Traditional Songs

The songs on this list were written after 1600 or are of undetermined origin. If you have more information about any of these songs, please let us know.  Please include sources if possible.

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A Bhean A' Tí  **
A Hundred Years Ago  
A Man's A Man For A' That  
A Stor Mo Chroi  
All Around My Hat
All For Me Grog
Amsterdam Maid  
Andrew Lammie
Ar Fa La La Low
Are Ye Sleepin Maggie
Arthur McBride 
Ash Grove

As I Roved Out (1)
As I Roved Out (2)
Auld Lang Syne
Babylon (round)
Back o' Reres Hill
Bandy Legged Barmaid
The Banks of the Lee
Barbara Allen

Barrack Street **
The Battle of Otterburn**
Biddy Mulligan   
Black Velvet Band
Bold O'Donahue
Bonnie Glen Shee
Bonnie Lass of Fyvie

Bonnie Susie Cleland
Bonny Ship the Diamond
Botany Bay
Boys of Mullaghbawn, The  
Braes of Balquidder
Brian O'Lynn 
 **
Broom of the Cowdenknowes  
The Burning of Auchindoun
Carrickfergus 
Castle of Dromore
Chandler's Wife, The
Clean Song
Colcannon (The Skillet Pot)
**
Come Out Ye Black and Tans
Courtin' In the Kitchen  
The Creel **
The Croppy Boy
Cruiscín Lán
Cuckoo's Nest
Curragh of Kildare
The Devil and the Old Woman
Dick Darby the Cobbler 

Do You Love An Apple
Down By the Glenside
Down the Moor and Among the Heather
The Dreadnaught
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Drummer Girl
Dumbarton's Drums
Easy and Slow
Finnegan's Wake
Foggy Dew, The
Flower of Sweet Strabane, The **
Follow Me Up To Carlow 
Gallant Forty-Twa

The Galway Shawl
Gentleman Soldier
German Clockwinder
Get Up Jack! John Sit Down
Good People
The Granemore Hare
The Great Silkie
The Barley Mow
The Gallowa' Hills
The Golden Vanity  
Gypsy Rover
The Hare's Lament

Haul Away Joe
A Health to the Company

Highland Harry
Holy Ground
House Carpenter
The Humours of Whiskey
If I Was A Blackbird
I'll Tell My Ma 

In the Month of January **
Isn't It Grand
Itches In Me Britches
Ye Jacobites
Jock o' Hazeldean
Johnny Cope  
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya
Johnny Jump Up
Keeper, The
Kerry Recruit
Lambs on the Green Hills, The  
Lancashire Lads
Lassie wi' the Yellow Coatie
Let Mr. McGuire Sit Down
Leis A Lurighan 
Little Beggarman  
Loch Lomond
The Lusty Young Smith

Maid in a Garret
Maids When You're Young
Mairi's Wedding
Martinmas Time
Mary and the Soldier
Mary Mac
Mattie Groves
Melville Castle  
The Mermaid
The Minstrel Boy
Molly Malone
Mountain Dew
Mrs. McGraw (McGrath)
Muirsheen Durkin 

My Boy Willie
My Charming Edward Boyle 
 
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
My Love's in Germanie ** 
My Singing Bird  
Nancy's Whiskey  
Neainsín Bhán 

Nelson's Blood
Old Dun Cow
On the Banks of the Roses (v1)
On the Banks of Red Roses (v2 )
 
Over the Mountain
Paddy's Lamentation  
The Parting Glass
Pat and the Donkey
Patrick Sheehan  
Pay Me My Money Down
Peace Round
Peg Leg Jack  **
Peigin's Peadar
Pleasant and Delightful
Quare Bungle Rye
Raglan Road
Rantin' Rovin' Robin
Rare's Hill
Red is the Rose
Reilly's Daughter
Riddle Song, The
Rising of the Moon
Road to Dundee, The  
Rocky Road to Dublin, The
Roll Me Over  
Roll the Old Chariot Along
Sae Will We Yet
Sally Gardens
She Moved Through the Fair
Shule Aroon
Skye Boat Song
Slieve Gallion Braes **
Spanish Ladies
Spencer the Rover 

Star of the County Down
Strike The Bell
South Australia
Susanna Martin
Ten Minutes Too Late **
Three Jolly Coachmen
Three Score and Ten
Thug Mé Grá Duit 

Tooper and the Maid, The
Tramps and Hawkers
The Trees They Grow High 
Trumpeter of Fyvie, The
Twa Corbies
Twa Recruitin' Sergeants
The Unquiet Grave
The Verdant Braes of Screen **
Westering Home
Whiskey in the Jar
Whiskey You're the Divil
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Rover
Wop Jamboree
The Work O' The Weavers 

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