Hi Mary, Jim Carroll gives some very good advice. Some folk songs that I sing are The Cornish Nightingale Tom Pierce Still I Love Him The Night Visiting Song The Barley Mow A Roving A New Jerusalem Adam in the Garden Beer Glorious Beer Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Bheir Me O Blow the Candle Out Blow the Man Down Blow Ye Winds in the Morning Bonnie Lass of Fyvie Botany Bay British Workman's Grave Careless Love Carlton Weaver Cathewsalem Chandler's Wife - The Chivalrous Shark Clementine Click Go The Shears Columbus Landed Here Columbus Stockade Country Vicar Crawdad Cripple Creek Cuckoo's Nest Dahn the Plug'Ole Danny Boy D-Day Dodgers Dead or Alive Dear Ol' Dutch Dear Old Shannon Shore Doodle Let Me Go Down by the Riverside Down in the Valley Drunken Sailor Early One Morning Ebeneezer - The Fields of Athenry - The Fireship - The Foggy Dew Foggy Mountain Top Fox - The Frankie and Johnny Froggy Went A Courting D Frozen Logger Gentleman Soldier Gnat - The Gold Rush is Over - The Golden Vanity Go to Sea Once More Goodnight Irene Goodnight Ladies Green Grow the Rushes Oh Greenland Fisheries Gypsy Rover Harbour Le Cou Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets I Wish I Was Single Again If I was the marrying kind Ilkley Moor Baht 'At I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen In Eleven More Months and Ten More Days In Me Liverpool Home In Mobile Island Woman I've Got Sixpence Jamaica Farewell Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Johnny Todd Jug of Punch Keeper - The Kilgarry Mountain Last Farewell - The Leave Her Johnny Leaving of Liverpool Little Boxes Little Sally Racket Maggie May D Mama Don't 'Low Master McGrath A Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner Mayor of Bayswater's Daughter Mermaid -The Michael Finnegan My Gal's a Corker My God How the Money Rolls In Nice Quiet Day Night Visiting Song No More Booze Nobby Hall Noreen Bawn Nutting Girl Oh Sir Jasper Old 97 Old King Cole Old Sow Song One Man Went to Mow O'Reilly's Daughter Paddy Lay Back Paper of Pins Putting on the Style Red River Valley Robert Emmett Roddy McCorley D Roll Alabama Roll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms Roll Your Leg Over Scarborough Fair Seven Dear Old Ladies South Australia A Spanish Ladies Thing - The Thrashing Machine Waltzing Matilda A Waters of Tyne Whip Jamboree Whiskey Johnny Wild Mountain Thyme A Woad Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies - The Wreck of Old 97 Well that is just a few to get you started. As Jim says sing in your own voice, Don't try to copy anyone. I know that some of these aren't strictly Folk. As you can guess I started with a few that came to mind and then I went to my song list.
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