It is not really ripe picking for songs, but, one of my favorite books is a collection of short Irish folk tales called "Celtic Twighlight". Yeats' allegedly just asked for the stories and compiled them, but, there is no mistaking his tongue at work. It is a charming collection full of humor and sorrow. I have never read it cover to cover for fear of finishing it, I just randomly open it and I hope I will still find another that I have never read each time I open it.Alas, It has been a long time since I acctually found one I havent read four or five times over.