Hey Kytrad, please don't leave out "Black Waters". It's a brilliant song. You are one of America's foremost folk poet/songwriters in my opinion.

"Aragon Mill"-Si Kahn

"Paradise'-John Prine

Any Woody's song.

Steve Earle's songs particularly the one about "Dead Man Walking"

"Cape Ann"-Gordon Bok and the Hutchinson Family (different versions)

"Venezuela" and "I Wonder As I Wander" (written by John Jacob Niles)

"We Shall Overcome" (but I think of it as being a folk song already)

"Mary Ellen Carter", "Barrett's Privateers" and almost any Stan Rogers song.

Tommy Sand's songs (a great Irish songwriter) "There Were Roses", "Music of Healing'

"No Man's Land", "The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda", "Gentle Annie"-Eric Bogle (a master)

Actually, Merle Travis wrote "16 Tons" and "Dark As A Dungeon" (should be folksongs)

Elizabeth Cotton wrote "Freight Train".

Charles "Badger" Clark wrote "Spanish Is A Loving Tongue".

These are some that are very much in a folksong style. That in itself might qualify them
to be folk songs although scholars of folklore argue about that.

Frank Hamilton