Tasty » Adam Sampson's song bookmarks

Murder Ballads | Paul Slade - Journalist edit / delete

A pretty comprehensive collection. Some of these seem amenable to a modern adaptation (e.g. there are some Kentish ones there).

to ballad folk lyrics murder song ... on 24 March 2013

Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music edit / delete

The new home of Reinhard Zierke's "English Folk" web site. Handy reference for, e.g., Martin Carthy lyrics.

to england folk lyrics music song ... on 18 March 2013

cruelriver edit / delete

A Steve Knightley (rather than Show of Hands) lyrics collection.

to folk knightley lyrics music song ... on 11 February 2013

Banjo Paterson - Wikisource, the free online library edit / delete

"At the Melting of the Snow" looks promising...

to australia folk music poem song ... on 11 February 2013

GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador edit / delete

Many, many sets of lyrics.

to folk music song stan-rogers ... on 12 December 2012

Broadside ballad entitled 'Big Kilmarnock Bonnet' edit / delete

Not quite the version I sing, but I did pinch some bits I liked from this version...

to folk kilmarnock music song ... on 25 November 2012

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 2012

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