Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Stowmarket - Onehouse - Buxhall
Chapter 2 Stowupland- Old Newton - Forward Green - Earl Stonham
Chapters Mendlesham - Mendlesham Green
Chapter 4 Wetheringsett - Thwaite - Wickham Skeith - Thornham Magna
Chapter 5 Bacton - Cotton - Finningham - Walsham-le-Willows
Chapter 6 Tostock - Woolpit - Hessett
Chapter 7 Rattlesden - Felsham - Thorpe Morieux
Conclusion
Postscript 1993
Discography
Contents
Introduction
William Hurr -
The Loss of the London
Lovely Joan
Three Jolly Butchers
When I Was Bound Apprentice
Robert Hurr -
The Royal George
Bold Princess Royal
In London Town I Was Bred and Born
On Monday Morning I Married a Wife
Hornpipe
Ben Hurr -
The Isle of France
Jones's Ale
The Cobbler
The Rich Old Farmer
Charles Newby -
Georgey
Forty Miles
Martha Cable -
Maria Marten
Toast
Bibliography
Further Information
Index of Songs
VTC2CD Songs Sung in Suffolk - Various
1. The Faithful Sailor - Fred Whiting
2. The Oak & the Ash - Ted Chaplin
3. Ball of Yarn - Gordon Woods
4. Bungay Roger - Charlie Hancy
5. The Sailor Cut Down in his Prime - Fred Whiting
6. The Larks they Sang Melodious - Geoff Ling
7. When Jones' Ale was New - Charlie Stringer
8. John Barleycorn - Tom Smith
9. The Wild Colonial Boy - Fred Whiting
10. The Nutting Girl - Tony Harvey
11. Jimmy Johnson - Cyril Barber
12. The Jolly Ploughboy - Fred Whiting
13. Sam the Carter's Lad - Tony Harvey
14. Flash Company - Geoff Ling
15. The Barley Mow - Harry Chambers
16. Sheepshearing and Thatching - Fred Whiting
17. The Old Song (Jack on the Green) - Tom Smith
18. The Farmer from Cheshire - Charlie Stringer
19. The Ups and Downs - Gordon Woods
20. The Blacksmith's Mantrap - Fred Whiting
21. Australia - Geoff Ling
22. Caroline and the Young Sailor Bold - Tony Harvey
23. The Queen of May - Manny Aldous
24. One Fine Morning Early in Spring - Fred Whiting
25. Hail the Dewy Morning - Cyril Barber
26. The Serving Maid - Charlie Stringer
27. The Bonny Labouring Boy - Tony Harvey
28. Barley Mow - Fred Whiting
VTC3CD Comic Songs Sung in Suffolk - Various
1. It Won't Take Very, Very Long - Cifford Arbon
2. I've got a Good Idea Where it's Gone to - Charlie Hancy
3. Curiosity - Tom Smith
4. Beery Bob - Manny Aldous
5. The Fella with the Trombone - Ted Chaplin
6. The Big Wheel - Geoff Ling
7. You've Got a Long Way to go - Tom Smith
8. The Baby Boy - Gordon Woods
9. The Baby's Names - Wallie Syer
10. Paddy Stole the Rope - Tony Harvey
11. I'll be up Her Way Next Week - Hubert Smith
12. Do Let me Have Another One, Georgie - Gordon Woods
13. K-K-K-Kiss me Again - Clifford Arbon
14. The Ghost Song - Charlie Hancy
15. The Virgin of Nineteen - Gordon Woods
16. Pretty Girls in China - Wallie Syer
17. Right in the Middle of Mine - Manny Aldous
18. The Egg Song - Clifford Arbon
19. Emma Tompkins - Tony Harvey
20. Man all Tattered and Torn - Geoff Ling
21. Father's Work - Charlie Hancy
22. The Tattooed Lady - Gordon Woods
23. I Finish Them Off - Hubert Freeman
24. The Old Sow - Cyril Barber
25. Bobbed-haired Family - Manny Aldous
26. I Was There A-watching Them - Tom Smith
27. I Took it Home to Maria - Charlie Hancy
28. Among my Souvenirs - Geoff Ling
29. Violets are Blue and Roses are Red - Gordon Woods
VT130CD Who Owns the Game? - Various
1. Dick Iris’s Hornpipe - Cecil Pearl 2. Kibosh the Cobbler - Charlie Stringer
3. Walter Read’s Hornpipe - Dolly Curtis
4. Poison Beer - Fred Whiting
5. Sonny’s Tune - Cyril Barber
6. Peter the Paynter - Roy Last
7. Peachey’s Polkas - Cecil Pearl
8. Woodland Flowers - Cecil Pearl /Dolly Curtis
9. Little Cock Sparrow - Roy Last
10. Speed the Plough - Cecil Pearl
11. The Costermonger’s Song - Roy Last
12. Hornpipes - Dolly Curtis
13. Alf Peachey’s March /Marborough’s March - Cecil Pearl
14. William Rufus - Roy Last
15. Stepdance Tune - Cyril Barber
16. Tommy Doddler - Charlie Stringer
17. Jig (Larry O’Gaff) - Dolly Curtis
18. One and Twenty - Roy Last
19. Hornpipes - Cecil Pearl
20. Who owns the Game? - Fred Whiting /Botany Bay - Roy Last
21. Polkas - Cecil Pearl
22. John Barleycorn - Roy Last
23. La Russe - Cecil Pearl
24. Dennington Bell /On the Waggon - Dolly Curtis
VT136CD The Yellow Handkerchief - Phoebe Smith
1. Raking the Hay
2. Old Gypsy’s Waggon (Romany Rye)
3. Barbara Allan
4. Jolly Herring
5. Johnny Abourne
6. Wings of a Swallow (Old Rocky Road)
7. Green Brushes
8. Young Morgan – with Joe Smith
9. Lavender – Joe Smith
10. The Sheepfold
11. A Blacksmith Courted Me
12. Stepdance – to Martin Byrnes, fiddle
13. Game of All Fours
14. The Yellow Handkerchief
1. Introduction and stepdancing - Mrs Howard
2. False Hearted Knight - Jumbo Brightwell
3. The Old Sow - Fred Ginger
4. The Dark-eyed Sailor - Jack Clark
5. The Princess Royal - Velvet Brightwell
6. Poor Man’s Heaven - Tom Goddard
7. The Foggy Dew - Douglas Morling
8. The Indian Lass - Velvet Brightwell.
9. Duck Foot Sue - Harry ‘Crutter’ Cook
10. Underneath her Apron - Edgar Button
11. Pleasant and Delightful - Velvet Brightwell
12. The Blackbird - Albert ‘Diddy’ Cook
13. The Farmer from Cheshire - Alec Bloomfield
14. The Old Sow (2) - Fred Ginger
15. Jack’s the Boy -
Jack ‘Dot’ Button
VT154CD Good Hearted Fellows - Various
1. Dicky & Cart (song)
Ted Laurence
2. Johnson’s Hornpipe (melodeon tune)
Fred List
3. Ratcliff Highway (song)
Jimmy Knights
4. Polka Medley (fiddle tunes)
Fred Went
5. Cunning Cobbler (song)
Alec Bloomfield
6. The Old Bass Bottle (song)
Fred Whiting
7. Harkie's Polkas (fiddle tunes)
Fred Whiting
8. Maria Marten
(song) Billy List
9. Pigeon on the Gate (melodeon tune)
Dolly Curtis (step dancing)
Charlie Whiting
10. Spithead (song) Ted
Cobbin
11. They Daren't do it Now (fiddle tune)
Fred Whiting (song)
Charlie Whiting
12. Eggs in Her Basket (song)
Fred List
13. Seventeen Come Sunday (song)
Jumbo Brightwell
14. A Group of Young Squaddies (song)
Geoff Ling
15. Come and Be my Little Teddy Bear (song)
Harkie Nesling
16. The Bonny Bunch of Roses (song)
George Ling
17. Red River Valley /Pigeon on the Gate (mouthorgan tunes)
Albert Smith
18. Boston Burglar (song)
Charlie Whiting
19. I Can't Change It (song) Jimmy Knights
20. Silver Threads (fiddle tune)
Fred Went
21. Trawler Song (song)
Dinks Cooper
22. Earl Soham Slog (fiddle tune)
Fred Whiting (dancing doll)
Cecil Frisk
23. The Light Dragoon (song)
Fred List
24. She Took Off Her Nightie (song)
Charlie Whiting
25. Untitled Tunes (melodeon tunes) Font Whatling
26. The Lakes of Coolfin (song)
George Ling
27. Do your Best (song)
Ted Laurence
28. Jack the Drover (song)
Fred Whiting
29. Impudence Schottische /Sultan's Polka (fiddle tunes)
Harkie Nesling
30. Botany Bay (song)
Jumbo Brightwell
31. Shoot them All (song)
Alec Bloomfield
32. Polka medley (melodeon tunes)
Fred List
VTVS01/02 Many a Good Horseman - Various
SIDE A
1. The Dark-eyed Sailor - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
2. The Scarlet and the Blue -
Roy Last (Stonham 1983)
3. Peggy O'Neill (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham
1980)
4. Sweet William - Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden
1958/59)
5. Cock-a-Doodle (m/o & bones) - Jack Pearson (Wickham Skeith 1983)
6. The Faithful Sailor - Charlie Carver (Tostock Gardeners Arms 1960)
7. Tune Medley (mel) - Charlie Griggs (Stowmarket 1950's/60's)
8. Buttercup Joe - unknown singer (Tostock Gardeners Arms 1960)
9. Phil the Fluter's Ball (m/o) -
Tom Williams (Stowupland 1978)
10. Barbara Allen - Emma Briggs (Thwaite
1983)
11. Heel and Toe Polka (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
12. In a Beautiful Mansion - Gordon Syrett
(Mendlesham Green 1982)
13. Polka/ Old Joe the Boat's Going Over (mel)
- John Mitchell (Forward Green 1984)
14. The Sailor Cut Down in his
Prime - Stan Steggles (Rattlesden 1958/59)
15. Shake Hands with your Partner (m/o) - Tom Williams (Stowupland 1978)
16. Cupid the Ploughboy
- Charlie Carver (Tostock Gardeners Arms
1960)
17. Farewell my Bluebell (mel) - Reg Pyett
(Mendlesham 1980)
18. Green Mossy Banks of Lea -
Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden 1958/59)
19. Trousers on the Door - Gordon Syrett
(Mendlesham Green 1982)
20. Popular Song Tunes Medley (m/o) - George Wade (Stowmarket 1993)
SIDE B
1. Talk /Farmer's Boy (acc) - Ernie Lyas
(Stowmarket 1983)
2. In & Out the Windows (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
3. 21 Year on Dartmoor -'Gipsy'
Charlie (Tostock Gardeners Arms 1960)
4. Stepdance -'Gipsy' Charlie (Tostock
Gardeners Arms 1960)
5. The Mistletoe Bough -
Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1985).
6. Paddy McGinty's Goat (m/o) - Tom Williams
(Stowupland 1978)
7. Eggs and Bacon - Stan Steggles (Rattlesden
1958/59)
8. I Don't Know What you Used to be (mel) - Reg
Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
9. Sarah - Charlie Carver (Tostock 1960)
10. Yarmouth Hornpipe (m/o) - Tom Williams
(Stowupland 1978)
11. All Jolly Fellows That Follow
the Plough - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
12. No, Sir, No - Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden
1958/59)
13. Redwing (m/o) - Clement Pearson (Wickham
Skeith 1983)
14. Blackberry Fold - Charlie Carver (Tostock Gardeners Arms
1960)
15. Smile Awhile (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham
1980)
16. Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage - Stan Steggles
(Rattlesden 1958/59)
17. Which Gate? - Charlie Stringer (Wickham Skeith 1983)
18. The Isle of Inisfree/Hornpipe/She Wore a Tulip /Heel & Toe Polka (mel.) - Ernie Nunn (Wetheringsett
1984)
SIDE C
1. Talk /My Brother Sylvest - Doddy Thorndyke
(Stowmarket 1983)
2. Yellow Rose of Texas (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
3. Twenty One Years on Dartmoor -'Lubidy' Rice
(Finningham 1983)
4. Yarmouth Hornpipe (m/o) -'Lubidy' Rice (Finningham 1983)
5. Jim the Carter's Lad - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
6. Sweet William - Charlie Carver (Tostock Gardeners Arms 1960)
7. Merry Widow/ I'll Never Find Another You (m/o) - Tom Williams (Stowupland 1978)
8. Died For Love - Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden 1958/59)
9. Sailor's Hornpipe (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
10. Our Goodman - Stan Steggles (Rattlesden 1958/59)
11. The Suffolk's March/ Jig (m/o) - Bill Smith (Walsham-le-Willows 1983)
12. Poor Old Jeff - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
13. Scotland the Brave (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
14. The Iron Door - Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden 1958/59)
15. Talk - Andy Austin (Woolpit 1983)
16. Quickstep - Jimmy Gladwell's Band (Stowmarket 1950' s)
17. Banks of the Sweet Dundee - Charlie Carver (Tostock Gardeners Arms 1960)
18. Lassie from Lancashire (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
19. M-o-n-e-y - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
20. Cuckoo Waltz (m/o etc)
- Tom Williams & others (Chelsworth
Peacock 1976)
SIDE D
1. Talk -'Tinker' Parker & Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
2. Love and Duty - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
3. Cliff Hornpipe (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
4. Bonny Bunch of Roses - Stan Steggles (Rattlesden 1958/59)
5. The Ship that Never Returned - Bert Allen (Tostock 1983)
6. Medley (m/o etc) - Tom Williams & others (Chelsworth Peacock 1976)
7. The Jealous Lover - Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden 1958/59)
8. The Grenadier and the Lady - Charlie Carver (Tostock Gardeners Arms 1960)
9. Zena Zena (m/o) - Glynn Griffiths (Cockfield 1983)
10. The Faithful Sailor - Stan Steggles (Rattlesden 1958/59)
11. Soldier's Joy (m/o) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
12. Ball of Yarn - Hubert Smith (Thorpe Morieux 1983)
13. Sailor's Hornpipe (m/o etc) - Tom Williams & others (Chelsworth Peacock 1976)
14. Banks of the Sweet Dundee - Stan Steggles (Rattlesden 1958/59)
15. Bluebell Polka (acc) - Tom Smith (Thorpe Morieux 1983)
16. They Won't Know I Come From the Country - Tom Smith (Thorpe Morieux 1983)
17. The Fox and the Hare - Emily Sparkes (Rattlesden 1958/59)
18. Alf Peachey's Polkas (mel) - Reg Pyett (Mendlesham 1980)
19. Jolly Ploughboy - Gordon Syrett (Mendlesham Green 1982)
20. Irish Medley (m/o etc) - Tom Williams & others (Chelsworth Peacock 1976)
MTCD301-2 A Broadside - Bob Hart
CDR1
1. Come All You Young Fellows (Australia)
2. Comrades
3. His Day's Work was Done
4. All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough
5. A Miner's Dream of Home
6. On the Banks of Allen Water
7. As I Strolled out to Aylesbury
8. Tom Bowling
9. Barbara Allen
10. The Song of the Thrush
11. A Broadside
12. One Touch of Nature
13. The Mermaid
14. Banks of the Sweet Primroses
15. Bonny Mary of Argyll
16. John Barleycorn
16. City of Laughter, City of Tears
17. Michael Larney-O
18. The Bold Princess Royal
19. The Gypsy's Warning
20. Jolly Jack the Sailor Lad
21. Just Before the Battle, Mother
22. The Farmer's Servant (Rap-a-Tap-Tap)
CDR2
1. What a Funny Little Place to Have One
2. Bold General Wolfe
3. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
4. Cod Banging-O
5. Seventeen Come Sunday
6. Silver Threads Among the Gold
7. Paradise Street (Blow the Man Down)
8. White Wings
9. A Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
10. My Little Grey Home in the West
11. The Female Cabinboy
12. Why Shouldn't we Sing
13. The Scarlet and the Blue
14. You Taught me How to Love You
15. The Drum Went Bang (Flanagan's Band)
16. The Foggy Dew
17. Won't you Buy my Pretty Flowers
18. Break the News to Mother
19. The Dark Eyed Sailor
20. The Hymns My Mother Used to Sing
21. While Shepherds Watched
22. Underneath Her Apron
23. Let the Rest of the World Go By
MTCD303 Plenty of Thyme - Cyril Poacher
1. Plenty of Thyme
2. Running Up and Down Our Stairs
3. Green Broom (Broomfield Wager)
4. I'll Be Your Sweetheart
5. The Irish Jolting Car
6. The Black Velvet Band
7. The Great Big Wheel
8. Bold General Wolfe
9. The Farmer's Boy
10. The Bonny Bunch of Roses
11. Fagan the Cobbler
12. Captain Ward and the Rainbow
13. Your Faithful Sailor Boy
14. Slap Dab (Whitewash)
15. Nancy of Yarmouth
16. The Bog Down in the Valley
17. Australia
18. Joe Moggins
19. The Nutting Girl
20. Just a Rose in a Garden of Weeds
21. Green Bushes
22. Two Little Girls in Blue
23. A Young Man From the Country
24. A Broadside
25. Flash Company
26. Lamplighting Time in the Valley
27. The Maid and the Magpie
28. A Sailor and His True Love
29. Strolling Round the Town
30. Australia - 3 verses only
31. Nancy of Yarmouth - live
VT152CD The Barford Angel - Billy Bennington
1. Rose Cottage
2. On the Green
3. Dulcie Bell 1
4. The Chicken Reel
5. Schottische
6. On Parade
7. The Bells of St. Mary’s
8. The Flowers of Edinburgh
9. Schottische /Step Dance
10. When Johnny Comes to Town
11. Slow Stepdance
12. Obidiah
13. Lovely Lucerne
14. Redwing
15 Yarmouth Hornpipe /Sheringham Breakdown
16. The Pony Trot Polka
17. Dulcie Bell 2
18. Going to the Derby
19. Herbert Sadd’s Schottische
20. Gay Ladies Polka
21. The Gunner’s March
22. I Like to Say Good Morning
23. The Sailor’s Hornpipe
24. My Beloved Cornelia
TSCD511 Now is the time for Fishing - Sam Larner
1 Now
is the Time for Fishing
2 Up Jumped the Herring
3 The Dogger Bank
4 Henry Martin
5 Butter & Cheese
6 The Reckless Young Fellow
7 Blow Away the Morning Dew
8 All Fours
9 Green Broom
10 The Dockyard Gate
11 No
Sir, No Sir
12 Lore & Rhymes
13 The Drowned Lover
14 The Dolphin
15 The Bold Princess Royal
16 The Ghost Ship
17 Happy & Delightful
18 Maids, When You're Young, Never Wed an Old Man
19 The Wild Rover
TSCD512D The Bonny Labouring Boy - Harry Cox
CD 1
1 "You must get the tune first... "
2 The Female Drummer
3 "People what don't like to hear an old song... "
4 Two Jolly Butchers
5 Polka (melodeon)
6 "When I sing a song my mind is on it... "
7 Bold Archer
8 There's Bound to be a Row
9 Betsy the Servant Maid
10 Firelock Stile
11 The Green Mossy Banks of the Lee
12 The Pretty Ploughboy (song/fiddle)
13 The Watercress Girl
14 A Week's Matrimony
15 The Black Velvet Band
16 A Hornpipe (fiddle)
17 The Maid of Australia
18 Alone, Alone in London
19 Miss Doxy
20 The Bonny Labouring Boy
21 The Good Luck Ship
22 The Fowler
23 In Scarborough Fair Town
24 I Had an Old Hoss
25 The Green Bed
26 A Jig (melodeon)
27 The Bold Drover
CD 2
1 Georgie
2 A Schottische (melodeon)
3 Black-Hearted Gypsies 0
4 The Rigs of the Times
5 The Grand Hotel
6 The Transports (song/fiddle)
7 Where the Shamrocks Grow
8 Barton Broad Ditty
9 Adieu to Old England
10 Bold Fisherman
11 A Polka (fiddle)
12 Ekefield Town
13 A Happy Family
14 Old Joe, the Boat is Going Over (melodeon)
15 Blackberry Fold
16 They Told Me in the Gaol
17 The Fowler (fiddle)
18 Colin and Phoebe
19 Jack Tar on Shore
20 The Turkish Lady
21 A Slow Stepdance Tune (melodeon)
22 Lost Lady Found
23 Coming Home from the Wake
24 The Poacher's Fate
25 The Poor Smuggler's Boy
26 A Hornpipe (dancing doll & voice)
27 The Bonny Bunch of Roses 0
RCD1839 'What will Become of England? - Harry Cox
1. What Will Become Of England?
-2. My Life
-3. A-Going To Widdliecombe Fair
-4. Working In A Gang
-5. Spotted Cow, The
-6. Barton Waltz
-7. Harvest, The
-8. Barley Straw, The
-9. Farmer's Servant, The
10. Pretty Ploughboy, The
11. My Grandfather And My Father
12. Jack Tar On Shore
13. Two Hornpipes: Yarmouth / Meg Merilees
14. On Board Of The Kangaroo
15. Young And Growing
16. My Mother
17. My Upbringing
18. Foggy Dew, The
19. Hunger And Pay
20. Three Toasts
21. Nelson's Monument
22. I Used To Go Along Of Him
23. Barton Broad Babbling Ballad
24. Babbing For Eels
25. Talk And Melodeon Pieces
26. Singing In Public Houses
27. Charming And Delightful
28. Old Songs, The
29. On Yon Lofty Mountain
30. Learning From My Father
31. She Never Had Time To Sit Down
32. Turkish Lady, The
33. Poaching
34. Henry The Poacher
35. Windy Old Weather
36. My Father At Sea
37. Sweet William
38. How My Father Learned Songs
39. Yarmouth Fishermen's Song, The
40. Crocodile, The
41. Soldier And Sailor's Prayer, The
42.
London Is As Sharp As The Edge Of A Knife
43. Up To The Rigs Of London Town
44. Up To The Present I Ain't Forgot Anything Yet
45. Blackberry Fold
46. Adieu To Old Eng-E-Land, Here's Adieu
TSCD514 A World Without Horses - Walter Pardon
1. The Rambling Blade
2. The Lawyer
3. The Bold Fisherman
4. The Dark Eyed Sailor
5. The Bush of Australia
6. The Female Drummer
7. The Bold Princess Royal
8. The Banks of Sweet Dundee
9. The Deserter
10. The Trees They Do Grow High
11. Two Jolly Butchers
12. The Loss of the Ramillies
13. The Handsome Cabin Boy
14. The Pretty Ploughboy
15. The Cunning Cobbler
16. The Devil & the Farmer's Wife
17. The British Man o'War
18. The Jolly Waggoner
19. The Rakish Young Fellow
MTCD305-6 Put a bit of powder on it, Father -Walter Pardon
CDR1
1. Cupid the Ploughboy
2. A Country Life
3. The Poor Smuggler's Boy
4. I'm Yorkshire Though in London
5. Seventeen Come Sunday
6. The Parson and the Clerk
7. Blow the Winds I-O
8. Hold the Fort
9. All Among the Barley
10. Black-Eyed Susan
11. Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold
12. Lord Lovel
13. The Skipper and his Boy
14. Thornaby Woods
15. An Old Man's Advice
16. If I Were a Blackbird
17. The Bonny Bunch of Roses-O
18. The Green Bushes
19. Polly Vaughan
20. The Saucy Sailor
21. Little Ball of Yarn
22. The Huntsman
CDR2
1. Put a Bit of Powder on it, Father
2. The Cuckoo
3. Old Joe the Boat is Going Over
4. Cock-a-Doodle-Do
5. The Harland Road /Wheel Your P'rambulator
6. Ben Bolt
7. Uncle Walter's Tune
8. Two Lovely Black Eyes
9. Alice Grey
10. Rosin-a-Beau
11. Not for Joseph, Not for Joe
12. The Old Armchair
13. The Marble Arch
14. Wake Up Johnny /When the Cock begins to Crow /Saving Them All for Mary /Down by the Old Abbey Ruins
15. The Mistletoe Bough
16. On a See-Saw
17. Your Faithful Sailor Boy
18. Here's to the Grog
19. Nancy Lee
20. Up the Chimney Pot /Slave Driving Farmers /Bound to Emigrate to New Zealand
21. Husband Taming
22. Uncle Walter's March
23. If I Ever Get Drunk Again
24. Naughty Jemima Brown
25. The Dandy Man
26. For Me, For Me
27. While Shepherds Watched
1 Jenny Lind - The Girl I Left Behind Me
2 The Waltz Vienna
3 Off She Goes 1
4 Off She Goes 2
5 Red Wing
6 Untitled Polka
7 Dulcie Bell
8 The Heel and Toe Polka
9 The Sailor's Hornpipe: The Shipdham Hornpipe: Untitled Polka: The White
Cockade: Untitled Polka
10 Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms: Johnny's So Long at the
Fair: The Wild Colonial Boy
11 The Cliff Hornpipe
12 The Bluebell Polka
13 Shave the Donkey
14 Shave the Donkey
15 Waltz Selection introducing The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
16 The Yarmouth Hornpipe introducing The Four-Hand Reel &The Sailor's Hornpipe
17 The Helston Furry Dance
18 The Irish Washerwoman: The Sprig of Shillelagh
19 The Foggy Dew The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
20 Peggy Wood. When There Isn't a Girl About
21 Untitled Polka
22 Wheels
23 In and Out the Windows
24 Washing Day: Old Mrs Huddledee: The Keel Row (The Cat's Got the Measles)
25 Untitled Polka
26 The Irish Washerwoman: Garryowen: Rory O' More: St. Patrick's Day
27 The Four-Hand Reel; Soldier's Joy
1. Heel & Toe Polka - Percy
Brown melodeon (Norfolk)
2. Banks of the Sweet Dundee - Reg Bacon
song (Essex)
3. So Was I - Charlie Giddings
song (Cambridgeshire)
4. Yarmouth / Sailor’s /Yarmouth Hornpipes -
Billy Cooper dulcimer Walter Bulwer
fiddle Daisy Bulwer piano
Edna Wortley banjo (Norfolk)
5. The Outlandish Knight - Hockey Feltwell
song (Norfolk)
6. College Hornpipe - George Green
melodeon (Cambridgeshire)
7. Banks of the Clyde - Billy Rash
song (Essex)
8. Unidentified Jig - Walter Bulwer
fiddle Daisy Bulwer piano (Norfolk)
9. John Barleycorn - Reg Bacon
song (Essex)
10. Remember me to ...... - Alan
Pate song with piano acc. (Cambridgeshiore)
11. Bluebell Polka - Percy Brown
melodeon with unknown stepdancer (Norfolk)
12. The Bank of England - Charlie Giddings
song (Cambridgeshire)
13. Whistling Rufus - Billy Cooper
dulcimer Walter Bulwer fiddle
Daisy Bulwer piano
Edna Wortley banjo (Norfolk)
14. Nothing to Do With Me - Reg Bacon
song (Essex)
15. Four Hand Reel - George Green
melodeon (Cambridgeshire)
16. Dulcie Bell - Billy Cooper dulcimer
(Norfolk)
17. Lamkin - Hockey Feltwell song (Norfolk)
18. Unidentified Polka - Billy Cooper
dulcimer Walter Bulwer fiddle
Daisy Bulwer piano
Edna Wortley banjo (Norfolk)
19. The Barley Mow - Reg Bacon song (Essex)
20. Step Dance Medley - Percy Brown
melodeon Dick Hewitt stepdancing (Norfolk)
VTVS05/06 The Pigeon on the Gate - Various
SIDE 1
Fred List
1. Pigeon on the Gate/Soldier's Joy - Framlingham, Suffolk 1974.
2. Polkas -Framlingham, Suffolk 1974.
3. Johnson's Hornpipe - Framlingham, Suffolk 1974.
Dolly Curtis with Brian Felgate, piano and Billy Cox, drums
4. Dennington Polka - Dennington Bell, Suffolk 1981.
5. Harvest Home - Dennington Bell,
Suffolk 1981.
6. The Entertainer - Dennington Bell, Suffolk 1981.
7. Stepdance - Dennington Bell, Suffolk 1981.
Ben Youngs
8. I Must Go and Leave My Nancy - Ipswich, Suffolk 1989.
9. We'll Ask Him Round for Tea - Ipswich, Suffolk 1989.
10. St Mary's Waltz - Ipswich, Suffolk 1989.
George Woolnough
11. St Patrick's Day - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
12. Polka - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
13. Seaman's Polka /Not for Joe /Heel and Toe Polka - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
Charlie Plant
15. Picking a Chicken
with me -
Great Glemham, Suffolk 1978.
16. She's my Lady Love (Peter Plant - stepping) - Great Glemham, Suffolk 1978.
Peter Plant
17. Song tune - Great Glemham, Suffolk 1978.
18. Hornpipe - Great Glemham, Suffolk 1978.
19. Home to Donegal - Great Glemham, Suffolk 1978.
Geoff Mayes
20. The Keel Row - Hepworth, Suffolk 1985.
Fred Pearce
21. The Dolphin - Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk 1968.
22. Polka - Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk
1968.
23. Yarmouth Hornpipe - Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk 1968.
Clifford Arbon
24. Alf Peachey's Polka -Monewden, Suffolk 1987.
Cyril Barber
25. Pigeon on the Gate - Felsham, Suffolk 1983.
26. Wheels - Felsham, Suffolk 1983.
Cecil Pearl
27. Alf Peachey's Jig -Claydon, Suffolk 1983.
28. The Rakes of Mallow - Claydon,
Suffolk 1983.
29. Charlie Rookyard's Polka - Claydon, Suffolk 1983.
Bert Mayes
30. Polkas - Eye, Suffolk 1985.
31. Untitled /Cock of the North /Pop Goes the Weasel - Eye, Suffolk 1985.
Font Whatling
32. Untitled tune- Worlingworth,
Suffolk 1975.
34. Kiss me Goodnight Sergeant Major /When You're Smiling - Stradbroke Kings Head, Suffolk 1991.
35. Stepdance (Cyril Barber & Russell Whiting stepping)
- Stradbroke Kings Head, Suffolk 1991.
SIDE 2
Oscar Woods
1. Pigeon on the Gate - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
2. I'll be Your Sweetheart /Oh No Antonio /Forever and Ever - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
3. Under the Bridges of Paris - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
4. Oh Joe the Boat is Going Over (old version) - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
5. The Merry Widow - Saxmundham
Railway, Suffolk 1968.
6. Play to Me, Gypsy - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
7. Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
8. Two Little Girls in Blue - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
9. Primrose Polka - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
10. Waltz - Saxmundham Railway,
Suffolk 1968.
11. The Happy Wanderer - Saxmundham Railway, Suffolk 1968.
12. Waltzing Over the Water (David Nuttall, concertina - Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk 1975.
13. We'll Meet Again Under the Roses - Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk 1972.
14. Cliffe Hornpipe -Cricklade, Wiltshire 1977.
15. Soldier's Dream - Benhall, Suffolk 1978.
16. Golden Slippers - Benhall, Suffolk 1978.
17. Bristol Hornpipe - Benhall,
Suffolk 1978.
18. Seaman's Polka -Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk 1981.
19. Dennington Polka /Oh Joe the Boat is Going Over - (Carole Pegg fiddle /Geoff Ling, singing) Blaxhall Ship, Suffolk 1981.
Jen Newson
20. Is it Rain or is it Tears? -
Easton, Suffolk 1997.
21. Tiger Smith's Jig - Easton, Suffolk 1997.
SIDE 3
George Green
1. College Hornpipe - Little Downham, Cambridgeshire 1961.
Mr Potter
2. Sweet Smiling Face - Weston
Colville, Cambs 1968.
Monty Chapman
3. Stepdance - Weston Colville, Cambs 1963.
Charlie Cutmore
4. Pigeon on the Gate - Belchamp St Paul, Essex 1963.
Harry De Caux
5. Four-Hand Reel - Baniston, Dunmow, Essex 1990.
6. Cornriggs - Baniston, Dunmow,
Essex 1990.
Sonny Barber
7. Pigeon on the Gate - Briningham, Norfolk 1981.
8. Scotland the Brave /To Bide Ana'
- Briningham, Norfolk 1981.
9. The Faithful Sailor Boy - Briningham, Norfolk 1981.
10. Jig - Briningham, Norfolk 1981.
11. Putting on the Style - Briningham, Norfolk 1981.
Harry Cox
12. Jenny Lind - Catfeld, Norfolk 1968.
13. Barndance - Catfeld. Norfolk
1968.
14. Schottische - Catfield, Norfolk 1968.
15. Schottische - Catfield, Norfolk 1968.
16. John Brown's Body - Catfield, Norfolk 1968.
17. Waltz - Catfield, Norfolk 1968.
18. Hornpipe -Catfield, Norfolk 1968.
Charlie Buller
19. Castle Gardens - Erpingham, Norfolk 1987.
20. Sailor's Hornpipe /Pistol-Packing Momma - Erpingham, Norfolk 1987.
George Craske
21. Yarmouth Hornpipe - Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
22. Long Dance Jig - Sustead,
Norfolk 1977.
23. Schottische - Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
24. Tommy, Make Room for Your Uncle - Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
25. Stepdance - Sustead, Norfolk
1977.
26. Heel and Toe Polka - Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
27. Jack Davies' Stepdance- Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
28. Jimmy Crane's Stepdance - Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
29. Jingle Bells Polka/ Slap Dab /Oh Joe the Boat is Going Over - Sustead, Norfolk 1977.
John Woodrow
30. Sailor's Hornpipe - Ingham,
Norfolk 1970.
31. The Three Butchers - Ingham, Norfolk 1986.
32. Stepdance - Ingham, Norfolk
1986.
Billy Patterson
33. Waltz - Chedgrave, Norfolk 1975.
Bob Davies
34. Stepdance Medley - Cromer, Norfolk 1970.
36. Polka /Hornpipe - Cromer, Norfolk 1970.
37. Waltz - Cromer, Norfolk 1970.
38. Hornpipe - Cromer, Norfolk 1970.
39. The Gates of Edinburgh - Cromer, Norfolk 1970.
SIDE 4
Percy Brown
1. Yarmouth Hornpipe - (Dick Hewitt stepdancing) Briston, Norfolk 1979.
2. Over the Waves - (Dick Hewitt
stepdancing) - Briston, Norfolk 1979.
3. It's a Long Way to Tipperary - (Dick Hewitt stepdancing) - Briston, Norfolk 1979.
4. Schottische - (Dick Hewitt stepdancing) Briston, Norfolk 1979.
5. Blaze Away /My Dreams are Getting Better /Take me Back to Blighty - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
6. Garryowen - Aylsham, Norfolk
1975.
7. St Patrick's Day - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
8. Sailor Cut Down in his Prime - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
9. Hornpipe - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
10. Old Waltz /Two Lovely Black Eyes /When Irish Eyes are Smiling - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
11. Comrades - Aylsham, Norfolk
1975.
12. Hornpipe Medley - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
13. Waltz for the Veleta - Aylsham, Norfolk 1975.
14. Oh Joe the Boat is Going Over /King's Polka /Father's in the Pigsty - Aylsham, Norfolk 1973.
15. Phil the Fluter's Ball - Aylsham, Norfolk 1973.
16. Bluebell Polka - Aylsham, Norfolk 1973.
17. Jig Medley - Sherlngham, Norfolk 1959.
18. Four-Hand Reel - Sheringham, Norfolk 1959.
19. Heel and Toe Polka -Sheringham, Norfolk 1959.
20. Hornpipe Medley - Sheringham, Norfolk 1959.
21. Jig Medley - Antingham, Norfolk
1959.
22. Jingle Bells Polka /Oh Joe /Tavern in th