BILL BLACK'S WEBSONG SITE





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!

A STOR MO CHROI

AIRDI CUAN

ALL FOR ME GROG

ANTHEM FOR SEPT. 11th

ARTHUR McBRIDE [P.Brady]

AVONDALE

BALLINDERRY

BALLYJAMESDUFF

BANKS OF MY OWN LOVELY LEE

BANKS OF SWEET LOUGH NEAGH

BANKS OF THE FAIR SUSQUEHANNA

BANKS OF THE ROSES

BANTRY GIRLS' LAMENT

BARD OF ARMAGH

BARNYARDS OF DELGATY

BELIEVE ME IF ALL...

BIDDY MULLIGAN

BLACK VELVET BAND

BLACKBERRIES

BLACKWATER SIDE

BLARNEY ROSES

BOG OF MONRUE

BOLD BLACK AND TAN

BOLD FENIAN MEN

BOLD O'DONOGHUE

BOLD THADY QUILL

BONNY BOY

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN

BOSTON BURGLAR

BOULAVOGUE

BOYS OF BARR NA SRAIDE

BOYS OF MULLAGHBAWN

BOYS OF THE OLD BRIGADE

BRENNAN ON THE MOOR

BROAD BLACK BRIMMER

BROKEN HEARTED I'LL WANDER

BUILDING UP & TEARING ENGLAND DOWN

BUNCH OF THYME

BUNCLODY

CAILIN RUA

CAPE COD COYOTE

CARRIGDHOUN

CASTLE OF DROMORE

CAT SONG

CHESAPEAKE PILOT

CHILD'S DREAM

CHINAMAN

CILL CAIS

CITY SNOW

CLARE TO HERE

CLIFFS OF DOONEEN

COBBLER

COCKLES & MUSSELS

COD LIVER OIL

COME BACK, PADDY REILLY

COME TO THE BOWER

COME WITH ME OVER THE MOUNTAIN

CONNEMARA CRADLE SONG

COUNTY OF ARMAGH

COURTIN' IN THE KITCHEN

CRAIGIE HILL

CROPPY BOY 1  (Good men & true ...)

CROPPY BOY 2  ('Twas early early ...)

CRUISE OF THE CALABAR

CRY OF THE UNBORN

CURRAGH OF KILDARE

DIRTY OLD TOWN

DAN O'HARA

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

EDMUND FITZGERALD

ENNISKILLEN DRAGOONS

ERIN'S LOVELY LEE

EXILE, The

FACTORY GIRL

FAREWELL TO BALLYSHANNY

FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA

FATAL SHORE

FIDDLER'S GREEN

FIELDS OF ATHENRY

FINNEGAN'S WAKE

FLOWER OF MAGHERALLY

FLOWER OF SWEET STRABANE

FOG SONG

FOGGY DEW

FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW

FOUR GREEN FIELDS

GALBALLY FARMER

GALTEE MOUNTAIN BOY

GALWAY BAY

GALWAY RACES

GALWAY SHAWL

GARDEN WHERE THE PRATIES GROW

GOOD SHIP "KANGAROO"

GREEN WHITE AND GOLD

GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY

GYPSY ROVER

HARP THAT ONCE THRO' TARA'S HALLS

HAUL AWAY JOE

HIDE AND GO SEEK

HIGHLAND PADDY

HILLS OF CONNEMARA

HOLD THE HARVEST

HOLY GROUND (I was born on the holy ground ...)

HOME BOYS HOME

HORSES AND PLOW

HOT ASHFELT

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 ROVER

IRELAND

IRISH ROVER

IRISH SOLDIER BOY

IRISH SOLDIER LADDIE

JOHN MITCHEL

JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YE

JOHNSON'S MOTOR CAR

JOLLY BEGGARMAN

JUICE OF THE BARLEY

JUST POINT MY FEET TOWARDS TEXAS

KELLY FROM KILLANE

KERRY RECRUIT

KEVIN BARRY

KILBAHA PILOTS

KILNAMARTYRA EXILE

KNEEL WE BY THE MANGER

LAKES OF PONCHARTRAIN

LARK IN THE MORNING


LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL

LEGION OF THE REARGUARD

LITTLE BEGGARMAN

LITTLE GIRL

LOVE IS TEASING

LOVELY IRISH MAID

LOVELY LEITRIM

LOVELY ROSE OF CLARE

LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND

MADAIRIN RUA (LITTLE RED FOX)

MAID OF THE SWEET BROWN KNOWE

MAIDIN i mBEARRA

MAIRI'S WEDDING

MARY AND THE SOLDIER

MARY FROM DUNGLOE

MASTER McGRATH

MATT HYLAND

MAY MORNING DEW

McALPINE'S FUSILIERS

McCRORY

McSHANE (FROM KILDARE)

MEETING OF THE WATERS

MEN OF THE WEST

MERCHANT MARINERS' HYMN

MERRY PLOWBOY

MINSTREL BOY

MISTER BOJANGLES

MOLLY MALONE

MONTO

MOONSHINER

MORNING

MOUNTAIN DEW

MOUNTAINS OF MOURNE

MRS. McGRATH

MURSHEEN DURKIN

MUSH MUSH

MUSIC'S THE VERY BEST THING

MY IRISH MOLLY-O

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

NOTHING LEFT

NEW YORK GIRLS

O'DONNELL ABU

OH LORD AND CREATOR

OH MARY DEAR

OLD BOG ROAD

OLD FRIENDS NEVER LIE

OLD NEIGHBORHOOD

OLD ORANGE FLUTE

OLD TRIANGLE

OLD WOMAN FROM WEXFORD

ON THE ONE ROAD

ONLY OUR RIVERS

OUR LADY OF KNOCK

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

PUNCH AND JUDY MAN

QUARE BUNGLE RYE

QUEEN OF CONNEMARA

RAGGLE-TAGGLE GYPSY

RAGLAN ROAD

RAMBLING IRISHMAN

RAMBLING ROVER

RARE OULD TIMES

REASON I LEFT MULLINGAR

RED IS THE ROSE

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

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

SLIGO ROSE

SMALLER THAN A ROSE

SONG FOR IRELAND

SONG FOR ULSTER

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

SPANCIL HILL

SPANISH LADY

STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN

STONE OUTSIDE DAN MURPHY'S DOOR

STRANGER

STREETS OF LONDON

SULLIVAN JOHN

TAKE ME HOME TO MAYO

THREE FLOWERS

THREE LOVELY LASSIES FROM KIMMAGE

TO START A NEW LIFE

TOM DUNNE

TOWN I LOVED SO WELL

TRAVELLING PEOPLE

TRI-COLOURED RIBBON

TUG THUBAN, The

TWANG MAN

VALLEY OF KNOCKANURE

VERDANT BRAES OF SKREEN

VETERANS' HYMN

VOYAGE OF THE HEROES

WALTZING MATILDA

WAXIES' DARGLE

WEARING OF THE GREEN

WEDDING BLESSING

WELCOMING PADDY HOME

WEST'S ASLEEP

WHEN FIRST THROUGH THIS COUNTRY

WHEN I WAS SINGLE

WHERE THE 3 COUNTIES MEET

WHISKEY IN THE JAR

WILD COLONIAL BOY

WILD ROVER

WILL YE GO LASSIE GO?

WILL YOU COME TO THE BOWER?

WILL YOU POINT OUT MY WIFE ... ?

WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY

WORCESTER FIREMEN

WRECK OF THE JEANNIE C.