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Thread #156592   Message #3690977
Posted By: GUEST,Ruairidh
02-Mar-15 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Best UK Chorus Songs?
Subject: Best UK Chorus Songs?
A friend who is thinking of starting a folk chorus session, asked me for some suggestions. I put these down, in no particular order. Can anyone point out any glaring omissions?

Fifty Chorus Songs:
1.        Grandfather's Clock
2.        Young Sailor Cut Down in his Prime
3.        Pleasant and Delightful
4.        Black Velvet Band
5.        Wild Rover
6.        Three Score and Ten
7.        Fiddler's Green
8.        Fathom the Bowl
9.        Home Boys Home
10.        Leaving of Liverpool
11.        Widecombe Fair
12.        Barley Mow
13.        Jones's Ale
14.        Tailor's Breeches
15.        Hey John Barleycorn
16.        Rose of Allendale
17.        Horkstow Grange
18.        Eddie Baker's Muckspreader
19.        Barrett's Privateers
20.        Bold Grenadier
21.        Nightingales Sing
22.        Macpherson's Farewell
23.        Twankydillo
24.        Keeper
25.        Jug of Punch
26.        Manchester Rambler
27.        Daddy Fox
28.        North Country Maid
29.        Poverty Knock
30.        Waltzing Matilda
31.        Whisky in the Jar
32.        No-Man's Land
33.        Dido Bendigo
34.        Rolling Home
35.        Country Life
36.        Parting Glass
37.        Hard Times
38.        I'm a Rover
39.        Mermaid
40.        Young Banker
41.        Mary Ellen Carter
42.        Wee Cooper of Fife
43.        Barnyards o' Delgaty
44.        Mormond Braes
45.        Diamond
46.        Thousands or More
47.        Moving-On Song
48.        Bring us a Barrel
49.        Drovers' Song
50.        Farmer's Boy