Daniel Kelly Music

It's International Women's Day here in Australia: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/in-focus/2023/03/in-focus-international-womens-day Under the Pink, will be 30 years old next year! It has been six years since I covered some of the other songs from this album before January 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Pink #ToriAmos #WomensDay #UnderThePink Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

These lyrics (minus the refrain) appear in a 1902 book by Charles August Keeler, titled, 'A Wanderer's Song of the Sea': https://archive.org/details/awandererssongs01keelgoog/page/n26/mode/2up I suspect the words in the book are all made up by Charles but loosely fitted to sea shanties or sea songs he had heard. Charles was quite the adventurer, and may well have been to South Australia soon before publishing this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keeler A far ranging discussion on the better known 'South Australia' shanty with it's baffling rolling/ruler/rollicking kings chorus: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=48959 #SouthAustralia #Shanty Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Happy to hear that the un-named mariner was rescued from Lake George last night, thanks to the State Emergency Service (SES). Photos from the stories here: Canberra Times: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8107865/man-stranded-on-lake-george-in-boat-with-bed-sheet-for-sail/ ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-03/act-man-paddling-circles-on-lake-george-boat-with-bed-sheet-sail/102051354 Photos of lake George by Nick D (Creative Commons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_George_(New_South_Wales) Lyrics and Chords: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/top-hat-on-lake-george/ Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/ #Canberra #LakeGeorge #CanberraTimes #TopHatSaillor #SES

Inspired by a discussion on #filkhaven about some possible Russian bot spam, which led to the discovery of the term 'Rage Farmer', which got me thinking. Images of Stardew Valley from here: https://steelseries.com/blog/which-farm-type-right-you-stardew-valley-choose-435 Other images from Pixabay, except for the thumbnail meme from King of the Hill: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/if-those-kids-could-read-theyd-be-very-upset Parody based on 'Home on the Range' by Kelley and Higley (well out of copyright, but that won't stop someone claiming this video): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_on_the_Range Chords and Lyrics here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/farming-the-rage/ Thankyou to PaulaL for contributing the final verse. #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Always exciting when I find a Child Ballad where the only other version up on YouTube is the one by @raymondcrooke : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYRdhah3AY Another find ballad in the theme of fathers running through the young men they find in their daughter's beds. Two variants of the text here: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch070.htm Not sure why Masiry/Margerie seem to be interchangeable. Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

In just three days it will be a full year that the people of #Ukraine have stood against the unprovoked aggression of #Russia on their own. When are Gandalf and Riders of Rohan coming to their aid? Tolkien's poem (untitled, but referred to as the Lament for the Rohirrim): https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Lament_for_the_Rohirrim #StandWithUkraine Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I was looking to record a belated #ValentinesDay song for my beautiful wife, but then I realized that this 6th century B.C. poet was saying the equivalent of 'women should smile more'. Which is funny given that all his other poems are about drinking too much and chasing young women (and failing). I think this translation (or more embellishment) is by Thomas Moore: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38230/38230-h/38230-h.htm#illo19 You can read the original Greek here (or maybe, like me, you can't): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/The_odes_of_Anacreon_.._%28IA_odesofanacreo00anac%29.pdf I have had a go at re-writing the last part of the poem: To man she gave a feeble mind, Always enslaved to womankind. Slave of her beauty, and her power, Lost without her for an hour. To woman she gave the finest treasure, Mother of life and queen of pleasure, She gave beauty and spark of mind, Wise and caring, strong and kind. #Lyre #Greek #Anacreon #Love #Feminism Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I made a recording of the 'Star Spangled Banner' after the horrific invasion of the US Capitol building buy a bunch of dangerous nutters in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BsGT-abxqo Today in the #Filkhaven chat I learnt of the rather hilarious/ironic origins of the melody. Here are the lyrics: https://www.potw.org/archive/potw234.html And some details of the men's wine and music club from 1766: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreontic_Society Importantly, it is the composer of the music, John Stafford Smith, that links this song to what became the US national anthem in 1931: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith Someone more versed in Roman paganism may be able to explain what the significance of entwining myrtle with grape vines is. Possibly a connection to Bona Dea? https://journeyingtothegoddess.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/goddess-bona-dea/ Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/ #Pagan #Roman #filk #bonadea

At the local market today I picked up a large format book of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illustrated by Gustave Doré. The illustrations are fabulous. The book especially caught my eye knowing of Malcolm Guite's ( @MalcolmGuitespell ) own published work on this piece: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/tag/ancient-mariner/ Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/ #AncientMariner #Coleridge #Albatross

Thanks to Sean Flynn from the Hackham Irish session in Adelaide for suggesting this song to me. Great to be back there after 5-6 years. This is a song by Ewan MacColl: https://mainlynorfolk.info/ewan.maccoll/songs/thetunneltigers.html The use of 'Jack it / Ram it' and the Shield suggests that this is about the construction of the Thames Tunnel in the mid 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel Some detail in the collection here: https://life-on-the-edge.org/2021/06/11/tunnel-vision-the-genius-of-marc-brunel/ A memorial for the Tunnel Tigers here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49275881 MacColl probably didn't coin the 'Tunnel Tigers' term, as seen here in 1950: https://archive.org/details/sim_electrical-world_1950-01-23_133_4/page/n15 Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Hoggy_Warty_Hogwarts Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/ #hogwarts #harrypotter

A request from u/BassoeG from reddit. This song appears in the book Gateway by Frederick Pohl https://archive.org/details/gateway0000pohl None of the other gateway series seem to have songs in them. #Filk #FrederikPohl #SciFi Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I have made use of the services of the Yass and District Historical Society many times when doing research for songs: https://yasshistory.org.au/ It is a shame that this had to escalate to the point where the Mayor stepped in. Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/ #Yass

It looks like I will finally get to deliver my talk on the research I did for my album of Colin Dryden songs at Easter this year. The National Folklore conference has been delayed since 2020. While putting the presentation together today, I found this album from the Newcastle Folk Festival in 1974: http://australianfolk.blogspot.com/2017/01/various-artists-newcastle-folk-festival.html Colin sings this song in a blues style on the album, but the lyrics he uses don't match any of the Mainly Norfolk references: https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/sevenyellowgipsies.html It is reasonably similar to the version that Davey Graham does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQzK9mgubwI This site suggests some truth to the story: http://www.greatscottishclans.com/clans/kennedy.php Lots of other versions of this ballad here: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch200.htm Picture by Rackham, from this book: https://archive.org/details/somebritishballa00rack #ColinDryden #RaggleTaggleGypsy #GypsyRover #BlackJackDavey Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Thanks to Mark (@Rocketsong ) and Eli (@elig9401 ) for pointing out that the great song by Julia Eklar and Ann Prather that I was asked to cover was actually by Jordin Kare. Which leads me to this song from Jordin's brilliant album 'Fire in the Sky', which you can listen to here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGZbuWTzf2mLWNUCl7gMlA5KEd32NxT49 What is even cooler, is this talk by Jordin about Space Elevators using *Lasers*! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6zLPsNnPGw&t=1358s More about Jordin here: https://file770.com/jordin-kare-passes-away/ #filk #fireinthesky #jordinkare Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I drove back from Sydney this morning after singing at the Alistair Hulett Memorial Concert at the Gaelic Club in Sydney last night. Photo of Alistair at the end was sent by Andy Carr (not sure if it is his photo). This song was sung by Bob Fagan at the concert, with some lyric prompting by Chris Maltby. Alistair singing this song here: https://open.spotify.com/track/31gEAFUCuKOU4Nha3r0Be2?si=ab6d5b35d9a64fdb Scots words you might not know: Troke: A cheat/swindler, mudcat has 'ill throckett dog', but 'throckett' doesn't seem to be a Scots word, so maybe this is 'ill bargained dog'? Thole: Suffer Skeined: Skinned/Covered Callant: A young man Details of who is in the concert photos at my Facebook post here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=danielkellyfolkmusic&set=a.639093131550982 Here is the story of Alexander Ross, shot in Girvan in 1831: http://www.spmt.scot/roll.php?id=2327 And some history of the Orange Order in Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Orange_Lodge_of_Scotland Excellent Mudcat work deciphering the lyrics here: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=156873 Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

This was requested 3 months ago by @christopheroverbeck3662. Sadly the final verse wasn't on the lyrics that I found first. Thanks to Mark Horning for pointing out that this song was written by Jordin Kare and not Julie & Ann as listed all over the internet. I can't find a version sung by Jordin, but here is an interview with him: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/07/25/sailbeam-a-conversation-with-jordin-kare/ Version sung by Julia Eklar and Ann Prather here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaLe1ZZ97S0 #Filk #JordinKare Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Leslie's live performance of this song will be coming out on a new album at some point in the future: https://www.prometheus-music.com/shop/ Thanks to Eli Goldberg for letting me have an early listen, and to Leslie for letting me do a cover. #filk #lesliefish #ourflagmeansdeath #pirates #blackbeard Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Another Australia Day in 2023, still held on the day the marks the beginning of a European effort to stamp out a 65,000 year old culture. An effort that sadly continues today. My thoughts here on the upcoming referendum of 2023. In my view, if the voice doesn't come with teeth, then it is just more condescending treatment of an ancient and strong culture. Make up your own mind here: https://fromtheheart.com.au/what-is-a-voice-to-parliament/ In case you think this is all history best left alone: https://www.theepochtimes.com/northern-territory-considers-vote-on-alcohol-bans-amid-soaring-crime-wave_5008862.html #australia #australiaday #invasionday #survivalday Lyrics here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/take-your-voice/ Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I have started work on writing some short songs for kids based on the Aesop fables. I thought this one might be of interest to older 'kids' as well. Here are the other two I have done: Lion and Mouse: https://www.ganjing.com/video/1fite8ld31o45M2HQkjP55hv81411c Fox and Crow: https://www.ganjing.com/video/1fiqsfcuf696CHACP2mx0cC6x1mv1c Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Happy 264th Birthday to Mr Robert Burns! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns Poem here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18500/18500-h/18500-h.htm#songsXX Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

2023 is the year of the Rabbit. Happy Lunar New Year! This is a Mandarin Children's song about a rabbit: http://chinese-for-preschoolers.weebly.com/good-little-bunny.html Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

A song about #Australia and our current national crisis. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whats-causing-australias-frozen-chip-shortage-and-how-long-will-it-last/ljhcvjctq It seems this crisis was not completely unavoidable: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-05/tasmania-victoria-potato-protest-rally-against-imports/12315784 #NoHotChips #PotatoShortage Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Sad that New Zealand's leadership by the most compassionate, strong and wise leader to grace the world stage for many a year is coming to an end. This was her favourite song of 2020 according to this interview: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3423075884445741 Here is the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6kJaGiRaI #jacindaardern #newzealand #themountaingoats Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

A parody of Moon River, thanks for the inspiration at #filkhaven. Lyrics here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/mansplainer/ Audrey Hepburn with the original by Mancini and Mercer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BfUDyvdTSE Story behind the thumbnail photo: https://www.ladbible.com/funny/viral-photo-advertising-degree-in-mansplaining-goes-viral-20180630 #MoonRiver #Mansplainer #ukulele #Parody Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/