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Author: Charles Causley, CBE (1917-2003)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Farewell, Aggie Weston
Survivor's Leave
Union Street
Union Street

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics.
A blue rectangle containing a language code such as ENG indicates the presence of a translation to that language. A grey rectangle such as FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but is missing.

Able Seaman Hodge remembers Ceylon (O the blackthorn and the wild cherry! ) (from Farewell, Aggie Weston) [x] *
M. Hurd: Able Seaman Hodge remembers Ceylon

As I went home zig-zag - M. Head [x] *
At Bayeux (I walked where in their talking graves) (from Union Street) - N. Fulton [x] *
At Falaise (See him ride the roaring air) (from Union Street) - N. Fulton [x] *
At Lisieux (I am the great sun, but you do not see me ) (from Union Street) - N. Fulton *
At the British War Cemetary, Bayeux (I walked where in their talking graves) (from Union Street) [x] *
N. Fulton: At Bayeux

At the Statue of William the Conqueror, Falaise (See him ride the roaring air) (from Union Street) [x] *
N. Fulton: At Falaise

By the crunching, Cornish sea *
B. Roe: Grave by the sea

Convoy (Draw the blanket of ocean) (from Farewell, Aggie Weston) - M. Hurd [x] *
Cowboy song - J. Beeson [x] *
Don't you love my baby, mam [x] *
B. Roe: Infant song

Draw the blanket of ocean (from Farewell, Aggie Weston) [x] *
M. Hurd: Convoy

Elizabethan Sailor's Song (My love my love is a green boxtree) (from Farewell, Aggie Weston) [x] *
M. Hurd, M. Horder: Elizabethan Sailor's Song

Grave by the sea (By the crunching, Cornish sea ) - B. Roe *
I am the Great Sun (I am the great sun, but you do not see me ) (from Union Street) *
B. Roe: I am the Great Sun
M. Horder: I am the great sun
N. Fulton: At Lisieux

I am the great sun, but you do not see me (from Union Street) *
B. Roe: I am the Great Sun
M. Horder: I am the great sun
N. Fulton: At Lisieux

I had a silver penny and an apricot tree (from Union Street) [x] *
B. Roe, M. Horder: Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience

I saw a jolly hunter - M. Horder, M. Horder [x] *
I walked where in their talking graves (from Union Street) [x] *
N. Fulton: At Bayeux

Infant song (Don't you love my baby, mam) - B. Roe [x] *
Innocent's song (Who's that knocking on the window ) - D. Thomas, M. Horder [x] *
Lord, the snowful sky (from Survivor's Leave) [x] *
D. Thomas, M. Hurd, M. Horder: Sailor's carol

Mary, Mary Magdalene - M. Head [x] *
My love my love is a green boxtree (from Farewell, Aggie Weston) [x] *
M. Hurd, M. Horder: Elizabethan Sailor's Song

My young man's a Cornishman (My young man's a Cornishman ) - M. Head *
My young man's a Cornishman *
M. Head: My young man's a Cornishman

Now (Now that you leave me for that other friend) - B. Roe *
Now that you leave me for that other friend *
B. Roe: Now

Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience (I had a silver penny and an apricot tree) (from Union Street) - B. Roe, M. Horder [x] *
O the blackthorn and the wild cherry! (from Farewell, Aggie Weston) [x] *
M. Hurd: Able Seaman Hodge remembers Ceylon

On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas (On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas) - D. Thomas [x] *
On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas [x] *
D. Thomas: On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas

Sailor's carol (Lord, the snowful sky ) (from Survivor's Leave) - D. Thomas, M. Hurd, M. Horder [x] *
See him ride the roaring air (from Union Street) [x] *
N. Fulton: At Falaise

See the moon her yellow landau (from Survivor's Leave) [x] *
M. Hurd: Shore leave

Shore leave (See the moon her yellow landau) (from Survivor's Leave) - M. Hurd [x] *
Song of the dying gunner - M. Horder [x] *
Tell me, Sarah Jane - M. Horder [x] *
Timothy Winters (from Union Street) - M. Horder, T. Southam [x] *
Who's that knocking on the window [x] *
D. Thomas, M. Horder: Innocent's song

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