Folk Song: General
Description
This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from an unidentified publication, pp. 14-15; typed text of 'Oh! My Bradford in the Sun!', a parody of 'Island in the Sun' referring to immigrants in Bradford, and collected by Tony Green from Irish Catholics in Bradford; typed text for 'Old Johnny Walker', the song from which the main theme for the Flamborough sword dance is taken, collected by Mrs. Tanton Cross, and with an ms. note recording its deposit with the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) by Mary Savile; typed text for a song about Reeth Bartle Fair, with brief glossary (provenance unknown); ms. song text for 'Ruscoe Tuke', collected from Mr. G. Metcalf by Tony Green, and thought to be written by one of the Theakston family (i.e. of Theakston's Brewery, Masham, North Yorkshire); typed text of a song collected from Amos Hayton Senior, of Cockermouth, Cumbria, [?by Tony Green], and consisting of an incomplete version of 'Wor Nanny's a Mazor' by Thomas Armstrong; ms. texts of popular and children's songs, collected by Brian G. Hassell of Harehills, Leeds; Andrew Philp's article on the street songs of Glasgow, extracted from an unidentified issue of 'Tradition', pp. 11-17; a photocopy of a typed collection of song texts, 'Songs of Revelry', collected by Peter C. Varley; a photocopy of typed song words about Wibsey Fair, quoted in James Parker's 'Illustrated Rambles from Hipperholme to Tong' (1904); typed song text for 'The Fairest Rose in Swaledale' by Mrs Sunter, and 'Paysying' and 'Ten Weary Years' (or 'The Miner's Dream of Home') by I. Rukin, collected from the songbook of Richard Alderson Scott of Keld, Swaledale (24 February 1904); a photocopy of the texts of several children's songs, from 'T' Heft an' Blades o' Shevvield: Dialect Stories and Antiquarian Papers', by Thomas Winder (Sheffield: 07), pp. 45-46; ms. phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of two Sussex songs, collected by Michael Barry from C. H. Burgess of Firle (June 1959); a photocopy of Clarence Daniel's article on the Christmas carols of the Peak District, from an issue of Derbyshire Countryside (ca. December 1962), pp. 26-27; the text of The Windermere Char-Fishing Song, extracted from Cumbria (February 1970), [2] pp., and mounted; a photocopy of an article by Robert Fisk on the appearance of topical songs relating to IRA violence and troubles in Ireland, from an unidentified newspaper (possibly the Observer), (ca. 1972-1973); a photocopy of a cutting with the text of the The Brighouse Boater, from the Yorkshire Post (11 December 1974); a review of John Maguire's autobiography, Come Day, Go Day, God Send Saturday (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), extracted from NPC, volume I, number 2 (April 1976), and mounted; a photocopy of the tune (ms.) and text (typed) to The Napton Carol, or Fleecy Care, sent by Mary Fell to Clive Upton (September 1976); a photocopy of typed and ms. transcriptions to songs from British Columbia, from the P. J. Thomas Collection of British Columbia Folk Songs (Public Archives of British Columbia, Oral History Division), and an ms. map of British Columbia, by Peter Smith (ca. 1977); a colour postcard from Iorwerth C. Peate, including the text (in Welsh) of Carol y Crefftwr (December 1977); a mounted photocopy of Ronald Blythe's review of Ginette Dunn's The Fellowship of Song(London: Croom Helm, 1980), on popular singing traditions in East Suffolk, from the Times Literary Supplement (7 November 1980); and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from Old Cornwall, John Peel Jottings, Country Life and the Yorkshire Evening Post, with subject matter including the text of the Cornish lullaby Lull Ha Lay (in Cornish), the use of new words with old folk tunes and the text of Robert Anderson's Sally Grey, the text of the Cumbrian childhood rhyme Old Mother Slipper-Slopper, the texts of the songs The Village Pump, the children's song Kemo Kimo and its variants, a New Year nonsense song from Boroughbridge (North Yorkshire), the English part-song Summer is Icumen In and a song sung about Royle Evatt, chairman of the North West Leeds Conservative Association. File arranged with undated items first (individual songs in alphabetical order by title, followed by song collections and articles alphabetically by collector), followed by dated items in chronological order.
Metadata
| Identifier | jh3dwf2r |
| IRN | 410770 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/14/1/3/1 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jh3dwf2r |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Folk Song |
| Date | 1959-1981 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of typed, photocopied and ms. papers, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |