Folk Songs: Chords, Lyrics, Origins and Recordings
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- Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
- All Around My Hat
- All My Trials
- Alouette
- Amazing Grace
- Arthur McBride
- As I Roved Out
- Auld Lang Syne
- Away in a Manger
- Balm in Gilead
- Banks of the Ohio
- Barbara Allen
- Barrack Street
- Black is the Color
- Black Velvet Band, The
- Blackwaterside
- Blaydon Races
- Blow Boys Blow
- Blow The Man Down
- Blue Cockade, The
- Bobby Shafto
- Botany Bay
- Brave
- Buffalo Gals
- By The Light of The Silvery Moon
- Camptown Races
- Canadee IO
- Carrickfergus
- Chase Your Dreams
- Corrina, Corrina
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Cotton Mill Girls
- Craigie Hill
- Curragh of Kildare, The
- Danny Boy
- Deck the Halls
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- Don't Think of Me
- Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes (To Celia)
- Drowned Lovers, The (Clyde Water)
- Drunken Sailor (What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor)
- Early One Morning
- English Country Garden
- Erie Canal (Low Bridge, Everybody Down)
- Erin
- Eyes on the Prize (Keep Your Eyes on the Prize)
- Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)
- Felicity
- Flandyke Shore, The
- Foggy Dew, The
- Footprints
- For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
- For You In Confidence
- Fountains Flowing (Our Captain Calls All Hands)
- Frankie and Johnny
- Frère Jacques
- Froggy Went A Courtin
- Galway Shawl, The
- Gaudete
- Girl I Left Behind, The (Brighton Camp)
- Go Tell It On The Mountain
- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
- Good King Wenceslas
- Goodnight Irene
- Grand Old Duke of York, The
- Green Grow the Rushes O
- Greensleeves
- Happy Birthday
- Haul Away Joe
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Hesitating Blues
- Highwayman, The
- House of the Rising Sun
- Hush Little Baby
- I don't Need You Darlin'
- I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)
- I'll Tell Me Ma (the Belle of Belfast City)
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Irish Rover, The
- Isle of France
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Jack Hall
- Jesse James
- Jim Jones
- Jimmy Crack Corn (Blue Tail Fly)
- Jingle Bells
- John Barleycorn
- John Henry
- Just as the Tide Was Flowing
- Lavender's Blue
- Leaving of Liverpool, The
- Let Us Break Bread Together
- Lights
- Lily of the West, The
- Little Sadie
- Loch Lomond (The Bonnie Banks Of Loch Lomond)
- London Bridge is Falling Down
- Lord Bateman
- Lord Franklin
- Lover's Lament
- Lowlands
- Maggie May
- Man of Constant Sorrow
- Matty Groves (Little Musgrave)
- Michael Row The Boat Ashore
- Midnight Special
- Molly Malone (Cockles and Muscles)
- Mountains of Mourne, The
- Mrs McGrath
- My Bonnie
- Newry Highwayman, The
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- Nobody Wants You To Die
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
- Oh Mary Don't You Weep
- Oh My Darling Clementine
- Oh Susanna
- Old Dan Tucker
- On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at
- On Top of Old Smokey
- Oranges and Lemons
- Parting Glass, The
- Pay Me My Money Down
- Raggle Taggle Gypsy
- Red, Red Rose, A
- Remnants
- Riddle Song, The (I Gave My Love a Cherry)
- Rock-a-Bye Baby
- Rocky Road to Dublin, The
- Rose of Allendale, The
- Rose of Tralee, The
- Row, Row, Row Your boat
- Sail Away Ladies (Don't You Rock me Daddy-O)
- Scarborough Fair
- Seven Drunken Nights
- She Moves Through the Fair
- She'll be Coming Round the Mountain
- She's Like the Swallow
- Shebeg and Shemoore
- Shenandoah
- Shine on Harvest Moon
- Ships of Sticks and Twine
- Silent Night
- Silver Dagger
- Skip To My Lou
- Slane (Be Thou My Vision)
- Sloop John B
- Smuggler's Song, The
- Snow pt. 3
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Son David
- South Australia
- Spanish Ladies
- Spencer The Rover
- Sprig of Thyme
- St James Infirmary Blues
- Star of the County Down
- Stille Nacht (German Version of Silent Night)
- Streets of Laredo, The
- Sweet Songs
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot
- Tam Lin
- The Holly and The Ivy
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- The Water
- There's Something You Can Do
- This Old Man
- This Train (is Bound for Glory)
- Thrown Into The Sea
- Tom Dooley
- Too Quiet
- Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Wade In The Water
- Waltzing Matilda
- Watch the Stars
- Water is Wide, The
- Wayfaring Stranger
- We Shall Overcome
- We Three Kings Of Orient Are
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- When The Boat Comes In (Dance To Your Daddy)
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- When You and I Were Young, Maggie
- While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
- Whiskey in the Jar
- Wild Rover, The
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Without You