [1609?] (BBI ZN2697)
Titus Andronicus's Complaint/You noble minds, and famous martial wights (Percy/Wheately I, pp. 224-229; BBI ZN3085)
NOTES: As a song, this is of no particular note, but the tune was immensely popular, and sustained numbers of broadsides (see the Same Tune list; these more often list the tune as "Aim Not Too High," but many give both titles; in any case, it's the same melody). This popularity, rather than the not-demonstrably-traditional and quite banal text, explain the song's inclusion here.
Chappell claims that Shakespeare alludes to this song in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene iii. I can't find anything that strikes *me* as an allusion to the song, though. - RBW
File: ChWI076
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NAME: Forty Years Ago: see Twenty Years Ago (Forty Years Ago) (File: R869)
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NAME: Forward, Boys, Hurrah!: see These Temperance Folks (File: R323)
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NAME: Foundling Child, The: see The Basket of Eggs (File: VWL018)
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NAME: Four and Twenty Tailors
DESCRIPTION: Four-and-twenty tailors chase a snail (ending in defeat); depending on the version, four-and-twenty others (blind men, young maids, auld wives) have equally unlikely adventures
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1784 (Gammar Gurton's Garland, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: humorous talltale fight animal
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Kinloch-BBook XIII, pp. 48-49, (no title) (1 text)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 271-272, "Neerie Norrie" (1 text)
Opie-Oxford2 495, "Four and twenty tailors" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #90, p. 86, "(Four and twenty tailors)"
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 143, "(Four-and-twenty Highlandmen)" (1 text)
DT, TAILOR4
Roud #1036
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hey the Mantle!" (style)
NOTES: This is a very amorphous piece; the Digital Tradition version has very little in common with Kinloch's except the initial reference to the Hunting of the Snail, and the meters are different. There seems to be a whole genre of Improbable Scots Songs, many of which are not traditional. But there are so many references in the DT text that I imagine the piece belongs in the Index. - RBW
File: KinBB13
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NAME: Four Brothers, The: see I Gave My Love a Cherry
 (File: R123)
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NAME: Four Drunken Maidens: see Drunken Maidens (File: Log240)
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NAME: Four Horses
DESCRIPTION: "There was a young fellow who first drove a team" of four horses, which he kept well. He drove them to a fair, paid his bills. He and his team had a good reputation. He drove them home and left them to rest, thinking "Straight way is the best"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (recording, Hockey Feltwell)
KEYWORDS: work virtue horse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12929
RECORDINGS:
Hockey Feltwell, "Four Horses" (on Voice05)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah)" [Laws M31A/B] (tune) and references there
File: Rc4Horse
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NAME: Four in the Middle: see Coffee Grows (Four in the Middle) (File: R524)
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NAME: Four Jolly Fellows: see When Jones's Ale Was New (File: Doe168)
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NAME: Four Maries (Marys), The: see Mary Hamilton [Child 173] (File: C173)
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NAME: Four Nights Drunk [Child 274]
DESCRIPTION: Our goodman comes home drunk for several nights. Each night he observes an oddity -- another man's horse, boots, sword, etc. Each time his wife says it is something else. Finally he sees a man's head; she explains that, too -- but the head has a beard
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 [Herd]
KEYWORDS: humorous trick adultery drink bawdy dialog disguise husband wife
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada(Ont,Mar) Britain(England(Lond,West),Scotland(Aber,Bord)) Ireland US(All) Bahamas
REFERENCES: (35 citations)
Child 274, "Our Goodman" (3 texts)
Bronson 274, "Our Goodman" (58 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 315-317, "Our Goodman" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Linscott, pp. 259-262, "Our Goodman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 63-71, "Our Goodman" (5 texts plus 2 fragments)
Belden, pp. 89-91, "Our Goodman" (2 texts)
Randolph 33, "I Went Home One Night" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #19, #46}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 60-63, "i Went Home One Night" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 33B) {Bronson's #46}
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 53-57, "Four Nights Drunk" (5 texts, 1 tune)
Eddy 25, "Our Goodman" (1 text)
Davis-Ballads 43, "Our Goodman" (6 text, one of which is in an appendix because of dialect; 5 tunes entitled "Hobble and Bobble," "The Old Man," "Home Comes the Old Man," "Down Came the Old Man") {Bronson's #8, #39, #6, #7, #56}
Davis-More 38, pp. 299-304, "Our Goodman" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 42, "Our Goodman" (2 texts plus mention of 2 more)
Chappell-FSRA 19, "Our Goodman" (1 text)
Hudson 22, pp. 122-123, "Our Goodman" (1 short text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 231-236, "Our Goodman" (4 texts, with local titles "Three Nights of Experience," Three Nights of Experience," "I Called To My Loving Wife," "Parson Jones"; 3 tunes on pp. 417-418) {Bronson's #29, #54, #50}
Brewster 22, "Our Goodman" (1 fragment)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 91-92, "Our Goodman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #44}
Leach, pp. 653-657, "Our Goodman" (1 text)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 35-39, "Four Night Drunk or The Cabbage Head Song" ; "Ole Lady" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Friedman, p. 445, "Our Goodman" (2 texts)
Cray, pp. 11-23, "Four Nights Drunk" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Niles 57, "Our Goodman" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 38, "Our Goodman" (4 texts plus 1 fragment, 5 tunes) {Bronson's #55, #53, #15, #58, #30}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 26, "Our Goodman" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version) {Bronson's #30}
Chase, pp. 118-119, "Home Came the Old Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
DBuchan 61, "Our Goodman" (1 text)
JHCox 28, "Our Goodman" (3 texts)
SHenry H21ab, p. 508, "The Blin' Auld Man/The Covered Cavalier" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 38, "Our Goodman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 108-110, "Our Goodman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #36}
Darling-NAS, pp. 78-80, "Three Nights Drunk"; "Our Goodman" (2 texts)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 22, "Four Nights Drunk" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 233, "Four Nights Drunk" (1 text)
DT 274, DRUNK5NT GOODMAN2* GOODMAN3
Roud #114
RECORDINGS:
Jo Jo Adams, "Cabbage Head, Parts 1 & 2" (Aristocrat 803, rec. 1948)
Anonymous singer, "The Merry Cuckold" (on Unexp1)
Thomas C[larence] Ashley, "Four Night's Experience" (Gennett 6404, 1928; Challenge 405 [as Tom Hutchinson], c. 1928)
Emmett Bankston & Red Henderson, "Six Nights Drunk, pt. 1/pt. 2" (OKeh 45292, 1929; rec. 1928) {Bronson's #32}
Harry Cox, Mary Connors, Colin Keane [composite] "The Cuckold's Song (Our Goodman)" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2)
Jack Elliott, "The Blind Fool" (on Elliotts01)
John B. Evans, "Three Nights Experience" (Brunswick 237, 1928)
Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Laboring Man Away from Home" (Paramount, unissued, rec. 1927)
Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers, "Three Nights Experience" (OKeh 45092, 1927)
Coley Jones, "Drunkard's Special" (Columbia 14489, 1929; on AAFM1, BefBlues3) {Bronson's #33}
Colon Keel, "The Three Nights Experience" (AFS 2709 B1, 1939)
Lena & Sylvester Kimbrough, "Cabbage Head Blues" (Meritt 2201, 1926)
A. L. Lloyd, "Shickered As He Could Be" (on Lloyd2)
J. E. Mainer & Band, "Three Nights Drunk" (on LomaxCD1701) {Bronson's #38}
Wade Mainer, "Three Nights in a Barroom" (Blue Ridge 109, n.d.)
Mustard and Gravy, "Five Nights' Experience" (Bluebird B-7905, 1938)
Chris Powell & the Five Blue Flames, "Last Saturday Night" (Columbia 30162, 1949)
Orrin Rice, "Our Goodman" (AFS; on LC12) {Bronson's #31}
Pete Seeger, "My Good Man" (on PeteSeeger24)
George Spicer, "Coming Home Late" (on Voice13)
Will Starks, "Our Good Man" (AFS 6652 A1, 1942)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Three Nights Drunk" (Bluebird B-5748, 1934)
Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller, "Four Nights' Experience" (on DownYonder)
Tony Wales, "Our Goodman" (on TWales1)
Sonny Boy Williamson [pseud. for Rice Miller] "Wake Up Baby" (Checker 894, 1958)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Eleven More Months and Ten More Day" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Five Nights Drunk
Seven Nights Drunk
Home (Hame) Drunk Came I
The Jealous Hearted Husband
The Old Man Came Home One Night
When I Came Home Last Saturday Night
The Good Old Man
Arrow Goodman
Kind Wife
Parson Jones
NOTES: According to Joseph Hickerson, archivist at the Archive of American Folk Culture, Library of Congress, who has studied the ballad, this is the most commonly recovered Child ballad, surpassing even "Barbara Allen" (Child 84). - EC
File: C274
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NAME: Four O'Clock
DESCRIPTION: "Baby, I can't sleep, and neither can I eat; Round your bedside I'm gwine to creep. Four o'clock, baby, four o'clock, I'll make it in about four o'clock."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: courting nightvisit
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 274, "Four O'Clock" (1 short text, 1 tune)
NOTES: A "creeper" song -- that, according to Scarborough, being the southern name for a night visitor. - RBW
File: ScNF274A
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NAME: Four Old Whores
DESCRIPTION: Two, three, or four whores, sometimes from Baltimore, Winnipeg, or Mexico, compare the size of their vaginas with extravagant boasts.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy bragging contest humorous lie nonballad whore
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada Britain(England,Scotland) US(MA,MW,NE,NW,So,SE,SW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cray, pp. 6-11, "Four Old Whores" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 121-123, "Four Old Whores" (3 texts, 1 tune)
DT, OLDWHORE OLDWHOR2*
Roud #5666
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Three Old Whores
Three Old Whores from Mexico
Three Old Whores from Winnepeg
NOTES: Technically, this is not a ballad in that it tells no story. The women merely top each other's boast. - EC
File: EM006
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NAME: Four Pence a Day
DESCRIPTION: "The ore is waiting in the tubs, the snow's upon the fell." The washer lads must be at work early in the day. The singer's poor parents could not send him to school, so he must work for four pence a day. He hopes his boss will develop a conscience
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (recording, Ewan MacColl)
KEYWORDS: work worker poverty boss hardtimes mining
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
MacColl-Shuttle, p. 6, "Fourpence a Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 130, "Four Pence a Day" (1 text)
DT, FOURPENC*
Roud #2586
RECORDINGS:
Ewan MacColl, "Four Pence a Day" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741)
Pete Seeger, "The Washer Lad" (on PeteSeeger23, AmHist1)
NOTES: Although printed in at least five different collections, it appears that the only source for this is John Gowland of Yorkshire. And it appears no other songs were collected from him. Could he possibly be the author? - RBW
File: FSWB130A
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NAME: Four Seasons of the Year, The
DESCRIPTION: "The spring is the quarter, the first that I'll mention, The fields and the meadows are covered with green." The singer catalogs the seasons: Spring (and Valentine's day), the busy summer, the hunting season of autumn, the chill winter, and repeat
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Leather)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leather, pp. 207-208, "Four Seasons of the Year" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Leath207 (Partial)
File: Leath207
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NAME: Four-Leaved Shamrock, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock In all the fairy dells" and use its magic to cure the world of tears and aching hearts, mend estrangement between friends and see that "vanished dreams of love" return.
AUTHOR: Samuel Lover
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1846 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.16(203))
KEYWORDS: magic healing nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, pp. 137-138, "The Four-Leaved Shamrock" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.16(203), "The Four Leaved Shamrock", J. Paul and Co (London), 1838-1845; also Harding B 11(3888), Johnson Ballads 562, Harding B 11(1250), Firth b.25(599), Johnson Ballads 417, Harding B 11(1249), "The Four Leaved Shamrock"
LOCSinging, sb10120b, "The Four-Leaved Shamrock", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also as104540, as104080, as201070, "[The] Four-Leaved Shamrock"
NLScotland, RB.m.143(139), "The Four-Leaved Shamrock", Poet's Box (Glasgow), c.1880
NOTES: Broadside NLScotland RB.m.143(139): The text includes the statement that "This is supposed to be one of Sheilds' productions." The commentary states "It is not clear who Shields is, but this piece was in fact written by the Irish songwriter, painter and novelist, Samuel Lover (1797-1868)." That agrees with the O'Conor attribution.
Broadside LOCSinging sb10130a: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon137
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NAME: Four-Loom Weaver, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, a weaver, laments hard times --  his clothes are worn out, his furniture repossessed, his family starved and keeping alive by eating boiled nettles. His wife states that if she had clothes to wear she would go to London and confront the wealthy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (recording, Ewan MacColl)
KEYWORDS: poverty unemployment weaving hardtimes starvation wife worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacColl-Shuttle, pp. 4-5, "The Four Loom Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FOURLOOM*
Roud #937
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "The Poor Cotton Wayver" (on IronMuse1)
Ewan MacColl, "The Four Loom Weaver" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1700, LomaxCD1741) (on IronMuse2)
NOTES: The period 1819-1820, following the Napoleonic Wars, brought unemployment and starvation to much of the English working class. - PJS
According to MacColl-Shuttle, this is attributed to "John o' Greenfield." - RBW
File: DTfourlo
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NAME: Fourpence a Day: see Four Pence a Day (File: FSWB130A)
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NAME: Fourth Day of July, The: see The Cuckoo (File: R049)
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NAME: Fox and Goose, The: see The Fox (File: R103)
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NAME: Fox and Hare (They've All Got a Mate But Me)
DESCRIPTION: The singer laments, "Six wives I've had and they're all dead," noting "Oh, the fox and the hare, the badger and the bear And the birds in the greenwood tree And the pretty little rabbits engaging in their habits Have all got a mate but me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: animal love wife shrewishness marriage fight
FOUND_IN: US(NE,SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Flanders/Brown, p. 121, "Fox and Hare" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 205, "Dey All Got a Mate But Me" (1 fragment, 1 tune, probably this though it consists of little more than the "they've all got a mate but me" lines)
BrownIII 172, "The Weasel and the Rat" (1 fragment, so similar in form that I file it here though it omits the mention of a mate: "Weasel and the rat, Mosquito and the cat, Chicken and the bumble-bee; The old baboon, the fuzzy little coon; They all went wild but me.")
SharpAp 239, "The Tottenham Toad" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FlBr121 (Full)
Roud #1140 and 3624
NOTES: Flanders and Brown claim this is from the romance of Reynard the Fox. If so, it's evolved a bit in the course of half a millennium.
The versions in fact are very diverse, and probably include material inherited from multiple sources. The key line is the one about "They all have a wife/mate but me." Mentions of six wives or six weeks of quarrelling with a single wife are also common. - RBW
File: FlBr121
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NAME: Fox and His Wife, The: see The Fox (File: R103)
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NAME: Fox and the Goose, The: see The Fox (File: R103)
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NAME: Fox and the Grapes, The
DESCRIPTION: "A hungry fox one day did spy Some rich ripe grapes that hung so high And to him they seemed to say, 'If you can get us down, you may.'" After an hour of trying, the fox admits failure, "Then he went away, and he swore that the grapes were sour."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: food animal
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Canada(Ont,West)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Flanders/Brown, p. 247, "The Fox and the Grapes" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fox and the Grapes" (source notes only)
ST GC479a (Full)
Roud #3713
RECORDINGS:
Wellington Thompson, "A Hungry Fox" (on Saskatch01)
NOTES: This is, of course, a retelling of Aesop's fable, "The Fox and the Grapes"; Cass-Beggs also refers to Maria Edgeworth's 1833 book of instructive stories for children, although she isn't clear about whether this story is there. She notes that [Welllington] Thompson reported learning the song as a small boy in Ontario (he was born in 1866). - PJS
File: GC479a
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NAME: Fox and the Lawyer, The
DESCRIPTION: "The fox and the lawyer was different in kind... The lawyer loved done meat because it was easy to chaw, The fox... would take his blood raw." The fox goes out to take a hen. Pursued to his den, he says the fight is not fair; the hunter doesn't care
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: animal lawyer hunting
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 70, (no title) (1 text)
ST ScaNF070 (Partial)
NOTES: Scarborough's informant claimed this was sung by slaves. This strikes me as unlikely; while they often told stories about foxes and chickens, the first verse about lawyers strikes me as a graft -- and why would slaves preserve it? - RBW
File: ScaNF070
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NAME: Fox Chase, A: see The Duke of Buckingham's Hounds (File: Br3218)
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NAME: Fox Hunt, The: see Bold Reynard the Fox (Tallyho! Hark! Away!) (File: DTReynrd)
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NAME: Fox River Line, The (The Rock Island Line) [Laws C28]
DESCRIPTION: The singer (and men of many nations) work in George Allan's camp without earning any money. He decides to get another job
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: logger poverty boss work
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Canada(Mar,Ont,Que)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws C28, "The Fox River Line (The Rock Island Line)"
FSCatskills 93, "The Rock Island Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 116, "Fox River Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-Lumbering #11, "The Rock Island Line" (2 texts, tune referenced)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 119-123, "The Scantling Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 41, "The Scantaling Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 655, ROCKISL
Roud #643
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The New Limit Line" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Margineau Line
The Keith and Hiles Line
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Mr Brown [the singer] credits this song to Larry Gorman, but Sandy Ives, who should know, says he does not believe Larry wrote it. Still it seems to have some Gorman touches. Similar songs are sung in all parts of the Northeast, with names altered to suit." - BS
Not to be confused with "The Rock Island Line" as sung by Lead Belly. - RBW
File: LC28
===
NAME: Fox Walked Out, The: see The Fox (File: R103)
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NAME: Fox Went Out on a Starry Night, A: see The Fox (File: R103)
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NAME: Fox, The
DESCRIPTION: Fox goes hunting on a (chilly) night. It goes to the farmer's yard and takes a goose. The farmer and wife are aroused; the farmer sets out after the fox. Fox escapes home with its kill; the fox family celebrates with a fine dinner
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1810 (Gammer Gurton's Garland)
KEYWORDS: animal food hunting
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England(Lond,South)) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (24 citations)
Randolph 103, "The Fox Walked Out" (4 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 135-137, "The Fox Walked Out" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 103A)
Eddy 91, "The Fox" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 192, "The Fox and the Goose" (1 text)
BrownIII 129, "The Fox and the Goose" (4 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Brewster 77, "The Fox" (1 fragment)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 248-250, "The Fox" (2 texts plus 1 fragment, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 12-13, "The Fox and the Goose" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 119-120, "Fox and Goose" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 202-204, "A Fox Went Out on a Starry Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 181-182, "Old Man Fox" (1 text)
SharpAp 226, "The Old Black Duck" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Logan, pp. 291-293, "The Fox" (1 text)
Kennedy 301, "Old Daddy Fox" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, p. 749, "The Fox" (1 text)
SHenry H38, p. 29, "The Fox and His Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 163, "The Fox" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCoxIIB, #21, pp. 172-173, "The Fox" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 171, "A fox jumped up one winter's night" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #116, p. 96, "(Old Mother Widdle Waddle jumpt out of bed)"
PSeeger-AFB, p. 80, "The Fox" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 400, "The Fox" (1 text)
DT, FOXOUT
ADDITIONAL: Brown/Robbins, _Index of Middle English Verse_, #1622, 3328
ST R103 (Full)
Roud #131
RECORDINGS:
Blue Ridge Highballers, "Darneo" (Columbia 15132-D, 1927)
Harry Burgess, "The Hungry Fox" (on Voice18)
Cyril Biddick with chorus, "Old Daddy Fox" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741)
Pete Seeger, "The Fox" (on PeteSeeger09, PeteSeegerCD02) (on PeteSeeger18)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Daddy Fox
Old Mother Hippletoe
The Fox and the Grey Goose
NOTES: The earliest version of this piece appears to have been a Middle English poem found in British Museum MS. Royal 19.B.iv, and is thought to date from the fifteenth century. About as old is a strange version in Cambridge MS. Ee.1.12 with an extended prologue about the fox's raids but with lyrics closer to most modern versions. It is reasonable to assume that this, and perhaps even the British Museum text, are rewritings of documents still older.
It should perhaps be noted that foxes are asocial animals; the males do not take part in raising the young. - RBW
File: R103
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NAME: Foxes, The: see Bold Ranger, The (File: R076)
===
NAME: Frank Dupree [Laws E24]
DESCRIPTION: Frank Dupree, the singer, gets in trouble when he steals a diamond from an Atlanta jewelry store. As he leaves, he shoots a policeman and drives off. He is arrested and sentenced to death when he returns to his sweetheart Betty
AUTHOR: Probably Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Blind Andy [Jenkins], Rosa Lee Carson)
KEYWORDS: robbery murder love prison execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 15, 1921 - Frank Dupree robs an Atlanta jewelry store
Sept. 1, 1922 - Dupree hanged
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws E24, "Frank Dupree"
BrownII 247, "Frank Dupree" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 396, "Dupree" (2 texts, but only the first is E24; Laws considers the second to be I11)
DT 794, DUPREE1 DUPREE2
Roud #2253
RECORDINGS:
Blind Andy [Jenkins], "Frank Dupree" (OKeh 40446, 1925)
Rosa Lee Carson, "Frank Du Pree" (OKeh 40446, 1925)
Vernon Dalhart, "Frank Dupree" (Columbia 15042-D, 1925)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dupree" [Laws I11] (plot)
File: LE24
===
NAME: Frank Fidd
DESCRIPTION: Frank Fidd was as gallant a tar As ever took reef in a sail ... One night off the Cape of Good Hope" a rope catches Frank by the heels and his head is bashed. His dying words are "Safe moored in Felicity Bay I'll ride by the Cape of Delight"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: death sailor injury
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Mackenzie 94, "Frank Fidd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3281
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Tom Bowling" (theme)
NOTES: Mackenzie: "The same phraseological method that is employed [in the song of Tom Bowling] is used in narrating 'The Life and Death of Frank Fidd.'" Mackenzie includes Frank Fidd among "that brave group of sailors" including Tom Bowling. You can see and hear "Tom Bowling" by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) at the Lesley Nelson-Burns site Folk Music of England Scotland Ireland, Wales & America collection site. - BS
File: Mack094
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NAME: Frank Gardiner
DESCRIPTION: "Frank Gardiner he is caught at last; he lies in Sydney jail...." The song details the deeds of this daring bushranger, then tells how he was taken after the death of fellow bushrangers Ben Hall and Gilbert
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954
KEYWORDS: outlaw prison
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1830 - Birth of Francis Christie in New South Wales. He later took the name Frank Gardiner, and was known as "the Darkie" for his part-Aborigine ancestry
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 30, "Frank Gardiner" (1 text, 1 tune, with a confused ending)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 86-87, "Frank Gardiner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 58-59, "Frank Gardiner" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FRNKGARD*
Roud #9117
NOTES: Despite the implication in some versions of the song that Gardiner would be executed, he was condemned to prison. Having served 10 years of a 32 year sentence, he went into voluntary exile in America (he is said to have opened a saloon in San Francisco).
Ben Hall (d. 1865; for whom see "The Death of Ben Hall" and "Ben Hall") was associated with the Gardiner gang. Other members included Johnny Dunn (d. 1866), Johnny O'Meally (d. 1863), and John Gilbert (d. 1866).
Gardiner himself was much longer-lived; legend says that he died in a poker game in Colorado in 1903.
According to Fahey, he also claimed higher morals than most bushrangers; an 1862 newspaper published a letter in which he claimed never to have taken the last of a poor man's money, and to have discharged those from his gang who did such things! The letter was signed,
Fearing nothing, I remain, Prince of Tobymen,
Francis Gardiner, The Highwayman. - RBW
File: MA030
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NAME: Frank James, the Burglar: see The Boston Burglar [LawsL16] (File: LL16)
===
NAME: Frankie: see Frankie and Albert [Laws I3] (File: LI03)
===
NAME: Frankie and Albert [Laws I3]
DESCRIPTION: Frankie discovers her husband (Albert/Johnnie) involved with another woman. She shoots him. Depending on the version, she may be imprisoned or allowed to go free
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Copyright as "He Done Me Wrong" by Hughie Cannon)
KEYWORDS: infidelity murder bawdy betrayal execution jealousy judge prison trial
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE,So,SW) Australia
REFERENCES: (33 citations)
Laws I3, "Frankie and Albert"
Belden, pp. 330-333, "Frankie and Albert" (1 text, composite)
Randolph 159, "Frankie and Johnny" (6 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 166-170, "Frankie and Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 159A)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 477-484, "Frankie and Johnny" (5 texts, 1 tune)
Eddy 108, "Maggie Was a Lady" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
BrownII 251, "Frankie and Albert" (3 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 4 more; 4 of these were called "Frankie Baker" by the informants, but none of the texts appear to use that name in the body of the song)
Chappell-FSRA 111, "Frankie and Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson 65, pp. 189-191, "Frankie" (1 text)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 80-84, "Frankie and Albert" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts, 2 tunes)
Leach, pp. 761-765, "Frankie and Albert (Johnnie)" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 211, "Frankie and Albert (Frankie and Johnny)" (2 texts)
Cray, pp. 137-149, "Frankie and Johnnie" (4 texts, 1 tune)
PBB 113, "Frankie and Albert" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 76-77, "Frankie and Albert"; 77-81, "Frankie and Johnny"; 82-82, "Frankie Blues"; 84-85, "Josie"; 86, "Sadie" (5 texts, 6 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 88, "Frankie and Albert" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 305, "Frankie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 103-110, "Frankie and Albert" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 58 "Frankie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 148-149, "Frankie and Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 31-36, "Frankie and Johnnie" (1 text with variant stanzas, 2 tunes)
JHJohnson, pp. 33-38, "Frankie and Johnnie" (1 text)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 182-184, "(Frankie and Albert)" (1 text)
JHCox 46, "Maggie Was a Lady" (2 texts)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 64, "Frankie And Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 177, "Frankie And Johnny" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 233-235, "Frankie and Johnny"
DT 316, FRANJOHN* FRANJON2
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Versions of "Leaving Home," the Charlie Poole song:
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 144-145, "Leaving Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rorrer, p. 72, "Leaving Home" (1 text)
DT 316, FRANJON3*
Roud #254
RECORDINGS:
Gene Autry, "Frankie and Johnny" (OKeh 45417, 1930) (Velvet Tone 7063-V/Clarion 5026-C, 1930)
Emry Arthur, "Frankie Baker, pts. 1 & 2" (Vocalion 5340, 1929)
Al Bernard, "Frankie and Johnny" (Brunswick 2107, 1921)
James Burke, "Frankie and Johnnie" (Superior 2590, 1931)
Frank Crumit, "Frankie and Johnnie" (Victor 20715, 1927)
[Tom] Darby & [Jimmy] Tarlton, "Frankie Dean" (Columbia 15701-D, c. 1931; rec. 1930)
Slim Dusty, "Frankie and Johnny" (Regal Zonophone [Australia] G25403, n.d.)
Dykes Magic City Trio, "Frankie" (Brunswick 127/Vocalion 5143, 1927; on RoughWays1)
Louise Foreacre, "Frankie was a Good Girl" (on Stonemans01)
Roscoe Holcomb, "Frankie and Johnny" (on Holcomb2)
Mississippi John Hurt, "Frankie" (OKeh 8560, 1928; on AAFM1, RoughWays2)
Billy Jones, "Frankie and Johnny" (Edison 52284, 1928)
Frankie Marvin, "Frankie and Johnny" (Brunswick 400/Crown 3076, 1930)
McMichen's Melody Men, "Frankie and Johnny" (Decca 5418, 1937)
Nick Nichols, "Frankie and Johnny (The Shooting Scene) Part 1"/"Frankie and Johnny (The Courtroom Scene) Part 2" (Columbia 2071-D, 1929)
Luther Ossenbrink: "Frankie and Albert" (Conqueror 7879 [as Arkansas
Woodchopper], 1931); "Frankie and Johnny" (Champion 15852 [as West Virginia
Rail Splitter]/Supertone 9569 [as Arkansas Woodchopper], 1929; Champion
45058 [as West Virginia Rail Splitter], 1935) (Supertone S-2590 [as Arkansas
Woodchopper], 1931)
Charley Patton, "Frankie and Albert" (Paramount 13110, 1931; rec. 1929)
Riley Puckett, "Frankie and Johnny" (Columbia 15505-D, 1930; rec. 1929) (Bluebird B-8277, 1939)
Carson Robison, "Frankie and Johnny" (QRS 1014, c. 1929)
Jimmie Rodgers, "Frankie and Johnny" (Victor 22143, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4309/Bluebird B-5223, 1933; Montgomery Ward M-4721, c. 1935)
Mike Seeger, "Frankie" (on MSeeger01)
Pete Seeger, "Frankie and Johnny" (on PeteSeeger17)
Bessie Smith, "Frankie Blues" (Columbia 14023-D, 1924)
Mamie Smith & her Jazz Hounds, "Frankie Blues" (OKeh 4856, 1923)
Leo Soileau & his Aces "Frankie and Johnny" (Decca 5133, 1935)
Leonard Stokes, "Frankie and Johnny" (Montgomery Ward M-4309, 1933)
Ernest Thompson, "Frankie Baker" (Columbia 168-D, 1924)
Welby Toomey, "Frankie's Gamblin' Man" (Gennett 3195, 1926/Challenge 232, 1927)
Edith Wilson w. Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds, "Frankie" (Columbia A3506, 1921)
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Versions of "Leaving Home," the Charlie Poole song:
New Lost City Ramblers, "Leaving Home" (on NLCR02, NLCRCD1)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "Leaving Home" (Columbia 15116-D, 1926; on CPoole01, CPoole05)
Swing Billies, "Leavin' Home" (Bluebird B-7121, 1937)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Boll Weevil" [Laws I17] (tune)
cf. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Billy Vest, "Frankie & Johnny - No. 2" (Banner 32762, 1933); "Frankie and Johnny No. 2" (Melotone M-12691, 1933)
NOTES: Various theories have been proposed to explain the origin of this ballad. One theory connects it with the story of Frankie Silvers [Laws E13]. Another links it to the murder of Allen Britt ("Al Britt"= "Albert") by Frankie Baker in St. Louis, MO, on Oct. 15, 1899 (she was jealous of his relationship with Alice Pryor). (This murder was documented in the October 19, 1899 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) Versions have shown a tendency to take on local color and even be connected with local events. - RBW, EC
Legman offers extensive documentation for the ballad in Randolph-Legman I. - EC
Researcher Rusty David, of St. Louis, suggests that while the details of the current ballad support the Frankie Baker/Allen Britt story, in fact the ballad predates this murder, and describes a killing that took place in the same red-light district of St. Louis sometime around 1865-70. When the Baker/Britt killing took place, according to David, the earlier ballad was modified to fit the new events. He bases this suggestion on having found traces of the ballad before 1899. -PJS
Belden catalogs scholars who date the origins of the song before 1899, listing:
* Thomas Beer (who offers a date before 1863, and cites a date in the 1840s for the original murder). Belden finds no authority for these claims
* Sandburg (claims widespread currency by 1888)
* Niles (claims it predates 1830, but without evidence)
* Orrick Johns (early 1890s)
* Tyrrel Williams (pre-Civil War), but Cohen says his evidence for this is "very weak"
* George Milburn ("long before 1899," using names other than Frankie and Albert)
Fuld, however, lists the first occurrence of the tune as 1904 (with documentation), and notes that the "Frankie and Johnny were lovers" version first appears in 1925.
The song "Leaving Home," recorded by Charlie Poole and others (and properly called "Frankie and Johnny"), is not actually a "Frankie and Johnny" text; it was written by the Leighton Brothers and Ren Shields and copyrighted in 1912. If it entered oral tradition, it is as a result of the Poole recording or some such similar source. It is, however, included under this entry because it is based on "Frankie and Johnnie" and often treated as a variant of that song.
Adding all this up, the verifiable facts appear to be as follows:
Whatever the earlier history, it seems certain that a canonical Frankie and Albert emerged from the Frankie Baker (1876-1952) and Al Britt (1882/3-1899) affair. The Leighton/Shields song supplied the names "Frankie and Johnny," which are now well-established. It is possible that "The Boll Weevil," or one of its musical relatives, contributed a tune at some point; not all "Frankie and Albert" texts are to this melody, but the usual "Frankie" tune sung today is close to "Boll Weevil." (Thanks to Paul J. Stamler for pointing this out.)
Frankie Baker, in her trial, claimed that Al Britt threatened her with a knife, and she shot him in self-defence. She was acquitted, but later left the area to try to find peace, and worked odd jobs for the rest of her life. She eventually sued Hollywood because of their treatments of the Frankie legend. - RBW
File: LI03
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NAME: Frankie and Johnnie: see Frankie and Albert [Laws I3] (File: LI03)
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NAME: Frankie and Johnny: see Frankie and Albert [Laws I3] (File: LI03)
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NAME: Frankie Blues: see Frankie and Albert [Laws I3] (File: LI03)
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NAME: Frankie Silvers [Laws E13]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, Frankie Silvers, has been condemned to die for murdering her husband. She describes the deed and its consequences with horror: "This dreadful, dark, and dismal day Has swept all my glories away." "But oh! that dreadful judge I fear...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1886 (Lenoir Topic, quoting the "Morganton paper")
KEYWORDS: murder husband wife punishment execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 22, 1831 - Frankie Silver(s) murders her husband Charles Silvers in North Carolina
July 12, 1833 - Frankie Silver(s) is hanged
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws E13, "Frankie Silvers"
Randolph 158, "Frankie Silver" (1 short text, 1 tune)
BrownII 301, "Frankie Silver" (1 text)
Burt, pp. 17-18, (no title) (1 text)
DT 776, FRANSILV
Roud #783
RECORDINGS:
[Clarence] Ashley & [Gwen] Foster, "Frankie Silvers" (Vocalion 02647, 1934?)
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Frankie Silvers" (on Ashley01)
Byrd Moore & his Hot Shots, "Frankie Silvers" (Columbia 15536-D, 1930; rec. 1929); "Frankie Silver's Confession" (Gennett, unissued, 1930)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Frankie Silver" (on NLCR04)
NOTES: This incident has frequently been reported as the inspiration for "Frankie and Albert" also; see the notes to that song.
Brown has extensive background notes on this murder, without clear conclusions as to why Frankie Silvers murdered her husband, noting that the jury apparently believed the motive was jealousy.
In Brown's and Randolph's texts, the judge who convicted Frankie Silvers is called "Judge Daniels," but Randolph reports that he was actually named John R. Donnell.
A recent book, _The Untold Story of Frankie Silver_ by Perry Deane Young, puts the whole thing in a rather different light. Lyle Lofgren gives me the following facts from the book; I cannot vouch for the accuracy of Young's information:
Frances Stewart married Charles Silver in 1829, when both were 17; they lived near Toe River (Kona), North Carolina. They had a daugher Nancy in 1830. Charlie apparently was fond of drink and other women. On December 22, 1831, they quarreled. Charlie went for a gun; Frankie killed him with an ax.
Had Frankie simply notified the authorities at that point, all might have been well. But she burned his body and hid the remains, claiming that he had gone hunting and never come back. When the physical evidence was found, she was charged with murder. Having denied the crime, she couldn't plead self-defence, and her request for clemency were denied. She was executed on the date listed. - RBW
File: LE13
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NAME: Franklin: see Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) [Laws K9] (File: LK09)
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NAME: Franklin and His Bold Crew: see Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) [Laws K9] (File: LK09)
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NAME: Franklin D. Roosevelt
DESCRIPTION: "Franklin Roosevelt took his seat About one year ago; He cannot please the world, That we all well know." "I esteem our worthy President." "He has given work to laboring men." "We're on the verge of better times." The singer encourages unions, religion
AUTHOR: James W. Day ("Jilson Setters")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: political nonballad
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1929-1933 - Presidency of Herbert Hoover
1933-1945 - Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 245-246, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: This is presumably the song recorded by Setters on Library of Congress recording 1010B1, but I haven't heard it. - RBW
File: ThBa245
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NAME: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
DESCRIPTION: "Just hand me my old Martin, for soon I will be startin... Since Roosevelt's been re-elected, we'll not be neglected." Singer praises Roosevelt's re-election, celebrates legal liquor and the end of moonshine, and returning prosperity. 
AUTHOR: Bill Cox
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (recording, Bill Cox and Cliff Hobbs)
KEYWORDS: drink hardtimes nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1933-1945 - Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 230-231, "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 287, "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again" (1 text)
DT, FDRBACK*
RECORDINGS:
Bill Cox, "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again" (Melotone 07-02-61/Oriole 07-02-61, 1937; OKeh 05896 [as Bill Cox & Cliff Hobbs], 1940; 1940; rec. 1936)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again" (on NCLR09, AmHist2, NLCRCD1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Democratic Donkey is Back In His Stall" (subject matter)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
We've Got Franklin Delano Roosevelt Back Again
NOTES: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an anti-Prohibition Democrat, was elected to his second of four terms in 1936, carrying all but two states. - PJS
As poetry, this is about as bad as a song can get. But as a reflection of the attitude of its time, it is obviously highly accurate. - RBW
"As poetry, this is about as bad as a song can get." Oh yeah? Ever listen to "MacArthur Park"? - PJS
No, I haven't. Sounds like I should be glad.... - RBW
File: CSW230
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NAME: Franklin Expedition, The: see Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) [Laws K9] (File: LK09)
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NAME: Franklin In Search of the North-West Passage: see Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) [Laws K9] (File: LK09)
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NAME: Franklin Slaughter Ranch: see The Wandering Cowboy [Laws B7] (File: LB07)
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NAME: Franklin the Brave: see Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) [Laws K9] (File: LK09)
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NAME: Franklin's Crew: see Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) [Laws K9] (File: LK09)
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NAME: Fred Sargent's Shanty Song
DESCRIPTION: "In eighteen hundred and seventy-one, To swamp for a go-devil I begun, 'Twas on the banks of the Eau Claire, We landed there when the ground was bare. Tra-la-la-la...." The loggers get up, get dressed, go to work; the singer toasts the boss
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: logger work drink
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 21, "Fred Sargent's Shanty Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Rick092 (Partial)
NOTES: This is probably a particularization of some other shanty song. But with only three verses (the introductory formula, the verse about getting up in the morning, and the conclusion toasting Fred Sargent), what remains is almost all the particularized parts, and so cannot really be identified. - RBW
File: Rick092
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NAME: Free a Little Bird: see Free Little Bird (File: FSWB391A)
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NAME: Free America
DESCRIPTION: "The seat of science, Athens, And earth's proud mistress Rome, Where now are all their glories?" The writer advises Americans to "guard their rights" and fight back against European tyranny.
AUTHOR: words: Joseph Warren?
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: political patriotic freedom derivative
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Arnett, pp. 14-15, "Free America" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 14-16, "Free America" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 537-538, "Free America" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 337-338, "Free America(y)" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 284, "Free America" (1 text)
DT, FREEAMER*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The British Grenadiers" (tune) and references there
File: Arn014
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NAME: Free Americay: see Free America (File: Arn014)
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NAME: Free At Last
DESCRIPTION: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God a'mighty, I'm free at last!" "One of these mornings bright and fair, I'm gonna put on my wings and try the air." "Old Satan's mad because we're glad...." "I wonder what old Satan's grumblin' bout...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious freedom nonballad floatingverses Devil
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 624, "Old Satan's Mad" (5 text, of which the short "A" text is probably "Free at Last"; "B" is a variation on "Down By the Riverside (Study War No More)"; "C" has the "Old Satan's Mad" stanza but a "climbing Zion's walls" chorus; D" is an unidentifiable fragment perhaps related to "I Belong to that Band; and "E" is also a fragment, perhaps of "Free At Last")
Randolph 302, "The Devil's Mad and I Am Glad" (1 fragment, possibly this one)
Silber-FSWB, p. 368, "Free At Last" (1 text)
Roud #10974
RECORDINGS:
Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward, "Free At Last" (on NFMAla2) (on Babylon)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "All My Sins Been Taken Away" (lyrics)
cf. "Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane" (lyrics)
NOTES: The versions of this all seem rather fragmentary, and some may be floating bits of other songs. The line "Satan is mad and I am glad" seems to be about as characteristic of this song as anyrhing, but it also floats. - RBW
File: FSWB368A
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NAME: Free Little Bird
DESCRIPTION: "I'm as free little bird as I can be (x2), I'm as free at my age as a bird in a cage, I'm as free little bird...." "Take me home, little birdie, take me home...." "Oh, I won't build my nest on the ground...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Dykes Magic City Trio)
KEYWORDS: nonballad courting bird home
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fuson, p. 130, "Free Little Bird" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 268-269, "Free a Little Bird" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 391, "Free Little Bird" (1 text)
Roud #7690
RECORDINGS:
Allen Brothers, "Free a Little Bird" (Victor V-40266, 1930)
Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard et al: "Free Little Bird" (on Ashley03, WatsonAshley01)
Cousin Emmy [Cynthia May Carver], "Free Little Bird" (Decca 24216, 1947)
Dykes Magic City Trio, "Free Little Bird" (Brunswick 129, 1927; on CrowTold01)
John Hammond, "Free A Little Bird As I Can Be" (Challenge 332, 1927)
Austin Harmon, "Free Little Bird" (AAFS 2887 A1)
Roscoe Holcomb, "I'm a Free Little Bird" (on Holcomb1, HolcombCD1)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Free Little Bird" (AAFS 1778 B2) (AAFS 3244 A2)
Ridgel's Fountain Citians, "Free Little Bird" (Vocalion 5389, 1930)
Rutherford & Foster, "I'm As Free a Little Birdie As Can Be" (Gennett 6746, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm Alone, All Alone (I)" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Clayton McMichen's Georgia Wildcats, "Free a Little Bird As I Can Be No. 2" (Decca 5701, 1939)
Roane County Ramblers, "Free a Little Bird - 1930 Model" (Columbia 15498-D, 1930; rec. 1929)
File: FSWB391A
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NAME: Free Mason Song
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye free masons ... And wear a badge of innocence." Noah's ark, the binding of Isaac, Moses on Mt Zion are recounted. St Peter keeps heaven's door "and there's no one to enter in exceptin' they are pure"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1825 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 28(29))
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 63, "Free Mason Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab063 (Partial)
Roud #1179
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(29), "Freemason's Song" ("Come all you Freemasons that dwell around the globe"), W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(1116), Harding B 25(1232), "A Mason's Song"; Harding B 28(270), Firth b.26(469), "[The] Masonic Hymn"; Harding B 28(139), Harding B 28(10), "A Celebrated Masonic Hymn"; Harding B 11(1638), Harding B 11(563), "The Celebrated Masonic Hymn"; Harding B 25(689), "The Freemason's Hymn"; Harding B 28(240), "The Free Masons Song"; Firth b.25(81), "Free-Mason's Anthem"; Harding B 17(99a), "Freemasons"; Harding B 11(3590), Firth c.21(35)[some illegible words], 2806 c.16(253), Johnson Ballads 2512, Johnson Ballads 2022, 2806 c.17(137), Harding B 15(113b), "Freemason's Song"; Firth b.27(495), "Freemasons' Song"; Harding B 25(1038)[mostly illegible], "Knights Templars of Malta"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Bible Story" (themes, lyrics)
cf. "Freemason's Song (II)" (subject, themes)
NOTES: The story of Noah's flood is found in Genesis 6-8; Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac is in Genesis 22:1-14. Moses never climbed Mount Zion, which is of course *inside* Israel; the reference is to Deuteronomy 34:1-5, where Moses went up Mount Nebo, saw the which the Israelites would possess, and died. - RBW
File: LLab063
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NAME: Free Salvation (The Resurrection)
DESCRIPTION: The expulsion from Eden is briefly told: "Man at his first creation / In Eden God did place... But by the subtle serpent / Beguiled he was and fell / And by his disobedience / Was doomed to death and Hell." The rest of the song tells of Jesus's passion
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1842 (Wesleyan Psalmist)
KEYWORDS: Bible religious Jesus death
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 79, "The Resurrection" (1 text plus an excerpt from the Wesleyan Psalmist version, 1 tune)
ST FSC079 (Partial)
Roud #4608
NOTES: Most of this song is paraphrased directly from the Bible:
* The "subtle serpent": Gen. 3:1
* "by his disobedience was doomed": Rom. 5:19
* "was doomed to death": cf. Gen. 2:17, 3:2
* "rugged thorns": Mark 15:17, etc., John 19:1
* "sepulchre, as being near at hand": John 19:41-42
* "to Mary he appeared": John 20:11f. (the other gospels are less explicit)
* "go tell them I am risen... I'm going to my Father's": John 20:17 (in Mark 16:6-7 it is an angel that announces Jesus's resurrection; Jesus never appears on stage)
* "Go preach to all the nations": Matt. 28:19
* "Begin this in Jerusalem": Luke 24:47
* "I will be with you...": Matt. 28:20 - RBW
File: FSC079
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NAME: Free Silver
DESCRIPTION: "Laboring men please all attend While I relate my history, Money it is very scarce...." "The farmer is the cornerstone, though he is cruelly treated. Bryan is the poor man's friend...." "We'll arise, defend free silver's cause...."
AUTHOR: James W. Day ("Jilson Setters")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: money political nonballad
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 7, 1896 - William Jennings Bryan gives his "Cross of Gold" speech calling for a silver currency
1896, 1900, 1908 - Bryan's three runs for the presidency
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 191-192, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was a curious mix of genius and fool. A genuine peacemaker and friend of the poor, and a brilliant speaker, he had neither economic nor scientific sense (as he demonstrated by serving as prosecutor in the Scopes trial).
By the 1890s, farmers oppressed by debt were begging for a loosening of the money supply, and their proposed solution was free coinage of silver. That they needed relief is beyond question; that free silver was the answer is unlikely.
But Bryan adopted the cause, and his famous "Cross of gold" speech ("you shall not press down upon the brown of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold") swept the 1896 Democratic convention and made Bryan the youngest serious presidential candidate in history.
But while Bryan inspired fervent devotion in certain circles, the country was basically conservative, and he lost in 1896 -- and by wider margins in 1900 and 1908. - RBW
File: ThBa191
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NAME: Free Slave, The
DESCRIPTION: "I stand as a free man beside the northern banks Of old Erie, the freshwater sea, And it cheers my very soul to behold the billows roll And to think, like the waves, I am free." The slave recalls the abuse he suffered, but he is safe under British laws
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, E. R. Nance Singers)
KEYWORDS: slavery freedom
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1793 - Sale of slaves outlawed in Canada
1833 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire
FOUND_IN: Canada
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 96-98, "The Free Slave" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4520
RECORDINGS:
E. R. Nance Singers [or Traphill Twins], "Sweet Freedom" (Brunswick 565/Supertone S-2813, 1931)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "O Freedom"
NOTES: This may be a version of "O Freedom"; at least, Ed Trickett sings a version of "O Freedom" with many of the same words. But this text is highly detailed, whereas "O Freedom" is usually rather vague. - RBW
File: FMB
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NAME: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
DESCRIPTION: "They say that freedom is a constant struggle (x3) Oh Lord, we've struggled so long, We must be free, we must be free." Similarly, "They say that freedom is a constant crying..." "constant sorrow..." "constant moaning..." "constant dying..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: freedom nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 298, "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle" (1 text)
File: FSWB298
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NAME: Freedom on the Wallaby
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees freedom in the Australian outback, and recalls how Australia was settled by freedom-loving British citizens. Having built homes, they find the government trying to control them. He calls on citizens to rebel
AUTHOR: Words: Henry Lawson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1891
KEYWORDS: Australia political freedom
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 166-167, "Freedom on the Wallaby" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WALLABBY*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Australia's on the Wallaby"
NOTES: While this piece is assuredly by Henry Lawson, it is not clear whether it is an adaption or a forerunner of "Australia's on the Wallaby." - RBW
File: PASB167
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NAME: Freedom Triumphant
DESCRIPTION: When the Bastille fell French soldiers joined in the battle for freedom. "From France now see LIBERTY's TREE Its branches wide extending" and the "swine ... unite, and swear they'll bite Their unrelenting drivers"
AUTHOR: Zimmermann: "Madden ascribed this song to a United Irishman named Thomas Storey"
EARLIEST_DATE: 1796 (Zimmermann's text is from _Paddy's Resource_, Belfast, 1796, published by United Irishmen)
KEYWORDS: rebellion France political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 4, "Freedom Triumphant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 14, "Freedom Triumphant" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "The word 'swine' is used affectionately ... perhaps an allusion to the 'swinish multitude' denounced by Edmund Burke (_Reflections on the French Revolution_) and vindicated by Tom Paine (_The Rights of Man_)." A United Irishmen song, "The Swinish Multitude," was "sung by them as they marched to the Battle of Antrim Killen." (source: a review of _The Decade of the United Irishmen--Contemporary Accounts 1791-1801_ by John Killen; the review is by John Russell on the Irish Republican News site for December 18, 1997). See broadside Bodleian, Harding B 5(97), "Edmund Burke, to the Swinish Multitude" ("Ye base swinish herd, in the stye of taxation"), unknown, n.d.
Zimmermann points out that lines, including the first four, "were borrowed from the famous Orange ballad "The Battle of the Boyne"
"The Battle of the Boyne" begins
July the first, in Oldbridge town,
There was a grievous battle,
Where many a man lay on the ground,
By cannons that did rattle
"Freedom Triumphant" begins
The fourteenth of July, in Paris town,
There was a glorious battle,
Where many a tyrant lay on the ground
By cannons that did rattle
Zimmermann's tune is "Boyne Water." - BS
The sad irony is, of course, that this song was obsolete by the time it was published. By 1796, France had been through the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) and the Directory of 1795 was already losing public support; in 1796, a young fellow by the name of Napoleon was named to his first major command in Italy.
Ireland in that year would see the first of the fiascos that clustered around the 1798 rebellion; this was the year of the Bantry Bay invasion (for which see especially the notes to "The Shan Van Voght"). - RBW
File: Zimm004
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NAME: Freehold on the Plain, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports that he is now a "broken-down old squatter, my cash it is all gone." He once had a fine holding, a mansion, and a good wife -- but he turned to speculation, and now "I've lost that little freehold on the plain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1984
KEYWORDS: commerce poverty rambling Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 174-175, "The Freehold on the Plain" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Joe the Wrangler" [Laws B5] (tune) and references there
File: FaE174
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NAME: Freemason's Song (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "In the year of eighteen hundred and three I took a notion a Freemason to be." For his initiation he has to ride a goat, sit on a chair and "they threw me a sign from the nose to the chin saying This is our sign since Freemasons begin."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1862 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: ritual humorous
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 114, "The Freemason's Song" (1 text)
Roud #17746
NOTES: Greenleaf/Mansfield notes that "When a man was initiated into the Freemasons he was supposed to ride a goat for five hundred miles, they said"; "This is a variant of 'The Freemason' popular on stage in the sixties." - BS
File: GrMa114
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NAME: Freemason's Song (II)
DESCRIPTION: Freemasonry began in the garden where Adam's fig leaf was his mason's apron. King David and Noah were freemasons. "Now come over the mountain you maidens all, bring a square and rule along" because a freemason "will secure you on a cold winter's night"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 175, "Freemason's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1179
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Free Mason Song" (subject, themes)
NOTES: This and the "Free Mason Song" are very similar, recounting Biblical events and connecting them to masonry. Roud lumps them. As there are no exact parallels, we split them -- but it's a close thing. - RBW
File: CrMa175
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NAME: Freight Train
DESCRIPTION: "Freight train, freight train, run so fast/Please don't tell what train I'm on/So they won't know where I've gone." Rest of song gives singer's wishes for her burial "at the foot of old Chestnut Street."
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Cotten
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (composed c. 1905?)
KEYWORDS: train burial death nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 521-523, "Freight Train" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 120, "Freight Train" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 63, "Freight Train" (1 text)
DT, FRGHTRN
RECORDINGS:
Elizabeth Cotten, "Freight Train" (on Cotten01) (on Cotten03)
Pete Seeger, "Freight Train" (on PeteSeeger34)
NOTES: Though not folk in origin, it was so widely recorded in the Sixties that it did seem briefly to go into oral tradition, though I suspect it's nearly dead as a folk song by now.
The popularity of the song seems to have been due partly to its use as a fingerpicking exercise. It is ironic to note that Elizabeth Cotten herself was left-handed, but instead of playing a left-handed guitar, she played a right-handed guitar flipped 180 degrees (i.e. she had her left hand on the fretboard, but with the bass strings on top and the treble on the bottom). So effectively none of the people imitating her style are actually imitating her technique. - RBW
File: CSW120
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NAME: Freight Train Blues (I)
DESCRIPTION: "I hate to hear that engine blow, boo-hoo (x2), Every time I hear it blowin' I feel like ridin' too." The singer wants to travel to forget her man. She asks to ride the blinds; the brakeman says no. She compares how men and women get the blues
AUTHOR: Thomas Dorsey and Everett Murphy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (copyright); also recordings by Trixie Smith and Clara Smith
KEYWORDS: train separation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 446-449, "Freight Train Blues (I)" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LSRai446
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NAME: Freight Train Blues (II)
DESCRIPTION: "I waas born in Dixie in a boomer's shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track...." "I got the fright train blues... When the whistle blows, I got to go...." The singer tells of how the rails have always ruled his life; he cannot outgrow them
AUTHOR: John Lair
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (recording, Red Foley)
KEYWORDS: railroading rambling love
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 524-527, "Freight Train Blues (II)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16393
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, "Freight Train Blues" (Vocalion 04466 [vocal by Sam Hatcher], 1936) (Columbia 37598 [vocal by Acuff], 1947) [It appears that some releases of this song, including Columbia 20034 and 37008, used the same record number for the Hatcher and Acuff masters]
Richard O. Hamilton, "Freight Train Blues" (on USWarnerColl01)
File: LSRai524
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NAME: Freight Wreck at Altoona, The: see The Wreck of the 1262 (The Freight Wreck at Altoona) (File: DTwrck12)
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NAME: Freighting from Wilcox to Globe
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you jolly freighters who travel upon the rooad That ever hauled a load of coke from Wilcox to Globe!" A tale of a bad trip, with everything overpriced, and having a mule stolen. The singer hopes to go into business and treat them as they did him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: work travel hardtimes commerce
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 20, "Freighting from Wilcox to Globe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8016
File: FCW020
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NAME: French Privateer, The
DESCRIPTION: The Irish ship goes to sea, and after four days overtakes a Spanish ship, which they defeat. They prepare to pursue the defeated ship, but a French privateer come in sight. They sink the French ship, but the Spaniard escapes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: ship sea battle escape pirate
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H560, pp. 112-113, "The French Privateer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 33-34, "The Spanish Privateer" (1 text)
Roud #690
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Warlike Seamen (The Irish Captain)" (plot, lyrics) and references there
NOTES: On the face of it, the fact that this song involved battles with both French and Spanish would seem to date the piece. It doesn't; the English were at war with both on several occasions. Even if one ignores the Spanish Armada era (when France wasn't formally at war), the British faced a Franco-Spanish coalition during parts of the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Napoleonic Wars.
Huntington notes several similar songs which may be related. He seems to have missed the most famous, the Copper Family song "Warlike Seamen," which Roud lumps with this (and with others such as "The Dolphin"). Much of that piece is identical to the second half of this song, though this appears to be some sort of cross-fertilization, since they have distinct openings. It would appear that this sort of patriotic song was common, and they mixed heavily. - RBW
The Ranson ballad is only slightly different from SHenry H560. An American, rather than French, ship interferes. Eventually the American ship flees but the Spanish prize is lost. - BS
File: HHH560
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NAME: Frenchmen, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer says the French and General Humbert were "too late again" at Killala Bay. He fights at Castlebar, where 700 Frenchmen help chase Lord Roden's cavalry, and when Cornwallis drives the French out, leaving Tone and Teeling to be martyred.
AUTHOR: Pete St John (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: army battle rebellion France Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: December 1796 - The French fleet is driven from Bantry Bay by "near-hurricane weather"
August 22, 1798 - A French force of 1070 French troops, under General Jean-Joseph-Amable Humbert lands at Killala Bay and defeats a garrison at Kilalla, County Mayo.
August 27, 1798 - The French and rebels route the British, "notably the Fraser Fencibles and Roden's Dragoons," at Castlebar, County Mayo. 
September 8, 1798 - With Cornwallis guarding Dublin and under attack by General Lake at Ballinamuck, County Longford, the greatly outnumbered Humbert surrenders. The French prisoners were sent to Dublin and then repatriated. The Irish officers, including Teeling [and Matthew Tone], were hanged as traitors.
(source: "In the Footsteps of General Humbert: The French Invasion of Ireland, 1798" by Bill Peterson in _The Napoleonic Wargaming Club Newsletter_, Sep 2001, at the Wargames Club site) 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 116, "The Frenchmen" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Men of the West" (subject: The landing of General Humbert) and references there
cf. "Henry Munroe" (character of Bartholomew Teeling)
NOTES: Moylan: The song was written in the 1980s. - BS
For the story of General Humbert's invasion, see the notes to "The Men of the West." For the overall strategic situation, see "The Shan Van Voght." - RBW
File: Moyl116
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NAME: Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping; Brother John)
DESCRIPTION: French: "Frere Jacques (x2), Dormez-vous (x2), Sonnez les matines (x2), Din din don (x2)." English: "Are you sleeping (x2), Brother John? (x2), Morning bells are ringing (x2), Ding ding dong (x2)."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1811 (melody in "Le Clw du Caveau...")
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US France
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 412, "Frere Jacques (Brother John)" (1 English and 1 French text)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 268, "Brother John" (1 text, tune referenced)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 237-238
DT, FRERJACQ*
SAME_TUNE:
Turkey Dinner (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 21)
Next Thanksgiving (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 21)
Perfect Posture (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 74)
NOTES: Fuld reports that a manuscript copy of this tune was made c. 1780 (under another title); the melody was published in 1811. Words and music were first published together in 1860. - RBW
File: FSWB412F
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NAME: Fresh Peanuts!
DESCRIPTION: Extended street cry: "Fresh peanuts! Is the best of all, They's raised in the summer and dug in the fall. I got fresh peanuts! The singer boasts of their quality, his work in preparing them, and his prices.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: commerce food nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 184, "Fresh Peanuts" (1 text)
Roud #16405
NOTES: Perhaps this is a token of how times have changed since the Warners collected this in 1940. The singer doesn't have sales, nor bulk discounts; he declares
I'll sell a whole five cents worth for just one nickel,
I'll sell a whole ten cents worth for one little dime.
A whole twenty-five cents worth for a quarter of a dollar. - RBW
File: Wa184
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NAME: Friar in the Well, The [Child 276]
DESCRIPTION: A friar solicits a girl; she is afraid of hell. The friar points out that he can pray her out. That promise, plus cash in advance, wins her consent, but she -- claiming her father is coming -- causes him to fall into a well, dampening his ardor
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1719 (Pills; tune in "The Dancing Master," 1651)
KEYWORDS: humorous trick
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 276, "The Friar in the Well" (2 texts)
Bronson 276, "The Friar in the Well" (3 versions)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 296-297, "The Maid Peeped out at the Window, or, The Friar in the Well" (1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Kinloch-BBook VII, pp. 24-29, "The Friar" (1 text)
BBI, ZN219, "As I lay musing all alone"
DT 276, FRIARWEL* FRIARWL2*
Roud #116
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Harry the Tailor" (plot)
File: C276
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NAME: Friendless Soldier Boy, The: see The Soldier's Poor Little Boy [Laws Q28] (File: LQ28)
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NAME: Friends and Neighbors (Virginia's Alders)
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports, "Friends and neighbors, I am now going to leave you..." He says that, despite what people think, it is not for any wrongdoing. He simply wants to go home to "the handsome young girl I left behind" among Virginia's alders
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1982 (Cazden, Haufrecht, Studer)
KEYWORDS: love separation rambling farewell
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 35, "Friends and Neighbors" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FSC035 (Partial)
Roud #4603
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Virginia's Alders
NOTES: This song is sung to the shape note hymn "Nettleton" (one of several settings for "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"). Cazden et al report that it has only been collected twice: From their informant George Edwards, and from a recording of another Catskills singer, Frank Edwards, who may have been related to George. - RBW
File: FSC035
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NAME: Friends of Temperance
DESCRIPTION: "Friends of temperance, lift your banners, Wave them in the air, Sing ye now your glad hosannahs, Sing them loud and clear. Lo, the hour of victory cometh, See the dawning day. Rouse ye, drunkards, break your bondage, Dash your cups away!"
AUTHOR: Arthur Bittenger?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1875 (printing known to Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 326, "Friends of Temperance" (1 text)
Roud #7800
File: R326
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NAME: Frigging Fusileers, The
DESCRIPTION: A mock boast in which the singer(s), "the heroes of the night," brag they are ever eager for beer and women.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy sex drink
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 518-522, "The Frigging Fusileers" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Foreskin Fusileers
The Fucking [Foreskin] Fusileers
File: RL518
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NAME: Frigging in the Rigging: see The Good Ship Venus (File: EM315)
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NAME: Frisch Aug, Alle Mann an Deck (Lively There, All Hands on Deck)
DESCRIPTION: German shanty. Sentimental song about a ship facing a storm. Describes efforts to make the ship fast, sounds and images of the storm, thoughts of loved ones, and how hard the sailor's lot is compared to those on shore. Ch: "Holla-hi, holla-he, holla-ho!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Baltzer's _Knurrhahn_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty ship storm
FOUND_IN: Germany
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 535-537, "Frisch Aug, Alle Mann an Deck" (2 texts-German & English, 1 tune)
File: Hug535
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NAME: Frisky Jim: see Happy, Frisky Jim (File: R431)
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NAME: Fritz Truan, a Great Cowboy
DESCRIPTION: "Over the divide a great cowboy did go, To ride broncs in heaven at the big rodeo. I've watched him ride since I was fifteen, Up till the day he became a marine." Truan's skill is remembered; the poet "bet[s] Fritz got a hundred before they got him."
AUTHOR: Larry Finley
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse soldier death recitation
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1945 - Death of Fritz Truan during the battle for Iwo Jima
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 35, "Fritz Truan, a Great Cowboy" (1 text)
NOTES: According to Ohrlin, Truan won sundry world championship events in 1939 and 1940, but joined the Marines during World War II and perished. - RBW
File: Ohr035
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NAME: Frog and the Mouse, The: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
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NAME: Frog and the Mouse, The: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
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NAME: Frog He Went A-Courting, A: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
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NAME: Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, (A): see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
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NAME: Frog in the Middle
DESCRIPTION: Children's game: "Frog in the middle And can't get out. Take a stick And punch him out."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: playparty animal
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 130, (no title) (1 short text)
Roud #14047
NOTES: I suspect that there is a good deal more to this game than Scarborough describes. But until we find another version, we're left guessing, e.g., as to how one becomes the "frog" (whom she describes as a child in the middle of a circle, and poked out into the ring). - RBW
File: ScaNF130
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NAME: Frog in the Spring, The: see Frog Went A-Courting AND Kemo Kimo (File: R108)
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NAME: Frog in the Well: see Kemo Kimo (File: R282)
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NAME: Frog Went A-Courting
DESCRIPTION: Frog rides to ask Miss Mouse to marry him. She is willing but must ask permission of Uncle Rat. Rat's permission received, the two work out details of the wedding. (Some versions end with a cat or other creature devouring the participants)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: perhaps 1549 (Wedderburn's "Complaynt of Scotland"); there is a reference in the Stationer's Register of 1580 to "A Moste Strange Weddinge of the Frogge and the Mouse"
KEYWORDS: animal courting love marriage request
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(West)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (44 citations)
Leather, pp. 209-210, "The Frog and the Mouse" (2 texts)
Belden, pp. 494-499, "The Frog's Courtship" (7 texts in 3 groups, 2 tunes; several of the texts are short, and IB at least appears to be "Kemo Kimo")
Randolph 108, "The Frog's Courtship" (5 texts plus 5 excerpts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 139-141, "The Frog's Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 108A)
BrownIII 120, "The Frog's Courtship" (7 texts plus 13 excerpts, 2 fragments, and mention of 5 more; "Kemo Kimo" in appendix)
Hudson 136, pp. 282-283, "The Frog's Courting" (1 text plus mention of 9 more)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 244-248, "The Frog He Went A-Courting" (3 texts, the first two, with local titles "Frog Went A-Courting" and "Frog Went Courting" and tune on p. 420, are this song; the third item, "The Gentleman Frog," is separate, probably part of the "Kemo Kimo"/"Frog in the Well"  family)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 46-48, "Frog Went A-Courtin'"; p. 48, (no title); pp. 48-50, "Mister Frog) (3 texts, 1 tune)
Brewster 42, "The Frog Went A-Courting" (5 texts plus an excerpt and mention of 4 more, 3 tunes -- one of them of the "Kitty Alone" type)
Eddy 44, "The Frog and the Mouse" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 189, "The Frog's Courtship" (2 texts plus an exceprt and mention of 5 more, 3 tunes)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 40, "The First Come in it was a Rat" (1 text)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 250-254, "The Frog and the Mouse" (3 texts plus 4 fragments, 2 tunes)
Creighton-NovaScotia 89, "It Was a Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 83, "The Frog and the Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 155, "A Frog He Would a Wooing Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 11-13, "Gentleman Froggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Linscott, pp. 199-202, "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 294, "The Frog and the Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 41-43, "Frog Went A-Courtin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 25, "Frog Went A-Courting" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 86, "The Toad's Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 170-171, "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 142, "Missie Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 220, "A Frog He Went A-courting" (11 texts, 11 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 75, "The Frog and the Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Sandburg, p. 143, "Mister Frog Went A-Courting" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 339-341, "The Mouse's Courting Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 32 "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 310-313, "Frog Went A-Courtin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 571-572, "The Frog in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 722, "Frog Went A-Courting" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 56, "Froggie Went A-Courtin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 48-49, "Froggie Went A-Courting" (1 text)
JHCox 162, "The Frog and the Mouse" (3 texts plus mention of two more including some excerpts, 1 tune)
JHCoxIIB, #22A-E, pp. 174-182, "Mr. Mouse Went A-Courting," "The Frog and the Mouse," "Frog Went A-Courting," "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go" (3 texts plus 2 fragments, 5 tunes)
Opie-Oxford2 175, "A frog he would a-wooing go" (3 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #69, pp. 77-79, "(There was a frog liv'd in a well)" (a complex composite with a short version of "Frog Went A-Courting" plus enough auxiliary verses to make an almost complete "Kemo Kimo" text)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 193, "(There dwelt a puddy in a well)" (1 text, very long, containing a full "Frog Went A-Courting" version plus sundry "Kemo Kimo" type verses)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 142-143, "The Wedding of the Frog and Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 403, "Frog Went A-Courtin'" (1 text)
BBI, ZN3249, "It was a frog in a well"
DT 306, FRGCORT2* PUDDYWL2
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II, p. 194 (1931), "A Frog Went Courting" (1 text)
Roud #16
RECORDINGS:
Albert Beale, "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go" (on FSB10)
Anne, Judy, & Zeke Canova, "Frog Went A-Courtin'" (Brunswick 264, 1928; on CrowTold02)
Elizabeth Cronin, "Uncle Rat Went Out to Ride" (on FSB10)
Drusilla Davis, "Frog Went A-Courting" (AFS 347 B, 1935)
Otis High & Flarrie Griffin, "Froggie Went A-Courtin'" (on HandMeDown1)
Bradley Kincaid, "Froggie Went A Courting" (Silvertone 5188, 1927; Supertone 9209, 1928)
Adolphus Le Ruez ,"The Frog and the Mouse" (on FSB10)
Pleaz Mobley, "Froggie Went A-Courting" (AFS; on LC12)
Chubby Parker, "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" (Columbia 15296D, 1928; on AAFM1, CrowTold01) (Supertone 9731, 1930) (Conqueror 7889, 1931)
Annie Paterson, "The Frog and the Mouse" (on FSB10)
Uncle Don, "Frog Went A'Courting" (Conqueror 9013, 1938)
Unknown artist(s), "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go" (Harper-Columbia 1162, c. 1919)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kemo Kimo" (occasional floating lyrics)
cf. "I Ask That Gal" (tune)
cf. "The Bear in the Hill" (plot)
cf. "The Fly and the Bumblebee (Fiddle-Dee-Dee)" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
There Was a Puggie in a Well
There Lived a Puddie in the Well
The Frog's Wooing
Y Broga Bach (Welsh)
NOTES: The notes on this song in Cazden et al (pp. 524-532) constitute probably the best succinct summary available on variants of this piece.
Spaeth has a note that the original version of this was supposed to refer to the Duke of Anjou's wooing of Elizabeth I of England. If the second known version (1611, in Melismata, reprinted in Chappell) were the oldest, this might be possible -- there are seeming political references to "Gib, our cat" and "Dick, our Drake." But the Wedderburn text, which at least anticipates the song, predates the reign of Queen Elizabeth by nine years, and Queen Mary of by four. If it refers to any queen at all, it would have to be Mary Stuart.
Those who want a version of this piece which does not involve inter-species hanky-panky are advised to try J. A. Scott's version (or other American texts); in this, both creatures are mice. Of course, it does end with the cat interfering with the festivities.
In addition to "pure" texts of this song, some there exist versions which have gotten mixed with "Martin Said to His Man." The versions I've seen are often titled "Kitty Alone" ; the first such text seems to have been in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784), which has clearly a "Frog" plot but the form (and some of the exaggerations) of "Martin." - RBW
File: R108
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NAME: Frog Went Courting, A: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
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NAME: Frog, The (Fisherman's Luck)
DESCRIPTION: Swagman Paddy, out of food, decides to catch a fish. The only possible bait is a frog -- but a snake swallows the frog before Paddy can catch it. Paddy gets the snake drunk and retrieves the frog. The snake, wanting another drink, brings another frog
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE:  c. 1938 (recording, Dixon Brothers)
KEYWORDS: food animal humorous hardtimes recitation
FOUND_IN: Australia US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 279-281, "The Frog" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Dixon Brothers "Fisherman's Luck" (on Montgomery Ward M-7855, c. 1938)
Mike Seeger, "Fisherman's Luck" (on MSeeger01)
File: MCB279
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NAME: Frog's Courtship, The: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
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NAME: From Hillsborough Town the First of May
DESCRIPTION: "From Hillsborough town the first of May Marched those murdering traitors. They went to oppose the honest men That were called Regulators." Hamilton leads the regulators to raid the town
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: political rescue
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 30, 1768 - Arrest of Regulator leaders Harmon Husband and William Butler
May 3, 1768 - Rescue of the arrested leaders
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 278, "From Hillsborough Town the First of May" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Fanning First to Orange Came" (subject)
cf. "Said Frohock to Fanning" (subject)
cf. "Who Would Have Tho't Harmon" (subject)
NOTES: One of four "regulator" songs in Brown. The regulators were a group of protesters against high taxes and fees, found mostly in North Carolina though some also were active in South Carolina.
The Regulators formally organized in 1766, when William Tryon (1725-1788) was governor of North Carolina (1765-1771) ; he defeated them at Almance in 1771. That was Tryon's way; as governor of New York (1771-1778) he was equally harsh. His successors then turned to compromise.
The notes in Brown relate this to the 1768 raid on Hillsborough town: The authorities seized assorted items for back taxes, Regulators went to retake the items, Husband and Harmon were arrested, and Ninian Bell Hamilton led a raid to rescue the leaders. This is almost certainly the true setting -- but we note that Husband and Harmon aren't mentioned in the extent text of the song; the only people named are Hamilton and Edmund Fanning. - RBW
File: BrII278
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NAME: From Liverpool 'cross the Atlantic: see The Stowaway (File: GrMa051)
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NAME: From Ogemaw
DESCRIPTION: The song, in its entirety: "I'm a ramblin' wreck of poverty/From Ogemaw I came/My poverty compels me/To split wood in the rain/But in all kinds of weather/Be it wet or dry/I'm bound to gain an honest living/Or lay me down and die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: poverty lumbering work logger nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 24, "From Ogemaw" (1 text)
Roud #8860
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Walk the Road Again"
NOTES: This fragment may be part of another song, but it's impossible to tell. - PJS
Looks to me more like an agglomeration of common lines, e.g. from "Son of a Gambolier" or one of its offspring and "I Walk the Road Again" (though it might be a much-worn-down version of the latter) - RBW
File: Be024
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NAME: From Surabaya to Pasoeroean
DESCRIPTION: Javanese sea shanty. "Sum go coolie ah-e-ah ang, sor Sourabaya, Hoo-e la-e-la-e-la." Used as a capstan shanty, Harlow says he took it down from the coolies singing and can't vouch for the correctness of the words.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: shanty foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Indonesia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, p. 114, "From Surabaya to Pasoeroean" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Harl114
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NAME: Frowns That She Gave Me, The
DESCRIPTION: "When first to this country a stranger I came, I placed my affection on a beautiful dame." ""Oh Susan... Won't you leave your old parents?" "Oh William, that never would do." "Take warning by me, Never place your affections on a green growing tree"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love courting family floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 752, "The Frowns That She Gave Me" (1 text)
Roud #4296
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When First To This Country (I)" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
cf. "Oh No, Not I" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is another of those all-floating-verse pieces -- the first lines are from "The Banks of the Bann," then material that reminds us of "Green Grow the Lilacs" and others; then verses asking the girl to leave home that could be from anywhere, then the remark "Since it is no better I'm glad it is no worse," and finally a bit from "Oh No, Not I." - RBW
File: R752
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NAME: Frozen Charlotte: see Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte) [Laws G17] (File: LG17)
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NAME: Frozen Girl, The: see Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte) [Laws G17] (File: LG17)
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NAME: Frozen Logger, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a waitress. She recognizes him as a logger, and tells him the sad tale of her amazing logger lover. One night he forgot his Mackinaw, and at last, "at a thousand degrees below zero, it froze my logger love."
AUTHOR: James Stevens (1892-1971)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: love logger death talltale
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 61, "The Frozen Logger" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 30, "The Frozen Logger" (1 text)
DT, FROZLOGR*
Roud #5470
NOTES: There is a good deal of uncertainty about the author of this. Not that there is any question that the author's name was pronounced "James Stevens"; all seem to agree on this. But different sources have spelled it "Stevens" or "Stephens."
Research by Abby Sale and others supports the theory that the author was the James Stevens whose death dates are cited above; he also wrote about Paul Bunyan. The "Stephens" spelling may possibly be by confusion with the Irish author James Stephens.
It may be questioned whether this is a folk song. I would not so count it, despite its inclusion in Lomax. Nonetheless, the versions have been folk processed to a certain extent -- notably in the first verse, where the original version read "A six foot seven waitress." Somebody (the Weavers?) converted this to the unremarkable "A forty year old waitress," and of course this has been common since, even though the line is banal and does nothing to enhance the tall tale aspects of the song. - RBW
File: LoF061
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NAME: Frugal Maid, The: see I've Two or Three Strings To My Bow (File: HHH070)
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NAME: Fuck 'Em All: see Bless 'Em All (File: EM386)
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NAME: Fucking Machine, The
DESCRIPTION: A sailor/airman/engineer marries a sexually insatiable woman, and builds a machine to service her. He cannot stop the machine, which continues to function until the woman is killed and the machine destroys itself.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy sex wife husband death technology
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada Britain(England) US(MW,SW) New Zealand
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 392-394, "The Fucking Machine" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GRTWHEEL*
Roud #10237
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Great [Bloody] Wheel
The Bloody [Great] Wheel
NOTES: Most often set to the familiar hymn tune "Old Hundred." - EC
File: EM392
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NAME: Fugitive's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer longs for home, sweetheart, family. He is a fugitive because he committed a murder. Distinguished by the chorus: "I'm riding along out on the lone prairie/The rangers are searching for me/I'm riding away from my home in Texas/A fugitive ever to be"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1935 (recording, Delmore Bros.)
KEYWORDS: homesickness loneliness violence rambling separation travel crime murder manhunt death police cowboy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Delmore Brothers, "The Fugitive's Lament" (on Montgomery Ward 4752, c. 1935; on WhenIWas2)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wandering Cowboy (I)" [Laws B7] (plot)
File: RcTFugLa
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NAME: Full Loads to the Sealers
DESCRIPTION: "And here's grand success to the sealers, The pride of our city and town, Who face the doghood on the ocean, And with bat like heroes knock down." The singer bids success to the sealers and  hopes they have happy reunions at home
AUTHOR: Johnny Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Burke's Ballads)
KEYWORDS: hunting reunion
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 122, "Full Loads to the Sealers" (1 text)
NOTES: Most of Burke's songs are intended to be sung to a traditional tune. This particular text fits many melodies, and doesn't have the hints of parody found in many Burke pieces. It fits "Rosin the Beau," for instance. But I have this feeling it's sung to "The Badger Drive" (which, admittedly, is close to "Rosin"). - RBW
File: RySm122
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NAME: Fuller and Warren [Laws F16]
DESCRIPTION: [Amasa] Fuller has become engaged to a woman, who however chooses to abandon him for [Paul] Warren. Fuller accuses Warren of saying that he (Fuller) was already married, and shoots him. He is sentenced to hang
AUTHOR: sometimes attributed to Moses Whitecotton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1874
KEYWORDS: murder trial execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 10, 1820 - Amasa Fuller shoots Paul (Palmer?) Warren in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Fuller was later hanged.
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NE,Ro,So,SW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws F16, "Fuller and Warren"
Belden, pp. 302-307, "Fuller and Warren" (3 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph 143, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
Hudson 66, pp. 191-193, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
Brewster 100, "Fuller and Warren" (2 texts plus an excerpt and mention of 4 more)
Larkin, pp. 127-130, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 174-175, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, pp. 51-52, "(no title)" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 205, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 49, pp. 116-118, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
JHCox 45, "Ye Sons of Columbia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 148-151, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 704, FULLWARR
Roud #694
RECORDINGS:
Anna Underhill, "The Indiana Hero" (on FineTimes)
NOTES: Although this song is sometimes attributed to Moses Whitecotton, Belden has information that Whitecotton wrote a *different* poem about this particular event.
The reference to the hanging of Haman on the gallows so high is an allusion to the Biblical book of Esther (especially 7:10). The story of Samson and Delilah is told in Judges 16:4-22. The references to Eve causing Adam's fall are obviously to Genesis 3.
The reference to "Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Job" seems confused; the texts in Belden apply it to various doctrines, and I can't see how the books listed combine to teach any of the doctrines cited. - RBW
File: LF16
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NAME: Funeral Hymn, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, carry me away to the graveyard After a long time suffering, Where every day will be Sunday, by and by, By and by, by and by, Where every day will be Sunday, by and by." "So fare you well, dear (father/mother/brothers/etc.), I am going home to glory."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: religious death nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 207, "A Funeral Hymn" (1 text)
ST Fus207 (Partial)
Roud #16370
File: Fus207
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NAME: Funeral Train, The
DESCRIPTION: "The funeral train is coming, I know it's going to slack, For the passengers are all crying and the train is creped in black." "You belong on that funeral train... Oh, sinner, why don't you pray." The singer looks forward to taking the train to heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: religious death train nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 262, "The Funeral Train" (1 text)
File: ScaNF262
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NAME: Fust Banjo, De (The Banjo Song; The Possum and the Banjo; Old Noah)
DESCRIPTION: Noah sets out to build the ark, despite the scorn of his neighbors. "Ham... couldn't stand the racket... soon he had a banjo made, the first that was invented." He took the hair of the possum's tail to string it; the possum remains bare-tailed to this day
AUTHOR: Irwin Russell?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1878 (Christmas Night in the Quarters)
KEYWORDS: flood ship animal music Bible
FOUND_IN: US(Ap, So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 253, "The Banjo Song" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
JHCox 181, "Old Noah" (1 text)
ST R253 (Partial)
Roud #5467
NOTES: The versions of this display extreme variation, and may even be separate songs. Reports are few enough, however, that I decided to lump the things just because there wasn't enough evidence to split them cleanly.
The attribution to Irwin Russell is from Felleman's _ The Best Loved Poems of the American People_, which sometimes has some very strange attributions. Her version seems to come straight out of a minstrel show; the question then is whether it is the original or if Russell worked from an earlier song. - RBW
File: R253
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NAME: Future Plans (The G-Man)
DESCRIPTION: "When I grow up, I think I'll be A G-Man brave and bold, Or maybe a fearful pirate, And bury lots of gold." The singer lists other job possibilities: sailor, diver, jockey, doctor, apple-cart-pusher. Finally he says, "I just think I'll wait and see."
AUTHOR: Billie Menshouse?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad youth
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 256, (no title) (1 text)
File: ThBa256B
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NAME: Gaberlunyie Man, A: see The Gaberlunzie Man [Child 279A] (File: C279A)
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NAME: Gaberlunzie Man, The [Child 279A]
DESCRIPTION: A beggar comes to a lady's door and begs lodging. That night, he lures her daughter away with him. Later he returns to the lady's door and again begs lodging. The lady says she will never lodge a beggar again. He reveals her daughter, rich and happy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1724 (Tea-Table Miscellany)
KEYWORDS: begging courting escape money elopement mother children disguise
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,North),Scotland)) Ireland Canada(Mar) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Child 279 Appendix, "The Gaberlunyie-Man" (sic) (1 text)
Bronson (279 Appendix), "(The Jolly Beggar/The Gaberlunzie Man)" (49 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 333-336, "The Gaberlunyie Man" (1 text plus an extensive quotation from Petrie, 1 tune) {Bronson's 32}
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 67-71, "The Gaberlunyie Man" (1 text)
SHenry H810, p. 269, "A Beggarman Cam' ower the Lea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp.375-377, "The Beggar Man" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #33}
MacSeegTrav 19, "The Gaberlunzie Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-More 42, pp. 333-338, "The Gaberlunyie-Man" (1 text, which though collected in Virginia comes from a man born in Scotland and is in Braid Scots)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 99-101, "The Gaberlunyie Man" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #11
BBI, ZN2346, "The silly poor man came over the lee" (?)
Roud #119
RECORDINGS:
Maggie & Sarah Chambers, "The Beggarman (The Gaberlunzie Man)" (on FSB5 [as "The Auld Beggarman"], FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #46}
Liam Clancy, "Hi For the Beggarman" (on IRLClancy01)
Togo Crawford, "The Beggarman (The Gaberlunzie Man)" (on FSBBAL2)
Lizzie Higgins, "A Beggar Man" (on Voice17)
Ewan MacColl, "The Beggar Man" (ESFB1, ESFB2)
Maggie Murphy, "Clinking O'er the Lea" (on Voice07)
John Strachan, "The Beggarman (The Gaberlunzie Man)" (on FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #38}
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(126), "The Beggar Man" ("There was an old man cam' o'er the lea"), Poet's Box (Dundee), c.1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Jolly Beggar" [Child 279] and references there
cf. "The Beggar-Laddie" [Child 280]
cf. "A Great Big Sea Hove in Long Beach" (tune & meter)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Beggar's Bride
NOTES: Although this ballad is associated in tradition with James V of Scotland, there is no evidence that he ever sought a woman in this fashion. James V in fact married a noble foreign lady, Mary of Guise-Lorraine.
Wheatley explains "Gaberlunyie" as a compound of "gaber," a wallet, and "lunyie," the loins, i.e. a Gaberlunyie man is one who carries a wallet by his side. The fact that the title vacillates between "Gaberlunyie" and "Gaberlunzie" implies that most singers were less aware of this than the average scholar....
For the relationship between this song and "The Jolly Beggar," see the notes to that song. Due to the degree of cross-fertilization of these ballads, one should be sure to check both songs to find all versions.- RBW
The following broadsides almost certainly belong here but I could not download them: Bodleian, 2806 c.18(171), "The Beggar Man" ("There was an old man cam o'er the lea"), unknown, n.d.; also Firth c.26(57), "The Beggar Man" - BS
File: C279A
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NAME: Gabriel's Trumpet (Baptist Numbered in God)
DESCRIPTION: "Baptist, Baptist is my name, I hope to live and die the same, Oh Baptist numbered in God." "Gabriel's trumpet is the voice of God, to wake up the members in the old Church Yard." The singer regrets his (sister's) death and looks forward to the afterlife
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MWheeler, pp. 71-72, "Gabriel's Trumpet" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 555, "Baptist, Baptist Is My Name" (1 fragment)
Roud #11881 and 10022
File: MWhee071
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NAME: Gaie-Annee, La: see Guillannee, La (La Gui-Annee) (File: BMRF584)
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NAME: Gairdner and the Plooman, The
DESCRIPTION: A gardner has long courted the girl, "But the blythe blink o the plooman lad Has stown my hairt frae me, me, Has stown my hairt frae me." The singer first saw her love singing "under a bush o' rue." She finally turns to the plooman
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Grieg)
KEYWORDS: love courting farming
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Bronson 219, "The Gardener" (9 versions+3 in addenda, but #1 at least is "The Gairdner and the Plooman")
Ord, p. 94, "The Gairdner and the Ploughman" (1 text)
Roud #339
NOTES: This song sometimes is listed as a version of "The Gardener" [Child #219], including by Bronson, who counts one of Grieg's versions there. This is understandable, as the song is very diverse (Bronson himself says that "The Gardener" "rests uneasily in Child's collection. It is both too little of a ballad... and too sophisticated").
Nonetheless, I think they should be separated. "The Gardener" seems to have at its root a dialog involving flowers and courting. This piece mentions a gardener, but he isn't wandering around waving flowers in the girl's face, really, and she has a separate love interest. - RBW
File: Ord094
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NAME: Gairdner and the Ploughman, The: see The Gairdner and the Plooman (File: Ord094)
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NAME: Gal I Left Behind Me, The: see The Girl I Left Behind Me (lyric) (File: R546)
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NAME: Galbally Farmer, The: see Darby O'Leary (File: CrSNB110)
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NAME: Gale of August '27, The
DESCRIPTION: 87 fishermen set out in April for the Sable Island fishing grounds. When a storm blows up, their vessels sink and all are lost. A memorial service in Lunenburg draws 5000. The singer hopes they will meet again in Heaven
AUTHOR: George Swinamer
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: sailor sea fishing storm wreck funeral death religious
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 25, 1927 - The _Joyce M. Smith_, _Uda F. Corkum_, _Mahala_, and _Clayton W. Walters_, all of Lunenburg, are lost with all hands off the Sable Island shoals
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 184-185, "The Gale of August '27" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9431
NOTES: Lunenburg is a town (and county) in Nova Scotia; the town is on the coast about 60 kilometers south and west of Halifax. Sable Island, the "graveyard of the Atlantic," is a long, low island about 250 km. due south of the eastern tip of Nova Scotia. - RBW
File: Doe185
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NAME: Gallant 69th, The: see The Irish Sixty-Ninth (File: Wa014)
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NAME: Gallant Brigantine, The [Laws D25]
DESCRIPTION: A sailor and a girl meet. She gives him her address, saying her husband would be glad to meet them. He mentions his wife and newborn son. They go off to her farm hand in hand; sailor, woman, and husband spend dinner and a pleasant afternoon together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: courting husband wife
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws D25, "The Gallant Brigantine"
FSCatskills 127, "The Islands of Jamaica" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 218-223, "My Gallant Brigantine" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Leach-Labrador 88, "Jamaica Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 39, "The Gallant Brigantine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 36, "Gallant Brigantine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 142-143, "The Gallant Brigantine" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 46-49, "The Gallant Brigantine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 69, "The Gallant Brigantine" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 670, GALLBRIG
Roud #648
RECORDINGS:
Mrs. Edward Gallagher, "My Gallant Brigantine" (on MRHCreighton)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Henry Orrison
NOTES: For this they wrote a ballad? - PJS
Even more amazing, the thing seems to have been fairly popular. Laws remarks, "This tongue-in-cheek narrative achieves its effect by repeatedly disappointing the listener's anticipation of stock situations of broadside balladry." - RBW
In Mrs. Gallagher's version, the last line is a teaser, leading you to expect that the sailor discovers his wife has run off with another man, but in fact she has had a baby son. - PJS
Ives-NewBrunswick: The final verse changes the tone entirely: "... the girl I loved so dear was the wife of another man, And I really thought my heart would break as I sailed for a foreign land." - BS
File: LD25
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NAME: Gallant Farmer's Farewell to Ireland, The
DESCRIPTION: Michael Hayes claims he shot the land agent when he went to pay his rent and he has been running since. He describes the manhunt across Ireland and on ships at port. They go to America: "The paper said they had him caught" but he was not. 
AUTHOR: T. Walsh (according to broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(201))
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: murder manhunt escape farming Ireland
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 68B, "The Gallant Farmer's Farewell to Ireland" (1 fragment)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(201), "The Gallant Farmers' Farewell to Ireland" ("Farewell to old Irelaud [sic] the land of my fathers")," P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "M'Kenna's Dream" (tune, broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(201))
cf. "The Great Elopement to America" (see Notes)
cf. "The General Fox Chase" (character of Michael Hayes)
cf. "Rory of the Hill" (character of Michael Hayes)
NOTES: Compare "The Gallant Farmers' Farewell to Ireland" to broadside 
Bodleian, 2806 c.8(158), "The Great Elopement to America" ("Farewell to old Ireland the land of my fathers"), Haly (Cork), 19C. 
One of these is clearly derived from the other.
Here is the first verse of "The Gallant Farmers' Farewell to Ireland" [broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(201)] with Brereton's spelling:
Farewell to old Ireland the land of my Fathers,
From house home and farm I sharp had to flee,
I went to pay my rent on a fine summers morning
Myself and the agent we there did disgree
I had the money in my hand he told me I should quit the land
The truth to tel you know right well his words did me displease
He fel a victim to a shot his agency he soon forgot
And since that day theyre searching for the farmer Michael Hayes.
Here is the first verse of "The Great Elopement to America" [broadside Bodleian 2806 c.8(158)]:
Farewell to old Ireland the land of my fathers,
From house, home and farm, quite sharp I had to flee,
I once fell a courting a rich farmer's daughter
Myself and her father we could not agree;
500 pounds she had in hand, she asked me would I leave the land
I said I would, and to I did, and thought it no disgrace
To America we sailed off, we went as quick caused many to laugh
And since that day he is searching for his daughter Nancy Keays.
The description is based on broadside Bodleian, Harding B 26(201).
Zimmermann: "This ballad shows how a probably hateful character could become a gallant hero in the eyes of the oppressed peasants. Michael Hayes had been for many years the ruthless bailiff of a land agent, for whom he was said to have evicted more than one thousand people in one parish alone.... When he grew too old for this job he was allowed to stay on the land as a farmer, but a notice to quit was finally served on him too. He shot the agent in a hotel in Tipperary, (30th July, 1862)." In spite of a manhunt he was never caught. - BS
File: Zimm068B
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NAME: Gallant Grahams, The
DESCRIPTION: "As I was crossing ower Boyne Water... For the killin' o' an English lord My gude braid sword they've ta'en frae me." The singer complains of being abandoned by the Grahams. He escapes and flees from his home in Carrickfergus
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: murder home exile prison escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 441-442, "The Galland Grahams" (1 text)
Roud #5618
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hughie Grame [Child 191]" (lyrics)
NOTES: This is clearly related to "Hughie Grame"; about half the material in Ord's text, for instance, is standard in "Hughie." The perspective is different, though: The setting seems to be Ulster (where many Scots emigrated, both before and after Culloden). Only one girl would laments the hero's fate, and she makes no attempt to save him. The hero lives. And it is told in first person throughout.
Clearly the relation between the two songs needs more study. Without it, I follow standard Ballad Index policy and split the two. But my initial inclination was to lump; they have that much in common. - RBW
File: Ord441
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NAME: Gallant Hussar, The (A Damsel Possessed of Great Beauty)
DESCRIPTION: The beautiful damsel waits at her father's gate for the hussars to pass by. At last she sees her lover. She reports that her parents kept her confined for a whole year, but she is all the more determined to follow and marry him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904  (Ford)
KEYWORDS: elopement love separation soldier
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 254-256, "The Gallant Hussar" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H243a, pp. 473-474, "Young Edward the Gallant Hussar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 147, "A Damsel Possessed of Great Beauty" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
ST E147 (Full)
Roud #1146
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(84b), "The Gallant Hussar," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gallant Soldier (Mary/Peggy and the Soldier)" (plot)
cf. "Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon)"
NOTES: Broadside Murray, Mu23-y1:031, "Answer to Young Jane and her Gallant Hussar," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C obviously claims to be an "answer" to this, but it's more of a sideline and continuation, in which Jane rejects another suitor and eventually goes off with the hussar.
File: E147
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NAME: Gallant Ninety-Twa, The
DESCRIPTION: "Brave Ninety-Twa, I've read your story, A valour tale of fadeless glory." "Reared 'mong these glens 'mid which I stand, The brave, heroic Gordons grand." The singer lists places visited by the Ninety-Second, and hopes it will retain its fame
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: soldier war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
Feb 26, 1881 - Battle of Majuba Hill
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 289-291, "The Gallant Ninety-Twa" (1 text)
Roud #3776
NOTES: Raised in 1794 as the 100th Foot, this regiment (the Gordon Highlanders) was renumbered the 92nd in 1798; under that number, it served in and was granted battle honours for the Peninsular War, the Hundred Days, and the Second Afghan War; it managed to miss the Crimea.
In 1881, the 92nd was consolidated with the 75th Highland Regiment as the Gordon Highlanders. The consolidated unit fought in the Sudan, in the Boer War, and on into the World Wars.
The 92nd does deserve a good deal of credit for Waterloo, incidentally. The first phase of the main battle consisted of the attack by d'Erlon's French corps on Wellington's center. This broke the British line, but Picton's division and others counterattacked and restored the situation. The 92nd was in the forefront of this fight, which was arguably the key to the battle -- had d'Erlon broken through, Napoleon would have won Waterloo; once the assault failed, Napoleon had almost no chance of beating Wellington completely before Blucher arrived with reinforcements.
The dating of the song is a bit of a conundrum. The last event mentioned seems to be Majuba Hill, part of the first (1880-1881) Boer war, in which a scratch force led by Major General Pomeroy-Colley attacked a larger and entrenched Boer force, with predictable results: The British lost about 20% of their force, including Pomeroy-Colley, killed in the field without achieving anything.
The 92nd was not engaged as a whole in this battle (and was given no battle honours), but portions were engaged, so it is fair to mention it. And yet, later that year, the 92nd lost its independent identity. Could the song, perhaps, have been written in response to the consolidation, or the threat of the same? - RBW
File: Ord289
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NAME: Gallant Shearers, The
DESCRIPTION: As autumn brings on the shearing, the singer asks, "Bonnie lassie, will ye gang... To join yon band of shearers?" He promises to work hard for her -- e.g. if it is dry, he will still love her; if it is hot, he will still work, and she will remain his
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting work sheep
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 267, "The Gallant Shearers" (1 text)
Roud #5593
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Band o' Shearers" (chorus)
NOTES: This song and "The Band o Shearers" share a chorus and a theme, and are undoubtedly connected, though it's not clear which is older. But the feel of the verses is different enough that I follow Ord in splitting them, as does Roud. - RBW
File: Ord267
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NAME: Gallant Shoemaker, The
DESCRIPTION: A girl is courted by a wealthy farmer, but loves a shoemaker. Her father confines her to make her change her mind. She sends a letter to her love. He rides by and carries her away. They live happily, "For she had gotten her shoemaker."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 102-103, "The Gallant Shoemaker" (1 text)
Roud #3950
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Iron Door" [Laws M15] (theme)
cf. "Locks and Bolts" [Laws M13] (theme)
File: Ord102
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