NAME: Wee Little Piute
DESCRIPTION: "Wee little piute, hi yi ya, Jolting cayuse. mountain trail, Strapped to the back of your ma ma ma, Gazing away o'er the pony's tail." Images of what the child sees as it travels the trail
AUTHOR: Words: Albert R. Lyman / Music: Casse Lyman Monson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: baby family Indians(Am.) travel nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 87, "Wee Little Piute" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11203
File: FCW087
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NAME: Wee One, The: see Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own) (File: R393)
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NAME: Wee Totum, The: see Toddlin' But and Toddlin' Ben (The Wee Little Totum) (File: Ord137)
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NAME: Wee Toun Clerk, The: see The Keach i the Creel [Child 281] (File: C281)
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NAME: Wee Weaver, The
DESCRIPTION: "I am a wee weaver confined to my loom." Willy loves Mary. They roam by Lough Erne and Willy proposes. "So this couple got married and they'll roam no more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (IRTunneyFamily01)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage weaving Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 81, "The Wee Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3378
RECORDINGS:
Brigid Tunney, "The Wee Weaver" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
Paddy Tunney, "The Wee Weaver" (on Voice20)
NOTES: Lough Erne is in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. - BS.
File: RcWeeWea
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NAME: Wee Wee Man, The [Child 38]
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a "wee wee man," who, despite his size, proves amazingly strong. He takes the singer on a tour to his home, and shows him the finest ladies he has ever seen -- but then disappears.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: magic home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Child 38, "The Wee Wee Man" (7 texts)
Bronson 38, "The Wee Wee Man" (1 version)
BrownII 11, "The Wee, Wee Man" (1 text)
Randolph-Legman II, pp. 587-588, "The Wee Wee Man" (2 texts, one of them the Brown version)
Leach, pp. 135-136, "The Wee Wee Man" (1 text)
OBB 11, "The Wee Wee Man" (1 text)
PBB 11, "The Wee Wee Man" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 293-294+362, "The Wee Wee Man" (1 text)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 198, "(THe WEe, Wee Man)" (1 text)
DT 38, WEEWEEMN
Roud #2865
NOTES: Carterhaugh, also mentioned as the site of magic in "Tam Lin," "is a plain at the confluence of the Ettrick and Yarrow in Selkirkshire" (Scott).
Child prints as an appendix to this ballad the poem "Als Y Yod on ay Mounday," found in a single copy in British Museum MS. Cotton Julius A5, dated firmly to the fourteenth century. This is curious in a number of ways. There is no doubt that the two items go back to the same folkloric roots -- but "Wee Wee Man" seems to be purely Scottish, and "Als Y Yod" is a very difficult Northumbrian dialect.
E. B. Lyle, in "The Wee Wee Man and Als Y Yod on y Mounday" (reprinted in Lyle, Ballad Studies, 1976), examines the nature of the parallels between the two, but does not reach any clear conclusions. His suggestion is that both derive from some lost proto-romance does not strike me as compelling, though it is certainly possible. - RBW
File: C038
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NAME: Wee Wifeikie, The: see The Wee Wifikie (File: HHH714)
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NAME: Wee Wifikie, The
DESCRIPTION: The Wee Wifikie takes too much drink, and lies down to rest. A peddler steals her purse and cuts her hair. She awakens and finds herself changed. She thinks she is not herself. She tells her husband, who asks the minister, who reassures him all is well
AUTHOR: Alexander Watson ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1853 (Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: husband wife humorous hair drink dog theft thief disguise
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H714, pp. 513-514, "The Wee Wifukie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 23-26, "The Wee Wifukie" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST HHH714 (Full)
Roud #5857
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Whiskey Is My Name (Donald Blue)"
cf. "The Old Woman Who Went to Market (The Old Woman and the Pedlar)" (theme, lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Wee Wifeikie
There Was a Wee Bit Wiffikie
NOTES: Grieg/Duncan mentions a pamphlet (1921) by William Walker, presenting evidence that this song was written by Alexander Watson in the years around 1775. Ford, however, credits it to one Dr. Alexander Geddes.
The song, if composed, seems to have come somewhat unraveled in tradition; the audience is too often left asking "Why?" (Why, e.g., did the peddler clip the Wifikie's hair? Steal her purse, yes, but why risk being caught cutting her hair?) - RBW
File: HHH714
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NAME: Wee Wifukie, The: see The Wee Wifikie (File: HHH714)
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NAME: Wee Willie Winkie Runs Through the Town
DESCRIPTION: "Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Upstairs and downstairs in his night gown, Rapping at the window, crying through the lock, Are the children all in bed, for now it's eight o'clock?"
AUTHOR: William Miller?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1841 (Whistle-Binkie, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: nonballad children
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Opie-Oxford2 529, "Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #813, p. 303, "(Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town)"
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 132, "(Wee Wilie Winkie)" (1 text)
Roud #13711
NOTES: Opie-Oxford2: "'Willie Winkie, as may be seen in Jacobite songs, was a nickname for William III (d.1702), and according to Robert L. Ripley the rhyme refers to that king." - BS
The Baring-Goulds also note that "Wee Willie Winkie was the nickname given to William Prince of Orange" (who became William III in 1689).  But they doubt its political significance. And, if they are correct in attributing it to William Miller, they are almost surely right in questioning it. Who would be writing concealed verse about William III in the reign of Victoria? - RBW
File: OO2529
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NAME: Wee Woman in Our Town, The: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
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NAME: Week Before Easter, The: see The False Bride (The Week Before Easter; I Once Loved a Lass) (File: K152)
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NAME: Week's Matrimony, A (A Week's Work)
DESCRIPTION: Monday the singer marries; Tuesday his wife sees a girl frying his "sausage"; Wednesday he finds a man in bed with her; Thursday they fight; Friday they part and she hangs herself in sorrow; Saturday he buries her and finds another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads 289)
KEYWORDS: adultery marriage fight suicide drink bawdy wife
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Peacock, pp. 322-323, "A Week's Work" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 120, "Days of the Week" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1692
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 289, "A Week's Matrimony"("On Sunday I went out on a spree"), J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth c.20(135), Harding B 20(185), Harding B 11(4082), Harding B 11(4083), Harding B 11(4084), 2806 c.16(23)[some words illegible], Firth c.20(136)[some words illegible], Harding B 11(4081), 2806 b.9(271), Firth c.20(134), "[A] Week's Matrimony[!]"
Murray, Mu23-y1:088, "The Week's Matrimony," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6] (theme)
cf. "In Duckworth Street There Lived a Dame" (imagery)
cf. "Charming Sally Ann" (imagery)
SAME_TUNE:
The Devil in Search of a Wife (per broadsides Bodleian Johnson Ballads 289, Bodleian Harding B 11(4084), Bodleian Harding B 11(4081))
NOTES: Peacock makes A Week's Work the same ballad as The Holly Twig although the only similarity is that they both account for the days of the week and both start with a marriage. - BS
File: Pea322
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NAME: Week's Work Well Done, A: see The Holly Twig [Laws Q6]; also The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin [Child 277] (File: LQ06)
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NAME: Week's Work, A: see A Week's Matrimony (A Week's Work) (File: Pea322)
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NAME: Weep-Willow Tree, The: see The Golden Vanity [Child 286] (File: C286)
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NAME: Weeping Mary
DESCRIPTION: "Are there anybody here like Mary a-weeping? Call to my Jesus and he'll draw nigh. Glory (x5) be to my God on high." "Are there anybody here like Peter a-sinking?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Social Harp)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 128, "Weeping Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6680
RECORDINGS:
Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet, "Weeping Mary" (Bluebird B-8582, 1940)
NOTES: The reference to "Peter sinking" goes back to Matt. 14:28f. Jesus had been walking on the water, and Peter (in this account; not in the source in Mark) said, "Lord, if it's you, call me to come to you on the water." Jesus did, and Peter walked on the water for a few moments, but then started to doubt -- and sink. Jesus, of course, rescued him.
Lomax claims this is in the Sacred Harp. There *is* a song with the title "Weeping Mary" in the Sacred Harp, but it isn't the same thing. According to Jackson, the song is found in the Social Harp, though. - RBW
File: LoF128
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NAME: Weeping Sad and Lonely: see When This Cruel War is Over (Weeping Sad and Lonely) (File: SCW42)
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NAME: Weeping Willow (I), The: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Weeping Willow (II), The: see Bury Me Beneath the Willow (File: R747)
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NAME: Weeping Willow Tree: see Bury Me Beneath the Willow (File: R747)
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NAME: Weeping Willow Tree, The: see The Golden Vanity [Child 286] (File: C286)
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NAME: Weevily Wheat
DESCRIPTION: "Charlie, he's a nice young man, Charlie he's a dandy." Stories about Charlie's attempts at courting and his visits to town. The mention of "Weevily wheat" and lines such as "Over the river to feed my sheep" are common
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad playparty floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Randolph 520, "Weevily Wheat" (7 texts, some fragmentary or excerpted, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 397-399, "Weevily Wheat" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 520A)
BrownIII 67, "Weevily Wheat" (1 text plus a possibly-rewritten fragment)
Fuson, p. 164, "Over the River to Charlie" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 262-263, "Over the Water to Charlie" (1 short text, 1 tune, primarily a version of this although it incorporates a single verse of "Over the Water to Charlie")
SharpAp 167, "Charlie's Sweet" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Sandburg, p. 161, "Weevily Wheat" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 286, (no title) (3 fragments)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 290-293, "Weevily Wheat" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 163, "Twistification" (1 text, 1 tune, with a counting chorus and modified verses)
Fowke/MacMillan 44, "Who'll be King but Charlie?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 125, "Charlie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 60-61, "[Charlie]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 72, "Over the River Charlie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 96, "Over the water and over the lea" (3 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #144, p. 115, "(Over the Water and over the lea)"
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 161, "Charley, He's a Good Ol' Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 813-814, "Weevily Wheat" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 36, "Weevily Wheat" (1 text)
DT, WEEVWHT*
Roud #729
RECORDINGS:
Granville Bowlin, "Charlie's Neat" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
Kelly Harrell, "Charley, He's a Good Old Man" (Victor 21069, 1927; on KHarrell02, CrowTold02)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Charley, He's a Good Old Man" (on NLCR10)
Jean Ritchie, "Over the River Charlie" (on RitchieWatsonCD1)
Ritchie Family, "Charlie" (on Ritchie03)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Roll the Tater (Rolly Rolly)" (floating lyrics, meter)
cf. "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Rosey Apple Lemon and Pear" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Certain authorities have conjectured that the "Charlie" of this song is Bonnie Prince Charlie. (Alan Lomax goes so far as to derive it from the Scots "Charlie Over the Water.")  It would be hard to prove either way.
Those seeking to find every version of this song should also check "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss," which I think might be another version of this song. But others disagree.... - RBW
Well, I'd say they're at least siblings; at least one version of "Weevily Wheat" has the same tune as "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss." - PJS
Creighton-Maritime matches the Weevily Wheat pattern but includes the lines "cross the water to Charlie" and -- in the chorus -- "There's none like royal Charlie." In this sense at least it's close to Fowke/MacMillan 44. - BS
File: R520
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NAME: Welcome (to Lyda Messer Caudill)
DESCRIPTION: "The banners of our county bright Are waving in the breeze; Now we are living in the light...." "In accents sweet proclaim the news... We have a worthy leader, Our superintendant dear." The singer hopes the school superintendent will lead well
AUTHOR: Edgar Hamm
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 254-255, "Welcome" (1 text)
NOTES: I can't say with certainty that this is the most trivial thing I've ever seen memorialized in song -- but, other than Edgar Hamm's other school song, "Inspiration (The Rowan County Teachers)," I haven't a better candidate off the top of my head. - RBW
File: ThBa254
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NAME: Welcome Table (Streets of Glory, God's Going to Set This World on Fire)
DESCRIPTION: "God's going to set this world on fire... One o' these days." "I'm going to walk and talk with Jesus... "I'm going to climb up Jacob's ladder." "All you sinners gonna turn up missing." "God don't want no coward soldiers... Some of these days."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (recording, Florida Normal Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses rejection death resurrection gods Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 517, "Some of These Days" (2 texts); 536, "Jacob's Ladder" (3 texts, of which the third is apparently this)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 280, "Welcome Table" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 173, "The Welcome Table" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 478-479, "God's Goin' to Set This World on Fire" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 354, "Streets of Glory" (1 text)
DT, STGLORY
Roud #11812
RECORDINGS:
Emmett Brand, "I'm Going to Cross the Rivers of Jordan, Some of These Days" (on MuSouth06)
Carter Family, "River of Jordan" (Victor 21434, 1928; Montgomery Ward M-4430, 1934; on Babylon)
Jaybird Coleman, "I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan - Some o' These Days" (Silvertone 5172, 1927; on Babylon)
Florida Normal Quartet, "The Welcome Table" (OKeh 40079, 1924; rec. 1922)
West Virginia Night Owls, "I'm Goin' to Walk on the Streets of Glory" (Victor 21533, 1928)
Charles Owens w. Isabel Owens, "The Welcome Table" (on NovaScotia1)
West Virginia Snake Hunters [John & Emery McClung], "Walk the Streets of Glory" (Brunswick 119, 1928, rec. 1927)
Alice Wine, "I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table" (on BeenStorm1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When I'm Gone (I)" (floating verses)
cf. "I'm Going to Ride in Pharaoh's Chariot" (form)
SAME_TUNE:
"I'm Gonna Sit at the Freedom Table" (civil rights movement song)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I'm Gonna Tell God How You Treat Me
NOTES: This song carries several titles; I chose the one by which it's most commonly known among revival singers. While the song seems to have originated in African-American tradition, it has spread to Anglo singers as well. - PJS
Reported by Sandburg to be the favorite verse of the IWW, but evidently not of their composition.
I had originally split this song up under several titles, because the versions don't really relate much (Sandburg's and that in the Digital Tradition, for instance, appear to have no words in common whatsoever). But Paul Stamler thinks they're the same, and certainly there is continuous variation, so here they lump. - RBW
File: San478
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NAME: Well Met, Pretty Maid (The Sweet Nightingale)
DESCRIPTION: Singer invites girl to hear the nightingale; he offers to carry her pail. She demurs; "I've hands of my own." They agree to marry; now she's not afraid to go out walking or to "hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale/As she sings in the valley below"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Journal from the _Ann_)
KEYWORDS: courting love sex marriage bird rejection seduction
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 187-188, "A New Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 562, "Sweet Nightingale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 89, "An Eos Whek [The Sweet Nightingale]" (1 text + Cornish translation, 1 tune)
DT, NITINGAL
Roud #371
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Nightingale
NOTES: Kennedy's Cornish words are a revivalist translation from the English. The song has been collected from tradition several times, but positively shouts out a composed origin. Kennedy lumps it with "The Valley Below," but as the plots are notably different, I don't. They certainly share a common ancestor, though, possibly in Thomas Arne's opera "Thomas and Sally" (1761). - PJS
I doubt even that much, and the fact that Kennedy lumps them (on no basis at all that I can see) makes me doubt all his other references. The one thing I'll allow is his claim that the song has a very fine melody. I've used a title from JFSS because that's the way I learned the song.
It's very difficult to know what to do with songs of this type. Huntington thinks his text is a survival of the Corydon/Colin-and-Phyllis/Phoebe type. As Paul observes, it sounds more like a minstrel than a folk piece. But Theodore Bikel and Cynthia Gooding recorded something quite similar (under the "Well Met" title), and there are enough broadsides with similar form that I decided I needed to include the song.
The trick now is to decide which of these many pieces actually belong here, and which are orphan broadsides.... - RBW
File: K089
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NAME: Well of Spring Water, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer met a lass on her way to a well "who at once won my admiration" (more than his mother!). He declares his love. They fall into the well. They can't remember the rest that was said but married soon after. Their daughter Maureen is like her mother.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1972 (Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
KEYWORDS: courting love marriage children derivative
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 6, "The Well of Spring Water" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5215
RECORDINGS:
Tom Lenihan, "The Well of Spring Water" (on IRTLenihan01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Can of Spring Water" (form)
NOTES: There can be no doubt that this song derives from "The Can of Spring Water" but that is a seduction ballad with different details, lines and tone from this. Roud assigns the same number to both. - BS
File: RcWeSpWa
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NAME: Well Sold the Cow: see The Crafty Farmer [Child 283; Laws L1] (File: C283)
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NAME: Wellington and Waterloo: see The Plains of Waterloo (V) (File: LJ03)
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NAME: Wells and Fargo Line, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells of "...the men who served their time For robbing mountain stages on the Wells and Fargo Line." Among the criminals who haunted the route were Major Thompson, Jimmy Miner, Old Jim Hughes, and Black Bart
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: travel robbery prison
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 18, "The Wells and Fargo Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11083
File: FCW18
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NAME: Went Down Town: see Deep Elem Blues (File: DTdeepel)
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NAME: Went to the River (I)
DESCRIPTION: "I went to the river an' I couldn't get across, I jumped on a (log/alligator/nigger/possum/etc.) an' thought it was a horse."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: river floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 258, "Ease that Trouble in the Mind" (1 fragment)
BrownIII 193, "Went to the River and I Couldn't Get Across" (1 fragment)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 184-185, (no title) (3 fragments plus an item entitled "Sister Cyarline"  which has a chorus and might perhaps be something else)
Roud #469
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Johnny Booker (Mister Booger)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Limber Jim" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Mary Mack (I)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Another of those ubiquitous floating verses, filed separately because it so often *appears* separately.
Randolph's version of this has a chorus: "I went to the river an' I couldn't get across, Ease that trouble in the mind, I jumped on a log an' thought it was a horse, Ease that trouble in the mind." But he has only a single four-line stanza, so it's not clear if the verse floated into something else or if there is a complete song. - RBW
Opie-Oxford2 362, "My mother said that I never should" includes an "I came to a river and I couldn't get across" verse: "'I came to a river' has had a long life as a make-weight verse in American play-party and minstrel songs. It is first noted in 'Clare de Kitchen, or Old Virginia Never Tire' (c.1838)." (cf. "Charleston Gals (Clear the Kitchen)")
TakingOpie-Oxford2's lead, the Public Domain Music site has an entry from "Minstrel Songs, Old and New" (1883) pp 152-153 for "'Clare de Kitchen; or, De Kentucky Screamer' (1832) Words and Music by Thomas Dartmouth (Daddy) Rice, 1808-1860" with verse 2 "I went to de creek, I couldn't git across, I'd nobody wid me but an old blind horse; But old Jim Crow came riding by, Says he, 'old feller, your horse will die.'" - BS
File: R258
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NAME: Went to the River (II): see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
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NAME: Went to the River and I Couldn't Get Across: see Went to the River (I) (File: R258)
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NAME: Were You Ever in Dumbarton?
DESCRIPTION: "Were you ever in Dumbarton, Where they wear the tartan (x2), little above the knee.... My love she is so neat and small, She won't have me at all (x2), But try to get her full and then she'll marry me... Oh, if I had her, happy I would be."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1971
KEYWORDS: courting clothes travel love
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 307-308, "Were You Ever in Dumbarton?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9421
File: Doe307
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NAME: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
DESCRIPTION: "Were you there when they crucified my Lord (x2), Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble; Were you there when...." "Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?" "...pierced him in the side?" "...the sun refused to shine...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Paul Robeson)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 367, "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Charles Johnson, One Hundred and One Famous Hymns (Hallberg, 1982), p. 147, "Were You There?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11409
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff, "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord" (Columbia 20550, 1949)
Fisk Jubilee Singers, "Were You There?" (on Fisk01)
Roland Hayes, "Were You There" (Columbia 69812-D, 1939)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Was You There When They Took My Lord Away" (OKeh 45522, 1931; rec. 1930)
Wade Mainer, "Were You There" (Bluebird B-8273, 1939)
File: FSWB367A
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NAME: West River Railroad
DESCRIPTION: "We've got a little railroad And it isn't very wide. We put in twenty thousand And quite a lot beside." Few travelers take the train: "A sheriff and a parson, Three ladies... and a little red calf." After humorous incidents, all arrive
AUTHOR: Mr. and Mrs. Julian Johnson ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: railroading train humorous money
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 198-199, "West River Railroad" (1 text)
ST FlBr198 (Partial)
Roud #5454
NOTES: Reportedly written for a home talent play, which somehow survived thirty years to be included in Flanders and Brown. (To be fair, it's much funnier than most such songs).
Apparently the song is about a locally-financed railroad which was, at best, only mildly successful.
No tune is shown, but I suspect "I Hard a Little Nut Tree." - RBW
File: FlBr198
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NAME: West Virginia Feud Song, A
DESCRIPTION: A story of the "Lincoln County crew." Ale Brumfield is shot, perhaps by Milt Haley, but Brumfield (who survives) blames "McCoy." Later, at George Fries's house, a fight begins and many are killed. The singer blames the fight on drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: feud death drink
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCox 40, "A West-Virginia Feud Song" (1 text)
Roud #465
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rowan County Crew (Trouble, or Tragedy)" [Laws E20]
NOTES: Cox views this as a reworking of "The Rowan County Crew," and Laws (in the notes to that song) evidently agrees. (Roud lumps them.)  The resulting song is rare, and the Cox text is confused; it's not even clear who feuded with whom! The informants believed that the fight took place in 1890, near Hamlin, West Virginia. - RBW
File: LE20A
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NAME: West-Country Damosel's Complaint, The [Child 292]
DESCRIPTION: The girl begs William to marry her; if he will not, she bids him kill her. He callously tells her to live in the greenwood. She tries, but at last begs her sister for alms. The sister drives her away. Willie finds her dead and mourns his cruelty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1695
KEYWORDS: courting abandonment poverty death sister love
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 292, "The West-Country Damosel's Complaint" (1 text)
BBI,  ZN2899, "When will you Marry me William"
Roud #3959
NOTES: Child is of the opinion that this is a composite piece, with the first eleven stanzas being popular and the remaining thirteen being literary. As both the tone and the rhyme scheme change in the final stanzas, he is quite possibly correct. - RBW
File: C292
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NAME: West's Asleep, The
DESCRIPTION: "While every side a vigil keep, The West's asleep, the West's asleep." The singer laments the "slumbering slaves" in a land that demands Freedom and Nationhood. But a voice announces "'the West's awake!' 'Sing, oh hurra! let England quake!'" 
AUTHOR: Thomas Davis (1814-1845) (source: Moylan; Hoagland)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Hoagland)
KEYWORDS: Ireland England nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Moylan 115, "The West's Asleep" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WSTASLEP
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 472-473, "The West's Asleep" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Brink of the White Rocks" (tune, according to Hoagland)
cf. "The Men of the West" (subject: The landing of General Humbert) and references there
NOTES: The 1798 rebellion was a very patchy thing, due in no small part to the arrests of nearly all the United Irish leaders well before it was supposed to come off. The biggest rising, in Wexford, was largely unplanned, but at least it was a rising. There was a lot of stirring in Ulster, though it accomplished very little. Connaught and Leinster, however, saw nothing of any significance at all. Until the French came. This song apparently refers to General Humber's activity (for which see especially "The Men of the West").
The O'Connors, mentioned in the song, were the hereditary kings of Connaught before the Norman invasion.
For the disastrous Battle of Aughrim, see the notes to "After Aughrim's Great Disaster." - RBW
File: Moyl115
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NAME: Wester Snow: see Easter Snow (File: HHH066)
===
NAME: Western Boat (Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's)
DESCRIPTION: "Take me back to my Western boat, Let me fish off Cape St Mary's." Singer recounts good times and wants to be buried in "that snug green cove where the seas roll up their thunder"
AUTHOR: Otto P. Kelland
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: fishing sea lyric nonballad work death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doyle3, p. 39, "Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 88-89, "Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, CAPSTMAR*
Roud #7301
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's" (on NFOBlondahl01)
NOTES: Cape St Mary's is now a sea-bird sanctuary at the southwest corner of the Avalon Peninsula, about 100 miles from St John's - BS
Although the printed editions seem to call this "Let Me Fish Off Cape St Mary's," I've assigned the basic title "Western Boat" on the assumption that most people know it from the recording by Gordon Bok. - RBW
File: Doyl3039
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NAME: Western Home: see Home on the Range (File: R193)
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NAME: Western Ocean: see Here's to the Grog (All Gone for Grog) (File: K274)
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NAME: Western Ranger: see Texas Rangers, The [Laws A8] (File: LA08)
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NAME: Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, A: see Britannia on Our Lee (File: SWMS049)
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NAME: Wexford City (I): see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
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NAME: Wexford City (II): see The Wexford (Oxford, Knoxville, Noel) Girl [Laws P35] (File: LP35)
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NAME: Wexford Girl (II), The: see My Name is Edward Gallovan (File: CrSNB092)
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NAME: Wexford Girl, The (The Oxford, Lexington, or Knoxville Girl; The Cruel Miller; etc.) [Laws P35]
DESCRIPTION: The singer invites the girl for a walk. They discuss their wedding. Then he takes up a club and attacks her. She begs him to spare her life. He beats her to death and throws her in the river. He is taken and hanged
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1796 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.17(216); c.1700 (broadside, Bodleian Antiq. c. E.9(125))
KEYWORDS: wedding river murder trial execution
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(Scotland,England) Ireland
REFERENCES: (30 citations)
Laws P35, "The Wexford Girl (The Oxford, Lexington, or Knoxville Girl; The Cruel Miller; etc.)" (Laws gives three broadside texts on pp. 104-112 of ABFBB)
Belden, pp. 133-136, "The Oxford Girl" (2 texts)
Randolph 150, "The Noel Girl" (7 texts plus 3 excerpts and 2 fragments, 5 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 108-111, "The Noel Girl" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 150A)
Eddy 104, "The Murdered Girl" (8 texts, 2 tunes, but Laws assigns the B text to "The Banks of the Ohio" and omits the others. It would appear that Eddy's A and C texts belong here)
Gardner/Chickering 19, "The Knoxville Girl" (2 texts)
BrownII 65, "The Lexington Murder" (3 texts plus 6 excerpts, 1 fragment, and mention of 3 more)
Chappell-FSRA 63, "Nell Cropsey, III" (1 text, which despite its title does not mention Cropsey and appears to be simply a version of this song with perhaps some mixture with "Banks of the Ohio")
Hudson 30, pp. 141-143, "The Wexford Girl" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 159-164, "The Wexford Girl; Hanged I Shall Be; The Prentice Boy" (3 texts, which despite the collective title are all called "Knoxville Girl"; 1 tune on p. 402)
Brewster 36, "The Wexford Girl (The Cruel Miller)" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 88-90, "Hang-ed I Shall Be" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 71, "The Miller's Apprentice, or The Oxford Tragedy" (5 texts, 5 tunes)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 56, "Wexford City" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 634-636, "The Wexford Girl" (2 texts, 2 tunes); pp. 638-640, "The Worcester Tragedy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Mackenzie 115, "Waterford Town" (1 text)
Manny/Wilson 98, "The Wexford Lass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 785-787, "The Lexington Murder" (2 texts)
Doerflinger, pp. 288-290, "The Wexford Girl" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 225, "The Wexford Girl" (1 text+5 fragments of another text)
Warner 7, "The Waxford Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 150-151, "Knoxville Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 737, "The Knoxville Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 327, "The Oxford Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 115-116, "Knoxville Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 90, "The Wesford Girl" (2 texts)
MacSeegTrav 75, "The Wexford Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 224, "Knoxville Girl" (1 text)
BBI, ZN1624, "Let all pretending Lovers"; ZN3196, "Young men and maidens all, give ear unto what I relate"
DT 353, CRUELMIL* OXFRDTRG* PRETPOL2; (628), WXFRDGRL
Roud #263
RECORDINGS:
Blue Sky Boys, "Story of the Knoxville Girl" (Montgomery Ward 7327, c. 1937)
Cope Brothers, "Knoxville Girl" (King 589, 1947)
Mary Delaney, "Town of Linsborough" (on IRTravellers01)
Foster & James "The Knoxville Girl" (Supertone 9260, 1928)
Marie Hare, "The Wexford Lass" (on MRMHare01)
Louisiana Lou, "The Export Girl" (Bluebird B-5424, 1934)
Asa Martin & James [Doc] Roberts "Knoxville Girl" (Conqueror 7837, 1931)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "The Knoxville Girl" (Brunswick 110/Vocalion 5121, 1927)
Aulton Ray, "Maxwell Girl" "Maxwell Girl" (Gennett 6205/Challenge 335 [as Charlie Prescott]/Silvertone 5084, 1927; Supertone 9250, 1928)
Arthur Tanner, "The Knoxville Girl" (Silvertone 3515, 1926) (Columbia 15145-D, 1927)
Mildred Tuttle, "Expert Town (The Oxford Girl)" (AFS; on LC12)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Antiq. c. E.9(125), "The Berkshire Trgedy [sic]" or "The Wittam Miller" ("Young men and maidens all give ear"), unknown, c.1700; also Firth c.17(216), "The Berkshire Tragedy" or "The Wittam Miller," unknown, 1796; Harding B 6(100), Douce Ballads 3(1b), Harding B 6(101), Harding B 6(102), Firth b.28(40a), "The Berkshire Tragedy" or "The Wittam Miller"; Harding B 6(96), "The Berkshire Trgedy [sic]" or "The Wittam Miller"; Harding B 6(98), "The Wittham-Miller" or "The Berkshire Tragedy"; 2806 c.17(40), Harding B 28(224), "Bloody Miller" ("My parents educated, and good learning gave to me"); Firth c.17(110), Harding B 11(752), Harding B 11(753), Harding B 11(754), Harding B 11(755), "[The] Cruel Miller"; Harding B 15(74a), "Cruel Miller" or "Love and Murder"; Firth c.17(109), "Cruel Miller" or "Love and Murder!"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of the Ohio" [Laws F5] (plot)
cf. "Camden Town" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Oxford Tragedy
The Expert Girl
Johnny McDowell
The Prentice Boy
The Cruel Miller
The Miller Boy
Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You (Carter Family version)
NOTES: Ozark folklore links this to the murder of one Lula Noel, whose body was discovered by the Cowskin River in Missouri in 1892. The song, however, is obviously older. Doerflinger traces it to a broadside about a murder committed at Reading, England in 1774. - RBW
Botkin, following Cox (who follows Belden), traces it to a British broadside, "Berkshire Tragedy" or "The Wittam Miller", circa 1700. - NR
Laws also lists this broadside in his catalog (it is, indeed, one of the texts he prints), but adopts his title based on common traditional usage.
Laws, in fact, draws a stemma, starting from the "Berkshire Tragedy," and listing a total of seven "recensions" (p. 119), though he considers the broadside to be merely of eighteenth century date. I have a problem with the whole reconstruction, though: It's too literary. Even if one assumes the original ballad was a broadside (and I think Laws assumes this more often than is justified), it does not follow that its entire history is found in the broadsides. The song is so common that one must suspect the larger share of the broadsides to be derived from tradition, rather than being the source of tradition. - RBW
In Peacock pp. 638-640 version A the girl is pregnant, as in Laws' text of "The Cruel Miller" ( _American Ballads from British Broadsides_ chapter IV, p. 111).
Broadside Bodleian Firth b.28(40a), printed in London between 1800 and 1811, has 22 8-line verses; shelfmark Antiq. c. E.9(125), with the same text as Firth b.28(40a) has an estimated print date of c.1700. These are all clearly recognizable as the same ballad, down to the "bleeding at the nose" line. - BS
The "Love and Murder" broadsides listed here should not be confused with the other numerous broadsides of that title, many of which are versions of The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (The Gosport Tragedy; Pretty Polly) [Laws P36A/B]. ["Love and Murder" is a very common title for broadsides, which I suppose proves that cheap journalism is not a modern invention. - RBW] - BS, (RBW)
File: LP35
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NAME: Wexford Insurgent, The
DESCRIPTION: "The heroes of Wexford have burst through their chains." The Shelmaliers lead the attack and trail the retreat. The Sassenach dragoons "have been trampled to death ... O! long in fair England each maiden may mourn."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion death England Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1798 - Irish rebellion against British rule
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 71, "The Wexford Insurgent" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This anonymous, probably mid-19th-century piece, displays the marks of the drawing-room rather than the tap-room or cottage in its language."
_Webster's Third New International Dictionary_: sassenach: "a typical Englishman or something considered typical of England -- often used disparagingly by Scots and Irish." [Derived from the same root as "Saxon" -- an ironic description, given that the first invaders of Ireland were almost all Anglo-Norman barons and their French-speaking retainers. - RBW]
The Irish baronies of Shelmalier, East and West, are in County Wexford. - BS
File: Moyl071
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NAME: Wexford Lass, The: see The Wexford (Oxford, Knoxville, Noel) Girl [Laws P35] (File: LP35)
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NAME: Wexford Massacre, The
DESCRIPTION: "They knelt around the cross divine, the matron and the maid... Three hundred fair and helpless ones... Had battled for their own." The three hundred have fallen at the hands of Cromwell's English. They pray Heaven will avenge the wrong
AUTHOR: M. J. Barry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I)
KEYWORDS: Ireland battle death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 23, 1641 - Outbreak of the revolt which eventually becomes "The War of the Three Kingdoms." Catholics in Ulster rebel to earn religious liberty, but commit too many brutalities against Protestants to allow peace. To make matters worse, one of their leaders, Sir Phelim O'Neill, claims authority from Charles I (see P. Berresford Ellis, _A History of the Irish Working Class_, p. 42; C.V. Wedgwood, _The King's War 1641-1647_, p. 26). Charles declares that O'Neill's commission is a forgery, but the forces arrayed against Charles in England refuse to believe this.
Nov. 29, 1641 - Battle of Julianstown. A small force of loyalist troops is scattered by rebels. The "Old English" (English immigrants who arrived before the reign of Elizabeth), afraid of the rebels, feel compelled to join their revolt. The English are forced to raise large forces to suppress the movement. They raise the money for this by selling the rights to land expected to be confiscated from rebels. The English government is now committed to punishing Ireland -- and to blaming Charles for the troubles
Aug 1642 - The English Civil War turns "hot," causing England to concentrate mostly on its internal affairs and leave Ireland to tend its own house
Oct 1642 - "Confederation of Kilkenny." The rebels try (and fail) to form a united governmental and religious front
1643 - Inconclusive fighting. The English Civil War draws off more and more English soldiers. All sides in Ireland alternate between fighting, negotiating, and calling on King Charles. In the coming years, Charles will make various deals (usually of toleration in return for troops), but none amount to anything. The Irish factions are unable to unite in any way. Assorted battles are fought, but none are decisive. The Irish have placed themselves in the worst possible position: Clearly opposed to the English, but without the organization to oppose them. As soon as there is a united English government, the Irish can expect to face its wrath.
1649 - The English execute King Charles and declare a commonwealth. England is at last united and ready to deal with Ireland.
August 1649 - Oliver Cromwell (the future Lord Protector of England) arrives in Ireland to regain control of the island. In theory, he is fighting Irish rebels; in practice, his chief opponents are royalists (as at Drogheda)
Sep 11, 1649 - Cromwell captures Drogheda. He backs this up with a massacre -- at the very least, the garrison and the Catholic clergy are killed. His enemies report that he slaughtered indiscriminately
October 1649 - Cromwell attacks and captures Wexford
May 26, 1650 - Cromwell leaves Ireland. In his absence, the struggle continues until May 1652, but the Irish/Royalist position is already doomed; they can neither agree on a plan nor find an acceptable leader. The closest thing they have to a commander, the Duke of Ormonde (1610-1688, a staunch supporter of the Stuarts who would be Lord Lieutenant under Charles II), flees to the continent in December 1650
1652 - The English parliament passes its Act of Settlement. Cromwell will significantly alter the Act in 1653, but not in a way as to benefit the Irish. The Act is such as to deprive nearly everyone alive in Ireland of at least some property. The English send in settlers to take their places. The poverty which is to afflict Ireland for centuries dates largely from this incident
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 96-97, "The Wexford Massacre" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, pp. 205-206, "The Wexford Massacre"
NOTES: In the 1630s, as Charles I found himself in more and more trouble in England, he tried to strengthen his Irish position by offering the rights to Catholics known as the "Graces" (see Mike Cronin, _A History of Ireland_, pp. 70-71). They didn't really make the Irish happy, but at least his lieutenant Wentworth was a good administrator. He was recalled in 1639, and executed 1641.
The rebellion started in Ulster as the Catholics tried to throw off the Protestants who ran the plantation and made life nearly impossible for Catholics. The rebellion probably could have been quashed easily -- except that Charles I and parliament couldn't agree on what to do, letting things get out of hand. Charles negotiated with all parties, but -- being Charles -- he never took his promises seriously.
The 1641 revolt had resulted in the death of some Protestants (and of course the tales grew with the telling). Oliver Cromwell -- who had no mercy even on the English -- was appointed in 1649 to stamp out royalists and rebels in Ireland.
Cromwell took Drogheda on September 11, 1649, and put the garrison, and the general population, to death. (Ironically, most of the population of Drogheda was English; see Peter and Iona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, pp. 154-155.) Garrisons which surrendered quickly were allowed to live, but soon after Wexford was subjected to the same treatment; according to Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 17, Cromwell killed 2000 people there, including 250 women (cf. Fry/Fry, p. 155).
Cromwell left Ireland in 1650, but later saw to it that any who had not fervently supported him was punished, usually by loss of lands (The Frys compare the residue of Irish land to "an impoverished wilderness, rather like a South African homeland").
Exactly how much damage Cromwell did is hard to tell. The Frys state that "A third of the country's Catholics had been killed" (p. 156; compare Robert Kee, _The Most Distressful Country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, p. 16). Cronin states that the surviving population "numbered no more than half a million"; the Frys also quote a figure of half a million. 
P. Berresford Ellis, _A History of the Irish Working Class_, p. 43, quotes Leyburn's comparison with the Mongol hordes and cites (pp. 43-44) Petty's statistics that, of an Irish population of 1,448,000, "some 616,000 perished by sword, famine, and plague. Of this number 504,000 were native Irish while 112,000 were colonists. A further 40,000 decided to leave Ireland to enlist in European armies... 100,000 Irish... were sold as slaves to the West Indies and other colonies." This of course is more than half the population of Ireland, which is impossible; I've never seen anyone else quote such numbers. But it still surely qualifies as the worst genocide of the era.
And Cromwell then imposed the 1652 Act of Settlement, which pushed the entire native population into Connaught (sending them "to Hell or Connaught" -- Golway, p. 28; Cronin, p. 74); Golway reports that, before the Act of Settlement, Catholics still owned 60% of the land; afterward, only 20%. And from the time the act was passed to the time it finally went into effect was less than three years -- and the initial law had allowed less time than that! (Fry/Fry, p. 157).
Cromwell's mass deportation -- again, something not seen for thousands of years; the last to practice such a thing seems to have been the Romans with Carthage, and before that the Assyrian and Babylonian tyrants -- had the interesting effect of bringing together two long-separate groups: The native Irish and the "Old English" settlers who had arrived in Norman times suddenly found themselves on the same side -- and both opposed to the Protestants (Kee, pp. 15-16).
The goal, of course, was to make the Protestants the dominant population. But, of course, it didn't work; there weren't enough Protestants in Britain to occupy the land, so the same old situation prevailed; The Protestants owned the land, but their tenants were Catholic. The only effect was to reduce the tenants' rights to nothing: They could be displaced at whim. This of course assured that the tenants would spend everything they had to try to stay on their land.
Cromwell cannot be considered the sole source of the Irish problems, but he probably contributed more to them than any other man. Indeed, more than any other five or six, including even William of Orange. - RBW
File: PGa096
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NAME: Wexford Schooner, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams of Kelly shot on Tara Hill. Then he dreams of "a schooner down from Wexford town cast on Wicklow's coast." Captain Laurence Murphy and the crew, who "have met a watery grave," are named.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 61, "The Wexford Schooner" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Wicklow county is north of Wexford. - BS
I have this funny feeling that this refers to the 1798, with Kelly being "Kelly, the Boy from Killane," wounded at the Three Bullet Gate at New Ross. The wrecked ship may be the one by which Bagenal Harvey, the commander at New Ross, tried to flee; according to Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty_, p. 268, Harvey was captured in a cave, though he doesn't mention a shipwreck. But this is only speculation based on very little information from the song. - RBW
File: Ran061
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NAME: Wha Saw the Forty-Second
DESCRIPTION: "(Wha saw/Saw ye) the forty-second? Wha saw then gaun away? Wha saw the forty-second Marching to the (Broomielaw)?" The singer describes the equipment (often poor) and the rations assigned to the soldiers of the regiment 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Montgomerie)
KEYWORDS: soldier travel nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 98, "(Who saw the Forty-Second)" (1 text)
DT, MARCH42*
Roud #13073
NOTES: The Forty-Second is the famous Black Watch, which fought in the '45 Jacobite Rebellion and the Crimea and beyond.
According to Michael Brander, _The Scottish Highlanders and their Regiments_, and Ian S. Hallows, _Regiments and Corps of the British Army_, six companies were raised in the Highlands in 1729 and designated the Black Watch (Brander, p. 203). In 1739 (Hallows, p. 202) or 1740 (Brander, p. 203), it was raised to regimental strength and numbered the 43rd Infantry. In 1751, this number was changed to the 42nd (Hallows). In 1758 it was designated the Royal Highlanders (Brander).
A second battalion was added in 1780 (Brander, p. 205). This was split off in 1784 and became the 73rd Regiment, though it later rejoined the Black Watch; since 1881, they have been the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (Hallows).
This recombination and reorganization, part of the Cardwell Reforms of 1881, changed the character of the regiment, which until then had been a Highland force. The Black Watch's recruiting area was now designated as Fife, Forfar, and Perth, with Perth as the headquarters. These shires are almost entirely Lowland. So, while the regiment is still designated a Highland regiment, it isn't really (Brander, p. 199).
The companies which comprised the Black Watch had been raised starting around 1725 (Brander, p. 19); the name itself apparently came from the dark tartan they wore when they were amalgamated and given a common uniform.
Their record was quite impressive. Hallows lists their battle honors, which include (but are not limited to) fighting in the Carribean in the Seven Years War; much service in India; ten battles in the Peninsular Wars against Napoleon; Waterloo; battles in South Africa; awards for Alma and Sebastopol in the Crimean War; Egypt; the Sudan; in the First World War, the Marne, all three battles at Ypres, the Somme, and some troops were in Palestine; there are honors for Tobruk, El Alamein, Sicily, and Burma in the second World War, and beyond.
This may explain why the regiment is listed in the song as marching to various places. It certainly got around a lot! And few regiments were more famous.
I can't help but add that this greatest of British regiments, which held together despite service in the Crimea and the Sudan and so many other failures, has in the early twenty-first century been amalgamated into a "Super Scottish Regiment." The reason? People won't join because they refuse to go to Iraq. - RBW
File: MSNR098
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NAME: Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)
DESCRIPTION: "We'll sing you a song of Peace and Love." "'God Bless England.'" When we were savages she raised us up "and sent us to heaven in her own good time." "Irishmen, forget the past." Soon we shall be civilized. "Won't Mother England be surprised."
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: England Ireland humorous nonballad political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 250-251, "Whack Fol the Diddle" (1 text)
DT WHACKFOL*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 686-688, "Whack Fol the Diddle" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Whack Fol the Diddle" (on IRClancyMakem03)
NOTES: Most of the charges in this song are, of course, true -- and, in fact, the final stanza has in some ways come true also; in the early twenty-first century, the Irish economy is growing much faster than the English.
I can't help but point out one irony, though: The Anglo-Irish conflicts were caused, more than anything else, by the problems between Catholic and Protestant -- and it was the English who made the Irish firmly Catholic! Celtic Christianity had been largely monastic rather than Episcopal, and had celebrated Easter according to a different calendar. It was England, at the Synod of Whitby, that forced the English Celtic church to follow the Catholic calendar, and the English invasion of Ireland was authorized by Pope Adrian IV to bring the Irish back into proper episcopal practice. The Irish have followed those English practices for over 800 years; it is the English who have abandoned them.
According to Hoagland, p. 784, Peadar Kearney (O'Cearnaigh; 1883-1942) was a member of the IRA and participated in a minor role in the 1916 Easter Rebellion. He also wrote the words to "The Soldier's Song" ("Soldiers are we Whose lives are pledged to Ireland; Some have come From a land beyond the waves"; in Gaelic, "Amhran na bhFiann"; composed 1907), one of the best-known rebel songs and a future national anthem, but a song which does not seem to have entered into tradition. Happily, since such a violent item would be reasonable as a military song but which is, frankly, completely unsuitable to be used as national anthem of a civilized country.
Other Keaney songs in this index include "Down By the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)," "Michael Dwyer (II)," and perhaps "Erin Go Braugh! (I)" and "Fish and Chips."
According to Hoagland, the British banned the singing of three Kearney songs, "The Soldier's Song," this item, and "The Tri-Colored Ribbon." The effect, of course, was to make them more popular.  - RBW
File: OLcM0250
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NAME: Whale Song, The: see Crazy Song to the Air of "Dixie" (File: San342)
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NAME: Whale-Catchers, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer and his shipmates sail to Greenland after whales. He describes hardships of their lives, and looks forward to arrival back home, when they will make the alehouses of London roar. When they've spent all their money, they'll go back to Greenland.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900
KEYWORDS: ship shore work whale whaler
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 100, "The Whale Catchers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3291
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy"
NOTES: This song is distinct from "The Greenland Whale Fishery." It shares much of its final verse with a song called "Adieu, My Lovely Nancy" [indexed as "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy"] collected from an Irish immigrant in Missouri and sung by the Copper family in Sussex. - PJS
File: VWL100
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NAME: Whale, The: see The Greenland Whale Fishery [Laws K21] (File: LK21)
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NAME: Whalefish Song, The: see The Greenland Whale Fishery [Laws K21] (File: LK21)
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NAME: Whaleman's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on the briny ocean On a whaleship I did go; Oft times I thought of distant friends...." The singer relates the voyage around Cape Horn and describes how Captain and officers abuse the crew. He vows to go sailing no more.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1856 (Journal from the Catalpa)
KEYWORDS: whaler hardtimes abuse
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 15-17, "The Whaleman's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2000
NOTES: Huntington does not indicate what tune he used for this song; perhaps he made it up. (He can hardly have used a tune from other versions of this song, since he doesn't list any.) The metrical form, however, strongly suggests "Jim Jones at Botany Bay." - RBW
File: SWMS015
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NAME: Whalemen's Wives, The
DESCRIPTION: Cautionary song, warns whalemen of what their wives will do while they're "on the raging deep." Wives spend their husbands' half pay, pawn their belongings & run around with fancy men, only wanting their husbands back when their pockets are well lined.
AUTHOR: Captain R. W. Nye
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: whaler warning wife sailor
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 232-234, "The Whalemen's Wives" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9156
File: Harl232
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NAME: Whalen's Fate: see James Whalen [Laws C7] (File: LC07)
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NAME: Whaler's Song (II): see Greenland (The Whaler's Song, Once More for Greenland We Are Bound) (File: Ord317)
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NAME: Whalers' Song (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "There she lies there she lies Like an isle on the ocean's breast...." The crew spots a whale and pursues; they take the animal. They think about returning home to New England, and remind those who use the oil of the dangers whalers face 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1853 (Journal from the Lexington)
KEYWORDS: whaler home return
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 17-20, "The Whaler's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2001
File: SWMS017
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NAME: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
DESCRIPTION: "What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Ev'rything to God in prayer." The singer describes all the ways in which God can help with life's troubles and burdens
AUTHOR: Words: Joseph Medlicott Scriven (1819-1886) / Music: Charles Crozat Converse (1832-1919)
EARLIEST_DATE: Words written 1855, tune 1870 (Johnson)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad Jesus
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 364, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" (1 text)
DT, FRNDJSUS*
ADDITIONAL: Charles Johnson, One Hundred and One Famous Hymns (Hallberg, 1982), pp. 182-183, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16213
RECORDINGS:
Caravans, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (States S-128, n.d.)
E. R. Nance Singers, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (ARC, unissued, 1930)
Old Southern Sacred Singers, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (Brunswick 172, 1927; Supertone S-2117, 1930)
Frank Welling & John McGhee, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (Broadway 8136, c. 1931)
SAME_TUNE:
Hymn to Cheeses (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 12)
What a Friend We Have in Congress (on PeteSeeger39, PeteSeeger44)
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back (by John Brill; DT, DUMPBOSS)
NOTES: According to Johnson, Scriven had two fiancees die shortly before marriage. He ended up writing this, in 1855, for his mother. - RBW
File: FSWB364A
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NAME: What are Little Boys made of?: see What's Little Babies Made Of? (File: SKE79)
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NAME: What Are Little Girls Made Of?: see What's Little Babies Made Of? (File: SKE79)
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NAME: What Blood on the Point of Your Knife: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
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NAME: What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man
DESCRIPTION: Jenny curses the money that caused her mother to sell her to an old man. She cannot please him. She will try to follow her aunt Kittie's plan: "I'll cross him, I'll crack him until I have brak him." "Oh, weary's my life with a crazy old man"
AUTHOR: Robert Burns
EARLIEST_DATE: 1792 (see NOTE)
KEYWORDS: age marriage nonballad husband mother wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, WHATCANA
Roud #1295
RECORDINGS:
Jane Turiff, "What Can a Young Lassie Dae Wi' An Auld Man?" (on Voice15)
NOTES: Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Reviews - Volume 15" by Fred McCormick - 27.2.99: "I suspect however that he [Burns] re-created it from a traditional original, and my supposition is supported by the fact that he set it to a pre-existing air, which already bore the title of the present piece" [but Jane Turiff's version on Voice15 uses one of "The False Bride" tunes (for example, "I Loved a Lass" on SCMacCollSeeger01)]. - BS
The dating of this piece is slightly problematic. Ben Schwartz sent in a 1791 EARLIEST DATE based on the Burns Country web site. The Wordsworth _Works of Robert Burns_ (p. 633) also dates it to that year.
The best reference I have, however, is James Kinsley's _Burns: Complete Poems & Songs_, which dates it 1792. That is, I think, based on its publication in volume IV of the _Scots Musical Museum_.
My best guess is that the song was written 1791, published 1792 -- but I'm listing the 1792 date just in case. - RBW
File: RcWCAYLD
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NAME: What Child Is This?
DESCRIPTION: In response to the question, "What child is this" whom Mary cradles and angels hymn, we are tols "This, this is Christ the king." The child's humble estate is described, and listeners urged to praise him
AUTHOR: Words: William Chatterton Dix
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: Christmas religious Jesus nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 379, "What Child Is This?" (1 text)
DT, WHATCHLD
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "What Child Is This?" (on PeteSeeger37, PeteSeeger42)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Greensleeves" (tune)
File: FSWB379A
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NAME: What Do You Think o' Me Noo, Kind Sirs?
DESCRIPTION: "I am a young man, I live wi' my mither, A braw decent kimmer, I trow, Bu when I speak o' takin' a wife, She aye gets up in a lowe." He notes that someone is needed to care for the property. He courts Betty; she answers, "Who cares for you or your kye?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: mother home age youth courting rejection humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 115-116, "What Do You Think of Me Noo, Kind Sirs?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6141
File: FVS115
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NAME: What Do You Think of Me Noo, Kind Sirs?: see What Do You Think o' Me Noo, Kind Sirs? (File: FVS115)
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NAME: What Do You Think of My Darling?
DESCRIPTION: The singer lives on a small pension. His wife makes him do the nasty jobs around the house and "if I don't do it right it's a slap ... a kick or a clout" She drinks, gossips, is ugly and dirty. He prays "the devil like lightening might sweep her away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Dibblee/Dibblee)
KEYWORDS: shrewishness marriage drink ordeal wife
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dibblee/Dibblee, p. 102, "What Do You Think of My Darling?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12453
File: Dib102
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NAME: What Does the Deep Sea Say?
DESCRIPTION: The big boat is coming around the bend, doing nothing but killing good men. Vicksburg was a hilly town, until the Yankee gunboats blew it down. Cho: "What does the deep sea say?...It moans and it groans, it slashes and it foams/And rolls on its weary way"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Vernon Dalhart)
KEYWORDS: battle Civilwar fight violence war river sea ship
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 1862 - Union general Ulysses S. Grant begins his Vicksburg campaign. His first four attempts to reach the city fail
Apr 16, 1863 - Porter's gunboats run past Vicksburg, opening the way for Grant's final successful campaign
May 12-17, 1863 - Grant fights a series of minor battles which bring him to the defenses of Vicksburg
May 22, 1863 - Grant's attempt to take Vicksburg by storm is a bloody failure. The Union army settles down to a siege
July 4, 1863 - Lt. General Pemberton surrenders Vicksburg
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, DEEPSEA
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "What Does the Deep Sea Say" (Velvet Tone 1960-V, 1929)
Bob Ferguson (pseud. for Bob Miller) "What Does the Deep Sea Say" (Columbia 15727-D, 1932; prob. rec. 1931)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "What Does the Deep Sea Say" (Brunswick 483, 1930)
Bill Palmer's Trio, "What Does the Deep Sea Say?" (Bluebird B-5034, 1933)
Uncle Bud & his Plow Boys, "What Does the Deep Sea Say?" (Clarion 5418-C, 1931)
NOTES: Digital Tradition assigns authorship to Woody Guthrie. Given the date of Dalhart's recording, this is pretty near impossible. The McFarland-Gardner record credits this to "Miller." - PJS
File: DTdeepse
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NAME: What Folks Are Made Of: see What's Little Babies Made Of? (File: SKE79)
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NAME: What Gives the Wheat Fields Blades of Steel?
DESCRIPTION: "What gives the wheatfields blades of steel? What points the rebel cannon?... What breaks the oath Of the men of the south?... Hark to the answer: Slavery." The evils of slavery, and the poison and treason it causes, are described in detail
AUTHOR: Words: John Greenleaf Whittier / Music: Martin Luther
EARLIEST_DATE: 1862
KEYWORDS: slave slavery freedom political nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 236-237, "What Gives the Wheat Fields Blades of Steel?" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Mighty Fortress" (tune)
File: SBoA236
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NAME: What Harm Has Jesus Done?
DESCRIPTION: "Tell me what harm has Jesus done you Sinners all hate him so." Jews nailed him to the tree and gave him a cup of vinegar which he drank. Gabriel in the morning will separate the "sheep on the right and the goats on the left"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus Jew violence execution dying Bible
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 174, "What Harm Has Jesus Done?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2285
RECORDINGS:
Chas Owens and family, "What Harm Has Jesus Done?" (on MRHCreighton)
NOTES: At the time of recording, Charles Owens was 99, living in a small colony of Negroes in the Maritimes; they are descendants of slaves, and Creighton theorizes that they brought this jubilee song with them from the U.S. - PJS
We should probably recall that the Romans, not the Jews, crucified Jesus.
The reference to Jesus drinking vinegar is a mistranslation, though "vinegar" is the word used by the King James Bible in all four references (Matthew 27:48, Mark 15:36, Luke 23:36, and John 19:29 all use the same word). The four Gospels also use the same word for the beverage (while disagreeing on the delivery method), but its normal usage is "sour wine" (which was less expensive than sweet), not "vinegar," though of course vinegar could be made from it. Still, the best translation would probably be something like "cheap wine." It was a painkiller -- and, in context, it might well hasten death, since alcohol is a diuretic, and dehydration is one of the main causes of death during crucifixion.
The parable of the Sheep and the Goats is in Matthew 25:31-46. In it, Jesus, not Gabriel, separates the souls into groups. - RBW
File: CrMa174
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NAME: What Irish Boys Can Do
DESCRIPTION: "They insult an Irishman ... it happens every day." But the Irish are noble and hospitable. Think of Irish warriors, like Wellington and the 69th at Bull Run, and poets Lover and Moore. Think of Irish songs and plays. "Then, why slur upon the Irish?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1865 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 31(102))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 23, "What Irish Boys Can Do" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 31(102), "What Irish Boys Can Do", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864 
LOCSinging, sb40474a, "What Irish Boys Can Do", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(102): The subtitle is "Answer to No Irish Need Apply." Printer H. De Marsan is at 54 Chatham Street
The reference to the Civil War dates and places this song:
"And then, too, in the present war between the North and South, 
Let no dirty slur on Irish ever escape your mouth; 
Sure, did you ne'er hear tell of the 69th, who bravely fought at Bull-Run! 
And Meagher, of the seven days fight, that was in front, of Richmond, 
With General Shields, who fought so brave for the Flag Red. White, and Blue? 
And anything like a bayonet-charge the Irish boys can do."
For more on the Irish in the American Civil War see the Index notes to "By the Hush." [Also "The Irish Sixty-Ninth." - RBW]
For the general issue see "No Irish Need Apply." 
Broadsides LOCSinging sb40474a and Bodleian Harding B 31(102): 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: OCon023
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NAME: What is a Home Without Love?: see What is Home Without Love? (File: RcWIAHWL)
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NAME: What is Home Without Babies?: see What is Home Without Love? (File: RcWIAHWL)
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NAME: What is Home Without Love?
DESCRIPTION: A lonely rich man, passing a cottage window, sees a happy husband, wife, and baby. He weeps,  "What is a home without baby To kiss, to tease and adore...."  Alone in a mansion, with the wife who married him for his money, he repeats his lament
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recordings, Roy Harvey)
KEYWORDS: loneliness marriage baby children family husband wife
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rorrer, p. 82, "What Is Home Without Babies?" (1 text)
Roud #15947 and 12395
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "What is a Home Without Love" (Conqueror 7881, 1931)
Boone County Entertainers, "What Is Home Without Babies" (Supertone 9492, 1929)
Loman D. Cansler, "What Is a Home Without Love?" (on Cansler1)
Roy Harvey, "What Is Home Without Love" (Columbia, unissued, 1927)
Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers, "What Is Home Without Babies" (Brunswick 268, 1928) (Paramount 3267, 1931)
Monroe Brothers, "What Is Home Without Love" (Montgomery Ward M-4746, 1935; Bluebird B-6363, 1936)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "What Is Home Without Babies" (Columbia 15307-D, 1928)
Red Fox Chasers, "What Is Home Without Babies" (Supertone 9492, 1929)
SAME_TUNE:
Reoording: Howard Dixon & Frank Gerald (The Rambling Duet) "Woman's Answer to 'What Is Home Without Love'" (Bluebird B-7450, 1938)
NOTES: Again, Cansler implies that this is in Randolph or Belden, but we don't seem to have indexed it, or I haven't found it. - PJS
It's not in Randolph, at least, and if it's in Belden, it's under an odd title and uses an unusual first stanza. When I indexed Rorrer, I initially omitted the song because I couldn't believe such a piece of slop was traditional. - RBW
File: RcWIAHWL
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NAME: What Kin' o Pants Does the Gambler Wear?: see Sweet Thing (I) (File: R443A)
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NAME: What Kind of Crowns Do the Angels Wear
DESCRIPTION: "What kind of crowns do the angels wear? The angels wear the golden crown, the golden crown, I'm bound to rest, I'm bound to rest... bound to rest with God." "What kind of robe do the angels wear?" "What kind of slippers do the angels wear?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 655, "What Kind of Crowns Do the Angels Wear" (1 text)
Roud #11835
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Can't Cross Jordan" (floating verses)
cf. "Going Up (Golden Slippers II)" (floating verses)
NOTES: The key line of these verses obviously float, but the form makes it an independent song. Barely. - RBW
File: Br3655
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NAME: What Month Was Jesus Born In?
DESCRIPTION: "What month was Jesus born in? Last month in the year." The song details Jesus' birth in December and the humble cercumstances of his birth.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (recording, Heavenly Gospel Singers)
KEYWORDS: Bible religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 58-59, "(What Month Was Jesus Born In?") (1 text); pp. 245-246, "What Month Was Jesus Born In?" (1 tune, partial text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 384, "Tell Me What Month Was My Jesus Born In?" (1 text)
Roud #13975
RECORDINGS:
Vera Ward Hall, "No Room At the Inn/The Last Month of the Year" (on NFMAla5) (on LomaxCD1706); "What Month Was Jesus Born In" (on ReedWard01)
Heavenly Gospel Singers, "When Was Jesus Born?" (Bluebird B-8907, 1941; on Babylon)
Pete Seeger, "What Month Was Jesus Born" (on PeteSeeger12)
NOTES: It should be noted that there is no Biblical evidence that Jesus was born in December; indeed, those scholars who have an opinion generally think he was born in spring.
In any case, December was not always the "last month of the year"; in the classical Roman calendar, it was the tenth month, and even after this changed, it was remembered for quite some time. In addition, for much of the Middle Ages, the new year began on March 25 (approximating the equinox).
Even if we ignore all that, Jesus was Jewish, and would have used the Jewish calendar, which had no month of December. Nor was its (approximate) equivalent of December the last month of the year. - RBW
File: CNFM245
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NAME: What Put the Blood?: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
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NAME: What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?: see The Drunken Sailor (Early in the Morning) (File: Doe048)
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NAME: What the Old Hen Said
DESCRIPTION: Singer hears an old hen, looking over her brood of chicks, exclaim that she loves them just as a cat loves its kittens, or a ewe its lamb. She calls them to her; they nestle in their "feather bed"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: pride love lullaby animal chickens
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 185-186, "What the Old Hen Said" (1 text)
ST RcWTOHS (Partial)
Roud #5451
RECORDINGS:
Margaret MacArthur, "What the Old Hen Said" (on MMacArthur01)
NOTES: A very small narrative, but a narrative nonetheless. - PJS
File: RcWTOHS
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NAME: What Was Your Name in the States?
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, what was your name in the States? Was it Thompson, or Johnson, or Bates? Did you murder your wife and fly for your life? Say, what was your name in the States?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: migrant travel crime
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Sandburg, p. 106, "What Was Your Name in the States?" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 861, "What Was Your name in the States?" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, NAMESTAT
Roud #4754
RECORDINGS:
Logan English, "What Was Your Name in the States?" (on LEnglish02)
File: San106
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NAME: What Will We Do When We'll Have No Money?
DESCRIPTION: Questions and answers. What will we do when we: have no money? hawk through town; marry a tinker? sell a tin can and walk with me man; marry a soldier? handle his gun; have a daughter? take it in hand and walk with me man.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1985 (IRTravellers01)
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous nonballad money
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, WHATWILL
Roud #16879
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "What Will We Do When We'll Have No Money?" (on IRTravellers01)
NOTES: The format of each verse of Mary Delaney's version on IRTravellers01 is "What will we do when [question]? All true lovers, what will we do then? [Answer], And we'll yodel it over again." - BS
Despite which, there is no yodel in this version. Delaney was the source for the song as sung by the Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior and June Tabor), which will be faniliar to many folk fans. - RBW
File: RcWWWDNM
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NAME: What Will You Do, Love
DESCRIPTION: He: What will you do when I sail away? She: I'll be true and pray for you. He: If I were untrue?" She: "I'd still be true but ... could not bear it!" He: If, near home, my ship were lost. She: If you were spared "I'd bless the morrow ... welcome thee"
AUTHOR: Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1842 (Samuel Lover's novel "Handy Andy")
KEYWORDS: love questions separation sea ship dialog
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 139, "What Will You Do, Love" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 407-408, "What Will You Do, Love?" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4223), "What Will You Do, Love?", A. Ryle and Co. (London) , 1845-1859 ; also Harding B 11(3584), "What Will You Do, Love"; Firth b.25(432), "What Will You Do, Love!"; Harding B 11(4222), "What Will You Do, Love?"
LOCSheet, sm1885 23659, "What Will You Do, Love", Grand Conservatory Pub. Co. (New York), 1885 (tune) 
LOCSinging, sb40552a, "What Will You Do, Love?", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also as103050, "What Will You Do, Love"
NOTES: Just what we needed. A Riley ballad before the guy has even been gone for seven years to let the girl realize what a jerk he is. - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging sb40552a: 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: OCon139
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NAME: What Will You Give Me If I Get Up?: see Lazy Mary (She Won't Get Up) (File: R396)
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NAME: What You Going To Do With a Drunken Sailor: see The Drunken Sailor (Early in the Morning) (File: Doe048)
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NAME: What You Gon'er Do That Day?
DESCRIPTION: "Venus, Venus, beautiful star, Beautiful star, beautiful star, Venus, Venus, beautiful star, Oh, what you gon'er do on that day?" Similarly, "Rocks in the mountains, fall on me...." "Some to the right, some to de left...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 649, "What You Gon'er Do That Day?" (1 text)
Roud #11941
File: Br3649
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NAME: What You Gwina Do When the World's on Fire?
DESCRIPTION: "What you gwina do when the world's on fire? I'm gonna jump in a hole o' water. What you gwina do when the water gets to boilin'? I'm a gonna kick and squeal and hollo."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: fire
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 470, "What You Gwina Do When the World's on Fire?" (1 fragment)
Roud #11789
File: Br3470
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NAME: What'll I Do with the Baby-O
DESCRIPTION: Song describes various things to do with baby: wrap him up in calico, put him in his cradle, wrap him in the table cloth, throw him in the hayloft, hang him in the tree top, etc. Also, "How in the world do the old folks know I like sugar in my coffee-O?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: drink food humorous lullaby playparty baby floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
SharpAp 228, "What'll we do with the Baby?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 26-27, "What'll I Do with the Baby-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 162, "What'll I Do with the Baby-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 234, "Charlie, Won't You Rock the Cradle" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 407, "Prettiest Little Baby In The County-O"; 408, "What'll We Do With The Baby-O?" (2 texts)
DT, DOBABYO
Roud #826
RECORDINGS:
Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, "Sugar in my Coffee" (Crown 3075, c. 1930)
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "What You Gonna Do with the Baby?" (Victor V-40268, 1930; rec. 1929)
Happy-Go-Lucky Boys, "Whatcha Gonna Do With the Baby?" (Bluebird B-8391, 1940)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, "What You Gonna Do With the Baby-O?" (King 538, 1946)
Frank Proffitt, "Baby-O" (Proffitt03)
Jean Ritchie & Roger Sprung, "What'll I Do With the Baby-O?" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchieWatsonCD1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rock-A-Bye Baby" (words)
cf. "Sugar In My Coffee" (floating lyrics)
File: R565
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NAME: What's Little Babies Made Of?
DESCRIPTION: "What's old women made of?... Reels and jeels and old spinning wheels, And that's what old women are made of." "What's little boys made of?... Piggins and pails and puppy dogs' tails." "What's little babies made of?... Sugar and..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1844 (Halliwell, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: nonballad children
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
SharpAp 227, "What are Little Boys made of?" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 79, "What's Little Babies Made Of?" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 143, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 303-304, "What Folks Are Made Of" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 76, "What are little boys made of?" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #320, pp. 175-176, "(What are little boysmade of?)"
Roud #821
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Song of All Nations" (concept)
NOTES: The notes to _The Annotated Mother Goose_ say that this has been attributed to Robert Southey, but also say that no supporting evidence has been offered. It does note that the first published version, Halliwell's, describes only what little boys and girls are made of. - RBW
File: SKE79
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NAME: What's Poor Mary Weepin' For (Poor Jenny Sits A-Weeping)
DESCRIPTION: "Poor (Mary/Jenny/Nellie/Sally) sits a-weeping, sits a-weeping, sits a-weeping, Poor Mary sits a-weeping All on a summer's day." "What's poor Mary weeping for...." "Because she wants to see her lad." "Rise up and choose another love."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1898 (Gomme)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting separation love
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All),Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 70, "(Oh, what is Jeannie weeping for)" (1 text)
DT, JEANWEEP
Roud #2118
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Sally Walker" (lyrics)
NOTES: There are versions of this which look a little like "Little Sally Walker," but the overall thrust is different enough that I had no hesitation in splitting them.
The version I know best is that recorded by Jeannie Robertson and picked up by the Fisher Family; I've used her title on that basis. - RBW
File: MSNR070
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NAME: What's Poor Mary Weeping For?: see Little Sally Walker (File: CNFM157)
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NAME: What's That Blood On Your Sword?: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
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NAME: What's the Lady's Motion? (Skip O'er the Mountain)
DESCRIPTION: "Skip o'er the mountain, tra-la-la-la-la (x3), Oh, she loves sugar and cheese." "What's the lady's motion, tra-la-la-la-la (x3), Oh, she loves sugar and cheese." "It's a very lovely motion...." "Yonder goes a redbird...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: food playparty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 87, "What's the Lady's Motion" (1 text)
Roud #7885
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Monkey Motions" (form)
File: Br3087
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NAME: What's the Life of a Man?
DESCRIPTION: Singer, walking, observes the leaves that have fallen, noting that a few days ago they were green and growing. He calls attention to the churchyard, and to those who have withered and passed like a leaf." (But man, unlike leaves, will rise to be judged.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Sharp mss.)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer, walking, observes the leaves that have fallen, noting that a few days ago they were green and growing, but a frost has withered them and a storm knocked them down. He calls attention to the churchyard, and to those who have withered and passed "like a leaf from a tree." (But man, unlike leaves, will rise again, according to scripture, and be judged.) Chorus: "What's the life of a man any more than the leaf?/A man has his seasons so why should he grieve?/For although in this world we appear bright and gay/Like a leaf we must wither and soon fade away"
KEYWORDS: age disability death nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 264, "What's The Life of a Man?" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, LIFEMAN*
Roud #848
RECORDINGS:
Mrs. William Towns, "What Is the Life of a Man Any More than the Leaves?" (on Ontario1)
NOTES: Some folks really know how to brighten up a day. - PJS
File: K264
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NAME: What's the Matter Now?
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls how, when she was 17, Damon wooed her with "ardent flame" and a "wounded heart." When she consented to marry, he at first gave in to her every whim. But now, his response to all requests is, "What's the matter now?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1820 (New Musical and Vocal Cabinet)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage request rejection
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, p. 255, "What's the Matter Now?" (1 text)
Roud #7757
NOTES: Even if the flowery tone were not a giveaway, the name Damon would surely prove the English broadside origin of this piece. How it wound up in tradition in Missouri neither I nor Belden could guess. - RBW
File: Beld255
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NAME: What's the Rhyme to Porringer?
DESCRIPTION: "O what's the rhyme to porringer? Ken ye the rhyme to porringer? King James the seventh had ae dochter, And he gave her to an Oranger."  "The lad has into England come And taken the crown." "James shall have his own again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1819 (Hogg)
KEYWORDS: royalty marriage Jacobite
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1688/1689 - Glorious Revolution deposes King James (II and VII) and replaces him with his nephew William III and his daugher Mary II
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 100, "(O what's the rhyme to porringer?)" (1 text)
DT, RHYMPORR
NOTES: I'm indexing this item with some qualms. The Montgomeries do not cite a source, and the handful of other references I've found aren't "folk."
But the context is clear: James (II of England and VII of Scotland; 1633-1701) was Catholic, but his heirs when he succeeded to the throne were his Protestant daughters Mary (1662-1694) and Anne (1665-1714). Mary was married to William of Orange (1650-1702), Stadtholder of Holland.
William, after a chaotic period in Dutch politics, seemed early in life to be almost disinherited, but gradually gained power in the 1670s. Charles II of England, meanwhile, was getting himself in a foreign policy mess, taking French money to avoid answering to Parliament for his anti-Dutch policy. William was able to take advantage in 1677 to marry the young princess Mary -- his first cousin; William was the son of James's sister.
Who just happened to be third in line for the throne. Charles II had no legitimate children, and his brother James had no sons (and neither of his daughters would leave an heir).
James II succeeded Charles II in 1685. The British were already worried -- James had been openly Catholic for 15 years. Early in his reign, he gave indications of favoring Catholics.
And then his second, Catholic, wife had a son. The "Old Pretender," potentially James III. James III was not a pretender; he was the proper heir in male descent. But he was Catholic.
Meanwhile, the French, who had been attacking the Dutch, instead sent an army into Germany. William of Orange saw the opening, and invaded England in 1688. In England, the Stuart regime collapsed like a house of cards; James "abdicated" by force in 1689. William and Mary were crowned jointly, the English succession was made officially Protestant, and a series of liberal reforms were agreed to that gave the coup the name "The Glorious Revolution."
Scotland didn't entirely agree. There was only one real battle against the invaders in 1689 (Killiekrankie), and it resulted in the death of Dundee, the leader of the anti-Orange faction. That largely calmed the revolt until 1714, when Anne, the last Stuart, died and was succeeded by the Hannoverian George I. But there were always rumbles below the surface, which would eventually result in the 1715, 1719, and 1745 Jacobite rebellions.
Obviously this item is about that. The question is, is it traditional? If the Montgomeries really found a copy in Scotland in the twentieth century, then it just about has to be, and deserves to be indexed. But mightn't they have just lifted it from Hogg? I suspect so, but there is enough doubt that I index the item. - RBW
File: MSNR100
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NAME: Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady)
DESCRIPTION: The young man comes to the young woman and asks her to wed. He offers her gold, silver, and land. She tells him she is not interested in these; "all I want is a (good young/handsome) man." That being offered, the two agree to marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883
KEYWORDS: courting marriage money virtue playparty
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Belden, pp. 506-507, "Madam, I Have Gold and Silver" (1 text)
Eddy 98, "Spanish Lady" (1 text); Eddy 131, "The Quaker's Wooing" (1 text, 1 tune); possibly Eddy 132, "The Sober Quaker" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 173, "The Wooing" (2 texts, the "A" text being "The Courting Case" and "B" being probably this piece)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 154-155, "Yonder Hill There Is a Widow" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 205, "Come My Little Roving Sailor" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 55, "Come, My Little Roving Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 71, "The Quaker's Wooing" (1 text, 1 tune); also Sandburg, p. 144, "Kind Miss" (1 text, 1 tune, primarily this piece but with one verse of "The Drowsy Sleeper")
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 804-805, "There She Stands, a Lovely Creature" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H532, p. 367, "Tarry Trousers" (1 text, 1 tune -- a curious version in which, after all the business about riches and a good young man, the girl finally sends the lad off by saying she has a sailor love)
OLochlainn-More 79A, "The Tarry Trousers" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 12, "Madam, I Have Gold and Silver" (1 text, starting with this song but ending with a "Ripest of Apples" verse and ending with a Riley stanza)
Hudson 37, pp. 151-152, "Annie Girl" (1 text, which conflates 2 verses of "The Drowsy Sleeper" [Laws M4], 2 or 3 of "Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady)" or "No, John, No: or similar, and 3 verses probably of "Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token)" [Laws N42])
JHCox 158, "The Spanish Lady" (1 text)SHenry H641, p. 383, "Ripest of Apples" (1 text, 1 tune, a tiny fragment of two verses, one of which often occurs with this song while the other is associated primarily with "Carrickfergus." The tune is not "Carrickfergus")
Creighton/Senior, pp. 199-200, "Quaker's Courtship" (1 fragment, 1 tune, which might be either this or "The Quaker's Courtship")
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 194-195, "Song on Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 149, "Wheel Of Fortune" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #290, pp. 168-169, "(Madam, I have come to court you)" (a short text, which might well be "The Quaker's Wooing" with beginning and end lost, but as it stands, it has no Quakers and  must be filed here)
DT, WHEELFOR* DUBLNCTY* DUBLNCT2 (VANDY2) (DUBLNCI2)
Roud #542
RECORDINGS:
Seamus Ennis, "Dublin City" (on FSB2, FSB2CD)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:104, "The Wheel of Fortune," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [an incredible mixture, with the "Wheel of Fortune" verse, though the rest seems an amalgam of thyme songs -- here spelled "time"]; also Mu23-y1:105, "The Wheel of Fortune," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [even more mixture, with the "Wheel of Fortune" verse, a thyme stanza, a bit of "Fair and Tender Ladies," a "Queen of Heart" verse, and more]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Keys of Canterbury"
cf. "No, John, No"
cf. "Madam, Madam, You Came Courting" (theme)
cf. "The Quaker's Courtship" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Chester City
NOTES: Although several versions listed here mention Quakers in their titles (e.g. Eddy's text, also that printed by Sandburg), their texts make no mention of the Quaker, and so I list them here.
This obviously began life as a ballad, but was collected in New York as a playparty, and Belden also found it as a singing game. - RBW
The text in the Silber-FSWB version is extremely fragmentary, and contains almost nothing of the plot described above. All that happens is that the man and woman meet; she washes her feet and dries them, then he laments young girls' deceiving ways and sings about numbers. - PJS
What Paul describes is fairly typical. The description above is of the fullest texts, but this ballad seems to be unusually good at losing pieces of itself. Often it descends into a purely lyrical piece -- and sometimes it seems to "re-ascend" by taking on a new ending of abandonment.
The existence of the numbers chorus ("Twenty, eighteen, sixteen, fourteen...") seems to be characteristic of a particular, very widespread, sub-version.
It appears likely that we can positively date this song to at least 1822, when John Randolph of Virginia asked a niece if she had heard a ballad with the verse
What care I for your golden treasures?
What care I for your house and land?
What care I for your costly pleasures?
So as I get but a handsome man.
For some reason, scholars have claimed this verse is from "Lord Randal." But it certainly appears to belong here. - RBW
File: E098
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NAME: Wheels of the World, The
DESCRIPTION: Spinners turn the wheels of the world. Some spinners are named with their product: Pitt, Castlereagh, Napoleon, Wellington, John Mitchell, John Bull, factory owners and the rich. "Let liberty be your bright motto and glory will turn your big wheel"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 20(190))
KEYWORDS: death suicide exile nonballad political worker Napoleon Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 200, "The Wheels of the World" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4120), "Wheels of the World" ("Come all you true sons of old Erin"), J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844[?]; also Harding B 20(190) [J. Harkness(Preston), 1840-1866], Firth c.14(127), "Wheels of the World,"  Firth b.27(49) [mostly illegible and probably trimmed]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Game of Cards (II)" (subject: the elimination of Grattan's parliament)
NOTES: According to "Wheels of the World," Pitt [ "banish'd in Charon's old boat": d.1806] and Castlereagh spun the union of Ireland to England [1800] but were unhappy at the end, and Castlereagh committed suicide [1822]; Napoleon spun freedom and Wellington spun Waterloo [1815] "but if Grouchy had never been bribed sure the French would have split him in two"; John Mitchell spun to free Ireland but John Bull spun him to exile [1848]; factory owners and the rich spin to grind the poor. Broadside Bodleian Harding B 11(4120) mentions other spinners: Luther, Henry VIII, John Calvin, Nelson and the French that killed him at Trafalgar [1805], Prince Albert [1840] and Victoria: "For 300 years they've been spinning, Destruction all over the land."
There is a dating problem for broadside Bodleian Harding B 11(4120): it mentions John Mitchel's exile to Bermuda [subsequently Cape Colony and finally to Van Dieman's Land] which occurred after 1844. [I think the problem is an error in the attribution to the printer Pitts; the defaced imprint does not contain his name as it stands, merely the words "toy warehouse." Pitts also owned a toy warehouse, but the appearance of the broadside is unlike any of the other Pitts broadsides I checked. Given that this piece, if circulated in Ireland, would be considered perilously close to treason, I wonder if a printer might not try to fake the attribution. There is probably a good thesis in there somewhere, on broadside printers and their fonts and clip art collections. - RBW]
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentennial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Wheels of the World" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998)) - BS
It is interesting to note that, of the three legible Bodelian broadsides of this song, only one carries an actual printer's imprint, and that defaced. The Bodleian editors did manage to determine two of the printers, but one of those attributions is questionable -- and it's also interesting that this song of interest primarily to the Irish was printed on British soil.
There is much interesting history in this song, which can be dated fairly precisely by the events it mentions. The three legible Bodleian broadsides (Harding B 11(4120), Harding B 20(190), Firth c.14(127)) all have nearly the same text, and must have been printed at about the same time. The references which give us our dates are as follows:
"I'll sing you a song about spinning, it was a good trade in its time" -- This might (or might not) refer to the direct control Britain exerted over Irish textile manufacturing; for more on this, see e.g. "The Volunteers' March."
"Luther... King Henry the eighth... John Calvin" -- the founders of the three basic branches of non-Catholic Christianity: Protestant (a name falsely applied to all three types), Anglican, and Reformed/Presbyterian. In Protestant England they were mostly approved of; not so in Catholic Ireland! Thomas ("Tom") Cranmer (1489-1556) was Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury; though hardly a noteworthy theologian, he was largely responsible for implementing Henry's new church. It is odd to note that the song does not mention his hard end (Mary Tudor had him burned at the stake)
"John Mitchell the brave son of Erin" -- John Mitchel (1815-1875), for whom see the song of the same name, started as a writer, and founded the publication _The United Irishman_. He ended up calling stridently for change in Ireland, and in 1848 was sentenced to transportation. Sent briefly to Bermuda, he then was moved to Australia, and escaped to the United States, there to advocate slavery and flogging of prisoners. Since his exile to Bermuda is mentioned, the song must date after 1848. (One suspects this verse, the third in all the broadside texts, has been displaced; were it moved after the seventh verse, the song would be in chronological order. On the other hand, Mitchel is the only Irishman referred to; maybe he was shoved forward as a result.)
The Lord C--n--n of all the broadsides is Lord Clarendon, i.e. George Villiers, fourth earl of Clarendon (1800-1870), the Lord Lieutenant from 1847-1852 before becoming foreign secretary. Although nominally responsible for the case against Mitchel, and the suppression of the sort-of-revolt of 1848, he had so little influence on the course of Irish history that I found only one mention of him in the histories I checked. In the broader world, his work seems to have been successful and relatively enlightened.
"Lord Nelson he was a good spinner" -- For Horatio Nelson, see e.g. "Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar (Brave Nelson)" [Laws J17]
"Billy Pitt, too, was a good spinner, and so was Lord Castlereigh... they spun the Union from Ireland" -- William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) was an MP as early as 1781 (from a "rotten" borough) and Prime Minister while still in his early twenties (1783). He would be Prime Minister for most of the rest of his life. He tried to pass several measures to help Ireland (free trade, catholic emancipation), but all were stymied. Therefore he is remembered mostly for the much-hated Act of Union, which eliminated the Irish parliament while introducing Irish members into the British Lords and Commons.
The reference here reminds me very strongly of a similar reference in "The Game of Cards (II)," though the direction of the dependence is not clear to me.
Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was actually Irish (from Ulster). He entered the English parliament in 1794, and became a member of Pitt's government. His was a brilliant career; he served at various times as both war and foreign secretaries, was largely responsible for the Peninsular campaign, and helped direct the last battles against Napoleon. He was by rational standards an outstanding success -- but in Ireland he was remembered as being the actual director of the campaign for Union. In his later years, when it was clear that the Congress system for governing Europe was failing, he became despondent. The responsibilities of his offices overwhelmed him, and he had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide.
"Napoleon he was a great spinner" -- The Irish held out great hopes for Napoleon, though he never did much for them; for what encouragement and help he did give, see the notes to "The Shan Van Voght."
"Old Wellington" -- obviously the Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), winner of the Peninsular campaign and victor at Waterloo (1815), much disliked by the masses because he finally defeated Napoleon. If Mitchell's 1848 exile offers the earliest date for this song, the "Iron Duke's" death may supply the latest; two of the three broadsides have the line "Old Wellington he went a-spinning," but Firth c.14(127) patches this to "Old Wellington he now is dead"; this presumably was a topical change made 1852 or 1853, with the other versions coming from (though perhaps not printed) before 1852.
"If Grouchy had never been bribed" -- Emmanuel Grouchy (1766-1847) commanded one of the wings of Napoleon's army in the Waterloo campaign, and his failure to arrive at Waterloo may have cost Napoleon the battle. The charge that he betrayed Napoleon occurs also in "Napoleon Bonaparte (III)" (see that song for a discussion) and in "The Removal of Napoleon's Ashes," but there is no reason whatsoever to believe that it is true.
"Prince Albert" -- Albert of Saxe-Coburg (1819-1861), the husband of Queen Victoria, upon whom she doted almost irrationally. He was not particularly well-liked in England, being suspected (as in this song) of being "on the make," since he was of far less note than Victoria. But though she seems to have fallen in love first, there is no evidence that he tried to tempt her into anything. Indeed, as long as he lived, he proved a capable consort and diplomat, even if the people did not take to him.
"For the Queen has another young son That was spun in the City of Cork" -- Victoria had four sons: Edward (the future Edward VII, 1841-1910), Alfred (1844-1900), Arthur (1850-1942), and Leopold (1853-1884). Arthur later became Duke of Connaught, and is surely the child intended. The more so since Victoria visited Cork (which was renamed Queenstown at that time) in 1849, so it is possible (though hardly proved) that he was conceived in Cork.
Thus the strong internal evidence is that this piece was written between 1850 and 1852. - RBW
File: Moyl200
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NAME: Wheelwright, The (John Hunter)
DESCRIPTION: John Hunter is apprenticed to a wheelwright. He and the master's daughter fall in love. When his apprenticeship is finished, he prepares to leave her as he seeks work. She offers to marry him and come with him. He accepts
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: apprentice love father marriage
FOUND_IN: Ireland US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H125a+b, pp. 475-476, "John Hunter (a)/John Hunter (b)/The Wheelwright" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #9058
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann imply that there is an Irish Gaelic version of this -- possibly even two. - RBW
File: HHH125
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NAME: When a Man's in Love [Laws O20]
DESCRIPTION: The singer asks his sweetheart to allow him into her room; she convinces him to stay by the fire. He tells her he has courted her long enough despite her parents' opposition; he will go to America. She agrees to be married (or spend the night together)
AUTHOR: Hugh McWilliams (source: Moulden-McWilliams)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1831 (according to Moulden-McWilliams)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage emigration request
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws O20, "When a Man's in Love"
Creighton/Senior, pp. 214-215,"When A Man's In Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 59, "A Man in Love" (1 text, 3 tunes)
SHenry H211, p. 479, "When a Man's in Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 96-97, "When a Man's In Love He Feels No Cold" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 143, "When a Man's in Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 76, "When a Man's in Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 747, MANLOVE
ADDITIONAL: John Moulden, Songs of Hugh McWilliams, Schoolmaster, 1831 (Portrush,1993), p. 2, "A Man in Love"
Roud #990
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "When a Man's In Love" (on Lloyd1)
Paddy Tunney, "When a Man's In Love" (on FSB1); "When A Man's in Love He Feels No Cold" (on Voice01); "When a Man's in Love" (on IRPTunney01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Star of the County Down" (tune) and references there
NOTES: In McWilliams's version she agrees to be married. - BS
File: LO20
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NAME: When a Man's In Love He Feels No Cold: see When a Man's in Love [Laws O20] (File: LO20)
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NAME: When a Woman Blue
DESCRIPTION: "When a woman blue, when a woman blue, she hang her head and cry... When a man get blue He grab a railroad train and ride." "I'm gonna lay my head, I'm gonna lay my head Down on that railroad line... Let the train roll by And that'll pacify my mind."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: train suicide
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Sandburg, pp. 236-237, "When a Woman Blue" (1 short text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 506, "Oh! When a Man Get the Blues" (1 fragment)
Roud #11808
File: San236
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NAME: When Adam Was Created (Wedlock)
DESCRIPTION: "When Adam was created, he dwelt in Eden's shade, As Moses has related, before his bride was made." Then Eve was made from Adam's rib. The rest of the song describes the duties of wedlock, based on this account of the creation
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection); Dumas's tune dated 1869
KEYWORDS: religious Bible marriage
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 53, "When Adam Was Created" (1 text)
SharpAp 193, "When Adam was Created" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 55, "When Adam Was Created" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 567-569, "Wedlock" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WEDLOK*
Roud #728
NOTES: I can't help but note that all the details here come from the "J" account of the creation (Gen. 2:4f.). In the "P" account, which occupies Genesis 1:1-2:4, men and women were created together. Make of it what you may.
Brown quotes Jackson to the effect that this derives from Chaucer's "Parson's Tale" or its folk/churchly sources.
In the Sacred Harp, this appears with the tune "Edmonds," credited to E. Dumas and dated to 1869. - RBW
File: SKE55
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NAME: When Barney Flew Over the Hills: see Barney and Katie (File: LO21)
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NAME: When Carbine Won the Cup
DESCRIPTION: "The race was run, the Cup was won, The great event was o'er. The grandest horse e'er trod a course Had led them home once more." A description of how Carbine and his rider Ramage (?) won the Melbourne Cup
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: horse racing
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 212-213, "When Carbine Won the Cup" (1 text)
NOTES: According to the _Encyclopedia of Australia_, the Melbourne Cup was first run in 1861; it is run on the first Tuesday in November. Carbine, who won it in 1890, is noteworthy for having carried the most weight ("10 st. 5 lb.") of any winner. - RBW
File: MA212
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NAME: When Cockle Shells Make Silver Bells: see Seventeen Come Sunday [Laws O17] (File: LO17)
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NAME: When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells: see Waly Waly (The Water is Wide) (File: K149)
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NAME: When de Good Lord Sets You Free: see Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Moanish Lady) (File: San011)
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NAME: When Fanning First to Orange Came
DESCRIPTION: "When Fanning first to Orange came He looked both pale and wan, An old patched coat upon his back An old mare he rode on. Both man and mare wa'nt worth five pounds... but by his civil robberies He's laced his coat with gold."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1826 (Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette)
KEYWORDS: robbery gold political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1738?-1818 - Life of Edmund Fanning
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 277, "When Fanning First to Orange Came" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "From Hillsborough Town the First of May" (subject)
cf. "Said Frohock to Fanning" (subject)
cf. "Who Would Have Tho't Harmon" (subject)
NOTES: One of four "regulator" songs in Brown. The regulators were a group of protesters against high taxes and fees, found mostly in North Carolina though some also were active in South Carolina.
The Regulators formally organized in 1766, when William Tryon (1725-1788) was governor of North Carolina (1765-1771) ; he defeated them at Almance in 1771. That was Tryon's way; as governor of New York (1771-1778) he was equally harsh. His successors then turned to compromise.
Fanning, a Yale graduate of 1757, was a favorite of Tryon's; after moving to North Carolina, he went from being a local attorney to a Superior Court clerk and legislator. He also built a reputation for extreme avarice, making him a particular target for the regulators (and vice versa). A loyalist during the Revolution (commanded the King's American Regiment of Foot), he died in London. - RBW
File: BrII277
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NAME: When First I Seen This Lovely Queen
DESCRIPTION: "When first I seen this lovely queen, On her I fixed my eyes, And thought in time, while in my prime,To gain her I would try. "But all in vain; could not obtain This virgin's love at all... My portion was too small." If she remains coy, he'll seek another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love rejection beauty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 294, "When First I Seen This Lovely Queen" (1 text)
Roud #12199
File: Br3294
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NAME: When First Into this Country
DESCRIPTION: The stranger arrives and finds no one cares about him. He is accused of crimes, but the only crime he admits is involvement with three girls. Forced into a harsh apprenticeship, he at last earns his freedom and marries his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Journal of William Histed of the Cortes)
KEYWORDS: love courting work abuse freedom marriage apprentice
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond)) US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 195-197, "When First Into this Country" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 127-128, "The American Stranger" (1 text, a somewhat confused version in which the singer seems to shift from having one girl to three back to one)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 170-171, "The American Stranger" (1 text, 1 tune, similar to but shorter than Ord's text)
DT, WHNFRST2*
Roud #1081
RECORDINGS:
Chris Willett, "The American Stranger" (on Voice11)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(4) View 2 of 2, "American Strander [sic]" ("I am a stranger in this country"), G. Thompson (Liverpool), 1789-1820; also 2806 c.17(3) View 2 of 2,, "America [sic] Stranger"; Harding B 11(48), Firth b.25(273), Harding B 15(3a), Harding B 25(46), Harding B 20(237), Harding B 11(3053A), Harding B 11(3056), 2806 b.11(29), Harding B 11(49), Harding B 16(6a), Harding B 28(159), "American Stranger[!]"; Harding B 25(1845) [illegible lines], "The Stranger"; 2806 b.11(215), "Sporting Youth" ("I'm a stranger in this country from Ireland I came")
Murray, Mu23-y2:013, "The Sporting Youth," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1856 
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(019), "The American Stranger," McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When First To This Country (I)" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Irish Stranger
NOTES: This shares a first line or two with "When First To This Country," but the similarity ends by the end of the second stanza. The first few verses probably did transfer (I suspect from this song to that, since "When First To This Country" barely survived in tradition), but the two songs are clearly separate.
To add to the confusion, the song seems to exist in two forms. Huntington's gives full details of the youth's troubles. Ord's and Stokoe's, both known by the title "The American Stranger," gloss over it, and end with the singer emigrating but saying something like the lovers are "In a plentiful country, (they are/and) God bless the King." - RBW
Chris Willett's version on Voice11 takes lines found on broadside Harding B 11(48), among others, ("But to prove myself loyal, You shall come along with me, And I'll take you to America, My darling for to be.") and turns them into a chorus ("Just to prove myself royal, if you're go along with me, I will take you to America my own darling to see"); it also has a verse from Johnson Ballads 458, among others, ("The moon shall be in darkness, And the stars shall give no light If ever I prove false to my hearts delight," "In the middle of the ocean There shall grow a myrtle [or plum, or willow] tree") that float in other songs. - BS
File: SWMS195
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NAME: When First To This Country (I)
DESCRIPTION: The singer courts Nancy, who turns him down; he steals a horse and is imprisoned. He complains of his ill-treatment, then adds "With my hands in my pockets and my cap put on so bold/With my coat of many colors, like Jacob of old"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (field recording, Gant Family)
KEYWORDS: courting love rejection prison theft thief
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 29, "When First To This Country" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 71, "When First Unto This Country" (1 text)
DT, WHENFRST*
Roud #15600
RECORDINGS:
Maggie & Foy Gant, "When First Unto This Country" (LC 65 A2)
New Lost City Ramblers, "When First Unto This Country" (on NLCR02, NLCRCD1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "In Eighteen-Forty-Nine" (floating lyrics)
cf. "When First To This Country (II)" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics)
cf. "The Banks of the Bann (I)" [Laws O2] ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics)
cf. "The Frowns That She Gave Me" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
cf. "When First Into this Country" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
cf. "When First To This Country (II)" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
cf. "In Eighteen-Forty-Nine" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
When First unto this Country
NOTES: This should not be confused with the kids' song "When I First Came to This Land," written -- well, translated -- by Oscar Brand in the 1940s. -PJS
[Or with the whalers' song "When First Into this Country." - RBW]
Paul Stamler mentions the prisoner's "coat of many colors," which he believes unconnected with the rest of the song. He may be right -- considering that the person who wore the "coat of many colors" (properly a "long robe with sleeves") was Jacob's son Joseph.
However, it is worth noting that Joseph's possession of the robe (which the author presumably thought resembled prison apparel) caused his brothers to resent him; the end result was that Joseph became a prisoner in Egypt. - RBW
File: CSW029
===
NAME: When First To This Country (II)
DESCRIPTION: "[My] poor heart beat sore" on leaving Molly. She pleads to come with him: "Short trouser, and jacket, my love I'll put on" He could not stand to see her beaten "So you can't come down with me, oh no my love, no." She will wait for his return.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: love farewell separation cross-dressing sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 70-71, "When First To This Country" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2732
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of the Nile (Men's Clothing I'll Put On II)" [Laws N9] (theme) and references there
cf. "The Maid in Sorrow (Short Jacket)" [Laws N12] (theme)
cf. "When First To This Country (I)" ("When First Unto This Country" lyrics) and references there
File: CrMa070
===
NAME: When First Unto This Country: see When First To This Country (I) (File: CSW029)
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NAME: When Fortune Turns Her Wheel
DESCRIPTION: "Come, fill a glass, let's drink about... To meet ye a' ance mair, my friends, A sacred joy I feel, Though far awa I noo maun stray Till fortune turns her wheel." The singer has been betrayed by love and comrades, and bids farewell to Scotland and home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: parting drink
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ord, pp. 180-181, "When Fortune Turns Her Wheel" (1 text)
DT, FORTRNWH*
Roud #3798
File: Ord180
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NAME: When He Comes, He'll Come in Green
DESCRIPTION: "Don't cry, little baby, don't you cry. Your sweetheart will come by and by. When he comes, if he's dressed in green, Then you may know you'll be his queen." Similarly with other colors: "Dressed in blue, Then you may know his love is true," etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: colors courting playparty lullaby
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 70, "Oh, Pretty Polly" (1 text); 71, "Don't Cry" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 163, (no title) (1 fragment)
Roud #7870
NOTES: The editors of Brown concede their two texts to be the same song, but split them anyway. They admit they don't know if the piece is a singing game of some kind, a lullaby, or something else. (Allsopp calls it a lullaby but has only one verse.) I've used both keywords because both look like they fit. It looks like a very good song for both purposes; I'm surprised it isn't more widely known. - RBW
File: Br3070
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NAME: When He Who Adores Thee
DESCRIPTION: The singer states "though guilty to them [my foes], I have been but too faithful to thee [Ireland]!" "Oh! blessed are the lovers and friends who shall live The days of thy glory to see"; next best "is the pride of thus dying for thee"
AUTHOR: Thomas Moore (1779-1852) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: execution Ireland nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is hanged
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 158, "When He Who Adores Thee" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.27(14), "When He Who Adores Thee," unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh! Breathe Not His Name" (subject: concealed allusions to Robert Emmet)
cf. "She is Far From the Land" (subject: concealed allusions to Robert Emmet)
cf. "The Man from God-Knows-Where"  (subject: concealed allusions to Robert Emmet)
NOTES: Moylan: "In this song Moore paraphrases parts of Emmet's speech from the dock and has him address these sentiments to Ireland."
You can find copies of Emmet's speech on the Web. See, for example, "Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock (Document)" quoted on wiki.politics.ie site from "Politics.ie, the Irish politics website." None of Moore's text follows Emmet's, though Emmet is speaking over the court's head: "if there is a true Irishman present let my last words cheer him in the hour of his affliction." - BS
We should probably notethat there is no official transcript of Emmet's speech (see Robert Kee, _TheMost Distressful Country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, p. 168). We don't know his precise words. It hardly matters, any more than it matters that his rebellion was ill-organized and completely inept; he could hardly have said anything more effective than what was reported, and it was that which kept his myth alive.
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
File: Moyl158
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NAME: When I Can Read My Titles Clear (Long Time Traveling)
DESCRIPTION: "When I can read my titles clear to mansions in the sky, I will bid farewell to every tear and wipe my weeping eye." Chorus: "I'm a long time traveling here below, I'm a long time traveling away from my home...." Other verses vary
AUTHOR: unknown (portions by Isaac Watts)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, J. T. Allison's Sacred Harp Singers)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, LONGTIME
Roud #5732
RECORDINGS:
J. T. Allison's Sacred Harp Singers, "I'm A Long Time Travelling Away From Home" (Gennett 6255, 1927)
Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers, "Primrose Hill" (Columbia 15323-D, 1928; on Babylon)
Denson Sacred Harp Singers, "The Ninety-Fifth" (Brunswick 287, rec. 1928)
Elder Golden P. Harris, "I'll Lead a Christian Life" (Melotone 12178, 1931; on Babylon)
Frank Proffitt, "I'm a Long Time Travelling Here Below" (on FProffitt01)
NOTES: This song, or one of the same title, is said to have been one of Abraham Lincoln's favorites. The verses are so generic that it is really hard to call it one song; it's a family held together by the refrain "Been a long time traveling here below" and (often but not always) the mansions in the sky.
The first stanza is from a poem by Isaac Watts, "The Hopes of Heaven Our Support Under Trials on Earth," and reportedly published 1809. This shows up in several forms in the shape note book (e.g. with the tunes "Ninety-Fifth," "Primrose Hill," "Akers," and "Saints' Delight") -- but all these seem to be the Watts poem, which is not (to my ears at least) nearly as strong. - RBW
As far as I can tell from reading the Sacred Harp book [a demonstrably unreliable source - RBW], Watts seems to have composed all of the lyrics.
I've placed the Daniels-Deason and Elder Harris recordings here for want of a better place; they share lyrics but use different tunes. - PJS
File: DTlongti
===
NAME: When I Die (I)
DESCRIPTION: Because the singer has found salvation, "When I die, I'll live again." He's made confession and will transgress no more. Ch: "When I die I'll live again/Hallelujah, I'll live again/Because I'm forgiven, my soul will find heaven/When I die I'll live again"
AUTHOR: James Rowe & Ernest Rippetoe
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Stamps-Baxter book, "Harbor Bells #4")
KEYWORDS: resurrection death nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: US(MA,SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Rev. Gary Davis, "When I Die I'll Live Again" (on GaryDavis02)
Watson Family, "When I Die" (on Watson01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
When I Die I'll Live Again
NOTES: D. K. Wilgus, in his comments on Watson01, notes (speaking of this song and "The Lost Soul"): "The Watson family apparently sang these songs directly from a song book, but I have been unable to locate them in any source available to me, despite the conviction that I have met them before." Almost certainly he was remembering Davis's skeletal version, released the year before the Watson recordings were made, or the Stamps-Baxter hymnal. - PJS
File: RcWIDILA
===
NAME: When I Die (II): see Pickle My Bones in Alcohol (File: Br3038)
===
NAME: When I Die Don't Wear No Black
DESCRIPTION: "When I die don't wear no black, For if you do My ghost come a-creeping back."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: death mourning clothes ghost
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 489, "When I Die Don't Wear No Black" (1 text)
Roud #11871
File: Br3489
===
NAME: When I First Came To This Land
DESCRIPTION: Immigrant comes to the USA, gets a shack, cow, duck, wife and son, and sings about them in a cumulative fashion: "Called my wife 'Run for your life'; called my duck, 'Out of luck'", etc.
AUTHOR: Words translated by Oscar Brand from Pennsylvania Dutch song
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957 (Oscar Brand, "Our Singing Holidays")
KEYWORDS: animal cumulative emigration farming marriage nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 13, "When I First Came to this Land" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 120 "When I First Came To This Land" (1 text)
DT, FIRSTCAM
Roud #16813
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "When I First Came to This Land" (on PeteSeeger24)
NOTES: This should not be confused with the traditional "When First To This Country." - PJS
File: PSAFB013
===
NAME: When I Get On My Bran' New Suit
DESCRIPTION: "When I git on my brand-new suit, Boots to my knees, Go to see my lovely gal And kiss her when I please."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: courting clothes
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 158, "Going to See My Girl (fifth of 12 single-stanza jigs) (1 text)
ST Fus158A (Full)
Roud #16414
File: Fus158A
===
NAME: When I Get on Yonder Hill: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier); also "I Want You All to Be There" (File: R107)
===
NAME: When I Go Up to Shinum Place
DESCRIPTION: "When I go up to shinum place" there will be red, white and black men. "There is no need of wigwam there, He send his angels to take care, And Jesus good and kind"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 171, "When I Go Up to Shinum Place" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2728
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Indian Maid" (theme)
cf. "Indian Hymn" (theme)
NOTES: See "Indian Hymn" for similar phrases. - BS
Presumably the title of this piece is a patronizing corruption of "shining." - RBW
File: CrMa171
===
NAME: When I Landed in Glasgow: see The Young Maid's Love (File: HHH058)
===
NAME: When I Leave These Earthly Shores
DESCRIPTION: Recitation: "When I leave this earthly shore And mosey 'round this world no more, Don't weep, don't sob; I may have found a better job." After this introduction, the speaker spends two stanzas asking for small gifts now rather than big ones after death
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957
KEYWORDS: death recitation poverty
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 104, "When I Leave These Earthly Shores" (1 text)
ST FSC104 (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Give Me the Roses While I Live" (theme of giving roses)
File: FSC104
===
NAME: When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home: see Seeing Nellie Home (File: RJ19229)
===
NAME: When I Set Out for Glory
DESCRIPTION: "When I set out for glory, I left this world behind, Determined for a city that's hard to find, And to begging I will go. And to begging I will go, I'll go...." Despite warnings, the singer is set on this path, and would rather be Christian than rich
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad travel begging poverty
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 212, "The Begging Song" (1 text)
ST Fus212 (Partial)
Roud #5426
File: Fus212
===
NAME: When I Wake in the Morning
DESCRIPTION: The singer is "surrounded by sorrow ... lovely Jimmie if you knew what I knew." "When the boys come to court ... I do them disdain ... I never will marry till [my love] comes back again"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: grief love separation nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 91, "When I Wake in the Morning" (1 text fragment, 1 tune)
ST CrMa091 (Full)
Roud #2707
RECORDINGS:
Angelo Dornan, "When I Wake in the Morning" (on MRHCreighton)
NOTES: Angelo Dornan is a major source for Creighton-Maritime and Creighton-SouthNB. Many of his songs, like this one, are fragments that are too brief for me to identify. - BS
Paul Stamler and I also puzzled over this independently. We've given up and are filing it as a loose fragment. - RBW
File: CrMa091
===
NAME: When I Was a Boy: see Old MacDonald Had a Farm (File: R457)
===
NAME: When I Was a Cowboy
DESCRIPTION: "When I was a cowboy, out on the western plains (x2), I made a half a million pulling on the bridle reins." The cowboy boasts of fighting Jesse James and Buffalo Bill. He advises, in the event of fire, abandoning the house and saving the "jelly"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy bragging outlaw fight nonsense
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 197, "When I Was a Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 379-380, "When I Was a Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 29, "When I Was a Cowboy" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #3438
NOTES: The Lomax version of this song comes from Lead Belly, and the Fife versions derive from Lomax. So it's not clear how much of this is truly traditional and how much Lead Belly. The "B" text in Fife looks a bit like a Lomax rework; it has stanzas reminiscent of "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" and "Rosemary Lane." - RBW
File: LoF197
===
NAME: When I Was a Fair Maid: see The Soldier Maid (File: DTsoldma)
===
NAME: When I Was a Little Boy (I): see Little Brown Dog (File: VWL101)
===
NAME: When I Was A Little Boy (II): see Now I Am a Big Boy (File: R358)
===
NAME: When I Was a Little Boy (III): see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
===
NAME: When I Was a Wee Thing
DESCRIPTION: "When I was a (little girl/wee thing), About (seven) years old, I hadna worth a petticoat To keep me frae the cold." The singer travels to (Edinburgh), buys clothes, goes to the woods, and builds a kirk with the help of the birds of the wood
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Montgomerie)
KEYWORDS: bird animal clergy clothes
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose 232, p. 151, "(When I was a little girl)"
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 139, "(When I was a wee thing)" (1 text)
File: BGMG222
===
NAME: When I Was a Young Girl: see All For the Men (File: LoF260)
===
NAME: When I Was A Young Man
DESCRIPTION: As a young man the singer "was drinking and a-smoking, boys, from morning unto night." When he had spent all his money he worked for more. He was enraged when he "walked into the public house and I called for a pint of the best" but got "the slop"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1995 (recording, Wiggy Smith)
KEYWORDS: drink lie
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12931
RECORDINGS:
Wiggy Smith, "When I Was A Young Man" (on Voice13)
File: RcWIWAYM
===
NAME: When I Was a Young Man (I)
DESCRIPTION: The singer proposes to his long-time sweetheart but she rejects him as an idler. "In the spring had you cropped my wing" he would have won her. He says he'll "sail the ocean o'er, For the loss of one is a gain of two And a choice of twenty more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection farewell
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-NovaScotia 50, "When I Was a Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrNS050 (Partial)
Roud #1797
NOTES: This is one of those songs that sounds like you've heard it before; the plot is common and the images commonplace. But neither Creighton nor Roud nor I can recall another version. - RBW
File: CrNS050
===
NAME: When I Was a Young Man (II): see I Wish I Were Single Again (I - Male) (File: R365)
===
NAME: When I Was a Young Thing
DESCRIPTION: "When I was a young thing I lived with my granny, my mama was dead and my pa gone to sea." The singer always wanted to be a sailor "and follow my dada," but he finds that a sailor's life is filled with hard work.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: work sailor ship father mother orphan
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 893-894, "When I Was a Young Thing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9939
File: Pea893
===
NAME: When I Was Lost in the Wilderness
DESCRIPTION: "King Jesus handed the candle down, An' I hope dat trumpet goin' to blow me home Yer de new Jerusalem." "When Moses smote de water wid his shepherd's rod, De waters rared back...." "When Joshua ordered dat de sun stand still...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 652, "When I Was Lost in the Wilderness" (1 text)
Roud #11943
NOTES: Don't ask me where Brown's title came from; there is no mention of wilderness in the song.
Moses's parting of the Red Sea is described in Exodus 14; Joshua's request that the sun stand still is in Joshua 10:12-13. - RBW
File: Br3652
===
NAME: When I Was Noo But Sweet Sixteen (The Bothy Lads, The Plooboy Lads)
DESCRIPTION: Singer complains that the ploughboys are "false and deceiving-o They say all and the gang awa'." At sixteen she was "just in blooming." At nineteen she's home with her baby with no idea where the father may be.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recording, Jeannie Robertson)
KEYWORDS: seduction sex nonballad baby abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, PLOOLAD*
Roud #5138
RECORDINGS:
Jeannie Robertson, "When I Was Noo But Sweet Sixteen" (on Voice10)
File: RcWIWNBS
===
NAME: When I Was One-and-Twenty: see The Backwoodsman (The Green Mountain Boys) [Laws C19] (File: LC19)
===
NAME: When I Was Single (I): see I Wish I Were Single Again (I - Male) (File: R365)
===
NAME: When I Was Single (II)
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls the gay nights he lived when single. Now married, his wife leaves him to watch the cradle and run errands. He laments that "the poor man's labor is never done."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Eddy)
KEYWORDS: marriage nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Eddy 71, "When I Was Single" (1 text)
ST E071 (Full)
Roud #5357
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (I - Male)"
cf. "Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own)" (plot)
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
NOTES: This may be a version of "Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own)"; Eddy's fragment is too short for me to be sure. - RBW
File: E071
===
NAME: When I Was Single (III): see I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again (File: Wa126)
===
NAME: When I Was Single (IV): see Do You Love an Apple? (File: K203)
===
NAME: When I Was Young (Don't Never Trust a Sailor)
DESCRIPTION: A girl laments the loss of her virginity to a sailor, (who gives her half a dollar for "the damage I have done," and advises if she has a son to send him off to sea). She is found to be pregnant. Her parents throw her out. She warns girls against sailors
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: bawdy sailor seduction sex warning
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So,SW) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Cray, pp. 75-78, "When I Was Young" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph 806, "Don't Never Trust a Sailor" (1 text)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 74-80, "When I Was Young and Foolish" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 58, "The Lass that Loved a Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 500-501, "Home, Home, Home" (1 text, 1 tune, with a chorus probably derived from "Ambletown" or some other member of the "Rosemary Lane" family) [AbEd, pp. 368-369]
JHJohnson, p. 65, "The Lass That Loved a Sailor" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 219, "When I Was Young and Foolish" (1 short text, 1 tune, which appears to go with this piece although the ending is missing)
Blondahl, p. 106, "The Lass That Loved a Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST EM075 (Full)
Roud #954
RECORDINGS:
Dillard Chandler, "The Sailor Being Tired" (on OldLove)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rosemary Lane" [Laws K43]
cf. "The Gatesville Cannonball"
cf. "Oh, No, Not I" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Rambleaway" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Night Hawk
The Sailor-Girl's Lament
NOTES: Randolph-Legman has extensive historical notes, separating this "inch-above-the-knee" song from "Bell Bottom Trousers/Rosemary Lane." - EC
For discussion of this song and its ancestry, see the entry on "Rosemary Lane" [Laws K43]. The pieces here may not be a unity; one might describe this as bawdy remnants of that ballad. - RBW
File: EM075
===
NAME: When I Was Young (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer laments married life, saying when she was young she lived well and happily, but now she lives in poverty and misery. The chorus warns, "Ye'd better be a maiden as a poor man's wife."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1850
KEYWORDS: poverty marriage warning
FOUND_IN: Britain(North,West,South) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 102, "When I Was Young" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, BTTRSNGL*
Roud #894
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman, "It's Better to be Single Than a Poor Man's Wife" (on Barry-Gorman1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" (theme)
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)" (theme)
cf. "Do You Love an Apple?" (theme, floating lyrics)
cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
NOTES: Obviously, this is extremely close to the songs listed as cross-references, and they have either cross-fertilized or share a common ancestor, but it has a distinctly different chorus, emphasizing being a poor man's wife, and as such I think it deserves a separate listing. -PJS
File: VWL102
===
NAME: When I Was Young and Foolish: see When I Was Young (File: EM075)
===
NAME: When I Was Young and in My Prime
DESCRIPTION: The singer boasts that when he was young, he could "fetch" a kid every time, but now that he is old, he can't get a "bit to save my soul."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy age sex
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 159-161, "When I Was Young and in My Prime" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Am Growing Old and Gray" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Ain't So Young
When I Was in My Prime 
File: RL159
===
NAME: When I Went for to Take My Leave
DESCRIPTION: Singer, leaving to fight for the Union in the Civil War, weeps to leave his child and wife, and vows that "if the Davis boys don't bind me" he will return as quickly as possible when it's over
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (recording, Loman D. Cansler)
KEYWORDS: grief Civilwar war farewell parting return separation baby family wife husband
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Loman D. Cansler, "When I Went for to Take My Leave" (on Cansler1)
File: RcWIWFTT
===
NAME: When I'm Dead and Buried: see Don't You Weep After Me (File: R262)
===
NAME: When I'm Gone (I)
DESCRIPTION: "It'll be Lawd, Lawd, Lawd, when I'm gone." "I'm gonna fly from mansion to mansion, when I'm gone." "I'll be done with troubles and trials." "I'm gonna walk and talk with Jesus." "I'm gonna set at the welcome table."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 243, "When I'm Gone" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Welcome Table (Streets of Glory, God's Going to Set This World on Fire)" (floating verses)
NOTES: Alan Lomax claims -- on the basis of a few words in the chorus -- that this is the same as "Don't You Grieve After Me (I)." I don't buy it. - RBW
File: LoF243
===
NAME: When Jesus Christ Was Here Below
DESCRIPTION: "When Jesus Christ was here below, He taught his people what to do, And if we would his precepts keep We must descend to washing feet." The song details the footwashing at the Last Supper
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: Jesus Bible religious
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 198-199, "When Jesus Christ Was Here Below" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7132?
NOTES: This song closely follows the account of the footwashing in John 13:1-11; the incident is not mentioned in the other three gospels or elsewhere in the Bible. - RBW
File: ThBa198
===
NAME: When Jesus Christ Was Here On Earth
DESCRIPTION: Jesus, on earth, is called a spy. He walks past a sinful crowd, hears a woman say, "I'd go prophesy." He tells Peter, James, and John, "It's written I must die/Shed my blood on Calvary/And never more to die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (recording, I. D. Beck & congregation)
KEYWORDS: death prophecy religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #7386
RECORDINGS:
I. D. Beck & congregation: "When Jesus Christ Was Here On Earth" (on LomaxCD1704)
NOTES: This is fragmentary, but still clearly a narrative, so I include it. - PJS
File: RcWJCWHE
===
NAME: When John's Ale Was New: see When Jones's Ale Was New (File: Doe168)
===
NAME: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
DESCRIPTION: The singer promises that Johnny will receive a hearty welcome when he returns home from the war. Everyone will turn out; all will be gay; the old church bell will ring; there will be shouting and flowers; they will wreathe his brow with laurel
AUTHOR: Words: "Louis Lambert" (Patrick S. Gilmore)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1863
KEYWORDS: home war return reunion nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 233-236, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 327-329, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-CivWar, p. 94, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 51, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 130, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hill-CivWar, p.  204, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 282, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text)
Thomas-Makin', p. 54, (no title) (1 text, mostly "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl (In Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One)" but with this chorus)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 639-641, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
DT, JHNMARCH*
ST RJ19233 (Full)
Roud #6673
RECORDINGS:
Harry Evans, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Emerson 7373, 1918)
Pete Seeger & Bill McAdoo, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (on PeteSeeger28)
Frank C. Stanley, "When Johnnie Comes Marching Home" (CYL: Edison 5003, c. 1898)
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, R.B.m169(220), "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" (tune)
cf. "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl (In Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One)" (tune)
cf. "Snapoo" (tune)
cf. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" (approximate tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (File: PBB094)
Johnny Fill Up the Bowl (In Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One) (File: R227)
Snapoo (File: EM379)
The Widow-Maker Soon Must Cave [Anti-Lincoln campaign song of 1864] (James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 790)
NOTES: Scholars continue to argue whether "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" or the doleful "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" is the original. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" can be firmly dated to the beginning of the Civil War, while "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" does not appear until slightly later (1869) -- but as a traditional song. The earliest known printing is, in fact, that of "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl" (early 1863).
If I were to make a guess, I think I would put "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl" first; it's a logical tune for Gillmore to steal (and some anonymous Irishman to turn into an anti-war song). But what do I know? - RBW
File: RJ19233
===
NAME: When Johnny Went Plowing for Kearon
DESCRIPTION: Kearon, too old to plow, hires Johnny. But Kearon had an "enjyne" with the team which Johnny did not understand. Kearon tries it himself but cannot do it. Kearon gives him some instruction. "Johnny took heed to what Kearon had said" and finishes the job
AUTHOR: Lawrence Doyle
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: age farming technology humorous
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 19-20, "When Johnny Went Plowing for Kearon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 191-193,256, "When Johnny Went Plowing for Kearon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12480
NOTES: Ives-DullCare: "A story of a greenhorn's plowing mishap and how his boss decided to show him how it's done, only to wind up worse off than his pupil."
File: Dib019
===
NAME: When Johnson's Ale Was New: see When Jones's Ale Was New (File: Doe168)
===
NAME: When Jones's Ale Was New
DESCRIPTION: Stories from Jones's Bar. Various drinkers come in, each with his tale or his unruly behavior or his demand. Most are hard workers whose burdens are relieved by the ale.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1594 (stationer's register)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad landlord ritual
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA) Britain(England(All),Scotland)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 168-169, "When Johnson's Ale Was New" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 273-277, "When John's Ale Was New" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 284-285, "Four Jolly Fellows" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 287, "When Jones's Ale Was New" (1 text, 1 tune)
Combs/Wilgus 166, pp. 132-133, "The Jovial Tinker (Joan's Ale is Good)" (1 text -- a heavily modified version with a floating first verse and a final verse that may imply a Civil War setting)
Silber-FSWB, p. 231, "Johnson's Ale" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2502, "There was a jovial Tinker"
DT, JONESALE JONESAL2 JONESAL3
Roud #139
RECORDINGS:
Bob & Ron Copper, "The Jovial Tradesman" (on LomaxCD1700); "The Jovial Tradesman" (on FSB3)
Fred Jordan, "When Jones's Ale Was New" (on Voice13)
John M. (Sailor Dad) Hunt, "When Jones's Ale Was New" (AFS, 1941; on LC27)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 1(105b), "Joan's Ale is New"["Jones" in the text], T. Vere (London), 1644-1680; also Douce Ballads 1(99b), "Joan's Ale is New"["Jones" in the text]; Harding B 28(139), "Joan's Ale"["Joan's" in the text]; Harding B 11(652), "When John's Ale Was New"; Harding B 16(336b), "Joan's Ale Was New"["Joan's" in the text]; 2806 c.18(169), "Joan's Ale is New"["Joan's" in the text] 
Murray, Mu23-y2:014, "When John's Ale was New," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Young Man Who Travelled Up and Down"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Jone's ale is newe
When John's Sail Was New
NOTES: The song was sung by the "jolly boys" (pace-eggers) in Overton, Lancs, as part of their Easter house-to-house ritual. - PJS
File: Doe168
===
NAME: When Mary Came Wandering Home: see Mary of the Wild Moor [Laws P21] (File: LP21)
===
NAME: When McGuinness Gets a Job: see Last Winter Was a Hard One (File: FSC098)
===
NAME: When Morning Stands on Tiptoe: see The Echoing Horn (File: K246)
===
NAME: When Mursheen Went to Bunnan
DESCRIPTION: The singer's "spirits has completely left" since Mursheen went to Bunnan. She left because he drinks. He drank with her father, who turned against her when she left. He had been "bound for the west" but now he "gave up all my palaver with Yankees"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974 (recording, Micho Russell)
KEYWORDS: love separation drink father
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #8146
RECORDINGS:
Micho Russell, "When Mursheen Went to Bunnan" (on Voice13)
File: RcWMuWtB
===
NAME: When My Blood Runs Chilly and Cold
DESCRIPTION: "When my blood runs chilly and cold, I've got to go... Way beyond the moon. Do lord, do, Lord, do remember me.... If you can't bear no crosses, you can't wear no crown.... I've got a mother in Beulah land, she's calling me...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad death
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 104, "When My Blood Runs Chilly an' Col'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 610-611, "When My Blood Runs Chilly an' Col'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15548
File: LxU104
===
NAME: When My Lord Went to Pray
DESCRIPTION: "Way over yonder beyond the mountain, Where my Lord went to pray, They dressed my Lord in a long white robe...." "He hewed him out a cross..." "Come and help me bear this old cross along...." The singer tells of Jesus's death and salvation
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 654, "When My Lord Went to Pray" (1 text)
Roud #11944
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Never Said a Mumbling Word" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: According to Mark 15:21, etc., Jesus needed help to carry his cross, though John (19:17) says he carried his own cross. The size of the cross is not specified, and when the soldiers dressed Jesus in fine clothes, they put him in a *purple* cloak (Mark 15:20). - RBW
File: Br3654
===
NAME: When O'Connor Drew His Pay
DESCRIPTION: O'Connor (a logger), after drawing his pay, goes on a spree, starts a fire, and is arrested. Taken to "limbo" (jail), he pays his fine and they ship him (as freight) back to the woods. He swears he's "never spent his savings quite so pleasurably before"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering drink prison fire money humorous
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 35, "When O'Connor Drew His Pay" (1 text)
Roud #4065
NOTES: The text is incomplete, but gives the flavor of the song. I used "prison" as a keyword only because we don't have "jail." - PJS
This song is item dC44 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Be035
===
NAME: When Our Boys Gave Up Squiddin'
DESCRIPTION: "Our boys give up squiddin', they all joined the Navy To fight for old England, her King and her Crown." The boys get their parents consent, go "up to the court-house to join up that day," leave their women and family and go to "Keep Hitler Down"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: moniker war navy patriotic family derivative England separation
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, p. 83, "When Our Boys Gave Up Squiddin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SQUIDJI2*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (tune)
File: Doyl3083
===
NAME: When Paddy McGinty Plays the Harp
DESCRIPTION: "When Paddy McGinty plays the harp you've got to get up and dance ... It's wonderful Irish music that is neither flat nor sharp When Paddy McGinty plays the harp"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (NFOBlondahl04, NFOBlondahl05)
KEYWORDS: dancing harp music nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "When Paddy McGinty Plays the Harp" (on NFOBlondahl04)
NOTES: Is this even a music hall song? There is a 1940 recording on OKEH 5849 by the McFarland Twins and their Orchestra [sources: Steven Abrams site as The Online Discographical Project; Northwest Internet Technologies copyright owner of World of Grampophones site]; "the McFarland twins, Arthur and George, were handsome blonds who played reeds and had own corny band late '30s, suddenly became more modern c'42 but never hit the big time" [Source: MusicWeb site Encyclopedia of Popular Music re Fred Waring].
Blondahl04 and NFOBlondahl05 have 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 "When Paddy McGinty Plays the Harp" in _Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index_ by Paul Mercer. - BS
File: RcWPMPTH
===
NAME: When Pat Came Over the Hill: see The Whistling Thief (File: HHH710)
===
NAME: When Saint Peter's Day Was A-Dawning
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes "the deeds of the sons of Saint Patrick" at a secret society meeting. "The Harp of old Ireland played Orange Lie Down" and woke the Brunswickers. "Banish this crew that our land did pollute" and let them go to some other island.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS:  Ireland political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 127-128, "When Saint Peter's Day Was A-Dawning" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: "Brunswickers" is a synonym here for "Orangemen." There is another apparent reference to Orangemen: "the Black Hare of Luther"; Luther is clear enough but I don't understand "the Black Hare" in this context [there is a reference to "these Luthers black" in Tunney-StoneFiddle: "The Defender's Song"]. "Orange Lie Down" may not be a real song; in any case, that title is a reference to "Croppies Lie Down," one of the Orange songs most resented by the nationalists. - BS
File: TSF127
===
NAME: When Shall We Be Married: see The Country Courtship (File: K127)
===
NAME: When Shall We Get Married: see The Country Courtship (File: K127)
===
NAME: When Sherman Marched Down to the Sea: see Sherman's March to the Sea (File: SBoA248)
===
NAME: When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round
DESCRIPTION: "When sorrows encompass me 'round, And many distresses I see, Astonished, I cry, 'Can a poor mortal be found Surrounded with troubles like me?'" The weary singer hopes for peace, and expects at last to find it with Jesus
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Warner 94, "When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 217-218, "Death-Bed Song" (1 text)
ST Wa094 (Partial)
Roud #16402
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Am I Born to Die? (Idumea)" (tune)
File: Wa094
===
NAME: When That Great Ship Went Down: see The Titanic (I) ("It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down") [Laws D24] (Titanic #1) (File: LD24)
===
NAME: When the Battle it was Won (Young Jimmy and the Officer) [Laws J23]
DESCRIPTION: Jimmy deserts (in the face of the enemy!) when he hears his mother is dying. An officer arrives, hauls him from his mother's bedside, and orders him to face a firing squad. The officer may have wanted Jimmy's sweetheart (but she shoots him)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: war family death trial execution
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws J23, "When the Battle it was Won (Young Jimmy and the Officer)"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 178, "Young Jimmy and the Officer" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 994-995, "The Deserter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 117, "When the Battle It Was Won" (1 text)
DT 553, BATLEWON
Roud #1890
File: LJ23
===
NAME: When the Boys Go A-Courting (Over the Mountain, Poll and Sal)
DESCRIPTION: The young man goes out courting; the girl thinks him too poor. He borrows his master's horse to impress her. Later, he and his (cousin) go courting together. The girls' mother kicks them out. His mistress punishes him. He keeps chasing girls
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1817 (Journal from the Herald)
KEYWORDS: love courting disguise trick sex mother apprentice
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 312-314, "Poll and Sal" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, POLLSAL*
Roud #385
NOTES: The final verses of this seem to be from "The Keyhole in the Door" or something similar, but the whole song is rather disjointed. What's clear is the motivation: The singer devotes his whole attention to courting and watching girls -- and pays for it, until at last he gets married. - RBW
File: SWMS312
===
NAME: When the Caplin Come In
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, now is the time when the men are all ready ... And live on the beach while the caplin is in."  The crowd nets caplin from the beach; row boats and motor boats and horses "full breeds and ponies" haul the netted fish away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: moniker fishing commerce
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doyle3, pp. 85-86, "When the Caplin Come In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7318
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "When the Caplin Come In" (on NFOBlondahl02)
NOTES: Caplin are small deep water fish that come to shore in June and July to spawn.  They are netted for bait, food or manure [per GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador site]. - BS
File: Doyl3085
===
NAME: When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back
DESCRIPTION: "When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars And the beautiful moon sweeps the sky, I'll remember you, love, in my prayers." "When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars And the dew drops of heav'n kiss the rose, I'll remember...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: love nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Sandburg, p. 259, "When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 90, "Curtains of Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4367
RECORDINGS:
Emry Arthur, "I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers" (Vocalion 5206, c. 1928)
Blue Ridge Mountain Singers, "I'll Remember You in My Prayers" (Columbia 15550-D, 1930)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, "I'll Remember You Love" (King 550, 1946)
Betsy Lane Shepherd, "I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers" (Edison 80484, n.d.)
Floyd Skillern, "I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers" (Melotone 7-07-60, 1937)
Walter Smith, "I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers" (Champion 15730, 1929)
Tenneva Ramblers, "The Curtains of Night" (Victor 21289, 1928)
NOTES: Hazel Felleman's 1936 book _The Best Loved Poems of the American People_, p. 32, has a long version of this with the title "I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers." That version looks very composed, but she lists no author. It's not clear whether that is the original or if it is based on traditional materials. - RBW
File: San259
===
NAME: When the Day's on the Turn
DESCRIPTION: "Though the house be couth and warm, And aye a blazing fire, The lang nichts o' winter Maks everybody tire." They look forward to the time when "the day be on the turn." The song lists how people will rejoice after the solstice
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 279, "When the Day's on the Turn" (1 text)
Roud #5598
File: Ord279
===
NAME: When the End of the Month Rolls Around
DESCRIPTION: A coarse description of women's monthly troubles
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 346-348, "When the End of the Month Rolls Around" (2 texts, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "As the Caissons Go Rolling Along (Field Artillery Song)" (tune)
File: EM346
===
NAME: When the Flippers Strike the Town
DESCRIPTION: "You may talk about the pancakes That your mother used to fry... But this I got to tell you... The pancakes won't be 'in it' When the flippers 'strike the town.'" The song describes the enjoyable times when the flippers come back to home and family
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Newfoundland Ballads and Stories)
KEYWORDS: sea hunting reunion food
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 70, "When the Flippers Strike the Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The reference is to eating seals, and to the sealers coming back from the ice with their carcasses. According to Bob Bartlett (who should know; see his biography under "Captain Bob Bartlett"), "The flesh [of the seal] is by no means disagreeable, though it has a general flavor of fish, which constitutes the seal's chief food" (see p. 54 of _The Last Voyage of the Karluk_, as told to Ralph T. Hale; published 1916; now available with a new introduction by Edward E. Leslie as _The Karluk's Last Voyage_). - RBW
File: RySm070
===
NAME: When the Ice Worms Nest Again
DESCRIPTION: "There's a dusky husky maiden in the Arctic, And she waits for me but it is not in vain, For some day I'll put my mukluks on and ask her If she'll wed me when the ice-worms nest again." There follows a description of a wedding feast in an igloo
AUTHOR: unknown (various copyright claims)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938
KEYWORDS: Eskimo marriage humorous
FOUND_IN: US(Alaska) Canada(NW,West)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 186-188, "When the Ice Worms Nest Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 189-191, "When the Ice Worms Nest Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 169, "When the Iceworms Nest Again" (1 text)
DT, ICEWRM
Roud #4537
RECORDINGS:
Wilf Carter, "When the Ice Worms Nest Again" (Bluebird [Canada] 58-0129, c. 1950)
Loewen Orchestra, "When the Iceworms Nest Again" (on SaskMan1)
NOTES: Often associated with Robert W. Service (who did publish the song), Fowke thinks this piece "may date back to the Klondike gold rush of 1898." It was apparently first published in 1938, by the "Yellowknife Prospector" (which credited it to four men working along the Yukon River around 1919) and by Service in "Bath-Tub Ballads." Service reported that he wrote it in Dawson in 1911 -- but Fowke reports his version shows significant differences from the "common" text and tune.
"Ice worms" seemingly first appeared in "ice worm cocktails"  (a term which may go back to Service). They were simply strands of pasta with eyes drawn on -- but the legend goes that they were used to intimidate inexperienced travellers who visited the Yukon, and who thought they were actual living things.
To be sure, there are actual creatures called "ice worms" (creatures that live on glaciers, coming out mostly at night, and somehow are able to increase their metabolism as temperatures go down. It is feared that global warming will render them extinct). But, based on a National Public Radio report at the end of 2005, even now, no one knows how these creatures reproduce, or how long they live; the author of this poem probably didn't know the real creatures even existed. - RBW
File: FJ186
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NAME: When the King Enjoys His Own Again
DESCRIPTION: The singer scorns the prognostications of prophets and the like; "all will be well When the King enjoys his own again." He points out the age and quality of the Stuart monarchy. He says he will "never rejoyes" until the king (Charles I) returns to power
AUTHOR: Words: Probably Martin Parker
EARLIEST_DATE: 1671 ("The Loyal Garland")
KEYWORDS: royalty political rebellion
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1603 - James I (James VI of Scotland), the first of the Stuart monarchs, succeeds Elizabeth I as monarch of England
1625 - Charles I succeeds James I
1628 - Charles I comes in conflict with Parliament. He is forced to grant Civil Rights (the "Petition of Rights") in return for money.
1629 - Charles I dissolves Parliament and attempts to rule England directly
1640 - Charles I is forced to summon a Parliament (the "Short Parliament") to raise money. When it refuses to grant subsidies, he dissolves it and summons what would become the "Long Parliament"
1642 - Charles attempts to arrest five members of parliament. Eventually Parliament goes to war against Charles
1645 - Battle of Naseby. Charles decisively defeated.
1646 - Charles surrenders to the Scots. They eventually give him to the English, but Charles twists and turns and escapes before the English finally get him firmly in custody.
1649 - Trial and execution of Charles I. England formally a commonwealth.
1660 - Commonwealth dissolved. Accession of Charles II
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 210-214, "When the King Enjoys His Own Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, KINGNJOY*
SAME_TUNE:
Come brave England, be of good cheare/England's Joyful Holiday, Or, St. Georges Day (BBI ZN559)
The Whigs are small, and of no good race/ .. The Unfortunate Whigs (BBI ZN2905)
Cheer up your hearts, and be not afraid/The Cavaliers Comfort (BBI ZN481)
All you that do desire to know/The last Newes from France (BBU ZN126)
Good people all sing and rejoyce/The Christian Conquest [over Turks at Vienna, 1683] (BBI ZN1040)
What Booker can Prognosticate/Englands Great Prognosticator (BBI ZN2787)
NOTES: An obviously political piece, evidently written in the early 1640s. (This is proved both by the politics of the piece and by the "forty years" the house of Stuart is said to have reigned.) The oldest broadside copies do not indicate a printer; no doubt they were printed secretly. After the Restoration (1660), of course, the song was openly circulated.
It's hard to say which side in the Civil War was worse. Charles tried to be an absolute monarch, claiming powers no English king had exercised since Edward I (died 1307) -- indeed, he demanded some powers no king had ever had.
Even after the Roundheads had defeated Charles's Cavaliers, he could have salvaged most of his power by simply working with Parliament. But he continued to oppose them at every step of the way. Even when on trial for his life, he refused to recognize the validity of the court.
On the other hand, the members of the Long Parliament were no great bunch either. More or less forced into rebellion, they eventually turned into an unrepresentative group of bigots (by the end of the Parliament, over half those originally elected were retired, dead, imprisoned) who sought to enforce their Puritan opinions almost as aggressively as Charles had pursued his royalist agenda. - RBW
File: ChWI214
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NAME: When the Kye Come Hame
DESCRIPTION: The singer says "the greatest bliss" for shepherds when "his ewes are in the fold and his lambs are lying still" "'tis to woo a bonnie lassie when the kye comes hame ... beneath the spreading birch in the dell"
AUTHOR: James Hogg (1770-1835) (Bodleian notes to broadside Firth b.26(194) and others; NLScotland commentary to L.C.Fol.70(5a)) 
EARLIEST_DATE: 1822 (Hogg's novel _The Three Perils of Man_ and revised with music in 1823 in _Blackwood's Magazine_, according to NLScotland commentary to L.C.Fol.70(5a))
KEYWORDS: sex nonballad animal sheep shepherd
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12919
RECORDINGS:
Willie Scott, "When the Kye Comes Hame" (on Voice20)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.26(194), "When the Kye Come Hame" ("Come all ye jolly shepherds"), John Ross (Newcastle), 1847-1852; also 2806 d.31(51), Harding B 11(4129), Harding B 11(4131), Harding B 11(3410), 2806 c.14(123), Harding B 11(4132), Harding B 26(670), Harding B 26(672), "When the Kye Come Hame"
LOCSheet, sm1846 410220, "When the Kye Come Hame," G. P. Reed (Boston), 1846; also sm1876 11358, "When the Kye Come Hame" (tune)
Murray, Mu23-y4:028, "When The Kye Come Hame," unknown, 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(5a), "When the Kye Come Hame," unknown, c.1875
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blathrie O't" (tune, per broadside Bodleian 2806 c.14(123))
NOTES: The cover to broadside LOCSheet sm1846 410220 states "Written by Hogg, the Etrick Shepherd Music by Wm Rogers." - BS
File: RcWTKCHa
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NAME: When the Logs Come Down in the Spring
DESCRIPTION: Singer is lonesome for her lover, a logger who is off in the woods. She prays for his safety, and vows that she will rush to embrace him "when the logs come down in the spring."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: loneliness lumbering lover logger separation work love
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 47, "When the Logs Come Down in the Spring" (1 text)
Roud #8875
File: Be047
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NAME: When the New York Boat Comes Down: see The Glendy Burk (File: MA109)
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NAME: When the Outport Member's Family Comes to Town
DESCRIPTION: A family from a remote outport had a successful season fishing, so they have moved to the town that is busily waiting for them and their money. They exchange outport ways for city habits.
AUTHOR: M. A. Devine
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: recitation money vanity
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doyle2, p. 76, "When the Outport Member's Family Comes to Town" (1 text)
Roud #7319
NOTES: The social satire in this song seems to be directed more at the vanities of urban life than outport life. Outports are small fishing villages outside of the cities and there have always been marked social distinctions between the inhabitants of the two. - SH
File: Doy76
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NAME: When the Rebels Come A-Marchin' (The Turncoat Piece)
DESCRIPTION: "When the rebels come a-marchin' I'm a Southern man, And I feed their horses my best. When the Yankees come a-marchin' I'm a Northern man, And I feed their horses what the rebels left." The singer describes how he cooperates with both sides
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar humorous horse betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 68, (no title) (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Vicar of Bray" (theme)
NOTES: Collected in Kentucky, where sentiments of course were split at the time of the Civil War and where both sides occasionally were in control. - RBW
File: ThBa068
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NAME: When the Saints Go Marching In
DESCRIPTION: "O when the saints go marching in (x2), Lord I want to be in that number, When the saints...." Similarly "When the sun refuse to shine"; "When the moon goes down in blood"; "We are traveling in the footsteps of those who've gone before"; etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1896 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US Bahamas
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 236, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 154, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 369, "When The Saints Go Marching In" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 641-642, "When the Saints Go Marching In"
Roud #13983
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "When The Saints Go Marching In" (Bluebird B-5560, 1934)
Chosen Gospel Singers, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Nashboro 567, n.d.)
Chuck Wagon Gang, "When The Saints Go Marching In" (Columbia 20630, 1949)
Blind Willie Davis, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Paramount 12658, 1928; Herwin 93005 [as Blind Willie Jackson], 1929; on Babylon)
Slim Ducket & Pig Norwood, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (OKeh 8899, 1931; rec. 1930)
Eureka Jubilee Singers, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Sharon X-507, n.d.)
The Georgia Peach [Clara Belle Gholston] "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Banner 32654/Oriole 8191/Romeo 5191/Perfect 0221 [possibly as Clara Belle Gholston]/Melotone 12571, 1933; rec. 1932; on Babylon)
Elder Ella Hall, Effie Fitts, Jennie Jackson & congregation "When the Saints Go Marching" (on MuSouth10)
Eureka Band, "When the Saints Go Marching In" [instrumental version] (on MuSouth10)
Frank & James McCravy, "When the Saints Go Marching Home" (Brunswick 196, 1928; rec. 1927) (OKeh 45435, 1930)
Monroe Brothers, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Montgomery Ward M-7142, 1937)
Mozelle Moore, "When the Saints Go Marching" [instrumental version] (on MuSouth10)
John D. Mounce et al, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (on MusOzarks01)
Pace Jubilee Singers w. Hattie Parker, "When The Saints Go Marching In" (Victor 21582, 1928)
Paramount Jubilee Singers, "When All The Saints Come Marching In" (Paramount 12073, 1923)
Snowball & Sunshine, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Columbia 15722-D, 1932; rec. 1931)
Horace Sprott & group "When the Saints Go Marching Home" (on MuSouth02)
Wheat Street Female Quartet, "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Columbia 14067-D, 1925)
NOTES: This song was published twice in 1896, once (according to the copyright records; no copies of the music survive) as by J. M. Black and once with words credited to Katherine E. Purvis and music by Black. (We should note, however, that Eldar Hasund, who has seen the copy which survives, does not consider it the same in either text or tune).
The song is very likely older in any case, as it was collected in Nassau by the McCutcheons in 1917 (again in a form unlike modern pop versions, though recognizably the same song and with much the same tune), and may have originated in the Bahamas. - RBW
File: LoF236
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NAME: When the Shantyboy Comes Down: see The Lumberman in Town (File: LxU051)
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NAME: When the Snow Was Deep (Feeding the Birds)
DESCRIPTION: "When the snow was deep, I sprinkled crumbs for the birds to eat. They would chirp for food -- The bluebirds and sparrows were in pleasant mood. They would go and come back, but not all would go, Some would stay... and eat the crumbs...."
AUTHOR: George Mefford Bell?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: bird food nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 255, "When the Snow Was Deep (Feeding the Birds)" (1 text)
NOTES: Reportedly written when Bell was only seven years old. - RBW
File: ThBa255
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NAME: When the Stars Begin to Fall
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "My Lord, what a morning (x3) When the stars begin to fall." Verses: "You'll hear the sinner moan...." "You'll hear the gambler groan...." "You'll hear the sinner pray...." "You'll hear the Christians sing...." "You'll see my Jesus come...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Sunset Jubilee Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 237, "When the Stars Begin to Fall" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 360, "My Lord, What A Mourning" (1 text)
DT, STARFALL
Roud #3408
RECORDINGS:
Blue Sky Boys, "When The Stars Begin to Fall" (Bluebird B-7472, 1938)
Campbell College Quartet, "My Lord What a Morning" (OKeh 8900, 1931; rec. 1930)
Pace Jubilee Singers, "My Lord What a Morning" (Victor 20225, 1926)
Frank Proffitt, "Oh, Lord, What a Morning" (on FProffitt01)
Rambling Kid and the Professor, "When the Stars Begin to Fall" (Melotone 7-08-71, 1937)
Preston & Hobart Smith, "When the Stars Begin to Fall" (on LomaxCD1704)
Sunset Jubilee Quartet, "Oh Lord What a Morning" (Paramount 12285, 1925; as Down Home Jubilee Quartette, Herwin 92008, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sinners Will Call for the Rocks and the Mountains" (words)
File: LoF237
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NAME: When the Stormy Winds do Blow: see Ye Gentlemen of England (I) [Laws K2] (File: LK02)
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NAME: When the Train Comes Along
DESCRIPTION: "I may be blind and cannot see, But I'll meet you at the station when the train comes along. "When the train comes along (x2), I'll meet you at the station when the train comes along." The singer looks forward to meeting Jesus and a happy life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (recording, Odette Jacson and Ethel Grainger)
KEYWORDS: religious train nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 633-635, "When the Train Comes Along" (2 texts, 1 tune)
ST LSRai633 (Full)
Roud #11525
RECORDINGS:
Uncle Dave Macon, "When the Train Comes Along" (Champion 16805/Champion 45105/Decca 5373/Decca 34317, 1934)
NOTES: Cohen notes that Dave Macon significantly modified this song from the usual version recorded several times in the 1920s and 1930s. In this case, though, Macon actually made the song more full and coherent. Which perhaps tells you how short most of the other known versions are. - RBW
File: LSRai633
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NAME: When the Work is Done This Fall: see When the Work's All Done This Fall (File: LB03)
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NAME: When the Work's All Done This Fall [Laws B3]
DESCRIPTION: A cowboy tells of his plans to at last go home and see his mother "when the work's all done this fall." Soon after, the cattle stampede. The cowboy controls the herd but is fatally injured in the process. He will not see his mother; he sends tokens home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1893 (published by D. J. O'Malley in _Stock Grower's Journal_)
KEYWORDS: cowboy work death mother
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So,Ro) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws B3, "When the Work's All Done This Fall"
Sandburg, pp. 260-262, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 264, "When the Work is Done This Fall" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 81, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 282-283, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 97, "The Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 263, "When The Work's All Done This Fall" (1 text)
DT 371, WORKDONE*
Roud #450
RECORDINGS:
Jules Allen, "When The Work's All Done This Fall" (Victor V-40263, 1930)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "The Dixie Cowboy" (OKeh 7004, 1924)
The Cartwright Brothers, "When The Work's All Done This Fall" (Columbia 15346-D, 1929)
Bill Childers, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (OKeh 45203, 1928)
Vernon Dalhart, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Conqueror 7737, 1931)
J. D. Farley, "I'm a Lone Star Cowboy" (Victor V-40269, 1930; Montgomery Ward M-4300, 1933; rec. 1929; on WhenIWas2)
Harry Jackson, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (on HJackson1)
Bradley Kincaid, "When The Work's All Done This Fall" (Gennett 6989, 1929) (Brunswick 403/Supertone S-2017, 1930)
Frank Luther, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Grey Gull 4264 [as Jeff Calhoun]/Van Dyke 74264 [as Jeff Calhoun]/Radiex 4264 [as Carlton Boxill], 1929; Madison 5013 [as Tom Cook], c. 1930) (Melotone M-12143 [as Phil & Frank Luther], 1931)
Claude Moye, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Champion 15688 [as Asparagus Joe]/Supertone 9351 [as Pie Plant Pete], 1929)
Aulton Ray, "The Dixie Cowboy"  (Challenge 335 [as Charlie Prescott]/Champion 15277/Silvertone 5084, 1927; Supertone 9250, 1928) (Herwin 75552, c. 1927)
George Reneau, "When The Work's All Done This Fall" (Vocalion 5079, c. 1926)
Carl T. Sprague, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Victor 19747, 1925; on AuthCowboys, BackSaddle)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "When The Work's All Done This Fall" (Edison 51788, 1926) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5188, 1926)
Taylor's Kentucky Boys "The Dixie Cowboy" (on WhenIWas1)
Frankie Wallace, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Romeo 913, 1929)
Frank Wheeler & Monroe Lamb, "A Jolly Group of Cowboys" (Victor V-40169, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4470, 1934)
Marc Williams, "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Brunswick 244, 1928; Supertone S-2054, 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Virginia Strike of '23" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Virginia Strike of '23 (File: LSRA591)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
After the Roundup (published by D. J. O'Malley under that title)
NOTES: The most likely author of this is D. J. O'Malley, who seems to have been responsible for the earliest printed version. But Laws does not mention the attribution to O'Malley, and notes that J. Frank Dobie attributes it to Marshall Johnson of Texas. I know of no verifiable field collection before the Carl T. Sprague recording from 1925. - RBW
File: LB03
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NAME: When the World Is on Fire
DESCRIPTION: "The world is on fire. What are you going to do? What are you going to do When the world is on fire?" "I am going to fly... I am going home... I am going to shout." "Sinners want to pray... I am going to fly." A "very fluid" song.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 653, "When the World is On Fire" (1 text)
Roud #11789
File: Br3653
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NAME: When the World's on Fire: see My Lovin' Father (When the World's On Fire) (File: R637)
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NAME: When Things Go Wrong with You
DESCRIPTION: "I love you, baby, I ain't gonna lie, Without you, honey, I just can't be satisfied. Cause when things go wrong, so wrong with you, Well, it hurts me too." The singer hopes to be the girl's man, and wants to make her happy. He promises to treat her well
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: love nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 78, "When Things Go Wrong With You" (1 text)
NOTES: This comes from the singing of Big Bill Broonzy, and he probably had at least some hand in the text, but it is generally not listed as his composition. - RBW
File: FSWB078
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NAME: When This Cruel War is Over (Weeping Sad and Lonely)
DESCRIPTION: The girl asks her soldier, "Dearest love, do you remember, when we last did meet, How you told me that you loved me...." She fears for him, but urges him to fight. She is "weeping sad and lonely... When this cruel war is over, pray that we meet again."
AUTHOR: Words: Charles C. Sawyer / Music: Henry Tucker
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: Civilwar soldier separation injury battle
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Belden, p. 381, "When This Cruel War is Over" (1 text)
BrownIII 390, "When This Cruel War is Over" (1 text plus 1 excerpt, 1 fragment, and mention of 2 more; the one text is the Southern adaption of the sont)
Silber-CivWar, pp. 42-43, "Weeping Sad and Lonely" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 232-233, "When This Cruel War Is Over" (1 text)
Arnett, pp. 88-89, "When This Cruel War is Over" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 276, "Weeping Sad And Lonely (When This Cruel War Is Over)" (1 text)
DT, WHENOVER*
ST SCW42 (Full)
Roud #3446
NOTES: This is widely believed to be the most popular of the war songs (at least among Union troops). After the war, however, its rather maudlin sentiments caused it to lose its place to songs such as "Tenting Tonight." (For details, as well as a sample stanza, see Bruce Catton, _Mr. Lincoln's Army_, p. 171). - RBW
File: SCW42
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NAME: When This Old Hat Was New
DESCRIPTION: A litany of complaints about the days "When this old hat was new." Subject can seemingly vary as long as it talks about long ago. At least one version talks about the evolution of American politics (used during the 1840 campaign)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 2, 1840 - William Henry Harrison defeats Martin Van Buren
Mar 4, 1841 - Harrison (the first Whig to be elected President) is inaugurated. He gives a rambling inaugural address in a rainstorm and catches cold
April 4, 1841 - Harrison dies of pneumonia, making him the first president to fail to complete his term. After some hesitation, Vice President John Tyler is allowed to succeed as President
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, p. 336, "When This Old Hat Was New" (1 text)
Roud #7841
NOTES: Although the only version of this I can pin down is Belden's, a campaign piece from the 1840 Harrison/Van Buren election, the catch phrase is much more common (see Roud #1693). It seems as if the idea was too good to let alone.
The "locos" are the "loco-foco" faction of the Democratic party, a radical group which emerged 1835. (They were so-called for the matches, or "loco-focos," they used to light candles after the Tammany Hall group tried to suppress them by turning out the gas lights at a convention.) They didn't have a clear platform so much as a desire to clean up government, monopolies, and banking.
The statement that "Van Buren was a Fed" is a reference to the Federalist party -- hardly a fair criticism, since the Democratic party did not exist in his youth. - RBW
File: Beld336
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NAME: When Uncle Sam's Doughboy Roped a Wild Irish Rose
DESCRIPTION: An "Uncle Sam's Doughboy" goes to Ireland and pursues a "wild Irish rose" who "ran through the trees like a wild mountain deer." But now she "gets tamer each day" and is becoming willing to return to the West with him
AUTHOR: Rusty Holman (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: courting cowboy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 79, "When Uncle Sam's Doughboy Roped a Wild Irish Rose" (1 text)
File: Ohr079
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NAME: When We Get Our Tuppence Back
DESCRIPTION: The bosses at Lithgow lower the pay rate for coal by a tuppence. The miners go on strike: "We will never work for you Till you give that tuppence back, Charlie dear." The strike is bitter, with many scabs brought in. But the miners hold firm
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: mining scab strike work Australia
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1911 - Strike at the Hoskin Mine near Lithgow, New South Wales. The miners asked for a raise of tuppence per load; mine boss Charles Hoskin responded by lowering pay rates the same amount. Hoskin brought in scabs and resorted to intimidation, but eventually the miners won.
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 208-209, "When We Get Our Tuppence Back" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FaE208
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NAME: When We Were Two Little Boys
DESCRIPTION: Two boys are playing; one's hobby-horse breaks; his brother says "I couldn't bear to see you crying/When there's room on my horse for two." They become soldiers; one is wounded, the other rescues him, saying "I couldn't bear to see you dying...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903 (recording, Billy Murray)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Two boys are playing; one's hobby-horse breaks; his brother comforts him, saying "I couldn't bear to see you crying/When there's room on my horse for two." They grow up and become soldiers; one is wounded, the other rescues him, saying "I couldn't bear to see you dying/When there's room on my horse for two." They remember when they were two little boys
KEYWORDS: love army battle fight war reunion rescue injury brother family soldier
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Dixon Brothers, "Two Little Boys" (Montgomery Ward M-7336, c. 1937)
Billy Murray, "When We Were Two Little Boys" (Monarch [Victor] 2468, 1903)
NOTES: Although the text doesn't say so, this song is almost certainly set in the Civil War. - PJS
And it has the sickeningly saccharine sound of songs of that era, too. - RBW
File: RcWWW2LB
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NAME: When Will Ye Gang Awa'? (Huntingtower) [Laws O23]
DESCRIPTION: Janie asks what Jamie will bring her when he crosses the sea. He promises a new gown, then a "gallant gay." She wants only him. He submits that he has a wife and children. She is distressed; he promises to marry her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton/Senior); related text from 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: courting clothes trick marriage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 232, "Richie Story" (9 texts; the text in the Appendix is this song)
Bronson 232, "Richie Story" (9 versions, but #9 is "When Will Ye Gang Awa'? (Huntingtower)" [Laws O23], and #7 and #8 may be as well)
Laws O23, "When Will Ye Gang Awa'? (Huntingtower)"
Creighton/Senior, pp. 217-218,"When Will Ye Gan Awa'?" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 273-277, "Huntingtower" (2 texts, 1 tune)
DT 482, DATHOL
Roud #345
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(127), "Hunting Tower, Or when ye Gang Awa' Jamie," Poet's Box (Dundee), unknown
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Richie Story" [Child 232]
NOTES: For the relationship of this song to "Richie Story" [Child 232], see the notes on that song. - RBW
File: LO23
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NAME: When You and I Must Part: see My Dearest Dear (File: SKE40)
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NAME: When You and I Were Young, Maggie
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls the days when he and Maggie were young -- the creek and the mill they wandered by, the meadows they wandered, the birds they heard. Now the mill is still, and the flowers are gone, but she is still just as beautiful in his eyes
AUTHOR: Words: George W. Johnson / Music: J. A. Butterfield
EARLIEST_DATE: 1866
KEYWORDS: love courting age nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 237-240, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 159, "When You And I Were Young" (1 text)
BrownII 137, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Silber-FSWB, p. 248, "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" (1 text)
Gilbert, p. 22, "When You and I Were Young Maggie" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 643, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie"
DT, YOUNGMAG*
ST RJ19237 (Full)
Roud #3782
RECORDINGS:
Archie Anderson, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (Columbia A-1447, 1913)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "When You And I Were Young, Maggie"  (Okeh 40020, 1924; rec. 1923)
Frank & James McCravy, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (Brunswick 197, 1928; rec. 1927)
McMichen's Melody Men, "When You and I Were Young" (Columbia 15247-D, 1928; rec. 1927)
[?] Morgan & [Frank] Stanley, "When You and I Were Young Maggie" (Victor 4428, 1905)
Roy Newman's Boys, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (Vocalion 03598, 1937)
Will Oakland, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (CYL: Edison 9980, 1908) (CYL: Edison [BA] 1873 [as Will Oakland & chorus], n.d.)
Riley Puckett, "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" (Columbia 15005-D, c. 1924)
George Reneau, "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" (Vocalion 14814, 1924)
Howard Shelley, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (Bell 1117, c. 1923)
Walter Van Brunt, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (CYL: Edison [BA] 3130, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sweet Genevieve" (theme)
cf. "Silver Threads among the Gold" (theme)
cf. "The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill" (theme)
File: RJ19237
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NAME: When You Feel Like Moaning
DESCRIPTION: "When you feel like moanin', it ain't nothin' but love... It must be the Holy Ghost comin' down from above.... When you hear me prayin', that ain't nothin' but love.... When you love everybody... Do you love your preacher...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (recording, Rich Amerson)
KEYWORDS: religious clergy nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 238-240, "When You Feel Like Moaning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10963
RECORDINGS:
Rich Amerson, "When You Feel Like Moaning" (on NFMAla4)
File: CNFM238
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NAME: When You Go A-Courtin': see Come All You Virginia Girls (Arkansas Boys; Texian Boys; Cousin Emmy's Blues; etc.) (File: R342)
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NAME: When You Go to Get Your Shears
DESCRIPTION: "When you go to get your shears You're not allowed to pick. The first pair that you collar, Then it's to that pair you stick. It is the boss's orders; If you do not like the trick, You can go somewhere else to look for shearing."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: sheep work Australia boss
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 281-282, "When You Go to Get Your Shears" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA281
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NAME: When Young Men Go Courting: see Bachelor's Hall (II) (File: AF120)
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NAME: Whene'er I Take My Walks Abroad
DESCRIPTION: "Whene'er I take my walks abroad How many poor I see; What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me?" "No more than others I deserve, Yet God has given me more, For I have food while others starve Or beg from door to door."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious poverty
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 652, "Whene'er I Take My Walks Abroad" (1 short text plus an excerpt from a parody)
Roud #7573
NOTES: Although Randolph collected this piece in 1936, it is obviously older, as a parody was reported in 1904.
File: R652
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NAME: Where am I to go, M' Johnnies?
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "Where am I to go me Johnnies, where am I to go? To me way hey, hey, high, roll an' go. For I'm a young sailor boy, and where am I to go?" subsequent verses answer "way up the t'gallant yard," "around Cape Horn," "through the ice and snow," etc...
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor travel
FOUND_IN: Britain US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 169-170, "Where am I to go, M' Johnnies?" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 137]
NOTES: Gordon Bok's book _Time and the Flying Snow_ seems to imply that he learned this song from Hugill -- but his tune is slightly different, and his text also differs. Hugill's seems to be the only field collection; I don't know if Bok modified the song or if others did it before him. - RBW
File: Hugi169
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NAME: Where Am I to Go?: see Where am I to go, M' Johnnies? (File: Hugi169)
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NAME: Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid?: see Rolling in the Dew (The Milkmaid) (File: R079)
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NAME: Where Are You Going, My Good Old Man?: see My Good Old Man (File: R426)
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NAME: Where Are You Going, My Pretty Fair Maid? (I): see Seventeen Come Sunday [Laws O17] (File: LO17)
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NAME: Where Are You Going, My Pretty Fair Maid? (II): see Rolling in the Dew (The Milkmaid) (File: R079)
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NAME: Where Derry Meets Tyrone
DESCRIPTION: "Have you ever been to Ireland where Derry meets Tyrone?" The singer describes the beauty of the country, the "queen of nature," the kindly welcome a visitor may expect.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H601, pp. 174-175, "Where Derry Meets Tyrone" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13535
File: HHH601
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NAME: Where Did You Get That Hat?
DESCRIPTION: The singer, to inherit his grandfather's property, is required to wear grandfather's hat. Now, wherever he goes, people cry out to him, "Where did you get that hat?... Isn't it a nobby one, and just the proper style...."
AUTHOR: Joseph J. Sullivan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (Copyright)
KEYWORDS: clothes humorous marriage
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Geller-Famous, pp. 42-44, "Where Did You Get That Hat?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 137-138, "Where Did You Get That Hat?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, p. 151, "Where Did You Get That Hat?" (1 text)
ST SRW137 (Full)
Roud #4877
RECORDINGS:
Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, "Where Did You Get That Hat" (Columbia 15097-D, 1926)
Edith Perrin, "Where Did You Get That Hat?" [excerpt?] (on USWarnerColl01)
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(97b), "Where Did You Get That Hat," Poet's Box (Glasgow), c. 1880-1900
NOTES: According to Gilbert, Sullivan, a blackface minstrel, found a very tall hat one day while rummaging through his parents' attic. He being short, he thought the tall hat would make a humorous addition to his act. To test this, he went out one day wearing the hat. A gang of urchins harassed him, asking "Where did you get that hat?" Hence this song.
We should note, however, that there are variations on this legend: All agree that Sullivan found a hat and tried it in his act -- but according to James J. Geller, the humor lay in the fact that the hat was small and Sullivan quite hefty; the hat didn't fit him. - RBW
File: SRW137
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NAME: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: see In the Pines (File: LoF290)
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NAME: Where Does Father Christmas Go To?
DESCRIPTION: We know about Mary and her lamb, servant girl Maria blown through the roof, Burglar Bill of Pentonville on the scaffold, the rich man on the Continent and the poor man on the dole. But [chorus] "where does Father Christmas go to in the summertime?"
AUTHOR: Fred Schuff (source: Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 16" - 13.9.02)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (recording, Sam Bond)
KEYWORDS: Christmas humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12927
RECORDINGS:
Sam Bond, "Where Does Father Christmas Go To?" (on Voice16)
NOTES: Musical Traditions note has this song written in 1926. - BS
File: RcWDFCG
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NAME: Where Have You Been Today, Billy, My Son: see Lord Randal [Child 12] (File: C012)
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NAME: Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
DESCRIPTION: Singer (presumably the mother, although it's not stated) weeps for her wandering boy, saying he was once "my joy and light". She begs the listener to find her boy and "tell him I love him still"
AUTHOR: Robert Lowry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1896 (recording, J. W. Myers)
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness rambling separation mother children
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 270, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Burr, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" (Little Wonder 226, 1915) (Resona 75016, 1919) (Standard 199, n.d.)
Vernon Dalhart, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" (Columbia 15072-D, 1926; Harmony 767-H, 1928)
Edison Mixed Quartet, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" (CYL: Edison Blue Amberol 2125, n.d.)
Giddens Sisters, "Where Is My Wandering Boy?" (OKeh 45143, 1927)
Hall & Ryan, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" (Globe 4066, c. 1924)
Sid Harkreader, "Where Is My Boy Tonight" (Vocalion 15075, 1925)
Harry Macdonough, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" (CYL: Edison 1559, c. 1898)
J. W. Myers, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" (CYL: Columbia 31357, c. 1900)  (Berliner 0918, rec. 1896)
Peerless Quartet, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" (Paramount 33010, 1919)
Riley Puckett, "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" (Columbia 15004-D, rec. 1924)
Unidentified baritone "Where Is My Wandering Boy To-Night" (Busy Bee 1120, c. 1906)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues" (quotes this song)
SAME_TUNE:
Where Is My Wandering Boy (IWW) (Greenway-AFP, p. 176)
NOTES: This should not be confused with "The Wandering Boy," a different song from the looks of it. - PJS
They are indeed different, though the concept is similar. - RBW
File: FSWB270
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NAME: Where Is Old Elijah? (The Hebrew Children, The Promised Land)
DESCRIPTION: "Where oh where is old Elijah? (x3) 'Way over in the Promised Land. He went up in a fiery chariot (x3) 'Way over in the promised land. By and by we will go and see him...." Unrelated verses on Biblical themes, e.g. "Where are the Hebrew children"
AUTHOR: Peter Cartwright?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1832 (Sacred Harp)
KEYWORDS: Bible religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 646, "Way Over in the Promised Land" (1 text)
Belden, pp. 457-459, "The Promised Land" (2 texts, 1 tune, the second text purporting to be a translation into an Indian language though neither Belden nor I can say which one)
Fuson, pp. 205-206, "Safe at Home in the Promised Land" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 92-93, "Where O Where Is Old Elijah?" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 160, "(Where, Oh, where is Elijah?" (1 short text)
ST San092 (Partial)
Roud #4213
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Paw-Paw Patch" (tune & meter)
NOTES: Elijah's transportation to heaven in a fiery chariot is described in 2 Kings 2:11.
Absalom's rebellion against his father David occupies 2 Samuel 15-18 (Absalom's death occurs in 18:9-18); the extended story of David's sin and its consequences, including the rebellion, occupies 2 Samuel 11-19.
According to the Sacred Harp, the tune is by Peter Cartwright (1785-1872), and is known as "Hebrew Children." No author is listed for the words, however, and the versions show strong variations. Fred W. Allsopp, in _Folklore of Romantic Arkansas_, Volume II, p. 160, says that it has been sung by "professional minstels." - RBW
File: San092
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NAME: Where Moyola Waters Flow
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the "little cot I've never seen" (!) at home by the Moyola. Living in America, he misses Ireland, "Where a dear old mother's mourning As she keeps the home fires burning For the emigrants returning."
AUTHOR: James O'Kane
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H787, p. 215, "Where Moyola Waters Flow" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: HHH787
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NAME: Where O Where Is Old Elijah?: see Where Is Old Elijah? (The Hebrew Children, The Promised Land) (File: San092)
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NAME: Where Shall I Be?: see O Where Will Ye Be? (File: ChFRA083)
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NAME: Where the Bravest Cowboys Lie
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a mountain resident, courts a girl; she agrees to marry him if he becomes a cowboy. Despite his parents' advice, he takes to the trail -- and suffers cold, snow, and Indian attacks. The singer wishes to "fly to where the bravest cowboys lie."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: love courting travel cowboy fight death Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 55, "Where the Bravest Cowboys Lie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11086
NOTES: I have to suspect that the Fife version of this piece is a fusion of two pieces, one in which an Indian attack was foiled and another in which it succeeded. (The introduction, about loving the girl, might even be a third piece). As the song stands, it doesn't really make sense. But since I can't identify the earlier pieces, I have to list it as one. - RBW
File: FCW055
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NAME: Where the Gadie Rins (I)
DESCRIPTION: The singer wishes she were "Where the Gadie rins." She recalls her (ane/twa) richt love(s). "The ane he was killed at the Lowrin fair, and t'ither wis drowned in Dee." She has twice been a bride but never a wife. She recalls her mourning
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love marriage death wife mourning
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 347-348, "Oh! Gin I Were Where Gaudie Rins" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Ord347 (Full)
Roud #(5404)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Where the Gadie Rins" (II), etc. (tune, chorus)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Where the Gaudie Rins
NOTES: The melody "Where (the) Gadie Rins" is said to be a common pipe tune in Scotland. (MacColl and Seeger date it to 1815; Ord suspects the eighteenth century.) Like some other pipe tunes (e.g. "The Flowers of the Forest), it seems to have picked up various texts.
One may suspect that, like some fiddle tunes, it had a mnemonic verse or two. All the texts seem to have a lyric similar to:
Oh, gin I were whaur the Gadie rins,
The Gadie rins, the Gadie rins,
Oh, gin I were whaur the Gadie rins
At the back o Bennachie
or
But there's meal and there's ale whaur the Gadie rins,
The Gadie rins, the Gadie rins,
But there's meal and there's ale whaur the Gadie rins
At the back o Bennachie.
Ord calls the air "one of the best-known songs in the North of Scotland," but says that most people know only fragments of verses. This text gets pride of place as the only one I've heard recorded.
The "Lowrin fair" or "Lowren'-fair" is described by Kinloch as "a market held at Lawrence-kirk, in Mearnshire." - RBW
File: Ord347
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NAME: Where the Gadie Rins (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer finds that his girl's "kilt (is) short and I could see." She tells his he's being unfair;  she's going home to her mother. He muses that when her mother finds out what he's done, he'll have to fly. He laments that he can't go and see her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (collected from Maggie McPhee)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer takes his girl on his knee; "her kilt was short and I could see." She tells his he's being unfair; they've slept together, but he doesn't care, so she's going home to her mother. If her baby's a boy, she'll call him Jock. He tells her to go home, and muses that when her mother finds out what he's done, he'll have to fly. He laments that he can't go and see her, and says he'll live with his mother until he dies "at the back o' Bennachie." Chorus: "There's meal and there's ale whaur the Gadie rins/At the back o' Bennachie."
KEYWORDS: sex rejection parting pregnancy baby lover mother
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MacSeegTrav 46, "Where Gadie Rins" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #(5404)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Back o' Bennachie
I Wish I Were Where Gadie Rins
NOTES: The melody "Where (the) Gadie Rins" is said to be a common pipe tune in Scotland. (MacColl and Seeger date it to 1815; Ord suspects the eighteenth century.) Like some other pipe tunes (e.g. "The Flowers of the Forest), it seems to have picked up various texts.
One may suspect that, like some fiddle tunes, it had a mnemonic verse or two. All the texts seem to have a lyric similar to:
Oh, gin I were whaur the Gadie rins,
The Gadie rins, the Gadie rins,
Oh, gin I were whaur the Gadie rins
At the back o Bennachie
or
But there's meal and there's ale whaur the Gadie rins,
The Gadie rins, the Gadie rins,
But there's meal and there's ale whaur the Gadie rins
At the back o Bennachie. - RBW
I was tempted to use "The Back o' Bennachie" as the title for the main entry; however, there seem to be several songs under that name (including versions of "Locks and Bolts") whose plots are quite different from this one, and from each other. So I stuck with Maggie McPhee's title. - PJS
File: McCST046
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NAME: Where the Grass Grows Green
DESCRIPTION: "I'm Denny Blake, from County Clare" to sing in praise of Erin. The Irishman is painted poor but "his heart and hospitality Has much to do with that." He's foolish but not vicious and has a weakness for drink. Wish for "better days to Erin"
AUTHOR: Harry Clifton (1824-1872)
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(4145))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic poverty
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 144, "Where the Grass Grows Green" (1 text)
Roud #8213
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4145), "Where the Grass Grows Green", Hopwood and Crew (London), 1840-1866; also Firth b.25(186), Harding B 26(674), "Where the Grass Grows Green"; 2806 c.8(246), 2806 c.8(308), "The Grass Grows Green"
LOCSinging, as105770, "I Can't Forget Old Erin Where the Grass Grows Green", unknown, 19C
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 11(4145) notes "written and sung by Harry Clifton, Words and Music published by Hopwood & Crew 42, New Broad Street, London"
For information about Harry Clifton, early music hall singer and song writer, see Mudcat Cafe and Frederick Denny's World of the Music Hall sites entries for Harry Clifton - BS
File: OCon144
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NAME: Where the Moorcocks Grow (The Mountain Stream; With My Dog and Gun)
DESCRIPTION: The singer sets out "with my dog and gun o'er the blooming heather." He meets a girl, and begs her to marry him, offering to give up roving if she does. She decides to wait "another season," both to test his love and to gain her parent's consent
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: rambling courting love marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 136, "The Mountain Stream" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H32, pp. 269-270, "Where the Moorcocks Grow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 20-21, "The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, p. 181, "The Mountain Streams" (1 text)
DT, DOGNGUN
Roud #2124
RECORDINGS:
Sheila Stewart, "Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" (on Voice17); "MyDog and Gun" (on SCStewartsBlair01)
Brigid Tunney, "The Mountain Streams" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
Paddy Tunney, "The Mountain Streams" (on FSB1; as "The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" on Voice06); "The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" (on IRPTunney02)
NOTES: Kennedy, based mostly on the affinity of this piece with "The Corncrake," argues that the song comes from Ayreshire in Scotland; Henry claimed that "the song was composed about 70 years ago [i.e. c. 1855] by a roving sportsman in honour of a young lady of Letterloan." I know of no solid evidence for either claim. - RBW
File: K136
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NAME: Where the Soul Never Dies (Canaan's Land)
DESCRIPTION: "Kind friends there'll be no sad farewell There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes Where all is peace and joy and love And the soul of man never dies." Singer  is bound to Canaan's land. A love-light guides his way; a rose blooms there, etc.
AUTHOR: William M. Golden (Dolden?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (songbook, publ. by R. E. Winsett, Dayton, TN)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer says s/he is on the way to Canaan's land, where the soul never dies. A love-light guides his way; a rose blooms there for him/her, and there s/he will spend eternity. His/her life will end in deathless sleep, and s/he'll reap eternal joys. Ch.: "Kind friends there'll be no sad farewell/There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes/Where all is peace and joy and love/And the soul of man never dies"
KEYWORDS: farewell death dying nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, CNAANLND
Roud #5722
RECORDINGS:
Anglin Twins, "Where The Soul of a Man Never Dies" (Vocalion 04692=Conqueror 9243, 1939, rec. 1938)
Blue Sky Boys, "Where The Soul Never Dies" (Bluebird B-6457, 1936)
Burchfield Brothers, "Where the Soul Never Dies" (Capitol 40011, 1947)
Jim & Sarah Garland, "Canaan Land Where The Soul of Man Never Dies" (AFS 2022 B, 1938)
Jack & Leslie "Where The Soul of Man Never Dies" (Decca 5589, 1938)
Oak Ridge Sacred Singers, "Where The Soul Never Dies" (Supertone 9501, 1929)
Renfro Family, "Where the Soul Never Dies" (Kentucky 600, n.d.)
Rev. M. L. Thrasher & his Gospel Singers, "Where The Soul Never Dies" (Columbia 15271-D, 1928)
NOTES:  The song is typically sung in parts, with one part singing a simplified chorus under the main words: "No sad....farewells/No tear.....dimmed eyes/Where all.....is love/And the soul.....never dies." In that form it's become popular in bluegrass, folk-revival and C & W circles (following Hank Williams' recording). - PJS
File: DTcnaanl
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NAME: Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down
DESCRIPTION: "I want to see my mother sometime (x2), where the flowers will bloom forever, and the sun don't never go down... Don't you feel like shouting sometimes, sometimes?" Repeat with father, brother, sister, Savior 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (recording, Dock Reed)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad family
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Warner 88, "Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, p. 72, "(The Sun Will Never Go Down)" (1 text); p. 238, "The Sun Will Never Go Down" (1 tune, partial text)
ST Wa088 (Partial)
Roud #5717
RECORDINGS:
George Herod, "O, The Sun Don't Never Go Down (Don't you feel like cryin' some time)" (on MuSouth07)
Dock Reed, "Where The Sun Will Never Go Down" (on NFMAla5) (on ReedWard01)
File: Wa088
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NAME: Where the Wattles Are Blooming (Holiday Song)
DESCRIPTION: "Sunshine is over the meadow, Sunshine is over the hill..." "Come with me, merry and free, Gay as a bird on the spray, Grief and care, come if you dare, We will be happy today." "Come where the wattles are blooming, Down in the flowery glade"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 182-183, "Where the Wattles are Blooming"; "Holiday Song" (2 texts, 1 tune)
NOTES: Meredith/Covell/Brown compares this to the William Blake poem "The Echoing Green." - RBW
File: MCB182
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NAME: Where They Were: see The Old Barbed Wire (I Know Where They Are) (File: San442)
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NAME: Where Was You Last Night?
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, where was you last night (x3), Under them bilers sleeping." "I wend in the valley, Lord, I didn't go to stay, Under them bilers sleepin, My soul got happy... Under them boilers..." "The head mate hollered and the captain squalled..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, pp. 77-79, "WHere Wuz You Las' Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10026
NOTES: Almost all the lyrics of this song have parallels elsewhere (e.g. from "Down in the Valley to Pray," "The Bayou Sarah," and others), but the "Under them bilers [boilers] sleeping" chorus seems unique, so I have listed the song separately. - RBW
File: MW077
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NAME: Where'd You Get Yo' Whisky?: see Jinny Go Round and Around (File: R272)
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NAME: Where's Your License?
DESCRIPTION: "The inspector of traps said, 'Now, my fine chaps, We'll go license-hunting today.'" The inspectors set out to find illegal traps and diggers. But they find few traps, and the illegal diggers all make their escape
AUTHOR: Charles Thatcher
EARLIEST_DATE: 1854
KEYWORDS: hunting escape technology law
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 102-103, "Where's Your License?" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA102
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NAME: Which Side Are You On?
DESCRIPTION: The Union comes to town to protect the miners from boss J.H. Blair. The workers are told "In Harlan County, there are no neutrals there," and asked, "Which side are you on (x4)." They are reminded "Us poor folks haven't got a chance unless we organize."
AUTHOR: Words: Florence Reece / Music: Traditional
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (recording, Almanac Singers) (reportedly composed 1931)
KEYWORDS: mining labor-movement nonballad boss
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 342-343, "Which Side Are You On?" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 94, "Which Side Are You On?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 170-171, "Which Side Are You On?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 134, "Which Side Are You On?" (1 text)
DT, WHCHSIDE*
Roud #15159
RECORDINGS:
Almanac Singers , "Which Side Are You On?" (on Almanac04, PeteSeeger1, PeteSeeger48) (on Selma)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Am a Union Woman" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
I Am a Union Woman (by Aunt Molly Jackson) (File: Arn174)
NOTES: The radical National Miners' Union (N.M.U.) attempted to organize miners in the 1930s, but were defeated by the mine owners after bitter and bloody conflicts. The United Mine Workers of America (U.M.W.), part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O.) succeeded a few years later, again after terrible struggle. - PJS
File: SBoA342
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NAME: While Gamekeepers Were Sleeping
DESCRIPTION: Singer has a dog. "She'd run a hare of a moonlit night, While gamekeepers were sleeping." A policeman catches him poaching but he gets off with a trick. The policeman retires. Poacher gives him broth for his sick wife and a pup. Now he is also a poacher.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (recording, Bob Roberts)
KEYWORDS: poaching hunting healing trick dog animal police wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, GAMESLEP
Roud #363
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "While Gamekeepers Were Sleeping" (on Voice18)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping" (lyrics)
NOTES: The first verse is "Dogs and Ferrets" [indexed as "Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping" - RBW] but the plot is entirely different. - BS
Many versions share more than the first verse; many scholars lump them, and I did so also until Ben pointed out the differences. But that song is entirely about poaching and success in that venture. The characteristic of this is the subversion of the gamekeeper. - RBW
File: TcWGaLSl
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NAME: While Hanging Around Town
DESCRIPTION: The singer (a G.I.) gives a woman ten dollars for sex, then nine days later suffers the wages of sin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947
KEYWORDS: bawdy disease soldier whore
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 194-195, "While Hanging Around Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, HANGARND*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
cf. "The Strawberry Roan" (tune & meter)
File: EM194
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NAME: While I'm at the Wheel
DESCRIPTION: Poem, apparently based on Harlow's experiences aboard the Akbar when she encountered 30 days of heavy weather while carrying coal from Australia. Written as if addressing the ship, each verse begins "Ship of the seas..." and ends with "I'm at the wheel."
AUTHOR: Frederick Pease Harlow
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (_American Neptune_, v.1)
KEYWORDS: nonballad sailor ship storm
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 235-238, "While I'm at the Wheel" (1 text)
File: Hugi235
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NAME: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
DESCRIPTION: "While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down" to announce the birth of Jesus. They are directed to find the child in the manger in Bethlehem
AUTHOR: Words: Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1696 (Tate and Brady)
KEYWORDS: Bible Jesus religious
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OBC 33, "While Shepherds Watched" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 611, "Mary Bowed" (1 short text, with a verse "I wonder where Sister Maryy's gone... She's gone to some new buryin' ground For to lay her feeble body down" and a second verse from "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks")
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), p. 322, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" (1 text)
Roud #936
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 7(4), "While Shepherds Watch'd", J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Harding B 7(38), Harding B 7(17), Harding B 7(35), "While Shepherds Watched"; Harding B 45(3) View 3 of 3, "While Shepherds Watch'd Their Flocks by Night"; Harding B 7(37), "Watched Their Flocks"; Douce adds. 137(51), "Christmas Hymn" ("While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night"); Douce adds. 137(45), "While Shepherds"; Firth b.26(538), [None] ("While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night"); Harding B 7(79), "While Shepherds Watch" 
LOCSheet, sm1843 390300, "While Shepherds Watch'd Their Flocks by Night", A. Fiot (Philadelphia), 1843; also sm1880 18274, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night!"; sm1879 16295, sm1883 22668, "While Shepherds Watched" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
While Shepherds Washed Their Socks (Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 38, 158)
NOTES: An unusual nativity hymn, in that every word of it comes from Luke, without reference to the conflicting account in Matthew. The song is essentially a paraphrase of Luke 2:8-14.  It successfully nuances its way around a major variant in the text in 2:14; this is probably luck, as the inaccuracy of the Received Text and the King James Bible in this passage would not have been known in the seventeenth century.
In the Sacred Harp, this is set to the tune "Sherburne," credited to Daniel Read; the Missouri Harmony also uses this tune, though without credit.
I must admit to finding Hoagland's claim that this song is Irish rather funny. Yes, Nahum Tate was born in Dublin -- but he spent his entire working career in England, and became Poet Laureate in 1692. Apart from this song, he was most noteworthy for abusing Shakespeare, primarily by grafting happy endings onto the Tragedies. I'd have to say his place in Pope's _Dunciad_ was deserved. - RBW
File: OBC033
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NAME: While Shepherds Were Watching Their Flocks By the Night
DESCRIPTION: "While shepherds were watching" angels shouted "Cheer up, faithful shepherds, and be not afraid ... The saviour is born." "I went to behold him. I asked them his name. His name it was Jesus; from Bethlehem came"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1972 (recording, George Dunn)
KEYWORDS: carol Christmas religious shepherd Jesus
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #16898
RECORDINGS:
George Dunn, "While Shepherds Were Watching Their Flocks By the Night" (on Voice16)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" (subject)
NOTES: Like "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks," this is clearly based on Luke 2:8-14. I can't help but suspect there is some sort of relationship between the two. A rewrite for a different sect? A retranslation of a version translated into Welsh or some such? To this I have no clue. - RBW
File: RcWSWWTF
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NAME: While the Boys in Blue Were Fighting: see Break the News to Mother (File: GrMa179)
===
NAME: While the Organ Pealed Potatoes: see I Know a Boarding-House (File: R479)
===
NAME: Whinny Knowes, The: see The Echo Mocks the Corncrake (File: HHH018b)
===
NAME: Whip and the Spurs, The
DESCRIPTION: "'One hundred pounds,' the master said, 'To you, my boy, I'll pay If you win this race for me in which you ride today.'" Horse and rider are eager for the task. In the race, the horse does fairly well; at last the rider spurs her, and she wins
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: horse racing
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 93-94, "The Whip and the Spurs" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA093A
===
NAME: Whip Jamboree (Whup Jamboree)
DESCRIPTION: Stanzas on the life of a sailor, characterized by the line "(whip/whup) jamboree." The lash is likely to be prominently mentioned, as is the sailors' happiness upon seeing the girls (whores?) of home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Smith/Hatt)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship hardtimes punishment home whore
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 230, "Whip Jamboree" (1 short text, linked to this song only by the chorus line)
Smith/Hatt, p. 13, "Arriving Back at Liverpool" (1 fragment)
Harlow, pp. 106-108, "Johnny Get Your Oatcake Done (Jamboree)," "Early in the Morning" (2 texts, 1 tune - second text "Early in the Morning" has different words though a similar theme, Harlow says it was sung to the same tune but when bound for London)
Hugill, pp. 382-384, "Jamboree" (4 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 290-292]
Sharp-EFC, IX, pp. 10-11, "Whip Jamboree" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WHIPJAMB* WHIPJAM2*
Roud #488
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Jinny, Keep Yer Ringtail Warm
Jinny Git Yer Oatcake Done
Bristol Channel Jamboree
NOTES: "Jinny" is alternately spelled "Jenny" in the choruses. The versions that Hugill give have a bit more coherent storyline (just a bit) involving coming home (or at least to port), meeting up with Jinny and briefly deciding to stay, then taking off to sea again. - SL
File: Br3230
===
NAME: Whip-poor-will: see Whippoorwill (File: R833)
===
NAME: Whippoorwill
DESCRIPTION: "In the starry night so soft, Listen to the whippoorwill, Forest shades repeat his song... Sadness fills and thrills his lay, Singing all the summer away... Whippoorwill, sad whippoorwill." A description of the sad times evoked by the bird's sad call
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942
KEYWORDS: bird nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 833, "Whip-poor-will" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 532-534, "Whippoorwill" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 833)
Roud #7445
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Good-night" (theme)
cf. "The Whip-poor-will's Song" (theme)
NOTES: I had difficulty deciding whether this should or should not be identified with "The Whip-poor-will's Song" as recorded by Uncle Eck Dunford. The theme is the same, and both work around the call of the bird. But they haven't a word in common other than "Whip-poor-will," so I split them. - RBW
File: R833
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NAME: Whirly Whorl, The
DESCRIPTION: Bridesmaid describes a bride's problems with an elderly groom. The bride modestly turns her back, then her front, but he gives no comfort. She berates her mother for marrying her to an old fool, and vows to find a young man "to play at the whirly whorl"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828 (Buchan)
KEYWORDS: age disability marriage sex wedding bawdy
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12573
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "The Whirly Whorl" (on BirdBush1, BirdBush2, Briggs3)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man" (theme) and references there
File: RcTWW
===
NAME: Whiskey For My Johnnie: see Whiskey Johnny (File: Doe015)
===
NAME: Whiskey Is My Name (Donald Blue)
DESCRIPTION: A smith has a drinking wife, often found drunk in the street. One day, as his wife is asleep, he is called out to rescue her. He finds a drunken woman who looks so like his wife he cannot tell them apart. His wife quits drinking as a result
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: drink husband wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 47-49, "Donald Blue" (1 text)
SHenry H835a, p. 512, "Whiskey Is My Name"; H835b, pp. 512-513, "Whiskey Is My Name/The Blacksmith" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Ord, pp. 52-53, "My Name is Donald Blue" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST HHH835 (Full)
Roud #3799
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y3:014, "Donald Blue," unknown, 19C
NLScotland, RB.m.168(145), "Donald Blue," unknown, c. 1870
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wee Wifikie"
NOTES: Ford lists this as being sung to "Johnnie Cope," but his text will not fit that tune without drastic violence, and Ord uses another tune. - RBW
File: HHH835
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NAME: Whiskey Johnny
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic line: "Whiskey, Johnny, / Whiskey for me Johnny." The song details the sailor's love affair with whiskey: "Whiskey is the life of man / It always was since the world began...." "Whiskey killed my dear old dad..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (mentioned in 1867)
KEYWORDS: shanty drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE,SW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 15-16, "Whiskey Johnny" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Bone, p. 82-83, "Whis-key John-nie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 49-50, "Whiskey Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 21, 63-66 "Whiskey" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Hugill, pp. 274-280, "Whisky Johnny" (4 texts & several fragments, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 202-206]
Sharp-EFC, XLVIII, p. 53, "Whiskey For My Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Linscott, pp. 151-152, "Whisky Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, p. 55, "Whiskey for My Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 403, "Whiskey Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 30, "Whiskey For My Johnnie" (1 text)
Mackenzie 106, "Whisky Johnny" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 311-312, "Whiskey Johnny" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 486-487, "Whisky Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 231, "Whiskey Johnny" (1 text)
DT, WHSKJHN* WHISKJON*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Whisky for My Johnny" is in Part 3, 7/28/1917.
Roud #651
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "Whisky Johnny" (on LastDays)
Minster Singers, "Whiskey Johnny" (Victor 61147, n.d., prob. c. 1903)
Capt. Leighton Robinson w. Alex Barr, Arthur Brodeur & Leighton McKenzie, "Whiskey Johnny" (AFS 4232 B1, 1939; on LC27 as "Whisky Johnny"; in AMMEM/Cowell)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rise Me Up from Down Below" (chorus, theme)
cf. "Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man" (similar theme)
NOTES: Hugill specifies four versions of this, each with a distinct story line though all using the same refrain: a) The advantages & disadvantages of drinking; b) the Shanghaiing version; c) The limejuice skipper; and d) the Crab, Crayfish or Lobster version (i.e. "The Sea Crab"). Harlow cites yet another version, of a barber and a lady who are trying to impress one another and who eventually do get together despite the barber's drunkenness. - SL
File: Doe015
===
NAME: Whiskey Seller, The
DESCRIPTION: "Of all the crimes that ever has been, Sellin' whiskey is the greatest sin...." The troubles caused by liquor-sellers are described: "You rob the strong man of his strength" "You rob the statesman of his brains" "You rob the children of their bread"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink hardtimes nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 312, "The Whiskey Seller" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 263-265, "The Whiskey Seller" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 312)
DT, WHSKSELL
Roud #7789
RECORDINGS:
New Lost City Ramblers, "Whiskey Seller" (on NLCR08)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Brown Jug" (tune)
File: R312
===
NAME: Whisky in the Jar (The Irish Robber A) [Laws L13A]/The Irish Robber B (McCollister) [Laws L13B]
DESCRIPTION: The robber finds a victim on the road, whom he relieves of his valuables. He returns to his sweetheart's home and goes to sleep. He is awakened by the law. He reaches for his pistol, but the girl has rendered it useless. He is taken (and hanged/escapes)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (broadside, Murray Mu23-y1:137)
KEYWORDS: robbery prison love trial punishment execution death gallows-confession outlaw
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US(Ap,MW,NE) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland Australia
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Laws L13, "Whisky in the Jar (The Irish Robber A) [Laws L13A]/The Irish Robber B (McCollister) [Laws L13B]"
Meredith/Anderson, p. 51, "Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 51, "Gilgarrah Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 139-140, "McCollister" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 117, "There's Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 88, "Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 6, "Whisky in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H792, p. 122, "Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 12, "There's Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 368-369, "There's Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 90, "Whiskey in the Jar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 107-108, "Captain Devin" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 201, "Whiskey In The Jar" (1 text)
DT 326, GILGARRY KILGARMT*
Roud #533, 534
RECORDINGS:
Seamus Ennis, "Whiskey in the Jar" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
Lena Bourne Fish, "Gilgarrah Mountain" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
Warde Ford, "McAllister" (AFS 4196 B2, 4196 B3; in AMMEM/Cowell)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 612A , "Whiskey in the Jar," E.M.A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854; also Harding B 15(372a), Harding B 11(4152), 2806 b.10(109), "Whiskey in the Jar"
LOCSinging, as113620, "There's Whiskey in the Jar," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also sb40503b, "There's Whiskey in the Jar"
Murray, Mu23-y1:137, "Whiskey in the Jar," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1855
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(123b), "There's Whisky in the Jar," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1871
NOTES: In the Australian version, Colonel Pepper or his equivalent becomes Sir Frederick Pottinger, a local policeman laughed at for his inability to capture Ben Hall. - RBW
Paul Stamler comments on the "McCollister" texts of this song, "I think this deserves splitting, as although it's related to 'Whisky in the Jar,' it is missing the betrayal theme -- at least in this version."
Paul goes on to provide this description of the Warde Ford version: "McCollister [McAllister] sees two merchants and robs them. As he's walking up to the gallows, he says, "I have robbed many but I never killed any/And I think it is a shame to be hanged for stealing money."
However, the versions cited by Laws *do* include the betrayal; it appears that the characteristic of the "B" texts is rather the hanging, plus perhaps the robber's name. But it is almost impossible to distinguish short versions of the songs, so we continue to lump them. - PJS, RBW
In addition, Murray, Mu23-y1:131, "The Sporting Hero," Poet’s Box (Glasgow), 1852, states "Along with this song, and in the same style, the Poet['s Box] has that splendid song, called 'Whiskey in the Jar.' Generally those who buy the one, buys the other, you see." "The Sporting Hero" is another version of "Whiskey in the Jar" with a new ending: [The singer meets] Molly and shoot[s] her dead, forgive[s] her because "though Molly has deceived me, yet I thought it not her intention, Though she has proved faithless to me, a sporting hero, I have left her far sleeping far behind, and I have nothing more to fear, O." He ends by recommending himself to girls who "want a fancy man."
In broadside Bodleian, Firth c.17(314), "The Sporting Hero" ("I am a sporting hero, that never yet was daunted"), J. Bentley (Bradford), n.d. Molly is not murdered and the self-advertisement at the end goes on for more verses.
Broadside LOCSinging as113620: 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: LL13
===
NAME: Whisky You're the Devil
DESCRIPTION: Whiskey leads the singer astray. "We're on the march and off to Portugal and Spain" "The French are fighting boldly, men dying hot and coldly ... love fare thee well" A mother threatens to haunt the singer if he takes her daughter from her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (IRClancyMakem01)
KEYWORDS: courting war separation drink Spain nonballad mother soldier ghost
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 180, "Whiskey You're the Devil" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 454, "Whisky, You're My Darling" (1 fragment, 1 tune - taken from the Journal of the Folk Song Society, 1924. He only gives one verse, which deals with emigration to America, and which is filed here only tentatively)
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Whisky You're the Devil" (on IRClancyMakem01)
NOTES: The references "now, brave boys, we're on the march and off to Portugal and Spain" and "the French are fighting boldly, men dying hot and coldly" seem to be a reference to the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic wars. On the other hand, it's a stretch to imagine a consistent story line: the chorus has whiskey leading the singer "O'er the hills and mountains and to Amerikay" - BS
The above is actually barely possible; soldiers in the Peninsula might have been sent to fight the United States in the War of 1812. But it's much easier to believe that it would happen in a songwriter's head than to an actual soldier. - RBW
Moylan attributes this to 1809 on the basis of something found in Winstock's _Songs and Music of the Redcoats_. I have searched that book at length and cannot identify the basis for this attribution, so I have not changed the Earliest Date. - RBW, (BS)
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, "Whiskey in the Jar" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) - BS
File: RcWYTD
===
NAME: Whisky, You're My Darling: see Whisky You're the Devil (File: RcWYTD)
===
NAME: Whisper Your Mother's Name
DESCRIPTION: The singer is "seated one day in a beautiful cafe" when he sees his sister in the street. His mother's words, "If you should see your sister, do not reproach her, Dwayne," cause him to invite her back to her still-faithful love and her mother's grave
AUTHOR: Lottie Gilson?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1896
KEYWORDS: reunion sister brother mother family separation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 98-100, "Seated One Day in a Beautiful Cafe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4774
NOTES: Popularized by Lottie Gilson (1869-1912), a tragicomic singer of the 1890s. This piece entered her repertoire in 1896. McNeil speculates that this may be the only traditional song to have a person named "Dwayne" as a hero; given the piece's overblown sentimentality, one is inclined to hope so. - RBW
File: MN1098
===
NAME: Whispering Hope
DESCRIPTION: "Soft as the voice of an angel... Hope with a gentle persuasion, Whispers her comforting word." "Hope for the sunshine tomorrow After the shower is gone." "Whispering hope, how welcome thy voice, Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice."
AUTHOR: "Alice Hawthorne" (Septimus Winner)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 241-245, "Whispering Hope" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
The Blue Sky Boys, "Whispering Hope" (Bluebird 8401, 1940)
NOTES: Alice Hawthorne was a leading pseudonym of Septimus Winner; he also listed her as the author of "Listen to the Mockingbird." (The name was a tribute to his mother.) For some reason, Winner published such trivia as "Oh Where Oh Where Is My Little Dog Gone" under his own name. - RBW
Is there any indication that this entered tradition, as we use the term? Or, to put it bluntly, are you sure this belongs in the Index? - PJS
If the question is, can it be proved that this song was popular in oral tradition, the answer is no. However, the material in Jackson claims to be bestsellers in popular music, and so presumably widely played in parlors. That strikes me as sufficient reason for inclusion. A lot of kids must have suffered through this song in their lives. - RBW
File: RJ19241
===
NAME: Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
DESCRIPTION: The mother offers her daughter a (cow) if she will whistle. The daughter says she cannot. The request is repeated with (sheep, etc.); each time the daughter refuses. Finally the mother offers a man; the daughter engages to whistle with all her might
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868 (Notes & Queries); a manuscript copy from 1740 has been alleged (this is probably a copy known to Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: dialog mother bargaining children
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So) Britain(England) Ireland
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Randolph 109, "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (1 text plus 2 fragments, 2 tunes)
Sharp-100E 59, "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 186, "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (1 text plus mention of 2 more)
Lomax-FSNA 107, "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 134, "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 138-139, "Lolly Too Dum" (2 texts, 1 tune, with the first actually being this song)
Opie-Oxford2 128, "Whistle, daughter, whistle" (3 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #255, p. 158, "(Whistle, daughter, whistle)"
Silber-FSWB, p. 343, "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (1 text)
BBI, ZN1781, "Mother let me Marry, I long to be a Bride"
ST R109 (Partial)
Roud #1570
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lazy Mary (She Won't Get Up)" (theme)
cf. "La Jeune Fille Sans Amant (The Young Girl Without a Lover)" (theme)
cf. "Sixteen Years, Mama" (subject)
NOTES: This song has a close German parallel known, e.g., as "Spinn Spinn." - RBW
[Sharp reports of his version,] "The words given me by the singer were a little too free and unconventional to be published without emendation, but the necessary alterations have, nevertheless, been very few and unimportant." - PJS
File: R109
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NAME: Whistling Rufus
DESCRIPTION: Whistling Rufus goes to parties whatever the weather. After devouring the chicken and wine, he settles down to whistling, producing a sound that makes the spectators think "the angels' harps were a-playing."
AUTHOR: Words: W. Murdock Lind/Music: Kerry Mills
EARLIEST_DATE: (tune composed 1899; words are later)
KEYWORDS: Black(s) music
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 285, "Whistling Rufus" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 241-243, "Whistling Rufus" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 285)
DT, WHSTRFUS*
Roud #5065
SAME_TUNE:
My Mother Told Me that She Would Buy Me a Rubber Dolly If I'd Be Good (cf. Spaeth, _A History of Popular Music in America, p. 299)
File: R285
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NAME: Whistling Thief, The
DESCRIPTION: Pat visits Mary and whistles to announce his arrival. Mary's mother hears, and rejects Mary's explanations (the dog is howling at the moon, pigs can see the wind, etc.). The mother forces Mary off to bed, pointing out that she hasn't lost her ears
AUTHOR: attributed to Samuel Lover
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Songs and Ballads)
KEYWORDS: love courting mother
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H710, pp. 264-265, "The Whistling Thief" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 154, "The Whistling Thief" (1 text)
DT, PATHILL*
Roud #2738
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.11(210), "The Whistling Thief," The Poet's box (Glasgow), 1864; also Harding B 11(1366), Firth b.25(430), Harding B 11(4156), Harding B 11(4157), Firth c.20(106), Firth c.26(241), "The Whistling Thief"
LOCSinging, sb40586a, "The Whistling Thief," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
When Pat Came Over the Hill
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb40586a: 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: HHH710
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NAME: White Cal, Yaller Gal, Black Gal: see She Gets There Just the Same (Jim Crow Car) (File: DarNS355)
===
NAME: White Captive, The: see Olban (Alban) or The White Captive [Laws H15] (File: LH15)
===
NAME: White Cockade, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes her handsome young love. He has taken the white cockade and joined Prince Charlie's armies. She promises to sell her possessions to equip him well. Some versions describe how Prince Charles was displaced
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (_Scots Musical Museum_ #272)
KEYWORDS: love Jacobites separation
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1745-1746 - Jacobite rebellion of 1745
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE,So) Australia
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 120, "Prince Charles He Is King James's Son" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 144, p. 149, "Ranting Roving Lad" (1 text -- from West Virginia, but still with clear traces of Scots dialect)
Linscott, pp. 115-118, "Virginia Reel" [medley of "The Irish Washerwoman," "The White Cockade," and "Yankee Doodle"] (1 tune for each of the three melodies, plus dance instructions); p. 120, "The White Cockade" (1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 88, "The White Cockade" (1 tune)
DT, WHTECOCK*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 181-182, "The White Cockade" (1 text, translated from the Gaelic with some lines surely inspired by "King William was King James's Son"; the rest is not the usual "White Cockade" though it has similarities; I rather suspect two-way translation)
ST R120 (Full)
Roud #709
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "King William is King James's Son" (lyrics)
cf. "The Old Settoo" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Green Cockade (Healy-OISBv2, pp. 40-41)
The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lass's Plaidie Awa' (File: RcWBTBLP)
The Old Settoo (File: OLcM026A)
NOTES: The white cockade was, of course, a Jacobite emblem. Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart, 1720-1788) was the son of James (III), himself the son of James II, the English king deposed in 1689/90.
This piece is often found as a fiddle tune. It may be that it lost its words because people dared not sing a Jacobite song, but liked the melody. But this is probably beyond proof. - RBW
File: R120
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NAME: White Coral Bells
DESCRIPTION: "White coral bells upon a slender stalk, Lilies of the valley (line/grace) my garden walk. Oh don't you wish that you could hear them ring? That will only happen when the (angels/fairies) sing."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1972
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 268, "White Coral Bells" (1 text)
NOTES: One of the tiny handful of songs in my mother's singing tradition. Seems to be a genuine folk song, even if no one knows what it's supposed to be about. - RBW
File: PHCFS268
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NAME: White Fisher, The [Child 264]
DESCRIPTION: Willie learns that a "popish priest" fathered his wife's baby. She tells Willie to cast the babe in the sea; he instead gives the child to his mother. Willie's wife weeps for the babe and reviles him; Willie tells her the babe is alive; both are happy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1878
KEYWORDS: pregnancy bastard death drowning return adultery abandonment disguise clergy infidelity
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 264, "The White Fisher" (1 text)
DBuchan 60, "The White Fisher" (1 text)
DT 264, WHITFISH
Roud #3888
NOTES: Bronson notes that Child's view of this ballad is distorted by his single text, and notes that it should be modified in view of the collections by Grieg. - RBW
File: C264
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NAME: White Folks Go to College: see Hard to Be a Nigger (File: LxA233)
===
NAME: White Folks in the Parlor
DESCRIPTION: "White folks in the parlor, Talking 'bout jelly and jam... Didn't say a word about ham." "Ham, ham, ham is good and sweet... Nothing better'n old ham meat." "Possum in the corn fields... Rabbit say, 'You dirty dog,' Possum blew the horn."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: animal food
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 476, "White Folks in the Parlor" (1 short text)
Roud #11864
File: Br3476
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NAME: White Hare, The
DESCRIPTION: Near Oldham town lived an old white hare that has escaped beagles and greyhounds. Jim Smith or Jemmy the huntsman and Tom the whipper-in take out horsemen and beagles to hunt this hare. "There was twenty good beagles that caused this hare to die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (recording, Joseph Taylor)
KEYWORDS: death hunting animal dog horse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1110
RECORDINGS:
Joseph Taylor, "The White Hare" (on Voice18)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 16(306a), "White Hare," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 11(3425), Firth c.19(105), Harding B 11(1725), "White Hare"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Creggan White Hare" (subject)
NOTES: The town in the Bodleian broadsides is Maxfield or Maxwell. Oldham is in Lancashire, England. I don't know about Maxwell or Maxfield. - BS
File: RcTWhiHa
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NAME: White House Blues (I): see Mister McKinley (White House Blues) (File: LoF143)
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NAME: White House Blues (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer says Hoover let the country go to ruin; now Roosevelt's "doing his best," but  times are still hard -- long hours for poor wages (if they're working at all), bad clothes, poor food. The refrain says of Hoover, "Now he's gone, I'm glad he's gone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1929-1933: Presidency of Herbert Hoover
1933-1945: Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 228, "White House Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 382-383, "White House Blues" (1 text)
DT, WHITHOU2*
RECORDINGS:
New Lost City Ramblers, "White House Blues" (on NLCR09) (on NLCR12)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mister McKinley (White House Blues)" (tune, structure, words)
NOTES: The Great Depression is generally considered to have extended from the stock market crash of 1929 to the beginning of World War II in 1939. However, it is worth noting that conditions for farmers had already been depressed for several years before this. - PJS (This was due in part to the revival of European agriculture after World War I. In Minnesota, the political side effects are still felt to some extent today, in the relative strength of third party politics. Minnesota voted for Roosevelt in all four of his elections -- the first time the state had ever voted for a Democrat. Quite a sea change. - RBW)
This song is obviously a topical adaptation of "Mister McKinley (White House Blues)." -PJS
In one sense this song is unfair; Herbert Hoover was not the cause of the Depression (which began very shortly after he came into office; if any President is to be blamed, it is his predecessor, Calvin Coolidge). On the other hand, Hoover (a conservative Republican) took only the most hesitant steps to help the poor, so he arguably does deserve their scorn. - RBW
File: CSW228
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NAME: White Man, Let Me Go
DESCRIPTION: The Indian begs to be allowed to return to his land: "Let me go to my home in the far distant west... Let me go to my father... Let me go to the hills... Let me go to... my dark-eyed maid... And there let my body in ashes lie low"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1844 (Journal from the Marcus)
KEYWORDS: Indians(Am.) lament homesickness
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf) Australia
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 270, "The Indian Hunter" (1 text)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 180-181, "The Indian Hunter" ( text)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 32-34, "White Man, Let Me Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 164-165, "White Man, Let Me Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 228-229, "White Man, Let Me Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ032 (Partial)
Roud #2055
NOTES: The notes in Brown cite Kittredge to the effect that this was printed in 1835. The source involved, however, is not listed. - RBW
File: FJ032
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NAME: White Oak Mountain: see The False Young Man (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out) (File: FJ166)
===
NAME: White Paternoster: see Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (I) (File: FO033)
===
NAME: White Pilgrim, The
DESCRIPTION: "I came to the tomb where the white pilgrim lay And pensively stood by his tomb, And in a low whisper I heard someone say How peaceful he sleeps there alone."  The pilgrim's farewell to his family after his call, and his courage in death, are recalled
AUTHOR: Rev. Jonathan Ellis?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1850 (Sacred Harp)
KEYWORDS: religious death clergy disease request travel children family wife
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 542, "The Lone Pilgrim" (1 text plus a fragment)
Hudson 81, p. 209, "The White Pilgrim" (1 text)
Randolph 619, "The White Pilgrim" (2 short texts plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 433-434, "The White Pilgrim" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 619)
Brewster 97, "The White Pilgrim" (1 text in two parts, the second tells the sorrows of the widow)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 205, "(The White Pilgrim)" (1 fragment)
Roud #2841
RECORDINGS:
Aunt Molly Jackson, "The Lone Pilgrim" (AAFS 2580 B, 1939)
Buell Kazee, "The White Pilgrim" [fragment] (on Kazee01)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "The Lone Pilgrim" (AAFS 1826 A3, 1935)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "The Lone Pilgrim" (on Watson01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Braes of Balquidder" (most common tune)
cf. "Lily Dale" (alternate tune)
NOTES: It's not absolutely clear whether this was originally called "The White Pilgrim" or "The Lone Pilgrim"; Randolph's notes imply the latter, but the notes in Brown and Hudson seem to imply the reverse. The best argument is perhaps the text in Brewster, which is exremely full (seemingly a basic text and a sequel), which was learned probably around 1870 by O. F. Kirk; in that, it's called the "White Pilgrim."
At least two authors are listed: The Reverend Ellis (elsewhere called Elder John Ellis), mentioned above, fl. 1789; he is said to have set it to the tune Lily Dale; he's also listed as writing it in 1838. But the Sacred Harp (in which it's listed as "The Lone Pilgrim") credits it to B. F. White in 1850.
A reasonable supposition is that Ellis wrote the words and White set a new tune, but that's not proof of anything.
Randolph also mentions a clergyman called "The White Pilgrim" (after his clothing, not his skin color) who lived before the Civil War. Paul Stamler found a reference to a "White Pilgrim" named Joseph Thomas who lived around 1835.
For complete arguments, see D. K. Wilgus's article "The White Pilgrim: Song, Fact, and Legend" -- an item I, unfortunately, have not seen. - RBW
It's clear that "The White Pilgrim" and "The Lone Pilgrim" are essentially the same song, although one is told in third person while the other is in first. - PJS
File: R619
===
NAME: White Steed, The: see The Wonderful Grey Horse (File: Zimm044A)
===
NAME: White Wings
DESCRIPTION: "White wings, they never grow weary, They carry me cheerily over the sea, Night comes, I long for my dearie, I'll spread out my white wings and fly home to thee." The singer longs for his Maggie Darrow, and hopes the winds will carry him to her.
AUTHOR: Banks Winter ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love bird reunion
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 779, "White Wings" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 48-52, "White Wings" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 144-145, "White Wings" (1 text)
ST R779 (Full)
Roud #1753
SAME_TUNE:
Black Socks (Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 34-35)
NOTES: Randolph quoted Jay House to the effect that this song was written by Banks Winter in 1884. Gilbert offers the story that Winter bought it from another singer for $20. James J. Geller lists this other singer as Joseph Gullick, and dates the composition to 1882. Little supporting evidence is offered for either story.
The title is reported to derive from the novel _White Wings_ by William Black. - RBW
So *this* is what "Black socks, they never grow dirty" is a parody of! - PJS
File: R779
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NAME: White-Headed Boy, The: see Cupid Benighted (File: FO180)
===
NAME: Whitney's Camp
DESCRIPTION: "It's of a brave young shantyboy, brave-hearted, true, He left his home near Ottawa and to Whitney's camp did go." He will return home when winter ends. "He worked until that fatal day When a hanging limb fell down on him and squashed him to the clay."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: logger death lumbering work derivative
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #35, "Whitney's Camp" (1 fragment, tune referenced)
Roud #4468
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb)" [Laws C14] (tune, plot)
NOTES: Fowke notes the obvious similarity of this song to "Harry Dunn." The similarity extends to the tune; it is clear that the one is modeled on the other. And, since this song is known only from Nelson Lewis's one fragment, this is probably the parody. - RBW
File: FowL35
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NAME: Whittingham Fair: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
===
NAME: Who Am Dat a-Walkin' in de Corn?
DESCRIPTION: "Who am dat a-walkin' in de co'n?.... How long O Lawd, nobody knows, I pray I'll rise on judgment day...." The singer mentions several who might be among the corn: "Joshua de son ob Nun Er King David come to fight Goliar," Petuh, Gabriel, God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 325, p. 192, "Who Am Dat a-Walkin' in de Corn?" (1 text)
Roud #4304
File: CW192
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NAME: Who Built the Ark?
DESCRIPTION: Amalgamation of floating verses about Noah, the ark, the animals, etc.. Noah builds the ark from hickory (hemlock, gopherwood), leads the animals two-by-two. Chorus: "Who built the ark? Noah, Noah," sometimes "The old ark's a movin', a-movin', a movin'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: travel sea ship flood Bible religious floatingverses humorous gods
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 222-223, "Norah" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 158, "No-e in the Ark" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5355
RECORDINGS:
The Four Wanderers, "Animals Coming In" (Victor 23370, 1932; rec. 1929; on CrowTold01)
A. A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly, "The Old Ark's a-Moving" (Vocalion 5458, 1930; on CrowTold02)
Norfolk Jubilee Four [or Quartet] "Who Built the Ark?" (OKeh 4400, 1921; Parlophone [Australia] A2062, n.d.)
Governor Alf Taylor & his Old Limber Quartet, "Brother Noah Built an Ark" (Victor 19451, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Uncle Noah" (subject)
cf. "One More River to Cross" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Old Ark's A-Moverin'" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This shares verses and choruses with so many other Noah songs that it's hard to parse it out, but the distinguishing mark of the "Who built the ark?" chorus is a useful delineator. The Gray-Dilly version, despite the title, is not "The Old Ark's A-Moverin'"; the verses are quite different, and so is the overall tone. As a final note, it's only appropriate that a song about Noah should be composed entirely of floating verses. - PJS
File: RcWBTA
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NAME: Who Dat?
DESCRIPTION: "Who dat tappin' at de window? Who dat knockin' at de do' Mammy tappin' at de window, Pappy knockin' at de do'."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: lullaby nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 154, "Who Dat?" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #11597
File: ScNF154A
===
NAME: Who Did Swallow Jonah?
DESCRIPTION: "Who did (x4), Who did swallow Jo-Jo-Jonah?... Who did swallow Jonah down?" "Whale did... swallow Jonah whole." "Noah in the arky... bailed." "Daniel... in the lion's den." "David... killed Goliath."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, North Carolina Cooper Boys)
KEYWORDS: Bible religious humorous
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 386, "Who Did Swallow Jonah" (1 text)
BrownIII 346, "Jonah and the Whale" (6 text and/or fragments, but only the "D" and "E" texts and the "F" fragment are this piece; "A" and "B" are "Jonah and the Whale (Living Humble)" and "C" is "Hide Away")
RECORDINGS:
Mustard and Gravy, "The Whale Did, I Know He Did" (Bluebird B-7905, 1938)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Daniel in the Den of Lions" (on NLCR16)
North Carolina Cooper Boys, "Daniel in the Den of Lions" (OKeh 45174, 1927; on CrowTold02)
Utica Institute Jubilee Singers, "Peter on the Sea" (Victor 21925, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hide Away (Jonah and the Whale)" (subject) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Daniel in the Den of Lions
The Whale Did, I Know He Did
NOTES: This may actually be two songs; I have a recording by the Brandy Snifters claiming to derive their piece from two 78s, "Daniel in the Den of Lions" by the North Carolina Cooper Boys and "The Whale Did, I Know He Did" by Mustard and Gravy. The verses of this collated version, however, are almost all found in the Folksinger's Wordbook text, though with differences in order. Pending more examples, I'm treating the piece as a unity.
The story of the fish (NOT a whale!) which swallowed Jonah is related in Jonah 2. The Hebrews in the fiery furnace  ("Shadrack, Meshak, Abindigo" -- all misspelled, be it noted) are a reference to Daniel 3. The story of Noah and the Ark (actually two stories collated) is in Genesis 6-8. David and Goliath (again, two stories collated) occupy 1 Samuel 17. - RBW
Listening to "Daniel in the Den of Lions," it's clearly the same song as, "Who Did Swallow Jonah?" - PJS
But that still leaves the mystery of "The Whale Did, I Know He Did." - RBW
I'd guess that "The Whale Did" is essentially the same song, with the title changed. - PJS
File: FSWB386B
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NAME: Who Is At My Window Weeping: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
===
NAME: Who is my Neighbor?
DESCRIPTION: "'Who is my neighbor?' Hear the poor Jew cry. 'Who will a-yescort me? Help me ere I die.'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious Jew
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 60, "Who is my Neighbor?" (1 text)
Roud #7845
NOTES: The editors of Brown do not seem to have noted the connection with the parable of the Good Samaritan, but it seems to me nearly certain that this is an excerpt from a song about that story. - RBW
File: Br3060
===
NAME: Who Is Tapping at My Bedroom Window?: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
===
NAME: Who is the Lady?
DESCRIPTION: Dan'l Mooney's father died and left him money if, the will said, he would marry. He sees a lady and thinks "if she would only wed me I'd be happy." He'd give her diamonds, they'd go to Ireland, they'd have a baby boy who'd become "just like his old Papa"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1972 (Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
KEYWORDS: marriage lastwill money Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 7, "Who is the Lady?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5227
RECORDINGS:
Tom Lenihan, "Who is the Lady?" (on IRTLenihan01)
NOTES: Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan: "American music-hall whimsey." - BS
File: RcWITLad
===
NAME: Who Killed Cock Robin?
DESCRIPTION: "Who killed Cock Robin? I, said the sparrow, with my little bow and arrow." "Who saw him die? I, said the fly, with my little streaky eye." Various creatures, mostly birds, describe their parts in the death and burial of Cock Robin
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1744 (Tom Thumb's Pretty Song Book volume II)
KEYWORDS: bird death burial
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
SharpAp 213, "Cocky Robin" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 74, "Tommy Robin (Cock Robin)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 56-57, "Who Killed the Robin?" (1 text)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 66, "The Death of Cock Robin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 87, "Cock Robin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 177-178, "Cock Robin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 69-70, "Who Killed Cock Robin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 110, "Who killed Cock Robin?" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #22, pp. 36-37, "(Who did kill Cock Robbin?)"
DT, COCKROBN*
Roud #494
RECORDINGS:
Edith Harmon, "Who Killed Poor Robin?" (LC AAFS 2907 A2, 1939)
Buell Kazee, "Cock Robin" (on Kazee01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Who Killed Poor Robin?" (on NLCR17, NLCRCD2)
NOTES: Wild theories swirl about this piece -- e.g. that it is linked with political ministry of Robert Walpole (which ended in 1742), or that it is a retelling of the Norse Balder legend (!). However, there are European analogues, and earlier illustrations which may belong with the story, so any theory must be considered speculative at best. Chase reports that it is a Shoshone night chant.
The Baring-Goulds argue that the piece must go back to Middle English times, because it rhymes "owl" and "shovel." This, however, appears to be in error on two counts: First, the ancient spelling "shouel" was not pronounced "showel" (in Old English, it's "scofl"). And there are English dialects which confuse "v" and "w." - RBW
File: SKE74
===
NAME: Who Killed Cock Robin? (II)
DESCRIPTION: Questions and answers. "What came of 82?": The name. "Whence came the shout of freedom?": o'er the Atlantic. "Who drove the people mad?": Pitt. "Who picketed the Croppies?": Captain Swayne. "When shall [Union] be repealed?": When the people are united.
AUTHOR: "Ierne" (R.R. Madden) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Madden's _Literary Remains of the United Irishmen of 1798_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion violence Ireland nonballad patriotic questions
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 168, "Who Killed Cock Robin?" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: There are thirty-eight verses. The form follows "Who Killed Cock Robin?" Each verse has a question and an answer about eighteenth and nineteenth century Irish history. More villains than heroes of that period are among the answers.
Here is an example of the form (Dublin Town Major Sirr [for whom see "The Major"] is the villain again):
Who shot Lord Edward?
The Major said demurely,
I took my aim securely,
I shot Lord Edward! 
[The references to "82" is to] April 16, 1782 [when] Henry Grattan moved a declaration of the independence of the Irish parliament. Grattan: "Ireland is now a nation!" (source: "Henry Grattan" at the Ireland Information Guide site). [See also the notes to "Ireland's Glory." - RBW]
Pitt and Union are discussed, among other places in this index, in the notes to "The Game of Cards" (II).
Captain Swayne appears briefly in "The Song of Prosperous," in which he dies in the fire. He is one of the people accused of "pitch capping": filling a cap with boiling pitch and putting it on a peasant's head. (source: "The Search for Weapons" in _1798 Rebellion_ at Rathregan National School site). - BS
Madden's pen-name of "Ierne" is one of the sundry ancient names for Ireland. - RBW
File: Moyl168
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NAME: Who Killed Poor Robin?: see Who Killed Cock Robin? (File: SKE74)
===
NAME: Who Killed the Robin?: see Who Killed Cock Robin? (File: SKE74)
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NAME: Who Said I Was a Bum?
DESCRIPTION: Singer, called a bum, takes exception to the name. He tells of life as a hobo, says "I never work, I never have, and I never will by gum/I know I'm a hobo, but who said I was a bum?" My shoes are worn, my pants are torn, there's holes in both my knees."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1927 (recording, Carson Robison)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer is called a bum, but takes exception to the name. He tells of life as a hobo, says "I never work, I never have, and I never will by gum/I know I'm a hobo, but who said I was a bum?" "Whenever I see a stack of wood, I go the other way" He also notes that "My shoes are worn, my pants are torn, there's holes in both my knees" and that the wind blows through his BVDs
KEYWORDS: poverty pride work nonballad hobo
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Frank Luther, "Who Said I Was A Bum?" (Victor 21686 [as Bud Billings], 1928) (Broadway 1226, 1929)
Carson Robison, "Who Said I Was a Bum?" (Herschel Gold Seal 2021, c. 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "You Wonder Why I'm a Hobo" (subject, attitude)
File: RcWSIWAB
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NAME: Who Will Care for Mother Now?
DESCRIPTION: "Why am I so weak and weary? See how faint my heated breath.... Tell me, comrades, is this death?" The dying soldier asks "Who will care for mother now?" He hopes someone will care for her, and hopes to die as a soldier should
AUTHOR: Charles Carroll Sawyer
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: soldier death mother Civilwar
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-CivWar, pp. 76-77, "Who Will Care for Mother Now?" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WHOCARE*
NOTES: The fact that this song achieved some success probably tells us more about the nineteenth century than about the quality of the song. - RBW
File: SCW76
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NAME: Who Will Play the Silver Whistle?: see The Silver Whistle (File: K009)
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NAME: Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses found in sundry other songs: "Oh who will shoe your pretty little foot, And who will glove your hand...." "(Papa) will shoe my pretty little foot, (Mama) will glove my hand...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: (undatable as the key lyrics probably predate the song as an independent entity)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses clothes nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (19 citations)
Bronson 76, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (23 versions, of which #6, #7, #9, #10, #14, and #15 must be placed here)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 149-150, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (2 fragments)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 174-177, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (2 fragments, one of which is probably "The Lass of Roch Royal" but the second being "Pretty Little Foot"; 1 tune)
Randolph 18, "Oh Who Will Shoe My Foot?" (8 texts, 5 tunes; the "B" and "H" versions are of this sort) {H=Bronson's #7}
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"); also 301, "High-Topped Shoes" (2 texts, both mixed; "A" is mostly "Pretty Little Foot" with verses from "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" while "B" is a hash of "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," ""More Pretty Girls Than One," "In the Pines," and others); also 306, "By By, My Honey" (1 text, mostly this though with several floating verses, e.g. from "Lonesome Road")
Hudson 13, pp. 91-93, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (1 fragments, of which "A" is the "Pretty Little Foot" with a chorus from "Careless Love" and "B" is two "Pretty Little Foot" stanzas artificially and wrongly extracted from "Wild Bill Jones")
Davis-Ballads 21, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (21 texts, every one of which is this piece rather than the longer ballad; additional texts appear in the Appendices, though some of these file with other songs; 4 tunes, of which the first 3, "Lass of Roch Royal," "Love Gregory," "and "Lass of Roch Royal," are among the pieces which belong here; 22 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {#21A=Bronson's #9, #21U=Bronson's #10}
Scarborough-SongCatcher, p. 124, (no title) (1 fragment, filed under Child #76 along with a text of "New River Train/Honey Babe" and a version of "I Truly Undertand That You Love Some Other Man")
Brewster 13, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (1 text plus 8 fragments; the "A" text is "Fare You Well, My Own True Love"; "B"-"I" are "pretty little foot" fragments of one to three stanzas)
Fuson, p. 131, "The Gambling Man" (1 text, built around "The Roving Gambler (The Gambling Man)" [Laws H4] but also with these verses)
Friedman, p. 78, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (3 texts, 1 tune, with the "B" text belonging here)
Niles 31, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (2 texts, 2 tunes, the second clearly "The Lass of Roch Royal" but the first goes here)
Sandburg, 98-99, "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (3 texts, 1 tune; the "A" text goes here) {Bronson's #14}
Lomax-FSNA 109, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (1 text, 1 tune, with some additional stanzas which might be from "Fare You Well, My Own True Love" but which one has to suspect of being Lomax additions)
JHCox 13, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (2 texts, with the "B" text being a short fragment of this song)
Darling-NAS, pp. 269-270, "Who Will Shoe" (assorted sample stanzas)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 65, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rorrer, p. 92, "When I'm Far Away" (1 text, with an altered form: "Who will shoe your little foot (x3) When I am far away?")
Silber-FSWB, p. 191, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?" (1 text)
Roud #49
RECORDINGS:
Frank Bode, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?" (on FBode1)
Carolina Tar Heels, "Who's Gonna Kiss Your Lips, Dear Darling" (Victor 40100, 1929)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "When I'm Far Away" (No known Columbia release; recorded 1930)
Pete Seeger, "Poor Boy" (on PeteSeeger18)
Arthur Smith, "Green Valley Waltz" (on McGeeSmith1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lass of Roch Royal" [Child 76]
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)"
cf. "Mary Anne"
cf. "My Dearest Dear" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Lover's Lament" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Who's Gonna Love You, Honey?" (theme)
cf. "Six Months in Jail Ain't So Long" (theme)
NOTES: It is common to classify any song containing the "pretty little foot" stanzas as part of "The Lass of Roch Royal" [Child 76]. However, they have been widely associated with at least two other songs (designated in the Ballad Index as "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)" and "Mary Anne"). In addition, the stanzas can simply float.
For that matter, the verses are not an required part of "Roch Royal"; many versions (e.g. of the "Lord Gregory" group) omit them, and they are not an integral part of the plot of that ballad.
For this reason we have decided to classify these verses separately. If these verses stand in isolation, they will be listed here; if they are part of a longer ballad, they will be listed with that ballad. Note, however, that any particular fragment containing these verses could be part of one of the longer ballads.
Note also that some of the ballads listed under the other titles could have been misclassified by the authors and belong here. - RBW
I classify [the Seeger recording "Poor Boy"] here for want of a better place. - PJS
File: C076A
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NAME: Who Would Have Tho't Harmon
DESCRIPTION: "Who would have tho't Harmon, that hum drum old fox, Who looks so bemeaning with his tousled locks, Would have had resolution to stand to the tack?" The speakers (Ned [Fanning] and Frank [Nash] ?) lament the troubles the regulators cause
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: political nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 280, "Who Would Have Tho't Harmon" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "From Hillsborough Town the First of May" (subject)
cf. "When Fanning First to Orange Came" (subject)
cf. "Said Frohock to Fanning" (subject)
NOTES: One of four "regulator" songs in Brown. The regulators were a group of protesters against high taxes and fees, found mostly in North Carolina though some also were active in South Carolina.
The Regulators formally organized in 1766, when William Tryon (1725-1788) was governor of North Carolina (1765-1771) ; he defeated them at Almance in 1771. That was Tryon's way; as governor of New York (1771-1778) he was equally harsh. His successors then turned to compromise.
Edmund Fanning (the "Ned" of the song?), a Yale graduate of 1757, was a favorite of Tryon's; after moving to North Carolina, he went from being a local attorney to a Superior Court clerk and legislator. He also built a reputation for extreme avarice, making him a particular target for the regulators (and vice versa). A loyalist during the Revolution (commanded the King's American Regiment of Foot), he died in London
"Frank" is probably Francis Nash, the county clerk. - RBW
File: BrII280
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NAME: Who'll be King but Charlie?: see Weevily Wheat (File: R520)
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NAME: Who's Goin' to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot: see Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (plus related references, e.g. The Lass of Roch Royal [Child 76]) (File: C076)
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NAME: Who's Gonna Love You, Honey?
DESCRIPTION: "Who's gonna love you, honey, when I'm away? Who's gonna stay and say sweet things every day? Who's gonna look into your eyes divine? Who's gonna kiss those lips that I call mine?... Who's gonna love you when I'm gone?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love separation questions
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 302, "Who's Gonna Love You, Honey?" (1 short text)
Roud #16862
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (theme)
File: Br3302
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NAME: Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?: see Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (plus related references, e.g. The Lass of Roch Royal [Child 76]) (File: C076A)
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NAME: Who's That at My Bedroom Window?: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
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NAME: Who's That Knocking?: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
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NAME: Who's the Fool Now?: see Martin Said To His Man (File: WB022)
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NAME: Who's the Pretty Girl Milkin' the Cow?: see The Pretty Girl Milkin' Her Cow (File: San040)
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NAME: Whoa Back, Buck
DESCRIPTION: The experiences of a poor farmer. He describes his fieldwork methods ("Sometimes I plow my old grey horse..."), the crops, his gal's big feet, the dances they went to together, etc. Possible chorus: "Whoa back, buck! And gee! by the lamb!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: work horse farming poverty floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 281, "Couldn't Raise No Sugar Corn" (1 text, 1 tune, which might be separate since it lacks the chorus)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 187, "Last Year Was a Fine Crap Year" (1 text)
Lomax-FSUSA 67, "Whoa Buck" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax- FSNA 282, "Whoa Back, Buck" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 168-169, "Whoa, Back, Buck!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p 72-73, "Oh, My God, Them 'Taters" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #10060
RECORDINGS:
Anne, Judy, & Zeke Canova, "Whoa Back Buck" (Romeo 5043, 1931; Regal MR 457 [as "Whoa Buck, Whoa" by Three Georgia Crackers], c. 1931 )
Lulu Belle & Scotty, "Whoa Back Buck" (Conqueror 9587, 1940)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Song of the Pinewoods" (floating lyrics)
cf. "I'm a Rowdy Soul" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Tighten on the Backband
NOTES: The Lomaxes credit this to Lead Belly, with some new material of their own. (What else is new?) However, the fragment in Randolph strongly implies that Lead Belly did no more than reshape traditional materials -- and then the Lomaxes reshaped THAT.
It is on this basis that I include Greenway's song "Oh, My God, Them 'Taters" here. Greenway's song is just a fragment; it is possible that it is part of a longer song -- or that the Lomaxes borrowed its lyrics. - RBW
File: LxU067
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NAME: Whoa Buck: see Whoa Back, Buck (File: LxU067)
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NAME: Whoa Mule (The Kickin' Mule)
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes courting and the dangers of a kicking mule which "kicked the feathers off a goose," etc. The stubborn mule Simon Slick is often mentioned. The chorus will generally contain the instruction "Whoa, mule."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recordings, Bill Chitwood & Bud Landress, Sid Turner)
KEYWORDS: animal courting talltale humorous
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 513, "The Kicking Mule" (1 text)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 186, "Whoa, Mule!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 84, "Simon Slick" (2 texts, longer than most, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 231, "The Kickin' Mule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 62-63, "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, SIMONSLK*
Roud #3774
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff, "Whoa Mule" (Capitol 2738, 1954)
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Whoa Mule" (on Ashley01)
Loman D. Cansler, "Kickin' Maud [or Kickin' Maude]" (on Cansler1)
Bill Chitwood & Bud Landress, "Whoa Mule" (Silvertone 3050, 1924; Brunswick 2811, 1925)
Al Clauser & his Oklahoma Outlaws, "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (Melotone 7-08-63, 1937)
Elisha Cox, "Whoa Mule" (AAFS 547 A2)
J. D. Dillingham & O. J. Light, "Whoa, Maude, Whoa" (AAFS 899 B2)
Samuel Clay Dixon, "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (AAFS 1749 B3/1750 A1)
Leonard C. Fulwinder, "Whoa Mule, Whoa" (Aurora [Canadian] 238, c. 1932)
Georgia Yellow Hammers, "Jonnson's Old Grey Mule" (Victor 20550, 1927); "The Sale of Simon Slick - Pts. 1 & 2" (Victor V-40069, 1929)
The Hillbillies, "Whoa! Mule" (OKeh 40376, 1925)
Hinson, Pitts & Coley, "Whoa Mule Whoa" (Bluebird B-7438, 1938)
Paul Holland, "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (AAFS 3217 A1)
Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters [or John Hopkins], "Whoa, Mule" (Brunswick 179, 1927)
Matilda Keene, "Whoa, Larry, Whoa" (AAFS 979 B1)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, "Johnson's Old Grey Mule" (Bluebird B-6584/Montgomery Ward M-7006, 1936)
Bert Martin, "Whoa, Mule" (AAFS 1479 B2)
Chubby Parker, "Whoa Mule, Whoa" Gennett 6120/Silvertone 5011, 1927; Supertone 9189, 1928) (Conqueror 7892, 1927)
Pickard Family, "Thompson's Old Gray Mule"  (Oriole 1502/Challenge 990/Jewel 5562, 1929; Conqueror 7736, 1931; Broadway 8179 [as Pleasant Family])
Riley Puckett, "Johnson's Old Gray Mule" (Columbia 150-D, 1924); "Whoa Mule" (Columbia 15040-D, 1925; Silvertone 3258, 1926)
Prairie Ramblers, "Jim's Windy Mule" (Conqueror 8648, 1936; Vocalion 03587, 1937 [as Sweet Violet Boys])
Pete Seeger, "Old Grey Mule" (on PeteSeeger08, PeteSeegerCD02)
Hobart Ricker, "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (AAFS 3904 B4)
Shelton Brothers, "Johnson's Old Gray Mule" (Decca 5161, 1935) (King 646, 1947)
Roba Stanley [or Stanley Trio] "Whoa! Mule" (OKeh 40271, 1925)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Johnson's Old Gray Mule"  (Columbia 15221-D, 1928; rec. 1927); "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (Bluebird B-5591, 1934)
Sid Turner, "Go 'Long Mule" (Perfect 12147, 1924)
Tom Watson [pseud. for Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett], "Johnson's Mule" (Harmony 5095-H, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Going Down to Cairo" (words)
NOTES: Every version of this I've heard sung uses the Lomax chorus, "Whoa, mule, I tell you, Miss Liza, you keep cool; I ain't got time to kiss you now; I'm busy with my mule." It doesn't seem to show up much in tradition, though (it is found in the Brown text in a slightly different form). - RBW
Trying to sort out "Whoa, Mule," "Johnson's Old Grey Mule," and related songs is Excedrin Headache #1927. We've lumped them for want of a better solution.
This shouldn't be confused with a fiddle piece, "The Kickin' Mule," made popular by Fiddlin' John Carson; that one has a different tune. - PJS"
File: LoF231
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NAME: Whoa, Mule, Whoa: see Whoa Mule (The Kickin' Mule) (File: LoF231)
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NAME: Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy
DESCRIPTION: "With a merry little jog and a gay little song, (Spoken: Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy!), We trudge our way the whole day long... We'll reach Salt Lake some day or bust." The singer thinks of the girl up ahead and the dances along his journey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (recording, L. M. Hilton)
KEYWORDS: travel courting dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 172, "Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 21, "Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WHOAHAW
Roud #6692
RECORDINGS:
 L. M. Hilton, "Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy" (on Hilton01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Turkey in the Straw" (portions of tune)
File: LoF172
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NAME: Whole Hog or None, The
DESCRIPTION: Vignettes of people who go "the whole hog or none," e.g. boxer Heenan, who never gave Sayers any peace, and Brigham Young, who had sixty wives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: fight marriage humorous
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 17, 1860 - Boxing match between John C. Heenan and Tom Sayers, stopped by spectators after 42 rounds. The bout was the last official bare-knuckle fight
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 513, "The Whole Hog or None" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7596
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Heenan and Sayers" [Laws H20] (subject)
cf. "Rory of the Hill" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Rory of the Hill (File: Zimm075) per broadsides Bodleian 2806 b.10(137), 2806 c.8(278)
The Hale Rick-Ma-Tick (broadside NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(93a), Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1879; apparently first published 1872)
File: R513
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NAME: Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses, often praising Cindy: "Went up on the mountain top, give my horn a blow...; "Higher up the mountain top, greener grow the cherries..." Chorus: "Whoop 'em up, Cindy, Lord/I love Cindy, Lord/Whoop 'em up, Cindy, Lord, Lord/Gone forevermore"
AUTHOR: Uncle Dave Macon
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (recording, Uncle Dave Macon)
KEYWORDS: courting love nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fuson, p. 159, "I Give My Horn a Blow" (eleventh of 12 single-stanza jigs) (1 text, perhaps from this though it's just a floating verse)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 196, "Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 255-256, "Whoop 'Em Up Cindy" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers, "Saro" (Brunswick 241, c. 1928)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy" (Vocalion 15323, 1926); Uncle Dave Macon & the Fruit Jar Drinkers, "Whoop 'Em Up Cindy" (Vocalion 5009, 1926)
Kirk & Sam McGee, "Whoop 'Em Up Cindy" (on McGeeSmith1)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Whoop 'em Up, Cindy" (on NLCR02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cindy"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Saro (not to be confused with "Pretty Saro")
NOTES: This song has less in common with "Cindy" than one might imagine; few if any verses show up in both. But with floating-verses songs like this, you always need to look at the whole family. - PJS
File: CSW196
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NAME: Whoopee, Ti Ti Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies: see Get Along, Little Dogies (File: R178)
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NAME: Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing, The
DESCRIPTION: A customer and a prostitute engage in oral sex, "each trying to get their guns off first into the other's heads," until he offers to give it "the boar-hog grind."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy whore sex
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph-Legman II, pp. 601-603, "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (3 texts)
DT, WHBELLS*
Roud #10093
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fatal Wedding" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Carolina Twins, "The Boarding House Bells Are Ringing" (Victor 21575, 1928) 
NOTES: Either the Carolina Twins' recording is a cleaned-up version of "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" or, more likely, the original of which this is a parody. There is also song called "The Convent Bells Are Ringing," of unknown relationship. - PJS
File: RL601
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NAME: Whose Old Cow
DESCRIPTION: "Twas the end of roundup the last day of June, Or maybe July I just don't remember...." The signer describes the the gathering for the roundup. When the herds gathered, "Nig" Add separates the herds. An unknown brand puzzles him; he claims the cow
AUTHOR: N. Howard Thorp
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: cowboy work
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thorp/Fife XXI, pp. 247-250 (42-44), "Who's Old Cow" (2 texts, though they look at best marginally related)
Roud #8045
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Brands
NOTES: This is another Thorp poem that does not seem to have made any mark in oral tradition. Its racist tone ("White folks [are] smarter'n Add"), as well as its somewhat forced diction and the obscure use of branding terms, probably guarantee continued obscurity. - RBW
File: TF21
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NAME: Whummil Bore, The [Child 27]
DESCRIPTION: A servant has waited on the king for seven years without ever seeing the princess. One day, peering through a hole in the wall (the whummil bore), he sees her being dressed. He greatly enjoys the sight, but can't stay long.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1825
KEYWORDS: clothes servant
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord)) US(SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 27, "The Whummil Bore" (1 text)
Bronson 27, "The Whummil Bore" (1 version)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 437-438, "The Whummil Bore" (notes plus the "With my glimpy" chorus)
Davis-More 14, pp. 89-91, "The Whummil Bore" (1 text)
DT 27, WHMLBORE
Roud #3722
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Keyhole in the Door" (plot)
NOTES: Bertrand Bronson discusses origin of this piece in "The Interdependence of Ballad Tunes and Texts" (first printed in the _California Folklore Quarterly_, II, 1944; see now MacEdward Leach and Tristram P. Coffin, eds, _The Critics and the Ballad_. The relevant discussion is on pages 89-91.
Bronson states that "'The Whummil Bore' appears to me a by-blow of a serious romantic ballad." He then notes a melodic similarity to "Hind Horn" (Child 17), as well as a similar subplot, and proposes that "Hind Horn" is the source for "The Whummil Bore."
The existence of the Virginia text found in Davis seems very suspicious, and I considered the possibility that it is actually some other song (either "Hind Horn" or "The Keyhole in the Door"). But it's much too clean for the latter, and -- though fragmentary -- too full for the former. Call it a curiosity. - RBW
File: C027
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NAME: Why Can't Paddy Be a Gentleman?
DESCRIPTION: "Being told Pat couldn't be a gentleman" I'll ask why not? "Hasn't Ireland got her colleges" and won't he "greet you with a smile?" "You cannot give the reason why, I see it in your face ...actions make a gentleman, no matter what the birth"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 9, "Why Can't Paddy Be a Gentleman?" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.11(213), "Why Can't Paddy Be a Gentleman?", unknown, n.d. 
NOTES: There is, of course, a one word answer to the question in the title: "Catholicism." A fair number of people of Irish ancestry did in fact achieve at least landlord status, and some even entered the nobility. But nearly all, after the time of Tyrconnell, were Protestant. - RBW
File: OCon009
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NAME: Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls?
DESCRIPTION: "Why do you bob you hair, girls, It is an awful shame To rob the head God gave you To bear the flapper's name." The singer proclaims that "short hair belongs to me," and maintains that women with long hair will be commended by God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: hair
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
[Randolph 644, "Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls" -- deleted in the second printing]
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 442-443, "Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls?" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 644)
BrownIII 56, "Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls" (1 text)
DT, WHYBOBHR*
Roud #7842
RECORDINGS:
J. E. Mainer's Mountaneers, "Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?" (Bluebird B-6792/Montgomery Ward 7131, 1937)
Blind Alfred Reed, "Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?" (Victor 21360, 1928); compare "Why Don't You Bob Your Hair Girls-No. 2" (Victor V-40196, 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve" (theme) and references there
cf. "The Bobbed Hair" (theme)
NOTES: Needless to say, there is no scriptural rule mandating long hair -- Paul (1 Cor. 11:15) calls long hair a woman's pride, but nowhere requires it; indeed, in 11:6, he offers shaving the head as an alternative to wearing a veil!
It's hard to imagine how such a heavy-handed piece came to be traditional -- but I suppose anyone stupid enough to believe the arguments it contains could also think them persuasive.
According to the Digital Tradition, this is by Blind Alfred Reed. Norm Cohen reaffirms this, and credits Reed also with the sequel. I can't prove this false -- but why would a blind man produce such a piece? - RBW
File: Br3056
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NAME: Why Don't Father's Ship Come In: see The Gentle Boy (Why Don't Father's Ship Come In) (File: GrMa113)
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NAME: Why Don't They Do So Now?: see I Wish They'd Do It Now (File: Gil111)
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NAME: Why Don't You Love the Old Love?
DESCRIPTION: The singer is a stranger to this country. When an old love's back is turned she can love whom she pleases. "To me she gives nothing, Who loved her so dear" "I'll dress you my darling And take you away. Into New York we'll be sailing"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974 (Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection floatingverses emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 33, "Why Don't You Love the Old Love?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5216
RECORDINGS:
Tom Lenihan, "Why Don't You Love the Old Love?" (on IRTLenihan01)
NOTES: There are floating lines rather than floating verses. Lines like "You can love whom you please", "When first to this country A stranger I came", and "Green grow the rushes And the tops of them small" are combined with lines that don't float. Some verses don't seem to float at all. - BS
File: RcWDYLTO
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NAME: Wi' His Apron On
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye young lovers, I pray give attention And listen a wee, wee while to me." The singer tells of two lovers, a mason and a girl who meets "Her mason lady wi' his apron on." They agree to marry, and live happily
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 105, "Wi' His Apron On" (1 text)
Roud #5969
File: Ord105
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NAME: Wicked Girl, The: see Wicked Polly [Laws H6] (File: LH06)
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NAME: Wicked Polly [Laws H6]
DESCRIPTION: Polly lives a frolicsome life, saying, "I'll turn to God when I grow old." Suddenly taken ill, she realizes "'Alas, alas! my days are spent; It is too late for to repent.'" She dies in agony and is presumably sent to hell; young people are advised to heed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: disease death Hell warning
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Laws H6, "Wicked Polly"
Belden, pp. 460-464, "The Wicked Girl" (3 texts plus a fragment possibly of this ballad)
Randolph 596, "Wicked Polly" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 416-417, "Wicked Polly" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 596A)
Eddy 140, "Wicked Polly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 21-23, "Wicked Polly" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 136, "Wicked Polly" (1 text)
BrownIII 62, "The Wicked Girl" (3 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Chappell-FSRA 115, "Sold In Hell" (1 text)
Brewster 66, "Wicked Polly" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 569-570, "Wicked Polly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 35, "Wicked Polly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 86, "I'll Tell You What I Saw Last Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 47, pp. 111-112, "Wicked Polly"; pp. 113-114, "Wicked Polly" (2 texts)
DT 646, WICKDPOL* WICKDPL2*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 160 (1 fragment, no title)
Roud #505
RECORDINGS:
New Lost City Ramblers, "I'll Tell You What I Saw Last Night" (on NLCR05)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Boy" (plot)
cf. "A Poor Sinner" (plot)
cf. "Death is a Melancholy Call" [Laws H5] (theme)
cf. "The Lost Soul" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Unfortunate Girl
Awful, Oh, How Awful
Young People Hark
A Sad Parting
NOTES: The girl's name in this version [Cohen/Seeger/Wood] is not Polly but Mary. -PJS
In Songs the Whalemen Sang, pp. 306-308, Huntington prints a piece called "Terrible Polly." Neither he nor I can decide if it's an adaption of this song or not, so I decided to list it here in these notes.
Barry wrote a study of this piece and "Death is a Melancholy Call," treating them as variants (male and female, presumably) of the same piece. The moral is of course the same, and they use the same metrical form -- but I can't see any actual dependence in the lyrics. - RBW
File: LH06
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NAME: Wicked Stepmother, The: see The Juniper Tree (The Wicked Stepmother, The Rose Tree) (File: Cha047)
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NAME: Wicklow Rangers, The
DESCRIPTION: A 14 year old boy from Carlow meets a colonel, who enlists him in the Wicklow Rangers. He leaves his girl. Her friends tell her not to worry. He and a comrade are shunned by two milk-maids. If he survives his enlistment he will return to his girl.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1840? (Bunting); before 1884 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(336a))
KEYWORDS: love soldier separation youth
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 18, "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #689
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(336a), "The Wicklow Rangers" or "The Girl I Left Behind Me" ("Come all you handsome comely maids"), H. Disley (London), 1860-1883; also Harding B 11(795), "The Wicklow Rangers" or "The Girl I Left Behind Me"; 2806 c.7(25), "The Girl I Left Behind Me"; Harding B 26(217), "The New Girl I Left Behind Me"
LOCSinging, as104470, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," unknown, 19C
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian 2806 c.7(25) is somewhat dated by having the singer enlisted by Colonel Whitty "to serve the queen unto some distant land." 
OLochlainn cites an 1840 source: "Bunting, 1840, No. 57." I guess this is _The Ancient Music of Ireland_, editor Edward Bunting, (Dublin, Hodges and Smith, 1840). However, that may only be a reference for the tune since Bunting appears only to deal with Gaelic music, and that, possibly without words. Confirmation will have to wait until someone sees the book (there is a 2000 Dover unabridged edition). - BS
OLochlainn's tune is the one usually associated with "The Girl I Left Behind Me (II - lyric)."
Carlow town is in County Carlow, Ireland. County Wicklow is adjacent.
The text in every copy I have seen is sung in part from the boy's point of view ["... Colonel Reilly listed me ..."] and, in part, from the girl's point of view ["So now my love is gone from me I own I do not blame him ..."].
Broadside LOCSinging as104470 appears to be the same as Bodleian 2806 c.7(25) printed by P. Brereton (Dublin). 
The description is based on broadside Bodleian Harding B 17(336a). - BS
File: OLoc018
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NAME: Wictory Shall Be Mine: see Victory Shall Be Mine (File: Wa176)
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NAME: Widdicombe Fair (I): see Tom Pearce (Widdicombe Fair) (File: K308)
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NAME: Widdicombe Fair (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer goes to a fair at Widdicombe (or Coldingham, Ratcliffe or Monaghan). There he meets with a jolly beggar and his wife. The singer then lists all the pairs of beggars he's met at the fair
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1826 (Tait's Magazine)
KEYWORDS: commerce begging moniker wife husband nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,West)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 289, "A-Going to the Fair" (1 text plus assorted fragments in appendices, 1 tune)
DT, COUDFAIR DONNYBRK*
Roud #666
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Tom Pearce (Widdicombe Fair I)" (lyrics)
cf. "Under the Greenwood Tree" (form) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Widdliecombe Fair
The Beggars of Coldingham Fair
The Beggars of Ratcliffe Fair
Beggars of Coudingham Fair
Monaghan Fair
Widdliecombe Fair
NOTES: Variants of this song are used as the chorus for "Tom Pearce (Widdicombe Fair I)." It lacks, however, the plot about the horse, so I've separated them. - PJS
Looking at this, I can't help but think there is a cumulative version somewhere in its ancestry. But I haven't found it. Some of the versions, such as that of the McPeake family, also feel a bit like "Dame Durden."
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 265-267, prints a piece, "The Humours of Donneybrook Fair" (listed as by Charles O'Flaherty), which looks as if it might be a recomposed version of this -- but it's much too wordy to be traditional. - RBW
File: K289
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NAME: Wide Mizzoura, The: see Shenandoah (File: Doe077)
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NAME: Widgegoara Joe: see The Backblock Shearer (File: MA038)
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NAME: Widow by the Sea: see The Widow in the Cottage by the Sea (File: R702)
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NAME: Widow in the Cottage by the Sea, The
DESCRIPTION: "In my cottage by the seashore I can see my mansion home... Where with pleasure I have roamed." The singer recalls her family, and thinks how they would mourn if they saw her now. Now her love is dead, and she is "a widow in the cottage by the sea."
AUTHOR: C. A. White
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: death family home poverty
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 702, "The Widow in the Cottage by the Sea" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 114, "In a Cottage by the Sea" (1 text plus mention of 4 more)
Leach-Labrador 123, "Widow by the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1743 and 4327
RECORDINGS:
[Walter "Kid" Smith & the] Carolina Buddies, "In a Cottage By the Sea" (Columbia 15537-D, 1930)
Fred Stanley, "The Cottage by the Sea" (Columbia 15559-D, 1930)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.28(33d), "All Alone. Cottage by the Sea," J. West (Brighton), n.d.; also Harding B 11(3565), "The Cottage by the Sea" ("Just one year ago to day love")
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dear Companion (The Broken Heart; Go and Leave Me If You Wish To, Fond Affection)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: In a curious twist, the key final lines of this song ("All this time I"m left a widow At the cottage near the sea") wind up in a British lost love song, "Blue-Eyed Lover" (MacSeegTrav 59), which in desperation I filed with the "Dear Companion" family. Which probably says more about lost love songs than about this piece.
Note also that Roud has two pieces frequently known by this name, and while they appear distinct, I don't always agree with the way he files the pieces. - RBW
In the Bodleian broadside we have a few more details. In the first verse the widow explains that the marriage was "just one year ago to day love ... I changed a mansion for a cottage" and another verse "He lost his life upon the ocean." 
Of Roud's broadside entries for #4327 the ones starting "Childhood days now pass before me" are for a different song, which can also be found at Bodleian and American Memory; those starting "Just one year ago to day love" are probably the Bodleian version of this song. - BS
File: R702
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NAME: Widow Machree (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Widow Machree, pray then open your door ... And show me the easiest plank in your floor." "Didn't old Adam loan From his rib" to "manufacture ... the first female" "As you owe man a rib, I lay claim to that same." A marriage proposal.
AUTHOR: Charles Lever (1806-1872)
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1860 (broadside, LOCSinging as114990)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 53, "Widow Machree" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
LOCSinging, as114990, "Widow Machree" ("Widow Machree, pray then open your door"), J Andrews (New York), 1853-1859
NOTES: The Samuel Lover and Charles Lever "Widow Machree" ["Widow Machree (II)"] are not the same song: they share rhyme scheme, verse structure, and theme, but no verses. Which is derived from the other? - BS
Or are they both, perhaps, derived from a common literary source? - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging as114990: 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: OCon053
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NAME: Widow Machree (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Widow Machree, it's no wonder you frown," your black gown is unbecoming. Summer is coming and birds and rabbits all go in pairs.In winter it would be a sin to be cold and alone. "Take my advice ... take me"
AUTHOR: probably Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1842 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(4195)); 1842 (Samuel Lover's novel "Handy Andy")
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad clothes
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4195), "Widow Machre" ("Widow Mackree it's no wonder you frown ..."), Birt (London), 1833-1841; also 2806 b.11(125), Harding B 11(4194), Harding B 11(4196), "Widow Machree"
LOCSinging, cw106740, "Widow Machree" ("Widow Machree, it's no wonder you frown"), George S. Harris (Philadelphia), 19C; also as115000, "Widow Machree" 
NOTES: This "Widow Machree" is attributed to Samuel Lover at the Bartleby.com site. The Samuel Lover and Charles Lever "Widow Machree" ["Widow Machree (I)"] are not the same song: they share rhyme scheme, verse structure and theme, but no verses. Which is derived from the other?
_Handy Andy_ is a novel Samuel Lover published in 1842. Lover's novel has ballads and poems scattered throughout. The context for "Widow Machree" in the novel is that it is a supposedly well known song called for by a company of listeners. Lover does not claim authorship for a character in the novel as he does for some other _Handy Andy_ poems. Is Lover including a ballad already in circulation? He seems to be doing just that with his fragment of "Ma Colleen Dhas Crutheen na Mbho" ("The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow") in the 1836 novel _Rory O'More_. - BS
We note the existence of at least one broadside which appears to be older than _Handy Andy_; is it possible that Lever and Lover both worked from some earlier piece? Alternately, did Lover publish the song before writing _Handy Andy_, and then incorporate it into his own work to promote/celebrate its popularity? - RBW
File: Bdsdwdmc
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NAME: Widow Malone
DESCRIPTION: "Did ye hear of the widow Malone, Ohone? Who lived in the town of Athlone alone?" All the rich men courted her but she was modest and none could see her alone. Lucius O'Brien from Clare boldly kisses her and she agrees to marry.
AUTHOR: Charles Lever (1806-1872)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.11(114))
KEYWORDS: courting marriage humorous
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 62, "Widow Malone" (1 text)
Roud #15892
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.11(114), "Widow Malone", The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1855; also 2806 c.8(175), Harding B 18(744), "Widow Malone"
LOCSinging, sb40549b, "Widow Malone", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb40549b: 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
Published by Lever in _Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon_, and published in the twentieth century in Stevenson's _Home Book of Verse_ and Woods's _Treasury of the Familiar._  - RBW
File: OCon062
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NAME: Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter, The
DESCRIPTION: The widow's daughter reports losing her maidenhead to a grenadier guard. The mother wants it back; the guard invites the girl to his wedding. The bride asks about her; she proves to have slept with another man. The guard marries the daughter instead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Widow prays her daughter might keep her maidenhead, but the daughter comes back having lost it to a Grenadier guard. The mother scolds; the daughter returns to the Grenadier, demanding her maidenhead back. The Grenadier obliges her by "put[ting] her head where her feet was before," then invites her to his wedding; the girl runs back to her mother and tells the story, saying she's a maiden again. The mother, not pleased, goes to the wedding with the daughter; the bride asks who it might be. The Grenadier replies that it must be the widow's daughter who ran home and told; the bride says she'd never do that; she lay with a man for 11 nights and never told anyone. The Grenadier at this point dumps the bride in favor of the widow's daughter "who ran home and told her mummy"
KEYWORDS: sex wedding humorous bawdy mother trick virginity wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kinloch-BBook  I, pp. 1-3, "The Widow o' Westmoreland" (1 text)
DT, WIDWSTMO
Roud #228
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter" (on Lloyd1); "Widow of Westmorland's Daughter (on BirdBush1, BirdBush2) (Lloyd3)
NOTES: Lloyd notes that the song, never printed as of the time of recording [not quite true; Kinloch printed it in 1827 - RBW], had been offered to F. J. Child but was rejected for indecency. - PJS
File: DTwidwst
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NAME: Widow's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: "My sister, hear and I will relate The troubles I have seen, What sorrows I have seen of late Which are the fruit of sin." "My father" has beaten her brutally; her baby daughter and husband died of disease. She looks forward to meeting and praising God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: disease death family religious
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, pp. 138-139, "The Widow's Lament" (1 text)
ST Fus138 (Partial)
Roud #4287
NOTES: Sort of a modern paraphrase of the first two chapters of the Book of Job. No sign of what happened to the next forty.
Fuson's orthography (which may come from the manuscript) is rather deceptive. The second stanza is given as
My father laid his chastening rod,
The stroke has not been light;
But sure he has been a faithful God,
A judge that will do right.
However, it is clear that it is her oh-so-faithful God who has been abusing her; meaning that the first line should probably be understood as "My Father laid his chastening rod." Not that the Bible observes such distinctions (neither Biblical Greek nor Biblical Hebrew had upper- and lower-case letters), but it's the way the people who write pieces like this usually write. - RBW
File: Fus138
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NAME: Widow's Old Broom, The: see Courting the Widow's Daughter (Hard Times) [Laws H25] (File: LH25)
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NAME: Widow's Plea, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer enters a court where a youth is on trial. There is no question of his guilt, but his mother rises to beg for mercy. The prosecutor asks the judge to silence her, but he refuses. The judge grants the boy clemency based on the mother's plea
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Detroit News)
KEYWORDS: mother children trial punishment mercy
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Gardner/Chickering 146, "The Widow's Plea" (1 text)
ST GC146 (Partial)
Roud #3672
File: GC146
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NAME: Wife Bereaved of her Husband, A
DESCRIPTION: "My head and stay is loof (sic.) away And I am left alone. My husband dear, who was so near, Is took away and gone." The wife confesses her  grief, admits she cannot rest, and says she will turn to Jesus
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Belden), from a diary of the Civil War era
KEYWORDS: husband wife death loneliness
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, p. 467, "A Wife Bereaved of her Husband" (1 text)
Roud #7956
File: Beld467A
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NAME: Wife in Wether's Skin, The: see The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin [Child 277] (File: C277)
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NAME: Wife of Auchtermuchty, The: see Father Grumble [Laws Q1] (File: LQ01)
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NAME: Wife of Kelso, The: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
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NAME: Wife of the Free, The: see The Wife of Usher's Well [Child 79] (File: C079)
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NAME: Wife of Usher's Well, The [Child 79]
DESCRIPTION: A mother sends her sons away to school, where they die. She swears not to believe in God until they return to her. Later, they do return, but as ghosts. At last they convince her (perhaps by means of the roasted cock crowing) to let them rest
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1802 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: ghost death mourning magic
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England(West,South),Scotland)
REFERENCES: (35 citations)
Child 79, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (3 texts)
Bronson 79, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (58 versions)
Leather, pp. 198-199, "There Was a Lady in Merry Scotland" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
SharpAp 22 "The Wife of Usher's Well" (8 texts plus 9 fragments, 18 tunes){Bronson's #23, #18, #49, #20, #47, #4, #9, #50, #31, #5, #32, #43, #39, #40, #13, #14, #51, #7}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 17, "The Three Little Babes (The Wife of Usher's Well)" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #18}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 449-451, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2 texts derived from Cox)
Belden, pp. 55-57, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2 texts)
Randolph 19, "The Three Little Babes" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #10, #8}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 39, "The Three Little Babes" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 19B) {Bronson's #8}
Eddy 14, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #24}
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 187-194, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2 texts, 2 tunes; the first version has textual but not melodic variants; the tunes are effectively the same, but the "B" text, while it starts with "Usher's Well" lyrics, is clearlly a rewrite; the boys go off to sea, return, and one marries a servant girl) {A=Bronson's #58}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 64-66, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #58}
Davis-Ballads 22, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (11 texts plus 1 fragment, 2 tunes entitled "The Three Little Babes," "Lady Gay"; 1 more version mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #48, #33}
Davis-More 23, pp. 161-169, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (5 texts, 4 tunes)
BrownII 25, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (4 text plus 3 excerpts and mention of 2 more)
Hudson 14, pp. 93-95, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2 texts)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 167-169, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text, locally titled "There Was a Lady, and a Lady Was She"; tune on p. 402) {Bronson's #57}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 69, "The Miracle of Usher's Well" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 14, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 263-265, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 134-135, "Mary Hebrew" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBB 32, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 34, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (3 texts)
PBB 24, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text)
Niles 33, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Gummere, pp. 195-196+346-347, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 59-60, "The Cruel Mother (Or Three Children)" (1 text)
Lomax-FSNA 91, "Lady Gay" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #30, though in 4/4 where Bronson marks 3/2!}
Chase, pp. 116-118, "Lady Gay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 58, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text)
JHCox 14, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (5 texts plus mention of 2 more)
LPound-ABS, 7, pp. 18-19, "Children's Song"; pp. 20-21, "Three Little Babes" (2 texts)
Darling-NAS, pp. 32-33, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2 texts)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 80-81, "The Wife of Usher's Well" (1 text)
DT 79, LADYGAY* USHERWEL USHRWEL2*
Roud #196
RECORDINGS:
Texas Gladden, "Three Little Babes" (on LomaxCD1702); "The Three Babes" (AFS, 1941; on LC58)
Seena Helms, "Lady Bride and Three Babes" (on HandMeDown1)
Buell Kazee, "Lady Gay" (Brunswick 212, 1928) {Bronson's #30}
Jean Ritchie, "The Wife of Usher's Wells" (on JRitchie02)
Pete Seeger, "Lady Gay" (on PeteSeeger25)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Saint Stephen and Herod" [Child 22] (plot)
cf. "The Carnal and the Crane" [Child 55] (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Dead Little Boys
The Wife of the Free
The Fine Lady Gay
The Cartin Wife
A Moravian Song
The Lady and the Children Three
The Three Pore Little Children
The Lone Widow
NOTES: Bronson makes the interesting observation that there is one Scottish tune for this song, unrelated to any other; two English tunes, related only to each other, and dozens of American collections, most of which (43 of them) have tunes related to each other but not to the Scottish or English forms.
It's hard to know what to do with Lena Bourne Fish's version (the "B" version in Flanders-Ancient2). The first lines are clearly part of this song; the ending is not. It belongs to the romances about a noble marrying a commoner. The tune is shared with Phyllis Burditt's version of "The Wife of Usher's Well," but Bronson finds that tune to be unique.
I'm lumping the two because there is still kinship, and I don't recognize the second half of Fish's song -- but I wouldn't be surprised if she has combined two songs.
The notion that excessive mourning (usually meaning mourning for more than a year and a day) results in the ghost being unable to rest is at least hinted at in several other songs, the most noteworthy being "The Unquiet Grave" [Child 78]. - RBW
File: C079
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NAME: Wife Who Was Dumb, The: see The Dumb Wife (Dumb, Dumb, Dumb) [Laws Q5] (File: LQ05)
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NAME: Wife Who Wouldn't Spin Tow, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls the days before his wife was married, when she worked so hard on her father's farm. But now she is married, she does nothing except dress up and leave home. He would happily be rid of her if he could.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: marriage courting work
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 398, "The Wife Who Wouldn't Spin Tow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7615
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" [Child 277] (theme)
File: R398
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NAME: Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin, The [Child 277]
DESCRIPTION: A craftsman has married a wife above his station. She, being of good birth, refuses to do housework. Since she is gentle, he cannot beat her -- but he covers her in a sheepskin, thrashes THAT, and causes her to start working
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803
KEYWORDS: humorous wife abuse husband nobility
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,West),Scotland(Aber,Bord) Canada(Mar) Ireland US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (36 citations)
Child 277, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts)
Bronson 277, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (63 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 322-325, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #33}
Belden, pp. 92-94, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #21}
Randolph 35, "Dan-Doo" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #51}; also 439, "Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now" (2 texts, 1 tune. Randolph does not believe that this is Child 277, although similar in form, but to me it appears to be the same story with the ending lost)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 222-225, "Cooper of Fife," "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #17, #9}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 221-222, "Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #45}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 76-98, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (9 texts plus 5 fragments, 9 tunes) {D=Bronson's #17, J=#45, M=#9}
Fowke/MacMillan 79, "Jenny Go Gentle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 45, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (12 texts, several quite fragmentary, 2 tunes entitled "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin," "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin or Dandoo")  {Bronson's #38, #50}
Davis-More 39, pp. 305-315, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 44, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (2 texts plus 2 excerpts)
Hudson 23, p. 123, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (1 text)
Brewster 23, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (3 texts, though two are short)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 94-95, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #24}
Leach, pp. 658-660, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (3 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 58-63, "The Wife in Wether's Skin -- Dandoo!"; "Geely Don Mac Kling Go" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 192-194, "The Wee Cooper o' Fife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Friedman, p. 449, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (2 texts)
Warner 44, "The Old Wether's Skin"  {Bronson's #29}; 103, "Dan Doo" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {cf. Bronson's 42a/b, from the same informant (Frank Proffitt) but not quite the same in text or tune}
FSCatskills 136, "Tinna Clinnama Clinchama Clingo" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 39, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts, 5 tunes) {Bronson's #38, #43, #25, #31, #44}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 70, "Gentle Fair Jenny" (1 text, 1 tune, with a chorus perhaps from "Riddles Wisely Expounded," and a text which may well mix this with "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6]; I thought seriously about filing it there) {Bronson's #32}
Lomax-FSNA 85, "Gentle Fair Jenny" (1 text, 1 tune, claiming to be from Jean Ritchie, but Lomax does not cite a recording and the song bears very little resemblance in text or tune to Ritche's recorded version)
Sharp-100E 70, "Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #36}
Niles 59, "The Unwilling Bride" (1 text, 1 tune, possibly of this ballad but, in my opinion, more likely a form of "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6])
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 23, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #43}
Chase, pp. 122-123, "Nickety Nackety" (1 text, 1 tune)
DBuchan 63, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text)
JHCox 29, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts)
JHCoxIIA, #13A-C, pp. 57-60, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin," "Dandoo" (3 texts, 1 tune, though the "B" text omits the beating and has the husband run away; it appears to have mixed with "Devilish Mary" [Laws Q4] or something like it) {Bronson's #26}
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 167-169, "The Wife in Wether's Skin -- Dandoo!" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #46}
LPound-ABS, 6, pp. 16-17, "The Wife Wrapped in a Wether's Skin"; pp. 17-18, "Dandoo" (2 texts); 118, pp. 236-237, "I Bought Me a Wife" (1 text, very mixed, with almost no plot and lyrics from several sources)
Darling-NAS, pp. 80-81, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 171, "Risselty-Rosselty"; p. 174, "The Wee Cooper Of Fife" (2 texts)
DT 277, COOPFIFE DANDOO* RISSROSS
Roud #117
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "As the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley" (AFS 4197 B1, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell) {Bronson's #19a; cf. 18, 19b}
Chubby Parker, "Nickety Nackety Now Now Now" (Gennett 6077/Champion 15247 [as Smilin' Tubby Johnson]/Silvertone 5011, 1927; Supertone 9189, 1928) (Conqueror 7889, 1931)
Ridgel's Fountain Citians, "The Nick Nack Song" (on CrowTold01)
Frank Proffitt, "Dan Doo" (on Proffitt03) {Bronson's #42a/b}
Jean Ritchie, "Gentle Fair Jenny" (on JRitchie02) {Bronson's #32}
Pete Seeger, "Risselty-Rosselty" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01) (on PeteSeeger12)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6] (plot)
cf. "The Daughter of Peggy-O" (plot)
cf. "The Wife Who Wouldn't Spin Tow" (theme)
cf. "Upside Down" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Cooper of Fife
The Wee Cooper of Fife
Bandoo
Gentle Virginia
Kitty Lorn
Kitty Alone
Dan-you
The Old Man Who Lived in the West
NOTES: It has been speculated (see, e.g., Warner) that this ballad inspired Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Evidence is, of course, completely lacking, though some Shakespeare authorities also mention the connection.
Barry et al have an even stranger theory, that this song, which occasionally has the sort  of "plant refrain" we know best from "Riddles Wisely Expounded" and "The Elfin Knight," is actually a description of an exorcism, in which the herbs and the beating both play a part!
American forms of this ballad are often much simplified, omitting, e.g., the mention of the wife's noble origin and/or the sheepskin. Ritchie's version is typical of this; such texts are hard to distinguish from degenerate forms of "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6]. (Pound's "I Bought Me a Wife" seems almost to be mixed with "The Swapping Song.")
Typical of these degenerate forms is "Risselty, Rosselty," which Paul Stamler would split from this ballad. In this he agrees with Randolph. Normally in this Index we would
do so -- but since the gradation is so continuous, I have no good way to draw the line. - RBW
I have a suggested cleaving point for "Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" and "Risselty-Rosselty": If he beats her, it's "Wether Skin"; if he only complains, it's "Risselty-Rosselty". (I've never heard a version of the song with that refrain that includes a beating.) - PJS
To add to the confusion, there is a nursery song, apparently from Halliwell, beginning "I married a wife by the light of the moon, A tidy housewife, a tidy one." This is not either "The Wife Wrapt" or "Risselty-Rosselty," but it details the wife's strange and "slovenly" habits. And several lines of it, including the first, are found in various versions of Child 277, including e.g. the "B" version in Flanders-Ancient. - RBW
File: C277
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NAME: Wild Amerikay [Laws O19]: see Rich Amerikay [Laws O19] (File: LO19)
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NAME: Wild and Reckless Hobo, A: see Ten Thousand Miles Away from Home (A Wild and Reckless Hobo; The Railroad Bum) [Laws H2] (File: LH02)
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NAME: Wild and Wicked Youth, The [Laws L12]
DESCRIPTION: The singer recounts his (boyhood and) life, telling of his many daring robberies. Now, alas, he is condemned to die, and must leave his family. He concludes with directions for his funeral
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1830 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 25(2054))
KEYWORDS: outlaw farewell execution robbery trial funeral youth
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Laws L12, "The Rambling Boy (Wild and Wicked Youth)"
Belden, pp. 136-137, "The Rambling Boy" (1 text)
Randolph 148, "The Rambling Boy" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Warner 101, "The Rambling Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-100E 83, "The Robber" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 63-64, "The Rich Rambler" (1 text)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 91-92, "The Reckless and Rambling Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Combs/Wilgus 90, pp. 184-185, "The Rich and Rambling Boy" (1 text)
Kennedy 326, "Newlyn Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 35, "The Newry Highwayman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann p. 96, "The Bold and Undaunted Youth" (1 text fragment)
BrownII 121, "The Rambing Boy" (1 text)
Lomax-FSNA 96, "The Ramblin' Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 130-131, "The Rambling Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thorp/Fife XIII, pp. 148-190 (29-30), "Cow Boy's Lament" (22 texts, 7 tunes, the "L" text being in fact a version of this piece)
Darling-NAS, pp. 106-107, "The Rambling Boy" (1 text)
DT 423, (RAKERAMB*)
Roud #490
RECORDINGS:
 O. J. Abbott, "The Bold and Undaunted Youth (The Rambling Boy)" (on Abbott1)
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Rude and Rambling Man" (on Ashley01)
Jumbo Brightwell, "Newry Town" (on Voice03)
Carter Family, "The Rambling Boy" (Bluebird B-8990, 1941/Bluebird 33-0512, 1944)
Wade Mainer, "Ramblin' Boy" (Bluebird 33-0512, 1944)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Rambling Boy" (on NLCR05)
Riley Puckett, "Ramblin' Boy" (Columbia 15605-D, 1930)
Bob Scarce, "Newlyn Town" (on FSB7)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(2054), "The Wild and Wicked Youth," T. Birt (London), 1828-1829; also Firth c.17(208), Harding B 11(576), Harding B 15(376a), Harding B 11(939), Firth c.17(6), Harding B 16(307a), Harding B 11(4205), Harding B 11(4211), Harding B 11(4212), Firth b.34(314), Harding B 11(3519A), Firth c.17(7), 2806 c.16(325), Harding B 17(338a), Harding B 20(117), Harding B 17(337b), "The Wild and Wicked Youth"; Harding B 28(235), "The Highway Man's Fate"; Harding B 26(67), "The Bold and Undaunted Youth" ("In Stephen's-green I was bred and born"), J. Moore (Belfast), 1852-1868
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Salisbury Plain" (theme)
cf. "It's Down in Old Ireland" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Rake and Rambling Boy
Adieu Adieu
The Flash Lad
NOTES: The Bodleian "The Wild and Wicked Youth" broadsides, and OLochlainn-More 35, include a version of the lines
"I robbed Lord Mansfield I do declare, ...
Lord Fielding's gang they did me pursue And taken I was, by that cursed crew."
The Bodleian notes to 2806 c.16(325) include references to the cast of characters: "Fielding, John, Sir, d. 1780; Mansfield, W.R., Baron Sandhurst, 1819-1876"
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(67) is another example of the "I robbed Lord Mansfield I do declare" group. Zimmermann's fragment seems to be from this version. In this case he falls in with "Fieldskin gang." - BS
Given the date of the song, I would think the Mansfield involved more likely to be William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield (1706-1793), who was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1756. This has at least sometimes been corrupted to Lord Melbourne, presumably William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), the Prime Minister (on and off) from 1834 to 1841. But Mansfield is closer to the Era of the Highwaymen -- and, as Chief Justice, someone they would doubtless enjoy taking.
Fielding in fact might refer to John Fielding or his brother Henry, the author (died 1755). Henry Fielding was driven by poverty to take a post as Commissioner of the Peace for Middlesex in 1748. John Fielding, despite being blind, succeeded him in 1754 -- and dramatically improved law enforcement, though he didn't have the funding to carry out all his reforms. Still, he did enough that life became much harder for the highwaymen.
"Fielding's Gang" is presumably the Bow Street Patrol, founded by the Fieldings as the first almost-national police force in England. - RBW
The "Ramblin' Boy" versions of this song shouldn't be confused with the Tom Paxton song, "My Ramblin' Boy." - PJS
File: LL12
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NAME: Wild Bill Jones [Laws E10]
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets his sweetheart, (Lula), walking with Wild Bill Jones. Since Bill will not leave Lula alone (or vice versa), the singer shoots him. Lula will not bail him out of prison, so the singer spends his last days wildly
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: courting revenge murder prison death jealousy
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws E10, "Wild Bill Jones"
Randolph 151, Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 139, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell-FSRA 114, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text)
Hudson 102, pp. 239-240, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text); cf. #13, pp. 91-93, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (1 fragments, of which "A" is the "Pretty Little Foot" with a chorus from "Careless Love" and "B" is two "Pretty Little Foot" stanzas artificially and wrongly extracted from the text of "Wild Bill Jones" cited above)
SharpAp 99, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 140, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 146, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 134-135, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 622, WILDBILL*
Roud #2246
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Wild Bill Jones" (on Ashley01)
Frank Bode, "Wild Bill Jones" (on FBode1)
Dock Boggs, "Wild Bill Jones" (on Boggs1, BoggsCD1)
Granville Bowlin, "Wild Bill Jones" (on MMOKCD)
Eva Davis, "Wild Bill Jones" (Columbia 129-D, 1924; on RoughWays2)
Logan English, "Wild Bill Jones" (on LEnglish01)
Kelly Harrell, "Wild Bill Jones" (OKeh 40486, 1925; on KHarrell01)
Wade Mainer & his Little Smilin' Rangers, "Wild Bill Jones" (Bluebird B-7249, 1937)
George Reneau, "Wild Bill Jones" (Vocalion 14998, 1925)
Ernest V. Stoneman "Wild Bill Jones" (Edison 51869, 1926) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5196, 1926)
Tobacco Tags, "Wild Bill Jones" (Bluebird B-8365, 1940)
Welby Toomey, "Wild Bill Jones" (Gennett 3228, 1926; Challenge 324 [as John Ferguson], c. 1927)
File: LE10
===
NAME: Wild Boy, The: see Wild Rover No More (File: MA069)
===
NAME: Wild Boy, The [Laws B20]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, guilty of murder and robbery, is arrested and jailed. His family deserts him, but a rich uncle bails him out. He vows to give up his wild ways.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Craddock)
KEYWORDS: family reprieve
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws B20, "The Wild Boy"
DT 842, WILDBOY
Roud #3241
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Limbo" (theme)
NOTES: The first stanza begins "My parents raised me ten-der-lee, They had no child but me, But I was bent on rambling-- With them I couldn't agree" and the story continues with bad company and jail. The composer seems familiar with "Limbo" and its rescue and conversion by a rich uncle of a rake to an honest man who has learned to shun the girls that "gurgle" over his money; here the "Wild Boy" is rescued and converted by a rich uncle to an honest man and we are led to believe "Agnes and ... Mabel, ... Mary likewise" will not get the better of him in the future. - BS
File: LB20
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NAME: Wild Buckaroo, The
DESCRIPTION: "I've been ridin' cattle for most of my life, I ain't got no family and I ain't got no wife." The cowboy boasts of his exploits, tells of the places he has worked, describes what he likes, and concludes "I'm a high-loping cowboy and a wild buckaroo."
AUTHOR: Curley Fletcher ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: cowboy bragging work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 35, "Cowboy Boasters" (5 texts, 2 tunes; this is the "C" text)
Roud #10091
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Strawberry Roan" (tune)
NOTES: Glenn Ohrlin credits this to Curley Fletcher.
These days this song is probably known best in its parody version, which Ohrlin also credits to Fletcher; in the parody, a succession of increasingly bawdy verses follows the clean ones. - PJS
File: FCS35C
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NAME: Wild Cat Back on the Pipe Line, The
DESCRIPTION: A wildcat shows up on the pipe line. Norman Matchett said "'twas a monkey." Freeman Hare swears "'twas a monsterous bear." Leclair, from Australia, said "'twas a big kangaroo." The singer, a hunter, says the others must have had too much wine at Willie's
AUTHOR: probably Jared MacLean
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: humorous animal wine nonsense
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 47, "The Wild Cat Back on the Pipe Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi047 (Partial)
Roud #9181
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Three Jolly Huntsmen" (theme)
File: MaWi047
===
NAME: Wild Colloina Boy, The: see The Wild Colonial Boy [Laws L20] (File: LL20)
===
NAME: Wild Colonial Boy, The [Laws L20]
DESCRIPTION: Transported from Ireland to Australia, (Jack Doolan) turns bushranger but robs only the rich. At last intercepted by troopers Kelly, Davis, and Fitzroy, he chooses to fight rather than surrender. He kills Kelly but is in turn shot by the other two
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: transportation outlaw death
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont) Australia Ireland
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Laws L20, "The Wild Colonial Boy"
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 72, 124, 148-149, 255, "The Wild Colonial Boy"; p. 152, "Jack Dowling"; pp. 185-186, "John Doolan" (5 texts, 6 tunes)
Friedman, p. 374, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
FSCatskills 113, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 133, "The Wild Colloina Boy" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 130-131, "Jack Dolden" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 54, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 128, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 77-78,257, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 99, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 229, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
Beck 90, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
SHenry H750, pp. 120-121, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 52-54, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 134-135, 299-300, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
PBB 97, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 80-81, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 110-111, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 201, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (1 text)
DT 427, COLONBOY* COLONBY2*
Roud #677
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (on Voice08)
John Greenway, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (on JGreenway01)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Wild Colonial Boy" (on Lloyd4, Lloyd10)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jack Donahue" [Laws L22]
NOTES: Philips Barry connects this song to the career of a Jack Dowling who was a bushranger in the 1870s. John Greenway, however, believes that Jack Doolan/Dolan/Duggan was an improved version of the historical Jack Donahue. He based this on the fact that two share initials, they were credited with many of the same feats in popular imagination, they shared similar fates, and the two ballads sometimes exchange tunes and choruses. Compare, however, Cazden et al. - RBW
Another candidate from Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 8" - 1.3.03: "It has been suggested that the story is based on the life of one John Donaghue, a Dublin man who was transported for life in 1825, and who was killed by troopers in 1830." - BS
Harry Nunn, in _Bushrangers: A Pictorial History_ in fact reports (p. 76)  that the song "_Bold John Donoghue_ sung in the early 1830s glamorised his fictional deeds an heroic death. It was banned only to re-emerge, with minor variations, as ['The Wild Colonial Boy
]."
Given that this song is so widespread, though, I almost suspect that this song PRECEDES "Jack Donahue," and that the Australian song of that name is a conflation of this with the native Australian ballad referred to herein as "Bold Jack Donahoe."
In addition, though Laws does not list a broadside publication, one suspects that this piece began life in print, as the names of the troopers who killed Doolan almost never show variants.
In my personal library, as of this writing, I find twelve substantial texts of this song from verified sources. Seven of these do not give an intermal date for the song; of the five that do, three list (18)61, one 1862, and one (18)65. I suspect that this is, however, an error for the convict's age of "sixteen years."
One small point regarding the date: The troopers are said to have been mounted, and Australia didn't get a mounted police force until 1825. Even then, it was only 13 troopers; it didn't grow to as many as 150 men until 1839 -- by which time transportation to New South Wales was effectively ended.
Robert Hughes, who prints a version he took down in 1958 (_The Fatal Shore_, p. 242) says that "there used to be as may ways of singing 'The Wild Colonial Boy' as there were pianos in Australian parlors" -- which, in context, strikes me as an underestimate.
It's interesting to note that both Jack Doolan and the troopers who shot him have Irish names. _The Oxford Companion to Irish History_ notes that the Irish represented about a quarter of the migrants to Australia -- and that they were over-represented among both the convicts and the police. - RBW
File: LL20
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NAME: Wild Goose Grasses, The: see Died for Love (I); also The Butcher Boy [Laws P24] (File: McST055)
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NAME: Wild Goose Shanty, The: see Huckleberry Hunting (File: Doe032)
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NAME: Wild Goose, The: see Huckleberry Hunting (File: Doe032)
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NAME: Wild Hog: see Sir Lionel [Child 18] (File: C018)
===
NAME: Wild Hog in the Woods: see Sir Lionel [Child 18] (File: C018)
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NAME: Wild Horse Charlie
DESCRIPTION: Wild Horse Charlie tells the poet that he prefers his work to women. He explains that he had once been engaged to one. Later it turns out she had become engaged to a number of cowboys, taking money from each and then skipping town.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: courting marriage trick cowboy recitation
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 78, "Wild Horse Charlie" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Glenn Ohrlin, "Wild Horse Charlie" (on Ohrlin01)
File: Ohr078
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NAME: Wild Irish Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports on his arrival in the new world. Despite his poor clothes, history of gambling, and criminal record, the girls like him for his looks. But now he is punished for his crime with poverty, prison, and loneliness
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1875 (Barney & Rickey's Songster)
KEYWORDS: transportation gambling exile separation loneliness prison punishment emigration homesickness clothes father mother
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
FSCatskills 112, "The Wild Irish Boy" (2 texts, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 26, "The Wild Irish Boy" (1 text)
ST FSC112 (Partial)
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Wild Irish boy" [fragment] (AFS A 4210 B1, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(490), "Wild Irish Boy", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
NOTES: The handful of traditional collections of this song have, at first glance, little resemblance to most of the broadsides. But Cazden et al managed to assemble enough versions that they are convinced of the identity of the pieces, and I think they're right.
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 18(490): 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: FSC112
===
NAME: Wild Irishman: see The Monkey Turned Barber [Laws Q14] (File: LQ14)
===
NAME: Wild Man of Borneo, The
DESCRIPTION: Cumulative song: "The wild man of (Borneo/Poplar) has just come to town (4x)" building to "The left whisker of the flea in the hair in the tail of the dog of the daughter of the wife of the wild man of Borneo has just come to town"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (collected from Charles Neville)
KEYWORDS: cumulative nonballad animal bug
FOUND_IN: Britain(Wales,England(South)) Canada(Mar) Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 311, "The Wild Man of Borneo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 258, "The Wild Man of Borneo" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, KINGCARA*
Roud #2145
RECORDINGS:
 Carl Jones, "Wild Man of Borneo" (OKeh 45516, 1931; rec. 1930)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Court of King Caractacus
The Wild Man from Poplar
Dyn Bach o Fangor
NOTES: [A variant version:] The fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses of the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Caractacus were just passing by." - (PJS)
The Digital Tradition credits the above tentatively to Rolf Harris. I can't prove that, but I suspect it is composed.
Caractacus was a proto-British king (son of Cunobelinus, who through the muddle of Holinshed became Shakespeare's Cymbeline). His exact date of accession is uncertain, but it was probably around 40 C. E.
At first he split power with his brother Togodumnus, but the latter died shortly after Claudius's Romans invaded Britain in 43. Caratactus continued to resist for years, mostly from Wales, but was eventually captured around 51 and spent the rest of his life in Rome.
It will presumably be evident that Caractacus didn't have much of a harem (or much time for one). I've no idea why he was picked on, rather than, say, a Persian monarch. - RBW
File: K311
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NAME: Wild Miz-zou-rye, The: see Shenandoah (File: Doe077)
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NAME: Wild Mustard River, The (Johnny Stile) [Laws C5]
DESCRIPTION: Johnny catches his foot among the logs while breaking up a jam; he is swept away as the jam breaks up. His badly torn body is recovered and buried by his fellow workers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Detroit News, reprinted in Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: logger death drowning
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar,Ont)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws C5, "The Wild Mustard River (Johnny Stile)"
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 177-179, "Johnny Doyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 56, "Wild Mustard River" (4 texts, one called "The Old Tamarack Dam"; 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 111, "The Wild Mustard River" (1 text)
Fowke-Lumbering #30, "Johnny Stiles" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 100, "The Wild Mustard River" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 714, WILDMUST*
Roud #637
RECORDINGS:
Tom Brandon, "Johnny Stiles" (on Lumber01)
Joe Kelly, "Johnny Doyle" (on Lumber01)
Carl Lathrop, "The Wild Mustard River" (AFS, 1938; on LC56)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Old Tamarack Dam
NOTES: Fowke believes, on the basis of the distribution of variants, that this song originated in Ontario, but cannot cite an incident on which it is based.
Patrick Doyle of Halifax may have the solution. His great uncle Johnny Doyle died July 6, 1906 on a log drive in Ontario. He tells me that the river was the Moose River.
Based on his family's history (http://members.tripod.com/~CyberBart/doylhist.htm), it appears that Doyle would have been between 29 and 31 years old at the time. - RBW
File: LC05
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NAME: Wild Oats (Turn, Young Man)
DESCRIPTION: "Turn, young men, from your evil ways; (Go/Don't) sow your wild oats in the early days -- that you may be happy when you grow old."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: playparty warning
FOUND_IN: US(NE,SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 65, "Wild Oats" (2 fragments)
Roud #7869
File: Br3065
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NAME: Wild Ox Moan: see Black Woman (File: CNFM140)
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NAME: Wild Rippling Water, The: see One Morning in May (To Hear the Nightingale Sing) [Laws P14] (File: LP14)
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NAME: Wild Rover No More
DESCRIPTION: The singer "has been a wild rover for many a year; I've spent all my money on whisky and beer." After years of carousing, he has gone broke and/or struck it rich; he vows that "never no more, It's never, never, never I'll play The wild rover no more."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1829 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 25(2055))
KEYWORDS: rambling poverty money travel hardtimes drink landlord floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South),Scotland) Australia Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 69-70, "Wild Rover" (a fragment); pp. 87-88, 127-128, "Wild Rover No More";  pp. 176-177, "I've Been a Wild Boy" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Randolph 166, "The Horse-Thief" (1 text, 1 tune, which appears to be associated with this song although the text is so short that it might be part of a different piece)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 196-197, "The Wild Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 190-191, "Wild Rover" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 113, "The Wild Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 288, "Wild Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 146-147, "Wild Rover No More" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 65, "Wild Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 57, "Wild Rover" (1 text)
DT, WLDROVER*
Roud #1173
RECORDINGS:
John Greenway, "Wild Rover No More" (on JGreenway01)
Sam Larner, "The Wild Rover" (on SLarner02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(2055), "Wild Rover" ("I have been a wild rover these dozen years"), T. Batchelar (London), 1817-1828; Harding B 16(307d), Johnson Ballads 613, Firth c.18(239), Firth c.18(244), Harding B 25(2055), "[The] Wild Rover"; Harding B 11(4217), "Wild Rover!"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Johnny the Sailor (Green Beds)" [Laws K36] (plot)
cf. "Tambaroora Gold" (theme)
cf. "Moonshiner" (floating lyrics)
cf. "All My Trials" (lyrics)
cf. "Take Me Back to Tulsa" (lyrics)
cf. "The Strawberry Roan" [Laws B18] (tune)
cf. "Limbo" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
No, No, Never
NOTES: Meredith and Anderson claim that their fourth version, "I've Been a Wild Boy," has "no connection with the well-known 'Wild Rover No More.'" The same could be argued for Fahey's "The Wild Boy," since it lacks the "Wild Rover No More" chorus. Both songs also share an initial verse not found in the standard version:
My father died and left me his estate,
I married a lady whose fortune was great
And through keeping bad company I've spent all my store;
I've been a wild boy, but I'll be so no more.
It will, however, be observed that the basic plot of both these songs is that of the "Wild Rover." The also share extensive floating lyrics. It may well be that this mixed "Wild Rover" is a fusion of earlier pieces. At this time, however, I am unable to distinguish the two.
Interestingly, although the song predates "The Strawberry Roan" by a century or so, Greenway's version is sung to a variant of that tune. - RBW
Kennedy and MacColl/Seeger both lump this song with "Moonshiner." I don't think so -- although they share a few lines -- but they do deserve a cross-reference.
No, I'm not making up the "All My Trials" and "Take Me Back to Tulsa" cross-references; Sam Larner included the "If living was a thing was money could buy/The rich would live and the poor would die" and "Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey" floaters in his version. - PJS
John Greenway's "Wild Rover," which seems to be pretty well mixed, refers to the prisoner being sent to "Nugget." This is surely an error for "Newgate," the famous English prison. - RBW
File: MA069
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NAME: Wild Rovers
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you wild rovers and listen for a while... For love has been the ruin of many a man." The singer warns against love: "When you are married you are not your own man." He describes some of his miseries, and wishes luck to single and married alike
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love marriage wife warning drink
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 673, "Wild Rovers" (1 text)
Roud #4652
File: R673
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NAME: Wild Sliav Gallen Brae: see Wild Slieve Gallon Brae (File: HHH540)
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NAME: Wild Slieve Gallon Brae
DESCRIPTION: The singer is in love with a false-hearted girl. He sets out to view her home, but somehow goes astray and ends on Slieve Gallon Brae. There he meets a girl whose love has also been untrue. They marry and live happily on Slieve Gallon Brae
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry Collection)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal abandonment rambling marriage
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H540, pp. 468-469, "Wild Slieve Gallon Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 9A, "Wild Sliav Gallen Brae" (1 text)
Roud #3577
NOTES: Not to be confused with several other songs with similar titles. - RBW
File: HHH540
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NAME: Wild Stormy Deep
DESCRIPTION: "On the wild stormy deep With Jesus I'll sleep And hold to his loving hand. In a home above I'll be there with God, and rejoice in a happy land." The singer prays, and God frees the singer from burden and sin
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 95, "Wild Stormy Deep" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa095 (Partial)
File: Wa095
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NAME: Wilderness Lady, The
DESCRIPTION: At dinner in a London lord's house an English lady toasts King William "and to all his strong forces." The next day the "Wilderness lady" challenges her to a duel. Wounded, the English lady cries for mercy. An English lord interrupts the duel.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Karpeles-Newfoundland)
KEYWORDS: fight rescue royalty nobility
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 34, "The Wilderness Lady" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2295
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A Health to the King
NOTES: The "King William" of this song is presumably William III (reigned 1688-1694 with Mary II; sole reign 1694-1702). William I the Conqueror/Bastard (reigned 1066-1087) and William II Rufus (1087-1100) are certainly too early. William IV (1830-1837) is chronologically possible, but his claim to the throne was unchallenged.
If the song were set in Ireland, I would consider that interpretation certain. But William III was also controversial in England, as he overthrew James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. - RBW
File: KaNew034
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NAME: Wildwood Flower
DESCRIPTION: The singer prepares to deck herself out with flowers in her hair, in response to her former lover who now has abandoned her. She promises to behave joyfully and forget she knew him, and make him regret that he "neglected his pale wildwood flower"
AUTHOR: Words: Maud Irving / Music: Joseph Philbrick Webster (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment beauty flowers
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
BrownIII 263, "The Pale Wildwood Flower" (3 texts plus a fragment)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 248-249, "[Pale Wildwood Flower]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 50-51, "Wildwood Flower" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 798, "The Wildwood Flower" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 500-501, "The Wildwood Flower" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 798A)
Silber-FSWB, p. 166, "Wildwood Flower" (1 text)
DT, WILDWFLR*
Roud #757
RECORDINGS:
The Carter Family, "Wildwood Flower" (Victor V-40000, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4432, 1934; rec. 1928) (Melotone 5-11-65, 1935); as "The A. P. Carter Family," "Wildwood Flower" (Acme 996, n.d.)
Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle, "Wildwood Flower" (Columbia 21138, 1953)
John D. Mounce et al, "Wildwood Flower" (on MusOzarks01)
Miller Wikel, "Frail Wildwood Flower" (Conqueror 7254, 1929) [also issued as by Joe Reeves?]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Reuben James" (tune)
File: JRSF248
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NAME: Wilkes Lovell [Laws E9]
DESCRIPTION: Two convicts escape from prison. Sheriff Wilkes Lovell, informed of this by his wife, pursues and recaptures them. The singer, who is one of the escapees, warns his listeners not to imitate him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: prison escape
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws E9, "Wilkes Lovell"
DT 759, WILKLOVL
Roud #2247
File: LE09
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NAME: Wilkins and Dinah: see Vilikens and His Dinah [LawsM31A/B] (File: LM31)
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NAME: Will O'Riley: see Riley's Farewell (Riley to America; John Riley) [Laws M8] (File: LM08)
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NAME: Will Ray
DESCRIPTION: "Oh Papa, dear Papa, please tell to me Just what you think of Will Ray." The father tells the girl to marry banker John Burns instead of poor Will. The daughter points out that Burns has just gone bankrupt and Ray become rich; the father relents
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Hudson)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage money father lover children
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hudson 135, pp. 281-282, "Will Ray" (1 text)
Roud #4317
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Billy Grimes the Rover" (plot)
cf. "Peggy in the Morning" (plot)
NOTES: This looks to me very much like an elaboration of "Billy Grimes the Rover." But the plot about John Burns is not normal to that piece, so I have tentatively separated them. - RBW
File: Hud135
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NAME: Will Stewart and John [Child 107]
DESCRIPTION: Will loves the Earl of Mar's daughter. His brother John successfully woos her for him. She sets requirements which he meets, but her father is against the match despite learning they are of high degree. They elope, gaining acceptance after a child is born
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy manuscript)
KEYWORDS: love courting nobility father elopement childbirth
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 107, "Will Stewart and John" (2 texts)
Roud #3973
File: C107
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NAME: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
DESCRIPTION: The singer witnesses his/her mother being carried off for burial. Her example is praised. The singer wonders if they will meet again: "Will the circle be unbroken, By and by, Lord, by and by? There's a better home a-waiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky."
AUTHOR: Words: Ada R. Habershon?
EARLIEST_DATE: Original text and tune copyright 1908; later tune: 1927 (recording, Metropolitan Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious death funeral burial mother
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 635, "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 440-442, "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 635)
Silber-FSWB, p. 371, "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" (1 text)
DT, CRCUNBRK*
Roud #3409
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"  (Perfect 16101, 1935) (OKeh 05587 [as Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys], 1940)
Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard et al, Jean Ritchie, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (on WatsonAshley01)
Brown's Ferry Four, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (King 530, 1946)
Rev. J. C. Burnett, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" (Columbia 14385-D, 1928)
The Carter Family, "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" (Conqueror 8529, 1935) (Columbia 20268, prob. c. 1946)
Hallelujah Trio, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?" (London 16020, 1950)
Frank & James McCravy, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Brunswick 194, 1928; Jewel 5907/Oriole 1907/Perfect 12601/Challenge 876, 1930; Conqueror 7794, 1931; rec. 1927) (OKeh 45433, 1930)
William McEwan, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (Columbia A1364, 1913; rec. c. 1912)
Metropolitan Quartet, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?" (Edison 52111, 1927)
Monroe Brothers, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Montgomery Ward M-7142, 1937)
Morris Brothers, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken Bye And Bye?" (Bluebird B-8103, 1939)
Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (OKeh 8777/ARC 6-12-63/Vocalion 04395, 1930)
Frank Stamps & his All-Star Quartet, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Montgomery Ward M-8194, 1939)
Frank Welling & John McGhee, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" (Champion 16035, 1930)
Westbrook Conservatory Entertainers, "Will That Circle Be Unbroken" (Broadway 8194, late 1920s)
J. B. Whitmire's Blue Sky Trio, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken There" (Bluebird B-8512, 1940)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Since I Laid My Burden Down" (tune)
NOTES: According to Cohen, the original version of this had words by Ada R. Habershon and music by Charles Gabriel and was published in 1907/8. That version, however, had a completely different tune from the familiar Carter Family version; the song has probably been subjected to recensional handling -- possibly by A. P. Carter. - RBW
File: R635
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NAME: Will the Weaver [Laws Q9]
DESCRIPTION: The newly married man regrets his hasty marriage. He is told that his wife is seeing Will the Weaver. He surprises them at his home. Will hides up the chimney. The husband smokes him out, beats him, and sends him away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1793 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: marriage infidelity humorous
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Laws Q9, "Will the Weaver"
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 64-65, "Willy Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 47, "Bill the Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 199, "Father, Father, I Am Married" (1 fragment, so short that it could be a form of "Devilish Mary" but seeming by its form to belong here )
Chappell-FSRA 53, "Will the Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 237-238, "Will the Weaver" ("Will de Weaver") (1 text; tune on p. 418)
Brewster 98, "Will the Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 140, "Will, the Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 154, "Will the Weaver" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Mackenzie 133, "Bill the Weaver" (1 text)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 152-154, "Everyday Dirt" (1 text, 1 tune, rewritten by Dave McCarn)
Chase, pp. 184-185, "Will the Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H682, p. 505, "Will the Weaver" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 146-147, "Will the Weaver" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 170, "Everyday Dirt" (1 text)
DT 345, WILLWVR1* WILLWVR2* WILLWVR3 WILLWVR4
Roud #432
RECORDINGS:
Bill Carlisle, "Jumpin' and Jerkin' Blues" (Vocalion 02984, 1935; Conqueror 8789, 1937; Romeo 70264, prob. 1937, and issues on Banner, Melotone, Oriole and Perfect)
Dave McCarn, "Everyday Dirt" (Victor V-40274, 1930)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Everyday Dirt" (on NLCR02)
Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright, "Will the Weaver"  (Columbia 15694-D, 1931; rec. 1927; on ConstSor1)
Mike Seeger, "Will the Weaver" (on MSeeger01)
Doc Watson, "Every Day Dirt" (on Watson01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(2078), "Will the Weaver" [almost entirely illegible], J. Evans (London), 1780-1812; also Harding B 28(151), "Will, the Weaver," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; Harding B 11(4247), "Will, the Weaver"; Firth c.18(255), Firth c.18(254), "Will the Weaver"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Boatsman and the Chest" [Laws Q8] (plot) and references there
NOTES: This and similar songs are sometimes traced back to a story in Boccaccio (seventh day, second story: Gianella, Peronella, and her husband). But the story is really one of the basic themes of folktale, and doubtless predates Boccaccio as well as these songs. - RBW
File: LQ09
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NAME: Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
DESCRIPTION: As the summer comes in, the singer goes courting (seducing): "Will ye go, lassie, go, And we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All among the blooming heather." He offers her a bower , etc., but will find another girl if she refuses
AUTHOR: Jimmy McPeake?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: courting seduction sex
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 141, "Will You Go, Lassie, Go" (1 text)
DT, WILDMTHY*
Roud #541
NOTES: Sometimes credited to Jimmy McPeake, and this is not improbable (particularly since the text seems fairly fixed), though I have no firm evidence either way. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't show up in the more staid collections....
Even if it isn't traditional, its popularity with revival singers probably means it should be included here.
Roud lumps this with "The Braes o' Balquither." - RBW
File: FSWB141A
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NAME: Will Ye Pad the Road wi' Me?: see Paddle the Road with Me (File: Wa032)
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NAME: Will You Go Out West?
DESCRIPTION: The singer is looking for a girl to "go out west with me." He promises happy home -- a log cabin with a dirt floor and a blanket for the door. The girl will help with the farming while the husband goes hunting
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: courting exploration home
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 88, "Will You Go Out West?" (1 text+2 fragments, 1 tune)
ST FSC088 (Partial)
Roud #4604
File: FSC088
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NAME: Will You Love Me When I'm Old?
DESCRIPTION: The singer repeatedly asks his true love if she will love him when he is old, tired, gray, etc.: "Life's morn will soon be waning And its evening bells be told, And my heart will know no sadness If you'll love me when I'm old."
AUTHOR: Words: P. Gilsey Cook / Music: Ralph Roland
EARLIEST_DATE: 1876 (sheet music, LOCSheet, sm1877 03501)
KEYWORDS: age love
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 824, "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" (1 text)
BrownIII 273, "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" (1 text plus mention of 5 more)
DT, ARUTRDME
Roud #4334
RECORDINGS:
Charles Brook & Charlie Turner, "Will You Love Me When I'm Old" (Columbia 15756-D, 1932; rec. 1931)
Carter Family, "Are You Tired of Me Darling?" (Bluebird B-5956/Montgomery Ward M-4546, 1935)
Bill Cox, "Are You Tired of Me Darling?" (Melotone [Canada] 45092, 1935) (Decca 5497, 1938)
Earl McCoy & Jessie Brock, "Are You Tired of Me Darling?" (Columbia 15499-D, 1930; rec. 1929)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "Are You Tired of Me Darling" (Brunswick 432, 1930; rec. 1927)
Blind Jack Mathis, "Are You Tired of Me Darling?" (Bluebird B-4956, c. 1933)
Aulton Ray, "Will You Love Me When I'm Old" (Gennett 6129, 1927)
L. K. Reeder, "Will You Love Me When I'm Old" (OKeh 45026, c. 1926; rec. 1925)
BROADSIDES:
LOCSheet, sm1877 03501, "Are you tired of me, darling?" Louis Meyer (Philadelphia), 1877 (tune); also sm1878 05722, "Are you tired of me, darling?" White, Smith & Co (Boston), 1878
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?
NOTES: The White Smith & Co sheet music lists the tune as by Fred Kenyon Jones; the Meyer music offers Ralph Roland. The tunes are different, and neither is the one I know (from Ed Trickett, I think), though the Roland tune looks closer.
A song entitled "Will You Love Me, Sweetheart, When I'm Old?" was published by A. J. Lamb and H. W. Petrie in 1895; I do not know if they are the same. - RBW
File: R824
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NAME: Will You Wear Red?: see Jenny Jenkins (File: R453)
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NAME: Will You Wear the Red?: see Jenny Jenkins (File: R453)
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NAME: Will You Wed with a Tarry Sailor? [Laws K37]
DESCRIPTION: The singer comes back from sea to meet his love Nancy. He asks her if she will marry him. She refuses him. He brings out his money; she changes her mind. With the shoe on the other foot, he refuses her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1820 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.13(198))
KEYWORDS: love courting money
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws K37, "Will You Wed with a Tarry Sailor?"
BrownII 109, "Poor Jack" (1 text)
Leach-Labrador 65, "Jolly Jack" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 56, "Jack the Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 723, POORJACK
Roud #530
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.13(198), "Tarry Sailor," J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819; also Harding B 11(3735), Harding B 25(1884), Harding B 17(307a), Harding B 11(778), "Tarry Sailor"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Saucy Sailor (Jack and Jolly Tar II)" [Laws K38] (plot)
File: LK37
===
NAME: William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) [Laws M10]
DESCRIPTION: Riley and his sweetheart flee from her father, but are overtaken. Riley is jailed; the father asks that he be executed or transported. Colleen pleads for and wins his freedom instead. (Riley leaves the country, wearing the girl's ring for remembrance)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1829 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.11(51))
KEYWORDS: courting prison reprieve emigration elopement
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England) Ireland Jamaica Australia
REFERENCES: (22 citations)
Laws M10, "William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial)"
Belden, pp. 289-290, "William Riley" (1 text)
Randolph 115, "Willie Riley" (1 short text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
BrownII 128, "William Riley" (1 text)
Brewster 50, "William Reilly" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 91, "Willy Reilly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 137, "Willie Riley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 74, "Courtship of Willie Riley" (1 very long text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 741-743, "Willie Riley" (2 texts)
FSCatskills 53, "Fair Julian Bond" (1 text, 1 tune. The opening of this ballad clearly resembles Laws M9, but the conclusion is closer to M10. The fragmentary state of the text may indicate a conflate version)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 8, "Willie Reilly and his Cailin Ban" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 40-42, "Willie Reilly and His Dear Colleen Ban" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 86, "Willy Reilly" (1 text)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 31-32, "Willie Riley" (1 text, tune referenced)
SHenry H234, pp. 436-437, "Willy Reilly" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 101, "William Reilly" (1 text)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 224-225, "Reily's Jailed" (1 text, 1 tune, s very short version placed here on the basis of its first stanza)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, pp. 482-483, "William Reily's Courtship," "Reily's Trial," "Reily's Answer, Releasement, and Marriage with Coolen Bawn" (sic.) (source notes only)
DT 577, RILTRIAL
ADDITIONAL: Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 244-247, "Willy Reilly"
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 302-304, "Willy Reilly" (1 text)
H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 382-384, 516, "Willy Reilly"
ST LM10 (Full)
Roud #538
RECORDINGS:
Tom Lenihan, "Willie Reilly and his Cailin Ban" (on IRTLenihan01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.11(51), "Riley and Colinband," T. Batchelar (London), 1817-1828; also Firth b.27(138), Harding B 16(228b), Harding B 25(1626)[many words illegible], "Riley and Colinband"; 2806 b.11(52), Johnson Ballads 2976, "William Riley and Colinband"; Harding B 11(1852), "Riley and Colinban"; Harding B 28(190)[some words illegible or lost], "Riley and Collinband"
LOCSinging, sb40465a, "Reily's Courtship", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864) [This is part 1];, sb40464b, "Reily's Releasement and Marriage with Cooleen Bawn", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864 [This is part 2]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lady Elspat" [Child 247] (plot)
cf. "William Riley's Courtship" [Laws M9]
cf. "Mary Acklin (The Squire's Young Daughter)" [Laws M16] (plot)
cf. "Mary Neal" [Laws M17] (tune)
cf. "A Maid in Bedlam" (theme of a maid in Bedlam)
NOTES: Meredith/Anderson states that this song is based on an incident which took place in Donegal around 1745. Reilly, a Catholic, eloped with the protestant daughter of Squire Folliard -- an illegal match at the time. See Laws, who quotes the relevant details from Joyce.
Laws, following Cox, considers the three William Riley ballads (William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9], this one, and "Reilly's Answer, Releasement, and Marriage with Coleen Bawn" -- the last not found in tradition, but published by Will Carleton in 1855) to be a set of songs about the same character. The songs overlap, however, and may be the result of separate composition, with either M9 or M10 inspiring the other two. - RBW
All of the Bodleian broadsides corrupt what O'Conor, at least, has as "Colleen Bawn." O'Conor does not explain his sources.
Charles Gavan Duffy, _The Ballad Poetry of Ireland_, 1845, pp. 244-247, has this as "Willy Reilly" and translates "Coolen Bawn" as "fair young girl." - BS
Laws considers Creighton-NovaScotia 74 to be both M9 and M10. This 78 verse version is divided by Creighton into "Riley's Courtship" (26 verses: meets Laws' description of M9), "Trial" (20 verses: meets Laws' description of M10), "Marriage" (32 verses: meets Laws' description "which has not, so far as I know," says Laws, "been recorded from tradition, Riley is sentenced to be transported and is freed through his own petition to the Lord Lieutenant in time to rescue the girl from Bedlam and marry her." What am I missing? As I've noted, Creighton-NovaScotia 74, is one of Laws' sources for M9 and M10: why didn't he consider it for the "not ... recorded" Mx?).
Sparling, 1888: "The story on which this ballad is founded happened some eighty years ago; and as the lover was a Catholic farmer, and the lady's family of high Orange principles, it got a part character, which, no doubt, contributed to its great popularity." "Carleton has made it the foundation of a novel of the same name."
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan: "William Carlton's novel on Willie Reilly and his Cailin Ban first appeared in 1855 and was a best seller for years." [Though the Barnhart/Halsey _New Century Handbook of English Literature_ (revised edition, Appleton.Century/Crofts, 1967) does not list it among the major works of Carleton (1794-1869). Neither is it mentioned in Patrick C. Power's _A Literary History of Ireland_, which (p. 149) instead regards his most important work as the 1830-1833 collection _Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry_. - RBW]
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: LM10
===
NAME: William and Dinah: see Vilikens and His Dinah [LawsM31A/B] (File: LM31)
===
NAME: William and Eliza (Lough Erin's Shore)
DESCRIPTION: Willie is a servant to an English lady on Lough Erin's shore. She falls in love with him. He says her peers will scorn her if they marry, and prepares to leave her service. She begs him to stay; they marry. She comforts him when they leave Lough Erin
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection); 19C (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(227))
KEYWORDS: love courting servant nobility money marriage
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H597, pp. 476-477, "Lough Erne's Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9057
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(227), "William and Eliza" or "Lough Erne Shore" ("You tender young lovers, draw near"), W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867 ; also 2806 c.15(162), Harding B 19(3), "William and Eliza" or "Lough Erne Shore"
NOTES: In reading this, I couldn't help but wonder what happened to the angry father who exiled the boy.
Chances are, if you know a song entitled "Lough Erin's Shore," then this isn't it. - RBW
File: HHH597
===
NAME: William and Ellen: see Earl Brand [Child 7] (File: C007)
===
NAME: William and Harriet [Laws M7]
DESCRIPTION: Lovers William and Harriet find their marriage plans thwarted by her father. They escape to sea, only to have their ship sink en route. They land upon a desert island, where they die of starvation and/or exposure
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Firth b.25(77))
KEYWORDS: courting ship wreck disaster death father
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So) Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws M7, "William and Harriet"
JHCox 104, "The Rich Merchant" ( text)
DT 741, RCHMRCHT
Roud #536
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(77), "William and Harriet," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth c.12(285), Harding B 15(380a), Harding B 15(379b), Harding B 15(380b), Harding B 16(308c), Johnson Ballads 1557, 2806 c.16(47), 2806 c.14(26), Firth b.26(248) [some lines truncated on the right], Firth c.26(65) [some words illegible], Harding B 16(308b), Harding B 11(3767), "William and Harriet"; 2806 c.14(136), Harding B 11(4221), Harding B 11(3764), "William and Harriet"
Murray, Mu23-y3:010, "William and Herriet" (sic.), unknown, 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(90), "William and Herriet" (sic.), unknown, c. 1860-1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "William and Phillis" (theme, tune)
cf. "The Island Unknown" (plot elements)
cf. "Riley's Farewell (Riley to America; John Riley)" [Laws M8]
SAME_TUNE:
William and Phillis (File: CrSNB033)
File: LM07
===
NAME: William and Mary: see Willie and Mary (Mary and Willie; Little Mary; The Sailor's Bride) [Laws N28] (File: LN28)
===
NAME: William and Nancy (I) (Lisbon; Men's Clothing I'll Put On I) [Laws N8]
DESCRIPTION: (William) has been ordered to war. His sweetheart (Nancy) offers to dress in men's clothes and accompany him. William says that Nancy is not strong enough; she assures him she will be. At last he agrees; they are married and go off together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904
KEYWORDS: separation cross-dressing marriage war
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE,So) Britain(England(South)) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Laws N8, "William and Nancy (I) (Lisbon; Men's Clothing I'll Put On I)"
Belden, pp. 177-180, "Lisbon" (3 texts, but the third is "The Girl Volunteer")
Randolph 42, "Men's Clothing I'll Put On" (Of Randolph's six texts, Laws puts only "B," "D," and "E" -- the last with melody -- with this song. In fact any of these versions -- especially "B" and "E" -- might be part of "The Banks of the Nile." "A" definitely goes with that piece, and "C" and "F" go with "Jack Monroe")
Chappell-FSRA 67, "Johnnie and Nancy" (1 text)
FSCatskills 29, "It Was Early One Monday Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 61, "Williams and Nancy" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, though the second text has the title "The Banks of the Nile")
Creighton/Senior, pp. 156-158, "William and Nancy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 66, "It Was On One Monday Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 202-205, "Jimmy and Nancy on the Sea" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Fowke/MacMillan 72, "Banks of the Nile" (1 text, 1 tune, considered by Fowke states to be an abbreviated, localized version of "William and Nancy (I)" [Laws N8], but it could just as easily be a version of "The Banks of the Nile" [Laws N9])
Mackenzie 35A, "William and Nancy" (1 text)
SharpAp 121, "William and Polly" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 34, "William and Polly (Lisbon)" (1 text, 1 tune, "slightly shortened")
Fuson, pp. 67-68, "Sweet William" (1 text, a compound of the cross-dressing lover songs but more like this than any of the others)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 58-59, "Lisbon" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H561, p. 458, "Lovely Annie (I)" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN1749, "Margaret my sweetest, Margaret I must go" (listed as Laws N4 though the description sounds more like this piece)
DT 442, BANKNIL4 (BANKNIL2*?) BANKNIL3*
Roud #551
RECORDINGS:
Jim Molloy, "Lovely Nancy" (on NFMLeach)
Lee Monroe Presnell, "I Went to See My Molly" (on USWarnerColl01 -- a short text, probably this although it has an American Civil War setting)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:039, "William and Margaret," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jack Monroe" [Laws N7]
cf. "The Banks of the Nile (Men's Clothing I'll Put On II)" [Laws N9]
cf. "High Germany"
cf. "The Girl Volunteer (The Cruel War Is Raging)" [Laws O33]
NOTES: The Sacred Harp has a tune "Lisbon" which, like many versions of this song, is in triple time. But based on the versions I've checked, they do not appear to be the same melody. - RBW
File: LN08
===
NAME: William and Nancy (II) (Courting Too Slow) [Laws P5]
DESCRIPTION: William loves Nancy, but sails away before he has married her. Eventually he learns that she has married another. He sickens with grief. Nancy comes to comfort him. Both eventually die of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (Logan)
KEYWORDS: courting sailor disease marriage infidelity death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So) Britain Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws P5, "William and Nancy II (Courting Too Slow)"
Belden, pp. 196-197 "Courting Too Slow" (1 text)
SharpAp 81, "William and Nancy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 317-318, "William and Nancy" (1 text, with local title "Come All Ye Umarried Men"; tune on p. 441)
Logan, pp. 364-365, "Courting Too Slow" (perhaps a comic rewrite of the original version?)
DT 493, WMNANCY
Roud #1918
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Bonny Brown Jane" (lyrics)
File: LP05
===
NAME: William and Phillis
DESCRIPTION: Phyllis tells William that her father will not have her wed a sailor. She dresses as a sailor and they sail for America. They escape a storm in a longboat and land in America, marry and live happily.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1174))
KEYWORDS: elopement cross-dressing emigration sea ship shore storm America father sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 33, "Phyllis and Young William" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1429
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1174), "William and Phillis," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Harding B 11(1173), 2806 c.16(159), Harding B 11(4228), Harding B 16(308d), Harding B 11(4227), Harding B 11(4229), Harding B 11(929), "William and Phillis"; Firth c.12(250), 2806 c.16(159), Harding B 11(4226), "William and Philis"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "William and Harriet" (theme; tune per broadsides Bodleian Harding B 11(1174), Bodleian Harding B 11(1173), Bodleian 2806 c.16(159), Bodleian Harding B 11(4226), Bodleian Firth c.12(250), Bodleian 2806 c.16(159), Bodleian Harding B 11(4228))
cf. "The Great Elopement to America" (plot)
NOTES: The Bodleian broadsides are more complete than Creighton-SNewBrunswick and are the source for the description; for example, Creighton-SNewBrunswick omits the cross-dressing.
"William and Phillis" is "William and Harriet" with a happy ending. Instead of dying together on a desert island, the lovers land in America, are helped back to health and live happily. - BS
File: CrSNB033
===
NAME: William and Polly: see William and Nancy (I) (Lisbon; Men's Clothing I'll Put On I) [Laws N8] (File: LN08)
===
NAME: William Baker
DESCRIPTION: "William Baker's now in prison, And shortly hanged be, For the killing of one Prewitt, The world may plainly see." Baker invites Prewitt to join him, then ambushes him. He tells Prewitt's wife that he had abandoned her. But his crimes finally come out
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967
KEYWORDS: prison execution crime lie murder
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 71, pp. 169-170, "William Baker" (1 text)
Roud #4120
NOTES: This song is item dF48 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: CW169
===
NAME: William Beadle
DESCRIPTION: "A bloody scene I'll now relate Which lately happen'd in a neib'ring state, A murder of the deepest dye, I say...." Beadle "slew Himself, his consort, and his offspring too." The singer laments that such things can happen and hopes for a better day
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder family father mother children
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec. 11, 1782 - William Beadle kills his wife, his children, and himself
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 6-7, "(William Beadle)" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lawson Murder (Charlie Lawson)" [Laws F35] (plot)
NOTES: This appears to be simply a broadside, with no hold on tradition (it's lousy poetry), and it doesn't really include enough specific data to identify it with certainty with the case of William Beadle -- but Burt's notes imply that this was clear from the overall presentation of the broadsheet. - RBW
File: Burt006
===
NAME: William Bluet (Blewitt)
DESCRIPTION: "There was a woman lived in Hampshire, She had one only son, and him she loved most dear." The young man spends his estate, then turns to crime. Taken and condemned, he bids a sad farewell to his mother and is executed. A dove hovers by his dying head
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967
KEYWORDS: death crime punishment mother money bird
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 12, 1726 - Execution of William Blewitt, a convicted housebreaker, pickpocket, and accomplice to murder, in Surrey
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 125, pp. 151-152, "William Bluet" (1 text)
Roud #4298
File: CW151
===
NAME: William Cook
DESCRIPTION: "Hark, hark, my young friends, it's a melancholy call, The hour of death flying swiftly along." The dying young man (William Cook) reveals that he will miss his family, and describes how he will be buried. He asks to be remembered despite his misdeeds
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death burial funeral family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 608, "William Cook" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3128
File: R608
===
NAME: William Craig and Bold Manone: see Bold Manan the Pirate [Laws D15] (File: LD15)
===
NAME: William Glen: see Captain Glen/The New York Trader (The Guilty Sea Captain A/B) [Laws K22] (File: LK22)
===
NAME: William Goebel
DESCRIPTION: "Our grand old state is left in shame Since the death of William Goebel." Goebel's wisdom is praised, but the candidate he was running against, "Taylor saw his plan had failed." Someone, perhaps Taylor, arranges Goebel's death
AUTHOR: James W. Day ("Jilson Setters")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 30, 1900 (so DAB; Thomas says Feb. 3) - Assassination of William Goebel (1856-1900), formerly a reforming state senator; he was a candidate for governor of Kentucky in 1899, though he used some electioneering maneuvers to gain the nomination. The election outcome was disputed, though the legislature not surprisingly held that he was the winner of the election after his death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 188-190, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Thomas says that Setters sang this to the tune of "Barbary Ellen," but since she doesn't say *which* tune of "Barbary Ellen," that doesn't help much. - RBW
File: ThBa188
===
NAME: William Guiseman: see Captain Glen/The New York Trader (The Guilty Sea Captain A/B) [Laws K22] (File: LK22)
===
NAME: William Hall (The Brisk Young Farmer) [Laws N30]
DESCRIPTION: William's parents send him to sea to get him away from his sweetheart, whom they dislike. After a long journey he returns to find his love does not recognize him. He says William is dead. She grieves; he reveals himself and they are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: ship separation marriage reunion
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws N30, "William Hall (The Brisk Young Farmer)"
Belden, pp. 156-160, "William Hall" (3 texts)
Randolph 46, "The Brisk Young Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 100, "William Hall" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson 40, pp. 154-155, "William Hall" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 265-266, "William Hall" (1 text, with local title "A Soldier Boy" and opening with several stanzas from "Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token)" [Laws N42]; tune on pp. 425-426)
SharpAp 171, "William Hall" (6 texts, 6 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 33, "William Hall" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
JHCox 96, "William Hall" (2 texts, 1 text)
LPound-ABS, 29, pp. 71-72, "The Rich Young Farmer" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 54, "The Rich Young Farmer" (1 text)
DT 458, BRSKFARM
Roud #400
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
File: LN30
===
NAME: William Hill
DESCRIPTION: William Hill worked land owned by the singer's uncle, who orders Hill to leave the land. Hill refuses and the uncle liquors the singer up to have him kill Hill. He shoots Hill, is convicted and sentenced to hang. His uncle is not punished.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Dibblee/Dibblee)
KEYWORDS: execution murder drink trial gallows-confessions
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 63-64, "William Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12466
NOTES: Dibblee/Dibblee: "[The singer] said William Hill was killed here in Prince Edward Island by his nephew." - BS
File: Dib063
===
NAME: William O'Roley: see The Mantle So Green [Laws N38] (File: LN38)
===
NAME: William Reilly: see William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) [Laws M10] (File: LM10)
===
NAME: William Reilly's Courtship: see William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9] (File: LM09)
===
NAME: William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9]
DESCRIPTION: William falls in love with Colleen at sight. Although warned about her harsh father, he seeks employment from the old man to be near Colleen. At last he asks to marry her. He is fired. The two try to elope. They are captured; the father has Riley jailed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (collected by Olive Dame Campbell; in SharpAp); +1881 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs II_)
KEYWORDS: love courting father elopement prison servant
FOUND_IN: US(MA,So) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws M9, "William Riley's Courtship"
Randolph 114, "Coleen Bawn" (1 text, with the name spelled "Coleen" in the title but "Colleen" in the text; 1 tune)
FSCatskills 53, "Fair Julian Bond" (1 text, 1 tune. The opening of this ballad clearly resembles Laws M9, but the conclusion is closer to M10. The fragmentary state of the text may indicate a conflate version)
LPound-ABS, 38, pp.86-89, "William Riley's Courtship" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 74, "Courtship of Willie Riley" (1 very long text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 104, "Loving Reilly" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, pp. 482-483, "William Reily's Courtship," "Reily's Trial," "Reily's Answer, Releasement, and Marriage with Coolen Bawn" (source notes only)
Roud #537
RECORDINGS:
cf. "The Footboy" (plot)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial)" [Laws M10]
cf. "Erin's Lovely Home" [Laws M6] (plot)
cf. "Henry Connors" [Laws M5] (plot)
cf. "Jock Scott" (plot)
cf. "The Footboy" (plot)
NOTES: Laws, following Cox, considers the three William Riley ballads (this one, William Reilly's Trial [Laws M10], and "Reilly's Answer, Releasement, and Marriage with Coleen Bawn" -- the last supposedly not found in tradition) to be a set of songs about the same character. The songs overlap, however, and may be the result of separate composition, with either M9 or M10 inspiring the other two. - RBW
Laws considers Creighton-NovaScotia 74 to be both M9 and M10. This 78 verse version is divided by Creighton into "Riley's Courtship" (26 verses: meets Laws' description of M9), "Trial" (20 verses: meets Laws' description of M10), "Marriage" (32 verses: meets Laws' description "which has not, so far as I know," says Laws, "been recorded from tradition, Riley is sentenced to be transported and is freed through his own petition to the Lord Lieutenant in time to rescue the girl from Bedlam and marry her." What am I missing? As I've noted, Creighton-NovaScotia 74, is one of Laws' sources for M9 and M10: why didn't he consider it for the "not ... recorded" Mx?). - BS
File: LM09
===
NAME: William S. Shackleford
DESCRIPTION: "Though I am doomed to be hanged, in March, on the twenty-eighth day, I fear not the dreadful pang." Shackleford claims he did no wrong in murdering (Davis); it was self-defense. He laments that his account was not believed
AUTHOR: William S. Shackleford?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1890 (Chatham Record)
KEYWORDS: murder punishment execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov. 15/16, 1889 - Disappearance of John D. Horton
Nov. 23, 1889 - Discovery of Horton's body, bearing clear evidence of murder
Feb. 1890 - Trial of J. P. Davis (true name: William S. Shackleford) for the murder of Horton
March 28, 1890 - Execution of Davis/Shackleford
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 293, "Last Words of William Shackleford, Executed in Pittsboro, Chatham Co, March 28, 1890" (1 text; the reputed original text is found in the general introduction to items 293 and 294)
Roud #6649
File: BrII293
===
NAME: William Shackleford's Farewell Song As Sung by Shackleford: see My Warfare Will Soon Be Ended (File: BrII294)
===
NAME: William Taylor (II): see Keepers and Poachers (File: K254)
===
NAME: William Taylor [Laws N11]
DESCRIPTION: Willie is (about to be married when he is) impressed. His love dresses like a man and seeks him. She is revealed as a woman. The captain tells her that William is about to marry another. She shoots him. The captain gives her a command or marries her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1817 (Journal from the Herald)
KEYWORDS: murder betrayal pressgang
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (18 citations)
Laws N11, "William Taylor"  (Laws gives a broadside texts on pp. 93-94 of ABFBB)
Belden, pp. 182-183, "William Taylor" (1 text)
Randolph 67, "Willie Taylor" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 106, "William Taylor" (1 text)
SharpAp 61, "William Taylor" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Sharp-100E 71, "William Taylor" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H213, p. 334, "Willie Taylor (a)"; H757, pp. 334-335, "Willie Taylor (b)" (2 texts, 2 tunes, both composite)
JHCox 120, "William Taylor" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 152-154, "William Taylor" (1 text)
Ord, pp. 315-316, "Billy Taylor" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 22, "Willie Taylor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 131, "Willy Taylor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 49, "William Taylor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 32, "Billy Taylor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 46, "Willie Taylor" (2 texts)
Manny/Wilson 61, "Brisk Young Seaman (Willie Taylor)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 94-95, "William Taylor" (1 text, with the ending lost, 1 tune)
DT 443, BLLYTYLR*
Roud #158
RECORDINGS:
Joseph Taylor, "Bold William Taylor" (on Voice06)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.12(233), "Bold William Taylor ," H. Such (London), 1863-1885; also Firth c.12(231), Firth c.12(234), Harding B 11(391), Harding B 11(3010)[some words illegible], "Bold William Taylor"; Harding B 25(2069), "William Taylor"; Firth c.12(232)[some words illegible], "The Female Lieutenant" or "Faithless Lover Rewarded"
LOCSinging, as113210, "William Taylor," Leonard Deming (Boston), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Une Belle Recompense (A Beautiful Reward)" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Bold William Taylor
NOTES: Belden's version of this song ends with the girl drowning herself in grief. Laws mentions this only in connection with the Belden text, but it appears that Randolph's version also ends this way (it says only that the girl drowned, but Randolph marks a missing verse).I initially though this an Ozark attempt to moralize the song. But it occurs also in Brown. Cox has a similar, slightly less heavy-handed attempt; the girl is arrested but her fate not listed. Perhaps it's a general American urge to punish the "crime." - RBW
She likewise drowns herself in all three of Sharp's texts. - PJS
The "Bold William Taylor" broadsides end in marriage; "William Taylor" and "The Female Lieutenant" end in command. - BS
File: LN11
===
NAME: William the Sailor: see The Jolly Young Sailor and the Beautiful Queen [Laws O13] (File: LO13)
===
NAME: Willie (I)
DESCRIPTION: Johnson tells Willie that if he comes to his father's house, he'll shoot him. He goes; Johnson kills him, then falls on his knees with grief. He turns to drink; when he returns, Officer O'Daniel arrests him. The hearse takes Willie to the cemetery
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Cotten
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (copyright, recording)
KEYWORDS: grief jealousy warning fight violence crime murder prison death burial police
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Elizabeth Cotten, "Willie" (on Cotten03)
NOTES: According to Cotten, Willie was a person, a "kind of tease. He found Johnson couldn't take it. And he'd tease him about his girlfriends...just say anything. And Johnson would believe it, and they said he got so mad he jumped on him then, said 'The next time you come to my father's house I'm going to kill you..' ..He just shot that boy, he shot him dead...I'll never forget that." The song, not traditional, is by a traditional performer and created in traditional style, so I index it. - PJS
File: RcECWill
===
NAME: Willie (II): see The Isle of Man Shore (The Quay of Dundocken; The Desolate Widow) [Laws K7] (File: LK07)
===
NAME: Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter [Child 102]
DESCRIPTION: Willie serves Earl Richard, loves and impregnates his daughter. Fearing Richard's wrath, they escape to the woods where the babe is born. Richard seeks his vanished daughter, finds her (alive/dead), accepts the child, and names him Robin Hood.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love pregnancy nobility escape reunion childbirth Robinhood
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) US(AP)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 102, "Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter" (2 texts)
Bronson 102, "The Birth of Robin Hood (Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter)" (2 versions+1 in addenda)
OBB 113, "The Birth of Robin Hood" (1 text)
Roud #3910
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Willie o Douglas Dale [Child 101]" (plot)
NOTES: For background on the Robin Hood legend, see the notes on "A Gest of Robyn Hode" [Child 117].
Bronson is of the opionion that this is "a mere _rifacimento_ of [Child] No. 101," and it is difficult to argue the point. Bronson also notes that Aunt Molly Jackson, responsible for the American version {Bronson's #2}, had seen Buchan's text. - RBW
File: C102
===
NAME: Willie and Lady Maisry [Child 70]
DESCRIPTION: (The lady invites Willie to her bower.) On his way he kills all her father's guards (including her brother). She welcomes him but worries about the blood. Her father discovers them  together and kills Willie. The lady (dies of a broken heart/runs mad).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1826 (Motherwell)
KEYWORDS: courting battle death family brother father murder madness
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 70, "Willie and Lady Maisry" (2 texts)
Bronson 70, brief comments only
PBB 34, "Willie and Lady Margerie" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 228-230+352-353, "Willie and Lady Maisry" (1 text)
DT 70, WILMAISY*
Roud #198
File: C070
===
NAME: Willie and Lady Margerie: see Willie and Lady Maisry [Child 70] (File: C070)
===
NAME: Willie and Mary: see The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: LM04)
===
NAME: Willie and Mary (II): see The Silver Dagger (I) [Laws G21] (File: LG21)
===
NAME: Willie and Mary (Mary and Willie; Little Mary; The Sailor's Bride) [Laws N28]
DESCRIPTION: A beggar comes to Mary's door three years after Willie went to see. He tells a fortune: Willie is shipwrecked and poor, and will never return to Mary. She says she will take him in any state. The beggar reveals himself as Willie, rich and ready to marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Journal from the Elizabeth)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation marriage disguise prophecy
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England) Ireland Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws N28, "Willie and Mary (Mary and Willie; Little Mary; The Sailor's Bride)"
Belden, pp. 152-153, "Mary  and Willie" (1 text plus reference to 1 more)
Randolph 57, "Mary and Willie" (2 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Hudson 39, pp. 153-164, "Mary and Willie" (1 text)
Brewster 95, "Willie and Mary" (1 fragment, likely this though it could be any of several disguised-lover songs)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 150-151, "The Single Sailor" (1 text)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 78-79, "Little Willie and Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H118, pp. 315-316, "Mary and Willie" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 93, pp. 200-202, "Mary and Willie" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 348-349, "William and Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 116-117, "The Beggarman" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 457, WILLMARY*
Roud #348
RECORDINGS:
Marc Williams, "William and Mary" (Brunswick 274, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Little Willie
William and Mary
Little Mary, the Sailor's Bride
File: LN28
===
NAME: Willie Angler: see Willie Archer (The Banks of the Bann) (File: HHH614)
===
NAME: Willie Archer (The Banks of the Bann)
DESCRIPTION: Willie (Archer/Angler/Ingram) wanders by the Bann, meets a young girl, and seduces her. Afterward, he tells her that he cannot marry her because he is an apprentice. She asks his name; he gives it. She (?) warns young girls against men like him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting seduction apprentice abandonment sex
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H614, p. 384, "Willie Angler/The Banks of the Bann" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, BNKSBANN
Roud #3473
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Tripping Over the Lea" [Laws P19] (plot)
NOTES: Traditional singers tend to call this "The Banks of the Bann." But I use the title "Willie Archer" to prevent confusion with all the other songs of that title. - RBW
File: HHH614
===
NAME: Willie Dear
DESCRIPTION: "I wisht I could see my Willie dear (x2), I used to think that I'd be the one To marry my lovin' Willie dear." The singer offers to write to Willie, and wishes she were a wild rose or a bee that she might see him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love separation
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 817, "Willie Dear" (1 text)
Roud #7432
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Free Little Bird" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This song either derives from "Free Little Bird" or borrows heavily from it. But with no tune, no chorus, and hardly any plot, it's hard to prove the matter either way. - RBW
File: R817
===
NAME: Willie Down by the Pond (Sinful to Flirt) [Laws G19]
DESCRIPTION: A girl has been advised against flirting, but does it anyway. When her love Willie comes to her, she teasingly says she will not marry him. He drowns himself in the millpond. He is found with a rose from her hair at his lips
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting suicide drowning flowers
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws G19, "Willie Down by the Pond (Sinful to Flirt")
BrownII 275, "They Say It is Sinful to Flirt" (1 text plus mention of six mote)
DT 772, SINFLIRT
Roud #421
RECORDINGS:
Blue Ridge Mountain Singers, "Sinful to Flirt" (Columbia 15678-D, 1931; rec. 1930)
Delmore Brothers, "They Say It's Sinful to Flirt" (Bluebird B-7192, 1937)
Sim Harris, "Sinful to Flirt" (Homestead 16500, late 1920s)
Louisiana Lou, "Sinful to Flirt" (Bluebird B-5424, 1934)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "Simple to Flirt" (Brunswick 578, 1931; rec. 1930)
Riley Puckett, "It's Simple To Flirt" (Columbia 15036-D, 1925)
Ernest V. Stoneman "Sinful to Flirt" (OKeh 40384, 1925) (Pathe 32271/Perfect 12350/Challenge 666/Conqueror 7064/Cameo 8220/Romeo 600/Lincoln 2825/Banner 2158/Domino 3985/Regal 8346/Homestead 16500/Oriole 947, 1927); "It's Sinful to Flirt" (Edison 52388, 1928) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5547, 1928)
Tom Watson, "It's Simple to Flirt" (Silvertone 3263, 1926)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "She Said She Was Only Flirting"
cf. "The Little White Rose" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sinful Flirting
Poor Willie Dead and Gone
File: LG19
===
NAME: Willie Gray
DESCRIPTION: "My schoolmates now I leave you I bid you a fond farewell." The boy departs his home "For a sailor boy to be." He bids farewell to his family and asks those around him to remember him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1846 (Journal from the Coral)
KEYWORDS: sailor family farewell youth
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 182-183, "Willie Gray" ( text)
Roud #2056
File: SWMS182
===
NAME: Willie Lennox: see Lake of Cool Finn, The (Willie Leonard) [Laws Q33] (File: LQ33)
===
NAME: Willie Leonard: see Lake of Cool Finn, The (Willie Leonard) [Laws Q33] (File: LQ33)
===
NAME: Willie Macintosh [Child 183]
DESCRIPTION: Willie Macintosh (probably in revenge for the slaying of the Earl of Murray; see Child 181) swears he will burn Auchindown, even if Huntly murders him. Macintosh succeeds in his efforts
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1808 (Finlay)
KEYWORDS: feud revenge fire
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1592 - Vendetta between the Earl of Huntly and Clan Macintosh
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 183, "Willie Macintosh" (2 texts)
Bronson 183, "Willie Macintosh" (1 version)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 264-266, "Bonny Willie Macintosh" (1 text, learned in Scotland)
Friedman, p. 266, "Willie Macintosh" (1 text)
OBB 134, "Willie Macintosh"
Roud #4010
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Burning of Auchindown
NOTES: The Willie Macintosh of this ballad was an ally of the Earl of Murray; [to avenge] Murray's death, he and his followers harried the Earl of Huntly, whose followers eventually caught up with Macintosh's men and defeated them. Contrary to the ballad, this Willie didn't burn Auchindown castle; that had been burned by another Willie Macintosh forty years before. - PJS
The only [known] tune [for this song] was miraculously preserved by either [Ewan] MacColl's father or else his mother. Yeah, sure! - AS
And Barry et al argue that the piece wasn't really meant to be sung. But even Bronson admits the effectiveness of the tune supplied by MacColl. - RBW
File: C183
===
NAME: Willie McGee McGaw: see The Three Ravens [Child 26] (File: C026)
===
NAME: Willie Moore
DESCRIPTION: Handsome young Willie Moore has courted and won the heart of fair Annie. Her parents do not approve of him. When Annie realizes her parents will not relent, she runs away and dies (kills herself?). Willie takes to wandering (and dies of a broken heart?)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Burnett & Rutherford)
KEYWORDS: courting love death separation hardheartedness father mother suicide burial
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 795, "Willie Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 90-92, "Willie Moore" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 795)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 36, "Willie Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 140, "Willie Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WILLMOOR*
ST R796 (Full)
Roud #4816
RECORDINGS:
Burnett & Rutherford, "Willie Moore" (Columbia 15314-D, 1927; on AAFM1, BurnRuth01, ConstSor1)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "Willie Moore" (on WatsonAshley01)
Doc Watson, "Willie Moore" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchieWatsonCD1)
NOTES: Randolph's informant, Paul Wilson, reported meeting a Rev. William Moore in 1936 who claimed this song was about him. This is one of those instances where one would prefer documentation. - RBW
File: R796
===
NAME: Willie O: see Mary o' the Dee (Mary's Dream) [Laws K20] (File: LK20)
===
NAME: Willie o Douglas Dale [Child 101]
DESCRIPTION: Willie goes to serve at the English court. He loves and impregnates the king's daughter, Dame Oliphant. They leave the court; the child is born in the woods, They recruit a shepherdess and sail to Douglas Dale where he is lord and she now lady.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1783
KEYWORDS: love royalty nobility pregnancy escape childbirth home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 101, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (4 texts)
Bronson 101, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (2 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 454, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (notes only)
Leach, pp. 310-313, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (1 text)
DBuchan 20, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix) {Bronson's #1}
DT 101, WILDOUG
Roud #65
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter" [Child 102] (plot)
File: C101
===
NAME: Willie o Winsbury [Child 100]
DESCRIPTION: The king has been a prisoner; he returns to find his daughter looking ill. She proves to be pregnant; her lover was (Willie o Winsbury). The king orders Winsbury hanged, but upon seeing him, understands his daughter's action and allows the two to wed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Percy MS.)
KEYWORDS: pregnancy punishment pardon
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord),England(West,South)) US(Ap,NE) Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Child 100, "Willie o Winsbury" (9 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #22}
Bronson 100, "Willie o Winsbury" (22 versions+1 in addenda, of which #2 is a Manx fragment which may not be related)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 224-225, "Willie o Winsbury" (notes only, claiming a verse in one of their versions of "Johnny Scot" is actually a "Willie" fragment)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 233-235, "Johnny Barbour" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #21}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 57-66, "Willie o Winsbury" (3 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes) {A=Bronson's #21, B=#20}
Greenleaf/Mansfield 13, "Young Barbour" (3 texts, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #16, #13, #12}
Peacock, pp. 534-536, "John Barbour" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 14, "Willie o' Winsbury" (2 texts, 4 tunes) {Bronson's #17}
Leach, pp. 308-309, "Willie o Winsbury" (1 text)
Leach-Labrador 7, "Willie O Winsbury" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lehr/Best 62, "John Barbour" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 45, "Willie o Winsbury" (1 text)
Sharp-100E 15, "Lord Thomas of Winesberry" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #11}
Combs/Wilgus 29, pp. 123-124, "Willie o Winsbury" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 71-73, "Willie O Winsbury" (1 text)
SHenry H221, pp. 490-491, "The Rich Ship Owner's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT WILLIWIN* WILLIWI2* WILLIWI3*
Roud #64
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best and Pamela Morgan, "Johnny Barbour" (on NFABestPMorgan01)
Robert Cinnamond, "There Was a Lady Lived in the West" (on Voice17)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lady Diamond" [Child 269] (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Seven Sailor Boys
The Rich Shipowner's Daughter
NOTES: Only one king of Britain since the Norman Conquest has been taken captive by a foreign power: Richard I ("the Lion-Hearted"; "Richard Yes-and-No") was imprisoned by the Duke of Austria. All told, Richard spent only six months of his ten year reign (1189-1199) in England. Unfortunately for the truth of this song, Richard (who may have been homosexual) had no children. Few other English kings have been absent from England long enough for the events here to take place.
If we transfer the story to Scotland, we find that David Bruce (reigned 1329-1370) spent much of his life in English captivity, but again had no children. The earlier William the Lion (reigned 1165-1214) also spent time in English hands, and *did* have children (including two daughters, Margaret and Isabella) -- but also had no feelings, and would never have been guilty of such a crime as forgiving someone.
This leaves king John of France (reigned 1350-1364), who was taken prisoner by the Black Prince at Poitiers (1355), as the closest thing we have to an equivalent to the king in this ballad.
In some versions of the song, the hero Willie is himself a king in disguise; there is no evidence of this ever having happened in truth, though it is common in folktale (associated especially with James V of Scotland) - RBW
A fragment, Bodleian, 2806 c.11(90), "Lord Thomas of Winsborough" ("It happen'd on a time when the proud king of France"), unknown, n.d. may be this ballad but I could not download it to verify that. - BS
File: C100
===
NAME: Willie of Hazel Green: see John of Hazelgreen [Child 293] (File: C293)
===
NAME: Willie Reilly: see William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) [Laws M10] (File: LM10)
===
NAME: Willie Reilly and his Cailin Ban: see William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) [Laws M10] (File: LM10)
===
NAME: Willie Reilly and His Dear Colleen Ban: see William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) [Laws M10] (File: LM10)
===
NAME: Willie Taylor: see William Taylor [Laws N11] (File: LN11)
===
NAME: Willie the Weeper
DESCRIPTION: Willie the Weeper, a chimney sweep, is a hop addict. One night he has a particularly wild dream, with the (Queen of somewhere) making him promises. The further course of the ballad varies, but usually describes a crash
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: drugs dream
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Randolph 507, "Willie the Weeper" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
PBB 115, "Willy the Weeper" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 204-205, "Willy the Weeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 184-185, "Willie the Weeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 223, "Willie the Weeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 103-106, "Willie the Weeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 123-125, "Willie the Weeper" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 26, "Willy the Weeper" (1 text)
DT, WILLWEP1 WILLWEP2
Roud #977
RECORDINGS:
Louis Armstrong, "Willie the Weeper" (Vocalion 3381, 1937)
Roy Evans, "Willie the Weeper" (Columbia 15687-D, 1931; rec. 1928)
Ernest Rogers, "Willie the Chimney Sweeper" (Columbia 15012-D, 1925) (Victor 20502, 1927)
Marc Williams, "Willie the Weeper" (Brunswick 240, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cocaine Lil" (tune)
File: R507
===
NAME: Willie Warfield [Laws I20]
DESCRIPTION: Willie Warfield, a heavy gambler who does not know when to quit, plays cards with the singer. The singer grows angry and shoots Warfield. He is imprisoned and his family will not help him, but his girlfriend pawns her jewels to raise his bail
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: gambling cards murder prison
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws I20, "Willie Warfield"
DT 844, WILWARF
Roud #6382
File: LI20
===
NAME: Willie Was As Fine a Sailor
DESCRIPTION: Willie and Mary plan marriage but his ship must "sail for a foreign land." If he proves false he prays her spirit haunt him until he dies. He is false. His captain writes Mary. She drowns herself and haunts him until a wave sweeps him overboard.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: courting infidelity curse suicide death sailor ghost
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 101, "Willie Was As Fine a Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi101 (Partial)
Roud #2972
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Brown Robyn's Confession" [Child 57] (Jonah theme)
cf. "Captain Glen"/"The New York Trader" (The Guilty Sea Captain A/B) [Laws K22] (Jonah theme)
cf. "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (The Gosport Tragedy; Pretty Polly)" [Laws P36A/B]
NOTES: Manny/Wilson ends with the Jonah motif: "When an unknown wave swept o'er the deck, And swept him o'er the side ... The night grew calm and clear." cf. Jonah 1:15 "And they heaved Jonah overboard, and the sea stopped raging." - BS
File: MaWi101
===
NAME: Willie's Drowned at Gamerie: see Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie [Child 215] (File: C215)
===
NAME: Willie's Fatal Visit [Child 255]
DESCRIPTION: Willie, having spent the night with Margaret, leaves before dawn because the cock crowed too soon. On the road he meets a ghost. Since he is a sinner and has not said a prayer for the road, the ghost tears him to shreds
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: sex separation ghost death bird nightvisit
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 255, "Willie's Fatal Visit" (1 text)
Bronson 255, "Willie's Fatal Visit" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 623-625, "Willie's Fatal Visit" (1 text)
Roud #244
RECORDINGS:
Jeannie Robertson, "Willie's Fatal Visit (Willie's Fate)" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #2}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father" [Child 248] (plot)

NOTES: This sounds almost like an "alternate ending" for "The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father" [Child 248]. Hugh Shields conjectured that that was an "alba song" (see the entry on Child 248 for explanation). This, however, seems to me almost closer to the form Shields describes. - RBW
File: C255
===
NAME: Willie's Lady [Child 6]
DESCRIPTION: Willie travels to woo and wed a wife. His mother, not approving of the bride, casts spells to ensure that she will never bear a child. Willie tricks his mother into believing the baby has been born, and the mother blurts out the way to lift the spell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1783
KEYWORDS: magic mother wife pregnancy childbirth
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Child 6, "Willie's Lady" (1 text)
Bronson 6, "Willie's Lady" (1 version)
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 124-127, "Willie's Lady" (1 text, from print rather than tradition)
Leach, pp. 64-66, "Willie's Lady" (1 text)
OBB 6, "Willy's Lady" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 18, "Willie's Lady" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 252-255+356, "Willie's Lady" (1 text)
DBuchan 2, "Willie's Lady" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix) {Bronson's [#1]}
DT 6, WILILADY
Roud #220
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Gil Brenton" [Child 5] (lyrics)
NOTES: At least one of the magic tricks described in this song is widespread in folklore: Pregnant women were supposed to remove all knots from their clothing to ease childbirth. - RBW
The Swedish ballad "Den Fortrollade Barnafoderskan (The Bewitched Mother-to-Be)" is essentially the same story, with variations in detail. - PJS
File: C006
===
NAME: Willie's Lyke-Wake [Child 25]
DESCRIPTION: Willie wants to know if his sweetheart loves him. On the advice of his (mother), he feigns death and  has his lover come to his wake. She despairs. Coming to the wake, she kisses the "corpse," which comes to life to accept her love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: love funeral trick
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 25, "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (5 texts)
Bronson 25, "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (4 versions)
Leach, pp. 110-111, "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (1 text)
OBB 61, "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (1 text)
Flanders-Ancient1, p. 242, "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (1 fragment, two lines only, the second line of which is found in Child's "C" text of "Willie's Lyke-Wake," but a similar line is found in "The Beggar Wench," and the first line of this fragment, "Kind sir, if you please," may fit better with the latter)
DT 25, WILILYKE*
Roud #30
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Among the Blue Flowers and the Yellow
File: C025
===
NAME: Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea
DESCRIPTION: "My Willie's on the dark blue sea, He's gone far o'er the main." She prays that the winds will soon blow him home. A storm blows up; she prays more earnestly. At that moment Willie shows up and takes her in his arms
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1849 (Journal from the Euphrasia)
KEYWORDS: sailor separation reunion
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 234-236, "Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2057
File: SWMS234
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NAME: Willie's Rare: see Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie [Child 215] (File: C215)
===
NAME: Willikins and His Dinah: see Vilikens and His Dinah [LawsM31A/B] (File: LM31)
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NAME: Willow Garden: see Rose Connoley [Laws F6] (File: LF06)
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NAME: Willow Green: see The Holly Twig [Laws Q6]; also The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin [Child 277] (File: LQ06)
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NAME: Willow Tree (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Four farmers discover a man weeping by a grave. He tells that he had married Fanny just before he went to sea. She was told he had died, and married another. When he came home to see her, she died. He sits by her grave, and soon dies himself.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation marriage reunion death burial sailor
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H789, pp. 419-420, "The Willow Tree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7965
File: HHH789
===
NAME: Willow Tree (II), The: see Under the Willow She's Sleeping  (The Willow Tree) (File: R711)
===
NAME: Willow Tree (III), The: see Garners Gay (Rue; The Sprig of Thyme) and related songs (File: FSWB163)
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NAME: Willow Tree, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer is a woman. Her love won't speak to her. She wishes his bosom were glass so she could "view those secrets of your heart." Her love is a sailor: "when he gets so far away, He hardly thinks no more of me" She would be happy to have him back.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recording, May Bradley)
KEYWORDS: love separation nonballad sailor floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #60
RECORDINGS:
May Bradley, "The Willow Tree" (on Voice12)
NOTES: The Willow reference is not exactly the expected one.
As I pass by a willow tree, willow tree,
That willow leaf blew down on me.
I picked it up, it would not break.
I've passed my love; he would not speak.
The break is usually for an oak tree ("I leaned my back against an oak ... First it bent and then it broke") rather than a willow leaf. Maybe the travelled lines have been so corrupted here that it is a new song.
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 10" - 4.9.02 considers this a version of "Tavern in the Town." I don't find enough of "Tavern"'s identifying lines to make that connection. - BS
There is some floating material here, though, e.g. the "heart made of glass" shows up in some versions of "My Dearest Dear." - RBW
File: RcTWilTr
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NAME: Willy March
DESCRIPTION: Willy is stranded on the ice and can walk no further. He sends his companion, who is the only other survivor of their group, to the Cape St. Francis lighthouse for assistance but Willy dies before help can return.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (England, Vikings of the Ice)
KEYWORDS: recitation death disaster
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doyle2, p. 80, "Willy March" (1 text)
Blondahl, p. 67, "Willie March" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, p. 107, "Willie March" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doy80 (Partial)
Roud #7320
NOTES: Cape St. Francis is north of St. John's at the mouth of Conception Bay. - SH
File: Doy80
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NAME: Willy O!
DESCRIPTION: Willy sails to the Bay of Biscay. Seven years later, he came to the girl's door. He says he is a ghost. The cock crows. He says his ghost will guard her. As he disappears he tells her "Weep no more for your Willy O"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime); c.1867 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.15(136))
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Seven years ago Willy went "on board the tender" and sailed to the Bay of Biscay. He does not answer Mary's letters. One night he comes to her bed-chamber door. She asks why he is so pale. He says the clay has changed his blushes. They discuss their old courtship. The cock crows. He says his ghost will guard her though his body lies in the West Indies. As he disappears he tells her "Weep no more for your Willy O"
KEYWORDS: ghost separation death nightvisit love bird
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 113-114, "Willie O" (2 texts, 1 tune)
McBride 6, "The Bay of Biscay O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #179
RECORDINGS:
Bill Cassidy, "Biscayo" (on IRTravellers01)
Nora Cleary, "Willie-O" (on Voice03)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.15(136), "Willy O!" ("Come all you young maids that's fair handsome"), W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867; also Harding B 19(86), Firth c.12(293), "Willy O!"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rise Up Quickly and Let Me In (The Ghostly Lover)" (theme)
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian 2806 c.15(136) is the basis for the description.
Jim Carroll's notes to Bill Cassidy's "Biscayo" on "From Puck to Appleby: Songs of Irish Travellers in England," Musical Traditions Records MTCD325-6 (2003) say that Hugh Sheilds believes the main source of the "Willy O" broadside is "Sweet William's Ghost" (Child 77). I wonder if Sheilds meant that; except for the night-visiting ghost and the bird singing in Child 77.F or the moorcock announcing day in Paddy Tunney's "Lady Margaret" ("The Voice of the People, Vol 3: O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green," Topic TSCD 653 (1998)), I don't find a connection. 
The broadside version of "Willy O!" has distinguishing lines that include
As Mary lay sleeping, her true love came creeping.... 
They spent that night in deep discoursing,
Concerning their courtship sometime ago....
John Reilly's "Adieu Unto All True Lovers" ("Rise Up Quickly and Let Me In") and Cecilia Costello's "The Grey Cock": Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 52-53, "The Grey Cock, or The Lover's Ghost" adds this verse from the broadside. 
O Willy dear where is the blushes,
That you had some time ago,
Mary dear the clay has changed them,
For I am the ghost of your Willy O.
Ewan MacColl's version of Cecilia Costello's "The Grey Cock" on Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "The Grey Cock" (on ENMacCollSeeger02) adds this verse from the broadside:
When she saw him disappearing,
Down her cheeks the tears did flow
Mary dear, sweetheart and darling
Weep no more for your Willy O. - BS
File: CrMa113
===
NAME: Willy Reilly: see William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) [Laws M10] (File: LM10)
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NAME: Willy Vare
DESCRIPTION: Ellen Vare's sailor husband dies at sea. She has one son who becomes a sailor. His ship is wrecked in a storm. Willy survives alone on an island for three years. He is rescued by a ship seeking gold. He returns to his poor mother with gold and jewels
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: parting return reunion rescue sea ship disaster storm wreck mother sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 65, "Willy Vare" (1 text)
File: GrMa065
===
NAME: Willy Weaver: see Will the Weaver [Laws Q9] (File: LQ09)
===
NAME: Willy, Poor Boy
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses, utterly unconnected. "The train was almost started/The conductor come by with his lamp...." "I asked her if she loved me/She said she loved me some...." "Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston)
KEYWORDS: railroading love hardheartedness loneliness poverty courting floatingverses lover train death drowning suicide gambling hobo
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 112, "Willy, Poor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston (or Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers) "No Room for a Tramp" (Champion 16187, 1931; on TimesAint05)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Willy, Poor Boy" (on NLCR03)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Goodnight, Irene" (words)
cf. "Sometimes I'm in This Country" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind" (floating verses)
cf. "Little Maud" (floating verses, some similarity in the tune)
NOTES: This song is almost impossible to describe; it is so disjointed as to be meaningless. - PJS
In fact it seems to consist entirely of lines borrowed from other songs. But it borrows from so MANY other songs that it has to file under its own name.... - RBW
Note that the "Sometimes I live in the country/Sometimes I live in town/Sometimes I take a fool notion/To jump in the river and drown" verse in this song predates the first recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene," with which the verse is usually associated, by two years. - PJS
File: CSW112
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NAME: Willy, Willy
DESCRIPTION: "Where is my little one hiding tonight, Willy, Willy, Come from your hiding-place, little eyes bright, Willy, Willy, loving and true." "Ah, but my heart is forgetting its pain, Willy, Willy, Never on earth shall I see thee again, Willy, Willy...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death separation hiding
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 713, "Willy, Willy" (1 text)
Roud #7378
NOTES: Randolph's source claims it came from the Civil War era, and there is certainly a hint of a song for a lost soldier boy. But it seems to me that there's also a bit of lullaby in there. I wish we knew more verses. - RBW
File: R713
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NAME: Wilson Patent Stove, The
DESCRIPTION: "I remember very well, Jim, That Wilson Patent stove, That father bought and paid for, Jim, In the cloth that the girls wove. The people all wondered, Jim, When we got the thing to go, They swore it'd bust and kill us all Just fifty years ago."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Henry)
KEYWORDS: technology commerce
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 486, "The Wilson Patent Stove" (2 short texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #765
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Buy a Charter Oak" (theme)
NOTES: Randolph reports, "Many old settlers in Arkansas tell me that 'Wilson Patent' was the trade name of the first cookstoves sold here -- previously everybody cooked on the fireplace. Agents came through the county in wagons, trading stoves for handwoven counterpanes and carpets."
Roud lumps this with "Twenty Years Ago (Forty Years Ago)." It certainly has that look. But while it may be a loose fragment of that piece, given its current state, I think it better to separate the two. - RBW
File: R486
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NAME: Wilson, Gilmore, and Johnson: see The Three Butchers [Laws L4] (File: LL04)
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NAME: Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?
DESCRIPTION: "Hear the footsteps of Jesus, he is now passing by, Bearing balm for the wounded, healing all who apply...." "Wilt thou be made whole (x2)? O come, weary suff'rer, O come, sin-sick soul... Step into the current and thou shalt be whole."
AUTHOR: William J. Kirkpatrick
EARLIEST_DATE: 1882 copyright
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 82, "Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FSC082
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NAME: Wiltshire Wedding, The: see One Misty, Moisty Morning (File: OO2359)
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NAME: Wily Auld Carle, The: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Wim-Wam-Waddles: see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
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NAME: Winchester Gaol
DESCRIPTION: "There's a new county gaol in Winchester, Hants, Where the young prosecutor is going to provance." The prisoners are cold, their meals of bread and water are too small, and there is no liquor. "If you don't believe me... just you go a-poaching...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: prison punishment lawyer poaching food hardtimes
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 292-293, "Winchester Gaol" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1204
File: CoSB292
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NAME: Wind and Rain, The: see The Twa Sisters [Child 10] (File: C010)
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NAME: Wind Blew the Bonnie Lass's Plaidie Awa', The
DESCRIPTION: Young woman goes to the butcher to buy beef, but he takes her in his arms, down they fall, and the wind blows her plaidie away. Three months later, her waist swells. The neighbors are upset; she blames the beef. (He marries her.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Young woman goes to the butcher to buy beef, but he takes her in his arms, down they fall, and the wind blows her plaidie away, not to be found. (He promises to pay for it.) Three months later, her waist swells; she says his beef is tough to chew. The neighbors are upset; she blames the beef. (He marries her, saying, "We shall hae the middle cut, it's tenderest of a'.")
KEYWORDS: sex clothes commerce lover food marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 75-76, "The Plaidie Away" (1 text)
Ord, pp. 96-97, "The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lass's Plaidie Awa'" (1 text)
Roud #2574
RECORDINGS:
Jimmy McBeath, Duncan Burke [instrumental], Jeannie Robertson [composite] "The Wind Blew the Bonny Lassie's Plaidie Awa'" (on FSB2, FSB2CD)
Jimmy McBeath, "The Wind Blew the Lassie's Plaidie Awa'" (on Voice10)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y4:029, "The Wind Blew the Plaidie Awa'," John Ross (Newcastle), 19C
NLScotland, RB.m.143(126), "The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie," Poet's Box (Dundee), n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The White Cockade" (tune)
NOTES: It appears that several versions of this have been bowdlerized. The extent of the damage is not entirely clear. - RBW
File: RcWBTBLP
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NAME: Wind Blew Up, the Wind Blew Down, The: see The Unquiet Grave [Child 78] (File: C078)
===
NAME: Wind Hath Blown My Plaid Away, The: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
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NAME: Wind Is in the West, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, the wind is in the west, And the guinea's on her nest, And I can't get any rest For my baby! I'll tell pap when he comes home Somebody beat my little baby!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: lullaby abuse baby
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 157 (partly repeated on p. 160), (no title) (1 short text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Bookerman" (theme)
File: ScNF157A
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NAME: Wind It Blew Up the Railroad Track, The: see The Little Red Train (File: EM224)
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NAME: Wind That Shakes the Barley
DESCRIPTION: "I sat within the valley green, I sat me with my true love." The singer tries to decide between love of a girl and love of country. He is saying goodbye when an English bullet kills the girl. Now, filled with sad memories, he goes to fight the English
AUTHOR: Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830-1883) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1861 (Joyce's _Ballads, Romances and Songs_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion soldier death separation
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 98-99, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 63, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WINDBARL WINDCORN
Roud #2994
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (on IRClancyMakem03)
Sarah Makem, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (on Voice08)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rolling Neuse" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Wind That Shakes the Corn
NOTES: The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Wind That Shakes the Barley" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998)) - BS
"The Wind That Shakes the Corn" appears to be a modern adaption of this rebel song, though I can't prove this. - RBW
File: PGa098
===
NAME: Wind That Shakes the Corn: see Wind That Shakes the Barley (File: PGa098)
===
NAME: Wind, The (Rain, Rain, the Wind Does Blow)
DESCRIPTION: "The wind, the wind, the wind blows high, The rain comes pouring from the sky." The girl says she will die if she doesn't get the boy she wants. The boys are fighting for her, but there is only one she will accept
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1898 (Gomme)
KEYWORDS: courting playparty love
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All),Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
cf. Kinloch-BBook XIX, pp. 67-68, (no title) (1 text, a mishmash with some lines reminiscent of this)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 56, "Skipping" ("The wind and the wind and the wind blows high") (1 text)
ST RcRRtWDB (Full)
Roud #2649
RECORDINGS:
Mrs Grant Covey, "Rain Rain the Wind Does Blow" (on NovaScotia1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'll Tell My Ma" (lyrics)
NOTES: This item has a complicated story. The Clancy Brothers conflate this song with the "I"ll Tell My Ma" stanza. Roud lumps the two, and initial versions of the Index did as well. This is the more so as the versions are very unstable and localized -- e.g. Ben Schwartz describes the Nova Scotia version as follows: "'Rain rain the wind does blow ... Marie Richardson says she'll die If she don't get a fellow with a rolling eye.' She's from Halifax. 'All the boys are fighting for her ... Gordie Isnor will have her still.'"
Still, I've now seen enough versions which separate the two parts that I've split them. Best to check both, of course. - RBW
NovaScotia1 notes: "Singing game ... the players formed up in couples and went around in a ring. A boy chose a girl, then the girl chose a boy and so on until they were all taken" - BS
Similarly the Scottish version in Montgomerie appears to be a skipping game. - RBW
File: RcRRtWDB
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NAME: Winding Sheet Coffin, The
DESCRIPTION: "How swiftly the years of our pilgrimage fly, As weeks, months, and seasons roll silently by...." We are reminded that "The good rise to Heaven, but the bad sink to Hell." The singers wash their hands of sinners' blood and happily meet Christians
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad Hell
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 658, "The Winding Sheet Coffin" (1 text)
Roud #7581
File: R658
===
NAME: Windsor
DESCRIPTION: Shape note hymn: "My God, how many are my fears, How fast my foes increase! Their number how it multiplies! How fatal to my peace."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1808 (Missouri Harmony)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 153, "Windsor" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: San153
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NAME: Windstorm and Rain
DESCRIPTION: "In the last day of September, in the year nineteen nine, God almighty rose in the weather And that troubles everybody's mind." The song the storm, concluding, "God, he is in the windstorm and rain And everybody ought to mind."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: storm religious
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, p. 76, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Reportedly based on a storm which struck Terrebone Parish in Louisiana in 1909. - RBW
File: CNFM076A
===
NAME: Windy Bill (I)
DESCRIPTION: "When Joshua camped at pore Jericho's town, He blew his horn till the walls tumbled down... I blow my own horn... That's why they call me Windy Bill." Assorted tall tales, many Biblical, and often offered as explanations for the name "Windy Bill"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: talltale humorous religious Bible
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 430, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7611
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Walkin' in the Parlor" (theme)
NOTES: Among the Biblical incidents related in this story are:
* Jericho destroyed by Joshua: Josh. 6:15-21 (the preliminaries occupy Josh. 2 and the rest of Josh. 6)
* "David went round with a stone and a sling, And he beaned old Goliath and later was king, He ran with the wild bunch while Saul was alive" (David and Goliath: 1 Samuel 17; David's anointing: 1 Samuel 16; David flees into the Wilderness: 1 Sam. 19:10 to the end of the book, with preliminaries beginning in 18:9)
* "Esau was a farmer of the wild wooly kind, That could not stand work and being confined, He did not think titles to his land was quite clear, So he traded his farm for a sandwich and beer" (Esau the"hairy man": Gen. 27:11f.; Esau sells his birthright for a meal of bread and lentil stew: Gen. 25:29f.)
* "Sampson, that big boy, wore his hair long, Till he met with a jane and she got him in wrong, He slung a wicked jawbone, I do the same, That's how I got Windy Bill for a name" (Samson, his hair, and Delilah: Judges 16:4f.; Samson and the jawbone: Judges 15:14f.) - RBW
File: R430
===
NAME: Windy Bill (II)
DESCRIPTION: Windy Bill is convinced he can handle any steer. He and his mates place a wager on the matter, and they give him the worst bull available. Bill's rope technique is imperfect; he is thrown onto a rock pile. He pays up. Listeners are warned against bragging
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: cowboy gambling contest
FOUND_IN: US(MA,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Thorp/Fife II, pp. 38-43 (11-12), "Windy Bill" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Fife-Cowboy/West 75, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Larkin, pp. 68-71, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ohrlin-HBT 5, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WINDYBLL*
Roud #4044
RECORDINGS:
J. D. Farley, "Bill Was a Texas Lad" (Victor V-40269, 1930; Montgomery Ward M-4300, 1933;  rec. 1929; on AuthCowboys, WhenIWas1)
Harry Jackson, "Windy Bill" (on HJackson1)
Powder River Jack Lee, "The Old Black Steer" (probably Bluebird B-5298, 1934; on MakeMe)
NOTES: This song is item dB41 in Laws's Appendix II. It has been claimed by Ray Reed, and credited to George B. German. I know of no supporting evidence for the former claim, and the latter appears to refer instead to "Windy Bill's Famous Ride." - RBW
File: TF02
===
NAME: Windy Bill's Famous Ride
DESCRIPTION: A stranger comes up to Windy Bill. Bill boasts of his riding skill, and the stranger challenges him to come ride a difficult horse They take a long, wild ride in a car. When Bill asks where the horse is, the stranger tells him they just won a car contest
AUTHOR: George B. German
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929
KEYWORDS: cowboy technology trick travel recitation
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 70, "Windy Bill's Famous Ride" (1 text)
File: Ohr070
===
NAME: Windy Old Weather
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "In this windy old weather, Stormy Old weather, When the wind blows We'll all pull together." Various fish jump from the sea and exhort the crew, e.g. "Up jumps the herring, the king of the sea, He laps on the foredeck and says, Helm's-alee"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950s (recording, Bob Roberts)
KEYWORDS: ship fishing nonballad storm shanty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South, West)) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 204-205, "Stormy Ol' Weather" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 232-233,"Stormy Weather Boys" (1 text plus 1 fragment, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 112, "Stormy Weather" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WINDYWEA* (with a first verse from "Yea Ho, Little Fish" or the like) WINDYWE2*
Roud #472
RECORDINGS:
Tom Brown, "Windy Old Weather" (on Voice12)
Sam Larner, "Haisboro Light Song" (on SLarner01); "Windy Old Weather" (on SLarner02)
Bob Roberts, "Windy Old Weather" (on LastDays, FieldTrip1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Stormy Weather Boys" (tune & metre)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Boston Come-All-Ye
NOTES: I do not know that the two Larner recordings are in fact different -- these two compilations drew from the same collection of field tapes -- but as the titles are given as different I thought it prudent to separate them. - PJS
File: CoSB204
===
NAME: Wing Wang Waddle: see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
===
NAME: Winnipeg Whore, The
DESCRIPTION: On the narrator's first trip to Canada, he visits the eponymous lady, and while having sex with her, has his watch and wallet stolen.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1933
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous sex theft whore
FOUND_IN: Australia US(Ap,SW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cray, pp. 202-204, "The Winnipeg Whore" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 278-279, "The Winnipeg Whore" (3 texts, 1 tune)
DT, WINNIPG*
Roud #8348
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Gold Watch" [Laws K41] (plot) and references there
cf. "Reuben and Rachel" (tune) and references there
File: EM202
===
NAME: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
DESCRIPTION: "Old Man Sargent, sitting at the desk, The damned old fool won't give us no rest. He'd take the nickels off a dead man's eyes...." The singer describes the bad conditions in the mills, and instructs listeners not to bury his body when he dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953
KEYWORDS: weaving factory technology work hardtimes death burial
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greenway-AFP, p. 144, "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, p. 371, "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 126, "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" (1 text)
DT, WNNSBORO*
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" (on PeteSeeger13)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hard Times in the Mill (I)" (floating verses)
File: Grnw144
===
NAME: Wint'ry Evening, A: see The Fatal Snowstorm [Laws P20] (File: LP20)
===
NAME: Winter Desires
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of the desires of loggers after the winter camp is broken up. They want good food (and lambast the camp cook), liquor, and new clothes. When they've run out of cash and the parties are over, they'll head back to the woods
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger food drink cook
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 34, "Winter Desires" (1 text)
Roud #8853
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
NOTES: From Beck: "Though all of the songs about the logger's desires are not accepted by the mails, this one...is respectable." - PJS
File: Be034
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NAME: Winter of '73, The (McCullam Camp)
DESCRIPTION: In 1873, the singer takes a job at Snowball's mill in Miramichi. A few weeks later, the mill closes, and he sets out for Indiantown. He meets some portagers, who bring him to McCullam's camp, where he has many adventures too complex to describe here
AUTHOR: Larry Gorman
EARLIEST_DATE: 1949
KEYWORDS: logger work unemployment
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1873 - Larry Gorman left home for Miramichi
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 214-215, "The Winter of '73 (McCullam Camp)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 36-39, "The Winter of Seventy-Three" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 49, "The Winter of '73 (McCullam Camp)" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WINTER73
Roud #1942
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" and references there
File: Doe214
===
NAME: Winter of Seventy-Three, The: see The Winter of '73 (McCullam Camp) (File: Doe214)
===
NAME: Winter on Renous, A
DESCRIPTION:  October 9, 1904, "rovin' Joe" leaves Indiantown for lumbering with the sons of Morgan Hayes. "They had no mercy on a man But to work him day and night." He tries other crews but returns to Hayes. "I spent a winter on Renous And now I love their ways"
AUTHOR: Joe Smith, "a Miramichi man who liked to call himself 'the rovin' Joe'" (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: lumbering ordeal humorous moniker horse
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 48, "A Winter on Renous" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi048 (Partial)
Roud #9180
File: MaWi048
===
NAME: Winter's Gone and Past: see The Curragh of Kildare (File: DTcurrki)
===
NAME: Winter's Night: see My Dearest Dear AND 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: SKE40)
===
NAME: Wintry Winds, The: see The Fatal Snowstorm [Laws P20] (File: LP20)
===
NAME: Wisconsin Emigrant, The: see The Rolling Stone [Laws B25] (File: LB25)
===
NAME: Wise County Jail, The: see The Cryderville Jail (File: LxU090)
===
NAME: Wish I Had a Needle and Thread: see Going Across the Sea (File: RcItaly)
===
NAME: Wish I'd Stayed in the Wagon Yard
DESCRIPTION: Singer comes to town with his cotton. Carousers take him drinking but leave him the bill. He sees them by the missionary hall singing "Jesus Paid it All." He warns against such men -- "don't monkey with them city ducks, you'll find them slick as lard"
AUTHOR: Probably Arthur Hugh Tanner
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Peg Moreland)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer, a country man, comes to town with a wagon-load of cotton, falls in with some carousers who take him drinking but leave him with the bill. As he walks down the street, he sees them by the missionary hall singing "Jesus Paid it All." He wishes he'd bought half a pint and stayed in the wagon yard, and warns others to do the same -- "don't monkey with them city ducks, you'll find them slick as lard"
KEYWORDS: warning betrayal drink humorous
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #16279
RECORDINGS:
Lew Childre, "Wagon Yard" (Champion 16011, 1930) (Melotone 6-10-52, 1936)
Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers, "Buy a Half Pint and Stay in the Wagon Yard" (OKeh 45528, 1931; rec. 1930)
Grandpa Jones, "Stay in the Wagon Yard" (King 912, 1950)
Peg Moreland, "Stay in the Wagon Yard" (Victor V-40008, 1929)
Lowe Stokes & his North Georgians, "Wish I Had Stayed in the Wagon Yard"  (Columbia 15557-D, 1930; rec. 1929)
Gordon Tanner, Smokey Joe Miller & Uncle John Patterson, "I Wish I'd Bought a Half a Pint and Stayed in the Wagon Yard" (on DownYonder)
NOTES: This seems to have been quite popular among early string bands, judging by recordings, but it doesn't seem to have made its way into folklore collections. - PJS
File: RcWISIWY
===
NAME: With All My Heart: see The King Takes the Queen (File: FSWB232)
===
NAME: With Her Dog and Gun: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: With Me Pit Boots On: see The Courting Coat (File: RcWMPBO)
===
NAME: With My Dog and Gun: see Where the Moorcocks Grow (The Mountain Stream; With My Dog and Gun) (File: K136)
===
NAME: With My Swag All on My Shoulder: see True-Born Irish Man (With My Swag All on My Shoulder; The True-Born Native Man) (File: MA062)
===
NAME: Witness
DESCRIPTION: Worksong: "Can I get a witness? Come and be a witness. Be a sanctified witness. Be a Holy Ghost witness. Jack o'Diamonds was a witness. Daniel was a witness" etc. The refrain "for my lord" can be added after each line; other Bible stories may be mentioned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Paul Robeson)
KEYWORDS: Bible nonballad religious worksong
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Paul Robeson, "Witness" (Victor 21109, 1927)
Texas state farm prisoners, "We Need Another Witness" (on NPCWork)
File: RcWtnss1
===
NAME: Wizard Oil (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I love to travel far and near throughout my native land, I love to sell as I go 'long, and take the cash in hand...." The singer describes how in each town he visits they come up to him and declare "I'll take another bottle of Wizard Oil"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: commerce lie money
FOUND_IN: US(So,SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 52-54, "Wizard Oil" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7592
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wizard Oil (II)"
NOTES: Sandburg's notes imply this piece may be by Harry E. Randall, but the matter is not clarified.
It probably was true that, in every town the salesman visited, he received testimonials to his product. Chances are, however, that he hired people to offer them.
Unlike Wizard Oil (II), this does not appear to be entirely a sales pitch. But it's close enough.... - RBW
File: San052
===
NAME: Wizard Oil (II)
DESCRIPTION: "I have written a song, so give me your attention, And I'll tell you what Wizard's Oil will and won't cure." The product proves capable of dealing with almost anything painful, "And a dollar a bottle is all it does cost."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: medicine disease trick commerce
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 506, "Wizard Oil" (1 text)
Roud #7592
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wizard Oil (I)"
NOTES: In the _Hamlin's Wizard Oil Songbook_ (1890s?), this is credited to "J. D Laurens, Comic Vocalist, expressly for Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company No. 7."
Based on the list of illnesses "cured," one suspects that Wizard's Oil was probably almost-pure alcohol, and that it worked simply by dulling the pain. - RBW
File: R506
===
NAME: Wo, Stormalong: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
===
NAME: Woe Be Unto You
DESCRIPTION: "Woe be unto you (x2), You may throw yo' rocks an' hide yo' hands.... " "Well, it's woe be unto you (x2), You may dip yo' snuff an' hide yo' box..." "...You may dig yo' grave an' hide yo' spade, but it's woe be unto you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: nonballad sin
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 604-605, "Woe Be Unto You."
Roud #15558
NOTES: The Lomaxes call this a spiritual. I really don't see why. It looks more like a curse against hypocrites. - RBW
File: LxA604
===
NAME: Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom
DESCRIPTION: "Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom (x3), Hallelu (x4), Hallelujah." "Ain't no harm to keep your mind stayed on freedom." "Walkin' and talkin' with my mind stayed on freedom."  The singer does all things with a mind to freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: freedom nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 300, "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus" (tune, lyrics, structure)
NOTES:  This song is clearly derived from the spiritual "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus." - PJS
File: FSWB300A
===
NAME: Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus
DESCRIPTION: "I woke up this morning with my mind standing on Jesus (x3)/Hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah" "I'm walkin' and talkin' with my mind..." "I woke up singing..." "I'm sayin' my prayers..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (recording, Roosevelt Graves & brother)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Roosevelt Graves & brother [Aaron or Uaroy Graves], "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus)" (Perfect 6-11-74, 1936; on Babylon)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom" (tune, lyrics, structure)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Jesus
Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Set on Jesus
NOTES: The freedom song "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom" is obviously derived from this song. - PJS
File: RcWUTMWM
===
NAME: Woman Blue: see I Know You Rider (File: LxA196)
===
NAME: Woman from Dover: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Woman from Yorkshire: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Woman of Three Cows, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is poor. He tells the "Woman of Three Cows" that she is too proud and scornful of those less wealthy than herself. He recounts the Irish heroes who have met misfortune or death. She cannot measure up to them.
AUTHOR: English version by James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Duffy)
KEYWORDS: pride vanity nonballad animal poverty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
OLochlainn-More 64, "The Woman of Three Cows" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 120, "The Woman of Three Cows" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 56-59, "The Woman of Three Cows"
Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol II, pp. 277-278, "The Woman of Three Cows"
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 163-164, "The Woman of Three Cows" (1 text)
H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 460-462, 504, "The Woman of Three Cows"
NOTES: OLochlainn-More: "In this translation [James Clarence] Mangan [1803-1849] has bettered the original anonymous Gaelic verses 'Go reidh, a bhean na dtri mbo.'"
Duffy and Sparling quote Mangan: "This ballad, which is of a homely cast, was intended as a rebuke to the saucy pride of a woman in humble life, who assumed airs of consequence from being the possessor of three cows. Its author's name is unknown, but its age can be determined, from the language, as belonging in the early part of the seventeenth century. That it was formerly very popular in Munster, may be concluded from the fact that the phrase, Easy, oh, woman of the three cows! has become a saying in that province, on any occasion upon which it is desirable to lower the pretensions of a boastful or consequential person." - BS
The Gaelic original is said to be in Middle Irish, so it is fairly old. It will be seen that the translation is quite popular -- one of the most popular translated poems I've seen. - RBW
File: OLcM064
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NAME: Woman the Joy and the Pride of the Land
DESCRIPTION: "Come married and single, together pray mingle, And listen awhile to these lines I relate; You that single have tarried, make haste and get married... For woman's the joy and the pride of the land." The theme is repeated in every verse
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield); 19C (broadside, Murray Mu23-y1:011)
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 185, "Women's the Joy and the Pride of the Land" (1 text)
Roud #4393
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:011, "Woman the Joy and Pride of the Land," J.Bristow (Glasgow), 19C; also Mu23-y1:045, "Woman the Pride of the Land," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "There's Nothing Can Equal A Good Woman Still" (theme, some words)
File: GrMa185
===
NAME: Woman the Pride of the Land: see Woman The Joy and the Pride of the Land (File: GrMa185)
===
NAME: Woman, Woman, I See Yo' Man: see I Was Born on the River (File: MWHee033)
===
NAME: Woman's Rights
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells of how her husband is agitated about the issue of women's rights, spending hours discussing it. He is afraid that, if women vote, men will never hold office again. He claims voting is not part of her nature. She intends to enjoy the right
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: husband wife political humorous
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 503, "Woman's Rights" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 376-378, "Woman's Rights" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 503A)
DT, WOMENRTS
Roud #7589
File: R503
===
NAME: Women Are Worse Than the Men, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
===
NAME: Won't You Go My Way
DESCRIPTION: Hauling shanty. Refrain: "Won't you/ye/yiz go my way?" Verses describe either consorting with a prostitute and now being glad to be married, or describe courting in general.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor whore courting
FOUND_IN: West Indies Britain
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, p. 505, "Won't Ye Go My Way" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 373]
Sharp-EFC, LVI, p. 61 "Won't You Go My Way" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8289
File: Hugi505
===
NAME: Won't You Leave Us a Lock of Your Hair
DESCRIPTION: Dermot speaks to Nora from the window at night. She will not marry him because her parents oppose him. She would be ruined if he's found at her window. A hand clutches his head and a voice says, as he runs, "Won't you leave us a lock of your hair?"
AUTHOR: J.J. Waller (? John Francis Waller 1809-?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865 (broadside, Murray Mu23-y1:139)
KEYWORDS: courting humorous nightvisit father
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, pp. 103-104, "Won't You Leave Us a Lock of Your Hair" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.27(19), "Won't You Leave Us a Lock of Your Hair", unknown, n.d.
Murray, Mu23-y1:139, "Won't You Leave Us a Lock of Your Hair", Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1865
NOTES: According to broadside Murray Mu23-y1:139, the tune of this is "The Low Back'd Car." It's not clear which song of that name is meant.
File: OCon103
===
NAME: Wonder Where Is My Brother Gone?
DESCRIPTION: "Wonder where is my brother gone? Wonder where is my brother John? He is gone to the wilderness, Ain't comin' no more. Wonder where will I lie down? (x2) In some lonesome place, Lord, down on the ground."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Courlander-NFM, p. 61, (no title) (partial text); p. 228, "Wonder Where Is My Brother Gone?" (1 tune, partial text)
Fuson, p. 150, "I Wonder Where My Father Be" (1 text)
Roud #10969
RECORDINGS:
Annie Grace Horn Dodson, "Wonder Where My Brother Gone" (on NFMAla2)
NOTES: Courlander's text (which is the basis for the description above) clearly refers to John the Baptist: "John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance..." (Mark 1:4; compare Matt. 3:1, Luke 3:2).
Fuson's text is much more secular: "I wonder where my father be, That he hain't been here with me. He's buried in some distant land And he won't be here with me. To sleep, to sleep, that lonesome sweet sleep, He is laid in his grave to sleep," and similarly with mother, brother, sisters, etc.
It may be that these are two separate songs, but neither seems sufficiently attested to make it worth splitting them. - RBW
File: CNFM061B
===
NAME: Wonderful Crocodile, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, shipwrecked at (La Perouse), encounters the crocodile. He describes its immensity: Five hundred miles long, etc. Blown into its mouth, he lives well on the other things lost inside. At last the beast dies; the singer spends six months escaping
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(4288))
KEYWORDS: animal talltale monster sailor
FOUND_IN: Australia Ireland US(MW,NE) Britain(England(South,Lond)) Canada(Mar,Ont)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 134-135, "The Wonderful Crocodile" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 157-159, "The Crocodile" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 196, "The Wonderful Crocodile" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H231a, p. 28, "The Crocodile" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Kennedy 292, "The Crocodile" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 168-170, "The Rummy Crocodile" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 230-232, "Crocodile Song" (1 text, probably this, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 60, "Crocodile Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 498-500, "The Wonderful Crocodile" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WONDCROC
Roud #886
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4288), "The Wonderful Crocodile," J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also 2806 c.16*(150), Harding B 11(1317), Harding B 11(1141), Harding B 11(4289), Harding B 11(4290), Firth c.12(412), "[The] Wonderful Crocodile
NLScotland, RB.m.143(134), "The Crocodile," Poet's Box (unknown), c.1890 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Derby Ram" (theme)
cf. "The Grey Goose" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
End for End Jack (per broadside NLScotland RB.m.143(134))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Rummy Crocodile
NOTES: The similarity to "The Derby Ram" should be obvious. It is also noteworthy that most versions show very little variation; one must suspect a broadside ancestor somewhere. - RBW
File: MA134
===
NAME: Wonderful Grey Horse, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer's horse "was rode in the Garden by Adam the day that he fell"; that turned him grey. The horse has been with Noah, ..., Brien the brave, Sarsfield at Limerick, and Daniel O'Connell. He is ready to run for a rider that will shake off Erin's yoke.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: first half 19C (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: Ireland patriotic talltale horse
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1014 - Battle of Clontarf and death of Brian Boru
July 12, 1691 - Battle of Aughrim
1775-1847 - Life of Daniel O'Connell
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 44A, "The Grey Horse" (1 text)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 158, "The White Steed" (1 text)
Roud #13451
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.169(243), "The Wonderful Grey Horse," unknown, c.1840
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Old Gray Mare (I) (The Old Gray Horse; The Little Black Bull)" (theme)
cf. "Bean an Fhir Rua" (tune, according to Tunney-StoneFiddle)
NOTES: "Brien the Brave" is of course Brian Boru, winner of the Battle of Clontarf in 1814, for whom see "Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave."
Sarsfield is Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan (died 1693), the last of the great commanders who fought for James II; for his history, see "After Aughrim's Great Disaster."
Daniel O'Connell was the Irish hero who fought for emancipation, Repeal (of the Union between Britain and Ireland), and the place of the Irish in parliament; he is mentioned in dozens of songs; for more on him, see the cross-references under "Daniel O'Connell (I)." - RBW
File: Zimm044A
===
NAME: Wonderful Watford
DESCRIPTION: "Wonderful, wonderful Watford, Where the Little Missouri flows, We're proud of all our Norwegians And all that makes it so. You can ride o'er the plains and the coulees... And still be in wonderful Watford, The most wonderful place that I know."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 11, "Wonderful Watford" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Beautiful Texas" (tune)
NOTES: I strongly suspect that the author of this piece never set foot outside North Dakota!
The Little Missouri is a tributary of the Missouri River, which is by no means little in North Dakota. - RBW
File: Ohr011
===
NAME: Wondrous Love
DESCRIPTION: "What wondrous love is this... that caused the lord of bliss To bear the dreadful curse for my soul." The singer has been saved from the burden of sin by Christ's sacrifice; therefore he/she praises God and the Lamb
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1868
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad reprieve
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 98, "Wondrous Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 153-154, "[Wondrous Love]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 160-161, "Wondrous Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, p. 261, "Wondrous Love" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 350, "Wondrous Love" (1 text)
DT, WONDLOVE
Roud #5089
RECORDINGS:
Horton Barker, "Wondrous Love" (on Barker01)
Fisk Jubilee Singers, "When I Was Singin' Down" (on Fisk01)
Ganus Brothers Quartet, "Wondrous Love" (Columbia 15331-D, 1928)
Georgia Sacred Harp Quartette, "Wondrous Love" (OKeh 40195, 1924)
Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee, "Wondrous Love" (on OldHarp01)
Pete Seeger, "Wondrous Love" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07b)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Through All the World Below" (tune & meter)
cf. "Dear Companion (The Broken Heart; Go and Leave Me If You Wish To, Fond Affection)" (tune)
NOTES: This is that oddest of oddities: A song that files under *its own name* in the Sacred Harp! - RBW
File: LxU098
===
NAME: Wood Hauler, The: see The Backwoodsman (The Green Mountain Boys) [Laws C19] (File: LC19)
===
NAME: Woodchopper's Song
DESCRIPTION: "Ole Mister Oak, yo' day done come, Zim-zam-zip-zoo, Gwine chop you down an cahy you home! Bim-bam-biff-boom!" "Buhds in de branches fin' anodder nes'!... Ole Mister Oak Tree, He gwine to his res'!" Woodsman and axe go about their job 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: worksong nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 214-215, "Woodchopper's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: ScNF214B
===
NAME: Woodman, Spare That Tree
DESCRIPTION: "Woodman, spare that tree, Touch not a single bough, In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." The singer relates how his grandfather planted it and how his family delighted in it. "While I've a hand to save, Thy axe shall harm it not."
AUTHOR: Words: George Perkins Morris / Music: Henry Russell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1837
KEYWORDS: family home request reprieve
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 246-252, "Woodman, Spare That Tree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 23-26, "Woodman, Spare That Tree" (1 text, 1 tune, plus the parody "Barber, Spare Those Hairs")
Silber-FSWB, p. 253, "Woodman, Spare That Tree" (1 text)
Roud #13833
RECORDINGS:
Jack Mahoney, "Woodman Spare That Tree" (Columbia 15712-D, 1932; rec. 1931)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.26(503), "Woodman Spare That Tree," G. Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also Harding B 11(1186), Firth b.25(540), Harding B 11(4316), Harding B 11(4315), Harding B 11(4314), Harding B 45(23) View 2 of 3, Harding B 15(392a), Firth b.25(68), Harding B 11(64), Firth b.26(361), Firth b.28(36) View 2 of 2, Johnson Ballads 342, Harding B 11(4313), Harding B 15(391b), "Woodman Spare That Tree"; Firth b.25(600/601) View 1 of 2, "Woodman Spare The Tree"
LOCSheet, sm1840 371290, "Woodman! Spare That Tree!," Firth and Hall (New York), 1840 (tune)
LOCSinging, as115220, "Woodman, Spare That Tree," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also as204080, "Woodman, Spare That Tree"
NOTES: The original sheet music of this piece contains a letter from Morris to Russell describing how the words came to be written. Apparently the piece is biographical; Morris was with a friend when said friend saw a tree on his childhood home being threatened. A payment of $10 ensured the tree's continued existence.
In later years Russell claimed that he was the friend and that the tree grew on Morris's home. However, Russell was rather given to exaggeration; if we are to believe anyone, we should probably believe Morris. - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging as115220: 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.
The dating for broadside Bodleian Firth b.26(503), before 1835, is at best questionable. Here is a quote from the Lesley Nelson-Burns site Folk Music of England Scotland Ireland, Wales & America collection: "The words to this song are a poem written by George Pope Morris in 1830. The music was written by Henry Russell. The song was published in 1837.... " - BS
File: RJ19246
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NAME: Woodpecker's Hole, The
DESCRIPTION: The narrator sticks his finger in the woodpecker's hole in this quatrain ballad that hints of a story otherwise left untold.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919
KEYWORDS: bawdy scatological bird humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia Britain(England) US(MW,NE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 226-228, "The Woodpecker's Hole" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #10134
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dixie" (tune) and references there
cf. "Little Brown Jug" (tune)
File: EM226
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NAME: Woods of Drumbo, The: see Drumboe Castle (File: PGa100)
===
NAME: Woods of Michigan, The: see Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb) [Laws C14] (File: LC14)
===
NAME: Woods of Mountsandel, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, there's no play so sweet, you may search where you can, As the dear little town on the banks of the Bann." The singer recalls the happy times he courted Kathleen around Mountsandel. Summer is gone, and they are old, but they still love each other
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting age
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H6=H567, p. 275, ""The Woods of Mountsandel (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7970
File: HHH006
===
NAME: Woods of Rickarton, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye jolly ploughmen lads... The praises of your bonnie glen I would be fain to sing." The singer praises the woods of Rickarton, the streams, the men -- and especially the girls (while having harsh words for a wealthy but vicious woman)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: farming work courting money rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 251, "The Woods of Rickarton" (1 text)
Roud #5574
File: Ord252
===
NAME: Woodsmen's Alphabet, The: see The Logger's Alphabet (File: Doe207)
===
NAME: Woodville Mound: see Springfield Mountain [Laws G16] (File: LG16)
===
NAME: Wooing (I), The: see The Courting Case (File: R361)
===
NAME: Wooing (II), The: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) AND The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: E098)
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NAME: Woolloomooloo
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes his shady life since his  birth in Woolloomooloo. His father is a drunkard, and his parents fight so often that "Half the time they used to spend in jail." The singer eventually turns to robbery, and ends up in prison himself.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: family children crime prison Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 194-195, "Woolloomooloo" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WOOLOO
NOTES: Woolloomooloo is an inner suburb of Sydney; at one time it had a rather bad reputation. - RBW
File: FaE194
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NAME: Work of the Weavers, The
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "If it wasna for the weavers, what wad ye do?... Ye wadna hae a coat o the black or the blue Gin it wasna for the work o the weavers." The verses describe those who insult weavers, and how -- despite this -- they depend on the weavers
AUTHOR: David Shaw
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: weaving work
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 200-202, "The Wark o' the Weavers" (1 text)
Ord, p. 391, "The Wark o' the Weavers" (1 text)
MacColl-Shuttle, pp. 10-11, "The Wark o' the Weavers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 127, "The Work of the Weavers" (1 text)
DT, WORKWEAV
Roud #374
RECORDINGS:
Liam Clancy, "The Weavers" (on IRLClancy01)
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "The Work of the Weavers" (on IRClancyMakem02)
NOTES: The words of this song were published by David Shaw (died 1856). I don't know where the tune came from. - RBW
File: FSWB127
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NAME: Work-Song: see A Little Streak o' Lean (File: ScNF207B)
===
NAME: Workers of the World
DESCRIPTION: Anthem of the I.W.W.: "Fellow workers, pay attention To what I'm going to mention, For it is the fixed intention Of the workers of the world. And I hope you will be ready, True-hearted, brave, and steady, To gather 'round the standard..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: labor-movement nonballad
FOUND_IN: US Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 104, "Workers of the World" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA104
===
NAME: Workhouse Boy, The: see The Mistletoe Bough (File: R802)
===
NAME: World of Misery: see Shenandoah (File: Doe077)
===
NAME: Worms Crawl In, The
DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever think when the hearse goes by That you might be the next to die?.... The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, The worms play pinochle on your snout...." A detailed description of how corruption attacks a body in a grave
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923
KEYWORDS: death burial humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
BrownIII 142, "Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more, all basically "Skin and Bones (The Skin and Bones Lady)," but the "B" text seems to have picked up a "Worms Crawl In" chorus)
Sandburg, p. 444, "The Hearse Song" (2 texts, 1 tune, containing these lyrics but with particularizations regarding a military burial; the result would probably qualify as a separate song if better known)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 556-557, "The Hearse Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 242, "The Hearse Song" (1 text)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 124, "Did You Ever Think" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 657-658+, "The Worms Crawl In (The Hearse Song)"
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #92, pp. 86-88, "(There was a lady all skin and bone)" (contains this verse)
DT, WORMSCRA
Roud #15546
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
The Scabs Crawl In (Greenway-AFP, p. 13; on PeteSeeger30)
Rootie-Toot-Toot (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 76)
NOTES: The Pankakes report that this has been attributed to the Crimean War. They do not cite a source for this information.
The key line, "The worms crawl out, the worms crawl in" appears as part of "Skin and Bones (The Skin and Bones Lady)" in the revised 1810 edition of _Gammer Gurton's Garland_, but it may have been an editorial insertion.
A similar lyric is found in the ballad of "Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene," but I don't know if that's a case of cross-dependence (let alone which way the dependence goes) or an independent evolution.
Charles Clay Doyle published a study of this, "'As the Hearse Goes By': The Modern Child's _Memento Mori_,' in Francis Edward Abernathy, ed., _What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore)_ (1976; the Doyle essay begins on p. 175). This documents the widespread nature of the song (without giving really detailed statistics about its distribution). It also compares it with a Middle English tradition of songs about bodily decay -- a comparison I find rather a stretch.  - RBW
File: San444
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NAME: Worried Man Blues
DESCRIPTION: "It takes a worried man to sing a worried song (x2), I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long." The singer describes how he was imprisoned and shackled. He is sentenced to (21) years. His girl takes a train and leaves him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: work prison train abandonment punishment
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 890, "Worried Man Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 240, (no title) (1 fragment, mentioning the train that is sixteen coaches long, which might be part of this or the song it inspired)
Silber-FSWB, p. 74, "Worried Man Blues" (1 text)
DT, WORRDMAN
Roud #4753
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Ramblers String Band, "Worried Man Blues" (Romeo 5118/Perfect 12787, 1932)
Carter Family, "Worried Man Blues" (Victor V-40317, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4742, 1935) (Perfect 07-05-55, 1937)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, "Won't Be Worried Long" (Bluebird B-6738, 1937)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Worried Man Blues" (on NLCR16)
Pete Seeger, "Worried Man Blues" (on PeteSeeger26)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Two Dollar Bill (Long Journey Home)" (tune)
cf. "Dink's Blues" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: While this song was copyrighted by A. P. Carter, he probably didn't write it; he may have picked it up from an African-American prison song. - PJS
Or, perhaps, a blues; Charley Patton's "Down the Dirt Road Blues" isn't really the same song, but it has a lot of similar phrases. Like the Carter text, Patton recorded his piece (not in the Index, since I don't think it's traditional in his form) in 1929. - RBW
File: BAF890
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NAME: Worthington
DESCRIPTION: Shape note hymn: "Thou we adore, eternal name, And humbly own to thee. How feeble is our mortal frame, What dying worms are we."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1808 (Missouri Harmony)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 154, "Worthington" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: San154A
===
NAME: Worthy Boys of Clone, The
DESCRIPTION: Four "worthy boys of Clone" put to sea at night on December 3. They drown: "A monstrous wave capsized the boat as o'er the Back she sailed." The boys' names are given.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck fishing
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 92-93, "The Worthy Boys of Clone" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Ranson: "The disaster took place about 1850....[The singer] believed the author of the song was a man named Rogers." - BS
File: Ran092
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NAME: Wouldn't Drive So Hard
DESCRIPTION: A song of cotton workers. "Wouldn't drive so hard but I need de arns (x2). Snatchin' an' a-crammin' it in my sack, Gotter have some cotton if it breaks my back, Wouldn't drive so hard but I need de arns (x2)."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: worksong harvest
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 210, (no title) (1 short text)
File: ScaNF210
===
NAME: Wounded Hussar, The
DESCRIPTION: When the battle ends Adelaide, "alone on the banks of the dark rolling Danube," finds Henry, her "wounded Hussar." He thanks her for coming "To cheer the lone heart of thy wounded Hussar." She says "thou shalt live" but he dies in her arms.
AUTHOR: Thomas Campbell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1799 (written 1797, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: war death lover soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 159, "The Wounded Hussar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 175, "The Wounded Hussar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2699
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 402, "The Wounded Hussar," J. Evans (London), 1780-1812; also Harding B 28(93), Firth c.14(235), Harding B 15(393a), Harding B 15(393b), Harding B 22(354), Harding B 36(9) View 2 of 2, Harding B 25(2115), Harding B 25(2113), Harding B 11(3888), Firth b.26(176), Harding B 11(3039), Firth b.25(72), Harding B 17(347b), Harding B 12(131), Harding B 11(370), Firth c.13(50), Harding B 17(347a), Harding B 17(347a)"[The] Wounded Hussar"
SAME_TUNE:
Sweet Maiden I Admire Thee (per broadside Bodleian Firth c.14(235))
NOTES: South Riding Folk Network site: "The tune Captain O'Kane (spelled in various ways) is generally attributed to the harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), though this seems to rest solely on an unsubstantiated assertion by James Hardiman (Irish Minstrelsy, or, Bardic Remains of Ireland, 1831). During the first quarter of the 19th century, Thomas Campbell's verses, The Wounded Hussar, were set to it, and under this new name it spread throughout Britain."
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, "The Wounded Hussar" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) 
Harte quoting J Cuthbert Hadden: "This ballad, now entirely forgotten, attained an extraordinary popularity [in Glasgow and London]." - BS
File: CrMa159
===
NAME: Wounded Soldier: see The Battle of Mill Springs [Laws A13] (File: LA13)
===
NAME: Wounded Spirit
DESCRIPTION: "It is true when I first read your letter That I blotted your name with a tear, I was young then, but now I know better."  The other lover apparently has changed her(?) mind and remembered her promises, but "now I love another, not you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, p. 196, "Wounded Spirit" (1 text)
Roud #7945
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell He" (subject)
NOTES: Belden has only a fragment of this piece, and I can find no more. The general plot seems pretty clear, though. - RBW
File: Beld196
===
NAME: Wounded Whale, The
DESCRIPTION: As the sun rises "from her ocean bed," the whaling crew spots a whale and sets out in pursuit. They wound the beast; it struggles and dives but at last must come to the surface, where the crew finishes the kill
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1836 (Journal of the ship _Dartmouth_)
KEYWORDS: whale whaler death
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 23-26, "The Wounded Whale" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 189-190, "There She Blows" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2004
File: SWMS023
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NAME: Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O, The: see The Gypsy Laddie [Child 200] (File: C200)
===
NAME: Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O, The: see The Gypsy Laddie [Child 200] (File: C200)
===
NAME: Wraggle Taggle Gypsy, The: see The Gypsy Laddie [Child 200] (File: C200)
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NAME: Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket
DESCRIPTION: A dying sailor [lumberjack, stockman] bids his comrades farewell, asking them to "wrap me up" in his work clothing and make other arrangements for his funeral. (He recalls his early life and hopes to sleep undisturbed)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1826 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 25(1594))
KEYWORDS: dying death funeral burial sailor logger shepherd
FOUND_IN: Britain Canada(Newf) US Australia
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Friedman, p. 439, "The Dying Stockman" (1 text)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 90-91, 226, "The Dying Stockman"; pp. 118-119, "The Dying Bagman"  (3 texts, 3 tunes); also probably pp. 264-265, "Cant-Hook and Wedges" (2 texts)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 170-171, "The Dying Stockman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 436-437, "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket and The Handsome Young Airman" (2 short texts, 1 tune, with the "A" text going here and the "B" text being "The Dying Aviator")
Thorp/Fife XIII, pp. 148-190 (29-30), "Cow Boy's Lament" (22 texts, 7 tunes, the "K" text being in fact a version of "The Old Stable Jacket")
Manifold-PASB, pp. 82-83, "The Dying Stockman" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 281-282, "The Dying Stockman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 47, "Tarpaulin Jacket" (2 texts)
Leach-Labrador 98, "Jolly Best Lad" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 880-881, "A Rambling Young Fellow" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT TARPJCKT*
Roud #829
RECORDINGS:
Frank Crumit, "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket" (HMV [UK] B-8032, c. 1933)
John Greenway, "The Dying Stockman" (on JGreenway01)
Tex Morton, "Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket" (Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22904, n.d.)

BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1594)[some illegible words], "The Rakish Young Fellow," Angus (Newcastle), 1774-1825 ; also Harding B 11(3215), Harding B 16(218b), Harding B 25(1595)[some illegible words], Harding B 16(219a), Harding B 11(1211), Harding B 11(3216), Firth c.22(67)[almost entirely illegible but what is legible is recognizable as this song], Harding B 11(680), "[The] Rakish Young Fellow"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Aviator"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Old Stable (Sable) Jacket
Derrydown Fair
NOTES: Compare the modern song "Fiddler's Green," which may have been inspired by this piece.
The number of parodies of this piece ("The Dying Stockman," "The Dying Lumberman") is astonishing, but most seem to have evolved rather than being deliberate rewrites. The Australian version known as "Cant-Hook and Wedges" claims to be an exception; the informants claim to have written it. Certainly the piece  has modern elements (e.g. a reference to the Model T Ford), but one is still inclined to doubt that it was created deliberately. - RBW
The contemplator.com Songs of England site has a version beginning "A tall stalwart lancer lay dying" with a note that "This appears in the Scottish Student's Handbook. The words were written by G. J. Whyte-Melville (1821-1878). The air was written by Charles Coote."
It is too easy to get hung up on the "wrap me up" line as a unique marker. In Peacock the line is just to "dress up in blue jacket and trousers," but that is the only substantial difference between Peacock and the broadsides. - BS
File: FR439
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NAME: Wrap the Green Flag Round Me, Boys
DESCRIPTION: The dying soldier requestes, "Wrap the green flag 'round me, boys To die were far more sweet With Ireland's noble emblem, boys, to be my winding sheet." He wishes he had lived to see Irish victory, but promises his spirit will be near the flag
AUTHOR: J. K. O'Reilly
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Galvin)
KEYWORDS: Ireland death soldier
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
PGalvin, pp. 75-76, "Wrap the Green Flag Round Me, Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Connected by Galvin with the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923 (for which see "The Irish Free State") -- though in fact the song could apply as well to the 1916 rebellion, or even to earlier revolts. Indeed, in some ways, earlier revolts would make more sense; by the time of the Civil War, Ireland was turning to the tricolor green/white/orange flag. - RBW
File: PGa075
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NAME: Wreck at Kankakee, The
DESCRIPTION: About a (nineteenth century) train wreck on the Kankakee River. The train crew includes engineer Barker and fireman Hosler 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (Cohen); apparently first printed 1891
KEYWORDS: train wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 272, "The Wreck at Kankakee" (notes only)
File: LSRa272E
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NAME: Wreck at Maud, The (Al Bowen)
DESCRIPTION: About a train wreck near Maud, Illinois
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (Cohen)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 23, 1904 - the Maud wreck
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 272, "Maud Wreck (notes only)
Roud #3518
File: LSRa272H
===
NAME: Wreck between New Hope and Gethsemane
DESCRIPTION: The train of engineer Stergin is involved in a head-on collision on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
AUTHOR: Doc Hopkins, Karl Davis, Harty Taylor
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Hopkins/Davis/Taylor, _Mountain Ballads and Home Songs_)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "Wreck between New Hope and Gethsemane" (notes only)
Roud #14028
File: LSRa274O
===
NAME: Wreck of No. 3, The (Daddy Bryson's Last Ride)
DESCRIPTION: Engineer Bryson's train is wrecked near Townsend, Tennessee
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (Cohen)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 30, 1909 - TheTownsend wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "The Wreck of No. 3 (notes only)
Roud #14030
File: LSRa274I
===
NAME: Wreck of Number Four, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come railroad men and listen to me, A story you will hear, Of a wreck on the line of the old L and E...." The Number Four leaves the track. Engineer John Dailey is killed in the wreck. Listeners are reminded that death is always near
AUTHOR: Green Bailey
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Green Bailey)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death warning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 31, 1928  - L & N train number four leaves the track near Torrent, Kentucky. 50-year-old engineer John Dailey (correct spelling) dies as he leaps from the cab; he is the only person killed
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 254-256, "The Wreck of Number Four" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Green Bailey, "The Wreck of Number Four" (Challenge 425 [as by Dick Bell], 1930; recorded 1929)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Wreck of Number Four and the Death of John Daily
File: LSRai254
===
NAME: Wreck of Number Nine, The [Laws G26]
DESCRIPTION: A railroad engineer, whose wedding is set for the next day, leaves his sweetheart and sets out on his train. Rounding a curve, he sees another train coming. He is mortally wounded in the crash. He leaves his fiancee the cottage that would have been theirs
AUTHOR: Carson J. Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Vernon Dalhart)
KEYWORDS: train wreck marriage death lastwill crash
FOUND_IN: US(So,SW)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws G26, "The Wreck of Number Nine"
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 267-271, "The Wreck of Number Nine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 684, "The Wreck of Old Number Nine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 451-453, "The Wreck of Old Number Nine" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 684)
DT 668, COLDWIN
Roud #3229
RECORDINGS:
Bud Billings [pseud. for Frank Luther], "The Wreck of Number Nine" (Montgomery Ward M-8054, 1939)
Vernon Dalhart, "Wreck of The Number 9" (Lincoln 2712, 1927) (Gennett 6051/Silvertone 5005, 1927) (Brunswick 101, 1927) (Okeh 45086, 1927) (Cameo 1247, 1927) (Columbia 15121-D [as Al Craver], 1927); "Wreck of the Number Nine" (Radiex 4172 [as Jeff Calhoun], 1928)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineer's "On a Cold Winter's Night" (Victor 27496, 1941)
Ernest Stoneman, "The Wreck of the Number Nine" (Broadway 8054, c. 1930); "Wreck of Number Nine" (on Autoharp01)
Stanley G. Triggs, "The Wreck of the Number Nine" (on Triggs1)
NOTES: This, like "Zeb Tourney's Girl" [Laws E18], appears to be a Robison song that became traditional as a result of the Vernon Dalhart recording, though this seems to have had a stronger grip on tradition.
Indeed, Cohen states that, of the train wreck ballads he printed, only "Old 97" an "Engine 143" ("The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3]) were more popular. Both of the former are anonymous, and both based on real events; this is therefore the most popular fictional train wreck song, and also the most popular train song with a single known author.
In recent years, a part of this tune has found some additional success (at least in bluegrass circles) as the basis for the chorus in the Goble/Drumm song "Coleen Malone." - RBW
File: LG26
===
NAME: Wreck of Old 97, The [Laws G2]
DESCRIPTION: "Steve" Broady is told that, due to a mix-up in numbering, his train is "way behind time." He is driving as fast as he can to make up the time when, on a long downgrade, his brakes fail. The train goes off the track; Broady dies at the controls
AUTHOR: disputed (tune by Henry Clay Work)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Henry Whitter); a 1922 variant form appears in Brown
KEYWORDS: crash wreck train death derivative
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sept 27, 1903 - "Old 97" goes off the track near Danville, killing engineer Joseph A. "Steve" Broady and at least ten others
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,Ro,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Laws G2, "The Wreck of Old 97"
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)
Randolph 683, "The Wreck of the Southern Old 97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 449-451, "The Wreck of the Southern Old 97" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 683)
BrownII 217, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (6 field texts plus 3 more in the headnotes)
JHCoxIIB, #2A-B, pp. 118-121, "The Wreck of the Southern Ninety-Seven," "The Wreck of the Old 97" (2 texts, 2 tunes; both appear from their texts to have been learned from the Dalhart recording)
Friedman, p. 318, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (1 text)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 449, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 214-215, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (1 text plus "The Rarden Wreck of 1893")
Silber-FSWB, p. 104 "The Wreck Of The Old 97" (1 text)
DT 634, WRECK97*
Roud #777
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Wreck of the Southern Old 97" (Edison 51361-R, 1924) (CYL: Edison [BA] 4898, prob. 1924) ; "Wreck of the Old 97" (Victor 19427-A, 1924) (Radiex 4131 [as Jeff Calhoun], 1927); "Wreck of the 97" (Bell 340, 1925) (Regal 8929, 1925/Apex [Can.] 8428, 1926); "Wreck of the Southern Old 97" (Champion 15121, 1926/Supertone 9241, 1928); "The Wreck of the Old 97" (Bluebird B-5335, 1934); "Wreck of the Southern No. 97" (Pathe 032068 [as Sid Turner], 1924) [this is a partial list; Dalhart is thought to have recorded "Wreck" several dozen times]
Kelly Harrell, "The Wreck on the Southern Old 97" (OKeh 7010, 1925; on KHarrell01)
Clayton McMichen & his Georgia Wildcats, "Wreck of the 97" (Varsity 5029, 1942)
John D. Mounce et al, "Wreck of Old 97" (on MusOzarks01)
George Reneau, "Wreck of The Southern Old 97" (Vocalion 5029, c. 1926)
Pete Seeger, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (on PeteSeeger17)
Ernest V. Stoneman Trio, "The Wreck of the Old 97" (OKeh, unissued, 1927)
Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer, "Wreck of the Old 97" (OKeh unissued mx. 80344-A, rec. 1927; on ConstSor1)
Stoneman Family, "The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven" (on Stonemans01)
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, "The Wreck on the Southern Old 97" (Columbia 15142-D, 1927)
Ernest Thompson, "Wreck of the Southern Old 97" (Columbia 130-D, 1924)
Sid Turner, "Wreck of the Southern No. 97" (Perfect 12147, 1924)
Virginia Ramblers, "Wreck of Old 97" (OKeh, unissued, 1929)
Henry Whitter, "Wreck of the Southern Old 97" (Okeh 40015, 1924; rec. 1923)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Ship That Never Returned" [Laws D27] (tune & meter) and references there
cf. "The Train that Never Returned" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Rarden Wreck of 1893" (tune & metre, theme)
cf. "The Flying Colonel" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Speakers Didn't Mind (Greenway-AFP, pp. 136-137)
On a Summer Eve (Greenway-AFP, pp. 138-139)
NOTES: Authorship claimed by, among others, David Graves George; the legal battles over the song were extended. Brown has extensive notes which summarize the situation well. If anyone deserves credit for the pop version, it is probably Henry Whitter, who took a seemingly-traditional version and worked it into the form of the Dalhart recording.
Cohen has even more extensive documentation on this process (summarizing several full-length monographs on the subject); he is surprisingly sympathetic to George (not claiming that he wrote the song but that he did make original contributions).
The song is, in any case, derivative. The tune is taken from Henry Clay Work's "The Ship that Never Returned," and "The Ship" gave rise to at least two train wreck songs: "The Train that Never Returned" and "The Rarden Wreck of 1893." I've seen both listed as the source for "Old 97" -- though neither looks much like the latter song in the Whitter rendition (which, to be sure, is much worn down from texts Cohen regards as earlier sources).
I would note, though, that several of Brown's texts (including "D" from 1922) fall between "Train" and "Old 97." - RBW
File: LG02
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NAME: Wreck of Old Number Nine, The: see The Wreck of Number Nine [Laws G26] (File: LG26)
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NAME: Wreck of the 'Mary Summers', The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, the Mary Summers as you will see, Loaded in St. Andrews for the old countrie." An ocean-going freighter encounters heavy weather and begins leaking. The crew pumps for a week to no avail, but are rescued by the William Bradley.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Fowke/MacMillan)
KEYWORDS: wreck rescue sea ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/MacMillan 14, "The Wreck of the 'Mary Summers'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4473
NOTES: From Fowke/MacMillan: "Collected from Charles Cates in Vancouver, 1960. Cates said he had the song from his father, an East Coast seaman, who said the _Mary Summers_ was a Nova Scotia ship, though there is no record of her in Canadian or British shipping registers." - SL
File: FowM014
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NAME: Wreck of the 1256, The
DESCRIPTION: "On that cold and dark cloudy evenin', Just before the close of day, There came Harry Lyle and Dillard." An accident causes their train to fall into the James River. Lyle, with a head wound, dies in the cabin. Railroad men are warned of their danger
AUTHOR: Carson J. Robison (writing as Carlos B. McAfee)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death warning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 3, 1925 - On a cold night, the 1256 hits a rockslide and is pitched into the James River. Engineer Harry Lyle is killed; crewman Sydney Dillard is saved by hoboes
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 240-242, "The Wreck of the 1256" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11528
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Wreck of the 1256" (Columbia 15034-D [as by Al Craver], 1925)
File: LSRai240
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NAME: Wreck of the 1262, The (The Freight Wreck at Altoona)
DESCRIPTION: Freight train 1262 is heading down the mountain when the air brakes fail. The brakeman tightens the brakes by hand, but the train still crashes; engineer and fireman are killed. Listeners are urged to be prepared, for "you cannot tell when He'll call"
AUTHOR: Words: Fred Tait-Douglas/Music: Carson J. Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (recordings, Vernon Dalhart)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Freight train 1262 is heading down the mountain when the engineer sounds the whistle; the air brakes have failed. The brakeman climbs out on the car tops and tightens the brakes by hand, but the train continues to accelerate. It crashes; the engineer and fireman are killed. Listeners are urged to always be prepared, for "you cannot tell when He'll call"
KEYWORDS: warning train death railroading work crash disaster wreck worker
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 29, 1925 - Freight #1262 crashes near Altoona, PA, apparently due to defective air brakes
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 243-246, "The Freight Wreck at Altoone/The Wreck of the 1262" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WRCK1262
Roud #7128
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Freight Wreck at Altoona" (Victor 19999, 1926) (Columbia 15065-D [as Al Craver], 1926) (Radiex 4172 [as Jeff Calhoun], 1928; Sunrise 33056, 1929) (Herwin 75524, late 1920s)
Red River Dave, "Altoona Freight Wreck" (Musicraft 288, 1944)
Riley Puckett, "Altoona Freight Wreck" (Decca 5455, 1937)
NOTES: This comes pretty close to live journalism: The accident took place in late November 1925, and Dalhart was in the studio recording the result on January 15, 1926
Altoona is a very interesting place for trains and train enthusiasts. The "Horseshoe Curve," built in the 1850s, was considered a major engineering feat at the time and is now an historical monument -- and it's steep (2375 feet/724 meters long, with a slope of 91 feet to the mile/17 meters to the kilometer). It's enough of a landmark to show up, e.g., in _Webster's Geographical Dictionary_. It looks almost like a hairpin, with a lake in the middle of the pin. It must be a really interesting region to drive a train.... - RBW
File: DTwrck12
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NAME: Wreck of the 36, The: see The Wreck of Thirty-Six (File: ThBa112)
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NAME: Wreck of the 444, The
DESCRIPTION: A wreck takes placeon the Norfolk and Western Railroad in Virginia, with crewmen Gillespie, Stuart, and Combs on the train.
AUTHOR: Bess McReynolds
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (WWVA Jamboree Book #2)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "The Wreck of 444" (notes only)
Roud #14031
File: LSRa274R
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NAME: Wreck of the Annie Roberts, The
DESCRIPTION: Annie Roberts leaves Sydney, Nova Scotia for Lamaline, Newfoundland in a gale with a cargo of coal. The steamer Risenor crashes into the Annie and can only rescue one man.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 1, "The Wreck of the Annie Roberts" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: [Lehr/Best date this wreck to] October 22, 1913. Northern Shipwrecks Database places the collision in Sydney Harbour, makes the collision with SS Wabana, and estimates five lost.
I find no other reference to "a steamer Risenor" anywhere. - BS
File: LeBe001
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NAME: Wreck of the Asia, The
DESCRIPTION:  The paddlewheel steamer Asia leaves Owen Sound to cross Georgian Bay, but runs into a storm. The deaths of crew and passengers are described, including a newlywed couple; two cling to a lifeboat and survive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (recording, C. H. J. Snider)
KEYWORDS: travel death drowning ship disaster storm wreck moniker sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 14, 1882 - Paddlewheel steamer Asia sinks in Georgian Bay; over 200 passengers and crew are lost
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #3839
RECORDINGS:
C. H. J. Snider, "The Wreck of the 'Asia'" (on GreatLakes1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Jam on Gerry's Rock" [Laws C1] (tune)
NOTES: The _Asia_ left Owen Sound topheavy and overloaded with freight, intended for merchants in northern towns preparing for winter. When the storm struck, the captain made a fatal mistake; instead of keeping the ship faced to the wind, he turned and attempted to head for French River, allowing the force of the gale to strike the ship broadside. When the ship sprang a leak, lifeboats were lowered, but, overloaded, they foundered, and all drowned except two, Dunk Tinkles (called "Tinkus" in the Snider recording) and a Miss Morrison, 19. They clung to an overturned lifeboat and drifted to shore, where they were found by an old Indian who took them to Parry Sound. Mr. Snider recalls learning the song in 1891, and later collected several other versions from residents of the Georgian Bay area. - PJS
File: RcWreAsi
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NAME: Wreck of the Atlantic: see The Loss of the Atlantic (II) (File: Pea933)
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NAME: Wreck of the Avondale, The
DESCRIPTION: The lighter Avondale, bound from Carrick to the Gasworks, hits a bridge and is wrecked with 13 tons of coal. The crew -- Captain Britt, his little son, and dog -- survive.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: Nov 1903 (_Clonmel Chronicle,_ according to OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: river ship wreck dog children humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 20A, "The Wreck of the Avondale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9777
NOTES: A river boat wreck on the Suir river in South Tipperary. - BS
File: OLcM020A
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NAME: Wreck of the C & O Number Five, The
DESCRIPTION: "From Washington to Charlottesveile, then Staunton on the line Came the old Midwestern Limited...." The train hits a broken rail. It does not overturn, but veteran engineer Dolly Womack is killed by steam. He will pull a train in heaven
AUTHOR: Words: Cleburne C. Meeks / Music: Carson J. Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Vernon Dalhart)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 6, 1920 - The westbound "Sportsman" train, redirected onto the eastbound track because of a derailment, hits a broken rail and crashes into a bank. Engineer Dolly Womack is partly buried in coal and scalded to death by steam
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 236-239, "The Wreck of the C & O Number Five" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #14023
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Wreck of the C & O Number Five" (Brunswick 117 [as by Al Craver], 1927); (Columbia 15135-D)
NOTES: Inspired by his success with "Billy Richardson's Last Ride," which was also set to must by Carson J. Robison and recorded by Vernon Dalhart, Cleburne C. Meeks wrote his second poem about a train wreck which had occurred some years earlier. In this case, I rather suspect he intended it to use the tune of "Wabash Cannonball," but Robison again supplied Dalhart's tune. - RBW
File: LSRai236
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NAME: Wreck of the C & O Sportsman
DESCRIPTION: "Far away on the banks of New River, While the deep shades of twilight hunglow," engineer Haskell and fireman Anderson drive the trail. It goes off the train on a curve. The two are killed. The singer recalls the loved ones at home
AUTHOR: Bernice "Si" Coleman (1898-?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Si Coleman and his Railroad Ramblers)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 21, 1930 - The Sportsman wreck. Engineer Homer E. Haskell (who had been with the line 35 years) and fireman Henry G. Anderson are killed and three others injured
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 264-266, "The Wreck of the C & O Sportsman" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Roy Harvey and the North Carolina Ramblers (=Si Coleman and his Railroad Ramblers), "The Wreck of the C & O Sportsman" (Superior 2701, 1931
NOTES: Cohen notes that this wreck "was possibly thelast to be memorialized in song" -- but hardly a popular one; fewer than 500 copies of the original disc were sold, and the odds that the song became traditional arevery poor. - RBW
File: LSRai264
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NAME: Wreck of the Christabel, The
DESCRIPTION: Sunday, Christabel is anchored in Bonavista harbour. It is wrecked by a gale with a crew of nine on board. One jumps in a rowboat "to try what he could do" but is lost. Monday the remaining crew are rescued by rowboats.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1985 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: rescue death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jun 7, 1885 - Christable/Christabel wreck in Bonavista Harbour (Lehr/Best, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 22, "The Wreck of the Christabel" (1 text)
NOTES: Northern Shipwrecks Database shows as the cause "Stranded fin anchor" and notes that a monument was erected(?). - BS
File: Lebe022
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NAME: Wreck of the Dandenong, The
DESCRIPTION: The Dandenong sets sail from Melbourne with 83 people on board. In a storm of Jervis Bay, her propeller shaft breaks and she begins to sink. A barque saves as many as possible, but many go down with the ship
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954
KEYWORDS: wreck ship disaster death
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 48-49, "The Wreck of the Dandenong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 164-165, "The Wreck of the Dandenong" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA048
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NAME: Wreck of the Eliza, The
DESCRIPTION: Barquentine Eliza is wrecked "at the fatal sand of Cahore Point" by hurricane winds. Rescue attempts by rocket line and life-boat fail though the life-boat itself returns safely.
AUTHOR: Pat Ennis of Cahore
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 24, 1895 - "The Eliza was lost at Cahore point"; three of the crew were rescued. (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 52)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 56-57, "The Wreck of the Eliza" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Jack Donahoe" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Cahore Point is south of the town of Gorey in northeast Wexford. According to the ballad it is "some leagues away" from home. - BS
File: Ran056
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NAME: Wreck of the Enterprise (Machrihanish Bay)
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls the storm of March 4, [18?]37. The Enterprise sails out from Peru and approaches Britain. The captain's wife calculates the position, but the ship runs aground. The crew drowns, while the folk on shore gather riches
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: death ship wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H558, pp. 106-107, "The Wreck of the Enterprise" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9041
File: HHH558
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NAME: Wreck of the Fanad Boat, The
DESCRIPTION: The boat sets out from Fanad with nineteen aboard "bound for the English harvest." A storm blows up and sinks the boat; fifteen of the nineteen are drowned. The singer lists their names and prays for them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: ship storm wreck disaster
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H602, pp. 107-108, "The Wreck of the Fanad Boat" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10383
File: HHH602
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NAME: Wreck of the G & SI
DESCRIPTION: On Christmas Day, engineer Van Martin's Train 64 is wrecked on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1929 (recording by Happy Bud Harrison)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "Wreck of G & SI" (notes only)
RECORDINGS:
Happy Bud Harrison, "Wreck of The G.& S.I." (Vocalion 5350)
File: LSRa274P
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NAME: Wreck of the Glenaloon, The
DESCRIPTION: A June night. A ship is in a dead wind and fog three leagues from land. The charts show no rocks or reefs but the captain thinks he sees a rock or wreck and sends a crew to investigate. It's the wreck of Glenaloon. They find and bury the dead crew.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: burial death sea ship wreck
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Mackenzie 162, "The Wreck of the Glenaloon" (1 text)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 172-176, "The Wreck of the Glenna Loon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3288
File: Mack162
===
NAME: Wreck of the Glenna Loon, The: see The Wreck of the Glenaloon (File: Mack162)
===
NAME: Wreck of the Gwendoline, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is cabin-boy on the Clonmel river boat Gwendoline. A storm comes up and they run aground. They walk ashore and go home by "ass an' car" Twenty horses pull her out of the weeds "but never more, by sea or shore, Will sail the Gwendoline"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: river commerce ship storm humorous wreck sailor
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 257-258, "The Wreck of the Gwendoline" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Star of the County Down" (tune) and references there
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Clonmel, South Tipperary, is on the river Suir. - BS
File: OLcM257
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NAME: Wreck of the Hunnicut Curve, The
DESCRIPTION: "They called for a train crew at Paintsville, On a night that was rainy and drear." The train sets out, but goes off the tracks "only eight miles out of Paintsville On the Honnicut Curve so 'tis said." The brakeman lives, but the others die
AUTHOR: Buddy Preston?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 114-115, "The Wreck of the Hunnicut Curve" (1 text)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "The Wreck of the Hunnicut Curve" (notes only)
ST ThBa114 (Partial)
Roud #14026
File: ThBa114
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NAME: Wreck of the Huron, The [Laws D21]
DESCRIPTION: On a stormy night, the Huron receives orders to sail. The crew, despite the bad weather, obeys orders. The Huron runs aground on the North Carolina coast and is destroyed. A hundred crewmen's lives are lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: sea wreck disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 24, 1877 - The U.S.S. Huron is wrecked near Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. The number of dead was estimated as between 98 and 106
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws D21, "The Wreck of the Huron"
BrownII 288, "The Wreck of the Huron" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more)
DT 727, WRKHURON
Roud #2239
File: LD21
===
NAME: Wreck of the John B., The: see The John B. Sails (File: San022)
===
NAME: Wreck of the Julie Plante, The
DESCRIPTION: "On wan dark night on de (Lak St. Clair)... de crew of de wood scow Julie Plante got scar' an' run below." The captain ties Rosie the cook to the mast, then jumps overboard. Both are drowned. The moral: "You can't get drown... so long you stay on shore"
AUTHOR: William Henry Drummond
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby; the poem was written before 1897)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: French-Canadian dialect song. On Lak St. Pierre, the wood-scow "Julie Plante" encounters a fierce storm. They've lost their skiff, and the anchor won't hold; the captain ties the cook (Rosie) to the mast, takes the life-preserver, and jumps overboard, saying he'll drown for her sake. (?) Next morning the boat is wrecked and all are found dead. The singer warns listeners to marry and live on a farm; "You can't get drown on Lak St. Pierre/So long as you stay on shore."
KEYWORDS: ship disaster humorous death warning work storm wreck
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont) US(MW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Rickaby 22, "On Lac San Pierre" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Beck 76, "The Wreck of the Julie Plante" (1 text plus two fragments of another)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 174-175, "The Wreck of the Julie Plante" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 62, "The Julie Plante" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ174 (Full)
Roud #4545
NOTES: Yes, that's "Lak." Why jumping overboard will save the cook, I don't know. - PJS
Drummond's original poem (written, like most of his work, in "habitant" or French-Canadian English) was subtitled "A Legend of Lac St. Pierre" (Lake St. Peter). In oral tradition, however, this was often changed to the more familiar Lake St. Clair. - RBW
File: FJ174
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NAME: Wreck of the Kinsale, The
DESCRIPTION: Kinsale leaves the Clyde for France November 18. In heavy winds and seas "'The engine's broke,' our captain said" and she drifts into the cliffs. A wealthy lady offers 500 pounds "to be secure" but drowns. From shore two Hook ladies rescue four.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 21, 1872: Kinsale's engine shaft snaps and ship is driven against a cliff; three of crew of nineteen and one passenger are saved (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 75)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 36-37, "The Wreck of the Kinsale" (1 text)
NOTES: Ranson: The singer said "the ballad was composed by a man named Carroll, a schoolmaster, in Templetown, at the time of the wreck. The bell of the 'Kinsale' hangs above the entrance to Duncannon school yard." - BS
File: Ran036
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NAME: Wreck of the Lady Shearbrooke, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls sailing on the Lady Shearbrooke, and describes how the ship was wrecked on the rocks, with only 33 surviving. Upon returning to the banks of the Foyle, he sees Mary Doyle lamenting her lost love. He steps up and reveals himself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Smith/Hatt)
KEYWORDS: love separation ship wreck disaster reunion
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jul 19, 1831 - Lady Sherbrooke stranded at Mouse Island near Port aux Basques Newfoundland en route from Londonderry, Ireland to Quebec. See NOTES. (Source: Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H570, pp. 310-311, "Mary Doyle/The Wreck of the Lady Shearbrooke" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, pp. 79-82, "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke" (1 text)
Roud #1974
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lady of the Lake (The Banks of Clyde II)" [Laws N41] (plot)
cf. "Thomas and Nancy" [Laws K15] (theme)
NOTES: Smith/Hatt has the captain's name as Henry Gambols; Northern Shipwrecks Database has it as Henry Gambles. NSDB has various numbers of lost among the crew and cargo of immigrants: for example, 30/306, 30/360, 36/575 saved/total. - BS
File: HHH570
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NAME: Wreck of the Maggie, The
DESCRIPTION: Maggie leaves Brooklyn in Bonavista Bay and arrives in St John's harbour "when Captain Blunden cried, 'My boys, there's a steamer bearing down.'" Maggie and the steamer Tiber crash. Many are drowned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: death ship crash wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 7, 1896 - The Maggie sinks after collision with the Tiber in St John's Harbour (source: Northern Shipwrecks DataBase) 
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Leach-Labrador 80, "The Wreck of the Maggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 70, "The Maggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 42-43, "The Wreck of the Maggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab080 (Partial)
Roud #4413
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Loss of the Maggie" (subject)
File: LLab080
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NAME: Wreck of the Mary Jane, The
DESCRIPTION: A song to "dryland sailors" about the Mary Jane, bound from Taghmon with a crew of 200 and a cargo of dung. When the cargo shifts in a storm the captain gives up hope. Short of tobacco they plan to put in at a pub. They run ashore at a doctor's door.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: ship storm wreck Africa Ireland humorous sailor
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 20, "The Wreck of the Mary Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3026
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
cf. "The Calabar" (theme and first line)
NOTES: Taghmon is in south central County Wexford (not on the coast). When the storm hits they steer for Timbuctoo, Mali, hardly a coastal port of call. The term "dryland sailor" -- to judge by broadside Bodleian, Firth c.12(409), "The Dryland Sailor!" ("I never was on board a ship ") -- refers to a panhandler who pretends to be an old sailor with faked injuries because "that's the thing that pays." - BS
File: Oloc020
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NAME: Wreck of the Morning Mail, The
DESCRIPTION: George Minnick's Number 23 train is wrecked on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Illinois.
AUTHOR: Words: Jake Taylor
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939? (_Jake Taylor an His Rail Splitters Log Book_)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "The Wreck of the Morning Mail" (notes only)
File: LSRa274R
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NAME: Wreck of the Morrissey, The
DESCRIPTION: Captain Charles Bailey takes the Morrissey from St Mary's Bay to Cape Breton. He picks up a load of fish at Bonne Bay and heads out to the Gulf of St Lawrence in spite of a hurricane.
AUTHOR: Nick Kane
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: sea ship storm wreck
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 981-982, "The Wreck of the Morrissey" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9815
NOTES: The wreck and captain's name are reported in Northern Shipwrecks Database as occurring at Lat 46N Long 060W but with no date or further details. Those coordinates are on the east coast of Cape Breton Island near Mira Bay. - BS
File: Pea981
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NAME: Wreck of the N & W Cannonball
DESCRIPTION: Two trains, one on the Norfolk and Western, the other on the Atlantic Coast line, collide in Virginia
AUTHOR: Words: Cleburne C. Meeks / Music: Carson J. Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (Cohen)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 27, 1903 - The Cannonball wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 272, "Wreck of the N & W Cannonball" (notes only)
Roud #14014
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Wreck of the N & W Cannonball" (Columbia 15378-D)
File: LSRa272G
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NAME: Wreck of the Nimrod, The
DESCRIPTION: The steamship Nimrod sets out from Moreton Bay for Liverpool. When a storm blows up, not even the skilled crew can keep the ship from running aground. At last a bark picks up the survivors
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: ship storm wreck disaster rescue
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H717, p. 108, "The Wreck of the Nimrod" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13369
NOTES: Not related to "The Nimrod's Song," which is about seal hunters, nor (it is clear) is the ship the same as Ernest Shackleton's famous _Nimrod_, which sold to buy the ill-fated _Endurance_. - RBW
File: HHH717
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NAME: Wreck of the Old 97, The: see The Wreck of Old 97 [Laws G2] (File: LG02)
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NAME: Wreck of the Old Southern 97, The: see The Wreck of Old 97 [Laws G2] (File: LG02)
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NAME: Wreck of the Rebecca, The (The Mary Cochrane)
DESCRIPTION: The singer emigrates to America. He takes ship. Part way through the voyage, the ship springs a leak. Eventually it overwhelms the pumps. Another vessel comes by and takes off the passengers shortly before she sinks
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: ship disaster emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H565, p. 111, "The Wreck of the Rebecca"; H754, pp. 111-112, "The Good Ship Mary Cochrane" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #13370
NOTES: The two versions in the Henry collection are clearly derived from the same original lyrics (though the tunes are distinct); I've no idea how the ship ended with such different names. - RBW
File: HHH565
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NAME: Wreck of the Regulus: see The Loss of the Regulus (File: Pea956)
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NAME: Wreck of the Royal Palm
DESCRIPTION: On the Royal Palm and Ponce de Leon trains, heading home for Christmas, all is cheerful despite a storm. The trains collide; many are killed or hurt. The singer warns hearers to keep their orders straight; if they get their orders mixed it'll be too late
AUTHOR: Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: grief warning train death railroading crash disaster storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec. 23, 1926 - Crash of Royal Palm & Ponce de Leon, on the Southern Railway
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 247-249, "The Wreck of the Royal Palm" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 218, "The Wreck of the Royal Palm" (1 text)
DT, ROYALPLM*
Roud #4149
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Wreck of the Royal Palm" (Brunswick 101/Romeo 350, 1927; Pathe 32380, 1928) (Gennett 6051/Silvertone 5005, 1927) (OKeh 45086, 1927) (Columbia 15121-D [as Al Craver], 1927)
Frank Luther, "Wreck of the Royal Palm" (Grey Gull 4200, 1928)
Clarence H. Wyatt, "The Wreck of the Royal Palm" (AFS 10,892 A5, 1954; on LC61)
NOTES: This song seems to have moved into tradition directly from Dalhart's recordings. - PJS
The song is idem dG51 in Laws's Appendix II. Brown, who is unaware of the authorship, gives details on the wreck, the result of bad weather and a failure to obey orders. 19 people were reported dead and 123 injured.
Cohen notes the curiosity that the song talks mostly about the Royal Palm though the deaths all occured on the Ponce de Leon. It also appears that the crew of the latter train was primarily responsible for the accident.
This is another case of Vernon Dalhart putting out a song as soon as possible after the accident; Dalhart recorded it on January 14, 1927, three weeks after the event. One wonders how Jenkins had time to get the song to him. - RBW
File: DTroyalp
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NAME: Wreck of the Semmity (Yosemite), The
DESCRIPTION: The Yankee vessel Yosemite ("Semmity") crosses the Gulf in a storm with "a load of frozen herring" and crashes on a reef. All but one of the crew are rescued.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 21, 1897 - wreck of the Yosemite "on Ram Island ... off the Nova Scotian coast" (Lehr/Best)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Peacock, pp. 983-984, "The Wreck of the Semmity" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 85, "The Old Smite" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9818
File: Pea983
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NAME: Wreck of the Shenandoah
DESCRIPTION: "At four o'clock one evening On a warm September day A great and mighty airship From Lakehurst flew away." The dirigible encounters a storm and is wrecked. Fourteen people die. The mother of one of the crew watches in vain for the vessel
AUTHOR: Maggie Andrews (pseudonym of Carson J. Robison)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recordings, Vernon Dalhart, Guy Massey)
KEYWORDS: technology disaster death wreck mother
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 3, 1925 - Wreck of the naval dirigible Shenandoah, commanded by Lt. Commander Zachary Landsdowne
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 219, "The Wreck of the Shenandoah" (1 text)
ST BrII219 (Full)
Roud #4150
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Wreck of the Shenandoah" (Columbia 15041-D, 1925) (Edison 51620, 1925) (Cameo 809, 1925) (OKeh 40460 [as Tobe Little], 1925) (Vocalion 15125 [as Jep Fuller], 1925)
Guy Massey, "Wreck of the Shenandoah" (Perfect 12218, 1925)
NOTES: This is item dG52 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
I would've placed bets on "Maggie Andrews" being a pseudonym for Andrew Jenkins, but a website on the Shenandoah wreck (http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000093.html) states that it was actually a pseudonym for the team of Dalhart and Carson Robison. - PJS
According to Norm Cohen, "Maggie Andrews" was the maiden name of Robison's mother, and he copyrighted a lot of material under it. Of course, Robison also worked with Andrew Jenkins, so there could have been at least a little cross-influence. - RBW
File: BrII219
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NAME: Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver, The: see Joseph Mica (Mikel) (The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver) (Been on the Choly So Long) [Laws I16] (File: LI16)
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NAME: Wreck of the Southern Ninety-Seven, The: see The Wreck of Old 97 [Laws G2] (File: LG02)
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NAME: Wreck of the Steamship Ethie, The
DESCRIPTION: On the afternoon of December 10, 1919, the "Ethie"-- despite the skilled work of her crew -- encounters a terrible storm and runs aground around one o'clock in the morning. All manage to reach shore in a boatswain's chair.
AUTHOR: Maude Roberts Simmonds
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: wreck rescue ship
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec11, 1919 - Wreck of the Ethie (in the early morning)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 138, "The Wreck of the Steamship Ethie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, p. 59, "The Wreck of the Steamship Ethie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, p. 88, "The Wreck of the Steamship Ethie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 86-87, "The Wreck of the Steamship Ethie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6345
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Come All ye Jolly Ice-Hunters" (theme)
NOTES: Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf went to Sally's Cove as a volunteer teacher for Sir Wilfred Genfell's mission in the spring of 1920. Sally's Cove, near Bonne Bay on the west coast, is only two miles south from the wreck which occurred at Martin's Point.
For the account of her experiences with the song, consult R.D. Madison ed, _Newfoundland Summers: the Ballad Collecting of Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf_ (Westerly, RI: The Utter Co., 1982), pp. 11-14. Some of the words are included with paraphrases inserted. - SH
Greenleaf's account is included in Greenleaf/Mansfield for this song - BS
Roud lumps this song with "Come All ye Jolly Ice-Hunters" -- a song with which it shares some elements, but this song is based on an incident almost a century more recent. - RBW
File: Doy59
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NAME: Wreck of the Steamship Florizel, The
DESCRIPTION: A chronicle of the tragic wreck of the S.S. Florizel off Renews Rocks where 40 were saved out of 106.
AUTHOR: Words: Joan Endacott; Music: Harvey Freeman
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: wreck sea ship disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 23/24 - Wreck of the Florizel
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 140, "The Wreck of the Steamship Florizel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, p. 31, "The Wreck of the Steamship Florizel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, p. 72, "The Wreck of the Steamship Florizel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 38, "The Florizel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 84-85, "The Wreck of the Steamship Florizel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4417
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "The Wreck of the Steamship Florizel" (on NFOBlondahl04)
NOTES: An extensive account of this wreck is found in Cassie Brown's _A Winter's Tale._ Toronto: Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1992. The boat was taking passengers from St. John's to Halifax then on to New York. The authors of the song are from nowhere near the [site of] the  incident and the words were written three years after the wreck while the tune was written eleven years after. - SH
This song is item dD35 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doy31
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NAME: Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
DESCRIPTION: The people of Tennessee want to know who wrecked their "gravy train"; bonds were issued to build highways, now the money's tied up, the people have nothing to show for it, and the banks have gone bust.
AUTHOR: Uncle Dave Macon
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (recording, Uncle Dave Macon)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer says the people of Tennessee want to know who wrecked their "gravy train"; in a major scandal, bonds were issued for $5 million to build highways, now the money's tied up, the people have nothing to show for it, and the banks have gone bust. A Dave Macon chorus: "And now we're up against it, and no use to raise a row/Of all the times I've ever seen, we're sure up against it now/The only thing that we can do is to do the best we can/Follow me, good people, I'm bound for the promised land"
KEYWORDS: crime theft political money
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Uncle Dave Macon, "We Are Up Against It Now" (Vocalion 5009, 1926)
Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee, "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train" (Okeh 45507, 1931; rec. 1930; on HardTimes2)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train" (on NLCR09)
NOTES: This is the only old-time song I know about embezzlement, making it hard to assign keywords. - PJS
File: RcWOTTGT
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NAME: Wreck of the Vartry, The
DESCRIPTION: The Vartry sailed the Liffee overloaded with a cargo of Double X casks. A storm sinks her "ere they reached the Customs House" "All ye who drink of James's Gate (No matter what your sex), Take warning by the Vartry's fate, Thro' too much Double X!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: river ship drink storm wreck humorous
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1907 - wreck of the Guinness barge Vartry (OLochlainn)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn, p. 231, "The Wreck of the Vartry" (1 fragment)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 251-252, "The Wreck of the Vartry" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Limerick Is Beautiful" (tune)
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
cf. "The Calabar" (theme and first line)
NOTES: OLochlainn-More: "In 1920 there were 12 Guinness barges in use.... The Vartry was built in 1902. The Wreck celebrated in the ballad occurred in 1907. These red and black funnelled steam barges plied the Guinness wharf near Kingsbridge, and the Customs House Quay, up to the year 1963." - BS
File: OLoc231A
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NAME: Wreck of the Virginian Number Three, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you brave, bold railroad men and listen while I tell The fate of E. G. Aldrich...." He was "the oldest on the road," but still loved his work and would not retire. He and his fireman die in a crash. Railroad couples are told to be faithful
AUTHOR: probably Blind Alfred Reed
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Blind Alfred Reed)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death warning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1927- A freight train and Virginia Rail passenger train #3 collide near Ingleside, West Virginia. The fault was apparently that of the crew of the passenger train. Engineer "Dad" Aldrich, fireman Frank O'Neal, and one other are scalded to death; 22 are injured
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 250-253, "The Weck of the Virginian Number Three" (1 text plus texts of two other songs about the same incident, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Blind Alfred Reed, "The Wreck of the Virginian" (Victor 20836, 1927)
NOTES: Cohen observes three recorded songs about this accident (recorded and probably composed by Blind Alfred Reed, Roy Harvey and the North Carolina Ramblers, and John McGhee). There is, at best, limited evidence that any of them went into tradition.
Cohen notes that the Reed recording was withdrawn from circulation at the request of the Virginia Railway -- ironic, given that the Reed version doesn't blame anyone. - RBW
File: LSRai250
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NAME: Wreck of the Yosemite, The: see The Wreck of the Semmity (Yosemite) (File: Pea983)
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NAME: Wreck of Thirty-Six, The
DESCRIPTION: "It was on one July morning About eight o'clock they say, When Thirty-Six left Ashland And thundered on her way." The train makes good time, but starts to shake and derails, scalding fireman Buddy Cheap to death though engineer McDonney is saved.
AUTHOR: Jim Dobbins?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: train wreck death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 112-113, "The Wreck of Thirty-Six" (1 text)
Cohen-LSRail, p. 274, "The Wreck of the 36" (notes only)
ST ThBa112 (Partial)
Roud #14027
File: ThBa112
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NAME: Wreck on the C & O, The [Laws G3]
DESCRIPTION: George Alley, a railroad engineer, is warned by his mother not to drive too fast. But George wants to set a speed record. As his train speeds, it runs into a rock from a landslide and is wrecked. George is killed; his mother gets to say "I told you so"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (Railroad Man's Magazine, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: wreck train death mother railroading worker warning crash
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 23, 1890 - Death of engineer George Alley when the FFV train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was wrecked by a landslide near Hinton, West Virginia
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws G3, "The Wreck on the C & O"
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 183-196, "The Wreck on the C & O/Engine 143" (3 texts plus a reproduction of a broadside, 2 tunes; also an item, "There's Many a Man Been Murdered in Luzon," which appears related and may influence the date of this song)
Randolph 682, "The Wreck on the C. & O." (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Warner 179, "The Wreck on the C & O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 115-116, (no title) (1 fragmented text)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 62 "Engine 143" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-AFSB, pp. 31-34, "The Wreck on the C. & O. (The Death of Jack Hinton)" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 47, "The Wreck on the C. & O." (6 texts plus mention of 5 more; 2 tunes)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 725, "The Wreck on the C. & O." (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 451, "The Wreck on the C&O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 371, "There's Many a Man Killed on the Railroad" (1 text, 1 tune, a fragment with only the "There's man been killed on the railroad" stanza, which could be from this, or "Talmadge Osborne," or others)
Silber-FSWB, p. 100 "Engine 143" (1 text)
DT 635, ENGIN143*
Roud #255
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Engine 143" (Victor V-40089, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4743, 1935; Bluebird B-6223, 1937; on AAFM1, RRinFS)
Duke Clark, "The Wreck of the F. F. & V." (Superior 2687, 1931)
Vernon Dalhart, "Wreck of the C & O #5" (OKeh 45102, 1927)
Austin Harmon, "George Allen" (AFS 2916 A, 1939; on LC61)
Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers, "The Brave Engineer" (Columbia 15174-D, 1927)
Bradley Kincaid, "Wreck on the C & O Road" (Gennett 6823/Champion 15710 [as Dan Hughey]/Supertone 9350, 1929; Champion 45098/Melotone [Canada] 45057, 1935)
George Reneau, "The C & O" (Vocalion 14897, 1924) (Vocalion 5050, 1927)
Charles Lewis Stine, "The Wreck of the C & O" (Columbia 15027-D, 1925; Harmony 5145-H, c. 1930)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "Wreck of the C & O" (Edison 51823, 1926) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5198, prob. 1926), "The Wreck on the C & O"  (OKeh 7011, 1925)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Death of Talmadge Osborn" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Fatal Run" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The FFV
NOTES: Of the two songs about wrecks on the C & O (the other is "The C. & O. Wreck"), this one is the better known and probably older. Many versions have a chorus (not found in the Digital Tradition version), "Many's a man's been murdered by the railroad / And laid in his lonesome grave" (e.g. this chorus occurs in five of Cox's six texts). - RBW
Oh dear, this gets confusing. "Many a man's been murdered by the railroad" is an ending bridge from "The Fate of Talmadge Osborne." And it shows up here too.... - PJS
Cox supplies many further details about this song. According to his report, George Alley was thirty when he died, and already had four children. He lived for five hours after the wreck. Reportedly the fireman did jump from the engine, and survived.
Cohen has an extensive discussion of the song, noting that it has many errors in the text (e.g. he shows a photo of Alley, who had straight dark hair, not golden and not curly). He theorizes that the song was composed some years after the event, when memories were fading. It strikes me as at least as likely that the song is a modification of an older item, with the errors being holdovers from that piece. - RBW
File: LG03
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NAME: Wreck on the Highway
DESCRIPTION: Singer sees automobile wreck with passengers killed,, "where whiskey and blood run together...I heard the wreck on the highway/But I didn't hear nobody pray"
AUTHOR: Dorsey Dixon
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930s
KEYWORDS: grief death crash disaster wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, WRCKHWAY
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys, "Wreck on the Highway" (Okeh 06685, 1942; Columbia 37028, 1946; Columbia 37596/Columbia 20195, 1947; Columbia 52026, 1956)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Wreck on the Highway" (on NLCR08)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" (words)
File: DTwreckh
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NAME: Wrecked Ship, The: see The Mermaid [Child 289] (File: C289)
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NAME: Wren, The (The King)
DESCRIPTION: A tale of the hunting of the wren on Saint Stephen's Day. Boys go out, hunt the wren, and bring it home for a reward: "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds / St. Stephen's Day was caught in the forest / Although he be little, his honor is great..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Flanders/Olney)
KEYWORDS: carol hunting wren
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 58-59, "The Wran" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WRENSONG WRENSNG2*
Roud #4683
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cutty Wren" (subject)
cf. "Hunt the Wren" (subject)
NOTES: The English legend that the wren is the king of birds has a parallel in German. A tale from the Brothers Grimm explains that, when the birds decided they needed a king, they decided to hold a contest to find the king. First they said that the bird that could fly highest would be king. The eagle would have flown highest, but the wren rode on its back and so managed to climb higher still. Then the birds decided to try a digging contest. The wren slipped down a convenient mouse hole, and won that round also. So the wren became the king.
There is a similar Danish legend.
The German name of the wren, in fact, is zaunkonig, fence-king.
It's possible that the custom goes back to the Greeks; the Greek word BASILISKOS, "little king," is listed in Liddell & Scott as meaning, among other things, the golden-crested wren -- but they cite only one instance; the usual meaning of the word is "royal" or "official" (so, e.g., in the New Testament).
The identical equation seems to occur in Latin: "regulus" means "petty king" (compare rex, king), but the word is also used of the wren.
In many parts of the British Isles, it became the custom to capture a wren on St. Stephen's Day (December 26) and parade it about (perhaps while asking for alms).
Explanations of this custom vary. Kennedy quotes an account in which a wren's song aroused a sleeping sentry and saved English and Manx soldiers from an attack in Ireland. Garnett and Gosse, in _English Literature: An Illustrated Record_, i., p. 298, claim that the "report of Brian Boru's great victory over the Danes on St. Stephen's Day survives in Ireland in a carol about a wren." (Uh-huh.)
Vallancey claims that the wren was used in augury by the Druids, and so Christian missionaries hunted it to prevent this use. Flanders and Olney also date it back to druidism.
Another story says that it will precede a future hero (e.g. King Arthur). Frazer compares the whole business to various coronation quests and hunts for sacred animals. Greenway offers perhaps the greatest stretch of all, considering the wren to represent the "indomitable peasant." - RBW
File: FO059
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NAME: Wrestlin' Jacob
DESCRIPTION: "Wrestlin' Jacob seek de Lawd. I will not let thee go. And wrestle all night till the break ob day." "Wrestle Jacob; day is a-breakin'." "(Brethren/Elders/etc., don't get weary (x4) For de work is almost done. Keep your lamps trimmed and burnin'...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious fight Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 656, "Wrestlin' Jacob" (1 text)
Roud #11836
NOTES: The wrestling match between God and Jacob at Peniel/Penuel, which ended as day broke, is told in Genesis 32:22-32. 
There is, incidentally, a strong folkloric element to the story; it appears that Jacob may originally have been wrestling with some sort of minor demon, and the story was cleaned up. Imperfectly, since the place is called both Peniel/Penual (and what was The Ineffable God doing in a wrestling match anyway?). It even has a "just so" moral: The Israelites did not eat a particular part of an animal, because the demon injured Jacob there. - RBW
File: Br3656
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NAME: Wrestling With Rats: see The Waterford Boys (File: GrMa072)
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NAME: Wright and Ketchen Line
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes working on the Wright and Ketchen narrow-gauge lumber railroad, and the characters with whom he works. At the end of the season, he plans to go to Saginaw and spend his money.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work railroading moniker
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 16, "Wright and Ketchen Line" (1 text)
Roud #8865
NOTES: This comes close to being a nonballad, since very little happens in it; after being turned out in the woods, everyone works -- after which the song deviates into character descriptions. - PJS
File: Be016
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NAME: Write a Letter to My Mother: see Come Raise Me in Your Arms, Dear Brother (File: R235)
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NAME: Write My Mother I'll Be Home
DESCRIPTION: "There is somewhere the sun is shining, There is somewhere a little rain." The singer asks that a letter tell his mother he'll be home someday. The white folks have him on a chain gang. He asks Stella if he can be her fellow; she has another beau
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: prison home mother courting rejection
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 353, "Write My Mother I'll Be Home" (1 text)
Roud #11731
File: Br3353
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NAME: Wrong Road, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer takes the "wrong road"; he gets drunk with a man, they quarrel; the singer shoots him. He warns hearers; he is "hanging from a scaffold/Between the earth and sky." He is going home, telling us "You might forget the singer/But don't forget the song"
AUTHOR: probably one of the Hall Brothers
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (recording, Hall Brothers)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer takes the "wrong road" in Alabama; he gets drunk with a man, they quarrel, and the singer shoots him. He warns listeners not to drink or keep bad company, for now he is "hanging from a scaffold/Between the earth and sky." He is going home to glory, having repented, but tells us "You might forget the singer/But don't forget the song"
KEYWORDS: warning fight violence crime murder punishment death drink
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Hall Brothers [Ron & Jay Hugh], "The Wrong Road" (Bluebird 7728, 1938; on RoughWays2)
File: RcTWrRo
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NAME: Wyandotte's Farewell Song, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sadly bids farewell to his ancestral home and prepares to head west. Various familiar scenes -- trees, streams, roads, church -- are fondly recalled
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (newspaper in Sandusky, Ohio)
KEYWORDS: nonballad parting travel Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Eddy 117, "The Wyandotte's Farewell Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST E117 (Full)
Roud #4342
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon)" (tune)
NOTES: This reminds me strongly of "A Prisoner for Life (I - Farewell to Green Fields and Meadows)" -- while there are no common stanzas, the feeling is quite similar and they can be fit to the same tune. But "A Prisoner for Life" is in triple time, while Eddy transcribes this song in four. So I suppose they're separate. Particularly as this appears to be the song of an American Indian forced to leave home and go across the Mississippi (presumably to a reservation, perhaps in Indian Territory?).
In the song, the singer expresses gratitude to the "white friends, who first taught me to pray." This strikes me as laying it on a bit thick. - RBW
File: E117
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NAME: Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie, The [Child 290]
DESCRIPTION: A gentleman will give a reward to lie with the lass of the hie toun hie. The hostler's wife lures the girl in and locks the door behind her. The gentleman sleeps with her. Eventually he sees her and her baby, and marries her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1821
KEYWORDS: seduction sex marriage trick pregnancy children separation reunion love
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 290, "The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie" (4 texts)
Roud #125
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dainty Doonby" (plot)
cf. "The Broom of Cowdenknows" [Child 217] (plot)
cf. "The Sleepy Merchant" (plot)
cf. "The Bonnie Parks o' Kilty" (plot)
File: C290
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NAME: Wyoming Massacre, The
DESCRIPTION: "Kind heaven assist the trembling muse While she attempts to tell Of poor Wyoming's overthrow By savage sons of hell." "One hundred whites in painted hue, Whom Butler there did lead..." offer terms of surrender to the defenders, then slaughter them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: Indians(Am.) war murder trick lie
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 1, 1778 - The Wyoming Massacre
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 129-131, "(A TRAGICAL ACCOUNT of the battle between the People of Wyoming and the Indians of Westmoreland in the year 1778, in which two hundred of the Americans were unhappily sacrificed to the savage barbarity of some treacherous Americans and cruel savages, in a Poem by a Person then resident near the field of battle)" (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: The Wyoming Massacre was perhaps the worst incident of savagery in the Revolutionary War, but was not really atypical. The British, trying to fight a war at the end of a very long supply line, naturally tried to rely on locals as much as possible, and that meant Indians.
And the Indians weren't interested in anything in particular except loot, and the easiest way to provide loot was to allow massacres. On the whole, the Indians probably did the British more harm than good -- they were unreliable and often deserted, and frequently proved ineffective in battle, as e.g. in the Saratoga campaign. And they blackened the British reputation among wavering colonials.
The Wyoming massacre goes far to demonstrate why. John Butler (?-1794), a loyalist commissioned major, brought a force believed to have numbered in excess of 1000 to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. The only defence was a small, undermanned fort, and Butler induced it to surrender by offering honorable surrender and safety.
Once the gates were opened, Butler ordered a massacre. Accounts of what happened next vary, but at least two hundred people, and probably many more, died. - RBW
File: Burt121
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NAME: X Y Z
DESCRIPTION: "Smash! Jemmy, let us buss, we'll off An' see Newcassel Races." They will watch "X Y Z that bonny steed... He's sure to win the Cup, man." Along the way, they encounter many improbable adventures
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: horse racing travel
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 164-166, "X Y Z" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3171
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cameronian Rant" (tune)
File: StoR164
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NAME: Yaller Gal, The
DESCRIPTION: In praise of the power of the yaller gal: "It takes a long, tall yaller gal To make a preacher lay his Bible down. It takes a long, tall yaller gal To make a bulldog break his chain." "I got a long, tall yaller gal On do road somewhere."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: seduction clergy nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 450, "The Yaller Gal" (2 fragments plus a brief World War I (?) parody about making Germans surrender)
Roud #11784
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Yallow Gal" (theme
File: Br3450
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NAME: Yaller Ribbon: see Around Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (File: Arn149)
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NAME: Yankee Doodle
DESCRIPTION: Concerning the exploits of a New England backwoodsman who joins Washington's colonial army. He sees many wonders his mind cannot comprehend. He is steadily teased: "Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy...."
AUTHOR: sometimes credited to Dr. Richard Shuckburgh
EARLIEST_DATE: 1794
KEYWORDS: war rebellion humorous America
FOUND_IN: US(All)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 521-525, "Yankee Doodle" (4 texts, 1 tune, although 1 text is the Confederate version)
Linscott, pp. 115-118, "Virginia Reel" [medley of "The Irish Washerwoman," "The White Cockade," and "Yankee Doodle"] (1 tune for each of the three melodies, plus dance instructions)
Opie-Oxford2 548, "Yankee Doodle came to town" (6 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #109, p. 92, "(Yankee Doodle)"
Arnett, pp. 18-19, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 3-8, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text plus fragments)
Krythe 1, pp. 3-14, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 338-340, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 71, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 292, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 659-660+, "Yankee Doodle"
DT, YANKDOOD*
Roud #4501
RECORDINGS:
Piper's Gap Ramblers, "Yankee Doodle" (OKeh 45185, 1928; rec. 1927)
Pete Seeger, "Yankee Doodle" (on PeteSeeger17) (on PeteSeeger33, PeteSeegerCD03)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 31(146), "Yankee Doodle ("Father and I went down to camp, along with captain Goodwin"), A.W. Auner (Philadelphia), c.1860; also Harding B 31(128), "Yanke Doodle"[not misspelled in the text]
LOCSinging, sb40592b, "Yankee Doodle," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also hc00037b, "Yanke Doodle"[not misspelled in the text]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Confederate 'Yankee Doodle'"
cf. "The Presidents (The Presidents in Rhyme)" (tune)
cf. "The Battle of the Kegs" (tune)
cf. "Devilish Mary" [Laws Q4] (tune)
cf. "Fair and Free Elections" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Confederate "Yankee Doodle" (File: R249)
The Presidents (The Presidents in Rhyme) (File: R877)
The Battle of the Kegs (File: SBoA077)
Fair and Free Elections (File: FSWB284)
The Times (Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 144-146)
The Embargo (Darling-NAS, pp. 342-344)
The Preposition Song (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 203)
James K. Polk campaign song: "The Democrats will be triumphant" (see John Siegenthaler, _James K. Polk_, Times Books, 2003, p. 91)
NOTES: There is a reference to "Yankee Doodle" in a comic opera of 1767 ("The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity" by Andrew Barton), but given the references in the common version to the continental army and "Captain Washington," the piece as commonly sung can hardly predate the Revolutionary War.
Krythe gives an extensive summary of the stories told about the song's origins, including a similar piece of doggerel allegedly dating to the time of Cromwell (died 1658). Most of them must be regarded as folkloric. Similarly Spaeth, in his _A History of Popular Music in America_, devotes thousands of words (pp.15-21) to the known history and alleged antecedents of the song. The sum, as Spaeth makes abundantly clear, tells us very little. We must confess that we really don't know the history of the song.
Laura Ingalls Wilder had a curious version (_Little House in the Big Woods_, chapter 2) with a chorus I have not seen elsewhere: "And I'll sing Yankee Doodle-de-do, and I'll sing Yankee Doodle" (x2). This portion of the Little House books is fictional (Laura did not live in Wisconsin at the age described), and so we cannot date the song, but it is presumably traditional.
This "Yankee Doodle" is obviously not to be confused with the 1812 song "The Constitution and the Guerriere," sometimes titled "Yankee Doodle Dandy-O." - RBW
I have not listed all the [broadside] variants ("Yankee Doodle No.2," "Yankee Doodle No.3," and others including an "Original Yankee Doodle") You can find them among the Bodleian and LOCSinging collections.
Broadside LOCSinging sb40592b: 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.
Broadsides LOCSinging hc00037b and Bodleian Harding B 31(128) are duplicates. - BS
File: LxA521
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NAME: Yankee Doodle Dandy-O: see The Constitution and the Guerriere [Laws A6] (File: LA06)
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NAME: Yankee Dutchman, The: see Poor Schnapps (File: R218)
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NAME: Yankee John, Stormalong (Liza Lee)
DESCRIPTION: Pulling shanty. Singer says that Liza Lee promised to marry him. He shipped out but promised her a ring, etc. Now she's jilted him. Remaining verses on general sailing themes. Chorus: "Yan-kee John, Storm-along." Colcord says this is of Negro origin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor courting separation floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Colcord, p. 60, "Liza Lee" (1 fragment, 1 tune-quoted from Sharp-EFC)
Hugill, pp. 80, "Yankee John, Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 74]
Sharp-EFC, XXXVI, p. 41, "Liza Lee" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, LIZALEE*
Roud #4698
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Hundred Years Ago" (lyrics)
NOTES: Recognized mostly by its choruses. The lyrics mostly float, with Hugill's version being about half "A Hundred Years Ago." - RBW
File: Hugi080
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NAME: Yankee Land
DESCRIPTION:  A Belfast woman is seduced by "a sailor from a distant port" and said "he'd take me far away to his happy home in Yankee Land." We are left believing he reneges.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: seduction America sailor betrayal
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 96, "Yankee Land" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: GrMa096
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NAME: Yankee Man-of-War (II), The: see Paul Jones the Privateer [Laws A3] (File: LA03)
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NAME: Yankee Man-of-War (III), The
DESCRIPTION: Describes a battle between an unnamed ship captained by John Paul Jones and an (also unnamed) English man-of-war. Jones chases down the man-of-war, catches up at 11 a.m., they fight "yardarm to yardarm" for five hours till the English flag comes down
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: navy ship battle foc's'le
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 180-181, "The Yankee Man-of-War II" (1 text)
Roud #625
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Paul Jones, the Privateer" [Laws A3] (subject of John Paul Jones)
cf. "Paul Jones's Victory" [Laws A4] (subject of John Paul Jones)
NOTES: Harlow listed this along with another "Yankee Man-of-War" (aka "Paul Jones the Privateer" [Laws A3]) though the words and meter is different, and the text clearly describes a different battle.  [Roud nonetheless lumps them, probably taking Harlow's word for it. - RBW]
The only battle I could find that might fit what's described here is one that took place on April 24, 1778 when Jones, captaining the _Ranger_, the captured the HMS _Drake_ off the coast of Ireland. However, that battle actually lasted only an hour or so, not five as this song describes. - SL
Some of this may be due to inaccurate reporting of what Jones said and did. Samuel Eliot Morison's biography _John Paul Jones_ (1959; Time-Life edition printed 1981) repeatedly laments the miserable state of Jones biographies, at one point he accuses a writer of "complete fabrication," adding that this author "found it easier to write Jones's letters himself than use the genuine ones in the Library of Congress." This does not, of course, prove that Morison's biography is accurate (though his reputation is high) -- but it proves that our sources as a whole are unreliable.
For a (largely Morison-derived) biography of Jones, see "Paul Jones's Victory" [Laws A4]. - RBW
File: Harl180
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NAME: Yankee Man-of-War, The: see The British Man-of-War (File: FSC013)
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NAME: Yankee Manufactures
DESCRIPTION: "I wish I was in Yankee lad, And was a boy again, sirs... I'd never wander from my home... But stay at home, eat pumpkin pie Of Yankee manufacture." The singer boasts of things "of Yankee manufacture:" Pretty girls, George Washington, British defeats
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Songs of Yesterday)
KEYWORDS: bragging patriotic nonballad food
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 17, 1775 - American defeat at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Americans are pushed from their positions, but inflict heavy casualties on the British, and so feel they have earned some bragging rights.
Jan 8, 1815 - Battle of New Orleans. Although a peace had already been signed, word had not yet reached Louisiana, which Pakenham sought to invade. Andrew Jackson's backwoodsmen easily repulse Pakenham
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 535-536, "Yankee Manufactures" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: BNEF535
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NAME: Yankee Retreat, The
DESCRIPTION: "The very next morning we marched very slow" and attacked the Yankees through brush and thorn. "General Averil" tries to encourage the troops, but "Jackson" pushes on
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 1-4, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCox 67, "The Yankee Retreat" (1 text)
Roud #5458
NOTES: With only two stanzas to work with, and no actual plot surviving, it's hard to tell what this song is about. Its connection with the Battle of Chancellorsville seems certain, however. In the first stanza, the singer reports "Fighting through briers, fighting through thorn, Such fighting I never saw since I was born."
The above description largely restricts the context to the "Wilderness" battles of Chancellorsville and the Wilderness. (The western battle of Chickamauga was also fought in a forest, but it doesn't fit the generals.) "Stonewall"Jackson was killed at the former (where he led the grand outflanking march which gave the Confederates victory), so it must be the battle involved.
"General Averil" is presumably William Woods Averell (1832-1900), who led a Union cavalry division. His troops had been expected to go on a raid before Chancellorsville, but bad weather held him up. As a result, he was placed in charge of scouting the Union right wing. Averell reported to Union commander Joseph Hooker that the Federal right flank was impassable. Jackson proved Averell wrong, and Hooker relieved him (though, in the grand Union tradition, Averell was reinstated and promoted -- only to be relieved by Sheridan in 1864 for lack of aggressiveness). - RBW
File: JHCox067
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NAME: Yankee Shore
DESCRIPTION: "As I roved out one morning, being in the lovely month of May," the singer meets a girl. If she'd marry, he would take her to America. Though her father agrees, her parents grieve "when I took her from her parents and land her safe on the Yankee shore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage emigration beauty sea America Ireland father mother sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 233-234, "Yankee Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6462
File: Pea233
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NAME: Yankee Tars
DESCRIPTION: Nature has bestowed the U.S. with every possible blessing, including "true Yankee hearts." A Navy is needed to "protect from each insolent foe." Examples of how "Yankee tars shall their country protect." Verses end with Dreadnaught's "derry down" line.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1902 (S. B. Luce's _Naval Songs_)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Nature has bestowed the U.S. with every possible blessing, including "true Yankee hearts." A Navy is needed to "protect from each insolent foe." Examples of how "Yankee tars shall their country protect." Verses end with Dreadnaught's "derry down" line. Two verses cite the battle between the Constitution and the Guerriere.
KEYWORDS: navy sailor America
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 189-190, "Yankee Tars" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9167
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Constitution and the Guerriere" [Laws A6] (partial story) and references there
cf. "The Dreadnaught" [Laws D13] (tune)
File: Harl189
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NAME: Yankees Are Coming, The
DESCRIPTION: "The Yankees are coming! Away! Which way? Who saw them? Do tell us. And what did they?... Fifteen hundred, they say, and they are at Lamar." The people's fear is mentioned, as well as the unionists' entry into the town and their determination
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Hudson)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar soldier derivative
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hudson 124, pp. 264-265, "The Yankees Are Coming" (1 text)
Roud #4503
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Campbells Are Coming" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Campbells Are Coming (File: FSWB281B)
NOTES: The references in this song make the historical situation hard to determine. The only specific names are:
Lamar (place name; there is a Lamar, Mississippi, but also one in Missouri). Both were the sites of small skirmishes: The one in Missouri on August 24 and November 5, 1862, both very small; the one in Mississippi on November 12, 1862 and only slightly larger (it involved the equivalent of a single brigade).
Mitchell (presumably a Confederate soldier, but the Confederacy never had a general of that name; the Union had a General Ormsby M. Mitchel who fought in the west but died 1862)
Grant (Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded at Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign)
Jayhawkers (usually refers to soldiers in Kansas or Missouri)
Vicksburg (the key to Confederate control of the Mississippi)
Pemberton (John C. Pemberton, the commander of the Vickburg garrison).
My best guess is that this refers to Benjamin H. Grierson's Mississippi raid of April 17-May 2, 1863, in which some 1700 soldiers raced from Tennessee to New Orleans, cutting railroads and spreading confusion. This helped Grant get his forced in position for the final attack on Vicksburg. But other possibilities cannot be discounted, especially if (as seems possible, since the song seems to shift between Union and Confederate persepectives) two songs have mixed. - RBW
File: Hud124
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NAME: Yarmouth Fishermen's Song, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of a tough voyage, with high winds and seas, and few fish. Another ship comes close and cuts their anchor cable; their ropes catch fire. They limp into harbor, but proudly return to sea the next day. Singer toasts the master and crew
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recorded from Harry Cox)
KEYWORDS: fishing sea ship drink sailor worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #2434
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Yarmouth Fishermen's Song" (on LastDays)
NOTES: According to the notes to the Harry Cox recording "What Will Become of England," Cox learned this song, "composed by one of his father's shipmates... from his father. Harry couldn't remember all the verses, however, and complete the song to the best of his ability." - RBW
File: RcTYFS
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NAME: Yarn of the Nancy Bell, The: see The Fate of the Nancy Bell (File: Harl194)
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NAME: Yavipai Pete (Old Iron Pants Pete)
DESCRIPTION: Cowboy Yavipai (Iron Pants) Pete is refused a job because he's not tough enough for the job. Pete lassos a bear with barbed wire, rides it back to the ranch (with a rattlesnake for a quirt) and asks whether he can have the job now. The rancher hires him
AUTHOR: Curley Fletcher
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Curley Fletcher, "Songs of the Sage")
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Yavipai (Iron Pants) Pete is described, a rough and rowdy but skilled cowboy. Refused a job by a rancher, who says he's not tough enough for the job, he lassos a bear with barbed wire, rides it back to the ranch (with a rattlesnake for a quirt) and asks whether he can have the job now. The rancher hires him, noting that the bear had eaten the range boss the previous night
KEYWORDS: travel clothes death farming work talltale animal boss cowboy
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Harry Jackson, "Old Iron Pants Pete" (on HJackson1)
NOTES: Jackson reports that this was originally an Arizona song, "Yavipi Pete," but that he and his fellow Wyoming ranch-hands renamed it, "Old Iron Pants Pete" and substituted local place names. - PJS
File: RcOIPP
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NAME: Yaw, Yaw, Yaw!: see Ja, Ja, Ja! (File: Doe086)
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NAME: Ye Ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar: see Abdul the Bulbul Emir (I) (File: LxA341)
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NAME: Ye Gentlemen of England (I) [Laws K2]
DESCRIPTION: The singer wishes to remind the nobility of the dangers faced by seamen. He cites his own example. A storm off Ram's Head runs nine English ships aground. The largest ship (the Coronation?) loses almost all her crew, and the others are hardly better off
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1686
KEYWORDS: ship storm sailor
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws K2, "Ye Gentlemen of England I"
Flanders/Olney, pp. 193-195, "You Gentlemen of England Fair" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 66, "Ye Gentlemen of England" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 138, "You Gentlemen of England" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, pp. 47-49, "When the Stormy Winds Do Blow" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. BBI, ZN3028, "You Gentleman of England, that lives at home at ease"
DT 555, GENENGLF
Roud #1803
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bay of Biscay, Oh" [Laws K3]
cf. "Ye Parliament of England (I)"
cf. "Pretty Nancy of London (Jolly Sailors Bold)"
cf. "The Soldier and the Sailor" (theme)
cf. "We Shepherds Are the Best of Men" (stucture and theme:virtue and courage of an occupational group)
File: LK02
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NAME: Ye Guardian Powers (Nancy Wilson)
DESCRIPTION: "Ye guardian powers that rule above, And know how fondly I do love, God grant to ease my tottering pain...." The girl's love has been banished by his father's command. She grieves and laments his absence at length
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love separation father
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 753, "Ye Guardian Powers" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 511-513, "Ye Guardian Powers" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 753A)
Roud #7397
NOTES: Randolph quotes Ozark folklore to the effect that this piece was written by a girl named Nancy Wilson "who committed suicide near Frankfort, Ky., in the early years of the nineteenth century."
One informant gave the story in even more detail: Nancy Wilson, an orphan, was hired by a wealthy family as a servant. The son of the household fell in love with her; the parents disapproved of the match. When he slept with her, they sent him away. She wrote this poem, then hanged herself. He came home for her, and hanged himself when he learned she was dead. Naturally, disasters followed for the family.
One can only suspect that this story is derived from a few dozen other similar ballads, e.g. "The Silver Dagger (I)" [Laws G21] - RBW
File: R753
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NAME: Ye Landlords of Ireland
DESCRIPTION: The singer goes to America, then returns to Ireland -- to find that his mother had died in poverty. He kills the landlord to avenge her. Once again he flees, but sends a warning to the landlords that revenge is coming
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: poverty rambling murder death poverty revenge landlord
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 224-225, "Ye Landlords of Ireland" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA224
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NAME: Ye Loyal Lovers
DESCRIPTION: A rich farmer's daughter loves Pat Molloy. When her father wouldn't agree to the marriage he enlists. He promises to marry her when he returns. She proves true but he returns married from "India's burning shore." Young maid: Never trust "a rovin' blade"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: courting infidelity marriage promise war separation India father return
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 19, "Ye Loyal Lovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9232
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Brave Irish Lad" (tune) (OLochlainn-More)
File: OLcM019
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NAME: Ye Maidens of Ontario: see Maids of Simcoe (Ontario) (File: Doe241)
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NAME: Ye Mar'ners All: see Ye Mariners All (File: VWL103)
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NAME: Ye Mariners All
DESCRIPTION: Singer, a sailor, describes the joys of booze and urges all to share them.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1838
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 103, "Ye Mar'ners All" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MARNERSA*
Roud #1191
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A Jug of This
File: VWL103
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NAME: Ye Noble Big Pine Tree
DESCRIPTION: A conversation between a singer and a majestic pine. The singer admits the tree's ancient dignity, but tells it of how the loggers will attack it and take it down, then goes on to the fate of the wood
AUTHOR: William T. Allen (Shan T. Boy)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: work logger
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 12, "Ye Noble Big Pine Tree" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Rick062 (Partial)
NOTES: Rickaby concedes that this piece, by the author of "The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine" [Laws C2] and "The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire" [Laws C11] is probably not traditional, but includes it as a sample of Allen's work.
Most of Allen's work has a quirky side, and this is no exception, with lines such as "Your fall will sound like distant thunder, And fill the birds and squirrels with wonder...." "But seeing you're so sound and healthy, You'll make some lumberman more wealthy." But it seems more serious than most of his work. The tune is listed as "Will the Weaver." - RBW
File: Rick062
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NAME: Ye Parliament of England (I)
DESCRIPTION: The Americans present their claims against England: First limiting trade, then impressing American sailors, then insulting American captains. The Americans of course have gone to war, and mention their naval victories
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Shay, though undated manuscripts are much older)
KEYWORDS: navy patriotic war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1812-1815 - War of 1812
Aug 19, 1812 - the 44-gun U.S.S. _Constitution_ defeats and captures the 38-gun H.M.S. _Guerriere_ in the north Atlantic
Oct 18, 1812 - sloop U.S.S. _Wasp_ engaged with sloop H.M.S. _Frolic_ off North America; _Frolic_ is rescued by the arrival of the British ship of the line _Poictiers,_ which captures the _Wasp_
Oct 25, 1812 - the 44-gun U. S. S. _United States,_ commanded by Stephen Decatur, defeats the 38-gun H. M. S. _Macedonian_ in the mid-Atlantic
Dec 29, 1812 - U. S. S. _Constitution_ defeats the 38-gun H. M. S. _Java_ off Bahia, Brazil
Feb 24, 1813 - U. S. S. _Hornet_ defeats H. M. S. _Peacock_
Sep 5, 1813 - U. S. S. _Enterprise_, an experimental ship, fights an indecisive battle with H. M. S. _Boxer_
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 195-196, "Ye Parliament of England" (1 text)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 278-279, "Ye Parliaments of England" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 158-160, "Ye Parliament of England" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 128-130, "Ye Parliament of England" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, PARLENG*
Roud #2078
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ye Gentlemen of England (I)" [Laws K2]
cf. "Charge the Can Cheerily" (theme, ships)
NOTES: This ballad correctly identifies the American complaints that led to the War of 1812: restrictions on trade and the pressing of American seamen. It also highlights several small victories of the American navy (but ignores assorted American defeats, as well as the fact that many American ships, including the _United States_, were forced to stay in port for most of the war due to British blockade. The American fleet, composed of nothing larger than a frigate, in fact had no ability to challenge the British fleet of ships of the line).
Based on the events recounted, it would appear that this piece began life as a broadside in late 1812 or early 1813 (this based on the fact that it mentions the _Essex_ positively; the _Essex_ beat the _Albert_ in 1812 but was defeated by _Phoebe_ and _Cherub_ in 1814; see Donald R. Hickey, _The War of 1812_, pp. 156-157); it is possible that later versions added additional battles. - RBW
File: FO195
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NAME: Ye Parliaments of England: see Ye Parliament of England (I) (File: FO195)
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NAME: Ye Sons of Australia
DESCRIPTION: "Ye sons of Australia, forget not the brave, And gather wildflowers to place on their graves. They were four daring outlaws...." In praise of the Kelly gang. It mentions the hunt for them, and how Kelly's sister Kate warned them. The ending is implied
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (recording, Phil Shirley)
KEYWORDS: Australia outlaw death burial
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 99-100, "Ye Sons of Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 68-69, "Ye Sons of Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5475
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Kelly Gang" (subject)
cf. "Kelly Song (Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly)" (subject)
cf. "Kelly Was Their Captain" (subject)
cf. "My Name is Edward Kelly" (subject)
cf. "Ballad of the Kelly Gang" (subject)
cf. "Stringybark Creek" (subject)
cf. "The Kelly Gang Were Strong" (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Kate Kelly's Song
File: MA099
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NAME: Ye Sons of Columbia: see Fuller and Warren [Laws F16] (File: LF16)
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NAME: Ye Sons of Old Ireland
DESCRIPTION: "Ye sons of old Ireland, I'm sorry to hear, There is no money stirring this present new year." The gentry no longer eat "turtle and wine ... Their bellies that swelled with Napoleon's renown Will grow flat like old air-bags since Boney is down"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Joyce's _Old Irish Folk Music and Songs_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: war commerce nonballad political Napoleon hardtimes food
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 198, "Ye Sons of Old Ireland" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan: "Times were good during the Napoleonic era as the war effort generated massive demand for goods and services in Ireland. An economic slump ensued after Napoleon's defeat as the war machine was wound down and armies were demobilized."[An interesting contrast to the situation presented in songs such as "The Troubles." From what I've read, Irish industry didn't benefit all that much, but the army did help soak up some of the vast surplus population -- for a while. - RBW] This is like the lines from "The Grand Conversation on Napoleon": "Napoleon he was a friend to heroes, both young and old, He caus'd the money for to fly wherever he did go." Here also is the main theme of "The Grand Conversation Under the Rose": "Come stir up the wars, and our trade will be flourishing." 
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, "You Sons of Old Ireland" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) - BS
File: Moyl198
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NAME: Ye're Noo on Bogieside
DESCRIPTION: "Assist me, all ye muses, For to compose a song, 'Tis of a tyrant farmer Near Gartly did belong." The farmer continually demands more effort for small reward, reminding the staff "Ye're noo on Bogieside." The singer looks forward to the day he is free
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes farming
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 281, "Ye're Noo on Bogieside" (1 text)
Roud #5600
File: Ord281
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NAME: Yea Ho, Little Fish
DESCRIPTION: From the sailor to the fish: "Yea ho, little fish, don't cry, don't cry; Yea ho, little fish, you'll be a whale by and by." The singer talks of the voyage, of how the fish try to avoid capture, and of the love whose picture is "tattooed all over my chest"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953
KEYWORDS: fishing sea
FOUND_IN: Australia Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 119-120, 133, "The Little Fish" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Manifold-PASB, p. 5, "The Little Fish" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, YEAFISH
Roud #5477
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Farewell, Little Fishes" (on PeteSeeger30)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Meredith and Anderson claim that this song is probably Portugese; their only basis for this, however, is the vague recollection of one of their informants. - RBW
File: MA119
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NAME: Year of Jubalo, The: see Kingdom Coming (The Year of Jubilo) (File: R230)
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NAME: Year of Jubilo, The: see Kingdom Coming (The Year of Jubilo) (File: R230)
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NAME: Year of Seventy One, The
DESCRIPTION: New Years 1971. Bob Mack and Mickey ride Bob's tractor to Mass but it will not pass "Maggie's" where Bob always stops for a drink. Then, drunk, he drives into a ditch, losing Mickey to the road. Mickey swears he'll not ride in the tractor for a while.
AUTHOR: Jim McGonigle (source: McBride)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: drink humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 71, "The Year of Seventy One" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: McB1071
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NAME: Yellow Bittern, The: see An Buinnean Bui (File: HHH830)
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NAME: Yellow Gals: see Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go) (File: Doe062)
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NAME: Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go)
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Refrain: "Doodle let me go girls, doodle let me go, Hooraw my yaller girls, doodle let me go." Verses have dancing/drinking themes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty drink dancing
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Hugill, pp. 380-381, "Doodle Let Me Go" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 288-289]
Sharp-EFC, VIII, p. 9, "Do Let Me Go" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOODLEGO
Roud #3221
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go)" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Do Let Me Go, Gels
NOTES: I've heard these lyrics sung, almost verbatim, as part of the "Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go)" family. But as that is an immigration song, and this is about sailing conditions, I am separating them while noting that they do seem to cross-fertilize. - RBW
File: Hugi380
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NAME: Yellow Handkerchief, The (Flash Company)
DESCRIPTION: Singer once loved a young girl who wore a yellow handkerchief. Unfortunately, he kept "flash company", and he is now ruined and destitute; "Like a flower in the garden all my color has gone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Gardiner coll.)
KEYWORDS: disease love clothes lover floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 360, "The Yellow Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 32, "The Yellow Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune); also 58, "The False-Hearted Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FLASHCMP* (FALSHART*)
Roud #954
RECORDINGS:
Phoebe Smith, "Yellow Handkerchief" (on Voice11)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4190), "Flash Company" ("First I loved William, and then I loved John"), Thomas Smith (?), n.d
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, No, Not I" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Green Grows the Laurel (Green Grow the Lilacs)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: MacColl and Seeger, for some inexplicable reason, identify their fragement-of-a-fragment with Laws O 37 ("Mary on the Silvery Tide"). Their version is clearly not a unity, but since it has the chorus and form of this song (and the other bits and pieces are too small to identify), here it files.
Including their text "The False-Hearted Lover" is even more of a stretch, but it consists of one verse certainly from this song, one that seems unique, and four floaters; where else do you file it? - RBW
File: K360
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NAME: Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go)
DESCRIPTION: The Irish adventurer comes to Mr. Tapscott, seeking passage to America. Tapscott arranges for (his) voyage, (charging an exorbitant price and) leaving the young Irishman to be plundered on the voyage. The youth vows to stay on the American shore
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1870
KEYWORDS: sailor emigration robbery
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 61-64, "Heave Away" (3 texts, 1 tune, but the last is "Heave Away, Me Johnnies")
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 73-74, "We're All Bound to Go" (1 text)
Hugill, pp. 298-301, "Lay Me Down," "Across the Western Ocean," "The Irish Emigrant", "Heave Away" (4 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 222-224]
O'Conor, p. 56, "Yellow Meal" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 407, "Heave Away" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment of a shanty which could go here, or with "Heave Away, Me Johnnies," or perhaps somewhere else)
SHenry H827, pp. 100-101, "Yellow Meal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 98, "We're All Away to Sea" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 485-486, "Heave Away" (1 fragmentary text, recognized by the chorus line and perhaps only slightly related, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, p. 325, "Heave Away" (1 text -- a fragment of a shanty which could go here, or with "Heave Away, Me Johnnies," or perhaps somewhere else)
DT, YELLMEAL*
Roud #15778
RECORDINGS:
Richard Maitland, "Heave Away" (AFS, 1939; on LC26)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Heave Away, Me Johnnies" (tune, meter, chorus)
cf. "Down in the Coal Mine" (part of tune)
cf. "Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go)" (lyrics)
NOTES: The brothers William and James Tapscott (the former based in Britain and the latter in New York) ran a business arranging passage from Britain to America. (Often this involved shipping a girl from Ireland to meet her love, who had already gone to America.) As their clients were often completely ignorant, they frequently were able to make a very tidy profit indeed.
The "Yellow Meal" (pronounced "Yellow Male") versions of the text seem to have been adapted from a stage version.
Sam Henry has circumstantial details of the voyage of the Joshua A. Walker, mentioned in his text. Many versions, however, omit references to this ship. - RBW
File: Doe062
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NAME: Yellow Rose of Taegu, The
DESCRIPTION: A reluctant soldier meets the Yellow Rose of Taegu, a good two-dollar whore, who makes him forget the perils of war. 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy sex soldier whore derivative
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 410-412, "The Yellow Rose of Taegu" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, YLLOWTX4*
Roud #10405
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yellow Rose of Texas" (tune)
File: EM410
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NAME: Yellow Rose of Texas, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is going to see his "Yellow Rose" -- "The sweetest rose of color this (darkey) ever knew; Her eyes are bright as diamonds; They sparkle like the dew." He promises that "if I ever find her, we never more will part."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1858
KEYWORDS: love courting separation reunion
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 253-257, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-CivWar, pp. 28-29, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 20-21, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1 text)
Hugill, p. 561, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 272, "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" (1 text)
JHCox 128, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 661+, "The Yellow Rose of Texas"
DT, YELLOWTX*
ST RJ19253 (Full)
Roud #2800
RECORDINGS:
Gene Autry, "Yellow Rose of Texas" (Melotone M-12700/Vocalion 5498/Conqueror 8096 [as Gene Autry & Jimmy Long], 1933; OKeh 04998, 1939)
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies, "Yellow Rose of Texas" (Decca 5273, 1936)
DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, "Yellow Rose of Texas" (Gennett 6143, 1927)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Yellow Rose of Texas" [instrumental] (on NLCR07)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Yellow Rose of Taegu" (tune)
cf. "The Bouncing Girl in Fogo" (theme, lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
The Yellow Rose of Taegu (File: EM410)
Song of the Texas Rangers (NOT Laws A8; War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, pp. 175-176)
NOTES: Extremely popular with Southern troops in the Civil War, and frequently parodied, the first known publication of this piece occurred in 1858 (published by William A. Pond). That version appears to be a minstrel piece; in it, both lovers are "darkeys." The only attribution is to "J.K.," who was and still remains unknown.
It is interesting that, in the Civil War, the troops often sang, "She's the sweetest rose of color this SOLDIER (or, later, FELLOW) ever knew." This would hardly have been acceptable to the Southern gentry; it was miscegenation. - RBW
James "Sparky" Rucker places this song in the period of the Mexican War [properly, the Texas rebellion - RBW, with thanks to Cirk R. Bejnar], stating that the "Yellow Rose" was Santa Anna's mulatto (American) girlfriend, who stole his battle plans before the battle of San Jacinto and delivered them to the American army. - PJS
File: RJ19253
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NAME: Yeo Heave Ho!
DESCRIPTION: Capstan shanty. "Yeo heave ho! Round th' capstan go. Heave, men, with a will. Tramp an' tramp it still. The Anchor must be weighed (x2). Yeo heave ho! Yeo heave ho!" Similarly, "Yeo heave ho, cheerily we go." "...Raise her from below"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (L.A. Smith, _Music of the Waters_)
KEYWORDS: shanty ship
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 318-319, "Yeo Heave Ho!" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 240]
Roud #13269
NOTES: Given its inclusion in "Music of the Waters" and, according to Hugill, its form and tune, this may be one of the earliest examples of a capstan shanty, and may also be the sing-out referred to in Dana's _Two Years Before the Mast._ - SL
File: Hugi318
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NAME: Yew-Pine Mountains, The: see Swannanoah Tunnel (File: CW166)
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NAME: Yo Ho Ho: see Dead Man's Chest  (File: LxA512)
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NAME: Yo Ho, Yo Ho
DESCRIPTION: In this formula song, the singer tells of placing his hand successively on a woman's toe, knee, thigh, etc., and the results of his quest.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: The type appears in 1661, in Merry Drollery, as "There Were Three Birds"; then in the 1838 chapbook The Fancy! A Fanciful Collection of Fancy, Flash, and Amatory Songs as "Billy Go Leary"
KEYWORDS: bawdy seduction sex
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada Britain(England) US(Ap,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 318-323, "Yo Ho, Yo Ho" (1 text, 1 tune plus 1 text for "Billy Go Leary")
Thomas-Makin', p. 31, (no title) (1 short text, which might or might not be this, but it is suggestive that it breaks off just as the sailor promises to tell a tale)
Roud #5586
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "There Were Three Birds"
cf. "Drive It On"
cf. "Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo" (Cecil Sharp's rewrite)
cf. "He Kept A-Kissin' On"
cf. "He Gave Her Kisses One"
cf. "How Ashamed I Was"
cf. "A-Rovin'"
cf. "The Girl in Portland Street" (plot, theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Laid My Hand upon Her Knee
NOTES: This song, as old as any in the English-language canon, survives in multiple variants sung to a variety of melodies. - EC
It appears Roud lumps this with "Gentry Johnny My Jingalo." That song has been so heavily redacted by Sharp that I can't lump them despite their, um, points of contact. - RBW
File: EM318
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NAME: Yon Green Vallee: see Yon Green Valley (File: K168)
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NAME: Yon Green Valley
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of a young man who courted her and swore he'd be true; for 11 months he was, but then left. She reminds him of his promise, but he must obey his "father's counsel." She recommends the single life, for "a contented mind bears no slavery."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: loneliness courting love sex marriage promise warning farewell abandonment baby lover oldmaid floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Hebr)) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 168, "Yon Green Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 86-87, "Yon Green Valley" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 51, "Yon Green Vallee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 72, "Green Valley (The First Young Man Came A-Courting Me)" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GOBOUND
Roud #2125
RECORDINGS:
Marie Hare, "Green Valley" (on MRMHare01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rambleaway" (plot)
cf. "Must I Go Bound" (lyrics)
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] (lyrics)
File: K168
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NAME: Yonder Come Day
DESCRIPTION: Short phrases punctuated by the phrase "Yonder come day," with chorus "Yonder come day, day done broke, now, in my soul." Examples: "Yonder come day, I heard him say (x3)"; "It's a dying day"; "It's a burying day" ; "I was on my knees"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 321-323, "Yonder Come Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: SBoA321
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NAME: Yonder Comes a Courteous Knight: see The Baffled Knight [Child 112] (File: C112)
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NAME: Yonder Comes a Georgia Girl
DESCRIPTION: "Yonder comes a Georgia girl, Don't she look funny? She's got on a roundabout Without a cent of money." "Once I could have married you, Once I could my honey, When you wore your roundabout With a pocket full of money."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: clothes money courting
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 83, "Yonder Comes a Georgia Girl" (1 text)
Roud #7884
File: Br3083
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NAME: Yonder Comes My Pretty Little Girl: see The Roving Gambler [Laws H4] (File: LH04)
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NAME: Yonder Comes the Devil
DESCRIPTION: The Devil, with his pitchfork and shovel, tries to dig up potatoes in the turnpike road. "And the road was so hard and he couldn't get 'em up. So yonder run the Devil with his tail cocked up"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1973 (recording, Joe Jones)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad nonsense talltale Devil food
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Joe Jones, "Yonder Comes the Devil" (on Voice14)
File: RcYCtDev
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NAME: Yonder Comes the High Sheriff
DESCRIPTION: "Yonder comes the high sheriff ridin' after me, Ridin' after me, yes, ridin' after me. Yonder comes... O it's captain, I don't want to go." "Been down to Frankfort servin' out my time...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg; recording, Ollis Martin)
KEYWORDS: prison police
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 213, "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" (1 short text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Ollis Martin, "Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down" (Gennett 6306, 1928; rec. 1927; on StuffDreams1)
Poplin Family, "Goin' Back to Sumter" (on Poplin01)
NOTES: Gotta Travel On" became enormously popular in the 1950s-1960s folk revival, to the point where it was a parodied cliche; the song was always credited to Paul Clayton. This song, though, is clearly its source. Ollis Martin's recording seems to have been made only a few weeks before Sandburg's book was published. - PJS
File: San213
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NAME: Yonder Goes My Nora
DESCRIPTION: "Yon'er goes my Nora, gittin' drunk ergin (x2), Oh, Miss Sudie! She's got good booty, Di'mon' rings and fine clo'es too, But dat Nigger ain't gonna get Nothin' from me. Oh, dat woman can't friss me. Yon'er goes my Nora, gittin' drunk ergin."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: drink love clothes
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 214, (no title, but filed with the "Shine Reel") (1 short text)
File: ScNF214A
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NAME: Yonder Hill There Is a Widow: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) AND The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: E098)
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NAME: Yonder Mountain: see Pretty Saro (File: R744)
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NAME: Yorkshire Bite, The: see The Crafty Farmer [Child 283; Laws L1] (File: C283)
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NAME: Yorkshire Boy, The: see The Crafty Farmer [Child 283; Laws L1] (File: C283)
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NAME: You Are False, But I'll Forgive You: see Forget You I Never May (File: R737)
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NAME: You Boys O' Callieburn
DESCRIPTION: America has "wiled" the boys of Callieburn to leave adored Machrihanish and their parents behind. Rab MacKinlay has already gone. The boys know their parents will grieve but won't disown them. The boys are named.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (recording, Willie Scot)
KEYWORDS: emigration parting America moniker nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #6932
RECORDINGS:
Willie Scot, "You Boys O' Callieburn" (on Voice04)
NOTES: Callieburn and Machrihanish are on the Kintyre peninsula, Argyllshire, Scotland. - BS
File: RcYBoCal
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NAME: You Broken-Hearted Heroes: see Lovely Sally (You Broken-Hearted Heroes) (File: HHH549)
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NAME: You Cain't Lose-A Me, Cholly
DESCRIPTION: Mild nonsense. The singer visits Willie Winston's to court. He reports "rowin' and my gal went through" and they break the bottom of the boat. He cannot afford the girl, "She use up a bale of money ev'y week." Ends with a hog and sheep talking
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936
KEYWORDS: animal courting nonballad nonsense
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 264, "You Cain't Lose-A Me, Cholly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 214, (no title) (1 fragment, ending "You can't lose me, Charlie")
Roud #11658
File: LoF264
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NAME: You Call Me Dog, I Don't Care
DESCRIPTION: "You call me dog, I don' ker, Oh, my Lord! You call me dog, I don' ker, Oh, rockum jubalee!" "You call me cat, I don' ker...." "You call me mule...." "You call me snake...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: animal accusation
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 190, "You Call Me Dog, I Don' Ker" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: ScNF190A
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NAME: You Can Dig My Grave: see Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade (File: FSWB351A)
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NAME: You Can Run a Long Time
DESCRIPTION: The singer warns against disobeying God "You can run a long time... But your sins are going to find you out." He condemns the people around him, warns of various sins, accuses the listener of insufficient zeal, and otherwise makes an ass of himself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious warning
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 66, "You Can Run a Long Time" (1 text)
Roud #7868
File: Br3066
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NAME: You Can't Come Again: see The Rejected Lover [Laws P10] (File: LP10)
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NAME: You Can't Hurry God
DESCRIPTION: The singer advises prayer, hope, and patience in times of trouble: "You can't hurry God, why don't you wait, my brother? Just obey the word you have heard. Keep on calling him, for in some day or 'nother, He will come and answer prayer."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 172, "You Can't Hurry God" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa172 (Partial)
Roud #7489
File: Wa172
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NAME: You Can't Keep a Shantyboy Down
DESCRIPTION: "Kind friends, your attention I'll ask for a while, A few facts I endeavor to show...." The singer notes that the workers are what prop up the building of society; the wealthy have money, but aren't really needed, but "You can't keep a shantyboy downs."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865 (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: logger work drink money
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #62, "You Can't Keep a Shantyboy Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4464
NOTES: From the description, you might think this political. I don't think it is. It's just a sneer on the rich: They have money, but we don't need them, and where would they be without us? - RBW
File: FowL62
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NAME: You Canna Put It on to Sandy
DESCRIPTION: Sandy knows he's taken to be simple but in every case he is shown to be more clever than "anither fella." "I'm not sae green as you may seem, Did you think I'm soft as candy? ... you canna put it on to Sandy"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recorded by Willie Kemp, according to Hall, notes to Voice07)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: A chap comments on Sandy's red hair; Sandy offers him some to seed his own bald scalp. Sandy is watching ducks at a farm; a hunter offers him a pound for a shot at one of the ducks; Sandy takes the money; the hunter's shotgun kills 21 ducks and he apologizes; Sandy says he can shoot again because the ducks aren't his. Sandy leaves a play after act one because the programme says act two is a year later. Sandy gets along well with his wife; he takes no offense when he finds a man in bed with his wife; he says he plays the same game with that man's wife.
KEYWORDS: adultery hair farming hunting humorous nonballad bird wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5143
RECORDINGS:
Jimmy McBeath, "You Canna Put It on to Sandy" (on Voice07)
NOTES: Hall, notes to Voice07: "'You Canna Put It on to Sandy' has the series of episodal verses associated with songs from the variety theatre, but was probably put together by Willie Kemp, the entertainer from Oldmeldrum, who recorded it in 1930." - BS
File: RcYCPIOS
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NAME: You Caused Me to Lose My Mind: see In the Pines (File: LoF290)
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NAME: You Fair and Pretty Ladies: see Fair and Tender Ladies (File: R073)
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NAME: You Fight On
DESCRIPTION: "If your brother done you wrong, Take him to yourself alone; Tell him brother you done treated me wrong. You fight on, you fight on, with your sword in your hand, You fight on, yes, you fight on, Lawdy you fight on...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: brother religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 248-249, "You Fight On" (1 short text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This appears to me to be based -- very loosely -- on Matt. 18:15: "If a brother sins [against you], bring it to his attention when the two of you are alone."
Note: the words "against you" are omitted by the two oldest manuscripts. - RBW
File: San248
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NAME: You Got To Cross It For Yourself: see Lonesome Valley (File: Wa162)
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NAME: You Got to Move
DESCRIPTION: "You got to move (x2)... When God gets ready, you've got to move." In one form, "That preacher's got to move!" "That drunkard's got... " "I got..."  Whether high or low, policeman or prostitute, when the Lord gets ready, "you got to move"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (recording, Two Gospel Keys)
KEYWORDS: warning nonballad religious whore clergy police gods
FOUND_IN: US(MA,SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #16194
RECORDINGS:
Rev. Gary Davis, "You Got to Move" (on GaryDavis02)
Morning Star Hall Singers, "You Got to Move" (on SeaIslFF1)
Two Gospel Keys, "You've Got to Move" (1946; on Babylon)
File: RcYGtoMo
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NAME: You Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around: see The Hound Dog Song (File: R512)
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NAME: You Know Very Well What I Mean: see The Trooper Watering His Nag (File: RL044)
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NAME: You Lovers All
DESCRIPTION: The girl recalls how her father's anger "drove my love away" to North America. She steals 500 pounds from her father to buy passage across the seas. She does not know where to look, but by chance finds her love quickly; they are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation father emigration marriage reunion
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H525, p. 483, "You Lovers All" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1910
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Father's Servant Boy" [Laws M11] (plot)
cf. "Mullinabrone" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
North America
The Flowers of Enniskillen
NOTES: This song is very similar to "My Father's Servant Boy," the only substantial difference between the two being that, in this song, the girl and boy sail for America separately. Even the first few words are the same. "Lumpers" would undoubtedly list them as the same song (so, e.g., Roud).
The Index, however, follows a "splitting" policy. My personal suspicion, in any case, is that "My Father's Servant Boy" is the older song, and was rewritten as a broadside to produce this. (Note the presence of a broadside version in Wright.) The kinship could, of course, be the other way -- both look like broadsides, without much softening by tradition. But "My Father's Servant Boy" seems to be slightly more widespread, giving it a slightly greater chance of being original. - RBW
File: HHH525
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NAME: You Lovers All, to You I Call
DESCRIPTION: "You lovers all, to you I call. A story I will tell; How I, a swain, courted in vain A maid none could excel." "I fell in love so hard to move... But to my grief found no relief, for she was pitiless." The singer praises his love's great beauty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love beauty rejection
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 293, "You Lovers All, to You I Call" (1 text)
Roud #12200
File: Br3293
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NAME: You Must Live Holy
DESCRIPTION: "There's fathers and mothers all over the land, They're chewing and dipping as fast as they can... You must live holy and free from sin If you aim to get to glory and enter in...." Listeners are told how to live and told to read the Bible
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 643, "You Must Live Holy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7566
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Almost half of Randolph's text is devoted to the way women dress -- "with their hair bobbed off and their dresses to their knees." It seems clear that this version, at least, originated in the 1920s.
One wonders what the author would think of the styles of the late twentieth century. - RBW
File: R643
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NAME: You Never Miss the Water till the Well Runs Dry
DESCRIPTION: The singer remembers mother's lessons about economy: "Waste not, want not is the maxim I would teach... Do not let your chances like sunbeams pass you by, For you never miss the water...." Now married, he teaches his children the same lesson
AUTHOR: Rowland Howard
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925
KEYWORDS: youth money
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 125-126, "You Never Miss the Water till the Well Runs Dry" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, WASTENOT
Roud #5457
RECORDINGS:
Claude Sweet & Roy Davidson, "You'll Never Miss the Water" (Acme 1165, n.d.)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Waste Not, Want Not
File: SRW125
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NAME: You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Down by Sally's Garden)
DESCRIPTION: "You rambling boys of pleasure, give ear to those few lines I write. Although I'm a rover, and in roving I take great delight." Singer recounts finding and losing his love, and laments that his roving ways are incompatible with love and home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1813 (broadside Bodleian, Harding B 17(250b))
KEYWORDS: rambling love homesickness
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 79-81, "The Rambling Boys of Pleasure" (1 text)
Fowke/MacMillan 59, "Down by Sally's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 47, "Rambling Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 52, "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #386
RECORDINGS:
LOCSinging, sb40467b, "Rambling Boys of Pleasure," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859 
Bodleian, Harding B 17(250b), "Rambling Boys of Pleasure," J. Evans (London), 1780-1812; also Harding B 11(3222), Harding B 25(1596), Firth b.25(189), Harding B 16(219c), Harding B 15(250a), Firth c.18(237), Firth c.18(238), 2806 c.16(193), Firth c.18(235), Harding B 11(34), Harding B 16(220b), Harding B 20(22), Firth c.26(259), Harding B 28(144), "[The] Rambling Boys of Pleasure"; Johnson Ballads 614, Firth b.25(315), "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Down by the Sally Gardens" (lyrics)
NOTES: There are several examples of this in the Bodleian Library Broadsides Collection, dating from 1802 to 1892. Beginning around 1850 an additional verse began appearing going more or less like." "It was down by the salley gardens...." It is very likely this is the "half-remembered" verse that Yeats used to write "Down by the Sally Gardens." - SL
Of the Bodleian broadsides, "The Rambling Lover,"  Harding B 11(3222) c.1850, 2806 c.16(193) c.1850: include the line "Down by yon valley gardens."
Firth c.18(237) n.d., Firth c.18(238) 1850-1899: include the line "Down by yon sally garden."
Harding B 15(250a) 1858-1861, Firth c.18(238) 1850-1899, Harding B 11(34) n.d., Firth c.26(259) n.d.: include the line "It was down by Sally's gardens."
A closely related broadside, Bodleian, Firth c.18(234), "The Rambling Lover" ("Come all you gay and merry friends and stay with me while I do write"), unknown, n.d. includes the line "It was down by a flowery garden."
The one to compare to Yeats' is an unrelated broadside, Bodleian, Harding B 22(262), "Sally's Garden" ("It was down in Sally's garden"), unknown, n.d. It may be the same ballad as the illegible Bodleian, Harding B 25(1724), J.Jennings (London), 1790-1840. - BS
File: FowM059
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NAME: You Say You Are of Noble Race
DESCRIPTION: "You say you are of noble race And I of low degree. We are all of Adam's race; Pray, what more can we be?" Reportedly, the girl turns down the boy because her status is higher than his
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 59, "You Say You Are of Noble Race" (1 fragment)
Roud #7844
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, No, Not I" (theme)
File: Br3059
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NAME: You Shall Be Free (I): see Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Moanish Lady) (File: San011)
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NAME: You Shall Be Free (II): see Ain't No Use Workin' So Hard (File: DarNS329)
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NAME: You Shall Have a Horse to Ride: see All the Pretty Little Horses (File: LxU002)
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NAME: You Stole My Pard: see Old Betty Larkin (Betsy Larkin, You Stole My Pard, Steal Partners, Stole My Partner) (File: R586)
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NAME: You Talk About Your Greenbacks
DESCRIPTION: "You talk about your greenbacks being dollar bills, But you ought to see the Natchez when she passes Louisville." (Someone) talks about girls and how they make a living; the singer prepares to jump ship and his girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: river abandonment
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, p. 119, "You Talk About Yo' Greenbacks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10051
File: MWhee119
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NAME: You Wonder Why I'm a Hobo (Naw, I Don't Want to Be Rich)
DESCRIPTION: A list of reasons why the hobo doesn't want to be a conductor, a banker, a broker, a doctor, adding up to this: "I just don't want to be rich" (or to have to work).
AUTHOR: Carson J. Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recordings, Carson Robison)
KEYWORDS: hobo money work questions
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 461, "You Wonder Why I'm a Hobo" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Carson Robison, "Naw, I Don't Want to Be Rich" (Columbia 15547-D [issued under the pseudonym "Travelin' Jim Smith" as well as perhaps under Robison's own name], 1930) (Champion 15986/Supertone 9672, 1930) (Broadway 8274/Crown 3084 [both as Carson Robison Trio], 1931). Add: (Victor V-40226, 1930) (Brunswick 442, 1930) (OKeh 45537 [as "Naw! I Don't Wanna Be Rich"], 1931; rec. 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Who Said I Was a Bum?" (subject, attitude)
NOTES: I've also seen this credited to Mac McClintock. The attribution to Robison seems more likely, though; I suspect "Haywire Mac" merely recorded the piece and someone assumed he wrote it. - RBW
File: BRaF461
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NAME: You, You, You (Somewhere Somebody's Waiting)
DESCRIPTION: "Somewhere somebody's waiting for you, Somewhere somebody's heart is true, Sometime you'll love somebody who'll love you true, Somewhere somebody's waiting for you, you, you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 276, "You, You, You" (1 fragment)
Roud #16176
File: Br3276
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NAME: You're a Little Too Small
DESCRIPTION: Even very small girls won't consider the singer, saying "you're young I know, perhaps you may grow, At present you're a little too small." When he inherits a million and the girls call him he refuses because "at present I'm a little too small"
AUTHOR: Al Haynes (source: Meade, Spottswood and Meade)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (publication date, according to Meade, Spottswood and Meade)
KEYWORDS: courting bequest money humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 48, "A Little Too Small" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4349
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Tar Heels, "You're a Little Too Small" (Victor V40007, 1928)
NOTES: The description follows the McBride text. The Carolina Tarheels recording has the singer getting closer to marriage, without succeeding, but omits the inheritance.
Meade, Spottswood and Meade: _Country Music Sources_ by Guthrie T Meade Jr with Dick Spottswood and Douglas S. Meade (Chapel Hill, 2002), p. 445. They also cite Haun, Mildred, Cooke County [Tennesee?] Ballads and Songs (M.A. Thesis, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, Tenn., 1937)], p.431. - BS
File: McB1048
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NAME: You're from the Nation
DESCRIPTION: "You're from the Nation, an I'm from Arkansas, But I got the Battle Axe, an' I know you want a chaw." "It sure is good terbacker, we chaw it all the time, I'm goin' to buy some Battle Axe if I ever get a dime."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: travel drugs nonballad hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 585, "You're from the Nation" (1 text)
Roud #7671
NOTES: Randolph explains that Battle Axe is a brand of chewing tobacco. - RBW
File: R585
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NAME: You're the Man That Stole My Wife
DESCRIPTION: Fragment: "You're the man that stole my wife (x3), You shouldn't have 'er for to save your life."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: husband wife nonballad betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 172, "You're the Man That Stole My Wife" (1 text)
Roud #6582
File: BrII172
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NAME: You're Welcome as the Flowers in May
DESCRIPTION: The singer accuses Katie of calling him a rogue to her mother. He demonstrates this by stealing a kiss and trying to steal her heart. She calls that no theft; he is "welcome as the flowers in May." She says that they will marry if her mother consents
AUTHOR: J. E. Carpenter (per O'Conor)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor)
KEYWORDS: love courting flowers marriage
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H804, pp. 262-263, "You're Welcome as the Flowers in May" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 152, "You're Welcome as Flowers in May" (1 text)
Roud #6917
NOTES: Despite the similarity in titles (perhaps inspired by a common saying), this appears to have no relationship at all with the Randolph song "As Welcome as the Flowers in May." 
Dan J. Sullivan in 1902 published a song "You're As Welcome As the Flowers In May"; I don't know which of the two traditional songs of that title, if either, it represents. - RBW
File: HHH804
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NAME: You're Welcome To Me: see My Generous Lover (File: RcMGL)
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NAME: You've Got to Be a Lover of the Lord
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, you've got to be a lover of the Lord (x3) Or you won't get to heaven when you die."
AUTHOR: Charles Wesley [and William Cowper]/ music: R. H. Reeves
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (Sacred Harp hymnal)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 654, "You've Got to Be a Lover of the Lord" (1 fragment)
Roud #7577
RECORDINGS:
Huggins & Phillips Sacred Harp Singers, "Lover of the Lord" (Vocalion 5273, rec. 1928; on Babylon)
NOTES: The Huggins & Phillips Sacred Harp Singers recording adds a verse of Cowper's "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" to the song, probably to fill out the time on the record. - PJS
File: R654
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NAME: You've Got to Put on Airs: see Putting on Airs (File: R460)
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NAME: You've Got Your Big Gun, and I've Got Mine
DESCRIPTION: "You've got your big gun, and I've got mine. Just rap on the cartridge if you don't mind dying."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 501, "You've Got Your Big Gun, and I've Got Mine" (1 fragment)
Roud #11805
File: Br3501
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NAME: Youghall Harbour
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a beautiful girl as he walks toward Youghall. He asks a kiss; she refuses, explaining that her former lover has driven her from Youghall. She will have no more to do with men. He says his intentions are honorable
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor); the "Answers to Youghall Harbour" date to before 1825
KEYWORDS: courting beauty rejection
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H503, p. 273, "Youghall Harbour" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 95, "Yougall Harbor" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 198-199, "Youghall Harbour" (1 text, listed as a translation by Samuel Ferguson)
Roud #2734
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Answer to Youghal Harbour"
cf. "Foot and Mouth Disease" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Youghal Harbour
Yougal Harbour
NOTES: The versions of Youghall Harbour are so varied that I think they should be considered at least two ballads. [Though Roud lumps them. - RBW] Examples of "the other Youghall Harbors":
OLochlainn 8 and Bodleian, Harding B 28(20), "Answer to Youghall Harbour," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(2180), 2806 b.9(227), 2806 b.11(205), Harding B 25(2128), Firth b.27(11/12) View 1 of 2 [partly illegible], 2806 c.15(163), 2806 c.15(17), 2806 b.11(204), Harding B 19(3), "Youghal Harbour" ("As I roved out on a summer's morning") in which Nancy/Mary of Cappoquin has the singer's baby ["A darling baby for you I am rearing"] and is deserted by him twice. [This is in the Index as "Answer to Youghal Harbour."]
Bodleian, Harding B 25(2126), "Answer to Youghall Harbour," Angus (Newcastle), 1774-1825 in which the singer considers leaving "the fair maid of Caperqueen" at the altar;
Bodleian, Harding B 28(20), "Youghall Harbour" ("In Youghall harbour, on a summer's morning"), W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(4287), "Youghall Harbour" in which the singer is led to the altar and is sometimes exposed as a rake. This may just be an extension of "Answer to Youghall Harbour." - BS
File: HHH503
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NAME: Young Alanthia: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
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NAME: Young Alban and Amandy: see Olban (Alban) or The White Captive [Laws H15] (File: LH15)
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NAME: Young Allan [Child 245]
DESCRIPTION: In a drunken gathering, Allan boasts of the speed of his ship. Challenged, he takes part in a race and is caught in a storm. Allan calls on a "bonny boy" to steer the ship (with offers of reward), then begs the ship to rescue him. Somehow, all survive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: ship storm gambling escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 245, "Young Allan" (5 texts)
Bronson 245, "Young Allan" (16 versions)
Ord, pp. 320-322, "Young Allan" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 608-611, "Young Allan" (1 text)
DBuchan 58, "Young Allan" (1 text)
DT 245, YNGALAN* YNGALAN2*
Roud #242
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sir Patrick Spens" [Child 58] (lyrics)
NOTES: Child sees analogies between this ballad and mythical vessels which sailed at the will of their masters (e.g. the Phaeacian ships in _Odyssey_  viii.557 or the Scandinavian _Ellitha_). Given, however, the sorry state of the versions in Child, one may doubt how much of this is tradition and how much simply confusion. - RBW
File: C245
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NAME: Young Alvin
DESCRIPTION: Alvin loves Melanie. He takes two horses to her father's house in Earl's Court. The chambermaid tells him that Melanie will be married the next day to Lord Farthington to satisfy her father's debt. They duel. Alvin wins and elopes with Melanie.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974 (recording, Packie Manus Byrne)
KEYWORDS: courting elopement death fight father nobility
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #2988
RECORDINGS:
Packie Manus Byrne, "Young Alvin" (on Voice17)
NOTES: Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 17" - 15.9.02: "According to both R S Thomson and Frank Purslow (personal correspondence) versions of 'Young Alvin' appeared in late 18th-century chapbooks, although I [Mike Yates?] have not, so far, come across one."
Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Reviews - Volume 17" by Rod Stradling - 7.11.98: "Packie Byrne sings 'Young Alvin,' which I've never been entirely certain isn't a fake -- it certainly doesn't sound as if it's passed through many hands in the aural transmission process." - BS
I think I agree. "Alvin and Melanie?" Sounds like a sixties sitcom. And they'd have to elope a *long* way to avoid punishment for killing a lord. Some google searching seems to reveal that there is a literary original back there somewhere, though all the allusions were too oblique to actually cite (so much for finding everything on the Internet). - RBW
File: RcYoAlvi
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NAME: Young and Growing: see A-Growing (He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing) [Laws O35] (File: LO35)
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NAME: Young and Single Sailor, The: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
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NAME: Young Andrew [Child 48]
DESCRIPTION: Andrew woos a lady. He bids her to steal her father's money for their wedding. She brings the money; he takes her clothes and sends her home naked.  Her father refuses to let her in without the gold; she dies. (Her brothers hunt Andrew down.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy ms.)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Andrew woos a lady. They have sex. He bids her to steal her father's money for their wedding. She brings the money; he takes her clothes for his own lady and sends her home naked.  Her father refuses to let her in without the gold; she dies. (Her brothers hunt Andrew down, break his bones, and leave him to be eaten alive by a wolf.)
KEYWORDS: courting theft family abandonment infidelity greed hardheartedness sex betrayal manhunt revenge death
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 48, "Young Andrew" (1 text)
OBB 59, "Young Andrew" (1 text)
Roud #6740
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" [Child 9] (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Death of Young Andrew
NOTES: Child refers to similar ballads in Poland. - PJS
File: C048
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NAME: Young Astronomer's Gaze, A
DESCRIPTION: "As I gaze in the starry heaven of blue, I see Orion and his neighbrs two; And of all the fixed stars... I see only a few, And none are very new, But as old as time is old." Saturn and its rings are mentioned, as well as the animals in the constellations
AUTHOR: George Mefford Bell?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 256, "A Young Astronomer's Gaze" (1 text)
File: ThBa256A
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NAME: Young Barbour: see Willie o Winsbury [Child 100] (File: C100)
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NAME: Young Bearwell [Child 302]
DESCRIPTION: Young Bearwell and the mayor's daughter are in love. She learns that false rumors are spread about him, and gives him a ship to flee in. He comes to a foreign court. She grows lonely, and sends for him; her messenger learns of his success abroad
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828 (Buchan)
KEYWORDS: love courting lie exile ship sea separation loneliness
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 302, "Young Bearwell" (1 text)
DBuchan 39, "Young Bearwell" (1 text)
DT 302, YNGBEARW
Roud #3935
File: C302
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NAME: Young Beichan [Child 53]
DESCRIPTION: A young lord is taken prisoner by a foreign king. The king's daughter frees him after receiving a promise that he will wed her in seven years. Seven years later she comes to England to see him being married. When he sees her, he marries her instead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1783 (Jamieson-Brown)
KEYWORDS: wedding marriage promise courting prison escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England) US(Ap,MW,NE,NW,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)Ireland
REFERENCES: (50 citations)
Child 53, "Young Beichan" (14 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #94}
Bronson 53, "Young Beichan" (113 versions plus 9 in addenda)
Dixon I, pp. 1-10, "Young Bondwell" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 106-122, "Lord Bateman" (5 texts, all very full, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #8, #87}
Randolph 11, "Lord Bateman" (4 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes) {A=Bronson's #3, C=#44, E=#7}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 25-28, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 11E) {Bronson's #7}
Eddy 10, "Young Beichan" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 49, "Lord Bateman's Castle" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #80}
Flanders/Brown, pp. 204-208, "Lord Bakeman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #11}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 54-57, "Lord Bakeman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 9-69, "Young Beichan" (19 texts plus 6 fragments, 8 tunes; a few of the versions combine multiple collections from family members or have other complex histories) {F=Bronson's #1, H=#11}
Davis-Ballads 12, "Young Beichan" (7 texts plus 2 fragments; the fragments, especially "I," might perhaps be "The Turkish Lady"; 2 tunes entitled "Lord Bateman and the Turkish Lady, or The Turkish Lady," "The Turkish Lady"; 3 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #55, #47}
Davis-More 16, pp. 102-110, "Young Beichan" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 14, "Young Beichan" (5 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Chappell-FSRA 7, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #35}
Hudson 8, pp. 75-76, "Young Beichan" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 210-213, "Young Beichan" (1 text, with local title "The Jailer's Daughter"; 1 tune on pp. 410-411) {Bronson's # 39}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 26-34, "Young Beichan" (4 texts plus 1 fragment, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #64, #3, #13}
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 7-8, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 7, "Lord Ateman" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 210-213, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 7, "Lord Bateman" (2 texts, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #101}
Mackenzie 5, "Lord Bakeman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #22}; "Lord Bateman" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lehr/Best 68, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Leach, pp. 169-174, "Young Beichan" (2 texts)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 58, "Lord Batesman, or the Turkish Lady" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #98}
Friedman, p. 128, "Young Beichan (Lord Bateman)" (1 text)
OBB 44, "Young Bekie"; 45, "Young Beichan"; 164, "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" (3 texts)
Warner 43, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 13 "Young Beichan" (7 texts plus 5 fragments, of which"D" and "L" in particular may be "The Turkish Lady"; 12 tunes){Bronson's #36, #99, #10, #107, #106, #110,  #14, #57, #42, #41, #102, #68}
Sharp-100E 6, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Niles 22, "Young Beichan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gummere, pp. 256-259+356-357, "Young Beichan" (1 text)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 10, "Lord Bateman (Young Beichan)" (1 text, 1 tune, slightly edited) {Bronson's #14}
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 276-277, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 100-102, "[Turkish Lady]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 22-23, "The Turkish Lady" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 41, "Young Beichan (Lord Bateman)" (1 text)
DBuchan 7, "Young Bicham"; 8, "Young Bekie" (2 texts, 1 tune in appendix) {Bronson's #112}
MacSeegTrav 8, "Young Beichan" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
TBB 2, "Young Beichan" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 84-86, "Young Bicham" (1 text)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 101-103, "Lord Bateman" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H470, p. 491, "Lord Beichan" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 14, pp. 33-36, "Lord Bayham" (1 text)
JHCox 8, "Young Beichan" (3 text plus mention of 1 more)
JHCoxIIA, #7A-C, pp. 22-31, "A Turkish Lady," "Turkish Lady," "Lord Wetram" (3 texts, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #54, #53, #93}
Darling-NAS, pp. 67-69, "Lord Bateman" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 212, "Lord Bateman" (1 text)
DT 53, LORDBATE* LRDBEICH* (The DT editors also list TURKLADY* as Child 53, but it belongs with Laws O26)
Roud #40
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "Lord Bateman" (on NFABest01)
Ollie Gilbert, "Lord Batesman" (on LomaxCD1707)
Roby Monroe Hick, "Young Beham" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
Aunt Molly Jackson, "Lord Bateman" (AFS; on LC57)
Willie Mathieson, "The King's Daughter" (on FSBBAL1)
Pleaz Mobley, "Lord Bateman" (AFS L 12, 1937; on LC12) {Bronson's #97}
Thomas Moran, "Lord Bateman" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Lord Bateman" (on NLCR14)
John Reilly, "Lord Baker" (on Voice17)
Balis Ritchie, "Lord Bateman and the Turkish Lady" (on Ritchie03)
Jean Ritchie, "Lord Bateman" (on JRitchie01)
Jeannie Robertson, "Lord Bateman" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
David Slaunwhite, "Lord Bateman" (on MRHCreighton)
Mary Sullivan, "Lloyd Bateman" (AFS; on LC57)
Joseph Taylor, "Lord Bateman" (cylinder, on HiddenE) {Bronson's #34}
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(174), "Lord Bateman," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also 2806 c.16(213), Harding B 11(2196), Firth c.21(10), Johnson Ballads 1687, Firth c.21(28), Firth b.25(164), Harding B 11(2198), Harding B 25(1140), Johnson Ballads 549[some words illegible], Harding B 11(2199), Harding B 11(2200), Firth b.25(93), "Lord Bateman"; Harding B 17(170b), Harding B 26(379), "Lord Beigham"
LOCSinging, as100980 [incomplete], "Lord Bakeman," unknown, 19C
Murray, Mu23-y1:030, "Lord Beigham," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(136a), "Lord Beigham," unknown, c. 1820
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Turkish Lady" [Laws O26]
cf. "The Araby Maid" (subject)
cf. "Mustang Gray (The Maid of Monterey)" (plot)
cf. "Thomas o Yonderdale" [Child 253] (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Lord Beham
Susan Price
Lord Batesman
Lord Akeman
NOTES: This song is commonly connected with the story of Gilbert Becket, the father of Thomas (the clerical adversary of England's Henry II). But, although the song's widespread currency implies that it is old, it is unlikely that it is that old.
Child believed that it may have been affected by the Becket legend, but was probably independent.
The plot very much resembles "The Turkish Lady" [Laws O26], and some scholars lump them, but the latter emphasizes the conversion of the princess rather than, as in this song, her pursuit and reunion.
A minor footnote: In the Scottish "Young Beichan" texts, the Turkish girl is typically called "Susan (Susie) Pye," with no obvious derivation that I can see. In the more numerous "Lord Bateman" texts, however, she is usually "Sophia." But "Sophia" (Greek for "wisdom") is not a Turkish name. Perhaps the girl had more reasons than love for wanting to escape. One might even speculate that she had (or that some singer intended her to have) a Christian mother. Or that she would rather marry an infidel than live in a harem.
And, yes, that's an awfully long chain of inference to hang on one name.... - RBW
File: C053
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NAME: Young Bekie: see Young Beichan [Child 53] (File: C053)
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NAME: Young Benjie [Child 86]
DESCRIPTION: Benjie quarrels with his lover, who vows to seek another. He drowns her. During the night watch over the corpse [lykewake] she reveals to her three brothers who killed her. They ask whether they should behead or hang him. She bids them put out his eyes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: lover corpse funeral brother injury revenge ghost
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 86, "Young Benjie" (2 texts)
Bronson 86, "Young Benjie" (1 version)
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 453, "Young Benjie" (notes only)
Leach, pp. 280-283, "Young Benjie" (1 text)
OBB 91, "Young Benjie" (1 text)
DT 81, YNGBENJI*
Roud #3911
File: C086
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NAME: Young Bicham: see Young Beichan [Child 53] (File: C053)
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NAME: Young Billy Crane
DESCRIPTION: The singer, "Nellie Harrison," is betrayed by "Cubit's" arrow and a handsome young man named Billy Crane. She describes how he courted her then went to sea. She declares she will dress in men's clothes and follow her love
AUTHOR: Larry Gorman
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: courting betrayal separation lament cross-dressing travel
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 259-260, "Young Billy Crane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4164
NOTES: Said to have been inspired by real people, though the names have been changed. The original Nellie Harrison is said to have remained single her whole life.
This song is item dH46 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doe259
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NAME: Young Bung-'er-eye: see Quare Bungo Rye (File: Log416)
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NAME: Young Butcher Boy: see The Three Butchers [Laws L4] (File: LL04)
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NAME: Young Chambers
DESCRIPTION: Chambers's boat, smuggling liquor from St Pierre, is attacked and boarded by the crew of the Lady Clover. The crew are taken to Harbour Breton, tried, and thrown in jail. After four months of bad and meager rations they are released to run grog again.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: crime trial prison drink sea ship outlaw punishment
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 897-898, "Young Chambers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9939
NOTES: Peacock says "smuggling liquor from the French island of St Pierre off Newfoundland's south coast has been a lucrative business for decades, especially during the days of American prohibition." Harbour Breton is on the south coast of Newfoundland. - BS
File: Pea897
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NAME: Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte) [Laws G17]
DESCRIPTION: Pretty Charlotte, going to a dance on a cold night, refuses to dress properly; warm clothes would hide her charms. First she complains of the cold, but then says "I'm growing warmer now." When they arrive at the ball, her escort finds her frozen to death
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Smith/Hatt)
KEYWORDS: courting death beauty
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 8, 1840 - The New York Observer publishes a story, "A Corpse Going to a Ball," describing a tragedy like this one which took place on Jan 1, 1840
FOUND_IN: US(All) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont)
REFERENCES: (30 citations)
Laws G17, "Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte)"
Belden, pp. 308-317, "Young Charlotte" (4 texts plus excerpts from 9 more and references to 2 more, 4 tunes)
Randolph 667, "Young Charlotte" (3 texts plus 5 excerpts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 528-532, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 667A)
Eddy 123, "Fair Charlotte" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 41, "Frozen Charlotte" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 1 more, 2 tunes)
BrownII 209, "Young Charlotte" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Hudson 60, pp. 182-184, "Young Charlotte" (1 text plus mention of 2 more)
Brewster 30, "Fair Charlotte" (2 texts plus a fragment and mention of 2 more, 2 tunes)
Rickaby 37, "Fair Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 35-38, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Linscott, pp. 305-309, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 723-725, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 98-100, "Schaladi" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 58-59, "The Frozen Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 48, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 825-828, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 142-143, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
LPound-ABS 44, pp. 103-107, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
JHCox 80, "Fair Charlotte" (2 texts plus mention of 5 more; 1 tune)
JHCoxIIB, #4A-B, pp. 126-129, "Fair Charlotte," "Young Charlotte" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 172, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 735-737, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, pp. 51-55, "The Frozen Girl" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 150, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 64, "Young Charlotte" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 60, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 220-221, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 210, "Young Charlotte" (1 text)
DT 637, YNGCHARL*
Roud #260
RECORDINGS:
Delmore Brothers, "The Frozen Girl" (Montgomery Ward M-4458, 1934)
Warde Ford, "Fair Charlotte" (AFS 4203 A1, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
I. G. Greer w. Mrs. I. G. Greer, "Young Charlotte" (AFS; on LC14)
Eugene Jemison, "Fair Charlotte" (on Jem01)
Pete Seeger, "Young Charlotte" (on PeteSeeger29)
Vern Smelser, "Young Charlotte" (on FineTimes)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shepherd on the Hill" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Fair Sharlot
NOTES: This ballad is widely considered to be based on an incident which took place on Jan. 1, 1840, when a girl froze on her way to a ball (the story was reported in the Feb. 8 _New York Observer_). In 1843 (? -- Botkin says 1884, but Smith died in 1868) the poem "A Corpse Going to a Ball" was published by Seba Smith in "The Rover"; the ballad is frequently linked to that lyric.
The matter remains controversial, though; others have linked it to the death of Charlotte Dills, frozen to death in Auburn, Indiana in 1862. And Barry credited the song to a William Lorenzo Carter of Virginia and dated it before 1833 -- though he later accepted the attribution to Smith.
For what it is worth, Laws accepts the attribution to Smith. - RBW
File: LG17
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NAME: Young Collins: see Lady Alice [Child 85] (File: C085)
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NAME: Young Collins Green: see Lady Alice [Child 85] (File: C085)
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NAME: Young Companions [Laws E15]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, born in Philadelphia, abandons his family to go to Chicago where he "sinned both might and day." At last he murders a girl and is condemned to die
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Lomax, Cowboy Songs)
KEYWORDS: family murder execution
FOUND_IN: US(So,SE,SW)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws E15, "Young Companions"
Randolph 161, "Taney County" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 153-155, "Taney County" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 161A)
Hudson 109, pp. 248-249, "Youth's Companions" (1 text plus mention of 2 more)
Larkin, pp. 109-111, "Young Companions" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 625, YNGCMPN*
Roud #786
RECORDINGS:
Kelly Harrell, "I Was Born in Pennsylvania" (OKeh 40544, 1925; on KHarrell01)
File: LE15
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NAME: Young Conway
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells how Conway and two others go to Renfrew and embark on a "Poland Spree." They find themselves in a fight, and eventually everyone turns on Conway. He dies of his injuries late the next day. Many grieve for him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: murder death party
FOUND_IN: Canada(Que)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #42, "Young Conway" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3678
NOTES: Apparently based on an incident of 1886, in Renfrew, in which Conway and his companions crashed a Polish wedding party. Their gift (a baby carriage) was not appreciated, and a fight broke out in which Conway was killed. Conway was stabbed some twenty times, but no one was charged because it was impossible to determine who struck the fatal blow.
According to Fowke's informant, Michael Cuddihey, singing this song in mixed (Irish and Polish) company was guaranteed to cause fights. - RBW
File: FowL42
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NAME: Young Craigston: see A-Growing (He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing) [Laws O35] (File: LO35)
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NAME: Young Daniel: see McLellan's Son (File: Pea831)
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NAME: Young Diana: see Vilikens and His Dinah [LawsM31A/B] (File: LM31)
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NAME: Young Donald: see Donall Og (Young Donald) (File: K031)
===
NAME: Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany, The [Child 288]
DESCRIPTION: The Queen appoints Essex to command the fleet against Germany. The Emperor, learning who opposes him, would avoid battle, but his son begs for the command. Essex is victorious, and the German prince must be exhibited in London before he is sent home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1777
KEYWORDS: royalty sea navy battle prisoner patriotic
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 288, "The Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany" (2 texts)
Bronson 288, "The Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany" (2 versions)
Roud #123
NOTES: Needless to say, there is no history in this song. By the time Britain developed a respectable Navy, the "emperorship" of Germany (i.e. the Holy Roman Empire) was little more than a token office.
The broadside copy (Child's A) may be from the publishing house of John White, meaning that it was likely issued in the years before White's death in 1769. It is reasonable to assume that the Hannoverian Succession of 1714 had made the British more aware of Germany, and some anonymous (Jacobite?) balladeer decided to grant the English a victory over them.
Internal evidence, to be sure, points to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who of course was the first great Queen of England, and who was friendly with an Earl of Essex. Her reign also saw the voyage of the Spanish Armada, resulting in the first real battle of seagoing gunships. But the Germany of Elizabeth's time was in no sense a country; feuds between Catholics and Protestants were constant, and Protestants at that time generally did not go to war with Protestants.
This song should not be confused with the broadside "The Earl of Essex," printed e.g. by Logan. - RBW
File: C288
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NAME: Young Edmon Bold: see Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34] (File: LM34)
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NAME: Young Edmond Dell: see Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34] (File: LM34)
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NAME: Young Edmond of the Lowlands Low: see Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34] (File: LM34)
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NAME: Young Edward (I): see The Battle of Mill Springs [Laws A13] (File: LA13)
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NAME: Young Edward (II): see The Drummer Boy of Waterloo [LawsJ1] (File: LJ01)
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NAME: Young Edward Bold/The Lowlands Low: see Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34] (File: LM34)
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NAME: Young Edward the Gallant Hussar: see Gallant Hussar, The (A Damsel Possessed of Great Beauty) (File: E147)
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NAME: Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low: see Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34] (File: LM34)
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NAME: Young Ellender
DESCRIPTION: A father sees Ellender with a man. Father would send the man "across the salt sea Where the loud cannons they roar" and confine Ellender on "bread and no water Once a day" She would go with him. A gold ring breaks in two and each takes half. He leaves. 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1969 (recording, Phoebe Smith)
KEYWORDS: courting ring brokentoken father
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1750
RECORDINGS:
Phoebe Smith, "Young Ellender" (on Voice06)
NOTES: The notes to Phoebe Smith's version on Voice06 describe "the rather garbled text of 'Young Ellender.'" The elements of the fragmentary story are all familiar as are the images projected by the lines. It reminds me of parts of "Charming Beauty Bright" [Laws M3], "The Iron Door"[Laws M15], "The Jolly Plowboy"[Laws M24], "Pleasant and Delightful" and countless other token ballads. Nevertheless, so far I cannot make this a version of a ballad I know. I would add one or more of the keywords "captivity," "separation," "pressgang," "war" and "cross-dressing," if any of those attributes were more than hinted at or threatened. 
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 6" - 25.8.02: "This appears to be a much fragmented version of Roud 539/Laws M15 'The Iron Door'...." The themes are right but I can't make the words fit. Line-by-line comparison with SHenry, Peacock, Creighton-NovaScotia and Creighton-Maritime shows that those texts are all closely related to each other and have no lines in common with "Young Ellender." - BS
File: RcYoElle
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NAME: Young Emily: see Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34] (File: LM34)
===
NAME: Young Farmer's Offer, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer notes that, at twenty-one, he has come into his father's estate and become a farmer. He has a good bank balance and a cozy home; he asks, "And where's the lass to take my hand And be young Mrs. Armour?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: farming home courting
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H776, p. 261, "The Young Farmer's Offer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6900
NOTES: In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Ireland, the shortage of land was so severe that children had to stay on their parents' properties until the parents died; they could not marry until they had a plot of land on which to live. This often meant that marriages didn't take place until the man, at least, was well into his thirties.
There may be a hint of that in this song: The singer is a landowner at twenty-one, making him a prime catch. - RBW
File: HHH776
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NAME: Young Fisherman, The: see The Bold Fisherman [Laws O24] (File: LO24)
===
NAME: Young Folks, Old Folks: see Walkin' in the Parlor (File: Wa177)
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NAME: Young Forbest
DESCRIPTION: Elmer Forbest, described as a good Christian man, works five years for John McBean. One day, as the crew is cutting the trees, the wagon holding the logs fails and Forbest is crushed. His comrades bury him and his family mourns
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: logger death work
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 224-225, "Young Forbest" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4073
NOTES: This song is item dC52 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doe224
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NAME: Young Gal, Swing Your Tail
DESCRIPTION: Chantey/worksong: "Young gal, go swing your tail/Swing your tail to the South West gale." "Everybody gather round..." "Boys and children get troubled in mind..." "Everybody get converted..." Refrain: "Young gal, go swing your tail"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (recording, John Roberts)
KEYWORDS: nonballad shanty worksong storm
FOUND_IN: Bahamas
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
John Roberts, "Young Gal, Swing Your Tail" (on MuBahamas2)
NOTES: The annotation for LomaxCD1822-2 says that this song is related to the "Swing Your Tail" appearing on that CD, collected in 1935. I don't see it myself, other than the catch-phrase. - PJS
File: RcYGSYT
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NAME: Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime, The: see The Bad Girl's Lament (St. James' Hospital; The Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime) [Laws Q26] AND The Unfortunate Rake (File: LQ26)
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NAME: Young Girls, Can't You Hilo?: see Can't Ye Hilo? (File: Hug265)
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NAME: Young Henry: see Henry and Mary Ann (Henry the Sailor Boy) (File: HHH037)
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NAME: Young Hunting [Child 68]
DESCRIPTION: (Young Hunting) goes riding, and meets his love. She bids him come in; he says he cannot, for he must meet another love. She kills him. She is then told (by a bird?) that "he had no love but thee."  But all she cares about is hiding the body
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal murder death burial bird
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (32 citations)
Child 68, "Young Hunting" (11 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #34}
Bronson 68, "Young Hunting" (43 versions, though a few are fragments which may belong with some other song)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 122-128, "Young Hunting" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #36}
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 87-88, "Young Hunting" (1 tune, with no text at all but reported to be this) {Bronson's #7}
Belden, pp. 34-37, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
Randolph 14, "Lord Henry and Lady Margaret" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #18}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 28-31, "Lord Henry and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 14A) {Bronson's #18}
Davis-Ballads 17, "Young Hunting" (5 texts plus a fragment; all the texts seem somewhat mixed, and "E" clearly has verses from "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight"; 4 tunes entitled "Sir Henry and Lady Margaret," "Young Hunting," "Lord Henry"; 1 more version mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #20, #22, #16, #28}
Davis-More 17, pp. 111-122, "Young Hunting" (6 texts, 5 tunes)
BrownII 18, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
Chappell-FSRA 8, "Young Hunting" (2 texts, one short; 1 tune) {Bronson's #42)
Hudson 9, pp. 77-78, "Young  Hunting" (1 text plus a fragment, from the same informant)
SharpAp 18 "Young Hunting" (12 texts plus 2 fragments, 14 tunes){Bronson's #35, #32, #33, #22, #40, #2, #12, #11, #25, #27, #13, #37, #31, #30}
Ritchie-Southern, po. 88-89, "Young Hunting" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 134-136, collectively titled "Young Hunting," individually "Loving Henery," "Come In, Loving Henery," "Loving Henry" (2 texts plus a fragment; the "A" text has a moralizing ending in which the girl dies; tune on p. 398) {Bronson's #10}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 36-39, "Young Hunting" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Leach, pp. 229-234, "Young Hunting" (2 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 76-78, "Lord Barnie" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBB 30, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 190, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
FSCatskills 65, "The Lord of Scotland" (1 text, 1 tune. Cazden et al are not sure this song should be identified with "Young Hunting," since the "bird scene" is more extended than in other versions of that ballad. However, all the classic elements of "Young Hunting" are present)
Warner 109, "A Song of a Lost Hunter (or, My Love Heneree)" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 44, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
Niles 27, "Young Hunting" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gummere, pp. 209-212+350-351, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 13, "Love Henry (Young Hunting)" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #31}
Sandburg, pp. 64-65, "Little Scotch-ee" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 22 "Henry Lee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 54, "Young Hunting" (1 text)
JHCox 9, "Young Hunting" (2 texts)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 97-99, "Love Henry" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 68, FALSLADY* YNGHUNT * YNGHUNT2* YNGHUNT3* YNGHUNT5
Roud #47
RECORDINGS:
Jimmie Tarlton (Darby & Tarlton), "Lowe Bonnie" (Columbia 15763-D, 1930; on TimesAint04, ConstSor1) {Bronson's #43}
Logan English, "Love Henry" (on LEnglish1 -- several verses filled in from Cecil Sharp's Kentucky version)
Dick Justice, "Henry Lee" (Brunswick 367, 1929; on AAFM1)
Ella Parker, "Lord Barnett" (on FineTimes)
Kyle Wooten, "Loving Henry" (OKeh 45539, 1931; rec. 1930)
Jess Young's Tennessee Band, "Loving Henry" (Columbia 15431-D, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The False Young Man (The False True Lover)" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Loving Henry
Lady Margot and Love Henry
Earl Richard
Lord Land
Lord Bonnie
Low Bonnie
Young Redin
NOTES: Bronson notes that the musical tradition of this ballad "is perplexed and hard to make out," the tunes having diverse metres and forms. Bronson divides them into six major groups (the largest of which has two subgroups), but notes connections to many other melodies. We make no attempt to list them all; you'll have to see Bronson. - RBW
File: C068
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NAME: Young Indian Lass: see The Indian Lass (File: CrNS051)
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NAME: Young Jamie Foyers: see Jamie Foyers (File: McCST084)
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NAME: Young Jimmy Foulger: see Jamie Foyers (File: McCST084)
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NAME: Young John: see The False Lover Won Back [Child 218] (File: C218)
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NAME: Young John Riley: see John (George) Riley (II) [Laws N37] (File: LN37)
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NAME: Young Johnnie: see Johnny Doyle [Laws M2] (File: LM02)
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NAME: Young Johnny (I): see Branded Lambs [Laws O9] (File: LO09)
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NAME: Young Johnny (II): see Johnny the Sailor (Green Beds) [Laws K36] (File: LK36)
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NAME: Young Johnny of Hazelgreen: see John of Hazelgreen [Child 293] (File: C293)
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NAME: Young Johnstone [Child 88]
DESCRIPTION: Johnstone kills his love's brother, then seeks shelter with (successively his mother, his sister, and) his love.  She hides him from his pursuers, whom she feeds while he rests. They leave and she goes to him. He kills her, probably in confusion. He dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: murder love brother reunion family hiding
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord)) Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Child 88, "Young Johnstone" (6 texts)
Bronson 88, "Young Johnstone" (4 versions+2 in addenda)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 293, "Young Johnstone" (1 text, from "The Charms of Melody" rather than tradition)
Mackenzie 10, "Johnson and the Colonel" (1 text, 1 tune); "Johnson and Coldwell" (1 text) {Bronson's #4}
Leach, pp. 283-284, "Young Johnstone" (1 text)
PBB 60 "Young Johnstone" (1 text)
DT 88, JOHNSTON*
Roud #56
File: C088
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NAME: Young Kitty Lee (Letty Lee)
DESCRIPTION: A man sees "Young Kate." He is "shivering and shaking" and tells Kitty her kiss will cure him. She is eventually won over by his glib tongue. She says a husband may beat her, destroy all his earnings, or leave her but she agrees to marry anyway.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage dialog disease
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Peacock, pp. 605-606, "Young Kitty Lee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 28, "Letty Lee" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea605 (Partial)
Roud #2282
File: Pea605
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NAME: Young Ladies: see Fair and Tender Ladies (File: R073)
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NAME: Young Ladies in Town
DESCRIPTION: "Young ladies in town, and those that live 'round, Wear none but your own country linen." Homemade clothes may not be as grand, but it avoids sending money to Britain. The ladies are advised that the young men will love them all the same
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (in the "Boston Newsletter")
KEYWORDS: clothes patriotic commerce
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1767 - Passage of the Townshend Acts. Britain attempts to raise money from the colonies by imposing taxes on various products (lead, paint, glass, tea). The Americans responded by boycotting British goods (the taxes, except for that on tea, were removed in 1770).
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 57-58, "Young Ladies in Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, YNGLADIE*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Homespun Dress" (theme)
NOTES: After the end of the Seven Years' War, the British government had been determined to make the American colonies pay for the troops stationed there. The first attempt had been Grenville's Stamp Act -- which was so hated and so unjust that it had to be repealed almost instantly.
But England still needed the money. George III had tried to form a more reasonable government by bringing in William Pitt the Elder (1708-1778). But Pitt almost immediately was incapacitated, leaving the government in the hands of the inexperienced Duke of Grafton (1735-1811; he became Prime Minister in 1766) and Charles Townshend (1725-1767), Chancellor of the Exchequer and the government's primary representative in the House of Commons.
Assessments of Townshend vary; Don Cook, in _The Long Fuse_, for instance, calls him a "loose cannon" and accuses him of setting his own interests ahead of the state's (p. 115) an says he "figured out nearly every way he could incite troubles with the Americans." On the flip side, he made major improvements in the administration of Ireland; a balanced assessment would say that he did both harm and good.
But, with respect to colonial relations, the Townshend Acts were a disaster. They were not as onerous as the Stamp Act, but they were definitely burdensome. Had the Stamp Act not come first, the colonists might have grumbled but complained. But the Stamp Act had precipitated opposition, and the Townshend Acts caused more grumbling -- the more so since, as with the Stamp Act, the colonies had not been consulted.
Townshend did not live to see the effects of his unfortunate measure, dying almost at once. The duties would be repealed in 1770. - RBW
File: SBoA057
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NAME: Young Laird of Craigstoun, The: see A-Growing (He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing) [Laws O35] (File: LO35)
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NAME: Young Les Darcy
DESCRIPTION: The singer notes that everyone wants to roam. One who falls victim to this is boxer Les Darcy, who wants "to fight at the Golden Gate." (He goes to the U.S. and died), leaving his family to mourn.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957
KEYWORDS: fight Australia death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1917 - Death of Les Darcy in Memphis, Tennessee
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 75-76, "Young Les Darcy" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Les Darcy" (plot, subject)
NOTES: Les Darcy was an Australian boxer of whom great things were expected. He did not live long, and so his major bouts were few, but the Australians made him one of their great heroes. When he died in 1917, the Americans gave the cause of death as pneumonia; Australians claim he was poisoned.
Two songs about Darcy are found in the tradition; this one, more literary, has eight lines per stanza and begins "We all get a craving to roam, Far from home, o'er the foam...." The other, based on "Way Down in Tennessee," begins, "In Maitland cemet'ry (or "Way down in Tennessee") lies poor Les Darcy...." - RBW
File: MA075
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NAME: Young Lovers, The: see The Silver Dagger (I) [Laws G21] (File: LG21)
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NAME: Young M'Tyre
DESCRIPTION: Nancy loves M'Tyre, her father's servant. Her father plans to transport M'Tyre. She gives him money and he escapes. She tells her father she will only marry M'Tyre. Father says she can call M'Tyre back. They marry and M'Tyre is made a lord.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Karpeles-Newfoundland)
KEYWORDS: courting love marriage parting reunion father servant
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 71, "Young M'Tyre" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2299
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Matt Hyland" (plot)
NOTES: This is so close in plot to "Matt Hyland" (itself a piece of mysterious origin) that I wonder if they mightn't be derived at several removes from the same lost original. - RBW
File: KaNew071
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NAME: Young MacDonald
DESCRIPTION: "He is young and fair and handsome, he's my fancy late and early..." Chorus in Gaelic. Love song to the young MacDonald who was brought up in Glengarry, fought battles, and is now off to Colorado.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Fowke/MacMillan)
KEYWORDS: love battle travel
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/MacMillan 54, "Young MacDonald" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4536
NOTES: [The version in Fowke/MacMillan is from] Mrs. A. Fraser of Lancaster, Ontario, who said she learned it from her brother-in-law, Mr. John A. MacDonald. MacDonald is one of the commonest names in Ontario's Glengarry county.
The [version in Fowke/MacMillan] has a mix of English and Gaelic lyrics, though the Gaelic has become too garbled to be correctly translated. - SL
File: FowM054
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NAME: Young Maid's Love, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer loves a rich merchant's daughter, but her father arranges for him to be inducted into the navy. His ship wins a great victory at sea, and the prize money makes him rich. He returns home and is allowed to marry the girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation sailor navy reunion money marriage
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H58, p. 446, "Eliza/When I Landed in Glasgow" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 45, "The Young Maid's Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3019
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.18(160), "The Young Maids Love," unknown, n.d.
NOTES: Sam Henry theorizes that this song dates to the period of the Spanish Armada, because in his text the ship fights "twenty-two sail of Spaniards." The internal evidence opposes this; in the same text, the singer meets the girl outside Glasgow -- but at the time of the Armada, Scotland and England were still separate countries. - RBW
File: HHH058
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NAME: Young Man Who Travelled Up and Down, The
DESCRIPTION: "Once there was a young man who travelled up and down... And they told me there that the wars were o'er." Various workers enter, are described, and declare what they will or won't do "till the wars are o'er."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: drink worker war
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCox 172, "The Young Man Who Travelled Up and Down" (1 text)
Roud #139
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Jones's Ale Was New"
NOTES: Cox speculates that this is an "imitation" of "Jones's Ale," in that both involve various people wandering in. As the chorus, form, setting, and characters are all different, however, I've agreed with Cox in listing this as a separate song. Roud lumps them. - RBW
File: JHCox172
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NAME: Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn, The [Laws H13]
DESCRIPTION: A lazy young farmer will not hoe his corn, with the result that the corn is choked by weeds and destroyed by frost. When he goes courting, his suit is rejected because he wouldn't hoe his corn
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: farming courting rejection work
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (21 citations)
Laws H13, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn"
Belden, p. 440, "The Young Man who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Randolph 441, "The Lazy Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 106, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
BrownIII 216, "The Man Who Wouldn't Hoe His Corn" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 74, "The Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Hudson 73, pp. 200-201, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Brewster 68, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe His Corn" (1 text)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 164-165, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 182, "Harm Link" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 46-47, "The Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn (The Lazy Man)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 66, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 38 "A Lazy Farmer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 874, "Young Man Who Wouldn't How Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 46, pp. 110-111, "The Man That Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
JHCox 173, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 229-230, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Arnett, p. 10, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 42, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 120, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
DT 636, HOECORN
Roud #438
RECORDINGS:
Buster Carter & Preston Young, "A Lazy Farmer Boy" (Columbia 15702-D, 1931; on AAFM1,  BefBlues3)
Edna & Jean Ritchie, "The Young Man That Wouldn't Raise Corn" (on Ritchie03)
Pete Seeger, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (on GrowOn3) (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07b)
Vern Smelser, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (on FineTimes)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Lazy Man
File: LH13
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NAME: Young Man's Dream, The
DESCRIPTION:  Singer dreams of Granu who says "Relate most true what you did view when you fought for liberty." She shows him "the heroes that have bled for the sake of liberty." St Patrick addresses the crowd: "Your Cross maintain ... It will lead you to paradise"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1862 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 13(10)); first half 19C (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: Ireland dream nonballad patriotic religious
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 28, "The Young Man's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 13(10), "Young Man's Dream" ("It happened one night as I lay on my bed"), J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1858-1861; also Harding B 11(3610), 2806 c.17(378)[some words illegible], "Young Man's Dream"
NOTES: From National Library of Scotland commentary on broadside NLScotland RB.m.143(013), "Shiel's Rights of Man": "Granua (also spelt Grainne). The daughter of the mythical Irish warrior and folk hero, Finn McCool, Granua is also used as a symbol for Ireland - much like the figure of Britannia is employed as a symbol for Great Britain." - BS
File: Zimm028
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NAME: Young Man's Love, A: see Kissing Song (I) (File: R374)
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NAME: Young Mary of Accland: see Mary Acklin (The Squire's Young Daughter) [Laws M16] (File: LM16)
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NAME: Young McFee: see McAfee's Confession [Laws F13] (File: LF13)
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NAME: Young Melvyn
DESCRIPTION: Melvyn shoots Mary. He ties her to a stone and sinks her in the river. Nevertheless he is convicted and hanged. Girls "be careful in your friendship, and chose a proper mate." Young men, "think on Young Melvyn ... locked in his lonesome cell"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: murder prison punishment lover
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 643-644, "Young Melvyn" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea643 (Partial)
Roud #9798
File: Pea643
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NAME: Young Men and Maids: see The Silver Dagger (I) [Laws G21] (File: LG21)
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NAME: Young Men, Come Marry Me: see The Old Maid's Song (II) (File: FJ162)
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NAME: Young Millman: see The Millman and Tuplin Song (File: IvDC046)
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NAME: Young Molly Ban: see Molly Bawn (Shooting of His Dear) [Laws O36] (File: LO36)
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NAME: Young Monroe: see The Jam on Gerry's Rock [Laws C1] (File: LC01)
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NAME: Young Monroe at Gerry's Rock: see The Jam on Gerry's Rock [Laws C1] (File: LC01)
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NAME: Young Peggy [Child 298]
DESCRIPTION: Young Peggy and Jamie have been seen together. When her parents call him rogue and loon, she vows to rest in his arms forever. The lovers agree to run off in the middle of the night. Her father awakes in the night and pursues, but they are already married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: courting father mother marriage elopement love
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 298, "Young Peggy" (1 text)
Bronson 298, "Young Peggy" (1 version)
Leach, pp. 683-684, "Young Peggy" (1 text)
DT 298, YNGPEGGY
Roud #3875
File: C298
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NAME: Young People, Take Warning
DESCRIPTION: "Young People all, attention give And hear what I shall say, I wish your soul with Christ to live In everlasting day." The singer warns against the pleasures of the flesh and tells of the dangers of Hell. He reminds them that death is coming
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920
KEYWORDS: religious warning
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 653, "Young People, Take Warning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7574
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blind Man's Regret" (lyrics)
NOTES: Although this shares stanzas with "The Blind Man's Regret," they don't really seem to be the same song. The latter describes how the blind man went blind; this song seems a pure warning. It seems more likely that the verses floated. At the very least, it's uncertain enough that we split. - RBW
File: R653
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NAME: Young Prince of Spain, The: see The Prince of Morocco (The Sailor Boy II) (File: LN18)
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NAME: Young Rambleaway: see Rambleaway (File: ShH31)
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NAME: Young Riley (I): see O'Reilly from the County Leitrim (File: HHH580)
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NAME: Young Riley (II): see Riley's Farewell (Riley to America; John Riley) [Laws M8] (File: LM08)
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NAME: Young Roger Esquire: see The Gray Mare [Laws P8] (File: LP08)
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NAME: Young Rogers, The Miller: see The Gray Mare [Laws P8] (File: LP08)
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NAME: Young Ronald [Child 304]
DESCRIPTION: Young Ronald loves the king's daughter. She says she can only obey her father's will. The king offers his daughter and great wealth to anyone who can slay a six-headed giant. Ronald slays the giant "wi ae sweep o his hand" and wins the princess
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828 (Buchan)
KEYWORDS: royalty monster love courting death marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 304, "Young Ronald" (1 text)
Roud #3914
NOTES: Child's comments on this ballad amount to little more than an extended snort of disgust. He certainly has his point, but there may be folk elements in the tale; at least, it reminds me (rather loosely) of the Welsh tale of Culhwch and Olwen. - RBW
File: C304
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NAME: Young Sailor Bold (I), The (The Rich Merchant's Daughter) [Laws M19]
DESCRIPTION: The merchant threatens his daughter's lover with death. She dresses as a sailor to warn him of the danger, and promises to go away with him. Her father meets her and kills her by mistake. He discovers the mistake and kills himself; the lover dies of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Karpeles-Newfoundland)
KEYWORDS: love death exile suicide disguise murder cross-dressing
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws M19, "The Young Sailor Bold I (The Rich Merchant's Daughter)"
FSCatskills 59, "The Rich Merchant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 35, "The Rich Merchant's Daugher" (1 text)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 194-195, "Rich Merchant and his Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 218-220, "Willie" (1 text plus 2 fragments, 3 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 72, "The Rich Merchant's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 432, RCHMRCH*
Roud #548
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown" (plot)
File: LM19
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NAME: Young Sally Monro: see Sally Monroe [Laws K11] (File: LK11)
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NAME: Young Sally Monroe: see Sally Monroe [Laws K11] (File: LK11)
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NAME: Young Sam Bass: see Sam Bass [Laws E4] (File: LE04)
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NAME: Young Serving Man, The: see The Iron Door [Laws M15] (File: LM15)
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NAME: Young Shepherd (I), The
DESCRIPTION: A shepherd courts "a rich merchant's daughter." Her father shoots the shepherd. She finds him dying. She puts on his hat and plaid and keeps his sheep; "her father shall die For the loss of his daughter and the murder besides"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: love murder cross-dressing dying sheep father shepherd
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 108, "The Young Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 104-105,255, "The Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1151
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:046, "The Unfortunate Shepherdess," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C
File: CrMa108
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NAME: Young Shepherd (II), The: see Sheepcrook and Black Dog (File: HHH030a)
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NAME: Young Ship's Carpenter, The: see The Daemon Lover (The House Carpenter) [Child 243] (File: C243)
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NAME: Young Spanish Lass, The: see The Little Mohee [Laws H8] (File: LH08)
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NAME: Young Susan: see On Board of a Man-of-War (Young Susan) (File: HHH556)
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NAME: Young Turtle Dove, The: see The Daemon Lover (The House Carpenter) [Child 243] (File: C243)
===
NAME: Young Virgin, A
DESCRIPTION: "I am a young virgin just come on board...." The prosperous, available girl is courted by various suitors. Merchant, doctor, apothecary, etc. offer their skills to gain her hand; she rejects each. She gives her love to a sailor.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1817 (Journal from the Herald)
KEYWORDS: love courting sailor worker humorous
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 100-102, "A Young Virgin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2034
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Thing Is My Own" (theme)
cf. "I'll Not Marry at All" (theme)
NOTES: This really, really reminds me of "My Thing Is My Own." I don't think there is kinship, but I suspect a common inspiration. - RBW
File: SWMS100
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NAME: Young Waters [Child 94]
DESCRIPTION: Because the queen has admitted that Young Waters has the fairest face of all the lords and lairds and knights she's seen, the king has him beheaded.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: beauty death execution
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 94, "Young Waters" (2 texts)
Bronson 94, "Young Waters" (1 version)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 228-231, "Young Waters" (1 text)
OBB 82, "Young Waters" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 156-158+334, "Young Waters" (1 text)
ST C094 (Full)
Roud #2860
NOTES: Various suggestions have been offered for the identity of Young Waters. Percy suggested none other than the Bonny Earl of Murray, while Buchan offered one David Graham of Fintray (executed 1592). These and all other suggestions must be labelled simply, "Possible, but not really likely." 
Although Bronson reports a tune, he notes, "It cannot be proved that this ballad was ever traditionally sung in Scots or English." The source of the tune is dubious, and Bronson has some cutting remarks about the stanzas of the English-language texts (though there is little doubt that the story exists in traditional forms in other languages). - RBW
File: C094
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NAME: Young William's Denial: see The Banks of the Inverness (File: HHH205)
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NAME: Young William's Return: see The Banks of the Inverness (File: HHH205)
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NAME: Young Willie's Return, or The Token: see The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Fair Phoebe and her Dark-Eyed Sailor) [Laws N35] (File: LN35)
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NAME: Youpe! Youpe! Sur la Riviere!
DESCRIPTION: French: "Youpe! Youpe! sur la riviere, Vous ne m'entendez guere." The singer and Francois call upon Gauthier; they visit his girlfriend Delima. She rejects him as untrue; "You tell your little Jeremie the same things." The friends leave uproariously 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: courting rejection foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Que)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 62-64, "Youpe! Youpe! Sur la Riviere!" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Fowke writes, "Of all the paddling songs, [this] is the most thoroughly Canadian. Its hero is not a prince... but a habitant lad who goes to call on this girl and is rebuffed for being too fickle. It was especially popular among French-Canadian lumberjacks who adapted to their own use an earlier song called 'Le p'tit bois d'l'ail.'" - RBW
File: FJ062
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NAME: Your Long Journey
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells loved one that they must now part; the singer is torn with grief, but they will eventually "walk hand in hand/As one in heaven in the family of God." Cho: "Oh my darling, my darling/My heart breaks as you take your long journey"
AUTHOR: Doc & Rosa Lee Watson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (recorded by authors)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer tells loved one that although God has given them years of happiness together, they must now part; as the angels come, the singer is torn with grief, anticipating the coming years without him/her, but they will eventually "walk hand in hand/As one in heaven in the family of God". Chorus: "Oh my darling, my darling/My heart breaks as you take your long journey"
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness farewell parting death dying nonballad religious family husband wife
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Doc & Rosa Lee Watson, "Your Long Journey" (on Watson01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Long Journey
NOTES: Although this song is not traditional, and not -- quite -- a ballad, I include it here because of its enduring popularity in the folk revival, which may indicate that it is entering a new oral tradition. - PJS
File: RcDWLoJo
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NAME: Youth and Folly: see Peggy Gordon (File: Gil127)
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NAME: Youth's Companions: see Young Companions [Laws E15] (File: LE15)
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NAME: Yowe Lamb, The (Ca' the Yowes; Lovely Molly)
DESCRIPTION: Molly agrees to marry Willie if her father consents. Willie asks the father for a "yowe lamb" to start a flock. Her father consents and tells Willie to "choose a yowe lamb." Willie chooses Molly. Her father is upset by the trick, but allows the match
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Ford); the Burns version is #264 in the _Scots Musical Museum_
KEYWORDS: love marriage father trick
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 124, "Ca the Yowes to the Knowes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 187-188, "Lovely Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H175, p. 470, "The Yowe Lamb" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 46, "Ca' the Ewes Unto the Knowes" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, CALEWE3*
Roud #857
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Lovely Mollie
NOTES: This is apparently the original of the Burns song "Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes," but he changed it so substantially that they must be considered separate songs, and the reader must be careful to distinguish. - RBW
And despite the title, Kennedy's version really is "The Yowe Lamb." - PJS
File: K124
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NAME: Yowie Wi' the Crookit Horn: see Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn (File: K271)
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NAME: Yr Hen wr Mwyn: see My Good Old Man (File: R426)
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NAME: Ythanside
DESCRIPTION: "As I cam in by Ythanside, Where swiftly flows the rolling tide, A fair young maid passed by my side." They go to her home, and talk till very late. Man and girl kiss; he promises to return, at which time she will give him her hand. They marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ord, pp. 32-34, "Ythanside" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, BONYTHAN*
Roud #3783
File: Ord032
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NAME: Yuba Dam
DESCRIPTION: Conductor asks the singer where he wants to go; he replies "Yuba Dam." Conductor beats him up. His wife scolds him, asks, "Where'd you get that load?" "Yuba Dam!" After more such troubles, he opines that "the town of Yuba Dam has no right on the map"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (recording, S. H. Dudley)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer is asked by train conductor where he wants to go, and replies "Yuba Dam." Conductor is upset, and beats him up. When he gets home, his wife scolds him, asks, "Where'd you get that load?" "Yuba Dam!" She slugs him; he flees. He returns the next day, not realizing he has a long blonde hair on his coat; she finds it and he leaves home. She sues for divorce; judge asks him, "What brought this all about?" "Yuba Dam!" he replies, and is jailed for contempt. He opines that "the town of Yuba Dam has no right on the map"
KEYWORDS: jealousy infidelity marriage accusation questions humorous wife judge wordplay
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
S. H. Dudley, "Yuba Dam" (Berliner 0466-J, rec. 1899)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. I Want to Go to Morrow (subject, such as it is, and general atmosphere)
NOTES: I assign the location thanks to Bob Bovee, whose father [uncle, according to the liner notes to Bob's album "The Roundup"] learned the song in Nebraska in the 1920s. After assiduous searching, I had been unable to locate a Yuba Dam, but a more recent Google search suggests that the congressional representative for the South Yuba River area is proposing that one be built. - PJS
Bob recorded this long enough ago that I have it on LP, but after many years of attending Bovee/Heil concerts, I can't recall ever hearing him sing it. (I won't swear to that.) Maybe Yuba Dam is still causing trouble. - RBW
File: RcYubaDa
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NAME: Zaccheus Climbed the Sycamore Tree
DESCRIPTION: "Zaccheus climbed the sycamo' tree, Few days, few days! Zaccheus climbed the sycamo' tree, Few days, get along home. Oh, he's way up yondeh...." "Zaccheus climbed his lord fo' to see."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: Jesus religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 200, "Zaccheus Climbed the Sycamo' Tree" (1 text); cf. p. 286, "(Zaccheus)" (1 short text)
Roud #8871
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Few Days" (lyrics)
NOTES: Zaccheus (more properly transliterated Zakchaios; in most modern translations, Zacchaeus) is mentioned in Luke 19:1-10; he was a short tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus. Jesus went on to have dinner with him and declare him saved due  to his charity -- a particularly noteworthy statement, given how reviled tax collectors were at the time.
This is doubtless inspired at least in part by "Few Days," but it has been adapted enough to list as a separate song. - RBW
File: ScNF200A
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NAME: Zack, the Mormon Engineer
DESCRIPTION: Zack, the Mormon engineer, has a wife in every town along the D&RG, and so refuses to change lines.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952
KEYWORDS: marriage railroading humorous train
FOUND_IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 444, "Zack, the Mormon Engineer" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, ZACKMORM*
Roud #4761
RECORDINGS:
L. M. Hilton, "Zack, The Mormon Engineer" (on Hilton01)
Art Thieme, "Zack, The Mormon Engineer" (on Thieme03)
NOTES: Said to be based, loosely, on the life of one Zack Black who worked on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. The tune is loosely based on "Oh, Susanna." - RBW
File: BRaF444
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NAME: Zared, The: see The Dreadnought [Laws D13] (File: LD13)
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NAME: Zeb Tourney's Girl [Laws E18]
DESCRIPTION: Dan Kelly thinks often of Zeb Tourney's daughter, even though his family is feuding with hers. Kelly keeps a promise made to his father by killing all the male Tourneys, but then brings home Zeb's daughter, whom he loves
AUTHOR: Carson J. Robison?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (recording, Vernon Dalhart)
KEYWORDS: feud love murder
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws E18, "Zeb Tourney's Girl"
Hudson 108, pp. 247-248, "Zeb Tunney's Girl" (1 text)
Warner 112, "Don Kelly's Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, pp. 251-252, "(Zeb Turney's Girl)" (1 text)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 735, "Zeb Turney's [Turner's] Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 681, ZEBTURNY
ST LE18 (Full)
Roud #2249
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "Zeb Turney's Gal" (Supertone 9570, c. 1929; Supertone 2590, c. 1931)
James Burke, "Zeb Turney's Gal" (Superior 2590, 1931)
Vernon Dalhart, "Zeb Turney's Gal" (Vocalion 15280, 1926; Challenge 157, 1927) (Columbia 15049-D [as Al Craver], c. 1926)
Bradley Kincaid, "Zeb Turney's Gal" (Bluebird 8410, 1940)
NOTES: Warner notes that a song of this name was copyrighted in 1925 by Marjorie Lamkin and Maggie Andrews, of which the latter at least is a pseudonym of Carson J. Robison (it was his mother's maiden name). And Laws points out that it sounds "suspiciously unlike a mountaineer's conception of a feud." We note also that no one seems able to list the event upon which it is based.
But wait, there's more. Vernon Dalhart recorded this in 1926, and at that time, the name "Dalhart" was worth hundreds of thousands of sales. And at least one of the traditional versions -- Hudson's -- is functionally identical to the Dalhart recording, with the only differences minor verbal variants easily explained as errors of hearing or memory. The other versions are also very similar to each other, implying a recent common source.
The almost inevitable conclusion is that this is a song "gone folk": Written by Robison, recorded by Dalhart -- and then picked up by folklorists who didn't bother checking its pedigree. - RBW
File: LE18
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NAME: Zeb Tunney's Girl: see Zeb Tourney's Girl [Laws E18] (File: LE18)
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NAME: Zeb Turney's Girl: see Zeb Tourney's Girl [Laws E18] (File: LE18)
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NAME: Zebra Dun, The [Laws B16]
DESCRIPTION: A new man joins the cowboys, and proves expert on many things. The cowboys think he must be a greenhorn, and allow him to take on the wild Zebra Dun. To their surprise, he controls the horse and receives a job. Not all educated people are greenhorns...
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: cowboy
FOUND_IN: US(MA,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws B16, "The Zebra Dun"
Larkin, pp. 49-52, "Zebra Dun" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 208, "Zebra Dun" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 427, "Zebra Dun" (1 text)
Thorp/Fife XII, pp.135-147  (27-29), "Educated Feller" (4 texts, 1 tune -- one of which, "Bow-Legged Ike," may be independent or an ancestor)
Fife-Cowboy/West 71, "The Educated Feller (Zebra Dun)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ohrlin-HBT 22, "Zebra Dun" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 107, "The Zebra Dun" (1 text)
DT 383, ZEBRADUN*
Roud #3237
RECORDINGS:
Jules [Verne] Allen, "Zebra Dun" (Victor V-40022, c. 1928; Montgomery Ward M-4464, 1934; on AuthCowboys)
Tex Fletcher, "The Zebra Dun" (Decca 5302, 1936)
Harry Jackson, "Zebra Dun" (on HJackson1)
Glenn Ohrlin, "Zebra Dun" (on Ohrlin01)
J. M. Waddell, "The Zebra Dun" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28)
NOTES: Larkin states, without evidence though it's a reasonable conjecture, that the horse in this piece was a dun with the Z bar brand, with the "Z bar dun" wearing down to the "Zebra dun." Her other conjecture, that the singer may have been an Englishman who learned to ride while hunting fox, seems much less likely. - RBW
File: LB16
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NAME: Zek'l Weep
DESCRIPTION: "Zek'l weep, Zek'l moan, Flesh come a-creepin' off o' Zek'l bones... I know you goin' to miss me when I'm gone." "Star in the east, star in the west, Wish that star was on my breast" "Hush little baby don't you cry, Know that your mother was born to die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 657, "'Zekiel'll Weep and 'Zekiel'll Moan" (1 fragment)
Sandburg, pp. 449-450, "Zek'l Weep" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 209-210, (no title) (1 text)
ST San449 (Full)
Roud #12174
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "All My Trials" (floating lyrics) and references there
NOTES: Sandburg's first verse here may be a backward telling of the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezek. 37:1-14. Or, again, it may not.
Scarborough's text never mentions Ezekiel, but the rest seems to belong here. I think. - RBW
File: San449
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NAME: 'Zekiel'll Weep and 'Zekiel'll Moan: see Zek'l Weep (File: San449)
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NAME: Zekiel'll Weep and (E)zekiel'll Moan: see Zek'l Weep (File: San449)
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NAME: Zion's Sons and Daughters
DESCRIPTION: "See the fountain opened wide That from sinning frees us, Flowing from the wounded side Of our Immanuel Jesus." Those who thirst are called; Jesus gives freely to the dying; the woman at the well is given a warming drink; the thief forgiven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, pp. 214-215, "Zion's Sons and Daughters" (1 text)
ST Fus214 (Partial)
Roud #16373
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Boundless Mercy (Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve)"
NOTES: I strongly suspect that this is a version of "Boundless Mercy (Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve)," but the key lines are missing, and Fuson doesn't give tunes, so I have to classify it separately.
The story of the woman of Samaria and the well, in which Jesus promises "living water," is in John 4, though there are hints of the theme elsewhere.
The "thief... [who] fled to glory" is, I think, an allusion to Luke 23:39-43. - RBW
File: Fus214
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NAME: Zip Coon: see Old Zip Coon (I) (File: RJ19258)