Sound Sound Your Instruments of Joy--need harmonies
Malpas Wassail--need harmonies
Anchored in Love--as duet
Arthur McBride
Lakes of Pontchartrain
Parting Glass
My First Shipwreck at Sea
Amelia Earhart
Town I Loved So Well
Teardrops In the Snow
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
8 More Miles To Louisville
Cool Water
Farther Along
Yard Sale
Streets of Baltimore
Lili Marlen (auf Deutsch)
D- Day Dodgers (same tune, of course)
Hofbrauehaus
Angels Rejoiced
The Good Old Way
Sentimental Journey
West Virginia, My Home
Give Me the Leavin's


What really makes a lot of these songs, esp. the UK songs, sound great to me is to sing them in harmony in a group. I can and do sing any of these solo (e.g. walking to and from the subway every day) (in Takoma Park MD, well-known folk ghetto, hence a pretty tolerant area).
But I love to sing harmonies myself, and to sing one of the Watersons'
songs, for instance, in a group that knows how to make their sort of soaring and swooping harmonies, is one of the best experiences of my life.

I can't imagine ever getting tired of any of these (just to scratch the surface), most of which I've sung over 10 years. In fact, there are very few songs I am thoroughly tired of. (Admittedly I don't have to sing Wild Rover every other night). The only 2 I can think of are "Waltzing With Bears' and "Little Drummer Boy". And I had a 4-part harmony group which did door-to-door caroling this season, took requests, and was asked to do "Drummer Boy". We did, in harmony, with all the verses, though we had no music for it, and it sounded surprisingly good. Even "Drummer Boy" in the right circumstances is OK.


Perhaps one of the reasons I don't get tired of songs is that I listen to all kinds of music all the time, including hot jazz, early rock, classical, blues and bluegrass. Right now I'm listening to a lot of 1930's calypsoes--really sophisticated, politically aware, and informative lyrics, with a great sense of humor--and a window on another world (obtained at CAMSCO, by the way) The 5 CD's on my CD player right now are Roosevelt in Trinidad; Complete Wind Sonatas (1 of 2) --Handel; Marty Robbins/Johnny Horton; Washington Phillips--I Am Born To Preach The Gospel; and Calypso Carnival 1936-1941.

Sorry for the thread creep