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| Title [author] (comment) | Lyrics | |
| Ba Loinnireach Grian an Trathnona (This air is used with a variation on The Banks of the Lee) | thread | |
| Babes in the Wood | 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |