Just a few of each; if I had more, I'd make a whole page. Suggestions welcomed!
[addiction] Tim Grimm\ Sam Stone\ Names\ Wind River (or John Prine's original) [agnostic] Tom Paxton I Can’t Help But I Wonder Where I’m Bound Iris DeMent - Let the Mystery Be - Infamous Angel Lou & Peter Berryman - After Life Goes By - The Pink One Susan Werner - Probably Not - The Gospel Truth [airships, blimps, zeppelins, dirigibles, balloons] Jeff Warner\ Come Take a Trip in My Airship\ Jolly Tinker\ Self Charlie Poole\ Come Take A Trip in My Airship\ You Ain't Talking To Me\ Sony [amputation] Eric Bogle\ And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Guy Clark\ Soldiers Joy, 1864\ The Dark [animal rights] The Smelter Rats \ Every Time I Go To Town \ Done Dead And Gone \ Self (stop kicking my dog around) [anorexia nervosa] Cosy Sheridan - Iphigenia - The Pomegranate Seed [anti-love] Christine Lavin\ Happydance\ Happydance of the Xenophobe\ Yellow Tail The Meat Purveyors\ Burr Under My Saddle\ Someday Things Will Be Much Worse\ Bloodshot Bob Dylan\ Postively 4th Street [astrology] Kate Rusby\ Planets\ Awkward Annie\ Pure Jen Spool\ Stargazer\ Soul Threads\ Wildplum [atheist] Utah Phillips - Pie in the Sky Robbie Fulks - God isn't real [Atlantis] Andrew McKnight - Atlantis - Beyond Borders (Falling Mountain) [banjo] Cathy Fink w/Tony Trishka\ Banjo Pickin' Girl\ Banjo Talkin'\ Rounder [basketball] David Roth - The Dream - Irreconcilable Similarities - Wind River [Bastille Day - July 14th] Zoe Lewis - Bastille Day - Fishbone Wishbone Funnybone Rush - Bastille Day [billionaire] John Hartford\ Howard Hughes' Blues\ Morning Bugle\ Rounder [bus] Del Rey \ The Bus Song \ http://hobemianrecords.com/45A [busking] Pete Morton\ The Busker's Song\ Flying an Unknown Flag\ Harbour Town Joni Mitchell\ For Free [Cajun, zydeco] Chubby Carrier\ Father of Fun\ Bayou Road\ Swampadellic [Canadian provinces] Laura Love\ Saskatchewan (Juneteenth)\ NeGrass\ Octoroon Biography [candy] Aimee Mann\ Red Vines [cats] My Old Cat by Heidi Muller on the CD Giving Back Calico Cat by Marie-Lynn Hammond and Doug Bowes on the CD Marie-Lynn Hammond/Vignettes Jamie Anderson / When Cats Take Over the World / Never Assume Sylvia Herold & Euphonia\ Kitty and I\ Lovely Nancy\ Self [chess] Dylan's "Only a Pawn in Their Game" Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" Joe Glazer's "Ballad of Bobby Fischer" Peter Himmelman \ Checkmate Dougie Mcclean - Marching Mystery CD by same title "Your Move" was covered by Amy Fradon and Leslie Ritter on the CD "Take Me Home" in the mid-90's. Faith Petric recorded a song on her CD Faith's Favorites titled "Grandma's Battle Cry" (Lyrics by Irene Paull) [children and parenting] J.E Mainer's Mountaineers / Mama Don't Allow / Run Mountain Rebel Voices\ Day Care\ Warning Women at Work\ Self [circumcision] Jess Grant / For My Foreskin / The Washington Waltz [clothing] BKO \ Pants \ Moon Over Mendocino \ Self [clutter, too much stuff] Kathy Kallick \ "My House" "The Stuff Song" by Lou & Peter Berryman John Flynns \ Who's Whose Lois Morton \ Clutter 'Dad's Yard' by Catie Curtis "On The Other Shore" by the Austin Lounge Lizards Too Much Stuff...Delbert McClinton---One of the Fortunate Few Too Much Stuff---Leon Bibb---Natural Light Love My Stuff---Charlie Patton--King of the Delta Blues (I think it fits) My Old Man's Stuff---Tom Roznowski---A Well Traveled Porch Shel Silverstein "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Not Take The Garbage Out)" [cocaine] Dave Van Ronk / Cocaine Blues Old Crow Medicine Show\ Tell It To Me\ O.C.M.S.\ Nettwerk America [cooking] Baking Pies by Patty Griffin WB Reid & Bonnie Zahnow\ Chitlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County\ Duck Shoes\ Self [cross dressing] Peter, Paul & Mary \ Cruel War [Custer] Jeffrey Foucalt\ Pearl Handled Pistol\ Stripping Cane\ Signature [Dancing] Ellen Bukstel \ Wanna Dance Tim O'Brien\ Get Out There And Dance\ Chameleon\ Proper Jim Page\ I'd Rather Be Dancing\ Head Full of Pictures\ Self Kristina Olsen\ Your Little Brother Sure Can Dance [the great Depression] Mary Flower\ Brother, Can You Spare A Dime\ Bywater Dance\ Yellow Dog Joel Mabus\ Liza Jane\ The Banjo Monologues\ Fossil [doctors, physicians, medicine] Steve Price\ Have a Seat\ Awake\ Self Bowzer and Blue\ Where The Sun Don't Shine\ Humor For Boomers (The colorectal surgeon's song) Al Grierson\ Sunday Way Up Yonder\ Things That Never Added Up To Me\ Self Dan Reeder\ You'll Never Surf Again\ Sweetheart\ Oh Boy [domestic violence] The House Jack Built \ Maria Dunn \ From Where I Stand (1998) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music) You Can't Take That Away \ Maria Dunn \ The Peddler (2008) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music) [drug addiction] Jeni & Billy \ Oxycodone \ Jewell Ridge Coal \ self [elections] Steve Goodman / The Essential Steve Goodman / Election Year Rag Suffering Democrary / Ken Waldman [Elvis Presley - about] John Stewart\ I Want To Be Elvis Rebecca Cohen\ 24-Hour Church of Elvis\ You Hung the Moon\ self Scott & Michelle Dalziel\ I Think I Saw Elvis\ Thinking Out Loud\ Self Gillian Welch\ Elvis Presley Blues\ Time (The Revelator)\ Acony [email] Carrie Newcomer\ Don't Push Send\ The Geography Of Light\ Philo/Rounder [epiphany] Natasha Borzilova \ Water and Wood \ Balancing Act [evolution] Chris Smither\ Origin of Species\ Leave the Light On\ Signature [farewell or closing songs] Auld Lang Syne (of course) The Voice Squad\ The Parting Glass Rose Laughlin\ Red is the Rose\ Souvenir\ Self [fishing] Finest Kind\ Squid Jiggin' Ground\ Heart's Delight\ Fallen Angle Archie Fisher\ Final Trawl\ Windward Away\ Red House The Refugees\ Fishin' in the Dark\ Unbound\ Wabuho [flowers] Creeping Time\ Rhododendrons\ Live 2002\ Self [genealogy] New River Line / Father's Family Tree / Chasing My Dreams / Kindred Joel Mabus\ Cindy\ The Banjo Monologues\ Fossil [great divide] Emmylou Harris\ Beyond The Great Divide\ All I Intended To Be\ Nonesuch Kate Wolf / Across the Great Divide Utah Phillips / Railroading on the Great Divide Arlo Guthrie\ When The Cactus is in Bloom\ Arlo Guthrie\ Koch [guns] Cheryl Wheeler / If It Were Up To Me / Sylvia Hotel [happiness] Paul Anastasio & Tony Marcus\ I Want to be Happy\ Anything Goes!\ Self [hats] W.B. Reid & Bonnie Zahnow\ Stacker Lee\ Poca River Blues\ Self (Stetson) [hello] John Prine / Hello in There Doc Watson with David Holt\ The Telephone Girl\ Legacy\ High Windy [high school] Jane Gillman & Darcy Deaville\ High School Vision\ Ways to Fly\ Flying Fish Pat Donohue\ High School\ Life Stories\ Blue Sky [home-made / do it yourself] Truckstop Honeymoon: Homemade Haircut (Homemade Haircut) Ian Robb: Garnet’s Home-Made Beer (From Different Angels) Charlie Maguire's "Talking Home Improvement" and sort of: Joel Mabus: Duct Tape Blues (Retold) (maybe) John McCutcheon: Duct Tape (Stand Up!) J.P. Jones \ Dream House "Right said Fred" [hootenanny] Laura Veirs \ Devil's Hootenanny \ Troubled by the Fire \ Bella Union [horses] Running Horae \ POCO \ King Easy Radio Sampler v 2 \ King Easy Silver Palomino \ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN \ Devils & Dust \ Col Thicker Than Water \ ANNIE GALLUP \ Pearl Street \ fifty/fifty Luis \ KATE MCDONELL \ Where the Mangoes Ae \ Appleseed Small Victory \ CHRIS VALLILLO \ The Dance \ Gin Ridge Running Wile \ TOM T HALL \ For the People in the Last Hard Town \ Mercury Jeffrey Foucault\ Secretariat [hot foot] Robert Johnson / Hellhound on my Trail [hurricane] Lori B\ Hurricane Child\ Hurricane Child\ Self Steve Gillette\ The Eye of the Hurricane\ Texas & Tennessee\ Redwing Richard Shindell\ Money for Floods\ Reunion Hill\ Shanachie [insomnia] Lynne Hanson \ How Little I Sleep \ Eleven Months \ Self [in my hand] MARK DAVIS --- "Flowers in my hand" Ry Cooder My Name Is Buddy suitcase in my hand TANGLEWEED --- "With a bottle in my hand / Farewell blues" George Formby\ With My Little Ukulele in My Hand\ The Ukulele Man [insects] Cephas & Wiggins\ Spider Woman\ Homemade\ Alligator Antsy McClain\ Full Moon Nights in Pine View Heights\ Trailercana\ DPR (cicadas) [jail, prison, incarceration] Kamm & MacDonald - If I Could Fly - Fields of Elysian Joe Giacoio\ Incarcerated Woman\ I Sing the Body Acoustic\ Romantic Devil [kissing] Reeltime Travelers\ Kiss Me Quick Papas Coming\ Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time\ Yodel-Ay-Hee [Lewis & Clark] Laura Love\ Shenandoah\ Fourteen Days\ Zoe James Keelaghan\ Cold Missouri Waters\ Then Again\ Jericho Beach Phil & Vivian Williams\ Fiddle Tunes of the Lewis & Clark Era\ Voyager (whole CD) [life is short] Mavlina Reynolds\ Turn Around (covered by many) John Flynn\ Blink\ Two Wolves\ Metta Four [lullabies] Hilary Field & Patrice O'Neill\ Este Nińo Lindo\ Siente\ Yellow Tail Records Kris Delmhorst\ Lullaby 101\ Five Stories\ Catalyst [melodica] Victoria Vox\ Guilty\ And Her Jumping Flea\ Obus Kelly Joe Phelps\ Tunesmith Retrofit\ Tunesmith Retrofit\ Rounder Kim Townsend\ Green Chile Love Song\ Wayworn Traveler\ Pokey [menopause] Ellen Bukstel \ Is It Hot In Here, Or Is It Me? [Mexican-American War] Gráda \ John Riley \ Natural Angle \ Compass Sands Of Mexico \ Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder \ San Patricio [minstrel songs] Jim Kweskin\ The Preacher and the Bear\ Side by Side\ Mountain Railroad [mobile home, trailer, motorhome] Steve Goodman, God Bless Our Mobile Home, Unfinished Business Roy Bookbinder, Gonna Get Myself a Motorhome, Bookeroo! Jesse Colin Young, Motorhome, Songbird Roger Miller \ King of the Road [mouth music] The Bothy Band / Fionnghuala / Live in Concert / Green Linnet Catherine Ann MacPhee\ Puirt - Ci'n Fhidheall etc.\ Looking Back\ Greentrax [murder] The Elder Sister \ Maria Dunn \ The Peddler \ Self (Distant Whisper Music) Maggie Thompson \ Maria Dunn \ For A Song (2001) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music) [mythical creatures - mermaids, unicorns, etc.] Baby Gramps\ Old Man of the Sea\ Victory Music Revue\ Victory [native Americans, American Indians] Patrick Sky\ Ballad Of Ira Hayes\ Patrick Sky\ Vanguard Daniel & Amy Carwile\ Chief Sitting Bull\ Col Arco\ Self Diana Jones\ Pony\ My Remembrance of You\ Newsong Marty Stuart\ Wounded Knee\ Badlands\ Universal South (whole CD) Rebel Voices\ If You Can See Me\ A Piece of the Wall\ Self (Leonard Peltier) Jim Page\ Song for Leonard Peltier\ Live at Folklife 1991\ Self [nautical, boats, ships, ferries] Jim Page\ The Whidbey Island Overwater Transfer Ferry Line\ Seattle Songs\ Self Shanghaied on the Willamette\ Harbo and Samuelson\ Weighing Anchor\ Self Grit Laskin\ When I Was a Lad\ Unabashedly Folk\ Borealis [nieces] Carrie Newcomer's "Amelia almost 13" MERMAID AVENUE "Walt Whitman's Niece." "The B's Nieces" Top Drawer String Band / eponymous / Fossil 1199 (instrumental) [nothing] Canote Bros.\ I've Got Nothin'\ Thinga-Ma-Jig\ Clone Tone Robin Dale Ford\ Nothing More Than Nothing\ Ain't That Skippin' & Flyin'\ 10th Planet [office] Sam Bisbee\ Cubicle Love Song [OK, Okay] Susan Werner \ (It's Ok To) Feel Good \ New Non-Fiction \ Self Released Hank Williams \ Everything’s Okay \ Revealed: Luke the Drifter \ Time Life [parenting] Anais Mitchell \ Two Kids \ Hymns For The Exiled \ Waterbug Greg Brown\ You Might As Well Go To Sleep\ Bath Tub Blues\ Red House Undertakin' Daddies\ Holding Things Together\ Devil in the Rearview\ Caribou Kathy Kallick / Use a Napkin (Not your Mom) Alan Jabbour & Ken Perlman\ Rocking the Babies to Sleep\ Southern Summits\ Self [pioneers, the frontier, the gold rush] Hank Cramer \ The Oregon Trail \ West By Northwest \ Self Larry Hanks \ Days Of '49 \ Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail \ Dandelion [pirates] Tanglefoot\ Successful Pirates/Traighli Bay\ Captured Live\ Borealis [playing cards] Bob Dylan\ Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts\ Blood on the Tracks (also on Tom Russell's Indians CD) Blind Lemon Jefferson\ Jack of Diamonds [pop covers] Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy\ Walk Away Renee\ Adieu False Heart\ Vanguard [potatoes] Rayna Gellert\ Great Big Taters in the Sandy Land\ Ways of the World\ Yadel-Ay-Hee [radio] Hackensaw Boys\ Radio\ Look Out!\ Nettwerk [robots] Orville Johnson And Mark Graham\ Tennessee Robot\ Still Goin' Strong\ Self [rodents] Patty Griffin \ I Smell A Rat \ Downtown Church \ Credential [school and teachers] David Roth\ Thank You Mr. Ryan\ Digging Through My Closet\ Folk Era Mary Black / School Day's Over / Song For Ireland The Old Schoolmaster,and The Old Schoolmistress. True songs about actual persons Can be found on The Kinfolk CD MEMORIES from Greenbrier Records. [seduction] Sylvia Herrold\ Let's Get Friendly Del Rey\ Smoke a Cigarette First [segue] Utah Philips & Ani DiFranco\ Heroes\ The Past Didn't Go Anywhere\ Righteous Babe Tim Grimm\ Pretty Boy Floyd\ Names (or any bank robber song) Alison Younger / Lord Franklin / Yelp! (Mrs Ackroyd) followed by James Keelaghan (any song) Gibb Todd\ Where the Bangelows Are\ Goin' Home\ Compass Del Rey\ A Bungalow in Bangalow\ X-Rey Guitar\ Hobemian Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen w/Dave Van Ronk\ Froggy Went A-Courting\ Never Grow Up\ Flying Fish Bob Dylan\ Froggie Went A-Courtin'\ Gather Round (VA)\ Sony BMG Dick Gaughan\ Waist Deep in the Big Muddy\ Where Have All The Flowers Gone (VA)\ Appleseed Pat Humphries\ Swimming to the Other Side\ Same Rain\ Self [shakespeare] The Gibson Brothers\ Ophelia\ Long Way Back Home\ Sugar Hill [silver] Anne & Pete Sibley\ This Silver Ring\ Will You Walk With Me\ Self Solas\ Silver Dagger\ Reunion\ Compass [smile] Janet Klein & her Parlor Boys\ Smile Your Bluesies Away\ Put a Flavor to Love\ Self [solitaire] The Dreamsicles\ Really Good At Loving You\ Luv Songs for Grownups\ Self Roger Miller\ Flowers on the Wall [Spanish-American War] The New Lost City Ramblers\ The Battleship of Maine\ The Early Years\ Smithsonian/Folkways [stress and office work] "VDT" by Tom Juravich "high on stress" by Celtic Elvis Stan Rogers singing "The White Collar Holler" on "Between the Breaks...Live." Second Opinion (trio from East Lansing, MI) singing "My Computer's Down" Things to Do by Lui CollinsTodd Snyder - tension David Ippolitto - Relax It' Only Life Christine Lavin - A Question of Tempo "In Tall Buildings" by John Hartford 'Stress' by Jim Infantino "Mr. Endicott" by Uncle Monk "Mercury's Wings" by Karen Mal Huddie Leadbetter: "Relax Your Mind" *We're About Nine* doing the tune "Nobody's Flying This Plane". Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 Cheryl Wheeler: Unworthy [subjunctive - wrong] Jack Williams\ Wish I Was (A Willow Tree)\ Don't Let Go!\ Wind River [surfing] Dan Reeder\ You'll Never Surf Again\ Sweetheart\ Oh Boy [tacoma] Caroline Herring\ Tacoma Blues\ Wellspring\ Blue Corn Neko Case & Her Boyfriends\ Thrice All American\ No Depression: What It Sounds Like, Vol. 1 [telephone] The Hunger Mountain Boys\ No Phone No Tone\ Three\ Old-Fi [television] Maria Gillard has a good song too, "When I Had No TV," on "Little Rose" Cheryl Wheeler's cranky song about her cable being off -- just called "TV," maybe? And maybe on "Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar?" Kristina Olsen\ Better Than TV\ Live from Around the World [terrorism, GWOT] "Lockerbie" on the CD "Espresso Ecstasy" by Jack Kid [therapy, psychiatry, psyshology] Mimi & Richard Farina\ Pack Up Your Sorrows\ Pack Up Your Sorrows\ Vanguard Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys\ Stumbling Block\ Foggy Highway\ Cooking Vinyl Dar Williams - that song that says "makes you selfish and in love with your shrink" Antsy McClain\ Prozac Made Me Stay\ Trailercana\ DPR David Roth\ Masters Degree Dar Williams\ Buzzer\ Promised Land\ Razor & Tie [tiki] John Hiatt - The Tiki Bar is Open (album title) David Lindley - "Tiki Torches at Twilight" - VERY GREASY (Elektra) - 1988 Yma Sumac / Kon Tiki / Queen of the Exotica / Proper STILLWAY & BONHAM / Tiki Tantrum / Stillway & Bonham (NPP) Guitars and Tiki Bars - Kenny Chesney [three-way] K.C. Groves\ Thinking in Terms\ Something Familiar\ Self [tractors] Art Stevenson & High Water\ John Deere\ John Deere\ Wolf Tracks Country Gazette\ Sweet Allis Chalmers\ Hello, Operator\ Flying Fish [treading water] Joe Jencks\ Come With Me\ The Candle and the Flame\ Turtle Bear Ali Marcus\ Treading Water\ The Other Side\ Turtle Rock [tsunami] Eliza Gilkyson's "Requiem" (Paradise Hotel) [tuba bass] Sherry Austin\ Hallelujah\ Drive on Back\ Barking Topiary [underwear] A Modest Proposal (Long Underwear Song) \ FRED SMALL \ Love's Gonna Carry Us \ Aquifer Underwear \ LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III \ Little Ship \ Virgin Life Is Too Short \ BOB GRAMANN \ Grandad Planted Trees \ Self [vegan / vegetarian] Emerald City Jug Band\ Eat Organic\ Best of\ Self Vegan Song/Lenny Solomon/Armando's Pie//solomonband.com When They Close the Golden Arches/Bob Pyle/Apples and Oranges//bobpyle.com Dana Lyons - Cows with Guns [virginity] Steve Guthe and Kat Eggleston\ Jolly Beggar\ The Ferryboat Musicians\ Skookumchuck [volcano] Anne Hills\ Last Day of Pompeii\ Don't Panic\ Flying Fish Edie Brickell\ Volcano\ Volcano Jim & Jennie & The Pinetops\ Mt. St. Helens\ Rivers Roll On By\ Bloodshot [war of 1812] SHERWIN & PAM LINTON - Battle of New Orleans Driftwood on the River - Black Gold [wedding] Eve Goldberg/Do You Wanna Get Married/A Kinder Season/Borealis Hot Buttered Rum\ Wedding Day\ Well-Oiled Machine\ Harmonized IIIrd Tyme out / John & Mary / John & Mary Jody Kessler / The Ballad of Chris & Pat / No Solid Ground (or SingOut! 48/2 sampler) [wood] Brad Colerick\ Cottonwood\ Cottonwood\ Back 9 [work] Chuck McCabe \ Contractor \ Creatures Of Habit \ Self Linda Waterfall \ Lewiston Factory Girls \ Place Of Refuge \ Self [yodel] Mike Johnson\ Yeah, I'm a Cowboy\ The Rough Guide to Yodel (VA)\ Rough Guides [Needs checking out] Martin Simpson\ Lakes of Champlain\ Prodigal Son\ Compass (War of 1812???)
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