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Dainty Davie (from The Dancing Master, 1701) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Damper Song (from the Cub Scout Songbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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Dan McCarthy's Party [J.E.Murphy c.1882.] | Popup Midi Player |
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Dan McCarthy's Party (full score) | Popup Midi Player |
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Dan O'Hara (from The Very Best Irish Songs & Ballads, Vol 2, Waltons Publications) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dancers of Stanton Drew | Popup Midi Player |
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Dans La Prison de Londres | Popup Midi Player |
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Dans les prisons de Nantes (4) | Popup Midi Player |
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Danville Girl (2) | Popup Midi Player |
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Darby Kelly (from The National Song Book) | Popup Midi Player |
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Darby McGuire/M'Guire [D.K. Gavan] | Popup Midi Player |
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Dark Eyed Molly | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dark Eyed Sailor | Popup Midi Player |
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Dark Eyes / Otchi Tchorniya | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (full) [Harry Clifton (1862?)] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (melody) [Harry Clifton (1862?)] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Daughter Of Peggy, O (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Day is Past and Gone (as sung by Jean Ritchie) | Popup Midi Player |
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Day Now Is Done [Moravian folk tune] (May also be known as Skautska Vecerka/Scouts' Evening Song) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Days of Forty-Nine [Text by Joaquin Miller, Tune by Leila France] (late 19th Century - from Singing Gold, the Sacramento Bee) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Days of Forty-Nine [Charley Rhoades (Bensell)] (from Songs of the American West, Lingenfelter/Dwyer) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Days of Forty-Nine [from the singing of "Yankee" John Galusha] (source: Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Days of Forty-Nine (John Lomax) (from John Lomax, Cowboy Songs, 1916) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Days of Forty-Nine (Lomax) (from Lomax & Lomax, Best-Loved American Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Daysman | Popup Midi Player |
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Dead Dog Scrumpy | Popup Midi Player |
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Dear Mrs. Roosevelt [Woody Guthrie] | Popup Midi Player |
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Dear Old Donegal | Popup Midi Player |
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Death and the Lady (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Death and the Lady (2) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Death of Queen Jane (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Death of Queen Jane (version 2 with lyrics embedded) | Popup Midi Player |
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Deep Elem Blues (see also Down in Black Bottom) | Popup Midi Player |
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Der Gute Kamerad (usually known as 'Ich hatt' einen Kameraden') | Popup Midi Player |
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Desert Silvery Blue | Popup Midi Player |
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The Deserter From Kent | Popup Midi Player |
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The Deserter From Kent (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Devil and the Farmer's Wife | Popup Midi Player |
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The Devil and the Ploughman (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dewy Dens of Yarrow (A version of Child #214) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Diamantina Drover [Hugh McDonald] | Popup Midi Player |
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Die Gedanken Sind Frei | Popup Midi Player |
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Diego's Bold Shore (The tune was noted from Joseph McGinnis, and was used by both Joanna Colcord (Songs of
American Sailormen, 1938) and Gale Huntington (Songs the Whalemen Sang, 1964, reprinted Dover, 1970), in both cases set to
texts of Diego's Bold Shore[s] from other sources; both texts are given in the thread. Midi made from notation in Huntington's book.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dimming of the Day | Popup Midi Player |
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Dirty Old Town | Popup Midi Player |
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Do You Hear Me My Brown Haired Maiden (An Cluinn Thu Mi Mo Nigheann Donn) (Can't find lyrics for this one, or a thread on it. -JRO-) | Popup Midi Player |
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Do You Love an Apple | Popup Midi Player |
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A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week (from Old-Time String Band Songbook (Oak)) | Popup Midi Player |
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Don't Get Married Girls (Words and music by Leon Rosselson, 1973.
Midi made from notation in My Song Is My Own
(ed. Kathy Henderson et al., 1979).) | Popup Midi Player |
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Donal Og | Popup Midi Player |
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Donald Caird's Come Again | Popup Midi Player |
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Donald Where's Your Troosers? | Popup Midi Player |
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Donkey Driver (Jerusalem Cuckoo) [Folk variant; original lyrics by J.W. Rowley] (From the singing of Ray Padgett, Barnsley, UK) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Donzella and the Ceylon | Popup Midi Player |
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Doodle Let Me Go (Yeller Gals) | Popup Midi Player |
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Doodle Let Me Go (Yeller Gals) (Fits the lyrics in the Digital Tradition) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dorset Militia Song (see also 'Old Militia Song') | Popup Midi Player |
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Double Bunking | Popup Midi Player |
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Dours Catastrophe ( from
a supplement to Playford's Dancing Master (c.1662), where it was called Dours
Catastrophe
ancestral to Love Lies a bleeding/Dominion of the Sword) | Popup Midi Player |
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Down and Out | Popup Midi Player |
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Down by the Riverside | Popup Midi Player |
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Down in a Coal Mine [ J. B. [Joseph Bryan] Geoghegan] | Popup Midi Player |
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Down in Black Bottom (see also Deep Elem Blues) | Popup Midi Player |
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Down in the Cane Break | Popup Midi Player |
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Down in the Coal Mine | Popup Midi Player |
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Down in Yon Forest (per Malcolm:This text was quoted from John Jacob Niles, who copyrighted it in 1935, apparently, though he
made no claim to have written it. I don't have the relevant book, so I don't know who he said he had collected it from, though it seems
that he got it in North Carolina; however, an almost identical text, with tune, was published in the Journal of the English Folk
Dance and Song Society, vol.4, number 3, 1942. It had been noted in 1936 by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the singing of the
folklorist Evelyn Wells, who learned it from Amos Curtis of Brasstown, North Carolina. Midi made from RVW's notation. There are a
few minor textual differences; none greater than might be expected and not worth noting here (assuming the DT file to be a correct
quote from Niles). Perhaps at some point in the future somebody who has the Niles music can compare the two; I expect them to be
pretty much the same.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Down the Plughole (Dahn the plug'ole) | Popup Midi Player |
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Doxology | Popup Midi Player |
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Dragonfly [Jeri Corlew] | Popup Midi Player |
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Drake's Drum (Words by Henry Newbolt, music by Florian Pascal (1897).
Midi from 1906 edition of sheet music. (Vocal line only)) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dreadful Ghost (Midi made,... of that set in Creighton's Maritime Folk
Songs (1962).) | Popup Midi Player |
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Dream Angus (Per malcolm:Described as "traditional" wherever referred to, and quite likely the tune is; I'm less convinced about the
lyric, though. The DT file was transcribed from a record made by a Canadian band, and differs in wording from most examples to be
found on the web; since I don't have any printed source for it, I can't say what would be the right of it. There is a verse omitted,
however:
List to the curlew cryin' oh,
Fainter the echoes dyin' oh,
Even the birds and beasties are sleepin',
But my bonny bairn is weepin', weepin'.
...contains a particularly comical mis-hearing. Either the transcriber or the singer(s) have Dream Angus is hurtlin'
through the heather, which is a ludicrously inappropriate image. The word should be hirplin(g), which is, to limp; move unevenly;
hobble.
Midi made from staff notation found on the web) | Popup Midi Player |
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Dremlen Feygl ( Notes per Malcolm:Midi made from notation which originally appeared in Sing Out! vol. 6, 1964. The title
there was given as S'Dremlin Feigle, with words and music both credited to Leah Rudnitzky; the DT has "Words by Leah Rudnicki;
Music by Leyb Yampolski".
They gave a translation, which the
contributor to the DT failed to do:
Birds are dozing on the branches,
Sleep my dear little one.
At your crib on an old wooden bench,
A stranger sings to you.
There was a time when your crib
Was woven out of happiness.
But now your mother, oh, your mother,
Will never return.
I have seen your father running,
Under a hail of stones
And his far and lonely wail
Flew over the fields.
The translation was perhaps made by Dina Suller, who sent the song to Sing Out.
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Drifting Too Far From Shore | Popup Midi Player |
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Droylsden Wakes (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Dublin City | Popup Midi Player |
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Duffy's Hotel | Popup Midi Player |
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Duke of Athol | Popup Midi Player |
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Duke of Bedford (Midi made from Cecil Sharp's transcription from William Atkinson at Marylebone
Workhouse, London, 9th October 1908, as printed in The Folk Music Journal, vol.I, no.1, 1966.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Duke of York (The Grand Old) | Popup Midi Player |
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Dulaman | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dumb Wife (see 'dumb,dumb,dumb') | Popup Midi Player |
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Duna | Popup Midi Player |
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Dunkirk [Ilsa St. Clair] | Popup Midi Player |
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Durham Gaol [Jez Lowe] | Popup Midi Player |
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Duw, It's Hard [Max Boyce] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dying Stockman 1 | Popup Midi Player |
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The Dying Stockman 2 | Popup Midi Player |
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Eamann Mhaga/ine | Popup Midi Player |
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eanach dhuin | Popup Midi Player |
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Earl Marshall (in DT as Queen Eleanor's Confession) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Earl of Moray (The song that gave us the word "mondegreen") | Popup Midi Player |
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The Eastern Train (from Read "Em and Weep (Spaeth)) | Popup Midi Player |
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Eastmuir King (Child and Bronson both refer to it as Eastmuir King; perhaps Hermes Nye, who is
mentioned in the DT file as having recorded the song , thought King o' Luve sounded nicer) | Popup Midi Player |
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Eddie Baker's Muckspreader [John Kirkpatrick] | Popup Midi Player |
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Edelweiss | Popup Midi Player |
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Edelweiss [Rodgers & Hammerstein] (A rather syrupy interpretation) | Popup Midi Player |
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Eence Upon a Time [from the singing of Jeannie Robertson] (from The Scottish Folksinger, Buchan & Hall) | Popup Midi Player |
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Eileen Oge | Popup Midi Player |
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Einini (Irish Lullaby) | Popup Midi Player |
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