Well, here goes:

I have Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book it has quite a bit of songs in it, published by Oak Publications..

The Irish Songbook (the Clancy Brothers) has 75 songs in it and published by Oak Publications.

The Joan Baez Songbook it has many of the ballads she's known for...published by Ryerson Music Publishers, Inc.

I have the aforementioned American Ballads and Folk Songs, Lomax and Lomax...

Folk Songs of North America, Alan Lomax published by Dooubleday. Has many wonderful songs in here including 8 verses to Tom Dula.

The autobiographical songbook Where Have All The Flowers Gone by Pete Seeger. It's a history of his life through prose and song. Published by Sing Out!

The Collected Reprints From Sing Out! Magazine Volumes 7-12, has many wonderful songs in here too...

The People's Songbook, pretty self explanatory....published by Boni and Gaer

Songs By Woody Guthrie, has forty-three of his songs in it, including his full version of This Land Is Your Land.

The latest edition of the IWW's Little Red Songbook.

There might be one or two more, but I'd have to dig them up....wonderful idea BTW.

Amergin