Music

"Smash the television set, turn out the lights, build a fire in the fireplace, move the family into the living room, put a pot on to boil some tea and toddy and have an experiment in merriment..."
- John Senior (from The Restoration of Christian Culture)

LEAD SHEET MUSIC FOR TRADITIONAL AMERICAN, CELTIC, AND CHRISTMAS MUSIC

FF Folk Songbook

* The FF Folk Songbook does not include the songs below with the asterisk because they are new additions to this page.

Across the Western Ocean

Amazing Grace (in D)

Amazing Grace (in G)

Around the Bend (in F)

Around the Bend (in C)

Auld Lang Syne (in F)

Auld Lang Syne (in C)

Ballad of Jesse James

Ballad of St. Anne's Reel (in D)

Ballad of St. Anne's Reel (In C)

Ballad of the Two Waltzes

Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Bath Song*

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Black and Tans (in C#min)

Black and Tans (in Amin)

Blacksmith

Black Velvet Band

Blow the Man Down

Bonny Charlie (in B flat)

Bonny Charlie (in G)

Bonny Dundee

Bonny Ship the Diamond (in Dmin)

Bonny Ship the Diamond (in Amin)

Botany Bay

Broom of the Cowdenknowes (in B)

Broom of the Cowdenknowes (in G)

Bully in the Alley

Bury Me Beneath the willow

Dirty Old Town (in D)

Dirty Old Town (in C)

Dixie

Donegal Danny (in D)

Donegal Danny (in C)

Don't Come Again (in Fmin)

Don't Come Again (in Emin)

Fiddler's Green (in D)

Fiddler's Green (in C)

Fields of Athenry (in B flat)

Fields of Athenry (in G)

Flower of Scotland

Foggy Dew (in Cmin)

Foggy Dew (in Amin)

For Greenland We Sail (in F)

For Greenland We Sail (in C)

Four Green Fields

Gaudeamus Igitur

Girls in Old Ireland (In D)

Girls in Old Ireland (in C)

Good Old Mountain Dew

Greenland Whale Fisheries

Hard Times

Haul Away, Joe

He Said

Hey, Ho, to the Bottle I Go*

Lakes of Pontchartrain

Mingulay Boat Song (in E)

Mingulay Boat Song (in C)

Northwest Passage (in D)

Northwest Passage (in C)

Notes Across Seas (in D)

Notes Across Seas (in C)

Oh, How Lovely is the Evening

Oh, You New York Girls

Parting Glass

Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Rifle, Pony, and Me (in F)

Rifle, Pony, and Me (in C)

Right Far From Ireland (in A flat)

Right Far From Ireland (in G)

Roddy McCorley (in C)

Roddy McCorley (in G)

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Southern Mountain Girl

Spancil Hill (in Bmin)

Spancil Hill (in Amin)

Spanish Lady

St. Therese

Star of County Down

To Canaan's Land (in D)

To Canaan's Land (in C)

Weight of Eternal Glory

Wellerman

We'll Return

When First Unto This Country

When the Saints Go Marching In

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Will Ye Go, Lassie (in D)

Will Ye Go, Lassie (in C)

* The FF Songbooks do not include the songs above with the asterisk because they are new additions to this page.

Thank you to the Online Academy of Irish Music where the Verlanders have learned and continue to learn how to play these tunes on fiddle, tin whistle, mandolin, tenor banjo, guitar, and bodhran. We cannot more highly recommend OAIM for the aspiring Irish musician!

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