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Lyric Library

Here's a non-exhaustive collection of some of our favourite folk songs.
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Fields Of Athenry

Written by Pete St. John

Garlic Bread

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

Gilly O'Shea (She Shanty)

Trad.

Glory and Gold (Let the Dice a-Roll-Oh)

Jake Nelson

Golden Vanity

Trad.

Gotta Get Paid

Written by Toby Quast

Grantie's Maze

Zack Schofield

Graves

By Whiskey Shivers

Green Beans

Written by Cindy Tonkin

Greenland

Written by Robert Boddington & Clayton Vickery

Hard Times Come Again No More

Written by Stephen Foster

Haul Away Jo (She Shanty)

Trad.

Haul Away Joe

Trad.

Here's a Health to the Company

Trad.

Hey Rain (The Innisfail Song)

Written by Bill Scott

I Got All the Fucking Work I Need

Written by Robert Boddington

I Left a Maiden

Written by Lorenzo

I Never Learned the Words, Boys

Parodied by Michael H.

I Never Learned to Drive (The Driving Song)

Written by the Band Scroggin

I Never Learned to Mask

Written by Dan Barron-Hyland

I Wanna Be in the Cavalry

By Corb Lund

I'm Feeling Better

Written by Dan Schneider

I've Lost my Count

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

If I were a Blackbird

Trad.

Illinois River

Written by John Hartford

Irish Eyes

Written by Rose Betts

Jenny's Song

Written by Sarah W

Jinny Bingham's Ghost

Written by Frank Turner, revisions by Sarah W

Johnny Come Down To Hilo

Trad.

Johnny Dunn

Written by Jack Ballhausen

Jolly Rovin Tar

Trad, revisions by Sarah W

Juliana

Traditional

Katie Cruel

Trad.

Kill the Shantyman Dead

Written by Toby Quast

Lampshade On

Written by Dustbowl Revival

Leave Her Jenny (She Shanty)

Trad.

Leave Her Johnny

Trad.

Lightning

Written by Dan Schneider

Lining Track

Trad.

Little Lorna Jane

Parody of 'Little Liza Jane' by Robert Boddington

Loch Lomond

Trad.

London Town

Written by Misbehavin' Maidens

Lone Prairie

Trad.

Lonesome Sea

Written by Brodie Buttons, of the Button Collective

MacPherson's Rant

Trad.

Maggie May

Trad.

Marching Inland

Written by Tom Lewis

Marriage Shanty

Written by Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, with edits from Dan Schneider

Miner's Washing

Written by John Warner

Molly Malone (Extended)

Trad, extra verse provided by Cindy Tonkin

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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