Uncle Tom Cobleigh And All, Widdecombe Fair, c.1930s - Valentine's Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/uncle-tom-cobleigh-and-all-widdecombe-fair-c-1930s-valentine-s-postcard-223926002.htm

#UncleTomCobleigh #WidecombeInTheMoor #FolkSongs

My once and future collaborator Chaia is offering this 3-part online course:
"This class explores the tradition of Yiddish revolutionary folksong. Emerging from the revolutionary movements of early 20th century Eastern Europe, these songs carried the voices of workers and cultural activists who used them as tools of anti-fascist resistance, anti-Zionist organizing, and visions of Jewish communal identity."
https://www.judaismunbound.com/2026-courses/p/yiddish-revolutionary-song

#Yiddish #Revolution #FolkSongs #JewishMusic #Bundism

Pitchers and sandwiches

No sniveling milksop

In which a drinking song lookup leads to a lurid 18th century rabbit hole.

https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-02-15_pitchers-and-sandwiches/

#songs #folkSongs

Not only am I enough of a geek to have scripts that use pandoc, Python, and bash to assemble a pub songbook in epub format (a pub epub, as it were), now those scripts can check which song files are unknown to git and put them in a "New songs this edition" list at the front.

#songs #pubSing #folkSongs

Maybe everyone else knew about this a decade ago but the Vancouver Morris Men have a 170+ page songbook online:

https://vancouvermm.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/0/3/25034121/vmm_songbook_2006.pdf

Not all the songs are suitable for a capella pub singing (Dedicated Follower of Fashion for instance) but there's a lot that is. Tunes are up to you.

#songs #pubSing #folkSongs