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Jack Haggerty | Popup Midi Player |
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Jack Tar | Popup Midi Player |
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Jack The Jolly Tar (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jackets Green [Michael Scanlan] (from The First Book of Irish Ballads (O'Keeffe/Healy)) | Popup Midi Player |
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Jake and Roanie (from Glenn Ohrlin, The Hell-Bound Train) | Popup Midi Player |
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Jake and Roanie (from Myra Hull, "Cowboy Ballads," Kansas Historical Quarterly, February, 1939) | Popup Midi Player |
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Jamaica Farewell | Popup Midi Player |
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Jamie Foyers [Ewan MacColl] (traditional Scots tune) | Popup Midi Player |
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Janie on the moor (it was used for a similar variant in the same region, which will serve
in Helen Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs (1962) which was noted from Nathan Hatt of Middle River, Nova Scotia, in 1952. ) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jarvey Was a Leprechaun | Popup Midi Player |
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Jayne's Jig [Jon Freeman] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jealous Lover ((Noted by Helen Creighton from Nathan Hatt of Middle River, in June 1952)
as far as I can tell this is unrelated to the two in the DT lmp) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jealous Lover | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jeannie C | Popup Midi Player |
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Jemima Brown [Harry Clifton] | Popup Midi Player |
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Jennie Jenkins | Popup Midi Player |
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Jenny Jenkins (Recorded by Mrs. Alice Brown, July 24, 1930, in Bethel, Vermont, from the singing of Mrs. Susan Chase, as learned from her aunt
when a little girl.
midi from notation in the book) | Popup Midi Player |
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Jim Along Josey (from Sigmund Spaeth's "Weep Some More, My Lady") | Popup Midi Player |
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Jim Along Josie (From "Tom Glazer's Treasury of Folk songs") | Popup Midi Player |
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Jim Along Josie (From "Handy Play Party Book") | Popup Midi Player |
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Joan to the Maypole (Midi made from notation in The New National Song Book (1957 edition).
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Jock Sheep (midi twice as long as the verses in the DT file,
to which should be added the following as chorus:
Leatherum thee thou an' a'
Madam aye wi' you,
An' the seal o' me be abrachee,
Fair maiden I'm for you.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Joe Magarac [Jacob A. Evanson, 1946] (from Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, 1949) | Popup Midi Player |
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John and William (collected by Josephine McGill, 1914, from an unnamed singer in Knott or
Letcher County, Kentucky. Quoted by Bronson, Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol.I, 1959, from Josephine McGill's
Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains, 1917.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The John B Sails (Sandburg) (from American Songbag) | Popup Midi Player |
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The John B.'s Sails (Alan Lomax) (from The Folk Songs of North America) | Popup Midi Player |
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John Barleycorn [John Blount] (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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John Barleycorn (this text is an expanded set of the version of the song recorded by Fred Hamer
in 1960 from William (Billy) Bartle of Wrestlingworth in Bedfordshire;
midi made from the notation in Hamer's book Garners Gay.) | Popup Midi Player |
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John Barleycorn Is a Hero Bold [written by Joseph Bryan Geoghegan in 1859 or 1860] | Popup Midi Player |
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The John Birch Society [Michael Brown] (as sung by the Chad Mitchell Trio) | Popup Midi Player |
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John Blount | Popup Midi Player |
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John Dameray | Popup Midi Player |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 1 3/4 time with the odd bar of 4/4 stuck in!) | Popup Midi Player |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 2 3/4 time) | Popup Midi Player |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 3 6/8 time) | Popup Midi Player |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 4 3/4 time) | Popup Midi Player |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 5 3/4 time) | Popup Midi Player |
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John Paterson's Mare | Popup Midi Player |
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John Peel ( -W. Metcalfe's version, 1868. This is referred to in more detail above;
bear in mind that the tune usually used nowadays is just the third part (refrain) of the
original.
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John White (version 1) | Popup Midi Player |
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John White (version 2 - Another song collected from Mrs. Russell of Upwey in Dorset
by the Hammond brothers, and published by Frank Purslow in "The Wanton Seed".
Mrs. Russell sang the song in two slightly different ways, hence two midis.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnnie Verbeck (Dunderbeck) (from The Boy Scout Songbook (USA, 1963) - not the usual "Rambling Wreck"/"Gambolier" tune) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnnie's Gone for a Soldier (Shule Agra) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny Barbour (Child #100) (from Ballads Migrant in New England, Flanders/Olney) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny Booker (from the Old-Time String Band Songbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny Doolan's Cat (Johnny Dolan's Cat) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny Fell Down in the Bucket (from Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny My Man (aka Farewell Tae Whiskey
Midi made from the notation in Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads, 1930,) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny My Man (Belle Stewart's version, which she learnt from her brother, Donald MacGregor
(Till Doomsday in the Afternoon ,MacColl & Seeger, 1986).) | Popup Midi Player |
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Johnny Schmoker (Source: Heritage Songster, Leon & Lynn Dallin, 1966) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jolly Boatswain (from Folk Songs of the Catskills) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Jolly Bold Robber | Popup Midi Player |
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Jolly Old Country Squire (full) [Harry Clifton] | Popup Midi Player |
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Jolly Old Country Squire (melody) [Harry Clifton] | Popup Midi Player |
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Jon Freeman [Jeri Corlew] | Popup Midi Player |
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Jowl an' Listen (As printed in Come All Ye Bold Miners (A.L. Lloyd, 1978)
Noted by W. Toyn from Henry Nattress of Low Fell, County Durham, in 1962) | Popup Midi Player |
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Joy of My Heart (tune: traditional:Leannan Mo Ghaoil) | Popup Midi Player |
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Jug of Punch (2) (Kennedy included Loughram's set in his Folksongs of Britain and Ireland (1975)
Midi made from the notation in that book; the embedded lyric is
Loughram's version.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Julie Plante (from Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America) | Popup Midi Player |
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Just As the Tide Was Flowing (From Kidson's 'Traditional Tunes', 1891. Tune from Mr. Lolly (Yorkshire), but text from a broadside.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Just As the Tide Was Flowing | Popup Midi Player |
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For Just One Dime [Mark Cohen] | Popup Midi Player |
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Kafoozleum | Popup Midi Player |
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Katie Bairdie (#1657a from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | Popup Midi Player |
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Katie Beardie (2) | Popup Midi Player |
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Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (from Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia) | Popup Midi Player |
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Keepers & Poachers | Popup Midi Player |
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Kelley's Irish Brigade | Popup Midi Player |
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Kellswater | Popup Midi Player |
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Kellswaterside (from ABC Tunefinder (compare with Lovely Glenshesk I)) | Popup Midi Player |
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Keltie Clippie | Popup Midi Player |
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Kentucky Waltz | Popup Midi Player |
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The Kettle Valley Line (The Kettle Valley Line, as sung by Stan Triggs himself) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Key of R [Libby Anthony] | Popup Midi Player |
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Kilkelly [Peter Jones] | Popup Midi Player |
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Killiecrankie | Popup Midi Player |
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Da Kine [Mark Cohen] | Popup Midi Player |
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King Jamie and the Tinkler (Kirkpatrick used the tune given in the
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (vol.III no.I, 1936),
which is a traditional one found in Frank Kidson's
manuscript collection) | Popup Midi Player |
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King O'Luve (Child #89 (Fause Foodrage): this is Child's example C, and came from the Harris MS, "Derived from
Jannie Scott, an old Perthshire Nurse, c.1790". Child and Bronson both refer to it as Eastmuir King
The tune, given in Child as well as in
Bronson, is the one that Andy Irvine mistakenly used for Willy of Winsbury) | Popup Midi Player |
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The King of Borneo (Bastard King of England) [words & music by Frank Crumit, 1929] | Popup Midi Player |
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King of the Fairies (set tune) | Popup Midi Player |
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King of the Fairies (Another version) | Popup Midi Player |
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Kinmont Willie [Child #186] (Bronson gives the tune published by Alexander Campbell
in Albyn's Anthology (1816),
with considerable reservations as to its authenticity) | Popup Midi Player |
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Kitty from Coleraine | Popup Midi Player |
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The Klan [Alan Arkin and David Arkin] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Knickerbocker Line (from English Dance and Song ) | Popup Midi Player |
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Knife In The Window | Popup Midi Player |
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The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (Published by Cecil Sharp in "100 English Folk Songs" (1916), Lyrics embedded) | Popup Midi Player |
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Kyrie de Moines (Rugby version) (From a French Rugby Song Website) | Popup Midi Player |
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Kyrie des Moines (The Monks' Lament) | Popup Midi Player |
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L'année Passée [Massie Patterson and Lionel Belasco] (from sheet music) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Lachlan Tigers (May also be the tune for Musselburgh Field -JRO-) | Popup Midi Player |
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Laddie With the Golden Hair (made from the notation in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Lads of Virginia (see thread for multiple versions
see also Australia
see also Weary in Virginny,O) | Popup Midi Player |
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Lady Leroy (This is taken from H.M. Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore
Society, and came originally from A.F. Wade's MS collection, where no tune was given. Variants have been found in a number of
places, but there is another set from Missouri at The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection:
The Lady Leroy As sung by Mrs. Tressie Rose in Gainesville, Missouri on July 1, 1958.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Lady Leroy 2 (Midi made from the version in the Sam Henry collection) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Lady Maria [Dave Robinson] (tune submitted by Dave Robinson himself) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Lady of Skin and Bone i (appears to be an Irish version of the song,
from Petrie's Ancient Music of Ireland (1855; p.166)) | Popup Midi Player |
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Lady of Spain [Tolchard Evans, 1931] | Popup Midi Player |
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Lagan Love | Popup Midi Player |
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