I do know that not all the songs in the RUS songbook are in the public domain.

Ok, so here is a list of songs I'm considering:

Wildwood Flower
Willie Moore
Fare Thee Well (Ten Thousand Miles)
Rambling Irishman
Shady Groves
Matty Grove (with only my husband on his wooden headed drum as accompaniment)
The Ash Grove
Loch Lomond
Wild Mountain Thyme
Geordie
Fair and Tender Maiden
House Carpenter
Henry Martin
Wayfaring Stranger (found a version of this in an old Broadman Hymnal!)
Down in the Valley
Pretty Saro
Parting Glass
Banks of the Ohio
East Virginia (I was born in East Virgina, North Carolina I did roam)
Black is the color (but not the melody by John Jacob Niles)
Jacob's Ladder
All My Trials
Ye Jacobites by Name
Ae Fond Kiss
Now Westlin Winds
Peggy Gordon
Trees they Do Grow High
Wind and Rain
Once I knew a Pretty Girl
Red River Valley
Pretty Polly
Cotton Fields of Home (another one with just the drum)

I also have in the works a cd of hymns. Perhaps I'll start a new post for that one.

Thanks for the help. If you are interested, I have videos of me singing up at www.jobrownmusic.blogspot.com

I'm starting to think I need to get back into songwriting again.