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The Rabbit Trapper's Song (Original tune as sung by Basil Cosgrove in 1973) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rabbit Trapper's Song (Dave de Hugard version) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rabbiter's Song [Stan Wakefield] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Races of Ballyhooly | Popup Midi Player |
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Radhadlam Raindi | Popup Midi Player |
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The Railway Belle (full version) [Harry Clifton] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Railway Belle (melody only) [Harry Clifton] | Popup Midi Player |
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Raise a Ruckus Tonight (from Something to Sing About, Okun) | Popup Midi Player |
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Raise up Your Voices | Popup Midi Player |
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Raise Your Voices in the Song (by Genie!) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rambling Comber | Popup Midi Player |
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Rambling Robin | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rang-a-Tang-Too (#31b from Randolph & Legman, Roll Me in Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rap Her to Bank | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rape of Glencoe | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rapparee | Popup Midi Player |
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The Ratcatcher's Daughter | Popup Midi Player |
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Ratcliffe Highway (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rattin Family (from Songs for Swinging Housemothers) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rattler (version recorded by Bradley Kincaid) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rebel's Fancy [Jeff Porterfield (jeffp)] | Popup Midi Player |
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Reconciliation [Ron Kavana] | Popup Midi Player |
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Rectal Bleeding Calypso [John Dengate] | Popup Midi Player |
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The Red Herring (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Red House (ancestral to 'Do YOu Ken John Peel'
from Playford's Dancing Master (1706). The tune first appeared in
the edition of 1695 in a slightly different form.
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The Red Light Saloon | Popup Midi Player |
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Red Rose Cafe | Popup Midi Player |
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Reuben Ranzo (1) | Popup Midi Player |
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Reuben Ranzo (2) | Popup Midi Player |
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Reynard the Fox (3) (known as You Gentlemen of High Renown ... version recorded by The Young Tradition, who called it The Fox Hunt. The tune and text they
used were noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Stephen Pole of Norfolk. Midi made by ear) | Popup Midi Player |
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Reynardine (Donegal tune, as published by Herbert Hughes.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Reynardine (version sung by A.L. Lloyd, which he had originally from Tom Cook,
of Eastbridge, Suffolk.
Tune collected by Merrick from Henry Hills, a Sussex farmer."
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Ride the Chariot | Popup Midi Player |
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Right Said Fred | Popup Midi Player |
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The Ring-Dang-Doo (#31a from Randolph & Legman, Roll Me in Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore) | Popup Midi Player |
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Ripest of Apples | Popup Midi Player |
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Rise and Shine | Popup Midi Player |
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Riu Riu | Popup Midi Player |
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The Road Goes Ever On [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | Popup Midi Player |
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Roast Beef of Old England (Lyrics embedded) | Popup Midi Player |
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Robin Adair | Popup Midi Player |
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Robin Cam' to the Wren's Door (midi made from the notation in
James Kinsley's Burns: Poems and Songs (OUP, 1971)) | Popup Midi Player |
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Robin Hood and Alan A Dale | Popup Midi Player |
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Robin Hood and the Pedlar (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Robin Redbriest's Testament (Malcolm notes:
The DT file contains seven variants, several from Greig-Duncan, and will need to be
re-visited later. For now, I have just the one tune, from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933), where
it is called Guid-day now, bonnie Robin, lad; midi made from notation in that book. Moffat's set is essentially a much-shortened form
of example (1) , with chorus as specified in the file.
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Rock O' My Soul (from Slave Songs of the United States, 1867) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rockabye Baby | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rocks of Bawn | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rocks of Scilly (from Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia, Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rocks of Scilly (from ABC Tunefinder) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rocky Road to Dublin (Gavan) [words were written by D K Gavan, 'The Galway Poet'] (Tune obtained from sheet music published for Harry Clifton, with words by Gavan. Composer of tune unknown, possibly traditional.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Roisin dubh | Popup Midi Player |
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Roll On The Day [Allan Taylor] | Popup Midi Player |
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Roll On, Silver Moon [J.W. Turner] | Popup Midi Player |
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Roll the Cotton Down (1) | Popup Midi Player |
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Roll the Cotton Down (2) | Popup Midi Player |
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Roll, Columbia, Roll [Woody Guthrie] (from the Sing Out! songbook, Roll On Columbia, The Columbia River Collection) | Popup Midi Player |
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Roller Coaster/ Silver Spire [Jon Freeman] (Silver Spire - Trad) | Popup Midi Player |
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Romans and English (from The Singing Game, Iona and Peter Opie) | Popup Midi Player |
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Room Full of Roses | Popup Midi Player |
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Rosbif Waltz | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rose | Popup Midi Player |
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The Rose in June (Let It Be Early, Late or Soon) (Version noted by Cecil Sharp
from John Vincent (72) at Priddy, Somerset, 25th April 1906.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rose of Alabamy | Popup Midi Player |
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Rose of Britain's Isle (per Malcolm:
The DT file names no source, but the text given is nearly identical to the one in Edith Fowke's
Sea Songs and Ballads from Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia (1981), and may perhaps derive from that book, with one or two
words mis-remembered. Fowke commented:
"Although at least four different broadside printers issued this ballad in England, it does not seem to have survived in British tradition,
nor has it been reported in the United States. However, it has been quite popular in Canada, turning up in Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario. The text here is one stanza longer than any of the traditional versions I have seen. It is
remarkably close to the texts given by Creighton and Manny except that they lack the seventh stanza."
The Fowke text came from Fenwick Hatt's notebook of sea ballads, made around the 1880s. Helen Creighton gives a set in her
Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (1932), which was noted from Mr. Ben Henneberry of Devil's Island c.1929. This is
probably as close as we are likely to get to a tune for the DT example, though, as ever, I stress that we can't know whether or not that
text was ever sung to this tune or one like it. Midi made from the Creighton example.
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Rose, Rose (from Rise Up Singing songbook) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rose, Rose (from Sol Weber's Rounds Galore) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rosie Anderson (From The Folk Music Journal, 1966. James Duncan collection: noted from a
Mrs. Gillespie in 1905.) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rosie Ann | Popup Midi Player |
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Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roulez! (Midi made from a recording by "The Shanty Crew"
It was collected in Haute-Normandie (Seine Maritime) by Michel Colleu
from Captain Vedieu (Saint-Pierre-en-Port, 1974) and M. Cuvier (Eletot, 1976).) | Popup Midi Player |
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Rounding the Horn (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Roving Highlander (This is the tune for #253B in Greig-Duncan) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Roving Ploughboy-O (from Peter Kennedy, The Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Row-Dow-Dow (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs??) | Popup Midi Player |
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Royal Oak | Popup Midi Player |
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer | Popup Midi Player |
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Rufus' Mare | Popup Midi Player |
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Rum and Coca Cola [Disputed Authorship] (from The World's Greatest Fakebook - Warner Brothers) | Popup Midi Player |
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Ryan Flynn's Tune [Ryan Flynn ©1998] | Popup Midi Player |
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Rybar (Rybak) | Popup Midi Player |
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' S óró londubh buí (traditional tune (O my blackbird gay) used for Brown and Yellow Ale) | Popup Midi Player |
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Sabrina Fair [Milton] | Popup Midi Player |
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Sagart na Cuile Baine | Popup Midi Player |
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The Sailor From Dover (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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A Sailor in the North Country (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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A Sailor's Life (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman (from Clinton's 'Gems of Ireland', c 1840) | Popup Midi Player |
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Saints of God | Popup Midi Player |
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Salisbury Plain (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | Popup Midi Player |
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Sally Ann (From Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads) | Popup Midi Player |
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Sally Anne (from The Folk Songs of North America (Alan Lomax)) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Sally Buck (Collected by Cecil Sharp from William Wooton at Hindman, Kentucky (Sharp 159A)) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Sally Buck (Collected by Cecil Sharp from Alex Coffey, Nash, Virginia, May 9, 1918) | Popup Midi Player |
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Sally Monroe | Popup Midi Player |
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Sally Wheatley | Popup Midi Player |
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Sand Dance [Wilson Kepple and Betty] (full version) | Popup Midi Player |
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Sand Dance | Popup Midi Player |
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Sandy Seaton's Wooing (child #33
midi made from notation reproduced from Moffat in Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.) | Popup Midi Player |
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The Santa Fe Trail (from Katie Lee's Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle) | Popup Midi Player |
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El Santo Nino [traditional Puerto Rican] | Popup Midi Player |
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