For many years, my daughters and I have sung folk songs on vacations. This year, I compiled "The Savage Family Songbook" since youngrer daughter Renee said we'd need the words for our two son's-in-law who didn't know all the songs.

Then i started adding the chords for our friends who wanted to strum along at beach bonfire sing alongs.

Then, from this discussion forum, when asking for several song lyrics that we've wanted to add, I've collected information that many of you have so graciously provided, and we've found that knowing the "story behind the sing" has added greatly to our singing enjoyment.

I've started digging through the few books I have on folk songs adding the background material I can find to our song book. But of course, there are loads of songs with no information available, at least from my meager library.

But this is starting to become something of a quest, so I'm hard at work compiling background information on the 80 or so songs (mostly Kingston Trio, Brothers Four, Peter, Paul and Mary, Woody Guthrie, The Limeliters, and similar groups of the 50's and 60's, and old standards like the Whiffenpoof Song) that are in our family songbook.

While it would be a daunting task to suggest we add a page to every song in the DT database to record it's history, it could be a wonderful contribution to folk song history.

I'm working on the history of the songs that we have in our family song book, and would be delighted to share what I find, and provide electronic or paper copies of the songbook to anyone who would like a copy, in return for more wonderful background stories about the origin of the songs our family and friends so love to sing!

I guess I'd have to provide a list of the songs that are in our family song book for this to work, and if there's any interest, I'll do that on this thread.

Thank you everyone, for the help you've provided in the past when I've looked for lyrics to add to our book!

Pete