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| Title [author] (comment) | Lyrics | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| The Jolly Bold Robber | DT | 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 | |
| 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 | |