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| Title [author] (comment) | Lyrics | |
| 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 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 (1835 version from the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection (full arrangement)) | 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 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 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 We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here | thread | |
| Il est ne, le divin Enfant | thread | |
| Impossible Dream | DT | |
| In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag) | DT | thread |
| In Heaven There Is No Beer | DT | thread |
| In Mindanao (from Jerry Silverman's American History Songbook - tune is "The Girl I Left Behind Me"?) | thread | |
| In My Garden Grew Plenty of Thyme | DT | thread |
| In Praise of the City of Mullingar [tune by Colm O Lochlainn] | thread | |
| In Praise of the Glen (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People, Page 195) | thread | |
| In Room 202 [Leslie/Kalmar/Lewis] | thread | |
| In the Days When We Went Gypsying [Melody by J. N. Sporle] | thread | |
| In the Old Bazaar in Cairo | DT | thread |
| In the Old Bazaar in Cairo | DT | thread |
| Innisfree (Not sure this is a correct match. Tune is "Innisfree." Lyrics are "Isle of Innisfree." If you know for sure, send me a personal message. -Joe Offer-) | DT | thread |
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Into the Air Junior Birdman (This is the @#$ Air Force Hymn. We still need the right tune. -Joe Offer- Joe - I have always heard Into the air Junior Birdman sung to the Air Force Hymn....isn't it?) |
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Into the Air, Junior Birdmen [Philip Egner] (Original tune: On, Brave Old Army Team (West Point fight song) -JRO-) |
DT | thread |
| Iona Boat Song | DT | |
| Irish Jaunting Car [1952 version attributed to Wilson Crean] | thread | |
| The Irish Lover's Morning Walk (The tune is first found as "The Irish Lover's Morning Walk" on a single sheet song with music, c 1780, and slightly later used for the song "Since Love is the Plan" in 'the Poor Soldier', 1783. ) | thread | |
| Irish ways and Irish laws | DT | thread |
| Irish Wedding Song (Tune doesn't seem quite right. If you have a better one, contact Joe Offer.) | thread | |
| Is é fáth mo bhuartha | thread | |
| Is there Anybody here like Mary A-weepin' | DT | |
| 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 Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb (from Song Fest) | DT | thread |
| It's Tragic | DT | |
| 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 |
| 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 |