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• Three Score and Ten
  [[Category:Song]] [[Category:Sea Song]]
  228 bytes (32 words) - 00:10, 22 February 2021
• Cecil Sharp's Note 85 (1916)
  For other versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 75 and 260; volume ii, p. 263); Miss Mason's ''Nur ...ead Horse," is still celebrated by sailors after they have been a month at sea (''English Folk Chanteys'', p. 73).
  669 bytes (107 words) - 12:47, 10 January 2019
• Isle of Man
  It may be a small island in the Irish Sea, but it is an independent state with its own distinct history, language, an ...g you need to know about the music and dance of the Isle of Man" including song and dance.
  559 bytes (96 words) - 20:34, 17 September 2021
• Cecil Sharp's Note 12 (1916)
  A version of this song, which the Rev. S. Baring-Gould collected in Devonshire, is published in '' ...ve fight between the George-Aloe, the Sweepstake, and certain Frenchmen at sea,” and consists of twenty-three stanzas, the first of which runs:
  2 KB (296 words) - 20:43, 19 October 2018
• Cecil J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson (1904) ''Folk Songs From Somerset Volume 5''
  123. Heave away, my Johnny (Sea Chanty)<br> 124. Spanish Ladies (Sea Chanty)<br>
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 42 (1916)
  FOR other versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 138; volume v, pp. 132–135); and ''English County ...stic and Early Christian mystical literature, for example, “the River, the Sea, the royal Fisher, the three Vestures of Light (or Robes of Glory), the Rec
  1 KB (225 words) - 21:14, 18 November 2018
• Cecil Sharp's Note 14 (1916)
  ...64, 2d ed.); Tozer’s ''Sailors’ Songs and Chanties'' (No. 15); ''Songs of Sea-Labour'' (No. 42), etc.
  978 bytes (155 words) - 20:58, 19 October 2018
• Song
  ...ds of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem. All songs currently in Folkopedia are listed on the [[Category:Song| Song Category Page]]
  10 KB (1,507 words) - 00:11, 8 May 2022
• Cecil Sharp's Note 01 (1916)
  ...n ''Songs of the West'' (No. 53, 2d ed.); and in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 162). ...rt of the 15th century, a Scottish sea-officer, Andrew Barton, suffered by sea at the hands of the Portuguese, and obtained letters of marque for his two
  3 KB (499 words) - 19:16, 19 October 2018
• Cecil Sharp's Note (1916)
  ...n ''Songs of the West'' (No. 53, 2d ed.); and in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 162). ...rt of the 15th century, a Scottish sea-officer, Andrew Barton, suffered by sea at the hands of the Portuguese, and obtained letters of marque for his two
  3 KB (499 words) - 19:04, 19 October 2018
• Song Books
  ...ds, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The [[Journal of the Folk-Song Society]]'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s The Cecil Sharp Collection of folk song books at the International Music Score Library Project can be accessed here
  7 KB (1,111 words) - 21:26, 7 May 2022
• A. L. Lloyd
  *''Blow Boys Blow (Songs of The Sea)'', Tradition Records (USA) LP, 1967. CD Reissue: Tradition, 1996 *''Farewell Nancy (Sea Songs and Shanties)'', [[Topic Records]](UK) LP, 1964
  7 KB (1,149 words) - 15:05, 7 February 2021
• George Wray
  ...included in Grainger’s ground-breaking article in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, “Collecting with Phonograph.” ''(Vol.3, no.12 (May 1908) pp.14 ...age of eight to seventeen he worked in a brickyard, after which he went to sea as a cook and steward for some years, learning some of his songs aboard shi
  4 KB (704 words) - 12:52, 26 October 2011
• Argo Records
  ...'ethnic music' (now known as 'world music'), issuing LPs of folk music and song from the USA, the Caribbean, South and Central America, India and Bali. Thi ...64) and 'Rhyme and Rhythm' (1965) for primary school children, 'Poetry and Song' (1967) for the secondary school and the ground-breaking 'Voices' anthology
  3 KB (513 words) - 21:48, 10 September 2010
• John Broadwood
  ...cientific method applied editorially to the oral tradition of English folk song." Broadwood's collection has been highly regarded because, unlike other edi ...fe, Charlotte, died on 24 September 1886, at 4, The Mount, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, aged 83.[13]
  5 KB (831 words) - 19:49, 2 July 2012
• English County Songs
  [[Come listen awhile unto my song]] [[Feast Song]]
  8 KB (1,148 words) - 21:27, 26 October 2009
• John Johnson (singer)
  * Like a Fine Old English Gentleman ''I'll sing you a good old song '' * The skipper and his boy ''The sea run high and the wind was wild''
  6 KB (938 words) - 17:41, 6 March 2016
• Francis Jekyll
  ...which were published in the early editions of the ''[[Journal of the Folk Song Society]]''. He appears in the ''[[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]]'' a ...British Museum (1906-14). Dawney also tells us that Jekyll joined the Folk-Song Society in 1907 (it was actually 1905--see below) and the English Folk-Danc
  15 KB (2,307 words) - 02:42, 10 February 2021
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6b
  W: she sang a mournful song.<br> w: sang a mourn- ful|song. *|<br>
  44 KB (9,339 words) - 13:46, 20 April 2016
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7e
  MS it seems likely that this song, like GB/7e/3 and GB/7e/5, was from "Old Tubbs." W:1. You hearts of oak do you wish to try your fortunes on the sea,<br>
  27 KB (6,009 words) - 13:50, 20 April 2016

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