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| Title [author] (comment) | Lyrics | |
| The Way to Be Happy [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| 13 Florins on the Bar | thread | |
| 16th Avenue | DT | |
| The 23rd of February | DT | |
| a bhean udai thall a shigo | thread | |
| a Nansai mhile 'gradh | thread | |
| A Nau Catarineta (Brazilian set from Folk Songs of the Americas, edited by A.L. Lloyd and Isabel Aretz de Ramón y Rivera (Novello, 1965), originally published in Música Popular Brasileña (O. Alvarenga; Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1947). ) | thread | |
| a Neansai mhile 'gra | thread | |
| a oganaigh oig | thread | |
| a stor mo chroi | DT | thread |
| A-Gathering Nuts | DT | |
| A-Roving on a Winter's Night [Doc Watson/Traditional] (from The Songs of Doc Watson) | DT | thread |
| ABC, die Katze lief im Schnee (from Das grosse Liederbuch) | thread | |
| ABC, die Katze lief im Schnee ((2-part version) from Das grosse Liederbuch) | thread | |
| Aboard of the Kangaroo / The Good Ship Kangaroo (from Meredith/Anderson, Folksongs of Australia) | DT | thread |
| Aboard the Kangaroo (from Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas) | thread | |
| Above a Plain / Swiftly Flowing Labe (from The Ditty Bag) | thread | |
| Abraham's Daughter (a civil war song) | DT | thread |
| Abroad As I Was Walking | DT | thread |
| Across the Blue Mountain [arr Robin & Linda Williams /traditional] (Lyrics from the singing of Sandy and Caroline Paton) | DT | thread |
| Adelita (traditional Mexican) (from Sandburg's American Songbag) | thread | |
| Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy (Copper Family) | DT | |
| Admiral Hosier's Ghost | DT | thread |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Harry Clifton] (an amalgamation of a number of melodies - includes 15 sections) | thread | |
| Ae Fond Kiss (The tune given with the DT file is Rory Dall's Port it's often sung to another, rather different version of the melody, This appeared in Keith Norman MacDonald's Gesto Collection of Highland Music (1895 Midi made from MacDonald's notation) | DT | |
| The Age of Aquarius | DT | |
| An Agricultural Irish Girl | DT | thread |
| Ah, Lovely Meadows (from the Silver Burdett school songbook, Music in Our Country) | thread | |
| Aikey Fair (The tune is the traditional version of The Moss O' Burreldale; midi made from notation in The Folk Music Journal, vol.3 no.1, 1975. ) | thread | |
| Ailein Duinn | DT | thread |
| Ailliliu na Gamhna | thread | |
| Air Falalalo / Ar Fa La La Lo | DT | thread |
| Air Force Hymn (Wild Blue Yonder) (Despite the file name, this is NOT "Into the Air, Junior Birdmen." -Joe Offer-) | ||
| The Alabama | thread | |
| Albatross [Malvina Reynolds] (Main Tune) | DT | thread |
| Albatross (Last Verse) | DT | |
| Alice Blue Gown [J. McCarthy/H. Tierney] | DT | thread |
| Alice's Restaurant [Arlo Guthrie] | DT | |
| All Among the Barley | DT | thread |
| All Hail the Power | DT | thread |
| All in a Garden Green | thread | |
| All My Life's A Circle [Harry Chapin] | DT | |
| All the Little Chickens in the Garden (from Dan Milner's book, A Bonny Bunch of Roses. Music transcribed by Paul Kaplan.) | DT | thread |
| All Things Are Quite Silent (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| All Used Up [U. Utah Phillips] | DT | thread |
| Allison Gross (transcription (undecorated) made by Colin Ross and published in English Dance and Song (vol.55, no.2, 1993)) | DT | thread |
| Alma Mater (Cornell) | DT | |
| Amber Tresses (Sheet music printed in 1874 by Cottier & Denton, 269 Main St., Buffalo, As Amber Tresses tied in Blue. Midi made from this (vocal line only).) | DT | thread |
| Amelia Earhart's Last Flight [Dave McEnery] | DT | thread |
| American Hymn [Matthias Keller, 1866] | thread | |
| Amis, Mais de Quoi Juons-Nous (a song of the type of "Ich bin ein Musikante") | thread | |
| The Amphitrite | DT | thread |
| An Cailin Rua (The Red-Headed Girl) | DT | thread |
| An Caiseadach Ban | thread | |
| an fhallaingin mhuimhneach | thread | |
| An mhaighdean Mhara | thread | |
| An mhaighdean Mhara (other tune) | thread | |
| An Paistin Fionn | thread | |
| An Spealadoir | thread | |
| An Spealadoir 2 ("This is the tune that Rosie sang this tune to. I made it myself by trial and error" Brían. ) | thread | |
| Anacreontic Song | DT | thread |
| The Anchor's A-Weigh (doerflinger) | thread | |
| Anchor's Aweigh (Version 1) | DT | thread |
| Anchor's Aweigh (Version 2) | DT | |
| And the Moon Was Shining Clear (And the Moon Shone Bright and Clearly in DT) | DT | thread |
| Anderson's Coast | DT | thread |
| Anderson's Coast - corrected (regarding the midi Bob Bolton comments "played in the same time it takes John to sing a verse ... 53 seconds for the bare melody. I then rearranged note lengths to fill out the 4/4 beat ... and match John's singing") | DT | |
| Andromeda the Beautiful | DT | |
| Angelina Baker [Stephen Foster] (The song in the Digital Tradition has a completely different tune. -JRO-) | thread | |
| Angeline [Czech Folk Song] (from The World of Music Series: Treasure, Ginn & Co., 1938) | thread | |
| Angeline the Baker (NOT the Stephen Foster song.) | DT | thread |
| The Animal Fair (This version is from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag.) | DT | thread |
| The Animal Fair | DT | thread |
| Annan Water | DT | thread |
| Anne Boleyn | DT | thread |
| The Anniversary Song [Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin] | DT | thread |
| The Anniversary Waltz [Al Dubin & Dave Franklin] | thread | |
| Any Old Iron? [Chas. Collins, E. A. Sheppard and Fred Terry] | DT | thread |
| Appalachian Round (Take Me Back) (Tune is "Welcome, Welcome Every Guest") | thread | |
| The Apples and Banana Song | DT | thread |
| Aran Boat Song | DT | thread |
| ardaigh cuain | thread | |
| Are Ye Right There Michael? [Percy French] | DT | thread |
| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | DT | thread |
| Arrival of the Greenhorn | DT | thread |
| Art Mac Bride ( midi made from notation in the Petrie Collection [Stanford-Petrie (1902-05) number 846]. ) | thread | |
| Arthur Le Bride ( from Samuel Fone of Blackdown, Mary Tavy, Devon; noted by Mr Bussell in 1892. Midi made from notation Sabine Baring Gould's Songs of the West (1905). ) | thread | |
| Arthur McBride and the Sergeant (posted by IvanB) | DT | thread |
| As I Roved Out | DT | |
| As I Roved Out (Planxty Version, Lyrics embedded) | DT | thread |
| As I Roved Out (Clancy) ((from The Irish Songbook - Makem & the Clancys)) | thread | |
| As Sylvie Was Walking (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| As Time Goes By | DT | thread |
| Ashokan Farewell | DT | thread |
| Asleep At the Switch 1897 (A Train Song) | DT | |
| Astoria's Bar [Mudcatter Mary Garvey] (recorded by Gordon Bok) | thread | |
| Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß (Source: Das Große Liederbuch (Diogenes Verlag, Zürich, 1975)) | thread | |
| The Auld Man's Mare's Deid | DT | |
| Australia (see thread for multiple versions - history see also Lads of Virginia See also Weary in Virginny, O) | DT | thread |
| Ba Loinnireach Grian an Trathnona (This air is used with a variation on The Banks of the Lee) | thread | |
| The Babes in the Wood [William Gardiner (uncredited in the sheet music)] (from Billy Weekes' personal collection) | thread | |
| Babes in the Wood | thread | |
| The Babes in the Woods (published by Carr's Musical Repository (Levy Sheet Music Collection)) | thread | |
| Baby Owlet / Tecolotito (from Florence H. Botsford, 1922, Songs of the Americas ) | thread | |
| Babylon Is Fallen | DT | thread |
| Bachelor's Hall | DT | thread |
| Bachgen Bach O Dincar | thread | |
| Back Home Again In Indiana | thread | |
| Bad Man Ballad (from Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Balaloo, Lammy (From Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933), where it is called Now balaloo, lammy; midi made from notation in that book.) | DT | |
| The Ballad of Cursed Anna | thread | |
| Ballad of Davy Crockett | DT | thread |
| The Ballad of Pat McBraid [Grant Rogers] | thread | |
| The Ballad of Sharpeville [Ewan MacColl] | thread | |
| Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle | DT | thread |
| Ballet (in Jacob van Eyk's Der Fluyten Lust-Hof, Amsterdam, 1654, II, 41v, where it was called Ballet ancestral to Love Lies a Bleeding/Dominion of the Sword) | thread | |
| Ballina Whalers [Harry Robertson] | DT | thread |
| Ballybay | DT | thread |
| Baloo Baleerie (Tune from William Cole's Folk Songs of England, Scotland, and Wales) | thread | |
| Balulalow (traditional Scottish) | DT | |
| The Banks of Green Willow (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Banks of Newfoundland (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Banks of Newfoundland (2) (From Margaret Christl and Ian Robb on Folk-Legacy -- they credit Edith Fowke with collecting this", says the DT file. She did indeed; it came from Mr. O.J. Abbott of Ontario, in 1957. Fowke included it in The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs (1973) with the comment, "At least half a dozen songs share the title The Banks of Newfoundland, but this particular one is rare. Mr Abbott's version is the only one with a tune that has turned up in North America." Midi made from the notation given in that book. ) | DT | |
| The Banks of Sweet Primroses (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Banks of the Dee | DT | thread |
| Banks of the Mossen (Tune as recorded by Bob Copper from Jim Swain, Felpham, Hastings, Sussex, in 1954. From notation in Bob's book Songs and Southern Breezes (1973).) | thread | |
| Banks of the Wabash | thread | |
| Banks of the Wabash | thread | |
| Barbarossa (from the Third National Music Reader) | thread | |
| Barges | DT | thread |
| Barley Straw (Lyrics embedded) | DT | |
| Barnyard Song (from Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains (1916), collected by Loraine Wyman.) | thread | |
| Basket of Eggs | DT | thread |
| Basket of Eggs (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| A Basket of Turf (from leeneia) | thread | |
| The Bastard King of England (from Cray, Erotic Muse) | DT | thread |
| Battle of Maxton Field [Malvina Reynolds] | thread | |
| The Battle of Prestonpans | DT | |
| Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends | DT | thread |
| Be Thou My Vision | DT | thread |
| Be Thou My Vision | DT | thread |
| Beans in My Ears | DT | thread |
| Bear It Like a Man [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| The Beastiary (Bestiary) | thread | |
| Beautiful Dreamer | DT | |
| Because All Men Are Brothers | DT | thread |
| Been Ridin' | thread | |
| Beer, Beer, Beer (Charlie Mopps) | thread | |
| Beggars to God [Bob Franke] | DT | thread |
| beinn a 'cheathaich | thread | |
| Believe Me if All those Endearing Young Charms | DT | |
| Belle's Bonnie Bogie | DT | thread |
| Benjamin Bowlabags | DT | thread |
| Benjamin Bowmaneer (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Bennachie (midi from the notation given in John Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads (1930, reprinted 1995).) | DT | |
| Bennachie (2) (midi from the notation given in John Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads (1930, reprinted 1995). lyrics from Greig) | DT | thread |
| Bessy and Her Spinning Wheel [Burns - 1792] (Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, OUP, 1969).) | DT | |
| Beverly Hillbillies Theme | DT | thread |
| Beware of Larry Gorman | thread | |
| The Bigler's Crew (from Folk Songs Out Of Wisconsin - correction of the tune in the Digital Tradition) | thread | |
| The Bigler's Crew (Timber Drougher Bigler) (from Ivan Walton & Joe Grimm, Windjammers) | thread | |
| Bile Em Cabbage Down | DT | thread |
| Billy Barlow (A civil war song) | thread | |
| Billy Barlow (2) (from Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society ) | thread | |
| Bimis Ag Ol | thread | |
| Bimis Ag Ol 2 (Cúisle an Cheoil) | thread | |
| The Birch Tree (from the Girl Scouts Sing Together Songbook, 1949) | thread | |
| Bird in a Gilded Cage | DT | |
| Birds in the Spring (From the Copper family, who call it By The Green Grove) | DT | |
| Black and White [Ewan MacColl] | DT | |
| The Black Bear (a traditional pipe march sequenced by Matthew Richards (MattR)) | thread | |
| Black Socks (from the singing of Judy Cook) | DT | thread |
| Black Sod Bay | thread | |
| Black Velvet Band | DT | thread |
| Blackbird of Sweet Avondale | thread | |
| The Blacksmith (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| La Blanche Biche | thread | |
| Blest Mary Wanders through the Thorn | DT | thread |
| Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind | DT | thread |
| Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk (As sung by Sheila Stewart of Blairgowrie; she learnt it from her mother, Belle, who in turn had it from "an old ploughman", probably in the early 1950s. Midi made from the notation in Ailie Munro's The Folk Music Revival in Scotland) | DT | |
| Blue Tail Fly | DT | thread |
| Blues in the Night | DT | thread |
| Boats of Peter's River | thread | |
| Bob-A-Needle (from Step It Down, Bessie Jones and Bess Lomax Hawes) | thread | |
| The Bodhran Song | DT | thread |
| The Bold Benjamin | DT | thread |
| The Bold Benjamin (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Bold Carter (Noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mr J. Whitby, the sexton of Tilney All Saints, near King's Lynn, in 1905. The song is also known as Polly On The Shore. ) | thread | |
| The Bold Fisherman [George W. Hunt] | thread | |
| Bold Jack Donohue The Aussie bushranger (thread is one version) | DT | thread |
| Bold Lovell | thread | |
| Bold Poachers (Noted by E.J. Moeran from Robert Miller of Sutton in Norfolk, 1921. Midi made from the notation given in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, vol. 7, no. 26 (1922). ) | DT | |
| Bonnie Kellswater (from Taylor's Traditional Tunebook (compare with In Praise of the Glen)) | thread | |
| Bonnie Saint John (Also re-written by burns as The Sheperd's Wife Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, OUP 1969).) | DT | |
| Bonnie Tavern Green (Traditional: as sung by Paddy Tunney; learnt from his mother Brigid Tunney Sometimes seen as 'Bonny Tavern Green') | thread | |
| Bonnie Tyneside (MIDI from leeneia) | thread | |
| A Bonnie Wee Lassie (from The Burl Ives Song Book, pp 202-203) | thread | |
| Bonny Bonny (The Nightingale) (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People) | thread | |
| The Bonny Bushes Bright (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People where it's called The Bonny Bushes Bright" Midi made from notation in the Henry collection; the set came from Frank Thompson of Priestland, Bushmills, in 1937.) | DT | |
| The Bonny Earl of Moray (The song that gave us the word "mondegreen") | DT | thread |
| The Bonny Grey (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Bonny Maid of Fife (This song was written by Nick Keir of the McCalmans.It appears to have been transcribed from a record made by someone who had interfered with Keir's song, transposing the whole thing rather clumsily from the first to the third person. The River "Fourth" should of course be "Forth", and it should be noted that Keir spelled "Bonny" as "Bonnie". Lyrics available on various websites suggest that the unknown singers had also taken other liberties with Keir's text. midi from a pdf at Edgar's Song Book) | DT | thread |
| Both Sexes Give Ear to My Fancy | thread | |
| Both Sides the Tweed | DT | thread |
| Bottle of wine [Tom Paxton] | DT | thread |
| Bound for Glory [Ochs] | DT | |
| Bourgeois 2 (from Sing for Freedom) | thread | |
| Bourgeois Blues (from Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People) | thread | |
| The Boys from Killybegs | thread | |
| Boys of the Barr na Sraide | thread | |
| The Boys of the Island | thread | |
| Brady (From Sandburg's American Songbag. A version of Brady & Duncan. -JRO-) | thread | |
| The Braemar Poacher (This is the tune for #253A in Greig-Duncan) | thread | |
| Brahm's Lullaby | DT | thread |
| The Bramble Briar (Bruton Town) (Alternate version) | DT | thread |
| The Bramble Briar (Bruton Town) (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Brave Old Donnelly (from A Bonny Bunch of Roses, Dan Milner & Paul Kaplan) | thread | |
| Bread and Roses [Caroline Kohlsaat, possibly Martha Coleman] (This is the same as the tune in the Digital Tradition, and should be deleted.) | thread | |
| Bread and Roses [music by Mimi Farina] (different from the tune in the Digital Tradition) | DT | thread |
| Brennan on the Moor | DT | thread |
| Brian Boru's March (fast - with accompaniment) | thread | |
| Brian Boru's March (slower - melody only) | thread | |
| Bridget and the Pill (Words by Brian Pearson, 1968; set to "a traditional tune". Midi made from notation in My Song Is My Own (ed. Kathy Henderson et al., 1979).) | DT | thread |
| Bridget Evans | DT | thread |
| Bridget Flynn | DT | thread |
| Bridget O'Malley | DT | thread |
| Bright Morning Stars | DT | thread |
| Bright Phoebe (DT file describes this as "traditional Newfoundland" but doesn't name a source. Kenneth Peacock noted three versions in Newfoundland, and published two tunes and one text in his book Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965), vol.2. The text given is very close indeed to the DT text, and may well be its ultimate source (it was also included in Fowke & Johnson's Folk Songs of Canada). Midi made from Peacock's version A, which came from Mrs. Charlotte Decker of Parson's Pond, Newfoundland, in August 1959. It appears to be more complete than his version B. It's a Dorian tune, and Peacock noted it without key-signature Roud Folk Song Index no. 1989.) | DT | |
| Bright Shining Morning (is The Sweet Rosy Morning, noted by Lucy Broadwood (source and date unknown) and published in Sussex Songs (H.F. Birch Reynardson, 1889) | DT | thread |
| Bright Sunny South | DT | thread |
| Bring Me a Rose [Erne Sheldon] | thread | |
| Brioc [brioc & Helen] | thread | |
| Brisk Young Lad (from notation given in Songs of Scotland vol.2 (ed. Myles B. Foster, n.d., but presumably late 19th century; vol.1, edited by others, was 1877)) | DT | thread |
| Brisk Young Lad (from notation given in Songs of Scotland vol.2 (ed. Myles B. Foster, n.d., but presumably late 19th century; vol.1, edited by others, was 1877)) | thread | |
| Brisk Young Lively Lad (found in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, vol.I no.2, 1900. It was collected by Lucy Broadwood in Surrey used by Nic Jones for 'Annan Water') | DT | thread |
| The Broomfield Hill (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Broughty Wa's | DT | |
| Brownie Smile Song [Harriet F. Heywood] | thread | |
| bruach na Carriaige Baine | thread | |
| Brush Up Your Shakespeare | thread | |
| Buffalo Boy | thread | |
| Buffalo Boy (Lomax) (from The Folk Songs of North America, by Alan Lomax) | thread | |
| Buffalo Gals | DT | thread |
| The Building of Solomon's Temple | DT | |
| Building Up and Tearing England Down [Dominic Behan] (also known as "Paddy on the Road") | thread | |
| Bulbes (Potatoes - Yiddish) (from Mir Trogn a Gezang, Mlotek) | thread | |
| Bundeslied für den Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeiterverein [Words: Georg Herwegh, 1863; tune: Peter Heinz] | thread | |
| Burlington Berty from Bow | thread | |
| The Burning of Schenectady | thread | |
| Burns's Log Camp | thread | |
| Bury Me In My Overalls | ||
| The Bury New Loom [Words traditional, tune by Harry Boardman] (from Folk Songs and Ballads of Lancashire, compiled and edited by Harry & Lesley Boardman) | thread | |
| Bushes and Briers (from Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Roy Palmer, Editor) | thread | |
| Butterfly | ||
| Buy Broom Besoms | DT | thread |
| Buy Me a China Doll (from Vance Randolph, "Ozark Folksongs") | thread | |
| By The Green Grove (Midi made from the notation in Bob Copper's A Song For Every Season (1971). ) | DT | |
| By the Side of a River (Little Moses) (from The Mother's Nursery Songs, by Thomas Hastings, published in 1853) | thread | |
| By'm By (full arrangement) (from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag (1927)) | thread | |
| By'm By (melody only) (from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag (1927)) | thread | |
| By'm Bye (from Ruth Crawford Seeger, American Folk Songs for Children, 1948) | thread | |
| Byron's Waltz (Written by Animaterra for a very special person.) | thread | |
| Byrontown | thread | |
| Ca Hawkie (from Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Mistrelsy (1882); midi made from the notation in that book. Bruce Olson posted an earlier set of the tune (1772) here: Drive Hakky) | DT | thread |
| Cadal Chan Fhaigh Mi | thread | |
| Cailin Deas Cruite Na mBo /Pretty Maid Milking a Cow | thread | |
| Cait o gharran a 'bhile | thread | |
| Cakes and Ale [Henry Purcell] (A catch) | DT | |
| Caledonia [Dougie MacLean] | DT | thread |
| The Calico Printer's Clerk [Harry Clifton & Charles Coote] | DT | thread |
| Call John the Boatman | thread | |
| Calliope House [Dave Richardson] (Written by Dave Richardson of Boys of the Lough in Edinbrough, 1983 and named after a pub called Calliope House) | thread | |
| Calon Lan | DT | |
| Cambourne Hill | DT | |
| The Cambrian Colliery Disaster [Bill Sables] (Ewan MacColl also wrote a song with this name.) | thread | |
| The Candlelight Fisherman (Singer: Phil Hamond. From Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain & Ireland, #219) | DT | thread |
| The Candyman [Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley] (The pop song made famous by Sammy Davis Jr.) | DT | |
| Cannibal King Medley - A Cannibal King | DT | thread |
| Cannibal King Medley - M-I-N-E | DT | thread |
| Cannibal King Medley - We'll Build a Bungalow | DT | thread |
| Cape Ann [Gordon Bok] | thread | |
| Cape Breton Lullaby [lyrics by Kenneth Leslie, tune traditional] | thread | |
| Captain Coulston (per Malcolm:The DT text was transcribed from a record by Andy Irvine and Dick Gaughan; their principal source was Brigid Tunney, though they added additional verses from another source. Steeleye Span also recorded an arrangement of her version (somewhat pared-down), so I've used notation in the first Steeleye Span songbook for a midi: first verse only, as they varied the tune (another Dives and Lazarus / Gilderoy variant) later on. I don't have a recording of Brigid Tunney singing it, but would hope that this is reasonably close; it's certainly quite close to the way her son Paddy sang it. ) | DT | |
| Captain James (from Songs the Whalemen Sang, Huntington) | thread | |
| Captain Ward (from Flotsam, Jetsam, and Lagan, Captain Ernie Hall, 1965) | thread | |
| Captain Ward (The Jolly Mariner) (Child #287 - from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | DT | thread |
| Carnlough Bay | thread | |
| The Carol of the Birds | DT | thread |
| casadh an tsugain (common version) | thread | |
| Casey's Hat | DT | thread |
| The Cast Out | thread | |
| The Castle of Dromore | DT | thread |
| The Castle of Dromore (MIDIText from John in Brisbane) | thread | |
| The Castle of Dromore (October Winds) | DT | thread |
| Castles in the Air | thread | |
| The Cat Came Back (version 1) | DT | thread |
| The Cat Came Back (version 2) | DT | |
| The Cat Came Back (original version) [Harry S. Miller, 1893] (source: Levy Sheet Music Collection) | DT | thread |
| A Cat Catch [Robert Brown] (1710) | thread | |
| Catch Me If You Can | thread | |
| A Catch On Cats Michael Wise - 1685 | thread | |
| Cattle Call (orchastrated) | DT | thread |
| Cavan Girl [Thom Moore, 1970's] | thread | |
| A Caveat for Cutpurses (Packington's Pound) | DT | |
| Cearc Agus Coileach ('Cas Amhran' Michael O hEidhinn - version posted at message 952573) | DT | thread |
| Cearc Agus Coileach 2 (Donal O'Sullivan, "Songs of the Irish"; he gives both poetic and literal translations. Again it is a different version and tune from the DT version) | DT | thread |
| Celia Learning On The Spinnet [John Isum] (1685) | thread | |
| Ceol An Phíobaire (aka:Music of the Piper) | thread | |
| Changes [Ochs] | DT | |
| The Charladies' Ball [Harry O'Donovan] | thread | |
| Charles Gustavus Anderson | DT | thread |
| The Charleston Merchant | thread | |
| Charlie Mopps | thread | |
| Oh Charlie, O Charlie (Tune from John Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads (1930; reprinted 1995); text in thread. ) | thread | |
| Chattanooga Choo-Choo [Harry Warren & Mack Gordon] | thread | |
| Chattanooga Choo-Choo | thread | |
| Cheer Boys Cheer | thread | |
| The Chocolate Song [Marcus Turner] | thread | |
| Christmas Day in the Morning | DT | thread |
| Christmas in the Trenches [John McCutcheon] | DT | thread |
| Christmas's Lamentation (taken from Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859)) | DT | thread |
| Chuaigh me na Rossan | thread | |
| Church In The Wildwood (First version) | DT | thread |
| Church In The Wildwood (Second version) | DT | thread |
| Cindy | DT | |
| Clare to Here [Ralph McTell] | DT | thread |
| Clarin de Campana (The Triumph of Battle) (from: Irwin Silber & Earl Robinson, Songs of the Great American West, p. 63) | thread | |
| Close The Coalhouse Door | thread | |
| The Closing [Jeri Corlew] (There are no lyrics for this tune.) | thread | |
| Co Sheinneas An Fhideag Airgid? (see Silver Whistle) | DT | thread |
| The Coal-Black Smith, or The Two Magicians (Child #44) | DT | thread |
| The Coast of Peru (Colcord) (from Joanna Colcord, Songs of American Sailormen) | thread | |
| The Coast of Peru (Harlow) (from Frederick Pease Harlow, Chanteying Aboard American Ships) | thread | |
| Coastline of Mayo | DT | thread |
| Cock of the Morning | thread | |
| The Cock-Fight (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Cockerham Devil (per Malcolm: The DT text was transcribed from a radio broadcast, and does not credit the writers of this song, who are Pru and Roger Edwards of Pilling (as in the song). Midi made from notation in Mike Harding's book Folk Songs of Lancashire (1980).) | DT | |
| Cogar Mogar | thread | |
| Colcannon | DT | |
| A Cold Wind Blows [Alasdair Clayre, 1966] (From New English Broadsides, Oak Publications, 1967) | thread | |
| Coleraine Regatta (from John Moulden's "Songs of the people", selections, the Sam Henry Collection, Belfast 1979) | thread | |
| Coleraine Regatta (Arranged by Paul Brady & Mick Moloney) | thread | |
| Colin and Phoebe | DT | |
| Colly My Cow | DT | thread |
| Columbia, Gem of the Ocean | thread | |
| Come All You Garners Gay (Midi made from the notation in Hamer's book Garners Gay (EFDS Publications 1967).) | DT | |
| Come and I Will Sing You | DT | |
| Come by the Hills | DT | thread |
| Come Down You Bunch of Roses | DT | thread |
| Come Hasten, Ye shepherds | thread | |
| Come Josephine in my Flying Machine [Words: Alfred Bryan; Music: Fred Fisher] | DT | thread |
| Coming Around the Horn [J.A. Stone / L.V.H. Crosby (Air: Dearest Mae)] (From The Songs of the Gold Rush, Lingenfelter/Dwyer) | thread | |
| Connemara Cradle Song [John Frances Waller] | thread | |
| The Connemara Cradle Song | thread | |
| The constant Farmer's son (a reasonably close set in Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs, in this case from Jack Turple of Upper Kennetcook, 1952 again - this is "best guess") | DT | |
| The Corbie and the Crow | thread | |
| Corbitt's Barkentine | thread | |
| Corduroy (Midi made from the notation in Bob Copper's book Early To Rise (1976).) | thread | |
| Cornish Lads | thread | |
| Cornish May Carol | DT | thread |
| The Cornwall Apprentice | thread | |
| Cotton Field Song (Mr. Rabbit) | thread | |
| Cotton Mill Girls | thread | |
| Coulter's Candy | DT | thread |
| The Counting Song (from Peter Kennedy, Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | thread | |
| Coventry Carol | DT | thread |
| Cowd Stringy Pie (Noted by Dave Hillery from Mrs. Ada Cave of York in 1965 (A Touch on the Times, Roy Palmer, 1974).) | thread | |
| Crabfish | thread | |
| Craigielea | thread | |
| Crockery Ware (2) (almost certainly taken from Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965); the set there was noted from Everett Bennett of St. Paul's, in 1958. Christl has made some minor alterations to the text, mostly not worth mentioning, though I'd Malcolm Notes:specify that her verse 1, line 4, Was to lay with her one night, was previously It was to lay with her one night, which better fits the tune. The final word of each line of the chorus should be woe, not oh; this seems a very small point, but it's worth mentioning as that particular nonsense refrain was very common in songs noted in Southern England in the early years of the 20th century. Midi made from Peacock's notation. Quite a common song in tradition in England (where it appeared on broadsides) and Canada; also occasionally found in the North of Ireland. Roud Index number 1490.) | DT | thread |
| The Cruel Mother (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Cruel Ship's Captain (lyrics embedded) | DT | thread |
| Cruisin' Round Widgery Wharf [Charlie Ipcar] (Tune prescribed is Cruising Round Yarmouth; the traditional set from Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk may be the one intended, but the only one I've got is Sam Larner's. Midi made from notation in The Singing Island (Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, 1960).) | thread | |
| The Crusader's March (a traditional Scottish march sequenced by Matthew Richards (MattR)) | thread | |
| The Cuckoo | DT | thread |
| Culloden's Harvest | DT | |
| Cunnla | DT | thread |
| Cushendun Bay | thread | |
| The Cyclone of Rye Cove (Harmony in Chorus) | DT | |
| Dainty Davie (from The Dancing Master, 1701) | thread | |
| The Damper Song (from the Cub Scout Songbook) | thread | |
| Dan McCarthy's Party [J.E.Murphy c.1882.] | thread | |
| Dan McCarthy's Party (full score) | thread | |
| Dan O'Hara (from The Very Best Irish Songs & Ballads, Vol 2, Waltons Publications) | thread | |
| The Dancers of Stanton Drew | thread | |
| Dans La Prison de Londres | DT | |
| Dans les prisons de Nantes (4) | thread | |
| Danville Girl (2) | DT | |
| Darby Kelly (from The National Song Book) | thread | |
| Darby McGuire/M'Guire [D.K. Gavan] | thread | |
| Dark Eyed Molly | DT | thread |
| The Dark Eyed Sailor | DT | thread |
| Dark Eyes / Otchi Tchorniya | thread | |
| The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (full) [Harry Clifton (1862?)] | thread | |
| The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (melody) [Harry Clifton (1862?)] | thread | |
| The Daughter Of Peggy, O (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Day is Past and Gone (as sung by Jean Ritchie) | DT | |
| Day Now Is Done [Moravian folk tune] (May also be known as Skautska Vecerka/Scouts' Evening Song) | thread | |
| The Days of Forty-Nine [Text by Joaquin Miller, Tune by Leila France] (late 19th Century - from Singing Gold, the Sacramento Bee) | DT | thread |
| The Days of Forty-Nine [Charley Rhoades (Bensell)] (from Songs of the American West, Lingenfelter/Dwyer) | DT | thread |
| The Days of Forty-Nine [from the singing of "Yankee" John Galusha] (source: Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection) | DT | thread |
| The Days of Forty-Nine (John Lomax) (from John Lomax, Cowboy Songs, 1916) | thread | |
| The Days of Forty-Nine (Lomax) (from Lomax & Lomax, Best-Loved American Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Daysman | thread | |
| Dead Dog Scrumpy | DT | thread |
| Dear Mrs. Roosevelt [Woody Guthrie] | DT | thread |
| Dear Old Donegal | DT | |
| Death and the Lady (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Death and the Lady (2) | DT | thread |
| The Death of Queen Jane (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Death of Queen Jane (version 2 with lyrics embedded) | DT | thread |
| Deep Elem Blues (see also Down in Black Bottom) | DT | thread |
| Der Gute Kamerad (usually known as 'Ich hatt' einen Kameraden') | DT | thread |
| Desert Silvery Blue | thread | |
| The Deserter From Kent | thread | |
| The Deserter From Kent (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Devil and the Farmer's Wife | DT | |
| The Devil and the Ploughman (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Dewy Dens of Yarrow (A version of Child #214) | DT | thread |
| The Diamantina Drover [Hugh McDonald] | thread | |
| Die Gedanken Sind Frei | DT | thread |
| 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.) | thread | |
| The Dimming of the Day | DT | |
| Dirty Old Town | DT | thread |
| 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-) | ||
| Do You Love an Apple | DT | thread |
| A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week (from Old-Time String Band Songbook (Oak)) | thread | |
| 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).) | DT | thread |
| Donal Og | thread | |
| Donald Caird's Come Again | thread | |
| Donald Where's Your Troosers? | DT | thread |
| Donkey Driver (Jerusalem Cuckoo) [Folk variant; original lyrics by J.W. Rowley] (From the singing of Ray Padgett, Barnsley, UK) | thread | |
| The Donzella and the Ceylon | thread | |
| Doodle Let Me Go (Yeller Gals) | DT | thread |
| Doodle Let Me Go (Yeller Gals) (Fits the lyrics in the Digital Tradition) | DT | thread |
| The Dorset Militia Song (see also 'Old Militia Song') | thread | |
| Double Bunking | DT | thread |
| 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) | ||
| Down and Out | DT | |
| Down by the Riverside | DT | |
| Down in a Coal Mine [ J. B. [Joseph Bryan] Geoghegan] | thread | |
| Down in Black Bottom (see also Deep Elem Blues) | DT | thread |
| Down in the Cane Break | DT | thread |
| Down in the Coal Mine | DT | |
| 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.) | DT | thread |
| Down the Plughole (Dahn the plug'ole) | thread | |
| Doxology | DT | thread |
| Dragonfly [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| Drake's Drum (Words by Henry Newbolt, music by Florian Pascal (1897). Midi from 1906 edition of sheet music. (Vocal line only)) | DT | thread |
| The Dreadful Ghost (Midi made,... of that set in Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs (1962).) | DT | thread |
| 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) | DT | thread |
| 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. ) | DT | |
| Drifting Too Far From Shore | DT | thread |
| Droylsden Wakes (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Dublin City | DT | thread |
| Duffy's Hotel | thread | |
| Duke of Athol | DT | thread |
| 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.) | thread | |
| Duke of York (The Grand Old) | DT | thread |
| Dulaman | thread | |
| The Dumb Wife (see 'dumb,dumb,dumb') | thread | |
| Duna | DT | thread |
| Dunkirk [Ilsa St. Clair] | DT | thread |
| Durham Gaol [Jez Lowe] | thread | |
| Duw, It's Hard [Max Boyce] | DT | thread |
| The Dying Stockman 1 | thread | |
| The Dying Stockman 2 | thread | |
| Eamann Mhaga/ine | thread | |
| eanach dhuin | DT | thread |
| Earl Marshall (in DT as Queen Eleanor's Confession) | thread | |
| The Earl of Moray (The song that gave us the word "mondegreen") | DT | thread |
| The Eastern Train (from Read "Em and Weep (Spaeth)) | thread | |
| 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) | DT | |
| Eddie Baker's Muckspreader [John Kirkpatrick] | thread | |
| Edelweiss | DT | thread |
| Edelweiss [Rodgers & Hammerstein] (A rather syrupy interpretation) | DT | thread |
| Eence Upon a Time [from the singing of Jeannie Robertson] (from The Scottish Folksinger, Buchan & Hall) | thread | |
| Eileen Oge | thread | |
| Einini (Irish Lullaby) | thread | |
| El Tecolote (The Owl) (from A Treasury of Mexican Folkways) | thread | |
| The Enchanted Piss Pot (Tune: The Fond Boy: Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966) gives the melody for Fond Boy, as published in the Thesaurus Musicus of 1693 and credited to Thomas Tollett.) | ||
| English Ale [Harvey Andrews] | thread | |
| Eternal Father Strong To Save | DT | thread |
| Evergreen [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| The Face Upon the Barroom Floor [words: J.P. Skelly; music: Alfred Williams] | thread | |
| The Factor's Garland (Marguerite Olney noted a set from tradition in 1941, from a Mr. Nelson Powers of Mattawamkeag, Maine whether or not his tune is The Wand'ring Lady or a relative of it, ... it's the closest we are likely to get.) | DT | thread |
| Factor's Song (Recorded by Mr. Brown, September 13, 1930, in Manchester, Vermont, from the singing of Mr. Sharon Harrington as learned from his mother, Rebecca Smith Harrington." Vermont Folksongs and Ballads (Helen Hartness Flanders and George Brown, 1931) ) | DT | |
| Fagan the Cobbler | DT | |
| Fair Eliza (Midi made from the notation in Kinsley's Burns: The Poems and Songs (1969).) | DT | |
| The Fair Lady (This is quoted from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933), where it is called The Fair Lady. The DT file digests most of Moffat's notes on the song, though it would be worth adding the following: "The Luckenbooths were picturesque buildings in the High Street [of Edinburgh], close to St. Giles' Church. They stood there from about 1470 to 1817 when they were cleared away." Midi made from Moffat's notation.) | DT | |
| Fair Mary of Wallington (The text in the DT is Child's example #91C. and refers to a version printed...in Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882). ...it should be stressed that the joining of text and melody is pure conjecture, though based on Bronson's research) | DT | thread |
| Faith of Our Fathers (3/4) | DT | thread |
| Faith of Our Fathers (4/4) | thread | |
| Faithless Maria [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Falling Leaf [Lyrics, Annie M. Curtis. Music, A. C. Farnham] | DT | thread |
| The Falling of the Pine (Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy, Franz Lee Rickaby) | DT | thread |
| The False Bride (Dublin City??) | thread | |
| The Family Man [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| The Family Ointment | thread | |
| The Famous Light Brigade | thread | |
| Fan-a-winnow | thread | |
| Fanchon (French drinking song) | thread | |
| Far East Kitchen | ||
| The Far-Off Shore [Kate Wolf] | thread | |
| Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Fareweill Tae Whisky (Midi made from the notation in Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads, 1930,) | DT | |
| Farewell Farewell [Richard Thompson] (Richard Thompson set his song to Andy Irvine's Willy of Winsbury tune, which actually belonged to Fause Foodrage. Midi made by ear from Fairport's recording) | DT | thread |
| Farewell Johnny Miner | DT | thread |
| Farewell to Ballymoney | thread | |
| Farewell to Coigach [Murdo George MacLean, Montana USA, Circa 1910] (Mo Shoraidh Leis a' Coigich) | thread | |
| Farewell to Ireland | thread | |
| Farewell to Reason [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| Farewell to Reason / Frosty's Denial [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| Farewell to the Maigue (Sla/n le Ma/igh) | thread | |
| Farewell to the Monty | DT | |
| Farewell to the Rhonda Valley (Is this "Farewell to the Rhondda"?? -JRO-) | DT | thread |
| Farewell to Whiskey (notes from Malcolm:By Niel Gow (1727-1807); used as melody for two sets of lyrics in this thread: The Bawbee Birlin' (Rod Paterson and Michael Marra) and Gow's Farewell To Whisky (probably the poem by Mrs. Lyon of Glamis). see thread 20439) | thread | |
| Farewell, Adelita [Jack Splittard] (recorded by the Kingston Trio) | thread | |
| The Farmer Feeds Them All (Midi -melody line only- made from notation in The Century of Song, vol. II, comp. Adam Geibal (Philadelphia, 1897)) | DT | thread |
| The Farmyard (source: Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, Maud Karpeles, editor) | thread | |
| Father's Whiskers | DT | thread |
| Feast of Belshazzer | DT | thread |
| Feel So Near [Dougie Maclean] | thread | |
| Felix Kept on Walking [Words by Ed. E. Bryant, music by Hubert W. David ] | thread | |
| The Female Warrior | thread | |
| The Fenians of Cahirciveen | thread | |
| The Field Behind the Plow [Stan Rogers] | thread | |
| Fields of Clover [Jerry Rasmussen] (please see the linked thread for copyright information and how Jerry wants to handle permissions for performance, recording, etc.) | thread | |
| Fionnghuala (Lyrics embedded) | DT | |
| The Firefighter's Song [Ewan MacColl] (from The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook) | thread | |
| Firelock Stile | DT | |
| Firing The Mauritania | DT | thread |
| A Fisherman's Song For Attracting Seals | thread | |
| Fisherman's Wharf | thread | |
| The Fisherman's Wife (Midi made from notation in The Sang's the Thing, Sheila Douglas, 1992.) | DT | |
| The Fishermen's song | thread | |
| The Flat River Girl | DT | thread |
| Floating Down the Stream (The Fisher Ballad) (from the Folk Song Jamboree songbook, by Marais & Miranda) | thread | |
| Flower Lady [Ochs] | DT | thread |
| Flower of Scotland [Roy Williamson of the Corries] | DT | thread |
| The Flowers of Bermuda | DT | thread |
| Fly up my cock (2) (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People where it's called The Bonny Bushes Bright") | DT | |
| Fod (from The Folk Songs of North America, Alan Lomax, 1960) | thread | |
| Fogarty's Cove | thread | |
| Follow The Band | DT | thread |
| Follow the Drinking Gourd (from Lomax, American Ballads and Songs, 1934 - taken from the article by H.B. Parks) | thread | |
| Follow the Drinking Gourd (Weavers) (from The Weavers Song Book) | thread | |
| Folly and Fashion [John LaBern] (Performed by Harry Clifton) | thread | |
| Fond Boy (tune used for 'the Enchanted Piss Pot' aka The Lancashire Cuckold; or The Country Parish-Clerk betray'd by a Conjuror's Inchanted Chamber-pot, Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966) gives the melody for Fond Boy, as published in the Thesaurus Musicus of 1693 and credited to Thomas Tollett.) | thread | |
| Foolin' Around (from GutBucketeer) | thread | |
| The Footboy (from The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, Edith Fowke) | thread | |
| Footprints in the Snow (as in the Max Hunter archive) | DT | thread |
| The Forsaken Maiden (Version of As Sylvie Lay Weeping version noted by Sabine Baring Gould from James Parsons of Lew Down, Devonshire, in October 1888: The Forsaken Maiden (A Maiden Sat A-Weeping)) | thread | |
| Forty Shades of Green | DT | thread |
| Foster's Mill (Karl Dallas' One Hundred Songs of Toil (1974) comment "This song was first published in Ballads and Songs magazine") | DT | |
| Four Able Physicians/ The Tunbridge Doctors | DT | thread |
| The Fox and the Hare | thread | |
| Friggin' In The Riggin' | DT | |
| From Buffalo to Troy (from The Canaller's Songbook, William Hullfish, 1984) | thread | |
| From Clare to Here | DT | |
| From the Cold Sod That O'er You (Ta/im si/nte ar do thuama) | thread | |
| Frosty's Denial [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| The Funeral | DT | |
| Funiculi, Funicula | DT | thread |
| Furry Day Carol | DT | |
| Future Blues | DT | thread |
| Galbally Farmer | thread | |
| The Gale of August,'27 | thread | |
| Gallant Ninety-Twa (rom notation in John Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads, 1930.) | thread | |
| Galtee Mountain boy | thread | |
| Galway City | DT | thread |
| The Galway Shawl | DT | thread |
| The Gambler (MIDI File may be missing) | DT | |
| The Gaol of Clonmel | thread | |
| Gaol Song (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Gardai an Ri (Mícheál Ó hÉidhin, Cas Amhrán Cló Iar-Chonnachta) | thread | |
| Gardai an Riogh (Seán Ó Baoighill, 'Cnúsacht de Cheoltaí Uladh' (1944) ) | thread | |
| The Garlic Song [Ruthie Gorton] | DT | thread |
| Gaudete (Full Arrangement) | DT | thread |
| Gaudete (Melody line only.) | DT | thread |
| Gay Jemmie, The Miller (from Vermont Folk-Songs and Ballads, Flanders & Brown, 1931) | DT | thread |
| Geaftai/ bhaile bui/ Geaftí Bhaile Bhúi | thread | |
| Gentle Annie | DT | thread |
| The Gentle Maiden | thread | |
| The Gentleman Soldier (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Geography Song (Green Little Islands) | thread | |
| Geordie (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Geordie's Lost His Penker (Also known as "Wee Willie's Lost His Marley") | DT | thread |
| George Collins (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| George Collins (3) | DT | thread |
| Germs, My Invisible Dog [Dottie Rambo] | thread | |
| Gesu Bambino | DT | thread |
| Get up and Bar the Door | DT | |
| Get Up and Bar the Door (Child 275) (Don't know which version to link this to. If you know, tell Joe Offer.) | ||
| The Ghostly Fishermen (from Edward D. Ives, Drive Dull Dare Away: Folksongs from Prince Edward Island) | thread | |
| The Ghostly Sailors (from Helen Creighton, Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia) | thread | |
| Giant | thread | |
| Gilderoy | DT | thread |
| Gill Morice | DT | |
| Gillie Mor | DT | |
| Gimme de Banjo | thread | |
| The Girl I Left Behind Me | DT | |
| The Girls of Newfoundland (Source: Kenneth Peacock, 1965, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, vol. 3) | thread | |
| Give Me Jesus | thread | |
| Give Me Oil in My Lamp [A. Sevison] (from Our Chalet Song Book, Girl Scouts/Girl Guides) | thread | |
| Give Me Three Grains Of Corn, Mother | DT | |
| Give Me Your Hand (Tabhair dom do lamh) | thread | |
| Give My Love to Nell | DT | thread |
| Give My Your Hand | thread | |
| The Gladiator Song | DT | thread |
| Glasgow Peggie (3) (Child 228 in a childrens' variant. From Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from notation in that book. A 6/8 version of There's Nae Luck About the House) | DT | |
| Glossop Road [J. B. Geoghegan] (Midi made from notation in The South Riding Songbook, (Paul Davenport, 1998)) | thread | |
| Go to Sea Once More (aka Go to Sea No More) | DT | thread |
| A Gob is a Slob | DT | thread |
| God Bless the Grass | thread | |
| Going Home to Antrim Again | thread | |
| Gold and Silver (arrangement by Josef Marais, Folk Song Jamboree songbook) | thread | |
| The Golden Vanity (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Goliath of Gath | DT | thread |
| The Good Boy (from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag) | DT | thread |
| Good English Ale (from Roy Palmer, English Country Songbook) | DT | thread |
| A Good Glass of Ale (Can't find this one - can anyone direct me to the thread or DT song? -Joe Offer-) | ||
| A Good Glass of Ale (ABC) [jeff p] | thread | |
| The Good In Livin' (Rosin Up Your Bow) [Steven Sellors] | thread | |
| Good Morning Blues [As sung by Leadbelly] (The Leadbelly Songbook, Oak Publications) | thread | |
| Good Night and Joy [Niel Gow] | thread | |
| The Good Ship Yacki-Hicki-Doo-La [Billy Merson, 1917] | thread | |
| The Goose and the Gander | thread | |
| A Gordon for Me [Robert Wilson] | thread | |
| Gospel Ship | DT | |
| Govan Billiard Hall Song [Roddy McMillan] | thread | |
| Grace [Frank & Sean O'Meara, 1985] | DT | thread |
| Gracias a la Vida | DT | thread |
| The Grand Old Duke of York | DT | thread |
| Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer | DT | |
| Granemore Hare | DT | thread |
| Granny Snow (full) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Granny Snow (melody) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| The Grasshopper [Ryan Flynn © 1998] (By Ryan Flynn, son of Alice) | thread | |
| The Grave of Wolfe Tone | DT | thread |
| Grazier's Daughter (the song was noted by the Hammond brothers, as Betsy, The Servingmaid, from Robert Barrett of Puddletown, Dorset, in 1905.) | DT | |
| The Great Meat Pie | thread | |
| The Great Northern Line (Singabout #4, v.4, p7, 1962 - from the singing of "Duke" Tritton) | thread | |
| Great Tom Is Cast A Catch [Matthew Wise] (1667) | DT | thread |
| The Green Bed (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Green Brooms (3) | DT | thread |
| Green Corn (from The Leadbelly Songbook, Oak Publications) | thread | |
| The Green Fields of Gaodthdobhair (basic tune) | thread | |
| The Green Fields of Gaodthdobhair (plus instrumentation) | thread | |
| The Green Glens of Antrim | thread | |
| The Green Lady | DT | thread |
| Greenland Bound (Ord,...got his tune from a lady in Saltcoats who had noted it from "an old gentleman whose grandmother used to sing it to him ...", and remarked that it was identical to the one he remembered ...) ... midi of Ord's tune.) | DT | |
| The Greenland Whale Fishery (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Grey Cock, or Lover's Ghost (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Grey Hawk (A Variant) | DT | |
| Griselda | DT | thread |
| A Grown-Up's Lullaby (key change, and a little tweaking of the rests in the score.) | thread | |
| Gruel (lyrics embedded) | DT | |
| Guess I'll Go Eat Worms | DT | thread |
| The Gull Decoy | thread | |
| Gum Tree Canoe | DT | thread |
| Gum Tree Canoe (tune collected by Warren Fahey from Jim Cargill in 1973 ) | DT | thread |
| Gum Tree Canoe (the tune sung by Freddie Bolton ... and the accepted tune in folk circles ) | DT | thread |
| Gypsy Dance (Spanish) [lyrics by Kate T Sizer] (From: Folk Songs of Many Lands, 1911, Collected by J Spencer Curwen) | thread | |
| Gypsy Davy ( Widdermer Schauffler version) | thread | |
| Gypsy Davy (Flanders' version of "Gypsy Davy" (collected from Mrs. Woodbury)) | thread | |
| The Gypsy Is A Gentleman | thread | |
| The Gypsy Rover [Leo Maguire] | DT | thread |
| Ha' We To The Other World [Anonymous] | thread | |
| The Haggis of Dunbar (Malcolm notes:The DT file contains four variations of this little piece, from Scotland and Northern England. No mention is made of a tune, but there is a reel of the same name which appeared in The Athole Collection (James Stewart Robertson, 1884). Obviously, I don't know if the tune was ever associated with any of the texts -or with any other- but the coincidence of a rather unusual name does suggest it. Midi made from the notation in that book; the texts fit the "A" part of the music well enough, and it has been necessary only to remove one pickup note from the end of the fourth bar, doubling the duration of the previous note.) | DT | |
| The Haggis of Dunbar (the full tune) | ||
| Half Hitch | DT | thread |
| Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Revive Us Again) | DT | thread |
| Hand-loom weaver's lament (Midi made from notation in 100 Songs of Toil (Karl Dallas, 1974): version noted by John Higson from Common John Grimshaw.) | thread | |
| Hanged I Shall Be (Noted by E.J. Moeran from "Shepherd" Taylor of Hickling in Norfolk (1921).) | ||
| Hanging Johnny | thread | |
| The Happy Plowman (From the Silver Burdett music textbook, Music in Our Country, Book Five) | thread | |
| Hardyknute / Battle of Largs | DT | |
| The hare of Kilgrain | thread | |
| Harrigan [George M. Cohan, 1907] | thread | |
| Harris and the Mare | DT | |
| Harry Dunne | DT | thread |
| Haste To The Ferry [John Jenkins] (A Catch - 1652) | DT | thread |
| The Hat My Father Wore | thread | |
| Haul on the Bowline (Barry Finn Version) | DT | thread |
| Haunted Falls (Haunted Wood) (from Burt, American Mudrder Ballads) | thread | |
| Haunted Wood (from Fife & Fife, Cowboy & Western Songs) | thread | |
| He Comes Down Our Alley (from Folksongs of Britain & Ireland, Peter Kennedy) | thread | |
| Hear Mosquito Buzzing (from the Silver Burdett school songbook, Music Now and Long Ago) | thread | |
| Heart of the Appaloosa (from the Fred Small Songbook) | DT | |
| The Heavenly Aeroplane [J. S. McConnell] | DT | thread |
| The Hell-Bound Train (from Glenn Ohrlin's book, The Hell-Bound Train) | thread | |
| Hello, Somebody | thread | |
| Help Me Make It Thru The Yard (Help Me Make It Thru The Night) | DT | |
| Here Dwells a Pretty Maid [William Cranford] (1652) | thread | |
| Here Is My Home [Si Kahn] | thread | |
| Here We Come A Wassailing | DT | |
| Here's Adieu To All Judges And Juries (as recorded by Martin Carthy) | thread | |
| Here's Adieu To All Judges And Juries (as collected by Dr. Gardiner from George Blake in 1906) | thread | |
| Here's to the Grog (from Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | DT | thread |
| Here's to the Last to Die | DT | thread |
| Here's to the Maiden of Bashful 15 (melody only) | thread | |
| Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen (full score) | ||
| Heretic Heart [Catherine Madsen] | thread | |
| Hey Dee Roon (calypso) (from Sangam Git, a Girl Scout songbook) | thread | |
| Hey Good Lookin' | DT | thread |
| Hey Ho to the Greenwood [William Byrd, 1543-1623] (from Sol Weber's Rounds Galore!) | thread | |
| Hey The Dusty Miller (found on the Levy Site; Box 38 item 41 by Masato.) | DT | |
| Hi Horo's Na Horo Eile (The tune is a variant of Rory Dall's Port, to which Burns set his Ae Fond Kiss Midi made from the notation in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands) | DT | |
| Hi Lilli Hi Lo | thread | |
| Hicks the Pirate (A broadside copy of this song at the Bodleian Library, printed c.1860 by H. De Marsan of 38 & 60, Chatham Street, New York, specifies The Rose Tree as tune.) | DT | thread |
| Highland Fairy Lullabye | DT | thread |
| Highwayman | DT | thread |
| The Highwayman Outwitted (From The Journal of the Folk Song Society, vol.I, issue 5, 1904) | DT | thread |
| Hilary's Piggies | thread | |
| Hills of Connemara | DT | |
| Hind Horn (... appears to be Child's example H... No tune is recorded for this particular version, but Bronson gives 23 variants midi contains text of verses 1 and 2 matched to the melody.) | DT | thread |
| Hineh Ma Tov | thread | |
| Hineh Ma Tov (round) | thread | |
| Hiroshima / I Come And Stand at Every Door [Music by James Waters: "The Great Silkie"] | DT | thread |
| Hó i Hó i | DT | |
| Hogan's Lake | thread | |
| Hoggie (What Will I Do Gin My Hoggie Die? / Oh Leave Novels) | DT | |
| Hold To God's Unchanging Hand | DT | |
| Holla Hi, Holla Ho! (Horch was kommt von draussen rein) (from the Cooperative Recreation Service Work and Sing International Songbook) | thread | |
| Hollin, Green Hollin (Words by James Douglas of Cavers, set to "an old Border air" by Malcolm Lawson. Midi made from the notation in Songs of the North) | DT | |
| Home in that Rock (from Sing Out! Reprints) | DT | thread |
| Home in That Rock (from The Weavers Songbook) | DT | thread |
| Home Sweet Home | DT | thread |
| The Homes of Donegal [Sean McBride] (tune similar to "Tramps and Hawkers" or "Paddy West") | thread | |
| The Honest Labourer | DT | |
| Hoo Mony Miles is it to Glasca-Lea? (A Scottish form of How Many Miles to Babylon?. The DT file has two texts, both from sources that did not print the tunes, but identifies the set given in Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933) as a close variant. Midi made from notation in that book, then, where it is called How Many Miles to Babylon? ) | DT | |
| Hoop de Dooden Do [A. Nish] (from Heart Songs, 1909) | thread | |
| Hopping Down in Kent (variation for verse 7) | thread | |
| Hopping Down in Kent (variation for verse 3) | thread | |
| Hopping Down in Kent (variation for verse 1) | thread | |
| Hopping Down in Kent ('generic' tune - see variations in Mike Yates' article English Gypsy Songs (Folk Music Journal vol.3 no.1, 1975).) | thread | |
| Horn of the Hunter | DT | |
| Horsey Keep Your Tail Up (MIDI by "Polka Joe" Larson, of Norm Dombrowski and the Happy Notes) | thread | |
| Hostess's Daughter | thread | |
| The House That Jack Built | thread | |
| How Can I Keep From Singing [Ed Gutfreund] | DT | thread |
| How Can I Keep From Singing (from the GIA Gather Hymnal) | DT | thread |
| How Can I Keep From Singing (from the Unitarian Universalist (UU) hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition) | DT | thread |
| How Can I Keep From Singing (from Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal (1996)) | DT | thread |
| How Many Miles to Babylon? ( the set given in Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933) embedded the text as given by Moffat rather than modify the phrasing to accommodate the more Scottified text in the DT. Moffat has: How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten, Sir. Will we be there by candle-light? Yes, and back again, Sir! Ope' your gates and let us through, Not with-out a beck and boo! There's a beck and there's a boo, Ope' your gates and let us through.) | DT | |
| How Paddy Stole the Rope | DT | thread |
| How Pretty the Moon Looks Tonight | thread | |
| Hulyet, Hulyet, Kinderlach [Mordechai Gebirtig] (from Folksongs and Footnotes, Theodore Bikel, 1960) | thread | |
| An Hundred Years Hence (Claude. M. Simpson, (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966), gives notation for Robert Smith's tune, taken from Playford's Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673, noting that it was set to The Town Gallant in a different key and with slight alterations.) | thread | |
| The Hunter in his Career (tune taken from the songbook "Pan-Pipes: A book of Old songs" - 1883) | DT | thread |
| Hush My Mouth If I Ain’t Going South (from GutBucketeer) | thread | |
| Hush, Hush (Smile In Your Sleep) [Jim McLean] | DT | thread |
| Hush-a-ba Birdie Croon (Text apparantly from Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1870) where I think no tune was given. A close variant in Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933) is cited; midi made from notation in that book. ) | DT | |
| I Ain't So Young (from Randolph/Legman Roll Me In Your Arms) | thread | |
| I Am a Fine Musician | thread | |
| I Am A Music Man | thread | |
| I Don't Work for a Living | thread | |
| I Dream Of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair [Stephen C. Foster] (tune from "Treasury of Stephen Foster") | DT | thread |
| I Had a Cat | thread | |
| I had a hat when I came In | DT | thread |
| I Had a Little Overcoat / Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl (from Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, a children's book by Simms Tabak) | thread | |
| I Had a Wee Cock | DT | |
| I Have Been a Wild Boy | thread | |
| I Learned About Horses from Him [George B. German] (from Ohrlin, The Hell-Bound Train. It's unclear whether this tune is appropriate or authentic for the Kipling and Goebel Reeves versions.) | DT | thread |
| I May Not Pass This Way Again [Rod McKuen] (from Sparkles 6: Worktext in Music, Arts, and Physical Education (2005) Authors Lagarto, Et Al Publisher Rex Bookstore, Inc.) | thread | |
| I see the Moon | DT | thread |
| I Want To Have a Little Bomb Like You [Sydney Carter] | thread | |
| I Was Born | thread | |
| As I went by the Luckenbooths (This is quoted from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933), where it is called The Fair Lady. The DT file digests most of Moffat's notes on the song, though it would be worth adding the following: "The Luckenbooths were picturesque buildings in the High Street [of Edinburgh], close to St. Giles' Church. They stood there from about 1470 to 1817 when they were cleared away." Midi made from Moffat's notation.) | DT | |
| I Will Go (Made by ear from a Corries recording of the song. ) | DT | |
| I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again (Proffitt) (from Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection) | thread | |
| I Wish, I Wish (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| I Won't Marry (from A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book, Marcia and Jon Pankake) | thread | |
| I Wonder When I Shall Be Married | DT | thread |
| I'll Be No Submissive Wife (from the English Folksinger, Richards & Stubbs) | thread | |
| I'll Be No Submissive Wife [Alexander Lee, 1835] (from the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection) | thread | |
| I'll Be No Submissive Wife (1835 version from the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection (full arrangement)) | thread | |
| I'll Bid My Heart Be Still | thread | |
| I'll go and 'list for a Sailor (Noted by Dr. George Gardiner from George Lovett of Winchester in 1906, and from Alfred Oliver of Basingstoke in 1907. Midi made from notation in Marrowbones, ed. Frank Purslow (EFDS Publications, 1965).) | thread | |
| I'll Go Enlist For a Sailor [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| I'll Hae a Piper (Quoted from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from notation in that book. ) | DT | |
| I'll Have a Collier | thread | |
| I'll Not Marry at All (from Linscott, Folk Songs of Old New England) | thread | |
| I'll Remember You Love (In My Prayers) (aka When the Curtain of Night) | thread | |
| I'll Tell You Where They Were (from Sound Off: Soldier Songs) | DT | thread |
| I'm a Decent Boy from Ireland | thread | |
| I'm a Little Teapot | DT | |
| I'm a Man That's Done Wrong To His Parents | thread | |
| I'm a' Doun for Lack o' Johnnie | thread | |
| I'm As Irish As A Texas Girl Can Be [Matthew Richards (Mbo) words by Áine] (http://www.geocities.com/doireanne/imasirish.html) | thread | |
| I'm Going Back Again to Yarrawonga [Neil McBeath] | thread | |
| I'm Going Back to North Carolina (as sung by Frank Proffitt to Anne & Frank Warner, 1959) | DT | thread |
| I'm Going Over the Rocky Mountains (Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, #278B) | thread | |
| I'm Gonna Be An Engineer | DT | thread |
| I'm Just a Country Boy | thread | |
| I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts | DT | thread |
| Icy Acres | DT | thread |
| The Idiot | DT | thread |
| If It Wasn't For the Houses in Between [Words by Edgar Bateman / Music by George Le Brunn] | thread | |
| If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here | thread | |
| Il est ne, le divin Enfant | thread | |
| Impossible Dream | DT | |
| In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag) | DT | thread |
| In Heaven There Is No Beer | DT | thread |
| In Mindanao (from Jerry Silverman's American History Songbook - tune is "The Girl I Left Behind Me"?) | thread | |
| In My Garden Grew Plenty of Thyme | DT | thread |
| In Praise of the City of Mullingar [tune by Colm O Lochlainn] | thread | |
| In Praise of the Glen (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People, Page 195) | thread | |
| In Room 202 [Leslie/Kalmar/Lewis] | thread | |
| In the Days When We Went Gypsying [Melody by J. N. Sporle] | thread | |
| In the Old Bazaar in Cairo | DT | thread |
| In the Old Bazaar in Cairo | DT | thread |
| Innisfree (Not sure this is a correct match. Tune is "Innisfree." Lyrics are "Isle of Innisfree." If you know for sure, send me a personal message. -Joe Offer-) | DT | thread |
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Into the Air Junior Birdman (This is the @#$ Air Force Hymn. We still need the right tune. -Joe Offer- Joe - I have always heard Into the air Junior Birdman sung to the Air Force Hymn....isn't it?) |
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Into the Air, Junior Birdmen [Philip Egner] (Original tune: On, Brave Old Army Team (West Point fight song) -JRO-) |
DT | thread |
| Iona Boat Song | DT | |
| Irish Jaunting Car [1952 version attributed to Wilson Crean] | thread | |
| The Irish Lover's Morning Walk (The tune is first found as "The Irish Lover's Morning Walk" on a single sheet song with music, c 1780, and slightly later used for the song "Since Love is the Plan" in 'the Poor Soldier', 1783. ) | thread | |
| Irish ways and Irish laws | DT | thread |
| Irish Wedding Song (Tune doesn't seem quite right. If you have a better one, contact Joe Offer.) | thread | |
| Is é fáth mo bhuartha | thread | |
| Is there Anybody here like Mary A-weepin' | DT | |
| Isabella, the Barber's Daughter [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Island of bothies (This is an English translation of a set of FIONNGHUALA) | DT | |
| The Islands | thread | |
| Isle of France | thread | |
| Israeli Reel [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| It Had To Be Hugh (It Had To Be You) | DT | |
| It Is The Twilight Hour | thread | |
| It Isn't Nice [Malvina Reynolds] | thread | |
| It's Magic | DT | |
| It's Not the Miles We Travel [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb (from Song Fest) | DT | thread |
| It's Tragic | DT | |
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Ivan the Likeable [leeneia] (A tune by Leeneia in honor of Ivan the |
thread | |
| Jack Haggerty | DT | thread |
| Jack Tar | thread | |
| Jack The Jolly Tar (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Jackets Green [Michael Scanlan] (from The First Book of Irish Ballads (O'Keeffe/Healy)) | thread | |
| Jake and Roanie (from Glenn Ohrlin, The Hell-Bound Train) | thread | |
| Jake and Roanie (from Myra Hull, "Cowboy Ballads," Kansas Historical Quarterly, February, 1939) | thread | |
| Jamaica Farewell | DT | |
| Jamie Foyers [Ewan MacColl] (traditional Scots tune) | DT | thread |
| Janie on the moor (it was used for a similar variant in the same region, which will serve in Helen Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs (1962) which was noted from Nathan Hatt of Middle River, Nova Scotia, in 1952. ) | DT | |
| The Jarvey Was a Leprechaun | thread | |
| Jayne's Jig [Jon Freeman] | thread | |
| The Jealous Lover ((Noted by Helen Creighton from Nathan Hatt of Middle River, in June 1952) as far as I can tell this is unrelated to the two in the DT lmp) | thread | |
| The Jealous Lover | thread | |
| The Jeannie C | DT | thread |
| Jemima Brown [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Jennie Jenkins | DT | thread |
| Jenny Jenkins (Recorded by Mrs. Alice Brown, July 24, 1930, in Bethel, Vermont, from the singing of Mrs. Susan Chase, as learned from her aunt when a little girl. midi from notation in the book) | DT | thread |
| Jim Along Josey (from Sigmund Spaeth's "Weep Some More, My Lady") | thread | |
| Jim Along Josie (From "Tom Glazer's Treasury of Folk songs") | thread | |
| Jim Along Josie (From "Handy Play Party Book") | thread | |
| Joan to the Maypole (Midi made from notation in The New National Song Book (1957 edition). ) | thread | |
| Jock Sheep (midi twice as long as the verses in the DT file, to which should be added the following as chorus: Leatherum thee thou an' a' Madam aye wi' you, An' the seal o' me be abrachee, Fair maiden I'm for you.) | DT | thread |
| Joe Magarac [Jacob A. Evanson, 1946] (from Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, 1949) | thread | |
| John and William (collected by Josephine McGill, 1914, from an unnamed singer in Knott or Letcher County, Kentucky. Quoted by Bronson, Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol.I, 1959, from Josephine McGill's Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains, 1917.) | thread | |
| The John B Sails (Sandburg) (from American Songbag) | DT | thread |
| The John B.'s Sails (Alan Lomax) (from The Folk Songs of North America) | DT | thread |
| John Barleycorn [John Blount] (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| John Barleycorn (this text is an expanded set of the version of the song recorded by Fred Hamer in 1960 from William (Billy) Bartle of Wrestlingworth in Bedfordshire; midi made from the notation in Hamer's book Garners Gay.) | DT | |
| John Barleycorn Is a Hero Bold [written by Joseph Bryan Geoghegan in 1859 or 1860] | thread | |
| The John Birch Society [Michael Brown] (as sung by the Chad Mitchell Trio) | DT | |
| John Blount | DT | |
| John Dameray | thread | |
| John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 1 3/4 time with the odd bar of 4/4 stuck in!) | thread | |
| John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 2 3/4 time) | thread | |
| John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 3 6/8 time) | thread | |
| John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 4 3/4 time) | thread | |
| John O'Dwyer of the Glen (Tune 5 3/4 time) | thread | |
| John Paterson's Mare | DT | |
| John Peel ( -W. Metcalfe's version, 1868. This is referred to in more detail above; bear in mind that the tune usually used nowadays is just the third part (refrain) of the original. ) | DT | thread |
| John White (version 1) | DT | thread |
| John White (version 2 - Another song collected from Mrs. Russell of Upwey in Dorset by the Hammond brothers, and published by Frank Purslow in "The Wanton Seed". Mrs. Russell sang the song in two slightly different ways, hence two midis.) | DT | thread |
| Johnnie Verbeck (Dunderbeck) (from The Boy Scout Songbook (USA, 1963) - not the usual "Rambling Wreck"/"Gambolier" tune) | DT | thread |
| Johnnie's Gone for a Soldier (Shule Agra) | DT | thread |
| Johnny Barbour (Child #100) (from Ballads Migrant in New England, Flanders/Olney) | thread | |
| Johnny Booker (from the Old-Time String Band Songbook) | thread | |
| Johnny Doolan's Cat (Johnny Dolan's Cat) | thread | |
| Johnny Fell Down in the Bucket (from Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs) | thread | |
| Johnny My Man (aka Farewell Tae Whiskey Midi made from the notation in Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads, 1930,) | DT | |
| Johnny My Man (Belle Stewart's version, which she learnt from her brother, Donald MacGregor (Till Doomsday in the Afternoon ,MacColl & Seeger, 1986).) | DT | |
| Johnny Schmoker (Source: Heritage Songster, Leon & Lynn Dallin, 1966) | thread | |
| The Jolly Boatswain (from Folk Songs of the Catskills) | thread | |
| The Jolly Bold Robber | DT | thread |
| Jolly Old Country Squire (full) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Jolly Old Country Squire (melody) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Jon Freeman [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| Jowl an' Listen (As printed in Come All Ye Bold Miners (A.L. Lloyd, 1978) Noted by W. Toyn from Henry Nattress of Low Fell, County Durham, in 1962) | thread | |
| Joy of My Heart (tune: traditional:Leannan Mo Ghaoil) | thread | |
| Jug of Punch (2) (Kennedy included Loughram's set in his Folksongs of Britain and Ireland (1975) Midi made from the notation in that book; the embedded lyric is Loughram's version.) | DT | |
| The Julie Plante (from Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America) | thread | |
| Just As the Tide Was Flowing (From Kidson's 'Traditional Tunes', 1891. Tune from Mr. Lolly (Yorkshire), but text from a broadside.) | thread | |
| Just As the Tide Was Flowing | thread | |
| For Just One Dime [Mark Cohen] | DT | |
| Kafoozleum | thread | |
| Katie Bairdie (#1657a from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | DT | thread |
| Katie Beardie (2) | thread | |
| Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (from Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia) | thread | |
| Keepers & Poachers | thread | |
| Kelley's Irish Brigade | DT | |
| Kellswater | DT | |
| Kellswaterside (from ABC Tunefinder (compare with Lovely Glenshesk I)) | thread | |
| Keltie Clippie | thread | |
| Kentucky Waltz | thread | |
| The Kettle Valley Line (The Kettle Valley Line, as sung by Stan Triggs himself) | DT | thread |
| The Key of R [Libby Anthony] | DT | thread |
| Kilkelly [Peter Jones] | DT | thread |
| Killiecrankie | DT | |
| Da Kine [Mark Cohen] | thread | |
| King Jamie and the Tinkler (Kirkpatrick used the tune given in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (vol.III no.I, 1936), which is a traditional one found in Frank Kidson's manuscript collection) | DT | |
| King O'Luve (Child #89 (Fause Foodrage): this is Child's example C, and came from the Harris MS, "Derived from Jannie Scott, an old Perthshire Nurse, c.1790". Child and Bronson both refer to it as Eastmuir King The tune, given in Child as well as in Bronson, is the one that Andy Irvine mistakenly used for Willy of Winsbury) | DT | |
| The King of Borneo (Bastard King of England) [words & music by Frank Crumit, 1929] | thread | |
| King of the Fairies (set tune) | DT | thread |
| King of the Fairies (Another version) | DT | thread |
| Kinmont Willie [Child #186] (Bronson gives the tune published by Alexander Campbell in Albyn's Anthology (1816), with considerable reservations as to its authenticity) | DT | |
| Kitty from Coleraine | DT | thread |
| The Klan [Alan Arkin and David Arkin] | DT | thread |
| The Knickerbocker Line (from English Dance and Song ) | thread | |
| Knife In The Window | DT | |
| The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (Published by Cecil Sharp in "100 English Folk Songs" (1916), Lyrics embedded) | DT | thread |
| Kyrie de Moines (Rugby version) (From a French Rugby Song Website) | thread | |
| Kyrie des Moines (The Monks' Lament) | thread | |
| L'année Passée [Massie Patterson and Lionel Belasco] (from sheet music) | thread | |
| The Lachlan Tigers (May also be the tune for Musselburgh Field -JRO-) | DT | thread |
| Laddie With the Golden Hair (made from the notation in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands.) | DT | thread |
| The Lads of Virginia (see thread for multiple versions see also Australia see also Weary in Virginny,O) | DT | thread |
| Lady Leroy (This is taken from H.M. Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society, and came originally from A.F. Wade's MS collection, where no tune was given. Variants have been found in a number of places, but there is another set from Missouri at The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection: The Lady Leroy As sung by Mrs. Tressie Rose in Gainesville, Missouri on July 1, 1958.) | DT | thread |
| The Lady Leroy 2 (Midi made from the version in the Sam Henry collection) | DT | |
| The Lady Maria [Dave Robinson] (tune submitted by Dave Robinson himself) | thread | |
| The Lady of Skin and Bone i (appears to be an Irish version of the song, from Petrie's Ancient Music of Ireland (1855; p.166)) | DT | thread |
| Lady of Spain [Tolchard Evans, 1931] | thread | |
| Lagan Love | DT | thread |
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | thread | |
| Lambton Worm | DT | thread |
| The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds (given in Irish Street Ballads (1938). Midi made from the notation in that book.) | thread | |
| Lang Johnny Moore (Child 251, Bronson's tune No. 8) | DT | thread |
| The Lark in the Clear Air | DT | thread |
| Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal [Pat Gallagher] | thread | |
| Lassie Gathering Nuts | DT | |
| The Last Unicorn | DT | thread |
| The Last Voyage of the Union (Lovely Ann) (collected in 1896 by Dr John Clague from Tom Kermode of Bradda) | DT | thread |
| The Laughing Cat [Jeri Corlew] (for Katlaughing) | thread | |
| The Laughing Policeman | thread | |
| Lawd I Want Two Wings (from Mary Allen Grissom, The Negro Sings a New Heaven) | thread | |
| Lay Down, Little Dogies [Woody Guthrie] (from The Nearly Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Le Petit Mari | thread | |
| Le Roi Renaud | thread | |
| Le Roi Renaud (tune variation for verse 20) | thread | |
| Le Tueur de Femmes | thread | |
| The Lea Rig | DT | thread |
| Leafpeepers [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| Les Filles de Mon Pays | thread | |
| Les Tristes Noces | thread | |
| Let Each Man Learn to Know Himslef (Mormon Hymn) | thread | |
| Let Go the Reef Tackle | thread | |
| Let Her Sleep Under the Bar | thread | |
| Let Peace Prevail [Margaret J. Nelson] | thread | |
| Let Peace Prevail [Margaret J. Nelson] (from Sing Out! Magazine, Summer, 2002) | thread | |
| Let the Church Roll On (from The Negro Sings a New Heaven, Mary Allen Grissom, 1930, 1969) | thread | |
| Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing | DT | |
| Letter to Eve [Pete Seeger] | thread | |
| Lieber Heinrich (Wenn der Pott aber nu en Loch hat) (German version of "There's a Hole in the Bucket") | DT | thread |
| Liewer Heinrich (Dear Henry) (from Songs Along the Mahantongo: Pennsylvania Dutch Folksongs) | DT | thread |
| Liewer Heinrich (Dear Henry) (from George Korson's Pennsylvania Songs and Legends) | DT | thread |
| The Lifeboat Mona [Peggy Seeger] (from The Peggy Seeger Songbook) | DT | thread |
| Your Light from the Lighthouse | DT | thread |
| Lily the Pink | DT | thread |
| Lily the Pink / Winke (German song "Winke, Winke" - same tune as "Lily") | DT | thread |
| Líontar Dúinn an Crúiscín [Seán Bán Mac Grianna ] (see 'Fill Up the Jar' see also 'Crúiscín Lan') | thread | |
| Lisbon [Little Bridget Flynn] (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Little Birdie (from Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia) | thread | |
| Little Birdie (Randolph) (From Randolph, Ozark Folksongs, vol. 4, p. 122, A) | thread | |
| Little Bridget Flynn | DT | thread |
| Little Brown Jug (from George Butterworth Songs) | thread | |
| Little Chance (Midi made from the notation in A.L. Lloyd's Folk Song in England (source, Jack Elliott of Birtley). ) | DT | thread |
| The Little Chickens In The Garden [James A. Bland] (from the original sheet music, 1883) | DT | thread |
| The Little Chickens in the Garden (Randolph) (from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs) | DT | thread |
| The Little Drummer Boy | DT | thread |
| The Little Fighting Chance (from W. Roy Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia (1928, the text was noted from Robert Langille of Tatamagouche. aka: The Fourteenth of July, in Songs of the Peasantry of the Weald of Surrey and Sussex (1843);) | DT | |
| Little Jim [Almeda Riddle (tune only)] (from A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads) | thread | |
| Little Yellow Roses (Full) [unknown] | thread | |
| Little Yellow Roses (melody) [unknown] | thread | |
| London Town (Ring Dang Doo) (from Logsdon, The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing) | thread | |
| The Lone Fish Ball | DT | thread |
| Lonesome Dove 3 (Midi made from the notation in English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (Oxford University Press, 1952).) | DT | |
| Long Johnny Moore (Child 251) | DT | thread |
| Long Lankin (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Long Live the Pope (from the St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book) | thread | |
| Long Live the Pope (Harmony) (from the St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book) | thread | |
| Long Long Ago | thread | |
| Long Long Ago (full orchestration, for better or for worse) | thread | |
| A Long Time Ago (4) | thread | |
| A Long Time Ago (6) | thread | |
| A Long Time Travelin' (transcribed from a recording by Anne Hills) | DT | thread |
| Looby-Loo | DT | thread |
| Look to the Rainbow (from the musical - Finian's Rainbow) | DT | thread |
| Lord Lovel | DT | |
| Lord Nelson | DT | |
| Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Lord Thomas and Fair Elender | DT | |
| Los Bilbilicos (The Swallow Song) [Traditional Ladino)] | thread | |
| Lost Lady Found | DT | |
| Lough Erne Shore (Paddy Tunney's version, taken from his book "The Stone Fiddle") | thread | |
| Love in the Tub (per Malcolm:This is a Missouri text noted in 1910, for which no tune was recorded. There are a number of broadside examples (Love in a tub; or, the Old miser outwitted), but none of the accessible ones name a tune. However, Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966) mentions a broadside entitled A New Song called Love in a Tub (c. 1683), which was sung to the tune of Daniel Cooper. Now, this may be a completely different song; but it seems to be the nearest we are likely to get. Midi made from the notation given in Playford's Dancing Master (9th edition, 1695, reproduced in Simpson's book), with the caveat that this is only a guess at a tune for this particular text.) | DT | |
| Lovely Glenshesk (I) (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People, Page 165) | thread | |
| Lovely Joan (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Lovely Johnny | ||
| Lovely Nancy (Australian) (From Folk Songs of Australia, vol 1 (Meredith/Anderson)) | thread | |
| Lovely Stornoway [Calum Kennedy and Bob Halfin] | thread | |
| The Lover's Ghost, or Grey Cock (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Lover's Lament (Arrangement from Sandburg's American Songbag) | thread | |
| Lover's Lament (from American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, 1927) | thread | |
| Low Down in the Broom (Tune noted by W.P. Merrick from Henry Hills of Shepperton (originally of Lodsworth in Sussex) in 1900. Published in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, vol.I, issue 3, 1901.) | thread | |
| Lower the Yawl Boat Down | DT | thread |
| Lucy Wan (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Lucy Wan (as sung by Martin Carthy) | thread | |
| Lukey's Boat (from Fowke/Johnston, Folks Songs of Canada, reprinted in Heritage Songster) | DT | thread |
| Lula Viers (from W.K. McNeil, Southern Folk Ballads) | DT | thread |
| Lullin' the Littlin' (Midi made from the notation in Isla St.Clair's The Song and the Story (1981); it was written by her mother, Zeta MacDonald.) | thread | |
|
Lumberjack Prayer ((doxology)-Can't find lyrics in Forum or DT. Sand me a personal message if you can help find them. -Joe Offer-) |
DT | |
| Lumberman's Alphabet / Woodman's Alphabet | DT | thread |
| Lydia Pink (from Hopkins, Songs from the Front & Rear) | thread | |
| Lydia Pinkham (from Randolph/Legman, Roll Me In Your Arms) | DT | thread |
| Lydia Pinkham (Sandburg) (from Sandburg, American Songbag) | DT | thread |
| Lydia Pinkham (Shay/Loesser) (from Shay's My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. Similar to Loesser's Humor in American Song) | DT | thread |
| Lydia the Tattooed Lady [E.Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen] | DT | thread |
| Lyke Wake Dirge (in three parts - changes between 4/4 and 6/4) | DT | thread |
| Lyke Wake dirge (vocal line only) | DT | thread |
| Lyke Wake dirge (4 part vocal arrangement) | DT | thread |
| Lyke Wake Dirge (4 part vocals arrangment plus piano) | DT | thread |
| ma bhionn tu liom (casadh an tsugain alternative tune) | thread | |
| Macushla [Josephine V. Rowe and Dermot MacMorrough] (vocal line only) | DT | thread |
| Maggie | DT | |
| Maggie Lauder | DT | thread |
| Magherafelt Hiring Fair | thread | |
| The Magpie 2 (noted by Peter Kennedy and S. O'Boyle from Annie Jane Kelly at Keady, Armagh, in 1952, as The Magpie's Nest. The tune is a variant of The Cuckoo's Nest Midi made from notation in Kennedy's Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland, 1975.) | DT | thread |
| Maid and the Robber (Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, vol. II, p.286 un-named source) | DT | |
| Maid and the Robber (Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, vol. II, p.286 (Traditionally called Box on Her Head) from a Mrs. Strachan, c. 1908. Mrs. Strachan sang a refrain, not given in the DT: Wi my fal de do i di-do, fal-al-de-da.) | DT | |
| Maid of Australia | DT | thread |
| The Maid of Monterrey [J.H. Hewitt, 1851] (from Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk) | thread | |
| The Maids of Culmore (Maid of Coolmore) (From Sam Henry's Songs of the People) | thread | |
| The Maids of Simcoe | thread | |
| Major Andrews' Execution | DT | |
| Make and Break Harbour | thread | |
| Malaika | thread | |
| Malligan Fair ((Noted by Mrs. G.H. Daly from Mrs. Williams, Colston Almshouses, Bristol, c.1940 bars 9 & 10 repeat as necessary) | thread | |
| Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys | DT | |
| Mambru Se Fue A La Guerra | thread | |
| The Man of Burningham Town (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Manchester 'Angel' (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Manyura Manyah | DT | thread |
| The March of Intellect (from More Irish Street Ballads, by Colm O Lachlainn (1965). Tune also used for "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched.") | thread | |
| The March Past of Brian Boru | thread | |
| Marching to Pretoria (from World Folk Songs, by Marais and Miranda) | thread | |
| Marching to Pretoria (from World Folk Songs, by Marais and Miranda - simple version, without harmony) | thread | |
| MARGERY GREY (Helen Hartness Flanders and George Brown's Vermont Folk-songs and Ballads (1931): as noted from Mr. Orlon Merrill of Charlesworth (formerly Pittsburgh), New Hampshire, c.1930. This may not be the same tune used by Margaret MacArthur) | DT | thread |
| Marilee [MMario] (Lyrics at the Mudcat Songbook) | thread | |
| Marry? Oh No, Not I (a transcription from a recording by Margaret Christl, and names no traditional source. I think it a fairly safe bet that this was also taken from Peacock, who published a set -from Everett Bennett again- which is textually nearly identical, though Christl has made some minor alterations; including the title, which was Oh No, Not I. Compare, first Bennett's first verse, then Christl's: A Newfoundland sailor was walking the Strand, He met a pretty fair maid, and took her by the hand, Saying, "Will you come to Newfoundland along with me?" he cried. And the answer that she made to him was "Oh no, not I." A Newfoundland sailor was walking by the strand He spied a pretty fair young maid, and took her by the hand "Oh, will you go to Newfoundland, along with me?" he cried But the answer that she gave him was, "It's, oh no, not I." That's The Strand in London, rather than the seaside! Midi made from Peacock's notation. The song has turned up quite a bit in England and Canada, and occasionally in the USA; it appeared on 19th century broadsides both as No, my love, not I and The Newfoundland Sailor. Roud Index number 1403.) | DT | |
| Mary Fagan (from the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection; as sung by Mrs. Iva Haslett in West Plains, Missouri on July 31, 1958.) | DT | thread |
| Mary from Dungloe | DT | thread |
| Mary from Dungloe (MIDI from John in Brisbane) | DT | thread |
| Mary Had A Little Clone | DT | |
| Mary of Argyle | thread | |
| Mary Sunshine / Merry Sunshine 2 [G. Ambrose] (Words and music are given in Zuchtmann, Frederick. New American Music Reader. New York: Macmillan, 1903, page 29:) | thread | |
| Mary-Ann, or The Roving Gardener (full) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Mary-Ann, or The Roving Gardener (melody) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| The Maryborough Miner (from sheet music sent by John in brisbane the tune is also the tune for 'Murrumbidgee Shearer') | DT | thread |
| Marysheen Went to Bonan | thread | |
| Maurice Crotty | DT | thread |
| The May Blooming Field | thread | |
| May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister? (#841A from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs) | thread | |
| May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister? (from Brumley's Lamplitin' Songs & Ballads, 1977) | thread | |
| Mazlin's Mill | DT | |
| McCollam Camp | DT | thread |
| McKinley Brook | thread | |
| Men of the Sea [John Conolly and Bill Meek] | DT | thread |
| The Mermaid (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Merrily Danced the Quaker's wife | DT | thread |
| The Merry Green Fields of the Lowland (from Randolph, Ozark Folksongs, #457. Apparently an ancestor of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm.") | thread | |
| Merry Sunshine / Mary Sunshine [G. Ambrose] | thread | |
| Methodist Pie (#291A from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs) | DT | thread |
| Michael Finnegan | DT | thread |
| Mick Maguire | DT | thread |
| Midnight on the Water [attributed to Texas fiddler Luke Thomasson] | thread | |
| Miller Tae My Trade (Midi made from the notation in Sheila Douglas' The Sang's The Thing (1992) of a set from Willie MacKenzie of Elgin.) | DT | |
| The Miller's Last Will / Miller's Will | DT | |
| The Millman Song | thread | |
| Miner's Dream of Home [Will Godwin and Leo Dryden, 1891] | thread | |
| A Mirror Cannot Love | thread | |
| Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake | DT | thread |
| Mist-Covered Mountains (used by Jim McLean as tune for "Smile in Your Sleep" ("Hush, Hush, Time to Be Sleeping")) | DT | thread |
| Mister Booger (Johnny Booker) (from Randolph, Ozark Folksongs) | thread | |
| Mister Booger (Johnny Booker) (from Randolph, Ozark Folksongs) | thread | |
| Mister Rabbit | thread | |
| Mo Ghile Mear | DT | thread |
| Mo Ri Geal Dileas (Words by Iain MacGhill'Eathain (MacLean). Midi from the notation given in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands.) | DT | thread |
| Mo Roisin dubh | thread | |
| Mo Rùn Geal Dìleas (Bleacher Lassie) (Mo Rùn Geal Dìleas Midi based on the notation in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands slightly modified to fit the DT text with all note values doubled to achieve the right tempo.) | DT | thread |
| Mo Shoraidh Leis a' Coigich [Murdo George MacLean, Montana USA, Circa 1910] (Farewell to Coigach) | thread | |
| Molly Malone (arrangement) | DT | thread |
| Monongahela Sal [Robert Schmertz] (from George Korson's Pennsylvania Songs & Legends) | DT | thread |
| Month of January (per Malcolm:The DT text was transcribed from a June Tabor record; she seems to have recorded an arrangement of the traditional set that came from Sarah Makem, omitting the final two verses, as did Dolores Keane. Midi made from notation in Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, 1975, where it was called The False Young Man. Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle recorded the song from Sarah Makem in 1953 Roud Index no. 175, Laws P20. Variants have been found in Ireland, Canada, Scotland, the USA and England, often with titles like Cruel Was My Father, The Fatal Snowstorm, and so on. ) | DT | thread |
|
The Month of May (Copper Family ) |
DT | thread |
| Die Moorsoldaten (midi derived from one posted at www.grainger.de - source is qouted as Lieder der Arbeiterbewegung ) | DT | |
| Morning Has Broken | DT | thread |
| Morrissey and the Black (The DT text was taken from MacKenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia, where no tune was given. Midi made from notation in Edward Ives' Folksongs of New Brunswick (1989); that example came from Spurgeon Allaby, and is a variant of Villikins and His Dinah. Obviously, we don't know whether or not Harry Sutherland used that tune or one like it.) | DT | thread |
| Mother Machree | DT | |
| A Mother's Love's a Blessing | thread | |
| Mother, May I Go Out to Swim (source: Ozark Folksongs, Vance Randolph, 1982) | DT | thread |
| Mother, May I Go Out to Swim (Source: Roll Me In Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume 1 (Vance Randolph, 1992)) | DT | thread |
| Mother, Mother, Make My Bed (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Mothers, Daughters, Wives | DT | thread |
| A Motto for Every Man [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| The Mountain Stream | DT | thread |
| The Mountain Streams where the Moorcock Crows (tune from "Music and Song from the Boys of the Lough") | thread | |
| Mr. Block ("To the tune of: It Looks To Me Like A Big Time Tonight". Midi made from notation originally printed in Sing Out! vol.1, 1959.) | DT | |
| Mr. Rabbit (from Burl Ives - Song in America - Our Musical Heritage) | thread | |
| Mr. Tambourine Man | DT | |
| Mrs. Adlam's Angels [Ralph McTell] (Midi made from notation in Ralph McTell, Essex Books, 1972. ©Essex Music, 1968.) | DT | thread |
| The Music of Healing [Tommy Sands] | thread | |
| Music of the Piper (ala:Ceol An Phíobaire) | thread | |
| Must I Be Bound (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People) | thread | |
| Must I Go Bound (from Okun, Something to Sing About) | thread | |
| Must I Go Bound (from Something to Sing About, arrangement by Milton Okun) | thread | |
| My Blue-Eyed Boy (from Randolph, vol. IV, Ozark Folksongs ) | thread | |
| My Bonny Moorhen | DT | thread |
| My Boy Tammy (Scots Musical Museum, VI, 1803, no.502) | thread | |
| My Boy Willie (from One Hundred English Folksongs, Cecil J. Sharp, 1916) | DT | thread |
| My Collier Laddie ( Midi made from the notation in Kinsley's Burns: The Poems and Songs (1969).) | DT | |
| My Dearest Dear (from Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (Sharp/Karpeles, 1968) ) | thread | |
| My Father's Servant Boy (Midi made from a version in Sam Henry's Songs of the People (Huntington, Herrman & Moulden, 1990); the tune came from Samuel Davison of Drumnakeel, Ballyvoy, Ballycastle, in 1927 may not be same tune as it was set to in Nova Scotia) | DT | |
| My God He Is a Rock | thread | |
| My Good Old Man (Bradley Kincaid version) | DT | |
| My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains (Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, #278A) | thread | |
| My Johnny Was a Shoemaker (from Colm O'Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads (Vol.II) It was noted from Alice Deady of Waterford.) | DT | thread |
| My Johnny Was A Shoemaker (tune as modified by Gay Woods and Maddy Prior.) | DT | thread |
| My Lady and Her Mayd [William Ellis] (1652) | thread | |
| My Last Cigarette | thread | |
| My Mother In Law [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| My Name Is Paddy Leary (Off to Philadelphia) [Battison Haynes] | DT | thread |
| My Name Is Yon Yonson (from Song Fest) | thread | |
| My Name Is Yon Yonson (from Songs for Swinging Housemothers) | thread | |
| My Old Kentucky Home | DT | thread |
| My Old Man's a Dustman | thread | |
| My Only Jo and Deary-O | thread | |
| My Pretty Quadroon (Full) [Mrs. Mary Dodge, 1863] | thread | |
| My Pretty Quadroon (Lead) [Mrs. Mary Dodge, 1863] | thread | |
| My Son John (Midi made from the notation in Hamer's book Garners Gay (1967).) | DT | |
| With My Swag upon my Shoulder | DT | |
| My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes With Bears [Dr. Seuss and Eugene Poddany] (from The Cat in the Hat Song Book, 1967) | thread | |
| My Yiddishe Momme [ Lew Pollack and Jack Yellen, 1925] | thread | |
| Nadal Dels Aucels (Carol of the Birds) | thread | |
| Nancy Brown (expanded tune (with the "hot damns" and "that's no lies") - from gargoyle) | DT | thread |
| Nancy Brown (basic tune) | DT | thread |
| Neener Neener Nyah Nyah (the traditional children's taunt) | thread | |
| Never Look Behind [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| New Mown Hay | DT | thread |
| The New River Shore (from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) | thread | |
| The New York Trader | DT | |
| The New York Trader (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| New Zealand Whales/Cruising for Sperm | thread | |
| Newgrange | thread | |
| The Newry Highwayman | DT | thread |
| The Next Big River | thread | |
| The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (from More Irish Street Ballads, by Colm O Lachlainn (1965). Tune also used for "The March of Intellect.") | thread | |
|
The Nightingale (This is Promontory Point. Joe Offer associated MIDIs from the beginning of the alphabet, and MMario started from the end - and Pene Azul did lots before we started. Whew! -Joe Offer- Trouble is, I'm not sure this is the right nightingale.) |
DT | thread |
| The Nightingale (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People) | thread | |
| Nikolina (MIDI from the now-defunct Website of Don Erickson) | thread | |
| nil na la | thread | |
| nil na la 1 | thread | |
| nil na la 2 | thread | |
| nil na la 3 | thread | |
| No Beer, No Work [Sammy Edwards, 1919] | thread | |
| No Churchman Am I [Robert Burns] (The tune is Prepare, my dear Brethren, to the tavern let's fly; midi made from notation in James Kinsley, Burns: Poems and Songs (OUP, 1969). In the fourth line of the first stanza, "business" is given one syllable only.) | DT | |
| Noble Lads of Canada | DT | |
| Nobleman's Wedding | DT | thread |
| Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's 40 | thread | |
| Nonesuch / None But One (Compare with Jean Ritchie's song, "None But One.") | thread | |
| Normandy Orchards | DT | thread |
| Northeast Passage | DT | |
| The Northern Lights of old Aberdeen (from 'Busking Around The World' posted by John in Brisbane -) | DT | thread |
| Northwest Passage | DT | |
| Nos Galan (Deck the Halls) | thread | |
| Not My Colorado [katlaughing] | thread | |
| Nothing But the Same Old Story [Paul Brady] | thread | |
| Nothing But the Same Old Story [Paul Brady] (melody only) | thread | |
| Now is the Month of Maying (Midi made from notation in The New National Song Book (1957 edition). ) | thread | |
| Nut Brown Maiden (Midi made from the notation in Alfred Moffat's Highland Minstrelsy.) | DT | thread |
| Nuts in May (from Folk Songs of Old New England) | DT | thread |
| ny kirree fo niaghtey | thread | |
| O I'm a Jolly Bachelor [Chas. Super and Fred B. Holmes, 1860] | thread | |
| O Shepherd, O Shepherd ((Joe - as far as I can tell this midi is the same as the one below except for volume - lmp)) | thread | |
| O Shepherd, O Shepherd (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| O'Reilly And The Big McNeill | DT | |
| O/ro/ se/ do bheatha 'bhaile | thread | |
| The Oakham Poachers | DT | thread |
| The Obituary [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| Off To California (one of many versions at JC's ABC Tunefinder) | DT | thread |
| oganaigh oig | thread | |
| Oh, How I hate to get up in the Morning | DT | |
| Ohio (Old Macdougal Had a Farm) (from Tommy's Tunes, 1917) | thread | |
| The Old Apple Tree | DT | thread |
| Old Bonebags [Jimmy Eaton] (from Music Near and Far, the 1956 Silver Burdett fourth-grade music textbook) | thread | |
| Old Christmas Returned [Mathew Lock] | thread | |
| Old Cock Crows | thread | |
| The Old Doorstep (vocal line) | DT | thread |
| The Old Doorstep (with piano part and harmonies) | DT | thread |
| The Old Dun Cow | DT | |
| Old Fid | DT | thread |
| The Old Figurehead Carver (midi by Blessings Barbara) | thread | |
| The Old Fish Song | DT | |
| Old Folks At Home | DT | thread |
| Old Fox Wassail (2) | DT | thread |
| The Old Geezer (Traditional American Folk Songs from the Frank & Anne Warner Collection, #182) | thread | |
| Old Gospel Ship | DT | |
| The Old Gray Horse Came Tearing Through The Wilderness (Source: Thomas W. Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes, 1922, 1949, 1991 ) | thread | |
| Old Kentucky Home | DT | thread |
| Old King Coul (3) (per malcolm Douglas: An 18th century Scottish version of the well-known song. Midi made from notation in Songs of Scotland vol.2 (ed. Myles B. Foster, undated; presumably late C19), where the tune is simply described as "ancient". The DT file points out that lines 5 and 6 of the text are omitted in the Scots Musical Museum, where the tune (presumably the same as the one I quote) was given, so it should be noted that the lines And every fidler was a very good fidler, And a very good fidler was he. do not have music prescribed. I don't know what the best way around this is; Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time) has two English versions, but the one with the extra lines is very different to the SMM tune, which is a variant of the tune from John Gay's Achilles, which Chappell also quotes. Best for now, I think, to note that the text from Herd given in the DT has no tune, but that the tune I give is the one to which it was actually sung, minus those two lines. Doubtless people can improvise the rest if they wish) | DT | |
| Old Mac Donald Had a Farm (McDonald's Farm) (#125a from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) | thread | |
| The Old Man From Lee (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Old Man from the Old Country (Child #10) (from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs, #4e, The Miller's Daughters.) | thread | |
| The Old Man's Tale/Old Man's Song [Ian Campbell] (Properly called The Old Man's Song;set to the tune of Nicky Tams. Midi made from notation in The Big Red Songbook (Pluto Press, 1977). ) | DT | thread |
| Old Militia Song (see also The Dorset Militia Song ) | thread | |
| Old Miner ( The song was published in Roy Palmer's Songs of the Midlands (1972); it was collected by John Moreton in the early 1960s, from an unnamed source. Palmer notes: "Sung by an old miner in Haunchwood Pit, Nuneaton, Warwickshire... The pit is now closed. The informant originated in Durham, where he had learned the tune. The words were his own." see thread for text.) | DT | thread |
| Old Molly Hare | DT | |
| Old Robin Adair | DT | |
| The Old Songs (Words by Bob Copper, tune by Peter Bellamy) | thread | |
| The Old Spinning Wheel | DT | thread |
| Old Stepstone | DT | |
| Old Tante Koba (from the Marais & Miranda songbook, Folk Song Jamboree) | thread | |
| On Board of a Man of War O | thread | |
| On Board of a Man of War O (from Maud Karpeles (ed), Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| On Board of the Kangaroo (from Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas) | thread | |
| On Board of the Kangaroo [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| On Eagle's Wings | DT | thread |
| On Monday Morning (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| On Sedgemoor (The Marsh Fever) ( From Ruth L. Tongue's book, The Chime Child) | thread | |
| On The Good Ship Enterprise | DT | |
| On the Lac San Pierre (from Franz Lee Rickaby's Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy) | thread | |
| On The Road To Mandalay | thread | |
| Once I Had a True Love (version of As Sylvie Lay Sleeping: an 18th century example of the tune, from Wright's Complete Tutor For Ye [sic] Flute, c.1733, quoted by Stephen Sedley (The Seeds of Love, 1967).) | thread | |
| Once I Had a Truelove (from Wright's Complete Tutor For Ye [sic] Flute, c.1733. ) | ||
| Once I Had an Old Grey Mare (from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) | thread | |
| Once I Had an Old Grey Mare (from Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles, English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians, vol.II no.223A, p.326.) | thread | |
| Once there were Green Fields (orchestrated) | DT | thread |
| One I Love [Jean Ritchie] (from Jean Ritchie's "Celebration of Life" Songbook) | thread | |
| One Night As I Lay On My Bed (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| One Night Upon My Rambles (first published in the Journal of the Folk Song Society (vol. I, number 3, 1904). W. Percy Merrick got it from Henry Hills (c. 1831-1901), of Lodsworth, near Petworth in Sussex. He had learned it from his mother tune used for Reynardine (2)) | DT | thread |
| One Tin Soldier | DT | thread |
| One World (from the Girl Scout Sangam Git songbook) | DT | thread |
| Only Our Rivers Run Free | DT | thread |
| Oranges and Lemons (say the bells of....) (from The Singing Game by Iona and Peter Opie) | DT | thread |
| The Orphans' Lament (Two Little Children) [As sung by Jean Ritchie] (from the Folkways CD "Precious Memories.") | DT | thread |
| The Outlandish Knight (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| T' Owd Yowe Wi' One Horn (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Owl and the Pussycat | thread | |
| Oxford City (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Oyster Girl (from Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland, by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) | thread | |
| Packington's Pound (A caveat for Cutpurses) | DT | |
| Paddle Your Own Canoe [lyrics by Harry Clifton, Tune by Charles Coote, Jr] | thread | |
| Paddy McGinty's Goat | DT | thread |
| Paddy on the Road (also known as Building Up and Tearing England Down) | thread | |
| Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore | DT | |
| Paddy, Get Back | thread | |
| The Painful Plough | DT | thread |
| Papaya Tree / Leron Leron Sinta (Filipino folk song, also found in American school songbooks) | thread | |
| Passing Through [Dick Blakeslee] (from Lift Every Voice!: The Second People's Songbook) | DT | thread |
| Patrick's Arrival | thread | |
| Pauvre Soldat | thread | |
| Pavanne et Galliard de la Chatte [Kathleen LaFrance] | thread | |
| The Paw-Paw Patch (from Lomax: The Folk Songs of North America) | thread | |
| The Pawky Duke [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Peace I Ask of Thee Oh River (from the memory of pattyClink) | DT | |
| Peace in the Valley [Thomas A. Dorsey] | thread | |
| Peace Round [Jean Ritchie] (from Celebration of Life songbook, Jean Ritchie, 1971) | thread | |
| The Peanut Stand (from Oscar Brand's Singing Holidays Songbook (Knopf, 1957 - page 211) ) | thread | |
| The Pear Tree (Version from Frank Hinchliffe of Sheffield. Midi made from notation in The South Riding Song Book (Paul Davenport, 1998). ) | thread | |
| Pearl Bryan (from Brewster, Ballads and Songs of Indiana) | DT | thread |
| Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) (fro Something to Sing About, Okun) | DT | thread |
| Peigin Leitir Moir | thread | |
| The Pender Harbour Fisherman | DT | |
| Pennyworth of Pins (Example 1 of 3 cites Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933) for tune; midi made from notation in that book. In Moffat it is called I'll Gie You A Pennyworth O' Preens; the text differs just slightly from the DT file, and for the sake of understanding how the tune fits should be indicated here: I'll gie you a penny-worth o' preens, That's aye the way that love begins; If you'll walk wi' me, ladye, If you'll walk wi' me, ladye. N.B. The two other examples have different tunes, to be found in Opie, The Singing Game and Buchan, 101 Scottish Songs respectively; these still need to be found and added. ) | DT | |
| Peter Gray (from Our Singing Country, Lomax & Lomax) | thread | |
| Peter Gray (from The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | thread | |
| Phil the Fluther's Ball | DT | thread |
| A Picnic on the Grass (from 140 folk-tunes, edited by Archibald Thompson Davison; 1922, E.C. Schirmer Music Co.) | thread | |
| The Pig and the Inebriate | DT | |
| Piper Sandy (DT file quoted from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from notation in that book.) | DT | |
| A Place in the Choir | DT | thread |
| The Pleasant Month of May (Copper Family) | DT | |
| The Plough boy (full arrangement:From The Cornish Song Book (Lyver Canow Kernow), Ralph Dunstan, 1929; re-printed 1974. © Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd. The last two lines of the chorus are indicated to be sung twice.) | ||
| The Plough Boy (vocal line) | ||
| The Ploughboy and the Cockney (Noted by H.E.D. Hammond from Mr. John Greening at Cuckold's Corner, Dorset, in May 1906. Journal of the Folk Song Society, vol.III issue 11, 1907) | thread | |
| The Ploughman (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Polish Haying Song / Poniedzialek Rano (from Sing Around the World songbook, Cooperative Recreation Service) | thread | |
| Poor Lil' Brach Sheep | DT | thread |
| The Posie [Robert Burns] (Midi made from notation in James Kinsley, Burns: Poems and Songs (OUP, 1969)) | DT | thread |
| The Praties They Grow Small | DT | thread |
| A Present from the Gentlemen [Rudyard Kipling/Bellamy] (It is correctly called A Smuggler's Song, and appeared in Puck of Pook's Hill. Midi made from notation of Bellamy's music as given in The Song and the Story (Isla St Clair and David Turnbull, 1981).) | DT | |
| El Preso Numero Nueve [Hermanos Cantaral] (from the Young Folk Song Book) | DT | thread |
| Press Gang (near equivalent text was noted by E.J. Moeran from James Sutton of Winterton, Norfolk, in 1915; midi made from the notation given in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, Vol. 7, No. 26 (1922).) | DT | thread |
| Pretendy Land | DT | thread |
| The Pretty Blue Handkerchief (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People) | thread | |
| Pretty Peggy of Derby, O (Midi made from notation in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. III (c.1788), as transcribed into abc by Richard Robinson.) | DT | |
| Prince Charles and Flora MacDonald's Welcome to Sky | DT | thread |
| Prince Heathen (belongs to the Cruel Mother/Hind Horn tune family. Midi made from notation in My Song Is My Own (ed. Kathy Henderson et al., 1979). ) | DT | |
| The Prodigal's Resolution (Midi made from Playford's notation, as reproduced in Simpson's The British Broadside and Its Music (1966).) | DT | |
| Proshchai / Proshchay (Farewell) (from Folksongs and Footnotes, Theodore Bikel, 1960) | thread | |
| Proud Lady Margaret (collected by Greig from Bell Robertson (1914); ... another, fragmentary text, with tune, which was noted from a Mrs. Gordon of New Deer, Aberdeenshire, in 1904. ...the two were found in the same locality only a few years apart, ) | DT | |
| The Proud Tailor | DT | thread |
| Pull for the Shore [Philip P. Bliss, 1873] (tune copied from cyberhymnal.org) | thread | |
| Pulling Hard Against the Stream [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Push Boys Push (This was composed by members of the Dudley Tunnel Trust (in the 1970s, presumably). (Malcolm) found staff notation at Rod Beavon's Canal Songs and Poems; it appears to be a modified form of Ten Green Bottles. Midi made from that notation, slightly modified for neatness and to accommodate the lyric. ) | DT | thread |
| Put Your Little Foot (R.P. Christeson, ed., The Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory, Volume 2) | thread | |
| Put Your Little Foot (from Oscar Brand, Folk Songs for Fun) | thread | |
| Put Your Little Foot (from Glenn Ohrlin, The Hell-Bound Train ) | thread | |
| The Quaker's Courtship (from Helen Creighton, Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia) | thread | |
| The Quaker's Courtship (from This Is Music 5 school textbook. Collected by Helen Creighton.) | thread | |
| The Quaker's Wooing (A version of "The Quaker's Courtship" from Songs and Ballads of Ohio, Eddy) | thread | |
| The Quarter Master's Stores (from Songs from the Front and Rear, Hopkins) | DT | thread |
| Queen Among the Heather (recorded by Peter Kennedy from the singing of Jeannie Robertson, 1953) | thread | |
| Queen Eleanor's Confession | DT | thread |
| The Queen of Argyle [Andy M. Stewart] | DT | thread |
| The Rabbit Trapper's Song (Original tune as sung by Basil Cosgrove in 1973) | thread | |
| The Rabbit Trapper's Song (Dave de Hugard version) | thread | |
| The Rabbiter's Song [Stan Wakefield] | thread | |
| The Races of Ballyhooly | thread | |
| Radhadlam Raindi | thread | |
| The Railway Belle (full version) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| The Railway Belle (melody only) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Raise a Ruckus Tonight (from Something to Sing About, Okun) | thread | |
| Raise up Your Voices | thread | |
| Raise Your Voices in the Song (by Genie!) | thread | |
| The Rambling Comber | thread | |
| Rambling Robin | thread | |
| The Rang-a-Tang-Too (#31b from Randolph & Legman, Roll Me in Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore) | thread | |
| Rap Her to Bank | DT | thread |
| The Rape of Glencoe | DT | thread |
| The Rapparee | thread | |
| The Ratcatcher's Daughter | thread | |
| Ratcliffe Highway (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Rattin Family (from Songs for Swinging Housemothers) | thread | |
| Rattler (version recorded by Bradley Kincaid) | thread | |
| Rebel's Fancy [Jeff Porterfield (jeffp)] | thread | |
| Reconciliation [Ron Kavana] | thread | |
| Rectal Bleeding Calypso [John Dengate] | thread | |
| The Red Herring (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| 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. ) | DT | thread |
| The Red Light Saloon | DT | thread |
| Red Rose Cafe | DT | thread |
| Reuben Ranzo (1) | thread | |
| Reuben Ranzo (2) | thread | |
| 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) | DT | |
| Reynardine (Donegal tune, as published by Herbert Hughes.) | thread | |
| 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." ) | thread | |
| Ride the Chariot | thread | |
| Right Said Fred | DT | thread |
| The Ring-Dang-Doo (#31a from Randolph & Legman, Roll Me in Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore) | thread | |
| Ripest of Apples | thread | |
| Rise and Shine | DT | |
| Riu Riu | DT | |
| The Road Goes Ever On [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Roast Beef of Old England (Lyrics embedded) | DT | |
| Robin Adair | DT | thread |
| Robin Cam' to the Wren's Door (midi made from the notation in James Kinsley's Burns: Poems and Songs (OUP, 1971)) | DT | thread |
| Robin Hood and Alan A Dale | DT | thread |
| Robin Hood and the Pedlar (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| 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. ) | DT | |
| Rock O' My Soul (from Slave Songs of the United States, 1867) | thread | |
| Rockabye Baby | DT | |
| The Rocks of Bawn | DT | thread |
| The Rocks of Scilly (from Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia, Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior) | DT | thread |
| The Rocks of Scilly (from ABC Tunefinder) | DT | thread |
| 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.) | thread | |
| Roisin dubh | thread | |
| Roll On The Day [Allan Taylor] | thread | |
| Roll On, Silver Moon [J.W. Turner] | thread | |
| Roll the Cotton Down (1) | thread | |
| Roll the Cotton Down (2) | thread | |
| Roll, Columbia, Roll [Woody Guthrie] (from the Sing Out! songbook, Roll On Columbia, The Columbia River Collection) | thread | |
| Roller Coaster/ Silver Spire [Jon Freeman] (Silver Spire - Trad) | thread | |
| Romans and English (from The Singing Game, Iona and Peter Opie) | thread | |
| Room Full of Roses | DT | thread |
| Rosbif Waltz | thread | |
| The Rose | DT | |
| 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.) | thread | |
| Rose of Alabamy | DT | thread |
| 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. ) | DT | |
| Rose, Rose (from Rise Up Singing songbook) | DT | thread |
| Rose, Rose (from Sol Weber's Rounds Galore) | DT | thread |
| Rosie Anderson (From The Folk Music Journal, 1966. James Duncan collection: noted from a Mrs. Gillespie in 1905.) | DT | |
| Rosie Ann | thread | |
| 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).) | DT | thread |
| Rounding the Horn (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Roving Highlander (This is the tune for #253B in Greig-Duncan) | thread | |
| The Roving Ploughboy-O (from Peter Kennedy, The Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | thread | |
| The Row-Dow-Dow (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs??) | DT | |
| Royal Oak | DT | |
| Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer | DT | |
| Rufus' Mare | thread | |
| Rum and Coca Cola [Disputed Authorship] (from The World's Greatest Fakebook - Warner Brothers) | thread | |
| Ryan Flynn's Tune [Ryan Flynn ©1998] | ||
| Rybar (Rybak) | thread | |
| ' S óró londubh buí (traditional tune (O my blackbird gay) used for Brown and Yellow Ale) | ||
| Sabrina Fair [Milton] | thread | |
| Sagart na Cuile Baine | thread | |
| The Sailor From Dover (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| A Sailor in the North Country (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| A Sailor's Life (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman (from Clinton's 'Gems of Ireland', c 1840) | DT | thread |
| Saints of God | DT | |
| Salisbury Plain (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Sally Ann (From Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads) | thread | |
| Sally Anne (from The Folk Songs of North America (Alan Lomax)) | thread | |
| The Sally Buck (Collected by Cecil Sharp from William Wooton at Hindman, Kentucky (Sharp 159A)) | thread | |
| The Sally Buck (Collected by Cecil Sharp from Alex Coffey, Nash, Virginia, May 9, 1918) | thread | |
| Sally Monroe | DT | |
| Sally Wheatley | DT | thread |
| Sand Dance [Wilson Kepple and Betty] (full version) | thread | |
| Sand Dance | thread | |
| Sandy Seaton's Wooing (child #33 midi made from notation reproduced from Moffat in Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.) | DT | |
| The Santa Fe Trail (from Katie Lee's Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle) | DT | thread |
| El Santo Nino [traditional Puerto Rican] | thread | |
| The Saucy Bold Robber | DT | thread |
| Schoolday's End [Ewan MacColl] (from The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook) | DT | thread |
| The Schooner Blizzard | thread | |
| The Schooner Kandahar | thread | |
| Scotch and Soda | DT | |
| Scotch on the Rocks (sequenced by Matthew Richards) | DT | thread |
| The Scow on Cowden Shore (version one and two use the same tune.) | thread | |
| The Scow on Cowden Shore (3) | thread | |
| Sea Fever [Andrews] | DT | thread |
| Sea Fever [Ireland] | DT | thread |
| Sea/n O/ Duibhir an Gleanna (Tune 1 3/4 time with the odd bar of 4/4 stuck in!!) | DT | thread |
| Sea/n O/ Duibhir an Gleanna (Tune 2 3/4 time) | thread | |
| Sea/n O/ Duibhir an Gleanna (Tune 3 6/8 time) | thread | |
| Sea/n O/ Duibhir an Gleanna (Tune 4 3/4 time) | thread | |
| Sea/n O/ Duibhir an Gleanna (Tune 5 3/4 time) | thread | |
| Seacht nDolas Na Maighdine Muire | thread | |
| Seacht Suailci Na Maighdine Muire | thread | |
| Sealsong (Also known as "Hó i Hó i") | DT | thread |
| The Seasons (set noted by W.A. Barrett at Shoreham, Sussex, in the late C19th; it was published in his English Folk-Songs (1891) and re-printed in Roy Palmer's Everyman's Book of English Country Songs (1979)) | DT | |
| Sebastopol | thread | |
| The Second Minuet [Words by Aubrey Dawdon, Music by Maurice Besly] | thread | |
| See Amid The Winter's Snow | DT | thread |
| Senor Don Gato | DT | thread |
| Seoladh na nGamhan | thread | |
| seoladh na nGamhan (2) | thread | |
| The Session-Widow's Lament [Aidan Crossey] | thread | |
| The Seven Beatitudes of the Virgin Mary | DT | thread |
| Seven Daffodils [words by Fran Moseley, Music by Lee Hays] (from the songbook, Travelin' on with the Weavers (by the Weavers, Harper & Row, 1966)) | thread | |
| The Seven Joys of Mary | DT | thread |
| Seven Sorrows of Mary | thread | |
| The Seven Wonders | DT | thread |
| Shabby Genteel [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Shabby Genteel [lyrics by Harry Clifton, Tune by Gus Williams] | thread | |
| The Shady Wood of Truagh (from the singing of Charlie and Ann Heymanns (sp?)) | thread | |
| The Shady Woods of Trugh (from Folksongs Sung In Ulster, compiled by Robin Morton (Mercier Press, Dublin, 1970)) | thread | |
| Shallo Brown | thread | |
| The Shame of Going Back [Henry Lawson & Priscilla Herdman] | thread | |
| Shanagolden | DT | thread |
| Shane Crossagh (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People) | thread | |
| The Shape of Things [Sheldon Harnick] | DT | thread |
| She's a Dear Maid to Me | thread | |
| The Sheffield Apprentice | thread | |
| Shepherd of the Downs (Copper Family) | DT | thread |
| The Shepherd's Wife (This is Robert Burns' rewrite of a traditional song Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, OUP 1969).) | DT | |
| Shepherds Arise (Copper Family version: midi made from the notation in Bob Copper's A Song For Every Season (1971).) | thread | |
| Shiny-O or Shiney-O | thread | |
| A Ship Came Sailing (Source: Songs of the West: Folk songs of Devon and Cornwall, song #86. Sabine Baring Gould. Originally published 1889-91.) | thread | |
| A Ship Came Sailing (melody only) (Source: Songs of the West: Folk songs of Devon and Cornwall, song #86. Sabine Baring Gould. Originally published 1889-91.) | thread | |
| Ship In Distress (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Shipyard Slips | DT | |
| shliabh na mBan | thread | |
| Shortning Bread | DT | thread |
| shule agra | DT | thread |
| shule agra (Johnnie's gone for a soldier) (faster version) | DT | thread |
| Shut de Door | thread | |
| Sidewalks of New York | DT | thread |
| Sift Along Boys | thread | |
| Sile ni Dhuibhir | thread | |
| The Silk Merchant's Daughter | DT | thread |
| Silver Whistle (First verse & chorus - Translated from Gaelic: Co Sheinnea) | DT | thread |
| Silver Whistle (subsequent verses and chorus) | DT | thread |
| Since Love is the Plan (The tune is first found as "The Irish Lover's Morning Walk" on a single sheet song with music, c 1780) | thread | |
| Since Nancy Died | thread | |
| Sinead ni Mholtain | thread | |
| Sing Irishmen Sing | thread | |
| Sing Rickety Tickety Tin (The Irish Ballad) | DT | |
| Singin' With The Big Choir [R. J. Pratt © 1996, 2002] | thread | |
| The Single Bolinder (Shares the tune of 'Little Chance') | DT | |
| Sir James Reply (See the song by MMario in the Mudcat Songbook) | thread | |
| Sir James the Rose (#235A from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | thread | |
| Sir James the Rose (B) (#235B from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | thread | |
| Siuil a Ruin (#59 in O'Neill's Music of Ireland) | thread | |
| Siuil a Ruin (#60 in O'Neill's Music of Ireland) | thread | |
| Siuil a ruin | DT | thread |
| Six Dukes Went A-Fishing (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Six Lords Went a-Hunting (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.) | thread | |
| Six Ribbons [Jon English & Mario Millo] | thread | |
| Six White Boomers | DT | thread |
| Sixers Reel [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Sixteen Tons | DT | thread |
| Skewball (Midi made from a transcription in The Song and the Story by Isla St. Clair and David Turnbull (1981).) | DT | thread |
| SKUNK SONG (aka ZaZuZa) | thread | |
| Skyehigh [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Sla/n le Ma/igh (Farewell to the Maigue) | thread | |
| Slan Le Fionnairigh/Farewell To Fiunary | DT | thread |
| Slane | DT | thread |
| The Slap-Bum Tailor (tune adapted by Roy Palmer from "Old Farmer Buck") | thread | |
| Slattery's Mounted Fut [Percy French] | DT | thread |
| Slattery's Mounted Fut / Slattery's Light Dragoons | DT | thread |
| The Slow Drag Rag Reel [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| The Smacksman (given in Roy Palmer's book Boxing the Compass (Herron Publishing, 2001)) | thread | |
| The Smashing of the Van | DT | |
| Smokey the Bear | DT | |
| The Smuggler | DT | thread |
| A Smuggler's Song [Kipling/Bellamy] (Midi made from notation of Bellamy's music as given in The Song and the Story (Isla St Clair and David Turnbull, 1981).) | DT | |
| So Handy | thread | |
| The Sober Quaker (A version of "The Quaker's Courtship" from Songs and Ballads of Ohio, Eddy) | thread | |
| Sodden Clods Are Comin' To Town [Phil Hahn] | DT | |
| The Sodding [Fintan Connolly] (from Dominic Behan's Ireland Sings songbook) | thread | |
| A Soldier Boy for Me (from Sharp & Karpeles (English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians)) | thread | |
| Somagwaza (from Pete Seeger's Incompleat Folksinger) | thread | |
| Somagwaza (Harmony) (from Pete Seeger's Incompleat Folksinger) | thread | |
| Some Say the Devil's Dead | DT | thread |
| Some Thousands in England are Starving | thread | |
| Song for the Mira [Allister MacGillivray] (correction of the Digital Tradition MIDI) | DT | thread |
| Song of All Songs [Stephen C. Foster - words by John F. Poole] | DT | thread |
| Song Of My Hands [Bernie Asbel] | thread | |
| The Sound of Silence | DT | |
| Sound The Pibroch | DT | thread |
| Sourdough [Bill Staines] | thread | |
| South Coast | DT | thread |
| The Southern Cross (oted from Jack Dalton of Codroy, Newfoundland, in 1960. ) | thread | |
| Spancil Hill | DT | thread |
| The Spaniard That Blighted My Life [Billy Merson, 1911] | thread | |
| Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (from John White's book Git Along Little Dogies (Songs and songmakers of the American West)) | thread | |
| Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (from Cowboy and Western Songs (Austin and Alta Fife)) | thread | |
| Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (from Katie Lee's Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle) | thread | |
| Spanish Johnny [Text by Willa Cather, tune by C.E. Scroggins] (from American Ballads and Folk Songs, Lomax & Lomax, 1934) | thread | |
| Spence Broughton | thread | |
| Spider from the Gwydir | thread | |
| Spider's Web (A Girl Scout Favorite) | thread | |
| Spring Glee (This is the Copper Family's When Spring Comes In. Midi made from notation in Bob Copper's A Song for Every Season (1971).) | DT | |
| The Spring trip of the Schooner Ambition | thread | |
| St. Basil's Carol | thread | |
| The Star of Sunday's Well (the text is from Colm O Lochlainn's More Irish Street Ballads (1968), where he names the tune as The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds, which is given in Irish Street Ballads (1938). Midi made from the notation in that book.) | thread | |
| The Star Spangled Banner | ||
| The State of Arkansas (from Ozark Folksongs (abridged), Randolph/Cohen) | thread | |
| Steamboat Bill | DT | thread |
| Stella (Cannery Shed) [Mary Garvey] | thread | |
| Stepmother's Cruelty (A broadside text. Some copies specify Fair Rosamond, or Chevy Chase, others The Ladies Fall as tune. Midi made from a Chevy Chase variant ...emphasise that it's only a guess) | DT | thread |
| Stitch in Time [Mike Waterson/Martin Carthy] (Midi made from the notation in The Sound of History, Roy Palmer tune by Martin Carthy adapted from On Board a Man O'War) | DT | thread |
| Stonecutter Boy | ||
| Stormy Winds (text given is that recorded by the Watersons, The tune used was noted by H. Balfour Gardiner Midi made from notation of Mr. Arnold's singing in The Journal of the Folk Song Society vol. III, issue 13, 1909.) | DT | |
| Strabane Hiring Fair | thread | |
| Streams of Lovely Nancy (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Streets of Forbes | DT | thread |
| The Streets of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament) (from Cowboy & Western Songs, Fife & Fife, 1969 (from Myra Hull's "Cowboy Ballads")) | thread | |
| The Student in a Tunnel (from Song Fest (Best)) | thread | |
| The Sun Rises Bright In France (A poem by Allan Cunningham, set by Malcolm Lawson to "an old Highland air" Songs of the North, Harold Boulton & A.C. MacLeod, vol. II, 1905).) | thread | |
| The Sunday Driver | thread | |
| Sur le pont d'Anignon j'ai ouï chanter la belle (a wedding song - tune used for Blanche biche tune dates back to at least 1503) | thread | |
| Susiana | thread | |
| Sussex Carol (note:corrected text has been submitted) | DT | thread |
| Sussex Carol (with harmony) | DT | thread |
| Sussex Drinking Song [Hilaire Belloc] (Lyrics and tune from The Four Men: A Farrago, by Hilaire Belloc, 1911) | thread | |
| Sutter's Mill | DT | thread |
| Sven i Rosengard (a swedish analogue of 'Edward') | thread | |
| Sven i Rosengard (a variant) | thread | |
| Sweep Chimney Sweep (Copper Family) | DT | thread |
| Sweet Dublin Bay [Mrs. Crawford/ George Baker] (tune from original sheet music found on Lester Levy Sheet Musicsite) | DT | |
| Sweet Fanny Adams (from Peter Kennedy, Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | thread | |
| The Sweet Forget-me-not | DT | |
| Sweet Kingwilliamstown | DT | thread |
| Sweet Lemeney (Copper Family) | DT | thread |
| Sweet Marie [Cy Warman & Raymond Moore (1893)] | thread | |
| Sweet Nancy (Copper Family - more usually called "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy") | DT | |
| Sweet Portaferry | thread | |
| The Sweet Rosy Morning (as reprinted in Sweet Sussex: Folk Songs from the Broadwood Collections (Lewis Jones, 1995).) | DT | thread |
| Sweet Sunny South (from Wayne Erbsen's Backpocket Bluegrass Songbook) | DT | thread |
| Sweet Sunny South (banjo arrangement from banjohangout.org) | thread | |
| Sweet Thyme | DT | thread |
| Sweet Violets (2) | DT | thread |
| Sweet William's Ghost (Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle from Charles O'Boyle of Belfast , 7th July 1952) | thread | |
| Swing the Shining Sickle [Alice Riley & Jessie Gaynor] (from Music Far and Near, Silver Burdett, 1956) | thread | |
| Swinton May Song (from Roy Palmer, English Country Songbook) | DT | thread |
| ta an coileach ag fogairt an lae | thread | |
| ta/im si/nte ar do thuama (From the cold sod that's o'er you) | thread | |
| tabhair dom do lamh (give me your hand) | thread | |
| taimse im chodladh | thread | |
| taimse im chodladh (alternative tune) | thread | |
| Tak' Me Ol' Galoshes/The Wellie Waught | ||
| Tam o' the Linn (from the Silver Burdett third grade textbook, Music Now and Long Ago) | thread | |
| Tarrytown (Wild Goose Grasses) | thread | |
| Tatties and Herrin' (from the Bonnie Bunch of Roses songbook) | thread | |
| Tatties and Herrin' (from The Scottish Folksinger) | thread | |
| Teddy Bear's Picnic | DT | thread |
| Teir abhaile | thread | |
| Ten Little Indians | DT | thread |
| Ten Minutes Too Late [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Ten Minutes Too Late [arranged by Frank Musgrave] (part of a medley called THE TOOTLES QUADRILLE) | thread | |
| Ten Minutes Too Late [Harry Clifton, sequenced by Mudcatter Lucius] | thread | |
| Ten Percent | thread | |
| Tenpenny Bit (see also Cearc agus Coilleach (very much the same)) | ||
| Testimony of Patience Kershaw [Words and music by Frank Higgins, 1969] (Midi made from notation in My Song Is My Own (ed. Kathy Henderson et al., 1979).) | DT | thread |
| Thais [lyrics, Newman Levy; tune anonymous] | DT | thread |
| The Harper [My Poor Dog Tray] [Thomas Campbell, 1799] | thread | |
| The Maid With the Bonny Brown Hair (from Colm O Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads, 1935) | thread | |
| In The Township of Danville (Noted by Alice Brown from Ella Collins Mattison, Windsor Home, Bennington, Vermont; July 17 1930) | DT | thread |
| There Lived a Lady in Merry Scotland (The song was recorded, as There Lived a Lady in Merry Scotland, by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mrs. Loveridge at the Homme, Dilwyn, Herefordshire, in 1908, and was published in The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire, Ella Leather, 1912. Midi made from notation in that book for verse 1; Mrs. Loveridge introduced variations into the tune in subsequent verses; these appear in Ella Leather's book and are quoted in Bronson, vol.2, 79:3, p.246: There Was a Lady in Merry Scotland The DT file differs in some respects from the original. In verse 1, line 2, dee' is a mistake for deeds. Other differences are presumably the result of editing by Roberts and Barrand: Verse 3, lines 1 and 2: I will not believe in God, she said / Nor Christ in eternity was originally I will not believe in a man, she said , / Nor in Christ in eternity Verse 4 appears to have been introduced from another, unnamed source; unless the Leather book omitted it for some reason. The original had this verse in its place (not in the DT file): And God put life all in their bodies, Their bodies all in their chest, And sent them back to their own dear mother, For in heaven they could take no rest. Verse 6: originally The cloth was spread, the meat put on; No meat, Lord, can we take, Since it's so long and many a day, Since we have been here before. Verse 7: originally The bed was made, the sheets put on No bed, Lord, can we take, It's been so long and many a day Since we have been here before. Verse 8: originally Then Christ did call for the roasted cock, That was feathered with His only (holy?) hands; He crowed three times all in the dish, In the place where he did stand. Verse 9 does not appear in the original. Verse 10: originally Then farewell stick and farewell stone, Farewell to the maidens all. Farewell to the nurse that gave us our suck; And down the tears did fall.) | DT | |
| There Was a Crooked Man | thread | |
| There Was a Crooked Man (alternate) | thread | |
| There Was an Old Piper (from the singing of Sandy and Carolyn Paton) | thread | |
| There Was an Old Soldier | thread | |
| There Was an Old Soldier (Sandburg) (from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag) | thread | |
| There Was an Old Woman (Skin and Bones) | ||
| There Were Roses | DT | thread |
| There's No Business Like Show Business | DT | |
| There's No Seder Like Our Seder | DT | |
| These Are My Mountains | DT | |
| This Is Nae My Plaid (from The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection) | thread | |
| This Is No Ma Ain Hoose (Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, OUP 1969)) | DT | thread |
| Those Were the Days [Gene Raskin] | DT | thread |
| Those Were the Days (guitar) [Gene Raskin] | DT | thread |
| Thou Bonny Wood Of Craigielea | thread | |
| Three Danish Galleys (From Ruth L. Tongue's book, The Chime Child) | thread | |
| Three Fishers (per Malcolm: The DT file correctly credits the text of this song to Charles Kingsley, but the music was written by John Hullah, not Hull. The text was apparantly transcribed from a Joan Baez record; she seems to have added some unnecessary words to Kingsley's song (the men must work and the women must weep...) which I have not included in the midi, made from notation in Songs of England, ed. J.L. Hatton and Eaton Faning (Boosey & Hawkes, undated), as this is not a traditional song. It appears that Stan Rogers recorded Kingsley's text set to a new tune by his brother Garnet, but this one is the original.) | DT | thread |
| Three Jolly Sportsmen (Noted (as Three Jolly Huntsmen) by Dr. George Gardiner from William Taylor in Petersfield Workhouse, Hampshire, 1908. Midi made from the notation in Frank Purslow's Marrowbones (EFDS 1965).) | DT | |
| Three Merry Men of Kent (This song was published in William Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol.II, p.558 (1859)) | DT | |
| Three Sisters (This fragment of Babylon is given in Bronson (Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. I) as number#14, example 6; Doon by the Bonnie Banks o' Airdrie, O. Midi from the notation in that book. ) | DT | |
| Thug me Ruide | thread | |
| Tidewash (a.k.a. "The Jig From Hell") [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| The Time Has Come | thread | |
| The Tinkerman's Daughter | DT | thread |
| The Tinkler's Waddin' [Words by William Watt (1792-1859)] (The tune is The Day We Went to Rothesay, O.) | thread | |
| tiocfaidh an samhradh | thread | |
| tiocfaidh an samhradh (standard tune) | thread | |
| The Tipperary Christening (from Ballads from the Pubs of Ireland, Volume 1, by James N. Healy (Ossian Press), pp. 16-17) | thread | |
| Titanic (Leadbelly) (from The Leadbelly Songbook, Oak Publications) | DT | thread |
| Tittery Irie Aye | DT | thread |
| To My Old Brown Earth [Pete Seeger] | DT | thread |
| The Tocher (Tune is the English Joan's Placket as used by Burns for the chorus of a song, Jumpin John, contributed to the Scots Musical Museum vol.II (1788). Midi made from notation in Kinsley's Burns: Poems and Songs (OUP, 1969)) | DT | |
| The Tod & the Hen (Example #1 of 3 is from Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, and is quoted, with tune, in Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933), where it is called As I Went Up By Humber Jumber; midi made from notation in that book) | DT | |
| Today Is Monday (from Everybody's Favorite Songs (Amsco, 1933)) | thread | |
| Tolpuddle Man | thread | |
| Tom Dixon | thread | |
| Tomah Stream | thread | |
| Tombigbee River (Gum Tree Canoe) | DT | thread |
| Tomorrow Is a Highway [Lee Hays and Pete Seeger] | thread | |
| Too Many Martyrs [Ochs] | DT | |
| Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (That's an Irish Lullaby) [James Royce Shannon (1881-1946)] (from the 1913 sheet music published by M. Witmark & Sons) | DT | thread |
| Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (That's an Irish Lullaby) [James Royce Shannon (1881-1946)] (sequenced by Barry Taylor) | DT | thread |
| Toronto [Jeri Corlew] (2000) | thread | |
| Toviska (Castles in Toviska) | thread | |
| The Town of Ballybay | DT | thread |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | DT | thread |
| Tranent Muir | DT | |
| The Trees Are All Bare | thread | |
| The Trees They Grow So High (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Tregarten Anthem | thread | |
| Trelawny | DT | thread |
| Trimdon Grange Explosion (the tune that the song was apparently written to, a Victorian parlour ballad called "Go and Leave Me") | thread | |
| Trimdon Grange Explosion (the tune given by A.L. Lloyd in "Folk Song in England") | thread | |
| Trip to Portsmouth [Jeri Corlew] | thread | |
| A Trip to the Grand Banks | thread | |
| The Troubadour Song (The Nightingale Sings) | thread | |
| The Tryst | thread | |
| Tuireadh eoghain rua | thread | |
| Tumba (from Lift Every Voice, 1950, Cooperative Recreation Service, Delaware, Ohio. (our copy from the Follett Music Sounds Afar school songbook)) | thread | |
| The Tune the Old Cow Died On (from New Music Horizons 5, Silver Burdett) | thread | |
| Turmut Hoeing | thread | |
| Turnip Hoer (Traditional; from Fred Jordan of Diddlebury, Wenlock, Shropshire, 1952) | thread | |
| Turnit Hoeing (Traditional; from Charles Parsons, Knole Farm, Long Sutton, Somerset, 1903. Noted by Cecil Sharp) | thread | |
| Tuue Blue and Seventy-Two [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Tuue Blue and Seventy-Two (full) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Twa Crows Sat on a Stane (As noted in the DT file, example (1) appears in a slightly different form in Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from notation in that book.) | DT | |
| The Twa Magicians, or The Coal-Black Smith (Child #44 Steeleye Span recorded on Now We Are Six) | thread | |
| Twas on a Night Like This / Carol of the Bagpipes | thread | |
| Twelve Days Of Christmas | DT | thread |
| The Twelvth of July | DT | thread |
| Twine Weel the Plaiden | thread | |
| The Two Brothers (collected by Josephine McGill, 1914, from an unnamed singer in Knott or Letcher County, Kentucky. Quoted by Bronson, Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol.I, 1959, from Josephine McGill's Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains, 1917.) | thread | |
| Two Good Arms [Charlie King] | thread | |
| Two Good Hands (mistake - please delete MIDI -JRO-) | ||
| Two Little Blue Little Shoes [Words by M.E. Rourke. Music by L. Peasley] | thread | |
| Two Little Girls in Blue | thread | |
| Two Lovely Black Eyes (Vieni Sul Mar) | thread | |
| Two Sisters (Source: Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles) | thread | |
| Tycoch Caerdydd (The Red House of Cardiff) ( -from Alawon Fy Ngwlad, c.1896. Described as a pib-ddawns (pipe-dance). ancestral to John Peel) | DT | thread |
| Uist Tramping Song | DT | |
| Un Du Akerst Un Du Zeyst (You Plow and Sow) [Chaim Zhitlowsky ] (from Ruth Rubin, A Treasury of Jewish Folksong ) | thread | |
| Una bhan | thread | |
| The Unclaimed Pint [Blessings Barbara] | thread | |
| The Unclaimed Pint (first revision) [Blessings Barbara] | thread | |
| Uncle Bud (from Steamboatin' Days, Mary Wheeler (1944)) | thread | |
| Uncle Bud (from Randolph/Legman, Roll Me In Your Arms: Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore) | thread | |
| Uncle Ned [Stephen Collins Foster] | DT | thread |
| Uncle Nobby's Steamboat | thread | |
| Under the Boardwalk | thread | |
| Underneath Our Cottage Window (Czech) (from Happy Meeting: Folk Songs from Czechoslovakia, World Around Songs) | thread | |
| Underneath Our Cottage Window (Czech) (from Botsford Collection of Folk Songs, Volume 3, Southern Europe) | thread | |
| The Unfortunate Tailor (Noted by Dr. George Gardiner from George Lovett of Winchester in 1906, and from Alfred Oliver of Basingstoke in 1907. Midi made from notation in Marrowbones, ed. Frank Purslow (EFDS Publications, 1965).) | thread | |
| Unter Dayne Wayse Shtern [Avraham Sutskever & Avrom Brudno] (from Songs Never Silenced, by Velvel Pasternak) | DT | |
| Up a Tree [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Up in a Balloon [George W. Hunt] | thread | |
| Up In The North (version collected by John Baldwin from Freda Palmer of Witney, Oxfordshire, in 1969; Midi made from the notation in The Folk Music Journal, volume 1 number 4 (1969). Baldwin transposed Mrs. Palmer's tune from A Flat to G;) | DT | |
| Up with the Lark in the Morning [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Upon the Alpine Pasture | thread | |
| Ur Cnoc Cein Mhic Cainte | thread | |
| urchnoc chein mhic cainte | thread | |
| Valley Forge (First verse and chorus) | thread | |
| Valley of Strathmore | DT | thread |
| Valparaiso in a Rowboat [Zeke Hoskin] | thread | |
| Varka Yialo (Barka Gialo) (from greekmidi.com) | thread | |
| Varsovienne No. 2 (Put Your Little Foot) (from Ira W. Ford, Traditional Music of America ) | thread | |
| Vieni Sul Mar | thread | |
| Vigilante Man [Woody Guthrie] (from The [Nearly] Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs) | thread | |
| The Volunteer Organist [Words by Wm. B. Gray. Music by G.L.S. Spaulding] (Published in 1893) | thread | |
| Vu Iz Dos Gesele | thread | |
| Wae's Me For Prince Cherlie (per Wilma Paterson (Songs of Scotland, 1997) this was written by one William Glen, set to the melody Ladie Cassiles Lilt, (Skene MS, 1615-20), which is a version of Johny Faa or the Gypsie Laddie. midi from the notation she gives with Johny Faa) | DT | |
| Wait for the Turn of the Tide [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Wallaby Stew | DT | thread |
| Wallflower Waltz [Sharyn Dimmick] | thread | |
| Waltz [Jon Freeman] | thread | |
| Waltzing Matilda (Original Christina McPherson tune for Matilda.) | DT | thread |
| Waltzing Matilda (Queensland version) | DT | thread |
| Wann ich vun dem Land rei kumm (Pennsylvania Dutch original of "When I First Came To This Land" - from Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, 1949) | thread | |
| The War Game [Ewan MacColl] | thread | |
| Warlike Seamen (Copper Family) | DT | thread |
| Waterbound | DT | |
| The Waterford Boys (from the sheet music at Levy collection) | DT | thread |
| Wave Over Wave | DT | |
| We Didn't Know [Tom Paxton] | DT | thread |
| We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years [Music by Von Liebich] (from the IWW Little Red Songbook) | DT | thread |
| We'll go to Sea No More | DT | thread |
| Weave [Rosemary Crow] (from the Girl Scout Sangam GIT/Sangam Songbook) | thread | |
| The Weddin' o' Lauchie M'Graw (collected from Joe Yates of Sofala by John Meredith in 1983) | thread | |
| The Wedding Song [Stookey] | DT | |
| The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede [Matt McGinn] (from the notation in Sing a Song of Scotland (Sheila Douglas, 1981).) | DT | thread |
| Wee Sandy Waugh (In Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from notation in that book.) | DT | |
| Wee Weaver (transcribed from Steeleye Span) | DT | thread |
| Wee Weaver Paddy Tunney's tune (transcribed from his book, "The Stone Fiddle") | DT | thread |
| Weepin' Willer [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Weevils in the Flour | thread | |
| Welcome Poor Paddy Home | DT | thread |
| Welcome Yule! (From The Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw. The carol appears in "Sloane MS. 2593, of the beginning of the 15th century or temp. Henry VI. Another version in the Bodleian Douce MS. 302, the collection of John Awdlay, the blind chaplain, c.1430, printed in Sandys Christmastide, 1852." The tune is modern, and was composed by Sydney Hugo Nicholson (1875-1947), sometime organist at Westminster Abbey and a prolific composer of church music. Midis made from the notation in the Oxford book Melody line only) | thread | |
| Welcome Yule! (full arrangment Text 15th Century; spelling modernised. Tune by S.H. Nicholson) | ||
| Welcome, Welcome Every Guest | thread | |
| Were you ever in Dumbarton | thread | |
| West Virginia Mine Disaster [Jean Ritchie] | DT | thread |
| The West's Asleep | DT | |
| The Western Ocean (All For Me Grog) (from Helen Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia) | thread | |
| A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea [Allan Cunningham] (from Songs the Whalemen Sang (Gale Huntington), page 49) | thread | |
| Wexford Fishing song | DT | thread |
| Wexford Lullaby | DT | |
| The Wexford Murder (Noted by Fred Hamer from Walter "Paddy" Church of Bedfordshire, and published in Garners Gay (Fred Hamer, EFDS, 1967).) | thread | |
| The Whale Song [lyrics, Geoffrey Dearmer; music Hoagy Carmichael] | thread | |
| The Whale-Catchers (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| What Did Delaware? | thread | |
| What Shall I Give to Thee? [Septimus Winner] | thread | |
| What Shall I Offer Thee? [Septimus Winner] | thread | |
| What Will I Do Gin My Hoggie Die? / Oh Leave Novels | thread | |
| Wheel Of Fortune | DT | thread |
| When a Knight Won His Spurs (hymnbook arrangement) | thread | |
| When a Knight Won His Spurs (Jan Struther's poem was set to this air, which is a variant of The Fair Flower of Northumberland. vocal line only) | thread | |
| When A Man's In Love | DT | thread |
| When Father Papered the Parlour | DT | thread |
| When First I Went To Caledonia (Another song sung to the Mo Run Geal Dileas tune. Midi modified from the Kelvinhaugh midi with reference to a recording by Waterson/Carthy, who learnt it in Cape Breton where the song was made.) | DT | thread |
| When First We Met/So Here's to You [Alan Bell] | DT | thread |
| When I First Came To This Land (Oscar Brand's version of the tune from Singing Holidays, 1957) | DT | thread |
| When I First Came To This Land (Pete Seeger's version of the tune, from American Favorite Ballads (1961)) | DT | thread |
| When I Was A Little Boy (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| When I Was In My Prime (midi made by ear from pentangle recording) | thread | |
| When I Was Single (Lomax FSNA) (from Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America) | thread | |
| When I Was Single (Lomax FSUSA) (from Lomax, Best Loved American Folk Songs (Folk Song: USA)) | thread | |
| When I Was Young (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| When McGuiness Gets a Job [Jim O'Neil & Jack Conroy] (tune from the original sheet music, 1880) | thread | |
| When Mursheen went to Bunnan | thread | |
| When Poppies Close Their Eyes [Christine Turner Curtis and Ruth McConn Spencer] (from the Ginn & Company school songbook, Singing Juniors) | thread | |
| When She Cam Ben, She Bobbed (Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, 1969).) | DT | |
| When Spring Comes In (Midi made from notation in Bob Copper's A Song for Every Season (1971).) | DT | |
| When the Battle it Was Won ( From MacKenzie's Ballads and Songs from Nova Scotia, where no tune was given. The Roud Index at present lists only two sets with tunes; one from Maine, USA, the other from Newfoundland. The latter would presumably be the one to go for here, with the usual health warning: there is no evidence that this tune is even remotely like the one that belonged to the text in the DT, but it was used for a similar version of the song in another part of Canada, so it might be. Midi made from notation in Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965): vol.3, where it is called The Deserter. Noted by Kenneth Peacock from Mrs. Thomas Walters of Rocky Harbour, July 1958. ) | DT | |
| When the Roll is Called Up Yonder | DT | |
| Where Did You Get That Hat? [James Rolmaz] | thread | |
| Where Is the Little Street (Vu Iz Dos Gesele) [Malvina Reynolds] | thread | |
| Where Moorcocks Crow | DT | thread |
| Where the Grass Grows Green (Denny Blake) [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Where the Lilies Used to Spring [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow [J.J. Manners (tune traditional)] (from George Korson's Pennsylvania Songs & Legends) | thread | |
| Where There's a Will There's a Way [Harry Clifton] | thread | |
| Where There's Rest for Horse and Man /Home Lads Home (midi from transcription by jeri in thread) | DT | thread |
| Where Will Our Goodman Laye (from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion for the Flute, vol.II, c.1750. ancestral to 'John Peel') | DT | thread |
| Whiskey in the Jar (? the three versions of this in DT appear to have tunes.) | ||
| Whistle Daughter, Whistle | DT | thread |
| O Whistle, and I'll Come to Ye, My Lad (per malcolm: midi made from notation in Burns: Poems and Songs, James Kinsley, 1969. unknown contributer: Burns' song is in 'The Scots Musical Museum', II, #106, 1788. The chorus is in David Herd's MSS (Hecht's 'Herd', p. 185). The tune is first found as "The Irish Lover's Morning Walk" on a single sheet song with music, c 1780, and slightly later used for the song "Since Love is the Plan" in 'the Poor Soldier', 1783. ) | thread | |
| Whistlebinkie [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| The Whistler and His Dog [Arthur Pryor (1870-1942] (Published as an instrumental piece for band in 1905, featuring a piccolo solo. Used as the tune for "Piddlin' Pete.") | thread | |
| The White Buck of Epping [Sydney Carter] | thread | |
| The White Buck of Epping [S. Carter] (midi from B. Bolton) | thread | |
| White Coral Bells (from the Girl Scouts Sing Together Songbook, 1973) | thread | |
| The White Hart | thread | |
| Whitsun Carol | DT | |
| Whiz Fish Song | thread | |
| Whizz-Fish (from the 1948 edition of Song Fest, by Dick & Beth Best) | thread | |
| Who Can Sail/Vem kan segla [Louise Dannielson, Stockholm] (published in East-West Songs, Cooperative Recreation Service 1960) | thread | |
| Who Will Sing For Me? [J.T. Ely] | DT | thread |
| Who Will Sing For Me? [J.T. Ely] (harmony version) | DT | thread |
| Who'll Sing For Me? [Thomas J. Farris] (from the 1946 Stamps-Baxter Hymnal, Inspirational Songs) | DT | thread |
| Who'll Sing For Me? (full harmony version) | DT | thread |
| Whoever Invented the Fishfinger [Leon Rosselson] (This MIDI may need some work, but it should give an idea of what the song sounds like. -Joe Offer-) | DT | thread |
| Why Doth My Goose (round) | thread | |
| Wi' My Dog and Gun | DT | thread |
| Widgegoara Joe (aka backblock shearer) | DT | thread |
| Widgery Wharf [Charlie Ipcar] (Tune prescribed is Cruising Round Yarmouth; the traditional set from Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk may be the one intended, but the only one I've got is Sam Larner's. Midi made from notation in The Singing Island (Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, 1960).) | ||
| The Widow's Walk | DT | thread |
| The Wife of Kelso | thread | |
| The Wife of Ushers Well ( The song was recorded, as There Lived a Lady in Merry Scotland, by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mrs. Loveridge at the Homme, Dilwyn, Herefordshire, in 1908, and was published in The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire, Ella Leather, 1912. Midi made from notation in that book for verse 1; Mrs. Loveridge introduced variations into the tune in subsequent verses; these appear in Ella Leather's book and are quoted in Bronson, vol.2, 79:3, p.246: There Was a Lady in Merry Scotland) | DT | |
| Wild Rose of the Mountain | DT | thread |
| Wild Roving No More (Wild Rover) (alternate tune for the traditional lyrics, performed by Sylvia Barnes with Kentigern) | thread | |
| Will You Wear Red? (Noted by Cecil Sharp from Mrs. Delie Hughes at Cane River, Burnsville, N.C., in 1918) | DT | thread |
| William Glen | DT | thread |
| Willie O' Winsbury (tune really belonged to Fause Foodrage. At all events, it's the tune that everybody seems to recognise nowadays. Midi made by ear from a recording by Pentangle) | DT | thread |
| Willie Wastle | DT | thread |
| Willie's Fatal Visit (four-line melody; the first verse of the Child text is of six lines, so the second two melody lines should be repeated to accommodate the words in that case. Tune from Bronson after Christie) | DT | |
| Willie's Lady / Son Ar Chiste (Song of Cider) (the breton tune Son Ar Chiste) | DT | thread |
| The Wily auld Carle | thread | |
| Wim Wam Waddles (collected from Harry Greening and chorus of Dorsetshire Mummers, Dorchester, Dorset, 1936 (Peter Kennedy, Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland, 1975; presuming the information he gives is accurate). Midi made from notation in Kennedy.) | DT | |
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley | DT | thread |
| Windmills [Alan Bell] | DT | thread |
| Winke, Winke (German song "Winke, Winke" - same tune as "Lily the Pink") | thread | |
| Winnifred [O'Carolan] (Irish name: "Una" - from O'Neill's Music of Ireland) | thread | |
| Winster Wakes | DT | |
| Winter - A Dirge | DT | thread |
| The Winter of '73 | DT | thread |
| Winter Song (The Terror Time) | thread | |
| Winter Wonderland | DT | thread |
| Winter's Night (from The Folk Songs of North America, Alan Lomax, 1960) | thread | |
| The Witch of the Westmoreland (Stan Rogers Version) | DT | thread |
| Witchcraft [Margarett Snyder] (A Girl Scout favorite) | thread | |
| With the Antarctic Fleet [Harry Robertson] | DT | thread |
| The Wolfhound [Alan Foster] | DT | thread |
| Wolverton Mountain [Merle Kilgore] | DT | thread |
| Woman of Labrador | DT | thread |
| Woman's rights (per Malcolm: From Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs; midi made from notation in that book. The DT file does not credit the source singer, who was Mrs. Laura Wasson of Elm Grove, Arkansas. Her song was noted on January 28th, 1942. The DT has three errors; Silver Bell should be Silver Bill; line 3 of the chorus should read, not The think that under woman's direction, but They think under woman's direction; line 5, verse three, should be But I don't care a fig for his growling, not But I don't give a fig for his growling. ) | DT | |
| The Woodenleg'd Parson (from Dan Milner's Bonny Bunch of Roses songbook) | thread | |
| The Woolloomooloo Lair | DT | thread |
| Wop She 'Ad It-io (Copper Family) | DT | |
| World Hunger Grace | thread | |
| World Hunger Grace [Rev. Robert J. Crocker] | thread | |
| The Worms Crawl In | DT | thread |
| The Wreck of No. 52 | thread | |
| The Wreck of the Athens Queen | thread | |
| The Wreck of the John B | DT | thread |
| Y Saith Rhyfeddod (per Malcolm Douglas transcribed by ear from June Tabor recording) | DT | thread |
| Yarmouth Town | DT | thread |
| Ye Mar'ners All (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Yellow on the Broom [Adam McNaughton] | DT | thread |
| Yorkshire Couple | DT | |
| Yoshke, Yoshke / Der Rebe Hot... (from Pearls of Yiddish Song, Mlotek) | thread | |
| You Can't Be a Pirate [Don Freed] | thread | |
| You Gentlemen of England Fare (Malcolm notes: The DT text is from Flander and Olney's Ballads Migrant in New England (1953); no tune was given in that book, as the text was "received by mail from James Copeland of Brideport, Connecticut". There is, however, a reasonably close version, with tune, in Helen Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (1932). This was noted from Mr. Ben Hennebury of Devil's Island, and I've made a midi from that notation. Mr. Copeland's text was reproduced verbatim, including his (probably accidental) rendering of "coronation" as "croronation". There are two errors in the DT file; in verse 6 line 3, "Beat" should be "great", and in verse 7, line 5 should end at "love", "I Hope" being the first part of line 6. Parts of the text have become garbled in the course of transmission, or require explanation; the information comes from Roy Palmer's Boxing the Compass (2001; formerly The Oxford Book of Sea Songs), where he gives a text called England's Great Loss by a Storm of Wind . Verse 3 line 2: "the old ram's head": a headland to the west of Plymouth, now called Rame Head. line 5: "fisher noes": originally "Fisher's Nose", part of the foreshore at the entrance to Sutton Harbour, Plymouth. line 6: "Thinking to bring our palamoers": in earlier versions, "Thinking to fetch up in Hamose", Hamoaze being a name for the mouth of the River Tamar. Verse 5: The following is the equivalent verse from the set published by Palmer, taken from J. Ashton's Real Sailors' Songs (1891): When we came to Northumberland Rock The Lion, Lynx and Antelope, The Loyalty and Eagle too, The Elizabeth made all to rue: She ran astern and the line broke, And sunk the Hardwick at a stroke. Re. Northumberland Rock, Palmer comments "This line in one version reads: Ashore went the Northumberland." The ballad was made on an historical event. Palmer again: "The outcome of the storm of September (not November) 1691, was less disastrous than the ballad indicates: two ships, the Coronation and the Harwich, were lost, and two more, the Royal Oak and the Northumberland, went aground but were later refloated." ) | DT | |
| You've Gotta Have Heart | DT | thread |
| The Young and Single Sailor (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Young Banker (midi from the tune as given in Kidson's MSS., published in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (vol.III no.I, 1936). It was noted by Charles Lolley from Mrs Kate Thompson of Knaresborough) | DT | |
| Young Edwin In The Lowlands Low (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Young Forbest | thread | |
| The Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Young Jamie Foyers (from "Bothy Songs and Ballads" (James Ord, 1930)) | DT | thread |
| The Young Man on the Railway (full) [Harry Clifton & W.H. Brinkworth] | thread | |
| The Young Man on the Railway (melody) [Harry Clifton & W.H. Brinkworth] | thread | |
| The Young Oysterman (source unknown) | thread | |
| The Young Oysterman (source unknown) | thread | |
| Young Redin (per Malcolm: Child #68 (Young Hunting). The DT text is Child's example B, from Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads (1827), and was noted from a Miss E. Beattie (from Mearns-shire), in Edinburgh.Her tune was printed by Kinloch, and I have used Bronson's emended version,) | DT | thread |
| Young Roger Esquire (from Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | DT | thread |
| Your Light from the Lighthouse (transcribed by Blessings Barbara) | DT | thread |
| Youth's the Season (From John Gay's Beggar's Opera (song number XXII) Frank Kidson identifies the tune to which it was set as follows: "Air: ...Zoney's Rant, in the third volume of the Dancing Master (circ. 1726).") | DT | |
| Zulu Warrior (from the Marais & Miranda songbook, Folk Song Jamboree) | thread | |