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"Early One Morning" (Roud V9617) is an English folk song with lyrics first found in publications as far back as 1787. [1] A broadside ballad sheet in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, dated between 1828 and 1829 [2] has the title "The Lamenting Maid" and refers to the lover leaving to become a sailor.
"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song. A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580, [1] [2] and the tune is found in several late 16th-century and early 17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various ...
Old Dan Tucker (Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine; Old Folks (1938 song) Old Folks (A song) Old Folks (Ronnie Milsap and Mike Reid song) Old Folks at Home; Old Friends (Simon & Garfunkel song) The Old Gray Mare; Old Hippie; The Old Laughing Lady; Old Man (song) Old Violin; Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker; Once Upon a Time (Charles Strouse and ...
A reworked version known as the "fart song" or as "an old lady of 92" was popular in schools, particularly in the UK, with lyrics celebrating a flatulent journey including Bristol and Rome. [ 7 ] A reworked version of the melody was used in the Israeli songwriter Haim Hefer 's song "בחולות" ("Bacholot" or "Bakholot", "In the Sands"), best ...
The Arnold Book of Old Songs is a collection of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and French folk songs and traditional songs, with new piano accompaniments by Roger Quilter. Quilter dedicated it to and named it after his nephew Arnold Guy Vivian, who perished at the hands of German forces in Italy in 1943.
One Morning in May" (Roud 140, Laws P14) is an English folk song which has been collected from traditional singers in England and the USA and has also been recorded by revival singers. Through the use of double-entendre, at least in the English versions, it tells of an encounter between a grenadier (or soldier) and a lady. [1]
Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), [1] also known as "There Was An Old Woman", is a traditional folk song of a wife's attempted murder of her husband. Of unknown origins, there are multiple variations. [2] The most well known variations are "The Old Woman From Boston" [3] and "The Rich Old Lady". [4]
Sweet fine old gal, For worlds I wouldn't lose 'er, She's a dear good old gal, An' that's what made me choose 'er. She's stuck to me through thick and thin, When luck was out, when luck was in, Ah wot a wife to me she's been, An' wot a pal! We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much, There ain't a lady livin' in ...