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Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes edit / delete

Broadside ballads and related stuff. If you're wondering exactly how many songs there are to the "Captain Kidd" tune, this is the place to go.

to folk lyrics song tunes ... on 21 January

Freedom Come Aa Ye - Dick Gaughan's Song Archive edit / delete

The song I've been failing to learn the lyrics for at the Fish... Dick Gaughan's excellent web site comes through again.

to dick-gaughan folk music scotland scots song ... on 01 April 2011

National Burns Collection edit / delete

Burns' poetry and songs. This has individual songs scanned from various books, which is quite useful if you don't feel like hunting through the scans on archive.org or Google Books. On the downside, it only includes Burns' versions of the songs -- which (and it's probably safe to admit this now Burns Night has passed) aren't always an improvement on the originals; compare "This Ae Night" with the reconstructed "Cold Haily Windy Night"...

to burns folk music poetry scotland song ... on 27 February 2011

Music at the NLS : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete

Scans of 19th-century Scottish music books. Want the original "Both Sides the Tweed"? It's here, along with seemingly every other folk song I've ever learned.

to etext folk music scotland song ... on 27 February 2011