16th and 17th Century Music

By a known author

• As I Walked Forth
• The Bay of Biscay, O!
• Come Live With Me
• I Pass All My Hours
• Lilli Burlero
• My Lodging It Is On the Cold Ground
• Old Maid In the Garret
• Two Maids Went Milking One Day
• When the King Enjoys His Own Again

From Broadsides of the 16th and 17th Century
Please note these words and tunes are not always authentic to the time period. Most are later variants of the broadsides.

• The Ages of Man
• As I Was Going to Banbury
• Barbara Allen
• The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
• The Bold Soldier
• Blow Away the Morning Dew
• By A Bank As I Lay (1)
• By A Bank As I Lay (2)
• The Carman's Whistle
• Chevy Chase
• Child Waters
• The Coasts of High Barbary
• Corydon and Phyllis
• The Cruel Mother
• Death and the Lady
• Go No More A Rushing
• The Golden Vanity
• Greensleeves
• The Hawthorn Tree
• I Once Loved a Lass (The False Bride)
• John Barleycorn
• Johnie Scot
• King Arthur
• King Pharoah (Gypsy Christmas Carol)
• Lavender's Blue
• The Leather Bottel
• Lord Bateman
• Love Will Find Out The Way
• Maid of Amsterdam
• Near Woodstock Town
• The Oak and the Ash
• Oh No, John! (1)
• Oh No, John! (2)
• Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
• Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
• Robin Hood and the Tanner
• Scarborough Fair
• The Seeds of Love
• Seventeen Come Sunday
• Some Rival Has Stolen My True Love Away
• Spanish Ladies
• Sweet William
• The Three Butchers
• The Three Ravens
• The Trooper and the Maid
• The Two Magicians
• The Valiant Lady
• Ward the Pirate
• We Be Three Poor Mariners
• The Woods So Wild

Old Ballads, Songs or Stories that may have been known in the 17th Century

• The Battle of Otterburn
• The Briery Bush
• Bruton Town
• The Barkshire Tragedy
• The Bird Song
• Blow, Ye Winds, Blow
• The Death of Queen Jane
• The Duke of Bedford
• Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
• The Drowned Lover
• Edward
• The Girl I Left Behind Me (1)
• The Girl I Left Behind Me (2)
• Lord Rendal
• Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor
• The Murdered Brother
• Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero
• Tarry Trousers
• The Twa Corbies

18th Century Music

By a known author

• A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
• A Soldier and a Sailor
• Ally Croaker
• And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire
• The Bay of Biscay
• Black-Eyed Susan
• Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze
• The Dashing White Sergeant
• God Save the King
• Heart of Oak
• The Lass of Richmond Hill
• Married to a Mermaid
• Miss Bailey's Ghost
• Norah, Dear Norah
• Sally In Our Alley
• Sweet is the Budding Spring of Love
• To Anacreon in Heaven
• Toll For the Brave

Folksongs

• Abroad As I Was Walking
• Admiral Benbow
• Andrew Barton
• The Arethusa
• The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
• Bedlam
• Billy Taylor
• Blackbirds and Thrushes
• Blow the Candle Out*
• Blow the Candles Out
• The Buffalo
• Captain Kidd
• Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
• The Cheshire Man
• Come Here, Fellow Servant
• Dabbling in the Dew
• Down Among the Dead Men
• Early One Morning
• The Fair Maid of Islington
• False Lamkin
• Flash Lad
• The Foggy, Foggy Dew
• Good Morning, Pretty Maid
• Green Bushes
• Hares on the Mountains (1)
• Hares on the Mountains (2)
• Henry Martin
• High Germany
• The Irish Girl
• Jack Hall
• The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter
• Lady Maisry
• The Lincolnshire Farmer
• The Little Turtle Dove
• Little Sir Hugh
• Lord Lovel
• The Low, Low Lands of Holland
• Lucy Wan
• The Mermaid
• O Sally, My Dear
• The Outlandish Knight
• Over the Hills and Far Away (1)
• Over the Hills and Far Away (2)
• Paul Jones
• The Ploughboy
• Polly Vaughn
• Rare Willie
• Rolling in the Dew
• The Saucy Sailor Boy
• The Spanish Lady (1)
• The Spanish Lady (2)
• Still Growing
• The Trees They Do Grow High (1)
• The Trees They Do Grow High (2)
• The True Lover's Farewell
• The Water is Wide (O Waly, Waly)
• Waxie's Dargle
• The Well of St. Keyne*
• Why, Soldiers, Why
• William and Mary
• William Taylor
• The Women All Tell Me

19th Century Music

By a known author

Charles Dibdin

• Ben Backstay (1)
• Ben Backstay (2)
• The Jolly Young Waterman
• The Lass That Loves a Sailor
• The Token
• Then Farewell My Tridonotuse-Built Wherry
• Tom Bowling
• Tom Tough

Thomas Haynes Bayly

• Gaily the Troubadour
• Long, Long Ago

Others

• Ballynamony
• The Mulligan Guard
• Nancy Lee
• The Poor Murdered Woman
• Private Tommy Atkins
• Sling the Flowing Bowl
• The Tarpaulin Jacket
• Three Fishers




Folksongs and Shanties
For more shanties (because so few have definate country origins) go to Songs of the Sea.

• A Hundred Years Ago
• A Woman's Work is Never Done
• Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries
• Alice Gray
• All Round My Hat
• As I Walked Through the Meadow (1)
• As I Walked Through the Meadow (2)
• Bachelor's Hall (1)
• Bachelor's Hall (2)*
• The Banks of the Sweet Primroses
• Belfast Mountains
• Billy Boy (English Version)
• The Blacksmith
• Blow the Man Down
• Blow the Wind Southerly
• Bold Nelson's Praise
• The Bold Princess Royal
• A Bold Young Farmer
• Boney's Lamentation
• Boney Was A Warrior
• The Bonny Lighter Boy
• Bonny Light Horseman (1)
• Bonny Light Horseman (2)
• The Bonny Ship The Diamond
• Botany Bay (1)
• Botany Bay (2)
• Brimbledon Fair
• A Brisk Young Sailor
• Britons, Strike Home
• Can of Grog
• Chesapeake and Shannon
• Dance to your Daddy
• The Dead Horse
• Derry Down Dale
• Drink Little England Dry
• Drunken Sailor
• Eight Bells
• Eliza Lee
• English Country Gardens
• Fair Susan
• Farewell, Nancy
• The Female Highwayman
• The Female Smuggler
• Fire Down Below
• The Fish Of The Sea
• Hanging Johnny
• Here's to the Grog
• Homeward Bound
• The Isle of France
• It's of a Sailor Bold
• Johnny Todd
• The Gallant Hussar
• George Collins
• Grand Conversation of Napoleon
• Gypsy Rover
• Haul Away, Joe! (1)
• Haul Away, Joe! (2)
• House Carpenter (English Version)
• How Happy the Soldier
• I Know Where I'm Going
• I Must Live All Alone
• Jackaroe
• The Keeper of the Eddystone Light
• The Keys of Canterbury
• The Lass of Swansea Town
• The Lass That Loves A Sailor
• Leave Her, Johnny
• The Little Lowland Maid
• Lord Franklin
• The Lost Lady Found
• Madam, Will You Walk? F
• Marlboro
• Mary of the Moor*
• My Darling Ploughman Boy
• My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
• Nancy Whisky (1)
• Nancy Whiskey (2)
• On Board a Ninety-Eight
• Our Ship She Lies in Harbour
• The Ox-Eyed Man
• Paddy Doyle's Boots
• Paddy, Get Back
• Paddy West
• The Pirate Song
• The Ploughboy (Lark in the Morn)
• Poor Old Horse
• Poor Sally Sits A-Weeping
• The Pretty Ploughboy
• Pretty Polly Oliver
• Quare Bungle Rye
• The Rambling Sailor
• Reuben Ranzo
• Reynardine
• The Rich Nobleman and His Daughter
• Richard of Taunton Dean
• The Rio Grande
• Rolling Down to Old Maui
• Rolling Home
• Rosetta and Her Gay Ploughboy
• Sam Hall
• The Sheffield Apprentice
• At the Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell
• The Soldier's Farewell
• Sweet Joan
• Sweet Lovely Joan
• Through Moorfields
• Travel the Country Round
• Undaunted Mary*
• The Unquiet Grave
• Van Diemen's Land
• The Wealthy Farmer's Son
• We'll Rant And We'll Roar
• We're All Bound To Go
• Whisky Johnnie
• Will Watch
• The Willow Tree (English Version)
• Ye Sons of Albion*
• Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low
• Young Ramble-away
• The Young Servant Man
  
  
  

After 1900

• Go Get the Ax
• Private Tommy Atkins

More English Songs

• Traditional English Tunes in Midi Format




Short History Pages that have to do with England

• The Contemplator's Short History of the Anglo-Dutch Wars
• The Contemplator's Short History of Broadside Ballads
• The Contemplator's Short Biography of Francis James Child
• The Contemplator's Short Biography of Charles Dibdin
• The Contemplator's Short Biography of Thomas D'Urfey
• The Contemplator's Short History of Grog
• The Contemplator's Volumes and Highlights of the Naval Chronicles
• The Contemplator's Short History of the Jacobite Uprisings
• The Contemplator's Short History of John Gay and The Beggar's Opera
• The Contemplator's Short History of Highwaymen
• The Contemplator's Short Biographies of Some Famous Highwaymen
  
  
  

Songs of Other Countries

• Popular Songs in American History
• Songs of Ireland
• Songs of Scotland
• Songs of Wales
• A few Songs of Canada and Australia




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