Folk Song Name Generator

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Generate folk song titles in the manner of traditional ballads, shanties and airs, and of the modern acoustic songs that borrow from them, such as The Ballad of Hattie Crane, Haul Her Home to Halifax and Lament for the Last Ferry.

About folk song names

Folk song titles tend to say plainly what the song is about: a person, a place, a trade or a parting. Famous traditional examples such as Barbara Allen, Scarborough Fair and Shenandoah are just a name or a place. Many others use stock frames that anyone may borrow: The Ballad of, Come All Ye, Fare Thee Well, Lament for, The Bonny. A dance tune is often named for a person, a trade or a place, with its type added: a reel, a jig, a hornpipe or a waltz.

The 1,000 titles here are new titles in that manner, not a list of traditional songs. They cover narrative and murder ballads, sea shanties and forebitters, work songs of mine, mill, field and railroad, courtship songs, emigration and farewell songs, laments and slow airs, drinking songs, union and protest songs, carols and seasonal songs, dance tunes, songs of rivers and hills, comic songs, Appalachian old-time titles and quiet modern indie-folk. Shanties timed the hauling and heaving on sailing ships, while forebitters were sung off watch.

Use a title as a songwriting prompt, a track on a fictional album or a song for a tavern scene in a game. Because the frames are shared, an old song may already carry a similar name, so search before you release anything.

How to choose folk song names

Pick the frame for the kind of song: The Ballad of for a story with a named person, Lament for or a slow air for grief, a come-all-ye for a song that speaks to a trade or a town.
Swap in your own names and places. A title like The Wreck of the Anna Bright or Farewell to Mossy Hollow gets more convincing with a river, a county or a surname from your own setting or family.
Match the title to who sings it. A shanty title is a shouted line a crew can answer (Pump Her Dry, Boys), a courtship song names the sweetheart, and a dance tune needs no words, only its type.
For a believable set list or fictional album, mix the types: two ballads, a work song, a drinking song, a lament and a pair of tunes read like a real night in a folk club.
Search the title before you record. Traditional songs share frames and stock phrases, so make sure a well-known song does not already go by the same name.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real traditional folk songs?

No. The list holds new titles in the manner of traditional song, such as Three Crows at the Gate, The Night Shift at Number Nine and Fare Thee Well, Annalee. None of them comes with a history, a region or a collector. A title may still happen to match a song that exists somewhere, so search before you publish.

Can I use a title for my own song, set list or story?

Yes. Titles on their own are generally not protected by copyright, so you can use one as a working title, a track name or a song inside a novel or a game. Look it up on streaming services first so your song is not confused with an existing one.

What is the difference between a ballad, a shanty and an air?

A ballad tells a story in verses, often about a named person or event. A shanty is a work song from sailing ships, with a line for one singer and an answer for the crew. An air is a melody, often slow, that may or may not have words. The list has all three, for example The Ballad of Tobias Wren, Capstan Round at Dawn and Slow Air for Margaret.

How do I make a folk song title sound older or more modern?

Older-sounding titles pair a frame with a concrete noun: a trade, a river, a first name or a season, as in The Bonny Weaver Lad or Plough Monday Morning. Modern indie-folk titles drop the frame and keep one small domestic image, as in Woodsmoke in My Sweater or Tin Roof, Soft Rain.

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All 1,000 folk song names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 44 names

A Bushel of Lies for a Penny
A Card of Buttons and a Calico Gown
A Carol of Bread and Candlelight
A Field Guide to Leaving
A Hand Loom in the Attic
A Hare for the Pot Is No Crime
A Health to Absent Friends and Present
A Health to the Harvest Hands
A Hen Laid an Egg in the Organ
A Letter from the Diggings
A Long Way from the Leitrim Rain
A Mother's Lament at the Quay
A Penny for the Fiddler, a Kiss for Me
A Pint for the Ploughman

A, continued

A Ribbon for Her Yellow Hair
A Robin Perched on the Pitchfork
A Sailor's Grave Has No Flowers
A Shilling Short of a Supper
A Song for Your Supper
A Soul Cake for the Singers
A Sprig of Rosemary for Remembrance
A Stony Row to Hoe
A Stranger Came to Our Town
A Ticket for the Tuesday Boat
A Trip to Thistledown Farm
A Wager at the Crossroads Inn
Adieu to the Vale of Evesham
Air for the Evening Tide
Air from the Far Side of the Loch

A, continued

All Hallows' Lantern Walk
All My Silver Spent on Cider
An Air for the Empty Chair
An Empty Chair for the Sergeant
An Old Tongue in a New Town
Apple Butter Stir
Apple Picking Round
Area Code of My Childhood
As I Walked Out by Barrow Wood
As I Went Down to Fennor Fair
Ashes in the Grate at Morning
Aunt Tabitha's Wooden Teeth
Autumn Spate on the Tweed
Away, Away, the Tide Is Turning
Axe Song for the White Pine

B: 39 names

Bang the Table for the Next Verse
Banjo on the Back Step
Bare Maple
Barefoot on the Dock
Barn Raising Breakdown
Bean Poles and Twine
Bear Tracks in the Orchard
Beating the Bounds of Thornby
Bees in the Lime Trees
Bells for Candlemas Morning
Betsy of the Bleaching Green
Biddy's Boots Jig
Billy Goat Ate the Washing

B, continued

Bird Feeder in the Snow
Black-Haired Tom the Thresher
Blackberries Before the Frost
Bog Cotton in Offaly
Bonfire Night on the Common
Bonny Blooms the Heather Yet
Bonny Kate of the Corn Market
Bonny May Morning on the Wold
Borrowed Flannel
Bound for the Ballarat Gold
Bound for the Promised Meadow
Bound Out from Bristol Quay
Boxes in the Hallway

B, continued

Brakeman's Cold Hands
Brambles Where the Cabin Stood
Brickyard Hornpipe
Bright Shore Beyond the Bend
Bring the Boys Home by Harvest
Bring the Green Boughs In
Bringing in the May Blossom
Brother, Lend a Lantern
Burnt Supper for the Bachelor
Buttermilk and Bannock Jig
Buttermilk Bucket Promenade
By the Banks of the Slow Brown Avon
By the Overseer's Watch Chain

C: 40 names

Cabin Smoke at Sundown
Cage Goes Down at Six
Calico Dress at the Play Party
Campfire Without You
Canoe at First Light
Cap in Hand No More
Capo on the Third Fret
Capstan Round at Dawn
Captain Wetherby's Daughter
Careless Sam at the Horse Fair
Carol for a Frosty Morning
Carol of the Snowed-In Farm
Chalk It on the Slate, Martha

C, continued

Chase the Hen Around the Yard
Cherry Orchard Mazurka
Chestnut Mountain Morning
Cicada Years
Cider in the Orchard Shade
Clawhammer Sunday
Clay Under the Potter's Thumb
Cliffs at Flamborough
Clogs on the Cobbles
Closing Time at the Crooked Billet
Coal Dust on the Sunday Shirt
Coffee Rings on the Lyrics
Cold Is the Bed by the River

C, continued

Come All Ye Dockside Men
Come All Ye Weavers of the Valley
Come All Ye Who Dig and Delve
Come All You Cotton Spinners
Come Walk the Fields with Me, My Love
Come, Gather Round the Picket Fire
Corn Crib Empty Blues
Corn Shucking Two-Step
Cornbread and Clabber
Cotton Lint in My Hair
Courting Down the Drovers' Lane
Crow on the Scarecrow's Shoulder
Curlews on the Marsh at Dawn
Customs House Hornpipe

D: 24 names

Dad's Toolbox
Dairymaid's Dawn
Dales in Lambing Time
Dandelion Wine for the Neighbors
Dark-Eyed Susan of the Ferry
Darling Tessa, Don't You Grieve
Darts and Dominoes and Stout
Dear Mother, the Snow Here Is Deeper
Diddle for a Dancing Dog
Dirge for a Lost Boat
Dogwood Winter Waltz
Down by the Mill Race at Evening

D, continued

Down in the Meadow Where Primroses Grow
Down the Dart to the Sea
Down the Deep Seam
Down the Hill Went the Cheese
Down to the Sea in the Morning
Down Where the Dark Water Runs
Drink Up, the Dawn Is Coming
Drover's Road to Market
Drowned at Miller's Weir
Dulcimer by the Hearth
Dusk on the Cumberland
Dust on the Overland Trail

E: 7 names

Early, Early by the Bramble Hedge
Earth to the Good Earth
Easter Morning on the Hilltop
Elegy for the Hedgerows
Empty Pockets, Full Heart
Evening on the Allegheny
Evicted at Candlemas

F: 36 names

Fair Ellen and the Miller's Man
Fair Maid, Will You Tarry
Far from the Shannon Water
Fare Thee Well, Annalee
Fare Thee Well, My Father's Door
Fare Thee Well, Stony Acres of Antrim
Fare Ye Well, You Lads of the Lower Field
Farewell to Mossy Hollow
Farewell to the Fishing Grounds
Farewell to the Grey Stone Quay
Farewell, Sweet Clare, at Morning
Farewell, You Girls of Falmouth

F, continued

Farmer Hobbs and the Runaway Cart
Fence Line
Fens in Flood
Fiddle in a Flour Sack
Fiddlehead
Fiddler, You've Forgotten the Tune
Fill Them Up Again, Landlord
Fire in the Cotton Exchange
Fireflies in a Mason Jar
Fireman, Shovel On
First Foot at the Door
First Frost on the Windshield

F, continued

First Swallow Over the Barn
Flat Went the Choir at Evensong
Flowers on the Fresh-Turned Ground
Fog on the Grand Banks
Footlog Over Troublesome Creek
Forty Rows Before the Rain
Four Chords and the Weather
Four Farmers at the Bar
Fourteen Hours Underground
Foxgloves in the Hedge Bank
From Cobh to the Clearing
Frost Fair on the River

G: 15 names

Ginseng Hunter's Song
Glassblower's Waltz
Gleaners in the Stubble
Good Beer and Bad Company
Good Morrow, Master Farmer
Goodbye to the Chapel on the Hill
Gourd Banjo Blues
Grandmother's Kitchen Waltz
Granny's Tune for Shelling Beans
Gravel Shoulder
Green Lane Home
Grey Rocks of the Hebrides
Grey Sea, Grey Sky, Grey Gull
Grey Stones and Lichen
Grief Is a Long Road Walking

H: 46 names

Half-Knit Scarf
Halyard Song of the Mary Rose Lee
Hapless Harry's Holiday
Hard Frost Two-Step
Hardtack Blues of the Lower Deck
Hare on the Headland
Harmonies in the Stairwell
Harvest in the Weald
Harvest Moon Over Stubble Fields
Haul Her Home to Halifax
Hay Wagon Coming in Slow

H, continued

Hayloft Light
Hayloft Waltz
Hazel Copse and Nightingale
He Fell at the Second Crossing
He Never Came Back from the Fair
He Planted His Hat and Waited
He Promised Her a Wedding Ring
He Whistled at My Window
Heather Burn Strathspey
Heather Hills of Angus
Heave Away for the Harbor Light
Hedgerows of Herefordshire

H, continued

Hen on the Rafters Reel
Her Father Barred the Door
Her Gown Was Green as Barley
Her Mother Hid Her Shoes
Her Mother's Black Shawl
Here's to the Barrel and the Brewer
High Hills Above Hebden
High on the Cheviot Side
High Water at Carter's Crossing
High Water at the Low Gap
Hiring Fair at Martinmas

H, continued

His Pipe Still on the Mantel
Hog Killing Frost
Hold the Line at Harlow Mill
Hollow Log Holler
Home by the Light of the Morning Star
Homeward Round the Lizard
Honey Jar Light
Hop Pickers Down from London
Hornpipe for a Creaking Deck
Hound Dog Baying at the Gap
Hush, the Wind Is Grieving
Hymn for the Hay Barn

I: 14 names

I Bought Me a Bantam for a Button
I Carried the Fiddle Across
I Love a Lad the Squire Disdains
I Saw a Herring Wearing Boots
I Took the Pledge on Monday
I Will Not Carry the Rifle
I Woke in a Ditch Near Dunstable
I'll Buy You a Gown of Grey
I'll See the Hawthorn Bloom Again
I've Walked from Cork to Carlow
Icebound off Labrador
In and Out the Bramble Bushes
In the Clover Meadow with Annie
Ivy at the Door, Bay at the Window

J: 2 names

Jig for a Wet Wedding
Jump the Creek and Home Again

K: 5 names

Keening for Brigid's Son
Keep the Lamp Lit, Mary
Kegs Under the Vestry Floor
Kettle On, Radio Low
Kitchen Flagstone Reel

L: 38 names

Lacemaker's Eyes at Forty
Lady Margery at the Garden Wall
Lambing Time Is Here Again
Lament for a Closed Pit
Lament for Old Angus the Piper
Lament for the Drowned Fishermen
Lament for the Empty Village
Lament for the Felled Orchard
Lament for the Last Ferry
Lament for the Schoolmaster of Kilbride
Lammas Loaf
Lamp and Pick and Prayer

L, continued

Landing Day at Grosse Isle
Lanes of County Down in May
Lanterns on the Lee Shore
Lash It Fast and Sing
Last Look at the Headland
Laundry on the Line at Dusk
Laurel Bloom on the North Slope
Laurel Thicket Lonesome
Lay Him by the Rowan
Lay My Burden by the Spring
Lay That Rail Down Easy
Leaky Kettle Jig
Lean Times in the Mill Town

L, continued

Lean Year on Lick Fork
Left on the Step at St. Agnes
Letters Home from Pittsburgh
Light a Candle for the Lost
Linen Britches Winter
Little Blue Farmhouse
Little Mattie at the Spring
Lone Heron at Dusk
Loon Call
Lord Ashby's Youngest Daughter
Lost with All Hands off Sable Bank
Lovely Nell of Aldermere
Low Water on the Strand

M: 50 names

Machair in Flower
Malt and Hops and a Warm Fire
Mantel Clock Polka
Martinmas Wind
Maypole on the Green at Ashwell
Meadows of Meath
Mending Nets by Candlelight
Michaelmas Goose
Midsummer Fire on Beacon Hill
Midwinter Waltz for Two Fiddles
Milkweed
Mill Gate at Half Past Five

M, continued

Millpond Mazurka
Miss Abernathy's Reel
Miss Finlay of Kirkton's Strathspey
Miss Pettigrew's Seven Cats
Mist on the Kennebec
Molasses Making Morning
Molly Fenn and the Recruiting Sergeant
Moonshine up Laurel Branch
Moors Above Rosedale
Morning Light in the Meeting House
Morning on the Susquehanna
Motel Bible
Moth at the Porch Bulb

M, continued

Mourner, Rise and Sing
Mourning Dove on the Ridge Pole
Mouth Music for the Milking
Mrs. Dunmore's Fancy
Mud Season
Mule and Furrow
Mulled Ale on a Frosty Night
My Bonny Brown-Haired Mary
My Boots Know Every County
My Brother Swallowed the Whistle
My Brother Went to Yukon
My Father Carried the Banner

M, continued

My Father Was a Deepwater Man
My Grandfather's Stubborn Mule
My Heart Is with the Wagoner
My Johnny Wears a Jacket of Blue
My Love Follows the Plough
My Love Is Like the Morning Lark
My Love Lies Under Willow Shade
My Love Wears a Ribbon of Green
My Mother's Garden in August
My Mother's Hands Are Still
My True Love Sleeps in Flanders Clay
My Wages Went for Porter
My Wife Has Locked the Larder

N: 10 names

Nettles Where the Garden Was
Never Again Till Saturday
New Year's Ploughing Song
Nine Brown Hens and One Went Broody
No One Left to Call the Cattle
No Roof but the Sky
No Smoke from the Chimney Now
No Work at the Yard Today
North of the Last Gas Station
Not a Wheel Shall Turn

O: 21 names

Old Bowman's Last Watch
Old Bugle Treed a Possum
Old Elm at the Lane's End
Old Friends, New Babies
Old Hannah's Prophecy
Old Man Garrity's Mule
Old Mother Tansy's Kettle
Old Ship of Mercy, Sail On
Old Tom's Barn Door Reel
On the Braes of Glen Lyon

O, continued

On the Gambler's Wedding Day
One Evening Late by Lantern Light
One for the Road and the Road Is Long
One Handful of Home Soil
One Man Went to Mend a Fence
One More Pull and She's Home
One More Round for the Road Menders
Open Tuning for a Closed Heart
Otter at the Weir
Our Gander Chased the Bailiff
Over the Stile to Susan

P: 25 names

Paid Off at Plymouth
Pale Bride of Blackwater Ford
Paper Maps
Pass the Jug Along the Bench
Pat Flanagan's Three-Legged Jig
Path Through the Bracken
Pawned My Fiddle for a Flagon
Peddler Jack and the Parson's Wife
Peggy at the Garden Stile
Picking Peaches for Another Man
Pine Needle Floor
Plough Monday Morning

P, continued

Ploughshares, Not Sabres
Poke Sallet Spring
Polka for a Borrowed Accordion
Porch Song for October
Possum Hollow Breakdown
Postcards I Didn't Send
Poteen by the Peat Stack
Prairie Grave with No Stone
Pretty Lila of Piney Branch
Pretty Nancy of the Marsh
Primrose Bank in March
Pump Her Dry, Boys
Punch Bowl Polka

Q: 4 names

Quarryman's Hands
Quiet Street, Early Snow
Quiet Vale of the Teme
Quilting Bee Quadrille

R: 23 names

Raccoon Hunt on Copper Creek
Raise Your Glass to the Ragged Crew
Ramps and Rain
Rattle the Spoons, Rosie
Reapers Resting at Noon
Red the Berry, Green the Bough
Redbud on the Mountain
Reef Her Down Before the Squall
Requiem for a Country Lane
Rest You Now, Tired Ploughman
Rhubarb by the Fence

R, continued

Ridge Runner's Farewell
River Bend Waltz
River Drivers on the Penobscot
Rivets and Rain on the Clyde
Roll Her Down the Mersey
Roof Fall at Low Main
Roses at Her Window, Thorns at Mine
Rosin Dust on the Floorboards
Round the Horn in a Leaking Barque
Row Me Over to the Island
Rust on the Winding Wheel
Rust-Colored Barn

S: 86 names

Sally at the Chandler's Door
Sally in the Barley
Salt in the Stew, Honey in the Tea
Salt Pork and Sorrow
Sands of Morecambe Bay
Sassafras Tea for Two
Saturday Night at the Wheatsheaf
Sawyer, Mind Your Fingers
Say You'll Be Mine by Michaelmas
Schoolhouse Schottische
Screen Door Summer
Scrip Won't Buy You Bread
Scrumpy Song for October
Second-Hand Guitar

S, continued

Section Crew Morning
Seven Haystacks Reel
Seven Sons Had Widow Marsh
Seven Years He Courted Me
Shape Note Sunday
Sharecropper's Almanac
She Met Me with the Rolling Pin
She Walked the Garden at Evening
She Was Seen No More in Marlow
Shearing Day at High Fold
Sheep Shearing Feast
Shipwright's Mallet, Caulker's Iron
Shoo the Chickens Off the Porch
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Round

S, continued

Shut the Door, the Night Is Wild
Shuttle and Clock
Sing It Quiet So the Baby Sleeps
Sing Nowell by the Byre
Sing Up, Back Bench
Singing School in the Cove
Sister, Carry On
Sister, Join the Line
Six Men to Carry Him
Six Months of Sea and Sky
Six Points on a Banner
Six Weeks Below Decks
Skating on the Mill Pond
Skylark Over the Fallow
Slate Dust and Chapel Bells

S, continued

Sleep Sound, Old Shepherd
Slip the Latch Softly, Love
Slow Air for a Grey Morning
Slow Air for Margaret
Slow Thaw on the Ridge
Small Hours, Small Towns
Snow on My Father's Stone
Snow on the Hawthorn Hedge
Snow on the Slag Heap
Sod House Waltz
Soft Hands, Hard Winter
Song for the Old Oak at the Bypass
Song from the Quilting Frame
Song I Wrote on the Ferry

S, continued

Song of the Locked-Out Men
Song of the Tolpuddle Road
Sorrow Sat Down at My Table
Souling at the Farmhouse Doors
South Wind on the Downs
Sow in the Scullery Jig
Spare Key Under the Geranium
Sparrow on the Sill
Spinning Room Girls
St. Stephen's Day on the Road
St. Thomas's Day Begging Song
Stamp and Go for Boston Town
Stand Together at the Gate
Steamboat Round the Bend at Dusk

S, continued

Steerage to the New World
Step Lively, Miss Lavinia
Stone Walls of Connemara
Stonebreaker's Mile
Stooking the Corn at Evening
Stranger at the Schoolhouse Dance
Sunday with the Windows Open
Sweet Jenny Under the Hawthorn
Sweet Kitty of the Cloverfield
Sweet Was the Morning, Bitter the Night
Sweethearts in the Kitchen Garden
Swing Old Adam Round the Barn
Swing the Lantern, Signalman
Swing the Scythe Low
Swing Your Partner by the Stove

T: 407 names

Tall Ships in the Roadstead
Tapping at the Shutter
Tell My Sister I Am Well
Tell Them I Died Facing Home
Tent Stakes and Starlight
Thatcher up on the Ridge
The Advent Candle Song
The Alehouse at the End of the Lane
The American Wake at Doran's
The Auction at the Home Farm
The Bailiff's Cart
The Ballad of Abel Thorne
The Ballad of Hattie Crane
The Ballad of Jem Calloway

T, continued

The Ballad of Long Meg Dawlish
The Ballad of Nell Pargeter
The Ballad of Ruth and the River
The Ballad of the Ferryman's Son
The Ballad of the Last Stagecoach
The Ballad of the Tollgate Keeper
The Ballad of Tobias Wren
The Ballot and the Loaf
The Banks of the Black Brook
The Banks of the Little Miami
The Banks of the Windrush
The Banner in the Chapel Loft
The Barber Shaved the Mayor by Mistake
The Bargeman's Slow Canal
The Bargemen's Tap Room

T, continued

The Barley Wine Was Strong
The Bashful Suitor
The Beech Wood in Bluebell Time
The Bell Ringer Rang the Wrong Bell
The Bell Ringer's Daughter
The Bell Ringers' Carol
The Bell Tolls Nine for a Man
The Best Man Drank the Wedding Dry
The Birches by the Burnside
The Blackbird in the Cherry Tree
The Blacksmith Stole My Heart Away
The Blacksmith's Schottische
The Blue Hills of Vermont in Fall
The Bonny Banks of the Evenlode

T, continued

The Bonny Boy in the Blue Jacket
The Bonny Lad Who Ploughs the Lea
The Bonny Lass of Alder Lea
The Bonny Shepherd of Scarsdale
The Bonny Weaver Lad
The Bosun's Complaint
The Bread Marchers
The Brewer's Dray Came Late
The Bridegroom Who Slept Through the Wedding
The Brig That Never Made Port
The Burning of Hadley's Barn
The Cabin with the Green Door
The Cane Cutter's Daybreak
The Captain's Parrot Knew the Truth
The Carol of the Stable Lantern

T, continued

The Carpenter Went Over the Side
The Cart Horse's Slip Jig
The Carter's Favorite
The Carters' Christmas Eve
The Cat Among the Fiddles
The Cat Sat Through the Sermon
The Chainmaker's Daughter Sings
The Chair by the Fire Stands Empty
The Chandler's Hornpipe
The Charcoal Burner's Smoke
The Chartist's Daughter
The Chimney Sweep's May Morning
The Chorus Song of the Carters' Arms
The Church with the Crooked Spire

T, continued

The Cider Maker's Wassail
The Circuit Rider's Mare
The Clearances Came to Our Glen
The Clockmaker's Apprentice
The Clog Dancer's Hornpipe
The Coaching Inn at Midnight
The Cobbler Sold His Last for Gin
The Cobbler's Proposal
The Cod Banks in November
The Coffin Road Over the Moor
The Cold Hearth
The Collier's Wife Waits Up
The Company Store Owns My Shoes
The Conscript Would Not Go
The Cook Has Burnt the Duff Again

T, continued

The Cooper's Fancy
The Corn Dolly's Dance
The Cow That Kicked the Curate
The Creek Behind the School
The Cuckoo Came in April
The Curlew's Cry Over Empty Fields
The Dairymaid's Polka
The Dam Will Drown Our Valley
The Darkest Day Is Turning
The Day the Looms Fell Silent
The Deacon Danced on the Table
The Deserter's Mother
The Doffer's Song
The Dole Queue Waltz

T, continued

The Dollar in the Envelope
The Dove Flew South Without Me
The Draper and the Moth
The Drovers' Carol
The Drumlins of Monaghan
The Drummer Boy Lies Quiet
The Drunken Sexton and the Bell
The Dye Works Run Blue to the River
The Emigrant's Trunk
The Empty Croft
The Exile's Return to Glenmore
The Fair Maid and the Fisher Boy
The Fair Maid of Fenny Bridge
The Farmer Bought a Horse That Wouldn't Walk
The Farmer Swapped a Cow for a Fiddle

T, continued

The Farmer's Son and the Serving Girl
The Ferry at Low Tide
The Ferryman's Reel
The Fiddle Hangs Unstrung
The Fiddler Fell Into the Fire
The Fiddler's Lament for the Old Hall
The Field Where the Poppies Came After
The Fireside at the Fox and Hounds
The First Sheaf Song
The Fishwives of Fisherrow
The Flea on the Dog on the Cart
The Ford at Stepping Stones
The Foundry Fire Never Rests
The Fox in the Turnip Rows

T, continued

The Gandy Dancers' Count
The Gates of Castle Garden
The Geese Know Something
The General Never Saw the Mud
The Giant Turnip of Thirsk
The Girl in the Russet Gown
The Girl on the Customs Quay
The Gleaning Bell
The Goose Girl Singing at Dawn
The Goose in the Pantry Reel
The Granny Woman's Blessing
The Grave That Faces the Sea
The Great Pudding of Pudsey
The Greenland Men Are Sailing
The Greyhound to Duluth

T, continued

The Hands That Built the Hall
The Hanging of Daniel Rook
The Harbor Master's Hornpipe
The Harp Missing Half Its Strings
The Harpooner's Reel
The Harvest Supper Toast
The Haymakers' Holiday
The Hayrick Hop
The Hedge Across Our Footpath
The Hedger's Delight
The Herring Fleet Comes Home
The Highwayman's Last Mile
The Hills I'll Never See Again
The Hired Man's Half Year

T, continued

The Hiring Fair March
The Hobby Horse Dance of May Eve
The Homesteader's First Winter
The House Sold in the Spring
The House That Dan Built Crooked
The House with the Roof Fallen In
The Hunger March to London Town
The Husband Who Kept House for a Day
The Journeyman's Seven Roads
The Judge Who Hanged His Son
The Keelboat Men of the Ohio
The Keeners at the Wake House
The Key to the Garden Gate
The Kitchen Session
The Knife Grinder's Cart at Sundown

T, continued

The Knocker-Up's Round
The Lad Who Took the Shilling
The Lad with the Laughing Eye
The Ladies' Chain at Lowfield
The Laird's Strathspey
The Lake Was Glass
The Landlady of the Plough and Harrow
The Landlord's Agent Came on Monday
The Landlord's Daughter Pours It Short
The Lass from Over the Water
The Lass Who Dressed as a Drummer
The Lasses of Limehouse Reach
The Last Handshake at the Station
The Last Jug at the Ferry Inn

T, continued

The Last Load Home
The Last Night Ashore
The Last of the Old Singers
The Last Shift at the Foundry
The Last Waltz at the Grange Hall
The Laundress and the Lady
The Lazy Farmer's Almanac
The Lenten Rose
The Lifeboat Men of Cromer Shore
The Lightkeeper's Youngest Girl
The Lock Keeper's Evening
The Lock-In at Linton
The Lockout Winter
The Lodge Meets Friday Night
The Long Field

T, continued

The Long Walk from Jarrow Gate
The Longest Song in Lancashire
The Loom Never Sleeps
The Loss of the Schooner Evening Star
The Lumber Camp at Thaw
The Magpie's Slip Jig
The Maid of the Mossy Glen
The Maid with the Nut-Brown Hair
The March of the Mill Hands
The Market Cross on Thursday
The Marrow That Won the Show
The Masters Dine at Seven
The Match Girls Walked Out Singing
The May Garland Song
The Meadow Under Tarmac

T, continued

The Melodeon Player's Mistake
The Midwife's Lantern
The Milkmaid's Answer
The Mill Owner's Carriage
The Mill Wheel Turns No More
The Miller Weighed His Thumb
The Miller, the Maid and the Moon
The Morning After Molly Wed
The Mule Won't Cross the Ford
The Mummers Are Coming Up the Lane
The Nail Makers of the Black Country
The Narrow Gate Is Open
The Navvy's Shovel and Shilling
The Night Before We Sailed

T, continued

The Night Mail Through the Mountains
The Night Shift at Number Nine
The Night the Bridge Came Down
The Night Visit to Rosie's Farm
The Night We Lost the Wagon
The Nonsense of Nettlebed
The Nutting Day
The Oak on the Village Green
The Old Fiddler of Ashdown Fair
The Old Hulk on the Mudflats
The Old Thorn on the Hill
The Old Woman Who Sold Her Shadow
The Old Year Out, the New Year In
The Orchard Wassail of Lower Coombe
The Organizer Came by Night

T, continued

The Ostler Knows My Horse
The Ox Knelt Down at Midnight
The Pace Eggers at the Gate
The Parson Fell in the Duck Pond
The Parson's Sip of Sherry
The Parting at the Crossroads
The Pauper's Christmas Dinner
The Peddler Came up the Holler
The Pedlar's March
The Picket Line Reel
The Pig Who Went to Market Alone
The Pilot of Tide Race Point
The Piper Was Paid in Ale
The Piper's Lament for His Pipes

T, continued

The Pit Pony's Retirement
The Ploughboy's Cold Breakfast
The Ploughman's Lament for His Team
The Poacher and the Gamekeeper's Girl
The Poacher's Right
The Post in the Pond and the Frog on the Post
The Postman's Polka
The Press Gang Took My Johnny
The Quay Was Lined with Mothers
The Rain Upon the Thatch
The Reel at the Crossroads Dance
The Regiment Came Back Without Him
The Rent Collector's Knock
The Revenue Cutter's Chase
The Revenue Men Found Nothing

T, continued

The Riddle of the Bell Without a Tongue
The Ring in the Salmon's Belly
The River Runs Brown Now
The Rivermen Are Poling Home
The Road by the Solway Shore
The Road Out of the Valley
The Road Over the Tops
The Road They Drove Through the Wood
The Road to Ballyhollow
The Road to the Horse Fair
The Robbing of the Mail Coach
The Robin's Carol
The Rocky Lane to the Mill
The Ropewalk Song

T, continued

The Rowan by the Peat Stream
The Rushy Fields of Roscommon
The Sailmaker's Needle
The Sailor Home to Marry
The Salmon Run at Leaping Rock
The Seamstress Counts Her Stitches
The Sexton Lost the Church Key
The Sexton's Confession
The Shearers' Supper Song
The Shepherd's Delight in the Rain
The Shepherd's Lambing Night
The Shepherd's Lament in Snow
The Shepherds' Carol of the High Fold
The Ship Left Derry in the Spring
The Ship's Boy's First Voyage

T, continued

The Shores of Lake Superior
The Shores of Lough Neagh
The Shortest Night
The Singer Who Knew One Song
The Singing Room on Friday
The Sixpence Broke in Two
The Slow Walk to the Churchyard
The Smuggler's Run to Roscoff
The Snowdrop Song
The Soldier and the Laundry Maid
The Soldier Who Came Home a Stranger
The Song of Impossible Things
The Song with No Last Verse
The Songs My Grandmother Brought

T, continued

The Sound of Mull at Morning
The Soup Kitchen Line
The Squire Owns the River Too
The Squire's Unfaithful Heir
The Standing Stone at Sunrise
The Star Above the Sheepfold
The Still in the Heather
The Stranger Who Asked at the Ford
The Strike at the Button Works
The Tailor Came A-Wooing
The Tailor Drank His Thimble Full
The Tattie Howkers' Train
The Tavern with the Leaning Door
The Telegraph Boy's Run
The Temperance Man's Mistake

T, continued

The Ten Hour Bill
The Thresher's Jig
The Thresher's Lament for the Flail
The Tide Goes Out for Good
The Tin Miners of the West Shore
The Tinsmith and the Magistrate
The Tinsmith's Jig
The Tongue-Twister Reel
The Toper's Farewell to Ale
The Tramp's Winter Quarters
The Trawlerman's Prayer
The Trespass on the High Moor
The Trial of Josiah Peake
The Trip to the Cattle Market

T, continued

The Tune Pa Whistled Plowing
The Tune We Sang at Leaving
The Valley of the Shenango
The Vicar's Prize Leek
The Village Band's Quickstep
The Wassail Bowl Went Round Too Often
The Water Tower at Dry Creek
The Wedding at Thistle Farm
The Weeping Birch at Dunmore
The Whaler's Wife at the Window
The Wheelwright's Fancy
The White Horse on the Chalk
The Widow's Lament at Harvest
The Wife Who Wouldn't Churn
The Willow by the Washing Stone

T, continued

The Windfall Orchard Waltz
The Winter the River Took the Mill
The Wise Men of Gotham Lane
The Women of the Wash House
The Workhouse Wall
The World's Worst Ploughman
The Wreck of the Anna Bright
The Wren Boys' Morning
The Year the Harvest Failed
The Year We Kept Bees
The Yule Log Song
There Was a Beadle Loved a Goose
There Was a Wee Man Had a Wee Cart
There Was an Old Farmer in Fife

T, continued

They Closed the Pit on Friday
They Fenced the Common Green
They Found Him Where the Reeds Grow Tall
They Sold the Farm in April
Three Crows at the Gate
Three Kisses at the Kissing Gate
Three Poor Shepherds of the Wold
Three Riddles for a Rainy Day
Three Sisters Went to the Well
Three Thirsty Thatchers
Three Thousand Miles of Grey Water
Three Years Out of Nantucket
Threshing Round
Through Furze and Fen on Wren Day
Thrush in the Blackthorn

T, continued

Timber Raft on the Spring Flood
Tin Roof, Soft Rain
Trailhead in the Fog
Train on the Trestle at Twilight
Trout Under the Bridge
Tune for a Cracked Fiddle
Tunnel Number Four
Turf Cutter's Reel
Turnip Field Polka
Twelfth Night at the Manor Kitchen
Twelve Months in a Black Dress
Twelve Pence for Twelve Hours
Twice Round the Rain Barrel
Two Brothers of Carrow Bank
Two Swans on the Mill Stream

U: 9 names

Uncle Jethro's Bear
Under the Southern Cross Tonight
Under the Yew at Ashcombe
Unsent, the Letter in His Coat
Up Before the Sun on May Day
Up Comes the Anchor, Dripping
Up on Sawmill Ridge
Up the Stairs and Down the Ladder
Upside-Down Farm

V: 3 names

Verse Forty-Two of the Carter's Song
Voice Memo from the Kitchen
Votes at the Factory Gate

W: 48 names

Wade the Jordan Shallow
Wagon Ruts to Jonesborough
Wagon West to Oregon
Walk Her Round, Johnny
Walking Cane and Wedding Ring
Waltz for a Snowed-In Sunday
Wassail the Old Pear Tree
Wassail, Wassail at the Farmhouse Door
We Were Kids in That River
We Will Not Doff Our Caps
What Became of Sarah Lyle
What Shall We Do with the Leftover Stew

W, continued

Wheat Fields of Saskatchewan
When Fishes Fly and Hens Give Milk
When I Go Back to Donegal
When the Fleet Went Out from Grimsby
When the Gorse Is in Bloom
When the Old Tongue Dies
When the Thorn Was White in April
When the Whistle Blew at Harlan Fork
Where Is My Brother Gone
Where the Clinch River Bends
Where the Drovers Stop for the Night
Where the Wye Meets the Severn

W, continued

Wherever I Hang My Father's Scythe
Wherever the Wind Sets Me Down
Whippoorwill Past Midnight
Who Ate the Baker's Dozen
Who Dug the Grave at Fallow Field
Who Planted the Corn You're Eating
Who Speaks for the Lapwing
Who Stole the Pie from the Sill
Who Walks at Gallows Corner
Who Will Sing When I Am Gone
Whose Boots Are These I'm Wearing
Whose Common Is It Now

W, continued

Widow Hale of Windy Ridge
Wild Geese Over the Estuary
Wild Hills of Home
Will You Remember Me in Mayo
Will You Walk with Me, Miss Hannah
Windlass Song for a Winter Morning
Winter Has Taken My Love
Winter Rye in the Low Field
Wolds in Barley
Woodsmoke in My Sweater
Wool Socks and Worry
Wren in the Woodpile

Y: 4 names

Young Ambrose of the Upland Farm
Young Hollis and the Squire
Your Coat on My Chair
Your Handwriting on the Recipe

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