Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A)
Roud 0
A note in the VWML Archive Catalogue record for this song says “The text to this song is found in JMC’s Thesis p. 123”.
Hawksbury Banks (Maids of Australia)
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/4/D)
Green Burgee
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/4/D)
The OED defines burgee as “A small tapered flag or pennant, three-cornered (or swallow-tailed), used by cutters, yachts, etc., generally as a distinguishing flag”.
Paddy Works on the Railway
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/4/B)
Tiger Bay
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/1/E)
Lucianna (I’m Just Gone Over The Mountain)
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/1/C)
Be Handy Boys
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/1/1/A, JMC/1/5/4/A)
Blow Boys Blow
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Royal Alfred, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A)
Down in the Meadows (The Meadows Down Below)
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Royal Alfred, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/1/A)
“Learned chantey from old cockney, Blumire, sixty years old… A spirited capstan chantey with a swinging melodious air, does not occur in any collections that I have examined”.
Heave Away
Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Royal Alfred, Belvedere, 1928
James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/B)
Carpenter typed the first two verses, but the bawdy verses which follow were handwritten.