NAME: De Ballet of de Boll Weevil: see The Boll Weevil [Laws I17] (File: LI17)
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NAME: De Blues Ain't Nothin': see Blues Ain' Nothin, De (File: San234)
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NAME: De Boatman Dance
DESCRIPTION: A minstrel song about a boatman's life, observing that there is no one like a boatman. "O dance, de boatman, dance all night 'till broad daylight, And go home wid de gals in de morning. Hi, ho, de boatman row, Floating down de ribber on de Ohio"
AUTHOR: Daniel Decatur Emmett
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1835 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.22(54)), but reportedly copyrighted 1843
KEYWORDS: dancing river minstrel ship sailor
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Hugill, pp. 492-493, "Dance the Boatman" (1 text, 1 tune)
GreigDuncan3 484, GreigDuncan8 Addenda, "The Boatman's Dance" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownIII 223, "Hi You Boat Row" (1 fragment)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 566, "De Boatman Dance" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 39, "Boatman's Dance" (1 text)
DT, BOATDANC*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Dance the Boatman Dance" is in Part 1, 7/14/1917.
Roud #5898
RECORDINGS:
Elizabeth Cotten, "Boatman Dance" (on Cotten02)
Byrd Moore & his Hot Shots, "Boatman's Dance" (Gennett, unissued, 1930)
Eleazar Tillet, "Come Love Come" (on USWarnerColl01) [a true mess; the first verse is "Nancy Till", the chorus is "Come, Love, Come, the Boat Lies Low," and it uses part of "De Boatman Dance" as a bridge.)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.22(54), "The Boatman of de Ohio" ("De boatman dance, de boatman sing"), G. Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also Firth b.25(239), "Dance de Boatmen";  Harding B 15(81b), Harding B 11(352), Firth b.28(38) View 1 of 2 [almost entirely illegible], "[De] Boatman Dance"; Firth b.25(595/596) View 1 of 2, "The Boatmen Dance"; Harding B 11(1117), "Boatman's Dance"
 LOCSheet, sm1844 390930, "De Boatman Dance, Ethiopian Ballad," C. G. Christman (New York), 1844 ["by Philip Ernst"]; also sm1848 441710, "De Boatmen's Dance"  (tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Seeing the Elephant (When I Left the States for Gold)" (tune)
File: BMRF566
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NAME: De Fust Banjo: see De Fust Banjo (The Banjo Song; The Possum and the Banjo; Old Noah) (File: R253)
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NAME: De Shucking ob de Corn
DESCRIPTION: Named for the chorus, "Ain't you goin' (x3) to de shuckin' ob de corn? Yes, I'se goin' (x3)... to de shuckin ob de corn." Verses are various: White children go to school to learn, negroes to fight; a beau offers his love gold; Satan tempts the singer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: work food courting floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 199, "De Shucking ob de Corn" (1 text plus a fragment of the chorus)
File: Br3199
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NAME: De Valera
DESCRIPTION: The singer favors the republic rather than Redmond's Home Rule. "At Ringsend in Boland's De Valera took his stand." "We'll carry arms openly as in the days of yore The defence of the realm won't be heard of anymore When De Valera's president of Ireland"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: rebellion England Ireland nonballad patriotic political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 24, "De Valera" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Pride of Petravore" (tune, according to Tunney-StoneFiddle)
NOTES: de Valera -- Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) was born in America but became a leader of the 1916 rising, and barely avoided execution after its collapse. He became the President of Sinn Fein in 1917, then of the rebel Irish parliament; he opposed the treaty which led to the partition of Ireland, but formed the Fianna Fail party and won the 1932 election, then established the 1937 constitution. He remained Ireland's leading politician for fifty years, serving as President from 1959 to 1973. - RBW
John Redmond (1856-1918) led the Home Rule Party. The Home Rule issue, which might have caused an Irish Civil War, was made a side issue during the World War, and Redmond's political fate was sealed by the Easter Rising. After the war the Home Rule party lost lost power to Sinn Fein. (source: _John Redmond_ at the History Learning Site)
During the Easter Rising, in April 1916, Eamon de Valera led the Irish Republican Brotherhood [IRB] Third Battalion attack at "Boland’s Mills, with outposts from Westland Row Station to Ringsend and at Mount Street Bridge." (source: _Dublin Flames Kindled A Nation's Spirit: Extract from Irish Independent 1916-66 Supplement_ at IrelandOn-Line site) - BS
(I have to disagree with the History Site's interpretation of Redmond pretty strongly. The strong majority of histories I have read say that the largest group in Ireland in the period 1880-1915 was in favor of Home Rule. The only threat of civil war was from the Ulster Protestants. General Irish opinion did not begin to shift until after the British botched the response to the 1916 Easter Rising. Ireland *did* have a Civil War in the 1920s, and it was the de Valera faction who started it, attacking the legitimate government. Poor John Redmond, who ended up picking up the pieces of the Parnellite fiasco, tried to find a solution which would satisfy both sides -- Home Rule. The British muffed *that*, too, and Redmond died too soon to find another answer, and of course it's easy, now that Ireland is independent, for people to say they were for it all along, meaning that many songs that were once the province of a militant -- even terrorist -- minority are now the general property of the Irish people.)
(For the background to this controversy, see the notes to "Home Rule for Ireland" and "Loyal Song Against Home Rule." For how it worked out, including the start of the Irish Civil War, see "General Michael Collins." For more on the relations between de Valera and the government he both helped found and fought against, see "Legion of the Rearguard.")
(The reference to the "defence of the realm" could have two interpretations, depending on the exact dating of the song. If it is during World War I, it might refer to the British attempts to raise troops in Ireland; first they picked up volunteers, then they started trying to impose conscription -- yet another stupid move that helped to turn Ireland against them. If, on the other hand, the song is in fact from the time it was collected, then it presumably refers to the fact that the British, under the Free State treaty, kept control of a handful of ports for naval use. Ports which they eventually gave back to Ireland when de Valera and Neville Chamberlan were running Ireland and England. It was one of Chamberlain's less-noticed mistakes; it made the Battle of the Atlantic much more deadly for Britain. Had he just promised to turn them over, say, ten years later, it might well have shortened World War Two.)
Eamon de Valera is one of the great enigmas of history. Like Joan of Arc, or RIchard III, or Julius Caesar, he inspires violently conflicting opinions. Tim Pat Coogan, who wrote the monumental biography _Eamon de Valera: The Man Who Was Ireland_ (1993; I use the 2001 Dorset Press edition), p. 2, describes how difficult it is to sum him up:
"'Dev.' was the greatest political mover and shaker of post-revolutionary Ireland. His towering figure continues to cast shadows that are both benign and baleful. Therefore, as a biographer, I have been conscious of the two linked and major problems in the course of trying to chart the career of this extraordinary man: First, to convey a sense of his importance to Ireland and her relationships with Great Britain, America and the members of the British Commonwealth; second, while doing so to steer between the Scylla of hagiography and the Charybdis of denigration. Practically everything of substance written about him falls into one category or the other. There is no _via media_ where Eamon de Valera is concerned. The problem is compounded by the fact that not only did de Valera shape history, he attempted to write it too...."
The difficulty, I think, is that de Valera was a man who operated by assumptions -- that Ireland was somehow unique, that the Catholic Church was absolutely correct and great (except where he disagreed with it), that the British were the enemy and extremely untrustworthy, and that he was himself a moderate steering between the radical Cathal Brugha and the realist Michael Collins factions of the Irish independence movement. All of these are, of course, just assumptions, and how one interprets de Valera will depend entirely on how many of those assumptions one accepts. - RBW
File: TSF024
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NAME: De'il Stick the Minister
DESCRIPTION: "Our wife she keeps baith beef and yell And tea to treat the Minister... While I the water-stand maun try, May the De'il stick the Minister." The minister can explain the Covenant and curse Papists, but he's otherwise grasping and useless
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: clergy curse humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 116-117, "De'il Stick the Minister" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR116 (Partial)
Roud #3153
NOTES: Although reported seemingly only in Northumberland, the references to the Covenant seem to imply Scottish origin. As, for that matter, does the clear anti-clericalism. (Though we might note that the Covenanting army long was engaged around Newcastle and other parts of Northumberland.) I'm amazed it doesn't quote the passages in Matthew and James which condemn the clergy. Apparently The Minister didn't preach those passages to the congregation. - RBW
File: StoR116
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NAME: Deacon's Calf
DESCRIPTION: The deacon goes out to feed his calf; it kicks over the bucket and the deacon too. He reviles it; were it not for Christian love, he'd tear the calf's miserable soul apart. Ch.: "Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha, what makes the monkey laugh/To see the deacon feed his calf"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Georgia Yellow Hammers)
KEYWORDS: curse farming humorous animal clergy
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Georgia Yellow Hammers, "The Deacon's Calf" (Victor V-40004, 1929)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Le Petit Moine (The Little Monk)" (subject)
cf. "Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Moanish Lady)" (floating lyrics)
File: RcDCalf
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NAME: Deacon's Daughter, The
DESCRIPTION: A young man is engaged to a "treacherous" deacon's daughter. Just before the wedding, in the middle of the night, the lady runs off with her blacksmith lover. The final stanzas tell how those left behind piously wring their hands
AUTHOR: Wheeler Hakes?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Flanders/Olney)
KEYWORDS: betrayal elopement marriage
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 23-25, "The Deacon's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DEACDAUT*
Roud #4674
File: FO023
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NAME: Dead Horse Chanty: see Poor Old Man (Poor Old Horse; The Dead Horse) (File: Doe014)
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NAME: Dead Horse, The: see Poor Old Man (Poor Old Horse; The Dead Horse) (File: Doe014)
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NAME: Dead Little Boys, The: see The Wife of Usher's Well [Child 79] (File: C079)
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NAME: Dead Man's Chest 
DESCRIPTION: "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, Drink and the devil had done for the rest." A combination of rebellion and civil war in a (pirate?) crew results in the death of captain, bosun, cook, and most of the rest of the crew.
AUTHOR: Allison & Waller ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: death murder rebellion pirate
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 512-514, "The Buccaneers (The Dead Man's Chest)" (1 text)
DT, YOHOHO*
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest
Yo Ho Ho
NOTES: The origin of this piece is more than usually confused. The initial quatrain appears in Robert Louis Stevenson's _Treasure Island_ (1883), but he reports that he had it from another source. (According to David Cordingly, _Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life among the Pirates_, Harcourt Brace, 1997 [copyright 1995], p. 5, the Dead Man's Chest comes from Charles Kingsley's _At Last_.)
In 1901, the full form of the piece is said to have appeared in a musical by Allison & Waller. Did they write it? I don't know. The Lomaxes printed their version from _Seven Seas_, September 1915. Apparently no author was listed.
Chances are that this is not a folk song, but it may have folk roots somewhere. - RBW
File: LxA512
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NAME: Dead Man's Journey, The
DESCRIPTION: It was in the spring of (?) Just a little before the war was o'er, That 'twas mine the mail bags to transport." The singer and Josh Murphy set out from Stevenson's Post; Murphy is killed by Indians. The path comes to be called Deadman's Journey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: travel Indians(Am.) murder
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 140-141, "(The Dead Man's Journey)" (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: The dating on this piece is curious and difficult. Burt's text dates it to (18)54, but the next line says "Just a little  before the war was o'er," which implies 1864. And the destination was "Totten Fort," which -- if Burt is correct in assuming this is Fort Totten -- was not established until 1867.
There is also the problem of the Indian tribes listed. The event took place in North Dakota (the supposed singer, Carlie Reynolds, was a historical person who died at the Little Bighorn), but the piece mentions Chippewa (Ojibwe) and Sioux (Dakota) -- and that territory was entirely Sioux. - RBW
File: Burt140
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NAME: Deadly Wars, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh the deadly wars are past and blawn And gentle peace returning." The singer laments all the good people killed in the war. In the Burns text, he comes home and begs for lodging -- and meets the girl he loved long ago. She still loves him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1793 (published by Burns as "When wild War's deadly Blast was blawn")
KEYWORDS: soldier separation return reunion
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 24, #3 (1975), p, 23, "The Deadly Wars" (1 text, 1 tune, the Jeannie Robertson version)
James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #406,, pp. 543-545, "When wild War's deadly Blast was blawn" (1 text, 1 tune, from 1793)
Roud #7284
NOTES: The Robert Burns version of this is eight eight-line stanzas long, and is a fairly familiar story. The only traditional version appears to have been Jeannie Robertson's, which is only a quarter this long and has a somewhat simplified tune. Even Burns gets folk processed sometimes. - RBW
File: SOv23n3
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NAME: Deaf Woman's Courtship, The
DESCRIPTION: An old man comes to an old woman and asks her is she will (mend his jacket). She says she cannot hear him. He asks about other mundane tasks. She still can't hear him. He asks her to marry. She says, "I hear you now quite clearly"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: age courting humorous questions
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So)  Britain(England,Scotland) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Belden, p. 265, "Hard of Hearing" (1 text)
Randolph 353, "Old Woman, Old Woman" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Eddy 136, "Old Woman, Old Woman" (1 text)
BrownII 187, "Hard of Hearing" (1 text)
SharpAp 178, "The Deaf Woman's Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 54, "Old Woman (The Deaf Woman's Courtship)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 243-244, "The Deaf Woman's Courtship" (1 text plus 1 fragment)
Opie-Oxford2 535, "Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #94, p. 89, "(Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?)"
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 168, "(Old wife, old wife)" (1 short text)
Chase, pp. 136-137, "The Deaf Woman's Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DEAFWOMN*
Roud #467
File: R353
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NAME: Dear Companion (The Broken Heart; Go and Leave Me If You Wish To, Fond Affection)
DESCRIPTION: "I once did have a dear companion (or: "love with fond affection"); Indeed I thought his love my own Until a dark eyed girl betrayed me And now he cares no more for me." The girl, looking at her baby, recalls her unfaithful love and regrets her shame
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: love infidelity pregnancy lyric floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So) Britain(Scotland) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Belden, pp. 209-210, "Fond Affection" (1 text)
Randolph 755, "The Broken Heart" (7 texts plus 1 excerpt and mention of 1 more, 2 tunes, though some, especially the fragments, may not go here; the "A" text contains material from "I Loved You Better Than You Knew" and several others, notably "H,"  are or are mixed with "The Broken Engagement (II -- We Have Met and We Have Parted)"' "F" is "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another")
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 493-495, "The Broken Heart" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 755A)
SharpAp 111, "The Dear Companion" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 43, "The Dear Companion" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 10, "Dear Companion" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 181-182, "Go And Leave Me If You Wish To" (1 text)
BrownII 153, "Fond Affection" (13 text, including several much longer than the usual versions; the "M" text in particular seems conflate; the first four verses may be a separate song beginning "Darling, do you know who loves you?")
Chase, p. 166, "(Dear Companion") (1 text, tune referenced)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 32-33, "Now Go and Leave Me If You Wish" (1 text)
MacSeegTrav 59, "Blue-Eyed Lover" (1 text, 1 tune, an incredibly composite version I file here for lack of any better idea; it has lyrics from many songs of this type and even "The Widow in the Cottage by the Sea")
Peacock, p. 453, "Go and Leave Me If You Wish, Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 323, "Fond Affection" (1 short text, with this title and some lyrics which belong here but with other elements reminiscent of "Carrickfergus")
Silber-FSWB, p. 164, "Dear Companion" (1 text)
DT, DEARCOMP* GOLEAVME ONCEILUV
Roud #411
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "I Hope I Live a Few More Days" (on Boggs3, BoggsCD1 -- an incredibly complex composite of lost love/abandonment songs, jumbled together and confused, but seemingly with more lines from this song than any other)
Carter Family, "Fond Affection" (Victor 23585, 1931; Montgomery Ward M-4744, 1935; Zonophone [Australia] 4364, n.d.)
Crowder Brothers, "Leave Me Darling, I Don't Mind" (Melotone 7-04-70, 1937)
Clarence Green, "Fond Affection" (Columbia 15311-D, 1928)
Sid Harkreader, "Many Days With You I Wandered" (Vocalion 15100, 1925)
Kelly Harrell, "Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me" (Victor 20535, 1926; on KHarrell02 -- clearly this song, though it borrows lyrics from "Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me")
Mainer's Mountaineers "Let Her Go God Bless Her" (Bluebird [Canada] B-6104, 1935)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner, "Go and Leave Me If You Wish" (Brunswick 293, 1929; rec. 1928)
David Miller, "Many Times With You I've Wandered" (Champion 15429, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wayfaring Stranger" (approximate tune) and references there
cf. "The Bonny Boy (I)" (lyrics)
cf. "Columbus Stockade Blues" (lyrics)
cf. "Sweet Heaven (II)" (lyrics)
cf. "Saint James Infirmary" (the "let her go" lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Once I Loved with Fond Affection
If It's In Your Heart
I Once Did Love Your Fond Affection
Fond of Affection
Raven Dark Hair
Fond Devotion
Future Days
Separation
NOTES: This piece would appear to break up into two subfamilies, "Dear Companion" ("I once did have a dear companion") and "A Fond Affection." I tried to separate the two -- but when I saw the incredible mixture in Randolph, I gave up. - RBW
It's also getting harder to distinguish "Columbus Stockade Blues" from this song. We use the "Columbus Stockade" line as a marker, but several versions of "Dear Companion" overlap heavily with that song in lyrics. - PJS
So true. Peacock's version, e.g., is "Columbus Stockade Blues" minus the first verse, though the tune is different.
Jean Ritchie, incidentally, rewrote this as "My Dear Companion," beginning "Oh have you seen my dear companion, For he was all the world to me." Her version can be found on pates 62-63 of _Sing Out!_, Volume 41, #3 (1996/1997). Apparently it has become mildly popular in country circles. - RBW
File: R755
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NAME: Dear Cork City by the Lee
DESCRIPTION: The singer is far from Cork but recalls its hills, chimes, streets, restaurants in Coal-Quay, hurling and "Glen Rovers' Christy Ring"; "now for the finish we'll drink a pint... We can never forget ... the night we won the Free State Championship"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (OCanainn)
KEYWORDS: pride sports drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OCanainn, pp. 112-113, "Dear Cork City by the Lee" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: The first and second verses -- before the hurling verses -- remind me of "Cork's Own Town" (I) for the description of local streets and Fishamble or Coal-Quay restaurants.
OCanainn: "I suppose it is just possible that there are people looking at this song who might not be aware that Glen Rovers Hurling Club is situated in Blackpool, on the Northside of the city. Equally, it is possible that they might not know that Christy Ring, one of the most famous hurlers of all time, is the 'rock of Cloyne' referred to in the song, for Cloyne, in East Cork, is his native place though he now lives in the city. The 'eight counties in a row' refers to their many victories in the Cork County Championship." - BS
File: OCan112
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NAME: Dear Evalina
DESCRIPTION: The singer met Evalina "way down in the meadow." They courted for a time, but after three years he still has no money; though he cannot marry her, "Dear Evalina, Sweet Evalina, My love for thee shall never, never die."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Heart Songs)
KEYWORDS: love courting poverty separation
FOUND_IN: US(MW,Ro,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 823, "Sweet Evelina" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 101, pp. 211-212, "Evalina" (1 text)
Cambiaire, p. 87, "Sweet Evelena" (1 text)
Gilbert, p. 113, "(Sweet Evelina -- parody)" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 257 "Sweet Evelina" (1 text)
Roud #7437
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "Sweet Evalina" (Supertone 9643, 1930)
The Blue Sky Boys, "Sweet Evalina" (Bluebird 7348, c. 1938)
W. Lee O'Daniel & the Light Crust Doughboys, "Dear Evalina, Sweet Evalina" (Vocalion 04440, 1938)
Ola Belle & Bud Reed, "Sweet Evalina" (on Reeds01)
Phil Reeve & Ernest Moody, "Sweet Evalina" (Victor 21188, 1928)
File: R823
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NAME: Dear Evelina, Sweet Evalina: see Dear Evalina (File: R823)
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NAME: Dear Irish Boy, The: see My Dear Irish Boy (File: HHH142)
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NAME: Dear Irish Maid, The: see My Dear Irish Boy (File: HHH142)
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NAME: Dear Land
DESCRIPTION: "When comes the day all hearts to weigh if they be staunch or vile, Shall we forget the sacred debt we owe our mother isle?" The singer recalls the wrongs of Ireland, and his family's long devotion
AUTHOR: Sliach Cuilinn (John O'Hara, 1822-1890)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Sparling)
KEYWORDS: Ireland patriotic
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dean, pp. 54-55, "Dear Land" (1 text)
Roud #9558
NOTES: John O'Hara was a writer associated with _The Nation_, though he is almost forgotten today; this is pretty definitely his best and most famous work. Supposedly Charles Gavin Duffy whispered the first few lines on his deaathbed. - RBW
File: Dean054
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NAME: Dear Little Shamrock, The
DESCRIPTION: "There's a dear little plant that grows on our isle" brought by St Patrick "and he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland." The shamrock still grows. "When its three little leaves are extended" they denote that "we together should toil."
AUTHOR: Words: Andrew Cherry (1762-1812)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1806 (sung by Mrs Mountain, Dublin Opera House, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, pp. 112-113, "The Dear Little Shamrock" (1 text)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 46-48, "The Green Little Shamrock of Ireland" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 149-150, 497, "The Green Little Shamrock of Ireland"
Roud #13278
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(658), "The Dear Little Shamrock," J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Harding B 11(823), Harding B 11(824), 2806 c.15(239), "The Dear Little Shamrock"
LOCSheet, sm1870 02376, "The Dear Little Shamrock," Whittemore Swan & Stephens (Detroit), 1870; also sm1875 00381, sm1878 07872, "[The] Dear Little Shamrock" (tune)
NOTES: The shamrock has been associated with St. Patrick for centuries; the earliest legend has it that he used it to explain the concept of the Trinity. (The argument, however, is not found in his extant writings.) In the earliest accounts, though, there is no claim that Patrick actually imported the shamrock -- and, of course, good evidence that he didn't.
Either there are two tunes for this (not unlikely), or there have been multiple claims; Croker-PopularSongs lists the tune as by "Shield," but [no author listed] _A Library of Irish Music_ (published by Amsco) credits the tune to "W. Jackson." - RBW
File: OCon112
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NAME: Dear Mallow, Adieu
DESCRIPTION: The singer bids adieu to Mallow, "where all may live just as they please," and recalls its pleasures. Now he is leaving "for the city's dull uniform scene." He will miss women, companions, and freedom. He hopes to return next spring.
AUTHOR: Samuel Whyte (1724-1811) (source: Croker-PopularSongs)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1772 (Samuel Whyte,_The Shamrock, or Hibernian Cresses_, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: farewell nonballad home
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 243-249, "Dear Mallow, Adieu" (1 text)
NOTES: Croker-PopularSongs: "In 1750, Dr Smith thus describes Mallow, which was then a very fashionable watering-place:'... Here is generally a resort of good company during the summer months, both for pleasure and the benefit of drinking the waters....'"
File: CrPS243
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NAME: Dear Mother
DESCRIPTION: "I'm going away to leave you... Don't weep for me, dear mother, For I'll be back someday." The singer's girl has abandoned him; he will cross the sea to find another, then return to mother. But she dies and tells him to trust in God before he can return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (JAFL 45, from Granville Gadsey)
KEYWORDS: separation mother death courting emigration
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 210-211, "Dear Mother" (1 text)
Roud #4214
NOTES: I have a feeling this is a composite of an emigration song with a religious song, with perhaps one of those "Don't leave your mother when her hair turns gray" songs thrown in as well. But they've all been thoroughly mixed up. - RBW
File: MHAp210
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NAME: Dear-A-Wee Lass, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer first sees the girl on a May morning, and is drawn by her beauty and "killing glances." Men of all occupations court her; he thinks them doomed to be disdained, but he too loves her always. He wishes he could marry and bless her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H74, p. 236, "The Dear-A-Wee Lass" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: HHH074
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NAME: Dearest Mae
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes his life as a slave and his love for Mae. When master gives him a holiday, he visits Mae and they court happily; he then returns home. Master dies; the singer is sold down the river; Mae dies of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1850 (The Ethiopian Glee Book)
KEYWORDS: slave death separation love courting
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 405, "Dearest Mae" (1 text plus an excerpt -- a verse which has floated in from "Massa Had a Yellow Gal" -- and mention of 2 more)
Roud #9089
NOTES: The notes in Brown list versions attributed to "A. F. Winnemore" and "Francis Lynch/L. V. H. Crosby." Draw your own conclusions.
It's worth noting that this is *not* a "happy slave" piece; the singer works hard, but is cruelly betrayed on his master's death, and Mae dies. In that sense, it rather resembled "Darling Nellie Gray" -- though seemingly without provoking the reactions the latter produced. - RBW
File: Br3405
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NAME: Death and the Lady
DESCRIPTION: Young woman meets Death; offers him rich gifts if he will grant her more time in this world. (In some versions, she wishes to mend her ways after a life of wickedness.) He refuses. She dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1736 ("A Guide to Heaven")
KEYWORDS: death bargaining dialog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South),Scotland(Bord)) US(SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Sharp-100E 22, "Death and the Lady" (1 text, 1 tune)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 30, "Death and the Lady" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, pp. 170-171, "Death and the Lady" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN843, "Fair lady leave your costly Robes aside"; ZN1415, "In Cambridge lives a maiden fair/" (composite text also containing part of "Weaver to My Trade")
DT, DEATHLDY*
Roud #1031
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(52), "Death and the Lady," unknown, c. 1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Conversation with Death (Oh Death)" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Oh Death
My Name is Death
File: ShH22
===
NAME: Death is a Melancholy Call [Laws H5]
DESCRIPTION: The singer observes a young man dying as a result of a dissolute life. Both the youth and his friends are frightened by the prospect of hell. The singer concludes with a stock exhortation to repent
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: death farewell Hell youth
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws H5, "Death is a Melancholy Call"
Belden, pp. 464-465, "Death is a Melancholy Call (3 texts)
Randolph 595, "The Dying Youth" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 95, "The Lost Youth" (1 text)
DT 718, DEATHMEL
Roud #655
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Boy" (theme)
cf. "Wicked Polly" [Laws H6] (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Awful, Awful, Awful
NOTES: Many versions of this piece have the tragicomic refrain "And it's awful, awful, awful...."
Not to be confused with "Death 'Tis a Melancholy Day."
Barry wrote a study of this piece and "Wicked Polly," treating them as variants (male and female, presumably) of the same piece. The moral is of course the same, and they use the same metrical form -- but I can't see any actual dependence in the lyrics. - RBW
File: LH05
===
NAME: Death is Awful: see Conversation with Death (Oh Death) (File: R663)
===
NAME: Death Letter Blues
DESCRIPTION: Singer gets a letter, telling him to come home, because the girl he loves is dead. He comes home, to find her on the "cooling board." He buries her, weeping, telling her he'll meet her on Judgement Day
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (verses floated to recording by Papa Harvey Hull). As a discrete song, 1966 (recording, Eugene "Son" House)
KEYWORDS: grief love home return burial death mourning lover
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Eugene "Son" House, "Death Letter" (on SonHouse1)
Papa Harvey Hull, "France Blues" (Black Patti 8001/Gennett 6106/Champion 15264, 1927; on BefBlues1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "France Blues" (verses)
NOTES: The Hull recording ["France Blues"] incorporates the core of "Death Letter" but adds floating non-narrative verses from "Mobile Line" and elsewhere. - PJS
File: RcDLetB
===
NAME: Death of a Maiden Fair: see A Fair Lady of the Plains (Death of a Maiden Fair) [Laws B8] (File: LB08)
===
NAME: Death of a Romish Lady, The: see The Romish Lady [Laws Q32] (File: LQ32)
===
NAME: Death of Admiral Benbow, The: see Admiral Benbow (File: PBB076)
===
NAME: Death of Alec Robertson (I)
DESCRIPTION: "A good man has gone, he's drawn his last breath, Struck down in the midst of his pride. Poor Alec Robertson met his sad death On his favorite horse, Silvermine."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959
KEYWORDS: death horse racing
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 150, "Death of Alec Robertson" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Donald Campbell" (theme)
cf. "Tom Corrigan (theme)
cf. ""The Jockey's Lament" (theme)
cf. "Alec Robertson (I)" (theme)
cf. "Alec Robertson (II)" (theme)
File: MA150
===
NAME: Death of Alec Robertson (II), The: see Alec Robertson (I) (File: MA065)
===
NAME: Death of Andrew Sheehan, The: see Bold Larkin (Bull Yorkens) (File: Pea907)
===
NAME: Death of Ben Hall (II), The: see Ben Hall (File: MA164)
===
NAME: Death of Ben Hall, The
DESCRIPTION: Ben Hall's cowardly murder is recalled, as well as his nobility: "He never robbed a needy man, The records sure will show. How staunch and loyal to his mates, how manly to the foe." The singer bids him farewell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Paterson, Old Bush Songs)
KEYWORDS: death murder outlaw abuse Australia
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 5, 1865 - Ben Hall is ambushed and killed by police near Forbes, Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 98-99, "Bold Ben Hall" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 90-91, "The Death of Ben Hall" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 81-84, "The Death of Ben Hall" (1 text. Note that the song appears to begin with the unrelated stanza "My name is Ben Hall from Urunga I came," but this is in fact a separate poem which just ended up on the same page)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "The Ballad of Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "Streets of Forbes" (plot)
cf. "My Name is Ben Hall" (subject)
NOTES: Ben Hall is widely regarded as "the noblest of the bushrangers." The story is that he was hounded from his home by the police, and only then turned to crime. Even as a bushranger, he attacked only the rich and never shed blood. For background, see the notes to "Ben Hall."
To tell this song from the other Ben Hall songs, consider this first stanza:
Come all Australia's sons to me, a hero has been slain,
Cowardly butchered in his sleep upon the Lachlan plain.
Oh, do not stay your seemly grief but let a teardrop fall,
Oh, so many hearts will always mourn the fate of bold Ben Hall.
(note: with some settings of the tune, this is the first two stanzas) - RBW
File: MA098
===
NAME: Death of Bendall, The: see The Murder of F. C. Benwell [Laws E26] (File: LE26)
===
NAME: Death of Bernard Friley, The
DESCRIPTION: "It was down in the level land A murder came to light, The death of Bernard Friley 'Twas on a Monday night." A boy discovers the body as the man's dog sits by his side. The crime is blamed on drink; his murderer is imprisoned; listeners are warned
AUTHOR: James W. Day ("Jilson Setters")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: drink murder dog corpse
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 135-136, "The Death of Bernard Friley" (1 text)
File: ThBa135
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NAME: Death of Birchie Potter
DESCRIPTION: "In the state of North Carolina, In a place called Pottertown, Two cousins took to drinking; One shot the other down." Birchie Potter, the victim, is praised; the singer hopes Glen Brown, the murderer, will face justice. He warns against drink
AUTHOR: Jim Brown?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Wautagua Democrat)
KEYWORDS: murder family warning drink
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 295, "Death of Birchie Potter" (1 text)
Roud #6637
File: BrII295
===
NAME: Death of Brugh, The
DESCRIPTION: In 1922, rebel leader Cathal Brugh(a) is trapped (in a Dublin hotel) along with his fighting comrades; attempting to escape through the back door, he is shot. The singer praises and laments him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (recording, Johnny McDonagh)
KEYWORDS: grief rebellion death lament IRA
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #12941
RECORDINGS:
Johnny McDonagh, "The Death of Brugh" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "All Around My Hat" (tune)
NOTES: Cathal Brugha  was an officer in the resistance forces during the rebellion of 1916, famed for how hard he fought. He was also a political leader, arguing strenuously for a Republican government. - PJS
Brugha (born Charles Burgess, but like many Irish revolutionaries, he changed his name to a Gaelic form) fought and was wounded in the Easter Rebellion, but survived and was the Defence Minister in the 1919 Dail (the Irish parliament, which at that time would have to be regarded as provisional).
By the time he died, the Irish Free State had been organized (admittedly as a dominion) by Britain. But when the Irish cabinet voted (1921) on the dominion Treaty with Britain, Brugha (along with de Valera and Stack) voted against it (it was a 4-3 vote, with Barton, Collins, Cosgrave, and Griffith voting for the treaty). The vote in the Dail was 64-57 in favor.
When, later, Archbishop Byrne arranged a conference between Griffith, Collins, Brugha, and de Valera, Brugha called Collins a British agent, and when the latter proposed a referendum on the treaty, declared that circumstances were such that the people should not be allowed to vote (see Tim Pat Coogan, _Michael Collins_, p. 320).
The result was civil war, with pro- and anti-Treaty forces bitterly contesting the nature of a future Ireland. The legitimate government was pro-Treaty; Brugha was against. Thus Brugha was actually fighting *against* the legitimate government of Ireland when he died, fleeing from a burned building, gun in hand.
According to Robert Kee, _Ourselves Alone_, being volume III of _The Green Flag_, p. 166, "Out of one of the blazing buildings in which a group of anti-Treaty men had eventually surrendered there emerged... a small dark man carrying a Thompson sub-machine gun. He hadshaken off a St. John's Ambulance man who tried to make him surrender, and suddenly started firing... He was brought down in a hail of bullets, and died two days later. Altogether some sixty people were killed and three hundred wounded in eight days' fighting in Dublin."
To be fair, Brugha had allowed the remainder of his forces to surrender before setting out alone. Calton Younger, in _The Irish Civil War_, pp. 341-342, speculates that Brugha wanted to die as a sacrifice. But he did flee the Granville Hotel, breaking away from the men who served under him -- and when he was cornered, he fought rather than surrendering, and forced the army to kill him.
Perhaps the fittest description of him came from Richard Mulcahy (1886-1971), chief of staff of the Irish Volunteers and one of the most important men in holding together the Free State government: he was "as brave and as brainless as a bull" (Coogan, p. 34). He was tough as a bull, too; during the Easter Rising, he had taken "frightful" grenade wounds and lay  for hours in a room "with little or no plaster left on the walls and every piece of furniture wrecked" (see Michael Foy and Brian Barton, _The Easter Rising_, p. 102). He was spared a firing squad in 1916 because he was thought too wounded to survive. Obviously he proved the doctors wrong (Coogan, p. 71).
Even Collins had mild words for him: "Because of his sincerity, I would forgive him anything. at worst he was a fanatic though in what has been a noble cause" (Kee, p. 167).
Reading Coogan's description of Brugha (p. 70), which describes an inflexible, unimaginative, doctrinaire man -- so doctrinaire that he actually wanted to fight pitched battles against the English! (p. 142) -- I can't help but think how much he sounds like an *English* officer -- even though Brugha, were he alive, would doubtless beat me to a pulp for saying that.
The idiocy of this viewpoint is shown by a comment by Richard Mulcahy, the Irish Chief of Staff, who (after Collins) was probably the man most responsible for forcing the British to negotiate; he observed that, for all the deaths, the Irish rebels had never managed to drive the English out of anything more significant than "a fairly good-sized police barracks" (Kee, p. 145.)
Nor was Brugha particularly close to the "men in the trenches"; Coogan on p. 142 reports that he continued to work at his business through most of the Troubles.
He would have made a wonderful prison camp commandant, I think: Loyal, dependable, and completely lacking in imagination. As a senior government official, he was probably more trouble than he was worth.
Brugha was not the only famous casualty in this period; the Irish shed at least as much of their own blood in the Civil War as the English ever had, and many leaders on both sides were ambushed, executed, or otherwise eliminated. For an even stronger example, and a far greater loss, see "General Michael Collins."
It is sad to note that much of this may have been based on personality rather than policy: Sean Dowling state that "Cathal Brugha hated Collins like poison. It was pathological. ... Brugha was Minister for Defence but he never did anything.... Collins was so energetic that he had usurped many of Brugha's functions; he sure was hated by him." (Quoted by Coogan, p. 175.) - RBW
File: RcTDOB
===
NAME: Death of Charlie Burger: see Hanging of Charlie Birger (File: DTcbirge)
===
NAME: Death of Cilley, The (The Duelist)
DESCRIPTION: "Hark! Didst though hear that startling shriek, That agonizing yell? Which bathed in tears the widow's cheek, When murdered Cilley fell?" "O tell it not in Askelon... What deeds are done in Washington." "The duellist... Must stand condemned...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 24, 1838 - Jonathan Cilley, a Maine congressman, killed in a duel with Kentucky Representative William Graves
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 256, "The Duellist, or The Death of Cilley" (1 excerpted text)
NOTES: The mention of Askelon and Gath is a reference to 2 Samuel 1:20, David's lament over Saul. - RBW
File: Burt256
===
NAME: Death of Cock Robin, The: see Who Killed Cock Robin? (File: SKE74)
===
NAME: Death of Colonel Crafford, The
DESCRIPTION: Crafford leads a party out to slaughter the Indians outside Sandusky. Despite the valor of the white officers, they are forced back and Crafford is taken. The tribal council condemns him to be burnt. The survivors go home and cry for revenge
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1873 (Eddy)
KEYWORDS: Indians(Am.) execution war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 7, 1782 - American militia massacre 96 Delaware Indians (all Christians) at Gnadenhutten, Ohio. This was in retaliation for raids in which the Delaware took no part
May 25-June 6, 1782 - Colonel William Crawford's campaign against the Indians (and British loyalists) on the Sandusky River, culminating in his severe defeat and the massacre of his army.
June 11, 1782 - Execution by burning of Crawford. Crawford's defeat brought many Indians into the Revolutionary War on the British side, but this did little to change the balance of power; Cornwallis had already surrendered and American independence was assured
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Eddy 115, "A Song on the Death of Colonel Crafford" (1 text)
ST E115 (Full)
Roud #5341
File: E115
===
NAME: Death of Ella Speed, The: see Ella Speed (Bill Martin and Ella Speed) [Laws I6] (File: LI06)
===
NAME: Death of Fan McCoy, The
DESCRIPTION: "On her death bed lay Fan McCoy, Her child standing near." She reminds her son, "The Hatfields got your pappy, Jed," and tells the history of the feud, bidding him carry it on. Judge and jury are urged not to treat him harshly because of his history
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: feud death mother children revenge
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1880 - Beginning of the Hatfield/McCoy feud
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 12-13, "The Death of Fan McCoy" (1 text)
Burt, p. 248, "(The Death of Fan McCoy)" (1 excerpt)
ST ThBdM012 (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jim Hatfield's Boy" (subject)
NOTES: The Hatfields of West Virginia were a clan mostly of Democrats and Confederate sympathizers; the McCoys, from just across the Kentucky line, were Unionist Republicans. Their feud began in 1880, and some have claimed that 200 people died in the eight years before Kentucky police suppressed the Hatfields and functionally ended the conflict. - RBW
File: ThBdM012
===
NAME: Death of Fred Lowry, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all young men and gentle maids, Come listen to me now...." The singer tells how troopers surround Fred Lowry's home. He vows to fight while ammunition lasts, but is shot from ambush. He proclaims his honesty, bids farewell to his girl, and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: outlaw death police prison Australia love
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 58-60, "The Death of Fred Lowry" (1 composite text, 1 tune)
File: MCB058
===
NAME: Death of General Wolfe, The: see Brave Wolfe [Laws A1] (File: LA01)
===
NAME: Death of Geordie, The: see Geordie [Child 209] (File: C209)
===
NAME: Death of Harry Bradford, The [Laws C12]
DESCRIPTION: Harry Bradford, the foreman's son, cannot escape being crushed by falling logs. The father learns of his son's tragic death
AUTHOR: W. J. Taylor
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: death logger lumbering father children
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws C12, "The Death of Harry Bradford"
Beck 52, "The Death of Harry Bradford" (1 text)
DT 836, HARBRADF
Roud #2218
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Jam on Gerry's Rock" [Laws C1] (plot, tune)
cf. "The Death of Harry Bradford" [Laws C12] (plot, tune)
NOTES: Beck describes this song as "frankly in imitation" of "The Jam on Gerry's Rock". - PJS
File: LC12
===
NAME: Death of Harry Simms, The
DESCRIPTION: Harry Simms is nineteen and "the bravest union man That I have ever seen." The singer worked with Simms; one day in 1932, after they separate, Simms is killed for his union activities. The singer says "The thugs... cannot kill our spirit"
AUTHOR: Aunt Molly Jackson (Jim Garland listed as second author in some sources)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953
KEYWORDS: murder labor-movement death mining
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 271-273 (plus notes on p. 261), "The Death of Harry Simms" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, HARRYSIM*
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "The Death of Harry Simms" (on PeteSeeger13, AmHist1) (on PeteSeeger39, possibly the same recording as on PeteSeeger13)
NOTES: Greenway claims this song has gone into oral tradition and developed variants. I have no supporting evidence for this -- but without counter-evidence, it goes into the Index. - RBW
Seeger lists authorship as "Words: Jim Garland; Music: As sung by Aunt Molly Jackson." - PJS
File: Grnw271
===
NAME: Death of Herbert Rice, The [Laws D6]
DESCRIPTION: "A fine young man," Herbert Rice, "is lost at sea" off Block Island in a storm. The family mourns. Listeners are advised to turn to God.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: sea storm death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1868 - Herbert A. Rice, not yet nineteen, is lost at sea
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws D6, "The Death of Herbert Rice"
DT 822, HERBRICE
Roud #2232
File: LD06
===
NAME: Death of Jack Hinton, The: see The Wreck on the C & O [Laws G3] (File: LG03)
===
NAME: Death of Jerry Damron, The
DESCRIPTION: Jerry Damron and his crew are killed on the C & O railroad, apparently in a derailment. His friends mourn for him, and hope to meet him in heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: Early 1930s (given to Dock Boggs by Damron's sister)
KEYWORDS: grief train death mourning railroading wreck disaster lament worker
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #14022
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "The Death of Jerry Damron" (on Boggs2, BoggsCD1)
File: RctDoJD
===
NAME: Death of Jesse James, The: see Jesse James (II) [Laws E2] (File: LE02)
===
NAME: Death of Molly Bender: see Molly Bawn (Shooting of His Dear) [Laws O36] (File: LO36)
===
NAME: Death of Morgan, The
DESCRIPTION: The outlaw Daniel Morgan is killed in an ambush.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: outlaw death
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hodgart, p. 230, "The Death of Morgan" (1 text)
Roud #8240
NOTES: According to George Boxall, _The Story of the Australian Bushrangers_, "[Daniel Morgan] was credited with being the most bloodthirsty of the New South Wales bushrangers after Willmore." It was in 1863 that the police realized that he was not associated with Ben Hall or his gang and set out pursuing Morgan. Eventually a price of one thousand pounds was placed on his head.
On the night of April 8, 1865, Morgan set out on a raid in Victoria on a dare from a newspaper. He came to the station of Macpherson and Rutherford. (Asked why he had taken to a life of crime, he claimed he was convicted of a crime he hadn't committed and had escaped.) Morgan was tired enough after several nights without sleep that someone was able to sneak out and summoned help. One of the rescuers shot Morgan from behind a bush. - RBW
File: Hodg230
===
NAME: Death of Mother Jones, The
DESCRIPTION: "The world is mourning today The death of Mother Jones; Grief and sorrow hover Around the miners' homes." The miners lament the death of the organizer who "was ready to help them; she never turned them down."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Gene Autry)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement death mining
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: c. 1837-1930 - life of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 154-155, "Mother Jones" (1 text)
Green-Miner, pp. 241-243, "Mother Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DETHJONE*
Roud #15157
RECORDINGS:
Gene Autry, "The Death of Mother Jones" (Banner 32133/Jewel 20033/Oriole 8033/Perfect 12696/Regal 10311/Romeo 5033/Conqueror 7702, 1931)
NOTES: Greenway notes that his text differs from that in Korson's "Coal Dust on the Fiddle," implying oral transmission. I'm not sure this really follows -- but there is enough doubt that I have indexed the song. - RBW
While copyright was registered in the name of American Record Company talent scout William R. Callaway, it's virtually certain that he did not compose it, but rather purchased the rights from an unknown composer. His widow told Archie Green that her husband never had composed anything, but would often purchase material from musicians he worked with or people he met on the road. - PJS
File: Grnw154
===
NAME: Death of Parcy Reed, The [Child 193]
DESCRIPTION: Parcy Reed captures the raider Crosier. Crosier plans vengeance. When Reed goes hunting, the Halls find him asleep, disable his weapons, then awaken him but refuse to stand with him against the Crosiers. Reed is fatally injures. (He makes his farewells)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1846 (Richardson's Border's Table Book)
KEYWORDS: murder revenge trick betrayal outlaw borderballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 193, "The Death of Parcy Reed" (2 texts)
Bronson 193, "The Death of Parcy Reed" (1 version)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  49-51, "The Death of Parcy Reed" (1 text, 1 tune) {theoretically Bronson's #1, but in fact the two have substantial differences}
Leach, pp. 522-528, "The Death of Parcy Reed" (2 texts)
OBB 146, "The Death of Parcy Reed" (1 text)
DT, PRCYREED*
Roud #335
File: C193
===
NAME: Death of Parker, The: see Poor Parker (File: BrII117)
===
NAME: Death of Queen Jane, The [Child 170]
DESCRIPTION: Queen Jane has hard labor. She begs her attendants to remove her baby surgically. They call King Henry; he will not permit the operation. Queen Jane falls unconscious; the baby is delivered but she dies. King, baby, and court mourn
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: royalty pregnancy death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1536 - Execution of Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn. His marriage to Jane Seymour (one of Anne's women in waiting) follows swiftly
Oct 12, 1537 - Birth of the future Edward VI
Oct 24, 1537 - Death of Jane Seymour
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,West),Scotland(Aber,Bord)) US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Child 170, "The Death of Queen Jane" (9 texts)
Bronson 170, "The Death of Queen Jane" (10 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 466, "The Death of Queen Jane" (brief notes only)
Davis-Ballads 35, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 254-255, "Queen Jane" (1 text, the Lunsford version which has no true plot; tune on pp. 422-423) {Bronson's #7}
Leach, pp. 478-480, "The Death of Queen Jane" (4 texts)
Friedman, p. 285, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text)
SharpAp 32, "The Death of Queen Jane" (2 texts, 2 tunes){Bronson's #4, #5}
Sharp-100E 29, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's  #3}
Niles 50, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 21, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 31, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
GreigDuncan3 693, "Queen Jean" (2 texts)
DBuchan 52, "The Death of Queen Jane" (1 text)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 56-57, "Queen Jane" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #7}
Silber-FSWB, p. 212, "Queen Jane" (1 text)
DT 170, QUENJANE* QUENJAN2*
Roud #77
RECORDINGS:
Douglas Kennedy, "The Death of Queen Jane" (on FieldTrip1)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Death of Queen Jane" (on BLLunsford01; a lyric fragment in which everyone comes to Jane and says simply, "The red rose of England shall flourish no more.") (on BLLunsford02) {Bronson's #7}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Six Dukes Went A-Fishing" (lyrics)
NOTES: [A. L. Lloyd reports,] "We do not know how old this ballad is, nor if it derives from a piece called "The Lamentation of Queen Jane", licensed for publication in 1560."
This ballad is also, as "Dronning Dagmar (Queen Dagmar)," found in Danish tradition. - PJS
If actually the same song, the Danish version would appear to be much older; the most famous Dagmar in Danish history was the daughter of Ottocar I of Bohemia and the wife of Valdemar II (c. 1170-1241; reigned 1202-1241; the name of the Danish king in "Dronning Dagmar" is in fact Valdemar). They were married in 1215; she died in 1222, leaving a son who, in an interesting coincidence, predeceased his father, meaning that the Danish throne went to younger half-brothers. - RBW
Re "Queen Dagmar's Death" translated in R.C. Alexander Prior _Ancient Danish Ballads_ (1860), Vol. II, No. LXII, pp. 136-140: "Dagmar, the first wife of King Waldmar the second, died at Ribe in the year 1212, and is buried at Ringsted by the side of her husband." The plot is very close to "The Death of Queen Jane." However, the king reaches her side after she has died. The king asks that everyone pray that he be allowed to hear her wishes. The Queen wakes, asks that all prisoners be released, that Berngerd [Berengaria] not be taken as a wife, and that her youngest son Knud be heir to the crown. Finally, she explains the reason for her death and damnation: "Had I on a Sunday not laced my sleeves, Or border upon them sewn, No pangs had I felt by day or night, Or torture of hell-fire known." She returns to death. - BS
Note therefore the (minor) differences between the songs: Valdemar arrives at his wife's bedside only after she dies, and she attributes her death to dressing too gaily on a Sunday. She also speaks after death; I know of no supernatural versions of "Queen Jane." Still, it's noteworthy that "Queen Jane's" plot, where it differs from the facts, always differs in a way that brings it closer to "Dronning Dagmar." - (RBW, PJS, BS)
There are surprisingly many stories about the death of Jane Seymour -- that she died in childbirth, or due to the after-effects of a Caesarean operation. Our information is scanty, but argues against this. Loach: Jennifer Loach (edited by George Bernard and Penry Williams), _Edward VI_ (one of the Yale English Monarchs series), Yale, 1999 (I use the 2002 paperback edition), pp. 4-5,  has much to say about this.
Jane Seymour went into labor on October 11, 1537. The future Edward VI was born early on October 12. Jane died twelve days later.
The story that Henry was told at the time that "one of the two must die" is very early, apparently first found in 1538, with a variant, that the prince would be "as great a murderer as his father," apparently being known in 1539. Apparently some of this was used as Catholic propaganda.
But Loach notes that, while the Caesarean operation was known at the time, it was a course of desperation and usually killed the mother. Jane did live twelve days, and at first was well enough to see her child. She therefore thinks it unlikely that surgery was involved in Edward VI's birth.
Loach on p. 7 considers and rejects the suggestion of puerperal fever (caused presumably by the dirty hands of doctors). On p. 6 she notes the activities Jane was able to engage in immediately after the birth. It was not until October 23 that she became ill. She died "during the night of Wednesday, 24 October." Even then, no fever was reported -- but heavy bleeding was. Loach's speculation is that the incompetent doctors did not fully remove the placenta, and it haemorrhaged.
Her funeral took place on November 12, and she was buried the next day (Loach, p. 7).
Incidentally, Jane Seymour's ghost is alleged to still appear at Hampton Castle, one of Henry VIII's primary residences and the place where Jane died. The other side of the coin is, the place is alleged to have quite a few ghosts, very many of whom have been explicitly identified with one or another historical person. One can't help but wonder if the real explanation isn't someone (perhaps in a tourism office) with an overactive imagination.... - RBW
File: C170
===
NAME: Death of Robin Hood, The: see Robin Hood's Death [Child 120] (File: C120)
===
NAME: Death of Roy Rickey, The
DESCRIPTION: "Little Roy was missing, Where was he found? A-hangin' by the roadside ...." He was hangin' on a whiteoak.... Where he could have saved himself If he had not been dead." His parents are accused of killing the boy then hanging the dead body
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: death murder father mother children crime
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 163-164, "The Death of Roy Rickey" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary Phagan" [Laws F20] (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Mary Phagan [Laws F20] (File: LF20)
NOTES: This is so feeble a piece that, after the first two verses, I thought it intended to be humorous. But it evidently wasn't so meant. The outcome of the case apparently was not known to the informants, but rumor had it that Roy had discovered his mother in a compromising position with Jim Andy Day (who later discovered Roy's body). The two disposed of Roy to make sure no word reached Roy's father.
Amazing no one made a movie out of that plot.... - RBW
File: ThBa163
===
NAME: Death of Samuel Adams
DESCRIPTION: "In the state of old Kentucky... A horrible crime was committed And later brought to light." "A man was cruelly murdered, Samuel Adams was his name." The buried body washes up in a flood, and Joe Schuster and gang sentenced to life imprisonment
AUTHOR: Grover Frazier?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder trial prison work
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 242-243, "Death of Samuel Adams" (1 text)
Roud #4131
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rowan County Crew (Trouble, or Tragedy)" [Laws E20] (lyrics)
NOTES: Neither this song nor Thomas's notes are very clear as to what actually happened here. Reading a great deal into a small amount between the lines, I suspect that Samuel Adams, left without work in the Depression, arrived perhaps at Ashland during the labor troubles. He took a job as a guard and was killed as a result.
This is item dF62 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: ThBa242
===
NAME: Death of William Gilley, The [Laws D5]
DESCRIPTION: A widow tells of how, within weeks of her marriage, her husband went to sea. Neither ship nor sailor ever returned, leaving her trying to find strength in her faith
AUTHOR: Mary Lurvey Stanley (broadside)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926
KEYWORDS: sea death religious
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 14, 1829 - Marriage of Clarissa Gott and William Gilley
Mar 1, 1829 - Gilley sets sail in the Minerva, never to return
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws D5, "The Death of William Gilley"
DT 821, WMGILLEY
Roud #2231
File: LD05
===
NAME: Death of Willie Stone, The
DESCRIPTION: "In a graveyard at Toowong, where the river rolls along, Lies Willie Stone a trusted man and true." Well-beloved and handsome, he falls and is killed in a horserace. Listeners are told that "'Twas God's decree and he alone knows best."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975
KEYWORDS: horse racing death
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 224-225, "The Death of Willie Stone" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Stone came from a well-known family of horse trainers, but he was not killed in a race; rather, he was thrown in a practice run. The informant, M. Sullivan, thought this piece might be the work of "Cyclone" Jimmy Connors. - RBW
File: FaE224
===
NAME: Death-Bed Song: see When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round (File: Wa094)
===
NAME: Death, 'Tis a Melancholy Day
DESCRIPTION: "Death, 'tis a melancholy day For those who have no God, When the poor soul is forced away To seek her last abode." The girl is condemned to Hell; others are warned of it. The singer is glad to be rescued from it.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Sacred Harp)
KEYWORDS: religious Hell death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 645, "Death, 'Tis a Melancholy Day" (1 text)
Roud #655
NOTES: In the Sacred Harp, where the text is credited to Isaac Watts (1707) and the tune to H. S. Reed, this is called "Melancholy Day."  The Missouri Harmony sets the first verse to the tune "Tribulation."
Roud lumps this with "Death Is a Melancholy Call" [Laws H5], which strikes me as more reasonable than many of his other lumps. But I keep them separate based on Laws. - RBW.
File: R645
===
NAME: Death, Ain't You Got No Shame?
DESCRIPTION: "Death, ain't you got no shame, shame...." "Left his pappy to moan, moan...." "Left his widder alone, lone...." "Left his mammy to weep, weep...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936
KEYWORDS: religious death nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 129, "Death, Ain't You Got No Shame?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6682
File: LoF129
===
NAME: Deceitful Husband, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer says she was courted and married by a stranger. They had been married six weeks when a woman claims him as the father of her infant. The singer believes the story although her husband denies it. She drives him away to "where he ought to go"
AUTHOR: Hugh McWilliams (source: Moulden-McWilliams)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1831 (according to Moulden-McWilliams)
KEYWORDS: marriage accusation rejection baby husband lover wife
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: John Moulden, Songs of Hugh McWilliams, Schoolmaster, 1831 (Portrush,1993), p. 8, "The Deceitful Husband"
Roud #7002
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "Young Girls Beware" (on IRRCinnamond02)
NOTES: The description is based on Moulden. - BS
File: RcTDeHus
===
NAME: Deceived Girl, The: see The Fair Flower of Northumberland [Child 9] (File: C009)
===
NAME: December cam, the twenty-fift': see December Cam' (File: GrD636)
===
NAME: December Cam'
DESCRIPTION: The day before Old Yule comes with wind and snow. The maiden cleaning the lum [chimney] slipps on her bum. She bakes bread and cleans the house. We get bread buttered and hot but cups and dishes "cam' rowin frae the pantry"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: humorous religious
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig 59, p. 2, ("December cam, the twenty-fift'") (1 fragment)
GreigDuncan3 636, "December Cam'" (1 text)
Roud #6096
NOTES: Greig: ." .. a rhyme about Yule, which was written, my correspondent thinks, by an Inverkeithney man, an Episcopalian, as a kind of satire on the way Presbyterians held Christmas." In this regard, the first verse begins "December cam' the twenty fift Accordin' to the aul' time." For more background on the reaction to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, and its effect on the Yule celebration, see the notes to "Auld Yule." - BS
File: GrD636
===
NAME: Decision in the Gypsy's Warning: see The Gypsy's Warning (File: R743)
===
NAME: Deck of the Willow Green
DESCRIPTION: Edgar ships on the Willow Green. Being God-fearing, he refuses to join the crew and captain in drink. Edgar tells the captain that drink will lead him to Hell. In drunken gloom the captain kills himself. Edgar prays for the crew. They all swear off rum.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: virtue suicide sea ship drink religious sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 89, "Deck of the Willow Green" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
ST LLab089 (Partial)
Roud #9974
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Faithful Edgar
NOTES: Yeah, sure. - RBW
File: LLab089
===
NAME: Deck the Halls (with Boughs of Holly)
DESCRIPTION: Listeners are urged to "Deck the halls with boughs of holly," wear "gay apparel," "troll the ancient yuletide carol," and welcome in the new year
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1881 (tune published 1784 as "Nos Galan" in Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards)
KEYWORDS: Christmas nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
OBC 50, "Nos Galan" (2 texts, of which the second is this piece, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 382, "Deck the Halls" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 193-194, "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"
DT, DECKHALL*
ADDITIONAL: Ian Bradley, _The Penguin Book of Carols_ (1999), #17, "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" (1 text)
SAME_TUNE:
Deck the Halls with Lefse Slices (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 19)
Deck the Halls (with Gasoline) (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 99)
NOTES: This seems certainly to have been originally a Welsh New Year's song, "Nos Galan." According to Fuld, this was originally published, in Welsh, in 1784. Despite the appearance of the words in the "Oxford Book of Carols," the commentators cited by Fuld consider the song to be exclusively American.
The English words bear no relationship to the Welsh, which is said to be a love song used as a circle dance. Bradley in the _Penguin Book of Carols_ claims it could be used for a forfeit game: The singers danced around a harp, and each singer was called upon to sing a verse in turn, with the singer who failed to do so dropping out of the circle. - RBW
File: FSWB382A
===
NAME: Deep Blue Sea (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The girl's lover set off to sea, promising to write to her. She never hears from him. She seeks out his captain, who tells her "he is drowned in the deep blue sea." She bids "farewell to friends and relations" and decides to drown herself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Carter Family recording)
KEYWORDS: death suicide ship sea drowning
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Randolph 794, "The Deep Blue Sea" (1 short text plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 518-520, "The Deep Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 794A)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 26, "Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune, perhaps rewritten by the Carter Family)
Silber-FSWB, p. 181, "Sailor On The Deep Blue Sea" (1 text)
DT, SAILDEEP*
Roud #4291
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "I Have No One to Love Me" (Victor V-40036, 1929)
Lake Howard, "I Have No One to Love Me" (Perfect 13151, 1935)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea" (on NLCR01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sailor Boy (I)" [Laws K12] (plot)
NOTES: Paul Stamler suggests that this is a worn-down form of "The Sailor Boy" (Laws K12). I consider the characteristic of Laws K12 to be the request for a boat that the girl may seek her lover. Also, there are very few words in common between the two. So I have,
with some hesitation, decided to split the two songs.
It is quite possible that the separation is recensional; Cohen notes that Randolph's texts appear to be a warn down version of the Carter Family version, and Randolph's is the only genuinely traditional source. So this may be the remnants of a Carter Family rewrite of "The Sailor Boy." - RBW
File: R794
===
NAME: Deep Blue Sea (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Deep blue sea, baby, deep blue sea...It was Willie what got drownded in the deep blue sea"; "Dig his grave with a silver spade..."; "Lower him down with a golden chain..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (recording, Pete Seeger)
KEYWORDS: death burial drowning floatingverses lullaby
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 76, "Deep Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 58, "Deep Blue Sea" (1 text)
DT, DEEPBLUE*
Roud #3119
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Deep Blue Sea" (on PeteSeeger04) (on PeteSeeger12) (on PeteSeeger15)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Blue" (floating verses)
cf. "The 'Cholly' Blues" (floating verses)
cf. "Stormalong" (floating verses)
cf. "Dig My Grave With a Silver Spade" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: In this case, perhaps we should refer to "sinkingverses." This song should not be confused with "The Deep Blue Sea", aka "Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea," as recorded by the Carter Family. It may have been a shanty at some point. - PJS
File: PSAFB076
===
NAME: Deep Elem Blues
DESCRIPTION: The listener is advised to be prepared when going to (Deep Elem): "If you go down to Deep Elem just to have a little fun, You'd better have your fifteen dollars when the policeman comes." The singer details his experiences with the women there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Cofer Brothers)
KEYWORDS: whore money police theft trick sex warning crime humorous clergy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 501, "Went Down Town"; 502, "Standin' on de Street Doin' No Harm" (2 fragments, consisting of little more than a declaration of innocence and a statement "along came the police and grabbed me by the arm," also found in some versions of this song)
DT, DEEPELM  BLCKBTTM
RECORDINGS:
The Cofer Brothers, "The Georgia Black Bottom (Black Bottom Blues)" (Okeh 45111, 1927)
Richard O. Hamilton, "Deep Elm Blues" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
Lone Star Cowboys, "Deep Elm Blues" (Victor 23846, 1933)
Prairie Ramblers, "Deep Elem Blues" (Perfect 5-11-51, 1935)
The Shelton Brothers, "Deep Elem Blues" (Decca 5099, 1935; Decca 46008, 1946)
SAME_TUNE:
Shelton Brothers, "Deep Elem Blues - No. 2" (Decca 5198, 1936)
Shelton Brothers, "Deep Elem Blues - No. 3" (Decca 5422, 1937)
NOTES: "Deep Elem," according to Michael Cooney, refers to Elm Street, the red light district in Dallas, Texas (for the reputation of this area, see also, e.g., "Take a Whiff On Me"). It's not clear whether the Cofer Brothers' "Black Bottom Blues" or the Shelton Brothers' "Deep Elem Blues" is the older form; the latter seems to have inspired more recordings. - RBW
File: DTdeepel
===
NAME: Deep in Love: see Waly Waly (The Water is Wide) (File: K149)
===
NAME: Deep River
DESCRIPTION: "Deep River, "(My home is over Jordan), I want to cross over (to the campground)." The singer hopes to cross (the Jordan) to heaven , there to meet family, friends, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1875 ("The Story of the Jubilee Singers")
KEYWORDS: religious death river
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 594-595, "Deep River" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 370, "Deep River" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 195, "Deep River"
DT, DEEPRVR2
Roud #12332
RECORDINGS:
Marian Anderson, "Deep River" (Victor 19227, 1924) (Victor 22015, 1929; Victor 2032, 1940)
Carroll Clark w. Fletcher Henderson [Orch.?] "Deep River" (Columbia 128-D, 1924)
Commonwealth Quartet, "Deep River" (Conqueror 7079, 1928)
Hampton Institute Quartette, "Deep River" (RCA, unissued, 1941)
The King's Heralds, "Deep River" (Chapel CR 23, n.d.)
Lions Quartet, "Deep River" (Columbia 1167-D, 1927)
Oriole Male Quartette, "Deep River" (Oriole 893, 1927)
Randolph's Kentucky Jubilee Choir, "Deep River" (Brunswick 4063, 1928)
Paul Robeson, "Deep River" (Victor 20793, 1927)
NOTES: Not to be confused with either of two songs called "Deep River Blues" (one traditional, with the opening "Let it rain, let it pour; Let it rain a whole lot more..."; the other coming from the W. C. Handy tradition and beginning "Deep river, deep river, Mississippi River, so deep and wide my heart is breaking"). - RBW
File: LxA594
===
NAME: Deep Sheephaven Bay
DESCRIPTION: The singer is exiled from Ireland. He thinks about his old home, the fishing fleet, the fields, and "bonnie blue-eyed Mary in her shawl of Galway grey," Now he is old but hopes he can return and "sleep in that old churchyard" near his old home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: exile home separation Ireland nonballad return
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 21, "Deep Sheephaven Bay" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: McBride: "A favourite song of emigration in Donegal. Sheephaven Bay lies west of Inishowen...." - BS
File: McB1021
===
NAME: Deep Water: see Poor Omie (John Lewis) (Little Omie Wise) [Laws F4] AND Naomi Wise [Laws F31] (File: LF04)
===
NAME: Deer Chase, The: see The Bear Chase (File: LoF081)
===
NAME: Defence of Crossgar
DESCRIPTION: Thrashers prepare "not to leave a Protestant soul in Crossgar" on St Patrick's Day. A policeman encourages them and the peelers don't stop them. "Many a Thrasher that day was detained" by Orange shot. "We fought them and beat them an hundred to one"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987 (OrangeLark)
KEYWORDS: violence Ireland patriotic political police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 17, 1849 - "Ribbon parades at Castlewellan and Crossgar were attacked by Orangemen, and at Crossgar a policeman and a young woman were killed" (source: Neil Jarman and Dominic Bryan, _From Riots to Rights; Nationalist Parades in the North of Ireland_ (1997),
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OrangeLark 13, "Defence of Crossgar" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Seige of Carrick" (tune, according to OrangeLark)
NOTES: OrangeLark: "The Irish Constabulary, like the R.I.C. which superseded it, was largely composed of Roman Catholics."
Sir Robert Peel established the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1812 and its success led, in 1829, to the Metropolitan Police Act for London. Originally the term "Peeler" applied to the London constabulary. (source: _Sir Robert "Bobby" Peel (1788-1850)_ at Historic UK site.)
The Thrashers were one of the Catholic agrarian groups like the Defenders, Whiteboys and Ribbonmen (source: "Orange Institution" at the Wikipedia site). - BS
File: OrLa013
===
NAME: Defender's Song, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, "a Defender and a member of the Church of Rome," is banished from his home by "Luthers black and Calvin crew." He flees to the mountains. He recalls Christ's travails. He considers the despair of Calvinists: "their compass needle it is broke"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: Ireland religious exile
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 134-135, "The Defender's Song" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banished Defender" (some text)
NOTES: Tunney-StoneFiddle pp. 134-135 shares its first verse and theme with "The Banished Defender" but the remaining verses are entirely different.
Zimmermann p. 19: "In some parts of Ulster, Protestant and Catholic tenants were mingled and contended for the land; the peasantry was thus divided into two camps, each having its oath-bound association. This led to a sort of religious war. At the end of the eighteenth century the Catholic "Defenders" were opposed to the Protestant "Peep o'Day Boys" or "Orangemen." The "Defenders were succeeded by the "Ribbonmen" - BS
An irony of this song is that, while there were Calvinists in Ulster (the Presbyterian church is Calvinist), the main force of Protestantism in Ireland was the Anglican church, which is neither Lutheran (Protestant) nor Calvinist (Reformed); Anglicanism is third major branch to split off from the Church of Rome.
The Calvinist despair is, I assume, based on their extreme doctrine of predestination, which holds that no amount of effort to do right can save a person; it depends entirely on God's grace (or God's whim, as it appears to non-Calvinists). This position is summed up in the Reformed faith's "TULIP" acronym, affirmed at the Synod of Dort: Total depravity, Uncondition election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.
To show why all of this is relevant to Ireland: Cromwell, who did more than anyone (including even William III) to destroy Irish society, could well be called a Calvinist's Calvinist. - RBW
File: TSF134
===
NAME: Defenders' Song
DESCRIPTION: "Arise, ye sons of liberty, awake out of your slumber." United defenders must "plant the tree of liberty" in Ireland. Follow the examples of America and France. "The harp and shamrock will unite, when tyrants are no more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1863 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: America France Ireland nonballad political
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 44, "Defenders' Song" (1 text)
NOTES: For more about the Defenders, who spread starting around 1790 in response to the Protestant Peep o' Day boys, see e.g. the notes to "Bold McDermott Roe," "The Banished Defender," and "The Noble Ribbon Boys." - RBW
File: Moyl044
===
NAME: Deitcher's Dog, Der: see O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone (File: RJ19057)
===
NAME: Delhi Jail, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is going down the road "with a tired feeling and a heavy load" when the Sheriff apprehends him. The food in Delhi Jail is abominable, and the singer, once freed, proclaims, "I hope to the Lord I go there no more." Tune: "Turkey in the Straw"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1982
KEYWORDS: prison parody
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 169, "The Delhi Jail" (1 text, 1 tune, plus a stanza of "Turkey in the Straw" from the same informant)
ST FSC169 (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Turkey in the Straw" (tune) and references there
File: FSC169
===
NAME: Delia: see Delia's Gone [Laws I5] (File: LI05)
===
NAME: Delia Holmes: see Delia's Gone [Laws I5] (File: LI05)
===
NAME: Delia's Gone [Laws I5]
DESCRIPTION: Tony/Coonie shoots Delia (for breaking her promise to marry him). Delia's mother grieves. Coonie writes a letter from prison, where he has been sent for life, asking the governor for a pardon
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: murder prison punishment
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Bahamas
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws I5, "Delia (Holmes)"
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 911-912, "Delia Holmes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 238-239, "Delia" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 177, "Delia's Gone" (1 text)
DT 657, DELIAGON* DELIAGO2 (DELIA2 -- heavily adapted)
Roud #3264
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Delia's Gone" (on PeteSeeger04)
NOTES: In oral tradition this ballad has split into two texts which are so distinct that they can hardly be recognized as one. (Indeed, I wasn't sure until I came across an unusually full Bahaman version.)
"Delia's Gone," from the Bahamas, tells only the bare facts of Delia's murder, which is committed by Tony.
"Delia" ("Delia Holmes") provides a motive for the shooting (Delia Holmes had broken her promise to marry Coonie), and gives details about the murderer's conviction.
One theory has it that this story is based on a murder committed in Georgia around 1900.
If this is true, then Tony/Coonie is Moses Houston (variously called "Mose" and "Cooney/Coony" in the newspapers). His age is uncertain; he gave it as fourteen, and the papers estimated it at fourteen to sixteen.
Delia Green was fourteen year old who had been dating. He claimed there was a sexual relationship; she denied it. He killed her in 1900, at a rowdy party in which they argued, apparently over whether their relationship was sexual. He was tried in 1901. Found guilty (in a trial which, in retrospect, does not sound very fair), he was sentenced to prison but parolled in 1913; a later request to overturn his sentence does not seem to have been acted upon. (Information compiled by John Garst.)
Almost all that is known about this song is summarized by Chapman J. Milling in Volume 1, Number 4 of _Southern Folklore Quarterly_ (December 1937); Botkin excerpts several important paragraphs. - RBW
File: LI05
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NAME: Deliverance Will Come : see Palms of Victory (Deliverance Will Come) (File: R626)
===
NAME: Deluded Lover, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer greets his  love; but she reproaches him for deluding her. He says he's free of obligation to her. She points out that he broke his vows to her. He says *he* was deluded, and that he still thinks of his true-love. He wishes all wars were over 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1945 (Tunney-StoneFiddle); 1952 (IRTunneyFamily01)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer meets his true love; he greets her, but she reproaches him for deluding her. He denies it, saying he's free of obligation to her, and so is she. He admits giving her diamond rings; she points out that he broke his vows to her, and married "the lassie with the land." He admits that too, but says *he* was deluded, and that he still thinks of his true-love. He wishes all wars were over (, that the soldiers may be called home from their war-brides,) and that they might meet again
KEYWORDS: love marriage accusation promise abandonment betrayal lover wife
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 150, "The Deluded Lover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 78-79, "As I Roved Out" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3479
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Tunney, "As I Roved Out" (on IRPTunney02)
Michael Gallagher, "The Deluded Lover" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Briar and the Rose
NOTES: Schmuck. - PJS
The final verse of this song wishes that "the Queen would call home her armies From England, Ireland, from Amerikay and Spain." This strongly implies a date in the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) and the War of the Spanish Succession; Elizabeth I had no armies in America (though she did fight Spain), and Victoria, though she had armies in North America if you count Canada as British, was no longer involved in Spain.
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) did keep British troops on the continent (mostly in the Low Countries) far longer than previous wars, and there were also troops stationed in Ireland for long periods for fear of Jacobite activities. So foreign marriages did become a possibility. - RBW
While Michael Gallagher's recording has the title "The Deluded Lover" he himself introduces the song as "As I Roved Out."
Tunney-StoneFiddle calls this "'As I Roved Out' or 'The False Bride'." This doesn't seem in any way related to "The False Bride." Tunney's melody is the one used by Planxty for "As I Roved Out" on _Planxty -- The Well Below the Valley_ on LP Shanachie 79010 (1979). Perhaps "The False Bride" is a typo for a title mentioned on p. 137, viz., "The Forsaken Bride."
Peter Boyle's notes to IRPTunney02: "The song sung here has been equated, rightly or wrongly, with the English ballad 'The False Bride' (BBC Recorded Programmes Library), but to me it seems rather to be a mixture of two or three themes taken over from Provencal folk poetry, and one really Irish theme -- that of land hunger. Easily recognizable in the verses are (1) the love debate, (2) chanson de jeune fille, and (3) a folk-memory of amour courtois." In Tunney's own comment on IRPTunney02 considers land hunger one issue but speculates that the outcome might be blamed on a matchmaker making the best deal.
From "As I Roved Out on a Bright May Morning" for _Scottish Songs--Lyrics and Melodies_ at Glasgow Guide site: "A copy of this song was recently found in Russia, by Dr. Urbanov, folded into the diary of a Captain Dougal Frazer who presumably died at Balaclava in the Crimean war around 1853, as a member of the 93rd Highland Regiment, under Sir Colin Campbell, one time Aide de Camp to the Duke of Wellington." [For Colin Campbell, commander of the Highland Brigade at Alma, see e.g. "The Kilties in the Crimea," "Grand Conversation on Sebastopol Arose (II)," and "The Heights of Alma (I)" [Laws J10] - RBW] - BS
File: K150
===
NAME: Demon Lover, The: see The Daemon Lover (The House Carpenter) [Child 243] (File: C243)
===
NAME: Demon of the Seas, The
DESCRIPTION: On board the pirate ship Demon of the Seas Captain Moore outrun ships of war until "two men of war were fitted out By Edward, England's King" to bring him in. The pirates destroy those ships but are destroyed by a third.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1847 (Journal of William Histed of the Cortes)
KEYWORDS: fight navy death pirate
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 151-153, "The Demon of the Seas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 78-79, "The Demon of the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1962
NOTES: Huntington states, without evidence, that the King Edward involved is Edward VI (reigned 1547-1553). The difficulty in this, of course, is that Edward VI died while he was still only a boy; he didn't fit out anything in his own right.
Nonetheless, if an English King Edward is meant, it almost has to be Edward VI. Edward VII (reigned 1901-1910) is obviously too late. The Edwards prior to Edward VI are largely eliminated by the mention of guns. Edward I (1272-1307) and Edward II (1307-1327) simply didn't have cannon. They began to be used in the reign of Edward III (1327-1377), but not on shipboard -- they were still too experimental.
By the time of Edward IV (1461-1470, 1471-1483) and Edward V (1483), cannon were well-established as weapons, but only on land; they had been mounted on ships, but hardly used. It's surprising to hear guns mentioned even in connection with Edward VI's navy, since this is before the Spanish Armada really caused naval gunnery to be tested -- but at least it's possible.
I know of no famous pirate named Moore (excluding the Captain of the _Flying Cloud_, which is obviously too late). Could it possibly be an error for "Moor" -- i.e. one of the corsairs from North Africa? - RBW
File: IvNB151
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NAME: Dempsey's Lumber-Camp Song
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes the characters at Dempsey's lumber camp
AUTHOR: Frank Ward
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work nonballad moniker logger humorous
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 70, "Dempsey's Lumber-Camp Song" (1 text)
Roud #8840
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
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: Be070
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NAME: Den o' Auldbar, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the first day of March when the crow can find no rest, Flying about from tree to tree seeking where to build her nest. But when nine days are over so neatly does she line, For it's doon the Den o' Auldbar the burnie gies a twine [brook splits?]"
AUTHOR: John Archer (source: Greig, quoting Reid, _The Bards of Angus and the Mearns_)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: bird home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #28, p. 2, "The Den o' Aldbar" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 514, "The Den o' Auldbar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5998
NOTES: The current description is all of the GreigDuncan3 entry.
Greig in 1908, citing Reid, has the song popular "some sixty or seventy years ago." - BS
File: GrD3514
===
NAME: Denis O'Reilly: see True-Born Irish Man (With My Swag All on My Shoulder; The True-Born Native Man) (File: MA062)
===
NAME: Dennis McGonagle's Daughter Mary Ann
DESCRIPTION: "I am a decent Irishman, IÕve a daughter Mary Ann... and you bet she is so fresh, she will never spoil." The girl is always going to balls and courting young men. At one, she is arrested, but promptly freed when the police learn who she is
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Dean)
KEYWORDS: courting police humorous floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dean, pp. 80-81, "Dennis McGonagle's Daughter Mary Ann" (1 text)
Roud #9569
NOTES: This song poses a bit of a conundrum. The chorus runs, "She's a darling, she's a daisy, and she nearly drives me crazy, With a hand and foot upon her like a man. And everywhere she goes you can tell by her turned-up nose That she's Dennis McGonagle's daughter Mary Ann." This obviously has the same source as the as the lyric "She's my darling, she's my daisy, She's humpbacked and she's crazy... She's my freckled-faced consumptive Mary Ann" found in "Hungry Hash House" and "Sara Jane."
And yet, the feeling of the two versions is so different that they can properly be considered separate songs. And which one (if either one) is original? I have no answer. - RBW
File: Dean080
===
NAME: Dennis O'Reilly: see True-Born Irish Man (With My Swag All on My Shoulder; The True-Born Native Man) (File: MA062)
===
NAME: Dennis Ryan: see Janie of the Moor [Laws N34] (File: LN34)
===
NAME: Denny Byrne, the Piper: see The Cow Ate the Piper (File: PBB091)
===
NAME: Dens of Ireland, The
DESCRIPTION: A young hunter accidentally kills a man. He is captured and faces the death penalty. A girl sets out to save him. She enters the courtroom and pleads on her knees for his life. The judge frees him; the man agrees to marry the girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1982
KEYWORDS: love death trial reprieve
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
FSCatskills, "The Dens of Ireland" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DNIRELND*
File: FSC060
===
NAME: Dens of Yarrow, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
===
NAME: Departed Loved Ones
DESCRIPTION: "Is it wrong to wish to meet them Who were dear to us in life?" "I've a mother up in heaven, And oh, tell me if you will, Will my mother know her children When to glory they will go?" The singer thinks of family and how they live in heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (SFLQ)
KEYWORDS: religious death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 525, "Departed Loved Ones" (1 text)
Roud #11818
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "We Have Fathers Gone to Heaven" (floating lyrics)
cf. "The Other Bright Shore" (theme)
NOTES: This may be an elaboration "We Have Fathers Gone to Heaven," or that piece may be an expanded repetition of a single version of this. Dependence seems nearly certain -- but since "We Have Fathers" is just a set of  stanzas repeated with variations, they must be listed separately. - RBW
File: Br3525
===
NAME: Deportee: see Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) (File: SBoA367)
===
NAME: Depression
DESCRIPTION: "The meal is cheap sellin their farms high rentit And sma is their profit when sellin their grain." Bad weather destroys the crops. Cattle cannot be sold. The "cursed gentry ... card not nor spin... The laird and the factor will get an overthrow"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes work farming landlord nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #147, p. 1, "Depression" (1 text)
GreigDuncan3 435, "Depression" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5950
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lass o' Glenshee" (tune, per Greig)
NOTES: The line about "cursed gentry ... Walks out at their leisure, lies up at their pleasure" in GreigDuncan3 is "Like Solomon's lilies they card not nor spin." The reference is to Matthew 6:28-29 [with a close parallel in Luke 12:27 - RBW]: "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." While the reference does not work as intended by Matthew it does work in bringing to mind a picture of landlord as idler wallowing in unearned luxury.
[Indeed, it gets the point almost backward, since Jesus's message in this passage, as given by both Matthew and Luke, was not to worry about how to make a living. But the comparison to Solomon is apt: Of all the Davidide Kings, he was among the most useless, spending vast amounts he didn't have and doing nothing to promote the actual prosperity of his kingdom. - RBW]
Greig:  "['Depression'] gives a picture of the agricultural situation as it would have been in the seventies of last century when the word 'Depression' came into vogue." 
GreigDuncan3: "'September 1907. Heard about 1850.'" - BS
File: GrD3435
===
NAME: Der Deitcher's Dog: see O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone (File: RJ19057)
===
NAME: Derby Ram, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer travels to Derby and sees the amazing Derby Ram. Its size and power are described in expansive detail (with the details varying). Most versions end with the slaughter of the ram. "If you had been to Derby, you'd have seen it as well as I"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: animal talltale bawdy bragging humorous lie
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So,SW) Australia Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont) Jamaica
REFERENCES: (38 citations)
Belden, pp. 224-225, "The Derby Ram" (1 text)
Randolph 106, "The Derby Ram" (2 texts plus a mixed fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 137-139, "The Derby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 106A)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 89-96, "The Darby Ram" (8 texts, 1 tune)
Eddy 81, "The Darby Ram" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 190, "The Darby Ram" (2 texts plus an excerpt and mention of 1 more, 2 tunes)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 112-113, 120-121, "The Derby Ram"; p. 153, "Inky Dinky Derby Town" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
BrownII 176, "The Derby Ram" (1 text plus a fragment)
Chappell-FSRA 105, "Ram of Darby" (1 text)
Hudson 127, pp. 273-274, "The Ram of Derby" (1 text)
Fuson, p. 58, "Darby's Sheep" (1 text)
Brewster 75, "The Derby Ram" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 241-242, "Derby Ram" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 136, "The Derby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune -- sailors' version; the ram goes to sea but still gets slaughtered)
Hugill, pp. 437-438, "The Derby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 328-329]
Peacock, pp. 10-11, "The Derby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 100-101, "The Derby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 141, "The Derby Ram" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Friedman, p. 441, "The Derby Ram" (1 text)
Cray, pp. 23-28, "The Derby Ram" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
FSCatskills 151, "The Darby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 212-213, "The Albury Ram" (1 text, 1 tune, with a chorus borrowed from "Clear Away the Morning Dew")
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 270-272, "The Albury Ram" (1 text, with the same "Clear Away the Morning Dew" chorus as in Fahey-Eureka)
GreigDuncan3 645, "The Ram o' Dirram" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
Kennedy 304, "The Ram Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 38-40, "[The Darby Ram]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 53, "Darby Ram (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 134-136, "The Darby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 577-578, "The Derby Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, p. 97, "The Ram of Dalby" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 139-140, "The Derby Shed Ram" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kinloch-BBook XXVI, pp. 80-81, "The Ram of Diram" (1 text)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 124-125, "The Ram o' Bervie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 129, "As I was going to Derby" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #805, p. 298-300, "(As I was going to Derby)"
Silber-FSWB, p. 404, "The Darby Ram" (1 text)
DT 312, DERBYRAM DERBYRM2 DRBYRAM3* (DERBYRM4) DRBYRAM5 DERBYRM7*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Derby Ram" is in Part 1, 7/14/1917.
Roud #126
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Derby ram / The Darby ram" (AFS 4214 B1, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Charles Ingenthron, "The Derby Ram" (AFS; on LC12)
Grandpa Jones w. Delmore Brothers, "Darby's Ram" (King 708, 1948)
Arthur Lennox, "The Ram Song" (on FSB10)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Derby Ram" (on Lloyd4, Lloyd8)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Darby's Ram" (Brunswick 228, 1928)
Cyril O'Brien, "The Derby Ram" (on NFMLeach)
Lawrence Older,  "Derby Ram" (on LOlder01)
Abigail Hall Ritchie, "Darby Ram" (on Ritchie03)
Pete Seeger, "The Darby Ram" (on PeteSeeger09, PeteSeegerCD02)
Skyland Scotty, "Darby's Ram" (Conqueror 8309, 1934)
Sid Steer, "The Derby Ram" (on Voice07)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Didn't He Ramble" (lyrics)
cf. "The Grey Goose" (theme)
cf. "The Red Herring" (theme)
cf. "The Sucking Pig" (theme)
cf. "T'Owd Yowe wi' One Horn" (theme)
cf. "Paul Bunyan's Big Ox" (theme)
cf. "The Loft Giant (Song of Marvels)"
cf. "The Wonderful Crocodile" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
Frankfort Town (Greenway-AFP, p. 18)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Beast of Derbytown
The Darby Tup
The Old Tup
The Ram of Derby (Darby)
The Ram Song
The Wattle Flat Ram
The Great Sheep
NOTES: This is another of the ballads Child excluded from his ESPB, presumably because the "hero" is an animal. The contemporary bawdy song is descended from English mummer plays, and those, in turn, are perhaps relics of medieval mystery plays.
Randolph-Legman has extensive, if rambling and opinionated, notes on this ballad. - EC
And if it had been trimmed, we'd say "He rambled till that editor cut him down." (Sorry.) -PJS
It's times like these I'm REALLY glad I can blame these notes on somebody else.
Ford reports, without accepting it, that "a prisoner had been condemned to death, in the time of the feudal laws, and was promised free pardon should he succeed in composing a song without a grain of truth in it, and that this was the song he produced." Of course, he could just as well have produced the previous story.... - RBW
File: R106
===
NAME: Derby Shed Ram, The: see references under The Derby Ram (File: R106)
===
NAME: Derby, Derby
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Derby, Derby, won't you marry me? Derby, Derby, won't you say yes? Derby, Derby, won't you marry me? Show your legs to the Cockney girls"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1974 (recording, Minty Smith)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad nonsense marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Minty Smith, "Derby, Derby" (on Voice14)
NOTES: The current description is all of the Voice14 text. - BS
File: RcDerDer
===
NAME: Dermody and Hines
DESCRIPTION: The police shoot the innocent without penalty. It's murder when a policeman's shot. The informer Noctor is persuaded to say Dermody and Hines shot M'Goldrick. Nevertheless, the jury finds them not guilty. Must we continue to play at being fools?
AUTHOR: Susan Mitchell (source: OLochlainn-More)
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1909 (_Bean na h-Eireann,_ according to OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: murder trial freedom patriotic police lie
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 62, "Dermody and Hines" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9766
NOTES: O Lochlainn recalls the lines "Cut yourself an ash plant, and never heed the fines, But strike a blow for Freedom, like Darmody and Hynes" - BS
File: OLcM062
===
NAME: Dermot Astore
DESCRIPTION: "Oh! Dermot Astore! between waking and sleeping I heard thy dear voice, and I wept to its lay" She asks whether this is their last meeting. "I know we must part, but oh! say not for ever."
AUTHOR: Anne Barry Crawford
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1861 (broadside, LOCSinging sb10099a)
KEYWORDS: love separation parting exile
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 146, "Dermot Astore" (1 text)
Roud #4884
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(613), "Dermot Astore. Reply to Kathleen Mavourneen," H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860 [same as LOCSinging sb10099a]; also Harding B 11(878), "Dermot Astore. The Reply to Kathleen Mavourneen"
LOCSinging, sb10099a, "Dermot Astore," H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(613)]; also as102940, "Dermot Astore. Reply to Kathleen Mavourneen" 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kathleen Mavourneen" (characters)
NOTES: See the description for "Kathleen Mavourneen" for the background to this song. Mrs. Crawford is a co-author to that.
Broadsides LOCSinging sb10099a and Bodleian Harding B 18(613): 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: OCon146
===
NAME: Derriere Chez Nous (Behind Our House)
DESCRIPTION: French. Behind our house is a tree. On the tree is a branch. On the branch is a nest. In the nest is an egg. In the egg is a small bird. In this bird you do not know what there is.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage nonballad bird
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 169, "Derriere Chez Nous" (1 text, 1 tune)
SAME_TUNE:
cf. "The Rattling Bog" (theme)
File: CrMa169
===
NAME: Derry Down Fair: see Rambleaway (File: ShH31)
===
NAME: Derry Gaol: see Gallows [Laws L11] (File: LL11)
===
NAME: Derry Pipe, The: see The Wee Cutty Pipe (The Derry Pipe) (File: HHH465)
===
NAME: Derry Walls Away
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls when "Lord Antrim's men came down yon glen" While some opposed them "our 'Prentice Boys" closed the gates. The seige is recounted including Walker's and Murray's parts. "When we close our gates again We'll then all be True Blue"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.10(3))
KEYWORDS: battle rescue death starvation Ireland patriotic youth
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 7, 1688 - The "Apprentice Boys" close the Londonderry gates against Lord Antrim's "Redshanks" (source: Kilpatrick [see Notes])
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OrangeLark 6, "Shutting of the Gates of Derry by the Apprentice Boys of Derry" (1 text, 1 tune)
Graham, p. 5, "Derry Walls Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(3), "Derry Walls" ("Full many a long wild winter's night," The Poet's box (Glasgow), 1865; also 2806 b.10(2), "The Seige of Derry"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "No Surrender (I)" (subject)
cf. "The Shutting of the Gates of Derry" (subject) and references there
cf. "The Maiden City" (subject)
cf. "Derry's Walls" (subject)
NOTES: The Protestant Plantation of Ulster was created after the 1607 "Flight of the Earls" - heads of the Ulster clans - to Rome allowed James I to declare their lands forfeit to the Crown. In the Plantation, the City of Londonderry was fortified and gated walls built around it. When James brought troops from Ireland Londonderry was left unguarded. On December 7, 1688, Lord Antrim's Catholic "Redshanks" camped outside the city. With the city government undecided as to how to handle the situation, thirteen young "Apprentice Boys" seized the gate keys, drew up the drawbridge and locked the four gates. Antrim's troops withdrew. Lord Mountjoy's Protestant regiment was allowed to garrison the city. To escape the war, residents surrounding areas flooded into the city. Reinforcements sent by William to relieve Derry in April turned away. Then James's attempt at negotiating with Derry failed. Colonel Murray led Protestant troops to the gate, which was opened for them, and the Derry government, which had been willing to negotiate with James, was overturned. Reverend George Walker and Colonel Henry Baker were appointed joint Governors. The seige began "in earnest" on May 5, 1689. On July 28 three ships on the Foyle broke the seige bringing food; captain of the Mountjoy was Michael Browning, who was killed in the battle. The beseigers left on August 1, 1689. (source: Cecil Kilpatrick, "The Seige of Derry: A City of Refuge" at the Canada-Ulster Heritage site)
"True Blue": "A substantial number of the earliest Volunteers, the Belfast First Volunteer Company, also called the Green Company, and another the Blue Company, were identified as belonging to the Orange and True Blue Masonic Lodges. Indeed it seems likely that the Volunteer Companies were a Masonic initiative." (source: Dr Clive Gillis, "Days of Deliverance Part 13: The Providential rise of the Orange Order: What it was and what it was not," posted 5/26/2004, Ian Paisley's European Institute of Protestant Studies site) This seems a simple statement of fact. However, keep in mind this statement from the home page of the EIPS site: "The Institute's purpose is to expound the Bible, expose the Papacy, and to promote, defend and maintain Bible Protestantism in Europe and further afield." Later, in the same article, Dr Gillis explains his antipathy to the Masons and the United Irishmen: "The evaporation of the Protestant Catholic divide from 1780 onwards, which so threatened Protestantism, can only be explained in terms of secret co-operation within Freemasonry."
The Belfast Volunteers were formed in 1778 because of the threat of war between France and Britain. Similar groups formed, became politicized, and supported "those in favour of legislative independence from the British parliament and the removal of impediments to Irish commerce." Henry Grattan and Harry Flood supported this program in the Irish House of Commons. (Source: Moylan) - BS
For a good deal more on the Siege of Derry, see "The Shutting of the Gates of Derry." For Grattan and Flood, see "Ireland's Glory." - RBW
File: OrLa006
===
NAME: Derry's Walls
DESCRIPTION: 200 years ago "James and all his rebel band" were forced to retreat from Derry's Walls. "Blood did flow ... For many a winter's night." "At last, with one broadside Kind heaven sent them aid" and broke the seige. Now "we'll guard old Derry's Walls"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1895 (Graham)
KEYWORDS: battle rescue death starvation Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 7, 1688 - The "Apprentice Boys" close the Londonderry gates against Lord Antrim's "Redshanks"
Jul 28, 1689 - Browning's ships break the 105 day seige of Derry (source: Cecil Kilpatrick, "The Seige of Derry: A City of Refuge" at the Canada-Ulster Heritage site)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Graham, p. 4, "Derry's Walls" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shutting of the Gates of Derry" (subject) and references there
cf. "No Surrender (I)" (subject)
cf. "Derry Walls Away" (subject)
File: Gra004
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NAME: Derwentwater
DESCRIPTION: "Oh! Derwentwater's a bonny lord, And golden is his hair." He travels the land calling for people to support "good King James." The lord of the castle he visits will have nothing to do with him, but the lady sighs for the handsome young man.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1810 (R.H. Cromek, _Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song_, according to Hogg2)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites love
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1715 - the 1715 Jacobite rebellion
Sept. 1715 - Warrant issued for Derwentwater's arrest. He responds by openly going into revolt
Nov. 14, 1715 - Derwentwater and his comrades forced to surrender
Feb 24, 1716 - Execution of Derwentwater at the age of (probably) 26
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hogg2 10, "Derwentwater" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 128-129, "Derwentwater" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR128 (Partial)
Roud #3158
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lord Derwentwater" [Child 208] (subject)
cf. "Derwentwater's Farewell" (subject)
NOTES: The text of this ballad is not really sufficient to establish that the Derwentwater mentioned is "the" Derwentwater; it's at least theoretically possible that "good King James" was someone other than the Old Pretender. But a young, handsome Derwentwater campaigning for King James certainly sounds like the hero of "Lord Derwentwater." - RBW
Hogg2: "James Radcliff, Earl of Derwentwater, was among those who met in Northumberland, and rose in arms for King James about the beginning of October.... The editor cannot find any tradition on which this ballad is founded; it is taken from the recitation of a young girl, in the parish of Kirkbean, in Galloway. He has searched for it carefully through all the collections he could meet with; but it is not to be found.... This song, and part of the above note, are copied from Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song. The air is exceedingly simple and beautiful, and very ancient." - BS
File: StoR128
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NAME: Derwentwater's Farewell
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall, my father's ancient seat, A stranger now must call thee his." The singer bids farewell to his friends, to Tyne, to his steed. He must die in London, but asks to be buried in Northumberland
AUTHOR: Robert Surtees?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1821 (Hogg2)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites execution burial farewell
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1715 - the 1715 Jacobite rebellion
Sept. 1715 - Warrant issued for Derwentwater's arrest. He responds by openly going into revolt
Nov. 14, 1715 - Derwentwater and his comrades forced to surrender
Feb 24, 1716 - Execution of Derwentwater at the age of (probably) 26
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Hogg2 11, "Lord Derwentwater's Good-night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 4-5, "Derwentwater's Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 208, DRWNTFRW*
Roud #2616
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lord Derwentwater" [Child 208] (subject)
cf. "Derwentwater" (subject; tune according to Hogg2)
NOTES: Stokoe reports that "there is more than a suspicion that it was the offspring of the facile pen of the late Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, although he presented it to his friend and correspondent, Sir Walter Scott, as a poem of the period to which it refers; and it was inserted, on Scott's recomendation, in James Hogg's _Jacobite Relics of Scotland_ in 1819."
For all that it is a false folksong, it's fairly effective as a lament for one slain far from home.
There is a certain tendency, which is quite understandable, to confuse this with "Lord Derwentwater," but the forms of the two pieces are clearly distinct. For historical background on Derwentwater, see the Child ballad. - RBW
Hogg2: "I had this song from my esteemed friend, Robert Surtees, esquire of Mainsforth. The copy was on an old half sheet of paper apparently in the hand-writing of a boarding-school miss." - BS
File: Sto004
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NAME: Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again [Laws I18]
DESCRIPTION: A light retelling of the Biblical creation myth: God makes Adam, then Eve; Eve, tricked by the serpent, takes an "apron full" of fruit to Adam. God, spotting the peels, accuses Adam of stealing the fruit; Adam blames Eve; God throws them out of the garden
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: Bible humorous animal
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I18, "Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again"
BrownIII 523, "Creation" (1 text plus a fragment)
Sandburg, pp. 470-471, "Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 249, "Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 597-600, "Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again" (1 text, 1 tune, composite)
DT 793, DESEBONE*
Roud #4184
RECORDINGS:
Frank & James McCravy "These Bones G'wina Rise Again" (Victor 20869, 1927) (Brunswick 3778, 1928 [as "De's Bones Gwine to Rise Again"])
Rutherford & Foster "These Bones G'wina Rise Again" (Conqueror 7276, 1929)
NOTES: The details here generally come from what scholars call the "J" or "second" account of the creation, found in Genesis 2:4b-3:24. The mention of bones rising again comes from Ezekiel's vision in Ezek. 37:1-14 - RBW
File: LI18
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NAME: Deserted Husband, The
DESCRIPTION: On the day of their wedding, the singer's young wife went on a spree and flirted with the man next door. Three months later, his wife and the other man went off in the train. He is tired of life; he has land and stock, but no one to take care of them.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (recorded from Seamus Ennis)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The singer has married a young woman, but she has left him. On the day of their wedding, she went on a spree and flirted with the young man next door. Three months later, the singer took her to town, but while he was having a drink his wife and the other man went off in the train, to his distraction. Now he is tired of life; he has an acre of land, and various livestock, but no one to take care of them. He advises men to keep an eye on their wives
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness infidelity marriage warning abandonment drink humorous husband lover wife 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 198, "The Deserted Husband" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2130
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Tramp's Story" (plot)
cf. "The Lehigh Valley" (plot)
cf. "Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?" (theme)
NOTES: Kennedy also refers, cryptically, to a song called "The Deserted Wife," also collected from Ennis, but gives no further details. - PJS
Kennedy also claims that songs of wives deserting husbands are rare. I won't say they are common, but "Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own)," for instance, is very widespread; see also the songs in the cross-references. - RBW
File: K198
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NAME: Deserter (I), The: see Kelly's Lamentation (The Deserter) (File: HHH223)
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NAME: Deserter (II), The: see When the Battle it was Won (Young Jimmy and the Officer) [Laws J23] (File: LJ23)
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NAME: Deserter (III), The: see The Deserter's Lamentation (File: OLcM087A)
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NAME: Deserter (IV), The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, recruited while drunk, deserts. He is turned in in succession by a woman, a sergeant, and drummer. Each time but the last he is flogged and deserts, saying "the King's duty has been cruel to me." At last the king intervenes and releases him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1853 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 17(75a))
KEYWORDS: army recruiting punishment freedom royalty soldier
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #90, p. 1, "The Deserter" (1 text)
GreigDuncan1 83, "The Deserter" (7 texts, 3 tunes)
Roud #493
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(75a), "The Deserter" ("As I was walking down Ratcliffe highway"), John Ross (Newcastle), 1847-1852; also Harding B 15(220a), "The New Deserter"
LOCSinging, as109540, "The New Deserter," Ryle & Co. (Seven Dials), n.d.
NOTES: GreigDuncan1: Re version A "from father who learnt it in boyhood, say 1824." - BS
My guess is that the song is a few decades older than that, and that George III was the King. George's wars were extensive, so that the military was always looking for soldiers. Discipline was harsh. (Frankly, the singer was lucky not to be killed.)
George III was, however, personally merciful -- unlike his grandfather George II. If he somehow came to know about a case of a deserter about to be executed, he might well have intervened in this way. And then gone back to recruiting more drunks, because he couldn't seem to figure out that his actions had consequences. - RBW
File: GrD1083
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NAME: Deserter from Kent, The
DESCRIPTION: A deserter comes to join the harvesting. He talks too freely to a man in the tavern, who informs on him. He is arrested, taken to jail, then marched through the streets as he is returned to his regiment. The singer curses all informers.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907
KEYWORDS: army desertion betrayal soldier curse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, pp. 32-33, "The Deserter from Kent" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 87, "The Deserter from Kent" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DESERTR
Roud #2510
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rambling Royal"
File: VWL032
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NAME: Deserter's Lamentation, The
DESCRIPTION: Thinking about the past won't help so "let us be merry before we go" "Now hope all ending, And death befriending, His last ending, my cares are done ... My griefs are over -- my glass runs low"
AUTHOR: John Philpot Curran (1750-1817)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: desertion death drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OLochlainn-More 87A, "The Deserter's Meditation" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBoyle, p. 27, "The Deserter's Meditation" (1 fragment)
ST OLcM087A (Full)
NOTES: John Philpot Curran was famous mostly as a defender of the rebel leaders of 1798, including Napper Tandy and Wolfe Tone (though he did not like it at all when his daughter took up with Robert Emmet). He also served in parliament.
His poetry is now mostly obscure. Except for this. _Granger's Index to Poetry_ lists four citations, under three different names ("The Deserter's Lamentation," "The Deserter," "Let Us Be Merry Before We Go"), and I observe that O Lochlainn has it under a fourth title. Clearly this particular poem was well-travelled. - RBW
File: OLcM087A
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NAME: Deserter's Meditation, The: see The Deserter's Lamentation (File: OLcM087A)
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NAME: Deserter's Song
DESCRIPTION: "I'd rather be on the Grandfather Mountain A-taking the snow and rain Than to be in Castle Thunder A-wearin' the ball and chain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: prison prisoner Civilwar
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 384, "Deserter's Song" (1 fragment)
Roud #11752
NOTES: Castle Thunder was a Confederate prison, used to hold captured Northern civilians.
Given the fragmentary state of the Brown text, it's not clear if this is a song in its own right or if the mention of Castle Thunder is just a zipped in reference to the Civil War prison. - RBW
File: Br3384
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NAME: Desolate Widow, The: see The Isle of Man Shore (The Quay of Dundocken; The Desolate Widow) [Laws K7] (File: LK07)
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NAME: Desperado, The
DESCRIPTION: "There was a desperado from the wild and woolly West, He came into Chicago just to give the West a rest." He visits Coney Island to see "the girls all dressed in tights"; he gets so excited that he shoots out the lights. He ends up in prison
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: outlaw cowboy humorous prison police crime punishment
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 28, "The Desperado" (1 text)
DT, DESPRAD2*
NOTES: Cripple Creek, Colorado was a notoriously wide-open town in the late 1800s. - PJS
File: FSWB028
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NAME: Dessur le Pont de Nantes (On Nantes Bridge)
DESCRIPTION: The police have the singer when we meet Marguerite. She dresses as a page boy and goes to jail to see her "master." They exchange clothes; he walks out. Sentenced to be hung, Margeurite reveals that she is a girl. Four other high class young ladies visit
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage love escape cross-dressing disguise mistress outlaw prisoner
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 331-332, "Dessur le Pont de Nantes" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Should this be "Dessous le Pont de Nantes" (Under Nantes Bridge)? What happened here?  What four young ladies? Does she hang? - BS
File: Pea331
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NAME: Destroyer Life
DESCRIPTION: "The boys out in the trenches have got a lot to say Of the hardships and the sorrows... But we destroyer sailors would like their company On a couple of trips...." The sailors describe life on their small, uncomfortable ships that never cease rolling
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 ("Songs My Mother Never Taught Me")
KEYWORDS: ship navy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 514-517, "Destroyer Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DSTRYR
Roud #15542
NOTES: This song, with its references to submarine warfare, clearly comes out of World War I. At that time, the destroyer was the smallest naval ship that could possibly be called ocean-going (a typical destroyer of the time was about 300 feet long and had a displacement on the order of a thousand tons. It has nothing in common, except the name, with the much heavier modern destroyers).
The worst thing about destroyers was their long, narrow, low hulls. In bad seas, the waves could wash the entire deck, and waves could roll the ships through angles of 45 degrees or more. Crew quarters, moreover, were small and cramped. Only submarines had less space, and not even submaries were as subject to wind and wave. - RBW
File: LxA514
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NAME: Det Hande Sig I Goteborg (It Happened in Gothenburg)
DESCRIPTION: Swedish/German shanty. A sailor is signed by a man named Peter. The ship is a good one, but conditions are bad. Peter sleeps all the time except when threatening the crew. Ch: Hey ho fallerallera (2x) Just for all soka hyra (just to find myself a ship)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty sailor work
FOUND_IN: Sweden Germany
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 550-551, "Det Hande Sig I Goteborg" (2 texts -- Swedish and English, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Ja das geschah in Gotenborg
NOTES: Found both in Sternvall's _Sang under Segel_ (1935) and Baltzer's _Knurrhahn_ (1935). Hugill said this was popular around 1870. - SL
File: Hugi550
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NAME: DeValera Election Song
DESCRIPTION: The coming election is between "a Castle servant" and DeValera. DeValera "fought in the Rebellion ... so don't forget to pay the debt." His opponent would send your sons "to fight the gallant German"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1917 - Eamon DeValera defeats Patrick Lynch in the East Clare MP bi-election (source: notes to IRClare01).
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #18470
RECORDINGS:
Nora Cleary, "DeValera Election Song" (on IRClare01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Green Flag of Erin" (subject)
NOTES: Notes to IRClare01: "The East Clare by-election of 1917 played a vital part in the movement towards Irish independence.... Newly released from prison and having narrowly avoided execution for his part in the Rebellion, Eamon DeValera easily took the seat." - BS
Not only was De Valera elected to the British parliament on July 11, 1917, but he was even elected to a seat that had formerly been held by the brother of John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Nationalist party (i.e. the moderate Irish faction); see Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 251. This was the third in a series of by-elections in which pro-Republic candidates defeated "Nationalist" (moderate) candidates (see Peter and Fiona Somerset fry, _A History of Ireland_, pp. 296-296).  It was one of the first major tokens of the shift in feeling in Ireland from a desire for Home Rule to a desire for something less dependent on the British government.
The "Castle" was Dublin Castle, which had long been the center of the Irish government and was still the symbolic center of Irish rule.
De Valera was one of the few high officers of the 1916 rebellion to survive; he lived mostly because he was born to an American family and the British didn't want an incident with the United States. - RBW
File: RcDevoES
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NAME: Devil and Bailiff McGlynn, The
DESCRIPTION: A woman wishes the Devil take a piglet digging her potatoes and a boy stealing her piglet. He refuses because "it was only her lips that have said it." When she wishes the Devil take the bailiff , he does: "Twas straight from her heart that came surely"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (IRTunneyFamily01)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn discuss business. Nearby a woman wishes the Devil take a piglet digging among her potatos but the Devil won't take it because "it was only her lips that have said it, and that's not sufficient for me." Then a boy runs off with the piglet and she wishes the Devil might take him, but the Devil doesn't because "it was only her lips that have said it, and that's not sufficient for me." When she sees the bailiff and wishes the Devil take him, it's done: says the Devil, "Twas straight from her heart that came surely"
KEYWORDS: curse farming humorous animal youth Devil
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, p. 95, "The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn" (1 text)
Roud #5294
RECORDINGS:
Michael Gallagher, "The Devil and Bailiff Maglyn" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
NOTES: Tunney-StoneFiddle: "Even his [Uncle Mick's] songs of the Land War [roughly 1879-1885] and landlordism, with all its attendant evils, had a spark of humour in them. For example, listen to this little ditty describing the love and affection in which bailiffs were held in those stirring days." - BS
For background on the Land War, see e.g. "The Bold Tenant Farmer." However, there is reason to doubt this link (even if the Land War caused the Irish to tell more tales about the evils of bailiffs).
Abby Sale points out to me the clear connection between this song and the tale of "The Devil and the Bailiff" found in Asbjornsen and Moe. There seems to an equivalent Irish tale, though all the printed versions of it seem to be modern.
In outline, the story that the Devil comes to collect the Bailiff -- but stops to chat for a bit. They hit it off well -- presumably because they are so alike. The song hints at this:
Now, one of these boys was the devil 
And the other was Baliff McGlynn, 
And the one was as foul as the other
And both were as ugly as sin. 
They agree to a some sort of contest, the idea apparently being that they travel along together and listen to people cursing. If someone is cursed soon enough, then the Devil takes *that* soul rather than the Bailiff's. But the curse must be "from the heart."
They visit a cottage, and as they come by, the pet pig gets its snout in the cream, and the woman says, "The devil take the pig" -- but they do not take the pig, because the curse was not from the heart. Later, a mother curses her child for being mischevious. Again, the curse is not meant. But the two then meet a pair of farmers, who curse the bailiff. That curse, the Devil declares, is from the heart -- and the bailiff is taken.
The tale is even older in England -- Murray Schoolbraid points that it is The Friar's Tale in Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_ -- although in Chaucer, it is a Summoner who meets the fiend (a point Chaucer uses to bring out the rivalry between Friar and Summoner), and the devil is in disguise and the two agree to share whatever they get (an idea similar to the hunting contest in _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_)..
The question then becomes, Where did Chaucer get the tale? Benet's _Reader's Encyclopedia_ says that it is from the Latin _Promptuarium Exemplorum_. But Larry D. Benson, editor, _The Riverside Chaucer_, third edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1987, p. 875, notes that "The tale of the heart-felt curse is probably of folk origin, and numerous analogies found across northern Europe indacate taht any avaricious type might be used for the role here played by a summoner." The notes mentin in particular Caesarius of Heisterbach's _Libri VIII miraculorum_, of the thirteenth century, in which the guilty party is an _advocatus_ or administrator of church estates. But the Riverside editors note that there are two similar English folktales which resemble Chaucer's in that the man fails to realize he is under threat. One of these is from a sermon by Robert Rypon in which the man is actually a bailiff. As usual, of course, Chaucer amplified the tale.
Walton credits the song to Cathal McGarvey (1866-1927), but Walton's attributions are said to be very suspect, and it is interesting that the only collections seem to be from Tunney and his uncle, Michael Gallagher. Still, it seems certain that someone rewrote the tale as a song; the only question is, Who? - RBW
File: TSF095
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NAME: Devil and the Farmer, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
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NAME: Devil and the Farmer's Wife: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
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NAME: Devil and the Ploughman, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
===
NAME: Devil and the Schoolchild, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: Devil Came to My Door, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on one dusky evening When I was very poor, A story you may believe me, The Devil come to my door." The devil comes to claim "brother Mike," but sister Bets breaks his back with her wooden leg. Now the Devil is dead and the family can celebrate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: humorous Devil death family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 419, "The Devil Came to My Door" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1696
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer's Curst Wife" [Child 278] (plot)
File: R419
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NAME: Devil Winston [Laws I7]
DESCRIPTION: [George] "Devil" Winston (an unusually vile specimen even by murder ballad standards) sets out to confront his woman Vinie [Stubblefield]. He finds her, kills her after an argument, is taken, and is hanged
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: murder execution
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws I7, "Devil Winston"
MWheeler, pp. 105-109, "Devil" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 810,  DEVWINST*
ST LI07 (Full)
Roud #4176
NOTES: Wheeler does not give dates for the life of George "Devil" Winston, but notes that he "began life as a cabin boy on the Mississippi. He was later an Ohio River rouster... His career of reckless lawlessness culminated when he was thirty-two years old, in the vicious murder of Vinie Stubblefield, his sweetheart.
"The murdered Negress was said to have been half-witted and repulsive-looking. She have made several efforts to sever her relationship with Winston, and this was the indirect cause of her death: Devil was apparently a victim of helpless bondage where she was concerned.... When he was not on the river he was often serving time on the 'chain gang' for beating the woman, and the murder occurred just following his release from jail for this offense." - RBW
File: LI07
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NAME: Devil's Courtship, The: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
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NAME: Devil's Mad and I Am Glad (II), The: see Free at Last (File: FSWB368A)
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NAME: Devil's Nine Questions, The: see Riddles Wisely Expounded [Child 1] (File: C001)
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NAME: Devil's Questions, The: see Riddles Wisely Expounded [Child 1] (File: C001)
===
NAME: Devil's Song, The: see The Farmer's Curst Wife [Child 278] (File: C278)
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NAME: Devilish Mary [Laws Q4]
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a "pretty little girl" named Mary; they get married within days. She then starts taking over his life, wearing his pants, and abuses and torments him. At last he leaves. He vows to court only tall/short girls who can't wear his breeches
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1897
KEYWORDS: courting marriage cross-dressing abuse shrewishness
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Laws Q4, "Devilish Mary"
Randolph 437, "Devilish Mary" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 331-333, "Devilish Mary" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 331)
Lomax-FSNA 93, "Devilish Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCoxIIA, #13A-C, pp. 57-60, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin," "Dandoo" (3 texts, 1 tune, but the "B" text omits the beating typical of Child #277 and has the husband run away; it appears to have mixed with this song or something like it)
SharpAp 149, "Devilish Mary" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Chase, pp. 154-155, "Devilish Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 721, "Devilish Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 70, "Devilish Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 145-149, "Devilish Mary" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 191, "Devilish Mary" (1 text)
DT 518, DEVLMARY*
Roud #1017
RECORDINGS:
Bob Atcher, "Devilish Mary" (Columbia 20483, 1948)
Horton Barker, "Devilish Mary" (on Barker01)
Bill Boyd & his Cowboy Ramblers, "Devilish Mary" (Bluebird B-7299, 1937; Montgomery Ward M-8417, 1940)
Glenn Neaves & band, "Devilish Mary" (on GraysonCarroll1)
Lee O'Daniel Hillbilly Boys, "Devlish Mary" (Vocalion 04102, 1938; rec. 1937)
Paul Rogers, "Devilish Mary" (AFS; on LC14)
Pete Seeger, "Devilish Mary" (on PeteSeeger02, PeteSeegerCD01)
Roba Stanley, "Develish Mary" (OKeh 40213, 1924)
Arthur Tanner, "Devlish Mary" (Silvertone 3514, 1926)
Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, "Develish Mary" (Columbia 15589-D [as "Devlish Mary"], 1930; Columbia 15709-D, c. 1932; rec. 1928; on CrowTold02, GTanner01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune)
cf. "The Wearing of the Britches" (subject, lyrics)
cf. "Old Carathee" (theme)
cf. "There's Bound to be a Row" (theme)
cf. "I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: Cohen notes that "Laws... lists this as a ballad, but just as often it is performed as a fiddle or banjo tune with occasional lyrics." Cohen also notes that Laws's claim of a British Isles origin is unsubstantiated. The collection data confirm this, and the style is, in my opinion, very un-British. - RBW
File: LQ04
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NAME: Dewy Dens of Darrow, The: see The Dowie Dens o Yarrow [Child 214] (File: C214)
===
NAME: Dey All Got a Mate But Me: see Fox and Hare (They've All Got a Mate But Me) (File: FlBr121)
===
NAME: Dialogue Between Orange and Croppy
DESCRIPTION: Orange proposes union. Orange is the source of all woe. The English do no more harm than the purple marksmen. Orange ask for union only after Billy Pitt's failure. The singer is neither Croppy nor Orange: "when your county's in danger, united be seen"
AUTHOR: William Sampson (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Madden's _Literary Remains of the United Irishmen of 1798_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad dialog patriotic political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 149, "Dialogue Between Orange and Croppy" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Purple Boy" (subject)
NOTES: The last verse is by a third party asking for union in times of trouble. Throughout the rest of the dialogue Orange proposes union and croppie rejects it.
Zimmermann, p. 39, fn. 18, re "Croppy": In the 1790's those who admired the Jacobin ideas began to crop their hair short on the back of the head, in what was said to be the new French fashion; in 1798 this was considered as an evidence of 'disaffection'."
"The Loyal Orange Institution was founded after the Battle of the Diamond [at Diamond Crossroads] on September 21, 1795. The 'skirmish' was between the Roman Catholic Defenders and the Protestants of the area.... [For the Battle of the Diamond, see the notes to "The Battle of the Diamond," "Bold McDermott Roe," and "The Boys of Wexford"; also "The Grand Mystic Order." - RBW].At the beginning the membership was of the labouring and artisan classes.... In the Rebellion of 1798, the Orangemen were on the side of the Crown and had much to do with the defeat of the United Irishmen.... With the rebellion at an end the lodges were to be less fighting societies, and more political and fraternal clubs.... From 1815, the Institution had been seriously affected, by internal disputes. Many of them were about lodge ritual and the attempts to form higher orders." (source: _The Orange Institution - The Early Years_ at Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland site.)
"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)
The reference to "Purple Marksmen" is to one of the Master degree, above "Orange" and "Orange Marksman," of the Orange Institution (source: "The Formation of the Orange Order 21st September 1795" in the anti-Orange _Evangelical Truth_ at NIreland.com site). See Zimmermann's song references to "The Purple Marksman" [p. 315] and "The Purple Stream" [p. 303, fn. 39].
For more on "Billy Pitt" and the Union Act of 1801, see "Billy Pitt and the Union" and "The Shan Van Voght (1848)" - BS
One should note that this song was clearly composed with the benefit of hindsight -- I suspect very much hindsight; if the date is 1887, then we're getting toward the period of Home Rule and Ulster's opposition to changes in the Union. Of course, there had been Protestant and Catholic conflicts before that, but Protestants historically had been *more* nationalist than Catholics; it wasn't until it became clear that the Protestant Ascendency had to end that they finally turned Unionist. - RBW
File: Moyl149
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NAME: Diamond Joe (I)
DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of ranch-owner Diamond Joe, who mistreats his workers, talks too much, and lies. Singer has tried to quit three times, but Joe has talked him out of it. When he dies, "Give my blankets to my buddies And give the fleas to Diamond Joe"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (recording, Cisco Houston)
KEYWORDS: lie work boss cowboy worker
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, DIAMONJ2
RECORDINGS:
Cisco Houston, "Diamond Joe" (on CHouston01, CHoustonCD01, FMUSA)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The State of Arkansas (The Arkansas Traveler II)" [Laws H1] (tune, lyrics)
NOTES: This should not be confused with "Diamond Joe (II)", a river shanty with the distinctive chorus, "Diamond Joe, better come and get me, Diamond Joe." "Diamond Joe (I)" has no chorus, although most verses end with the name of Diamond Joe. Some have speculated that Cisco Houston and/or Lee Hays adapted the song from "The State of Arkansas," but there is no evidence. - PJS
This is one of those really confusing things. There is a third "Diamond Joe" song, also about a ranch owner, for which see DIAMONJO in the Digital Tradition. It's not the same song as this one, to my mind (the singer doesn't like his work, but it's more because of loneliness) -- but it's a Lomax item, and who knows what the Lomaxes did to produce it? - RBW
File: RcDJoe1
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NAME: Diamond Joe (II)
DESCRIPTION: Mostly floating verses with a hint of narrative; singer goes "up on the mountain, give my horn a blow...." "Ain't gonna work in the country, neither on (Parchman?) farm...." Chorus: "Diamond Joe, come-a get me, Diamond Joe"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Georgia Crackers)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Mostly floating verses with a hint of narrative; singer goes "up on the mountain, give my horn a blow/Thought I heard Miss Maybelle say, yonder comes my beau." "Ain't gonna work in the country, neither on (Parchman?) farm/I'm gonna stay till my Maybelle come, she gon' call-a me Tom." Chorus: "Diamond Joe, come-a get me, Diamond Joe"
KEYWORDS: love work floatingverses nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, (DIAMONJ3 -- though this may be at least partly a parody)
Roud #3585
RECORDINGS:
Charlie Butler, "Diamond Joe" (AFS, 1941; on LCTreas, LC04)
Georgia Crackers [Cofer Bros.], "Diamond Joe" (OKeh 45098, 1927)
NOTES: This should not be confused with the cowboy complaint song "Diamond Joe (I)," an entirely separate song.
Art Thieme has suggested that the Diamond Joe referred to in this song is a steamboat rather than a person. - PJS
File: RcDiJoII
===
NAME: Diamond, The: see The Bonnie Ship the Diamond (File: FSWB094)
===
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
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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 four independent versions of this. One has only two verses, and approximates the description above. The other three are 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.
Example: Robert Gogan,  _130 Great Irish Ballads_ (third edition, Music Ireland, 2004), p. 66, has a version in which she is a shopowner. He explains that "Heart of the rowl," a phrase which occurs at the end of the chorus, refers to a coiled roll of tobacco, in which the "heart of the rowl" is the best tobacco, found at the center of the spiral. The problem with this is, of course, that the material common to all the verses makes Dicey a drunk who is selling her possessions to buy more booze. Unless the term is applied satirically, she is hardly the heart of the rowl. - RBW
File: Har018
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NAME: Dick Darby the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (I) (File: R102)
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NAME: Dick Darlin' the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (I) (File: R102)
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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
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NAME: Dick Dorbin the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (I) (File: R102)
===
NAME: Dick German the Cobbler: see The Cobbler (I) (File: R102)
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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 the Joiner
DESCRIPTION: Dick, a joiner, falls in love with Nell, a country girl, but "could not gain her favour." He dresses as a woman, goes where Nell is a servant, and applies for a position. Being shy, he asks that they sleep together. In the morning he left her "mournin'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1820 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 16(74a))
KEYWORDS: seduction cross-dressing rake servant
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan1 165, "Dick the Joiner" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #5769
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 16(74a), "Dick the Joiner" ("There is a lad in our town"), J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819; also Harding B 11(2217), "Dick the Joiner" ("In Liverpool town there lived a lad a joiner to his station")
NOTES: The definition of "joiner" includes "a person whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood ... [or] stitches together parts of garments ... [or] inserts sections of stained glass into leads ...." (source: _Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged_, 1976) So, we are on notice, from the beginning, that Dick's interest may be in joining body parts.
GreigDuncan1: "Learnt in Culsalmond sixty years ago. Noted December 1906." - BS
At least the joiner's name wasn't "Snug" -- who, what's more, hung around at least one Bottom.  - RBW
File: GrD1165
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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
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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
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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: ()

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)
ST Camb039 (Partial)
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: (9 citations)
Laws N6, "Disguised Sailor (The Sailor's Misfortune and Happy Marriage; The Old Miser)"
GreigDuncan1 174, "Merchant's Daughter and Her Sailor" (4 texts, 1 tune); GreigDuncan1 175, "In Fair London City" (1 text, 1 tune)
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)"
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
There Was a Rich Merchant
The Rich Merchant's Daughter
The Hills o' Traquair
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: Dismasting of the Cummings, The
DESCRIPTION: "In 1884, upon the first of May, The schooner M. J. Cummings from Oswego sailed away." A day later, a storm blows up. She is feared lost. It turms out she has lost her masts, but the crew survives. The singer wishes success to the rebuilt ship
AUTHOR: possibly Thomas Peckham
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (collected from John S. Parsons by Walton)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck rescue
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 209-211, "The Dismasting of the Cummings" (1 text)
File: WGM209
===
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
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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
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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
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NAME: Dixie's Isle: see The Banks of the Nile (Men's Clothing I'll Put On II) [Laws N9] (File: LN09)
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NAME: Dixie's Land: see Dixie (File: LxA531)
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NAME: Dixon and Johnson: see The Three Butchers [Laws L4] (File: LL04)
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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
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NAME: Do Let Me Go: see Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go) (File: Hugi380)
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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
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NAME: Do Me Ama: see Jack the Jolly Tar (I) (Tarry Sailor) [Laws K40] (File: LK40)
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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
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NAME: Do Ye Ken John Peel?: see D'ye Ken John Peel? (File: FSWB208)
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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
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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
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NAME: Do You See That There Bird On Yonder Tree?: see Lonesome Dove (File: Br3262)
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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
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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
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NAME: Dobbin's Flowery Vale: see Erin's Flowery Vale (The Irish Girl's Lament) [Laws O29] (File: LO29)
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NAME: Dobe Bill: see Dobie Bill (Dobe Bill, The Killer) (File: LxA403)
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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). And therein, apparently, hangs a tale. Thanks to Abby Sale for finding this; most of what follows is from him or from Guy Logsdon via Abby.
The poem was originally published in _Wild West Weekly_, although Abby was unable to determine the exact date. (Contrary to Lomax-ABFS, this was published by Frank Tousey, not Street and Smith; the confusion in Lomax-ABFS may be because both Street & Smith and Frank Tousey were Dime Novel publishers and targeted much the same audience of adventure-craving boys.) The tune apparently was from Katie Lee, who set the Lomax words (as found in the 1938 edition of _Cowboy Songs_) to music. Cisco Houston learned the tune from her when they were dating. But they then broke up, and Houston modified it somewhat to prevent her from claiming copyright. The result is, I suppose, folk processed, although I'm not sure it's truly folk. (As Logsdon noted, it looks more like the work of a romance writer than a genuine cowboy; the vocabulary is wrong.)
For more on the origin story, see Lee's _Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle_.
As "The Killer," this is item dB43 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: LxA403
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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
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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 murder 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: ()

Roud #18472
RECORDINGS:
Martin Howley, "Doctor Crippen" (on IRClare01)
File: RcDrCrip
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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
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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
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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
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NAME: Dodger Song, The: see The Dodger (File: R462)
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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)
cf. "We're A' Noddin'" (chorus tune)
cf. "We're A' Cuttin'" (form)
File: R462
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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
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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 (doffers). These women inspired surprising loyalty (presumably because they protected the workers, who were often children, from the senior management -- which, of course was rapacious enough to hire young children). As a result, they were often honored with processions and celebrations when they retired, married, or went to work for another establishment.
A version of this song in _Sing Out!_, Volume 28, #3 (1980), p. 26, notes for instance that the mistress "hangs her coat on the highest pin." This might be interpreted as some sort of dominance game -- but the children could not easily reach the highest pin, so she was leaving the lower pins available for the workers.
The same article says that this has been called "the national anthem of the textile mills in Belfast," even though the doffers were replaced by machines in the 1930. (And, of course, the textile mills were not a nation and could not have a NATIONAL anthem. But I'm nitpicking.) - 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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 1812 (Bell, _Rhymes of the Northern Bards_)
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.
The text in Bell's _Rhymes of the Northern Bards_ bears the description "A song famous in Newcastle about the Years 1792-3-4" which implies that this might have something to do with the Glorious Revolution -- but since there are no Orange cuffs, the information is not much help. - RBW
File: StoR086
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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
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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
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NAME: Dolly Varden Hats, The
DESCRIPTION: Girls: "Lovers you'll have plenty ... If you wear the Dolly Vardon hat, and do the Grecian bend." The comical adventures of women and their hats are related. Soldiers could wear them when drilling: "they'll do for umbrellas to save them from the rain"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1867 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 13(73))
KEYWORDS: clothes humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 652, "Come, Dear, Don't Fear" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #6081
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 13(73), "The Dolly Varden Hats" ("Come, dear, don't fear, try and cut a shine"), J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Firth c.21(132), 2806 b.10(41), Firth c.26(213), "The Dolly Varden Hats"
NOTES: GreigDuncan3 is a fragment; broadside Bodleian Harding B 13(73 is the basis for the description.
"dolly varden ... n. cap D&V [after Dolly Varden, gaily dressed coquette in _Barnaby Rudge_ (1841), novel by Charles Dickens 1870 Eng. novelist] 1 : a 19th century clothing style for women consisting  of a print dress with a white fichu, tight bodice, and skirt with panniers, and a beflowered hat with a wide drooping brim  2 : a large and beflowered hat with a wide drooping brim  3 ...." (source: _Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged_, 1976)
The heroine of "The Garden Where the Praties Grow" "was just the sort of creature sir that nature did intend To walk throughout the world, my boys, without a Grecian bend." In this context, as in "The Dolly Varden Hats," the Grecian bend seems a posture encouraged or forced by the fashionable corsettes and bustles of the 1870's (see "From the Crinoline, to the Crinolette, to the Bustle: 1860-1880" in _The Secret History of the Corset and Crinoline_ at Fathom Archive of Columbia University site). - BS
The Dolly Varden proved surprisingly popular as a subject of song. W. C. Handy wrote a "Sail Away, Ladies" piece with chorus, "Sail away, ladies, sail away; Sail away, ladies, sail away. Never mind what de sisters say, Just shake your Dolly Varden and sail away." There was a 1901 song "Dolly Varden" as well, attributed to Le Mar. And apparently there is a modern performer calling herself "Dolly Varden."
Benet's _Reader's Encyclopedia_ notes that there were three Vardens in _Barnaby Rudge_ Gabriel, the father of Dolly, a locksmith; Martha, his wife; and Dolly, "The locksmith's daughter; a pretty, laughing girl, with a roguish face, lit up by a lovelly pair of sparkling eyes, the very impersonation of good humor and blooming beauty. She marries Joe Willet, and conducts with him the Maypole Inn, as never a country inn was conducted before. They prosper and have a large and happy family. Dolly dresses in the Watteau style, and Watteau gowns and hats were for a time, about 1875, called 'Dolly Vardens." The name was frequently in use in fashions of a later period also."
In addition, the supplement to Partridge's _A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English_ notes that "Dolly Varden" was sometimes used as rhyming slang for a garden. This is of no relevance to the song, of course, but it shows just how common references to "Dolly Varden" were. - RBW
File: GrD3652
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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
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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: ()

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: 1910 (GreigDuncan1)
KEYWORDS: sailor battle
FOUND_IN: US(SE) Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Chappell-FSRA 66, "The Dolphin" (1 text, probably a confused version of "The Dolphin" and "The Banks of the Nile" [Laws N9] or similar)
Greig #125, p. 2, "The Saucy Dolphin" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan1 41, "The Saucy Dolphin" (1 text)
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
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NAME: Don't Be Weary Traveller
DESCRIPTION: "Don't be weary, traveler, come along home to Jesus (x2)." "My head got wet with the morning dew, Come along home... Angels bear me witness too." "Where to do I did not know, Ever since he freed my soul." "I look at the world and the world look new."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Allen/Ware/Garrison)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Allen/Ware/Garrison, p. 75, "Don't Be Weary Traveller" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12036
File: AWG075
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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
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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
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NAME: Don't Cry: see When He Comes, He'll Come in Green (File: Br3070)
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NAME: Don't Ever Trust a Sailor: see When I Was Young; also Rosemary Lane [Laws K43] (File: EM075)
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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)
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NAME: Don't Forget Me, Little Darling (II): see Greenback Dollar (File: R733)
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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: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 20, #5 (1971), p, 10, "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind" (1 text, 1 tune, the J. E. Mainer version)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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NAME: Don't Let Your Watch Run Down, Cap'n: see Don't Let Your Watch Run Down (File: San370)
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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
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NAME: Don't Like a Rich White Man Nohow: see I Don't Like No Railroad Man (File: San326)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: ()

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 Adventure
DESCRIPTION: Donald, behind in his rent, organizes a cattle drive to an English fair where prices are good. He sells the cattle but is met on his way home by a robber who takes the money. By a trick Donald captures the robber, wins a reward, and pays off his lease.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (GreigDuncan2)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Donald was a poor man, behind in his rent. He organized a drive, with his own and his neighbors' cattle, to an English fair where the price would be good. He armed himself with a sword, completed the drive, sold the cattle and started for home. On the way he met a robber who held Donald up at sword-point. Donald gave him the money but complained that he would not be able to explain the loss to his friends. The robber said he would give his usual proof by cutting off one of his victim's hands. Donald asked that his hand be cut off against a tree root rather than on the ground. Donald bared his wrist and as the robber struck moved his hand so that the sword stuck on the tree. Donald beat the disarmed robber, tied him up and took him to town. In town the robber was recognized "for lang his deeds o' horror Had kept the countryside in terror." Donald collected a twenty guinea reward while the robber "wis tried, condemned and hung." He paid off the laird and "wis soon a man o' means himsel'."
KEYWORDS: poverty violence travel execution robbery trial trick injury money commerce England Scotland animal
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan2 269, "Donald's Adventure" (1 text)
Roud #5832
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A Highland Tale
File: GrD2269
===
NAME: Donald's Return to Glencoe: see MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) [Laws N39] (File: LN39)
===
NAME: Donald's Safe Come Back Again
DESCRIPTION: Donald returns to Meg from war with Abercrombie after losing a leg. He says "If her I can protect again, Claymore in hand I'll leave the north Though legless I come back again"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (GreigDuncan1)
KEYWORDS: love war return injury Scotland
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan1 94, "Donald's Safe Come Back Again" (1 text)
Roud #5791
NOTES: GreigDuncan1 quoting Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs_: "'The Ballad, "Back again," is said to have been composed by a Lamp-maker in Aberdeen of the name of Watson, and was a great favourite in Scotland, after the death of General Sir Ralph Abercromby at Aboukir Bay.' He died on 28 March 1801." - BS
So strong is the British history toward the navy that, in checking four histories of the Napoleonic Wars and two encyclopedic histories, I found only one that mentions Abercrombie, though all of them mention the Naval victory at Aboukir Bay in 1798. (That, after all, involved Nelson.)
But it was the land expedition under Abercrombie which finally drove the French from Egypt. According to Michael Glover, _The Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History 1792-1815_Hippocreme, 1978. 1979, p. 82. Abercrombie's forces had been based in Gibraltar. He took roughly 15,000 men to Turkey so that the Ottomans could cooperate in the expedition. Abercrombie and his subordinate John Moore managed to cooperate well with the navy, and they succeeded in making a  landing in Aboukir Bay on March 7, 1801. Abercrombie suffered his mortal wound two weeks later, on March 21, at the Battle of Alexandria. His successor General Hutchinson would take Cairo in June and receive the French surrender. - RBW
File: GrD1094
===
NAME: Donald's Visit to Glasgow
DESCRIPTION: Donald and his wife go to Glasgow and see things they cannot understand: a poor man and horse unmoving in the street, a devil counting the hours, strange women's clothing, two men carrying a woman in a barrow...
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (GreigDuncan2)
KEYWORDS: travel humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan2 292, "Donald's Visit to Glasgow" (1 text)
Roud #5858
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Paddy's Ramble to London" (theme: country folk in town)
cf. "Paddy's Voyage to Glasgow" (theme: country folk in town)
NOTES: GreigDuncan2, quoting MacGregor, "John Highlandman's Remarks on Glasgow" in _The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham_ (1883), explains most of the sights that puzzle Donald and his wife. For example, the poor man on a horse is "the equestrian statue of King William III.... The classical style of dress, including primitive sandals ['The brogues be worn aff's feet and me see a his taes.'] ... gave rise to the idea ... that His Majesty was a 'poor man.'"; "the deil chap the hoors" refers to "a clock [on record] on which a figure of the 'Deil' was shown as 'chapping' the hours."; the strange women's clothing refer to the styles of the time and the men carrying a woman is "a long drawn out description of a sedan chair." - BS
File: GrD2292
===
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: ()

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: ()

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
===
NAME: Donnely and Cooper: see Donnelly and Cooper (File: K317)
===
NAME: Donnybrook Fair: see Widdicombe Fair (II) (File: K289)
===
NAME: Donside
DESCRIPTION: Jamie leaves Nellie to fight in Egypt and Spain with Wellington. He returns to find her gone. He searches and finds her about to be married. She chooses to marry Jamie. Her fiancee challenges Jamie to duel but yields when Jamie draws his broadsword.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1851 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.18(91))
KEYWORDS: courting war return reunion separation Scotland Spain soldier
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #22, p. 1, "Donside" (1 text)
GreigDuncan1 93, "Donside" (19 texts, 16 tunes)
Roud #5759
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.18(91), "The Don-side Lovers" ("I once had a true-love on Don-side did well [sic]"), C. Croshaw (York), 1814-1850
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Donside Lassie
The Donside Soldier
I Once Had a Sweetheart
File: GrD1093
===
NAME: Donside Wedding, The
DESCRIPTION:  "'Twas on the fifth of June, my boys, The truth I will make known, There stood a merry Marriage Upon the banks of Don"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: wedding river
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 610, "The Donside Wedding" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #6054
NOTES: The current description is all of the GreigDuncan3 fragment. - BS
The form of this makes me think of "Warlike Seamen (The Irish Captain)," but without more text, we will probably never know. - RBW
File: GrD3610
===
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
===
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
===
NAME: Doom of Floyd Collins, The: see Floyd Collins [Laws G22] (File: LG22)
===
NAME: Doon the Moor: see Heather Down the Moor (Among the Heather; Down the Moor) (File: HHH177)
===
NAME: Doors of Ivory: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
===
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
===
NAME: Dottered Auld Carle, The: see Old Man Came Over the Moor, An (Old Gum Boots and Leggings) (File: R066)
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NAME: Double Tragedy, The
DESCRIPTION: "Bright lights were in the hall, Everyone seemed happy and gay" at a dance when a drunk and angry Tom Roach strides in. His friend McCord tries to calm him; Roach shoots him. Frank Adams tries to shoot him, but kills Mrs. Walton instead
AUTHOR: Otho Murphy
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder party dancing death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 24, 1891 - the Pioneer Day tragedy at Monticello, Utah
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 245-247, "(Double Tragedy)" (1 text)
File: Burt245
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NAME: Double-Breasted Mansion on the Square, The
DESCRIPTION: "I once was young and gallant and drove a span of grays...." The young man was rich, with property and servants. But he "lost a lot at Keno" and now he has nothing left; he spends most of his life thinking about what he has lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1885 (Lane County Herald)
KEYWORDS: gambling poverty hardtimes cards
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fife-Cowboy/West 25, "The Little Old Sod Shanty" (7 texts, 2 tunes, with the "H" text going here)
Roud #11209
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (tune) and references there
File: FCW025H
===
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: (24 citations)
Child 214, "The Braes o Yarrow" (18 texts)
Bronson 214, "The Braes o Yarrow" (42 versions+2 in addenda)
Greig #57, pp. 1-2, "The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan2 215, "The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow" (20 texts, 25 tunes) {A=Bronson's #16; to B compare #1; D=#25?; E=#23; F=#9; G=#10 or #31?; H=#4; I=#5; J=#13; K=#8; L=#11; M=#12; N=#7; O is probably #18; P=#3; Q=#6; S=#14; T=#20; U=#17; W=#15; X=#22}
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 Brazos: see The Rivers of Texas (The Brazos River) (File: R201)
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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
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NAME: Down by the Sally Gardens
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets his sweetheart by the Sally Gardens; she bid him to "take love easy," but he is foolish and does not. He is now filled with remorse
AUTHOR: Words: William Butler Yeats / Music: Traditional
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889
KEYWORDS: grief courting youth lover
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (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
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NAME: Down by the Sea Shore: see I Never Will Marry [Laws K17] (File: LK17)
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NAME: Down by the Seaside
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets young woman and asks her to walk with him. She declines; she's searching for her true love. Looking through an opera glass, she spies his ship; hearing that he has been shot, she despairs; if he died for honor, she will die for love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1956 (recorded from George Maynard)
KEYWORDS: grief virtue love separation death ship lover sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #1712
RECORDINGS:
George Maynard, "Down By the Seaside" (on Maynard1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" (part of plot, lyrics) and cross-references there
cf. "Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19]" (plot)
NOTES: This is a conundrum; it starts out as a classic John-Riley-lover-in-disguise ballad, but halfway through does not take the usual sharp turn of revealing the stranger to be the lover returned. Instead, it proceeds in a straight line to the young man's death and the woman's bereavement. - PJS
File: RcDBTSS
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NAME: Down By the Tan-Yard Side: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
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NAME: Down By the Tanyard Side: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
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NAME: Down by the Weeping Willow Tree
DESCRIPTION: "Dig my grave and let me lie, love (x3), Down by the weeping willow tree." "Make it long and deep and wide, love." "Dig my grave with a golden spade, love." "Let me down with a golden chain, love." "Cover me over with the sod, love."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: burial death
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 268, "Down by the Weeping Willow Tree" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade" (lyrics)
NOTES: The lyrics of this are largely identical with "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade," and I thought seriously about lumping them. But I hesitantly separate them (pending discovery of additional versions) on the basis of the refrains and the much more spiritual feel of "Silver Spade." - RBW
File: Br3268
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NAME: Down Came an Angel: see Christ Was Born in Bethlehem (File: MA189)
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NAME: Down Erin's Lovely Lee: see Down Erin's Lovely Lee (File: RcErLoLe)
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NAME: Down Fell the Old Nag
DESCRIPTION: "Down fell the old nag, dead between the shafts." The crew, rather than haul the cart home themselves, declare, "We'll harness up the old woman, and put her in the shafts, and make her pull the whole lot home"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: husband wife horse death hardheartedness
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 144, "Down Fell the Old Nag" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: MA144
===
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: ()

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: ()

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"
cf. "The Good Old Way (II)" (lyrics)
NOTES: This song shares many lines with "The Good Old Way (II)," and given how short some of Brown's fragments are, they may file there. Indeed, some might argue for lumping them -- but the forms appear distinct to me. - RBW
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: ()

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 Line: see Plumb the Line (File: JDM218)
===
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: ()

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
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NAME: Downfall of Piracy, The: see Teach the Rover (File: PBB078)
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NAME: Downward Road, The
DESCRIPTION: "Well, brother, the downward road is crowded... with unbelieving souls." The song lists various endangered sinners and their fated condemnation. "When I was a sinner, I loved my distance well, But when I come to find myself I was hangin' over Hell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: religious Hell warning nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 256, "The Downward Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11945
File: LoF256
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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
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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)
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NAME: Dramdrinker, The
DESCRIPTION: "Good morning, Mr. Dramdrinker. How do you do? How have you been since I parted from you? How did you come by the bruise on your head...?" The singer had fanily, fortune, friends; all are now lost to drink
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: drink death family poverty abandonment
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 470-471, "The Dramdrinker" (1 text)
Roud #7831
File: Beld470
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NAME: Drap o' Cappie O, The
DESCRIPTION: Tammie Lammie's wife likes ale. She asks him to share a dram. When she reproves him for his drink he packs her in a sack and dunks her by the turning mill wheel. She fears for her life. She lives happily afterwards but never asks for another drink.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: drink humorous husband wife drowning river abuse
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #177, p. 1, "The Drap o' Cappie" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 582, "The Drap o' Cappie O" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #5893
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Tammie Lammie
File: GrD3582
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NAME: Draw a Bucket of Water
DESCRIPTION: "Draw a (bucket/pail) of water For my lady's daughter; My father's a king and my mother's a queen, My two little sisters are dress'd in green... Pray thee, fine lady, come under my bush."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (Baring-Gould-MotherGoose)
KEYWORDS: playparty royalty
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #652, p. 259, "(Draw a pail of water)"
Roud #11635
File: BGMG652
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NAME: Dreadful Ghost, The: see The Sailor and the Ghost [Laws P34A/B] (File: LP34)
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NAME: Dreadful Massacre of Sixmilebridge, The
DESCRIPTION: "Upon the 21st day of July, Those fine young youths were compell'd to die, In Sixmilebridge, in the County Clare, To see the elections was what brought them there." An Orange troop attacked the crowd with musket and bayonet.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1852 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence murder Ireland lament political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 21, 1852 - "Seven people were killed in an election riot at Sixmilebridge" (source: Zimmermann) 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 62, "A Lament Written on the Dreadful Massacre of Sixmilebridge" (1 text)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "Several soldiers were found guilty of wilful murder." - BS
File: Zimm062
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NAME: Dreadnaught, The: see The Dreadnought [Laws D13] (File: LD13)
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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: (14 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)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 97-98, "The Dreadnaught" (1 text, 1 tune, followed by several derived songs)
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)
cf. "The Schooner John Bentely" (form)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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NAME: Dreary Weather: see Dark and Dreary Weather (File: R750)
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NAME: Dredge from Presque Isle, The
DESCRIPTION: "The night was fair, the sky was clear, No ripple on the sea, When King came into the shop...." The sailor is told that the [Alanson] Sumner will sail for Presque Isle. The singer describes the cook and the trip and says he won't sail that trip again
AUTHOR: supposedly Thomas Peckham
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (collected from Ben Peckham by Walton)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship travel cook
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 107-109, "The Dredge from Presque Isle" (1 text)
NOTES: Although no tune is indicated for this, it looks to me as if it was meant to be sung to "The Rose of Allandale." - RBW
File: WGM107
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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: (10 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*
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 30, #3 (1984), pp, 50-51, "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1 text, 1 tune, a Canadian version reportedly collected by Tim Rogers though no informant is listed)
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"])."
Edward Bunting, _The Ancient Music of Ireland_ (Mineola, 2000 (reprint of 1840 Dublin edition)), p. 93, has a translation of a Jacobite text of "Druimindubh" with "the 'black-backed cow' representing ... the cause of the exiled monarch....
Ah drimindhu' deelish, my darling black cow,
Say where are your folk, be they living or no?
They are down in the ground 'neath the sod lying low,
Expecting King James with the crown on his brow.
But if I could get sight of the crown on his brow,
By night and day travelling to London I'd go.... - 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)
===
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
===
NAME: Drinkin' That Wine: see Drinking of the Wine (File: Br3048)
===
NAME: Drinking Gourd, The: see Follow the Drinking Gourd (File: Arn062)
===
NAME: Drinking of the Wine
DESCRIPTION: "Drinking (of the) wine, wine, wine, Ought to been there for a thousand years, drinking wine." In its full form, apparently a spiritual on the Eucharist. A prison version ends with "If my (brother/sister/etc.) comes for me, Tell her I've gone to Galilee"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad religious wine
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 48, "Drinking Wine" (1 fragment)
Jackson-DeadMan, pp. 246-248, "Drinkin' That Wine" (1 text, 1 tune)
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
The final verses in Jackson's prison version, about the singer going to Galilee, are probably aa allusion tp Matthew 28:7, "He [Jesus] has been raised from the dead, and indeed is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him." - RBW
File: Br3048
===
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
===
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
===
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
===
NAME: Driven into Spaniard's Bay
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on the very first day of March, To the ice, boys, we were bound." A storm blows up, bringing them very close to the ice while they are blinded by snow; they finally anchor in Spaniard's Bay and head out on Match 17
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Murphy, The Seal Fishery)
KEYWORDS: storm ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 26, "Driven into Spaniard's Bay" (1 text)
File: RySm026A
===
NAME: Driver Boy, The [Laws G12]
DESCRIPTION: A teenage boy is too sick to drive his mule in the mines. His drunken father, thinking him lazy, beats him repeatedly. The boy dies of pneumonia; the father repents too late
AUTHOR: John A. Murphy (1900)
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: father mining disease death
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws G12, "The Driver Boy"
DT 787, DRIVRBOY
Roud #3253
NOTES: The author of this song claims to have been an eyewitness and to have stepped in to keep the father from beating his son. It was, however, too late to save the boy from his pneumonia - RBW
File: LG12
===
NAME: Drivin' Steel
DESCRIPTION: "If I could drive steel like John Henry, I'd go home, baby, I'd go home." Of the troubles of a steel driver: "This old hammer killed John Henry/Bill Dooley, Can't kill me...." "I'm goin' home and tell Little Annie, No mo' trials, baby, no mo' trials."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: work railroading
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 150, "Drivin' Steel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #790
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Swannanoah Tunnel" (theme, lyrics)
cf. "Take This Hammer" (theme, lyrics)
NOTES: I suspect this piece is a variant of "Swannanoah Tunnel," but the tunes are slightly different and I have yet to find common verses, except for the floater about the hammer that killed John Henry, so for the moment I am keeping them separate. - RBW
File: San150
===
NAME: Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron
DESCRIPTION: The speaker admires his darling as, on successive days of the week, she does various laundry-related tasks, all the while she is ironing, which action he apparently adores.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909
KEYWORDS: love clothes work nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) US(SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp-100E 82, "Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 117, "Hanging Out the Linen Clothes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 205, "The Linen Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SMTHIRON*
Roud #869
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Smoothing Iron
File: ShH82
===
NAME: Driving Logs on the Cass [Laws C22]
DESCRIPTION: A crew of loggers led by Miller have hard times, caused especially by the incompetent cook, "Old Black Joe." Despite logjams, the drive is successful until the river's water falls too low. The loggers head home gratefully
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
KEYWORDS: logger cook river lumbering
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws C22, "Driving Logs on the Cass"
Beck 28, "Driving Logs on the Cass" (1 text)
DT 839, LOGCASS
Roud #1928
File: LC22
===
NAME: Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover
DESCRIPTION: A mother bids farewell to her shanty-boy son on the banks of the Plover. She blesses him, but warns him that "Driving saw-logs on the Plover, You'll never get your pay." Eventually Johnny returns, having been driven from the camp without his pay
AUTHOR: William N. Allen ("Shan T. Boy")
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Rickaby); reportedly composed 1873
KEYWORDS: work logger mother separation money
FOUND_IN: US(MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Rickaby 20, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-Lumbering #60, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 396-397, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SAWLOGPL*
Roud #2797
RECORDINGS:
Pierre La Dieu, "Driving Saw-Logs On The Plover" (Columbia 15278-D, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Falling of the Pine" (tune)
NOTES: Sung to a variant of the tune "Tramps and Hawkers/Paddy West."
This song is item dC29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW- RBW
File: San396
===
NAME: Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve: see Boundless Mercy (Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve) (File: Br3528)
===
NAME: Droosy Chiel, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer has a sleeping problem. His wife -- "continually she's singing" -- tries vainly to wake him at "half past five" every morning. He wakes half an hour early but can never be ready before half past nine. Then he falls asleep standing at his work.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 659, "The Droosy Chiel" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #6086
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Rise, Jock Rise!
NOTES: GreigDuncan3: "Sung by James Davidson, farmservant, Burnside, Carnousie, about 1870. Noted 1906." - BS
File: GrD3659
===
NAME: Drop 'Em Down
DESCRIPTION: "Oh Maybelle, drop 'em down" (x2). "I call you, drop 'em down" (x2). "With my diamond, drop...." "I got a lifetime to drop 'em." "I'm gettin' worried." "Where's the sergeant?" "Won't you help me?" An axe song which shares many words with hammer songs
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recorded from Matt Williams by Jackson)
KEYWORDS: work prison
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Jackson-DeadMan, pp. 248-253, "Drop 'Em Down" (3 texts, 2 tunes, very diverse; Jackson notes that the various informants' versions were each closer to their versions of "Hammer Ring" than to each other!)
File: JDM248
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NAME: Drop 'Em Down Together
DESCRIPTION: An axe song: "Drop 'em down together (x3), Whoa Lord, Make 'em sound much better (x3) When you drop 'em down together." The singer calls to his girl(s), asks for water, and talks about the act of cutting the trees
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recorded from J. B. Smith by Jackson)
KEYWORDS: nonballad separation work
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Jackson-DeadMan, pp. 254-255, "Drop 'Em Down Together" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Jackson notes that this is one of the few songs he collected from J. B. Smith that did not appear to have any of Smith's own work in it; most of the material is found in other songs. It is ironic to note that there seem to be no other versions known (though, as with many prison songs, it can be hard to tell). - RBW
File: JDM254
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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
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NAME: Drouthy Souters, The
DESCRIPTION: Two drunken shoemakers lived by the Clyde. "No man could them divide." "For wives and bairns they didna care." They only cared for drink.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad friend river
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 592, "The Drouthy Souters" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #6044
File: GrD3592
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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
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NAME: Drover's Song, The: see Brisbane Ladies (File: FaE162)
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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
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NAME: Drowned Lover, The: see Scarboro Sand (The Drowned Sailor) [Laws K18] (File: LK18)
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NAME: Drowned Lovers, The: see The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water [Child 216] (File: C216)
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NAME: Drowning Lady, The (The Witch Song): see Marrowbones [Laws Q2] AND Johnny Sands [Laws Q3] (File: LQ02)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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NAME: Droylsden Wakes
DESCRIPTION: Man and woman alternately brag and insult each other over their prowess at spinning.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: bragging weaving ritual dialog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 36, "Droylsden Wakes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3290
NOTES: "This Lancashire dialogue song was once associated with a folk ceremonial attached to the local 'wakes' or annual holiday." - A. L. Lloyd. The role of the woman was played by a man in woman's clothing; the two participants sat on a cart with a spinning-wheel spinning flax and collecting money from onlookers. - PJS
File: VWL036
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NAME: Drum Major, The (The Female Drummer)
DESCRIPTION: A girl enlists "voluntarily in a regiment of foot" to follow her lover. A soldier sees her bathing; she is called before the officers. They call her lover and request that he pay the postage on a letter from his love. He pays the postage. They are married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1895 (Baring-Gould and Sheppard, _Garland of Country Song_, according to Palmer)
KEYWORDS: love separation disguise soldier cross-dressing trick
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
GreigDuncan1 184, "The Drum Major" (1 text)
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.
"Baring-Gould says that it dates back to the time of Marlborough" (source: Roy Palmer, ed., _The Rambling Soldier_ (Gloucester, 1985) p. 283.) - BS 
File: HHH797
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NAME: Drumallachie
DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on a chill November night... I overheard a fair maid... 'My love is far frae Sinnahard And fair Drumallachie." The singer asks her of her trouble, tries to convince her to marry him, then reveals he is her long-lost lover
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation marriage disguise reunion
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 34-37, "Drummallochie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2481
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
NOTES: Of the myriad Broken Token songs, this seems among the most literary, yet it seems fairly widespread in Scottish tradition. Most of the references are clearly Biblical:
"King David had a faithful friend": This is of course Saul's son Jonathan, and their love for each other is repeatedly mentioned in 1 Samuel (e.g. 18:1, 20:41).
"When Jacob saw his long-lost son": Refers to the reunion of Jacob and Joseph (Genesis 46:19f.)
Various versions also refer to a fair Queen of Scotland. In the case of Mary Stewart, this makes some sense, since she was known for her looks. One version, however, refers to Victoria. Whether this dates the song, or is just a funny error, I do not know. - RBW
File: Ord034
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NAME: Drumboe Castle
DESCRIPTION: "Twas the Eve of St. Patrick's by the dawn of the day, The hills of Tirconnel looked sombre and grey When... Four Irish soldiers were led forth to die." They had come "to fight for the Gael," but were captured, imprisoned, and shot at Drumboe
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland prison execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: March 14, 1923 - Execution of Tim O'Sullivan, Charles Daly, John Larkin, and Dan Enright at Drumboe in Donegal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 100-101, "Drumboe Castle" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn-More 80, "The Woods of Drumbo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13466
NOTES: Galvin lists this as an Irish song of rebellion, but this is rather an exaggeration; the British had no part in it.
The four men were Irishmen condemned (without trial) by Irishmen. The worst of it is, they were innocent of the crime of which they stood accused (which had been ordered by Liam Lynch while they were imprisoned), but were killed because they were convenient. - RBW
File: PGa100
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NAME: Drumdelgie
DESCRIPTION: Bothy work is described: rising early, working hard in bad weather (but with praiseworthy horses). At the end, the singer bids farewell to Drumdelgie: "Fare ye weel, Drumdelgie, I bid you all adieu, I leave ye as I got ye, A damned unceevil crew."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming work
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greig #4, p. 2, "Drumdelgie" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 384, GreigDuncan8 Addenda, "Drumdelgie" (15 texts, 14 tunes) 
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)
cf. "The Miller of Straloch" (tune, per Greig)
cf. "The Guise o' Tough" (tune, per GreigDuncan3)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Big Toon in Carnie
O Fare Ye Well, Drumdelgie
NOTES: GreigDuncan3 has a map on p. xxxv, of "places mentioned in songs in volume 3" showing the song number as well as place name; Drumdelgie (384) is at coordinate (h4,v5) on that map [roughly 38 miles NW of Aberdeen]. - BS
File: DBuch66
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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
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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: before 1856 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads 1885)
KEYWORDS: cook shanty nightvisit humorous courting disability escape food soldier
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
GreigDuncan2 314, "The Drummer and the Cook" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Hugill, p. 460, "The Drummer and the Cook" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DRUMCOOK, DRUMCOO2*
Roud #3136
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 1885, "Walking Tub of Butter" ("There was a little drummer"), J. Cadman (Manchester), 1850-1855; also 2806 b.10(163), Harding B 16(299a), "The Walking Tub of Butter"; Harding B 15(132a), "Hump-back'd Drummer, and the Cross-eyed Cook"; Firth c.14(306), "The Little Drummer"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sailor's Consolation" (similar chorus)
cf. "The Way to Swig It" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Firth c.14(306))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Drummer
The Little Drummer
NOTES: [Regarding Hugill's 1926 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
If not a music hall song, it certainly came from the popular press, as the broadsides show. - RBW
The cook "had a squinting look" ["cross-eyed" in Bodleian Harding B 15(132a)] that plays little part in the story but leads to the best known line of the song: "She had one eye in the pot, and another up the chimney." - BS

File: Hugi460
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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
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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
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NAME: Drummer Maid, The: see The Soldier Maid (File: DTsoldma)
===
NAME: Drummer, The: see Kind Fortune (File: KaNew074)
===
NAME: Drummond's Land: see David's Flowery Vale (File: HHH212)
===
NAME: Drums Beat to Order, The
DESCRIPTION: "The drums beat to order and the Queen she wants men And I'll go to the war, should I never return." Farewell Rhynie [Aberdeenshire]. The singer will think of the girl he left behind. When the war is over he'll return to her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (GreigDuncan1)
KEYWORDS: love war separation return Scotland soldier
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan1 100, "The Drums Beat to Order" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5788
NOTES: It is interesting to ask whether the Queen in this song is Anne, in which case the wars are probably in the Low Countries, or Victoria, in which case the Wars are probably in the Crimea or Asia. But Grieg's seems to be the only version, so evidence is lacking - RBW
File: GrD1100
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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: Drunk Mason, The
DESCRIPTION: A mason decides to see a drunk mason safely home at night. They see the light of a man stealing grain; the sober mason says it is Old Nick coming for the drunk who runs for safety to a tavern. He is refused, causes a commotion, and everyone else laughs.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: drink humorous thief Devil food
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 574, "The Drunk Mason" (1 text)
Roud #6040
File: GrD3574
===
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
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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
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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
===
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
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NAME: Drunkard's Lone Child, The
DESCRIPTION: "Out in the gloomy night sadly I roam, No one to love me, no friends and no home, Nobody cares for me, no one would cry Even if poor little Bessie should die." Bessie is alone: "Father's a drunkard and mother is dead." She hopes father will sober up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink orphan children
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 309, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (4 texts plus an excerpt, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 257-259, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 309A)
BrownIII 25, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text plus a fragment and mention of 1 more)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 191-192, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 477, "Bessie, the Drunkard's Lone Child" (source notes only)
DT, DRNKCHLD* DRNKCHL2*
Roud #723
RECORDINGS:
Dock Boggs, "Drunkard's Lone Child" (on Boggs1, BoggsCD1)
Walter Coon, "Father's a Drunkard and Mother is Dead" (Conqueror 7271, 1929)
Arthur Fields, "The Drunkard's Lone Child" (Grey Gull 4200, 1928)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Beggar Boy" (lyrics)
cf. "The Drunkard's Child (I)" (plot)
cf. "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Cohen, in his edition of Randolph, has extensive notes on thie origin of this song; they boil down to, "Something is fishy here." - RBW
File: R309
===
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
===
NAME: Drunkard's Special: see Four Nights Drunk [Child 274] (File: C274)
===
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 murder
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
===
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
===
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,MW) Canada(Mar) Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 48, "The Drunken Sailor, or Early in the Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 70-71, "The Drunken Sailor" (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")
GreigDuncan1 4, "The Drunken Sailor" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
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: Drygate Brig, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer goes to an inn and passes snuff around; "ilk ane quite forget himsel'" He leaves high without his hat. Passing Drygate Brig his wig is lost in the wind and his snuff is spilt. Now he prefers drink which has the same high but crashes quickly
AUTHOR: Alexander Rodger (1784-1846)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1838 (Alexander Rodger, _Poems and Songs_)
KEYWORDS: drink drugs humorous clothes
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greig #162, p. 2, "The Drygate Brig" (1 text)
GreigDuncan3 575, "The Drygate Brig" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Alexander Rodger, Poems and Songs (Glasgow, 1838), pp. 279-282, "The Drygate Brig"
Whistle-Binkie, (Glasgow, 1878), Vol II, pp. 246-248, "The Drygate Brig"
Roud #6039
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Sheriffmuir" (tune, per Greig)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Mirren Gibb's
File: GrD3575
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NAME: Drynaun Dun, The: see The Drinaun Dun (An Draighnean Donn, The Blackthorn Tree) (File: HHH206)
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NAME: Dubbieneuk
DESCRIPTION: "In the cauld month o' December" there is a dance at Dubbienuck. The dancers included "gardners up frae Florth," "lads frae Catchiebrae" and "lassis frae Pitblae." Ploughman Jaumie Mackie "could scarcely dance a reel" with Betty Forbes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: dancing
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 622, "Dubbieneuk" (1 text)
Roud #6060
File: GrD3622
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NAME: Dublin After the Union
DESCRIPTION: Pitt "the conjurer" is bringing the country to Dublin: turnips growing in the Royal Exchange, vermin in the Parliament House, .... "Give Pitt, and Dundas, and Jenky, a glass, Who'd ride on John Bull, and make Paddy an ass"
AUTHOR: Edward Lysaght (1763-1810) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1811 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: Ireland humorous nonballad political
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1801 - Act of Union of Ireland and Great Britain
FOUND_IN: 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
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NAME: Dublin City: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
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NAME: Dublin Heiress, The: see The London Heiress (The Brisk and Lively Lad) (File: MoMa033)
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NAME: Dublin Jack of All Trades
DESCRIPTION: Roving Jack arrives in Dublin and becomes a porter, pastry cook, baker, coffin maker, preacher .... listing the Dublin sites for each of his many occupations. He can't keep a job but places his "chief delight in courting pretty maids"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1900 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(255))
KEYWORDS: worker rake cook clergy
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (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
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NAME: Dublin Weaver, The: see Nancy Whisky (File: K279)
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NAME: Duck from Drummuck, The: see The Wee Duck (The Duck from Drummuck) (File: HHH228a)
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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
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NAME: Duckfoot Sue: see Duck-Foot Sue (File: MA227)
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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
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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
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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
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NAME: Duke of Argyle, The [Laws N1]
DESCRIPTION: A woman follows her lover Alexander to battle. He is slain on the banks of the Nile, but she continues to fight. Even though she remains in soldier's clothing, the Duke (of Argyle) comes to court her. She remains true to her slain Alexander
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: battle death love courting cross-dressing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws N1, "The Duke of Argyle"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 39, "The Duke of Argyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 811, DUKARGYL
Roud #1915
File: LN01
===
NAME: Duke of Argyle's Courtship, The
DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever hear of a loyal Scot...." He courts a girl, begging her to marry. She refuses; she has no proof he can care for her. He persists; so does she. He reveals he is Duke of Argyle, and rejects her after she changes her mind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection nobility
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 197-198, "The Duke of Argyle's Courtship" (1 text)
Roud #3797
NOTES: Ord suggests "The hero of this ballad was probably John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, who commanded the Royal army at the Battle of Sheriffmuir." The reference is to John Campbell, Second Duke of Argyll (1678-1743), a proponent of the Act of Union in 1707, British commander in Spain from 1711, and an opponent of Jacobitism who, as Ord says, commanded the Royalist forces in Scotland. I see no real reason to consider him the hero of this song, though. - RBW
File: Ord197
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NAME: Duke of Athole's Nurse, The [Child 212]
DESCRIPTION: The Duke's (?) new leman bids his nurse (and former leman) bring her love a message. The nurse gathers her (seven) brothers to kill him instead. He asks the tavern's landlady to hide him; she disguises him as a baking maid. The brothers fail to kill him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1802/3 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment brother disguise cross-dressing escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(North))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (6 texts)
Bronson 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (9 versions)
Greig #84, pp. 1-2, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (2 texts) 
GreigDuncan1 160, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (10 texts, 6 tunes) {A=Bronson's #9, B=#4, C=#6, E=#7, F=#2}
Leach, pp. 566-568, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (1 text)
DT 212, DUKATHOL*
Roud #3393
NOTES: The opening of this song is a bit confused. Whose love is the new leman? The Duke's? The nurse's former love? Someone else's? It hardly affects the plot, but the pronouns are confusing. - RBW
File: C212
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NAME: Duke of Bedford, The: see Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (File: FO078)
===
NAME: Duke of Buckingham, The: see The Duke of Buckingham's Hounds (File: Br3218)
===
NAME: Duke of Buckingham's Hounds, The
DESCRIPTION: The (Duke of Buckingham) goes out to hunt fox with his good hounds. The names of the hounds are given. The fox cleverly crosses the water. One old hound at last catches the fox. All rejoice at its fate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell; there is an undated broadside in the Roxburghe collection)
KEYWORDS: hunting death nobility animal dog
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
BrownIII 218, "The Duke of Buckingham" (1 fragment)
Chappell-FSRA 102, "The Bardy Train" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 352-353, "A Fox Chase" (1 text)
BBI, ZN75, "The Fox-Chace... Duke of Buckingham's Hounds"
ST Br3218 (Partial)
Roud #584
NOTES: I have no idea why Chappell's texts are titled "The Bardy Train"; that phrase does not appear in either text. - RBW
File: Br3218
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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
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NAME: Duke of Grafton, The: see Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (File: FO078)
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NAME: Duke of York, The: see The Noble Duke of York (File: FSWB390B)
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NAME: Duke William
DESCRIPTION: Duke William goes disguised to "know what usage have poor sailors." A press gang takes him at an inn. On board, he tears his trousers and asks for a tailor. Stripping for flogging his disguise is blown. He promises reforms and leaves gold for the crew.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1820 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 16(77c))
KEYWORDS: navy disguise humorous royalty sailor pressgang clothes gold
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan1 7, "Duke William" (1 fragment)
Roud #1544
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 16(77c), "Duke William's Frolic" ("Duke William and a nobleman, heroes of England's nation"), J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819; also Harding B 28(82), Harding B 25(561), Harding B 16(78b), "Duke William's Frolic"; Harding B 11(3665), "Duke William"; Harding B 11(1024), "Duke William the Jolly Sailor"; Harding B 25(556), "The Duke of Cumberland's Frolick"
NOTES: The description follows broadsides Bodleian Harding B 11(3665) and Harding B 11(1024).
The subject is William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, according to Bodleian notes to its broadsides.
Ashton, _Modern Street Ballads_ (1888), p. 228: "This is supposed to refer to some frolic of William IV.'s when he was Duke of Clarence, and properly belongs to last century." - BS
I'm with Ashton on this one. Not that it happened to any Duke William -- press gangs sought sailors, not royalty in disguies. But William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the Butcher of Culloden, was about as unlikely a victim of a press gang as one can imagine. Immensely fat, he couldn't possibly do any useful work on shipboard. Nor is there anything "naval" in his record. Nor would he have hesitated to scream bloody murder were he taken. And, last but not least, he would not show any sense of comradery with sailors.
The future William IV (1765-1837), who was Duke of Clarence, is a much better candidate. The third son of George III, no one expected him to become King, so he was made a midshipman at the age of 13. His talents were limited, but at least he knew his way around a ship. And he had rough manners suitable to a sailor, and he didn't go *quite* as bad, physically, as Cumberland. He would go on to become an admiral (though without a command), and even admiral of the fleet in 1811. 
I can't help but wonder if this is somehow related to the Nore or Spithead mutinies (for which see "Poor Parker"), or the ears after. William, shortly before his king, actually spent a brief period in true command of the fleet. It was rather a disaster -- he gave up the post after 15 months -- but he did get the navy to buy its first steam vessel, and he tried to reform the promotion system. Also, he tried to limit flogging -- an interesting point in light of this song. - RBW
File: GrD1007
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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
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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.
According to John Baynes with John Laffin, _Soldiers of Scotland_, Brassey's, 1988 (I use the 1997 Barnes & Noble edition), p. 103, this piece is used as a pipe tune for parade by the Royal Scots Regiment as a parade piece (I assume they use the _Orpheus Caledoneus_ tune), though this has never been officially approved by the British army. - RBW
File: FSWB281A
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NAME: Dummer Sheener's Gang, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you a song of a sheener's gang, I've got 'em all taped up to a man, There's long and short and thin and fat, But every man knows just what he's at." Each man's work is listed, from Jimmy Bailey "who runs the concern" to the lowest corn-fetcher
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: drink work
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 274-275, "The Dummer Sheener's Gang" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #874
NOTES: Just in case it isn't obvious, this is a moonshining song. - RBW
File: CoSB274
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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: 1978 (_Sing Out!_, volume 26, #4, p. 34, a version from Joe Hickerson via Michael Cooney)
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: murder children money
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 91-92, (no title) (1 excerpted text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Children in the Wood  (The Babes in the Woods)" [Laws Q34] (plot)
NOTES: Burt notes an obvious similarity to "Babes in the Woods." Since her (printed) source evidently does not link the song to any actual historical event, it may well be a song composed in imitation of that piece. - RBW
File: Burt092
===
NAME: Duncan and Brady [Laws I9]
DESCRIPTION: Policeman Brady walks into Duncan's bar and attempts to arrest the latter. Duncan, unwilling to have his business ruined, shoots Brady. Neither Brady's family nor those around Duncan seem to care much; Brady's wife looks forward to getting his pension
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles)
KEYWORDS: murder family
FOUND_IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I9, "Brady (Duncan and Brady)"
BrownII 248, "Brady" (1 text)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 85-87, "Duncan and Brady" (3 texts; the second is incomplete and may well be a version of "Joseph Mica (Mikel) (The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver) (Been on the Choly So Long)" [Laws I16] with some Brady lyrics mixed in; both the second an third start with lines from "Twinkle Twinke Little Star")
Sandburg, pp. 198-199, "Brady" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 596, "Duncan and Brady" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 660, DUNCBRAD
Roud #4177
RECORDINGS:
Arthur "Brother-in-Law" Armstrong, "Brady" (AFS 3978 B3, 1940)
Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles, "Been on the Job Too Long" (Paramount 3210, 1930; on TimesAint01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (lyrics)
cf. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (lyrics)
NOTES: The notes in Brown describe a history of this ballad which bears little resemblance to the song itself: Brady is not a policeman but the criminal in the piece, shot by deputy Albert Bounds around 1900. It is noteworthy that Laws quotes none of this. - RBW
File: LI09
===
NAME: Duncan and Janet M'Cleary: see Duncan MacCleary (File: FVS302)
===
NAME: Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh) [Laws Q20]
DESCRIPTION: Duncan Campbell, although he comes from Argyle in Scotland, is known as Erin-Go-Bragh. A policeman mistakes him for an Irishman and abuses him. Campbell returns the favor, then flees before anyone can stop him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1850 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3725))
KEYWORDS: abuse police
FOUND_IN: US(Ap) Canada(Mar) Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Laws Q20, "Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh)"
Greig #127, p. 1, "Erin-go-Bragh" (3 texts)
GreigDuncan2 236, "Erin-go-Bragh" (11 texts, 9 tunes)
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
cf. "The Blaeberry Courtship" (tune, according to Greig)
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
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Duncan MacKallikin" (subject and form)
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 MacIntosh
DESCRIPTION: Duncan Macintosh was a Highlander who played bagpipes for the king at Aberdeen, danced the Highland fling, and sang "It's a braw bricht meenlicht nicht ...." His whiskers were like heather. He ate potatoes, scones and pottage and enjoyed "a drap"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: dancing drink food music Scotland nonballad royalty
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 529, "Duncan MacIntosh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6008
File: GrD3529
===
NAME: Duncan MacKallikin
DESCRIPTION: "Twas for a peck o' meal ... Duncan bet on his grey mare To rin 'gainst nine or ten." One horse falls. The other horses are named as they challenge and fall back. "Duncan aye kept gallopin'" and wins the bet
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1856 (broadside, Murray Mu23-y2:010)
KEYWORDS: wager racing derivative horse gambling
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 495, "Duncan MacKallikin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5983
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 17(80b), "Duncan M'Callachan" ("It was for a peck o' meal or mair"), Sanderson (Edinburgh), 1830-1910
Murray, Mu23-y2:010, "Duncan M'Callochan," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 1856
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "There Cam a Young Man to My Daddie's Door" (tune, broadside Murray Mu23-y2:010)
cf. "Duncan M'Callipin" (subject and form)
NOTES: Ford, re "Duncan M'Callipin" refers to this song as "a perverted version of the song ... but its coarseness damages its chance of popularity. Forbees's song ["Duncan M'Callipin"] deservedly has held the field." 
Reluctantly I am following Ford, Roud, and GreigDuncan3 in considering the songs "related" rather than the same. The structure, and many lines are shared. Since Ford dates a book of Forbes's poems to 1812 it seems likely that his version is the earlier. Since the songs cannot be independent I consider this version to be derivative. - BS
File: GrD3495
===
NAME: Duncan Macleerie: see Duncan MacCleary (File: FVS302)
===
NAME: Dundee, It's a Pretty Place
DESCRIPTION: "Dundee, it is a pretty place, Surrounded by a wall, Where brave Argyll did won the field With sword and cannon ball."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1634 (Hunt's Psalter)
KEYWORDS: battle
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H10c, p. 2, "Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Earl of Errol" [Child 231] (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This seems to be known only as a "choir rhyme" in the Sam Henry collection, from 1924, used to teach choirs a tune when, as Presbyterians, they were not supposed to sing the actual words. Normally, this would not be reason to consider the piece traditional.
This text, however, or at least the first three lines, are known from Hunt's 1634 psalter, and they are also similar to lyrics in "The Earl of Errol." That says to me that this stanza, in some form or other, kicked around in tradition.
I'm not sure which battle is described in this song. Logically, one would guess that it's Archibald, eighth Earl and first Marquis of Argyll (1598-1661)  -- but his military feats as a Covenanter came *after* 1634.
Archibald's father Archibald, the seventh Earl (d. 1638) was also a soldier, though his success was mixed, but he did his campaigning in the Highlands.
The other Earls of Argyll, insofar as I can follow their careers, are no better candidates (e.g. the fifth Earl was Mary Stuart's field commander at Langside, but that was a lost battle nowhere near Dundee).
Two battles are listed as taking place in Dundee, but they are dated 1645 and 1651 -- again, after the date of the psalter describing Argyll fighting at Dundee. - RBW
File: HHH10c
===
NAME: Dunderbeck
DESCRIPTION: The German Dunderbeck invents a steam-powered machine to turn any sort of meat into sausages. Thus vanish all the rats and cats of the town. When Dunderbeck's machine breaks down, he tries to fix it; his wife accidentally starts it with him inside.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: technology disaster animal humorous food
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Randolph 488, "Donderbeck's Machine" (2 texts)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 80, "Dunderbeck" (1 text, tune referenced)
Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Dunderbeck" (1 text)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 139-140, "The Sausage Meat Machine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 515-516, "Son of a Gun -- (Son of a Gambolier; Dunderbeck; and Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech)"
DT, DUNDER*
Roud #4461
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Son of a Gambolier" (tune & meter) and references there
cf. "O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Johnny Rebeck
Johnny Rebec
Johnny Robeck
File: R488
===
NAME: Dungannon Convention, The
DESCRIPTION: "The church of Dungannon is full to the door" with Volunteer warriors. In spite of "English oppression" the volunteers stood ready to protect England from a foreign fleet. At Dungannon the delegates swore "We've suffered too long, we'll suffer no more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: September 8, 1783 - Irish Volunteer Society Convention in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone (Source: Moylan) (but see the NOTES)
FOUND_IN: England Ireland patriotic political
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 5, "The Dungannon Convention" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Moylan p. 1: "On St Patrick's Day, 1778, the first company of Belfast Volunteers was formed in response to the danger of a possible war between Britain and France. The movement spread like wildfire and soon there were companies in all parts of Ireland. At their height they numbered 100,000 members. By the following year they had become politicized and swung their weight behind the so-called Patriot Party, those in favour of legislative independence from the British parliament and the removal of impediments to Irish commerce." - BS
According to Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 187, "In February 1782 [Henry] Grattan arranged a convention of some 250 delegates from the Volunteers, who met in the parish church of Dungannon." The result was, in effect, a declaration of parliamentary independence.
Robert Kee, on p. 32 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_) relates that "In 1780 Grattan for the first time tried to get the Irish House of Commons to vote an Irish Declaration of Independence. He was then unsuccessful, owing to the Crown's effective control of the majority in Parliament, through the system of patronage. By the end of the following year, however, the Volunteers outside Parliament had become much stronger. They were now said to number eighty thousand men, and in 1782 a convention of democratically elected Volunteer delegates was held at Dungannon, a sort of parliament outside Parliament, backed by potential physical force for the first but by no means the last time in Irish history."
The pressure was enough that, later that year, the Irish parliament gave in and voted independence unanimously (Kee, p. 33). Under that pressure, the British granted the parliament most of what it asked  -- repealing even the infamous Poyning's Law that said the British parliament could override the Irish. (For further details, see the notes to "Ireland's Glory.") There would be more Dungannon Conventions, but the 1782 edition was the Really Big Deal. - RBW
File: Moyl005
===
NAME: Dungarvon Whooper (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The cook in a Dungarvon River lumber camp dies. The crew suspect the skipper murdered him. That night "fearful whoops and yells the forest fill" and are heard around "the Whooper's grave" until "God's good man" prays that they stop.
AUTHOR: Michael Whelan
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: murder burial lumbering ghost ritual clergy
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 13, "The Dungarvon Whooper -- I" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi013 (Partial)
Roud #9198
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Where the Silvery Colorado Sweeps Along" (tune)
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Rev Edward Murdoch, the Roman Catholic parish priest at Renous, felt seriously enough about the matter to come up to Dungarvon and read the church service of exorcism. It is said that after this the evil spirit which was responsible for the horrible sounds was heard no more. But people still say they sometimes hear the Whooper, and they fear to visit the grave by the Whooper Spring. The Dungarvon River is a branch of the Main Renous River, which it joins above Quarryville....
"The train on the Canada Eastern Railway, between Fredericton and Newcastle, named for the Whooper, made its last run in 1936." - BS
For a less mysterious explanation of the origin of the name "Whooper," see the notes to "The Dungarvon Whooper (II)." - RBW
File: MaWi013
===
NAME: Dungarvon Whooper (II), The
DESCRIPTION: The night a group of fishermen "reached Dungarvon ... the Dungarvon Whooper was the terror of the night." All the beasts fled and the fishermen "felt very sure We could beat any Whooper ... And when he saw that he was beat He was forced to run away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: fight fishing humorous ghost
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 14, "The Dungarvon Whooper (II)" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi014 (Partial)
Roud #9199
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "Rev Edward Murdoch, the Roman Catholic parish priest at Renous, felt seriously enough about the matter to come up to Dungarvon and read the church service of exorcism. It is said that after this the evil spirit which was responsible for the horrible sounds was heard no more. But people still say they sometimes hear the Whooper, and they fear to visit the grave by the Whooper Spring. The Dungarvon River is a branch of the Main Renous River, which it joins above Quarryville....
"The train on the Canada Eastern Railway, between Fredericton and Newcastle, named for the Whooper, made its last run in 1936."
Manny/Wilson note on authorship: Someone "says this satiric song was made up by Everett Price, Billy's brother, but Billy [the singer] himself says it was written by his grandfather, Abraham Munn." - BS
Manny and Wilson offer two explanations for the origin of the name "Whooper." One, found in their notes to "The Dungarvon Whooper (I)," link it to a mysterious death and later exorcism in the area, described above and in the notes to the other "Whooper" song.
In their notes on this version, they mention the name being associated with the train on the occasion of a run with a lot of rowdy woodsmen aboard. - RBW
File: MaWi014
===
NAME: Dungiven Cricket Match
DESCRIPTION: The boys of Dungiven challenge the team from Derry to a cricket match. Both teams turn out, and bring crowds of supporters. The contest, naturally, is hard-fought, but Dungiven wins. The singer lists the team members
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: sports moniker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H669, p. 179-180, "Dungiven Cricket Match" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13539
File: HHH669
===
NAME: Dungiveny Priory Church
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders out, enjoying nature, when he comes to "the old church not far from Dungiven." He praises the artistic quality of the site, and bids nature to love him. He notes that life is fleeting, and bids farewell to the spot
AUTHOR: James Maxwell ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: rambling burial
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H187, pp. 162-163, "Dungiven Priory Church" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13463
NOTES: Dungiven Priory is one of the most famous religious sites in Ireland, and is famous as the graveyard of the O'Cahan family. For details, see the notes to "The Banks of the Roe." - RBW
File: HHH187
===
NAME: Dunlavin Green
DESCRIPTION: At the time of the 1798 Rebellion, Captain Saunders betrays some of his own men to execution at Dunlavin Green. Some of the martyrs are named and mourned, and Saunders is cursed.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann); 1820 (according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion execution lie army Ireland betrayal death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1798 - "Nineteen members of the Saundersgrove corps of yeomen, and nine of the Narraghmores, imprisoned in Dunlavin as United Irish sympathisers, were led out and summarily executed." (source: Moylan)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Hodgart, p. 202, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text)
PGalvin, pp. 94-95, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 53, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 9, "Dunlavin Green" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Moylan 55, "Dunlavin Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3010
NOTES: The 1798 rebellion collapsed even before it properly began, and many of the leaders were betrayed (the United Irish leaders were taken in March, and the rebellion did not take place for many months after that).
Captain Saunders led a Yeoman (Irish militia) company, and on May 22, shortly before the actual rebellion, he assembled his men and urged those who were rebels to come forward.
About twenty of the rebels, leaderless and hoping for mercy, revealed themselves. They were arrested and sent to Dunlavin.
Two days later, with rebels threatening the town, a total of 28 rebels (19 of them from Saunders's company) were summarily executed. (This seems to have been both in fear of and as an example to the rebels outside.) Such behavior was against British rules, and was condemned by many even on the English side, but as always, the atrocities were remembered longer than the regrets of the more civilized faction of the Loyalists. - RBW
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "Dunlavin Green" (on Franke Harte and Donal Lunny, "1798 the First Year of Liberty," Hummingbird Records HBCD0014 (1998)) - BS
File: Hodg202
===
NAME: 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: murder robbery execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 15, 1921 - Frank Dupree robs an Atlanta jewelry store
Sept. 1, 1922 - Dupree hanged
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws I11, "Dupree"
Friedman, p. 396, "Dupree" (2 texts, but only the second is I11; Laws considers the first to be E24)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 752, "Dupree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 239-240, "Dupree" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 73, "Betty And Dupree" (1 text, possibly modified by Brownie McGhee)
DT, BTTYDPRE
Roud #4179
RECORDINGS:
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
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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)
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NAME: Dusty Bluebells: see I am the Master (Dusty Bluebells) (File: HHH048a)
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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(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
GreigDuncan3 454, "The Dusty Miller" (2 texts, 3 tunes)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 107, "(O the dusty miller)" (1 text)
DT, DSTYMILR*
ADDITIONAL: James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #201, pp. 311, "Dusty Miller" (1 text, 1 tune, from 1788)
Roud #5959
File: MSNR107
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NAME: Dutchman, Dutchman, Won't You Marry Me?: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
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