NAME: Sing-Sing
DESCRIPTION: The singer and Johnny King are imprisoned in Sing-Sing. They make an attempt to break out, but they cannot create a large enough opening and are trapped. King is shot. Soon after, the singer is pardoned and gratefully bids farewell to prison
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1982
KEYWORDS: prison pardon
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
FSCatskills 167, "Sing-Sing" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FSC167 (Partial)
NOTES: Charles Hinkley, who gave the song to Cazden et al, claimed he was one of the two composers. The collectors admit the possibility, but only that. 
This song is item dE52 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: FSC167
===
NAME: Sing, Sally O!
DESCRIPTION: There are two versions, one a halyard and the other a capstan shanty. Characteristic refrain is "Sing Sally O, an' a fol-lol-de-day." The verses of the capstan version have a general whoring theme and are speaking to a "Mudder or Mammy Dinah."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EFC)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong whore sailor
FOUND_IN: West Indies Britain
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Colcord, p. 60, "Sing Sally O!" (1 text, 1 tune - 1 verse only, no choruses)
Hugill, pp. 388-389, "Sing, Sally O!" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 296-297]
Sharp-EFC, XXXI, p. 36, "Sing, Sally O" (1 text, 1 tune)
MHenry-Appalachians, p. 233, (second of four "Fragments from Maryland") (1 fragment, which I link to this on the basis of the mention of Mammy Dinah, though it might be anything)
DT, SNGSALLY*
Roud #4699
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hawl Away, Joe" (tune)
cf. "Sally Brown" (some verses)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Mudder Dinah
File: Hugi288
===
NAME: Singapor-Sang (Singapore Song)
DESCRIPTION: erman shanty. Tired of tough meat, the steward of a ship buys a bull in Singapore. They manage to hoist it onto the ship but have considerable trouble killing it and the bull causes much damage before it expires. Last phrase of verses repeat as chorus.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Baltzer, _Knurrhahn_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty animal humorous food death
FOUND_IN: Germany
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 566-568, "Singapor-Sang" (2 texts-German & English, 1 tune)
NOTES: Hugill said this was based on an actual incident that took place on board a ship called _Arkona._ - SL
File: Hugi566
===
NAME: Singin' Gatherin', The
DESCRIPTION: "Far back in the dusty hollow Where the trees grow straight and tall, Sits the Traipsin' Woman Cabin... Where in the June-time of the year Is held the folk-lore festival." The singer describes the event and the people who attend and praises the organizer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: music nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 260-261, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: There are many pieces in Thomas that I don't really trust -- but there is none I more suspect of being Thomas's own work than this (and "Wee House in the Wood," which bears the same traits). It's anonymous, it's about Thomas's own Festival, and it rather sounds like her style. - RBW
File: ThBa260
===
NAME: Singin' Hinnie, The
DESCRIPTION: "Sit doon, noo, man alive! Te tell ye aa'll contrive O' the finest thing the worl' hes ivver gin ye, O. It's not fine claes nor drink, Now owt 'at ye can think Can had a cannle up ti singin'-hinney, O." The song tells how the singin' hinnie shapes lives
AUTHOR: "Harry Haldane"
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: technology
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 172-173, "The Singin' Hinnie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2618
NOTES: The title of this song is given as "The Singin' Hinnie," but references in the text call it a "Singin' Hinney."
I will admit that I'm truly not sure what this is about. Normally, a "singing hinnie (honey)" would be a musical loved one, but I have this funny feeling it refers to a piece of machinery -- probably a steam-powered pump or elevator.
Fortunately, we don't really have to figure it out; it appears this song has never been found in oral tradition. - RBW
File: StoR172
===
NAME: Singing Class, The
DESCRIPTION: The singers are listed. Josie Fowlie, "goodman o' Cadgiedykes," Sawners Fenty "Fleein' like a bird." "Some sang Bangor, And some sang bass, But bonny Mary Jamieson Sang munsy in the ase" [?]
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: music moniker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 625, "The Singing Class" (2 fragments)
Roud #6062
NOTES: GreigDuncan3: "The two fragments on this theme are given together here but it should be noted that, although they may be parts of the same song, it is not possible to be certain of this on the present evidence." 
The following songs are all one or two verses or fragments with a verse beginning "[so-and-so he/she] was there": "Mary Glennie," "Jean Dalgarno,"  "The Singing Class" and "The Auchnairy Ball." Should two or more be considered the same song? - BS
This is possible, of course, but I suspect this is a separate humorous song, with the title genuinely describing the contents: A singing class, with "Bangor" being an error for "renor." I'm not sure what Mary Jamieson was singing, though. - RBW
File: GrD3625
===
NAME: Singing of the Travels, The: see The  Husbandman and the Servingman (File: K226)
===
NAME: Singing the Travels: see The  Husbandman and the Servingman (File: K226)
===
NAME: Single Days of Old, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls "The merry days -- the days of old" when her husband loved her. With time, he grows more aloof and distant. Eventually "my health gave way, my spirits fled, They told him I would die." The husband again pays attention, and she survives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: husband wife disease
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H659, p. 504, "Singles Days of Old" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2679
File: H659
===
NAME: Single Girl: see I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again (File: Wa126)
===
NAME: Single Girl, Married Girl
DESCRIPTION: "Single girl, single girl, go and dress so fine... Married girl, married girl goes ragged all the time...." The lives of single and married women compared: The single girl can go out (and perhaps even spend); the married girl must care for the baby; etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: marriage wife
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Warner 128, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 87 "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 84, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Single Girl" (1 text)
DT, SINGLGRL
Roud #436
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (Victor 20937A, 1927; on AAFM3) (Conqueror 8733, 1936; Melotone 7-04-53, 1937)
Frank Profitt, "Single Girl" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
Ruby Vass, "Single Girl" (on LomaxCD1702)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again"
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)"
cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme)
cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
NOTES: Roud lumps "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" and "Single Girl, Married Girl" (and perhaps others). Definitely a stretch, though the songs can easily cross-fertilize. - RBW
File: Wa128
===
NAME: Single Life, A (Single Is My Glory)
DESCRIPTION: "Some do say there are good girls, Oh, where shall we find them? Some do say there are good boys, But never do you mind them."  The singer warns of deceivers, concluding, "A single life I am to live, Oh, single is my glory... Then who will control me?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (recording, Roba Stanley)
KEYWORDS: nonballad warning courting
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 18, "A Single Life" (1 text)
Roud #4963
RECORDINGS:
Roba Stanley, "Single Life" (OKeh 40436, 1925)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
File: Br3018
===
NAME: Single Sailor (I), The: see Willie and Mary (Mary and Willie; Little Mary; The Sailor's Bride) [Laws N28] (File: LN28)
===
NAME: Single Sailor (II), The: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
===
NAME: Sinking of the Graf Spee, The
DESCRIPTION: The Admiral Graf Spee, "built in Nazi Germany ... looted merchant men of every nationality." It lost a battle with three British "little cruisers" and "went to cover." The pocket battleship was scuttled "in Davy Jones's pocket"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1970 (Morton-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: battle navy sea ship England Germany humorous
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: December 13, 1939 - Three British cruisers battle the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Platte.
December 17, 1939 - The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled outside Montevideo harbor to avoid another battle (source: "German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee" from Wikipedia).
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Morton-Ulster 31, "The Sinking of the Graf Spee" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, GRAFSPEE*
Roud #2909
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Golden Vanity" (tune)
NOTES: One of the many, many causes of World War I was the mighty expansion of the German navy during World War I, the result of the peculiar desires of Wilhelm II. Imperial Germany didn't need a big navy, but even Wilhelm's mother admitted "Wilhelm's one idea is to have a Navy which shall be larger and stronger than the Royal Navy" (Keegan-Admiralty, pp. 112-113. For references cited in this entry, see the bibliography at the end of this note).
The Germans never quite managed to build a fleet to match the Royal Navy, but they came close enough to scare the British badly, and to win a tactical victory (though a complete strategic defeat) at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
After the war, the British determined there would be no more of that. One of the conditions of the Armistice was that the major units of the German fleet (which, by then was mutinous and hardly capable of fighting) be placed under guard in Britain. Half a year later, knowing that the ships would be surrendered, the German crews scuttled the entire fleet at Scapa Flow (Keegan-First, p. 420). And the German fleet from then on was to be restricted to a small, lightly-armed force, with no ability to fight the British.
The Germans, in the years after the Great War, did their best to figure out ways around the restrictions. The time eventually came when they started laying down new ships, and after a few small craft, they came out with the concept of the _panzerschiff,_ known in Britain as the "pocket battleship." The first ship of this type, the _Deutschland_ (later renamed _Lutzow_) caused "a sensation... for she was an expression of Germany's will to outflank the conditions of Versailles" (Preston, p. 133). Two more ships of the class, the _Admiral Graf Spee_ (named after an admiral who had died in World War I) and the _Admiral Scheer,_ followed.
The pocket battleships didn't really deserve either the name or the hype. They had six 11" guns (the bare minimum size to be considered a battleship, though a real battleship would have had at least eight of them), but her armor did not exceed three and a half inches (a battleship should have had at least three times that), and her top speed was 26 knots (Paine, p. 3). And although they were theoretically 10,000 ton ships (the treaty limit for cruisers at the time), the three ships were certainly much heavier (Bruce/Cogar, p. 2, estimates roughly 12,000 tons; Paine comes up with over 15,000 -- the latter making her nearly as heavy as the first modern battleship, _Dreadnought,_ which was less than 18,000 tons)
Even so, the "pocket battleship" design was basically an overgunned heavy cruiser. Theoretically, she could "outrun what she could not outgun" -- overwhelming cruisers with her heavy guns and using her speed to get away from battleships. But the British had three battle cruisers (_Hood_, _Repulse_, and _Renown_) which could outrun *and* outgun the pocket battleships, and the battleships of the _Queen Elizabeth_ class were only a couple of knots slower than the pocket battleships. And the battleships of the _King George V_ class, which started to come off the stocks at the beginning of World War II, were also faster than the pocket battleships. Had the _panzerschiff_ existed in World War I, they would have been revolutionary. In World War II, they were pests, but hardly technological miracles.
(This was a constant problem for the German navy: they thought too much in World War I terms. Their alleged super-battleships, _Bismarck_ and _Tirpitz_, were slightly improved versions of the World War I _Baden_ class, relatively under-armed and with inefficient machinery that took too much space and weight for the power they produced. It has been claimed that the _Bismarck_ was the strongest battleship in the world at the time of her maiden voyage. But vessels of the American _North Carolina_ and _South Dakota_ classes, and the Japanese _Yamato_, were all stronger, and all were in service by the end of 1942.)
Still, even a cruiser could do major damage if it came across unprotected merchant ships (the _Admiral Scheer_ once single-handedly knocked off six ships from an Atlantic convoy; Paine, pp. 4, 273-274), and the Germans meant to use every vessel they could lay their hands on to attack British commerce (Humble, p. 140). When World War II began, the Germans sent out the pocket battleships to see what they could find.
In one of history's little ironies, the _Graf Spee_ headed for South America (Becker, p. 37), where the fleet of her namesake, Graf von Spee, had died when his small fleet of cruisers was destroyed at the Battle of the Falklands in 1914.
At first, it seemed the Germans had found the Happy Hunting Grounds; _Graf Spee_ took nine prizes (Paine, p. 4) totalling about 50,000 tons, for the most part stopping them, sending off the crews, and then sinking them; indeed, many of the British sailors were put on the supply ship _Altmark_, from which the British eventually rescued them (Keegan-Second, p. 50).
 But the British, just as they had in 1914, threw a huge force against the tiny surface raider. A total of twenty ships (a few of them French) were formed into eight task groups to hunt the lone German ship (Humble, p. 140).
In the end, it was one of the weaker task forces that found her: The heavy cruiser _Exeter_ and light cruisers _Ajax_ and _Achilles_, commanded by Commodore Harry Harwood, caught up with the German on December 13, 1939. _Graf Spee_ had a big edge in weight of shell and range of guns; _Exeter_ had a mere six 8" guns (Paine, p. 178), and the other two nothing heavier than 6". But they came at _Graf Spee_ from two different directions, and the German ship had only two turrets. _Graf Spee_ managed to silence _Exeter's_ guns, and _Ajax_ also sustained damage in the battle from straddles (Paine, p. 10) -- but _Graf Spee's_ armor was so thin that even the light cruisers could hurt her, and she was almost out of ammunition. She fled to Montevideo harbor (Becker, p. 104).
No one knew it, but the Battle of the River Plate was over. Uruguay was a neutral nation, so _Graf Spee_ had to either repair her damage quickly and get out, or she had to accept internment. And British intelligence tricked Captain Langsdorff into believing that they had overwhelming forces heading for him (Humble, p. 141). Langsdorf took the _Graf Spee_ out into the estuary and scuttled her on December 17. Later, he committed suicide (Bruce/Cogar, p. 3. He was probably smart, given the reception he would have faced had he returned to Germany).
In terms of tonnage sunk, the _Graf Spee_ had "paid for herself." But the British had had the last laugh, so they treated it as a moral victory, and the Germans as a defeat.
Delgado, p. 159, notes that the location of the wreck is known, and that a survey in 1997 found that much of the ship had vanished in ways that did not suggest battle damage. It has been suggested that the British did some clandestine dives to recover such things as the ship's radar. If so, the British search has never been documented. - RBW
>>BIBLIOGRAPHY<<
Becker: Cajus Becker, _Hitler's Naval War_, (German edition 1971; English edition 1974 from Macdonald and Jane's; I used the undated Kensington paperback edition)
Bruce/Cogar: Anthony Bruce and William Cogar, _An Encyclopedia of Naval History_, 1998 (I use the 1999 Checkmark edition)
Delgado: James P. Delgado, _Lost Waships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea_, Checkmark, 2001. Interestingly, the book quotes a snatch of this song on p. ix.
Humble: Richard Humble, _Battleships and Battlecruisers_, Chartwell, 1983
Keegan-Admiralty: John Keegan, _The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare_, Penguin, 1988
Keegan-First: John Keegan, _The First World War_, Knopf, 1999
Keegan-Second: John Keegan, _The Second World War_, Viking, 1989
Paine: Lincoln P. Paine, _Ships of the World_, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
Preston: Antony Preston, _Battleships_, Gallery, 1981 - RBW
File: MorU031
===
NAME: Sinking of the Newfoundland, The
DESCRIPTION: "We have bred many sailors bold, Brave captains by the score, And ranking with the best of them Is Captain John Blackmore." After a long career of sailing and shipbuilding, he retires, can't stand it, builds the Newfoundland -- and sails her into a wreck
AUTHOR: Solomon Samson?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963 (A Glimpse of Newfoundland in Poetry and Pictures)
KEYWORDS: age ship wreck rescue
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, pp. 130-131, "The Sinking of the 'Newfoundland'" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Despite both being about the wreck of a ship named _Newfoundland_, this has nothing to do with the various songs about the "Newfoundland Disaster"; that _Newfoundland_ was commanded by Captain Kean. - RBW
File: RySm130
===
NAME: Sinking of the Reuben James, The: see Reuben James (File: PSAFB084)
===
NAME: Sinking of the Titanic (Titanic #9)
DESCRIPTION: The Titanic leaves Southampton. After the ship strikes an iceberg, her officers call upon the Carpathia for help. The passengers and crew place women and children in the lifeboats, leaving the men to go down with the ship.
AUTHOR: Probably Richard Brown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Richard "Rabbit" Brown)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The Titanic leaves Southampton, bound for America with happy passengers and crew. After the ship strikes an iceberg, her officers call upon the Carpathia for help, but she is far away. The passengers and crew, realizing the ship is sinking, place women and children in the lifeboats, leaving the men to go down with the ship. The band plays "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sinks (Singer sings the hymn)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck disaster death drowning religious
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 14/15, 1912 - Shortly before midnight, ship's time, the Titanic strikes an iceberg and begins to sink. Only 711 survivors are found of 2224 people believed to have been aboard.
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: ()

ST RcTitaIX (Partial)
RECORDINGS:
Richard "Rabbit" Brown, "Sinking of the Titanic" (Victor 35840, 1927; on TimesAint01)
NOTES: This song can be distinguished from the other Titanic songs primarily by its lack of a chorus, by its description of the SOS call to the Carpathia, and by the singing of "Nearer My God to Thee" at the end. - PJS
Richard Brown in fact not only sang "Nearer..." but did it in a sort of distorted voice, like music heard through water. A cute trick. Although the song was not recorded until 1927, Lyle Lofgren thinks it was written soon after the tragedy, because of the details it has, most of which (except for the playing of "Nearer...") are accurate. Despite this song (and other folklore), the band on the _Titanic_ did *not* play "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sank. Instead, they played light music to prevent panic.
For an extensive history of the _Titanic_, with detailed examination of the truth (or lack thereof) of quotes in the _Titanic_ songs, see the notes to "The Titanic (XV)" ("On the tenth day of April 1912") (Titanic #15) - RBW
File: RcTitaIX
===
NAME: Sinner Man
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to? (x3) All on that day." The remainder of the song is variations on the theme, "Run to the (rock), Rock won't you hide me? (x3)... (rock) will be (a-melting)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: religious punishment nonballad sin
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
BrownIII 616, "No Hidin'-Place" (2 texts, with the "A" text being "No Hiding Place" but the "B" text, which is damaged, probably belonging here)
SharpAp 208, "Sinner Man" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 61, "Sinner Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 366, "Sinner Man" (1 text)
DT, SINERMAN SINERMN2*
Roud #3408
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Heaven Bell a-Ring" (lyrics)
File: SKE61
===
NAME: Sinner Won't Die No More
DESCRIPTION: "O the lamb been down here and died (x3), Sinner won't die no more." "I wonder what bright angels, angels, angels, I wonder what bright angels, The robes all ready now." ""I see them ships a-sailing... The robes all ready now."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Allen/Ware/Garrison)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad clothes
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Allen/Ware/Garrison, p. 85, "Sinner Won't Die No More" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12043
File: AWG085
===
NAME: Sinner's Redemption, The: see All You That Are Unto Mirth Inclined (The Sinner's Redemption) (File: OBC051)
===
NAME: Sinners Will Call for the Rocks and the Mountains
DESCRIPTION: "Sinners will call for the rocks and the mountains (x3) When the last trump shall sound." "Jesus will bear the Christians higher (x3) When the last trump shall sound." "Brothers, won't you go to glory with me (x2) When the last trump shall sound."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 651, "Sinners Will Call for the Rocks and the Mountains"
Roud #7572
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When the Stars Begin to Fall" (words)
File: R651
===
NAME: Sioux Indians, The [Laws B11]
DESCRIPTION: A train of white settlers is bound for Oregon. While on their way they are attacked by a band of Sioux. Outnumbered, the whites are nonetheless victorious and finish their journey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: Indians(Am.) battle settler
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,Ro,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Laws B11, "The Sioux Indians"
Randolph 195, The Indian Fighters" (1 text, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 148-149, "The Indian Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, pp. 142-143, "(The Sioux Indians)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 179-181, "Sioux Indians" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 43, "Sioux Indians" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 155-156, "The Indian Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 379, SIOUXIND*
Roud #3235
RECORDINGS:
Alex Moore, "The Sioux Indians" (LC -------, 1940)
Eugene Jemison, "Crossing the Plains" (on Jem01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "The Sioux Indians" (on NLCR14)
Pete Seeger, "Sioux Indians" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07a, AmHist1)
Marc Williams, "Sioux Indians" (Brunswick 240, 1928) (Decca 5011, 1934; on BackSaddle)
NOTES: Despite the title, the Jemison recording is not the same as the song we've called "Crossing the Plains," but is a version of "Sioux Indians," with the Kaw being substituted for the Sioux. - PJS
File: LB11
===
NAME: Sir Aldingar [Child 59]
DESCRIPTION: Aldingar, spurned by the Queen, puts a (blind/drunk) leper in her bed and shows the king. She will be burned and the leper hanged. She finds a (child) champion who defeats Aldingar. He confesses. (The leper is made whole, becomes steward.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: royalty knight adultery trick disease reprieve
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 59, "Sir Aldingar" (3 texts)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 54-67, "Sir Aldingar" (2 texts, one the original from the Percy folio and the other the retouched version in the _Reliques_)
Leach, pp. 185-196, "Sir Aldingar" (2 texts)
OBB 4, "Sir Aldingar" (1 text)
DT 59, SIRALDGR
Roud #3969
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sir Hugh le Blond
NOTES: Child connects this ballad with the story of Gunhild, wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (reigned 1039-1056); Entwhistle even rings in a statement by William of Malmsbury that a poem about this event circulated in England in his time (twelfth century).
The number of Scandinavian analogs cited by Child, however, shows that there is no necessary dependence. If there is a connection, it has been distorted, because the king and queen are Henry and Eleanor (either Henry II or England and Eleanor of Acquitaine, or Henry III and Eleanor of Provence). - RBW
File: C059
===
NAME: Sir Andrew Barton [Child 167]
DESCRIPTION: Merchants complain to the King that their trade is being disrupted. The King sends a crew to deal with Barton, the pirate. After a difficult battle marked by great courage and skill on both sides, Barton is defeated and killed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1723
KEYWORDS: sailor sea battle nobility pirate
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1509-1547 - Reign of Henry VII (mentioned as king in some texts of the ballad)
FOUND_IN: US(MA,NE,NW,SE)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Child 167, "Sir Andrew Barton" (2 texts)
Bronson 167, "Sir Andrew Barton" (10 versions)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 188-207, "Sir Andrew Barton" (3 texts, one from the folio manuscript and the other the completely rewritten version in the _Reliques_)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 248-258, "Andrew Barton" (3 texts); p. 483 (1 tune) {Bronson's #9}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 15-44, "Sir Andrew Barton" "but including Henry Martyn" (11 texts plus a fragment, 10 tunes; in every text but "L," the robber is Andrew Bardeen or something like that, but many of the texts appear more Henry Martin-like) {K=Bronson's #2 tune for Child #167; B=#46, C=#31 for Child #250}
Leach, pp. 467-475, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 348, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
OBB 130, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 130-141+329-331, "Sir Andrew Barton" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2850, "When Flora with her fragrant flowere"
DT 167, ANDBART* HENRMRT4*
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; notes to #418, ("But when hee saw his sisters sonne slaine") (1 long but incomplete text)
Roud #192
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Henry Martyn" [Child 250] (plot, lyrics)
cf. "Captain Ward and the Rainbow" [Child 287] (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
My bleeding heart, with grief and care/A Warning to all Lewd Livers (BBI ZN1789)
As I lay musing all alone, Great store of things I thought upon/[Title trimmed. A comparison made upon the Life of Man? Stat. Register, July 16, 1634] (BBI ZN229)
NOTES: In the present state of our knowledge, it is almost impossible to distinguish "Sir Andrew Barton" from "Henry Martyn"; the pirates' names exchange freely, and the basic plot is similar. What is more, the ballads have clearly exchanged elements, especially in America, where mixed versions are the rule. Child did not have to contend with this.
In Child, the basic distinction might almost appear to be length; the versions of "Andrew Barton" are 82 and 64 stanzas, while the texts of "Henry Martyn" do not exceed 13 stanzas. Thus the former looks more literary and the latter more popular. In addition, there are hints of historical background, though much distorted. Still, it is best to check both ballads for a particular version.
See the notes to "Henry Martin" for a summary of opinions on the issue.
The original Andrew Barton is probably historical. James A. Williamson, _The Tudor Age_, 1953, 1957, 1964 (I use the slightly revised 1979 Longman paperback edition) says on p. 77, "The Earl of Oxford had long been lord Admiral, but the office was legal and administrative and not combatant, and Oxford did not go to sea. Henry, with a view to finding a successor with sea experience, picked out the two young Howards, Thomas and Edward, sons of the Earl of Surrey, and sent them to sea in 1511 to bring to account Sir Andrew Barton, a Scottish officer whose piracies were the complaint of English merchants. Barton was a servant of James IV and a commander of the new Scottish navy. The Howards fought and killed him and added his two privateers as prizes to Henry's fleet."
N. A. M. Rodger, _The Safeguard of the Seas: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649_, 1997 (I use the 1998 Norton edition), p. 169, gives a different account of how the battle came about; "There had been several incidents of hostility [between Scotland and England], notably in June 1511 when the Lord Admiral of England, Sir Edward Howard, escorting a convoy to Zealand, accidentally encountered and killed the Scottish pirate Andrew Barton."
Additional information about Barton can be found in Child. As for Edward Howard, note that his father Surrey would was the man who, two years later, fought and won the Battle of Flodden (and was given back his Dukedom of Norfolk as a reward). The Lord Howard who led the English fleet against the Spanish Armada was also a member of this family.
Many American texts refer to Barton fighting a Captain Charles Stuart (replacing the Lord Howard of earlier versions -- a reasonable name, even apart from the Barton battle cited above, since Earl Howard of Norfolk was Admiral of England at the time of the battle with the Armada). Gordon thinks this was Bonnie Prince Charlie, but Barry et al point to the American Charles Stewart (1778-1869) who commanded the U. S. S. _Constitution_ at the end of the War of 1812. - RBW
File: C167
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NAME: Sir Arthur and Charming Mollee: see Pretty Polly (I) (Moll Boy's Courtship) [Laws O14] (File: LO14)
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NAME: Sir Cauline: see Sir Cawline [Child 61] (File: C061)
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NAME: Sir Cawline [Child 61]
DESCRIPTION: Sir Cawline falls ill for love of the king's daughter; she attends him. He desires to prove himself worthy of her; she sends him to vanquish the elvish king. He then defeats a giant threatening to wed her, and survives a lion attack before marrying her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: courting disease royalty knight battle marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Child 61, "Sir Cawline" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Bronson 61, "Sir Cawline" (2 versions)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 61-81, "Sir Cauline" (1 text)
OBB 3, "Sir Cawline" (1 text)
DT 61, SIRCAWL*
Roud #479
NOTES: The only copy of this that Child accepted as real is that in the Percy manuscript (which Percy thoroughly corrupted), though Child prints two texts ("Sir Colin" and "King Malcolm and Sir Colvin," from the Harris ms. and Buchan respectively) in an appendix.
Percy's modifications to the text are so thorough that the 210 lines of the Percy manuscript are made into 392 lines in his text.
Based on Child's notes, it would seem that this song was never traditional as we would define the term; all the later versions were derived from the literary text as reworked by Percy. Bronson, however, pointed out that the Harris version *was* found in tradition, even if the text was influenced by Percy (Bronson adds that the result is in many ways simpler and superior to the Percy text; it also has a different ending). It seems that there were folk revivals before The Folk Revival. - RBW
File: C061
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NAME: Sir Edward Noel's Delight: see references under The British Grenadiers (File: Log109)
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NAME: Sir Gaunie and the Witch: see The Marriage of Sir Gawain [Child 31] (File: C031)
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NAME: Sir Hugh le Blond: see Sir Aldingar [Child 59] (File: C059)
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NAME: Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter [Child 155]
DESCRIPTION: A child tosses the ball into a Jew's/Gypsy's garden. The Jew's daughter/wife lures him into the house, where she murders him, (for ritual purposes?). Dying, he gives instructions for his burial (with a prayer book at his head and a grammar at his feet). 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: murder death ritual Gypsy Jew lastwill burial
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(All)) Ireland US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar) Bahamas
REFERENCES: (36 citations)
Child 155, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (21 texts)
Bronson 155, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (66 versions)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 54-60, "The Jew's Daughter" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 461-462, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (notes plus an excerpt from Child A)
Belden, pp. 69-73, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (2 texts plus a fragment)
Randolph 25, "The Jew's Garden" (3 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 47-49, "The Jew's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 25A) {Bronson's #38}
Eddy 20, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #48}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 30-32, "Little Harry Huston" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #66}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 119-126, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {A=Bronson's #66; B=#65 with verbal variants}
Davis-Ballads 33, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (13 texts, 7 tunes entitled "The Jew's Daughter," "It Rained a Mist," "A Little Boy Threw His Ball So High," "Sir Hugh, or Little Harry Hughes," Sir Hugh"; 3 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #39, #54, #3, #34, #6, #47, #53}
Davis-More 30, pp. 229-238, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
BrownII 34, "Sir Hugh; or, The Jew's Daughter" (4 texts)
Hudson 19, pp. 116-117, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (1 short text, lacking the actual murder)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 171-175, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (3 texts, the first also in Davis, with local titles "A Little Boy Threw His Ball So High," "Little Sir Hugh," "Hugh of Lincoln"; 1 tune on p. 403) {Bronson's #3}
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 53-55, "A Little Boy Threw His Ball" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Brewster 18, "Sir Hugh" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #44}
Leach, pp. 425-431, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (4 texts)
Creighton-NovaScotia 8, "Sir Hugh; or The Jew's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 147-149, "Sonny Hugh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 62, "Sir Hugh (The Jew's Daughter)" (3 texts)
OBB 79, "Hugh of Lincoln and The Jew's Daughter" (1 text)
SharpAp 31, "Sir Hugh" (7 texts plus 3 fragments, of which "I" in particular might be something else, 10 tunes){Bronson's #22, #20, #21, #23, #15, #10a, #16, #14, #8, #17}
Sharp-100E 8, "Little Sir Hugh" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 273, "The Queen's Garden" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gummere, pp. 164-166+336, "Sir Hugh" (1 text)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 20, "Little Son Hugh (Sir Hugh)" (1 slightly edited text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #10}
Hodgart, p. 70, "Sir Hugh (The Jew's Daughter)" (1 text)
DBuchan 22, "Sir Hugh" (1 text)
JHCox 19, "Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter" (6 texts plus mentions of 8 more)
MacSeegTrav 14, "Sir Hugh" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 81-83, "Hugh of Lincoln" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 5, pp. 13-14, "The Jewish Lady"; p. 15, "The Jew Lady" (2 texts)
Darling-NAS, pp. 36-40, "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter"; "The Fatal Flower Garden"; "It Rained a Mist" (3 texts)
DT 155, SIRHUGH* SIRHUGH1* SIRHUGH2* SIRHUGH3
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #420, "Sir Hugh, or The Jew's Daughter" (1 text)
ST C155 (Full)
Roud #73
RECORDINGS:
Cecilia Costello, "The Jew's Daughter (Sir Hugh)" (on FSB5 [as "The Jew's Garden"], FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #55}
[Mrs.?] Ollie Gilbert, "It Rained a Mist" (on LomaxCD1707) {Bronson's #35}
Nelstone's Hawaiians, "Fatal Flower Garden" (Victor 40193, 1929; on AAFM1) {Bronson's #12}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Twa Brothers" [Child 49] (lyrics)
NOTES: A.L. Lloyd reports, "In 1225 [others say 1255 -- which tells you something about how much of a historical basis all this has - RBW], in Lincoln, England, a boy named Hugh was supposed to have been tortured and murdered by Jews. A pogrom ensued." - PJS
The legend of Hugh of Lincoln became popular in many forms of literature; Benet's _Reader's Encyclopedia_ (which uses the 1255 date) lists Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale," Marlowe's _The Jew of Malta_, and a 1459 piece called _Alphonsus of Lincoln_, which I have not seen.
The link to "The Prioress's Tale" is undeniable, since lines 684-686 (Riverside edition) explicitly compares the tale to that of "yonge Hugh of Lyncoln, slayn also With cursed Jewes, as it is notable, For it is but a litel while ago." I personally don't see much connection, except thematic, to _The Jew of Malta_.
The charge of ritual murder against the Jews lasted far too long. This song is not the first example, and it is far from the last.
Although Jews suffered regular persecution from Christians from the time the Roman Empire was converted, it was the Crusades which really seemed to start the tendency to attack Jews. Steven Runciman, _A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem_, 1951 (I use the 1988 Cambridge paperback reprint), pp. 134-141, details the extreme misbehavior of the People's Crusade as it set out for Jerusalem in 1098-1099. (Interestingly, the particular mobs responsible for the atrocities almost all ended up being massacred themselves -- not by the Jews, but by Christians whom they also oppressed along the way. There seems to have been a particular sort of bone-headedness among Crusaders which caused them to think any furriner they saw must be a target worth attacking.)
Robert Seitz Frey and Nancy C. Thompson, _The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank_, 1988 (I use the 2002 Cooper Square Press edition), p. 56, note that it was bandied about at the time of the Phagan case (for background, see the notes to "Mary Phagan" [Laws F20]), and on p. 57 mention the Beilis case in Russia, where there were attempts to blame the entire Jewish race for a murder they did not commit. - RBW
File: C155
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NAME: Sir Hugh, the Graeme: see Hughie Grame [Child 191] (File: C191)
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NAME: Sir James the Rose [Child 213]
DESCRIPTION: James the Rose (has killed a squire, and) is forced to flee. He asks his leman's help. She, under pressure, tells his pursuers of his hiding place. James is taken and killed. His leman regrets her actions
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1781 (Pinkerton)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: "O heard ye of Sir James the Rose ... he has killed a gallant squire An's friends are out to take him." He visits his lover, the nurse at the House of Marr. He tells her he is looking for a place to hide. Her pursuers ask if she has seen him. As they are about to leave she tells them where he is hiding. He tries to buy them off but they kill him and give his heart to his lover. In despair she drops from sight. "A traitor's end, you may depend, Can be expect'd no better."
KEYWORDS: love death betrayal revenge hiding
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 213, "Sir James the Rose" (1 text)
Bronson 213, "Sir James the Rose" (27 versions+1 in addenda, but a large fraction of these are "Sir James the Ross")
DT 213, ]JAMEROS2
Roud #2274
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(50), "Tragedy of Sir James the Rose," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1869; also RB.m.143(157), "Sir James the Ross"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sir James the Ross" (general plot) and references there
NOTES: Child has only one version of 213 ("O heard ye of Sir James the Rose") but acknowledges a different ballad: "'Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad' (sometimes called 'The Buchanshire Tragedy'), was composed by the youthful Michael Bruce (1767) upon the story of the popular ballad, and has perhaps enjoyed more favor with 'the general' than the original." - BS 
File: C213
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NAME: Sir James the Ross
DESCRIPTION: Matilda's father wants her to marry John Graham rather than James Ross. James kills John's brother and hides with Matilda while she sends her page to raise John's men. The page betrays James to John Graham. James is killed and Matilda commits suicide.
AUTHOR: Michael Bruce?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869 (broadside, NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(50))
LONG_DESCRIPTION: "Of all the Scottish northern chiefs... The bravest was Sir James the Rose." He leads 500 warriors. He loves Matilda, daughter of "Buchan's cruel lord," who prefers that she wed Sir John the Graham. John's brother Donald spies on James and Matilda and hears her say "the grave shall be my bridal bed If Graham my husband be." Donald confronts James and is killed. He tells Matilda he has killed Donald and must hide because his own men are "far far distant." He plans to go to raise his men but she convinces him to hide and send a page to raise his men. The page meets Graham and twenty of his men and tells where James is hiding. James fights bravely. Matilda pleas for his life but he is mortally wounded. She kills herself on James's sword. With his dying effort James kills Graham. 
KEYWORDS: love death suicide betrayal revenge hiding brother father
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar,Newf) US(NE) Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Greig #39, pp. 1-3, "Sir James the Rose" (2 texts)
GreigDuncan2 235, GreigDuncan8 Addenda, "Sir James the Rose" (16 texts, many very short, 14 tunes) {A=Bronson's #7, C=#4, D=#3, E=#5, F=#11, G=#12, I=#1, J=#13, K=#10, L=#8, M=#20, N=#19; most of these have no text or only a few lines}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 284-291, "Sir James the Ross" (1 text from manuscript)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 147-154, "Sir James, the Rose" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #25}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 239-254, "Sir James the Ross" (3 texts, 1 tune; of the three texts, "C" is short, while "A" is based on penciled changed George Edwards wrote in the margin of BarryEckstormSmyth) {Bronson's #25}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 75-79, "Sir James the Ross" (1 text plus 2 fragments, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #27, 26}
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 23-25, "Sir James the Ross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 7, "Sir James the Ross" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 715-719, "Sir James the Rose" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 18, "Sir James the Ross" (2 texts, 3 tunes)
Mackenzie 11, "Sir James the Rose" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #16}
DT 213, JAMEROSE
Roud #2274
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(50), "Tragedy of Sir James the Rose," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1869; also RB.m.143(157), "Sir James the Ross"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Child Maurice" [Child 83] (tune)
cf. "Sir James the Rose" [Child 213] (general plot)
NOTES: Child has only one version of 213 ("O heard ye of Sir James the Rose") but acknowledges a different ballad: "'Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad' (sometimes called 'The Buchanshire Tragedy'), was composed by the youthful Michael Bruce (1767) upon the story of the popular ballad, and has perhaps enjoyed more favor with 'the general' than the original." Coffin, _The British Traditional Ballad in North America_ (Philadelphia, 1950), pp. 128-129: "The Child 'Sir James the Rose' ballad is not in America. The American texts [including Pound's from Nebraska] are highly sophisticated and based on 'Sir James the Ross,' a song Child, IV, 156 thought to have been composed by Michael Bruce [disputed by Coffin citing Barry citing Keith 'that Michael Bruce is mistakenly considered the composer....']." Mackenzie regarding his two versions: "[They] represent 'Sir James the Ross,' an unacknowledged adaptation by Michael Bruce, of the old Scottish ballad 'Sir James the Rose' (Child, No. 213)." Confirming Coffin's observation, Karpeles-Newfoundland, Peacock, Creighton-SNewBrunswick, and Creighton-Maritime all are derived from the same text as MacKenzie's.
Greig: "The version now generally known and sung is the one we give. Its composition is credited to Michael Bruce (1746-1767), the author of the well-known 'Ode to the Cuckoo.'"
GreigDuncan2: "Greig does not give his source for the 53-stanza text he prints and, as it may have been a collated text rather than a version from tradition, it is not included here; it resembles A and B." - BS
File: C213A
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NAME: Sir John Butler [Child 165]
DESCRIPTION: Men cross a moat by leather boat to Sir John Butler's hall. His daughter Ellen warns him his uncle Stanley is here. He says he is therefore doomed, and, indeed, he is murdered. His wife, in London, dreams his death, confirms it, seeks redress in vain.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: family murder dream
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1463 - The Butler Murder
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 165, "Sir John Butler" (1 text)
Roud #4000
NOTES: Child gives a good deal of background to this murder, while admitting to some very substantial questions about it. But he distinctly fails to give some additional background -- notably the fact that this happened during the Wars of the Roses, when battles between noble families were commonplace. And he makes, in my view, far too little of the complicated connections of the families involved.
Lord Stanley was Thomas Stanley, the future Earl of Derby -- and the future husband of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the future King Henry VII. And Ellen Butler? Well, there was an Eleanor Butler who (at least acording to the Bishop af Bath and Wells and King Richard III) was betrothed to King Edward IV, who was king in 1463 -- and who, if she *did* have a relationship with Edward IV, was having it right about the time of this murder. (For more on the Stanleys, see e.g. "The Vicar of Bray"; for the whole mess of Eleanor Butler, see e.g. "The Children in the Wood (The Babes in the Woods)" [Laws Q34].
I'm not claiming that any of this is neccessarily meaningful. But if anyone decides to try to learn more than Child had to say about this ballad, this probably needs to be looked into. - RBW
File: C165
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NAME: Sir John Gordon: see Thomas Rymer [Child 37] (File: C037)
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NAME: Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allan: see Bonny Barbara Allan [Child 84] (File: C084)
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NAME: Sir Lionel [Child 18]
DESCRIPTION: (Sir Lionel) hears report (from a lady in distress?) of a murderous boar. Meeting the boar, he slays the beast. In the older versions, the boar's keeper then comes out to demand a price, and the knight then slays the keeper also.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1876 (Christie, _Traditional Ballad Airs, vol. i_)
KEYWORDS: animal fight magic
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(High),England) US(Ap,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (24 citations)
Child 18, "Sir Lionel" (6 texts)
Bronson 18, "Sir Lionel" (17 versions)
Leather, pp. 203-204, "Brangywell"; p. 204, "Dilly Dove" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #5, 13}
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 434-435, "Sir Lionel" (notes plus a partial reprint of Child A)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 60-61, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #17}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 226-229, "Sir Lionel" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #17}
Belden, pp. 29-31, "Sir Lionel" (2 texts, 1 tune, plus fragments of 1 stanza and 1 line respectively) {Bronson's #7}
Randolph 7, "Lord Bangum" (1 fragmentary text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #14}
Davis-Ballads 8, "Sir Lionel" (7 texts, 4 tunes entitled "Bangum and the Boar," "Old Bang'em," "Ole Bangim," "Sir Lionel") {Bronson's #12, #10, #8, #15}
Davis-More 10, pp. 72-78, "Sir Lionel" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 191-191, "Sir Lionel" (1 text reprinted from Scarborough-NegroFS, and found also in Davis and Scarborough-NegroFS, with local title "Old Bangum"; 1 tune on p. 407) {Bronson's #8}
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 51-52, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune, the same as that in Scarborough-SongCatcher) {Bronson's #8}
SharpAp 9 "Sir Lionel" (4 fragments, 4 tunes) {Bronson's #16, #15, #11, #9}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 85, "Bangum Rid by the Riverside" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 100-103, "Sir Lionel" (2 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 157-159, "Ole Banghum" (1 text, 1 tune)
PBB 19, "The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove" (1 text)
Lomax-FSNA 272, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson't #8}
Niles 13, "Sir Lionel" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Chase, pp. 126-127, "Old Bangum and the Boar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, p. 60, "Old Bangum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 217, "Old Bangum" (1 text)
DT 18, JOVHUNTR* OLBANGUM*
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 24, #2 (1975), p, 5, "Quil O'Quay" (1 short text, 1 tune, from the singing of Nimrod Workman)
Roud #29
RECORDINGS:
Bentley Ball, "Bangum and the Boar" (Columbia A3084, 1920)
Logan English, "Bangum and the Boar" (on LEnglish01)
Samuel Harmon, "The Wild Boar" (AFS 2805B; on LC57) {Bronson's #2}
Frank Hutchison, "Wild Hog in the Woods" (OKeh 45274, 1928)
Jean Ritchie, "Old Bangum" (on JRitchie01)
Lonesome Luke [D. C. Decker] & his Farm Boys, "Wild Hog in the Woods" (Champion 16229, 1931; on KMM)
G. D. Vowell, "Bangum and the Boar" (AFS; on LC57)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Wild Hog
The Jovial Hunter
Rurey Bain
Bangum and the Bo'
Wild Hog in the Woods
Rackabello
NOTES: Many versions of this song have been stripped down to descriptions of the hunt and the fight. Others have subplots concerning Sir Lionel's brothers.
The versions of this called "Wild Hog in the Woods" should not be confused with the fiddle tune of the same name, which is unrelated to any tune I've ever heard with the ballad. Great tune, though - PJS
Flanders, in her notes in "Ancient Ballads," makes the astonishing (for her) admission of how different the common version of this is from the alleged roots: "If 'Old Bangum' can be considered as a direct descendant of the romance _Sir Eglamour of Artois_, it is surely a classic example of degeneration through oral tradition.... Although the Child 'Sir Lionel' is probably related to the medieval romance, scholars have just as probably been over-enthusiastic in relating 'Old Bangum' songs too closely to 'Sir Lionel.' As Belden, 29, suggests, a song-book or music hall rewriting may well lie between the two."
She adds, "The 'Old Bangum' texts are the only American forms of Child 18. They are known in... England as well, and are characterized by a nonsense refrain which Alfred Williams... notes is meant to sound like a bugle." - RBW
File: C018
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NAME: Sir Neil and Glengyle [Laws M39]
DESCRIPTION: Ann is wooed by Sir Neil and Glengyle. Her brother, hearing a false rumor that Sir Neil has slandered his sister, demands a duel and is killed. Glengyle kills Sir Neil. Ann, horrified by the slaughter, will not have Glengyle and vows to die unwed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1801 (Hogg, _Scottish Pastorals_, according to GreigDuncan2)
KEYWORDS: murder brother sister courting death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Laws M39, "Sir Neil and Glengyle"
Greig #109, p. 1, "Sir Niel and M'Van" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan2 217, "Sir Niel and Macvan" (7 texts, 5 tunes)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 92-95, "Sir Neil and Glengyle" (1 text, 3 tunes)
Mackenzie 20, "Sir Neil and Glengyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 590, SIRNEIL
Roud #1914
NOTES: I was not able to read the one broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(44), "Glengyle & Sir Neil" ("In yonder isle beyond Argyle"), unknown, n.d. - BS
File: LM39
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NAME: Sir Niel and M'Van: see Sir Neil and Glengyle [Laws M39] (File: LM39)
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NAME: Sir Niel and Macvan: see Sir Neil and Glengyle [Laws M39] (File: LM39)
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NAME: Sir Patrick Spence: see Sir Patrick Spens [Child 58] (File: C058)
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NAME: Sir Patrick Spens [Child 58]
DESCRIPTION: The King, needing a good sailor, calls upon Sir Patrick Spens to sail (to Norway?) in the dead of winter. Though both Captain and crew fear the trip, they undertake it, and are drowned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1765 (Percy)
KEYWORDS: sea storm wreck death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1286 - Death of Alexander III of Scotland
1290 - Death of his granddaughter Margaret "Maid of Norway"
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap,MA,SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Child 58, "Sir Patrick Spens" (18 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Bronson 58, "Sir Patrick Spens" (12 versions+1 in addenda)
Percy/Wheatley I, pp. 98-102, "Sir Patrick Spence" (1 text)
GreigDuncan1 17, "Sir Patrick Spens" (3 texts, 2 tunes) {B=Bronson's #3}
BrownII 16, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 179-184, "Sir Patrick Spens" (3 texts)
Friedman, p. 297, "Sir Patrick Spens (Spence)" (2 texts, 1 tune)
OBB 75, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
PBB 66, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Niles 25, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gummere, pp. 144-1445+331-332, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 25-27, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 121, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
DBuchan 50, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 2, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text, a recited version)
TBB 20, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 60-63, "Sir Patrick Spens" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 74-76, "Sir Patrick Spence" (1 text)
DT 58, PATSPENS*
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #418, "Sir Patrick Spence" (1 text, with several variants in the notes)
ST C058 (Full)
Roud #41
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lord Derwentwater" [Child 208] (opening lyrics)
cf. "Young Allan" [Child 245] (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Patrick Spenser
Sir Patrick Spence
NOTES: Whether this song is historical is disputed. If it *is* historical, it is based on one of the oldest incidents known to balladry: The succession of Scotland in the thirteenth century.
Alexander III of Scotland came to the throne in 1249, a boy not yet ten years old (see Magnusson, pp. 96-97. For references, see the Bibliography at the end of this note). Two years later, he went to England to be knighted and to marry Margaret, the daughter of the English King Henry III and the sister of the future Edward I (Magnusson, p. 97).
Alexander came of age in 1259. Within a couple of years, he was sending embassies to Norway, trying to gain control of the Western Isles and Orkney -- which for many centuries had given their allegiance, such as it was, to Norway (Magnusson, p. 97). Eventually negotiations gave way to war: Alexander wanted the Hebrides, while Norwegian king Haakon wanted to keep them and strengthen his control.
Fry/Fry, p. 74, report that one of Alexander's vassals attacked Skye in 1262. Our sources are all Norwegian, so we don't know whether Alexander was really involved, or how extensive the attack was. What is clear is that both sides sent forces to the western isles, though the ensuing Battle of Largs (1263) was more a series of meeting engagements than a full-scale battle. More damage was done to the combatants by a storm, and king Haakon, having seen his fleet badly damaged, headed for home and died soon after in the Orkneys (Mitchison, p. 33).
With Haakon dead, the Norwegians decided to negotiate once again. A treaty was concluded in 1266, by the terms of which Scotland in effect bought the Hebrides (and at a surprisingly low price; Magnusson, p. 103, thinks the Norwegians demanded the cash only so they could justify giving away land they were no longer willing to fight for).
In practice, the result didn't matter; the folk of the Islaes "paid no more heed to their Scottish than they had to their Norwegian overlords" (MacLean, p. 33). But at least it ended the war. The countries became friendly enough that Alexander's daughter Margaret, by then 19 years old, was married to the 14-year-old grandson of King Haakon in 1281. Margaret's young husband was already Norway's King Eric II; he had ascended in 1280 (Mitchison, p. 37). Margaret didn't see much of his reign, though; she died in 1283, probably in childbirth; the baby girl would come to be known as "Margaret Maid of Norway" (Magnusson, p. 104).
At the time of the elder Margaret's betrothal, the Norwegian connection seemed minor; although Alexander III was a widower (his wife Margaret having died in 1275), he had two living sons. But the younger son, David, died in 1281, and then the heir, who would have been Alexander IV, died in 1284 (Magnusson, p. 105).
Alexander finally decided he had to marry again; he married Yolande (or Yolette) de Dreux in 1285. But it was too late for him. Indeed, the marriage brought his downfall, and led to the end of one of the few relatively peaceful period in Scottish history. On a dark night, on his way to visit his wife after a feast, he somehow fell from his horse and died in 1286 (Magnusson, pp. 106-107; Cook, p. 65). This, incidentally, led to one of Thomas of Ercildoune's most famous prophecies; see the notes to "Thomas Rymer" [Child 37].
When Alexander died in 1286, the only heir of his body was his granddaughter Margaret, daughter of the King of Norway by Alexander's daughter. She was four years old, but was made queen (not without some concern, since Scotland till then had never had a ruling queen; Cook, p. 65). Naturally with a guardian council. And with Edward I of England very interested. For one thing, she was a girl who could potentially be married to his son; for another, Margaret of Norway was not too distantly related to Edward himself, and a potential claimant to the English throne. Edward firmly interjected himself into the process of trying to bring the girl back to Scotland (Cook, p. 69). The negotiations were intricate (Magnusson, pp. 110-111), since Norway, England, and Scotland were interested in her dynasty (because she stood fairly high in the succession for each), and England, Scotland, and the Papacy were involved in negotiations for her marriage (since she and her proposed husband, the future Edward II, were within the prohibited degrees, being first cousins once removed. A dispensation was eventually obtained; Cook, p. 70).
Poor little Margaret! So much rested on her fate that the histories give us no idea of what she was like; on paper a queen, she was in fact a pawn. One can only feel sorry for her. She lost her mother at birth, she became queen of Scotland at three, her marriage was decided upon by the time she was seven, she left her childhood home at eight, and died at sea without even viewing the land of which she was titular queen! It was the forceful Edward I, not the Scots, who conducted most of the negotiations with the Norwegians. And one can't help but wonder if Edward's bluster didn't cause the Norwegians to drag things out. Eric II delayed Margaret's return for years.
Edward had theoretically agreed to leave Scotland an independent state after the marriage, and it was agreed that, if Margaret's marriage produced no heirs, Scotland would remain independent (Magnusson, p. 111). But it was quite clear that Edward had every expectation of running things (MacLean, p. 34).
Finally Edward fitted out a well-provisioned ship to carry the Queen, and perhaps her father (Cook, p. 71). Eric didn't like that; he preferred to use one of his own ships. It didn't help the poor girl; she died on the trip -- surrounded by the usual rumours of poisoning and murder. And now Scotland *really* had a succession problem. But that is an issue for another song.
Thus the texts of the ballad match some of the facts (fetching home "the king's daughter of Norrowa'"), but ignore the fact that the old king was long dead when the Scottish ship sailed to bring home the princess.
Some have proposed emending the text to describe sending Alexander's daughter *to* Norway, noting that a ship containing several Scottish lords sank on the way home. This is ingenious, but does not seem to fit the rest of the ballad; I would regard this emendation as highly suspect. (Of course, I don't like emendation.)
Just about every recording I've heard of this song seems to use the highly majestic tune sung by Ewan MacColl, but Bronson admits only one other traditional version with a tune akin to MacColl's; nine of his twelve versions are of a different type, and the twelfth (from Johnson) he believes inauthentic.
>> BIBLIOGRAPHY <<
Cook: E. Thornton Cook, _Their Majesties of Scotland_, John Murray, 1928
Fry/Fry: Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _The History of Scotland_, 1982 (I use the 1995 Barnes & Noble edition)
MacLean: Fitzroy MacLean, _A Concise History of Scotland_, Beekman House, 1970
Magnusson: Magnus Magnusson, _Scotland: The Story of a Nation_, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
Mitchison: Rosalind Mitchison, _A History of Scotland_, second edition, Methuen, 1982
- RBW
File: C058
===
NAME: Sir Peter Parker
DESCRIPTION: "Sir Peter Parker" relates how he attacked Sullivan's Isle outside Charleston. He receives no support from his superior, Clinton, so the rebels are able to beat off his ship Bristol. Parker decides it's time to return to base
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: rebellion war humorous injury
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 28, 1776 - Clinton and Parker's failed assault on Charleston
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 64-66, "Sir Peter Parker" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, NEWWAR*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "At Sullivan's Isle" (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker
NOTES: The setting is, of course, the American revolution. Having been completely blocked by the colonials in 1775, the British decided on a two-part strategy in 1776. Most of the troops in Boston were shifted to New York (via Halifax), while a second force was sent to attack Charleston, South Carolina. It was to be a fiasco.
To be fair, the whole thing had been directed from London, and handled at too great a distance. According to Don Cook, _The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785_, p. 245, "orders were issued in December... to embark the Irish regiments at Cork and head across the Atlantic to rendezvous with a fleet in the American waters off Cape Fear, North Carolina. General Clinton would meet them at the end of February with additional reinforcements from Boston, and the combined armies would head for Charleston." Sir Henry Clinton was to the army in the Charleston assault, while Sir Peter Parker was in charge of the naval forces. Since Clinton was already in America, and Parker was coming from England, the two did not cooperate well.
The first problem was the timing. Atlantic weather saw to it that Parker's fleet, somewhat depleted, arrived in April, not February. This had the unfortunate effect of seriously weakening the troops, who had been at sea for eighty days (see Stanley Weintraub, _Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783_, Free Press, 2005, pp. 61-62).
Clinton, who had been on the scene, learned that no one even had an accurate map to use when planning the landing. So bad was the British information that, when they tried to bombard Charleston, most of the mortar shells landed in unfortified bogs (Weintraub, p. 62).
Clinton got his troops ashore, but did not attack the crucial colonial position in Fort Moultrie. Clinton opposed the final plan, but Parker was in charge and ordered the assault to go ahead. To get into the harbor, Parker had to try to batter the fort into submission. He failed, and in the process a colonial shot blew off his breeches (producing the reference to "the wind in my tail," and a sour joke beginning "If honour in the breech is lodged"; Weintraub, p. 62). Other losses were more significant than Parker's pants: Three frigates aground, three ships damaged, one destroyed; the captain of the _Bristol_ lost his right arm.
Clinton and Parker returned to New York. It is likely that both should bear responsibility for the failure, but Parker seems to have borne the brunt of it; when Howe was recalled from his post as commander of British forces in America, Clinton was chosen to succeed him. - RBW
File: SBoa064
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NAME: Sir Robert Peel, The
DESCRIPTION: "In the pleasant month of May, 'twas the year of thirty-eight... It was down in the narrows where they watched for the eel Lay her majesty's steamer called the Sir Robert Peel." Forced to land in America, the ship is burnt to avenge the Caroline
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: ship battle political revenge
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 29, 1837 - The American vessel the Caroline, which had been transporting supplies to the Canadian rebels, is set afire and run over Niagara Falls by Canadians led by Captain Andrew Drew
May 30, 1838 - The Sir Robert Peel halts at Wells Island to take on wood. Raiders led by Bill Johnston attack her, take off her crew, and set her afire to avenge the Caroline
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 76-78, "The 'Sir Robert Peel'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4031
NOTES: For the history of the Canadian rebellion, which led to the events in this song, see the notes on "An Anti-Rebel Song" and "Farewell to Mackenzie."
This song is item dA33 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: FMB076
===
NAME: Sir William: see references under "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter" [Child 110] (File: C110)
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NAME: Sir William Gower: see Captain Glen/The New York Trader (The Guilty Sea Captain A/B) [Laws K22] (File: LK22)
===
NAME: Sister Cyarline: see Went to the River (I) (File: R258)
===
NAME: Sister Seusan
DESCRIPTION: "Sister Sue and my (Aunt/gal) Sal, Gwine to git a home bime by-high. All gwine to lib down shin-bone al; Gwine to git a home bime by." Various verses on working, sailing, complaints. Noted as a Barbadian hand over hand.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Bullen, _The Log of a Sea Waif_)
KEYWORDS: worksong shanty
FOUND_IN: US West Indies
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Harlow, pp. 200-201, "Gwine to Git a Home Bime By" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 390-391 "Sister Susan" (1 text, tune) [AbEd, p. 299]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Shinbone Al
NOTES: Bullen transcribed this shanty, and described the time he first heard it in his book _The Log of a Sea Waif._ He also included it later included in his collection _Songs of Sea Labor._ Hugill mentions that "Shinbone Alley" is a place name often referred to in American Negro songs. - SL
File: Hugi390
===
NAME: Sister Susan: see The Old Maid's Song (File: R364)
===
NAME: Sister's Husband, The: see Fair Annie [Child 62] (File: C062)
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NAME: Sitting on Top of the World
DESCRIPTION: Singer's woman leaves him, then says "Come back... I need you so". He spurns her: "If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree...." He'll find another woman. Ch.: "But now she's gone, and I don't worry/Because I'm sitting on top of the world"
AUTHOR: Probably Walter Vincson (Digital Tradition lists Lonnie Carter and Walter Jacobs)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Mississippi Sheiks)
KEYWORDS: hardheartedness love travel abandonment floatingverses lover
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, STTNTOP*
Roud #7689
RECORDINGS:
Beale St. Rounders, "Sittin' On Top of the World" (Vocalion 1555, 1930)
(Joe) Evans & (Arthur) McClain, "Sitting On Top of the World" (Banner 32211/Oriole 8079/Perfect 180/Romeo 5079, 1931)
Shelton Brothers, "I'm Sittin' On Top of the World" (Decca 5190, 1936)
Mississippi Sheiks, "Sitting on Top of the World" (OKeh 8784, 1930; OKeh 45506, 1931)
Scottdale String Band, "Sittin' On Top of the World" (OKeh 45509, 1931; rec. 1930)
Doc Watson, "Sitting On Top of the World" (on WatsonAshley1)
Clarence Williams Jug Band, "Sitting On Top of the World" (OKeh 8826, 1930)
Bob Wills, "Sittin' On Top of the World" (Vocalion 03139, 1936 [rec. 1935])
SAME_TUNE:
Mississippi Sheiks, "Sitting On Top of the World #2" (OKeh 8854, 1931; rec. 1930)
NOTES: This song should not be confused with the Tin Pan Alley song, "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (which goes on, "Just rollin' along, just rollin' along"), although the Mississippi Sheiks may have been ironically quoting from it. - PJS
File: dtSTTNTO
===
NAME: Siul a Ghra: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Siul a Gra: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
===
NAME: Six Days Shalt Thou Labor
DESCRIPTION: "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh -- holystone the decks and scrape the cable" (or "the seventh the same, and clean out the stable," etc.) A (sailor's) complaint about hard work and dishonoring the Sabbath
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1840 (Two Years Before the Mast)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 228, "For Six Days Do All That Thou Art Able" (1 text)
Roud #16857
NOTES: The first two lines of this are quoted in various forms; the description contains the earliest form I know, from Richard Henry Dana's _Two Years Before the Mast_. But it seems to have generalized.
We might add that, while some of the tasks described in the song are make-work, make-work was necessary at sea, especially aboard a naval vessel that had many more hands than were ordinarily needed to run the ship. Almost none of the sailors could read or do much except sail a ship; their only entertainment was grog (which had to be rationed, both because the supply was finite and because they had to be sober enough to work the ship) and maybe music. Had they not been kept busy, they would have gone stir-crazy -- or mutinied. - RBW
File: Br3228
===
NAME: Six Dukes Went a-Fishing
DESCRIPTION: (Six dukes) go fishing and find the body of the (some Duke). His body is brought (home/to London); the embalming is described in rather gory detail. His burial is described in language reminiscent of "The Death of Queen Jane"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1690 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: death burial nobility corpse funeral
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond,South)) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Bronson (170), 2 versions in Appendix B to "The Death of Queen Jane," though these are not all the versions of the song known to Bronson
Flanders/Brown, p. 219, "Two Dukes" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #12}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 78-79, "Two Dukes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 159-160, "The Duke of Bedford" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {A=Bronson's #12}
PBB 48, "The Duke of Grafton" (1 text)
Sharp-100E 21, "The Duke of Bedford" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #11}
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 97, "Six Dukes Went a-Fishing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 150, "Six Dukes went a-fishing" (1 text)
BBI, ZN316, "As two men were a walking, down by the sea side"
ST FO078 (Partial)
Roud #78
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Death of Queen Jane" [Child 170] (lyrics)
NOTES: The person referred to in this ballad is hard to determine. One text refers to the Duke as the "Duke of Grantham." There were three barons of Grantham (died 1770, 1786, and 1859; the third Baron was made earl in 1833), but their circumstances do not seem to fit the ballad. In any case, they were not dukes. - AS, RBW
In another text, the Duke is lord of Grafton. Grafton was a very late and temporary dukedom; Henry Fitzroy (the illegitimate son of Charles II) briefly held the title. Grafton is notable only for leading a Guards regiment during the Glorious Revolution, when he abandoned James II to support William and Mary. (There is, however, a broadside, BBI ZN2703, "Unwelcome Tydings over spreads the Land," entitled "Englands Tribute of Tears.. Death..Duke of Grafton.. 9th. of October, 1690.") A later Duke, the third, was Prime Minister 1767-1770, and partly responsible for the colonial problems leading to the American revolution, but this is obviously too late. So are his successors.
If we ignore the names and look at the internal evidence of the song, perhaps the least implausible candidate is William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who was widely regarded in England as having sold Normandy back to the French. King Henry ordered his exile in 1450 (to spare his life), but the ship he was sailing on was intercepted and Suffolk taken off. He was beheaded and his body thrown on the shore (May 2, 1450).
Rumor (probably false) had him linked romantically with Queen Margaret of Anjou, which would partly explain the line "royal Queen Mary went weeping away" in the "Grafton" text.
Another possibility, which as far as I know is original to me, is that the reference is actually to Richard Woodville, first Earl Rivers. Rivers was never a Duke -- indeed, he was only briefly an earl, and not a landed one. But he was the father of Queen Elizabeth Woodville (wife of Edward IV), which made him a sort of vague member of the royal family, which might cause him to be called a duke. Plus, he lived in Grafton. Rivers was executed in 1469 by members of the Neville (anti-Edward) faction.
Another difficulty is that, until relatively recently, England almost never had more than eight active Dukedoms (Buckingham, Clarence, Exeter, Gloucester, Lancaster, Norfolk, Suffolk, York), and usually fewer (e.g. the only Dukes of Lancaster who were not also King were Henry of Derby and his son-in-law John of Gaunt). England, until the eighteenth century, had a limited peerage; the first three Georges nearly doubled the number of peers, creating the first significant class of landless Lords; the purposes, of course, were political.
I guess it's safe to conclude that this story is badly garbled. - RBW
To these possibilities, Sharp's _100 English Folksongs_ adds the son of the fourth Duke of Bedford, killed by a fall from his horse in 1767. - PJS
(Which, of course, appears to be later than the earliest broadside texts. At least Bedford was a real dukedom, attested to in some versions of the text, so the song might have been adjusted. - RBW)
See also Mary Rowland, 'Which Noble Duke?', _FMJ_ 1965 - RBW, following WBO
File: FO078
===
NAME: Six Girls: see The Six Sweethears (File: HHH605)
===
NAME: Six Horse-Power Coaker, The
DESCRIPTION: An old run-down motor that still has a lot of life left in it fails one day as the weather  worsens and they have a dory in tow. An orphan boy comes to the rescue in a skiff and is able to start the motor. They take on the boy from that time forward.
AUTHOR: A.R. Scammell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940
KEYWORDS: recitation technology talltale ship rescue
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle2, p. 74, "The Six Horse-Power Coaker" (1 text)
Blondahl, pp. 68-69, "The Six-Horsepower Coaker" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7310
NOTES: The author, Arthur Reginald Scammell (mistakenly spelled with one "l" in [Doyle]), has written many poems, songs and even stories with Newfoundland themes. One of his more famous songs is, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground." Some collections of his works include: _My Newfoundland: Stories, Poems, Songs_ (St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications, 1988) and "Newfoundland Echoes" (St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications, 1988). _Collected Works of A. R. Scammell_ was also published by Harry Cuff in 1990.
The boy in the song is referred to as being a "bedlamer boy" which is a corruption of the French phrase, "bete de la mer" used in Newfoundland to refer to half-grown seals and boys. See: Harold Horwood, _Newfoundland_ (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada , 1969), p. 84. - SH
File: Doy74
===
NAME: Six Jolly Miners
DESCRIPTION: About "six jolly miners." They come from all over Britain, "but all of their delight was to split those rocks in twine." "Sometimes we have good credit, boys, sometimes we've none at all." "We'll call for liquors plenty and drink our healths all round."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938
KEYWORDS: work mining drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North,South)Scotland(Bord)) Canada(Mar) US(MA)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 238, "Six Jolly Miners (1 text with supplements, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 286-287, "Six Jolly Miners" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, p. 176, "The Jolly Miner " (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #877
RECORDINGS:
Louis Rowe, "Six Jolly Miners" (on FSB9)
File: K238
===
NAME: Six King's Daughters, The: see Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Child 4] (File: C004)
===
NAME: Six Little Girls A-Sliding Went: see Three Little Girls A-Skating Went (File: R588)
===
NAME: Six Men and One Woman Taken Off the Ice at Petty Harb'r
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you hardy Fishermen, And hark to what I say, And hear how six were rescued Near Petty Harbor Bay." Stranded overnight on the ice, they desperately signal for help. Spotted at last, the Ingraham comes to rescue them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Harbour Grace Standard)
KEYWORDS: wreck rescue
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 80, "Six Men and One Woman Taken Off The Ice at Petty Harb'r" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: RySm080
===
NAME: Six Months Ain't Long
DESCRIPTION: Singer reports that "all I've got's done gone"; he was framed by an upright judge and sentenced to six months in jail for shooting up the town.  Ch.: "Six months ain't long, ain't long my dear...six months ain't long for me to be gone/oh darling...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Rutherford & Foster)
KEYWORDS: captivity love violence crime prison punishment trial judge prisoner
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Leonard] Rutherford & [John] Foster, "Six Months Ain't Long" (Brunswick 490, rec. 1930; on KMM)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Last Gold Dollar" (lyrics)
cf. "Six Months in Jail Ain't So Long" (subject)
NOTES: The similarity to "Six Months in Jail Ain't so Long" is primarily in the situation, not the song. The lyrics are different, the tune is different, I split them. - PJS
File: Rc6MoLo
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NAME: Six Months in Jail Ain't So Long
DESCRIPTION: "Six months in jail ain't so long, baby, It's workin' on the county farm. Got my pick an' shovel now, baby, Yo' true lub is gone. Who's gwine to be yo' true lub, baby, When I'm gone? Who gwine to bring you chickens... When I'm workin' on the county farm?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: prison lover food work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 231, "Work-Song" (1 short text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (theme)
cf. "Six Months Ain't Long (subject)
File: ScNF231A
===
NAME: Six O'Clock Bells Ringing: see My Boyfriend Gave Me An Apple (File: Hamm011)
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NAME: Six Questions: see Captain Wedderburn's Courtship [Child 46] (File: C046)
===
NAME: Six Sweethearts, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls courting "six girls all at once." He enjoys it greatly until he starts to forget the girls' names. The girls unite to pay him back. He dreams of what else they might do -- and of being a Turk and marrying all of them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: courting betrayal dream
FOUND_IN: Ireland Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H605, p. 340, "The Six Sweethearts" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 128, "Six Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2704
File: HHH605
===
NAME: Sixpence: see Sing a Song of Sixpence (File: GGGSiSo6)
===
NAME: Sixteen Come Sunday: see Seventeen Come Sunday [Laws O17] (File: LO17)
===
NAME: Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I'm sixteen thousand miles from home... To think that I should humble down To come out here stone-breaking." The new immigrant is met by a local contractor, who flatters him and tricks him into a menial job. (The singer prefers to join the army)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955
KEYWORDS: emigration work
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 67, 131-132, "Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 72-73, "Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 32-33, "Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 195, "Sixteen Thousand Miles" (1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 122-124, "I'm Sixteen Thousand Miles from Home" (1 text)
File: MA067
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NAME: Sixteen Tons
DESCRIPTION: "Now some folks say a man is made out of mud, But a poor man's made out of muscle and blood." The singer describes the hard life in the mines -- and the debts incurred. "St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store."
AUTHOR: Merle Travis
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (recorded by author)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes poverty mining
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Lomax-FSNA 154, "Sixteen Tons" (1 text, 1 tune)
Green-Miner, p. 279-281, "Two by Travis": p. 295, "Sixteen Tons"(1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TON16
Roud #15162
RECORDINGS:
George Davis, "Sixteen Tons" (on GeorgeDavis01)
Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons" (Capitol 3262, 1955)
B. B. King, "Sixteen Tons" (RPM 451, n.d.)
Merle Travis, "Sixteen Tons" (Capitol 48001, 1947; on 78 album "Folk Songs of the Hills", Capitol AD 50; rec. 1946) 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "'31 Depression Blues" (lyrics)
File: LoF154
===
NAME: Sixteen Years, Mama
DESCRIPTION: The daughter says that at 16 it is time she was wed. The mother offers her daughter a sheep instead; daughter would weep. Mother offers a cow; daughter would frown. Mother offers a man; daughter says "as soon as ever you can... Married I'd like to be"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (IRClare01,Voice15)
KEYWORDS: dialog mother bargaining animal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #12942
RECORDINGS:
Mary Delaney, "Fourteen Last Sunday" (on IRTravellers01)
Mikey Kelleher, "Daughter, Dearest Daughter" (on IRClare01)
Tom Lenihan, "Sixteen Years, Mama" (on Voice15)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" (subject)
cf. "Lazy Mary" ("She Won't Get Up") (subject)
NOTES: This is "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" without the whistle.
The last verse of Mikey Kelleher's "Daughter, Dearest Daughter" on IRClare01 is the "father and mother in yonder bed do lie" verse from "Blow the Candle Out" [Laws P17]. - BS
File: Rc16YrsM
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NAME: Sixty Years Ago: see Twenty Years Ago (Forty Years Ago) (File: R869)
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NAME: Skeppet Bernadotte
DESCRIPTION: Swedish capstan shanty. Translation - Ship sails from Cardiff, runs into various mechanical problems and bad weather and are left with nothing but bread to eat.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty ship technology food
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 469-470, "Skeppet Bernadotte" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
File: Hugi469
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NAME: Skeptic's Daughter, The: see Rosedale Waters (The Skeptic's Daughter) (File: R601)
===
NAME: Skerry's Blue-Eyed Jane
DESCRIPTION: The singer rides up to a "lovely maid," and asks if she will come away with him. She refuses; she loves another. He says her love is married. She says he lies, and if her love were here, he would slay the singer. The singer reveals that he is her love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation reunion disguise
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H737, pp. 309-310, "Skerry's Blue-Eyed Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3816
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
File: HHH737
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NAME: Skew Ball: see Skewball [Laws Q22] (File: LQ22)
===
NAME: Skewbald Black, The: see The Horse Wrangler (The Tenderfoot) [Laws B27] (File: LB27)
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NAME: Skewball [Laws Q22]
DESCRIPTION: (Skewball) and one or more other horses run a race; the crowd favors another animal. (Half way through the course), Skewball tells his rider he will win. He pushes on to victory (and drinks a toast with his rider)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1784 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B25)
KEYWORDS: horse racing promise
FOUND_IN: US(MW,NE,SE,SO) Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws Q22, "Skewball"
BrownII 136, "Skew Ball" (2 fragments)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 68-70, "Stewball" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 62-64, "The Noble Skewball" (1 partial text plus a British version in a footnote, 1 tune)
Jackson-DeadMan, pp. 102-110, "Stewball" (4 texts, 1 tune, linked to this by the horse's name Stewball though the versions often seem to pick up pieces of other racing songs, notably "Molly and Tenbrooks" [Laws H27])
Darling-NAS, pp. 151-152, "Stewball" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 8, "Squeball" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 395, "Stewball" (1 text)
DT 349, STWBLHOR STWBLHR2
Roud #456
RECORDINGS:
"Bowlegs" [no other name given], "Stewball" (AFS 1863 B4, 1933)
Harold B. Hazelhurst, "Stewboy" (AFS 3143 B3, 1939)
Harry Jackson, "Old Blue Was a Gray Horse" (on HJackson1)
Ed Lewis & prisoners, "Stewball" (on LomaxCD1703)
A. L. Lloyd, "Skewball" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd6)
Pete Seeger, "Stewball" (on PeteSeeger43)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 999[some lines illegible], "Skew Ball" ("Come gentlemen sportsmen I pray listen all"), J. Pitts (London), 1802-1819; also Harding B 11(3533), Harding B 15(289a), Harding B 15(289b), Harding B 15(290a), Firth c.19(78), Firth c.19(79), Harding B 11(73), Firth b.26(236), "Skew Ball"; Harding B 28(274), Harding B 25(1784), Harding B 25(1785), Harding B 6(54), G.A. Gen. top. b.29(24/2) [some words illegible] "Skewball"; Firth b.25(297), Johnson Ballads 1406, 2806 c.18(282), Firth c.26(51), "Scew Ball"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Molly and Tenbrooks" [Laws H27] (plot)
cf. "Little Dun Dee" (plot)
NOTES: This seems to have given rise to a work song fragment, "Old Skubald"; see Darling-NAS, p. 325. - RBW
File: LQ22
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NAME: Skibbereen
DESCRIPTION: A boy asks his father why he left Skibbereen when he is always speaking of it. The father lists reasons: First came the blight. Then the landlord took the land. Then he joined the 1848 rebellion, and had to flee. The boy promises revenge
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Hayward-Ulster)
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion hardtimes landlord exile starvation
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1847/8 - Greatest of several Irish potato famines
1848 - Irish rebellion
FOUND_IN: Ireland Australia Canada(Ont) US(MW)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Hayward-Ulster, pp. 52-53, "Skibbereen" (1 text)
PGalvin, p. 46, "Skibbereen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 163, "Skibbereen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean, pp. 22-23, "Skibbereen" (1 text)
DT, SKIBREEN*
Roud #2312
RECORDINGS:
O. J. Abbott, "Skibbereen" (on Abbott1)
Freddy McKay, "Skibbereen" (on Voice08)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)" (subject: The Potato Famines) and references there
NOTES: The 1848 rebellion was the result of many factors. One was hunger -- the potato blight drove food prices beyond the reach of common people; in the end, millions died and many more went to America. For details, see the notes to "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)."
Another was land hunger; the preceding decades had forced many Irish smallholders off their lands while allowing the rich (usually English) to enlarge their holdings. By the time of the blight, most Irish were working holdings of five acres or less; there simply wasn't enough land for the population.
The image of the landlord squeezing the tenants is also accurate. Though landlords in Ireland were always unusually ruthless, things got worse in the post-blight period. The landlords preferred raising stock, with a prospect for selling it, to helping peasants (who supplied only labor). The poor laws of the period helped them clear off the land: A peasant who appealed for food because his crops were taken by the blight automatically lost his lease. Between 1851 and 1857, the number of smallholdings in Ireland fell by about a sixth.
Finally, revolution was in the air; almost all of Europe (except England) was in turmoil.
Unfortunately for the rebels, the very factors that caused the revolt meant that it had no strength and could gain no foreign help. And England, with a stable government at home and all her enemies distracted, could deal with the rebellion at its leisure.
I don't know that it's significant that Skibbereen is described as the rebel's home place. But it's interesting, since Skibbereen was where O'Donovan Rossa founded the Phoeni National and Literary Society -- which, despite its name, was an armed rebel group -- though this was abouta decade after1848. (For this story, see Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 131. For Rossa, see the notes to "Rossa's Farewell to Erin.") - RBW
File: PGa046
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NAME: Skin and Bones (The Skin and Bones Lady)
DESCRIPTION: "There was an old woman, all skin and bones." The old woman decides to go to church. At the church she encounters a (rotting?) corpse. She asks the (parson/clock), "Will I be thus when I am dead." When told "Yes," she screams and/or dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1810 (Gammer Gurton's Garland, revised edition)
KEYWORDS: death questions
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Belden, pp. 502-503, "Old Woman All Skin and Bone" (3 texts)
Randolph 69, "The Skin-and-Bone Woman" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownIII 142, "Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more; the "B" text seems to have picked up a "Worms Crawl In" chorus)
Brewster 53, "The Skin-and-Bone Lady" (1 short text, clearly this though it lacks the "skin-and-bone" reference)
Eddy 86, "The Skin-and-Bone Lady" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 11-12, "[Skin and Bones]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 20, "Skin and Bones" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 167, "The Skin-And-Bone Lady" (2 texts)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 180-181, "The Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Linscott, pp. 44-46, "Old Woman All Skin and Bone" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie-Oxford2 293, "There was a lady all skin and bone" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #92, pp. 86-88, "(There was a lady all skin and bone)"
Chase, p. 186, "The Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, p. 586, "Old Woman All Skin and Bone" (1 text, 1 tune) 
DT, SKINBONE
Roud #501
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singer, "There Was an Old Woman All Skin and Bones" (on USWarnerColl01)
File: R069
===
NAME: Skin the Goat's Curse on Carey
DESCRIPTION: Skin the Goat says before he sails that he will give Carey, the informer, his curses, such as, "by some mistake may he shortly take A flowing pint of poison." Skin the Goat promises that "when I die, my old ghost will sit on his bed-post"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: transportation humorous betrayal curse Ireland
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Chronology of the Phoenix Park murders (source: primarily Zimmermann, pp. 62, 63, 281-286.)
May 6, 1882 - Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke are murdered by a group calling themselves "The Invincible Society."
January 1883 - twenty seven men are arrested.
James Carey, one of the leaders in the murders, turns Queen's evidence.
Six men are condemned to death, four are executed (Joseph Brady is hanged May 14, 1883; Daniel Curley is hanged on May 18, 1883), others are "sentenced to penal servitude," and Carey is freed and goes to South Africa.
July 29, 1883 - Patrick O'Donnell kills Carey on board the "Melrose Castle" sailing from Cape Town to Durban.
Dec 1883 - Patrick O'Donnell is convicted of the murder of James Carey and executed in London (per Leach-Labrador)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 85, "Skin the Goat's Curse on Carey" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Phoenix Park Tragedy" (subject: the Phoenix Park murders) and references there
NOTES: For another broadside on the same subject see
Bodleian, Harding B 26(605), "'Skin the Goat's' Letter" ("You jolly old boys just hold your noise"), unknown, n.d.
Zimmermann p. 62: "The Phoenix Park murders and their judicial sequels struck the popular imagination and were a gold-mine for ballad-writers: some thirty songs were issued on this subject, which was the last great cause to be so extensively commented upon in broadside ballads."
Zimmermann p. 284: "'Skin the Goat' was the nickname of James Fitzharris, the cabman who drove the murderers of Lord Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke to and from Phoenix Park. He was sentenced to penal servitude for 'conspiracy' because he refused to identify his passengers." - BS
File: Zimm085
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NAME: Skinner on the Dock
DESCRIPTION: The singer leaves Lockport (on the Erie Canal), curses out Skinner, and describes some of his crewmates on the canal boat.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy canal moniker
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1825 - Erie Canal opens (construction began in 1817)
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 466-467, "Skinner on the Dock" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Legman in Randolph-Legman posits that these are the "lost" first verses of "The Erie Canal."  - EC
File: RL466
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NAME: Skinner, Skinner, You Know the Rule
DESCRIPTION: "Skinner, skinner, you know the rule, Eat your breakfast and curry your mule, Curry your mules and curry them right, Let's get on the big boat next Saturday night." The singer complains about (work? and) his troubles with his woman
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad animal
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, p. 23, "Skinner, Skinner, You Know the Rule" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9999
NOTES: A "skinner" is a teamster. - RBW
File: MWhee023
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NAME: Skinner's Song
DESCRIPTION: "I looked at de sun and de sun looked high, I looked at de captain and he wunk his eye, And he wunk his eye, and he wunk his eye, I looked at de captain and he wunk his eye." "I looked at de sun and de sun looked red... de captain... he turned his head."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: work
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 230, "Skinner's Song" (1 short text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "On the Road Again" (form)
NOTES: A skinner is a teamster. Scarborough explains that "The Negro is not eager to work overtime." Understandable, since he certainly wouldn't get paid for it!
Scarborough's fragment doesn't look quite like anything else I've seen, but it feels as if it's derived from "On the Road Again," or something in the "Joseph Mikel" family. One of those railroad/rambler songs, anyway. - RBW
File: ScaNF230
===
NAME: Skinniest Man I Ever Knew, The: see The Thinnest Man (File: PHCFS175)
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NAME: Skip to My Lou
DESCRIPTION: Various stanzas, all with the chorus "Skip to my Lou, my darling": "Lost my partner, what'll I do?" "I'll get another one prettier than you!" "Flies in the buttermilk, shoo shoo shoo!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So)
REFERENCES: (16 citations)
Randolph 516, "Skip to My Lou" (5 texts plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 395-397, "Skip to my Lou" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 516A)
Hudson 152, p. 300, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
Fuson, pp. 166-169, "Skip to My Lou" (1 very full text)
Cambiaire, pp. 131-132, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 167-168, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 30, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 294-295, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 99, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 60, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 193-199, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune, plus figures)
Darling-NAS, pp. 256-257, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 90, "Skip To My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 288, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 389, "Skip To My Lou" (1 text)
DT, SKIPLOU
Roud #3593
RECORDINGS:
James Crase, "Skip to My Lou" (on MMOKCD)
Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, "Skip To My Lou" (Crown 3188/Montgomery Ward 3025, 1931)
Pete Daley's Arkansas Fiddlers, "Skip to My Lou" (Continental 3012, n.d.)
Uncle Eck Dunford, "Skip to my Lou, My Darling" (Victor 20938, 1927; on CrowTold01)
Georgia Organ Grinders, "Skip To My Lou, My Darling" (Columbia 15415-D, 1929)
Spud Gravely & Glen Smith, "Skip to My Lou" (on HalfCen1)
John D. Mounce et al, "Skip to My Lou" (on MusOzarks01)
Ritchie Family, "Skip to My Lou" (on Ritchie03)
Pete Seeger, "Skip to My Lou" (on PeteSeeger08, PeteSeegerCD02) (on PeteSeeger17) (on PeteSeeger32) (on PeteSeeger21) (on PeteSeeger22) (on PeteSeeger23)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Waltz the Hall" (lyrics)
File: R516
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NAME: Skipper Dan
DESCRIPTION: The Tiger is ready to go out. The singer on Sunday tries to borrow money from Skipper Dan. Skipper Dan refuses because the singer would get drunk. The singer replies that he will sell his rags to get money for liquor.
AUTHOR: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: drink sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 97, "Skipper Dan" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Lehr/Best: "No doubt more verses exist." - BS
File: LeBe097
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NAME: Skipper Tom
DESCRIPTION: "I scarce been in bed three ticks of the clock When at me back door I heard a loud knock." Skipper Tom wakes the singer because he has a big fish on the line. The big fish gets away. They go closer to shore to get smaller fish.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: fishing sea ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 143-144, "Skipper Tom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9967
File: Pea143
===
NAME: Skipper's Wedding, the
DESCRIPTION: "Good neighbours, I'm come for to tell you, Our skipper and Moll's to be wed; And if it be true what they're saying, Egad, we'll be rarely fed." The available foods are listed, as are the odd characters who will be present
AUTHOR: Words: William Stephenson ?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay); Stephenson died 1836
KEYWORDS: marriage party music food
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  24-26, "The Skipper's Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR024 (Partial)
Roud #2620
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blythesome Bridal" (theme) and references there
cf. "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" (tune)
File: StoR024
===
NAME: Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Sogsta Berg (The Pretty Maid Climbs the Highest Mountain)
DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty. A maid's her betrothed sails away. After (three) years she agrees to marry another. He returns just after the wedding, she laments it is too late, she thought he was dead. He says he will be soon, write her a farewell and kills himself.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty. A maid's her betrothed sails away. After (three) years she agrees to marry another. He returns just after the wedding, she laments it is too late, she thought he was dead. He says he will be soon, write her a farewell and kills himself. (In some versions it is the bride who commits suicide.)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty sailor separation suicide wedding return reunion betrayal
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 545-548, "Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Sogsta Berg" (2 texts-Swedish & English, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Out In the Moonlight (I Will Love Thee Always)" (plot)
cf. "Susannah Clargy [Laws P33]" (plot) and references there
File: Hugi545
===
NAME: Skye Boat Song (Over the Sea to Skye)
DESCRIPTION: "Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing... Carry the lad that's born to be king Over the sea to Skye." The singer grieves over the dead of Culloden, and wishes Bonnie Prince Charlie a safe escape
AUTHOR: Words: Harold Boulton / Music: Annie MacLeod
EARLIEST_DATE: 1884 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: Jacobites ship escape sea royalty
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1720-1788 - Life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie"
1722-1790 - Life of Flora MacDonald
1745-1746 - '45 Jacobite rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie
Apr 16, 1746 - Battle of Culloden. The Jacobite rebellion is crushed, most of the Highlanders slain, and Charlie forced to flee for his life.
Jun 28-29, 1746 - Aided by Flora MacDonald, and dressed as her maidservant, Charles flees from North Uist to Skye in the Hebrides.
Sep 20, 1746 - Charles finally escapes to France
FOUND_IN: Britain US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Brewster 79, "Speed, Bonnie Boat" (1 fragment plus a copy of Boulton's original text)
DT, SKYEBOAT
Roud #3772
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(121) "Over the Sea to Skye," Poet's Box (Dundee), c.1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Flora MacDonald's Lament" (subject)
cf. "Twa Bonnie Maidens" (subject)
NOTES: It is ironic to note that, while this song had a certain vogue as an art piece, the only traditional collections seem to have been in North America.
Susan Maclean Kybett, in _Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography of Charles Edward Stuart_ (Dodd, Mead, 1988), pp. 232-233, makes an interesting observation: Although the song says that Flora (MacDonald) will keep watch over Charlie during the passage: "It was actually the Prince who kept watch by Flora's weary head during their storm-tossed crossing of the sea of the Hebrides. Having been up the last two nights sewing, she fell asleep while Charles sang Jacobite songs, such as 'The Twenty-ninth of May' from the rising of 1715 and 'The King Shall Enjoy His Own Again....'" - RBW
File: Brew79
===
NAME: Slack Away Yer Reefy Tayckle: see Let Go the Reef Tackle (File: Doe165)
===
NAME: Slack Your Rope: see The Maid Freed from the Gallows [Child 95] (File: C095)
===
NAME: Slago Town: see Sligo Town (File: CW145)
===
NAME: Slaney Side, The: see The Tan-Yard Side [Laws M28] (File: LM28)
===
NAME: Slapander-Gosheka
DESCRIPTION: "What would my mother say to me, if I should come home with Big Billy? Chorus: Slappoo, slapeter, slap-an-der-go-she-ka, slappoo! I'd tell her to go and hold her tongue, for she did the same when she was young." Other verses have similar rhymes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: shanty nonsense
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, pp. 98-99, "Slapander-Gosheka" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9168
File: Harl098
===
NAME: Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain, The [Child 230]
DESCRIPTION: Fragment: A fair lady is heard lamenting for her slain husband, "John Hately, the Laird of Mellerstain." She laments that her ladies were not men who could have stood by him as he was killed.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1828
KEYWORDS: death mourning murder
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jan 3, 1603 - Murder of "Johne Haitlie of Millstanes" by "William Home hes guidfather."
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Child 230, "The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain" (1 text)
Roud #4020
File: C230
===
NAME: Slav Ho: see Saltpetre Shanty (Slav Ho) (File: Colc097)
===
NAME: Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last
DESCRIPTION: "Slavery chain done broke at last, broke at last, broke at last... Gonna praise God till I die." The former slave describes praying to God for relief from pain and oppression. God has answered with mighty armies; "He gave me liberty."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953
KEYWORDS: slave slavery freedom religious
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-CivWar, p. 41, "Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p. 102, "Slavery Chain" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 299, "Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last" (1 text)
Roud #15257
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" (tune)
File: SCW41
===
NAME: Sledburn Fair
DESCRIPTION: "I'd oft heard tell of this Sledburn fair, And fain would I gan thither." The singer's parents let him go there with Nell. They arrive at Sledburn, find an alehouse, and settle down to enjoy a fine dinner.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (de la Mare)
KEYWORDS: horse travel
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #79, "Sledburn Fair" (1 text)
Roud #2543
NOTES: By his placement and notes, de la Mare seems to think this a honeymoon song, but there is little direct hint of this except that the boy and girl go out together for (at least) a day unhaperoned. - RBW
File: WdlM079
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NAME: Sleeping Beauty (Thorn Rose, Briar Rose)
DESCRIPTION: Singing game. "Fair Rosa was a lovely child... Fair Rosa slept a hundred years... A forest grew around her tower... A wicked fairy found her there... A noble prince came riding by... And now she's happy as a bride."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: magic rescue marriage beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H599, p. 12, "Fair Rosa/The Sleeping Beauty" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hammond-Belfast, p. 19, "Fair Rosa" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7889
NOTES: Very common as a folktale, of course, and quite old. In the Grimm collection, it is "Briar-Rose" ("Dornroschen," #50, 1812, from Marie Hassenpflug); Perrault also had a version ("La belle au bois dormant"). The oldest version known is in the Volsung saga; in section 20, Sigurd awakens Brynhild by slicing away her enchanted armor. - RBW
File: HHH599
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NAME: Sleeping for the Flag
DESCRIPTION: "When the boys come home in triumph, brother, With the laurels they shall gain... We shall look for you in vain." The brave man lies dead "underneath the Southern tree." "Sleeping to waken in this weary world no more... Sleeping for the flag you bore."
AUTHOR: Henry Clay Work
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: Civilwar death burial soldier
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 212-213, "Sleeping for the Flag" (1 text)
DT, SLEPFLAG*
File: HCW212
===
NAME: Sleepy Merchant, The
DESCRIPTION: The merchant comes calls for a bed and a girl. She gives him a sleeping drug. The next night, he pours out the drug and sleeps with her, but does not leave the gift he promised. Later, he arrives to find her pregnant and gives her his hand in marriage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The merchant comes to an inn and calls for a bed and a girl. She gives him a sleeping drug, and arises a maiden. The next night, he pours out the drug and sleeps with her, promising her a fine plaid. When he departs, she finds no plaid and curses him. Twenty weeks later, he arrives to find her pregnant. He gives her the plaid and his hand in marriage, and they live happily.
KEYWORDS: sex drugs drink pregnancy trick clothes reunion marriage
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kinloch-BBook II, pp. 4-11, "The Sleepy Merchant" (1 text)
Roud #7164
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Broomfield Hill" [Child 43] (plot)
NOTES: Child mentions this song in his notes to "The Broomfield Hill," but writes it off as "a modern ballad" perhaps based on an Italian story.
I allow the possibility; "The Sleepy Merchant" seems a rather disjointed piece, with the first part being a tale of how the girl tricked the merchant into not sleeping with her (as in "The Broomfield Hill") and the second being your standard seduction-pregnancy-and-return sort of song, as in, e.g. "The Broom of Cowdenknows." But the piece feels more traditional than literary, so I've tentatively included it in the Index even though I've never seen its like. - RBW
File: KinBB02
===
NAME: Sleepytoon: see Sleepytown (File: RcSlepTn)
===
NAME: Sleepytoon (II)
DESCRIPTION: "Cam all my lads that follow the ploo:" the singer tells about the job at Sleepytoon. The foreman wakes you at five for porridge. The farmer's "weel respected" but his wife is an ugly, scowling, "argefying bitch"
AUTHOR: probably Willie Clark (c.1854, according to Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 5" - 25.8.02)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974 (recording, John MacDonald)
KEYWORDS: farming food hardtimes nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #9140
RECORDINGS:
John MacDonald, "Sleepytoon" (on Voice05)
NOTES: Except for the title and general subject matter this seems to me to be entirely unlike "Sleepytown (I)."
The author, according to notes to Voice05, is George Morris. The Musical Traditions Notes attribution says that the song was "popularised on a 78 disc by the late George S Morris of Old Meldrum. (Reg Hall's comment that [George] Morris wrote the piece is incorrect)." My choice, with no information beyond what is in this note, is to follow Musical Traditions Notes. - BS
File: RcSlee2
===
NAME: Sleepytown (I)
DESCRIPTION: Singer, tired of his old job, hires out as a laborer to farmer Adam Mitchell, of Sleepytoon. The farmer's work (no more than ten hours a day, but with strict rules and fines) is described; with the season ended, singer and friends are off to celebrate
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming work worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Greig #102, p. 3, "Sleepy Town"; Greig #123, p. 2, "Sleepytoon"; Greig #127, pp. 2-3, "Sleepytoon"; Greig #133, pp. 2-3, "Sleepy Toon" (4 texts)
GreigDuncan3 356, "Sleepy Toon" (6 texts, 3 tunes)
Ord, pp 225-226, "Sleepytown" (1 text)
ST RcSlepTn (Full)
Roud #3775
RECORDINGS:
J. C. Mearns and friends, "Sleepytoon" [2 verses missing] (on Lomax43, LomaxCD1743)
NOTES: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Scottish workers hired out as contract farm laborers, living in "bothies," barn dormitories. Many "bothy ballads" were composed there, including this one. - PJS
Paul compares this to a wide variety of lumbering songs, which have the same theme of working too hard and then partying the off-season away. The song type is hardly limited to lumbermen; there are, e.g., many Australian shearing songs of the same type. Compare also Scottish songs such as "The Barnyards o Delgaty." - RBW
Greig #124, p. 3: "...there is a good deal of material common to these ploughman ditties" ["Sleepytoon" and "Swaggers"].
GreigDuncan3: "The farm was officially named Christ's Kirk, with Sleepytoon appearing as the title after 1870. Adam Mitchell, named in the song, was farmer from the 1840s to 1858."
GreigDuncan3 has a map on p. xxxv, of "places mentioned in songs in volume 3" showing the song number as well as place name; Sleepytoon (356) is at coordinate (h2-3,v6) on that map [roughly 25 miles WNW of Aberdeen]. - BS
File: RcSlepTn
===
NAME: Sliabh na mBan (Mountain of the Women)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. It is untrue that we fled like cattle on Sliabh na mBan. Had we waited patiently we'd have had support. Few retreated but many died or were imprisoned. If it's true that the French are coming to help the Gael we'll repay the robber Saxon.
AUTHOR: George Sigerson (1836-1925) (translator) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1998 ("The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage rebellion battle Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 23, 1798 - General Sir Charles Asgill disperses a body of United Irishmen assembled on Sliabh na mBan mountain in Tipperary (source: Moylan) 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 103, "Sliabh na mBan" (1 Gaelic text, 1 tune); 104, "Sliabh na mBan" (1 English text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Slievenamon" (subject)
NOTES: The description is from the translation by George Sigerson as Moylan 104, "Sliabh na mBan." 
Zimmermann p. 207: "The original 'Sliabh na mBan' is one of the few traditional songs in Irish inspired by the rising of 1798." 
The ballad is recorded on one of the CD's issued around the time of the bicentenial of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. See:
Aine Ui Cheallaigh, "Sliabh na mBan" (on "The Croppy's Complaint," Craft Recordings CRCD03 (1998); Terry Moylan notes) - BS
This event is obscure enough that I couldn't find mention of it in any of the Irish histories I checked. It was just one of those skirmishes that took place after the 1798 rising had largely collapsed. The one thing that's certain is that the brutal Asgill would not have stopped while there was a live enemy left to kill. - RBW
File: Moyl103
===
NAME: Slieve Gallen Brae
DESCRIPTION: The singer urges the visitor from the city to view Slive Gallen Brae: the old dolmen, the chieftain's graves, the singing linnets, the flowers, the home of Rory Dall, the grave of Cooey-na-gall. He says that bards come from far away to find inspiration
AUTHOR: James O'Kane?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: nonballad home music
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H784, pp. 172-173, "Slieve Gallen Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1420
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of the Roe" (for Cooey-na-Gal) and references there
NOTES: Not to be confused with the emigration song, "[Farewell unto] [Bonnie] Slieve Gallen Braes."
For "Cooey-na-Gal" O'Cahan and Dungiven Priory, see the notes on "The Banks of the Roe." "Rory Dall" is of course the famous blind harper of the O'Cahans. - RBW
File: HHH784
===
NAME: Slieve Gallen Braes
DESCRIPTION: The singer walks out to view the beauties of Slieve Gallen Braes. He recalls walking and hunting in the past near his small farm. "But the rents were getting higher and I could no longer stay So farewell unto you bonny, bonny Slieve Gallen Braes."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Carl Hardebeck in _Gems of Melody: Seoda Ceoil,_ according to OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: Ireland home exile hardtimes poverty emigration
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn-More 9, "Sliav Gallion Braes" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SLIEVGAL*
ADDITIONAL: Bell/O Conchubhair, Traditional Songs of the North of Ireland, pp. 36-37, "Sliabh Gallen's Brae" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1420
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Exiled Irishman's Lament (The Exiles of Erin)" (theme)
File: DTslievg
===
NAME: Slieve Na Mon
DESCRIPTION: Tithes and taxes: "No more they're legal on Slieve na Mon." At Carrickshock we left "the rabble ... in death's cold agony." The accused are freed "by the means of our noble Dan." Soon "tithes no more will oppress the land" "We'll banish Brinswickers"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1832 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: violence trial death farming Ireland political police
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Dec 14, 1831 - Carrickshock, County Kilkenny: Peasants attack tithe process servers, killing at least 13 (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 42, "Slieve Na Mon" (1 text, 1 tune)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(81), "Slieve Na Mon" ("You banished sons of this injured nation"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War and the Carrickshock Riot)
cf. "Sliabh na mBan" (tune)
NOTES: The context is "The Tithe War": O'Connell's Catholic Association was formed in 1823 to resist the requirement that Irish Catholics pay tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland. The "war" was passive for most of the period 1823-1836, though there were violent incidents in 1831 (source: _The Irish Tithe War 1831_ at the OnWar.com site)
Zimmermann p. 18: "In the early 1830's a veritable state of insurrection prevailed in Leinster and Munster, when the military and the police were called in to assist in collecting the tithes or seizing and auctioning the cattle or crops of those who refused to pay."
Zimmermann's description of the "Battle of Carrickshock": "a proctor tried to serve tithe processes at Carrickshock, County Kilkenny; he was accompanied by a police force of thirty-seven men. A party of peasants armed with scythes, spades and pitchforks attacked them. The proctor and at least twelve policemen were killed. The peasants charge with murder were skilfully defended by O'Connell, and the trial was abandoned."
The broadside description of the battle is graphic: "Who could desire to see better sport, To see them groping among the loughs, Their sculls all fractured, their eye-balls broken, Their great long noses and ears cut off." 
Zimmermann states that a version was noted "from oral tradition c. 1900." - BS
For the overall history of the Tithe War, as well as more information on this song, see the notes to "The Battle of Carrickshock." The name "Brinswickers," i.e. "Brunswickers," was used as a generic term in Ireland for non-Catholics -- even though, ironically, the Germans were Lutherans, while the English were Anglican and the Ulster immigrants were Presbyterian (Reformed); neither of the latter two sects are, technically, Protestant. (A distintiction, I concede, of greater significance to non-Catholics than Catholics.) 
There was a song by Charles Kickham called "Slievenamon"; I assume it was inspired by this. - RBW.
File: Zimm042
===
NAME: Slievenamon
DESCRIPTION: "Two thousand men for Ireland, on splendid Slievenamon." They are a sign to every village and to Irish in America and "every clime." They put to shame "the blushless recreant." Push on "till every mountain in the land be manned like Slievenamon!"
AUTHOR: Dr. Campion (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 2000 (Moylan)
KEYWORDS: rebellion battle Ireland nonballad patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 23, 1798 - General Sir Charles Asgill attacks and disperses United Irishmen on Sliabh na mBan Mountain, Tipperary (source: Moylan)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 105, "Slievenamon" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sliabh na mBan" (subject)
NOTES: This event is obscure enough that I couldn't find mention of it in any of the Irish histories I checked. It was just one of those skirmishes that took place after the 1798 rising had largely collapsed. The one thing that's certain is that the brutal Asgill would not have stopped while there was a live enemy left to kill. - RBW
File: Moyl105
===
NAME: Slighted Girl, The: see Lonesome Dove (File: Br3262)
===
NAME: Slighted Soldier, The: see King David had a Pleasant Dream [Laws O16] (File: LO16)
===
NAME: Slighted Suitor, The
DESCRIPTION: A rich merchant's daughter has many suitors; she rejects them. One wins her heart, but she says, "I have no desire a single life to part."  He courts another. She begs him to change his mind. He rejects her in turn. (She warns against doing as she did)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection abandonment
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H159a/b, pp. 396-397, "The Slighted Suitor" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
OLochlainn-More 34, "The Merchant's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4715
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rejected Lover" [Laws P10] and references there
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann speculate that this might be a version of "The Rejected Lover" (Laws P10). The plots are indeed the same. But I see no points of contact in the lyrics; I think they are separate songs. - RBW
File: HHH159
===
NAME: Slighted Sweetheart, The: see Farewell, Sweetheart (The Parting Lovers, The Slighted Sweetheart) (File: R756)
===
NAME: Sligo Shore: see Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19] (File: LK19)
===
NAME: Sligo Town
DESCRIPTION: "O once I knew a pretty little girl When pretty little girls were but few; Ofttimes I've rolled her in my arms All over the fog and dew." After all this courting/rolling, he writes to ask if she will marry him. He wishes he were in Sligo with a girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967
KEYWORDS: courting love separation sex
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Combs/Wilgus 180, p. 145, "Slago Town" (1 text)
Roud #558
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Foggy Dew (The Bugaboo)" [Laws O3] (theme, floating lyrics)
NOTES: This piece is obviously derived from "The Foggy Dew," but it has picked up enough twists of its own that it deserves to be classified separately (though Roud, of course, lumps them). - RBW
File: CW145
===
NAME: Sling the Flowing Bowl
DESCRIPTION: "Come come my jolly lads the wind's abaft, Brisk gales our sails shall crowd...." "Then sling the flowing bowl. Fond hopes arise the girls we prize Shall bless each jovial soul." The sailors boast of their prowess while on patrol
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Journal from the Chile)
KEYWORDS: ship sailor nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 51-52, "Sling the Flowing Bowl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2015
NOTES: Huntington's versions are from American whalers, but it is clear that this song was originally sung by British sailors, probably from naval vessels, as it refers to patrolling the coast of Spain. - RBW
File: SWMS051
===
NAME: Slippery Stane, The: see The Slippy Stane (File: GrD3666)
===
NAME: Slippy Stane, The
DESCRIPTION: "There's aye a muckle slippery stane at ilka body's door." If your neighbor slips "lend a hand to lift him up"; you may find yourself in his condition some day. "Kings and emperors hae fallen"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: virtue nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig 111, p. 2, "The Slippy Stane"; Greig 121, p. 2, "The Slippy Stane"  (2 texts)
GreigDuncan3 666, "The Slippy Stane" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #6092
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(125, "The Slippy Stane" ("Wade canny through this weary world"), Poet's Box (Dundee), c.1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Laddie Wi' the Tarry Trews" (tune, per GreigDuncan3)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Slippery Stane
NOTES: Greig has Hamilton Nimmo (1836-1892) as the author. On the other hand, GreigDuncan3 cites _National Choir_ 1.339: "The song is said there to be by James Hendrie and to have been first published in _The People's Friend_ in 1875." - BS
In either case, it sounds to me as if it might have been inspired by a meditation on Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, with perhaps a little of Luke 14:7-14 thrown in. - RBW
File: GrD3666
===
NAME: Sloan Wellesley: see The Drowning of Young Robinson (File: HHH585)
===
NAME: Slob Song, The
DESCRIPTION: The ship is loaded and heads to Forteau. It is caught in slob ice at Launce Amour cove. A rescue boat fastens a line from shore to the ship. While four men and three women hold the line the crew pull the ship to shore. Crew and cargo are safely landed.
AUTHOR: Leo O'Brien
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Leach-Labrador)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Leach-Labrador 73, "The Slob Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LLab073 (Partial)
Roud #9981
NOTES: Forteau Bay and L'Anse Amour are on the lower Labrador coast on the Strait of Belle Isle. - BS
File: LLab073
===
NAME: Sloop John B, The: see The John B. Sails (File: San022)
===
NAME: Smart Schoolboy, The: see The Fause Knight Upon the Road [Child 3] (File: C003)
===
NAME: Smashing of the Van (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Two Fenian leaders, Kelly and Deasy, have been imprisoned; a party of Fenians led Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, stop and break into the prison van and free them. But the rescuers kill a man, and in the end are executed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: prison Ireland rebellion execution death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sep 11, 1867 - Kelly and Deasy are arrested and rescued a week later by 30 Fenians
Nov 24, 1867 -  Three of the ambushers are hanged (source: _The Manchester Martyrs_ on the Gorton Local History Group site)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
PGalvin, pp. 50-51, "The Smashing of the Van" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 14, "The Manchester Martyrs" or "The Smashing of the Van" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 72, "The Smashing of the Van" or "The Three Manchester Martyrs" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3028
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Allen, Larkin and O'Brien" (subject: The Manchester Martyrs)
cf. "God Save Ireland" (subject: The Manchester Martyrs)
cf. "The Manchester Martyrs (I)" (subject: The Manchester Martyrs)
NOTES: Ben Schwartz tells me that this is sung to the tune of "The River Roe," but I'm not sure which song of that name is meant.
The Fenians were a group of Irishmen (many of them living in America) whose purpose was to liberate Ireland. Whatever one thinks of their goal, their history was almost comic; they kept trying goofy ideas and nothing ever worked.
This incident is typical: in 1867, the Fenians were talking rebellion, though leader James Stephens (for whom see "James Stephens, the Gallant Fenian Boy") was trying to call things off. But the British continued to arrest potential rebels.
On September 11, two men were captured in Manchester and charged with loitering. An informer pointed out that they were Thomas J. Kelly, who had been proclaimed chief executive of the Fenian's Irish Republic (see Robert Kee, _The Bold Fenian Men_, being volume II of _The Green Flag_, pp. 31, 33), and one Captain Timothy Deasy (Kee, p. 45).
Kelly and Deasy probably were not in danger of losing their lives, but they were "rescued" anyway on September 18. It wasn't that hard; the police wagon was unescorted. It was, after all, in England, not Ireland.
In the course of the  "rescue," a police sergeant, Charles Brett, was killed. Kee reports that one Peter Rice (who later escaped, with Kelly and Deasy, to America) fired the fatal shot. Few other sources definitively list a name, but he is obviously the prime suspect.
The British, in their usual inept way in in such matters, hauled in a large crowd of Irish folk found near Manchester. Five men were put on trial for killing Brett. Rice was not among them. One of the five, Maguire, had no involvement in the rescue at all and was later given full pardon.
The other four prisoners, William Allen, Edward Condon, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien, had taken part in the attack but almost certainly had not fired the fatal shot. Nonetheless they were convicted of the murder (officially Allen was regarded as the one who had done the shooting). Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien were executed on November 24 (so Kee, p. 47; Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 147; the article _The Manchester Martyrs_ on the Gorton Local History Group site says November 23).
The three men came to be known as the "Manchester Martyrs."
A rescue attempt failed, but was bloodier than the first try: This time, the Fenians managed to kill a dozen bystanders.
Even though the blood had been shed by the Irish, and the British had followed the law throughout (under both British and American law, one engaged in a felony in which a murder is committed is guilty of the murder even if one is not a murderer), both sides blamed the other, increasing Anglo-Irish tensions. The incident also increased rebel recruiting.
The description of the van being "smashed" is literally accurate: The van was locked, and Brett had the keys, so the Irish pounded on it with rocks to get it open. This failed, and Brett refused to yield, and so the fatal shot was fired. It is not known whether the bullet was aimed at Brett, or at the van's lock, or merely intended to intimidate; in any case, it proved fatal.
The trial of the martyrs also gave the Irish a memorable phrase: Edward Condon (the one raider who was condemned but *not* hung, because he was an American citizen) shouted out "God save Ireland!" during the proceedings, and it inspired the song of that name.
The British, having watched all these acts, plus another bungled rescue of a prisoner (Richard O'Sullivan Burke, for whom see the notes on "Burke's Dream" [Laws J16]) which led to the death of twelve English citizens and the maiming of dozens more (Kee, pp. 49-51), were hardly in a mood for pity. But the Gladstone government, which came to power in 1868, released most Irish political prisoners in 1871.
For other examples of Fenian bungling, see the notes to "A Fenian Song (I)" and "The British Man-of-War." - RBW
File: PGa050
===
NAME: Smashing of the Van (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Ten Sinn Fein men smash a prison van on Glasgow's High Street to free a prisoner. The police arrest the Sinn Fein men and Father McRory "a mere clergyman." Counsellors McKane and Sandymen defend the accused and the verdict is "Not Guilty"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: violence crime trial clergy police IRA
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 4, 1921 - Attempted rescue of Frank Carty from a police van in Glasgow (source: Coogan)
FOUND_IN: ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 65, "The Smashing of the Van" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3028
NOTES: The song is about a failed rescue attempt of IRA commander Frank Carty while he was being transported in a police van to Duke Street prison. Inspector Johnson was killed. Father McRory, among others, was charged but all the accused were acquitted. "The trial, and in particular Father McRory's arrest, fanned sectarian tensions to white heat. However, the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921 helped to defuse the situation." (source: Tim Pat Coogan, _Wherever Green is Worn_ (2001, New York), p. 243).
McBride: "Fr. McRory, mentioned in this song was from the 'Parish', the rural area that lies north of Bunrana Town, hence the popularity of this short song in Inishowen."
McBride's text begins "It was on the twenty fourth of May nineteen and twenty one"; _The Times_ of London supports Coogan's date of May 4, 1921 (source:"Irish Outrage in Glasgow Police Inspector Murdered”, _The Times_, May 5, 1921, p. 7, Issue 42712, column D, Copyright 1921 _The Times_, Article CS119083173, Copyright 2002 The Gale Group). - BS
The index to Calton Younger's _Ireland's Civil War_ (Fontana Press, 1979) reveals that there were two Frank Cartys of interest during this period, one from Sligo, one from Wexford. Frank Carty of Wexford was an IRA brigade adjutant (Younger, p. 343), but it is Carty of Sligo who is meant here. Interestingly, Younger has far more references to Cary of Wexford than Carty of Sligo,mentioning this rescue only in passing. And most of the other histories I checked don't mention Carty at all.
I would not hasten to accept that Father McRory was a "mere" clergyman. I assume this is Joseph McRory (1861-1945), archishop of Armagh from 1928 and cardinal from 1929 (so his entry in the _Oxford Companion to Irish History_); he is said to have been "reluctant to condemn IRA activities." And he later inflamed the troubles with a statement that Protestant churche were not part of the true church of Christ (see John A. Murphy, _Ireland in the Twentieth Century_, Gill and Macmillan, 1989, p. 159). - RBW
File: McB1065
===
NAME: Smeara, Na (The Blackberries)
DESCRIPTION: Singer, "with a wish for every woman": loved "a dark-eyed damsel" while "herding horny cows"; was engaged to Peg O'Doherty who "vanished with a vagabond"; hit on a widow who "nearly scalded me." He loves a girl among the blackberries at harvest time.
AUTHOR: J.P. Craig [in Gaelic] (source: Tunney-SongsThunder)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1948 (Tunney-SongsThunder)
KEYWORDS: courting seduction sex humorous nonballad rake  harvest food
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-SongsThunder, pp. 9-11, "The Blackberries" (1 text)
File: TST009
===
NAME: Smiggy Maglooral
DESCRIPTION: Smiggey marries a maid (or fights in Bull Run). The maid winds the clock and milks the cow "from the chimney top." She has a cramp (or gets the croup) and "they brought her to with some turtle soup." She meets Mose, they come to blows and home she goes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1865 (broadside, Bodleian LOCSinging as203350)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonsense disease injury animal food fight
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 71, "I Have a Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor, p. 143, "Smiggy Maglooral" (1 text)
ST OCon143 (Partial)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 18(711), "Smiggey McGuirrel", H. De Marsan (New York) , 1861-1864 [same as LOCSinging as203350]
LOCSinging, as203350, "Smiggey McGuirrel", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(711)]
NOTES: Broadside LOCSinging as203350 and Bodleian Harding B 18(711): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon143
===
NAME: Smiling Potatoes, The
DESCRIPTION: "Sweet roots of Erin! we can't do without them; No tongue can express their importance to man ... Then here's to the brave boys that plant them and raise them."
AUTHOR: Rev. John Graham (source: Croker-PopularSongs)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1829 (Graham, _Poems, Chiefly Historical_, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: farming food Ireland nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 61-65, "The Smiling Potatoes" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dear Creatures, We Can't Do Without Them" (tune, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
cf. "The Potato" (subject)
NOTES: The potato was, of course, both blessing and curse to Ireland. Blessing, because it could help replenish the soil depleted by growing cereal grains, and blessing, because by the 1840s, it was nearly the sole source of nutrition for three million of Ireland's eight million people. And curse, because -- by the 1840s, it was nearly the sole source of nutrition for three million of Ireland's eight million people.
For another song in praise of the crop, see "The Potato." For a (quite inadequate) description of the horrors caused by the potato blight, see "Over There (I - The Praties They Grow Small)."
File: CPS061
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NAME: Smith at Waterloo: see The Plains of Waterloo (I) [Laws N32] (File: LN32)
===
NAME: Smith's a Gallant Fireman, The
DESCRIPTION: "Rab, the village smith .... He's knicht o' war an' lord o' love an' king o' a the shire man At feast or fray, by nicht or day the smith's a gallant fireman." He is praised for honour, heart, strength, courage and generosity.
AUTHOR: John Harrison (1814-1889) (source: Greig)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Greig)
KEYWORDS: virtue nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #73, p. 2, "The Smith's a Gallant Fireman" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 461, "The Smith's a Gallant Fireman" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #5899
NOTES: Greig: The song was written in 1862. - BS
File: GrD3461
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NAME: Smithfield Mountain: see Springfield Mountain [Laws G16] (File: LG16)
===
NAME: Smokey Mountain Bill
DESCRIPTION: "Smokey Mountain Bill... drunk a lot of gin -- That's what caused him all the trouble he got in." Bill, a moonshiner, shoots a revenuer. Imprisoned by the sheriff, he escapes to the mountains, where he and his still live a happy life
AUTHOR: Carson Robison
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Frank Luther & Carson Robison)
KEYWORDS: death drink humorous
FOUND_IN: Canada(West)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 102-104, "Smokey Mountain Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ102 (Partial)
Roud #4544
RECORDINGS:
Frank Luther & Carson Robison, "Smoky Mountain Bill" (Brunswick 412, 1930)
File: FJ102
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NAME: Smoothing Iron, The: see Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron (File: ShH82)
===
NAME: Smuggler's Song (II), The
DESCRIPTION: "When the blink o' the day is fading fast... O, that is the hour for to flash the oar." The singer talks of the troubles at sea, sneers at the German royalty, then waxes at length about the joys when they come back to shore.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord); reportedly published 1844
KEYWORDS: ship sea home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, p. 386, "Smuggler's Song" (1 text)
Roud #3795
NOTES: It's hard to determine what this is about. Although the title refers to smuggling, the song itself has no such references. We have only two facts: Ord reports that the song was published in 1844 in the _Ayrshire Wreath_, and then there is the reference to "the German" (it doesn't say King, or Kaiser, but said German lives in a palace).
My best guess, on that basis, is that the song refers to Napoleon's blockade of Great Britain -- the "Continental System," proclaimed in Berlin on November 21, 1806, in which the German states were reluctantly included. For details on this, see "The Ports are Open."  - RBW
File: Ord386
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NAME: Smuggler's Song (Watch the Wall While the Gentlemen Go By)
DESCRIPTION: "If you wake at midnight, and hear a horses's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind or looking in the street..." The child is assured that all is well, and told not to repeat what she hears. If she keeps quiet, she may be rewarded and will hear no lies
AUTHOR: Words: Rudyard Kipling?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Puck of Pook's Hill)
KEYWORDS: nonballad horse animal police
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry (introduction to) H494, p. 127, "Hugh Hill, the Ramoan Smuggler" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: There is something peculiar going on here. On its face, this was published by Rudyard Kipling as "Smuggler's Song" in _Puck of Pook's Hill_ (1906). It occurs at the end of the chapter "Hal o' the Daft" (which, curiously, is tied up with Sir Andrew Barton). The text from _Puck_ was set to music by Peter Bellamy, and has been recorded, e.g., by John Roberts and Tony Barrand.
But Lani Herrmann reports that Isla Cameron also recorded the song -- presumably well before Bellamy set a tune. Sam Henry, in 1933, quoted the first stanza without attribution, as if it were a folk song. Could Kipling have taken a traditional scrap and turned it into a full poem? If ever he did such a thing, the most likely place for him to publish it would have been in _Puck_.
Internal evidence of the poem isn't much help. There is a reference to "King George's Men," but of course one George or another was on the English throne from 1714 to 1830.
It does remind me a bit of the situation in Ireland in the eighteenth century, as groups such as the Whiteboys tried to control oppression by the landlords. Robert Kee, on p. 26 of _The Most Distressful Country_ (being Volume I of _The Green Flag_), write that "At times these secret societies held certain areas of Ireland largely at their mercy. The warning to children: 'The fairies will get you' once had sinister undertones.'" - RBW
File: HHH494n
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NAME: Smugglers of Buffalo, The
DESCRIPTION: "It was on the sixth of April as I lay on my bed, A-thinking of the sorrows that crowned my aching head," that the singer, a smuggler, was taken into custody. He will go home to his girl in Sandusky when released, and hopes she never learns what happened
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (collected from John W. Green by Walton)
KEYWORDS: crime sailor prison freedom
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 116-117, "The Smugglers of Buffalo" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
J. W. Green, "Smugglers of Buffalo" (Library of Congress LOC 2296 B2, 1938; on WaltonSailors; the words differ slightly from the lyrics in Walton/Grimm/Murdock although they come from the same recording)
File: WGM116
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NAME: Snagtooth Sal
DESCRIPTION: The singer happily remembers "Walking down through Laramie with Snagtooth Sal." "But she turned me down completely" -- by dying (!). He will die for love, and gives instructions for his own burial
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy love death separation burial
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Fife-Cowboy/West 106, "Snagtooth Sal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 405-406, "Snagtooth Sal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11096
NOTES: The Fifes regard this as traditional -- but it is noteworthy that they had to get their tune from the Roger Wagner Chorale! To me, it looks like a cowboy adaption of something along the lines of "The Butcher Boy" or "The Pinery Boy." - RBW
File: FCW106
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NAME: Snake Baked a Hoecake
DESCRIPTION: "Snake baked a hoecake, left the (frog) to mind it. Frog he went a-nodding, lizard came and stole it. 'Bring back my hoecake, you long-tailed ninny!'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910 (Brown; reportedly found in Washington Irving's notebooks in 1817)
KEYWORDS: animal theft thief food
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 185, "Snake Baked a Hoecake" (3 short texts)
SharpAp 238, "Snake Baked a Hoe-cake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3622
File: Br3185
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NAME: Snake in the Grass
DESCRIPTION: A young man vigorously courts the singer, then asks how much money her father has promised as a dowry. When she answers "None," he vanishes. She warns, "But well a day, alas, alas, 'Mong roses sometimes there's a snake in the grass."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: courting abandonment dowry money
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 819, "Snake in the Grass" (1 text)
Roud #7434
File: R819
===
NAME: Snake River Massacre, The
DESCRIPTION: "A cruel massacre took place Of late upon the plains; 'Tis hard to describe the place -- It was upon Ward's train." A small band is attacked by Indians, and overwhelmed; two boys escape, but the rest -- men and women -- are slaughtered
AUTHOR: Nicholas Lee?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1854 (Salem, Oregon Statesman)
KEYWORDS: murder battle Indians(Am.)
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 20, 1854 - Alexander Ward's party of 21 is assailed and slaughtered. The only survivors are the boys Newton and William Ward
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, p. 138-139, "(The Snake River Massacre)" (1 text)
File: Burt138
===
NAME: Snakes
DESCRIPTION: "Reginald Alfonsus Bungy had a scientific mind, From his earliest childhood was he taxidermically inclined." In his field expeditions he encounters a drunken rambler who advises him to go to the nearest pub, where he has seen many (illusionary) snakes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: drink humorous animal recitation
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 232-234, "Snakes" (1 text)
File: MA232
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NAME: Snap Poo: see Snapoo (File: EM379)
===
NAME: Snapoo
DESCRIPTION: Three German (air) officers ask the landlady if she has a daughter who will sleep with them. The mother says her daughter is much too fine; the girl protests she is not.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Colcord)
KEYWORDS: bawdy landlord sex mother soldier
FOUND_IN: Australia Canada US(So,SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Cray, pp. 379-384, "Snapoo" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph-Legman I, pp. 308-311, "Snapoo" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Colcord, pp. 110-111, "Mademoiselle from Armetieres" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 73-74, "Snap Poo" (1 text)
Roud #4703
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (tune) and references there
cf. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" (approximate tune; theme)
cf. "Brave Marin (Brave Sailor)" (approximate tune)
cf. "Little Red Train"
cf. "Johnny the Sailor (Green Beds)" [Laws K36] (plot)
NOTES: For the relationship of this item to "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," see the notes to that song. - RBW
File: EM379
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NAME: Snow Covered Face, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer, riding in the mountains, finds the body of a cowboy frozen in the snow. He finds a letter, bidding farewell to his mother and asking the finder to take it to her. Singer hopes the cowboy may have found heaven "for his work is all done here below"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Patt Patterson & Lois Dexter)
KEYWORDS: corpse death dying mother cowboy
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Patt Patterson & Lois Dexter, "The Snow Covered Face" (on Conqueror 7756, 1931; on WhenIWas2)
File: RcTSVF
===
NAME: Snow Dove: see The Butcher Boy [Laws P24] (File: LP24)
===
NAME: Snow Gull
DESCRIPTION: Scots Gaelic. The singer (a girl who has lost her love?) asks the gull where her love sleeps. She describes the dead all together in the land under the waves.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Kennedy-Fraser)
KEYWORDS: death separation bird
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Hebr))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy-Fraser I, pp. 84-87, "The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves" (2 texts with literal and loose English translations, 1 tune)
NOTES: This is one of those thoroughly dubious pieces. Reading the notes in Kennedy-Fraser, it's not clear that this song ever existed in Gaelic as it stands. And it did not exist in English until she published it. And yet, Gordon Bok sings an English version so different from the Kennedy-Fraser text that oral tradition (if only in Bok's family) seems to have taken over the translated text.
When in doubt, even extreme doubt, we index -- so here the song is. - RBW
File: KFrI084
===
NAME: Snow Is on the Ground, The: see Remember the Poor (File: Wa161)
===
NAME: Snow It Melts the Soonest, The
DESCRIPTION: "Oh the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing... And when a woman tells me that my face she'll soon forget, Before we part, I wad a croon, she's fain to follow't yet." The singer declares analogies to why parting need not be forever
AUTHOR: Words probably by Thomas Doubleday
EARLIEST_DATE: 1821 (Blackwood's Magazine)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 120-121, "The Snow It Melts the Soonest" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR120 (Full)
Roud #3154
File: StoR120
===
NAME: Snuffer's Grace
DESCRIPTION: "Here's my mull and tak' a sneeshin, Dodsake gie yer nose a creeshin; Ye're welcome sid ye snuff a groat, Yestreen I snuffed a pun and mair o't The feint a grain o't made me sneeze In fact it isna worth the cairryin', If it warna jist to scare flees."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: drugs nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 567, "Snuffer's Grace" (1 short text)
Roud #6038
NOTES: The current description is all of the GreigDuncan3 entry. - BS
File: GrD3567
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NAME: Snuffer's Toast, The
DESCRIPTION: "Here's to the nose, and up it goes, And all that it contains, It clears the eyes and clogs the nose, And clarifies the brain; And it makes the lugs to crack; And oh it is a capital thing For ony man to tak'. Amen."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: drugs nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 566, "The Snuffer's Toast" (1 fragment)
Roud #6037
NOTES: The current description is all of the GreigDuncan3 entry. - BS
File: GrD3566
===
NAME: So Dear Is My Charlie to Me (Prince Charlie)
DESCRIPTION: The lady bids her listeners to lament for her, "for so dear is my Charlie to me." She tells how she turned down many nobles because of her love for Charlie. She admits that he is Catholic and she Presbyterian, but she will accept Rome for Charlie
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1890 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.11(146))
KEYWORDS: love courting separation Jacobites
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1720-1788 - Life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie"
1745 - The (last) Jacobite Rebellion
1746 - Prince Charlie's rebellion crushed at Culloden. Charlie spends months fleeing the English. One of those who helps him escape is Flora MacDonald
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H533, p. 292, "So Dear Is My Charlie to Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 162-163, "Prince Charlie Stuart" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3099
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Tunney, "Prince Charlie Stuart" (on IRPTunney01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.11(146)[useless for determining text, but see NOTES], "Charlie Stuart" ("Come join in lamentation queens and princesses"), R. McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849-1889; also Harding B 15(40b), 2806 c.14(129)[beginning and ending verses illegible], "Charlie Stuart"; Firth b.26(4) [end missing], "Flora Macdonald's Lament for her Charlie" ("Come join in lamentation you queens and you princes") 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. ""Flora's Lament for Her Charlie" (subject)
cf. "Flora MacDonald's Lament" (subject)
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(146), "Charlie Stuart" ("Come join in lamentation queens and princesses"), R. McIntosh (Glasgow), 1849-1889 large image could not be downloaded but the small image could be magnified enough to verify that the broadside is for this ballad.
As for the Flora Macdonald text of Bodleian Firth b.26(4) there is no question but that this particular text is an example of "So Dear Is My Charlie to Me."
This is not the same song as either Hogg 92, _Jacobite Relics of Scotland_, "The Lament of Flora Macdonald" or "Flora's Lament for Her Charlie."
SHenry H533, p. 292, Tunney-StoneFiddle pp. 162-163, and the Bodleian broadsides listed are all clearly the same ballad and seem likely to have all sprung from the same broadside.
As for Flora MacDonald, here is part of the commentary to broadside NLScotland RB.m.168(178): "Flora MacDonald, born on South Uist in 1722, is now the most famous heroine of the Jacobite cause and one of its most romantic stories. Bonnie Prince Charlie was fleeing Scotland after his Culloden defeat. When the situation became perilous on the Isle of Skye, Flora was persuaded to participate in her foster-father, Clanranald's, plan to help Charles' escape." - BS
The text of this song in Sam Henry looks troubled; the first verse doesn't fit particularly well with the last two. And there are so many songs on this theme that it's hard to tell which are the same and which distinct.
Some equate this with the various "Flora MacDonald's Laments." This has problems both textual and historical. There is no indication, in the Henry text, that the singer is Flora MacDonald; it's just some woman of the many who desired the handsome "Young Pretender." 
Historically, I know of no indication that Charlie had any sort of actual relationship with Flora MacDonald. His only real liaison, during the period of the Forty-Five, was with Clementina Walkinshaw, who would become the mother of his only child. It appears that he was faithful to her during this period.
For background on Flora MacDonald, see in particular "Flora MacDonald's Lament."  For the broader context, see "Culloden Moor." - RBW
File: HHH533
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NAME: So Early in the Morning: see Sailor Likes His Bottle-O, The (File: Hugi055)
===
NAME: So Handy
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic line: "Handy, me boys, so handy!" The song tells of how the good crew came together: "You've got your advance and to sea you must go, Handy... Around Cape Horn through frost and snow, Handy..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1869
KEYWORDS: shanty ship
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 12, "So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 76, "So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 142-143, "So Handy, My Boys, So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 479-484, "Handy, Me Boys," "Hand O'er Hand" (3 texts, 3 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 357-361]
Sharp-EFC, XLII, p. 48, "So Handy" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doe012 (Partial)
Roud #814
RECORDINGS:
Richard Maitland, "So Handy, Me Boys, So Handy" (AFS, 1939; on LC27)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Handy, Me Girls
File: Doe012
===
NAME: So Handy, My Boys, So Handy: see So Handy (File: Doe012)
===
NAME: So Heave Away
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. "The Gustav's loaded down with grain. So heave away! heave away!" (x2). "The Gustav is a fine big ship, we're bound away on a damn long trip." More verses about drink and other unprintable topics.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Hugill)
KEYWORDS: shanty drink ship
FOUND_IN: Germany Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 319-320, "So Heave Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Shine the Light" (Salvation Army hymn) (tune)
NOTES: According to Hugill, the crew of a German barque _Sterna_ took a Salvation Army hymn "Shine the Light" and altered the words to use as a shanty. Hugill and his crew, on board the _Gustav_ further altered the song into this form. - SL
File: Hugi319
===
NAME: So It's Pass
DESCRIPTION: "So, it's pass around the grog, my boys." Give me the girl I love, toast Queen Victoria, and "when our money is all gone We'll go to sea for more." Chorus: "Here's to him that merry be ... March onward, my brave boys"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sex drink nonballad shanty sailor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1837-1901 - Reign of Queen Victoria
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-NovaScotia 56, "Chanty Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, CAPEVIEW
ST CrNS056 (Partial)
Roud #1798
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
See, See, The Cape's In View
NOTES: Creighton-NovaScotia has this as a chanty but says "it looks more like a sailor's adaptation of a soldier's song." - BS
File: CrNS056
===
NAME: So Like Your Song and You
DESCRIPTION: "I wandered in the radiant dawn O'er glistening fields of dew, And listening to the lark's sweet song, I thought, my love, of you." No matter what the singer does or wherever (he) goes, it reminds (him) of (the girl's) song
AUTHOR: Words: Andrew Doey
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love music nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H508, pp. 226-227, "So Like Your Song and You" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7976
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Singing Bird" (tune)
File: HHH508
===
NAME: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You: see So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (File: Arn165)
===
NAME: So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh
DESCRIPTION: "I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again." The singer tells of the difficulties of life (in the dust bowl). At last he prepares to depart: "So long, it's been good to know you (x3)... And I've got to be drifting along."
AUTHOR: Woody Guthrie
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes home rambling clergy dustbowl
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Arnett, pp. 164-165, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 92, "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" (1 text [dustbowl  version], 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 205-206, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" (1 text [dustbowl version], 1 tune) 
DT, SOLONGIT
Roud #15161
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (on PeteSeeger17) (on PeteSeeger41) (on PeteSeeger27); "So Long" (on PeteSeeger23)
NOTES: There are actually two versions of this, Woody's original dustbowl text and the popularized Weavers version. Since Woody wrote both, however, I think we can list them under one entry. - RBW
Make that three versions. Woody also wrote one (recorded in 1944) with lyrics pertaining to World War II. - PJS
Incidentally, if it be questioned whether this is a folk song, I think it is, at least in Minnesota, where they used it as a theme for a popular children's television show. My generation learned it by non-folk means, but it's started to pass on to younger generations.
It appears that Guthrie's original version of this is based largely on actual events of the so-called 'Black Easter" of 1935. For details of this storm and how it affected Guthrie and others near him, see Ed Cray's _Ramblin' Man_, p. 69fff. - RBW
File: Arn165
===
NAME: So Now We've Gained the Victory
DESCRIPTION: "So now we've gained our victory ... the bantam cock shall never crow on the plains of Waterloo." We'll send him to a far off island and not let him return again. A health to King George and Wellington. Boney will always remember Waterloo.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (recording, Freddie James, RQMS Williams, G.W. Greening and Harry Hawkins?)
KEYWORDS: war exile nonballad patriotic Napoleon
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #12928
RECORDINGS:
Freddie James, RQMS Williams, G.W. Greening and Harry Hawkins?, "So Now We've Gained the Victory" (on Voice16)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (tune, according to Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 16" - 13.9.02:)
NOTES: For details on the Battle of Waterloo, see e.g. the notes to "The Plains of Waterloo (II)" [Laws J3]. It's a bit funny to see King George toasted. Forget the fact that his personal rule cost England the American colonies and a bunch of wars. By the time of Waterloo, he was incurably insane, and his son George IV was regent. - RBW
File: RcSNWGTV
===
NAME: So Selfish Runs the Hare (Horn, Boys, Horn)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, so selfish runs the hare, and so cunning runs the fox, Who would think this little calf would grow to a noble ox? To live among the briars, and run among the thorns, And die the death his father did with a large pair of horns? Horns, boys, horns...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: animal hunting drink
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 38, #2 (1993), pp. 60-61, "So Selfish Runs the Hare" (1 text plus many additional stanzas, 1 tune; the source is not clearly stated)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Wearing of the Horns
File: So38n2b
===
NAME: So Soon This Evenin' (Axe Timing Song)
DESCRIPTION: ""So soon this evenin', hey now, mmmm, So soon this evenin', oh Lord, Back in the bottom... Just hewin' down timber... Done had my dinner... Don't feel no better...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (collected from David Tippett by Jackson)
KEYWORDS: work prison
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Jackson-DeadMan, pp. 228-229, "So Soon This Evenin'" (2 texts, 1 tune)
NOTES: Jackson says that the lyrics of this "are not songs in themselves"; rather, they were used to establish the rhythm for the axes used in cutting trees. But it seems to me that, if sea chanteys for timing are songs (which they clearly are), then this is a song -- or, at least, pieces like it were worth preserving to help future tree-cutters. - RBW
File: JDM228
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NAME: So We Hunted and We Hollered: see Three Jolly Huntsmen (File: R077)
===
NAME: Sober Quaker, The: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
===
NAME: Social Band, The
DESCRIPTION: "Bright angels on the water, Hovering by the light; Poor sinner stand in the darkness And cannot see the light. I want (Aunty Mary/Brother David) to go with me, I want Aunty Mary for to go with me (x2), To join the social band."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Allen/Ware/Garrison)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Allen/Ware/Garrison, p. 105, "The Social Band" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12061
NOTES: The first and second half of this sound so different that I suspect they come from different sources, with the first half probably from a "literary" hymn. But I cannot identify it. - RBW
File: AWG105
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NAME: Social Thistle and the Shamrock, The
DESCRIPTION: "The Scotch and Irish friendly are, their wishes are the same, The English nation envy us, and over us would reign ... Now to conclude and end my song, may we live long to see, The Thistle and the Shamrock, entwine the olive tree"
AUTHOR: Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Madden's _Literary Remains of the United Irishmen of 1798_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: England Ireland Scotland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 108, "The Social Thistle and the Shamrock" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Henry Joy McCracken (I)" (information about the author)
NOTES: The thistle represents Scotland and the shamrock represents Ireland. See, for example, "The Sprig of Shillelah." - BS
Although the Scots are descended from the Irish (or, more correctly, Highland Gaelic culture is descended from Irish; the genes may tell a different story), I suspect this could only have been written by an Ulster Protestant. And Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) was one of the most liberal and high-minded men in Ireland at the time; for his background, see the notes to "Henry Joy McCracken (I)." - RBW
File: Moyl108
===
NAME: Solas Market
DESCRIPTION: "Me sell me akee, go Solas Market, Not a quatty would sell, Send me out, I go Solas Market, Not a quatty would sell. Why not a light, not a bite, Not a quatty would sell. Why not a light, not a bite, Not a quatty would sell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (recorded from Edith Perrin)
KEYWORDS: commerce food hardtimes
FOUND_IN: West Indies
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #16397
RECORDINGS:
Edith Perrin, "Solas Market" [excerpt?] (on USWarnerColl01)
NOTES: There appear to be only two sources for this: The Edith Perrin recording made by the Warners, called "Solas Market," and a text in Jekyll's _Jamaican Song & Story_ entitled "Linstead Market." Apart from the details of place, the choruses are similar, but there is almost no text to let us know what the songs are about (unless the Warners had more from Edith Perrin which they did not publish).
To make matters worse, the Perrin recording is very noisy -- almost unintelligible. It supplies the text quoted in the description, but I have had to reconstruct based in part on the Warner notes, and it must be considered uncertain. - RBW
File: RcSolMar
===
NAME: Sold in Hell: see Wicked Polly [Laws H6] (File: LH06)
===
NAME: Sold Off to Georgy
DESCRIPTION: "Farewell, fellow servants, O-ho! o-ho! I'm gwine 'way to leave you... I'm gwine to leave de ole county... I'm sold off to Georgy." The singer bids farewell to home, parents, master, wife, and child; he confesses his heart is breaking
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1824 (Printed in "The Valley of Shenandoah" by George Tucker)
KEYWORDS: slavery slave family separation work home
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, p. 206, "Sold Off to Georgy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, pp. 94-95, "Hilo! Hilo!" (1 text, fragmentary, but apparently related to this song)
NOTES: "Georgy" is, of course, Georgia. - RBW
File: SBoA206
===
NAME: Soldier and his Lady, The: see Trooper and Maid [Child 299] (File: C299)
===
NAME: Soldier and the Lady, The: see One Morning in May (To Hear the Nightingale Sing) [Laws P14] (File: LP14)
===
NAME: Soldier and the Sailor, The
DESCRIPTION: The sailor "has a good mind to pray For the rights of all people and the wrongs of all men." He accuses the lawyers of "tak[ing] your hard earnings and giv[ing] you hard laws"; the ministers for condemning you to hell, and the farmers for high prices
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1902 (Petrie)
KEYWORDS: political curse
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,Lond),Scotland(Aber)) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 277-278, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
GreigDuncan3 685, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Kennedy 239, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson 94, "The Soldier's Prayer (The Soldier and the Sailor)" (1 short text, 1 tune)
ST Doe277 (Partial)
Roud #350
RECORDINGS:
Archie Lennox, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (on FSB8)
Brigid Tunney, "The Soldier and the Sailor" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.14(226), "The Soldier and the Sailor"[title incomplete] ("As a sailor and a soldier was walking one day"), unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "'Pleasant and Delightful" (meter)
cf. "Ye Gentlemen of England (I)" [Laws K2] (theme)
NOTES: This appears to exist in two forms -- one, exemplified by Doerflinger, condemning various wrongs; the other, found in Kennedy, just calling for a good time (praying for beer and the like). There are, however, enough similarities that I would consider them still one song. - RBW
File: Doe277
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NAME: Soldier Boy (I), The: see My Parents Reared Me Tenderly (I -- The Soldier Boy) (File: HHH466)
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NAME: Soldier Boy (II), The: see The Faithful Sailor Boy [Laws K13] (File: LK13)
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NAME: Soldier Boy (III), The (The Texas Volunteer)
DESCRIPTION: "I volunteered to Texas, I will have you all to know, A long road to travel, I never travelled before, Oh, my home, sweet home!" The singer recalls the sorrow his parents suffered when he left. The song ends with verses from "The Roving Gambler."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Cambiaire)
KEYWORDS: separation home travel floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cambiaire, pp. 20-21, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text)
Roud #11410
NOTES: This is a peculiar song, with an opening that seems to be known only from the Rakes family of Tennessee (mother and daughter: Mrs. J. P. Rakes and Lola Rakes). The interesting point is that the second half is entirely from "The Roving Gambler (The Gambling Man)" [Laws H4] -- but that it is well-integrated with the first half, about a fellow cajoled into volunteering to go to Texas. Why was he so induced? There is no hint. I suspect that we have only a fragment of the song of the Volunteer to Texas, missing both the beginning and the end. - RBW
File: Cmb020
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NAME: Soldier Boy (IV): see The Sailor Boy (I) [Laws K12] (File: LK12)
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NAME: Soldier Boy [Laws O31]
DESCRIPTION: A large company of Irish soldiers must depart for India. One of them is explaining to his sweetheart that he must leave her. She (offers to come with him and is refused. She) tearfully bids him good luck and farewell.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: love farewell India soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws O31, "Soldier Boy"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 80, "Soldier Boy" (1 text)
SHenry H244, pp. 295-296, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moylan 171, "The Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 814, SOLDBOY
Roud #1917
NOTES: Laws, relying on Greenleaf/Mansfield's broken version, locates the war in India. Henry (and its copy, Moylan) refers to India as a past war and has the soldiers leaving to fight the Russians.
Moylan: "As John Moulden suggests, the song is probably about the Crimean war, given the mention of Russians ..." - BS
The mention of Russians also allows for campaigns in Afghanistan -- which was, in fact, a nation created by the British to separate India from Russia. The British and Russians never really fought in Afghanistan, but there were times when conflict seemed possible. And there were plenty of other problems between Russia and Britain (mostly over Ottoman territory, but also, e.g., during the Russo-Japanese war when a Russian fleet attacked British fishermen).
But there is at least one other advantage to the Crimean War, and that is the soldier's refusal to let the girl come with him. This was, of course, a common theme in song, and one that predates the Crimean War. But it became particularly important around the time of the Crimean War, when the British military started excluding women in any capacity. Arthur Herman, _To Rule the Waves_, p. 453 footnote, notes that female sailors were "a regular feature of old navy life... one or two disguised themselves as men and served as ordinary ratings. All were expected to pitch in even in battle." He notes that two women even applied for medals for their service at Trafalgar, but were turned down -- "the precedent would prompt 'innumerable applications' from other women veterans." - RBW
File: LO31
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NAME: Soldier Boy for Me (A Railroader for Me)
DESCRIPTION: "I would not marry a doctor; He's always killing the sick."  "I would not marry a blacksmith...." The girl praises the soldier/railroader: "O soldier boy, o soldier boy, O soldier boy for me; If ever I get married, A soldier's wife I'll be"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (published by C. B. Ball)
KEYWORDS: soldier marriage courting railroading technology humorous rejection
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 461-465, "A Railroader for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 374-377, "The Guerrilla Boy" (4 texts, 1 tune; the second of two texts filed as "C" is this song)
Randolph 493, "The Railroader" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 373-375, "The Railroader" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 493)
BrownIII 5, "Miss, Will You Have a Farmer's Son" (1 text, probably edited so the girl wants a California Boy and then again so she wants a Southerner, but too similar in style to file separately); 17, "I Wouldn't Marry" (7 text (some short) plus 6 excerpts, 1 fragment, and mention of 5 more, of which ""F" and the fragments "G" and "I" belong here)
SharpAp 272, "Soldier Boy for Me" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 68, "Soldier Boy for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 215, "A Railroader for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-RailFolklr, p. 465, "A Railroader for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Logsdon 21, pp. 136-139, "The Buckskin Shirt" (1 text, 1 tune, a strange composite starting with "The Roving Gambler (The Gambling Man) [Laws H4]), breaks into a cowboy version of "Soldier Boy for Me (A Railroader for Me)," and concludes with a stanza describing the happy marriage between the two)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 170, "(I wouldna have a baker, ava, va, va)" (1 short text, of this type but perhaps not this song)
Silber-FSWB, p. 343, "Daughters Will You Marry" (1 text)
cf. Kinloch-BBook  IV, pp. 14-15 (no title) (1 text, beginning, "Awa wi' your slavery hireman," probably not this song but based on the same idea; Roud #8152)
ADDITIONAL: cf. _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 42, #1 (1997), p, 72-73, "Maedli, Witt Do Heiere? (Young Girl, Will You Marry?)" (1 text, 1 tune, a Pennsylvania Dutch analog to the "Daughter Will You Marry?" type of song)
ST R493 (Full)
Roud #1302
RECORDINGS:
 Logan English, "A Railroader for Me" (on LEnglish01)
May Kennedy McCord, "The Railroader" (AFS 5301 A2, 1941; on LC61)
Pete Seeger, "Daughter Will You Marry" (on PeteSeeger11)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (theme)
cf. "The Husbandman and the Servingman" (theme)
cf. "The Plooman Laddie (I)" (theme)
cf. "Jinny Go Round and Around" (plot)
cf. "Fond of Chewing Gum" (floating verses)
cf. "The Bonnie Mason Laddie" (theme, lyrics)
NOTES: It will be observed that the preferred occupation in this song can be almost anything -- and the rejected occupations can truly be anything at all. Cohen, p. 464, compares eight texts. All of them list famer as one of the occupations, anmd six list blacksmith, but there are 11 other occupations mentioned in one or another text. - RBW
C. B. Ball published this piece in 1907, but it's hard to believe he actually wrote it (at least in that year); the diverse collections by Belden (collected 1910!) , Randolph and Sharp clearly imply that it is older. - (PJS), RBW
Cohen notes that the Ball text is the first to mention railroads; it may be that Ball adapted an older song to the railroads. There is, however, one interesting side note: Laura Ingalls Wilder, _By the Shores of Silver Lake_, chapter 6, quotes a "railroad man" version. If Laura actually heard the song then, we could date the "railroad" versions to 1879. But, of course, Laura was writing not-quite-autobiography, and writing it more than fifty years later. So that's not a very good indication of date. - RBW
File: R493
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NAME: Soldier Boy with Curly Hair, The: see The Last Fierce Charge [Laws A17] (File: LA17)
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NAME: Soldier Bride's Lament, The: see The Lowlands of Holland (File: R083)
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NAME: Soldier from Missouri, The [Laws A16]
DESCRIPTION: A dying soldier sends a message to his home in Kansas. Having become a rebel at the urging of his neighbors and sweetheart; he regrets not following his mother's cautious advice
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: soldier death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws A16, "The Soldier from Missouri"
Randolph 213, "A Soldier from Missouri" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 203-205, "A Soldier from Missouri" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 213A)
DT 365, SOLDMISS
Roud #2206
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Kansas Line
NOTES: Neither Randolph nor Laws mentions the fact, but Cohen considers this a parody of "Bingen on the Rhine." - RBW
File: LA16
===
NAME: Soldier Maid, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer, a maiden, runs away from her parents and enlists as a soldier/sailor. She proves highly successful. Sent home to recruit, a woman falls in love with the "soldier boy." The other woman betrays her secret; the woman is cashiered
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (GreigDuncan1)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Singer enlists as a (drummer/sailor) (and fights "with the Noble Duke of York at the seige of Valenciennes"). Her "fingers neat and small" makes her the best drummer. She sleeps with the men but remains "a maiden all the while," Sent as a guard to the Tower of London a girl falls in love with her, she reveals her secret which the girl betrays to the regiment. She is given a bounty by the queen for her courage, marries and teaches her husband to drum, and would enlist again "if the (Queen/Duke) be short of men"
KEYWORDS: soldier sailor love disguise trick cross-dressing betrayal war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24-July 28, 1793 - Siege of Valenciennes by the Allies including the British under the Duke of York (source: Campaigns in the Online Encyclopedia site "Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica")
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland,England(Lond,South)) Ireland Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
SHenry H497, p. 326, "The Drummer Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greig #104, p. 2, "The Soldier Maid" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan1 182, "The Soldier Maid" (6 texts, 6 tunes); 183, "The Female Soldier" (1 fragment)
Ord, p. 311, "The Soldier Maid" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 346-347, "The Soldier Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SAILMAID* SOLDMAID
ST DTsoldma (Full)
Roud #226
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Female Drummer" (on HCox01)
Mary Ann Haynes, "The Female Drummer" (on Voice11)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(132), "The Female Drummer" ("A maiden I was at the age of sixteen"), W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(2338), Harding B 11(1187), Harding B 11(1188), Firth c.14(165), Firth c.14(166), Firth c.14(168), Harding B 11(970), Harding B 17(93b), Harding B 11(969), Harding B 11(2505), Harding B 16(93c), 2806 c.16(67), Harding B 20(240)[some words illegible], "The Female Drummer"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks o' Skene" (plot)
cf. "The Drum Major (The Female Drummer)" (plot)
cf. "Lauchie" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Handsome Young Sailor
When I Was a Fair Maid
The Drummer Girl
NOTES: The [long] description is from broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.17(132). In Mary Ann Haynes's version on Voice11 her secret is revealed when she is wounded on the battlefield and she would enlist again "If our old queen was to go short and never want of men." The queen is a character in all versions (the broadsides are almost identical to each other) but not as an indication there is no king. Possibly this is a side reference to one of King George III's bouts of "madness" (porphyria). 
Yates, Musical Traditions site _Voice of the People suite_ "Notes - Volume 11" - 11.9.02 cites broadsides from c.1655 to 1689, predating the Siege of Valenciennes. Between 1689 and 1793 the Musical Traditions notes that "Roy Palmer ... [reports] there was indeed a female drummer at Valenciennes by the name of Mary Ann Talbot (1778 - 1808). In 1809 Talbot was the subject of a book The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot."
GreigDuncan1 seems to me a minor change to two lines of "The Soldier Maid." - BS
Ben Schwartz originally described his texts of "The Female Drummer" as separate from "The Soldier Maid." As the above makes clear, the song evolved heavily over time -- e.g. the localiation to Valenciennes. I consider "The Female Drummer" a special case of "The Soldier Maid," though, and have lumped accordingly.
This has proved very popular with folk revival singers. It doesn't seem to have been quite as popular in tradition, though by no means rare (the notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list only fifteen traditional texts, mostly from Grieg, but many Pop Folk recordings).
Valenciennes was one of the great border forts Louis XIV used to protect from invasions from the Netherlands. The chronology here is confusing, however: It was in July 1656 that the Prince de Conde (at that time serving the Spanish) forced the Vicomte de Turenne (then a French officer) to give up the siege of Valenciennes. But Oliver Cromwell did not committ English troops to the fight (on the side of the French) until 1657. I wonder if the Siege of Valenciennes referred to in the song might not be some other engagement, perhaps during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Incidentally, there are historical records of women running off to join the army and navy. Arthur Herman, _To Rule the Waves_, p. 224, tells of a woman (unnamed) who fought at La Hogue (1692) aboard the _St. Andrew_ and was later invited to meet the queen. Gorton Carruth, _The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates_, p. 149, says that one Lucy Brewer served on the U. S. S. _Constitution_ during the War of 1812 under the name "Nicolas Baker." (The book gives no other useful details). According to David Davies, _A Brief History of Fighting Ships_, Carroll & Graf, 2002, p. 166, reports that a woman served on the French ship _Achille_ at Trafalgar; she had enlisted to be near her husband, and was freed by the British after the ship was captured.
There are fairly extensive records of female soldiers in the American Civil War. At least two books on the subject have been written: Lauren Cook and Deanne Blanton's _They Fought LIke Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War_, which I have not seen, and Bonnie Tsuie, _She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War_(Twodot, 2003). A few even became officers:  Cuban immigrant Loreta Janeta Velazquez reportedly served as "Lt. Henry Buford" from 1861 until discovered in 1863, though many of the stories about her are self-reported and dubious. Tsui, p. 29, even reprints a woodcut of her in uniform, with a mustache and beard. (I must admit to finding this account pretty unreliable.) The Confederates even deliberately commissioned one female officer, Sally Louisa Tompkins -- though she was commissioned to allow her to run a hospital. 
Tsui profiles several of these disguised soldiers, but by no means all -- a woman named Mollie Bean fought in the 47th North Carolina regiment, and was used as a major character in Harry Turtledove's historical science fiction story _The Guns of the South_.
Tsui, p. 1, states that "Scholars today estimate that about 250 women joined the Southern troops and that up to 1,000 women may have enlisted in both the Confederate and Union armies." I do not know the basis for this estimate -- it sounds as if it might just be a case of "There's one in every regiment!" Though in fact that would give a somewhat higher figure for the Federals. Based on the statistical totals in Frederick Phisterer's _Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States_1883; (I use the 2002 Castle Books reprint), the Union armies eventually mustered the equivalent of about 1830 regiments of volunteers, plus 130 regiments of Black troops, 30 regiments of regulars, and about 50 regiments of soldiers from Confederate states. That's roughly two million men in arms. So it was really a case of "There's one in every brigade."
It's interesting to note how "folkloric" some of these women's stories sound. For example, Tsui, pp. 8-9, says that Sarah Emma Edwards ran away from home at fifteen to avoid being married, and at twenty she enlisted in a Michgan regiment as Franklin Thompson (Tsui, p. 10), though she served primarily as a medical attendant rather than a front line soldier. She also fell in love with at least one of her officers (pp. 17-18). Later on, she would desert (p. 20). Must have been quite the character....  - RBW
File: DTsoldma
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NAME: Soldier of the Cross, A
DESCRIPTION: "I am a soldier of the cros, A follower of the lamb, I shall not fear to own his cause Nor blush to speak his name." "Sure I must fight if I would reigh, Increase my courage, Lord...." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad soldier
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 86, "A Soldier of the Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5028
File: ChFRA086
===
NAME: Soldier Rode From the East to the West, A: see Trooper and Maid [Child 299] (File: C299)
===
NAME: Soldier Traveling from the North, The: see Trooper and Maid [Child 299] (File: C299)
===
NAME: Soldier, Soldier, Marry Me: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
===
NAME: Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me
DESCRIPTION: The girl asks the soldier to marry her. He says that he lacks suit, shoes, whatnot. She runs off to the craftsmen and fetches him everything he mentions. Now well-equipped, he tells her that he already has a wife at home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903
KEYWORDS: courting lie request rejection soldier dialog
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England(West),Scotland(Bord)) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Randolph 65, "Soldier, Soldier, Marry Me" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Eddy 89, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me" (1 text plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
BrownIII 7, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text plus 2 excerpts and mention of 3 more)
Brewster 96, "Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me" (1 text)
SharpAp 90, "Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 254-257, "Soldier, Soldier" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 78, "Soldier, Will You Marry Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, p. 61, "The Gallant Soldier" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 30-31, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 305, "Soldier, Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 109, pp. 224-225, "Dutchman, Dutchman, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text)
JHCox 159, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 344, "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me" (1 text)
DT, SOLDMARR*
Roud #489
RECORDINGS:
Colin Keane, "Soldier, Soldier" (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me" (on NLCR10)
Russ Pike, "Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" (AFS, 1941; on LC02)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Soldier Will You Marry Me" (Columbia 15589-D, 1930)
File: R065
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NAME: Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me: see Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me (File: R065)
===
NAME: Soldier, The: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?: see Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42] (File: LN42)
===
NAME: Soldier's Epitaph
DESCRIPTION: "Born in North Carolina, Raised in Tennessee, Worked like hell in Georgia, Died in Germinee."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: death work
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 396, "Soldier's Epitaph" (1 short text)
Roud #11755
File: Br3396
===
NAME: Soldier's Farewell, The: see Fare You Well, My Darling (File: R736)
===
NAME: Soldier's Joy
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune with verses; "I am my mama's darling boy...." "Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine...." "Fifteen cents for the morphine, 25 cents for the beer/Fifteen cents for the morphine, gonna take me away from here"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (recording, Sid Harkreader & Uncle Dave Macon)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Dance tune with verses; "I am my mama's darling boy/Play that tune called Soldier's Joy"; "Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine/Along come a chicken and says 'You're mine'"; "Fifteen cents for the morphine, 25 cents for the beer/Fifteen cents for the morphine, gonna take me away from here"
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad drugs
FOUND_IN: Britain US(All) Scandinavia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Linscott, pp. 109-111, "Soldier's Joy" (1 tune plus dance instructions)
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink] & his Square Dance Band, "Soldier's Joy" (OKeh 06297, 1941)
Blue Ridge Highballers, "Soldier's Joy" (Columbia 15168-D, 1927)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Soldier's Joy" (OKeh 45011, 1925)
Zeb Harrelson & M. B. Padgett, "Soldier's Joy" (OKeh 45078, 1927; rec. 1926)
Sid Harkreader w. Uncle Dave Macon, "Soldier's Joy" (Vocalion 14887, 1924)
Kessinger Brothers, "Soldier's Joy" (Brunswick 341, c. 1929)
John D. Mounce et al, "Soldier's Joy" (on MusOzarks01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Soldier's Joy" (on NLCR07) (on NLCR16)
Aulton Ray, "Soldier Joy" (Gennett 6205, 1927)
Glenn Smith, "Soldier's Joy" [instrumental] (on GraysonCarroll1)
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Soldier's Joy" (Bluebird B-5658, 1934; RCA Victor 21-2168, 1947) (Columbia 15538-D, 1930; rec. 1929; on Tanner2)
Taylor's Kentucky Boys, "Soldier Joy" (Gennett 6205, 1927)
Doc Watson, "Soldier's Joy" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchiteWatsonCD1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Love Somebody, Yes I Do" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
My Stetson Hat (File: Ohr083)
NOTES: The quintessential nonballad, but I've indexed it because it is cross-referenced elsewhere.
Reputed to have been found around the year 1000, but...
Morphine was reputed to be called "soldier's joy" during the American Civil War, but the title is older than that. - PJS
File: RcSoJoy
===
NAME: Soldier's Lament, The
DESCRIPTION: "Beneath a far Australian sky an Irish soldier lay." As he is dying he thinks of his boyhood in Ireland and asks to be buried there. "My dying prayer -- May God bless the island of the brave!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: homesickness death Australia Ireland lament nonballad patriotic soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, p. 163, "The Soldier's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6464
NOTES: This appears, on its face, to be derived from On Buena Vista's Battlefield or one of its relatives (or, perhaps Will Hays's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" [Laws A15]). But which, and how it came to be as it is (in Canada, no less), I do not know. - RBW
File: Peas163
===
NAME: Soldier's Last Letter to His Sweetheart, The
DESCRIPTION: "Seven days and seven nights we retreated ... And if we don't overcome them They'll send us all down to the grave."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917 (GreigDuncan1)
KEYWORDS: soldier battle death
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan1 107, "The Soldier's Last Letter to His Sweetheart" (1 fragment)
Roud #5787
NOTES: The current description is all of the GreigDuncan1 fragment.
GreigDuncan1: "It refers to the disastrous campaign in Flanders against the French in 1793 under the Duke of York." - BS
Much depends on whether this is actually the same song as one listed in earlier chapbooks. I find it interesting that Grieg collected it in 1917, three years after the beginning of World War I, about the time the (surviving) soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force would have come home.
The Germans of course opened the war by launching the "Schlieffen Plan," invading France via Belgium (Flanders). The British were on the left of the long French line which extended from Switzerland to Belgium (see John Keegan, _The First World War_, Knopf, 1998, 1999, p. 94). Their first major engagement was the Battle of Mons, August 23, 1914 (Keegan, p. 97). Although the British force was heavily outnumbered, they were all regulars, and most of the soldiers were trained marksmen. The Germans were draftees. The Germans suffered such heavy losses that there were claims that the entire British army was using machine guns -- though in fact they were deficient in this key weapon (see James L. Stokesbury, _A Short History of World War I_, Morrow, 1981, p. 44).
The British, because their troops were so good, were able to hold the Germans off their front, but they were so few (apart from the nearly-useless cavalry, only four divisions of infantry! -- Keegan, p. 97) that they eventually were outflanked as the French retreated, and had to pull back themselves.
"The great retreat has begun, a retreat which would carry the French armies, and the BEF on their left, back to the outskirts of Paris during the next fourteen days" (Keegan, p. 100). "For the British, the Retreat from Mons passed into legend" (Stokesbury, p. 44) -- for it was a fighting retreat, with contact with the Germans possible at any moment. Many soldiers must have felt they were on the brink of being overwhelmed -- though in fact the British survived (well, other than the ones who were shot). There was, indeed, a very bad moment at Le Cateau, when one British corps, forgotten, was nearly wrecked (Stokesbury, p. 46). The French, with some British help, would finally stop the Germans at the Battle of the Marne.
Of course, the situation fits the 1793 Flanders campaign as well. Frederick Duke of York (1763-1827), the second son of George III, repeatedly proved to be a lousy field commander. (So much so that he is often said to be the officer who inspired "The Noble Duke of York.") He fought in Flanders from 1793 to 1794, when he was defeated at Turcoing and recalled. He also had a bad experience in the Low Countries in 1899. Being a prince, however, he eventually was made a field marshal. To give him his due, he was a good administrator, and enacted needed reforms in the army when commander-in-chief. - RBW
File: GrD1107
===
NAME: Soldier's Letter, The
DESCRIPTION: "Dear Madam I am a soldier And my speech is rough and plain. I'm not much used to writing And I hate to give my name." The writer was a friend of the girl's lover; they fought together. The young man died; the old soldier is left to write of his death
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: soldier death separation friend battle farewell
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 244, "The Soldier's Letter" (1 text)
Roud #4389
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away I)" [Laws J6] (plot) and references there
File: R244
===
NAME: Soldier's Life (It's Little You Good People Know)
DESCRIPTION: "It's little you good people know(s) What we poor people undergoes When called upon to take up arms To guard our country from all harms. As to our grub, we have enough Although our beef is lean an tough... We hope to get good beef again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Allsopp)
KEYWORDS: food soldier hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 228, (no title) (one fragment)
Roud #16590?
File: FORA228
===
NAME: Soldier's Life, A
DESCRIPTION: After an introduction from "The Sailor Boy," ("A soldier's life is a weary life, Robs young girls..."), the girl is given a letter about her lover, telling her that he is dying. She finds his grave, and says she will join him with joy when she dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love separation soldier death burial
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
JHCoxIIB, #11, pp. 145-146, "A Soldier's Life" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CoxIIB11 (Partial)
Roud #273
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sailor Boy (I)" [Laws K12] (lyrics, theme)
NOTES: This clearly opens with material from "The Sailor Boy" (with which Roud lumps it), but this breaks off into something else. The combination probably qualifies as a separate song. - RBW
File: CoxIIB11
===
NAME: Soldier's Poor Little Boy, The [Laws Q28]
DESCRIPTION: A poor boy, trapped in a severe storm, comes to a lady's door to ask for shelter. He explains that his mother is dead and his father gone to war. The lady lets him in and tells him to stay as long as he has to, for her own son has fallen (in battle)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: orphan mercy father death soldier family
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,SE,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (14 citations)
Laws Q28, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 100, "The Little Soldier's Boy" (1 text)
Leach-Labrador 43, "The Friendless Soldier Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, pp. 273-275, "A Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Eddy 134, "A Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 text)
Randolph 718, "A Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Warner 154, "A Poor Little Sailor Boy" (1 text)
JHCox 73, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (2 texts)
JHCoxIIA, #28, p. 104, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
BrownII 151, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (2 texts)
Brewster 67, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (2 texts plus mention of 3 more)
Pankake-PHCFSB, pp. 284-285, "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 482, "The Soldier's Boy" (source notes only)
DT 536, SOLDBOY SOLDBOY2
Roud #258
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fisherman's Boy" [Laws Q29] (plot)
cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)
NOTES: Cox reports this in a Philadelphia broadside attributed to Charles Bender, but it is obviously older and more widespread. Both Belden and Laws mention it as having British antecedents, but the only British occurrences are in broadsides.
The Warner tune is described as a variant of "The Star of the County Down." The other versions generally have a different melody. - RBW
File: LQ28
===
NAME: Soldier's Prayer, The: see The Soldier and the Sailor (File: Doe277)
===
NAME: Soldier's Return (I), The
DESCRIPTION: Jimmie returns home from the war. He disguises himself in bandages and says his true self is close behind. He sees that everyone, including "my Jessie" is truly happy. He leaves them planning the wedding "Since Jimmy escaped the soldier's grave"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1859 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads 1879)
KEYWORDS: wedding war return disguise family soldier
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 160-161, "The Soldier's Return" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2700
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 1879, "Soldier's Return" ("The wars for many months were o'er"), J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1855-1858
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] (plot) and references there
File: CrMa160
===
NAME: Soldier's Return (II), The
DESCRIPTION: 
AUTHOR: 
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token) [Laws N42]
File: LN42
===
NAME: Soldier's Song, The: see The Old Tobacco Box (File: FSC143)
===
NAME: Soldier's Sweetheart, The: see Once I Had a Sweetheart (I) (File: BrII140)
===
NAME: Soldier's Wooing, The: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
===
NAME: Soleil s'en Va Se Coucher, Le (The Sun Is Going Down)
DESCRIPTION: French. A gentleman asks his lover to join him at an inn. She has one drink and says she must leave. He suspects she has changed lovers. That's your fault, she says. I waited three years for you with no news.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting infidelity dialog
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 596-597, "Le Soleil s'en Va Se Coucher" (1 text, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
La Bergere Refuse les Presents
File: Pea596
===
NAME: Solidarity Forever
DESCRIPTION: The crimes of the corporations and their bosses are described. But the workers can protect themselves, as the chorus notes: "Solidarity forever (x3), For the union makes us strong."
AUTHOR: Words: Ralph Chaplin
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: labor-movement nonballad political work derivative
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 282-283, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 91, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-AFP, p. 181, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 374-375, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 133, "Solidarity Forever" (1 text)
DT, SOLIDART*
Roud #15158
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger , "Solidarity Forever" (on PeteSeeger1, PeteSeeger48)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "John Brown's Body" (tune & meter) and references there
File: SBoA282
===
NAME: Some Folks Say John Was a Baptist: see Lonesome Valley (I) (File: Wa162)
===
NAME: Some Folks Say that a Nigger Won't Steal: see Some Folks Say that a Preacher Won't Steal (File: Br3423)
===
NAME: Some Folks Say that a Preacher Won't Steal
DESCRIPTION: "Some folks say that a (preacher/nigger) won't steal, But I caught (one) in my cornfield." This stanza floats but sometimes is used as a platform for various complaints about the raiders on the singer's field
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: thief clergy floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 423, "Some Folks Say that a Nigger Won't Steal" (3 short texts plus 1 fragment, 2 excerpts, and mention of 2 more. Almost all are mixed; "A" is this piece, but "G" has the chorus of "Run, Nigger, Run" while "E" and "F" have the "Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Moanish Lady)" chorus); see also the "B" text of 435, "The Dummy Line"; also 511, "The Preacher Song" (1 text, a complex mix of verses from "Turkey in the Straw" and this song with the "Uncle Eph" chorus)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 224-225, (no title) (1 short text, with the "My ole mistus promised me" and "Some folks say a nigger won't steal" verses and the 'Mourner, you shall be free" chorus)
Roud #6707
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Coney Isle" (lyrics)
cf. "Rosie, Darling Rosie" (lyrics)
NOTES: This is one of those big messes, since it may just be a floating fragment grafted into other pieces. It's hard to tell, given the brevity of the Brown texts.
It's not clear, looking at the evidence, whether it was originally a "preacher" or a "nigger" accused of the thefts. But I strongly suspect that it was a preacher; the rules of textual criticism say, "Prefer the harder reading," and "preacher" is the harder reading; many people would be reluctant to accuse a minister of stealing, but -- in the south at least -- Negroes were suspected even when there was compelling evidence of their innocence. 
Dr. David E. Chinitz, however, sends me this note, "The lines in question--'Some folks say that a (preacher/nigger) won't steal, But I caught (one) in my cornfield'--are the opening lines of 'Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield,' a once-popular barbershop quartet. I believe that this song dates from the 1890s, and it is not to be confused with the 1901 hit with the same title by Gus Edwards and Will D. Cobb. The last line of the 1901 song alludes to the earlier song.
"If the original source of the 'floating fragment' is indeed the song I mentioned, then the correct reading is not 'preacher" but "nigger.' In his book _Barber Shop Ballads and How to Sing Them_ (1925), Sigmund Spaeth suggests in a footnote that 'preacher' was an alternative adopted by 'colored' singing groups (p. 41). But Spaeth doesn't seem entirely reliable on this issue. On that same page, he assures his readers confidentially ('between ourselves') that African Americans 'really prefer the forthright "nigger" to the patronizingly polite "darkey."'
"I have seen the line quoted using 'darkie.' But the one early recording I've heard of the song (I'm sorry I don't know the year) used 'nigger.' And it was two, not one, that the speaker claimed to have 'caught' in his cornfield -- one with a shovel, and one with a hoe."
Until we know how the song became traditional, of course, this cannot be the final word. But it's interesting.
Incidentally, John Hartford eventually sang it with the guilty party being a hippie. - RBW
File: Br3423
===
NAME: Some Have Fathers Gone to Glory: see The Other Bright Shore (File: R611)
===
NAME: Some Little Bug
DESCRIPTION: Singer describes perils of eating various foods, which can lead to ptomaine and death. This is why, before meals, some people pray. Ch.: "Some little bug is gonna get you someday..." "Eat that luscious ripe pineapple/And the sextons dust the chapel."
AUTHOR: Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell (lyrics); Silvio Hein (tune in sheet music; tune of folk version by unknown author)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: disease warning death funeral food humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, SOMEBUG
RECORDINGS:
Roy Atwell, "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (Columbia A-1926, 1916; rec. 1915)
Bradley Kincaid, "Some Little Bug Is Goin' To Get You Someday" (Bluebird B-5179/Montgomery Ward M-4379, 1933)
Billy Murray, "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (Victor 17826, 1916; rec. 1915)
Unidentified baritone solo [Dan Quinn], "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (Emerson 764, 1916)
Walter Van Brunt, "Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You" (CYL: Edison [BA] 2823, n.d.)
NOTES: This has attained enough popularity in the bluegrass and folk-revival communities to warrant inclusion. The Bradley Kincaid recording, which is the one that has spread, uses a very different tune from the one found in the sheet music; possibly Kincaid wrote it. - PJS
File: RcSLB
===
NAME: Some of These Days: see Welcome Table (Streets of Glory, God's Going to Set This World on Fire) (File: San478)
===
NAME: Some of These Days and It Won't Be Long: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: Some Ships in Port
DESCRIPTION: Ships are listed and their characteristics or owner noted: "Gaffney's two clippers, Caledonia and Glynn ... the noble torpedo they call Jenny Lynd ... the Alice T with Splanche on her bow."
AUTHOR: "Splanche" Brien
EARLIEST_DATE: 1946 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: moniker commerce sea ship nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, p. 53, "Some Ships in Port" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Captains and Ships" (catalog of ships)
NOTES: Ranson: "This ... reflects the days of Wexford's glory, when her sailing ships went out over the Seven Seas" - BS
File: Ran053
===
NAME: Some Treat of David
DESCRIPTION: Father Murphy excels David and Joshua. His victories are listed, and the loss at Vinegar Hill; "after all, alas, he was taken, And stripped quite naked in the open street; His flesh and bone were separated, And a crimson stream at his joints did meet"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: battle execution rebellion Ireland clergy patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 26, 1798 - Beginning of the Wexford rebellion
May 27, 1798 - The Wexford rebels under Father John Murphy defeat the North Cork militia
June 5, 1798 - The Wexford rebels attack the small garrison (about 1400 men, many militia) at New Ross, but are repelled
June 21, 1798 - The rebel stronghold a Vinegar Hill is taken, and the Wexford rebellion effectively ended
July 2, 1798 - Father Murphy (1753-1798) captured, executed and cremated.
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 11A, "Some Treat of David" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Father Murphy (I)" (subject of Father Murphy) and references there
NOTES: "The end for Father John Murphy came on July 2, 1798 when he and fellow rebel leader James Gallagher were captured by military forces loyal to the British crown. Fr. John was brutally beaten for hours by the yeomen warders, finally stripped of his clothes, denied a trial by jury and hung from the town gallows.
For the perceived insult of being a Catholic priest and not cooperating with the local authorities Fr. John's body was subjected to further desecration when the yeoman, "unsatisfied by the lack of entertainment" dropped the dead body of Fr. John into a nearby barrel of pitch and lit it on fire until the corpse was consumed. His ashes were scattered in the town square as a warning to all those who dare to take up arms against the British crown." (source: _Father John Murphy of Boulavogue_ by Nicholas Furlong as summarized at site of Ancient Order of Hibernians Father John Murphy -- Division #9 Plymouth, MA 02360)
Zimmermann p. 46, fn. 57: In 1866 this song was still "dangerous" enough that a ballad-singer could be arrested in County Down for its sale. - BS
For a fuller history of Father Murphy, see the notes to "Father Murphy (I)."
The issue of Murphy's death is vexing. That he was captured and hung seems certain. Whether he was tortured is another question. Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 87, says he and his bodyguard were stripped, flogged, and Murphy hung on the spot, then his body burned. But Golway's citation system, which is very strange, does not appear to cite a source for this claim (might it have been this song)?
I eventually checked eight other Irish histories, some specific to the 1798 and some more general. Six do not mention Murphy's death. (One, specific to the last part of the eighteenth century, doesn't even mention Murphy!) The _Oxford Companion to Irish History_ mentions his hanging, but no torture or cremation. Robert Kee's _The Most Distressful Country_ (Volume I of _The Green Flag_), p. 124, mentions that he was hanged, his body burned, and his head set on a pike -- but he doesn't cite a source either!
The whole thing has strange parallels to the death of Jesus, too.
Murphy was not the only one to be listed as having his body burned; see the fate of Captain Swayne described in "The Song of Prosperous."
Examining the sources, it's clear that the pro-English sources don't mention his fate, the pro-Irish do. While most of the Irish leaders were eventually executed, few were executed without trial. Of course, junior officers didn't always follow policy. But I really wish someone could cite a source for these atrocities!
The mentions of David and Joshua are clearer. The two were the earliest members of the so-called Nine Worthies. They were also the Old Testament figures best known for conquest.
They also were, unlike Murphy, successful enough soldiers to die in their beds. - RBW
File: Zimm011A
===
NAME: Some Valiant Soldier
DESCRIPTION: "I want some valiant soldier here (x3), To help me bear the cross. O hail, Mary, hail (x2), To help me  bear the cross." Alternate secomd ver: "For I weep, I weep, I can't hold out; If any mercy, Lord, O pity poor me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Allen/Ware/Garrison)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad soldier
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Allen/Ware/Garrison, p. 45, "Hail, Mary" (2 texts, 2 tunes; the first text is clearly related to this; the second text and tune probably belongs with "Many Thousand Gone (Auction Block)"); p. 50, "Some Valiant Soldier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12001 and 12008
NOTES: Roud splits "Hail Mary" (#12001) and "Some Valiant Soldier" (#12008). This is understandable; both are known only from Allen/Ware/Garrison (at least as far as he and I know), and that book splits them. Very much of the material in Allen/Ware/Garrison has now vanished completely, and much of the rest is free-floating material. It is certainly possible that the two are of different origin (they have different tunes). But, given that half the words are the same, it seemed to me more useful in this case to lump them.
As a wild guess, this may have started as a Catholic song with the Marian references. Then it was revised toward Protestantism. (The change is unlikely to have gone the other way, since the non-Marian version would be acceptable to Catholics "as is.") - RBW
File: AWG045
===
NAME: Somebody (II): see Somebody's Tall and Handsome (File: R380)
===
NAME: Somebody's All de Time Talkin' 'Bout Me
DESCRIPTION: "Somebody's all de time talkin' 'bout me, But that's all right." "Talk about me just as much as you please, I'm goin' to tell it to Jesus down on my knees." "Talk about my Jesus here below, Talkin' 'bout me wherever you go."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 634, "Somebody's All de Time Talkin' 'Bout Me" (1 text)
Roud #11933
File: Br3634
===
NAME: Somebody's Darling
DESCRIPTION: "Into the ward of the clean white-washed halls Where the dead slept and the dying lay... Somebody's darling was borne one day." "Somebody's darling, somebody's pride, Who'll tell his mother where her boy died?" All bid farewell to the handsome boy soldier
AUTHOR: Words: Marie Ravenal de la Coste / Music: John Hill Hewitt (according to Silber-CivWar)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1898 (Wharton)
KEYWORDS: soldier death Civilwar mother
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Silber-CivWar, pp. 84-85, "Somebody's Darling" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOMEDARL*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p.222, "(Somebody's Darling)" (1 fragment)
NOTES: H. M. Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy_ (p. 188) gives the author's name as "Marie La Coste," rather than "de la Coste." Allsopp says it was *sung* by "Marie La Conte of Georgia." - RBW
File: SCW84
===
NAME: Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door
DESCRIPTION: "Somebody's knockin' at your door (x2), Go, Mary, go, Martha, Somebody's knockin'...." "It's your mother, Somebody's... It's your father...." "In the churchyard...." "It's the preacher...." "Come to tell you, Somebody's knockin' at your door."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad clergy
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 635, "Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door" (1 text)
Roud #11931
File: Br3635
===
NAME: Somebody's Talking About Jesus: see Everywhere I Go My Lord (File: CNFM061A)
===
NAME: Somebody's Tall and Handsome
DESCRIPTION: "Somebody's tall and handsome, Somebody's fond and true, Somebody's hair is very black, And somebody's eyes are blue."  Said somebody comes to ask the singer to marry, "And of course I said all right."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920 (Randolph); Wehman printed a similar broadside c. 1884
KEYWORDS: courting marriage mother father ship
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Randolph 380, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (2 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 310-311, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 380A)
BrownIII 275, "Somebody" (2 text plus mention of 2 more)
Warner 163, "Tommy" (1 text, 1 tune, heavily localized, in which Tommy owns a speedboat and father is happy to be rid of his daughter)
Fuson, pp. 101, "Someone" (1 text, which has degenerated into a repeating song with this first verse as chorus: "Someone called for (mother/brother/sister/father), And mother went out to see, Mother came back with a tear in her eye, Someone has asked for me")
Sandburg, pp. 464-465, "Somebody" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 55-56, "[Somebody]" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 82, "Somebody" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOMBODY
ST R380 (Full)
Roud #761
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Tar Heels, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (Victor V-40128, 1929; on CrowTold02)
Martha Ann Midgette, "Tommy" (on USWarnerColl01)
Abigail Hall Ritchie, "Somebody's Tall and Handsome" (on Ritchie03)
File: R380
===
NAME: Somebody's Waiting for Me
DESCRIPTION: The singer reports that, being unemployed and broke, he has taken a job as a sailor. All the while, in all the ports he visits and despite all the fine things he sees, he remembers that "There is somebody waiting for me At an old cabin down by the sea..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (recording, Sweet Bros.)
KEYWORDS: sea separation love
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Warner 160, "Somebody's Waiting for Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Wa160 (Partial)
Roud #7504
RECORDINGS:
Cousin Levi & his Carolina Bluebirds, "Somebody's Waiting" (Bluebird B-7522, 1938)
Ernest V. Stoneman, Willie Stoneman, and The Sweet Brothers, "Somebody's Waiting for Me" (Gennett 6620 [as by the Sweet Brothers]/Supertone 9323 [as by the Caldwell Brothers], 1929/Champion 15586 [as by the Clark Brothers]; rec. 1928); Ernest Stoneman and Eddie Stoneman, "There's Somebody Waiting for Me" (Vocalion 02632, 1934)
Charles K. "Tink" Tillett, "Somebody's Waiting for Me" [instrumental] (on USWarnerColl01)
File: Wa160
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NAME: Someone: see Somebody's Tall and Handsome (File: R380)
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NAME: Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah: see I've Been Working on the Railroad (File: FSWB209)
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NAME: Somerset Carol
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you worthy gentlemen That may be standing by, Christ our blessed savior Was born on Christmas day... Oh we wish you the comfort and tidings of joy!" The Christ child is born and laid in the manger; the singers wish the householders good cheer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: religious Christmas wassail Jesus nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
OBC 8, "Somerset Carol" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 377, "Comfort and Tidings of Joy" (1 text)
Roud #394
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
NOTES: Although this song does not actually use the word "wassail," the general tenor (including the final blessing on the householder) is very wassail-like, which is why I have supplied the keyword. The relationship with God Rest You Merry" is obvious (Roud lumps them), though its exact nature is unclear. I suspect, however, that this is a composite piece. - RBW
File: FSWB377B
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NAME: Somerset Wassail
DESCRIPTION: "Wassail, wassail, all over the town, The cup is white and the ail is brown." Singer toasts the wassail bowl, likewise the residents of the house, begging entry, food, drink, hospitality and money.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1857 (Bell)
KEYWORDS: request ritual drink food begging nonballad wassail
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South),Wales)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Sharp-100E 92, "Wassail Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBC 32, "Somerset Wassail" (1 text, 1 tune)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #350, p. 180, "(Wassail, wassail to our town)"
DT, WASSOMER*
Roud #209
RECORDINGS:
Phil Tanner, "The Wassail Song" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741, Voice16)
Wassailers, "The Wassail Song" (on Voice13)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Gloucestershire Wassailers' Song" (subject, one verse)
cf. "Here We Come A-Wassailing" (subject)
cf. "Wassail Song (III)" (subject)
NOTES: The custom of "wassailing" (going from house to house, usually on January 5th, begging food, drink and hospitality) is mentioned as far back as the 12th century in England; similar rituals are found across the continent of Europe and in the United States. -PJS
"Wassail," incidentally, is from Old English "Wes hael," "Be hale/whole," i.e. "Be in good health."
Paul Stamler suggests that this should not be called the "Somerset Wassail," because it's well-known outside Somerset and is often known as "The Wassail Song" (or under other titles). The problem is, all wassails seem to be called "The Wassail Song" by local singers. I use the Oxford Book of Carols title because that's as close as there is to a canonical reference.
To tell this wassail song from all the others (most if not all of which are lumped by Roud), consider the first verse:
Wassail and wassail all over the town
The cup it is white and the ale it is brown
The cup it is made of the good old ashen tree
And so is our beer of the best barley.
(The Gloucester Wassail is similar for the first three lines, but the fourth is "With our wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.")
The chorus varies; Sharp collected one version that has the refrain
   To you a wassail
   Aye, and joy come to our jolly wassail.
while another runs
   For it's your wassail, and it's our wassail,
   And it's joy be to you and a jolly wassail. - RBW
Also see Calennig, "The Wassail Song" (on Callenig, "A Gower Garland," Wild Goose Records WGS 299 CD (2000)) - BS
File: ShH92
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NAME: Something Got Hold of Me
DESCRIPTION: "When first I heard of the people who claimed This old-time religion was real," the singer concluded it was "just a weak mind," but chose to visit anyway -- though the Devil urged against it. Then "Something got hold of me" and the singer turned Christian
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: religious
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 640, "Something Got Hold of Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4224
File: R640
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NAME: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
DESCRIPTION: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child... a long way from home.... Sometimes I feel like I have no friend(s).... Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1899 (Barton, "Old Plantation Hymns")
KEYWORDS: religious home orphan nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 107, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 49, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 62, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, p. 514, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
Roud #10072
RECORDINGS:
Mildred Bailey, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Vocalion 05209, 1939)
Rev. Gary Davis, "Motherless Children" (on GaryDavis02)
Harmonizing Four, "Motherless Child" (Vee Jay 854, rec. 1957)
Ruth Mallard, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile" (on BlackAmRel1)
Paul Robeson, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Victor 20013, 1926)
Pete Seeger, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (on PeteSeeger23) (on PeteSeeger24)
Sister Nellie Lynn & the Southern Sons, "Motherless Child" (Haven 521, n.d.)
Lee Wiley, "Motherless Child" (Decca 132, 1934)
File: LxU107
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NAME: Sometimes I'm in This Country
DESCRIPTION: "Sometimes I'm in this country, sometimes IÕm in this town." The singer asks his love if she will be true; she replies that she has a new sweetheart. He considers drowning himself, but the water might "deceive" him; he decides to travel the wide world
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (recorded from Lee Monroe Presnell)
KEYWORDS: love rejection drowning travel
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: ()

ST RcSIITCo (Partial)
Roud #16400
RECORDINGS:
Lee Monroe Presnell, "Sometimes I'm in This Country" (on USWarnerColl01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Goodnight, Irene" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Willy, Poor Boy" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Warners claim that they could find out nothing about this song. Their informant Presnell thought it was a "sea song." And yet, the kinship to "Goodnight Irene" is clear. If Presnell is right about its sea origin, my guess is that it and "Goodnight Irene" split off from a common original sometime in the nineteenth century, and this went to sea and the other version went to Lead Belly. Since then, they  have evolved enough that they can be considered separate songs. - RBW
File: RcSIITCo
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NAME: Son Davie, Son Davie: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
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NAME: Son of a Gambolier (I), The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a rambling rake of poverty, From Tippery town I came. 'Twas poverty compelled me first, To go out in the rain." The singer tells how hard life, (drink), and rambling has turned him old and unattractive. He can't help it; he's "the son of a gambolier"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1870 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: rambling drink poverty
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
BrownIII 369, "The Rambling Soldier" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 44, "The Son of a Gambolier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, pp. 78-80, "The Son of a Gambolier" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 159-160, "The Song of a Gambolier" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 515-516, "Son of a Gun -- (Son of a Gambolier; Dunderbeck; and Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech)"
DT, SONGAMB*
Roud #2964
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech" (tune)
cf. "Dunderbeck" (tune)
cf. "Son of a Gambolier (II)"
cf. "Way Out in Idaho (I)" (tune)
cf. "The Pioneers" (tune)
cf. "According to the Act" (tune)
cf. "The Rakes of Poverty" (tune)
cf. "The Freight Handler's Strike" (tune)
cf. "The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer" (tune)
cf. "Joe Williams (tune)
NOTES: The Brown text is clearly a prototype of the various "Son of a Gambolier" versions; in it, the lad is forced by poverty to join the army, and does not mention the gambolier. But so much of the rest is the same that it seems absurd to split the songs. - RBW
File: San044
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NAME: Son of a Gambolier (II)
DESCRIPTION: Bawdy, scatological, and sundry verses to the tune of "Son of a Gambolier/Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech." Often directed at the local arch-enemy (so, e.g. students of Stanford would lampoon California)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: bawdy parody nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cray, pp. 327-332, "Son of a Gambolier" (1 extended text, 1 tune); also pp. 332-336, "The Cardinals Be Damned" (3 texts, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Son of a Gambolier (I)"
NOTES: This extended title is used for any song insulting another college which can use the "Gambolier" tune. Why? Because no two versions of the result are alike. - RBW
File: EM327
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NAME: Son of a Seven, The
DESCRIPTION: "The son of a seven's a miser." The singer is a doctor. He gives "Mr Bobie the Censer" "a powder for sleeping ... he never waked again." The doctor pays his respects and is asked for his bill. He gives it reluctantly and doesn't cash it [but see note].
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: death money medicine doctor
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 696, "The Son of a Seven" (1 text)
Roud #5885
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kill or Cure" (theme)
NOTES: This is a recitation and song. The song has a nonsense chorus which is taken to stand in for something that the singer values even more than money. Everything in his doctor shop has a price but "I never heed that when once I get hold of the [chorus:] Fal dree lal dreel tweedledum...." When he gives the family his bill for an extravagant list of medicine "about as long's my staff," instead of just sleeping powder, "I never heeded the bill when once I got hold of the [Chorus:] ...." Is this obscenity in disguise (as in "The Chandler's Wife" and "Jack the Jolly Tar" [Laws K40] and, possibly, "Jock Hamilton")?  Greig's source, Bell Robertson, says it "was popular when her father was young, who used to say it was a nursery rhyme." - BS
File: GrD3696
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NAME: Son Petit Jupon: see Marie Madelaine (Son Petit Jupon -- The Little Dress of Gray) (File: SBoA294)
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NAME: Son, Come Tell It To Me: see Edward [Child 13] (File: C013)
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NAME: Song About a Man-of-War, A
DESCRIPTION: The singer and his love part as he prepares to go to sea. The captain convinces him to come "on board of a man of war," where he is bound, abused, and fed horrid food. At last he throws himself overboard, swims to shore, and returns to his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown, from a manuscript reportedly dated 1768)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship separation love reunion escape abuse
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 115, "A Song About a Man-of-War" (1 text)
Roud #661
NOTES: The text in Brown seems confused; in the first two verses, the sailor seems about to voluntarily leave his love, then a captain cons him to come aboard ship. Then, once aboard, he is treated as if he had been pressed.
The most likely explanation is that several songs have been jumbled together. But the key element -- the third, in which the sailor makes his escape -- is unknown to me, and the editors of Brown confess ignorance also. - RBW
File: BrII115
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NAME: Song about the Fishing Banks: see The Eastern Light [Laws D11] (File: LD11)
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NAME: Song and Dance
DESCRIPTION: "I just arrived in town today, I'm a stranger to you all. If you don't like this music I cain't stop and give you a call." The singer exchanges glances with the girls in the street, becomes involved with one, then heads out of town
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: dancing courting travel
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 289, "Song and Dance" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7821
File: R289
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NAME: Song of a Lost Hunter, A (or, My Love Heneree): see Young Hunting [Child 68] (File: C068)
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NAME: Song of a Soldier: see The Bold Soldier [Laws M27] (File: LM27)
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NAME: Song of Agincourt, The: see The Agincourt Carol (File: MEL51)
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NAME: Song of All Nations
DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you a song of all nations." An Irishman's made of "his shamrock so green and a jug of poteen." Similar lines for Scotchman, Englishman, Frenchman, Jew, ..., old men, old ladies, ..., mammys and daddys.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (Creighton-SNewBrunswick)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 80, "Song of All Nations" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrSNB180 (Partial)
Roud #2766
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "What's Little Babies Made Of?" (concept)
NOTES: The first part of this has rather the feeling of the educations songs one finds in Randolph and other sources ("States and Capitals," "The Presidents in Rhyme," things like that). But it doesn't really contain information, so this origin seems unlikely.
The second half, in which the song stops talking about various nationalities and turns to types of people (old men, old ladies, etc.) is similar in concept to "What Are Little Boys Made Of" and "What's Little Babies Made Of," but the actual "ingredients" are different enough that I think they qualify as separate songs. There may be a common inspiration somewhere in the distant past, to be sure. - RBW
File: CrSNB180
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NAME: Song of All Songs: see Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles) (File: R515)
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NAME: Song of an Old Time Jailbird
DESCRIPTION: "I went down town and got on a whiz... the polie nabbed me and put me in the pokey Way out in the middle of town." The singer complains of bad air, bad food, rats as big as whales, "clinches so old, they had to wear specs"; he vows to stay away from town
AUTHOR: (very possibly assembled by John Daniel Vass)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (collected by Shellans from John Daniel Vass)
KEYWORDS: prison police food hardtimes floatingverses bug animal
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Shellans, pp. 72-73, "Song of an Old Time Jailbird" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7324
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. most other prison songs, especially "The County Jail (I)" (theme of hard times in prison and the dangers posed by bugs)
NOTES: This is one of those songs where a lot of the lines seem familiar (though the bit about the clinches wearing spectacles an walking with canes seems unique). The combination, however, is unfamiliar. Shellans compares the tune to "Little Brown Jug." Given that he had the song from John Daniel Vass, who definitely fiddled with a lot of songs, I have to suspect that this is a Vass recreation.. - RBW
File: Shel072
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NAME: Song of Dailey's Life-Boat, The: see The Little Clare Mary (Daily's Lifeboat) (File: BrII289)
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NAME: Song of Joaquin (Wakken), The
DESCRIPTION: "I suppose you have heard of all the talking Of that noted horse thief, Joaquin; He was caught in Calaveras, And he couldn't stand the joke; So the rangers cut his head off." His robberies and 24 murders are listed; the capture of his gang is described
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (Gardner/Chickering)
KEYWORDS: murder police thief crime punishment
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Burt, pp. 195-196, "(The Song of Joaquin)" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 135, "Wakken" (1 short text)
ST GC135 (Partial)
Roud #3671
NOTES: The text in Gardner and Chickering, collected in Michigan but said to originate in California, was badly corrupt (as its title shows), and it is not possible to identify the villain. But it has enough in common with Burt's text that I'm fairly sure they're the same song.
The real question is, is this Joaquin in fact Joaquin Murieta (c. 1832-1853)? The song never uses his surname, but the details fit very well: Murieta, who came to California around 1849, was the victim of anti-Mexican prejudice, and swore vengeance -- which he carried out with brutal effect.
In 1853, California finally authorized a special company to catch him. They found him and his band in July, and Murieta was killed in the shoot-out. As the song tells, his head was cut off and preserved in alcohol so it could be shown off around the state. - RBW
File: GC135
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NAME: Song of Marvels, The: see Little Brown Dog (File: VWL101)
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NAME: Song of Prosperous, The
DESCRIPTION: "We" United Irishmen burned Prosperous. "Our captain he forsook us," "Phil Mite the informer" betrayed us, Colonel Aylmer led us. "If Ireland had behaved like Wicklow, Wexford, and Kildare, The green flag would be hoisted through town and counterie" 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1798 (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: battle rebellion betrayal revenge death Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 24, 1798 - "At Prosperous, County Kildare, a garrison commanded by Captain Swayne was massacred by the insurgents" (source: Zimmermann)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Zimmermann 13, "The Song of Prosperous" (1 text)
Moylan 56, "The Song of Prosperous" (1 text)
NOTES: Zimmermann: "Philip Mite, one of the assailant party, denounced his leader, a Dr. Esmond, who was hanged. According to John Devoy, this was still the favourite '98 ballad around Naas in the middle of the nineteenth century...." - BS
The story of Prosperous tells us a lot about both Irish historians and about the history of Ireland. It was founded by Richard Brooke around 1780 as a cotton-spinning site. The settlement was on the Grand Canal a short distance north of Naas (in Kildare, west southwest of Dublin)
But English policy was, in effect, to crush any Irish industry which showed signs of competing with British. Tarriffs and other problems caused Prosperous to go bankrupt in 1786.
That much is mentioned in several pro-Irish histories. But they tend to ignore the massacre there. I found details only in Thomas Pakenham's pro-British _The Year of Liberty_ (pp. 112-117). With buildings intact but little industry left, Prosperous made a good place for a garrison; in 1798, there were a couple of dozen Welsh dragoons and about 35 (mostly Catholic) militia from Cork commanded by (Protestant) Captain Swayne.
Swayne, it must be said, was a vicious persecutor of Catholics. His men were not. But, on the night of May 23/24, they were the target of one of the first attacks of the Kildare phase of the 1798 rebellion; reportedly some 500 men took part in the assualt. Pakenham reports that 38 of 57 defenders were killed; Swayne himself was shot then burned in a barrel of tar. (A peculiar outcome; see the fate of Father Murphy described in "Some Treat of David.")
The man at the head of the attacking forces was said to be Doctor John Esmonde, the first lieutenant of Richard Griffiths (commander of the Sallins yeoman cavalry, based nearby at Clane, and one of the senior officers in the area).
Griffith himself came under attack that night, but beat it off easily. He did not feel strong enough to attack Prosperous, and ended up retreating to Naas. A yeoman named Philip Mite soon arrived to tell Griffith of Esmonde's leading part in the massacre. Esmonde arrived shortly after, quite neatly dressed, but was taken into custody. He would eventually be hung, with his coat reversed to show he was a deserter (Pakenham, p. 124). It sounds as if Mite's was the only direct testimony against him, but it was enough. - RBW
File: Zimm013
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NAME: Song of Repentance
DESCRIPTION: A rake repents the "time sadly wasted" drinking, bragging, seducing, and versifying. He has wasted his money on musicians. His creditors would see him in jail. He is poor, growing old, and alone. He warns others not to follow his example.
AUTHOR: unknown, translated by "Frank O'Conor" (1903-1966)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: age poverty courting drink music rake
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 82, "Song of Repentance" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: OLochlainn-More: "My friend 'Frank O'Conor' (now Dr. Ml. O'Donovan) has given me leave to reprint his spirited translation of Eoghan Rua O'Sullivan's 'B'fhearr leigean doibh'." - BS
Frank O'Connor was an industrious translator of Irish poetry; Charles Sullivan's _Ireland in Poetry_ includes ten of his renditions; the only author more heavily represented is Yeats. Much of his work was collected in _Kings, Lords & Commons_. He also wrote English short stories and some plays. He had quite a lively life, having been a member of the IRA in his youth. - RBW
File: OLcM082
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NAME: Song of Solomon's Temple: see The Building of Solomon's Temple [Laws Q39] (File: LQ39)
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NAME: Song of Song Titles: see Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles) (File: R515)
===
NAME: Song of Songs: see Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles) (File: R515)
===
NAME: Song of Temptation, The
DESCRIPTION: Her seduction attempt: birds sport, why shouldn't we? And we are born naked: why wear clothes? Don't quote Holy Writ. He cites David's fall and Sodom; she, Solomon's queens and concubines. He bids her "Begone you slut!" "Without ado they then withdrew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1979 (Tunney-StoneFiddle)
KEYWORDS: seduction dialog nonballad religious Bible
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 45-46, "The Song of Temptation" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5333
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kissing's No Sin (I)" (theme of the antiquity of sexual relations)
NOTES: Both sides have some slight holes in their Biblical logic. David did indeed get into trouble for sexual impropriety (his affair with Bathsheba, told in 2 Samuel chapter 11, with the working-out of the consequences occupying chapters 12-20) -- but that was specificly adultery (Bathsheba was married to the Uriah the Hittite) and David compounded it by killing Uriah. Casual fornication is not nearly the same.
As for Sodom, there was a "great outcry" against them (Genesis 18:20), but fornication was hardly their problem; recall that, just before the destruction of the city, Lot offered his virgin daughters to the Sodomites to rape rather than having then assault his guests. But the Sodomites wanted the (male) guests, so their crime was seemingly homosexuality (Genesis 19:1-10).
But the example of Solomon is hardly a counter-argument; he had supposedly 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3), but these wives "turned away his heart after other gods" (1 Kings 11:4), with the eventual result that his descendants lost control of most of Israel.
I'd call the debate pretty close to a draw. - RBW
File: TSF045
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NAME: Song of the Croppy Boy: see The Croppy Boy (I) [Laws J14] (File: LJ14)
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NAME: Song of the Emigrant, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer is "lying on a foreign shore and hear[ing] the birdies sing." His hair is "mixed wi' siller threads" He remembers a girl "in years lang, lang gane," who used to sing the old songs, which he names. He'll sing of Scotland while he can.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3); 19C (broadside, NLScotland L.C.Fol.70(29b))
KEYWORDS: homesickness emigration Scotland nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 532, "The Song of the Emigrant" (1 text)
Roud #6011
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(29b), "The Song of the Emigrant," Poets Box (Dundee), c.1890
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Scarborough Settler's Lament" and references there
File: GrD3532
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NAME: Song of the Fishes (Blow Ye Winds Westerly)
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you bold fishermen, listen to me, I'll sing you a song of the fish in the sea, Then blow ye winds westerly, westerly...." The behaviors of the various fish are described as they come forward and speak to the sailors
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: fishing bragging nonballad sailor
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) US(NE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (12 citations)
Colcord, pp. 187-188, "The Boston Come-All-Ye" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 145-147, "Song of the Fishes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 196-198, 209-210, "The Fishes" (4 texts, 4 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 153-154], "Blow the Man Down" (1 text, version D of "Blow the Man Down") [AbEd, pp. 164-165]
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 160-161, "The Fish of the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, p. 859, "Blow the Wind Westerly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-SNewBrunswick 77, "The Old Ark" (1 text, 1 tune, with first verse and chorus from "The Old Ark's A-Moverin'" and additional verses from "this song")
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 129-131, "Song of the Fishes" (1 very full text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 496-498, "The Boston Come-All-Ye or The Fishes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 22, "The Fish of the Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 557-558, "The Boston Come-All-Ye" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 90, "Blow Ye Winds Westerly" (1 text)
DT, SONGFISH* SNGFISH2
Roud #472
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Come All You Bold Sailormen" (on PeteSeeger08, PeteSeegerCD02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 25(1029), "The King of the Sea" ("Up starts the herring the king of the sea"), unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 28(102), "The King of the Sea"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Yea Ho, Little Fish" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Blow the Wind Southerly" (lyrics)
File: LxA496
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NAME: Song of the Freedmen
DESCRIPTION: "We are coming from the cotton fields, We are coming from afar, We have left the plow... And we are going to war." The freed slaves describe all the cruelties they have left behind. Now, apparently, they are fighting for their freedom
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: slave freedom war Civilwar nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Scott-BoA, pp. 240-242, "Song of the Freedmen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, pp. 80-81, "Song of the Freedmen" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: SBoA240
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NAME: Song of the Mayers: see May Day Carol (File: JRSF238)
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NAME: Song of the Pinewoods: see Old Moke Pickin' on the Banjo (Song of the Pinewoods) (File: Be022)
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NAME: Song of the Rebel Soldier, The: see The Good Old Rebel (The Song of the Rebel Soldier) (File: Wa193)
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NAME: Song of the Robbers, The
DESCRIPTION: "You've heard this story often, you've heard it o'er and o'er...." "A tip had come to Morrison... That they would have a visit from the native bad G. Raines." The robber gang, though captured, kills Dr. Clark. They are sentenced to long prison terms
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: robbery death crime punishment doctor
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 207-208, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Yes, the song calls the robber "G. Raines." An initial and a surname. Consistently. Not "Raines," and not a full name. That's typical of the horrid "poetry" of the piece. - RBW
File: Burt207
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NAME: Song of the Seals, The
DESCRIPTION: "A sea maid sings on yonder reef, The spell-bound seals draw near." The song causes plowmen to cease plowing, milkmaids to cease milking; even animals listen. When she ceases, ordinary life begins again
AUTHOR: Words: Harold Boulton / Music: Granville Bantock
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977
KEYWORDS: nonballad animal
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 27, #3 (1979), p, 26-27, "The Song of the Sealsr" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: This song had a very great fling of popularity a few years ago in pop folk circles. It is not, however, a folk song; it has never been found in tradition. I include it partly because it was so widely heard and partly because the poet, Harold Boullten, produced several other almost-folk songs, notable the Skye Boat Song (Over the Sea to Skye).  RBW
File: SOv27n3a
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NAME: Song of the Southern Volunteers, The
DESCRIPTION: "I would not be a conscript a-hiding in the wood; I'd be a volunteer and do my country good. I wouldn't be alone (x3) to weep and moan." Similarly "I wouldn't be a lawyer... I'd rather be a soldier," etc. -- then perhaps shifting to a female soldier!
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Hudson)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar marriage patriotic soldier work
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Hudson 123, pp. 263-264, "I Would Not Be Alone" (1 text)
Scott-BoA, pp. 221-223, "The Song of the Southern Volunteers" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, NOTBEALN
Roud #4502
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'll Not Marry at All" (form)
NOTES: The extant texts of this song all appear rather messed up. Hudson's text hints at the original: An adaption of "I'll Not Marry at All" in which the singer proclaims his willingness to serve the south -- or, perhaps, a girl proclaims "I would not *marry* a conscript."
In fact, it's possible that both forms existed, then were mixed to produce Hudson's odd gender-bending text, with verses about a conscript, lawyer, doctor, lady/belle, nurse, farmer, and miller.
Scott's song it even more confused; it appears to be a mix of "I Would Not Be a Conscript" and "We Go Walking on the Green Grass" (the latter not to be confused with "Walking on the Green Grass"). It's too complicated for me to disentangle, so I tossed it here.
The original description I wrote of the song is as follows: "'I would not marry a conscript... I'd rather marry a volunteer and do my country good.... We go walking on the green grass, thus, thus, thus....' The girl would rather marry, or even be, a soldier boy, than wed someone who will not volunteer for the South." - RBW
File: SBoA221
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NAME: Song of the Splintered Shillelagh: see Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade (File: SCW22)
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NAME: Song of the Tangier Gold Mines
DESCRIPTION: Gold mining begins May 1861 "back of Tangier and Pope's Harbour." Men leave their work, wives, and sweethearts "for the sake of 'Tangier gold"; ladies "go upon the diggings the miners for to see." Wish the miners success and hope they will be generous
AUTHOR: Catherine Hart (1861)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (Creighton-NovaScotia)
KEYWORDS: sex gold mining
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1860 - Opening of the Tangier Gold Mines (Source: Halifax Archives per Creighton-NovaScotia)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-NovaScotia 145, "Song of the Tangier Gold Mines" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST CrNS145 (Partial)
Roud #1841
NOTES: Tangier is on the coast of Nova Scotia, about 60 miles east of Halifax. - BS
Creighton notes that the mining in the Tangier area was extensive but not particularly profitable. But the song was written when the boom was just beginning, so hopes were high. - RBW
File: CrNS145
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NAME: Song of the Temperance Union: see Rum By Gum (Temperance Union Song) (File: R317)
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NAME: Song of the Times: see The Rigs of the Times (File: K237)
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NAME: Song of the Volunteers, The
DESCRIPTION: "Hurrah! tis done. Our freedom's won. Hurrah for the Volunteers!" The Irish Volunteers, behind Grattan and Flood have broken "the Saxon yoke" Prayers, tears and words were vain "till flashed the swords Of the Irish Volunteers"
AUTHOR: Thomas Davis (1814-1845) (source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: early 1840s (_The Nation_, according to Moylan)
KEYWORDS: pride rebellion Ireland political
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Moylan 1, "The Song of the Volunteers" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol I, pp. 236-237, "The Song of the Volunteers of 1782"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Green Cockade" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
cf. "The Shamrock Cockade" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
cf. "The Volunteers" (subject of the 1782 Volunteers)
NOTES: The Belfast Volunteers were formed in 1778 because of the threat of war between France and Britain. Similar groups formed, became politicized, and supported "those in favour of legislative independence from the British parliament and the removal of impediments to Irish commerce." Henry Grattan and Harry Flood supported this program in the Irish House of Commons. (Source: Moylan) 
Hayes's title places the events in 1782. - BS
Moylan's description sums up the situation pretty well, I think. The Volunteers were not openly rebellious; they were mostly pro-British, and largely Protestant (though Terry Golway, _For the Cause of Liberty_, p. 51, notes that they included Catholics as well). By 1779, there were 40,000 volunteers (see Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, _A History of Ireland_, p. 186). Having shown that Ireland could field an army, a tide of nationalism, expressed in a "Buy Irish" movement, arose. The British, nervous about this, and remembering the recent example of the American rebels, responded by granting legislative independence in the form of Grattan's Parliament, for which see "Ireland's Glory." - RBW
File: Moyl001
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NAME: Song of Welcome, A
DESCRIPTION: "Our noble Lord's come to the North To view his bonnie lands o' Forth ... Come bid him welcome." He fought the French in Egypt "wi 'Forty-twa' .... Our hero fought at Waterloo ... And bravely did the French subdue"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: return nonballad landlord
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #149, pp. 1-2, "A Song of Welcome" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 439, "A Song of Welcome" (1 text)
Roud #5953
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Our Noble Lord's Come to the North
Lord Saltoun
NOTES: Greig: "[Lord Saltoun] was grand-uncle to the present laird, and the song was made up on his home-coming after the battle of Waterloo." 
GreigDuncan3: "The song as composed for Alexander George Fraser (1785-1853), sixteenth Lord Saltoun." 
The references are to the Egyptian campaign (1798) and Waterloo (1815) against Napoleon. "Forty-twa" refers to the 42nd Highland Regiment, the Black Watch, which fought at Waterloo. See "The Bonnets o' Blue" and its references for more information about the Black Watch.
GreigDuncan3 has a map on p. xxxv, of "places mentioned in songs in volume 3" showing the song number as well as place name; Philorth (439) is at coordinate (h6,v0) on that map [roughly 37 miles N of Aberdeen]. - BS
File: GrD3439
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NAME: Song on Courtship: see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) AND The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (File: E098)
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NAME: Song That Reached My Heart, The
DESCRIPTION: "I sat Õmidst a mighty throng within a palace grand, In a city far beyond the sea, in a distant foreign land," as a girl sings "Home, Sweet Home." The memories of home, and the song, affect him deeply
AUTHOR: Julian Jordan (1850-1927)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad music
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Dean, pp. 62-63, "The Song That Reached My Heart" (1 text)
Roud #3721
NOTES: This strikes me as pretty feeble, but it was the first of several fairly big hits for Julian Jordan; he published this in 1887, then "Light of My Life" in 1889, 'Sweet Charity" in 1890, an "Just As We Used To Do at Home" in 1893 (gleaned from Spaeth, _A History of Popular Music in America_, pp. 604-607). He doesn't seem to have done much of note after that.
This business of a song inspiring a memory seems to have been a common idea in the late nineteenth century; Gussie L. Davis did it with "Sweet Refrain," which seems to treat "Old Folks at Home (Swanee River"" the way this song treats "Home! Sweet Home!" - RBW
File: Dean062C
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NAME: Song Used When Holystoning the Decks
DESCRIPTION: Tune only, no text. According to Hugill, Russian seaman had few real shanties and apart from the songs quotes by Smith there is nothing in the literature.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (L.A. Smith, _Music of the Waters_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage nonballad shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: Russia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p. 580, "Song Used When Holystoning the Decks" (1 tune only, no text-quoted from Smith)
File: Hugi580
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NAME: Songs of Old Ireland
DESCRIPTION: The singer thinks back of the songs he heard as a youth. He asks to hear several such songs. He recalls fondly the days of his youth.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: music youth nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H768, pp. 59-60, "Songs of Old Ireland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13360
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Titles of Songs (Song of Songs, Song of All Songs, Song of Song Titles)" (theme)
File: HHH768
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NAME: Sonny Hugh: see Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter [Child 155] (File: C155)
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NAME: Sons of Hibernia, The
DESCRIPTION: "Brave sons of Hibernia, your shamrocks display, For ever made sacred on St Patrick's day." The shamrock is "the badge of our saint," "a type of religion." It is "an emblem of charity, friendship, and love. May the blight of disunion no longer remain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1901 (O'Conor)
KEYWORDS: 
FOUND_IN: Ireland nonballad patriotic
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 150, "The Sons of Hibernia" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(184), "The Sons of Hibernial", unknown, n.d. 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "St Patrick's Day" (tune, per Broadside Bodleian 2806 b.10(184))
File: OCon150
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NAME: Sons of Levi (Knights of Malta)
DESCRIPTION: The singer calls all "Knights of (Malta)" to join with him to fight for good. "For we are the true-born Sons of Levi, None on earth can with us compare." The listeners are guided through the (Templar) ritual, and acts of God in Israel are recalled
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1907 (Grieg)
KEYWORDS: knight religious soldier
FOUND_IN: Ireland Britain(England(South),Scotland(Aber)) US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
SHenry H146, pp. 180-181, "The Knights of Malta" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greig #155, p. 1, "The Sons of Levi" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 470, "The Sons of Levi" (1 text)
Ord, pp. 393-292, "The Knights of Malta" (1 text)
Fuson, p. 203, "The Sons of Levi" (1 text)
ST HHH146 (Full)
Roud #2430
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, RB.m.143(156), "Sons of Levi, A New Masonic Song," unknown, c. 1880-1900
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Knight Templar's Dream" (style)
cf. "The Mason's Word - Keep Your Mouth Shut" (tune, per Greig)
NOTES: The Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, or Hospitallers for short, was founded during the Crusades, first as a refuge for pilgrims in need and then as a knightly order to defend the holy sites. After the last Crusader city, Acre, fell in 1291, they gradually retreated across the Mediterranean, settling in Malta in 1530.
Since that time, the Hospitallers have been known as the "Knights of Malta," even though they have been based in Rome since Napoleon pushed them out of Malta in 1798.
The Hospitallers had strong requirements of initates, which may be reflected in the song. The order was suppressed in England in early Protestant times, but re-formed in the nineteenth century. I doubt the song actually originates with the Hospitallers, though; they would not publish such a broadside. Rather, it appears to be a Masonic piece, though one with unusual popularity (perhaps because it has been mated with at least one very good tune).
Scriptural references in the song are numerous, e.g.
* Joshua crossing Jordan, taking twelve stones along, with the Ark of the Covenant, and ending in Gilgal: Joshua 3:12-4:24
* Noah planted the first garden: Properly the first vineyard; Gen. 9:20. The Bible calls Noah the first tiller of the soil in the same verse, but Cain is called the first tiller in Genesis 4:2
Moses planted Aaron's rod: Probably a reference to the budding rod in Numbers 17:1-11, though the next few lines refer to the crossing of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds), Exodus 14:16-29.
Nowhere did Moses turn the Jordan into blood (Moses didn't even reach the banks of Jordan); he turned the Nile to blood in Exodus 7:18-24.
The "ark," of course, is not Noah's Ark but the Ark of the Covenant; the Sons of Levi were the holy tribe of Israel.
The lines in the chorus about the root and branch of David, and the morning star, are from Rev. 22:16 (I'd quibble a bit with the King James translation of the verse, but of course the song is based on the Bible as the Masons knew it).. - RBW
File: HHH146
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NAME: Sons of Liberty, The [Laws J13]
DESCRIPTION: The singer, an Irish soldier, is sent to America to fight the rebels. He lands in New York and soon finds himself fighting the Sons of Liberty. He grieves for those lost in battle, and praises the courage of Washington and his army
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1790 (Journal from the Dolphin)
KEYWORDS: war
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (5 citations)
Laws J13, "The Sons of Liberty"
SharpAp 162, "The Sons of Liberty" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 146-148, "The Sons of Liberty" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, p. 170, "Jessie and Jimmie" (1 stanza, probably of this song though it could float, 1 tune)
DT 396,  SONSLIB1* SONSLIB2*
Roud #596
File: LJ13
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NAME: Soon as My Foot Struck Zion
DESCRIPTION: "Soon as my foot struck Zion, And de lamps all lit on de shore, Bud dis world a long farewell, And de lamps all lit on de shore." "You better walk study [steady?], Jesus a-listenin', Oh, you better walk study, Jesus died... Jesus a-listenin' all day long"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 636, "Soon As My Foot Struck Zion" (2 short texts from the same informant)
Roud #11934
File: Br3636
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NAME: Soon I Will Be Done
DESCRIPTION: "Soon I will be done with the troubles of the world... Goin' home to God." "I want to meet my mother...." "I want to see my Jesus...." "No more weepin' and wailin'...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 244, "Soon I Will Be Done" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LoF244
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NAME: Soon in the Morning: see I Hope I'll Join the Band (Soon in the Morning) (File: R266)
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NAME: Soon One Morning
DESCRIPTION: "Soon one morning death come creepin' in my room (x3) Oh my Lord, oh my Lord, what shall I do to be saved?... Death done been here, took my mother and gone... I'm so glad I got religion in time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1917
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Lomax-FSUSA 103, "Soon One Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, DETHCREP*
Roud #10069
RECORDINGS:
Delta Big Four, "I Know My Time Ain't Long" (Paramount 12948, 1930; on VocalQ2)
Golden Gate Quartet, "Hush" (Columbia 30136, 1948)
Blind Willie Johnson, "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (Columbia 14530-D, 1930)
Rev. Willie Gresham & congregation, "Soon, One Mornin'" (on FolkVisions1)
Fred McDowell, "Soon One Mornin'" (on LomaxCD1703)
Wiseman Sextet, "Hush, Somebody's Calling My Name" (Paramount 12077, 1924)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Hush
NOTES: Without a source for "You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond" I don't remember the lyrics well enough to know if it's the same song as "Soon One Morning," but I THINK it is. -PJS
File: LxU103
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NAME: Sophie's First Trip, The
DESCRIPTION: "I suppose that you remember when the Sophie she was new, And Johnny Buddy Antie hoped to go mate on her crew." Antie requests the job, but is rejected. He apparently is hired in a lesser job, but mishandles the sails (?) and now will never be mate
AUTHOR: (redited to John Brown of Goderich, Ontario)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (collected by Walton from Norman MacIvor)
KEYWORDS: sailor ship
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 96-97, "The Sophie's First Trip" (1 text, rather damaged)
File: WGM096
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NAME: Sorghum Molasses
DESCRIPTION: A (hobo? Georgia soldier?) prepares his meal and declares, "All the world there's none surpasses Good cornbread and sorghum molasses." "He declares, "Georgia girls there's none surpasses, They are sweeter than sorghum molasses."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: food soldier nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 386, "Sorghum Molasses" (1 text)
Roud #6684
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sorghum Syrup" (theme)
File: Br3386
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NAME: Sorghum Syrup
DESCRIPTION: "I been to the North and I been to the South... And I've travelled all over Europe; Never saw the likes of sorghum syrup." The southerner describes courting the girls and all the uses of sorghum
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: food travel nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 132, "Sorghum Syrup" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6684
RECORDINGS:
Art Thieme, "Bye and Bye" (on Thieme06)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sorghum Molasses" (theme)
File: LoF132
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NAME: Sorrowful Lamentation of Denis Mahony, The
DESCRIPTION: "Honest Denis Mahony that now lies in the clay ... his precious blood was freely spilt before the tithes he'd pay." Farmer Mahony is murdered. The Parishioners catch the murderer "and laid him on the ground" but "the tithes they paid without delay"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1830s (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: murder farming Ireland political lament
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Zimmermann 38, "The Sorrowful Lamentation of Denis Mahony" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle of Carrickshock" (subject: The Tithe War) and references there
NOTES: The complete title of Zimmermann's broadside is "The Sorrowful Lamentation of Denis Mahony, Who Lost His Life in the Parish of Inniscarra, in the County of Cork, on Account of the Tithes."
The context is "The Tithe War": O'Connell's Catholic Association was formed in 1823 to resist the requirement that Irish Catholics pay tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland. The "war" was passive for most of the period 1823-1836, though there were violent incidents in 1831 (source: _The Irish Tithe War 1831_ at the OnWar.com site) - BS
See "The Battle of Carrickshock" for more about the Tithe War, and the cross-references there for more songs on the topic. - RBW
File: Zimm038
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NAME: Sorrowful Lamentation on the Recent Price Increases in Ales, Wines and Spirits, A
DESCRIPTION: Since Richie Ryan up'd porter to ten bob a pint, who could be blamed for buying "last night's left-overs." Father Matthew "tried to keep us off the booze " but the new price is more effective. This should improve the market for poteen.
AUTHOR: Jimmy Crowley (source: OCanainn)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (OCanainn)
KEYWORDS: drink humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OCanainn, pp. 40-41, "A Sorrowful Lamentation on the Recent Price Increases in Ales, Wines and Spirits" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: OCan040
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NAME: Sorry the Day I Was Married
DESCRIPTION: Married woman recounts the miseries of her life and wishes she hadn't married: "Sorry the day I was married, Sorry the day I was wed; It's Oh, if I only had tarried When I to the altar was led." She recalls all the good things she had before marriage
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: marriage abuse humorous
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, SRRYMRRY*
Roud #1561
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again"
cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)"
cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme)
cf. "Sporting Bachelors"
cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
NOTES: Most "male" versions of this song go under the title of "The Sporting Bachelors," as they consist of the married man warning the bachelors of the abuse he suffers. His wife "swears [he's] obliged to maintain her" and lives well while "toss[ing him] bones" and leaving him dressed in rags. - RBW
File: WB2046
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NAME: Soughrty Peaks, The: see Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail [Laws B17] (File: LB17)
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NAME: Souling Song
DESCRIPTION: "A soul, a soul, a soul-cake, Please good mistress a soul-cake, One for Peter and one for Paul And one for the Lord that made us all. An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us merry." Once a year, singers beg for food, clothes, money
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1891 (Broadwood); Simpson and Roud quote a seeming version from 1686
KEYWORDS: food begging religious
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #408, p. 194, "(A soul-cake, a soul-cake)"
DT, SOULCAKE* SOULCAK2*
Roud #304
NOTES: A song for All Souls Eve and Day (November 2 and the night preceding), when it was customary to give out food and alms on behalf of the dead.
According to Simpson and Roud, _A Dictionary of English Folklore_, entry on All Souls Day, Abbot Odilo of Cluny created the festival in the eleventh century to pray for the souls of those who had died. (Hence the Souling custom: In Catholic belief, prayer would get you out of purgatory, so travellers would pray in return for food -- almost a return to the professional mourners of Roman times). The original date was in February, but it was moved to November to align with All Saints Day.
The 1686 reference is to Aubrey's account of customs in Shropshire, when it was still customary to put out cakes for all passers-by on this day. These were called "soul cakes" or, according to W. C. Hazlitt's _Dictionary of Faiths & Folklore_, "soul-mass cakes."
I haven't seen anyone comment on the mentions of Peter and Paul in this song, but it may (or may not) be significant that Peter was the chief apostle to Jews, Paul to Gentiles (Galatians 2:8, etc.) - RBW
File: BGMG408
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NAME: Sound Off (Cadence Count, Jody Chant)
DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Sound off, One, two, Sound off, Three, four." Verses, in marching cadence, can be about anything soldiers dislike, or their sex lives, but often involve the despicable Jody: "Jody's got my gal and gone, Left me here a-singing this song...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935
KEYWORDS: army betrayal separation bawdy
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Cray, pp. 394-398, "Sound Off" (3 texts, 1 tune); see also pp. 398-400, "Honey Babe" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 317, "Sound Off" (1 text, 1 tune)
Jackson-DeadMan, pp. 167-176, "Jody" (4 texts, though three are from the same informant, 1 tune)
DT, SOUNDOFF* SOUNDOF2*
Roud #10398
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Swing Cadence
The Airborne Chant
Duckworth Chant
NOTES: If one is only studying origins, this would probably not be considered one song. However, cadence chants so freely exchange verses, and can so readily shift from clean to bawdy and back, that I see no point in trying to separate any which use the same meter.
It is interesting to see the chants being taken over in Texas prisons. Here, the cadence count ("Sound off, one two...") is replaced by a simple "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" -- but the ever-troublesome Jody is still around. Jackson explains "Jody" as a worn down form of "Joe the," i. e. "Joe the Grinder."
File: LoF317
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NAME: Sounding Calls
DESCRIPTION: This barely qualifies as a song, as there are only three notes, repeated in the same order with slight variation. There is no plot; the depth of the river is taken in order to avoid running aground. "Half twain, quarter twain, mark twain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939
KEYWORDS: river nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 572, "Mississippi Sounding Call" (1 text, 1 tune)
MWheeler, pp. 59-66, "Soundings at Memphis"; "Soundings from Uncle Mac"; Soundings from Tee Collins" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
NOTES: The terminology used in these song is explained in Botkin's notes, and more fully in sources such as Wheeler. 
In simplest form, the measurements are in fathoms, and additive -- so, e.g. "half twain" is "half a fathom plus two fathoms," i.e. 15 feet; "quarter twain:" "quarter fathom plus two fathoms," i.e. 13.5 feet; "mark twain": two fathoms exactly, i.e. 12 feet.
Distances less than "quarter less twain" (10.5 feet) are given in feet, and distances over a certain limit (usually Mark Four, i.e. four fathoms=24 feet) are described as "no bottom."
The various "songs" combined under this heading are, of course, not ballads, and not even true folk tunes, nor do they constitute a single song. The tunes are simple, and almost all the words are simply the numbers for depths (though in fact the various singers had their own methods of calling the numbers -- a valuable skill if it helped keep the listeners alert). But collectively these chants represent a significant part of river culture, so I've included them. - RBW
File: BMRF572
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NAME: Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour
DESCRIPTION: The singer has not recently attended the local "times" but goes to this one on November 18, held at the church. He pays the five cents admission and enjoys the soup supper, dancing till four or five, and another supper after that.
AUTHOR: Peter Leonard
EARLIEST_DATE: 1983 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: dancing food party
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 99, "Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
Anita Best, "The Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour" (on NFABest01)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Buns of Daily Bread
File: LeVe099
===
NAME: Sourwood Mountain
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune with words; young man wants his true love, but she is coy. Versions often contain a variety of floating or spontaneous verses. First stanza may begin, "Chickens crowing on Sourwood Mountain...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (collected by Olive Dame Campbell); +1909 (JAFL22)
KEYWORDS: courting love rejection nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (15 citations)
Randolph 417, "Sourwood Mountain" (4 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 346-347, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 417A)
BrownIII 251, "Sourwood Mountain" (7 texts plus an excerpt and 3 fragments)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 91 "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, pp. 170-171, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
Cambiaire, p. 11, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
Sandburg, p. 125, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune); 320-321, "I Got a Gal at the Head of the Holler" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 216, "Sourwood Mountain" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 24, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 276-277, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune, composite)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 897-898, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase, pp. 148-149, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 257-258, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 35, "Sourwood Mountain" (1 text)
DT, SOURWOOD
Roud #754
RECORDINGS:
Coleman & Harper "Sourwood Mountain" (Perfect 12751, 1931) (Oriole 8095, 1935)
Fruit Jar Guzzlers, "Sourwood Mountain" (on CrowTold01)
I. G. Greer & Mrs. I. G. Greer, "Sourwood Mountain" (AFS; on LC12)
The Hillbillies, "Sourwood Mountain" (Vocalion 5022, c. 1926)
Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers "I've Got a Woman on Sourwood Mountain" (OKeh 45171, 1927)
Kessinger Brothers, "Sourwood Mountain" (Brunswick 308, c. 1929)
Bradley Kincaid ,"Sourwood Mountain" (Gennett 6417/Silvertone 8220, 1928) (Brunswick 420, 1930) (Conqueror 8090, 1933) (one of these is on CrowTold02, but it's not clear which)
Clayton McMichen, "Sourwood Mountain [part of instrumental medley] (Decca 2649, 1939)
Land Norris, "Dogwood Mountain" (OKeh 40433, 1925)
Fiddlin' Powers & Family, "Sour Wood Mountains" (Victor 19448, 1924) (Edison 51789/5123, 1925)
Hobart Smith, "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (on LomaxCD1702)
Kilby Snow, "Sourwood Mountain" (on KSnow1)
Ernest V. Stoneman, "Sourwood Mountain" (Victor 20235, 1926)
Stove Pipe No. 1 [pseud. for Sam Jones], "Cripple Creek & Sourwood Mountain" (Columbia 201-D, 1924)
Uncle "Am" Stuart, "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (Vocalion 15840, 1924)
Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett, "Sourwood Mountain" (Columbia 245-D, 1924)
Taylor's Kentucky Boys, "Sourwood Mountain" (on BefBlues3)
The Vagabonds, "Sourwood Mountain" (Bluebird B-5335, 1934)
Wade Ward, "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (on Holcomb-Ward1); "Sourwood Mountain" [instrumental] (on GraysonCarroll1)
Henry Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners, "Sourwood Mountain" (OKeh 7005, 1924)
NOTES: The Baptist church disapproved of dancing, but allowed playparties (dances with sung tunes instead of instrumental music) - PJS
It should be noted that this is primarily a fiddle tune; it's listed because it occasionally turns up with words. - RBW
File: R417
===
NAME: Souters' Feast, The
DESCRIPTION: "The souters [shoemakers] they had a feast ... Souters cam' frae far and near." One got drunk and began to shit leather, lasts, knives and broken glass. And when he seemed finished "he spued a muckle beatin' stane"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: drink food bawdy humorous scatological clothes
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig 12, pp. 1-2, "The Souters' Feast" (1 text)
GreigDuncan3 629, "The Souters' Feast" (6 texts, 3 tunes)
Roud #6072
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Tanty Eerie Orum
File: GrD3629
===
NAME: South Australia (I)
DESCRIPTION: The sailor reports, "South Australia's where I was born." Often used as a shanty, with chorus, "Heave away, heave away... we're bound for south Australia." Often he speaks of leaving his Australian girl behind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor separation
FOUND_IN: US(MA) Australia
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 71, "South Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, p. 90, "Rolling King" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 33-35, "South Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 193-195, "Rolling King," "South Australia" (3 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 150-151]
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 58-59, "South Australia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 2-4, "Bound for South Australia" (1 text,  2 tunes)
Darling-NAS, pp. 315-316, "South Australia" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 85, "South Australia" (1 text)
DT, SOAUSTRL*
Roud #325
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cape Cod Girls" (floating lyrics, tune, meter, plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Ruler King
NOTES: There is no true dividing line between this song and "Cape Cod Girls"; they merge into each other. However, the difference in local color and focus is enough that they should be separated. The problem is classifying the intermediate versions.... - RBW
A modern verse: "In South Australia Skylab fell..., 15 billion shot to hell..." - SL
File: Doe071
===
NAME: South Australia (II): see Cape Cod Girls (File: LoF023)
===
NAME: South Carolina State
DESCRIPTION: The singer enlists for gold to fight "in the northern wars." He deserts, is caught, jailed "in South Carolina State," and sentenced to be hung. He asks that the news be sent to his father, mother, and friends, and that he be buried next to his sister
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: desertion war execution soldier father mother burial punishment
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 100, "South Carolina State" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Lehr/Best: "According to [the singer] this song is about a Newfoundlander who went to fight in the war for American independence." - BS
File: LeBe100
===
NAME: South Down Militia
DESCRIPTION: Famous warriors are named: King's Guards and Scots Greys, Russians and Prussians, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, "but the South Down Militia is the terror of the land." Their appearance throws the Kaiser and "Krugar" into despair and makes Victoria gush.
AUTHOR: Col. R.H. Wallace (source:Graham)
EARLIEST_DATE: c.1895 (Graham)
KEYWORDS: army war humorous nonballad talltale Napoleon
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1899-1902 - Boer War
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
OLochlainn 90 note, "South Down Militia" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Graham, p. 13, "The Royal South Down Militia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hammond-Belfast, pp. 40-41, "The South Down Militia" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SOUTHDWN*
NOTES: The description is from the text at South Down Defenders Flute Band Newry site "Words & Music of Traditional Ulster Songs." - BS
I find myself wondering if there are not two different phases of this song. Its inclusion in Graham would seem to imply a date prior to 1895.
And yet, the references to Kruger, the Kaiser, and Victoria date the version of the song containing them fairly precisely: The Jameson Raid (beginning in late December of 1895) provoked the "Kruger Telegram," in which Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany offered his friendship to Boer president Kruger (though the support turned out to be only moral). The (second) Boer War began in 1899, and ended in 1902; Victoria died in 1901.
The Boer War started with a series of bad British defeats, forcing them to bring in additional forces from all over the Empire. Naturally this included a lot of Irish troops. - RBW
File: OLoc090N
===
NAME: South Ythsie
DESCRIPTION: Forsay fees to Johnnie Gray and names the crew. He seems to like the work well enough but at term day "I'll tak' my budgets on my back, Farewell to Johnnie Gray."
AUTHOR: William Forsyth (source: Greig #19, p. 2)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (GreigDuncan3); reportedly written in 1851
KEYWORDS: farming worker moniker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #21, pp. 2-3, "South Ythsie" (1 text)
GreigDuncan3 355, "South Ythsie" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #5758
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Little Ythsie
NOTES: Notes to IRClare01: "A budget is a bag or knapsack used for carrying tools." 
From Peter A Hall, "Farm Life and the Farm Songs," pp. xxi-xxxi in GreigDuncan3: "The time between hirings was, in the mid nineteenth century North-East, predominantly six months ['terms'] and the hiring was generally called feeing." 
GreigDuncan3 has a map on p. xxxv, of "places mentioned in songs in volume 3" showing the song number as well as place name; South Ythsie (355) is at coordinate (h3,v9) on that map [roughly 17 miles N of Aberdeen]. - BS
File: GrD3355
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NAME: Southerly Wind
DESCRIPTION: Round: "Oh, it's a southerly wind and a cloudy sky, Proclaim it a hunting/sailing morning. Before the sun rises away we'll fly... Hark, hark , forward."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship sports
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 174-175, "Southerly Wind" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #9442
File: Doe174
===
NAME: Southern Blues, The
DESCRIPTION: "When I got up this mornin', I heard the old Southern whistle blow (x2), Then I was thinkin' 'bout my baby, Lord, I sure did want to go." The singer watches "the Southern cross the Dog." The singer wonders which train his baby took; he will try Georgia
AUTHOR: Big Bill Broonzy (at least in part)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (recording, Big Bill Broonzy)
KEYWORDS: train separation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 441-443, "The Southern Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Big Bill Broonzy, "The Southern Blues" (Bluebird B-5998/B-6964, 1935)
NOTES: This is one of those who-knows-how-to-file-it blues. The recorded form is Broonzy's, but there are older elements, including especially the line "where the Southern crosses the Dog," the chief basis for Cohen's inclusion of the song. W. C. Handy encountered this line from a street singer around 1903, and it helped inspire his blues career.
There is a recording by W. T. Narmour and S. W. Smith, "Where The Southern Crosses The Dog" (OKeh 45480); I don't know what its relation is to either this song or the one Handy heard. - RBW
File: LSRai443
===
NAME: Southern Cross (I), The
DESCRIPTION: The Southern Cross goes to the Gulf in March to hunt seals. They are successful in the hunt but on their return are lost in a storm. The SS Kyle, sent off to search, could find nothing. The singer concludes by hoping that all are in Heaven if never found.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: hunting storm ship wreck disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 31, 1914 - Last sighting of the Southern Cross
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 139, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 973-974, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 77, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, p. 57, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, pp. 54-55, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 80, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 99-100, "Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doy57 (Partial)
Roud #2796
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Southern Cross (II)" (subject)
NOTES: Horace Beck in his book _Folklore and the Sea_ (Mystic Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1985), p. 208 gives a brief account of sealing disasters in Newfoundland that he obtained from George A. England, "Vikings of the Ice" (London, 1924) pp. 54-59. - SH
Greenleaf/Mansfield says that 170 men were lost; "no survivor or wreckage has ever been found."
_Southern Cross_ last sighted by the _Portia_ March 31, 1914 off Cape Race en route from Channel, southwest Newfoundland, to Harbour Grace (on the far side of Conception Bay from St John's); cargo about 20,000 seals; Captain George Clark (Northern Shipwrecks Database).
A must-read article on the ballad and its history, complete with a map, is available online in the archives of the site for the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music. Specifically, _Canadian Journal for Traditional Music_, vol 10, 1982, "The Southern Cross: A Case Study in the Ballad as History" by T.B. Rogers.
The article is good not only for its exhaustive discussion of this ballad but for the light it sheds on ballad-making in Newfoundland (at least). - BS
This song is item dD36 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doy57
===
NAME: Southern Cross (II), The
DESCRIPTION: The Southern Cross sails out through the ice and is last sighted by the Portia off Cape St Mary's sailing home.
AUTHOR: unknbown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: hunting storm ship wreck disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 31, 1914 - Last sighting of the Southern Cross
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 101, "The Southern Cross" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Southern Cross (I)" (subject)
NOTES: The _Southern Cross_ last sighted by SS _Portia_ on March 31, 1914 sailing home to St John's with a cargo of seals. Believed "foundered in blizzard" with a loss of about 172 men. (Lehr/Best, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
Lehr/Best: see "The Newfoundland Disaster" for another ballad about another wreck in the same storm. "This was a particularly sad and tragic time for Newfoundland... leaving a total of about 252 dead in one month." - BS
File: LeBe101
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NAME: Southern Encampment, The
DESCRIPTION: "As I rambled out one evening in the pleasant month of June, I spied an encampment by the light of the moon." The southern girl reports on the soldiers' disdain for the northerners; despite their poor living conditions, she and they expect victory
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar patriotic soldier
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 223, "The Southern Encampment" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 207-208, "The Southern Encampment" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 223)
Roud #7704
File: R223
===
NAME: Southern Girl's Reply, The (True to the Gray)
DESCRIPTION: "I cannot listen to your words, The land's too far and wide, Go seek some happy northern girl To be your loving bride." The southern girl tells how her youngest brother and lover were slain in the Civil War; she will not marry one who fought to kill them
AUTHOR: Original words ("True to the Gray") by Pearl Rivers
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941
KEYWORDS: Civilwar courting rejection
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Warner 156, "The Southern Girl's Reply" (1 collected text plus the original Rivers poem, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 251-252, "The Southern Girl's Reply" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, STHREPLY*
Roud #7484
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (tune & meter) and references there
NOTES: The "Fitzhugh Lee" referred to in the first stanza was Robert E. Lee's nephew, and a cavalry officer. One of the senior generals under Jeb Stuart, he eventually commanded what remained of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia after Stuart's death and Wade Hampton's transfer. - RBW
File: Wa156
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NAME: Southern Jack, A
DESCRIPTION: "I got a southern jack [train engine], I got a southern jack, First thing yi (sic.) do shovel in the coal, Next thing yi do watch the drivers roll. I got a southern jack, I got a southern jack; All aboard on the southern jack!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: train
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 239, "A Southern Jack" (1 short text)
Roud #6452
File: Br3239
===
NAME: Southern Ladies
DESCRIPTION: Capstan shanty, Negro origin. "What will you fetch your Julia? Way-ay-ay-ay! What will you fetch your Julia? She's a Southern lady all the day." Meter changes from 2/2 to 3/2 throughout.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1916 (JFSS volume 5)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: Britain
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, p.395, "Southern Ladies" (1 short text, 1 tune-quoted from a shanty which Cecil Sharp gave in volume 5 of the Journal of the Folk Song Society) [AbEd, p. 300]
Roud #9173
File: Hugi395
===
NAME: Southern Oath, The
DESCRIPTION: "By the cross upon our banner, Glory to our Southern skies, We have sworn, a band of brothers, Free to live or free to die." Southrons will fight northern "hirelings," and protect southern "fair-haired daughters" from "your fierce and ruffian chief"
AUTHOR: Rosa Vertner Jeffrey?
EARLIEST_DATE: 1867 (Southern Poems of the War)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 359-360. "The Southern Oath" (1 text)
Roud #7766
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Confederate Oath
File: Beld359
===
NAME: Southern Shore Queen
DESCRIPTION: "It's concerning the harbour of Cape Broyle ... we will call it The Southern Shore Queen"; "Now Cape Broyle is famed for its beauty." The song lists the attributes of beautiful Cape Broyle
AUTHOR: almost certainly Gertrude Carew Cahill
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Doyle)
KEYWORDS: pride lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doyle3, p. 55, "Southern Shore Queen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, p. 47, "Southern Shore Queen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7312
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "The Southern Shore Queen" (on NFOBlondahl04)
NOTES: Cape Broyle is on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula, about 40 miles south of St John's - BS
In 2007, Andrea Tarvin, a relative of the author, wrote to me with background on the song. I quote her letter: "The song... was originally recorded by Omar Blondahl. The song was written by Gertrude Carew Cahill. She would have been the daughter of Arthur Carew from Shore's Cove,ÊCape Broyle, who was my great grandmother's brother. She died here in St. John's about three years ago and before she died they had a birthday party for her in St. Patricks Mercy Home at a which time they printed off the words to this song and passed it around for everyone to sing. The Downhomer...a local publication....had an article published about four to five years ago that read "Southern Shore Queen Mystery Solved." In this article they showed that Gertrude Carew Cahill wrote this song...and she played the accordian as well.... Everyone on the Southern Shore is in agreement that Gertrude wrote this song." - RBW
File: Doyl3055
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NAME: Southern Soldier Boy, The (Barbro Buck)
DESCRIPTION: "Barbro Buck is my sweetheart's name, He's off to the wars and gone, He's fighting for his Nannie dear, His sword is buckled on. He's fighting for his own true love, He is my only joy, He is the darling of my heart, My southern soldier boy."
AUTHOR: Words: Captain G.W. Alexander
EARLIEST_DATE: 1864
KEYWORDS: love separation Civilwar
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 238, "Barbro Buck" (1 text)
SharpAp 196, "Barbara Buck" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Hill-CivWar, p. 216, "The Southern Soldier Boy" (1 text)
ST R238 (Full)
Roud #3428
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Boy with the Auburn Hair" (tune)
NOTES: In the original Confederate version of this song, the hero's name is "Bob Roebuck." Tradition, however, has fairly consistently perverted this into "Barbro Buck."
The song was made popular by its appearance in the play "The Virginia Cavalier," a popular hit in the Richmond theatre. The original version was patriotic and political; this has faded from many of the traditional versions.
There are other pieces called "The Southern Soldier Boy" (e.g. by Father Ryan); I've yet to see one with the power of this one. - RBW
File: R238
===
NAME: Southern Wagon, The (Confederate)
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye sons of freedom and join our Southern band; we're going to fight the Yankees and drive them from our land." The song describes the state of the Confederate government and declares "The South is our wagon, we'll all have a ride."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889 (The Civil War in Song and Story)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar political
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
BrownIII 374, "The Southern Wagon" (1 text plus a fragment)
Hudson 121, p. 262, "Wait for the Wagon" (1 short text)
Roud #3716
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wait for the Wagon" (tune) and references there.
cf. "The Southern Wagon (Union)"
cf. "I Picked My Banjo Too" (lyrics, themes)
NOTES: This song, or at least Brown's version, has historical problems. (Hudson's version, of only two stanzas and chorus, is hardly significant.) It refers to Jeff(erson Davis) and "(Alexander) Stephens by his side," which is accurate enough (except that the two quickly fell out), and Beauregard, while never the senior Southern general (in fact, he was #5), was certainly the best-known early in the war.
But there was never a date when the Confederacy had exactly the states listed. The author says (South) Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi are in (forgetting Louisiana), but "Missouri, North Carolina, and Arkansas are slow... There's old Kentucky, Maryland, each hasn't made up their mind."
Note that Virginia is not mentioned, and that Tennessee (seceeded June 8, 1861) is "in" when Arkansas (May 6) is still "out." It could be argued that Tennessee ratified an agreement with the South before Arkansas, but both states saw their governors turn south immediately after Sumter and broke free of the Union soon after.
Plus, Missouri, like Kentucky and Maryland, would not join the Confederacy (except in their dreams and the stars on their battle flag), though Missouri in particular did supply partisan troops to the south. - RBW
File: Br3374
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NAME: Southern Wagon, The (Union)
DESCRIPTION: "Jeff Davis built a wagon and on it put his name, And Beauregard was driver of Secession's ugly (frame/fame)." The song details the slow but steady progress of the Union forces.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar parody
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: July 21, 1862 - First Battle of Bull Run. Mentioned out of order in Belden's version, but Lincoln and General Winfield Scott appointed George B. McClellan commander of the Army of the Potomac the day after the battle ("they put in all new spokes")
Sep 4, 1861 - Occupation of Columbus, Kentucky by forces under Leonidas K. Polk ("Bishop Polk"). Kentucky had tried to declare neutrality; both sides prepared to occupy it once the neutrality was broken. Polk went in first, but the Union had more forces in the area, and gained the bulk of the state. And Polk's invasion helped push the legislature to declare for the Union
Jan 19, 1862 - Battle of Logan Cross Roads (also called Mill Springs, as in the song). A small battle by later standards, but the first major union victory of the war. Federal forces under George H. Thomas beat forces under Zollicoffer, securing much of Kentucky and opening a path into Tennessee
Feb 16, 1862 - Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. This, combined with his capture of Fort Henry on the Tennessee (Feb. 6) blows a hole in the Confederate position in Kentucky and forces Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston to evacuate Bowling Green. This was the famous "Unconditional Surrender" incident: After the two senior officers at Donelson fled, the #3, Simon Bolivar Buckner, bit the bullet and accepted Grant's unconditional terms
Apr 25, 1862 - Union forces under Farragut capture New Orleans
Jun 6, 1862 - Naval battle of Memphis clears the path for Union occupation of that city
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Belden, pp. 364-366, "The Southern Wagon" (1 text)
JHCox 70, "Jeff Davis" (1 fragmentary text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 482, "The Southern Wagon" (source notes only)
Roud #3716
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Wait for the Wagon" (tune) and references there.
cf. "The Southern Wagon (Confederate)"
NOTES: Cox lists this as a parody of the "favorite Confederate song" "The Southern Wagon." A Confederate song it may be, but hardly a favorite; I've found no evidence of traditional versions, and the single stanza Cox quotes seems to be the only traditional portion of the parody.
What is interesting is that Belden, too, has the *union* form, and a full version. - RBW
File: JHCox070
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NAME: Sovay, Sovay: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
===
NAME: Sovay, the Female Highwayman: see The Female Highwayman [Laws N21] (File: LN21)
===
NAME: Sow Pig, The
DESCRIPTION: John Walker takes the "Lough Swilly Line" to Derry and buys a pig. He takes her to Marshall's to be serviced. A great crowd watches the heroic proceedings. "But all ended well and for in a short time The sow she produced a fine litter of nine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1988 (McBride)
KEYWORDS: sex humorous moniker animal
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
McBride 66, "The Sow Pig" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: McBride: "This song was composed locally in the Burnfoot area of Inishowen at the beginning of the century." - BS
File: McB1066
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NAME: Sow Took the Measles, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer founds his property on a sow. When the sow takes the measles and dies, he makes a saddle of her hide, a thimble of her nose, a whip of her tail, pickles and/or glue of her feet, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Fuson)
KEYWORDS: animal talltale technology disease
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE,So,SE)
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Randolph 412, "The Measles in the Spring" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 177, "My Old Sow's Nose" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 253-255, "The Old Sow Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson, p. 185, "The Old Sow" (1 text, in which the old sow "died in the winter last spring")
Lomax-FSNA 15, "The Sow Took the Measles" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 405, "The Sow Took The Measles" (1 text)
DT, SOWMEASL*
Roud #17759
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Red Herring" (theme)
File: LoF015
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NAME: Sow's Tail to Geordie, The
DESCRIPTION: Geordie [George I] meets a sow. At every action Geordie takes she makes a fool of him and shows him her tail: he wears turnips on his head, she pulls them down; he invites her to dance, she flaunts her buttocks; she beats him at a race, and so on.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1819 (Hogg1)
KEYWORDS: humorous political Jacobites animal food dancing racing
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hogg1 55, "The Sow's Tail to Geordie" (1 text, 1 tune)
GreigDuncan1 121, "The Soo's Tail to Geordie" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #5781
NOTES: Hogg1: "All this gibing and fun about the sow and Geordie, that runs through so many of the songs of that period, without explanation must appear rather inexplicable; but from whatever cause it may have originated, it is evident that the less that is said about it the better."
GreigDuncan1: "... 'the soo' being one of George I's mistresses, Madame Schulemberg, Duchess of Kendal, or Madame Kilmausegge, Countess of Darlington - Hogg apparently thinks the latter." - BS
I incline the same way. Schulemberg was so thin that she was called "the maypole"; Kilmausegge was so heavy that she was called "the goose" or "the elephant." For more about this two, see e.g. the notes to "Came Ye O'er Frae France." - RBW
File: GrD1121
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NAME: Sow's Triumph Over the Peelers, The
DESCRIPTION: A Ballaconnell sow wrestles a police sergeant to the street. The army, called for help, is stopped by two goats. The sergeant tries to take the goats to Cavan jail. The pig's ire is renewed. With the goats, she drives the sergeant into hiding 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1881 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.10(138))
KEYWORDS: humorous political animal police soldier
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: ()

BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.10(138), "The Sow's Triumph Over the Peelers" ("Come pray attention for a while, I'll tell you a jest I do protest"), The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1849-1880
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The World Turned Upside Down" (tune, per broadside Bodleian 2806 b.10(138))
cf. "The Peeler and the Goat" (theme)
cf. "The Monegran Pig Hunt" (theme)
NOTES: Zimmermann p. 215: "The success of ['The Peeler and the Goat'] inspired other texts: 'The Peeler and the Sow' (set in County Cavan, the goat also appearing in that ballad) and 'The Dog's Victory on the Peeler' (set in Kilkenny), both of them very inferior to O'Ryan's satire." The present broadside seems compounded from the sow and dog versions described by Zimmermann. - BS
File: BrdSTOtP
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NAME: Sowens for Sap at Oor New Tap
DESCRIPTION: "The foremost man o' oor New Tap, He works a stallion fine. The Lion they do call him... The little one that goes to him She's swift and spunky too. Sowens for sap at oor New Tap, Ye'll find it winna do." The singer describes horses and men of the farm
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad moniker
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Greig #92, pp. 1-2, "Sowens for Sap" (1 text) 
GreigDuncan3 400, "Sowens for Sap" (1 text)
Ord, p. 251, "Sowens for Sap" (1 text)
Roud #5575
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Parks o' Keltie" (tune, per Greig)
File: Ord251
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NAME: Sowing on the Mountain
DESCRIPTION: "Sowing on the mountain, reaping in the valley (x3), You're gonna reap just what you so." "God gave Noah the rainbow sign...." "Won't be water, but fire next time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (recording, Carter Family)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Darling-NAS, pp. 263-264, "Sowing on the Mountain" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 363, "Sowing on the Mountain" (1 text)
DT, SOWNGMTN
Roud #11554
RECORDINGS:
 (Victor 23585, 1931; Bluebird B-5468, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4744, 1935)
A. P. Carter Camily, "Sow 'em on the Mountain" (Acme 997, n.d. but probably 1950s)
Coon Creek Girls, "Sowing on the Mountain" (Vocalion 04278, 1938)
File: FSWB363
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NAME: Soy Pobre Vaquero: see Poor Lonesome Cowboy (File: San273)
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NAME: Spailpin Fanac
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Singer, a spalpeen bids farewell to Ireland; on his last job 12 women contended for him. He was happy at first, then found he was being cheated of his pay. He boasts that women like him, and compliments a young woman going down the road
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965 (recording, Joe Heaney)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Singer, a spalpeen (itinerant agricultural laborer) bids farewell to Ireland; on his last job 12 women contended for him. He was happy at first, then found he was being cheated of his pay. He boasts that women like him, and compliments a young woman going down the road; "The tailor that took her measure/I am sure that he was in love with her/For he took her measure up from the ground/And high above her waist/And they tell me that's the reason/She is always laughing."
KEYWORDS: courting sex bragging emigration rambling travel beauty farming foreignlanguage work worker migrant
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Joe Heaney, "Spailpin Fanac" (on Pubs1)
NOTES: In Ireland young workers were often hired at autumn hiring fairs for six months, the women as dairy maids or kitchen maids, the men as farm servants. At the end of the term, often the women would marry and settle, while the men travelled to the next hiring fair or hit the road as itinerant workers, known as "spalpeens." - PJS
File: RcSpaiFa
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NAME: Spailpin Fanach, An (The Migrant Labourer)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Farewell to my dear island and the boys I left at home. I enlisted in the army; it was a mistake. One wonderful day I could persuade any woman that black was white. "Twelve envious women compete for the benefit of my love"; even the old hag.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1967 (recording, Sean Mac Donnchadha)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage emigration travel drink army nonballad rake soldier worker
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Sean Mac Donnchadha, "An Spailpin Fanach" (on Voice20)
NOTES: The description is from the translation of the text in the notes to Voice20. - BS
File: RcASpaFa
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NAME: Spailpin Fanach, An (The Rover)
DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. The singer had been a rover for hire by farmers at fairs. Now, instead, he will carry the Pike under the French banner. He is leaving a girl behind in Kerry. When the French arrive the yeomen and English will be forced to fly.
AUTHOR: George Sigerson (1836-1925) (translator )(source: Moylan)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1897 (Sigerson's _Bards of the Gael and Gall_, according to Moylan; source for date: "George Sigerson" on Ireland's Millenia site)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage rebellion England France Ireland patriotic
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1798 - Irish rebellion against British rule 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Moylan 131, "Spailpin Fanach, An" (1 text Gaelic, 1 tune); 132, "The Rover" (1 text English)
NOTES: The description is from the translation by George Sigerson as Moylan 132, "The Rover."
For more on the French involvement in the Rebellion of 1798 see, for example, the notes to "The Men of the West" and "The Shan Van Voght" - BS
File: Moyl131
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NAME: Spanish Captain, The
DESCRIPTION: A Spanish captain and his beautiful wife and daughter, bound for Newfoundland, are killed in a shipwreck near Cape Spear. The singer seems to have been one of the crew and laments the loss of the captain and his family.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: wreck death lament family father mother
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 137, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, pp. 38-39, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best 102, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 87-88, "The Spanish Captain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4079
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "The Spanish Captain" (on NFABest01)
Omar Blondahl, "The Spanish Captain" (on NFOBlondahl01)
NOTES: There is a formulaic introduction to the song where the Muses are called upon to help the singer and the public is promised not to be delayed too much in the telling. Cape Spear is the most eastern point in North America. - SH
Editor's Nitpick: Technically, the easternmost point in North America (that is, the point with the most eastern longitude) is in Alaska, since it is the only part of North America to be in the eastern hemisphere. Cape Spear is the easternmost point in the Western Hemisphere.
This song is item dD33 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
Lehr/Best: (viz., Best) In verses 5 and 6 "The smoke lay flying o'er the hills and pitching on the sea .... The Margrietta was our ship's name ...."  "The Margrietta referred to is very likely the Mayaquezanna, a Spanish brig lost at Blackhead, near Cape Spear, on 14 August 1876.  Both the captain and his wife were drowned."  Northern Shipwrecks Database: Mayaquezana/Maguezana stranded in smoke with 2 or 3 lost. - BS
File: Doy38
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NAME: Spanish Cavalier, The
DESCRIPTION: The Spanish Cavalier plays his guitar under a tree, asking his sweetheart to be true while he is off to war. He promises to return if he lives, and asks her to seek him if he dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Merchant's Gargling Oil Songster for that year)
KEYWORDS: war separation music
FOUND_IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
LPound-ABS, 106, p. 218, "The Spanish Cabineer" (1 text)
ST LPnd218 (Full)
Roud #2684
RECORDINGS:
Riley Puckett, "Spanish Cavalier" (Columbia 15003-D, c. 1924)
NOTES: My 1887 _Merchant's Gargling Oil Songster_ lists this song as being copyrighted in the name of Gwo. W. Hagans, but this was simply a publishing house. The author is not listed. - RBW
File: LPnd218
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NAME: Spanish Is a Loving Tongue: see Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (A Border Affair) (File: FCW052)
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NAME: Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (A Border Affair)
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells of his love for (and language lessons from) a Mexican girl. "But one time I had to fly For a foolish gambling fight." Though the affair may have been a mistake, he still misses her and her farewell, "Adios, mi corazon."
AUTHOR: Words: Charles Badger Clark
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920; apparently copyrighted 1919
KEYWORDS: love separation abandonment gambling fight foreigner
FOUND_IN: US(Ro,SW)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Fife-Cowboy/West 52, "Border Affair" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 278-279, "Spanish Is a Loving Tongue" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 141, "Spanish Is The Loving Tongue" (1 text)
DT, SPANLOVE*
Roud #11085
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" (on PeteSeeger30)
NOTES: A version of this is printed in volume 38, number 2 of _Sing Out!_ (1993), p.70 credits the music to Billy Simon. This seems to be based on the statements of Katie Lee, but the information in the _Sing Out!_ article by itself is not sufficient for me to credit Simon.
File: FCW052
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NAME: Spanish Johnny
DESCRIPTION: "The old West, the old time, The old wind singing through..." are the habitat of Spanish Johnny, who herds cattle and kills men and "sing[s] to his mandolin." Spanish Johnny is finally hung; the night before he dies, he sings one last time to the mandolin
AUTHOR: Words: Willa Cather / Music: C. E. Scoggins (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy death execution music
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 123-124, "Spanish Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15551
NOTES: Written as a poem, the Lomaxes apparently collected this from the author of the tune. There is no evidence that it ever entered tradition. - RBW
File: LxA123
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NAME: Spanish Ladies
DESCRIPTION: Sailor bids farewell to the Spanish (Australian, South American) ladies as his ship weighs anchor and departs for England (Massachusetts).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.17(305))
KEYWORDS: parting sailor Spain England
FOUND_IN: Britain(England) US(NE) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Hugill, pp. 385-386, "Spanish Ladies" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 293-294]
Sharp-100E 89, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 136-137, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 233-234, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 41, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 97, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
Ranson, p. 25, "The Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
DT, SPANLAD* SPANLAD3*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Farewell and Adieu" is in Part 4, 8/4/1917.
Roud #687
RECORDINGS:
Cadgwith fishermen, "Farewell and Adieu" (on LastDays)
Johnny Doughty, "Up the Channel" (on Voice12)
A. L. Lloyd, "Talcahuano Girls" (on Lloyd3, Lloyd9)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.17(305), "The Spanish Ladies", J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 11(1483), Harding B 11(3611), Firth b.34(40), Firth c.13(39), Firth c.13(41), "[The] Spanish Ladies"
LOCSinging, as104650, "Spanish Ladies", J. Catnach (London), 19C
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" (plot, tune, lyrics)
cf. "Brisbane Ladies" (plot, tune, lyrics)
cf. "The Countersigns" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The Countersigns (File: Col135)
Brisbane Ladies (File: FaE162)
We'll Rant and We'll Roar (File: FJ042)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Farewell and Adieu To You
NOTES: This well-known melody inspired a number of local parodies, including "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" and "Brisbane Ladies." As most of these are deliberate rewrites, however, they are not included here. - RBW
File: ShH89
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NAME: Spanish Lady (I): see Wheel of Fortune (Dublin City, Spanish Lady) (File: E098)
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NAME: Spanish Lady (II), The: see The Spanish Lady's Love (File: OBB161)
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NAME: Spanish Lady's Love, The
DESCRIPTION: Imprisoned by an English captain, the Spanish lady falls in love with her captor. They exchange praises for the English, and he tells her they are mismatched. This does not convince her; at last he says he is married. They go their separate ways
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1728 (registered 1603, and quoted in 1616)
KEYWORDS: courting separation love prison
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 247-251, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
OBB 161, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, pp. 84-85, "The Spanish Lady" (1 tune, partial text)
BBI, ZN2935, "Will you hear a Spanish Lady"; cf. AN2934, "Will you hear a German Princess"
ST OBB161 (Partial)
Roud #9735
File: OBB161
===
NAME: Spanish Maid, The: see A Gay Spanish Maid [Laws K16] (File: LK16)
===
NAME: Spanish Merchant's Daughter: see No, John, No (File: R385)
===
NAME: Spanish Privateer, The: see The French Privateer (File: HHH560)
===
NAME: Spanish Shore, The: see Lovely Sally (You Broken-Hearted Heroes) (File: HHH549)
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NAME: Spanish War, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls "our last rebellion" in 1861, and declares that "battle must be fought" against Spain to "avenge the Maine": "They sunk her, never to rise again." Despite the possibility of loss, the war must be pursued
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: Spain battle war navy soldier
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1895 - Cubans rebel against Spain
Feb 15, 1898 - Explosion of the battleship "Maine" in Havana harbour
April 25, 1898 - Congress declares war on Spain
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 95-96, (no title) (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "My Sweetheart Went Down with the Maine" (theme) and references there
NOTES: For further information about the _Maine_ and the Spanish-American War, see the notes on "My Sweetheart Went Down with the Maine."
This particular piece of rampant jingoism and blatant inaccuracy strikes me as possibly the work of the yellow press. - RBW
File: ThBa095
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NAME: Spanking Maggie from the Ross
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells listeners about a race urged by "Mr. Montague." Campbell Miller accepts the bet. Jockey Bell holds back his horse for a time, to increase the excitement and the wagering, then wins easily. The singer offers a toast to the winners
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: racing gambling horse trick
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H516, p. 35, "Spanking Maggie from the Ross" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13354
File: HHH516
===
NAME: Sparking on a Sunday Night: see Sparking Sunday Night (File: R379)
===
NAME: Sparking Sunday Night
DESCRIPTION: As "Down behind the hilltops goes the setting sun,"  young lovers gather to court and go "sparking Sunday Night." The young people wait impatiently for her parents to drop off so they can spark seriously. Conclusion: sparking is fine -- but best on Sunday
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1921 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: courting love family
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 379, "Sparking Sunday Night" (1 text); 468, "Sparking on Sunday Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 95-96, "Sparking on a Sunday Night" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2820
NOTES: Randolph treats his two pieces as separate, and does not even cross-reference them. It's true that the forms are slightly different, and that his #379 includes a sub-plot (waiting for the parents to fall asleep) not found in #468. But the key phrase is the same, and so is the feeling; I think they are one piece. - RBW
File: R379
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NAME: Special Agent/Railroad Police Blues
DESCRIPTION: "Now, when I left for Ripley the weather was kind of cool...." "Now, I swung that 97...." "Now, them special agents up the country sure is hard on a man...." The singer asks the special agents to evict him near a town so he can make a recording
AUTHOR: Sleepy John Estes (1904-1977)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (recording, Sleepy John Estes)
KEYWORDS: train hobo technology
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 435-436, "Special Agent/Railroad Police Blues" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Sleepy John Estes, "Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues" (Decca 7491, 1938)
File: LSRai435
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NAME: Speckles (Freckles)
DESCRIPTION: "He was little 'en peaked 'en thin 'an Narr't a no 'account horse" (sic). The singer describes meeting (Freckles) many years ago, and being surprised by the gameness of this "no account" horse (which managed to rescue him from a party of Indians)
AUTHOR: N. Howard Thorp
EARLIEST_DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy Indians(Am.)
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thorp/Fife XXIII, pp. 254-257 (48-50), "Speckles" (2 texts, the second being an extension of the first)
Roud #8044
NOTES: Another Thorp composition that had little play in tradition. Even so, it has a variant reading; the author couldn't decide whether the horse was named "Speckles" or "Freckles"! - RBW
File: TF23
===
NAME: Speed the Plow (Sal'sb'ry Sal)
DESCRIPTION: Known as a fiddle tune, Flanders gives the words as "Oh, high, diddy-di, for Sal'sb'ry Sal, Plump she was, and a right smart gal, Swing to the center and caper down the hall, High, diddy-di, and a balance all...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1931 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: dancetune nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Flanders/Brown, p. 26, "Sal'sb'ry Sal" (1 text)
Linscott, pp. 111-112, "Speed the Plow" (1 tune plus dance instructions)
NOTES: "Speed the Plow" is, of course, one of the most popular of fiddle tunes. We can't absolutely identify it with the words in Flanders and Brown, though, because they don't give a tune! - RBW
File: FlBr026
===
NAME: Spencer the Rover
DESCRIPTION: "These words were composed by Spencer the Rover, who travelled Great Britain and most parts of Wales." After much rambling and assorted adventures, he returns "to his family and wife" and decides to go roving no more
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1877
KEYWORDS: rambling family return
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All))
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Kennedy 331, "Spencer the Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 264-265, "Spencer the Rover" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPENCROV*
Roud #1115
File: K331
===
NAME: Spendthrift Clapt Into Limbo, The: see Limbo (File: CrMa124)
===
NAME: Spider and the Fly, The
DESCRIPTION: "'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly -- ''Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.'" The fly demurs; the spider persists; at last she is lured "within his little parlor -- but she ne'er came out again."
AUTHOR: Mary (Botham) Howitt (1799-1888)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Lawson, _The World's Best-Loved Poems_)
KEYWORDS: bug trick lie death
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #837, pp. 316-317, "('Will you walkin into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly)"
Roud #13006
NOTES: Mary Howitt, the wife of author William Howitt, made a number of translations into English (including, apparently, some of the works of Hans Christian Andersen), but is hardly remembered today except for this one piece. _Granger's Index to Poetry_ cites ten poems of hers, but most are in only a single reference; 11 books are cited for this piece. I have this feeling that some of those other citations are instance where editors wanted to prove she did more than write "The Spider and the Fly." - RBW
File: BGMG837
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NAME: Spider from the Gwydir, The
DESCRIPTION: "By the sluggish River Gwydir Lived a wicked redbacked spider...." A drunken shearer falls asleep near its lair. A man and woman come up and set out to rob him. As she approaches, the spider bites her. She flees in pain; the shearer is saved
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: bug humorous robbery
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 204-205, "The Spider from the Gwydir" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 170, "The Moree Spider" (1 text)
File: MA204
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NAME: Spike Driver Blues: see Take This Hammer (File: FR383)
===
NAME: Spin Spin: see Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (File: R109)
===
NAME: Spin, Daughter, Spin: see Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (File: R109)
===
NAME: Spin, Meine Liebe Tochter (Spin, My Little Daughter): see Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (File: R109)
===
NAME: Spinnin' o't, The
DESCRIPTION: Once "some canty goodman" sang "A wee pickle tow for the spinnin o't." "The stupid auld carlin" left the linen too close to the fireplace. The goodman says that he had asked forty years for a shirt with nothing to show.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1909 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: shrewishness fire husband wife
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Greig #60, p. 2, "The Spinnin' o't" (1 fragment)
GreigDuncan3 474, "The Spinnin' o't" (1 fragment)
Roud #5971
NOTES: Greig prints only the first verse of the three in GreigDuncan3 and considers it "an introductory verse to 'The spinnin' o't' [that is, "The Wee Pickle Tow"] which I have never come across in any version of the song which I have hitherto seen." GreigDuncan3's other two verses still seem introductory, hardly advancing the story, and may be just a fragment of "The Wee Pickle Tow." - BS
File: GrD3474
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NAME: Spinning Rhyme: see My Wheelie Goes Round (File: MSNR173)
===
NAME: Spinning Song
DESCRIPTION: "Spin, ladies, spin all day (x2), Sheep shell corn, Rain rattles up a horn, Spin, ladies, spin all day (x3)."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: worksong nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 215, "Spinning-Song" (1 short text)
File: ScNF215A
===
NAME: Spinning Wheel (I), The
DESCRIPTION: A young man comes courting the girl, praising her beauty and kissing her hand, "But yet I turned my spinning wheel." At last he proposes (marriage/a roll in the hay); she (accepts and leaves her wheel/orders him away)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 
KEYWORDS: love courting technology work rejection marriage
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Arnett, pp. 12-13, "The Spinning Wheel" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPINWHL2*
File: Arn012
===
NAME: Spirit of the Lord Has Fell On Me
DESCRIPTION: "O John, O hallelujah, O John, O the spirit of the Lord has fell on to me." "Hallelujah to the lamb, Spirit of the Lord has fell on to me, Jesus made me what I am...." "Prettiest work I ever done... To work for the Lord when I was young...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad work Jesus
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 92, "Spirit of the Lord Has Fell On Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4918
NOTES: If this is an allusion to any Biblical incident at all (and I'm not sure it is), I suspect it's to Revelation 1:10, where John was "in the Spirit on the Lord's day." John is associated with the giving of the Spirit in passages such as Acts 8:15, but Peter seems to be the prime mover in all such places. - RBW
File: ChFRA092
===
NAME: Spirit Song of George's Bank, The: see The Ghostly Crew [Laws D16] (File: LD16)
===
NAME: Spiritual Railroad, The: see The Road to Heaven (File: R600)
===
NAME: Sport Song, A: see The Quaker's Courtship (File: R362)
===
NAME: Sport's Lament
DESCRIPTION: "I am a poor forlorn dog and Sport is my name." Born in Caw, he is sent to Donegal but has no training. At first his owner treats him well, but then a dog tax is imposed; the master throws him out because he is expensive and useless
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: dog abandonment animal home
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H772, p. 23, "Sport's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13346
NOTES: Obviously a composed song, with music perhaps set by Sam Henry, but I have been unable to determine when license taxes were imposed on British dogs. - RBW
File: HHH772
===
NAME: Sporting Bachelors, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you sportin' bachelors, take warning by me." The singer warns of a fast life and of marriage. His wife dresses him in rags, and makes him work constantly so she may live well. He hopes she dies so he may again be free.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1920
KEYWORDS: marriage courting abuse bachelor
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Wyman-Brockway II, p. 46, "Sporting Bachelors" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 14, "The Sporting Bachelors" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPORTBCH*
Roud #5556
RECORDINGS:
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Never Be as Fast as I Have Been" (Victor 23565, 1929; on GraysonWhitter01)
Buell Kazee, "Sporting Bachelors" (Brunswick 157, 1927; Supertone S-2082, 1930; on KMM)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Never Be as Fast as I Have Been" (on NLCR14)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
cf. "Scolding Wife (IV)" (plot)
cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
NOTES: Roud lumps this with "Scolding Wife (IV)," and I cannot deny the close similarity in themes. But the two appear somewhat different in both form and emphasis. - RBW
File: LxU014
===
NAME: Sporting Cowboy: see Logan County Jail (Dallas County Jail) [Laws E17] (File: LE17)
===
NAME: Sporting Life Blues
DESCRIPTION: "I got a letter from my home, Most of my friends are dead and gone... That sporting life is killing me." The singer describes all the rowdy things he has done, wishes he had listened to his mother, and decides that he should marry and settle down
AUTHOR: Generally attributed to Brownie McGhee
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: rambling drink gambling
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 74, "Sporting Life Blues" (1 text)
DT, SPRTLIFE
File: FSWB074
===
NAME: Sporting Maggie
DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a girl. She doesn't want to marry but only "to court with a sporting young blade that pleases Sporting Maggie." "If you love me as I love thee, What a sporting couple we would be."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1959 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: sex bawdy dialog rake whore
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Peacock, pp. 314-315, "Sporting Maggie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6461
File: Pea314
===
NAME: Sporting Old Grey Mare, The: see The Old Grey Mare (III) (File: OLoc035)
===
NAME: Sporting Races of Galway, The: see The Galway Races (File: OLoc010)
===
NAME: Sporting Youth, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer asks Mary to go with him to America. She agrees although friends say he would not prove true. "So now we are landed and married we be We will live in contentment and sweet unity"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1821 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 c.17(4) View 2 of 2)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage emigration America Ireland floatingverses
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 47, "The Sporting Youth" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3016
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y2:013, "The Sporting Youth," The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 19C
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(4) View 2 of 2, "American strander" ("I'm a stranger in this country"), G. Thompson (Liverpool), 1789-1820; also 2806 b.11(278), Harding B 11(3206), Harding B 16(257a), Johnson Ballads 1834, "[The] Sporting Youth"; Harding B 16(6a), "The American Stranger"; Harding B 25(1845)[partly illegible], "The Stranger"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Colin and Phoebe" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Johnson Ballads 1834)
NOTES: Usually the stranger comes from America; in some cases he comes from Ireland. - BS
File: OLoc047
===
NAME: Sports o' Glasgow Green, The
DESCRIPTION: "Ae morn in the sweet month o' July... Young Jockey had trysted wi' Jenny To gang wi' him in to the fair." They go to Glasgow, see all the strange people and exhibits, have sundry adventures, and head home to sleep it off
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord), from an undated songster
KEYWORDS: worker music animal humorous drink food
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ord, pp. 396-399, "The Sports o' Glasgow Green" (1 text)
Roud #5615
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Blythesome Bridal" (tune, thematic elements)
File: Ord397
===
NAME: Spotted Cow, The
DESCRIPTION: Singer meets a milkmaid who has lost her spotted cow. He says he's seen the cow in yonder grove, and offers to show her. They spend the day there. Now whenever she sees him, she calls to him again: "I have lost my spotted cow"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1889 (Baring Gould)
KEYWORDS: courting love sex farming animal lover worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 142, "The Spotted Cow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #956
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Spotted Cow" (on HCox01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Kitty of Coleraine" (theme)
cf. "Blackberry Grove" (theme)
cf. "Three Maidens to Milking Did Go" (theme)
NOTES: Not to be confused with "The Old Spotted Cow," a version of "The Crafty Farmer." - PJS
File: K142
===
NAME: Spotted Islands Song, The
DESCRIPTION: The Anderson leaves Cupids "for a dance in Spotted Islands In the good old Fishin' Time!" The ships are named. "We had on board eight females" but the crew "kept up good behavior" and landed them safely on Wednesday morning.
AUTHOR: Samuel Richards
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Blondahl)
KEYWORDS: commerce sea ship dancing
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Blondahl, pp. 91-92, "The Spotted Islands Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Cupids is on Cape Breton. Spotted Islands is off the coast of Labrador. - BS
File: Blon091
===
NAME: Spottee
DESCRIPTION: "Come all you good people and listen to me, And a comical jest I will tell unto ye, Concerning one Spottee that lived on the law key...." The wild man frightens women and children and horses; many hope to see him move, but sailors will not take him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: madness
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  72-73, "Spottee" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR072 (Partial)
Roud #3142
NOTES: Stokoe quotes Sir Cuthbert Sharp to the effect that song tells of an actual madman "who lives in a cave between Whitburn and Sunderland, which still retains the name of 'Spottee's Hole.'" - RBW
File: StoR072
===
NAME: Spree at Montague, The
DESCRIPTION: "There were a spree in Montague ... At a farmer's house." The fiddler could not play a good dance tune and blamed the fiddle. A second fiddler is called in and plays very well with the same fiddle. Moral: Invite fiddler number two to ensure a good dance. 
AUTHOR: Patrick William Farrell
EARLIEST_DATE: 1969 (Ives-DullCare)
KEYWORDS: vanity dancing fiddle party
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ives-DullCare, pp. 208-209, 255, "The Spree at Montague" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13996
RECORDINGS:
John Farrell, "The Spree at Montague" (on MREIves01)
NOTES: Montague is on the east coast of Kings County, Prince Edward Island. - BS
File: UvDC208
===
NAME: Sprig of Shillelah, The
DESCRIPTION: The Irishman "loves all that's lovely": drinking, fighting. May English, Scots and Irish drub the French and be "united and happy at loyalty's shrine, May the rose and the thistle long flourish and twine Round a sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green!"
AUTHOR: Edward Lysaght (1763-1810)? (according to Croker-PopularSongs);  Henry Brereton Code (d. 1830)? (according to Bodleian documentation re broadsides (see notes))
EARLIEST_DATE: 1807 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 10(50))
KEYWORDS: war England France Ireland nonballad patriotic
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
O'Conor, p. 13, "The Sprig of Shillelah" (1 text)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 110-115, "The Sprig of Shillelah" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 481-482, 503, "The Sprig of Shillelah"
Roud #13379
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 10(50), "Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock So Green", Laurie & Whittle (London), 1807; also Harding B 17(299a), "The Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock So Green"; Firth b.34(279), "Sprig of Shillelagh"; Harding B 11(3632), 2806 c.18(300), "Sprig of Shilelah"; Harding B 11(892), "Sprig of Shillalah"; Harding B 18(448), Harding B 17(298a), Harding B 17(298b), Johnson Ballads 60, "Sprig of Shillelah"; Harding B 25(1830) [only partly legible], "The Sprig of Shilelah and Shamrock So Green"
LOCSinging, as203420, "Sprig of Shillelah", Andrews (New York), 1853-1859 
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Darling Neddeen" (tune, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
SAME_TUNE:
Black Joke (broadside Bodleian Harding B 10(50))
NOTES: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 10(50) notes that the text was "sung with unbounded applause by Mr Johnstone, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane." The publication date is October 20, 1807. The Peninsular Campaign against the French in Portugal is in the news. That may explain the text's sense of unity of Irish and English against the French. O'Conor has the leek of Wales with the rose of England and thistle of Scotland, in "the rose, leek and thistle" joining the shamrock of Ireland.
The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site entry for Henry Brereton Code notes that Code included "Sprig of Shillelah" in his 1813 musical drama "The Russian Sacrifice, or the Burning of Moscow." While its inclusion there is consistent with its sense of unity the earlier broadside rules against the play as its first appearance. The site also refers to Code as "a particularly detested character, spy and informer" from the Irish viewpoint.
_Irish Minstrelsy_ by H. Halliday Sparling (London, 1888), pp. 481-482, 503, "The Sprig of Shillelah" makes the attribution to Edward Lysaght (1763-1810).
Croker-PopularSongs, p. 106: "The Irish oak, figuratively termed 'a sprig of Shillelah,' is so called from Shillelah, a district in the county of Wicklow, formerly celebrated for its oak woods.... [Quoting _The Dublin Penny Journal_:] '... an Irishman cannot walk or wander, sport or fight, buy or sell, comfortably, without an oak stick in his fist.'"
I can no longer reach the Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) site. Perhaps I misunderstood the entry there to indicate that Henry B. Code is the author; Bodleian, in its documentation for broadsides Harding B 25(1830), Harding B 17(299a), 2806 c.18(300) and Harding B 17(298b) also has Code as the author [Code's name is not on the face of any of those broadsides]. Croker, possibly Sparling's source, has Edward Lysaght as the author. Lysaght's title for the song was, apparently, "Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock so Green," as on a number of the broadsides.
If this poem had been included in _Poems by the Late Edward Lysaght, Esq_ (Dublin, 1811) that would have gone a long way toward settling the authorship question. That book is a collection of some of Lysaght's poems, but not this one.
Broadside LOCSinging as203420: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon013
===
NAME: Sprig of Thyme: see In My Garden Grew Plenty of Thyme AND Thyme (It Is a Precious Thing) AND Garners Gay (Rue; The Sprig of Thyme) (File: R090)
===
NAME: Sprightly Young Damsel
DESCRIPTION: Daughter complains of pains. Mother says it's time to marry the rich miller. Daughter would marry the unsuspecting father, poor farmer Willie. Mother refuses. Daughter reminds mother of her own indiscretions. Mother relents and prepares a grand wedding.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (according to notes to IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: wedding pregnancy dialog humorous mother miller
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #18473
RECORDINGS:
Michael "Straighty"' Flanagan, "Sprightly Young Damsel" (on IRClare01)
File: RcSpYDam
===
NAME: Spring of '65: see The Backwoodsman (The Green Mountain Boys) [Laws C19] (File: LC19)
===
NAME: Spring of '97, The
DESCRIPTION:  "The Spring of '97 boys, For if we never knew The hardship of the frozen pan, We suffered with them too." "We struck the seals off Cabot Isle, Five days out from port"  The song describes killing harp seals, storm, ice damage, and sealers dying.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: memorial death hunting ship sea work ordeal storm
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Peacock, pp. 976-977, "The Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, p. 74, "The Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 77-78, "The Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ryan/Small, pp. 44-45, "THe Spring of '97" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Doyl3074 (Partial)
Roud #6470
File: Doyl3074
===
NAME: Spring of the Wadhams, The: see Maurice Crotty (File: Pea073)
===
NAME: Spring Trip of the Schooner Ambition, The
DESCRIPTION: Captain Himmelmann and the crew of the Ambition go out fishing in March. The song details where they go and even the frozen squid they use as bait, as well as all the trouble the crew has fishing; it ends with all happily ashore
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship fishing work
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Doerflinger, pp. 177-179, "The Spring Trip of the Schooner Ambition" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9425
NOTES: As this piece is blessed with defective metre, no rhyme scheme, and banal lyrics, I can only suspect that the informant was close to the author. I doubt the piece ever established itself in tradition (Doerflinger knows of no other versions, and Roud lists none). - RBW
File: Doe177
===
NAME: Springfield Mountain [Laws G16]
DESCRIPTION: A young man is out mowing a field. He is bitten by a poisonous snake. In "serious" versions, he dies because no one comes to his aid. In others, his sweetheart tries to draw the poison but instead is killed herself when the venom enters a "rotten tooth"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1836
KEYWORDS: death animal lover injury
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 7, 1761 - Death by snakebite of Timothy Myrick, often considered the inspiration for this song
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (31 citations)
Laws G16, "Springfield Mountain" (sample text in NAB, pp.  35-36)
Belden, pp. 299-300, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text plus a reference to 1 more)
Randolph 424, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts, 2 tunes)
Eddy 109, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Gardner/Chickering 38, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 1 tune)
BrownII 208, "Springfield Mountain" (3 text plus 3 fragments and mention of 1 more; the final fragment, "G," may perhaps be another song)
Hudson 61, p. 184, "Springfield Mountain" (1 short text)
Brewster 76, "Springfield Mountain" (1 fragment)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 223-224, "Springfield Mountain (I), (II)" (2 texts)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 15-18, "On Springfield Mountain" (2 texts plus some scraps, 2 tunes)
Linscott, pp. 285-286, "Springfield Mountain or The Black Sarpent" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 719-723, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 53-54, "The Rattlesnake Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Friedman, p. 302, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts)
Warner 23, "Springfield Mountain"; 65, "On Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
SharpAp 132, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Scott-BoA, pp. 44-45, "Springfield Mountain"; pp. 156-158, "The Pesky Sarpent" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-FSUSA 9, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 3, "Springfield Mountain"; 212, "Springfield Mountain (Texas Version)" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 356-357, "Rattle Snake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 828-829, "On Springfield Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-NEFolklr, pp. 554-555, "The Pesky Sarpent" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnett, p. 16, "Smithfield Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 81, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text)
JHCoxIIB, #3A-3C, pp. 122-125, "Springfield Mountain," "The Venomous Black Snake" (2 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 146-147, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
LPound-ABS, 42, pp. 97-98, "O Johnny Dear, Why Did You Go?"; pp. 98-99, "Woodville Mound]"; pp. 99, "In Springfield Mountain"; p. 100, "Springfield Mountain" (4 texts)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 167-170, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text, probably rewritten, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 218-220, "Springfield Mountain" (2 texts, one labeled a parody)
Silber-FSWB, p. 216, "Springfield Mountain" (1 text)
DT 314, SPRNMNTN* SPRNMTN2* SPRNMTN4*
Roud #431
RECORDINGS:
Winifred Bundy, "Young Johnny (Springfield Mountain)" (AFS, 1941; on LC55)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Springfield Mountain" (on BLLunsford02) (on AschRec2)
"Yankee" John Galusha, "Springfield Mountain" (on USWarnerColl01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Fod" (words)
cf. "The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake" (plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
O Polly Dear
NOTES: Phillips Barry studied this ballad in depth, and concluded that it fell into four subfamilies: the "Curtis" type (serious), the "Molly" type (comic; see, e.g. DT SPRNMNTN), the"Myrick" type (serious; see DT SPRNMTN2), and the "Sally" type (comic; see SPRNMTN4).
Spaeth, for some reason, credits this to someone named Nathan Torrey (_A History of Popular Music in America_, p. 64), but offers no supporting evidence. He also believes that the comic type "The Pesky Sarpent" comes from the political season of 1840! (The notes in Brown support this to the extent that they credit it to the stage performers George G. Spear and George H. Hill.) - RBW
File: LG16
===
NAME: Springhill Mine Disaster (1891)
DESCRIPTION: "Hark, the horn blows loud and long, There is something wrong ... One hundred three and twenty Of our Springhill miners dead Killed in the bowels of the earth Where none could hear their cries"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: death mining disaster
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Feb 21, 1891 - Springhill Disaster
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 185, "Springhill Mine Disaster (1891)" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPRINGH2*
Roud #2713
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "La Complainte de Springhill (The Lament of Springhill)" (subject)
NOTES: February 21, 1891: Springhill Coal Mine explosion kills 125 men. (Source: our roots/nos racines (Canada's local histories online) _Story of the Springhill Colliery Explosion_ : comprising a full and authentic account of the great coal mining explosion at Springhill Mines, Nova Scotia, February 21st, 1891, including a history of Springhill and its collieries_ by R.A.H. Morrow.) - BS
This was not the last disaster in the Springhill coal mines; Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl documented the 1958 tragedy in "Springhill Mine Disaster (1958)." - RBW
File: CrMa185
===
NAME: Springhill Mine Disaster (1958)
DESCRIPTION: Describes collapse of mine tunnel in Springhill, Nova Scotia, 1958; twelve men are trapped in a cave-in, while several are killed. The lamps, food and water give out; after eight days some are rescued
AUTHOR: Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (copyright by authors)
KEYWORDS: rescue death mining disaster ordeal worker
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 124, "Ballad of Springhill (The Springhill Mine Disaster)" (1 text)
DT, SPRINGHI*
NOTES: I include this, although it's a recently-composed song, because it is solidly within the traditional ballad style, and because it's entered the common repertoire. - PJS
Usually listed as by MacColl and Seeger, but their official report is that it is "chiefly the work of Peggy Seeger."
The mine disaster of 1958 was not the only Springhill tragedy; there had been an earlier (and even more deadly) cave-in in 1891, for which see "La Complainte de Springhill (The Lament of Springhill)" and "Springhill Mine Disaster (1891)."
The town of Springhill is in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, not far from the New Brunswick border, on the fringes of the Cobequid Mountains (really hills). There is still coal in the area, but it is now considered a minor resource; there is, in fact, a nuclear power plant nearby.
Joseph Ruby reports that MacColl's figures are inaccurate: "75 men were killed and about 40 were rescued -  after 12 days, not eight." - RBW
File: FSWB124A
===
NAME: Springtime It Brings on the Shearing, The (On the Wallaby Track)
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, the springtime it brings on the shearing, And it's then you will see them in droves...." The singer describes the life of the shearer: Hard at work in season; rambling the rest of the year and "making johnny-cakes round in the bend"
AUTHOR: from the poem "On the Wallaby Track" by E.J. Overbury
EARLIEST_DATE: 1865
KEYWORDS: sheep work Australia rambling
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 186, "The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune); probably also pp. 259-260, "The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune, but in a very sorry state of repair)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 130-131, "The Springtime It Brings On the Shearing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 185-186, "(The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing" (1 excerpt, filed under "The Flash Sydney Shearers")
DT, SPRNGSHR*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Flash Sydney Shearers" (form)
File: MA186
===
NAME: Squarin' Up Time
DESCRIPTION: With their fish sold, the sailors go to the store to "square up." They spend their cash on various items, often behaving very badly when they can't have what they want. All is well until the parson strolls in, whereupon the men start offering him credit
AUTHOR: Arthur Scammel
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: sailor money humorous
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Peacock, pp. 98-99, "Squarin'-Up Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 182, ""Squarin' Up Time (1 text; the tune -- "Vilikens and His Dinah" -- is on pp. 180-181)
Blondahl, pp. 35-36, "Squarin' Up" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST FJ182 (Partial)
Roud #4548
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Squaring Up Time" (on NFOBlondahl02)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah) [Laws M31A/B]" (tune & meter) and references there
NOTES: Newfoundland fishermen lived much like American farmers: Borrow heavily in the spring to finance their fishing trips, spend the summer fishing, return in the fall with their yield, sell it and "square up" with the bank or the merchant. - RBW
Blondahl: "The poem Squarin Up was written by Mr Scammell in 1933. This poem and some twenty others by the same author may be found in a booklet titled _Mirrored Moments_, published in Montreal in 1945." - BS
File: FJ182
===
NAME: Squeball: see Skewball [Laws Q22] (File: LQ22)
===
NAME: Squid-Jiggin' Ground, The
DESCRIPTION: A song of the life of a squid fisherman. The fishermen are named, as are their homes and their peculiarities. The final stanzas warn of the messy work: "Now if ever you feel inclined to go squiddin', leave your white shirts and collars behind in the town"
AUTHOR: Arthur R. Scammell
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1929
KEYWORDS: fishing nonballad moniker work
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 51-53, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle2, pp. 66-67, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle3, pp. 57-58, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Blondahl, pp. 32-33, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 127, "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" (1 text)
DT, SQUIDJIG*
Roud #4429
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Squid Jiggin' Ground" (on NFOBlondahl05)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "When Our Boys Gave Up Squiddin'" (tune)
cf. "The Napan Heroes" (tune)
NOTES: Fowke writes, "The tale of what happens when fishermen head for 'The Squid-Jiggin' Ground' is the most widely known of all Newfoundland songs.... It was written by... Arthur R. Scammell when he was only fifteen....
"The squid is a species of cuttle-fish about ten inches long which is used as bait for larger fish. It has the peculiar characteristic of squirting forth an inky liquid when it is disturbed. Large schools of squid move in at certain parts of the Newfoundland coast during August, September, and October, and then the fishermen head out to pull them in with line and jigger." - RBW
The tune is one used by The Flanagan Brothers for their 1927 release of "Mick from Tralee" (on The Flanagan Brothers, "The Tunes We Like to Play on Paddy's Day," Viva Voce 007 (1996) from Columbia 33187-F June 1927). It is close to the tune of the chorus to "Paddy's Panacea" on Voice13. - BS
File: FJ051
===
NAME: Squire Agnew's Hunt
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders by (Kellswater park) and is enjoying the bird songs when he spies Squire Agnew's hunting pack. After a long chase, they take down the stag. The singer goes to "drink brandy with Squire Johes Agnew"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1926 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: hunting animal drink
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H140, p. 30, "Squire Agnew's Hunt" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13351
File: HHH140
===
NAME: Squire and the Fair Maid, The: see Down By Blackwaterside (File: K151)
===
NAME: Squire and the Gipsy, The
DESCRIPTION: A squire meets a Gypsy. He forgets his upbringing, swearing he'll marry her. She offers to tell his fortune; he tells her he knows it: she's to be his bride. She asks if he's trying to insult her; there's more honesty in the lowly than the aristocracy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1953 (recorded from Harry Cox)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: A young squire, straying alone in the countryside, meets a lovely Gypsy lass. He forgets his upbringing, swearing he'll marry her. She offers to tell his fortune; he tells her he already knows it: she is to be his bride. She asks if he's trying to insult her with his "grand proposal", saying she lives a light-hearted and contented life, and that there's more honesty in the poor and lowly than in the aristocracy
KEYWORDS: poverty pride courting love marriage rejection beauty lover Gypsy
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Kennedy 355, "The Squire and the Gypsy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1628
RECORDINGS:
Harry Cox, "The Squire and the Gypsy" (on HCox01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gypsy Maid, The (The Gypsy's Wedding Day)" [Laws O4] (theme)
cf. "The Laird o Cockpen" (theme)
cf. "The Weaver's Daughter" (theme)
File: K355
===
NAME: Squire Boys, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the eighteenth day of December in the year of ninety-five, Them dates I will remember as long as I'm alive." The singer talks mostly of the troubles and bad weather encountered by teamsters on the way to the camp, but also alludes to the men there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1965  (Fowke)
KEYWORDS: logger travel lumbering storm
FOUND_IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fowke-Lumbering #22, "The Squire Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4362
File: FowL22
===
NAME: Squire Nathaniel and Betsy: see The Old Oak Tree [Laws P37] (File: LP37)
===
NAME: Squire of Edinburgh Town, The: see Katharine Jaffray [Child 221] (File: C221)
===
NAME: Squire of Eninboroughtown, The: see Katharine Jaffray [Child 221] (File: C221)
===
NAME: Squire Relantman: see Lamkin [Child 93] (File: C093)
===
NAME: Squire, The: see The Old Oak Tree [Laws P37] (File: LP37)
===
NAME: Squire's Bride, The: see The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) [Laws N20] (File: LN20)
===
NAME: Squire's Daughter, The: see The Young Shepherd (I) (File: CrMa108)
===
NAME: Squire's Lost Lady, The: see Jack the Jolly Tar (I) (Tarry Sailor) [Laws K40] (File: LK40)
===
NAME: Squirrel, The: see Raccoon (File: R260)
===
NAME: SS Leinster Lass, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer wanders by the Clyde when the Leinster Lass comes into view. The singer boasts of the ship, its crew, its band, its flag. He wishes success to ship and crew
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: nonballad ship
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H808, p. 98, "The S[team]s[hip] Leinster Lass" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 46, "The Leinster Lass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13367
NOTES: Lani Herrmann notes the oddity of a steamship being called upon to "reef and steer." This occurs in the final verse, which also seems to show a change in perspective (from an onlooker on the shore to, apparently, a crewmember). One must suspect this verse is intrusive. Not unusual in songs of this type. - RBW
File: HHH808
===
NAME: St. Albans Murder, The: see James MacDonald [Laws P38] (File: LP38)
===
NAME: St. James Infirmary: see Saint James Infirmary (File: San228)
===
NAME: St. James' Hospital: see The Bad Girl's Lament (St. James' Hospital; The Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime) [Laws Q26]; also The Unfortunate Rake (File: LQ26)
===
NAME: St. Patrick Was a Gentleman: see Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman (File: OCon105)
===
NAME: St. Patrick, The
DESCRIPTION: "The Mail Boat, Paddy, ... now lies in the sea"; a German Bomber sinks her. Captain Fardy says "All hands try your lives to save" and goes down with the ship. The survivors "risked their precious lives, their shipmates to rescue." Twenty-three are lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1943 (Ranson)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship wreck sailor war
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jun 13, 1941: World War II. The ferry St Patrick is attacked and sunk by a German dive bomber; Captain and 23 lost. (source: Ranson; Bourke in _Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast_ v1, p. 69)
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ranson, pp. 96-97, "The St Patrick" (1 text)
File: Ran096
===
NAME: Stackalee: see Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15] (File: LI15)
===
NAME: Stacker Lee: see Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15] (File: LI15)
===
NAME: Stackolee: see Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15] (File: LI15)
===
NAME: Stage Coach Driver's Lad, The: see Jim, the Carter Lad (File: FSC096)
===
NAME: Stagolee (Stackerlee) [Laws I15]
DESCRIPTION: Stagolee and Billy Lyons are playing cards; Lyons wins the hand and the stakes. An angry Stagolee shoots Lyons, is arrested, sentenced, and hanged. The various versions of the ballad expand on different parts of the story
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1903
KEYWORDS: murder gambling prison execution
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So,SE,SW)
REFERENCES: (17 citations)
Laws I15, "Stagolee (Stackerlee)"
Leach, pp. 765-766, "Stagolee" (2 texts)
Friedman, p. 381, "Stagolee (Stackerlee)" (2 texts)
Cray, pp. 149-154, "Stackolee" (2 texts, 1 tune)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 66-68, "Stagolee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 92-93, "Stagolee" (2 texts)
Lomax-FSNA 306, "Stagolee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 93-99, "Stagolee" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 54 "Stackalee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 131-133, "Stackalee" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 51, "Stagolee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NFM, pp. 78-79, "(Stagolee)" (assorted fragments)
MWheeler, pp. 100-102, "Stacker Lee #2" (1 text, 1 tune); also perhaps pp. 102-103, "Stacker Lee #3" (1 text, 1 tune, with references to Stacker Lee though the plot elements seem to have disappeared)
Burt, pp. 202-203, "(Stackalee)" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 243-244, "Stackerlee" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 198, "Stagolee" (1 text)
DT 663, STAGLEE STAGLEE2 STAGLEE3*
Roud #4183
RECORDINGS:
Senter Boyd [or Boyd Senter] "Original Stack O'Lee Blues" (OKeh 41115, 1928; Vocalion 03015, 1935)
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Banner 32378, 1932; rec. 1931) 
Johnny Dodds, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Decca 1676, 1938)
Cliff Edwards ('Ukulele Ike'), "Stack O' Lee, Part 1/Part2"  (Columbia 1551-D, 1928; Columbia 1820-D, 1929; Clarion 5449-C/Harmony 1408-H/Velvet Tone 2509, 1932; Vocalion 03324, 1936)
Tennessee Ernie Ford w. Joe "Fingers" Carr, "Stack-O-Lee" (Capitol 1348 or 1349, c. 1951)
Fruit Jar Guzzlers, "Stack-O-Lee" (Paramount 8199, 1928; on RoughWays1)
Vera Hall, "Stagolee" (AFS 1323 A2, 1937)
Sol Hoopii Novelty Trio, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Columbia 797-D, 1926) (Decca 2241, 1938) [instrumental versions of Cliff Edwards version]
Ivory Joe Hunter, "Stackolee" (AFS CYL-8, 1933)
Mississippi John Hurt, "Stack O'Lee Blues"  (OKeh 8654, 1929; rec. 1928; on MJHurt01, MJHurt02)
Frank Hutchison, "Stackalee" (OKeh 45106, 1927; on AAFM1)
King Queen and Jack, "Stack-O-Lee Blues"(Gennett 6633/Champion 15605, 1928; Champion 40014, 1935)
Furry Lewis, "Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee" (Vocalion 1132/Brunswick 80092, 1927)
David Miller, "That Bad Man Stackolee" (Champion 15334/Herwin 75564/Challenge 327 [as Dan Kutter], 1927; on RoughWays2)
Uncle John Patterson & James Patterson, "Stagolee Was a Bully" (on FolkVisions2)
Lloyd Price, "Stagger Lee" (Sparton 679-R, 1958)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Stackerlee" (on NLCR04)
[Gertrude] "Ma" Rainey, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Paramount 12357, 1926 [rec. 1925])
Clive Reed, "Original Stack O Lee Blues" (Black Patti 8030, 1927; on StuffDreams1 [as Long 'Cleve' Reed & Little Harvey Hull])
Pete Seeger, "Stagolee" (on PeteSeeger18)
Will Starks, "Stackerlee" (AFS 6652 B2, 1942)
Art Thieme, "Stackerlee" (on Thieme05)
Evelyn Thompson, "Stack O'Lee Blues' (Vocalion 1083, 1927)
Waring's Pennsylvanians, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Victor 19189, 1923)
Washingtonians, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Harmony 601-H, 1928)
Frank Westphal & his Orchestra, "Stack O'Lee Bllues" Columbia 32-D, 1924; rec. 1923)
Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Orchestra, "Stack O'Lee Blues" (Brunswick 2660, 1924)
SAME_TUNE:
Frank Hutchison, "Stackalee No. 2" (OKeh 45106, 1927)
NOTES: On Dec. 29, 1895, William Lyons (levee hand) and Lee Sheldon (coach driver, nicknamed "Stag" Lee) were drinking together at a tavern in St. Louis, Missouri. A political discussion began; in the heat of the argument Lyons knocked off Sheldon's hat, and Sheldon promptly pulled a pistol and shot him dead. He was arrested and tried; the first trial ended in a hung jury, but he was convicted in a second trial and served time in prison, dying in 1916.
A St. Louis judge who has researched the case suggests that Sheldon had received a spell from a hoodoo woman giving him exceptional sexual potency. The talisman for that spell was his hat, so knocking it from his head was no ordinary insult.
It is noteworthy that the first recordings of this ballad (Waring, Westphal, Wiedoeft) are by popular dance bands, not blues or hillbilly artists. - PJS
File: LI15
===
NAME: Stampede, The
DESCRIPTION: "When the hot sun smiles on the endless miles..." the cowboys seek water, and find themselves fighting with a "nester" for his well. They spare him only because of his pretty girl. When a storm and stampede start, Texas Red saves the girl.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: cowboy storm rescue recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 392-395, "The Stampede" (1 text)
Roud #12710
NOTES: There is no evidence that this piece (first published in _Wild West Weekly_) was ever a song, or that it ever entered tradition. - RBW
File: LxA392
===
NAME: Stand Back, Old Man, Get Away: see I Wouldn't Have an Old Man (File: R401)
===
NAME: Stand to Your Glasses: see The Dying Aviator (File: MA142)
===
NAME: Stand, Boys, Stand
DESCRIPTION: "Stan', boys, stan', Dah's now no use a-runnin', Use a-runnin'. Look up on yondah hill An' see ol' massa comin', Massa comin', See 'im comin'." "Bowie knife in one hand An' pistol in de tother." "Oberseer wid his stick... Ruckus bound to happen."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: work slave
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 232, (no title) (1 text)
NOTES: Reportedly a song sung by a Black work gang when they had been caught idling. They reportedly covered by having one of their number feign illness. - RBW
File: ScNF232A
===
NAME: Standin' on de Street Doin' No Harm: see Deep Elem Blues (File: DTdeepel)
===
NAME: Standin' on the Walls of Zion
DESCRIPTION: "Then it's a hooraw, and a hooraw, Through the merry green fields, hooraw! Standin' on the walls of Zion, Zion, See my ship come sailin', sailin', Standin' on the walls of Zion, See my ship come sailing home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Sandburg, p. 484, "Standin' on the Walls of Zion" (1 short text, 1 tune)
File: San484
===
NAME: Standing in the Need of Prayer
DESCRIPTION: "It's me, Oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer." "Not my mother, not my father, but it's me, Oh Lord, sanding in the need of prayer." "Not my brother, not my sister, but its me...." (Others whom it is not may be listed as desired)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (recording, Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
BrownIII 637, "Standing in the Need of Prayer" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more)
Silber-FSWB, p. 350, "It's Me, Oh Lord" (1 text)
Sandburg, pp. 488-492, "Ezekiel, You and Me" (1 heavily composite text, 1 composite tune; this song produces stanza 3)
Roud #11833
RECORDINGS:
Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers, "Standing in the Need of Prayer" (Paramount 12070, 1923)
Hall Johnson Negro Choir, "Standin' in de Need of Prayer" (Victor 36020, 1930)
Southern Four, "Standin' in the Need of Prayer" [medley with "Shout All Over God's Heaven {All God's Children Got Shoes}"] (Edison 51364, 1924)
West Virginia Snakehunters, "Standin' in the Need of Prayers" (Brunswick 119, 1927/Supertone S-2072, 1930)
File: FSWB350A
===
NAME: Standing on the Promises
DESCRIPTION: "Standing on the promises of Christ my King, Through eternal ages let his praises ring, Glory in the highest I will shoul an sing, Standing on the promises of God." The singer declares, in various ways, the power of Biblical promises
AUTHOR: R. Kelso Carter (1849-1926)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1885 (composed, according to Johnson)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
ADDITIONAL: Charles Johnson, One Hundred and One Famous Hymns (Hallberg, 1982), pp, 202-203, "Standing on the Promises" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #18551
NOTES: Though hardly original in idea, this particular hymn has a very simple, easy-to-learn set of parts in the chorus, and seems to be very popular with amateur gospel groups. I'm a bit surprised it isn't more common in tradition. - RBW
File: BdSotPro
===
NAME: Standing Stones, The
DESCRIPTION: Two lovers meet at the Standing Stones and promise to wed. After she leaves, a rival stabs him to death, solely to cause the girl pain. She hears a cry, turns, and sees her beloved. He points to the stars and vanishes; she pines away and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1883 (John Mooney's "Songs of the Norse")
LONG_DESCRIPTION: In the Orkneys lives a beautiful young woman who has been loved since childhood by a young man. They meet at the Standing Stones and promise to wed, sealing the promise by joining their hands through a hole in the Lovers' Stone. He kisses her goodbye, watches her leave, then turns to go home, but a rival attacks him and stabs him to death, solely to cause the girl pain. She is arriving home when she hears a cry, turns, and sees her beloved standing near. He points to the stars and vanishes; knowing he is dead, she pines away and dies
KEYWORDS: grief hate jealousy courting love promise violence crime murder beauty death mourning ritual supernatural lover ghost
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Hebr))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Kennedy 332, "The Standing Stones" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STANSTON
Roud #2151
RECORDINGS:
John & Ethel Findlater, "The Standing Stones" (on FSB7)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Ploughboy's Dream" (tune)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Lovers--A West Mainland Legend
NOTES: The "Standing Stones" are prehistoric stone circles, found throughout Britain, including the Orkneys, where this song was collected. It was the custom in the Orkneys for lovers to plight their troth by joining hands through a hole in the "Odin Stone," then dividing a broken sixpenny piece between them. - PJS
References to Odin may seem odd in Scotland, but the Orkneys were largely settled by the Old Norse. I have not been able to find proof of this, but I believe "Odin stones" are so-called because they have a single hole representing Odin's single eye.
However, the Standing Stones would appear to predate the Norse legends. Magnus Magnusson's_Scotland: The Story of a Nation_ (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000), pp. 6, describes the Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis at Calanais (Callanish); "It was built in stages from about 3000 BC and was certainly completed by 2000 BC. Briefly, it is a circle of thirteen standing stones huddled round a massive central monolith, 4.75 metres high, and a small chambered cairn. A double line or 'avenue' of stones comes from the north, and ragged tongues protruding from the circle create a rough cruciform shape." Magnussen goes on to describe the partial rehabilitation of the site. - RBW
File: K332
===
NAME: Star in the East: see Brightest and Best (File: JRSF150)
===
NAME: Star Light, Star Bright
DESCRIPTION: "Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, (I) Wish I may, (I) wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934 (Henry, from Mrs. Henry C. Gray, or her maid), though it probably occurs earlier in Mother Goose collections
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #430, p. 203, "(Star light, star bright)"
MHenry-Appalachians, p. 239, (no title) (1 short text)
NOTES: Some time in my youth, I learned this with exactly the same words as occur in Henry (not the same as in Baring-Gould). So it has some sort of circulation. But I can't remember where I learned it; I have the strange feeling it was some Disney production or the like. - RBW
File: MHAp239B
===
NAME: Star o Banchory's Land, The
DESCRIPTION: "Banchory's lands are bonnie When spring rolls in the year Wi' lasses sweet and mony But nane saw sweet's my dear." He praises her -- but then sees her at the fair, where she ignores him. He wishes her back or hopes she will at least be true to another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Ord)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Ord, pp. 69-71, "The Star o' Banchory's Land" (1 text)
DT BANCHRY1* BANCHRY2*
Roud #5567
File: Ord069
===
NAME: Star of Bannack, The
DESCRIPTION: "Under the lamplight's flick'ring gleam, In the dirt of the dancehall floor, The beautiful star of Bannack lies, Never to shine no more." Having left a lover in the east, she turned heads in the west but at last "A bullet would find her there." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Burt)
KEYWORDS: murder dancing
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Apr 20, 1864 - Nellie Paget (birth name: Helen Patterson) murdered by a former flame in Bannak, Montana
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Burt, pp. 53-54, "(The Star of Bannack)" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Burt053
===
NAME: Star of Belle Isle: see Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle, The [Laws H29] (File: LH29)
===
NAME: Star of Benbradden, The: see If I Were a Fisher (File: HHH709)
===
NAME: Star of Donegal, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sees a lad and lass discussing their parting. He is going to America to seek his fortune. She does not wish to part. He says the Irish will return to free Ireland. They decide to marry at once, and sail away together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (OLochlainn)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage emigration gold
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
SHenry H555, p. 463, "The Star of Donegal" (1 text, 1 tune)
OLochlainn 83, "The Star of Donegal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2996
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rich Amerikay" [Laws O19] (plot)
File: HHH555
===
NAME: Star of Glenamoyle, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer asks the muses to preserve the star of sweet Glenamoyle as he praises her. Even the birds and rabbits praise her. He says that Joseph, had he been laboring to win her, would have felt it no toil; he would have sailed across the sea to wed her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love beauty nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H13, p. 232, "The Star of Glenamoyle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7985
NOTES: The final verse of the Henry text contains some truly curious lines:
But had young Joseph received this fair one,
Her golden glory would have decayed away;
But had young Joseph received this fair one,
To win his bride would have been no toil.
I can only guess that the first two lines mean that the girl would not thrive outside Ireland. The latter two lines are clearer, though an obvious error. It was Joseph's father Jabob who worked seven years to win the hand of Rachel, and being cheated of Rachel once, worked another seven years to at last be allowed to marry her. And "Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her" (Genesis 29:20). - RBW
File: HHH013
===
NAME: Star of Glengary, The
DESCRIPTION: "The red moon is up o'er the moss-covered mountain." Donald goes to "Logan's bright water" to propose to "Mary, the star of Glengary," knowing his competition is the rich miller. She apparently accepts since she is "a gude wife to me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1835 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3541))
KEYWORDS: courting wife river money
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
O'Conor, p. 11, "The Star of Glengary" (1 text)
Roud #13901
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3541), "The Star of Glengary", G Walker (Durham), 1797-1834; also Harding B 11(3326), Harding B 11(3645), Harding B 11(3646), Harding B 11(3647), Harding B 17(301b), Johnson Ballads 1097, 2806 c.14(128), "The Star of Glengarry"; Harding B 20(33), Harding B 11(3574), Harding B 18(716), Harding B 26(626), "The Star of Glengary"
LOCSheet, sm1877 08720, "The Star of Glengary", Spear & Dehnhoff (New York), 1877 (tune)
LOCSinging, as113120, "The Star of Glengary", J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also sb40474a, "The Star of Glengary" 
Murray, Mu23-y1:075, "The Star of Glengary", James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C 
NLScotland, L.C.178.A.2(299), "The Star of Glengary", unknown, c.1860; also L.C.Fol.70(1a), "The Star of Glengary" 
NOTES: LOCSheet, sm1877 08720: "composed by Charles W Pette" may refer to the arranger.
Broadside LOCSinging as113120: J. Andrews dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
File: OCon011
===
NAME: Star of Logy Bay, The: see The Pride of Logy Bay (File: FSC061)
===
NAME: Star of Moville, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer sails to Moville to watch the races. Enlivened by whiskey, he meets Mary, "the star of Moville." He courts her, and buys her a drink. The girl, after spending some time, rejects him and goes home. He wishes that someone would bring her to him
AUTHOR: James McCurry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting racing rejection drink music
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H68, pp. 276-277, "The Star of Moville" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7968
NOTES: A long and highly complex mix: Is it a boat-racing song, a courting song, a rejection song, a drinking song, a song of getting delayed along the shore? I'm not sure. - RBW
File: HHH068
===
NAME: Star of Slane, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer "was ruminating and meditating And contemplating" when he met a maid that would have captivated Paris, Caesar, and Alexander. Her beauty eclipses all others. "For me to woo her I am too poor, I'm deadly sure she won't be my wife"
AUTHOR: Day (c.1800-1866) (source: Sparling)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1826 (a Drogheda chap-book, according to Sparling)
KEYWORDS: love beauty humorous nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
OLochlainn-More 84, "The Star of Slane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hayward-Ulster, pp. 107-108, "The Star of Slane" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 366-368, 515, "The Star of Slane"
Roud #6530
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.8(270), "The Star of Slane" ("You brilliant muses, who ne'er refuses"), unknown, n.d.; alsoHarding B 11(3648), "The Star of Slane"
NOTES: This is another song that hides the lover's name: "Her name to mention may cause contention And it's my intention for to breed no strife." See also "Craiganee," "The Pride of Kilkee," "The Flower of Benbrada" and "Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hi (For Ireland I Will Not Tell Whom She Is)"; in "Drihaureen O Mo Chree (Little Brother of My Heart)" the singer's brother's name is hidden. - BS
File: OLcM084
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NAME: Star of Sunday's Well, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer loves "That consort fit for Satan, the Star of Sunday's Well." She weighs 15 stone [210 pounds]: "She's blooming and she's bonny with real estate and money." He is rejected in favor of "a grocer's curate"
AUTHOR: W.B. Guiney
EARLIEST_DATE: 1870 (_The Cork Examiner,_ according to OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection humorous
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More, pp. 258-259, "The Star of Sunday's Well" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds" [OLochlainn 64] (tune)
NOTES: Sunday's Well is in Cork. - BS
File: OLcM258
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NAME: Star of the County Down, The
DESCRIPTION: Near Banbridge town, the singer sees a "sweet colleen." He is instantly smitten with the beauty of "the star of the Country Down." He makes plans to pursue her, and dreams of life with her
AUTHOR: unknown (credited to Cathal McGarvey [1866-1927] by Colm O'Lochlainn)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1936 (Irish Country Songs)
KEYWORDS: love courting clothes
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, STARDOWN*
Roud #4801
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dives and Lazarus" [Child 56] (tune)
cf. "The Banks of Newfoundland (I)" [Laws K25] (tune)
cf. "When a Man's in Love" [Laws O20] (tune)
cf. "The Wreck of the Gwendoline" (tune)
cf. "The Colleen from Coolbaun" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
Dives and Lazarus (File: C056)
The Wreck of the Gwendoline (File: OLcM257)
The Banks of Newfoundland (I) [Laws K25] (File: LK25)
When a Man's in Love [Laws O20] (File: LO20)
The Colleen from Coolbaun (File: RcTCofCo)
File: DTstardo
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NAME: Star-Spangled Banner, The
DESCRIPTION: A description of bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Navy, with hopes for the survival of the United States. Either you already know the song, or you don't care. (Perhaps both.)
AUTHOR: Words: Francis Scott Key/Music: John Stafford Smith (?)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1814
KEYWORDS: America patriotic battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Sept 13, 1814 - Battle of Fort McHenry. Key allegedly wrote this poem the following morning, when he saw the flag still waving
FOUND_IN: US(All)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Krythe 2, pp. 15-39, "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 300, "The Star Spangled Banner" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 529-534+, "The Star Spangled Banner"
DT, STARSPAN
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "To Anacreon in Heaven" (tune)
cf. "Adams and Liberty" (tune)
SAME_TUNE:
The National Grass Plot (Greenway-AFP, p. 63)
NOTES: For the history of this tune, see the notes to "To Anacreon in Heaven." The folklore about the poem is too widely known (and too exaggerated) to bear repeating here; Spaeth has a sort of debunking, with some less-known details, in _A History of Popular Music in America_, 41-46, and there are a few notes about Francis Scott Key's part in the Battle for Baltimore in the discussion below.
In several senses this is not a folk song (in part because it's so difficult to sing) -- but it is well-enough known that its inclusion is at least understandable....
The War of 1812 showed clearly how much stronger the British Empire was than the then-still-new United States. In 1812 and 1813, the British had been putting all their energy into fighting Napoleon, and given the Americas only the dregs (not only did they send only a bare handful of troops to Canada, they reportedly held sent only second-rate generals, using the best and brightest against Napoleon; see John K. Mahon, _The War of 1812_, Da Capo, 1972, p. 144) -- and they *still* held the Americans to a draw: At the end of 1813, the British still held Canada, and while the Americans had had some success at sea, by 1813 their handful of ships were mostly pinned down in blockaded ports (see Mahon, p. 122, for a list of ships involved).
1814 should have seen the British, now free of Napoleon, settle the American hash -- and they did succeed in permanently occupying some of the coast east of what is now the state of Maine. They set out to do far more, planning three major offensives (at Lake Champlain, Chesapeake Bay, and Louisiana). For the first of these, which was one of the most absurd displays ever put on by the British army, see the notes on "The Siege of Plattsburg."
The Chesapeake Campaign was the best-run of the three British attacks of 1814 -- and, overall, the most successful. The war by this time had turned rather bitter as there had been a series of atrocities along the Canadian border (started, we must note,by the Americans, who destroyed the Canadian settlement of Newark as well as the future Toronto, though the British treatment of American prisoners was bad enough that they had nothing to complain about; the sad thing is that the innocent Canadians suffered for the faults of the English government).
The British had responded to the American war crimes by burning Buffalo, e.g., and had raided Chesapeake Bay in 1813 (the British commander in the area, Admiral Cockburn, did so much damage that the Americans accused him of enjoying looting; see Mahon, p. 115), but this was to be altogether bigger. A large fleet, and an army contingent commanded by Major General Robert Ross (who had served under Wellington) were sent to raid the Bay in the late summer of 1814. Their goal was not conquest; it was to keep the Americans from sending major forces against Prevost's (utterly mishandled) Champlain expedition (see Walter R. Borneman, _1812: The War that Forged a Nation_, pp. 219-220).
On August 19, 1814, Ross took his troops ashore at Benedict, Maryland, southeast of Washington, D.C. (Borneman, p. 222).
The American response showed a level of ineptitude that would make George W. Bush's Iraq planning look good. Faced with an army at the gates of the U. S. capitol, President Madison chose a political general who had already demonstrated his military ineptness to command in the vicinity of Washington (apparently he hoped William H. Winder's political connections would allow him to raise more militia; Borneman, p. 223; Donald R. Hickey, _The War of 1812_, p.196). Winder would show great energy but absolutely no ability to develop plans (Hickey, pp. 196-197).
The weather was dreadfully hot (Borneman, p. 225; Hickey, p. 198), but the Americans made no attempt to harass the overburdened British. On August 24, Ross's troops brushed past the handful of American defenders at Bladensburg, incidentally putting President Madison under fire; he retreated even faster than his soldiers. The battle also saw Secretary of State Monroe giving orders to the soldiers -- something he was not entitled to do, and his orders were in any case bad (Hickey, p. 197). The Americans were so thoroughly routed that the battle was christened the "Bladensburg Races" (Borneman, p. 228). The British promptly entered Washington -- which was so deserted that Ross couldn't even find anyone to offer up a surrender (Hickey, p, 199).
Ross's forces were better behaved than the Americans. They did burn a handful of private buildings -- but, almost without exception, it was because those houses were used for military purposes. Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin's house, for instance, was torched because snipers in the house had slain one British soldier, wounded three others, and killed General Ross's horse under him (Borneman, p. 229). But mostly the invaders concentrated on buildings such as the White House, the Treasury Building, and the Capitol (Borneman, pp. 230-231). Saddest of all was the torching of the Library of Congress, though the invaders were convinced to let the Patent Office stand (Hickey, p. 199).
The British were not there to stay; having done their damage, they headed back to their ships on August 25 (Borneman, p. 232). Even so, Secretary of War John Armstrong was forced to resign (Borneman, p. 234; Hickey, p. 202).
The next day, the British set out for Baltimore, a much more developed port, with a larger population and a more important shipping center -- but defended by Fort McHenry, plus many earthworks and a much more effective force of militia. It was also much more enthusiastic for the war; soon after the conflict began, a newspaper uttered an anti-war statement -- and the city broke out in riots; the paper's equipment was damaged, and a number of Federalists, including even Revolutionary War hero "Light Horse Harry" Lee, were beaten, in some cases to death or permanent injury (see Hickey, pp. 60-67; John K. Mahon, _The War of 1812_, p. 33)
General Ross apparently thought the raid on Baltimore not worth the trouble -- the psychological damage of the attack on Washington could only be dissipated (Borneman, p. 238). He was overruled; on September 11, the British headed north.
The attack on Baltimore was to come from both land and sea, with the navy attacking Fort McHenry while the army came around the other side. Both prongs of the attack came to grief. Ross was killed by a sharpshooter on September 12 (Borneman, pp. 242-243), and his second-in-command wasn't nearly as inspiring.
The naval assault was a matter of sound and fury and not much else. Fort McHenry was dirt over masonry, hard to subdue by cannon -- and the waters around it were very shallow (Borneman, p. 239; Hickey, p. 203). The navy could not get close to the fort. In fact, they had to stand out so far that the fort's short-range guns could not even reach them. So, on the night of September 13, British mortar vessels fired wildly at the fort, and the bomb _Terror_ (of future Franklin Expedition fame; see the notes to "Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream)" [Laws K9]) fired her rockets (Borneman, p. 244). The fort could not answer, but she suffered only four killed and a couple of dozen wounded; she was still perfectly capable of holding off the British army (Borneman, pp. 244-246).
That was pretty much the end of the siege of Baltimore, though it was a month before the last British forces left the vicinity. The naval commander, Admiral Cochrane, headed for Halifax with part of the fleet; the rest, plus the army, retreated to Jamaica, refitted, took on a new commander by the name of Pakenham, and headed toward a place called New Orleans.
It is sometimes stated that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on the British fleet. He was not. He was in fact a Baltimore lawyer trying to negotiate the release of a doctor-turned-spy named William Beanes. Beanes was not popular with the British, who considered his behavior particularly egregious (and, if the description in Borneman, pp. 240-242, is accurate, it appears they had a point). The British finally agreed to let him go -- but by that time, they were committed to the attack on Baltimore, so Key, his colleague John S. Skinner, and Beanes had to wait beside H.M.S. _Tonnant_ until it was over (Hickey, pp. 203-204).
The bombardment started during the day, but continued well into the night, and with the fort unable to fire on the British ships, the only way to tell it was still resisting was to observe its flag -- hard to do at night. Apparently Beanes was constantly pestering Key, who had a telescope, to find out if the famous oversize flag was still flying (Borneman, pp. 245-246). Hence Key's song, which he scribbled that night, and elaborated later, was first published as "The Defense of Fort McHenry." Since this event, combined with the victory at Plattsburg two days sooner, caused the British to decide for peace, the siege, and the song associated with it, because immensely popular, and came to be seen as a great American victory -- even though the British had suffered no real casualties except Ross and had done the Americans far more damage at Washington than the Americans caused at Baltimore.
The conflict could not have gone on much longer. The American government was flat broke (had there been someone to force it into bankruptcy, it would surely have done so; loans went unsubscribed and Treasury notes were depreciating fast. To raise such money as it could, the govenment ended up having to pay $16 for every $10 raised! --  see Hickey, pp. 165-167. By late 1814, the government was defaulting on its notes -- Hickey, p. 224 -- and its notes were discounted 25-40%. At one point the interest on the debt exceeded the government's entire estimated income -- Hickey, p. 247).The Americans for a time were actually seeing their credit financed by a British bank! (Hickey, pp. 223-224). HickeyÕs final estimate is that the government borrowed a total of $80 million, but because of the way the loans were subscribed, picked up only $34 million in specie. The rest was lost to interest, depreciated notes,  and peculiarities of the method of borrowing.
The situation was so bad that Federalist New England was making noises about secession and nullification (Borneman, pp. 255-256; Hickey, pp. 270-280, devotes most of a chapter to the "Hartford Convention," which was called to consider withdrawing from the Union; in the end, it did not do so, but it did propose seven constitutional amendments to make it harder to declare war [where was that in 2003?], to end re-election of presidents, to bar consecutive presidents from the same state, to open up trade, and to stop counting slaves toward the totals for congressional representation. The amendments were actually passed by Massachusetts and Connecticut).
Luckily for the Unites States, the British were tired of fighting, too -- due more to Napoleon than to anything the Americans had done, but it was still war-weariness. The British, knowing they had most of the cards, dragged their feet in the negotiations (Borneman, pp. 264-267), but two sides eventually made peace essentially on the basis of the status quo -- no territory handed over by either side, not changes in law, no changes in anything.
Theoretically, that meant the grievances that started the war were still there. But the Americans were ironically successful: They had survived the first two years of the war mostly because Britain was distracted. In 1814, Britain was no longer distracted -- but with Napoleon gone, the British again wanted free trade, and with the navy shrinking, they didn't need to impress sailors, so they didn't have to do any of the things that had offended the Americans. (The Americans would later use this as a justification for dropping their demands on the issue; Hickey, p. 289.) Peace was possible mostly because no one really wanted to continue the war. - RBW
File: MKr015
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NAME: Starlight
DESCRIPTION: "It was the last day of the rodeo, And in one of the stout corrals There stood a big sorrel outlaw horse.... He went by the name of Starlight, a bronc as tough as gristle...." The cowboy who draws the horse is depressed, and sure enough he is thrown
AUTHOR: Noah Henry
EARLIEST_DATE: 1958 (Hoofs and Horns)
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy recitation
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ohrlin-HBT 81, "Starlight" (1 text)
File: Ohr081
===
NAME: Starry Night for a Ramble: see A Starry Night to Ramble (File: MA056)
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NAME: Starry Night to Ramble, A
DESCRIPTION: The singer lists the pleasures he enjoys. Noteworthy among them is courting with his sweetheart. But "Of all the games I love the best, that fill me with delight, I love to take a ramble upon a starry night."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: courting rambling
FOUND_IN: US Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 56-57, "A Starry Night to Ramble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 94-95, "Starry Night for a Ramble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gilbert, pp. 177-178, "A Starry Night for a Ramble" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 52-53, "A Starry Night to Ramble" (1 tune)
Roud #972
NOTES: Gilbert reports that this was popularized by a performer named Dick Gorman, probably in the last years of the nineteenth century -- but offers no details of its authorship (if known), only a catalogue of Gorman's oddities. - RBW
File: MA056
===
NAME: Stars Begin to Fall: see When the Stars Begin to Fall (File: LoF237)
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NAME: Starving to Death on a Government Claim (The Lane County Bachelor)
DESCRIPTION: "My name is Frank Taylor, a bach'lor I am, I'm keeping old batch on an elegant plan, You'll find me out west in the county of Lane, A-starvin' to death on a government claim." After much moaning about the bad conditions, the settler gives up and goes home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
KEYWORDS: pioneer settler hardtimes bachelor
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 20, 1862 - President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,So) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Randolph 186, "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 120-122, "The Lane County Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 144-146, "The Alberta Homesteader" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan 34, "The Alberta Homesteader" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 70, "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-ABFS, p. 434, "Greer County" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 22, "The Lane County Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 83, pp. 178-180, "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 121, "Starving To Death On A Government Claim" (1 text)
DT, STARVDTH*
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 33, #1 (1987), pp, 50-51, "The Bent County Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune, learned by Sam Hinton from Jared Benson)
Roud #799
RECORDINGS:
Bill Bender, The Happy Cowboy, "Lane County Bachelor" (Varsity 5144, c. 1940)
Edward L. Crain (Cowboy Ed Crane), "Starving to Death on a Government Claim" (Conqueror 8013, 1932)
Benjamin Kincaid, "The Lane County Bachelor" (Supertone 2574, c. 1933)
Pete Seeger, "Greer County Bachelor" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07a, AmHist1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (tune) and references there
NOTES: The song clearly dates back to the latter part of the nineteenth century, the period of Homestead Claims. The Homestead Act of 1862 had opened large areas of the western U.S. to settlement, allowing settlers to lay claim to 160 acre sections in return for nominal payments. However, the settlers were required to live on their claims for five years before they could "prove up" and gain title to the property. Many settlers, like the one here, wound up living in impossible conditions because it was the only way to stake the claim. It was not at all rare for the homesteader to give up, sell the reversion on the claim, and head back east.
Fowke's Canadian version, "The Alberta Homesteader," is very much the same song, slightly adapted to the north country and the minor differences in Canada's homesteading laws (created when Canada took over the western part of the continent from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1871, although most migrants did not start out until the 1880s). - RBW
File: R186
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NAME: State of Arkansas, The (The Arkansas Traveler II) [Laws H1]
DESCRIPTION: A traveler arrives in Arkansas and finds that it fully meets his (lack of) expectations. He "never knowed what misery was till I come to Arkansas." His boss had promised that the state would make him a different man, and he is: He is now badly starved
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: poverty humorous hardtimes starvation
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So) Ireland
REFERENCES: (21 citations)
Laws H1, "The Arkansas Traveler"
Belden, pp. 424-426, "Bill Stafford" (2 texts)
Randolph 347, "The State of Arkansas" (4 texts plus 2 excerpts, 3 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 288-290, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 347A)
Cohen-LSRail, pp. 560-566, "Way Out in Idaho" (2 texts, 1 tune; the main text and tune are "Way Out in Idaho (I)", but a secondary text is a version of this piece)
BrownIII 331, "Arkansas Traveller (II)" (2 texts)
Hudson 80, p. 208, "Tocowa" (1 short text with "Tocowa," not Arkansas, the site of the singer's bad experience)
Brewster 52, "The Arkansaw Traveler" (2 texts)
Dean, pp. 8-9, "The Arkansas Navvy" (1 text)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 171-172, (no title) (1 text)
Friedman, p. 434, "The Arkansaw Traveler" (1 text)
Lomax-FSUSA 71, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 167, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCox 53, "An Arkansaw Traveller" (3 texts)
SharpAp 170, "Old Arkansas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 44, "My Name Is John Johanna" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H0, p. 53, "The State of Arkansaw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NAS, pp. 225-226, "Old Arkansas" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 46, "The State of Arkansas" (1 text)
DT 643, STATEARK* STATARK2*
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 46-53, texts of both "The Arkansas Traveler" and "The State of Arkansas," with folktale variants, a reproduction of a painting of the fiddler and traveler, and background information
Roud #257
RECORDINGS:
Almanac Singers, "State of Arkansas" (General 5018A, 1941; on Almanac01, Almanac03, AlmanacCD1)
Kelly Harrell, "My Name is John Johanna" (Victor 21520A, 1927; on KHarrell02, AAFM1, HardTimes1)
Pete Seeger, "State of Arkansas" (on PeteSeeger19, AmHist2)
Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry, "Arkansas Traveller" (on SeegerTerry)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Barnyards o' Delgaty" (theme)
cf. "Joe Bowers" (tune -- some versions)
cf. "Diamond Joe (I)" (tune, lyrics)
cf. "Way Out in Idaho (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES: This should not be confused with the fiddle tune "Arkansas Traveler," or with the minstrel-show sketch from which it derives. -PJS
Paul Stamler reports that this is "Credited to Sanford Barnes of Buffalo, [Missouri]." Many other authors, however, have been listed, e.g. Belden knows of an attribution to T. W. Shelton and another to Pat Kelly. Carmer credits Ransom C. Cook. Eckstorm traces it back to "Canada I O." I incline to think all the claims false -- though I wouldn't be surprised if the author really was from Missouri.... - RBW
File: LH01
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NAME: State of Arkansaw, The: see The State of Arkansas (The Arkansas Traveler II) [Laws H1] (File: LH01)
===
NAME: Stately Southerner, The: see Paul Jones the Privateer [Laws A3] (File: LA03)
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NAME: States and Capitals
DESCRIPTION: A catalog of the capital cities of various states, starting perhaps in the northeast: "Maine, the capital is Augusta...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 878, "States and Capitals" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #7543
NOTES: This seems to have been at one time a widespread song to help children learn geography (in which it failed, since neither of Randolph's informants could remember much).
Whether this is actually a single song is perhaps open to question; the texts in Randolph are very different, and this is perhaps a topic that several schoolmarm/songwriters might have tackled.
The information is also sorely out of date. Since the song was sung in the 1880s, of course, it lacks at least half a dozen states. Even for the states that are listed, the data is inaccurate (e.g. the capital of Maryland is Annapolis, not Baltimore, and Rhode Island and Connecticut have only one capital city each, though Randolph's "A" text lists Providence and Newport for Rhode Island, while "B" gives New Haven and Hartford as capital of Connecticut). - RBW
File: R878
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NAME: Station Cook, The
DESCRIPTION: "The song I'm going to sing about will not detain you long, It is all about a station cook we had at old Pinyong." The singer says that the cook's work "gave us all the stomach ache all through the shearing time." He will blame the cook if he turns sick
AUTHOR: The Australian Star version was either written or submitted by P. J. McGovery
EARLIEST_DATE: 1877 (The Australian Star)
KEYWORDS: cook disability disease hardtimes warning food
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 90-91, "The Station Cook" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 208-210, "The Shearer's Hardships" (1 text)
NOTES: Fowler's Bay is on the south coast of Australia, roughly 300 miles northwest of Adelaide. I'm guessing that "Pinyong" is Penong on the shores of the bay. - RBW
File: PASB090
===
NAME: Station of Knocklong, The
DESCRIPTION: "The news has spread through Ireland... Sean Hogan he was rescued At the Station of Knocklong." Hogan's guards are overpowered, and two of them killed, by rebels; Hogan is freed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962
KEYWORDS: Ireland rebellion escape rescue death IRA
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1919 - Irish terrorists Sean Treacy and Sean Hogan capture a load of explosives from the British, killing two policemen in the process. When Hogan is captured, Treacy rescues him, killing two more policemen along the way
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
PGalvin, pp. 60-61, "The Station of Knocklong" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. ""Sean Treacy" (for the story of Treacy)
cf. "Tipperary Far Away" (for the death of Sean Treacy)
NOTES: For the Soloheadbeg incident, in which a group of Irish irregulars attacked a British explosives truck, see the notes to "Sean Treacy." Among those involved in the raid were Sean Hogan, Treacy, and Dan Breen.
According to Calton Younger, _Ireland's Civil War_, p. 92, Hogan was captured while visiting friends, though his identity was not realized until later.
It is uncertain whether there was resistance from the British forces at Soloheadbeg, though it seems unlikely. In the case of Knocklong, it seems pretty clear that there wasn't. Robert Kee, in _Ourselves Alone_, being volume III of _The Green Flag_, p. 72, cites Breen to the effect that the Irish decided to shoot first to prevent British guards from killing the prisoner.
The casualties at first seemed close to even: Treacy was shot in the throat, Breen through the lung. Both managed to survive.
Ironically, though much would be heard of Treacy and Breen in the coming years, Hogan faded into obscurity. He was part of an attempt to assassinate Viceroy French, but the attempt failed and a casual check of four histories showed no other references to his life after Knocklong. - RBW
File: PGa060
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NAME: Stavin Chain
DESCRIPTION: "Stavin Chain he's dead and gone, Left me to carry the good work on, Evrybody ought to be like Stavin Chain." The singer complains about river life, misses his woman, and says that everyone should be like Stavin Chain. (His sexual exploits are described.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: river work separation sex animal
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
MWheeler, pp. 16-17, "Stavin Chain" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MWhee016 (Full)
Roud #9994
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singer, "Stavin' Chain" (on Unexp1)
Zuzu Bollin, "Stavin' Chain" (Torch 6912, n.d.)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Poor Howard" (lyrics)
File: MWhee016
===
NAME: Stay a Little Longer: see cf. Shinbone Alley (Stay a Little Longer, Long Time Ago) (File: Br3422)
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NAME: Stay on the Farm
DESCRIPTION: "Come, boy, I have something to tell you... You're thinking of leaving the farm, boy; Don't be in a hurry to go." He warns against the city's vices, and points out that the farm is safe and, over time, will offer as much gold as the mines of Nevada
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1940 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: family farming money
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 865, "Stay on the Farm" (1 text)
Roud #7535
File: R865
===
NAME: Stay, Father, Stay
DESCRIPTION: A child, whose mother is already dead, is dying. (S)he appeals to father to remain by the bedside and not to leave until (s)he is dead: "Stay, father, stay, the night is wild, Oh leave not your dying child, I feel the icy hand of death...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death disease drink orphan father
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 329, "Stay, Father, Stay" (1 text)
Roud #7802
File: R329
===
NAME: Steal Apples for Me
DESCRIPTION: "Steal apples, steal apples, Steal apples for me, And while you steal apples, Steal peaches for me." "Let all of the ladies Go enter the ring...." "And when you're done swinging, Remember my call, Take the next lady And promenade all"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: dancing playparty theft food floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 584, "Steal Apples for Me" (1 text)
Roud #7672
NOTES: From its metre, this might be one of several dance pieces. But given its brevity and lack of tune, it's hard to tell where to put it. - RBW
File: R584
===
NAME: Steal Away
DESCRIPTION: Recognized by the chorus, "Steal away, steal away to Jesus... I ain't got long to stay here." Verses may have to do with the end of the world; the singer reports that "The trumpet sounds within my soul"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1894 (recording, Standard Quartette)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Courlander-NFM, p. 42, "Steal Away" (partial text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 366, "Steal Away" (1 text)
DT, STEALAWY*
Roud #11965
RECORDINGS:
Cotton Pickers Quartet, "Steal Away to Jesus" (OKeh 8878, 1931)
Dinwiddie Colored Quartet, "Steal Away" (Victor 1716, 1902)  (Monarch 1716, 1902)
Emory University Glee Club, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Victor 20594, 1927)
Fisk University Male Quartette, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Columbia A2803, 1919)
Fisk University Jubilee Singers, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Columbia 562-D, 1926)
Red Foley, "Steal Away" (Decca 14505, 1949)
Roland Hayes, "Steal Away" (Vocalion [US & UK] 21003, n.d.; Supertone, 1931)
Rev. H. B. Jackson, "Steal Away" (OKeh 8919, 1931; rec. 1929)
Turner Junior Johnson, "Steal Away" (AFS 6609 A4, 1942; on LC10)
Paramount Jubilee Singers, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Paramount 12072, 1923)
Paul Robeson, "Steal Away" (HMV [UK] B-8103, 1934)
Noble Sissle's Southland Singers, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Pathe 20483, 1921)
Soul Stirrers, "Steal Away" (Aladdin 2001, rec. 1946)
Horace Sprott, "Steal Away to Jesus" (on MuSouth03)
Standard Quartette, "Steal Away to Jesus" (CYL: Columbia, no #, rec. 1894)
Tuskegee Institute Singers, "Steal Away" (Victor 17890, 1916)
Tuskegee Quartet, "Steal Away to Jesus" (Victor 20519, 1927; rec. 1926)
Vaughan Quartet, "Steal Away" (Vaughan 300, n.d.)
Kinsey West, "Steal Away to Jesus" (on BlackAmRel1)
File: CNFM042
===
NAME: Steal, Miss Liza
DESCRIPTION: "I've got a man and you've got none, Little Liza Jane... O Eliza, Little Liza Jane." "You swing mine and I'll swing yours...." "I've got a house in Baltimo', Forty-'leven children on the floor...." "I steal yours and you steal mine...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-FSNA 263, "Steal, Miss Liza" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LoF263
===
NAME: Stealin', Stealin'
DESCRIPTION: "Stealin', stealin', pretty mama don't you tell on me, I'm stealin' back to my same old used to be." "Now put your arms around me like a circle 'round the sun...." The singer loves a married woman; it's gotten him in trouble. He says this proves his love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Memphis Jug Band)
KEYWORDS: love adultery
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 79, "Stealin', Stealin'" (1 text)
DT, STEALN
RECORDINGS:
Memphis Jug Band, "Stealin' Stealin'" (1928)
NOTES: Hendrick van Kampen points me to sources attributing this to Gus Cannon and Will Shade. Under the circumstances, I have little choice but to list the author as unknown. - RBW
File: FSWB079A
===
NAME: Steam Doctor, The
DESCRIPTION: "Steam Doctor, steam till you're ready to faint; Without ever stoppping to ask your complaint. He gives No. 6 and lobelia so fast That within a few hours you're breathing your last These hard times!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1911 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: disease doctor death
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, pp. 442-443, "The Steam Doctor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7832
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rigs of the Times" (form, lyrics)
NOTES: Belden assumes that this is a satire of the methods of Dr. Samuel Thomson (1769-1843), who according to the _Dictionary of American Biography_ was "originator of the 'Thomsonian system' of treatment by vegetable remedies and the vapor bath."
The song seems to have been built from "The Rigs of the Times," but since Belden's single stanza seems to be all that survives, it's difficult for us to say more. - RBW
File: Beld442
===
NAME: Steam from the Whistle
DESCRIPTION: "Steam from the whistle, Smoke from the stack, Going to the graveyard To bring my baby back, Oh, my li'l baby, Why don't you come back?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: railroading burial separation
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 242, (no title) (1 short text)
File: ScNF242A
===
NAME: Steam Ship
DESCRIPTION: "If a steam ship weighed ten thousand tones And sailed five thousand miles... If the mate was each six feet talls And the captain just the same; Would you multiply or subtract To find the captain's name?" The singer admits "I can't do that sum"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: riddle ship technology
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 151, "Steam Ship" (1 text)
Roud #15886
NOTES: This looks to me like a parody of the "story problems" children are sometimes assigned. The information in the riddle is not sufficient for solution. - RBW
File: Br3151
===
NAME: Steam Tug Olson, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come listen to me one and all, A story I will tell, Of the wreck of a gallant tug one night." The Olson, of Buffalo, steamed out of the harbor seeking something to tow. The boat begins to sink, and the engines fail. Only two men are rescued
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1932 (collected from "Francie" Roddy by Walton)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck disaster death
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 217-219, "The Steam Tug Olson" (1 text)
NOTES: Walton/Grimm/Murdock observes that, in the early age of steam, tugs had steam power but long-haul vessels generally did not, so tugs did a brisk business hauling sailing ships into harbor. As more of the larger vessels were powered, the tugs found less work -- and sometimes went far from their home ports to seek it. Since tugs are rarely very seaworthy, disasters like this one resulted. - RBW
File: WGM217
===
NAME: Steamboat Bill
DESCRIPTION: The Whippoorwill, steered by Steamboat Bill, is ordered "to try to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee." Provoked by a gambler, Bill drives the boat so hard that the boiler explodes. Bill's wife says that her next husband will be a railroad man.
AUTHOR: Words: Ren Shields / Music: F. A. Mills
EARLIEST_DATE: 1910
LONG_DESCRIPTION: The Whippoorwill, steered by Steamboat Bill, is ordered "to try to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee." Provoked by a gambler, Bill drives the boat so hard that the boiler explodes, with Bill betting he will fly higher than the gambler. People all along the river mourn. Bill's wife says that her next husband will be a railroad man.
KEYWORDS: ship technology disaster death gambling
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 100-101, "Steamboat Bill" (1 text)
Fife-Cowboy/West 16, "Steamboat Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 206, "Steamboat Bill" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 535-536, "Steamboat Bill"
Roud #11218
RECORDINGS:
Al Bernard, "Steamboat Bill" (Brunswick 178, 1927/Supertone S-2044, 1930)
Smilie Burnett, "Steamboat Bill" (Decca 5685, 1939; rec. 1938)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Steamboat Bill" (OKeh 40306, 1925; rec. 1924)
Arthur Collins, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia A-1005, 1911) (Victor 16867, 1911)
Dixon's Clod Hoppers, "Steamboat Bill" (Vocalion 15862, 1931; rec. 1930)
Jack Kaufman, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia A2809, 1919; Diva 2480-G [as Jack Wilson], 1927)
Beatrice Kay, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia 36941, 1946; rec. 1945)
Kessinger Brothers, "Steamboat Bill" (Brunswick 563, rec. 1930)
Edward Meeker, "Steamboat Bill" (Edison 50886, 1921)
Riley Puckett, "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia 113-D [as George Riley Puckett], 1924)
Bob Roberts, "Steamboat Bill" (Phono-Cut 5112, c. 1914)
Ernest Rogers, "Steamboat Bill" (Victor 20798, 1927)
Paul Tremaine & his Orch. "Steamboat Bill" (Columbia 2229-D, 1930)
Varsity Eight, "Steamboat Bill" (Cameo 1266/Romeo 500, 1927)
Fred Wilson [probably a pseud. for Jack Kaufman, but I don't know for sure], "Steamboat Bill" (Harmony 5118-H, 1930)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (tune)
File: FCW016
===
NAME: Steamer Alexander, The
DESCRIPTION: Tuesday, July 30, Alexander leaves Newcastle. Galley, a passenger, falls overboard and drowns. The song wonders who he was, and what his girl will feel
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1963 (Manny/Wilson)
KEYWORDS: drowning river ship death
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manny/Wilson 1, "The Steamer Alexander" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi001 (Partial)
Roud #9206
NOTES: Manny/Wilson: "The song was made up by 'a man from Neguac.' It tells of a moonlight excursion on the passenger steamer _Alexandra_, and how Theodore Galley fell overboard and was drowned. These excursions were popular entertainment on the Miramichi River in the 1890's and early 1900's... The composers of these laments like to fix in them the day and date and the time of day of the incident they describe."
Taking that statement for what it's worth, Tuesday, July 30, occurred in 1891, 1896, 1902, 1913 and 1919. - BS
File: MaWi001
===
NAME: Steamer Idaho, The
DESCRIPTION: "On the sixth day of November, On a dark and stormy night... The papers gave a warning Of a fierce and awful storm," but "The captain gave his order." The greedy owners ignore the warnings. Nineteen men die when the Idaho sinks
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1952 (Walton collection)
KEYWORDS: ship storm disaster death
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 228-229, "The Steamer Idaho" (1 text)
NOTES: Blaming greedy owners is a commonplace in disaster songs, but it seems to have been unusually suitable in this case. According to Mark L. Thompson,_Graveyards of the Lakes_ (Wayne State University Press, 2000), p. 336, the steamer _Idaho_ was built in 1863, and based on the drawing on p. 337, she looked rather like the _Lady Elgin_.
By 1897, she was clearly obsolete, and indeed had been withdrawn from service in the early 1890s. In 1897, though, freight prices were very high, so her owners hastily put her back in service. Hardly the ship to face the gales of November! And, indeed, it was only about a month later when she faced the storm which sank her. Thompson agrees with the song in saying that 19 sailors died. According to Bruce D. Berman, _Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks_ (Mariner's Press, 1972), p. 247, the sinking took place seven miles from Old Cut Light near Long Point, Ontario.
Walton/Grimm/Murdock say that two men who clung to the mast were saved. All others aboard were lost. - RBW
File: WGM229
===
NAME: Steamer Wyoming, The
DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye joky seamen, Now, as it's getting late, And I'll sing you my experiance On a bad package freight." Sailing on the Wyoming "almost proved my ruin": The captain is mean, the mates ruinous, and the rest of the crew unfit for their tasks
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1952 (collected from John E. Hayes by Walton)
KEYWORDS: ship sailor hardtimes
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, p. 112, "The Steamer Wyoming" (1 short text)
File: WGM112A
===
NAME: Steamship Deane, The
DESCRIPTION: Deane leaves Harbour Grace for Hawke's Harbour with 50 whalers. "Making full speed she lands upon a rock." All are saved by the Penguin light keeper.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1976 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: rescue sea ship wreck
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Jun 23, 1935 - Deane wrecked on North Penguin Shoals. (Lehr/Best)
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 29, "The Steamship Deane" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Northern Shipwrecks Database lists the cause as "Stranded. Navigation error." - BS
File: LeBe029
===
NAME: Steamship Leinster Lass, The: see The SS Leinster Lass (File: HHH808)
===
NAME: Steel Laying Holler
DESCRIPTION: Foreman's instructions for laying a railroad iron, with variations to fit the particular situation. E.g. "Awright, awright, Ev'rybody get ready. Come on down here. Come on, boys. Bow down. Awright, up high, Awright, throw 'way...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: work railroading nonballad
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 10-12, "Steel Laying Holler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15100
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Roustabout Holler"
cf. "Levee Camp Holler"
File: LxA010
===
NAME: Steel-Driving Man, The: see John Henry [Laws I1] (File: LI01)
===
NAME: Stella Kenney [Laws F37]
DESCRIPTION: Stella Kenney is murdered on her way home after spending ten months with her uncle Rob Frazier. Frazier, married and with three children, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder incest prison trial family
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1917 (?) - Murder of Stella Kenney. She was pregnant; presumably her uncle was the father
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Laws F37, "Stella Kenney"
Thomas-Makin', pp. 151-153, (no title; Thomas's informant called the girl "Stell" or "Stellie," not "Stella") (1 text)
ST LF37 (Partial)
Roud #2273
File: LF37
===
NAME: Step It Away
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, step it away, you pretty boys! Step it away your time! God bless your body, When your legs keep time."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1975 (recording, Jasper Smith and Levi Smith)
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Jasper Smith and Levi Smith, "Step It Away" (on Voice11)
NOTES: The current description is all of the Voice11 fragment. The notes for Voice11 describe it as "a comic jingle" to a dance tune. - BS
File: RcStepIA
===
NAME: Step It Up and Go
DESCRIPTION: Verses about situations that force (someone) to "step it up and go." The singer's woman no longer loves him. The singer flees the gun of a man whose woman he has been courting. In a river, he meets an alligator. And so forth
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1935 (recording, Blind Boy Fuller)
KEYWORDS: love animal travel floatingverses
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Silber-FSWB, p. 79, "Step It Up and Go" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Blind Boy Fuller, "Step It Up and Go" (Columbia 37230, 1947 -- presumably a reissue)
Maddox Bros. & Rose "New Step It Up and Go" (4-Star 1549, n.d. but at least 1947)
Tommy McClennan, "Shake It Up and Go" (Bluebird 34-0716, 1944)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Salty Dog" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Bottle Up and Go"
SAME_TUNE:
Brownie McGhee, "Step It Up and Go No. 2" (OKeh 06698, 1942)
NOTES: This song and "Bottle Up and Go" look very alike at first glance, but the verses seem to be very different. They might both be "Salty Dog" spinoffs. Until I see an intermediate version, I am (tentatively) classifying them separately. - RBW
File: FSWB079B
===
NAME: Step Stone: see Goodbye to My Stepstone (File: R853)
===
NAME: Stepmother, The: see I Cannot Call Her Mother (The Marriage Rite is Over; The Stepmother) (File: R726)
===
NAME: Sterling Price
DESCRIPTION: "Sterling Price he was a brave man, He will clean out Dixie Land." "Sterling Price he marched to Lexington And there he took old Mulligan." "Sterling Price he wheeled his men about And cut the Dutch into sauerkraut" "Rinktum-polle-rodel-day."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Belden)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Aug 10, 1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek
Sep 20, 1861 - Capture of James A. Mulligan (1830-1864), then a colonel, and his force at Lexington
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Belden, p. 355, "Sterling Price" (1 fragmentary text)
Roud #7769
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Old General Price" (subject)
cf. "The Jolly Union Boys" and references there (concerning Battle of Wilson's Creek)
NOTES: Sterling Price (1809-1867), a former governor of Missouri and Confederate commander of Missouri troops, was not initially anti-Union, but the behavior of Union partisans caused him to turn Confederate.
Price started raising militia forces, and these formed the larger part, but not all, of the Confederate army at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. After the Confederates won that battle, Price was able to advance and capture the garrison of Lexington (some 3000 men under Mulligan, who could have been saved had any of the other local Union officers obeyed orders), but it didn't change the strategic situation much; Price retreated into Arkansas soon after.
Even allowing for its fragmentary state, this item is rather confused. As noted, Wilson's Creek came before Lexington. At that battle, the Union commander, Nathaniel Lyon, had tried a divergent attack, splitting off Franz Sigel's brigade (which was regarded as "Dutch," i.e. German) for an attack on the Confederate rear while the main body attacked from the other direction.
This strategy failed. Sigel was quickly routed, whereupon the remaining federal forces, outnumbered by something like 5:2, were forced into a slugging match. They were better soldiers than the utterly raw confederates, and so were able to keep the field until their ammunition ran out, but then retired.
The confusion, though, arises from the fact that it was the troops of Ben McCulloch (the other Confederate commander at Wilson's Creek) which routed Sigel. But I know of no other battle in which Price defeated a primarily German force, unless perhaps it was the affair at Carthage (July 5, 1861), where Price induced Franz Sigel to retreat without a real fight.
I have the strange feeling that "Old General Price" and "Sterling Price" are a single piece, one being adapted from the other -- but since we don't have a single complete stanza of either, and only one tune, this is beyond proof. - RBW
File: Beld355A
===
NAME: Stern Old Bachelor
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes his life in the "little sod shanty dear to me." He is proud that "I'm a stern old bachelor, from matrimony free." He rejoices that he can live in squalor, snore all he wants, stay out late and never have to explain where he has been
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Chubby Parker)
KEYWORDS: bachelor home
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Randolph 481, "A Stern Old Bachelor" (1 text)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 354-355, "The Old Bachelor" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRNBACH*
Roud #4306
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "Stern Old Bachelor" (Decca 5565, 1938)
Harry Conway [pseud. for Jerry White] "I'm a Stern Old Bachelor" (Radiex 4262, 1928; Van Dyke 74262 [possibly as Ben Litchfield], 1929)
Chubby Parker, "I'm a Stern Old Bachelor" (Champion 15247 [as Smilin' Tubby Johnson]/Silvertone 5012, 1927; Supertone 9188, 1928) (Conqueror 7888, 1931)
File: R481
===
NAME: Stewball: see Skewball [Laws Q22] (File: LQ22)
===
NAME: Stick My Head in a Paper Sack
DESCRIPTION: "Stick my head in a paper sack, Show dem niggers how to Cairo back. Shake dat flat foot. Shake dat flat foot."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 463, "Stick My Head in a Paper Sack" (1 fragment)
Roud #11787
File: Br463
===
NAME: Stick to Your Mother, Tom: see Don't Leave Your Mother When Her Hair Turns Gray (File: R717)
===
NAME: Sticking Out a Mile from Blarney
DESCRIPTION: Rhyming verses with a chorus: "God be with those merry merry days that we spent outside in Blarney." For example, "Blarney Castle stands up straight and the rocks and the rooms are underneath, If you ask for fish they'll give you meat, sticking out ...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (OCanainn)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad food
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OCanainn, pp. 110-111, "Sticking Out a Mile from Blarney" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: OCanainn: "This is one of those songs with many verses; in convivial company the song often calls forth instant composition of new verses.... [The singer] remembers an old woman singing it on the Dublin train and she had a lot of verses about the war, Sean McEntee and De Valera. God knows what words they'll have for it in a few more years." - BS
File: OCan110
===
NAME: Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones
DESCRIPTION: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, Say what you please when I'm dead and gone, But I'm gonna drink corn liquor till I die." Singer may admit that he is not respected, or "know you'll talk about me when I'm gone," but will enjoy himself now/hereafter
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1913 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad death floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 39, "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones" (1 text)
Roud #7860
NOTES: Presumably related to the common rhyme "Sticks and stones will break my bones, But names will never hurt me" (for which see, e.g. Montgomerie-ScottishNR 152, "(Sticks and Stones)" or Iona & Peter Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #25, "(Sticks and Stones)." This, however, takes a slightly different twist on the ending. - RBW
File: Br3039
===
NAME: Still Growing: see A-Growing (He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing) [Laws O35] (File: LO35)
===
NAME: Still I Love Him: see Do You Love an Apple? (File: K203)
===
NAME: Still the Night: see Silent Night (Still the Night, Stille Nacht) (File: FSWB384B)
===
NAME: Stille Nacht: see Silent Night (Still the Night, Stille Nacht) (File: FSWB384B)
===
NAME: Stingo: see (references to tune under) Mowing the Barley (Cold and Raw) (File: ShH60)
===
NAME: Stinkin' Cow, The
DESCRIPTION: One fine morning, Old McGee sends daughter Molly out with Johnny. They see a bull mating with a cow. Molly asks how the bull knows the cow is willing. Johnny answers, "tis by the smell." She says she stinks like the cow; they emulate the bovines
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1962 (collected by Logsdon from Lew Pyle
KEYWORDS: sex animal bawdy children
FOUND_IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Logsdon 47, pp. 230-231, "The Stinkin' Cow" (1 text)
Roud #10103
File: Logss047
===
NAME: Stir the Wallaby Stew
DESCRIPTION: Dad's in jail, Mother unfaithful, the sheep are dead, the farm's for sale. Dad gets out, sees this, and goes back to jail. Chorus: "So stir the wallaby stew, Make soup of the kangaroo tail, I tell you things is pretty tough Since Dad got put in jail."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1957
KEYWORDS: work unemployment poverty hardtimes prison family mother father infidelity humorous
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hodgart, p. 234, "Stir the Wallaby Stew" (1 text)
Roud #8242
RECORDINGS:
John Greenway, "Wallaby Stew" (on JGreenway01)
NOTES: John Greenway writes of this piece, "Australia's Tobacco Roaders (without the sexual propensities of Jeeter Lester's relatives) are the delightful family of Dad and Dave and the other residents of Shingle Hut -- Mother, Mabel, Sal, Dan, Joe, and Cranky Jack.
Originally the creation of the first great Australian humorist, Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis) in his books _On Our Selection_ and _Our New Selection_, Dad and Dave were the archetype of the hard-working but hard-luck free selectors... but the characters were taken away from him and became progressively more lazy and stupid....
"Wallaby Stew" is a shameful example of the degeneration of the Rudd family (as the tune is a degeneration of the "Bungaree" melody), but it represents an important area of Australian folklore." - RBW
File: Hodg234
===
NAME: Stockman's Last Bed, The
DESCRIPTION: A song lamenting the death of poor Jack, the stockman, (gored to death by a cow). "And we laid him where wattles their sweet fragrance shed, And the tall gum tree shadows the stockman's last bed."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Paterson's _Old Bush Songs_)
KEYWORDS: death Australia lament
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Meredith/Anderson, pp. 46, 92, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Fahey-Eureka, p. 168, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 84-86, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 233-235, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (1 text)
Roud #9113
RECORDINGS:
John Greenway, "The Stockman's Last Bed" (on JGreenway01)
NOTES: Anderson reports that this is derived from "The Boatswain's Last Whistle" by Charles Dibdin (1865?), but Manifold questions this, observing that the tune does not fit well. - RBW
File: MA046
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NAME: Stolen Bride, The
DESCRIPTION: "Down by the river, the willows grow tall, Whippoorwill calling, hear their sad call." The girl is in love with a man from a family who is feuding with her own. Her father captures her lover. She begs for his life; refused, she accepts death beside him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: love death hate hardheartedness family execution revenge feud murder
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Thomas-Makin', pp. 20-21, "The Stolen Bride" (1 text)
ST ThBa020 (Partial)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Down in the Valley" (tune)
cf. "Lady Maisry" [Child 65] (plot)
NOTES: Not the best poetry, but a very strong theme; I'm surprised this piece hasn't been collected somewhere outside of Thomas. - RBW
File: ThBa020
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NAME: Stolen Child, The (The Lindbergh Kidnapping)
DESCRIPTION: Catchall of Lindberg songs. Typical example: The singer will "tell you about the stolen baby." Lindbergh's infant is stolen from his home; the kidnapper demands money; after a great hue and cry, the baby is found, but is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: murder mother father children abduction 
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Mar 1, 1932 - Kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. (19 months old at the time). The kidnapper demands and receives $150,000, but the child is not returned
May 12, 1932 - The boy's body is found
Apr 3, 1936 - Execution of Bruno Hauptman, linked to the crime primarily by possession of some of the ransom money
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Thomas-Makin', p. 147, (no title); pp. 148-150, "The Stolen Baby" (2 texts; the two are different metrically, but share enough phrases that I think it proper to lump them, since neither seems to have had real traditional vogue)
Burt, p. 72, (no title) (1 text); p. 73, (no title) (1 text in elementary German, tune referenced)
Roud #14051
NOTES: The Lindburgh kidnapping, according to Burt, inspired "several" songs, apart from Thomas's sundry items. Since none of them show any real evidence of traditional vogue (as opposed to, say, the equally-numerous _Titanic_ songs), I'm lumping them here.
William Butler Yeats wrote a song, "The Stolen Child." It is not related to any of the items filed here. - RBW
File: ThBa147
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NAME: Stomach Robber, The
DESCRIPTION: "You may talk about your pleasure trips... But... the Lucy Smith, She surely takes the cake." The cook looks good, but serves poor food from a disgusting galley. "They eat of the swill till their faces turn blue But their stomachs are robbed forthwith."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1953 (collected by Walton from Robert Collen)
KEYWORDS: cook food hardtimes sailor
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 87-89, "The Stomach Robber" (1 text)
File: WGM087
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NAME: Stone Scow, The: see The Bigler's Crew [Laws D8] (File: LD08)
===
NAME: Stone That Is Rolling, The: see The Rolling Stone [Laws B25] (File: LB25)
===
NAME: Stonecutter Boy
DESCRIPTION: A stonecutter boy sees a young woman. If she'll rest a moment, he'll "tell you of the dream I had last night." They sit under an oak; she soon gives "a little scream." Smoothing her clothes, she invites him to tell the dream again when next they meet
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1960 (recording, A. L. Lloyd)
KEYWORDS: sex dream worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
DT, STONEBOY
Roud #971
RECORDINGS:
Anne Briggs, "The Stonecutter Boy" (on BirdBush1, BirdBush2, Briggs3)
A. L. Lloyd, "The Stone-Cutter Boy" (on Lloyd1)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Next Market Day" (plot) and references there
NOTES: According to Lloyd, the song had not appeared in print at the time of its recording. Again, I can't bring myself to assign the keyword "bawdy." - PJS
File: DTstoneb
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NAME: Stonewall Jackson's Way
DESCRIPTION: The prayers and fighting methods of "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops (the "Stonewall" Brigade) are described. Each exploit is described as "Stonewall Jackson's Way." The poem concludes, "The foe had better ne'er been born That gets in Jackson's way."
AUTHOR: John Williamson Palmer
EARLIEST_DATE: 1904 (Wharton)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar battle
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1824-1863 - Life of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
July 21, 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas. In a confusing fight, with his brigade falling to pieces, General Bernard Bee sees Jackson's brigade holding steady. He describes the brigade as a "Stone wall," coining the nickname by which Jackson has been identified ever since (though Jackson always maintained that the name was the brigage's, not his)
May/June, 1862 - Jackson's "Valley Campaign." Jackson, with strength never exceeding two divisions, battles the equivalent of three (weak and scattered) Union corps to a standstill by rapid movement and concentration. One of three federal commanders in the area (the Union army had no overall commander) was the inept Nathaniel P. Banks, whose troops suffered severely at Jackson's hands (and would suffer again at Cedar Mountain in August)
Aug 29-30, 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run/Manasses. Lee and Jackson defeat Pope
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Hill-CivWar, pp. 83-84, "Stonewall Jackson's Way" (1 text)
DT, STNWALLJ*
NOTES: I have always heard this as a poem, but the Digital Tradition has a tune, and Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy_ also prints a melody; I suppose it might be traditional. I don't know of any field collections, though.
That this piece was composed by an educated man cannot be doubted (note the use of Latin in one stanza); there is no reason to question Palmer's authorship. Wharton, however (_War Songs_, p. 47) reports a rumor that "[t]hese verses were found written on a small piece of paper, all stained with blood, in the bosom of a dead soldier of the old Stonewall Brigade, after one of Jackson's battles in the Shenandoah Valley."
The origin of the nickname "Stonewall" is explained in the historical references. The poem also calls Jackson "Old Blue Eyes" -- allegedly given because of the way his eyes glowed in battle.
The description of the Second Battle of Bull Run in the penultimate stanza is completely backward. Lee had separated his army into wings under Longstreet and Jackson. Union General John Pope caught up with Jackson, and tried very hard on August 29 to dislodge him. He almost succeeded. But then Longstreet came up on Pope's flank and completely demolished the Union army.
The "Ashby" referred to in the same stanza is Turner Ashby, who had commanded Jackson's cavalry in the Valley campaign and was killed June 6, 1862.
The descriptions of Jackson's prayer are more reasonable; Jackson was a presbyterian lay preacher (though his students at the VMI described him as very dull), and he attributed all his success to God. Frankly, he was a very obnoxious person -- but, obviously, a great tactician. - RBW
File: HCW083
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NAME: Storm Along John: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
===
NAME: Stormalong
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic lines: "To me way, old Stormalong!... Aye, aye, aye, Captain Stormalong." About the death of Stormalong, who was elaborately buried off Cape Horn. The singer wishes he were Stormy's son so he could treat the sailors better
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1882
KEYWORDS: shanty sailor death burial
FOUND_IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Doerflinger, pp. 82-83, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bone, pp. 126-127, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord, pp. 88-89, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 78-84, "Storm Along John," "Stormy," "Old Stormy" (6 texts, 6 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 66-69]
Hugill, pp. 71-77, "Mister Stormalong," "Stormy Along, John," "Way Stormalong John," Stormalong, Lads, Stormy," Way Stormalong John" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Sharp-EFC, XX, XXXIV, & LVII, p. 23, 39 & 62, "Stormalong John," "Old Stormey," "Wo, Stormalong" (5 texts, 4 tunes)
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 63-65, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-AmFolklr, p. 834, "Stormalong" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRMALNG*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Old Stormy!" is in Part 4, 8/4/1917.
ADDITIONAL: Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; notes to #398, ("Stormey's dead, that good old man") (1 text)
Roud #216
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "Mister Stormalong" (on LastDays)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The 'Cholly' Blues" (floating verses)
cf. "Deep Blue Sea (II)" (floating verses)
cf. "Carry Him To the Burying Ground (General Taylor, Walk Him Along Johnny)" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Captain Stormalong
Come-along, Git-along, Stormalong John
Oh, Stormalong
Old Stormalong
Mister Stormalong John
NOTES: Shay reports, "Old Stormalong is the only heroic chracter in the folklor of the sea: he was born, like the great clipper ships, in the imaginations of men."
Shay adds a tall tale of Stormy aboard the clipper _Courser_, so large that it just barely fit through the English Channel. Stormalong had the ship greased with soap so it could slide through more easily. This is why the sea near Dover is foamy: The cliffs scraped off all the soap. - RBW
File: Doe082
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NAME: Stormalong, Lads, Stormy: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
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NAME: Stormy: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
===
NAME: Stormy Along, John: see Stormalong (File: Doe082)
===
NAME: Stormy Ol' Weather: see Windy Old Weather (File: CoSB204)
===
NAME: Stormy Scenes of Winter, The: see The Lonesome (Stormy) Scenes of Winter [Laws H12] (File: LH12)
===
NAME: Stormy Weather Boys
DESCRIPTION: Adventures of a barge crew on the Thames. The captain arrives half-drunk; the crew gets sozzled, the barge runs aground. They meet a mermaid and a ghost (who takes the wheel); eventually they arrive at Yarmouth and wind up in "The Druid's Arms"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1950 (Creighton-Maritime)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Adventures of a barge crew on the Thames. The captain comes aboard half-drunk; the crew gets sozzled and the barge runs aground. They encounter a mermaid ("Up jumped a mermaid covered with muck/We took her down the fo'c'sle and had a good time") and a ghost (who takes the wheel); eventually they arrive at Yarmouth and wind up in "The Druid's Arms." Chorus: "Stormy weather boys, stormy weather boys/When the wind blows our barge will go"
KEYWORDS: sex river work drink storm fo'c'sle humorous sailor worker ghost mermaid/man parody
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 144-145, "Stormy Weather Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STRMYWTH
Roud #1851
RECORDINGS:
Bob Roberts, "Stormy Weather Boys" (on LastDays)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. Windy Old Weather" (meter)
cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
NOTES: Not having heard this sung, I can't prove it's a parody of "Windy Old Weather" -- but the meter and lyrics both say it is. - RBW
I don't think so, despite the lyrical similarities. "Windy Old Weather" is sung in waltz time, while this is 4/4. - PJS
File: DTstrmyw
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NAME: Stormy Winds of Winter, The: see The Lonesome (Stormy) Scenes of Winter [Laws H12] (File: LH12)
===
NAME: Story of Creation: see Walkin' in the Parlor (File: Wa177)
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NAME: Story of George Mann, The: see George Mann (File: E122)
===
NAME: Story of Gustave Ohr: see Gustave Ohr (File: E121)
===
NAME: Story the Crow Told Me, The
DESCRIPTION: Nonsense verses, supposedly told by a crow. "I bought me a suit of union underwear... I couldn't get it off 'cause I lost the combination", "My gal took sick the other day... I bought her a corset... She's in better shape now than she was before"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (recording, Carolina Buddies)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonsense animal bird
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 163, "The Story the Crow Told Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Buddies, "The Story That the Crow Told Me" (Columbia 15641-D, 1931; rec. 1930; on CrowTold01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "The Story that the Crow Told Me" (on NLCR04, NLCR11)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm Going Away in the Morn" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is almost certainly from minstrel sources. - PJS
File: CSW163
===
NAME: Stow'n' Sugar in de Hull Below
DESCRIPTION: "I wish I was in Mobile Bay, Rollin' cotton by the day, Stow'n' sugar in de hull below, Below, belo-ow, Stow'n' sugar in de hull below." A steamboat chant, mentioning the Natchez and depicting the engineer and captain.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924
KEYWORDS: river nonballad work floatingverses ship
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Botkin-MRFolklr, p. 592, [no title] (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Belle-a-Lee" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Hieland Laddie" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This uses lyrics from "Hieland Laddie," which is far better known, but the form appears different enough that I separate them. - RBW
File: BMRF592B
===
NAME: Stowaway, The
DESCRIPTION: "From Liverpool 'cross the Atlantic Our white sail floated over the deep." A poor stepfather stows his boy aboard to seek better times in Halifax. First mate will kill the stowaway unless he says who among of the crew put him aboard. The mate relents
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: poverty reprieve ship youth hardtimes ship sailor murder
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 51, "From Liverpool 'cross the Atlantic" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 890-892, "The Stowaway" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 46, "Stowaway" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6341
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2162), "The Little Hero!," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 11(2161), "The Little Hero"; Harding B 11(3676), Firth b.27(97), Harding B 11(3675), "[The] Stowaway" or "[The] Little Hero"
File: GrMa051
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NAME: Strabane Canal, The: see The Calabar (File: HHH502)
===
NAME: Strabane Fleet, The: see The Calabar (File: HHH502)
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NAME: Strabane Hiring Fair, The: see The Hiring Fair (File: RcHiriFa)
===
NAME: Straight-Out Democrat
DESCRIPTION: "We never took stock in H. Greeley, Though Baltimore took him in tow... The ticket that's honest we'll honor... We would like to have Charlie O'Conor, For O'Conor and Adams we'll go." The song encourages others to vote for the "true" democrats
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1872
KEYWORDS: political nonballad derivative
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1872 - Grant/Greeley election
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Spaeth-ReadWeep, p. 43, "Straight-Out Democrat" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Rosin the Beau" (tune) and references there
NOTES: Ulysses S. Grant was first elected President in 1868, and by the time of the 1872 election it was clear that he could not control corruption in his administration. The Democrats nominated Horace Greeley, but a splinter of the party broke off and nominated Charles O'Conor and the younger John Quincy Adams.
The weakness of the O'Conor bid is shown by the fact that all the minor parties combined picked up only 35,097 votes (less than 1% of the total), and that O'Conor didn't gain a single electoral vote -- even though Greeley died before the electoral tally was taken, and the 68 electoral votes he would have earned were split five ways.
Grant, of course, won the election. - RBW
File: SRW043
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NAME: Straightened Banks of Erne, The
DESCRIPTION: The romantic "winding banks of Erne" are no more. "'Progress hates meandering' is a maxim all must learn, So the engineers have straightened out the winding banks of Erne" for the new powerhouse at the falls of Assaroe.
AUTHOR: Colm O Lochlainn (source: OLochlainn-More)
EARLIEST_DATE: 1960 (OLochlainn-More)
KEYWORDS: river technology nonballad parody
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn-More 16A, "The Straightened Banks of Erne" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shannon Scheme" (theme: Ireland's hydro-electrification)
NOTES: OLochlainn-More: "Written by the compiler to celebrate the opening of the Erne hydro-electric scheme and dedicated to the late Dr Laurence Kettle and Professor Tatlow, the engineers responsible for the scheme." By O Lochlainn's description, it is a parody
Notes to IRClare01: "The Shannon Scheme for the Electrification of the Irish Free State, by harnessing the fall in the River Shannon between Killaloe and Limerick, was commenced in 1925 and completed in 1929 and, within six years, was supplying 85% of Ireland's electricity requirements...." - BS
According to John A. Murphy, _Ireland in the Twentieth Century_(Gill and MacMillan, 1975, 1989), p. 65, "[T]he most far-sighted step in the development of natural resources by the state was the Shannon Scheme -- the beginning of the national supply of electricity -- and the establishment of the Electricity Supply Board in 1927, destined to be perhaps the most successful of those semi-state bodies which in future years became characteristic and indispensible features of the Irish economy."
For a later song about Ireland's electrification, see "The ESB in Coolea."  - RBW
File: OLcM016A
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NAME: Straloch
DESCRIPTION: "All you that are at liberty, I pray you all draw near, And listen to my story, it's what you soon shall hear. It was at the last Martinmas, I went unto the fair, I did engage wi' Straloch, to work the second pair." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1914 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming work
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan3 382, "Straloch" (1 fragment)
Roud #5919
NOTES: The first two lines of this four-line fragment are shared with one version of "Erin's Lovely Home"; see Bodleian, 2806 c.8(297), "Erin's Lovely Home," unknown, no date: "All you that are at liberty, I pray you all draw near, And listen to my story, it's what you soon shall hear." The next two lines are typical of the beginning of a song about being hired at a feeing fair to work a farm; for example, "I engaged wi Jamie Broon, In the year o' ninety-one Tae ging hame an ca' his second pair, And be his orra man." ["The Guise o' Tough"]
Candlemas [February 2], Whitsunday [May 15], Lammas [August 1] and Martinmas [November 11] were the four "Old Scottish term days" "on which servants were hired, and rents and rates were due." (Source: Wikipedia article _Quarter days_).
The current description is all of the GreigDuncan3 fragment. - BS
File: GrD3382
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NAME: Strands of Ballylickey, The
DESCRIPTION: "I oftimes think of home and where I spent my childhood days before I was forced to roam." He recalls playing, fishing, music and dancing "by the strands of Ballilickey on the shores of Bantry Bay." He hopes to return "but fortune seems against me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1978 (OCanainn)
KEYWORDS: home travel return Ireland nonballad
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OCanainn, pp. 108-109, "The Strands of Ballylickey" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: OCan108
===
NAME: Strands of Magilligan, The: see The Streams of Lovely Nancy (File: VWL098)
===
NAME: Strange Proposal, A: see Captain Wedderburn's Courtship [Child 46] (File: C046)
===
NAME: Strange Things Wuz Happening
DESCRIPTION: "Well, they'z strange things wuz happening in the land... The war wuz going on, caused many hearts to moan...." "But Uncle Sam with Germany tried to live in peace, Kept blowin' up his vessels...." Listeners are urged to stand by the United States
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: war ship
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownII 240, "Strange Things Wuz Happening" (1 text)
Roud #6623
NOTES: The immediate cause of American entry into World War I was, of course, Germany's use of unlimited submarine warfare. Early in the war, the Germans had tried sinking ships without warning, and stopped as the U. S. protested. 
n 1917, with the war in stalemate, the Germans hoped to starve Britain out of the war before the U. S. could make its weight felt. It didn't work.
I have to think this was intended for popular consumption, but neither the editors of Brown nor I have seen it elsewhere. - RBW
File: BrII240
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NAME: Strange Visitor, The
DESCRIPTION: "A wife was sitting at her reel ae nicht... and aye she wished for company." A body comes in in pieces: Large feet, small legs and thighs, at last a great head. She asks about each part; the visitor explains its purpose. Which is to take her soul
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Montgomerie)
KEYWORDS: death loneliness
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 196, "(A wife was sitting at her reel ae nicht)" (1 text)
DT, STRANVIS
File: MSNR196
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NAME: Stranger Far From Home, A: see Poor Stranger, The (Two Strangers in the Mountains Alone) (File: R059)
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NAME: Stratton Mountain Tragedy [Laws G18]
DESCRIPTION: A young woman and her baby are trapped in a cold blizzard. When they are found, the mother is dead but the baby alive; the mother had wrapped it in her cloak
AUTHOR: Seba Smith (? -1843)
EARLIEST_DATE: broadside (1843)
KEYWORDS: mother baby death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1821- Death of Lucy Blake and her daughter Rebecca, whose fate is believed to have inspired this ballad
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Laws G18, "Stratton Mountain Tragedy"
Flanders/Brown, pp. 27-28, "Stratton Mountain Tragedy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 638, STRATMTN*
Roud #5442
File: LG18
===
NAME: Straw Man, The: see Mrs Greig of Sandlaw (File: Ord247)
===
NAME: Strawberry Lane: see The Elfin Knight [Child 2] (File: C002)
===
NAME: Strawberry Roan, The [Laws B18]
DESCRIPTION: An unemployed cowboy is offered the chance of a job if he can ride the strawberry roan. Confident of his skill, he mounts the horse -- to be thrown within seconds. He concludes the horse is unridable.
AUTHOR: Words: almost certainly Curley Fletcher
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (published by Fletcher in the Globe, AZ Record as "The Outlaw Broncho")
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy injury unemployment
FOUND_IN: US(So,SW) Canada
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Laws B18, "The Strawberry Roan"
Randolph 202, "Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
Randolph-Legman II, 652-655, "The Strawberry Roan" (2 texts)
Fowke/Johnston, pp. 98-100, "The Strawberry Roan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife-Cowboy/West 68, "The Strawberry Roan" (2 texts, 1 tune, the second text being the parody "Bad Brahma Bull")
Ohrlin-HBT 28, "The Strawberry Roan" (1 text, 1 tune); also two sequels by Wilf Carter: 29, "He Rode the Strawberry Roan" (1 text); 30, "The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 111, "Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
DT 385, STRWROAN*
ADDITIONAL: Hal Cannon, editor, _Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering_, Giles M. Smith, 1985, pp. 57-59, "The Strawberry Roan" (1 text)
Roud #3239
RECORDINGS:
Arizona Wranglers, "Strawberry Roan" (Merry Xmas L949, 1929; on BackSaddle)
Bill Boyd & his Cowboy Ramblers, "Strawberry Roan" (Bluebird B-5667, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4778, 1935)
Beverly Hillbillies, "The Strawberry Roan" (Brunswick 514/Supertone S-2263, 1931)
W. C. Childers "Strawberry Roan, Part 1/Part2" (Victor V-40103; 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4951, 1936) (Champion 16467, 1932)
Bob Ferguson [pseud. for Bob Miller], "Strawberry Roan" (Columbia 15677-D, 1931)
Paul Hamblin, "The Strawberry Roan" (Victor V-40260, 1930; on WhenIWas2)
Harry Jackson, "Strawberry Roan" (on HJackson1, CowFolkCD1)
Bob Kackley & Bob Ferguson, "Strawberry Roan" (OKeh 45531, 1931)
Bud Kelly, "Strawberry Roan" (Broadway 8331, rec. 1932)
[Frank] Luther & [Carson] Robison "The Strawberry Roan" (Melotone M-12350, 1932)
Ranch Boys, "The Strawberry Roan" (Decca 5074, 1935)
Bob Sherman, "The Strawberry Roan" (Clarion 5336C, c. 1929)
Wesley Tuttle, "Strawberry Roan" (Coral 64051, 1950)
John White, "The Strawberry Roan"  (Banner 32179/Romeo 1629/Perfect 12712/Conqueror 7753, 1931)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "While Hanging Around Town" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Wild Buckaroo" (tune & meter)
cf. "No Balls at All" (tune, in some versions)
cf. "Wild Rover No More" (tune, in some versions)
cf. "The Castration of the Strawberry Roan" (tune, character of the Roan)
SAME_TUNE:
Castration of the Strawberry Roan (File: Logs013)
He Rode the Strawberry Roan (Ohrlin-HBT 29; Wilf Carter, "He Rode the Strawberry Roan" (Bluebird [Canada] B-4974, c. 1933/Regal Zonophone [Australia] G23152, n.d.))
The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan (Ohrlin-HBT 30; Wilf Carter, "The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan" (Montgomery Ward M-7186, 1937; Bluebird [Canada] B-4602, c. 1938))
Ridge Runnin' Roan (Tex Fletcher, "Ridge Runnin' Roan" (Decca 5302, 1936))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Outlaw Broncho
NOTES: Powder River Jack Lee claimed that Frank R. Chamberlain wrote the words to this song in 1894. No other evidence of this has been offered, however, and every known version seems to go back to Fletcher.
A number of "sequels" to "Strawberry Roan" have been written, including the two by Wilf Carter cited by Ohrlin. Austin E. Fife published an article on the subject, "The Strawberry Roan and His Progeny," in the John Edwards Memorial Quarterly.
For more on the offspring of this song, see the notes to "The Castration of the Strawberry Roan." - RBW
 I think it's been fairly well established, despite Powder River Jack, that Fletcher wrote the words, probably in 1914. To quote Logsdon, "It was being sung by many people and Fletcher got no credit or money. So he collaborated with two Hollywood song writers, Nat Vincent and Fred Howard, to publish it as sheet music. When it came off the press they had made changes and added a chorus. Fletcher was furious and demanded that they print his original poem on the inside back cover for those who wanted to sing it the right way (and he wrote a bawdy version.)" The chorus they wrote, "Oh, that strawberry roan," has become part of most versions collected from tradition. - PJS
File: LB18
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NAME: Strawberry Tower: see Scarboro Sand (The Drowned Sailor) [Laws K18] (File: LK18)
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NAME: Streams of Bunclody, The
DESCRIPTION: "Was I at the moss-house where the birds do increase" he'd have a kiss from his sweetheart. "The cuckoo is a pretty bird ..." Various if ... then verses. She shuns him. She is rich. He is poor. He is "going to America, my fortune to try." 
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1888 (Sparling); c.1867 (broadside, Bodleian 2806 b.9(206))
KEYWORDS: love emigration separation America floatingverses 
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
OLochlainn 76, "The Maid of Bunclody, and the Lad She Loves So Dear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3000
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.9(206), "The Maid of Bonclody," P. Brereton (Dublin), c.1867 ; also 2806 b.9(232) [almost entirely illegible], "The Maid of Bon Clody, and the Lad She Loves Dear"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cuckoo" (floating verses)
NOTES: See H. Halliday Sparling, _Irish Minstrelsy_, 1888, pp. 224-225, 515. The description follows Sparling who notes, "From a Dublin ballad-slip of very uncertain date, but certainly before 1850." Floating verses include "The cuckoo is a pretty bird ...."; "If I was a clerk and could write a good hand ...."; "If I was a lark and had wings, I then could fly ... where my love does lie." The cuckoo verse seems uncorrupted:
The cuckoo is a pretty bird, it sings as it flies,
It brings us good tidings and tells us no lies,
It sucks the young bird's eggs to make its voice clear,
And it never cries cuckoo till the summer is near.
In spite of its title -- "The Maid of Bon Clody, and the Lad She Loves Dear" -- broadside Bodleian 2806 b.9(232) seems to follow Sparling exactly. The words I can make out in each verse are the same words that are in Sparling. But then, the same is true of OLochlainn 76: same title and same text.
Steve Gardham points out that the text of Richard Hayward's "Down in Glasloch" (78 Recording: Richard Hayward with Roy Robertson Orchestra, "Down in Glasloch" (Rex 15016B/matrix DR 11826-1, 1947)) is very similar to "The Streams of Bunclody"; the verses here seem minor modifications of the non-floating verses there and include the floating verses that do not refer to the cuckoo. The main difference is in the first verse:
From Sparling's "The Streams of Bunclody"
O was I at the moss-house where the birds do increase,
At the foot of Mount Leinster or some silent place
Near the streams of Bunclody, where all pleasures do meet,
And all I'd require is one kiss from you sweet. 
For "Down in Glasloch"
Oh, were I down in Glasloch where the birds sing so blithely
I would walk there with my true love and she by my side
And in all things she might ask me I would gladly do her favor
For there's no love like my true love in all Monaghan wide.
The following comment is from John Moulden: "I rather distrust his [Hayward's] versions and suspect that the text you quote has been tinkered. In a later (10 inch LP "Words and Music of Ireland" Decca EBL522) recording of the tune alone played by Hayward on an organ, he states that he collected the song in Monaghan 'close to Sir Shane Leslie's home' wherever that may have been." John Moulden is researcher at the "Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change" at National University of Ireland, Galway whose subject is 'the printed ballad in Ireland'"
The date of 1947 for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. He also has a 1938 date for an earlier Hayward recording as "Down in Glaslough".
Help provided by Steve Gardham, John Moulden and Bill Dean-Myatt is cited here with their permission.
Glaslough is a village in Count Monaghan, Ireland, just south of Northern Ireland. Mount Leinster and the River Clody are near Bunclody, County Wexford. - BS
File: BroaTSoB
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NAME: Streams of Lovely Nancy, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer (a sailor?) describes the "streams of lovely Nancy", a mountain with a castle, his beloved (who lives in the castle), a river, and a ship. He ends by addressing all "streamers"; he will write to his love, "For her rosy lips entice me..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1825 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 28(29))
LONG_DESCRIPTION: In this extremely confused song, the singer (probably a sailor) describes the "streams of lovely Nancy", a mountain with a castle, his beloved (who lives in the castle), a river, and a ship from the Indies. He ends by addressing all "streamers" (tin-miners washing ore?), saying he will write to his love, "For her rosy lips entice me, with her tongue she tells me 'No'/And a angel might direct us right, and where shall we go?" 
KEYWORDS: love rejection lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(West,South)) Ireland US(MW,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 98, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 294-295, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 149, "The Streams of lovely Nancy" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 26, "Green Mountain" (1 text)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 64, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
SHenry H520, p. 259, "The Strands of Magilligan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell-FSRA 29, "The Shipwreck" (1 text, probably this piece although there is no mention of Nancy; there is one brief mention of Polly, and no shipwreck!)
DT, LOVNANCY* (erroneously titled "The Steams of Lovely Nancy")
Roud #688
RECORDINGS:
Turp Brown, "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(29), "The Streams of Lovely Nancy," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 11(3678), Firth b.34(282), Harding B 11(3677), Harding B 11(3678A), Harding B 11(825), Firth c.13(24), Harding B 11(3679)[some words illegible], 2806 c.17(410), 2806 c.17(409)[some words illegible], Harding B 15(320a), Harding B 11(1519), Firth b.26(542)[some words illegible], "[The] Streams of Lovely Nancy"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Cursor Mundi" (14th century religious poem, sharing images)
cf. "The Ploughboy (I)" (lyrics)
cf. "If I Were a Fisher" (floating verses)
cf. "Farewell, Sweet Mary" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Nellie (I)" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Streams of Nantsian
Faithful Emma
The Dreams of Lovely Nancy
NOTES: All versions of this song seem to be equally mysterious. Lloyd quotes A.G. Gilchrist as speculating, with evidence, that this song is actually a relic of a hymn to Mary. -PJS
Margaret Dean-Smith offers the speculation that "streams/streamers" refer not to flowing waters but to "streamers," who worked in tin mines. If that helps. - RBW
File: VWL098
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NAME: Streets of Forbes, The
DESCRIPTION: Ben Hall is "hunted from his station" and "like a dog shot down." A bushranger for three years, he is planning to "cross the briny sea" when found and "riddled like a sieve." The authorities parade his body through the streets of Forbes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964 (Manifold)
KEYWORDS: outlaw police Australia death
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: May 5, 1865 - Ben Hall is ambushed and killed by police near Forbes, Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 60-61, "The Streets of Forbes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 79-81, "The Streets of Forbes" (1 text)
DT, STRFORBE*
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "The Ballad of Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "The Death of Ben Hall" (plot)
cf. "My Name is Ben Hall" (subject)
NOTES: For the background of Ben Hall, see the other songs listed in the cross-references, especially "Ben Hall."
To tell this from the other Ben Hall songs, consider this first verse:
Come all of you Lachlan men, and a sorrowful tale I'll tell
Concerning of a hero bold who through misfortune fell.
His name it was Ben Hall, a man of good renown
Who was hunted from his station, and like a dog shot down.
According to Patterson/Fahey/Seal, this is based on a poem by Ben Hall's brother-in-law John McGuire. - RBW
File: PASB060
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NAME: Streets of Glory: see Welcome Table (Streets of Glory, God's Going to Set This World on Fire) (File: San478)
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NAME: Streets of Laredo, The [Laws B1]
DESCRIPTION: (The singer meets a young cowboy "all dressed in white linen and cold as the clay.") The cowboy has been shot (or given a venereal disease?) and is dying. He regrets his carousing, gives instructions for his burial, and dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1886
KEYWORDS: cowboy death lament burial dying funeral disease violence murder
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,NE, Ro,So,SE,SW) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES: (28 citations)
Laws B1, "The Cowboy's Lament (The Dying Cowboy)"
Belden, pp. 392-397, "The Unfortunate Rake" (3 texts plus a fragment and references to 4 more versions; 1 tune, all of which are this song despite the title)
Randolph 182, "The Cowboy's Lament" (2 texts plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Eddy 124, "The Dying Cowboy" (3 texts, none of which refer to "The Streets of Laredo" and which might be mixed with other versions of this song)
Gardner/Chickering 100, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 short text plus mention of 1 more)
BrownII 263, "The Unfortunate Rake" (1 text plus 9 excerpts and mention of two others, called "The Unfortunate Rake" but apparently all this song)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 353-359, "The Dying Cowboy" (6 texts; 3 tunes on pp. 452-453)
Friedman, p. 424, "The Cowboy's Lament (The Streets of Laredo)" (2 texts, the second being a lumberjack text that might derive from one of the other versions)
PBB 111, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text)
Lomax-FSUSA 59, "The Streets of Laredo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, p. 263, "As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thorp/Fife XIII, pp. 148-190 (29-30), "Cow Boy's Lament" (22 texts, 7 tunes, though not all are really part of this piece -- the "H" text, from Minnesota, is in a Scandinavian tongue; "K" looks like it comes from the "Tarpaulin Jacket" family; "L" is "The Wild and Wicked Youth"; "M" is "Jack Combs"; "N" is "St. James Infirmary"; many of the other texts are parodys)
Fife-Cowboy/West 119, "The Streets of Laredo" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Larkin, pp. 30-31, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune, with four verses that are clearly "Streets of Laredo" but an opening that is "My Home's in Montana")
SharpAp 131, "St. James's Hospital, or The Sailor Cut Down in his Prime" (2 texts, 2 tunes, but the "A" text really belongs with "The Unfortunate Rake")
Lomax-FSNA 200, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 120, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 859-860, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 242, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
JHCox 53, "The Dying Cowboy" (5 texts)
JHCoxIIB, #8A-B, pp. 139-142, "The Dying Cowboy" (2 fragments, 2 tunes)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 41, "The Streets Of Laredo" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H680, p. 141, "The Cowboy of Loreto" (1 text, 1 tune)
LPound-ABS, 77, pp. 170-171, "The Dying Cowboy" (1 text)
Darling-NAS, pp. 8-9, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 115, "The Streets Of Laredo" (1 text)
Saffel-CowboyP, pp. 192-193, "The Cowboy's Lament" (1 text)
DT 350, LAREDST*
Roud #2
RECORDINGS:
Jules Allen, "The Cowboy's Lament" (Victor V-40178, 1929; Montgomery Ward M-4099, 1933)
Captain Appleblossom, "The Cowboy's Lament" (OKeh 45373, 1929)
Bentley Ball, "The Dying Cowboy" (Columbia A3085, 1920)
Vernon Dalhart, "The Dying Cowboy" (Brunswick 137/Perfect 12361 [as "The Cowboy's Lament", 1927; Supertone S-2009, 1930; Conqueror 7724 [as "The Cowboy's Lament"], 1931)
Dick Devall, "Tom Sherman's Barroom" (Timely Tunes [Victor subsidiary] C-1563, 1931; on BefBlues1, WhenIWas2)
Newton Gaines, "A-Walkin' the Streets of Laredo" (Victor V-40253, 1930)
Ewen Hail, "Cowboy's Lament" (Brunswick 141, 1927; Brunswick 433/Supertone S-2043. 1930)
Harry Jackson, "Streets of Loredo" (on HJackson1)
Bradley Kincaid, "In the Streets of Laredo" (Supertone 9404, 1929)
Ken Maynard ,"The Cowboy's Lament" (Columbia 2310-D, 1930; on WhenIWas1)
Harry "Mac" McClintock, "Cowboy's Lament" (Victor 21761, 1928)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Tom Sherman's Barroom" (on NLCR06, NLCR11)
H[olland] Puckett, "The Dying Cowboy" (Champion 15428 [as Harvey Watson]/Gennett 6271/Herwin 75557 [as Robert Howell]/Silvertone 5065/Silvertone 8152 [as Si Puckett]/Silvertone 25065/Suptertone 9253 [as Harvey Watson], 1928; rec. 1927)
Johnny Prude, "The Streets of Laredo" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28, BackSaddle)
Ranch Boys, "Cowboy's Lament" (Decca 5061, 1935)
Pete Seeger, "Streets of Laredo" (on PeteSeeger12)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Unfortunate Rake" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Bad Girl's Lament (St. James' Hospital; The Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime) [Laws Q26] (tune & meter, plot)
cf. "Jack Combs" (tune & meter, lyrics)
cf. "The Dying Outlaw" (tune & meter)
cf. "My Home's in Montana" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "My Friends and Relations" (tune, floating lyrics)
cf. "The Mowing Machine" (tune & meter)
cf. "The Bard of Armagh" (tune & meter)
cf. "Trooper Cut Down in His Prime" (tune & meter)
SAME_TUNE:
A Sun Valley Song (Darling-NAS, p. 11)
The Lineman's Hymn (Darling-NAS, pp. 11-12)
The Streets of Hamtramck (Darling-NAS, p. 12)
The Ballad of Sherman Wu (Darling-NAS, p. 13)
A Golfing Song  (Darling-NAS, pp. 13-14)
The Professor's Lament (Darling-NAS, pp. 14-15)
Ballad of Sherman Wu (on PeteSeeger19, AmHist2)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
My Home's in Montana
The Young Cowboy
Tom Sherman's Barroom
Tom Sherwin's Barroom
NOTES: One of the large group of ballads ("The Bard of Armagh," "Saint James Hospital," "The Streets of Laredo") ultimately derived from "The Unfortunate Rake." All use the same tune and metre, and all involve a person dying as a result of a wild life, but the nature of the tragedy varies according to local circumstances.
Thorp/Fife studied 150 versions of this text, and determined that 39 were set in "The Streets of Laredo" or similar; 37 took place at Tom Sherman's Barroom or similar, 25 used other words starting with LA (Lafferty, London, Laden, etc.), 31 (not all of them variants of this exact song) used miscellaneous places, and 18 were not localized.
Logsdon, pp. 289-290, reports that "Tom Sherman's barroom was a popular cowboy dance hall and bar in Dodge City, Kansas." He cites a claim that this song was written by Francis Henry Maynard in 1876, and claims that Tom Sherman's was the location in this original text. Based on the dates at which the song was collected, this is possible, but I haven't listed Maynard as the author because the evidence is so thin. Logsdon quoted an article in which Maynard allegedly described the circumstances of the composition.
For the treatment of syphilis prior to the twentieth century, see the notes to "The Unfortunate Rake." - RBW
File: LB01
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NAME: Stringybark
DESCRIPTION: "There are white-box and pine on the ridges afar, Where the ironbark, bluegum, and peppermint are, But the one I know best and the dearest to me And the king of them all is the stringybark tree." Why is it so dear? The singer's birth-hut was made of it
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: home
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Anderson, p. 264, "Stringybark" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Stringybark and Greenhide" (subject)
NOTES: Andrew and Nancy Learmonth _Encyclopedia of Australia_2nd edition, Warne & Co, 1973, describes stringybark as an informal name for several species of eucalyptus, the name being given because the bark "peels off in long fibrous strips."
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, p.281, notes that stringybark grew on poor land, but it isn't absolutely clear whether this means low soil fertility or unusually dry. I would guess the former, though, because eucalyptus leaves reportedly are very low in nutrition value even by leaf standards. - RBW
File: MA264
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NAME: Stringybark and Greenhide
DESCRIPTION: "I sing of a commodity, it's one that will not fail yer,.. the mainstay of Australia... Stringybark and greenhide can beat [gold] all to pieces." Greenhide can hold carts together; stringybark strengthens homes; the singer praises these useful products
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: probably before 1870 (Sydney Songster)
KEYWORDS: nonballad Australia
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 157-159, "Stringybark and Greenhide" (1 text plus a fragment)
Roud #8400
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. 'Stringybark" (subject)
NOTES: Andrew and Nancy Learmonth _Encyclopedia of Australia_2nd edition, Warne & Co, 1973, describes stringybark as an informal name for several species of eucalyptus, the name being given because the bark "peels off in long fibrous strips."
Allthough the song presents itself as a praise of stringybark and greenhide, Patterson/Fahey/Seal see it more as a toast to the abilities of Australians to improvise, and I incline to agree. - RBW
File: PFS157
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NAME: Stringybark Cockatoo, The
DESCRIPTION: "I'm a broke alluvial miiner who's been using his cup to drain." With no other means of support, the miner goes to work for a "stringybark cockatoo." The work is dull and the master poor, cheap, and hard to work with
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1905 (Paterson's _Old Bush Songs_)
KEYWORDS: unemployment work farming Australia mining
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 100-102, "The Stringybark Cockatoo" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal, pp. 281-283, "The Stringybark Cockatoo" (1 text)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cockies of Bungaree" (plot, lyrics)
NOTES: A "Cockatoo," or "Cockie," is a farmer whose land is so poor that it can raise little but cockatoos. Stringybark (for which see "Stringybark") was also considered a sign of very poor land.
This song has so many similarities to "The Cockies of Bungaree" that I have to suspect literary dependence. The "Bungaree" text is the more popular, and hence perhaps more likely to be original, but I can offer no absolute proof of this. - RBW
File: PASB100
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NAME: Stringybark Creek
DESCRIPTION: "A sergeant and three constables rode out from Mansfield Town" to seek the Kelly gang. When they separate, Kelly overwhelms two, then catches the other two as they return. One man, MacIntyre, escapes to bring the news to Mansfield
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1964
KEYWORDS: outlaw death trick horse
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Manifold-PASB, pp. 70-72, "Stringybark Creek" (1 text, 2 tunes)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Kelly Gang" (subject)
cf. "Ye Sons of Australia" (subject)
cf. "Kelly Song (Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly)" (subject)
cf. "Kelly Was Their Captain" (subject)
cf. "Ballad of the Kelly Gang" (subject)
cf. "My Name is Edward Kelly" (subject)
cf. "The Kelly Gang Were Strong" (subject)
NOTES: Manifold reports that there is also a fiddle tune named "Stringybark Creek," which is sometimes used for this song. Said tune sounds vaguely familiar; I think I've heard it under another name. But it's not one of the common fiddle tunes. - RBW
File: PASB070
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NAME: Study War No More: see Down By the Riverside (Study War No More) (File: San480)
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NAME: Stump, The: see The Rattling Bog (File: ShH98)
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NAME: Stumpie the Lawyer
DESCRIPTION: Stumpie tells Meg it is safe when "ye needna dread ill when ye hae a Pitfour" now that the election is over. But "a mob wi' tar-barrel cam doon to the door" and played her "Lochaber no more" [used as a funeral dirge]
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1887 (Walker, _The Bards of Bon-Accord 1375-1860_, according to GreigDuncan2)
KEYWORDS: fire nonballad political
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
GreigDuncan2 242, "Stumpie the Lawyer" (1 text)
Roud #5846
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Logie o' Buchan" (tune, according to GreigDuncan2)
NOTES: GreigDuncan2: "Part of a song current in Aberdeen about 1805. Election row -- Pitfour one of the contestants. Rabble took a tar-barrel down to a 'howl' in Netherkirkgate kept by 'Salmon Meg' (woman's husband being a salmon fisher) -- a house frequented by Pitfour -- and set fire to it. Kennedy the advocate and 'Annalist' is the 'Stumpie' of the song; he was a cripple." - BS
File: GrD2242
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NAME: Subhail a Gradh: see Shule Agra (Shool Aroo[n], Buttermilk Hill, Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) (File: R107)
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NAME: Substitute, The
DESCRIPTION: Recitation; Tom Burke befriends young Tim Cory. Tim is crushed by a falling tree and asks Tom to take care of his children. He finds Tim's children are now orphans. The speaker later learns Tom has married Tim's oldest daughter
AUTHOR: Probably Marion Ellsworth
EARLIEST_DATE: 1941 (Beck)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Recitation; Tom Burke, a saw-filer in the lumber camp, befriends a young man, Tim Cory. Tim is crushed by a falling tree, but before dying, he asks Tom to take care of his children. Tom takes the body to Tim's house. He finds Tim's children are now orphans, their mother having been dead for two years; he takes up a collection among the crew. The speaker loses track of Tom, but one day he chances on a small farm, and he finds Tom has married Tim's oldest daughter, and they've made a good and happy home.
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger marriage farming recitation orphan family friend
FOUND_IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Beck 104, "The Substitute" (1 text)
Roud #8884
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb)" [Laws C14]
cf. "Chance McGear" (plot)
cf. "Boy Killed by a Falling Tree in Hartford" (plot)
NOTES: Put baldly, as in the description, this sounds like sentimental treacle, but to my ear it's a poem with some guts to it. Like the other pieces probably written by Ellsworth, it does not seem to have entered oral tradition. - PJS
File: Be104
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NAME: Success to Every Man
DESCRIPTION: "De time is drawin' near, me b'ys, De narthern floe to face, So we must get out 'aulin' rope, De whitecoats fer to lace!" Various sealing ships are listed. The singer wishes success and prosperity to the sealers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (England, Vikings of the Ice)
KEYWORDS: hunting ship
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 109, "Success to Every Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: RySm109
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NAME: Success to the Hardy Sealers
DESCRIPTION: "The twelfth  of March is drawing near And we must all prepare Our pipers and our pannicans The sealer's life to share." Ships preparing to go to the ice are listed. The singer hopes they return safely
AUTHOR: apparently Johnny Burke
EARLIEST_DATE: 1912 (Burke's Ballads)
KEYWORDS: ship travel hunting
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Ryan/Small, p. 81, "Success to the Hardy Sealers" (1 text)
File: RySm081
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NAME: Success Unto the Coal Trade
DESCRIPTION: "Good people, listen while I sing The source from where your comforts spring; And may each wind that blows still bring Success unto the coal trade." The singer points out how coal supports the nation and feeds the people of the north
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: mining nonballad
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 140-141, "Success Unto the Coal Trade" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3163
File: StoR140
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NAME: Sucking Cider through a Straw
DESCRIPTION: "The prettiest girl that I ever saw Was sucking cider through a straw." "I told that gal I didn't see how She sucked the cider through a straw." "And now I've got me a mother-in-law From sucking cider through a straw."
AUTHOR: credited in the 1919 publication to Carey Morgan and Lee David
EARLIEST_DATE: 1919 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: courting drink
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,MW,SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
BrownIII 47, "Sucking Cider through a Straw" (1 fragment)
Sandburg, p. 329, "Sucking Cider Through a Straw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" (1 text)
DT, SIPCIDER*
Roud #7867
RECORDINGS:
[Arthur] Collins & [Byron] Harlan, "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" (Pathe 22157, 1919) (Edison 50627, 1920) (CYL: Edison [BA] 3846, n.d.)
Vernon Dalhart, "Sippin' Cider" (Columbia 1712-D, 1929)
SAME_TUNE:
The Other Day I Met a Bear (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 44; DT, IMETBEAR)
NOTES: The 1919 publication gives the name as "Sipping Cider thru' a Straw." Curiously, Sandburg, writing no later than 1927, did not seem to know of this -- implying that this was originally "folk" rather than pop. - RBW
File: San329
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NAME: Sucking Pig, The
DESCRIPTION: Of a giant pig, which takes 7000 men to butcher, and seven years to remove a trotter; its bones yield 7000 bags of flour. Cho: "O, perhaps you may think that/O, it's not all true/But I don't care a fig/What I say, I know it's true/About this suckling pig"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (recording, Jack Elliott of Birtley)
KEYWORDS: lie corpse death work food talltale animal worker
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: ()

Roud #8083
RECORDINGS:
Jack Elliott, "The Sucking Pig" (on Elliotts01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Derby Ram" (subject, plot)
cf. "The Grey Goose" (subject, plot)
cf. "The Killing of the Big Pig (Iso Sika)" (subject, plot)
NOTES: The collectors, MacColl & Seeger, considered this song a barrack-room rewrite of "The Derby Ram," and obviously the parallels are very strong. But as the actual words, except for the chorus, seem to be somewhat independent, I split them. Still, cognate stories of big animals that are hard to kill and cook are common, so do look at the cross-references. - PJS
File: RcTSuPig
===
NAME: Suffolk Miracle, The [Child 272]
DESCRIPTION: A squire's daughter loves a lowborn man. The squire sends her away. In time her love comes to bear her home. His head hurts; she binds it with her kerchief. She arrives home. Her father says her love is dead. She finds his dead body wearing her kerchief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1689? (broadside, dated to that year by Wood)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation death father lover ghost supernatural corpse travel horse grief
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,NE,SE,So) Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES: (20 citations)
Child 272, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
Bronson 272, The Suffolk Miracle" (13 versions)
SharpAp 37, "The Suffolk Miracle" (4 texts plus 1 fragment ("C") that might be almost anything, 5 tunes) {Bronson's #4, #2, #3, #1a, #8}
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 314, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 fragment)
Randolph 32, "Lady Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #12}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 145-147, "The Holland Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #7}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 50-62, "The Suffolk Miracle" (3 texts, 2 tune, all weeming somewhat mixed -- e.g. "A" has the rose-and-briar ending) {Bronson's A=Bronson's #10, B=#7}
JHCox 27, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
BrownII 41, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
Davis-Ballads 42, "The Suffolk Miracle" (2 texts plus a scrap which could be anything, 2 tunes, one of them for the unidentifiable fragment) {Bronson's #8, #5}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 88-90, "The Suffolk Miracle" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Peacock, pp. 407-408, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 645-649, "The Suffolk Miracle" (2 texts)
OBB 175, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
Niles 56, "The Suffolk Miracle" (1 text)
SHenry H217, pp. 432-433, "The Lover's Ghost" (1 text, 1 tune)
McBride 40, "The Holland Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 12, "The Holland Handkerchief" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN2961, "A wonder stranger ne'r was known"
DT 272, SUFFMRCL* SUFFMRC2 SUFFMRC3*
Roud #246
RECORDINGS:
Packie Manus Byrne, "The Holland Handkerchief" (on Voice03)
Dol [Adolphus G.] Small, "There Was an Old and Wealthy Man" (AFS, 1950; on LC58) {Bronson's #1b}
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 2(207b), "The Suffolk Miracle" or "A Relation of a Young Man Who a Month After His Death Appeared to his Sweetheart," F. Coles (London), 1678-1680; also Wood E 25(83) [some lines illegible; "MS annotation following imprint: 1689"], Douce Ballads 3(88a)[many illegible lines], "The Suffolk Miracle" or "A Relation of a Young Man Who a Month After His Death Appeared to his Sweet[-]heart,"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Maid of Sweet Gurteen" (theme)
SAME_TUNE:
My Bleeding Heart (per broadsides Bodleian Douce Ballads 2(207b), Wood E 25(83) and Douce Ballads 3(88a))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Sad Courtin'
The Richest Girl in Our Town
Lucy Bouns
NOTES: Child complains of this song, "This piece should not be admitted here on its own merits.... It is not even a good specimen of its kind. Ghosts should have a fair reason for walking, and a quite particular reason for riding...." Child prints the song for the sake of its foreign analogs.
All I can say is, the plot may be somewhat defective, but the full forms of the ballad itself are quite beautiful and pathetic. It does corrupt easily, though, as the Flanders texts show.
More interesting is the way the story is expressed. Legends of ghosts are of course common, and legends of the fate of spirit and body affecting each other not rare (e.g. if a living person slashes at a ghost, the ghost may appear to be intact but the corpse will bear a scar, perhaps healed). In this song, the ghost actually comes to bear an artifact. That is not often encountered.
The "Holland Handkerchief" of certain versions is not a cloth woven in the Netherlands; rather, the adjective refers to the pattern of the weave. - RBW
File: C272
===
NAME: Sugar and Tea
DESCRIPTION: "Lead her up to sugar and tea, Lead her up to candy. You swing 'round that sugar and tea While I swing 'round that dandy." "Hi oh that sugar and tea, Hi oh that candy, You swing 'round that sugar and tea While I swing 'round that dandy."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Talley)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 531, "Sugar and Tea" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST R531 (Partial)
Roud #7643
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dog in the Wood" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Sugar Loaf Tea
He Loves Sugar and Tea
NOTES: This shares a chorus with the song I've indexed as "Dog in the Wood," but the verses are so distinct (that is a hunting song, this a courting song) that I've tentatively split them. - RBW
File: R531
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (I)
DESCRIPTION: "Shoot your dice and have your fun, sugar babe... Run like the devil when the police come." The singer describes various results of getting drunk. Sundry other floating verses
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: drink gambling nonballad
FOUND_IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 153-154, "Sugar Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3655
File: LxA153
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (II): see Crawdad (File: R443)
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (III)
DESCRIPTION: Floating verses with internal chorus "this-u morning" and final chorus "My honey babe, my little babe, so sweet." Verses: "Kill me a chicken and bring be the wing." "I got a mule and the mule won't gee." "I took my girl to the crawfish stand...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting abandonment food floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 482, "Sugar Babe" (1 text)
NOTES: The notes in Brown state, "It seems best to retain this title [which came from the informant] for the present medley, because it is the refrain that gives it such coherence as it has." I'm not sure I agree -- but certainly there is no other single place the song can file, as the verses all appear elsewhere. I suspect they were fitted into an existing blues framework. - RBW
File: Br3482
===
NAME: Sugar Babe (IV): see Sweet Thing (I) (File: R443A)
===
NAME: Sugar Baby (Red Rocking Chair; Red Apple Juice)
DESCRIPTION: "Got no sugar baby now...got no use for your red rocking chair...who'll rock the cradle, who'll sing the song...all I can do, fuss, eat, sleep with you/send you to your mama next payday" -- floating verses all.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1927 (recording, Dock Boggs)
KEYWORDS: marriage nonballad floatingverses
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 82 "Sugar Baby" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 34, "Red Rocking Chair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 175, "Red Apple Juice" (1 text)
Roud #7695
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard et al, "Honey Babe Blues" (on Ashley02, WatsonAshley01)
Dock Boggs, "Sugar Baby" (Brunswick 118B, 1927; on  Boggs2, BoggsCD1, AAFM3)
Roscoe Holcomb, "Got No Honey Baby Now (Honey Babe Blues)" (on Holcomb2)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Little Turtle Dove" (1928; on BLLunsford01; a composite of all sorts of floating verses, a few of which may be from here)
Charlie Monroe & his Kentucky Pardners, "Red Rocking Chair" (RCA Victor 21-0145, 1949)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Red Rocking Chair" (on NLCR03)
Frank Proffitt, "Got No Sugar Baby Now" (on FProffitt01)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Pay Day" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Rain and Snow" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Fare You Well, My Own True Love (The Storms Are on the Ocean, The False True Lover, The True Lover's Farewell, Red Rosy Bush, Turtle Dove)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: This is a white blues, but it powerfully resembles an improvised African-American blues lyric, composed mostly of floating verses. -PJS
File: ADR82
===
NAME: Sugar Hill
DESCRIPTION: Dance tune; "If you want to get your eye knocked out/If you want to get your fill/If you want to get your head blowed off/Go up on Sugar Hill". Other floating verses; "Possum up a 'simmon tree."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1928 (recording, Crockett Ward & his Boys)
KEYWORDS: dancing drink floatingverses dancetune
FOUND_IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 193, "Sugar Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Frank Bode, "Sugar Hill" (on FBode1)
Dad Crockett, "Sugar Hill" (Brunwick 372, 1929; on KMM [as Crockett Family Mountaineers])
Virginia Mountain Boomers [Ernest V. Stoneman, Willie Stoneman, an the Sweet Brothers], "Sugar Hill" (Gennett 6687, 1929; rec. 1928)
Crockett Ward & his Boys "Sugar Hill" (OKeh 45179, 1928; rec. 1927)
NOTES: "Sugar Hill" is the wild part of town. - PJS
File: CSW193
===
NAME: Sugar in My Coffee
DESCRIPTION: Complaints about life laced with the refrain, "(How in the world do the old folks know) That I like sugar in my coffee-o." The singer may describe how he likes to drink, or wishes he were/were not living the life of a white man
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1915 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad playparty
FOUND_IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Randolph 565, "Sugar in my Coffee" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
BrownIII 92, "I Do Love Sugar in My Coffee O" (2 short texts)
Roud #7659
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "What'll I Do with the Baby-O" (floating lyrics)
NOTES: The Randolph fragment is so short that it could just be a piece of "What'll I Do with the Baby-O," and Brown's texts are also distinct.  The mention of "sugar in my coffee" may just be a floating line. But it's going to be very hard to identify any of these scraps with a "real" song.
Randolph suggests that the origin of this may be in the fiddle tune "Sugar in My Toddy-o." Certainly possible. In which  case it may be related to "Jingle at the Window (Tideo)." - RBW
File: R565A
===
NAME: Sugar Loaf Tea: see Sugar and Tea (File: R531)
===
NAME: Sugar Lump: see Turn that Cinnamon (File: R583)
===
NAME: Suit of Green, The
DESCRIPTION: A girl mourns the loss of her love taken by guards "for wearing of the suit of green." Her master buys her a suit of green to wear to Dublin where she pleads with the Colonel for her lover's life. The Colonel spares them both; they will marry.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1862 (broadside, Bodleian Firth c.14(134)); first half 19C (Zimmermann)
KEYWORDS: love marriage request rebellion trial pardon clothes colors Ireland patriotic prisoner
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
OLochlainn 24, "The Suit of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zimmermann 22, "The Suit of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBoyle 23, "Suit of Green" (1 text, 1 tune)
Healy-OISBv2, pp. 42-43, "(A Much-Admired New Song Called) The Suit of Green" (1 text)
ST OLoc024 (Partial)
Roud #3023
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.14(134), "Suit of Green," E.M.A. Hodges (London), 1855-1861; also 2806 b.9(226), 2806 c.15(123), 2806 b.9(277), 2806 b.10(208), 2806 b.10(208), Firth c.26(264), Johnson Ballads fol. 363, "[The] Suit of Green"
NOTES: Although wearing green was never an actual crime in Ireland, it was often associated with rebels (see "The Wearing of the Green" and the like). In times of trouble, it was likely to invite, shall we say, official attention. - RBW
File: OLoc024
===
NAME: Sukey Sudds
DESCRIPTION: "Sukey Sudds was a-standing in front of her tubs, A-washing her clothes so nice.... Sukey Sudds picked up her three-legged stool And she throwed it right into the fire, fire, fire, And she throwed it right into the fire."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: clothes
FOUND_IN: US(So)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Randolph 438, "Sukey Sudds" (1 text)
Roud #7608
File: R438
===
NAME: Sumer Is I-cumen In
DESCRIPTION: "Sumer is i-cumen in, lhude [loud] sing cuccu!" A round celebrating the beginning of summer and the appearance of various symbols of fertility
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: fourteenth century or earlier (MS. Harley 978, generally dated c. 1225-1250)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Sumer is i-cumen in, Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed [seed] and bloweth [blooms] meed
And spring[e]th w[oo]de nu [now].
Sing cuccu!
Awe [ewe] bleteth after lomb [lamb],
Lhouth [lows] after calve cu [cow]
Bulluc stereth [stirs], bukke [buck] verteth [frequents the fields]
Myrie [merry] sin cuccu....
KEYWORDS: farming lyric nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Stevick-100MEL 3, "(Sumer Is I-cumen In)" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge I, pp. 10-13, "Sumer Is Icumen In" (1 text, 1 tune; the frontispiece shows a facsimile of the neumed manuscript)
Silber-FSWB, p. 260 "Summer Is A-Coming In" (1 text, modernized and otherwise fouled up)
ADDITIONAL: Brown/Robbins, _Index of Middle English Verse_, #3223
Maxwell S. Luria & Richard Hoffmann, _Middle English Lyrics_, p. 4, #3 (another text with facsimile)
Noah Greenberg, ed., An Anthology of English Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music, pp. 35-41 (1 text plus modern arrangement)
DT, ICUMSUM
NOTES: Possibly the oldest pop song in the English language; it's a wide-open question whether the manuscript was a transcription of a piece from oral tradition, or the source. - PJS
Wooldridge observes that this song "contains the earliest canon, and the earliest persistently repeated bass, as yet discovered," and speculates (based on the several erasures clearly visible in the manuscript) that the scribe, probably John Fornsete of Reading, was personally responsible for the arrangement.
Personally, I'd be inclined to consider this a proto-classical piece (all the more so as it occurs only in the one manuscript), but I'm not going to be dogmatic about it.
Most scholars date the manuscript to the thirteenth century.  Manfred Bukofzer, however, prefers the fourteenth. Looking at the facsimile, I wonder if he hasn't a point. I'm not a paleographer, and there wasn't that much difference between thirteenth and fourteenth century insular hands anyway -- but the manuscript does have several forms (notably spelling out the word "and," rather than using the upside-down L used as an ampersand at the time) more characteristic of late than early manuscripts. Of course, if the manuscript is a copy rather than the autograph, that doesn't mean much.
We should perhaps note that Harley 978 is not the more famous manuscript from the same collection, Harley 2253, which contains "King Horn" among many other famous poems. "Sumer Is I-cumen In" appears to be the only significant song in Harley 978. - RBW
File: FSWB260B
===
NAME: Summer Hill
DESCRIPTION: The singer tells how he used to ramble, until he spies Cupid and is pierced by his dart. Now "I'm a wounded lover on Summer Hill." He describes the girl's beauty, and hopes to win her. He refuses to reveal his name
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H20b, p. 245, "Summer Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9482
File: HHH020b
===
NAME: Summer Morning, The (The White/Blue/Green Cockade)
DESCRIPTION: "It was one summer morning, as I went o'er the moss, I had no thought of 'listing till the soldiers did me cross." But her love is in the army. She both laments and curses him. They meet; he dries her tears and says he will return; she vows to ramble
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1900 (Stokoe/Reay)
KEYWORDS: soldier love separation recruiting
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  68-69, "It Was One Summer Morning" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, COCKADE1*
Roud #191
File: StoR068
===
NAME: Sun Being Set, The: see Ground for the Floor (File: RcGftF)
===
NAME: Sun Down Below
DESCRIPTION: "Six o'clock I hear 'em say. Sun down, Sun down below. Time to quit and go away. Sun down, Sun down below." Hauling shanty or cargo loading song, likely of Negro origin.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1945 (Harlow)
KEYWORDS: shanty worksong
FOUND_IN: West Indies US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Harlow, p. 85, "Sun Down Below" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Harl085
===
NAME: Sun Will Never Go Down, The: see Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down (File: Wa088)
===
NAME: Suncook Town Tragedy (Josie Langmaid) [Laws F21]
DESCRIPTION: Josie Langmaid is on her way to school when she is accosted by (Joseph) LePage. He abuses and kills her. Her family searches for and finds her body. The killer is condemned to hang
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1930 (Flanders/Brown)
KEYWORDS: murder family execution
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: Oct 4, 1875 - Murder of Josie Langmaid, reportedly by Joseph LePage
Mar 15, 1878 - Execution of Le Page
FOUND_IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws F21, "Suncook Town Tragedy (Josie Langmaid)"
Flanders/Brown, pp. 72-73, "Suncook Town Tragedy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt, p. 57, "(no title)" (1 short text, 1 tune)
DT 684, SUNCKTWN
Roud #2259
NOTES: Although Laws shows no signs of doubt about Le Page's guilt, the account in Burt makes it seem that the case was at least somewhat uncertain. Langmaid had been abused and then decapitated, but the only evidence Burt lists to tie the crime to Le Page is the fact that he had courted young girls (and Langmaid wasn't *that* young; Burt lists her age as 17). Le Page even had a partial alibi, but was convicted anyway. - RBW
File: LF21
===
NAME: Sunday School Song, The: see Walkin' in the Parlor (File: Wa177)
===
NAME: Sundown
DESCRIPTION: Courting song, with the chorus "It's nearly sundown, sundown/Sun is almost down/Bound away to leave you, 'fore the sun goes down..." Verses begin with "Hi, my little darling"; singer promises to bring his girl back a ribbon to tie around her waist
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1973 (recording, Art Thieme)
KEYWORDS: courting parting nonballad playparty lover
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (0 citations)
RECORDINGS:
Art Thieme, "Sundown" (onGetFolked) (on Thieme04)
NOTES: I suspect this is related to the song "Hurry Sundown," and I'm guessing that it's a playparty. - PJS
File: RcSundow
===
NAME: Sunny Bank: see I Saw Three Ships (File: OBB104)
===
NAME: Sunny South (I), The: see The Sweet Sunny South (I) [Laws A23] (File: LA23)
===
NAME: Sunny South (II), The: see Sweet Sunny South (II) (File: DTsunsou)
===
NAME: Sunshine After Rain
DESCRIPTION: "I left my love in Engand In poverty and pain"; they weep as he sets out across the sea. He works hard, saves his money, goes home, finds the girl. They live happily and are well-off: "The morn has 'dorned the darkest night And sunshine followed rain."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1924 (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: love separation emigration reunion farming
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Chappell-FSRA 55, "Sunshine Followed Rain" (1 text)
Roud #13821
File: ChFRA055
===
NAME: Sunshine Followed Rain: see Sunshine After Rain (File: ChFRA055)
===
NAME: Sunshine Railway Disaster, The
DESCRIPTION: Two trains approach Sunshine at the same time. 44 die in the crash. "If those trains had only run As they should, their proper time, There wouldn't have been a disaster At a place they call Sunshine. If those brakes had only held...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1974
KEYWORDS: train wreck disaster death Australia
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: April 20, 1908 -  The Bendigo train crashes into the rear of the Ballarat train at Sunshine near Melbourne. 44 passengers (all in the Ballarat train) were killed; over 400 (from both trains) were injured
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Fahey-Eureka, pp. 210-211, "The Sunshine Railway Disaster" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FaE210
===
NAME: Sup of Good Whisky, A
DESCRIPTION: A mouthful "of good whisky will make you glad"; too much will make you mad; none is bad. Preachers, doctors, lawyers, Turks, and Quakers are against it but drink "in their turn" Germans, French, and Italians boast of their drinking; Hibernia's is best.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1839 (Croker-PopularSongs)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
FOUND_IN: 
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 83-86, "A Sup of Good Whisky" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(569/570/571/572) View 4 of 5, "A Sup of Good Whisky" ("A sup of good whisky will make you glad"), W. Macnie (Stirling), 1825; also Johnson Ballads 3185, Harding B 25(1853), Harding B 11(3699), "A Sup of Good Whisky"
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Chapter of Kings" (tune, per broadsides Bodleian Harding B 25(1853), Harding B 11(3699))
File: CfPS083
===
NAME: Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man
DESCRIPTION: Swedish shanty/drinking song. Chorus translates to: "Oh listen, listen here us now, Out of deep throats we're calling you, A tot which goes from man to man, A tot for us Johnnies." Verses mention more drinking and sailing themes.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1935 (Sternvall, _Sang under Segel_)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty drink
FOUND_IN: Sweden
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Hugill, pp. 282-283, "Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man" (2 texts-English & Swedish, 1 tune)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Whiskey Johnny" (similar theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Kom Hor, Kom Hor
File: Hugi282
===
NAME: Sur le Pont d'Avignon
DESCRIPTION: French round: "Sur le pont d'Avignon, L'on y danse, l'on y danse." "On the bridge at Avignon, see them dance, see them dance." The song tells how men, women, and soldiers bow and dance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1846 (Du Mersan, "Chansons et Rondes Enfantines")
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad
FOUND_IN: France
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Silber-FSWB, p. 390, "Sur Le Pont D'Avignon (On The Bridge At Avignon)" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 539-540, "Sur le Pont d'Avignon"
NOTES: One of the best-known songs in all of France. The great bridge on the Rhone was finished in 1185. The need to carry larger ships has resulted in much of the span being torn down, but a portion still stands (sticking out into the middle of nowhere), mostly as a tourist attraction. - RBW
File: FSWB390A
===
NAME: Sure Makes a Man Feel Bad: see It Makes a Long-Time Man Feel Bad (File: LoF291)
===
NAME: Susan Brown (I)
DESCRIPTION: Beautiful Susan, the singer, has many wooers; she flirts with all even though she loves a rich farmer's son. The lad proposes to a different girl. Susan poisons him, then flees. Unable to find work, she is imprisoned and now is dying of consumption
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1938 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting betrayal murder poison prison death
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H771, pp. 415-416, "Susan Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7963
File: HHH771
===
NAME: Susan Carr
DESCRIPTION: Billy Green and Susan Carr had courted, but she turns to Thompson instead. Green challenges Thompson for the right to her hand. Green kills Thompson and drowns himself. Susan dies soon after. All three are buried together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1937 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment murder death burial drowning suicide
FOUND_IN: Ireland
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
SHenry H,690 p. 416, "Susan Carr" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7964
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Pride of Newry Town" (plot)
NOTES: The notes in Henry/Huntington/Herrmann speculate that this may be related to Laws P33, "Susannah Clargy" (one of the most obscure of the Laws ballads). I strongly doubt there is any link. There are common elements -- a girl with two lovers, and a death, as well as the similar names of the heroines -- but many different elements as well. "Susan Carr" sees the two suitors do battle, while "Susannah Clargy" is a song of suicide with the lover's ghost coming back to take her away. - RBW
File: HHH690
===
NAME: Susan on the Beach: see Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19] (File: LK19)
===
NAME: Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach [Laws K19]
DESCRIPTION: Noble Susan loves Willy, a sailor, and will not accept a husband of high degree. As she walks along the beach, worrying about him, she sees a body which proves to be his. She dies for love; the two are buried together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1933 (Greenleaf/Mansfield)
KEYWORDS: love death burial drowning sailor shore
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Laws K19, "Susan Strayed on the Briny Beach"
Greenleaf/Mansfield 103, "Susan Strayed the Briny Beach" (2 texts)
Peacock, pp. 646-647, "As Susan Strayed the Briny Beach" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Leach-Labrador 21, "Susan Strayed the Briny Beach" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H774, pp. 150-151, "Susan on the Beach" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ranson, pp. 70-71, "The Sligo Shore" (1 text)
DT 695, SUSTRAY
Roud #1896
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie [Child 215] (plot)
cf. "Down by the Seaside" (plot)
File: LK19
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NAME: Susan Van Dusan
DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Susan Van Dusan, The gal of my choosin', She sticks to my bosom like glue." "Oh, Susan Van Dusan, Oh, I will quit usin' Tobacco and boozin' for you." ""Oh, Susan Van Dusan, What gum are you usin' That sticks to my bosom like you?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: love
FOUND_IN: US
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lomax-ABFS, pp. 409-410, "Susan Van Dusan" (1 text)
Roud #15537
File: LxA409
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NAME: Susan, The
DESCRIPTION: The Susan, returning to Bonaventure from successful fishing on the Labrador, sinks in a storm at Cutthroat and the crew of four is lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best)
KEYWORDS: death fishing sea ship storm wreck
FOUND_IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Lehr/Best 103, "The Susan" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES: Cut Throat Island is up the Labrador Coast near the mouth of Groswater Bay about 140 air miles northeast of Happey Valley-Goose Bay. Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, is just north of the Avalon Peninsula. - BS
File: LeBe103
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NAME: Susanna: see Oh! Susanna (File: RJ19152)
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NAME: Susannah Clargy [Laws P33]
DESCRIPTION: Susannah vows to be true to the widow's son; they break a ring as a token. Some months later she agrees to marry another man; she scorns the widow's son. He kills himself; that night his ghost comes to claim Susannah
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1918 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: ghost brokentoken courting marriage suicide
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Laws P33, "Susannah Clargy"
SharpAp 185, "Susannah Clargy" (1 text, 1 tune)
BBI, ZN3179, "Young lovers most discrete and wise"
DT 511, SUSCLRGY
Roud #998
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "A Gentleman of Exeter (The Perjured Maid)" [Laws P32] (plot)
cf. "The Ghost's Bride" (plot)
cf. "Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene" (plot)
cf. "Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Sogsta Berg (The Pretty Maid Climbs the Highest Mountain)" (plot)
File: LP33
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NAME: Susiana
DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Characteristic line: "Hooray, oh, Susiana! Away right over the mountain." (The fragment in Doerflinger is too short to determine the plot -- if there is one.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1951 (Doerflinger)
KEYWORDS: shanty
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (2 citations)
Doerflinger, p. 83, "Susiana" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, p. 378, "Way, Me, Susiana!" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 286]
Roud #9436
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Poor Lucy Anna" (similar wording in some verses)
File: Doe083
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NAME: Susie Brown: see Cuckoo Waltz (File: San160)
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NAME: Sussex Toast, The: see I'll Drink One (To Be a Good Companion, The Sussex Toast) (File: K285)
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NAME: Susy Gal
DESCRIPTION: "Susy licked the ladle An' 'er dolly rocked the cradle. Goodbye, Susie gal, I'm gone again. I fell into the gutter And my heart began to flutter. Goodbye, Susie gal, I'm gone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad travel
FOUND_IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
BrownIII 320, "Susy Gal" (1 short text)
NOTES: The editors of Brown speculate that this might be a playparty. Certainly it looks like a singing game. - RBW
File: Br3320
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NAME: Suvla Bay
DESCRIPTION: "In an old Australian homestead With roses 'round the door, A girl received a letter 'Twas a message from the war... He played his part that April day, And now he lies in Suvla Bay." The grieving girl turns away suitors and joins the Red Cross
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1987
KEYWORDS: Australia battle death mourning
HISTORICAL_REFERENCES: 1915 - The Dardanelles campaign. British forces attack Gallipoli; the Australians and New Zealanders form the spearhead of the second phase of the attack, at Suvla Bay. All the attacks are bloody failures
FOUND_IN: Australia
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 206-207, "Suvla Bay" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5350
NOTES: It has been said that the Australian participation in the Dardanelles campaign is what made Australia a nation. Certainly it etched itself deeply in the Australian consciousness. It would be amazing if there were no traditional songs about it. This song (like the later "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda") seems not to be of actual folk origin, but it seems to have become part of Australian tradition.
The tragedy of Suvla Bay was not so much its failure (World War I was, after all, a war consisting of very little except failure) as its *needless* failure. When the troops went ashore in 1915, they encountered no resistance -- but their commander sat there and did nothing until the Turks could build a defensive position. From then on, it was a case of the ANZACs being slaughtered for nothing. - RBW
File: MCB206
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NAME: Suzanne Was a Lady: see Teasing Songs (File: EM256)
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NAME: Svede from Nort Dakota, The: see The Swede from North Dakota (File: Ohr008)
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NAME: Swaggers
DESCRIPTION: The listeners are warned against hiring with Swaggers at Porter Fair. The singer lists all the various indignities suffered by those who work there.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1906 (GreigDuncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming work humorous
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Greig #4, p. 2, "Swaggers" (1 text fragment) 
GreigDuncan3 386, "Swaggers" (9 texts, 3 tunes)
DBuchan 68, "Swaggers" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix)
Ord, pp. 219-221, "Swaggers" (1 text)
Roud #4589
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "The Parks o' Keltie" (tune, per Greig)
cf. "Nethermill" (subject)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Swaggers in Porter Fair
NOTES: Greig #124, p. 3: ." .. there is a good deal of material common to these ploughman ditties" ["Sleepytoon" and "Swaggers"].
GreigDuncan3 has a map on p. xxxv, of "places mentioned in songs in volume 3" showing the song number as well as place name; Auchterless (386) is at coordinate (h4-5,v6) on that map [roughly 28 miles NW of Aberdeen]; Turriff (347,386,682) is at coordinate (h5,v7) on that map [roughly 31 miles NNW of Aberdeen] - BS
File: DBuch68
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NAME: Swallow, The
DESCRIPTION: The clipper Swallow goes down New Brunswick's coast fighting a storm to Tormentine and waits out the storm "lying in the government dock.... for Georgetown we are bound ... our voyage is not o'er If the Swallow returns I'll sing you some more"
AUTHOR: Willard van Ember, Northport N.S.
EARLIEST_DATE: 1961 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: commerce sea ship shore storm sailor
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 186-187, "The Swallow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2714
NOTES: The places named in New Brunswick are Newcastle, Escuminac, Buctouche, and Tormentine. Georgetown is on Prince Edward Island. - BS
File: CrMa186
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NAME: Swalwell Hopping
DESCRIPTION: "Lads! myek a ring An' hear huz sing The sport we had at Swalwell, O." The singer tells of a wild day at the market. He lists the various people they saw along the way. After a day of revelry, "We staggered ahint se merry, O."
AUTHOR: Words: John Selkirk
EARLIEST_DATE: 1812 (Bell)
KEYWORDS: party food drink
FOUND_IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Stokoe/Reay, pp.  27-29, "Swallwell Hopping" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST StoR027 (Partial)
Roud #3054
NOTES: Swallwell Hoppin' was apparently a large and successful market in the time of author Selkirk (1783-1843), but by the late nineteenth century, according to Stokoe, it had nearly dwindled away. - RBW
File: StoR027
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NAME: Swan (II), The
DESCRIPTION: Returning from Wexford the singer sees a girl "like a swan that floats o'er the ocean" who "often grieved my poor heart." She rejects his marriage proposal because "I've been promised ten years or more" to Reilly "in a foreign country"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1955 (Creighton-Maritime)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES: (1 citation)
Creighton-Maritime, p. 75, "The Swan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2709
NOTES: Is this just a shortened version of "John (George) Riley" (II) [Laws N37], or some similar ballad? Or is this a mangled ballad of a swan-maiden? - BS
File: CrMa075
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