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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
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?)
   
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  
Ivan the Likeable [leeneia] (A tune by Leeneia in honor of Ivan the Terrible Likeable)   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

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