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An Experiment
in Merriment





"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
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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
By the Junipers
Carrickfergus (in A)
Carrickfergus (in G)
Clementine
Country Roads (in E)
Country Roads (in C)
Danny Boy
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)
Down By the Glenside
Edelweiss (in A)
Edelwiss (in G)
Emma's Grove
Fatima Farm
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*
Hills of Connemara
Ho for Amerikay
Home on the Range
I'll Fly Away
I Tell Me Ma
John Kanaka
Lakes of Pontchartrain
Leaving of Liverpool
Lewis Bridal Song*
Loch Lomond (in F)
Loch Lomond (in D)
Loch Tay Boat Song
Lord Franklin (in E)
Lord Franklin (in D)
Lord of the Dance
Love in a Watercan
Lowlands of Holland
Loyal Brother
Maid of Fife
Mermaid Song
Mingulay Boat Song (in E)
Mingulay Boat Song (in C)
Minstrel Boy
Molly Malone
My Bonnie
My Comrade
My Johnny Lad
Night Visiting Song
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
Proud Ireland
Raglan Road
Rattlin'Bog
Red is the Rose
Red River Valley
Reilly's Daughter
Remember the Alamo
Requiem*
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
Rose of Allendale
Round the Cape
Salem Town
Sally Rose
Scotland the Brave
Shenandoah
Skye Boat Song
South Australia
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
Whiskey in the Jar
Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Rover (in D)
Wild Rover (in C)
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. 
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Ave Maria
Ave Maria (round)
Christus Vincit
Dona Nobis Pacem
Fatima Ave
Je vous salue, Marie
Non Nobis Domine
Regina Caeli
Salve Regina
Ubi Caritas
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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!
Back at the Ranch
Baidin Fheilimi
Britches Full of Stitches
Bonny Gold Hornpipe
Boys of Bluehill
Butterfly
Concertina Reel
Derry Hornpipe
Evening's Waltz
Gerry Beaver's Hat
Golden Stud
Harvest Home
Humours of Westmeath
Humours of Whiskey
John Blessing's Polka
John Ryan's Polka
Kerry Polka
Lilting Banshee
Maggie in the Woods
Mary's Hornpipe
Mountain Road
On the Danforth
Out on the Ocean
Rattlin' Bog
Rights of Man
Road to Lisdoonvarna
Scotland the Brave
Shoe the Donkey
Skip to the Fair
Taureen Polka
Terry Teehan's Polka
Thomas Shrug March
To Be In Galway
Tripping Up the Stairs
Veronica's Reel (in D)
Veronica's Reel (in C)
We Won't Go Home Until the Morning
Winnie Hills of Leitrim
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The Verlanders' Christmas Song Book
Angels We Have Heard On High (In D)
Angels We Have Heard On High (In C)
Away in a Manger: Cradle Song (in D)
Away in a Manger: Cradle Song (in C)
Boar's Head Carol
Coventry Carol
Ding Dong Merrily on High
First Nowell
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (in Amin)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (in Emin)
Good King Wenceslas
Green Grow the Rushes, O
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
In the Bleak Midwinter (in D)
In the Bleak Midwinter (in C)
I Saw Three Ships
Joy to the World
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, Divine Messiah
O Holy Night
Pat-a-Pan (in Emin)
Pat-a-Pan (in Dmin)
Silent Night
Sussex Carol (in D)
Sussex Carol (in C)
Wassail Song
We Three Kings
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
What Child Is This (in Emin)
What Child Is This (in Dmin)
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