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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.

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10,000 Miles Away (She Shanty)

Trad.

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100% Ingredients

Written by Dan Schneider

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Ain't Nobody

Written by Dori Freeman

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Alderidge Creek

Written by Rose Betts

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All Coiled Down (So Long)

Words by Cicely Fox Smith. Music by Alan Fitzsimmonds.

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All The Good Times are Past and Gone

Trad.

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Anderson's Coast

Written by John Warner

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Are We Going Out For One?

Written by Gearoid McCarthy

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Auld Lang Syne

Trad.

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Back Home in Sydney

Zack Schofield

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Back to Broome

By Ted Egan

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Banks of The Sacramento

Trad.

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Banks of The Sacramento (She Shanty)

Trad.

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Banks of the Roses

Trad.

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Beer Baron

Written by Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery

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Being a Pirate

Written by Don Freed

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Billy Taylor

Trad.

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Bold Riley

Trad.

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Bones in the Ocean

Writen by Dave Robinson

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Bootleg Gin

Written by Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery

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Boozing

Trad.

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Bricks

Written by Carlo Ritchie and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd

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Bully in the Alley

Trad.

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Buses Are Replacing Trains (Sydney)

Trad.

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Campbeltown Loch

Written by Alan Cameron

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Candlelight Fisherman

Trad.

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Cape Cod Girls

Trad.

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Captain O'Rourke

Written by Robert Boddington

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Captain O'Rourke (She Shanty)

Written by Robert Boddington

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Chemical Worker's Song

Written by Ron Angel

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Ching Shih

Written by Emma Norton

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Christmas Shanty

Written by Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd and Robert Boddington

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Christmas Shanty Song

Written by Cindy Tonkin and Ella Arendelle

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Come Away

Written by Rose Betts

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Cornbread and Butterbeans

Written by Don Whiston

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Cornwall My Home

Written by The Fisherman's Friends

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Craneman

Written by Robert Boddington

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Crossing the Bar

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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De Clisson

Written by Carlo Ritchie

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Donald, Where's Your Troosers?

Written by Andy Stewart, 1993

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Doodles

Written by Rose Betts

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Doon In The Wee Room

Daniel McLaughlin / Traditional

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El Fusilado

By Chumbawamba

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Electric Passenger Train

Written by Emma Norton

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Eliza

Written by Wood & Wire, extra verses by Robert Boddington

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Eye of the Storm (The Kite Song)

Written by Harry Quast and Tommy Green

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Eye on the Weather

Written by Wellington Sea Shanty Society

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Fair Winds and Following Seas

Written by Cindy Tonkin and Brendan Reed

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Fall Down Billy O'Shea

Trad. (Iain McCarthy, 1963)

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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