Mr Red´s homepage research links to find songs/tunes &/or verify their provenance
This is just a taster. There is a CD with some of these songs and a few colaborations with Chris Evans, my Canadian cousin. e-mail me for more details.Clicking on the text file links will display them - but MP3 & PDF will activate automatically only with the right software
In MS Internet Explorer - to get these files, right click on the hyperlink and select "Save Target As". In Netscape Communicator right click on the link and "Save Link As" The .mp3 files are not HiFi (nor entire) - they have been made small to save space. They give you my idea of the tune, or the ending, or me and friends. EnjoyThese files are free of "BSE", "foot and mouth", "ringeye",
"brucellosis" and "Swine
versicular disease". And all other known viruses. They are even prudeproof.
Cresby´s songs & collected stuff | audio | fancy | plain text | music | ||
Subject | Title | .MP3 | .txt | .abc | .mid | |
I collected (& added 3 verses to) this Boer War recruiting song from Joe Latter originally evacuated from London in WWII . | Old England she needs Soldiers | 50Kb | txt | |||
2 "pace egging" songs collected from Joe Hurley, born nr Accrington . | I´m a Paper Lad & I´m a Navvy | |||||
Robert Grave´s version of the "Old Barbed Wire" collected from the TV and Radio . | Old Barbed Wire | |||||
2 young peoples´ songs not heard elsewhere . | Todd the Toad & Shine Your Buttocks | |||||
Riddles, family epithets, and a skipping rhyme from my youth | Hezzikia the King of the Jews | |||||
a plea to a friend not to consider suicide . | Eilidh | 72Kb | txt | |||
my kind of love song, full of meaning, and bathos . | My Love is Like a Chocolate Box | 128Kb | 13Kb | txt | ||
not quite a shanty but close . | RollBoysRoll | 23Kb | txt | abc | midi | |
a friend & down and out who was too proud to say hello . | Ron Haywards Blues | 140Kb | 34Kb | txt | ||
Victorian trade of Pure Finding (dog poo to you) ! | Pure Finder | 160Kb | 15Kb | txt | abc | midi |
I´m sentimantal about Malvern, this was my purple patch . | No Matter Where I Wander | 56Kb | txt | |||
the battle for Upton bridge, Upton-u-Severn - Civil War . | Upton Bridge | 120Kb | 16Kb | txt | ||
the Guy Fawkes story, remember, remember, but do you ? | Coughton Conspiracy | 212Kb | 22Kb | txt | ||
a song about Nelson. | Lord Nelson | 20Kb | txt | midi | ||
Hot Gospel, with just a hint of tongue in cheek . | Station in the Sky | 80K | txt | |||
a shanty in draft form? | Pencil Sharpening Shanty | txt | ||||
not a parody, but a modern re-working. Boy looses girl . | All around my Hat | 19Kb | ||||
a song celebrating the
quintessential English sauce (from India) . |
Worcestershire Sauce | 132Kb | 38Kb | txt | ||
Rag & Bone Men, (eg
Steptoe and Son) the original re-cyclers . |
Old Rags & Bones | 200Kb | 53Kb | txt | ||
"Black Country" humour, Enoch v Eli . also on the yampy.co.uk Black Country Humour site |
Cud ´Ave Bin Werse | 208Kb | 18Kb | txt | ||
wind-up Mrs Lemon, tell her you have seen this song ! | Shropshire Lemonade | 208Kb | 30Kb | txt | ||
culmination of a goal to write a trad song, did it work ? | The Oak & the Willow | 132Kb | 19Kb | txt | ||
pit shanty, that´s easy for me to say - sober . | Gold for my Lady | 228Kb | 33Kb | txt | ||
the "Old Barbed Why Here?" - three generations on . | the Why Memorial | 50Kb | txt | |||
light hearted expose of the leather trade of Walsall . | Merry Book Binder | 140Kb | 23Kb | txt | ||
the dead centre of civilisation, Wednesbury town . | Hall Green Way | 104Kb | 31Kb | txt | ||
foundryman´s shanty, a true story . | Push on the Shovel | 12Kb | txt | |||
a shanty for synchronised crochet teams . | Knittershanty | 128Kb | 14Kb | txt | ||
watch this space, or e-mail me by using the form on the "contact me page" |