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Results 101 to 146 of 146 from your search: Love song

Item	Reference	Digital
Earltown Fair, The performed by Luther Fulton at Pembroke first line of lyric: As I walked out one evening — September 1954	Audio Reel: 5750 Recording number: 2762 notes: Mf289-585
Betsy of Dundee performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Till at length a comely maid — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5767 Recording number: 2825 notes: Mf289-606
Bonny Bunch of Rushes Green performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: I'll deck you out in splendour — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5768 Recording number: 2837 notes: Mf289-608
Over the Mountain performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: But just wait a moment till I get my shoes, — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5769 Recording number: 2858 notes: Mf289-610
Shepherdess, The performed by Mrs. Clem O’Conner at Moncton, New Brunswick first line of lyric: There was a handsome shepherdess keeping sheep upon a hill — July 1955	Audio Reel: 5770 Recording number: 2870 notes: Mf289-612
Canady-I-O performed by Mrs. Harvey H. Power at Little Harbour first line of lyric: It's of a purty fair maid all in her tender youth, — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5775 Recording number: 2934 notes: Mf289-622
Swan, The performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: As I was returning home from Wexford — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5778 Recording number: 2957 notes: Mf289-628
Erin's Lovely Home performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: My father sold his other cow — 1955	Audio Reel: 5779 Recording number: 2969 notes: Mf289-630
Dixie's Isle performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Our captain he gave orders — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5779 Recording number: 2975 notes: Mf289-630
Molly Bawn performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Here I am sad and lonely, — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5805 Recording number: 2976 notes: Mf289-632
Pretty Susan, The Pride of Kildare performed by Ned McKay at Little Harbour first line of lyric: O it's first from sea I've landed, — August 1955	Audio Reel: 5838 Recording number: 3023 notes: Mf289-662
Young Shepherd, the performed by Ned McKay at Little Harbour first line of lyric: It was onto one morning, one morning in spring, — August 1955	Audio Reel: 5838 Recording number: 3024 notes: Mf289-662
I Wrote My Love a Letter performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I once had a sweetheart but now I have none, — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5806 Recording number: 3033 notes: Mf289-634
Bonny Green Tree performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — Sep-55	Audio Reel: 5806 Recording number: 3034 notes: Mf289-634
I Wrote My Love a Letter performed by Fred Redden and Finvola Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — Sep-55	Audio Reel: 5806 Recording number: 3038 notes: Mf289-634
Jamie's On the Stormy Sea performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: E'er the twilight bat was flitting — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5806 Recording number: 3039 notes: Mf289-634
Bonny Green Tree, The performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: As I was a-walking one fine summer's morning, — September 1955	Audio Reel: 5806 Recording number: 3040 notes: Mf289-634
Ruby Were Her Lips performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Ruby were her lips, — 1955	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3075 notes: Mf289-640
Green Duccan performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: And yonder coming my true love I see — 1956	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3080 notes: Mf289-640
Jolly Roving Tar, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come down unto the riverside, — 1956	Audio Reel: 5809 Recording number: 3081 notes: Mf289-640
Sally Munro performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I wrote my love a letter — July 1956	Audio Reel: 5810 Recording number: 3089 notes: Mf289-642
Bonny Ca' Laddie For Me, A performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: On a mossy bank Jenny was sitting, — July 1956	Audio Reel: 5810 Recording number: 3095 notes: Mf289-642
Micmac Love Song performed by Mrs. Joe Knockwood at Kennetcook, Hants County, Nova Scotia — 1955	Audio Reel: 5811 Recording number: 3100 notes: Mf289-644
Ho Ro Mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach performed by John Archie Campbell at Heatherdale, Prince Edward Island — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5853 Recording number: 3288 notes: Mf289-690
Bridget McCue performed by Ernest Sellick and Michael Carney O full of blarney O, at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5866 Recording number: 3318 notes: Mf289-697
Drum Major, The performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come All ye young fellows and bachelors too, — September 1956	Audio Reel: 5868 Recording number: 3339 notes: Mf289-701
Nightingale, The performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: As I was a-walking one morning in May — June 1957	Audio Reel: 5871 Recording number: 3357 notes: Mf289-707
Maid of Lurgan's Green, The performed by Fred Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I pray you gentle muses, I pray you lend an ear — June 1957	Audio Reel: 5871 Recording number: 3358 notes: Mf289-707
By Kells Waters performed by Finvola Redden at Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — June 1957	Audio Reel: 5871 Recording number: 3360 notes: Mf289-707
My Dear Old Wife and I performed by Esau Fudge at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I merrily sing from morn til night and miseries I defy — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5872 Recording number: 3370 notes: Mf289-709
Dearest Love, Can You Remember performed by Benjamin Fudge at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Dearest love can you remember when we last did meet, — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5872 Recording number: 3371 notes: Mf289-709
Molly, Lovely Molly performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I'm sitting by my cottage door spinning, spinning, — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5874 Recording number: 3383 notes: Mf289-713
I Am A Tinker performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I am a tinker, I tinker metal, — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5874 Recording number: 3384 notes: Mf289-713
Tear From My Lady Love, A performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: She seemed to think me a boy above — July 1957	Audio Reel: 5874 Recording number: 3385 notes: Mf289-713
Dog and the Gun, The performed by Esau Fudge at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: 'Twas if a rich merchant in London did dwell, — August 1957	Audio Reel: 5877 Recording number: 3428 notes: Mf289-719
On the Banks of a River performed by Angelo Dornan at Elgin, New Brunswick first line of lyric: On the banks of a river I first saw my lover, — July 1958	Audio Reel: 5953 Recording number: 3633 notes: Mf289-771
Herding Lambs Amongst the Heather performed by James Brown and Miramichi Folk Song Festival at Miramichi, New Brunswick first line of lyric: Was up yon steep and lovely glen — September 1958	Audio Reel: 5961 Recording number: 3687 notes: Mf289-789
Green Grow the Rushes (Lovely Jimmy) performed by John Holland at Glenwood, New Brunswick first line of lyric: It was last Tuesday's evening at the theaytre hall — September 1958	Audio Reel: 5968 Recording number: 3727 notes: Mf289-803
Green Valley, The performed by Mrs. Perley Hare at Newcastle, New Brunswick first line of lyric: The first young man came courting me — September 1958	Audio Reel: 5968 Recording number: 3730 notes: Mf289-803
Jacket of Blue (Bonnets of Blue) performed by J.W. Byers at New Annan, Colchester County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: King's town up in Oulidge, a town in Northshire, — 1960	Audio Reel: 5970 Recording number: 3740 notes: Mf289-807
Green Valley, The performed by Harold Whitney and Miramichi Folk Song Festival at Miramichi, New Brunswick — 1960	Audio Reel: 5978 Recording number: 3792 notes: Mf289-822
Oran Gaoil (A Love Song) performed by Calum MacLeod at Antigonish, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia — 1961	Audio Reel: 5991 Recording number: 3880 notes: Mf289-844
True Lovers' Discussion, The performed by Marie Hare and Miramichi Folk Song Festival at Miramichi, New Brunswick — 1961	Audio Reel: 6000 Recording number: 3997 notes: Mf289-859
Josephine (sung in French) performed by Edmund Doucette at Miminigash, Prince Edward Island — July 1962	Audio Reel: 6004 Recording number: 4043 notes: Mf289-866
Jack Haggarty (The Flat River Girl) performed by Edmund Doucette and I'm a heart-broken raftsman, from Greenville, I came, at Miminigash, Prince Edward Island — July 1962	Audio Reel: 6005 Recording number: 4047 notes: Mf289-868
Maid of the East performed by Marie Hare and Miramichi Folk Song Festival at Miramichi, New Brunswick first line of lyric: There was a maid lived in the east, — August 1962	Audio Reel: 6006 Recording number: 4065 notes: Mf289-872

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