by Ben Traverse | Apr 5, 2024 | America, Play-Party, Reel
Sent My Brown Jug Downtown Traditional, c. 1911 | Roud 7644, Ballad Index R534 Lyrics: Sent my brown jug downtownSent my brown jug downtownSent my brown jug downtown So early in the morningIt came back so round and brownIt came back so round and brownIt came back...
by Ben Traverse | Aug 3, 2023 | Ireland, Non-Ballad Music
Wild Mountain Thyme Adapted by Francis McPeake , c. early-mid 1900sRoud 541, Ballad Index FSWB141A Lyrics: Oh, the summer time is comingAnd the trees are sweetly bloomingAnd the wild mountain thymeGrows around the blooming heatherWill ye go, lassie, go? And...
by Ben Traverse | Jun 6, 2023 | Ballad, England, Ireland, Uncategorized
Danny Boy Words by F. E. Weatherly, Music Traditional, 1910 | Roud 23565, Ballad Index FSWB323 Lyrics: Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountainside The summer’s gone, and all the roses falling It’s you,...
by Ben Traverse | Mar 6, 2023 | Ballad, Ireland
As I Roved Out Traditional, 1947 | Roud 162, 227; Laws O17; Child 299; Ballad Index C299, LO17 Lyrics: As I roved out on a May morningOn a May morning right earlyI spied my love upon the wayOh, Lord but she was early Her shoes were black, her stockings whiteAnd her...
