| A Acres of Clams © words tune: Rosin the Bow Aiken Drum Aint Gonna Rain No More All God's Critters © Bill Staines All the Good Times © All Through the Night God, who made the earth and heaven Sleep, my child Amazing Grace America (My Country, 'tis of thee) America the Beautiful © Irving Berlin Angel Band Angeline, the Baker Aragon Mill © Si Kahn Ash Grove Down yonder green valley © MH The ash grove, how graceful Aunt Rhody Aura Lee Away with Rum B Banks of the Ohio (original murder ballad) Barium X-Ray Blues © MH Battle Cry of Freedom Battle Hymn of Aging © Battle Hymn of the Republic Battle of Jericho (Joshua Fit) Beautiful Isle of Somewhere Be Still, My Soul Beer Barrel Polka © Better Times are Coming Beyond the Sunset © Blessed Quietness Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain © Boil them Cabbage Down Brother John (Frere Jacques) Burden Down C Camp Chase Fiddle Tune Clementine Columbus Stockade Blues © D Darling Nellie Gray Gum Tree Canoe Dawn Beyond the Night © Do, Lord Down in the Valley Down in the Valley to Pray Du Du Liegst Mir im Hertzen Dumbarton's Drums © Beers E Er-i-ee Canal (the er-i-ee is a-risin') Erie Canal (I've got a mule) F Faded Coat of Blue Farther Along Father's Whiskers The Fiddler (has played his last tune) © Finlandia (This is my song...) Fire at Wild Willie's © MH Flood on Killbuck Creek © MH The Frozen Logger G Gaily the Troubador Gentle Annie Give me the Roses The Glendy Burke Glory Glory, Hallelujah Going Down the Valley One by One Goober Peas Good News © Goodnight, Irene © Grandfather's Clock Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm © Green Corn © Green Grass of Shiloh © Beers (words) Gypsy Rover © H Hang on the Bell, Nellie Happy Endings on the Banks of the Ohio © MH Hard Times Hark of All Haven of Rest Have Thine Own Way, Lord He Sat Down Beside Her Home on the Range Home to the Circle © MH words Tune: Burden Down How Can I Keep From Singing? How Great Thou Art I I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound © I'll Be All Smiles Tonight © I'll Fly Away © I'm Gonna Tell © I Need Thee Every Hour In Good Old Colony Times In the Hills of Shiloh © I Saw the Light I Shall Not Be Moved I Still Miss Someone © J Jiggin' the Baby (Walkin' in the Parlor) © words MH, tune: Jean Ritchie John o' Dreams © Join in the Game © ? Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho The Joys of Love Jug of Punch Just a Closer Walk with Thee © Just as the Sun Went Down © Just Because Polka © K Keep on the Sunny Side © Brumley Keep the Home Fires Burning Kitty Alone |
L Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Let us Break Bread Together Lewis Bridal Song (Mairi's Wedding) Life's Railway to Heaven Lincoln and Liberty tune: Rosin the Bow Little Brown Church in the Vale Little Liza Jane Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane Little Joe, the Wrangler Little Old Sod Shanty on My Claim The Old Canal Little Moses © A Living Prayer © Loch Lomond Long Long Ago The Lord Said to Noah © Lorena The Lovely Ohio Lucy Neal Polka © MH words M Make New Friends © Girl Scouts Mansion Over the Hilltop © Mary Had a Baby Mary Had a Little Baby May I Sleep in your Barn Tonite, Mister? Mazurka Mazur Mes Parents Midnight on the Ocean Morning has Broken © The Mule (he is the oddest sight) My Jesus, I Love Thee N Nelly Bly Never Grow Old © Brumley No, No, a Thousand Times No © Nothing but the Blood of Jesus O Oh, How I Love Jesus Oh, Susannah Oh, you Can't Get to Heaven Old Gospel Ship The Old Rugged Cross O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee One I Love © Jean Ritchie On the Wings of a Dove Over Yonder © ? P Peace Like a River Psalm 42 (As the deer longs) Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man who... © Q Quilting Party R The Rakes of Mallow Rambling Boy © Red River Valley Riddle Song River (I was born in the path of the...) © Bill Staines Roll, Olentangy, Roll On © Rosin the Bow S Sent Forth by God's Blessing Shall We Gather at the River Shenendoah Simple Gifts Skye Boat Song Somebody's Darling Somebody's Kickin' my Dog around Somebody Touched Me © Songs we Sang upon the old Camp Ground Soon and Very Soon South Wind Stand by Me © ? Sweet Evalina T Tell Me Why Tenting Tonight This Land is Your Land © Woody Guthrie Children’s Trust Fund This Old House © Thyme Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! Turkey in the Straw Turn, Turn, Turn © Malvina Reynolds U The Unclouded Day Upidee Use it or Lose it © V The Vacant Chair W Waltzing Matilda (Once a jolly swagman) Waterbound The Water is Wide We are going down the valley one by one Westphalia Waltz © words MH What a Friend we have in Jesus What will I leave behind? © ? When Morning Breaks When the Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again © When the Roll is Called Up Yonder Where the Soul Never Dies © Brumley words Whiskey Before Breakfast Whispering Hope Wildwood Flower Will the Circle Be Unbroken? © Brumley words Wind and Rain © Worried Man Blues © "Leadbelly or somebody" Y Yellow Bird © The Yellow Rose of Texas You are my Sunshine © 1941 Jimmy Davis |
|
|
A typical meeting of Friends In D
at the Ashland County Council on Aging. We had 12 musicians
that day, including two who drove all
the way up from Columbus to join us. You can tell from the
pic on the right that good humor sometimes overcomes us all.
Appreciation
Thanks so much to those of you who are attending the Tuesday Afternoon
Old Folkies' Dulcimer Club at Ashland County Council on Aging
and a hearty invite to those who have been thinking about it,
but just haven't gotten there yet. If you haven't had a chance
to drop by, the welcome mat is still out for anyone age sixty
and over (or any other age). Our average attendance has been around
eight, but we have had twelve a couple of times. A wide range
of instruments is participating: mountain dulcimers, guitar, folk
harp, mandolin, banjerine, Autoharp, Omnichord (an electronic
version of the Autoharp), spoons, limberjack, several harmonicas,
tambourine, washboard-and-thimbles, lots of singers, and some
pretty good listeners and foot-tappers too. We have a definite
need for more dulcimers, also washtub bass or even "real"
acoustic bass, pennywhistle, musical saw, and more folks for the
rhythm section. Of course other folk-type instruments are also
welcome.
Only in the Key of D?
We're called Friends in D because all our music used to be played
in the Key of D. Now that some folks that used to own instruments
that would only play in D have upgraded, we also play in G, and
now and then in C. If you think playing mostly in the Key of D
is a dumb idea,, we're probably not the group for you. If you
think playing nearly everything in one key might be interesting
as a challenge to your creativity (similar to Picasso's thinking
during his "blue period"), then please do stop by and
sit in. You might just have a very good time playing with us,
even if you're a virtuoso musician.
Be on our list
If you want to be on our e-notification list for meeting cancellations
due to weather, etc., please leave your e-mail address when you
sign our book at your next in-person visit with our group.
Share your music
We're learning some polkas. Oom pa oom pa What fun!
To print only this song, right-click on the music & choose OPEN
LINK IN NEW WINDOW. Print from the new window.
SONGS: Please bring copies to the meeting of any song you think
would be good to add to our repertoire. Remember, our songs need
to be public domain or a copyright one of us owns & gives
permission to be used. We cannot use "cover tunes" or
popular tunes published (a) after 1922 in the U.S. or (b) less
than 96 years ago outside the U.S. as anything copyrighted requires
paying royalties at every step of use: arranging, publishing,
performing, something we just don't have a budget or administrative
time for. We do have a music library and donations of music published
1922 or before are very welcome.
INSTRUMENTS: We also would be happy to find loving homes for musical
instruments that are no longer being used, especially mountain
dulcimers, rhythm instruments, and parlor instruments such as
Autoharps, concertinas, etc. When we have loaners available, we
can offer a participant who can't afford to purchase an instrument
the opportunity to borrow one and earn permanent title to it by
participating regularly in the group for at least a year.
News for 2007
We had only two gigs for summer 2007.Memories
We had the pleasure of playing for the staff Christmas Party at COA in
December, 2001 and a Community
Arts Center coffeehouse in March, 2002. May 2002 and 2003 we thoroughly
enjoyed sharing our version of the ancient and honorable art of
Parlor Music with the seventh grade students at Ashland High
School during their special learning day at the fairgrounds.
Several years in a row various members entertained from 12 to
1 as a prelude to the Mifflin Village School Reunion Carry-In
Dinner. Mifflin School closed in 1936 but a surprising number
of former students including Marji's dad are still active in the
organization and enjoying life to the full.
In springtime, when St. Mary's of the Snows Elementary is looking
for assemblies, they call on us and we always say yes because we very
much enjoy sharing our parlor music with the happy friendly children of
that school.
We were booked to play July 7th, 2006 starting at 2:00 for the
Antique
Machinery Show of the Yesteryear Machinery Club at Ashland / West
Holmes Career Center on Route 60 between Ashland and Hayesville. Rumors
have been going the rounds since at least 1996 of a low-cost
performance license available for appearances such as this, but we have
not
been able to confirm the existence of any such arrangement. So, since
we couldn't afford a license, we played our usual public domain
repertoire which certainly
fit in with the antique theme.
Though you may never have heard of us, some of us have been playing
music together for more than twenty years. When Marji moved to Columbus
in the mid-1980s, she gathered some friends at her apartment once a
week to play music. At first they called themselves Friends In D, then
Leland Trace. After some shaking out, the group, renamed Marji Hazen's
Parlor Band played several years at the Ohio State Fair, also several
years at Nickleby's Bookstore Cafe, and at other venues in the Capitol
City, made an album, and even were invited to Mansfield to play at the
Richland County Fair. Pictures of those good times may come to the top
of the pile one of these days and get posted on this web site. Right
now, though, the only handy shots are from Ashland days.
Marji moved back to Ashland in the mid-90s and, with the permission
of her partner in music, Gail Reed, immediately re-organized The Third
Sunday Gathering which she and Gail had fostered all through their
Columbus days together, first in Galena and then in Sunbury. For
several years in the mid-90s, The Third Sunday Gathering met at Park
St. Brethren Church in Ashland. People drove in from as far away as the
Ohio River to play with 3SG and we truly had some fine fine gatherings.
Once all the local members were retired, the group decided to begin
meeting on Tuesday afternoons at the Ashland County Council on Aging
where comfort and convenience are always available to us. We truly miss
our faraway friends who are now too frail to drive all that distance to
play music with us. But they will always have a special place in our
hearts and a hearty welcome to our Tuesday afternoon sessions any time
they can contrive to join us for, truth to tell, we are really not up
to driving so far to see them either.
The
3rd Sunday Gathering at the Hayesville Opera House 1998
