Songs: for my own reference mostly

[taimatsu]

A list of links to lyrics which I will probably add to my songbook in the near future. Do ask me if you would like to learn one of these. Some of the websites to which I link make audio files of the tunes available, or images of the score/melody.

Westering Home
Raglan Road
All Around My Hat
All Around My Hat again, with more verses
Mairi's Wedding
À la claire fontaine
Sally Gardens
Homeward Bound
Fields of Athenry
She Moved Through The Fair
All My Loving
Chastity Belt
What Shall We Do When We Leave The Navy?
I'll Tell My Ma
Lady Gay (I need to check other versions of this.)
Minstrel Boy (with the third verse)
Twa Corbies
Come Landlord Fill (and another, and another.)
Cuckoo's Nest
I Wonder What Is Keeping My True Love Tonight (Green Grass It Grows Bonny)
Mantle Of Green (and an older version, and another.)
Scarborough Fair (fairly comprehensive version)
The Orphans' Wedding
Likes Likker Better Than Me
Little Green Buttons
The Concealed Maiden
Menstruation (friends-locked)
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
The Girl wirh April in her Eyes
My Grandfather's Clock
Streets of London
And So It Goes
Shame and Scandal
Days Like These (Janis Ian)

That'll do for now. I'll probably update this with more links as I find versions I want to use.

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Very, very much want to learn She Moved Through the Fair.

[taimatsu]

The link above has an mp3, and this page has the melody notation. Hope that helps :)

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a rather fabulous list! Will indeed let you know if I want to learn any! (And can't find the music otherwise)

Hoep to hear you singing many of them one time or another...

[darcydodo]

Yeah, isn't chivalry.com wonderful? :)

[taimatsu]

Yes; there are about four sites which are particularly useful, and that's one of them :)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Contemplator.com is wonderful, too. I like your taste in music :)

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who'd been taught "What shall we do when we leave the navy?" :).

[taimatsu]

It's a LARP classic, I'm afraid.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

if you could learn to sing The Bonnie House Of Airlie (http://www.contemplator.com/child/airlie.html) (i know a version by Kate Rusby) that would be supersupersuper good. i think it would suit your voice very very much. and it is exceedingly gorgeous. there are probably better lyrics and music than this (i know i prefer Kate's version but afaik she has only sung her version live, never released it. the fiend.) - i expect you know good folk music places to look.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Woo - so much singing at Shards then? Any chance that if you work out ones that you are likely to sing there you could let me know so I can try to have a better idea of the words.

I wonder if there's time/value in redoing the shards songbook..?

[taimatsu]

I'm likely to sing almost *anything* there. The stuff that isn't folk will happen later in the evening when people are drunker, but most of it will get sung.

We probably can and should redo the songbook, but it's worth asking Rik how he did it originally.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Cool! In which caase I'll just polish up the words to ones that I'm likely to know! There are a few songs on my listens through stuff that might be relevant, so I'll see about trying to track them down for you.

I have *ahem* access to photocopying, and I'm unlikely to be busy at work in early August, so if people like I can redo/copy more song books.

I'll put a post up on the group about it.