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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