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| Title [author] (comment) | Lyrics | |
| The Rabbit Trapper's Song (Original tune as sung by Basil Cosgrove in 1973) | thread | |
| The Rabbit Trapper's Song (Dave de Hugard version) | thread | |
| The Rabbiter's Song [Stan Wakefield] | thread | |
| The Races of Ballyhooly | thread | |
| Radhadlam Raindi | thread | |
| Raise a Ruckus Tonight (from Something to Sing About, Okun) | thread | |
| Raise up Your Voices | thread | |
| Raise Your Voices in the Song (by Genie!) | thread | |
| The Rambling Comber | thread | |
| Rambling Robin | thread | |
| Rap Her to Bank | DT | thread |
| The Rape of Glencoe | DT | thread |
| The Rapparee | thread | |
| The Ratcatcher's Daughter | thread | |
| Ratcliffe Highway (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Rattin Family (from Songs for Swinging Housemothers) | thread | |
| Rattler (version recorded by Bradley Kincaid) | thread | |
| Rebel's Fancy [Jeff Porterfield (jeffp)] | thread | |
| Reconciliation [Ron Kavana] | thread | |
| Rectal Bleeding Calypso [John Dengate] | thread | |
| The Red Herring (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Red House (ancestral to 'Do YOu Ken John Peel' from Playford's Dancing Master (1706). The tune first appeared in the edition of 1695 in a slightly different form. ) | DT | thread |
| The Red Light Saloon | DT | thread |
| Red Rose Cafe | DT | thread |
| Reuban Ranzo (1) | thread | |
| Reuban Ranzo (2) | thread | |
| Reynard the Fox (3) (known as You Gentlemen of High Renown ... version recorded by The Young Tradition, who called it The Fox Hunt. The tune and text they used were noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Stephen Pole of Norfolk. Midi made by ear) | DT | |
| Reynardine (Donegal tune, as published by Herbert Hughes.) | thread | |
| Reynardine (version sung by A.L. Lloyd, which he had originally from Tom Cook, of Eastbridge, Suffolk. Tune collected by Merrick from Henry Hills, a Sussex farmer." ) | thread | |
| Ride the Chariot | thread | |
| Right Said Fred | DT | thread |
| Ripest of Apples | thread | |
| Rise and Shine | DT | |
| Riu Riu | DT | |
| The Road Goes Ever On [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Roast Beef of Old England (Lyrics embedded) | DT | |
| Robin Adair | DT | thread |
| Robin Cam' to the Wren's Door (midi made from the notation in James Kinsley's Burns: Poems and Songs (OUP, 1971)) | DT | thread |
| Robin Hood and Alan A Dale | DT | thread |
| Robin Hood and the Pedlar (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Robin Redbriest's Testament (Malcolm notes: The DT file contains seven variants, several from Greig-Duncan, and will need to be re-visited later. For now, I have just the one tune, from Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933), where it is called Guid-day now, bonnie Robin, lad; midi made from notation in that book. Moffat's set is essentially a much-shortened form of example (1) , with chorus as specified in the file. ) | DT | |
| Rock O' My Soul (from Slave Songs of the United States, 1867) | thread | |
| Rockabye Baby | DT | |
| The Rocks of Bawn | DT | thread |
| The Rocks of Scilly (from Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia, Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior) | DT | thread |
| The Rocks of Scilly (from ABC Tunefinder) | DT | thread |
| Roisin dubh | thread | |
| Roll On The Day [Allan Taylor] | thread | |
| Roll On, Silver Moon [J.W. Turner] | thread | |
| Roll the Cotton Down (1) | thread | |
| Roll the Cotton Down (2) | thread | |
| Roll, Columbia, Roll [Woody Guthrie] (from the Sing Out! songbook, Roll On Columbia, The Columbia River Collection) | thread | |
| Roller Coaster/ Silver Spire [Jon Freeman] (Silver Spire - Trad) | thread | |
| Romans and English (from The Singing Game, Iona and Peter Opie) | thread | |
| Room Full of Roses | DT | thread |
| Rosbif Waltz | thread | |
| The Rose | DT | |
| The Rose in June (Let It Be Early, Late or Soon) (Version noted by Cecil Sharp from John Vincent (72) at Priddy, Somerset, 25th April 1906.) | thread | |
| Rose of Alabamy | DT | thread |
| Rose of Britain's Isle (per Malcolm: The DT file names no source, but the text given is nearly identical to the one in Edith Fowke's Sea Songs and Ballads from Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia (1981), and may perhaps derive from that book, with one or two words mis-remembered. Fowke commented: "Although at least four different broadside printers issued this ballad in England, it does not seem to have survived in British tradition, nor has it been reported in the United States. However, it has been quite popular in Canada, turning up in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario. The text here is one stanza longer than any of the traditional versions I have seen. It is remarkably close to the texts given by Creighton and Manny except that they lack the seventh stanza." The Fowke text came from Fenwick Hatt's notebook of sea ballads, made around the 1880s. Helen Creighton gives a set in her Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (1932), which was noted from Mr. Ben Henneberry of Devil's Island c.1929. This is probably as close as we are likely to get to a tune for the DT example, though, as ever, I stress that we can't know whether or not that text was ever sung to this tune or one like it. Midi made from the Creighton example. ) | DT | |
| Rose, Rose (from Rise Up Singing songbook) | DT | thread |
| Rose, Rose (from Sol Weber's Rounds Galore) | DT | thread |
| Rosie Anderson (From The Folk Music Journal, 1966. James Duncan collection: noted from a Mrs. Gillespie in 1905.) | DT | |
| Rosie Ann | thread | |
| Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roulez! (Midi made from a recording by "The Shanty Crew" It was collected in Haute-Normandie (Seine Maritime) by Michel Colleu from Captain Vedieu (Saint-Pierre-en-Port, 1974) and M. Cuvier (Eletot, 1976).) | DT | thread |
| Rounding the Horn (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| The Roving Highlander (This is the tune for #253B in Greig-Duncan) | thread | |
| The Roving Ploughboy-O (from Peter Kennedy, The Folksongs of Britain and Ireland) | thread | |
| The Row-Dow-Dow (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs??) | DT | |
| Royal Oak | DT | |
| Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer | DT | |
| Rufus' Mare | thread | |
| Rum and Coca Cola [Disputed Authorship] (from The World's Greatest Fakebook - Warner Brothers) | thread | |
| Ryan Flynn's Tune [Ryan Flynn ©1998] | ||
| ' S óró londubh buí (traditional tune (O my blackbird gay) used for Brown and Yellow Ale) | ||
| Sabrina Fair [Milton] | thread | |
| Sagart na Cuile Baine | thread | |
| The Sailor From Dover (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| A Sailor in the North Country (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| A Sailor's Life (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman (from Clinton's 'Gems of Ireland', c 1840) | DT | thread |
| Saints of God | DT | |
| Salisbury Plain (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| Sally Ann (From Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads) | thread | |
| Sally Anne (from The Folk Songs of North America (Alan Lomax)) | thread | |
| The Sally Buck (Collected by Cecil Sharp from William Wooton at Hindman, Kentucky (Sharp 159A)) | thread | |
| The Sally Buck (Collected by Cecil Sharp from Alex Coffey, Nash, Virginia, May 9, 1918) | thread | |
| Sally Monroe | DT | |
| Sally Wheatley | DT | thread |
| Sand Dance [Wilson Kepple and Betty] (full version) | thread | |
| Sand Dance | thread | |
| Sandy Seaton's Wooing (child #33 midi made from notation reproduced from Moffat in Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.) | DT | |
| The Santa Fe Trail (from Katie Lee's Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle) | DT | thread |
| El Santo Nino [traditional Puerto Rican] | thread | |
| The Saucy Bold Robber | DT | thread |
| Schoolday's End [Ewan MacColl] (from The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook) | DT | thread |
| The Schooner Blizzard | thread | |
| The Schooner Kandahar | thread | |
| Scotch and Soda | DT | |
| Scotch on the Rocks (sequenced by Matthew Richards) | DT | thread |