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(A)
Acadian Driftwood
Acres of Clams
All Around The Hat
All The Tunes in the World
Amazing Grace
Amelia's Waltz
Andrew Rose
Annathea Stole a Stallion
Ard Tí Chuain/Quiet Land of Erin
Arthur McBride
Art Thieme's new cd w/lyrics
Auld Lang Syne
Auld Lang Syne
A Warning For Married Women/House Carpenter
(B)
Babes In The Wood
Ballad of Glencoe (See "Massacre of Glencoe," also)
Banks of Sicily
Barrett's Privateers
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen
Another: Barb'ry Allen
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of New Orleans
Be Thou My Vision / Rop Tú Mo Baile
Big Rock Candy Mountain, Burl Ives' version(good stuff on the origin)
Billy O'Shea - Shanty
Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
Black Velvet Band
Black Velvet Band
Bluenose
Bluenose
Bluenose
(De) Blue Tail Fly
The Boatman - Fear a Bhàta
Boil Dem Cabbage Down
Bonnie Jean Cameron
Bonny Portmore
Bonny Portmore
Bread & Roses - A Women's Labour Song
Buain Na Rainich / Tha Mi Sgìth
Bury me not on the Lone Prairie? (The Dying Cowboy)
C
Canadian Boat Song
Canticle From Scarborough Fair
Capital Punishment, songs about (1998)
Caribbean Music - Calypso to Reggae
Carol of the Bagpipes
Carrickfergus
Carrick Fergus
Carrick Fergus
Casey Jones
Casey Jones
Chastity Belt
Christmas Bells - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Christ Child Lullaby - Taladh Chriosta
Christmasse Comes But Once A Year variant of Greensleeves
Christmas in the Trenches
Cosher Bailey please see: Hob-i-derry Dando
Cotton Eyed Joe
Cowboy's Lament/Streets of Laredo
Croppy Boy
(D)
NEW:The Dark Isle (This is chronologically 1st)
Tune Req:The Dark Isle. Anyone kno (this is chronologically 2nd)
Dark Island
Dark Island 2
Deck The Hall / Nos Galen
Delia
Desiderata
Digital Tradition History
Digital Tradition, more about
Digital Tradition, a little more
Dixie; Dixie's Land
Dona Dona
Dona, Dona - Meaning
Don't Fence Me In
Don't Fence Me In with links to other threads
Down Our Street
Do Ye Ken John Peel?
Drinking Gourd
Drop of Nelson's Blood - Reality?
Dueling Banjos
(E)
EASY AND SLOW
Echo Carol (While By My Sheep) (Als ich bei meinen Schafen wach)
Ella Speed
English Country Garden
English version of German O Du Fröliche Three titles: O Du Fröliche, O Sanctissima, O Thou Joyful Day, and tune, Sicilian Mariners
Erin's Green Shore
(F)
Fairy Boy
False Bride/I Loved a Lad(Lass)
Farewell, Indiana
Farewell to Nova Scotia
Farewell Shanty Farewell To The Mountains (Davy Crockett)
Fear a Bhàta - The Boatman
Fields of Athenry
Fiddler's Green
Fill, Fill, a Run O
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Forty Below - Alternate Red River Valley
Four Marys
Frankie & Johnny - New Thread
Frankie & Johnny
Freeze the Balls off a Brass Monkey - Not a song, but the expression
(G)
Garryowen
Garden Party - See "Ricky Nelson - Garden Party"
The Gartan Mother's Lullaby
Gentleman Soldier/Sentry Box/Soldier's Cloak
Goin' Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains
Going To the West
Good bye Old Paint - Please see "Old Paint"
Goodnight Irene
Goodnight Loving Trail (thread title is Midnight Loving Trail
Good Old Rebel
Gospel Origin-Civil Rights & Labor Songs
Green Fields of France - See "No Man's Land"
Green grow - Green Grow the Laurels, Green Grow the Lilacs, The Green Laurel, The Orange and Blue. This song cluster discussed at length in "Why Mexicans Call Them Gringos." Also see LAUREL
Greensleeves
Greensleeves
Gypsy Rover
Gypsy Rover
(see next posting for continuation)