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Helen Creighton: Folklife

Results 501 to 550 of 588 from your search: English Folk song

Item	Reference	Digital
Munro's Confession (John A. Munro) performed by J.W. Collier at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Come all my fellow citizens, — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5745 Recording number: 2739 notes: Mf289-578
Turkish Rover performed by Luther Fulton at Pembroke first line of lyric: As we were sailing o'er the sea — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5750 Recording number: 2769 notes: Mf289-585
Birchen Canoe, The performed by Samuel Cox at Eastville first line of lyric: The Indian sits in his little canoe — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5750 Recording number: 2770 notes: Mf289-585
There Was an Old Man in Dover performed by Nathan Hatt at Middle River first line of lyric: There was an old man lived down in Dover — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5750 Recording number: 2772 notes: Mf289-585
Bonny Green Tree performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 1954	Audio Reel: 5759 Recording number: 2796 notes: Mf289-597
Banks of the Boyne performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 1954	Audio Reel: 5759 Recording number: 2797 notes: Mf289-597
Faithful Sailor Boy performed by Mr. Eustace — 1955	Audio Reel: 5766 Recording number: 2807 notes: Mf289-605
Ship's Carpenter, The — 1955	Audio Reel: 5766 Recording number: 2814 notes: Mf289-605
Sea Captain, The performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: There was a sea captain who followed the sea, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5767 Recording number: 2817 notes: Mf289-606
Stormy Winds of Winter, The performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: The stormy scenes of winter incline to frost and snow, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5767 Recording number: 2818 notes: Mf289-606
It's Seven Long Years performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: It's seven long years and something better — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5767 Recording number: 2824 notes: Mf289-606
Flying Cloud, The performed by Clem O’Conner at Moncton, New Brunswick — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5769 Recording number: 2852 notes: Mf289-610
Seventeen Come Sunday performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: 'Where are you going my pretty maid, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5769 Recording number: 2857 notes: Mf289-610
Silly Old Miser, The performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: The silly old miser — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5769 Recording number: 2865 notes: Mf289-610
Rose of Britain's Isle, The performed by W.E. Ireland at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Now when this old man came to know — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5771 Recording number: 2883 notes: Mf289-614
He's Young Though He's Daily A-Growing performed by Clarence Thompson at Springhill, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: The trees they grow tall and the leaves they grow green, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5772 Recording number: 2903 notes: Mf289-616
Handsome Cabin Boy, The performed by Clarence Thompson at Springhill, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It's of a pretty female as you may understand, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5772 Recording number: 2904 notes: Mf289-616
Young Weaver, the performed by Clarence Thompson at Springhill, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: There was a young weaver of honour and fame, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5772 Recording number: 2907 notes: Mf289-616
Sweet Sunny South, The performed by Clarence Thompson at Springhill, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: In the sweet sunny south there is peace and content, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5773 Recording number: 2910 notes: Mf289-618
Quaker's Courtship performed by Mrs. Edgar Hewson at Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Madame I have come a-courting, — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5773 Recording number: 2921 notes: Mf289-618
Keys of Canterbury, The performed by Mrs. Edgar Hewson at Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5773 Recording number: 2922 notes: Mf289-618
Blackbird, The performed by Allister Armstrong at Sherwood, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I once knew a maiden whose fortune was so, — 23 June 1949	Audio Reel: 5778 Recording number: 2953 notes: Mf289-628
Blackbird, The performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5778 Recording number: 2955 notes: Mf289-628
Young Jane and Her Gallant Hussar performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: A damsel possessed of great beauty — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5779 Recording number: 2964 notes: Mf289-630
Willie Riley at Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia — June 1954	Audio Reel: 5752 Recording number: 2974
Willie Riley performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: In Limerick town where I did dwell — 1955	Audio Reel: 5779 Recording number: 2974 notes: Mf289-630
Birchen Canoe performed by Mrs. George Dickie at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: The sun was just shedding her last golden ray — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5807 Recording number: 3053 notes: Mf289-636
Derby Ram, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: There was a ram in Derby — 1956	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3082 notes: Mf289-640
Blackbird, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: If I were a blackbird, I'd whistle and sing — 1956	Audio Reel: 5810 Recording number: 3085 notes: Mf289-642
Dark Eyed Sailor, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: 'Twas of a comely young maiden fair — July 1956	Audio Reel: 5810 Recording number: 3092 notes: Mf289-642
Babes in the Wood performed by William Wilson at Porter's River, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Now ponder well you parents dear — June 1959	Audio Reel: 5813 Recording number: 3149 notes: Mf289-648
Captain Kidd performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Bedford, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: My Name was Captain Kidd as I sailed, as I sailed, — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5850 Recording number: 3249 notes: Mf289-684
Carrion Crow, The performed by Capt. Charles Cates at Bedford, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: An old carrion crow was sitting on an oak, — August 1956	Audio Reel: 5850 Recording number: 3253 notes: Mf289-684
Well Sold the Cow performed by Ernest Sellick and There was an old farmer in Hertifordshire, at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5867 Recording number: 3321 notes: Mf289-699
Johnny Riley performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: As I rode out one evening fair down by the riverside — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5867 Recording number: 3327 notes: Mf289-699
Factory Girl, The performed by Edmund Henneberry at Eastern Passage, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: One bright May day morning as the sun was a-dawning, — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5871 Recording number: 3355 notes: Mf289-707
Cuckoo's Nest, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Hi the cuckoo ho the cuckoo — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5874 Recording number: 3388 notes: Mf289-713
Brig Harmony, The performed by Lillian Crewe Walsh at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia — 1957	Audio Reel: 5876 Recording number: 3413 notes: Mf289-717
Broken Ring (Seven Years I Loved A Sailor), The performed by Fred Marsh at New Waterford, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5876 Recording number: 3417 notes: Mf289-717
Silvery Tide, The performed by Grace Clergy at East Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 1957	Audio Reel: 5885 Recording number: 3481 notes: Mf289-733
Dark Eyed Sailor, The performed by Grace Clergy at East Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 1957	Audio Reel: 5885 Recording number: 3482 notes: Mf289-733
Dreadful Ghost, The performed by Grace Clergy at East Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: One morning on the maintop high — 1957	Audio Reel: 5886 Recording number: 3493 notes: Mf289-735
Silvery Tide, The performed by Grace Clergy at East Petpeswick, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 1957	Audio Reel: 5886 Recording number: 3494 notes: Mf289-735
Young Sailor performed by C.E. Inkpen at Poodiac, New Brunswick — 1958	Audio Reel: 5897 Recording number: 3580 notes: Mf289-757
Banks of Sweet Dundee performed by Augustine MacDonald at North Sydney, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: It's of a farmer's daughter, tall, beautiful, and fair, — June 1958	Audio Reel: 5898 Recording number: 3586 notes: Mf289-759
Stormy Weather performed by Scott Stuart at St. Andrews, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Oh up comes the herring, the king of the sea, — June 1958	Audio Reel: 5950 Recording number: 3610 notes: Mf289-765
Lord Thomas and Fair Eleinor performed by William Wilson at Ratter's Road, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Lord Thomas he was a bold forrester, — July 1958	Audio Reel: 5955 Recording number: 3647 notes: Mf289-777
Lost Jimmy Whalen performed by William Wilson at Ratter's Road, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Alone as I strayed by the banks of a river — July 1958	Audio Reel: 5955 Recording number: 3650 notes: Mf289-777
Sarah's Young Man performed by James Brown and Miramichi Folk Song Festival at Miramichi, New Brunswick first line of lyric: My first love was Sarah and none could be fairer, — September 1958	Audio Reel: 5965 Recording number: 3713 notes: Mf289-799
Girl I Left Behind, The performed by Nicholas Underhill at North West Bridge, New Brunswick first line of lyric: My parents reared me tenderly, having no child but me, — September 1958	Audio Reel: 5967 Recording number: 3717 notes: Mf289-801

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