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Lyric Library

Here's a non-exhaustive collection of some of our favourite folk songs.
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10,000 Miles Away

Trad.

10,000 Miles Away (She Shanty)

Trad.

100% Ingredients

Written by Dan Schneider

Ain't Nobody

Written by Dori Freeman

Alderidge Creek

Written by Rose Betts

All The Good Times are Past and Gone

Trad.

Are We Going Out For One?

Written by Gearoid McCarthy

Auld Lang Syne

Trad.

Back to Broome

By Ted Egan

Banks of The Sacramento

Trad.

Banks of The Sacramento (She Shanty)

Trad.

Banks of the Roses

Trad.

Beer Baron

Written by Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery

Being a Pirate

Written by Don Freed

Billy Taylor

Trad.

Bold Riley

Trad.

Bootleg Gin

Written by Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery

Boozing

Trad.

Bricks

Written by Carlo Ritchie and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd

Bully in the Alley

Trad.

Buses Are Replacing Trains (Sydney)

Trad.

Campbeltown Loch

Written by Alan Cameron

Candlelight Fisherman

Trad.

Cape Cod Girls

Trad.

Captain O'Rourke

Written by Robert Boddington

Captain O'Rourke (She Shanty)

Written by Robert Boddington

Chemical Worker's Song

Written by Ron Angel

Ching Shih

Written by Emma Norton

Christmas Shanty

Written by Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd and Robert Boddington

Christmas Shanty Song

Written by Cindy Tonkin and Ella Arendelle

Come Away

Written by Rose Betts

Cornbread and Butterbeans

Written by Don Whiston

Cornwall My Home

Written by The Fisherman's Friends

Craneman

Written by Robert Boddington

Crossing the Bar

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

De Clisson

Written by Carlo Ritchie

Donald, Where's Your Troosers?

Written by Andy Stewart, 1993

Doodles

Written by Rose Betts

Doon In The Wee Room

Daniel McLaughlin / Traditional

El Fusilado

By Chumbawamba

Electric Passenger Train

Written by Emma Norton

Eliza

Written by Wood & Wire, extra verses by Robert Boddington

Eye of the Storm (The Kite Song)

Written by Harry Quast and Tommy Green

Eye on the Weather

Written by Wellington Sea Shanty Society

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Written by Cindy Tonkin and Brendan Reed

Fall Down Billy O'Shea

Trad. (Iain McCarthy, 1963)

Fare Ye Well Ye Mormon Braes

Trad.

Fields Of Athenry

Written by Pete St. John

Garlic Bread

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

Gilly O'Shea (She Shanty)

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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Numerous photos by Nick Ryden 

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