BILL BLACK'S WEBSONG SITE

updated 11/16/09



Greetings and welcome!

The purpose of this page is to provide a memory aid for folks who sing Irish  songs in pubs, sessions, nursing
homes, public executions, subway stations, etc.

Only in a few cases have I included notation with these songs, working on the premise that the folks most likely
to use this site will know the tunes of 95% of the entries even if they're a little doubtful about the words. This site
is not about learning the songs, but about having a place to look for lyrics.

It is intended to replace the battered, torn, scarred three-ring binders that most of us presently employ for the purpose.
No more Guinness-stained pages falling to the floor in the middle of a gig! No more flipping madly through
unsorted pages while an increasingly hostile crowd sits staring!

I envision a day in the not-too-distant future - when wireless access to the Internet is far more common than it is
now - and the battered, beer-stained, but still functioning laptop replaces the three-ring binder as the indispensible
Singer's Assistant.

I hope I'm around when that happens!
 
Have fun!



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AIRDI CUAN

ALL FOR ME GROG

ALL GOD'S CRITTERS

ANNE DEVLIN

ANTHEM FOR 9/11

ARTHUR McBRIDE

AVONDALE
BALLINDERRY

BALLYJAMESDUFF (Come Back Paddy Reilly)

BANKS of MY OWN LOVELY LEE

BANKS OF SWEET LOUGH NEAGH

BANKS OF THE FAIR SUSQUEHANNA

BANKS OF THE ROSES

BANTRY GIRL'S LAMENT

BARD OF ARMAGH

BARNYARDS OF DELGATY

BELIEVE ME IF ALL ...

BIDDY MULLIGAN

BLACK VELVET BAND

BLACKWATER SIDE

BLARNEY ROSES

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

BOG OF MONRUE

BOLD BLACK AND TAN

BOLD FENIAN MEN

BOLD O'DONOHUE

BOLD THADY QUILL

BONNY BOY

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN

BOSTON BURGLAR

BOULAVOGUE

BOYS OF BAR NA SRAIDE

BOYS OF MULLAGHBAWN

BOYS OF THE COUNTY CORK

BOYS OF THE OLD BRIGADE

BRENNAN ON THE MOOR

BROAD BLACK BRIMMER

BUILDING UP & TEARING ENGLAND DOWN

BUNCH OF THYME

BUNCLODY
CAILIN RUA

CALEDONIA

CAPE COD COYOTE

CARRICKFERGUS

CARRIGDHOUN

CASTLE OF DROMORE

CAT SONG

CHESAPEAKE PILOT

CHINAMAN

CILL CAIS

CITY of NEW ORLEANS

CITY SNOW

CLARE TO HERE

CLIFFS OF DOONEEN

COBBLER (DICK DARBY)

COCKLES & MUSSELS

COD LIVER OIL

COME OUT YOU BLACK & TAN

COME TO THE BOWER

COME WITH ME OVER THE MOUNTAIN

CONNEMARA CRADLE SONG

COUNTY OF ARMAGH

COURTIN' IN THE KITCHEN

CRAIGIE HILL

CROPPY BOY ("Good men and true ...")

CRUISE OF THE CALABAR

CRUISKEEN LAN

CRY OF THE UNBORN

CURRAGH OF KILDARE


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DAN O'HARA

DIRTY OLD TOWN

DOGGIE IN THE MOONLIGHT

DOWN BY THE GLENSIDE

DOWN BY THE LIFFEY SIDE

DRUNKEN SAILOR

DUBLIN ANGELS

DUBLIN CITY

DUBLIN JACK OF ALL TRADES

DUNLAVIN GREEN

DYING REBEL




EASY AND SLOW

ENNISKILLEN DRAGOONS

ERIN'S LOVELY LEE

EXILE (The)
FACTORY GIRL

FAREWELL TO BALLYSHANNY

FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA

FATAL SHORE

FERRYMAN

FIDDLER'S GREEN

FIELDS OF ATHENRY

FINNEGAN'S WAKE

FLOWER OF MAGHERALLY

FLOWER OF SWEET STRABANE

FOGGY DEW

FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW

FOUR GREEN FIELDS


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GALBALLY FARMER

GALTEE MOUNTAIN BOY

GALWAY BAY (F. Fahy)

GALWAY RACES

GALWAY SHAWL

GARDEN WHERE THE PRATIES GROW

GOOD SHIP KANGAROO

GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE (Willie McBride)

GREEN WHITE & GOLD

GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY

GYPSY ROVER
HARP THAT ONCE ...

HAUL AWAY JOE

HIDE AND GO SEEK

HIGHLAND PADDY

HILLS OF CONNEMARA

HOLD THE HARVEST

HOLY GROUND

HOME BOYS HOME

HORSES & PLOW

HOT ASHPHALT

HUMOR IS ON ME NOW


I CAN'T GET THE OLD MAN TO DANCE!

I KNOW MY LOVE

I'LL TELL ME MA

I'M A FREEBORN MAN

I'M A ROVER

IRELAND

IRISH MOLLY

IRISH ROVER

IRISH SOLDIER BOY

IRISH SOLDIER LADDIE

ISLE OF INNISFREE

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JENNY FROM BALLINASLOE

JOHN MITCHELL

JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YE

JOHNNY McELDOO

JOHNSON'S MOTOR CAR

JOLLY BEGGARMAN

JUICE OF THE BARLEY

JUST POINT MY FEET TOWARDS TEXAS
KATIE WALKER'S LIGHT

KELLY FROM KILLANE

KERRY RECRUIT

KEVIN BARRY

KILBAHA PILOTS

KNEEL WE BY THE MANGER
LAKES OF PONTCHARTRAIN

LARK IN THE MORNING

LEAVING NANCY

LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL

LEGION OF THE REARGUARD

LITTLE BEGGARMAN

LIVERPOOL LOU

LONELY WOODS OF UPTON

LOVE IS TEASING

LOVELY LEITRIM

LOVELY ROSE OF CLARE

LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND

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MADAIRIN RUA

MAERSK ALABAMA (Ballad of the)

MAID OF THE SWEET BROWN KNOWE

MAIDIN I mBEARRA

MAIRI'S WEDDING

MARY & THE SOLDIER

MARY FROM DUNGLOE

MASTER McGRATH

MATT HYLAND

MAY MORNING DEW

McALPINE'S FUSILIERS

McCRORY

McSHANE

MEETING OF THE WATERS

MEN OF THE WEST

MERMAID

MERRY PLOWBOY

MINSTREL BOY

MISTER BOJANGLES

MOLLY MALONE

MOONSHINER

MOUNTAIN DEW

MOUNTAINS OF MOURNE

MRS. McGRATH

MUIRSIN DURKIN

MUSH MUSH

MUSIC'S THE VERY BEST THING

MY LOVELY ROSE OF CLARE


NANCY SPAIN

NANCY WHISKEY

NATION BLESSED WITH HEROES

NATION ONCE AGAIN

NEVER TRUST THE SEA

NEW BEDFORD'S BRAVE CATALPA

NEW YORK GIRLS
O'DONNELL ABU

OH LORD AND CREATOR

OH MARY DEAR

OLD BOG ROAD

OLD MAID IN THE GARRET

OLD ORANGE FLUTE

OLD TRIANGLE

OLD WOMAN FROM WEXFORD

ON THE ONE ROAD

ONLY OUR RIVERS

ORDINARY MAN

OUR LADY OF KNOCK

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P STANDS FOR PADDY

PADDY ON THE RAILWAY

PARTING GLASS

PAT O'DONNELL

PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN

PATRIOT GAME

PATSY ANN

PEGGY GORDON

PINK FLAMINGOES

POC AR BUILE

PRICE OF MY PIG

PRIDE OF PIMLICO

PUNCH AND JUDY MAN

QUARE BUNGLE RYE

QUEEN OF CONNEMARA



RAGGLE TAGGLE GYPSY

RAGLAN ROAD

RAMBLIN' ROVER

RAMBLING IRISHMAN

RARE OUL' TIMES

REASON I LEFT MULLINGAR

RED IS THE ROSE

RED ROSE CAFE

REILLY'S DAUGHTER

RENARDINE

REYNARD THE FOX

RISING OF THE MOON

ROCKAWAY LOVELY ROCKAWAY

ROCKS OF BAWN

ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN

RODDY McCORLEY

ROSE OF ALLENDALE

ROSE OF TRALEE

ROSIE FROM KILDARE

ROSIN THE BOW

ROW IN THE TOWN


SAINT RAYMOND'S

SALLEY GARDENS

SAM HALL

SEAN SOUTH OF GARRYOWEN

SEAN SULLIVAN

SERGEANT WILLIAM BAILEY

SHE MOVED THRU THE FAIR

SHOALS OF HERRING

SKIBBEREEN

SKY ROAD

SLIEVE GALLION BRAES

SLIEVENAMON

SMALLER THAN A ROSE

SONG FOR IRELAND

SONG FOR ULSTER

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

SPANCIL HILL

SPANISH LADY

STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN

STATE OF ARKANSAS

STONE OUTSIDE DAN MURPHY'S DOOR

STOR MO CHROI

STREETS OF LONDON

SULLIVAN JOHN



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TAKE ME HOME TO MAYO

THREE FLOWERS

TO START A NEW LIFE

TOM DUNNE

TOWN I LOVED SO WELL

TRAVELLING PEOPLE

TRI-COLORED RIBBON

TUG "THUBAN"

TWANG MAN
VALLEY OF KNOCKANURE

VETERANS HYMN



WALTZING MATILDA

WAXIES DARGLE

WEARING OF THE GREEN

WEDDING BLESSING

WELCOMING PADDY HOME

WEST'S ASLEEP

WHEN FIRST THRU THIS COUNTRY

WHEN I WAS SINGLE

WHERE THE THREE COUNTIES MEET

WHISKEY IN THE JAR

WHISTLING GYPSY

WILD COLONIAL BOY

WILD ROVER

WILL YE GO LASSIE

WILL YOU POINT OUT MY WIFE ...?

WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY

WORCESTER FIREMEN

WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD

WRECK OF THE JEANNIE C.