Songs of Atlantic Canada
and
Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast ***
Collected by MacEdward Leach
(V)=Video
(Titles in parentheses are alternate titles)
Andrew Davidson
Ann O'Brien (James MacDonald)
Apple Praties, The (The Lads Who Live In Ireland)
As I Roved Out One Evening
As The Ship Sailed Away From Ireland
Bad Companions
Badger Drive, The
Baltimore, The
Bank Fishermen #1
Bank Fishermen #2
Banks Of Newfoundland, The (The Eastern Light)
Banks Of Panama ***#95
Banks Of Sweet Trawlee (Banks Of Sweet Dundee)
Banks Of The Clyde, The ***#133 (Geordie)
Banks Of The Silver Tide
Banks Of Tralee, The
Barbry Ellen (Barbara Allen) (V)
Barney
Barney Flew Over The Hills To His Darling ***#25
Battleship Maine (On The Shores Of Havana)
Be Home Early Tonight #1
Be Home Early Tonight #2
Beaches So Green
Beggar, The
Best Of Friends Must Part
Best Thing In Life, The
Betsey (Betsy) (The Old Oak Tree)
Betsy Bay (Betsy Is A Beauty Fair)
Black Sheep,The
Blind Beggar, The
Blood-Stained Soil ***#86
Blooming Bright Star Of Belle Isle, The
Blooming Mary Ann
Blue-Eyed Boy, The (The Last Fierce Charge)
Blue Hen
Boatswain's Life For Me, A
Bold Larkin (Harkin's Voyage)
Bonnie Hills Of Scotland
Bonny Bunch Of Roses, O, The
Bonny Carlo (Bonny Carlow)
Bonny Irish Boy, The
Bonny Labouring Boy, The (My Bonny Labouring Boy)
Boston Burglar, The ***#101
Bound Down To Newfoundland
Bowery, The
Boy Who Wore The Blue, The (The Soldier's Letter)
Boys In Blue, The (The Express Office)
Boys Of Newfoundland, The
Branch Hero, The
Brennan On The Moor (BB-pp.745-7)
Broken Token, The
Bundle And Go
Bung Your Eye (Quare Bungle Rye)
Burglar, The (Old Maid And The Burglar)
Burnt Islands
Butcher Boy, The
Butter And Cheese
Callahan
Canada
Canadee-I-O ***#90
Captain Howley
Captain John McGuire
Captain Larkins
Captain Power
Captain Spinney
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship ***#3
Caribou
Caroline Of Edinburgh Town (V)
Carry Me Back To The Mountain
Charming Young Widow
Cherry Orchard, The (Down In The Old Cherry Orchard)
Christmas Time In Ireland
Church Cove Song
City Of Baltimore (Bold McCarthy)
City Of Boston
Claudie's Banks (The Banks Of Claudy)
Coaker (The Six Horse-Power Coaker)
Coaker's Dream
Colour Of Amber, The
Come All Ye Jolly Sailor Boys
Come, Love, Here's A Letter (Lovely Annie)
Convict, The
Convict And The Rose, The
Copper And Silver
Councillor, The (The Lawyer Outwitted)
Country Girl, The
Coupon Song
Cow With The Piper (Denny Byrne The Piper)
Crab Song (The Sea Crab)
Cruel Katie-O (Lovely Katie-O)
Daniel Monroe (Donald Munro)
Dark-Eyed Sailor, The (Fair Phoebe)
Darn The Man That I Can Get
Dartmouth Tragedy (The Foot Boy)
Days Of The Week ***#120 (A Week's Work)
Deserter, The (When The Battle It Was Won)
Does Your Mother Know You're Out?
Dole Song, The
Don't Put Me Off At Buffalo Any More
Down By The Riverside
Down By The Tanyard Side
Down The Streets In London
Drunkard's Dream, The
Drunken Captain, The
Duffy's Blunder (John Martin Duffy)
Dying Cowboy (The Dying Ranger)
Dying Ranger, The
Dying Soldier, The
Dying Soldier Boy, The (Erin Far Away)
Eagle, With Her Gallant Crew, The
Emigrant's Farewell, The
Erewanna
Erin's Lovely Home
Faded Coat Of Blue (The Nameless Grave)
Fair Jennie On The Moor (Janie Of The Moor)
Faithful Sailor Boy
Farmer's Daughter, The (Constant Lovers)
Farmyard, The (The Merry Green Fields)
Fatal Wedding, The (The Nobleman's Wedding)
Fellow That Looked Like Me, The
Fifteen Men Lost On George's Banks (The Shea Gang)
Finnegan's Wake (Molly McLaughlin)
First Day Of April, The (Three English Rovers)
Fisherman At Glen Cove, The
Flatrock Hills
Flemings Of Torbay, The (The Good Ship Jublilee)
Flirty Song
Flower Of Sweet Stravan (Flower Of Sweet Strabane)
Flying Cloud, The
Forbidden Wedding, The
(Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out)
Forester Song, The
Forty Fishermen
Forty Years Ago
Franklin (The Sailor's Dream)
Fuller And Warren (Ye Sons Of Columbia)
Galveston Rose, The
Galway Shawl, The
Galway Town (Willie Riley)
Gasker Song, The
Gay Spanish Maid, A (The Spanish Maid)
Gay Wedding, The (The Nobleman's Wedding)
Geordie (The Banks Of The Clyde)
George Alfred Beckett
George's Banks
George's Banks (The Roving Newfoundlanders)
Ghostly Crew (The Ghostly Sailors)
Gigantic
Girl Of Killie Kranky, The
Girls From Newfoundland, The (Girls Of Newfoundland)
Give Me Three Grains Of Corn
Glencoe (The Pride Of Glencoe)
Glengyle (Sir Neil And Glengyle)
Golden Hind, The
Golden Vanity, The
Good Looking Man
Grady's Harbour ***#114 (Greedy Harbour)
Grandmere (Old Grandma)
Green Hills Of New Bay, The
Green Valley (Yon Green Valley)
Green Woods Of Bonnie-O, The (The Cruel Mother)
Greenland Disaster, The
Grey Mare, The (Roger The Miller)
Grogal McCree ***#135; (Grá Geal Mo Chroí)
Handsome Harry (Always Take A Girl Named Daisy)
Harbour Le Cou
Hard Times (Hard, Hard Times)
Harkin's Voyage (Bold Larkin)
Harry Dunn (The Woods Of Michigan)
Hat My Father Wore, The
Hawco The Hero
Heights Of Alma, The
Henry Green
Her Sweetheart (There Was A Lady In The East)
Highland Mary (The Banks Of The Ayr)
Hills Of New Hampshire (My Old New Hampshire Home)
Hitler In Bits
Hole In The Wall, The
Hush-A-Bye, Baby ***#115
Hush-O-Bye, Baby
I Just Arrived From Dublin
I Love To Be A Sailor
I Once Loved A Beautiful Lady
(Why There's A Tear In My Eye)
I Went To My Love's Window
(Come With Me Over The Mountain)
I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers
I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (Jock Stewart)
I'm A Poor Unfortunate Miserable Man
I'm Forsaken For Another
I'm Lonely Since My Mother Died
Indian's Lament
Irish Lullaby (Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral)
Irish Sailor Boy, The
Irish Soldier Boy
Irish Stranger, The
It Was Early One Cold Winter's Morning
(Mary On The Wild Moor)
I've Been To Donovan's (Donovan's Jubilee)
Jack And Joe (Give My Love To Nell)
Jack Johnston, The Cobbler
Jack Timmins
Jam On Jerry's Rock (The Jam On Gary's Rock)
James The Ross (Sir James The Rose)
Jane Hunter
Jealous Lover
Jemima's Goat
Jim Blake (Jim Blake's Message)
Jimmy And Nancy (Farewell, Charming Nancy)
Jimmy Bruisse's Pig
Jimmy Whalen
John Cutter (John Carter)
John Mitchell
John O'Neil
John O'Reilly (Willie Reilly) (O'Reilly The Fisherman)
Johnny Doyle
Johnny The Troller
Jolly Jack ***#65 (Tarry Sailor)
July Drive, The
Kate O'Branch
Kate Of Branch
Katie, I'm Bound For The Sea
Katie-O (Lovely Katie-O)
Keg Of Brandy (Love Is Lovely)
Kelligrews Soiree, The
Kelly And The Ghost ***#122 (Maurice Kelly)
Kevin Barry
Keyhole In The Door, The
Killing The Deer And The Wild Buffalo
Lady And The Sailor, The ***#35 (Disguised Sailor)
Lady Margaret (Fair Margaret And Sweet William)
Lady Of The Lake (Liza Gray)
Lady Who Threw Her Fan
(In St Giles There Dwelled A Lady)
Lake Erie (James Bird)
Lake Of Coll Finn (Willie Leonard)
Lamkin
Lass In Bethlehem Green, The (The Dutchman's Wife)
Lass Of Swansea Town, The (Swansee Town)
Last Great Charge, The (The Battle Of Fredericksburg)
Lather And Shave (Love-Of-God Shave)
Lie, The
Lindbergh's Baby
Little Apprentice, The (The Captain's Apprentice)
Little Boneen
Little Mohee
Little Red Light, The (Tiny Red Light)
Little Town In The Old County Down
Lonely Sarah (The Sheffield Apprentice)
Lonely Waterloo ***#127
Lord Bateman (Young Beichan)
Loss Of The Atlantic
Loss Of The Eliza, The
Loss Of The Guernsey, The
Loss Of The Regulus, The ***#74 (Regalis)
Lovely Jimmie ***#19 (Green Grow The Laurels)
Lovely Mary Ann ***#34 (Blooming Mary Ann)
Lovely Nancy
Lowlands Of Holland, The
Lumberjack Song, The
Lumberman's Alphabet, The
Madam I Am A Soldier (The Soldier's Letter)
Maggie Darling
Maid Of Glenshee (The Lass Of Glenshee)
Maid Of Newfoundland, The
Maid Of The Mountain Brow
Malone
Maria And Caroline ***#11 (The Folkestone Murder)
Marian Parker ***#79
Mariposa
Mary Across The Wild Moor ***#62
Mary Ecklan (The Squire's Young Daughter)
Matt Ireland (Matt Hyland)
Matty Groves (Lord Donald)
May God Guard And Prosper England
May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight?
McCarthy
McDonald Of Salmonier (Mike McDonald)
Medicine Jack
Meeting Of The Waters
Merchants Song, The
Mermaid, The
Mike Bolin
Mike Dwyer (Michael Dwyer)
Mike McDonald (McDonald Of Salmonier)
Mines Of Avondale, The
Molly Agnew
Molly And Johnny (Jimmy And Nancy)
Molly Bawn
Moonshine Song, The (The Moonshine Can)
Morrissey And The Black
Morrissey And The Russian Sailor
Mother McLaughlin's Party
Mother's Last Goodbye
Mother's Love Is A Blessing, A
Mountains Of Mourne, The
Mr Wright And Mrs Wrong
Much Of A Hand (The Sealers Ball)
Mush Mush
My Daddy's Ship (The Ship That Never Came)
My Dear, I'm Bound For Canada
My First Love Was Sarah (Sarah's Young Man)
My Little Home Across The Sea
My Mantle Of Green
My Mother Was A Lady
My Old Dudeen
My Sweetheart
Nancy, Lovely Nancy (Farewell, Charming Nancy)
Nightingale (The Unkind Shepherdess)
Nightingale Laurels (Green Grows The Laurel)
Nightingales, The (The Soldier And The Lady)
Nobody's Child
North Shoremen's Line, The (The Bonavist' Line)
O'Donnell's Execution (Pat O'Donnell ***#42)
Oddfellows Hall
Off For Philadelphia
Old Blackbird, The (I Am A Young Maiden)
Old Colonel, The
Old Fashioned Couple, An (Old Married Couple)
Old Grey Mare (Roger The Miller)
Old Married Couple (An Old Fashioned Couple)
Old Newfoundland (Youthful Memories)
Old Oak Tree, The ***#12 (Betsey)
Old Southwester ***#118
On The Banks Of The Bann
On The Bonny Hills Of Scotland
Over The Mountain (I Went To My Love's Window)
Paddy Backwards ***#110
Paddy Doyle (Doran's Ass)
Paddy McGinty's Goat
Pat (Three English Blades)
Pat McGuire (Mr. McGuire Sit Down)
Pat O'Brien
Pat O'Donnell ***#42
Pat O'Reilly (Patrick Riley)
Patrick Power (Wexford Girl)
Patrick Power/Parker (Pat O'Brien)
Patrick's Day (St Patrick's Day)
Patrick's Day
Peter Amberly (Peter Emberley)
Peter Hennessey (Peter Amberly)
Peter Street (The Shirt And The Apron)
Petty Harbour Bait Skiff, The
Pirate Song (William Craig And Bold Manone)
Plain Golden Band, The
Polly Moore
Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow, The
Pretty Polly (Polly Oliver)
Pretty Polly (The Ship's Carpenter)
Pretty Quadroon
Prisoner Of Newfoundland, The
Ragged Coat
Ram, The (The Derby Ram)
Regalis (The Loss Of The Regalis)
Regatta
Repentant Sinner, The
Rio Grande
River Driver (The River Driver's Lament)
Riverhead Launching, The (...On Jubillee Day)
Riverhead Line ***#92 (The Bonavist' Line)
Roaming In The Gloaming
Roarin' Fire (Clean Hearthstane)
Rollin' River
Rolling Home (To Dear Newfoundland)
Roving Gypsy (Gypsy Laddie-O)
Ryans And The Pittmans, The (We'll Rant And We'll Roar)
SS Vesteris (SS Vestris)
Sailor Boy, The ***#9
Sailor Courted A Farmer's Daughter, A
(The Constant Lovers)
Sailor's Alphabet
Sally Monroe (Young Sally Monro)
Schooner Mary Ann (Bound Down To Newfoundland)
Scolding Wife, The
Seafaring Song (The Rocks Of Scilly)
Sealer's Song (Captain's And Ships)
Seamus O'Brien (Shamus O'Brien)
Shabby Genteel, The
Shadows Of The Pines
Shady Brookside
Shamrock (Torbay Song)
Shamrock, The
Ships And Captains (Sealer's Song)
Shoal Harbour Line
Silver Dagger (Who Is At My Window Weeping?)
Six Feet Of Earth
Slaney Side, The (The Tan-Yard Side)
Soldier's Farewell, The
Soldier's Last Farewell, The (The Soldier's Last Letter)
Song Of The Annie Young, The
South Carolina State
Spanish Captain, The
Spirit Song On George's, The (Ghostly Crew)
Spirit Song On George's Banks, The (Ghostly Crew)
Squid Jiggin' Ground
Squire Of Bristol, The (The Squire Of Tamworth)
St Patrick's Day
Stand Up And Sing
Star Of Logy Bay
Stowaway, The (The Little Hero)
Straight Foreign Shore (The Female Warrior)
Stump, The ***#107 (The Rattlin' Bog)
Sunny Tennessee (The Girl I Loved In Sunny Tennessee)
Susan Strayed The Briny Beach ***#21
Swansee Town (Lass Of Swansea Town, The)
Sweet Forget-Me-Not, The (Song With Waltz Chorus)
Sweet Gertie (The Maid Of Sweet Gartheen)
Sweeter Than Flowers (Sweeter Than The Flowers)
Sweethearts (Two Sweethearts)
Take Warning (Young People, Take Warning)
Tender Mother's Grave
There She Goes
There's A Dear Spot
(Lovely Derry On The Banks Of The Foyle)
There's Whiskey In The Jar ***#117
Thomas And Nancy
Thomas Cat
Thomas Rhymer (True Thomas)
Three Babes, The (***#50 Babes In The Wood)
The Three Ravens (***#1 Three Ravens)
Tidal Wave (Tidal Wave At Burin)
Titanic
To My Home In The Forest Let Me Go
Torbay Ramblers
Torbay Song (The Loss Of The Shamrock)
Towering Heights Of Newfoundland
Tree On A Hill (Tree In The Wood)
Trip To The North Pole
Trout And Salmon
Turtle Dove
Twelve Ghostly Fishermen
Twins, The (Brother John)
Two Boys From Brewley, The
Two Little Girls In Blue
Two Vessels Lost At Cape St Mary's (T Murphy/T Hann)
Up To The Rigs (Countryman's Ramble In Cheapside)
Upside Down Story (Tree In The Wood)
Valley Of Kilbride, The
Van Dieman's Land
Village Maid (The Humble Village Maid Going A-Milking)
Virgin Mary's Bank (The Virgin On The Strand)
War Alphabet ***#67 (Air Force Alphabet)
Water Creases ***#66 (Watercress)
Water Witch, The
Waterford Boys, The (Wrestling With Rats)
Waterloo
Watson Song, The
Wedding At Bally Poreen, The
(The Wedding At Ballyporeen)
We'll Go To Sea No More (Jolly Sailors Bold)
Western Rangers, The
Wexford Girl (Patrick Power)
Wexford Girl (Oxford City)
Wexford Girl (Laws P35)
When A Sailor Comes On Shore (Jack Tar)
When Paddy Stole The Rope
When We Were Sweet Sixteen (Now I'm Sixty Four)
When You Asked The Girl To Leave Her Happy Home
White Man, Let Me Go
Wild Colonial Boy, The
Wild Rover
Wild Shore, The
Will You Be True, My Darling
Willie Riley
Willy Taylor ***#131 (William Taylor)
Wind Across The Wild Moor
Woman's Tongue, A
Wreck Of The C & O Number Five, The
Wreck Of The Jane Hunter
Wreck Of The Maggie, The ***#80 (The Maggie)
Wreck Of The Riseover, The (The Loss Of The Riseover)
Wreck Of The Southern Cross
Wreck Of The St John, The
Wreck Of The Tolesby, The
Wreck Of The Tolsby, The
Wreck Of The Toravan
Yorkshire Bite, The ***#60
The Yorkshire Boy (Well Sold The Cow)
You Don't Know How The Dear Girl Is Made
You Pass Me By
You'll Never Know What Time Will Bring
Young Carolina (Caroline And Her Young Sailor Bold)
Young Edmund In The Lowlands Low
Young Flora (My Flora And Me)
Young Flora (The Stormy Winds Of Winter)
Young Yetman
Your Home
Youthful Memories (Old Newfoundland)
"MacEdward Leach of the University of Pennsylvania spent the summers of 1950 and 1951 in Newfoundland. Today his 41 hours of tape recordings from those summers are the oldest extant sound recordings of folksongs performed by Newfoundland outport singers, and they reflect the enduring interest of American folklore scholars in Newfoundland. But from Leach's collection only a few texts found their way into print while a small number appeared on a 1966 Folkways album. Leach's activity had little public impact in Newfoundland or the rest of Canada." ~ Carole Henderson [Carpenter] and Neil V Rosenberg, The MacEdward Leach Collection of Canadian Folklore, Canadian Folk Music Society Newsletter 5 (1970): 1-10. This collection is on deposit at MUNFLA under accession number 78 - 54. The album containing Leach's recordings is Folkways FE 4075, Songs from the Outports of Newfoundland (New York, 1966). [Footnote 25 from Canadianization of Newfoundland Folksong; Or the Newfoundlandization of Canadian Folksong, published in The Journal of Canadian Studies, Spring 1994 by Neil V Rosenberg.]
