Just for the edification of any leftpondians who might be curious:

We don't have RUS in the UK, but we do have some widely used songbooks. In Scotland the ones you see most often are:

- The Scots Folksinger (ed. Norman Buchan and somebody else)
- Soodlum's Irish Ballads (4 booklets)
- Songs and Ballads Popular in Ireland (3 or 4 booklets)

The first two are fine and I've used them myself. I've once seen Cathal McConnell singing out of the last one. Personally I don't have any use for it.

Maybe the Penguin Book of English Folksongs is about as popular south of the border.

But NOBODY sings in chorus to any of these, nor would you ever expect to see more than one copy open at a time. If people have books with them, nearly always they'll be folders of personal selections.