Medieval
The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
Robin Hood and the Tanner
Three Ravens
The Outlandish Knight
Sir Patrick Spens
The Battle of Otterbern
Others from the Child Ballads
Elizabethan/English Civil War
Greensleeves
When the King Enjoys His Own Again
Scarborough Fair
Sir Andrew Barton
The Death of Queen Jane
Drink to me Only With Thine Eyes
The Oak and the Ash
American Colonial Era
Barbara Allen
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Pretty Saro
17th-18th Century Sea Shanties
A Sailor’s Life (the American version of this is Willy the Bold Sailor Boy)
Blow the Man Down
Revolutionary War folk songs
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me?
Yankee Doodle
Free America
Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys
The World Turned Upside Down
The British Grenadiers
The Battle of Kegs
Oh! Say Bonny Lass
The Lovely Ohio
The War of 1812
The Star-Spangled Banner
Eighth of January
The Noble Lads of Canada
The Triumph of General Ludd
Civil War songs (includes a few Negro spirituals)
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Follow the Drinking Gourd
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
The Battle of Shiloh Hill
John Brown’s Body
Go Down, Moses
Swing Low, Chariot
Wade in the Water
19th Century American folk songs
The Eerie Canal
The Jam on Jerry’s Rocks
Shenandoah
Darling Nellie Grey
Billy Boy
Simple Gifts
Buffalo Gals
Red River Valley
Aloha O’e (Hawaiian Farewell song)
18th-19th century British folk songs
Star of the County Down
Miller of Dee
The Old Carrion Crow
My Lodging is on the Cold Ground
Whiskey in the Jar
World War I Folk Songs
Danny Boy
Over There
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
There’s a Little Blue Star in the Window
Depression Era Folk Songs
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Wanderin’
WWII Era Songs
When the Yanks Go Marching In
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
I’ll Be Seeing You
White Cliffs of Dover
Mid-20th Century Protest Songs
Give Peace a Chance
We Shall Overcome
Blowin’ in the Wind
Where Have all the Flowers Gone?
Other 20th Century Folk Songs
This Land is Your Land
Lean On Me
Stand By Me
Kookaburra
Let There Be Peace on Earth (secular lyrics here)
What a Wonderful World
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