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O I'm a Jolly Bachelor [Chas. Super and Fred B. Holmes, 1860] | Popup Midi Player |
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O Shepherd, O Shepherd ((Joe - as far as I can tell this midi is the same as the one below except for volume - lmp)) | Popup Midi Player |
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O Shepherd, O Shepherd (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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O'Reilly And The Big McNeill | Popup Midi Player |
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O/ro/ se/ do bheatha 'bhaile | Popup Midi Player |
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The Oakham Poachers | Popup Midi Player |
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The Obituary [Jeri Corlew] | Popup Midi Player |
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Off To California (one of many versions at JC's ABC Tunefinder) | Popup Midi Player |
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oganaigh oig | Popup Midi Player |
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Oh, How I hate to get up in the Morning | Popup Midi Player |
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Ohio (Old Macdougal Had a Farm) (from Tommy's Tunes, 1917) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Apple Tree | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Bonebags [Jimmy Eaton] (from Music Near and Far, the 1956 Silver Burdett fourth-grade music textbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Christmas Returned [Mathew Lock] | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Cock Crows | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Doorstep (vocal line) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Doorstep (with piano part and harmonies) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Dun Cow | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Fid | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Figurehead Carver (midi by Blessings Barbara) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Fish Song | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Folks At Home | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Fox Wassail (2) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Geezer (Traditional American Folk Songs from the Frank & Anne Warner Collection, #182) | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Gospel Ship | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Gray Horse Came Tearing Through The Wilderness (Source: Thomas W. Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes, 1922, 1949, 1991 ) | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Kentucky Home | Popup Midi Player |
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Old King Coul (3) (per malcolm Douglas:
An 18th century Scottish version of the well-known song. Midi made from notation in Songs of
Scotland vol.2 (ed. Myles B. Foster, undated; presumably late C19), where the tune is simply described as "ancient". The DT file
points out that lines 5 and 6 of the text are omitted in the Scots Musical Museum, where the tune (presumably the same as the one I
quote) was given, so it should be noted that the lines
And every fidler was a very good fidler,
And a very good fidler was he.
do not have music prescribed. I don't know what the best way around this is; Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time) has
two English versions, but the one with the extra lines is very different to the SMM tune, which is a variant of the tune from John Gay's
Achilles, which Chappell also quotes. Best for now, I think, to note that the text from Herd given in the DT has no tune, but that the
tune I give is the one to which it was actually sung, minus those two lines. Doubtless people can improvise the rest if they wish) | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Mac Donald Had a Farm (McDonald's Farm) (#125a from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Man From Lee (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Man from the Old Country (Child #10) (from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs, #4e, The Miller's Daughters.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Man's Tale/Old Man's Song [Ian Campbell] (Properly called The Old Man's Song;set to the tune of Nicky
Tams. Midi made from notation in The Big Red Songbook (Pluto Press, 1977).
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Old Militia Song (see also The Dorset Militia Song
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Old Miner ( The song was published in
Roy Palmer's Songs of the Midlands (1972); it was collected by John Moreton in the early 1960s, from an unnamed source. Palmer
notes:
"Sung by an old miner in Haunchwood Pit, Nuneaton, Warwickshire... The pit is now closed. The informant originated in Durham,
where he had learned the tune. The words were his own."
see thread for text.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Molly Hare | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Robin Adair | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Songs (Words by Bob Copper, tune by Peter Bellamy) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Old Spinning Wheel | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Stepstone | Popup Midi Player |
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Old Tante Koba (from the Marais & Miranda songbook, Folk Song Jamboree) | Popup Midi Player |
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On Board of a Man of War O | Popup Midi Player |
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On Board of a Man of War O (from Maud Karpeles (ed), Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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On Board of the Kangaroo (from Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas) | Popup Midi Player |
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On Board of the Kangaroo [Harry Clifton] | Popup Midi Player |
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On Eagle's Wings | Popup Midi Player |
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On Monday Morning (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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On Sedgemoor (The Marsh Fever) ( From Ruth L. Tongue's book, The Chime Child) | Popup Midi Player |
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On The Good Ship Enterprise | Popup Midi Player |
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On the Lac San Pierre (from Franz Lee Rickaby's Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy) | Popup Midi Player |
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On The Road To Mandalay | Popup Midi Player |
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Once I Had a True Love (version of As Sylvie Lay Sleeping:
an 18th century example of the tune, from Wright's
Complete Tutor For Ye [sic] Flute, c.1733, quoted by Stephen Sedley (The Seeds of Love, 1967).) | Popup Midi Player |
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Once I Had a Truelove (from Wright's
Complete Tutor For Ye [sic] Flute, c.1733.
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Once I Had an Old Grey Mare (from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) | Popup Midi Player |
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Once I Had an Old Grey Mare (from Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles, English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians, vol.II no.223A, p.326.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Once there were Green Fields (orchestrated) | Popup Midi Player |
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One I Love [Jean Ritchie] (from Jean Ritchie's "Celebration of Life" Songbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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One Night As I Lay On My Bed (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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One Night Upon My Rambles (first published in the Journal of the Folk Song Society (vol. I, number 3, 1904).
W. Percy Merrick got it from Henry Hills (c. 1831-1901), of Lodsworth, near
Petworth in Sussex. He had learned it from his mother
tune used for Reynardine (2)) | Popup Midi Player |
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One Tin Soldier | Popup Midi Player |
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One World (from the Girl Scout Sangam Git songbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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Only Our Rivers Run Free | Popup Midi Player |
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Oranges and Lemons (say the bells of....) (from The Singing Game by Iona and Peter Opie) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Orphans' Lament (Two Little Children) [As sung by Jean Ritchie] (from the Folkways CD "Precious Memories.") | Popup Midi Player |
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The Outlandish Knight (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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T' Owd Yowe Wi' One Horn (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Owl and the Pussycat | Popup Midi Player |
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Oxford City (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Oyster Girl (from Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland, by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) | Popup Midi Player |
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Packington's Pound (A caveat for Cutpurses) | Popup Midi Player |
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Paddle Your Own Canoe [lyrics by Harry Clifton, Tune by Charles Coote, Jr] | Popup Midi Player |
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Paddy McGinty's Goat | Popup Midi Player |
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Paddy on the Road (also known as Building Up and Tearing England Down) | Popup Midi Player |
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Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore | Popup Midi Player |
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Paddy, Get Back | Popup Midi Player |
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The Painful Plough | Popup Midi Player |
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Papaya Tree / Leron Leron Sinta (Filipino folk song, also found in American school songbooks) | Popup Midi Player |
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Passing Through [Dick Blakeslee] (from Lift Every Voice!: The Second People's Songbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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Patrick's Arrival | Popup Midi Player |
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Pauvre Soldat | Popup Midi Player |
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Pavanne et Galliard de la Chatte [Kathleen LaFrance] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Paw-Paw Patch (from Lomax: The Folk Songs of North America) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Pawky Duke [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | Popup Midi Player |
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Peace I Ask of Thee Oh River (from the memory of pattyClink) | Popup Midi Player |
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Peace in the Valley [Thomas A. Dorsey] | Popup Midi Player |
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Peace Round [Jean Ritchie] (from Celebration of Life songbook, Jean Ritchie, 1971) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Peanut Stand (from Oscar Brand's Singing Holidays Songbook (Knopf, 1957 - page 211)
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The Pear Tree (Version from Frank Hinchliffe of Sheffield. Midi made from notation in The South Riding Song Book (Paul Davenport, 1998).
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Pearl Bryan (from Brewster, Ballads and Songs of Indiana) | Popup Midi Player |
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Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) (fro Something to Sing About, Okun) | Popup Midi Player |
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Peigin Leitir Moir | Popup Midi Player |
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The Pender Harbour Fisherman | Popup Midi Player |
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Pennyworth of Pins (Example 1 of 3 cites Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933) for
tune; midi made from notation in that book. In Moffat it is called I'll Gie You A Pennyworth O' Preens; the text differs just slightly
from the DT file, and for the sake of understanding how the tune fits should be indicated here:
I'll gie you a penny-worth o' preens,
That's aye the way that love begins;
If you'll walk wi' me, ladye,
If you'll walk wi' me, ladye.
N.B. The two other examples have different tunes, to be found in Opie, The Singing Game and Buchan, 101 Scottish Songs
respectively; these still need to be found and added.
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Peter Gray (from Our Singing Country, Lomax & Lomax) | Popup Midi Player |
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Peter Gray (from The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | Popup Midi Player |
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Phil the Fluther's Ball | Popup Midi Player |
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A Picnic on the Grass (from 140 folk-tunes, edited by Archibald Thompson Davison;
1922, E.C. Schirmer Music Co.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Pig and the Inebriate | Popup Midi Player |
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Piper Sandy (DT file quoted from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from
notation in that book.) | Popup Midi Player |
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A Place in the Choir | Popup Midi Player |
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The Pleasant Month of May (Copper Family) | Popup Midi Player |
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