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Song lists are posted for the following themes:

The Criminal Classes: Tales of Evil and Villainy
The Emigrant's Farewell: Songs of Leaving and Coming Home
Lies, Tall Tales, and Exaggerations
Low-down, No-account and Just Plain Bad
The Maple Leaf Forever: Canadian Songs
Natural Elements: Songs About Our Precious Planet and its Treasures
Our Relationship with Animals
The Seven Deadly Sins & Seven Holy Virtues
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
Up Against It: Songs of Struggle and Rebellion

Please use these links to go directly to the theme of your choice or browse the entire list below.

September 3, 2008
Up Against It: Songs of Struggle and Rebellion

Boulavogue
Andrew Bardeen
Roddy MacCorlai
The Last Battle
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Sixteen Tons
The Farmer is the Man
Bobby McGee
Bread and Roses
A Heroine of Mine
Onward Postal Workers
Motherless Child
Brazos
Les Caneaux/Boris Vion
The Preacher and the Slave
Dona Dona
Sacred Groves
The World Turned Upside Down
Let My People Go
This Old World
Your Daughters and Your Sons
Shall We Still Be Slaves?
The Rising of the Moon
The Sun and the Moon
United Under the Socialist Banner
Hobo Lullaby
Die Gedanken sind Frei
A Long Way Back Home
Mrs McGraw

October  15, 2008   The Criminal Classes: Tales of Evil and Villainy

The Newry Highwayman
St James Infirmary
Sam Hall
Frankie and Johnny
Sam Hall (second version)
She Sat Neath the Lilies
Man of God
The Money Crop

Banks of the Ohio
Captain Freely
Long Black Veil

Billy Austen
A Professional Pirate

An Hour Before the Dawning
Spare Me the Life of Georgie
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
We're a Bunch of Damned Whores
House of the Rising Sun
Black Velvet Band
The Convict of Clonmel
The Other Way
Ballad of the Shapes
No Country's Law
Bad Boy
Railroad Bill

December 3, 2008  The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

Catch a Falling Star
Moonshine
Au Claire de la lune
Four Strong Winds
Nightrider’s Lament
Go No More A-Roving
Greenland Fishery
We three kings
Brigid O’Malley
Saskatoon Moon,
Copper Kettle
Cherry Tree Carol
Wild Rover
The River, Mother Nature, and Me
Nova Scotia Farewell
Moonshadow
Wichita Lineman
Jamaica Farewell
Fly Me to the Moon
Barrett’s Privateers
Railroad Bill
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Sweet Rothsey Bay
Kate of Glenkeen
Gypsy Davey (Cowboy Version)

January 7, 2009  The Seven Deadly Sins & Seven Holy Virtues


Don't Come Again
Benorio
Three Drunken Maidens
Good King Wenceslas
Thyme
Mary and Her Companions
Crawdad
O Sinner Man
Kol H'aalam Kulow
The Holly (alternate version)
Blowing in the Wind
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Who Shall Count for Thee
Pretty Polly
Step It Out Mary
Three Jolly Coachmen
By the Rivers of Babylon
Moonshadow


Drunken People Got No Sense
Everybody Knows
The Country Life
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
Lazybones
In Gratitude
Whiskey in the Jar
Corn Song
Greenhorn Song
Lean On Me
Shine Like a Sun
Three Jolly Boys All in a Row
The Price of Coal
The Dancers of Stanton Drew
The Temperance Song
Folsom Prison Blues
The Wild Rover

February 18, 2009
Natural Elements: Songs About Our Precious Planet and its Treasures

Stand in the Sun
Wild
Mountain
Thyme
Westlin' Winds
Shenandoah
Kein Schoenes Land
Night Rider's Lament
Prairie Wind
Maple's Lament
I Am, I Am
Horse Named Bill
Queen of the North
Sixteen Tons
Bella Ciao
This Land (parody)
Annie Laurie
Lowlands
Acony Bell
The Joy of Living
Message from Mother Earth
They Call the Wind Mariah
Song of the Wandering Aengus
Where the Coho Flash Silver
Treat to Beat Your Feet
   on the Mississippi Mud
Deep Peace
Don't Fence Me In
Gin I Were a Baron's Heir
Sunshine on my Shoulder
Mother Earth's Revenge
The Hippopotamus Song
This Land is Your Land
The Sea Around Us
Clancy of the Overflow
I Belong to Glasgow


May 20, 2009
The Emigrant's Farewell: Songs of Leaving and Coming Home

Bonnie Louise
Paddy Riley
Rolling Home
Where I'll Roam (poem)
Silver Dagger
Gypsy Rover
Slip Jigs and Reels
Castlegarden
Kilkelly, Ireland
Pleasant & Delightful
The Old Sod

Sky of the Southern Cross
The Green Fields of Canada
I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
If You Could Read My Mind
Pity the Poor Immigrant
Soon I Will Be Done
Leaving this Nation
The Calling Cold Blue Sea (A Song for Bruno)
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Wayfaring Stranger (alternate lyrics)


April 7, 2010

Our Relationship with Animals

The Squirrel
Skewball
Old Blue
Jerusalem
The Last Leviathan
Home, Lads, Home
The King of Rome
I Ride an Old Paint
Cod Liver Oil
Rise and Shine
The Raven
My Old Rooster
Yellow Bird
The Harper
Polly Vaughn
Will Have to Go


Moonlight in Vermont
Over the Rainbow
Run for the Roses
The Fort Nelson Freighter’s Song
Dona Dona Dona
Hares on the Mountain
The Geese from Canada
Sweet Baby James
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Bucking Song
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
The Broom o’ the Cowdon Knowes
The Ant and the Grasshopper
No More Fish, No Fishermen
Greenland Whale Fisheries
The Eagle and the Hawk

October 6, 2010
The Maple Leaf Forever: Canadian Songs


A Shantyman's Life
Bank Troller
Freight Train
Four Strong Winds
Frozen Logger
The Trucker's Song
Old Brown's Daughter
Someday Soon
Working Man
Song for the Mira
Logdriver's Waltz
The Ogopogo Song
I's the B'y
O Canada


Canoe Song
Nova Scotia Farewell
Hope Princeton Road
Un Canadien Errant
Ballad of Railroad Bill
Steel Rail Blues
Last Night I Had the Strangest
     Dream

Home to the Maritimes
The Land is Your Land
Flower of Saskatchewan
Blackfoot Poem
The Chocolate Song
The Alberta Homesteader
Brenda Stubbert's Reel


December 1, 2010
Lies, Tall Tales, and Exaggerations


Autumn to May
The Darby Ram
Old Joe Clark
John Henry
Lily the Pink
Pretty Boy Floyd
Grey Goose
The Good Man
The Cross-eyed Bull
Tall Timber
Merle and Big Bob
Bill Groggin’s Goat
Jamboree Jones
Both Sides Now
A Horse Named Bill
Molly Branigan

Biddie McGraw
Boom Boom
Tomorrow
Ragtime Millionaire
The Outlandish Knight
You Ain’t Going Nowhere
The Slip Rails and the Spur
Everyone Asked About You
Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
I Was Born About 10,000 Years
     Ago

The Witch of the Westmoreland
The Brown and the Yellow Ale
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
The Keeper of the Eddystone Light
The Unfortunate Miss Bailey
It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More

June 1, 2011
Low-down, No-account and Just Plain Bad


Lemon Tree
Coshieville
Tom Dooley
Sam Hall
Pancho and Lefty
Frankie and Albert
Waiting Around to Die
Honkey Tonk Angel
The Gas Man Cometh

I Wonder What’s Keeping My True
    Love Tonight

The Shape of things
    (Completely Round)

Why Don’t You Do Right?
Ballad of Henry Moore
It Takes a Pretty Good Man
Tying a Knot in the Devil’s Tail
Cigarettes and Whiskey
Bunch of Damned Whores
Clancy of the Underflow (parody)
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues




 
 
 

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