NAME: Diana and Her Sailor Bright
DESCRIPTION: Diana is a rich merchant's daughter. She falls in love with "a bright young sailor" on one of her father's ships. She sends for him to marry. "Twas in her father's garden they walked hand in hand." He said "Lovely Diana, take my heart in command"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: courting love beauty father sailor floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 515-516, "Diana and Her Sailor Bright" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea515 (Partial)
Roud #2301
NOTES: The first verse of this, "It's of a rich merchant in London did dwell, He had one only daughter, a beautiful girl," is of course commonplace, found in songs such as "The Young Sailor Bold (I) (The Rich Merchant's Daughter) [Laws M19]." The happy ending is different. Possibly this is a rewrite of that with a happy ending? - RBW
File: Pea515
===
NAME: Dicey Reilly
DESCRIPTION: "She walks along Fitzgibbon street with an independent air," but Dicey Riley is headed to the pawnshop to pay for her drinking: "Poor oul Dicey Reilly, she has taken to the sup, Poor oul Dicey Reilly, she will never give it up...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (Harte)
KEYWORDS: drink hardtimes
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
DT, DICYREIL*
ADDITIONAL: Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, pp. 18-19, "Dicey Reilly" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: I have encountered three independent versions of this. One has only two verses, and approximates the description above. The other two are much longer, and agree only on the material given in the description, with the rest being entirely independent. It's possible that we have three fragments of a longer piece -- but my guess is that the only truly traditional material is the two verses, and the tune is so strong that people have been patching on additional material when they record it. - RBW
File: Har018
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NAME: Dick Darby the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (File: R102)
===
NAME: Dick Darlin' the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (File: R102)
===
NAME: Dick Derrick's Rear
DESCRIPTION: The song lists the men who ran logs for foreman Dick Derrick. One, a "mossback" (farmer), shoves his girlfriend through a window; another falls in the creek.
AUTHOR: Plumb Bob Jack and cohorts (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work moniker humorous nonballad logger drink
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 66, "Dick Derrick's Rear" (1 text)
Roud #8844
NOTES: The "moniker song" consists mostly of listing the names of one's compatriots, and perhaps telling humorous vignettes about each; it's common among lumberjacks, hoboes, and probably other groups. - PJS
File: Be066
===
NAME: Dick German the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (File: R102)
===
NAME: Dick Mooney's Daughter
DESCRIPTION: Dick Mooney is dying and he wants to get a husband for his daughter. He lists his assets. Except for the house and farm, they are all defective and you can easily find better than his daughter. But don't forget the farm.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Morton-Maguire)
KEYWORDS: dowry death dying farming humorous nonballad father oldmaid
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Morton-Maguire 31, pp. 81-82,118,168-169, "Dick Mooney's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2902
RECORDINGS:
John Maguire, "Dick Mooney's Daughter" (on IRJMaguire01)
NOTES: Morton-Maguire: "After the famine the small-farmer class in Ireland became very conscious, for various reasons, about the value and importance of land, as this song says.... If the female did have the land then she became extraordinarily desirable; her dowry was great and could overcome almost all 'deficiencies' in her family background, or in herself." - BS
File: MoMa031
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NAME: Dick o the Cow [Child 185]
DESCRIPTION: Johnnie Armstrong decides on a raid, but has little luck. He is advised to steal the three kye of Dick o the Cow, a "fool." Dick seeks redress; when denied, he makes off with horses in exchange for his cattle, and finally gets a reward from his master
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1775 (Percy papers)
KEYWORDS: horse revenge robbery family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 185, "Dick o the Cow" (1 text)
Bronson 185, "Dick o the Cow" (1 version)
Leach, pp. 498-504, "Dick o the Cow" (1 text)
OBB 142, "Dick o' the Cow" (1 text)
Roud #4012
NOTES: This ballad may have some roots in history, but had clearly been magnified beyond recognition and become rather confused in the process. Child has various speculations; most are possible but none really convincing. - RBW
File: C185
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NAME: Dick Turpin and the Lawyer [Laws L10]
DESCRIPTION: Dick Turpin, upon meeting a lawyer, claims to be so afraid of meeting Turpin that he has hidden his money in his boot. The equally nervous lawyer admits to having hidden his money in his coat. Turpin gaily relieves him of the cash
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867
KEYWORDS: robbery lawyer humorous
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1735 - Dick Turpin comes to the attention of the authorities as a robber
April 1739 - Hanging of Dick Turpin (by then retired from highway robbery; he was captured after getting drunk and shooting the landlord's cockerel)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Britain(England(South,North)) US(MA)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws L10, "Dick Turpin and the Lawyer"
Logan, pp. 115-121, "Turpin's Valour" (1 text, although Laws considers this as two pieces, "Turpin's Valour" and "The Dunghill-Cock")
Mackenzie 125, "Dick Turpin and the Lawyer" (1 text)
Kennedy 336, "Turpin Hero" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 368, "Dick Turpin and the Lawyer" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 70, pp. 157-158, "Turpin and the Lawyer" (1 text)
DT 570, TURPNLAW
Roud #621
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Bonnie Black Bess I" [Laws L8] (subject)
cf. "My Bonnie Black Bess II" [Laws L9] (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
O Rare Turpin, Hero
NOTES: Versions of this generally place the incident on Hounslow Heath. This is probably a bit folkloric. According to Patrick Pringle in _Stand and Deliver: Highwaymen from Robin Hood to Dick Turpin_, each of the four great roads out of London had its hot spots for highway robbers, with Hounslow Heath on the Great Western Road being the most notorious spot of all (Pringle, p. 64). Turpin, however, is associated mostly with Finchley Common on the Great North Road (p. 66).
What's more, this approximate story is told of other highwaymen, rather than Turpin; Pringle, pp. 86-87, tells how Francis "Dixie" Jackson met a lawyer in a tavern and was shown how he hid his treasure in his saddle. Several of Jackson's confederates then met the lawyer on the road and took his gold.
On the other hand, David Brandon's _Stand and Deliver: A History of Highway Robbery_, p. 84, tells the story -- in a form even more like the ballad -- of William Davis, "The Golden Farmer" (died c. 1689). Evidently it's a "zipper" highwayman legend.
For the rest of Turpin's history, see the notes to "My Bonny Black Bess (II) (Poor Black Bess; Dick Turpin's Ride)" [Laws L9]. - RBW
Broadside: Street Ballads of Victorian England [circa 1850-1870] site, Folder 150, "Turpin Hero," J. Cadman (Manchester), 19C - BS
File: LL10
===
NAME: Dick Turpin's Ride: see My Bonnie Black Bess I [Laws L8] AND My Bonnie Black Bess II [Laws L9] (File: LL09)
===
NAME: Dicky Dash
DESCRIPTION: Dicky Dash takes Miss Beal to a dance but has to sell his shirt to raise admission. During the dance a shawl is stolen. Everyone is searched. When they search Dickie and find he has no shirt Miss Beal has nothing further to do with him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: courting theft clothes dancing humorous money commerce
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 64, "Dicky Dash" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab064 (Partial)
Roud #5280 and 9986
File: LLab064
===
NAME: Dicky in the Yeomen
DESCRIPTION: Yeoman cobbler Dick McClane and his Orange wife live "at the end of Dirty Lane." He was with Beresford, at Castlepollard and Weavers' Hall upon the Coombe. Finally, "he shot an ass ... going to mass." But now he has to beg "Like all black-hearted Yeomen"
AUTHOR: probably by "Zozimus" (Michael Moran) (c.1794-1846) (Source: Zimmermann)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1830s (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence death Ireland political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 47, "Dicky in the Yeomen" (2 texts, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Gulielmus Dubliniensis Humoriensis [Joseph Tully?], Memoir of the Great Original Zozimus (Michael Moran) (Dublin,1976 (reprint of the 1871 edition)), p. 23, "Dickey and the Yeoman" [only the first verse]
NOTES: "Following an affray at Loughgall in Co. Armagh in 1795 the Orange Order was founded, while the Yeomen were also established in June 1796. These were made up mainly of men from the Orange Lodges." (source: _The 1798 Rebellion_ on the Hogan Stand site)
Zimmermann: "John Beresford was one of those who organized the repression in 1798."
Zimmermann: May 21, 1831 - "Seventeen people were killed by the police at Castlepollard ... in one of the bloodiest affrays of the Tithe War. An inquest followed but the policemen were finally acquitted of the charge of murder." See also "The Castlepollard Massacre."
The Charter of the Weaver's Guild, dedicated to "the Blessed Virgin Mary," was granted 1446. A weavers' hall was built by the Guild in the Lower Coombe, Dublin. Irish Catholics were excluded from guild membership and Catholic weavers operated illegally. The guilds no longer had a monopoly and the Municipal Corporations Act of 1840 ended the guild system in Ireland. The Weavers's Hall was demolished in 1965. (source: _The Weavers' Guild, The Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dublin 1446 to 1840_ by Veronica Rowe at The Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers web site.
For all that, I haven't yet found anything about a battle at Weavers' Hall or any loss there of Croppy lives.
Donkey's have a cross-shaped patch of dark hair on their back. In political ballads this mark is taken as a sign that donkeys are Roman Catholic. - BS
There are two Beresfords who might be the subject of this song, though I suspect the reference is to the younger, John Claudius.
John Beresford (1738-1805) was the second son of the Earl of Tyrone, and the depiction of him as strongly opposed to Catholic rights is quite accurate. MP for Waterford, he also held a revenue commission post, and gave vigorous support to the Act of Union.
His greatest influence on Irish history may well have come in 1795. In January of that year, the Second Earl of Fitzwilliam was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which brought "prospects of Catholic Emancipation" (Jim Smyth, _The Men of No Property_, p.108). Beresford protested vigorously, and in the squabble that followed, it was Fitzwilliam, not Beresford, who fell.
I can't find any references to deaths at Weaver's Hall, either, but there were riots in Dublin in 1795. During the riots, John Beresford's son John Claudius Beresford fired on the crowd outside the Customs House (Smyth, p. 150). Beresford the younger was also a leader of the Dublin Orange Lodge (Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty_, p. 352).  So he is a likely target of the denunciation in this song. - RBW
File: Zimm047
===
NAME: Dicky Johnston: see The Rambling Soldier (File: ShH43)
===
NAME: Did Ye Ever See the Divil?: see Oh, Mister Revel (Did You Ever See the Devil?) (File: Br3141)
===
NAME: Did You Ever See a Lassie?
DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever see a lassie, A lassie, a lassie, Did you ever see a lassie Go this way and that way? Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that?" Other verses, if any, equally silly; sustained by the tune "O Du Lieber Augustine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Tune 1788)
KEYWORDS: nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Linscott, pp. 6-7, "Did You Ever See a Lassie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 399-400, "O Du Lieber Augustin -- (Polly Put the Kettle On -- Did You Ever See a Lassie)"
SAME_TUNE:
Ach, Du Lieber Austustine (Slot Machine Run By Steam) (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 163)
Love to Be in Copenhagen (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 197)
Have You Ever Seen (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 197)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Ach, Du Lieber Augustine
NOTES: Obviously a silly little song -- but the tune is so widespread that it can hardly be omitted.
Linscott, who has only a single stanza, describes its use as a singing game. - RBW
File: FuldODLA
===
NAME: Did You Ever See the Divil?
DESCRIPTION:  The Devil dug "pritties" in the garden, swatting flies with his tail until "they dragged him back to prison." The Devil, overjoyed when the spuds were blighted and famine killed the people, was put in his place by Saint Patrick.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1939 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: farming starvation Devil
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 69, "Did You Ever See the Divil?" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Stack of Barley" (tune, according to Tunney-StoneFiddle)
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (subject: the potato famines) and references there
NOTES: For the potato blight, see "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" and references there. The British policy was largely one of neglect (though this was more due to flawed economic opinions than actual cruelty), but it resulted in many deaths and even more people selling out and going to America. I have no idea why the song thinks the Devil was put in his place; the famines eventually ended, but the effects had been simply horrid. - RBW
File: TSF069
===
NAME: Did You Ever Think: see The Worms Crawl In (File: San444)
===
NAME: Did You Ever, Ever, Ever
DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever, ever, ever In your leaf, life, loaf, See the deevil, divil, dovol, Kiss his weef, wife, woaf? No I never, never, never In my leaf, life, loaf, Saw the deevil, divil, dovol, Kiss his weef, wife, woaf."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: devil nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 329, "Did You Ever, Ever, Ever" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #4253
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, Mister Revel" (theme)
File: San329A
===
NAME: Didn't He Ramble
DESCRIPTION: "Mother raised three grown sons... Buster was the black sheep of our little family... And didn't he ramble, ramble... He rambled till the butchers cut him down." Buster's rambling ways and debts are described; at last he hits bottom and the song ends
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1902 (broadside, LOCSheet rpbaasm 1155)
KEYWORDS: rambling hardtimes gambling family
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 174-175, "Didn't He Ramble?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rorrer, p. 88, "He Rambled" (1 text)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 231-232 (partial text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 203, "Didn't He Ramble" (1 text)
DT 312, DIDRAMBL*
Roud #126
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Didn't He Ramble" (OKeh 45569, 1932; rec. 1930)
Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, "Didn't He Ramble" (Brunswick, unissued, 1928)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Didn't He Ramble" (on NLCR02)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "He Rambled" (Columbia 15407-D, 1929; on CPoole01, CPoole05, ConstSor1)
BROADSIDES:
LOCSheet, rpbaasm 1155, "Oh! Didn't He Ramble," J.W. Stern & Co. (New York), 1902 (tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Darby Ram" (lyrics)
cf. "Traveling Man (Traveling Coon)" (lyrics)
cf. "Cotton's Patch (II)" (lyrics, form, probably tune)
NOTES: Although an obvious pop rewriting of "The Derby Ram" (Roud lumps them), the actual history of this piece is uncertain. Credit (blame?) has been offered to Will Handy (Bob Cole; note that this is not W. C. Handy), who offered an extravagant seven verse version. (So, e.g., in Silber & Silber, and there is sheet music of this version.; cf. Spaeth, _A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 317.)
Charlie Poole sang a much more sedate three verse version. If anyone knows more, I'd welcome the information. - RBW
Broadside LOCSheet rpbaasm 1155: "words & music by Will Handy ... adaptation by Bob Cole." Poole's tune is closely related to Handy's. - BS
File: CSW174
===
NAME: Didn't It Rain
DESCRIPTION: "Now didn't it rain, children...." Various events related to the flood: "It rained 40 days and 40 nights...God sent a raven to carry the news...." "God sent Noah the rainbow sign...." "They knocked at the window and they knocked at the door...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Biddleville Quintette)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible flood
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 564, "Didn't It Rain" (3 fragments plus an excerpt; the "D" fragment does not use the "didn't it rain" line and might be something else)
Lomax-FSNA 250, "Didn't It Rain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6699
RECORDINGS:
Biddleville Quintette, "Didn't It Rain" (QRS 7073, 1929)
Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham, "Oh My Lord Didn't It Rain" (Paramount 13126, 1932; on VocalQ2)
NOTES: For the statement that the rain fell for forty days during Noah's flood, see Gen. 7:12 (the total duration of the flood is given in 7:17, 8:6? as 40 days and in 7:24, 8:3 as 150 days; the different numbers are believed to have come from different sources).
Nowhere does the Bible mention people asking Noah to take them aboard. Nor was the raven sent as a warning; rather, Noah sent it out to look for dry land (Gen. 8:7). The covenant of the rainbow is described in 9:13f. - RBW
File: LoF250
===
NAME: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
DESCRIPTION: "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel... Then why not every man? He delivered Daniel from the lion's den, Jonah from the belly of the whale." The singer forecasts the end of the world, expecting to be saved, and rejoices in salvation
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 370, "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?" (1 text)
DT, DELVRDAN*
Roud #12348
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Preacher and the Bear" (theme)
NOTES: The story of Daniel in the lion's den (for refusing to worship a false god) is in Daniel 6:16-24. Jonah's sojourn in the belly of a fish (NOT a whale; the Hebrew says "fish") is in Jonah 1:17-2:10. The story of the three in the fiery furnace is in Daniel 3. - RBW
File: FSWB370A
===
NAME: Didn't You Hear
DESCRIPTION: "Didn't you hear my Lord when he called? Yes, I heard my Lord when he called.... My Lord callin' in my soul." Similarly, "Didn't you hear them turkle (sic) doves moan... ...hear the harp when it blowed ...hear that thunder roll ...hear the organ playin'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (recording, Rich Amerson & Earthy Anne Coleman)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 68-69, "(Didn't You Hear)" (1 text); pp. 241-243, "Didn't You Hear" (1 tune, partial text)
Roud #10959
RECORDINGS:
 Rich Amerson & Earthy Anne Coleman, "Didn't You Hear" (on NFMAla4, NFMAfAm)
File: CNFM068
===
NAME: Die an Old Maid: see Grandma's Advice (File: R101)
===
NAME: Die Moorsoldaten (Peat-Bog Soldiers): see Moorsoldaten, Die (Peat-Bog Soldiers) (File: SBoA354)
===
NAME: Died for Love (I)
DESCRIPTION: A song of a woman in pain. The woman says that the man loved her when her apron was low, but now it's high. She may wish she were a maid again, recall the alehouse where she drinks, or wish her parents had never met
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: seduction pregnancy betrayal abandonment floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 53, "I Wish, I Wish" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 55, "Died for Love" (2 texts, 2 tunes, the second having a wide variety of imported verses not usually associated with this family)
SharpAp 273, "I wish I was a Child again" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Hammond-Belfast, p. 56, "I Wish I Was a Maid Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #495
RECORDINGS:
Isla Cameron, "Died For Love"  (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741)
Walter Pardon, "I Wish, I Wish" (on Voice15)
Pete Seeger, "Tarrytown" (on PeteSeeger46)
Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry, "In Tarrytown" (on SeegerTerry)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] and references there
cf. "My Blue-Eyed Boy" (lyrics, theme)
cf. "Must I Go Bound" (theme)
cf. "Love Has Brought Me To Despair" [Laws P25] (lyrics)
NOTES: This piece is almost "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] without the suicide. The mention of the apron riding high is a strong indicator; the girl is definitely pregnant and regrets her folly.
For further details on the family, see the notes to "The Butcher Boy." - RBW
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 15" - 13.9.02, cite as a possible source "song 'The Effects of Love - A New Song' which was issued by an anonymous broadside printer in the 18th century." The note quotes the text, which includes the "when my apron it hung low" and "I wish that my dear babe was born" verses. The reference seems to be to "The effects of love. A new song. [London]. [1780?]. 1 sheet; 1/80. British Library 11621.k.4(158). A slip song. "O! Love is hot, and Love is cold,." REFERENCE: ESTCT32452 x." (source: _Eighteenth Century (1701-1790) Cheap Print: A Finding Aid_ produced by Richard C. Simmons, University of Birmingham, Dec 2000, on the University of Birmingham site); this is not at all the Bodleian broadside set "The Effects of Love [by a young lady who drowned herself]" ("Young lovers all I pray draw near").
Also collected and sung by David Hammond, "I Wish I Was a Maid Again" (on David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland," Tradition TCD1052 CD (1997) reissue of Tradition LP TLP 1028 (1959)) - BS
File: McST055
===
NAME: Died for Love (II): see The Butcher Boy [Laws P24] (File: LP24)
===
NAME: Died for Love (III) (Early, Early)
DESCRIPTION: The singer hears a girl sighing, "The lad I love is gone far away." "He's gone and left me now in grief and woe, And where to find him I do not know. I'll search these green fields and valleys low." She wishes she had wings to hunt Willie
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H89, p. 287, "Early, Early" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3817
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Early, Early, by the Break of Day" (on IRRCinnamond03)
NOTES: This is one of those songs where you simply cannot tell if it's the remnant of something else (it reminds me of Jean Redpath's "When I Look tae Yon High Hills") or a collection of floating lines or just a short piece on a commonplace theme. - RBW
File: HHH089
===
NAME: Died on the Ice Fields
DESCRIPTION: "The white, rugged ice-flow came gliding along" as Richard Parsons and his sons return home. The younger goes ahead. The elder complains he can't go on. Parsons tries to keep him warm. The younger dies on the way; the others are barely alive when found
AUTHOR: P. J. Dyer
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Murphy, Songs Sung By Old Time Sealers of Many Years Ago)
KEYWORDS: father children death hunting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, pp. 39-40, "Died on the Ice Fields" (1 text)
File: RySm039
===
NAME: Diego's Bold Shore
DESCRIPTION: "Has a love of adventure, a promise of gold, or an ardent desire to roam Ever tempted you far o'er the watery world?" The singer describes the whaling life by asking if the listener has ever experienced this or that. He advises those at home to enjoy life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1861 (Journal from the _Midas_)
KEYWORDS: whaler work questions
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 30-32, "Diego's Bold Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 196-197, "Diego's Bold Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 213-214, "Twas a Love of Adventure" (1 text)
Roud #2006
File: SWMS030
===
NAME: Dig a Hole in the Meadow: see Darling Corey (File: LxU087)
===
NAME: Dig My Grave: see Go And Dig My Grave (File: FSWB350B)
===
NAME: Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade
DESCRIPTION: "You can dig my grave with a silver spade (x3), 'Cause I ain't gonna stay here long." "There's a long white robe in heaven for me...." "There's a starry crown in heaven for me...." "There's a golden harp up in Heaven for me...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 351, "You Can Dig My Grave" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Deep Blue Sea (II)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Down by the Weeping Willow Tree" (lyrics)
File: FSWB351A
===
NAME: Digby's Farewell: see Packington's Pound (File: ChWI259)
===
NAME: Digging for Gould
DESCRIPTION: Boys know Darby Kelly only loves gold. Dan tells Darby he dreamt of a jar of gold. They dig and find a jar. He takes it home on his back; when they smash it, he is "like a black sugar stick on a hot summer-day," not smelling like gold. He is cured
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1879 (broadside, LOCSinging sb10104a)
KEYWORDS: greed lie trick dream humorous gold
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 43, "Digging for Gould" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(129), "Digging for Gould", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 [same as LOCSinging sb10104a]; also Firth c.20(133), "Digging for Gold"
LOCSinging, sb10104a, "Digging for Gould", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(129)]
NOTES: Both O'Conor and the De Marsan broadside leave off the last verse: once the jar is broken we know from the smell that Darby Kelly is not covered with gold; the missing part, only in shelfmark Firth c.20(133), [runs] "when she [his wife] saw Darby good lord! what a sight, Doubled in two on the ground there he lay, Like a black sugar stick on a hot summer-day ... I know them gasoons have disbed me complete, Never more by you I'll be led or rulled, For I may dig my grave, when I next dig Gold."
Broadsides LOCSinging sb10104a and Bodleian Harding B 18(129): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in _American Music_, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
File: OCon043
===
NAME: Dilly Song, The: see Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You) (File: ShH97)
===
NAME: Dinah's Lovers: see Vilikens and His Dinah [LawsM31A/B] (File: LM31)
===
NAME: Ding, Dong, Bell
DESCRIPTION: "Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well." Johnny Green (or Tam Linn) put her in. Tommy Stout pulls her out. "What a naughty boy was that, To try to drown poor pussy cat, Who never did him any harm, And killed the mice in his father's barn"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1784 (Gammar Gurton's Garland, according to Opie-Oxford2)
KEYWORDS: rescue animal youth
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Opie-Oxford2 134, "Ding, dong, bell" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #43, p. 56, "(Ding dong bell)"
Roud #12853
NOTES: The Baring-Goulds report that Katherine Elwes Thomas believed this to come from Bristol, where there was a tradition of ringing the city bells at any excuse. A reasonable speculation, but no more. - RBW
File: OO2134
===
NAME: Dingle Puck Goat
DESCRIPTION: Singer goes to Puck Fair in Dingle and buys a goat, jumps on its back, grabs its horns and has a fantastic ride. They cross the sea and are attacked by fish. They return through Kerry; "old Puck ... as far as I hear he's in New York or in Boston"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1985 (IRTravellers01)
KEYWORDS: humorous talltale animal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #8220
RECORDINGS:
Mikeen McCarthy, "Dingle Puck Goat" (on IRTravellers01)
NOTES: Jim Carroll's notes to IRTravellers01: "Mikeen always associates this song with Puck Fair, which takes place annually in Kilorglin, Co Kerry on August 10th-12th. Each year a puck goat is caught, brought to town and proclaimed 'King of the Fair.'" - BS
File: RcDiPuGo
===
NAME: Dink's Blues
DESCRIPTION: "Some folks say dat de worry blues ain' bad, It's de wors' ol' feelin' I ever had." The singer details (her) life: "If trouble was money, I'd be a millionaire." "I used to love you, but oh, God damn you now." "Take a worried man to sing de worried song."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 Lomax)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation work floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 193-194, "Dink's Blues" (1 text)
Roud #15573
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Worried Man Blues" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Lomaxes claim they got this from a drunken woman imported to Texas to accompany the men working on a levee there. It's just a feeling, but the story rings utterly false to me; I think they made it up, using floating verses (e.g. from the song which also inspired "Worried Man Blues"). - RBW
File: LxA193
===
NAME: Dink's Song
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: Fare thee well/Oh, honey, fare thee well." Floating verses: "If I had wings like Noah's dove/I'd fly 'cross the river to the man I love"; "When I wore my apron low..." "One of these days... You'll look for me, and I'll be gone"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (collected by John Lomax)
KEYWORDS: nonballad lyric pregnancy love separation floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 21, "Dink's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 195-196, "Dink's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 88, "Dink's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB,  p. 186, "Dink's Song" (1 text)
DT, DINKSONG*
Roud #10057
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Dink's Song" (on PeteSeeger24)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Careless Love"  (floating lyrics)
cf. "Waly Waly (The Water is Wide)"  (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (floating lyrics)
NOTES: While this shares a great deal of material with the cross-referenced songs, the unique tune and chorus make me believe it deserves a separate entry. - PJS
It is, however, so close to "Careless Love" in its text that I may have classified some versions there. The reader is advised to check the entries for both songs. Given that it comes from the Lomaxes, I'm not sure I trust its origin, either. - RBW
File: PSAFB088
===
NAME: Dinky: see Juba (File: BSoF708)
===
NAME: Dinky Die
DESCRIPTION: A bloody soldier returned from France is berated by a lance corporal from headquarters for appearing in public in a disheveled uniform. The soldier is awarded a medal for kicking the corporal in the ass.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: army soldier abuse
FOUND_IN: Australia Britain(England) US New Zealand
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 403-404, "Dinky Die" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10189
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah) [Laws M31A/B]" (tune & meter) and references there
File: EM403
===
NAME: Dirante, My Son: see Lord Randal [Child 12] (File: C012)
===
NAME: Dirty Mistreatin' Women
DESCRIPTION: "A dollar's roun' goes from han' to han', Jes' de way dese women goes from man to man." The singer complains about women's ways, describes how his woman throws him out, contemplates suicide, warns other men that he could pursue their women
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love courting suicide warning
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 192-193, "Dirty Mistreatin' Women" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15572
File: LxA192
===
NAME: Dis Mornin', Dis Evenin', So Soon: see Tell Old Bill (File: San018)
===
NAME: Disappointed Lover (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "Once I courted a pretty little Miss, I courted her for my own... She's taken flight and she's gone." "I walked up and down, just like a man in a haze." When she sees him, she gives a kind smile but no more. He warns her new man to treat her well
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Henry)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection warning
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 157-158, "The Disappointed Lover" (1 text)
Cambiaire, p. 39, "The Disappointed Lover" (1 text, almost certainly from the same source as Henry's though he does not list an informant)
Roud #293
NOTES: Roud lumps this with "The Bonny Boy (I)" and related songs -- but I suspect this is desperation; his #293 is a catchall of unhappy-lover songs. this appears to be, at the very least, rewritten from "The Bonny Boy," so I've split it -- with full awareness that there are a lot of other items out there much like this. - RBW
File: Camb039
===
NAME: Disappointed Lover (II), The: see Early, Early in the Spring [Laws M1] (File: LM01)
===
NAME: Disappointed Sailor, The: see Early, Early in the Spring [Laws M1] (File: LM01)
===
NAME: Disappointment of Joe Bowers, The: see Joe Bowers [Laws B14] (File: LB14)
===
NAME: Discharged Drummer, The
DESCRIPTION: A drummer proposes to a Bristol lady of sixteen that she enlist in the regiment to follow him. She proposes instead that she buy his discharge and that they marry. He agrees "and now he's knocked off playing Among his comrades all"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Karpeles-Newfoundland)
KEYWORDS: marriage soldier money
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 75, "The Discharged Drummer" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #2303
File: KaNew075
===
NAME: Discrimination Blues: see Black, Brown, and White (File: SBoA350)
===
NAME: Discussion Between Church and Chapel, A
DESCRIPTION: Singer overhears Cork chapel and Shandon Church arguing. Church blames chapel for convincing people to leave Ireland. Chapel blames Church for "tithes and taxes" and prophesizes "tithes and taxes will be defeated" and freedom will return after 500 years
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1830 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: Ireland prophecy nonballad political religious money
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 37, "A Discussion Between Church and Chapel" (2 texts)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.26(159), "Church and Chapel," J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1855-1858; also 2806 b.10(162), 2806 b.10(46), Firth b.25(326), "A Discussion Between the Church and Chapel"; Harding B 26(136), "A Discussion Between a Church and a Chapel"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A Dialogue Between Church and Chapel
NOTES: Zimmermann, quoting _English As We Speak it in Ireland_ by Joyce: "All through Ireland it is customary to call a Protestant place of worship a 'church', and that belonging to Roman Catholics a 'chapel'." [This presumably because the Anglican faith was the official and legal Church of Ireland; Catholic services were often held in any place they could find. - RBW]
The context is "The Tithe War": O'Connell's Catholic Association was formed in 1823 to resist the requirement that Irish Catholics pay tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland. The "war" was passive for most of the period 1823-1836, though there were violent incidents in 1831 (source: _The Irish Tithe War 1831_ at the OnWar.com site). [In the Index, see "The Battle of Carrickshock" for more on the Tithe War.]
Zimmermann prints a variant of the prophecy in which "base heresy" is defeated and freedom will return after 300 years. The Bodliean broadsides illustrate both prophecies. - BS 
File: Zimm037
===
NAME: Disguised Sailor (The Sailor's Misfortune and Happy Marriage; The Old Miser) [Laws N6]
DESCRIPTION: When a girl's father cannot talk her out of marrying a sailor, the father has the boy pressed. The girl follows in disguise; they wind up in the same bunk. At length she reveals herself. They return home. The girl's father has died; they are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1864 (broadside, LOCSinging as200940)
KEYWORDS: courting sailor pressgang father disguise marriage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar, Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland US(MW)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws N6, "Disguised Sailor (The Sailor's Misfortune and Happy Marriage; The Old Miser)"
Sharp-100E 50, "The Bonny Lighter Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H108a, pp. 329-330, "The Rich Merchant's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 146-147, "Disguised Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune, considered "confused" by Laws)
Leach-Labrador 35, "The Lady and the Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 47, "The Press Gang" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 62, "The Weaver is Handsome" (2 texts, 1 tune, both short and both starting with variants "I am a young girl and my fortune is sad"; both seem confused and neither contains the complete plot, but "A" at least has the father's feigned consent and the press gang; "B" has the dressing in men's clothes)
DT 742, DISGSAIL*
Roud #601
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 19(40), "The Lady and Sailor" ("There was a rich merchant in London did dwell"), W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867 ; also 2806 c.15(59), Firth c.12(252), "The Lady and Sailor"
LOCSinging, as200940, "The Farmer's Daughter" ("It is of a rich farmer, I dare not tell his name"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "There Was an Old Miser"
cf. "Jack Monroe (Jackie Frazer; The Wars of Germany)" [Laws N7]
cf. "The Jolly Plowboy (Little Plowing Boy; The Simple Plowboy)" [Laws M24]
cf. "James and Flora (Flora and Jim, The United Lovers)"
NOTES: [In Sharp's version,] the plot is fragmentary; the girl's father has the boy pressed, and he pledges his undying love. That's all.-PJS
Broadside LOCSinging as200940: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
The general plot in Karpeles-Newfoundland, Leach-Labrador and the Bodleian "The Lady and Sailor" broadsides agrees but the couple get married, go to "Columbia's [or England's] fair shore" and don't return home. - BS
File: LN06
===
NAME: Disheartened Ranger, The: see Come List to a Ranger (The Disheartened Ranger) (File: R181)
===
NAME: Dishonest Miller, The: see The Miller's Will (The Miller's Three Sons) [Laws Q21] (File: LQ21)
===
NAME: Distant Land to Roam, A
DESCRIPTION: "I remember very well One dark and (dreary) day" when the singer set out for "A distant land to roam." He recalls mother bidding him goodbye and hoping to see him again in a year. But she dies before he returns; he says he will remember her words
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, The Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: mother separation death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II, p. 201 (1931), "(The Wanderer)" (1 text)
ST FORA201 (Partial)
Roud #17234
RECORDINGS:
The Carter Family, "A Distant Land to Roam" (Victor 40255/Bluebird5433/Montgomery Ward 7020, 1929)
File: FORA201
===
NAME: Distressed Maid, The: see Our Captain Calls All Hands (Fighting for Strangers) (File: Pea416)
===
NAME: Dives and Laz'us: see Dives and Lazarus [Child 56] (File: C056)
===
NAME: Dives and Lazarus (II): see Lazarus (I) (File: C056A)
===
NAME: Dives and Lazarus (III): see The Rich Man and Lazarus (File: BrII055)
===
NAME: Dives and Lazarus [Child 56]
DESCRIPTION: Poor Lazarus comes to the rich man's door. The rich man (Dives/Diveres/Diverus) refuses to offer charity. Lazarus dies and is rewarded after death; the rich man suffers eternal punishment
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1871 (Bramley & Stainer)
KEYWORDS: religious poverty punishment Hell
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West)) US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Child 56, "Dives and Lazarus" (2 texts)
Bronson 56, "Dives and Lazarus" (13 versions, but #10-#12, given in an appendix, are "Lazarus (I)," and #9, a tune with no text, might also be something else)
Leather, pp. 190-191, "Dives and Lazarus" (1 text plus some excerpts, 2 tunes)
Leach, pp. 177-179, "Dives and Lazarus" (1 text)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 74-75, "Dives and Lazarus" (a few scrapts of text, which Flanders places with Child #56 though none of the lines is characteristic of that song and one  -- "even the whelps can eat crumbs" -- is not even part of the tale of Lazarus)
OBC 57, "Dives and Lazarus" (1 text, 2 tunes) {First Tune=Bronson's #3; Second Tune=Bronson's #1]
OBB 109, Dives and Lazarus"" (1 text)
Niles 24, "Dives and Lazarus" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 153, "Dives and Lazarus" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 583-584, "Dives and Laz'us" (1 text)
DT 56, DIVRLAZ*
Roud #477
RECORDINGS:
Aunt Molly Jackson, "Lazarus" (AFS; on LC57)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lazarus and the Rich Man" (subject)
cf. "Lazarus (I)" (subject)
cf. "Poor Old Lazarus (I've Got a Home; Don't You See)" (subject)
cf. "The Rich Man and Lazarus" (subject)
cf. "The Rich Man and the Poor Man" (theme)
cf. "The Star of the County Down" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Jesus's story of the rich man and Lazarus -- which, be it noted, was a warning, not a description of an actual event -- is found in Luke 16:19-31 (the Lazarus of John 11, 12 is unrelated). The name "Dives/Divers" from the Latin dives, rich/rich man.
The Lomaxes seem to regard their text, "Dives and Laz'us," as a "Dives and Lazarus" variant. This seems rather a stretch -- the song is about Lazarus, but the form does not much resemble the Child ballad. But I have seen nothing similar elsewhere. Given the undeniable possibility of Lomax editorial work, I give in and list the song here.
In the folk revival, this song is most commonly sung to the tune of "The Star of the County Down." Most of the tunes in Bronson, however, are not of this type; indeed, the majority are in two, not three. - RBW
File: C056
===
NAME: Dividing Line, The
DESCRIPTION: "There's a line that divides all the people on earth From a life of sin and a life of true worth...." Sinners are exhorted to turn to God and "cross that dividing line." They are warned that it will be too late if they wait for God's revelation
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious sin
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 646, "The Dividing Line"  (1 text)
Roud #7567
NOTES: The story of Elijah's being carried into heaven occupies 2 Kings 2:1-12, with his actual departure taking place in 2:11. - RBW
File: R646
===
NAME: Dixie
DESCRIPTION: "I wish I was in the land of cotton...." A blackface-dialect song praising southern life and the conditions the slaves endured. Such plot as it has revolves around Old Missus, who married Will the Weaver, a "gay deceiver"
AUTHOR: Daniel Decatur Emmett
EARLIEST_DATE: 1859
KEYWORDS: courting patriotic nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 531-533, "Dixie" (1 text plus one extra verse, 1 tune)
RJackson-19CPop, pp. 61-64, "Dixie's Land" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 76-77, "Dixie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 713, "Dixie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 424-425, "Dixie" (2 texts, 1 tune -- text given has the standard Dixie chorus but bawdy & nonsensical lyrics)
Hill-CivWar,  p. 221, "Dixie" (1 text); also two adaptions: pp. 198-199, "Dixie" (1 text, by Albert Pike; for other versions see the Same Tune field); p. 222, "Dixie" (1 text, a Union version by John Savage)
Krythe 6, pp. 100-112, "Dixie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 45, "Dixie" (1 text)
Gilbert, pp. 13-16, "(Dixie)" (several fragmentary sets of later words plus a description of the dance)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 196-199+, "Dixie"
DT, DIXIELND*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 163-164, "(Dixie)" (1 text plus extensive notes on pp. 164-166); also the Pike adaption on pp. 225-226
ST LxA531 (Full)
Roud #8231
RECORDINGS:
[Arthur] Harlan & [Frank] Stanley "Dixie" (Columbia A-696, 1909)
Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers, "Dixie" (OKeh 45129, 1927)
Kessinger Brothers, "Dixie" (Brunswick 518, c. 1931)
Peerless Quartet, "Dixie" (Superior [Pathe] 1, 1922)
Red Mountain Trio, "Dixie" (Columbia 15369-D, 1929; rec. 1928)
[Frank] Stanley & [Henry] Burr, "Dixie" (Columbia A696, 1909)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Dixie" (Columbia 15158-D, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Woodpecker's Hole" (tune)
cf. "A Horse Name Bill" (tune)
cf. "Crazy Song to the Air of 'Dixie'" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Crazy Song to the Air of "Dixie" (File: San342)
A Horse Named Bill (File: San340)
Albert Pike's "Dixie" ("Southrons, hear your country call you!") (Hill-CivWar, pp. 198-199, "Dixie"; [W. M. Wharton,] War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, pp. 29-30; Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 225-226)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "Dixie Parody" (OKeh 40430, 1925)
NOTES: Although forever to be associated with the Confederate states, "Dixie" was a favorite of President Lincoln, and was often played by Union bands during the war. It could literally be regarded as having been "stolen" by the south; the first certain publication of the piece was by a New Orleans firm in 1860, but Emmett was neither credited nor consulted -- nor, apparently, paid. (The piece was registered in 1859, but no copies of the relevant printing -- if there was one -- have survived. Gilbert reports that Emmett's total lifetime payment for the song was the $300 he received for the copyright.)
The origin of the term "Dixie" is uncertain, but it is believed to be associated with the Mason-Dixon line. - RBW
It should also be noted that Dan Emmett was an abolitionist. -PJS
And, of course, a Northerner. He even produced a "northern" set of lyrics, though neither they nor any of the other "northern" texts took hold. - RBW
File: LxA531
===
NAME: Dixie Brown [Laws D7]
DESCRIPTION: Arriving in (San Francisco), a sailor goes on a spree and ends up broke. He is taken in by [Dixie] Brown, who alleges he owes a score and uses that as a lever to force him back to sea. The sailor warns others to avoid the sea and this sort of trap
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923
KEYWORDS: sailor poverty robbery shanghaiing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws D7, "Dixie Brown"
Doerflinger, pp. 107-109, "Off to Sea Once More" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 96, "Dixie Brown" (1 text)
Hugill, pp. 581-585, "We'll Go To Sea No More," "Go To Sea No More," "Go To Sea Once More," "Off To Sea Once More" (4 texts, 3 tunes - the last tune given the name "The Flying Cloud" and listed without a text) [AbEd, pp. 402-406]
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 494-496, "Jack Wrack" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 140-141, "Off to Sea Once More" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 702, GOTOSEA
Roud #644
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sailor's Way" (tune)
cf. "Gold Watch" [Laws K41] (plot) and references there
cf. "Jolly Sailors Bold (I)" (lyrics)
cf. "The River Lea" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Ben Breezer
Go to Sea Once More
NOTES: Boarding masters was a peculiar occupation which existed primarily in the late days of sail. At a time when casualties among sailors were high (due to injuries, bad diet, desertion, and incompetent skippers), a captain often needed to find new hands quickly. Hence the Boarding Master: He found sailors and gave them a place to stay in return for a fee, taken from the sailor's wages when he shipped out.
The idea wasn't inherently bad -- sailors, after all, did need some place to stay while on shore -- but the way it was implemented was pretty toxic. It was captains who hired the sailors from the boarding master, but the money was taken from the sailor's pay at a fixed rate. Thus there was every incentive for the boarding master to give the sailors the minimum amount of pay and shove them out the door as soon as they could be sobered up.
The practice was so common that rituals evolved around it, the most famous being that of "paying off the dead horse" -- the ceremony sailors performed when they had paid off the advance to the boarding master and finally were able to earn wages for themselves, usually after thirty days (for this, see "Poor Old Man (Poor Old Horse; The Dead Horse)").
There were relatively honest boarding masters, but some of the tricks they pulled were pretty dreadful. "Paddy West" tells of a boarding master who operated by teaching landlubbers to pretend to be sailors. Other boarding masters operated in complicity with captains to kidnap sailors shortly before they were paid off (see for this practice Richard Woodman, _A Brief History of Mutiny_,Carroll & Graf, 2005, p. 9); the idea was to avoid paying their wages. And the whole system worked because sailors in port were so good at wasting their pay anyway; see, e.g., "Gold Watch" [Laws K41] and the numerous references there to songs such as "Maggie May."
Dixie "Shanghai" Brown was a particularly notorious San Francisco boarding master, noted for not only supplying sailors for the whalers but going so far as to lure, rob, or trick sailors into his hands. Even among San Francisco boarding masters (who in this period were little better than slavers), he stood out as a particularly bad seed.
It should be noted that many versions of this song do not mention San Francisco or Brown; they simply tell of how a sailor arrived in port (often Liverpool), got drunk, spent all his money, and had to return to sea. The line "(he must) go to sea once more," however, seems highly characteristic. - RBW
There was an equally notorious Liverpool boarding master called "Rapper" Brown, whose name is often found in British versions of this song. - PJS
File: LD07
===
NAME: Dixie's Isle: see The Banks of the Nile (Men's Clothing I'll Put On II) [Laws N9] (File: LN09)
===
NAME: Dixie's Land: see Dixie (File: LxA531)
===
NAME: Dixon and Johnson: see The Three Butchers [Laws L4] (File: LL04)
===
NAME: Do as They Do in France
DESCRIPTION: The singer's step-mother told him as a child, "do as they do in France." Even now, when he needs shoes, or bread, she says "do as they do in France." A friend explains that means "do without." So he joins the navy. "Boys, do as Britons do"
AUTHOR: William Ball (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: "shortly after 1798" (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: France patriotic hardtimes poverty navy
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 21, "Do as They Do in France" (1 text)
NOTES: The inference is that we should ignore those who would overthrow the king "as they do in France."
Moylan: Ball is a Dublin loyalist. "The tenor of all his songs is that of an ordinary Irish citizen, loyal to the established order." - BS
The comment that doing as they do in France meaning doing without is of course dead-on accurate: Marie-Antoinette's foolish "Let them eat cake" comment was in response to a report that the peasants had no bread (they had been taxed almost to death to pay for the American war), and the _sans-culottes_ were not so called because they were rich!
In a sad irony, the Irish would eventually do as they did in France, in cutting their relations with the British monarch -- after which they followed the worst part of the French model: They killed their first real head of state, Michael Collins, and engaged in a civil war over who would rule the country and how.
William Ball was a writer of humorous verse about Irish history; in this index, see "Cockledemoy (The French Invasion)," "Do as They Do in France," "The Dying Rebel," "Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)" -- though he doesn't seem to have made much impression on the wider world of literature; I have been unable to find any of his writings in any of my literary references. - RBW
File: Moyl021
===
NAME: Do Let Me Go: see Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go) (File: Hugi380)
===
NAME: Do Let Me Lone, Susan
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Choruses "Hoo-raw! me loo-loo boys, Do let me lone." Three line verses with the chorus following each. Verses run through different women's names (Susan, Flora, Rosy, etc)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Choruses "Hoo-raw! me loo-loo boys, Do let me lone." Three line verses with the chorus following each. Verses run through different women's names (Susan, Flora, Rosy, etc). Verses run as follows: "Do let me lone (Susan), do let me lone. Chorus. I put me arm around Jinny's waist, oh Jinny jumps about. Chorus. When I put me hand on Jinny's head, oh, Jinny jumps away. Chorus."
KEYWORDS: shanty bawdy
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 379-380, "Do Let Me Lone, Susan" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 287-288]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go)" (similar chorus)
NOTES: Hugill gives five verses, running through various parts of Jinny's anatomy. He says the rest of the song would eventually refer to ALL parts, and so was considered unprintable. - SL
File: Hugi379
===
NAME: Do Me Ama: see Jack the Jolly Tar (I) (Tarry Sailor) [Laws K40] (File: LK40)
===
NAME: Do They Miss Me at Home?
DESCRIPTION: "Do they miss me at home, do they miss me?" The singer asks for assurance that he is remembered. He recounts various ways people might show how they miss them.
AUTHOR: Words: Caroline Atherton Mason / Music: S. M. Grannis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: home separation loneliness nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 858, "Do They Miss Me at Home?" (1 text)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 18, "Do They Miss Me at Home?" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOMISSME*
Roud #4366
File: R858
===
NAME: Do Ye Ken John Peel?: see D'ye Ken John Peel? (File: FSWB208)
===
NAME: Do Ye Mind Lang Syne
DESCRIPTION: "Do ye mind lang syne, When the simmer days were fine, When the sun it shone far brichter than it's ever done sin' syne?" The singer recalls the joys of the old days, and all the youths used to do. Now old, he hopes to awaken on an equally bright Sabbath
AUTHOR: George James Laurie?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford); Laurie died in 1878
KEYWORDS: youth age nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 190-191, "Do Ye Mind Lang Syne" (1 text)
Roud #6322
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Lang Lang Syne
File: FVS190
===
NAME: Do You Love an Apple?
DESCRIPTION: The girl loves an uncaring man. She details her abuses ("When I was single, I wore a black shawl; now I'm married, it's overalls," etc.), always ending, "Still I love him, I'll forgive him (or "cannot deny him"), I'll go with him wherever he goes."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (recording, Phil Hammond)
KEYWORDS: love abuse poverty hardtimes
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,North),Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Kennedy 203, "He Comes Down our Alley" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 30, "Still I Love Him" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 186, "When I Was Single" (1 text)
DT, STILILOV* LOVAPPLE
Roud #654
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme, floating lyrics)
cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman, "Still I Love Him" (on Barry-Gorman1)
NOTES: The version sung by Charlotte Higgins (in MacSeegTrav) has, rather than overalls, "Now since I'm married I've sweet bugger-all," a rather more vivid description.
The Barry-Gorman recording is an autobiographical rewrite of the traditional song, telling of Barry's life as a singer of traditional songs, but it incorporates a few of the older verses. - PJS
Also collected and sung by David Hammond, "When I Was Single" (on David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland," Tradition TCD1052 CD (1997) reissue of Tradition LP TLP 1028 (1959)).
Sean O Boyle, notes to David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland": "A Northumbrian song probably imported into Ulster in the 19th century during the American Civil War when the English cotton industry found itself with no raw material and its textile workers came to Ulster to work at the linen." - BS
File: K203
===
NAME: Do You See That There Bird On Yonder Tree?: see Lonesome Dove (File: Br3262)
===
NAME: Do Your Balls Hang Low?
DESCRIPTION: Encouragement to sexual activity: The listener is encouraged to "find a woman if you can. If you can't find a woman, find a clean old man." The remainder of the song is devoted to the characteristics of the listener's scrotum
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad sex
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 336-338, "Do Your Balls Hang Low?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10259
File: EM336
===
NAME: Do, Do, Pity My Case
DESCRIPTION: "Do, do pity my case, In some lady's garden, My clothes to wash when I get home, In some lady's garden." Repeat with substitutions in the third line: "My clothes to iron when I get home," "My floors to scrub," "My bread to bake," etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903 (Newell)
KEYWORDS: work servant
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 805, "Do, Do Pity My Case" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST BAF805 (Full)
Roud #11590
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ransum Scansum" (lyrics)
cf. "The Closet Key" (lyrics)
cf. "In Some Lady's Garden (I)" (lyrics)
cf. "In Some Lady's Garden (II)" (lyrics)
NOTES: There is a whole complex of "In Some Lady's Garden" songs (see the cross-references), many if not most surely related. And many of them seem to be one-shots. Roud lumps some of them and ignores others. But they're different enough that I've split them. This one appears to be by far the most popular. - RBW
File: BAF805
===
NAME: Dobbin's Flowery Vale: see Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament) [Laws O29] (File: LO29)
===
NAME: Dobe Bill: see Dobie Bill (Dobe Bill, The Killer) (File: LxA403)
===
NAME: Dobie Bill (Dobe Bill, The Killer)
DESCRIPTION: "Dobie Bill, he came a-riding from the canyon, in the glow." Arriving in Santa Fe, he enters a bar and finds "Blake, the killer." In the fight that follows, Bill kills Blake, reports he has "made the scoundrel pay," and goes his way
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Lomax)
KEYWORDS: cowboy fight death revenge
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 403-404, "The Killer" (1 text)
DT, THEKILLR
Roud #4046
RECORDINGS:
Art Thieme, "Dobie Bill" (on Thieme03)
NOTES: Cisco Houston had a tune for this (sung also by Art Thieme). It's not clear where they found it, though; the Lomaxes had their version as a poem from _Wild West Weekly_.
As "The Killer," this is item dB43 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: LxA403
===
NAME: Doctor Blair Was a Man of Skill
DESCRIPTION: Dr Blair was a man of skill, He built his castle on a hill; He set four statues in the front, And every morning went to hunt. From his castle you may see Up and down along the Lee"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: doctor home hunting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Croker-PopularSongs, p. 161, "Dr Blair Was a Man of Skill" (1 fragment)
NOTES: Croker-PopularSongs: "So says an old song. This Dr Blair was a Scotch physician, who settled in Cork about the middle of the last century." The current description is all of the Croker-PopularSongs text.- BS
File: CrPS161
===
NAME: Doctor Crippen
DESCRIPTION: In London, Doctor Crippen poisoned his wife, "cut up her body and buried it deep" He and his disguised mistress are arrested "on board the Montrose." He is tried, convicted, "and Crippen was condemned on the gallows to die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: execution homicide trial disguise mistress wife
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1910 - "Doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged in London ... for the murder of his wife" (source: notes to IRClare01).
FOUND_IN: US Ireland Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #18472
RECORDINGS:
Martin Howley, "Doctor Crippen" (on IRClare01)
File: RcDrCrip
===
NAME: Doctor Jones
DESCRIPTION: "Dr. Jones  is a good man, a good man, a good man, Dr. Jones is a good man, he'll help whoever he can." "Ladies and gentlemen, sail around... and kiss just who you please." "Spider in the dumpling... Roll around and roll."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad doctor
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 90, "Doctor Jones" (1 text)
SharpAp 256, "Old Doc Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 250, "Old Doc Jones" (1 fragment, probably this though it might be a distorted version of "Sail Away Ladies")
Roud #3646
RECORDINGS:
Logan English, "Old Doc Jones" (on LEnglish01)
File: Br3090
===
NAME: Doctor Stafford and the Weaver's Daughter
DESCRIPTION: A weaver's daughter loves Dr Stafford. He is called to her death bed and says they will marry if she survives. He stays with her eight weeks, but she dies. The neighbors say her ghost haunts him. He ends in Bedlam. Her spirit comes to save him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1828 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 28(185))
KEYWORDS: love death healing doctor ghost
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 97, "The Weaver's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3868
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(185), "Dr. Stafford," W. Wright (Birmingham), 1820-1827; also Johnson Ballads 1929, Harding B 25(2015), "Weaver's Daughter" ("As I walk'd out one evening...")[see Notes for first lines]; Harding B 25(529), Johnson Ballads 2457, "Doctor Stafford"; Harding B 25(531), Firth c.18(55), Firth b.34(90), "Doctor Stafford, and the Weaver's Daughter"; Harding B 11(4357), "Young Doctor Stafford and the Weaver's Daughter"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Weaver's Dochter
The Rocks o' Penn
NOTES: The first line varies, yielding titles based upon where the weaver's daughter walks. For example, just from the Bodleian broadsides:
"One evening as I walk'd by the rocks of Mile End"
"One day was I was walking down by the banks of Clyde"
"One ev'ning as I walked down by the rock of Mache"
"One evening as I walked, by the rocks of Mile"
"One evening as I walked down by the rocks of Myle"
Lyle has "One day as I was walking To view my father's land."
Manny/Wilson has "As I walked out one evening Down by the rocky mull"
Manny Wilson's text is confused so the description is based on broadside Bodleian Harding B 28(185).
There seems an assumption by the neighbors that the inexperienced Dr Stafford -- he is Dr Richardson's apprentice -- is responsible for her death. [Indeed, in glancing at one version, I thought they were hinting he poisoned her. - RBW] This seems not to be the case. The last that the weaver's daughter says is "All goodness be my darling's guide, he's the boy I lov'd so dear."
After her death he claims that, of all his women "the weaver's daughter lov'd me best, she died in love for me." When the neighbors claim she haunts him he says they were all liars "for she laid no blame on me." Confined in Bedlam "quite bereft of his senses,Ó "Her spirit came unto him saying young man revive, For I never was ordained to be your wedded wife." - BS
File: MaWi097
===
NAME: Doctor-Man, The
DESCRIPTION: Daniel Morris is the local doctor for 40 years. His house visits are described, including his work in the 1918 flu pandemic. He is still remembered after his death.
AUTHOR: Mrs. Dan Morris
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Dibblee/Dibblee)
KEYWORDS: memorial doctor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 21-22, "The Doctor-Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12479
NOTES: Dibblee/Dibblee: "Dr Morris ... was born in Donaldston, P.E.I. in 1865 and died in 1937. He is still [1973] well-known on the Eastern end of Prince Edward Island and there are many people who were named after him." - BS
File: Dib021
===
NAME: Dodger Song, The: see The Dodger (File: R462)
===
NAME: Dodger, The
DESCRIPTION: Comments on the less-than-honest nature of various professionals: "Oh the (candidate's) a dodger, yes, a well-known dodger, Yes, the (candidate's) a dodger and I'm a dodger too. For we're all dodging... Our way through the world"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: political trick
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 462, "We're All Dodging" (1 text)
BrownIII 333, "The Dodgers" (1 text, less political than some; candidates are not mentioned)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 875-876, "The Dodger" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, pp. 24-25, "The Dodger Song" (1 text)
DT, DODGRSNG*
Roud #3758
RECORDINGS:
Almanac Singers, "The Dodger Song" (General 5019B, 1941; on Almanac01, Almanac03, AlmanacCD1)
Neil Morris, "Corn Dodgers" (on LomaxCD1706)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "We're All A-Singing" (lyrics, form)
File: R462
===
NAME: Does Your Mother Know You're Out?
DESCRIPTION: "Does your mother know you're out? (x2), How are you, Horace Greeley? Does your mother know you're out?" "Mother, is the battle over? What are the men about? How are you, Horace Greeley? Does your mother know you're out?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: political battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1872 - Horace Greeley's presidential campaign
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 398, "Does Your Mother Know You're Out?" (1 text)
Roud #11756
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mother, Is the Battle Over?" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The editors of Brown speculate that this is from Horace Greeley's 1872 presidential run. Greeley lost decisively to Ulysses S. Grant, then died, and his electoral votes went to the four winds.
William A. DeGregorio, _The Complete Book of U. S. Presidents_ (1993 edition, Barricade Books, p. 267) quotes Eugene H. Rosebloom as saying "Never in American history have two more unfit men been offered to the country for the highest office." Greeley's biggest single issue was probably the corruption that had occurred under Grant (who had no political background at all and was unable to control his underlings; indeed, the Republicans booted his 1868 vice president off the 1872 ticket because he was associated with corruption). But Greeley had no background in politics either.
J. G. Randall's _The Civil War and Reconstruction_ (second edition by David Donald, Heath, 1961), p. 15, described Greeley this way: "Animate by enthusiasms that tended toward fanaticism, and marred by personal eccentricities that laid him open to ridicule, this Yankee printer had risen from stark poverty to influence and power; and, as a supporter of the Whig and later the Republican party, had demonstrated in areas widely distant from his sanctum the tremendous force of political journalism. With defects of character that were to grow with the years, he showed the finer idealism of his ardent nature in efforts to improve the workingman's lot, in generous support of movements for popular education, and in championship of progressive social movements generally."
He was, of course, the editor of the _New York Tribune_, which he founded in 1841, and, yes, he did write, "Go west, young man" (see his entry in the _Dictionary of American Biography_).
Samuel Elliot Morison, _The Oxford History of the American People_, Oxford University Press, 1965, p. 730, says of his 1872 run for the Presidency, "As a 'headliner,' Horace Greeley could not have been bettered. In his thirty years' editorship of the New York _Tribune_ he had built it up to be the country's leading newspaper, whose articles and editorials were quoted nationwide. His personal integrity and moral earnestness were unquestioned. But he was also something of a crackpot... and at one time or another he had espoused unpopular causes such as socialism, temperance, spiritism, and women's rights. Greeley made a strong speaking campaign, but the Republicans had the money and the organization, and the average citizen, having to choose between an old soldier whose very name stood for patriotism, and a journalist who had been as often wrong as right, voted for Grant. The President carried all but six states with a popular vote of 3.6 million as against 2.8 million for his opponent."
It's likely enough that this song comes from the 1872 campaign -- described as exceptionally bitter, and also quite strange, as Greeley was endorsed by the independent (generally radical) Republicans *and* by the Democrats. The pressure was so extreme that Greeley, after his defeat, his wife's death, and his discovery of a sort of palace coup at the _Tribune_, went insane shortly before his death.
On the other hand, Greeley during the Civil War was quite strident and also rather unstable; one can imagine someone at the time taunting him, "Does your mother know you're out?"
Or it could be two mixed-up songs. It rather looks that way to me.
According to Eric Partridge's _A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English_ (combined fifth edition with dictionary and supplement, Macmillan, 1961), entry on "Mother know you're out" notes that the question itself is used at least as early as 1838, in Bentley's _Miscellany_. It was "addressed to a person showing extreme simplicity or youthful presumption." - RBW 
File: Br3398
===
NAME: Doffin' Mistress, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh do you know here or do you not, This new doffin' mistress we hae got, [Something-or-other] is her name, And she helps her doffers at every frame." The weavers tell of her exploits. They contemptuously tell the boss they will work hard for her, not him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904
KEYWORDS: work weaving
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Kennedy 220, "The Doffin' Mistress" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leyden 14, "The Doffing Mistress" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hammond-Belfast, p. 27, "The Doffing Mistress" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOFFNMIS*
Roud #2133
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "The Doffing Mistress" (on IronMuse1, IronMuse2, Briggs3)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sea Apprentice" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Sea Apprentice (File: HHH739)
NOTES: The "Doffing Mistress" was responsible for a gang of mill-workers. These women inspired surprising loyalty, and were often honored with processions and celebrations when they retired, married, or went to work for another establishment. - RBW
Also collected and sung by David Hammond, "The Doffin' Mistress" (on David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland," Tradition TCD1052 CD (1997) reissue of Tradition LP TLP 1028 (1959)) - BS
File: K220
===
NAME: Doffing Mistress, The: see The Doffin' Mistress (File: K220)
===
NAME: Dog and Gun: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: Dog and the Gun (I), The: see The Drowning of Young Robinson (File: HHH585)
===
NAME: Dog and the Gun (II), The: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: Dog and the Gun, The: see The Drowning of Young Robinson (File: HHH585)
===
NAME: Dog in the Closet, The (The Old Dyer) [Laws Q11]
DESCRIPTION: The hatter has to hide in the closet when the woman's husband comes home unexpectedly. The husband locks the closet and goes for witnesses. The wife releases the hatter and puts a dog in his place. The husband finds the dog and is embarrassed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: infidelity trick escape dog hiding age
FOUND_IN: US(NE,SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws Q11, "The Old Dyer (The Dog in the Closet)"
BrownII 279, "The Old Dyer" (1 text)
BBI, ZN151, "All you that to merriment now are inclined" (probably this piece)
DT 523, DOGCLOS
Roud #1006
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: LQ11
===
NAME: Dog in the Wood
DESCRIPTION: "Dog in the wood, Barking at the squirrel; My true love Is as good as the worl'." "Mr. Banks, he loves sugar and tea, Mr. Banks, he loves candy...." "Dog in the wood, Barking at the squirrel."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: hunting animal playparty
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 133-134, (no title) (1 text)
ST ScNF133A (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sugar and Tea" (lyrics)
NOTES: This shares a chorus with the song I've indexed as "Sugar and Tea," but the verses are so distinct (this is a hunting song, that a courting song) that I've tentatively split them. It appears (due to an abrupt change in stanza form) that Scarborough's text may be a mixture anyway. - RBW
File: ScNF133A
===
NAME: Dog Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "There is something so thrilling and gay As the team into harness we strop." The song is about driving a dog team. "The good man too performs his part; The hungry dogs are fed; And blizzards now may whirl and roar, The traveller has a bed."
AUTHOR: J.T. Richards
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: work storm nonballad dog
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 147, "The Dog Song" (1 text)
Roud #6350
File: GrMa147
===
NAME: Dog's Convention, The
DESCRIPTION: At a convention of dogs from far and near, the animals' anuses are mixed up, and the canines go home with orifices not their own. This explains why dogs will drop a bone to smell the anus of a passing dog; they are looking for their own.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1928, when it was published in an under-the-counter book, Poems, Ballads, and Parodies.
KEYWORDS: bawdy scatological dog talltale
FOUND_IN: US(So) Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 490-491, "The Dog's Convention" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 160-161, "The Dogs' Meeting" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOGMEETG*
Roud #5474
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Dogs' Party
NOTES: Australian folklore attributes this to Henry Lawson. Its early currency in the U.S. makes this perhaps doubtful. - RBW
File: RL491
===
NAME: Dogget's Gap
DESCRIPTION: Descriptions of various doings in Dogget's Gap. "Chestnut tree full of chestnut sap, Snow knee deep in Dogget's Gap."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929
KEYWORDS: nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 739, "Dogget's Gap" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11584
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cumberland Gap"
File: BSoF739
===
NAME: Dogie Song
DESCRIPTION: "The cow-bosses are good-hearted chunks," very diverse, but "Still they sing the same old song": "Sift along, don't ride so slow, Haven't got much time but a long round to go." After gathering the herd, the crew is to "hit the shortest trail"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Lomax)
KEYWORDS: cowboy work boss travel
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Saffel-CowboyP, p. 187, "Dogie Song" (1 text)
Roud #8028
File: Saffe187
===
NAME: Dogs and Ferrets: see Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping (File: K249)
===
NAME: Dogs in the Alley, The: see I Had a Little Rooster (Farmyard Song) (File: R352)
===
NAME: Dogs' Party, The: see The Dog's Convention (File: RL491)
===
NAME: Doherty's Wake
DESCRIPTION: Michael Doherty lives in Kerry and has "a taste for the grog" He is "killed" in a fight. When the whiskey is passed at the wake Doherty lifts the coffin lid. He advises, at the next wake, "don't pass with the whiskey so close to his nose"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: injury drink fight party humorous mourning
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 69, "Doherty's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrSNB069 (Partial)
Roud #2761
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Finnegan's Wake" [Laws Q17] (subject)
NOTES: There are several Irish songs about dead men rising at the scent of alcohol; this is so close to "Finnegan's Wake" that I'm tempted to list it as a rewrite. But there are minor differences in form, and the lyrics are different in detail if not in outline. - RBW
File: CrSNB069
===
NAME: Dol-li-a
DESCRIPTION: "Fresh I cum frae Sandgate Steet, Dol-li, dol-li, Maw best freends here to meet, Dol-li-a, Dol-li the dillen dol...." "The Black Cuffs is gawn away, An' that'll be a crying day." "Dolly Coxon's pawned her shirt...." "The Green Cuffs is cummin' in...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: clothes soldier nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  86-87, "Dol-li-a" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOLLIA
Roud #2611
NOTES: This apparently refers to a situation where one British regiment left town and another replaced it, with the Black Cuffs and Green Cuffs being references to their uniforms. Without further details, though, I can't determine the historical situation. - RBW
File: StoR086
===
NAME: Dole Song, The
DESCRIPTION: When you go on the dole they take your report: name and "what you've got." Scratch through the seasons and do anything to stay off the dole. When the man with money dies and is buried "he'll have no better chance than the poor man on the dole"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes nonballad unemployment
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 30, "The Dole Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LeBe030
===
NAME: Dollar and a Half a Day, A: see Lowlands (My Lowlands Away) (File: PBB100)
===
NAME: Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes all the things his friend has bought on credit, including clothes, car, marriage, and a child; finally the man's wife, saying "these weekly payments are killing me," divorces him, and the alimony is a dollar down, a dollar a week.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Arkansas Woodchopper)
KEYWORDS: marriage money humorous commerce
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 79, "Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week" (Conqueror 7887, 1931)
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston, "A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week" (on Struggle2)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cotton Mill Colic" (theme)
NOTES: And this was before Visa cards even existed.... - RBW
File: CSW079
===
NAME: Dolly Grey
DESCRIPTION: "I have come to say goodbye, Dolly Grey; It's no use to ask me why, Dolly Grey; There's a murmur in the air... So it's time to do and dare, Dolly Grey." The singer bids Dolly a sad farewell and goes off to join the "boys in blue"
AUTHOR: Will D. Cobb and Paul Barnes (according to Spaeth)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1983
KEYWORDS: soldier separation
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 35-36, "Dolly Grey" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Goodbye Dolly Gray
NOTES: Meredith/Covell/Brown report this to have been popular during the first world war, though written some decades earlier.
According to Eversley Belfield, _The Boer War_, p. 13, Britain entered the Boer War "bursting with enthusiasm and self-confidence, many people thinking that it would be ended by Christmas [the ultimatum came October 9 and expired October 11]; the song 'Goodbye Dolly Gray' echoed popular feeling."
Spaeth's _A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 312, seems to imply it became a hit in 1900. - RBW
File: MCB035
===
NAME: Dolly-Play Song, The: see This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes (File: Br3096)
===
NAME: Dolly's Brae (I)
DESCRIPTION: July 12, 1849. "Ten hundreds of our Orangemen together did combine" to celebrate the Battle of the Boyne at Dolly's Brae. Two priests can't turn the march to fight the gathered Catholics. "And the Orange cry, as we passed by, was 'Dolly's Brae no more'" 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1849 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence Ireland political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 12, 1848 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae, County Down, and divert an Orangemen's march.
July 12, 1849 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae but the Orangemen would not be diverted. At least thirty Catholics are killed in the fight. No Orangemen are hit. (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 96, "Dolly's Brae" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Graham, p. 15, "Dolly's Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dolly's Brae (II)" (subject)
cf. "Dolly's Brae (III)" (subject)
cf. "Dolly's Brae (IV)" (subject)
cf. "A Dream of Dolly's Brae" (subject)
NOTES: July 12 is the Gregorian Calendar (adopted in England in 1752) date for celebrating the victory of William III of Orange in the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690.
Zimmermann: "There are at least six other ballads on the same subject, most of them with some stanzas in common."
For another ballad with many illegible words see
Bodleian, Harding B 26(143), "Doly's [sic] Brae's No More" ("Come all you loyal Orangemen, I pray listen unto me"), unknown, n.d. - BS
According to Jonathan Bardon, _A History of Ulster_, Blackstaff Press, 1992, pp. 302-304, the Orange Order in 1849 announced a long march, avoiding the main roads in order to march through mostly Catholic districs. "Clearlly the intention was to provoke the Catholic Ribbonmen, but as the Party Processions Act had lapsed, the authorities hoped that if enough troops and police were sent, a clash could be prevented." Reportedly there were at least 1200 heavily armed marchers.
Perhaps a thousand Ribbonmen came out in response, but the two factions for long merely maneuvered without violence.
Major Wilkinson, who led troops on Dolly's Brae between the two mobs, reported that "there went bang a shot in front, but I don't know where it came from no more than the man in the moon." Another officer thought it sounded "more like a squib," but felt it came from the Orange side. But whatever the initial sound was, it soon had both sides shooting.
"At the top of the hill the police found eighteen pitchforks, seven pikes and ten muskets, and half a dozen bodies. Not a single Orangeman was wounded. The forces of law and order were also unscathed, except for a constable accidentally bayoneted in the arm.... The Catholics took away most of their dead and wounded, but the _Newry Telegraph_... reckoned that no fewer than fifty of the Ribbonmen were either killed or wounded'. The government inquiry estimated that at least thirty Catholics had been killed."
The result was a new Party Processions Act, but of course the damage to inter-religious relations had been done.
For other ballads of Party Fights -- of which Dolly's Brae was the most famous and probably the most severe -- see "The Battle That Was Fought in the North" and "The Lamentation of James O'Sullivan." - RBW
File: Zimm096
===
NAME: Dolly's Brae (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Ribbon-knaves" attacked a July 12 Orange parade with "murderous volleys." The Orangemen "quenched the Popish brand which death-fires would have lighted." Afterwards Orangemen are attacked but "ten hundred Paypishes [are knocked] right over Dolly's Brae"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Hayward-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: violence Ireland political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 12, 1848 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae, County Down, and divert an Orangemen's march.
July 12, 1849 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae but the Orangemen would not be diverted. At least thirty Catholics are killed in the fight. No Orangemen are hit. (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hayward-Ulster, pp. 120-121, "Dolly's Brae" (1 text)
Roud #6544
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dolly's Brae (I)" (subject) and references there
NOTES: For background on Dolly's Brae, and other songs on party fights, see the notes to "Dolly's Brae (I)." - (RBW, BS)
File: HayU120
===
NAME: Dolly's Brae (III)
DESCRIPTION: July 12, 1849: Lord Roden invites the Rathfriland Orangemen to march. Priests Mooney and Murphy encourage the "rebels." "The Ribbonmen advantage took and fired upon our rear" but no Orangemen were hit in the battle. The Orangemen claim "glorious victory"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1895 (Graham)
KEYWORDS: violence Ireland political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 12, 1848 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae, County Down, and divert an Orangemen's march.
July 12, 1849 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae but the Orangemen would not be diverted.  At least thirty Catholics are killed in the fight.  No Orangemen are hit. (source: Zimmerman)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Graham, p. 14, "Dolly's Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 96, "Dolly's Brae" (1 fragment)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dolly's Brae (I)" (subject) and references there
NOTES: July 12 is the Gregorian Calendar (adopted in England in 1752) date for celebrating the victory of William III of Orange in the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690.
Zimmermann: "There are at least six other ballads on the same subject, most of them with some stanzas in common."
In "A Dream of Dolly's Brae" one priest, named Morgan, is mentioned as leading the ambush.
This song establishes that "Lord Roden was Grand Master of the Orangemen." - BS
The Rodens were strongly linked to the Protestant cause. According to Jonathan Bardon, _A History of Ulster_, Blackstaff Press, 1992, p. 238, they were among the Ulster landowners who had voted for Union in 1800. The Dolly's Brae march, acording to Bardon, p. 303, was to terminate on Lord Roden's land, and p. 341 reports that the Earl of Roden was one of the organizers of a great Protestant revival in that year. - RBW
File: Grah014
===
NAME: Dolly's Brae (IV)
DESCRIPTION: July 12, [18]49 an Orange march is intercepted by Catholic Ribbonmen but "we did them greatly scar." The Orange "were the conquerors of Crossgar." For loyalty to the Pope the "false misguided heretics ... will be rewarded in the regions down below"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (IRRCinnamond01)
KEYWORDS: violence Ireland political religious
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 12, 1848 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae, County Down, and divert an Orangemen's march.
July 12, 1849 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae but the Orangemen would not be diverted.  At least thirty Catholics are killed in the fight.  No Orangemen are hit. (source: Zimmerman)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #6544
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Dolly's Brae" (on IRRCinnamond01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dolly's Brae (I)" (subject) and references there
NOTES: As in "A Dream of Dolly's Brae," the Catholic priest among the Ribbonmen is named Morgan; "Dolly's Brae (I)" mentions two priests and "Dolly's Brae (III) names them Mooney and Murphy. 
For a reference to Crossgar see "Defence of Crossgar." For a sense of the times and the antagonism caused by sectarian parades note that "Crossgar" is the St Patrick's Day between the "Dolly's Brae" July 12 events. - BS
For background on Dolly's Brae, and other songs on party fights, see the notes to "Dolly's Brae (I)." - (RBW, BS)
File: RcDolBr4
===
NAME: Dolphin, The
DESCRIPTION: "All on one summer's morning, The fourteenth day of May, our Dolphin slipped her cable...." The song describes the ship's triumphant voyage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: sailor battle
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 66, "The Dolphin" (1 text, probably a confused version of "The Dolphin" and "The Banks of the Nile" [Laws N9] or similar)
Roud #690
RECORDINGS:
Sam Larner, "The Dolphin" (on SLarner02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Warlike Seamen (The Irish Captain)" (plot, lyrics) and references there
cf. "The Terrible Privateer" (plot)
NOTES: Any number of Royal Navy ships were named _Dolphin_; one laid down in 1751 was reportedly the ninth of that name (that one was famous as an exploring vessel, and for its early use of a copper-coated bottom). Whether this song is actually based on the exploits of a particular _Dolphin_ is unclear. - RBW
File: ChFRS066
===
NAME: Dom Pedro, The [Laws D12]
DESCRIPTION: The Dom Pedro sails from Boston to Shanghai. The crew reaches their destination, unload the ship, and rejoice at the thought of coming home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Colcord)
KEYWORDS: ship return
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws D12, "The Dom Pedro"
Colcord, pp. 179-180, "The Dom Pedro" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 678, DOMPEDRO
Roud #2236
File: LD12
===
NAME: Don Kelly's Girl: see Zeb Tourney's Girl [Laws E18] (File: LE18)
===
NAME: Don' Cher Look at Me, Ca'line
DESCRIPTION: "Don' cher look at me, Ca'line, Don' cher look at me! You done busted up many a po' niggah's hat, But you ain't a-goin' to bust up mine! Oh, it's hahd to love, An' it's mighty hahd to leave, But it's hahder to make up yo' mind."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: love separation nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 273, "Don' Cher Look at Me, Ca'line" (1 short text, 1 tune)
File: ScaNF273
===
NAME: Don't Come to Michigan
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells listeners all the reasons not to come to the Michigan lumber woods: snakes, bugs, dangerous sawmills, corduroy roads, quack doctors, and thieving merchants.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: warning lumbering work nonballad logger
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 3, "Don't Come to Michigan" (1 text)
Roud #6524
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rigs of the Times" (lyrics)
cf. "On Meesh-e-gan" (theme)
File: Be003
===
NAME: Don't Count Your Chickens
DESCRIPTION: The singer warns against counting one's chickens before they are hatched. He cites as examples the banker who expected to be rich but had his house attached, the boy who expected to marry but had his girl stolen away, etc.
AUTHOR: Probably Rudy Sooter
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: warning money courting
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 482, "Don't Count Your Chickens" (1 text)
Roud #7584
RECORDINGS:
Rudy Sooter, "Don't Count Your Chickens" (Black & White 10023, n.d.)
File: R482
===
NAME: Don't Cry: see When He Comes, He'll Come in Green (File: Br3070)
===
NAME: Don't Ever Trust a Sailor: see When I Was Young; also Rosemary Lane [Laws K43] (File: EM075)
===
NAME: Don't Forget Me, Little Darling (I): see Randolph 733, "Don't Forget Me, Little Darling" (4 texts, 2 tunes, with the "D" text belonging here; "A" and "B" are "Greenback Dollar" and "C" probably composite)
BrownII 163, "Don't Forget Me, Little Darling" (1 text) (File: BrII163)
===
NAME: Don't Forget Me, Little Darling (II): see Greenback Dollar (File: R733)
===
NAME: Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of troubles with ex-sweetheart. She says he is the "meanest boy that ever lived or died." Later, she throws her arms around him "like grapevines round a gum." At his last visit, she had "Johnny's arms around her, and the baby on the floor."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Fields and/or Crockett Ward)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of troubles with ex-sweetheart; he goes to see her but she says he is the "meanest boy that ever lived or died." He goes again; she throws her arms around him "like grapevines round a gum." He tells listeners to tell her "if she goes to make her bread, to wash her nasty hands" and that "if she don't like my way of doin', to get some other fella." The last time he's seen her, she had "Johnny's arms around her, and the baby on the floor."
KEYWORDS: hardheartedness loneliness courting floatingverses dancetune baby lover
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Allen Bros., "Ain't That Skippin' and Flyin'" (Columbia 15270-D, 1928) [see Notes]
Frank Blevins & his Tar Heel Rattlers, "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind" (Columbia 15280-D, 1928; on Lost Prov1, GoinUpTown)
Mainer's Mountaineers, "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind" (Bluebird B-7289, 1937)
Fields [and/or Crockett] Ward [& the Grayson County Railsplitters] "Ain't That Trouble in Mind" (OKeh 45304, 1929; rec. 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Pig at Home in the Pen" (floating verse)
cf. "Shady Grove", "Darling Corey" (floating phrase)
cf. "Liza Jane" (floating verses)
cf. "cf. "Willy, Poor Boy" (floating verses)
NOTES: While one verse and a phrase float, most of the rest of the song is original; the verses sound like floaters but aren't. If, as I suspect, Frank Blevins wrote the piece, it was a remarkable achievement; it's a brilliant song, his fiddling was superb, and he was all of fifteen years old when he recorded. - PJS
It appears to me that this song is actually closest to "Liza Jane"; a Stanley Brothers version has several stanzas in common with this piece. But it does appear to be at least an adaption of that framework. - RBW
I don't think so; Liza Jane is much more a collection of floaters, whereas this has a unifying theme of the singer's rejection by the girl. If the Stanley Brothers' version of "Liza Jane" -- recorded decades later -- includes overlapping verses, my guess is they were taken from this song, rather than the other way around.
Well, here's a conundrum; the Allen Bros. "Ain't That Skippin' and Flyin'" uses an identical tune with "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind," but the verses are floaters, without the implicit plot of this song. Frank Blevins's recording of, "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind" was made first -- by three days, and for the same record company. But then, the Ward recording predates both, and its title splits the difference. Its words are floaters as well. - PJS
File: RcDGTIYM
===
NAME: Don't Get Weary Children (Massa Had a Yellow Gal)
DESCRIPTION: "Massa had a yellow gal, He brought her from the south, Her hair it curled so very tight She couldn't shut her mouth." "He took her to a tailor" to repair her defect; "She swallowed up the tailor." Now he uses her nose "to hang his hat and coat."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1860 (broadside, LOCSinging sb10148a)
KEYWORDS: slave humorous floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 903-904, "Massa Had a Yellow Gal" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 406, "Massa Had a Yaller Gal" (1 text plus 2 fragments; the one full text consists mostly of floating verses); also 405, "Dearest Mae" (the "C" excerpt contains the first verse of this song)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 66-68, "Ole Mars'r Had a Yaller Gal," "Ol' Mars'r Had a Pretty Yaller Gal," "Massa Had a Yaller Gal" (2 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune); also p. 110, "Dar Was a Gal in our Town" (1 short text, with the "don't get weary" chorus though Scarborough links it with "Old Virginny Never Tire")
Creighton-NovaScotia 112, "Coloured Girl from the South" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, p. 355, [no title] (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 481, "Massa Had a Yaller Gal" (source notes only)
ST BAF904 (Full)
Roud #11744
RECORDINGS:
Uncle Dave Macon [w. McGee Bros.], "Don't Get Weary Children" (Decca 5369, 1937; Montgomery Ward 8029, 1939)
Kirk & Sam McGee, "Coming from the Ball" (on McGeeSmith1)
BROADSIDES:
LOCSinging, sb10148a, "Gal From the South," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Bee Makes the Honey Comb" (floating verses)
cf. "Letter from Down the Road" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
NOTES: The version printed in Botkin has almost a ballad flavor; it is the exaggerated story of how a master dealt with a physically unusual slave. Dave Macon has a fuller version, "Don't Get Weary Children." The latter has a much larger set of verses, and might be a separate song -- but who knows how much of it comes from Uncle Dave's imagination?
The texts in Brown don't help much, either; two are fragments and the third a collection of floating verses. Scarborough's several versions also show much diversity. - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging sb10148a: 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: BAF904
===
NAME: Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling
DESCRIPTION: The wife pleads: "Don't go out tonight, my darling, Do not leave me here alone... Though the wine-cup may be tempting And your friends are full of glee... Darling, won't you stay with me?" But he goes out, and is carried home (dead?)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Grayson & Whitter; manuscript version from 1889?)
KEYWORDS: drink husband wife separation
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 339, "Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling" (1 text)
BrownIII 26, "Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling" (3 texts)
Roud #3521
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling" (Victor 21139, 1927)
Uncle Henry's Original Kentucky Mountaineers, "Don't Go Out Tonight My Darling" (Capitol 48036, 1949)
File: R339
===
NAME: Don't Go, Tommy
DESCRIPTION: "You'll miss it, my boy, now mind what I say, Don't spend all your money and time in that way." The aged parents beg Tommy not to go out carousing. They tell him to work, and remind him that they cared for him. Refrain" Don't go there, Tommy, don't go."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: age family work nonballad gambling drink
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 857, "Don't Go, Tommy" (1 text)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 163-164, "Don't You Go, Tommy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7531
File: R857
===
NAME: Don't Leave Your Mother When Her Hair Turns Gray
DESCRIPTION: "Stick to your mother, Tom, And don't you leave her worry, lad." The singer, who lost his father at a young age, reminds Tom of how his mother cared for him. So Tom is advised to care for mother, even when her hair turns gray
AUTHOR: Words: Charles Osborne/Music: Ernest J. Symons (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1885 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: age mother sailor orphan
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 717, "Stick to Your Mother, Tom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7380
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm a Decent Boy from Ireland" (theme)
NOTES: Apparently originally titled "Stick to Your Mother, Tom," but I've used the only title I found in tradition. - RBW
File: R717
===
NAME: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses: "Been all around this whole round world... Anyplace I hang my hat/Feels like home to me"; "Left my little girl a'crying"; "Where did you get your high-top shoes" Chorus: "Don't let your deal go down/Till your last (g)old dollar is gone"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Charlie Poole)
KEYWORDS: gambling nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII  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)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 182-183, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rorrer, p. 70, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, p. 285, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 144, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (1 text)
DT, DEALDOWN*
Roud #4854
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (OKeh 45096, 1927)
Lake Howard, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (Perfect 13151, 1935)
Dick Justice, "Old Black Dog" (Brunswick 395, c. 1929)
Kessinger Brothers, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (Brunswick 411, 1930)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (on NLCR01, NLCRCD1) (NLCR12)
W. Lee O'Daniel & the Light Crust Doughboys, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (Vocalion 03471, 1937)
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues" (Columbia 15038-D, 1925; on CPoole01, CPoole05); (Columbia 15184-D, 1927) 
Riley Puckett, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (Columbia 15448-D, 1929) (Bluebird B-6067, 1935)
Mike Seeger, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (on MSeeger01)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (OKeh 45054, 1926)
Stoneman Family, "The Black Dog Blues" (on Stonemans01)
 Fields Ward, Glen Smith & Wade Ward, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (on HalfCen1)
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, "Don't Let the Deal Go Down" (Vocalion 05282, 1939; Columbia 37739, 1947)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "In the Pines" (words)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Last Gold Dollar
High Top Shoes
NOTES: The phrase "let your deal go down" refers to the Georgia Skin Game, a card game popular among gamblers in the first half of the 20th century. - PJS
File: CSW182
===
NAME: Don't Let Your Watch Run Down
DESCRIPTION: "Don' let yo' watch run down, Cap'n, Don' let yo' watch run down. Workin' on de levee, dollar an' half a day, Workin' for my Lulu, gettin' mo' dan pay." "...Workin on' de railroad, mud up to my knees, Workin' for my Lulu, she's a hard ole gal to please."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: railroading work hardtimes floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Sandburg, p. 370, "Don' Let Yo' Watch Run Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 247, "Don't Let Your Watch Run Down, Cap'n" (1 short text)
Roud #11641
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Working on the New Railroad" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (Been All Around This World)" (floating verses)
File: San370
===
NAME: Don't Let Your Watch Run Down, Cap'n: see Don't Let Your Watch Run Down (File: San370)
===
NAME: Don't Lie, Buddy
DESCRIPTION: "Mammy Logan, she had a daughter And she run a cookshop down in Florida. How I know? God knows I been there, An I bought four pork chops -- for a quarter. A-don't lie, buddy, don't lie." A collection of semi-tall tales with a bluesy, bawdy feel
AUTHOR: (published versions adapted by Josh White?)
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1945 (recording, Lead Belly & Josh White)
KEYWORDS: food lie courting animal talltale
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 295, "Don't Lie, Buddy" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Leadbelly & Josh White, "Don't Lie, Buddy" (Asch 432, rec. c. 1945)
File: LoF295
===
NAME: Don't Like a Rich White Man Nohow: see I Don't Like No Railroad Man (File: San326)
===
NAME: Don't Never Marry a Drunkard
DESCRIPTION: "Seven long year I've done been married, I wish to God I was an old maid...." The woman marries a man who made fine promises, but now he won't work or care for the children; he spends his nights in a bar. The woman warns girls against marrying drunkards
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink marriage warning
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 337, "Don't Never Marry a Drunkard" (1 text)
Roud #724
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Seven Long Years
File: R337
===
NAME: Don't Never Trust a Sailor (I): see When I Was Young; also Rosemary Lane [Laws K43] (File: EM075)
===
NAME: Don't Run Down the Irish (My Father Was Born in Killlarney)
DESCRIPTION: "My father was born in Killarney, My mother was born in Cork; I've been taught to love old Ireland Ever since I could walk. So don't run down the Irish; If you do, you'll make me cry. For an Irishman I've always been, And an Irishman I'll die."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: nonballad Ireland
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 224, "My Father was Born in Killarney" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MCB224
===
NAME: Don't Sell Daddy Anymore Whiskey
DESCRIPTION: " Don't sell Daddy anymore whiskey, for I know it will take him away, We all are hungry and Mama is weeping, don't sell him no whiskey today." The child says father is kind when sober, but cruel when drunk, and begs the bartender to cut him off
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (recording, Betty Garland)
KEYWORDS: drink commerce abuse family
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Betty Garland, "Don't Sell Daddy Anymore Whiskey" (on BGarland01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Don't Sell Him Any More Rum" (subject)
NOTES: When Paul Stamler sent me this, he asked if it is the same as "Don't Sell Him Any More Rum." Obviously the plots are the same. The forms are different enough, though, that I decided to split them. - RBW
File: RcDSDAMW
===
NAME: Don't Sell Him Any More Rum
DESCRIPTION: The girl appeals to the liquor-seller, "Don't sell him any more rum; He's reeling already, you see. I know when he comes home tonight He'll beat poor mama and me." The girl asks why the seller can't sell something "that won't make people so sad."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Giddens Sisters)
KEYWORDS: drink commerce abuse family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 322, "Don't Sell Him Any More Rum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 273-275, "Don't Sell Him Any More Rum" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 322)
DT, DONTSELL*
Roud #7796
RECORDINGS:
James & Martha Carson, "Don't Sell Him Another Drink" (Capitol 57-40175, 1949)
Giddens Sisters, "Don't Sell Pa Anymore Rum" (OKeh 45143, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey" (subject)
File: R322
===
NAME: Don't Stay After Ten
DESCRIPTION: "There is one thing I hate to say If ever you come again, To see me in my evening hours, You don't stay after ten." Last time he stayed late, and now her parents are on watch for the young man. Another mistake and it's over....
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love courting family
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 375, "Don't Stay After Ten" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 16, "Don't Stay After Ten" (2 texts)
Roud #4969
File: R375
===
NAME: Don't Swat Your Mother, Boys
DESCRIPTION: Two brothers come home to find that dinner is not ready. One is about to hit his mother because she is slow. The youngest child tells them, "Don't swat you mother, boys, just because she is old." They beg forgiveness
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988
KEYWORDS: family mother children violence food
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 128, "Don't Swat Your Mother, Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15690
NOTES: When I first saw this song, I couldn't believe it was a folk song. But here it is again. I'm pretty sure it appears in some other book(s) we have indexed, because I saw it there -- but I can't locate it now. - RBW
File: PHCFSB128
===
NAME: Don't Take Everybody to Be Your Friend
DESCRIPTION: Singer is traveling for Jesus. His dying mother told him, If you see your brother in the fault, don't gossip; take it to God. People who owe you money will turn away. Refrain: "Don't mind what the people say/Lord, don't take everybody to be your friend"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (recording, Frederick McQueen & group)
KEYWORDS: hardheartedness virtue warning dying religious mother Jesus
FOUND_IN: Bahamas
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Frederick McQueen & group, "Jesus Will Be Your Friend" (on MuBahamas2)
NOTES: I assign Joseph Spence's title, "Don't Take Everybody to Be Your Friend" rather than Frederick McQueen's earlier title, as the 1965 Spence recording is the one that was most widely heard and picked up within the folk revival. - PJS
The thrust of this is almost all out of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), with perhaps a slight detour into the story of the Good Samaritan, but the references are allusions rather than real citations. - RBW
File: RcDTEBYF
===
NAME: Don't Tell a Lie: see Oh, How He Lied (File: FSWB031B)
===
NAME: Don't Turn Around: see Keep On a-Walking (Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round) (File: SBoA374)
===
NAME: Don't Wed an Old Man: see Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man (File: K207)
===
NAME: Don't You Go, Tommy: see Don't Go, Tommy (File: R857)
===
NAME: Don't You Grieve After Me (I)
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes various adventures: Being found by the police with a wallet not his own, sleeping in a hotel and being declared a deadbeat. Chorus: When I'm gone, Don't you, don't you grieve (x3), An' I told him not to grieve after me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: rambling crime travel floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 257, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 220-222, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 257)
BrownIII 556, "Bye and Bye" (1 fragment, possibly not this but too short to classify as anything else)
Roud #6698
RECORDINGS:
Loman D. Cansler, "I Told 'em Not to Grieve After Me" (on Cansler1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Don't You Weep After Me" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Told Him Not to Grieve After Me
NOTES: Alan Lomax claims -- on the basis of a few words in the chorus -- that this is the same as "When I'm Gone." I don't buy it. - RBW
File: R257
===
NAME: Don't You Grieve After Me (II): see Don't You Weep After Me (File: R262)
===
NAME: Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan?: see Don't You Hear Jerusalem Mourn? (File: RcDYHJM)
===
NAME: Don't You Hear Jerusalem Mourn?
DESCRIPTION: Describes the foibles of various denominations of preachers; a Baptist has a bottle in his pocket, etc. Chorus: "Don't you hear Jerusalem Mourn?...Thank God for the heaven bells a-ringin' and my soul starts singin'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Bill Chitwood & Bud Landress)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Describes the foibles of various denominations of preachers; a Baptist has a bottle in his pocket, a Hardshell "never chews his own tobacco nor drinks his own booze," a Presbyterian is stiff-necked, a Holy Roller "gets them all a-rolling then he kicks the lights out." Chorus: "Don't you hear Jerusalem Mourn?...Thank God for the heaven bells a-ringin' and my soul starts singin'"
KEYWORDS: sex drink humorous nonballad clergy
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, JERUSLEM*
Roud #4945
RECORDINGS:
Warren Caplinger, "Jerusalem Mourn" (Vocalion 5240, 1928)
Bill Chitwood & Bud Landress, "Jerusalem Mourn" (Brunswick 2809, 1925)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Can't You Hear Jerusalem Moan" (Columbia 15104-D, 1926)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan?
NOTES: This seems to be a distant parody of a spiritual, "Jerusalem Mourning", recorded in 1910. I suspect a minstrel origin. - PJS
File: RcDYHJM
===
NAME: Don't You Hear My Hammer Ringing
DESCRIPTION: Chain-gang work song, with chorus line, "Oh don't you hear my hammer ringing?" The song complains about present work conditions, describes the career of Noah, and talks about his hammer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: work worksong chaingang Bible floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 99-101, (no title) (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Take This Hammer" (lyrics)
cf. "Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep" (lyrics)
cf. "Oh, Lord, How Long" (lyrics)
cf. "Hammer Ring"
NOTES: Courlander gives this as a single song, but it appears to me to be a combination of other songs. Very likely the gang leader just assembled the text from other songs (with a little glue of his own); it probably does not exist in tradition as an entity. - RBW
File: CNFM099
===
NAME: Don't You Leave Me Here
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses: "Don't you leave me here...If you must go...leave me a dime for beer." "I've never had one woman... I've always had six, seven, eight or nine." "The rooster crowed... Saying, 'If you want to taste my fricassee you got to run me down." 
AUTHOR: Possibly Jelly Roll Morton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: loneliness sex bragging abandonment parting separation money drink floatingverses nonballad lover
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 239, (no title) (1 short  text)
RECORDINGS:
Yas Yas Girl [pseud. for Merline Johnson], "Don't You Leave Me Here" (Conqueror 9079, 1938)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Alabama Bound (II)" (floating verses)
NOTES: Norm Cohen tells Paul Stamler that "Don't You Leave Me Here," a song sung by Jelly Roll Morton, not only shares lyrics with but is a version of "Alabama Bound (II)". We leave the question open. - (PJS, RBW)
Scarborough's text certainly has references to being Alabama Bound, but the form is rather different:
Don't you leave me here,
Don't you leave me here!
I'm Alabama bound,
I'm Alabama bound.
Don't you leave me here!
Ef you do de train don't run.
I got a mule to ride,
I got a mule to ride,
Don't you leave me here. - RBW
File: RcDYLMH
===
NAME: Don't You Remember: see Charming Beauty Bright [Laws M3] (File: LM03)
===
NAME: Don't You Weep After Me
DESCRIPTION: "When I'm dead and buried don't you weep after me (x3).... I don't want you to weep after me." Unrelated verses about death: "On the good ship of Zion"; "King Peter is my Captain"; "Bright angels are the sailors"; "When I do cross over"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad Bible funeral
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 262, "Jacob's Ladder" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment so short that it can only tentatively be classified with this piece; see also "Jacob's Ladder")
BrownIII 527, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (2 texts plus a fragment)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 9, (no title) (1 fragment)
Silber-FSWB, p. 350, "Don't You Weep After Me" (1 text)
ST R262 (Full)
Roud #2286
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Don't You Weep after Me" (on PeteSeeger26)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jacob's Ladder" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Don't You Grieve After Me (I)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, They Put John on the Island" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
On My Journey
Don't You Grieve After Me
When I'm Dead and Buried
NOTES: Both the Randolph fragment and Brown's "A" text and "B" fragment are linked to "Jacob's Ladder." It is not clear whether this link is original or coincidental. - RBW
File: R262
===
NAME: Donagh Hill
DESCRIPTION: "On the eighth of November In the year of '68" there was a hare hunt on Donagh Hill "on Colonel Madden's estate." "Tally Ho, Hark away." The route is described, the dogs named. The hare tires. The hunters plan to let it go but Gaynor makes the kill.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1980 (IRHardySons)
KEYWORDS: death hunting animal dog moniker Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #17893
RECORDINGS:
Red Mick McDermott, "Donagh Hill" (on IRHardySons)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Reynard the Fox (Tallyho! Hark! Away!)" (form, hunting theme)
cf. "The Hare's Dream" (form, hunting theme)
NOTES: The Notes for "Killafole Boasters" discuss the practice of letting the hare, or fox, that has led a good chase, live to be hunted another day. - BS
File: RcDonHil
===
NAME: Donal Og: see Donall Og (Young Donald) (File: K031)
===
NAME: Donal Ogue: see Donall Og (Young Donald) (File: K031)
===
NAME: Donal' Blue: see Whiskey Is My Name (Donald Blue) (File: HHH835)
===
NAME: Donal' Don
DESCRIPTION: "Wha hasna heard o' Donal' Don, Wi' all his tanterwallops on; I trow, he was a lazy drone, And smuggled Hieland whisky, O." Donal, abandoned long ago by his love, lives a poor and isolated life, without a change of shirt, but all appreciate his whiskey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: drink loneliness humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 180-181, "Donal' Don" (1 text)
Roud #13125
File: FVS180
===
NAME: Donald and Glencoe: see MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) [Laws N39] (File: LN39)
===
NAME: Donald Blue: see Whiskey Is My Name (Donald Blue) (File: HHH835)
===
NAME: Donald Campbell
DESCRIPTION: "Once I loved a fair young jockey; Donald Campbell was his name, Until it pleased God for to take him, Then a mourner I became." While racing the horse "Luna," Campbell is thrown and killed.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957
KEYWORDS: death racing horse
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 93, "Donald Campbell" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wayfaring Stranger" (tune & meter)
cf. "Tom Corrigan (theme)
cf. "The Death of Alec Robertson" (theme)
cf. "Alec Robertson (I)" (theme)
cf. "Alec Robertson (II)" (theme)
File: MA093
===
NAME: Donald Monroe [Laws J12]
DESCRIPTION: Monroe leaves Ireland for America, leaving his boys in Scotland because he cannot pay their fare. Years later the boys join the British army and sail to America. There the boys are killed by rebels, one of them their father; there is a sorrowful parting
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1778 (chapbook)
KEYWORDS: emigration family soldier reunion death battle parting
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws J12, "Donald Monroe"
Logan pp. 413-415, "Munro's Tragedy" (1 text)
Rickaby 51, "Daniel Monroe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 157, "Donald Monroe" (1 fragment)
Peacock, pp. 812-816, "Donald Munro" (2 texts, 3 tunes)
Leach-Labrador 37, "Daniel Monroe" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 61, "Donald Munro" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 131, "Donald Munro" (1 text)
DT 395, DANMONRO*
Roud #521
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(538), "Donald Munro's Tragedy," Stephenson (Gateshead), 1821-1850; also Harding B 11(2599), "Donald Monro"; 2806 c.14(71), "Donald Munro"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sons of Lord Bateman
You Sons of North Britain
File: LJ12
===
NAME: Donald Munro: see Donald Munroe [Laws J12] (File: LJ12)
===
NAME: Donald o' Dundee
DESCRIPTION: "Young Donald is the blythest lad That e'er made love to me; Whene'er he's by, my heart is glad; He seems so gay and free. Then on his pipes he plays so sweet...." She has been courted by Sandy, but loves only Donald, who has now offered to wed her
AUTHOR: David Veddar
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1845 (broadside NLScotland, RB.m.168(147))
KEYWORDS: love courting ring marriage beauty music
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 306-307, "Donald o' Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6716
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.168(147), "Donald of Dundee," J. Pitts, London, 1820-1844; also L.C.Fol.70(31b), "Donald o' Dundee," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1870
File: FVS306
===
NAME: Donald of Glencoe: see MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) [Laws N39] (File: LN39)
===
NAME: Donald Og: see Donall Og (Young Donald) (File: K031)
===
NAME: Donald's Return to Glencoe: see MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) [Laws N39] (File: LN39)
===
NAME: Donall Og (Young Donald)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic or English: Singer tells her lover Donal to take her with him, that he'll be well taken care of. She reproaches him for breaking his promise; he says she has ignored him. She says that he is always in her mind, and has taken her past and her future
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Hoagland)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Gaelic or English: Singer tells her lover, Donall Og (young Donald) to take her with him on his travels, that he'll be well taken care of (and sleep with the Greek king's daughter). She reproaches him for breaking his promise; he replies that she has rejected and ignored him. She says that he is always in her mind, even in the church where she should be thinking of Christ's passion. She says he has taken her past and her future, and perhaps will even take away God himself
KEYWORDS: hardheartedness love request rejection farewell parting travel abandonment lover foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 31, "Donall Og [Young Donald]" (1 text in Irish Gaelic + translation, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 238-240, "Donall Oge: Grief of a Girl's Heart" (1 text, translated by Lady Gregory)
Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson, _The Oxford Book of Irish Verse_ (Oxford, 1958, 1979), pp. 106-108, "Donal Oge: Grief of a Girl's Heart" (1 text, translated by Lady Gregory)
Roud #3379
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Donald Og
Donal Og
Donal Ogue
NOTES: A personal note: Kennedy calls this "one of the most intense love songs in the Irish language." Or in English; I can testify that if you are carrying a serious torch for someone, this song can bring you to tears every time. - PJS
It's pretty strong even if you *aren't* carrying a torch. The English version is reported by Norman Buchan (notes to the recording "The Fisher Family") to have been translated by Frank O'Connor. (The translation by Lady Gregory quoted by Hoagland and MacDonogh/Robinson is very different, and hardly even poetry; I doubt anyone will ever sing it.)
The text sung by Joyce Fisher omits the references to promise-breaking, making the song a lost love song rather than a betrayal song. The Fishers reportedly had it from Bob Clancey.
Seosamh O Duibhginn devoted a monograph to the variant texts of this song; according to Kennedy, it contains nearly every version ever collected. - RBW
File: K031
===
NAME: Donderbeck's Machine: see Dunderbeck (File: R488)
===
NAME: Doneraile Litany, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer's Dublin watch is pilfered in Doneraile. He wishes fire and brimstone, the fate of Pompey, the death of its industry, and many other disasters on the town. "May Charon's boat triumphant sail, Completely manned, from Doneraile"
AUTHOR: Patrick O'Kelly (source: Croker-PopularSongs)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1808 (Patrick O'Kelly, _Poems on the Giant's Causeway and Killarney, with other Miscellanies_, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: curse theft humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 176-182, "The Doneraile Litany" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 354-357, "The Curse of Doneraile"
NOTES: Croker-PopularSongs: "The popularity of this jingle in the south of Ireland is remarkable.... The Doneraile Litany consists of a series of anathemas upon that town, strung together, it appears, in consequence of the author having there lost his watch."
Hoagland: "Widely circulated through Ireland, this poem caused a great deal of amusement. To appease O'Kelly Lady Doneraile presented him with a 'watch and seal,' in place of the one he 'lost,' upon receipt of which he wrote 'Blessings on Doneraile.'" (See Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 357-359, "Blessings on Doneraile") - BS
Charon was of course the boatman who sailed the dead across the River Styx. Pompey is Gnaius Pompeius Magnus, known as Pompey the Great (106-48 B.C.E.), whose life was not exactly pure tragedy: Although he lost his farher in the time of Sulla's dictatorship, he managed to remain in that dictator's favor, picked up a good deal of land in the period after that, was given a series of extraordinary military commands (among other things conquering a big part of Spain, and of Asia Minor, plus Jerusalem; he also cleaned the pirates off the Mediterranean). Eventually he was appointed consul without colleague to deal with the threat posed by Julius Caesar. That's when things finally went bad for Pompey. Caesar, the conqueror of Gaul, forced Pompey and his Senatorial supporters out of Italy, then beat them at Pharsalus in Greece (48 B.C.E.; called "Pharsale" in the song). Pompey fled to Egypt and was killed by the government there, who wanted no quarrel with Caesar, now the clear ruler of Rome.
(Caesaar, to be sure, came to Egypt anyway, met the young queen Cleopatra VII, and fiddled around in the civil war going on at the time, but the murder of Pompey probably did save the country from being sacked.)
Egypt's plagues of course refers to the Exodus story of the Ten (or so) Plagues (Exodus 7-13).
For "Granuale" and her sons, see e.g. the notes to "Granuaile."
Pluto (Greek Hades) was king of the dead.
The destruction of Sodom is told in Genesis 18-19.
I have to say -- if this guy had spent half the energy working that he spent coming up with all these goofball curses (all of which rhyme with "Doneraile"), he could surely have easily made back what he lost. - RBW
File: CrPS176
===
NAME: Doney Gal
DESCRIPTION: "A cowboy's life is a weary thing, Rope and brand and ride and sing.... Rain or shine, sleet or snow, Me and my Doney gal are bound to go." The cowboy describes the hard work he and his horse do as they herd the cattle
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse work
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-FSNA194, "Doney Gal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 85, "Doney Gal" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 106, "Doney Gal" (1 text)
DT, DONEYGAL*
Roud #3587
NOTES: "Doney" is a variant of "dona", from the Italian word "donna," meaning "woman." - PJS
File: LoF194
===
NAME: Donkey Riding: see Hieland Laddie (File: Doe050)
===
NAME: Donkey, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer's donkey is smart but, best of all, he is fast. The singer races him in the Derby. "The signal it was given me boys and off the horses flew." His donkey is "the last one out but the first one in"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (for USBallinsloeFair, according to site irishtune.info, Irish Traditional Music Tune Index: Alan Ng's Tunography, ref. Ng #2616)
KEYWORDS: pride racing animal
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1147
RECORDINGS:
Murty Rabbett and Dan Sullivan, "The Donkey" (on USBallinsloeFair)\
Harry Upton, "I Am a Donkey Driver" (on Voice14)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.26(204), "Jerusalem Cuckoo" ("I am a donkey driver, I'm the best that's in the line"), unknown, n.d.; also Firth c.26(296), "Jerusalem Cuckoo"
NOTES: Why do I get the feeling this isn't really about a donkey? - RBW
Rabbett's version on USBallinsloeFair, as well as Upton's on Voice14, and the Bodleian broadsides, name the donkey "Jerusalem Cuckoo." Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 14" - 8.9.02 notes that "Jerusalem" is cockney rhyming slang for "donkey": Jerusalem artichoke = moke = donkey. - BS
File: RcThDonk
===
NAME: Donnelly
DESCRIPTION: A tinker meets a woman: coming from the ball and he soldering against the wall; in the wood and his budget stood; in the bar to "have it again"; in the bed and says "We should be wed"; at the door and trips her on the floor. She should go with him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: drink bawdy tinker sex wordplay
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #863
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "Donnelly" (on IRTravellers01)
Martin Howley, "Donnelly" (on IRClare01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Duchess and the Tinker
The Highland Tinker
Tim the Tinker
NOTES: Notes to IRClare01: "This has been around since at least 1675 when a fourteen-verse version was entered in the Stationers Register but since then it has been slimmed down somewhat, while still retaining its celebration of bawdry." - BS
This apparently is lumped by Roud with his #863, which includes several Tinker-who-can't-keep-his-mind (or other body parts)-on-the-job songs. But Ben Schwartz and I would separate this from both "The Tinker" and "The Jolly Tinker" by the nature of the wordplay and the fact that the tinker is interested quite specifically in one woman. - RBW
File: RcDonnel
===
NAME: Donnelly and Cooper
DESCRIPTION: Boxers Donnelly (Irish) and Cooper (English) meet. Odds are on Cooper. First Donnelly is knocked down, then Cooper, then Donnelly again; (referee) Kelly's pretty daughter exhorts Donnelly to get up and win. He does,and Miss Kelly congratulates him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1854 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(77b)); c.1845 (broadside, NLScotland L.C.1270(017))
KEYWORDS: pride fight sports
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1815 - Donnelly (1788-1820) and Cooper fight in Kildare
FOUND_IN: Ireland US(MW)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 317, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 27, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text)
OLochlainn 26, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Ulster 44, "Donnelly and Cooper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean, pp. 21-22, "Donnely and Cooper" (1 text)
Roud #2147
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(77b), "Donnelly and Cooper," The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1854; also 2806 c.15(226), 2806 c.8(245), Firth c.19(16), Harding B 11(934), Harding B 11(935), Harding B 19(45), Johnson Ballads 2271B[some illegible words], "Donnelly and Cooper"
LOCSinging, as200750, "Donnelly and Cooper That Fought on Kildare," Johnson (Philadelphia), 19C 
NLScotland, L.C.1270(017), "Donnelly and Cooper," James Kay (Glasgow), c.1845 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Donnelly & Oliver" (broadside Murray, Mu23-y3:015, "Donnelly & Oliver" ("You muses I beg you will lend me your aid, I'll sing of brave Donnelly a true Irish blade"), James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Murray Mu23-y3:037, "Donnelly And Oliver," unknown, 19C) (subject)
cf. "Morrissey and the Black" (theme)
cf. "Morrissey and the Russian Sailor" (tune, theme)
cf. "Heenan and Sayers" (tune, theme)
SAME_TUNE:
"I'm the Boy Can Do It" (per broadside Bodleian Harding B 17(77b))
NOTES: Michael Padden and Robert Sullivan's _May the Road Rise to Meet You_, p. 211, devotes much space to Dan Donnelly, "a carpenter by day and a pub brawler by night," who was very popular with his people: on "September 14, 1814, he drew forty thousand fans to a fight -- a seventeen-round win over an Englishman" (note that, under the boxing rules of the time, rounds were not timed but ended with one fighter or the other knocked to the ground. The fight ended when he stayed down for half a minute).
They add that Donnelly was "as prodigious a drinker as he was a fighter," which apparently contributed to his demise at age 32. - RBW
Morton-Ulster has a brief history of Dan Donnelly, "knighted by the Prince Regent" [i.e. by the future George IV, son of George III who became regent during the periods of George III's madness - RBW], brought down by "good living and bad company," dead in 1820 at 32 years of age; "thousands lined the street to Glasnevin cemetery." - BS
File: K317
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NAME: Donnely and Cooper: see Donnelly and Cooper (File: K317)
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NAME: Donnybrook Fair: see Widdicombe Fair (II) (File: K289)
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NAME: Donzella and the Ceylon, The
DESCRIPTION: The Donzella and the Ceylon set out from Lunenburg on February 1. After fourteen days, the Ceylon arrives in Puerto Rico, followed ten hours later by the Donzella. On the way back, the Ceylon runs into a storm and sinks
AUTHOR: Daniel Smith
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship racing storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1890 - The Donzella and the Ceylon race from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to Ponce, Puerto Rico. Captain Charles Swain of the Ceylon outraced his brother, Captain Nathan Swain of the Donzella, by ten hours in a fourteen-day race. The Ceylon sank on the way home
1896 - The loss of the Donzella
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 192-194, "The Donzella and the Ceylon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4087
NOTES: This song is item dD44 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doe192
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NAME: Doodle Dandy
DESCRIPTION: "Doodle, doodle, doodle dandy, Cornstalks, rum, and homemade brandy, Indian pudding and pumpkin pie, And that'll make the Yankees fly! Ev'ry Yankee shall have on his back A great big pumpkin in a sack, A little molasses and a piece of pork...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: food soldier
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 192, "Doodle Dandy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa192 (Full)
Roud #16407
NOTES: Said by Roy Walworth (the Warners' informant) to have been sung by Washington's troops as they marched for New York in 1783 after the British left the town following the American Revolution. - RBW
File: Wa192
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NAME: Doom of Floyd Collins, The: see Floyd Collins [Laws G22] (File: LG22)
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NAME: Doon the Moor: see Heather Down the Moor (Among the Heather; Down the Moor) (File: HHH177)
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NAME: Doors of Ivory: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
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NAME: Doran's Ass [Laws Q19]
DESCRIPTION: Drunken Pat lies down to rest on his way to Biddy's. A jackass lies down next to him. In his stupor, Pat caresses the beast -- only to be awakened by a horrid braying. He flees to Biddy's, to be told that it was only Doran's Ass
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1859 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(946))
KEYWORDS: drink humorous animal
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws Q19, "Doran's Ass"
Peacock, pp. 50-52, "Doran's Ass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 75, "Doran's Ass" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 43, "Doran's Ass" (1 text)
OLochlainn 84, "Doran's Ass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 138, "Paddy Doyle" (1 text)
Dean, pp. 38-39, "Doran's Ass" (1 text)
DT 530, DORANASS
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 260-262, "Doran's Ass" (1 text)
Roud #1010
RECORDINGS:
Horton Barker, "Paddy Doyle" (on Barker01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(946), "Doran's Ass" ("One Paddy Doyle lived near Killarney"), J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1855-1858; also 2806 c.15(157), 2806 c.15(235), 2806 c.15(237), Harding B 19(93), Firth c.26(40), Harding B 11(947), Harding B 11(3492), Firth b.27(457/458) View 3 of 4, 2806 c.15(236), Harding B 19(15), "Doran's Ass"; 2806 b.11(255), Harding B 11(151), "Doran's Ass" or "[The] Straw Hat"; Harding B 11(2961), 2806 b.11(251), "Pat Doran's Ass"
Murray, Mu23-y1:135, "Dorran's Ass," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(070), "Dorrn's Ass" (sic.) unknown, c.1860 [despite the title, the animal is called "Doran's Ass" in the text]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Courtin' in the Stable (The Workin' Steer)" (plot)
cf. "Jock Gheddes and the Soo" (plot)
File: LQ19
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NAME: Dors Le Petit Bibi (Sleep Little Baby)
DESCRIPTION: French. "Dors dors le p'tit bibi." Sleep little baby. Mama's beautiful little baby. If tomorrow is nice we will go to grandfather's.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (NovaScotia1)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage lullaby nonballad baby
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Mrs Laure Irene McNeil, "Lullaby" (on NovaScotia1)
File: RcDlPBi
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NAME: Dottered Auld Carle, The: see Old Man Came Over the Moor, An (Old Gum Boots and Leggings) (File: R066)
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NAME: Double Tragedy, The
DESCRIPTION: "Bright lights were in the hall, Everyone seemed happy and gay" at a dance when a drunk and angry Tom Roach strides in. His friend McCord tries to calm him; Roach shoots him. Frank Adams tries to shoot him, but kills Mrs. Walton instead
AUTHOR: Otho Murphy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: homicide party dancing death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 24, 1891 - the Pioneer Day tragedy at Monticello, Utah
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 245-247, "(Double Tragedy)" (1 text)
File: Burt245
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NAME: Double-Breasted Mansion on the Square, The
DESCRIPTION: "I once was young and gallant and drove a span of grays...." The young man was rich, with property and servants. But he "lost a lot at Keno" and now he has nothing left; he spends most of his life thinking about what he has lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1885 (Lane County Herald)
KEYWORDS: gambling poverty hardtimes cards
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 25, "The Little Old Sod Shanty" (7 texts, 2 tunes, with the "H" text going here)
Roud #11209
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (tune) and references there
File: FCW025H
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NAME: Douglas Tragedy, The: see Earl Brand [Child 7] (File: C007)
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NAME: Dove, The: see Lonesome Dove (I - The Minister's Lamentation) (File: R607)
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NAME: Dowie Dens o Yarrow, The [Child 214]
DESCRIPTION: Many men feel that a woman (their sister?) should be separated from her lover/husband. They set out in a band to kill the lover. He manages to kill or wound most of them, but one of them kills him from behind. In many texts the lady dies of sorrow
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1768 (Percy collection)
KEYWORDS: courting fight death family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord,High)) US(MA,NE,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (22 citations)
Child 214, "The Braes o Yarrow" (18 texts)
Bronson 214, "The Braes o Yarrow" (42 versions+2 in addenda)
Dixon XIII, pp. 68-70, "The Braes o' Yarrow" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 291-293, "The Braes of Yarrow" (1 short text plus a fragment, 1 tune; the "A" text is a composite lost love song with single stanzas from "The Braes o Yarrow," "The Curragh of Kildare," and others beyond identification; as a whole it cannot be considered a version of Child #214) {Bronson's #37}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 235-237, "The Dewy Dens of Darrow" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #42}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 255-259, "The Braes of Yarrow" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {A=Bronson's #42}
Leach, pp. 568-571, "The Braes o Yarrow" (1 text, with a Scandinavian text for comparison)
Friedman, p. 99, "The Braes o' Yarrow" (1 text which incorporates most verses of "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow")
OBB 150, "The Dowie Houms of Yarrow" (1 text)
FSCatskills 45, "The Dens of Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 24, "The Braes o Yarrow" (1 text, which Cox lists here though it is so worn down that it might as well be considered a lyric piece; the plot is entirely gone, compare the Hamilton text in Percy)
Ord, pp. 426-429, "The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
MacSeegTrav 17, "The Braes o' Yarrow" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 19, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 77, "The Dewy Dells of Yarrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 10, "The Braes O' Yarrow" (1 text)
Niles 54, "The Braes o Yarrow" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 54-55, "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 115-116, "The Dowie Houms o Yarrow" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 179, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (1 text)
cf. Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 362-367, "The Braes of Yarrow" (1 text, said to be William Hamilton's adaption of this song)
DT 214, YARROW1*
Roud #13
RECORDINGS:
Liam Clancy, "Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (on IRLClancy01)
Ewan MacColl, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (on Lomax43, LomaxCD1743) {Bronson's #33}
John MacDonald, "The Dewie Dens of Yarrow" (on Voice03)
Willie Scott, "The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow" (on Voice17)
Davie [Davy] Stewart, "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #24}
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(120), "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow," unknown, c. 1890 [scan largely illegible but probably this piece]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow" [Child 215]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Lady and the Shepherd
The Dreary Dream
In the Lonely Glens of Yarrow
NOTES: Several scholars, among them Norman Cazden, have claimed that this song is the same as Child 215, "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow." Certainly there has been exchange of verses. However, I (following Leach), would maintain that there is a difference: "The Dowie Dens" is about opposition to a marriage; "Willie Drowned" is about the loss of a love.
A brief summary of the whole discussion is found in Coffin's notes in Flanders-Ancient3. It's not clear what he believes, except that the two songs are a mess and quite mixed. Which can hardly be denied. - RBW
File: C214
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NAME: Dowie Houms o Yarrow, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
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NAME: Dowie Houms of Yarrow, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
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NAME: Down Among the Budded Roses
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells his sweetheart that she should not forget the promise she made to him among the roses. "Down among the budded roses/I am nothing but a stem." He asks her to be his in heaven, where their hearts will be united forever. Or something like that
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Charlie Poole)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer tells his sweetheart that, though they have parted, she should not forget the promise she made to him among the roses in the lane. "Down among the budded roses/I am nothing but a stem." He says they will never meet again on earth, but asks her to be his in heaven, where their hearts will be united forever. Or something like that
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness love promise farewell parting separation death nonballad lover
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rorrer, p. 72, "Budded Rose" (1 text)
Roud #6577
RECORDINGS:
[Clarence] Ashley & [Gwen] Foster, "Faded Roses" (Vocalion 02666, 1934)
[Walter "Kid" Smith & the] Carolina Buddies, "Down among the Budding Roses" (Jewel 20004/Oriole 8004/Perfect 144/Romeo 5004. 1930)
Happy Valley Family, "Down Among the Budding Roses" (Perfect 6-08-53, 1936)
Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers, "Budded Roses" (Brunswick 268, 1928)
Daddy John Love, "Budded Roses" (Bluebird B-6675, 1936)
Asa Martin, "Budded Roses" (Perfect 13089, 1935)
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers, "Budded Rose" (Columbia 15138-D, 1927)
Red Fox Chasers, "Budded Roses" (Supertone 9492, 1929)
Shelton Bros., "Budded Roses" (Decca 5180, 1936)
Kid Willliams & Bill Morgan, "Down Among the Budded Roses" (Homestead 16116, c. 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again" (a line or two)
cf. "Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me (I)" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Whitey & Hogan, "Answer to Budded Roses" (Decca 5817, 1940)
NOTES: This sounds like nothing so much as a stripped-down version of "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again", minus the soldier bit. But except for that line, the lyrics seem to be independent, so I split them. I index this one mostly to keep the two straight. It's unclear, incidentally, whether the singer is dying or lighting out for the territories. - PJS
File: RcDATBR
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NAME: Down at the Station
DESCRIPTION: "Down at the station, early in the morning, See the little pufferbellies all in a row. See the stationmaster pull the little handle. Puff, puff, toot, toot, off we go!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976
KEYWORDS: train nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 198, "Down at the Station" (1 text)
Roud #10746
NOTES: Amazing what you learn to think of as a folk song once you start compiling a ballad index! This is one of perhaps only two songs from my mother's tradition (the other being "White Coral Bells"). I had not thought of it as a folk song (in fact, for decades I hadn't thought of it at all) till it showed up in Pankake. - RBW
File: PHCFS196
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NAME: Down at the Wangan
DESCRIPTION: "Down at the Wangan across the street From Gifford's Corner the fact'ry boys meet, Waiting for Johnny come down and pay, Down comes old Matthew, 'No pay today.' Stick to the fact'ry boys ...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: factory work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 11, "Down at the Wangan" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #9200
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "This is a fragment of a song made up in Newcastle in the 1880's or early 1890's. A wangan is a storage house ... where supplies are stored for the use of a lumber camp. By extension, used of any storage place. The song told of Matthew Russell, who ran a spool factory.... Workmen often had to wait a long time for their pay in the 1880's, though it wasn't so much of a hardship in those days, since business was done mostly on credit." - BS
File: MaWi011
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NAME: Down By Blackwaterside
DESCRIPTION: Girl lies with a man, who dresses and prepares to leave her. She reproaches him, saying "That's not the promise you gave to me." She tells him she's the most loyal girl in the world, but now she'll marry him only "when fishes fly and the seas run dry"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Johnson)
KEYWORDS: sex promise abandonment 
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England(South)) US(MA,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 151, "Down By Blackwaterside" (1 text, 1 tune plus another text in the notes)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 108-109, "Blackwater Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 65, "Down by a Riverside" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 57, "As I Strolled Out One Evening" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 468, BLKWTRSD*
Roud #564
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "Blackwater Side" (on Briggs2, Briggs3)
Liam Clancy, "Blackwater Side" (on IRLClancy01)
Paddy Tunney, "Blackwaterside" (on Voice10)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(122), "Distress'd Maid" ("As I walk'd out one May morning"), W. Wright (Birmingham), 1831-1837; also Harding B 11(904), Harding B 28(123), "Distress'd Maid"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Camden Town" (plot)
cf. "The Lovely Irish Maid" (plot, lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Blackwaterside
Black Water Side
I Am Too Young
The Squire and the Fair Maid
The Distress'd Maid
NOTES: The voice keeps changing, from a bystander to the woman to (possibly) the man. This song should not be confused with "The Black Water Side" (Laws O1). - PJS
Roud in fact lumps this with Laws P18, "Pretty Little Miss." But that entry is one of his mass lumps, of many songs about untrue lovers. While there is much sharing between songs of this type, it seems better to split them.
Kennedy lumps this with "The Lovely Irish Maid," and I have to admit that there are strong points of contact, both lyric and in plot. This song, however, appears to take a slightly different direction, so I have, with much hesitation, split them. - RBW
File: K151
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NAME: Down by de Ribberside: see Down By the Riverside (Study War No More) (File: San480)
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NAME: Down by Gruyer's Groves: see Greer's Grove (File: RcGrrGrv)
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NAME: Down by Jim Long's Stage
DESCRIPTION: "As I roved out one day in June 'twas down by Jim Long's stage, I met my true love's father" who has other plans for Eliza; singer threatens to take her away "to be me darlin' wife." Father reveals singer has passed the test and can "wed her in the fall"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: love marriage dialog father
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, p. 22, "Down by Jim Long's Stage" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 111, "Down By Jim Long's Stage" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7294
NOTES: A stage is "An elevated platform on the shore ... where fish are landed and processed for salting and drying ...." [per Dictionary of Newfoundland English, University of Toronto Press, 1999].
According to GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador site the author is "unknown, but probably Mark Walker. - BS
File: Doyl3022
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NAME: Down by Sally's Garden: see You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Down by Sally's Garden) (File: FowM059)
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NAME: Down by the Brook: see The Swapping Boy (File: E093)
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NAME: Down by the Fair River: see Gra Geal Mo Chroi (II -- Down By the Fair River) (File: CrMa069)
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NAME: Down By the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)
DESCRIPTION: An old woman sings about the "bold Fenian men" she had seen "marching and drilling" 50 years earlier. They died in the glens and amid strangers. "Wise men have said that their cause was a failure, But they stood by old Ireland and never feared danger"
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney (source: Hall, notes to Voice08)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (recording, Margaret Barry)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion death nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Margaret Barry, "The Bold Fenian Men" (on Voice08)
DT, GLNSFEN*
Roud #9266
NOTES: The Fenians were an Irish Independence organization -- but they were also among the most absurdly inept plotters in history. The depth of their feelings are illustrated by the fact that they kept on after an endless litany of failures. (For examples, see "A Fenian Song," "The British Man-of-War," and "The Smashing of the Van (I).") - RBW
Hall, notes to Voice08, re "The Bold Fenian Men": "Peadar Kearney wrote [it] ... around the time of the 1916 Easter Rising."
Regarding "Some died by the glenside; some died amid strangers" this comment at Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 8" - 1.3.03: "The Fenian Irish independence movement began in the 1860s with attempted risings in the USA, Canada and Ireland."
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 8" - 1.3.03: "In the song, the 'old woman' represents the Spirit of Ireland." In this connection see notes to "Eileen McMahon" and references there. - BS
This seems to be known in tradition mostly under the title "The Bold Fenian Men," but Kearney's original title apparently was "Down by the Glenside." Kearney was also the author of the Irish national anthem "The Soldier's Song"; for more on him, see the notes to "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." - RBW
File: RcDbtGle
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NAME: Down by the Green Bushes: see Green Bushes [Laws P2] (File: LP02)
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NAME: Down by the Greenwood Side: see The Cruel Mother [Child 20] (File: C020)
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NAME: Down by the Liffey Side: see Fish and Chips (Down by the Liffey Side) (File: OLcM249)
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NAME: Down By the Magdalen Green
DESCRIPTION: A sailor, whose ship anchored at Dundee, convinces a girl to walk "along by the Magdalen/Maudlin/Mellon Green." He returns to sea and dreams of the girl weeping with his baby son. He warns sailors against seducing and abandoning girls.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1970 (Morton-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: seduction abandonment childbirth dream sailor
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Morton-Ulster 16, "Down By the Mellon Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2893
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Harbour of Dundee
The Magdalen Green
NOTES: Morton-Ulster: "A couple of variants of this song have been collected in Scotland itself, notably from Jimmy McBeath, but it is by no means widely known. There is a Magdalen Green in Dundee (pronounced Madlin)." - BS
File: MorU016
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NAME: Down By the Mellon Green: see Down By the Magdalen Green (File: MorU016)
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NAME: Down By the Riverside (Study War No More)
DESCRIPTION: "I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield Down by the riverside... And study war no more." The singer describes coming to heaven, and living in peace with Jesus.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (recording, Fisk University Jubilee Quartet)
KEYWORDS: war religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 624, "Old Satan's Mad" (5 text, of which the short "A" text is probably "Free at Last"; "B" is a variation on "Down By the Riverside (Study War No More)"; "C" has the "Old Satan's Mad" stanza but a "climbing Zion's walls" chorus; D" is an unidentifiable fragment perhaps related to "I Belong to that Band; and "E" is also a fragment, perhaps of "Free At Last")
Sandburg, pp. 480-481, "Ain' Go'n to Study War No Mo'" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 566, "Down by de Ribberside" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 50, "Study War No More" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 281, "Study War No More" (1 text)
DT, WARNOMOR
Roud #11886
RECORDINGS:
Dixie Jubilee Singers, "I Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (Banner 7237/Domino 4206/Challenge 937 [as Jewel Male Quartet], 1928)
Elkins Payne Jubilee Singers, "Down By the Riverside" (Paramount 12071, 1923)
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, "I Ain't Goin' to Study War No More" (Columbia A3596, 1922; rec. 1920)
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch. "I Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (Columbia 26938, n.d.; Columbia 35567, 1940)
[Lester] McFarland & [Robert] Gardner, "Down By the Riverside" (Brunswick 108/Vocalion 5127, 1927; rec. 1926?)
Golden Echo Quartet, "Study War No More" (Deluxe 1005, 1945)
Memphis Minnie [Lizzie Douglas], "Down by the Riverside" (Conqueror 9936, 1941)
Missouri Pacific Diamond Jubilee Quartette, "Study War No More" (OKeh 8472, 1927)
Morehouse Quartet, "Down by the Riverside" (OKeh 4887, 1923)
C. Mae Frierson Moore, "Going to Study War No More" (Paramount 12323, 1925)
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet, "Down by the Riverside" (Paramount 12445, 1927)
Oak Ridge Quartet, "Ain't Gwine to Study War No More" (Capitol 40057, 1947)
Pete Seeger, "Study War No More" (on PeteSeeger14) (on PeteSeeger15) (on PeteSeeger44) (on PeteSeeger48)
Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry, "Study War No More" (on SeegerTerry)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "Down By the Riverside" (Decca 48106, n.d. but probably 1950s)
SAME_TUNE:
Three Little Maids, "Ain't Gonna Study War No Mo'" (Bluebird B-5860, 1935; rec. 1933)
File: San480
===
NAME: Down by the Sally Gardens
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets his sweetheart by the Sally Gardens; she bid him to "take love easy," but he is foolish and does not. He is now filled with remorse
AUTHOR: Words: William Butler Yeats / Music: Traditional
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889
KEYWORDS: grief courting youth lover
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 182, "Down By The Sally Gardens" (1 text)
DT, SALLYGRD*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), p. 598, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson, _The Oxford Book of Irish Verse_ (Oxford, 1958, 1979), p. 132, "Down by the Salley Gardens"  (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Down by Sally's Garden)"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Down By the Salley Gardens
NOTES: This is barely a ballad, but there is the skeleton of a narrative, and it seems to have entered the repertoire. - PJS
It seems to have had roots in tradition, though. See "Down In my Sally's Garden" and "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure." - RBW
File: FSWB182
===
NAME: Down by the Sea Shore: see I Never Will Marry [Laws K17] (File: LK17)
===
NAME: Down by the Seaside
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets young woman and asks her to walk with him. She declines; she's searching for her true love. Looking through an opera glass, she spies his ship; hearing that he has been shot, she despairs; if he died for honor, she will die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (recorded from George Maynard)
KEYWORDS: grief virtue love separation death ship lover sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1712
RECORDINGS:
George Maynard, "Down By the Seaside" (on Maynard1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" (part of plot, lyrics) and cross-references there
cf. "Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19]" (plot)
NOTES: This is a conundrum; it starts out as a classic John-Riley-lover-in-disguise ballad, but halfway through does not take the usual sharp turn of revealing the stranger to be the lover returned. Instead, it proceeds in a straight line to the young man's death and the woman's bereavement. - PJS
File: RcDBTSS
===
NAME: Down By the Tan-Yard Side: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
===
NAME: Down By the Tanyard Side: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
===
NAME: Down by the Weeping Willow Tree
DESCRIPTION: "Dig my grave and let me lie, love (x3), Down by the weeping willow tree." "Make it long and deep and wide, love." "Dig my grave with a golden spade, love." "Let me down with a golden chain, love." "Cover me over with the sod, love."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: burial death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 268, "Down by the Weeping Willow Tree" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade" (lyrics)
NOTES: The lyrics of this are largely identical with "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade," and I thought seriously about lumping them. But I hesitantly separate them (pending discovery of additional versions) on the basis of the refrains and the much more spiritual feel of "Silver Spade." - RBW
File: Br3268
===
NAME: Down Came an Angel: see Christ Was Born in Bethlehem (File: MA189)
===
NAME: Down Erin's Lovely Lee: see Down Erin's Lovely Lee (File: RcErLoLe)
===
NAME: Down Fell the Old Nag
DESCRIPTION: "Down fell the old nag, dead between the shafts." The crew, rather than haul the cart home themselves, declare, "We'll harness up the old woman, and put her in the shafts, and make her pull the whole lot home"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: husband wife horse death hardheartedness
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 144, "Down Fell the Old Nag" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA144
===
NAME: Down in a Coal Mine: see Down in the Coal Mine (File: Wa026)
===
NAME: Down in a Licensed Saloon
DESCRIPTION: "Where is my wandering boy tonight? Down in a licensed saloon. Down in a room all cozy and bright, Filled with the glare of many a light, Ruined and wrecked by the drink appetite..." The mother recalls the boy's youthful charms and regrets his downfall
AUTHOR: W.A. Williams
EARLIEST_DATE: 1892 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: drink mother children
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 335, "Down in a Licensed Saloon" (1 text)
Roud #7807
NOTES: Published under the caption "An answer to, 'Where is My Wandering Boy To-night?'" - RBW
File: R335
===
NAME: Down in Arkansas: see Down in the Arkansas (File: R349)
===
NAME: Down in My Sally's Garden
DESCRIPTION: The thrush sings sweetly in Sally's garden. The singer recalls meeting her in the garden, and the time they fondly shared. In the end, "My heart became love-weary When I at last must go." "I left my Sally weeping Down by an ivied dell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SHenry H828, p. 286-287, "Down in My Sally's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 124-125, (no title) (1 text, with at least the first verse being related to this)
DT, SALGARD2*
Roud #3819
NOTES: This may have influenced the Yeats poem, "Down by the Sally Garden," though that poem may also have been inspired by "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure." Or both may have played a part. - RBW
File: HHH828
===
NAME: Down in the Arkansas
DESCRIPTION: Odd snippets with the refrain "Down in the Arkan (x2) Down in the Arkansas. The sweetest girl I ever saw Was down in the Arkansas." Example: "I had a cow that slobbered bad... Asked (the doctor) what to do for it. He said to teach that cow to spit."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (recording, Myers & Hanford)
KEYWORDS: humorous animal courting
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 349, "Down in Arkansas" (2 texts)
Roud #7626
RECORDINGS:
Bill Cox, "Down in Arkansas" (Supertone 9714, 1930)
Golden Melody Boys, "Way Down in Arkansas" (Paramount 3087, 1928; Broadway 8134, n.d.)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Down in Arkansas" (Vocalion 15034, 1925)
[Pee Wee] Myers and [Ford] Hanford, "Down in Arkansaw" (Victor 18767, 1921)
Pickard Family, "Down in Arkansas" (Brunswick 348/Conqueror 7251, 1929; Banner S-6283/Challeng 993/QRS 9002, c. 1929; rec. 1928)
Riley Puckett, "Down in Arkansas" (Columbia 15139-D, 1927; rec. 1926)
Reaves White County Ramblers, "Down in Arkansas" (Vocalion 5224, 1928)
Almeda Riddle, "Down in Arkansas" (on LomaxCD1707)
Art Thieme, "Down in the Arkansas" (on Thieme04)
File: R349
===
NAME: Down in the Coal Mine
DESCRIPTION: The miner sings, "I am a jovial collier lad, as blythe as blythe can be / And let the times be good or bad, it's all the same to me...." He describes his dark and dirty life and his lack of culture, but points out how all are dependent on him.
AUTHOR: J. B. Geoghegan (or "Geehagen")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1872
KEYWORDS: mining nonballad work
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Britain
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Warner 26, "Down in the Coal Mine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 128-129, "Down in the Coalmine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 171-172, "Down in a Coal Mine" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOWNCOAL
Roud #3502
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yellow Meal (Heave Away; Yellow Gals; Tapscott; Bound to Go)" (part of tune)
File: Wa026
===
NAME: Down in the Diving Bell (The Mermaid (II))
DESCRIPTION: Singer, a sailor, sees amazing sights while down in the diving bell (including the Atlantic Cable used as a clothesline). He courts and marries a mermaid and they live happily, if wetly, ever after
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (Broadside Bodleian Harding B 11(965))
KEYWORDS: courting marriage wedding sea humorous sailor mermaid/man
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5013
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Mermaid (Down in the Diving Bell)" (AFS 4199 A2, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(965), "Down in the Diving Bell," J. Harkness (Preston) , 1840-1866
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mermaid" (subject matter)
cf. "The Merman (Pretty Fair Maid with a Tail)" [Laws K24] (plot)
cf. "Married to a Mermaid" (theme of marrying a mermaid)
NOTES: I call this "Down in the Diving Bell" to differentiate it from "The Mermaid", and because it seems to have entered tradition under that title. The origin is almost certainly music-hall or vaudeville. - PJS
Bodleian Harding B 11(965) has no reference to the Atlantic cable (which would have set an early date of 1865; an article on the diving bell was printed in 1771 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (source: _The History of the Diving Bell_ by Arthur J Bachrach, Ph.D. on the Historical Diving Society site.)) - BS
File: RcDitDB
===
NAME: Down in the Lehigh Valley: see The Lehigh Valley (File: EM198)
===
NAME: Down in the Meadow (Down in the Valley II)
DESCRIPTION: Singing game/skipping rhyme "Down in the (meadow/valley) where the green grass grows," a girl shines like a rose (or hangs out her clothes). She and a young man court (and marry)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1898 (Gomme)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 59, "Skipping (Down in the Valley)" (1 text)
Roud #12967
File: SNR059
===
NAME: Down in the Place Where I Come From
DESCRIPTION: "Down in de place where I come from, Dey feed dose coons on hard-parched cawn, Dey swell up an' dey get so far Day dey couldn't get deir heads in a Number Ten hat." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: animal food clothes
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 284, (no title) (1 fragment)
NOTES: Anyone who has had to deal with an urban raccoon will know how true this is; trash is so abundant and convenient that the critters tend to take over yards and even houses. It's also reported that many of them are ending up with severe dental problems.... - RBW
File: ScNF284A
===
NAME: Down in the Town of Old Bantry (The Black and Tan Gun)
DESCRIPTION: An Irish soldier is dying in Bantry "shot by a Black-and-Tan gun" He asks his comrades to bury him "out on the mountain Where I can see where the battle was won" They bury him, return to Dublin "with our victories over and won."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recording, Tommy McGrath)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion Civilwar IRA dying soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1920-1921 - The Black and Tan War
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
ST RcBlTaGu (Full)
Roud #12938
RECORDINGS:
Tommy McGrath, "Down in the Town of Old Bantry" (on Voice08)
NOTES: The "Black and Tans" were British reinforcements to regular British soldiers sent to Ireland in 1920. (source: _Michael Collins: A Man Against an Empire_ copyright by and available on the History Net site) For more information see RBW note for "The Bold Black and Tan" - BS
Although details in the song are lacking, its setting in Bantry is quite reasonable; the south of Ireland was noteworthy for the fury of the contest with the English, with Cork being probably the single most active IRA center. Robert Kee, in _Ourselves Alove_, being volume III of _The Green Flag_, devotes pp. 102-103 to the atrocities committed by both side in Bantry.
The sad irony is that, once the Irish fought off the British, and achieved the Free State (see the notes to "The Irish Free State"), they proceeded to have a civil war (see "General Michael Collins"). That by implication dates this song to 1921 or 1922, before it became clear that the "victory" of the Black and Tan war just led to more violence. Of course, many Irish songwriters have tended to write about their successes and ignore the subsequent failures. - RBW
File: RcBlTaGu
===
NAME: Down in the Tules
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, down in the tules, a-wranglin' around, I'd give a month's pay just to be in town." A cowboy complains about his hard work. He goes into town and parties, concluding "Saturday night's over, it's back to the hills;" partied out, he wants to go home
AUTHOR: Jim McElroy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: cowboy work home party
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 73, "Down in the Tules" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: "Tules," Ohrlin explains, are the reed grasses that grow by bodies of water. This gives rise to the secondary meaning "boondocks, outskirts." - RBW
File: Ohr073
===
NAME: Down in the Valley
DESCRIPTION: "Down in the valley, valley so low, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow." The singer tells of his deep, unrequited love for (his/her) sweetheart. (He) bids farewell: "If you don't love me, love whom you please." (He says to write to Birmingham Jail.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation prison lyric
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Belden, p. 488, "Down in the Valley"; pp. 488-489, "Bird in a Cage" (2 texts)
Randolph 772, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 281, "Down in the Valley (Birmingham Jail)" (1 text plus a fragment); also probably 282, "I Sent My Love a Letter" (3 texts, of which "A" is likely to be this piece and "C" is a mess with some "Down in the Valley" verses and others about Lulu, though it's not clear which Lulu; "B" is "Green Grows the Laurel (Green Grow the Lilacs)")
Fuson, p. 142, "Bird in the Cage" (1 text)
MHenry-Appalachians, p. 179, "Down in the Valley" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 148, "Down in the Valley"; 213, "Bird in a Cage" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 19, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 147-149, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 150, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 58, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 902-903, "Down in the Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 33, "Down In The Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 290, "Down in the Valley" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 150, "Down In The Valley" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 201-202, "Down in the Valley"
DT, DOWNVALY*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 212, (no title) (1 fragment)
Roud #943
RECORDINGS:
[Tom] Darby & [Jimmie] Tarlton, "Birmingham Jail" (Columbia 15212-D, 1927)
Ezra Hill & Henry Johnson, "Birmingham Jail" (Challenge 15750, 1929)
Frank Proffitt, "Down in the Valley" (on Proffitt03)
Riley Puckett, "Down in the Valley" (Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22464, n.d.)
Pete Seeger, "Down in the Valley" (on LonesomeValley) (on PeteSeeger17)
Unidentified group of singers, "Down in the Valley" (on JThomas01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlotte the Harlot (III)" (tune)
cf. "Bull Connor's Jail" (tune)
cf. "The Stolen Bride" (tune)
cf. "Billy My Darling" (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Hang Your Head Over (Suck Your Big Toe) (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 110)
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton, "Birmingham Jail - No. 2" (Columbia 15375-D, 1929; rec. 1928); "New Birmingham Jail" (Columbia 15629-D, 1930 -- note that two different takes were issued under this record number)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Birmingham Jail
NOTES: "Birmingham Jail" (sometimes credited to E.V. Body) is considered by some a separate song, but it can hardly be distinguished from "Down in the Valley." The same can be said of Sandburg's and Belden's "Bird in a Cage" texts; it lacks the "Down in the Valley" stanza, but the other verses are common. - RBW
This song is often called "Birmingham Jail," particularly on early recordings; there is also, however, another song called "Birmingham Jail", which is part of the "Sweet Thing/Crawdad Hole" family, and no relation to this. - PJS
File: R772
===
NAME: Down in the Valley to Pray
DESCRIPTION: "As I went down in the valley to pray, Studying about the good old way (or: My soul got happy and I stayed all day)." "Oh, (sinners/mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters, etc.), let's go down, you better go down, Down in the valley to pray."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 553, "As I Went Down in the Valley to Pray" (3 short texts with significant variations)
DT, DOWNVALL
Roud #4928
RECORDINGS:
Delta Big Four, "Moaner Let's Go Down in the Valley" (Paramount 13009, 1930; on VocalQ2)
Price Family Sacred Singers, "I Went Down Into the Valley to Pray" (OKeh 40796, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Can't Cross Jordan"
File: Br3553
===
NAME: Down in the Willow Garden: see Rose Connoley [Laws F6] (File: LF06)
===
NAME: Down in Yon Forest: see The Corpus Christi Carol (File: L691)
===
NAME: Down In Yonder Valley: see Farewell Ballymoney (Loving Hannah; Lovely Molly) (File: R749)
===
NAME: Down On Me
DESCRIPTION:  Floating verses: "Down on me, down on me..." "I wonder what Satan is growling about..." "Mind my mother how you walk on the cross..." "Satan's mad and I'm so glad..." Refrain: "...Seems like everybody in this whole wide world is down on me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (recording, Dock Reed)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses nonballad religious Devil
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12256
RECORDINGS:
Mary Pinckney, "Down on Me" (on BeenStorm1)
Dock Reed, "Down on Me" (AFS 4058 A1, 1940; on LC10)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "That's All Right" (floating verses)
File: RcDoOnMe
===
NAME: Down on Penney's Farm: see Down on Penny's Farm (File: LoF147)
===
NAME: Down on Penny's Farm
DESCRIPTION: "Hard times in the country, Down on Penny's farm." The renters are subjected to dreadful conditions: Bad land, houses with "no windows but the cracks in the wall," low income, high expenses -- and a threat of going on the chain gang for debt
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Bently Boys)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes work farming poverty landlord nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 147, "Down on Penney's Farm" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, p. 362, "Down on Penny's Farm" (1 text)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 66 "Down on Penny's Farm" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 216-217, "Down on Roberts' Farm" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 119, "Robert's Farm" (1 text)
Roud #6687
RECORDINGS:
Bently Boys, "Down on Penny's Farm"  (Columbia 15565-D, 1930; rec. 1929; on AAFM1, HardTimes1)
Pete Seeger, "Penny's Farm" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
On Tanner's Farm
NOTES: Bascom Lamar Lunsford has the "Roberts' Farm" version from a Claude Reeves of North Carolina, who claimed to have written it around 1935. It would seem, however, that this was only a local adaption. - RBW
Bob Dylan wrote a parody/pastiche of this song entitled "New York Town". -PJS
And, of course, Gid Tanner produced a version about his own farm! - RBW
File: LoF147
===
NAME: Down on Roberts' Farm: see Down on Penny's Farm (File: LoF147)
===
NAME: Down on Tanner' Farm: see Down on Penny's Farm (File: LoF147)
===
NAME: Down on the Banks of the Ohio: see Banks of the Ohio [Laws F5]
 (File: LF05)
===
NAME: Down on the Farm (I)
DESCRIPTION: Susie Slick and Tommy lay on the grass, where she wiggles her ---, as in all such teasing songs.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 216-221, "Down on the Farm" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Teasing Songs" (specifically "Suzanne Was a Lady," "The Ship's in the Harbor," "There Once Was a Farmer," "Two Irishmen, Two Irishmen")
cf. "Butcher Town"
File: RL216
===
NAME: Down on the Farm (II)
DESCRIPTION: "When a boy I used to dwell in a home I loved so well, Far away among the clover and the bees." The singer describes the happy life on the farm, the family among whom he worked -- and the changes since his "boyhood's happy days down on the farm."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: farming family father mother home death separation return
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 210, "Down on the Farm" (1 text plus mention of 3 more; also a text of "Down on the Farm (III)")
Roud #4375
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee" (theme)
File: Br3210
===
NAME: Down on the Farm (III)
DESCRIPTION: "Down on the farm 'bout half past four, I slip on my pants and sneak out the door" to start the long, hard rounds of farm life. He notes that, despite great labors, he has "less cash now than I had last spring." Farm life proves the existence of hell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: farming work hardtimes poverty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 210, "Down on the Farm" (The "E" text is this, appended to "Down on the Farm (II)")
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer Is the Man" (theme)
cf. "The Humble Farmer" (theme)
NOTES: The notes in Brown imply that this is a parody of "Down on the Farm (II)." It may perhaps be an answer to that song, but it does not appear to be direct parody; the lyrics are not related and the stanza form different. - RBW
File: Br3210A
===
NAME: Down on the Pichelo Farm
DESCRIPTION: "I got a gal named Dinah, The people cain't out-shine her, And I'll take a kiss if I find her
Down on the Pichelo farm." "Her father's name was Moses, Her shoes was out at the toeses... Down on the Pichelo farm." "An a rig jag jig jag jig jag (x3)..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: playparty farming
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 572, "Down on the Pichelo Farm" (1 text)
Roud #7662
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (floating lyrics)
File: R572
===
NAME: Down on Your Knees
DESCRIPTION: Thomas Fitzgerald enters hell. He is accused: "While on earth your shortlived reign All your delights were torture's dreadful pain." Lucifer prepares him for sentence: "Down on your knees." He is sentenced to eternal pain
AUTHOR: Bernard Wright (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (O hOgain's _Duanaire Thiobraid Arainn_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: punishment death Devil judge
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 98, "Down on Your Knees" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan: Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald was High Sheriff for County Tipperary in 1798. "He would have people seized on the street, and, ignoring all and any protestations or proof of innocence, would have them savagely flogged.... Bernard Wright of Clonmel, commemorated his experiences in this acrostic piece of verse upon reading of Fitzgerald's death. Fitzgerald's words to Wright -- 'Down on your knees, rebellious scoundrel, and receive your sentence' -- are the reason for the title." - BS
Thomas Pakenham gives a generally pro-British history of 1798 in _The Year of Liberty_, but on p. 283, he gives this description of Fitzgerald, a later-day Judge Jeffries: "At his trial in 1799 [for his brutality] Fitzgerald was to claim that only by 'cutting off their heads' could some people be made to talk. There was laughter in the court. The terrible thing was that Fitzgerald was not joking. His judicial policy, as summed up by the judge in his own case, reads like a speech of the Red Queen's: sentence first, then execution, then trial." (Pakenham's refence is actually to the Queen of Hearts in _Alice in Wonderland_, the chapter "Alice's Evidence": "Sentence first -- verdict afterward." Not that it matters who said it. What matters is who practiced it.) - RBW
File: Moyl098
===
NAME: Down the Moor: see Heather Down the Moor (Among the Heather; Down the Moor) (File: HHH177)
===
NAME: Down the River
DESCRIPTION: Recognized by the chorus, "Down the river, down the river, Down the (river to the) Ohio." The full version tells of the river ("Oh the river is up and the channel is deep") and the crew of the boat working on it.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Wolford)
KEYWORDS: river playparty work
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 592, "Down the River" (1 text)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 564, "Down the River" (2 texts, 1 tune)
MWheeler, p. 38, "Down the Rivuh, Down, Boys" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment which might or might not go with this song)
DT, DOWNRIVR* DOWNRIV2*
Roud #7677
NOTES: The playparty version of this piece simplifies the story immensely. Randolph, for instance, has a text which runs simply
Bridges all out and the water mighty deep,
Down the river we all got to go,
Bridges all out and the water mighty deep,
Down the river to the Ohio.
Down the river, down the river,
Down the river we all got to go
Down the river, down the river,
Down the river to the Ohio. - RBW
File: R592
===
NAME: Down the Road (I)
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses, usually not terribly cohesive. Various choruses: "Down the road, down the road/I've got a sugar baby down the road"; "Bound to go, bound to go/Over the road I'm bound to go"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Uncle Dave Macon)
KEYWORDS: love humorous nonballad nonsense floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE,Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 208-209, "Over the Road I'm Bound" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, "Down the Road" (Mercury 6211, 1949)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Down the Road" (AAFS 1802 A1, 1935)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Over the Road I'm Bound to Go" (Brunswick 329, 1929)
Sonny Osborne, "Down the Road" (Kentucky 564, n.d.)
Marion Rees, "Down the Road" (AAFS 837 B3, 1936)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "Down the Road" (on Watson01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Letter from Down the Road"
cf. "On the Road Again"
cf. "Kassie Jones" (Furry Lewis's version)
cf. "Ida Red" (tune)
NOTES: Even for Uncle Dave, these words are incoherent. And -- hot dog! -- that's saying something. -PJS
File: CSW208
===
NAME: Down the Road (II)
DESCRIPTION: Singer races his pony Polly for 60 pounds and beats Jones's cob. Jones proposes a rematch and Polly wins again. Soon after this Polly dies and is buried after a sad funeral procession.
AUTHOR: Fred Gilbert (source: Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 7" - 1.3.03)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Recorded by Gus Elen, according to Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 7" - 1.3.03)
KEYWORDS: burial death funeral racing horse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #15128
RECORDINGS:
Fred Jordan, "Down the Road" (on Voice07)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Creeping Jane" [Laws Q23] (theme)
File: RcDowRd2
===
NAME: Down Went McGinty
DESCRIPTION: McGinty bet that McCann could not carry him up a wall. McGinty was right, and "Down went McGinty to the bottom of the wall And though he won the five, He was more dead than alive." McGinty's adventures lead to more falls, prison, death, etc.
AUTHOR: Joseph Flynn
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Geller)
KEYWORDS: gambling humorous injury prison children party death ghost
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 134-136, "Down Went McGinty" (1 text, partial tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 120-123, "Down Went McGnty" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 235-237, "Down Went McGinty" (1 text)
DT, DWNMGNTY*
Roud #4870
File: SRW134
===
NAME: Down, Derry Down: see The Cricket and Crab-louse (Down Derry Down) (File: Logs056)
===
NAME: Down, Down Derry Down: see The Crafty Farmer [Child 283; Laws L1] (File: C283)
===
NAME: Down, Down, Down
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the conditions at the Oak Hill mine "that goes down, down, down." He was warned against the mine, but took a job anyway; now he complains of the wet, and the work, and the poor pay
AUTHOR: William Keating?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947
KEYWORDS: mining work hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 56, "Down, Down, Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 867-873, "Down, Down, Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DOWNDOWN*
Roud #4758
File: LxU056
===
NAME: Downey's Our Member
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Now Downey's our member you all understand, So beware of the boar, the bull and the ram." The government does nothing. The worthless and crooked politicians are named.
AUTHOR: Leonard Hulan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: moniker political
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 779-780, "Downey's Our Member" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9812
NOTES: Peacock gives no date for this song except to say that "the events described in this political ballad have long since ceased to be controversial." The animal symbolism, if that what it is, escapes me; one verse is "The next thing we heard of out here on the coast Some kind of a bull with a ring through its nose, And then a boar pig and a certified ram, And a spring fitted harrow to tear up your land." - BS
File: Pea779
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NAME: Downfall of Heresy, The
DESCRIPTION: Gladstone, supported by the Queen, has undone Cromwell's proclaimed Church. Salvation comes only through the true Church and not "where every man could preach" following Luther. "The Parson now must emigrate And leave his handsome dwelling place"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 19C (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(128))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 26, 1869 - Irish Church Disestablishment Act
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann, p. 99, "A New Song on the Downfall of Heresy" (1 fragment)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(128), "A New Song on The Downfall of Heresy" ("Good people all attention pay"), P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Let Recreant Rulers Pause" (subject)
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 99: "We find many allusions to the 'Wheel of Fortune', an image of the precariousness of things in life..... It provided the Irish ballad-writers with a refrain suggesting the idea of revolutionary changes" and Zimmermann quotes part of a chorus slightly different from the one found here. The Bodleian version is 
The lofty wheel is moving round 
The side that's up is getting down
A rotten Creed can not be sound
When lost is the foundation
Zimmermann p. 99 is a fragment; broadside Bodleian 2806 b.9(128) is the basis for the description.
Gladstone drafted the Irish Church Disestablishment Act and Queen Victoria intervened in its behalf. The act "ends the legal link between Church and state in Ireland, abolishes the tithe and ecclesiastical courts.... It confiscates the Church's property...." (Source: "26 July 1869 Irish Church Disestablishment Act" on the Channel4.com site) - BS
By 1869, Catholics no longer suffered significant legal discrimination in Ireland (they could own property, join parliament, etc.) -- except in one regard. They still paid tithes to the Anglican church. Not directly -- the Tithe War had taken care of that (see, e.g., "The Battle of Carrickshock"). But landlords were still required to come up with the money. This particular rule was still around mostly because the tithes had supported many otherwise-useless clergy members. The Disestablishment Act did its best to phase them out.
This sounds minor today. It was not minor at the time. Even if you ignore the predictable sectarian complaints, the Protestant Ascendency was written into the Act of Union. British law has a great deal of respect for precedent; this was more like Americans amending the constitution than simply passing a law.
The irony, of course, is that the act, as it gave greater rights to the majority of the Irish, created grievances among the Protestants. Which would cause trouble later on, since the Protestants no more wanted to be ruled by Catholics than the Catholics wanted to be ruled by Protestants.
We should note incidentally that Queen Victoria was not particularly fond of disestablishing the Church -- though that may be because the proposal came from Gladstone, whom she disliked and strongly disagreed with.
She of course was not the only one. For an example of the Irish Protestant reaction, see "Let Recreant Rulers Pause." - RBW
File: BrdDownH
===
NAME: Downfall of Piracy, The: see Teach the Rover (File: PBB078)
===
NAME: Downward Road, The
DESCRIPTION: "Well, brother, the downward road is crowded... with unbelieving souls." The song lists various endangered sinners and their fated condemnation. "When I was a sinner, I loved my distance well, But when I come to find myself I was hangin' over Hell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: religious Hell warning nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 256, "The Downward Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11945
File: LoF256
===
NAME: Dr. Till of Somerset
DESCRIPTION: "We took a trip to Somerset not very long ago.... Our health it was so poorly, We thought that we would try That doctor there at Somerset For he was all the cry." Doctor Till can cure cancer without a knife; his treatments are worth a "California mine."
AUTHOR: Words: D. Adams / Music: W. Broughton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (Wyman); reportedly written 1907
KEYWORDS: doctor disease
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Walker D. Wyman, _Wisconsin Folklore_, University of Wisconsin Extension (?), 1979, pp. 35-36, "Dr. Till" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: I know of no real evidence that this song was traditional, but it was written by folk for folk, and managed to be remembered after some seventy years, so I've included it.
John Till, according to Wyman, was born in Austria and came to Wisconsin as a lumberjack. He apparently had only two remedies, an ointment and a plaster, which he used for everything. He did not call himself a doctor, and did not charge directly for his remedies (though he accepted donations). But enough people swore by his cures that this song was written -- and enough people called him a quack that a newspaper wrote an expose and he ended up in prison, going back to Austria in 1922 (though he came back to the United States late in life, dying in Kiel, Wisconsin in 1922).
Frankly, his cures sound more frightening that death to me. But what do I know about truth -- I actually believe that facts actually mean something.
Somerset, Wisconsin is a small town not far from the Minnesota border. It's about 15 miles northeast of Stillwater, the town in which the anti-Till article was published in 1907. - RBW
File: WyWF046
===
NAME: Draftee's Blues: see I Got My Questionnairy (File: CNFM137)
===
NAME: Dragoon and the Lady, The: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Dramdrinker, The
DESCRIPTION: "Good morning, Mr. Dramdrinker. How do you do? How have you been since I parted from you? How did you come by the bruise on your head...?" The singer had fanily, fortune, friends; all are now lost to drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: drink death family poverty abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 470-471, "The Dramdrinker" (1 text)
Roud #7831
File: Beld470
===
NAME: Draw a Bucket of Water
DESCRIPTION: "Draw a (bucket/pail) of water For my lady's daughter; My father's a king and my mother's a queen, My two little sisters are dress'd in green... Pray thee, fine lady, come under my bush."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: playparty royalty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #652, p. 259, "(Draw a pail of water)"
Roud #11635
File: BGMG652
===
NAME: Dreadful Ghost, The: see The Sailor and the Ghost [Laws P34A/B] (File: LP34)
===
NAME: Dreadful Massacre of Sixmilebridge, The
DESCRIPTION: "Upon the 21st day of July, Those fine young youths were compell'd to die, In Sixmilebridge, in the County Clare, To see the elections was what brought them there." An Orange troop attacked the crowd with musket and bayonet.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence homicide Ireland lament political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 21, 1852 - "Seven people were killed in an election riot at Sixmilebridge" (source: Zimmermann) 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 62, "A Lament Written on the Dreadful Massacre of Sixmilebridge" (1 text)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "Several soldiers were found guilty of wilful murder." - BS
File: Zimm062
===
NAME: Dreadnaught, The: see The Dreadnought [Laws D13] (File: LD13)
===
NAME: Dreadnought, The [Laws D13]
DESCRIPTION: A song describing a run on the "Dreadnaught" from Liverpool to New York. Other than a concluding wish for captain and crew, most of the song is a catalog of places the ship visits
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: sea travel ship shanty sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1853- Launch of the Dreadnaught, the most famous of the transatlantic packets
1869 - Wreck of the Dreadnaught
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW) Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws D13, "The Dreadnaught"
Rickaby 42, "The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean, pp. 58-59, "The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught" (1 text)
Doerflinger, pp. 126-128, "The Dreadnought" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 170-171, "The Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 101-103, "Cruise of the Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 122-123, "Goodbye, Fare-Ye-Well" (1 text, version D of "Homeward Bound") [AbEd, p. 106]; pp. 464-469, "The Flash Frigate," "The Dreadnaught," "The Liverpool Packet" (5 texts, 4 tunes and several fragments) [AbEd, pp. 344-348]; p. 124, "Goodbye, Fare-Ye-Well" (the "d" text is "The Dreadnought" with a "Homeward Bound" chorus) [AbEd, p. 106]
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 102-104, "The Dreadnought" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H194, pp. 99-100, "The Zared" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 227-229, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 140-141, "Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 19, "Liverpool Packet" (1 text)
DT 614, DREDNGHT*
Roud #924
RECORDINGS:
Stanley Baby, "The 'Dreadnaught'" (on GreatLakes1)
Bill Barber & Cadgwith fishermen, "The Liverpool Packet" (on LastDays)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Londonderry Love Song" (the ship Zared is mentioned in that song and some versions of this)
cf. "The Flash Frigate (La Pique)" (tune)
cf. "Yankee Tars" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Bound Away
NOTES: The Dreadnought, one of the best-known of the packets, was launched in 1853 and wrecked off Cape Horn in 1869. It should not be confused with the battleship (launched in 1905) which started the "Dreadnaught Revolution" and a pre-World-War-I arms race.
Huntington, in the notes to this song in SHenry, writes, "Perhaps Laws is correct in including 'The _Dreadnaught_' as American; however, it derives from a broadside ballad about a British naval vessel, 'La _Pique_.'"
That "The Dreadnought" and "The Flash Frigate (La Pique)" share a tune is undeniable, and _La Pique_ was the earlier ship. I'm not sure that absolutely proves that "The Flash Frigate" is older, though.
There is some confusion about the spelling of the ship's name. Laws called it the _Dreadnaught_, and earlier editions of the Index followed him because, well, I didn't notice. Every reference I have checked, however, gives the title of the ship involved (as well as the later battleship) as _Dreadnought_ (with an o rather than an a).
Incidentally, _Dreadnought_ had about as interesting a career as a ship on the Liverpool/New York run could have. Octavius T. Howe and Frederick G. Matthews, _American Clipper Ships 1833-1858_ (Volume I), pp. 139-146, reproduces two paintings of the ship. It calls her a "medium clipper" (i.e. designed with capacity as well as speed in mind), built by the Massachusetts firm of Currier & Townsend. She originally sailed for the Red Cross line.
Her first captain was Samuel Samuels, who declared, "She was built for hard usage and to make a reputation for herself and me and I intended that she should do her duty, or that we both should sink" (Howe/Matthews, p. 140). Lincoln P. Paine, in _Ships of the World: An Historical Encylopedia_ (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 150, reports that his attitude caused her to be called "The Flying Dutchman" and "The Wild Boat of the Atlantic." Samuels stayed with her for nine years, despite the fact that she broke her rudder on two voyages and he himself suffered a compound leg fracture and was nearly swept away on on voyage.
She was a very profitable ship; John Malcolm Brinnin, _The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic_ (1971, 1986; I use the 2000 Barnes & Noble edition), p. 10, she is said to have cleared $40,000. But, after a decade on the North Atlantic route, she was shifted to the San Francisco run; in 1869, she was wrecked off Tiera del Fuego (Paine, p. 40).
She was not especially fast; it generally took her nearly two weeks to cross the Atlantic eastbound, and three weeks to cross westbound, despite Captain Samuels and his tendency to keep a lot of sails up even in heavy weather. Nonetheless, Captain Samuels once challenged the famous _Great Eastern_ to a race (see A. A. Hoehling, _Ships That Changed History_, 1992; I use the 2007 Barnes & Noble edition; pp. 41-42. The _Great Eastern_ won the race -- but the _Dreadnought_ had the last laugh; she made money, and carried plenty of passengers, whereas the _Great Eastern_ was a white elephant that bankrupted various owners and only once managed to fill even 65% of her passenger space. - RBW
File: LD13
===
NAME: Dream of Dolly's Brae, A
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams of a July 12, 1849 ambush led by Priest Morgan against "all those heretics who dare to cross the Brae." Orangemen assemble, led by William Beers, and cheer the Queen and their leaders. On meeting gunfire, the Catholics retreat.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Hayward-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: violence Ireland political dream clergy
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 12, 1848 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae, County Down, and divert an Orangemen's march.
July 12, 1849 - Catholics occupy Dolly's Brae but the Orangemen would not be diverted. At least thirty Catholics are killed in the fight. No Orangemen are hit. (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hayward-Ulster, pp. 124-126, "A Dream of Dolly's Brae" (1 text)
Roud #6545
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dolly's Brae (I)" (subject) and references there
NOTES: For background on Dolly's Brae, and other songs on party fights, see the notes to "Dolly's Brae (I)." - (RBW, BS)
File: HayU124
===
NAME: Dream of General T. F. Burke, A: see Burke's Dream [Laws J16] (File: LJ16)
===
NAME: Dream of the Miner's Child, The
DESCRIPTION: "A miner was leaving his home for his work When he heard his little child scream." She had dreamt of his death in the mines, and begs him not to go to work that day. But he must go to work. (In some versions the song ends with a mining disaster)
AUTHOR: Andrew Jenkins?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph); for "Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad" the earliest date is 1910 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: father work mining children dream disaster death
FOUND_IN: US(So) Australia
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Green-Miner, p. 113-115, "Dream of the Miner's Child" (2 texts, 1 tune, plus a text of "Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad")
Randolph 859, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (1 text)
Shellans, pp. 64-65, "The Miner Child's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 141-142, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 131-134, "The Miner" (1 text, collected as a conflation of "The Miner" and "The Dream of the Miner's Child")
DT, MINERCHD*
Roud #2334
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (OKeh 40498, 1925) (Columbia 15046-D [as Al Craver], 1925) (Victor 19821, 1925) (Cameo 812/Lincoln 2429, 1925; Romeo 332, 1927) (Pathe 32150/Pathe 032150/Perfect 12229, 1925) (Edison 51649 [as Vernon Dalhart & Co.], 1925) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5085 [as Vernon Dalhart & Co.], 1925) (Gennett 3197, 1926; Challenge 505, 1927; Herwin 75502, n.d.; rec. 1925) (Banner 1672/Domino 3642/Oriole 545/Paramount 33176/Regal 9978, 1926; rec. 1925) (Vocalion 5086/Vocalion 15217, 1926)
Morris Brothers, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (Bluebird B-8841, 1941)
Arnold Keith Storm, "The Dream of the Miner's Child" (on AKStorm01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Les Reeder" (theme)
cf. "Blockader Mama" (theme)
NOTES: How solid is the 1922 date from Randolph? The Vernon Dalhart recording, which became near-canonical, credited Andrew Jenkins as author, and it certainly has his style. Could he have taken bits from, "Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad" and  perhaps elsewhere, then built a new song from them? - PJS
An interesting question. Randolph's text is certainly much like the standard version. The book assuredly prints a date of 1922. What's more, Randolph had two other pieces from the same informant, and both were dated 1922 also. So I cannot resolve the question. - RBW
File: R859
===
NAME: Dream, The: see The Labour Boroo (File: MorU025)
===
NAME: Dreary Black Hills, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer arrives in the Black Hills to find "loafers and bummers" filling the streets of Cheyenne -- but there is no gold to be found. He misses his home, and warns others against going there; all they are doing is making the railroad speculators rich
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: gold hardtimes railroading
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1875 - Announcement that gold has been found in the Black Hills
FOUND_IN: US(MA,Ro,So)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Belden, pp. 249-350, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Sandburg, pp. 264-265, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 176, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 438-440, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 24, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 87, pp. 185-186, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text)
Larkin, pp. 95-97, "Dreary Black Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 59, "The Dreary Black Hills" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dreary Black Hills" (source notes only)
DT, DREARBLK*
Roud #3604
RECORDINGS:
Harry Stephens, "The Dreary Black Hills" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Captain Old Blue" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Captain Old Blue (File: PrivCOBl)
File: San264
===
NAME: Dreary Dream, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
===
NAME: Dreary Gallows, The: see Gallows [Laws L11] (File: LL11)
===
NAME: Dreary Life, The: see A Cowboy's Life (File: LoF187)
===
NAME: Dreary Weather: see Dark and Dreary Weather (File: R750)
===
NAME: Drei Reiter Am Thor
DESCRIPTION: "Es ritten drei Reitter zum Tore hinaus, Ade! Fein's liebchen schaute zum Fenster heras, Ade!" Tune in 6/8. Translates roughly as "three riders from Tore" and seems to be an all purpose love song.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Baltzer's _Knurrhahn_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage love horse
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Colcord, p. 96, "Drei Reiter Am Thor" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Saltpeter Shanty (Slav Ho)" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Es ritten drei Reiter zum Tor hinaus
NOTES: Colcord says this is a German folksong dating from the 16th century. It was included in "Songs of American Sailormen" as an example of how its tune ended up being used for an entirely different English shanty, "Slav Ho!" I found another source which listed the title as "Es ritten drei Reiter zum Tor hinaus" and gave a date of 1777. - SL
File: Colc096
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NAME: Drifting and Drifting
DESCRIPTION: "Well I'm drifting and drifting just like a ship out to sea (x2), Well I ain't got nobody in this whole world who cares for me." "Nobody wants me, nobody seems to care." "Gonna pack my suitcase, gonna move on down the line."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: loneliness nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, p. 132, (no title) (1 text); p. 165, (no title) (partial text)
File: CNFM132
===
NAME: Drihaureen O Mo Chree (Little Brother of My Heart)
DESCRIPTION: The singer's brother "is gone to the wars now proud England united with France" and is killed on the battlefield. "The dark narrow grave is the only sad refuge for me Since I lost my heart's darling, my driharin o mo croi"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1856 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(985))
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness war death brother
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn-More 28, "Drihaureen O Mo Chree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 148-149, "Mo Drathereen O Mo Chroi" (1 text)
Roud #2360
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "Driharin O Mo Croi" (on NFABest01)
Brigid Tunney, "Dritherearin-o-Mo-Chroidhe" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
Paddy Tunney, "Drahaareen-O Mochree" (on IRPTunney02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(985), "Drecharian O'Machree," Wm. Wright (Birmingham), 1842-1855; also Firth b.25(126), Harding B 11(1963), "Drecharian O'Machree"; 2806 b.11(269), "Dechrarian O'Machree"; 2806 b.11(190), Firth c.26(199), "Dreearian O'Macree[!]"; 2806 b.9(264), 2806 c.15(199), Harding B 19(106), "Drah Harion O Machree"; Harding B 26(150), Harding B 26(149), 2806 c.8(120), "Drahareen O Ma Chree"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jimmy Mo Veela Stor" (tune according to OLochlainn-More, p. 207)
NOTES: NFABest01: Best says "As far as I can make out Driharin O Mo Chroi means 'little brother of my heart' in the Irish language. Tom [Antle] pronounced it 'Dreery o Machree.'" The broadside version's differences from Best's version are best illustrated by a LONG DESCRIPTION of the broadside:
"I am a young fellow that always lov'd rural sport" in Erin's towns and cities "until I was deprived of my Dreearian O'Machree." My brother was pressed and taken or killed in battle. We used to ramble and work together. Our father and mother are dead. I wish to be sent where my brother is and "like a true loyal brother I'd fight for him manfully Or die in the arms of my sweet Dreearian O'Machree."
The broadside ends with a riddle:
The name of a nymph that Jupiter did admire
The head and tail of a fowl you must inquire
The name of a beast exchang'd in a letter or three
Will tell you the name of my Drecharin O'Machree.
John Moulden -- researcher at the "Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change" at National University of Ireland, Galway
whose subject is "the printed ballad in Ireland" -- offers the following comment on riddles like this:
A riddling verse, indicating the name of the praiseworthy (usually female) person at the end of a love song, is a standard device in Irish sheet ballads. There is a fair number of such -- all are characteristically difficult of interpretation. However -- Jupiter's favoured nymphs can be discovered and it seems likely that this will provide a first name. The name of an animal with some letters shifted around will presumably give the surname.
Dr. Simon Furey (PhD in Folk music research, but not Irish -- from Sheffield University) illustrates an approach to solving the riddle [with my liberties taken in piecing together a number of messages and a contribution by Dr. Furey's wife]: 
How about "John" for the first name? Io for the nymph and hen (h+n) for the fowl.
The only thing [for John's surname] I can think of is "Cow":
In the old children's game of cows and bulls (guessing letters or numbers, a bull is a letter/number correctly guessed in the correct position and a cow is a letter/number correctly guessed but in the wrong position); a cow was marked with an o and a bull with an x. At least it was when I played it at school in the 1950s in England, if memory serves. 
So we have cow as a beast with one letter or three, and "Cow" is one spelling of an old Kilkenny name. The "beast exchanged" is a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk, where the cow was exchanged for beans. Which of course gives another possible link because of John=Jack.
So perhaps our mystery person is John Cow, aka Sean Cough.
John Moulden and Dr Furey are quoted [or their ideas mangled] with permission.
This may bear on dating the song: while Tunney-SongsThunder in 1991 has "He went to the war where proud England united with France," on IRPTunney02 in 1963 he has "He went to the wars to fight against England for France"; Brigid Tunney's version on IRTunneyFamily01 omits the verse altogether.
Considering the "England united with France" line in Best's version and the possible late date of 1855 for the broadside it is at least possible that this refers to the Crimean War. [Effectively certain, I would say; it's too early for World War I, and the Crimean War is the only other significant occasion on which they were allied. Unless Best's version was a Canadian World War I adaption; after all, the Canadians were fighting in France with the French and British. The text from IRPTunney02 sounds more like one of the Wild Geese, though, with the occasion perhaps being the War of the Spanish Succession. - RBW]
The spelling I am following for the NAME is from OLochlainn-More 28. That version, it is worth noting, follows the broadside but without the riddle.
For another name riddle see "The Belfast Beauty."
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Dearthairin O Mo Chroi" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) -BS
File: RcDOMCLB
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NAME: Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!
DESCRIPTION: Working on the northern railroad the, crew proceeds from Gambo in the east, westward to the Hall's Bay Line, to Codroy on the west coast of Newfoundland. The crew are named.
AUTHOR: John Devine
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: railroading work moniker
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 781-782, "Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4436
RECORDINGS:
Ken Peacock, "Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!" (on NFKPeacock)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (theme, tune and references there)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Drill ye Tarriers
NOTES: The song follows the workers along about 400 miles of the 550 mile length of the defunct Newfoundland railroad. The passage today would be closely approximated by driving Trans-Canada 1.
Certainly derivative of "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" both as to theme and tune though only a few lines are carried over.  Ironically, one of the common lines is the "you're docked for the time you were in the sky" though the point is lost since the preceding explosion has been dropped. Further, the senses of hard times and of a tall tale have also been lost. - BS
File: Pea781
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NAME: Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
DESCRIPTION: Describing, in extravagant terms, the hard life of the (Irish) railroad workers -- subjected to long hours, blast, short pay (and that docked for any or no reason). And always the order comes again, "Drill, ye tarriers, drill!"
AUTHOR: words: Thomas Casey/music: Charles Connolly
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (play, "A Brass Monkey")
KEYWORDS: work railroading hardtimes talltale
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 553-559, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Geller-Famous, pp. 14-18, "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 217, "Drill, Ye Tarriers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 112-113, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 442, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 43-44, "The Tarriers' Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 329, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 130, "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text)
DT, DRILLTAR*
Roud #4401 and 4436
RECORDINGS:
George J. Gaskin, "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill" (Berliner 064-1/Berliner [Canada] 4, 1899)
Chubby Parker, "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill" (Conqueror 7893, 1931)
Dan W. Quinn, "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (Victor 3155, c. 1901)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!" (tune)
NOTES: This is believed to have originated with an Irish comedy team, (Thomas F.) Casey and (Charles) Connelly, in the 1880s. It has gone almost verbatim into oral tradition; variations in the text are very few.
Very nearly the only exception to this uniformity is the Chubby Parker recording, which is longer than the popular version, and a genuine song about railroad life rather than a humorous item. Cohen, based on this and a few hints in nineteenth century writings, wonders if there may not have been some ancestral text in existence before 1888. If so, that version has been almost completely displaced by the Casey version.
I seem to recall, in my youth, a bunch of us understanding "tarriers" as "terriers," with resulting very odd notions of what the song was about. - RBW
File: LoF217
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NAME: Drimindown
DESCRIPTION: "Bad luck to ye Drimon and why did you die?" I'd sooner have lost my son and hut. When I found her "I rolled and I bawled and my neighbors I called." "I thought my poor Drimindoon never would fail."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (Creighton-Maritime)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Macaronic w. Gaelic. An old man loses a cow but can't tell how; he laments that as he went to mass, he saw his cow, drimindown, sunk into (water, mire). He cries and raises the neighbors; after the cow sinks, she rises again "like a bunch of black wild berries". Ch.: "Ego so ro Drimindown ho ro ha/So ro Drimindown nealy you gra...."
KEYWORDS: death lament nonballad animal grief corpse drowning farming foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 176, "Drimindown" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Dibblee/Dibblee, p. 78, "Drimindown" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 19, "Drimmin Dubh Dheelish" (1 text)
Roud #2712
RECORDINGS:
Ernest Sellick, "Drimindown" (on MRHCreighton)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Maid on the Shore, The (The Fair Maid by the Sea Shore; The Sea Captain)" [Laws K27] (tune)
cf. "If It Wasn't For Dicky" (lyrics)
cf. "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (lyrics)
cf. "The Barrymore Tithe Victory" (subject: cows, tithes, and the name Drimon).
NOTES: The description is based on Creighton-Maritime with help from the notes for Creighton/MacLeod 88(3) in _Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia_. Creighton/MacLeod has three versions in English (two with chorus in Irish Gaelic).
Is this an allegory or really about a country-man's lament for the death of his cow? There are Jacobite songs in which a cow is named Drimin and denotes Ireland allegorically. H Halliday Sparling, in _Irish Minstrelsy_ (1888), gives three examples of this in other songs:
"O Say, My Brown Drimin" by James Joseph Callanan, p. 309 [Also in Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry, pp. 183-184 -RBW];
"Drimin Dubh"--from Druim-fionn dubh dilis "dear black white-backed (cow)" by Samuel Ferguson, p. 148.
"Drimin Donn Dilis" by John Walsh, p. 203.
ibiblio site The Fiddler's Companion: DEAR BLACK COW [1] (Druimin Dubh). AKA and see "The Black Cow." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Dorian. Standard. AAB. The words lament the loss of a cow, comparing it to the celebrated mythological Irish cow which could never be fully milked. In Bunting's 1840 collection he gives a few verses of a political song in which "the black cow" serves as a "very whimsical metaphor, the cause of the exiled monarch." [I must admit, in reading Creighton's first version, I thought of Bonnie Prince Charlie. The more so as many residents of Nova Scotia fled there after the Jacobite rebellions. - RBW]
Other writers, notably George Petrie, Patrick Walsh, Margaret Hannegan, Seamus Clandillon and Redfern Mason, believe "Drimin/Druimin Dubh" (or "Dhriman Dhoun Deelish" "Drimin donn Dilis" etc.) also note the title's symbolizm (sic.) with Ireland. Cazden (et al, 1982) finds that, "with sufficiently imaginative adjustment," the melody resembles the "Drimindown" tune family, which includes O'Neill's "The Sorrowful Maiden" and Cazden's own Catskill Mountain (New York) collected ballad "The Maid on the Shore."
For an exhaustive discussion of text and tune history see "Drumion Dubh(Drimindown,Irish)" on Bruce Olsen's web site. The earliest complete text he finds "is from The Universal Songster, III, p. 45, London: Jones and Co., 1828."
For another copy of "O Say, My Brown Drimin" by James Joseph Callanan (Sparling p. 309) see Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 183-184, "O Say, My Brown Drimin". This is an example of Drimin as Ireland.
Zimmermann p. 56: "the strangest allegorical name for Ireland in Irish songs of the eighteenth century is 'Druimfhionn Donn Dilis': 'dear brown cow'. Petrie gave for this rather incongruous name the explanation which has been proposed for some of the women's names applied to Ireland, namely that it might have been suggested by the title or refrain of an older popular song which furnished the tune. In political broadside ballads of the Tithe War, the cow was still accepted as the symbol of Ireland. (See song 41["The Barrymore Tithe Victory"])." - BS 
 I believe this was the song, originally Irish, which Lead Belly adapted into "If It Wasn't For Dicky," which the Weavers in turn made into, "Kisses Sweeter than Wine." Really. - PJS
File: CrMa176
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NAME: Drinane Dhun: see The Drinaun Dun (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree) (File: HHH206)
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NAME: Drinaun Dun, The (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree)
DESCRIPTION: Irish Gaelic. The singer complains of being "captivated" by a young man, whose disappearance has caused her to wander. She shelters under the blackthorn. She tells of her love, wishes she had a boat to follow him, and warns girls to marry when they can
AUTHOR: D F McCarthy (per O'Conor)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor); probably by 1855 (Petrie Collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H206, p. 289, "The Drinaun D[h]un" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 63, "Drinane Dhun" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 263-264, "The Drynaun Dun" (1 text)
cf. Kennedy 32, "An Draighnean Donn" (1 Irish Gaelic text plus translation, 1 tune; it is not clear that the English version of Henry has any relation to Kennedy's Irish text)
Roud #2363
RECORDINGS:
Sean Dirrane, "An Droighnean Donn (The Blackthorn)" (on Aran1)
NOTES: Not to be confused with "Draigheanan donn" by Robert Dwyer Joyce, a love song about a man who dreams of being home again with "her sweet loving kisses, 'neath the Drinan Donn." (source: _Irish Minstrelsy_ by H Halliday Sparling (1888), p. 301).
Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 143-144, "The Drinan Dhun" seems like a different translation of the same song. There are lines that are close but if translation were not a complicating factor I would consider these to be separate songs. - BS
File: HHH206
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NAME: Drink Old England Dry
DESCRIPTION: Singer calls on his companions to drink, for the English are at war with the French (Germans, Russians). The singer vows to show the enemy "British play": "We'll fight until we die/Before that they shall come and drink old England dry."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1890 (Rev. J. Broadwood, "Sussex Songs")
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer calls on his companions to drink, for the English are at war with the French (Germans, Russians). The singer vows to show the enemy "British play"; "With our swords and with our cutlasses, We'll fight until we die/Before that they shall come and drink old England dry." A national hero (Lord Raglan, Lord Roberts, Churchill) swears he shall be true to his country and crown, and that cannons will rattle and bullets fly before they drink old England dry
KEYWORDS: promise fight violence war drink France Germany Russia nonballad patriotic ritual
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,Mid,North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 270, "Drink Old England Dry" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DRNKENGL*
Roud #882
RECORDINGS:
Rowland Whitehead & chorus, "Drink Old England Dry" (on FSB8)
NOTES: Anne Gilchrist dates the original of this song to the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It was sung by a group known as The Boggens who would go around the village of Haxey (Lincolnshire) during the week preceding the day of the Hood Game, a combat ritual game. - PJS
The Napoleonic date is of course possible, but I personally think it's older. The British have, of course, fought the French for as long as both nations existed. But the reference in Kennedy's text to fighting the *Germans* "with our swords and our cutlasses" argues against such a date -- and postponing to the World Wars hardly helps.
Personally, I'd guess (very tentatively) that this dates to one of the "Succession Wars" of the eighteenth century. During the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), for instance, Britain was allied with Austria against France (e.g. Battle of Dettingen, 1743), and sometimes Prussia (which started the war, then backed out, then went back in). It therefore fits the situation better than the Napoleonic era.
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) doesn't fit quite as well, since the German states were mostly on the same side as England in opposing France -- but it has the advantage of bringing in a Churchill before Winston (and note that the Kennedy text does not refer to *Winston* Churchill, merely "Churchill"): The Duke of Marlborough's name was John Churchill.
This, of course, is not to deny that the song could be adapted to later wars, as in the version collected by Cecil Sharp, which was adapted to the Crimean War by the insertion of Lord Raglan (the British commander on the Black Sea front) into the song. - RBW
File: K270
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NAME: Drink That Rot Gut
DESCRIPTION: "Drink that rot gut (x2), Drink that red eye, boys, It don't make a damn wherever we land, We hit her up for joy." A call for drink and a celebration of its effects. The cowboys have "lived in the saddle and ridden trail"; now they will enjoy themselves
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916
KEYWORDS: drink cowboy nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, p. 169, "Drink That Rot Gut" (1 tune)
Saffel-CowboyP, p. 196, "Drinking Song" (1 text)
Roud #8030
File: LxA169
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NAME: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
DESCRIPTION: "Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine, Or leave a kiss within the cup And I'll not ask for wine." The singer prefers his lady's love to "Jove's nectar," and says that her breath makes even a dead wreathe grow
AUTHOR: Words: Ben Jonson
EARLIEST_DATE: 1616 (as part of "To Celia," in "The Workes of Benjamin Jonson"); tune in print by 1780
KEYWORDS: love nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 260, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 202-203, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes"
DT, DRNKTOME*
RECORDINGS:
Massanutten Military Quartet, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" (Columbia 15751-D, 1932)
File: FSWB260A
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NAME: Drinking Gourd, The: see Follow the Drinking Gourd (File: Arn062)
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NAME: Drinking of the Wine
DESCRIPTION: "Drinking (of the) wine, wine, wine, Ought to been there for a thousand years, drinking wine." In its full form, apparently a spiritual on the Eucharist
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad religious wine
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 48, "Drinking Wine" (1 fragment)
Roud #7851
RECORDINGS:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Drinking of the Wine" (on BLLunsford01)
NOTES: The editors of Brown, having only the chorus (and that without the reference to "holy wine" found in Lunsford's version) classified this as a drinking song. Lunsford's version makes it a spiritual of sorts. But it's the same chorus, from the same area; same song in my book. - RBW
File: Br3048
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NAME: Drinking Song (I): see Drink That Rot Gut (File: LxA169)
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NAME: Drinking Strong Whiskey
DESCRIPTION: Singer "being tipsy from drinking strong whiskey ... straight to the raygions of dead men did go." He finds the souls in Hell weary and wonders "if souls who go up to heaven" ever stray among mortals; those in Hell would surely not be permitted that.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (IRTunneyFamily01)
KEYWORDS: dream drink Hell
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 125, "Drinking Strong Whiskey" (1 text)
Roud #5293
RECORDINGS:
Brigid Tunney and Paddy Tunney, "Drinking Good Whiskey" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
File: TSF125
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NAME: Drive Dull Care Away
DESCRIPTION: "Oh why should we at our lot complain or grieve at our distress? ... while we're here with our friends so dear we'll drive dull care away." Be satisfied with your state, "have a contented mind," and "make the best of life"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: nonballad friend
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 81-82, 244, "Drive Dull Care Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DULLCARE*
Roud #13988
RECORDINGS:
Charles Gorman, "Drive Dull Care Away" (on MREIves01)
NOTES: Ives-DullCare reproduces a note seeming to push the earliest date at least to 1775. - BS
File: IvDC081
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NAME: Drive It On
DESCRIPTION: A formula song in which the singer gives the lady inches one, two, three, etc., until she is content.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy shanty humorous sex
FOUND_IN: Australia Britain(England) US(MW,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 323-325, "Drive It On" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 268-271, "Drive It On" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #10223
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" (tune) and references there
cf. "Yo Ho, Yo Ho"
cf. "Roll Me Over"
cf. "Put Your Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
I Gave Her Kisses One
Drive It Home
I Gave Her Inches One
The Inches Song
NOTES: Descended from a pumping chanty, this formula song survives largely on college campuses. - EC
File: EM323
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NAME: Drive the Cold Winter Away (In Praise of Christmas)
DESCRIPTION: "All hail to the days that merit more praise Than all of the rest of the year...." The singer bids rejoicing come in for the Chritmas season. Various Christmas activities are detailed, each intended to "drive the cold winter away."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1719 (Pills to Purge Melancholy)
KEYWORDS: Christmas party nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Logan, pp. 293-297, "Drive the Cold Winter Away" (1 text)
OBC 5, "The Praise of Christmas" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN67, "All hayle to the dayes"
cf. Chappell/Wooldridge I, p. 173, (no title, but called "Drive the cold winter away" in the notes) (1 tune)
DT, DRIVCOLD ALLHAIL*
ST Log293 (Full)
SAME_TUNE:
O fain would I marry/[Title missing] (BBI ZN2003)
I often have known/The father hath beguil'd the sonne (BBI ZN1311)
All you which lay clame/Hang Pinching (BBI ZN154)
Come, come my brave gold/Gathergood the Father and Scattergood the son [missing title from Stat. Reg. Entry, Apr. 9, 1638] (BBI ZN569)
Be merry, my hearts, and call for your quarts/A Health to all Good=Fellows (BBI ZN383)
To all my good Friends these presents I send/A New Song, called Jacke Dove's Resolution (BBI ZN2630)
NOTES: The Oxford Book of Carols credits the first two verses to D'Urfey. Though D'Urfey was the first to print these stanzas, the existence of the song in the Pepysian collection casts the usual doubts on these authorship claims. Playford also published the tune. - RBW
File: Log293
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NAME: Drive, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes a log drive and jam, and praises the "river rats" and "jack" who break up logjams with their peaveys.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 33, "The Drive" (1 text)
Roud #8854
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Badger Drive" (theme)
File: Be033
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NAME: Driven into Spaniard's Bay
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on the very first day of March, To the ice, boys, we were bound." A storm blows up, bringing them very close to the ice while they are blinded by snow; they finally anchor in Spaniard's Bay and head out on Match 17
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Murphy, The Seal Fishery)
KEYWORDS: storm ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 26, "Driven into Spaniard's Bay" (1 text)
File: RySm026A
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NAME: Driver Boy, The [Laws G12]
DESCRIPTION: A teenage boy is too sick to drive his mule in the mines. His drunken father, thinking him lazy, beats him repeatedly. The boy dies of pneumonia; the father repents too late
AUTHOR: John A. Murphy (1900)
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: father mining disease death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws G12, "The Driver Boy"
DT 787, DRIVRBOY
Roud #3253
NOTES: The author of this song claims to have been an eyewitness and to have stepped in to keep the father from beating his son. It was, however, too late to save the boy from his pneumonia - RBW
File: LG12
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NAME: Drivin' Steel
DESCRIPTION: "If I could drive steel like John Henry, I'd go home, baby, I'd go home." Of the troubles of a steel driver: "This old hammer killed John Henry/Bill Dooley, Can't kill me...." "I'm goin' home and tell Little Annie, No mo' trials, baby, no mo' trials."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: work railroading
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 150, "Drivin' Steel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #790
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Swannanoah Tunnel" (theme, lyrics)
cf. "Take This Hammer" (theme, lyrics)
NOTES: I suspect this piece is a variant of "Swannanoah Tunnel," but the tunes are slightly different and I have yet to find common verses, except for the floater about the hammer that killed John Henry, so for the moment I am keeping them separate. - RBW
File: San150
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NAME: Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron
DESCRIPTION: The speaker admires his darling as, on successive days of the week, she does various laundry-related tasks, all the while she is ironing, which action he apparently adores.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: love clothes work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) US(SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp-100E 82, "Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 117, "Hanging Out the Linen Clothes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 205, "The Linen Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SMTHIRON*
Roud #869
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Smoothing Iron
File: ShH82
===
NAME: Driving Logs on the Cass [Laws C22]
DESCRIPTION: A crew of loggers led by Miller have hard times, caused especially by the incompetent cook, "Old Black Joe." Despite logjams, the drive is successful until the river's water falls too low. The loggers head home gratefully
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: logger cook river lumbering
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws C22, "Driving Logs on the Cass"
Beck 28, "Driving Logs on the Cass" (1 text)
DT 839, LOGCASS
Roud #1928
File: LC22
===
NAME: Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover
DESCRIPTION: A mother bids farewell to her shanty-boy son on the banks of the Plover. She blesses him, but warns him that "Driving saw-logs on the Plover, You'll never get your pay." Eventually Johnny returns, having been driven from the camp without his pay
AUTHOR: William N. Allen ("Shan T. Boy")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby); reportedly composed 1873
KEYWORDS: work logger mother separation money
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Rickaby 20, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-Lumbering #60, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 396-397, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SAWLOGPL*
Roud #2797
RECORDINGS:
Pierre La Dieu, "Driving Saw-Logs On The Plover" (Columbia 15278-D, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Falling of the Pine" (tune)
NOTES: Sung to a variant of the tune "Tramps and Hawkers/Paddy West."
This song is item dC29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW- RBW
File: San396
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NAME: Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve: see Boundless Mercy (Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve) (File: Br3528)
===
NAME: Drought, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the troubles of Australia during drought, and observes, "You curse this bloomin' country for she's only fit for black." The singer notes that, if you survive until it rains, then the flies and mosquitoes will torture you instead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: hardtimes Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 158-159, "The Drought" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wearing of the Green (I)" (tune)
File: MCB158
===
NAME: Drover's Dream, The
DESCRIPTION: The drover is on watch when he dozes off. He sees "a very strange procession" -- a clothed kangaroo and a dingo, dancing birds, a bandicoot playing the flute. He is awakened by a crash as the boss asks, "Where the !!! are all the sheep?"
AUTHOR: unknown (sometimes credited to W. Tully)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (collected by David Campbell and Douglas Stewart)
KEYWORDS: dream animal Australia boss sheep
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 202-203, "The Drover's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 160-161, "The Mustering Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 219-221, "The Drover's Dream" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 265-267, "The Drover's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5473
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "The Drover's Dream" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd4)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. Rock'd in the Cradle of the Deep" (this song quotes that)
File: MA202
===
NAME: Drover's Song, The: see Brisbane Ladies (File: FaE162)
===
NAME: Droving Song, The
DESCRIPTION: At the end of St Patrick's day a young man fails to return home from a day with his friends. A search gang finds him frozen to death in a crack in the ice. They take him home and bury him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: burial death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 70, "The Droving Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab070 (Partial)
Roud #9984
NOTES: Leach-Labrador believes the accident took place in the nineteenth century near Forteau, Labrador. - BS
File: LLab070
===
NAME: Drowned Lover, The: see Scarboro Sand (The Drowned Sailor) [Laws K18] (File: LK18)
===
NAME: Drowned Lovers, The: see The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water [Child 216] (File: C216)
===
NAME: Drowning Lady, The (The Witch Song): see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] AND Johnny Sands [Laws Q3] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Drowning of John Roberts, The [Laws C3]
DESCRIPTION: John Roberts tries to break up a logjam and is swept into the river. He comes to the surface three times, then disappears; his body is found three days later
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: logger death drowning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1852 - John Roberts drowns on the West Branch of the Union River
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws C3, "The Drowning of John Roberts"
DT 717, JONROBTS
Roud #2222
File: LC03
===
NAME: Drowning of Patrick Martin, The
DESCRIPTION: Apprentice blacksmith Patrick Martin, out swimming with a friend, drowns in Orwell Bay. His body is retrieved with difficulty and his family mourns.
AUTHOR: Brian Doherty
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Dibblee/Dibblee)
KEYWORDS: drowning memorial
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 69-70, "The Drowning of Patrick Martin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12464
NOTES: Dibblee/Dibblee: "Patrick Martin was drowned circa 1907 at the age of 24 years."
Orwell is on the south coast of Queens, Prince Edward Island. - BS
File: Dib069
===
NAME: Drowning of Young Robinson, The
DESCRIPTION: Robinson and (Wesley) go hunting by the Bann in winter. The ice is thin, and they fall through. Wesley can swim, and escapes; Robinson vanishes. Wesley summons help, but Robinson is drowned. Family and friends mourn
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1869 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 26(705))
KEYWORDS: death river drowning mourning
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H585, p. 147, "Sloan Wellesley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Ulster 9, "The Drowning of Young Robinson" (1 text, 1 tune)
OrangeLark 15, "The Drowning of Young Robinson" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 104, "In the County of Innocent"; p. 105, "The Dog and the Gun" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #3600
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Sloan Wellesley" (on IRRCinnamond01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(705), "Young Robinson" ("In the parish of Seagoe, in the county Armagh"), J. Moore (Belfast) , 1852-1868; also 2806 b.10(103), "Young Robinson"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Dog and the Gun
NOTES: Morton regards this as an adaption of Laws Q33, "The Lake of Cool Finn (Willie Leonard)." There are similarities, especially in the scenes of mourning at the end, but calling the one an adaption of the other seems more than is called for. - RBW
In trying to date this ballad later than c.1830 -- suggested by one of his references -- Morton-Ulster notes that, in his text, the drowning follows "the steamboat passed down a few days ago, The ice it was broken these boys did not know." Morton points out that steam tugs were not used regularly on the river Bann in Seagor, County Armagh, until after 1880. That part of his argument for late dating does not apply to the broadside version in which "a small boat passed over a few days ago." (In one of the Creighton-Maritime texts no boats are mentioned; the other has "two boats had passed over.")
The Bodleian broadside and Morton-Ulster texts end with an Orange funeral ceremony ("Eight hundred Orangemen all stood in a ring, Where the Orange and Purple from their left breasts did hang...."). The Creighton texts have lost the Orange references altogether though the funerals are described with the colors worn ("green and purple" in one case and "red, white and green" in the other) and the music played ("God Save the King/Queen"). - BS
File: HHH585
===
NAME: Drowsy Sleeper, The [Laws M4]
DESCRIPTION: A young man comes to his love's window and bids her ask her parents' permission to marry him. They will refuse it; her father is prepared to kill him. Depending on the version, he leaves, or one or the other lover (or both) commits suicide or die of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1830 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(183a))
KEYWORDS: courting father mother death suicide
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (31 citations)
Laws M4, "The Drowsy Sleeper"
Belden, pp. 118-123, "Bedroom Window (The Drowsy Sleeper)" (6 texts plus two fragments which might float, 1 tune)
Randolph 52, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (6 texts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 83-85, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 52D)
Eddy 31, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (3 texts plus a fragment, 4 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 22, "Who Is Tapping at My Bedroom Window?" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 3 more, 2 tunes; some of the unprinted texts may have "Silver Dagger" elements)
BrownII 71, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts plus 3 excerpts; the "B" text is a "Silver Dagger" mix; the "D" excerpt contains "Fair and Tender Ladies" verses)
Chappell-FSRA 45, "Wake Up" (2 texts)
Hudson 46, pp. 161-162, "Willie and Mary" (1 text); also 37, pp. 151-152, "Annie Girl" (1 text, which conflates 2 verses of "The Drowsy Sleeper" [Laws M4], 2 or 3 of "Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady)" or "No, John, No: or similar, and 3 verses probably of "Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token)" [Laws N42])
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 139-142, collectively titled "Awak! Awake!" but with inidividual titles "Katy Dear, or Willie Darling," ""Mollie Dear, Go Ask Your Mother," "Drowsy Sleepers," Little Willie" (4 texts; 2 tunes on p. 399)
Doerflinger, p. 314, "Who's That at My Bedroom Window? (The Drowsy Sleeper)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 28, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts plus a fragment and mention of 3 more, 2 tunes)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 24, "Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 733-734, "Who Is At My Window Weeping?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 30, "Who Is At My Bedroom Window?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 727-730, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts)
FSCatskills 51, "Awake, Awake, Ye Drowsy Sleepers" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Warner 188, "Wake, O Wake, You Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 72-73, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 57, "Awake! Awake!" (10 texts, 10 tunes)
Sharp-100E 47, "Arise, Arise" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 46, "Arise! Arise!" (1 text, 1 tune, from different informants)
Sandburg, p. 144, "Kind Miss" (1 short text, 1 tune, primarily "Wheel of Fortune" but with one verse of "The Drowsy Sleeper")
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 200-201, "[Drowsy Sleeper]" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H722, pp. 343-344, "The Sweet Bann Water" (1 text, 1 tune, erroneously listed in the text as Laws M34)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 549-550, "The Shining Dagger" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 21, pp. 51-52, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (1 text; the second text is perhaps influenced by "The Silver Dagger")
JHCox 348, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts)
Darling-NAS, pp. 114-115, "Awake, Awake, My Old True Lover" (1 text); also pp. 115-116, "Oh, Molly Dear" (1 text, very mixed, with verses from this song, from "East Virginia, and some floaters); also pp. 116-117, "Who's That Knocking" (1 text, even more mixed and with a "Little Sparrow" verse)
Silber-FSWB, p. 193, "Don't Sing Love Songs" (1 text)
DT 327, SHIPORDR* SHIPORD2* SILVDAG3* SILVDAG4*
Roud #402
RECORDINGS:
Dillard Chandler, "Awake, Awake" (on OldLove)
Lester A. Coffee, "Awake, Arise, You Drowsy Sleeper" (AFS, 1946; on LC55)
Kelly Harrell, "O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother" (Victor 20280, 1926; on KHarrell01 -- with several verses from "East Virginia" inserted in the song)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Little Satchel" (on NLCR17, NLCRCD2)
Oaks Family, "Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper" Victor 23795, 1933; on TimesAint01, KMM)
Ken Peacock, "Who Is At My Window Weeping?" (on NFKPeacock)
B. F. Shelton, "Oh Molly Dear" (Victor V-40107, 1929; on ConstSor1)
Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles, "Sleepy Desert" (Paramount 3282, 1931; on TimesAint03)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(183a), "The Maidens Complaint ," T. Birt (London), 1828-1829; also Firth c.17(25), "Awake, Drowsy Sleeper"; Harding B 28(233), "The Drowsy Sleeper"; Harding B 25(452), "Cruel Father" or "The Maiden's Complaint"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Silver Dagger (I)" [Laws G21]
cf. "I Will Put My Ship In Order" (plot)
cf. "Greenback Dollar" (plot)
cf. "Go From My Window (I)"
cf. "One Night As I Lay on My Bed"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Silver Dagger
Awake, Awake
NOTES: I put [the Silber "Don't Sing Love Songs" text] under "Drowsy Sleeper" rather than "Silver Dagger" because, although a dagger is mentioned, no one uses it. - PJS
In the absence of any other basis, this is a good criterion. The two songs have cross-fertilized heavily; drawing the line can be extremely difficult, especially for fragmentary forms. - RBW
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 28(233): she refuses bread and water; "single I will go to my grave." Broadside Bodleian Firth c.17(25): she says she will go to Botany Bay to be with Jim and asks for her portion of 500 pounds; father gives in and says "you and your true love shall be married, And that will ease you of all your pain." - BS
File: LM04
===
NAME: Droylsden Wakes
DESCRIPTION: Man and woman alternately brag and insult each other over their prowess at spinning.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: bragging weaving ritual dialog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 36, "Droylsden Wakes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3290
NOTES: "This Lancashire dialogue song was once associated with a folk ceremonial attached to the local 'wakes' or annual holiday." - A. L. Lloyd. The role of the woman was played by a man in woman's clothing; the two participants sat on a cart with a spinning-wheel spinning flax and collecting money from onlookers. - PJS
File: VWL036
===
NAME: Drum Major, The (The Female Drummer)
DESCRIPTION: A girl enlists "voluntarily in a regiment of foot" to follow her lover. A soldier sees her bathing; she is called before the officers. They call her lover and request that he pay the postage on a letter from his love. He pays the postage. They are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation disguise soldier cross-dressing trick
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H797, p. 327, "The Drum Major" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1678
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(78), "The Female Drum Major" ("Come all you true lovers and batchelor's sweet"), unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.17(131), 2806 c.17(130)[almost entirely illegible], "The Female Drum Major"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
cf. "The Soldier Maid" (subject)
NOTES: The story in the Bodleian broadsides is somewhat different from SHenry but there is enough similarity in lines to convince me that these are the same. Here is a description for the broadsides: A girl enlists "who carries the drum, In search of her true love to Flanders is gone." Besides being a drummer who "excelled them all," she distinguished herself in battle ("she fought with such courage, I mean by the sword, Until that her fame it came up to the board"). A soldier sees her bathing; she is called before the officers. They hear her story and the captain dresses her "in silks so fine, in woman's apparel." They call Jacklare, her lover. They kiss. The captain gives her "fifty pound, In reward for her service as we do hear. The King settled on her three hundred a year." They marry. - BS
File: HHH797
===
NAME: Drumallachie
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on a chill November night... I overheard a fair maid... 'My love is far frae Sinnahard And fair Drumallachie." The singer asks her of her trouble, tries to convince her to marry him, then reveals he is her long-lost lover
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation marriage disguise reunion
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 34-37, "Drummallochie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2481
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
NOTES: Of the myriad Broken Token songs, this seems among the most literary, yet it seems fairly widespread in Scottish tradition. Most of the references are clearly Biblical:
"King David had a faithful friend": This is of course Saul's son Jonathan, and their love for each other is repeatedly mentioned in 1 Samuel (e.g. 18:1, 20:41).
"When Jacob saw his long-lost son": Refers to the reunion of Jacob and Joseph (Genesis 46:19f.)
Various versions also refer to a fair Queen of Scotland. In the case of Mary Stewart, this makes some sense, since she was known for her looks. One version, however, refers to Victoria. Whether this dates the song, or is just a funny error, I do not know. - RBW
File: Ord034
===
NAME: Drumboe Castle
DESCRIPTION: "Twas the Eve of St. Patrick's by the dawn of the day, The hills of Tirconnel looked sombre and grey When... Four Irish soldiers were led forth to die." They had come "to fight for the Gael," but were captured, imprisoned, and shot at Drumboe
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland prison execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: March 14, 1923 - Execution of Tim O'Sullivan, Charles Daly, John Larkin, and Dan Enright at Drumboe in Donegal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 100-101, "Drumboe Castle" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 80, "The Woods of Drumbo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13466
NOTES: Galvin lists this as an Irish song of rebellion, but this is rather an exaggeration; the British had no part in it.
The four men were Irishmen condemned (without trial) by Irishmen. The worst of it is, they were innocent of the crime of which they stood accused (which had been ordered by Liam Lynch while they were imprisoned), but were killed because they were convenient. - RBW
File: PGa100
===
NAME: Drumdelgie
DESCRIPTION: Bothy work is described: rising early, working hard in bad weather (but with praiseworthy horses). At the end, the singer bids farewell to Drumdelgie: "Fare ye weel, Drumdelgie, I bid you all adieu, I leave ye as I got ye, A damned unceevil crew."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: farming work
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
DBuchan 66, "Drumdelgie" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix)
Ord, pp. 209-211, "Drumdelgie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2180
RECORDINGS:
Norman Kennedy, "Drumdelgie" (on ESFB2)
Davie Stewart, "Drumdelgie" (on FSB3)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gentleman Soldier" (tune)
cf. "Harrowing Time" (tune)
File: DBuch66
===
NAME: Drumglassa Hill
DESCRIPTION: A confusing song, in which Johnston, and probably Mrs. Johnston, sail for America, and the singer (Johnston? someone else?) hopes to return to Ireland, and there live a life of hunting and enjoying the beautiful scenery
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: Ireland emigration hunting homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H703, pp. 210-211, "Drumglassa Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The best explanation I can think of for this song is that the singer is leaving his hound, Bellman, in the hands of another as he goes over the sea, and is describing how he hopes to return. But even that leaves some loose ends. - RBW
File: HHH703
===
NAME: Drummallochie: see Drumallachie (File: Ord034)
===
NAME: Drummer and His Wife: see Father Grumble [Laws Q1] (File: LQ01)
===
NAME: Drummer and the Cook, The
DESCRIPTION: A drummer is in love with a cook. He sneaks in to see her one night, she gives him a meal and he chokes on a bone. She tries to knock it out of him and wakes the house. The master comes down, chases them, the drummer falls into his drum, both get fired.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Terry)
KEYWORDS: cook shanty nightvisit humorous courting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, p. 460, "The Drummer and the Cook" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DRUMCOOK, DRUMCOO2*
Roud #3136
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sailor's Consolation" (similar chorus)
NOTES: [Regarding the date:] Hugill says this is from one of Richard Runciman Terry's books, unfortunately he didn't specify which one [It appears to be Shanty Book 2, and the informant, interestingly, was named James Runciman - RBW]. Terry supposed that this was a music hall song which was taken wholesale into the shanty repertoire. He says he learned it from Cap'n John Runciman, who in turn had it from the cook of the Blyth brig _Northumberland._ Harry Belafonte recorded this in the 1950s. - SL
File: Hugi460
===
NAME: Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The [Laws A15]
DESCRIPTION: "On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground The dead and wounded lay. Amid them was a drummer boy Who beat the drum that day." One of the many Federal casualties at Shiloh was a young drummer boy. He is mourned and buried by older survivors.
AUTHOR: Will S. Hays
EARLIEST_DATE: 1862 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar death youth
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh. The army of U.S. Grant is forced back but, reinforced by Buell, beats off the army of A.S. Johnston. Johnston is killed. Both sides suffer heavy casualties (Shiloh was the first battle to show how bloody the Civil War would be)
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws A15, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
Randolph 239, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" (1 text)
BrownII 230, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" (1 text plus two excerpts, one of which approximates the whole song)
DT 364, DRUMRBOY*
Roud #773
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Vicksburg" (lyrics)
NOTES: There being no canned music in Civil War times, the musicians had to stay fairly close to the front lines, and drummer boys were periodically killed. Chances are that several were killed at Shiloh. Steven E. Woodworth's _Nothing But Victory: The Army of the Tennessee 1861-1865_ (Vintage Civil War Library, 2005), p. 162, reports one instance: "Young drummer Jese Nelson was in the act of firing a rifle when he was shot through the head and killed." No doubt a similar report helped inspire this song. - RBW
File: LA15
===
NAME: Drummer Boy of Waterloo, The [Laws J1]
DESCRIPTION: Young (Edwin) is leaving home to serve as a drummer boy at Waterloo. Though his mother is terrified for him, the lad knows no fear. But at Waterloo he is fatally wounded; he sends a dying message to his mother and is buried by moonlight on the battlefield
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(995))
KEYWORDS: war death burial mother youth
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Britain Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws J1, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo"
Eddy 58, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (1 text plus 2 short fragments perhaps of this song, 3 tunes)
Randolph 82, "Young Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 10, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (2 texts, 1 tune)
JHCox 82, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" ( text)
SHenry H728, p. 88, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 123, "The Drummer Boy of Waterloo" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 70, "Drummer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 389, YOUNGED*
Roud #1804
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(995), "Drummer Boy of Waterloo," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth c.14(303), Firth c.14(304), Firth b.25(540), Firth b.25(431), Johnson Ballads 1170, "Drummer Boy of Waterloo"; Harding B 15(89b), "Drummerboy of Waterloo"
LOCSinging, sb10084a, "Drummer Boy of Waterloo," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also as103200, as103210, "Drummer Boy of Waterloo"
SAME_TUNE:
Woodland Mary (per broadsides LOCSinging sb10084a, LOCSinging as103200, Bodleian Harding B 11(995))
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb10019b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
File: LJ01
===
NAME: Drummer Maid, The: see The Soldier Maid (File: DTsoldma)
===
NAME: Drummond's Land: see David's Flowery Vale (File: HHH212)
===
NAME: Drunk Last Night
DESCRIPTION: "Drunk last night, drunk the night before, Gonna get drunk tonight like I've never been drunk before. For when I'm drunk I'm as happy as can be, For I am a member of the Souse family." The singer calls for beer and is glad that there are few to drink it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 235, "Drunk Last Night" (1 text)
Roud #10191
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Was Drunk Last Night" (initial line)
File: FSWB235
===
NAME: Drunkard (I), The: see Drunkard's Doom (I), The (File: R306)
===
NAME: Drunkard and His Daughter, or Please Mr. Barkeeper
DESCRIPTION: "Please, Mr. Barkeeper, has father been here?" The bartender tells the girl her father is in jail. At the jail,she begs for his release. They tell her to go home. She refuses. Because she is so cold, they release her father. He  stops drinking
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Cambiaire)
KEYWORDS: prison father children drink promise
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cambiaire, pp. 123-124, "The Drunkard and His Daughter, or Please Mr. Barkeeper" (1 text)
NOTES: Cambiaire claims this is a true story about a mountaineer whose pretty 13-year-old daughter begged for his release. He also claims the song remained popular for fifty years in East Tennessee. I rather wonder if Cambiaire didn't write the poem himself, no doubt thinking of the pretty young girl all the while. - RBW.
File: Camb123
===
NAME: Drunkard Father, The: see Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now (File: R308)
===
NAME: Drunkard Song
DESCRIPTION: "When I was young I had a fortune... And spent it al in gambling One night when I was drunk." The singer goes to India, and gets drunk. He marries and loses a wife and gets drunk. He becomes ill; the doctor blames it on drink. He warns against drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Henry, from Mabel Hall)
KEYWORDS: drink gambling wife warning doctor
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 114-115, "Drunkard Song" (1 text)
File: MHAp113
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NAME: Drunkard's Child (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, father, do not ask me why the tears roll down my cheek... It breaks my heart to think that I must be a drunkard's child." The child recalls how much better things were when mother was alive and father was sober. (S)he asks father to turn to God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recording, Henry Whitter)
KEYWORDS: drink orphan
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 331, "The Drunkard's Child" (1 text)
Roud #7803
RECORDINGS:
Frank J. Smith, "The Drunkard's Child" (Columbia 15137-D, 1927; rec. 1926)
Henry Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners, "The Drunkard's Child" (OKeh 40169, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Drunkard's Lone Child" (plot)
File: R331
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NAME: Drunkard's Courtship, The: see The Courting Case (File: R361)
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NAME: Drunkard's Doom (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a man at a bar. His son begs his to come home; his wife is ill and his children starving. The drunkard instead takes another drink. A year later, the singer learns the drunkard is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: drink death funeral
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Belden, pp. 468-469, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
Randolph 306, "The Drunkard" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 142, "Temperance Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 21, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
Warner 82, "Drunkard's Doom"; 83, "A Drunkard's Warning" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 104-105, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 174-175, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 131, "Temperance Song" (1 text)
JHCoxIIB, #31A-B, pp. 203-206, "Temperance Song," "The Drunkard" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 357-358, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 265, "The Drunkard's Doom" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Drunkard's Doom" (source notes only)
ST R306 (Partial)
Roud #3113
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "I Saw a Man at the Close of Day" (Victor V-40324, 1929; on GraysonWhitter01)
Oliver Moore, "The Drunkard's Doom" (Challenge 422, 1928)
Doc Watson & Fred Price, "I Saw a Man at the Close of Day" (on WatsonAshley01)
NOTES: The Warner texts are rather complicated, not fitting exactly with any of the various drunkard songs, and not matching each other either. It may be that the second has become mixed. I file them here because they fit best and they probably aren't worth separate entries; there is too much cross-influence. - RBW
File: R306
===
NAME: Drunkard's Doom (II): see The Drunkard's Dream (I) (File: R307)
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NAME: Drunkard's Dream (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets (Dermot) and expresses surprise at how healthy and prosperous he looks. Dermot explains that he had had a dream which showed him the consequences of his actions. Awakening in relief, Dermot has reformed his ways
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1842 (broadside, Bodleian Firth b.25(31))
KEYWORDS: dream drink love promise wife
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Belden, pp. 469-470, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text)
Randolph 307, "The Drunkard's Dream" (2 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 254-256, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 307A)
Eddy 101, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 129, "The Drunkard's Dream" (2 texts)
BrownIII 22, "The Drunkar's Dream (I)" (1 text plus 2 excerpts and mention of 2 more)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 366-372, "The Drunkard's Dream" (4 texts; 3 tunes on pp. 455-456)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 73, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 193, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 67, "The Husband's Dream" (1 text)
DT, DRUNKDRM*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 210-211, "The Drunkard's Dream" (1 text)
Roud #722
RECORDINGS:
Morgan Denmon, "Drunkard's Dream" (OKeh 45327, 1929)
Betty Garland, "Drunkards Dream" (on BGarland01)
Frank McFarland, "Drunkard's Dream"  (Brunswick 203, 1928; Supertone S-2027 [as Kentucky Mountain Boys], 1930; rec. 1927)
Charlie Oaks, "The Drunkard's Dream" (Vocalion 15195, 1926)
Riley Puckett, "The Drunkard's Dream" (Columbia 15035-D, 1925)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(31), "The Husband's Dream", Birt (London), 1833-1841; also Harding B 11(3168), Firth c.22(81), Harding B 18(264), Harding B 18(265), Johnson Ballads 552, Harding B 11(1609), Harding B 11(1608), "The Husband's Dream"
NOTES: This song seems to have followed different paths on different sides of the Atlantic: In the U. S., it is "The Drunkard's Dream"; in Europe, "The Husband's Dream." But both versions are about drunken Dermot and his dream; while odds are that one version or the other was reworked in broadsides, I say they're the same song. - RBW
Is this a sequel to "The Wife's Dream" or is that, if it exists, just a prequel to "The Husband's Dream?"
In "The Wife's Dream" Mary explains her happy disposition though married to a drunkard by a dream she had: having wished her husband dead, she dreamed that he were and was happy at waking to find him alive but unreformed. She hopes "by patience I can change, my husband's wandering life" and then she'd "bless the hour that dream was sent to his neglected wife." 
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3669), "The Wife's Dream", Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also Firth b.27(135), Harding B 15(375a), Firth c.26(53), Harding B 11(4203), Harding B 11(4207), Harding B 11(4208), Harding B 11(4205), Harding B 18(745), Firth b.26(253), "The Wife's Dream"; Harding B 11(4206), "Wife's Dream!" 
There is another "Answer to the 'Wife's Dream'": "The Drunkard Reformed" in which Dermot was about to murder Kathleen in a jealous drunken rage, but is saved in time by her prayer: 
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3249), "The Reformed Rake", E. Hodge's (London), 1846-1854; also Firth b.26(205), Harding B 11(996), Harding B 11(997), Harding B 17(79a), "The Drunkard Reformed" - BS
File: R307
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NAME: Drunkard's Dream (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "The drunkard dreamed of his old retreat, Of his cozy spot in the taproom seat." As he carouses, "Like a crash there came to the drunkard's side His angel child who that night had died." The drunkard sets down the glass; the host asks why he hesitates.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink death father children
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 23, "The Drunkard's Dream (II)" (1 text)
Roud #7856
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (theme) and references there
File: Br3023
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NAME: Drunkard's Hell, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a drunkard, has a vision of the part of hell to which drinkers are sent. The vision is enough to scare him away from drink. He goes home to find his wife crying over their child's body. He says the child is in heaven, and that he will sober up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Lomax)
KEYWORDS: drink children death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 20, "The Drunkard's Hell" (2 text plus an excerpt and a fragment)
Randolph 313, "The Drunkard's Hell" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 265-266, "The Drunkard's Hell" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 313A)
Fuson, p. 110, "The Drunkard's Hell" (1 text)
DT, DRNKHELL*
Roud #721
RECORDINGS:
Wade Mainer, "The Poor Drunkard's Dream" (Bluebird B-8273, 1940)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Dark and Stormy Night
File: R313
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NAME: Drunkard's Hiccoughs (Drunken Hiccups)
DESCRIPTION: Fiddle tune, with words often assembled from other drinking songs. The singer describes his quest for a drink, a woman, a home, directions, or perhaps the ability to stand up straight. Typical chorus: "Hiccup! O Lordy, how queasy I feel (x2)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (W. R. Thomas)
KEYWORDS: drink fiddle nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 404, "The Drunkard's Hiccoughs" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 343-344, "The Drunkard's Hiccoughs" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 404A)
Shellans, pp. 54-55, "Drunken Hiccoughs" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7682
File: R404
===
NAME: Drunkard's Hiccups: see Rye Whisky (File: R405)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Horse, The
DESCRIPTION: Conversation between a man and his horse. The man beats the horse; the horse tells the man to leave him alone, as the beast is just doing its job. (They continue on their round of taverns)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: animal horse drink
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
SharpAp 160, "The Horse's Complaint" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 318, "The Drunkard's Horse" (2 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 269-270, "The Drunkard's Horse" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 318A)
Roud #2799
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "Barefooted in front and no shoes on behind" (AFS 4209 B3, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
NOTES: I can't help but think that this story was influenced by the Biblical account of Baalam's Ass (Numbers 22:22-35), which also has a beast of burden talking back to its owner after the owner beat the beast. - RBW
File: R318
===
NAME: Drunkard's Lone Child, The
DESCRIPTION: "Out in the gloomy night sadly I roam, No one to love me, no friends and no home, Nobody cares for me, no one would cry Even if poor little Bessie should die." Bessie is alone: "Father's a drunkard and mother is dead." She hopes father will sober up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink orphan children
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 309, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (4 texts plus an excerpt, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 257-259, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 309A)
BrownIII 25, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text plus a fragment and mention of 1 more)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 191-192, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 477, "Bessie, the Drunkard's Lone Child" (source notes only)
DT, DRNKCHLD* DRNKCHL2*
Roud #723
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "Drunkard's Lone Child" (on Boggs1, BoggsCD1)
Walter Coon, "Father's a Drunkard and Mother is Dead" (Conqueror 7271, 1929)
Arthur Fields, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (Grey Gull 4200, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Beggar Boy" (lyrics)
cf. "The Drunkard's Child (I)" (plot)
cf. "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Cohen, in his edition of Randolph, has extensive notes on thie origin of this song; they boil down to, "Something is fishy here." - RBW
File: R309
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NAME: Drunkard's Ragged Wean, The
DESCRIPTION: "A wee bit ragged laddie gaes wandering through the street, Wading mong the snow Wi' his wee bit hacket feet... he's the drunkard's ragged wee ane. The poor child is poor, ill-clothed, ill-fed, and unable to play with other children. The singer urges pity
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: drink children poverty hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCoxIIB, #32, pp. 207-208, "The Drunkard's Ragged Wee Ane" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CoxIIB32 (Partial)
Roud #3112
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(212), "The Drunkard's Raggit Wean," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890; same broadside as LC.Fol.70(97a); also RB.n.168(150), "The Drunkard's Raggit Wean," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 1847-1907
NOTES: Although collected in California (apparently the only American collection), Cox's text is of Scottish origin (as the dialect shows). My guess, looking at it, was that it began life as a Scottish broadside, and the NLScotland texts seem to confirm this.
NLScotland also has a broadside sequel, NLScotland,  LC.Fol.178.A.2(018), "The Reformed Drunkard, An Answer to the Raggit Wean," Robert McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849(?). - RBW
File: CoxIIB32
===
NAME: Drunkard's Ragged Wee Ane, The: see The Drunkard's Ragged Wean (File: CoxIIB32)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Song
DESCRIPTION: "I have traveled over these foreign countries, Into a broad and distant range, I give advice to you thoughtless husbands." A drunkard works, spends his wages on drink, beats his children; his wife and children flee into the cold and die
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: drink children river drowning suicide death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 123, "Drunkard's Song" (1 text)
NOTES: Thomas's notes seem to state that this song was by Jimmie Mutters, the singer. It however appears to be a more generic song. - RBW
File: ThBa123
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NAME: Drunkard's Special: see Four Nights Drunk [Child 274] (File: C274)
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NAME: Drunkard's Story, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer started out a successful businessman, happily married. But then, despite his wife's pleadings, he took to drinking. In time this used up all his money, and his family wound up in the street. Now even saloon keepers scorn the man who cannot pay
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink poverty
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randoph 324, "The Drunkard's Story" (1 text)
Roud #7798
File: R324
===
NAME: Drunkard's Warning, A: see The Drunkard's Doom (I) (File: R306)
===
NAME: Drunkard's Wife (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The drunkard's widow warns young girls against marrying a drunk. Her marriage has turned her old. She describes the symptoms of a drunk, and tells how her husband killed their children, then himself, and left a drunkard son
AUTHOR: Words: M. W. Knapp/Music: L. L. Pickett
EARLIEST_DATE: 1894 (songbook known to Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink marriage husband wife children homicide
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 332, "The Drunkard's Wife" (1 text)
Roud #7804
File: R332
===
NAME: Drunkard's Wife (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "Don't go out tonight, my darling, Do not leave me here alone, Stay at home with me, my darling, For I'm lonely while you're gone." The wife's pleas fail; he sets out for the bar; later, "They have brought me back my darlin, Dead he lies upon the floor!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: drink husband wife death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 137, "The Drunkard's Wife" (1 text)
ST Fus137 (Partial)
Roud #4286
File: Fus137
===
NAME: Drunken Captain (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "A fierce stporm raged and black winds blew, The captain said, 'I'll change the crew.'" The new "sailors" "had some booklore, But never had left their home shore." Veterans warn him to seek harbor. People jump overboard; the Captain says all are safe
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Cambiaire)
KEYWORDS: drink ship storm
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cambiaire, p. 106, "The Drunken Captain" (1 text)
Roud #12639
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Canso Straight" (subject)
NOTES: I thought very seriously about filing this with "Canso Straight," which is also about a drunken captain who tries to fight through a gale against the crew's advice. Cambiaire's text (which seems to be unique) can be sung to the "Canso Straight" tune. I would not be surprised if they were in fact the same. But this has details not typically found in "Canso Straight," and it lacks the crew's rebellion. So I, like Roud, very tentatively split the. - RBW
File: Camb106
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NAME: Drunken Captain (II), The: see Canso Strait (File: Doe183)
===
NAME: Drunken Hiccoughs: see Drunkard's Hiccoughs (Drunken Hiccups) (File: R404)
===
NAME: Drunken Hiccups: see Rye Whisky (File: R405)
===
NAME: Drunken Maidens
DESCRIPTION: (Three/four drunken maidens) come to a tavern and go on a spree. After eating and drinking for hours, they run up a tally of (40 pounds). They are forced to give up clothes and riches (and maidenheads?)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch; Lloyd reports a version from the 1760s)
KEYWORDS: drink party poverty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Logan, pp. 240-242, "The Four Drunken Maidens" (1 text)
Kinloch-BBook VIII, p. 30, (no title) (1 text, a 3-stanza fragment but almost certainly this piece)
DT, DRNKMAID* FRDNKMD*
ST Log240 (Full)
Roud #252
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Four Drunken Maidens" (on Lloyd2)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Three Drunken Maidens
File: Log240
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NAME: Drunken Sailor, The (Early in the Morning)
DESCRIPTION: Walkaway (stamp and go) shanty. The sailors ask, "What shall we do with the drunken sailor (x3), Early in the morning. Way, hey, and up she rises (x3), Early in the morning." Various suggestions are offered, few of them pleasant.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1841
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor drink punishment
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 48, "The Drunken Sailor, or Early in the Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 61-62, "Early in the Morning" (1 text)
Smith/Hatt, p. 36, "What You Going To Do With a Drunken Sailor" (1 text)
Bone, pp. 40-41, "Early in th' Morning" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 78, "The Drunken Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 25-26, "The Drunken Sailor (Up She Rises)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 134-135, "Drunken Sailor" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 109-110]
Sharp-EFC, VII, p. 8, "Drunken Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 257, "Up She Rises" (1 text, 1 tune, actually a playparty which shares only the chorus and a variant of the tune with "Drunken Sailor")
Silber-FSWB, p. 92, "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 205-206, "Drunken Sailor (Monkey's Wedding -- John Brown Had a Little Injun -- Ten Little Injuns)"
DT, DRNKSILR
Roud #322
RECORDINGS:
Cadgwith Fishermen, "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?" (on LastDays)
Richard Maitland, "The Drunken Sailor" (AFS, 1936; on LC26)
Pete Seeger, "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?" (on PeteSeeger31)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Maria"
cf. "Ten Little Indians (John Brown Had a Little Indian)" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "The Mustering Song" (tune & meter)
cf. "I Had a Wife" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
What Shall We Do for the Striking Seamen? (Greenway-AFP, pp. 233-234)
What Do You Do with a Dirty Family? (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 231)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Hooray an' Up She Rises"
Up She Rises
NOTES: A modern verse: "Put him in charge of an Exxon tanker..." - PJS
Bone says of this that it "must be of failry recent date, for only in a comparatively large ship could there be room on deck for 'walking' a light sail aloft, the operation at which [this] was generally used. It was not a chanty often sung. I remember it chiefly as a showy accompaniment when all hands were employed on deck and there was an atmosphere of good humour with us." - RBW
File: Doe048
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NAME: Dry Bones (I): see I Saw the Light from Heaven (Dry Bones (I)) (File: RcISTLFH)
===
NAME: Drynaun Dun, The: see The Drinaun Dun (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree) (File: HHH206)
===
NAME: Dublin After the Union
DESCRIPTION: Pitt "the conjurer" is bringing the country to Dublin: turnips growing in the Royal Exchange, vermin in the Parliament House, .... "Give Pitt, and Dundas, and Jenky, a glass, Who'd ride on John Bull, and make Paddy an ass"
AUTHOR: Edward Lysaght (1763-1810) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1811 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Ireland humorous nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1801 - Act of Union of Ireland and Great Britain
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 150, "Dublin After the Union" (1 text)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 182-184, "Dublin After the Union" (1 text)
NOTES: Croker-PopularSongs quoting from Sir John Carr's _Stranger in Ireland_: "It was a great favourite with the anti-Unionists, and I give it with more pleasure because its poetical predictions have not been verified...." - BS
The 1801 Act of Union abolished the Dublin parliament. Follow-up reforms that Pitt hoped for were not forthcoming. [The most notable of these non-reforms being the extension of the franchise to Catholics; not only did the Act of Union deprive Ireland of her parliament, but meant that her representatives in the British parliament would be Protestant. - RBW] The song sees Dublin -- its business as capital shut down -- literally going to seed.
Henry Dundas (1742-1811) - Friend and subordinate of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (see "Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville" at the Wikipedia site). I don't know what part he played in Union.
Jenky is, apparently, Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828)(see, for example, part 12 fn 19 of _Byron's Poetical Works, Vol 1_ by Byron at fullbooks.com site), foreign secretary (1801) and home secretary (1804-6, 1807-9) (source: _Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2d earl of_ at encyclopedia.com site). I don't know what part he played in Union.
Pitt, Dundas and Jenky appear together in other songs (see for example: _About the Hastings Diamond and Its Ballad_ at the JJKent site; "A Gentleman's Wig" in _The Pearl_ No. 18, Dec 1880 at the immortalia.com site)
The ass as symbol of Ireland is illustrated by "The Ass's Complaint" and explained in the notes for "The Ass and the Orangeman's Daughter." - BS
We should note that the prediction here was far from true. Union didn't do much for Ireland economically, but that didn't harm Dublin much; as the major city and shipping point to Britain, it attracted most of the people who had nothing else to do with their lives.
It is true that the people of Dublin lived in absolute squalor;  Robert Kee (_The Bold Fenian Men_, being Volume II of _The Green Flag_, p. 195) writes, "The poverty and squalor of much of Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century appalled all who encountered it. A government report issued in 1914 assessed that of a Dublin population of 304,000, some 194,000, or about sixty-three percent, could be recokined 'working classes'. The majority of these working classes lived in tenement houses, almost half of them with no more than one room to each family. Thirty-seven per cent of the entire working class of Dublin lived at a density of more than six persons per roon; fourteen per cent in houses declared 'unfit for human habitation.'"
Nonetheless it was the most productive place in Ireland. And it was the only part of the country where the population grew. This was most clear during the famine years, though it continued until (and even after) the First World War.The population chard in Ruth Dudley Edwards, _An Atlas of Irish History_, second edition, p. 233, makes this clear. It shows the percentage change in the populations of Ireland's counties between the 1841 and 1851 census tallies. The declines are often dramatic. Roscommon lost 31% of its population; Mayo, Longford, and Monaghan, 29%. Most were over 20%; the lowest figures were for Antrim, Down, and Wexford, at 11%. Except for Dublin. Ireland as a whole lost 20% of its population in this period -- but the population of the county of Dublin *rose* 9%. - RBW
File: Moyl150
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NAME: Dublin Bay (Roy Neal)
DESCRIPTION: "They sailed away on that gallant ship, Roy Neal and his fair young bride."  Despite this happy situation, Roy spends most of his time kissing his wife's tears away. Finally the ship strikes a rock, and Roy and his wife are lost in Dublin Bay.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1860 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1015))
KEYWORDS: love death ship sea marriage
FOUND_IN: US(MW.So) Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 691, "Dublin Bay" (1 short  text, 1 tune)
Dean, p. 128, "Dublin Bay" (1 text)
O'Conor, p. 156, "Dublin Bay" (1 text)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 95, "Roy Neil and His Fair Young Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "Dublin Bay" (source notes only)
DT, SWTDUBLN
Roud #785
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1015), "Dublin Bay," A. Ryle and Co. (London), 1845-1859; also Firth c.12(369), Harding B 11(1014), "Dublin Bay"; Harding B 11(3363), "Roy Neil" or "Dublin Bay"
LOCSinging, sb10097b, "Dublin Bay," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
SAME_TUNE:
Bublin Bay (NLScotland, L.C.1269(173b), "Bublin Bay" ("They sailed away in a gallant barque"), unknown, 1857 -- listed as to the tune of "John Grumlie" but with so many lyrics from "Dublin Bay (Roy Neal)" that it coud almost be considered the same song still -- plus the long introduction asks for the pianist to play "Dublin Bay")
NOTES: A pop Irish songbook called _The Library of Irish Music_ (no author listed; published by Amsco) lists this with words by Annie Barry Crawford and music by George Barker. Given the nature of the song, and the relatively fixed form of the lyrics, it seems likely that it is composed. But I need somewhat stronger evidence than that book to credit the song. - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging sb10097b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: R691
===
NAME: Dublin City: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
===
NAME: Dublin Jack of All Trades
DESCRIPTION: Roving Jack arrives in Dublin and becomes a porter, pastry cook, baker, coffin maker, preacher .... listing the Dublin sites for each of his many occupations. He can't keep a job but places his "chief delight in courting pretty maids"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(255))
KEYWORDS: worker rake cook clergy
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn 40, "Dublin Jack of all Trades" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, pp. 58-59, "The Dublin Jack of All Trades" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3017
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(255), "Dublin Jack of All Trades"("I am a roving sporting black, they call me Jack of all trades"), J.F. Nugent & Co. (Dublin), 1850-1899; also 2806 c.15(234), 2806 c.15(36), 2806 c.7(15), "Dublin Jack of all Trades"
NOTES: OLochlainn begins "I am a roving sporting blade" which improves an internal rhyme with "trades" but loses a play on "black Jack" and "Jack of Spades" - BS
There is an old-time country item, "Jack of All Trades," recorded by the Prairie Ramblers and by "Weary Willie" (Frank Luther) and Carson J. Robison, as well as more recently by Bob Bovee and Gail Heil. That has been credited to "Howard Johnson," though I wouldn't be surprised if Robison is largely responsible. That follows the same "gimmick" of a guy who can't keep a job, though the part about chasing girls is absent. I suspect but can't prove influence. It's definitely not the same song, though. - RBW
File: OLoc040
===
NAME: Duck from Drummuck, The: see The Wee Duck (The Duck from Drummuck) (File: HHH228a)
===
NAME: Duck-Foot Sue
DESCRIPTION: "I'm going to sing to you About a girl I love so true, She's chief engineer with the White Star Line, And her name is Duck-foot Sue." He details her odd looks ("teeth like bits of pipe"), her proposal "if you don't marry me I'll bust,"  and her appetite.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: courting marriage humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 227, "Duck-Foot Sue" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 129-130, "Duckfoot Sue" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9553
File: MA227
===
NAME: Duckfoot Sue: see Duck-Foot Sue (File: MA227)
===
NAME: Duffy's Hotel
DESCRIPTION: The singer advises those who want enjoyment to visit the hotel in Boiestown. He describes the wild parties, the fights, the mad rush to collar a diseased chicken, and the peculiar visitors. He concludes by setting out for home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Doerflinger)
KEYWORDS: party fight
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 268-269, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 38, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 144-148, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 12, "Duffy's Hotel" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doe268 (Partial)
Roud #1961
File: Doe268
===
NAME: Dugall Quin [Child 294]
DESCRIPTION: Dugall Quin comes to court Lissie. He asks her if she would love him if he were poor (she would). She asks if he would like her if she were rich (he would). Despite her parents' opposition (since they think him poor), she goes with him and is well-off.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: courting poverty money
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 294, "Dugall Quin" (1 text)
Roud #3928
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lizie Lindsay" [Child 226]
File: C294
===
NAME: Duggan's Dancing School
DESCRIPTION: Paddy Duggan, once a cattle slaughterer, opens a dancing school that exceeds the dancing halls of London and Paris. "When in this hall there is a ball they come from far and near.... in summertime it is a pretty sight" The singer wishes Duggan luck.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: dancing party nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 22, "Duggan's Dancing School" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: McB1022
===
NAME: Duke of Argyle, The [Laws N1]
DESCRIPTION: A woman follows her lover Alexander to battle. He is slain on the banks of the Nile, but she continues to fight. Even though she remains in soldier's clothing, the Duke (of Argyle) comes to court her. She remains true to her slain Alexander
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: battle death love courting cross-dressing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws N1, "The Duke of Argyle"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 39, "The Duke of Argyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 811, DUKARGYL
Roud #1915
File: LN01
===
NAME: Duke of Argyle's Courtship, The
DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever hear of a loyal Scot...." He courts a girl, begging her to marry. She refuses; she has no proof he can care for her. He persists; so does she. He reveals he is Duke of Argyle, and rejects her after she changes her mind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection nobility
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 197-198, "The Duke of Argyle's Courtship" (1 text)
Roud #3797
NOTES: Ord suggests "The hero of this ballad was probably John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, who commanded the Royal army at the Battle of Sheriffmuir." The reference is to John Campbell, Second Duke of Argyll (1678-1743), a proponent of the Act of Union in 1707, British commander in Spain from 1711, and an opponent of Jacobitism who, as Ord says, commanded the Royalist forces in Scotland. I see no real reason to consider him the hero of this song, though. - RBW
File: Ord197
===
NAME: Duke of Athole's Nurse, The [Child 212]
DESCRIPTION: The Duke's (?) new leman bids his nurse (and former leman) bring her love a message. The nurse gathers her (seven) brothers to kill him instead. He asks the tavern's landlady to hide him; she disguises him as a baking maid. The brothers fail to kill him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1802/3 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment brother disguise cross-dressing escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(North))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (6 texts)
Bronson 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (9 versions)
Leach, pp. 566-568, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (1 text)
DT 212, DUKATHOL*
Roud #3393
NOTES: The opening of this song is a bit confused. Whose love is the new leman? The Duke's? The nurse's former love? Someone else's? It hardly affects the plot, but the pronouns are confusing. - RBW
File: C212
===
NAME: Duke of Bedford, The: see Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (File: FO078)
===
NAME: Duke of Buckingham, The: see The Duke of Buckingham's Hounds (File: Br3218)
===
NAME: Duke of Buckingham's Hounds, The
DESCRIPTION: The (Duke of Buckingham) goes out to hunt fox with his good hounds. The names of the hounds are given. The fox cleverly crosses the water. One old hound at last catches the fox. All rejoice at its fate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell; there is an undated broadside in the Roxburghe collection)
KEYWORDS: hunting death nobility animal dog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
BrownIII 218, "The Duke of Buckingham" (1 fragment)
Chappell-FSRA 102, "The Bardy Train" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 352-353, "A Fox Chase" (1 text)
BBI, ZN75, "The Fox-Chace... Duke of Buckingham's Hounds"
ST Br3218 (Partial)
Roud #584
NOTES: I have no idea why Chappell's texts are titled "The Bardy Train"; that phrase does not appear in either text. - RBW
File: Br3218
===
NAME: Duke of Gordon's Daughter, The [Child 237]
DESCRIPTION: Jean, the Duke's daughter, loves Captain Ogilvie. Gordon, to stop the match, convinces the King to demote Ogilvie. Jean marries Ogilvie. They go to Gordon in poverty; he is turned away. Ogilvie inherits Northumberland; he brings home his wife and children
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1794
KEYWORDS: nobility rejection love courting soldier elopement children
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 237, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (1 text)
Bronson 237, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (14 versions+1 in addenda)
OBB 94, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (1 text)
DBuchan 56, "The Duke of Gordon's Daughter" (1 text)
DT 237, DUKGORD*
Roud #342
File: C237
===
NAME: Duke of Grafton, The: see Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (File: FO078)
===
NAME: Duke of York, The: see The Noble Duke of York (File: FSWB390B)
===
NAME: Dulcina
DESCRIPTION: "As at noone Dulcina rested In a sweete and shady bower, Came a shepherd and requested In her lap to sleep an hour." The song obliquely describes what might have happened, but the singer admits ignorance of what actually happened
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1707 (Pills to Purge Melancholy; registered 1615)
KEYWORDS: love courting
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 153-155, "Dulcina" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 160-161, "Dulcina" (1 tune, partial text)
BBI, ZN195, "As at noon Dulcina rested"
ST Perc3153 (Full)
Roud #9916
SAME_TUNE:
In the month of February/The true Lovers Good-morrow... brace of Valentines (BBI ZN1481)
Thou who art so sweet a creature/A delicate new ditty... Posie of a Ring (BBI ZN2595)
What doth aile my loue, so sadly/A pleasant new Song, betwixt a Saylor and his Loue (BBI ZN2793)
From Oberon in Fairy Land/The mad-merry prankes of Robbin Good-fellow (BBI ZN933)
Of late it was my chance to walke/A penny-worth of Good Counsell (BBI ZN2114)
In the gallant month of June/The desperate Damsell's Tragedy (BBI ZN1478)
All you Young-men who would Marry/A Prouerb old, yet nere forgot, Tis good to strike while the Irons hott (BBI ZN160)
Jewry came to Jerusalem/Two pleasant Ditties, one of the Birth, the other of the Passion of Christ (BBI ZN1551)
The golden god Hyperion/An excellent new ditty.. Dulcina complaineth for the absence of.. Coridon (BBI ZN988)
NOTES: This is probably not an actual traditional song (though an attempt to attribute it to Raleigh failed). It is so often cited, however, that I thought it best to include it (there are eight or nine broadsides in the Broadside Ballad Index using this tune).
Izaak Walton's _Compeat Angler_ also refers to this tune (Chapter II). - RBW
File: Perc3153
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NAME: Dumb Wife, The (Dumb, Dumb, Dumb) [Laws Q5]
DESCRIPTION: A husband's new wife is a perfect housekeeper but is mute. The man takes her to a doctor, who is able to cure her impediment -- only to have her talk all the time. The husband again appeals for help; the doctor says that nothing can silence her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1698 (Pills to Purge Melancholy)
KEYWORDS: doctor husband wife disability humorous
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,SE,So) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws Q5, "The Dumb Wife (Dumb, Dumb, Dumb)"
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 32-34, "Dumb, Dumb, Dumb" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 394, "The Dumb Wife Cured" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy 92, "The Scolding Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 135, "The Wife Who Was Dumb" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 199, "The Dumb Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 183, "The Dumb Wife" (2 texts)
BBI, ZN143, "All you that pass along"
DT 519, DUMBDUMB*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 262-263, "Dumb, Dumb, Dumb" (1 text)
Roud #434
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 39(145), "The Dumb Maid" or "The Young Gallant Trappan'd" ("All you that press along"), W. Onley (London), 1689-1709; also Harding B 28(80), "The Dumb Wife's Tongue Let Loose"; Harding B 11(2258), Harding B 16(325a), "[The] Dumb Wife"; Harding B 18(146), "The Dumb Scold"
LOCSinging, as103240, "The Dumb Scold", J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also sb10090b, "The Dumb Scold" 
SAME_TUNE:
Cruiskeen Lawn (tune [cited as "Cowskeen Lawn"] per broadsides Bodleian Harding B 18(146), LOCSinging as103240 and LOCSinging sb10090b)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Bonnie Blade
NOTES: Broadsides LOCSinging as103240, LOCSinging sb10090b and Bodleian Harding B 18(146) are triplicates. 
Broadside LOCSinging as103240: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: LQ05
===
NAME: Dumbarton's Drums
DESCRIPTION: "Dumbarton's drums, they sound so bonny When they remind me of my Johnny." The singer tells of how Johnnie, "Dumbarton's caddie," courts her. She expects that someday he will be a captain and she his lady.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1797 (_Scots Musical Museum_ #161)
KEYWORDS: love courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 281, "Dumbarton's Drums" (1 text)
DT, DUMBDRUM* DMBDRUM2*
ST FSWB281A (Full)
Roud #8669
NOTES: First appearing seemingly in the Orpheus Caledoneus (for the text, see the Digital Tradition DMBDRUM2), this was originally a rather flowery piece. Somehow it entered the Beers family tradition, which endowed it with a magnificent tune (not the same as that in the _Scots Musical Museum_) and much simpler if not particularly inspired words. It is the Beers version which has become extremely popular in pop-folk circles. - RBW
File: FSWB281A
===
NAME: Dummer Sheener's Gang, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you a song of a sheener's gang, I've got 'em all taped up to a man, There's long and short and thin and fat, But every man knows just what he's at." Each man's work is listed, from Jimmy Bailey "who runs the concern" to the lowest corn-fetcher
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: drink work
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 274-275, "The Dummer Sheener's Gang" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #874
NOTES: Just in case it isn't obvious, this is a moonshining song. - RBW
File: CoSB274
===
NAME: Dummy Line (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Concerning possibly the worst, slowest train in history, which comes "Across the prairie on a streak of rust." Passengers who complain are instructed to get out and walk, but point out that they are not expected until the train arrives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1981 (cited by Cohen)
KEYWORDS: humorous railroading train
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 254-255, "The Rummy Dummy Line" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 485-490, "On the Dummy Line" (the main text and tune are "The Dummy Line (II)," but there are selections from and discussion of this song)
DT, DUMYLINE
Roud #15359
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "On the Dummy Line (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES: There is a song called "Riding on the Dummy," by Sam Booth & Frederick Carnes, published in 1855. It's not this song. See Norm Cohen's _Long Steel Rail_ for a full discussion. [There is also another "Dummy Line" song; see "On the Dummy Line (II)" for discussion. - RBW]
Uncle Dave Macon's "On the Dixie Bee Line," about a Ford car, is a parody of this song. - PJS
File: DTdumyli
===
NAME: Dummy Line (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "Some folks say that the dummy won't run, Now, let me tell you what the dummy done, Left Saint Louis 'bout half past one, Rolled into Memphis at the seein' of the sun." Stories of riding on the Dummy Line, possibly without a fare
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: train travel
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 485-490, "On the Dummy Line" (1 text plus fragments of several other "Dummy Line" songs, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 244-245, "De Dummy Line" (1 short text, 1 tune); p. 239, "Railroad Song" (1 fragment)
BrownIII 435, "The Dummy Line" (2 short texts; "B" is a mixed text that seems to be mostly a "May Irwin's Frog Song (The Foolish Frog, Way Down Yonder)" type, with a "Some Folks Say a Nigger Won't Steal" verse)
Roud #11776
RECORDINGS:
Robert N. Page, "Ride and Shine on the Dummy Line" (Victor 21067, 1927)
Pickard Family, "On the Dummy Line" ((Perfect 12625/Banner 0744/Conqueror 7574/Oriole 1995/Challenge 882/Jewel 5995/Pathe 32546/Regal 10049/Cameo 0344/Domino 4585/Romeo 1357/Paramount 3218, 1930; Broadway 8150 [as Pleasant Family], n.d.)
NOTES: This is rather a conundrum, because the texts of "The Dummy Line (I)" and "The Dummy Line (II)" have similar choruses, and most are fragments, and they've mixed a lot, as well as gathering a lot of floating verses; see Cohen for a discussion. In general, though, "The Dummy Line (I) involves an extremely slow train, while this one involves a faster, but perhaps strangely-managed one.
It appears, in the original version, that the trip was from Saint Louis to Memphis -- a distance of nearly 300 miles, implying (depending on the time of the year and hence the time of sunset) a speed between 40 and 75 miles an hour, quite good for a train at the turn of the twentieth century.
Scarborough's "Railroad Song" text (p. 239) is even stranger, because it has the train go from Saint Louis to Tampa in an afternoon. That's a distance of 900 miles, meaning that the train had to move at a speed of at least 125 miles per hour even at the summer solstice!
It may be that the Scarborough text confused "Saint Louis" (Saint Louie?) in the song with Saint Lucie, Florida, on the Atlantic coast almost due east of Tampa. That's a distance of about 125 miles, give or take a few river detours, implying a speed of 25-30 miles per hour. Hardly high-speed -- but not really Dummy Line numbers, either. Alternately, Saint Louis might be a variation on "St. Pete/Petersburg." In which case the speed is ridiculously slow. - RBW
File: ScNS139A
===
NAME: Dunbar the Murderer
DESCRIPTION: "Awake, sad muse, awake and sing, And softly touch the mournful string...." "Oh brutal man... Two blooming children you have slain, A little paltry gold to gain." "The mother dear the lads did send To Dunbar's home some months to spend."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Supplement to the Ulster County Almanac)
KEYWORDS: homicide children money
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 91-92, (no title) (1 excerpted text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Children in the Wood  (The Babes in the Woods)" [Laws Q34] (plot)
NOTES: Burt notes an obvious similarity to "Babes in the Woods." Since her (printed) source evidently does not link the song to any actual historical event, it may well be a song composed in imitation of that piece. - RBW
File: Burt092
===
NAME: Duncan and Brady [Laws I9]
DESCRIPTION: Policeman Brady walks into Duncan's bar and attempts to arrest the latter. Duncan, unwilling to have his business ruined, shoots Brady. Neither Brady's family nor those around Duncan seem to care much; Brady's wife looks forward to getting his pension
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles)
KEYWORDS: homicide family
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I9, "Brady (Duncan and Brady)"
BrownII 248, "Brady" (1 text)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 85-87, "Duncan and Brady" (3 texts; the second is incomplete and may well be a version of "Joseph Mica (Mikel) (The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver) (Been on the Choly So Long)" [Laws I16] with some Brady lyrics mixed in; both the second an third start with lines from "Twinkle Twinke Little Star")
Sandburg, pp. 198-199, "Brady" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 596, "Duncan and Brady" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 660, DUNCBRAD
Roud #4177
RECORDINGS:
Arthur "Brother-in-Law" Armstrong, "Brady" (AFS 3978 B3, 1940)
Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles, "Been on the Job Too Long" (Paramount 3210, 1930; on TimesAint01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (lyrics)
cf. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (lyrics)
NOTES: The notes in Brown describe a history of this ballad which bears little resemblance to the song itself: Brady is not a policeman but the criminal in the piece, shot by deputy Albert Bounds around 1900. It is noteworthy that Laws quotes none of this. - RBW
File: LI09
===
NAME: Duncan and Janet M'Cleary: see Duncan MacCleary (File: FVS302)
===
NAME: Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh) [Laws Q20]
DESCRIPTION: Duncan Campbell, although he comes from Argyle in Scotland, is known as Erin-Go-Bragh. A policeman mistakes him for an Irishman and abuses him. Campbell returns the favor, then flees before anyone can stop him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1850 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3725))
KEYWORDS: abuse police
FOUND_IN: US(Ap) Canada(Mar) Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws Q20, "Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh)"
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 49-51, "Erin-Go-Bragh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 319, "Erin-go-Bragh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 17, "Erin Go Bragh" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 387, "Erin-Go-Bragh" (1 text)
Mackenzie 134, "Duncan Campbell" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 112, "Erin-Go-Bragh (Ireland Forever)" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 197, "Clay Morgan" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT 531, ERNGOBRA*
Roud #1627
RECORDINGS:
John Strachan, "Erin-Go-Bragh" (on FSB7)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3725), "Duncan Campbell," M. Stephenson (Gateshead), 1838-1850; also Firth b.25(539), 2806 c.14(79), Firth b.26(199), Harding B 11(1026), 2806 b.10(198), Harding B 20(83), "Duncan Campbell"; Firth c.26(15), "Erin Go Bragh" ("My name's Duncan Cambell, from the shire of Argyle") 
Murray, Murray, Mu23-y1:068, "Duncan Cambell," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Mu23-y1:025, "Duncan Campbell," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland,  L.C.1270(003), "My Name Is Duncan Campbell," unknown, c. 1845; also L.C.Fol.70(57b), "Duncan Campbell," unknown, c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Villikens and his Dinah" (tune) and references there
NOTES: From the commentary to broadside NLScotland, L.C.1270(003): "This song was written in the nineteenth century, and the mention of the police puts it post-1829, when the 'Peelers' were first established." - BS
A clever but not quite certain bit of logic, since the song generally refers to "policemen," not "Peelers," and that word is older. (Also, the first Peelers served in Ireland in 1817; the concept of a unified police force then came to Britain in 1829). - RBW
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 17 differs from the common version in two ways. First, instead of being Duncan Campbell from Scotland, the hero is Paddy from Ireland (Athy), which changes it from a ballad of common cause between the Scotsman and Irishman. Second, the hero is taken by the crowd as a "bold rascal that has killed our police"; usually, he escapes. - BS
File: LQ20
===
NAME: Duncan M'Callipin (The Tranent Wedding)
DESCRIPTION: "It was at a wedding near Tranent, When scores an' scores on fun were bent... 'Shame tak' the hindmost,' quo' Duncan M'Callipin." A typical story of a wild wedding, the associated broose race, and the behavior of the various guests
AUTHOR: Peter Forbes?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: wedding humorous talltale
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 42-45, "Duncan M'Callipin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5982
File: FVS042
===
NAME: Duncan MacCleary
DESCRIPTION: "Duncan MacCleary, an' Janet his wife, Duncan MacCleary, he played on the fife: Janet she danced until she cried wearie." They live a life of quiet happiness, though he is blind and hears little. When he dies, she soon follows after
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love death dancing home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ford-Vagabond, p. 302, "Duncan and Janet M'Cleary" (1 text)
Roud #12586
File: FVS302
===
NAME: Duncan Macleerie: see Duncan MacCleary (File: FVS302)
===
NAME: Dundee, It's a Pretty Place
DESCRIPTION: "Dundee, it is a pretty place, Surrounded by a wall, Where brave Argyll did won the field With sword and cannon ball."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1634 (Hunt's Psalter)
KEYWORDS: battle
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H10c, p. 2, "Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Earl of Errol" [Child 231] (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This seems to be known only as a "choir rhyme" in the Sam Henry collection, from 1924, used to teach choirs a tune when, as Presbyterians, they were not supposed to sing the actual words. Normally, this would not be reason to consider the piece traditional.
This text, however, or at least the first three lines, are known from Hunt's 1634 psalter, and they are also similar to lyrics in "The Earl of Errol." That says to me that this stanza, in some form or other, kicked around in tradition.
I'm not sure which battle is described in this song. Logically, one would guess that it's Archibald, eighth Earl and first Marquis of Argyll (1598-1661)  -- but his military feats as a Covenanter came *after* 1634.
Archibald's father Archibald, the seventh Earl (d. 1638) was also a soldier, though his success was mixed, but he did his campaigning in the Highlands.
The other Earls of Argyll, insofar as I can follow their careers, are no better candidates (e.g. the fifth Earl was Mary Stuart's field commander at Langside, but that was a lost battle nowhere near Dundee).
Two battles are listed as taking place in Dundee, but they are dated 1645 and 1651 -- again, after the date of the psalter describing Argyll fighting at Dundee. - RBW
File: HHH10c
===
NAME: Dunderbeck
DESCRIPTION: The German Dunderbeck invents a steam-powered machine to turn any sort of meat into sausages. Thus vanish all the rats and cats of the town. When Dunderbeck's machine breaks down, he tries to fix it; his wife accidentally starts it with him inside.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: technology disaster animal humorous food
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 488, "Donderbeck's Machine" (2 texts)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 80, "Dunderbeck" (1 text, tune referenced)
Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Dunderbeck" (1 text)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 139-140, "The Sausage Meat Machine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 515-516, "Son of a Gun -- (Son of a Gambolier; Dunderbeck; and Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech)"
DT, DUNDER*
Roud #4461
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Son of a Gambolier" (tune & meter) and references there
cf. "O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Johnny Rebeck
Johnny Rebec
Johnny Robeck
File: R488
===
NAME: Dungannon Convention, The
DESCRIPTION: "The church of Dungannon is full to the door" with Volunteer warriors. In spite of "English oppression" the volunteers stood ready to protect England from a foreign fleet. At Dungannon the delegates swore "We've suffered too long, we'll suffer no more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: September 8, 1783 - Irish Volunteer Society Convention in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone (Source: Moylan) (but see the NOTES)
FOUND_IN: England Ireland patriotic political
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 5, "The Dungannon Convention" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan p. 1: "On St Patrick's Day, 1778, the first company of Belfast Volunteers was formed in response to the danger of a possible war between Britain and France. The movement spread like wildfire and soon there were companies in all parts of Ireland. At their height they numbered 100,000 members. By the following year they had become politicized and swung their weight behind the so-called Patriot Party, those in favour of legislative independence from the British parliament and the removal of impediments to Irish commerce." - BS
According to Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 187, "In February 1782 [Henry] Grattan arranged a convention of some 250 delegates from the Volunteers, who met in the parish church of Dungannon." The result was, in effect, a declaration of parliamentary independence.
Robert Kee, on p. 32 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_) relates that "In 1780 Grattan for the first time tried to get the Irish House of Commons to vote an Irish Declaration of Independence. He was then unsuccessful, owing to the Crown's effective control of the majority in Parliament, through the system of patronage. By the end of the following year, however, the Volunteers outside Parliament had become much stronger. They were now said to number eighty thousand men, and in 1782 a convention of democratically elected Volunteer delegates was held at Dungannon, a sort of parliament outside Parliament, backed by potential physical force for the first but by no means the last time in Irish history."
The pressure was enough that, later that year, the Irish parliament gave in and voted independence unanimously (Kee, p. 33). Under that pressure, the British granted the parliament most of what it asked  -- repealing even the infamous Poyning's Law that said the British parliament could override the Irish. (For further details, see the notes to "Ireland's Glory.") There would be more Dungannon Conventions, but the 1782 edition was the Really Big Deal. - RBW
File: Moyl005
===
NAME: Dungarvon Whooper (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The cook in a Dungarvon River lumber camp dies. The crew suspect the skipper murdered him. That night "fearful whoops and yells the forest fill" and are heard around "the Whooper's grave" until "God's good man" prays that they stop.
AUTHOR: Michael Whelan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: homicide burial lumbering ghost ritual clergy
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 13, "The Dungarvon Whooper -- I" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi013 (Partial)
Roud #9198
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Where the Silvery Colorado Sweeps Along" (tune)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Rev Edward Murdoch, the Roman Catholic parish priest at Renous, felt seriously enough about the matter to come up to Dungarvon and read the church service of exorcism. It is said that after this the evil spirit which was responsible for the horrible sounds was heard no more. But people still say they sometimes hear the Whooper, and they fear to visit the grave by the Whooper Spring. The Dungarvon River is a branch of the Main Renous River, which it joins above Quarryville....
"The train on the Canada Eastern Railway, between Fredericton and Newcastle, named for the Whooper, made its last run in 1936." - BS
For a less mysterious explanation of the origin of the name "Whooper," see the notes to "The Dungarvon Whooper (II)." - RBW
File: MaWi013
===
NAME: Dungarvon Whooper (II), The
DESCRIPTION: The night a group of fishermen "reached Dungarvon ... the Dungarvon Whooper was the terror of the night." All the beasts fled and the fishermen "felt very sure We could beat any Whooper ... And when he saw that he was beat He was forced to run away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: fight fishing humorous ghost
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 14, "The Dungarvon Whooper (II)" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi014 (Partial)
Roud #9199
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Rev Edward Murdoch, the Roman Catholic parish priest at Renous, felt seriously enough about the matter to come up to Dungarvon and read the church service of exorcism. It is said that after this the evil spirit which was responsible for the horrible sounds was heard no more. But people still say they sometimes hear the Whooper, and they fear to visit the grave by the Whooper Spring. The Dungarvon River is a branch of the Main Renous River, which it joins above Quarryville....
"The train on the Canada Eastern Railway, between Fredericton and Newcastle, named for the Whooper, made its last run in 1936."
Manny/Wilson note on authorship: Someone "says this satiric song was made up by Everett Price, Billy's brother, but Billy [the singer] himself says it was written by his grandfather, Abraham Munn." - BS
Manny and Wilson offer two explanations for the origin of the name "Whooper." One, found in their notes to "The Dungarvon Whooper (I)," link it to a mysterious death and later exorcism in the area, described above and in the notes to the other "Whooper" song.
In their notes on this version, they mention the name being associated with the train on the occasion of a run with a lot of rowdy woodsmen aboard. - RBW
File: MaWi014
===
NAME: Dungiven Cricket Match
DESCRIPTION: The boys of Dungiven challenge the team from Derry to a cricket match. Both teams turn out, and bring crowds of supporters. The contest, naturally, is hard-fought, but Dungiven wins. The singer lists the team members
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: sports moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H669, p. 179-180, "Dungiven Cricket Match" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13539
File: HHH669
===
NAME: Dungiveny Priory Church
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders out, enjoying nature, when he comes to "the old church not far from Dungiven." He praises the artistic quality of the site, and bids nature to love him. He notes that life is fleeting, and bids farewell to the spot
AUTHOR: James Maxwell ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: rambling burial
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H187, pp. 162-163, "Dungiven Priory Church" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13463
NOTES: Dungiven Priory is one of the most famous religious sites in Ireland, and is famous as the graveyard of the O'Cahan family. For details, see the notes to "The Banks of the Roe." - RBW
File: HHH187
===
NAME: Dunlavin Green
DESCRIPTION: At the time of the 1798 Rebellion, Captain Saunders betrays some of his own men to execution at Dunlavin Green. Some of the martyrs are named and mourned, and Saunders is cursed.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann); 1820 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion execution lie army Ireland betrayal death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1798 - "Nineteen members of the Saundersgrove corps of yeomen, and nine of the Narraghmores, imprisoned in Dunlavin as United Irish sympathisers, were led out and summarily executed." (source: Moylan)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Hodgart, p. 202, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text)
PGalvin, pp. 94-95, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 53, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 9, "Dunlavin Green" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Moylan 55, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3010
NOTES: The 1798 rebellion collapsed even before it properly began, and many of the leaders were betrayed (the United Irish leaders were taken in March, and the rebellion did not take place for many months after that).
Captain Saunders led a Yeoman (Irish militia) company, and on May 22, shortly before the actual rebellion, he assembled his men and urged those who were rebels to come forward.
About twenty of the rebels, leaderless and hoping for mercy, revealed themselves. They were arrested and sent to Dunlavin.
Two days later, with rebels threatening the town, a total of 28 rebels (19 of them from Saunders's company) were summarily executed. (This seems to have been both in fear of and as an example to the rebels outside.) Such behavior was against British rules, and was condemned by many even on the English side, but as always, the atrocities were remembered longer than the regrets of the more civilized faction of the Loyalists. - RBW
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Dunlavin Green" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998)) - BS
File: Hodg202
===
NAME: Dunn, Gilbert, and Ben Hall: see The Ballad of Ben Hall (File: FaE088)
===
NAME: Dupree [Laws I11]
DESCRIPTION: Betty asks Dupree for a diamond ring; he promises her one. He sets out for the jewelry store and steals a ring, but shoots a policeman as he escapes. Unwilling to leave Betty and/or unable to flee, he is captured, convicted, and hanged
AUTHOR: possibly Rev. Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Rev. Andrew Jenkins)
KEYWORDS: homicide robbery execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 15, 1921 - Frank Dupree robs an Atlanta jewelry store
Sept. 1, 1922 - Dupree hanged
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I11, "Dupree"
Friedman, p. 396, "Dupree" (2 texts, but only the second is I11; Laws considers the first to be E24)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 752, "Dupree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 239-240, "Dupree" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 73, "Betty And Dupree" (1 text, possibly modified by Brownie McGhee)
DT, BTTYDPRE
Roud #4179
RECORDINGS:
Blind Andy [pseud. for Rev. Andrew Jenkins] "Frank Dupree" (OKeh 40446, 1925)
Vernon Dalhart, "Frank Dupree" (Columbia 15042-D, 1925) (Edison 51693, 1926) (Vocalion 5091/Vocalion 15284, 1926) 
Teddy Grace, "Betty and Dupree" (Decca 2602, 1939)
Art Thieme, "Betty & Dupree Blues" (on Thieme06)
Kingfish Bill Tomlin, "Dupree Blues" (Paramount 13057, 1931; rec. 1930)
Brownie McGhee, "Betty and Dupree" (on AschRec2)
Willie Walker, "Dupree Blues" (Columbia 14578-D, 1931; rec. 1930; on BefBlues1, RoughWays1)
Georgia White, "Dupree Blues" (Decca 7100, 1935)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Frank Dupree" [Laws E24] (plot)
SAME_TUNE:
Georgia White, "New Dupree Blues" (Decca 7209, 1936)
File: LI11
===
NAME: Durant Jail, The: see The Cryderville Jail (File: LxU090)
===
NAME: Durham Field [Child 159]
DESCRIPTION: Edward III is at war in France, so the king of Scotland invades England. In battle, he fares badly and is taken prisoner to London. Edward has returned. The Scottish king admits an English yeoman is worth a Scottish knight.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: fight war prisoner
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1327-1377 - Reign of King Edward III of England
1346 - Battle of Durham. King David of Scotland defeated and taken prisoner by the English, even though their main army was fighting in France
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 159, "Durham Field" (1 text)
OBB 126, "Durham Field" (1 text)
Roud #3998
File: C159
===
NAME: Durham Jail: see The Cryderville Jail (File: LxU090)
===
NAME: Durham Strike (Durham Lockout)
DESCRIPTION: "In our Durham County I am sorry for to say, That hunger and starvation is increasing every day." The mine is shut down; "the masters have behaved unkind." The miners face great hardship but hope to prevail if others will support them.
AUTHOR: probably Tommy Armstrong (1848-1919)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Lloyd, "Come All Ye Bold Miners")
KEYWORDS: mining strike hardtimes
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1892 - the Durham Strike
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacColl-Shuttle, p. 14, "The Durham Strike" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DURHLOCK*
NOTES: This song refers to the great Durham Coal Strike of 1892. The company wanted to impose a pay cut of 10%. The miners -- who, naturally, were already living on next to nothing -- went on strike. But coal is easy to come by; after two months, the miners were forced to return to work -- and to take an even larger pay cut.
Tommy Armstrong seems to have devoted his energy to mining and labour poetry; the three songs by him listed in _Granger's Index to Poetry_ are "The Oakey Street Evictions," "The Row Between the Cages," and "The Trimdon Grange Explosion."
The Digital Tradition lists this to the tune of "Tramps and Hawkers/Paddy West," but the tune in MacColl/Shuttle is not that though it looks like it might be related. - RBW
File: MacCS014
===
NAME: Dus Ha My A Gan Dhys (Come and I Will Sing You): see Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You) (File: ShH97)
===
NAME: Dusty Bluebells: see I am the Master (Dusty Bluebells) (File: HHH048a)
===
NAME: Dusty Miller, The
DESCRIPTION: "Hey the dusty miller [(x2)], Dusty was his coat, dusty was his colour, dusty was the kiss That I got frae the miller." "Hey the dusty miller, With his dusty coast, He will spend a shilling Ere he win a groat."
AUTHOR: adapted by Robert Burns, but the extent of his changes is not clear
EARLIEST_DATE: 1788 (Burns)
KEYWORDS: miller courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 107, "(O the dusty miller)" (1 text)
DT, DSTYMILR*
Roud #5959
File: MSNR107
===
NAME: Dutchman, Dutchman, Won't You Marry Me?: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
===
NAME: Dutchman's Song
DESCRIPTION: "Amongst the pines and hemlocks ... we gathered round the table" in the Dutchmens' bunk house to play poker.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: lumbering cards
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-NovaScotia 114, "Dutchman's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1820
NOTES: The description is based on a "fragment of a lumberman's song" in Creighton-NovaScotia. - BS
File: CrNS114
===
NAME: Dweley: see The Jawbone Song AND Crawdad, etc. (File: R259)
===
NAME: Dying Aviator, The
DESCRIPTION: The aviator has crashed and is surrounded by the refuse of the wreck. He advises his comrades to gather the sundry pieces which have pierced him; "there's a lot of good parts in this wreck." He is granted admission to heaven, since the Air Force is Hell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: parody technology pilot flying
FOUND_IN: Australia US
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp.142-143, "The Dying Aviator" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 228-229, "The Dying Aviator" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 436-437, "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket and The Handsome Young Airman" (2 text, 1 tune, with the "B" text going here and the "A" text being "Wrap Me Up...")
Lomax-FSNA 234, "Stand to Your Glasses" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TARPJKT2*
Roud #3454
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket" (tune & meter)
NOTES: Although clearly a parody of "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket," Meredith and Anderson claim there is a British version sung to "My Bonnie."  Lomax's version was collected among U.S. troops in Korea. - RBW
File: MA142
===
NAME: Dying Bagman, The: see Wrap Me Up in my Tarpaulin Jacket (File: FR439)
===
NAME: Dying Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: "On a summer day as the sun was setting... A young boy lay on a bed of fever.... I am dying, mother, I am surely dying, And Hell is my awful doom...." The young man heard God's voice, but chose to go sporting with his friends. Now he pays the price
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death farewell Hell youth mother
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 597, "The Dying Boy" (1 text)
Roud #7552
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Death is a Melancholy Call" [Laws H5] (theme)
cf. "Wicked Polly" [Laws H6] (plot)
File: R597
===
NAME: Dying British Sergeant, The
DESCRIPTION: The British soldier recalls sailing to America to suppress the rebels. Told to expect easy duty and a swift victory, the soldiers instead find an implacable enemy; "Freedom or death! was all their cry." The singer is mortally wounded and bids farewell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931
KEYWORDS: war death patriotic
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Warner 10, "The British Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, p. 195, "Our Fleet," "Our British Troops," "American Boys" (3 fragments, first three of seven "Quatrains on the War"; the date in "Our Fleet" should of course be 1776, not 1770)
Scott-BoA, pp. 69-71, "The Dying Redcoat" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DYSARGE* DYSARGE2*
Roud #2801
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The British Soldier (I)" (subject)
NOTES: As "The Dying Sergeant," his song is item dA29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Wa010
===
NAME: Dying Californian (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells a comrade he is dying. He confesses to a firm belief in God. He sends messages to his father and mother. He wishes his wife to know that he thought of her while dying, and bids her care for his children
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1850
KEYWORDS: dying farewell religious
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,Ro,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Belden, pp. 350-351, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
Randolph 183, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 179-182, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 183)
Eddy 126, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson 92, pp. 221-222, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 177, "Californian Brothers" (1 text)
FSCatskills 86, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 187-189, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 15, "The California Brothers" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 90, pp. 191-193, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
JHCox 49, "The Dying Californian" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dying Californian" (source notes only)
DT, DYINGCAL
Roud #2283
BROADSIDES:
LOCSheet, sm1855 580660, "Dying Californian" or "The Brother's Request" ("Lie up nearer, brother, nearer"), Oliver Ditson (Boston), 1855 (tune)
LOCSinging, sb10096b, "The Dying Californian" ("Lay up nearer, brother, nearer, for my limbs are growing cold"), J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also as103250, as10325a, "The Dying Californian" 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Mine Brakeman (The True and Trembling Brakeman)" [Laws G11] (lyrics)
cf. "The Dying Californian (II)" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
The Dying Fifer (File: BrII227) (per broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29))
NOTES: This appears, under its own name, in the Sacred Harp, credited to "Ball and Drinkard 1859." - RBW
Broadside LOCSheet sm1855 580660 has the cover sheet attribution "Poetry from the New England Diadem Music by A.L. Lee"
Broadside LOCSinging sb10096b: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
Broadside LOCSheet, sm1857 620570, "Prayer of the Dying Californian," Oliver Ditson (Boston), 1857 (tune) shares lines with "The Dying Californian." The cover sheet attribution is "Arranged from the Spanish of Marechio by E. Williams Denison." - BS
File: R183
===
NAME: Dying Californian (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "Comrades come gather round me for I am dying now." He has messages for father and mother. He sends his ring back to Mary but keeps "a token, she gave it me, from which I cannot part ... I must slumber here alone on San Francisco shore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: dying request father mother wife separation
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 58, "The Dying Californian" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2283
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Californian (I)" (theme)
NOTES: Roud does not distinguish this song (which seems to have been known only in Canada) from the much more popular "Dying Californian (I)." - RBW
File: CrSNB058
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy (II), The: see Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie [Laws B2] (File: LB02)
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy (III), The: see The Dying Ranger [Laws A14] (File: LA14)
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy I, The: see The Streets of Laredo [Laws B1] (File: LB01)
===
NAME: Dying Cowboy of Rim Rock Ranch
DESCRIPTION: The dying cowboy is "Riding away... Where the sun is sinking low." He bids goodbye to all parts of the cowboy's life -- the sounds, the sunrises, the girl he loves. He bids his comrades to remember him "when you're far from the rimrock."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: cowboy death farewell
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 120, "The Dying Cowboy of Rim Rock Ranch" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #11098
File: FCW120
===
NAME: Dying Cowgirl, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer goes west as a youth. Once there, he turns  to a life of cattle rustling (perhaps chasing strays?). One night, in a storm, he finds a cowgirl helpless on the ground. She says she will meet the singer in heaven, and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (recording, Gene Autry)
KEYWORDS: cowboy death parting love
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 146-147, "The Dying Cowgirl" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DYCOWGRL*
Roud #4775
RECORDINGS:
Gene Autry, "The Dying Cowgirl" (Conqueror 8193, 1933)
NOTES: McNeil believes -- with justice -- that the Florida text cited here (collected from Louise Sanders of Perry, Florida) is incomplete, but can find no other texts. One may speculate that the girl was fatally wounded while trying to protect her herd from the singer's band of rustlers. - RBW
File: MN1146
===
NAME: Dying Crap Shooter's Blues: see Saint James Infirmary (File: San228)
===
NAME: Dying Drunkard, The
DESCRIPTION: "What a terrible doom I have met. My teeth are now chattering, my eyes almost dead." "Oh, terrible, terrible doom of despair, My soul, you are landing I do not know where." At first, drinking was fun. Now the singer is dying; he warns others of drink
AUTHOR: John Daniel Vass
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (collected by Shellans from John Daniel Vass)
KEYWORDS: drink warning death nonballad family
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Shellans, pp. 56-57, "The Dying Drunkard" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7321
File: Shel056
===
NAME: Dying Fifer, The
DESCRIPTION: "When the battle was hot and raging Shot and shell around did fly... When I heard a piercing cry." The ship's fifer is mortally wounded. He sends dying messages to his mother and the rest of his family
AUTHOR: C. G. Wright?
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1865 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 31(29))
KEYWORDS: death battle sailor
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownII 227, "The Dying Fifer" (1 text)
Smith/Hatt, pp. 94-95, "Our Fifer Boy" (1 text)
Roud #1977
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 31(29), "Our Fifer-Boy," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "James Bird" [Laws A5] (tune)
cf. "The Dying Californian (I)" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29))
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29) seems to be exactly the source for Smith/Hatt, word-for-word, including parenthesis and headnote "Composed by C.G. Wright, on board the U.S. Steam-ship Mississippi, (New Orleans.) Air: James Bird; or Dying Californian."
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 31(29): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS

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

CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Nun" (tune, meter, floating lyrics)
NOTES: Belden suggests a connection between this and Tennyson's "The May Queen" -- based seemingly on the meter. This strikes me as an extreme stretch. "The May Queen" has a few incidental lyric similarities, and mentions a lover dying for love -- but the speaker is not the one dying; she is unrepentantly exultant that she is to be the Queen o' the May. - RBW
File: R707
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NAME: Dying Hobo, The [Laws H3]
DESCRIPTION: An old hobo lies dying as winter approaches. He speaks of the "better land... where handouts grow on bushes" that he is destined for, sends a message to his girlfriend, and dies. His partner "swiped his (coat and hat) and caught an eastbound train"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: railroading train death friend robbery
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws H3, "The Dying Hobo"
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 367-372, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text plus a large collection of alternate verses, 1 tune)
Randolph 837, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text)
BrownIII 360, "The Dying Hobo" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Hudson 112, pp. 251-252, "The Dying Hobo"; 113, p. 252, "The Hobo's Death" (2 texts)
Lomax-FSNA 219, "Around a Western Water Tank" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 131, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text)
JHCox 56, "The Dying Hobo" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dying Hobo" (source notes only)
DT 644, DYINHOBO LTTLSTRM
Roud #1937
RECORDINGS:
[Richard] Burnett & [Leonard] Rutherford, "Little Stream of Whiskey" (Columbia 15133-D, 1927; rec. 1926; on BurnRuth01, on KMM)
Travis B. Hale & E. J. Derry, Jr., "The Dying Hobo" (Victor 20796, 1927)
Kelly Harrell, "The Dying Hobo" (Victor 20527, 1926; on KHarrell01 -- a rather strange version combining the first verse of "The Dying Hobo" with a story, taken from "George Collins," of a girl mourning her dead lover)
Dick Justice, "One Cold December Day" (Brunswick 367, 1929 -- like the Harrell recording, this starts with a "Dying Hobo" verse, then parallels "George Collins")
George Lay, "The Dying Hobo" (AFS 12,050 A19, 1959; on LC61)
McMichen's Melody Makers, "The Dying Hobo" (Columbia 15464-D, 1929; rec. 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" (lyrics)
cf. "The Hobo's Last Ride" (plot)
NOTES: Several sources list this as a parody of "Bingen on the Rhine." Laws, however, does not mention the connection; perhaps he knew versions with different tunes? - RBW
File: LH03
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NAME: Dying Hogger, The
DESCRIPTION: "A hogger on his deathbed lay, His life was oozing fast away...." He does not want a tombstone, merely memorials of his career. He asks to be buried in the shade of the watertank, "And put within my cold, still hand, A monkey-wrench and the old oil can."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: railroading train death burial lastwill
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 186-187, "The Dying Hogger" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13615
File: San186
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NAME: Dying Irish Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: Burt is wounded in battle at Santiago Bay, Cuba, "while Victoria shall reign." He tells his friend, Bill O'Shea, to break the news of his death to his mother and to tell O'Shea's sister Mary that he still loves her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: army battle death Ireland friend mother soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 15, 1898 - destruction of the U. S. S. Maine
Apr 19, 1898 - Although the Spanish have agreed to all American demands, including peace with the Cuban rebels, the U. S. issues a sort of preliminary declaration of war, listing U. S. goals
Apr 24, 1898 - Spain declares war on the U. S.; the U. S. will next day do the same, backdating it to April 21
May 19, 1898 - The Spanish fleet enters Santiago Bay
July 2, 1898 - The Spanish fleet at Santiago, acting under orders from Madrid, sails out into the teeth of the American fleet and is destroyed
July 10, 1898 - U. S. troops attack Santiago
July 17, 1898 - U. S. troops capture Santiago
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 44, "The Dying Irish Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab044 (Partial)
Roud #9988
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell to Slieve Gallen" (plot, themes, setting)
NOTES: The ballad must have originally referred to "Columbia" rather than "Victoria." - BS
Or, just possibly, "Victoria" is correct and "Santiago Bay" is wrong, meaning the song might date to some other battle in British history during the reign of Victoria; other  than the first verse, there are no real time or place references. - RBW
File: LLab044
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NAME: Dying Miller, The: see The Miller's Will (The Miller's Three Sons) [Laws Q21] (File: LQ21)
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NAME: Dying Mine Brakeman, The (The True and Trembling Brakeman) [Laws G11]
DESCRIPTION: The young mine train motorman is horrified to discover that, because he could not stop in time, he has run over his brakeman. The dying brakeman speaks to his sister and sends messages to his parents
AUTHOR: Orville J. Jenks (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Aulton Ray)
KEYWORDS: mining death farewell family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1915 - Death of the brakeman
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws G11, "The Dying Mine Brakeman (The True and Trembling Brakeman)"
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 257-260, "The True and Trembling Brakeman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 695, "The True and Trembling Brakeman" (1 text)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 92, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 783, TREMBRAK*
Roud #8599
RECORDINGS:
Cliff Carlisle, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (Superior 2669/Champion 16295 [as the Lullaby Larkers], 1931; Champion 45029, 1935; Montgomery Ward M-8036, 1939)
Jess Johnson, "The Dying Brakeman" (Champion 16255, 1931)
Carter Family, "The Reckless Motorman" (Decca 5722, 1938)
Bradley Kincaid, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (Melotone 12184, 1931; Conqueror 8091, 1933; Vocalion 02683, 1934; Panachord [UK] 25901, 1937; Polk 9064/Panachord [Australia] P-12184, both n.d.)
Paul Mason, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (OKeh 45479, 1930)
New Lost City Ramblers, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (on NLCR05)
Aulton Ray, "True and Trembling Brakeman" (Gennett 6129/Herwin 75552/Champion 15277/Challenge 269/Bell 1186 [as Carl Bunch]/Superior 385, all 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Californian (I)" (words)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Reckless Motorman
NOTES: Reportedly written by Jenks in the three months following the accident in 1915. Jenks was one of those involved in taking the brakeman's body from the wreckage. Cohen observes that this may be a case where a singer took traditional materials and reworked them, but there is no clear evidence of a version of this song (as opposed to "The Dying Californian" and its relatives) predating Jenks. - RBW
File: LG11
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NAME: Dying Minister, The: see The Dying Preacher (Hick's Farewell) (File: R617)
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NAME: Dying Newsboy, The: see Poor Little Joe (The Dying Newsboy) (File: R716)
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NAME: Dying Nun, The
DESCRIPTION: The dying nun asks that the window be opened so that she can feel the cool air and see the sky. She remarks that it is hard to die. She thanks Sister Martha for her care. She cherishes the ring she received from Douglas, and says she will join him soon
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: death clergy reunion separation love ring
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Belden, pp. 218-219, "The Dying Nun" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Randolph 706, "The Dying Nun" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 455-457, "The Dying Nun" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 706A)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 124-125, "The Dying Nun" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "The Dying Nun" (source notes only)
Roud #3532
RECORDINGS:
Foreman Family, "The Dying Nun" (Victor V-40165, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Girl's Message" (tune, meter, floating lyrics)
File: R706
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NAME: Dying Outlaw, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come gather around me, my comrades and friends, The sun it is setting on life's short day.... Oh bury me on the lone prairie Where the hooves of the horses shall fall." The singer, killed by a "red-coated foeman,"  asks that his pony be buried with him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958
KEYWORDS: death burial outlaw police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1873 - Establishment of the North West Mounted Police, who wore red jackets (hence the "red-coated foeman" of the song)
FOUND_IN: Canada(West)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 139-141, "The Dying Outlaw (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 118, "The Dying Outlaw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10957
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Streets of Laredo" [Laws B1] and references there
NOTES: A Canadian member of the "Dying Cowboy/Unofrtunate Rake" family. Despite the line in the refrain, it does not seem to have been influenced by "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie." - RBW
File: FMB139
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NAME: Dying Ploughboy, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, a ploughboy, feels a blood vessel burst in his chest; although his doctor tells him he'll be all right, he senses death is near. He bids farewell to his friends, his team of horses, and his plough
AUTHOR: Rev. R. H. Calder?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: disease farewell death dying farming horse friend worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 108, "The Dying Ploughboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 235, "The Dying Ploughboy" (1 text)
Roud #2514
NOTES: Ord lists this as by the Reverend Calder of Glenlivet, who granted permission to print it. The curiosity, in that case, is how MacColl and Seeger found a tune for the thing, and how it came to be so widespread. - RBW
File: McCST108
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NAME: Dying Preacher, The (Hick's Farewell)
DESCRIPTION: "The time is swiftly rolling on When I must faint and die, My body to the dust returned And there forgotten lie." The dying preacher bids farewell to his wife and remembers his family fondly. He bids his fellow preachers to do their work well
AUTHOR: probably Rev. Berryman Hicks 1778-1839)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1835 (Southern Harmony)
KEYWORDS: religious clergy death farewell
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 617, "The Dying Preacher" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 530, "Hicks' Farewell" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 73-74, "Hick's Farewell" (1 text)
SharpAp 122, "Hicks's Farewell" (6 texts, 6 tunes)
DT, DYPREACH* HCKSFRWL*
ADDITIONAL: Original Sacred Harp, 1971 Denson Revision, p. 83, "The Dying Minister" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2869
RECORDINGS:
Dillard Chandler, "Hick's Farewell" (on OldLove)
Texas Gladden, "Hicks' Farewell" (on LomaxCD1702)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, "Hick's Farewell" (on FOTM, WatsonAshley01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Preacher's Legacy" (theme)
cf. "The Iron Mountain Baby" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Minister's Last Goodbye
NOTES: In the Sacred Harp (which has a much-shortened text), this is called "The Dying Minister" and the tune is said to have been written by E. Dumas in 1854.
The attribution of this song to someone named Hicks seems strong, given the number of versions with his name in the title, but of course there were a lot of, um, hick preachers out there. The most famous Hicks in American religious history is surely Elias Hicks (1748-1830), a Quaker who eventually caused a split within that denomination. But this *really* doesn't sound like the work of a Quaker.
That leaves Berryman Hicks, whose career was researched by Jackson (_White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands_, pp. 203-205). He was a "noted revivalist," and a poet and violinist. Though this attribution too has its problems; he became "financially embarrassed for a large amount," and was apparently dropped from his (Baptist-affiated) church. On the other hand, that might explain the cranky tone of the piece.
The mid-nineteenth century seems to have witnessed a number of these "Preacher's Confession" sorts of pieces. No doubt it was the usual situation of the elderly frowning on the degenerate morals of the young.  - RBW
Properly speaking, this should be "Hicks's Farewell." - PJS the nitpicker
And I thought I was the only one who remembered such things! Of course, this particular error is more that of the transcriber than the singer....  - RBW
"More sung against than singing?" - PJS
File: R617
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NAME: Dying Queen, The: see Queen Eleanor's Confession [Child 156] (File: C156)
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NAME: Dying Ranger, The [Laws A14]
DESCRIPTION: A cowboy/soldier tells of his sister left alone at home. His comrades promise to treat her as their sister. The wounded man dies happy. (Other details occur in localized versions; the verses -- and the dying hero -- vary widely)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: death family farewell
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws A14, "The Dying Ranger"
Belden, pp. 397-398, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
Randolph 188, "The Dying Cowboy" (2 texts, 2 tunes) AND 216, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doerflinger, pp. 274-276, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 19, "The Shades of the Palmetto" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ohrlin-HBT 50, "Ranger's Prayer" (1 text, not recognized as a version of this song, but with the same plot, metrical pattern, and some lyrics); 52, "The Dying Ranger" (1 text, 1 tune) 
JHCox 64, "The Dying Ranger" (1 text)
JHCoxIIB, #10, p. 144, "The Dying Ranger" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 243-245, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 53, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 17-20, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 689, DYRANGR DYNGCWBY
Roud #628
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "Dying Ranger" (on Boggs3, BoggsCD1)
Cartwright Brothers, "The Dying Ranger" (Victor V-40198, 1930; Montgomery Ward M-4460, 1934; on WhenIWas2)
Buell Kazee, "The Dying Soldier" (Brunswick 214, 1928)
Glenn Ohrlin, "The Dying Ranger" (on Ohrlin01)
Luther Ossenbrink, "The Dying Ranger" (Champion 16095 [as West Virginia Rail Splitter]/Supertone 9665 [as Arkansas Woodchopper], 1930)
Johnny Prude, "The Dying Ranger" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28)
Marc Williams, "The Dying Ranger" (Brunswick 497, c. 1930)
File: LA14
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NAME: Dying Rebel, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer finds a wounded man dying. He asks to be given last rites. He has been deceived by the French and betrayed by a friend. His wife and brother are dead, his children alone. Unwittingly, he caused his landlord's death at pikemen's hands. He dies
AUTHOR: William Ball (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: "shortly after 1798" (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: betrayal rebellion death France Ireland injury family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1798 - Irish rebellion against British rule
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 138, "The Dying Rebel" (1 text)
NOTES: William Ball was a writer of humorous verse about Irish history; in this index, see "Cockledemoy (The French Invasion)," "Do as They Do in France," "The Dying Rebel," "Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)" -- though he doesn't seem to have made much impression on the wider world of literature; I have been unable to find any of his writings in any of my literary references.
I wonder if this isn't an answer to something like "Betsy Gray." - RBW
File: Moyl138
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NAME: Dying Redcoat, The: see The Dying British Sergeant (File: Wa010)
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NAME: Dying Seal-Hunter, The
DESCRIPTION: "I can hear their sirens blowing As they steam to hunt the foe Where the young whitecoats are growing...." The dying man asks to watch as his ship sails away. He recalls the work of sealing, and bids farewell to the people and life he is leaving
AUTHOR: Otto Kelland ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Kelland, Anchor Watch, Newfoundland Stories in Verse)
KEYWORDS: death hunting ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 149, "The Dying Seal-Hunter" (1 text)
File: RySm149
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NAME: Dying Sergeant, The: see The Dying British Sergeant (File: Wa010)
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NAME: Dying Soldier (I), The (Erin Far Away II) [Laws J7]
DESCRIPTION: A dying soldier asks a comrade to send a lock of his hair from India to his mother in Ireland. He sends his sister and brothers word of his death in the fight against the Sepoys. He dies and is buried.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: war soldier death family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1857-1858 - Sepoy Mutiny in India. The inhabitants of Northern India revolt against the East India Company on behalf of their ancestral customs (many of which, such as the murder of widows, were abhorrent to Western opinion)
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Ireland Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws J7, "The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away II)"
Rickaby 50, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 166, "Old Erin Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H816, p. 92, "Old Ireland Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean, pp.. 5-6, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text)
DT 827, DYSOLDR*
Roud #893
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away I)" [Laws J6] (plot, theme) and references there
NOTES: This song is frankly so close to Laws J6 that I find it impossible to tell them apart. Even the first lines in Laws's sample versions are similar. Laws does not give reasons for the distinction. One should therefore examine the references for both songs. - RBW
File: LJ07
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NAME: Dying Soldier (II), The: see The Dying Ranger [Laws A14] (File: LA14)
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NAME: Dying Soldier (IV), The: see Brother Green (File: R211)
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NAME: Dying Soldier to His Mother, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the field of battle, mother, All the night alone I lay; Angels watching o'er me, mother, Till the breaking of the day." The soldier thinks of his mother, sends farewells to family, wishes he could repay mother, and bids farewell
AUTHOR: Words: Thomas MacKellar?/Music: William U. Butcher?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1863 (Dime Songster #11)
KEYWORDS: battle death soldier mother
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownII 228, "The Dying Soldier to His Mother" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 108-109, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 227 (no title) (1 short text)
ST BrII228 (Partial)
Roud #6568
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
On the Field of Battle, Mother
File: BrII228
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NAME: Dying Soldier, (III) The
DESCRIPTION: "A youth lay on the battlefield of France's blood-stained soil ... The Red Cross nurse beside him ..." Nurse promises to send a letter, book and bible to his mother and his love to his sweetheart
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: promise war death France lament soldier love separation
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, pp. 65-66, "The Dying Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 86, "Blood-Stained Soil" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4428
NOTES: Leach-Labrador says "This is a World War I song, made in Newfoundland according to the singer" - BS
As you see, Bennett Schwartz, who indexed this song, dates it to World War I, and this seems almost certainly correct. The red cross nurse dates it after the Crimean War, which leaves only the World Wars as possibilities; the dates of the collection argue for the first war. - RBW
File: Doyl3065
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NAME: Dying Stockman, The: see Wrap Me Up in my Tarpaulin Jacket (File: FR439)
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NAME: Dying Youth, The: see Death is a Melancholy Call [Laws H5] (File: LH05)
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NAME: E-choin' Horn, The: see The Echoing Horn (File: K246)
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NAME: E-ri-e, The
DESCRIPTION: About a "terrible storm" on the Erie Canal. "Oh, the E-ri-e was a-rising And the gin was a-getting low, And I scarcely think we'll get a little drink Till we get to Buffalo." Humorous anecdotes of a highly hazardous voyage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: canal humorous cook animal wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 144, "It's Let Go Your Bowline" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 180, "The E-ri-e" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 45, "The E-ri-e" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 470-471, "The E-ri-e" (1 text, 1 tune); see also pp. 455-457, "Ballad of the Erie Canal" (1 text, composite and probably containing stanzaswhich belong here); pp. 459-463, "The Erie Canal Ballad" (8 texts, some fragmentary, the fourth of which appears to belong here)
Darling-NAS, pp. 333-335, "The Erie Canal" (1 text)
Arnett, p. 56, "The Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 87, "Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 43, "E-ri-e" (1 text)
DT, ERICANL1 ERIECNL3*
Roud #6599
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Erie Canal" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07a)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Raging Canal (I)" (plot)
cf. "A Trip on the Erie (Haul in Your Bowline)" (plot)
cf. "The Erie Canal"
cf. "The Calabar" (theme)
cf. "Stormy Weather Boys" (subject)
cf. "The Farmington Canal Song" (theme)
cf. ""The Wreck of the Mary Jane"" (theme)
cf. "The Wreck of the Varty" (theme)
cf. "On Board the Bugaboo" (theme)
cf. "Changing Berth" (theme)
cf. "The Wreck of the Gwendoline" (theme)
cf. "The Fish and Chip Ship" (theme)
cf. "The Shipwreck on the Lagan Canal" (theme)
NOTES: The Erie Canal, as originally constructed, was a completely flat, shallow waterway. The barges were drawn along by mules. Thus, apart from getting wet, storms posed little danger, and the only way one could run aground was to run into trash that had fallen into the canal.
As for needing a distress signal ("We h'isted (the cook) upon the pole
As a signal of distress"), one could always step off onto dry land....
The Lomaxes, in _American Ballad and Folk Songs_, thoroughly mingled many texts of the Erie Canal songs (in fairness, some of this may have been the work of their informants -- but in any case the Lomaxes did not help the problem). One should check all the Erie Canal songs for related stanzas. - RBW
File: LxU045
===
NAME: E. A. Horton, The [Laws D28]
DESCRIPTION: The E. A. Horton is taken by Canadian authorities and her crew imprisoned. The captain leads his men on a daring escape; they recapture their ship and sail home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sea prison escape
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 8, 1871 - Canada seizes the E. A. Horton (then in Halifax harbor) on a charge of fishing inside Canadian territorial waters
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws D28, "The E. A. Horton"
Flanders/Olney, pp. 239-241, "The Schooner E. A. Horton" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 144, "Seizure of the E J Horton" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 753, EAHORTON*
Roud #1840
File: LD28
===
NAME: E. C. Roberts, The: see Red Iron Ore [Laws D9] (File: LD09)
===
NAME: E. P. Walker
DESCRIPTION: E. P. Walker's thresher gets caught and fails to work. Someone drops in a wrench; the engineer can't be found. Another farmer buys a different threshing machine. Cho: "E.P. Walker mounted to the separator/E.P. Walker, with his oilcan in his hand...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (composed)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: E. P. Walker, a thresher, gets caught in the machinery, then the machine repeatedly fails to work. Someone accidentally drops in a monkey wrench; they try to stop the machine, but the engineer can't be found. Finally another farmer, not wanting to take a chance, goes and buys a different brand of threshing machine. Cho: "E.P. Walker mounted to the separator/E.P. Walker, with his oilcan in his hand...Took his farewell trip to the thresher's land"
KEYWORDS: farming harvest technology work worker
FOUND_IN: Canada(West)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Frank Hanson, "E. P. Walker" (on Saskatch01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (tune, structure, a few lyrics) and references there
NOTES: According to Barbara Cass-Beggs, "This song was composed in the fall of 1912, during the delays in threshing, by the young homesteaders who made up the threshing crew. E. P. Walker's threshing machine was the first to be brought into the newly settled district of Malvern Link.... All the names are authentic and so are the incidents.... The song was very popular and is still remembered."
A very local traditional song, but traditional nonetheless. The song was collected from Winnifred Turner of Swift Current, Sask., whose late husband was one of the farmers mentioned. - PJS
File: RcEPWalk
===
NAME: Eamon An Chnuic (Ned of the Hill)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Ned of the Hill sings at Eileen's bower asking that they marry though he has no wealth. Although her castle is guarded she escapes from the tower and goes with him. He spends his life wandering Ireland seeking shelter from his outlawry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (IRClancyMakem03)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage poverty elopement love exile outlaw
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OBoyle, p. 33, "Eamon an Chnoic" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT, NEDHILL* NEDHILL2* NEDHILL3
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Eamon An Chnuic" (on IRClancyMakem03)
NOTES: Sleeve notes to IRClancyMakem03: "Edmond O'Ryan, the hero of this Gaelic song, was born in Kilnamanagh, County Tipperary, before the wars of 1690. After the defeat of James II, whom he supported, he was outlawed and had his estates confiscated.... The song, in describing the outlaw driven by pain and beating on the closed door of his beloved, symbolized the lonely cause of Ireland." - BS
There seems to be some confusion about (O')Ryan; the Digital Tradition notes to NEDHILL2 say he was displaced after the Boyne, but by *Cromwell*, who of course had been in his grave for more than thirty years at the time of the Boyne.
There is another O'Ryan item, in Kathleen Hoagland, _1000 Years of Irish Poetry_ (1947), p. 171, "Ah! What Woes Are Mine"; it's just possible that this is another translation of "Eamon An Chnuic," but if so, it's a very different one. Hoagland also dates O'Ryan to the period after the Boyne.
A search of six different books of Irish history covering this period revealed no references to (O')Ryan.  And tales certainly grew about him -- one version has it that he was eventually betrayed for the reward money, only to have his murderer learn that his proscription had been lifted. The form of this song varies, too; in some texts, O'Ryan is seeking his love; in others, merely shelter from the English.
Clearly, whatever the historical truth, the tale has grown in the telling. - RBW
File: RcEaAnCh
===
NAME: Earl Bothwell [Child 174]
DESCRIPTION: A tale of the woes of Scotland. David [Riccio], the Queen's servant, is murdered with twelve daggers. King and Queen quarrel over this. Bothwell takes the king and hangs him. This produces such anger that the Queen flees to England
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: royalty nobility homicide death exile betrayal
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1542 - Mary Stewart, at the age of eight days, becomes Queen of Scotland. She later becomes Queen of France by virtue of her marriage to the French King Francis III.
1560 - Death of Francis III. Mary eventually returns to Scotland to rule it directly for the first time
1566 - Murder of David Riccio (falsely called "Lord David), secretary to Mary Stewart (rumour had it that he was her lover, but there is no evidence of this)
1567 - Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley, Mary's husband (he was in a house which blew up, but from the state of his body it appears that he was dead before the explosion). Mary Stewart soon after (forcibly?) married to James Hepburn, the fourth Earl of Bothwell (here called "Bodwell"). She was deposed not long after
1568 - Mary escapes to England
1578 - Death of Bothwell
1587 - Execution of Mary Stewart by Elizabeth I of England
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 174, "Earl Bothwell"  (1 text)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 213-218, "The Murder of the King of Scots" (1 text)
Roud #4004
NOTES: Henry Lord Darnley was Mary Stuart's cousin (and heir if she remained childless), and after their marriage he was addressed as King. Darnley is thus the "king" of this ballad and Mary Stuart the Queen. The Queen of England is, of course, Elizabeth I (reigned 1558-1603). Mary Stuart was Elizabeth's heir.
(A spelling note: The Scottish spelling of Mary's name was "Stewart." Since, however, she spent much of her youth in France, she used the French spelling "Stuart.") - RBW
File: C174
===
NAME: Earl Brand [Child 7]
DESCRIPTION: (Earl Brand) falls in love with a high lady against her father's will. They flee together, but are overtaken. Earl Brand slays almost all the pursuers, but is himself sorely wounded. They flee on, but at last Earl Brand must stop and dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: courting death fight
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland) US(Ap,MA,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (36 citations)
Child 7, "Earl Brand" (9 texts)
Bronson 7, "Earl Brand" (42 versions plus 2 in addenda)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 131-139, "The Child of Elle" (2 texts, one being that of the Percy Folio and the other the result of Percy's reconstruction of the text)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 6-7, "The Brave Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune) {cf. Bronson's #1b}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 35-40, "The Seven Brothers" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #6, #28}
Randolph 3, "Rise Ye Up" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #27}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 228-230, "Lord William and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 128-130, "Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Davis-Ballads 4, "Earl Brand" (4 texts plus 1 of "The Bold Soldier," 2 tunes entitled "The Seven Brothers, or The Seven Sleepers";"The Seven Brothers, or Lord William"; 1 more version mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #24, #40}
Davis-More 5, pp. 26-34, "Earl Brand" (4 texts, 4 tunes; the "CC" text looks mixed)
BrownII 3, "Earl Brand" (2 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more)
Hudson 2, pp. 66-68, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
Warner 79, "Sweet Willie" (1 text, 1 tune)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 45-46, "Sweet Willie (Earl Brand)" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 115-116, "Earl Brand" (1 text, properly titled "Sweet William," plus an untitled excerpt)
Brewster 4, "Earl Brand" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune) {Bronson's #35}
Greenleaf/Mansfield 2, "Lord Robert" (1 text)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 2, "Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #10)
Leach, pp. 66-71, "Earl Brand" (2 texts)
OBB 38, "Earl Brand"; 39, "The Douglas Tragedy" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 68, "Earl Brand (The Douglas Tragedy)" (1 text+1 fragment)
Ord, pp. 404-406, "The Douglas Tragedy" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 33, "Earl Brand"; 49, "The Douglas Tragedy" (2 texts)
Niles 5, "Earl Brand" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Gummere, pp. 206-208+349-350, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
SharpAp 4 "Earl Brand" (12 texts, 12 tunes) {Bronson's #13, #15, #14, #12, #11, #19, #20, #39, #26, #16, #36, #18}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 3, "The Seven Sleepers" (1 text, 1 tune -- a single traditional verse filled out from other printed sources by the editor) {Bronson's #20, but Bronson has a different text}
Mackenzie 2, "The Seven Brethren" (1 text)
Hodgart, p. 29, "Earl Brand (the Douglas Tragedy)" (1 text)
TBB 13, "The Douglas Tragedy (Earl Brand)" (1 text)
JHCox  2, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 51-54, "The Douglas Tragedy" (1 text)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 7-8, "Earl Brand" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 216, "Earl Brand" (1 text)
cf. BBI, ZN2487, "There was a bold seaman, a ship he could steer"
DT 7, DOUGTRAD* DOUGTRD2
Roud #23
RECORDINGS:
I. G. Greer & Mrs. I. G. Greer, "Sweet William (Earl Brand)" (AFS; on LC12)  {Bronson's #34a/b}; Professor & Mrs. Greer, "Sweet William & Fair Ellen - Pts. 1 & 2" (Paramount 3236, 1930)
Henry McGregor, "The Douglas Tragedy (Earl Brand)" (on FSBBAL1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erlinton" [Child 8] (plot)
cf. "The Bold Soldier [Laws M27]" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sweet Willie
Jolly Soldier
Lord William's Death
William and Ellen
Brandywine
The Child of Ell
Fair Ellender
Sweer William and Fair Ellen
As He Rode Up to the Old Man's Gate
NOTES: Child admits that he has "only with much hesitation" separated this from "Erlinton" [Child 8], and many others have inclined to join them. Scott viewed "A Child of Elle" (the Percy text of this piece) as a forerunner of "Erlinton."
Two of Niles's versions seem to be mixed texts; both relate a conversation between the knight and his horse, and end with the intertwined rose-and-briar. (This is not uncommon in American versions; Robert Shiflett, of Brown's Cove, Virginia, had a similar mixed version.) The second, "William and Ellen," consists primarily of these elements; little is left of the plot of "Earl Brand."
Quite a few people (e.g. Eddy) list "The Bold Soldier" [Laws M27] as a version of this balled, and some few of these may have slipped into the above list. - RBW
File: C007
===
NAME: Earl Colvin: see Lady Alice [Child 85] (File: C085)
===
NAME: Earl Crawford [Child 229]
DESCRIPTION: Lady Crawford marries the Earl at a young age, and soon bears a son. She thinks Crawford loves the child more than he loves her. They quarrel and separate. Both wish to reconcile, both think the other has refused to do so, both die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1873
KEYWORDS: love separation children jealousy death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 229, "Earl Crawford" (2 texts)
Bronson 229, "Earl Crawford" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 589-592, "Earl Crawford" (1 text)
DT, CRAWFRD*
Roud #3880
File: C229
===
NAME: Earl of Aboyne, The [Child 235]
DESCRIPTION: The Earl goes to London, leaving his wife behind. She hears that he has been courting others. When he returns, she makes a fine show but disdains him. He prepares once again to depart, and says she may not go with him. She dies for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love separation death accusation infidelity rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 235, "The Earl of Aboyne" (12 texts, 1 tune)
Bronson 235, "The Earl of Aboyne" (9 versions)
Ord, pp. 464-465, "The Lord o' Aboyne" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 593-595, "The Earl of Aboyne" (1 text)
Roud #99
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Bonny Peggy Irvine
NOTES: This rather confused story seems to have no historical basis (at least not based on the names in the ballad). - RBW
File: C235
===
NAME: Earl of Errol, The [Child 231]
DESCRIPTION: The Earl of Errol weds Kate Carnegie, perhaps for the sake of her large dowry. Kate complains that "Errol is no' a man." Errol disproves the charge by having an illegitimate child. Kate wishes to abandon him; he will not give up her dowry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Edinburgh Magazine)
KEYWORDS: marriage pregnancy infidelity
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1658 - Wedding of Gilbert Hay, tenth earl of Errol, to Catherine Carnegie. The marriage was childless, and apparently unhappy (there was some sort of hearing in 1659), but lasted, at least officially, until Errol's death in 1674
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 231, "The Earl of Errol" (6 texts)
Bronson 231, "The Earl of Errol" (6 versions)
DBuchan 38, "The Earl of Errol" (1 text)
Kinloch-BBook IX, pp. 31-36,"Earl of Errol" (1 text)
Roud #96
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dundee, It's a Pretty Place" (floating lyrics)
File: C231
===
NAME: Earl of Mar's Daughter, The [Child 270]
DESCRIPTION: The earl's daughter brings home a dove, who at night turns into a man and begets seven sons by her. When a man woos the earl's daughter, the earl decides to kill the bird and have her marry. The bird returns with an avian army and reclaims his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828 (Buchan)
KEYWORDS: love courting bird childbirth father marriage rescue
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 270, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
Bronson 270, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 version)
Leach, pp. 641-645, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
OBB 25, "Earl Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
DT, MARDAUGH
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #324, "The Earl of Mar's Daughter" (1 text)
Roud #3879
File: C270
===
NAME: Earl of Murray: see The Bonny Earl of Murray [Child 181] (File: C181)
===
NAME: Earl of Westmoreland, The [Child 177]
DESCRIPTION: Following the failure of his revolt, Neville of Westmoreland flees to Scotland and is taken to Hume Castle. Neville at last sails for Seville, and is given office by the queen. He fights the heathen and is victorious, and receives various rewards
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: rebellion exile nobility royalty battle fight
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 177, "The Earl of Westmoreland" (1 text)
Roud #4007
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rising in the North" [Child 175] (subject)
cf. "Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas" [Child 176] (subject)
NOTES: For the background to this song, see the notes on The Rising in the North" [Child 175]; also "Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas" [Child 176].
The song itself is almost pure fiction; the only truth is in the introduction, in which Neville flees to Scotland, goes to Hume, and sails to the Continent. (In reality, he spend the rest of his life in exile in Flanders.)
One suspects that this story somehow got mixed up with a romance. I have this odd feeling the legend of Guy of Warwick is involved (though the only clear similarity between the two is that both fought pagans); Guy was not a Neville, but the most famous Earl of Warwick in English history was of the Neville family (though a cadet branch). - RBW
File: C177
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NAME: Earl Rothes [Child 297]
DESCRIPTION: Lady Ann is enamored of Earl Rothes, though he is married. Her (parents?) promise to care for her well if she will forget him. She says she will stay with Earl Rothes until her child is born. Her young brother vows revenge. But she stays with the Earl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love courting infidelity nobility family
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Child 297, "Earl Rothes" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 682-683, "Earl Rothes" (1 text)
Roud #4025
File: C297
===
NAME: Early in the Morning (I): see The Drunken Sailor (Early in the Morning) (File: Doe048)
===
NAME: Early in the Morning (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Early in the morning, just about the break of day, You ought to see me grab my pillow Where my good gal used to lay." The singer is going up river; he complains about his girl, his life, his failure to listen to mother, the need to travel to escape jail
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: travel separation mother prison
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, pp. 104-105, "Early in the Mornin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10038
File: MWhee104
===
NAME: Early in the Spring: see Early, Early in the Spring [Laws M1] (File: LM01)
===
NAME: Early Monday Morning
DESCRIPTION: "Early Monday morning the maid came at the door With her shoes and stockings in her hand and I don't know what before. I tied up her garter so neatly and so trim She threw her arms apart and I hugged her quietly in"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: courting clothes
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 32-33, "Early Monday Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2275
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cindy" (floating verses there and many other songs)
NOTES: Creighton-Maritime: "[The singer] probably knew more verses but, being questionable, he refrained from singing them."
From _Jefferson Democrat_,Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Missouri, FRIDAY, 23 DECEMBER 1870 "JEFFERSON COUNTY SIXTY YEARS AGO - .... If, by chance, a young lady fell heir to a pair of shoes -- as times improved -- when she went abroad she always carried her shoes and stockings in her hand until near her journey's end, when she would stop and put them on, smooth back her hair, and all was right." (Source: rootsweb pub site) See a similar note in _Early Settlers of Sangamon County -- 1876_ by John Carroll Power at rootsweb site.
Note also the following from "The Maid of Ballymore": Markie Bawn's sweetheart has just told him she will marry if he gets her parents consent. "Markie Bawn he was overjoyed at hearing the good news, And to make him go the quicker, he tied on his shoes. He went straight to my mama ...." Markie may as well been trying to make a good impression, which he does. - BS
File: CrMa032
===
NAME: Early One Morning
DESCRIPTION: "Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing in the valley below, Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me; How could you use a poor maiden so?" She laments the young made who made promises and then betrayed her for a new girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1866 (Hullah, "The Song Book")
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Early One Morning" (1 text)
DT, EARLY1AM*
Roud #12682
File: FSWB185
===
NAME: Early One Morning in the Month of July
DESCRIPTION: "Early one morning in the month of July We finished our crops and laid them all by." The singers depart from their girls. They exhort their patriots to fight hard: "We're bound to whip the Yankees, we'll do it or die." They praise Lee and insult Butler
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar farming separation
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 377, "Early One Morning in the Month of July" (1 text)
Roud #11749
NOTES: This is, perhaps, a reference to recruiting some (Civil War) regiment or company: Companies usually formed when an eminent person (usually a man who hoped to be an officer) signed up all the willing men in an area to form a unit.
What unit, though, cannot be told from Brown's fragment. The natural assumption is that it is July 1861, but this renders the reference to Lee and Butler mysterious; Lee did not assume command of the Army of Northern Virginia until 1862, and by that time Butler was in New Orleans.
The closest Lee and Butler came to crossing swords was in the 1864 campaign, when Butler commanded the Army of the James which miserably failed to capture Petersburg by surprise. But by that time, the Confederacy had every man it could find under arms -- by means of a draft. No summer soldiering! - RBW
File: Br3377
===
NAME: Early Spring: see The Sailor and His Bride [Laws K10] (File: LK10)
===
NAME: Early Sunday Morning: see This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes (File: Br3096)
===
NAME: Early, Early in the Spring (II): see The Croppy Boy (I) [Laws J14] (File: LJ14)
===
NAME: Early, Early in the Spring [Laws M1]
DESCRIPTION: The singer is (pressed and) sent to sea. (He writes to his true love, but her father withholds the letters.) When he returns, her father tells him she has wed another. He accuses her of unfaithfulness and swears to spend the rest of his life at sea
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (Logan; broadside version appears to date to the seventeenth century)
KEYWORDS: separation courting love poverty sailor pressgang
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So) Britain(England) Canada (Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (21 citations)
Laws M1, "Early, Early in the Spring"
Belden, pp. 163-164, "Early, Early in the Spring" (2 texts)
Randolph 81, "Early, Early in the Spring" (4 texts plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 77-80, "Early, Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 81D)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 144-145, "The Disappointed Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 87, "Early, Early in the Spring" (2 texts plus 1 excerpt)
Hudson 41, pp. 155-156, "Early in the Spring" (1 text)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 144-146, "Early, Early in the Spring" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 328-331, "Early, Early in the Spring" (3 texts, the third very short; 2 texts on p. 444)
SharpAp 125, "Early, Early in the Spring" (5 texts, 5 tunes)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 154-155, "Early Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 98, "Early Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 549-550, "The Letters of Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 63, "Early, Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 66, "The Trail to Mexico" (5 texts, 1 tune, of which only the "C" and "D" texts go here; "A" and "B" are "The Trail to Mexico" and "E" is "Going to Leave Old Texas")
Logan, pp. 28-30, "The Disappointed Sailor" (1 text)
JHCox 111, "Early in the Spring" (3 texts plus mention of 1 more)
JHCoxIIA, #18, pp. 79-80, "'Twas Early in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cambiaire, pp. 55-56, "Early, Early in the Spring (The Girl I Left Behind)" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2863, "When I went early in the Spring"; cf. ZN1423, "In e'ery street I hear 'em sing"
DT 429, EARLYSPR*
Roud #152
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Early, Early, All In the Spring" (on Voice15, IRRCinnamond03)
Margaret Dirrane, "'Twas Early, Early in the Spring" (on Aran1)
Sam Hazel, "Early, Early in the Spring" (AFS 3095 A2, 3095 B1, 1939)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Trail to Mexico" [Laws B13] (plot)
NOTES: Several texts of this song, including Belden's "B" and one found by Lomax, convert the sailor to a cowboy. It is quite likely that this is a deliberate recension, and so perhaps worthy of separate listing. But Laws does not distinguish the versions, so we don't either. But cf. "The Trail to Mexico" [Laws B13]. - RBW
File: LM01
===
NAME: Early, Early, by the Break of Day: see Died for Love (III) (Early, Early) (File: HHH089)
===
NAME: Earsdon Sword-Dancer's Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "Good people, give ear to my story, I've called in to see you by chance; Five lads I have brought blythe and merry." The company welcomes in the new year. The gentlemen are introduced: The sons of Nelson, Elliot, etc. They prepare for the sword dance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 154-155, "The Earsdon Sword-Dancer's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR154 (Partial)
Roud #610
NOTES: There are a number of songs of this type, which Roud generally lumps under his #610. But they are at the very least different recensions of the same source.
The first character mentioned in this song, Elliot, is George Augustus Elliot, Lord Heathfield (1717-1790), who was governor of Gibraltar from 1776 until his death; from 1779-1783, he defended The Rock during the so-called "Great Siege."
Adam Duncan (1731-1804) was the British admiral at the Battle of Camperdown (1797). The British fleet was still feeling the after-effects of the Spithead and Nore mutinies (for which see "Poor Parker"), and was desperately trying to hold back the Dutch fleet which hoped to support a French invasion of England.
Dutch commander Johann William de Winter (1750-1812) knew his fleet was weak (of the eleven ships lost by the Dutch, the British declined to take any into their navy), but he did at one point try to break out; the British managed to concentrate against him and win a bloody strategic victory, forcing the remnant of the Dutch fleet back into the Texel harbors.
If you've read this far, you doubtless know who Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was, so I won't delay you with his story.
So too for Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), victor at Waterloo and designer of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the defensive positions guarding Portugal from French attack.
The final character mentioned is "the son of the Great Buonaparte" (the original Corsican spelling of Napoleon's surname). Napoleon (1769-1821) had only one legitimate son, the Duke of Reichstadt (1811-1832), though there were illegitimate offspring. Not in England, of course. - RBW
File: StoR154
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NAME: Ease that Trouble in the Mind: see Went to the River (I) (File: R258)
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NAME: East Bound Train, The: see Going for a Pardon (File: R721)
===
NAME: East Colorado Blues: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
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NAME: East Virginia (Dark Hollow)
DESCRIPTION: "I was born in (east Virginia); North Carolina I did go. There I met a pretty woman, And her name I did not know." The singer grieves that her parents would marry her to another. "I'd rather be in some dark hollow... than see you be another man's darling"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation grief
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
BrownIII 279, "Must I Go to Old Virginia" (1 text, with a distorted first line and many floating bits; Roud lumps it with "Porto Rico")
SharpAp 167, "In Old Virginny" (4 texts, 4 tunes, but "C" is "Man of Constant Sorrow" and "D" is a collection of floaters)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 80 "East Virginia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 134-135, "[Old Virginny]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 65, "Old Virginny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 27 "East Virginia Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 115-116, "Oh, Molly Dear" (1 text, very mixed, with verses from this song, from "The Drowsy Sleeper" [Laws M4], and some floaters); pp. 275-276, "East Virginia (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 44, "East Virginia" (1 text)
DT, EASTVIRG*
Roud #3396
RECORDINGS:
Clarence "Tom" Ashley, "Dark Holler Blues" (Columbia 15489-D, 1929)
[Clarence] Ashley & [Gwen] Foster, "East Virginia Blues" (Vocalion 02576, rec. 1933)
Carter Family, "The East Virginia Blues" (Bluebird B-5650/Montgomery Ward 4550, 1934)
Logan English, "East Virginia" (on LEnglish01)
Betty Garland, "I Was Born in East Virginia" (on BGarland01)
Kelly Harrell, "O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother" (Victor 20280, 1926; on KHarrell01 -- primarily a version of "The Drowsy Sleeper" but with several verses belonging here)
Roscoe Holcomb, "East Virginia" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
Buell Kazee, "East Virginia" (Brunswick 154B, 1927; on AAFM3); "East Virginia" (on Kazee01)
Uncle Dave Macon, "East Virginia Blues" (Victor 27494, 1941; rec. 1935)
New Lost City Ramblers, "East Virginia" (on NLCR01); "Dark Holler Blues" (on NLCR16)
Pete Seeger, "East Virginia Blues" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01)
Pete Steele, "East Virginia" (on PSteele01)
Doc Watson, "East Virginia" (on RitchieWatsonCD1)
Doc Watson & Clarence (Tom) Ashley, "Dark Holler Blues" (on FOTM)
Walter Williams, "East Virginia" (AFS, 1937; on KMM)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister" (tune)
cf. "Greenback Dollar" (words, tune)
cf. "Little Birdie" (floating lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Carter Family, "East Virginia Blues, No. 2" (Banner 33463/Melotone 13430/Romeo 5482/Conqueror 8535, 1935)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Dark Holler Blues
File: JRSF134
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NAME: East Virginia Girls: see Come All You Virginia Girls (Arkansas Boys; Texian Boys; Cousin Emmy's Blues; etc.) (File: R342)
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NAME: Eastbound Train, The: see Going for a Pardon (File: R721)
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NAME: Easter Snow
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a beautiful girl and asks her to come home with him to "Easter Snow." He says she will see foxhunters and other exciting things. She tells him that she is pledged to another who lives far from Easter Snow
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection hunting
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Kennedy 128, "Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H66, pp. 369-370, "Wester Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 43, "The Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 29-30, "Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBoyle 10, "Estersnowe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2122
RECORDINGS:
Brigid Tunney, "Easter Snow" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
NOTES: There is a lot going on behind the scenes of this commonplace (even banal) text. "Easter Snow" or its variants is conceded to be a folk variant of "Estersnoew," a region in Roscommon. This in turn is a wearing-down of a Gaelic name -- but Kennedy (based on Petrie Coll) gives the Gaelic as "Iseart Nuadhain," while Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list the title in Petrie/Stanford as "Diseart Nuadhain, no Sneachta Casga." In any event, it appears that there is a Gaelic tune and a Gaelic name behind the song. - RBW
File: HHH066
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NAME: Eastern Light, The [Laws D11]
DESCRIPTION: A sailor, having spent his money on a drunken spree, ships on board the "Eastern Light," fishing on the Grand Banks. The captain drives the crew hard until they are forced to return to Gloucester
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925
KEYWORDS: sea work fishing ship
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws D11, "The Eastern Light"
Doyle3, pp. 63-64, "Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 117, "Song about the Fishing Banks" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 105-106, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 63, "The Banks of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 820, EASTRNLT
Roud #2235
NOTES: [According to the Digital Tradition,] the year is 1873 -- 1863 [according to]  Doyle3 -- and Eastern Light was built in 1866. - BS
File: LD11
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NAME: Eastern Train, The: see The Harvard Student (The Pullman Train) (File: R391)
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NAME: Easy Rider
DESCRIPTION: "Easy rider, see what you have done... Made me love you, now your man done come." The singer expresses regret about the relationship between men and women, but hopes to do better in the future
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Ma Rainey)
KEYWORDS: love courting husband infidelity floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Sandburg, pp. 246-247, "C. C. Rider" (2 short texts, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 22, "Easy Rider" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, p. 19, "(See See Rider)" (1 tune, partial text); cf. pp. 152-153 (apparently a combination of this song with "Satisfied") (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 75, "Easy Rider" (1 text)
DT, EASYRIDR*
Roud #10056
RECORDINGS:
Texas Alexander, "Easy Rider Blues" (Vocalion 02856, 1934)
Bea Booze [pseud. for Muriel Nichols], "See See Rider Blues" (Decca 8633, 1942; Decca 48055, n.d.)
Jimmie Davis, "Easy Rider Blues" (Bluebird B-5570, 1934)
Scott Dunbar, Celeste Dunbar & Rosie Dunbar, "Easy Rider" (on MuSouth05)
Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Easy Rider Blues" (Paramount 12474, 1927)
Tom Johnson & John Copeland, "See See Mama" (on MuSouth05)
Sam McGee, "Easy Rider" (Vocalion 5254, c. 1929; rec. 1928)
Ma Rainey, "See See Rider Blues" (Paramount 12252, 1925)
Leo Soileau, "Easy Rider Blues" (Paramount 12808, 1929)
Chuck Willis, "C. C. Rider" (Classic Wax CW-0004, rec. 1957)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Birdie" (theme)
cf. "Chilly Winds" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Vesta and Mattie's Blues" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang's "b" definition [of "easy rider"], "a woman who is sexually promiscuous or easily seduced", is the one that applies here. (Another definition, interestingly enough, is "guitar.") - PJS
File: LxU022
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NAME: Ebenezer, The
DESCRIPTION: The sailor recalls a dreadful voyage: "Ev'ry day was scrub and grease her." The first mate was "the dirtiest man you ever seen"; the second had left his former line when it "got too hot." The food was bread "as tough as any brass" and over-salted meat
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship sailor abuse hardtimes food
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 200-201, "The Ebenezer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 476-477, "The Ebenezer" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 354-355]
DT, EBENZER*
Roud #8237
File: Doe200
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NAME: Echo Canyon
DESCRIPTION: Describes the building of a railroad through Echo Canyon; Mormons work hard and cheerfully. In the fall they will meet their women; in the future the locomotive will gather Saints from afar, bringing them to Zion (Utah) while the wicked are swept away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (recorded by L. M. Hilton)
KEYWORDS: pride virtue train railroading technology dancing party moniker worker
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1868 - Brigham Young contracts with Union Pacific to furnish Mormon labor for the building of the transcontinental railroad
FOUND_IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, ECHOCNYN*
Roud #4749
RECORDINGS:
L. M. Hilton, "Echo Canyon Song" (on Hilton01)
NOTES: This almost got the "nonballad" keyword, but there's a thin thread of narrative, albeit in the present tense. - PJS
File: RecEchCa
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NAME: Echo Mocks the Corncrake, The
DESCRIPTION: "The lass that I loved first of all was handsome, young, and fair." He recalls their happy life. He contrasts the complex, expensive demands of city life with the joys of rural citizenship. He waits for the corncrake to bring back the summer weather
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love courting bird home
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 325-327, "The Corncraik Amang the Whinny Knowes" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H18b, p. 272, "The Whinny Knowes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, p. 182, "The Corncrake Among the Whinny Knowes" (1 text)
DT, CORNCRK*
Roud #2736
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(39), "The Corncraik Amang the Whinny Knowes" ("Oh, the lass that I had first of a'"), The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1868 could not be downloaded and verified. - BS
File: HHH018b
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NAME: Echoing Horn, The
DESCRIPTION: At the dawn of day the echoing horn calls to the foxhunt; the fox breaks, the dogs chase, the horses leap fences and stiles. When the fox is killed, the hunters take his brush, then go home and drink while their wives give great delight
AUTHOR: unknown, possibly Thomas Arne
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Williams)
KEYWORDS: sex death hunting sports nonballad animal dog wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 246, "The E-choin' Horn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #878
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Reynard ('A Good Many Gentlemen')" (theme)
cf. "Bold Reynard the Fox (Tallyho! Hark! Away!)" (theme)
cf. "Joe Bowman" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Glittering Dewdrops
When Morning Stands on Tiptoe
NOTES: In some versions, including "Glittering Dewdrops," the animal being hunted is a hare. Kennedy notes a song "with the same title" being sung in Thomas Arne's operetta "Thomas and Sally," 1761, but without seeing the text I'm not willing to cite this as earliest date, although this song certainly has a composed air about it. - PJS
File: K246
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NAME: Ed Hawkins
DESCRIPTION: "Come stand around me young and old And see me welcome death so bold." The singer warns others of his misdeeds, says that he is arraigned for murder and sentenced to die; he prepares for the afterlife and declares, "I do not fear to meet the grave."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: prisoner death homicide punishment
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 165-167, (no title) (1 text, 1 tune; also a fragment on p. 164 allegedly about the same event and by the same author)
NOTES: According to Thomas's informant, "Ed [Hawkins] was promised to seven women, married four, killed seven men, and was scarce twenty-one when he died on the scaffold." Both the songs recorded by Thomas show the singer as penitent -- but neither mentions Hawkins by name; they are not the standard goodnight by any means. - RBW
File: ThBa165
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NAME: Ed's Thoughts
DESCRIPTION: Recitation; the speaker and comrades try to break a logjam. The jam breaks but Ed McCoy is pinned under a small log. A big log knocks it loose. Asked what he was thinking, Ed answers, "My best girl I never thought of/I was afraid my lice would drown."
AUTHOR: Probably Marion Ellsworth
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation; the speaker and his comrades Ed McCoy and Bob Joy, are loggers attempting to break a logjam on the Au Sable river; the jam breaks and all head for the shore, but Ed is pinned under a small log. A big log comes along, but instead of crushing Ed, it knocks the small one away, freeing him. Asked if he thought of home, mother and his girlfriend, he answers, "My best girl I never thought of/I was afraid my lice would drown."
KEYWORDS: lumbering humorous logger work recitation escape
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 101, "Ed's Thoughts" (1 text)
Roud #8881
NOTES: This, like the other pieces probably written by Ellsworth, does not seem to have entered oral tradition. - PJS
File: Be101
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NAME: Eddystone Light: see The Keeper of the Eddystone Light (File: PBB120)
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NAME: Edgartown Whaling Song: see Hearts of Gold (File: SWMS068)
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NAME: Edinburgh Town: see Caroline of Edinborough Town [Laws P27] (File: LP27)
===
NAME: Edom o' Gordon: see Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon [Child 178] (File: C178)
===
NAME: Educated Feller: see The Zebra Dun [Laws B16] (File: LB16)
===
NAME: Edward (II): see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Edward (III) (Edward Fitzgerald)
DESCRIPTION: Surrounded by "ruthless villains" as he slept, Edward wakes and stabs Swan but is seriously wounded by Ryan and Sirr. "Proclaim that Edward's blood is spill'd! By traitor's hand, by coward Sirr, Revenge! Revenge! for Edward's kill'd."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: rebellion fight betrayal death Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 4 1798 - Lord Edward Fitzgerald, head of the military committee of the United Irishmen dies in Newgate, Dublin after being wounded and arrested by Major Henry Charles Sirr on May 19; Wexford Rebellion begins May 26, 1798 (source: The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site entry for [Lord] Edward Fitzgerald)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 8, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 52, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Bidden to the Wake of Fair" (from William Shields' opera _Rosina_, published in 1782, according to Moylan) (tune)
cf. "Henry Downs" (character of Major Sirr) and references there
NOTES: Zimmermann 8: Fitzgerald, hiding in Dublin, is betrayed [by Francis Magan who received a reward] and wounded and captured by a raiding party. Members of the raiding party named in the ballad are Major Sirr, Major Swan and Captain Ryan. One of his captors [Ryan] is killed. Fitgerald was taken to Newgate jail where he died.
For a brief biography of Lord Edward Fitzgerald(1763-1798) see The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site entry for [Lord] Edward Fitzgerald.
For more about Major Sirr see "Henry Downs," "The Major" and "The Man from God-Knows-Where." - BS
Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798) was a younger son of the Duke of Leinster. He spent time in the British army, but the French Revolution turned him against monarchy. If Thomas Pakenham (_The Year of Liberty_, p. 38 and following) is to be believed, he was not really very bright -- but the United Irishmen still found him useful, because he was handsome and gallant, a good Man on Horseback to inspire recruiting. The brains of the movement -- Thomas Addis Emmet and the like -- knew a good thing when they saw one.
Of course, they had to do something with him to keep him attached to the movement. And he was a hothead. By mid-1798, the moderates were trying to calm things down -- but all of the leaders, except Fitzgerald, were in custody by May. Soldiers had come to Fitzgerald's home in March and found his wife shoving incriminating papers into the fire (see Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 80). Fitzgerald was still at large but unable to show himself. He and the few other free leaders decided to rebel even without the French. On May 12, the English place a reward of a thousand pounds on Fitzgerald's head.
On May 18, Fitzgerald barely avoided capture. The next day, as he suffered from a severe cold, Major Swann and Captain Ryan arrived at his door and tried to arrest him. Fitzgerald stabbed Swann three times, then Ryan 12 or more times, but Swann was able to run for help, and Ryan grabbed Fitzgerald's legs even while dying. Major Sirr, who was commanding a guard outside, arrived and shot Fitzgerald in the shoulder. He was taken into custody, and died of his wounds and blood poisoning on June 4 (Pakenham, pp. 92fff, 235ffff. Golway, pp. 81-84)
There were several spies involved. In addition to Francis Magan, a member of the United Irish executive, Thomas Reynolds was to betray the organization's plans (Pakenham, pp. 43-44).
For the general context of the aftermath of Fitzgerald's arrest and the 1798, see the notes to "Boulavogue." Fitzgerald is also mentioned in "The Green above the Red" and "The Shan Van Voght."
There is a recent biography of Fitzgerald, Stella Tillyard, _Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary_ (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997). It seems to have been fairly popular, but it has no footnotes, an extremely thin bibliography, and -- as I discovered upon trying to read it -- it casually assumes things it cannot possibly know. It appears to me to be more a historical novel than an genuine biography. - RBW
File: Zimm008
===
NAME: Edward [Child 13]
DESCRIPTION: A mother questions her son about his recent deeds and the blood on his weapon. After many evasions, he reveals that he has killed his brother.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: homicide brother questions
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England) US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Ireland
REFERENCES: (37 citations)
Child 133, "Edward" (2 texts)
Bronson 13, "Edward" (25 versions -- of which, however, #10 is actually "Lizie Wan" -- plus 2 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 433, "Edward" (notes only)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 82-84, "Edward, Edward" (1 text)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 111-112, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBoyle 25, "What Brought the Blood?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 6, "What Blood on the Point of Your Knife" (3 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes) {A= Bronson's#9, B=#6a, D=#23}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 21-23, "What Blood on the Point of Your Knife" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 6A) {Bronson's #9}
Eddy 6, "Edward" (1 fragmentary text that might be this or "Lizie Wan")
Flanders/Olney, pp. 100-101, "Edward" [listed in error as Child 12] (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}; see also "Edward Ballad" on pp. 96-100, which is closer to "The Twa Brothers"
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 208-212, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Davis-Ballads 7, "Edward" (4 texts plus a fragment; two tunes entitled "What Is That On the End of Your Sword," "Edward"; 1 more version mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #19, #22}
Davis-More 8, pp. 60-67, "Edward" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 7, "Edward" (3 texts)
Hudson 5, pp. 70-72, "Edward" (2 texts)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 6, "Eward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 180-184, "Edward" (3 texts, with local titles "Edward," (no title), "The Murdered Brother"; 3 tunes on pp. 404-406) {Bronson's #5, [b], #3}
JHCoxIIA, #4, pp. 16-18, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 85-88, "Edward" (3 texts)
OBB 65, "Edward, Edward" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 156, "Edward" (2 texts)
PBB 63, "Edward" (1 text)
Niles 10, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 9, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Gummere, pp. 169-170+342, "Edward" (1 text)
SharpAp 8 "Edward" (10 texts, some of them fragmentary, 10 tunes; the "B" and "F" fragments might be "Lizie Wan") {Bronson's #13, #20, #11, #1, #7, #16, #14, #15, #12, #8}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 8, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Hodgart, p. 119, "Edward" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 5, "Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 7, "Edward" (2 texts)
LPound-ABS, 9, pp. 23-24, "Edward" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 59-60, "How Come That Blood?" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 56-58, "Edward" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 223, "Edward" (1 text)
DT 13, EDWARD1* EDWARD2*
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #421, "Edward" (1 text)
Maud Karpeles, _Folk Songs of Europe_, Oak, 1956, 1964, p. 4, prints the Danish version, "Svend I Rosensgaard," with a loose English translation; the first few verses are quite close to the English, then turns to a list of impossible wonders
ST C013 (Full)
Roud #200
RECORDINGS:
Mary Ellen Connors, Jeannie Robertson, Thomas Moran, Angela Brasil [composite] "Edward" (on FSBBAL1) {cf. Bronson's #3.1 in addenda}
Mary Delaney, "What Put the Blood?" (on Voice17)
Charles Ingenthron, "Edward" [singer calls it, "The Little Yellow Dog," but the LC folklorists retitle it "Edward"] (AFS; on LC12) {Bronson's #6(b)}
Jean Ritchie, "Edward" (on JRitchie02)
Jeannie Robertson, Paddy Tunney, Angela Brasil [composite] "Edward" (on FSB4) {cf. Bronson's #3.1 in addenda}
Paddy Tunney, "Son, Come Tell It To Me" (on IRPTunney01); "What Put the Blood?" (on Voice03); "What Put the Blood on Your Right Shoulder, Son" (on IRPTunney02)
Mrs. Crockett Ward, "Edward" (AFS; on LC57)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lizie Wan" [Child 65] (plot,lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Son Davie, Son Davie
What's That Blood On Your Sword?
The Murdered Brother
Dear Son
NOTES: This song and "Lizie Wan" have cross-fertilized so heavily (especially in the ending, where the murderous son is cross-examined) that it is often not possible to tell fragmentary versions apart. Eddy's text, for instance, has only the questions and answers, and might be either song. - RBW
File: C013
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NAME: Edward Ballad: see The Twa Brothers [Child 49] (listed in Flanders/Olney as Child 13) (File: C049)
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NAME: Edward Boyle
DESCRIPTION: Edward Boyle, helped by friends, leaves his lover, parents and Ireland for America. The singer recalls his flute playing. She curses Columbus: many lovers mourn his follower's return. If she had gold she would give it up for one glimpse of Edward Boyle.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1970 (Morton-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: love emigration separation America Ireland nonballad music
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 139-140, "Edward Boyle" (1 text)
Morton-Ulster 28, "My Charming Edward Boyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Maguire 43, pp. 133-134,172, "My Charming Edward Boyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2906
File: TST139
===
NAME: Edward Hickman (Marian Parker IV)
DESCRIPTION: Hickman kidnaps Marian Parker, hoping to gain a ransom. After briefly treating her well, he kills her and flees. At last captured, he is tried and sentenced to be hanged. His mother laments his fate
AUTHOR: Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Andrew Jenkins)
KEYWORDS: homicide execution trial abduction mother
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 14, 1927 - Kidnapping and murder of twelve (eleven?)-year-old Marian Parker
Dec 17, 1927 - Discovery by her father of the girl's mutilated body
Oct 19, 1928 - Execution of William Edward Hickman for the murder
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 257, "Edward Hickman" (1 text)
Roud #4106
RECORDINGS:
Blind Andy [pseud. for Andrew Jenkins], "The Fate of Edward Hickman" (OKeh 45197, 1928) [The flip side is also a Marian Parker ballad]
Edd Rice, "Fate of Edward Hickman" (Vocalion 5216, c. 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Marian Parker (I)" [Laws F33] (subject)
cf. "Marian Parker (II)" (subject)
cf. "Marian Parker (III)" (subject)
NOTES: This is item dE49 in Laws's Appendix II. Laws lists a total of four Marian Parker ballads (the others are F33, dF56, and dF57). This, one of two by Andrew Jenkins and appearing in the Brown collection, has the opening stanza, "Oh, come all ye good people And listen while I tell The fate of Edward Hickman, A boy we all know well." - RBW
File: LdE49
===
NAME: Edward Lewis
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, we heard a different signal All up and down the Clinchfield Line Since the hand of Edward Lewis Pulls no more old 99." The singer says that those along the line will miss Lewis, an engineer, and says that he has gone on to better things.
AUTHOR: Words: Jack Hartley?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: railroading death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 291, "Edward Lewis" (1 text)
Roud #6635
File: BrII291
===
NAME: Edward Mathews
DESCRIPTION: "Poor Edward Mathews, where is he? Sent headlong to eternity." "O! V. P. Coolidge, how could you So black a deed of murder do?" "The hay for cattle which he drove You swore within your heart to have." Coolidge murders Mathews and hopes for forgiveness
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: homicide food
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 83-87, "(Edward Mathews") (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: According to Burt, this happened near Waterville, Maine, where V. P. Coolidge tried to steal a load of hay from Edward Mathews, failed, tricked the fellow into giving him a mortgage (!), and then killed him. But she is unable to provide a date. - RBW
File: Burt083
===
NAME: Edward Sinclair Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "When first I saw Edward Sinclair He was a grown up boy." Sinclair's life is recounted as he starts his lumber mill: "when he was defeated He would always try again." His sons carry on the firm and some key employees are named.
AUTHOR: Patrick Hurley of Cassilis "probably about 1902" (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: commerce lumbering ship moniker family boss
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 15, "The Edward Sinclair Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi015 (Partial)
Roud #9197
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of Mullen Stream" (regarding Sinclair's lumber operation)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Edward Sinclair ... was a prominent Miramichi lumber operator in the 1880's and 1890's.... The locality was known as Bridgetown after the Intercolonial Railway bridge was built." - BS
File: MaWi015
===
NAME: Edward, On Lough Erne Shore
DESCRIPTION: Edward has been transported for seven years. His lover, left alone on Lough Erne's shore, remembers their days together. Now she weeps all night: "my rose is fading and my hopes decay." She wishes she could go to him "like a moon o'er the ocean"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1991 (Tunney-SongsThunder)
KEYWORDS: love transportation separation Ireland nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 141-142, "Edward, On Lough Erne Shore" (1 text)
File: TST141
===
NAME: Edward's Abdication
DESCRIPTION: "Come hearken good friends to this story so true... Concerning the love of this bonny young prince, The King of his own countree." Although his family is opposed, he insists on marrying the woman he loves. Finally, in disgust, he "cast off his crown."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: royalty love marriage
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1936 - Abdication of Edward VIII and his marriage to Wallis Simpson
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', p. 262, (no title) (1 text)
ST ThBa262A (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "King Edwards" (theme of Edward VIII)
NOTES: Thomas does not indicate a tune for this, other than saying that it is to an English ballad; I strongly suspect it uses "The House Carpenter."
It's worth noting that Edward VIII was *not* a "young prince" when he met the (then-still-married) Mrs. Simpson. Edward's dates were 1894-1972, meaning that he married at 42.
Edward, an easygoing man brought up by strict parents, had by then displayed a strong attraction to married women. In that context, it's perhaps no surprise that Bessie Wallace Warfield Simpson (1896-1986), who was on her second marriage when he met her, gained his attention above all.
When George VI died early in 1936, it became increasingly important that the middle-aged prince marry, but he wanted no one except Mrs. Simpson (who was not divorced until late in that year). This posed many problems: She was not young (meaning that producing an heir might be problematic), she was divorced, she was a commoner, she was American. Edward finally abdicated at the end of 1936, married Mrs. Simpson a few days later, and assumed a career of quiet bitterness against the monarchy. - RBW
File: ThBa262A
===
NAME: Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low [Laws M34]
DESCRIPTION: Edwin, now rich, returns to his sweetheart after years at sea. At her advice, he goes to her father's inn in disguise. Her father murders him for his money. The girl learns the truth and turns in her father, who is executed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(2031))
KEYWORDS: homicide father money execution love punishment separation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(Lond,South),Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (23 citations)
Laws M34, "Edwin (Edmund, Edward) in the Lowlands Low"
Belden, pp. 127-128, "Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
Randolph 140, "Young Edmond Dell" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
BrownII 79, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (2 texts)
Chappell-FSRA 36, "Amy and Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 35, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 12, "He Ploweed the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
SharpAp 56, "Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (11 texts, 11 tunes)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 220-222, "Young Edmund of the Lowlands" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 641-642, "Young Edmond of the Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 32, "Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 106-108, "Young Edmon Bold" (1 text, 1 tune; the text, from manuscript, is slightly damaged as well as very curiously written)
Mackenzie 27, "Young Edmund" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 703-705, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (2 texts)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 42, "Young Edward" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 49, The Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 57, "The Ploughboy of the Lowlands" (1 text, 1 tune)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 106-107, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H113, p. 434, "Young Edward Bold/The Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Ulster 32, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 106, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 120-121, "Young Emily" (1 text)
DT 330, EDWRDLOW*
Roud #182
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "Young Edmund" (on Voice17)
Ollie Gilbert, "The Diver Boy (Edwin in the Lowlands Low)" (on LomaxCD1701)
Geordie Hanna, "Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low" (on Voice03)
Louis Killen, "Young Edwin in the Lowlands" (on ESFB2)
Maggie Murphy, "Young Edmund" (on IRHardySons)
Doug Wallin, "Young Emily" (on Wallins1) (on Chandler01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2031), "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Firth c.12(289), Johnson Ballads 214, Harding B 15(394a), Harding B 11(1459), Firth c.12(301), Harding B 11(4363), Harding B 11(4361), "Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low"; Harding B 11(1433), "Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low"; Harding B 11(4362)[some lines illegible], "Young Edwin in the Low-Lands Low"; Harding B 25(2133), Harding B 16(315b), "Young Edwin of the Lowlands Low"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lovely Willie" [Laws M35] (plot)
cf. "Come All You Worthy Christians" (tune)
cf. "Dives and Lazarus" (tune)
cf. "The Lover's Curse (Kellswater)" (themes)
SAME_TUNE:
Bushes and Briars (per broadsides Bodleian Harding B 11(2031), Bodleian Johnson Ballads 214, Bodleian Harding B 11(1459))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Young Emma
NOTES: In Harry Cox's version on Voice17, Emma -- after singing the "shells in the ocean" verse found in "I Never Will Marry" -- then "sick and broken-hearted to Bedlam had to go, And her shrieks were of young Edmund who ploughed the lowland low." In that, and most of the rest of its text, it follows the Bodleian broadsides. Newfoundland versions -- all from the northern Avalon Peninsula -- seem based on the broadsides, keep or modify the "shells in the ocean" verse, and drop the Bedlam verse (which, I suppose, has no local meaning); see Karpeles-Newfoundland 32, Peacock, pp. 641-642 [the verse is almost unrecognizable] and "Young Edmund in the Lowlands" in _Songs of Newfoundland_ at the "MacEdward Leach and Songs of Atlantic Canada" site. A good, but not infallible, clue that the broadside version is being followed is the opening: "Come all you feeling lovers and listen to my song, While I unfold concerning gold, that guides so many wrong." Greig also has a broadside-based version that modifies "shells in the ocean" and drops the Bedlam verse (Greig 123 p. 1, "Young Emma," _Folk-Song of the North-East_). BS
The version in the Warner collection is unusual in that Edmund is murdered by a robber rather than by the father, and the truth does not come out for seven years. This version also makes no mention of Edmund's money. - RBW
File: LM34
===
NAME: Edwin and Mary
DESCRIPTION: "When the proud British foe was invading the soil, Oppressing the young men of freedom and toil, Edwin bid his fair Mary adieu." He sets out "to fight over the waves." After long absence, Mary laments him; he "rushed from his ambush" to comfort her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: love separation war reunion
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Chappell-FSRA 65, "Edwin and Mary" (1 text)
DT, DARKBRIT*
Roud #9070
NOTES: Although this starts with a mention of British invaders, it continues with an account of the young man fighting on or across the ocean. Given how small the American navy was in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, I have to suspect that this is a slightly patched up British song (very likely, given its ornateness, a broadside). - RBW
File: ChFRA065
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NAME: Eenie Meenie Minie Mo (Counting Rhyme)
DESCRIPTION: "Eenie meenie minie mo, Catch a (nigger/tiger) by the toe, If he hollers, let him go, Eenie meenie minie mo."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Leather); Simpson and Roud report an 1885 collection in Canada
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NE) Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Linscott, p. 5, [no title] (1 text, the second of three "counting out" rhymes)
Leather, pp. 128-129, "Counting-out rhymes" (sundry short texts, not quite the same as the American versions but too close to separate)
MHenry-Appalachians, p. 238, (no title) (2 variants of a short text); p. 240, (no title) (amother variant, quite distinct, with all nonsense words); p. 242 (no title) (another very strange variant, but too short to classify elsewhere)
Roud #13610
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Bit" (lyrics)
NOTES: A child's counting-out rhyme, used e.g. for choosing who is "it" in a game of tag. I remember, at about age ten, trying to convince other children that this was *not* random and that the counter could always pick who was "it" using this scheme. I suppose I was fortunate that they didn't listen, or I'd have been "it" every time.
More interesting is the fact that we (middle-class kids in Minnesota in about 1970) gave the second line as "Catch a tiger by the toe," compared to the seemingly-older version involving catching a "nigger." Did we modify it to "tiger" because none of us knew the meaning of the racial slur, or did our parents firmly straighten us (or our older classmates, who taught us the rhyme) out? I've no clue.
Simpson and Roud's _Dictionary of English Folklore_ (article on Counting Rymes) suggests that the British original was "chicken" or "tinker," with "beggar" also used. This seems reasonable in context, but I've yet to encounter any of these forms in real life.
It may seem odd to include this in a Ballad Index; it certainly isn't a ballad -- but it is a song, and clearly of the folk variety.
Linscott lists this among three Counting Out Rymes, with the other two being related to each other but not evidently related to this. I have not seen the others elsewhere. - RBW
File: Lins005
===
NAME: Eensy Weensy Spider, The
DESCRIPTION: "The eensy weensy spider went up the water spout, Along came the rain and washed the spider out. Along came the sun and dried up all the rain So the eensy weensy spider climbed up the spout again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: bug
FOUND_IN: US(MS)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #579, p. 234, "(Incey wincey spider, climbed the water spout)"
Roud #11586
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Eency Weency Spider
NOTES: The Baring-Goulds say that one is to enact the spider's adventures with fingers. I seem to recall seeing this, somewhere, some time in my youth -- but, 40 or so years later, I can't imagine how it was done. Still, it seems a folk game. That would, at least, explain why no two authors seem to spell the words the same way.
It certainly inspired parodies. There are two, both fairly silly, in the Digital Tradition. - RBW
File: BGMG579
===
NAME: Eggs and Marrowbones: see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] (File: LQ02)
===
NAME: Eggs In Her Basket: see The Basket of Eggs (File: VWL018)
===
NAME: Eight Famous Fishermen, The
DESCRIPTION: Eight famous fishermen are "descendents of Adam and offsprings of Cain." The eight are named and described. Then Helen Creighton is described "a-looking for tales And all that she found was six fish without scales"
AUTHOR: Edward Deal
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: fishing humorous moniker nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 192-193, "The Eight Famous Fishermen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2718
NOTES: After murdering his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8), God "put a mark" upon Cain (4:15), the nature of which is not described (though it didn't keep him from having children -- see 4:17-24).
If one takes the Bible literally, these descendants should have been wiped out in the flood, but there are quite a few later references to Cain's offspring -- e.g. Grendel in _Beowulf_. - RBW
File: CrMa192
===
NAME: Eight Little Cylinders
DESCRIPTION: "Eight little cylinders sitting facing heaven, One blew its head off, then there were seven. Seven little cylinders used to playing tricks, One warped its inlet valve...." And so on, till the last cylinder "gave its efforts up And ascended up to heaven"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: technology
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 226-227, "Eight Little Cylinders" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer" (counting)
cf. "Ten Little Injuns" (counting)
File: FaE226
===
NAME: Eight Mile Bridge (Roger O'Hehir)
DESCRIPTION: Roger reports being brought up by honest parents. He runs off with Jane Sharkey, abandons her, and is pursued by her father. He is captured several times, escapes several times, flees to England, is taken again, and will be hanged shortly
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: elopement thief prison escape punishment execution
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H486, pp. 120-121, "Eight Mile Bridge" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, RGROHEHR
Roud #13371
File: HHH486
===
NAME: Eight-Pound Bass, The
DESCRIPTION: Ice-fishing for bass on the Nor'West Miramichi river. "For I did fish in vain, I tried and tried again, I walked around the hole till I was lame, Away up on Whitney's Flats, Amongst the Nor'West brats, But that eight-pound bass I longed for never came"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1947 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: fishing river humorous moniker derivative
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 16, "The Eight-Pound Bass" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi016 (Partial)
Roud #9196
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Letter That Never Came" (tune and structure)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "This song was made up in the 1890's or early 1900's.... The eight-pound bass ... was the most salable size.... Sandy Ives says the Bass is a parody of The Letter That Never Came, to be found in Sigmund Spaeth's _Weep Some More, My Lady_, and the Bass has essentially the same tune. From another source I am told the origin of our song was The Beefsteak that I Ordered Never Came." - BS
File: MaWi016
===
NAME: Eileen
DESCRIPTION: "In a town by the sea by the Castle Duneen" Eileen loves "a young fisher laddie" lost in a storm the day before they were to be wed. She dies of a broken heart and is buried by the shore where they used to meet. Now his ghost is heard calling her there.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (NFOBlondahl03)
KEYWORDS: love death mourning fishing sea storm ghost
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Eileen" (on NFOBlondahl03)
NOTES: Blondahl03 has no liner notes confirming that this song was collected in Newfoundland. Barring another report for Newfoundland I do not assume it has been found there. There is no entry for "Eileen" in _Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index_ by Paul Mercer. - BS
The legend doesn't seem to be known in Britain either; at least, I can't find a relevant reference in Peter Underwood's _Gazeteer of British, Scottish & Irish Ghosts_. An argument from silence, I concede. - RBW
File: RcEileen
===
NAME: Eileen Aroon
DESCRIPTION: The singer compares Eileen to a gem and a flower but "dearest her constancy." If she were not true her lover would never love again. But while all else changes she, like truth alone, "is a fixed star"
AUTHOR: English translation by Gerald Griffin (1803-1840) (source: Sparling)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (Sparling)
KEYWORDS:  love lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
DT, EILAROON* (cf. EILAROO.NOT)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 117-118, "Eileen Aroon" (a translation from the Irish very unlike the usual English version); pp. 415-417, "Aileen Aroon" (the Griffin version) (2 texts)
H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 341-343, 501, "Eileen Aroon"
ADDITIONAL: Maud Karpeles, _Folk Songs of Europe_, Oak, 1956, 1964, p. 64, prints the Irish Gaelic version, "Eibhlin a Ruin," with a loose English translation, "Eileen Aroon" (2 texts, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Eileen Aroon" (on IRClancyMakem02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Robin Adair" (tune)
cf. "Sadly to Mine Heart Appealing" (portions of Stephen Foster's tune)
File: RcEilAro
===
NAME: Eileen McMahon
DESCRIPTION: "One night as I lay on my pillow, A vision came into my view, Of a ship sailin' out on the ocean." On deck is a beautiful girl "banished from Erin's green shore." She talks of her life as an exile. The singer wakes from his dream to see his mother's face
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recording, Margaret Barry)
KEYWORDS: love exile emigration beauty courting marriage dream mother Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #9282
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "Eileen McMahon/Green Grow the Rushes" (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman, "Eileen McMahon" (on Voice04)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Granuaile" (theme; also the aisling format) and references there
cf. "Caitilin Ni Uallachain (Cathaleen Ni Houlihan)" see references there and note re aislings, below.
cf. "Fergus O'Connor and Independence" see note re aislings, below, re Sheela na Guira.
cf. "Poor Old Granuaile" see references there and note re aislings, below, re Grace O'Malley.
cf. "Erin's Green Shore" (theme)
cf. "Granuwale" (theme)
cf. "The Blackbird of Avondale" or "The Arrest of Parnell" (theme)
NOTES: Frank Harte, in his notes to "Granuaile" [from Grace O'Malley](on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) writes: "The older Gaelic poets when they wished to write on the wrongs that Ireland has suffered at the hands of the English since the invasion of Ireland in 1169, they often adopted the type of poem called 'The Aisling'. In the 'aisling', the poet is found reflecting on Ireland's woes .... He sometimes falls asleep, and in his sleep the vision of a most beautiful woman ... appears to him. The vision tells him that she is 'Ireland' ...." Zimmermann, pp. 54-55, notes that "in allegorical songs, written according to the aisling form or otherwise, the personification of Ireland is often individualized and humanized enough to be called by a proper name; this helps to identify her as a real woman.... In the eighteenth century there were many other names, but it is often difficult to decide whether a song was written originally about some particular person and acquired only later an allegorical meaning, or directly to the country known as Sile Ni Ghadhra [Sheela na Guira], Caitilin Trial [Kathleen Thrail], Caitlin Ni Uallachain [Kathleen Ni Hoolihan]..." Eileen McMahon seems to fit the pattern. 
Fred McCormick comments on the "strange offering from Margaret Barry, Eileen McMahon, which turns out to be a recasting of the aisling, 'Erin's Green Shore'." (Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Reviews - Volume 4" by Fred McCormick - 29.1.99) The only connection I see is that both are in the aisling pattern. - BS
Plus the mentions of "Erin's green shore." When listening to the song, I was instantly reminded of "Erin's Green Shore" [Laws Q27]. The tune, however, is closer to the "Botany Bay" family.
I note that this song appears to be known only from the repertoire of Margaret Barry, though most of the themes are common.
For more on aislings, see the notes to "Granuaile." - RBW
File: RcEilMcM
===
NAME: Eileen, The Flower of Kilkenny
DESCRIPTION: "I once loved a girl in Kilkenny and a beautiful creature was she, I loved her far better than any and I know this young damsel loved me. She's the beautiful flower of Kilkenny...." He left her, "sailed over seas," but still thinks of their sad parting.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: love emigration parting beauty lament
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 76, "I Once Loved a Girl in Kilkenny" (1 text)
DT, BOYSKILK
Roud #6369
File: GrMa76
===
NAME: Eire: see Erin (File: OCon059)
===
NAME: Ej Bor Vi Sorja, Ej Bor Vi Klaga (Oh We Must Not Grieve, We Must Not Grouse)
DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty. "We must not grieve"... either because the various tasks they have to do have been made easier somehow, or because complaining will get them into trouble. Last line of each verse is repeated for chorus.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty sailor work
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 549-550, "Ej Bor Vi Sorja, Ej Bor Vi Klagag" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
File: Hugi549
===
NAME: Eki Dumah!
DESCRIPTION: Short verses in pidgin English, i.e. "Sailorman no likee bosun's mate." Chorus: "Kay, kay, kay, kay! Eki Dumah!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 488-489, "Eki Dumah!" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 361-362]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Kay, Kay, Kay
NOTES: Hugill says that while he picked this up in the West Indies, he suspects that it originated aboard ships where the crews were predominately Lascaris from India. The words are a mix of pidgin English and Hindi. - SL
File: Hugi488
===
NAME: El Abandonado: see Abandonado, El (File: San295)
===
NAME: El Amor Que Te Tenia (The Love That I Had)
DESCRIPTION: Spanish. "El amore que te tenia, me bien, En uno ramo quedo." "The love that I had for you, my dear, hanging from a branch remained." The singer's great love was blown away by a wind. He is going to San Diego. He advises that she not look for him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love separation foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 362-364, "El Amor Que Te Tenia" (1 text plus translation, 1 tune)
File: LxA362
===
NAME: El-A-Noy: see The Plains of Illinois (File: FSC089)
===
NAME: Elanoy: see The Plains of Illinois (File: FSC089)
===
NAME: Elder Bordee: see Sir Andrew Barton [Child 167] AND Henry Martin [Child 250] (File: C167)
===
NAME: Elderman's Lady, The: see The Alderman's Lady (File: Pea783)
===
NAME: Eldorado Mining Disaster, The
DESCRIPTION: "With sorrow we remember, the middle of July, When those six noble miners were all destined to die." The song describes the slow death of the trapped miners, and describes the pathetic farewell message "Poor Dawkins" wrote
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: mining death disaster Australia
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July, 1895 - Collapse of the Eldorado Mine near Chiltern, Victoria, Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 206-207, "The Eldorado Mining Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Poor Dawkins
File: FaE206
===
NAME: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
DESCRIPTION: "In Ixlington there was a man Of whom the world might say That still he was a godly man...." The man befriends a stray dog. The dog goes mad and bites the man. All expect the man to die, but he recovers 
AUTHOR: Oliver Goldsmith?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1819 (Journal from the Diana)
KEYWORDS: dog death disease
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 295-296, "Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2088
NOTES: On its face, this looks about as likely to be traditional as a the flip side of an Elvis Presley single. But Huntington found a printing in addition to his manuscript copy, so here it is. - RBW
File: SWMS295
===
NAME: Eleven More Months and Ten More Day
DESCRIPTION: Singer is in jail; he went on a spree after seeming to find his wife unfaithful. In jail he plays baseball, meets a man who is to be hung, and has other mildly humorous adventures
AUTHOR: Arthur Fields & Fred Hall
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recordings, Vernon Dalhart & Lem Greene)
KEYWORDS: captivity jealousy infidelity accusation execution prison sports humorous prisoner
FOUND_IN: US Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #13327
RECORDINGS:
Jim Baird [pseud. for Bill Elliott] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Victor 23658, 1932; Montgomery Ward M-4328, 1933)
Billy Cotton & his band, "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Harmony 1416-H/Velvet Tone 2522-V, 1932)
Vernon Dalhart, "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Columbia 15512-D [as Al Craver]/Harmony 1095-H [as Mack Allen]/Velvet Tone 2095-V [pseudonym unknown], 1930)
Lem Greene [possibly a pseud. for Vernon Dalhart] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (OKeh 45418, 1930) 
Lone Star Ranger [pseud. for John I. White] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Banner 0649/Conqueror 7509/Jewel 5904/Romeo 1268, 1930; Conqueror 7727, 1931; Broadway 8150/Challenge 877/Perfect 12598, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Four Nights Drunk" [Child 274] (lyrics)
SAME_TUNE:
Jim Baird [pseud. for Bill Elliott] "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days, pt. 2" (Victor 23670, 1932)
Billy Cotton & his band "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days, pt. 2" (Harmony 1416-H/Velvet Tone 2522-V, 1932)
Frank Dudgeon, "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days #2" (Champion 16580, 1933)
NOTES: This essentially non-traditional song is included here for one reason only: the verse describing the prisoner's wife's possible infidelity is straight out of "Four Nights Drunk."  Folk process in action. - PJS
There have in fact been a couple of seemingly-traditional collections, far from the song's source, so I think it's become "folk" in a small way -- not unusual for a Dalhart song. It appears the song was first published in 1930, shortly before the first recordings, but I haven't seen a copy of the actual sheet music. - RBW
File: RcEMMTMD
===
NAME: Eleven Slash Slash Eleven
DESCRIPTION: A song of the cowboy's life: Finding himself in jail, but released by the sheriff (a former cowboy), going to town and "mak[ing] the tenderfoot dance"; playing cards with a crooked gambler. The conclusion: "You'll find every dirty cuss exactly the same."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928
KEYWORDS: cowboy work gambling rambling cards prison
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 78, "The Old Chisholm Trail" (2 texts, 1 tune; this is the "B" text)
Roud #3438
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Chisholm Trail (I)" (tune & meter)
NOTES: Since, as it has been remarked, the song "The Old Chisholm Trail" is longer than the trail itself, it is possible that this is simply a version of that piece (Roud lumps them). However, except for its tune and the cowboy theme, it lacks the distinctive features of the earlier song. I have therefore (tentatively) listed them separately. - RBW
File: FCW078
===
NAME: Eleven to Heaven
DESCRIPTION: "I will sing you 11." 11:gate of heaven, 10:Big Ben, 9:sunshine, 8:day-break, 7:key of heaven, 6:crucifix, 5:narrow eye, 4:narrow door, 3:eternity, 2:broad heresy, 1:upon the right eye, enter over t'other eye, who can sing and dance as well as me?
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: cumulative nonballad religious
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, p. 785, "Eleven to Heaven" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #133
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Children Go Where I Send Thee" (theme and structure)
cf. "Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You)" (theme and structure)
NOTES: Roud lumps this with the great "Green Grow the Rushes-O" family -- but the similarity is only in format.
The references here are even less Biblical than is usual in songs like this, though the "narrow door" is doubtless suggested by the "narrow ('straight') gate" of Matt. 7:13, etc. - RBW
File: Pea785
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NAME: Eleventh Street Whores, The
DESCRIPTION: A sailor (?) rows his boat up to the Eleventh Street whores, has sex, laments contracting gonorrhea, and curses the Eleventh Street whores.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy disease whore sailor curse
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman II, pp. 600-601, "The Eleventh Street Whores" (1 partial text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
File: RL600
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NAME: Elfin Knight, The [Child 2]
DESCRIPTION: A man (sometimes an "Elfin" knight) and a woman exchange tasks. He offers to marry her if she performs his (impossible) tasks; she shows how she feels by making equally unperformable requests
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1673 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: courting magic bargaining dialog paradox tasks
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All),Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Canada(Newf,West) Ireland
REFERENCES: (39 citations)
Child 2, "The Elfin Knight" (13 texts)
Bronson 2, "The Elfin Knight" (56 versions plus 6 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 3-11, "The Elfin Knight" (4 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #3, #23}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 51-78, "The Elfin Knight" (12 texts plus 3 fragments, not all from New England; 8 tunes; the "N" text appears to be "My Father Had an Acre of Land") {A=Bronson's #47C=Bronson's #6; F=Bronson's #45}
Belden, pp. 1-3, "The Elfin Kinght" (3 texts)
Randolph 1, "The Cambric Shirt" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #40}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 13-15, "The Cambric Shirt" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 1A) {Bronson's #40}
Eddy 1, "The Elfin Knight" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #39, #43}
Gardner/Chickering 47, "A True Lover of Mine" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Davis-More 2, pp. 8-13, "The Elfin Knight" (3 texts, all short, one reconstructed)
BrownII 1, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text plus an edited excerpt and a fragment)
Chappell-FSRA 1, "The Cambric Shirt" (1 fragment)
Brewster 1, "The Elfin Knight" (4 texts plus a fragment, though the "D" text is not a conversation but a series of requests from the singer to his mother; it may be a related song)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 194-196, "Scarborough Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Linscott, pp. 169-171, "Blow, Ye Winds, Blow or The Elfin Knight" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Leach, pp. 51-53, ""The Elfin Knight" (2 texts)
Peacock, pp. 6-7, "The Cambric Shirt" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Friedman, p. 7, "The Elfin Knight" (2 texts)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 138-139, "A True Lover of Mine" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #32}
FSCatskills 40, "Petticoat Lane" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 15, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text)
SharpAp 1 "The Elfin Knight" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #30, #48}
Sharp-100E 74, "Scarborough Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #21}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E1, "The Lovers' Tasks (The Elfin Knight)" (1 slightly edited text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #30}
Niles 2, "The Elfin Knight" (3 texts, 3 tunes, all rather degenerate)
Lomax-FSNA 7, "Strawberry Lane" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #23, with some modifications}
Chase, pp. 112-113, "The Cambric Shirt" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 26 ,"The Elfin Knight" (1 text)
DBuchan 41, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 1, "The Elfin Knight" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  54-55, "Whittingham Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #22, with key changed}
OLochlainn-More 99, "Rosemary Fair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 86, "Can you make me a cambric shirt" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #70, p. 79-80, "(Can you make me a cambric shirt)"
Darling-NAS, pp. 19-23, "The Elfin Knight," "The Elfin Knight," "Every Rose Grows Merry in Time," "Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee" (4 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 151, "Scarborough Fair" (1 text); p. 152, "Cambric Shirt" (1 text)
BBI, ZN821, "The elfin knight sits on yon hill"
DT 2, SCARFAIR*
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #312, "My Plaid Away" (1 excerpt)
Roud #12
RECORDINGS:
Sara Cleveland, "Every Rose Grows Merry in Time" (on SCleveland01) {Bronson's #34.1 in addenda}
Bob & Ron Copper, "An Acre of Land" (on FSB4)
Liz Jefferies, "Rosemary Lane" (on Voice15)
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "The Elfin Knight" (on SCMacCollSeeger01)
Thomas Moran, "Strawberry Lane (The Elfin Knight)" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
Lawrence Older,  "Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee" (on LOlder01)
Anna Underhill, "The Elfin Knight" (on FineTimes)
Margaret Winters, "Cambric Shirt" (on JThomas01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Father Had an Acre of Land" (theme)
cf. "O'er the Hills and Far Away (I)" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Devil's Courtship
Rosemary and Thyme
The Wind Hath Blown My Plaid Away
My Father Gave Me an Acre of Ground
The Parsley Vine
The Shirt of Lace
Redio-Tedio
NOTES: The song "My Father Had an Acre of Land" is sometimes listed as a variant of this, but falsely. The basic point of Child #2 is the dialog making impossible demands; in "My Father Had an Acre of Land," the song simply boasts of impossible deeds
The now well-known refrain "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" does not appear original to the song, but has been associated with it at least since 1784, when a version appeared in Gammer Gurton's Garland. - RBW
File: C002
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NAME: Elisha Thomas
DESCRIPTION: "Unhappy man! I understand You are condemned to die. In a few days you must away To vast eternity." The murderer is lectured about the need to turn to God
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: homicide religious
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 237, (no title) (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: Burt claims this relates to the death of one Elisha Thomas, executed on June 5, 1788 for the murder of Peter Downe. There is no evidence of this in the verses she cites, which are standard moralizing relieved only slightly by the idea that God might have mercy on the sinner. - RBW
File: Burt237
===
NAME: Eliza: see The Young Maid's Love (File: HHH058)
===
NAME: Eliza Jane (I): see Li'l Liza Jane (File: FSWB037)
===
NAME: Eliza Jane (II): see Liza Jane (File: San132)
===
NAME: Ella Dare: see The Two Letters (Charlie Brooks; Nellie Dare) (File: R735)
===
NAME: Ella Lea
DESCRIPTION: "If you will listen to me I will sing you the song Of the unfortunate Ella Lea." The singer recalls loving Ella. He wishes she would be return to him; "life without thee is lonely." But "thou hast learned to love another."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 211-212, "Ella Lea" (1 text)
Roud #7949
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" (lyrics)
cf. "Anna Lee (The Finished Letter)"
cf. "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This song, at least as recorded by Belden, seems badly confused. The first two lines, and the second verse, imply Ella Lea is the singer. But in the third line of the first verse, we read, "The girl that I love is handsome and fair, and I called her my sweet Ella Lea."
What's more, the verse are of the form 4 long lines, 6 long lines, 4 short lines, 4 short lines. It seems clear that it's a composite -- perhaps of "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" and "Anna Lea." But it adds other material, too. The result is a mess I can't disentangle. RBW
File: Beld211B
===
NAME: Ella M Rudolph, The
DESCRIPTION: Ella M Rudolph sails with a crew of eight, including Mary Jane Abbott. When the ship strikes a rock in a storm the only survivor "was hurled into the cliff." He reaches Levi Dalton's door. A rescue party finds Mary Jane's body washed ashore
AUTHOR: Hugh Sexton and Dukey Blackwood
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 6, 1926 - Ella M. Rudolph with Captain Blackwood en route from St John's to Port Nelson with a cargo of fish was stranded in a storm at Brook Cove in Trinity Bay (Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 32, "The Ella M Rudolph" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LeBe032
===
NAME: Ella Ree: see Ellie Rhee (Ella Rhee, Ella Ree) (File: R860)
===
NAME: Ella Speed (Bill Martin and Ella Speed) [Laws I6]
DESCRIPTION: Ella Speed goes out to "have a li'l fun." Her man, Bill Martin, finds out and shoots her because she has been unfaithful to him. He is sentenced to (hanging/life imprisonment).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: homicide punishment death trial
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws I6, "Ella Speed (Bill Martin and Ella Speed)"
Sandburg, pp. 28-29, "Alice B." (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 117-118, "Bill Martin and Ella Speed" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 658, ELLASPED*
Roud #4175
RECORDINGS:
Huddie Ledbetter [Lead Belly], "Ella Speed" (AFS 120 B5, 1933)
File: LI06
===
NAME: Ellen O'Connor
DESCRIPTION: Ellen O'Connor is leaving Ireland because the famine and eviction have reached Mayo. The singer hopes she will remember their good times and will return soon. He says "Him that sent the famine will make the cornfields smile." Better times are coming.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1970 (Morton-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: love emigration separation hardtimes starvation Ireland dialog nonballad political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Morton-Ulster 26, "Ellen O'Connor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2887
NOTES: Morton-Ulster: "I don't think it is too tenuous to see Ellen O'Connor as yet another allegory for Ireland." To understand Morton's point, see the discussion of "aisling" in the notes to "Eileen McMahon." - BS
File: MorU026
===
NAME: Ellen of Aberdeen
DESCRIPTION: "My earthly pleasures now are fled, My joyful days are done, Since Ellen in her grave was laid...." Orphaned at 11, the girl grew sick at 17 before she could marry the singer. He sees to her burial, and now waits to join her in heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love orphan death burial
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 400-401, "Ellen of Aberdeen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2179
File: Ord400
===
NAME: Ellen Smith (II): see Poor Ellen Smith (I) (File: CSW143)
===
NAME: Ellen Smith [Laws F11]
DESCRIPTION: Peter Degraph claims that he has been falsely accused of murdering his sweetheart Ellen Smith. He describes his apprehension and sentence. He will be hanged, but says "My soul will be free when I stand at the bar"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: homicide execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1893 - Peter Degraph (sometimes spelled De Graff) is sentenced to die for the murder of Ellen Smith
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws F11, "Ellen Smith"
BrownII 305, (No title; in a section headed "Ellen Smith and Peter De Graff" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Hudson 67, pp. 193-194, "The Ellen Smith Ballet" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 65, pp. 188-189, "Ellen Smith" (1 text)
Fuson, p. 132, "Poor Ellen Smyth" (1 defective text, too short to classify with certainty; Laws places it here though I would incline to classify it with "Poor Ellen Smith (I)")
Darling-NAS, pp. 204-206, "Poor Ellen Smith" (2 text, of which the "B" text goes here and the "A" text with "Poor Ellen Smith (I)")
DT, ELLNSMT2*
Roud #448
RECORDINGS:
Henry Whitter, "Ellen Smith" (OKeh 40237, 1924)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Poor Ellen Smith (I)"
SAME_TUNE:
How Firm a Foundation (Bellevue) (Original Sacred Harp/Denson Revisions. 1971 edition, p. 72)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Poor Ellen Smith
NOTES: The crime took place near Mount Airy, North Carolina. Folklore has it that DeGraph sang this song as he awaited execution. Richardson reports that "So great was the feeling, for and against Degraph, that it had to be declared a misdemeanor for the song to be sung in a gathering of any size for the reason that it always fomented a riot."
Paul Stamler notes that various versions of this song end with Degraph sentenced to prison rather than execution. This may be derived from the other ballad, "Poor Ellen Smith," which often ends before sentence is passed. The two often exchange verses.
To distinguish this from the other Ellen Smith ballad (which begins "Poor Ellen Smith, How was she found, Shot through the heart, Lying cold on the ground"), refer to these stanzas:
Come all kind people, my story to hear,
What happen'd to me in June of last year.
It's of poor Ellen Smith and how she was found,
A ball in her heart, lyin' cold on the ground.
 ...
I choked back my tears, for the people all said
That Peter Degraph had shot Ellen Smith dead!
My love is in her grave with her hand on her breast
The bloodhound and sheriff won't give me no rest. - RBW
File: LF11
===
NAME: Ellen Smith Ballet, The: see Ellen Smith [Laws F11] (File: LF11)
===
NAME: Ellen the Fair (Helen the Fair) [Laws O5]
DESCRIPTION: The narrator, a nobleman, sees and falls in love with Ellen, who is very beautiful although she is only a flower seller. He woos and wins her. The noble ladies all envy her beauty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1823 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads fol. 17)
KEYWORDS: nobility courting poverty beauty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws O5, "Ellen the Fair (Helen the Fair)"
Mackenzie 41, "Ellen the Fair" (1 text)
DT 470, ELLNFAIR
Roud #359
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads fol. 17, "Helen the Fair," J. Catnach (London), 1823 ; also Harding B 11(1060), Harding B 16(80b), Harding B 11(1682), Firth c.26(18), Harding B 11(48), Harding B 11(3327), Harding B 16(79d), "Ellen the Fair"; Harding B 11(1519), Firth b.27(332), Johnson Ballads 858, Harding B 11(237A), Harding B 22(390), Johnson Ballads fol. 33, Harding B 11(2549), "Helen the Fair"
LOCSinging, as113270, "Sweet Helen the Fair," L. Deming (Boston), n.d.
File: LO05
===
NAME: Ellie Rhee (Ella Rhee, Ella Ree)
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls Ella Rhee, beautiful and kind, with whom he used to live (before the war). (He wonders why he ran away; he is free but is no longer with Ella.) He wishes he were by her (grave). He laments, "Carry me back to Tennessee...."
AUTHOR: Septimus Winner ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (War Songs and Poems of the Confederacy; the Winner song was copyrighted 1865)
KEYWORDS: love separation death burial home slave freedom
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 412, "Ella Rhee" (1 text)
Randolph 860, "Ella Rhee" (1 fragment)
Dean, p. 96, "Ella Ree" (1 text)
ST R860 (Full)
Roud #7428
NOTES: Randolph's informant, who knew only the chorus, says this is about an Indian girl. The other texts I've seen, Brown's, Dean's, and that in Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Confederacy_, allow but do not require this. The version in Brown looks like more propaganda: "Don't run away; see what you'll lose?"
Septimus Winter's 1865 song "Ellie Rhee" ("Carry Me Back to Tennessee") is said by Spaeth (_A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 128) to be based on Ella Ree, by C. E. Steuart and James W. Porter, published 1853. - RBW
File: R860
===
NAME: Ellon Fair
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas in the merry month of May... To Ellon Fair I bent my way... With hopes to find amusement." The singer hires out to a "skrankie chiel," who seems to promise good conditions but demands much work without offering good food or pay. 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: farming work money
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 262, "Ellon Fair" (1 text)
Roud #2166
File: Ord262
===
NAME: Elsie M Hart, The
DESCRIPTION: Elsie M Hart heads "for a port down in White Bay." Caught in a storm of sleet and snow they hope to spend the night near Plate Cove. With foresail split they run aground. The captain and another man go to Plate Cove and the people there help the crew.
AUTHOR: Mike Keough
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 18, 1935 - Elsie M. Hart wrecked near Plate Cove, Bonavista Bay. (Lehr/Best)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 33, "The Elsie M Hart" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LeBe035
===
NAME: Elsie Marley
DESCRIPTION: "Elsie Marley's grown so fine, She won't get up to serve the swine, But lies in bed till eight or nine." "Di' ye ken Elsie Marley, honey, The wife that sells the barley, honey?" Stanzas tell of how Elsie leads an elaborate lifestyle
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: work clothes drink death
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Scotland))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 70-71, "Elsie Marley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 152, "Elsie Marley is grown so fine" (4 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #246, p. 155, "(Elsie Marley has grown so fine)"
DT, ELSMARLY*
Roud #3065
NOTES: According to Stokoe, Alice "Elsie" Marley was an innkeeper's wife in Pictree who, afflicted by fever, wandered from her bed and drowned in a flooded coalpit. Stokoe gives no other particulars (such as a date; the Baring-Goulds say 1768, and claim Elsie was born c. 1715), but this would explain what is otherwise a very strange song, with no real plot and an odd mix of praise and censure: Elsie is dead and being prepared for burial. - RBW
File: StoR070
===
NAME: Elsie Marley Is Grown So Fine: see Elsie Marley (File: StoR070)
===
NAME: Emerald Isle, The
DESCRIPTION: "Of all nations under the sun, Dear Erin does truly excel." The boys are hearty and the girls beautiful. St Patrick drove out the vermin and blessed the shamrock. We have had heroes since with Brian Boroimhe "leathered the Danes black and blue"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1821 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.17(116))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 23, 1014 - Battle of Clontarf. Brian Boru defeats a combined force of Vikings and rebels from Leinster, but dies in the battle
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 153, "The Emerald Isle" (1 text)
Roud #13396
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(116), "The Emerald Isle" or "St. Patrick's Will", G. Thompson (Liverpool), 1789-1820 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave" (character of Brian Boru)
NOTES: The reference is to Brian Boru (c.940-1014) king of Munster (976), High King of Ireland (1002), died on Good Friday April 23, 1014 during the Battle of Clontarf against the Vikings (source: NationMaster Encyclopedia site). - BS
For more details, see the notes to "Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave." - RBW
File: OCon153
===
NAME: Emigrant (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "At dawn of the morning the ship shall be sailing That takes me away from the land of my birth ... It's nought but oppression that tears us asunder." He bids farewell to the dances, colleens, and stories.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: emigration farewell sea ship nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 16-17, "The Emigrant" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Roud #7353
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Irish Emigrant's Lament" (plot)
NOTES: Ranson: "This song is popular all over the county." - BS
(Given how few the reports of it are, I rather suspect Ranson is confusing this with one of the oh-so-many-other emigrant songs. - RBW
File: Ran016
===
NAME: Emigrant (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "A young aspiring Irishman ... leaving Queenstown quay in Cork" for the Yankee shore on the Teutonic in 1894; "we all gave many a wail, As we took ... one parting glimpse of lovely Inisfail." The ship safely passes icebergs and lands on Ellis Island.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: emigration farewell sea ship America
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 52-53, "The Emigrant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7350
NOTES: The liner _Teutonic_ was put into service at Belfast in 1889, sailing from Queenstown to Sandy Hook from that year until 1907, when Queenstown was dropped in favor of service to Cherbourg. In 1911, the ship began to sail to Montreal. She was converted to a troopship during the First World War, and scrapped in 1921. (Source: Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_).
According to John Malcolm Brinnin, _The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic_, p. 305, the ship had one other distinction: She was armored. The ship, which sailed for the White Star line, was the first liner designed to be capable of conversion into an auxiliary cruiser. She also was among the first to truly dispense with sail-carrying masts (Brinnin, p. 306). I doubt any of this affected her performance as a liner, though. - RBW
File: Ran052
===
NAME: Emigrant from Newfoundland, The
DESCRIPTION: "Dear Newfoundland have I got to leave you To seek employment in a foreign land? Forced by our nation by cruel taxation...." He thinks back to good times around St John's but now must emigrate to work. He hopes the younger generation may stay at home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: grief emigration farewell unemployment hardtimes lament poverty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 360-361, "The Emigrant from Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea360 (Partial)
NOTES: The lyrics of this song remind me very much of "Farewell, Charming Nancy" [Laws K14], though only a few words are actually the same; the Dorian tune also seems related. - RBW
File: Pea360
===
NAME: Emigrant's Farewell to Donegal, The
DESCRIPTION: It is 1846 and the singer is leaving Donegal. His father's five acres cannot support the family. He proposes to his sweetheart, she agrees, they marry and leave for America where "no rents or taxes we pay at all"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1846 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: marriage emigration farewell hardtimes America Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1845-1847 - The Irish potato famines
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 57, "A New Song Called the Emigrant's Farewell to Donegal" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(81), "A New Song Call'd the Emegrants Farewell to Donegall," P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (subject: The Potato Famines) and references there
NOTES: The ballad takes place during the famine years in Ireland. - BS
For background on the famines, see the notes to "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)." - RBW
File: Zimm057
===
NAME: Emigrant's Farewell to Donside, The: see A Health to the Company (Come All My Old Comrades) (File: CrSe222)
===
NAME: Emigrant's Farewell, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to Ireland; he will admire his home even though he will never return. He bids his sweetheart come with him. He notes how all the best folk of Ireland are going away. He mentions the gold and alcohol available in the New World
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration farewell poverty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H743, pp. 200-201, "The Emigrant's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GRNFLDAM*
Roud #15034
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Green Fields of America (I)" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Green Fields of America
File: HHH743
===
NAME: Emma Hartsell [Laws F34]
DESCRIPTION: Emma Hartsell is found with her throat cut. Two blacks, Tom [Johnson] and Joe [Kiser], are accused of the crime and hanged from a dogwood tree. Even Joe's last request for a drink of water is refused
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: homicide execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 30, 1898 - Rape and murder of Emma Hartsell. Joe Kiser and Tom Johnson are arrested, but -- despite protestations of innocence -- are lynched before they can be tried
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws F34, "Emma Hartsell"
BrownII 296, "Emma Hartsell" (1 text plus 1 excerpt and mention of 3 more)
DT 728, HARTSELL
Roud #2272
NOTES: Based on the notes in Brown, it appears that the facts in this particular case can never be known. The notes comment that racial hatred was at a high pitch due to attempts to give Blacks the vote in North Carolina.
The known facts are that Hartsell was raped, then killed by having her throat cut. Kiser came to town to report finding the body, and was arrested. Johnson was arrested soon after, on what basis it is not clear.
That night, a mob attacked the jail, seized the prisoners, and lynched them. The cynic in me suspects that the actual murderer was probably a leader of the lynch mob. - RBW
File: LF34
===
NAME: Emmet's Death
DESCRIPTION: "He dies to-day." The judge smiles because "a demon dwelt where his heart should be." The jailer has a tear in his eye because Emmet had "spoke in so kind a way." A girl "lacked the life to speak ... despair had drank up her last wild tear."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1855 (Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I)
KEYWORDS: execution patriotic judge prisoner Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is hanged
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, p. 69, "Emmet's Death" (1 text)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 73-74, "Emmet's Death" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, p. 248, "Emmet's Death"
ST OCon069 (Partial)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(17), "Emmet's Death", unknown, n.d. 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Robert Emmet" (subject) and references there
NOTES: Hayes's text is attributed to "S.F.C." - BS
For the sad background of this typically Irish story, see the notes to "Bold Robert Emmet." - RBW
File: OCon069
===
NAME: Emmet's Farewell to His Sweetheart
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, love, farewell, love, I now must leave you." Emmet declares he has never deceived her. "Oh, never in the moonlight we'll roam, love." He asks her to promise to "come to my grave when all others forsake me." He hears "the death token."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 40(3))
KEYWORDS: love farewell execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is hanged
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, p. 109, "Emmet's Farewell to His Sweetheart" (1 text)
Moylan 160, "Emmet's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 22, "Emmet's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5224
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 40(3), "Emmet's Farewell To His Love", J.F. Nugent and Co.? (Dublin?), 1850-1899 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bold Robert Emmet" (subject) and references there
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Robert Emmet's Farewell to Sarah Curran
NOTES: For the sad background of this typically Irish story, see the notes to "Bold Robert Emmet."
Robert Kee, in _The Most Distressful Country_ (being volume I of _The Green Flag_), p. 169, reports that Emmet's girlfriend was Sarah Curran, dauughter of the lawyer John Philpot Curran (1750-1817). Curran had defended the 1798 conspirators at their trials, and opposed the Act of Union -- but his daughter had gone farther, writing letters to Emmet which supported rebellion. He disowned her. - RBW
File: OCon109
===
NAME: En Revenant de la Jolie Rochelle: see C'est L'Aviron (Pull on the Oars) (File: FJ058)
===
NAME: En Roulant Ma Boule
DESCRIPTION: French: "En roulant ma boule roulant...." Typical plot: Three ducks are paddling. A prince comes to hunt. Though he aims for a black duck, he hits the white one with its diamond eyes and its golden feathers. The owner is upset
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: bird hunting nonsense foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Canada(Que) US(MA)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 56-57, "En Roulant Ma Boule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 26-28, "En roulant ma boule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 41, "En Roulant Ma Boule" (1 English and 1 French text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Grace Lee Nute, _The Voyageur_, Appleton, 1931 (reprinted 1987 Minnesota Historical Society), pp. 129-133, "En Roulant Ma Boule" (1 text plus English translation, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Lawrence Older,  "En Roulante" (on LOlder01)
NOTES: Said to have originated in the fifteenth century. Bastardized versions are common, probably due to the song's popularity. Fowke reports, "[This] is probably the most popular of French-Canadian songs. Marius Barbeau has listed ninety-two different Canadian versions which all tell much the same story but differ widely in melody and refrain." Its popularity with the voyageurs may help explain its wide distribution. - RBW
File: FJ056
===
NAME: En Roulante: see En Roulant Ma Boule (File: FJ056)
===
NAME: Enchanted Isle, The
DESCRIPTION: The singers recalls traveling to Rathlin, where he hears the tale of the Enchanted Isle, which rises from the seas when a mermaid sings. Home to a beautiful city, many have tried to make it stay above the waves, but it always escapes
AUTHOR: Luke Aylmer Conolly ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: magic sea
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H550, pp. 176-177, "" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13537
NOTES: Sam Henry lists several other instances of folklore of islands rising from the waves. Variations on the theme are common, and go back to antiquity; this seems to be one of the few cases of moving lands with no hostile intent (other than aggravating the spectators, anyway). - RBW
File: HHH550
===
NAME: Engine 143: see The Wreck on the C & O [Laws G3] (File: LG03)
===
NAME: Engineer, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, an old engineer, tells his friend (and fireman?) Joe about the wreck on the Elgin branch, where two locomotives collided in a storm and his daughter was killed. He looks forward to the day when his own death will reunite him with his child
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (recording, Lester Coffee -- but he says he learned it c. 1893)
KEYWORDS: age grief train death railroading work crash disaster storm wreck children
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #8586
RECORDINGS:
Lester A. Coffee, "The Engineer" (AFS 8419 A, 1946; on LC61)
NOTES: The local references place the story in northern Illinois, which was Lester Coffee's home. - PJS
File: RcThEngi
===
NAME: Engineer's Child, The: see The Child of the Railroad Engineer (The Two Lanterns) (File: R685)
===
NAME: English Lady Gay, The: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9]; also "The Brown Girl" [Child 295] (File: LP09)
===
NAME: English Miner, The (The Coolgardie Miner, Castles in the Air)
DESCRIPTION: A newly-arrived prospector sits and dreams of his home and his family left behind. "He was thinking of home, sweet home, far away o'er the restless foam...." (While he is so distracted, a native comes up and kills him)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: homesickness loneliness mining death
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 115-116, "Castles in the Air"; pp. 180-181, "The Coolgardie Miner" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
File: MA115
===
NAME: English Orphan, The
DESCRIPTION: "My home is in England, my home is not here, But why should I murmur when trials appear? The woman that took me, God has taken away." The child, left alone and friendless, still trusts in Jesus and asks for help to get to heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: orphan religious
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 565, "An English Orphan" (1 text)
Roud #11887
NOTES: No author for this seems to be known, but it's clearly composed; oral tradition doesn't tend to preserve such hideously stupid items. - RBW
File: Br3565
===
NAME: English Round, An: see Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (File: FlBr187)
===
NAME: Enniscorthy Fair
DESCRIPTION: A Galtee farmer sells a mare at Enniscorthy fair. The buyer clips and trims it like a racehorse. Fooled, the farmer buys it back for double his price. His wife recognizes the mare and calls him a fool for trimming it because it will get sick.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1985 (IRTravellers01)
KEYWORDS: farming humorous horse trick hair
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5312
RECORDINGS:
Bill Cassidy, "Enniscorthy Fair" (on IRTravellers01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Galtee Farmer
The Galtee Mare
The Rusty Mare
File: RcEnniF
===
NAME: Enniskillen Dragoon, The: see Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon) (File: E150)
===
NAME: Entre Paris et Saint Dennie (Between Paris and Saint Dennie)
DESCRIPTION: French. The king's son asks a shepherdess to sing. She would sing if not for her sorrow at losing her brother and husband in the war. He asks which she regrets more. She says she will find another husband but will never have a brother.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage grief war death music husband brother royalty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 155, "Entre Paris et Saint Dennie" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The shepherdess's answer is reminiscent of Lady Margaret's plea in Child 7: "True lovers I can get many a ane, But a father I can never get mair." - BS
File: CrMa155
===
NAME: Entrenchment of Ross, The
DESCRIPTION: French. Sir Maurice and Sir Walter feud. New Ross council decides to build a wall. Each day, beginning Candlemas, a different group of merchants, priests,... work on the ditch. Sunday ladies lay up stones for the wall. The defence plans are described.
AUTHOR: Fr Michael Kyldare (1308) (translated by Mrs George Maclean, 1831) (source: Croker-PopularSongs)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1829 (_Archaeologia_ vol xxii, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage feud
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 262-287, "The Entrenchment of Ross" (French and English texts plus extensive notes)
ADDITIONAL: Thomas Kinsella, _The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse_ (Oxford, 1989), pp. 102-106, "The Fortification of New Ross"  (1 text, excerpted from Croker)
NOTES: Croker-PopularSongs: "The [Anglo-Norman] ballad on the entrenchment of New Ross, in 1265 ... is here given as a specimen of ancient local song.... " Madden writes about an Harleian MS [913, Art 43] in the British Museum containing a "collection of pieces in verse and prose, apparently the production of an Irish ecclesiastic, ...."
Croker-PopularSongs: "It appears evident from [the ballad] that the inhabitants [of New Ross] feared that, in the war between two powerful barons, they should be exposed to insult and reprisal from the Irish who were engaged in the quarrel.... The corporate towns ... walled themselves, in order to be able to preserve their neutrality in the wars of the district which surrounded them.... The whole tenor of this very remarkable song shows that it was written when the fosse [ditch] was nearly finished, but before the walls were begun.... It is ... to be presumed that the fosse was not quite completed when the song now given was composed by some merry minstrel of the place on the day noted at the conclusion, and it was perhaps sung at the corporation dinner after their work." - BS
Although the event is Irish, it really sounds to me as if the song was influenced by the story of Nehemiah's rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem in the book of Nehemiah.
New Ross remained a crossroads and fortified market town at the time of the 1798 rebellion. I gather some of the fortifications still stood, though they were in pretty bad shape by then; according to Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798_, p. 195, portions of the wall had been demolished by Cromwell, and the gates widened to improve commerce.. - RBW
File: CrPS262
===
NAME: Eppie Morrie [Child 223]
DESCRIPTION: Willie and his gang steal away Eppie Morrie to make her his bride. The minister refuses to marry them without her consent. Willie forces her to bed and attempts to rape her; she fends off his attempts. In the morning she demands the right to return home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: abduction rape rejection escape sex
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 223, "Eppie Morrie" (1 text)
Bronson 223, "Eppie Morrie" (1 version)
PBB 51, "Eppie Morrie" (1 text)
DBuchan 37, "Eppie Morrie" (1 text)
DT 223, EPPMORR*
Roud #2583
RECORDINGS:
Jimmy McBeath, "Eppie Morrie" [fragment] (on FSBBAL2)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lady of Arngosk [Child 224]" (plot)
cf. "Walter Lesly" [Child 296] (plot)
NOTES: Like Willie Macintosh [Child 183; see comment there], the only known tune for this song is that given by Ewan MacColl. - (AS)
Though we note the fragment collected from Jimmy McBeath, which was not known to Bronson. - RBW
File: C223
===
NAME: Epsom Races
DESCRIPTION: A fine young man dresses and rides off to the Epsom Races. There he gambles away (ten thousand pounds). After a bad harvest, the landlord confiscates his property and his family mourns when he is confined to debtor's prison
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906
KEYWORDS: racing gambling poverty prison family hardtimes
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 318, "Epsom Races" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 208-209, "Epsom Races" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #383
File: K318
===
NAME: Equinoxial: see Father Grumble [Laws Q1] (File: LQ01)
===
NAME: Ere You Ask a Girl to Leave Her Happy Home
DESCRIPTION: "By a dear old mother's side Stood her eldest boy, her pride... As the lad began to tell Of the girl he loved so well... The dear old mother said, My boy, ere you are wed... You must have employment... Ere you ask a girl to leave her happy home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love marriage work unemployment mother
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 861, "Ere You Ask a Girl to Leave Her Happy Home" (1 text)
Roud #7532
File: R861
===
NAME: Erie Canal (II), The: see The E-ri-e (File: LxU045)
===
NAME: Erie Canal, The
DESCRIPTION: "I've got a mule, her name is Sal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal." "Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, for we're going through a town...." About the long, slow trip along the Erie Canal -- and the mule the singer works with
AUTHOR: Thomas S. Allen?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905
KEYWORDS: canal animal nonballad work
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Sandburg, pp. 171-173, "The Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 457-458, "The Erie Canal" (1 text plus a separate verse which may or may not be part of the same song); p. 464, "Erie Canal" (2 texts, the first going here while the second is "The Raging Canal (I)"); p. 466, "(A Trip on the Erie)" (the second song files under the title "A Trip on the Erie," but is actually this piece); pp. 467-469, "Low Bridge, Everybody Down or Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 102-103, "The Erie Canal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 126, "The Erie Canal" (1 text)
DT, ERIECANL*
Roud #6598
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "Low Bridge Everybody Down" (Columbia 15378-D, 1929)
Edward Meeker, "Low Bridge! Everybody Down" (CYL: Edison [BA] 1761, 1913)
Pete Seeger, "Erie Canal, "  (PeteSeeger31) (on PeteSeeger46)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Trip on the Erie (Haul in Your Bowline)"
cf. "The E-ri-e" (plot)
cf. "The Raging Canal (I)"
cf. "Bullhead Boat" (subject)
NOTES: The Erie Canal, as originally constructed, was a small, shallow channel which could only take barges. These vessels -- if such they could be called -- were normally hauled along by mules.
The Lomaxes, in _American Ballad and Folk Songs_, thoroughly mingled many texts of the Erie Canal songs (in fairness, some of this may have been the work of their informants -- but in any case the Lomaxes did not help the problem). One should check all the Erie Canal songs for related stanzas. - RBW
File: San171
===
NAME: Erin
DESCRIPTION: "... Sons of green Erin, lament o'er the time, When religion was war, and our country a crime ...Drive the Demon of Bigotry home to his den, And where Britain made brutes now let Erin make men. Let my sons like the leaves of the shamrock unite"
AUTHOR: William Drennan (1754-1820)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 19(24))
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, pp. 59-60, "Erin" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 361-362, "Eire"  (1 text)
H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 39-40, 499, "Eire" ("When Eire first rose from the dark-swelling flood")
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 19(24), "Erin", unknown (Dublin), 1798 
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 19(24) imprint states "Dublin, June, 1798." - BS
Which date was, in fact, the height of the Irish rebellion. In mid-May, the English had tried to disarm the Irish at various points. The last ten days of May saw risings in Kildare. Wexford rose starting May 26.
But the collapse came almost as fast as the rising: On May 28, Kildare was relieved and General Dundas took thousands of surrenders at Knockallen. On June 5, the rebels were beaten at New Ross. Henry Joy McCracken was defeated at Antrim on June 7. (see the notes to "Henry Joy McCracken (I)). June 13 saw Munro's rebellion crushed at Ballynahinch. Vinegar Hill was stormed on June 21. There were further sporadic attempts at revolt, but odds are that the rebellion was already failing by the time this item was in circulation.
William Drennan also wrote "The Wake of William Orr." - RBW
File: OCon059
===
NAME: Erin A'Green
DESCRIPTION:  The singer is forced by Peggy's father and brothers to leave Armathy for Canada on the day they were to be married. "It's for loving this fair one, and that was a small crime, That I am transported away for a time" but he will return to Erin a'green.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: love transportation separation Canada Ireland brother father
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 11, "Erin A'Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrSNB011 (Partial)
Roud #2789
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's Lovely Home" [Laws M6] (theme) and references there
File: CrSNB011
===
NAME: Erin Far Away (I) [Laws J6]
DESCRIPTION: An Irish soldier lies fatally wounded in India. He asks his brother to tell his parents that he died nobly. He asks his brother to mark has grave so that his love can plant a shamrock on it. He dies and is buried; the other soldiers return to Erin
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: war death dying farewell soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1857-1858 - Sepoy Mutiny in India. The inhabitants of Northern India revolt against the East India Company on behalf of their ancestral customs (many of which, such as the murder of widows, were abhorrent to Western opinion)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws J6, "Erin Far Away I"
Creighton-NovaScotia 71, "Erin Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dibblee/Dibblee, pp. 84-85, "Old Erin Far Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 548, ERINWAY1
Roud #1805
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Soldier (I) (Erin Far Away II)" [Laws J7] (plot, theme)
cf. "The Soldier's Letter" (plot)
cf. "The Last Fierce Charge" [Laws A17] (plot)
cf. "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again" (plot)
cf. "The Blessed Zulu War" (plot)
NOTES: This song is frankly so close to Laws J7 that I find it impossible to tell them apart. Even the first lines in Laws's sample versions are similar. Laws does not give reasons for the distinction. One should therefore examine the references for both songs. - RBW
File: LJ06
===
NAME: Erin Go Braugh! (I)
DESCRIPTION: "I'll tell you a story of a row in the town, When the green flag went up and the Crown rag went down." The Irish, though inexperienced, rebel against the English, and cause a captain to die of "lead poisoning." The leaders are hailed.
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: rebellion death Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1916 - Easter Uprising
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 321, "Erin Go Braugh!" (1 text)
DT, ERNGBRA2
NOTES: For background on the Easter Rising, its hopelessness, and its quick fizzle, see the notes, e.g., on "The Boys from County Cork"; also "James Connolly" and "Lovely Banna Strand." It seems almost typical that this song focuses on the bravery of the rebels -- and not their complete ineptness, poor organization, bad communications, and ignominous surrender after only a week.
The fact that most Irish songs of rebellion present pictures idealized to the point of falsehood may not be coincidence; it may show why the English and Irish never understood each other.
Peadar Kearney wrote Ireland's national anthem, "The Soldier's Song," plus "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)"; it would be no surprise if he wrote this song, but I need better documentation than I have. For more on Kearney, see the notes to "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." - RBW
File: FSWB321A
===
NAME: Erin Go Bray
DESCRIPTION: In "Jacobin" dialect the singer loves Irish whiskey and girls and meat "while Pat may go starve in his hovel."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: France Ireland humorous nonballad political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 26, "Erin Go Bray" (1 text)
NOTES: Moylan: "'Erin go Bray' expresses the loyalist view of the benefits likely to accrue to Ireland from an alliance with revolutionary France. The title and burden lampoons the United Irish slogan Erin go Bragh." - BS
File: Moyl026
===
NAME: Erin the Green (I)
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams that Napoleon has landed in Ireland, saying, "Rise up my friend." "He was the hero we longed for to see. The bells of the chapel resounded a ditty To welcome Napoleon to Erin the Green"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: dream Ireland nonballad patriotic Napoleon
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 130, "Erin the Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 39-40, "Erin the Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Welcome Napoleon to Erin the Green" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte," Hummingbird Records HBCD0027 (2001)) - BS
For the likely background to this song, see the notes to "The Shan Van Voght." - RBW
File: Moyl130
===
NAME: Erin the Green (II)
DESCRIPTION: Counterfeiter William Hill has been sentenced for life to Van Dieman's. He hopes for pardon. "I ardently loved all mankind." With notes forged on the Bank of Scotland "the naked I clothed." "My heart shall be true [to Erin] as the needle to the pole" 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 19C (broadside, Murray Mu23-y1:113)
KEYWORDS: farewell crime transportation money Australia Ireland
FOUND_IN: ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #6992 (and 2900?)
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Erin the Green" (on IRRCinnamond01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.15(292), "Erin the Green" ("Adieu, lovely Erin, I'm going to leave you"), unknown, n.d.
Murray, Mu23-y1:113, "Erin the Green," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Mu23-y3:038, "Erin the Green" 
NOTES: Broadside Murray Mu23-y1:113 is the basis for the description. - BS
File: BdErGre3
===
NAME: Erin the Green (III): see The Flower of Sweet Erin the Green (File: TST144)
===
NAME: Erin-Go-Bragh (II): see Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh) [Laws Q20] (File: LQ20)
===
NAME: Erin, My Country (The Harp of Erin)
DESCRIPTION: "Erin, my country, although thy harp slumbers," the singer loves her still. The singer describes the beauties of Ireland. "Cold, cold must the heart be and void of emotion That loves not the music of Erin-go-bragh"
AUTHOR: William McComb ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1890 (Kenedy)
KEYWORDS: Ireland music nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H478, p. 176, "Erin, My Country" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 42, "Erin, My Country"; pp. 93-94, "Erin, My Country" (2 texts)
Roud #2683
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2747), "O Erin! My Country," J. Harkness (Preston), n.d.; also 2806 b.10(191), 2806 c.15(290), "The Harp of Erin"
Murray, Mu23-y1:063, "The Harp of Erin," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall" (theme)
NOTES: The thematic connection with Moore's "The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall" is so obvious that it need not be elaborated. I'm sure there is cross-influence. But the songs are distinct. - RBW
File: HHH478
===
NAME: Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament) [Laws O29]
DESCRIPTION: The singer chances to see a young couple talking. He is about to take ship for America. She repeatedly expresses her fear that he will forget her. He promises to be true. They kiss; he departs; the singer leaves
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: separation emigration promise parting
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws O29, "Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament)"
Doerflinger, pp. 318-319, "The Irish Girl's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H85, pp. 300-301, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Ulster 33, "Dobbins Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 82, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 85-87, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text)
OBoyle 9, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 13, "Overn's Flowery Vale" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 484, ERINVALE
Roud #999
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(585), "Erin's Flow'ry Vale," unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.15(56), "Dobbin's Flowery Vale"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mullinabrone" (plot, lyrics)
cf. "Caledonia (III -- Jean and Caledonia)" (plot)
cf. "Maid of Dunysheil" (plot)
cf. "Killyclare (Carrowclare; The Maid of Carrowclare)" (plot)
cf. "The Blooming Star of Eglintown" (plot)
cf. "Faithful Rambler, The (Jamie and Mary, Love's Parting)" (plot)
NOTES: For the relationship of this song to "The Irish Girl," see the notes on that song. - RBW
The location of this song is sometimes taken to be in "Dobbins Flowery Vale." Morton-Ulster explains: "Dobbins Flowery Vale is part of what was the estate of Colonel Dobbin, on the edge of the City of Armagh. Colonel Dobbin was M.P. for the area in the late eighteenth century."
Also collected and sung Kevin Mitchell, "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (on Kevin and Ellen Mitchell, "Have a Drop Mair," Musical Tradition Records MTCD315-6 CD (2001)) - BS
File: LO29
===
NAME: Erin's Green Linnet
DESCRIPTION:  Singer asks why a maid weeps. "I once had a Linnet, the pride of this nation, By the fowler he was taken." The Linnet sung throughout Ireland and "upon Tara's old hill" and "famed Mullingar," championed Emancipation in 1829. Now he is lying in Glasnevin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: death Ireland memorial patriotic political bird
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 56, "Erin's Green Linnet" (1 text)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 92-94, "Erin's Green Linnet" (1 text)
Roud #12903
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(23), "O'Connell's Green Linnet," H. Such (London), 1863-1885; also Harding B 19(40), 2806 c.8(41), Harding B 26(173)[some words illegible with heading "Linnet" as "Linne;"], "Erin's Green Linnet"; Firth c.16(83), "The O'Connell, Erin-go-bragh"; Harding B 19(39), "The Green Linnet" 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's King (Daniel Is No More)" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Kerry Eagle" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
NOTES: "1829 saw Catholic 'emancipation,' allowing them every political right open to Protestants of equivalent position" (- RBW). O'Connell led the movement of 1840-1843 to repeal the act that joined Ireland and Great Britain as the United Kingdom with "monster meetings" at Tara and Mullingar and other places (cf. "Glorious Repeal Meeting Held at Tara Hill" and "The Meeting of Tara"). Zimmermann: "O'Connell died at Genoa, on his way to Rome, 15th May, 1847." (p. 233) "In accordance with his wish his heart was brought to Rome and his body to Ireland. His funeral was of enormous dimensions, and since his death a splendid statue has been erected to his memory in Dublin and a round tower placed over his remains in Glasnevin" (source: "Daniel O'Connell" by E.A. D'Alton in _The Catholic Encyclopedia_ on the New Advent site. - BS 
File: Zimm059
===
NAME: Erin's Green Shore [Laws Q27]
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams of meeting a beautiful girl in a green mantle. She tells him she (is a relative of Daniel O'Connell and) has come to awaken her countrymen who sleep on Erin's shore. The singer awakens and hopes the girl finds success
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1835 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1085))
KEYWORDS: Ireland dream patriotic clothes
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Laws Q27, "Erin's Green Shore"
O'Conor, p. 38, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 262-263, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, tune referenced: see OLochlainn 6)
Zimmermann 27, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 27, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 282-283, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text)
Randolph 75, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 73, "Erin's Green Shores" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 151, "Erin's Green Shore" (3 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 69, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 362-365, "Erin's Green Shore" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-NovaScotia 79, "The Mantle of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 164-165, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 140-141,245, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 152-153, "Erin's Green Shore" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "Erin's Green Shore" (source notes only)
DT 351, ERINGREN* ERINSHOR*
Roud #280
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Erin's Green Shore" (on IRRCinnamond01)
Packie Dolan, "Erin's Green Shore" (Montgomery Ward M-8619, c. 1941)
Tom Lenihan, "Erin's Green Shore" (on IRTLenihan01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1085), "Erin's Green Shore," G. Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also 2806 b.10(182), Firth b.25(216), Johnson Ballads 1397, 2806 b.11(109), 2806 c.15(247)[title and beginning lines illegible], Harding B 11(1951), "Erin's Green Shore"
LOCSheet, sm1855 590170, "A Dream" or "Erin's Green Shore," Stayman and Brothers (Philadelphia), 1855 (tune)
LOCSinging, as200830, "Erin's Green Shore," Johnson's Cheap Printing Office (Philadelphia), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Eileen McMahon" (aisling format)
cf. "Granuaile" (aisling format) and references there
cf. "Poor Old Granuaile" (theme)
cf. "Granuwale" (theme)
cf. "Kate of Glenkeen" (tune)
cf. "The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine" [Laws C2] (tune)
cf. "Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb)" [Laws C14] (tune)
cf. "The Maid with the Bonny Brown Hair" (tune)
cf. "The Patriot Queen" (theme: beautiful woman to rally Erin)
cf. "The Blackbird of Avondale" or "The Arrest of Parnell" (theme)
cf. "The Patriot Queen" (theme: beautiful woman to rally Erin)
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
NOTES: Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was an Irish patriot who worked vigorously for Catholic freedom. He did not take part in the 1798 rebellion, but promoted Irish and Catholic rights for many years, and in 1829 saw Britain lift the ban on Catholics in parliament. One of the greatest of the peaceful Irish leaders, his tragedy is that eventually neither side trusted him.
Creighton's version, "The Mantle of Green," should not be confused with Laws N38, "The Mantle So Green."
For a discussion of this type of song as a example of the genre known as the "aisling," see the notes to "Granuaile." - RBW
Broadside LOCSheet sm1855 590170: "words by James Sanford, music by A. Fletcher Stayman"; the date "created and published by Stayman and Brothers" of 1855 is later than the Bodleian Harding B 11(1085) broadside date. - BS
File: LQ27
===
NAME: Erin's Isle (The Boat That Brought Me Over)
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a boy from Erin's Isle just landed here today... Sure they told me England was the place Where everything was gay. Bedad, says I, if that's the case, Sure that's the spot for me." He gets seasick and swears if he gets home not to go again
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: parting travel sea ship England Ireland family disease
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 68, "Erin's Isle" (1 text)
Roud #3097
File: GrMa068
===
NAME: Erin's King (Daniel Is No More)
DESCRIPTION: A maid sings "Erin's King, brave Dan's no more." Daniel O'Connell's career is reviewed: elected for Clare but did not take the oath, brought Emancipation, defended Father Maguire, defended accused conspirators at Doneraile, led us at Tara and Mullaghmast.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: death Ireland memorial patriotic political lament
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 15, 1847 - Daniel O'Connell dies on the way to Rome (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 54, "Erin's King" or "Daniel Is No More" (1 text)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 94-96, "Brave Dan's No More" (1 text)
Roud #9278
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(35), "Erin's Lament for O'Connell," H. Such (London), 1849-1862; also 2806 c.15(211), 2806 b.10(39), Harding B 19(101), "Erin's King" or "Daniel is No More"; 2806 b.10(41), 2806 b.10(33), "Erin's King" or "Brave Dan's No More"; Harding B 13(345), "Lines to the Memory of Daniel O'Connell"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's King (Daniel Is No More)" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Kerry Eagle" (subject: O'Connell's death)
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (I)"  (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
SAME_TUNE:
The Riots in Belfast (Healy-O(SBv2, pp. 102-104)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "When O'Connell was elected first Catholic M.P., he refused to take the old oath against transubstantiation" (cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (1828)); "In 1827, he defended successfully Rev Thomas Maguire, a popular Catholic priest scandalously accused by a Miss Annie McGarrahan."; "In 1829, he obtained the acquittal of several peasants from Doneraile, County Cork, accused of a murder-attempt on an unpopular magistrate"; "Mullaghmast and Tara were the seats of two 'monster meetings' in 1843" (cf. "Glorious Repeal Meeting Held at Tara Hill" and "The Meeting of Tara"). - BS
The exact site of O'Connell's death is variously listed; Zimmermann says Genoa; Robert Kee in _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_), p. 258, says Lyon. All agree that he was on pilgrimage to Rome; he had given his last appeal to the House of Commons shortly before, saying "Ireland is in your hands" (Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 327; Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 117; Kee, p. 258 note his belief that a quarter of the population of Ireland would die if not given aid. This is a slight but understandable exaggeration: Of eight million Irish, about a million died and a million left the country.)
Hearers of the speech noted how far he had fallen, his voice was gone and most of his mental and physical force spent. Disraeli described him as a "feeble old man muttering from a table" (Golway, p. 117). The doctors said he needed rest. He ended up getting the longest rest of all. He was 71.
O'Connell's heart was taken to Rome; the rest of his body was returned to Ireland.
The love the people felt for him is shown by the many songs about him, and the several about his death -- though relatively few went into tradition. - RBW
File: Zimm054
===
NAME: Erin's Lament for her Davitt Asthore
DESCRIPTION: The singer dreams of Richmond prison and Erin as a woman weeps for the loss "of her Green Linnet Davitt ashtore." She sings that he was trapped by the fowler, refused bail, and was caged nine years. The singer wakes to find the dream true.
AUTHOR: Broadside signed P. Hanley (Source: Zimmermann and broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(229))
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: dream prisoner Ireland patriotic bird
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 83, "The Green Linnet" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(229), "The Green Linnet" or "Erin's Lament for her Davitt Asthore," unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Michael Davitt" (subject of Michael Davitt) and references there
cf. "Erin's Green Shore" [Laws Q27] (theme)
cf. "Poor Old Granuaile" (theme)
cf. "Eileen McMahon" (aisling format)
cf. "Granuaile" (aisling format) and references there
cf. "Granuwale" (theme)
cf. "The Blackbird of Avondale" or "The Arrest of Parnell" (theme)
NOTES: Zimmermann: In Irish "a stoir" = my treasure. - BS
Although Michael Davitt (1846-1905) did spend many years in involuntary servitude, he never spent nine consecutive years in prison. AFenian from 1865, he was convicted in 1870 of gun-running and sentenced to fifteen years. In 1877, he was given a ticket-of-leave, and went on to found the Land League (for which see, e.g. "The Bold Tenant Farmer"). He ended up imprisoned again for just over a year in 1881-1882.
For a discussion of this type of song as a example of the genre known as the "aisling," see the notes to "Granuaile." - RBW
File: Zimm083
===
NAME: Erin's Lovely Home [Laws M6]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a gentleman's servant, falls in love with his employer's daughter. They plan to flee abroad. But the girl's father stops them as they board the ship; he has the young man transported for seven years. The girl promises to wait for him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1856 (Journal from the Catalpa)
KEYWORDS: love elopement transportation separation
FOUND_IN: US(So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Laws M6, "Erin's Lovely Home"
O'Conor, p. 25, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text)
McBride 24, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 89, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-100E 54, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H46, pp. 438-439, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 102, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 199-201, "Aran's Lovely Home" ( text)
Ord, pp. 106-107, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 77, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 10, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 64-65, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 38, "Erin's Lovely Home" (1 text)
DT 431, ARANHOME*
Roud #1427
RECORDINGS:
Michael "Straighty" Flanagan, "Erin's Lovely Home" (on IRClare01)
Mary Anne Haynes, "Erin's Lovely Home" (on Voice04)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1087), "Erin's Lovely Home," A. Ryle and Co. (London), 1845-1859; also 2806 b.11(123), Harding B 11(1086), Harding B 11(1088), 2806 b.11(20), 2806 c.15(248)[some illegible lines], 2806 c.8(297), Harding B 11(1089), "Erin's Lovely Home"
Murray, Mu23-y1:111, "Erin's Lovely Home," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Henry Connors" [Laws M5] (plot)
cf. "Erin's Lovely Home" [Laws M6] (plot)
cf. "William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9]" (plot)
cf. "Jock Scott" (plot)
cf. "Matt Hyland" (plot)
cf. "Richard and I" (plot)
cf. "Erin A'Green" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Old Erin's Lovely Vale
Seven Links on My Chain
File: LM06
===
NAME: Erin's Lovely Lee
DESCRIPTION: Singer leaves Queenstown for New York with the Fenian boys March 6, 1863. They are met by Yankees who ask about the Manchester three, Wolfe Tone's body, Captain Mackey and O'Dwyer. He thinks of going home "to float a Fenian boat down Erin's lovely Lee"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967 (recording, Willy Clancy)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar America Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OCanainn, pp. 38-39, "Down Erin's Lovely Lee" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, ERINSLEE*
Roud #5327
RECORDINGS:
Willy Clancy, "Erin's Lovely Lee" (on Voice04)
NOTES: Many Irishmen fought on both sides of the American Civil War. Eventually the Fenian Brotherhood supported Civil War participation as "a training ground for the coming battle in Ireland." (source: _A Brief History of the Fenian Brotherhood_ at the Mike Ruddy site). See the notes to "Kelley's Irish Brigade," "Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade" and "What Irish Boys Can Do" for more information.
Some of the references are anachronistic. 
See "The Smashing of the Van (I)" regarding the Manchester three. The event [would take] place in 1867.
See "The Grave of Wolfe Tone" regarding his burial. Tone died in 1798.
Zimmermann p.67: "William Mackey commanded the Fenians at Ballyknockane, County Cork, in an attack upon the police barracks during the rising of 1867."
See "Michael Dwyer" and "Michael Dwyer (II)" regarding "bold O'Dwyer, the Wicklow Mountain lion." Dwyer's mountain men fought in the early years of the nineteenth century.
Robert Emmet, who was hanged in 1803 is also mentioned. - BS
Since the song is badly anachronistic (implying composition well after the fact), we might mention the one ship commissioned specifically for the Fenian movement, the submarine _Fenian Ram_. According to Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_, p. 183, this was planned in 1876, started in 1878, and finished in 1881. The goal was to use it against British warships. Like most Fenian gadgets, nothing came of it -- though it did go on exhibit during World War I to raise money for the survivors of the Easter Rising. And, according to Diana Preston, _Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy_ (Walker, 2002; I use the 2003 Berkeley edition), p. 36, she was designed by John Holland, who became disenchanted with the Fenians and went on to design another submarine which he sold to the United States Navy -- the first successful naval submarine.
For a bit more on Captain Mackey (whose 1867 exploits were too minor even to earn mention in most of the histories I checked), see the notes to "Bold Jack Donahoe." 
The other historical figure mentioned in the song is "Crowley." This appears to be another anachronism, because Crowley was associated with the 1867 Fenian Uprising. Acording to Robert Kee, _The Bold Fenian Men_, being volume II of _The Green Flag_, "The last dramatic action [in the aftermath of Ballyhurst, for which see 'Burke's Dream' [Laws J16]] was fought on the last day of March, when three leaders of the successful raid on Knockadoon coastguard station, Peter O'Neill Crowley, McLure and Kelly were surprised in Kilclooney Wood in County Tipperary. After a running action among the trees Crowley was killed and the other two arrested -- one with a small green flag and a manual of military tactics in his pocket."
There is a song about him, "Peter Crowley," which I've heard pop-Irish bands sing as if it's traditional, but I have yet to discover any field collections. - RBW
File: RcErLoLe
===
NAME: Erin's Lovely Shore
DESCRIPTION: The singer is "an Irish exile girl." She thinks about the past at home. She dreams she returns to Ireland on an ocean liner and meets her grown sister; she cannot understand the talk because it is Gaelic. She wakes. She warns others to stay in Ireland.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: homesickness exile dream Ireland ship
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 25, "Erin's Lovely Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Presumably from the late nineteenth century, since the first real ocean liner was the _Great Eastern_ of 1858 (for background, see e.g. Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_, Houghton Mifflin, 1997), and the first successful ocean liner was the _Oceanic_ of 1870. So we must presume the song in its current form is post-1870. But Irish was already in decline by then; the sooner after that the song appeared, the more it makes sense. - RBW
File: McB1025
===
NAME: Erin's Whisky
DESCRIPTION: Others praise wine. "For ever shall the theme be mine To chant old whisky's praise ... And let us sing The joys of Erin's whisky"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1825 (_Captain Rock in London, No. 42_, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 77-78, "Erin's Whisky" (1 text)
File: CrPS077
===
NAME: Eriskay Love Lilt, An: see Bheir Me O (File: DTnheirm)
===
NAME: Erlinton [Child 8]
DESCRIPTION: (Erlinton) has a daughter, whom he confines to protect her virtue. A young man nonetheless spirits the daughter away. The lady's guards pursue; the young man slays all but one, and they escape.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: courting death fight escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 8, "Erlinton" (3 texts)
OBB 37, "Erlinton" (1 text)
DT, ERLINTON
Roud #24
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Earl Brand" [Child 7] (plot)
cf. "The Bold Soldier [Laws M27]" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Robin Hood and the Tanner's Daughter
NOTES: Child himself admits that it is "only with much hesitation" that he has separated "Erlinton" from "Earl Brand," and if they are in fact distinct, there has clearly been cross-fertilization. The distinction may not matter much; "Earl Brand" has a lively traditional history, but "Erlinton" was pretty much a dead end. - RBW
File: C008
===
NAME: ESB in Coolea, The
DESCRIPTION: "ESB with 'lectricity is landed in Coolea For to give us light by day or night with bulbs that do not blow." Cullinane "climbs the poles ... watch the sputniks glow." There are jobs digging holes, pegging lines, driving trucks." Not like fifty years ago.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (OCanainn)
KEYWORDS: technology work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OCanainn, pp. 36-37, "Fifty Years Ago" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: OCanainn: "It's less than twenty years since Coolea got its electricity supply (1959) so this is a fairly modern composition." - BS
A point reinforced by the mention of "Sputniks"; Sputnik 1 of course was launched in 1957 (October 4), and it was not until some time later that satellites were large enough to be visible to most people's naked eye.
Gripes about twenty/thirty/fifty years ago, on the other hand, go back about as far as we have records.
ESB is the Electricity Supply Board, founded in 1927 largely to administer the electricity yielded by the Shannon Scheme (for which see "The Shannon Scheme" and "The Straightened Banks of Erne"). - RBW
File: OCan036
===
NAME: Escape of James Stephens, The
DESCRIPTION: Stephens escapes from Richmond. Foolish statements are attributed to the Queen, the Marquis, and Lord Wodehouse. The attempt to recapture him is ridiculed: "But one thing you'll not do, That is get from 'Parley-voo', The bird that thither flew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1879 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 18(151)); OLochlainn-More 3 refers to a newspaper story in 1868 in _The Irishman_
KEYWORDS: prison escape France Ireland humorous patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES:  Sep 15, 1865 - _The Irish People_ newspaper raided and leaders arrested; Stephens in hiding
Nov 11, 1865 - Stephens arrested; scheduled for trial Nov 27, 1865.
Nov 24, 1865 - Escapes Richmond prison (source: Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 3A, "The Escape of James Stephens" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(151), "The Escape of Stephens, the Fenian Chief," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy" (subject) and references there
cf. "The Shan Van Voght" (tune)
NOTES: The Fenians were an organization devoted to freeing Ireland. The organization was founded in 1858 by James Stephens, and quickly spread; the British government felt the need to suppress the group in 1865. Stephens and others were taken prisoner; although he escaped, it turned him cautious; he no longer had the nerve to take aggressive action. That pretty well killed the group as an active set of rebels; their attempt at an Irish rebellion failed in 1867.
For more on Stephens, see the notes to "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy." - RBW
Broadside Harding B 18(151): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OLcM003A
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NAME: Escape of Meagher, The
DESCRIPTION: "In the year '48 he was taken, you know, Next on board a ship he had for to go" Meagher escapes in Van Dieman's Land. The police chief refuses to track him "for you know we are Irishmen" He lands safe in New York, greeted by 16,000.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: transportation trial escape America Australia Ireland police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 1852 - Thomas Francis Meagher escapes from Tasmania to America. "[S]entenced to death after the attempted insurrection in 1848, [he] had been reprieved and transported to Tasmania." (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 61, "The Escape of Meagher" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads fol. 340[some words are illegible], "The Escape of Meagher," unknown, n.d.
LOCSinging,sb30363a, "A new song, on the Escape of Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish Exile," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859 
NOTES: Zimmermann: "He [Meagher] had given notice of his intention to leave the penal colony, but it seems that the police officers were afraid to arrest him. The news of his escape and of his triumphal reception in America reached Ireland several months later and was hailed with delight." - BS
Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) was one of the more amazing characters in Irish history. As a young man, he thought Daniel O'Connell's campaigns for reform too peaceful, declaring that he did not believe that "the God of Heaven withholds his sanction from the use of arms.... I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon" (Robert Kee, _The Most Distressful Country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, pp. 254; Peter and Fiona Someset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 225). As a result, he came to be called "Meagher of the Sword."
Ironically, he put forth this view in an English (Stonyhurst) accent (Kee, p. 247).
Along with John Mitchel (for whom see "John Mitchel") and William Smith O'Brien (for whom see "The Shan Van Voght (1848)"), he in 1847 split from Young Ireland to found the Irish Confederation (Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 116). Kee, p. 255, is of the opinion that no one intended the split to be permanent, but notes that, as far as the campaign for Irish rights was concerned, "[t]he damage proved irrevocable."
They went on to try to organize a rising. The British arrested them in March 1848 on charges of sedition. The juries deadlocked in the cases of Meagher and Smith O'Brien, who therefore went free (Kee, pp. 267-268). They responded by going back to their old tricks. This time they tried outright rebellion, and it was a complete disaster (for this too seee the notes to "The Shan Van Voght (1848)" ). O'Brien Smith and Meagher were found and arrested again; this time, they were transported (Fry/Fry, pp. 237-238; Kee, p. 287); sentenced to death, they were reprieved and sent to Tasmania. This song of course chronicles Meagher's escape, in which he reportedly had help from another Young Irelander (Kee, p. 287); if the Irish had been as good at organizing protests and revolts as they were at organizing escapes, they might have gained independence much sooner.
In America, where he lived by lecturing and writing, Meagher gradually turned less radical; when James Stephens approached him in the United States, he said it would be "unworthy" of him to support a revolution (Golway, p. 132).
For his career in the American Civil War, see the notes to "By the Hush." After the war, he was appointed territorial governor of Montana, but drowned in the Missouri River after only a short time in office. His body was not found, but it is likely that he was drunk at the time; there were many reports at the time that he had taken to drink, and his military record was not unspotted. - RBW
Broadside LOCSinging sb30363a: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: Zimm061
===
NAME: Escape of Old John Webb, The: see Billy Broke Locks (The Escape of Old John Webb) (File: LoF004)
===
NAME: Escuminac Disaster (I), The
DESCRIPTION: June 19, 1959 "around Escuminac A sudden storm did appear. Oh, wicked waves! Oh, wailing wind!" The men that went out with their nets in the afternoon were in the wrecked fishing fleet in Miramichi Bay. Though 35 were lost, heroics saved some.
AUTHOR: Bernadette Keating of Chatham (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: rescue drowning fishing sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 19, 1959 - 22 salmon boats and 35 crewmen from Escuminac lost in a storm (Manny/Wilson)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 17, "The Escuminac Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi017o (Partial)
Roud #9195
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: A source for information about the disaster is _The Ecuminac Disaster_ by Roy Saunders. - BS
The Escuminac tragedy was one of those defining moments for its community. Manny/Wilson report that performers sang no fewer than five songs about it at the 1959 Miramichi Folk Festival, and another in 1960 -- one, in fact, a tribute to the area by one of the drowned men. Of these six, they reported three, including this one, written by a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
It's interesting to note that Keating is probably still alive. One wonders what has become of her since. - RBW
File: MaWi017o
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NAME: Escuminac Disaster (II), The
DESCRIPTION: This is the story of the Escuminac Bay disaster. Thirty-five were lost salmon-fishing in the storm but some were saved. "A drive for funds for the widows And for those who lost souls at sea Was organized in New Brunswick To help raise their families"
AUTHOR: Alex Milson of Chatham (Manny/Wilson)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: rescue drowning fishing sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 19, 1959 - 22 salmon boats and 35 crewmen from Escuminac lost in a storm (Manny/Wilson)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 17a, "The Escuminac Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi017a (Partial)
Roud #9194
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: A source for information about the disaster is _The Ecuminac Disaster_ by Roy Saunders. - BS
The Escuminac tragedy was one of those defining moments for its community. Manny/Wilson report that performers sang no fewer than five songs about it at the 1959 Miramichi Folk Festival, and another in 1960 -- one, in fact, a tribute to the area by one of the drowned men. Of these six, they reported three, including this one. - RBW
File: MaWi017a
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NAME: Eskimo Lullaby
DESCRIPTION: The text literally translates as, "Hello, my little girl, my little girl. / [We have received] a gift of a little lady. / She doesn't really know anything yet."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1954
KEYWORDS: Eskimo lullaby
FOUND_IN: Canada(Nor)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Johnston, p. 20, "An Eskimo Lullaby" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "An Eskimo Lullaby" (on NFOBlondahl04)
File: FJ020
===
NAME: Eskimo Weather Chant, An
DESCRIPTION: "Cha-yun-ga a-cin U-wan-ga a-cin Cha-yun-ga a-cin U-wan-ga na-lu-vit, Cha-yun-ga a-cin U-wan-ga a-cin." "Here I come again, Here I come again, Here I come again, Dost thou not know me...."
AUTHOR: unknown (English words by Alan Mills)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: nonballad Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: Canada(North)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 8-9, "An Eskimo Weather Chant" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FMB008
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NAME: Essequibo River
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "Essequibo River is the king o' rivers all. Buddy tan-na wa we are somebody O! (2x) Ch: Somebody O, John, somebody O! Buddy tan-na wa we are somebody O!" Verses are similar: Essequibo captain/boson/maidens is/are the king/queen of all.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong sailor river
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 416-417, "Essequibo River" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd,pp. 317-318]
NOTES: The Essequibo River is in Guyana, and is the largest river between the Orinoco and the Amazon. - SL
It is, in fact, the most significant geographic feature of Guyana. Not too far from the Atlantic coast, at the confluence of the Essequibo, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni rivers is the Bartica, one of the few significant towns in this poor, strongly rural nation. Webster's Geographic Dictionary says that it was the point of departure to the local gold and diamond fields, which I suspect explains why it has a shanty about it. - RBW
File: Hugi416
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NAME: Estersnowe: see Easter Snow (File: HHH066)
===
NAME: Et Nous Irons a Valapariso
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Consists of four verses and four different choruses. Verses have general sailing themes. Choruses borrow from "Homeward Bound" and "Blow the Man Down." Mostly in French, some choruses in English.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty
FOUND_IN: England France
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 129-130, "Et Nous Irons a Valapariso" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Blow the Man Down" (partial tune)
cf. "Homeward Bound (I)" (partial tune and chorus)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Goodbye, Farewell (French)
NOTES: Note on French shanties with English choruses - Hugill supposes the beginnings of this practice date to the American Revolution when due to blockades in New England, many of the whaling families of that region transported themselves to Milford Haven and Dunkirk, reforming the sperm whaling industry there. This influx of New England whalers into Dunkirk would also have influenced the shanties in that part of the world. - SL
File: Hugi129
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NAME: Euabalong Ball
DESCRIPTION: "Oh who hasn't heard of Euabalong Ball, Where the lads of the Lachlan... Come bent on diversion from far and from near." Description of rowdy annual party among shearers and other sheep-station workers, all get drunk and have a grand time
AUTHOR: rewritten by A. L. Lloyd
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (recorded by A. L. Lloyd)
KEYWORDS: dancing drink party worker
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 98-99, "Euabalong Ball" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 240-242, "Euabalong Ball" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Euabalong Ball" (on Lloyd4, Lloyd10)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wooyeo Ball)
NOTES: According to Paterson/Fahey/Seal, A.L.Lloyd reworked this from "The Wooyeo Ball" to make it more singable. "The Wooyeo Ball" apparently dates back to 1888, but is rare in tradition, so this song seems to justify a separate listing. - RBW
File: RcEBALL
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NAME: Eumerella Shore, The
DESCRIPTION: "There's a happy little valley by the Eumerella Shore Where I've lingered many happy hours away...." The singer rejoices to be free of the squatters, or even to be able to steal their cattle. He encourages his animals to enjoy their freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: Australia farming freedom outlaw
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1861 - Sir John Robertson (called Jack Robertson in the song) passes the New South Wales Free Selection Act, allowing the poorer members of the population freer access to land
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 155-156, "The Eumerella Shore";  p. 238, "The Noomanally Shore" ; pp. 278-279, "The Neumerella Shore" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 106-107, "Eumerella Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 272-273, "The Umeralla Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 162-165, "The Numerella Shore" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Darling Nelly Gray" (tune)
NOTES: Manifold notes that Australia boasts a Eumerella River in Victoria, while New South Wales has a Umerella (Numerella) River. The reference to John Robertson implies a New South Wales setting -- but of course the song could have spread.
Manifold thinks this is a satire of the free selection movement, and I think he is right. (For a more positive view of the situation, see "The Old Bullock Dray.") - RBW
File: MA155
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NAME: Eureka!: see We're Coming, Arkansas (We're Coming, Idaho) (File: R343)
===
NAME: Evalina: see Dear Evalina (File: R823)
===
NAME: Evangelist's Song, The: see The Pioneer Preacher (File: Hud082)
===
NAME: Evelyn
DESCRIPTION: "She lived at home up on the mountain side... For many miles and miles all people knew Fair Evelyn...." A mountaineer and a rich man court her. She chooses the rich man; she and her parents sneak to his home to avoid the mountaineer's vengeance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Cambiaire)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection money home family
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cambiaire, pp. 41-42, "Evelyn" (1 text)
Roud #12638
NOTES: This is thoroughly un-folk-like. Even if you ignore the fact that the rich city man, and not the poor handsome mountaineer, gets the girl, there is the fact that the girl and her parents agree, and the city man cares for the parents. And the poetry is lousy, and Cambiaire's seems to be the only version known. I rather suspect that this was concocted to convince some love-sick girl that not *all* "old stories" end with the girl marrying the poor fellow and living happily ever after. - RBW
File: Camb-41
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NAME: Evening Train, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer hears laughter at the train depot, but he himself is crying as they put the casket in the baggage coach. He and his child mourn the death of the child's mother
AUTHOR: Hank and Audrey Williams
EARLIEST_DATE: 1949 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: death mother wife train
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 341-342, "The Evening Train" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Even Cohen admits that this is not a traditional song; he included it mostly as a demonstration of how old styles of song still came to be even after the hillbilly country boom was over. - RBW
File: LSRai341
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NAME: Ever After On: see Late Last Night When Willie Came Home (Way Downtown) (File: CSW166)
===
NAME: Ever Since Uncle John Henry Been Dead: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: Evergreen, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer finds an evergreen in Inishowen. "They are few and far between in dear old Donegal." The thrush and blackbird sing there, near the river; "nothing can be seen, Like the charming little valley that grows the evergreen"
AUTHOR: Charlie Harkin (source: McBride)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: lyric bird Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 23, "The Evergreen" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This song is accurate about Donegal's trees, for good climatological reasons. Ireland is fairly far north, but with a climate that is both wet and temperate due to the Gulf Stream -- and also rather cloudy. Evergreens are largely an adaption to dry, cold climates where there are relatively few clouds: Their design is intended to gather maximum sun while losing relatively little water. In a wet but cloudy climate, they are at a severe competitive disadvantage. A check of any atlas with decent climate maps (I used Goode's World Atlas) will show that the southern and eastern parts of the country are covered with deciduous forests. But Donegal, in the far northwest, is dominated by heaths and moors; trees of any kind are rare. - RBW
File: McB1023
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NAME: Every Mail Day
DESCRIPTION: "Every mail day (x2) I gets a letter... O Son, come home, Lord, Lord, Son come home." "I couldn't read it... to keep from crying... to save my soul"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (recording, Adie Corbin)
KEYWORDS: prison nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 173, "Mail Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa173 (Partial)
Roud #7490
RECORDINGS:
Adie Corbin, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 178 B1, 1933)
(Elder) Sykes Jones, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 364 B, 1935)
J. B. Sutton, "Mail Day Blues" [excerp?t] (on USWarnerColl01)
Unidentified convict, Parchman Farm, Mississippi, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 1862 B, 1937)
File: Wa173
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NAME: Every Night When the Sun Goes In
DESCRIPTION: "Every night when the sun goes in (x3), I hang down my head and mournful cry." The singer says she is leaving, and wishes the train would come to take her home. When her apron was low, he would follow her everywhere; now it is high, he ignores her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: seduction suicide pregnancy betrayal
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SharpAp 189, "Every Night when the Sun Goes In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 149-150, "Every Night When the Sun Goes In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 180, "Every Night When The Sun Goes In" (1 text)
DT, EVRYNITE*
Roud #3611
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (lyrics, plot)
cf. "Careless Love" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is so close to "The Butcher Boy" that I was almost tempted to list them as one. The introductory theme of returning home, however, separates the songs. - RBW
File: LxA149
===
NAME: Every Rose Grows Merry in TIme: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
===
NAME: Every Time I Feel the Spirit
DESCRIPTION: "Every time I feel the Spirit Moving in my heart, I will pray." The singer sees God speaking with fire and smoke, asks to be part of it, and is confident in God's care
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Morehouse Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 257, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 360, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (1 text)
Roud #12358
RECORDINGS:
Marian Anderson, "Ev'ry Time I Feel de Spirit" [medley with "No Hiding Place"] (Victor 2032, 1940)
Birmingham Jubilee Quartet, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Columbia 14176-D, 1926)
Famous Garland Jubilee Singers, "Everytime I Feel the Spirit"  (Banner 32433/Romeo 5135, 1932; Conqueror 8358 [as Bryant's Jubilee Singers]; rec. 1931)
Fisk University Jubilee Singers, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Columbia 562-D, 1926)
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, "Everytime That I Feel the Spirit" (Bluebird B-8328/Montgomery Ward M-8776, 1940; rec. 1939)
Golden Leaf Quartet, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Brunswick 7050, 1929, rec. 1928)
Rev. H. B. Jackson, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (OKeh 8804, 1930; rec. 1929)
C. Mae Frierson Moore, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Paramount 12323, 1925)
Morehouse Quartet, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (OKeh 40268, 1925; rec. 1923)
Norfolk Jubilee Quartette, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Paramount 12268, 1925)
Pace Jubilee Singers, "Everytime I Feel the Spirit" (Victor V-38019, 1929)
Plantation Jubilee Singers, "Everytime I Feel the Spirit" (Supertone 9300, 1929)
Richmond's Harmonizing Four, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Decca 48108, rec. 1943)
Stalsby Family, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (Decca 5866, 1940)
File: FSWB360B
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NAME: Everybody Works but Father
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes his father's indolence and the rest of the family's industry. Eventually his father takes a job while everyone else relaxes. Chorus: "Everybody works but Father, he hangs around all day... Everyone works around our house but my old man."
AUTHOR: Jean Havez
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (sheet music published)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer describes his father's indolence and the rest of the family's industry. Eventually his father takes a job to clean up Decatur St.; now he works while everyone else vacations. Chorus: "Everybody works but Father, he hangs around all day/Feet stretched out by the fire, smoking his pipe of clay/Mother takes in washing and so does sister Ann/Everyone works around our house but my old man"
KEYWORDS: work father family worker humorous
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Everybody Works but Father" (OKeh 45056, 1926)
Billy Murray, "Everybody Works But Father" (Victor 4519, 1905)
Riley Puckett, "Everybody Works but Father" (Columbia 15078-D, 1926)
Bob Roberts, "Everybody Works But Father" (CYL: Edison 9100, 1905)
Unknown baritone, "Everybody Works But Father" (Busy Bee 1219, c. 1906)
Frank Wilson, "Everybody Works But Father" (Victor 4727, 1906)
File: RcEBWBF
===
NAME: Everybody's Gal is My Gal
DESCRIPTION: "Everybody's gal is my gal. My partner's gal is my gal too. If you ain't might keerful, I'll take 'er right away from you." "If you got a good gal, You better pin 'er to your side, 'Cause if she flags my train, I'm gonna let 'er ride."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 438, "Everybody's Gal is My Gal" (1 short text)
Roud #11778
File: Br3438
===
NAME: Everybody's Got to Be Tried
DESCRIPTION: "Now, it's everybody's got to be tried (x3), You got to go to judgment, you got to be tried." "Every sinner's got to be tried." "Now you take, every drunkard's got to be tried." "Every liar's got to be tried...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: religious trial nonballad punishment
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #5738
RECORDINGS:
Frank Proffitt, "Everybody's Got to Be Tried" (on FProffitt01)
File: RcEBGTBT
===
NAME: Everyday Dirt: see Will the Weaver [Laws Q9] (File: LQ09)
===
NAME: Everywhere I Go My Lord
DESCRIPTION: "Everywhere I go, Everywhere I go my Lord... Somebody's talkin' 'bout Jesus. Well my knees been acquainted with the hillside clay... And my head's been wet with the midnight dew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (recording, Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, p. 61, "(Somebody's Talking About Jesus)" (partial text); p. 247, "Everywhere I Go My Lord" (1 tune, partial text)
RECORDINGS:
Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward, "Somebody's Talking About Jesus" (on NFMAla5) (on ReedWard01)
File: CNFM061A
===
NAME: Evil Woman, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
===
NAME: Evil-Hearted Man
DESCRIPTION: "Well, I woke up this morning, I was feeling mighty bad, My baby said 'Good morning," Hell, it made me so mad, Because I'm evil, well, evil-hearted me." He abuses the woman, not caring if she leaves, "'Cause I got forty-leven others If it comes to that."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: abuse abandonment
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 77, "Evil-Hearted Man" (1 text)
DT, EVILMAN*
File: FSWB077B
===
NAME: Ewe Buchts: see The Broom of Cowdenknows [Child 217] (File: C217)
===
NAME: Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn
DESCRIPTION: In praise of the ewie -- "a' wha kent her could hae sworn Sic a ewie ne'er was born, Hereabouts or far awa'." All who knew the ewie (i.e. a still) loved her products -- but now she is missing or dead, (taken by revenuers)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (_Scots Musical Museum_, #293)
KEYWORDS: drink animal separation
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 271, "The Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn" (1 text+1 in appendix, 1 tune)
DT, CROKHORN*
Roud #2140
RECORDINGS:
Lucy Stewart, "The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn" (on FSB10)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Blockader's Trail" (subject)
cf. "The Moonshine Can" (subject)
cf. "The Black Stripper" (subject, theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Yowie Wi' the Crookit Horn
NOTES: This humorous song seems innocent enough, but the Rev. John Skinner found its subtle meanings sufficiently problematic that he produced a "clean" version about an actual sheep! This found its way into print before most of the versions about the illicit still, but there can be little doubt about which is older. - RBW
File: K271
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NAME: Ewing Brooks (Maxwell's Doom) [Laws E12]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, Ewing Brooks, departs England and assumes the name [Walter] Maxwell in America. He murders a man out of petty jealousy, then flees west, ending in New Zealand. Extradited to the U.S., he is condemned to die despite his family's plea
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: exile homicide execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1885 - Hugh M. Brooks, who used the name Walter Lennox Maxwell, murders Charles Arthur Preller
Aug 10, 1888 - Execution of Brooks (apprehended after fleeing to New Zealand)
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws E12, "Ewing Brooks (Maxwell's Doom)"
Belden, pp. 413-415, "Maxwell's Doom" (2 texts)
Randolph 156, "Ewing Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 148-151, "Ewing Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's )
DT 690, EWNGBROK
Roud #890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charles Guiteau" [Laws E11] (tune & meter)
File: LE12
===
NAME: Excel, The
DESCRIPTION: "Being on a Sunday morning when the wind did roar and rage There was twenty-two of the Excel crew met with a watery grave; There was men, women and children stood on her quarter deck, When a heavy sea broke over her and swept them from the wreck"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 11, 1885 - Excel is wrecked at Black Island, Labrador, "with a loss of about twenty-two men, women and children" (Lehr/Best, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 34, "The Excel" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Lehr/Best quotes a news story describing the loss - BS
File: LeBe034
===
NAME: Execution of Michael Fagan, The
DESCRIPTION: Joe Brady and Dan Curley have been executed. Michael Fagan is to be executed at Kilmainham Jail. "That vile informer Carey ... In high renown in some foreign town" will be followed by the widow's curse. Fagan bids friends adieu and prays God for mercy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: execution homicide betrayal Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: The Phoenix Park murders (source: primarily Zimmermann, pp. 62, 63, 281-286.)
May 6, 1882 - Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke are murdered by a group calling themselves "The Invincible Society."
January 1883 - twenty seven men are arrested.
James Carey, one of the leaders in the murders, turns Queen's evidence.
Six men are condemned to death, four are executed (Joseph Brady is hanged May 14, 1883; Daniel Curley is hanged on May 18, 1883), others are "sentenced to penal servitude," and Carey is freed and goes to South Africa.
July 29, 1883 - Patrick O'Donnell kills Carey on board the "Melrose Castle" sailing from Cape Town to Durban.
Dec 1883 - Patrick O'Donnell is convicted of the murder of James Carey and executed in London (per Leach-Labrador)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann, p. 28, "Lines Written on the Execution of Michael Fagan" (1 fragment)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(366), "Lines Written on the Execution of Michl. Fagan" ("Thrice has the English hangman sailed thro' Dublin bay"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Phoenix Park Tragedy" (subject: the Phoenix Park murders) and references there
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 62: "The Phoenix Park murders and their judicial sequels struck the popular imagination and were a gold-mine for ballad-writers: some thirty songs were issued on this subject, which was the last great cause to be so extensively commented upon in broadside ballads."
Zimmermann p. 28 is a fragment; broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(366) is the basis for the description. - BS
File: BrdExMiF
===
NAME: Execution of Robert Schramle, The
DESCRIPTION: "Not a bark was heard, not a warning note, As we o'er to the calaboose hurried." The vigilantes break into the prison, take the prisoner, hang him, and "left him alone with the devil"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: homicide prison execution
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 169, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Burt connects this with the execution in Colorado of Robert Schramle, accused of killing Henry Thiede on October 11, 1877, but there is no supporting evidence in the song that I can see. (To be fair, there is no counter-evidence, either.) If Burt's connection is correct, the vigilante execution took place on December 9, 1877. - RBW
File: Burt169
===
NAME: Exile of Erin (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin." He looks across the ocean toward Erin, mourns for his lost country and remembers "friends who can meet me no more." He thinks of his family. "Erin, an exile, bequeaths thee his blessing"
AUTHOR: probably Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) (but see the note re broadside shelfmark L.C.Fol.70(118a))
EARLIEST_DATE: 1805 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: homesickness exile Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: Ireland US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, p. 41, "The Exile of Erin" (1 text)
Moylan 126, "The Exile of Erin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean, pp. 53-54, "Exile of Erin" (1 text)
Roud #4355
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(38), "The Exile of Erin", W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also 2806 b.11(216), 2806 b.10(90), 2806 c.15(300), Harding B 25(593), Harding B 28(209), Harding B 11(3066), Harding B 11(1655), Harding B 16(325b), Harding B 11(3069), Harding B 11(3067), Harding B 11(2496), 2806 b.10(72), Harding B 11(3068), Harding B 17(86a), Harding B 11(740), Harding B 11(378), Harding B 11(4398), Harding B 11(1105), Harding B 11(3748), 2806 c.15(299), "[The] Exile of Erin"; Harding B 26(178), "The Exile o' Erin " 
LOCSinging, as103590, "Exile of Erin", George S. Harris (Philadelphia), 19C; also as100640, "The Exile of Erin" 
Murray, Mu23-y2:048, "The Exile of Erin" unknown (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(118a), "The Exile of Erin", unknown, c.1885
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Plains of Emu (The Exile of Erin II)" (theme)
NOTES: Note that there is an early parody: Bodleian, Harding B 16(61c), "The Cottage Maid", J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819.
Broadside NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(118a): The commentary states "There appears to be some doubt over the authorship of 'The Exile of Erin'. Many believe it to be the work of the Scottish-born poet, Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), who is said to have been inspired by an encounter with an Irish exile named McCann. It has also been suggested, however, that it was the work of the Irish ballad writer George Nugent Reynolds (1770-1802)." - BS
Possibly the confusion was inspired by the several other songs with the same or similar titles? There seems to be no doubt that Campbell wrote *a* piece called "The Exile of Erin" (and, if Stevenson's _Home Book of Verse 2_ is to be credited, it's this poem). - RBW
File: OCon041
===
NAME: Exile of Erin (II), The: see The Plains of Emu (The Exile of Erin II) (File: FaE036)
===
NAME: Exile's Return, The: see Sweet Inishcara (File: RcSweIni)
===
NAME: Exiled Crofter's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: "We're awa, we're awa frae the auld country, To a far awa land, far o'er the sea." "In the wee crofter's garden...  nae crofters' families appear on the scene... They are chased ower the ocean that sportsmen may reign." The singer wishes he were home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord), reportedly from a Canadian book published 1812
KEYWORDS: home separation emigration
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 366, "The Exiled Crofter's Lament" (1 text)
Roud #4597
NOTES: Obviously a composed item about the Highland Clearances, and probably not traditional -- but surprisingly effective. - RBW
File: Ord366
===
NAME: Exiled Irishman's Lament, The (The Exiles of Erin)
DESCRIPTION: "Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt," but the lease expires and the singer is forced to leave. His home burns though he obeys the law. "I supported old Ireland... We have numbers, and numbers do constitute pow'r -- Let us will to be free"
AUTHOR: George Nugent Reynolds (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1804 (_Paddy's Resource_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: exile Ireland patriotic home
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 100, "The Exiles of Erin" (1 text)
Moylan 25, "The Exiled Irishman's Lamentation" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13387
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(150), "Erin Go Bragh!" ("Green was the fields where my forefathers dwelt"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 [same as LOCSinging sb10111b]
LOCSinging, sb10111b, "Erin Go Bragh!" ("Green was the fields where my forefathers dwelt"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(150)]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Slieve Gallen Braes" (theme)
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb10111b and Bodleian Harding B 18(150): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon100
===
NAME: Exiles of Erin, The: see The Exiled Irishman's Lament (The Exiles of Erin) (File: OCon100)
===
NAME: Express Office, The (He Is Coming to Us Dead)
DESCRIPTION: An old man enters the express office and enquires after his boy. Told that this is not the train depot, the man points out "He's coming in a casket, sir, He's coming to us dead." His mother had expected just that result "when he joined the boys in blue."
AUTHOR: Gussie L. Davis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: soldier death burial corpse train family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 300-303, "He's Coming to Us Dead" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 696, "The Express Office" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 458-460, "The Express Office" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 696A)
DT, COMEDEAD* CMNGDEAD
Roud #3513
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "He Is Coming To Us Dead" (Victor 21139, 1927; on GraysonWhitter01); (Gennett, unissued, 1927)
Wade Mainer, "He Is Coming To Us Dead" (King 585)
New Lost City Ramblers, "He Is Coming To Us Dead" (on NLCR14)
Molly O'Day, "A Hero's Death" (Columbia 20441, 1948)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Boy in Blue
The Boys in Blue
NOTES: Cohen notes that the tune sung by G. B. Grayson (which is now more or less the standard) is not the same as the original Davis tune, with a 32-bar verse and a 16-bar chorus, compared to Grayson's 8-bar tune with no chorus. He speculates that Davis may simply have been rewriting an existing piece, perhaps from the Civil War. - RBW
File: R696
===
NAME: Eyes of Texas, The
DESCRIPTION: "The eyes of Texas are upon you All the live-long day. The eyes of Texas are upon you, You cannot get away. Do not think you can escape them From night till early in the morn. The eyes of Texas are upon you Till Gabriel blows his horn."
AUTHOR: Words: John Lang Sinclair
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (University of Texas Community Songbook)
KEYWORDS: parody nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 42, "The Eyes of Texas" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 309, "I've Been Working on the Railroad -- (The Eyes of Texas)"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Nose of Oklahoma Smells You (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 248)
NOTES: Fuld reports that this text was written by Sinclair in 1903 for use in a minstrel show. The text was inspired by a remark by University of Texas President William L. Prather. - RBW
File: FSWB042B
===
NAME: Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
DESCRIPTION: "Ezekiel saw the wheel, Way up in the middle of the air... And the big wheel (run/turn) by faith, and the little wheel (run/turn) by the grace of God. (There's) a wheel in a wheel, Way in the middle of the air."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (recording, Biddle University Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Courlander-NFM, p. 52, (no title) (1 text, probably partial)
Sandburg, pp. 488-492, "Ezekiel, You and Me" (1 heavily composite text, 1 composite tune; this song produces stanza 1)
Silber-FSWB, p. 357, "Ezekiel Saw The Wheel" (1 text)
Roud #12241
RECORDINGS:
Biddle University Quartet, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Pathe 22400, 1920/Perfect 11225, 1925)
Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (OKeh 40250, 1925; rec. 1924)
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Columbia A3370, 1921; Silvertone 3283 [as Border Male Quartet], n.d.; rec. 1920)
Hall Johnson Negro Choir, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Victor 36020, 1930)
Hampton Institute Quartette, "Exekiel Saw de Wheel" (Musicraft 232, prob. 1939)
Norfolk Jubilee Quartette, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Paramount 12217, 1924)
Pace Jubilee Singers w. Hattie Parker, "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel" (Victor 21582, 1928)
Paul Robeson & Lawrence Brown, "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (Victor 20604, 1927)
West Virginia Collegiate Institute Glee Club, "Ezekial Saw de Wheel"  (Brunswick 3498, 1927; Supertone S-2126 [as Harmony Glee Club], 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rock, Chariot, I Told You to Rock"
cf. "John Done Saw That Number"
NOTES: This is based on Ezekiel's vision in Ezekiel 1. - RBW
File: CNFM052
===
NAME: F. F. V., The: see The Wreck on the C & O [Laws G3] (File: LG03)
===
NAME: Face on the Barroom Floor, The
DESCRIPTION: A drunk enters a bar; he tells his story in exchange for drink. He was a painter, but his girlfriend saw a portrait he was painting, and took up with the fellow, then died. The singer turned to drink; he offers to draw her face on the floor, and dies
AUTHOR: Hugh Antoine D'Arcy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887
KEYWORDS: drink abandonment death love
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
JHJohnson, pp. 21-24, "The Face on the Barroom Floor" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 126-127, "The Face on the Bar Room Floor" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST JHJ021 (Partial)
Roud #9123
RECORDINGS:
Harold Selman, "The Face on the Bar Room Floor, pts. 1 & 2" (OKeh 45249, 1928)
NOTES: Originally titled "The Face Upon the Floor," this qualifies as a folk song only in the sense that certain sorts of people are very fond of quoting it. It has been widely published; _Granger's Index to Poetry_ lists nine citations. - RBW
File: JHJ021
===
NAME: Factor's Garland, The [Laws Q37]
DESCRIPTION: The factor shows his kindness by paying for a dead man's burial and paying the fee of a girl who would otherwise be hanged. It is eventually revealed that the girl is a king's daughter. After many complex adventures, he marries the girl; they have a son
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Journal from the Nellie)
KEYWORDS: rescue marriage money royalty
FOUND_IN: US(NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws Q37, "The Factor's Garland"
Flanders/Olney, pp. 154-162, "The Factor's Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 81-82, "The Factor's Garland" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 60, "The Turkish Factor" (1 text)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 268-271, "The Turkey Factor in Foreign Parts" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Factor's Garland" (source notes only)
DT 545, FACTRSNG
Roud #572
NOTES: There may be a slight hint in here of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical book of Tobit, which is also motivated by the generosity of the hero in burying the dead. But, if so, it's come a long way. - RBW
File: LQ37
===
NAME: Factor's Song, The: see The Factor's Garland [Laws Q37] (File: LQ37)
===
NAME: Factory Girl (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a beautiful girl, an orphan who works in a factory (linen mill). He courts her, but she must leave to go to work. He offers to marry her. She again rejects him. She eventually marries well -- perhaps to the singer, perhaps to a squire
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Gardiner)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty marriage money orphan factory technology
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Kennedy 221, "The Factory Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H217, p. 368, "The Factory Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Ulster 19, "The Factory Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Maguire 41, pp. 129-130,171-172, "The Factory Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FACTGIRL* FACTGRL2
ADDITIONAL: Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), p. 7, "The Factory Girl" (text, music and reference to Decca F-3125 recorded Aug 12, 1932)
Roud #1659
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "The Factory Girl"  (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
Bill Cassidy, "The Factory Girl" (on IRTravellers01)
Sarah Makem, "The Factory Girl" (on Voice10)
NOTES: The date and master id (GB-4733-1) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
File: K221
===
NAME: Factory Girl (II), The: see No More Shall I Work in the Factory (File: Grnw122)
===
NAME: Faded Coat of Blue
DESCRIPTION: "My brave boy sleeps in his faded coat of blue, In a lonely grave unknown lies that heart that beat so true." Dying, he bids farewell to mother. The singer is confident they will meet in heaven "Where a robe of white is given for a faded coat of blue."
AUTHOR: J. H. McNaughton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Buell Kazee)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar death farewell
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Hudson 126, pp. 266-267, "The Faded Coat of Blue" (1 text)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 227-228, "The Faded Coat of Blue" (1 text)
DT, FADECOAT*
ST HCW227 (Full)
Roud #4293
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Faded Coat of Blue"  (Bluebird B-5974/Montgomery Ward M-4543, 1935; Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22656, n.d.; rec. 1934)
Buell Kazee, "Faded Coat of Blue" (Brunswick 206/Brunswick 3802, 1928; Supertone S-2045, 1930)
NOTES: Written during the Civil War (or so I've heard, though I've also seen claims that it's a Spanish-American war song), this was apparently collected by A. P. Carter and recorded by the Carter Family in 1934. I know of no other collection in tradition. - RBW
[A]s far as the Carters' being the only collection in tradition -- doesn't Buell Kazee count? His record was issued made and issued in 1928, or six years before the Carter Family's. - PJS
And, of course, we can now add Hudson's version. - RBW
File: HCW227
===
NAME: Faded Flowers
DESCRIPTION: "I've been gathering wild flowers on the hillside To wreathe upon your brow. But so long you've kept me waiting They ate dead and faded now." When he loved her, she turned him loose; now she wants him back, but he loves another. She will remain true
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment return loneliness flowers
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 216-217, "Faded Flowers" (1 text)
Roud #6983
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Parting Words" (floating lyrics)
File: Beld216
===
NAME: Fagan the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (File: R102)
===
NAME: Fain Waterloo, The: see The Mantle So Green [Laws N38] (File: LN38)
===
NAME: Fair and Free Elections
DESCRIPTION: "While some on rights and some on wrongs Prefer their own reflections The people's rights demand our song The right of free elections." In praise of democracy and its good effects. Listeners are urged to "stand by the ballot box"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (recording, Oscar Brand)
KEYWORDS: political nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 284, "Fair and Free Elections" (1 text)
DT, FAIRFREE*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Wonder what the author would have thought of politics, 1990s style. - RBW
Not to mention Florida, 2000? - PJS
File: FSWB284
===
NAME: Fair and Handsome Girls
DESCRIPTION: 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Come All You Fair and Tender Girls
File: WB2080
===
NAME: Fair and Tender Ladies
DESCRIPTION: Lyric song, in which the narrator, a woman, laments the falseness of men. She sadly remarks, "Oh if I were some little sparrow / And had I wings so I could fly / I'd fly away to my own true lover / And when he courted, I'd deny."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting love betrayal nonballad bird lyric
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (23 citations)
Belden, pp. 477-478, "Little Sparrow" (2 texts)
Randolph 73, "You Fair and Pretty Ladies" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 121-122, "You Fair and Pretty Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 73A)
BrownII 71, "The Drowsy Sleeper" (2 texts plus 3 excerpts; the "D" excerpt contains "Fair and Tender Ladies" verses)
Hudson 51, p. 167, "Young Ladies" (1 text)
BrownIII 254, "Little Sparrow" (4 texts plus 1 excerpt and 1 fragment; the "F" text, however, is primarily "The Butcher Boy" or an "I Wish I Wish" piece of some sort)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 312-313, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, with local title "Come All Ye Maids and Pretty Fair Maidens"; tune on p. 440)
Brewster 80, "Little Sparrow" (1 text)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 55 "Little Sparrow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shellans, pp. 26-27, "Constant Sorrow" (1 text, 1 tune, beginning with "Man of Constant Sorrow" but with most of "Fair and Tender Ladies" grafted on at the end)
Lomax-FSUSA 17, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 99, "Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune); see also 70, "Love is Pleasin'" (1 text, 1 tune, of four verses, one of which goes here, one belongs with "Waly Waly," and the fourth could be from several sources)
SharpAp 118, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (18 texts, 18 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 45, "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Cambiaire, p. 61, "O, Waly, Waly" (1 text, clearly mis-titled by Cambiaire [and misfiled by Roud on that basis], since neither the phrase "O Waly Waly" nor "The Water is Wide" are used; the lyrics are entirely consistent with this piece); p. 98, "I Wish I Was A Little Sparrow" (1 single-verse fragment)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 185-186, "[Come All Ye Fair]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 18, "Fair and Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 88-89, "Little Sparrow" (1 text, 1 tune); p. 145, (no title) (1 tune, partial text)
JHCox 140, "You
Tunney-SongsThunder, p. 160, "The Little Swallow" (1 text)ng Ladies (Little Sparrow)" (2 texts, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 24 "Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 164, "Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies" (1 text)
DT, FAIR&TEN*
Roud #451
RECORDINGS:
Sheila Clark, "Come All Ye Fair Ladies" (on LegendTomDula)
Sara Cleveland, "Come All You Maidens" (on SCleveland01)
Martha Hall, "Young and Tender Ladies" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
Sarah Hawkes, "Little Sparrow" (on Persis1)
Roscoe Holcomb, "Willow Tree" (on Holcomb1, HolcombCD1)
Pete Seeger, "Come All Fair Maids" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01); "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (on PeteSeeger05)
BROADSIDES:
Murray,  Mu23-y1:105, "The Wheel of Fortune," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [extremely mixed, with the "Wheel of Fortune" verse, a thyme stanza, a bit of "Fair and Tender Ladies," a "Queen of Heart" verse, and more]
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Peggy Gordon" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, Johnny, Johnny" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Rambleaway" (theme)
cf. "Lora Williams" (tune)
NOTES: Hudson for some reason lists this as a British import, without offering supporting evidence. Paddy Tunney's Irish version is about all I can find in support of his claim. - RBW
File: R073
===
NAME: Fair Annie [Child 62]
DESCRIPTION: (Annie's) lover is going off to fetch a bride. On his return, he orders Annie to serve his new bride. She does, but that night weeps for her lost lover. The new bride hears and visits her; they find they are sisters. The bride leaves her husband to Annie
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love marriage abandonment adultery sister
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,NE,SE) Ireland
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Child 62, "Fair Annie" (10 texts)
Bronson 62, "Fair Annie" (7 versions)
SharpAp 16 "Fair Annie" (1 text, 1 tune){Bronson's #4}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 446-448, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Davis-Ballads 15, "Fair Annie" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Leach, pp. 196-201, "Fair Annie" (2 texts)
OBB 42, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 114, "Fair Annie" (2 texts+2 fragments)
PBB 50, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 16, pp. 114-118, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 247-251+355, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Hodgart, p. 44, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
DBuchan 9, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
TBB 3, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
SHenry H126, p. 510, "Fair Annie" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 62, FAIRANNI* FAIRANN2*
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #423, "Fair Annie" (1 text)
Roud #42
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Thomas o Yonderdale" [Child 253] (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Sister's Husband
Rosanna
NOTES: Child makes much of the relationship between this song and the lai "le Freisne" of Marie de France. That there are similarities cannot be denied; in the lai, a woman bears twins, and leaves one at a convent to preserve her reputation, and eventually the separated reunite.
But the lai is much concerned with the mechanisms of separation and reunion, which are of no consequence at all in the ballad. It is possible that the two pieces are independent, or at best, entirely separate redactions of a very brief fragment of plot. - RBW
File: C062
===
NAME: Fair Annie of the Lochroyan: see The Lass of Roch Royal [Child 76] (File: C076)
===
NAME: Fair at Batesland, The
DESCRIPTION: The poet wanders into town on the day of the Batestown Fair. He signs up for the bronc-riding contest, drinking a bit while he waits. The poet drawn "an old brown mule," and gets thrown. Abused by the crown, gets "a job a-herdin' sheep"
AUTHOR: Raymond Runnels
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 76, "The Fair at Batesland" (1 text)
File: Ohr076
===
NAME: Fair at Turloughmore, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come tell me, dearest mother, What makes my father stay, Or what can be the reason he's been so long away?" She tells how the father went to Turloughmore and was killed in an attack by the Peelers. She hopes "their souls are happy"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Duffy)
KEYWORDS: Ireland death police trial
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1843? - Police fire after an attack and kill Callaghan, Greally, and Mullen (see notes)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 93-94, "The Fair at Turloughmore" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 31, "The Sorrowful Lament for Callaghan, Greally and Mullen" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FAIRTURL*
ADDITIONAL: Charles Gavan Duffy, editor, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), pp. 196-197, "The Sorrowful Lament for Callaghan, Greally and Mullen"
Roud #3042
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Charles Guiteau" [Laws E11] (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Duffy: "The circumstance on which it is founded took place two years ago, at the fair of Darrynacloughery, held at Turloughmore. A faction fight having occurred at the fair, the arrest of some of the parties led to an attack on the police -- after the attack had abated or ceased, the police fired on the people, wounded several, and killed three men whose names stand at the head of the ballad. They were indicted for murder and pleaded the order of Mr Brew, the stipendary magistrate, which was admitted as a justification. Brew died the day before the day appointed for his trial." - BS
The second stanza of this song, in the Galvin text, begins "Come all you tender Christians, I hope you will draw near," as in "Charles Guiteau" and its relatives. The tunes and the rest of the song, however, appear unrelated. - RBW
File: PGa093
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NAME: Fair Beauty Bride, A: see Charming Beauty Bright [Laws M3] (File: LM03)
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NAME: Fair Betsy: see Betsy Is a Beauty Fair (Johnny and Betsey; The Lancaster Maid) [Laws M20] (File: LM20)
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NAME: Fair Brown
DESCRIPTION: Bluesy verses about a poor man's life: "Fair brown, O fair brown, What makes you hold your head so high?" The "Norfolk women" are planning to get money from the "poor workin' man"; they play sick; they drink. The singer says he will not marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love courting poverty betrayal hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 486, "Fair Brown" (1 text)
Roud #11760
File: Br3486
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NAME: Fair Captive, The
DESCRIPTION: An infant white girl is abducted and raised by Indians. She considers herself fully Indian, albeit with skin paled by moonlight. When the Indians and whites make peace, she's returned to her parents; betrothed to a white, she runs off on her wedding day.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (recording, Warde Ford)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: An infant white girl is abducted and raised lovingly by Indians, taken as daughter by the chief. She considers herself fully Indian, albeit with skin paled by moonlight. When the Indians and whites make peace, she's returned to her parents; betrothed to a white man, she runs off on her wedding day. (She dies of grief in the woods, mourned by the chief's son)
KEYWORDS: captivity wedding return separation abduction escape baby family Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #15491
RECORDINGS:
Pat Ford, "The Fair Captive" (tr. only; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Warde Ford, "The Fair Captive" (AFS A4201 B1, 1938, tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Robert Walker, "The Fair Captive" [fragment] (tr. only; in AMMEM/Cowell)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Aged Indian" (plot elements)
cf. "Olban (Alban) or The White Captive" [Laws H15]
cf. "The Aged Indian (Uncle Tohido)" (plot elements)
NOTES: Ford mentions that his source, Charles E. Walker, learned it about 1900 from another singer. It's quite literary-sounding. It's not, however, the same song as, "Olban/The White Captive -- not even close. 
Ford also recorded a fragment, AFS A4205 A2, which is misidentified on the on AMMEM website as "The Fair Captive." It's not -- it's "The Lady Leroy." - PJS
It's interesting to see what is almost certainly a "white" song with such sympathy for Indians. - RBW
File: RcTFC
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NAME: Fair Caroline: see Caroline of Edinborough Town [Laws P27] (File: LP27)
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NAME: Fair Charlotte: see Young Charlotte (Fair Charlotte) [Laws G17] (File: LG17)
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NAME: Fair Do, The
DESCRIPTION: Rosslare's Fair Do's crew leave her at Pier Head where the competition "moulded her model and measured her mast, And said, 'tween themselves, 'Let us build one as fast.'" Nevertheless, Fair Do beats Pier's Spitfire by four minutes and takes the cup.
AUTHOR: John Walsh of The Burrow, Rosslare
EARLIEST_DATE: 1943 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: ship racing sports moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 39-40, "The Fair Do" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cod Liver Oil" (tune) and references there
File: Ran039
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NAME: Fair Eleanor (I): see Lord Thomas and Fair Annet [Child 73] (File: C073)
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NAME: Fair Eleanor (II)
DESCRIPTION: Johnny meets Eleanor "in the middle of the night" to go "and married we will be." In the woods he tells her to strip and he "will be your butcher." She begs for mercy but he stabs her to death. He is imprisoned "in Castlebury jail" until he dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: courting betrayal homicide prison burial
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 608-609, "Fair Eleanor" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea608 (Partial)
Roud #9796
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4]" (plot)
cf. "Pretty Polly (II)"
File: Pea608
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NAME: Fair Ellen: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Fair Ellender: see Lord Thomas and Fair Annet [Child 73] (File: C073)
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NAME: Fair Fanny Moore [Laws O38]
DESCRIPTION: Fanny marries poor Henry rather than wealthy (Randall). When Henry is away, Randall appears and demands her life (or her love). (When she refuses,) he stabs her. Randall is hanged; Henry wanders distracted until he dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: homicide execution marriage jealousy
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws O38, "Fair Fanny Moore"
Belden, pp. 139-141, "Fair Fannie Moore" (2 texts)
Randolph 141, "Fair Fanny Moore" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
FSCatskills 64, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 77, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 720, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 97, pp. 206-207, "Fair Fanny Moor" (1 text)
JHCox 150, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 58-59, "Fanny More" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 610-611, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean, pp. 85-86, "Fair Fanny Moore" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "Fair Fanny Moore" (source notes only)
DT 337, FANMOORE FANMOOR2
Roud #1001
RECORDINGS:
Ken Maynard, "Fannie Moore" (Columbia, 1930; on TimesAint01)
File: LO38
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NAME: Fair Flo-ella, The: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Fair Florella: see Jealous Lover, The (Florella, Floella) (Pearl Bryan II) (Nell Cropsey II) [Laws F1A, B, C] (File: LF01)
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NAME: Fair Flower of Northumberland, The [Child 9]
DESCRIPTION: A Scots soldier is captured and imprisoned. He captivates the gaoler's daughter, promising to marry her if she will free him. As soon as he is over the Scots border, he abandons her, saying he is already married. Her mother comforts her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1597 (book reprinted in 1859); 1790 (Ritson)
KEYWORDS: courting prison escape trick lie abandonment
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(North))
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Child 9, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (7 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 9, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (7 versions)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  94-96, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Ord, p. 192, "The Flower o' Northumberland" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 71-74, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (1 text)
OBB 71, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (1 text)
Niles 6, "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
DT 9, FAIRFLWR* FAIRFLR2*
Roud #25
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Young Andrew" [Child 48] (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Deceived Girl
The Sinful Maiden
Sin's Reward
NOTES: Niles claims that all three of his informants used this song to draw a moral; in two instances they gave it a religious tone. This, obviously, is absent from all the Scottish versions. This is another instance where one questions the veracity of Niles's collections; there are no other American versions of this ballad known. - RBW
File: C009
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NAME: Fair Flowers of Helio: see The Cruel Mother [Child 20] (File: C020)
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NAME: Fair Gallowa': see The Boy That Found a Bride (Fair Gallowa') (File: HHH665)
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NAME: Fair Janet [Child 64]
DESCRIPTION: (Janet/Annet/Maisry) loves Sweet Willie, but is told by her father she must marry a French lord. She bears Willie's child and has him take it to his mother. At her wedding she hasn't strength to dance, but dances with Willie and dies. (Willie dies.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love pregnancy marriage childbirth dancing death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Child 64, "Fair Janet" (7 texts)
Bronson 64, "Fair Janet" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 205-208, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
OBB 52, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 213-217+351-352, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
TBB 14, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
DT 64, FAIRJAN
Roud #44
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Liv'd Ance Twa Luvers In Yon Dale
File: C064
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NAME: Fair John and the Seven Foresters: see Johnie Cock [Child 114] (File: C114)
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NAME: Fair Julian Bond: see William Riley's Courtship [Laws M9] (File: LM09)
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NAME: Fair Lady of London: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9] (File: LP09)
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NAME: Fair Lady of the Plains, A (Death of a Maiden Fair) [Laws B8]
DESCRIPTION: A 'fair maiden" is notable for herding cattle, drinking liquor, and using a six shooter. She is killed by Indians while working with her husband. The cowboys ride to seek revenge.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: death cowboy revenge
FOUND_IN: US(So,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws B8, "Fair Lady of the Plains (Death of a Maiden Fair)"
Randolph 189, "A Fair Lady of the Plains" (5 texts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 182-184, "A Fair Lady of the Plains" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 189A)
Larkin, pp. 148-150, "Fair Lady of the Plains" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 42, "Fair Lady of the Plains" (2 texts, 1 tune)
DT 375, LDYPLAIN
Roud #3130
File: LB08
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NAME: Fair Lucy: see Lizie Wan [Child 51] (File: C051)
===
NAME: Fair Maid by the Seashore, The: see The Maid on the Shore (The Fair Maid by the Sea Shore; The Sea Captain) [Laws K27] (File: LK27)
===
NAME: Fair Maid of Ballyagan
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a beautiful girl in a village in Aghadowey. He courts her, but she eventually rejects him for a wealthy suitor. He departs, "Intending never to meet again," but he cannot forget her. He curses wealth and the one who has it
AUTHOR: Andrew Orr
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection money
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H67, p. 365, "Fair Maid of Ballyagan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6883
File: HHH067
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NAME: Fair Maid of Glasgow Town
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a pretty girl and asks if she will marry him. She points out that he is a stranger, and adds that she has a fiancee. He starts to leave. She calls him back and says she will marry him. He says he's not interested.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H579, p. 345, "Fair Maid of Glasgow Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5546
NOTES: Too bad they didn't marry; they deserved each other. I doubt there has ever been a song where two people both rejected the other in the space of sixty seconds. Except on a soap opera, of course. - RBW
File: HHH579
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NAME: Fair Maid of Passage, The
DESCRIPTION: The maid Dermuid loves is "plump as a sassage" and "mild as a kitten" He describes other attributes (red lips, black eyes and hair, sweet breath, moves "like a goddess") Because of her cruelty he "must die, Like a pig in a sty, Or the snuff of a candle"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 260-262, "The Fair Maid of Passage" (1 text)
NOTES: Croker-PopularSongs: "In a note (1838) he [Mr Edward Quin] adds, 'I assure you, from my own recollection, the song is known in my family upwards of thirty-five years. I have no doubt that it originated in Cork, though I do not know its author.'" 
Two Bodleian broadsides (Firth c.11(32) View 3 of 4, "Labour in vain. A song, an hundred years old" ("Ye patriots, who twenty long years"), W Webb. (London), 1742; G.A. Warw. b.1(149), "The draper dup'd. A new song" ("Says Tom Dowlas, I pray now discover"), unknown, 1768?) are both to the tune of "Molly Mogg." Quin's version of "The Fair Maid of Passage" is essentially the same as Croker's, but begins "My dear Molly Mogg, You're soft as a bog."
Croker-PopularSongs: "The town of Passage ... is situated between Cork and its Cove...." - BS
File: CrPS260
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NAME: Fair Margaret and Sweet William [Child 74]
DESCRIPTION: Margaret learns that her lover is to be wed. After the wedding, she (or her ghost) visits the wedding chamber and asks the husband if he is happy with his wife. He says that he would prefer her. But when he calls at Margaret's home, she is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy); c.1720 (broadside, Bodleian Douce Ballads 1(72a))
KEYWORDS: marriage questions death ghost
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont)
REFERENCES: (37 citations)
Child 74, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (3 texts)
Bronson 74, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (79 versions, 4 of which are in one or another appendix, presumably because of the commonplace title and lack of text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 134-139, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #31}
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 124-127, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text); cf. pp. 308-312, "Margaret's Ghost" (a rewritten version, possibly by the eighteenth century poet David Mallet)
Belden, pp. 48-52, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William (4 texts)
Randolph 16, "Lady Margaret" (2 texts plus 2 fragments, 3 tunes) {A=Bronson's #43, C=#20, but very possibly not this song, D=#44}
Eddy 12, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #25}
Gardner/Chickering 5, "Sweet William and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #58}
Flanders/Brown, pp. 213-214, "Lady Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 80-85, "Prince William and Lady Margaret"/"Lady Margaret and King William" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 122-147, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (7 texts plys 2 fragments, 5 tunes)
Davis-Ballads 19, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (12 texts plus 3 fragments, of which the "I" and "O" fragments might not be this song; 8 tunes entitled "Sweet William and Lady Margaret," "Lady Marget," "Fair Margaret and Sweet William," Lady Margaret," "Lady Margaret and Sweet William"; 13 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #30, #51, #50, #59, #14, with alterations, #55, #23, #39}
Davis-More 19, pp. 138-145, "Fair Margaret and Sweet Williams" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 20, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 1 more)
Chappell-FSRA 10, "False William" (1 text)
Hudson 11, pp. 87-90, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 103-105, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, properly titled "Lady Margaret," plus a quotation; tune on p. 390)
Brewster 11, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (4 texts plus a fragment, the latter short enough that it might be from something else; 1 tune) {Bronson's #13}
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 12-13, "Sweet William and Lady Margaret" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 20 "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (8 texts plus 9 fragments, 17 tunes){Bronson's #33, #73, #24, #35, #34, #14, #59, #15, #62, #52, #12, #67, #42, #41, #70, #47, #74}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 16, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, 1 tune, composite and abridged) {Bronson's #67}
Karpeles-Newfoundland 8, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #68}
Peacock, pp. 383-384, "Fair Marjorie's Ghost" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 7, "William and Margaret" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 247-250, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 94, "Sweet William and Lady Margery" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 139-142, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBB 62, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 52, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William (1 text+1 fragment)
Niles 29, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gummere, pp. 200-202+348, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, pp. 131-132, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 text, perhaps abridged, 1 tune) {Bronson's #78}
Abrahams/Foss, p. 180, "(Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (1 tune, with no source listed; partial text)
LPound-ABS, 16, pp. 40-43, "Sweet William" (1 text)
JHCox 11, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (7 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #10, #26}
Silber-FSWB, p. 220, "Lady Margaret" (1 text)
DT 74, LADYMARG LADYMAR2*
Roud #253
RECORDINGS:
Daw Henson, "Lady Margaret and Sweet William" (AFS, 1937; on KMM)
Martin Howley, "The Old Armchair" (on IRClare01)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Little Marget" (on BLLunsford02) {cf. Bronson's #69}
Jean Ritchie, "Sweet  William and Lady Margaret" (on JRitchie02)
Pete Seeger, "Little Margaret" (on BroonzySeeger1); Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (on PeteSeeger16)
Art Thieme, "Fair Margaret & Sweet William" (on Thieme06)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 1(72a), "Fair Margaret's Misfortune" or "Sweet William's Frightful Dreams on His Wedding Night: With the Sudden Death and Burial of Those Noble Lovers," S. Bates (London), c.1720; also Douce Ballads 3(27a), "Fair Margaret's Misfortunes" or "Sweet William's Dream on his Wedding Night, With the Sudden Death and Burial of Those Noble Lovers"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Colin and Lucy" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Lady Margot and Sweet Willie
Lady Maggie
Lyddy Margot
NOTES: A fragment of this ballad is found in John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's 1611 play "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," Act II, scene viii:
When it was grown to dark midnight
And all were fast asleep,
In came Margaret's grimly ghost
And stood at William's feet.
Child and Bronson both have cutting remarks about the history of this song, which was rewritten "in what used to be called an elegant style" by David Malloch/Mallet, while "a print of c. 1711 was probably occasioned by someone's invention of a fresh tune, not the least folkish in character." (This is the basis of Bronson's "A" group of tunes.)
Grieg/Keith see this as much the same ballad as Child #73, and Bronson sees similarities in the tunes, but concludes that the melodies, like the texts, justify separating them. (Note that "Fair Margaret" is *not* a murder ballad!)  - RBW
See a parody attributed to David Malle: broadside Bodleian, Firth b.22(f. 79), "William and Margaret" ("'Twas at the silent solemn hour"), S. Watts (London), 1785; also Harding B 5(58), "A Lamentable Ballad" or "The Tragical End of William and Margaret" ("When all was wrap'd in dark midnight"); Harding B 5(57), "William and Margaret" - BS
File: C074
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NAME: Fair Marjorie's Ghost: see Fair Margaret and Sweet William [Child 74] (File: C074)
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NAME: Fair Mary of Livingston: see Fair Mary of Wallington [Child 91] (File: C091)
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NAME: Fair Mary of Wallington [Child 91]
DESCRIPTION: Of seven sisters, five have died in childbirth. The sixth would prefer not to marry, but is made to wed. She expects to die in childbirth, and does, with the child cut out of her after three days labor. The seventh sister can expect the same fate.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: family marriage childbirth death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 91, "Fair Mary of Wallington" (7 texts)
Bronson 91, comments only
OBB 81, "Fair Mary of Wallington" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 236-240+354, "Fair Mary of Livingston" (1 text)
DBuchan 15, "Fair Mary of Wallington" (1 text)
Roud #59
File: C091
===
NAME: Fair Nottamun Town: see Nottamun Town (File: WB2006)
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NAME: Fair o' Balnaminna, The (The Lass Among the Heather)
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets a shepherdess and offers to marry her. She is happy at home with her parents. He asks for a parting kiss. They "kissed and kissed again" She approves and he will ask her father (or "she's his lassie" or they marry with "bairnies").
AUTHOR: Hugh McWilliams (source: Moulden-McWilliams)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1831 (Moulden-McWilliams)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage dialog sheep
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Morton-Ulster 4, "The Lass Among the Heather Oh!" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: John Moulden, Songs of Hugh McWilliams, Schoolmaster, 1831 (Portrush,1993), p. 15, "The Lass among the Heather"
Gavin Greig, Folk-Song in Buchan and Folk-Song of the North-East (Hatboro,1963), XLIV, p.1, "The Fair o' Balnaminna"
Roud #2894
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(331), "The Blooming Heather" ("As I was coming home"), unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.14(60), "Blooming Heather"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bonnie Lass Among the Heather" (theme) and references there
NOTES: For the relationship between this song and Paddy Tunney's "Bonnie Lass Among the Heather," see the notes to the latter piece. - (BS, RBW)
File: UNFoBal
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NAME: Fair of Rosslea, The
DESCRIPTION: Monday, November 8 Frank Hynes meets Dolan at the fair of Rosslea. They agreed to match their dogs in a hunt the next Friday at Annerlaw. The hunt is described as some number of hare are killed, and the dogs are named.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1980 (recording, Philip McDermott)
KEYWORDS: death hunting animal dog moniker Ireland
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #12935
RECORDINGS:
Philip McDermott, "The Fair of Rosslea" (on Voice18)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Huntsman's Horn" (subject: competitive hare hunt from the huntsman's point of view)
cf. "Killafole Boasters" (subject: competitive hare hunt from the huntsman's point of view) and references there
NOTES: Rosslea is in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. - BS
File: RcFaRoss
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NAME: Fair Princess Royal, The: see The Bold Princess Royal [Laws K29] (File: LK29)
===
NAME: Fair Rosa: see Sleeping Beauty (Thorn Rose, Briar Rose) (File: HHH599)
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NAME: Fair Rosamond
DESCRIPTION: ""'I have a sister,' young Clifford said, 'A sister no man knows...." "...I would not for ten thousand worlds Have King Henery know her name." But Henry overhears, and writes a letter to her. The ending appears confused
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: love royalty disguise
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1154-1189 - Reign of Henry II
c. 1176 - Death of Rosamund Clifford
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Linscott, pp. 193-195, "Fair Rosamond, or Rosamond's Downfall" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, ROSACLIF
Roud #3729
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Queen Eleanor's Confession" [Child 156] (subject)
cf. "Rosamund Clifford" (subject)
NOTES: For the confusing history of Rosamund Clifford and King Henry II, see the notes to "Rosamund Clifford."
It's interesting to note the extreme lustiness attributed to King Henry II here. This seems to be an exaggeration. Henry obviously was not a dutiful husband to Eleanor of Acquitaine, but neither do we have records of extensive extracurricular activities. This may be a confusion with his grandfather Henry I, who had on the order of fifty illegitimate children by nearly the same number of mothers. - RBW
File: Lins193
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NAME: Fair Rosamund Clifford: see Fair Rosamund (File: Lins193)
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NAME: Fair Sally: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9]; also "The Brown Girl" [Child 295] (File: LP09)
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NAME: Fair Town of Greenock, The
DESCRIPTION: John lives in Greenock and is called with the "Eighteenth Royal" to fight in India. Jane asks him not to leave. He is killed by a French sword. His last words are "Greenock and sweet Bannockburn," as are hers when she heard the news of his death.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1986 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: courting army battle separation death lover soldier India
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 27, "The Fair Town of Greenock" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lad in the Scotch Brigade (The Banks of the Clyde)" (theme)
cf. "The Paisley Officer (India's Burning Sands)" [Laws N2] (theme)
NOTES: This song reminds McBride of "The Paisley Officer." It's a similar theme but "The Lad in the Scotch Brigade" is even closer: the war is different -- Egypt instead of India -- but it does share a line ("She threw her arms around him and cried, 'Do not leave me,'") and the girl's home "on the Banks of the Clyde." The British fought the French in India in the eighteenth century (source: "Rivalries in India: AD 1748-1760" in _History of the British Empire_, p. 4, at Historyworld site). - BS
This song is rather a curiosity. Greenock of course is in Scotland, and the girl lives by the Clyde, and who but a Scot would toast Bannockburn?
And yet, it's found in Ireland. And then there is the reference to the Eighteenth Royal.
It happens that the Eighteenth Foot was the Royal Irish Regiment , according to Ian S. Hallows, _Regiments and Corps of the British Army_, p. 319; it was disbanded in 1922 (when the Irish Free State was formed). (This unit should not be confused with the present Royal Irish Regiment, which is an Ulster unit. This is not to deny the distinction of the latter regiment; it's just not the same as the Eighteenth Foot.)
The site http://www.waterfordcountymuseum.org/exhibit/web/Display/article/31/2/?lang=en lists two occasions on which the Eighteenth served in Indian. The list of battle honours for the Eighteenth (found at http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/018RIrish.htm) does not appear to include any Indian campaigns, but it did fight in Afghanistan, which is surely close enough. This unit did not fight the French at this time, of course, but it did serve in Madras, which had been the site of Anglo-French quarrels a century earlier.
So how did a seemingly-Irish regiment end up in a seemingly-Scots song? Don't ask me.... - RBW
File: McB1027
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NAME: Fair Tyrone
DESCRIPTION: The singer's thoughts turn back to Tyrone. He describes the various places in the area, and recalls the flowers' beauty and the birds' songs. His fondest memories are of Tyrone
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H189, pp. 173-174, "Fair Tyrone" (1 text with many variants, 1 tune)
Roud #13533
File: HHH173
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NAME: Fairy Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: "A mother came when stars were paling," crying, calling on the fairy king to return her son. She has no answer and concedes that "In this world I have lost my joy; But in the next we ne'er shall sever, There will I find my fairy boy"
AUTHOR: Samuel Lover
EARLIEST_DATE: 1840 (broadside, LOCSheet sm1840 371930)
KEYWORDS: grief death baby supernatural separation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
O'Conor, p. 150, "The Fairy Boy" (1 partial text)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol II, pp. 145-146, "The Fairy Boy"
Roud #9293
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 15(101a), "The Fairy Boy", D. Batchelar (London), 1836-1842; Harding B 18(156), Firth c.18(191), Harding B 15(101b), "[The] Fairy Boy" 
LOCSheet, sm1840 371930, "The Fairy Boy", George Willig (Philadelphia), 1840 (tune) 
LOCSinging, sb10130a, "The Fairy Boy", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878; also as103670, "The Fairy Boy" 
NOTES: O'Conor: "When a beautiful child pines and dies, the Irish peasant believes the healthy infant has been stolen by the fairies, and a sickly elf left in its place." This is a note taken without attribution from _The Ballad Poetry of Ireland_ by Charles Gavin Duffy (Dublin, 1845), p. 79. [Of course, the notion of the changeling is common in British folklore. - RBW]
O'Conor sometimes omits the end of a song when it won't fit on the page and there is no space available on another page. This is one example. "Digging for Gould" is another.
Broadside LOCSinging sb10130a: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon150
===
NAME: Fairy King's Courtship, The: see John MacAnanty's Courtship (The Fairy King) (File: HHH056)
===
NAME: Fairy Lullaby, The
DESCRIPTION: Irish Gaelic: Singer laments: it's a year since she was taken from her husband and brought to the fairy hill. She gives instructions for spells to release her; if she is not rescued in time, she will become queen of the fairies. She croons to her baby
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage homesickness abduction rescue death magic ritual lullaby supernatural husband
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Maire O'Sullivan, "The Fairy Lullaby" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
NOTES: In Lomax's interpretation, the woman has died shortly after marriage, and is in the last day of her year with the fairies, rocking a fairy child. If she is not rescued, she can never reassume mortal form - PJS
File: RcTFL
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NAME: Fais Do Do, Colas
DESCRIPTION: Creole French: "Faies do do, Colas, mon petit frere, Fais do do, t'auras du gateau, Papa e aura, Et moi j'un aurai, Tout un plein panier." The little brother is urged to go to sleep, perhaps with the promise of a reward.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: lullaby family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 155, "Fais Do Do, Colas" (1 short text)
File: ScaNF155
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NAME: Fais Do Do, Minette
DESCRIPTION: Creole French: "Faies do do, Minette, Chere pitit cochon du laite. Fais do do, mo chere pitit, Jusqu' a trappe l'age quinze ans." Minette is urged to go to sleep for fifteen years, when she will have "the martine" for a husband
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: lullaby nonballad marriage
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 154-155, "Fais Do Do, Minette" (1 short text plus translation, 1 tune)
File: ScaNF154b
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NAME: Faithful Lover, or The Hero Rewarded, The: see The Lady of Carlisle [Laws O25] (File: LO25)
===
NAME: Faithful Rambler, The (Jamie and Mary, Love's Parting)
DESCRIPTION: "I am a young man delights in sport; To a strange country I mean to steer, And leave my home... Also the girl that I love dear." The girl promises to be true, but says that he will forget her. He says he will be faithful, and wishes her good fortune
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H825, pp. 299-300, "The Faithful Rambler" (1 text, 1 tune); H788, p. 300, "Love's Parting (Jamie and Mary)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6896 and 6897
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament)" [Laws O29] (plot) and references there
NOTES: Neither Sam Henry nor the notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann hint that these two are the same song. But they have identical plots, and there are extreme lyric similarities in both the first verse (about the young man who must ramble) and the scenes where the lovers promise faithfulness. If they aren't originally one song, they have cross-fertilized to the point where they might as well be. - RBW
File: HHH825
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NAME: Faithful Sailor Boy, The [Laws K13]
DESCRIPTION: A sailor and his true love bid a tearful farewell on the deck of the ship as it is about to sail. He dies on the voyage; his shipmates deliver the girl a letter in which he says they will meet in heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1859
KEYWORDS: sailor separation death
FOUND_IN: US(MA,SE) Ireland Britain Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws K13, "The Faithful Sailor Boy"
Doerflinger, p. 164, "The Sailor Boy" (1 short text, 1 tune)
SHenry H543, p. 103, "The Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune); also probably H678, p. 89, "The Irish Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 32-33, "The Faithful Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 60, "The Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 68, "The Faithful Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 111, "The Faithful Sailor Boy" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Chappell-FSRA 33, "Sailor Boy" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 61-62, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text)
DT 559, FTHFULSL
Roud #376
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(64a), "The Sailor Boy," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
NOTES: G. W. Persley has been listed as the author of this piece, but the song appears older.
The Sam Henry text "The Irish Soldier Boy" lacks many of the elements of fuller versions of this song, and also has a slightly different form. But it has so many elements in common with Laws K13 that I think it must be listed here. If it isn't Laws K13, it's swallowed several verses whole. - RBW
File: LK13
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NAME: Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh dear! what can the matter be Bony's so long coming here. He promised to bring us a budget of freedom" but he did not come from Calais to Dover, he deserted us "just as the crisis drew near." The loyalists laugh while he "minds his own interest"
AUTHOR: William Ball (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: "shortly after 1798" (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion Ireland humorous nonballad Napoleon
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 38, "Faithless Bony" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" (tune)
NOTES: For another broadside on "Boney" coming to England, to the same tune, see Bodleian, Harding B 25(1115), "Little Boney A-Cockhorse ("Oh dear! little Boney's a coming"), J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819 
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Barry Gleeson acc. Mick Willis, "Faithless Bony" (on "The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes) - BS
Like so many of the Irish complaints about France, this is rather unfair (for the context, see the notes to "The Shan Van Vogt"); France had failed utterly at Bantry Bay, but that wasn't Napoleon's fault. And he didn't promise anything to Wolfe Tone or anyone; he knew all along that an Irish invasion wouldn't pay. Had the rebellion of 1798 in fact gone off properly (meaning that the whole country had risen at one time, rather than a handful of uncoordinated local rebellions), the forces Napoleon sent (with General Humbert, Napper Tandy, and Tone; a total of about 4000 men and arms for many more) might well have allowed the Irish to win a pitched battle. But the 1798 rebellion had failed completely before the French arrived.
William Ball was a writer of humorous verse about Irish history; in this index, see "Cockledemoy (The French Invasion)," "Do as They Do in France," "The Dying Rebel," "Faithless Boney (The Croppies' Complaint)" -- though he doesn't seem to have made much impression on the wider world of literature; I have been unable to find any of his writings in any of my literary references. - RBW
File: Moyl038
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NAME: Faithless Husband
DESCRIPTION: "One day a faithless husband Unto a maiden said, You know, Bess, though I'm married, I hate the one I've wed." He begs the girl to marry him; she replies "If you love me, leave me But don't be untrue." She says she will wait; he should not leave his wife
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Darby & Tarlton)
KEYWORDS: love courting infidelity virtue
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 807, "Faithless Husband" (1 text)
Roud #7424
RECORDINGS:
Tom Darby & Jim Tarlton, "Faithless Husband" (Columbia 15552-D, 1930)
File: R807
===
NAME: Faithless Wife, The: see The Daemon Lover (The House Carpenter) [Child 243] (File: C243)
===
NAME: Falcon (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The Falcon sets out with 35 passengers. The ship is near home when the wind blows up. The engine fails and the ship runs aground. The singer recalls the dead and pities the widows and orphans
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: death wreck ship storm
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 5, 1868 - Reported date of the Falcon wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H95, p. 107, "The Falcon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9042
File: HHH095
===
NAME: Falcon's Song: see Chanson de la Grenouillere ("Song of Frog Plain," Falcon's Song) (File: FMB121)
===
NAME: Falcon(II), The: see The Corpus Christi Carol (File: L691)
===
NAME: Fallen Boney
DESCRIPTION: "The crown has Boney abdicated ... And Louis is again reinstated." When he was Consul he was successful but, crowned, became a "lawless tyrant." He replaced Josephine with Louisa. "He might been happy still in France Had he but rul'd with moderation"
AUTHOR: Hugh McWilliam (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1816 (McWilliam's _Poems and Songs on Various Subjects_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Napoleon wife royalty
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 202, "Fallen Boney" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Louis is, of course, Louis XVIII (1855-1824), the younger brother of the pre-revolutionary king Louis XVI, who was brought back to the throne when Napoleon fell.
Napoleon's decision to replace his wife Josephine Beauharnais (1763-1814) was entirely practical; he did not withdraw his favor from her children (or even with her, really, since he died with her name on his lips). But he needed an heir, and she had not given him one. So he went for another woman.
The bit about ruling with moderation is generally right; Napoleon did a fine job of creating a civil code for France; most of the Code Napoleon was retained by the restored monarchy, and much survives to this day. But Napoleon couldn't bring himself to sit still making laws for long. And, frankly, he developed that problem while he was still Consul. - RBW
File: Moyl202
===
NAME: Falling Leaf
DESCRIPTION: Falling Leaf (so named because she was born in autumn) is the beautiful daughter of a chief. One day she meets a "worn and weary" hunter, and falls in love with him. But he vanishes; "his fate was never known" and she spends her life alone and mourning
AUTHOR: F. A. M. Stuart and W. Eben Miles
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: love courting Indians(Am.) separation grief mourning
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 765, "Falling Leaf" (3 texts, 3 tunes; Cohen considers the "C" text separate)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 516-518, "Falling Leaf" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 765A)
Roud #7409
RECORDINGS:
Paul Hamblin, "Fallen Leaf" (Victor V-40280, 1930)
L. K. Reeder, "Falling Leaf" (OKeh 45026, c. 1926; rec. 1925; on MakeMe)
Sue & Rawhide, "Falling Leaf" (OKeh 45577, 1934)
File: R765
===
NAME: Falling of the Pine
DESCRIPTION: Speaker tells of working in lumber camps: "When daylight is a-breakin'/From our slumbers we awaken/When our breakfast we have taken/Our axes we will grind...And the woods we'll make to ring/By the falling of the pine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: recitation lumbering work logger nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Rickaby 17, "The Falling of the Pine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 10, "Falling of the Pine" (1 text)
Dean, pp. 73-74, "The Falling of the Pine (Square Timber Logging)" (1 tet)
Fowke-Lumbering #3, "The Falling of the Pine" (1 fragment, tune referenced)
ST Be010 (Partial)
Roud #4560
RECORDINGS:
Martin McManus, "The Falling of the Pine" (on Lumber01)
Lester Wells, "The Falling of the Pine" (AFS, 1938; on LC56)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
cf. "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (tune)
File: Be010
===
NAME: False Bride, The (The Week Before Easter; I Once Loved a Lass)
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports that the woman he once loved is going to be wed to another. He mopes around in various ways -- e.g. looking for flowers out of season. His friends fail to lift his spirits. He declares his intent to die in hopes of forgetting her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1675 (broadside, Bodleian Douce Ballads 1(83a)); also printed in the reign of James II (1685-1688)
KEYWORDS: love infidelity courting marriage death wedding lyric
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(South,Lond)) Ireland Canada(Newf) Australia
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 187-188, "I Think by This Time He's Forgot Her" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 152, "The False Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, p. 175, "It Wasna My Fortune to Get Her" (1 text)
OLochlainn 86, "The Lambs on the Green Hills" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 441-442, "The False Maiden" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 31, "The False Bride" (2 texts, 3 tunes)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 37, "The False Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2765, "A week before Easter"; ZN2766, "The week before Easter"
DT 848, FLSEBRDE FLSEBRD2* FLSEBRD3* FLSEBRD4 FLSEBRD5* FLSEBRD6* FLSEBRD7* FLSEBRD8
Roud #154
RECORDINGS:
Harry Burgess, "A Week Before Easter" (on Voice15)
Bob Copper, "The False Bride" (on FSB1)
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "I Loved a Lass" (on SCMacCollSeeger01)
Sarah Makem, "I Courted a Wee Girl" (on Voice01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 1(83a), "The Forlorn Lover" ("A week before Easter"), F. Coles (London), 1663-1674; also Douce Ballads 3(32a), "The Forlorn Lover"
NLScotland, R.B.m.143(128), "It Was Not My Fortune To Get Her," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Bonny Brown Jane"
cf. "If I Were a Fisher" (floating verses)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Forlorn Lover
I Ainse Loved a Lass
I Loved a Lass
The Week Before Easter
Three Weeks Before Easter
Six Weeks Before Easter
NOTES: Some versions (for example, "I Loved A Lass" on SCMacCollSeeger01) include a verse close to Opie-Oxford2 318, "A man in the wilderness asked me": "A man in the wilderness asked me, How many strawberries grow in the sea? I answered him, as I thought good, As many as red herrings grow in the wood" (earliest date in Opie-Oxford2 is 1716). [Also in Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #142, p. 114. - RBW]
Is it significant that this verse is not in any of the printed versions that I consulted: Peacock, Karpeles-Newfoundland, Bodleian broadsides or Greig _Folk-Song of the North-East_ 24? - BS
File: K152
===
NAME: False Knight on the Road, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: False Knight, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: False Lamkin: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
===
NAME: False Lanky: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
===
NAME: False Lover Won Back, The [Child 218]
DESCRIPTION: A man saddles his horse to leave his lover (and her unborn child). She follows him from place to place, begging him to return. At each stop he buys her a gift and tells her to go home. At last he repents and buys her a wedding ring
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: abandonment hardheartedness marriage love
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) US(So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 218, "The False Lover Won Back" (2 texts)
Bronson 218, "The False Lover Won Back" (5 versions)
Belden, p. 78, "The False Lover Won Back" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 575-576, "The False Lover Won Back" (1 text)
OBB 72, "Young John" (1 text)
DT 218, BONLOVE*
Roud #201
RECORDINGS:
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "The False Lover Won Back" (on SCMacCollSeeger01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Foot Is in the Stirrup"
File: C218
===
NAME: False Lover, The
DESCRIPTION: "When I was young, I was well beloved By all young men... When I was blooming... This false young man he decieved me." The girl tells how the false lover abandoned her, hopes for better fortune, and wants God to bring him to trial for his falsehood
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H790, p. 383, "The False Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1075
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list this as a variant of "Wheel of Fortune" and "Love is Pleasing." Similarly Roud. The theme, of course, is the same as the latter (but that's commonplace). It has only a half stanza in common with "Wheel of Fortune," and less than that in common with "Love is Pleasing." It's at least as close to "Dear Companion." I firmly believe it's a separate song. - RBW
File: HHH790
===
NAME: False Maiden: see The False Bride (The Week Before Easter; I Once Loved a Lass) (File: K152)
===
NAME: False Mallie
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, did ye hear how Mall was courted... By a young sailor brisk and bold?" Jamie goes to war, and Mallie breaks her vow and marries another. When he returns and finds her false, he goes mad, and ends up in Bedlam cursing her name and her deeds
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation betrayal sailor madness
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 183-184, "False Mallie" (1 text)
Roud #5529
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lovely Annie" (theme: a man driven "mad" by a woman's infidelity) 
cf. "The Green Bushes" [Laws P2]," particularly the "Nut Bushes" version (theme: a man driven "mad" by a woman's infidelity) 
File: Ord183
===
NAME: False Nancy: see Nancy (II) (The Rambling Beauty) [Laws P12] (File: LP12)
===
NAME: False Sir John, (The): see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
===
NAME: False True Love: see The False Young Man (The False True Lover) (File: SKE42)
===
NAME: False True Lover: see Fare You Well, My Own True Love (The Storms Are on the Ocean, The False True Lover, The True Lover's Farewell, Red Rosy Bush, Turtle Dove) (File: Wa097)
===
NAME: False True Lover (II), The: see The False Young Man (The False True Lover) (File: SKE42)
===
NAME: False Young Man, The (The False True Lover)
DESCRIPTION: The lover invites (her) old true love in; it has been most of a year since she saw him. He will not come; he has another love. She recalls how he could make her believe "the sun rose up in the west." She stays at home (with the cradle) (and curses him)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918
KEYWORDS: love courting separation betrayal pregnancy curse
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 42, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 58, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 164, "False True Love" (1 text)
DT, FALSTRUE
Roud #419
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Young Hunting" [Child 68] (lyrics)
cf. "A False-Hearted Love" (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This is clearly a conflate song; the first verses are from American texts of "Loving Henry"; the end is from some sort of betrayal song. - RBW
And one verse seems to be lifted from "House Carpenter." - PJS
File: SKE42
===
NAME: False Young Man, The (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out)
DESCRIPTION: The young man greets the girl after a long separation and asks her to sit down with him. She will not; "You've given your heart to another one...." She remembers his strange oaths, and says young men will prove true when fish fly like birds.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (collected by Olive Dame Campbell; in SharpAp); +1876 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs I_)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation infidelity lie rejection lyric
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont) Britain(England(South),Scotland) Ireland US(Ap,MA,SE)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
BrownII 83, "As I Stepped Out Last Sunday Morning" (2 texts); 162, "The One Forsaken" (1 text, entirely of floating lyrics, but some of them, and the theme, are this song)
Ord, p. 174, "The Fause Young Man" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More 8, "The Verdant Braes of Skreen" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 2, "As I Roved Out" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 94, "The False Young Man" (10 texts, 10 tunes)
Scarborough-SongCatcher,  p. 41, "Come Along, My Own True Love" (1 text, with a first verse that might have floated in from "Young Hunting" or the like); pp. 270-272, "The False Young Man" (3 short texts plus an excerpt, with local titles "Come Along, My Own True Love," "Set You Down, My Own True Love," "As I Walked Out One May Morning"; 1 tune on p. 428 )
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 166-168, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 50, "As I Walked Out" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 153, "The False Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H593, pp. 389-390, "My Love John" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hayward-Ulster, pp. 41-42, "The Verdant Braes o' Skreen" (1 text)
ST FJ166 (Partial)
Roud #419
RECORDINGS:
Frank & Francis McPeake, "The False Young Man" (on FSB1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "False, False Hae Ye Been To Me, My Love" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Johnny's The Lad I Love
White Oak Mountain
Rocky Mountain Side
NOTES: In America, this has become almost purely lyric (consider "White Oak Mountain":
"I will never believe a young man any more
Let his eyes be blue, black, or brown
Save he were on the top of a high gallows tree
A-swearing he wished to come down!") -- so much so that I originally classified the versions separately. But there are enough intermediate forms to prove identity.
The song also mixes somewhat with "Foggy Mountain Top," itself a largely mixed and incoherent piece. Short lyric texts might perhaps go with either. - RBW
File: FJ166
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NAME: False-Hearted Knight, The: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
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NAME: False-Hearted Lover, A
DESCRIPTION: A complaint toward a false love: "There is more than one, there is more than two, There is more pretty boys than you." ""You slighted me for another girl." "The loss of one is the gain of two [sweethearts]" "I wish to the Lord you had never been born."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal floatingverses nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 141, "A False-Hearted Love" (1 text)
Roud #6574
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The False Young Man (The False True Lover)" (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This is one of those lost-love  items, mostly lyric, largely composed of floating elements -- the sort of song that largely defies classification. I know of no other versions of this precise mix. - RBW
File: BrII141
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NAME: False-Hearted Lover, The: see The Yellow Handkerchief (Flash Company) (File: K360)
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NAME: False, False Hae Ye Been To Me, My Love
DESCRIPTION: The singer laments that her love is false, ans says "I'm afraid that you're ne'er mair mine." She compares her fate to climbing a tree too high, or rowing against a stream. She says she will yet climb a still taller tree and come down to a true love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (collected from Christina MacAllister)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 60, "False, False Hae Ye Been To Me, My Love" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
DT, FALSTOME*
Roud #8276
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The False Young Man (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out)"
NOTES: MacColl and Seeger note that this is a member of the large class of betrayal songs combined with a demand for, or a curse of, the impossible; "The False Young Man" is another song with this sort of thing. They note that the final stanza, about climbing a higher tree, floats (though it doesn't always show up in the songs they list). But they also regard this as a separate song.
I incline to agree. While it is a typical item of this type, the lyrics are unusual enough to warrant separate classification. - RBW
File: McCST060
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NAME: Famed Waterloo: see The Mantle So Green [Laws N38] (File: LN38)
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NAME: Famine Song: see Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small) (File: SBoA148)
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NAME: Famous Flower of Serving-Men, The [Child 106]
DESCRIPTION: Fair (Elise) has lost father, then husband. She disguises herself as a man and seeks service at the king's court, becoming chamberlain. When only an old man is about, she reveals herself in song. The old man tells the king she is female; he marries her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1769 (Percy); title found in the Stationer's Register in 1656
KEYWORDS: death family royalty servant disguise cross-dressing marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,West),Scotland(Aber,Bord)) US(MW,NE) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Child 106, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 106, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (7 versions+5 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 227-232, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 traditional text plus assorted variants and a songster version) 
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 86-90, "The Lady Turned Serving-Man" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 127-129, "Sweet William" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 77-88, "The Famous Flower of Servingmen" (4 texts plus a fragment, the "A" text being from "The Charms of Melody" rather than tradition; 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
MacSeegTrav 13, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 62-63, "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
OBB 153, "The Lament of the Border Widow"; 166, "The Lady Turned Serving-Man" (2 texts)
PBB 29, "The Lament of the Border Widow" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2994, "You beauteous Ladies great and small"
DT 106, FLRSERV1* FLRSERV2* BRDRWDO*
ADDITIONAL: John S. Roberts, The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland (n.d.), pp. 248-249, "The Border Widow's Lament"
Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #425, "The Bonnie Bower (The Lament of the Border Widow)" (1 text)
Roud #199
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "My Brother Built Me a Bancy Bower" (on IRTravellers01)
Caroline Hughes, "The Famous Flower of Servantmen" (on FSBBAL1) {Bronson's #3.3 in addenda}
Jasper Smith, "The Small Birds Whistle" (on Voice11)
NOTES: "The Border Widow's Lament" is given in Child's introduction to "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men," and has been described as "a self-sufficient fragment" of the longer ballad. - KK, RBW
Bronson has extensive notes about the complicated history of this ballad, where both text and tune seem to have suffered from editorial activiety. - RBW
The title of Jasper Smith's version on Voice11 is from a verse lifted from "The Croppy Boy." The notes for the ballad make it a version of "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" [Child 106]. At best it is an abridgement and corruption of the first verse of the Percy fragment in Child's headnote to "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men" added to the lily-bower verse of Child/Border Widow [shamrock-bower here to go with "Old Ireland free"]; here is Percy: "My mother showed me a deadly spight; She sent three thieves at darksome night; They put my servants all to flight, They robbed my bower, and they slew my knight." Here is a description of Jasper Smith's "The Small Birds Whistle": A girl runs away with a man who leaves her with a baby; her father builds her a bower but "Then my father he owed me a dreadful spite. He sent nine robbers all in one night To take my baby and to do me harm" and that ends the story.
Also collected and sung by Ellen Mitchell, "Border Widow's Lament" (on Kevin and Ellen Mitchell, "Have a Drop Mair," Musical Tradition Records MTCD315-6 CD (2001)) - BS
File: C106
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NAME: Famous Light Brigade, The
DESCRIPTION: "It was a famous story, proclaim it far and wide, And let your children's children re-echo it with pride, When old Cardigan, the fearless, his name immortal made, When he charged through that Russian valley with his famous Light Brigade."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: battle disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 25, 1854 - Battle of Balaclava
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 276-277, "The Famous Light Brigade" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H829, p. 91, "Balaclava" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9419
NOTES: It would be an exaggeration to say that the final century of the existence of the Russian and Ottoman Empires was devoted to a contest between the two of them for control of the Dardanelles. But the exaggeration would be mild. The Russians made many attempts in the nineteenth century to gain control of the straights. The Crimean War came about because one of their attempts was so blatant that the British and French felt it simply had to be stopped.
The war was a disaster for both sides; both suffered heavy losses -- due to both bad logistics and bad generalship -- while reaping only minimal gains. Even in that utterly incompetent war, few results were as bad as the fate of the Light Brigade.
The charge of the Light Brigade is, of course, one of the most famous disasters in military history. It took some work to bring about the disaster, though. The first stage of the combined British/French invasion, which resulted in the Battle of Alma, went well enough if you ignore the severe casualties caused by disease (for background, see the notes to "The Heights of Alma (I)" [Laws J10]). After Alma, the allies could perhaps have tried a direct run for Sebastopol. With the defences weak and the Russian army defeated and scattered, it might have worked (see Royle, pp. 261-262, Warner, pp. 46-57. For references, see the Bibliography at the end of this entry).
The allies didn't try it. British commander Lord Raglan discussed it with the French, but they refused (Palmer, p. 103). So the allied army moved slowly  to be prepared for a possible siege -- and thus made the siege inevitable. The allies moved to the south of the city, set up new supply bases, and generally dawdled.
The dawdling gave the Russians time to properly fortify Sebastopol (as well as to get their troops reorganized). And, with the city more defensible, it also gave the Russians troops with which to attempt offensive moves of their own (Royle, pp. 263-264). On October 25, five weeks after the Battle of Alma, with the British, French, and Turkish allies slowly tightening the encirclement of Sebastopol, the Russians counterattacked at Balaclava. With a force reported to total 25,000 men, they struck at the weak British east flank (Royle, p. 265).
This was potentially a war-winner for the Russians (Royle, p. 267); if they could take Balaclava Harbor, which was the sole British supply port (Woodham-Smith, p. 197), the British would be entirely cut off from supplies and the French potentially flanked. And the British had suffered so many losses (primarily to disease rather than battle) that they didn't have enough reserves to garrison Balaclava and maintain their other operations (Woodham-Smith, p. 207). But, of course, the Russians muffed it.
The first Russian charge was a partial success, routing part of the Turkish force (Palmer, p. 125, says that the Turks lost half their numbers; the allies still blamed them for fleeing). The attack failed only in that it had not reached Balaclava.
Still, the Russians were atop the only real road from Balaclava to the British camp -- meaning that they controlled the British supply line unless they were driven back (Woodham-Smith, p. 213). This finally convinced Raglan that he had to do something. He ordered up two divisions of infantry -- and sent Lord Lucan an order which moved the cavalry out of the way (Woodham-Smith, pp. 214-215).
But the British were lucky. They had only a handful of infantry guarding the path to Balaclava itself, but that handful consisted of Highlanders under the command of Colin Campbell -- the one really top-flight officer of the war. (For more on Sir Colin, see the notes to "The Kilties in the Crimea.") Plus they were armed with rifle muskets, rather than the old smoothbores, giving them enough firepower to stop, or at least frighten off, the Russian cavalry (Royle, pp. 266-267; Woodham-Smith, p. 216).
Meanwhile, Lord Raglan, thinking that Campbell would be overwhelmed (as, by rights, he should have been) ordered the Heavy Brigade  to counterattack. Because he was far away, the Russian attack had faltered by the time the message reached the cavalry (Woodham-Smith, p. 218). Fortunately, the Heavy Brigade had a commander who, if he had little experience, had a brain and a willingness to listen to his more knowledgeable staff officers. General Scarlett, against immense odds and on terrain which favored the Russians, waited until the enemy had halted, and sent out an amazing counter-charge (Woodham-Smith, pp. 219-223).
The charge of the Heavy Brigade disorganized the Russians but was not in sufficient force to push them back completely (the heavies were outnumbered by at least two to one; Woodham-Smith seems to think the ratio was eight to one). The Russians halted their charge and pulled back to a more secure position (Royle, p. 270) -- but they still threatened the British supply line. Any additional force the British could scrape up might tilt the balance. And there was the Light Brigade -- the other half of the cavalry division -- unengaged.
It was at this point that the deficiencies of the British command arrangements really came out.  There were officers in the British army with combat experience, but most of them -- e.g. the officers of the Indian army -- were kept out of the Crimea due to snobbishness; Farwell, p. 69. The handful of other experienced officers were all very old -- e.g. commander-in-chief Lord Raglan had fought at Waterloo (where he had lost his right arm;  (Woodham-Smith, p. 156), and he was 65 years old at the start of the Crimean campaign (Woodham-Smith, p. 131).
The cavalry division was commanded by Lord Lucan, who had purchased his commission. The commander of the Light Brigade, Lord Cardigan, was also an officer by purchase; James, p. 337, says that prior to the Crimea his "only previous experience of hostile fire had been when he had fought a duel fourteen years before."
Cardigan, in fact, had once been dismissed from regimental command for incompetence (Woodham-Smith, pp. 43-44, with the pages before that abundantly documenting why he had to go).  Indeed, Cardigan in this period had shown obvious signs of psychosis; Woodham-Smith, p. 7, says he had suffered a fall early in his life which left him subject to almost uncontrollable fits of rage. But he managed, by assiduous nagging, to secure a new  appointment (Woodham-Smith, p. 47). This caused such outrage that Parliament investigated -- but Parliament finally gave in when the military in effect drew a line in the sand and said, "Don't Interfere" (Woodham-Smith, p. 49).
Nor was Cardigan in position to learn on the job (even assuming he was capable of it); in the period after the Crimean landing, the horses were too broken down for him to do any scouting (Woodham-Smith, pp. 170-171). To top it all off, by the time of Balaclava, he was sleeping in his yacht in Balaclava harbor rather than among his men (Woodham-Smith, p. 201). Basically, he showed up in mid-morning, gave nonsense orders, ran down his men and horses, and left for the night to enjoy himself.
Lord Lucan was a little more concerned for his soldiers (among other things, he insisted on sharing their camp), and he at least had some field experience, unlike Cardigan, but it was slight and many decades old (Woodham-Smith, p. 132); he couldn't even learn the new manual of command (Woodham-Smith, p. 146). The entire army knew that Cardigan was an impetuous fool, and Lucan they called "Lord Look-On" for his caution (Woodham-Smith, pp. 177-178).
It might not have mattered quite so much had Lucan and Cardigan not been sworn enemies; Lucan had married (Woodham-Smith, pp. 15, 28) and abandoned (Woodham-Smith, pp. 127-128) Cardigan's sister. They should not have been in the same army, let alone in the same division. Lord Raglan tried to keep them separate (Woodham-Smith, pp. 132, 144, 148, etc.), but that just made things worse; Cardigan treated Raglan's concession as a right, and complained whenever Lucan came near him. And Lucan felt, correctly, that he had repeatedly been bypassed. Determined not to give Lord Raglan further grounds for undercutting him, Lucan responded by turning into the sort of cardboard officer who obeys every command with literal precision, regardless of whether it made sense (Woodham-Smith, p. 205).
When the Heavy Brigade counterattacked to regain the lost positions in the heights by Balaclava, the Light Brigade probably should have joined their charge (Palmer, p. 127; Royle, p. 270), but brigade commander Cardigan had been too often accused of impetuosity and decided to sit tight until orders arrived (Woodham-Smith, p. 224).
If the Russians were allowed time to rebuild their position, the whole fruit of the Heavy Brigade's work might be lost.  And the infantry that was supposed to show up to take part in the battle was late (Royle, p. 272; Woodham-Smith, p. 226). When Lord Raglan -- who really should have tried to move closer to the scene of the action -- saw the Russians regrouping and preparing to haul off captured guns, he determined that something must be done. He sent an order to the Light Brigade to attack. But the order was imperfectly clear (Raglan seemed almost unable to give explicit orders; Hibbert, p. 50) -- and it appears that the copy received by Lucan differed from what Raglan had dictated (Woodham-Smith, p. 226). Lucan decided that the order meant he should wait until the infantry arrived.
An exasperated Raglan then sent an order for the Light Brigade to attack an overrun battery. Unfortunately, he seems to have had a problem expressing his orders precisely (Woodham-Smith, p. 177) -- and this one was singularly bad. Woodham-Smith has a photo of the message slip (facing p. 101); it is nearly illegible and gives no precise directions as to what he wants done; as written, it seems to say little more than "Charge!" So everything depended on the officer who carried the message.
And the messenger chosen was a bad one; Captain Edward Nolan seems to have been chosen not for his military sense but because he was an excellent horseman (Royle, p. 273). And a good horseman was needed, because Raglan was positioned so far from the front and there was much broken ground to be covered.
When Nolan reached Lord Lucan, Cardigan's division commander, he delivered the order to charge the battery. Unfortunately, from Lucan's position, the battery Raglan had been looking at was invisible (Woodham-Smith, p. 230). And the written order was unclear. When Lucan angrily asked for clarification, Nolan cavalierly pointed at a visible enemy battery and said that the enemy was there (Palmer, p. 129; Royle, p. 273; Woodham-Smith, p. 231). Lucan saw no choice but to order Cardigan to charge. Apparently Lucan and Cardigan both thought the order as given was nonsense -- but they obeyed it (Royle, p. 274).
Maybe, if they had been more willing to talk to each other, the disaster might not have happened. But they weren't willing to talk. Lucan relayed Raglan's order as he understood it, and the charge was made. It was, in a way, the perfect role for Cardigan (Woodham-Smith, p. 235); it required no brains, and his spit-and-polish drill at least meant that the men made the charge as if on the parade ground. But they were still attacking in the wrong place.
It was not, properly speaking, a charge (Warner, p. 66); a charge is a full gallop very close to the enemy. It was in fact something worse: a ride over a mile and a half, under fire the whole way. And cavalry is particularly liable to artillery and rifle fire.
Little surprise, then, that the assault was crushed. Nolan -- who improperly joined the attack (Palmer, p. 127; Royle, p. 274) -- was killed at the first rush (Warner, p. 66, repeats a suggestion that he had realized his error in the moments before his death, but even if true, that was far too late). At least 107 men were killed with him (Royle, p. 274; Palmer, p. 132, and Warner, pp. 66-67, say that 113 were killed and 134 wounded). Casualties among horses were even higher; Warner, p. 67, gives the number destroyed as "nearly all"; Royle, p. 274, says that 397 were destroyed; Palmer, p. 133, gives the number as 475; Woodham-Smith, p. 249, gives the round number of 500. (My guess is that the latter two figures are derived by taking 195, the number of men still mounted at the end of the charge, from the number of men in the brigade.) The loss of the horses was very difficult loss to make up; many horses had died on their way to the Crimea, and the British still hadn't learned how to ship them (Woodham-Smith, p. 139).
Between loss of horses and loss of men, only 195 cavalrymen were fit for battle at the end of the day, out of 673 soldiers who made the charge (Palmer, p. 132; Woodham-Smith, p. 249, says that only 195 cavalrymen came back, but this appears to be a misreading of the reports).
Lord Cardigan, amazingly, survived, and even broke through the line of guns. He almost ran into a force of enemy cavalry (and Woodham-Smith, pp. 244-245, notes that they made no attempt to kill him -- apparently their commander recognized him and tried to have him captured. A silly notion; an army operating with Lord Cardigan as a general was surely a worse army than one where he was safely out of the way.) And since none of Cardigan's juniors knew where he was (he eventually made it back to where the Heavy Brigade was resting), it meant that the obviously-necessary retreat was delayed. (Of course, being who he waas, he might not have let them retreat just because they were being slaughtered to no effect.)
A French officer said it best: It was "magnificent, but not war." ("C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre" -- Haswell, p. 98)
It was, however, the end of the battle of Balaclava -- really little more than a skirmish: The Russians were stopped less by actual fighting than by the showy charge of the Heavy Brigade, and the Light Brigade rode into oblivion and immortality, which Tennyson would commemorate three weeks later (Royle, p. 276). Perhaps Lord Raglan had might have done more had his cavalry survived. With it ruined, there was no chance (Palmer, p. 133).
The battle did leave the Russians in position to dominate the road to Balaclava, but the British managed to get supplies around the bottleneck. As a result, the whole thing is generally regarded as a draw, though the British came away with heavy casualties and the loss of ground. The only real significance of the battle was that it set the stage for the Battle of Inkerman which followed.
Lucan and Cardigan were both sent home before the end of the war, mildly disgraced -- but even though Lucan was given most of the blame (Royle, pp. 275, 277), neither was forced out of the army, and both would eventually be promoted to higher posts (Royle, p. 278). I would have to say that Lucan was scapegoated -- yes, he was incompetent, and should not have held the command he did. But the real blame lay elsewhere -- with Cardigan, for refusing to admit his incompetence. With Raglan, for not dealing with the Lucan/Cardigan situation. With Raglan again, for sending an incomprehensible order by an irresponsible messenger. And with Captain Nolan, for giving a false interpretation to that incomprehensible order. Of them all, it is probably Raglan who bears the greatest blame.
Tennyson was telling nothing less than the truth when he said of the battle that "someone had blundered." In fact, several someones. But, somehow, in a portion of the population, the steadiness under fire came to be seen as more important than the useless waste, and Balaclava commemorated accordingly (Royle, p. 265. Warner, p. 67, seems to be an example of this form of folly, arguing that an army has to be disciplined enough to be that stupid). James, p. 388, reports a popular ballad, which appears to be this, praising the battle, and notes that it seemed to inspire a World War I parody (p. 443).
>>BIBLIOGRAPHY<<
Farwell: Byron Farwell, _Queen Victoria's Little Wars_ (1972; I used the 1985 Norton edition)
Haswell: Jock Haswell, _The British Army: A Concise History_ (Thames and Hudson, 1975)
Hibbert: Christopher Hibbert, _The Destruction of Lord Raglan_, (1961; I used the 1999 Wordsworth edition)
James: Lawrence James, _Warrior Race: A History of the British at War_ (Abacus, 2001)
Palmer: Alan Palmer, _The Crimean War_ (Dorset, 1987)
Royle: Trevor Royle, _Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856_ (Abacus, 1999)
Warner: Philip Warner, _The Crimean War: A Reappraisal_ (1972; I used the 2001 Wordsworth edition)
Woodham-Smith: Cecil Woodham-Smith, _The Reason Why_ (McGraw-Hill, 1954) - RBW
File: Doe276
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NAME: Famous Wedding, The: see The Nobleman's Wedding (The Faultless Bride; The Love Token) [Laws P31] (File: LP31)
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NAME: Fan-a-winnow
DESCRIPTION: "Fan-a-winnow daisy, Fan-a-winnow e-i-oh She's away with Barney the band tier." "A for apple, P for pear, D for dolling on the stairs All the world will never know The love I had for my lady-O" "B for Barney, C for Cross, O but I love Barney Ross"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (sung by David Hammond on "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland")
KEYWORDS: love nonballad wordplay
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hammond-Belfast, p. 26, "Fan-a-winnow" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "'B' for Barney" (text [see Sean O Boyle notes below)) 
NOTES: Also collected and sung by David Hammond, "Fan-A-Winnow" (on David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland," Tradition TCD1052 CD (1997) reissue of Tradition LP TLP 1028 (1959)) Sean O Boyle, notes to David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland": "This is an amalgam of verses from two songs (one of them ''B' for Barney') The words are set to a hymn tune common in the 19th century. The title refers to the turning of the big fan that kept the moist air circulating through the mill to save the linen yarn from becoming too dry and brittle." 
Also see, "'B' for Barney" [which is also on Hammond's recording]. Sean O Boyle, notes to David Hammond, "I Am the Wee Falorie Man: Folk Songs of Ireland": "This is a song among Belfast weavers and spinners at the beginning of the century.... A Band-tier was the man who bundled the lengths of thread as they came from the spinning frames." - BS
File: Hamm026
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NAME: Fancy Frigate, The: see The Flash Frigate (La Pique) (File: ShaSS178)
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NAME: Fanny Blair
DESCRIPTION: Eleven-year old Fanny Blair falsely accuses a young man of molesting her. He is tried and sentenced to death, although the community doubts his guilt. He begs to be buried at home rather than in the prison yard, and hopes God will pardon the child.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Journal from the Java)
KEYWORDS: accusation lie abuse rape punishment trial execution
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 103, "Fanny Blair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-100E 46, "Fanny Blair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 229-231, "Fanny Blair" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FANBLAIR* FANBLAI2*
Roud #1393
NOTES: In Sharp's version the crime is robbery, and Fanny Blair is not the victim but an accomplice who is turning king's evidence.-PJS
As Paul's note shows, details of the crime and punishment in this ballad vary, and the girl's age varies from eleven to eighteen. - RBW
File: WB2103
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NAME: Fanny More: see Fair Fanny Moore [Laws O38] (File: LO38)
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NAME: Fanny's Harbour Bawn
DESCRIPTION: The singer spies his love in the arms of another and loses the ensuing fight. He claims that "baymen," like his opponent, look harmless enough but they are good fighters. The singer refrains from courting and encourages others to do the same.
AUTHOR: Mark Walker (see notes)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: love courting fight
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doyle2, pp. 34-35, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 185-188, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 texts, 3 tunes)
Lehr/Best 36, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 112-113, "Fanny's Harbour Bawn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4418
NOTES: Doyle claims that the song is an account of a real fight that happened "over half a century ago" (from 1940) in Labrador. He also explains that a "bawn" is a beach for drying fish and that the girl was said to have been from Conception Bay where, apparently, the singer is also from (Carbonear). The singer's cursing of the northern "bayman" from Bonavista is perhaps typical of the social status conflicts on the island. - SH
Attribution to Mark Walker is from _Taking Apart "Tickle Cove Pond"_ in Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, vol. 29, 2002 by Philip Hiscock, p. 35. The other songs attributed to Walker in that article are "The Antis of Plate Cove," "Lovely Kitty/Katie-Oh," "The Race on Tickle Cove Pond," "Labrador Squalls," "Down By Jim Long's Stage," "The Girls from Sweet Bay," "Nellie Neil, Me Little Kettie," "Tickle Cove Pond II," "Gains I Owe in Many Lands" and "a single-stanza fragment about a local merchant hiring a Tickle Cove crew to go fishing in the north of Newfoundland." 
[Hiscock repeats the attribution] in _Ten things to consider about "The Star of Logy Bay"_ in Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, Summer 2003, Vol 37.2, p.7. - BS
File: Doy34
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NAME: Far Above Cayuga's Waters
DESCRIPTION: "Far above Cayuga's waters, with its waves of blue, Stands out noble Alma Mater, glorious to view." In praise of Cornell University: "Hail to thee our Alma Mater, Hail! all hail! Cornell!"
AUTHOR: Music: H. S. Thompson. Words: Archibald C. Weeks amd Wilmot M. Smith
EARLIEST_DATE: 1876
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 49, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 102, "Annie Lisle -- (Far Above Cayuga's Waters)"
DT, CRNLALMA
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Far Above Cayuga's Waters (Parodies)"
SAME_TUNE:
Far Above Cayuga's Waters (Parodies) [File: EM348]
NOTES: For some reason, this seems to be the most popular of all official college songs. Of course, it is also the most parodied (see the cross-references).
The tune, "Annie Lisle," is dated by Fuld to 1858; the source of the words is uncertain, but Fuld credits them to the authors listed here. They were probably written in 1872, but first published in 1876. - RBW
File: FSWB049
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NAME: Far Above Cayuga's Waters (Parodies)
DESCRIPTION: To the theme of the Cornell anthem ("Far Above Cayuga's Waters/Alma Mater"), any of a series of parodies: "High Above a Theta's Garter," "Far above Cayuga's waters Rises such a smell," etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad parody virginity derivative
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Cray, pp. 348-350, "High Above a Theta's Garter" (2 texts, 1 tune)
cf. Fuld-WFM, p. 102, "Annie Lisle -- (Far Above Cayuga's Waters)"
Roud #10284
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Far Above Cayuga's Waters"
NOTES: The Cornell Song is perhaps the most-parodied of all college songs. One version is among the very few folk songs my father learned by genuine oral tradition (at the University of Michigan): "Far above Cayuga's waters Rises such a smell, Some say it's Cayuga's waters, We say it's Cornell." - RBW
File: EM348
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NAME: Far Away, Far Away
DESCRIPTION: "Where now is that merry party I remember long ago... They have all dispersed and wandered, Far away, far away." Many are married, moved, wandering, dead. The singer points out that "nothing in this world can last... What is coming, who can say?"
AUTHOR: Words: Miss M. Lindsay / Music: Mrs. J. W. Bliss
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Heart Songs)
KEYWORDS: separation friend
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 866, "Far Away, Far Away" (1 text)
Roud #7536
RECORDINGS:
Loman D. Cansler, "Far Away" (on Cansler1)
File: R866
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NAME: Fare Thee Well Cold Winter: see Farewell He (File: FSC41)
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NAME: Fare Thee Well, Babe
DESCRIPTION: "Fare thee well, O Babe, fare thee well (x2), I done all I could do try'n to git along with you." The singer declares he loves the woman, but "Fo' I'll be mistreated I'll kill myself an' you." He maintains he treated her well but she didn't want him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love separation abandonment
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 204-205, "Fare Thee Well, Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15576
NOTES: This is one of those songs that illustrates Laws's comments about the instability of Black balladry. This may well be a version of something else -- but between the floating lines, the repetitions, the common plot, and the fact that the Lomaxes are always fiddling with texts, I can't be sure of the original song.
It reminds me a bit of "Going Down This Road Feeling Bad," but the motivation is different. - RBW
File: LxA204
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NAME: Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to his love, telling her he must go to sea to obtain riches. She replies that life without him is miserable, so she dresses as a man and accompanies him. A day out of London the ship sinks. She is drowned; he survives to mourn.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904
KEYWORDS: love separation cross-dressing death ship wreck dialog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 38, "Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1035
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell, Charming Nancy"
cf. "Farewell, Sweet Mary"
cf. "The Paisley Officer (India's Burning Sands)" [Laws N2]
File: VWL038
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NAME: Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon)
DESCRIPTION: The soldier is leaving his beautiful Enniskillen. He grieves to leave home and his fair darling, but when war arises, he has no choice. (He rejoices following his safe arrival home, and hopes never to leave again)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1760))
KEYWORDS: war parting soldier return grief courting separation father
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Ireland Britain(Scotland) Canada
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Eddy 150, "Fare Ye Well, Inniskillen" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
SHenry H631, p. 294, "Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen"; H98b, pp. 472-473, "The Inniskilling Dragoon" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Ord, p. 306, "The Enniskillen Dragoon" (1 text)
Fowke/MacMillan 74, "The Enniskillen Dragoon" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 78, "The Enniskellen Dragoon" (1 text)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 63-64, "The Enniskilling Dragoon" (1 text)
DT, (ENNISDRG*?) ENNISDR2*
ADDITIONAL: Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), pp. 12-13, "The Inniskilling Dragoon" (text, music and reference to Decca F-3374 recorded Dec 31, 1932)
Roud #2185
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1760), "Inniskillen Dragoon", J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also 2806 c.15(251), Harding B 11(1293), Harding B 11(4221), "Inniskillen Dragoon"; Harding B 19(103), Harding B 26(169), 2806 c.15(124), Firth c.14(179), Firth c.14(181), Firth b.26(199), Harding B 18(617), "Enniskillen Dragoon"
Murray, Mu23-y1:074, "Inniskillen Dragoon," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
LOCSinging, sb10110a, "Enniskillen Dragoon", H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860 
NLScotland, L.C.1270(005), "Inniskillen Dragoon", James Kay (Glasgow), c.1845
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Damsel Possessed of Great Beauty"
cf. "Wyandotte's Farewell Song"
NOTES: The reference to the soldier setting out for Spain probably implies a date during the war of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) or the Peninsular phase of the Napoleonic Wars.
Roud lists Sam Henry #631 as a separate song (#6890), but since he has only the one item by that number, it seems better to lump. - RBW
Broadsides NLScotland L.C.1270(005)[c.1845], Bodleian Firth c.14(179)[n.d.], Bodleian Firth c.26(211)[1855-1858] and Bodleian Firth b.26(199)[1847-1852]: a final verse is added in which they marry when the war is over.
Broadside LOCSinging sb10110a: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.
The date and master id (GB-5416-1/2) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
File: E150
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NAME: Fare Ye Well, Inniskillen: see Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen (The Inniskillen Dragoon) (File: E150)
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NAME: Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea
DESCRIPTION: Willie tells Maggie he is going to sea and they agree to be true. In some seaport he writes "a girl named Flora bore down on me Fare you well, Maggie darling, across the blue sea.... on me don't depend." She writes "Fare you well, Willie darling...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: grief infidelity parting sea sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 443-444, "Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Pea443 (Partial)
Roud #6458
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Heave Away" (some words and theme)
NOTES: See Lehr/Best 49, "Heave Away!" - BS
File: Pea443
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NAME: Fare You Well, My Darling
DESCRIPTION: Fare you well, my darling, Oh fare you well my dear, Don't grieve for my long absence While I'm a volunteer." The singer urges the girl not to grieve, though he is traveling far away (to Pensacola). She says she will wait for his return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love soldier separation
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Belden, pp. 380-381, "Fare You Well, My Darling" (1 text)
Randolph 736, "Fare You Well, My Darling" (1 text)
BrownIII 376, "The Soldier's Farewell" (2 texts)
Roud #3582
NOTES: The Ozark (Belden, Randolph) and North Carolina (Brown) versions of this song aren't absolutely parallel; it's possible that they are separate songs with a lot of parallel words. But given the thematic similarity, it seems reasonable to lump them. - RBW
File: R736
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NAME: Fare You Well, My Own True Love (The Storms Are on the Ocean, The False True Lover, The True Lover's Farewell, Red Rosy Bush, Turtle Dove)
DESCRIPTION: The true lover bids farewell, promising to be true. He asks, "Who will shoe your pretty little foot?" Various floating verses follow, in which the traveller may or may not return and the young woman may or may not grieve at her fate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden); +1881 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs II_)
KEYWORDS: love separation lyric floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (26 citations)
Bronson 76, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (23 versions, of which at least #17, and possibly others, e.g. #12, #13, and #19, perhaps even #8 and #23, should be placed here)
Warner 97, "Red Rosy Bush" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 44, "Fare You Well, My Own True Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 480-482, "The False True-Lover" (2 texts)
Davis-Ballads 21, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (of the various texts in the appendices, at least some, e.g. "D," "H," and "I," belong here, as does the fourth tune, "Cold Winter's Night"); 40, "James Harris (The Daemon Lover)" (the 2 texts in the appendix seem to belong here with some "House Carpenter" verses mixed in) {#21AppA=Bronson's #8}
Davis-More 26, pp. 199-206, "Lady Alice" (3 texts plus a fragment, 4 tunes -- but the fourth, fragmentary, text and tune could as well be this)
Friedman, p. 78, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (3 texts, 1 tune, with the "C" text apparently being this ballad)
SharpAp 114, "The True Lover's Farewell" (9 texts, 9 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 37, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Sharp-100E 55, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 18, "Oh Who Will Shoe My Foot?" (8 texts, 5 tunes, with the "A," "D," and "E" texts probably belonging here) {A=Bronson's #12, D=#19}
BrownII 22, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (2 texts, which are clearly true versions of "The Lass of Roch Royal", but both have the "Storms are on the ocean" verse -- in the "B" texts, it's the chorus. Either the two songs combined to produce the North Carolina versions, or that song is the source for the Carter versions)
BrownIII 109, "Fare You Well, My Own True Love" (1 text, probably combined with another song); 258, "The False True-Lover" (5 texts); also perhaps 249, "The Turtle-Dove" (1 text, a complex mix of floating verses, some of which may belong here; compare the Lunsford recording of the same name); 264, "Storms Are on the Ocean" (2 texts, with the "Storms" chorus though both have the "Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town" verse and the "A" text also has a "Blow Gently, the Winds on the Ocean" type verse)
Chappell-FSRA 72, "Who Will Shoe Your Feet?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson 53, p. 53, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text plus mention of 3 more; the printed text, amazingly, lacks the "pretty little foot")
Cambiaire, pp. 72-73, "Cold Winter Night" (1 text)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 175-176, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text)
Brewster 13, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (1 text plus 8 fragments; the "A" text is this; "B"-"I" are "Pretty Little Foot" versions)
Gardner/Chickering 9, "A Lover's Farewell" (1 fragment, with the first verse ["Oh see that pure and lonesome dove"] probably this and the second being "go dig my grave, go dig it deep....")
Sandburg, pp. 3-7, "He's Gone Away" (1 text, 1 tune); 98-99, "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (3 texts, 1 tune; of the three texts here, "B" is definitely this piece, "C" is a short fragment of Child 76; the "A" is a one-stanza "pretty little foot" text)
Lomax-FSNA 108, "Winter's Night"; 109, "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 44, "The Storms Are on the Ocean" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 137, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, p. 268, "Red Rosy Bush" (1 text); p. 270, "The True Lover's Farewell" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 142, "The Storms Are On The Ocean" (1 text) p. 151, "He's Gone Away" (1 text); p. 153, "Turtle Dove" (1 text)
DT, REDRSOY* REJCTLVR* STRMOCAN* (TUTRLDOV) (TURTDOV2) FRWLMRNN TENTHMIL* (TURTDOV2*)  (HESGONE* ?)
Roud #49
RECORDINGS:
The Carter Family, "The Storms Are On the Ocean" (Victor 20937, 1927); (Okeh 03160, 1936)
A. P. Carter Family, "Storms are on the Ocean" (Acme 993, c. 1949)
Delmore Brothers, "The Storms Are On the Ocean"  (Bluebird B-8613, 1941)
Aunt Molly Jackson, "Ten Thousand Miles" (AFS, 1939; on LC02)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Little Turtle Dove" (Brunswick 229, 1928; on BLLunsford01; a composite of all sorts of floating verses, a few of which may be from this song)
Lewis McDaniel & Gid Smith, "It's Hard to Leave You, Sweet Love" (Victor 40287, c. 1929)
Neil Morris, "The Lass of Loch Royale" (on LomaxCD1701)
New Lost City Ramblers, "It's Hard to Leave You, Sweet Love" (on NLCR16)
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson, "Storms Are On the Ocean" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchiteWatsonCD1)
[Leonard] Rutherford & [John] Foster, "Storms May Rule the Ocean" (Gennett, rec. 1929; on KMM)
Ruby Vass "10,000 Miles" (on Persis1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (floating lyrics) and references there
cf. "The Lass of Roch Royal" [Child 76] (floating lyrics)
cf. "Mary Anne"
cf. "Sugar Baby (Red Rocking Chair; Red Apple Juice)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "I Truly Understand You Love Another Man"
cf. "Way Down the Old Plank Road"
NOTES: This song is officially a catch-all. The problem is, what to do with all the lost love pieces *with* some hint of a plot plus the floating element "Who will shoe your pretty little foot." After some hesitation, we decided on a four-part primary division (with some exceptions):
* "The Lass of Roch Royal" for the ballad of that title
* "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" for fragments too short to classify at all
* "Mary Anne" for the versions specifically about that girl
* This, for everything else.
There probably are recensional variants within this song family; it's just too big and too complex. But the particular items are such a mess that we finally gave up trying to sort them. - RBW
File: Wa097
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NAME: Farewell and Adieu to You Spanish Ladies: see Spanish Ladies (File: ShH89)
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NAME: Farewell Ballymoney (Loving Hannah; Lovely Molly)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, meeting is a pleasure between my love and I; I'll go down to yon low valley to meet her by and by...." The young (man) watches his love turn away from him. He laments her infidelity. (He departs from the town and goes to America)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Joyce)
KEYWORDS: courting separation emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland Australia US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Randolph 749, "Black-Eyed Mary" (1 text plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
BrownII 82, "The Lover's Lament" (4 texts plus a fragment, "E," that is probably "Handsome Molly")
Dean, pp. 111-112, "Down In Yonder Valley" (1 text)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 172, "Lovely Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 44, "The Irish Girl" (1 text, 1 tune, a confused and conflate mix of this song and "The Irish Girl")
Cambiaire, p. 38, "Sweet Willie" (1 text, six verses derived from at least two and probably three or four songs; the largest portion is "On Top of Old Smokey" but there is a bit of "Farewell Ballymoney (Loving Hannah; Lovely Molly)" and something from one of amorphous the "courting is a pleasure" group)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 95-96, "Loving Hannah" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H625, pp. 342-343, "Dark-Eyed Molly"; H615, p. 343, "Farewell Ballymoney" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Peacock, pp. 465-466, "In Courtship There Lies Pleasure" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 71, "Courting Is a Pleasure" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 155, "Going to Mass Last Sunday" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 37, "Going to Mass Last Sunday" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 63, "I Went to Mass on Sunday" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 103, "Loving Hannah" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT,  LOVHANNA
Roud #454
RECORDINGS:
Margaret Barry, "Going to Mass on Sunday" (fragment) (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
Robert Cinnamond, "Going to Church Last Sunday" (on IRRCinnamond02) (fragment; two verses)
Jean Ritche, "Lovin' Hannah" (fragment) (on IRMBarry-Fairs)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "In Eighteen-Forty-Nine" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Dark and Dreary Weather" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Handsome Molly"
cf. "The Irish Girl" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Blazing Star of Drum (Drim, Drung)" (theme)
cf. "I've Travelled This Country (Last Friday Evening)" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Courting is a Pleasure
NOTES: The setting of this song varies widely. One stanza, however, is fairly characteristic:
I went to church last Sunday, (this line may vary)
My true love passed me by;
I could see her mind was a-changing
By the rolling of her eye.
Unfortunately, this stanza also shows up in some versions of "The Irish Girl"; these two songs seem to have mixed badly
I believe the old-time country song "Handsome Molly" to be a form of this piece (and most experts agree), but it has achieved such a degree of independent circulation that it is listed in the Index as a separate song. - RBW
I think I should make clear that although I think "Handsome Molly" is indeed derived, vaguely, from "Farewell Ballymoney," it has acquired so many extraneous verses that *don't* duplicate "Farewell B." verses that they've crowded all the originals out except "Went to Church Last Sunday," which I think constitutes speciation, although only just.
Oh, and I've had a communication from Sandy Paton about a talk he had with Jeannie Robertson. Virtually all the versions of the song that are called "Loving Hannah," including the excellent recent one by revival singer Bill Jones, are derived from Robertson's version, and hers came from... Jean Ritchie, when she was over in Britain on a Fulbright, collecting songs that were related to her family's songs. So if it's from Britain, and called "Loving Hannah," it's "really" from Kentucky.
No wonder folklorists drink. - PJS
And just in case that isn't bad enough, it took off in another direction in Ireland. Donagh MacDonagh took the first two lines ("Going to Mass last Sunday my true love passed me by, I knew her mind was altered by the rolling of her eye") and the Lowlands of Holland tune and produced a poem about what the singer actually felt during the mass as he hoped he changed her mind; this adaption can be found in Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson, _The Oxford Book of Irish Verse_ (Oxford, 1958, 1979), pp. 261, under the title "Going to Mass Last Sunday." - RBW
The version on IRRCinnamond02 is the first two verses of GreigDuncan6 1192, "I'll Gang Doon Tae Yonder Valley," though Cinnamond's soldier is false-hearted rather than faint-hearted. - BS
File: R749
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NAME: Farewell He
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids "Fare thee well, cold winter, and fare thee well cold frost. Nothing have I gained, but a lover I have lost...." After seeing him with another girl, she swears off of him, "He's no lad for windy weather; let him go then; farewell he"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting farewell abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Belden, pp. 491-492, "Adieu to Cold Weather" (1 text plus mention of 2 more)
FSCatskills 41, "My Love Is Like a Dewdrop" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 751, "Adieu to Dark Weather" (6 texts plus an excerpt, 5 tunes, all more or less related to this piece, though some are rather mixed; some of the texts reverse the male and female roles and some have a chorus)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 491-493, "Adieu to Dark Weather" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 751A)
Gardner/Chickering 42, "Farewell He" (1 text); 43, "My Love Is on the Ocean" (1 text)
Combs/Wilgus 179, pp. 146-147, "To Cheer the Heart" (1 text)
SHenry H504, p. 347, "Farewell He" (1 text, 1 tune); compare also H241, p. 346, "The Blackbird and Thrush" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FAREWELH* (RONDHAT5* -- a mixed version also incorporating "All Around My Hat")
Roud #803; also 3729
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dark and Dreary Weather" (stanza form, floating lyrics)
cf. "I've Two or Three Strings To My Bow" (subject)
cf. "Love Me or No" (subject)
cf. "The Blackbird and Thrush" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Wounded Spirit" (subject)
cf. "Parting Words" (subject)
cf. "There Comes a Fellow with a Derby Hat" (subject)
cf. "Oh, Where Is My Sweetheart?" (subject)
cf. "Like an Owl in the Desert" (subject)
cf. "I'll Cheer Up My Heart" (subject)
cf. "The Days Are Awa That I Hae Seen" (subject)
cf. "It is Not the Cold Wind" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Fare Thee Well Cold Winter
NOTES: Cohen seems to think that the Ozark versions of this piece, known from Belden and Randolph, are a separate song, and it is possible that he's right and that it simply swallowed elements of "Farewell He." But since the swallowing was nearly complete, it seems better to lump them. In this, unusually, I agree with Roud.
The situation is similar with Gardner and Chickering: Their "My Love Is on the Ocean" has distinct first and last stanzas:
My love is on the ocean, O let him sink or swim,
For in how own mind he thinks he's better than I am.
He think that he can slide me as he slided two or three,
But I'll give him back the mitten since he's gone back on me.
Final verse:
Go tell it to his mother; I set her heart at ease.
I hear she is a lady that's very hard to please.
I hear that she speaks of me that's hardly ever done.
Go tell it to her, I do not want her son!
It will be evident, however, that this text fits the tune of "Farewell He," and the material in between, including the chorus, is "Farewell He." Indeed, of Gardner and Chickering's texts, the one they call "Farewell He" actually looks less like the song of that title, except that it uses that key phrase!
So, once again, I lump (this time disagreeing with Roud).
The whole family cold probably use a thorough study, including both these songs, the Ozark versions, and "Dark and Dreary Weather." -  RBW
File: FSC41
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NAME: Farewell My Friends (Parting Friends; I'm Bound for Canaan)
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, my friends, I'm bound for Canaan, I'm trav'ling through the wilderness. Your company has been delightful... I go away behind to leave you, Perhaps never to meet again, But if we (n)ever have the pleasure, I hope we'll meet on Canaan's (shore)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Jackson)
KEYWORDS: religious separation nonballad friend
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 564-565, "Parting Friends" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thomas-Makin', p. 170, "Farewell to Carter County" (1 short text, possibly this piece though with only three stanzas it is hard to tell)
Roud #15559
NOTES: The Sacred Harp contains a piece called "Parting Friend," and two entitled "Parting Friends." None is the same as this piece. One of them is the same as the piece indexed as "Our Cheerful Voices (Separation).". - RBW
File: LxA564
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NAME: Farewell Tamintoul
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, Tamintoul! for the hour's come at last When I can only think of thy joys in the past. For destiny bears me away from the glen." The singer departs, and hopes someday to return to the place where he found hospitality and friendship
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord), with a seeming collection date of 1881
KEYWORDS: home separation
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 365, "Farewell, Tamintoul" (1 text)
Roud #4594
File: Ord365
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NAME: Farewell to Alvah's Woods and Braes
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to Alvah, "The place of my nativity." He recalls the happy times on Deveron's banks. But 'My ship it lies in readiness, My loving friends I'll bid goodbye." He will be buried where there is none to shed a tear -- but leaves anyway
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: home emigration
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 349, "Farewell to Alvah's Woods and Braes" (1 text)
Roud #4590
NOTES: Ord was told that people in Banff called this "The Poacher's Farewell," but the song contains no hint of transportation that I can see. What it does have is echoes of many other songs -- e.g. "The Earl of Errol" or the like ("Oh, Alvah it's a bonnie place"), "Trooper and Maid" ("He turned him right and round about"), etc. They aren't really cross-referenceable; it's just that this is built from many common phrases. - RBW
File: Ord349
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NAME: Farewell to Bonny Galaway
DESCRIPTION: "Ae night as I lay on my bed, The thought of love came into my head." He travels "To see the bonnie lassie lived in Galaway." Her father objects; her mother said she will "have her married to a lord's son." The girl makes him welcome; they flee Galaway
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: love courting father mother elopement
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Gardner/Chickering 76, "Farewell to Bonny Galaway" (1 text)
ST GC076 (Partial)
Roud #3694
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "One Night As I Lay On My Bed" (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This is so close to "One Night As I Lay On My Bed" (with which it shares both lyrics and theme) that I thought about lumping them. But that seems to be mostly a nightvisiting song; this is a song of elopement. So I split them. - RBW
File: GC076
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NAME: Farewell to Caledonia: see Jamie Raeburn (Caledonia) (File: MA085)
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NAME: Farewell to Fiunary
DESCRIPTION: "The wind is fair, the day is fine, And swiftly, swiftly runs the time... That wafts me off from (Fiunary). Eirich agus tiugainn, O!" The singer recalls all the ancient places he has visited, and bids farewell to friends and family
AUTHOR: Norman McLeod ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: home travel family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 208-211, "Farewell to Fiunary" (1 text)
DT, FAREFUNE
Roud #2317
NOTES: The Gaelic chorus translates as something like "Arise and come away" -- similar to the English chorus in the Digital Tradition text. - RBW
File: FVS208
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NAME: Farewell to Greta
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, my home in Greta, my sister Kate farewell...." Ned Kelly, with a price on his head, plans an attack on his foes. His sister points out the number of his foes, and urges him instead to take to the woods with his gang
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: outlaw Australia family sister farewell
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1855 - Birth of Ned Kelly
1880 - Execution of Kelly. His last words are reported to have been "Such is life."
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 114-115, "Farewell to Greta" (1 text, 1 tune -- a composite version)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 66-67, "Ned Kelly's Farewell to Greta" (1 text, 2 tunes)
DT, NEDKELLY
File: FaE114
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NAME: Farewell to Mackenzie
DESCRIPTION: "Now Willie's awa frae the field o' contention, Frae the land o' misrule and the friends o' dissension: He's gane owre the wave as an agent befittin' Our claims to support in the councils o' Britain." The people send their leader off with good hopes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1862 (Lindsey, "Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie")
KEYWORDS: Canada political nonballad
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1828 - William Lyon Mackenzie first elected to represent Canada in the British parliament
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 72-74, "Farewell to Mackenzie" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Rebel Song" (subject)
cf. "Un Canadien Errant" (subject)
cf. "Saint Helena (Boney on the Isle of St. Helena)"
NOTES: Fowke and Mills say that "No tune was suggested for the verses at the time [of writing], but the lines follow the pattern of "The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee." All I can say is, if this wasn't based on "Saint Helena (Boney on the Isle of St. Helena)," it wasn't based on anything.
Following the expulsion of the American invaders in the War of 1812, the government of Canada fell increasingly into the hands of oligarchs. Mackenzie founded a paper in Upper Canada, the _Colonial Advocate_, dedicated to reforming the system. Thugs destroyed his press, but in 1828 Mackenzie was elected to parliament -- only to be expelled for allegedly libelling the government.
The Canadians responded by re-electing him in 1832 (only to have him expelled again) and gathering 25,000 signatures on a petition to King William IV (reigned 1830-1837; the "King Willie" of the song) for redress of grievances. This was the situation at the time the poem was written, if its inscription ("Markham, April 10, 1832") is to be believed.
Kenneth McNaught, in _The Pelican History of Canada_ (enlarged edition, Pelican, 1982), pp. 85-86, write that "There is no doubt that [Mackenzie] was driven to this extreme, with its inevitable connotation of independence, by the intransigent defence of privilege in Toronto and London."
Sadly, the attempts at reform failed, leading the radicals to rebel in 1837. A thousand pound bounty was placed on Mackenzie's head -- but no one was willing to claim it. Still, Mackenzie and thousands of others were forced to flee to America when the rebellion failed.
For the sequel, see "The Battle of the Windmill." - RBW
File: FMB072
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NAME: Farewell to Miltown Malbay
DESCRIPTION: Singer recalls his "bright and pleasant youth ... in Clare" He names the places he walked and danced and people he met. Church bells ring and men pray. "If e'er I find this act devout beyond the ocean foam" he'll be reminded of his last day home.
AUTHOR: Tomas O hAodha (Tom Hayes)(1866-1935) of Miltown Malbay (source: Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1922 (O hAodha, _The Hills of Clare and Other Verses_, according to Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan)
KEYWORDS: emigration parting nonballad moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 5, "Farewell to Miltown Malbay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5228
RECORDINGS:
Kitty Hayes, "Farewell to Miltown Malby" (on IRClare01)
Tom Lenihan, "Farewell to Miltown Malbay" (on IRTLenihan01)
File: RcFtMiMa
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NAME: Farewell to Nova Scotia
DESCRIPTION: Even on a calm and beautiful night, the singer cannot rest. The wars force him to return to sea. He  bids "Farewell to Nova Scotia, the sea-bound coast... When I am far away on the briny ocean tossed, will you ever heave a sigh and a wish for me?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton/Senior)
KEYWORDS: sea farewell Canada
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 44-45, "Nova Scotia Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 19, "Farewell to Nova Scotia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 264-265, "Nova Scotia Song" (1 text (compilation), 1 tune)
DT, FARWELNS*
Roud #384
File: FJ044
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NAME: Farewell to Old Bedford
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell to old Bedford, I'm bound for to leave you. Likewise those pretty girls I nevermore shall see." The singer has been forced away by his parents, and intends to "drown away sorrows in a bottle of wine" and ignore his troubles
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: family drink exile travel rambling
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Warner 99, "Farewell to Old Bedford" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, OLDBDFRD*
ST Wa099 (Full)
Roud #16399
RECORDINGS:
Lee Monroe Presnell, "Farewell to Old Bedford" (on USWarnerColl01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell Lovely Nancy" (meter)
cf. "Adieu to Bon County" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: I have to suspect that this is a worn-down, possibly reworked, version of something else (e.g. "Farewell, Charming Nancy") -- but I can't identify with any real probability what the original song was. It may well go back to the same ancestor as "Adieu to Bon County," but there has been a lot of drift in between. - RBW
File: Wa099
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NAME: Farewell to Slieve Gallen
DESCRIPTION: The singer writes to warn Irishmen against emigrating to America. He arrived in the U.S. strong and ready to work, but no work was to be had. Forced into the army, he was disabled and wishes he were back in Ireland
AUTHOR: John Canavan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: poverty emigration soldier injury war disability
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 15, 1898 - destruction of the U. S. S. Maine
Apr 19, 1898 - Although the Spanish have agreed to all American demands, including peace with the Cuban rebels, the U. S. issues a sort of preliminary declaration of war, listing U. S. goals
Apr 24, 1898 - Spain declares war on the U. S.; the U. S. will next day do the same, backdating it to April 21
May 19, 1898 - The Spanish fleet enters Santiago Bay
July 2, 1898 - The Spanish fleet at Santiago, acting under orders from Madrid, sails out into the teeth of the American fleet and is destroyed
July 10, 1898 - U. S. troops attack Santiago
July 17, 1898 - U. S. troops capture Santiago
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H795, p. 198, "Farewell to Slieve Gallen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton-Ulster 27, "Wild Slieve Gallion Braes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2888
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "By the Hush" (plot)
cf. "The Dying Irish Boy" (plot, themes, setting)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Wild Slieve Gallon Braes
NOTES: The singer is ashamed "to think I'd backed the Stars and Stripes against the sons of Spain." I assume this is because the Spanish periodically tried to help the Irish against the English (for their own purposes, of course).
The reference to service, and being wounded, on a battleship "when the Spanish fleet was captured and sent to Ego Bay" makes little sense; the Spanish fleet was completely destroyed at Santiago, and the Americans suffered one killed and one injured. Nor can this be referred to the Battle of Manila Bay; there were no soldiers along, and, again, the Spanish fleet was destroyed; the Americans suffered eight casualties, all injuries.
Presumably the author conflated an amphibious landing with one of the many land battles, where American losses were much higher, due mostly to the complete ineptitude of the American generals and staff. - RBW
File: HHH795
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NAME: Farewell to Sweet Glenravel
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to the beauties of his childhood home in Glenravel. He admits childhood cannot linger; now "I cross the deep blue ocean to toil with busy men." He hopes to be able to return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration homesickness
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H727, pp. 193-194, "Farewell to Sweet Glenravel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13551
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH727
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NAME: Farewell to Tarwathie
DESCRIPTION: Sailor bids farewell to Tarwathie, his girl and his friends as he sets off for the Greenland whaling grounds. He describes the harsh conditions in Greenland, saying they'll not tarry there, but head for home as soon as possible
AUTHOR: George Scroggie ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love farewell separation whaler
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, TARWATHI*
Roud #2562
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Farewell to Tarwathie" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd9)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Green Bushes" (tune)
cf. "The Grand Hotel" (tune)
File: DTtarwat
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NAME: Farewell to the Banks of the Roe
DESCRIPTION: The singer, dying, recalls the "land where the shamrock grows green" and "Mary with snowy white bosom." He lists all the things he enjoyed in Ireland which he cannot do in his new home. He bids farewell to all these lost joys
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: homesickness death emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H791, p. 218, "Farewell to the Banks of the Roe" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" (theme) and references there
File: HHH791
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NAME: Farewell to Whisky (Johnny My Man)
DESCRIPTION: The wife goes to the ale-house her husband so often frequents. She reminds him of his poor home and the children starving and lonely. He comes out of his stupor, recognizes his wife, and declares he will never return to the ale-house
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: drink hardtimes virtue family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 327-328, "Johnnie, My Man" (1 text)
Kennedy 272, "Farewell to Whisky" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H807, p. 514, "Johnny M' Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 367-368, "Oh Johnnie, My Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FARWHIS JONMYMAN FRWLWHSK
Roud #845
RECORDINGS:
Jessie Murray, "Farewell to Whisky" (on FSB3, but credited to Lucy Stewart in Kennedy)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:064, "Johnie My Man," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C; also Murray, Mu23-y4:030, "Johnnie My Man," unknown, 19C
File: K272
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NAME: Farewell, Ballycastle
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids farewell to Ballycastle; "From friends... I go to the land of a stranger." He promises to think of Ireland in his exile, and admits, "How often I'll sigh for the dear ones behind me, To whom, with my loves one, I now bid farewell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation farewell
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H210, p. 188, "Farewell, Ballycastle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13544
File: HHH210
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NAME: Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14]
DESCRIPTION: The sailor bids his sweetheart farewell. She does not wish to part, and offers to go with him. He tells her that she simply is not strong enough for life at sea. They part sadly. Some texts warn girls against trusting sailors
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1855 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: sailor parting
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE) Britain(England(South,North)) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws K14, "Farewell, Charming Nancy"
Sharp-100E 30, "Farewell, Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H755, p. 297, "Johnnie and Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 22, "Farewell, Dearest Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 98-99, "Adieu Lovely Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 101, "Charming Nancy" (2 texts plus mention of 2 more)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 373-373, "Lovely Nancy" (1 short text; tune on p. 456)
Chappell-FSRA 38, "Charming Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 51, "Farewell Nancy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 40, "Lovely Molly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 44, "Jimmy and Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 404, FRWLNANC*
Roud #527
RECORDINGS:
Nora Cleary, "Farewell, Lovely Mary" (on Voice12)
A. L. Lloyd, "Farewell, Nancy" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd3)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1704), "The Sailor's Farewell" ("Fare you well dearest Nancy, since now I must leave you"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Pleasant and Delightful" (plot, lyrics)
cf. "Farewell to Old Bedford" (meter)
cf. "Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear"
cf. "Adieu to Bon County" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Farewell, Lovely Nancy
The Sailor and His True Love
NOTES: This should not be confused with "Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy", which does not include most of the elements of this song. - PJS
The editors of Sam Henry do not list their version,"Johnnie and Molly," here. This is understandable, as the text lacks the characteristic first line, "Farewell, lovely Nancy, for now I must leave you." But the plots of the two songs are the same, they scan the same way, and they have many lyrics in common. Same song, sez I. - RBW
The Bodleian broadside and one of the Karpeles-Newfoundland texts lacks the ending warning to girls against trusting sailors.
Creighton-SNewBrunswick, as much as there is of it, fits the pattern and some of the lines. Roud puts the fragment here but the note in Henry p. 304 notes that Creighton-SNewBrunswick 44 is "a fragment that may be a very different version." It seems close enough for me. - BS
Entirely agreed; it lacks the first two lines "Farewell, Lovely Nancy" -- but informant Angelo Dornan remembered only half of the first stanza; one suspects they were part of the version he learned. And the rest is the same. - RBW
File: LK14
===
NAME: Farewell, Darling: see O'Reilly from the County Leitrim (File: HHH580)
===
NAME: Farewell, Dear Rosanna [Laws M30]
DESCRIPTION: Rosanna's parents send her lover away and cause her to marry a squire. Her lover is lost at sea with all his shipmates save one, who tells Rosanna the sad news. She kills herself with a silver dagger.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: death suicide love
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws M30, "Farewell, Dear Rosanna"
SharpAp 172, "Farewell Dear Rosanna" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Combs/Wilgus 96, pp. 168-169, "Rosanna" (1 text)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 120-122, "[Farewell, Dear Roseannie]" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2063, "O where's my Rosinda? shall I never more"
DT 586, FRWLROSN
Roud #788
File: LM30
===
NAME: Farewell, Dear Roseannie: see Farewell, Dear Rosanna [Laws M30] (File: LM30)
===
NAME: Farewell, Dearest Nancy: see Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14] (File: LK14)
===
NAME: Farewell, Lovely Nancy: see Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14] (File: LK14)
===
NAME: Farewell, Mother
DESCRIPTION: The soldier intends to survive: "Just before the battle, mother... when I saw the rebels marching, To the rear I quickly flew." "Farewell, mother! for you'll never See my name among the slain. For if I only can skedaddle... I'll come home again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: Civilwar parody humorous battle mother cowardice
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-CivWar, p. 14, "Farewell, Mother" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, JSTBATT2*
Roud #4263
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Just Before the Battle, Mother" (tune)
File: SCW14
===
NAME: Farewell, Nancy: see Farewell, Charming Nancy [Laws K14] (File: LK14)
===
NAME: Farewell, Sweet Mary
DESCRIPTION: The singer points out to Mary that her parents disapprove of him and that he is "ruined forever / By the loving of you." He enters the army; when he returns, his love is lost. He drowns his sorrows in drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: courting drink separation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Belden, p. 487, "Poor Stranger a Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text, a short item which seems to combine "The Poor Stranger," "Farewell, Sweet Mary," and perhaps some floating items)
Eddy 82, "Farewell, Sweet Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 146, "Farewell, Sweet Mary" (1 text)
DT, (YONDRMTN* -- a version which is mostly "Pretty Saro" but has points of contact with this also)
Roud #414
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh Lily, Dear Lily" (floating lyrics)
cf. "In Eighteen-Forty-Nine" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Wagoner's Lad" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear"
cf. "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (floating lyrics)
File: E082
===
NAME: Farewell, Sweetheart (The Parting Lovers, The Slighted Sweetheart)
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, sweetheart, so fare you well, You've slighted me, but I wish you well... I wouldn't serve you as you've serve well." The singer claims "You are my love till I am dead," and says "I still love you, God knows I do." He prepares to die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal nonballad death separation burial floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Randolph 756, "Farewell, Sweetheart" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 75-76, "The Parting Lovers" (1 text)
BrownII 167, "My Little Dear, So Fare You Well" (3 texts plus mention of 2 more)
BrownIII 261, "The Slighted Sweetheart" (1 text)
ST R756 (Partial)
Roud #7398 and 11422
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (lyrics)
NOTES: The Brown versions of this instantly made me think of "The Butcher Boy." They aren't really the same song; none of the Brown versions mention suicide or pregnancy. But several of the texts have picked up lyrics from that ballad -- or, perhaps, were adapted from it in an attempt to clean up the song. The whole thing is quite commonplace, even cliched.
I'm not sure why the editors of Brown split the "Slighted Sweetheart" text from the others; they have the same plot and the same first lines. Perhaps just a failure to notice their identity? - RBW
File: R756
===
NAME: Farewell, The: see It Was A' For Our Rightful' King (File: SMM5IWAF)
===
NAME: Farewell. Lovely Polly: see The Sheffield Apprentice [Laws O39] (File: LO39)
===
NAME: Farfar Soldier, The: see The Forfar Soldier (File: FVS163)
===
NAME: Farm Life Song: see Kemo Kimo (File: R282)
===
NAME: Farm Servant, The (Rap-Tap-Tap)
DESCRIPTION: The farm servant, is told to mind the business "as servants always do." He minds the business of his master's wife, who says he manages his equipment far better than the master. The master rewards the servant for minding the business so well
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Gardiner manuscript)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The singer, a farm servant, is told by his master to mind the business "as servants always do." He does, including the business of his master's wife, who says the servant manages his equipment far better than the master. When the master returns, he rewards the servant for minding the business so well; the servant remarks that had the master known what he was up to, he would not have been rewarded
KEYWORDS: farming wife adultery marriage infidelity sex bawdy humorous servant
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 211, "Rap-tap-tap" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, RAPTPTAP*
Roud #792
RECORDINGS:
Bob Hart, "The Farmer's Servant" (on Voice05)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Farm Servant" (on Lloyd1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Chandler's Wife" (theme)
cf. "The Coachman's Whip" (theme)
cf. "The Jolly Barber Lad" (theme)
NOTES: Lloyd notes that this song had not shown up in print as of the date of recording. - PJS
This was more a matter of suppression than rarity, however; Kennedy noted versions found in the Gardiner MS from 1905 and the Hammond MS in 1906. - RBW
File: DTraptap
===
NAME: Farmer and His Bride, The: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: Farmer and the Devil, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
===
NAME: Farmer and the Shanty Boy, The
DESCRIPTION: Two girls compare their fiancees. The farmer's sweetheart praises her love because he is always at home. The other girl points out that the shanty boy always comes home with his pay, while bad crops can ruin a farmer. The farmer's girl concedes the point
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love work dialog logger farming lumbering
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,So) Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Rickaby 10, "The Shanty-boy and the Farmer's Son" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 106, "The Mossback" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Dean, pp. 51-52, "Shanty Boy" (1 texxt)
Warner 33, "Shanty Boy, Farmer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 443-445, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H676, p. 45, "Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-Lumbering #52, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 20-23, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 446-447, "The Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 53, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck 42, "Trenton Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SHANTYBO*
Roud #670
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Shanty boy" (AFS 4202 B2, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Peter Amberley" [Laws C27] (tune)
cf. "The Husbandman and the Servingman" (plot)
cf. "Soldier Boy for Me (A Railroader for Me)" (theme)
cf. "The Plooman Laddie" (theme)
cf. "The Farmer" (theme)
cf. "I Love My Sailor Boy" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Shanty Boy Wins
The Mossback
File: Wa033
===
NAME: Farmer Comes to Town, The: see The Farmer Is the Man (File: San282)
===
NAME: Farmer In His Den, The: see The Farmer in the Dell (File: DTfrmrde)
===
NAME: Farmer in the Dell, The
DESCRIPTION: "The farmer in the dell (x2), Hi ho the merry-o, the farmer in the dell." "The farmer takes a wife...." And so forth through a variety of creatures and things, typically ending with "The cheese stands alone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Newell)
KEYWORDS: animal family nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Linscott, pp. 7-9, "The Farmer in the Dell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 83, "(The Farmer in his den)" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 224, "The Farmer in the Dell"
DT, FRMRDELL*
Roud #6306
RECORDINGS:
Tony Wales, "Four Children's Singing Games (The Farmer in his Den)" (on TWales1)
SAME_TUNE:
The Pumpkin on the Vine (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 153)
File: DTfrmrde
===
NAME: Farmer Is the Man, The
DESCRIPTION: A description of the life of the farmer, "the man who feeds them all." He comes to town "with his wagon broken down" and "lives on credit till the fall." At last he comes to town with his crop -- and loses the profit to the bank
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Fiddlin' John Carson)
KEYWORDS: farming work poverty commerce money
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Randolph 492, "The Farmer, He Must Feed Them All" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 282-283, "The Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 267-269, "The Farmer is the Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 66, "The Farmer is the Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 879-880, "The Farmer Comes to Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 120-121, "The Farmer Is the Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 360-361, "The Farmer Is the Man" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 57, "The Farmer Is The Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p. 213, "The Farmer Is the Man" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 118, "The Farmer Is The Man" (1 text)
DT, FARMERIS*
Roud #5062
RECORDINGS:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "The Farmer Is The Man That Feeds Them" (Okeh 40071, 1924; rec. 1923)
Frank Wheeler & Monroe Lamb, "The Farmer Feeds Them All" (Victor 23537, 1931; Montgomery Ward M-4334, 1933)
Pete Seeger, "The Farmer is the Man" (on PeteSeeger13) (on PeteSeeger23)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Down on the Farm (III)" (theme)
cf. "The Humble Farmer" (theme)
cf. "The Laddie That Handles the Ploo" (theme)
cf. "The Praise of Ploughmen" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (Montgomery Ward M-4848, 1935)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (on NLCR09)
NOTES: Although there is no firm authorship information, this song is thought to date from the populist movement of the 1890s. - (PJS)
Sounds logical to me. Greenway, however, dates it to the period after the Civil War. - RBW
"Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" is a variant form of "Farmer is the Man"; the message and words are close enough that I have lumped them as one song. - PJS
File: San282
===
NAME: Farmer Michael Hayes: see The General Fox Chase (File: Zimm068A)
===
NAME: Farmer, He Must Feed Them All, The: see The Farmer Is the Man (File: San282)
===
NAME: Farmer, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer overhears a girl singing the praise of her farmer boy. A farmer needs no clock to awake him. He brings home money to his wife. Kings have cares, but farmers are free. Nobles are dependent on farmers, who are always generous to strangers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H676, pp. 41-42, "The Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13356
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (theme)
File: HHH676
===
NAME: Farmer's Boy, The: see The Butcher Boy [Laws P24] (File: LP24)
===
NAME: Farmer's Boy, The [Laws Q30]
DESCRIPTION: A lost boy comes seeking a home, or at least shelter for a night, saying that he can perform all farm tasks. The farmer's wife and daughter convince the farmer to take him in. He serves so well that he marries the farmer's daughter and becomes his heir
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1845 (Journal from the Elizabeth); a possibly-related broadside is said to date from before 1689
KEYWORDS: farming work marriage
FOUND_IN: US(MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Ont) Britain(Scotland,England(North,South))
REFERENCES: (13 citations)
Laws Q30, "The Farmer's Boy"
Belden, pp. 272-273, "A Farmer's Boy" (1 text)
Randolph 118, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 111-113, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 118)
BrownIII 88, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
Warner 37, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 118-119, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text)
Kennedy 247, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 28, pp. 69-71, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text)
Creighton/Senior, p. 158, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 216-218, "A Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Farmer's Boy" (source notes only)
DT 538, FARMRBOY FARMRBO2
Roud #408
RECORDINGS:
O. J. Abbott, "The Farmer's Boy" (on Abbott1)
Warde Ford, "The Farmer's Boy" (AFS 4215 A2, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Tony Wales, "To Be a Farmer's Boy" (on TWales1)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:045, "The Farmer's Boy," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Boy" [Laws Q29] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
cf. "The Hobo from the T & P Line" (plot)
cf. "Peter Amberley" [Laws C27] (tune)
File: LQ30
===
NAME: Farmer's Curst Wife, The [Child 278]
DESCRIPTION: The Devil comes to claim a farmer's wife. She causes great trouble in Hell, attacking the imps with all the vigor she had once used on her family. For safety's sake, the Devil is forced to return her to her family (not necessarily to their joy)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: family Devil humorous Hell wife feminist
FOUND_IN: US(All) Britain(England(South,North),Scotland(Aber,Bord)) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (49 citations)
Child 278, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #41}
Bronson 278, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (71 versions+2 in addenda)
SharpAp 40, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (6 texts plus 1 fragment, 7 tunes) {Bronson's #31, #54, #53, #35, #56, #66, #50}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 326-333, "The Farmer's Cursed Wife" (4 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune) {Bronson's #61}
Belden, pp. 94-97, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts)
Randolph 36, "The Old Man under the Hill" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #63}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 63-66, "The Old Man Under the Hill" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 36A) {Bronson's #63}
Flanders/Brown, pp. 226-228, "The Scolding Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #13}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 49-51, "Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #60}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 99-135, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (15 texts plus 5 fragments, 13 tunes) {L=Bronson's #60, M=#13}
Linscott, pp. 188-191, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 46, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (13 texts, 7 tunes; 2 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #37, #54, #11, #46, #24, #36, #25}
Davis-More 40, pp. 316-327, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (7 texts plus a fragment, 5 tunes) {BB=Bronson's #33; EE=#10}
BrownII 45, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
Chappell-FSRA 20, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 fragment)
Hudson 24, pp. 124-125, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts)
Shellans, pp. 18-19, "The Evil Woman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 24, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #65}
Gardner/Chickering 154, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (4 texts plus a fragment, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #27, #23}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 95-99, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (5 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #4, #38}
Creighton-NovaScotia 9, "Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Peacock, pp. 265-268, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Mackenzie 15, "The Devil's Song" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 660-662, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 452, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 172-173, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 75, "The Farmer and the Devil" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 89, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
FSCatskills 137, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Niles 60, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 27, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #54}
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 34-35, "The Devil and the Ploughman" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
OLochlainn 54, "The Women Are Worse Than the Men" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #7}
Hayward-Ulster, pp. 33-35, "The Ould Man of Killyburn Brae" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 152-154, "The Farmer's Curst Wife (The Devil and the Farmer)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 92, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 131-132, "[Little Devils]" (1 text, 1 tune) {cf. Bronson's #52}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 25, "The Little Devils" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #52}
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 26 "Old Lady and the Devil" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 39, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
Beck 43, "The Curst Wife" (1 text)
JHCox 164, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 58, "The Devil And The Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 99-101, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 81-83, "The Farmer's Curst Wife"; "Randy Riley" (2 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 22, "The Devil and The Farmer's Wife" (1 text)
BBI, ZN960, "Give eare, my loving countrey-men"
DT 278, DEVLWIFE  DEVLWIF2* DEVLWIF3* DEVLWIF4*
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 274-275, "Killyburn Brae" (1 text)
Roud #160
RECORDINGS:
James "Iron Head" Baker, "The Rich Old Lady" (AFS 201 B1, 204 A1, 206 A1, all 1934);  "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (AFS 617 A4, 1936)
Horton Barker, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (on Barker01) {Bronson's #33}
Bill Cox, "Battle Axe and the Devil" (Vocalion 04811, 1939)
George Davis, "Buggerman in the Bushes" (on GeorgeDavis01)
Texas Gladden, "The Devil and the Farmer" (Disc 6082, 1940s)
Carrie Grover, "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (AFS, 1941; on LC58) {Bronson's #67}
Thomas Moran, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2)
Maggie Murphy, "Killyburn Brae" (on IRHardySons)
Lawrence Older,  "Randy Riley" (on LOlder01)
Bill & Belle Reed, "Old Lady and the Devil" (Columbia 15336-D, 1928; on AAFM1) {Bronson's #32}
Jean Ritchie, "Little Devils" (on JRitchie02) {cf. Bronson's #52}
Pete Seeger, "The Farmer's Curst Wife" (on PeteSeeger16) (on PeteSeeger24); "Old Woman and the Devil" (on AschRec2)
Pete Steele, "Lack Fol Diddle I Day" [fragmentary version] (AFS, 1938; on KMM)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1855), "The Sussex Farmer", J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Devil Came to My Door" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Old Woman and the Devil
The Farmer and the Devil
The Carle o' Killyburn Braes [Burns]
The Battle Axe and the Devil
The Farmer's Wife
NOTES: Linscott lists this as being sung to "Liliburlero," but Bronson (who knew though he did not print Linscott's version; it's his "g") says it is "not so close to our pattern here." - RBW
Compare, for example, Bill & Belle Reed, "Old Lady and the Devil" verse 1 ("There was an old man lived the foot of the hill If he ain't moved away he's a-living there still") with Opie-Oxford2 541, "There was an old woman" ("There was an old woman Lived Under a hill, And if she's not gone She lives there still"). [Also in Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #4, p. 28. - RBW]  Neither of Child's versions use this verse (earliest date in Opie-Oxford2 is 1714). - BS
File: C278
===
NAME: Farmer's Daughter (I), The: see Treat My Daughter Kindly (The Little Farm) (File: R668)
===
NAME: Farmer's Daughter (II), The: see Bonnie Jean O' Aberdeen, She Lang'd for a Baby (File: OOx2183)
===
NAME: Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy, The: see The Farmer and the Shanty Boy (File: Wa033)
===
NAME: Farmer's Three Sons, The: see In Good Old Colony Times (File: R112)
===
NAME: Farmers, The: see Three Jolly Huntsmen (File: R077)
===
NAME: Farmington Canal Song, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh! Captain Dick's a gay old bird, Yes he is, upon my word! But that ain't no excuse For his whiskers to be filled with terbacker juice!" The crew of the ship and their voyage are described
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: canal ship moniker
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Linscott, pp. 195-196, "The Farmington Canal Song" (1 text, 1 tune fitted by Linscott)
DT, FRMCANAL*
Roud #3730
NOTES: In the aftermath of the great success of the Erie Canal, a large number of canals were opened in the American Northeast. Few succeeded. The Farmington Canal connected New Haven, Connecticut with Northampton, Massachusetts, and was one of these short-lived connections. - RBW
File: Lins195
===
NAME: Farmyard: see I Had a Little Rooster (Farmyard Song) (File: R352)
===
NAME: Farmyard Song, The: see Old MacDonald Had a Farm (File: R457)
===
NAME: Farther Along
DESCRIPTION: "Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder Why it should be thus all the day long." "Farther along we'll know all about it; Farther along we'll understand why." The singer wonders about the troubles of life, but is sure it will make sense in the end
AUTHOR: credited to W. B. Stephens & J. R. Baxter
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (recording, Stamps Quartet)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 289, "Farther Along" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 356, "Farther Along" (1 text)
DT, FARALONG
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys, "Farther Along" (OKeh 05766/Conqueror 9433, 1940; Conqueror 9667, 1941; Columbia 20480, c. 1948)
Harmonizing Four, "Farther Along" (Vee Jay 845, rec. 1957)
Rev. R. A. Harris, "Farther Along" (AFS 5438 B3, 5441 B 3, 1941)
Johnson Family Singers, "Farther Along" (Columbia 20867, 1951)
Wade Mainer, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-8023 [as Mainer's Mountaineers]/Montgomery Ward M-7560, 1938)
Charlie Monroe's Boys, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-7922/Montgomery Ward M-7574, 1938)
Pineridge Boys, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-8263/Montgomery Ward M-8473, 1939)
Pete Seeger, "Farther Along" (on PeteSeeger32)
Stamps Quartet, "Farther Along" (Okeh 04236/Vocalion 04236, 1938; Columbia 20337, c. 1948; Columbia 37760, 1947)
J. B. Whitmire's Blue Sky Trio, "Farther Along" (Bluebird B-8512/Montgomery Ward M-8508, 1940)
File: FSWB356B
===
NAME: Farval, Farval, Fortjusande Mo (Farewell, Farewell Fascinating Maid)
DESCRIPTION: Scandinavian shanty. Sailor saying farewell to his sweetheart. Several sentimental verses about pressing her hand, tender whispers and kisses, etc. Translation of chorus: "Farewell, farewell, fascinating maid, we shall soon return again."
AUTHOR: Ossian Limborg (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty foc's'le farewell sailor
FOUND_IN: Scandinavia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 495-497, "Farval, Farval, Fortjusande Mo" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
En Sjoman Alskar Havets Vag
Aland Song
NOTES: A note from _Sang under Segel_ says this was written down aboard the barque _Chili_â from Gavle in 1888 by Harold Sundholm, and according to a correspondent in _Svenska Dagbladent_ (5/20/1934) it was written by a captain named Ossian Limborg around 1870. Hugill's source told him it was a very popular song in Finnish ships, but was a forebitter, not sung for work. - SL
This is a rather curious statement, since Finnish is not a Scandinavian or even an Indo-European language. Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are separate languages in name only; they remain largely mutually intelligible and would almost certainly be called dialects if they weren't the languages of different countries. But Finnish is a separte thing. This song could come from Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish -- perhaps even Icelandic. But it's demonstrably not Finnish. - RBW
File: Hugi495
===
NAME: Fatal Acquantance, The: see Pearl Bryan (III) [Laws F3] AND Pearl Bryan (IV) (File: LF03)
===
NAME: Fatal Flower Garden: see Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter [Child 155] (File: C155)
===
NAME: Fatal Oak, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Tis a mournful story I relate, Of three young men who met their fate." The logging team takes their raft downriver and stops for the night. The captain says the site is bad. Come morning, an oak crashes and kills the three loggers.
AUTHOR: Mrs. Abbie Payne?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: logger death river
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 29, "The Fatal Oak" (1 text)
Roud #9060
NOTES: Rickaby's source stated that this song was "written by Mrs. Abbie Payne," but I suspect Payne merely wrote it out. Surely an actual author would have produced a more coherent place -- as the song stands it reads as though the Captain deliberately condemned his men to death by not mocing the campsite.
The accident is said to have taken place on the Kickapoo river in the early 1870s.
This is item dC39 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Rick116
===
NAME: Fatal Rose of Red
DESCRIPTION: A girl bids her uncle to wear a red rose. He will not; a red rose once shattered his life. He had a fight with his sweetheart. He bid her to wear a white rose if she forgave him; otherwise a red. A rival switched notes; he learned the truth years later
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Leo Boswell)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: A girl bids her aged uncle to wear a red rose. He will not; a red rose once shattered his life. He had a fight with his sweetheart, and bid her to wear a white rose if she forgave him; otherwise a red. But a rival switched the note, and she wore a red rose. He saw it, and fled. It was not until years later that he learned the truth, after he came home and she was dead.
KEYWORDS: love courting separation trick rejection
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 808, "The Fatal Rose of Red" (1 text)
Spaeth-WeepMore, p. 141, "The Fatal Rose of Red" (1 text)
Roud #7425 and 13940
RECORDINGS:
Leo Boswell, "The Fatal Rose of Red" (Columbia 15290-D, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Tragic Romance" (theme)
cf. "After the Ball" (theme)
File: R808
===
NAME: Fatal Run, The
DESCRIPTION: "Frankie's mother came to him, with his dinner under her arm." She warns her boy of all the crews killed making up for lost time. The lad says he has to take his dead father's place as an engineer. He dies on Dead Man's Curve, and the mother mourns again
AUTHOR: Cliff Carlisle
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Cliff Carlisle)
KEYWORDS: train death mother warning
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 181-182, "The Fatal Run" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #14012
RECORDINGS:
Cliff Carlisle, "The Fatal Run" (Champion 45162=Decca 5398, 1931)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3] (lyrics)
NOTES: Another composed song with no evidence that it has gone into tradition. Cohen notes that some lines (notably "There's many a poor man has lost his life, making up for lost time, If you will run your engine right, you'll never be behind time") are directly derived from "The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3]. - RBW
File: LSRai181
===
NAME: Fatal Snowstorm, The [Laws P20]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, out in a severe snowstorm, sees a woman with a baby. She laments the cruelty of her parents and of the child's father, who left her for money. She warns against such deceivers, kisses the frozen child's lips, and dies herself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1813 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(342a))
KEYWORDS: storm family baby death
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws P20, "The Fatal Snowstorm"
MacSeegTrav 71, "The Fatal Snowstorm" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 154, "The Forsaken Mother and Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 16, "A Wint'ry Evening" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 447-448, "The Forsaken Mother and Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 62, "The Fatal Snowstorm" (1 text)
DT, FATALSNW*
Roud #175
RECORDINGS:
 Mrs Jack [Vera] Keating, "The Wintry Winds" (on Ontario1)
Tom Lenihan, "A Wint'ry Evening" (on IRTLenihan01)
Paddy Tunney, "The Month of January" (on Voice06)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(342a), "Winter's Evening" or "The Deploring Damsel" ("'Twas one winter's evening when fast came down the snow"), J. Evans (London), 1780-1812; also Harding B 25(2088), "The Winter's Evening" or "Deploring Damsel"; Harding B 11(1824), "It Was One Winter's Evening"; or "Deploring Damsel"; Harding B 15(388a), Harding B 25(2087), Harding B 11(3152), Harding B 28(102), "Winter's Evening"; 2806 c.17(315) , 2806 c.17(316), "Oh Cruel" or "Winter's Evening"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary of the Wild Moor" [Laws P21] (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
It Was On a Cold and Winter's Night
File: LP20
===
NAME: Fatal Wedding Morn, The
DESCRIPTION: The girl receives a letter from her fiancee, saying he will be back the next day (after a year's absence) to be married. All is made ready, but he never comes; instead, a message announces he is dead. The bride dies of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love death separation grief marriage
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 767, "The Fatal Wedding Morn" (1 text)
Roud #7410
NOTES: Obviously not to be confused with the better-known "The Fatal Wedding." - RBW
File: R767
===
NAME: Fatal Wedding, The
DESCRIPTION: A woman comes to the church doors as a wedding begins. She is refused admittance, but at last she is granted entrance to save her freezing child. She objects to the wedding; her baby's father is the bridegroom. The baby dies; the father kills himself
AUTHOR: Words: William Windom / Music: Gussie L. Davis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1893 (copyright notice)
KEYWORDS: wedding infidelity baby abandonment suicide death
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Randolph 766, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 141-143, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text plus 1 excerpt and a reference to 1 more, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 110-112, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 272, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text)
Hudson 69, pp. 195-197, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text)
Brewster 81, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text plus mention of 3 more)
LPound-ABS, 63, pp. 140-142, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 153-155, "The Fatal Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fatal Wedding" (source notes only)
DT, FATALWED
Roud #3273
RECORDINGS:
Vernon Dalhart, "The Fatal Wedding" (Columbia 15051-D, 1926; rec. 1925)
Bradley Kincaid, "The Fatal Wedding" (Gennett 6363/Supertone 9211, 1928) (Regal Zonophone [Australia] G22215, n.d.) (Vocalion 02684, 1934)
Charlie Oaks, "The Fatal Wedding" (Vocalion 15144, 1925; Vocalion 5076, c. 1927)
Steely+Graham Redhead Fiddlers, "The Fatal Wedding" (Brunswick 460, 1930; rec. 1929)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "The Fatal Wedding" (Edison 52026, 1927)  (CYL: Edison [BA] 5355, 1927) (Cameo 8220/Romeo 600/Lincoln 2825, 1927) (Pathe 32278/Perfect 12357/Challenge 666/Banner2158/Domino 3984/Oriole 946 [as Sim Harris]/Regal 8347, 1927; Homestead 16498 [as Sim Harris], c. 1929) (Okeh 45084, 1927)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out" (theme)
cf. "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (tune)
File: R766
===
NAME: Fate of Harry Young, The
DESCRIPTION: Harry Young murders the city marshal of Randolph, Missouri and escapes. Cornered, he kills six policemen and flees to Texas. Taken at last, he is returned to Springfield, Missouri for trial
AUTHOR: Eugene Hilton
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Springfield Leader and Press)
KEYWORDS: police homicide escape prison trial
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 2, 1932 - Harry and Jennings Young kill six policemen who are on Harry's trail
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 172, "The Fate of Harry Young" (1 fragment)
Roud #5488
NOTES: The final days of Harry Young were eventful. Having killed the six policemen in a shootout at the family farmhouse, Harry and his brother Jennings fled to Texas (the home state of Harry's new bride). Captured in Houston, the brothers killed themselves (apparently on the advice of their mother, who was herself in prison in Missouri). - RBW
File: R172
===
NAME: Fate of John Burgoyne, The
DESCRIPTION: "When Jack, the King's commander bold, Was going to his duty, He smiled and bowed... At every blooming beauty." He led his forces from Canada toward Ticonderoga and western New York, but was cut off and forced to surrender
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: war rebellion battle humorous
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 17, 1777 - Surrender of John Burgoyne at Saratoga
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 75-76, "The Fate of John Burgoyne" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: In the British parliament in the early 1770s, there was much debate over how to handle the recalcitrant American colonies. Liberals generally favored concessions, conservatives the lash. (Somehow, the idea of electing Americans to parliament didn't seem to appeal to anyone.)
There wasn't much doubt about how John Burgoyne (1722-1792) felt. "Gentleman Johnny," as MP for Preston (Lancashire) in 1774, declared that America was "our spoilt child, which we have already spoiled by too much indulgence"; he declared all conciliation "a waste of time" (see Weintraub, p. 6. For references, see the Bibliography at the end of this note).
After the American colonies rose in rebellion, Burgoyne would have his chance to see how his ideas worked. On the whole, the first two years of the war went the British way -- at least in the sense that they won such set piece batters as were fought -- but they couldn't seem to finish off George Washington's army. And Washington's victory at Trenton, though trivial in the grand scheme of things, encouraged rebel spirits; it seemed unlikely they would given in.
Burgoyne had had a frustrating two years as a subordinate, but returned to England in late 1776 to deal with affairs following his wife's death (see Ketchum, pp. 65-66). While there, he argued for an independent command -- and came up with a plan that would justify it. The complex campaign he dreamed up for 1777 involved three converging columns. Howe, the British Commander in Chief, would lead an army north from New York. Barry St. Leger would strike from Lake Ontario into western New York with a force of about 2000 regulars supported by Indians (Marrin, p. 134; Ferguson, p. 183, claims St. Leger would lead 9000 men, according to Ferguson, p. 183, but that is a ridiculously large force for a colonel and there is no way the British could have supplied them). And Burgoyne would head south from Montreal through the Champlain and Ticonderoga. The three would rendezvous near Albany. Had it worked, it would have divided the colonies into two parts, unable to reach and reinforce each other, which could be defeated in detail (cf. Weintraub, p. 75).
Burgoyne felt great confidence in his own ability; he registered a fifty guinea bet with opposition M.P. Charles Fox that he would win an overwhelming victory by the end of 1777 (Weintraub, p. 86). The mere fact that he made such a bet probably proves that he should not have been given his command, but the British upper class didn't think that way.
The planning for the Grand Operation was not of the best. Burgoyne's preparations consisted mostly of gathering commissions to sell (Weintraub, p. 51). When the forces assembled for the push, too much space was probably devoted to cavalry and too little to supplies (and supply officers -- the British, since they still used commission by purchase, had little use for this vital but unglamorous job).
That lack, plus the inevitable defects in coordination, led to complete failure. Howe -- who had a history of passive behavior, e.g. he had refused to pursue Washington's army after routing it in New York (Weintraub, pp. 73-73) -- eventually headed off to Philadelphia (the closest thing the colonies had to a capital city -- but, as events proved, inessential to their fighting ability); Weintraub attributes this in part to lack of detailed instructions from England (p. 104). In any case, he did nothing to support the other two columns. Howe was hoping for a decisive battle against Washington (Weintraub, p. 108). Washington refused to be lured; after suffering a tactical defeat at Brandywine (Ferguson, p. 184), he let Howe have his way.
Howe's move involved two-thirds of the garrison of New York (i.e. about 14,000 men) -- and he took them by sea (Weintraub, p. 107), removing them entirely from the game for six weeks (Weintraub, pp. 113-114) and leaving them in a poor position when they finally did get back on land. That left only about 7000 troops in New York under General Henry Clinton, who judged the force too small to undertake major operations (in this he was probably right). Clinton eventually set off to help Burgoyne -- but started too late and in too small a force, and in the end turned back (Marrin, p. 140). The fiasco was sufficient that Howe would resign his command soon afterward (Weintraub, p. 124), though he claimed it was due to "lack of support."
St. Leger fought a stinging battle at Oriskany (Ferguson, p. 184. Marrin, p. 136, notes that, in tactical terms, the British had the victory; they killed more Americans and mortally wounded the American commander Nicolas Herkimer). The Indians, though, were reportedly spooked by omens, and then Benedict Arnold managed to further trick them into thinking a major American force was coming (Marrin, p. 137). They refused to go on, and St. Leger could not continue the campaign without his allies.
But it was the isolated Burgoyne who suffered the worst defeat by far. (It didn't help that he had managed to provoke a quarrel with Sir Guy Carleton, the English governor of Canada, who had brilliantly saved Quebec from the Americans but who now found himself bypassed by Burgoyne and criticized by London (Ketchum, p. 86; Lan aster, p. 200, says that Carleton had been "shamelessly passed over").
Initially things went well; he had an easy time moving through the Champlain, and easily forced the rebels out of Ticonderoga by placing artillerty on a crest the Americans had neglected to defend (Lancaster, p. 204); somehow, it seemed as if no one could build a decent fortification at that strategic point.
Then things got complicated. As long has he had been in the Champlain, Burgoyne had been supplied by water. But now Burgoyne's supply train, which was immense (Ketchum, p. 138), had to travel overland, giving the British a very tenuous supply line. American Tories, who had been expected to turn out to support the campaign, mostly sat on their hands (Lancaster, p. 201, says only about a hundred colonials joined the colors, and the handful of Indians were too few to be effective scouts). The Americans occupied themselves building obstacles to slow the British advance, and they were very effective (Lancaster, p. 207).
Burgoyne's troubles mounted quickly. A raid on Bennington, which was intended to bring in supplies, instead resulted in the loss of many of his best German troops (see "Rifleman's Song at Bennington"; also Weintraub, p. 119). He ended up at Saratoga, with limited supplies and his men getting sick. He probably should have retreated at once, but Weintraub, p. 120, considers him "too proud." Americans were arriving on all sides, leaving him effectively surrounded. He finally tried to fight his way through the American army of Horatio Gates. It didn't work. He fought two battles at Freeman's Farm (September 19 and October 7); the British came close to victory at the latter, but Benedict Arnold rallied the Americans and saved the day (Marrin, pp. 138-141). Burgoyne was stuck at Saratoga, and on October 18, 1777, he was forced to surrender. (For background, see e.g. Cook, pp. 275-280). To the end, Burgoyne seemed unwilling to take responsibility. As he handed over his sword, he declared that his defeat was "my fortune, sire, and not my fault" (Weintraub, p. 122).
The British still held Ticonderoga and points north, but the loss of Burgoyne's army left Guy Carleton with too few troops to defend his positions in the north and occupy the Champlain, so Carleton was forced to evacuate the entire area, leaving Britain with no gains at all for its efforts (Ketchum, pp. 438-439).
This was the first great Colonial victory of the war. Some five thousand British troops were taken. As a result, France increased its part in the war. Howe's refusal to support Burgoyne had led to a disaster.
Burgoyne would come out of the matter surprisingly well (Cook, pp. 300-301). The Americans would not parole the soldiers captured at Saratoga (Ketchum, pp. 435-436, notes that they finally were marched all the way to Charlottsville, Virginia; Weintraub, p. 127 says that they surrendered on conditions but the British government in effect refused to recognize an agreement with rebels), but they did parole Burgoyne and send him home. The crown refused to recieve him (Weintraub, p. 149), and the government refused to give him the court-martial he desired -- but Burgoyne was still a Member of Parliament (Weintraub, p. 6, attributes his election to the influence of his late father-in-law, the Earl of Derby), and took his case there, arguing that his orders had been too rigid (debateable) and that the cabinet had not forced Howe to properly support him (undeniable).
A large segment of the press took his part (Weintraub, pp. 152-153). In popular opinion, he was considered to be vindicated, though an honest assessment would surely show that he brought many of his troubles on himself.
The government responded to his parliamentary tactics by ordering him to rejoin his troops in their American prison camps (Weintraub, p. 163). He ignored the order, claiming illness (Weintraub, p. 164), and was rehabilitated when the Whigs gained power; he served for a time in Ireland, and wrote plays nearly to the end of his comfortable life. Still, he had changed history, and not for British advantage: Saratoga changed the whole course of the American revolution, and caused France to come to the aid of the colonies (Ferguson, p. 180). It would be years before this aid would be effective -- but, when it came, it would be decisive.
It will tell you something about the British government of the time that when the news of Saratoga arrived, the Prime Minister, Lord North, tried to resign (not for the last time), but George III would not allow it (Weintraub, p. 129). - RBW
>>BIBLIOGRAPHY<<
Cook: Don Cook, _The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American colonies 1760-1785_, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995
Ferguson: E. James Ferguson, _The American Revolution: A General History 1763-1790_, revised edition, Dorsey Press, 1979
Ketchum: Richard M. Ketchum, _Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War_, Henry Holt, 1997
Lancaster: Bruce Lancaster (with a chapter by J. H. Plumb), _The American Revolution_ (originally published as _The American Heritage Book of the Revolution_, 1971), Houghton Mifflin, 1987
Marrin: Albert Marrin, _The War for Independence: The Story of the American Revolution_, Athenaeum, 1988
Weintraub: Stanley Weintraub, _Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783_, Free Press, 2005 - RBW
File: SBoA075
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NAME: Fate of Old Strawberry Roan, The: see (references under) "The Strawberry Roan" [Laws B18] (File: LB18)
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NAME: Fate of Talmadge Osborne, The
DESCRIPTION: Talmadge Osborn does not get out of the way of a backing train in time, has his hands cut off, and dies. The company is not liable according to the "Johnson Law." Singer warns listeners to walk carefully, lest they be killed by a train
AUTHOR: unknown, but probably Ernest Stoneman
EARLIEST_DATE: Late 1920s (recording, Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Talmadge Osborn, a man who behaves oddly, does not get out of the way of a backing train in time, has his hands cut off, and dies. The company is not liable according to the "Johnson Law." He is taken home; people say "Many a man's been murdered by the railroad/And laid in his cold, lonesome grave." Singer warns listeners to walk carefully, lest they be killed by a train, and that their high-living ways may put them on the county road for six months
KEYWORDS: disability warning train death railroading drink injury hobo floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 371, "There's Many a Man Killed on the Railroad" (1 fragment, 1 tune, with only the "There's man been killed on the railroad" stanza, which could be from this, or "The C. & O.," or others)
Roud #12188
RECORDINGS:
[Ernest Stoneman and] The Dixie Mountaineers, "The Fate of Talmadge Osborne" (Edison 52026, 1927) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5369, 1927); Ernest V. Stoneman, "The Fate of Talmadge Osborne"  (OKeh 45084, 1927)(Victor 20672, 1927) (one of these is on RoughWays1, misspelled "Talmedge")
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wreck on the C & O" [Laws G3] (floating verses)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Death of Talmadge Osborn
NOTES: Stoneman, who knew Osborn(e), remembers that he used to hop freights while drunk, probably the cause of his fatal accident.
The "Many a man killed on the railroad" verse seems to have been spliced into this song as a bridge, having been collected from tradition earlier.
The "Johnson Law" absolved a railroad from liability for accidents occurring on its right-of-way. PJS
File: RcTFOTO
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NAME: Fate of the Cumberland Crew, The: see The Cumberland Crew [Laws A18] (File: LA18)
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NAME: Fate of the Nancy Bell, The
DESCRIPTION: An old sailor recounts the aftermath of a shipwreck. 10 survivors wash up on an island and after a month, proceed to draw lots as to who will be eaten by the rest. At the end the narrator is rescued as he is finishing off the last of the others.
AUTHOR: William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1866 (_Fun_ magazine)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship wreck cannibalism humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Harlow, pp. 194-196, "The Fate of the Nancy Bell" (1 text)
PBB 105, "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell" (1 text)
ST Harl194 (Partial)
NOTES: Harlow's version leaves out the first seven verses of the original. - SL
Grigson claims that this piece was early set to music and gives the impression that it became traditional. That it was set to music is clear; that it was highly popular is also clear (_Granger's Index to Poetry_ lists no fewer than 20 anthologies containing it, which is a higher total than I can recall for any folk piece). But I've seen no evidence, apart from Harlow, that it was actually traditional. - RBW
File: Harl194
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NAME: Fateful Blow, The
DESCRIPTION: Fragment: "My partners they come after me/To go on a night's spree/Ten times I did refuse them/They wouldn't let me be/Ten times I did refuse them/To the sorrow of my heart/This caused a loving husband and darling wife to part"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: marriage violence drink husband wife
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SharpAp 174, "The Fateful Blow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3641
File: ShAp2174
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NAME: Fath Mo Mhulaid a Bhith Ann: see An Iounndrain-Mhara (Sea-Longing) (File: K011)
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NAME: Father Get Ready When He Calls You
DESCRIPTION: "Father get ready when he calls you (x3) To sit on the throne with Jesus. Away up in Heaven (x2), Father get ready... To sit on the throne...." "Mother get ready when he calls you" "This world is a trouble and sorrow" "We'll all be happy in the morning"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 142-144, "[Father Get Ready When He Calls You]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 44-45, "Father Get Ready" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7406
File: JRSF142
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NAME: Father Grumble [Laws Q1]
DESCRIPTION: Grumble says he can do more work in a day than his wife can do in three. She offers to exchange tasks for a day; he agrees. She gives him a long list of household chores and sets out to plow. He fails in most of his tasks and admits his wife's superiority
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1825
KEYWORDS: contest husband wife work humorous feminist
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(Lond)) Ireland US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (25 citations)
Laws Q1, "Father Grumble"
Belden, pp. 225-228, "Father Grumble" (5 texts)
Randolph 74, "Father Grumble" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 124-126, "Father Grumble" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 74A)
Eddy 43, "Father Grumble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 172, "Old Grumble" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 191-193, "The Wife of Auchtermuchty" (1 text)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 104-105, "John Grumlie" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 248-250, "The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownII 180, "Father Grumble" (2 text -- one of them "Darby and Joan" -- plus mention of 2 more)
Hudson 59, pp. 175-176, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 243-244, "Father Grumble" (1 text, with local title "There Was an Old Man"; tune on p. 420)
Brewster 40, "Father Grumble" (3 texts)
SharpAp 188, "The Drummer and His Wife" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Leach, pp747-748, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 443, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 41-43, "The Old Man Who Lived in the Woods" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 10, "Father Grumble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 579-580, "The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H702, pp. 504-505, "The Wealthy Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 36, pp. 82-84, "Father Grumble" (1 text)
JHCox 156, "Father Grumble" (7 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 188, "Little Phoebe"; p. 189, "Old Man In The Wood" (2 texts)
BBI, ZN1410, "In Auchtermuchty lived a man" (?)
DT 343, WIFEWORK WIFEWRK2* WIFEWRK3*
Roud #281
RECORDINGS:
Margaret MacArthur, "Old Mr. Grumble" (on MMacArthur01)
Jean Ritchie, "Father Grumble" (AFS; on LC14)
Pete Seeger, "Equinoxial" (on PeteSeeger12)
SAME_TUNE:
Bublin Bay (NLScotland, L.C.1269(173b), "Bublin Bay" ("They sailed away in a gallant barque"), unknown, 1857 -- listed as to the tune of "John Grumlie" but with so many lyrics from "Dublin Bay (Roy Neal)" that it coud almost be considered the same song still -- plus the long introduction asks for the pianist to play "Dublin Bay")
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
John Grumlie
Equinoxial
Old Daddy Grumble
NOTES: According to the notes in Brown, "St. John Honeywood of Massachusetts [around 1800] dressed [this] up as 'Darby and Joan," and his version has achieved something like traditional currency; at least, a text clearly enough derived from it is one of the items in our North Carolina collection." - RBW
File: LQ01
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NAME: Father in Ambush, The: see Lovely Willie [Laws M35] (File: LM35)
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NAME: Father is Drinking Again
DESCRIPTION: "I've been wandering all day in the cold and the rain To see my poor father again. He's been gone since last night.... She sent me to find him and bring him to her... God... help the poor child Whose father is drinking again"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: drink family children
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 325, "Father is Drinking Again" (1 text)
Roud #7799
File: R325
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NAME: Father McFadden: see Come All You Roman Catholics (File: TSF013)
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NAME: Father Murphy (I)
DESCRIPTION: Father Murphy defeats the Camolin cavalry and the Cork militia. At Tubberneering he turns the army back to Dublin "but our ranks were tattered and sorely scattered." Outnumbered by English, Scots, and Hessians, he would have won with French reinforcement.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion Ireland clergy patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 26, 1798 - Beginning of the Wexford rebellion
May 27, 1798 - The Wexford rebels under Father John Murphy defeat the North Cork militia at Oulart
May 28, 1798 - Murphy's rebels capture Enniscorthy
May 30, 1798 - Battle of Three Rocks, which led the loyalists to abandon Wexford to the rebels
June 4, 1798 - after a dangerous wait, the United army occupies Gorey
June 5, 1798 - The Wexford rebels attack the small garrison (about 1400 men, many militia) at New Ross, but are repelled
June 21, 1798 - The rebel stronghold a Vinegar Hill is taken, and the Wexford rebellion effectively ended
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn 27, "Father Murphy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 64, "Father Murphy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 66-67, "Father Murphy (2)" (1 text)
ST OLoc027 (Partial)
Roud #3020
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Boulavogue" (subject: The Wexford Rebellion and related topics)
cf. "Sweet County Wexford" (subject: The Wexford Rebellion and related topics)
cf. "Come All You Warriors" (subject of Father Murphy and the Wexford rebellion)
cf. "Some Treat of David" (subject of Father Murphy and the Wexford rebellion)
cf. "Father Murphy (II) (The Wexford Men of '98)"
cf. "Come All You Warriors" (subject of Father Murphy and the Wexford Rebellion)
cf. "The Battle of Kilcumney" (subject of Father Murphy after Vinegar Hill)
NOTES: This song is thought to be the original upon which P.J. McCall based his 'Boolavogue'. While the latter piece was written one hundred years after the event, this song was in circulation within a couple of years of 1798." On the other hand, see the notes to "Sweet County Wexford." The ballad is recorded on two of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Jerry O'Reilly, "Father Murphy" (on "The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes) 
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Father Murphy" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998))
Harte's notes that: Father Murphy was among the Catholic clergy allied with the United Irishmen; "the Catholic church was fiercly opposed to the United Irishmen"; "the 1798 rebellion had its roots with the Presbyterians in the North, and it was they who put forward the basic objectives of 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Catholic Emancipation'; even in Wexford itself, many of those who were initially involved with the united Irishmen and took part in the planning of the rebellion were Protestants."
For a different ballad on the same subject see broadside
Bodleian, Harding B 19(101), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford Men of '98" ("You Roman catholics throughout this nation"), W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867; also 2806 c.8(51), 2806 b.10(11), Harding B 26(188), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford Men of '98" - BS
This other broadside is also found in Healy-OISBv2, pp. 64-66, "Father Murphy (1) or the Wexford Men of '98."
For historical background to this piece, see the notes to "Boulavogue." 
Murphy's own history is interesting. Born around 1753, the son of a farmer, he had the sort of early education a Catholic could expect (i.e. very little) and had to go to Spain to be ordained. By 1798, he was curate of Boulavogue in Wexford. As far as is known, he was not a member of the United Irishmen.
His actions seem to have been somewhat equivocal. According to Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, pp. 77-78, when the government in 1798 was pressuring people to sign an oath promising not to join the United Irishmen. Murphy and his parishioners signed only under pressure.
But according to Thomas Pakenham, _The Year of Liberty_, pp. 147-148, it appears he initially opposed violent resistance -- he helped draw up a petition of loyalty to George III, and Pakenham and Golway both note that he encouraged his parishioners to lay down their arms.
Robert Kee (_The Most Distressful Country_, being volume I of _The Green Flag_, p. 109), more neutral than either, supports the belief that Murphy's desire for peace was real, on the reasonable grounds that, if anyone had been planning a Wexford rising, it would have been better organized.
Whatever Murphy's true feelings, he didn't hesitate after word came of the massacre at Dunlavin (for which see "Dunlavin Green") and other atrocities. There were also stories -- partly true -- of the success of rebellions in Kildare and elsewhere. On May 26, Father Murphy agreed to lead the Wexford rebels -- who, however, were by now largely disarmed.
That night, though, the "Camolin cavalry" -- a small patrol led by local gentleman John Donovan and a Lt. Bookey -- came upon Murphy's rabble, called upon the Irish to disperse, and -- being outnumbered and in the dark where their firearms weren't that helpful -- were routed with some loss, including their two officers.
This skirmish wasn't really a battle -- the forces involved numbered in the dozens, and neither side was planning a fight -- but it heartened the  rebels. And started everybody shooting at everybody else. (Father Murphy's home and chapel were burned in the following days.) The rebels proceeded to raid the empty house of Lord Mountnorris, who was supposed to command in the district. They rounded up some other arms as well, often killing the residents of the homes holding the weapons.
The battle with the North Cork militia at Oulart was equally improbable. Accounts of the conflict from various sources differ so much that I can't even recognize them as the same battle -- Pakenham, e.g., makes it a case of British military ineptitude; Golway and others stress Irish discipline. Pakenham's account, which at least relies upon verifiable military records, seems the least unreliable:
The militia, under Colonel Foote, were almost untrained, and numbered only about 125 men; many had already deserted, and some had even joined the rebels. They were outnumbered roughly ten to one by Murphy's rebels, though Murphy's troops had even less cohesion than the militia.
Foote of course refused to attack uphill against those odds, and the rebels refused to come down. But when Foote's back was literally turned, his second in command Major Lombard ordered a charge. The attacking force was killed to the last man, even after the troops started to surrender and proclaimed themselves Catholic. (Not all atrocities in Ireland were committed by the British!) Foote brought three soldiers back alive from an engagement he hadn't even commanded.
On May 28, the rebels launched a surprisingly disciplined attack on Enniscorthy. The garrison retired to Wexford, but abandoned that town two days later.
Then things started to go bad. The Irish started to dawdle. But, as Kee notes (p. 114), "The lack of almost any coherent strategic plan, or indeed of any true leadership, was to be the rebels' undoing. Their determination and bravery in the field... was to prove remarkable.... But their discipline even in battle was poor. The Reverend James Gordon wrote, 'As they were not, like regular troops, under any real command of officers, but acted spontaneously... they were watched in battle one of another, each fearing to be left behind in case of retreat, which was generally swift and sudden.'"
They finally arrived at New Ross -- a key stop on the road to Waterford -- on June 5. Their leader, Bagenal Harvey, devised a sort of plan of attack, but gave no detailed instructions then or later, exerted no control over the battle, and had no reserve to exploit success. The rebels broke into the town, and seemingly had the battle won -- and promptly collapsed.
The next attack, on Arklow on June 9, was led by Father Murphy himself, and it too was repulsed, with heavy casualties.
After that, it was a matter of survival, and even that didn't take long. The English commander in the region, General Lake, assembled his forces and slaughtered most of the remaining rebels at Vinegar Hill on June 21.
Murphy's initial opposition to rebellion did not help him; he was eventually captured in Tullow, County Carlow and hanged. According to Golway, p. 87, Murphy was tortured before his death, and refused to talk. This sounds suspiciously like the death of Jesus, though, and Golway's strange footnote system does not appear to cite a source for this. For a discussion of the matter, see the entry on "Some Treat of David," which details Murphy's death.
The statement that Murphy could have won with French help is sort of true; when small French forces did come to Ireland, they were able to fight the British garrisons on even terms, which the United Irishmen never did. The French might also have helped by supplying the rebels with a hint of tactical reality. But experience seems to indicate that the Irish would have ignored them.
But while Napoleon talked about invading Ireland, and even started to try to assemble the ships, he never really seemed ready to make the push. Ireland had no resources to pay his army and navy, and in 1798, with the world seemingly at his feet, Napoleon's big need was cash.
In the end, the French fleet and army assembling at Toulon did not go to Ireland; it went to Egypt. Perhaps just as well for them; by 1798, the Nore mutiny was over, and the Battle of Camperdown had shown that the English did have naval superiority. The French made it to Egypt, mostly by confusing Nelson's scouts. They could never have gotten to Ireland that way. A few ships came, too late, but Wexford was never their destination; it was considered peaceful. In any case, a success in Wexford alone would not have freed Ireland. - RBW
File: OLoc027
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NAME: Father Murphy (II) (The Wexford Men of '98)
DESCRIPTION: Remember '98 when we lost Father Murphy. The victories are listed until Kilkenny. "Father Murphy was taken ... The blessed priest they burned him sore." The time is coming. "We'll be commanded by some pious teacher Like Father Murphy and his Shelmaliers."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: battle execution rebellion Ireland clergy patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 26, 1798 - Beginning of the Wexford rebellion
May 27, 1798 - The Wexford rebels under Father John Murphy defeat the North Cork militia
June 5, 1798 - The Wexford rebels attack the small garrison (about 1400 men, many militia) at New Ross, but are repelled
June 21, 1798 - The rebel stronghold a Vinegar Hill is taken, and the Wexford rebellion effectively ended
July 2, 1798 - Father Murphy (1753-1798) captured, executed and cremated.
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 11B, "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford Men of '98" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 64-66, "Father Murphy (1) or The Wexford Men of '98" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(238), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford men of '98," W. Birmingham (Dublin), c.1867; also Harding B 26(188), 2806 b.10(11), 2806 c.8(51), "Father Murphy" or "The Wexford men of '98"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Father Murphy (I)" (subject of Father Murphy) and references there
NOTES: One line of Zimmermann 11B and the Bodleian broadsides seems unusual to me: "On our retreatment burned Scullabogue"; Zimmermann explains: "After the battle of Ross, about one hundred Protestant prisoners, including women and children, were burnt alive in the barn of Scullabogue used as a temporary jail by the insurgents, (5th June, 1798)." In the texts, there are no bad consequences attributed to, or justification ascribed to, this act. For example, this act is not why "we" lost; 
If we had conduct to march on forward 
And not returned back to Gorey town, 
We would have saved the lives of ten thousand heroes 
That died in Arklow God rest their souls. 
It was by their means Father Murphy was taken ...
I expect there must be other examples of acknowledged terrible acts by the singer's "side" that have no acknowledged terrible consequences, but I don't know them. My point is not that I am surprised at an "atrocity" on the singer's "side" but that it is acknowledged. There were atrocities as well on the British side but are they recorded in songs from that side? Perhaps my quote is out of context; the preceding part of the verse is 
When reinforcement came down upon us, 
Just in the evening, with fire and smoke, 
We were forced to leave them, the town then blazing, 
On our retreatment burned Scullabogue." 
For more information see "The Scullabogue Massacre 1798" by Daniel Gahan, _History Ireland_, Autumn 1996, republished on the Republican Sinn Fein site.
For one of innumerable Biblical examples with weak justification and acknowledged bad consequences for the singer's "side" see Genesis 34 (Dinah and Shechem). Even Psalms 137, "Fair Babylon, you predator, a blessing on him who repays you in kind what you have inflicted on us; a blessing on him who seizes your babies and dashes them against the rocks!" is not recounting an actual event and wishes it conditional upon God's blessing after claiming justification. - BS
This is one of those instances where feelings are so strong that genuine historical perspective is hard to come by. Thomas Pakenham, in _The Year of Liberty_, pp. 198-199, describes Scullabogue: "a ghastly scene...which was to leave a still more indelible mark on Irish history [than the Battle of New Ross]."
At least a hundred Loyalist prisoners, and perhaps as many as two hundred, were penned in a barn, jammed so tightly that they could not all sit down. The majority of those imprisoned were male Protestants, but there were some women, children, and Catholics.
Somehow a rumor started that British forces were executing captured soldiers. The officer in charge of guarding prisoners refused to engage in retaliations. But after three alleged orders came to kill the prisoners, one allegedly endorsed by a priest, the guards shot some three dozen prisoners and burned the rest in the barn where they were confined. It was pretty definitely the worst atrocity of the 1798 rebellion.
Interestingly, the pro-British Pakenham does not list any consequences either. 
Robert Kee, on p. 118 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (volume I of _The Green Flag_) devotes only a couple of sentences to Scullabogue, and in effect justifies it by the condition of the Irish peasantry. Jim Smyth's _The Men of No Property_ mentions it only in passing (p. 179) as a "sectarian atrocity." My other pro-Irish histories do not seem to mention the massacre at all.
Similar uncertainty seems to surround the fate of Father Murphy himself. For this, see the notes to "Some Treat of David"; also "Father Murphy (I)" and "Boulavogue." For the general situation at New Ross, leading to Scullabogue, see "Kelly, the Boy from Killane." - RBW
File: Zimm011B
===
NAME: Father Murphy of the County Wexford: see Boulavogue (File: PGa028)
===
NAME: Father Tom O'Neill: see Tom O'Neill [Laws Q25] (File: LQ25)
===
NAME: Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas in a Pennsylvania town not very long ago, Men struck against reduction of their pay." The mill owner intends to starve the union into submission; in the process, "Father was killed by the Pinkerton men." The singer appeals to politicians to help
AUTHOR: William W. Delaney (Willy Wildwave)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1892 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement strike hardtimes political orphan
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1892 - Homestead Strike
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 235-236, "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, p. 200, "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men" (1 text)
Burt, p. 185, "(Father was Killed by the Pinkerton Men)" (1 text)
DT, PINKMEN*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Homestead Strike" (subject)
NOTES: For the details of the Homestead Strike, see "The Homestead Strike."
Incidentally, the Pinkertons were not above murder if it met their ends. A famous example was the case of Frank and Jesse James and their mother and stepfather, Dr. Reuben Samuel and Zerelda Cole James Samuel. On January 28, 1875, a gang of Pinkertons firebombed their home in hopes of catching the James brothers. They didn't -- but they did kill Archie Peyton Samuel and do such damage to Mrs. Samuel's hand that it had to be amputated (see Ted P. Yeatman, _Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend_, pp. 134-137).
The Pinkertons were eventually charged with murder (Yeatman, p. 143), but the case never came to trial (p. 147). - RBW
File: SWM235
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NAME: Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now
DESCRIPTION: Each hour the child comes into the tavern, saying, "Father, dear father, come home with me now." Each hour brings worse news: Brother Benny is sick, Benny is calling for you, Benny is dead.
AUTHOR: Henry Clay Work
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: drink death father brother family disease
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Randolph 308, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (1 text, 1 tune, with the chorus lost and "brother Benny" turned into "little Jenny"!)
BrownIII 24, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (2 texts)
Fuson, p. 144, "The Drunkard Father" (1 text)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 56-58, "Come Home, Father" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 356-357, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 263, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 478, "Come Home, Father" (source notes only)
DT, COMEHOME*
Roud #839
RECORDINGS:
The Blue Sky Boys, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home" (Bluebird 8522, 1940)
James Scott & Claude Boone, "Father Dear Father Come Home" (Decca 5566, 1938)
Peerless Quartet, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now" (Victor 19716, 1925)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2156), "Come Home Father," unknown, n.d.; same broadside as 2806 c.16(156)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Drunkard's Dream (II)" (theme)
cf. "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Come Home, Father
NOTES: Work's title for this piece was "Come Home, Father." Said title seems to be dead in tradition. - RBW
In the words of W. C. Fields, "Father, dear father, come home with me now...and bring a jug with you." - PJS
File: R308
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NAME: Father, Father, I Am Married: see Will the Weaver [Laws Q9] (File: LQ09)
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NAME: Father's Whiskers
DESCRIPTION: "We have a dear old daddy For whom we daily pray, He's got a set of whiskers, They're always in the way." The whiskers are so extensive that they are put to a variety of absurd uses: Straining gas, feeding cattle, serving as camouflage in war
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: father family humorous nonballad hair
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 262-263, "My Pappy's Whiskers" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 241, "Father's Whiskers" (1 text)
DT, FATHWISK
Roud #13619
File: FSWB241A
===
NAME: Fathers, Now Our Meeting Is Over: see Now Our Meeting Is Over (File: Wa084)
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NAME: Fathom the Bowl
DESCRIPTION: In praise of drink, perhaps linked with a complaint about one's wife or a reminiscence of one's dead father. Each verse ends with the cry, "Bring (me/in) the punch ladle, (and) (I'll/we'll) fathom the bowl."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889 (Baring Gould)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,Lond))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 268, "Bring in the Punch Ladle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FATHOMBL*
Roud #880
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Punch Ladle
File: K268
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NAME: Faughan Side, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes the beauty of the streams and plants of Faughan. "But still I had the notion Of going to Amerikay." He bids farewell to friends, admits he will miss home -- and miss his girl ten times more. He hopes to return and wed her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration separation home
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H621, pp. 191-192, "The Faughan Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2292
File: HHH621
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NAME: Faughanvale
DESCRIPTION: The singer thinks of Faughanvale as he rambles. He asks the listener to show him a spot equal to it. He praises the people and fields and festivals. He tells where he has rambled, claiming none can compare. He wishes he were a poet to praise it better
AUTHOR: Thomas Young (Killwill)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: home rambling
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H796, pp. 163-164, "Faughanvale" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13461
File: HHH796
===
NAME: Faultless Bride, The: see The Nobleman's Wedding (The Faultless Bride; The Love Token) [Laws P31] (File: LP31)
===
NAME: Fause Foodrage [Child 89]
DESCRIPTION: A lady courted by three kings weds one who is then slain (by one of the rivals/a rebel). Her not-yet-born child will be spared if female. She bears a boy, switches him with a baby girl. When grown the boy is told his heritage and avenges his father.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1802 (Scott)
KEYWORDS: royalty death homicide children trick revenge
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 89, "Fause Foodrage" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Bronson 89, "Fause Foodrage" (3 versions)
OBB 70, "Fause Foodrage" (1 text)
DBuchan 14, "Fause Foodrage" (1 text)
DT 89, KINGLUVE
Roud #57
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jellon Grame" [Child 90] (theme)
NOTES: Some texts of this ballad share a verse with Elizabeth Halket Wardlaw's "Hardeknute" (for which see Volume II of Percy's _Reliques_; at that time, the authorship of Wardlaw (1677-1727) had not been established). This caused Scott to wonder about the authenticity of the piece, but Child thought the informant might have taken the verse from the "tiresome and affected Hardyknute, so much esteemed in her day." - RBW
File: C089
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NAME: Fause Knight Upon the Road, The [Child 3]
DESCRIPTION: A grown man (knight, churl, demon) meets a schoolboy on the road. The schoolboy matches wits with the man, finding a defense or matching insult for each thrust, and so survives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Motherwell, _Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern_)
KEYWORDS: contest Devil virtue questions
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) US(Ap,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (23 citations)
Child 3, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #8}
Bronson 3, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (10 versions plus 2 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 11-14, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text)
Belden, p. 4, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 46-47, "The False Knight on the Road" (1 text) {Bronson's #10}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 79-81, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #10}
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 119-121, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 2, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
Davis-More 3, pp. 14-15, "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (1 fragmentary text)
Brewster 2, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Creighton/Senior, p. 1, "The False Knight upon the Road" (1 text plus 1 excerpt, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Creighton-NovaScotia 1, "False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
Manny/Wilson 51, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 13, "Harpkin"; 14, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (2 texts)
Niles 3 "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 2 "The False Knight Upon the Road" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #5, #6}
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 2, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
OBoyle 13, "The Knight On the Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 197, "(O, where are you going?)" (1 text)
TBB 31, "The False Knight upon the Road" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 20, p. 48, "The False Knight" (1 text)
DT 3, FALSKNGT* FALSKNT2*
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #344, "The False Knight Upon the Road" (1 text);cf. the notes to #343, with "Meet-on-the-Road," evidently a literary rewrite
Roud #20
RECORDINGS:
Edmund Henneberry [and Kenneth Faulkner], "The False Knight Upon the Road" (on NovaScotia1) {Bronson's #9}
Duncan McPhee, "The False Knight Upon the Road (on FSBBAL1)
Frank Quinn, "The False Knight [Up]on the Road" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Devil and the Schoolchild
The False Knight
The Smart Schoolboy
The Knight on the Road
NOTES: One of Child's three texts is "Harpkin," which he places in an appendix. The two are distinct in plot ("Harpkin" is apparently a contest between two rivals; "The Fause Knight" involves an innocent youth), but the form of the two is so similar that they cannot be reliably distinguished.
Bertrand Bronson discusses the original form of this ballad in "The Interdependence of Ballad Tunes and Texts" (first printed in the _California Folklore Quarterly_, II, 1944; see now MacEdward Leach and Tristram P. Coffin, eds, _The Critics and the Ballad_. The relevant discussion is on pages 80-82).
American versions of this piece can be quite degenerate. Pound's text, for instance, sounds very much like a schoolyard quarrel, except that one of the disputants is "false knight Munro." But he sounds just like a bully: "Give your lunch to my dog or I'll throw you down the well." The boy responds by throwing Munro down the well first. - RBW
File: C003
===
NAME: Fause Young Man, The: see The False Young Man (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out) (File: FJ166)
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NAME: Fayette Brown, The
DESCRIPTION: When sailors go on strike, the owner of the lake schooner Fayette Brown hires a crew of non-union Blacks; their failings are described. The singer drinks a health to owners and captains, but "bad luck attend any dirty scut that sails the Fayette Brown"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (recording, Stanley Baby)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: When sailors go on strike, the owner of the lake schooner Fayette Brown hires a crew of non-union Blacks; their failings are described, and it's said they'd wish themselves elsewhere when the snowflakes began flying. The singer drinks a health to ship-owners and captains, and "every lofty schooner that carries a union crew", but "bad luck attend any dirty scut that sails the Fayette Brown"
KEYWORDS: curse strike labor-movement ship work sailor scab worker Black(s)
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1868 - Fayette Brown built at Cleveland
late 1870s - Sailors strike for union recognition
1891 - Fayette Brown sinks after collision
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #4623
RECORDINGS:
Stanley Baby, "The 'Fayette Brown'" [fragment] (GreatLakes1)
File: RcFayBro
===
NAME: Faythe Fishing Craft, The
DESCRIPTION: In a sudden night-time storm "each coast-boat to shore quickly flew. Not so with us Wexfordmen," One of two skiffs was sunk "by a huge mountain wave" killing five men. The other skiff was driven on shore near Curracloe. The five lost are named.
AUTHOR: Mr. Twomey
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck fishing
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 12, 1833: the Faythe fishing craft was capsized by a gale (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 52)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 12-14, "The Faythe Fishing Craft" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7345
NOTES: Curracloe and Blackwater are on the Wexford coast - BS
File: Ran012
===
NAME: Fear a Bhata: see Fhear a Bhata (Fhir a Bhata: I Climb the Mountains) (File: HHH834)
===
NAME: Featherin' Oot and In
DESCRIPTION: Singer has a "fine gyang featherin' out and out and ae/Featinerin' oot and addie." Men buy her fine things because of it, and they want her to go to bed for it. Her mother is an 'auld bitch'; so is her granny, but both do well because they also have it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (collected from Maggie McPhee)
KEYWORDS: sex clothes bawdy humorous whore
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MacSeegTrav 39, "Featherin' Oot and In" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2519
File: McCST039
===
NAME: Feckless Lover, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer hears Johnny knock on the door. Her mother overhears and drives Johnny away. Now Johnny turns away in fear every time he sees the singer. She refuses to lament; a young man "scared of an auld woman's tongue" does not deserve her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (San Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting mother abandonment humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H216, p. 265, "The Feckless Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6920
File: HHH216
===
NAME: Fee and Flannigan
DESCRIPTION: Joseph Fee's gallows-confession from Armagh County Jail. He murdered John Flanagan "for the greed of money." After nine months the murder was discovered, Fee was arrested, tried and condemned. "The bolt was drew, and Fee soon flew on to Eternity"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (Morton-Maguire)
KEYWORDS: execution homicide trial gallows-confessions
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 22, 1904 - Joseph Fee is executed for the April 16, 1903 murder of John Flanigan (source: Morton-Maguire)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Morton-Maguire 16, pp. 38-40,108,163, "Fee and Flannigan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2919
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Clones Murder" (subject)
File: MoMa016
===
NAME: Feeing Time (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "A frien' and I struck frae  Mulguy" for Glasgow; they meet a girl on her way to feeing day. The singer lures her into a pub, and they drink the day away. She says she has lost her fee; he promises to wed her, and she is "glad she lost the feeing time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (Ford)
KEYWORDS: love courting drink work marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber) Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 323-325, "The Feeing Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 82-83, "The Feeing Time" (1 text)
Roud #2516
RECORDINGS:
Michael Gallagher, "The Hiring Time" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:036, "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C; also Murray, Mu23-y1:037, "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C [not the same as the preceding], Murray, Mu23-y3:023, "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [also distinct]
NLScotland, L.C.1270(018), "The Feeing Time," unknown, c. 1845; also L.C.Fol.178.A.2(067), "The Feeing Time," James Lindsay (Glasgow), c. 1870, L.C.Fol.70(35b), "The Feeing Time," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Hiring Fair" (plot)
SAME_TUNE:
Craigmaddie Muir (per broadsides Murray, Mu23-y1:036, Mu23=y3:023, NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(067))
NOTES: Not to be confused with "The Feein' Time (II)," which is a complaint about work similar to "The Barnyards o' Delgaty." The song is also very similar to the Irish song "The Hiring Fair," with which it even shares some lyrics. I have split them only very tentatively; it's possible that some versions may be mixed or misfiled.
To earn one's fee was to go to a hiring fair and be taken on for a position. - RBW
File: Ord082
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NAME: Feeing Time (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Singer goes to Glasgow seeking a job, and is hired by a farmer. He describes the bad working conditions: the servant-maids give food to the dog instead of to the workers; the horses won't work. He'll bundle up his "auld bit rags and gang the road I cam" 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1969 (collected from John MacDonald)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad horse worker rambling travel
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
MacSeegTrav 104, "The Feein' Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FEETIME*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Walk the Road Again" (lyrics)
cf. "The Barnyards o' Delgaty" (theme)
cf. "Copshawholm Fair" (subject)
NOTES: Somehow, the last verse of "I Walk the Road Again" seems to have made it across the Atlantic and gotten translated into Scots. - PJS
Not to be confused with "The Feeing Time (II)," which is a song about a courtship.
To earn one's fee was to go to a hiring fair and be taken on for a position. - RBW
Also collected and sung by Ellen Mitchell, "Feein Day" (on Kevin and Ellen Mitchell, "Have a Drop Mair," Musical Tradition Records MTCD315-6 CD (2001)) - BS
File: McCST104
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NAME: Felix the Soldier
DESCRIPTION: Felix reports, "They took away my brogues... And a soldier of me made...." "But the Injuns they were sly, and the Frenchies they were coy, so they shot off the left leg of this poor Irish boy." Back home, his family grieves but Felix is glad to be safe
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Warner)
KEYWORDS: soldier war injury
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1754-1763 - French and Indian War (the hottest phase of the colonial conflict between France and England)
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Warner 50, "Felix the Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 18, "Felix the Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FELXSOLD*
Roud #2805
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Kerry Recruit" [Laws J8] (theme)
cf. "Mrs. McGrath" (theme)
File: Wa050
===
NAME: Feller from Fortune: see Lots of Fish in Bonavist' Harbour (Feller from Fortune) (File: FJ122)
===
NAME: Feller That Looks Like Me, The: see The Fellow that Looks Like Me [Laws H21] (File: LH21)
===
NAME: Fellow that Looks Like Me, The [Laws H21]
DESCRIPTION: The singer is stopped and made to pay a bill he never incurred, then beaten up for wronging a girl he does not know, and finally arrested and convicted for a crime he didn't commit. Only when the police find "the fellow that looks like me" is he freed
AUTHOR: J. F. Poole
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: humorous reprieve courting infidelity accusation trial police prisoner
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws H21, "The Fellow that Looks Like Me"
Randolph 463, "The Fellow that Looks Like Me" (1 text)
Mackenzie 145, "The Fellow That Looks Like Me" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fellow That Looks Like Me" (source notes only)
DT 707, LOOKSME
Roud #2187
RECORDINGS:
Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters, "The Feller That Looks Like Me" (Brunswick 184, 1927)
Asa Martin, "The Fellow That Looks Like Me" (Supertone 9642, 1930)
Charlie Newman, "The Fellow That's Just Like Me" (OKeh 45116, 1927)
File: LH21
===
NAME: Felton Lonnin (Pelton Lonnin') (I, II, III)
DESCRIPTION: Pipe tune, with assorted incidental lyrics: "The kye's come hame but aw see not ma hinny, The key's come hame but aw see not ma bairn." Or "There's three fames horses frae Felton Lonnin.'" Or "The swine cam jumpin' down Pelton Lonnin'."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay), who attribute one set of words to 1793
KEYWORDS: music animal love separation beauty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 150-151, "Felton Lonnin'" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #3166
NOTES: This piece presents a genuine puzzle to the collector: Three songs, or one? Stokoe's first version, a fragment, certainly looks traditional. The third probably is, too, it looks a bit like a singing game. The second looks more like a broadside.
None of the versions seems very well known. And they all use the same tune, described as a pipe tune. I finally decided to lump them. Roud does the same.
The first text was expanded by Johnny Handle into a full-grown missing-love song and recorded by Ray Fisher, but only the first two verses and the tune are traditional. - RBW
File: StoR150
===
NAME: Female Drummer (I), The: see The Soldier Maid (File: DTsoldma)
===
NAME: Female Drummer (II), The: see The Drum Major (The Female Drummer) (File: HHH797)
===
NAME: Female Highwayman, The [Laws N21]
DESCRIPTION: (Sylvie) decides to test her love's faithfulness. Dressed as a (male) robber, she stops him on the road. He gives her his watch and gold, but refuses to hand over his diamond ring. She lets him go, satisfied of his faithfulness, and later reveals herself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 25(1877))
KEYWORDS: outlaw cross-dressing disguise love
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont) Britain(England(South)) Australia Ireland
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Laws N21, "The Female Highwayman"
Warner 58, "Pretty Sylvia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 133-134, "The Female Highwayman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 27, "Wexford City" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-NovaScotia 25, "Silvy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 342-343, "Gold Watch and Chain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 129, "Zillah" (1 text), "The Diamond Ring" (1 text)
Manny/Wilson 52, "The Female Highwayman (Nelly Ray)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 334, "Sylvia" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H35, pp. 327-328, "The Female Highwayman" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 451, FEMHWAY* SOVAY*
Roud #7
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Sovay, the Female Highwayman" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd3)
Tim Walsh, "Sylvia" (on FSB7)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1877), "Sylvia's Request, and William's Denial" ("Fair Sylvia on a certain day, Drest herself in man's array"), J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also 2806 c.16(131), Harding B 11(4362), Firth c.17(26), Harding B 11(3723), Harding B 15(326b), Harding B 15(327a), "Sylvia's Request, and William's Denial"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sovay, Sovay
Sophie
Sylvia's Request and William's Denial
NOTES: According to Patrcik Pringle, _Stand and Deliver: Highwaymen from Robin Hood to Dick Turpin_, chapter 7, "Wicked Ladies," there were a few known instances of female highwaymen during their great era in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
He mentions specifically Mary Frith ("Molly Cutpurse"), though she was first and foremost a fence rather than a highway(wo)man (to be a highwayman, one had to have a horse, and a pistol generally helped, too). She supposed was the subject of Dekker and Middleton's 1611 play "The Roaring Girls" but her death is dated 1659.
Pringle does not mention a case similar to that in this song.
Jerome S. Epstein, who transcribed the Warner version of Lena Bourne Fish, noted the peculiar tonal peregrination of the tune -- it appears to be in the key of C, but uses all of the following tones (ascending the scale): B C D E F F# G A Bb C. He comments that this sort of modal modulation is very rare in folk song -- but in fact the result, except for that one stray Bb and the ending on C, is pretty close to the Dorian version of "Sovay" I have heard. It sounds to me as if it's a Dorian tune partly and imperfectly moved to Ionian.
Mackenzie's peculiar name for the girl, Zillah, recalls Lamech's wife in Genesis 4:19-23, but I don't know if that is significant. - RBW
File: LN21
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NAME: Female Rambling Sailor
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you people far and near And listen to my ditty" of a girl who disguises herself and goes to sea after her impressed lover is drowned. She proves a brave sailor, but at last is killed and her sex discovered. The singer wishes her well in death 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (Broadside NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(147))
KEYWORDS: love separation pressgang death sailor cross-dressing
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, RMBSAIL3
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y4:042, "Female Rambling Sailor," unknown, 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(147), "Female Rambling Sailor," unknown, c. 1870
File: DTrmbsl3
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NAME: Female Sailor Bold [Laws N3]
DESCRIPTION: (Jane Thornton) dresses as a sailor to seek her lover, a captain. When she reaches New York, she learns that he is dead. She serves at sea for several years before returning to London. There her sex, and eventually her story, are revealed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: cross-dressing sea love
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws N3, "Female Sailor Bold"
Creighton-NovaScotia 34, "Female Sailor Bold" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 591, FSAILBLD
Roud #1699
File: LN03
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NAME: Female Smuggler, The
DESCRIPTION: The smuggler's daughter dresses in men's clothes to serve her father. She fights off a raider, but eventually is taken by "the blockade." During her trial, she reveals her sex. Her bravery commends her to a gentleman, who gains her pardon and marries her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Shay)
KEYWORDS: cross-dressing ship sailor trial punishment reprieve marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 234-235, "The Female Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 333-334, "The Female Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 190-194, "The Female Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FEMLSMUG
Roud #1200
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y4:034, "The Female Sailor," unknown, 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Fair Phoebe and her Dark-Eyed Sailor)" [Laws N35] (tune, per broadsides Bodleian Johnson Ballads 2483, Bodleian Harding B 11(498), Bodleian Harding B 11(499))
File: CoSB234
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NAME: Female Warrior, The (Pretty Polly) [Laws N4]
DESCRIPTION: A girl boards ship to learn the sailor's craft. After some years in service, her ship encounters a pirate/raider. The captain is quickly slain, and the girl assumes command. She overcomes the enemy. In some texts she goes to London to be rewarded
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1830
KEYWORDS: cross-dressing battle pirate death ship drink 
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar,Ont) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws N4, "The Female Warrior (Pretty Polly)"
Eddy 47, "The Female Warrior" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 85, "Pretty Polly" (1 text)
Mackenzie 84, "As We Were A-Sailing" (1 text)
Doerflinger, pp. 143-144, "The Female Warrior" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 124-125, "The Beauty of Baltimore" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 83, "The Rainbow" (1 text, 1 tune, perhaps this piece; see note)
BBI, ZN1749, "Margaret my sweetest, Margaret I must go" (listed as Laws N4 though the description sounds more like N8)
Roud #492
RECORDINGS:
Bob Hart, "A Broadside" (on Voice08)
Cyril Poacher, "A Broadside" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 16(93a), "Female Captain," unknown, n.d.; Bodleian, Firth c.13(255), "Down by the Spanish Shore", W. Harris (Birmingham), n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary Ambree" (plot)
NOTES: The song "The Rainbow" collected by MacColl and Seeger from Nelson Ridley in 1974 has lyrics from this song, and their notes makes it clear they identify it with this piece. Ridley's text is hopelessly confused, with no plot and some repetition of lyrics; Paul Stamler notes that it "almost [sounds] like the 'maid' being referred to is actually the ship." - PJS, RBW
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 2" - 11.9.02: "Frank Kidson noted a Yorkshire set of this song and comments that as it concerns a sea battle between the English and the Spanish, it must be of some considerable age. (_Traditional Tunes_ 1891, pp. 99-100).... Kidson also notes the connection between the ship 'The Rainbow' and one of the same name that is to be found in the ballad of 'Captain Ward'...." [ Kidson's text ends "Good health unto this damsel who fought all on the main, And here's to the royal gallant ship called Rainbow by name."; Cyril Poacher's text for that on Voice02 is slightly different; Bob Hart's text on Voice08 names the ship "The Royal."] - BS
Apart from the pirate, incidentally, this song bears some resemblance to an actual happening -- though the song predates the event. In 1856, the clipper _Neptune's Car_  was to sail from New York to San Francisco under Captain Joshua Adams Patten -- but which endded up being navigated by his wife; for background, see the notes to "Bound Down to Newfoundland" [Laws D22].
The ending isn't very happy; Joshua Patten, who was barely 30, died in mid-1857, and Mary Ann Patten, not yet 25, had contracted his tuberculosis and died in 1861. But she *had* successfully brought the _Neptune's Car_ around Cape Horn. Possibly the story -- which was widely reported, and which brought Mary Ann Patten a thousand dollar reward from the company insuring the _Neptune's Car_ -- could have helped make this song popular. - RBW
File: LN04
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NAME: Fency King and the English King, The: see King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France [Child 164] (File: C164)
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NAME: Fenian Man-of-War, The: see The British Man-of-War (File: FSC013)
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NAME: Fenian Song (I), A
DESCRIPTION: "The Queen's Own Regiment was their name, From fair Toronto town they came, To put thie Irish all to shame, The Queen and Colonel Booker." But the loyalist forces are routed: "See how they run from their Irish foe, The Queen's and Colonel Booker!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958
KEYWORDS: Canada battle political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 31, 1866 - Some 1200 Fenians under General O'Neill invade the Niagara area
June 2, 1866 - The Fenian's victory at Lime Ridge near Ridgeway
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 100-101, ""A Fenian Song (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 1, "A Fenian Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FENIANSG*
Roud #4531
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Fenian Song" (subject)
cf. "The Fenian Song (II)" (theme)
NOTES: Many Irish immigrants in America retained their hatred for Britain. The Fenians were an organization devoted to freeing Ireland. The organization was founded in 1858 by James Stephens (who had been active in the revolution of 1848 and survived partly because he was reported dead; for his story, see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy"), and quickly spread; the British government felt the need to suppress the group in 1865. Stephens and others were taken prisoner; although he escaped, it turned him cautious; he no longer had the nerve to take aggressive action. That pretty well killed the group as an active set of rebels; their attempt at an Irish rebellion would fail in 1867.
But the Fenian movement did not die; individuals kept trying things, though none of their tricks amounted to much. This song chronicles an early example.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, when the U.S. and Britain were not on the best of terms over the Alabama Claims and the like, the Fenians conceived the idea of invading Canada and holding it hostage for Ireland's freedom. They thought that the American government would go along.
Unfortunately, they were not united; according to Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, pp. 143-144, by 1866 the American Fenians were split into two groups, one led by John O'Mahony, the other by the more radical Thomas Sweeney.
Mahony, the more rational and established leader, nonetheless let himself be goaded into action, staging a sort of demonstration against Canada: "Members of his decimated Fenian Brotherhood began converging on the town of Eastport in Maine.... The small army went into action on April 15, invading Indian Island, a small chunk of Canada... Washington sent troops and warships to Eastport, and O'Mahony's Fenians immediately withdrew."
That didn't deter the Sweeney faction.
On May 31, 1866, the Fenian General John O'Neill led 1200 men from Buffalo into the Niagara area. Mark Bourrie, _Many a Midnight Ship_ (University of Michigan Press, 2005) quotes their manifesto on pp. 128-130, it states, among other things, that "We are here as the Irish army of liberation, the friends of liberty against  aristocracy, of people against their oppressors.... Our war is with the armed powers of England, not with the people, not with these provinces." Funny that it never occured to the Fenians to think that people would resent being held hostage for other's crimes.
The proclamation was signed by Sweeney, but, interestingly, he failed to make the crossing.
The Canadian government mustered various forces to deal with them. One of these was the Queen's Own Rifles, at that time hardly better than a militia regiment; Bourrie, p. 130, says it was made up of residents of Toronto, many of them University students. "In all, about 880 very inexperienced Canadian part-time soldiers , under the command of inept officers... arrived... in the early hours of June 2." Rather than wait for the rest of the Loyalist forces, the detachment under Lt. Colonel Alfred Booker attacked the Fenians.
The result was a complete rout of the Loyalists, though with relatively slight losses (listed by Bourrie, p. 131, as ten Canadians dead). It did the Fenians no good, however. Within days the Canadian forces had assembled, and they were much larger, better equipped, and better trained than the Fenians. And the Americans moved to block any Fenian reinforcements from crossing the Niagara river. O'Neill retreated back to the United States (where his men were set free), and the Fenians never amounted to much thereafter. Eventually the U.S. government put a stop to their border raids.
For the aftermath of this story, see "An Anti-Fenian Song."
The Fenians, of course, eventually evolved into other independence organizations. A member of one of those organizations perhaps summed up why they failed so often: They just weren't single-minded enough. Tim Pat Coogan, in _Michael Collins_, p. 116, reports a quote from Vinnie Byrne, a member of one of those later organizations:
"Collins was a marvel. If he hadn't done the work he did, we'd still be under Britain. Informers and drink would have taken care of us."
That is perhaps too strong; there were other determined leaders in the 1916-1920 period. But the Fenians didn't have a one of those other leaders, let alone a Collins. So they wasted their energy on schemes like this.
For information on the founding of the Fenians, see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy." For their one major success in one of their gimmicks, see "The Fenian's Escape (The Catalpa)." For other examples of the Fenians' ineffectiveness, see "The British Man-of-War" and "The Smashing of the Van (I)." - RBW
File: FMB100
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NAME: Fenian Song (II), The
DESCRIPTION: If you happen to walk out Someone in your ears are humming, And they'll ask if you know When the Fenians are a coming.... They dare not 'vade our soil, Nor try to work us wrongful"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Mackenzie)
KEYWORDS: violence nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 31, 1866 - Some 1200 Fenians under General O'Neill invade the Niagara area
June 2, 1866 - The Fenian's victory at Lime Ridge near Ridgeway
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Mackenzie 149, "The Fenian Song" (1 text)
Roud #3285
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "An Anti-Fenian Song" (theme)
cf. "A Fenian Song (I)" (subject)
NOTES: Mackenzie: "The so-called Fenian Brotherhood was formed in New York in 1857. Its main purpose, apparently, was to 'set Ireland free,' but among its subsidiary projects was an invasion of Canada from the United States. In Canada there was for a time a good deal of excitement accompanied by the drafting and training of young men for the purpose of sweeping back the threatening tide." Mackenzie thinks this fragment was "probably a Canadian recruiting song." - BS
For additional background to the Fenian invasion of Canada, see "A Fenian Song (I)." For the organization's founding, see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy."  - RBW
File: Mack149
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NAME: Fenian's Escape, The (The Catalpa)
DESCRIPTION: The Catalpa, an American whaler, wanders by Perth on regatta day. (Six) Fenians, having spent years in chains, flee for the ship. Although the Georgette tries to interfere with the escape, the Irishmen get aboard and are taken to America
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957 (Paterson/Stewart/Keeting, Old Bush Songs)
KEYWORDS: rebellion prisoner escape ship whaler
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1876 - The Catalpa Rescue
FOUND_IN: Australia Ireland
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
O'Conor, p. 55, "The Fenian's Escape" (1 text)
OLochlainn-More 48, "The Fenians' Escape" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 56-57, "The Catalpa" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 20-21, "The Catalpa" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 64-66, "The Catalpa" (1 text)
DT, FENESCAP*
Roud #5480
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries" (tune)
NOTES: This is one of the more successful of the various crazy Fenian exploits.
To start with the prisoners: Thomas Darragh, Martin Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, Robert Cranston, and James Wilson had been transported for life in 1866 for their role in the United Irish Brotherhood's planned uprising -- not really a fair sentence, given that nothing much actually happened, but the British didn't want any more interference in Ireland.
The _Catalpa_ (a three-masted bark built 1844) alternated between merchant service and whaling until 1874, when she was purchased by John T. Richardson. In that year, under the command of George S. Anthony (Richardson's son-in-law), the ship set out on what was ostensibly a whaling trip.
By this time, the six Fenians had earned their tickets-of-leave (i.e. the right to work on their own), and had been contacted by four rescuers. On April 17, 1876, the ten boarded a rowboat sent out (and commanded) by Anthony. It took them 28 hours to reach the _Catalpa_, pursued by the mail steamer _Georgette_, but they made it.
The _Georgette_ later overhauled the _Catalpa_, and threated to stop her, but Anthony claimed the protection of the American flag, and actually got away with it. The ship made it to New York on August 19, 1876, and was given a hero's welcome at New Bedford a few days later.
Ironically, Anthony ended up in a certain amount of trouble because he hadn't done enough whaling on the trip to cover expenses. - RBW
File: FaE056
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NAME: Ferd Harold Blues: see Alabama Bound (Waterbound II) (File: BMRF598)
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NAME: Fergus O'Connor and Independence
DESCRIPTION: Remember O'Connell's victory over Vesey in '29. Don't vote now for "those tithe-eating gentry." "Be advised by the clergy our Lord sent to guide you, And vote for brave Fergus and Sheela na Guira." Send Fergus to London. Repeal the Union.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1832 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1794-1855 - life of Fergus (Feargus) O'Connor
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 43, "A New Song in Praise of Fergus O'Connor and Independence" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War) and references there
cf. "Daniel O'Connell (II)" (subject: Daniel O'Connell) and references there
cf. "Saint Patrick's Day" (subject of Fergus O'Connor"
NOTES: The context is "The Tithe War": O'Connell's Catholic Association was formed in 1823 to resist the requirement that Irish Catholics pay tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland. The "war" was passive for most of the period 1823-1836, though there were violent incidents in 1831 (source: _The Irish Tithe War 1831_ at the OnWar.com site)
Zimmermann: "Fergus O'Connor, before becoming the most prominent spokesman of the Chartist movement in England, was elected M.P. for Cork in 1832 and 1835."
The reference to 1829 and Vesey has to do with the July 1828 election in which Daniel O'Connell defeated Vessey Fitzgerald as Westminster MP from County Clare (see "The Shan Van Voght (1828)").
The last line of each verse is a variation of "Vote for brave Fergus and Sheela na Guira" or "Repeal the Union for Sheela na Guira." Zimmermann's tune is "Sighile Ni Ghadra." The following note is from Andrew Kuntz's "The Fiddler's Companion" site: "'Sheela Nee Guira' was one of the numerous allegorical names of Ireland; and this song['Sighile Ni Ghadhra'] was a patriotic one, though it could be sung with safety in the time of the Penal Laws, as it was in the guise of a love song." - BS
When England pushed Ireland into the Parliamentary Union after the 1798 rebellion, William Pitt had wanted to make a great concession: He wanted to permit Catholics to vote.Parliament rejected this out of hand, meaning that the Members for Ireland ended up being all Protestant. Even had one been elected, they could not in good conscience take the membership oath, which reviled Catholicism. (See Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 100.)
But there was nothing in the law which prevented Catholics from running.
In 1828, at the height of his popularity, O'Connell decided to do just that. William Vesey Fitzgerald, a Member for Clare, had taken a government position, and so had to contest a by-election for his seat.
The irony is, Vesey Fitzgerald was "an emancipationist [i.e. he stood for giving Catholics voting rights], a kind and popular landlord... and the son of a Patriot in Grattan's parliament." In other words, the sort of man Ireland needed. But his was the seat that was available. O'Connell ran against him, and won by 2057 votes to 982. (Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, pp. 220-221). In 1829, the British Parliament gave in and passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, opening all but the very highest offices to Catholics (though another act raised the property requirement for voting, meaning that most Catholics were still excluded).
Fergus (or Feargus) O'Connor (1794-1855) was one of the first to take advantage of the new conditions. In 1832, he was elected to Parliament from County Cork on the Repeal platform (calling for the repeal of the Union of Ireland and Great Britain). He was expelled in 1835 for being too poor, leading him to found a newspaper, the _Northern Star_, in 1837. He is said to have gone insane in 1850.
Incidentally, O'Connell would later say that the zeal of men like O'Connor actually hurt the cause of Repeal; they pushed him to bring it up in the British parliament too soon, causing the measure to go down in flames in 1834 (see Robert Kee, _The Most Distressful Country_, being Volume I of _The Green Flag_, pp. 190-191).
For a song more obliquely talking about the events of this period, see "The Ass's Complaint." - RBW
File: Zimm043
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NAME: Ferryland Sealer, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, our schooner and our sloop in Ferryland they do lie, They are already rigged to be bound for the ice...." The singer describes the provisioning of the ship, the path she follows, the work of sealing. He rejoices as they return home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (collected from Leonard Hulan)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship travel
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fowke/MacMillan 16, "The Ferryland Sealer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 120-121, "Ferryland Sealer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 22-23, "Ferryland Sealer" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FERRSEAL
Roud #4533
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Noble Fleet of Sealers"
NOTES: Although this song has been published in several sources, it appears likely that the only source is Leonard Hulan. It has some slight similarities to "A Noble Fleet of Sealers," but seems to be to a separate piece. - RBW
Peacock also has his version from Leonard Hulan. However, he claims a similar "variant" of "this fine old sealing song... was noted from George Decker in Rocky Harbour." Of course, Decker may have learned his version from Hulan who lives about 85 miles as the crow flies up the west coast from Decker. - BS
File: FowM016
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NAME: Festive Lumber-jack
DESCRIPTION: "I've been around the world a bit, an' seen beasts great an' small... He leaves the woods with his bristles raised... He's known by men of science as the festive lumberjack." The lumberjack's exploits end when his drink money runs out
AUTHOR: Ed Springstad and "a negro called Bill" ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby)
KEYWORDS: logger humorous drink money bragging
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Rickaby 23, "The Festive Lumber-jack" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Rick095 (Partial)
NOTES: According to Rickaby's informant, Ed Springstad, this song was composed in Crystal, North Dakota around 1900. From the sound of it, most of the real work of composition was by "Bill." Rickaby also says the song was well-known in Minnesota. I know of no supporting evidence. - RBW
File: Rick095
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NAME: Fethard Life-Boat Crew (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The Mexico, from America to Liverpool, is "dashed to pieces along the beach of Burrow's lonely shore." The Fethard Lifeboat crew "launched their boat at Fethard Quay ... to save the shipwrecked sailors." The lifeboat itself is wrecked.
AUTHOR: James Mahony of Bride St, Wexford
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS:  drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor rescue
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 20-21, 1914 - The Mexico wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 44, "The Fethard Life-Boat Crew" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mexico" (subject) and references there
cf. "The Hantoon" (tune)
NOTES: Ranson: Tune is "The Hantoon" on p. 46.
February 20, 1914: "Nine members of the Fethard lifeboat were drowned when going to the assistance of the Norwegian steamer _Mexico_.... Eight of the Mexico's crew were saved by the five lifeboat survivors. All but one of the stranded survivors were saved with great difficulty the next day." (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, pp. 52-53) - BS
We note that at least four poems were written about this disaster (see the cross-references); one suspects a campaign to raise money for someone's family. - RBW
File: Ran044
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NAME: Fethard Life-Boat Crew (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Schooner Mexico strikes Keeragh Rock. Nine of the life-boat crew are lost but Kelly reaches Mexico and gets a line to those that reach the rocks. Mexico crew is hauled to shore. One dies "from cold and exposure" before they are rescued three days later.
AUTHOR: Matthew Barden
EARLIEST_DATE: 1943 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor rescue
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 20-21, 1914 - The Mexico wreck
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 58-59, "The Fethard Life-Boat Crew" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mexico" (subject) and references there
NOTES: February 20, 1914: "Nine members of the Fethard lifeboat were drowned when going to the assistance of the Norwegian steamer _Mexico_.... Eight of the Mexico's crew were saved by the five lifeboat survivors. All but one of the stranded survivors were saved with great difficulty the next day." (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, pp. 52-53) - BS
We note that at least four poems were written about this disaster (see the cross-references); one suspects a campaign to raise money for someone's family. - RBW
File: Ran058
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NAME: Fethard Life-Boat Crew (III), The
DESCRIPTION: Mexico and its rescuers in the Fethard life-boat are wrecked in a storm on Keeragh Rock on the Wexford coast. "The crew of the gallant Mexico, though terror-stricken, too, They rendered all assistance to the drowning life-boat crew"; 9 rescuers drown
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 20-21, 1914 - The Mexico wreck
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 122, "The Fethard Life-Boat Crew" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mexico" (subject) and references there
NOTES: February 20, 1914: "Nine members of the Fethard lifeboat were drowned when going to the assistance of the Norwegian steamer _Mexico_.... Eight of the Mexico's crew were saved by the five lifeboat survivors. All but one of the stranded survivors were saved with great difficulty the next day." (source: Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, pp. 52-53) - BS
We note that at least four poems were written about this disaster (see the cross-references); one suspects a campaign to raise money for someone's family. - RBW
File: Ran122
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NAME: Few Days
DESCRIPTION: "Well, I pitched my tent on this campground, Few days, few days, And I give old Satan another round, And I am going home. I can't stay in these diggings, few days, few days, I can't stay in these diggings And I am going home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad mining
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 644, "Tree in Paradise" (3 short texts; the "A" version combines "Few Days" with a "Tree in Paradise" text; "B" is too short to classify easily; "C" seems to be mostly "All My Trials"; there may also be influence from "Is Your Lamps Gone Out" or the like)
Lomax-ABFS, p. 566, "Few Days" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, (FEWDAYS -- the mining parody)
Roud #15561
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Zaccheus Climbed the Sycamore Tree" (lyrics)
cf. "Indian Camp-Meeting Song"
NOTES: This originated as a hymn, and later was adapted by miners to describe their lives. Since, however, the miners' version took over the hymn in its entirety, simply tacking new verses on the end, we really can't separate the pieces.
Spaeth lists a song by Albert Holland, "Few Days" or "I'm Going Home," from 1854. It certainly sounds like the same song, but I can't prove it. - RBW
File: LxA566
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NAME: Fhear a Bhata (Fhir a Bhata: I Climb the Mountains)
DESCRIPTION: Song of longing with a Gaelic chorus. The singer asks where is her lover, the boatman. When will she see him? Her friends/other boatmen say he is unfaithful. She waits long, and looks far for word of her lover, fearing she has been forgotten
AUTHOR: Jane Finlayson (late 18th century)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love separation sailor foreignlanguage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland) Ireland Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
SHenry H834, pp. 289-290, "The Boatman/Fear a Bhata" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 786-787, "Fhir a Bhata" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FBHATA* THEBOATM*
ADDITIONAL: Bell/O Conchubhair, Traditional Songs of the North of Ireland, pp. 26-28, "Fear an Bhata" ("The Boatman") [Gaelic and English]
Roud #4356
NOTES: The Lesley Nelson-Burns site Folk Music of England Scotland Ireland, Wales & America collection is the source for the translation -- by Lachlan MacBean -- used as the basis for the DESCRIPTION, as well as for the attribution. That site's entry for the song credits Craig Cockburn with the data and includes other important information. However, MacBean's translation, apparently copied from _The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands_ edited by Alfred Moffat (Bayley & Ferguson, Glasgow), pp. 18-19 in the soft-cover edition printed ca 1960, pp. 26-27 in the hard-cover edition printed ca 1908, is written to be sung to the original music and so may not exactly carry the sense of the Gaelic. The translation of the chorus is from a note sent by George Seto whose site includes, among other subjects, Cape Breton Music and -- more to the point here -- an index of published Gaelic songs. 
The chorus
"Fhir a bhata, na horo-eile, Gu ma slan dut,
's gach ait an teid thu"
meaning
"O my boatman, na horo eile, Wishing health to you,
And [at] each place, will you come (return) [to me]?"
includes untranslated phrases such as "na horo eile." Creighton and MacLeod, _Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia_ (National Museums of Canada 1979) refers to these phrases as "Gaelic vocables" (e.g., p 181). My take on this is that they are untranslatable in the same sense that the yodel of a Jimmy Rodgers blue yodel is transcribable into French but not translatable.
Peacock notes that this "is called a milling song ... used to accompany the work of shrinking wool homespun.  The wet cloth is alternately kneaded and pounded on a large table by several people either seated or standing. A leader sings the verses, and everyone comes in on the chorus." "Milling wool" and "waulking tweed" is the same process. For a note on the process and the songs see "Waulking" by Craig Cockburn at the Silicon Glen site- BS
In a way, this isn't really a single song, because the translated version has circulated on its own. But it seemed better to lump to prevent confusion. - RBW
File: HHH834
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NAME: Fhideag Airgid, An: see The Silver Whistle (File: K009)
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NAME: Fiddle-Dee-Dee: see The Fly and the Bumblebee (Fiddle-Dee-Dee) (File: Lins196)
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NAME: Fiddle-I-Fee: see I Had a Little Rooster (Farmyard Song) (File: R352)
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NAME: Fiddler's Bitch, The
DESCRIPTION: In this cante-fable, a captain wagers his ship against a fiddler's violin, betting that he can bed the fiddler's virtuous wife.  The captain wins.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy fiddle wife seduction humorous infidelity wager
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 346-347, "The Fiddler's Bitch" (3 texts, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN1521, "It was a Rich Merchant man"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Polly Wolly Doodle" (tune)
cf. "Redesdale and Wise William" [Child 246] (plot)
cf. "The Twa Knights" (plot)
NOTES: The unidentified melody in Randolph-Legman I is the blackface minstrel song "Polly-Wolly-Doodle." - EC
This plot, of course, occurs repeatedly in folklore and mythology (some versions of the account of the love affair of Aphrodite and Ares, first narrated in the Odyssey VIII.266ff., are similar) -- but one may doubt whether this bawdy version has any classical roots. - RBW
WBO reports, on the basis of the British broadside "The Merchant and the Fidlers wife," that "Legman's cante-fable designation is nonsense." - WBO,RBW
File: RL346
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NAME: Fiddling Soldier: see One Morning in May (To Hear the Nightingale Sing) [Laws P14] (File: LP14)
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NAME: Field Calls
DESCRIPTION: "Field Call" is a term for a musical segment sung by field workers. Many had lyrics, and some sort of communicative purpose. Others were wordless laments, and are listed here
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: (undatable)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 83-84, (no title) (3 texts, 3 tunes)
NOTES: It should be evident that this list of field calls is very incomplete. - RBW
File: CNFM083
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NAME: Field of Monterey, The
DESCRIPTION: "A bugle horn is chanting now, A chorus far and free, And ev'rything rejoices For the glorious victory." The Americans have won a signal victory, but the singer grieves because her love has been slain in the bloody battle
AUTHOR: Marion Dix Sullivan ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Heart Songs; a ballad with this title, by Sullivan, was published 1846)
KEYWORDS: battle war Mexico death separation grief
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sept 20-24, 1846 - Battle of Monterrey (part of the Mexican War). General Zachary Taylor captures the city, but the fight is bloody
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 665, "The Field of Monterey" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7366
File: R665
===
NAME: Fielding: see Charles Augustus (or Gustavus) Anderson [Laws D19] (File: LD19)
===
NAME: Fiery Clock Fyece, The
DESCRIPTION: "O Dick, what's kept ye a' this time?... O hinny, Dolly, sit thee doon.... The Newcassel folks hes catch'd a moon An' myed it a bonny clock-fyece." The singer tells of the lighted clock a St. Nicolas's church, and how people were amazed
AUTHOR: Robert Nunn
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay); Nunn died 1853
KEYWORDS: nonballad technology
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 82-83, "The Fiery Clock Fyece" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3144
File: StoR082
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NAME: Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest: see Dead Man's Chest  (File: LxA512)
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NAME: Fifteen Ships on Georges' Banks [Laws D3]
DESCRIPTION: A great storm strikes Georges' Banks in February, 1862. Fifteen ships from Gloucester are caught in the storm; all ships are lost and most if not all of the crews. The sad fate of the families of the lost is mentioned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: storm disaster ship sea death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 24, 1862 - The great storm of George's Banks. Fifteen ships are lost; thirteen of them go down with all hands
FOUND_IN: US(NE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws D3, "Fifteen Ships on Georges' Banks"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 129, "George's Bank" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 781-783, "Fifteen Ships on George's Banks"
Darling-NAS, pp. 182-183, "Fifteen Ships of Georges' Banks" (1 text)
DT 610, GEORGES
Roud #2229
File: LD03
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NAME: Fifty Cents: see I Had But Fifty Cents (File: R485)
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NAME: Fight for Home and Honor, A: see The Homestead Strike (File: Gil198)
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NAME: Fightin' Booze Fighter, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports, "I'm a howler from the prairies of the west; If you want to die with terror, look at me..." and goes on to describe how terrible he is. The chorus replies "He's a killer and a hater! He's the great annihilator!" and so forth
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933
KEYWORDS: cowboy fight
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 35, "Cowboy Boasters" (5 texts, 2 tunes; this is the "A" text)
Roud #11214
NOTES: The Fifes seem to think this is a traditional example of cowboy boasting. I can't bring myself to believe it; it's too contrived. - RBW
File: FCW035A
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NAME: Fighting For Strangers: see Our Captain Calls All Hands (Fighting for Strangers) (File: Pea416)
===
NAME: Filer, The
DESCRIPTION: Recitation. On a spree, Jim McCloud tells his foreman to cut off his leg, as it's loose. The foreman offers to cut Jim's head (his "weakest part") off instead. Jim answers that a foreman doesn't need to use his head, but a filer does, so he'll keep it
AUTHOR: Probably Marion Ellsworth
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation; Jim McCloud is a filer of saws in a lumber-camp; a drinker, he's sometime gone for a week at a time. After one of these sprees, he tells his foreman to cut off his leg, as it's loose. The foreman says that's too hard a job for him, and offers to cut Jim's head off instead, "as that is your weakest part." Jim replies that while a foreman doesn't need to use his head, a filer does, so he'll keep it.
KEYWORDS: lumbering work drink humorous recitation
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 99, "The Filer" (1 text)
Roud #8878
NOTES: This, like the other pieces probably written by Ellsworth, does not seem to have entered oral tradition. - PJS
File: Be099
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NAME: Filipino Hombre, A
DESCRIPTION: "There was once a Filipino hombre Who ate rice pescado y legumbre. His trousers were wide, and his shirt hung outside, And this, I may say, was costumbre." In mixed English and pidgin Spanish, the singer demeaningly describes the Filipino's family
AUTHOR: Captain Lyman A. Cotten
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: political family death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1898 - The U.S. captures the Philippines from Spain. The Americans were unwilling to grant the islands independence, so many soldiers had to be sent to garrison the islands. Neither side had much regard for the other
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, pp. 434-435, "A Filipino Hombre" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: San434
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NAME: Fill, Bowl, Fill
DESCRIPTION: A servant outwits a king, beds the queen, and marries the princess in this cante-fable.  When the king orders the servant to fill a bowl with song, the servant cleverly retells the story of his triumph, until the king relents.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous seduction servant royalty
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 348-350, "Fill, Bowl, Fill" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
NOTES: For folktale references, see Vance Randolph, Who Blowed Up the Churchhouse (NY: Columbia University Press, 1952), pp. 185-186; and his Pissing in the Snow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), pp. 47-50. - EC
File: RL348
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NAME: Fille de la Garnison, La (The Garrison Girl)
DESCRIPTION: French. A soldier's mistress dresses as a boy to follow him without losing her honor. At an inn, the hostess said "I can tell... that you are a camp follower."  When she claims to be a boy the hostess challenges "him" to make love with her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting love army cross-dressing mistress soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 335-336, "La Fille de la Garnison" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Pea335
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NAME: Fille Soldat de Montcontour, La (The Girl Soldier of Montcontour)
DESCRIPTION: French. A girl dresses as a boy and joins her lover's regiment. She asks him why he is crying. He has a letter from his mom that his mistress left home seven years ago. She reveals that she is his mistress. They marry with great regimental ceremony.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting marriage army war cross-dressing mistress soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 338-339, "La Fille Soldat de Montcontour" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Pea338
===
NAME: Fillimeeooreay: see Paddy Works on the Railway (File: LxU076)
===
NAME: Finding of Moses, The
DESCRIPTION: "In Agypt's land, contaygious to the Nile, Old Pharo's daughter ... saw a smiling babby in a wad of straw ...'Tare-an-ages, girls, which o' yees owns the child?'"
AUTHOR: probably Michael J. Moran (Zozimus)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1871 (Gulielmus Dubliniensis Humoriensis)
KEYWORDS: Bible humorous baby
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
OLochlainn, p. 230, "The Finding of Moses" (1 fragment)
ADDITIONAL: Gulielmus Dubliniensis Humoriensis [Joseph Tully?], Memoir of the Great Original Zozimus (Michael Moran) (Dublin,1976 (reprint of the 1871 edition)), pp. 20-22, "The Finding of Moses" or "Finding of Moses in the Nile"
H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 514, in a note to "Night Before Larry Was Stretched"
ADDITIONAL: Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, pp. 26-27, "The Finding of Moses" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Little Moses" (plot)
NOTES: OLochlainn: "...Zozimus, who was in life Michael Moran, born ... Dublin, about the year 1794 ... composed a notable ballad on The Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes, which begins On Egypt's plains where flows the ancient Nile, Where Ibix stalks and swims the Crockadile.... It underwent many changes ... and a number of versions are extant. A fragment of one [is presented here]."
Sparling's text, exactly as complete or incomplete as OLochlainn, is in not quite as broad a slang. Sparling also attributes it to "the celebrated blind 'Zozimus' who sang his own songs." A more complete version is Frank Harte's _Songs of Dublin_: Moses' mother is picked up, by coincidence, to be his nurse.
"Memoir of the Great Original Zozimus (Michael Moran)" has two versions; the first "would appear to be all his own composition" and the second "appears to have been an early effort [by Moran]." In the first, which has two verses, King Pharoah's daughter "tuk it [Moses] to Pharo', who madly wild, Said, 'You foolish girl have you got with child?"; in spite of the efforts of one of the daughter's entourage to dissuade Pharoah he says he'll "search every hole and nook" for the father "and likely I'll find him at Donnybrook." The second, rescued "from the uncertainty of tradition," is much longer (26 rhymed couplets), has no statements at all by Pharoah, and ends with a moral drawn from the life of the boy "which rescued from their bondage the Israel of God": "A conquered nation, though down-trod, it still is never crushed, A Liberator always comes when Freedom's voice is hushed; And so our own dear land, in time we all shall see The Saxon rulers gone - Old Ireland shall be free!" - BS
According to Frank Harte, Moran/Zozimus went blind at the age of two weeks, forcing him into a career in entertainment. He took his stage name from an abott Zozimus who lived in Egypt. Moran died in 1846.
The story of Moses being abandoned by his parents (who had to hide him to prevent him from being killed) is told in Exodus 2:1-10. The picking of his mother, in the Bible, is no coincidence. His sister (presumably Miriam, but the girl is not named at this time) has followed the baby along the Nile, and when the time comes, offers to find a nurse for the baby. Naturally she chose Moses's own mother (Exodus 2:7-8). - RBW
File: OLOc230
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NAME: Fine Broom Besoms (When I Was wi' Barney)
DESCRIPTION: After singing the besom-selling chorus, the singer recalls wandering far from the home where "my mother's spinnin', Barney at the loom." She dreams of her youth when she danced with Barney. "Now the summer's over... I am tired at last."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: work home separation
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H17a, p. 60, "Fine Broom Besoms" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1623
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Buy Broom Besoms (I Maun Hae a Wife)"
NOTES: The besom-seller's cry, "Buy broom besoms, wha will buy them noo? (Fine heather ringers), better never grew" is obviously very old, and inspired Burns in 1796 to write "Wha will buy my troggin."
The street call isn't really a song, though, and it evidently invited completion, as I am aware of at least three texts with this burden:
* I Maun Hae a Wife, probably Scottish, in which the old besom-maker desperately seeks a companion.
* The Sam Henry text "Fine Broom Besoms," in which the singer misses Barney. This looks to me to be a composite of two pieces; I wish we could isolate the Barney text. It looks very beautiful in the nostalgic Irish sort of way.
* The Besom Maker, a song of seduction, printed as a broadside. - RBW
File: HHH017a
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NAME: Fine Flowers in the Valley: see The Cruel Mother [Child 20] (File: C020)
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NAME: Fine Lady Gay, The: see The Wife of Usher's Well [Child 79] (File: C079)
===
NAME: Fine Sally: see A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London; Sally and Billy; The Sailor from Dover; Pretty Sally; etc.) [Laws P9]; also "The Brown Girl" [Child 295] (File: LP09)
===
NAME: Fine Times in Camp Number Three
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls his listener to hear two verses about lumberjacks (and then sings ten verses!). He levels some snide comments at dishonest workers, then lists all the workers on the crew (without naming names)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes logger work lumbering
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #23, "Fine Times in Camp Number Three" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4361
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rigs of the Times" (lyrics)
NOTES: I have to suspect that this is a composite song. The first verse says it's only two verses -- but the version sung by LaRena Clark has ten stanzas. The third is straight out of a Canadian version of "Rigs of the Times." My feeling is that Clark's version of "Fine Times in Camp Number Three" contaminates that with parts of "Rigs of the Times," with which it probably shared a tune. - RBW
File: FowL23
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NAME: Finest Waitress, The
DESCRIPTION: "The finest waitress I ever did see Is the handsome girl that waits on me... Polite she is to young and old, I'm sure she has a heart of gold." He praises her work, and concludes "May unseen angels ever be Near the fair blonde girl who waits on me."
AUTHOR: Edgar Hamm?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: nonballad food servant
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 250-251, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Thomas comments on this piece, "Many a mountain lad thinks on verse." On the evidence, this particular mountain lad didn't think at all -- at least with his brain. - RBW
File: ThBa250
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NAME: Finikin Lass (Finnigan Lasses)
DESCRIPTION: The singer marries a boarding school bred lady who does nothing but read novels. One day he catches her in the cellar "paying the rent." "I'd rather marry the devil than wed with a boarding school lass." "So beware of the Finnegan lasses"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1205))
KEYWORDS: shrewishness infidelity marriage beauty clothes humorous scatological wife
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 269-271, "Finnigan Lasses" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2382
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1205), "The Finical Lass," W. Stephenson (Gateshead), 1821-1838; also Harding B 25(652), "The Finical Lass"; Firth c.20(5), "Finikin Lasses"; Johnson Ballads 827, "The Finiken Lass"
NOTES: For a definition of "finikin," specifically "precise in trifles, idly busy," see TheFreeDictionary site.  The word is like current "finicky."
There is also a parody at Bodleian, Harding B 11(1206), "The Finiken Man," J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844 - BS
File: Pea269
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NAME: Finished Letter, The: see Anna Lee (The Finished Letter) (File: R775)
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NAME: Finn Waterside
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders out and hears his true love call him to Finn waterside. Her(?) parents are sending/exiling her(?) to America. She says she loves only him. He (or she) bids farewell to the local beauties
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H240, p. 192, "Finn Waterside" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13548
NOTES: This song, at least in the Henry version, is very confusing; with no indication of speakers, it is not clear whether the girl or the boy is being exiled (let alone for what reason), nor whether the final scene is a parting by the one being exiled or a promise by the other to come along, accompanied by a farewell to the old home. - RBW
File: HHH240
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NAME: Finnegan's Wake (II): see Molly McGlocklin (File: RcMolMcG)
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NAME: Finnegan's Wake [Laws Q17]
DESCRIPTION: Tim Finnegan, never entirely sober, falls from a ladder and cracks his head. Taken home unconscious, his wife holds a wake that soon gets out of control. Splashed with whiskey, Tim awakens and resents being thought dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1861 (broadside, LOCSinging sb40523b)
KEYWORDS: injury drink fight party
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Laws Q17, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" [Laws Q17]
Eddy 146, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 169, "Finnigan's Wake" (1 text)
Creighton-NovaScotia 86, "Tim Finnigan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 136, "Tim Finigan's Wake" (1 text)
OLochlainn 91, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 219, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text)
Gilbert, p. 120, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 partial text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 232, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text)
DT 528, FINNWAKE*
ADDITIONAL: Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, pp. 28-29, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1009
RECORDINGS:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Finnigan's Wake" (on IRClancyMakem01)
Warde Ford, "Finnegan's Wake" [incomplete] (AFS 4212 A3, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Jack Swain, "Finnigan's Wake I" (on NFMLeach)
John Terrell, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" (Berliner 1869, 1898)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(254), "Finnigan's Wake," W.S. Fortey (London), 1858-1885; also Harding B 11(3620), Harding B 11(3619), Firth c.26(209), Harding B 11(1207), "Finnigan's Wake"
LOCSinging, sb40523b, "Tim Finigan's wake," H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Irish Wake" [Laws Q18]
cf. "The Bullockies' Ball" (theme)
cf. "Doherty's Wake" (subject)
SAME_TUNE:
The French Musician (per broadside LOCSinging sb40523b)
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging sb40523b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: LQ17
===
NAME: Finnigan Lasses: see Finikin Lass (Finnigan Lasses) (File: Pea269)
===
NAME: Finnigan's Wake: see Finnegan's Wake [Laws Q17] (File: LQ17)
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NAME: Finvola, the Gem of the Roe
DESCRIPTION: "In the land of O'Cahan... Deep sunk in a valley a wild flower did grow, And her name was Finvola, the gem of the Roe." A young man in tartan comes and falls in love with her. Now she is dead (?); the locals grieve
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: death love
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H786, pp. 139-140, "Finvola, the Gem of the Roe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2291
NOTES: Yes, this song (or at least the Henry text) is as confusing as the description implies. It's not clear what the young man is introduced for, nor even if Finvola dies or is stolen away. - RBW
File: HHH786
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NAME: Fire Down Below
DESCRIPTION: "There is fire in the lower hold, There's fire down below, Fire in the main well, The captain didn't know." All places where fire has arisen (or might arise), from mast to keel, are listed. It perhaps started in the galley, and "The cook he didn't know"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Smith/Hatt)
KEYWORDS: fire ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Colcord, p. 117, "Fire Down Below" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 123-125 "Fire Down Below" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Hugill, pp. 519-522, "Fire Down Below" (5 texts, 5 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 378-381]
Sharp-EFC, XXIV, p. 27, "Fire! Fire!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Smith/Hatt, p. 39, "Fire in the Foretop" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 83, "Fire Down Below" (1 text)
DT, FIREBELO
Roud #813
File: FSWB083A
===
NAME: Fire in the Foretop: see Fire Down Below (File: FSWB083A)
===
NAME: Fire of Frendraught, The [Child 196]
DESCRIPTION: Brothers Lord John and Rothiemay are enticed by Lady Frendraught to stay at Castle Frendraught to end their feud. Their room is set afire by night. Lord John's servant offers to catch him out the window, but it is too late. Lord John's wife is heartbroken
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1794 (Ritson)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The brothers Lord John and Rothiemay are enticed by Lady Frendraught to stay at Castle Frendraught to seal a compact between their feuding families. Their room is set afire by night. Lady Frendraught expresses mild regret for killing Lord John, but none for Rothiemay. Lord John's servant offers to catch him (but not poor Rothiemay) out the window, but it is too late. When Lord John's wife hears the news, her heart is broken.
KEYWORDS: fire feud betrayal brother family trick
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: October 8/9, 1630 - The Frendraught Fire
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 196, "The Fire of Frendraught" (6 texts)
Bronson 196, "The Fire of Frendraught" (4 versions)
Friedman, p. 267, "Fire of Frendraught" (1 text)
OBB 145, "The Fire of Frendraught" (1 text)
DT 196, FRNDRGT*
Roud #336
NOTES: In terms of feud, this wasn't notably worse than much of what passed in Scotland; the survival of the song may be due to its religious associations (this was the reign of Charles I, when Puritanism was on the rise but the king appeared to be so High Church as to be soft on Catholicism).
C. V. Wedgwood writes in _The King's Peace_, p. 120,
"In 1630 a principal member of Huntly's family [Huntly was one of the leading Catholics] had perished with several companions in a fire at Frendraught, a house belonging to the Crichtons. The Crichtons, though apparently reconciled, were hereditary enemies of the Gordons, and foul play was suspected. If the horrible business had indeed been a murder and not an accident, it was probably the result of personal enmity and nothing more, but a religious motive was suspected. The Catholics told a tragic tale of the heroism of the young victim who has expounded the true faith to his companions as the flames crept up the tower in which he was trapped."
Rosalind Mitchison, in _A History of Scotland_, second edition, pp. 169-170, says this of the affair:
"[A] famous dispute... lay across Aberdeenshire in the 1630s, the affair of the burning of the tower of Frendraught, part of the Crichton homestead which went up in flames one night in October 1630 with a son of Huntly and Gordon of Rothiemay, and their attendants, inside. It was never established that this was more than a ghastly accident, but the Gordons were passionately resentful. Huntly [the chief of the Gordons] took the quarrel to the Privy Council. The Council investigated repeatedly, tortured a servant or two for information, executed a hanger-on of no great social status, but failed to gain evidence against Crichton of Frendraught. Dissatisfied, Huntley let in broken men from the Highlands to ravage Crichton land, and for years the north-east was troubled by burnings, looting, and kidnappings."- RBW
File: C196
===
NAME: Fire on the Mountain, Run, Run, Run
DESCRIPTION: Singing game, with text "Fire on the mountain, run, run, run."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton/Senior)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 260, "Fire on the Mountain, Run, Run, Run" (1 extremely short text)
Roud #4618
NOTES: Probably a lost fragment of something. But with only one line of text, we can hardly tell what. Roud, quite improbably, lumps it with "Jim Along Josie." - RBW
File: CrSe260
===
NAME: Fire Ship, The
DESCRIPTION: In naval euphemisms, a sailor meets a whore, takes her in tow, and empties his shot locker. She steals his money and clothes, and he discovers she has given him "fire down below."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1612 (London broadside, "Watten's Town End")
KEYWORDS: bawdy sailor sex warning whore disease
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(NW,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Hugill, pp. 171-172, "The Fire Ship" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 138-139]
Cray, pp. 68-71, "The Fire Ship" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 237-239, "The Fire Ship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 205-206, "The Fire Ship" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHJohnson, p. 61, "The Fire Ship" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 26, "The Fireship" (1 text)
DT, FIRSHIP
Roud #8344
RECORDINGS:
Guy Mitchell, "The Fire Ship" (Columbia 78-39067, 1950 -- a cleaned-up version, needless to say)
The Weavers, "The Roving Kind" (Decca 27332, 1950; on WeaversCD1 -- another cleaned-up version)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Firelock Stile" (plot)
cf. "The Sewing Machine" (plot)
cf. "The Wayward Boy" (plot)
cf.  "While Hanging Around Town" (plot)
cf. "A-Rovin'" (plot)
cf. "Ball of Yarn" (plot)
cf. "Boring for Oil" (plot)
cf. "Eleventh Street Whores" (plot)
cf. "Footprints on the Dashboard" (plot)
cf. "The Gay Caballero" (plot)
cf. "Root, Hog, or Die (VI -- Cowboy Bawdy variant)" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
She Had a Dark and a Rovin' Eye
A Dark and a Rolling Eye
NOTES: Legman has extensive notes on this ballad in Randolph-Legman I. - EC
A "fireship," as the term was usually used, was a small craft set on fire and floated into a larger vessel (or fleet) to set it afire or at least force it off-course. Hence the analogy to a prostitute who spreads disease.
Most printed and recorded versions of this have been cleaned up to some extent. - RBW
File: EM068
===
NAME: Fire, Maringo
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "Lift him up and carry him along, Fire maringo, fire away. Put him down where he belongs, Fire maringo, fire away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1884 (Charles Nordhoff's _The Merchant Vessel, a Sailor Boy's Voyages_ 1884)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hugill, p. 16. "Fire, Maringo" (1 text, quoting Nordhoff's _The Merchant Vessel_)
DT, FIRMRING
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Fire, Marengo
NOTES: Some dispute on the origin; Hugill says that Doerflinger mentions this as being of Negro origin (but I couldn't find any mention of it in _Shantymen and Shantyboys_ [nor could I - RBW]); however, Hugill himself thinks it is Irish, citing the use of the word "maringo" which he says is found is many Irish folk-songs. - SL
File: Hugi016
===
NAME: Fire! Fire!: see Fire Down Below (File: FSWB083A)
===
NAME: Fireball MacNamara's Address to his Pistols
DESCRIPTION: MacNamara talks to his pistols on the morning of a battle. He tells how he will kill foes. He fought at Vinegar Hill. Steel, not words, will "drive foreign foes from the land" "One eloquent blow ... Would gain you more glory than ages of speech"
AUTHOR: Michael Hogan (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1880 (Hogan's _Lays and Legends of Thomond_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 128, "Fireball MacNamara's Address to his Pistols" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan: "John 'Fireball' MacNamara ... was a noted duellist and adventurer. He was reputed to have taken part, incognito, in the battle of Vinegar Hill [June 21, 1798; see, for example, the references for 'Boulavogue'], and he seconded Daniel O'Connell during the latter's duel with D'Esterre in 1815 [see references for 'Kerry Eagle']." - BS
File: Moyl128
===
NAME: Firelock Stile
DESCRIPTION: A woman is crossing Firelock Stile, she catches her clothes on a nail. A man is dazzled by the sight; she says if he'd like to play, the price is 20 guineas. Six weeks later "she gave him some fire to keep him from cold." He curses her and warns others.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recorded by Harry Cox)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: As a woman is crossing Firelock Stile, a nail catches hold of her clothes, and various private parts are exposed. A young man is dazzled at the sight; she tells him she's amazed at his gaze, but if he'd like to play, the price is 20 guineas. He would, he pays, they do, and six weeks later "she gave him some fire to keep him from cold." The young man curses her and warns others. Chorus: "On her rump-a-tump tooral tooral laddie-dy/Rump-a-tump tooral tooral day"
KEYWORDS: disease sex warning commerce bawdy whore
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 173, "Firelock Stile" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FIRELOK
Roud #1780
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "Firelock Stile" (on FSB2CD)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
NOTES: A stile was a wooden "stepping-over" place used for crossing fences; per Kennedy, it afforded prostitutes a chance to display their charms without being arrested for indecent exposure. "Firelock," of course, refers to the effect of the clap the young man catches. - PJS
File: K173
===
NAME: Fireman Save My Child: see No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child) (File: San208)
===
NAME: Fireship, The: see The Fire Ship (File: EM068)
===
NAME: First Arrival -- "Aurora" and "Walrus" Full
DESCRIPTION: "The first arrival from the ice Has just come in today; The good old ship Aurora And her colors waving gay." The ship arrives full of seals on Saint Patrick's Day. Captain Kean is celebrated. The Walrus is the next to arrive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Old Home Week Songster)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 72, "First Arrival -- 'Aurora' and 'Walrus" Full" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Arrival of the 'Grand Banks' and 'Virginia Lake' With Bumper Trips" (theme, ships)
cf. "Arrival of 'Aurora,' Diana,' 'Virginia Lake' and 'Vanguard,' Loaded" (theme, ships)
cf. "The Sealer's Song (II)" (ships)
File: RySm072
===
NAME: First Arrival from Sea Fishery S. S. Fogota, 1912
DESCRIPTION: "The first arrival from the front Is just come in today; The little ship Fogota WIth her colors waving gay." The Fogota had set out early and taken a fine load of seal. Now they return to cheers. The singer wishes captain and crew well
AUTHOR: apparently Johnny Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Burke's Ballads)
KEYWORDS: ship travel hunting return
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 82, "First Arrival from Sea Fishery S. S. Fogota, 1912" (1 text)
File: RySm082
===
NAME: First Come in it was a Rat, The: see Frog Went A-Courting (File: R108)
===
NAME: First Day Of Christmas, The: see The Twelve Days of Christmas (File: FO213)
===
NAME: First Families of Fall River
DESCRIPTION: "Old Roger Corey, old Doctor Turner, old Frank Brayton, old Hannah Leighton, old Mary Carter, old Squire Brightman, Buck Ben Durfee, and old Oliver  Read!  ...  Long Gesh, short Gesh, corner Gesh, and Gesham's Gesh...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Linscott)
KEYWORDS: nonballad moniker
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Linscott, pp. 198-199, "First Families of Fall River" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3732
NOTES: The ultimate moniker song (i.e. list of people associated with a particular place or occupation): This doesn't even really say who they are; it just lists their names. - RBW
File: Lins198
===
NAME: First Good Joy That Mary Had, The: see The Seven Joys of Mary (File: FO211)
===
NAME: First Night's Courtship, The
DESCRIPTION: "When I was a big boy, wi' the thoughts o' the joy," the youth meets Maggie at the fair. After some persuasion, they return to her barn. Her father comes out raging, but they have locked the barn. They flee when he seeks another entrance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: courting sex father children home
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Gardner/Chickering 167, "The First Night's Courting" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST GC168 (Partial)
Roud #3706
NOTES: Though seemingly known only from the Michigan collection, this song originated in Scotland and still retains its Scots feeling. I'm surprised it isn't more widespread. - RBW
File: GC168
===
NAME: First Noel, The
DESCRIPTION: "The first Noel the angels did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay." The shepherds and the Wise Men see signs and come to see and pay homage to the King (Jesus)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1823 (Gilbert, "Some Ancient Christmas Carols")
KEYWORDS: Jesus Christmas religious
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
OBC 27, "The First Nowell" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 376, "The First Noel" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 226-227, "The First Noel"
DT, FRSTNOEL*
ADDITIONAL: Ian Bradley, _The Penguin Book of Carols_ (1999), #77, "The First Nowell" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "The First Noel" (on PeteSeeger37, PeteSeeger42)
SAME_TUNE:
No L (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 203)
NOTES: Allegedly based on a Cornish carol found in manuscript in 1817, and perhaps printed in eighteenth century broadsides. - RBW
File: FSWB376A
===
NAME: First Nowell, The: see The First Noel (File: FSWB376A)
===
NAME: First of the Emigrants, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is leaving England for Australia. He describes how the voyage began, and the difficult passage itself. Now settled in Australia, and prosperous, he prepares to go back to England in far better style than he left
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: emigration travel ship money return
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 149-151, "The First of the Emigrants" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 523-525, "Bound to Australia" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 383-384]
DT, FRSTEMIG*
Roud #9434
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jock Stewart (The Man You Don't Meet Every Day)" (tune, meter, chorus)
File: Doe149
===
NAME: First Time I Saw My Love, The: see My Generous Lover (File: RcMGL)
===
NAME: Fish and Brewis
DESCRIPTION: In summer we fish and jig squid. In spring we log and "make just enough to have fish and brewis. If the cutting is bad then we'll go in the hole, there's no other redemption but live on the dole"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: fishing lumbering hardtimes nonballad food
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 123-124, "Fish and Brewis" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9962
NOTES: Peacock: "Brewis (pronounced 'brews' in Newfoundland) is hard-tack soaked overnight in water, boiled up with cod-fish the following morning, and garnished with 'scruncheons' (bits of fried pork fat). Fish and brewis is supposed to be the traditional Sunday breakfast in some parts of Newfoundland. I [Peacock] personally find it virtually indigestible at any time of the day. It is one of those national dishes like the Scotch haggis which mercifully has passed from popular usage so that its peculiar attributes may be more fully appreciated at infrequent ceremonial meals." - BS
Of course, un-soaked hardtack was also nearly inedible (especially to those with poor teeth); its only virtue was that it didn't decay. Something had to be done to make it swallowable, even if the result tasted like, well, wet flour. - RBW
File: Pea122
===
NAME: Fish and Chip Ship, The
DESCRIPTION: A fresh-water crew sets out "on a four-wheeled craft ... with a cargo of fried fish" The ship hits a Christmas tree. The wind blows off the skipper's wooden leg. The crew gets drunk on engine oil. The ship sinks but the crew escapes and saves the cargo.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (recording, Bob Roberts)
KEYWORDS: commerce ship wreck humorous talltale sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
Roud #1854
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "The Fish and Chip Ship" (on Voice02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
File: RcTFaCSh
===
NAME: Fish and Chips (Down by the Liffey Side)
DESCRIPTION: John and Mary stop at Rabiotti's for fish and chips. They walk down George's Street. Mary plays Rule Britannia on her melodeon, then "The Soldier's Song." Sunday they plan to marry "with the whole afternoon for our honeymoon Down by the Liffey's side"
AUTHOR: Peadar Kearney
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: courting wedding river food music Ireland humorous river
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 249-250, "Fish and Chips" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, LIFFSIDE*
ADDITIONAL: Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, p. 13, "Down by the Liffey Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Tan-Yard Side" (tune) [OLochlainn 41]
NOTES: The Liffey River runs about 80 miles from County Wicklow through Dublin to Dublin Bay. - BS
Peadar Kearny wrote, among other things, the Irish national anthem "The Soldier's Song" and "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)." For more on him, see the notes to "Whack Fol the Diddle (God Bless England)."
There is an interesting note in Harte, saying that most people "have a verse or two" of this, but not the whole song. And, indeed, Ben's description of the song (which I augmented) misses much of the text as given by Harte, including Mary's shift from playing "Rule Britannia" to playing "The Soldier's Song." Kearney's original text (with its not-so-subtle reference to his own most famous piece) is thus rather political, but it appears that the song as it has gone into tradition is much less so. - RBW
File: OLcM249
===
NAME: Fish of the Sea, The: see Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) (File: LxA496)
===
NAME: Fisher Who Died in His Bed, The
DESCRIPTION: "Old Jim Jones the fisher, the trapper, the trawler, ... the fish-killin' banker ... died in his bed." Song tells about his trawling, trapping, catching cod, salting, tobacco chewing, sailing, "his fishing days ended...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: death fishing sea ship memorial nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 127-128, "The Fisher Who Died in His Bed" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4551
File: Pea127
===
NAME: Fisherman of Wexford, The
DESCRIPTION: The rule that none fish Wexford Bay St Martin's Eve was broken once: "upon that holy day Came a wondrous shoal of herring." Against women's cries the men went out to "sweep the Bay"; only two boats are saved when "a human shape" waves them back to shore.
AUTHOR: John Boyle O'Reilly
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck fishing supernatural recitation
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Nov 10, 1762: 70 are lost in Wexford Bay fishing disasters (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 52)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 21-23, "The Fisherman of Wexford" (1 text)
NOTES: Ranson: The ballad states that "Upon St Martin's Eve no net shall be let down ... within the scope of Wexford Bay." No one knows when or how the rule was established. "Down to recent years no fisherman would dare put to sea on St Martin's Eve. This ballad is very popular on the Wexford coast. I have never heard it sung, but it is often recited." - BS
File: Ran021
===
NAME: Fisherman's Alphabet, The
DESCRIPTION: "'A' for abundance, this we all need ..." boats, caplin, dawn... zephyr. Chorus: "So merry... are we No mortals on earth are like fishers at sea; Blow high or blow low we're jogging along. Give us a fair cull and there's nothing goes wrong."
AUTHOR: Words: Chris Cobb
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: nonballad wordplay fishing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 125-126, "The Fisherman's Alphabet" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #159
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumberman's Alphabet" (Theme and structure)
NOTES: To "cull" is to grade fish. - BS
File: Pea125
===
NAME: Fisherman's Boy, The [Laws Q29]
DESCRIPTION: A poor boy, cast adrift, wanders alone, crying that his mother died and his father was lost at sea. At last a kind woman takes him in and has her father find him work. The boy serves well until he grows up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1856 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1211))
KEYWORDS: orphan family servant
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So) Canada(Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws Q29, "The Fisherman's Boy"
Eddy 67, "The Fisherman's Boy" (1 text)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 99, "The Poor Fisherman's Boy" (1 text)
DT 537, FISHBOY
Roud #912
RECORDINGS:
Micho Russell, "Poor Little Fisherboy" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1211), "Fisherman's Boy," W. Jackson and Son (Birmingham), 1842-1855
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
File: LQ29
===
NAME: Fisherman's Daughter, The
DESCRIPTION: "I've been caught in a net by a dear little pet...  She's a fisherman's daughter, lives over the water, She's going to be married next Sunday to me." He describes her beauty, her cheeriness, her singing. He looks forward to the wedding
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage fishing
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 786, "The Fisherman's Daughter" (1 text)
Roud #7417
NOTES: I somehow doubt this song originated in the Ozarks. - RBW
File: R786
===
NAME: Fisherman's Girl, The
DESCRIPTION: A poor girl is crying out in the street. She has lost parents and friends, and is left alone. As she passes a fine house, the owner calls her in. It proves to be her brother, and she is allowed to live happily there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Eddy)
KEYWORDS: brother mercy orphan poverty
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Eddy 66, "The Fisherman's Girl" (1 text)
Warner 144, "The Fisherman's Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "The Fisherman's Girl" (source notes only)
ST E066 (Full)
Roud #2809
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, APS.4.86.5, "The Fisherman's Girl," unknown, c. 1830
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Boy" [Laws Q29] (plot)
cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
cf. "The Orphan" (theme)
File: E066
===
NAME: Fisherman's Luck: see The Frog (Fisherman's Luck) (File: MCB279)
===
NAME: Fisherman's Son to the Ice Has Gone, The
DESCRIPTION: "The fisherman's son to the ice has gone, On the quarter deck you'll find him; His belt and sheathe he has girded on...." The singer tells of finding and taking the seals, then returning to "Fair Terra Nova's daughters"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Murphy, Songs Sung by Old Time Sealers of Many Years Ago)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship reunion derivative
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 134, "The Fisherman's Son to the Ice Has Gone" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Minstrel Boy" (form)
NOTES: No tune is indicated for this, but -- as the lines quoted show -- it is patently a seal-hunting version of "The Minstrel Boy." - RBW
File: RySm134
===
NAME: Fisherman's Son to the Ice is Gone, The: see The Sealer Lad (The Fisherman's Son to the Ice is Gone) (File: RySm069)
===
NAME: Fishermen of Newfoundland, The: see The Flemings of Torbay [Laws D23] (File: LD23)
===
NAME: Fishermen's Song (We'll Go to Sea No More)
DESCRIPTION: "O blithely shines the bonnie sun Upon the Isle of May, And blithely rolls the morning tide Into St. Andrew's Bay." "When haddocks leave the Firth of Forth, And mussels leave the shore, When oysters climb up Berwick Law, We'll go to sea no more."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Montgomerie)
KEYWORDS: fishing food
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 184, "(O blithely shines the bonnie sun)" (1 short text)
NOTES: This occurs in several anthologies of fishing poems, and I'm pretty sure I met is somewhere in the dim and misty past. I can't find any folk collections, other than the perhaps dubious one in Montgomery, but on the other hand, no one seems to know who wrote this. So I am, very hesitantly, indexing it.
It is ironic to note that this is largely coming true: Pollution and overfishing have nearly destroyed the fish stocks around the British Isles, and the small fishing vessels are nearly as extinct as the fish.
The Isle of May is a speck of land just about halfway between the north and south shores of the Firth of Forth, right at the spot where the Firth opens into the North Sea. It is thus the gateway from the Firth into the open ocean. - RBW
File: MSNR184
===
NAME: Fishes, The: see Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) (File: LxA496)
===
NAME: Fishing Blues
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes pleasures of fishing, boasting, "I'm going fishing, you're going fishing. You can bet your life, your (lovely/ugly/loving) wife I'll catch more fish than you...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas)
KEYWORDS: fishing
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 106, "Fishing Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Thomas, "Fishing Blues" (Vocalion 1249, 1928; on AAFM3)
NOTES: The song is not in blues form; Henry Thomas was more of an African-American "songster" than a blues singer, tracing his musical style back to pre-blues traditions, including playing a rack of quills. - PJS
File: ADR106
===
NAME: Fishing on the Labrador
DESCRIPTION: The A&J Humby lands two fishermen at Goose Cove and heads for Labrador to hunt seals and trap cod. The crew are all named. They had a good summer. "We're a crowd of bold sharemen."
AUTHOR: Moses Harris
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: fishing hunting sea ship moniker
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 37, "Fishing on the Labrador" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The one line refrain is shared with "A Crowd of Bold Sharemen," an entirely different ballad about a summer of conflict. A shareman shares in expenses and profits. - BS
File: LeBe037
===
NAME: Fishy Crab, The: see The Sea Crab (File: EM001)
===
NAME: Fishy, Fishy in the Brook
DESCRIPTION: "Fishy, fishy in the brook, Daddy catch him on a hook, Mommy fry him in a pan, Johnny eat him like a man."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: fishing food
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #876, p. 326, "(Fishy, fishy in the brook)"
Roud #16338
File: MGMG876
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NAME: Fit Comes On Me Now, The: see I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit) (File: SKE53)
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NAME: Fit, The: see I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit) (File: SKE53)
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NAME: Fitch-Austin Feud, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, come and listen to my story Concerning that fierce, bloody fight Between the Fitch and Austin families." The Austins set out, armed, to repair a telephone pole; the Fitches, unarmed, resist. Several are killed. The singer warns against feuding.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: feud death technology
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 23-24, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: It seems most unlikely that this piece had any circulation in tradition; it's not good poetry, and quite confusing (at least if you don't know the participants). But with no source indicated, here it files. - RBW
File: ThBa023
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NAME: Five and a Zack
DESCRIPTION: "I've been a few miles, I've crossed a few stiles, I've been round the world, there and back." He recalls is the place where the sanctimonious timekeeper "stung me for five and a zack." He expects to go to hell, with his complaint written on his tombstone
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: money boss death Hell burial
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, p. 96, "Five and a Zack" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: A "zack" is a sixpence. - RBW
File: PASB096
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NAME: Five Bob to Four
DESCRIPTION: The singer complains of MacRose, "a little podgy," who lowered the daily rate for threshers from five bob to four. The singer curses him: "I hope his cows the measles take, his hens refuse to lay...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: money work curse
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 59-60, "Five Bob to Four" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA059
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NAME: Five in the Bed
DESCRIPTION: "Two at the foot, Two at the head, And one in the middle Makes five in the bed."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fuson, p. 158, "Five in the Bed" (sixth of 12 single-stanza jigs) (1 text, probably just a floating verse)
Roud #16413
File: Fus158B
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NAME: Five O'Clock is Striking: see My Boyfriend Gave Me An Apple (File: Hamm011)
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NAME: Five-Gallon Jar, The: see The Big Five-Gallon Jar (File: Doe111)
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NAME: Flag of the Free
DESCRIPTION: "Could we desert you now, Flag of the free, When we a solemn vow, Flag of the free, You from all harm to save, Made when we crossed the wave, And you a welcome gave...." The Irish immigrants promise to support the American flag against tyrants
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: Civilwar freedom patriotic nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scott-BoA, pp. 224-225, "Flag of the Free" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Eileen Aroon" (tune)
cf. "Robin Adair" (tune)
File: SBoA224
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NAME: Flag with the Thirty-Four Stars, The: see The Northern Bonnie Blue Flag (File: SBoA218)
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NAME: Flambeau d'Amour (Torch of Love)
DESCRIPTION: French. A father puts his daughter in a tower to keep her from her lover.  She lights a torch to signal him to come to her. He tries but drowns in a storm. She finds his body. She cuts her vein to mix their blood and bring him back to life. She dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting drowning suicide sea storm father lover
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 671-672, "Flambeau d'Amour" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The belief that blood not only sustains but *is* life is ancient; the Bible, e.g., says so in Leviticus 17:11, 14. And, of course, in Christian belief, the shedding of Jesus's blood brought life to those otherwise doomed.
There is also the interesting point that to mingle blood is often to make a covenant -- the girl's sacrifice might also be a pledge of fidelity.
Other folk beliefs might also be involved, e.g. the belief that the blood of virgins could cure various diseases, such as leprosy. - RBW
File: Pea671
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NAME: Flash Frigate, The (La Pique)
DESCRIPTION: "I sing of a frigate, (a frigate of fame/La Pique was her name/do not mention her name), And in the West Indies she bore a great name," but she is a horrible place to serve; the crew is worked hard and punished severely. Listeners are urged to avoid her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (Firth)
KEYWORDS: sailor hardtimes ship punishment
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 178-180, "The Flash Frigate" (1 text, 1 tune, which nowhere mentions the ship's name)
ADDITIONAL: C. H. Firth, _Publications of the Navy Records Society_ , 1907 (available on Google Books), p. 316,"The Fancy Frigate)
ST ShaSS178 (Partial)
Roud #2563
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dreadnought" [Laws D13] (tune)
NOTES: Many versions of this song, including Shay's, do not give the ship's name -- some, indeed, explicitly say the name is secret. But Shay says, without hesitation, that the song describes H. M. S. _La Pique_, described as a "blood ship" for its hard discipline.
The ship had a long career in the West Indies. According to Terrence Grocott's _Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars_, in 1798 she was captained by David Milne and helped capture _La Seine_ but ran aground in the process. Milne would later undergo a court-martial for losing _La Seine_ (which ship he had been given after the loss of his own), but was acquitted.
Milne's discipline may nonetheless have had some effect; he was in the vicinity of Portsmouth at the time of the Spithead mutiny, and in fact became a hostage of the delegates, but _La Pique_ is not listed as one of the mutinous ships in Appendix III of James Dugan's _The Great Mutiny_ (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965), though on p. 190 Dugan quotes a letter saying there was a mutiny aboard.
For a seemingly fictional account of another "blood ship," plus information about the horrid case of the _Hermione_, see the notes to "Captain James (The Captain's Apprentice)."
A new British _Pique_, a 40-gun frigate captured by Charles Ross, was in service by 1805.
The final complaint, that working the ship leaves sailors invalids, is quite true; sailors' work was hard at the best of times, and often left men crippled; on a ship which ignored the human needs of the men, such injuries were naturally more common. - RBW
File: ShaSS178
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NAME: Flash Jack from Gundagai
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes all the places he has sheared -- and some of the problems he's faced. He declares, "They know me round the country as Flash Jack from Gundagai." When possible, he prefers "Shearing for old Tom Patterson on the One Tree Plain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Paterson's _Old Bush Songs_)
KEYWORDS: sheep work rambling Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 146, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 134-135, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 243-245, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
A. L. Lloyd, "Flash Jack from Gundagai" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd10) (Lloyd4, Lloyd8)
File: FaE146
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NAME: Flash Stockman, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a stockman by me trade, And me name is Ugly Dave, I'm old and grey and I've only got one eye...." The stockman boasts of his amazing skill at his trade -- so great that "You can cut me fair in two, For I'm much too bloody good to be in one."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933
KEYWORDS: bragging horse work Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 166-167, "The Flash Stockman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 224-225, "The Flash Stockman" (1 text)
File: FaE166
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NAME: Flash Sydney Shearers, The
DESCRIPTION: "You've heard of the flash Sydney shearers, They're the flashest of men out of town." The singer tells of how they boast and fail to perfom: "He'll whip anything in creation, And ends up whipping the cat." Returning to town, they go on the dole
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1996 (Patterson/Fahey/Seal)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes sheep
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 183-185, "The Flash Sydney Shearers" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Springtime It Brings on the Shearing, The (On the Wallaby Track)" (form)
File: PFS183
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