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Nadal Dels Aucels (Carol of the Birds) |
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Nancy Brown (expanded tune (with the "hot damns" and "that's no lies") - from gargoyle) |
DT
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Nancy Brown (basic tune) |
DT
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Neener Neener Nyah Nyah (the traditional children's taunt) |
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New Mown Hay |
DT
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The New River Shore (from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) |
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The New York Trader |
DT
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The New York Trader (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
DT
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New Zealand Whales/Cruising for Sperm |
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Newgrange |
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thread
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The Newry Highwayman |
DT
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thread
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The Next Big River |
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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
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The Nightingale (from Sam Henry's Songs of the People) |
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nil na la |
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nil na la 1 |
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nil na la 2 |
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nil na la 3 |
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No Beer, No Work [Sammy Edwards, 1919] |
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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
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Noble Lads of Canada |
DT
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Nobleman's Wedding |
DT
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thread
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Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's 40 |
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Nonesuch / None But One (Compare with Jean Ritchie's song, "None But One.") |
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Normandy Orchards |
DT
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Northeast Passage |
DT
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The Northern Lights of old Aberdeen (from 'Busking Around The World'
posted by John in Brisbane -) |
DT
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Northwest Passage |
DT
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Nos Galan (Deck the Halls) |
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Not My Colorado [katlaughing] |
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Nothing But the Same Old Story [Paul Brady] |
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Nothing But the Same Old Story [Paul Brady] (melody only) |
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Now is the Month of Maying (Midi made from notation in The New National Song Book (1957 edition).
) |
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thread
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Nut Brown Maiden (Midi made from the notation in Alfred Moffat's Highland Minstrelsy.) |
DT
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Nuts in May (from Folk Songs of Old New England) |
DT
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thread
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ny kirree fo niaghtey |
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O Shepherd, O Shepherd ((Joe - as far as I can tell this midi is the same as the one below except for volume - lmp)) |
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O Shepherd, O Shepherd (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
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O'Reilly And The Big McNeill |
DT
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O/ro/ se/ do bheatha 'bhaile |
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The Oakham Poachers |
DT
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The Obituary [Jeri Corlew] |
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Off To California (one of many versions at JC's ABC Tunefinder) |
DT
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oganaigh oig |
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Oh, How I hate to get up in the Morning |
DT
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Ohio (Old Macdougal Had a Farm) (from Tommy's Tunes, 1917) |
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The Old Apple Tree |
DT
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Old Bonebags [Jimmy Eaton] (from Music Near and Far, the 1956 Silver Burdett fourth-grade music textbook) |
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Old Christmas Returned [Mathew Lock] |
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Old Cock Crows |
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The Old Doorstep (vocal line) |
DT
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The Old Doorstep (with piano part and harmonies) |
DT
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The Old Dun Cow |
DT
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Old Fid |
DT
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The Old Figurehead Carver (midi by Blessings Barbara) |
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The Old Fish Song |
DT
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Old Folks At Home |
DT
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thread
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Old Fox Wassail (2) |
DT
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Old Gospel Ship |
DT
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The Old Gray Horse Came Tearing Through The Wilderness (Source: Thomas W. Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes, 1922, 1949, 1991 ) |
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Old Kentucky Home |
DT
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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
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Old Mac Donald Had a Farm (McDonald's Farm) (#125a from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) |
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The Old Man From Lee (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
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The Old Man from the Old Country (Child #10) (from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs, #4e, The Miller's Daughters.) |
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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
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thread
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Old Militia Song (see also The Dorset Militia Song
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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
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Old Molly Hare |
DT
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Old Robin Adair |
DT
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The Old Songs (Words by Bob Copper, tune by Peter Bellamy) |
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The Old Spinning Wheel |
DT
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Old Stepstone |
DT
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On Board of a Man of War O |
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thread
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On Board of a Man of War O (from Maud Karpeles (ed), Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs) |
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On Board of the Kangaroo (from Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas) |
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On Eagle's Wings |
DT
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On Monday Morning (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
DT
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On Sedgemoor (The Marsh Fever) ( From Ruth L. Tongue's book, The Chime Child) |
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On The Good Ship Enterprise |
DT
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On the Lac San Pierre (from Franz Lee Rickaby's Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy) |
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On The Road To Mandalay |
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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).) |
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Once I Had a Truelove (from Wright's
Complete Tutor For Ye [sic] Flute, c.1733.
) |
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Once I Had an Old Grey Mare (from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore) |
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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.) |
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Once there were Green Fields (orchestrated) |
DT
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One I Love [Jean Ritchie] (from Jean Ritchie's "Celebration of Life" Songbook) |
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One Night As I Lay On My Bed (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
DT
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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
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One Tin Soldier |
DT
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One World (from the Girl Scout Sangam Git songbook) |
DT
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Only Our Rivers Run Free |
DT
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The Orphans' Lament (Two Little Children) [As sung by Jean Ritchie] (from the Folkways CD "Precious Memories.") |
DT
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The Outlandish Knight (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
DT
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T' Owd Yowe Wi' One Horn (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
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The Owl and the Pussycat |
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Oxford City (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) |
DT
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Packington's Pound (A caveat for Cutpurses) |
DT
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Paddy McGinty's Goat |
DT
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