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The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Edith Fowke: The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Edith Fowke (editor)
The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs
Harmondsworth; Penguin Books, 1973
ISBN 0 14 0708 42 1
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Songs

I. Echoes of History

  1. A Fenian Song (Roud 4531)
  2. Bold Wolfe (Roud 961; Laws A1)
  3. The Battle of the Windmill (Roud 4523)
  4. Un Canadien errant
  5. Moody to the Rescue (Roud 17698)
  6. By the Hush, Me Boys (Roud 2314)
  7. An Anti-Confederation Song (Roud 4518)
  8. Chanson de Louis Riel

II. The Sea

  1. The Flying Cloud (Roud 1802; Laws K28; G/D 1:44)
  2. The Loss of the ‘Ellen Munn’ (Roud 4372)
  3. The Banks of Newfoundland (Roud 1972; Henry H569)
  4. The Ryans and the Pittmans (Roud 21113)
  5. The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff (Roud 4410)
  6. The Wreck of the ‘Mary Summers’ (Roud 4473)
  7. The Old ‘Polina’ (Roud 285)
  8. The Ferryland Sailor (Roud 4533)
  9. Hard, Hard Times (Roud 876)
  10. Taking Gair in the Night (Roud 2327)
  11. Farewell to Nova Scotia (Roud 384)

III. The Woods

  1. Hogan’s Lake (Roud 3682)
  2. The Lake of the Caogama (Roud 4534)
  3. How We Got Up to the Woods Last Year (Roud 3676)
  4. Dans les chantiers
  5. The Jones Boys (Roud 4528)
  6. Jimmy Whelan (Roud 648; Laws C7)
  7. Lost Jimmy Whelan (Roud 2220; Laws C8)
  8. Peter Emberley (Roud 668; Laws C27)
  9. When the Shantyboy Comes Down (Roud 4374)

IV. The Land

  1. The Scarborough Settler’s Lament (Roud 4521)
  2. The Backwoodsman (Roud 641; Laws C19)
  3. The Honest Working Man (Roud 4535)
  4. L’Habitant d’ Saint-Barbe
  5. Life in a Prairie Shack (Roud 4472)
  6. The Alberta Homesteader (Roud 799)

V. Social Life

  1. The Kelligrew’s Soiree (Roud 4430)
  2. Bachelor’s Hall (Roud 385)
  3. Feller from Fortune (Roud 4427)
  4. Duffy’s Hotel (Roud 1961)
  5. Alouette!
  6. Ah! Si mon moine voulait danser!
  7. En roulant ma boule
  8. D’où viens-tu, Bergère?
  9. I’se the B’y That Builds the Boat (Roud 4432)
  10. Who’ll Be King But Charlie (Roud 729; G/D 1:135)

VI. True Lovers

  1. Vive la Canadienne!
  2. The Star of Belle Isle (Roud 2191; Laws H29)
  3. The Star of Logy Bay (Roud 4421)
  4. Mary Ann (Roud 4438)
  5. C’est l’aviron
  6. The ‘H’Emmer Jane’ (Roud 4425)
  7. The Jolly Raftsman O (Roud 2318)
  8. The Red River Valley (Roud 756)
  9. The Young Spanish Lass (Roud 2326)
  10. Young Macdonald (Roud 4536)

VII. Trials of Love

  1. À la claire fontaine
  2. Harbour Le Cou (Roud 7297)
  3. The Lonesome Scenes of Winter (Roud 443; Laws H12)
  4. The False Young Man (Roud 419)
  5. Down by Sally’s Garden (Roud 386)
  6. An Old Man He Courted Me (Roud 210)
  7. The Weaver (Roud 2311)
  8. Nellie Comes Home From the Wake (Roud 1606)
  9. She’s Like the Swallow (Roud 2306)

VIII. British Broadsides

  1. The Bonny Bunch of Rushes Green (Roud 3380)
  2. The Sailor’s Return (Roud 264; Laws N42; G/D 5:1038, 6:1201; Henry H471, H818)
  3. The Plains of Waterloo (Roud 960; Laws N32)
  4. Will O’Riley (Roud 270; Laws M8; G/D 1:22; Henry H468)
  5. The Green Brier Shore (Roud 549; Laws M26)
  6. The Bonny Labouring Boy (Roud 1162; Laws M14; Henry H576)
  7. The Ship’s Carpenter (Roud 15; Laws P36A; G/D 2:201, 2:202)
  8. Jamie Foyer (Roud 1941; G/D 1:106)
  9. The Banks of the Nile (Roud 950; Laws N9; G/D 1:99; Henry H238a)
  10. Nine Years a Soldier (Roud 520; Laws J8; G/D 1:79)
  11. The Enniskillen Dragoon (Roud 2185; Henry H98b)

IX. Ancient Ballads

  1. The Farmer and the Devil (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320)
  2. Seven Gypsies on Yon Hill (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  3. The Dewy Dells of Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215)
  4. Willie Drowned in Ero (Roud 206; Child 215; G/D 6:1227)
  5. Jenny Go Gentle (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282)
  6. The Footboy (Roud 3580)
  7. The House Carpenter (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332)
  8. The ‘Green Willow Tree’ (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37)

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Far Canadian Fields

Various: Far Canadian Fields (Leader LEE 4057)

Far Canadian Fields
Companion to The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs
recorded on location by Edith Fowke

Leader LEE 4057 (LP, UK, 1975)
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Musical and textual transcriptions of these and other Canadian songs appear in The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, edited by Edith Fowke and published by Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England.

Recorded by Edith Fowke;
Notes by Edith Fowke;
Produced by David Bland;
Cover photo of logging on the Ste. Anne River, Quebec, by courtesy of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau;
Album designed by Janet Kerr

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Mr and Mrs Albert Simms: The Loss of the ‘Ellen Munn’ (Roud 4372)
  2. Clyde Gilmour: The ‘H’Emmer Jane’ (Roud 4425)
  3. Jim Doherty: When the Shantyboy Comes Down (Roud 4374)
  4. Lennox Gavan: The Lake of the Caogama (Roud 4534)
  5. Mr and Mrs Albert Simms: The Young Spanish Lass (Roud 2326)
  6. John Leahy: The Lonesome Scenes of Winter (Roud 443; Laws H12)
  7. Mrs Arlington Fraser: The Jolly Raftsman O (Roud 2318)
  8. O.J. Abbott: By the Hush, Me Boys (Roud 2314)
  9. Captain Charles Cates: Life in a Prairie Shack (Roud 4472)
  10. Mrs Arlington Fraser: Young Macdonald (Roud 4536)

Side 2

  1. Mrs Eva Bigrow: Willie Drowned in Ero (Roud 206; Child 215; G/D 6:1227)
  2. O.J. Abbott: The Plains of Waterloo (Roud 960; Laws N32)
  3. O.J. Abbott: The Bonny Bunch of Rushes Green (Roud 3380)
  4. Robert J. Campbell: Seven Gypsies on Yon Hill (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  5. O.J. Abbott: The Weaver (Roud 2311)
  6. Emerson Woodcock: The Footboy (Roud 3580)