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Lyric Library

Here's a non-exhaustive collection of some of our favourite folk songs.
See Original Shants marked with a ⚓

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Ain't Nobody

Written by Dori Freeman

Alderidge Creek

Written by Rose Betts

Banks of Sacramento (She Shanty)

Trad

Banks of the Roses

Trad

Billy Taylor

Trad

Bold Riley

Trad

Captain O'Rourke (She Shanty)

Written by Robert Boddington

Ching Shih

Written by Emma Norton

Come Away

Written by Rose Betts

De Clisson

Written by Carlo Ritchie

Doodles

Written by Rose Betts

Eliza

Written by Wood & Wire, extra verses by Robert Boddington

Fare Ye Well Ye Mormon Braes

Trad

Garlic Bread

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

Gilly O'Shea (She Shanty)

Trad

Haul Away Jo (She Shanty)

Trad

I Left a Maiden

Written by Lorenzo

I've lost my Count

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

If I were a Blackbird

Trad

Irish Eyes

Written by Rose Betts

Jinny Bingham's Ghost

Written by Frank Turner, revisions by Sarah W

Jolly Rovin Tar

Trad, revisions by Sarah W

Katie Cruel

Trad

Leave Her Jenny (She Shanty)

Trad

London Town

Written by Misbehavin' Maidens

Maggie May

Trad

Miner's Washing

Written by John Warner

Molly Malone (Extended)

Trad, extra verse provided by Cindy Tonkin

My Johnny's Gone to Hilo

Trad

Oak and Ash and Thorn

Trad

Plenty of Fish in the Sea

Written by Sarah W

Red is the Rose

Trad

Rosie Ranzo (She Shanty)

Trad

Row, Me Bully Gals (She Shanty)

Trad

Savage Daughter

Written by Wyndreth Berginsdottir

Shanendoah

Trad

Shawneetown

Trad

Siúil a Rún

Trad

Song of the Dawn

Trad

Still I Love Him

Trad

Ten Thousand Miles Away (She Shanty)

Trad

The Ballad of Deb Lawrie

Written by Jake Nelson

The Iron in Her Heart

Written by Mythborne

The Maiden and the Selkie

Written by Heather Dale

The Spirit of Mother Jones

Written by Andy Irvine, revisions by Sarah W

The Wave-Soaked Maiden

Written by Ginny Di

There but for the Grace of God go I

Written by Emma Norton

There is No Ship

Written by Rose Betts

Tilbury Town (She Shanty)

Trad

Twiddles

Written by Janie Meneely

Whisky Jenny (She Shanty)

Trad

Whistling in the Laundry

Written by Cindy Tonkin

Wild Rover Again

Written by Roaring Jack

Will ye go Lassie go

Trad

We acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation, upon whose lands we gather and sing.
We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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