NAME: Shaker Life: see Come, Life, Shaker Life (File: LoF037)
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NAME: Shall I Show You How the Farmer
DESCRIPTION: "Shall I show you how the farmer (x3) Sows his barley and wheat?" "It is so, so, that the farmer... Sows his barley and wheat." "Shall I show you how the farmer... Hoes his barley and wheat?" "Shall I show... Now will dance and be gay?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: nonballad farming playparty food
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Linscott, pp. 50-51, "Shall I Show You How the Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Lins050 (Partial)
File: Lins050
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NAME: Shall My Soul Pass Through Ireland
DESCRIPTION: "In a dreary British prison where an Irish rebel lay, By his side a priest waits... 'Father, tell me if I die shall my soul pass through Ireland?'" The rebel dies for Irish freedom; the singer asks that his prayer be granted
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (NFOBlondahl03)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion death prison
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
PGalvin, p. 67, "Terence McSwiney" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOULPASS
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Shall My Soul Pass Through Ireland" (on NFOBlondahl03)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kevin Barry" (tune)
NOTES: Galvin reports this piece under the name "Terence McSwiney," connecting it with a Lord Mayor of Cork (properly Terence MacSwiney) who resisted British rule (more or less; he was found to be carrying notes for an anti-British speech), was imprisoned in London, and died after a 73-day hunger strike (1920).
It should be added that the British were right about his opposition to British rule: MacSwiney was a senior officer in the Volunteers (second in command in Cork, according to Tim Pat Coogan, _Michael Collins_, p. 122), and that he did not win election in Cork as such. Rather, his superior Tomas MacCurtain was elected Mayor in the great Sinn Fein election of January 1920. MacSwiney was appointed his deputy, and succeeded when MacCurtain was shot.
MacSwiney's slow death was part of a movement of hunger strikers, of whom McSwiney was the most notable but perhaps not the one who was making the greatest sacrifice; according to Calton Younger, _Ireland's Civil War_, p. 116, he also had tuberculosis -- and died in a hospital ward, not a prison, where he was treated with great care.
The British had originally tried force feeding the prisoners (which at the time meant pouring milk and beaten eggs down a tube forcibly inserted into the throat via the mouth or, if the prisoner would not open his mouth, the nostrils). Even in the hands of a good doctor, this inevitably resulted in bruising of the nose, mouth, and throat, and in the hands of an incompetent, the results could be disastrous. Another hunger striker, Thomas Ashe, had died of the effects of force feeding (see Robert Kee, _Ourselves Alone_, being volume III of _The Green Flag_, pp. 33-34). This caused a commission to declare force feeding barbaric; as a result, the British stopped using it, and hunger strikers started dying of hunger instead.
It is not impossible that the song is about MacSwiney, but supporting evidence is lacking. See also the notes on "The Boys from County Cork."
This is listed in at least one place as by "AE" (with no space). - RBW
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 "Shall My Soul Pass Through Ireland" in _Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index_ by Paul Mercer. - BS
File: PGa067
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NAME: Shall We Gather at the River
DESCRIPTION: "Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod... Yes, we'll gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river... That flows by the throne of God." A description of the happy life after death in the land of God
AUTHOR: Robert Lowry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1866
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 26-29, "Beautiful River" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GATHRIVR*
Roud #14037
RECORDINGS:
Alcoa Quartet, "Shall We Gather at the River" (Columbia 15022-D, 1925)
Chuck Wagon Gang, "Shall We Gather at the River" (Columbia 20630, 1949)
Kanawha Singers, "Shall We Gather at the River" (Brunswick 328, 1929)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Shall We Gather at the River" (Vocalion 5162, 1927)
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Swagerty, "Shall We Gather at the River?" (OKeh 40216, 1924)
NOTES: Reverend Robert Lowry (1826-1899) wrote this piece (which he titled 'Beautiful River") on a hot day in 1864. Although it is perhaps the only memorable thing Lowry ever produced, it is reported that he was not fond of it. - RBW
File: RJ19026
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NAME: Shallo Brown (Shallow Brown)
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic line: "Shallo, Shallo Brown." The sailor admits that he is leaving, and regrets being parted from his wife and baby. In some versions he may be a slave sold for the "Yankee Dollar"; in others, he is a whaler going about his work.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1882
KEYWORDS: shanty separation family slave
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 44, "Shallo Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 61, "Shallo Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 126-127, "Shallow Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 257-260, Shallow Brown (4 texts, 4 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 188-191]
Sharp-EFC, LV, p. 60, "Shallow Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 22, "Shiloh Brown" (1 text)
DT, SHALOBRN SHALBRN2*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). A fragment of "Shallow Brown" is in Part 3, 7/28/1917.
Roud #2621
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hullabaloo Belay" (character)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Challo Brown
NOTES: According to Hugill, the name "Challo" used in some versions is "a West Indian word of Carib extraction meaning a 'half-caste.'" - RBW
File: Doe044
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NAME: Shallow Brown (II)
DESCRIPTION: Has the refrain of "Shallo Brown" but the solo text is taken from "Blow, Boys, Blow (I)" and the tune is the same as "Hilo, Boys, Hilo." The meter alternates from 3/4 to 2/4 throughout.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, pp. 257, Shallow Brown (1 text, 1 tune - quoted from Sharp-EFC) [AbEd, p. 187]
Sharp-EFC, XXX, p. 35, "Shallow Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Blow, Boys, Blow (I)" (text)
cf. "Hilo, Boys, Hilo" (tune)
NOTES: Though it has the same title, this is so drastically different from "Shallo Brown" that I thought it warranted a separate entry. - SL
Entirely agreed. If it matters, this is what The Boarding Party called "Fast Shallow," to distinguish it from the more common "Slow Shallow." - RBW
File: Hugi257
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NAME: Shallows Field: see The Battle of Vicksburg (File: R225)
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NAME: Shamrock Cockade, The
DESCRIPTION: "St Patrick he is Ireland's Saint And we're his Volunteers." We are ready to fight the French, if they invade. The Cork Volunteer societies are named: Union, True Blue, Boyne, Aughrim, Enniskillen and Blackpool.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1780 (_The Cork Remembrancer_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: France Ireland nonballad patriotic soldier
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 3, "The Shamrock Cockade" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Green Cockade" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
cf. "The Song of the Volunteers" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
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. [According to Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 186, the year was 1777, though few other companies formed until 1778.] The movement spread like wildfire and soon there were companies in all parts of Ireland." - BS
For more on the Volunteers and their effect on Anglo-Irish relations, see the notes to "The Song of the Volunteers." The reference to Saint Patrick may seem a little strange from a pro-British force, but many of the Volunteers were Catholic though the majority were  Protestants. - RBW
File: Moyl003
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NAME: Shamrock from Glenore, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls his mother's speech as he set out walking on a Saint Patrick's Day: She plucks a shamrock and praises it. But she is old; he must cross the sea. Still he cherishes the token of mother and home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation homesickness mother
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H34, p. 213, "The Pretty Three-Leaved Shamrock from Glenore" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), p. 2, "The Three-leafed Shamrock from Glenore" (text, music and reference to Decca F-3283 recorded Aug 12, 1932)
Roud #8126
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Four-Leaved Shamrock from Glenore
My Little Four-Leaf Shamrock from Glenore
NOTES: The date and master id (GB-4738-1/2) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
File: HHH034
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NAME: Shamrock from Tiree, A
DESCRIPTION: The singer, who will "see [Erin] no more," recalls the green fields, the red roses, the birds' songs. He dreams of home and its history -- the feasts in the halls of the O'Cahans, the playing of Rory Dall. All this was called back by receipt of a shamrock
AUTHOR: James O'Kane
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: homesickness flowers bird emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H716, pp. 218-219, "A Shamrock from Tiree" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH176
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NAME: Shamrock Shore (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Hard times and high taxes force the singer to leave Ireland for America. He and his friends spend six weeks in the woods, and the other three all die. He warns against coming to America. He hopes to return to Ireland
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration hardtimes death
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H69, p. 201, "The Happy Shamrock Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Irishman's Farewell to His Country
NOTES: This is truly a curious song; how did the singer and friends get in trouble so quickly? Unless something has been lost, I have to suspect this was composed by someone who had never been to America, and thought it all a vast wilderness. - RBW
File: HHH069
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NAME: Shamrock Shore (II), The: see Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore (File: HHH192)
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NAME: Shamrock Shore (IV), The: see The Irishman's Farewell to his Country (The Shamrock Shore IV) (File: OLcM088)
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NAME: Shamrock Shore, The (The Maid of Mullaghmore)
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls on the muses to help him express his grief over leaving home. Having left Ireland for (Scotland), he says that (Glasgow) girls are pretty but they aren't the girl he left behind. He warns others against leaving their loves behind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1886 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(494))
KEYWORDS: love separation homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H20a, p. 216, "The Maid of Mullaghmore" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 74, "The Shamrock Shore" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More 88A, "The Shamrock Shore" (1 text)
Roud #2287
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Tunney, "The Shamrock Shore" (on IRPTunney01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(494), "The Shamrock Shore" ("In a musing mind with me combine"), H. Such (London), 1863-1885; also 2806 b.9(258), 2806 b.11(168)[Misprint in title--The Shamrore.coShk--and text], Harding B 26(598), "The Shamrock Shore" ("You muses nine, with me combine"); 2806 c.8(285), "The Shomrock Shore," printed at Cork between 1800 and 1899, shelfmark Harding B.26(598).
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
cf. "Girls of the Shamrock Shore" (theme of separation -- not transportation -- and one verse)
NOTES: O'Conor includes "In the blooming spring, when the small birds sing, and the lambs did sport and play, My way I took, and friends forsook, till I came to Dublin Quay." - BS
Paddy Tunney's version on IRPTunney01 has the singer going to New York rather than to Glasgow. - BS
File: HHH20a
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NAME: Shamrock Sod No More, The: see The Irish Emigrant's Lament (File: HHH235)
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NAME: Shamus O'Brien
DESCRIPTION: "Oh Shamus O'Brien, I'm loving you yet, And my heart is still trusting and kind... Oh why did I let you get out of my arms Like a bird that was caged and is free." The singer promises extreme devotion and asks Shamus to return to her
AUTHOR: Will S. Hays
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love separation betrayal request
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 758, "Shamus O'Brien" (2 texts, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 160, "Shamus O'Brien" (1 text)
Roud #4975
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Nora O'Neal"
NOTES: Randolph reports that this is the answer to an earlier Will S. Hays song, "Nora O'Neal." - RBW
There is a Missouri fiddle tune called "Shamus O'Brien's Waltz"; it's somewhat different from the tune to this song, but is perhaps a descendant. - PJS
Grove's Dictionary of Music also reports a "romantic comic opera in two acts" with the title "Shamus O'Brien"; the book is by J. H. Jessop and the music by "Stanford." But it didn't premiere until March 2, 1896. - RBW
File: R758
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NAME: Shan Van Voch, The: see The Shan Van Voght (File: PGa027)
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NAME: Shan Van Vocht, The: see The Shan Van Voght (File: PGa027)
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NAME: Shan Van Voght (1828), The
DESCRIPTION: "O'Connell gained the day," "Catholic victory is shouted." Vesey Fitgerald and parson Fleury are vexed. "The Bible saints are routed" "Lord Tyrone, we will crack his collar bone, The County Clare will be our own, says the Shan Van Vught"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: pride Ireland nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 1828 - Daniel O'Connell defeats Vessey Fitzgerald as Westminster MP from County Clare.
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 7B, "A New Song Called the Shan Van Vught" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1848) for Shan Van Voght song on another subject.
cf. "The Battle of Ballycohy" (1828) for Shan Van Voght song on another subject.
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" and references there, including Shan Van Voght broadsides on other subjects.
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
NOTES: "In a symbolic protest against the anti-Catholic oath MPs had to take on entering parliament, O'Connell stands for election in Co. Clare and defeats the liberal protestant incumbent, Vessey Fitzgerald" (source: _The McClintock Bunbury Family History and other stories 1800 to 1899_ on the Lisnavagh site). - BS
For the career of Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), see e.g. "Daniel O'Connell (I)" and "Daniel O'Connell (II)"; also, for some context on the period, "Fergus O'Connor and Independence." - RBW
File: Zimm007B
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NAME: Shan Van Voght (1848), The
DESCRIPTION: We'll defeat the Tories in this year of 1848. Pitt and Castlereagh "stole our Parliament away." The French drove out the royalists. Smith O'Brien and John O'Connell will do that here. The French are on the sea "to be here the 10th of May"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1848 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: rebellion France Ireland nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1848 - The Young Ireland uprising fails
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 7C, "A New Song Called the Shan Van Vocht" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John Mitchel" and references there for the 1848 Irish uprising
cf. "Lament of John O Mahony" and references there for the 1848 Irish uprising
cf. "Skibbereen" and references there for the 1848 Irish uprising
cf. "The Wee Duck" and references there for the 1848 Irish uprising
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1828) for Shan Van Voght song on another subject.
cf. "The Battle of Ballycohy" (1828) for Shan Van Voght song on another subject.
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" and references there, including Shan Van Voght broadsides on other subjects.
cf. "The Game of Cards" (II) for references to the "stealing" of Grattan's Parliament
cf. "The Wheels of the World" for Pitt and Castlereigh
NOTES: Among the European revolutions of 1848 was the French revolt driving Louis Philippe from Paris in February. Once again the United Irishmen looked to France as their model. The Irish famine persisted. When the government suspended Habeus Corpus in July the leaders of Young Ireland -- William Smith O'Brien, John Blake Dillon and Francis Meagher -- planned an uprising that failed. (source: _The 1848 Uprising_ by Donagh MacDonagh at the Waterford Ciry History site, copyright Waterford City History).
The reference "Billy Pitt and Castlereagh ... They stole our Parliament away ... The people's curse, I give my oath, caused Castelreagh to cut his throat" is to the 1801 "Act of Union" --supported by Pitt and Robert Stewart (Lord Castlereagh) --  that formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" and abolished the Dublin Parliament. [For the brief life of Grattan's Parliament, see the notes to "Ireland's Glory."]
Castlereagh committed suicide in 1822 by cutting his throat. (sources: _Britain and Ireland_ by Marjie Bloy on the Victorian Web site; _Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh_ on the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos site). [The fault may have been genetic; his nephew Robert Fitzroy, one-time captain of the _Beagle_ who would oppose evolution tooth and nail, would commit suicide in 1845; see Arthur Herman, _To Rule the Waves_, p. 437. - RBW]
John O'Connell is Daniel O'Connell's son and led the Repeal Association which differed in tactics but not objective from William Smith O'Brien's Young Ireland but both groups supported Irish independence. "Smith O'Brien led a delegation to Paris. Though rebuffed by Lamartine's new government, the delegates were intoxicated by the revolutionary atmosphere in France. On their return caution was thrown to the winds." O'Brien was one of the organizers of the 1848 uprising. (source:_Young Ireland_ by Richard Davis on the Ohio University site) - BS
As so often, of course, when Ireland looked to other nations for help, they found none. 1848 -- "The Year of Revolution" -- did overthrow kings, but not nations. The Habsburg monarchy replaced the feeble-minded Ferdinand I (reigned 1835-1848) with the less addled by hardly more effective Franz Joseph. France got rid of Louis Philippe and eventually replaced him with Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) -- a man who liked independence movements but didn't like democracy at all. And so it went.
The revolution in France (February 24, 1848) did inspire the Young Ireland leaders, but they could do very little. Young Ireland leaders such as Thomas Francis Meagher (for whom see "The Escape of Meagher") and John Mitchel (for whom see the song by that name) urged revolt, and eventually brought in the more peaceful William Smith O'Brien  (1803-1864). (See Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, pp. 115-116).
According to Robert Kee (_The Most Distressful country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, p. 276), even the beginning of the rebellion was an accident. On July 23, 1848, Smith O'Brien was visiting a friend in Wexford, when Meagher and John Blake Dillon arrived with word that habeas corpus had been suspended; there may also have been a warrant for Smith O'Brien's arrest. He had little choice but to scrape up what strength he could and fight to survive. But there was no organization and no plan; truly Smith O'Brien had been forced into violence. The "rebellion" followed.
Or, rather, collapsed. There was no help from France (presumably the reference is a hangover from one of the earlier Shan Van Voght songs). A few half-armed bands wandered around Ireland, and a few leaders tried to scrape up troops, but no one actually set out to fight the British. Smith O'Brien gave a lot of speeches, but was so cautious that he ended up visiting the same places several times rather than seek new recruits (Kee, p. 280). As Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry put it, "in July 1848 the 'revolt' collapsed in an inglorious scuffle in a widow's back garden patch at Ballingarry. O'Brien, Meagher and others surrendered, and mercifully were not put to death but transported to join Mitchel in Australia" (_A History of Ireland_, p. 238).
According to Golway, p. 121, "The Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch" resulted in two people being killed, though they may not have been rebels. And that was it for armed conflict.
To give you an idea of how trivial the whole rising was, R. F. Foster's _Modern Ireland_ mentions the Battle of Ballingary -- the site of the siege on Widow McCormackÕs house -- only in its chronology, not in its text.  Even its leader Smith O'Brien said that it was an "escapade" and that it "does not deserve the name of insurrection" (Kee, p. 286). The _Oxford Companion to Irish History_ doesn't even give it an entry, or mention it in its article on Smith O'Brien, though it does include a brief description in the article regarding the Revolution of 1848. Still, it's clear that the whole thing is remembered mostly because Young Ireland was first and foremost a literary movement. Odds are there were more Irishmen writing about the revolt in 1848 than actually participated.
Smith O'Brien's erratic behavior continued at his trial. He was, naturally, found guilty of rebellion, which meant that he was subject to the death penalty. The jury strongly urged mercy -- but Smith O'Brien refused to petition for clemency; it took a special act of parliament to allow him to be transported (Kee, p. 287). Even in Tasmania, he long refused to apply for a ticket-of-leave (parole). He was fully pardoned in 1854, and returned to Ireland in 1856. He generally stayed out of politics after that; people seemed to understand that he was a gifted speaker who somehow couldn't come up with much to say. - RBW
File: Zimm07C
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NAME: Shan Van Voght, The
DESCRIPTION: The Shan Van Vogt declares that the French are at hand, and will rescue Ireland. The troops are called together; they will wear green; they will free Ireland and proclaim liberty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1797 (Sparling)
KEYWORDS: Ireland freedom rebellion
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1796 - A French fleet (carrying, among others, Wolfe Tone) sets out for Ireland. At Christmas, one of the ships is in Bantry Bay. Bad weather and incompetent French seamanship, however, keeps the fleet at sea, and the French (distracted by their ongoing revolution) do not pursue the matter
1798 - main Irish rebellion. Wolfe Tone tries again
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
O'Conor, p. 32, "Shan Van Vogh" (1 text)
PGalvin, p. 27, "The Shan Van Vocht" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 60, "The Shan Van Vocht" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 7A, "The Shan Van Vocht" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Moylan 28, "The Shan Van Vocht" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 23, "Sean-Bhean Bhocht" (1 fragment)
Silber-FSWB, p. 322, "Shan Van Voght" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 18-20, 514, "The Shan Van Vocht"
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 297-299, "The Shan Van Vocht" (1 text plus a portion of a parody about Home Rule by Susan Mitchell)
Roud #6529
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Escape of James Stephens" (tune)
cf. "Lord Wathe'ford" (tune and repeated lines)
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1828) for Shan Van Voght song on another subject
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1848) for Shan Van Voght song on another subject
cf. "General Wonder" (subject of Hoche's expedition)
cf. "Poor Old Man (II)" (tune, theme)
SAME_TUNE:
The Bird Is Left His Nest (Healy-OISBv2, pp.122-124)
Up for the Land (Healy-OISBv2, pp. 151-152, apparently to this tune)
The Escape of James Stephens (File: OLcM003A)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Shan Van Voch
NOTES: Sparling dates his text 1797 and says it is "the first song I can find with this refrain."
Zimmermann p.56: "The name Shan Van Vocht (Seanbhean Bhocht: Poor Old Woman), Gaelic as it sounds, seems to have had a political meaning almost exclusively in songs written in English, and constantly adapted to new events. [Cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1828), "The Shan Van Voght" (1848), "The Battle of Ballycohy"]
The most famous variant is said to date from 1797, though no text was printed before the 1840s. According to Donal O'Sullivan this name was borrowed from a non-political song; prior to the 1790's, 'there is no trace in Irish or Anglo-Irish literature of any such allegorical conceptions'. [D. Osullivan _Songs of the Irish_ pp. 130-131]."
Moylan notes "Bunting collected a (non-political) song called "An tSeanbhean Bhocht" in 1792. By the end of the 18th century the air had become the bearer of political verses, this one the most famous. It did not see print, however, until the mid-19th century, when it was published in _The Nation_." 
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, "Shan Van Vocht" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998)) - BS  
Although the Irish often looked to the French for help (as in the case of the United Irish rebellion of 1798), the French supplied it for their own reasons. In this case, it was to distract Britain (as a result of the French Revolution, France was at war with most of Europe) and found a base at their back.
When the 1796 expedition under Hoche failed (due mostly to incompetent seamanship; France had purged most of its experienced naval officers), the French simply gave it up and went on to other things.
It was one of those things that had people talking about a "Protestant Wind," as in 1688. Hoche was one of the best, if not the best, young French general. But the wind that let the French fleet get out of Brest also scattered it. Most of the fleet made it to Bantry Bay, but the ship with Hoche aboard was blown off-course. The fleet waited a day, hoping for its general. Then the winds came and scattered the fleet. End of landing. Later French expeditions would be made with small raiding forces rather than true armies of invasion.
"Shan Van Voght" is the anglicized form of "Sean Bhean Bhocht," "poor old woman," a title for the oppressed Irish people. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a Belfast literary journal would arise with the title _Shan Van Vocht_ devoted to promoting an independent Irish culture.
Theobald Wolfe Tone was, interestingly, a Protestant (the whole 1798 rebellion was basically a Protestant idea), but wanted a free Ireland with equal rights for both religions. After a (much too brief) period of resistance with the pen, he turned to the sword.
After the fiasco of Bantry Bay, Tone would make two more attempts to invade Ireland. The first, in a Dutch fleet, was destroyed by the British at the Battle of Camperdown (October 11, 1797) -- by which time Tone had given up anyway; the army he and the Hoche had assembled had to be disbanded. Hoche died soon after, and he was the one committed Frenchman.
Tone had, by then, already set off to appeal to Napoleon. But Napoleon turned him down; an Irish expedition, even if it succeeded, would not be practical (read: cost-effective; there was no treasure to be collected in impoverished Ireland). Napoleon went to Egypt instead, and did not send a force to Ireland until after the 1798 rebellion had been crushed.
Still, three small French forces sailed in 1798: Three ships under General Humbert (see "The Men of the West"), one ship with Napper Tandy aboard (see "The Wearing of the Green"), and a large force -- ten ships and nearly 3000 men -- with Tone aboard.
Tone's force was caught by a superior British fleet off Donegal on October 12, 1798. Tone himself was taken and condemned to death by hanging (as a traitor). He requested that he instead be shot as a soldier. When this was denied, he cut his own throat. He was 35.
The sad irony is that the British government in Ireland, under Lord Grattan, was sincerely trying to improve conditions in Ireland at the time of the 1798 rising. As recently as 1782, Ireland had received the right to an independent parliament. (Prior to that, it had had a parliament, but it was under the thumb of the British parliament. For details on this, see the notes to "Ireland's Glory.")
But, of course, this was the era of George III, with all the Crown high-handedness that implied; a few local officials could hardly make up for the stupidity at the top. And the military under General Lake made things worse with a policy of pure brutality.
The rebellion generally put an end to that. (Nor was this the only time a rebellion slowed liberalization.) Indeed, the British decided that the problems had gone on long enough, and for the first time united Ireland with Britain.
The "Lord Edward" of some texts is Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), one of the leaders of the United Irishmen and the last one to retain his liberty after the government cracked down (March 12). He doesn't seem to have been particularly smart, and was eventually wounded and captured (May 19); he died in prison of the effects of his wound.  For more about him, see the notes to "Edward (III) (Edward Fitzgerald)." - RBW
Bodleian Library site Ballads Catalogue does not have broadsides for this song but has a number of songs modelled on it. For example,
Bodleian, Harding B 18(151), "The Escape of Stephens, the Fenian Chief," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
Bodleian, Harding B 19(87), "The Shan Van Vouch" ("Oh, the time is coming on ... News of battles won and lost ... The tax that's still to come..."), unknown, n.d.
Bodleian, 2806 c.8(54), "The Shan Van Vought ("I am sure you heard of Warner, says the Shan Van Vought"), unknown, handwritten: "A Fenian Ballad 1866"
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3483), "The Shan Van Vought on Garibaldi" ("I've a story to relate, says the Shan Van Vought"), T. Pearson (Manchester) , 1850-1899
Bodleian, 2806 c.8(49), "Shan Van Vought's Farewell to Ireland" ("My sons are going away says the shan van vought"), unknown, n.d.
Another Bodleian broadside version to "remember '98": 2806 b.9(68),"A new song call'd the Gay Old Hag" ("Will you come a boating my gay old hag"), P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867; also Johnson Ballads 2191c, "A new song call'd the Gay Old Hag"
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: PGa027
===
NAME: Shanadar
DESCRIPTION: Fragment only. "Shanadar is a rolling river, E-O... I-O... E-O... I-O..." May be a variant of "Shenandoah" but the meter is quite different, alternating between 2/2 and 3/2.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty river derivative
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, p. 178, "Shanadar" (1 text, 1 tune - quoted from Sharp-EFC)
Sharp-EFC, LIII, p. 58, "Shanadar (Second version)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #324
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Shenandoah" (text)
NOTES: Not too surprisingly, Roud lumps this with "Shenandoah," and I don't think there is much doubt that the two are related. But this does appear distinct enough (barely) to deserve its own listing. - RBW
File: Hugi178
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NAME: Shane Crossagh
DESCRIPTION: Squire Staples sets out to take Shane Crossagh, once a plowboy but now an outlaw "for the wearin' o' the green." Crossagh -- helped by his hound, who destroys the pursuing dogs -- escapes across the Roe. (Shane later is able to take revenge on Staples.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: outlaw manhunt escape dog
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H97, pp. 130-131, "Shane Crossagh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13373
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlie Is My Darling" (floating lyrics)
File: HHH097
===
NAME: Shanghai Rooster (Shanghai Chicken)
DESCRIPTION: "Shanghai chicken an' he grow so tall, Hooday! Hooday! Take dat egg a month to fall, Hooday! Hooday!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: chickens
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 195, "Shanghai Chicken" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #5247
NOTES: Roud includes several items under this number that I'm not convinced are related, but it does appear that this is a rather disjointed song. - RBW
File: ScaNF195
===
NAME: Shannelly's Mill: see John Whipple's Mill (File: FSC171)
===
NAME: Shannon and the Chesapeake, The: see The Chesapeake and the Shannon (I) [Laws J20] (File: LJ20)
===
NAME: Shannon Scheme, The
DESCRIPTION: The Shannon Scheme will "light our houses," "stitch our blouses," "milk our cows," "churn the cream," "reap and mow," "spin and sew," provide "more employment and more enjoyment and happier homes." A toast to the scheme and its promoters
AUTHOR: Sylvester Boland (source: notes to IRClare01)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1992 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: river technology humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #18468
RECORDINGS:
Nonie Lynch, "The Shannon Scheme" (on IRClare01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Straightened Banks of Erne" (theme: Ireland's hydro-electrification)
NOTES: Notes to IRClare01: "The Shannon Scheme for the Electrification of the Irish Free State, by harnessing the fall in the River Shannon between Killaloe and Limerick, was commenced in 1925 and completed in 1929 and, within six years, was supplying 85% of Ireland's electricity requirements. The song was written in 1927...." - BS
According to John A. Murphy, _Ireland in the Twentieth Century_(Gill and MacMillan, 1975, 1989), p. 65, "[T]he most far-sighted step in the development of natural resources by the state was the Shannon Scheme -- the beginning of the national supply of electricity -- and the establishment of the Electricity Supply Board in 1927, destined to be perhaps the most successful of those semi-state bodies which in future years became characteristic and indispensible features of the Irish economy." - RBW
File: RcShaSch
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NAME: Shannon Side, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas in the month of April... I met a comely damsel Upon the Shannon side." He tries to seduce her, and fails; he throws her down against her will. He departs; six months later, pregnant, she begs him to marry; he says he is pledged to another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: courting sex rape pregnancy betrayal rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond),Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 200-202, "The Shannon Side" (1 text)
Roud #1453
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "Peter Thunderbolt" (on IRTravellers01)
Phoebe Smith, "Captain Thunderball" (on Voice10)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y4:028, "Shannon Side," unknown, 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Reynardine" [Laws P15] (plot, lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Captain Thunderbolt
NOTES: This not only shares much of the plot of "Reynardine," the lyrics also overlap to a degree. I have to think there has been some sort of cross-fertilization. Still, they are clearly distinct songs. - RBW
In Broadside Murray Mu23-y4:028, [the Mary Delaney recording,] and Phoebe Smith's version on Voice10... the man gives his name as Captain, or Peter, Thunderbolt... "that's when my baby is born as that may be the same." I assume it is an integral part of the ballad when the text is well enough remembered. - BS
File: Ord202
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NAME: Shanty Boy: see The Farmer and the Shanty Boy (File: Wa033)
===
NAME: Shanty Boy and the Farmer's Son, The: see The Farmer and the Shanty Boy (File: Wa033)
===
NAME: Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire, The [Laws C11]
DESCRIPTION: A girl loves a shanty boy. Her (father/mother) sends her away to keep them apart. She dies of disease and grief; her lover kills himself. They haunt her (father), whose business goes bankrupt. The moral: Don't fall in love with a shanty boy (?!)
AUTHOR: William T. Allen (Shan T. Boy)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: separation suicide ghost love father mother family humorous
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws C11, "The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire"
Rickaby 11, "The Shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire" (2 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
DT 819, EAUCLAIR
Roud #2219
RECORDINGS:
Art Thieme, "The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire" (on Thieme02) (on Thieme05)
NOTES: Like many of Allen's songs, this has a "serious" plot but is couched in humorous language, with lines such as:
Every girl has her troubles; each man likewise has his.
But few can match the agony of the following story, viz.
It relates about the affection of a damsel young and fair
Who dearly loved a shanty boy on the Big Eau Claire.
Allen reported writing this around 1875, but by the time Rickaby met him some forty years later, he had forgotten the tune he used. - RBW
File: LC11
===
NAME: Shanty Boy, Farmer Boy: see The Farmer and the Shanty Boy (File: Wa033)
===
NAME: Shanty Boy's Reveille
DESCRIPTION: "Beans are on the table/Daylight's in the swamp/You lazy lumberjack/Ain't you ever gettin' up?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 17, "Shanty Boy's Reveille" (1 text)
Roud #8864
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wake Up Jacob" (theme)
File: Be017
===
NAME: Shanty Boys in the Pine, The: see The Lumber Camp Song (File: Doe210)
===
NAME: Shanty Boys, The: see The Lumber Camp Song (File: Doe210)
===
NAME: Shanty Man, The: see The Shantyman's Life (I) (File: Doe211)
===
NAME: Shanty Teamster's Marseillaise
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye gay teamsters, attention I pray, I'll sing you a ditty composed, by the way." The listeners are urged to cheer up in "this wretched country, the Opeongo." The new-hired crew, oppressed by the boss and Jerry Welch, walk out of their jobs
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: work logger hardtimes boss Indians(Am.) strike recitation
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 28, "Shanty Teamster's Marseillaise" (1 text)
Roud #5091
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Canaday-I-O, Michigan-I-O, Colley's Run I-O" [Laws C17] (theme)
cf. "The Buffalo Skinners" (Laws B10a) (plot)
cf. "Boggy Creek or The Hills of Mexico" [Laws B10b]
NOTES: This is item cC31 in Laws's Appendix II. Laws does not so identify it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it derives from the Canaday-I-O or Buffalo Skinners family of songs. - RBW
File: Rick113
===
NAME: Shanty-Man's Life, The: see The Shantyman's Life (I) (File: Doe211)
===
NAME: Shanty-man's Song, The: see The Logger's Alphabet (File: Doe207)
===
NAME: Shantyboy's Alphabet, The: see The Logger's Alphabet (File: Doe207)
===
NAME: Shantyboy's Song, The: see The Logger's Alphabet (File: Doe207)
===
NAME: Shantyman's Life (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "The shantyman's life is a wearisome one, Though some say it's free from care; It's the ringing of the axe from morning until night in the middle of the forest drear." The singer lists the hazards of his life; he plans to go home, marry, and settle down
AUTHOR: George W. Stace?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1858 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: logger nonballad lumbering
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) US(MA,MW,NE,NW,Ro) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Rickaby 9, "The Shanty-man's Life" (2 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 103, "The Shantyman's Life" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Doerflinger, pp. 211-213, "A Shantyman's Life" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 66-67, "The Shantyman's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 274, "Shantyman's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 150, "The Lumberman's Life" (1 text)
FSCatskills 1, "A Shantyman's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 34, "The Shanty Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 390-391, "The Shanty-Man's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 567-568, "The Lumberman's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 6, "A Shantyman's Life" (1 text)
DT, SHNTLIFE*
Roud #838
RECORDINGS:
Pierre La Dieu, "The Shanty Man's Life" (Columbia 15278-D, 1928)
Pete Seeger, "The Shantyman's Life" (on PeteSeeger29)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Barbara Allen" (tune) (the usual tune for this piece is what Charles Seeger called the "type 1" Barbara Allen tune and Bronson labelled the "Group D" tune)
cf. "A Cowboy's Life" (tune & meter; lyrics)
NOTES: Some versions of this song refer to a lack of liquor; Doerflinger reports that strong drink was banned in most logging camps in the years after 1860. The only recourse was a "visit to the dentist" or the like -- an excuse that obviously could only be tried so many times.
The broadside version of this is credited to George W. Stace of "La Crosse Valley, Wis[consin]." For what it's worth, La Crosse is in the heart of what used to be the Big Woods country. - RBW
File: Doe211
===
NAME: Shantyman's Life (II), A: see The Sailor Boy (I) [Laws K12] (File: LK12)
===
NAME: Shantyman's Life (III): see The Lumber Camp Song (File: Doe210)
===
NAME: Share 'Em
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I din' ka' how you share (shear?) 'em So you share 'em eben; Share yo' sheep and blankets -- Share 'em, share 'em, share 'em! If you want er see dem pretty gals, Look on Mon'lyn's Baniel."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: sheep
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 510, "Share 'Em" (1 text)
Roud #11811
File: Br3510
===
NAME: Shaver, The
DESCRIPTION: Capstan shanty. Tells of going to sea "when I was just a hairless boy," getting kicked around, enduring bad weather, and jumping ship at the first chance. Cho: "When I was just a shaver, a shaver. Oh, I was fed up with sea, when I was just a shaver."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor homosexuality youth desertion abuse sex
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 338-339, "The Shaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9534
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Paddy Works on the Railway" (Hugill's tune for "Poor Paddy")
NOTES: Hugill says he left out several unprintable verses dealing with homosexual themes which, however common in practice, were rarely sung about. - SL
It sounds, based on Hugill's notes, as if the original did not use the word "shaver," but rather an obscenity, presumably referring to a catamite. I have added keywords on that basis. - RBW
File: Hugi338
===
NAME: Shawneetown Is Burnin' Down
DESCRIPTION: "Shawneetown is burnin' down, Who tole you so? (x2)." "Cythie, my darlin' gal...." "How the hell d'ye expect me to hold her, Way down below, I've got no skin on either shoulder...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924
KEYWORDS: fire nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 590, [no title] (1 text)
NOTES: I suspect this is a variant of a song I learned as "Down by the River" (not to be confused with "Down by the Riverside"). But this version appears to have been bowdlerized, and lacks a tune, so I cannot tell this with certainty.
File: BMRF590B
===
NAME: She Came Rollin' Down the Mountain
DESCRIPTION: A young woman takes a succession of men up the hills of West Virginny to engage in an act of prostitution, after which she comes rollin' down the mountain.
AUTHOR: Buddy DeSylva, Brown and Henderson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932
KEYWORDS: sex whore bawdy
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman II, p. 604, "She Came Rollin' Down the Mountain" (1 partial text)
RECORDINGS:
Blue Ridge Mountain Girls, "She Came Rollin' Down the Mountain" (Champion 16743, 1934)
NOTES: There is an allusion to the onset of the Depression, dating the song to approximately 1930. This formerly popular song is of questionable oral currency. - EC
There's a commercial version, presumably cleaned-up (or the original from which the bawdy version is derived). See the Blue Ridge Mountain Girls' recording. - PJS
File: RL604
===
NAME: She Died on the Train: see Liza Jane (File: San132)
===
NAME: She Done Got Ugly
DESCRIPTION: "Says huh Julie, Hullo gal. Says early in the mornin' baby... I come to your window baby.... Says get away from my window baby... Says got another man baby, don't want you no more... You done got ugly... Hey rock that baby...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (recording, Archie Lee Hill)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 107-108, (no title) (1 text); pp. 263-264, "She Done Got Ugly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10991
RECORDINGS:
Archie Lee Hill, "She Done Got Ugly" (on NFMAla1)
File: CNFM107B
===
NAME: She Gets There Just the Same (Jim Crow Car)
DESCRIPTION: "The white gal smells like Castile soap, The yeller gal try to do the same, The poor black gal smell like little billy goat, But she gets there just the same." Verses comparing the methods and results of several groups
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: discrimination train clothes travel drink food money
FOUND_IN: US(SE,Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 477, "White Cal, Yaller Gal, Black Gal" (5 texts plus 3 fragments; 3 of the texts have the chorus of "Coming Round the Mountain (II -- Charming Betsey)"); also 483, "Rich Man Ride on a Pullman Car" (1 fragment)
Darling-NAS, p. 355, "[no title]" (1 text)
Roud #7052
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Coming Round the Mountain (II -- Charming Betsey)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: I've heard this sung by Sixties folk groups in a form which contrasts city and country girls. This may be the original form -- but I suspect it's a clean-up.
The version in Darling is only a fragment, but describes the fate of Blacks forced to ride "Jim Crow cars" on trains (poor-quality cars, often used to ship animals and, quite possibly, not cleaned out after being used for such a purpose).
Brown's verses are much more diverse: The White women ride cars, yellow women ride trains; Blacks are stuck in carts. Whites use cold cream, Blacks lard. Clothing, beds, alcoholic beverages -- in all cases, the Blacks have it worst, but they look good, sleep, get drunk just the same. - RBW
File: DarNS355
===
NAME: She Had a Dark and a Rovin' Eye: see The Fire Ship (File: EM068)
===
NAME: She is Far From the Land
DESCRIPTION: "She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps." She rejects other lovers. She sings wild songs he loved about home. "He had lived for his country, for his country he died." She will join him soon.
AUTHOR: Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1846 (_Irish Melodies_ by Thomas Moore, according to Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: grief love death nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 157, "She Is Far From the Land" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, pp. 332-333, "She Is Far From the Land"
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 20(142), "She Is Far From the Land" ("She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps"), J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Firth b.26(319), "She Is Far From the Land"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh! Breathe Not His Name" (subject: concealed allusions to Robert Emmet)
cf. "When He Who Adores Thee" (subject: concealed allusions to Robert Emmet)
cf. "The Man from God-Knows-Where"  (subject: concealed allusions to Robert Emmet)
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 77 fn. 11 uses "She is far from the land" as an example of "songs [that] evoke prudently Robert Emmet's fate." - BS
If so, that gives an interesting possible dual meaning to this one. One part would refer to the many Irish exiles around the world. The other might refer to Sarah Curran, Emmet's sweetheart, who was disowned by her father for her closeness to the condemnned rebel. No one seems to know her final fate, though.
Moore, we should add, knew Emmet; according to Robert Kee, Moore was "Emmet's old friend and fellow student at Trinity" (see _The Most Distressful Country_, being volumeI of _The Green Flag_, p. 168).  Kee regards Moore as having "set the tone" for Emmet's legend. - RBW
Moylan: "The subject of this song is Sarah Curran, Emmet's fiancee and daughter of John Philpot Curran, the lawyer who had defended Wolfe Tone." Hayes's notes are along the same line, but with more details. - BS
File: BrdSHFfL
===
NAME: She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured
DESCRIPTION: A pack of boys jeer at "a girl who had fallen to shame." An old woman declares "She is more to be pitied than censured," and points out that "a man was the cause of it all." A clergyman, too, hopes she will find God's pity
AUTHOR: William B. Gray
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Richard Brooks & Reuben Puckett)
KEYWORDS: infidelity help
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 190-191, "She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 267, "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" (1 text)
DT, PITYCENS*
Roud #15477
RECORDINGS:
Richard Brooks & Reuben Puckett, "She's More To Be Pitied" (Brunswick 281, 1928; Supertone S-2075, 1930)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "She's More to be Pitied than Censured"(Melotone 12241 [may have been issued as by Bob Lester & Bud Green], 1931)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Let Old Nellie Stay" (theme)
File: SRW190
===
NAME: She Just Kept Kissing On: see Kissing Song (II -- She Just Kept Kissing On) (File: Br3313)
===
NAME: She Leaves Memphis: see Captain Jim Rees and the Katie (File: MWhee010)
===
NAME: She Loves Coffee and I Love Tea
DESCRIPTION: "I love coffee, I love tea, I love the boys and the boys love me, Wish my mama would hold her tongue, She loved the boys when she was young." "I wish my papa would do the same, For he caused a girl to change her name."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 91, "She Loves Coffee and I Love Tea" (2 text plus 1 excerpt and mention of 2 more)
Roud #740
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Grandma's Advice" (theme)
NOTES: This looks like it might be a fragment of "Grandma's Advice" or something similar. Since, however, the Brown texts all seem to survive in similar form, I've given it a separate listing. - RBW
I concede that it is a stretch to make a connection with Opie-Oxford2 386, "One, two, three": "One, two, three, I love coffee, And Billy loves tea, How good you be, One, two, three, I love coffee, And Billy loves tea" (earliest date in Opie-Oxford2 is 1842). - BS
Whatever the origin of the Opie item, it is also found in Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #629, p. 249-250. - RBW
File: Br3091
===
NAME: She Moved Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day)
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets his love, who tells him it will not be long until their wedding day, then leaves and "moves through the fair." (Later, her ghost repeats that it will not be long until their wedding. Alternately, she deserts him and he enlists in the army)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Hughes)/1926 (Sam Henry)
KEYWORDS: love wedding death ghost nightvisit supernatural abandonment army
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 165, "Our Wedding Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H141, pp. 395-396, "Out of the Window" (1 text, 1 tune); H534, p. 454, "Our Wedding Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 153-154, "My Young Love Said to Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MOVEFAIR
ADDITIONAL: Thomas Kinsella, ed., _The New Oxford Book of Irish verse_ (Oxford, 1989), #219, p. 322, "She Moved Through the Fair" (1 text, the Colum recension)
Roud #861
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "She Moved Through the Fair" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742, Voice10); "She Moved Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day)"and "She Moved Through the Fair" [long version] (both on IRMBarry-Fairs; one of these is the same as the preceding); "She Moves Through the Fair" (on Pubs1)
Francis McPeake, "Our Wedding Day" (on FSB1)
Pete Seeger, "She Moved Through the Fair" (on PeteSeeger14)
Paddy Tunney, "Our Wedding Day" (on IRPTunney01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Once Had a True Love" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: [The well-known version "She Moved Through the Fair" is credited to Padraic Colum (lyrics) and Herbert Hughes (arrangement of traditional tune). This was published in 1909 in volume I of Hughes's _Irish Country Songs_. - RBW]
Colum and Hughes apparently pieced this together from traditional fragments. The Margaret Barry version has become canonical in the folk revival -- but she learned it from a John McCormack 78! - PJS
Proving exactly what happened here is a difficult task, because the first actual publication of the song was of the Colum/Hughes text in 1909. But it's noteworthy that traditional versions, such as Kennedy's and the Sam Henry "Out of the Window," are much longer than the Colum/Hughes text.
It would appear that Colum and Hughes did more cutting-down than actual reworking. If we compare the "standard" text of "She Moved Through the Fair" with, say, the Kennedy text, we find that Colum's first two stanzas are straight out of tradition. The final stanza, about the dead love, is largely from traditional sources -- but doesn't mention the dead love! And we see parallels to that verse in one of the Sam Henry texts (H534), though the latter may have been inspired by the published text.
Margaret Barry's version omits the third stanza of the Colum text. I observe that this verse doesn't scan very well to the tune; you can make it fit, but it sounds a bit unnatural.
Kennedy actually refers *five* texts in the Henry collection to this piece, but only the two above are properly this song; the others are of the "If I Were A Blackbird/Courting Too Slow" type (and filed on that basis); they may have influenced Colum's final verse (since there are lyric similarities), but they are assuredly not the same song.
I thought about listing "She Moved Through the Fair" and "Our Wedding Day" as two separate songs, but this would obscure the clear relationship between the two. I decided on the title "She Moved Through the Fair," even though it's not properly traditional, because it is so much more familiar. - RBW
Tunney-StoneFiddle: The first verse is identical to Padraic Collum's "She Moved Through the Fair." Tunney refers also to a Sam Henry version "but my mother's tune and indeed some of the words are quite different." The reference seems to be to H534, p. 454, "Our Wedding Day." - BS
File: K165
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NAME: She Perished in the Snow: see Three Perished in the Snow [Laws G32] (File: LG32)
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NAME: She Promised She'd Meet Me: see Hungry Hash House (File: San207)
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NAME: She Said She Was Only Flirting
DESCRIPTION: "They stood on the beach at evening, Under the sunset so fair." He tells of his love for her; she tells him, "Oh sir, I was only flirting...." She says she is engaged to another, and goes her way. We are told he is "Too soon grown worn and old."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love courting lie betrayal parting
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 764, "She Said She Was Only Flirting" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Roud #7359
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Willie Down by the Pond (Sinful to Flirt)" [Laws G19]
cf. "Juanita" (theme)
NOTES: The middle stanzas of this piece are almost identical in meaning (except with genders reversed) to "Juanita," though the wording is somewhat different. The endings, however, are completely different. - RBW
File: R764
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NAME: She Said the Same to Me
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas in the month of August, or the middle of July, One evening I went walking, a fair maiden I did spy; She was mournin' for her true love, who was in Amerikee, Agh, divil a word I said to her, and she said the same to me!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: separation emigration
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 38-39, "She Said the Same to Me" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #13616
File: San038
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NAME: She Sat on Her Hammock: see Oh, How He Lied (File: FSWB031B)
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NAME: She Tickled Me
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets Molly in Kent. Seeing her home they stop under a tree to avoid the rain. "She tickled me and I tickled her." After twelve months they marry. After dinner "we had a few games of card dice and chess and we both toddled off into bed"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 63, "She Tickled Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Tickled Nancy" (floating lyrics)
File: McB1063
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NAME: She Was a Rum One
DESCRIPTION: Singer falls in with a girl and asks why she walks in such an inhibited way. He says he can solve her problem; she says the problem lies between her thighs. He lays her down and provides a plaster, and says she's given him "a stable for my stallion"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recorded from Jeannie Robertson)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer, in the moonlight, falls in with a young girl walking and asks why she walks in such an inhibited way; she tells him to go away. He says he can solve her problem; she says the problem lies between her thighs, and its tickling keeps her from her striding. He lays her down and provides a plaster, whereby she can walk freely again. He says she's given him his winter's beef and fuel, but, better than that, "a stable for my stallion." Chorus: "She was a rum one, fol-the-diddle-di-do-day/But a bonny one, fol-the-diddle-di-do"
KEYWORDS: sex bawdy
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 190, "She Was a Rum One" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, RUMONE*
Roud #2128
RECORDINGS:
Jeannie Robertson, "She is a Rum One" (on FSB2CD)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Seventeen Come Sunday" (general situation)
File: K190
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NAME: She Was Happy Till She Met You
DESCRIPTION: A young wife leaves her abusive husband and goes home to her mother. Eventually he shows up at the mother's door, asking her forgiveness. The mother sends him away, saying, "She was happy till she met you, and the fault is all your own...."
AUTHOR: Charles Graham and Monroe H. Rosenfeld
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: separation abuse abandonment husband wife
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 827, "She Was Happy Till She Met You" (2 texts)
BrownII 164, "She Was Happy till She Met You" (1 text)
Roud #6565
File: R827
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NAME: She Was Poor But She Was Honest (I)
DESCRIPTION: A mock lament in which the village maid seduced goes to London to become a prostitute. While her customers prosper, she becomes a pox-ridden streetwalker burdened with piles. The moral: the rich takes their pleasures while the poor get the blame.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada Britain(England) US(SW)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Cray, pp. 128-132, "She Was Poor But She Was Honest I" (3 texts, 1 tune)
PBB 108, "She Was Poor, But She Was Honest" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 200-201, "It's The Syme the Whole World Over" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHJohnson, pp. 15-16, "She Was Poor But She Was Honest" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 27, "It's The Syme The Whole World Over" (1 text)
DT, SYMEOVR5*
Roud #9621
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "She Was Poor But She Was Honest (II)" (tune & meter)
NOTES: The Sandburg text is described as "fortified in part by H.L Mencken and a contributor to The American Mercury." - RBW
File: EM128
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NAME: She Was Poor But She Was Honest (II)
DESCRIPTION: An adaptation of the English original, this is a lampoon of a former governor of Alabama, "Kissing Jim" Folsom, who sired a child out of wedlock.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous political seduction
FOUND_IN: US(SW,So,Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cray, pp. 132-133, "She Was Poor But She Was Honest II" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 286-288, "She Was Poor But She Was Honest" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SYMEOVER* SYMEOVR4
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singer, "Big Jim Folsom" (on Unexp1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "She Was Poor But She Was Honest (I)" (tune & meter)
File: EM132
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NAME: She Won't Get Up: see Lazy Mary (She Won't Get Up) (File: R396)
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NAME: She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
DESCRIPTION: "She'll coming round the mountain when she comes."  The unidentified "she" arrives with great pomp and ceremony, and is greeted with celebration (e.g. the killing and cooking of the old red rooster). The song often is supplemented by summer camp nonsense
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recording, Henry Whitter)
KEYWORDS: travel nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 460, "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 372-373, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune plus a spiritual Sandburg describes as the source of the song)
Lomax-FSNA 214 "She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 276, "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 496-497, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain"
DT, COMRND2*
Roud #4204
RECORDINGS:
H. M. Barnes & his Blue Ridge Ramblers, "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes" (Brunswick 310, 1929/Supertone S-2052, 1930)
Vernon Dalhart, "She's Comin' Round the Mountain" (Montgomery Ward M-8148, 1939)
Vernon Dalhart & Co., "She's Comin' 'Round the Mountain" (Edison 51608, 1925)
Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (Brunswick 181/Vocalion 5240 [as the Hill Billies], 1927)
Uncle Dave Macon & John McGhee, "Comin' Round the Mountain" (Brunswick 263, 1928; Brunswick 425, 1930)
John D. Mounce et al, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (on MusOzarks01)
Elmo Newcomer, "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" (Cromart 100, n.d. but prob. mid-1930s)
Parman and Snyder, "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain" (OKeh 45302, 1929; rec. 1928)
Pickard Family, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (Oriole 1502/Conqueror 7251/Microphone [Canada] 22388, 1929; Challenge 992, n.d.; Broadway 8148 [as Pleasant Family], n.d.)
Red River Dave, "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" (Musicraft 287, 1944)
Rhythm Wreckers, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (Vocalion 3341, 1936)
Carson Robison [Trio], "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" (Crown 3027, c. 1930)
Roe Bros. & Morrell, "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" (Columbia 15156-D, 1927)
Pete Seeger, "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" (on PeteSeeger03, PeteSeegerCD03) (on PeteSeeger21)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (Columbia 15200-D, 1927; rec. 1926)
Henry Whitter, "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (OKeh 40063, 1924)
Jimmie Wilson & his Catfish String Band, "She's Comin' Round the Mountain" (Victor V-40163, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Old Ship of Zion (I)"  (form, tune, lyrics)
cf. "I Am Growing Old and Gray" (tune)
cf. "Drive It On" (tune)
cf. "Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny" (tune)
cf. "Ding Dong Dollar" (tune)
cf. "Ballymurphy" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
I'm Going to Ship on the Mike Davis (Wheeler, p. 115)
Bill Cox, "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain - No. 2" (Supertone 9556, 1929)  [Also apparently issued as by Charley Blake, same record number]
Fiddlin' John Carson, "The New 'Comin' Round the Mountain'" (Bluebird B-5401, 1934)
Mickey Katz, "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Katzkills" (Capitol 1718, 1951)
Anonymous singer, "There's a 'Skeeter" (on Unexp1)
NOTES: Fuld reports that "substantially this melody" was in print in 1899 in "Old Plantation Hymns," but the text was "When the Chariot Comes." Fuld assumes the "Round the Mountain" lyrics are more recent (he knows of no printing before Sandburg).
The notes in Brown list it as a "parody or secularization of 'The Old Ship of Zion'" (included in the index as "The Old Ship of Zion (I), but note that the phrase is not found in Sandburg's spiritual version); Roud goes so far as to lump them. The Brown text does mention Mary, though it's not clear that this is the mother of Jesus. - RBW
The anonymous singer on Unexp1 sings "There's a 'skeeter on my peter, sweet Marie." Folk process. - PJS
File: San372
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NAME: She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama
DESCRIPTION: "It was one evening long ago" when the singer went to ask the hand of the girl. Her mother gladly consents. He looks back happily. Chorus: "She's a flower from the fields of Alabam, Take her for she loves you, yes I know...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Burnett & Rutherford)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, FLWRALBM
RECORDINGS:
Emry Arthur, "She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama" (Vocalion 5234, c. 1928)
Burnett & Rutherford, "She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama" (Gennett 6688/Challenge 420, 1929 (rec. 1928); on BurnRuth01)
Sue & Rawhide, "She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama" (OKeh 45577, 1934)
NOTES: Given the near-lack of plot, I have to suspect that this is a nineteenth century parlour piece. But I can't trace it back past the Burnett & Rutherford recording (made at their last dated recording session in 1928). - RBW
File: DTflweral
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NAME: She's Gone to be a Mormonite
DESCRIPTION: "I'll tell you what I'm going to do And that without delay, I'll pack my trunk and I'll be off, I'll go this very day." The singer tells of a girl who's "Gone to be a Mormonite In the new Jerusalem." (He?) knows not where she is, except that she's Mormon
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: separation travel marriage religious
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 501, "She's Gone to be a Mormonite" (1 text)
Roud #7640
NOTES: Although I have no direct evidence of it, I suspect -- both for psychological reasons (why would a *girl* want to be a Mormon?) and the strange constructions in Randolph's text of the song -- that it was a man who was originally referred to here. (So, apparently, in Hubbard's version.) How it came to refer to a woman I do not know. - RBW
File: R501
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NAME: She's Got the Money Too: see He's Got the Money Too (File: R299)
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NAME: She's Like the Swallow
DESCRIPTION: "She's like a swallow that flies so high, She's like a river that never runs dry, She's like the sunshine on the lee shore, I love my love and love is no more." A lament for a lost girl: "She laid her down, no word she spoke, until [her] heart was broke"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Karpeles-Newfoundland)
KEYWORDS: death separation loneliness
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Peacock, pp. 711-714, "She's Like the Swallow" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 140-141, "She's Like the Swallow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 63, "She's Like the Swallow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 83, "She's Like the Swallow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 120, "She's Like the Swallow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 150, "She's Like The Swallow" (1 text)
DT, SWLLOW*
Roud #2306
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best and Pamela Morgan, "She's Like the Swallow" (on NFABestPMorgan01)
Omar Blondahl, "She's Like the Swallow" (on NFOBlondahl05)
NOTES: Fowke observes, "The lines suggest an English origin, and probably they formed part of a longer song [perhaps similar to "The Butcher Boy"?], but the years have polished the fragment that survives until it approaches perfection." - RBW
File: FJ140
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NAME: Shearer and the Swaggie, The
DESCRIPTION: A gun shearer finishes his work, collects his pay, and takes to the road. He meets a swaggie; they camp. In the night, afraid for his pay, he flees at a noise. The swaggie also runs, afraid of the shearer. They meet again and wonder why they are running
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: money rambling hobo sheep
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 147-149, "The Shearer and the Swaggie" (1 tune)
File: MCB147
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NAME: Shearer's Dream
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I dreamt I shore in a shearin'-shed, and it was a dream of joy, For every one of the rouseabouts was a girl dressed up as a boy." He dreams of clean sheep, of a cool, comfortable shed, of happy dances with the girls... and wakes to find it a dream
AUTHOR: attributed to Henry Lawson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: dream work sheep Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 116-117, "The Shearer's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 164-165, "The Shearer's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Henry Lawson published this, but it is not clear from the extant records whether he actually wrote it or just touched it up. It is worth noting that two different tunes are known. - RBW
File: MA116
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NAME: Shearin's Nae for You, The
DESCRIPTION: The girl is urged to "tak the ribbons fae yer hair" or the "flounces frae yer gown," because her "belly's roarin' fu'." She blames the young man (soldier?) for seducing her. He urges her to mind her baby. Other mutual accusations may follow
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Grieg collection)
KEYWORDS: sex seduction childbirth soldier dialog accusation abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, SHEARNAE* SHEARNA2*
Roud #4845
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Alford Vale" (tune)
cf. "Kelvingrove" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Bonnie Lassie O
NOTES: This song supplies the melody for a poem by Thomas Lyle, "Kelvingrove" or "Kelvin Grove," which apparently is sung in the Scottish schools despite being utterly disdained by folksingers.
Lest we be too nasty about Kelvin Grove, we note that the Kelvin Stream (a small river near Glasgow) gave its name to William Thomson, who would in time become Baron Kelvin of Largs (commonly called Lord Kelvin). The Kelvin temperature scale of course is named after him.
And well deserved, because -- while Kelvin did not invent thermodynamics (depending on how you look at things, either Sadi Carnot or James Joule did that, depending on how you look at it), he expanded on Joule's work and made it a part of the standard physics. Which is extremely important, since thermodynamics is pretty much the basis of all of physics (e.g. the inverse square law governing gravity and electromagnetism follows from the first law of thermodynamics -- think of a source giving off a pulse of gravity waves, which expand along the surface of the sphere. Since the total energy must be constant, and the surface area of a sphere increases according to the square of the radius, the potential must decrease with the square of the radius.)
So, anyway, though Kelvingrove the poem is unmemorable, Kelvin the place has a noble niche in the history of science. - RBW
File: RcShNaYo
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NAME: Shearing at the Castlereigh
DESCRIPTION: "The bells are set a-ringing and the engine gives a toot, There are five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot." The shearers are reminded that London depends on Castlereigh wool. The boss complains that the shearers were "born to swing a pick"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: work boss sheep Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 275, "Shearing at the Castlereigh" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA275
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NAME: Sheath and Knife [Child 16]
DESCRIPTION: The princess (Jeannie) is pregnant by her brother. Rather than reveal the truth, the two leave for the greenwood, where he shoots here and buries her "with their bairn at her feet." He returns home, but even the joys of royalty cannot console him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1796 (Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: murder incest pregnancy burial mourning royalty
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 16, "Sheath and Knife" (6 texts)
Bronson 16, "Sheath and Knife" (2 versions)
DT 16, SHEATHKF* SHTHKNF2 SHTHKNF3
Roud #3960
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Leesome Brand" [Child 15] (lyrics about the "sheathe and knife)
cf. "The Bonnie Hind" [Child 50] (plot, lyrics)
NOTES: On the scientific evidence that brothers and sisters raised apart are particularly likely to fall in love, and some further speculation as to why, see the notes to "Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [Child 14]." - RBW
File: C016
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NAME: Sheelicks
DESCRIPTION: About a riotous wedding, attended by all whether invited or not, at McGinty's. A tailor with a wooden leg loses it in mid-dance; a cyclist is carried home in a wheelbarrow; a man comes with a hundred pounds, goes home with nothing. Plus the food is bad.
AUTHOR: George Bruce Thomson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Grieg)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of a riotous wedding, attended by all whether invited or not, at McGinty's Meal and Ale. Mrs. McGinty trips over a pig; a tailor with a wooden leg loses it in mid-dance; a bicyclist is carried home in a wheelbarrow; another man comes with a hundred pounds, goes home with nothing. The food is bad, besides. Chorus: "Hi, hi, went the drum! Diddle, diddle, went the fiddle/.../And the jing-a-ring went roond aboot like sheelicks in a riddle"
KEYWORDS: disability wedding dancing drink food party humorous animal
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 109, "Sheelicks" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MEALNAL2*
Roud #2518
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blythesome Bridal" (theme) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
McGinty's Wedding
NOTES: [MacColl & Seeger's] informant, Maggie McPhee, has evidently transplanted bits of another Thompson piece, "McGinty's Meal and Ale", into "Sheelicks." His compositions evidently entered tradition around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, as Greig collected them from informants over a wide area. "Sheelicks", by the way, are husked grain; a riddle is a sieve. - PJS
File: McCST109
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NAME: Sheep Shell Corn by the Rattle of His Horn
DESCRIPTION: "Sheep shell corn by the rattle of his horn, blow, horn, blow, Send to the mill by the whippoorwill." "O! blow your horn, blow, horn, blow" (x2) Verses about life at corn-shucking time and a desire to have done for the day.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: work food animal
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 196, "Sheep Shell Corn by the Rattle of His Horn" (1 text plus 1 fragment and a mention of 1 more)
File: Br3196
===
NAME: Sheep Stealer, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer goes out in "the night when the moon do shine bright, There's a number of work to be done ... on another man's ground." He steals sheep and takes them home to be butchered by his children while he stands guard against the constable.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (ENMacCollSeeger02)
KEYWORDS: sheep children thief theft
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, SHPSTEAL
RECORDINGS:
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "The Sheep Stealer" (on ENMacCollSeeger02)
NOTES: From ENMacCollSeeger02 album cover notes: "H.E.D. Hammond recorded two Dorset sets of this curious song in 1905 and 1906." - BS
File: RcTShSte
===
NAME: Sheep-Shearing, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer praises sheep and shearing. The singer laments that the sheep must be sheared in the June heat. In some versions, the singer tells of the master's demands for more wool. The song ends "when all our work is done" and the crew goes celebrating
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1760
KEYWORDS: work nonballad sheep drink
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Sharp-100E 95, "The Sheep Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 267, "The Black Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SHEEPSHR SHEEPSH2*
Roud #879
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sweet Nightingale" (tune)
NOTES: "The Sweet Nightingale", with which this song shares a tune, is not to be confused with "One Morning in May". -PJS
File: ShH95
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NAME: Sheepcrook and Black Dog
DESCRIPTION: The singer asks the girl to marry him. She says she is too young; she will work for a fine lady for a time. Later she writes to him to say that she is happy where she is and does not wish to wed a shepherd. He abandons his work and its tools
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1775 (broadside, "The Constant Shepherd and the Unconstant Shepherdess")
KEYWORDS: love betrayal work servant shepherd youth
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England), Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
SHenry H30a, p. 390, "My Flora and I" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 70, "Sheep-Crook and Black Dog" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 480-481, "My Flora and Me" (1 text plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 58, "Floro" (1 text, 3 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 82, "The Young Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #948
RECORDINGS:
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "Sheepcrook and Black Dog" (on ENMacCollSeeger02)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Fine Laurel
The Unkind Shepherdess
File: HHH030a
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NAME: Sheepfold, The
DESCRIPTION: "Whilst tyrants grasp with greedy aim ... As Friends of Freedom we aspire The Rights of Man for to require." Holy scripture tells "that all men shall be one sheepfold and under one great master." That time is coming and "we will strive to haste it faster"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (_Paddy's Resource_(New York), according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: nonballad political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 16, "The Sheepfold" (1 text)
NOTES: The discussion of Jesus as Shepherd occupies most of John 10, with the reference to one flock and one shepherd in John 10:16. - RBW
File: Moyl016
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NAME: Sheepskin and Beeswax: see Aunt Jemimah's Plaster (File: R414)
===
NAME: Sheepwasher, The
DESCRIPTION: "When first I took the Western track, 'twas many years ago, No master then stood up so high, no servant stood so low." The singer recalls how he used to have a much better life. He urges ordinary Queenslanders to unite against tyranny
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: Australia hardtimes poverty work
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, p. 138, "The Sheepwasher" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: PASB138
===
NAME: Sheffield 'Prentice Boy, The: see The Sheffield Apprentice [Laws O39] (File: LO39)
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NAME: Sheffield Apprentice, The [Laws O39]
DESCRIPTION: The singer abandons his work in London to go to Holland. His new mistress proposes marriage. He refuses her; he is already engaged. His mistress plants evidence on him and has him condemned as a thief. He bids his Polly farewell and is hanged
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1804
KEYWORDS: travel courting farewell trick lie execution apprentice
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(Scotland,England)
REFERENCES: (19 citations)
Laws O39, "The Sheffield Apprentice"
Belden, pp. 131-132, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 94-96, "In the Town of Oxford" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 55, "The Holland Song"  (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 80, "Way Up in Sofield (or, The Sheffield Apprentice)"; 152, "The Sheffield 'Prentice" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
JHCox 83, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (1 text)
BrownII 120, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (1 text plus 1 excerpt and mention of 1 more)
Chappell-FSRA 80, "The Sheffield Prentice" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 57, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 16, "The Sherfield (sic.) Apprentice" (1 tex t plus mention of 1 more)
SharpAp 97, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (5 texts, 5 tunes)
SHenry H31, p. 411, "The 'Prentice Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 192-194, "The Sheffield 'Prentice Boy" ( text)
Ord, pp. 421-422, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 203-206, "The Sheffield Prentice" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 17, "The Sheffield Prentice" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 709-710, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 132, "The Sheffield Apprentice" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
DT 489, SHEFFAPP*
Roud #399
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(23), "Sheffield Apprentice," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Firth b.26(316), Firth b.34(270), Firth b.26(499), Harding B 11(624), Harding B 15(281a), "Sheffield Apprentice"; 2806 c.16(20), Harding B 11(3489), Firth b.34(269), Harding B 25(1763), Harding B 17(282a), Harding B 28(235), Harding B 28(249), Harding B 11(4098), Harding B 11(3490)[a few illegible words], Harding B 15(282a), Harding B 20(127), "[The] Sheffield 'Prentice"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Child Owlet" [Child 291]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Was Brought Up in Cornwall
The Apprentice Boy
NOTES: Compare this story to the biblical tale of Joseph and Potiphar's wife (Genesis 39:1-20) - RBW
File: LO39
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NAME: Sheffield Prentice, The: see The Sheffield Apprentice [Laws O39] (File: LO39)
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NAME: Sheila Nee Iyer
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets Sheila Nee Iyer. She tells him to leave off flattering and go away. He claims he would never prove false. "O had I the wealth of the Orient ... I would robe you in splendour"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection money
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 117, "Sheila Nee Iyer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3108
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Eileen McMahon" (aisling format)
cf. "Granuaile" (aisling format) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sheela na Guira
Sile Ni Ghadhra
NOTES: As in "Lough Erne Shore" and "The Colleen Rue," there is no resolution for the Tunney-StoneFiddle version.
"Sheila Nee Iyer, is surely a brilliant parody of the hedge schoolmaster aisling." (source: _For Want of Education:The origins of the Hedge Schoolmaster songs_ by Julie Henigan - 19.8.99 originally published in Ulster Folklife No 40 (1994): pp 27-38, reproduced at the Musical Traditions site).
Tunney-StoneFiddle, in a chapter titled "Gael meets Greek," writes "In the whole corpus of traditional song couched in the borrowed Bearla [English], there are none to compare with the high-minded effusions of our hedge-school-master poets. These songs are readily recognisable by the plenitude of classical allusions they contain and by the adaptation of the Gaelic assonantal rhyme, used extensively by the Gaelic Aisling poets of the eighteenth century." The songs in that chapter, illustrating his point, are "Lough Erne Shore," "Sheila Nee Iyer," "Colleen Rue" and "The Flower of Gortade"; the most extreme example among those is "Sheila Nee Iyer." - BS
For discussion of aislings, see the notes to "Eileen McMahon" and "Granuaile." For a list of songs in the Index meeting the definition of the Aisling, see "Granuaile."
File: TSF117
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NAME: Shells of the Ocean: see I Never Will Marry [Laws K17] (File: LK17)
===
NAME: Shenandoah
DESCRIPTION: Usually has chorus "Away, you rolling river... Away, we're bound away, across the wide Missouri (world of Misery, etc.)" The basic text seems to have told of the white man who "loved the Indian maiden" but came from a different world and now is returning
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1903 (recording, Minster Singers)
KEYWORDS: shanty courting separation Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (21 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 77, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bone, pp. 104-105, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 83, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 112-114, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 173-178, "Shenandoah" (4 texts, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 140-143]
Sharp-EFC, XI, p. 13, "Shanadar (First version)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Linscott, pp. 148-149, "Shenandoah or The Wide Missouri" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 66-67, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 24, "Shanadore" (1 text)
Mackenzie 105, "Rolling River" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 408, "The Wide Mizzoura" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 41, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 25, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 543-546, "The Wild Miz-zou-rye" (1 text, 1 tune); p. 546, "Shenandoah" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 1, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 314-315, "Shenandoah" (1 text)
Arnett, p. 44, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 17, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 85, "Shenandoah" (1 text)
DT, SHENDOAH*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Shenandoah!" is in Part 2, 7/21/1917.
ST Doe077 (Full)
Roud #324
RECORDINGS:
[Al] Campbell & [Henry] Burr, "Shenandoah" (Columbia A-2300, 1917) (Victor 18327, 1917)
Minster Singers, "Shenandoah" (Victor 61147, n.d., prob. c. 1903)
Paul Robeson, "Shenandoah" (Victor 27430, 1941)
Pete Seeger, "Shenandoah" (on PeteSeeger18)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Shanadar" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
World of Misery
Across the Wide Missouri
The Rolling River
NOTES: Bone reports, "I have never heard this song sung at other duty than weighing anchor.... The very beauty of the air has even curbed the license of wild singers in the text. No bawdy lines, no plaint of mistreatment, no blasphemous exhortations were ranted in the singing of it." - RBW
File: Doe077
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NAME: Shenandoah (II)
DESCRIPTION: Capstan shanty. "Oh, Shenandoh, my bully boy, I long to hear you holler, Way-ay, ay ay ay, Shenandoh. I lub ter bring er tot er tum en see ye make a swoller, Way-ay..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (F.T. Bullen &  W.F. Arnold, _Songs of Sea Labor_)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: South America
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p. 177, "Shenandoah" (1 text, 1 tune-quoted from Bullen) [AbEd, p. 144]
Roud #324
NOTES: According to Hugill, this was a Negro shanty, but not used so much as sea as when heaving at the winches when working cargo. Bullen collected it in Georgetown, Demerara, South Africa. - SL
File: Hugi177
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NAME: Shenandoah, The: see The Gals O' Dublin Town (File: Hugi140)
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NAME: Shepherd Boy, The (David and Goliath)
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams and sees a shepherd boy. The boy, David, is leaving his flock to go to the camp of Israel as they fight the Philistines. David kills Goliath with his sling. The singer drinks the health of the shepherd boy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: Bible fight soldier
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H803, p. 79, "The Shepherd Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5667
NOTES: The story of David and Goliath (actually *two* stories, carefully blended together, in one of which David is Saul's aide/court musician and in another he is a shepherd visiting the battle) is found in 1 Samuel 17.
This is reported to have originated as a Masonic song, but Moulden reports it is now sung by Orangemen, doubtless because of its theme of the small holding off the big and powerful. - RBW
File: HHH803
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NAME: Shepherd Lad o' Rhynie, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come ye, oh come, my bonnie lass, We'll both join hands and marry." The girl wishes she could, but her father "keeps me under guard." Unable to win the girl, he jumps off a cliff in Rhynie. She dies for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting suicide death father
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 466-467, "The Shepherd Lad o' Rhynie" (1 text)
Roud #5152
File: Ord466
===
NAME: Shepherd Laddie, The: see The Crook and Plaid (File: HHH617)
===
NAME: Shepherd on the Hill, The
DESCRIPTION: "Whaur Gairn's bonnie mountain strea Fa's into winding Dee, Aft 'mang the shady birks we've met, My shepherd lad and me." He sets out to meet her on a cold winter's night, but never appears. At last his frozen body is found.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love courting death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 293-294, "The Shepherd on the Hill" (1 text)
Roud #5646
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte)" [Laws G17] (theme)
File: FVS293
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NAME: Shepherd, O Shepherd: see O Shepherd, O Shepherd (File: VWL074)
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NAME: Shepherd, The: see The Young Shepherd (I) (File: CrMa108)
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NAME: Shepherd's Daughter and the King: see The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter [Child 110] (File: C110)
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NAME: Shepherd's Daughter, The: see The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter [Child 112] (File: C110)
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NAME: Shepherd's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: A (shepherd) and a young girl meet on a May morning. He wishes to marry, but she is too young and wishes to work as a servant. After she has left to go into the lady's service, he writes to ask her intent. She says that she never intended to marry him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1767 (Journal from the Vaughn)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation apprentice servant youth floatingverses
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 227-228, "The Shepherd's Lament" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Green Bushes [Laws P2]" (theme, floating lyrics)
NOTES: This song consists almost entirely of floating material, with "The Green Bushes" being perhaps the largest single source (they also have some thematic similarities). But the result, in Huntington's opinion and my own, is a distinct song.
I don't know of any other pure versions, but it has so many traditional elements that I decided to include it in the Index. - RBW
File: SWMS227
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NAME: Shepherd's Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a shepherd and I rise ere the sun is in the skies." The singer describes the hard work caring for, feeding, and selling sheep. If his girl will name the day they'll marry. He warns other shepherds against "fiery liquor" at show or fair.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967 (recording, Willie Scott); c.1906 (according to Yates)
KEYWORDS: commerce work drink nonballad sheep shepherd
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5124
RECORDINGS:
Willie Scott, "The Shepherd's Song" (on Voice20)
NOTES: Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 20" - 15.1.04: "Willie (born 1897) learnt this sometime around 1906 from his brother Tom...." - BS
File: RcTSheSo
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NAME: Shepherd's Wife, The: see O Shepherd, O Shepherd (File: VWL074)
===
NAME: Sherfield Apprentice, The: see The Sheffield Apprentice [Laws O39] (File: LO39)
===
NAME: Sheriff's Sale, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Tis misfortune o'ertook us, and a tale soon did tell; The Sheriff came in our old home for to sell." Mother and sister "prepare to depart from their old cottage door" but are spared: the purchaser of the auctioned home turns out to be a family member.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes help family home police
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 138-140, 255, "The Sheriff's Sale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4983
File: IvDC038
===
NAME: Sherman Cyclone, The [Laws G31]
DESCRIPTION: A great storm sweeps unexpectedly through Sherman, causing extensive damage and some loss of life
AUTHOR: Mattie Carter East
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: storm disaster death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 15, 1896 - The Sherman tornado
FOUND_IN: US(So,SW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws G31, "The Sherman Cyclone"
DT 795, SHERCYCL*
Roud #3260
NOTES: 1896 was apparently a bad year for tornadoes; on May 27 of that year a storm hit Saint Louis, killing 400 and leaving 5000 homeless. - RBW
File: LG31
===
NAME: Sherman's March to the Sea
DESCRIPTION: "Our campfires shone bright on those mountains That frowned on the river below... When a rider came out of the darkness... And shouted... 'Sherman will march to the sea.'" The Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea are briefly retold
AUTHOR: Words: Lt. Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: Civilwar patriotic derivative
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 13-16, 1864 - William T. Sherman attacks J. E. Johnston's army at Resaca on the way from Tennessee to Atlanta. Sherman failed to move Johnston's army, but forced the Confederates to fall back by threatening their supply line
June 27, 1864 - Battle of Kenesaw Mountain. For the first (and only) time in the Atlanta campaign, Sherman tried a direct assault on Johnston's lines. It failed bloodily. Sherman then once again levered Johnston out of his lines by maneuver
(July 17, 1864 - Jefferson Davis relieves Johnston and replaces him with the more aggressive but less competent John Bell Hood. Hood's attacking strategy cost his army severely and by July 25 left him besieged in Atlanta)
Sept 1, 1864 - Hood evacuates Atlanta
Nov 15, 1864 - Sherman splits his army into two parts. One, under Thomas, was to defend Atlanta, while Sherman took nearly 60,000 men on the "March to the Sea"
Dec 10, 1864 - Sherman's forces reach Savannah
Dec 21, 1864 - Sherman captures Savannah
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 248-250, "Sherman's March to the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 206-207, "Sherman's March to the Sea" (1 text)
DT, SHERMSEA*
Roud #17738
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rosin the Beau" (tune) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
When Sherman Marched Down to the Sea
File: SBoA248
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NAME: Shew Me the Way to Wallington: see The Way to Wallington (File: StoR148)
===
NAME: Shew! Fly, Don't Bother Me: see Shoo Fly (File: R273)
===
NAME: Shickered As He Could Be: see Four Nights Drunk [Child 274] (File: C274)
===
NAME: Shilling or Twa (I), A
DESCRIPTION: Describing the blessings of having "a shilling or twa" in the pocket. One can settle troubles, avoid bankruptcy, fool creditors, and also stay happy: "Oh! what a grand thing is a shilling or twa... It's a round ready passport, a shilling or twa."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: money commerce nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 388-389, "A Shilling or Twa" (1 text)
Roud #2177
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Shilling or Twa (II)"
File: Ord388
===
NAME: Shilling or Twa (II), A
DESCRIPTION: Probably derived from "A Shilling or Twa (I)." The singer declares "Awa' wi' your dearies and juice o' the vine... gie me the glint o' a shillin' or twa." He rejects honor and fame; all he wants is "A bonnie, bright siller white shillin' or twa."
AUTHOR: Words: William Fleming
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: money commerce nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 389-390, "A Shilling or Twa" (1 text)
Roud #2178
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Shilling or Twa (I)"
File: Ord389
===
NAME: Shiloh: see Limber Jim (File: BMRF593B)
===
NAME: Shiloh Brown (I): see Shallo Brown (Shallow Brown) (File: Doe044)
===
NAME: Shiloh Brown (II): see Tommy's Gone to Hilo (File: Doe030)
===
NAME: Shinbone Alley (Stay a Little Longer, Long Time Ago)
DESCRIPTION: "You ought to see my blue-eyed Sally, She lives way down in shinbone alley, No number on the gate, no number on the door, Folks around here are gettin' mighty poor."  Unrelated verses about southern life, disasters, prison, rising creeks, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: home hardtimes poverty prison flood
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 422, "Shinbone Alley" (1 fragment)
Roud #11769
RECORDINGS:
cf. Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, "Stay a Little Longer" (Columbia 37097, 1946)
NOTES: The notes in Brown describe this as common, but cite only one possibly-traditional version (in Odum and Johnson).
The problem in fact is very complex: What is the relationship of this traditional song to Bob Wills's "Stay a Little Longer"? The one verifiable traditional collection is Brown's, which came a few years after the Wills recording, but is significantly different -- some lyrics Wills didn't use, added chorus, etc.
Paul Stamler thinks they're the same. I waver, since there are are few printed fragments which seem to predate Wills by many decades. For the moment, I'm still listing this under Brown's title, but listing the Wills version as a likely by-blow or perhaps even a source. - RBW
File: Br3422
===
NAME: Shine and the Titanic (Titanic #14)
DESCRIPTION: Recitation. Shine is aboard the Titanic when the ship hits an iceberg. The captain's daughter asks Shine's help; he says, "Pussy's good... but this is one time I'm gonna save Shine's ass." The captain receives the same reply. Shine survives the wreck
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (recording by anonymous artist)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation. Shine, a black man, is in the hold of the Titanic stacking sacks when the ship hits an iceberg. The captain's daughter asks Shine to save her; he says, "Pussy's good, while it lasts, but this is one time I'm gonna save Shine's ass." The captain offers him money; he gives the same reply. "The last time I seen Shine, he was dead drunk upon a airline"
KEYWORDS: sex request rejection help rescue ship drink disaster wreck recitation worker Black(s)
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 14/15, 1912 - Shortly before midnight, ship's time, the Titanic strikes an iceberg and begins to sink. Only 711 survivors are found of 2224 people believed to have been aboard.
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 213-214, "Shine Reel" (1 fragment, 1 tune, mentioning being "Alabama Bound" but also mentioning some being on a boat that sank, so it might be part of this. Shine -- a name Scarborough connects with [shoe]shine -- is not mentioned by name)
RECORDINGS:
Unidentified reciter, "Shine and the Titanic" (on Unexp1)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Titanic Toast
NOTES: Paul Stamler suggests that the Shine of this song is the same as that of "Po' Shine," "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos," and "Travelin' Man." If so, he had more lives than a cat.
For the record, while Captain Smith of the _Titanic_ did have a daughter, she was born in 1902 (see  Stephanie Barczewski, _Titanic: A Night Remembered_ (Hambledon Continuum, 2004, p. 163), so Shine would have had a significant problem had he touched her. But she wasn't aboard the _Titanic__ anyway. 
According to Wyn Craig Wade, _The Titanic: End of a Dream_ (revised edition, Penguin, 1986), pp. 318-319, this recitation was collected at least 15 times; he cites Sandburg to the effect that Black soldiers knew and recited it in World War I. But Wade also notes that Blacks were generally excluded from the _Titanic_ -- as witness the case of boxer Jim Jeffries, who was denied a place on the ship.
For an extensive history of the _Titanic_, with detailed examination of the truth (or lack thereof) of quotes in the _Titanic_ songs, see the notes to "The Titanic (XV)" ("On the tenth day of April 1912") (Titanic #15) - RBW
File: RcShinTi
===
NAME: Shine Like a Star in the Morning
DESCRIPTION: John hears a voice, "I am Alpha Omega, the first and last/To conquer death in Hell did cast." Terrified, he sees Jesus crucified, falling into Hell, rising again. Chorus: "Shine, shine, shine like a star in the morning... All around the throne of God"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (recording, Joe Lee)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: John is standing alone when a voice tells him, "I am Alpha Omega, the first and last/To conquer death in Hell did cast." Terrified, he has a vision of Jesus crucified, falling into Hell, then rising up again; he says, "God gonna take me from that earthly 'bode." Chorus: "Shine, shine, shine like a star in the morning...All around the throne of God"
KEYWORDS: resurrection death Hell Bible religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Joe Lee, "Shine Like a Star in the Morning" (AFS 745 B4, 1936; on LC10)
NOTES: Most of this is, of course, taken from the Revelation to John (e.g. the reference to the Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, occurs several times in that book, starting with 1:8).
An exception is the concept of the descent into Hell. Though firmly rooted in Catholic tradition, and mentioned in the traditional form of the Apostles' Creed (which is not Apostolic), there is no scriptural reference to such an event (unless you count Ephesians 4:9-11, which I would regard as a reference to the Incarnation, or other passages such as 1 Pet. 3:19, which may refer to proclamations of salvation to the damned). - RBW
File: RcSLaSiM
===
NAME: Shine on Me
DESCRIPTION: "Shine on me, oh shine on me/Let the light from the lighthouse shine on me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 ("Songs and Spirituals", Chicago, Overton-Hygienic Co.)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 76 "Shine On Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10622
RECORDINGS:
Rev. Johnnie Blakey, "Let the Light Shine on Me" (OKeh 8758, 1930; rec. 1928)
Famous Garland Jubilee Singers, "Shine on Me" (Romeo 5135, 1932)
Blind Willie Johnson, "Let Your Light Shine on Me" (Columbia 14490-D, 1930; rec. 1929; on BWJ01, BWJ03)
Ernest Phipps & his Holiness Singers, "Shine on Me" (Bluebird 5540A, 1928; on AAFM2)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Let It Shine On Me
Let the Light From Your Lighthouse Shine On Me
NOTES: Found in both Anglo- and Afro-American tradition. - PJS
File: ADR76
===
NAME: Shining Dagger, The: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
===
NAME: Ship A-Sailing, A
DESCRIPTION: "I saw a ship a-sailing, A-sailing on the sea, And it was deeply laden with pretty things for me. There were comfits in the cabin and almonds in the hold." The sails are satin; the mast, gold; the sailors, white mice; the captain, a duck.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1815 (Family album, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: talltale playparty nonballad ship animal
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Linscott, pp. 284-285, "A Ship A-Sailing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 470, "I saw a ship a-sailing" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #271, p. 163, "(I saw a ship a-sailing)"
ST Lins284 (Partial)
Roud #3742
NOTES: This seems to go back to Halliwell (1852), though Linscott connects it with a game called the "Duck Dance."
Katherine Elwes Thomas evolved the theory that the duck-Captain was Sir Francis Drake, while the "four-and-twenty white mice with chains about their necks" were slaves. I'd be more inclined to believe it if Thomas could bridge the more than two century gap between the actual song and the events it allegedly describes. - RBW
File: Lins284
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NAME: Ship Came Sailing, A: see Waly Waly (The Water is Wide) (File: K149)
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NAME: Ship Carpenter, The: see The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (The Gosport Tragedy; Pretty Polly) [Laws P36A/B] (File: LP36)
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NAME: Ship Carpenter's Wife, The: see Sale of a Wife (File: HHH226)
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NAME: Ship Euphrasia, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all Christian people who do intend To know God's laws and his rights defend...." The singer tells of setting sail on a whaler, describes the horrid, rotten food, and complains of the isolation of the captain
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1849 (Journal from the Euphrasia)
KEYWORDS: whaler ship food hardtimes
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 47-49, "The Ship Euphrasia" ( text)
Roud #2013
File: SWMS047
===
NAME: Ship in Distress, The
DESCRIPTION: Sailors on a becalmed ship suffer starvation. They cast lots to determine which of them shall die to feed the rest. The one who is chosen asks that a sentry climb the topmast to search for aid while he prays. A ship is sighted and they are rescued. 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (and 19th century broadsheets)
KEYWORDS: ship disaster cannibalism reprieve rescue starvation sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Sharp-100E 90, "The Ship in Distress" (1 text, 1 tune)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 96, "The Ship in Distress" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SHPDSTRS*
Roud #807
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Nau Catarineta" (Portuguese)
cf. "La Courte Paille" (French) (plot)
cf. "Little Boy Billee (Le Petite Navire, The Little Corvette)" (plot)
cf. "The Silk Merchant's Daughter (I)" [Laws N10] (plot)
cf. "The Banks of Newfoundland (II)" (plot)
cf. "The American Aginora" (plot)
File: ShH90
===
NAME: Ship Lady Sherbroke, The: see The Wreck of the Lady Shearbrooke (File: HHH570)
===
NAME: Ship Lord Wolseley, The
DESCRIPTION: The ship leaves Belfast for Philadelphia on the 18th of January under Cap'n James Dunn. Song describes several ports and storms and constantly makes references to the bravery and steadfastness of the crew and officers.
AUTHOR: Wm. R.B. Dawson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: ship foc's'le sailor
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 181-183, "The Ship Lord Wolseley" (1 text, sung to "Yankee Man-of-War")
Roud #9149
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Man-of-War" [probably the song indexed as "The British Man-of-War"] (tune)
NOTES: Harlow says that the author Dawson was bo'sun on the _Lord Wolseley_ when he wrote this.
_Lord Wolseley_ was a four masted ship built in 1883 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. She was sold and renamed several times, as _Columbia_, _Everett G. Griggs_, _Wolseley_ (again) before being broken up and used for parts in 1928. - SL
I have to admit I find the name of the ship pretty ironic. Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913) was not a navy man but a soldier all his life, fighting in the Crimean War and thirty years of colonial wars before becoming army Commander in Chief in 1895. He was made a viscount in 1883 after winning the battle of Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt (1882). His most famous moment, perhaps, came two years later, when he tried and failed to rescue Gordon from Khartoum -- a rescue that might have succeeded had he understood river transport better. - RBW
File: Harl181
===
NAME: Ship of Zion (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "What is this ship you're going on board, oh, glory hallelujah (x2)? 'Tis the Old Ship Zion, hallelujah (x4) What colors does she hoist in time of war? oh, glory hallelujah (x2)? 'Tis the bloody robe of Jesus, hallelujah (x4)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1868
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MA,SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 623, "The Old Ship of Zion" (3 texts, of which "A" is clearly "The Old Ship of Zion (I)" but B is an unidentifiable fragment; C, with references to India and the Ganges, may be a separate piece)
FSCatskills 83, "The Ship of Zion" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 366, "Old Ship of Zion" (1 text)
ST FSC083 (Partial)
Roud #4204
RECORDINGS:
McFadden Gospel Singers, "Old Ship of Zion" (Coleman 5976, n.d.)
NOTES: In the Sacred Harp, the tune to this is said tentatively to be by Thomas W. Carter.
White reports a whole class of "Ship of Zion" songs, not all of which can easily be distinguished. I've split off some with clear personalities, but some just have to be lumped here. - RBW
File: FSC083
===
NAME: Ship Rambolee, The: see The Loss of the Ramillies [Laws K1]
 (File: LK01)
===
NAME: Ship That Is Passing By, The
DESCRIPTION: "I once had a father but now I have none, He's gone to that beautiful home. O Lord, let me sail on that beautiful ship, The ship that is passing by. The days seem so sad and the night seems so long And I am so lonely here." Similarly mother, brother, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad family
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 316, p. 191, "The Ship That Is Passing By" (1 text)
Roud #4303
File: CW191
===
NAME: Ship That Never Came, The: see The Gentle Boy (Why Don't Father's Ship Come In) (File: GrMa113)
===
NAME: Ship That Never Returned, The [Laws D27]
DESCRIPTION: A ship is preparing to sail. The lives of several of the passengers, their reasons for leaving, and their farewells to family and/or sweethearts are briefly described. But the ship disappears at sea, apparently with all hands
AUTHOR: Henry Clay Work
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: sea farewell wreck disaster
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws D27,"The Ship that Never Returned"
Randolph 690, "The Ship that Never Returned" (2 texts)
BrownII 25, "The Ship That Never Returned" (1 text plus mention of 10 more as well as a pair of offshoots)
Sandburg, pp. 146-147, "The Ship That Never Returned" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 92-93, "The Ship That Never Returned" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 138, "The Ship that Never Returned" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 142-143, "The Ship That Never Returned" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 186-187, "The Ship That Never Returned" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 268, "The Ship That Never Returned" (1 text)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 197-226, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (6 texts plus excerpts, 1 tune, plus a sheet music cover and sundry excerpts from related songs including a text of "The Ship That Never Returned)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 482, "The Ship That Never Returned" (source notes only)
DT 618, NVRETURN* NVRETUR2*
Roud #775
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "The Ship That Never Returned" (on NFOBlondahl03)
Vernon Dalhart, "The Ship That Never Returned" (Gennett 3311, 1926)
Bradley Kincaid, "The Ship That Never Returned" (Bluebird 5569, 1934)
Asa Martin, "The Ship That Never Returned" (Oriole 8163/Conqueror 8068 [as Martin & Roberts], 1932)
Roe Bros. & Morrell, "The Ship That Never Returned" (Columbia 15156-D, 1927)
Charles Lewis Stine, "The Ship That Never Returned" (Columbia 15027-D, 1925)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 1518, "The Ship That Never Returned," T. Brooks (Bristol), n.d.
LOCSheet, sm1885 21919, "The Ship That Never Returned," S. Brainard's. Sons (Cleveland), 1885 (tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Train that Never Returned" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Wreck of Old 97" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Rarden Wreck of 1893" (tune & metre)
cf. "The Flying Colonel" (tune)
cf. "M.T.A." (tune)
cf. "Lovers Parted" (tune, lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
The Train That Never Returned (File: R694)
The Wreck of Old 97 [Laws G2] (File: LG02)
The Rarden Wreck of 1893 (File: DarNS215)
The Flying Colonel (File: EM404)
Lovers Parted (File: BrII215A)
Vernon Dalhart, "The Airship That Never Returned" (Columbia 15162-D, 1927)
Ernest Stoneman, "The Face That Never Returned" (OKeh, unissued, 1924) (OKeh 40288, 1925) [probably this tune, though we haven't been able to check]
NOTES: This may be the best-selling tune of all time in terms of fraction of the population which experienced it; "The Ship that Never Returned" was a hit in sheet music, and "The Wreck of Old 97" and "M.T.A." (which also uses the tune) were hits on record. Sadly, Work made only a little money off the piece. - RBW
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 "The Ship That Never Returned" in _Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index_ by Paul Mercer. - BS
File: LD27
===
NAME: Ship to Old England Came, A
DESCRIPTION: With 50 guns and 500 men an English warship meets five French men-of-war. Aloft, the cabin boy sees three English ships -- Oak, Sloe, and Unity -- that join the battle and "quickly made those French dogs flee"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974 (recording, Walter Pardon)
KEYWORDS: battle navy England France
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1424
RECORDINGS:
Walter Pardon, "A Ship to Old England Came" (on Voice02)
File: RcasTOEC
===
NAME: Ship's Carpenter, The: see The Daemon Lover (The House Carpenter) [Child 243] (File: C243)
===
NAME: Ship's in the Harbor, The: see Teasing Songs (File: EM256)
===
NAME: Shipwreck, The: see The Streams of Lovely Nancy (File: VWL098)
===
NAME: Shirt and the Apron, The [Laws K42]
DESCRIPTION: The sailor comes to shore and meets a girl who takes him to a dance, then to supper, then to bed. He awakens in the morning to find both his money and his clothes gone. He is forced to return to his ship in women's clothing -- to the amusement of the crew
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: sex robbery dancing clothes whore
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws K42, "The Shirt and the Apron"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 112, "The Shirt and the Apron" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 105, "Barrack Street" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 376-377, "Jack-All-Alone" (1 text) [AbEd, pp. 283-285 as "The New York Gals"]
JHJohnson, pp. 70-71, "The Shirt and the Apron" (1 text)
DT 418, PETERST
Roud #1902
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Gold Watch" [Laws K41] (plot) and references there
cf. "The Beggar Wench"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Jack-All-Alone
Peter Street
The Shift and the Apron
Patrick Street
File: LK42
===
NAME: Shirt I Left Behind, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer quits Dan McCann's lodgings but leaves his shirt. McCann's daughter tells him to retrieve it. That night, drunk, he sees the shirt coming down the street, hit it with a brick, and kills McCann's daughter who was in it. He is fined ten quid.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: murder clothes drink humorous derivative
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 64, "The Shirt I Left Behind" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Girl I Left Behind Me (II - lyric)" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Maybe it needs to be sung to be "humorous." [Alternately, maybe one needed to know McCann and/or his daughter? Perhaps there is a reason the song is not widely known.... - RBW] The parody is only in the tune and "the shirt I left behind me" end of each verse. - BS
File: McB1064
===
NAME: Shirt of Lace, The: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
===
NAME: Shivering in the Cold
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls his parents, his wife, his children, his money -- all lost because of drink. He yearns to be free of his burden. Chorus: "Yes alone, all alone, And I feel I'm growing old, Yet I wander, oh how lonely, And I'm shivering in the cold."
AUTHOR: Mrs. Knowles Shaw
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Harvest Bells Songbook)
KEYWORDS: drink poverty captivity
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 327, "Shivering in the Cold" (2 texts)
BrownIII 31, "I'm Alone, All Alone" (1 text plus 1 excerpt and mention of 1 more)
Roud #7801
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm Alone, All Alone (I)" (theme)
File: R327
===
NAME: Shock Along, John
DESCRIPTION: Described as "A corn-song, of which only the burden is remembered": "Shock along, John, shock along; Shock along, John, shock along."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Allen/Ware/Garrison, "Slave Songs of the United States")
KEYWORDS: work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 906, "Shock Along, John" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12024
File: BAF906
===
NAME: Shoemaker (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "Make my Kate a pair of shoes, Make 'em out of the best of leather, I'll peg 'em well and stitch 'em tight (or: "Draw 'em around the firey side") And then they'll last forever." The singer seeks, by the making of shoes, to bind Kate to him (?)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: work courting clothes
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 566, "The Shoemaker" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
JHCox 171, "The Cobbler's Boy" (1 text)
SHenry H551, p. 40, "The Cobbler" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 100, "The Shoemaker" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT, COBBLR*
Roud #837
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shoemaker's Kiss"
NOTES: This may be a byblow of "The Shoemaker's Kiss"; there are common elements. But if so, the degree of sanitizing is so extreme that they can be counted as separate songs. - RBW
The entry in SharpAp is fragmentary and almost devoid of plot, but it mentions Kate, so I put it here. - PJS
File: R566
===
NAME: Shoemaker (II) The: see The Shoemaker's Kiss (File: KinBB15)
===
NAME: Shoemaker (III), The
DESCRIPTION: "My mother sent me to the school To learn to be a stocking-knitter, But I went wrang and played the fool And married with a shoemaker."  She complains of his looks, his tools, his stink, and the miserable life she leads: "Who would have a shoemaker?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: work marriage warning
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 114-115, "The Shoemakker" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR114 (Partial)
Roud #3152
NOTES: In a number of versions of this song, including Stokoe's, the man's occupation is "shoemakker" (double k). This appears to be an attempt to show that the "a" is pronounced short -- he "maks" shoes, rather than "makes" them. - RBW
File: StoR114
===
NAME: Shoemaker's Kiss, The
DESCRIPTION: The girl comes to the shoemaker and requests a pair of shoes. He thereupon "fits" the girl. (Forty) weeks later she brings forth a son. When mother asks where the boy came from, she says "the shoemaker's kiss."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: sex clothes pregnancy childbirth children
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(South))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kinloch-BBook XV, pp. 55-57, "The Shoemaker" (1 text)
DT, SHOEKISS*
Roud #3807
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Trooper Watering His Nag" (chorus lyrics)
cf. "The Shoemaker (I)"
NOTES: The "other" shoemaker song ("The Shoemaker (I)") has some elements in common with this song, and may be distantly related. But if so, there has been an extreme degree of sanitation in between.
Roud lumps this with "A Kiss in the Morning Early," which is also about relations between a girl and a shoemaker -- but the latter does not involve pregnancy. - RBW
File: KinBB15
===
NAME: Shoemaker's Son, The
DESCRIPTION: "Young Jimmy was a shoemaker's son, And through this country his bread he won. Her father was of high degree, He was captain over some ships on the sea."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: love courting father
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 193, "The Shoemaker's Son" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This is clearly a fragment of a longer ballad (probably telling of the father's opposition to the young people's marriage), but without a longer version, we can't tell much about it. - RBW
File: MA193
===
NAME: Shoo Fly
DESCRIPTION:  "I think I hear the angels sing (x3), The angels now are on the wing. I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star (x2)." "Shoo fly, don't bother me (x3), For I just been on a merry spree." (or "belong to Company G," or the like).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: nonballad nonsense playparty religious
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 273, "Shoo Fly" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 190-193, "Shew! Fly, Don't Bother Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 55-56, "Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me" (1 fragmentary text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 200, (no title) (1 fragment, the "Company G" version)
Silber-FSWB, p. 388, "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me" (1 text)
ST R273 (Full)
Roud #3433
RECORDINGS:
Uncle Dave Macon, "Sho' Fly Don't Bother Me" (Vocalion 5010, 1926)
Pete Seeger, "Shoo Fly" (on PeteSeeger33, PeteSeegerCD03)
Jimmy Yates' Boll Weevils, "Shoo Fly!" (Victor 21753, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blue-Tail Fly" [Laws I19] (chorus lyrics)
NOTES: Variously attributed. The 1869 sheet credits the words to  Billy Reeves and the music to Frank Campbell. Another 1869 publication gives the author as Thomas Brigham Bishop. The latter, published by Bishop himself, claims that the piece comes from "the negro farce the 'Cook.'" The corroborative evidence for the claims is thin. - RBW
File: R273
===
NAME: Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me: see Shoo Fly (File: R273)
===
NAME: Shoo, Shoo, Shoo-lye: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Shoofly, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees an old woman lamenting, "Ochone! sure I'm nearly distracted! For it's down by the Shoofly they cut a bad vein...." With all the local mines closed, she and her family are in debt and out of work. She can only hope conditions improve
AUTHOR: Felix O'Hare
EARLIEST_DATE: 1949
KEYWORDS: hardtimes mining
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1871 - Closing of the mine at Valley Furnace (in the Schuylkill Valley). The Shoofly colliery closed at about the same time.
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 276-278, "The Shoofly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7720
File: SBoA276
===
NAME: Shoot the Buffalo
DESCRIPTION: Playparty/dance tune: "And it's ladies to the center and it's gents around the row, And we'll rally round the canebrake and shoot the buffalo." Tales of courting and spitting tobacco
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (JAFL 24)
KEYWORDS: playparty dancing animal nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Randolph 523, "Shoot the Buffalo" (2 texts plus 4 excerpts, 1 tune)
Hudson 149, pp. 297-298, "Shoot the Buffalo" (1 text)
Fuson, p. 165, "Chase the Buffalo" (1 text)
SharpAp 262, "Chase the Buffalo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 32, "Shoot the Buffalo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 296-297, "Shoot the Buffalo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 98, "Shoot the Buffalo" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 96, "Shoot the Buffalo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 563, "We'll Hunt the Buffalo!" (1 text, 1 tune, with the chorus of "Shoot the Buffalo" and lyrics from "The Lovely Ohio")
Roud #3644
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Hunt the Buffalo
File: R523
===
NAME: Shoot the Buffalo (II), The: see Lovely Ohio, The (File: LoF039)
===
NAME: Shoot Your Dice and Have Your Fun
DESCRIPTION: "Shoot your dice and have your fun, I'll have mine when the police come. Police come, I didn't want to go; I knocked him in the head wid a forty-fo'."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: gambling police
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 51, "Shoot Your Dice and Have Your Fun" (1 short text)
Roud #7853
File: Br3051
===
NAME: Shootin' Creek: see Cripple Creek (I) (File: San320)
===
NAME: Shooting Goschen's Cocks Up: see Row-Dow-Dow (File: K354)
===
NAME: Shooting of Bailey the Alleged Informer, The
DESCRIPTION: Bailey informs in December about concealed arms. Those he informed on are now in jail. "On Saturday night he met his fate All by a pistol volley, By some one unknown, who did him hate, Down in Skipper's Alley." "Mind what you say." Don't be an informer.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1882 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: warning betrayal murder prison revenge
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 25, 1882 - Bernard Bailey shot dead in Dublin (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 82, "A New Song on the Shooting of Bailey the Alleged Informer" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 19(148), "A New Song on the Shooting of Bailey the 'Alleged informer'," unknown, n.d.
NOTES: Zimmermann: No arrest was made. The Irish Republican Brotherhood is assumed behind the killing. - BS
One of the reasons for British success in Ireland was that the Irish never had any weapons. In the 1798, the British often found one or two pieces of artillery sufficient to disperse a force of rebels, who would have only a few muskets and little ammunition for what they had. As late as 1916 and the Casemate Affair, Irish nationalists were still trying to smuggle in guns. Naturally they were not too happy with people who cost them any part of their small collections. - RBW
File: Zimm082
===
NAME: Shooting of His Dear: see Molly Bawn (Shooting of His Dear) [Laws O36] (File: LO36)
===
NAME: Shooting of the Bawks, The
DESCRIPTION: The narrator protests a law against killing bawks during the summer when they are most plentiful. He wonders how he is going to feed his family and sarcastically conjectures that the authorities will now provide the people with meat.
AUTHOR: A.R. Scammell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: recitation law bird hunting
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doyle2, p. 79, "The Shooting of the Bawks" (1 text)
Roud #7309
NOTES: The author, Arthur Reginald Scammell, has written many poems, songs and even stories with Newfoundland themes. One of his more famous songs is "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground." Some collections of his works include: _My Newfoundland: Stories, Poems, Songs_ (St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications, 1988) and _Newfoundland Echoes_ (St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications, 1988). _Collected Works of A. R. Scammell_ was also published by Harry Cuff in 1990.
Although I haven't been able to find the exact equivalent for the "bawk" it can be gathered from the song that it is a seabird present only in summer. Other birds mentioned are the "tur" which is related to the auk, "noddy" which is a kind of tern or small gull and tickleace which is another kind of gull. The poem gives instructions to sing it to the tune of "The Wearin' o' the Green." - SH
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary lists "bawk" as a Newfoundlander term, of unknown origin, for the Greater Shearwater. The Greater Shearwater is a fairly large bird which often occurs in flocks and frequently follows ships; they are therefore tempting targets. They breed in November-January in the Tristan da Cunha islands (far down in the south Atlantic, at about the latitude of Buenos Aires but roughly half way between Africa and South America), then spend the North American summer months off the American east coast. - PJS, RBW
I do not know the reason for the Canadian ban on shooting bawks, but as their breeding grounds are small and under threat by man, and their summer feeding grounds are being heavily fished, I suspect it is to protect the species. - RBW
File: Doy079
===
NAME: Shooting Star, The
DESCRIPTION: A Halifax policeman is murdered on board of the Shooting Star. He has a summons for the captain but sailor Burdell stabs him. The captain and ship get away but "they caught Burdel at Boston and gave him fourteen years"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Smith/Hatt)
KEYWORDS: murder prison ship police sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Smith/Hatt, pp. 74-75, "The Shooting Star" (1 text)
Roud #1973
NOTES: "The affair of the 'Shooting Star' took place in Halifax, November 1861. Policeman's name was Gardner ... stabbed by Edgar Burdell.... vessel ... ran ashore below George's Island & Burdell was arrested." (Source: Smith/Hatt) - BS
File: SmHa074
===
NAME: Shore Around the Grog: see Shove Around the Grog (File: FSC175)
===
NAME: Shores of Botany Bay, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I'm on my way down to the quay, Where a big ship now does lay...." When the singer's boss tells him he will have to work harder to keep his job, Pat gives it up and heads for Australia. He rejoices to get away from brickwork. 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: work Australia emigration
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 271-272, "The Shores of Botany Bay" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA271
===
NAME: Shores of Sweet Kenbane, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer rambles out and sits down to look at Kenbane. He will set his slight skills to the task of praising it. He describes the birds, fish, shores, castle, etc. In one cottage dwells a beautiful girl; he blesses the day he found her and Kenbane
AUTHOR: Dan White?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love home rambling
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H648, p. 167, "The Shores of Sweet Kenbane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13479
File: HHH648
===
NAME: Short Jacket: see The Maid in Sorrow (Short Jacket) [Laws N12] (File: LN12)
===
NAME: Short Jacket and White Trousers: see The Maid in Sorrow (Short Jacket) [Laws N12] (File: LN12)
===
NAME: Short Life of Trouble
DESCRIPTION: "Short life of trouble, A few more words apart, A short life of trouble, dear girl, For a boy with a broken heart." The singer reminds the girl that she promised to marry him. He takes the train out of town and/or hopes the grave will be his home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (recording, Burnett & Rutherford)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal death
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 127, "Pass the Drunkard By" (1 text, with a first verse in which the girl describes Mama's advice against drunkards but otherwise like the usual versions)
ST RcSLOT (Full)
Roud #3418
RECORDINGS:
Emry Arthur, "Short Life of Trouble" (Paramount 3290, 1931)
[Clarence] Ashley & [Gwen] Foster, "Short Life of Trouble" (Perfect 12800/Conqueror 8149, 1932)
Blue Sky Boys, "Short Life of Trouble" (Bluebird B-8829, 1941)
Burnett & Rutherford, "A Short Life of Trouble" (Columbia 15133-D, 1927 (rec. 1926); on BurnRuth01)
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Short Life of Trouble" (Victor V-40105, 1928; on GraysonWhitter01, LostProv1)
Buell Kazee, "Short Life of Trouble" (Brunswick 214, 1928)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers (or Wade Mainer), "Short Life and It's Trouble" (Bluebird B-6936, 1937)
Riley Puckett, "Short Life of Trouble" (Decca 5442, 1937)
Doc Watson & Arnold Watson, "A Short Life of Trouble" (on WatsonAshley01)
File: RcSLOT
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NAME: Short'nin' Bread: see Shortenin' Bread (File: R255)
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NAME: Shortenin' Bread
DESCRIPTION: The mother will make shortening bread. Its benefits, and the extent to which children like it, may be described. (The singer steals the skillet and the bread, and winds up in jail and faced with a fine.) Often in dialect, with assorted floating verses
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (JAFL 28)
KEYWORDS: food prison robbery
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Randolph 255, "Shortenin' Bread" (2 texts, 1 tune)
BrownIII 461, "Short'nin' Bread" (2 texts plus 7 fragments and 1 excerpt; some of the fragments, especially "I," may be associated with some other song)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 149-153, "Short'nin Bread," "Short'nin' Bread," (no title), "Put on the Skillet" (4 texts plus some odds and ends, 3 tunes; it's possible that some of the fragments are something else)
Lomax-FSNA 267, "Shortenin' Bread" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 234-236, "Shortenin' Bread" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, p. 160, "(Shortnin' Bread)" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 497-498+, "Short'nin' Bread"
Roud #4209
RECORDINGS:
Cherokee Ramblers, "Shortenin' Bread" (Decca 5162, 1935)
Emma Jane Davis, "Shortenin' Bread" (AFS 6644 A1, 1942)
Dykes Magic City Trio, "Shortening Bread" (Brunswick 125, 1927)
Ora Dell Graham, "Shortenin' Bread" (AFS, 1940; on LCTreas)
Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers, "Shortenin' Bread" (OKeh 45112, 1927)
Bobby Leecan's Need-More Band, "Shortnin' Bread" (Victor 20853, 1927)
Reaves White County Ramblers, "Shortening Bread" (Vocalion 5218, 1928; on TimesAint05)
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, "Shortening Bread" (Columbia 15123-D, 1927; rec. 1926)
Conrad Thibaud, "Shortnin' Bread" (Victor 24404, 1933)
Tweedy Brothers, "Shortenin' Bread" (Supertone 9174, 1928)
Henry Whitter, "Hop Light Ladies and Shortenin' Bread" (OKeh 40064, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Run, Nigger, Run" (tune)
NOTES: Fuld reports that this tune appeared in 1915 (E. C. Perrow in the April-June 1915 JAF) under the title "Shortened Bread." Words and music first appear together in Scarborough, 1925, but are probably older. - RBW
File: R255
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NAME: Shorty George
DESCRIPTION: "Shorty George, he ain't no friend of mine... Taken all de women an' leave de men behind." (The singer goes bad as an orphan child. He finds a girl, but they go separate ways.) He learns his girl/mother is sick and arrives for her sad funeral
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (recording, James "Iron Head" Baker)
KEYWORDS: orphan love death burial mother prison prisoner train
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 23, "Shorty George" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 199-201, "Shorty George" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 79, "Shorty George" (1 text)
DT, SHORTGEO SHORTGE2*
Roud #10055
RECORDINGS:
James "Iron Head" Baker, "Shorty George" (AFS 210B, 1933) (AFS 202 A2, 1934; on LC53)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "He Was a Friend of Mine"
NOTES: "Shorty George" is reported to be the name of the train that carried convicts' wives and sweethearts to and from the penitentiary for conjugal visits. - PJS, RBW
File: LxU023
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NAME: Shot My Pistol in de Heart of Town
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Lawd, Shot my pistol In de heart of town. Lawd, de big chief hollered, 'Doncha blow me down.'" The singer (?) looks for his girls who "lef' here runnin'." He describes his love of cards. The story is not coherent
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Odum & Johnson)
KEYWORDS: cards separation
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 52-53, "Shot My Pistol in de Heart of Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15570
File: LxA052
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NAME: Shout Along and Pray Along
DESCRIPTION: "Shout along and pray along, ye Heaven-bound soldiers! Shout along and pray along, I'm on my way! Pray on, (sisters/fathers/mothers/children", and don't get weary; Never get tired of serving the Lord. Shout along and pray along...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 633, "Shout Along and Pray Along" (1 text)
Roud #11932
File: Br3633
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NAME: Shout Lula
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune "Shout Lulu, shout shout/What in the world you shoutin' about?" "How many nickels does it take/To see little Lulu's body shake?/It takes a nickel and it takes a dime/To see little Lulu cut her shine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recording, Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis)
KEYWORDS: sex money dancing bawdy dancetune nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SharpAp 201, "Lulie" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #4202
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Shout Little Lulu" (on Ashley01)
Clarence Ashley & Jack Burchett, "Shout Lulu" (on WatsonAshley01)
Homer Brierhopper, "Little Lulie" (Decca 5615, c. 1938)
W. Guy Bruce, "Shout Lulu" (on FolkVisions1)
Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis, "Shout Lou" (Columbia 146-D, 1924)
Elizabeth Cotten, "Oh Miss Lulie Gal" (on Cotten02)
Rufus Crisp, "Shout, Little Lulie" (on Crisp01)
Carver Boys, "Sleeping Lula" (Paramount 3199, 1930)
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Shout Lula" (Gennett 6373/Champion 15501 [as by Norman Gayle], 1928)
Dick Justice, "Little Lulie" (Brunswick 336, 1929)
File: RcShLulu
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NAME: Shout, Shout, We're Gaining Ground
DESCRIPTION: "Shout, shout, we're gaining ground, Oh glory hallelujah, For the gospel ship is sailing by, Oh glory hallelujah!" "Shout, shout... For the grace of God is coming down" "It has come down and it will come down" "The Devil's mad and I am glad"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 633, "Shout, Shout, We're Gaining Ground" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #7561
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gospel Ship (I)" (lyics)
File: R633
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NAME: Shove Around the Grog
DESCRIPTION: Brief stories of bringing lumber downriver. Chorus: "Shove [or "Shore"] around the grog, boys, Chorus around the room; We are the boys that fear no noise, Although we're far from home."
AUTHOR: Boney Quillan ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: logger river
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 175, "Shore Around the Grog" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FSC175 (Partial)
File: FSC175
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NAME: Shovellin' Iron Ore: see The Great American Bum (Three Jolly Bums) (File: FaE192)
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NAME: Shoving Corduroy
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a "swamper," is building corduroy roads. He describes his work, the pay, and an incident where a workmate falls into a boghole. Finally, he expresses a desire for a pretty woman, and says he'll do anything to please her -- even shove corduroy.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work courting
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 25, "Shoving Corduroy" (1 text)
Roud #8859
NOTES: A corduroy road was built by laying logs parallel to one another to make a roadway across a swamp. [There is some dispute about whether the roads or the fabric were named first, although the fabric is more likely. - RBW]
According to Beck, the swamper usually "cleared the underbrush and other obstructions for the teamster, or so that logs could be skidded to their destination." - PJS
File: Be025
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NAME: Show Me the Man Who Never Done Wrong: see Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own) (File: R393)
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NAME: Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe
DESCRIPTION: A lament on the effects of drinking and or rambling, perhaps with a request for forgiveness and/or floating blues lyrics. The whole is held together (if it is) by the chorus "Show me way to go home." The singer may have been drunk for many months
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink home floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 37, "Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe" (7 short texts plus a single line fragment)
Roud #7859
RECORDINGS:
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (Columbia 15404-D, 1929)
Henry Whitter & Fiddler Joe [Samuels], "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (OKeh 45061, 1926)
File: Br3037
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NAME: Show Pity, Lord (Supplication)
DESCRIPTION: "Show pity, Lord! Oh Lord, forgive! Let a repentant sinner live!" The singer abjectly confesses fault: "My crimes are great but can't surpass The power and glory of thy grace." The singer confidently expects salvation
AUTHOR: Words: Watts ? (to the tune "Windham?")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1860 (Harmona Sacra)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 631, "Show Pity, Lord" (1 short text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Roud #7559
SAME_TUNE:
Broad is the Road That Leads to Death (Windham) (Darling-NAS, p. 263)
File: R631
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NAME: Shu Lady
DESCRIPTION: Incoherent account, with many floating insertions, of an attack on Chandler's fish-dyke. The people who did the damage are brought to trial and forced to sell their cows to pay the fines. The song objects to the Freemason jury
AUTHOR: Ms. (?) Lawless?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: fishing trial punishment
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 311, "Shu Lady" (1 text)
Roud #6646
File: BrII311
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NAME: Shuck Corn, Shell Corn
DESCRIPTION: "Shuck corn, shell corn, Carry corn to mill. Grind de meal, gimme de husk, (Bake/break) de bread, gimme de crust, Fry de meat, gimme de skin -- And dat's de way to bring 'em in. Won't you git up, old horse, I'm on de road to Brighton."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: work food nonballad horse
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 200, "Shuck Corn, Shell Corn" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
File: Br3200
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NAME: Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier)
DESCRIPTION: The girl laments for her love, sent (to France) as a soldier. She says she will cry till "every tear would turn a mill." She will sell her spinning wheel to arm him. She will dye her clothes red and "round the world... beg for bread" till he returns
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1892
KEYWORDS: loneliness separation foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE,So) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Belden, pp. 281-282, "Shule Aroon" (1 text)
Randolph 107, "Shule, Shule" (3 texts, 1 tune, though "A" is mixed with "Ease that Trouble in the Mind" or "The Swapping Boy" or some such, "B" is a nonsense fragment, and "C" is largely floating material); also probably the "A" fragment of 455, "When I Get on Yonder Hill" (2 texts)
Eddy 40, "Putnam's Hill" (3 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
BrownII 127, "Shule Aroon" (1 fragment, so short that it might just be nonsense though it is probably this song)
Hudson 130, pp. 275-276, "Shule Aron" (1 text, short and even more damaged than usual, to which is prefixed the rhyme "Snail, snail, come out of your hole, Or else I'll beat you as black as a coal.")
SharpAp 93, "Putman's Hill" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 110, "Shule Aroon" (1 text)
Lehr/Best 96, "Siul a Ghra" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 347, "Shule Agra" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 131, "I Dyed My Petticoat Red" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 32-35, "Siubhal a Gradh (Come, My Love, Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 35, "Johnny Has Gone far a Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 20, "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 298-299, "Shoo, Shoo, Shoo-lye"  (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN199 "As from Newcastle I did pass" (listed as "Traditional? Ancestor of Scots 'Dicky Macphalion' and Irish 'Shule Aroon'")
Silber-FSWB, p. 280, "Buttermilk Hill" (1 text)
DT, SHULARN1* (SHULARN2*) SHULARN3 SHULARN4
Roud #911
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best and Pamela Morgan, "Suil a Gra" (on NFABestPMorgan01)
Pearl Jacobs Borusky, "I'll Sell My Hat, I'll Sell My Coat" (AFS, 1940; on LC55)
Porter Brigley, "I Died My Petticoat Red" (on MRHCreighton)
Elizabeth Cronin, "Shule Aroon" (on FSB1)
Chubby Parker, "Bib-A-Lollie-Boo" (Gennett 6077/Silvertone 5012, 1927; Supertone 9188, 1928) (Conqueror 7891, 1931)
Pete Seeger, "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" (on PeteSeeger31)
Art Thieme, "Bibble-a-la-doo" (on Thieme04)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Song of the Pinewoods" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: In its earliest forms this song seems to have been simply a girl's lament for her departed lover. In many American versions (Randolph's 107 A and C, Eddy's D) we find unrelated stanzas about the girl's "very cross" father.
Scott (following Joyce) theorizes that the song arises out of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Irish supported James II, and were defeated at the Boyne. William III, who defeated James, offered forgiveness to the rebels who would swear loyalty to him, but many preferred exile. The only evidence for this theory, at least in English versions, seems to be the lines "But now my love has gone to France, To try his fortune to advance...."
It's hard to tell how much of this song was originally Gaelic. Although there are Gaelic choruses (e.g. from Barry, in JAFL XXII 15; Connie Dover's modern recording is as close to this as makes no difference), I've never heard a truly traditional Gaelic verse, and even the chorus is usually only a mangled imitation of Gaelic. (Of course, it doesn't help that Gaelic spelling is far from standardized.) - RBW
The Thieme recording retains only the tune, chorus and two verses of "Shule Agra"; otherwise, it's humorous floaters. - PJS
For Hudson 130 the inserted rhyme is the first verse of Opie-Oxford2 482, "Snail, snail" (earliest date in Opie-Oxford2 is c.1744). [The stanza is also found in Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #471, p. 210). - RBW]
One of two broadsides for this ballad as "Shule Agra"/"Johnny Is Gone for a Soldier" at Bodleian Library site Ballads Catalogue is printed in New York c.1860, shelfmark Harding B.18(326).
See three "Shule Agra"/"Johnny Is Gone for a Soldier" broadsides [America Singing: digital id sb40500a/as201910/cw103140] at the Library of Congress American Memory site. - BS
File: R107
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NAME: Shule Aron: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Shule Aroon: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
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NAME: Shulls Mills
DESCRIPTION: The singer prepares to return to Shulls Mills. He talks of his relations with the girls, carried out largely on the basis of cash up front, because "the girls... think I'm purty damn mean." He concludes, "When I gets my pay, Hain't gonna work a-tall."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: logger whore
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 134, "Shulls Mills" (1 text, 1 tune; the text is composite though all verses come from Frank Proffitt)
ST Wa134 (Partial)
Roud #5735
File: Wa134
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NAME: Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek
DESCRIPTION: (Eleven) miners, trapped in the mines of Coal Creek, resign themselves to death but place their trust in Jesus. Their lamps are flickering, their food is almost gone; they say farewell to their wives and children, saying they will meet them in heaven
AUTHOR: Probably Green Bailey, though Darling lists it as by Norman Gilford
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Green Bailey under the pseudonym Dick Bell)
KEYWORDS: mining death farewell
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 9, 1911 - The Coal Creek explosion
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Darling-NAS, pp. 367-368, "Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek" (1 text)
Roud #844
RECORDINGS:
Dick Bell [pseud. for Green Bailey], "Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek" (Challenge 425, 1928)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek" (on NLCR15, NLCRCD2)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cross Mountain Explosion (Coal Creek Disaster)" [Laws G9] (subject)
NOTES: The Coal Creek explosion of 1911 actually involved more than 100 miners; I am not entirely certain that it is the event described here (there was another disaster in 1902). But, of course, this song could be about certain of the trapped miners rather than the whole gang.
Roud seemingly lumps this with Laws G9, but it is patently a different song. - RBW
File: RcSUIMCC
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NAME: Si Hubbard (Hey Rube)
DESCRIPTION: Two farm boys decide to visit the circus. They raise the money and go in to see the sights. After volunteering to take part in various escapades, they end up being carried off by a balloon. When at last they land, they wind up in jail
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: humorous farming technology prison
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 350-352, "Si Hubbard" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST San350 (Full)
NOTES: Another piece which may owe more to Sandburg's imagination than to tradition. Even Sandburg says that it came, indirectly, from a carnival barker. - RBW
File: San350
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NAME: Si j'avais le Bateau (If I had the Boat)
DESCRIPTION: French. If I had the boat which my father had given me I could cross the water and the sea without boat. If I had children who would not call me mom I would often ask God that they would die suddenly. To the proprietor's honor, let's pop the cork.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage drink humorous nonballad nonsense
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 96-97, "Si J'Avais le Bateau" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Pea096
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NAME: Si J'Etais Petite Alouette Grise (If I Were Small Gray Lark)
DESCRIPTION: French. A young drummer/sailor returns from war. He asks a king's daughter to be his girl. She says he must convince the king he is very rich, which he does. The king agrees. The drummer/sailor thanks the king but leaves: he has prettier girls at home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage greed courting rejection gold father sailor royalty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, p. 889, "Si J'Etais Petite Alouette Grise" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Trois Jeunes Tambours (Three Young Drummers)
Une Jeune Tambour (A Young Drummer)
Belle Alouette Grise (Beautiful Grey Lark)
NOTES: This ballad is common on the internet as "Trois Jeunes Tambours" -- for example at the site of "La Caverne de Cat."
The discussion of wealth is about three ships owned by the drummer/sailor:I have three ships on the sea: one has a cargo of gold, one has a cargo of pearls [or jewels], and the third is for my girl friend. The conversation about the ships may be between the drummer/sailor and the king's daughter.
The endings spoken to the king by the protagonist vary between: (1) Your daughter is something special (2) In my country there are prettier girls. - BS
File: Pea889
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NAME: Sic a Wife as Willie Had (Willie Wastle)
DESCRIPTION: "Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed." I "wadna gie a button" for his wife. "Tinker Maggie was her mither." One eye, few teeth, limping leg, hump on back and breast. Her actions are as crude as her looks. "Sic a wife as Willie had."
AUTHOR: Robert Burns
EARLIEST_DATE: 1792 (Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad wife
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 132, "Sic a Wife As Willie Had" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WASTLE
Roud #2702
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4242), "Willie Wastle," W. Dixon (Workington), n.d.
NOTES: Somewhere in the depths of my memory, there is a vague memory of a children's rhyme about Wullie Wastle, King of the Castle. Whether there is a relationship between that and this I do not know. - RBW
File: CrMa132
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NAME: Sick, Sick: see Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon [Child 178] (File: C178)
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NAME: Sidewalks of New York
DESCRIPTION: Known by its chorus: "East side, west side, all around the town, The tots sang Ring-a-Rosie, London Bridge is falling down...." The verses describe courting in New York, and wax nostalgic for the days when the singer was one of those doing the courting
AUTHOR: Words: James W. Blake / Music: Charles B. Lawlor
EARLIEST_DATE: 1894 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: courting game children
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 48, "Sidewalks of New York" (1 text)
Gilbert, p. 257, "The Sidewalks of New York" (1 text)
Fuld, pp. 499-500, "The Sidewalks of New York"
DT, SIDWLKNY
RECORDINGS:
Abner Burkhardt, "The Sidewalks of New York" (Champion 15279, 1927)
Vernon Dalhart, "The Sidewalks of New York" (Columbia 437-D, 1925; Columbia 15256-D, 1928 [as Al Craver])
George Gaskin, "Sidewalks of New York" (Berliner 0959, 1895)
Andrew Jenkins & Carson Robison, "Sidewalks of New York" (OKeh 45232, 1928)
Billy Jones, "The Sidewalks of New York" (Edison 51340, 1924)
SAME_TUNE:
East Side, West Side (Harvesting Song) (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 105)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
East Side, West Side
NOTES: For some inexplicable reason, this was Al Smith's 1928 presidential campaign song. - RBW
Well, Smith *was* the governor of New York. Of course, rubbing that in didn't endear him to the rest of the country, and anti-Catholic bigotry helped do him in. - PJS
Incidentally, the flip side of the Dalhart recording was "Al Smith for President." I don't know whether that's cause or effect. It's interesting to note that Herbert Hoover doesn't seem to have made any influence on oral tradition, but in addition to the Dalhart recording, Dave Macon sang an Al Smith song. - RBW
File: Gil257
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NAME: Sidney Allen [Laws E5]
DESCRIPTION: The Allen Family is in court; Sidney and the others break out by shooting the judge and starting a gunfight in the court. Recaptured and brought home, he is sentenced to a long prison term instead of being executed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Hudson)
KEYWORDS: prison fight trial feud
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1912 - Trial of the Allen family
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws E5, "Sidney Allen"
Hudson 104, pp. 242-243, "Sidney Allen" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 140, "Sidney Allen" (1 text)
Thomas-Makin', p. 155, (no title) (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 113, "Hillsville, Virginia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, pp. 254-255, "Sidney Allen" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 191-192, "Sidney Allen" (1 text)
DT 777, SIDALLEN
Roud #612
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Sydney Allen" (Columbia 15042-D, 1925) (Domino 3642, 1925; Banner 1672, 1926)
Henry Whitter, "Sydney Allen" (OKeh 40109, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (meter)
cf. "Claude Allen" [Laws E6] (subject)
NOTES: The members of the Allen family seem to have been the backest of backwoodsmen. Floyd Allen was sentenced to a year in prison by Judge Thornton L. Massie, whereupon the whole family started shooting and made their escape. Later captured, Claud (no e, according to contemporary sources) and Floyd were eventually executed; Sidney ("Sidna") was sentenced to prison. - RBW
File: LE05
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NAME: Siege of Plattsburg, The
DESCRIPTION: "Back side of Albany stands Lake Champlain." "On Lake Champlain Uncle Sam set his boats, And Captain McDonough to sail 'em." The British come to attack Plattsburg, but scare off the British governor
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Newspaper, "Brother Johnathan")
KEYWORDS: war battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug/Sept 1814 - Plattsburg campaign.  As part of a three-pronged attack strategy (the other prongs being at Chesapeake Bay and the lower Mississippi), a British army of 11,000 regulars led by General Sir George Prevost and a naval force under Captain George Downie attack Lake Champlain.
Sept 6, 1814 - The British army reaches Plattsburg and awaits the navy
Sept 11, 1814 - Battle of Plattsburg. An American naval squadron under Captain Thomas Macdonough (1783-1825) defeats the British force in a fierce contest with very high casualties, compelling the British fleet to retreat in disorder. The British army, though under no military compulsion, retreats as well.
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 510-512, "Siege of Plattsburg" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15541
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of Champlain" (subject)
NOTES: In 1814, with Napoleon temporarily under control after the Battle of Leipzig and, later, his abdication, the British decided to finally finish off the War of 1812. They decided on a three-pronged attack -- the northern force starting from the Great Lakes, the center heading for Washington D.C., and the southern attack being made on New Orleans.
Considering that the British would have more force available than every before, and that they had generally had the best of it to that time even with their minimal forces -- pushing back every American attack on Canada and eventually driving most of the small American fleet off the seas -- the results were disastrously bad.
Only the middle assault had any success, when Robert Ross's men burned many of the government buildings in Washington. Their move toward Baltimore, however, was stopped at the siege of Fort McHenry, commemorated in "The Star Spangled Banner."
The Battle of New Orleans (for which see, e.g., "The Hunters of Kentucky" and "The Battle of New Orleans" [Laws A7]) resulted in the death of the slow-moving British commander Pakenham and the defeat of his force. To be sure, that assault followed the attack on Baltimore -- and the peace treaty.
Plattsburg, though, was the real disaster, because the British had every advantage and manged to lose anyway.
General Sir George Prevost, the British commander-in-chief in Canada, had done a good job to this point, but he had never actually commanded in the field; Isaac Brock had won the great victories of 1812 (see ÒThe Battle of Queenston Heights" and "Brave General Brock" [Laws A22]), and Gordon Drummond had been field commander at Lundy's Lane in 1814 (see ÒThe Battle of BridgewaterÓ). With the British finally going on the offensive now that extra troops were available, Prevost himself took charge.
Orders from London told him to advance toward Lake Champlain, which would among other things split Federalist New England (which had opposed the war and was still trying to trade with the British) from the more pro-war West and South (see Walter R. Borneman, _1812: The War that Forged a Nation_, pp. 199-200). He had every advantage, too: The Americans, expecting more action on the Niagara front, had sent roughly half of the forces they had had in the Champlain area to the Niagara (see Donald R. Hickey, _The War of 1812_, p. 190).
Prevost was hardly enthusiastic. Even though he had some 10,000 troops at his disposal, all regulars, meaning that he could sweep aside any force the Americans could put up, he wanted his ships to control the rivers. As a result, he dawdled (Borneman, p. 201). This even though the Americans had sent most of their available forces to Sackets Harbor to defend against a British thrust that never materialize. All the Americans had left in the Champlain region was a few thousand soldiers under Brigadier General Alexander Macomb (whose wife would eventually be credited with writing another song about this battle, ÒThe Banks of ChamplainÓ), plus the naval forces that 31-year-old Master Commander Thomas Macdonough could scrape up. These were inferior to the British forces (the British had captured two of the stronger American ships in 1813, giving them naval superiority; Hickey, p. 190), but Macdonough was to handle them brilliantly, and Prevost would do the rest.
Each fleet had one big vessel at Lake Champlain: The Americans had a 700-tonner named _Saratoga_,, with 26 guns; the British had the strongest ship on the lake in the 1200-ton, 37-gun _Confiance_ -- which was, however, so new that workmen were still aboard her as she headed up Lake Champlain! (Hickey, p. 190). _Confiance_ was supported by the 16-gun _Linnet_ and the 11-gun sloops _Chub_ and _Finch_ (the ships taken from the Americans the year before). _Saratoga's_ consorts were the 20-gun _Eagle_, the 17-gun _Ticonderoga_, the 7-gun _Preble_, and a bunch of one-gun and two-gun small fry (the British had some of those, too; see Borneman, pp. 205-206). The weight of broadide was about even, but the British ships, with more long guns, were much better for an action on open water.
An action on open water was just what they didn't get. When it came time to attack the American position at Plattsburg, Prevost wanted his navy to go first, even though the man who had built the British fleet and who knew the local waters, Lieutenant Daniel Pring, had been replaced at the last minute by Captain George Downie (Borneman, pp. 204-205). Downie would play right into Macdonough's hands.
The American general Macomb had set up his lines on the edge of Plattsburg Bay. This let Macdonough put his forces at the head of the bay, making it difficult for the British to attack at long range; they almost had to turn into the bay, exposed to Macdonough's broadsides -- and, because they had to turn, they would lose most of their wind. Plus MacDonough had a trick: He had _Saratoga_ tied to a series of winches so he could turn her around in place should her starboard side (facing the battle) be too damaged (Borneman, pp. 208-211).
The two lead ships, _Saratoga_ and _Confiance_, were soon locked in battle. _Saratoga_ probably took more damage (the British were firing heated cannonballs, which twice set her afire; Hickey, p. 191), but one of her shots killed Downie, and at the key moment Macdonough spun his ship around. _Confiance_ tried the same trick, couldn't manage it -- and took so much damage in the process that she had to strike her colors. _Saratoga_ was too damaged to fight an open-water action -- the two sides had roughly equal casualties -- but she had won. And, without _Confiance_, the rest of the British fleet was doomed. _Linnet_ struck her colors about fifteen minutes later, and the battle was over (Borneman, p. 212).
Prevost still had at least a two to one edge on land, and it was probably closer to three to one -- but he proceeded to retreat anyway, without even seriously engaging Macomb (Borneman, pp. 213-214; Hickey, p. 193). The British thrust in the North -- the potential war-winner -- was at an end. Indeed, as it turned out, that was the effective end of the war on the Canadian frontier.
The American victories at Plattsburg and Baltimore, especially the former, were largely responsible for the end of the war; the Duke of Wellington told the British government that they needed naval superiority on the Great Lakes, and Plattsburg proved once and for all that they didn't have it. The Americans and British had been negotiating, but the two defeats caused the British to back off their harsher demands.
Ironically, the final Treaty of Ghent didn't even address the issues over which Madison had gone to war (impressment, etc.), though it did eventually result in some boundary clarifications.
Incidently, Paul Stamler tells me that they now spell the name of the town "Plattsburgh." - RBW
File: LxA510
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NAME: Sierry Petes, The: see Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail [Laws B17] (File: LB17)
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NAME: Sig-i-nal Hill: see Back Bay Hill (File: FJ165)
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NAME: Sign of the Blue Bell, The: see Next Monday Morning (File: ShH38)
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NAME: Sign of the Bonnie Blue Bell, The: see Next Monday Morning (File: ShH38)
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NAME: Sign On Day
DESCRIPTION: "It's sign-on day at the Dance Palais And we're down to a quid or two...." The singer describes the hard work of (sugar) cane cutting. "Our hands are raw, but two bob more Will make them seem like new. If we get enough pay we'll cut all day...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: work Australia harvest
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 198-199, "Sign On Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Cane-cutting was seasonal work, so cutters and farmers gathered for a "sign on day" at some local venue (such as the "Dance Palais" mentioned here). Cane-cutters were paid by how much they cut, so they would often work exhaustingly long hours, then crash once the season was done. - RBW
File: FaE198
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NAME: Signing the Pledge
DESCRIPTION: "The old folks would be happy If they knew I'd signed the pledge, For my feet have long been straying On the brink of ruin's edge." He hopes, "God helping me," to stay free of drink, to help his parents as they grow old
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 328, "Signing the Pledge" (1 text)
Roud #7802
File: R328
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NAME: Silent Night (Still the Night, Stille Nacht)
DESCRIPTION: German christmas song with multiple English translations, the most famous beginning "Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright." The night of Jesus's birth is praised
AUTHOR: Music: Franz Gruber (1787-1863) / German Words: Joseph Mohr (1792-1848)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1832 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: Christmas religious Jesus nonballad foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Germany Britain US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 384, "Silent Night" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 500-501, "Silent Night"
DT, SLNTNITE*
ADDITIONAL: Charles Johnson, One Hundred and One Famous Hymns (Hallberg, 1982), pp. 64-65, "Silent Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Soul Stirrers, "Silent Night" (Aladdin 2028, n.d. but post-WWII)
NOTES: Mohr reportedly wrote these words in 1818. The tale of Gruber's music is the stuff of folklore: His church's organ was broken, and could not be repaired until after Christmas. Therefore Gruber needed music for guitar and voice -- the only things he had available. On December 24, he wrote this music for Mohr's words.
It is said that the music was given to the world by the organ repairman, though this may be one cute story too many, as the song was not published until 1832. The truth, according to Johnson, is simply that the song was circulated privately for some years, until someone named Friese heard it, took it down, and had it published. It apparently took some time for Gruber and Mohr to get credit. It is interesting to note that Mohr wrote six verses (which, incidentally, never mention Mary!), but three of these have been completely ignored by later singers.
There are at least three English translations of these words. The first, "Stilly night, holy night," by Emily Elliot, is forgotten. In the U.S., the form "Silent Night, Holy Night" is usual; it is often listed as anonymous though it's sometimes credited to John Freeman Young.
In Britain, we often meet the version "Still the night." This too is often listed as anonymous, though Stopford A. Brooks is said to have published it in 1881.
Neither "translation" actually represents the German words very well.
Spaeth reports that the song was popularized in the United States by the Reiner (Rainer) family, starting around 1841. Ian Bradley's _Penguin Book of Carols_ also attributes its popularity to this group -- but in Austria. - RBW
File: FSWB384B
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NAME: Silk Merchant's Daughter (I), The [Laws N10]
DESCRIPTION: A girl's parents send her lover away. She dresses in men's clothes and follows him. Their ship sinks. In a lifeboat, she is chosen by lot to be killed for food; he is to kill her. (She reveals herself); they spot (land or a ship) and all are saved
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love exile cross-dressing ship wreck disaster cannibalism reprieve rescue sailor
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf,Ont) Britain(Scotland,England) Ireland
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws N10, "The Silk Merchant's Daughter"
Doerflinger, pp. 296-298, "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 25, "The Castaways" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 63-64, "The Merchant's Daughter Turned Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 1, "To Fair London Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 43, "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 99, "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" (fragments of a text with narration of the plot as recalled by the informant)
BrownII 107, "The Silk-Merchant's Daughter" (2 texts)
Hudson 35, pp. 148-149, "The Silk-Merchant's Daughter" (1 text)
Brewster 43, "The Silk-Merchant's Daughter" (1 text, which Laws describes as "almost completely rewritten"; the boy goes to sea to avoid the girl)
SharpAp 64, "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 64, "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" (1 text)
DT 441, SLKMRCHT
Roud #552
RECORDINGS:
Tom Lenihan, "To Fair London Town" (on IRTLenihan01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3744), "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" ("As I was a-walking up New London street", unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 25(1778), "The Silk Merchant's Daughter"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Ship in Distress" (plot) and references there
cf. "MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) [Laws N39]" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) [Laws N39] (File: LN39)
File: LN10
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NAME: Silk Merchant's Daughter (II), The: see Jack Monroe (Jackie Frazer; The Wars of Germany) [Laws N7] (File: LN07)
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NAME: Silly Bill: see Common Bill (File: R119)
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NAME: Silly Old Miser, The: see Darby O'Leary (File: CrSNB110)
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NAME: Silly Sunday School, The: see Walkin' in the Parlor (File: Wa177)
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NAME: Silver Dagger (I), The [Laws G21]
DESCRIPTION: Two young people wish to marry; the boy's parents are against it because the girl is poor. The heartbroken girl stabs herself to death. The boy, finding her dying, takes the dagger and stabs himself as well
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love poverty suicide family
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (19 citations)
Laws G21, "The Silver Dagger"
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 57, "Come All Good People" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 123-126, "The Silver Dagger" (2 texts plus 1 excerpt and references to 5 more, 1 tune)
Randolph 139, "The Silver Dagger" (6 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 161-163, "The Silver Dagger" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 139A)
Eddy 102, "The Green Fields and Meadows" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 23, "The Silver Dagger" (1 text)
BrownII 72, "The Silver Dagger" (1 text plus mention of 2 more)
Hudson 64, pp. 188-189, "The Silver Dagger" (1 text)
Brewster 38, "The Silver Dagger" (2 texts plus mention of 2 more, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 730-731, "The Silver Dagger" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 52, pp. 121-122, "Silver Dagger"; pp. 123-124, "Silver Dagger" (2 texts)
JHCox 109, "The Silver Dagger" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Fuson, pp. 71-72, "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, with the "Fair and Tender Ladies" first line but otherwise clearly this song)
SharpAp 165, "The Silver Dagger" (1 text plus a fragment, 2 tunes, but the "B" fragment is probably "Charming Beauty Bright" [Laws M3])
Scarborough-SongCatcher, p. 42, "(The Bloody Dagger)" (1 short text, omitting the suicides)
Darling-NAS, pp. 221-222, "Young Men and Maids" (1 text)
DT 639, SILVDAG2*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 202-203, "(The Young Lovers)" (1 text)
Roud #711
RECORDINGS:
Blue Sky Boys, "Katie Dear" (Bluebird B-7661, 1938)
Homer and Walter Callahan, "Katie Dear (Silver Dagger)" (Banner 33103/Melotone M-13071/Oriole 8353/Perfect 13017/Romeo 5353, c. 1934; Conqueror 9145, 1938; on GoingDown)
Sheila Clark, "Silver Dagger" (on LegendTomDula)
Betty Garland, "Never Make True Lovers Part" (on BGarland01)
Paul Joines, "Young Men and Maids" (on Persis1)
Tommy Moore, Clint Howard et al, "True Lovers" (on Ashley02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Drowsy Sleeper" [Laws M4]
cf. "Greenback Dollar" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
An Awful Warning
O Parents, Parents, All Take Warning
NOTES: For the relationship between this and "The Drowsy Sleeper," see the notes on that song. Several songs are filed there which contain nearly as much material from that song as from this. - RBW
File: LG21
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NAME: Silver Dagger (II), The: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
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NAME: Silver Flagon, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Lift high,' shouts Clarke, 'the Silver Flagon...The gift of good John Jacob Astor... I drink  the curse of hated savage."" When the flagon is found missing, Clarke hangs an Indian, despite a lack of evidence
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt); supposedly written 1914
KEYWORDS: theft punishment execution Indians(Am.) discrimination
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 133-134, "(The Silver Flagon)" (1 text)
NOTES: The John Jacob Astor of this song is of course not the man who went down with the _Titanic_, but his great-grandfather of the same name (1763-1848), who came to the United States in 1784 and founded the family fortune in the fur trade. As the song says, he founded the city of Astoria in 1811.
According to Burt, this piece arises out of an incident in one of Astor's fur expeditions. John Clarke, one member of the company, was responsible for transporting the flagon. On May 30, 1813, due largely to his own carelessness, it was stolen. Clarke saw an Indian sneaking about, and even though the unfortunate man did not have the flagon or any of the other items missing, Clarke hanged him. - RBW
File: Burt133
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NAME: Silver Herring, The (Caller Herring)
DESCRIPTION: Peddler's song/street cry: "Who'll buy my silver herrings?/I cry from door to door". Verses tell different ways prepare herring, plus different names. Many enjoy eating herring; more weep for the fishermen who are lost catching them
AUTHOR: Carolina Oliphaunt, Lady Nairne ?
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1800 (Nairne's publication), with the tune older; O. J. Abbott learned the traditional version c. 1890
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Peddler's song/street cry: "Who'll buy my silver herrings?/I cry from door to door". Verses tell different ways to cook and eat herring, plus different names - Yarmouth bloaters or Digby kipper red. Many enjoy eating herring; many more weep for the fishermen who are lost catching them or fear for their loved ones' safety
KEYWORDS: grief death fishing work food nonballad animal sailor worker family
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, CALLHERR
Roud #3824
RECORDINGS:
O. J. Abbott, "The Silver Herring" (on Abbott1)
NOTES: If, as I believe, O. J. Abbott's "The Silver Herrings" is a traditional version of Lady Nairne's "Caller Herring," it has a complicated pedigree. Lady Nairne wrote "Caller Herrin'" "toward the end of the 18th century" to help Nathaniel Gow (son of Neil Gow). Nairne set it to a harpsichord piece by the elder Gow, which itself was based on a fish-seller's call.
To make life even more complicated, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) had his own herring cry ("Herrings"; see Kathleen Hoagland, editor, _One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry_ (New York, 1947), p. 324). This has lines such as, "Be not sparing. Leave off swearing. Buy my herring Fresh from Malahide, Better never was tried.... Come, sixpence a dozen, to get me some bread, Or, like my own herrings, I soon shall be dead." Possibly independent, but who knows.... - RBW
File: RcSilHer
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NAME: Silver Jack [Laws C24]
DESCRIPTION: Robert Waite condemns the Bible as fictitious and Jesus as "just a common man." Silver Jack proceeds to beat the "infidel" until he admits the error of his ways.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (article, John A. Lomax)
KEYWORDS: Bible fight
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NW,Ro,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws C24, "Silver Jack"
Rickaby 32, "Silver Jack" (1 text)
Hudson 78, pp. 206-207, "Silver Jack" (1 text)
Lomax-FSNA 60, "Silver Jack" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 38, "Lumberjack's Revival" (1 text)
DT 606, SILVRJAK(*)
Roud #705
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Clementine" (tune)
cf. "Bung Yer Eye" (character)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Religion in Camp
Silver Jack the Evangelist
NOTES: John "Silver Jack" Driscoll seems to have been the subject of this ballad; a quarrelsome, fighting man from the Saginaw valley of Michigan, he apparently fought too hard one time, and was sent to prison. To quote T. G. Belanger: "He died with his boots off, in the Ottawa Hotel, in L'Anse, Michigan, April 1, 1895. Beside him ...were found the following: a bottle of cough medicine, $85.00 in bills, and a note: 'This will be enough to bury me.'" - PJS
This particular example of Christian charity and peacefulness is suspected by both Hudson and Lomax (without supporting evidence) of having been originally published in a newspaper. Given its anti-intellectual tone (stanza 1 describes Waite as "Kind of cute and smart and tonguey; Guess he was a graduate"), I am inclined to doubt this. - RBW
I'm not; newspapers could be rabidly anti-intellectual. Read the _Chicago Tribune_ during the McCormick era, or the early Hearst press. - PJS
But would any newspaperman claim that "the spread of infidelity Was checked in camp that day"? - RBW
File: LC24
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NAME: Silver Pin, The: see The Keys of Canterbury (File: R354)
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NAME: Silver Threads: see I Know a Boarding-House (File: R479)
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NAME: Silver Threads among the Gold
DESCRIPTION: "Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow today; Life is fading fast away; But, my darling, you will be... Always young and fair to me." The singer describes how (his) belove will grow old, but he will love her anyway
AUTHOR: Words: Eben Eugene Rexford / Music: Hart Pease Danks
EARLIEST_DATE: 1873
KEYWORDS: love age nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 194-197, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (1 text, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 1-4, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 259, "Silver Threads Among The Gold" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 501, "Silver Threads Among the Gold"
DT, SILVTHRD*
ST RJ19194 (Full)
Roud #6403
RECORDINGS:
Henry Burr, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (Victor 19131, 1923)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (OKeh 45488, 1930)
Andrew Jenkins & Carson Robison, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (OKeh 45246, 1928)
Frank & James McCravy, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (Brunswick 197, 1928; rec. 1927)
McMichen's Melody Men, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (Columbia 15247-D, 1928; rec. 1927)
Marie Narelle, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (CYL: Edison 9162, 1905)
Riley Puckett, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (Columbia 405-D, 1925)
Royal Hawaiians, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (Broadway 8100, c. 1930)
Will Oakland, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (CYL: Edison [BA] 1547, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sweet Genevieve" (theme)
cf. "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
At the Boarding House (Silver Threads; While the Organ Pealed Potatoes) (File: DTbordho)
NOTES: Jackson notes, "The fashionable message of the song -- that romantic love remains always young even though bodies wrinkle and age -- was apparently lost on Danks's wife; she left the forty-year-old composer the year after 'Silver Threads' appeared."
This was the only song by Rexford (1848-1916) that amounted to anything, but it by itself was enough to cause monuments to be erected to him in both his birthplace in New York and his primary place of residence in Wisconsin.
Danks (1834-1903) spent much of his life trying to make a career of music; he composed several other melodies and several stage pieces -- but, again, none of them amounted to anything.
According to James J. Geller's _Famous Songs and their Stories_, this collaboration came about in a curious way: Rexford was editing a Wisconsin farm magazine and, needing a space filler, threw in one of his poems. Danks saw it, thought it worth setting to music, and sent Rexford a small sum to purchase the rights. That song went nowhere -- but Rexford responded by sending Danks much of his other works. Among those songs was "Silver Threads." Danks supplied music, and the two had the only hit they would ever produce- RBW
File: RJ19194
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NAME: Silver Tide, The: see The Silvery Tide [Laws O37] (File: LO37)
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NAME: Silver Whistle, The
DESCRIPTION: Scots Gaelic, welcoming Bonnie Prince Charlie to Scotland: "Oh who will play the silver whistle? ... (when my) king's son to sea is going?" The singer describes those who will welcome Charlie, as well as the handsome prince himself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Kennedy-Fraser)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites ship return travel
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1720-1788 - Life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie"
1745 - The (last) Jacobite Rebellion
1746 - Prince Charlie's rebellion crushed at Culloden.
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Hebr))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 9, "Co Sheinneas an Fhideag Airgid? (O Who Will Play the Silver Whistle)" (1 text+ English translation, 1 tune)
Kennedy-Fraser I, pp. 134-135, "An Island Jacobite Song/The Silver Whistle (An Fhideag Airgid)"  (1 text+ English translation, 1 tune)
DT, SILVWHIS
File: K009
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NAME: Silvery Moon, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a girl lamenting in the moonlight. Her lover was true and brave, "but now he is dead, the youth once so gay... And he silently sleeps while I'm left here to weep By the sweet silver light of the moon."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Journal of William Histed of the Cortes)
KEYWORDS: love death separation
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 800, "The Silvery Moon" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 233-234, "Silvery Moon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #906
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Roll On, Silver Moon
File: R800
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NAME: Silvery Tide, The [Laws O37]
DESCRIPTION: A nobleman courts Molly while Henry is away. The noble threatens to drown Molly if she will not marry him. She refuses. He strangles her and throws her in the sea. Henry finds her body and the noble's handkerchief. The nobleman is hanged, and Henry mourns
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.13(172))
KEYWORDS: murder love revenge execution
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So) Canada(Mar) Britain(Scotland,England(South)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Laws O37, "The Silvery Tide"
Belden, pp. 126-127, "Mary in the Silvery Tide" (1 text)
Randolph 93, "The Silvery Tide" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 60, "Out on the Silvery Tide" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 17, "The Silver Tide" (1 text)
Doerflinger, pp. 282-283, "Mary on the Silvery Tide" (1 text)
SHenry H77, pp. 418-419, "The Silver[y] Tide" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 472-473, "The Silvery Tide" (1 text)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 125-127, "The Silvery Tide" ( text)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 206-209, "The Silvery Tide" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Mackenzie 52, "Mary on the Silvery Tide" (1 text)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 107-109,255, "The Silvery Tide" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 93, "The Silvery Tide" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 336, SILVTIDE*
Roud #561
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Breen, "On the Banks of the Silvery Tide" (on Voice10)
Sam Jagoe, "The Silvery Tide" (on Miramichi1)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.13(172), "Poor Mary in the Silvery Tide," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth b.28(25a) View 2 of 2[partly illegible], Firth c.13(171), Harding B 11(3093), Harding B 11(3094), Harding B 11(3095), Harding B 11(3096), Harding B 11(3097), Harding B 20(276), "Poor Mary in the Silvery Tide"; 2806 c.16(275), "Poor Mary in the Silvery Tide!"; Firth b.27(202), "Poor Mary of the Silvery Tide"; Harding B 11(66), "Mary of the Silvery Tide"
File: LO37
===
NAME: Silvy: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
===
NAME: Sim and the Widow: see Sim Courted the Widow (File: R371)
===
NAME: Sim Courted the Widow
DESCRIPTION: "Seven long years did Sim court the widder... Seven long years, and Sim didn't git her." Sim went home grieving -- but not before stealing a curry-comb. Forced to return it by "my son John," the rest of the song relates Sim's disjointed further adventures
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection theft humorous
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Belden, pp. 436-437, "Sim and the Widow" (2 texts)
Randolph 371, "Sim Courted the Widow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 301-302, "Sim Courted the Widow" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 371)
Roud #7621
File: R371
===
NAME: Simon Slick: see Whoa Mule (The Kickin' Mule) (File: LoF231)
===
NAME: Simple Gifts
DESCRIPTION: "'Tis the gift to be simple, 'Tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down Where we ought to be...." In praise of "simplicity" and love, which bring the hope of heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Darling-NAS, pp. 258-259, "Simple Gifts" (1 text)
DT, SIMPLEGF*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Will Bow And Be Simple" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
The Lord of the Dance (by Sydney Carter; DT LORDANCE)
NOTES: This song has become one of the most popular in the Folk Revival. The idea of a simple life seems very refreshing in today's overcomplicated age. But I wonder how many of the people who have sung the song realize that "simplicity" means, among other things, abstinence from sex? - RBW
File: DarN259A
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NAME: Simple Little Nancy Brown
DESCRIPTION: Various girls go out, get in trouble, and find unexpected solutions. Example: "They went walking by the beach, Went in swimming, got out of reach; She lost her socks and evr'thing, So what d'ye suppose she came home in... She came home in the twilight."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905
KEYWORDS: humorous nonsense wordplay
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 149, "Simple Little Nancy Brown" (1 text plus assorted excerpts, 1 tune)
ST FSC149 (Partial)
Roud #4613
NOTES: According to Cazden et al, this is an updated version, with new tune, chorus, and plot twists, of a piece published in 1905 as "Fol de Rol Dol." - RBW
File: FSC149
===
NAME: Simple Plowboy, The: see The Jolly Plowboy (Little Plowing Boy; The Simple Plowboy) [Laws M24] (File: LM24)
===
NAME: Simpson Bush
DESCRIPTION: "Attention give while I relate Though horrible is the shame, I'll tell you of a doomed man, Bush they call his name." He is sentenced to die "for the murder of his own dear wife." The singer describes the methods of the murder, then moralizes
AUTHOR: James W. Day (Jilson Setters)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder husband wife children
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 129-130, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Definitely not one of Setters's better songs. - RBW
File: ThBa129
===
NAME: Sin's Reward: see The Fair Flower of Northumberland [Child 9] (File: C009)
===
NAME: Since I Laid My Burden Down
DESCRIPTION: Gospel song, describing singer's plans to meet with his mother and with Jesus, shake hands with angels, walk and talk in glory "since I laid my burden down."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So,MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 70, "Since I Laid My Burden Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys, "When I Lay My Burden Down" (OKeh 05587/Conqueror 9433, 1940; Conqueror 9667, 1941)
Bessemer Sunset Four, "When I Lay My Burden Down" (Vocalion 1488, 1930)
Rev. Clayborn, "When I Lay My Burden Down" (Vocalion 1458, 1930; rec. 1929)
Roosevelt Graves, "When I Lay My Burden Down" (Paramount 12974, 1930; rec. 1929)
Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers, "Since I Laid My Burden Down" (OKeh 8698, 1929; rec. 1928; on AAFM2, Babylon)
Turner Junior Johnson, "When I Lay My Burden Down" (AFS 6608 B3, 1942; on LC10, LCTreas)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Glory, Glory Halleluiah
Since I Laid My Burthen Down
File: ADR70
===
NAME: Since I Left Arkansas: see Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (Been All Around This World) (File: R146)
===
NAME: Since Love Can Enter an Iron Door: see The Iron Door [Laws M15] (File: LM15)
===
NAME: Sindbad
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, it's Sindbad [sic] the sailor and Robinson Crusoe, I left my native counterie a roaming for to go. I went to be a sailor returned just as you see, a mixture of an Indian, a Turk, and a Japanee. Oh, jeffer see my jibber ahoy...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Colcord)
KEYWORDS: sailor shanty rambling
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Colcord, p. 184, "Sindbad" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4712
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sinbad
NOTES: Colcord included this as an example of Negro songs, but even she was doubtful of that origin. She says that it was sung by a Frenchman to Capt. Edward H. Cole, who then sang it to her. - SL
File: Colc184
===
NAME: Sinful Maiden, The: see The Fair Flower of Northumberland [Child 9] (File: C009)
===
NAME: Sing a Song of Sixpence
DESCRIPTION: "Sing a song of sixpence A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie." The pie is opened and the birds sing. The king is in the counting house, the queen in the parlour, the maid in the garden and a blackbird "snapped off her nose"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1784 (Gammar Gurton's Garland, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: food nonballad bird royalty
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Opie-Oxford2 486, "Sing a song of sixpence" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #3, p. 26, "(Sing a song of sixpence)"
Roud #13191
SAME_TUNE:
Three Brave Blacksmiths (File: OLcM071)
NOTES: Opie-Oxford2: "It is well known that in the sixteenth century surprising things were inserted in pies.... The mention of a 'counting-house' ... also helps to indicate that the rhyme may be traced to the sixteenth century.... Kidson says that the air to which the words are generally sung is the old Scottish dance tune 'Calder Fair.'" - BS
The "surprising things" in the pie often were intended as a entertainment or reward (a theme which more recently inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's "Smith of Wootton Major," his last fantasy work).
The notes in the _Annotated Mother Goose_ mention a connection with Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn. But Henry VIII was the sort of monarch you wouldn't be likely to find in a counting house. If there were an English king involved, especially in the sixteenth century, it would doubtless be Henry VII, who was such a money-grubber that he would without doubt have had intimate relations with his cash had he figured out a way to do it. - RBW
File: GGGSiSo6
===
NAME: Sing a Song, Blow-Along O!
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "Way down in Dixie! Way down in Dixie, oh I had a gal. Ch: Sing a song, blow-along O!" Verses continue describing the aforementioned gal, the singer, and what they did (or would do) to each other.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p.417, "Sing a Song, Blow-Along O!" ( 1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 318]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Miss Lucy Loo" (chorus lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Dixie Land
NOTES: According to Hugill, this along with most West Indies shanties, was probably used as a cotton loading song before it went to sea. - SL
File: Hugi417
===
NAME: Sing Ivy: see My Father Had an Acre of Land (File: K300)
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NAME: Sing One for Me
DESCRIPTION: "Down in the lonesome pine woods, This song is sung with glee. Now I have sung a song for you And you may sing one for me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957 (Ives-NewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: music nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ives-NewBrunswick, p. 34, "Sing One for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Ives-NewBrunswick quotes the singer: "Here's a verse that used to be sung sometimes after a song." - BS
File: IvNB034
===
NAME: Sing Out (I), A: see O Mary, Come Down! (File: Hugi368)
===
NAME: Sing Outs
DESCRIPTION: Likely the predecessor to the full shanty (which has discernable words and a division of solo & chorus parts). These are short phrases or vocalizations, often made up of nonsense syllables, and used for hauling.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: shanty work nonballad nonsense
FOUND_IN: Britain US Canada
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Harlow pp. 8-9, 20-21, 24, 29, "Handsome Charlie's Sing Out," "Hauling in the Slack of the Foresheet," "A Sing Out" (3 texts, 3 tunes & several fragments)
Hugill pp. 573-579, "Sing-outs for Rope, Capstan, and Halyard Winch" (several fragments) [AbEd, pp. 398-401]
Doerflinger pp. 91-92, (no title, quoted from Capt. James P. Barker)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Haul Out
Sweat-in' Up Chants
Short Cries
Royal Artillery Man
St. Helena Soldier
Hauley, Hauley-Ho!
Holystoning
NOTES: Several of the examples listed by Hugill had titles, though the title and what there was of the text were generally the same. Many were quoted from other sources, and I've listed them in the alternate titles field. - SL
File: Hugi573
===
NAME: Sing Sally Oh: see Sing, Sally O! (File: Hugi288)
===
NAME: Sing Song Kitty: see Kemo Kimo (File: R282)
===
NAME: Sing-Sing
DESCRIPTION: The singer and Johnny King are imprisoned in Sing-Sing. They make an attempt to break out, but they cannot create a large enough opening and are trapped. King is shot. Soon after, the singer is pardoned and gratefully bids farewell to prison
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1982
KEYWORDS: prison pardon
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 167, "Sing-Sing" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FSC167 (Partial)
NOTES: Charles Hinkley, who gave the song to Cazden et al, claimed he was one of the two composers. The collectors admit the possibility, but only that. 
This song is item dE52 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: FSC167
===
NAME: Sing, Sally O!
DESCRIPTION: There are two versions, one a halyard and the other a capstan shanty. Characteristic refrain is "Sing Sally O, an' a fol-lol-de-day." The verses of the capstan version have a general whoring theme and are speaking to a "Mudder or Mammy Dinah."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong whore sailor
FOUND_IN: West Indies Britain
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Colcord, p. 60, "Sing Sally O!" (1 text, 1 tune - 1 verse only, no choruses)
Hugill, pp. 388-389, "Sing, Sally O!" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 296-297]
Sharp-EFC, XXXI, p. 36, "Sing, Sally O" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SNGSALLY*
Roud #4699
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hawl Away, Joe" (tune)
cf. "Sally Brown" (some verses)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Mudder Dinah
File: Hugi288
===
NAME: Singapor-Sang (Singapore Song)
DESCRIPTION: erman shanty. Tired of tough meat, the steward of a ship buys a bull in Singapore. They manage to hoist it onto the ship but have considerable trouble killing it and the bull causes much damage before it expires. Last phrase of verses repeat as chorus.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Baltzer, _Knurrhahn_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty animal humorous food death
FOUND_IN: Germany
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 566-568, "Singapor-Sang" (2 texts-German & English, 1 tune)
NOTES: Hugill said this was based on an actual incident that took place on board a ship called _Arkona._ - SL
File: Hugi566
===
NAME: Singin' Gatherin', The
DESCRIPTION: "Far back in the dusty hollow Where the trees grow straight and tall, Sits the Traipsin' Woman Cabin... Where in the June-time of the year Is held the folk-lore festival." The singer describes the event and the people who attend and praises the organizer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: music nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 260-261, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: There are many pieces in Thomas that I don't really trust -- but there is none I more suspect of being Thomas's own work than this (and "Wee House in the Wood," which bears the same traits). It's anonymous, it's about Thomas's own Festival, and it rather sounds like her style. - RBW
File: ThBa260
===
NAME: Singin' Hinnie, The
DESCRIPTION: "Sit doon, noo, man alive! Te tell ye aa'll contrive O' the finest thing the worl' hes ivver gin ye, O. It's not fine claes nor drink, Now owt 'at ye can think Can had a cannle up ti singin'-hinney, O." The song tells how the singin' hinnie shapes lives
AUTHOR: "Harry Haldane"
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: technology
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 172-173, "The Singin' Hinnie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2618
NOTES: The title of this song is given as "The Singin' Hinnie," but references in the text call it a "Singin' Hinney."
I will admit that I'm truly not sure what this is about. Normally, a "singing hinnie (honey)" would be a musical loved one, but I have this funny feeling it refers to a piece of machinery -- probably a steam-powered pump or elevator.
Fortunately, we don't really have to figure it out; it appears this song has never been found in oral tradition. - RBW
File: StoR172
===
NAME: Singing of the Travels, The: see The  Husbandman and the Servingman (File: K226)
===
NAME: Singing the Travels: see The  Husbandman and the Servingman (File: K226)
===
NAME: Single Days of Old, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls "The merry days -- the days of old" when her husband loved her. With time, he grows more aloof and distant. Eventually "my health gave way, my spirits fled, They told him I would die." The husband again pays attention, and she survives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: husband wife disease
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H659, p. 504, "Singles Days of Old" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2679
File: H659
===
NAME: Single Girl: see I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again (File: Wa126)
===
NAME: Single Girl, Married Girl
DESCRIPTION: "Single girl, single girl, go and dress so fine... Married girl, married girl goes ragged all the time...." The lives of single and married women compared: The single girl can go out (and perhaps even spend); the married girl must care for the baby; etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: marriage wife
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Warner 128, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 87 "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 84, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Single Girl" (1 text)
DT, SINGLGRL
Roud #436
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (Victor 20937A, 1927; on AAFM3) (Conqueror 8733, 1936; Melotone 7-04-53, 1937)
Frank Profitt, "Single Girl" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
Ruby Vass, "Single Girl" (on LomaxCD1702)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again"
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)"
cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme)
cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
NOTES: Roud lumps "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" and "Single Girl, Married Girl" (and perhaps others). Definitely a stretch, though the songs can easily cross-fertilize. - RBW
File: Wa128
===
NAME: Single Life, A (Single Is My Glory)
DESCRIPTION: "Some do say there are good girls, Oh, where shall we find them? Some do say there are good boys, But never do you mind them."  The singer warns of deceivers, concluding, "A single life I am to live, Oh, single is my glory... Then who will control me?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Roba Stanley)
KEYWORDS: nonballad warning courting
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 18, "A Single Life" (1 text)
Roud #4963
RECORDINGS:
Roba Stanley, "Single Life" (OKeh 40436, 1925)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
File: Br3018
===
NAME: Single Sailor (I), The: see Willie and Mary (Mary and Willie; Little Mary; The Sailor's Bride) [Laws N28] (File: LN28)
===
NAME: Single Sailor (II), The: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
===
NAME: Sinking of the Newfoundland, The
DESCRIPTION: "We have bred many sailors bold, Brave captains by the score, And ranking with the best of them Is Captain John Blackmore." After a long career of sailing and shipbuilding, he retires, can't stand it, builds the Newfoundland -- and sails her into a wreck
AUTHOR: Solomon Samson?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963 (A Glimpse of Newfoundland in Poetry and Pictures)
KEYWORDS: age ship wreck rescue
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, pp. 130-131, "The Sinking of the 'Newfoundland'" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Despite both being about the wreck of a ship named _Newfoundland_, this has nothing to do with the various songs about the "Newfoundland Disaster"; that _Newfoundland_ was commanded by Captain Kean. - RBW
File: RySm130
===
NAME: Sinking of the Reuben James, The: see Reuben James (File: PSAFB084)
===
NAME: Sinking of the Titanic (Titanic #9)
DESCRIPTION: The Titanic leaves Southampton. After the ship strikes an iceberg, her officers call upon the Carpathia for help. The passengers and crew place women and children in the lifeboats, leaving the men to go down with the ship.
AUTHOR: Probably Richard Brown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Richard "Rabbit" Brown)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The Titanic leaves Southampton, bound for America with happy passengers and crew. After the ship strikes an iceberg, her officers call upon the Carpathia for help, but she is far away. The passengers and crew, realizing the ship is sinking, place women and children in the lifeboats, leaving the men to go down with the ship. The band plays "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sinks (Singer sings the hymn)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck disaster death drowning religious
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 14/15, 1912 - Shortly before midnight, ship's time, the Titanic strikes an iceberg and begins to sink. Only 711 survivors are found of 2224 people believed to have been aboard.
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
ST RcTitaIX (Partial)
RECORDINGS:
Richard "Rabbit" Brown, "Sinking of the Titanic" (Victor 35840, 1927; on TimesAint01)
NOTES: This song can be distinguished from the other Titanic songs primarily by its lack of a chorus, by its description of the SOS call to the Carpathia, and by the singing of "Nearer My God to Thee" at the end. - PJS
Richard Brown in fact not only sang "Nearer..." but did it in a sort of distorted voice, like music heard through water. A cute trick. Although the song was not recorded until 1927, Lyle Lofgren thinks it was written soon after the tragedy, because of the details it has, most of which (except for the playing of "Nearer...") are accurate. Despite this song (and other folklore), the band on the _Titanic_ did *not* play "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sank. Instead, they played light music to prevent panic.
For an extensive history of the _Titanic_, with detailed examination of the truth (or lack thereof) of quotes in the _Titanic_ songs, see the notes to "The Titanic (XV)" ("On the tenth day of April 1912") (Titanic #15) - RBW
File: RcTitaIX
===
NAME: Sinner Man
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to? (x3) All on that day." The remainder of the song is variations on the theme, "Run to the (rock), Rock won't you hide me? (x3)... (rock) will be (a-melting)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: religious punishment nonballad sin
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 616, "No Hidin'-Place" (2 texts, with the "A" text being "No Hiding Place" but the "B" text, which is damaged, probably belonging here)
SharpAp 208, "Sinner Man" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 61, "Sinner Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 366, "Sinner Man" (1 text)
DT, SINERMAN SINERMN2*
Roud #3408
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Heaven Bell a-Ring" (lyrics)
File: SKE61
===
NAME: Sinner's Redemption, The: see All You That Are Unto Mirth Inclined (The Sinner's Redemption) (File: OBC051)
===
NAME: Sinners Will Call for the Rocks and the Mountains
DESCRIPTION: "Sinners will call for the rocks and the mountains (x3) When the last trump shall sound." "Jesus will bear the Christians higher (x3) When the last trump shall sound." "Brothers, won't you go to glory with me (x2) When the last trump shall sound."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 651, "Sinners Will Call for the Rocks and the Mountains"
Roud #7572
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When the Stars Begin to Fall" (words)
File: R651
===
NAME: Sioux Indians, The [Laws B11]
DESCRIPTION: A train of white settlers is bound for Oregon. While on their way they are attacked by a band of Sioux. Outnumbered, the whites are nonetheless victorious and finish their journey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: Indians(Am.) battle settler
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,Ro,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws B11, "The Sioux Indians"
Randolph 195, The Indian Fighters" (1 text, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 148-149, "The Indian Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, pp. 142-143, "(The Sioux Indians)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 179-181, "Sioux Indians" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 43, "Sioux Indians" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 155-156, "The Indian Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 379, SIOUXIND*
Roud #3235
RECORDINGS:
Alex Moore, "The Sioux Indians" (LC -------, 1940)
Eugene Jemison, "Crossing the Plains" (on Jem01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "The Sioux Indians" (on NLCR14)
Pete Seeger, "Sioux Indians" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07a, AmHist1)
Marc Williams, "Sioux Indians" (Brunswick 240, 1928) (Decca 5011, 1934; on BackSaddle)
NOTES: Despite the title, the Jemison recording is not the same as the song we've called "Crossing the Plains," but is a version of "Sioux Indians," with the Kaw being substituted for the Sioux. - PJS
File: LB11
===
NAME: Sir Aldingar [Child 59]
DESCRIPTION: Aldingar, spurned by the Queen, puts a (blind/drunk) leper in her bed and shows the king. She will be burned and the leper hanged. She finds a (child) champion who defeats Aldingar. He confesses. (The leper is made whole, becomes steward.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: royalty knight adultery trick disease reprieve
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 59, "Sir Aldingar" (3 texts)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 54-67, "Sir Aldingar" (2 texts, one the original from the Percy folio and the other the retouched version in the _Reliques_)
Leach, pp. 185-196, "Sir Aldingar" (2 texts)
OBB 4, "Sir Aldingar" (1 text)
DT 59, SIRALDGR
Roud #3969
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sir Hugh le Blond
NOTES: Child connects this ballad with the story of Gunhild, wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (reigned 1039-1056); Entwhistle even rings in a statement by William of Malmsbury that a poem about this event circulated in England in his time (twelfth century).
The number of Scandinavian analogs cited by Child, however, shows that there is no necessary dependence. If there is a connection, it has been distorted, because the king and queen are Henry and Eleanor (either Henry II or England and Eleanor of Acquitaine, or Henry III and Eleanor of Provence). - RBW
File: C059
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NAME: Sir Andrew Barton [Child 167]
DESCRIPTION: Merchants complain to the King that their trade is being disrupted. The King sends a crew to deal with Barton, the pirate. After a difficult battle marked by great courage and skill on both sides, Barton is defeated and killed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1723
KEYWORDS: sailor sea battle nobility pirate
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1509-1547 - Reign of Henry VII (mentioned as king in some texts of the ballad)
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE,NW,SE)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Child 167, "Sir Andrew Barton" (2 texts)
Bronson 167, "Sir Andrew Barton" (10 versions)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 188-207, "Sir Andrew Barton" (3 texts, one from the folio manuscript and the other the completely rewritten version in the _Reliques_)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 248-258, "Andrew Barton" (3 texts); p. 483 (1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 15-44, "Sir Andrew Barton" "but including Henry Martyn" (11 texts plus a fragment, 10 tunes; in every text but "L," the robber is Andrew Bardeen or something like that, but many of the texts appear more Henry Martin-like) {K=Bronson's #2 tune for Child #167; B=#46, C=#31 for Child #250}
Leach, pp. 467-475, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 348, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
OBB 130, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 130-141+329-331, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2850, "When Flora with her fragrant flowere"
DT 167, ANDBART* HENRMRT4*
Roud #192
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Henry Martyn" [Child 250] (plot, lyrics)
cf. "Captain Ward and the Rainbow" [Child 287] (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
My bleeding heart, with grief and care/A Warning to all Lewd Livers (BBI ZN1789)
As I lay musing all alone, Great store of things I thought upon/[Title trimmed. A comparison made upon the Life of Man? Stat. Register, July 16, 1634] (BBI ZN229)
NOTES: In the present state of our knowledge, it is almost impossible to distinguish "Sir Andrew Barton" from "Henry Martyn"; the pirates' names exchange freely, and the basic plot is similar. What is more, the ballads have clearly exchanged elements, especially in America, where mixed versions are the rule. Child did not have to contend with this.
In Child, the basic distinction might almost appear to be length; the versions of "Andrew Barton" are 82 and 64 stanzas, while the texts of "Henry Martyn" do not exceed 13 stanzas. Thus the former looks more literary and the latter more popular. In addition, there are hints of historical background, though much distorted (see the notes in Child; a Scottish pirate named Andrew Barton is said to have been killed by the English Lord Admiral Edward Howard in 1511). Still, it is best to check both ballads for a particular version.
See the notes to "Henry Martin" for a summary of opinions on the issue.
Many American texts refer to Barton fighing a Captain Charles Stuart (replacing the Lord Howard of earlier versions -- a reasonable name, even apart from the Barton battle cited above, since Earl Howard of Norfolk was Admiral of England at the time of the battle with the Armada). Gordon thinks this was Bonnie Prince Charlie, but Barry et al point to the American Charles Stewart (1778-1869) who commanded the U. S. S. _Constitution_ at the end of the War of 1812. - RBW
File: C167
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NAME: Sir Arthur and Charming Mollee: see Pretty Polly (I) (Moll Boy's Courtship) [Laws O14] (File: LO14)
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NAME: Sir Cauline: see Sir Cawline [Child 61] (File: C061)
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NAME: Sir Cawline [Child 61]
DESCRIPTION: Sir Cawline falls ill for love of the king's daughter; she attends him. He desires to prove himself worthy of her; she sends him to vanquish the elvish king. He then defeats a giant threatening to wed her, and survives a lion attack before marrying her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: courting disease royalty knight battle marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 61, "Sir Cawline" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 61, "Sir Cawline" (2 versions)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 61-81, "Sir Cauline" (1 text)
OBB 3, "Sir Cawline" (1 text)
DT 61, SIRCAWL*
Roud #479
NOTES: The only copy of this that Child accepted as real is that in the Percy manuscript (which Percy thoroughly corrupted), though Child prints two texts ("Sir Colin" and "King Malcolm and Sir Colvin," from the Harris ms. and Buchan respectively) in an appendix.
Percy's modifications to the text are so thorough that the 210 lines of the Percy manuscript are made into 392 lines in his text.
Based on Child's notes, it would seem that this song was never traditional as we would define the term; all the later versions were derived from the literary text as reworked by Percy. Bronson, however, pointed out that the Harris version *was* found in tradition, even if the text was influenced by Percy (Bronson adds that the result is in many ways simpler and superior to the Percy text; it also has a different ending). It seems that there were folk revivals before The Folk Revival. - RBW
File: C061
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NAME: Sir Edward Noel's Delight: see references under The British Grenadiers (File: Log109)
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NAME: Sir Gaunie and the Witch: see The Marriage of Sir Gawain [Child 31] (File: C031)
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NAME: Sir Hugh le Blond: see Sir Aldingar [Child 59] (File: C059)
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NAME: Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter [Child 155]
DESCRIPTION: A child tosses the ball into a Jew's/Gypsy's garden. The Jew's daughter/wife lures him into the house, where she murders him, (for ritual purposes?). Dying, he gives instructions for his burial (with a prayer book at his head and a grammar at his feet). 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: murder death ritual Gypsy Jew lastwill burial
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(All)) Ireland US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Bahamas
REFERENCES: (35 citations)
Child 155, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (21 texts)
Bronson 155, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (66 versions)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 54-60, "The Jew's Daughter" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 461-462, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (notes plus an excerpt from Child A)
Belden, pp. 69-73, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (2 texts plus a fragment)
Randolph 25, "The Jew's Garden" (3 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 47-49, "The Jew's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 25A) {Bronson's #38}
Eddy 20, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #48}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 30-32, "Little Harry Huston" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #66}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 119-126, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {A=Bronson's #66; B=#65 with verbal variants}
Davis-Ballads 33, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (13 texts, 7 tunes entitled "The Jew's Daughter," "It Rained a Mist," "A Little Boy Threw His Ball So High," "Sir Hugh, or Little Harry Hughes," Sir Hugh"; 3 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #39, #54, #3, #34, #6, #47, #53}
Davis-More 30, pp. 229-238, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
BrownII 34, "Sir Hugh; or, The Jew's Daughter" (4 texts)
Hudson 19, pp. 116-117, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (1 short text, lacking the actual murder)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 171-175, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (3 texts, the first also in Davis, with local titles "A Little Boy Threw His Ball So High," "Little Sir Hugh," "Hugh of Lincoln"; 1 tune on p. 403) {Bronson's #3}
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 53-55, "A Little Boy Threw His Ball" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Brewster 18, "Sir Hugh" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #44}
Leach, pp. 425-431, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (4 texts)
Creighton-NovaScotia 8, "Sir Hugh; or The Jew's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 147-149, "Sonny Hugh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 62, "Sir Hugh (The Jew's Daughter)" (3 texts)
OBB 79, "Hugh of Lincoln and The Jew's Daughter" (1 text)
SharpAp 31, "Sir Hugh" (7 texts plus 3 fragments, of which "I" in particular might be something else, 10 tunes){Bronson's #22, #20, #21, #23, #15, #10a, #16, #14, #8, #17}
Sharp-100E 8, "Little Sir Hugh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 273, "The Queen's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gummere, pp. 164-166+336, "Sir Hugh" (1 text)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 20, "Little Son Hugh (Sir Hugh)" (1 slightly edited text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #10}
Hodgart, p. 70, "Sir Hugh (The Jew's Daughter)" (1 text)
DBuchan 22, "Sir Hugh" (1 text)
JHCox 19, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (6 texts plus mentions of 8 more)
MacSeegTrav 14, "Sir Hugh" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 81-83, "Hugh of Lincoln" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 5, pp. 13-14, "The Jewish Lady"; p. 15, "The Jew Lady" (2 texts)
Darling-NAS, pp. 36-40, "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter"; "The Fatal Flower Garden"; "It Rained a Mist" (3 texts)
DT 155, SIRHUGH* SIRHUGH1* SIRHUGH2* SIRHUGH3
ST C155 (Full)
Roud #73
RECORDINGS:
Cecilia Costello, "The Jew's Daughter (Sir Hugh)" (on FSB5 [as "The Jew's Garden"], FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #55}
[Mrs.?] Ollie Gilbert, "It Rained a Mist" (on LomaxCD1707) {Bronson's #35}
Nelstone's Hawaiians, "Fatal Flower Garden" (Victor 40193, 1929; on AAFM1) {Bronson's #12}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Twa Brothers" [Child 49] (lyrics)
NOTES: A.L. Lloyd reports, "In 1225 [others say 1255 -- which tells you something about how much of a historical basis all this has - RBW], in Lincoln, England, a boy named Hugh was supposed to have been tortured and murdered by Jews. A pogrom ensued." - PJS
The legend of Hugh of Lincoln became popular in many forms of literature; Benet's _Reader's Encyclopedia_ (which uses the 1255 date) lists Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale," Marlowe's _The Jew of Malta_, and a 1459 piece called _Alphonsus of Lincoln_, which I have not seen.
The link to "The Prioress's Tale" is undeniable, since lines 684-686 (Riverside edition) explicitly compares the tale to that of "yonge Hugh of Lyncoln, slayn also With cursed Jewes, as it is notable, For it is but a litel while ago." I personally don't see much connection, except thematic, to _The Jew of Malta_. - RBW
File: C155
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NAME: Sir Hugh, the Graeme: see Hughie Grame [Child 191] (File: C191)
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NAME: Sir James the Rose [Child 213]
DESCRIPTION: James the Rose (has killed a squire, and) is forced to flee. He asks his leman's help. She, under pressure, tells his pursuers of his hiding place. James is taken and killed. His leman regrets her actions
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1781 (Pinkerton)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: "O heard ye of Sir James the Rose ... he has killed a gallant squire An's friends are out to take him." He visits his lover, the nurse at the House of Marr. He tells her he is looking for a place to hide. Her pursuers ask if she has seen him. As they are about to leave she tells them where he is hiding. He tries to buy them off but they kill him and give his heart to his lover. In despair she drops from sight. "A traitor's end, you may depend, Can be expect'd no better."
KEYWORDS: love death betrayal revenge hiding
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 213, "Sir James the Rose" (1 text)
Bronson 213, "Sir James the Rose" (27 versions+1 in addenda, but a large fraction of these are "Sir James the Ross")
DT 213, ]JAMEROS2
Roud #2274
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(50), "Tragedy of Sir James the Rose," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1869; also RB.m.143(157), "Sir James the Ross"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sir James the Ross" (general plot) and references there
NOTES: Child has only one version of 213 ("O heard ye of Sir James the Rose") but acknowledges a different ballad: "'Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad' (sometimes called 'The Buchanshire Tragedy'), was composed by the youthful Michael Bruce (1767) upon the story of the popular ballad, and has perhaps enjoyed more favor with 'the general' than the original." - BS 
File: C213
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NAME: Sir James the Ross
DESCRIPTION: Matilda's father wants her to marry John Graham rather than James Ross. James kills John's brother and hides with Matilda while she sends her page to raise John's men. The page betrays James to John Graham. James is killed and Matilda commits suicide.
AUTHOR: Michael Bruce?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (broadside, NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(50))
LONG_DESCRIPTION: "Of all the Scottish northern chiefs... The bravest was Sir James the Rose." He leads 500 warriors. He loves Matilda, daughter of "Buchan's cruel lord," who prefers that she wed Sir John the Graham. John's brother Donald spies on James and Matilda and hears her say "the grave shall be my bridal bed If Graham my husband be." Donald confronts James and is killed. He tells Matilda he has killed Donald and must hide because his own men are "far far distant." He plans to go to raise his men but she convinces him to hide and send a page to raise his men. The page meets Graham and twenty of his men and tells where James is hiding. James fights bravely. Matilda pleas for his life but he is mortally wounded. She kills herself on James's sword. With his dying effort James kills Graham. 
KEYWORDS: love death suicide betrayal revenge hiding brother father
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Newf) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 284-291, "Sir James the Ross" (1 text from manuscript)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 147-154, "Sir James, the Rose" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #25}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 239-254, "Sir James the Ross" (3 texts, 1 tune; of the three texts, "C" is short, while "A" is based on penciled changed George Edwards wrote in the margin of BarryEckstormSmyth) {Bronson's #25}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 75-79, "Sir James the Ross" (1 text plus 2 fragments, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #27, 26}
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 23-25, "Sir James the Ross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 7, "Sir James the Ross" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 715-719, "Sir James the Rose" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 18, "Sir James the Ross" (2 texts, 3 tunes)
Mackenzie 11, "Sir James the Rose" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #16}
DT 213, JAMEROSE
Roud #2274
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(50), "Tragedy of Sir James the Rose," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1869; also RB.m.143(157), "Sir James the Ross"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Child Maurice" [Child 83] (tune)
cf. "Sir James the Rose" [Child 213] (general plot)
NOTES: Child has only one version of 213 ("O heard ye of Sir James the Rose") but acknowledges a different ballad: "'Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad' (sometimes called 'The Buchanshire Tragedy'), was composed by the youthful Michael Bruce (1767) upon the story of the popular ballad, and has perhaps enjoyed more favor with 'the general' than the original." Coffin, _The British Traditional Ballad in North America_ (Philadelphia, 1950), pp. 128-129: "The Child 'Sir James the Rose' ballad is not in America. The American texts [including Pound's from Nebraska] are highly sophisticated and based on 'Sir James the Ross,' a song Child, IV, 156 thought to have been composed by Michael Bruce [disputed by Coffin citing Barry citing Keith 'that Michael Bruce is mistakenly considered the composer....']." Mackenzie regarding his two versions: "[They] represent 'Sir James the Ross,' an unacknowledged adaptation by Michael Bruce, of the old Scottish ballad 'Sir James the Rose' (Child, No. 213)." Confirming Coffin's observation, Karpeles-Newfoundland, Peacock, Creighton-SNewBrunswick, and Creighton-Maritime all are derived from the same text as MacKenzie's. - BS
File: C213A
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NAME: Sir John Butler [Child 165]
DESCRIPTION: Men cross a moat by leather boat to Sir John Butler's hall. His daughter Ellen warns him his uncle Stanley is here. He says he is therefore doomed, and, indeed, he is murdered. His wife, in London, dreams his death, confirms it, seeks redress in vain.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: family murder dream
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1463 - The Butler Murder
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 165, "Sir John Butler" (1 text)
Roud #4000
NOTES: Child gives a good deal of background to this murder, while admitting to some very substantial questions about it. But he distinctly fails to give some additional background -- notably the fact that this happened during the Wars of the Roses, when battles between noble families were commonplace. And he makes, in my view, far too little of the complicated connections of the families involved.
Lord Stanley was Thomas Stanley, the future Earl of Derby -- and the future husband of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the future King Henry VII. And Ellen Butler? Well, there was an Eleanor Butler who (at least acording to the Bishop af Bath and Wells and King Richard III) was betrothed to King Edward IV, who was king in 1463 -- and who, if she *did* have a relationship with Edward IV, was having it right about the time of this murder. (For more on the Stanleys, see e.g. "The Vicar of Bray"; for the whole mess of Eleanor Butler, see e.g. "The Children in the Wood (The Babes in the Woods)" [Laws Q34].
I'm not claiming that any of this is neccessarily meaningful. But if anyone decides to try to learn more than Child had to say about this ballad, this probably needs to be looked into. - RBW
File: C165
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NAME: Sir John Gordon: see Thomas Rymer [Child 37] (File: C037)
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NAME: Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allan: see Bonny Barbara Allan [Child 84] (File: C084)
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NAME: Sir Lionel [Child 18]
DESCRIPTION: (Sir Lionel) hears report (from a lady in distress?) of a murderous boar. Meeting the boar, he slays the beast. In the older versions, the boar's keeper then comes out to demand a price, and the knight then slays the keeper also.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1876 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs, vol. i_)
KEYWORDS: animal fight magic
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(High),England) US(Ap,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (23 citations)
Child 18, "Sir Lionel" (6 texts)
Bronson 18, "Sir Lionel" (17 versions)
Leather, pp. 203-204, "Brangywell"; p. 204, "Dilly Dove" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #5, 13}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 434-435, "Sir Lionel" (notes plus a partial reprint of Child A)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 60-61, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #17}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 226-229, "Sir Lionel" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #17}
Belden, pp. 29-31, "Sir Lionel" (2 texts, 1 tune, plus fragments of 1 stanza and 1 line respectively) {Bronson's #7}
Randolph 7, "Lord Bangum" (1 fragmentary text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #14}
Davis-Ballads 8, "Sir Lionel" (7 texts, 4 tunes entitled "Bangum and the Boar," "Old Bang'em," "Ole Bangim," "Sir Lionel") {Bronson's #12, #10, #8, #15}
Davis-More 10, pp. 72-78, "Sir Lionel" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 191-191, "Sir Lionel" (1 text reprinted from Scarborough-NegroFS, and found also in Davis and Scarborough-NegroFS, with local title "Old Bangum"; 1 tune on p. 407) {Bronson's #8}
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 51-52, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune, the same as that in Scarborough-SongCatcher) {Bronson's #8}
SharpAp 9 "Sir Lionel" (4 fragments, 4 tunes) {Bronson's #16, #15, #11, #9}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 85, "Bangum Rid by the Riverside" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 100-103, "Sir Lionel" (2 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 157-159, "Ole Banghum" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 19, "The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove" (1 text)
Lomax-FSNA 272, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson't #8}
Niles 13, "Sir Lionel" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Chase, pp. 126-127, "Old Bangum and the Boar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, p. 60, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 217, "Old Bangum" (1 text)
DT 18, JOVHUNTR* OLBANGUM*
Roud #29
RECORDINGS:
Bentley Ball, "Bangum and the Boar" (Columbia A3084, 1920)
Logan English, "Bangum and the Boar" (on LEnglish01)
Samuel Harmon, "The Wild Boar" (AFS 2805B; on LC57) {Bronson's #2}
Frank Hutchison, "Wild Hog in the Woods" (OKeh 45274, 1928)
Jean Ritchie, "Old Bangum" (on JRitchie01)
G. D. Vowell, "Bangum and the Boar" (AFS; on LC57)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Wild Hog
The Jovial Hunter
Rurey Bain
Bangum and the Bo'
Wild Hog in the Woods
Rackabello
NOTES: Many versions of this song have been stripped down to descriptions of the hunt and the fight. Others have subplots concerning Sir Lionel's brothers.
The versions of this called "Wild Hog in the Woods" should not be confused with the fiddle tune of the same name, which is unrelated to any tune I've ever heard with the ballad. Great tune, though - PJS
Flanders, in her notes in "Ancient Ballads," makes the astonishing (for her) admission of how different the common version of this is from the alleged roots: "If 'Old Bangum' can be considered as a direct descendant of the romance _Sir Eglamour of Artois_, it is surely a classic example of degeneration through oral tradition.... Although the Child 'Sir Lionel' is probably related to the medieval romance, scholars have just as probably been over-enthusiastic in relating 'Old Bangum' songs too closely to 'Sir Lionel.' As Belden, 29, suggests, a song-book or music hall rewriting may well lie between the two."
She adds, "The 'Old Bangum' texts are the only American forms of Child 18. They are known in... England as well, and are characterized by a nonsense refrain which Alfred Williams... notes is meant to sound like a bugle." - RBW
File: C018
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NAME: Sir Neil and Glengyle [Laws M39]
DESCRIPTION: Ann is wooed by Sir Neil and Glengyle. Her brother, hearing a false rumor that Sir Neil has slandered his sister, demands a duel and is killed. Glengyle kills Sir Neil. Ann, horrified by the slaughter, will not have Glengyle and vows to die unwed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: murder brother sister courting death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws M39, "Sir Neil and Glengyle"
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 92-95, "Sir Neil and Glengyle" (1 text, 3 tunes)
Mackenzie 20, "Sir Neil and Glengyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 590, SIRNEIL
Roud #1914
NOTES: I was not able to read the one broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(44), "Glengyle & Sir Neil" ("In yonder isle beyond Argyle"), unknown, n.d. - BS
File: LM39
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NAME: Sir Patrick Spence: see Sir Patrick Spens [Child 58] (File: C058)
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NAME: Sir Patrick Spens [Child 58]
DESCRIPTION: The King, needing a good sailor, calls upon Sir Patrick Spens to sail (to Norway?) in the dead of winter. Though both Captain and crew fear the trip, they undertake it, and are drowned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: sea storm wreck death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1286 - Death of Alexander III of Scotland
1290 - Death of his granddaughter Margaret "Maid of Norway"
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Child 58, "Sir Patrick Spens" (18 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Bronson 58, "Sir Patrick Spens" (12 versions+1 in addenda)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 98-102, "Sir Patrick Spence" (1 text)
BrownII 16, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 179-184, "Sir Patrick Spens" (3 texts)
Friedman, p. 297, "Sir Patrick Spens (Spence)" (2 texts, 1 tune)
OBB 75, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
PBB 66, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Niles 25, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gummere, pp. 144-1445+331-332, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 25-27, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 121, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
DBuchan 50, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 2, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text, a recited version)
TBB 20, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 60-63, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 74-76, "Sir Patrick Spence" (1 text)
DT 58, PATSPENS*
ST C058 (Full)
Roud #41
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lord Derwentwater" [Child 208] (opening lyrics)
cf. "Young Allan" [Child 245] (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Patrick Spenser
Sir Patrick Spence
NOTES: Whether this song is historical is disputed.
When Alexander III of Scotland died in 1286, the only heir of his body was his granddaughter Margaret, daughter of the King of Norway by Alexander's daughter. She was four years old, but was made queen -- only to have Eric II of Norway delay her return for years, and then have her die en route.
Thus the texts of the ballad match some of the facts (fetching home "the king's daughter of Norrowa'"), but ignore the fact that the old king was long dead when the Scottish ship sailed to bring home the princess.
Some have proposed emending the text to describe sending Alexander's daughter *to* Norway, noting that a ship containing several Scottish lords sank on the way home. This is ingenious, but does not seem to fit the rest of the ballad; I would regard this emendation as highly suspect. (Of course, I don't like emendation.)
Just about every recording I've heard of this song seems to use the highly majestic tune sung by Ewan MacColl, but Bronson admits only one other traditional version with a tune akin to MacColl's; nine of his twelve versions are of a different type, and the twelfth (from Johnson) he believes inauthentic. - RBW
File: C058
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NAME: Sir Peter Parker
DESCRIPTION: "Sir Peter Parker" relates how he attacked Sullivan's Isle outside Charleston. He receives no support from his superior, Clinton, so the rebels are able to beat off his ship Bristol. Parker decides it's time to return to base
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: rebellion war humorous injury
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 28, 1776 - Clinton and Parker's failed assault on Charleston
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 64-66, "Sir Peter Parker" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, NEWWAR*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "At Sullivan's Isle" (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker
NOTES: The setting is, of course, the American revolution. Having been completely blocked by the colonials in 1775, the British decided on a two-part strategy in 1776. Most of the troops in Boston were shifted to New York (via Halifax), while a second force was sent to attack Charleston, South Carolina.
Sir Henry Clinton led the army in the Charleston assault, while Sir Peter Parker was in charge of the naval forces. The two did not cooperate well.
Clinton got his troops ashore, but did not attack the crucial colonial position in Fort Moultrie. To get into the harbor, Parker had to try to batter the fort into submission. He failed, and in the process a colonial shot blew off his breeches (producing the reference to "the wind in my tail").
Clinton and Parker returned to New York. It is likely that both should bear responsibility for the failure, but Parker seems to have borne the brunt of it; when Howe was recalled from his post as commander of British forces in America, Clinton was chosen to succeed him.
To be fair, the whole thing had been directed from London, and handled at too great a distance. According to Don Cook, _The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785_, p. 245, "orders were issued in December... to embark the Irish regiments at Cork and head across the Atlantic to rendezvous with a fleet in the American waters off Cape Fear, North Carolina. General Clinton would meet them at the end of February with additional reinforcements from Boston, and the combined armies would head for Charleston."
None of this worked, naturally; Atlantic weather saw to it that Parker's fleet, somewhat depleted, arrived in April, not February. Clinton, who had been on the scene and learned that no one even had an accurate map to use when planning the landing. He opposed the final plan, but Parker was in charge and ordered the assault to go ahead. - RBW
File: SBoa064
===
NAME: Sir Robert Peel, The
DESCRIPTION: "In the pleasant month of May, 'twas the year of thirty-eight... It was down in the narrows where they watched for the eel Lay her majesty's steamer called the Sir Robert Peel." Forced to land in America, the ship is burnt to avenge the Caroline
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: ship battle political revenge
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 29, 1837 - The American vessel the Caroline, which had been transporting supplies to the Canadian rebels, is set afire and run over Niagara Falls by Canadians led by Captain Andrew Drew
May 30, 1838 - The Sir Robert Peel halts at Wells Island to take on wood. Raiders led by Bill Johnston attack her, take off her crew, and set her afire to avenge the Caroline
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 76-78, "The 'Sir Robert Peel'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4031
NOTES: For the history of the Canadian rebellion, which led to the events in this song, see the notes on "An Anti-Rebel Song" and "Farewell to Mackenzie."
This song is item dA33 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: FMB076
===
NAME: Sir William: see references under "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter" [Child 110] (File: C110)
===
NAME: Sir William Gower: see Captain Glen/The New York Trader (The Guilty Sea Captain A/B) [Laws K22] (File: LK22)
===
NAME: Sister Cyarline: see Went to the River (I) (File: R258)
===
NAME: Sister Seusan
DESCRIPTION: "Sister Sue and my (Aunt/gal) Sal, Gwine to git a home bime by-high. All gwine to lib down shin-bone al; Gwine to git a home bime by." Various verses on working, sailing, complaints. Noted as a Barbadian hand over hand.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Bullen, _The Log of a Sea Waif_)
KEYWORDS: worksong shanty
FOUND_IN: US West Indies
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Harlow, pp. 200-201, "Gwine to Git a Home Bime By" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 390-391 "Sister Susan" (1 text, tune) [AbEd, p. 299]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Shinbone Al
NOTES: Bullen transcribed this shanty, and described the time he first heard it in his book _The Log of a Sea Waif._ He also included it later included in his collection _Songs of Sea Labor._ Hugill mentions that "Shinbone Alley" is a place name often referred to in American Negro songs. - SL
File: Hugi390
===
NAME: Sister Susan: see The Old Maid's Song (File: R364)
===
NAME: Sister's Husband, The: see Fair Annie [Child 62] (File: C062)
===
NAME: Sitting on Top of the World
DESCRIPTION: Singer's woman leaves him, then says "Come back... I need you so". He spurns her: "If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree...." He'll find another woman. Ch.: "But now she's gone, and I don't worry/Because I'm sitting on top of the world"
AUTHOR: Probably Walter Vincson (Digital Tradition lists Lonnie Carter and Walter Jacobs)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Mississippi Sheiks)
KEYWORDS: hardheartedness love travel abandonment floatingverses lover
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, STTNTOP*
Roud #7689
RECORDINGS:
Beale St. Rounders, "Sittin' On Top of the World" (Vocalion 1555, 1930)
(Joe) Evans & (Arthur) McClain, "Sitting On Top of the World" (Banner 32211/Oriole 8079/Perfect 180/Romeo 5079, 1931)
Shelton Brothers, "I'm Sittin' On Top of the World" (Decca 5190, 1936)
Mississippi Sheiks, "Sitting on Top of the World" (OKeh 8784, 1930; OKeh 45506, 1931)
Scottdale String Band, "Sittin' On Top of the World" (OKeh 45509, 1931; rec. 1930)
Doc Watson, "Sitting On Top of the World" (on WatsonAshley1)
Clarence Williams Jug Band, "Sitting On Top of the World" (OKeh 8826, 1930)
Bob Wills, "Sittin' On Top of the World" (Vocalion 03139, 1936 [rec. 1935])
SAME_TUNE:
Mississippi Sheiks, "Sitting On Top of the World #2" (OKeh 8854, 1931; rec. 1930)
NOTES: This song should not be confused with the Tin Pan Alley song, "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (which goes on, "Just rollin' along, just rollin' along"), although the Mississippi Sheiks may have been ironically quoting from it. - PJS
File: dtSTTNTO
===
NAME: Siul a Ghra: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Siul a Gra: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Six Days Shalt Thou Labor
DESCRIPTION: "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh -- holystone the decks and scrape the cable" (or "the seventh the same, and clean out the stable," etc.) A (sailor's) complaint about hard work and dishonoring the Sabbath
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1840 (Two Years Before the Mast)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 228, "For Six Days Do All That Thou Art Able" (1 text)
Roud #16857
NOTES: The first two lines of this are quoted in various forms; the description contains the earliest form I know, from Richard Henry Dana's _Two Years Before the Mast_. But it seems to have generalized.
We might add that, while some of the tasks described in the song are make-work, make-work was necessary at sea, especially aboard a naval vessel that had many more hands than were ordinarily needed to run the ship. Almost none of the sailors could read or do much except sail a ship; their only entertainment was grog (which had to be rationed, both because the supply was finite and because they had to be sober enough to work the ship) and maybe music. Had they not been kept busy, they would have gone stir-crazy -- or mutinied. - RBW
File: Br3228
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NAME: Six Dukes Went a-Fishing
DESCRIPTION: (Six dukes) go fishing and find the body of the (some Duke). His body is brought (home/to London); the embalming is described in rather gory detail. His burial is described in language reminiscent of "The Death of Queen Jane"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1690 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: death burial nobility corpse funeral
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South)) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Bronson (170), 2 versions in Appendix B to "The Death of Queen Jane," though these are not all the versions of the song known to Bronson
Flanders/Brown, p. 219, "Two Dukes" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #12}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 78-79, "Two Dukes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 159-160, "The Duke of Bedford" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {A=Bronson's #12}
PBB 48, "The Duke of Grafton" (1 text)
Sharp-100E 21, "The Duke of Bedford" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #11}
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 97, "Six Dukes Went a-Fishing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 150, "Six Dukes went a-fishing" (1 text)
BBI, ZN316, "As two men were a walking, down by the sea side"
ST FO078 (Partial)
Roud #78
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Death of Queen Jane" [Child 170] (lyrics)
NOTES: The person referred to in this ballad is hard to determine. One text refers to the Duke as the "Duke of Grantham." There were three barons of Grantham (died 1770, 1786, and 1859; the third Baron was made earl in 1833), but their circumstances do not seem to fit the ballad. In any case, they were not dukes. - AS, RBW
In another text, the Duke is lord of Grafton. Grafton was a very temporary dukedom; Henry Fitzroy (the illegitimate son of Charles II) briefly held the title. Grafton is notable only for leading a Guards regiment during the Glorious Revolution, when he abandoned James II to support William and Mary. (There is, however, a broadside, BBI ZN2703, "Unwelcome Tydings over spreads the Land," entitled "Englands Tribute of Tears.. Death..Duke of Grafton.. 9th. of October, 1690.") A later Duke, the third, was Prime Minister 1767-1770, and partly responsible for the colonial problems leading to the American revolution, but this is obviously too late.
If we ignore the names and look at the internal evidence of the song, perhaps the least
implausible candidate is William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who was widely regarded in England as having sold Normandy back to the French. King Henry ordered his exile in 1450 (to spare his life), but the ship he was sailing on was intercepted and Suffolk taken off. He was beheaded and his body thrown on the shore (May 2, 1450).
Rumor (probably false) had him linked romantically with Queen Margaret of Anjou, which would partly explain the line "royal Queen Mary went weeping away" in the "Grafton" text.
Another possibility, which as far as I know is original to me, is that the reference is actually to Richard Woodville, first Earl Rivers. Rivers was never a Duke -- indeed, he was only briefly an earl, and not a landed one. But he was the father of Queen Elizabeth Woodville (wife of Edward IV), which made him a sort of vague member of the royal family, which might cause him to be called a duke. Plus, he lived in Grafton. Rivers was executed in 1469 by members of the Neville (anti-Edward) faction.
Another difficulty is that, until relatively recently, England almost never had more than eight active Dukedoms (Buckingham, Clarence, Exeter, Gloucester, Lancaster, Norfolk, Suffolk, York), and usually fewer (e.g. the only Duke of Lancaster who was not also King was John of Gaunt). England, until the eighteenth century, had a limited peerage; the first three Georges nearly doubled the number of peers, creating the first significant class of landless Lords; the purposes, of course, were political.
I guess it's safe to conclude that this story is badly garbled. - RBW
To these possibilities, Sharp's _100 English Folksongs_ adds the son of the fourth Duke of Bedford, killed by a fall from his horse in 1767. - PJS
(Which, of course, appears to be later than the earliest broadside texts. At least Bedford was a real dukedom, attested to in some versions of the text, so the song might have been adjusted. - RBW)
See also Mary Rowland, 'Which Noble Duke?', _FMJ_ 1965 - RBW, following WBO
File: FO078
===
NAME: Six Girls: see The Six Sweethears (File: HHH605)
===
NAME: Six Horse-Power Coaker, The
DESCRIPTION: An old run-down motor that still has a lot of life left in it fails one day as the weather  worsens and they have a dory in tow. An orphan boy comes to the rescue in a skiff and is able to start the motor. They take on the boy from that time forward.
AUTHOR: A.R. Scammell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: recitation technology talltale ship rescue
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle2, p. 74, "The Six Horse-Power Coaker" (1 text)
Blondahl, pp. 68-69, "The Six-Horsepower Coaker" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7310
NOTES: The author, Arthur Reginald Scammell (mistakenly spelled with one "l" in [Doyle]), has written many poems, songs and even stories with Newfoundland themes. One of his more famous songs is, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground." Some collections of his works include: _My Newfoundland: Stories, Poems, Songs_ (St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications, 1988) and "Newfoundland Echoes" (St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications, 1988). _Collected Works of A. R. Scammell_ was also published by Harry Cuff in 1990.
The boy in the song is referred to as being a "bedlamer boy" which is a corruption of the French phrase, "bete de la mer" used in Newfoundland to refer to half-grown seals and boys. See: Harold Horwood, _Newfoundland_ (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada , 1969), p. 84. - SH
File: Doy74
===
NAME: Six Jolly Miners
DESCRIPTION: About "six jolly miners." They come from all over Britain, "but all of their delight was to split those rocks in twine." "Sometimes we have good credit, boys, sometimes we've none at all." "We'll call for liquors plenty and drink our healths all round."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938
KEYWORDS: work mining drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North,South)Scotland(Bord)) Canada(Mar) US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 238, "Six Jolly Miners (1 text with supplements, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 286-287, "Six Jolly Miners" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, p. 176, "The Jolly Miner " (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #877
RECORDINGS:
Louis Rowe, "Six Jolly Miners" (on FSB9)
File: K238
===
NAME: Six King's Daughters, The: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
===
NAME: Six Little Girls A-Sliding Went: see Three Little Girls A-Skating Went (File: R588)
===
NAME: Six Men and One Woman Taken Off the Ice at Petty Harb'r
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you hardy Fishermen, And hark to what I say, And hear how six were rescued Near Petty Harbor Bay." Stranded overnight on the ice, they desperately signal for help. Spotted at last, the Ingraham comes to rescue them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Harbour Grace Standard)
KEYWORDS: wreck rescue
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 80, "Six Men and One Woman Taken Off The Ice at Petty Harb'r" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: RySm080
===
NAME: Six Months in Jail Ain't So Long
DESCRIPTION: "Six months in fail ain't so long, baby, It's workin' on the county farm. Got my pick an' shovel now, baby, Yo' true lub is gone. Who's gwine to be yo' true lub, baby, When I'm gone? Who gwine to bring you chickens... When I'm workin' on the county farm?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: prison lover food work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 231, "Work-Song" (1 short text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (theme)
File: ScNF231A
===
NAME: Six Questions: see Captain Wedderburn's Courtship [Child 46] (File: C046)
===
NAME: Six Sweethearts, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls courting "six girls all at once." He enjoys it greatly until he starts to forget the girls' names. The girls unite to pay him back. He dreams of what else they might do -- and of being a Turk and marrying all of them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting betrayal dream
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H605, p. 340, "The Six Sweethearts" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 128, "Six Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2704
File: HHH605
===
NAME: Sixteen Come Sunday: see Seventeen Come Sunday [Laws O17] (File: LO17)
===
NAME: Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I'm sixteen thousand miles from home... To think that I should humble down To come out here stone-breaking." The new immigrant is met by a local contractor, who flatters him and tricks him into a menial job. (The singer prefers to join the army)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: emigration work
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 67, 131-132, "Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 72-73, "Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 32-33, "Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 195, "Sixteen Thousand Miles" (1 tune)
File: MA067
===
NAME: Sixteen Tons
DESCRIPTION: "Now some folks say a man is made out of mud, But a poor man's made out of muscle and blood." The singer describes the hard life in the mines -- and the debts incurred. "St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store."
AUTHOR: Merle Travis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (recorded by author)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes poverty mining
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 154, "Sixteen Tons" (1 text, 1 tune)
Green-Miner, p. 279-281, "Two by Travis": p. 295, "Sixteen Tons"(1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TON16
Roud #15162
RECORDINGS:
George Davis, "Sixteen Tons" (on GeorgeDavis01)
Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons" (Capitol 3262, 1955)
B. B. King, "Sixteen Tons" (RPM 451, n.d.)
Merle Travis, "Sixteen Tons" (Capitol 48001, 1947; on 78 album "Folk Songs of the Hills", Capitol AD 50; rec. 1946) 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "'31 Depression Blues" (lyrics)
File: LoF154
===
NAME: Sixteen Years, Mama
DESCRIPTION: The daughter says that at 16 it is time she was wed. The mother offers her daughter a sheep instead; daughter would weep. Mother offers a cow; daughter would frown. Mother offers a man; daughter says "as soon as ever you can... Married I'd like to be"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (IRClare01,Voice15)
KEYWORDS: dialog mother bargaining animal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12942
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "Fourteen Last Sunday" (on IRTravellers01)
Mikey Kelleher, "Daughter, Dearest Daughter" (on IRClare01)
Tom Lenihan, "Sixteen Years, Mama" (on Voice15)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (subject)
cf. "Lazy Mary" ("She Won't Get Up") (subject)
NOTES: This is "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" without the whistle.
The last verse of Mikey Kelleher's "Daughter, Dearest Daughter" on IRClare01 is the "father and mother in yonder bed do lie" verse from "Blow the Candle Out" [Laws P17]. - BS
File: Rc16YrsM
===
NAME: Sixty Years Ago: see Twenty Years Ago (Forty Years Ago) (File: R869)
===
NAME: Skeppet Bernadotte
DESCRIPTION: Swedish capstan shanty. Translation - Ship sails from Cardiff, runs into various mechanical problems and bad weather and are left with nothing but bread to eat.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty ship technology food
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 469-470, "Skeppet Bernadotte" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
File: Hugi469
===
NAME: Skeptic's Daughter, The: see Rosedale Waters (The Skeptic's Daughter) (File: R601)
===
NAME: Skerry's Blue-Eyed Jane
DESCRIPTION: The singer rides up to a "lovely maid," and asks if she will come away with him. She refuses; she loves another. He says her love is married. She says he lies, and if her love were here, he would slay the singer. The singer reveals that he is her love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation reunion disguise
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H737, pp. 309-310, "Skerry's Blue-Eyed Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3816
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
File: HHH737
===
NAME: Skew Ball: see Skewball [Laws Q22] (File: LQ22)
===
NAME: Skewball [Laws Q22]
DESCRIPTION: (Skewball) and one or more other horses run a race; the crowd favors another animal. (Half way through the course), Skewball tells his rider he will win. He pushes on to victory (and drinks a toast with his rider)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1784 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B25)
KEYWORDS: horse racing promise
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NE,SE) Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws Q22, "Skewball"
BrownII 136, "Skew Ball" (2 fragments)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 68-70, "Stewball" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 62-64, "The Noble Skewball" (1 partial text plus a British version in a footnote, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 151-152, "Stewball" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 8, "Squeball" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 395, "Stewball" (1 text)
DT 349, STWBLHOR STWBLHR2
Roud #456
RECORDINGS:
"Bowlegs" [no other name given], "Stewball" (AFS 1863 B4, 1933)
Harold B. Hazelhurst, "Stewboy" (AFS 3143 B3, 1939)
Harry Jackson, "Old Blue Was a Gray Horse" (on HJackson1)
Ed Lewis & prisoners, "Stewball" (on LomaxCD1703)
A. L. Lloyd, "Skewball" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd6)
Pete Seeger, "Stewball" (on PeteSeeger43)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 999[some lines illegible], "Skew Ball" ("Come gentlemen sportsmen I pray listen all"), J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819; also Harding B 11(3533), Harding B 15(289a), Harding B 15(289b), Harding B 15(290a), Firth c.19(78), Firth c.19(79), Harding B 11(73), Firth b.26(236), "Skew Ball"; Harding B 28(274), Harding B 25(1784), Harding B 25(1785), Harding B 6(54), G.A. Gen. top. b.29(24/2) [some words illegible] "Skewball"; Firth b.25(297), Johnson Ballads 1406, 2806 c.18(282), Firth c.26(51), "Scew Ball"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Molly and Tenbrooks" [Laws H27] (plot)
cf. "Little Dun Dee" (plot)
NOTES: This seems to have given rise to a work song fragment, "Old Skubald"; see Darling-NAS, p. 325. - RBW
File: LQ22
===
NAME: Skibbereen
DESCRIPTION: A boy asks his father why he left Skibbereen when he is always speaking of it. The father lists reasons: First came the blight. Then the landlord took the land. Then he joined the 1848 rebellion, and had to flee. The boy promises revenge
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion hardtimes landlord exile
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1847/8 - Greatest of several Irish potato famines
1848 - Irish rebellion
FOUND_IN: Ireland Australia Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
PGalvin, p. 46, "Skibbereen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 163, "Skibbereen" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SKIBREEN*
Roud #2312
RECORDINGS:
O. J. Abbott, "Skibbereen" (on Abbott1)
Freddy McKay, "Skibbereen" (on Voice08)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (subject: The Potato Famines) and references there
NOTES: The 1848 rebellion was the result of many factors. One was hunger -- the potato blight drove food prices beyond the reach of common people; in the end, millions died and many more went to America. For details, see the notes to "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)."
Another was land hunger; the preceding decades had forced many Irish smallholders off their lands while allowing the rich (usually English) to enlarge their holdings. By the time of the blight, most Irish were working holdings of five acres or less; there simply wasn't enough land for the population.
The image of the landlord squeezing the tenants is also accurate. Though landlords in Ireland were always unusually ruthless, things got worse in the post-blight period. The landlords preferred raising stock, with a prospect for selling it, to helping peasants (who supplied only labor). The poor laws of the period helped them clear off the land: A peasant who appealed for food because his crops were taken by the blight automatically lost his lease. Between 1851 and 1857, the number of smallholdings in Ireland fell by about a sixth.
Finally, revolution was in the air; almost all of Europe (except England) was in turmoil.
Unfortunately for the rebels, the very factors that caused the revolt meant that it had no strength and could gain no foreign help. And England, with a stable government at home and all her enemies distracted, could deal with the rebellion at its leisure.
I don't know that it's significant that Skibbereen is described as the rebel's home place. But it's interesting, since Skibbereen was where O'Donovan Rossa founded the Phoeni National and Literary Society -- which, despite its name, was an armed rebel group -- though this was abouta decade after1848. (For this story, see Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 131. For Rossa, see the notes to "Rossa's Farewell to Erin.") - RBW
File: PGa046
===
NAME: Skin and Bones (The Skin and Bones Lady)
DESCRIPTION: "There was an old woman, all skin and bones." The old woman decides to go to church. At the church she encounters a (rotting?) corpse. She asks the (parson/clock), "Will I be thus when I am dead." When told "Yes," she screams and/or dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1810 (Gammer Gurton's Garland, revised edition)
KEYWORDS: death questions
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Belden, pp. 502-503, "Old Woman All Skin and Bone" (3 texts)
Randolph 69, "The Skin-and-Bone Woman" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownIII 142, "Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more; the "B" text seems to have picked up a "Worms Crawl In" chorus)
Brewster 53, "The Skin-and-Bone Lady" (1 short text, clearly this though it lacks the "skin-and-bone" reference)
Eddy 86, "The Skin-and-Bone Lady" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 11-12, "[Skin and Bones]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 20, "Skin and Bones" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 167, "The Skin-And-Bone Lady" (2 texts)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 180-181, "The Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Linscott, pp. 44-46, "Old Woman All Skin and Bone" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 293, "There was a lady all skin and bone" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #92, pp. 86-88, "(There was a lady all skin and bone)"
Chase, p. 186, "The Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, p. 586, "Old Woman All Skin and Bone" (1 text, 1 tune) 
DT, SKINBONE
Roud #501
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singer, "There Was an Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (on USWarnerColl01)
File: R069
===
NAME: Skin the Goat's Curse on Carey
DESCRIPTION: Skin the Goat says before he sails that he will give Carey, the informer, his curses, such as, "by some mistake may he shortly take A flowing pint of poison." Skin the Goat promises that "when I die, my old ghost will sit on his bed-post"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: transportation humorous betrayal curse Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Chronology of 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: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 85, "Skin the Goat's Curse on Carey" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Phoenix Park Tragedy" (subject: the Phoenix Park murders) and references there
NOTES: For another broadside on the same subject see
Bodleian, Harding B 26(605), "'Skin the Goat's' Letter" ("You jolly old boys just hold your noise"), unknown, n.d.
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. 284: "'Skin the Goat' was the nickname of James Fitzharris, the cabman who drove the murderers of Lord Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke to and from Phoenix Park. He was sentenced to penal servitude for 'conspiracy' because he refused to identify his passengers." - BS
File: Zimm085
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NAME: Skinner on the Dock
DESCRIPTION: The singer leaves Lockport (on the Erie Canal), curses out Skinner, and describes some of his crewmates on the canal boat.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy canal moniker
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 466-467, "Skinner on the Dock" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Legman in Randolph-Legman posits that these are the "lost" first verses of "The Erie Canal."  - EC
File: RL466
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NAME: Skinner, Skinner, You Know the Rule
DESCRIPTION: "Skinner, skinner, you know the rule, Eat your breakfast and curry your mule, Curry your mules and curry them right, Let's get on the big boat next Saturday night." The singer complains about (work? and) his troubles with his woman
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad animal
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, p. 23, "Skinner, Skinner, You Know the Rule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9999
NOTES: A "skinner" is a teamster. - RBW
File: MWhee023
===
NAME: Skinner's Song
DESCRIPTION: "I looked at de sun and de sun looked high, I looked at de captain and he wunk his eye, And he wunk his eye, and he wunk his eye, I looked at de captain and he wunk his eye." "I looked at de sun and de sun looked red... de captain... he turned his head."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 230, "Skinner's Song" (1 short text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "On the Road Again" (form)
NOTES: A skinner is a teamster. Scarborough explains that "The Negro is not eager to work overtime." Understandable, since he certainly wouldn't get paid for it!
Scarborough's fragment doesn't look quite like anything else I've seen, but it feels as if it's derived from "On the Road Again," or something in the "Joseph Mikel" family. One of those railroad/rambler songs, anyway. - RBW
File: ScaNF230
===
NAME: Skinniest Man I Ever Knew, The: see The Thinnest Man (File: PHCFS175)
===
NAME: Skip to My Lou
DESCRIPTION: Various stanzas, all with the chorus "Skip to my Lou, my darling": "Lost my partner, what'll I do?" "I'll get another one prettier than you!" "Flies in the buttermilk, shoo shoo shoo!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So)
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Randolph 516, "Skip to My Lou" (5 texts plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 395-397, "Skip to my Lou" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 516A)
Hudson 152, p. 300, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 166-169, "Skip to My Lou" (1 very full text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 167-168, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 30, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 294-295, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 99, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 60, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 193-199, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune, plus figures)
Darling-NAS, pp. 256-257, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 90, "Skip To My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 288, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 389, "Skip To My Lou" (1 text)
DT, SKIPLOU
Roud #3593
RECORDINGS:
James Crase, "Skip to My Lou" (on MMOKCD)
Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, "Skip To My Lou" (Crown 3188/Montgomery Ward 3025, 1931)
Pete Daley's Arkansas Fiddlers, "Skip to My Lou" (Continental 3012, n.d.)
Uncle Eck Dunford, "Skip to my Lou, My Darling" (Victor 20938, 1927; on CrowTold01)
Georgia Organ Grinders, "Skip To My Lou, My Darling" (Columbia 15415-D, 1929)
Spud Gravely & Glen Smith, "Skip to My Lou" (on HalfCen1)
John D. Mounce et al, "Skip to My Lou" (on MusOzarks01)
Ritchie Family, "Skip to My Lou" (on Ritchie03)
Pete Seeger, "Skip to My Lou" (on PeteSeeger08, PeteSeegerCD02) (on PeteSeeger17) (on PeteSeeger32) (on PeteSeeger21) (on PeteSeeger22) (on PeteSeeger23)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Waltz the Hall" (lyrics)
File: R516
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NAME: Skipper Dan
DESCRIPTION: The Tiger is ready to go out. The singer on Sunday tries to borrow money from Skipper Dan. Skipper Dan refuses because the singer would get drunk. The singer replies that he will sell his rags to get money for liquor.
AUTHOR: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: drink sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 97, "Skipper Dan" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Lehr/Best: "No doubt more verses exist." - BS
File: LeBe097
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NAME: Skipper Tom
DESCRIPTION: "I scarce been in bed three ticks of the clock When at me back door I heard a loud knock." Skipper Tom wakes the singer because he has a big fish on the line. The big fish gets away. They go closer to shore to get smaller fish.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: fishing sea ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 143-144, "Skipper Tom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9967
File: Pea143
===
NAME: Skipper's Wedding, the
DESCRIPTION: "Good neighbours, I'm come for to tell you, Our skipper and Moll's to be wed; And if it be true what they're saying, Egad, we'll be rarely fed." The available foods are listed, as are the odd characters who will be present
AUTHOR: Words: William Stephenson ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay); Stephenson died 1836
KEYWORDS: marriage party music food
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  24-26, "The Skipper's Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR024 (Partial)
Roud #2620
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blythesome Bridal" (theme) and references there
cf. "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" (tune)
File: StoR024
===
NAME: Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Sogsta Berg (The Pretty Maid Climbs the Highest Mountain)
DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty. A maid's her betrothed sails away. After (three) years she agrees to marry another. He returns just after the wedding, she laments it is too late, she thought he was dead. He says he will be soon, write her a farewell and kills himself.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty. A maid's her betrothed sails away. After (three) years she agrees to marry another. He returns just after the wedding, she laments it is too late, she thought he was dead. He says he will be soon, write her a farewell and kills himself. (In some versions it is the bride who commits suicide.)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty sailor separation suicide wedding return reunion betrayal
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 545-548, "Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Sogsta Berg" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Out In the Moonlight (I Will Love Thee Always)" (plot)
cf. "Susannah Clargy [Laws P33]" (plot) and references there
File: Hugi545
===
NAME: Skye Boat Song (Over the Sea to Skye)
DESCRIPTION: "Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing... Carry the lad that's born to be king Over the sea to Skye." The singer grieves over the dead of Culloden, and wishes Bonnie Prince Charlie a safe escape
AUTHOR: Words: Harold Boulton / Music: Annie MacLeod
EARLIEST_DATE: 1884 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites ship escape sea 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.
Sep 20, 1746 - Charles finally escapes to France
FOUND_IN: Britain US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Brewster 79, "Speed, Bonnie Boat" (1 fragment plus a copy of Boulton's original text)
DT, SKYEBOAT
Roud #3772
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(121) "Over the Sea to Skye," Poet's Box (Dundee), c.1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Flora MacDonald's Lament" (subject)
cf. "Twa Bonnie Maidens" (subject)
NOTES: It is ironic to note that, while this song had a certain vogue as an art piece, the only traditional collections seem to have been in North America. - RBW
File: Brew79
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NAME: Slack Away Yer Reefy Tayckle: see Let Go the Reef Tackle (File: Doe165)
===
NAME: Slack Your Rope: see The Maid Freed from the Gallows [Child 95] (File: C095)
===
NAME: Slago Town: see Sligo Town (File: CW145)
===
NAME: Slaney Side, The: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
===
NAME: Slapander-Gosheka
DESCRIPTION: "What would my mother say to me, if I should come home with Big Billy? Chorus: Slappoo, slapeter, slap-an-der-go-she-ka, slappoo! I'd tell her to go and hold her tongue, for she did the same when she was young." Other verses have similar rhymes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: shanty nonsense
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 98-99, "Slapander-Gosheka" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9168
File: Harl098
===
NAME: Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain, The [Child 230]
DESCRIPTION: Fragment: A fair lady is heard lamenting for her slain husband, "John Hately, the Laird of Mellerstain." She laments that her ladies were not men who could have stood by him as he was killed.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828
KEYWORDS: death mourning murder
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 3, 1603 - Murder of "Johne Haitlie of Millstanes" by "William Home hes guidfather."
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 230, "The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain" (1 text)
Roud #4020
File: C230
===
NAME: Slav Ho: see Saltpetre Shanty (Slav Ho) (File: Colc097)
===
NAME: Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last
DESCRIPTION: "Slavery chain done broke at last, broke at last, broke at last... Gonna praise God till I die." The former slave describes praying to God for relief from pain and oppression. God has answered with mighty armies; "He gave me liberty."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953
KEYWORDS: slave slavery freedom religious
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-CivWar, p. 41, "Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p. 102, "Slavery Chain" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 299, "Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last" (1 text)
Roud #15257
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" (tune)
File: SCW41
===
NAME: Sleeping Beauty (Thorn Rose, Briar Rose)
DESCRIPTION: Singing game. "Fair Rosa was a lovely child... Fair Rosa slept a hundred years... A forest grew around her tower... A wicked fairy found her there... A noble prince came riding by... And now she's happy as a bride."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: magic rescue marriage beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H599, p. 12, "Fair Rosa/The Sleeping Beauty" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7889
NOTES: Very common as a folktale, of course, and quite old. In the Grimm collection, it is "Briar-Rose" ("Dornroschen," #50, 1812); Perrault also had a version. The oldest version known is in the Volsung saga; in section 20, Sigurd awakens Brynhild by slicing away her enchanted armor.
File: HHH599
===
NAME: Sleeping for the Flag
DESCRIPTION: "When the boys come home in triumph, brother, With the laurels they shall gain... We shall look for you in vain." The brave man lies dead "underneath the Southern tree." "Sleeping to waken in this weary world no more... Sleeping for the flag you bore."
AUTHOR: Henry Clay Work
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: Civilwar death burial soldier
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 212-213, "Sleeping for the Flag" (1 text)
DT, SLEPFLAG*
File: HCW212
===
NAME: Sleepy Merchant, The
DESCRIPTION: The merchant comes calls for a bed and a girl. She gives him a sleeping drug. The next night, he pours out the drug and sleeps with her, but does not leave the gift he promised. Later, he arrives to find her pregnant and gives her his hand in marriage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The merchant comes to an inn and calls for a bed and a girl. She gives him a sleeping drug, and arises a maiden. The next night, he pours out the drug and sleeps with her, promising her a fine plaid. When he departs, she finds no plaid and curses him. Twenty weeks later, he arrives to find her pregnant. He gives her the plaid and his hand in marriage, and they live happily.
KEYWORDS: sex drugs drink pregnancy trick clothes reunion marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kinloch-BBook II, pp. 4-11, "The Sleepy Merchant" (1 text)
Roud #7164
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Broomfield Hill" [Child 43] (plot)
NOTES: Child mentions this song in his notes to "The Broomfield Hill," but writes it off as "a modern ballad" perhaps based on an Italian story.
I allow the possibility; "The Sleepy Merchant" seems a rather disjointed piece, with the first part being a tale of how the girl tricked the merchant into not sleeping with her (as in "The Broomfield Hill") and the second being your standard seduction-pregnancy-and-return sort of song, as in, e.g. "The Broom of Cowdenknows." But the piece feels more traditional than literary, so I've tentatively included it in the Index even though I've never seen its like. - RBW
File: KinBB02
===
NAME: Sleepytoon: see Sleepytown (File: RcSlepTn)
===
NAME: Sleepytoon (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Cam all my lads that follow the ploo:" the singer tells about the job at Sleepytoon. The foreman wakes you at five for porridge. The farmer's "weel respected" but his wife is an ugly, scowling, "argefying bitch"
AUTHOR: probably Willie Clark (c.1854, according to Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 5" - 25.8.02)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974 (recording, John MacDonald)
KEYWORDS: farming food hardtimes nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #9140
RECORDINGS:
John MacDonald, "Sleepytoon" (on Voice05)
NOTES: Except for the title and general subject matter this seems to me to be entirely unlike "Sleepytown (I)."
The author, according to notes to Voice05, is George Morris. The Musical Traditions Notes attribution says that the song was "popularised on a 78 disc by the late George S Morris of Old Meldrum. (Reg Hall's comment that [George] Morris wrote the piece is incorrect)." My choice, with no information beyond what is in this note, is to follow Musical Traditions Notes. - BS
File: RcSlee2
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NAME: Sleepytown (I)
DESCRIPTION: Singer, tired of his old job, hires out as a laborer to farmer Adam Mitchell, of Sleepytoon. The farmer's work (no more than ten hours a day, but with strict rules and fines) is described; with the season ended, singer and friends are off to celebrate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: farming work worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp 225-226, "Sleepytown" (1 text)
ST RcSlepTn (Full)
Roud #3775
RECORDINGS:
J. C. Mearns and friends, "Sleepytoon" [2 verses missing] (on Lomax43, LomaxCD1743)
NOTES: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Scottish workers hired out as contract farm laborers, living in "bothies," barn dormitories. Many "bothy ballads" were composed there, including this one. - PJS
Paul compares this to a wide variety of lumbering songs, which have the same theme of working too hard and then partying the off-season away. The song type is hardly limited to lumbermen; there are, e.g., many Australian shearing songs of the same type. Compare also Scottish songs such as "The Barnyards o Delgaty." - RBW
File: RcSlepTn
===
NAME: Sliabh na mBan (Mountain of the Women)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. It is untrue that we fled like cattle on Sliabh na mBan. Had we waited patiently we'd have had support. Few retreated but many died or were imprisoned. If it's true that the French are coming to help the Gael we'll repay the robber Saxon.
AUTHOR: George Sigerson (1836-1925) (translator) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1998 ("The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage rebellion battle Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 23, 1798 - General Sir Charles Asgill disperses a body of United Irishmen assembled on Sliabh na mBan mountain in Tipperary (source: Moylan) 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 103, "Sliabh na mBan" (1 Gaelic text, 1 tune); 104, "Sliabh na mBan" (1 English text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Slievenamon" (subject)
NOTES: The description is from the translation by George Sigerson as Moylan 104, "Sliabh na mBan." 
Zimmermann p. 207: "The original 'Sliabh na mBan' is one of the few traditional songs in Irish inspired by the rising of 1798." 
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Aine Ui Cheallaigh, "Sliabh na mBan" (on "The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes) - BS
This event is obscure enough that I couldn't find mention of it in any of the Irish histories I checked. It was just one of those skirmishes that took place after the 1798 rising had largely collapsed. The one thing that's certain is that the brutal Asgill would not have stopped while there was a live enemy left to kill. - RBW
File: Moyl103
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NAME: Slieve Gallen Brae
DESCRIPTION: The singer urges the visitor from the city to view Slive Gallen Brae: the old dolmen, the chieftain's graves, the singing linnets, the flowers, the home of Rory Dall, the grave of Cooey-na-gall. He says that bards come from far away to find inspiration
AUTHOR: James O'Kane?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: nonballad home music
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H784, pp. 172-173, "Slieve Gallen Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1420
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of the Roe" (for Cooey-na-Gal) and references there
NOTES: Not to be confused with the emigration song, "[Farewell unto] [Bonnie] Slieve Gallen Braes."
For "Cooey-na-Gal" O'Cahan and Dungiven Priory, see the notes on "The Banks of the Roe." "Rory Dall" is of course the famous blind harper of the O'Cahans. - RBW
File: HHH784
===
NAME: Slieve Gallen Braes
DESCRIPTION: The singer walks out to view the beauties of Slieve Gallen Braes. He recalls walking and hunting in the past near his small farm. "But the rents were getting higher and I could no longer stay So farewell unto you bonny, bonny Slieve Gallen Braes."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Carl Hardebeck in _Gems of Melody: Seoda Ceoil,_ according to OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: Ireland home exile hardtimes poverty emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn-More 9, "Sliav Gallion Braes" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SLIEVGAL*
ADDITIONAL: Bell/O Conchubhair, Traditional Songs of the North of Ireland, pp. 36-37, "Sliabh Gallen's Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1420
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Exiled Irishman's Lament (The Exiles of Erin)" (theme)
File: DTslievg
===
NAME: Slieve Na Mon
DESCRIPTION: Tithes and taxes: "No more they're legal on Slieve na Mon" At Carrickshock we left "the rabble ... in death's cold agony." The accused are freed "by the means of our noble Dan." Soon "tithes no more will oppress the land" "We'll banish Brinswickers"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1832 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence trial death farming Ireland political police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 14, 1831 - Carrickshock, County Kilkenny: Peasants attack tithe process servers, killing at least 13 (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 42, "Slieve Na Mon" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(81), "Slieve Na Mon" ("You banished sons of this injured nation"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War and the Carrickshock Riot)
cf. "Sliabh na mBan" (tune)
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 p. 18: "In the early 1830's a veritable state of insurrection prevailed in Leinster and Munster, when the military and the police were called in to assist in collecting the tithes or seizing and auctioning the cattle or crops of those who refused to pay."
Zimmermann's description of the "Battle of Carrickshock": "a proctor tried to serve tithe processes at Carrickshock, County Kilkenny; he was accompanied by a police force of thirty-seven men. A party of peasants armed with scythes, spades and pitchforks attacked them. The proctor and at least twelve policemen were killed. The peasants charge with murder were skilfully defended by O'Connell, and the trial was abandoned."
The broadside description of the battle is graphic: "Who could desire to see better sport, To see them groping among the loughs, Their sculls all fractured, their eye-balls broken, Their great long noses and ears cut off." 
Zimmermann states that a version was noted "from oral tradition c. 1900." - BS
For the overall history of the Tithe War, as well as more information on this song, see the notes to "The Battle of Carrickshock." The name "Brinswickers," i.e. "Brunswickers," was used as a generic term in Ireland for non-Catholics -- even though, ironically, the Germans were Lutherans, while the English were Anglican and the Ulster immigrants were Presbyterian (Reformed); neither of the latter two sects are, technically, Protestant. (A distintiction, I concede, of greater significance to non-Catholics than Catholics.)  - RBW.
File: Zimm042
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NAME: Slievenamon
DESCRIPTION: "Two thousand men for Ireland, on splendid Slievenamon." They are a sign to every village and to Irish in America and "every clime." They put to shame "the blushless recreant." Push on "till every mountain in the land be manned like Slievenamon!"
AUTHOR: Dr. Campion (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion battle Ireland nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 23, 1798 - General Sir Charles Asgill attacks and disperses United Irishmen on Sliabh na mBan Mountain, Tipperary (source: Moylan)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 105, "Slievenamon" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sliabh na mBan" (subject)
NOTES: This event is obscure enough that I couldn't find mention of it in any of the Irish histories I checked. It was just one of those skirmishes that took place after the 1798 rising had largely collapsed. The one thing that's certain is that the brutal Asgill would not have stopped while there was a live enemy left to kill. - RBW
File: Moyl105
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NAME: Slighted Girl, The: see Lonesome Dove (File: Br3262)
===
NAME: Slighted Soldier, The: see King David had a Pleasant Dream [Laws O16] (File: LO16)
===
NAME: Slighted Suitor, The
DESCRIPTION: A rich merchant's daughter has many suitors; she rejects them. One wins her heart, but she says, "I have no desire a single life to part."  He courts another. She begs him to change his mind. He rejects her in turn. (She warns against doing as she did)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection abandonment
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H159a/b, pp. 396-397, "The Slighted Suitor" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
OLochlainn-More 34, "The Merchant's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4715
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rejected Lover" [Laws P10] and references there
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann speculate that this might be a version of "The Rejected Lover" (Laws P10). The plots are indeed the same. But I see no points of contact in the lyrics; I think they are separate songs. - RBW
File: HHH159
===
NAME: Slighted Sweetheart, The: see Farewell, Sweetheart (The Parting Lovers, The Slighted Sweetheart) (File: R756)
===
NAME: Sligo Shore: see Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19] (File: LK19)
===
NAME: Sligo Town
DESCRIPTION: "O once I knew a pretty little girl When pretty little girls were but few; Ofttimes I've rolled her in my arms All over the fog and dew." After all this courting/rolling, he writes to ask if she will marry him. He wishes he were in Sligo with a girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967
KEYWORDS: courting love separation sex
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 180, p. 145, "Slago Town" (1 text)
Roud #558
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Foggy Dew (The Bugaboo)" [Laws O3] (theme, floating lyrics)
NOTES: This piece is obviously derived from "The Foggy Dew," but it has picked up enough twists of its own that it deserves to be classified separately (though Roud, of course, lumps them). - RBW
File: CW145
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NAME: Sling the Flowing Bowl
DESCRIPTION: "Come come my jolly lads the wind's abaft, Brisk gales our sails shall crowd...." "Then sling the flowing bowl. Fond hopes arise the girls we prize Shall bless each jovial soul." The sailors boast of their prowess while on patrol
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Journal from the Chile)
KEYWORDS: ship sailor nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 51-52, "Sling the Flowing Bowl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2015
NOTES: Huntington's versions are from American whalers, but it is clear that this song was originally sung by British sailors, probably from naval vessels, as it refers to patrolling the coast of Spain. - RBW
File: SWMS051
===
NAME: Sloan Wellesley: see The Drowning of Young Robinson (File: HHH585)
===
NAME: Slob Song, The
DESCRIPTION: The ship is loaded and heads to Forteau. It is caught in slob ice at Launce Amour cove. A rescue boat fastens a line from shore to the ship. While four men and three women hold the line the crew pull the ship to shore. Crew and cargo are safely landed.
AUTHOR: Leo O'Brien
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 73, "The Slob Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab073 (Partial)
Roud #9981
NOTES: Forteau Bay and L'Anse Amour are on the lower Labrador coast on the Strait of Belle Isle. - BS
File: LLab073
===
NAME: Sloop John B, The: see The John B. Sails (File: San022)
===
NAME: Smart Schoolboy, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: Smashing of the Van (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Two Fenian leaders, Kelly and Deasy, have been imprisoned; a party of Fenians led Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, stop and break into the prison van and free them. But the rescuers kill a man, and in the end are executed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: prison Ireland rebellion execution death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 11, 1867 - Kelly and Deasy are arrested and rescued a week later by 30 Fenians
Nov 24, 1867 -  Three of the ambushers are hanged (source: _The Manchester Martyrs_ on the Gorton Local History Group site)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 50-51, "The Smashing of the Van" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 14, "The Manchester Martyrs" or "The Smashing of the Van" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 72, "The Smashing of the Van" or "The Three Manchester Martyrs" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3028
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Allen, Larkin and O'Brien" (subject: The Manchester Martyrs)
cf. "God Save Ireland" (subject: The Manchester Martyrs)
cf. "The Manchester Martyrs (I)" (subject: The Manchester Martyrs)
NOTES: Ben Schwartz tells me that this is sung to the tune of "The River Roe," but I'm not sure which song of that name is meant.
The Fenians were a group of Irishmen (many of them living in America) whose purpose was to liberate Ireland. Whatever one thinks of their goal, their history was almost comic; they kept trying goofy ideas and nothing ever worked.
This incident is typical: in 1867, the Fenians were talking rebellion, though leader James Stephens (for whom see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy") was trying to call things off. But the British continued to arrest potential rebels.
On September 11, two men were captured in Manchester and charged with loitering. An informer pointed out that they were Thomas J. Kelly, who had been proclaimed chief executive of the Fenian's Irish Republic (see Robert Kee, _The Bold Fenian Men_, being volume II of _The Green Flag_, pp. 31, 33), and one Captain Timothy Deasy (Kee, p. 45).
Kelly and Deasy probably were not in danger of losing their lives, but they were "rescued" anyway on September 18. It wasn't that hard; the police wagon was unescorted. It was, after all, in England, not Ireland.
In the course of the  "rescue," a police sergeant, Charles Brett, was killed. Kee reports that one Peter Rice (who later escaped, with Kelly and Deasy, to America) fired the fatal shot. Few other sources definitively list a name, but he is obviously the prime suspect.
The British, in their usual inept way in in such matters, hauled in a large crowd of Irish folk found near Manchester. Five men were put on trial for killing Brett. Rice was not among them. One of the five, Maguire, had no involvement in the rescue at all and was later given full pardon.
The other four prisoners, William Allen, Edward Condon, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien, had taken part in the attack but almost certainly had not fired the fatal shot. Nonetheless they were convicted of the murder (officially Allen was regarded as the one who had done the shooting). Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien were executed on November 24 (so Kee, p. 47; Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 147; the article _The Manchester Martyrs_ on the Gorton Local History Group site says November 23).
The three men came to be known as the "Manchester Martyrs."
A rescue attempt failed, but was bloodier than the first try: This time, the Fenians managed to kill a dozen bystanders.
Even though the blood had been shed by the Irish, and the British had followed the law throughout (under both British and American law, one engaged in a felony in which a murder is committed is guilty of the murder even if one is not a murderer), both sides blamed the other, increasing Anglo-Irish tensions. The incident also increased rebel recruiting.
The description of the van being "smashed" is literally accurate: The van was locked, and Brett had the keys, so the Irish pounded on it with rocks to get it open. This failed, and Brett refused to yield, and so the fatal shot was fired. It is not known whether the bullet was aimed at Brett, or at the van's lock, or merely intended to intimidate; in any case, it proved fatal.
The trial of the martyrs also gave the Irish a memorable phrase: Edward Condon (the one raider who was condemned but *not* hung, because he was an American citizen) shouted out "God save Ireland!" during the proceedings, and it inspired the song of that name.
The British, having watched all these acts, plus another bungled rescue of a prisoner (Richard O'Sullivan Burke, for whom see the notes on "Burke's Dream" [Laws J16]) which led to the death of twelve English citizens and the maiming of dozens more (Kee, pp. 49-51), were hardly in a mood for pity. But the Gladstone government, which came to power in 1868, released most Irish political prisoners in 1871.
For other examples of Fenian bungling, see the notes to "A Fenian Song (I)" and "The British Man-of-War." - RBW
File: PGa050
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NAME: Smashing of the Van (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Ten Sinn Fein men smash a prison van on Glasgow's High Street to free a prisoner. The police arrest the Sinn Fein men and Father McRory "a mere clergyman." Counsellors McKane and Sandymen defend the accused and the verdict is "Not Guilty"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: violence crime trial clergy police IRA
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 4, 1921 - Attempted rescue of Frank Carty from a police van in Glasgow (source: Coogan)
FOUND_IN: ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 65, "The Smashing of the Van" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3028
NOTES: The song is about a failed rescue attempt of IRA commander Frank Carty while he was being transported in a police van to Duke Street prison. Inspector Johnson was killed. Father McRory, among others, was charged but all the accused were acquitted. "The trial, and in particular Father McRory's arrest, fanned sectarian tensions to white heat. However, the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921 helped to defuse the situation." (source: Tim Pat Coogan, _Wherever Green is Worn_ (2001, New York), p. 243).
McBride: "Fr. McRory, mentioned in this song was from the 'Parish', the rural area that lies north of Bunrana Town, hence the popularity of this short song in Inishowen."
McBride's text begins "It was on the twenty fourth of May nineteen and twenty one"; _The Times_ of London supports Coogan's date of May 4, 1921 (source:"Irish Outrage in Glasgow Police Inspector Murdered”, _The Times_, May 5, 1921, p. 7, Issue 42712, column D, Copyright 1921 _The Times_, Article CS119083173, Copyright 2002 The Gale Group). - BS
The index to Calton Younger's _Ireland's Civil War_ (Fontana Press, 1979) reveals that there were two Frank Cartys of interest during this period, one from Sligo, one from Wexford. Frank Carty of Wexford was an IRA brigade adjutant (Younger, p. 343), but it is Carty of Sligo who is meant here. Interestingly, Younger has far more references to Cary of Wexford than Carty of Sligo,mentioning this rescue only in passing. And most of the other histories I checked don't mention Carty at all.
I would not hasten to accept that Father McRory was a "mere" clergyman. I assume this is Joseph McRory (1861-1945), archishop of Armagh from 1928 and cardinal from 1929 (so his entry in the _Oxford Companion to Irish History_); he is said to have been "reluctant to condemn IRA activities." And he later inflamed the troubles with a statement that Protestant churche were not part of the true church of Christ (see John A. Murphy, _Ireland in the Twentieth Century_, Gill and Macmillan, 1989, p. 159). - RBW
File: McB1065
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NAME: Smeara, Na (The Blackberries)
DESCRIPTION: Singer, "with a wish for every woman": loved "a dark-eyed damsel" while "herding horny cows"; was engaged to Peg O'Doherty who "vanished with a vagabond"; hit on a widow who "nearly scalded me." He loves a girl among the blackberries at harvest time.
AUTHOR: J.P. Craig [in Gaelic] (source: Tunney-SongsThunder)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Tunney-SongsThunder)
KEYWORDS: courting seduction sex humorous nonballad rake  harvest food
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 9-11, "The Blackberries" (1 text)
File: TST009
===
NAME: Smiggy Maglooral
DESCRIPTION: Smiggey marries a maid (or fights in Bull Run). The maid winds the clock and milks the cow "from the chimney top." She has a cramp (or gets the croup) and "they brought her to with some turtle soup." She meets Mose, they come to blows and home she goes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1865 (broadside, Bodleian LOCSinging as203350)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonsense disease injury animal food fight
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 71, "I Have a Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 143, "Smiggy Maglooral" (1 text)
ST OCon143 (Partial)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(711), "Smiggey McGuirrel", H. De Marsan (New York) , 1861-1864 [same as LOCSinging as203350]
LOCSinging, as203350, "Smiggey McGuirrel", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(711)]
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging as203350 and Bodleian Harding B 18(711): 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: OCon143
===
NAME: Smithfield Mountain: see Springfield Mountain [Laws G16] (File: LG16)
===
NAME: Smokey Mountain Bill
DESCRIPTION: "Smokey Mountain Bill... drunk a lot of gin -- That's what caused him all the trouble he got in." Bill, a moonshiner, shoots a revenuer. Imprisoned by the sheriff, he escapes to the mountains, where he and his still live a happy life
AUTHOR: Carson Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Frank Luther & Carson Robison)
KEYWORDS: death drink humorous
FOUND_IN: Canada(West)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 102-104, "Smokey Mountain Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ102 (Partial)
Roud #4544
RECORDINGS:
Frank Luther & Carson Robison, "Smoky Mountain Bill" (Brunswick 412, 1930)
File: FJ102
===
NAME: Smoothing Iron, The: see Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron (File: ShH82)
===
NAME: Smuggler's Song (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "When the blink o' the day is fading fast... O, that is the hour for to flash the oar." The singer talks of the troubles at sea, sneers at the German royalty, then waxes at length about the joys when they come back to shore.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord); reportedly published 1844
KEYWORDS: ship sea home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 386, "Smuggler's Song" (1 text)
Roud #3795
NOTES: It's hard to determine what this is about. Although the title refers to smuggling, the song itself has no such references. We have only two facts: Ord reports that the song was published in 1844 in the _Ayrshire Wreath_, and then there is the reference to "the German" (it doesn't say King, or Kaiser, but said German lives in a palace).
My best guess, on that basis, is that the song refers to Napoleon's blockade of Great Britain -- the "Continental System," proclaimed in Berlin on November 21, 1806, in which the German states were reluctantly included. - RBW
File: Ord386
===
NAME: Smuggler's Song (Watch the Wall While the Gentlemen Go By)
DESCRIPTION: "If you wake at midnight, and hear a horses's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind or looking in the street..." The child is assured that all is well, and told not to repeat what she hears. If she keeps quiet, she may be rewarded and will hear no lies
AUTHOR: Words: Rudyard Kipling?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Puck of Pook's Hill)
KEYWORDS: nonballad horse animal police
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry (introduction to) H494, p. 127, "Hugh Hill, the Ramoan Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: There is something peculiar going on here. On its face, this was published by Rudyard Kipling as "Smuggler's Song" in _Puck of Pook's Hill_ (1906). It occurs at the end of the chapter "Hal o' the Daft" (which, curiously, is tied up with Sir Andrew Barton). The text from _Puck_ was set to music by Peter Bellamy, and has been recorded, e.g., by John Roberts and Tony Barrand.
But Lani Herrmann reports that Isla Cameron also recorded the song -- presumably well before Bellamy set a tune. Sam Henry, in 1933, quoted the first stanza without attribution, as if it were a folk song. Could Kipling have taken a traditional scrap and turned it into a full poem? If ever he did such a thing, the most likely place for him to publish it would have been in _Puck_.
Internal evidence of the poem isn't much help. There is a reference to "King George's Men," but of course one George or another was on the English throne from 1714 to 1830.
It does remind me a bit of the situation in Ireland in the eighteenth century, as groups such as the Whiteboys tried to control oppression by the landlords. Robert Kee, on p. 26 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_), write that "At times these secret societies held certain areas of Ireland largely at their mercy. The warning to children: 'The fairies will get you' once had sinister undertones.'" - RBW
File: HHH494n
===
NAME: Snagtooth Sal
DESCRIPTION: The singer happily remembers "Walking down through Laramie with Snagtooth Sal." "But she turned me down completely" -- by dying (!). He will die for love, and gives instructions for his own burial
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy love death separation burial
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fife-Cowboy/West 106, "Snagtooth Sal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 405-406, "Snagtooth Sal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11096
NOTES: The Fifes regard this as traditional -- but it is noteworthy that they had to get their tune from the Roger Wagner Chorale! To me, it looks like a cowboy adaption of something along the lines of "The Butcher Boy" or "The Pinery Boy." - RBW
File: FCW106
===
NAME: Snake Baked a Hoecake
DESCRIPTION: "Snake baked a hoecake, left the (frog) to mind it. Frog he went a-nodding, lizard came and stole it. 'Bring back my hoecake, you long-tailed ninny!'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Brown; reportedly found in Washington Irving's notebooks in 1817)
KEYWORDS: animal theft thief food
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 185, "Snake Baked a Hoecake" (3 short texts)
SharpAp 238, "Snake Baked a Hoe-cake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3622
File: Br3185
===
NAME: Snake in the Grass
DESCRIPTION: A young man vigorously courts the singer, then asks how much money her father has promised as a dowry. When she answers "None," he vanishes. She warns, "But well a day, alas, alas, 'Mong roses sometimes there's a snake in the grass."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: courting abandonment dowry money
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 819, "Snake in the Grass" (1 text)
Roud #7434
File: R819
===
NAME: Snake River Massacre, The
DESCRIPTION: "A cruel massacre took place Of late upon the plains; 'Tis hard to describe the place -- It was upon Ward's train." A small band is attacked by Indians, and overwhelmed; two boys escape, but the rest -- men and women -- are slaughtered
AUTHOR: Nicholas Lee?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1854 (Salem, Oregon Statesman)
KEYWORDS: murder battle Indians(Am.)
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 20, 1854 - Alexander Ward's party of 21 is assailed and slaughtered. The only survivors are the boys Newton and William Ward
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 138-139, "(The Snake River Massacre)" (1 text)
File: Burt138
===
NAME: Snakes
DESCRIPTION: "Reginald Alfonsus Bungy had a scientific mind, From his earliest childhood was he taxidermically inclined." In his field expeditions he encounters a drunken rambler who advises him to go to the nearest pub, where he has seen many (illusionary) snakes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: drink humorous animal recitation
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 232-234, "Snakes" (1 text)
File: MA232
===
NAME: Snap Poo: see Snapoo (File: EM379)
===
NAME: Snapoo
DESCRIPTION: Three German (air) officers ask the landlady if she has a daughter who will sleep with them. The mother says her daughter is much too fine; the girl protests she is not.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Colcord)
KEYWORDS: bawdy landlord sex mother soldier
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada US(So,SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Cray, pp. 379-384, "Snapoo" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 308-311, "Snapoo" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Colcord, pp. 110-111, "Mademoiselle from Armetieres" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 73-74, "Snap Poo" (1 text)
Roud #4703
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (tune) and references there
cf. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" (approximate tune; theme)
cf. "Brave Marin (Brave Sailor)" (approximate tune)
cf. "Little Red Train"
cf. "Johnny the Sailor (Green Beds)" [Laws K36] (plot)
NOTES: For the relationship of this item to "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," see the notes to that song. - RBW
File: EM379
===
NAME: Snow Covered Face, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, riding in the mountains, finds the body of a cowboy frozen in the snow. He finds a letter, bidding farewell to his mother and asking the finder to take it to her. Singer hopes the cowboy may have found heaven "for his work is all done here below"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Patt Patterson & Lois Dexter)
KEYWORDS: corpse death dying mother cowboy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Patt Patterson & Lois Dexter, "The Snow Covered Face" (on Conqueror 7756, 1931; on WhenIWas2)
File: RcTSVF
===
NAME: Snow Dove: see The Butcher Boy [Laws P24] (File: LP24)
===
NAME: Snow Gull
DESCRIPTION: Scots Gaelic. The singer (a girl who has lost her love?) asks the gull where her love sleeps. She describes the dead all together in the land under the waves.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Kennedy-Fraser)
KEYWORDS: death separation bird
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Hebr))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy-Fraser I, pp. 84-87, "The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves" (2 texts with literal and loose English translations, 1 tune)
NOTES: This is one of those thoroughly dubious pieces. Reading the notes in Kennedy-Fraser, it's not clear that this song ever existed in Gaelic as it stands. And it did not exist in English until she published it. And yet, Gordon Bok sings an English version so different from the Kennedy-Fraser text that oral tradition (if only in Bok's family) seems to have taken over the translated text.
When in doubt, even extreme doubt, we index -- so here the song is. - RBW
File: KFrI084
===
NAME: Snow Is on the Ground, The: see Remember the Poor (File: Wa161)
===
NAME: Snow It Melts the Soonest, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing... And when a woman tells me that my face she'll soon forget, Before we part, I wad a croon, she's fain to follow't yet." The singer declares analogies to why parting need not be forever
AUTHOR: Words probably by Thomas Doubleday
EARLIEST_DATE: 1821 (Blackwood's Magazine)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 120-121, "The Snow It Melts the Soonest" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR120 (Full)
Roud #3154
File: StoR120
===
NAME: So Dear Is My Charlie to Me (Prince Charlie)
DESCRIPTION: The lady bids her listeners to lament for her, "for so dear is my Charlie to me." She tells how she turned down many nobles because of her love for Charlie. She admits that he is Catholic and she Presbyterian, but she will accept Rome for Charlie
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1890 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.11(146))
KEYWORDS: love courting separation Jacobites
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1720-1788 - Life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie"
1745 - The (last) Jacobite Rebellion
1746 - Prince Charlie's rebellion crushed at Culloden. Charlie spends months fleeing the English. One of those who helps him escape is Flora MacDonald
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H533, p. 292, "So Dear Is My Charlie to Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 162-163, "Prince Charlie Stuart" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3099
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Tunney, "Prince Charlie Stuart" (on IRPTunney01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.11(146)[useless for determining text, but see NOTES], "Charlie Stuart" ("Come join in lamentation queens and princesses"), R. McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849-1889; also Harding B 15(40b), 2806 c.14(129)[beginning and ending verses illegible], "Charlie Stuart"; Firth b.26(4) [end missing], "Flora Macdonald's Lament for her Charlie" ("Come join in lamentation you queens and you princes") 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. ""Flora's Lament for Her Charlie" (subject)
cf. "Flora MacDonald's Lament" (subject)
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(146), "Charlie Stuart" ("Come join in lamentation queens and princesses"), R. McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849-1889 large image could not be downloaded but the small image could be magnified enough to verify that the broadside is for this ballad.
As for the Flora Macdonald text of Bodleian Firth b.26(4) there is no question but that this particular text is an example of "So Dear Is My Charlie to Me."
This is not the same song as either Hogg 92, _Jacobite Relics of Scotland_, "The Lament of Flora Macdonald" or "Flora's Lament for Her Charlie."
SHenry H533, p. 292, Tunney-StoneFiddle pp. 162-163, and the Bodleian broadsides listed are all clearly the same ballad and seem likely to have all sprung from the same broadside.
As for Flora MacDonald, here is part of the commentary to broadside NLScotland RB.m.168(178): "Flora MacDonald, born on South Uist in 1722, is now the most famous heroine of the Jacobite cause and one of its most romantic stories. Bonnie Prince Charlie was fleeing Scotland after his Culloden defeat. When the situation became perilous on the Isle of Skye, Flora was persuaded to participate in her foster-father, Clanranald's, plan to help Charles' escape." - BS
The text of this song in Sam Henry looks troubled; the first verse doesn't fit particularly well with the last two. And there are so many songs on this theme that it's hard to tell which are the same and which distinct.
Some equate this with the various "Flora MacDonald's Laments." This has problems both textual and historical. There is no indication, in the Henry text, that the singer is Flora MacDonald; it's just some woman of the many who desired the handsome "Young Pretender." 
Historically, I know of no indication that Charlie had any sort of actual relationship with Flora MacDonald. His only real liaison, during the period of the Forty-Five, was with Clementina Walkinshaw, who would become the mother of his only child. It appears that he was faithful to her during this period.
For background on Flora MacDonald, see in particular "Flora MacDonald's Lament." - RBW
File: HHH533
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NAME: So Early in the Morning: see Sailor Likes His Bottle-O, The (File: Hugi055)
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NAME: So Handy
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic line: "Handy, me boys, so handy!" The song tells of how the good crew came together: "You've got your advance and to sea you must go, Handy... Around Cape Horn through frost and snow, Handy..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869
KEYWORDS: shanty ship
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 12, "So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 76, "So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 142-143, "So Handy, My Boys, So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 479-484, "Handy, Me Boys," "Hand O'er Hand" (3 texts, 3 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 357-361]
Sharp-EFC, XLII, p. 48, "So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doe012 (Partial)
Roud #814
RECORDINGS:
Richard Maitland, "So Handy, Me Boys, So Handy" (AFS, 1939; on LC27)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Handy, Me Girls
File: Doe012
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NAME: So Handy, My Boys, So Handy: see So Handy (File: Doe012)
===
NAME: So Heave Away
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "The Gustav's loaded down with grain. So heave away! heave away!" (x2). "The Gustav is a fine big ship, we're bound away on a damn long trip." More verses about drink and other unprintable topics.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty drink ship
FOUND_IN: Germany Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 319-320, "So Heave Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Shine the Light" (Salvation Army hymn) (tune)
NOTES: According to Hugill, the crew of a German barque _Sterna_ took a Salvation Army hymn "Shine the Light" and altered the words to use as a shanty. Hugill and his crew, on board the _Gustav_ further altered the song into this form. - SL
File: Hugi319
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NAME: So It's Pass
DESCRIPTION: "So, it's pass around the grog, my boys." Give me the girl I love, toast Queen Victoria, and "when our money is all gone We'll go to sea for more." Chorus: "Here's to him that merry be ... March onward, my brave boys"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sex drink nonballad shanty sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1837-1901 - Reign of Queen Victoria
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-NovaScotia 56, "Chanty Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, CAPEVIEW
ST CrNS056 (Partial)
Roud #1798
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
See, See, The Cape's In View
NOTES: Creighton-NovaScotia has this as a chanty but says "it looks more like a sailor's adaptation of a soldier's song." - BS
File: CrNS056
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NAME: So Like Your Song and You
DESCRIPTION: "I wandered in the radiant dawn O'er glistening fields of dew, And listening to the lark's sweet song, I thought, my love, of you." No matter what the singer does or wherever (he) goes, it reminds (him) of (the girl's) song
AUTHOR: Words: Andrew Doey
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love music nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H508, pp. 226-227, "So Like Your Song and You" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7976
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Singing Bird" (tune)
File: HHH508
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NAME: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You: see So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (File: Arn165)
===
NAME: So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh
DESCRIPTION: "I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again." The singer tells of the difficulties of life (in the dust bowl). At last he prepares to depart: "So long, it's been good to know you (x3)... And I've got to be drifting along."
AUTHOR: Woody Guthrie
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes home rambling clergy dustbowl
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Arnett, pp. 164-165, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 92, "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" (1 text [dustbowl  version], 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 205-206, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" (1 text [dustbowl version], 1 tune) 
DT, SOLONGIT
Roud #15161
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (on PeteSeeger17) (on PeteSeeger41) (on PeteSeeger27); "So Long" (on PeteSeeger23)
NOTES: There are actually two versions of this, Woody's original dustbowl text and the popularized Weavers version. Since Woody wrote both, however, I think we can list them under one entry. - RBW
Make that three versions. Woody also wrote one (recorded in 1944) with lyrics pertaining to World War II. - PJS
Incidentally, if it be questioned whether this is a folk song, I think it is, at least in Minnesota, where they used it as a theme for a popular children's television show. My generation learned it by non-folk means, but it's started to pass on to younger generations.
It appears that Guthrie's original version of this is based largely on actual events of the so-called 'Black Easter" of 1935. For details of this storm and how it affected Guthrie and others near him, see Ed Cray's _Ramblin' Man_, p. 69fff. - RBW
File: Arn165
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NAME: So Now We've Gained the Victory
DESCRIPTION: "So now we've gained our victory ... the bantam cock shall never crow on the plains of Waterloo." We'll send him to a far off island and not let him return again. A health to King George and Wellington. Boney will always remember Waterloo.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (recording, Freddie James, RQMS Williams, G.W. Greening and Harry Hawkins?)
KEYWORDS: war exile nonballad patriotic Napoleon
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12928
RECORDINGS:
Freddie James, RQMS Williams, G.W. Greening and Harry Hawkins?, "So Now We've Gained the Victory" (on Voice16)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (tune, according to Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 16" - 13.9.02:)
NOTES: For details on the Battle of Waterloo, see e.g. the notes to "The Plains of Waterloo (II)" [Laws J3]. It's a bit funny to see King George toasted. Forget the fact that his personal rule cost England the American colonies and a bunch of wars. By the time of Waterloo, he was incurably insane, and his son George IV was regent. - RBW
File: RcSNWGTV
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NAME: So We Hunted and We Hollered: see Three Jolly Huntsmen (File: R077)
===
NAME: Sober Quaker, The: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
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NAME: Social Thistle and the Shamrock, The
DESCRIPTION: "The Scotch and Irish friendly are, their wishes are the same, The English nation envy us, and over us would reign ... Now to conclude and end my song, may we live long to see, The Thistle and the Shamrock, entwine the olive tree"
AUTHOR: Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Madden's _Literary Remains of the United Irishmen of 1798_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: England Ireland Scotland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 108, "The Social Thistle and the Shamrock" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Henry Joy McCracken (I)" (information about the author)
NOTES: The thistle represents Scotland and the shamrock represents Ireland. See, for example, "The Sprig of Shillelah." - BS
Although the Scots are descended from the Irish (or, more correctly, Highland Gaelic culture is descended from Irish; the genes may tell a different story), I suspect this could only have been written by an Ulster Protestant. And Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) was one of the most liberal and high-minded men in Ireland at the time; for his background, see the notes to "Henry Joy McCracken (I)." - RBW
File: Moyl108
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NAME: Solas Market
DESCRIPTION: "Me sell me akee, go Solas Market, Not a quatty would sell, Send me out, I go Solas Market, Not a quatty would sell. Why not a light, not a bite, Not a quatty would sell. Why not a light, not a bite, Not a quatty would sell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (recorded from Edith Perrin)
KEYWORDS: commerce food hardtimes
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #16397
RECORDINGS:
Edith Perrin, "Solas Market" [excerpt?] (on USWarnerColl01)
NOTES: There appear to be only two sources for this: The Edith Perrin recording made by the Warners, called "Solas Market," and a text in Jekyll's _Jamaican Song & Story_ entitled "Linstead Market." Apart from the details of place, the choruses are similar, but there is almost no text to let us know what the songs are about (unless the Warners had more from Edith Perrin which they did not publish).
To make matters worse, the Perrin recording is very noisy -- almost unintelligible. It supplies the text quoted in the description, but I have had to reconstruct based in part on the Warner notes, and it must be considered uncertain. - RBW
File: RcSolMar
===
NAME: Sold in Hell: see Wicked Polly [Laws H6] (File: LH06)
===
NAME: Sold Off to Georgy
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, fellow servants, O-ho! o-ho! I'm gwine 'way to leave you... I'm gwine to leave de ole county... I'm sold off to Georgy." The singer bids farewell to home, parents, master, wife, and child; he confesses his heart is breaking
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1824 (Printed in "The Valley of Shenandoah" by George Tucker)
KEYWORDS: slavery slave family separation work home
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, p. 206, "Sold Off to Georgy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 94-95, "Hilo! Hilo!" (1 text, fragmentary, but apparently related to this song)
NOTES: "Georgy" is, of course, Georgia. - RBW
File: SBoA206
===
NAME: Soldier and his Lady, The: see Trooper and Maid [Child 299] (File: C299)
===
NAME: Soldier and the Lady, The: see One Morning in May (To Hear the Nightingale Sing) [Laws P14] (File: LP14)
===
NAME: Soldier and the Sailor, The
DESCRIPTION: The sailor "has a good mind to pray For the rights of all people and the wrongs of all men." He accuses the lawyers of "tak[ing] your hard earnings and giv[ing] you hard laws"; the ministers for condemning you to hell, and the farmers for high prices
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1902 (Petrie)
KEYWORDS: political curse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,Lond),Scotland(Aber)) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 277-278, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 239, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 94, "The Soldier's Prayer (The Soldier and the Sailor)" (1 short text, 1 tune)
ST Doe277 (Partial)
Roud #350
RECORDINGS:
Archie Lennox, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (on FSB8)
Brigid Tunney, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.14(226), "The Soldier and the Sailor"[title incomplete] ("As a sailor and a soldier was walking one day"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "'Pleasant and Delightful" (meter)
cf. "Ye Gentlemen of England (I)" [Laws K2] (theme)
NOTES: This appears to exist in two forms -- one, exemplified by Doerflinger, condemning various wrongs; the other, found in Kennedy, just calling for a good time (praying for beer and the like). There are, however, enough similarities that I would consider them still one song. - RBW
File: Doe277
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NAME: Soldier Boy (I), The: see My Parents Reared Me Tenderly (I -- The Soldier Boy) (File: HHH466)
===
NAME: Soldier Boy (II), The: see The Faithful Sailor Boy [Laws K13] (File: LK13)
===
NAME: Soldier Boy [Laws O31]
DESCRIPTION: A large company of Irish soldiers must depart for India. One of them is explaining to his sweetheart that he must leave her. She (offers to come with him and is refused. She) tearfully bids him good luck and farewell.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: love farewell India soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws O31, "Soldier Boy"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 80, "Soldier Boy" (1 text)
SHenry H244, pp. 295-296, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 171, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 814, SOLDBOY
Roud #1917
NOTES: Laws, relying on Greenleaf/Mansfield's broken version, locates the war in India. Henry (and its copy, Moylan) refers to India as a past war and has the soldiers leaving to fight the Russians.
Moylan: "As John Moulden suggests, the song is probably about the Crimean war, given the mention of Russians ..." - BS
The mention of Russians also allows for campaigns in Afghanistan -- which was, in fact, a nation created by the British to separate India from Russia. The British and Russians never really fought in Afghanistan, but there were times when conflict seemed possible. And there were plenty of other problems between Russia and Britain (mostly over Ottoman territory, but also, e.g., during the Russo-Japanese war when a Russian fleet attacked British fishermen).
But there is at least one other advantage to the Crimean War, and that is the soldier's refusal to let the girl come with him. This was, of course, a common theme in song, and one that predates the Crimean War. But it became particularly important around the time of the Crimean War, when the British military started excluding women in any capacity. Arthur Herman, _To Rule the Waves_, p. 453 footnote, notes that female sailors were "a regular feature of old navy life... one or two disguised themselves as men and served as ordinary ratings. All were expected to pitch in even in battle." He notes that two women even applied for medals for their service at Trafalgar, but were turned down -- "the precedent would prompt 'innumerable applications' from other women veterans." - RBW
File: LO31
===
NAME: Soldier Boy for Me (A Railroader for Me)
DESCRIPTION: "I would not marry a doctor; He's always killing the sick."  "I would not marry a blacksmith...." The girl praises the soldier/railroader: "O soldier boy, o soldier boy, O soldier boy for me; If ever I get married, A soldier's wife I'll be"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (published by C. B. Ball)
KEYWORDS: soldier marriage courting railroading technology humorous rejection
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 461-465, "A Railroader for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 374-377, "The Guerrilla Boy" (4 texts, 1 tune; the second of two texts filed as "C" is this song)
Randolph 493, "The Railroader" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 373-375, "The Railroader" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 493)
BrownIII 5, "Miss, Will You Have a Farmer's Son" (1 text, probably edited so the girl wants a California Boy and then again so she wants a Southerner, but too similar in style to file separately); 17, "I Wouldn't Marry" (7 text (some short) plus 6 excerpts, 1 fragment, and mention of 5 more, of which ""F" and the fragments "G" and "I" belong here)
SharpAp 272, "Soldier Boy for Me" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 68, "Soldier Boy for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 215, "A Railroader for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 465, "A Railroader for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 170, "(I wouldna have a baker, ava, va, va)" (1 short text, of this type but perhaps not this song)
Silber-FSWB, p. 343, "Daughters Will You Marry" (1 text)
cf. Kinloch-BBook  IV, pp. 14-15 (no title) (1 text, beginning, "Awa wi' your slavery hireman," probably not this song but based on the same idea; Roud #8152)
ST R493 (Full)
Roud #1302
RECORDINGS:
 Logan English, "A Railroader for Me" (on LEnglish01)
May Kennedy McCord, "The Railroader" (AFS 5301 A2, 1941; on LC61)
Pete Seeger, "Daughter Will You Marry" (on PeteSeeger11)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (theme)
cf. "The Husbandman and the Servingman" (theme)
cf. "The Plooman Laddie" (theme)
cf. "Jinny Go Round and Around" (plot)
cf. "Fond of Chewing Gum" (floating verses)
cf. "The Bonnie Mason Laddie" (theme, lyrics)
NOTES: It will be observed that the preferred occupation in this song can be almost anything -- and the rejected occupations can truly be anything at all. Cohen, p. 464, compares eight texts. All of them list famer as one of the occupations, anmd six list blacksmith, but there are 11 other occupations mentioned in one or another text. - RBW
C. B. Ball published this piece in 1907, but it's hard to believe he actually wrote it (at least in that year); the diverse collections by Belden (collected 1910!) , Randolph and Sharp clearly imply that it is older. - (PJS), RBW
Cohen notes that the Ball text is the first to mention railroads; it may be that Ball adapted an older song to the railroads. - RBW
File: R493
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NAME: Soldier Boy with Curly Hair, The: see The Last Fierce Charge [Laws A17] (File: LA17)
===
NAME: Soldier Bride's Lament, The: see The Lowlands of Holland (File: R083)
===
NAME: Soldier from Missouri, The [Laws A16]
DESCRIPTION: A dying soldier sends a message to his home in Kansas. Having become a rebel at the urging of his neighbors and sweetheart; he regrets not following his mother's cautious advice
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: soldier death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws A16, "The Soldier from Missouri"
Randolph 213, "A Soldier from Missouri" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 203-205, "A Soldier from Missouri" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 213A)
DT 365, SOLDMISS
Roud #2206
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Kansas Line
NOTES: Neither Randolph nor Laws mentions the fact, but Cohen considers this a parody of "Bingen on the Rhine." - RBW
File: LA16
===
NAME: Soldier Maid, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a maiden, runs away from her parents and enlists as a soldier/sailor. She proves highly successful. Sent home to recruit, a woman falls in love with the "soldier boy." The other woman betrays her secret; the woman is cashiered
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer enlists as a (drummer/sailor) (and fights "with the Noble Duke of York at the seige of Valenciennes"). Her "fingers neat and small" makes her the best drummer. She sleeps with the men but remains "a maiden all the while," Sent as a guard to the Tower of London a girl falls in love with her, she reveals her secret which the girl betrays to the regiment. She is given a bounty by the queen for her courage, marries and teaches her husband to drum, and would enlist again "if the (Queen/Duke) be short of men"
KEYWORDS: soldier sailor love disguise trick cross-dressing betrayal war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24-July 28, 1793 - Siege of Valenciennes by the Allies including the British under the Duke of York (source: Campaigns in the Online Encyclopedia site "Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica")
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(Lond,South)) Ireland Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H497, p. 326, "The Drummer Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 311, "The Soldier Maid" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 346-347, "The Soldier Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SAILMAID* SOLDMAID
ST DTsoldma (Full)
Roud #226
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Female Drummer" (on HCox01)
Mary Ann Haynes, "The Female Drummer" (on Voice11)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(132), "The Female Drummer" ("A maiden I was at the age of sixteen"), W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(2338), Harding B 11(1187), Harding B 11(1188), Firth c.14(165), Firth c.14(166), Firth c.14(168), Harding B 11(970), Harding B 17(93b), Harding B 11(969), Harding B 11(2505), Harding B 16(93c), 2806 c.16(67), Harding B 20(240)[some words illegible], "The Female Drummer"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks o' Skene" (plot)
cf. "The Drum Major (The Female Drummer)" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Handsome Young Sailor
When I Was a Fair Maid
NOTES: The [long] description is from broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.17(132). In Mary Ann Haynes's version on Voice11 her secret is revealed when she is wounded on the battlefield and she would enlist again "If our old queen was to go short and never want of men." The queen is a character in all versions (the broadsides are almost identical to each other) but not as an indication there is no king. Possibly this is a side reference to one of King George III's bouts of "madness" (porphyria). 
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 11" - 11.9.02 cites broadsides from c.1655 to 1689, predating the Siege of Valenciennes. Between 1689 and 1793 the Musical Traditions notes that "Roy Palmer ... [reports] there was indeed a female drummer at Valenciennes by the name of Mary Ann Talbot (1778 - 1808). In 1809 Talbot was the subject of a book The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot." - BS
Ben Schwartz originally described his texts of "The Female Drummer" as separate from "The Soldier Maid." As the above makes clear, the song evolved heavily over time -- e.g. the localiation to Valenciennes. I consider "The Female Drummer" a special case of "The Soldier Maid," though, and have lumped accordingly.
This has proved very popular with folk revival singers. It doesn't seem to have been quite as popular in tradition, though by no means rare (the notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list only fifteen traditional texts, mostly from Grieg, but many Pop Folk recordings).
Valenciennes was one of the great border forts Louis XIV used to protect from invasions from the Netherlands. The chronology here is confusing, however: It was in July 1656 that the Prince de Conde (at that time serving the Spanish) forced the Vicomte de Turenne (then a French officer) to give up the siege of Valenciennes. But Oliver Cromwell did not committ English troops to the fight (on the side of the French) until 1657. I wonder if the Siege of Valenciennes referred to in the song might not be some other engagement, perhaps during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Incidentally, there are historical records of women running off to join the army and navy. Arthur Herman, _To Rule the Waves_, p. 224, tells of a woman (unnamed) who fought at La Hogue (1692) aboard the _St. Andrew_ and was later invited to meet the queen. Gorton Carruth, _The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates_, p. 149, says that one Lucy Brewer served on the U. S. S. _Constitution_ during the War of 1812 under the name "Nicolas Baker." (The book gives no other useful details).
I know of the case of Mollie Bean, who in the American Civil War fought in the 47th North Carolina regiment. Cuban immigrant Loreta Janeta Velazquez reportedly served as "Lt. Henry Buford" from 1861 until discovered in 1863, though many of the stories about her are self-reported and dubious. The Confederates even deliberately commissioned one female officer, Sally Louisa Tompkins -- though she was commissioned to allow her to run a hospital. - RBW
File: DTsoldma
===
NAME: Soldier of the Cross, A
DESCRIPTION: "I am a soldier of the cros, A follower of the lamb, I shall not fear to own his cause Nor blush to speak his name." "Sure I must fight if I would reigh, Increase my courage, Lord...." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad soldier
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 86, "A Soldier of the Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5028
File: ChFRA086
===
NAME: Soldier Rode From the East to the West, A: see Trooper and Maid [Child 299] (File: C299)
===
NAME: Soldier Traveling from the North, The: see Trooper and Maid [Child 299] (File: C299)
===
NAME: Soldier, Soldier, Marry Me: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
===
NAME: Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me
DESCRIPTION: The girl asks the soldier to marry her. He says that he lacks suit, shoes, whatnot. She runs off to the craftsmen and fetches him everything he mentions. Now well-equipped, he tells her that he already has a wife at home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903
KEYWORDS: courting lie request rejection soldier dialog
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England(West),Scotland(Bord)) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Randolph 65, "Soldier, Soldier, Marry Me" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Eddy 89, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me" (1 text plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
BrownIII 7, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more)
Brewster 96, "Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me" (1 text)
SharpAp 90, "Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 254-257, "Soldier, Soldier" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 78, "Soldier, Will You Marry Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, p. 61, "The Gallant Soldier" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 30-31, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 305, "Soldier, Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 109, pp. 224-225, "Dutchman, Dutchman, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text)
JHCox 159, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 344, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me" (1 text)
DT, SOLDMARR*
Roud #489
RECORDINGS:
Colin Keane, "Soldier, Soldier" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me" (on NLCR10)
Russ Pike, "Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (AFS, 1941; on LC02)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Soldier Will You Marry Me" (Columbia 15589-D, 1930)
File: R065
===
NAME: Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
===
NAME: Soldier, The: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
===
NAME: Soldier's Epitaph
DESCRIPTION: "Born in North Carolina, Raised in Tennessee, Worked like hell in Georgia, Died in Germinee."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: death work
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 396, "Soldier's Epitaph" (1 short text)
Roud #11755
File: Br3396
===
NAME: Soldier's Farewell, The: see Fare You Well, My Darling (File: R736)
===
NAME: Soldier's Joy
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune with verses; "I am my mama's darling boy...." "Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine...." "Fifteen cents for the morphine, 25 cents for the beer/Fifteen cents for the morphine, gonna take me away from here"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recording, Sid Harkreader & Uncle Dave Macon)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Dance tune with verses; "I am my mama's darling boy/Play that tune called Soldier's Joy"; "Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine/Along come a chicken and says 'You're mine'"; "Fifteen cents for the morphine, 25 cents for the beer/Fifteen cents for the morphine, gonna take me away from here"
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad drugs
FOUND_IN: Britain US(All) Scandinavia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Linscott, pp. 109-111, "Soldier's Joy" (1 tune plus dance instructions)
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink] & his Square Dance Band, "Soldier's Joy" (OKeh 06297, 1941)
Blue Ridge Highballers, "Soldier's Joy" (Columbia 15168-D, 1927)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Soldier's Joy" (OKeh 45011, 1925)
Zeb Harrelson & M. B. Padgett, "Soldier's Joy" (OKeh 45078, 1927; rec. 1926)
Sid Harkreader w. Uncle Dave Macon, "Soldier's Joy" (Vocalion 14887, 1924)
Kessinger Brothers, "Soldier's Joy" (Brunswick 341, c. 1929)
John D. Mounce et al, "Soldier's Joy" (on MusOzarks01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Soldier's Joy" (on NLCR07) (on NLCR16)
Aulton Ray, "Soldier Joy" (Gennett 6205, 1927)
Glenn Smith, "Soldier's Joy" [instrumental] (on GraysonCarroll1)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Soldier's Joy" (Bluebird B-5658, 1934; RCA Victor 21-2168, 1947) (Columbia 15538-D, 1930; rec. 1929; on Tanner2)
Taylor's Kentucky Boys, "Soldier Joy" (Gennett 6205, 1927)
Doc Watson, "Soldier's Joy" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchiteWatsonCD1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Love Somebody, Yes I Do" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
My Stetson Hat (File: Ohr083)
NOTES: The quintessential nonballad, but I've indexed it because it is cross-referenced elsewhere.
Reputed to have been found around the year 1000, but...
Morphine was reputed to be called "soldier's joy" during the American Civil War, but the title is older than that. - PJS
File: RcSoJoy
===
NAME: Soldier's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: "Beneath a far Australian sky an Irish soldier lay." As he is dying he thinks of his boyhood in Ireland and asks to be buried there. "My dying prayer -- May God bless the island of the brave!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: homesickness death Australia Ireland lament nonballad patriotic soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, p. 163, "The Soldier's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6464
NOTES: This appears, on its face, to be derived from On Buena Vista's Battlefield or one of its relatives (or, perhaps Will Hays's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" [Laws A15]). But which, and how it came to be as it is (in Canada, no less), I do not know. - RBW
File: Peas163
===
NAME: Soldier's Letter, The
DESCRIPTION: "Dear Madam I am a soldier And my speech is rough and plain. I'm not much used to writing And I hate to give my name." The writer was a friend of the girl's lover; they fought together. The young man died; the old soldier is left to write of his death
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: soldier death separation friend battle farewell
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 244, "The Soldier's Letter" (1 text)
Roud #4389
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away I)" [Laws J6] (plot) and references there
File: R244
===
NAME: Soldier's Life (It's Little You Good People Know)
DESCRIPTION: "It's little you good people know(s) What we poor people undergoes When called upon to take up arms To guard our country from all harms. As to our grub, we have enough Although our beef is lean an tough... We hope to get good beef again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Allsopp)
KEYWORDS: food soldier hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 228, (no title) (one fragment)
Roud #16590?
File: FORA228
===
NAME: Soldier's Life, A
DESCRIPTION: After an introduction from "The Sailor Boy," ("A soldier's life is a weary life, Robs young girls..."), the girl is given a letter about her lover, telling her that he is dying. She finds his grave, and says she will join him with joy when she dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love separation soldier death burial
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCoxIIB, #11, pp. 145-146, "A Soldier's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CoxIIB11 (Partial)
Roud #273
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sailor Boy (I)" [Laws K12] (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This clearly opens with material from "The Sailor Boy" (with which Roud lumps it), but this breaks off into something else. The combination probably qualifies as a separate song. - RBW
File: CoxIIB11
===
NAME: Soldier's Poor Little Boy, The [Laws Q28]
DESCRIPTION: A poor boy, trapped in a severe storm, comes to a lady's door to ask for shelter. He explains that his mother is dead and his father gone to war. The lady lets him in and tells him to stay as long as he has to, for her own son has fallen (in battle)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: orphan mercy father death soldier family
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Laws Q28, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 100, "The Little Soldier's Boy" (1 text)
Leach-Labrador 43, "The Friendless Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 273-275, "A Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Eddy 134, "A Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 text)
Randolph 718, "A Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Warner 154, "A Poor Little Sailor Boy" (1 text)
JHCox 73, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (2 texts)
JHCoxIIA, #28, p. 104, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
BrownII 151, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (2 texts)
Brewster 67, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (2 texts plus mention of 3 more)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 284-285, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 482, "The Soldier's Boy" (source notes only)
DT 536, SOLDBOY SOLDBOY2
Roud #258
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fisherman's Boy" [Laws Q29] (plot)
cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
NOTES: Cox reports this in a Philadelphia broadside attributed to Charles Bender, but it is obviously older and more widespread. Both Belden and Laws mention it as having British antecedents, but the only British occurrences are in broadsides.
The Warner tune is described as a variant of "The Star of the County Down." The other versions generally have a different melody. - RBW
File: LQ28
===
NAME: Soldier's Prayer, The: see The Soldier and the Sailor (File: Doe277)
===
NAME: Soldier's Return, The
DESCRIPTION: Jimmie returns home from the war. He disguises himself in bandages and says his true self is close behind. He sees that everyone, including "my Jessie" is truly happy. He leaves them planning the wedding "Since Jimmy escaped the soldier's grave"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1859 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads 1879)
KEYWORDS: wedding war return disguise family soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 160-161, "The Soldier's Return" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2700
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 1879, "Soldier's Return" ("The wars for many months were o'er"), J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1855-1858
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] (plot) and references there
File: CrMa160
===
NAME: Soldier's Song, The: see The Old Tobacco Box (File: FSC143)
===
NAME: Soldier's Sweetheart, The: see Once I Had a Sweetheart (I) (File: BrII140)
===
NAME: Soldier's Wooing, The: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Soleil s'en Va Se Coucher, Le (The Sun Is Going Down)
DESCRIPTION: French. A gentleman asks his lover to join him at an inn. She has one drink and says she must leave. He suspects she has changed lovers. That's your fault, she says. I waited three years for you with no news.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting infidelity dialog
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 596-597, "Le Soleil s'en Va Se Coucher" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
La Bergere Refuse les Presents
File: Pea596
===
NAME: Solidarity Forever
DESCRIPTION: The crimes of the corporations and their bosses are described. But the workers can protect themselves, as the chorus notes: "Solidarity forever (x3), For the union makes us strong."
AUTHOR: Words: Ralph Chaplin
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: labor-movement nonballad political work derivative
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 282-283, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 91, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p. 181, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 374-375, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 133, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
DT, SOLIDART*
Roud #15158
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger , "Solidarity Forever" (on PeteSeeger1, PeteSeeger48)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John Brown's Body" (tune & meter) and references there
File: SBoA282
===
NAME: Some Folks Say John Was a Baptist: see Lonesome Valley (File: Wa162)
===
NAME: Some Folks Say that a Nigger Won't Steal: see Some Folks Say that a Preacher Won't Steal (File: Br3423)
===
NAME: Some Folks Say that a Preacher Won't Steal
DESCRIPTION: "Some folks say that a (preacher/nigger) won't steal, But I caught (one) in my cornfield." This stanza floats but sometimes is used as a platform for various complaints about the raiders on the singer's field
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: thief clergy floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 423, "Some Folks Say that a Nigger Won't Steal" (3 short texts plus 1 fragment, 2 excerpts, and mention of 2 more. Almost all are mixed; "A" is this piece, but "G" has the chorus of "Run, Nigger, Run" while "E" and "F" have the "Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Moanish Lady)" chorus); see also the "B" text of 435, "The Dummy Line"; also 511, "The Preacher Song" (1 text, a complex mix of verses from "Turkey in the Straw" and this song with the "Uncle Eph" chorus)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 224-225, (no title) (1 short text, with the "My ole mistus promised me" and "Some folks say a nigger won't steal" verses and the 'Mourner, you shall be free" chorus)
Roud #6707
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Coney Isle" (lyrics)
cf. "Rosie, Darling Rosie" (lyrics)
NOTES: This is one of those big messes, since it may just be a floating fragment grafted into other pieces. It's hard to tell, given the brevity of the Brown texts.
It's not clear, looking at the evidence, whether it was originally a "preacher" or a "nigger" accused of the thefts. But I strongly suspect that it was a preacher; the rules of textual criticism say, "Prefer the harder reading," and "preacher" is the harder reading; many people would be reluctant to accuse a minister of stealing, but -- in the south at least -- Negroes were suspected even when there was compelling evidence of their innocence. 
Dr. David E. Chinitz, however, sends me this note, "The lines in question--'Some folks say that a (preacher/nigger) won't steal, But I caught (one) in my cornfield'--are the opening lines of 'Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield,' a once-popular barbershop quartet. I believe that this song dates from the 1890s, and it is not to be confused with the 1901 hit with the same title by Gus Edwards and Will D. Cobb. The last line of the 1901 song alludes to the earlier song.
"If the original source of the 'floating fragment' is indeed the song I mentioned, then the correct reading is not 'preacher" but "nigger.' In his book _Barber Shop Ballads and How to Sing Them_ (1925), Sigmund Spaeth suggests in a footnote that 'preacher' was an alternative adopted by 'colored' singing groups (p. 41). But Spaeth doesn't seem entirely reliable on this issue. On that same page, he assures his readers confidentially ('between ourselves') that African Americans 'really prefer the forthright "nigger" to the patronizingly polite "darkey."'
"I have seen the line quoted using 'darkie.' But the one early recording I've heard of the song (I'm sorry I don't know the year) used 'nigger.' And it was two, not one, that the speaker claimed to have 'caught' in his cornfield -- one with a shovel, and one with a hoe."
Until we know how the song became traditional, of course, this cannot be the final word. But it's interesting.
Incidentally, John Hartford eventually sang it with the guilty party being a hippie. - RBW
File: Br3423
===
NAME: Some Have Fathers Gone to Glory: see The Other Bright Shore (File: R611)
===
NAME: Some Little Bug
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes perils of eating various foods, which can lead to ptomaine and death. This is why, before meals, some people pray. Ch.: "Some little bug is gonna get you someday..." "Eat that luscious ripe pineapple/And the sextons dust the chapel."
AUTHOR: Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell (lyrics); Silvio Hein (tune in sheet music; tune of folk version by unknown author)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: disease warning death funeral food humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, SOMEBUG
RECORDINGS:
Roy Atwell, "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (Columbia A-1928, 1916)
Bradley Kincaid, "Some Little Bug Is Goin' To Get You Someday" (Montgomery Ward M-4379, 1933)
Billy Murray, "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (Victor 17826, 1916; rec. 1915)
Walter Van Brunt, "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (CYL: Edison [BA] 2823, n.d.)
NOTES: This has attained enough popularity in the bluegrass and folk-revival communities to warrant inclusion. The Bradley Kincaid recording, which is the one that has spread, uses a very different tune from the one found in the sheet music; possibly Kincaid wrote it. - PJS
File: RcSLB
===
NAME: Some of These Days: see Welcome Table (Streets of Glory, God's Going to Set This World on Fire) (File: San478)
===
NAME: Some of These Days and It Won't Be Long: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: Some Ships in Port
DESCRIPTION: Ships are listed and their characteristics or owner noted: "Gaffney's two clippers, Caledonia and Glynn ... the noble torpedo they call Jenny Lynd ... the Alice T with Splanche on her bow."
AUTHOR: "Splanche" Brien
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: moniker commerce sea ship nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 53, "Some Ships in Port" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Captains and Ships" (catalog of ships)
NOTES: Ranson: "This ... reflects the days of Wexford's glory, when her sailing ships went out over the Seven Seas" - BS
File: Ran053
===
NAME: Some Treat of David
DESCRIPTION: Father Murphy excels David and Joshua. His victories are listed, and the loss at Vinegar Hill; "after all, alas, he was taken, And stripped quite naked in the open street; His flesh and bone were separated, And a crimson stream at his joints did meet"
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: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 11A, "Some Treat of David" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Father Murphy (I)" (subject of Father Murphy) and references there
NOTES: "The end for Father John Murphy came on July 2, 1798 when he and fellow rebel leader James Gallagher were captured by military forces loyal to the British crown. Fr. John was brutally beaten for hours by the yeomen warders, finally stripped of his clothes, denied a trial by jury and hung from the town gallows.
For the perceived insult of being a Catholic priest and not cooperating with the local authorities Fr. John's body was subjected to further desecration when the yeoman, "unsatisfied by the lack of entertainment" dropped the dead body of Fr. John into a nearby barrel of pitch and lit it on fire until the corpse was consumed. His ashes were scattered in the town square as a warning to all those who dare to take up arms against the British crown." (source: _Father John Murphy of Boulavogue_ by Nicholas Furlong as summarized at site of Ancient Order of Hibernians Father John Murphy -- Division #9 Plymouth, MA 02360)
Zimmermann p. 46, fn. 57: In 1866 this song was still "dangerous" enough that a ballad-singer could be arrested in County Down for its sale. - BS
For a fuller history of Father Murphy, see the notes to "Father Murphy (I)."
The issue of Murphy's death is vexing. That he was captured and hung seems certain. Whether he was tortured is another question. Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 87, says he and his bodyguard were stripped, flogged, and Murphy hung on the spot, then his body burned. But Golway's citation system, which is very strange, does not appear to cite a source for this claim (might it have been this song)?
I eventually checked eight other Irish histories, some specific to the 1798 and some more general. Six do not mention Murphy's death. (One, specific to the last part of the eighteenth century, doesn't even mention Murphy!) The _Oxford Companion to Irish History_ mentions his hanging, but no torture or cremation. Robert Kee's _The Most Distressful Country_ (Volume I of _The Green Flag_), p. 124, mentions that he was hanged, his body burned, and his head set on a pike -- but he doesn't cite a source either!
The whole thing has strange parallels to the death of Jesus, too.
Murphy was not the only one to be listed as having his body burned; see the fate of Captain Swayne described in "The Song of Prosperous."
Examining the sources, it's clear that the pro-English sources don't mention his fate, the pro-Irish do. While most of the Irish leaders were eventually executed, few were executed without trial. Of course, junior officers didn't always follow policy. But I really wish someone could cite a source for these atrocities!
The mentions of David and Joshua are clearer. The two were the earliest members of the so-called Nine Worthies. They were also the Old Testament figures best known for conquest.
They also were, unlike Murphy, successful enough soldiers to die in their beds. - RBW
File: Zimm011A
===
NAME: Somebody (II): see Somebody's Tall and Handsome (File: R380)
===
NAME: Somebody's All de Time Talkin' 'Bout Me
DESCRIPTION: "Somebody's all de time talkin' 'bout me, But that's all right." "Talk about me just as much as you please, I'm goin' to tell it to Jesus down on my knees." "Talk about my Jesus here below, Talkin' 'bout me wherever you go."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 634, "Somebody's All de Time Talkin' 'Bout Me" (1 text)
Roud #11933
File: Br3634
===
NAME: Somebody's Darling
DESCRIPTION: "Into the ward of the clean white-washed halls Where the dead slept and the dying lay... Somebody's darling was borne one day." "Somebody's darling, somebody's pride, Who'll tell his mother where her boy died?" All bid farewell to the handsome boy soldier
AUTHOR: Words: Marie Ravenal de la Coste / Music: John Hill Hewitt (according to Silber-CivWar)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1898 (Wharton)
KEYWORDS: soldier death Civilwar mother
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-CivWar, pp. 84-85, "Somebody's Darling" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOMEDARL*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p.222, "(Somebody's Darling)" (1 fragment)
NOTES: H. M. Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy_ (p. 188) gives the author's name as "Marie La Coste," rather than "de la Coste." Allsopp says it was *sung* by "Marie La Conte of Georgia." - RBW
File: SCW84
===
NAME: Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door
DESCRIPTION: "Somebody's knockin' at your door (x2), Go, Mary, go, Martha, Somebody's knockin'...." "It's your mother, Somebody's... It's your father...." "In the churchyard...." "It's the preacher...." "Come to tell you, Somebody's knockin' at your door."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad clergy
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 635, "Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door" (1 text)
Roud #11931
File: Br3635
===
NAME: Somebody's Talking About Jesus: see Everywhere I Go My Lord (File: CNFM061A)
===
NAME: Somebody's Tall and Handsome
DESCRIPTION: "Somebody's tall and handsome, Somebody's fond and true, Somebody's hair is very black, And somebody's eyes are blue."  Said somebody comes to ask the singer to marry, "And of course I said all right."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Randolph); Wehman printed a similar broadside c. 1884
KEYWORDS: courting marriage mother father ship
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Randolph 380, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (2 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 310-311, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 380A)
BrownIII 275, "Somebody" (2 text plus mention of 2 more)
Warner 163, "Tommy" (1 text, 1 tune, heavily localized, in which Tommy owns a speedboat and father is happy to be rid of his daughter)
Fuson, pp. 101, "Someone" (1 text, which has degenerated into a repeating song with this first verse as chorus: "Someone called for (mother/brother/sister/father), And mother went out to see, Mother came back with a tear in her eye, Someone has asked for me")
Sandburg, pp. 464-465, "Somebody" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 55-56, "[Somebody]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 82, "Somebody" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOMBODY
ST R380 (Full)
Roud #761
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Tar Heels, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (Victor V-40128, 1929; on CrowTold02)
Martha Ann Midgette, "Tommy" (on USWarnerColl01)
Abigail Hall Ritchie, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (on Ritchie03)
File: R380
===
NAME: Somebody's Waiting for Me
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports that, being unemployed and broke, he has taken a job as a sailor. All the while, in all the ports he visits and despite all the fine things he sees, he remembers that "There is somebody waiting for me At an old cabin down by the sea..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Sweet Bros.)
KEYWORDS: sea separation love
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 160, "Somebody's Waiting for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa160 (Partial)
Roud #7504
RECORDINGS:
Cousin Levi & his Carolina Bluebirds, "Somebody's Waiting" (Bluebird B-7522, 1938)
Ernest V. Stoneman, Willie Stoneman, and The Sweet Brothers, "Somebody's Waiting for Me" (Gennett 6620 [as by the Sweet Brothers]/Supertone 9323 [as by the Caldwell Brothers], 1929/Champion 15586 [as by the Clark Brothers]; rec. 1928); Ernest Stoneman and Eddie Stoneman, "There's Somebody Waiting for Me" (Vocalion 02632, 1934)
Charles K. "Tink" Tillett, "Somebody's Waiting for Me" [instrumental] (on USWarnerColl01)
File: Wa160
===
NAME: Someone: see Somebody's Tall and Handsome (File: R380)
===
NAME: Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah: see I've Been Working on the Railroad (File: FSWB209)
===
NAME: Somerset Carol
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you worthy gentlemen That may be standing by, Christ our blessed savior Was born on Christmas day... Oh we wish you the comfort and tidings of joy!" The Christ child is born and laid in the manger; the singers wish the householders good cheer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: religious Christmas wassail Jesus nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OBC 8, "Somerset Carol" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 377, "Comfort and Tidings of Joy" (1 text)
Roud #394
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
NOTES: Although this song does not actually use the word "wassail," the general tenor (including the final blessing on the householder) is very wassail-like, which is why I have supplied the keyword. The relationship with God Rest You Merry" is obvious (Roud lumps them), though its exact nature is unclear. I suspect, however, that this is a composite piece. - RBW
File: FSWB377B
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NAME: Somerset Wassail
DESCRIPTION: "Wassail, wassail, all over the town, The cup is white and the ail is brown." Singer toasts the wassail bowl, likewise the residents of the house, begging entry, food, drink, hospitality and money.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1857 (Bell)
KEYWORDS: request ritual drink food begging nonballad wassail
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South),Wales)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp-100E 92, "Wassail Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBC 32, "Somerset Wassail" (1 text, 1 tune)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #350, p. 180, "(Wassail, wassail to our town)"
DT, WASSOMER*
Roud #209
RECORDINGS:
Phil Tanner, "The Wassail Song" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741, Voice16)
Wassailers, "The Wassail Song" (on Voice13)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Gloucestershire Wassailers' Song" (subject, one verse)
cf. "Here We Come A-Wassailing" (subject)
cf. "Wassail Song (III)" (subject)
NOTES: The custom of "wassailing" (going from house to house, usually on January 5th, begging food, drink and hospitality) is mentioned as far back as the 12th century in England; similar rituals are found across the continent of Europe and in the United States. -PJS
"Wassail," incidentally, is from Old English "Wes hael," "Be hale/whole," i.e. "Be in good health."
Paul Stamler suggests that this should not be called the "Somerset Wassail," because it's well-known outside Somerset and is often known as "The Wassail Song" (or under other titles). The problem is, all wassails seem to be called "The Wassail Song" by local singers. I use the Oxford Book of Carols title because that's as close as there is to a canonical reference.
To tell this wassail song from all the others (most if not all of which are lumped by Roud), consider the first verse:
Wassail and wassail all over the town
The cup it is white and the ale it is brown
The cup it is made of the good old ashen tree
And so is our beer of the best barley.
(The Gloucester Wassail is similar for the first three lines, but the fourth is "With our wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.")
The chorus varies; Sharp collected one version that has the refrain
   To you a wassail
   Aye, and joy come to our jolly wassail.
while another runs
   For it's your wassail, and it's our wassail,
   And it's joy be to you and a jolly wassail. - RBW
Also see Calennig, "The Wassail Song" (on Callenig, "A Gower Garland," Wild Goose Records WGS 299 CD (2000)) - BS
File: ShH92
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NAME: Something Got Hold of Me
DESCRIPTION: "When first I heard of the people who claimed This old-time religion was real," the singer concluded it was "just a weak mind," but chose to visit anyway -- though the Devil urged against it. Then "Something got hold of me" and the singer turned Christian
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 640, "Something Got Hold of Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4224
File: R640
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NAME: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
DESCRIPTION: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child... a long way from home.... Sometimes I feel like I have no friend(s).... Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Barton, "Old Plantation Hymns")
KEYWORDS: religious home orphan nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 107, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 49, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 62, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 514, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
Roud #10072
RECORDINGS:
Rev. Gary Davis, "Motherless Children" (on GaryDavis02)
Harmonizing Four, "Motherless Child" (Vee Jay 854, rec. 1957)
Ruth Mallard, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile" (on BlackAmRel1)
Paul Robeson, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Victor 20013, 1926)
Pete Seeger, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (on PeteSeeger23) (on PeteSeeger24)
Sister Nellie Lynn & the Southern Sons, "Motherless Child" (Haven 521, n.d.)
Lee Wiley, "Motherless Child" (Decca 132, 1934)
File: LxU107
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NAME: Sometimes I'm in This Country
DESCRIPTION: "Sometimes I'm in this country, sometimes IÕm in this town." The singer asks his love if she will be true; she replies that she has a new sweetheart. He considers drowning himself, but the water might "deceive" him; he decides to travel the wide world
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (recorded from Lee Monroe Presnell)
KEYWORDS: love rejection drowning travel
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
ST RcSIITCo (Partial)
Roud #16400
RECORDINGS:
Lee Monroe Presnell, "Sometimes I'm in This Country" (on USWarnerColl01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Goodnight, Irene" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Willy, Poor Boy" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Warners claim that they could find out nothing about this song. Their informant Presnell thought it was a "sea song." And yet, the kinship to "Goodnight Irene" is clear. If Presnell is right about its sea origin, my guess is that it and "Goodnight Irene" split off from a common original sometime in the nineteenth century, and this went to sea and the other version went to Lead Belly. Since then, they  have evolved enough that they can be considered separate songs. - RBW
File: RcSIITCo
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NAME: Son Davie, Son Davie: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
===
NAME: Son of a Gambolier (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a rambling rake of poverty, From Tippery town I came. 'Twas poverty compelled me first, To go out in the rain." The singer tells how hard life, (drink), and rambling has turned him old and unattractive. He can't help it; he's "the son of a gambolier"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1870 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: rambling drink poverty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 369, "The Rambling Soldier" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 44, "The Son of a Gambolier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 78-80, "The Son of a Gambolier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 159-160, "The Song of a Gambolier" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 515-516, "Son of a Gun -- (Son of a Gambolier; Dunderbeck; and Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech)"
DT, SONGAMB*
Roud #2964
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech" (tune)
cf. "Dunderbeck" (tune)
cf. "Son of a Gambolier (II)"
cf. "Way Out in Idaho (I)" (tune)
cf. "The Pioneers" (tune)
cf. "According to the Act" (tune)
cf. "The Rakes of Poverty" (tune)
cf. "The Freight Handler's Strike" (tune)
cf. "The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer" (tune)
NOTES: The Brown text is clearly a prototype of the various "Son of a Gambolier" versions; in it, the lad is forced by poverty to join the army, and does not mention the gambolier. But so much of the rest is the same that it seems absurd to split the songs. - RBW
File: San044
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NAME: Son of a Gambolier (II)
DESCRIPTION: Bawdy, scatological, and sundry verses to the tune of "Son of a Gambolier/Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech." Often directed at the local arch-enemy (so, e.g. students of Stanford would lampoon California)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy parody nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 327-332, "Son of a Gambolier" (1 extended text, 1 tune); also pp. 332-336, "The Cardinals Be Damned" (3 texts, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Son of a Gambolier (I)"
NOTES: This extended title is used for any song insulting another college which can use the "Gambolier" tune. Why? Because no two versions of the result are alike. - RBW
File: EM327
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NAME: Son Petit Jupon: see Marie Madelaine (Son Petit Jupon -- The Little Dress of Gray) (File: SBoA294)
===
NAME: Son, Come Tell It To Me: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
===
NAME: Song About a Man-of-War, A
DESCRIPTION: The singer and his love part as he prepares to go to sea. The captain convinces him to come "on board of a man of war," where he is bound, abused, and fed horrid food. At last he throws himself overboard, swims to shore, and returns to his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown, from a manuscript reportedly dated 1768)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship separation love reunion escape abuse
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 115, "A Song About a Man-of-War" (1 text)
Roud #661
NOTES: The text in Brown seems confused; in the first two verses, the sailor seems about to voluntarily leave his love, then a captain cons him to come aboard ship. Then, once aboard, he is treated as if he had been pressed.
The most likely explanation is that several songs have been jumbled together. But the key element -- the third, in which the sailor makes his escape -- is unknown to me, and the editors of Brown confess ignorance also. - RBW
File: BrII115
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NAME: Song about the Fishing Banks: see The Eastern Light [Laws D11] (File: LD11)
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NAME: Song and Dance
DESCRIPTION: "I just arrived in town today, I'm a stranger to you all. If you don't like this music I cain't stop and give you a call." The singer exchanges glances with the girls in the street, becomes involved with one, then heads out of town
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: dancing courting travel
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 289, "Song and Dance" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7821
File: R289
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NAME: Song of a Lost Hunter, A (or, My Love Heneree): see Young Hunting [Child 68] (File: C068)
===
NAME: Song of a Soldier: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Song of Agincourt, The: see The Agincourt Carol (File: MEL51)
===
NAME: Song of All Nations
DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you a song of all nations." An Irishman's made of "his shamrock so green and a jug of poteen." Similar lines for Scotchman, Englishman, Frenchman, Jew, ..., old men, old ladies, ..., mammys and daddys.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 80, "Song of All Nations" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrSNB180 (Partial)
Roud #2766
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "What's Little Babies Made Of?" (concept)
NOTES: The first part of this has rather the feeling of the educations songs one finds in Randolph and other sources ("States and Capitals," "The Presidents in Rhyme," things like that). But it doesn't really contain information, so this origin seems unlikely.
The second half, in which the song stops talking about various nationalities and turns to types of people (old men, old ladies, etc.) is similar in concept to "What Are Little Boys Made Of" and "What's Little Babies Made Of," but the actual "ingredients" are different enough that I think they qualify as separate songs. There may be a common inspiration somewhere in the distant past, to be sure. - RBW
File: CrSNB180
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NAME: Song of All Songs: see Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles) (File: R515)
===
NAME: Song of Dailey's Life-Boat, The: see The Little Clare Mary (Daily's Lifeboat) (File: BrII289)
===
NAME: Song of Joaquin (Wakken), The
DESCRIPTION: "I suppose you have heard of all the talking Of that noted horse thief, Joaquin; He was caught in Calaveras, And he couldn't stand the joke; So the rangers cut his head off." His robberies and 24 murders are listed; the capture of his gang is described
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: murder police thief crime punishment
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Burt, pp. 195-196, "(The Song of Joaquin)" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 135, "Wakken" (1 short text)
ST GC135 (Partial)
Roud #3671
NOTES: The text in Gardner and Chickering, collected in Michigan but said to originate in California, was badly corrupt (as its title shows), and it is not possible to identify the villain. But it has enough in common with Burt's text that I'm fairly sure they're the same song.
The real question is, is this Joaquin in fact Joaquin Murieta (c. 1832-1853)? The song never uses his surname, but the details fit very well: Murieta, who came to California around 1849, was the victim of anti-Mexican prejudice, and swore vengeance -- which he carried out with brutal effect.
In 1853, California finally authorized a special company to catch him. They found him and his band in July, and Murieta was killed in the shoot-out. As the song tells, his head was cut off and preserved in alcohol so it could be shown off around the state. - RBW
File: GC135
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NAME: Song of Marvels, The: see Little Brown Dog (File: VWL101)
===
NAME: Song of Prosperous, The
DESCRIPTION: "We" United Irishmen burned Prosperous. "Our captain he forsook us," "Phil Mite the informer" betrayed us, Colonel Aylmer led us. "If Ireland had behaved like Wicklow, Wexford, and Kildare, The green flag would be hoisted through town and counterie" 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion betrayal revenge death Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1798 - "At Prosperous, County Kildare, a garrison commanded by Captain Swayne was massacred by the insurgents" (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 13, "The Song of Prosperous" (1 text)
Moylan 56, "The Song of Prosperous" (1 text)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "Philip Mite, one of the assailant party, denounced his leader, a Dr. Esmond, who was hanged. According to John Devoy, this was still the favourite '98 ballad around Naas in the middle of the nineteenth century...." - BS
The story of Prosperous tells us a lot about both Irish historians and about the history of Ireland. It was founded by Richard Brooke around 1780 as a cotton-spinning site. The settlement was on the Grand Canal a short distance north of Naas (in Kildare, west southwest of Dublin)
But English policy was, in effect, to crush any Irish industry which showed signs of competing with British. Tarriffs and other problems caused Prosperous to go bankrupt in 1786.
That much is mentioned in several pro-Irish histories. But they tend to ignore the massacre there. I found details only in Thomas Pakenham's pro-British _The Year of Liberty_ (pp. 112-117). With buildings intact but little industry left, Prosperous made a good place for a garrison; in 1798, there were a couple of dozen Welsh dragoons and about 35 (mostly Catholic) militia from Cork commanded by (Protestant) Captain Swayne.
Swayne, it must be said, was a vicious persecutor of Catholics. His men were not. But, on the night of May 23/24, they were the target of one of the first attacks of the Kildare phase of the 1798 rebellion; reportedly some 500 men took part in the assualt. Pakenham reports that 38 of 57 defenders were killed; Swayne himself was shot then burned in a barrel of tar. (A peculiar outcome; see the fate of Father Murphy described in "Some Treat of David.")
The man at the head of the attacking forces was said to be Doctor John Esmonde, the first lieutenant of Richard Griffiths (commander of the Sallins yeoman cavalry, based nearby at Clane, and one of the senior officers in the area).
Griffith himself came under attack that night, but beat it off easily. He did not feel strong enough to attack Prosperous, and ended up retreating to Naas. A yeoman named Philip Mite soon arrived to tell Griffith of Esmonde's leading part in the massacre. Esmonde arrived shortly after, quite neatly dressed, but was taken into custody. He would eventually be hung, with his coat reversed to show he was a deserter (Pakenham, p. 124). It sounds as if Mite's was the only direct testimony against him, but it was enough. - RBW
File: Zimm013
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NAME: Song of Repentance
DESCRIPTION: A rake repents the "time sadly wasted" drinking, bragging, seducing, and versifying. He has wasted his money on musicians. His creditors would see him in jail. He is poor, growing old, and alone. He warns others not to follow his example.
AUTHOR: unknown, translated by "Frank O'Conor" (1903-1966)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: age poverty courting drink music rake
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 82, "Song of Repentance" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: OLochlainn-More: "My friend 'Frank O'Conor' (now Dr. Ml. O'Donovan) has given me leave to reprint his spirited translation of Eoghan Rua O'Sullivan's 'B'fhearr leigean doibh'." - BS
Frank O'Connor was an industrious translator of Irish poetry; Charles Sullivan's _Ireland in Poetry_ includes ten of his renditions; the only author more heavily represented is Yeats. Much of his work was collected in _Kings, Lords & Commons_. He also wrote English short stories and some plays. He had quite a lively life, having been a member of the IRA in his youth. - RBW
File: OLcM082
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NAME: Song of Solomon's Temple: see The Building of Solomon's Temple [Laws Q39] (File: LQ39)
===
NAME: Song of Song Titles: see Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles) (File: R515)
===
NAME: Song of Songs: see Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles) (File: R515)
===
NAME: Song of Temptation, The
DESCRIPTION: Her seduction attempt: birds sport, why shouldn't we? And we are born naked: why wear clothes? Don't quote Holy Writ. He cites David's fall and Sodom; she, Solomon's queens and concubines. He bids her "Begone you slut!" "Without ado they then withdrew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: seduction dialog nonballad religious Bible
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 45-46, "The Song of Temptation" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5333
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kissing's No Sin (I)" (theme of the antiquity of sexual relations)
NOTES: Both sides have some slight holes in their Biblical logic. David did indeed get into trouble for sexual impropriety (his affair with Bathsheba, told in 2 Samuel chapter 11, with the working-out of the consequences occupying chapters 12-20) -- but that was specificly adultery (Bathsheba was married to the Uriah the Hittite) and David compounded it by killing Uriah. Casual fornication is not nearly the same.
As for Sodom, there was a "great outcry" against them (Genesis 18:20), but fornication was hardly their problem; recall that, just before the destruction of the city, Lot offered his virgin daughters to the Sodomites to rape rather than having then assault his guests. But the Sodomites wanted the (male) guests, so their crime was seemingly homosexuality (Genesis 19:1-10).
But the example of Solomon is hardly a counter-argument; he had supposedly 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3), but these wives "turned away his heart after other gods" (1 Kings 11:4), with the eventual result that his descendants lost control of most of Israel.
I'd call the debate pretty close to a draw. - RBW
File: TSF045
===
NAME: Song of the Croppy Boy: see The Croppy Boy (I) [Laws J14] (File: LJ14)
===
NAME: Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly)
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you bold fishermen, listen to me, I'll sing you a song of the fish in the sea, Then blow ye winds westerly, westerly...." The behaviors of the various fish are described as they come forward and speak to the sailors
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: fishing bragging nonballad sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) US(NE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Colcord, pp. 187-188, "The Boston Come-All-Ye" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 145-147, "Song of the Fishes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 196-198, 209-210, "The Fishes" (4 texts, 4 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 153-154], "Blow the Man Down" (1 text, version D of "Blow the Man Down") [AbEd, pp. 164-165]
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 160-161, "The Fish of the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, p. 859, "Blow the Wind Westerly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 77, "The Old Ark" (1 text, 1 tune, with first verse and chorus from "The Old Ark's A-Moverin'" and additional verses from "this song")
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 129-131, "Song of the Fishes" (1 very full text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 496-498, "The Boston Come-All-Ye or The Fishes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 22, "The Fish of the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 557-558, "The Boston Come-All-Ye" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 90, "Blow Ye Winds Westerly" (1 text)
DT, SONGFISH* SNGFISH2
Roud #472
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Come All You Bold Sailormen" (on PeteSeeger08, PeteSeegerCD02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1029), "The King of the Sea" ("Up starts the herring the king of the sea"), unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 28(102), "The King of the Sea"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yea Ho, Little Fish" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Blow the Wind Southerly" (lyrics)
File: LxA496
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NAME: Song of the Freedmen
DESCRIPTION: "We are coming from the cotton fields, We are coming from afar, We have left the plow... And we are going to war." The freed slaves describe all the cruelties they have left behind. Now, apparently, they are fighting for their freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: slave freedom war Civilwar nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 240-242, "Song of the Freedmen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 80-81, "Song of the Freedmen" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: SBoA240
===
NAME: Song of the Pinewoods: see Old Moke Pickin' on the Banjo (Song of the Pinewoods) (File: Be022)
===
NAME: Song of the Rebel Soldier, The: see The Good Old Rebel (The Song of the Rebel Soldier) (File: Wa193)
===
NAME: Song of the Robbers, The
DESCRIPTION: "You've heard this story often, you've heard it o'er and o'er...." "A tip had come to Morrison... That they would have a visit from the native bad G. Raines." The robber gang, though captured, kills Dr. Clark. They are sentenced to long prison terms
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: robbery death crime punishment doctor
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 207-208, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Yes, the song calls the robber "G. Raines." An initial and a surname. Consistently. Not "Raines," and not a full name. That's typical of the horrid "poetry" of the piece. - RBW
File: Burt207
===
NAME: Song of the Southern Volunteers, The
DESCRIPTION: "I would not be a conscript a-hiding in the wood; I'd be a volunteer and do my country good. I wouldn't be alone (x3) to weep and moan." Similarly "I wouldn't be a lawyer... I'd rather be a soldier," etc. -- then perhaps shifting to a female soldier!
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Hudson)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar marriage patriotic soldier work
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Hudson 123, pp. 263-264, "I Would Not Be Alone" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 221-223, "The Song of the Southern Volunteers" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, NOTBEALN
Roud #4502
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'll Not Marry at All" (form)
NOTES: The extant texts of this song all appear rather messed up. Hudson's text hints at the original: An adaption of "I'll Not Marry at All" in which the singer proclaims his willingness to serve the south -- or, perhaps, a girl proclaims "I would not *marry* a conscript."
In fact, it's possible that both forms existed, then were mixed to produce Hudson's odd gender-bending text, with verses about a conscript, lawyer, doctor, lady/belle, nurse, farmer, and miller.
Scott's song it even more confused; it appears to be a mix of "I Would Not Be a Conscript" and "We Go Walking on the Green Grass" (the latter not to be confused with "Walking on the Green Grass"). It's too complicated for me to disentangle, so I tossed it here.
The original description I wrote of the song is as follows: "'I would not marry a conscript... I'd rather marry a volunteer and do my country good.... We go walking on the green grass, thus, thus, thus....' The girl would rather marry, or even be, a soldier boy, than wed someone who will not volunteer for the South." - RBW
File: SBoA221
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NAME: Song of the Splintered Shillelagh: see Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade (File: SCW22)
===
NAME: Song of the Tangier Gold Mines
DESCRIPTION: Gold mining begins May 1861 "back of Tangier and Pope's Harbour." Men leave their work, wives, and sweethearts "for the sake of 'Tangier gold"; ladies "go upon the diggings the miners for to see." Wish the miners success and hope they will be generous
AUTHOR: Catherine Hart (1861)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sex gold mining
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1860 - Opening of the Tangier Gold Mines (Source: Halifax Archives per Creighton-NovaScotia)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-NovaScotia 145, "Song of the Tangier Gold Mines" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrNS145 (Partial)
Roud #1841
NOTES: Tangier is on the coast of Nova Scotia, about 60 miles east of Halifax. - BS
Creighton notes that the mining in the Tangier area was extensive but not particularly profitable. But the song was written when the boom was just beginning, so hopes were high. - RBW
File: CrNS145
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NAME: Song of the Temperance Union: see Rum By Gum (Temperance Union Song) (File: R317)
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NAME: Song of the Times: see The Rigs of the Times (File: K237)
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NAME: Song of the Volunteers, The
DESCRIPTION: "Hurrah! tis done. Our freedom's won. Hurrah for the Volunteers!" The Irish Volunteers, behind Grattan and Flood have broken "the Saxon yoke" Prayers, tears and words were vain "till flashed the swords Of the Irish Volunteers"
AUTHOR: Thomas Davis (1814-1845) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: early 1840s (_The Nation_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: pride rebellion Ireland political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 1, "The Song of the Volunteers" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, pp. 236-237, "The Song of the Volunteers of 1782"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Green Cockade" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
cf. "The Shamrock Cockade" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
cf. "The Volunteers" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
NOTES: The Belfast Volunteers were formed in 1778 because of the threat of war between France and Britain. Similar groups formed, became politicized, and supported "those in favour of legislative independence from the British parliament and the removal of impediments to Irish commerce." Henry Grattan and Harry Flood supported this program in the Irish House of Commons. (Source: Moylan) 
Hayes's title places the events in 1782. - BS
Moylan's description sums up the situation pretty well, I think. The Volunteers were not openly rebellious; they were mostly pro-British, and largely Protestant (though Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 51, notes that they included Catholics as well). By 1779, there were 40,000 volunteers (see Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 186). Having shown that Ireland could field an army, a tide of nationalism, expressed in a "Buy Irish" movement, arose. The British, nervous about this, and remembering the recent example of the American rebels, responded by granting legislative independence in the form of Grattan's Parliament, for which see "Ireland's Glory." - RBW
File: Moyl001
===
NAME: Song on Courtship: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) AND The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: E098)
===
NAME: Song Used When Holystoning the Decks
DESCRIPTION: Tune only, no text. According to Hugill, Russian seaman had few real shanties and apart from the songs quotes by Smith there is nothing in the literature.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (L.A. Smith, _Music of the Waters_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage nonballad shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: Russia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p. 580, "Song Used When Holystoning the Decks" (1 tune only, no text-quoted from Smith)
File: Hugi580
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NAME: Songs of Old Ireland
DESCRIPTION: The singer thinks back of the songs he heard as a youth. He asks to hear several such songs. He recalls fondly the days of his youth.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: music youth nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H768, pp. 59-60, "Songs of Old Ireland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13360
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles)" (theme)
File: HHH768
===
NAME: Sonny Hugh: see Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter [Child 155] (File: C155)
===
NAME: Sons of Hibernia, The
DESCRIPTION: "Brave sons of Hibernia, your shamrocks display, For ever made sacred on St Patrick's day." The shamrock is "the badge of our saint," "a type of religion." It is "an emblem of charity, friendship, and love. May the blight of disunion no longer remain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor)
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: Ireland nonballad patriotic
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 150, "The Sons of Hibernia" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(184), "The Sons of Hibernial", unknown, n.d. 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "St Patrick's Day" (tune, per Broadside Bodleian 2806 b.10(184))
File: OCon150
===
NAME: Sons of Levi (Knights of Malta)
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls all "Knights of (Malta)" to join with him to fight for good. "For we are the true-born Sons of Levi, None on earth can with us compare." The listeners are guided through the (Templar) ritual, and acts of God in Israel are recalled
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (Grieg)
KEYWORDS: knight religious soldier
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England(South),Scotland) US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H146, pp. 180-181, "The Knights of Malta" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 393-292, "The Knights of Malta" (1 text)
Fuson, p. 203, "The Sons of Levi" (1 text)
ST HHH146 (Full)
Roud #2430
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(156), "Sons of Levi, A New Masonic Song," unknown, c. 1880-1900
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Knight Templar's Dream" (style)
NOTES: The Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, or Hospitallers for short, was founded during the Crusades, first as a refuge for pilgrims in need and then as a knightly order to defend the holy sites. After the last Crusader city, Acre, fell in 1291, they gradually retreated across the Mediterranean, settling in Malta in 1530.
Since that time, the Hospitallers have been known as the "Knights of Malta," even though they have been based in Rome since Napoleon pushed them out of Malta in 1798.
The Hospitallers had strong requirements of initates, which may be reflected in the song. The order was suppressed in England in early Protestant times, but re-formed in the nineteenth century. I doubt the song actually originates with the Hospitallers, though; they would not publish such a broadside. Rather, it appears to be a Masonic piece, though one with unusual popularity (perhaps because it has been mated with at least one very good tune).
Scriptural references in the song are numerous, e.g.
* Joshua crossing Jordan, taking twelve stones along, with the Ark of the Covenant, and ending in Gilgal: Joshua 3:12-4:24
* Noah planted the first garden: Properly the first vineyard; Gen. 9:20. The Bible calls Noah the first tiller of the soil in the same verse, but Cain is called the first tiller in Genesis 4:2
Moses planted Aaron's rod: Probably a reference to the budding rod in Numbers 17:1-11, though the next few lines refer to the crossing of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds), Exodus 14:16-29.
Nowhere did Moses turn the Jordan into blood (Moses didn't even reach the banks of Jordan); he turned the Nile to blood in Exodus 7:18-24.
The "ark," of course, is not Noah's Ark but the Ark of the Covenant; the Sons of Levi were the holy tribe of Israel.
The lines in the chorus about the root and branch of David, and the morning star, are from Rev. 22:16 (I'd quibble a bit with the King James translation of the verse, but of course the song is based on the Bible as the Masons knew it).. - RBW
File: HHH146
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NAME: Sons of Liberty, The [Laws J13]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, an Irish soldier, is sent to America to fight the rebels. He lands in New York and soon finds himself fighting the Sons of Liberty. He grieves for those lost in battle, and praises the courage of Washington and his army
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1790 (Journal from the Dolphin)
KEYWORDS: war
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws J13, "The Sons of Liberty"
SharpAp 162, "The Sons of Liberty" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 146-148, "The Sons of Liberty" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, p. 170, "Jessie and Jimmie" (1 stanza, probably of this song though it could float, 1 tune)
DT 396,  SONSLIB1* SONSLIB2*
Roud #596
File: LJ13
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NAME: Soon as My Foot Struck Zion
DESCRIPTION: "Soon as my foot struck Zion, And de lamps all lit on de shore, Bud dis world a long farewell, And de lamps all lit on de shore." "You better walk study [steady?], Jesus a-listenin', Oh, you better walk study, Jesus died... Jesus a-listenin' all day long"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 636, "Soon As My Foot Struck Zion" (2 short texts from the same informant)
Roud #11934
File: Br3636
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NAME: Soon I Will Be Done
DESCRIPTION: "Soon I will be done with the troubles of the world... Goin' home to God." "I want to meet my mother...." "I want to see my Jesus...." "No more weepin' and wailin'...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 244, "Soon I Will Be Done" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LoF244
===
NAME: Soon in the Morning: see I Hope I'll Join the Band (Soon in the Morning) (File: R266)
===
NAME: Soon One Morning
DESCRIPTION: "Soon one morning death come creepin' in my room (x3) Oh my Lord, oh my Lord, what shall I do to be saved?... Death done been here, took my mother and gone... I'm so glad I got religion in time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 103, "Soon One Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DETHCREP*
Roud #10069
RECORDINGS:
Delta Big Four, "I Know My Time Ain't Long" (Paramount 12948, 1930; on VocalQ2)
Golden Gate Quartet, "Hush" (Columbia 30136, 1948)
Blind Willie Johnson, "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (Columbia 14530-D, 1930)
Rev. Willie Gresham & congregation, "Soon, One Mornin'" (on FolkVisions1)
Fred McDowell, "Soon One Mornin'" (on LomaxCD1703)
Wiseman Sextet, "Hush, Somebody's Calling My Name" (Paramount 12077, 1924)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Hush
NOTES: Without a source for "You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond" I don't remember the lyrics well enough to know if it's the same song as "Soon One Morning," but I THINK it is. -PJS
File: LxU103
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NAME: Sorghum Molasses
DESCRIPTION: A (hobo? Georgia soldier?) prepares his meal and declares, "All the world there's none surpasses Good cornbread and sorghum molasses." "He declares, "Georgia girls there's none surpasses, They are sweeter than sorghum molasses."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: food soldier nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 386, "Sorghum Molasses" (1 text)
Roud #6684
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sorghum Syrup" (theme)
File: Br3386
===
NAME: Sorghum Syrup
DESCRIPTION: "I been to the North and I been to the South... And I've travelled all over Europe; Never saw the likes of sorghum syrup." The southerner describes courting the girls and all the uses of sorghum
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: food travel nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 132, "Sorghum Syrup" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6684
RECORDINGS:
Art Thieme, "Bye and Bye" (on Thieme06)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sorghum Molasses" (theme)
File: LoF132
===
NAME: Sorrowful Lamentation of Denis Mahony, The
DESCRIPTION: "Honest Denis Mahony that now lies in the clay ... his precious blood was freely spilt before the tithes he'd pay." Farmer Mahony is murdered. The Parishioners catch the murderer "and laid him on the ground" but "the tithes they paid without delay"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1830s (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: murder farming Ireland political lament
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 38, "The Sorrowful Lamentation of Denis Mahony" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War) and references there
NOTES: The complete title of Zimmermann's broadside is "The Sorrowful Lamentation of Denis Mahony, Who Lost His Life in the Parish of Inniscarra, in the County of Cork, on Account of the Tithes."
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) - BS
See "The Battle of Carrickshock" for more about the Tithe War, and the cross-references there for more songs on the topic. - RBW
File: Zimm038
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NAME: Sorry the Day I Was Married
DESCRIPTION: Married woman recounts the miseries of her life and wishes she hadn't married: "Sorry the day I was married, Sorry the day I was wed; It's Oh, if I only had tarried When I to the altar was led." She recalls all the good things she had before marriage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: marriage abuse humorous
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, SRRYMRRY*
Roud #1561
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again"
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)"
cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme)
cf. "Sporting Bachelors"
cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
NOTES: Most "male" versions of this song go under the title of "The Sporting Bachelors," as they consist of the married man warning the bachelors of the abuse he suffers. His wife "swears [he's] obliged to maintain her" and lives well while "toss[ing him] bones" and leaving him dressed in rags. - RBW
File: WB2046
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NAME: Souling Song
DESCRIPTION: "A soul, a soul, a soul-cake, Please good mistress a soul-cake, One for Peter and one for Paul And one for the Lord that made us all. An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us merry." Once a year, singers beg for food, clothes, money
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1891 (Broadwood); Simpson and Roud quote a seeming version from 1686
KEYWORDS: food begging religious
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #408, p. 194, "(A soul-cake, a soul-cake)"
DT, SOULCAKE* SOULCAK2*
Roud #304
NOTES: A song for All Souls Eve and Day (November 2 and the night preceding), when it was customary to give out food and alms on behalf of the dead.
According to Simpson and Roud, _A Dictionary of English Folklore_, entry on All Souls Day, Abbot Odilo of Cluny created the festival in the eleventh century to pray for the souls of those who had died. (Hence the Souling custom: In Catholic belief, prayer would get you out of purgatory, so travellers would pray in return for food -- almost a return to the professional mourners of Roman times). The original date was in February, but it was moved to November to align with All Saints Day.
The 1686 reference is to Aubrey's account of customs in Shropshire, when it was still customary to put out cakes for all passers-by on this day. These were called "soul cakes" or, according to W. C. Hazlitt's _Dictionary of Faiths & Folklore_, "soul-mass cakes."
I haven't seen anyone comment on the mentions of Peter and Paul in this song, but it may (or may not) be significant that Peter was the chief apostle to Jews, Paul to Gentiles (Galatians 2:8, etc.) - RBW
File: BGMG408
===
NAME: Sound Off (Cadence Count, Jody Chant)
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Sound off, One, two, Sound off, Three, four." Verses, in marching cadence, can be about anything soldiers dislike, or their sex lives, but often involve the despicable Jody: "Jody's got my gal and gone, Left me here a-singing this song...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935
KEYWORDS: army betrayal separation bawdy
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cray, pp. 394-398, "Sound Off" (3 texts, 1 tune); see also pp. 398-400, "Honey Babe" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 317, "Sound Off" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOUNDOFF* SOUNDOF2*
Roud #10398
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Swing Cadence
The Airborne Chant
Duckworth Chant
NOTES: If one is only studying origins, this would probably not be considered one song. However, cadence chants so freely exchange verses, and can so readily shift from clean to bawdy and back, that I see no point in trying to separate any which use the same meter. - RBW
File: LoF317
===
NAME: Sounding Calls
DESCRIPTION: This barely qualifies as a song, as there are only three notes, repeated in the same order with slight variation. There is no plot; the depth of the river is taken in order to avoid running aground. "Half twain, quarter twain, mark twain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939
KEYWORDS: river nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 572, "Mississippi Sounding Call" (1 text, 1 tune)
MWheeler, pp. 59-66, "Soundings at Memphis"; "Soundings from Uncle Mac"; Soundings from Tee Collins" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
NOTES: The terminology used in these song is explained in Botkin's notes, and more fully in sources such as Wheeler. 
In simplest form, the measurements are in fathoms, and additive -- so, e.g. "half twain" is "half a fathom plus two fathoms," i.e. 15 feet; "quarter twain:" "quarter fathom plus two fathoms," i.e. 13.5 feet; "mark twain": two fathoms exactly, i.e. 12 feet.
Distances less than "quarter less twain" (10.5 feet) are given in feet, and distances over a certain limit (usually Mark Four, i.e. four fathoms=24 feet) are described as "no bottom."
The various "songs" combined under this heading are, of course, not ballads, and not even true folk tunes, nor do they constitute a single song. The tunes are simple, and almost all the words are simply the numbers for depths (though in fact the various singers had their own methods of calling the numbers -- a valuable skill if it helped keep the listeners alert). But collectively these chants represent a significant part of river culture, so I've included them. - RBW
File: BMRF572
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NAME: Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour
DESCRIPTION: The singer has not recently attended the local "times" but goes to this one on November 18, held at the church. He pays the five cents admission and enjoys the soup supper, dancing till four or five, and another supper after that.
AUTHOR: Peter Leonard
EARLIEST_DATE: 1983 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: dancing food party
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 99, "Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
Anita Best, "The Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour" (on NFABest01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Buns of Daily Bread
File: LeVe099
===
NAME: Sourwood Mountain
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune with words; young man wants his true love, but she is coy. Versions often contain a variety of floating or spontaneous verses. First stanza may begin, "Chickens crowing on Sourwood Mountain...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (collected by Olive Dame Campbell); +1909 (JAFL22)
KEYWORDS: courting love rejection nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Randolph 417, "Sourwood Mountain" (4 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 346-347, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 417A)
BrownIII 251, "Sourwood Mountain" (7 texts plus an excerpt and 3 fragments)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 91 "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 170-171, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 125, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune); 320-321, "I Got a Gal at the Head of the Holler" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 216, "Sourwood Mountain" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 24, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 276-277, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune, composite)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 897-898, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 148-149, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 257-258, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 35, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
DT, SOURWOOD
Roud #754
RECORDINGS:
Coleman & Harper "Sourwood Mountain" (Perfect 12751, 1931) (Oriole 8095, 1935)
Fruit Jar Guzzlers, "Sourwood Mountain" (on CrowTold01)
I. G. Greer & Mrs. I. G. Greer, "Sourwood Mountain" (AFS; on LC12)
The Hillbillies, "Sourwood Mountain" (Vocalion 5022, c. 1926)
Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers "I've Got a Woman on Sourwood Mountain" (OKeh 45171, 1927)
Kessinger Brothers, "Sourwood Mountain" (Brunswick 308, c. 1929)
Bradley Kincaid ,"Sourwood Mountain" (Gennett 6417/Silvertone 8220, 1928) (Brunswick 420, 1930) (Conqueror 8090, 1933) (one of these is on CrowTold02, but it's not clear which)
Clayton McMichen, "Sourwood Mountain [part of instrumental medley] (Decca 2649, 1939)
Land Norris, "Dogwood Mountain" (OKeh 40433, 1925)
Fiddlin' Powers & Family, "Sour Wood Mountains" (Victor 19448, 1924) (Edison 51789/5123, 1925)
Hobart Smith, "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (on LomaxCD1702)
Kilby Snow, "Sourwood Mountain" (on KSnow1)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "Sourwood Mountain" (Victor 20235, 1926)
Stove Pipe No. 1 [pseud. for Sam Jones], "Cripple Creek & Sourwood Mountain" (Columbia 201-D, 1924)
Uncle "Am" Stuart, "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (Vocalion 15840, 1924)
Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett, "Sourwood Mountain" (Columbia 245-D, 1924)
Taylor's Kentucky Boys, "Sourwood Mountain" (on BefBlues3)
The Vagabonds, "Sourwood Mountain" (Bluebird B-5335, 1934)
Wade Ward, "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (on Holcomb-Ward1); "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (on GraysonCarroll1)
Henry Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners, "Sourwood Mountain" (OKeh 7005, 1924)
NOTES: The Baptist church disapproved of dancing, but allowed playparties (dances with sung tunes instead of instrumental music) - PJS
It should be noted that this is primarily a fiddle tune; it's listed because it occasionally turns up with words. - RBW
File: R417
===
NAME: South Australia (I)
DESCRIPTION: The sailor reports, "South Australia's where I was born." Often used as a shanty, with chorus, "Heave away, heave away... we're bound for south Australia." Often he speaks of leaving his Australian girl behind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor separation
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Australia
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 71, "South Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 90, "Rolling King" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 33-35, "South Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 193-195, "Rolling King," "South Australia" (3 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 150-151]
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 58-59, "South Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 2-4, "Bound for South Australia" (1 text,  2 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 315-316, "South Australia" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 85, "South Australia" (1 text)
DT, SOAUSTRL*
Roud #325
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cape Cod Girls" (floating lyrics, tune, meter, plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Ruler King
NOTES: There is no true dividing line between this song and "Cape Cod Girls"; they merge into each other. However, the difference in local color and focus is enough that they should be separated. The problem is classifying the intermediate versions.... - RBW
A modern verse: "In South Australia Skylab fell..., 15 billion shot to hell..." - SL
File: Doe071
===
NAME: South Australia (II): see Cape Cod Girls (File: LoF023)
===
NAME: South Carolina State
DESCRIPTION: The singer enlists for gold to fight "in the northern wars." He deserts, is caught, jailed "in South Carolina State," and sentenced to be hung. He asks that the news be sent to his father, mother, and friends, and that he be buried next to his sister
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: desertion war execution soldier father mother burial punishment
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 100, "South Carolina State" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Lehr/Best: "According to [the singer] this song is about a Newfoundlander who went to fight in the war for American independence." - BS
File: LeBe100
===
NAME: South Down Militia
DESCRIPTION: Famous warriors are named: King's Guards and Scots Greys, Russians and Prussians, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, "but the South Down Militia is the terror of the land." Their appearance throws the Kaiser and "Krugar" into despair and makes Victoria gush.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: army war humorous nonballad talltale Napoleon
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1899-1902 - Boer War
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn 90 note, "South Down Militia" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT, SOUTHDWN*
NOTES: The description is from the text at South Down Defenders Flute Band Newry site "Words & Music of Traditional Ulster Songs." - BS
The references to Kruger, the Kaiser, and Victoria date this song fairly precisely: The Jameson Raid (beginning in late December of 1895) provoked the "Kruger Telegram," in which Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany offered his friendship to Boer president Kruger (though the support turned out to be only moral). The (second) Boer War began in 1899, and ended in 1902; Victoria died in 1901.
The Boer War started with a series of bad British defeats, forcing them to bring in additional forces from all over the Empire. Naturally this included a lot of Irish troops. - RBW
File: OLoc090N
===
NAME: Southerly Wind
DESCRIPTION: Round: "Oh, it's a southerly wind and a cloudy sky, Proclaim it a hunting/sailing morning. Before the sun rises away we'll fly... Hark, hark , forward."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship sports
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 174-175, "Southerly Wind" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #9442
File: Doe174
===
NAME: Southern Blues, The
DESCRIPTION: "When I got up this mornin', I heard the old Southern whistle blow (x2), Then I was thinkin' 'bout my baby, Lord, I sure did want to go." The singer watches "the Southern cross the Dog." The singer wonders which train his baby took; he will try Georgia
AUTHOR: Big Bill Broonzy (at least in part)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (recording, Big Bill Broonzy)
KEYWORDS: train separation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 441-443, "The Southern Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Big Bill Broonzy, "The Southern Blues" (Bluebird B-5998/B-6964, 1935)
NOTES: This is one of those who-knows-how-to-file-it blues. The recorded form is Broonzy's, but there are older elements, including especially the line "where the Southern crosses the Dog," the chief basis for Cohen's inclusion of the song. W. C. Handy encountered this line from a street singer around 1903, and it helped inspire his blues career.
There is a recording by W. T. Narmour and S. W. Smith, "Where The Southern Crosses The Dog" (OKeh 45480); I don't know what its relation is to either this song or the one Handy heard. - RBW
File: LSRai443
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NAME: Southern Cross (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The Southern Cross goes to the Gulf in March to hunt seals. They are successful in the hunt but on their return are lost in a storm. The SS Kyle, sent off to search, could find nothing. The singer concludes by hoping that all are in Heaven if never found.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: hunting storm ship wreck disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 31, 1914 - Last sighting of the Southern Cross
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 139, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 973-974, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 77, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, p. 57, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, pp. 54-55, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 80, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 99-100, "Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doy57 (Partial)
Roud #2796
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Southern Cross (II)" (subject)
NOTES: Horace Beck in his book _Folklore and the Sea_ (Mystic Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1985), p. 208 gives a brief account of sealing disasters in Newfoundland that he obtained from George A. England, "Vikings of the Ice" (London, 1924) pp. 54-59. - SH
Greenleaf/Mansfield says that 170 men were lost; "no survivor or wreckage has ever been found."
_Southern Cross_ last sighted by the _Portia_ March 31, 1914 off Cape Race en route from Channel, southwest Newfoundland, to Harbour Grace (on the far side of Conception Bay from St John's); cargo about 20,000 seals; Captain George Clark (Northern Shipwrecks Database).
A must-read article on the ballad and its history, complete with a map, is available online in the archives of the site for the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music. Specifically, _Canadian Journal for Traditional Music_, vol 10, 1982, "The Southern Cross: A Case Study in the Ballad as History" by T.B. Rogers.
The article is good not only for its exhaustive discussion of this ballad but for the light it sheds on ballad-making in Newfoundland (at least). - BS
This song is item dD36 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doy57
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NAME: Southern Cross (II), The
DESCRIPTION: The Southern Cross sails out through the ice and is last sighted by the Portia off Cape St Mary's sailing home.
AUTHOR: unknbown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: hunting storm ship wreck disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 31, 1914 - Last sighting of the Southern Cross
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 101, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Southern Cross (I)" (subject)
NOTES: The _Southern Cross_ last sighted by SS _Portia_ on March 31, 1914 sailing home to St John's with a cargo of seals. Believed "foundered in blizzard" with a loss of about 172 men. (Lehr/Best, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
Lehr/Best: see "The Newfoundland Disaster" for another ballad about another wreck in the same storm. "This was a particularly sad and tragic time for Newfoundland... leaving a total of about 252 dead in one month." - BS
File: LeBe101
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NAME: Southern Encampment, The
DESCRIPTION: "As I rambled out one evening in the pleasant month of June, I spied an encampment by the light of the moon." The southern girl reports on the soldiers' disdain for the northerners; despite their poor living conditions, she and they expect victory
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar patriotic soldier
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 223, "The Southern Encampment" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 207-208, "The Southern Encampment" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 223)
Roud #7704
File: R223
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NAME: Southern Girl's Reply, The (True to the Gray)
DESCRIPTION: "I cannot listen to your words, The land's too far and wide, Go seek some happy northern girl To be your loving bride." The southern girl tells how her youngest brother and lover were slain in the Civil War; she will not marry one who fought to kill them
AUTHOR: Original words ("True to the Gray") by Pearl Rivers
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941
KEYWORDS: Civilwar courting rejection
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Warner 156, "The Southern Girl's Reply" (1 collected text plus the original Rivers poem, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 251-252, "The Southern Girl's Reply" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, STHREPLY*
Roud #7484
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (tune & meter) and references there
NOTES: The "Fitzhugh Lee" referred to in the first stanza was Robert E. Lee's nephew, and a cavalry officer. One of the senior generals under Jeb Stuart, he eventually commanded what remained of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia after Stuart's death and Wade Hampton's transfer. - RBW
File: Wa156
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NAME: Southern Jack, A
DESCRIPTION: "I got a southern jack [train engine], I got a southern jack, First thing yi (sic.) do shovel in the coal, Next thing yi do watch the drivers roll. I got a southern jack, I got a southern jack; All aboard on the southern jack!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: train
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 239, "A Southern Jack" (1 short text)
Roud #6452
File: Br3239
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NAME: Southern Ladies
DESCRIPTION: Capstan shanty, Negro origin. "What will you fetch your Julia? Way-ay-ay-ay! What will you fetch your Julia? She's a Southern lady all the day." Meter changes from 2/2 to 3/2 throughout.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (JFSS volume 5)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p.395, "Southern Ladies" (1 short text, 1 tune-quoted from a shanty which Cecil Sharp gave in volume 5 of the Journal of the Folk Song Society) [AbEd, p. 300]
Roud #9173
File: Hugi395
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NAME: Southern Oath, The
DESCRIPTION: "By the cross upon our banner, Glory to our Southern skies, We have sworn, a band of brothers, Free to live or free to die." Southrons will fight northern "hirelings," and protect southern "fair-haired daughters" from "your fierce and ruffian chief"
AUTHOR: Rosa Vertner Jeffrey?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Southern Poems of the War)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 359-360. "The Southern Oath" (1 text)
Roud #7766
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Confederate Oath
File: Beld359
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NAME: Southern Shore Queen
DESCRIPTION: "It's concerning the harbour of Cape Broyle ... we will call it The Southern Shore Queen"; "Now Cape Broyle is famed for its beauty." The song lists the attributes of beautiful Cape Broyle
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: pride lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, p. 55, "Southern Shore Queen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 47, "Southern Shore Queen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7312
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "The Southern Shore Queen" (on NFOBlondahl04)
NOTES: Cape Broyle is on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula, about 40 miles south of St John's - BS
File: Doyl3055
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NAME: Southern Soldier Boy, The (Barbro Buck)
DESCRIPTION: "Barbro Buck is my sweetheart's name, He's off to the wars and gone, He's fighting for his Nannie dear, His sword is buckled on. He's fighting for his own true love, He is my only joy, He is the darling of my heart, My southern soldier boy."
AUTHOR: Words: Captain G.W. Alexander
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: love separation Civilwar
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 238, "Barbro Buck" (1 text)
SharpAp 196, "Barbara Buck" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Hill-CivWar, p. 216, "The Southern Soldier Boy" (1 text)
ST R238 (Full)
Roud #3428
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Boy with the Auburn Hair" (tune)
NOTES: In the original Confederate version of this song, the hero's name is "Bob Roebuck." Tradition, however, has fairly consistently perverted this into "Barbro Buck."
The song was made popular by its appearance in the play "The Virginia Cavalier," a popular hit in the Richmond theatre. The original version was patriotic and political; this has faded from many of the traditional versions.
There are other pieces called "The Southern Soldier Boy" (e.g. by Father Ryan); I've yet to see one with the power of this one. - RBW
File: R238
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NAME: Southern Wagon, The (Confederate)
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye sons of freedom and join our Southern band; we're going to fight the Yankees and drive them from our land." The song describes the state of the Confederate government and declares "The South is our wagon, we'll all have a ride."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889 (The Civil War in Song and Story)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar political
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 374, "The Southern Wagon" (1 text plus a fragment)
Hudson 121, p. 262, "Wait for the Wagon" (1 short text)
Roud #3716
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wait for the Wagon" (tune) and references there.
cf. "The Southern Wagon (Union)"
cf. "I Picked My Banjo Too" (lyrics, themes)
NOTES: This song, or at least Brown's version, has historical problems. (Hudson's version, of only two stanzas and chorus, is hardly significant.) It refers to Jeff(erson Davis) and "(Alexander) Stephens by his side," which is accurate enough (except that the two quickly fell out), and Beauregard, while never the senior Southern general (in fact, he was #5), was certainly the best-known early in the war.
But there was never a date when the Confederacy had exactly the states listed. The author says (South) Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi are in (forgetting Louisiana), but "Missouri, North Carolina, and Arkansas are slow... There's old Kentucky, Maryland, each hasn't made up their mind."
Note that Virginia is not mentioned, and that Tennessee (seceeded June 8, 1861) is "in" when Arkansas (May 6) is still "out." It could be argued that Tennessee ratified an agreement with the South before Arkansas, but both states saw their governors turn south immediately after Sumter and broke free of the Union soon after.
Plus, Missouri, like Kentucky and Maryland, would not join the Confederacy (except in their dreams and the stars on their battle flag), though Missouri in particular did supply partisan troops to the south. - RBW
File: Br3374
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NAME: Southern Wagon, The (Union)
DESCRIPTION: "Jeff Davis built a wagon and on it put his name, And Beauregard was driver of Secession's ugly (frame/fame)." The song details the slow but steady progress of the Union forces.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar parody
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 21, 1862 - First Battle of Bull Run. Mentioned out of order in Belden's version, but Lincoln and General Winfield Scott appointed George B. McClellan commander of the Army of the Potomac the day after the battle ("they put in all new spokes")
Sep 4, 1861 - Occupation of Columbus, Kentucky by forces under Leonidas K. Polk ("Bishop Polk"). Kentucky had tried to declare neutrality; both sides prepared to occupy it once the neutrality was broken. Polk went in first, but the Union had more forces in the area, and gained the bulk of the state. And Polk's invasion helped push the legislature to declare for the Union
Jan 19, 1862 - Battle of Logan Cross Roads (also called Mill Springs, as in the song). A small battle by later standards, but the first major union victory of the war. Federal forces under George H. Thomas beat forces under Zollicoffer, securing much of Kentucky and opening a path into Tennessee
Feb 16, 1862 - Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. This, combined with his capture of Fort Henry on the Tennessee (Feb. 6) blows a hole in the Confederate position in Kentucky and forces Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston to evacuate Bowling Green. This was the famous "Unconditional Surrender" incident: After the two senior officers at Donelson fled, the #3, Simon Bolivar Buckner, bit the bullet and accepted Grant's unconditional terms
Apr 25, 1862 - Union forces under Farragut capture New Orleans
Jun 6, 1862 - Naval battle of Memphis clears the path for Union occupation of that city
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Belden, pp. 364-366, "The Southern Wagon" (1 text)
JHCox 70, "Jeff Davis" (1 fragmentary text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 482, "The Southern Wagon" (source notes only)
Roud #3716
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wait for the Wagon" (tune) and references there.
cf. "The Southern Wagon (Confederate)"
NOTES: Cox lists this as a parody of the "favorite Confederate song" "The Southern Wagon." A Confederate song it may be, but hardly a favorite; I've found no evidence of traditional versions, and the single stanza Cox quotes seems to be the only traditional portion of the parody.
What is interesting is that Belden, too, has the *union* form, and a full version. - RBW
File: JHCox070
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NAME: Sovay, Sovay: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
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NAME: Sovay, the Female Highwayman: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
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NAME: Sow Pig, The
DESCRIPTION: John Walker takes the "Lough Swilly Line" to Derry and buys a pig. He takes her to Marshall's to be serviced. A great crowd watches the heroic proceedings. "But all ended well and for in a short time The sow she produced a fine litter of nine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: sex humorous moniker animal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 66, "The Sow Pig" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: McBride: "This song was composed locally in the Burnfoot area of Inishowen at the beginning of the century." - BS
File: McB1066
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NAME: Sow Took the Measles, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer founds his property on a sow. When the sow takes the measles and dies, he makes a saddle of her hide, a thimble of her nose, a whip of her tail, pickles and/or glue of her feet, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: animal talltale technology disease
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE,So,SE)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Randolph 412, "The Measles in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 177, "My Old Sow's Nose" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 253-255, "The Old Sow Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, p. 185, "The Old Sow" (1 text, in which the old sow "died in the winter last spring")
Lomax-FSNA 15, "The Sow Took the Measles" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 405, "The Sow Took The Measles" (1 text)
DT, SOWMEASL*
Roud #17759
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Red Herring" (theme)
File: LoF015
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NAME: Sow's Triumph Over the Peelers, The
DESCRIPTION: A Ballaconnell sow wrestles a police sergeant to the street. The army, called for help, is stopped by two goats. The sergeant tries to take the goats to Cavan jail. The pig's ire is renewed. With the goats, she drives the sergeant into hiding 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1881 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.10(138))
KEYWORDS: humorous political animal police soldier
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(138), "The Sow's Triumph Over the Peelers" ("Come pray attention for a while, I'll tell you a jest I do protest"), The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1849-1880
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The World Turned Upside Down" (tune, per broadside Bodleian 2806 b.10(138))
cf. "The Peeler and the Goat" (theme)
cf. "The Monegran Pig Hunt" (theme)
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 215: "The success of ['The Peeler and the Goat'] inspired other texts: 'The Peeler and the Sow' (set in County Cavan, the goat also appearing in that ballad) and 'The Dog's Victory on the Peeler' (set in Kilkenny), both of them very inferior to O'Ryan's satire." The present broadside seems compounded from the sow and dog versions described by Zimmermann. - BS
File: BrdSTOtP
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NAME: Sowens for Sap at Oor New Tap
DESCRIPTION: "The foremost man o' oor New Tap, He works a stallion fine. The Lion they do call him... The little one that goes to him She's swift and spunky too. Sowens for sap at oor New Tap, Ye'll find it winna do." The singer describes horses and men of the farm
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad moniker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 251, "Sowens for Sap" (1 text)
Roud #5575
File: Ord251
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NAME: Sowing on the Mountain
DESCRIPTION: "Sowing on the mountain, reaping in the valley (x3), You're gonna reap just what you so." "God gave Noah the rainbow sign...." "Won't be water, but fire next time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Darling-NAS, pp. 263-264, "Sowing on the Mountain" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 363, "Sowing on the Mountain" (1 text)
DT, SOWNGMTN
Roud #11554
RECORDINGS:
 (Victor 23585, 1931; Bluebird B-5468, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4744, 1935)
A. P. Carter Camily, "Sow 'em on the Mountain" (Acme 997, n.d. but probably 1950s)
Coon Creek Girls, "Sowing on the Mountain" (Vocalion 04278, 1938)
File: FSWB363
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NAME: Soy Pobre Vaquero: see Poor Lonesome Cowboy (File: San273)
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NAME: Spailpin Fanac
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Singer, a spalpeen bids farewell to Ireland; on his last job 12 women contended for him. He was happy at first, then found he was being cheated of his pay. He boasts that women like him, and compliments a young woman going down the road
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recording, Joe Heaney)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Singer, a spalpeen (itinerant agricultural laborer) bids farewell to Ireland; on his last job 12 women contended for him. He was happy at first, then found he was being cheated of his pay. He boasts that women like him, and compliments a young woman going down the road; "The tailor that took her measure/I am sure that he was in love with her/For he took her measure up from the ground/And high above her waist/And they tell me that's the reason/She is always laughing."
KEYWORDS: courting sex bragging emigration rambling travel beauty farming foreignlanguage work worker migrant
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Joe Heaney, "Spailpin Fanac" (on Pubs1)
NOTES: In Ireland young workers were often hired at autumn hiring fairs for six months, the women as dairy maids or kitchen maids, the men as farm servants. At the end of the term, often the women would marry and settle, while the men travelled to the next hiring fair or hit the road as itinerant workers, known as "spalpeens." - PJS
File: RcSpaiFa
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NAME: Spailpin Fanach, An (The Migrant Labourer)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Farewell to my dear island and the boys I left at home. I enlisted in the army; it was a mistake. One wonderful day I could persuade any woman that black was white. "Twelve envious women compete for the benefit of my love"; even the old hag.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967 (recording, Sean Mac Donnchadha)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage emigration travel drink army nonballad rake soldier worker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Sean Mac Donnchadha, "An Spailpin Fanach" (on Voice20)
NOTES: The description is from the translation of the text in the notes to Voice20. - BS
File: RcASpaFa
===
NAME: Spailpin Fanach, An (The Rover)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. The singer had been a rover for hire by farmers at fairs. Now, instead, he will carry the Pike under the French banner. He is leaving a girl behind in Kerry. When the French arrive the yeomen and English will be forced to fly.
AUTHOR: George Sigerson (1836-1925)(translator)(source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1897 (Sigerson's _Bards of the Gael and Gall_, according to Moylan; source for date: "George Sigerson" on Ireland's Millenia site)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage rebellion England France Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1798 - Irish rebellion against British rule 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 131, "Spailpin Fanach, An" (1 text Gaelic, 1 tune); 132, "The Rover" (1 text English)
NOTES: The description is from the translation by George Sigerson as Moylan 132, "The Rover."
For more on the French involvement in the Rebellion of 1798 see, for example, the notes to "The Men of the West" and "The Shan Van Voght" - BS
File: Moyl131
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NAME: Spanish Captain, The
DESCRIPTION: A Spanish captain and his beautiful wife and daughter, bound for Newfoundland, are killed in a shipwreck near Cape Spear. The singer seems to have been one of the crew and laments the loss of the captain and his family.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: wreck death lament family father mother
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 137, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, pp. 38-39, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 102, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 87-88, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4079
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "The Spanish Captain" (on NFABest01)
Omar Blondahl, "The Spanish Captain" (on NFOBlondahl01)
NOTES: There is a formulaic introduction to the song where the Muses are called upon to help the singer and the public is promised not to be delayed too much in the telling. Cape Spear is the most eastern point in North America. - SH
Editor's Nitpick: Technically, the easternmost point in North America (that is, the point with the most eastern longitude) is in Alaska, since it is the only part of North America to be in the eastern hemisphere. Cape Spear is the easternmost point in the Western Hemisphere.
This song is item dD33 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
Lehr/Best: (viz., Best) In verses 5 and 6 "The smoke lay flying o'er the hills and pitching on the sea .... The Margrietta was our ship's name ...."  "The Margrietta referred to is very likely the Mayaquezanna, a Spanish brig lost at Blackhead, near Cape Spear, on 14 August 1876.  Both the captain and his wife were drowned."  Northern Shipwrecks Database: Mayaquezana/Maguezana stranded in smoke with 2 or 3 lost. - BS
File: Doy38
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NAME: Spanish Cavalier, The
DESCRIPTION: The Spanish Cavalier plays his guitar under a tree, asking his sweetheart to be true while he is off to war. He promises to return if he lives, and asks her to seek him if he dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913
KEYWORDS: war separation music
FOUND_IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
LPound-ABS, 106, p. 218, "The Spanish Cabineer" (1 text)
ST LPnd218 (Full)
Roud #2684
RECORDINGS:
Riley Puckett, "Spanish Cavalier" (Columbia 15003-D, c. 1924)
File: LPnd218
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NAME: Spanish Is a Loving Tongue: see Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (A Border Affair) (File: FCW052)
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NAME: Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (A Border Affair)
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells of his love for (and language lessons from) a Mexican girl. "But one time I had to fly For a foolish gambling fight." Though the affair may have been a mistake, he still misses her and her farewell, "Adios, mi corazon."
AUTHOR: Words: Charles Badger Clark
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920
KEYWORDS: love separation abandonment gambling fight foreigner
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fife-Cowboy/West 52, "Border Affair" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 278-279, "Spanish Is a Loving Tongue" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 141, "Spanish Is The Loving Tongue" (1 text)
DT, SPANLOVE*
Roud #11085
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" (on PeteSeeger30)
File: FCW052
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NAME: Spanish Johnny
DESCRIPTION: "The old West, the old time, The old wind singing through..." are the habitat of Spanish Johnny, who herds cattle and kills men and "sing[s] to his mandolin." Spanish Johnny is finally hung; the night before he dies, he sings one last time to the mandolin
AUTHOR: Words: Willa Cather / Music: C. E. Scoggins (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy death execution music
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 123-124, "Spanish Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15551
NOTES: Written as a poem, the Lomaxes apparently collected this from the author of the tune. There is no evidence that it ever entered tradition. - RBW
File: LxA123
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NAME: Spanish Ladies
DESCRIPTION: Sailor bids farewell to the Spanish (Australian, South American) ladies as his ship weighs anchor and departs for England (Massachusetts).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.17(305))
KEYWORDS: parting sailor Spain England
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(NE) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Hugill, pp. 385-386, "Spanish Ladies" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 293-294]
Sharp-100E 89, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 136-137, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 233-234, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 41, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 97, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
Ranson, p. 25, "The Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
DT, SPANLAD* SPANLAD3*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Farewell and Adieu" is in Part 4, 8/4/1917.
Roud #687
RECORDINGS:
Cadgwith fishermen, "Farewell and Adieu" (on LastDays)
Johnny Doughty, "Up the Channel" (on Voice12)
A. L. Lloyd, "Talcahuano Girls" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd9)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.17(305), "The Spanish Ladies", J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 11(1483), Harding B 11(3611), Firth b.34(40), Firth c.13(39), Firth c.13(41), "[The] Spanish Ladies"
LOCSinging, as104650, "Spanish Ladies", J. Catnach (London), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" (plot, tune, lyrics)
cf. "Brisbane Ladies" (plot, tune, lyrics)
cf. "The Countersigns" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Countersigns (File: Col135)
Brisbane Ladies (File: FaE162)
We'll Rant and We'll Roar (File: FJ042)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Farewell and Adieu To You
NOTES: This well-known melody inspired a number of local parodies, including "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" and "Brisbane Ladies." As most of these are deliberate rewrites, however, they are not included here. - RBW
File: ShH89
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NAME: Spanish Lady (I): see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
===
NAME: Spanish Lady (II), The: see The Spanish Lady's Love (File: OBB161)
===
NAME: Spanish Lady's Love, The
DESCRIPTION: Imprisoned by an English captain, the Spanish lady falls in love with her captor. They exchange praises for the English, and he tells her they are mismatched. This does not convince her; at last he says he is married. They go their separate ways
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1728 (registered 1603, and quoted in 1616)
KEYWORDS: courting separation love prison
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 247-251, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
OBB 161, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, pp. 84-85, "The Spanish Lady" (1 tune, partial text)
BBI, ZN2935, "Will you hear a Spanish Lady"; cf. AN2934, "Will you hear a German Princess"
ST OBB161 (Partial)
Roud #9735
File: OBB161
===
NAME: Spanish Maid, The: see A Gay Spanish Maid [Laws K16] (File: LK16)
===
NAME: Spanish Merchant's Daughter: see No, John, No (File: R385)
===
NAME: Spanish Privateer, The: see The French Privateer (File: HHH560)
===
NAME: Spanish Shore, The: see Lovely Sally (You Broken-Hearted Heroes) (File: HHH549)
===
NAME: Spanish War, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls "our last rebellion" in 1861, and declares that "battle must be fought" against Spain to "avenge the Maine": "They sunk her, never to rise again." Despite the possibility of loss, the war must be pursued
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: Spain battle war navy soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1895 - Cubans rebel against Spain
Feb 15, 1898 - Explosion of the battleship "Maine" in Havana harbour
April 25, 1898 - Congress declares war on Spain
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 95-96, (no title) (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Sweetheart Went Down with the Maine" (theme) and references there
NOTES: For further information about the _Maine_ and the Spanish-American War, see the notes on "My Sweetheart Went Down with the Maine."
This particular piece of rampant jingoism and blatant inaccuracy strikes me as possibly the work of the yellow press. - RBW
File: ThBa095
===
NAME: Spanking Maggie from the Ross
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells listeners about a race urged by "Mr. Montague." Campbell Miller accepts the bet. Jockey Bell holds back his horse for a time, to increase the excitement and the wagering, then wins easily. The singer offers a toast to the winners
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: racing gambling horse trick
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H516, p. 35, "Spanking Maggie from the Ross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13354
File: HHH516
===
NAME: Sparking on a Sunday Night: see Sparking Sunday Night (File: R379)
===
NAME: Sparking Sunday Night
DESCRIPTION: As "Down behind the hilltops goes the setting sun,"  young lovers gather to court and go "sparking Sunday Night." The young people wait impatiently for her parents to drop off so they can spark seriously. Conclusion: sparking is fine -- but best on Sunday
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: courting love family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 379, "Sparking Sunday Night" (1 text); 468, "Sparking on Sunday Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 95-96, "Sparking on a Sunday Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2820
NOTES: Randolph treats his two pieces as separate, and does not even cross-reference them. It's true that the forms are slightly different, and that his #379 includes a sub-plot (waiting for the parents to fall asleep) not found in #468. But the key phrase is the same, and so is the feeling; I think they are one piece. - RBW
File: R379
===
NAME: Special Agent/Railroad Police Blues
DESCRIPTION: "Now, when I left for Ripley the weather was kind of cool...." "Now, I swung that 97...." "Now, them special agents up the country sure is hard on a man...." The singer asks the special agents to evict him near a town so he can make a recording
AUTHOR: Sleepy John Estes (1904-1977)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (recording, Sleepy John Estes)
KEYWORDS: train hobo technology
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 435-436, "Special Agent/Railroad Police Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Sleepy John Estes, "Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues" (Decca 7491, 1938)
File: LSRai435
===
NAME: Speckles (Freckles)
DESCRIPTION: "He was little 'en peaked 'en thin 'an Narr't a no 'account horse" (sic). The singer describes meeting (Freckles) many years ago, and being surprised by the gameness of this "no account" horse (which managed to rescue him from a party of Indians)
AUTHOR: N. Howard Thorp
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thorp/Fife XXIII, pp. 254-257 (48-50), "Speckles" (2 texts, the second being an extension of the first)
Roud #8044
NOTES: Another Thorp composition that had little play in tradition. Even so, it has a variant reading; the author couldn't decide whether the horse was named "Speckles" or "Freckles"! - RBW
File: TF23
===
NAME: Speed the Plow (Sal'sb'ry Sal)
DESCRIPTION: Known as a fiddle tune, Flanders gives the words as "Oh, high, diddy-di, for Sal'sb'ry Sal, Plump she was, and a right smart gal, Swing to the center and caper down the hall, High, diddy-di, and a balance all...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: dancetune nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Flanders/Brown, p. 26, "Sal'sb'ry Sal" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 111-112, "Speed the Plow" (1 tune plus dance instructions)
NOTES: "Speed the Plow" is, of course, one of the most popular of fiddle tunes. We can't absolutely identify it with the words in Flanders and Brown, though, because they don't give a tune! - RBW
File: FlBr026
===
NAME: Spencer the Rover
DESCRIPTION: "These words were composed by Spencer the Rover, who travelled Great Britain and most parts of Wales." After much rambling and assorted adventures, he returns "to his family and wife" and decides to go roving no more
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1877
KEYWORDS: rambling family return
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 331, "Spencer the Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 264-265, "Spencer the Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPENCROV*
Roud #1115
File: K331
===
NAME: Spendthrift Clapt Into Limbo, The: see Limbo (File: CrMa124)
===
NAME: Spider and the Fly, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly -- ''Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.'" The fly demurs; the spider persists; at last she is lured "within his little parlor -- but she ne'er came out again."
AUTHOR: Mary (Botham) Howitt (1799-1888)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Lawson, _The World's Best-Loved Poems_)
KEYWORDS: bug trick lie death
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #837, pp. 316-317, "('Will you walkin into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly)"
Roud #13006
NOTES: Mary Howitt, the wife of author William Howitt, made a number of translations into English (including, apparently, some of the works of Hans Christian Andersen), but is hardly remembered today except for this one piece. _Granger's Index to Poetry_ cites ten poems of hers, but most are in only a single reference; 11 books are cited for this piece. I have this feeling that some of those other citations are instance where editors wanted to prove she did more than write "The Spider and the Fly." - RBW
File: BGMG837
===
NAME: Spider from the Gwydir, The
DESCRIPTION: "By the sluggish River Gwydir Lived a wicked redbacked spider...." A drunken shearer falls asleep near its lair. A man and woman come up and set out to rob him. As she approaches, the spider bites her. She flees in pain; the shearer is saved
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: bug humorous robbery
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 204-205, "The Spider from the Gwydir" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 170, "The Moree Spider" (1 text)
File: MA204
===
NAME: Spike Driver Blues: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: Spinning Song
DESCRIPTION: "Spin, ladies, spin all day (x2), Sheep shell corn, Rain rattles up a horn, Spin, ladies, spin all day (x3)."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: worksong nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 215, "Spinning-Song" (1 short text)
File: ScNF215A
===
NAME: Spinning Wheel (I), The
DESCRIPTION: A young man comes courting the girl, praising her beauty and kissing her hand, "But yet I turned my spinning wheel." At last he proposes (marriage/a roll in the hay); she (accepts and leaves her wheel/orders him away)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love courting technology work rejection marriage
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Arnett, pp. 12-13, "The Spinning Wheel" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPINWHL2*
File: Arn012
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NAME: Spirit of the Lord Has Fell On Me
DESCRIPTION: "O John, O hallelujah, O John, O the spirit of the Lord has fell on to me." "Hallelujah to the lamb, Spirit of the Lord has fell on to me, Jesus made me what I am...." "Prettiest work I ever done... To work for the Lord when I was young...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad work Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 92, "Spirit of the Lord Has Fell On Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4918
NOTES: If this is an allusion to any Biblical incident at all (and I'm not sure it is), I suspect it's to Revelation 1:10, where John was "in the Spirit on the Lord's day." John is associated with the giving of the Spirit in passages such as Acts 8:15, but Peter seems to be the prime mover in all such places. - RBW
File: ChFRA092
===
NAME: Spirit Song of George's Bank, The: see The Ghostly Crew [Laws D16] (File: LD16)
===
NAME: Spiritual Railroad, The: see The Road to Heaven (File: R600)
===
NAME: Sport Song, A: see The Quaker's Courtship (File: R362)
===
NAME: Sport's Lament
DESCRIPTION: "I am a poor forlorn dog and Sport is my name." Born in Caw, he is sent to Donegal but has no training. At first his owner treats him well, but then a dog tax is imposed; the master throws him out because he is expensive and useless
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: dog abandonment animal home
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H772, p. 23, "Sport's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13346
NOTES: Obviously a composed song, with music perhaps set by Sam Henry, but I have been unable to determine when license taxes were imposed on British dogs. - RBW
File: HHH772
===
NAME: Sporting Bachelors, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you sportin' bachelors, take warning by me." The singer warns of a fast life and of marriage. His wife dresses him in rags, and makes him work constantly so she may live well. He hopes she dies so he may again be free.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920
KEYWORDS: marriage courting abuse bachelor
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 46, "Sporting Bachelors" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 14, "The Sporting Bachelors" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPORTBCH*
Roud #5556
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Never Be as Fast as I Have Been" (Victor 23565, 1929; on GraysonWhitter01)
Buell Kazee, "Sporting Bachelors" (Brunswick 157, 1927; Supertone S-2082, 1930)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Never Be as Fast as I Have Been" (on NLCR14)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
cf. "Scolding Wife (IV)" (plot)
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
NOTES: Roud lumps this with "Scolding Wife (IV)," and I cannot deny the close similarity in themes. But the two appear somewhat different in both form and emphasis. - RBW
File: LxU014
===
NAME: Sporting Cowboy: see Logan County Jail (Dallas County Jail) [Laws E17] (File: LE17)
===
NAME: Sporting Life Blues
DESCRIPTION: "I got a letter from my home, Most of my friends are dead and gone... That sporting life is killing me." The singer describes all the rowdy things he has done, wishes he had listened to his mother, and decides that he should marry and settle down
AUTHOR: Generally attributed to Brownie McGhee
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: rambling drink gambling
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 74, "Sporting Life Blues" (1 text)
DT, SPRTLIFE
File: FSWB074
===
NAME: Sporting Maggie
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a girl. She doesn't want to marry but only "to court with a sporting young blade that pleases Sporting Maggie." "If you love me as I love thee, What a sporting couple we would be."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: sex bawdy dialog rake whore
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 314-315, "Sporting Maggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6461
File: Pea314
===
NAME: Sporting Old Grey Mare, The: see The Old Grey Mare (III) (File: OLoc035)
===
NAME: Sporting Races of Galway, The: see The Galway Races (File: OLoc010)
===
NAME: Sporting Youth, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer asks Mary to go with him to America. She agrees although friends say he would not prove true. "So now we are landed and married we be We will live in contentment and sweet unity"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1821 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.17(4) View 2 of 2)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage emigration America Ireland floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 47, "The Sporting Youth" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3016
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y2:013, "The Sporting Youth," The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 19C
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(4) View 2 of 2, "American strander" ("I'm a stranger in this country"), G. Thompson (Liverpool), 1789-1820; also 2806 b.11(278), Harding B 11(3206), Harding B 16(257a), Johnson Ballads 1834, "[The] Sporting Youth"; Harding B 16(6a), "The American Stranger"; Harding B 25(1845)[partly illegible], "The Stranger"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Colin and Phoebe" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Johnson Ballads 1834)
NOTES: Usually the stranger comes from America; in some cases he comes from Ireland. - BS
File: OLoc047
===
NAME: Sports o' Glasgow Green, The
DESCRIPTION: "Ae morn in the sweet month o' July... Young Jockey had trysted wi' Jenny To gang wi' him in to the fair." They go to Glasgow, see all the strange people and exhibits, have sundry adventures, and head home to sleep it off
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord), from an undated songster
KEYWORDS: worker music animal humorous drink food
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 396-399, "The Sports o' Glasgow Green" (1 text)
Roud #5615
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blythesome Bridal" (tune, thematic elements)
File: Ord397
===
NAME: Spotted Cow, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets a milkmaid who has lost her spotted cow. He says he's seen the cow in yonder grove, and offers to show her. They spend the day there. Now whenever she sees him, she calls to him again: "I have lost my spotted cow"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889 (Baring Gould)
KEYWORDS: courting love sex farming animal lover worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 142, "The Spotted Cow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #956
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Spotted Cow" (on HCox01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kitty of Coleraine" (theme)
cf. "Blackberry Grove" (theme)
cf. "Three Maidens to Milking Did Go" (theme)
NOTES: Not to be confused with "The Old Spotted Cow," a version of "The Crafty Farmer." - PJS
File: K142
===
NAME: Spotted Islands Song, The
DESCRIPTION: The Anderson leaves Cupids "for a dance in Spotted Islands In the good old Fishin' Time!" The ships are named. "We had on board eight females" but the crew "kept up good behavior" and landed them safely on Wednesday morning.
AUTHOR: Samuel Richards
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Blondahl)
KEYWORDS: commerce sea ship dancing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Blondahl, pp. 91-92, "The Spotted Islands Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Cupids is on Cape Breton. Spotted Islands is off the coast of Labrador. - BS
File: Blon091
===
NAME: Spottee
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you good people and listen to me, And a comical jest I will tell unto ye, Concerning one Spottee that lived on the law key...." The wild man frightens women and children and horses; many hope to see him move, but sailors will not take him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: madness
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  72-73, "Spottee" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR072 (Partial)
Roud #3142
NOTES: Stokoe quotes Sir Cuthbert Sharp to the effect that song tells of an actual madman "who lives in a cave between Whitburn and Sunderland, which still retains the name of 'Spottee's Hole.'" - RBW
File: StoR072
===
NAME: Spree at Montague, The
DESCRIPTION: "There were a spree in Montague ... At a farmer's house." The fiddler could not play a good dance tune and blamed the fiddle. A second fiddler is called in and plays very well with the same fiddle. Moral: Invite fiddler number two to ensure a good dance. 
AUTHOR: Patrick William Farrell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1969 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: vanity dancing fiddle party
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 208-209, 255, "The Spree at Montague" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13996
RECORDINGS:
John Farrell, "The Spree at Montague" (on MREIves01)
NOTES: Montague is on the east coast of Kings County, Prince Edward Island. - BS
File: UvDC208
===
NAME: Sprig of Shillelah, The
DESCRIPTION: The Irishman "loves all that's lovely": drinking, fighting. May English, Scots and Irish drub the French and be "united and happy at loyalty's shrine, May the rose and the thistle long flourish and twine Round a sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green!"
AUTHOR: Henry B Code (died 1830)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1807 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 10(50))
KEYWORDS: war England France Ireland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 13, "The Sprig of Shillelah" (1 text)
Roud #13379
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 10(50), "Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock So Green", Laurie & Whittle (London), 1807; also Harding B 17(299a), "The Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock So Green"; Firth b.34(279), "Sprig of Shillelagh"; Harding B 11(3632), 2806 c.18(300), "Sprig of Shilelah"; Harding B 11(892), "Sprig of Shillalah"; Harding B 18(448), Harding B 17(298a), Harding B 17(298b), Johnson Ballads 60, "Sprig of Shillelah"; Harding B 25(1830) [only partly legible], "The Sprig of Shilelah and Shamrock So Green"
LOCSinging, as203420, "Sprig of Shillelah", Andrews (New York), 1853-1859 
SAME_TUNE:
Black Joke (broadside Bodleian Harding B 10(50))
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 10(50) notes that the text was "sung with unbounded applause by Mr Johnstone, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane." The publication date is October 20, 1807. The Peninsular Campaign against the French in Portugal is in the news. That may explain the text's sense of unity of Irish and English against the French. O'Conor has the leek of Wales with the rose of England and thistle of Scotland, in "the rose, leek and thistle" joining the shamrock of Ireland.
The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site entry for Henry Brereton Code notes that Code included "Sprig of Shillelah" in his 1813 musical drama "The Russian Sacrifice, or the Burning of Moscow." While its inclusion there is consistent with its sense of unity the earlier broadside rules against the play as its first appearance. The site also refers to Code as "a particularly detested character, spy and informer" from the Irish viewpoint.
_Irish Minstrelsy_ by H. Halliday Sparling (London, 1888), pp. 481-482, 503, "The Sprig of Shillelah" makes the attribution to Edward Lysaght (1763-1810). - BS
Broadside LOCSinging as203420: 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: OCon013
===
NAME: Sprig of Thyme: see In My Garden Grew Plenty of Thyme AND Thyme (It Is a Precious Thing) AND Garners Gay (Rue; The Sprig of Thyme) (File: R090)
===
NAME: Sprightly Young Damsel
DESCRIPTION: Daughter complains of pains. Mother says it's time to marry the rich miller. Daughter would marry the unsuspecting father, poor farmer Willie. Mother refuses. Daughter reminds mother of her own indiscretions. Mother relents and prepares a grand wedding.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (according to notes to IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: wedding pregnancy dialog humorous mother miller
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #18473
RECORDINGS:
Michael "Straighty"' Flanagan, "Sprightly Young Damsel" (on IRClare01)
File: RcSpYDam
===
NAME: Spring of '65: see The Backwoodsman (The Green Mountain Boys) [Laws C19] (File: LC19)
===
NAME: Spring of '97, The
DESCRIPTION:  "The Spring of '97 boys, For if we never knew The hardship of the frozen pan, We suffered with them too." "We struck the seals off Cabot Isle, Five days out from port"  The song describes killing harp seals, storm, ice damage, and sealers dying.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: memorial death hunting ship sea work ordeal storm
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Peacock, pp. 976-977, "The Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, p. 74, "The Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 77-78, "The Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 44-45, "THe Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doyl3074 (Partial)
Roud #6470
File: Doyl3074
===
NAME: Spring of the Wadhams, The: see Maurice Crotty (File: Pea073)
===
NAME: Spring Trip of the Schooner Ambition, The
DESCRIPTION: Captain Himmelmann and the crew of the Ambition go out fishing in March. The song details where they go and even the frozen squid they use as bait, as well as all the trouble the crew has fishing; it ends with all happily ashore
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship fishing work
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 177-179, "The Spring Trip of the Schooner Ambition" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9425
NOTES: As this piece is blessed with defective metre, no rhyme scheme, and banal lyrics, I can only suspect that the informant was close to the author. I doubt the piece ever established itself in tradition (Doerflinger knows of no other versions, and Roud lists none). - RBW
File: Doe177
===
NAME: Springfield Mountain [Laws G16]
DESCRIPTION: A young man is out mowing a field. He is bitten by a poisonous snake. In "serious" versions, he dies because no one comes to his aid. In others, his sweetheart tries to draw the poison but instead is killed herself when the venom enters a "rotten tooth"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1836
KEYWORDS: death animal lover injury
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 7, 1761 - Death by snakebite of Timothy Myrick, often considered the inspiration for this song
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (30 citations)
Laws G16, "Springfield Mountain" (sample text in NAB, pp.  35-36)
Belden, pp. 299-300, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text plus a reference to 1 more)
Randolph 424, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts, 2 tunes)
Eddy 109, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 38, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 1 tune)
BrownII 208, "Springfield Mountain" (3 text plus 3 fragments and mention of 1 more; the final fragment, "G," may perhaps be another song)
Hudson 61, p. 184, "Springfield Mountain" (1 short text)
Brewster 76, "Springfield Mountain" (1 fragment)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 15-18, "On Springfield Mountain" (2 texts plus some scraps, 2 tunes)
Linscott, pp. 285-286, "Springfield Mountain or The Black Sarpent" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 719-723, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 53-54, "The Rattlesnake Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 302, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts)
Warner 23, "Springfield Mountain"; 65, "On Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
SharpAp 132, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Scott-BoA, pp. 44-45, "Springfield Mountain"; pp. 156-158, "The Pesky Sarpent" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 9, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 3, "Springfield Mountain"; 212, "Springfield Mountain (Texas Version)" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 356-357, "Rattle Snake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 828-829, "On Springfield Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 554-555, "The Pesky Sarpent" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 16, "Smithfield Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 81, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text)
JHCoxIIB, #3A-3C, pp. 122-125, "Springfield Mountain," "The Venomous Black Snake" (2 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 146-147, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
LPound-ABS, 42, pp. 97-98, "O Johnny Dear, Why Did You Go?"; pp. 98-99, "Woodville Mound]"; pp. 99, "In Springfield Mountain"; p. 100, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 167-170, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text, probably rewritten, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 218-220, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, one labeled a parody)
Silber-FSWB, p. 216, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text)
DT 314, SPRNMNTN* SPRNMTN2* SPRNMTN4*
Roud #431
RECORDINGS:
Winifred Bundy, "Young Johnny (Springfield Mountain)" (AFS, 1941; on LC55)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Springfield Mountain" (on BLLunsford02) (on AschRec2)
"Yankee" John Galusha, "Springfield Mountain" (on USWarnerColl01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Fod" (words)
cf. "The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
O Polly Dear
NOTES: Phillips Barry studied this ballad in depth, and concluded that it fell into four subfamilies: the "Curtis" type (serious), the "Molly" type (comic; see, e.g. DT SPRNMNTN), the"Myrick" type (serious; see DT SPRNMTN2), and the "Sally" type (comic; see SPRNMTN4).
Spaeth, for some reason, credits this to someone named Nathan Torrey (_A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 64), but offers no supporting evidence. He also believes that the comic type "The Pesky Sarpent" comes from the political season of 1840! (The notes in Brown support this to the extent that they credit it to the stage performers George G. Spear and George H. Hill.) - RBW
File: LG16
===
NAME: Springhill Mine Disaster (1891)
DESCRIPTION: "Hark, the horn blows loud and long, There is something wrong ... One hundred three and twenty Of our Springhill miners dead Killed in the bowels of the earth Where none could hear their cries"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: death mining disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 21, 1891 - Springhill Disaster
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 185, "Springhill Mine Disaster (1891)" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPRINGH2*
Roud #2713
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "La Complainte de Springhill (The Lament of Springhill)" (subject)
NOTES: February 21, 1891: Springhill Coal Mine explosion kills 125 men. (Source: our roots/nos racines (Canada's local histories online) _Story of the Springhill Colliery Explosion_ : comprising a full and authentic account of the great coal mining explosion at Springhill Mines, Nova Scotia, February 21st, 1891, including a history of Springhill and its collieries_ by R.A.H. Morrow.) - BS
This was not the last disaster in the Springhill coal mines; Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl documented the 1958 tragedy in "Springhill Mine Disaster (1958)." - RBW
File: CrMa185
===
NAME: Springhill Mine Disaster (1958)
DESCRIPTION: Describes collapse of mine tunnel in Springhill, Nova Scotia, 1958; twelve men are trapped in a cave-in, while several are killed. The lamps, food and water give out; after eight days some are rescued
AUTHOR: Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (copyright by authors)
KEYWORDS: rescue death mining disaster ordeal worker
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 124, "Ballad of Springhill (The Springhill Mine Disaster)" (1 text)
DT, SPRINGHI*
NOTES: I include this, although it's a recently-composed song, because it is solidly within the traditional ballad style, and because it's entered the common repertoire. - PJS
Usually listed as by MacColl and Seeger, but their official report is that it is "chiefly the work of Peggy Seeger."
The mine disaster of 1958 was not the only Springhill tragedy; there had been an earlier (and even more deadly) cave-in in 1891, for which see "La Complainte de Springhill (The Lament of Springhill)" and "Springhill Mine Disaster (1891)."
The town of Springhill is in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, not far from the New Brunswick border, on the fringes of the Cobequid Mountains (really hills). There is still coal in the area, but it is now considered a minor resource; there is, in fact, a nuclear power plant nearby.
Joseph Ruby reports that MacColl's figures are inaccurate: "75 men were killed and about 40 were rescued -  after 12 days, not eight." - RBW
File: FSWB124A
===
NAME: Springtime It Brings on the Shearing, The (On the Wallaby Track)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, the springtime it brings on the shearing, And it's then you will see them in droves...." The singer describes the life of the shearer: Hard at work in season; rambling the rest of the year and "making johnny-cakes round in the bend"
AUTHOR: from the poem "On the Wallaby Track" by E.J. Overbury
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: sheep work Australia rambling
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 186, "The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune); probably also pp. 259-260, "The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune, but in a very sorry state of repair)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 130-131, "The Springtime It Brings On the Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPRNGSHR*
File: MA186
===
NAME: Squarin' Up Time
DESCRIPTION: With their fish sold, the sailors go to the store to "square up." They spend their cash on various items, often behaving very badly when they can't have what they want. All is well until the parson strolls in, whereupon the men start offering him credit
AUTHOR: Arthur Scammel
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: sailor money humorous
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Peacock, pp. 98-99, "Squarin'-Up Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 182, ""Squarin' Up Time (1 text; the tune -- "Vilikens and His Dinah" -- is on pp. 180-181)
Blondahl, pp. 35-36, "Squarin' Up" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ182 (Partial)
Roud #4548
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Squaring Up Time" (on NFOBlondahl02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah) [Laws M31A/B]" (tune & meter) and references there
NOTES: Newfoundland fishermen lived much like American farmers: Borrow heavily in the spring to finance their fishing trips, spend the summer fishing, return in the fall with their yield, sell it and "square up" with the bank or the merchant. - RBW
Blondahl: "The poem Squarin Up was written by Mr Scammell in 1933. This poem and some twenty others by the same author may be found in a booklet titled _Mirrored Moments_, published in Montreal in 1945." - BS
File: FJ182
===
NAME: Squeball: see Skewball [Laws Q22] (File: LQ22)
===
NAME: Squid-Jiggin' Ground, The
DESCRIPTION: A song of the life of a squid fisherman. The fishermen are named, as are their homes and their peculiarities. The final stanzas warn of the messy work: "Now if ever you feel inclined to go squiddin', leave your white shirts and collars behind in the town"
AUTHOR: Arthur R. Scammell
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1929
KEYWORDS: fishing nonballad moniker work
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 51-53, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, pp. 66-67, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, pp. 57-58, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 32-33, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 127, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text)
DT, SQUIDJIG*
Roud #4429
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Squid Jiggin' Ground" (on NFOBlondahl05)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Our Boys Gave Up Squiddin'" (tune)
cf. "The Napan Heroes" (tune)
NOTES: Fowke writes, "The tale of what happens when fishermen head for 'The Squid-Jiggin' Ground' is the most widely known of all Newfoundland songs.... It was written by... Arthur R. Scammell when he was only fifteen....
"The squid is a species of cuttle-fish about ten inches long which is used as bait for larger fish. It has the peculiar characteristic of squirting forth an inky liquid when it is disturbed. Large schools of squid move in at certain parts of the Newfoundland coast during August, September, and October, and then the fishermen head out to pull them in with line and jigger." - RBW
The tune is one used by The Flanagan Brothers for their 1927 release of "Mick from Tralee" (on The Flanagan Brothers, "The Tunes We Like to Play on Paddy's Day," Viva Voce 007 (1996) from Columbia 33187-F June 1927). It is close to the tune of the chorus to "Paddy's Panacea" on Voice13. - BS
File: FJ051
===
NAME: Squire Agnew's Hunt
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders by (Kellswater park) and is enjoying the bird songs when he spies Squire Agnew's hunting pack. After a long chase, they take down the stag. The singer goes to "drink brandy with Squire Johes Agnew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: hunting animal drink
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H140, p. 30, "Squire Agnew's Hunt" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13351
File: HHH140
===
NAME: Squire and the Fair Maid, The: see Down By Blackwaterside (File: K151)
===
NAME: Squire and the Gipsy, The
DESCRIPTION: A squire meets a Gypsy. He forgets his upbringing, swearing he'll marry her. She offers to tell his fortune; he tells her he knows it: she's to be his bride. She asks if he's trying to insult her; there's more honesty in the lowly than the aristocracy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recorded from Harry Cox)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: A young squire, straying alone in the countryside, meets a lovely Gypsy lass. He forgets his upbringing, swearing he'll marry her. She offers to tell his fortune; he tells her he already knows it: she is to be his bride. She asks if he's trying to insult her with his "grand proposal", saying she lives a light-hearted and contented life, and that there's more honesty in the poor and lowly than in the aristocracy
KEYWORDS: poverty pride courting love marriage rejection beauty lover Gypsy
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 355, "The Squire and the Gypsy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1628
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Squire and the Gypsy" (on HCox01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gypsy Maid, The (The Gypsy's Wedding Day)" [Laws O4] (theme)
cf. "The Laird o Cockpen" (theme)
cf. "The Weaver's Daughter" (theme)
File: K355
===
NAME: Squire Boys, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the eighteenth day of December in the year of ninety-five, Them dates I will remember as long as I'm alive." The singer talks mostly of the troubles and bad weather encountered by teamsters on the way to the camp, but also alludes to the men there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965  (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: logger travel lumbering storm
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #22, "The Squire Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4362
File: FowL22
===
NAME: Squire Nathaniel and Betsy: see The Old Oak Tree [Laws P37] (File: LP37)
===
NAME: Squire of Edinburgh Town, The: see Katharine Jaffray [Child 221] (File: C221)
===
NAME: Squire of Eninboroughtown, The: see Katharine Jaffray [Child 221] (File: C221)
===
NAME: Squire Relantman: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
===
NAME: Squire, The: see The Old Oak Tree [Laws P37] (File: LP37)
===
NAME: Squire's Bride, The: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: Squire's Lost Lady, The: see Jack the Jolly Tar (I) (Tarry Sailor) [Laws K40] (File: LK40)
===
NAME: Squirrel, The: see Raccoon (File: R260)
===
NAME: SS Leinster Lass, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders by the Clyde when the Leinster Lass comes into view. The singer boasts of the ship, its crew, its band, its flag. He wishes success to ship and crew
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: nonballad ship
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H808, p. 98, "The S[team]s[hip] Leinster Lass" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 46, "The Leinster Lass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13367
NOTES: Lani Herrmann notes the oddity of a steamship being called upon to "reef and steer." This occurs in the final verse, which also seems to show a change in perspective (from an onlooker on the shore to, apparently, a crewmember). One must suspect this verse is intrusive. Not unusual in songs of this type. - RBW
File: HHH808
===
NAME: St. Albans Murder, The: see James MacDonald [Laws P38] (File: LP38)
===
NAME: St. George and the Drag-On
DESCRIPTION: "Oh what a dreary place this was when first the Mormons found it; They said no white men here could live...." But Mormon industry has transformed it, and "St. George ere long will be a place that everyone admires."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: home work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West  26, "St. George and the Drag-On" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8596
NOTES: St. George is in southwestern Utah, just north of the Arizona border and not far from the Nevada boundary. It is not far from the Dixie National Forest (and the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre). It is perhaps a little more habitable than most of Utah -- and, of course, the Mormons, with their centralized, semi-communal society were very efficient at making a living in seemingly-impossible settings. - RBW
File: FCW26
===
NAME: St. James Infirmary: see Saint James Infirmary (File: San228)
===
NAME: St. James' Hospital: see The Bad Girl's Lament (St. James' Hospital; The Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime) [Laws Q26]; also The Unfortunate Rake (File: LQ26)
===
NAME: St. John's Girl
DESCRIPTION: The singer happens to be in St John's and meets a pretty girl who drinks his champagne. He buys her a pair of kid gloves. Given a kiss and thinking to score, the singer looks to pawn his gold watch but finds she had already lifted it and his scarf pin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: seduction theft beauty trick drink clergy
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 87, "St John's Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab087 (Partial)
Roud #9975
File: LLab087
===
NAME: St. Patrick Was a Gentleman: see Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman (File: OCon105)
===
NAME: St. Patrick, The
DESCRIPTION: "The Mail Boat, Paddy, ... now lies in the sea"; a German Bomber sinks her. Captain Fardy says "All hands try your lives to save" and goes down with the ship. The survivors "risked their precious lives, their shipmates to rescue." Twenty-three are lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1943 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship wreck sailor war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jun 13, 1941: World War II. The ferry St Patrick is attacked and sunk by a German dive bomber; Captain and 23 lost. (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 69)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 96-97, "The St Patrick" (1 text)
File: Ran096
===
NAME: Stackalee: see Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15] (File: LI15)
===
NAME: Stacker Lee: see Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15] (File: LI15)
===
NAME: Stackolee: see Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15] (File: LI15)
===
NAME: Stage Coach Driver's Lad, The: see Jim, the Carter Lad (File: FSC096)
===
NAME: Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15]
DESCRIPTION: Stagolee and Billy Lyons are playing cards; Lyons wins the hand and the stakes. An angry Stagolee shoots Lyons, is arrested, sentenced, and hanged. The various versions of the ballad expand on different parts of the story
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903
KEYWORDS: murder gambling prison execution
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So,SE,SW)
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Laws I15, "Stagolee (Stackerlee)"
Leach, pp. 765-766, "Stagolee" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 381, "Stagolee (Stackerlee)" (2 texts)
Cray, pp. 149-154, "Stackolee" (2 texts, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 66-68, "Stagolee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 92-93, "Stagolee" (2 texts)
Lomax-FSNA 306, "Stagolee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 93-99, "Stagolee" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 54 "Stackalee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 131-133, "Stackalee" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 51, "Stagolee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 78-79, "(Stagolee)" (assorted fragments)
MWheeler, pp. 100-102, "Stacker Lee #2" (1 text, 1 tune); also perhaps pp. 102-103, "Stacker Lee #3" (1 text, 1 tune, with references to Stacker Lee though the plot elements seem to have disappeared)
Burt, pp. 202-203, "(Stackalee)" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 243-244, "Stackerlee" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 198, "Stagolee" (1 text)
DT 663, STAGLEE STAGLEE2 STAGLEE3*
Roud #4183
RECORDINGS:
Senter Boyd [or Boyd Senter] "Original Stack O'Lee Blues" (OKeh 41115, 1928; Vocalion 03015, 1935)
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Banner 32378, 1932; rec. 1931) 
Johnny Dodds, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Decca 1676, 1938)
Cliff Edwards ('Ukulele Ike'), "Stack O' Lee, Part 1/Part2"  (Columbia 1551-D, 1928; Columbia 1820-D, 1929; Clarion 5449-C/Harmony 1408-H/Velvet Tone 2509, 1932; Vocalion 03324, 1936)
Tennessee Ernie Ford w. Joe "Fingers" Carr, "Stack-O-Lee" (Capitol 1348 or 1349, c. 1951)
Fruit Jar Guzzlers, "Stack-O-Lee" (Paramount 8199, 1928; on RoughWays1)
Vera Hall, "Stagolee" (AFS 1323 A2, 1937)
Sol Hoopii Novelty Trio, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Columbia 797-D, 1926) (Decca 2241, 1938)
Ivory Joe Hunter, "Stackolee" (AFS CYL-8, 1933)
Mississippi John Hurt, "Stack O'Lee Blues"  (OKeh 8654, 1929; rec. 1928; on MJHurt01, MJHurt02)
Frank Hutchison, "Stackalee" (OKeh 45106, 1927; on AAFM1)
King Queen and Jack, "Stack-O-Lee Blues" (Champion 15605, 1928; Champion 40014, 1935)
Furry Lewis, "Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee" (Vocalion 1132/Brunswick 80092, 1927)
David Miller, "That Bad Man Stackolee" (Champion 15334/Herwin 75564/Challenge 327 [as Dan Kutter], 1927; on RoughWays2)
Uncle John Patterson & James Patterson, "Stagolee Was a Bully" (on FolkVisions2)
Lloyd Price, "Stagger Lee" (Sparton 679-R, 1958)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Stackerlee" (on NLCR04)
[Gertrude] "Ma" Rainey, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Paramount 12357, 1926 [rec. 1925])
Clive Reed, "Original Stack O Lee Blues" (Black Patti 8030, 1927)
Pete Seeger, "Stagolee" (on PeteSeeger18)
Will Starks, "Stackerlee" (AFS 6652 B2, 1942)
Art Thieme, "Stackerlee" (on Thieme05)
Evelyn Thompson, "Stack O'Lee Blues' (Vocalion 1083, 1927)
Waring's Pennsylvanians, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Victor 19189, 1923)
Washingtonians, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Harmony 601-H, 1928)
Frank Westphal & his Orchestra, "Stack O'Lee Bllues" Columbia 32-D, 1924; rec. 1923)
Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Orchestra, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Brunswick 2660, 1924)
SAME_TUNE:
Frank Hutchison, "Stackalee No. 2" (OKeh 45106, 1927)
NOTES: On Dec. 29, 1895, William Lyons (levee hand) and Lee Sheldon (coach driver, nicknamed "Stag" Lee) were drinking together at a tavern in St. Louis, Missouri. A political discussion began; in the heat of the argument Lyons knocked off Sheldon's hat, and Sheldon promptly pulled a pistol and shot him dead. He was arrested and tried; the first trial ended in a hung jury, but he was convicted in a second trial and served time in prison, dying in 1916.
A St. Louis judge who has researched the case suggests that Sheldon had received a spell from a hoodoo woman giving him exceptional sexual potency. The talisman for that spell was his hat, so knocking it from his head was no ordinary insult.
It is noteworthy that the first recordings of this ballad (Waring, Westphal, Wiedoeft) are by popular dance bands, not blues or hillbilly artists. - PJS
File: LI15
===
NAME: Stampede, The
DESCRIPTION: "When the hot sun smiles on the endless miles..." the cowboys seek water, and find themselves fighting with a "nester" for his well. They spare him only because of his pretty girl. When a storm and stampede start, Texas Red saves the girl.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy storm rescue recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 392-395, "The Stampede" (1 text)
Roud #12710
NOTES: There is no evidence that this piece (first published in _Wild West Weekly_) was ever a song, or that it ever entered tradition. - RBW
File: LxA392
===
NAME: Stand Back, Old Man, Get Away: see I Wouldn't Have an Old Man (File: R401)
===
NAME: Stand to Your Glasses: see The Dying Aviator (File: MA142)
===
NAME: Stand, Boys, Stand
DESCRIPTION: "Stan', boys, stan', Dah's now no use a-runnin', Use a-runnin'. Look up on yondah hill An' see ol' massa comin', Massa comin', See 'im comin'." "Bowie knife in one hand An' pistol in de tother." "Oberseer wid his stick... Ruckus bound to happen."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: work slave
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 232, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Reportedly a song sung by a Black work gang when they had been caught idling. They reportedly covered by having one of their number feign illness. - RBW
File: ScNF232A
===
NAME: Standin' on de Street Doin' No Harm: see Deep Elem Blues (File: DTdeepel)
===
NAME: Standin' on the Walls of Zion
DESCRIPTION: "Then it's a hooraw, and a hooraw, Through the merry green fields, hooraw! Standin' on the walls of Zion, Zion, See my ship come sailin', sailin', Standin' on the walls of Zion, See my ship come sailing home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 484, "Standin' on the Walls of Zion" (1 short text, 1 tune)
File: San484
===
NAME: Standing in the Need of Prayer
DESCRIPTION: "It's me, Oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer." "Not my mother, not my father, but it's me, Oh Lord, sanding in the need of prayer." "Not my brother, not my sister, but its me...." (Others whom it is not may be listed as desired)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 637, "Standing in the Need of Prayer" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Silber-FSWB, p. 350, "It's Me, Oh Lord" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 488-492, "Ezekiel, You and Me" (1 heavily composite text, 1 composite tune; this song produces stanza 3)
Roud #11833
RECORDINGS:
Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers, "Standing in the Need of Prayer" (Paramount 12070, 1923)
Hall Johnson Negro Choir, "Standin' in de Need of Prayer" (Victor 36020, 1930)
Southern Four, "Standin' in the Need of Prayer" [medley with "Shout All Over God's Heaven {All God's Children Got Shoes}"] (Edison 51364, 1924)
West Virginia Snakehunters, "Standin' in the Need of Prayers" (Brunswick 119, 1927/Supertone S-2072, 1930)
File: FSWB350A
===
NAME: Standing on the Promises
DESCRIPTION: "Standing on the promises of Christ my King, Through eternal ages let his praises ring, Glory in the highest I will shoul an sing, Standing on the promises of God." The singer declares, in various ways, the power of Biblical promises
AUTHOR: R. Kelso Carter (1849-1926)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1885 (composed, according to Johnson)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Charles Johnson, One Hundred and One Famous Hymns (Hallberg, 1982), pp, 202-203, "Standing on the Promises" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #18551
NOTES: Though hardly original in idea, this particular hymn has a very simple, easy-to-learn set of parts in the chorus, and seems to be very popular with amateur gospel groups. I'm a bit surprised it isn't more common in tradition. - RBW
File: BdSotPro
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NAME: Standing Stones, The
DESCRIPTION: Two lovers meet at the Standing Stones and promise to wed. After she leaves, a rival stabs him to death, solely to cause the girl pain. She hears a cry, turns, and sees her beloved. He points to the stars and vanishes; she pines away and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (John Mooney's "Songs of the Norse")
LONG_DESCRIPTION: In the Orkneys lives a beautiful young woman who has been loved since childhood by a young man. They meet at the Standing Stones and promise to wed, sealing the promise by joining their hands through a hole in the Lovers' Stone. He kisses her goodbye, watches her leave, then turns to go home, but a rival attacks him and stabs him to death, solely to cause the girl pain. She is arriving home when she hears a cry, turns, and sees her beloved standing near. He points to the stars and vanishes; knowing he is dead, she pines away and dies
KEYWORDS: grief hate jealousy courting love promise violence crime murder beauty death mourning ritual supernatural lover ghost
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Hebr))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 332, "The Standing Stones" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STANSTON
Roud #2151
RECORDINGS:
John & Ethel Findlater, "The Standing Stones" (on FSB7)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Ploughboy's Dream" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Lovers--A West Mainland Legend
NOTES: The "Standing Stones" are prehistoric stone circles, found throughout Britain, including the Orkneys, where this song was collected. It was the custom in the Orkneys for lovers to plight their troth by joining hands through a hole in the "Odin Stone," then dividing a broken sixpenny piece between them. - PJS
References to Odin may seem odd in Scotland, but the Orkneys were largely settled by the Old Norse. I have not been able to find proof of this, but I believe "Odin stones" are so-called because they have a single hole representing Odin's single eye. - RBW
File: K332
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NAME: Star in the East: see Brightest and Best (File: JRSF150)
===
NAME: Star o Banchory's Land, The
DESCRIPTION: "Banchory's lands are bonnie When spring rolls in the year Wi' lasses sweet and mony But nane saw sweet's my dear." He praises her -- but then sees her at the fair, where she ignores him. He wishes her back or hopes she will at least be true to another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ord, pp. 69-71, "The Star o' Banchory's Land" (1 text)
DT BANCHRY1* BANCHRY2*
Roud #5567
File: Ord069
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NAME: Star of Bannack, The
DESCRIPTION: "Under the lamplight's flick'ring gleam, In the dirt of the dancehall floor, The beautiful star of Bannack lies, Never to shine no more." Having left a lover in the east, she turned heads in the west but at last "A bullet would find her there." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder dancing
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 20, 1864 - Nellie Paget (birth name: Helen Patterson) murdered by a former flame in Bannak, Montana
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 53-54, "(The Star of Bannack)" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Burt053
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NAME: Star of Belle Isle: see Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle, The [Laws H29] (File: LH29)
===
NAME: Star of Benbradden, The: see If I Were a Fisher (File: HHH709)
===
NAME: Star of Donegal, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a lad and lass discussing their parting. He is going to America to seek his fortune. She does not wish to part. He says the Irish will return to free Ireland. They decide to marry at once, and sail away together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage emigration gold
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H555, p. 463, "The Star of Donegal" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 83, "The Star of Donegal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2996
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rich Amerikay" [Laws O19] (plot)
File: HHH555
===
NAME: Star of Glenamoyle, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer asks the muses to preserve the star of sweet Glenamoyle as he praises her. Even the birds and rabbits praise her. He says that Joseph, had he been laboring to win her, would have felt it no toil; he would have sailed across the sea to wed her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love beauty nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H13, p. 232, "The Star of Glenamoyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7985
NOTES: The final verse of the Henry text contains some truly curious lines:
But had young Joseph received this fair one,
Her golden glory would have decayed away;
But had young Joseph received this fair one,
To win his bride would have been no toil.
I can only guess that the first two lines mean that the girl would not thrive outside Ireland. The latter two lines are clearer, though an obvious error. It was Joseph's father Jabob who worked seven years to win the hand of Rachel, and being cheated of Rachel once, worked another seven years to at last be allowed to marry her. And "Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her" (Genesis 29:20). - RBW
File: HHH013
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NAME: Star of Glengary, The
DESCRIPTION: "The red moon is up o'er the moss-covered mountain." Donald goes to "Logan's bright water" to propose to "Mary, the star of Glengary," knowing his competition is the rich miller. She apparently accepts since she is "a gude wife to me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1835 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3541))
KEYWORDS: courting wife river money
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 11, "The Star of Glengary" (1 text)
Roud #13901
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3541), "The Star of Glengary", G Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also Harding B 11(3326), Harding B 11(3645), Harding B 11(3646), Harding B 11(3647), Harding B 17(301b), Johnson Ballads 1097, 2806 c.14(128), "The Star of Glengarry"; Harding B 20(33), Harding B 11(3574), Harding B 18(716), Harding B 26(626), "The Star of Glengary"
LOCSheet, sm1877 08720, "The Star of Glengary", Spear & Dehnhoff (New York), 1877 (tune)
LOCSinging, as113120, "The Star of Glengary", J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also sb40474a, "The Star of Glengary" 
Murray, Mu23-y1:075, "The Star of Glengary", James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C 
NLScotland, L.C.178.A.2(299), "The Star of Glengary", unknown, c.1860; also L.C.Fol.70(1a), "The Star of Glengary" 
NOTES: LOCSheet, sm1877 08720: "composed by Charles W Pette" may refer to the arranger.
Broadside LOCSinging as113120: 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: OCon011
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NAME: Star of Logy Bay, The: see The Pride of Logy Bay (File: FSC061)
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NAME: Star of Moville, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sails to Moville to watch the races. Enlivened by whiskey, he meets Mary, "the star of Moville." He courts her, and buys her a drink. The girl, after spending some time, rejects him and goes home. He wishes that someone would bring her to him
AUTHOR: James McCurry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting racing rejection drink music
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H68, pp. 276-277, "The Star of Moville" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7968
NOTES: A long and highly complex mix: Is it a boat-racing song, a courting song, a rejection song, a drinking song, a song of getting delayed along the shore? I'm not sure. - RBW
File: HHH068
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NAME: Star of Slane, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer "was ruminating and meditating And contemplating" when he met a maid that would have captivated Paris, Caesar, and Alexander. Her beauty eclipses all others. "For me to woo her I am too poor, I'm deadly sure she won't be my wife"
AUTHOR: Day (c.1800-1866) (source: Sparling)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1826 (a Drogheda chap-book, according to Sparling)
KEYWORDS: love beauty humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn-More 84, "The Star of Slane" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 366-368, 515, "The Star of Slane"
Roud #6530
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.8(270), "The Star of Slane" ("You brilliant muses, who ne'er refuses"), unknown, n.d.; alsoHarding B 11(3648), "The Star of Slane"
File: OLcM084
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NAME: Star of Sunday's Well, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer loves "That consort fit for Satan, the Star of Sunday's Well." She weighs 15 stone [210 pounds]: "She's blooming and she's bonny with real estate and money." He is rejected in favor of "a grocer's curate"
AUTHOR: W.B. Guiney
EARLIEST_DATE: 1870 (_The Cork Examiner,_ according to OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 258-259, "The Star of Sunday's Well" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds" [OLochlainn 64] (tune)
NOTES: Sunday's Well is in Cork. - BS
File: OLcM258
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NAME: Star of the County Down, The
DESCRIPTION: Near Banbridge town, the singer sees a "sweet colleen." He is instantly smitten with the beauty of "the star of the Country Down." He makes plans to pursue her, and dreams of life with her
AUTHOR: unknown (credited to Cathal McGarvey by Colm O'Lochlainn)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Irish Country Songs)
KEYWORDS: love courting clothes
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, STARDOWN*
Roud #4801
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dives and Lazarus" [Child 56] (tune)
cf. "The Banks of Newfoundland (I)" [Laws K25] (tune)
cf. "When a Man's in Love" [Laws O20] (tune)
cf. "The Wreck of the Gwendoline" (tune)
cf. "The Colleen from Coolbaun" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Dives and Lazarus (File: C056)
The Wreck of the Gwendoline (File: OLcM257)
The Banks of Newfoundland (I) [Laws K25] (File: LK25)
When a Man's in Love [Laws O20] (File: LO20)
The Colleen from Coolbaun (File: RcTCofCo)
File: DTstardo
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NAME: Star-Spangled Banner, The
DESCRIPTION: A description of bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Navy, with hopes for the survival of the United States. Either you already know the song, or you don't care. (Perhaps both.)
AUTHOR: Words: Francis Scott Key/Music: John Stafford Smith (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1814
KEYWORDS: America patriotic battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sept 13, 1814 - Battle of Fort McHenry. Key allegedly wrote this poem the following morning, when he saw the flag still waving
FOUND_IN: US(All)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Krythe 2, pp. 15-39, "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 300, "The Star Spangled Banner" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 529-534+, "The Star Spangled Banner"
DT, STARSPAN
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "To Anacreon in Heaven" (tune)
cf. "Adams and Liberty" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The National Grass Plot (Greenway-AFP, p. 63)
NOTES: For the history of this tune, see the notes to "To Anacreon in Heaven." The folklore about the poem is too widely known (and too exaggerated) to bear repeating here; Spaeth has a sort of debunking, with some less-known details, in _A History of Popular Music in America_, 41-46, and there are a few notes about Francis Scott Key's part in the Battle for Baltimore in the discussion below.
In several senses this is not a folk song (in part because it's so difficult to sing) -- but it is well-enough known that its inclusion is at least understandable....
The War of 1812 showed clearly how much stronger the British Empire was than the then-still-new United States. In 1812 and 1813, the British had been putting all their energy into fighting Napoleon, and given the Americas only the dregs (not only did they send only a bare handful of troops to Canada, they reportedly held sent only second-rate generals, using the best and brightest against Napoleon; see John K. Mahon, _The War of 1812_, Da Capo, 1972, p. 144) -- and they *still* held the Americans to a draw: At the end of 1813, the British still held Canada, and while the Americans had had some success at sea, by 1813 their handful of ships were mostly pinned down in blockaded ports (see Mahon, p. 122, for a list of ships involved).
1814 should have seen the British, now free of Napoleon, settle the American hash -- and they did succeed in permanently occupying some of the coast east of what is now the state of Maine. They set out to do far more, planning three major offensives (at Lake Champlain, Chesapeake Bay, and Louisiana). For the first of these, which was one of the most absurd displays ever put on by the British army, see the notes on "The Siege of Plattsburg."
The Chesapeake Campaign was the best-run of the three British attacks of 1814 -- and, overall, the most successful. The war by this time had turned rather bitter as there had been a series of atrocities along the Canadian border (started, we must note,by the Americans, who destroyed the Canadian settlement of Newark as well as the future Toronto, though the British treatment of American prisoners was bad enough that they had nothing to complain about; the sad thing is that the innocent Canadians suffered for the faults of the English government).
The British had responded to the American war crimes by burning Buffalo, e.g., and had raided Chesapeake Bay in 1813 (the British commander in the area, Admiral Cockburn, did so much damage that the Americans accused him of enjoying looting; see Mahon, p. 115), but this was to be altogether bigger. A large fleet, and an army contingent commanded by Major General Robert Ross (who had served under Wellington) were sent to raid the Bay in the late summer of 1814. Their goal was not conquest; it was to keep the Americans from sending major forces against Prevost's (utterly mishandled) Champlain expedition (see Walter R. Borneman, _1812: The War that Forged a Nation_, pp. 219-220).
On August 19, 1814, Ross took his troops ashore at Benedict, Maryland, southeast of Washington, D.C. (Borneman, p. 222).
The American response showed a level of ineptitude that would make George W. Bush's Iraq planning look good. Faced with an army at the gates of the U. S. capitol, President Madison chose a political general who had already demonstrated his military ineptness to command in the vicinity of Washington (apparently he hoped William H. Winder's political connections would allow him to raise more militia; Borneman, p. 223; Donald R. Hickey, _The War of 1812_, p.196). Winder would show great energy but absolutely no ability to develop plans (Hickey, pp. 196-197).
The weather was dreadfully hot (Borneman, p. 225; Hickey, p. 198), but the Americans made no attempt to harass the overburdened British. On August 24, Ross's troops brushed past the handful of American defenders at Bladensburg, incidentally putting President Madison under fire; he retreated even faster than his soldiers. The battle also saw Secretary of State Monroe giving orders to the soldiers -- something he was not entitled to do, and his orders were in any case bad (Hickey, p. 197). The Americans were so thoroughly routed that the battle was christened the "Bladensburg Races" (Borneman, p. 228). The British promptly entered Washington -- which was so deserted that Ross couldn't even find anyone to offer up a surrender (Hickey, p, 199).
Ross's forces were better behaved than the Americans. They did burn a handful of private buildings -- but, almost without exception, it was because those houses were used for military purposes. Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin's house, for instance, was torched because snipers in the house had slain one British soldier, wounded three others, and killed General Ross's horse under him (Borneman, p. 229). But mostly the invaders concentrated on buildings such as the White House, the Treasury Building, and the Capitol (Borneman, pp. 230-231). Saddest of all was the torching of the Library of Congress, though the invaders were convinced to let the Patent Office stand (Hickey, p. 199).
The British were not there to stay; having done their damage, they headed back to their ships on August 25 (Borneman, p. 232). Even so, Secretary of War John Armstrong was forced to resign (Borneman, p. 234; Hickey, p. 202).
The next day, the British set out for Baltimore, a much more developed port, with a larger population and a more important shipping center -- but defended by Fort McHenry, plus many earthworks and a much more effective force of militia. It was also much more enthusiastic for the war; soon after the conflict began, a newspaper uttered an anti-war statement -- and the city broke out in riots; the paper's equipment was damaged, and a number of Federalists, including even Revolutionary War hero "Light Horse Harry" Lee, were beaten, in some cases to death or permanent injury (see Hickey, pp. 60-67; John K. Mahon, _The War of 1812_, p. 33)
General Ross apparently thought the raid on Baltimore not worth the trouble -- the psychological damage of the attack on Washington could only be dissipated (Borneman, p. 238). He was overruled; on September 11, the British headed north.
The attack on Baltimore was to come from both land and sea, with the navy attacking Fort McHenry while the army came around the other side. Both prongs of the attack came to grief. Ross was killed by a sharpshooter on September 12 (Borneman, pp. 242-243), and his second-in-command wasn't nearly as inspiring.
The naval assault was a matter of sound and fury and not much else. Fort McHenry was dirt over masonry, hard to subdue by cannon -- and the waters around it were very shallow (Borneman, p. 239; Hickey, p. 203). The navy could not get close to the fort. In fact, they had to stand out so far that the fort's short-range guns could not even reach them. So, on the night of September 13, British mortar vessels fired wildly at the fort, and the bomb _Terror_ (of future Franklin Expedition fame; see the notes to "Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream)" [Laws K9]) fired her rockets (Borneman, p. 244). The fort could not answer, but she suffered only four killed and a couple of dozen wounded; she was still perfectly capable of holding off the British army (Borneman, pp. 244-246).
That was pretty much the end of the siege of Baltimore, though it was a month before the last British forces left the vicinity. The naval commander, Admiral Cochrane, headed for Halifax with part of the fleet; the rest, plus the army, retreated to Jamaica, refitted, took on a new commander by the name of Pakenham, and headed toward a place called New Orleans.
It is sometimes stated that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on the British fleet. He was not. He was in fact a Baltimore lawyer trying to negotiate the release of a doctor-turned-spy named William Beanes. Beanes was not popular with the British, who considered his behavior particularly egregious (and, if the description in Borneman, pp. 240-242, is accurate, it appears they had a point). The British finally agreed to let him go -- but by that time, they were committed to the attack on Baltimore, so Key, his colleague John S. Skinner, and Beanes had to wait beside H.M.S. _Tonnant_ until it was over (Hickey, pp. 203-204).
The bombardment started during the day, but continued well into the night, and with the fort unable to fire on the British ships, the only way to tell it was still resisting was to observe its flag -- hard to do at night. Apparently Beanes was constantly pestering Key, who had a telescope, to find out if the famous oversize flag was still flying (Borneman, pp. 245-246). Hence Key's song, which he scribbled that night, and elaborated later, was first published as "The Defense of Fort McHenry." Since this event, combined with the victory at Plattsburg two days sooner, caused the British to decide for peace, the siege, and the song associated with it, because immensely popular, and came to be seen as a great American victory -- even though the British had suffered no real casualties except Ross and had done the Americans far more damage at Washington than the Americans caused at Baltimore.
The conflict could not have gone on much longer. The American government was flat broke (had there been someone to force it into bankruptcy, it would surely have done so; loans went unsubscribed and Treasury notes were depreciating fast. To raise such money as it could, the govenment ended up having to pay $16 for every $10 raised! --  see Hickey, pp. 165-167. By late 1814, the government was defaulting on its notes -- Hickey, p. 224 -- and its notes were discounted 25-40%. At one point the interest on the debt exceeded the government's entire estimated income -- Hickey, p. 247).The Americans for a time were actually seeing their credit financed by a British bank! (Hickey, pp. 223-224). HickeyÕs final estimate is that the government borrowed a total of $80 million, but because of the way the loans were subscribed, picked up only $34 million in specie. The rest was lost to interest, depreciated notes,  and peculiarities of the method of borrowing.
The situation was so bad that Federalist New England was making noises about secession and nullification (Borneman, pp. 255-256; Hickey, pp. 270-280, devotes most of a chapter to the "Hartford Convention," which was called to consider withdrawing from the Union; in the end, it did not do so, but it did propose seven constitutional amendments to make it harder to declare war [where was that in 2003?], to end re-election of presidents, to bar consecutive presidents from the same state, to open up trade, and to stop counting slaves toward the totals for congressional representation. The amendments were actually passed by Massachusetts and Connecticut).
Luckily for the Unites States, the British were tired of fighting, too -- due more to Napoleon than to anything the Americans had done, but it was still war-weariness. The British, knowing they had most of the cards, dragged their feet in the negotiations (Borneman, pp. 264-267), but two sides eventually made peace essentially on the basis of the status quo -- no territory handed over by either side, not changes in law, no changes in anything.
Theoretically, that meant the grievances that started the war were still there. But the Americans were ironically successful: They had survived the first two years of the war mostly because Britain was distracted. In 1814, Britain was no longer distracted -- but with Napoleon gone, the British again wanted free trade, and with the navy shrinking, they didn't need to impress sailors, so they didn't have to do any of the things that had offended the Americans. (The Americans would later use this as a justification for dropping their demands on the issue; Hickey, p. 289.) Peace was possible mostly because no one really wanted to continue the war. - RBW
File: MKr015
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NAME: Starlight
DESCRIPTION: "It was the last day of the rodeo, And in one of the stout corrals There stood a big sorrel outlaw horse.... He went by the name of Starlight, a bronc as tough as gristle...." The cowboy who draws the horse is depressed, and sure enough he is thrown
AUTHOR: Noah Henry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Hoofs and Horns)
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 81, "Starlight" (1 text)
File: Ohr081
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NAME: Starry Night for a Ramble: see A Starry Night to Ramble (File: MA056)
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NAME: Starry Night to Ramble, A
DESCRIPTION: The singer lists the pleasures he enjoys. Noteworthy among them is courting with his sweetheart. But "Of all the games I love the best, that fill me with delight, I love to take a ramble upon a starry night."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: courting rambling
FOUND_IN: US Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 56-57, "A Starry Night to Ramble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 94-95, "Starry Night for a Ramble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 177-178, "A Starry Night for a Ramble" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 52-53, "A Starry Night to Ramble" (1 tune)
Roud #972
NOTES: Gilbert reports that this was popularized by a performer named Dick Gorman, probably in the last years of the nineteenth century -- but offers no details of its authorship (if known), only a catalogue of Gorman's oddities. - RBW
File: MA056
===
NAME: Starving to Death on a Government Claim (The Lane County Bachelor)
DESCRIPTION: "My name is Frank Taylor, a bach'lor I am, I'm keeping old batch on an elegant plan, You'll find me out west in the county of Lane, A-starvin' to death on a government claim." After much moaning about the bad conditions, the settler gives up and goes home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: pioneer settler hardtimes bachelor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 20, 1862 - President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Randolph 186, "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 120-122, "The Lane County Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 144-146, "The Alberta Homesteader" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 34, "The Alberta Homesteader" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 70, "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, p. 434, "Greer County" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 22, "The Lane County Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 83, pp. 178-180, "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 121, "Starving To Death On A Government Claim" (1 text)
DT, STARVDTH*
Roud #799
RECORDINGS:
Bill Bender, The Happy Cowboy, "Lane County Bachelor" (Varsity 5144, c. 1940)
Edward L. Crain (Cowboy Ed Crane), "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (Conqueror 8013, 1932)
Benjamin Kincaid, "The Lane County Bachelor" (Supertone 2574, c. 1933)
Pete Seeger, "Greer County Bachelor" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07a, AmHist1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (tune) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Bent County Bachelor
NOTES: The song clearly dates back to the latter part of the nineteenth century, the period of Homestead Claims. The Homestead Act of 1862 had opened large areas of the western U.S. to settlement, allowing settlers to lay claim to 160 acre sections in return for nominal payments. However, the settlers were required to live on their claims for five years before they could "prove up" and gain title to the property. Many settlers, like the one here, wound up living in impossible conditions because it was the only way to stake the claim. It was not at all rare for the homesteader to give up, sell the reversion on the claim, and head back east.
Fowke's Canadian version, "The Alberta Homesteader," is very much the same song, slightly adapted to the north country and the minor differences in Canada's homesteading laws (created when Canada took over the western part of the continent from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1871, although most migrants did not start out until the 1880s). - RBW
File: R186
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NAME: State of Arkansas, The (The Arkansas Traveler II) [Laws H1]
DESCRIPTION: A traveler arrives in Arkansas and finds that it fully meets his (lack of) expectations. He "never knowed what misery was till I come to Arkansas." His boss had promised that the state would make him a different man, and he is: He is now badly starved
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: poverty humorous hardtimes starvation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Laws H1, "The Arkansas Traveler"
Belden, pp. 424-426, "Bill Stafford" (2 texts)
Randolph 347, "The State of Arkansas" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 288-290, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 347A)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 560-566, "Way Out in Idaho" (2 texts, 1 tune; the main text and tune are "Way Out in Idaho (I)", but a secondary text is a version of this piece)
BrownIII 331, "Arkansas Traveller (II)" (2 texts)
Hudson 80, p. 208, "Tocowa" (1 short text with "Tocowa," not Arkansas, the site of the singer's bad experience)
Brewster 52, "The Arkansaw Traveler" (2 texts)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 171-172, (no title) (1 text)
Friedman, p. 434, "The Arkansaw Traveler" (1 text)
Lomax-FSUSA 71, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 167, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 53, "An Arkansaw Traveller" (3 texts)
SharpAp 170, "Old Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 44, "My Name Is John Johanna" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H0, p. 53, "The State of Arkansaw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 225-226, "Old Arkansas" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 46, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text)
DT 643, STATEARK* STATARK2*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 46-53, texts of both "The Arkansas Traveler" and "The State of Arkansas," with folktale variants, a reproduction of a painting of the fiddler and traveler, and background information
Roud #257
RECORDINGS:
Almanac Singers, "State of Arkansas" (General 5018A, 1941; on Almanac01, Almanac03, AlmanacCD1)
Kelly Harrell, "My Name is John Johanna" (Victor 21520A, 1927; on KHarrell02, AAFM1, HardTimes1)
Pete Seeger, "State of Arkansas" (on PeteSeeger19, AmHist2)
Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry, "Arkansas Traveller" (on SeegerTerry)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Barnyards o' Delgaty" (theme)
cf. "Joe Bowers" (tune -- some versions)
cf. "Diamond Joe (I)" (tune, lyrics)
cf. "Way Out in Idaho (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES: This should not be confused with the fiddle tune "Arkansas Traveler," or with the minstrel-show sketch from which it derives. -PJS
Paul Stamler reports that this is "Credited to Sanford Barnes of Buffalo, [Missouri]." Many other authors, however, have been listed, e.g. Belden knows of an attribution to T. W. Shelton and another to Pat Kelly. Carmer credits Ransom C. Cook. Eckstorm traces it back to "Canada I O." I incline to think all the claims false -- though I wouldn't be surprised if the author really was from Missouri.... - RBW
File: LH01
===
NAME: State of Arkansaw, The: see The State of Arkansas (The Arkansas Traveler II) [Laws H1] (File: LH01)
===
NAME: Stately Southerner, The: see Paul Jones the Privateer [Laws A3] (File: LA03)
===
NAME: States and Capitals
DESCRIPTION: A catalog of the capital cities of various states, starting perhaps in the northeast: "Maine, the capital is Augusta...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 878, "States and Capitals" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #7543
NOTES: This seems to have been at one time a widespread song to help children learn geography (in which it failed, since neither of Randolph's informants could remember much).
Whether this is actually a single song is perhaps open to question; the texts in Randolph are very different, and this is perhaps a topic that several schoolmarm/songwriters might have tackled.
The information is also sorely out of date. Since the song was sung in the 1880s, of course, it lacks at least half a dozen states. Even for the states that are listed, the data is inaccurate (e.g. the capital of Maryland is Annapolis, not Baltimore, and Rhode Island and Connecticut have only one capital city each, though Randolph's "A" text lists Providence and Newport for Rhode Island, while "B" gives New Haven and Hartford as capital of Connecticut). - RBW
File: R878
===
NAME: Station Cook, The
DESCRIPTION: "The song I'm going to sing about will not detain you long, It is all about a station cook we had at old Pinyong." The singer says that the cook's work "gave us all the stomach ache all through the shearing time." He will blame the cook if he turns sick
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: cook disability disease
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 90-91, "The Station Cook" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: PASB090
===
NAME: Station of Knocklong, The
DESCRIPTION: "The news has spread through Ireland... Sean Hogan he was rescued At the Station of Knocklong." Hogan's guards are overpowered, and two of them killed, by rebels; Hogan is freed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion escape rescue death IRA
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1919 - Irish terrorists Sean Treacy and Sean Hogan capture a load of explosives from the British, killing two policemen in the process. When Hogan is captured, Treacy rescues him, killing two more policemen along the way
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
PGalvin, pp. 60-61, "The Station of Knocklong" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. ""Sean Treacy" (for the story of Treacy)
cf. "Tipperary Far Away" (for the death of Sean Treacy)
NOTES: For the Soloheadbeg incident, in which a group of Irish irregulars attacked a British explosives truck, see the notes to "Sean Treacy." Among those involved in the raid were Sean Hogan, Treacy, and Dan Breen.
According to Calton Younger, _Ireland's Civil War_, p. 92, Hogan was captured while visiting friends, though his identity was not realized until later.
It is uncertain whether there was resistance from the British forces at Soloheadbeg, though it seems unlikely. In the case of Knocklong, it seems pretty clear that there wasn't. Robert Kee, in _Ourselves Alone_, being volume III of _The Green Flag_, p. 72, cites Breen to the effect that the Irish decided to shoot first to prevent British guards from killing the prisoner.
The casualties at first seemed close to even: Treacy was shot in the throat, Breen through the lung. Both managed to survive.
Ironically, though much would be heard of Treacy and Breen in the coming years, Hogan faded into obscurity. He was part of an attempt to assassinate Viceroy French, but the attempt failed and a casual check of four histories showed no other references to his life after Knocklong. - RBW
File: PGa060
===
NAME: Stavin Chain
DESCRIPTION: "Stavin Chain he's dead and gone, Left me to carry the good work on, Evrybody ought to be like Stavin Chain." The singer complains about river life, misses his woman, and says that everyone should be like Stavin Chain. (His sexual exploits are described.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: river work separation sex animal
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, pp. 16-17, "Stavin Chain" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MWhee016 (Full)
Roud #9994
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singer, "Stavin' Chain" (on Unexp1)
Zuzu Bollin, "Stavin' Chain" (Torch 6912, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Poor Howard" (lyrics)
File: MWhee016
===
NAME: Stay a Little Longer: see cf. Shinbone Alley (Stay a Little Longer, Long Time Ago) (File: Br3422)
===
NAME: Stay on the Farm
DESCRIPTION: "Come, boy, I have something to tell you... You're thinking of leaving the farm, boy; Don't be in a hurry to go." He warns against the city's vices, and points out that the farm is safe and, over time, will offer as much gold as the mines of Nevada
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: family farming money
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 865, "Stay on the Farm" (1 text)
Roud #7535
File: R865
===
NAME: Stay, Father, Stay
DESCRIPTION: A child, whose mother is already dead, is dying. (S)he appeals to father to remain by the bedside and not to leave until (s)he is dead: "Stay, father, stay, the night is wild, Oh leave not your dying child, I feel the icy hand of death...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death disease drink orphan father
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 329, "Stay, Father, Stay" (1 text)
Roud #7802
File: R329
===
NAME: Steal Apples for Me
DESCRIPTION: "Steal apples, steal apples, Steal apples for me, And while you steal apples, Steal peaches for me." "Let all of the ladies Go enter the ring...." "And when you're done swinging, Remember my call, Take the next lady And promenade all"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: dancing playparty theft food floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 584, "Steal Apples for Me" (1 text)
Roud #7672
NOTES: From its metre, this might be one of several dance pieces. But given its brevity and lack of tune, it's hard to tell where to put it. - RBW
File: R584
===
NAME: Steal Away
DESCRIPTION: Recognized by the chorus, "Steal away, steal away to Jesus... I ain't got long to stay here." Verses may have to do with the end of the world; the singer reports that "The trumpet sounds within my soul"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1894 (recording, Standard Quartette)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Courlander-NFM, p. 42, "Steal Away" (partial text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 366, "Steal Away" (1 text)
DT, STEALAWY*
Roud #11965
RECORDINGS:
Cotton Pickers Quartet, "Steal Away to Jesus" (OKeh 8878, 1931)
Dinwiddie Colored Quartet, "Steal Away" (Victor 1716, 1902)  (Monarch 1716, 1902)
Emory University Glee Club, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Victor 20594, 1927)
Fisk University Male Quartette, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Columbia A2803, 1919)
Fisk University Jubilee Singers, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Columbia 562-D, 1926)
Red Foley, "Steal Away" (Decca 14505, 1949)
Roland Hayes, "Steal Away" (Vocalion [US & UK] 21003, n.d.; Supertone, 1931)
Rev. H. B. Jackson, "Steal Away" (OKeh 8919, 1931; rec. 1929)
Turner Junior Johnson, "Steal Away" (AFS 6609 A4, 1942; on LC10)
Paramount Jubilee Singers, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Paramount 12072, 1923)
Paul Robeson, "Steal Away" (HMV [UK] B-8103, 1934)
Noble Sissle's Southland Singers, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Pathe 20483, 1921)
Soul Stirrers, "Steal Away" (Aladdin 2001, rec. 1946)
Horace Sprott, "Steal Away to Jesus" (on MuSouth03)
Standard Quartette, "Steal Away to Jesus" (CYL: Columbia, no #, rec. 1894)
Tuskegee Institute Singers, "Steal Away" (Victor 17890, 1916)
Tuskegee Quartet, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Victor 20519, 1927; rec. 1926)
Vaughan Quartet, "Steal Away" (Vaughan 300, n.d.)
Kinsey West, "Steal Away to Jesus" (on BlackAmRel1)
File: CNFM042
===
NAME: Steal, Miss Liza
DESCRIPTION: "I've got a man and you've got none, Little Liza Jane... O Eliza, Little Liza Jane." "You swing mine and I'll swing yours...." "I've got a house in Baltimo', Forty-'leven children on the floor...." "I steal yours and you steal mine...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 263, "Steal, Miss Liza" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LoF263
===
NAME: Stealin', Stealin'
DESCRIPTION: "Stealin', stealin', pretty mama don't you tell on me, I'm stealin' back to my same old used to be." "Now put your arms around me like a circle 'round the sun...." The singer loves a married woman; it's gotten him in trouble. He says this proves his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Memphis Jug Band)
KEYWORDS: love adultery
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 79, "Stealin', Stealin'" (1 text)
DT, STEALN
RECORDINGS:
Memphis Jug Band, "Stealin' Stealin'" (1928)
NOTES: Hendrick van Kampen points me to sources attributing this to Gus Cannon and Will Shade. Under the circumstances, I have little choice but to list the author as unknown. - RBW
File: FSWB079A
===
NAME: Steam Doctor, The
DESCRIPTION: "Steam Doctor, steam till you're ready to faint; Without ever stoppping to ask your complaint. He gives No. 6 and lobelia so fast That within a few hours you're breathing your last These hard times!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: disease doctor death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 442-443, "The Steam Doctor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7832
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rigs of the Times" (form, lyrics)
NOTES: Belden assumes that this is a satire of the methods of Dr. Samuel Thomson (1769-1843), who according to the _Dictionary of American Biography_ was "originator of the 'Thomsonian system' of treatment by vegetable remedies and the vapor bath."
The song seems to have been built from "The Rigs of the Times," but since Belden's single stanza seems to be all that survives, it's difficult for us to say more. - RBW
File: Beld442
===
NAME: Steam from the Whistle
DESCRIPTION: "Steam from the whistle, Smoke from the stack, Going to the graveyard To bring my baby back, Oh, my li'l baby, Why don't you come back?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: railroading burial separation
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 242, (no title) (1 short text)
File: ScNF242A
===
NAME: Steam Ship
DESCRIPTION: "If a steam ship weighed ten thousand tones And sailed five thousand miles... If the mate was each six feet talls And the captain just the same; Would you multiply or subtract To find the captain's name?" The singer admits "I can't do that sum"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: riddle ship technology
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 151, "Steam Ship" (1 text)
Roud #15886
NOTES: This looks to me like a parody of the "story problems" children are sometimes assigned. The information in the riddle is not sufficient for solution. - RBW
File: Br3151
===
NAME: Steamboat Bill
DESCRIPTION: The Whippoorwill, steered by Steamboat Bill, is ordered "to try to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee." Provoked by a gambler, Bill drives the boat so hard that the boiler explodes. Bill's wife says that her next husband will be a railroad man.
AUTHOR: Words: Ren Shields / Music: F. A. Mills
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The Whippoorwill, steered by Steamboat Bill, is ordered "to try to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee." Provoked by a gambler, Bill drives the boat so hard that the boiler explodes, with Bill betting he will fly higher than the gambler. People all along the river mourn. Bill's wife says that her next husband will be a railroad man.
KEYWORDS: ship technology disaster death gambling
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fife-Cowboy/West 16, "Steamboat Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 206, "Steamboat Bill" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 535-536, "Steamboat Bill"
Roud #11218
RECORDINGS:
Al Bernard, "Steamboat Bill" (Brunswick 178, 1927/Supertone S-2044, 1930)
Smilie Burnett, "Steamboat Bill" (Decca 5685, 1939; rec. 1938)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Steamboat Bill" (OKeh 40306, 1925; rec. 1924)
Arthur Collins, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia A-1005, 1911) (Victor 16867, 1911)
Dixon's Clod Hoppers, "Steamboat Bill" (Vocalion 15862, 1931; rec. 1930)
Jack Kaufman, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia A2809, 1919; Diva 2480-G [as Jack Wilson], 1927)
Beatrice Kay, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia 36941, 1946; rec. 1945)
Kessinger Brothers, "Steamboat Bill" (Brunswick 563, rec. 1930)
Edward Meeker, "Steamboat Bill" (Edison 50886, 1921)
Riley Puckett, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia 113-D [as George Riley Puckett], 1924)
Bob Roberts, "Steamboat Bill" (Phono-Cut 5112, c. 1914)
Ernest Rogers, "Steamboat Bill" (Victor 20798, 1927)
Paul Tremaine & his Orch. "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia 2229-D, 1930)
Varsity Eight, "Steamboat Bill" (Cameo 1266/Romeo 500, 1927)
Fred Wilson [probably a pseud. for Jack Kaufman, but I don't know for sure], "Steamboat Bill" (Harmony 5118-H, 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (tune)
File: FCW016
===
NAME: Steamer Alexander, The
DESCRIPTION: Tuesday, July 30, Alexander leaves Newcastle. Galley, a passenger, falls overboard and drowns. The song wonders who he was, and what his girl will feel
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: drowning river ship death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 1, "The Steamer Alexander" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi001 (Partial)
Roud #9206
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "The song was made up by 'a man from Neguac.' It tells of a moonlight excursion on the passenger steamer _Alexandra_, and how Theodore Galley fell overboard and was drowned. These excursions were popular entertainment on the Miramichi River in the 1890's and early 1900's... The composers of these laments like to fix in them the day and date and the time of day of the incident they describe."
Taking that statement for what it's worth, Tuesday, July 30, occurred in 1891, 1896, 1902, 1913 and 1919. - BS
File: MaWi001
===
NAME: Steamship Deane, The
DESCRIPTION: Deane leaves Harbour Grace for Hawke's Harbour with 50 whalers. "Making full speed she lands upon a rock." All are saved by the Penguin light keeper.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jun 23, 1935 - Deane wrecked on North Penguin Shoals. (Lehr/Best)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 29, "The Steamship Deane" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Northern Shipwrecks Database lists the cause as "Stranded. Navigation error." - BS
File: LeBe029
===
NAME: Steamship Leinster Lass, The: see The SS Leinster Lass (File: HHH808)
===
NAME: Steel Laying Holler
DESCRIPTION: Foreman's instructions for laying a railroad iron, with variations to fit the particular situation. E.g. "Awright, awright, Ev'rybody get ready. Come on down here. Come on, boys. Bow down. Awright, up high, Awright, throw 'way...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: work railroading nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 10-12, "Steel Laying Holler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15100
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Roustabout Holler"
cf. "Levee Camp Holler"
File: LxA010
===
NAME: Steel-Driving Man, The: see John Henry [Laws I1] (File: LI01)
===
NAME: Stella Kenney [Laws F37]
DESCRIPTION: Stella Kenney is murdered on her way home after spending ten months with her uncle Rob Frazier. Frazier, married and with three children, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder incest prison trial family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1917 (?) - Murder of Stella Kenney. She was pregnant; presumably her uncle was the father
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws F37, "Stella Kenney"
Thomas-Makin', pp. 151-153, (no title; Thomas's informant called the girl "Stell" or "Stellie," not "Stella") (1 text)
ST LF37 (Partial)
Roud #2273
File: LF37
===
NAME: Step It Away
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, step it away, you pretty boys! Step it away your time! God bless your body, When your legs keep time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975 (recording, Jasper Smith and Levi Smith)
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Jasper Smith and Levi Smith, "Step It Away" (on Voice11)
NOTES: The current description is all of the Voice11 fragment. The notes for Voice11 describe it as "a comic jingle" to a dance tune. - BS
File: RcStepIA
===
NAME: Step It Up and Go
DESCRIPTION: Verses about situations that force (someone) to "step it up and go." The singer's woman no longer loves him. The singer flees the gun of a man whose woman he has been courting. In a river, he meets an alligator. And so forth
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1935 (recording, Blind Boy Fuller)
KEYWORDS: love animal travel floatingverses
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 79, "Step It Up and Go" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Blind Boy Fuller, "Step It Up and Go" (Columbia 37230, 1947 -- presumably a reissue)
Maddox Bros. & Rose "New Step It Up and Go" (4-Star 1549, n.d. but at least 1947)
Tommy McClennan, "Shake It Up and Go" (Bluebird 34-0716, 1944)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Salty Dog" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Bottle Up and Go"
SAME_TUNE:
Brownie McGhee, "Step It Up and Go No. 2" (OKeh 06698, 1942)
NOTES: This song and "Bottle Up and Go" look very alike at first glance, but the verses seem to be very different. They might both be "Salty Dog" spinoffs. Until I see an intermediate version, I am (tentatively) classifying them separately. - RBW
File: FSWB079B
===
NAME: Step Stone: see Goodbye to My Stepstone (File: R853)
===
NAME: Stepmother, The: see I Cannot Call Her Mother (The Marriage Rite is Over; The Stepmother) (File: R726)
===
NAME: Sterling Price
DESCRIPTION: "Sterling Price he was a brave man, He will clean out Dixie Land." "Sterling Price he marched to Lexington And there he took old Mulligan." "Sterling Price he wheeled his men about And cut the Dutch into sauerkraut" "Rinktum-polle-rodel-day."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 10, 1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek
Sep 20, 1861 - Capture of James A. Mulligan (1830-1864), then a colonel, and his force at Lexington
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, p. 355, "Sterling Price" (1 fragmentary text)
Roud #7769
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Old General Price" (subject)
cf. "The Jolly Union Boys" and references there (concerning Battle of Wilson's Creek)
NOTES: Sterling Price (1809-1867), a former governor of Missouri and Confederate commander of Missouri troops, was not initially anti-Union, but the behavior of Union partisans caused him to turn Confederate.
Price started raising militia forces, and these formed the larger part, but not all, of the Confederate army at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. After the Confederates won that battle, Price was able to advance and capture the garrison of Lexington (some 3000 men under Mulligan, who could have been saved had any of the other local Union officers obeyed orders), but it didn't change the strategic situation much; Price retreated into Arkansas soon after.
Even allowing for its fragmentary state, this item is rather confused. As noted, Wilson's Creek came before Lexington. At that battle, the Union commander, Nathaniel Lyon, had tried a divergent attack, splitting off Franz Sigel's brigade (which was regarded as "Dutch," i.e. German) for an attack on the Confederate rear while the main body attacked from the other direction.
This strategy failed. Sigel was quickly routed, whereupon the remaining federal forces, outnumbered by something like 5:2, were forced into a slugging match. They were better soldiers than the utterly raw confederates, and so were able to keep the field until their ammunition ran out, but then retired.
The confusion, though, arises from the fact that it was the troops of Ben McCulloch (the other Confederate commander at Wilson's Creek) which routed Sigel. But I know of no other battle in which Price defeated a primarily German force, unless perhaps it was the affair at Carthage (July 5, 1861), where Price induced Franz Sigel to retreat without a real fight.
I have the strange feeling that "Old General Price" and "Sterling Price" are a single piece, one being adapted from the other -- but since we don't have a single complete stanza of either, and only one tune, this is beyond proof. - RBW
File: Beld355A
===
NAME: Stern Old Bachelor
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes his life in the "little sod shanty dear to me." He is proud that "I'm a stern old bachelor, from matrimony free." He rejoices that he can live in squalor, snore all he wants, stay out late and never have to explain where he has been
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Chubby Parker)
KEYWORDS: bachelor home
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 481, "A Stern Old Bachelor" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 354-355, "The Old Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRNBACH*
Roud #4306
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Stern Old Bachelor" (Decca 5565, 1938)
Harry Conway [pseud. for Jerry White] "I'm a Stern Old Bachelor" (Radiex 4262, 1928; Van Dyke 74262 [possibly as Ben Litchfield], 1929)
Chubby Parker, "I'm a Stern Old Bachelor" (Champion 15247 [as Smilin' Tubby Johnson]/Silvertone 5012, 1927; Supertone 9188, 1928) (Conqueror 7888, 1931)
File: R481
===
NAME: Stewball: see Skewball [Laws Q22] (File: LQ22)
===
NAME: Stick My Head in a Paper Sack
DESCRIPTION: "Stick my head in a paper sack, Show dem niggers how to Cairo back. Shake dat flat foot. Shake dat flat foot."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 463, "Stick My Head in a Paper Sack" (1 fragment)
Roud #11787
File: Br463
===
NAME: Stick to Your Mother, Tom: see Don't Leave Your Mother When Her Hair Turns Gray (File: R717)
===
NAME: Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones
DESCRIPTION: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, Say what you please when I'm dead and gone, But I'm gonna drink corn liquor till I die." Singer may admit that he is not respected, or "know you'll talk about me when I'm gone," but will enjoy himself now/hereafter
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad death floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 39, "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones" (1 text)
Roud #7860
NOTES: Presumably related to the common rhyme "Sticks and stones will break my bones, But names will never hurt me" (for which see, e.g. Montgomerie-ScottishNR 152, "(Sticks and Stones)." This, however, takes a slightly different twist on the ending. - RBW
File: Br3039
===
NAME: Still Growing: see A-Growing (He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing) [Laws O35] (File: LO35)
===
NAME: Still I Love Him: see Do You Love an Apple? (File: K203)
===
NAME: Still the Night: see Silent Night (Still the Night, Stille Nacht) (File: FSWB384B)
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NAME: Stille Nacht: see Silent Night (Still the Night, Stille Nacht) (File: FSWB384B)
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NAME: Stingo: see (references to tune under) Mowing the Barley (Cold and Raw) (File: ShH60)
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NAME: Stir the Wallaby Stew
DESCRIPTION: Dad's in jail, Mother unfaithful, the sheep are dead, the farm's for sale. Dad gets out, sees this, and goes back to jail. Chorus: "So stir the wallaby stew, Make soup of the kangaroo tail, I tell you things is pretty tough Since Dad got put in jail."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957
KEYWORDS: work unemployment poverty hardtimes prison family mother father infidelity humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hodgart, p. 234, "Stir the Wallaby Stew" (1 text)
Roud #8242
RECORDINGS:
John Greenway, "Wallaby Stew" (on JGreenway01)
NOTES: John Greenway writes of this piece, "Australia's Tobacco Roaders (without the sexual propensities of Jeeter Lester's relatives) are the delightful family of Dad and Dave and the other residents of Shingle Hut -- Mother, Mabel, Sal, Dan, Joe, and Cranky Jack.
Originally the creation of the first great Australian humorist, Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis) in his books _On Our Selection_ and _Our New Selection_, Dad and Dave were the archetype of the hard-working but hard-luck free selectors... but the characters were taken away from him and became progressively more lazy and stupid....
"Wallaby Stew" is a shameful example of the degeneration of the Rudd family (as the tune is a degeneration of the "Bungaree" melody), but it represents an important area of Australian folklore." - RBW
File: Hodg234
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NAME: Stockman's Last Bed, The
DESCRIPTION: A song lamenting the death of poor Jack, the stockman, (gored to death by a cow). "And we laid him where wattles their sweet fragrance shed, And the tall gum tree shadows the stockman's last bed."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: death Australia lament
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 46, 92, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Fahey-Eureka, p. 168, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 84-86, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Roud #9113
RECORDINGS:
John Greenway, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (on JGreenway01)
NOTES: Anderson reports that this is derived from "The Boatswain's Last Whistle" by Charles Dibdin (1865?), but Manifold questions this, observing that the tune does not fit well. - RBW
File: MA046
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NAME: Stolen Bride, The
DESCRIPTION: "Down by the river, the willows grow tall, Whippoorwill calling, hear their sad call." The girl is in love with a man from a family who is feuding with her own. Her father captures her lover. She begs for his life; refused, she accepts death beside him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: love death hate hardheartedness family execution revenge feud murder
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 20-21, "The Stolen Bride" (1 text)
ST ThBa020 (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Down in the Valley" (tune)
cf. "Lady Maisry" [Child 65] (plot)
NOTES: Not the best poetry, but a very strong theme; I'm surprised this piece hasn't been collected somewhere outside of Thomas. - RBW
File: ThBa020
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NAME: Stolen Child, The (The Lindbergh Kidnapping)
DESCRIPTION: Catchall of Lindberg songs. Typical example: The singer will "tell you about the stolen baby." Lindbergh's infant is stolen from his home; the kidnapper demands money; after a great hue and cry, the baby is found, but is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder mother father children abduction 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 1, 1932 - Kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. (19 months old at the time). The kidnapper demands and receives $150,000, but the child is not returned
May 12, 1932 - The boy's body is found
Apr 3, 1936 - Execution of Bruno Hauptman, linked to the crime primarily by possession of some of the ransom money
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Thomas-Makin', p. 147, (no title); pp. 148-150, "The Stolen Baby" (2 texts; the two are different metrically, but share enough phrases that I think it proper to lump them, since neither seems to have had real traditional vogue)
Burt, p. 72, (no title) (1 text); p. 73, (no title) (1 text in elementary German, tune referenced)
Roud #14051
NOTES: The Lindburgh kidnapping, according to Burt, inspired "several" songs, apart from Thomas's sundry items. Since none of them show any real evidence of traditional vogue (as opposed to, say, the equally-numerous _Titanic_ songs), I'm lumping them here.
William Butler Yeats wrote a song, "The Stolen Child." It is not related to any of the items filed here. - RBW
File: ThBa147
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NAME: Stone That Is Rolling, The: see The Rolling Stone [Laws B25] (File: LB25)
===
NAME: Stonecutter Boy
DESCRIPTION: A stonecutter boy sees a young woman. If she'll rest a moment, he'll "tell you of the dream I had last night." They sit under an oak; she soon gives "a little scream." Smoothing her clothes, she invites him to tell the dream again when next they meet
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1960 (recording, A. L. Lloyd)
KEYWORDS: sex dream worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, STONEBOY
Roud #971
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "The Stonecutter Boy" (on BirdBush1, BirdBush2, Briggs3)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Stone-Cutter Boy" (on Lloyd1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Next Market Day" (plot) and references there
NOTES: According to Lloyd, the song had not appeared in print at the time of its recording. Again, I can't bring myself to assign the keyword "bawdy." - PJS
File: DTstoneb
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NAME: Stonewall Jackson's Way
DESCRIPTION: The prayers and fighting methods of "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops (the "Stonewall" Brigade) are described. Each exploit is described as "Stonewall Jackson's Way." The poem concludes, "The foe had better ne'er been born That gets in Jackson's way."
AUTHOR: John Williamson Palmer
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Wharton)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1824-1863 - Life of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
July 21, 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas. In a confusing fight, with his brigade falling to pieces, General Bernard Bee sees Jackson's brigade holding steady. He describes the brigade as a "Stone wall," coining the nickname by which Jackson has been identified ever since (though Jackson always maintained that the name was the brigage's, not his)
May/June, 1862 - Jackson's "Valley Campaign." Jackson, with strength never exceeding two divisions, battles the equivalent of three (weak and scattered) Union corps to a standstill by rapid movement and concentration. One of three federal commanders in the area (the Union army had no overall commander) was the inept Nathaniel P. Banks, whose troops suffered severely at Jackson's hands (and would suffer again at Cedar Mountain in August)
Aug 29-30, 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run/Manasses. Lee and Jackson defeat Pope
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 83-84, "Stonewall Jackson's Way" (1 text)
DT, STNWALLJ*
NOTES: I have always heard this as a poem, but the Digital Tradition has a tune, and Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy_ also prints a melody; I suppose it might be traditional. I don't know of any field collections, though.
That this piece was composed by an educated man cannot be doubted (note the use of Latin in one stanza); there is no reason to question Palmer's authorship. Wharton, however (_War Songs_, p. 47) reports a rumour that "[t]hese vverses were found written on a small piece of paper, all stained with blood, in the bosom of a dead soldier of the old Stonewall Brigade, after one of Jackson's battles in the Shenandoah Valley."
The origin of the nickname "Stonewall" is explained in the historical references. The poem also calls Jackson "Old Blue Eyes" -- allegedly given because of the way his eyes glowed in battle.
The description of the Second Battle of Bull Run in the penultimate stanza is completely backward. Lee had separated his army into wings under Longstreet and Jackson. Union General John Pope caught up with Jackson, and tried very hard on August 29 to dislodge him. He almost succeeded. But then Longstreet came up on Pope's flank and completely demolished the Union army.
The "Ashby" referred to in the same stanza is Turner Ashby, who had commanded Jackson's cavalry in the Valley campaign and was killed June 6, 1862.
The descriptions of Jackson's prayer are more reasonable; Jackson was a presbyterian lay preacher (though his students at the VMI described him as very dull), and he attributed all his success to God. Frankly, he was a very obnoxious person -- but, obviously, a great tactician. - RBW
File: HCW083
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NAME: Storm Along John: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
===
NAME: Stormalong
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic lines: "To me way, old Stormalong!... Aye, aye, aye, Captain Stormalong." About the death of Stormalong, who was elaborately buried off Cape Horn. The singer wishes he were Stormy's son so he could treat the sailors better
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1882
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor death burial
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 82-83, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bone, pp. 126-127, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 88-89, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 78-84, "Storm Along John," "Stormy," "Old Stormy" (6 texts, 6 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 66-69]
Hugill, pp. 71-77, "Mister Stormalong," "Stormy Along, John," "Way Stormalong John," Stormalong, Lads, Stormy," Way Stormalong John" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Sharp-EFC, XX, XXXIV, & LVII, p. 23, 39 & 62, "Stormalong John," "Old Stormey," "Wo, Stormalong" (5 texts, 4 tunes)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 63-65, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 834, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRMALNG*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Old Stormy!" is in Part 4, 8/4/1917.
Roud #216
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "Mister Stormalong" (on LastDays)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The 'Cholly' Blues" (floating verses)
cf. "Deep Blue Sea (II)" (floating verses)
cf. "Carry Him To the Burying Ground (General Taylor, Walk Him Along Johnny)" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Captain Stormalong
Come-along, Git-along, Stormalong John
Oh, Stormalong
Old Stormalong
Mister Stormalong John
NOTES: Shay reports, "Old Stormalong is the only heroic chracter in the folklor of the sea: he was born, like the great clipper ships, in the imaginations of men."
Shay adds a tall tale of Stormy aboard the clipper _Courser_, so large that it just barely fit through the English Channel. Stormalong had the ship greased with soap so it could slide through more easily. This is why the sea near Dover is foamy: The cliffs scraped off all the soap. - RBW
File: Doe082
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NAME: Stormalong, Lads, Stormy: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
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NAME: Stormy: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
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NAME: Stormy Along, John: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
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NAME: Stormy Ol' Weather: see Windy Old Weather (File: CoSB204)
===
NAME: Stormy Scenes of Winter, The: see The Lonesome (Stormy) Scenes of Winter [Laws H12] (File: LH12)
===
NAME: Stormy Weather Boys
DESCRIPTION: Adventures of a barge crew on the Thames. The captain arrives half-drunk; the crew gets sozzled, the barge runs aground. They meet a mermaid and a ghost (who takes the wheel); eventually they arrive at Yarmouth and wind up in "The Druid's Arms"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Adventures of a barge crew on the Thames. The captain comes aboard half-drunk; the crew gets sozzled and the barge runs aground. They encounter a mermaid ("Up jumped a mermaid covered with muck/We took her down the fo'c'sle and had a good time") and a ghost (who takes the wheel); eventually they arrive at Yarmouth and wind up in "The Druid's Arms." Chorus: "Stormy weather boys, stormy weather boys/When the wind blows our barge will go"
KEYWORDS: sex river work drink storm fo'c'sle humorous sailor worker ghost mermaid/man parody
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 144-145, "Stormy Weather Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRMYWTH
Roud #1851
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "Stormy Weather Boys" (on LastDays)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. Windy Old Weather" (meter)
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Not having heard this sung, I can't prove it's a parody of "Windy Old Weather" -- but the meter and lyrics both say it is. - RBW
I don't think so, despite the lyrical similarities. "Windy Old Weather" is sung in waltz time, while this is 4/4. - PJS
File: DTstrmyw
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NAME: Stormy Winds of Winter, The: see The Lonesome (Stormy) Scenes of Winter [Laws H12] (File: LH12)
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NAME: Story of Creation: see Walkin' in the Parlor (File: Wa177)
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NAME: Story of George Mann, The: see George Mann (File: E122)
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NAME: Story of Gustave Ohr: see Gustave Ohr (File: E121)
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NAME: Story the Crow Told Me, The
DESCRIPTION: Nonsense verses, supposedly told by a crow. "I bought me a suit of union underwear... I couldn't get it off 'cause I lost the combination", "My gal took sick the other day... I bought her a corset... She's in better shape now than she was before"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Carolina Buddies)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonsense animal bird
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 163, "The Story the Crow Told Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Buddies, "The Story That the Crow Told Me" (Columbia 15641-D, 1931; rec. 1930; on CrowTold01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "The Story that the Crow Told Me" (on NLCR04, NLCR11)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm Going Away in the Morn" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is almost certainly from minstrel sources. - PJS
File: CSW163
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NAME: Stow'n' Sugar in de Hull Below
DESCRIPTION: "I wish I was in Mobile Bay, Rollin' cotton by the day, Stow'n' sugar in de hull below, Below, belo-ow, Stow'n' sugar in de hull below." A steamboat chant, mentioning the Natchez and depicting the engineer and captain.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924
KEYWORDS: river nonballad work floatingverses ship
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 592, [no title] (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Belle-a-Lee" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Hieland Laddie" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This uses lyrics from "Hieland Laddie," which is far better known, but the form appears different enough that I separate them. - RBW
File: BMRF592B
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NAME: Stowaway, The
DESCRIPTION: "From Liverpool 'cross the Atlantic Our white sail floated over the deep." A poor stepfather stows his boy aboard to seek better times in Halifax. First mate will kill the stowaway unless he says who among of the crew put him aboard. The mate relents
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: poverty reprieve ship youth hardtimes ship sailor murder
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 51, "From Liverpool 'cross the Atlantic" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 890-892, "The Stowaway" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 46, "Stowaway" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6341
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2162), "The Little Hero!," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 11(2161), "The Little Hero"; Harding B 11(3676), Firth b.27(97), Harding B 11(3675), "[The] Stowaway" or "[The] Little Hero"
File: GrMa051
===
NAME: Strabane Canal, The: see The Calabar (File: HHH502)
===
NAME: Strabane Fleet, The: see The Calabar (File: HHH502)
===
NAME: Straight-Out Democrat
DESCRIPTION: "We never took stock in H. Greeley, Though Baltimore took him in tow... The ticket that's honest we'll honor... We would like to have Charlie O'Conor, For O'Conor and Adams we'll go." The song encourages others to vote for the "true" democrats
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1872
KEYWORDS: political nonballad derivative
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1872 - Grant/Greeley election
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 43, "Straight-Out Democrat" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rosin the Beau" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Ulysses S. Grant was first elected President in 1868, and by the time of the 1872 election it was clear that he could not control corruption in his administration. The Democrats nominated Horace Greeley, but a splinter of the party broke off and nominated Charles O'Conor and the younger John Quincy Adams.
The weakness of the O'Conor bid is shown by the fact that all the minor parties combined picked up only 35,097 votes (less than 1% of the total), and that O'Conor didn't gain a single electoral vote -- even though Greeley died before the electoral tally was taken, and the 68 electoral votes he would have earned were split five ways.
Grant, of course, won the election. - RBW
File: SRW043
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NAME: Straightened Banks of Erne, The
DESCRIPTION: The romantic "winding banks of Erne" are no more. "'Progress hates meandering' is a maxim all must learn, So the engineers have straightened out the winding banks of Erne" for the new powerhouse at the falls of Assaroe.
AUTHOR: Colm O Lochlainn (source: OLochlainn-More)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: river technology nonballad parody
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 16A, "The Straightened Banks of Erne" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shannon Scheme" (theme: Ireland's hydro-electrification)
NOTES: OLochlainn-More: "Written by the compiler to celebrate the opening of the Erne hydro-electric scheme and dedicated to the late Dr Laurence Kettle and Professor Tatlow, the engineers responsible for the scheme." By O Lochlainn's description, it is a parody
Notes to IRClare01: "The Shannon Scheme for the Electrification of the Irish Free State, by harnessing the fall in the River Shannon between Killaloe and Limerick, was commenced in 1925 and completed in 1929 and, within six years, was supplying 85% of Ireland's electricity requirements...." - BS
According to John A. Murphy, _Ireland in the Twentieth Century_(Gill and MacMillan, 1975, 1989), p. 65, "[T]he most far-sighted step in the development of natural resources by the state was the Shannon Scheme -- the beginning of the national supply of electricity -- and the establishment of the Electricity Supply Board in 1927, destined to be perhaps the most successful of those semi-state bodies which in future years became characteristic and indispensible features of the Irish economy." - RBW
File: OLcM016A
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NAME: Strands of Magilligan, The: see The Streams of Lovely Nancy (File: VWL098)
===
NAME: Strange Proposal, A: see Captain Wedderburn's Courtship [Child 46] (File: C046)
===
NAME: Strange Things Wuz Happening
DESCRIPTION: "Well, they'z strange things wuz happening in the land... The war wuz going on, caused many hearts to moan...." "But Uncle Sam with Germany tried to live in peace, Kept blowin' up his vessels...." Listeners are urged to stand by the United States
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: war ship
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 240, "Strange Things Wuz Happening" (1 text)
Roud #6623
NOTES: The immediate cause of American entry into World War I was, of course, Germany's use of unlimited submarine warfare. Early in the war, the Germans had tried sinking ships without warning, and stopped as the U. S. protested. 
n 1917, with the war in stalemate, the Germans hoped to starve Britain out of the war before the U. S. could make its weight felt. It didn't work.
I have to think this was intended for popular consumption, but neither the editors of Brown nor I have seen it elsewhere. - RBW
File: BrII240
===
NAME: Strange Visitor, The
DESCRIPTION: "A wife was sitting at her reel ae nicht... and aye she wished for company." A body comes in in pieces: Large feet, small legs and thighs, at last a great head. She asks about each part; the visitor explains its purpose. Which is to take her soul
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Montgomerie)
KEYWORDS: death loneliness
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 196, "(A wife was sitting at her reel ae nicht)" (1 text)
DT, STRANVIS
File: MSNR196
===
NAME: Stranger Far From Home, A: see Poor Stranger, The (Two Strangers in the Mountains Alone) (File: R059)
===
NAME: Stratton Mountain Tragedy [Laws G18]
DESCRIPTION: A young woman and her baby are trapped in a cold blizzard. When they are found, the mother is dead but the baby alive; the mother had wrapped it in her cloak
AUTHOR: Seba Smith (? -1843)
EARLIEST_DATE: broadside (1843)
KEYWORDS: mother baby death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1821- Death of Lucy Blake and her daughter Rebecca, whose fate is believed to have inspired this ballad
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws G18, "Stratton Mountain Tragedy"
Flanders/Brown, pp. 27-28, "Stratton Mountain Tragedy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 638, STRATMTN*
Roud #5442
File: LG18
===
NAME: Strawberry Lane: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
===
NAME: Strawberry Roan, The [Laws B18]
DESCRIPTION: An unemployed cowboy is offered the chance of a job if he can ride the strawberry roan. Confident of his skill, he mounts the horse -- to be thrown within seconds. He concludes the horse is unridable.
AUTHOR: Words: almost certainly Curley Fletcher
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (published by Fletcher in the Globe, AZ Record as "The Outlaw Broncho")
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy injury unemployment
FOUND_IN: US(So,SW) Canada
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws B18, "The Strawberry Roan"
Randolph 202, "Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
Randolph-Legman II, 652-655, "The Strawberry Roan" (2 texts)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 98-100, "The Strawberry Roan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 68, "The Strawberry Roan" (2 texts, 1 tune, the second text being the parody "Bad Brahma Bull")
Ohrlin-HBT 28, "The Strawberry Roan" (1 text, 1 tune); also two sequels by Wilf Carter: 29, "He Rode the Strawberry Roan" (1 text); 30, "The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 111, "Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
DT 385, STRWROAN*
Roud #3239
RECORDINGS:
Arizona Wranglers, "Strawberry Roan" (Merry Xmas L949, 1929; on BackSaddle)
Bill Boyd & his Cowboy Ramblers, "Strawberry Roan" (Bluebird B-5667, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4778, 1935)
Beverly Hillbillies, "The Strawberry Roan" (Brunswick 514/Supertone S-2263, 1931)
W. C. Childers "Strawberry Roan, Part 1/Part2" (Victor V-40103; 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4951, 1936) (Champion 16467, 1932)
Bob Ferguson [pseud. for Bob Miller], "Strawberry Roan" (Columbia 15677-D, 1931)
Paul Hamblin, "The Strawberry Roan" (Victor V-40260, 1930; on WhenIWas2)
Harry Jackson, "Strawberry Roan" (on HJackson1, CowFolkCD1)
Bob Kackley & Bob Ferguson, "Strawberry Roan" (OKeh 45531, 1931)
Bud Kelly, "Strawberry Roan" (Broadway 8331, rec. 1932)
[Frank] Luther & [Carson] Robison "The Strawberry Roan" (Melotone M-12350, 1932)
Ranch Boys, "The Strawberry Roan" (Decca 5074, 1935)
Bob Sherman, "The Strawberry Roan" (Clarion 5336C, c. 1929)
Wesley Tuttle, "Strawberry Roan" (Coral 64051, 1950)
John White, "The Strawberry Roan"  (Banner 32179/Romeo 1629/Perfect 12712/Conqueror 7753, 1931)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "While Hanging Around Town" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Wild Buckaroo" (tune & meter)
cf. "No Balls at All" (tune, in some versions)
cf. "Wild Rover No More" (tune, in some versions)
SAME_TUNE:
Castration of the Strawberry Roan (Anon., blank label [Sons of the Pioneers] "Strawberry Roan" (blank label, 204-A, n.d.))
He Rode the Strawberry Roan (Ohrlin-HBT 29; Wilf Carter, "He Rode the Strawberry Roan" (Bluebird [Canada] B-4974, c. 1933/Regal Zonophone [Australia] G23152, n.d.))
The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan (Ohrlin-HBT 30; Wilf Carter, "The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan" (Montgomery Ward M-7186, 1937; Bluebird [Canada] B-4602, c. 1938))
Ridge Runnin' Roan (Tex Fletcher, "Ridge Runnin' Roan" (Decca 5302, 1936))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Outlaw Broncho
NOTES: Powder River Jack Lee claimed that Frank R. Chamberlain wrote the words to this song in 1894. No other evidence of this has been offered, however, and every known version seems to go back to Fletcher.
A number of "sequels" to "Strawberry Roan" have been written, including the two by Wilf Carter cited by Ohrlin. Austin E. Fife published an article on the subject, "The Strawberry Roan and His Progeny," in the John Edwards Memorial Quarterly. - RBW
 I think it's been fairly well established, despite Powder River Jack, that Fletcher wrote the words, probably in 1914. To quote Logsdon, "It was being sung by many people and Fletcher got no credit or money. So he collaborated with two Hollywood song writers, Nat Vincent and Fred Howard, to publish it as sheet music. When it came off the press they had made changes and added a chorus. Fletcher was furious and demanded that they print his original poem on the inside back cover for those who wanted to sing it the right way (and he wrote a bawdy version.)" The chorus they wrote, "Oh, that strawberry roan," has become part of most versions collected from tradition. - PJS
File: LB18
===
NAME: Strawberry Tower: see Scarboro Sand (The Drowned Sailor) [Laws K18] (File: LK18)
===
NAME: Streams of Bunclody, The
DESCRIPTION: "Was I at the moss-house where the birds do increase" he'd have a kiss from his sweetheart. "The cuckoo is a pretty bird ..." Various if ... then verses. She shuns him. She is rich. He is poor. He is "going to America, my fortune to try." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (Sparling); c.1867 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(206))
KEYWORDS: love emigration separation America floatingverses 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 76, "The Maid of Bunclody, and the Lad She Loves So Dear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3000
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(206), "The Maid of Bonclody," P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867 ; also 2806 b.9(232) [almost entirely illegible], "The Maid of Bon Clody, and the Lad She Loves Dear"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cuckoo" (floating verses)
NOTES: See H. Halliday Sparling, _Irish Minstrelsy_, 1888, pp. 224-225, 515. The description follows Sparling who notes, "From a Dublin ballad-slip of very uncertain date, but certainly before 1850." Floating verses include "The cuckoo is a pretty bird ...."; "If I was a clerk and could write a good hand ...."; "If I was a lark and had wings, I then could fly ... where my love does lie." The cuckoo verse seems uncorrupted:
The cuckoo is a pretty bird, it sings as it flies,
It brings us good tidings and tells us no lies,
It sucks the young bird's eggs to make its voice clear,
And it never cries cuckoo till the summer is near.
In spite of its title -- "The Maid of Bon Clody, and the Lad She Loves Dear" -- broadside Bodleian 2806 b.9(232) seems to follow Sparling exactly. The words I can make out in each verse are the same words that are in Sparling. But then, the same is true of OLochlainn 76: same title and same text.
Steve Gardham points out that the text of Richard Hayward's "Down in Glasloch" (78 Recording: Richard Hayward with Roy Robertson Orchestra, "Down in Glasloch" (Rex 15016B/matrix DR 11826-1, 1947)) is very similar to "The Streams of Bunclody"; the verses here seem minor modifications of the non-floating verses there and include the floating verses that do not refer to the cuckoo. The main difference is in the first verse:
From Sparling's "The Streams of Bunclody"
O was I at the moss-house where the birds do increase,
At the foot of Mount Leinster or some silent place
Near the streams of Bunclody, where all pleasures do meet,
And all I'd require is one kiss from you sweet. 
For "Down in Glasloch"
Oh, were I down in Glasloch where the birds sing so blithely
I would walk there with my true love and she by my side
And in all things she might ask me I would gladly do her favor
For there's no love like my true love in all Monaghan wide.
The following comment is from John Moulden: "I rather distrust his [Hayward's] versions and suspect that the text you quote has been tinkered. In a later (10 inch LP "Words and Music of Ireland" Decca EBL522) recording of the tune alone played by Hayward on an organ, he states that he collected the song in Monaghan 'close to Sir Shane Leslie's home' wherever that may have been." John Moulden is 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'"
The date of 1947 for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. He also has a 1938 date for an earlier Hayward recording as "Down in Glaslough".
Help provided by Steve Gardham, John Moulden and Bill Dean-Myatt is cited here with their permission.
Glaslough is a village in Count Monaghan, Ireland, just south of Northern Ireland. Mount Leinster and the River Clody are near Bunclody, County Wexford. - BS
File: BroaTSoB
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NAME: Streams of Lovely Nancy, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer (a sailor?) describes the "streams of lovely Nancy", a mountain with a castle, his beloved (who lives in the castle), a river, and a ship. He ends by addressing all "streamers"; he will write to his love, "For her rosy lips entice me..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1825 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 28(29))
LONG_DESCRIPTION: In this extremely confused song, the singer (probably a sailor) describes the "streams of lovely Nancy", a mountain with a castle, his beloved (who lives in the castle), a river, and a ship from the Indies. He ends by addressing all "streamers" (tin-miners washing ore?), saying he will write to his love, "For her rosy lips entice me, with her tongue she tells me 'No'/And a angel might direct us right, and where shall we go?" 
KEYWORDS: love rejection lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West,South)) Ireland US(MW,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 98, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 294-295, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 149, "The Streams of lovely Nancy" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 26, "Green Mountain" (1 text)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 64, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
SHenry H520, p. 259, "The Strands of Magilligan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell-FSRA 29, "The Shipwreck" (1 text, probably this piece although there is no mention of Nancy; there is one brief mention of Polly, and no shipwreck!)
DT, LOVNANCY* (erroneously titled "The Steams of Lovely Nancy")
Roud #688
RECORDINGS:
Turp Brown, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(29), "The Streams of Lovely Nancy," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(3678), Firth b.34(282), Harding B 11(3677), Harding B 11(3678A), Harding B 11(825), Firth c.13(24), Harding B 11(3679)[some words illegible], 2806 c.17(410), 2806 c.17(409)[some words illegible], Harding B 15(320a), Harding B 11(1519), Firth b.26(542)[some words illegible], "[The] Streams of Lovely Nancy"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cursor Mundi" (14th century religious poem, sharing images)
cf. "The Ploughboy (I)" (lyrics)
cf. "If I Were a Fisher" (floating verses)
cf. "Farewell, Sweet Mary" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Nellie" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Streams of Nantsian
Faithful Emma
The Dreams of Lovely Nancy
NOTES: All versions of this song seem to be equally mysterious. Lloyd quotes A.G. Gilchrist as speculating, with evidence, that this song is actually a relic of a hymn to Mary. -PJS
Margaret Dean-Smith offers the speculation that "streams/streamers" refer not to flowing waters but to "streamers," who worked in tin mines. If that helps. - RBW
File: VWL098
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NAME: Streets of Forbes, The
DESCRIPTION: Ben Hall is "hunted from his station" and "like a dog shot down." A bushranger for three years, he is planning to "cross the briny sea" when found and "riddled like a sieve." The authorities parade his body through the streets of Forbes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: outlaw police Australia death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 5, 1865 - Ben Hall is ambushed and killed by police near Forbes, Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 60-61, "The Streets of Forbes" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRFORBE*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "The Ballad of Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "The Death of Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "My Name is Ben Hall" (subject)
NOTES: For the background of Ben Hall, see the other songs listed in the cross-references.
To tell this from the other Ben Hall songs, consider this first verse:
Come all of you Lachlan men, and a sorrowful tale I'll tell
Concerning of a hero bold who through misfortune fell.
His name it was Ben Hall, a man of good renown
Who was hunted from his station, and like a dog shot down. - RBW
File: PASB060
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NAME: Streets of Glory: see Welcome Table (Streets of Glory, God's Going to Set This World on Fire) (File: San478)
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NAME: Streets of Laredo, The [Laws B1]
DESCRIPTION: (The singer meets a young cowboy "all dressed in white linen and cold as the clay.") The cowboy has been shot (or given a venereal disease?) and is dying. He regrets his carousing, gives instructions for his burial, and dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1886
KEYWORDS: cowboy death lament burial dying funeral disease violence murder
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE, Ro,So,SE,SW) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (28 citations)
Laws B1, "The Cowboy's Lament (The Dying Cowboy)"
Belden, pp. 392-397, "The Unfortunate Rake" (3 texts plus a fragment and references to 4 more versions; 1 tune, all of which are this song despite the title)
Randolph 182, "The Cowboy's Lament" (2 texts plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Eddy 124, "The Dying Cowboy" (3 texts, none of which refer to "The Streets of Laredo" and which might be mixed with other versions of this song)
Gardner/Chickering 100, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 short text plus mention of 1 more)
BrownII 263, "The Unfortunate Rake" (1 text plus 9 excerpts and mention of two others, called "The Unfortunate Rake" but apparently all this song)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 353-359, "The Dying Cowboy" (6 texts; 3 tunes on pp. 452-453)
Friedman, p. 424, "The Cowboy's Lament (The Streets of Laredo)" (2 texts, the second being a lumberjack text that might derive from one of the other versions)
PBB 111, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text)
Lomax-FSUSA 59, "The Streets of Laredo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 263, "As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thorp/Fife XIII, pp. 148-190 (29-30), "Cow Boy's Lament" (22 texts, 7 tunes, though not all are really part of this piece -- the "H" text, from Minnesota, is in a Scandinavian tongue; "K" looks like it comes from the "Tarpaulin Jacket" family; "L" is "The Wild and Wicked Youth"; "M" is "Jack Combs"; "N" is "St. James Infirmary"; many of the other texts are parodys)
Fife-Cowboy/West 119, "The Streets of Laredo" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Larkin, pp. 30-31, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune, with four verses that are clearly "Streets of Laredo" but an opening that is "My Home's in Montana")
SharpAp 131, "St. James's Hospital, or The Sailor Cut Down in his Prime" (2 texts, 2 tunes, but the "A" text really belongs with "The Unfortunate Rake")
Lomax-FSNA 200, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 120, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 859-860, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 242, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
JHCox 53, "The Dying Cowboy" (5 texts)
JHCoxIIB, #8A-B, pp. 139-142, "The Dying Cowboy" (2 fragments, 2 tunes)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 41, "The Streets Of Laredo" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H680, p. 141, "The Cowboy of Loreto" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 77, pp. 170-171, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 8-9, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 115, "The Streets Of Laredo" (1 text)
Saffel-CowboyP, pp. 192-193, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text)
DT 350, LAREDST*
Roud #2
RECORDINGS:
Jules Allen, "The Cowboy's Lament" (Victor V-40178, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4099, 1933)
Captain Appleblossom, "The Cowboy's Lament" (OKeh 45373, 1929)
Bentley Ball, "The Dying Cowboy" (Columbia A3085, 1920)
Vernon Dalhart, "The Dying Cowboy" (Brunswick 137/Perfect 12361 [as "The Cowboy's Lament", 1927; Supertone S-2009, 1930; Conqueror 7724 [as "The Cowboy's Lament"], 1931)
Dick Devall, "Tom Sherman's Barroom" (Timely Tunes [Victor subsidiary] C-1563, 1931; on BefBlues1, WhenIWas2)
Newton Gaines, "A-Walkin' the Streets of Laredo" (Victor V-40253, 1930)
Ewen Hail, "Cowboy's Lament" (Brunswick 141, 1927; Brunswick 433/Supertone S-2043. 1930)
Harry Jackson, "Streets of Loredo" (on HJackson1)
Bradley Kincaid, "In the Streets of Laredo" (Supertone 9404, 1929)
Ken Maynard ,"The Cowboy's Lament" (Columbia 2310-D, 1930; on WhenIWas1)
Harry "Mac" McClintock, "Cowboy's Lament" (Victor 21761, 1928)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Tom Sherman's Barroom" (on NLCR06, NLCR11)
H[olland] Puckett, "The Dying Cowboy" (Champion 15428 [as Harvey Watson]/Gennett 6271/Herwin 75557 [as Robert Howell]/Silvertone 5065/Silvertone 8152 [as Si Puckett]/Silvertone 25065/Suptertone 9253 [as Harvey Watson], 1928; rec. 1927)
Johnny Prude, "The Streets of Laredo" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28, BackSaddle)
Ranch Boys, "Cowboy's Lament" (Decca 5061, 1935)
Pete Seeger, "Streets of Laredo" (on PeteSeeger12)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Unfortunate Rake" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Bad Girl's Lament (St. James' Hospital; The Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime) [Laws Q26] (tune & meter, plot)
cf. "Jack Combs" (tune & meter, lyrics)
cf. "The Dying Outlaw" (tune & meter)
cf. "My Home's in Montana" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "My Friends and Relations" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "The Mowing Machine" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Bard of Armagh" (tune & meter)
cf. "Trooper Cut Down in His Prime" (tune & meter)
SAME_TUNE:
A Sun Valley Song (Darling-NAS, p. 11)
The Lineman's Hymn (Darling-NAS, pp. 11-12)
The Streets of Hamtramck (Darling-NAS, p. 12)
The Ballad of Sherman Wu (Darling-NAS, p. 13)
A Golfing Song  (Darling-NAS, pp. 13-14)
The Professor's Lament (Darling-NAS, pp. 14-15)
Ballad of Sherman Wu (on PeteSeeger19, AmHist2)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
My Home's in Montana
The Young Cowboy
Tom Sherman's Barroom
Tom Sherwin's Barroom
NOTES: One of the large group of ballads ("The Bard of Armagh," "Saint James Hospital," "The Streets of Laredo") ultimately derived from "The Unfortunate Rake." All use the same tune and metre, and all involve a person dying as a result of a wild life, but the nature of the tragedy varies according to local circumstances.
Thorp/Fife studied 150 versions of this text, and determined that 39 were set in "The Streets of Laredo" or similar; 37 took place at Tom Sherman's Barroom or similar, 25 used other words starting with LA (Lafferty, London, Laden, etc.), 31 (not all of them variants of this exact song) used miscellaneous places, and 18 were not localized.
For the treatment of syphilis prior to the twentieth century, see the notes to "The Unfortunate Rake." - RBW
File: LB01
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NAME: Stringybark
DESCRIPTION: "There are white-box and pine on the ridges afar, Where the ironbark, bluegum, and peppermint are, But the one I know best and the dearest to me And the king of them all is the stringybark tree." Why is it so dear? The singer's birth-hut was made of it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: home
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 264, "Stringybark" (1 text)
NOTES: The _Encyclopedia of Australia_ describes stringybark as an informal name for several species of eucalyptus, the name being given because the bark "peels off in long fibrous strips." - RBW
File: MA264
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NAME: Stringybark Cockatoo, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a broke alluvial miiner who's been using his cup to drain." With no other means of support, the miner goes to work for a "stringybark cockatoo." The work is dull and the master poor, cheap, and hard to work with
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: unemployment work farming Australia mining
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 100-102, "The Stringybark Cockatoo" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cockies of Bungaree" (plot, lyrics)
NOTES: A "Cockatoo," or "Cockie," is a farmer whose land is so poor that it can raise little but cockatoos.
This song has so many similarities to "The Cockies of Bungaree" that I have to suspect literary dependence. The "Bungaree" text is the more popular, and hence perhaps more likely to be original, but I can offer no absolute proof of this. - RBW
File: PASB100
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NAME: Stringybark Creek
DESCRIPTION: "A sergeant and three constables rode out from Mansfield Town" to seek the Kelly gang. When they separate, Kelly overwhelms two, then catches the other two as they return. One man, MacIntyre, escapes to bring the news to Mansfield
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: outlaw death trick horse
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 70-72, "Stringybark Creek" (1 text, 2 tunes)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Kelly Gang" (subject)
cf. "Ye Sons of Australia" (subject)
cf. "Kelly Song (Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly)" (subject)
cf. "Kelly Was Their Captain" (subject)
cf. "Ballad of the Kelly Gang" (subject)
cf. "My Name is Edward Kelly" (subject)
cf. "The Kelly Gang Were Strong" (subject)
NOTES: Manifold reports that there is also a fiddle tune named "Stringybark Creek," which is sometimes used for this song. Said tune sounds vaguely familiar; I think I've heard it under another name. But it's not one of the common fiddle tunes. - RBW
File: PASB070
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NAME: Study War No More: see Down By the Riverside (Study War No More) (File: San480)
===
NAME: Stump, The: see The Rattling Bog (File: ShH98)
===
NAME: Subhail a Gradh: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Substitute, The
DESCRIPTION: Recitation; Tom Burke befriends young Tim Cory. Tim is crushed by a falling tree and asks Tom to take care of his children. He finds Tim's children are now orphans. The speaker later learns Tom has married Tim's oldest daughter
AUTHOR: Probably Marion Ellsworth
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation; Tom Burke, a saw-filer in the lumber camp, befriends a young man, Tim Cory. Tim is crushed by a falling tree, but before dying, he asks Tom to take care of his children. Tom takes the body to Tim's house. He finds Tim's children are now orphans, their mother having been dead for two years; he takes up a collection among the crew. The speaker loses track of Tom, but one day he chances on a small farm, and he finds Tom has married Tim's oldest daughter, and they've made a good and happy home.
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger marriage farming recitation orphan family friend
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 104, "The Substitute" (1 text)
Roud #8884
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb)" [Laws C14]
cf. "Chance McGear" (plot)
cf. "Boy Killed by a Falling Tree in Hartford" (plot)
NOTES: Put baldly, as in the description, this sounds like sentimental treacle, but to my ear it's a poem with some guts to it. Like the other pieces probably written by Ellsworth, it does not seem to have entered oral tradition. - PJS
File: Be104
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NAME: Success to Every Man
DESCRIPTION: "De time is drawin' near, me b'ys, De narthern floe to face, So we must get out 'aulin' rope, De whitecoats fer to lace!" Various sealing ships are listed. The singer wishes success and prosperity to the sealers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (England, Vikings of the Ice)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 109, "Success to Every Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: RySm109
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NAME: Success to the Hardy Sealers
DESCRIPTION: "The twelfth  of March is drawing near And we must all prepare Our pipers and our pannicans The sealer's life to share." Ships preparing to go to the ice are listed. The singer hopes they return safely
AUTHOR: apparently Johnny Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Burke's Ballads)
KEYWORDS: ship travel hunting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 81, "Success to the Hardy Sealers" (1 text)
File: RySm081
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NAME: Success Unto the Coal Trade
DESCRIPTION: "Good people, listen while I sing The source from where your comforts spring; And may each wind that blows still bring Success unto the coal trade." The singer points out how coal supports the nation and feeds the people of the north
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: mining nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 140-141, "Success Unto the Coal Trade" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3163
File: StoR140
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NAME: Sucking Cider through a Straw
DESCRIPTION: "The prettiest girl that I ever saw Was sucking cider through a straw." "I told that gal I didn't see how She sucked the cider through a straw." "And now I've got me a mother-in-law From sucking cider through a straw."
AUTHOR: credited in the 1919 publication to Carey Morgan and Lee David
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: courting drink
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
BrownIII 47, "Sucking Cider through a Straw" (1 fragment)
Sandburg, p. 329, "Sucking Cider Through a Straw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" (1 text)
DT, SIPCIDER*
Roud #7867
RECORDINGS:
[Arthur] Collins & [Byron] Harlan, "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" (Pathe 22157, 1919) (Edison 50627, 1920) (CYL: Edison [BA] 3846, n.d.)
Vernon Dalhart, "Sippin' Cider" (Columbia 1712-D, 1929)
SAME_TUNE:
The Other Day I Met a Bear (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 44; DT, IMETBEAR)
NOTES: The 1919 publication gives the name as "Sipping Cider thru' a Straw." Curiously, Sandburg, writing no later than 1927, did not seem to know of this -- implying that this was originally "folk" rather than pop. - RBW
File: San329
===
NAME: Sucking Pig, The
DESCRIPTION: Of a giant pig, which takes 7000 men to butcher, and seven years to remove a trotter; its bones yield 7000 bags of flour. Cho: "O, perhaps you may think that/O, it's not all true/But I don't care a fig/What I say, I know it's true/About this suckling pig"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (recording, Jack Elliott of Birtley)
KEYWORDS: lie corpse death work food talltale animal worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #8083
RECORDINGS:
Jack Elliott, "The Sucking Pig" (on Elliotts01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Derby Ram" (subject, plot)
cf. "The Grey Goose" (subject, plot)
cf. "The Killing of the Big Pig (Iso Sika)" (subject, plot)
NOTES: The collectors, MacColl & Seeger, considered this song a barrack-room rewrite of "The Derby Ram," and obviously the parallels are very strong. But as the actual words, except for the chorus, seem to be somewhat independent, I split them. Still, cognate stories of big animals that are hard to kill and cook are common, so do look at the cross-references. - PJS
File: RcTSuPig
===
NAME: Suffolk Miracle, The [Child 272]
DESCRIPTION: A squire's daughter loves a lowborn man. The squire sends her away. In time her love comes to bear her home. His head hurts; she binds it with her kerchief. She arrives home. Her father says her love is dead. She finds his dead body wearing her kerchief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1689? (broadside, dated to that year by Wood)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation death father lover ghost supernatural corpse travel horse grief
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE,SE,So) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Child 272, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
Bronson 272, The Suffolk Miracle" (13 versions)
SharpAp 37, "The Suffolk Miracle" (4 texts plus 1 fragment ("C") that might be almost anything, 5 tunes) {Bronson's #4, #2, #3, #1a, #8}
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 314, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 fragment)
Randolph 32, "Lady Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #12}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 145-147, "The Holland Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #7}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 50-62, "The Suffolk Miracle" (3 texts, 2 tune, all weeming somewhat mixed -- e.g. "A" has the rose-and-briar ending) {Bronson's A=Bronson's #10, B=#7}
JHCox 27, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
BrownII 41, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
Davis-Ballads 42, "The Suffolk Miracle" (2 texts plus a scrap which could be anything, 2 tunes, one of them for the unidentifiable fragment) {Bronson's #8, #5}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 88-90, "The Suffolk Miracle" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Peacock, pp. 407-408, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 645-649, "The Suffolk Miracle" (2 texts)
OBB 175, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
Niles 56, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
SHenry H217, pp. 432-433, "The Lover's Ghost" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 40, "The Holland Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 12, "The Holland Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2961, "A wonder stranger ne'r was known"
DT 272, SUFFMRCL* SUFFMRC2 SUFFMRC3*
Roud #246
RECORDINGS:
Packie Manus Byrne, "The Holland Handkerchief" (on Voice03)
Dol [Adolphus G.] Small, "There Was an Old and Wealthy Man" (AFS, 1950; on LC58) {Bronson's #1b}
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 2(207b), "The Suffolk Miracle" or "A Relation of a Young Man Who a Month After His Death Appeared to his Sweetheart," F. Coles (London), 1678-1680; also Wood E 25(83) [some lines illegible; "MS annotation following imprint: 1689"], Douce Ballads 3(88a)[many illegible lines], "The Suffolk Miracle" or "A Relation of a Young Man Who a Month After His Death Appeared to his Sweet[-]heart,"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Maid of Sweet Gurteen" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
My Bleeding Heart (per broadsides Bodleian Douce Ballads 2(207b), Wood E 25(83) and Douce Ballads 3(88a))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Sad Courtin'
The Richest Girl in Our Town
Lucy Bouns
NOTES: Child complains of this song, "This piece should not be admitted here on its own merits.... It is not even a good specimen of its kind. Ghosts should have a fair reason for walking, and a quite particular reason for riding...." Child prints the song for the sake of its foreign analogs.
All I can say is, the plot may be somewhat defective, but the full forms of the ballad itself are quite beautiful and pathetic. It does corrupt easily, though, as the Flanders texts show.
More interesting is the way the story is expressed. Legends of ghosts are of course common, and legends of the fate of spirit and body affecting each other not rare (e.g. if a living person slashes at a ghost, the ghost may appear to be intact but the corpse will bear a scar, perhaps healed). In this song, the ghost actually comes to bear an artifact. That is not often encountered.
The "Holland Handkerchief" of certain versions is not a cloth woven in the Netherlands; rather, the adjective refers to the pattern of the weave. - RBW
File: C272
===
NAME: Sugar and Tea
DESCRIPTION: "Lead her up to sugar and tea, Lead her up to candy. You swing 'round that sugar and tea While I swing 'round that dandy." "Hi oh that sugar and tea, Hi oh that candy, You swing 'round that sugar and tea While I swing 'round that dandy."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Talley)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 531, "Sugar and Tea" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST R531 (Partial)
Roud #7643
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dog in the Wood" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sugar Loaf Tea
He Loves Sugar and Tea
NOTES: This shares a chorus with the song I've indexed as "Dog in the Wood," but the verses are so distinct (that is a hunting song, this a courting song) that I've tentatively split them. - RBW
File: R531
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Shoot your dice and have your fun, sugar babe... Run like the devil when the police come." The singer describes various results of getting drunk. Sundry other floating verses
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: drink gambling nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 153-154, "Sugar Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3655
File: LxA153
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (II): see Crawdad (File: R443)
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (III)
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses with internal chorus "this-u morning" and final chorus "My honey babe, my little babe, so sweet." Verses: "Kill me a chicken and bring be the wing." "I got a mule and the mule won't gee." "I took my girl to the crawfish stand...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting abandonment food floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 482, "Sugar Babe" (1 text)
NOTES: The notes in Brown state, "It seems best to retain this title [which came from the informant] for the present medley, because it is the refrain that gives it such coherence as it has." I'm not sure I agree -- but certainly there is no other single place the song can file, as the verses all appear elsewhere. I suspect they were fitted into an existing blues framework. - RBW
File: Br3482
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NAME: Sugar Babe (IV): see Sweet Thing (I) (File: R443A)
===
NAME: Sugar Baby (Red Rocking Chair; Red Apple Juice)
DESCRIPTION: "Got no sugar baby now...got no use for your red rocking chair...who'll rock the cradle, who'll sing the song...all I can do, fuss, eat, sleep with you/send you to your mama next payday" -- floating verses all.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Dock Boggs)
KEYWORDS: marriage nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 82 "Sugar Baby" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 34, "Red Rocking Chair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 175, "Red Apple Juice" (1 text)
Roud #7695
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard et al, "Honey Babe Blues" (on Ashley02, WatsonAshley01)
Dock Boggs, "Sugar Baby" (Brunswick 118B, 1927; on  Boggs2, BoggsCD1, AAFM3)
Roscoe Holcomb, "Got No Honey Baby Now (Honey Babe Blues)" (on Holcomb2)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Little Turtle Dove" (1928; on BLLunsford01; a composite of all sorts of floating verses, a few of which may be from here)
Charlie Monroe & his Kentucky Pardners, "Red Rocking Chair" (RCA Victor 21-0145, 1949)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Red Rocking Chair" (on NLCR03)
Frank Proffitt, "Got No Sugar Baby Now" (on FProffitt01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Pay Day" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Rain and Snow" (floating lyrics)
cf. "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)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is a white blues, but it powerfully resembles an improvised African-American blues lyric, composed mostly of floating verses. -PJS
File: ADR82
===
NAME: Sugar Hill
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune; "If you want to get your eye knocked out/If you want to get your fill/If you want to get your head blowed off/Go up on Sugar Hill". Other floating verses; "Possum up a 'simmon tree."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Crockett Ward & his Boys)
KEYWORDS: dancing drink floatingverses dancetune
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 193, "Sugar Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Frank Bode, "Sugar Hill" (on FBode1)
Dad Crockett, "Sugar Hill" (Brunwick 372, c. 1929)
Virginia Mountain Boomers [Ernest V. Stoneman, Willie Stoneman, an the Sweet Brothers], "Sugar Hill" (Gennett 6687, 1929; rec. 1928)
Crockett Ward & his Boys "Sugar Hill" (OKeh 45179, 1928; rec. 1927)
NOTES: "Sugar Hill" is the wild part of town. - PJS
File: CSW193
===
NAME: Sugar in My Coffee
DESCRIPTION: Complaints about life laced with the refrain, "(How in the world do the old folks know) That I like sugar in my coffee-o." The singer may describe how he likes to drink, or wishes he were/were not living the life of a white man
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 565, "Sugar in my Coffee" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
BrownIII 92, "I Do Love Sugar in My Coffee O" (2 short texts)
Roud #7659
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "What'll I Do with the Baby-O" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Randolph fragment is so short that it could just be a piece of "What'll I Do with the Baby-O," and Brown's texts are also distinct.  The mention of "sugar in my coffee" may just be a floating line. But it's going to be very hard to identify any of these scraps with a "real" song.
Randolph suggests that the origin of this may be in the fiddle tune "Sugar in My Toddy-o." Certainly possible. In which  case it may be related to "Jingle at the Window (Tideo)." - RBW
File: R565A
===
NAME: Sugar Loaf Tea: see Sugar and Tea (File: R531)
===
NAME: Sugar Lump: see Turn that Cinnamon (File: R583)
===
NAME: Suit of Green, The
DESCRIPTION: A girl mourns the loss of her love taken by guards "for wearing of the suit of green." Her master buys her a suit of green to wear to Dublin where she pleads with the Colonel for her lover's life. The Colonel spares them both; they will marry.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1862 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.14(134)); first half 19C (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: love marriage request rebellion trial pardon clothes colors Ireland patriotic prisoner
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn 24, "The Suit of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 22, "The Suit of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 42-43, "(A Much-Admired New Song Called) The Suit of Green" (1 text)
ST OLoc024 (Partial)
Roud #3023
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.14(134), "Suit of Green," E.M.A. Hodges (London), 1855-1861; also 2806 b.9(226), 2806 c.15(123), 2806 b.9(277), 2806 b.10(208), 2806 b.10(208), Firth c.26(264), Johnson Ballads fol. 363, "[The] Suit of Green"
NOTES: Although wearing green was never an actual crime in Ireland, it was often associated with rebels (see "The Wearing of the Green" and the like). In times of trouble, it was likely to invite, shall we say, official attention. - RBW
File: OLoc024
===
NAME: Sukey Sudds
DESCRIPTION: "Sukey Sudds was a-standing in front of her tubs, A-washing her clothes so nice.... Sukey Sudds picked up her three-legged stool And she throwed it right into the fire, fire, fire, And she throwed it right into the fire."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: clothes
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 438, "Sukey Sudds" (1 text)
Roud #7608
File: R438
===
NAME: Sumer Is I-cumen In
DESCRIPTION: "Sumer is i-cumen in, lhude [loud] sing cuccu!" A round celebrating the beginning of summer and the appearance of various symbols of fertility
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: fourteenth century or earlier (MS. Harley 978, generally dated c. 1225-1250)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Sumer is i-cumen in, Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed [seed] and bloweth [blooms] meed
And spring[e]th w[oo]de nu [now].
Sing cuccu!
Awe [ewe] bleteth after lomb [lamb],
Lhouth [lows] after calve cu [cow]
Bulluc stereth [stirs], bukke [buck] verteth [frequents the fields]
Myrie [merry] sin cuccu....
KEYWORDS: farming lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Stevick-100MEL 3, "(Sumer Is I-cumen In)" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 10-13, "Sumer Is Icumen In" (1 text, 1 tune; the frontispiece shows a facsimile of the neumed manuscript)
Silber-FSWB, p. 260 "Summer Is A-Coming In" (1 text, modernized and otherwise fouled up)
ADDITIONAL: Brown/Robbins, _Index of Middle English Verse_, #3223
Maxwell S. Luria & Richard Hoffmann, _Middle English Lyrics_, p. 4, #3 (another text with facsimile)
Noah Greenberg, ed., An Anthology of English Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music, pp. 35-41 (1 text plus modern arrangement)
DT, ICUMSUM
NOTES: Possibly the oldest pop song in the English language; it's a wide-open question whether the manuscript was a transcription of a piece from oral tradition, or the source. - PJS
Wooldridge observes that this song "contains the earliest canon, and the earliest persistently repeated bass, as yet discovered," and speculates (based on the several erasures clearly visible in the manuscript) that the scribe, probably John Fornsete of Reading, was personally responsible for the arrangement.
Personally, I'd be inclined to consider this a proto-classical piece (all the more so as it occurs only in the one manuscript), but I'm not going to be dogmatic about it.
Most scholars date the manuscript to the thirteenth century.  Manfred Bukofzer, however, prefers the fourteenth. Looking at the facsimile, I wonder if he hasn't a point. I'm not a paleographer, and there wasn't that much difference between thirteenth and fourteenth century insular hands anyway -- but the manuscript does have several forms (notably spelling out the word "and," rather than using the upside-down L used as an ampersand at the time) more characteristic of late than early manuscripts. Of course, if the manuscript is a copy rather than the autograph, that doesn't mean much.
We should perhaps note that Harley 978 is not the more famous manuscript from the same collection, Harley 2253, which contains "King Horn" among many other famous poems. "Sumer Is I-cumen In" appears to be the only significant song in Harley 978. - RBW
File: FSWB260B
===
NAME: Summer Hill
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells how he used to ramble, until he spies Cupid and is pierced by his dart. Now "I'm a wounded lover on Summer Hill." He describes the girl's beauty, and hopes to win her. He refuses to reveal his name
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H20b, p. 245, "Summer Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9482
File: HHH020b
===
NAME: Summer Morning, The (The White/Blue/Green Cockade)
DESCRIPTION: "It was one summer morning, as I went o'er the moss, I had no thought of 'listing till the soldiers did me cross." But her love is in the army. She both laments and curses him. They meet; he dries her tears and says he will return; she vows to ramble
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: soldier love separation recruiting
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  68-69, "It Was One Summer Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, COCKADE1*
Roud #191
File: StoR068
===
NAME: Sun Being Set, The: see Ground for the Floor (File: RcGftF)
===
NAME: Sun Down Below
DESCRIPTION: "Six o'clock I hear 'em say. Sun down, Sun down below. Time to quit and go away. Sun down, Sun down below." Hauling shanty or cargo loading song, likely of Negro origin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: West Indies US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, p. 85, "Sun Down Below" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Harl085
===
NAME: Sun Will Never Go Down, The: see Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down (File: Wa088)
===
NAME: Suncook Town Tragedy (Josie Langmaid) [Laws F21]
DESCRIPTION: Josie Langmaid is on her way to school when she is accosted by (Joseph) LePage. He abuses and kills her. Her family searches for and finds her body. The killer is condemned to hang
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: murder family execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 4, 1875 - Murder of Josie Langmaid, reportedly by Joseph LePage
Mar 15, 1878 - Execution of Le Page
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws F21, "Suncook Town Tragedy (Josie Langmaid)"
Flanders/Brown, pp. 72-73, "Suncook Town Tragedy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, p. 57, "(no title)" (1 short text, 1 tune)
DT 684, SUNCKTWN
Roud #2259
NOTES: Although Laws shows no signs of doubt about Le Page's guilt, the account in Burt makes it seem that the case was at least somewhat uncertain. Langmaid had been abused and then decapitated, but the only evidence Burt lists to tie the crime to Le Page is the fact that he had courted young girls (and Langmaid wasn't *that* young; Burt lists her age as 17). Le Page even had a partial alibi, but was convicted anyway. - RBW
File: LF21
===
NAME: Sunday School Song, The: see Walkin' in the Parlor (File: Wa177)
===
NAME: Sundown
DESCRIPTION: Courting song, with the chorus "It's nearly sundown, sundown/Sun is almost down/Bound away to leave you, 'fore the sun goes down..." Verses begin with "Hi, my little darling"; singer promises to bring his girl back a ribbon to tie around her waist
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (recording, Art Thieme)
KEYWORDS: courting parting nonballad playparty lover
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Art Thieme, "Sundown" (onGetFolked) (on Thieme04)
NOTES: I suspect this is related to the song "Hurry Sundown," and I'm guessing that it's a playparty. - PJS
File: RcSundow
===
NAME: Sunny Bank: see I Saw Three Ships (File: OBB104)
===
NAME: Sunny South (I), The: see The Sweet Sunny South (I) [Laws A23] (File: LA23)
===
NAME: Sunny South (II), The: see Sweet Sunny South (II) (File: DTsunsou)
===
NAME: Sunshine After Rain
DESCRIPTION: "I left my love in Engand In poverty and pain"; they weep as he sets out across the sea. He works hard, saves his money, goes home, finds the girl. They live happily and are well-off: "The morn has 'dorned the darkest night And sunshine followed rain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: love separation emigration reunion farming
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 55, "Sunshine Followed Rain" (1 text)
Roud #13821
File: ChFRA055
===
NAME: Sunshine Followed Rain: see Sunshine After Rain (File: ChFRA055)
===
NAME: Sunshine Railway Disaster, The
DESCRIPTION: Two trains approach Sunshine at the same time. 44 die in the crash. "If those trains had only run As they should, their proper time, There wouldn't have been a disaster At a place they call Sunshine. If those brakes had only held...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974
KEYWORDS: train wreck disaster death Australia
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 20, 1908 -  The Bendigo train crashes into the rear of the Ballarat train at Sunshine near Melbourne. 44 passengers (all in the Ballarat train) were killed; over 400 (from both trains) were injured
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 210-211, "The Sunshine Railway Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FaE210
===
NAME: Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man
DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty/drinking song. Chorus translates to: "Oh listen, listen here us now, Out of deep throats we're calling you, A tot which goes from man to man, A tot for us Johnnies." Verses mention more drinking and sailing themes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty drink
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 282-283, "Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man" (2 texts-English & Swedish, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Whiskey Johnny" (similar theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Kom Hor, Kom Hor
File: Hugi282
===
NAME: Sur le Pont d'Avignon
DESCRIPTION: French round: "Sur le pont d'Avignon, L'on y danse, l'on y danse." "On the bridge at Avignon, see them dance, see them dance." The song tells how men, women, and soldiers bow and dance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1846 (Du Mersan, "Chansons et Rondes Enfantines")
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: France
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 390, "Sur Le Pont D'Avignon (On The Bridge At Avignon)" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 539-540, "Sur le Pont d'Avignon"
NOTES: One of the best-known songs in all of France. The great bridge on the Rhone was finished in 1185. The need to carry larger ships has resulted in much of the span being torn down, but a portion still stands (sticking out into the middle of nowhere), mostly as a tourist attraction. - RBW
File: FSWB390A
===
NAME: Susan Brown (I)
DESCRIPTION: Beautiful Susan, the singer, has many wooers; she flirts with all even though she loves a rich farmer's son. The lad proposes to a different girl. Susan poisons him, then flees. Unable to find work, she is imprisoned and now is dying of consumption
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting betrayal murder poison prison death
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H771, pp. 415-416, "Susan Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7963
File: HHH771
===
NAME: Susan Carr
DESCRIPTION: Billy Green and Susan Carr had courted, but she turns to Thompson instead. Green challenges Thompson for the right to her hand. Green kills Thompson and drowns himself. Susan dies soon after. All three are buried together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment murder death burial drowning suicide
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H,690 p. 416, "Susan Carr" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7964
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Pride of Newry Town" (plot)
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann speculate that this may be related to Laws P33, "Susannah Clargy" (one of the most obscure of the Laws ballads). I strongly doubt there is any link. There are common elements -- a girl with two lovers, and a death, as well as the similar names of the heroines -- but many different elements as well. "Susan Carr" sees the two suitors do battle, while "Susannah Clargy" is a song of suicide with the lover's ghost coming back to take her away. - RBW
File: HHH690
===
NAME: Susan on the Beach: see Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19] (File: LK19)
===
NAME: Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19]
DESCRIPTION: Noble Susan loves Willy, a sailor, and will not accept a husband of high degree. As she walks along the beach, worrying about him, she sees a body which proves to be his. She dies for love; the two are buried together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: love death burial drowning sailor shore
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws K19, "Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 103, "Susan Strayed the Briny Beach" (2 texts)
Peacock, pp. 646-647, "As Susan Strayed the Briny Beach" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 21, "Susan Strayed the Briny Beach" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H774, pp. 150-151, "Susan on the Beach" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 70-71, "The Sligo Shore" (1 text)
DT 695, SUSTRAY
Roud #1896
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie [Child 215] (plot)
cf. "Down by the Seaside" (plot)
File: LK19
===
NAME: Susan Van Dusan
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Susan Van Dusan, The gal of my choosin', She sticks to my bosom like glue." "Oh, Susan Van Dusan, Oh, I will quit usin' Tobacco and boozin' for you." ""Oh, Susan Van Dusan, What gum are you usin' That sticks to my bosom like you?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 409-410, "Susan Van Dusan" (1 text)
Roud #15537
File: LxA409
===
NAME: Susan, The
DESCRIPTION: The Susan, returning to Bonaventure from successful fishing on the Labrador, sinks in a storm at Cutthroat and the crew of four is lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death fishing sea ship storm wreck
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 103, "The Susan" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Cut Throat Island is up the Labrador Coast near the mouth of Groswater Bay about 140 air miles northeast of Happey Valley-Goose Bay. Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, is just north of the Avalon Peninsula. - BS
File: LeBe103
===
NAME: Susannah Clargy [Laws P33]
DESCRIPTION: Susannah vows to be true to the widow's son; they break a ring as a token. Some months later she agrees to marry another man; she scorns the widow's son. He kills himself; that night his ghost comes to claim Susannah
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: ghost brokentoken courting marriage suicide
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws P33, "Susannah Clargy"
SharpAp 185, "Susannah Clargy" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN3179, "Young lovers most discrete and wise"
DT 511, SUSCLRGY
Roud #998
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Gentleman of Exeter (The Perjured Maid)" [Laws P32] (plot)
cf. "The Ghost's Bride" (plot)
cf. "Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene" (plot)
cf. "Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Sogsta Berg (The Pretty Maid Climbs the Highest Mountain)" (plot)
File: LP33
===
NAME: Susiana
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic line: "Hooray, oh, Susiana! Away right over the mountain." (The fragment in Doerflinger is too short to determine the plot -- if there is one.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Doerflinger)
KEYWORDS: shanty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 83, "Susiana" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 378, "Way, Me, Susiana!" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 286]
Roud #9436
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Poor Lucy Anna" (similar wording in some verses)
File: Doe083
===
NAME: Sussex Toast, The: see I'll Drink One (To Be a Good Companion, The Sussex Toast) (File: K285)
===
NAME: Susy Gal
DESCRIPTION: "Susy licked the ladle An' 'er dolly rocked the cradle. Goodbye, Susie gal, I'm gone again. I fell into the gutter And my heart began to flutter. Goodbye, Susie gal, I'm gone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad travel
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 320, "Susy Gal" (1 short text)
NOTES: The editors of Brown speculate that this might be a playparty. Certainly it looks like a singing game. - RBW
File: Br3320
===
NAME: Suvla Bay
DESCRIPTION: "In an old Australian homestead With roses 'round the door, A girl received a letter 'Twas a message from the war... He played his part that April day, And now he lies in Suvla Bay." The grieving girl turns away suitors and joins the Red Cross
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: Australia battle death mourning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1915 - The Dardanelles campaign. British forces attack Gallipoli; the Australians and New Zealanders form the spearhead of the second phase of the attack, at Suvla Bay. All the attacks are bloody failures
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 206-207, "Suvla Bay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5350
NOTES: It has been said that the Australian participation in the Dardanelles campaign is what made Australia a nation. Certainly it etched itself deeply in the Australian consciousness. It would be amazing if there were no traditional songs about it. This song (like the later "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda") seems not to be of actual folk origin, but it seems to have become part of Australian tradition.
The tragedy of Suvla Bay was not so much its failure (World War I was, after all, a war consisting of very little except failure) as its *needless* failure. When the troops went ashore in 1915, they encountered no resistance -- but their commander sat there and did nothing until the Turks could build a defensive position. From then on, it was a case of the ANZACs being slaughtered for nothing. - RBW
File: MCB206
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NAME: Suzanne Was a Lady: see Teasing Songs (File: EM256)
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NAME: Svede from Nort Dakota, The: see The Swede from North Dakota (File: Ohr008)
===
NAME: Swaggers
DESCRIPTION: The listeners are warned against hiring with Swaggers at Porter Fair. The singer lists all the various indignities suffered by those who work there.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: farming work humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
DBuchan 68, "Swaggers" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix)
Ord, pp. 219-221, "Swaggers" (1 text)
Roud #4589
File: DBuch68
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NAME: Swallow, The
DESCRIPTION: The clipper Swallow goes down New Brunswick's coast fighting a storm to Tormentine and waits out the storm "lying in the government dock.... for Georgetown we are bound ... our voyage is not o'er If the Swallow returns I'll sing you some more"
AUTHOR: Willard van Ember, Northport N.S.
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: commerce sea ship shore storm sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 186-187, "The Swallow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2714
NOTES: The places named in New Brunswick are Newcastle, Escuminac, Buctouche, and Tormentine. Georgetown is on Prince Edward Island. - BS
File: CrMa186
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NAME: Swalwell Hopping
DESCRIPTION: "Lads! myek a ring An' hear huz sing The sport we had at Swalwell, O." The singer tells of a wild day at the market. He lists the various people they saw along the way. After a day of revelry, "We staggered ahint se merry, O."
AUTHOR: Words: John Selkirk
EARLIEST_DATE: 1812 (Bell)
KEYWORDS: party food drink
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  27-29, "Swallwell Hopping" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR027 (Partial)
Roud #3054
NOTES: Swallwell Hoppin' was apparently a large and successful market in the time of author Selkirk (1783-1843), but by the late nineteenth century, according to Stokoe, it had nearly dwindled away. - RBW
File: StoR027
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NAME: Swan (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Returning from Wexford the singer sees a girl "like a swan that floats o'er the ocean" who "often grieved my poor heart." She rejects his marriage proposal because "I've been promised ten years or more" to Reilly "in a foreign country"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 75, "The Swan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2709
NOTES: Is this just a shortened version of "John (George) Riley" (II) [Laws N37], or some similar ballad? Or is this a mangled ballad of a swan-maiden? - BS
File: CrMa075
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NAME: Swan Swims Bonnie, The: see The Twa Sisters [Child 10] (File: C010)
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NAME: Swan, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the lovely banks of the Bann as we watched the gliding swan," the singer tells Mary of his plans to go oversea. She says that she would rather be poor in Ireland than live better elsewhere. He agrees to stay in Ireland and be married there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home Ireland marriage separation emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H475, p. 455, "The Swan" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This is one of those songs which probably could exist only in Ireland. - RBW
File: HHH475
===
NAME: Swanee River: see Old Folks at Home (File: RJ19163)
===
NAME: Swannanoa Tunnel
DESCRIPTION: "Asheville Junction, Swannanoa Tunnel, all caved in, baby, all caved in." About the life of a steel driver: "This old hammer Killed John Henry, Couldn't kill me." The singer hopes for relief from the hard work and a chance to see his woman.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Cecil Sharp collection); +1913 (JAFL26)
KEYWORDS: railroading work separation death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownII 280, "John Henry" (2 texts plus 5 fragments, 1 excerpt, and mention of 1 more, but the "H" text and "I" excerpt are this piece and most of the rest, except the "A" text, are "Take This Hammer")
Combs/Wilgus 256, p. 166, "The Yew-Pine Mountains" (1 text, which omits the "Swannanoa Tunnel" lyrics but is otherwise so similar I have to believe it the same)
SharpAp 91, "Swannanoa Town" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 749, "Swannanoa Tunnel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 45, "Swannanoa Tunnel" (1 text)
DT, SWANNOA*
Roud #3602
RECORDINGS:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Swannanoa Tunnel" (on BLLunsford01) (on BLLunsford02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drivin' Steel" (theme, lyrics)
cf. "Take This Hammer" (floating lyrics)
cf. "If You Meet a Woman in the Morning" (form, lyrics)
NOTES: The connection between this song and "Take This Hammer" (Nine Pound Hammer) is very strong; there are so many intermediate versions that we can hardly draw a clear distinction. But the extreme versions are sufficiently different that I have listed them
separately. - RBW
Sharp's versions mention neither the tunnel nor a cave-in, but I put them here for simplicity's sake, using the mention of Swannanoa as the dividing line from "Take This Hammer." You should check out that entry too, though. - PJS
File: CW166
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NAME: Swannanoah Town: see Swannanoah Tunnel (File: CW166)
===
NAME: Swansea Town (The Holy Ground)
DESCRIPTION: The singer is leaving (home and/or sweetheart). He describes the various troubles the ship faces on her voyage (around the Horn), including bad weather. (He writes to his girl when the ship stops in port.) At last he arrives home with great rejoicing
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: sailor ship storm parting reunion
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 152-154, "Swansea Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 431-436, "Old Swansea Town Once More," "In Cameltoon Once More," "The Holy Ground Once More" (4 texts, 4 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 323-328]
OLochlainn-More 97, "The Holy Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, HOLYGRND*
Roud #929
NOTES: Normally known in Ireland as "The Holy Ground" (there is even a spot in Cork called "The Holy Ground") and "Swansea Town" in the wider world. Doerflinger's text opens with a stanza not found in the Irish versions but with connections to several Appalachian songs: 
Now the Lord made the bee and the bee did make honey,
Oh, the Devil sends the girls for to spend the sailors' money." - RBW
File: Doe152
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NAME: Swapping Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: The Swapping Boy (sets out for London to get a wife. He swaps wife, or the wheelbarrow he took her home in, for a) horse, which he swaps for a cow, and so forth, for a cheaper animal each time, until he ends with a mole which "went straight to its hole"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1784 (Gammer Gurton's Garland)
KEYWORDS: animal humorous commerce
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Britain(England) Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Eddy 93, "The Swapping Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 256, "Went to the River" (1 text, 1 tune, a much degraded form with a different chorus and some floating verses)
BrownII 196, "Swapping Songs" (4 text plus 2 excerpts, but "E" and "F" are "Hush Little Baby"; the "C" excerpt is unidentifiable from the description)
BrownIII 131, "When I Was a Little Boy" (1 text plus mention of 2 more, with only the first verses about fetching the wife from London)
JHCoxIIB, #19A-B, pp. 166-169, "The Foolish Boy," "Johnny Bobeens" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Kennedy 312, "Wim-Wam-Waddles" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 10, "The Swapping Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 217, "The Foolish Boy" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 72, "The Swapping Song (The Foolish Boy)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 1, "The Swapping Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 243, "Down by the Brook" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 174-175, "The Swapping Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 44-45, "Wing Wang Waddle" (1 text)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 70-71, "Foolish Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H732, p. 57, "My Grandfather Died" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 71, "When I was a little boy I lived by myself" (2 texts); 156, "My father he died, but I can't tell you how" (1 text) 
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #7, pp. 29-30, "(When I was a little boy)"; #115, p. 96, "(My father he died, but I can't tell you how)"
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 23, "(His father died)" (1 short text); 163, "O, when I was a wee thing" (1 short text, with only the verses about "When I was a wee thing" and the fetching home of a wife in a wheelbarrow)
ST E093 (Full)
Roud #469
RECORDINGS:
Anne, Judy & Zeke Canova, "The Poor Little Thing Cried Mammy" (Oriole 8044/Perfect 12685/Regal 10299, 1931); as the "Three Georgia Crackers," "Poor Little Thing Cried Mammy" (Columbia 15653-D, 1931; rec. 1930; on CrowTold01)
Harry Greening & chorus of Dorsetshire Mummers, "The Foolish Boy" (on FSB10)
Bradley Kincaid, "The Swapping Song" (Silvertone 5188, 1927; Supertone 9209, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Brown Dog"
cf. "Mary Mack (I)" (plot)
cf. "Old John Wallis" (lyrics)
NOTES: Eddy writes of this song, "Most texts are like the above in blending two separate songs, 'When I Was a Little Boy' and 'Swapping Song.' The first story, based, in all likelihood, upon Wat Tyler's Rebellion of 1381 in England, continues through four stanzas."
That two songs are combined here is very likely; Kennedy's version and others (including versions back to Gammer Gurton's Garland) omit the trip to London to fetch a wife, while we find a youth setting out for London to find a wife as a separate item  in _Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book_, Volume II, of c. 1744. But whether this should be tied to the Kentish rebellion of 1381 can be questioned. - RBW
Perhaps "The Swapping Boy" should be split between the Opie-Oxford2 71/Eddy/BrownIII 131 ("When I was a little boy I lived by myself") songs and the Opie-Oxford2 156/Henry H732("My father he died, but I can't tell you how") songs. The description for "My Father Died" might be: Singer inherits his grandfather's horses. He sells the horses to buy a cow and sells and buys the cow, a calf, a pig, a dog, and a cat that runs off after a rat. "My grandfather left me all he did own, And I don't know how it is, but I'm here by my lone." The end of Opie-Oxford2 156 is more disastrous: "I sold my cat and bought me a mouse, But she fired her tail and burnt down my house." - BS
In the light of the above, I suppose I should separate these two songs -- but the result would be an even worse mess than lumping them, because the combination clearly exists as a song in its own right. Since it is possible that it's one song that split, and not two that coalesced, I'm keeping them together until we can find some clearer evidence of the history. With full acknowledgement that there are two highly independent parts. - RBW
File: E093
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NAME: Swapping Song, The: see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
===
NAME: Swede from North Dakota, The
DESCRIPTION: Having spent a year working, the Svede decides to visit Minnesota's State Fair. He meets a Salvation Army group (refusing to work for Jesus when he learns "Yesus don't pay nothing"), winds up drunk, and returns home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: farming travel party drink clergy humorous
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 8, "The Swede from North Dakota" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9845
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Reuben and Rachel" (tune) and references there
cf. "Ole from Norway" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Svede from Nort Dakota
I'm a Swede from Minnesota
NOTES: It can at least be said that this song is well supplied with local color. The Minnesota State Fair claims (I'm not sure on what basis) to be the largest in America. (If nothing else, it produces huge traffic jams.)
Both Minneapolis and Saint Paul have areas known as "Seven Corners" (though changes in traffic patterns have reduced the number of streets and intersections); it's likely but not certain that the Minneapolis site is referred to.
The Minneapolis site, probably better known, is near Washington Avenue (which runs from the University of Minnesota to the north side of downtown Minneapolis, and is mentioned in the song). It's not the best area; bars and nightclubs are not hard to find.
Saint Paul's Seven Corners, on the west side of downtown, is on the same side of the Mississippi river as the State Fair, and is near a Salvation Army mission (though I've never seen a band play there). It's also an old area, but perhaps in somewhat better shape. - RBW
File: Ohr008
===
NAME: Sweep, Chim-nie Sweep: see Sweep, Chimney Sweep (File: K240)
===
NAME: Sweep, Chimney Sweep
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells what cleanly work he makes as a chimney sweep. He tells the girls to arise and fetch him ale, then boasts about how he can climb to a rooftop without ladder or rope, and there you can hear him halloa. He says he will work for none but gentry.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1815 (first verse found in "Cries of London")
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer tells what cleanly work he makes as a chimney sweep. Girls come to his door; although he's black as a Moor, he's capable. He tells the girls to arise and fetch him some ale, then boasts about how he can climb to a rooftop without ladder or rope, and there you can hear him halloa. He says he will work for none but gentry. "Sweep, chim-nie sweep is the common cry I keep/If you can but rightly understand me"
KEYWORDS: pride courting bragging work nonballad worksong worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 240, "Sweep, Chim-nie Sweep" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1217
RECORDINGS:
Bob & Ron Copper, "Sweep, Chimney Sweep" (on FSB3)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
The Chimney Sweep
File: K240
===
NAME: Sweet Ann O'Neill: see Gallows [Laws L11] (File: LL11)
===
NAME: Sweet Annie of Roch Royal: see The Lass of Roch Royal [Child 76] (File: C076)
===
NAME: Sweet as the Flowers in May Time
DESCRIPTION: "Sweet as the flowers in May/springtime, Sweet as the honey dew, Sweet as the roses in the bowers, I'm thinking tonight of you. Sweet as the rose in the garden, Sweet as the dew on the rose, I'd rather be somebody's darling Than a poor boy nobody knows."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: love flowers
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 832, "Sweet as the Flowers in May Time" (2 fragments)
Roud #7442
RECORDINGS:
The Carter Family, "Sweet as the Flowers in Maytime" (Victor V-23761, 1932)
NOTES: The two fragments in Randolph both have the same chorus as the Carter Family recording, but the Carter text appears to be a rewrite with some elements of "Meet Me Tonight in the Moonlight" or something similar. - RBW
File: R832
===
NAME: Sweet Bann Water, The: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
===
NAME: Sweet Betsy from Pike [Laws B9]
DESCRIPTION: "Sweet" Betsy and "her lover" Ike set out from Pike County, Missouri for California. On the way they lose much of their livestock and property, but also have some amazing adventures. (They marry, then divorce.)
AUTHOR: claimed by John A Stone (Old Put)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1858 (Put's Golden Songster)
KEYWORDS: travel hardtimes settler
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Laws B9, "Sweet Betsy from Pike"
Belden, pp. 343-345, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text)
Randolph 192, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 (atypical) tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 193-196, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 192A)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 300-301, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (4 fragments, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 750-751, "Betsy from Pike" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 432, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 112, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 108-109, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 53, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 424-426, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 173, "Sweet Betsy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 19, "Sweet Betsey from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 861-863, "Sweet Betsey from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 239, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 167-168, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text)
Arnett, p. 57, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 190, "Sweet Betsy From Pike" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 603-604, "Vilikens and His Dinah -- (Sweet Betsey from Pike)"
DT 376, SWEETBET*
Roud #3234
RECORDINGS:
Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (Crown 3121, 1931)
Logan English, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (on LEnglish02)
Bradley Kincaid, "Sweet Betsy From Pike"  (Bluebird B-5321/Montgomery Ward M-4421, 1934)
Harry "Mac" McClintock, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (Victor 23704, 1932; Montgomery Ward M-4324, 1933) [may have been released under the pseudonym 'Radio Mac']
Pete Seeger, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (on PeteSeeger31)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah) [Laws M31A/B]" (tune & meter) and references there
File: LB09
===
NAME: Sweet Birds
DESCRIPTION: "The birds are returning their sweet notes of spring... As I sit in the dream... For my darling far over the sea... Oh, say, does he truly love me?" "Sweet birds (x2), Oh, say that my lover is true." She recalls the day he left and promised to be true
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: bird love separation questions
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 295, "Sweet Birds" (3 texts plus an excerpt and mention of 3 more)
Roud #3766
File: Br3295
===
NAME: Sweet Blooming Lavender
DESCRIPTION: Street cry: "Won't you buy my sweet blooming lavender? There are sixteen blue branches a penny, all in full bloom." The singer tells how the plant is fresh, and how it will benefit the wearer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1893 (Broadwood)
KEYWORDS: nonballad commerce
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 356, "Sweet Blooming Lavender" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #854
RECORDINGS:
Bill Ellson, "Will You Buy My Sweet Blooming Lavender?" (on Voice11)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lavender Girl" (theme)
NOTES: Kennedy notes that his informant, Florrie Penfold, knew several street cries but preferred this because it is "more of a song." Which indeed it is, and so is included.
Kennedy lists a number of collected versions of this piece. I doubt that all are actually the same song, but they are doubtless all lavender street calls. - RBW
File: K356
===
NAME: Sweet By and By
DESCRIPTION: "There's a land that is fairer than day, And by faith we can see it afar.... In the sweet by and by We shall meet on that beautiful shore." The singer describes the blessings and beauties that the faithful will enjoy in heaven
AUTHOR: Words: Sanford Fillmore Bennett (1836-1898) / Music: Joseph. Philbrick Webster (1819-1875)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 198-201, "Sweet By and By" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 355, "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" (1 text)
DT, SWTBYBY*
ADDITIONAL: Charles Johnson, One Hundred and One Famous Hymns (Hallberg, 1982), pp. 206-207, "Sweet By and By" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST RJ19198 (Full)
Roud #7651
RECORDINGS:
Harkins & Moran [pseuds. for Sid Harkreader w. Grady Moore], "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" (Broadway 8117, c. 1930)
Haydn Quartet, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" (Victor 1316, 1902)
Bela Lam & his Greene County Singers, "Sweet Bye and Bye" (OKeh 45177, 1928; rec. 1927)
Uncle Dave Macon, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" (Vocalion 5162, 1927)
Margarethe Matzenauer, "In he Sweet Bye and Bye" (Pathe Actuelle 027519, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Preacher and the Slave" (tune)
cf. "The Cowboy's Dream" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Preacher and the Slave (File: San221)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
In the Sweet By and By
NOTES: Jackson writes, "It may be that the venerable old Gospel number 'Sweet By and By' is the only famous song written in a drugstore; it is CERTAINLY the only famous song written in a drugstore in Elkhorn, Wisconsin."
Johnson quotes from Bennet's papers, describing how it happened: one day in 1867, J. P. Webster (who also wrote the music for "Lorena") strolled into the Elkhorn drugstore in a grim mood. Asked what was wrong, he declared that it wasn't important; "It will be all right by and by." Sanford Fillmore Bennett, who owned the drugstore, heard the line scribbled these verses -- with the intent to write as song, according to what he said; Jackson claims it was to comfort Webster.
Personally, I probably would have gotten even more grim after reading such saccharine lyrics, but Webster at once cheered up and started to set them to music, and the music at least did well. - RBW
File: RJ19198
===
NAME: Sweet Calder Burn: see Bonnie Woodha' (File: HHH476)
===
NAME: Sweet Carnloch Bay: see The Road to Dundee (File: Ord152)
===
NAME: Sweet Cider
DESCRIPTION: "Where's the mule and where's the rider? Where's the gal that drinks sweet cider? Sallie, won't you have some (x2), Sally, won't you have some of my hard cider?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 45, "Sweet Cider" (1 text)
Roud #7864
RECORDINGS:
Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen, "Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider" (Columbia 15358-D, 1929)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susan
File: Br3045
===
NAME: Sweet Clonalee
DESCRIPTION: The singer explains why he is leaving Clonalee for America. He loved a girl, but she turned instead to a wealthy old farmer. The farmer accused the singer of sheep-stealing. He leaves his parents behind and curses James Magee (presumably the farmer)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection age money emigration accusation theft sheep
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H554, p. 400, "Sweet Clonalee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7967
File: HHH554
===
NAME: Sweet County Wexford
DESCRIPTION: "On Moniseed of a summer's morning" the Shelmaliers fight British and Gorey cavalry. After driving the British back the Irish rest. "Had we the wisdom to follow after ... We'd have saved the lives of many a martyr That died in Arklow"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: rebellion battle death Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 26, 1798 - Father John Murphy launches the Wexford rebellion; he defeats the Camolin cavalry that night, and the next day annihilates a small militia force at Oulart
May 29, 1798 - Father Murphy leads the insurgents against Enniscorthy
June 5, 1798 - The Wexford rebels attack the small garrison (about 1400 men, many militia) at New Ross, but are repelled
June 9, 1798 - Father Murphy, trying to lead his forces into Wicklow, defeated at Arklow
June 21, 1798 - Rebel defeat at Vinegar Hill ends the Wexford rising
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn 79, "Sweet County Wexford" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 94, "Sweet County Wexford" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 55-56, "Sweet County Wexford" (1 text; tune on p. 21)
Roud #2997
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Boulavogue" (historical setting)
cf. "Father Murphy (I)" (subject of Father Murphy) and references there
NOTES: Moylan: "According to Denis Devereux, O Lochlainn's source for the words, this song is the original upon which P.J. McCall based his 'Boolavogue'." On the other hand, see the notes to "Father Murphy (I)."
The Irish baronies of Shelmalier, East and West, are in County Wexford. - BS
This is an unusually self-honest assessment of the course of the Wexford rebellion. Wexford itself was abandoned on May 30, and Gorey even before that, but the rebels didn't occupy the latter until June 4. The delay gave the loyalists time to organize and counterattack. (See Robert Kee, _The Most Distressful Country_, being Volume I of _The Green Flag_, p. 115).
Wexford didn't really matter; it was south of the Rebel strong points. Gorey, though, was on the way to Arklow and, eventually, Dublin. Had the rebels headed straight there, it might have given them a chance to really threaten the government. Instead, they went to Wexford, and camped on the Three Rocks hill. They beat off a small force of Meath militia, killing its commander, Colonel Watson (see Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty_, p. 177). The garrison abandoned the town (Pakenham, p. 178), and the rebels entered. (We note, incidentally, that it was in Wexford that they captured the prisoners to be brutalized at Scullabogue -- for which see "Father Murphy (II) (The Wexford Men of '98)" and "Kelly, the Boy from Killane.")
The attack on Wexford had another side effect: It caused the rebels to appoint Bagenal Harvey their commander (Kee, pp. 116-117), and he had no clue what to do; his ineptitute would contribute much to the defeat at New Ross (for which see "Kelly, the Boy from Killane" and "James Ervin" [Laws J15]).
Finally, in mid-June, the rebels headed for Arklow, which they should have occupied at least a week earlier. Repulsed (see the notes to "Father Murphy (I)"), the rebellion lost its last hint of planning, and fizzled out.
The characters cited in the song are often hard to identify. I can mention the following:
"Gowan" - "Hunter" Gowan, given his nickname because of his earlier career tracking down outlaws, who organized the "Black Mob" (a group of rebel-hunting vigilantes); he is reputed to have marched about with the finger of a rebel at the end of his sword. And worse. "Fiend" seems a suitable word for him.
"Captain Dixon" - there was a Captain Dixon, but he was a rebel sea captain; I think there is some confusion here.
"General Walpole": Presumably Colonel Walpole, ADC to Viceroy Camden? He was never a general, but he did have a brief taste of independent command, which might explain the title.
In early June, Walpole was sent from Dublin with a few hundred men and three cannon to reinforce General Loftus's troops in Wexford. This despite a complete lack of military training and experience. It showed. On June 4, as part of a plan to surround a rebel force at Ballymore, Walpole's force set out from Gorey. He did not follow the battle plan, was intercepted by the rebels, and he and most of his soldiers were killed. - RBW
File: OLoc079
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NAME: Sweet Dakotaland: see Dakota Land (File: San280)
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NAME: Sweet Dunloy
DESCRIPTION: The singer and his love leave Ireland for Scotland to escape her father. The father follows and has them forcibly returned to Ireland. Although the girl says she consented, the jury convicts him. After he is freed, they will go to America instead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation father elopement prison trial punishment
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H577, pp. 439-440, "Sweet Dunloy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7962
File: HHH577
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NAME: Sweet Europe: see Poor Stranger, The (Two Strangers in the Mountains Alone) (File: R059)
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NAME: Sweet Evalina: see Dear Evalina (File: R823)
===
NAME: Sweet Evelina: see Dear Evalina (File: R823)
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NAME: Sweet Fanny Adams
DESCRIPTION: Fanny Adams, her sister, and another girl go to play, but meet a clerk named Frederick Baker. He sends the younger children off with money for sweets, then murders Fanny. The singer grieves for her daughter, but notes that her murderer is now dead as well
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867? (broadside announcing execution of Baker)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The singer's eight-year-old daughter Fanny Adams and her sister go to play with another girl, but they meet a young clerk named Frederick Baker. He offers the younger children money for sweets; when they have gone, he drags Fanny to the hollow. She is missed, and the searchers find her body, murdered and horribly dismembered. The mother grieves for her daughter, but notes that her murderer is now dead as well
KEYWORDS: grief rape violence abduction crime execution murder punishment death mourning children mother
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: August 27, 1867 -- Murder of Fanny Adams by Frederick Baker. Baker was hanged later in the year.
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 333, "Sweet Fanny Adams" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2152
RECORDINGS:
Vashti Vincent, "Sweet Fanny Adams" (on FSB7)
NOTES: The murder took place at Alton, in Hampshire. Cruel to relate, the expression "Sweet Fanny Adams" became part of British vernacular; in the Royal Navy it was used to refer to any dubious meat dish.
In more recent popular usage, it means "nothing"; if one doesn't get paid for a job, for example, one says one got "Sweet Fanny Adams" or "Sweet F. A." In this context, of course, it is a euphemism for "sweet fuck-all.' - PJS
File: K333
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NAME: Sweet Fields of Violo: see Old MacDonald Had a Farm (File: R457)
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NAME: Sweet Florella: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Sweet Freedom: see O Freedom (File: LxU108)
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NAME: Sweet Genevieve
DESCRIPTION: The singer would "give the world to live again the lovely past" with Genevieve. They are older now, but he still loves her and wishes to be with her always: "O Genevieve, Sweet Genevieve... Still the hands of mem'ry weave... Blissful dreams of long ago"
AUTHOR: Words: George Cooper / Music: Henry Tucker
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869
KEYWORDS: love age
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 202-205, "Sweet Genevieve" (1 text, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 11-13, "Sweet Genevieve" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 259, "Sweet Genevieve" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 543, "Sweet Genevieve"
DT, OGENVIEV
ST RK19202 (Full)
Roud #13643
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Silver Threads among the Gold" (theme)
cf. "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (theme)
NOTES: Genevieve is reported to be the real-life bride of George Cooper who died shortly after their marriage. However, since no one can find the records of this marriage, this may be the usual sort of sentimental folklore. - RBW
File: RK19202
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NAME: Sweet Glenbush
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls on the maidens to listen to his(?) story, asking them to pity a wandering youth. He recalls his departure from Glenbush; now dreams and memories of home say to him, "Come back to sweet Glenbush"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H573, p. 212, "Sweet Glenbush" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH573
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NAME: Sweet Heaven (I)
DESCRIPTION: "I want to go to Heaven and I want to go right; How I long to be there; I want to go to Heaven all dressed in white, How I long..." "Sweet Heaven (x3), Oh, how I long...." About heaven, the contest between the singer and Satan, and other floating themes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious devil floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 638, "Sweet Heaven" (1 text, with many floating verses, e.g. the terrapin and the toad, "I run old Satan round the stump")
Roud #11834
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Catfish (Banjo Sam)" (floating lyrics)
File: Br3638
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NAME: Sweet Heaven (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer is going to the racetrack; he promises to share any winnings with his sweetheart. Rest floats, e.g. "Give beefsteak when I'm hungry, whiskey when I'm dry...." Chorus: "Let her go (x2) God bless her/Though she roams over land and sea...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Tenneva Ramblers)
KEYWORDS: farewell parting floatingverses nonballad lover gambling racing food
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SharpAp 243, "Liza Anne" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7697
RECORDINGS:
Clint Howard et al, "Sweet Heaven When I Die" (on WatsonAshley01)
Arthur Smith Trio, "Sweet Heaven" (Bluebird B-7146, 1937)
Tenneva Ramblers, "Sweet Heaven When I Die" (Victor 20861, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Country Blues" (floating verses)
cf. "Dear Companion (The Broken Heart; Go and Leave Me If You Wish To, Fond Affection)" (lyrics)
cf. "Saint James Infirmary" (the "let her go" lyrics)
NOTES: This certainly has strong overlaps with "Dear Companion", paraphrasing its chorus and some of its verses. But its gestalt is different, and it has acquired a life of its own, so I split them. - PJS
I put SharpAp 243, here because its first floating verse is "Beefsteak when I'm hungry...," but it's really a mess of floaters, one of which also shows up in the "Betty Anne" version of "Shady Grove." Although it was collected in 1917, I'm not assigning that as Earliest Date for "Sweet Heaven (II)," but I note it here. - PJS
File: RcSwHeav
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NAME: Sweet Inishcara
DESCRIPTION: "I have travelled in exile midst cold-hearted strangers" in Canada and India/Indies looking for gold and spices. The singer returns home to find his home in ruins and his sweetheart dead. He will join her. "In heaven she'll welcome her wanderer home"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1958 (recording, Copley 9-228-B)
KEYWORDS:  love travel return death gold Canada India Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12923
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Breen, "Sweet Inishcara" (on Voice04)
The McNulty Family, "The Exile of Cork" (Copley 9-228-B)
NOTES: When I was puzzling about the text of "The Exile of Cork" John Moulden pointed out that it belongs here. The matrix number for the McNulty Family's "Exile of Cork" is E3-CB-3235-1A.
Spottswood lists Tim Donovan, "The Exile of Cork" (on Decca 12157) with session date Apr 7, 1938 (matrix number 63574-A). If it can be verified that that recording is for this song it would establish a new earliest date (source: _Ethnic Music on Records: a Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942_ by Richard K Spottswood (Urbana, c1990), p. 2751).
The singer's home is "by the beautiful Lee" and finds, when he returns, that "sweet Inishcara o'er-shadows her grave." Below Cork City, the Lee flows past Inniscara and enters the Celtic Sea - BS 
File: RcSweIni
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NAME: Sweet Jane [Laws B22]
DESCRIPTION: Willie bids his Jane farewell and sets off across the sea. Three years later, having gained success as a gold miner, he returns to his southern home and marries Jane
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: separation marriage
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws B22, "Sweet Jane"
BrownII 259, "Sweet Jane" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Combs/Wilgus 51, pp. 177-178, "Sweet Jane" (1 text)
DT 726, SWTJANE
Roud #3243
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Come Sweet Jane
Adieu, Sweet Lovely Jane
File: LB22
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NAME: Sweet Jenny of the Moor: see Janie of the Moor [Laws N34] (File: LN34)
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NAME: Sweet Jinny on the Moor: see Janie of the Moor [Laws N34] (File: LN34)
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NAME: Sweet Kitty: see Rambleaway (File: ShH31)
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NAME: Sweet Kitty Clover
DESCRIPTION: "Sweet Kitty Clover, she bothered me so, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!... Her face was round and red and fat, Like a pulpit cushion or redder than that. Sweet Kitty Clover, she bothered me so...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Linscott, pp. 286-288, "Sweet Kitty Clover" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
ST Lins286 (Full)
Roud #3743
File: Lins286
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NAME: Sweet Kumadee, The: see The Golden Vanity [Child 286] (File: C286)
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NAME: Sweet Lily: see Oh Lily, Dear Lily (File: R731)
===
NAME: Sweet Little Birdie, The: see The Little Girl and the Robin (File: R880)
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NAME: Sweet Londonderry (on the Banks of the Foyle)
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the "ancient walled city," "sweet Londonderry on the banks of the Foyle." Orphaned, he works for years as a sailor. He courts a pretty girl of Londonderry. He hopes to work for her when they are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting home sailor work
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H813, p. 468, "Sweet Londonderry" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9453
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Londonderry on the Banks of the Foyle
Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle
File: HHH813
===
NAME: Sweet Loughgiel
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls leaving Loughgiel and his friends at home. He describes his early life there. He dreams of being back. He hopes someday to return, and wishes he could be as content as he was there
AUTHOR: "McWilliams"
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H506, p. 214, "Sweet Loughgiel" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH506
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NAME: Sweet Lovely Joan: see Lovely Joan (File: ShH57)
===
NAME: Sweet Lulur
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets a policeman in Danville. "He bound my feet in cold iron, all tangled my feet in chains, But before I'd go back on my Lulur, I'll have them tangled again." He notes that "If it hadn't a-been for sweet Lulur, it was Lulur that brought be here."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: police prison love
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 350, "The Prisoner's Song" (7 texts plus 1 fragment, 2 excerpts, and mention of 1 more; "A"-"C," plus probably the "D" excerpt, are "The Prisoner's Song (I)"; "E" and "G," plus perhaps the "H" fragment, are "Meet Me Tonight in the Moonlight"; "J" and "K" are "Sweet Lulur")
Sandburg, p. 307, "Way Up on Clinch Mountain" (2 texts, 1 tune; the "A" text is "Rye Whiskey," but the short "B" text is perhaps this or something like it though probably composite, perhaps with "The Wagoner's Lad")
Roud #767
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Prisoner's Song (I)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Meet Me Tonight in the Moonlight" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Roud, presumably following Brown et al, lump this with "The Prisoner's Song" group. It appears to me distinct. - RBW
File: BrIII350
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NAME: Sweet Maisry: see Lady Maisry [Child 65] (File: C065)
===
NAME: Sweet Mama
DESCRIPTION: "Sweet mama, treetop tall, Won't you please turn your damper down? I smell hoecake burning, Dey done burnt some brown. I'm laid mah head On de railroad track. I t'ought about Mama An' I drugged it back. Sweet mama, treetop tall, Won't...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: food love suicide
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 242, "Sweet Mama" (1 short text)
File: ScNF242b
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NAME: Sweet Marie
DESCRIPTION: The man longs for Marie, but finds it hard to tell her: "Sweet Marie, come to me, Come to me, Sweet Marie, Not because your face is fair, love, to see, Every daisy in the dell Knows my secret very well, Yet I dare not tell Sweet Marie... ."
AUTHOR: Words: Cy Warman / Music: Raymon Moore
EARLIEST_DATE: 1893 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 229-230, "Sweet Marie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 70-74, "Sweet Marie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11353
RECORDINGS:
Walter Morris, "Sweet Marie" (Columbia 15115-D, 1927)
SAME_TUNE:
Sweet Marie (the Racing Mare) (Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 229)
NOTES: I am told that "[This] song was featured in the 1947 movie 'Life with Father' (William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor) based on the memoirs of Clarence Day, Jr...  (articles first appeared in _The New Yorker_ in the 1920s and were later published as three books: _God and My Father_, _Life with Father_, _Life with Mother_).  Prior to becoming the movie (and later a TV series in the 1950s), 'Life with Father' was written as a play and opened on Broadway in 1939.
"Percy French did a parody of the song with Sweet Marie becoming a racehorse.  That song is available in "The Songs of Percy French" selected and edited by James Healy (Ossian Publications/Mercier Press--1986/1996)."
Moore was a nineteenth century singer who apparently was very popular as a performer. Warman apparently came to him and asked him to perform "Sweet Marie," which Warman had written in honor of his wife. Warman eventually came up with a tune and sang it as part of the musical comedy "Africa." Ironically, it was no great success when Moore sang it -- but when he quit the play, his replacement made it a hit. - RBW
File: MCB229
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NAME: Sweet Mary
DESCRIPTION: Dialog; young man asks sweet Mary whether he may ask her parents for her hand. She replies that they will reject his suit; he says he will die of grief. She has a way to save him; "Since my parents are both so contrary/You'd better ask me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (recording, Horton Barker)
KEYWORDS: courting love rejection request dialog humorous
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Horton Barker, "Sweet Mary" (on Barker01)
NOTES: Should not be confused with "Farewell, Sweet Mary," although it's just possible that this may be a parody of that song. - PJS
File: RcSweeMa
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NAME: Sweet Mossy Banks of the Wey, The: see The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea [Laws O15] (File: LO15)
===
NAME: Sweet Nightingale, The: see Well Met, Pretty Maid (The Sweet Nightingale) (File: K089)
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NAME: Sweet Portaferry (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Why should men toil foreign lands to explore, When wonder and pleasement are here at the door ... and leave Portaferry and the Kingdom of Down?" If the singer were rich he might travel but at the end he'd return home.
AUTHOR: Leslie Montgomery
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: travel lyric Ireland home
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 94, "Sweet Portaferry" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Portaferry is about 20 miles southeast of Belfast. - BS
File: OLcM094
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NAME: Sweet Portaferry (II)
DESCRIPTION: The singer travels around Ireland but "Sweet Portaferry remains in my mind." He returns from foreign lands with "silks and fine laces" to his true love. "Then I'll whisper so fondly and I know she'll agree 'O! Sweet Portaferry, you're a dear spot to me'"
AUTHOR: Cathal O'Byrne
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: travel lyric Ireland love sailor
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 94A, "Sweet Portaferry" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Portaferry is about 20 miles southeast of Belfast. - BS
File: OLcM094A
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NAME: Sweet Primeroses, The: see The Banks of Sweet Primroses (File: ShH51)
===
NAME: Sweet River Suir
DESCRIPTION: The river most deserving of praise is the Suir. The river "has the most devinest aspect" and the best navigators. Its shores have the most melodious bulls. "Its meandering banks so transparent pure; It far surpasses mugs, jugs, and glasses" 
AUTHOR: Phil Smith
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: river humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 84A, "Sweet River Suir" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: "The River Suir rises in the Devils Bit Mountains [North Tipperary] and flows through the limestone country of South Tipperary and North Waterford" (source: South East [Ireland] Tourism site). For other songs about the river see "The Clonmel Flood," "The Wreck of the Avondale," "The Wreck of the Gwendoline," and "Rare Clonmel." - BS
File: OLcM084A
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NAME: Sweet Rose of Allandale: see The Rose of Allandale (File: SWMS257)
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NAME: Sweet Rose of Allendale: see The Rose of Allandale (File: SWMS257)
===
NAME: Sweet Soldier Boy: see The Sailor Boy (I) [Laws K12] (File: LK12)
===
NAME: Sweet Sunny South (I), The [Laws A23]
DESCRIPTION: A young Southerner, armed and ready, bids farewell to family and sweetheart. He sets off for the war, hoping to return when the Yankees are driven off
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: war farewell
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws A23, "The Sweet Sunny South"
FSCatskills 18, "The Bright Sunny South" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 97, "The Sweet Sunny Souoth" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 76, "The Rebel Soldier" (2 texts, but only the first belongs here; the second is The Rebel Soldier)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 272-273, "Sweet Sunny South" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 49, "The Sunny South" (1 text)
DY 698, SUNNYSTH
Roud #800
NOTES: Laws, obviously, considers this piece to be of American origin. Cazden et al, however, note that the versions hardly REQUIRE a setting in the American Civil War, and that one southern version refers to a FOREIGN war. In addition, the song has been found primarily in the North. On this basis Cazden argues for an Irish rather than southern American origin.
Gardner and Chickering's text has an interesting last few stanzas which wish that "from Union and Yankee our land shall be free." This sounds rather like a particularization from perhaps Kentucky or Missouri. - RBW
Not to be confused with the sentimental song of the same name [in the Index as "Sweet Sunny South II - RBW], wherein the singer returns to his childhood home to find everyone dead and gone. The characteristic first lines of that song are "Take me back to the place where I first saw the light/To the sweet sunny south take me home." - PJS
File: LA23
===
NAME: Sweet Sunny South (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Take me back to the place where I first saw the light, To my sweet sunny south take me home." The singer (perhaps an ex-slave) describes home and how much he misses it. He hopes to return to the graves of "my little ones" "to rest and to die" among them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: home death burial grief homesickness loneliness return family
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SharpAp 186, "The Sunny South" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
BrownIII 400, "The Sweet Sunny South" (1 text)
Rorrer, p. 88, "Sweet Sunny South" (1 text)
DT, SUNSOUTH
Roud #772
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "Bright Sunny South" (on Boggs1, BoggsCD1)
DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South" (Gennett 6176/Champion 15318/Challenge 333, 1927)
Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers, "Sweet Sunny South" (Paramount 3136, 1928)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, "Take Me Home to the Sweet Sunny South" (Bluebird B-6479/Montgomery Ward M-5035, 1936)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South" (on NLCR04)
Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers, "The Sweet Sunny South" (Victor 21132, 1927)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "Sweet Sunny South" (Columbia 15425-D, 1929; on CPoole01, CPoole05)
Posey Rorrer and the North Carolina Ramblers, "Sweet Sunny South Take Me Home" (Edison, unissued, 1928)
Jackson Young [pseud. for Ben Jarrell], "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South" (Champion 15318/Herwin 75555, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "On the Banks of the Old Tennessee" (floating lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
'31 Depression Blues (File: Rc31DB)
NOTES: Rorrer notes sheet versions of this dating back at least to the Civil War period, and possibly to several decades before that, but gives no details.
It seems fairly clear that the original versions were about a slave who had gained his freedom by some means but now wished to be back in his old place. Songwriters of the mid nineteenth century were fond of this (propagandistic) theme. One wonders how popular it would have been had the audience been Blacks rather than Whites. - RBW
Not to be confused with  "The Sweet Sunny South (I)" [Laws A23], a Confederate soldier's farewell. - PJS, RBW
File: DTsunsou
===
NAME: Sweet Tayside
DESCRIPTION: The singer overhears two lovers. The man says it would be a "great sin" if the girl does not give him a love token. She asks what he would have; he names a ring, a garter, and a broach. She gives them, then laments that he is untrue. He then marries her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting ring gift betrayal
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 118-119, "Sweet Tayside" (1 text)
Roud #5544
File: Ord118
===
NAME: Sweet Thing (I)
DESCRIPTION: "What you gonna do when the pond goes dry, honey, What you gonna do when the pond goes dry, baby?" Sundry verses about catching fish, rural life, and (presumably) sexual innuendo
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: nonballad courting sex
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Randolph 443, "Sweet Thing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 349-350, "Sweet Thing" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 443)
Lomax-FSUSA 34, "Sweet Thing/Crawdad Song/Sugar Babe" (3 texts, 1 tune)
SharpAp 245, "Sugar Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 62, "The Crow-Fish Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 240, "What Kin' o Pants Does the Gambler Wear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 235, "Sweet Thing" (1 text)
Roud #4853
RECORDINGS:
Callahan Brothers, "Sweet Thing" (Decca 5952, 1941)
Lulu Belle and Scotty, "Sugar Babe" (Melotone 6-08-58/Perfect 6-08-58, 1936)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "Birmingham Jail" (Brunswick 293, 1929/Supertone S-2031, 1930)
 (Banner 6401/Regal 8792/Conqueror 7363, 1929; probably the same as the Pickard Family's "Get Me Out of This Birmingham Jail," Brunswick 385, 1929; Supertone S-2068, 1930)
"T" Texas Tyler, "Sweet Thing" (4-Star 1228, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Crawdad" (tune, lyrics, and everything else) and references there
cf. "Going Down This Road Feeling Bad" (floating lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Bud & Joe Billings (pseud. for Frank Luther & Carson Robison) "Birmingham Jail #2" (Victor V-40082, 1929)
NOTES: Songs with this tune and metrical pattern turn up throughout North American tradition; like the limerick, this skeleton seems to have become a favorite framework for humorous material. - PJS
This song poses a conundrum (hinted at in Paul's comment), because it merges continuously with the "Crawdad" family; they use the same tune (at least sometimes) and ALL of the same verses. Roud lumps them. Chances are that they are the same song. But the tenor of the song changes somewhat with the presence or absence of a crawdad; after initially lumping the song, the Ballad Index staff decided to split them, based solely on mention of a crawdad. Which meant, e.g., that "The Crow-Fish Man (I)" files here even though it's clearly derived from "Crawdad." So one should definitely check all versions of both to get the complete range of material. - RBW
Well, adding to the conundrum, the version of "The Crow-fish Man" in SharpAp *does* mention crawdads, so it gets filed under "Crawdad Song." - PJS
File: R443A
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NAME: Sweet Thing (II): see Crawdad (File: R443)
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NAME: Sweet Town of Anthony, The: see By Kells Waters (Kellswaterside) (File: HHH802)
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NAME: Sweet Trinity, The: see The Golden Vanity [Child 286] (File: C286)
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NAME: Sweet Violets (II): see Teasing Songs (File: EM256)
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NAME: Sweet William (I): see The Famous Flower of Serving-Men [Child 106] (File: C106)
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NAME: Sweet William (II): see The Sailor Boy (I) [Laws K12] (File: LK12)
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NAME: Sweet William (III): see Lovely Willie [Laws M35] (File: LM35)
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NAME: Sweet William (IV): see William and Nancy (I) (Lisbon; Men's Clothing I'll Put On I) [Laws N8] (File: LN08)
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NAME: Sweet William (V): see Earl Brand [Child 7] (File: C007)
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NAME: Sweet William and Lady Margery: see Fair Margaret and Sweet William [Child 74] (File: C074)
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NAME: Sweet William and Nancy: see Pretty Nancy of London (Jolly Sailors Bold) (File: R078)
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NAME: Sweet William's Ghost [Child 77]
DESCRIPTION: (Sweet William) dies while engaged. Since he has an unfulfilled commitment, his spirit cannot rest. He goes to his sweetheart, who begs him to wed her/kiss her/etc. When she learns that he is dead, she releases him from his promise
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1740 (Ramsey)
KEYWORDS: ghost promise freedom death
FOUND_IN: US(NE,SE) Canada(Newf) Britain(Scotland(Bord))  Ireland
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Child 77, "Sweet William's Ghost" (8 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 77, "Sweet William's Ghost" (11 versions+ 1 in addenda)
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 130-133, "Sweet William's Ghost" (1 text)
Davis-More 21, pp. 152-156, "" (1 text, so fragmentary that it might be some other ballad with intrusions from "Sweet William's Ghost")
Flanders/Brown, pp. 240-241, "Lady Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text,  taken from the Green Mountain Songster)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 178-183, "Sweet William's Ghost" (2 texts, the first being the Green Mountain Songster version)
BrownII 23, "Sweet William's Ghost" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 9, "Lady Margaret" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 390-395, "Lady Margaret" (1 text, 6 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 9, "Sweet William's Ghost" (2 texts, 9 tunes) {Bronson's #3}
Leach, pp. 256-262, "Sweet William's Ghost" (1 text plus a Danish text for comparison)
Leach-Labrador 4, "Sweet William's Ghost" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 47, "Sweet William's Ghost" (2 texts)
Gummere, pp. 203-205+348-349, "Sweet William's Ghost" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 78-80, "Sweet William's Ghost" (1 text)
DT 77, WILIGHOS* WILIGHO2 (GHOSWILL? -- a very worn down version that might be derived from this piece)
Roud #50
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Tunney, "Lady Margaret" (on Voice03)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 5(1), "Sweet William's Ghost," unknown, n.d.
NOTES: Tom Shipley, in _The Road to Middle-Earth_ (third edition), p. 210, notes that Herd's text of this (Child's B) mentioned "Middle-Earth," implying that this song might have been a small part of the inspiration of the world (though not the plot) created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Rather a stretch -- but interesting, the more so as Tolkien did have a strong affinity for folklore and folk song. - RBW
File: C077
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NAME: Sweet Willie (I): see Earl Brand [Child 7] (File: C007)
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NAME: Sweet Willie (II): see Come All You Fair and Tender Girls (File: WB2080)
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NAME: Sweeter the Breeze (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "Take a deep seat and a faraway look, Keep him between your knees. The higher he goes, the sweeter the breeze. Keep your mind in the middle and let both ends flop!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse nonballad recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 86, "The Sweeter the Breeze" (1 text)
NOTES: Even Ohrlin admits this is a "cross between a verse and a saying." But I suppose it might be traditional advice for a bronc rider, so here it is. (Ohrlin made up another piece with this title, not included here.) - RBW
File: Ohr086
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NAME: Sweetheart in the Army, A: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
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NAME: Sweetheart, Farewell: see I Can Forgive But Not Forget (Sweetheart, Farewell) (File: BrII166)
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NAME: Sweetheart's Appeal to Her Lover, A: see The Lover's Curse (Kellswater) (File: HHH442)
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NAME: Swiler's Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "Rise up me hearties with gaff and sculp, With hobnail rope and line." The singer repeatedly encourages his comrades in their tasks as they hunt seals. He admits that "many a hearty swiler sleeps 'round the Funks and Baccalieu," but still urges them on
AUTHOR: Words: Pat Byrne
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (Ryan/Small)
KEYWORDS: hunting nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, pp. 144-145, "The Swiler's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sinking of the Caribou" (tune)
File: RySm144
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NAME: Swiles of Newfoundland, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, the day we left St. John's, me b'ys, It was a very fine day! Our wives an' sweethearts on the quay Says they, ye'll understand." The singer complains about the bad conditions, but delights in killing "swiles [seals] in Newfoundland."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (England, Vikings of the Ice)
KEYWORDS: hunting hardtimes
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 106, "The Swiles of Newfoundland" (1 text)
File: RySma106A
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NAME: Swine-Herders: see Hog Drovers (File: LoF207)
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NAME: Swing Low
DESCRIPTION: "Star in the east, swing low, Star in the west, swing low, Stars shining in my breast, Swing low, chariot, swing low. "My father's gone, swing low... Angels took him...." "My mother's gone...." "I got a letter... it was sent from heaven...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Bascom Lamar Lunsford)
KEYWORDS: religious father mother
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Swing Low" (on BLLunsford01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
cf. "Job, Job" (a few lines)
NOTES: Bascom Lamar Lunsford thinks this a forerunner of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and it's likely enough that I decided to include the song even though I'm not sure how strong it is in tradition. On the other hand, it is possible that it is a filed-down version, without the strong freedom motif of the better-known song. - RBW
File: RcSwinLo
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NAME: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
DESCRIPTION: Black spiritual: "Swing low, sweet chariot/Coming for to carry me home"; "I looked over Jordan and what did I see/.../A band of angels comin' after me"; "If you get there before I do/.../Tell all my friends I'm a-comin' too"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1872 (publ. in Theodore B. Seward, "Jubilee Songs, as Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University")
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad slavery floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 16, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 608-610, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 28, (no title) (1 fragment of 2 lines)
Silber-FSWB, p. 353, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1 text)
DT, SWINGLOW
Roud #5435
RECORDINGS:
Carroll Clark, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Black Swan 2024, 1921)
Cotton Pickers Quartet, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (OKeh 8917, 1931)
Lt. Jim Europe's Four Harmony Kings, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Pathe 22187, 1919) (Pathe 020581, 1923 [as Jim Europe's Four Harmony Kings])
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (Victor 16453, 1910; rec. 1909)
Fisk University Male Quartet, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Columbia A1883, 1915; Silvertone 3294 [as Border Male Quartet], n.d.)
The Four Jacks, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (Allen 21000, n.d. but post-wwii)
Mabel Garrison, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Victor 640, 1901)
Hampton Institute Quartette, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (RCA 27470, 1941)
Roland Hayes, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Vocalion [US & UK] 21003, n.d.; Supertone, 1931)
Hall Johnson Negro Choir, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Victor 36020, 1930)
Kanawha Singers, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Brunswick 205, 1928)
Mitchell's Christian Singers, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (Melotone 6-04-64, 1936)
Norman Phelps & his Virginia Rounders, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (Decca 5247, 1936)
Paul Robeson, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Victor 20068, 1926; Victor 25547, 1937)
Pete Seeger, "Swing Low" (on PeteSeeger24)
Southern Four, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Edison 51364, 1924)
Standard Quartette, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (CYL: Columbia, no #, 1894)
Taylor Sisters, Mae Helen Blakeney, soloist, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (on HandMeDown2)
Tuskegee Institute Singers, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Victor 17890, 1916)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Swing Low"
cf. "Wade in the Water" (floating lyrics) and references there
cf. "Dawsonville Jail" (tune)
NOTES: Guy Logsdon & Jeff Place state that the songs were taught to the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1871 by two former slaves from the Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Aunt Minerva Willis & Uncle Wallace. See "The Presbyterian", Sept. 10, 1890, and Thoburn & Wright's "Oklahoma: A History of the State and Its People."
The subtext of running away to freedom is clear throughout this song; the fact that the title is a pun on the name of the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, may or may not be accidental. - PJS
File: PSAFB016
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NAME: Swinging in the Lane: see Rosie Nell (File: San114)
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NAME: Swinish Multitude, The
DESCRIPTION: Give me the man who bids "the sun of Freedom rise" against tyrants, and the soul who "inlists for Freedom's cause." May you "no longer unavenged be called 'The swinish multitude.'" Freedom is coming to the world. Dare to die pursuing statecraft's crimes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1804 (_Paddy's Resource_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: nonballad political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 80, "The Swinish Multitude" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan: "Edmund Burke in his _[Reflections on the Revolution] in France_ described the common people as the 'swinish multitude'.... The phrase was adopted as a mock compliment by sympathizers with the revolution and several United Irish songs played upon the phrase." - BS
Burke's precise quote is "Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of the swinish multitude."
Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty_, p. 173, reports that the United Irishmen of Henry Joy McCracken sang a "workingmen's song called 'The Swineish (sic.) Multitude."  If he has a source for this, it appears to be E. Thompson, _Working Class_, p. 90.  - RBW
File: Moyl080
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NAME: Sword of Bunker Hill, The
DESCRIPTION: An old veteran, dying, bid his son to bring "the sword of Bunker Hill." Grasping the sword, in a burst of energy, he tells the boy how he captured the blade from a British officer. The old man dies
AUTHOR: "Covert"?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1949 (Flanders/Olney)
KEYWORDS: battle dying patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 17, 1775 - American defeat at the Battle of Bunker Hill
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 224-225, "The Sword of Bunker Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thomas-Makin', p. 88, (no title) (1 fragment, very likely not this song but associated by the informant with Bunker Hill, and it fits better here than anywhere else)
ST FO224 (Partial)
Roud #4684
NOTES: Although this song, by implication at least, praises American conduct at Bunker Hill, the record of the Colonials at that battle was in fact rather poor. Sent on the night of June 16 to garrison Bunker Hill, American troops instead occupied Breed's Hill, which was lower, less defensible, and closer to the British artillery. The British under General Gage attacked the next day. The Americans did show unaccustomed discipline, which caused the battle to last longer than usual, but ultimately the British forced them back.
The "Warren" of the song is Dr. Joseph Warren, a leading figure in the rebel forces (although not one of their commanding officers). He was killed in the battle.
I have in my collection a damaged songster, date unknown but almost certainly from the period 1865-1885, attributing this to "Covert"; in the same songster, a piece called "Follow the Drum" is credited to "B. Covert." The Flanders/Olney text is nearly identical to the songster version. - RBW
File: FO224
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NAME: Sycamore Tree, The: see The Maid Freed from the Gallows [Child 95] (File: C095)
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NAME: Sydney Cup Day
DESCRIPTION: Joe Thompson comes up to the singer on race day and asks him to back his horse. The singer is not interested
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954
KEYWORDS: horse racing gambling Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 35, "Sydney Cup Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA035
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NAME: Sylvania Lester: see Locks and Bolts [Laws M13] (File: LM13)
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NAME: Sylvia: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
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NAME: Sylvia's Request and William's Denial: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
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NAME: Sympathizing with the Fenian Exiles
DESCRIPTION: Keep your mouth shut and beware spies. We visit the Fenians jailed like "dogs kept in a manger." General Burk's turnkey "is worse than a Turk." Rossa, Luby and others are named. God is watching inside the walls. Our day will come.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: exile prison political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann, p. 52, "A New Song Sympathizing With The Fenian Exiles" (1 fragment)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 131-133, "(A new song sympathising with) The Fenian Exiles" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.8(40), "A New Song Sympathising With the Fenian Exiles" ("My Irish frlends [sic] aome [sic] rally round"), unknown, n.d.
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 52 is a fragment; broadside Bodleian 2806 c.8(40) is the basis for the description.
Is the topic prisoners as in the text, or exiles as in the title? If the former the date is probably before 1871; else, after. - BS
For O'Donovan Rossa and the Fenian Exiles, see "Rossa's Farewell to Erin." - RBW
File: BrdSwtFE
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NAME: Syng Hoit Faleri (Listen Little Bosun)
DESCRIPTION: Norwegian shanty. "Listen little bosun, what I want to tell you, do you want to play dice with me? Ch: Sing high falleri, fallala-lala."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (L.A. Smith, _Music of the Waters_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty gambling
FOUND_IN: Norway
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 557-558, "Syng Hoit Faleri" (2 texts-Norwegian & English, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Hor Du Lille Baadsmand
File: Hugi557
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NAME: T for Texas (Blue Yodel #1)
DESCRIPTION: "It's T for Texas, T for Tennessee (x2), It's T for Thelma, the gal who made a fool out of me." A lonely song for an unhappy man; he will buy a pistol and shoot the woman
AUTHOR: Jimmie Rodgers
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1928 (recording, Jimmie Rodgers)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses hardtimes murder
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 339, "Leave for Texas, Leave for Tennessee" (2 texts)
Lomax-FSNA 152, "Mule Skinner Blues" (1 text, 1 tune, with one stanza of "T for Texas" thrown in at the end)
RECORDINGS:
Jim Eanes, "Blue Yodel No. 1" (Rich-R-Tone 1058, n.d.)
NOTES: Jimmie Rodgers is apparently responsible for this song in its present form, but he built it up largely from floating verses.
To add to the fun, the Lomaxes took a verse of this and tacked it on to another Rodgers piece, "Muleskinner Blues." Given that neither song has much of a plot, it can be hard to separate the resulting hybrids. - PJS, RBW
File: LoF152A
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NAME: T.V.A. Song: see The TVA (File: Arn172)
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NAME: T'ain't Gonna Rain No Mo': see Ain't Gonna Rain No More (File: R557)
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NAME: T'Owd Yowe wi' One Horn
DESCRIPTION: Old "yowe" (ewe) resists penning and kicks the farmhand around the yard. The butcher is sent for; the yowe charges him and breaks his legs. She is sent to fight for the king, and kills soldiers in quantity.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (collected from Dean Robinson)
KEYWORDS: farming humorous talltale animal sheep
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 82, "T'Owd Yowe wi' One Horn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1762
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Grey Goose"
cf. "The Killing of the Big Pig (Iso Sika)"
NOTES: This seems to have been collected only once, but cognate stories of big animals that are hard to kill and cook are common (see cross-references). "The Derby Ram" is also connected. -PJS
Kennedy apparently regards it as the same as the piece "The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn" (#271 in his collection). But neither the plot, nor the words, nor the music is the same. - RBW
Then there's the "Yowie wi' the Crookit Horn", which seems to be slang for an illegal whiskey still. - PJS
File: VWL082
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NAME: Ta Me Mo Shui (I Am Awake)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. The singer lies awake until cock crow though the rest of the household sleeps: he had met a banshee the night before and she had doomed him to love her "until crack of Doomsday"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1991 (Tunney-SongsThunder)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage love magic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 37-39, "Ta Me Mo Shui" (1 text)
NOTES: If you were brought up on the stories I was brought up on, you probably just think of a banshee as a (non-human) creature whose cry causes death. Not so in Irish legend; "Bean Sidhe" is a "woman of the hills" -- a member, presumably, of the old fairy folk, the Aes Sidhe, the "people of the hills." The Bean Sidhe may be young and beautiful, or an old hag; a family may have its own special Bean Sidhe -- an immortal, who announces the death of each member of the family. Legends of a young man falling in love with one are rare, but it fits the Irish concept. - RBW
File: TST037
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NAME: Ta Ra, Limavady
DESCRIPTION: The singer praises Limavady. He lists the boasts of other towns (e.g. "Coleraine for Kitty justly proud"), but prefers the local product ("But the girls that take the shine off both Are the girls that come from Limavady"). He asks others to praise it also
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H706, p. 180, "Ta Ra, Limavady" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8007
File: HHH706
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NAME: Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De Ay (II)
DESCRIPTION: Descriptions of how various people came to be in their present psychological and sexual states, to the tune of "Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950
KEYWORDS: bawdy sex
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NE,SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 271-273, "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De Ay" (4 texts, 1 tune)
File: EM271
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NAME: Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e
DESCRIPTION: The words often consist of floating lyrics. The chorus, "Ta-ra-ra(-ra) Boom-de-ay," is diagnostic. Sayers' lyrics: "A sweet Tuxedo girl I see, Queen of swell society, Fond of fun as fond can be, When it's on the strict Q.T...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888
KEYWORDS: nonballad nonsense
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
FSCatskills 144, "Ta-ra-ra-ra Boom, Hurray!" (1 text plus many fragments, 2 tunes)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 144-146, "Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e" (1 fragmentary text)
Gilbert, pp. 206-208, "Ta-ra-ra-boom-der-e" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 25, "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-Der-E" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 570-571+, "Ta-Ra-Ra boom-Der-E"
RECORDINGS:
Land Norris, "Bum Delay" (OKeh 45058, 1926)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm the Man that Wrote Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay"
cf. "Will You Go Boom Today?" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay (We Have No School Today) (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 102)
NOTES: Cazden et al present a list of the various authors who have claimed this piece while denying credit to any of them. (They concede the form "Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e" to Henry J. Sayers, 1890; published in 1891 by Willis Woodward; cf. Spaeth, _Read 'em and Weep_, pp. 144-146.)
There was actually a lawsuit over the issue (Henry J. Sayers vs. Sigmund Spaeth et al, 1932). Fuld reports "Judge Robert P. Patterson later held that the music and words of the chorus were not original, but the first two verses were."
Randolph quotes Gilbert to the effect that the tune "is said to have originated in Babe Connors' famous St. Louis brothel" (!). Something very similar appears in a Strauss piece.
This uncertainty resulted in the comic parody "I'm the Man that Wrote Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay." - RBW
File: FSC144
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NAME: Ta-ra-ra-ra Boom, Hurray!: see Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e (File: FSC144)
===
NAME: Tacking of a Full Rigged Ship Off Shore: see Tacking Ship Off Shore (File: CrNS147)
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NAME: Tacking Ship Off Shore
DESCRIPTION: In a storm the ship is driven toward "the lighthouse tall on Fire Island Head" but the skillful captain and crew avoid "a dangerous shoal" and "steady the helm to the open sea"
AUTHOR: Words: Walter F. Mitchell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sea ship storm sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-NovaScotia 147, "Tacking of a Full Rigged Ship Off Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrNS147 (Partial)
Roud #1845
NOTES: The author, according to Creighton-NovaScotia, is "a native of Nantucket Island"; perhaps the Fire Island lighthouse is the one on the Long Island shore of New York. - BS
The title "Tacking Ship Off Shore" does not seem to be found in tradition, but it appears to be the author's title. The poem seems to have been fairly popular; _Granger's Index to Poetry_ cites five  anthologies, mostly of the sentimental sort, containing the piece. - RBW
File: CrNS147
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NAME: Taffy Was a Welshman (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house And stole a piece of beef." Taffy and the singer engage in a campaign of theft against each other -- e.g. Taffy takes a bone; the singer finds it and beats Taffy with it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1842 (Halliwell, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: abuse food theft
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Opie-Oxford2 494, "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #67, pp. 72-73, "(Taffy was a Welshman)"
DT, TFFYWLCH
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Napper" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: "Taffy" is an English twisting of the Welsh pronunciation of "David" (Daffyd), the patron saint of Wales.
The English of course had a habit of baiting the Welsh, especially on Saint David's day. And the analogy here is rather exact: When it came to a war of raids, the English -- who had the English law on their side -- could do more damage. Taffy could steal, but the Englishman could not only steal but beat Taffy.
It's not clear to me that this is a folk *song*, but the notes in Brown connect it with "Napper," which is, so I thought it had better go in the Index for reference. - RBW
See the following broadside on the same theme:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3724), "The Welshman" ("Taffy came out of the border of Wales"), unknown, n.d.)
See the following reworked broadside "signed" by J.W. Ebsworth March 1, 1895:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3724), "Taffy Up To Date," unknown, 1895 - BS
File: OOxf494
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NAME: Taffy Was a Welshman (II): see Napper (File: Br3123)
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NAME: Taffy Was a Welshman, Taffy Was a Thief: see Taffy Was a Welshman (I) (File: OOxf494)
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NAME: Taglioni
DESCRIPTION: "Her mother had a nice wee dog, she used to call it Tony, And every time I kissed the girl he bit my Tagglieownie"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: bawdy derivative nonballad dog
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 9, "Tagglieownie" (1 fragment)
Roud #3569
RECORDINGS:
Martin Reidy, "Tangaloni" (on IRClare01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Taglioni Coat" (line pattern and some text) and references there
NOTES: The current description is all of the Tunney-StoneFiddle fragment.
The following text is in the discussion of "As I Went Out Upon the Ice (Ag Dul amach ar an Leac Oighir dom)" at Andrew Kuntz's The Fiddler’s Companion site.
As I went out upon the ice, [or "One day as I went out to skate"]
The ice being rough and stony,
The ice it broke and down I went,
And wet my Taglioni. [or "tanlee ownee"]
Tunney-StoneFiddle: "My mother said it wasn't a nice song...."
The pattern of the four-line verse fragments, but not the bawdiness, seems based on the eight-line verse broadside "Taglioni Coat".   
Here is a verse that seems the original for the previous fragment:
One chilly day, not long ago,
I met a sad disaster,
When on the Serpentine to show,
Myself a skating master,
I circles cut, the ice gave way,
Transparent, but not stony,
It cracked, gave way, I tumbled,
And soaked my Taglioni.
but, in this case, it's clear from the context that the singer considers himself a fashion plate whose Taglioni coat is literally soaked (or maybe I'm being naive again; see the LONG DESCRIPTION at "Taglioni Coat").
Reidy's "The Tangaloni" on IRClare01 mixes the broadside eight-line verse form and story with the four-line verse verse form bawdy verses and adds a chorus.  I have included it under both songs.
"ta-glio-ni \tal'yone\ n -s [after Filippo Taglioni 1871 Ital. ballet master]: an overcoat worn in the early 19th century." (source: _Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged_ (1976)); Filippo Taglioni (1777-1871). - BS
File: RcTaglio
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NAME: Taglioni Coat, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer left his vulgar cronies behind when he bought a Taglioni coat. His fortunes changed when the coat led him to a wealthy lady, marriage and privilege. Clothes make the man.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1856 (broadside, Harding B 14(168))
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer used to be "shabby, low and mean" with vulgar cronies, but has put that behind him. Now, wearing a Taglioni coat, he is "known in all fashionable quarters" and admired by "London's fairest daughters"  One day, ice skating, he falls into the Serpentine, soaking his coat. He is invited, by a lady with "lots of money" to go home with her, change his clothes and dry his coat. While drying his coat before her fire he proposes marriage, she accepts, they marry, and, among his advantages he gains "a flunkey, too, to curl my hair, And brush my Taglioni." Moral: to marry well "don't sport a Blouse, or Mackintosh, But try a Taglioni" 
KEYWORDS: courting marriage clothes humorous servant
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #3569
RECORDINGS:
Martin Reidy, "Tangaloni" (on IRClare01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 14(168), "Taglioni Coat" ("I once was shabby, low, and mean"), W. Jackson and Son (Birmingham), 1842-1855
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Taglioni" (line pattern and some text) and references there
cf. "Umbrella Courtship" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Harding B 14(168))
NOTES: Broadside Harding B 14(168) is the basis for the description.
"ta-glio-ni \tal'yone\ n -s [after Filippo Taglioni 1871 Ital. ballet master]: an overcoat worn in the early 19th century." (source: _Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged_ (1976)); Filippo Taglioni (1777-1871). - BS
File: RcTagCoa
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NAME: Tailor and the Crow, The: see Carrion Crow (File: LoF072)
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NAME: Tailor Boy, The: see The Weaver and the Tailor (File: Log407)
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NAME: Tailor By His Trade, The: see The Wearing of the Britches (File: K215)
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NAME: Tailor in the Tea Chest, The: see The Boatsman and the Chest [Laws Q8] (File: LQ08)
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NAME: Tain't Gwine Rain No Mo': see Ain't Gonna Rain No More (File: R557)
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NAME: Tak It, Man, Tak It (I)
DESCRIPTION: "When I was a miller in Fife, Losh, I thought that the sound o' the happer, said, 'Tak hame a wee flow to your wife.'" The singer lives his life, and constantly hears the temptation, upon seeing an item (especially drink) to "Tak it, man, tak it."
AUTHOR: David Webster (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford); Webster died 1837
KEYWORDS: drink humorous theft
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 15-18, "Tak It, Man, Tak It" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TAKITMAN
Roud #5591
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Mill and the Kiln
NOTES: Roud links this song with "The Working Chap" as found in Ord, etc. I flatly don't see it. - RBW
File: FVS015
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NAME: Tak It, Man, Tak It (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Langsyne, fine I mind, little mair than a lad, I wrocht wi' John Jackson at Inkaboot Mill," where Jackson's daughter teases him and flirts. Asked for a kiss, she rejects him -- but at last he steals one, and in the end they are happily married
AUTHOR: Walter Towers?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 54-56, "Tak It, Man, Tak It" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5590
NOTES: Apart from the title line and the notion of temptation, this has nothing in common with "Tak It, Man, Tak It (I)" -- but I rather suspect one inspired the other. I'm not sure which way the dependence went; both have listed authors. This is clearly the less popular of the two. - RBW
File: Ord054
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NAME: Take a Drink on Me
DESCRIPTION: Chorus "Take a drink on me/All you rounders, take a drink on me...." Verses float: "What did you do with that gun in your hand You give it to a rounder and he shot a good man", "If you keep on stalling, you'll make me think... your daddy was a monkey..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Charlie Poole)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Floating verses, linked by chorus "Take a drink on me/All you rounders, take a drink on me/Oh, Lord, honey take a drink on me." Verses include "What did you do with that gun in your hand/You give it to a rounder and he shot a good man", "If you keep on stalling, you'll make me think/That your daddy was a monkey and your mama was an ape"; "You see that gal with a hobble on/She's good looking just as sure as you're born"
KEYWORDS: crime drink nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 156-157, "Take a Drink on Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rorrer, p. 77, "Take a Drink on Me" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, p. 289, "Take a Drink on Me" (1 text)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 239, (no title) (1 fragment, in which the listener is urged to "take a one on me!"; it seems more likely that it's this than "take a whiff")
Silber-FSWB, p. 28, "Take A Whiff On Me" (1 text); p. 235, "Take A Drink On Me" (2 texts)
DT, DRNKONME*
Roud #10062
RECORDINGS:
New Lost City Ramblers, "Take a Drink on Me" (on NLCR01)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "Take a Drink on Me" (Columbia 15193-D, 1927; on CPoole01, CPoole05)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Take a Whiff on Me" (tune, words)
cf. "Coney Isle" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Take Your Leg Off Mine (listed by Rorrer, p. 77, as a bawdy version of the above)
NOTES: This is a problem in classification. On the one hand, it's clearly a version of "Take a Whiff on Me." On the other, none of the verses of the latter show up in this song. So I call them siblings but, since we're being splitters here, different songs.
[The version on page 28 of the Folksinger's Wordbook], although it uses the "whiff" chorus, consists entirely of floating verses -- none of them the same as the verses in the Cohen/Seeger/Wood version, but many shared with common fiddle tunes. - PJS
File: CSW156
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NAME: Take a Whiff on Me
DESCRIPTION: The singer "Walked up Ellum and... come down Main / Tryin' to bum a nickel, just to buy cocaine / Ho, ho, honey take a whiff on me." The singer devotes considerable energy to seeking women and drugs, with slight success and open disregard for the risks
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Grant Brothers)
KEYWORDS: drugs sex
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 130-132, "Take a Whiff on Me" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 89, "Take a Whiff on Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 186-188, "Honey, Take a Whiff on Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 277, "Oh, Ho, Baby, Take a One On Me!" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WHIFFME
Roud #10062
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singer, "Take A Whiff On Me" (on Unexp1)
Grant Brothers & Their Music, "Tell It to Me" (Columbia 15322-D, 1928; on RoughWays1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Take a Drink on Me" (tune, words)
cf. "Tom Cat" (lyrics, form)
cf. "Cocaine Blues (I)" (subject) and references there
NOTES: "Ellum" ("Elem," "Deep Elem") refers to Elm Street in Dallas, the heart of that city's red light district. The various versions of this song, naturally, differ considerably in local color. - RBW
The recording "Tell It to Me" presents another classification problem; also known as "Let the Cocaine Be," it has a chorus "Tell it to me, tell it to me/Drink corn likker, let the cocaine be" that other "Take a Whiff on Me" songs do not, and sometimes different verses. I'm joining them primarily because many versions of "Tell It to Me" include the "Honey, take a whiff on me" refrain, but a case could also be made for splitting. - PJS
File: RL130
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NAME: Take Back Your Gold
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a man and a woman. She is begging him to be honorable and marry her; he refuses. He is going to be married to another. He offers money to soothe her. She says, "Take back your gold, for gold can never buy me."
AUTHOR: Monroe H. Rosenfeld & Louis W. Pritzkow
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (copyright assignment)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage betrayal money gold
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 820, "Take Back Your Gold" (1 text)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 183-184, "Take Back Your Gold" (1 text, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 144-149, "Take Back Your Gold" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7427
RECORDINGS:
Walter Morris, "Take Back Your Gold" (Columbia 15101-D, 1926)
File: R820
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NAME: Take her Out of Pity: see The Old Maid's Song (File: R364)
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NAME: Take It Out, Take It Out, Remove It: see Crazy Song to the Air of "Dixie" (File: San342)
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NAME: Take Me Back to the Cumberland Mountains
DESCRIPTION: "Take me back to the Cumberland Mountains, I don't like Lynchburg any more; I want to go home to our old log cabin...." The singer looks back to seeing Pap, Mammy, Uncle Mose, old dog Tray, and the various farm animals
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: home family return father mother animal
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 126-127, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Thomas seems to have thought this was "Uncle Noah Bentley's Coon Hunting Song," but it has nothing to do with raccoons or hunting. It was said to have "the favorance of 'Sourwood Mountain,'" but with no tune, this cannot be proved.
The item has all sorts of references to other songs (e.g. "old dog Tray"), but it appears to be a matter of allusion rather than common floating material. - RBW
File: ThBa126
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NAME: Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South: see Sweet Sunny South (II) (File: DTsunsou)
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NAME: Take Me Down the Harbour
DESCRIPTION: "Take me down the Harbour on a Sunday afternoon, To Manly Beach or Watson's Bay Or round to Coogee for a day... Good old Harbour, Sydney Town, They can't beat you." The singer enjoys his girl and sailing in Sydney Harbour
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954
KEYWORDS: Australia nonballad
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 35-36, "Take Me Down the Harbour" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Said to have been a popular music hall song in the early twentieth century in Australia. - RBW
File: MA035A
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NAME: Take This Hammer
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells a (fellow prisoner?) to take his hammer to the captain; the singer is running away. The hammer (which killed John Henry) will never kill him. The versions show considerable variations
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: "Take This Hammer": 1915 (collected by Newman Ivey White); "Nine Pound Hammer" variant: 1927 (Sandburg; recording, Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters)
KEYWORDS: prisoner work escape nonballad worksong
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Jamaica
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 571-582, "Nine Pound Hammer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 383, "John Henry" (6 texts, but the last three belong with this song)
Sandburg, p. 376, "Ever Since Uncle John Henry Been Dead" (1 text, 1 tune, which I believe belongs here although the text is too short to be sure); 457-458, "My Old Hammah" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 280, "John Henry" (2 texts plus 5 fragments, 1 excerpt, and mention of 1 more, but it appears that fragments "B," "D," "E," and "G" go here)
BrownIII 241, "Some of These Days and It Won't Be Long" (1 text plus a fragment; the "A" text shows hints of incorporating another ballad); also 240, "I Been a Miner" (1 4-line fragment, consisting of the stanza "I been a miner most of my life" and the stanza, "Big John Henry (x3) poor boy blind")
Chappell-FSRA 104, "The John Henry Hammer Song" (1 short and 1 very long text, 1 tune; the short text might be anything and the long, though it ends with these verses, includes much floating material about railroad construction)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 219, (no title) (1 short texts; neither has the "take this hammer" line, but they fit metrically and mention the hammer that killed John Henry); p. 220, "Work-song" (1 short text, 1 tune, at least related to this); p. 220, "Nine-Pound Hammer" (1 short text); p. 220, "Work-song" (1 short text, with a verse of this song although it also mentions shooting Ida in the leg)
Colcord, p. 186, "Rocks In De Mountens" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 93, "Take This Hammer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 145, "Roll On, Buddy"; 297, "East Colorado Blues" (2 texts, 2 tunes -- both, especially the former, folk processed and expanded and perhaps derived in part from other songs.)
GreenMiner, p. 329-331, "Nine Pound Hammer" (7 texts, 2 tunes)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 100, "Spike Driver Blues" (1 text, 1 tune); p. 112, "Nine Pound Hammer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 94-95, "Nine-Pound Hammer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 913, "Take This Hammer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 137-138, "(John Henry)" (1 text, with a fragment of the plot of "John Henry" but many lyrics from "Take This Hammer"); pp. 285-286, "John Henry (Version III)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 234-235, "Spike Driver Blues" (1 text, filed with three texts of "John Henry"); also pp. 327-328, "John Henry, " "This Old Hammer" (2 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 69, "Take This Hammer" (1 text); p. 124, "Nine Pound Hammer" (1 text)
DT, NINEPND* TAKEHAMR*
Roud #4299
RECORDINGS:
Frank Blevins & his Tar Heel Rattlers, "Nine Pound Hammer" (Columbia 15280-D,  1928; on LostProv1)
Emmett Brand, "Take This Hammer" (on MuSouth06)
Palmer Crisp, "Roll On, John" (on Crisp01)
 Delmore Bros. "Take It to the Captain" (King 718, 1948)
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "The Nine-Pound Hammer" Victor V-40105, 1929; rec. 1928)
Roscoe Holcomb, "Roll On, Buddy" (on Holcomb2, HolcombCD1)
Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, "Nine Pound Hammer" (Brunswick 177, 1927)
Mississippi John Hurt, "Spike Driver Blues" (OKeh 8692, 1929; rec. 1928; on AAFM3, BefBlues3, MJH01, MJH02)
Aunt Molly Jackson, "Roll On Buddy" (AFS 2548 B, 1939; on LC61)
Buffalo Johnson, "Nine Pound Hammer" (Rich-R-Tone 1023, 1952)
Buell Kazee, "Roll On John" (Brunswick 144, 1927) [a "Nine Pound Hammer" version]
Monroe Brothers, "Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy" (Bluebird B-6422, 1936)
Paul Robeson, "Water Boy" (Victor 19824, 1925; HMV [UK] B-8103, 1934)
South Carolina ditch diggers, "Ten Pound Hammer" (on LomaxCD1700)
Horace Sprott, "Take This Hammer" (on MuSouth04)
Ernest Stoneman & Eddie Stoneman, "Nine Pound Hammer" (Vocalion 02655, 1934)
Sweet Brothers, "I Got a Bulldog" (1928; on TimesAint04)
Henry Grady Terrell, "Old John Henry Died on the Mountain" (on FolkVisions2)
Art Thieme, "Railroad Blues and Nine Pound Hammer" [medley] (on Thieme01)
Merle Travis, "Nine Pound Hammer" (Capitol 48000, 1947; on 78 album "Folk Songs of the Hills", Capitol AD 50; rec. 1946)
Doc Watson, "Spike-Driver Blues" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchiteWatsonCD1)
Tex Williams, "Nine Pound Hammer" (Decca 29764, 1955)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John Henry" [Laws I1] (lyrics)
cf. "Jumpin' Judy" (lyrics)
cf. "Walking Boss" (lyrics)
cf. "Swannanoah Tunnel" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Drivin' Steel" (theme, lyrics)
cf. "Don't You Hear My Hammer Ringing" (lyrics)
cf. "Old Rattler" (lyrics)
cf. "Hammer Ring"
cf. "If I Had the Gov'nor" (theme)
cf. "Pickaxe Too Heavy" (theme)
NOTES: The connection between this song and "Swannanoa Tunnel" is very strong; there are so many intermediate versions that we can hardly draw a clear distinction. But the extreme versions are sufficiently different that I have listed them separately. - RBW
Paul Stamler suggests that "Take This Hammer" and "Nine Pound Hammer" can be distinguished by the chorus (found in the latter) "Roll on buddy/Don't you roll so slow/How can I roll/When the wheels won't go."
Paul adds, ""According to the liner notes on LC61, the cited 78s (by Charlie Bowman and Al Hopkins) are the first recorded under the names 'Roll On, Buddy' and 'Nine Pound Hammer,' indicating the variant existed when these records were published. The Aunt Molly Jackson field recording dates from 1939. So I think we've established the variant's presence in tradition as early as the late 1920s. I think it's time to split 'em, with cross-referencing notes."
He's probably right. Sadly, we now have four references I can no longer check. So they remain lumped until I can find a way to get those books back. - RBW
Unfortunately, the liner notes to LC61 misled me. While it's true that the title "Roll On, Buddy" was first used by Charlie Bowman & his Brothers, his recording (placed here in earlier versions of the Index) wasn't this song. Instead, it was the one we have indexed as "Roll On, Buddy (II) [Roll On, Buddy, Roll On]." Sorry.
We can go further: Archie Green interviewed Charlie Bowman of Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, who stated that he and Al Hopkins had put together the "Roll On Buddy" variant from traditional fragments during their 1927 recording session, and the song was in fact copyrighted in their name. Bowman stated that he'd learned many of the fragments from African-American railroad workers in 1903-1905. - PJS
Norm Cohen has an extensive discussion, based on Archie Green's examination in _Only a Miner_. They note two basic elements: The "Take this hammer" stanzas, in non-rhyming couplets, and the "roll on buddy" verses, which do rhyme. They therefore suspect that Hopkins was the source of the combination. The problem is simply too great to fully explicate here; I can only recommend the discussions in Green and Cohen. - RBW
I place Robeson's "Water Boy" here for want of a better place. It contains several floating verses from this song (e.g., "There ain't no hammer that's on this mountain/That rings like mine...").  - PJS
File: FR383
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NAME: Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee: see The Old Cloak (File: OBB170)
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NAME: Take Your Fingers Off It
DESCRIPTION: "Take your (fingers/hands) off it, and don't you dare touch it, You know it don't belong to you." Various people try to keep others away from their sexual partners. One complains of "a house full of children and none of them mine."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: sex adultery betrayal
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 80, "Take Your Fingers Off It" (1 text)
DT, FINGROFF
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Salty Dog"
File: FSWB080
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NAME: Take Your Time
DESCRIPTION: "Honey Baby, take your time, Please don't break this leg of mine. Don't like, an' I ain't goin' to have it no more." About a difficult family meal (?): Mama picks on Sam; Sister is out of control (doing the twist); the singer gets in trouble in town
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: food family bawdy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, pp. 97-98, "Take Yo' Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10036
NOTES: Yes, Wheeler's text reads "Please don't break this leg of mine"! But she admits that her informants were expurgating the song as they went. Under it all, it is probably a bawdy song. - RBW
File: MWhee097
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NAME: Taking Back Gear in the Night: see Taking Gair In the Night (File: FowM018)
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NAME: Taking Gair In the Night
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you good people, come listen you might. It's only a ditty I'm going to write,... It's all about taking your gair [=gear -- the trawls used in capelin fishing] in the night." Song lists the fishermen of Penguin Island, their boats and hardships.
AUTHOR: Jerry Fudge ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928
KEYWORDS: fishing home work sea ship shore
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fowke/MacMillan 18, "Taking Gair in the Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 145-146, "Taking Back Gear in the Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 105, "Taking Gear in the Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2327
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Gerry Fudge
File: FowM018
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NAME: Taking Gear in the Night: see Taking Gair In the Night (File: FowM018)
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NAME: Taking His Chance
DESCRIPTION: Bushranger Jack Dean comes to the door of the inn and dances with May Carney. Although all know he is an outlaw, the bushmen do not betray him. But at last someone notifies the police. Dean is shot and killed as he prepares to flee
AUTHOR: Henry Lawson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965
KEYWORDS: outlaw death police Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 270-271, "Taking His Chance" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA270
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NAME: Talcahuano Girls: see Spanish Ladies (File: ShH89)
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NAME: Tale of a Little Pig: see There Was an Old Woman and She Had a Little Pig (File: E068)
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NAME: Tale of a Tramp: see The Tramp's Story (File: R844)
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NAME: Tale of Jests, A: see Little Brown Dog (File: VWL101)
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NAME: Tale of the Trail, A
DESCRIPTION: "It ain't so far from right to wrong, The trail ain't hard to lose. There's times I'd almost give my horse To know which one to choose." The poet admits the difficulty of telling which is which, and so promises to help those who have gone astray
AUTHOR: James W. Foley
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Foley, "Tales of the Trail")
KEYWORDS: cowboy nonballad recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 41, "A Tale of the Trail" (1 text)
File: Ohr041
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NAME: Talk About Jesus
DESCRIPTION: "Talk about Jesus -- he has blessed my soul, And he is gone. Must Jesus bear the cross alone? For there's a cross for everyone And... for me." "I heard the voice of Jesus saying, Come unto me and rest." "'Tis Jesus Christ I want to hear...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 639, "Talk About Jesus" (1 text)
Roud #11935
File: Br3639
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NAME: Talking Blues
DESCRIPTION: "If you want to get to Heaven let me tell you what to do, Gotta grease your feet in mutton stew...." The singer boasts of the ways he avoids work and easily acquires food, sex, etc. Many of the verses float
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: work nonsense animal bird nonballad courting humorous floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
BrownIII 444, "If You Want to Go to Heaven" (1 fragment, apparently this piece)
Lomax-FSNA 224, "Talking Blues" (1 text with metrical markings)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 116-117, "Jest Talkin'" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 254-258, "When de Good Lord Sets You Free" (1 text, 1 tune -- an immense composite containing elements of "Moanish Lady," "Talking Blues," and probably other materials, to the tune of "Mourner, You Shall Be Free")
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 225, (no title) (1 fragment, perhaps one of the items that inspired the Lomax mess)
Silber-FSWB, p. 80, "Talking Blues" (1 text)
DT, TALKBLUE TALKBLU2
Roud #13912, etc.
RECORDINGS:
Chris Bouchillon, "Talking Blues" (Columbia 15120-D, 1927; Vocalion 02977, 1935; rec. 1926)
Pete Seeger, "Talking Blues" (on PeteSeeger32)
Roy Shaffer, "Talking Blues" (Bluebird B-8234, 1939/Montgomery Ward M-8493, c. 1940)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. every other song with the words "talking" and "blues" in the titles
cf. "Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Moanish Lady)" (this piece is sometimes sung to a tune similar to that)
cf. "Henhouse Door (Who Broke the Lock?)" (floating verses)
SAME_TUNE:
Talking Dustbowl Blues (File: LoF225)
Talking Hard Luck (File: CSW214)
Talking Atom (DT, TALKATOM; Sam Hinton, ABC-Eagle ABC-230, 1950; on PeteSeeger19, PeteSeeger48)
Chris Bouchillon, "New Talking Blues" (Columbia 15262-D, 1928)
Hersal Brown & his Band, "New Talking Blues" (OKeh 45247, 1928)
Hersal Brown & his Band, "Talking Nigger Blues" (OKeh 45247, 1928)
Hershal Brown, "New Talking Blues No. 2" (OKeh 45337, 1929)
Hershel Brown & his Boys, "Nigger Talking Blues No. 2" (OKeh 45337, 1929)
Curly Fox, "Curly's New Talking Blues" (Decca 5185, 1936; rec. 1935)
Jesse Rodgers, "Jesse's Talking Blues" (Bluebird B-6143, 1935)
NOTES: Robert Lunn and Chris Bouchillon both claim to have written and recorded the canonical "Talking Blues," with the above-quoted lyrics; however, it's likely they acquired the form and some of the verses from anonymous African-American musicians. [Given that Scarborough's text precedes them, I'd say it's nearly certain. - RBW]
[For the items in the "same tune" list, the] discographical information lists Mr. Brown's name as "Hersal" for one record and "Hershel" for another. I don't know which is right. And I've since found one spelled "Hershal." Are we confused yet?) - PJS
File: LoF224
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NAME: Talking Columbia
DESCRIPTION: "I was down along the river, just sittin' on a rock, Lookin' at the boats in the Bonneville lock." The singer describes what he sees along the river -- and how it inspired this song. He concludes that the world should be run by electricity, not dictators
AUTHOR: Woody Guthrie
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941-2 (recording by author)
KEYWORDS: political river technology
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 232, "Talking Columbia" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Talking Blues" (and its assorted relatives)
File: LoF232
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NAME: Talking Dustbowl Blues
DESCRIPTION: Talking Blues about the dustbowl: The farmer sees his farm turn to dust, trades it for a Ford, heads out to California, has engine trouble, and winds up in California starving and having to beg. The song ends with sarcastic remarks about politicians
AUTHOR: Woody Guthrie
EARLIEST_DATE: April 26, 1940 (recording by author)
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes travel technology work political derivative dustbowl
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 225, "Talking Dustbowl Blues" (1 text)
Woody Guthrie, "Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues" (Victor 26619, 1940)
DT, DUSTBOWL
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Talking Dust Bowl" (on PeteSeeger41)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Talking Blues" (and its assorted relatives)
NOTES: Should we change "Dustbowl" in the title to "Dust Bowl"? That was Guthrie's title, and he wrote it. - PJS
Ordinarily, I'd agree. But people may well search for "dustbowl." Urk. - RBW
File: LoF225
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NAME: Talking Hard Luck
DESCRIPTION: Talking blues, describing the singer's hard times in surrealistic terms: "I've been bawled out and balled up, held down and held up... lost all I had and part of my furniture...and if that ain't hard luck, folks, then you tell me what is."
AUTHOR: Chris Bouchillon & Lonnie Glosson (each supplying part)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Chris Bouchillon)+1936 (recording, Lonnie Glosson)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes nonsense recitation talltale
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 214-215, "Talking Hard Luck" (1 text with musical accompaniment)
DT, ARKLUCK
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Tom's Talking Blues (Hard Luck Blues)" (Ashley01)
Chris Bouchillon, "Born in Hard Luck" (Columbia 15151-D, 1927)
Clay Chapman, "Born in Hard Luck" (Velvet Tone 2498-V, 1932)
Lonnie Glosson, "Talking Hard Luck" (Conqueror 8732, 1936)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Talking Hard Luck" (on NLCR03, NLCR12, NLCREP1, NLCRCD1)
Buddy Starcher, "After I Lost That Job" (Starday SEP 158, c. 1960)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Born In Hard Luck
Good Place to Be From, Anyway
NOTES: This is a group of recitations on similar themes, basically grouped around the Bouchillon, Glosson, and Starcher pieces, all part of minstrel, circus and medicine-show traditions. The Ashley piece combines Bouchillon's and Starcher's with a couple of verses from "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," while the New Lost City Ramblers stitch together Bouchillon's and Glosson's. Much of the material also shows up in the work of medicine-show artist Harmonica Frank Floyd. - PJS 
File: CSW214
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NAME: Talking with the Social Union: see Tobacco Union (Talking with the Social Union) (File: R508)
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NAME: Tall Pine Tree, The (The Samsonville Song)
DESCRIPTION: At the foot of the tall pine tree is a brook which runs through Samsonville. The brook powers the mill that feeds Samsonville. The singer(s) love the pine tree, where they "get a chance for to take a glance at the girls in Samsonville"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1982
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 177, "The Tall Pine Tree, or, The Samsonville Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FSC177 (Partial)
NOTES: A parody of "The Old Pine Tree," written in 1849 by Charles White. - RBW
File: FSC177
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NAME: Tallyho! Hark! Away!: see Bold Reynard the Fox (Tallyho! Hark! Away!) (File: DTReynrd)
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NAME: Talt Hall
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you fathers and mothers And brothers and sisters all, I'll relate to you the history Concerning old Talt Hall." "He shot and killed Frank Salyers." Hall is taken and condemned to die. He writes to bid his brother farewell. He regrets his acts
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: murder punishment execution crime
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 62, pp. 157-158, "Talt Hall" (1 text)
Roud #4102
NOTES: Combs/Wilgus reports that "Talt Hall, [a] native of Kentucky... was hanged in Virginia toward the end of the nineteenth century" and that "he had on his conscience more than twenty assassinations."
This song is item dE42 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: CW157
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NAME: Tam Barrow
DESCRIPTION: Widower Tam goes out courting a second wife. He finds that "a' the lasses blinkit blythe, but few o' them had tocher," so at last he settles on a rich widow. He soon grows tired of her and casts her out.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: wife dowry money courting abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kinloch-BBook XXIV, pp. 77-78, "Tam Barrow" (1 text)
ST KinBB24 (Full)
Roud #6217
File: KinBB24
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NAME: Tam Bo: see Tam Buie (Tam Bo, Magherafelt Hiring Fair) (File: HHH748)
===
NAME: Tam Broon: see The King Takes the Queen (File: FSWB232)
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NAME: Tam Brown: see The King Takes the Queen (File: FSWB232)
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NAME: Tam Buie (Tam Bo, Magherafelt Hiring Fair)
DESCRIPTION: The (widow) attempts to hire Tam. He asks about his wages. He talks her into an increase, then asks about his diet. Satisfied, he asks where he will sleep. After turning down several offers, he agrees to sleep with, and marry, her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: worker courting marriage home bargaining
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H748, p. 263, "Magherafelt Hiring Fair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 194 (notes), (no title) (1 text, probably incomplete, but recognizably this, treated as a version of "Bargain With Me"; Kennedy also includes a portion of the Sam Henry text)
Roud #366
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bargain With Me" (plot)
cf. "My Good Old Man" (format)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Tam Bowie
NOTES: In plot, this is identical with "Bargain With Me," but the form resembles nothing so much as "My Good Old Man." It seems to me best to keep "Tom Buie" and "Bargain With Me" separate, while noting their extreme similarity. Roud of course lumps them. - RBW
File: HHH748
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NAME: Tam Frew's Hat
DESCRIPTION: "You've a' heard tell o' auld Tam Frew... Whase only way o' livin noo Is gaun aboot and cleanin' clocks... But the oddest o' his queerest ways -- He keeps his smiddy in his hat." Tam's hat, his behaviors, and his old age are humorously described
AUTHOR: John McLay?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: clothes humorous technology
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 65-68, "Tam Frew's Hat" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13113
File: FVS065
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NAME: Tam Gibb and His Sow: see Matty Broon's Soo (Tam Gibb and the Soo) (File: HHH671)
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NAME: Tam Gibb and the Soo: see Matty Broon's Soo (Tam Gibb and the Soo) (File: HHH671)
===
NAME: Tam Lane: see Tam Lin [Child 39] (File: C039)
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NAME: Tam Lin [Child 39]
DESCRIPTION: Janet goes to Carterhaugh to pull flowers. She meets Tam Lin, who makes her  sleep with him. She finds herself pregnant, and demands Tam Lin marry her. But to do so, she must rescue him from thralldom to the Elven queen. With difficulty, she does so.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769; perhaps cited in 1549 (see notes)
KEYWORDS: magic pregnancy marriage rescue shape-changing
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England) Ireland US(NE)
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Child 39, "Tam Lin" (15 texts)
Bronson 39, "Tam Lin" (4 versions plus 1 in addenda)
Dixon II, pp. 11-20, "Tam-a-Line, the Elfin Knicht" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 250-254, "Tam Lane" (1 text; tune on p. 422) {Bronson's #4}
Leach, pp. 136-141, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
OBB 2, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 41, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
PBB 23, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 283-289+360, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
Hodgart, p. 129, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
DBuchan 27, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 163-169, "Tamlin" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 28-31, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
DT 39, TAMLIN1* TAMLIN2* TAMLIN3
ADDITIONAL: Iona & Peter Opie, The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse, pp. 32-37, "Tam Lin" (1 text)
Roud #35
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "Young Tambling" (Briggs2, Briggs3)
A. L. Lloyd, "Tamlyn (Young Tambling)" (on Lloyd3)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Seven Virgins (The Leaves of Life)" (tune)
NOTES: Carterhaugh, also mentioned as the site of magic in "The Wee Wee Man," "is a plain at the confluence of the Ettrick and Yarrow in Selkirkshire" (Scott).
The idea of gaining a lover who is changing shape has ancient roots. We find it in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," where Peleus (the father of Achilles) finds Thetis in a cave and attempts to couple with her. To defeat him, she turns into a bird, a tree, and a tigress. The latter scares him off, but eventually he catches her while asleep (XI.225ff.)
Dixon quotes a possible mention of this song from Wedderburn's _Complaynt of Scotland_: He refers once to a dance of "thom of lyn," and elsewhere to the "tayl of yong tamlane." But we cannot prove that either of these is this piece, even if it's the same story. Indeed, Dixon hints that the references might be to "Tom o' the Linn," which appears to be the somg we index as "Brian O'Lynn (Tom Boleyn)." - RBW
File: C039
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NAME: Tam Pierce: see Tom Pearce (Widdicombe Fair I) (File: K308)
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NAME: Tam-a-Line, the Elfin Knicht: see Tam Lin [Child 39] (File: C039)
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NAME: Tambaroora Gold
DESCRIPTION: The singer, down on his luck, redeems himself by moving to Tambaroora and finding gold. Now he has respect, but it is only for the money. When his money is gone, his girl abandons him for someone else with Tambaroora gold.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: gold elopement abandonment work hardtimes
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 40-41, "Tambaroora Gold" (1 text, edited;  2 tunes collated into one)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 206, "Tambaroora Gold" (1 text, fragmentary; 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wild Rover No More" (theme)
File: MA206
===
NAME: Tambaroora Ted: see Tomahawking Fred (Tambaroora Ted) (File: FaE138)
===
NAME: Tamping Ties
DESCRIPTION: Call and response for tie-laying. "Tamp 'em up solid...Then they'll hold that midnight mail....Well, work don't hurt me...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: worksong railroading
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 445, "Tamping Ties" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: BRaF445
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NAME: Tan-Yard Side, The [Laws M28]
DESCRIPTION: The singer loves a girl who lives by the tan-yard side. After a year of courtship, they prepare to be wed, but her father has him sent to sea. He vows to marry her if he ever returns
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1884 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3956))
KEYWORDS: courting exile sea return
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond)) US(MA) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws M28, "The Tan-Yard Side"
Peacock, pp. 592-593, "The Slaney Side" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Creighton-NovaScotia 76, "Down By the Tan-Yard Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 25, "The Tan Yard Side" (1 text)
OLochlainn 41, "Down by the Tanyard Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H52b pp. 429-430, "The Slaney Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 585, TANYARD
Roud #1021
RECORDINGS:
Frank Quinn, "The Tan Yard Side" (on Voice10)
Phoebe Smith, "The Tan Yard Side" (on Voice11)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3956), "The Tan-Yard Side," H. Disley (London), 1860-1883; also Firth b.26(335), 2806 b.11(19), "The Tan-Yard Side"; Firth c.16(467), "The Tanyard Side"; 2806 c.15(330)[some lines illegible], "The Slaney Side"
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(96b), "The Slaney Side," James Lindsay (Glasgow), c.1855
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Fish and Chips" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Fish and Chips (File: OLcM250)
File: LM28
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NAME: Taney County: see Young Companions [Laws E15] (File: LE15)
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NAME: Tapscott: see Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go) (File: Doe062)
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NAME: Tar-ry Sailor, The: see The Saucy Sailor (Jack and Jolly Tar II) [Laws K38] (File: LK38)
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NAME: Tardy Wooer, The: see No Sign of a Marriage [Laws P3] (File: LP03)
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NAME: Tarpaulin Jacket: see Wrap Me Up in my Tarpaulin Jacket (File: FR439)
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NAME: Tarriers' Song, The: see Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill (File: LoF217)
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NAME: Tarry Sailor: see Jack the Jolly Tar (I) (Tarry Sailor) [Laws K40] (File: LK40)
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NAME: Tarry Trousers (I): see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
===
NAME: Tarry Trousers (II): see As I Roved Out (I) (Tarry Trousers II) (File: LoF014)
===
NAME: Tartan Plaidy, The (O My Bonnie Highland Laddie)
DESCRIPTION: "When first he landed on our strand," Prince Charlie charms all who meet him. "When Geordie heard the news belyve, That he had come before his daddy," the king sends John Cope north. Cope and Charlie play cat and mouse. Stories of the '45
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1821 (Hogg)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites rebellion battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1720-1788 - Life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," the Young Pretender, eldest son of James Stuart the "Old Pretender"
Jul 23, 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay
Jul 25, 1745 - Charlie transfers to Moidart
Aug 8, 1745 - Approximate date that firm word reaches George II's court of Charles's landing
Aug 19, 1745 - "Gathering of the Clans." Official raising of the standard at Glenfinnan
Aug 27, 1745 - Charlie expects to catch the army of General John Cope at Corriearrack, but Cope evades him and heads for Inverness. Cope from there heads to Aberdeen, to take ship south to Dunbar, moving from there to Prestonpans on Sep 20
Sep 4, 1745 - Charles enters Perth and proclaims his father King
Sep 17, 1745 - Jacobite army enters Edinborough
Sep 21, 1745 - Battle of Prestonpans. Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army routs the first real Hannoverian force it encounters
Apr 16, 1746 - Battle of Culloden Muir ends the 1745 Jacobite rebellion
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5778
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, APS.4.95.15(2), "The Tartan Plaidie," unknown, c. 1830; also L.C.Fol.70(141), "Prince Charlie and his Tartan Plaidie," L.C.Fol.70(141a) [a trimmed version of the preceding], L.C.1270(005), "Charlie Stuart and his Tartan Plaidy," James Kay (Glasgow), c. 1845
NOTES: Looking at the texts available to me, this seems to be rather a catchall piece, describing the 1745 rebellion in as much detail as the singer wants to tell. On the whole, the versions seem fairly accurate, implying literary composition somewhere along the line. This fits with the anonymity of many of the prints.
The statement that "The graceful/manly looks o' that brave laddie Made every Hieland heartie warm" is, incidentally, true -- when Charlie landed, Lochiel of Cameron (the single most important chief to support him) sent messengers to urge him to go home. But Charlie arranged a meeting, and Lochiel was swept away. So were other chiefs.
The song describes a speech Charlie made to his troops before Prestonpans. This is real, though the details are doubtless unreliable; Charlie did give a speech which inspired his forces. If Cope did the same, obviously, it didn't work.
The comment that George II "thirty thousand pounds would give To catch him in his Hieland plaidie" is correct; within days of Charlie's landing, the government offered 30,000 pounds for his capture. Charlie initially made a contemptuous offer of thirty pounds for the head of George II, though political considerations later forced him to match the Hannoverian sum (obviously no one ever collected either reward).
In using the above dates, incidentally, it should be recalled that the Catholic continent was on the Gregorian calendar, but Protestant England still on the Julian (until 1752), making English dates 11 days behind continental dates. It is sometimes very hard to know which system a particular source is using; some, indeed, switch back and forth.
The dates given here and in most places in the Ballad Index are based on British Julian dates, since this is what seems to be most common -- e.g. Culloden, by modern standards, took place on April 27, 1746, but the references above list it as April 16, because that was the day marked on Cumberland's calendar (assuming he had enough brains to know what a calendar was, which is somewhat dubious). - RBW
File: BrAPS495
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NAME: Tarves Rant, The
DESCRIPTION: A group of bothies go on a Sunday tear. After leaving the tavern, the singer is separated from his companions, and gets in a fight with a policeman. He's thrown in jail, escapes, is caught again, and has to pay for the policeman's torn coat, plus a fine.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: drink police punishment
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DBuchan 71, "The Tarves Rant" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix)
Roud #4847
RECORDINGS:
Davie Stewart, "The Tarves Rant" (on Voice05)
NOTES: Hall, notes to Voice05: "Tarves lies to the north-west of Aberdeen, between Old Meldrum and Nethermill." - BS
File: DBuch71
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NAME: Tassels on Her Boots
DESCRIPTION: The singer is intrigued by the tassels on a girl's boots. He courts her; she speculates that he is sad because he always stares at the ground. He explains that he is looking at the tassels. Now they are married; he intends to tassel the childrens' boots
AUTHOR: Robert Combs
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (publication)
KEYWORDS: clothes courting
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 491, "Tassels on Her Boots" (1 text)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 93-94, "Tassels on the Boots" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, p. 60, "Tassels on Her Boots" (1 partial text)
Roud #3275
NOTES: Spaeth (_A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 173) says that this was "one of a large group of songs [in the 1860s] that discussed details of feminine attire," but mentions only this and "Jockey Hat and Feather." - RBW
File: R491
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NAME: Tassels on the Boots: see Tassels on Her Boots (File: R491)
===
NAME: Tattie Time, The
DESCRIPTION: Bothy ballad. Singer describes members of the crew harvesting potatoes, people to avoid, and humorous incidents during the harvest. He warns againt drink. When the harvest is over they scatter to their other trades such as scrap and rags
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (recorded from Ronnie White)
KEYWORDS: farming harvest work humorous moniker boss worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 105, "The Tattie-Liftin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 357, "The Tattie Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2162
NOTES: Almost a nonballad, but there are enough bits of narrative for it to squeak through. - PJS
File: McCST105
===
NAME: Tattie-Liftin', The: see The Tattie Time (File: McCST105)
===
NAME: Tattletale Birdy, The: see The Bonny Birdy [Child 82] (File: C082)
===
NAME: Tattooed Lady, The
DESCRIPTION: "I paid a (franc/bob) to see a fair tattooed lady...." The rest of the song describes the various sights to be seen on the lady's skin. These are generally localized (e.g. in Australia they see the ANZAC logo), ending with "my home in (wherever)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975
KEYWORDS: nonballad parody humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 230-231, "The Tattooed Lady" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 221, "The Tattooed Lady" (1 text) 
Roud #9622
NOTES: Listed as a parody on "My Home in Tennessee," and the American versions seem to support that claim. The Australian version, however, could have picked up its tune from "Les Darcy." - RBW
File: FaE230
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NAME: Tavern in the Town
DESCRIPTION: Singer laments her lover, who courted her ardently but now goes to a tavern and courts others while leaving her pining. She hopefully anticipates dying and being buried.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883
KEYWORDS: loneliness courting infidelity rejection abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South,West)) US Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Sharp-100E 94, "A Brisk Young Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leather, pp. 205-206, "A Brisk Young Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 478-480, "The Blue-Eyed Boy" (4 texts, though "D" is a fragment, probably of "Tavern in the Town" or "The Butcher Boy" or some such)
BrownIII 259, "I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree" (2 fragments, named for that key line from "Tavern in the Town" which occurs in both fragments, but the "A" text is mostly "Pretty Little Foot")
SHenry H683, p. 393, "The Apron of Flowers" (1 text, 1 tune --  apparently a collection of floating verses including one that goes here)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 210-213, "There Is a Tavern in the Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 84-85, "There Is a Tavern in the Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 180, "There Is A Tavern In The Town" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 572-573, "There Is a Tavern in the Town"
LPound-ABS, 23, p. 62, "There Is a Tavern in the Town" (1 text; the "A" text is "The Butcher Boy")
Peacock, pp. 705-706, "She Died in Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 140-141, "The Tavern in the Town" (1 text, filed under "The Butcher Boy")
DT, TAVTOWN*
SEE ALSO:
Lomax-FSNA 229, "Hard, Ain't It Hard" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Hard, Ain't It Hard" (1 text)
DT, TAVTOWN AINTHARD*
ST ShH94 (Full)
Roud #60
RECORDINGS:
Amy Birch, "Over Yonder's Hill" (on Voice11)
"Pops" Johnny Connors, "There is an Alehouse" (on IRTravellers01)
Geoff Ling, "Died for Love" (on Voice10)
Rudy Vallee, "Tavern in the Town" (Victor 24739, 1934)
SEE ALSO:
Almanac Singers, "Hard, Ain't It Hard" (General 5019A, 1941; on Almanac01, Almanac03, AlmanacCD1)
Woody Guthrie, "Hard Ain't It Hard" (Folk Tunes 150, n.d., probably mid-1940s)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.28(6a/b) View 7 of 8, "There Is A Tavern In The Town," R. March and Co. (London), 1877-1884
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (plot)
cf. "The Sailor Boy (I)" [Laws K12] (lyrics)
cf. "Love Has Brought Me to Despair" [Laws P25]
cf. "I Know My Love" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, Johnny, Johnny" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
There Is an Alehouse in Yonder Town
There's a Tavern in the Town
Up The Green Meadow
NOTES: The overlap between this song and the "Butcher Boy" cluster is obvious; whether they're the same song is a Talmudic question. -PJS
The 1891 sheet music credits this piece to F. J. Adams. The earliest known printing of "Tavern" (as opposed to the presumably related Cornish miners' song "There is an Alehouse in Yonder Town"), however, does not give the author's name.
Alan Lomax calls "Hard Ain't It Hard" a reworking of this piece, and I'm going along on the principle that it certainly isn't a traditional song (given that it's by Woody Guthrie). I don't think it's that simple, though; the "Hard ain't it hard" chorus clearly derives from "Ever After On." - RBW
Yes, Rudy Vallee recorded it too. And blew the lyrics, I might add [My understanding is that the people around him were trying, with great success, to crack him up - RBW]. But clearly the song remained current in pop culture as well as folk culture. It was also reputed to have been popular among collegiates. - PJS
"Hang my harp on a willow tree" may be taken from Psalms 137.2 [King James] via Thomas Haynes Bayly. Cf. "I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree."
Broadside Bodleian Firth b.28(6a/b) View 7 of 8 ascribes "There Is A Tavern In The Town" to W.H. Hills. - BS
Somewhere in my youth, someone (probably school authorities) forced upon us a game, "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." Thirty-odd years later, I recalled it for some reason, and realize that the tune is an up-tempo version of this. If the song was inflicted upon other classes than mine, it may be that the song has had some sort of horrid second life. - RBW
Amy Birch's version on Voice11 has a first line "Over yonder's hill there is an old house" but continues to be enough like "Tavern in the Town" that I put it here rather than Laws P25 or any of the other songs in this cluster. - BS 
File: ShH94
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NAME: Taxation of America
DESCRIPTION: "While I relate  my story, Americans give ear, Of Britain's fading glory You presently shall hear." The singer tells the "true relation" or "the taxation of North America." "North, and Bute his father" propose to tax the Americas, but the Americans rebel
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Spaeth)
KEYWORDS: money patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1760-1820 - Reign of George III
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 3-5, "Taxation of America" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 477, "American Taxation" (source notes only)
Roud #3687
NOTES: Among those mentioned in Spaeth's text of this piece:
"North": Lord Frederick North, second Earl of Guilford (1732-1792). A political success from an early age, he became First Lord of the Treasury (in effect, prime minister) in 1770; he was the leader most responsible for the increased friction between the government and the colonies, though he was perhaps more willing to compromise than the ministers under him -- certainly more so than the King he served.
North  repeatedly tried to find solutions for the American problems, or failing that to resign (see, e.g., Don Cook, _The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785_, pp. 294-295), but George III would not release him because North was the only man with enough clout to form a government who also would go along with George's wishes. He finally was allowed to leave office after Yorktown, when the opposition in parliament became so strong that North simply could not maintain a government. (Cook, pp. 357-358, tried to keep him on even then, but North knew the confidence motion was coming, and quit.) The American mess really wasn't his fault; it was George III's. But it was easy to blame things on North.
Ironically, North would briefly return to the government, working with Charles James Fox, in effect in opposition to George III (February 1783; Cook, p. 375); this was the government that in September finally ratified the peace with the U. S. -- though it might have come some months earlier had not the Fox/North coalition interfered with the work of the previous Shelburne government. The King hated the Fox/North team so much that he called upon 24-year-old William Pitt the Younger to form a government in December (Cook, p. 377)
"Bute his father": Presumably John Stuart, Third Earl of Bute (1713-1792). He wasn't North's father, but he was Prime Minister 1762-1763. His brief period of power, however, had little effect on colonial relations that I can see, though he was personally close to George III, to whom he had once been tutor. (Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, _Blood Royal: The Illustrious House of Hannover_, Doubleday, 1980, p. 115, even speculates that "perhaps [George III's] deep devotion for the handsome and elegant Lord Bute was not entirely platonic,Ó though he offers no evidence for this. 
ItÕs just possible that we should re-reference the pronoun and treat "his father" not as North's father but as George III. Walter R. Borneman, _The French & Indian War_, Harper-Collins, 2006, p. 264, does say that George "idealized" Bute and implies that George may have treated him as a father-figure (George's father Frederick had died when George was 13, and in any case there was an unwritten law in the Hannoverian dynasty that fathers and their heirs always despised each other).
The colonies blamed Bute for the much-hated Stamp Act, but in fact it was proposed by Grenville after Bute had ceased to be Prime Minister. At worst, Bute's responsibility was indirect: As Prime Minister, he had created a plan to have the colonies pay for the troops based there. This is obviously reasonable -- but George III and Bute's successors refused to consult with the colonies about how to raise this money. By contrast with his predecessor William Pitt, who had been largely responsible for beating the French in Canada, Bute must have seemed a great disappointment.
"Green" (sic.): Presumably Nathaniel Greene (1742-1786), largely responsible for the success of the Colonial campaigns in the south after he succeeded Gates in 1780
Gates: Horatio Gates (c. 1728-1806), the theoretical victor at the key battle of Saratoga, though hindsight shows that he really had little to do with it; he was later appointed to command in the south, but botched matters and had to be relieved by Greene.
Putnam: Probably Israel Putnam (1718-1790), though it might be his cousin Rufus (1738-1824). Neither was a great success (in fact, both were rather disastrously bad officers), but Israel Putnam was still popular in 1779 when he was paralyzed and had to retire from the military.
Conquering Washington: Presumably you know who he is.
It's interesting to note that the Spaeth text never says *what* tax North and Bute wished to gather. Given the overall incompetence of this song (which seems to have been known only from broadside and perhaps the Guernsey manuscript), it strikes me as quite possible that the author didn't *know* what taxes caused the colonists to revolt. - RBW
File: CG477a
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NAME: Taxes, The
DESCRIPTION: "There never was such taxes in Ireland before." There are seven verses of things to be taxed. "They'll double tax the hobble skirts and table up some laws, But the devil says he'll tax them if he gets them in his claws"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: humorous political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 4, "The Taxes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3033
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sales Tax On the Women" (theme)
NOTES: The British government was notorious for the number of fees it charged (recall that this was the cause of the American revolution). My guess, though, is that this comes from the period of the Napoleonic Wars. For one thing, Ireland lost its independent parliament after the 1798 rising. For another, the British government, which hated deficits, had to raise revenue dramatically to keep up its war spending. The result was a long list of new taxes. - RBW
File: OLoc004
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NAME: Tay, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer warns young men against women overly dependent upon tay (tea). He works and earns a good living, but his wife wastes the money on tay. At last he breaks kettle and pot. She attacks him; he gives in and lets her have her tay
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: drink humorous husband wife fight warning
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H25a, pp. 502-503, "The Tay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1310
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wee Cup of Tay" (theme)
File: HHH25a
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NAME: Teach the Rover
DESCRIPTION: Teach, an outlaw captain, goes to Carolina after the Act of Grace, but soon turns pirate. Finally he is overtaken by Maynard's crew. In the desperate battle that follows, Maynard boards the pirate ship and himself kills Teach
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906
KEYWORDS: pirate battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1717 - Act of Grace pardons most of the Jacobite leaders of the 1715 rebellion. 
1718 - Lieutenant Robert Maynard's frigate captures the pirate ship of Edward Teach. Teach is shot in the fighting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
PBB 78, "Teach the Rover" (1 text)
ST PBB078 (Partial)
Roud #8115
NOTES: Edward Teach is the actual name of the pirate usually known as "Blackbeard." This song agrees with Daniel Defoe in describing him as quite successful and bloody, but available records (such as the log of a ship Defoe asserts fought against Teach) seem to indicate that much of Defoe's account is fiction.
It is also true that Teach's short career did not yield many rich prizes, and the records do not indicate that he harmed his victims.
According to Arthur Herman, _To Rule the Waves_, pp. 248-249, Teach was a Bristolman who had fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. He made his base in the maze that was North Carolina's Outer Banks, making it hard for large ships to pursue him. This kept him safe from the two Royal Navy sloops of war sent to hunt him down, but the captain of the _Pearle_ sent Maynard aboard a small boat to catch Teach. Their battle, on November 21, was fought in conditions of no wind, so apart from one broadside Teach managed to fire at the navy force, it was all hand-to-hand combat.
Reportedly Teach's body had been pierced by five pistol shots and 25 sword wounds. But the corpse was beheaded and the body thrown overboard, so this cannot be proved. - RBW
File: PBB078
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NAME: Teams at Wanapitei, The
DESCRIPTION: "In eighteen hundred and ninety-five Away to the woods we thought we'd strike... To go to work at Wanapitei." The song briefly describes the trip to the woods, and the work -- but most of the song is devoted to the horses in the teams
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: logger work lumbering horse
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont,West)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #21, "The Teams  at Wanapitei" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #4463
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "How We Got to the Woods Last Year" (tune)
File: FowL21
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NAME: Teamster in Jack MacDonald's Crew, The
DESCRIPTION: Leslie Stubbs was a teamster "who came to the lumberlands his family to maintain," He complains of headache and becomes sick. MacDonald and Tom Proctor take him home to his wife in Sherman Mills. Doctor Harris cannot save him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: death lumbering disease doctor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 23, 1908 - death of Earl Stubbs
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 165-167, 256, "The Teamster in Jack MacDonald's Crew" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13997
NOTES: Ives-DullCare: "Earl Stubbs, aged 28, having contracted spinal meningitis in a lumbercamp, died at his home in Sherman Mills, Maine, January 23, 1908, and Dr Francis Harris had signed the death certificate" - BS
File: IvDC165
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NAME: Teapots at the Fire, The
DESCRIPTION: A midnight fire at Labor Union Hall. As the fire burns to the basement the local women, who are named, have their eyes on the teapots. Now, "In every home in St John's town, If you go in today, You'll find a fancy teapot in a cupboard stowed away."
AUTHOR: John Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Blondahl)
KEYWORDS: theft fire humorous moniker
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Blondahl, p. 27, "The Teapots at the Fire" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Kelligrews Soiree" (tune)
cf. "Mariposa" (theme)
cf. "The Middlesex Flora" (theme)
cf. "The Old Mayflower" (theme)
cf. "The Irrawaddy" (theme)
File: Blon027
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NAME: Tearin' Out-a Wilderness: see The Old Gray Mare (The Old Gray Horse; The Little Black Bull) (File: R271)
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NAME: Teasing Songs
DESCRIPTION: A teasing song hints of a bawdy or ribald rhyme, but avoids it at the last minute, as in this example: Suzanne was a lady with plenty of class / Who knocked the boys dead when she wiggled her... Eyes at the fellows as girls sometimes do...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1615 (The Percy Folio Manuscript has one such teasing song, "A Friend of Mine.")
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad
FOUND_IN: Australia Britain(England) US(MW,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cray, pp. 256-265, "Suzanne Was a Lady," "The Ship's in the Harbor," "There Once Was a Farmer," "Two Irishmen, Two Irishmen"; "Sweet Violets" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph-Legman II, pp. 649-652, "The Handsome Young Farmer" (7 texts)
DT, SWTVILT2
Roud #10404
RECORDINGS:
Ben Light & his Surf Club Boys, "The Girl from Atlantic City" (Hot Shots from Hollywood 0317/Hollywood Hotshots 317/Good Humor 2/Good Humor 10A/Good Humor unnumbered [the Good Humor records are anonymous]/Arrow 311/Kicks 5 /Kicks unnumbered [as "The Gal from Atlantic City"]/blank label, unnumbered [anonymoous; as "Atlantic City"], rec. 1936; on Doity1)
Anonymous singers, "Mamie Had A Baby" (on Unexp1)
Callahan Brothers, "Sweet Violets" (Perfect 6-07-51/Conqueror 8682, 1936)
Bob Dickson, "Sweet Violets" (Victor 23633, 1930)
Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock, "Sweet Violets" (on McClintock02)
Norman Phelps & his Virginia Rounders, "Sweet Violets" (Decca 5191, 1936)
Joel Shaw, "Sweet Violets" (Crown 3271, 1932)
Dinah Shore, "Sweet Violets" (RCA Victor 20-4174, 1951)
Sweet Violet Boys [pseud. for Prairie Ramblers], "I Haven't Got a Pot to Cook In" (Vocalion 03402, 1937); "Sweet Violets" (Vocalion 03110, 1935); "Sweet Violets No. 2" (Vocalion 03256, 1936); "Sweet Violets No. 3" (Vocalion 03587, 1937)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Peter Murphy's Little Dog"
cf. "Down on the Farm"
cf. "At Brighton"
cf. "Shine Your Buttons With Brasso"
cf. "Butcher Town"
cf. "The Girl from Atlantic City"
NOTES: Legman lumps all teasing songs together under the generic title of "The Handsome Young Farmer." - EC
I do the same thing because I can't tell them apart otherwise. (Hey, I got this job because nobody else would take it, not because I knew what I was doing.) - RBW
File: EM256
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NAME: Teddy O'Neal: see Teddy O'Neill (File: DTtedone)
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NAME: Teddy O'Neill
DESCRIPTION: The singer has a dreadful dream of Teddy courting another girl. She recalls where they used to meet. They cannot meet now; he has gone across the sea to seek his fortune. She would rather he were still present, even if poor
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3747))
KEYWORDS: love courting separation emigration poverty dream
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 14, "Teddy O'Neal" (1 text)
DT, TEDONEIL
Roud #5207
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3747), "Teddy O'Neale", J. Harkness (Preston)), 1840-1866; also Firth c.22(91), Harding B 11(3645), "Teddy O'Neale"; Firth b.28(6a/b) View 6 of 8, "Teddy O'Neal"; also 2806 c.15(168), Harding B 19(30), "Teddy O'Neile"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Maggie of Coleraine" (tune)
cf. "The Girls of Coleraine" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Maggie of Coleraine (File: HHH657)
The Girls of Coleraine (File: HHH064)
NOTES: The Bodleian broadsides reverse the first two verses so that the first line is "I went to the cabin ..." and the second verse begins "I dreamt but last night ..." - BS
File: DTtedone
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NAME: Teem Wa's, The (The Toom House)
DESCRIPTION: "Come hark a while, and I will speak Yonder's a house where I never saw reek." The young man who owns it explains that "the lasses they're so very scant." Assured that he can find a woman if he tries, he vows that there will be life in the house soon
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: home rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 89-91, "The Teem Wa's" (1 text)
Roud #3859
File: Ord089B
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NAME: Telegraph Wire, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, dear me, the world's on fire, news sent around on a telegraph wire! Lord have mercy, only think, news sent to Mexico quicker than a wink! Oh dear, what shall I do? Every year brings something new!" A catalog of marvels and changes of the modern age
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: technology
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1752 and following - Franklin's experiments with lightning
1844 - Samuel Morse installs the first electromagnetic telegraph
1857, 1858, 1866 - Cyrus Field attempts to lay a transatlantic cable. (The 1857 attempts failed, the 1858 cable was briefly operational; the 1866 cable was the first true success)
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 75, "The Telegraph Wire" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa075 (Partial)
File: Wa075
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NAME: Tell It to Me: see Take a Whiff on Me (File: RL130)
===
NAME: Tell Me What Month Was My Jesus Born In?: see What Month Was Jesus Born In? (File: CNFM245)
===
NAME: Tell Old Bill
DESCRIPTION: "Tell old Bill, when he leaves home this morning, Tell old Bill, when he leaves home this evening, Tell old Bill... To let them downtown coons alone...." (An hour after) Bill left he is dead/murdered and being brought home in a "hurry-up wagon"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: death whore murder
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sandburg, pp. 18-19, "Dis Mornin', Dis Evenin', So Soon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 100-102, "Old Bill" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 78, "Tell Old Bill" (1 text)
DT, OLDBILL*
Roud #7876
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ain't No Use Workin' So Hard" (structure, refrain)
File: San018
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NAME: Tell Your Horse's Age
DESCRIPTION: Detailed instructions for determining a horse's age from its teeth, beginning "To tell the age of any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of course," and ending "They longer get, project before, Till twenty, when we know no more."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 ("Bit and Spur")
KEYWORDS: horse age nonballad recitation
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 74, "Tell Your Horse's Age" (1 text)
File: Ohr074
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NAME: Temperance Song (I): see Drunkard's Doom (I), The (File: R306)
===
NAME: Temperance Song (II): see Rum By Gum (Temperance Union Song) (File: R317)
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NAME: Tempest, The (Cease Rude Boreas)
DESCRIPTION: "Cease rude Boreas blustering killer... Messmates hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea." A storm comes up; the crew struggles mightily to survive. The mast falls, the ship leaks; they make it home and rejoice
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Journal from the Galaxy)
KEYWORDS: storm disaster ship sea
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 70-72, "The Tempest" (1 text)
Roud #949
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Storm
Cease Rude Boreas
File: SWMS070
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NAME: Tempy: see I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (File: BAF900)
===
NAME: Ten Broeck and Mollie: see Molly and Tenbrooks [Laws H27] (File: LH27)
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NAME: Ten Commandments, The: see Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You) (File: ShH97)
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NAME: Ten Days of Finals, The
DESCRIPTION: On successive days of final examinations, the singer's true love gives to him a special gift.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy parody humorous cumulative derivative
FOUND_IN: Canada US(MW,SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 373-374, "The Ten Days of Finals" (2 texts)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (tune)
File: EM373
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NAME: Ten Dollar Bill, The: see The Brisk Young Butcher (File: DTxmasgo)
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NAME: Ten Little Indians (John Brown Had a Little Indian)
DESCRIPTION: "John Brown he had a little Indian (x3), One little Indian boy." "One little, two little, three little Indians, four little, five little, six little Indians, Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians, Ten little Indian boys"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: nonballad Indians(Am)
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 594, "John Brown Had a Little Indian" (1 text)
BrownIII 136, "John Brown Had a Little Injun" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 205, "Drunken Sailor (Monkey's Wedding -- John Brown Had a Little Injun -- Ten Little Injuns)"
cf. Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #597, p. 237, "(Tom Brown's)"
Roud #4993
RECORDINGS:
Doreen Elliott, "Old Joe Badger" (on Elliotts01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Drunken Sailor" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "Old Brass Wagon" (tune)
cf. "Ten Little Injuns" (chorus)
NOTES: Of the Mother Goose item "Tom Brown's Two little Indians," the Baring-Goulds write, "Whether or not this rhyme inspires the writing of 'Two Little Injuns...' is an interesting speculation."  I must say that they are quite close -- close enough that pure coincidence seems unlikely. - RBW
File: R594
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NAME: Ten Little Injuns
DESCRIPTION: Ten Indians stand in a line, one goes home and there are nine. Each disappears in a new way until only one is left. The last one lives alone until "he got married and then there were none"
AUTHOR: Septimus Winner (1868), with adaptions by Frank Green and others
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868 (S Winner, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: humorous Black(s) Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Opie-Oxford2 376, "Ten little nigger boys went out to dine" (2 texts); 511, "Tom Brown's two little Indian boys" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #818, pp. 304-305, "(Ten little Injuns standin' in a line)"
Roud #13512
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1572), "Ten Little Niggers" ("Ten little niggers going out to dine"), unknown, n.d.; also Firth c.16(335), Firth b.27(94), "Ten Little Niggers"; Firth c.16(334), "Ten Little Ministers" ("Ten little ministers, sitting in a line"), unknown, 1874; also Johnson Ballads fol. 386a, "A new version of a popular song"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer" (counting)
cf. "Eight Little Cylinders" (counting)
cf. "Ten Little Indians" ("John Brown Had a Little Indian") (chorus)
NOTES: Opie-Oxford2 511 is one verse "Tom Brown's two little Indian boys; One ran away, The other wouldn't stay, Tom Brown's two little Indian boys." (Opie-Oxford2 has an early date c.1744 from _Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book_).
The Opie-Oxford2 376 texts are "Ten little nigger boys went out to dine" and "Ten little Injuns standin' in a line."
Opie-Oxford2 376 lists the following names and publication dates of adaptations:
"Ten Little Niggers" Feb. 1869 [According to the Baring-Goulds, this is by Frank Green - RBW]
"Ten Little Negroes" Mar. 1869
"Ten Little Darkies" June 1869
"The Ten Youthful Africans" Sep. 1869
"Ten Little Darkies" c.1870
"Ten Little Negro Boys" Dec. 1874
The things that reduce the number vary from text to text. So, for example, for the ministers of broadside Johnson Ballads fol. 386a, the last minister "was so very Low, Everybody told him they thought he'd better go." For broadside Harding B 11(1572) the last one gets married and raises a family of ten more.
Some versions, including Winner's original, share the chorus with "Ten Little Indians" ("John Brown Had a Little Indian") - BS
File: OO2376
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NAME: Ten Little Nigger Boys Went Out To Dine: see Ten Little Injuns (File: OO2376)
===
NAME: Ten Stone
DESCRIPTION:  Windlass shanty. "I nebber seen de like sence I ben born! Way, ay, ay, ay, ay! Nigger on de ice an a hoein' up corn, Way, ay, ay, ay, ay! Ten stone! ten stone! ten stone de win' am ober, Jenny get along, Jenny blow de horn, as we go marchin ober!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Bullen & Arnold, _Songs of Sea Labor_)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong sailor
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p. 268, "Ten Stone" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 198]
Roud #9129
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Belong to that Band" (lyrics)
NOTES: This may well be related to the mess of material filed under "I Belong to that Band"; it has some of the same lines, and is utterly disorganized. But the total material found in each is simply too small to be sure. - RBW
File: Hugi268
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NAME: Ten Thousand Cattle
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps as a result of a bad winter, "Ten thousand cattle have gone astray, Left my range and traveled away." The singer is left destitute. His girl has also left him (for another). Other verses may complain about the weather, his girl's lover, etc.
AUTHOR: Owen Wister (1888?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904
KEYWORDS: cowboy hardtimes separation disaster
FOUND_IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Larkin, pp. 151-153, "Then Thousand Cattle" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Ohrlin-HBT 6, "Ten Thousand Cattle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TENTHOU* TENTHOU2*
Roud #5763
NOTES: Reported to have been written by Owen Wister (1860-1938; author of _The Virginian_ plus assorted minor poetry) in 1888 based on the experiences of the dreadful winter of 1886/7 in Wyoming. - RBW
File: Ohr006
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NAME: Ten Thousand Miles: 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: Ten Thousand Miles Away
DESCRIPTION: "Sing ho! for a brave and a gallant ship, And a fair and fav'ring breeze, With a bully crew and a captain too To carry me over the seas...."  The singer wishes for a ship to carry him to his sweetheart, transported to Botany Bay "ten thousand miles away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3763))
KEYWORDS: love separation transportation ship
FOUND_IN: Australia US(NE) Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Colcord, pp. 159-161, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 116-118, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 409-410, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 311-312]
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 84-85,  272-273, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 148-149, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 31-32, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 100-101, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 232-233, "Blow the Winds I Oh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 8-9, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 86, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (1 text)
DT, THOUSMIL*
Roud #1778
RECORDINGS:
Eugene Jemison, "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (on Jem01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3763), "Ten Thousand Miles Away" ("Sing oh! for a brave and valiant bark"), J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Firth c.13(286), 2806 c.16(88), Harding B 16(286c), "Ten Thousand Miles Away"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Capital Ship" (tune & meter)
cf. "Ho for California (Banks of Sacramento)" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Old Palmer Song" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Old Palmer Song (File: PASB038)
No More Shall I Work in the Factory (File: Grnw122)
File: MA084
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