Scott, Bennett

(1871-1930)

A provisional list of songs he wrote with AJ Mills which have been collected from traditional singers:

  1. Big Ben Struck One
  2. Darling Mabel 
  3. Fall in and Follow Me 
  4. Follow the sergeant (with Fred Godfrey)
  5. Has anyone seen a German band? 
  6. Hear the pipers calling, Jennie Mine
  7. I got married this morning
  8. I wonder if you miss me sometimes (I wonder if you care) 
  9. Make your mind up, Maggie McKenzie.
  10. Meet me by moonlight alone : mock ballad
  11. Nelson from his monument
  12. Riddle-me-ree (a version of … )
  13. Sailing in my balloon
  14. Ship Ahoy (All the nice girls love a sailor) 
  15. Sing a song of Bonnie Scotland 
  16. Smoke goes up the chimney just the same, The
  17. Snowflakes
  18. Take me back to dear old Blighty (with Fred Godfrey)
  19. There’s a girl wanted there
  20. Where, oh! where is my Mary Ellen?
  21. The White silk dress

Songs Bennett Scott wrote alone or with others:

  1. All that glitters isn’t gold
  2. It’s a different girl again! : Hello! hello! hello!
  3. It’s a wonder I’m alive to tell the tale (with Edgar Bateman)
  4. Old Father Christmas
  5. One legged family, The aka Bumpity Bump.

All the known songs: This list probably underestimates his full output, but represents my most complete list of his songs that were published as sheet music, with cross-references to the Roud Indexes where they exist.