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ABOUT THIS COLLECTION: This collection is intended to provide a one-stop reference of the top 1000 most popular folk songs. The songs chosen were those that repeatedly appeared on various "top" and "favourites" lists from from sources such as Folk Ally and the BBC as well as data from this site. Unfortunately, the definition of what is "folk" can be a bit blurry and purists may argue that some of the songs included don't actually belong in this category and certainly, at least in the USA, several are firm favourites in the old-time and bluegrass genres. Anyway, I hope I won't be upbraided too much for perceived errors in categorization.
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900 Miles A Beautiful Life A Bicycle Built For Two A Capital Ship A Mans A Man For A That A New Jerusalem A Picture From Lifes Other Side A Roving Abdul The Bulbul Amir Abide With Me Abilene Acres Of Clams Across The Western Ocean Across The Western Plains Adam In The Garden Pinning Leaves Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy After The Ball Is Over Aimee Mcpherson Aint Gonna Grieve My Lord No More Aint Gonna Work Tomorrow Aint It A Shame Aint No More Cane On This Brazos Alabama Bound All Around My Hat All For Me Grog All Gods Children Got Shoes All My Trials All Night Long All The Good Times Are Past And Gone All The Way My Savior Leads Me All Through The Night Alouette America The Beautiful Angel Band Angels Rejoice Angels We Have Heard On High Annie Laurie Are You Sleeping Maggie Are You Washed In The Blood Arkansas Traveler Around The Corner Arthur Mcbride Arthur Mcbride2 As I Roved Out Ash Grove Asteroid Light Auld Lang Syne Aunt Rhody Away In A Manger Away With Rum Baby Please Dont Go Back Home In Derry Back Water Blues Bailiffs Daughter Of Islington Ballad Of Sam Hall Ballad Of The Boll Weevil Balm In Gilead Balm Of Gilead Banana Boat Song Band Played On Banks Of The Ohio Banks Of The Roses Barbara Allen Bard Of Armagh Barnyards Of Delgaty Barrack Street Bastard King Of England Battle Cry Of Freedom Battle Hymn Of The Republic Battleship Of Maine Be Thou My Vision Beans Bacon And Gravy Beautiful Brown Eyes Beautiful Dreamer Been In The Pen So Long Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Bell Bottomed Trousers Belle Isle Ben Bolt Bendemeers Stream Beulah Land Beware Oh Take Care Big Rock Candy Mountain Big Ship Sailing Bile Them Cabbage Down Bill Bailey Bill Groggins Goat Billy Barlow Billy Magee Magaw Billy The Kid Bingo Bird In A Gilded Cage Black And White Together Black Eyed Susie Black Is The Colour Black Jack Davey Black Velvet Band Blackwater Side Blind Fiddler Blood On The Saddle Blood Red Roses Blow Away The Morning Dew Blow Boys Blow Blow The Candles Out Blow The Man Down Blow Ye Winds In The Morning Blow Ye Winds Westerly Blue Bells Of Scotland Blue Cockade Bluebird Bluebird Fly Through My Window Boatmans Dance Bobby Campbell Bobby Shafto Bog Down In The Valley O Bold Fenian Men Bold Jack Donahue Bold Odonoghue Boney Was A Warrior Bonnie Earl Of Murray Bonnie Ship The Diamond Bonny Eloise Boothbay Whale Boston Burglar Botany Bay Bottle Up And Go Bound To Ride Bowling Green Boys Of Bedlam Boys Of The Old Brigade Brandy Leave Me Alone Brennan On The Moor Brigham Young Bring Em Home British Grenadiers Browns Ferry Blues Buckeye Jim Bucking Bronco Buddy Wont You Roll Down The Line Buffalo Boy Buffalo Gals Buffalo Skinners Bulldog On The Bank Bury Me Beneath The Willow Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie Butchers Boy Buttermilk Hill By And By By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Calton Weaver Cambric Shirt Campbells Are Comin Camptown Races Camptown Races2 Canadee I O Candy Man Blues Cant Help But Wonder Where Im Bound Cant You Dance The Polka Cape Ann Cape Cod Girls Captain Jinks Captain Kidd Careless Love Casey Jones Cat Came Back Chandlers Wife Charles Guiteau Charlie Is My Darling Cherry Tree Carol Chevaliers De La Table Ronde Chewing Gum Child Of God Children Go Where I Send Thee Chilly Winds Chivalrous Shark Cindy Clementine Coast Of Peru Cocaine Bill And Morphine Sue Cocaine Blues Cockles And Mussels Cod Liver Oil Cole Younger Colorado Trail Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean Columbus Stockade Blues Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies Comfort And Tidings Of Joy Comin Through The Rye Common Bill Commonwealth Of Toil Constitution And Guerriere Cotton Eyed Joe Cotton Eyed Joe2 Cotton Mill Girls Courting In The Kitchen Cowboys Dream Craigie Hill Crawdad Cripple Creek Croppy Boy Cruel Mother Cruel War Is Raging Crying Holy Cuckoo Cumberland Gap Cutty Wren D Day Dodgers Daily Growing Dakota Land Dance With Me Daniel Prayed Danny Boy Danville Girl Darby Ram Dark Eyed Sailor Dark Hollow Darlin Corey Darlin Darling Nelly Gray Daughters Will You Marry Days Of Forty Nine Dear Companion Deck The Halls Deep Blue Sea Deep Water Desperado Devil And The Farmers Wife Devilish Mary Diamond Joe Didnt He Ramble Dig My Grave Ding Dong Dollar Dixie Do Lord Doctor Freud Dodger Song Donna Donna Chords Dont Let Your Deal Go Down Dont Sing Love Songs Dont This Road Look Rough And Rocky Dont You Weep After Me Dont Your Hear Jerusalem Moan Dowie Dens Of Yarrow Down By The Sally Gardens Down In The Valley Down In The Willow Garden Down In Yon Forest Down The Road Dreary Black Hills Drifting Too Far From The Shore Drill Ye Tarriers Drill Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes Drowned Lovers Drunk Last Night Drunkards Doom Drunken Sailor Dumbartons Drums Dunderbeck E Ri E Earl Brand Early One Morning East Virginia Easy Rider Eddystone Light Edward Eggs And Marrowbone Eileen Og Elanoy Engine 143 English Country Garden Erie Canal Erin Go Braugh Every Night When The Sun Goes In Every Time I Feel The Spirit Everybody Loves Saturday Night Evil Hearted Man Ezekiel Saw The Wheel Factory Girl Fair And Free Elections Fair And Tender Ladies Fair Ellender Fair Maid False Knight On The Road False True Love Far Above Cayugas Waters Far Away In Australia Farmer Is The Man Farther Along Father Dear Father Come Home With Me Now Fathers Whiskers Finnegans Wake Fire Down Below Fireship First Noel Five Hundred Miles Flandyke Shore Flow Gently Sweet Afton Foggy Dew Foggy Foggy Dew Foggy Mountain Top Footprints In The Snow For Hes A Jolly Good Fellow For Me And My Gal Fountains Flowing Four Maries Four Nights Drunk Four Pence A Day Fox Frankie And Albert Frankie And Johnny Franklin D Roosevelts Back Again Free America Free Little Bird Freedom Is A Constant Struggle Freight Train Blues Freight Train Frere Jacques Froggie Went A Courtin Froggie Went A Courtin2 Gal I Left Behind Me Gallows Pole Galway Races Galway Shawl Galway Shawl2 Gambler Gee But I Want To Go Home Gentle Annie Gently Johnny My Jingalo Geordie George Collins German Clockwinder Get On Board Little Children Girl I Left Behind Me Girl On The Greenbriar Shore Git Along Little Dogies Give Me That Old Time Religion Go Down Moses < Go From My Window Go Tell It On The Mountain Go The Old Maid In The Garrett Go To Sea No More God Moves In A Wind Storm God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Going Down To New Orleans Going To Boston Golden Slippers Golden Vanity Goober Peas Good King Wenceslas Good Old Rebel Goodbye Little Bonnie Goodbye Goodbye Liza Jane Goodbye My Lover Goodbye Goodbye Old Paint Goodnight Irene Goodnight Ladies Gospel Plow Grandfathers Clock Gray Goose Great American Bum Great Getting Up Morning Great Silkie Green Corn Green Grass Grew All Around Green Grow The Lilacs Green Grow The Rashes O Green Grow The Rushes Green Pastures Greenland Fisheries Greensleeves Grizzly Bear Groundhog Guantanamera Gypsy Rover Hallelujah Im A Bum Hallelujah Im Ready Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Handsome Cabin Boy Handsome Molly Hanging Johnny Hangtown Girls Hard Aint It Hard Hard Is The Fortune Of All Womankind Hard Times Come Again No More Hard Times Of Old England Hard Traveling Hark The Herald Angels Sing Harp That Once Thro Taras Halls Haul Away Joe Haul On The Bowline Hayseed He Was A Friend Of Mine Hearse Song Hello My Baby Henry Martin Here We Come A Wassailing Hes A Fool Hes Gone Away Hes Got The Whole World In His Hands Hesitation Blues Hey Betty Martin Hieland Laddie High Barbaree High Germany Hold On Hold The Fort Holly And The Ivy Home Boys Home Home In That Rock Home On The Range Home Sweet Home Hoosen Johnny Horse Named Bill Hot Corn Cold Corn House Carpenters Wife House Of The Rising Sun Housewifes Lament How Can I Keep From Singing Hullabaloo Belay Hunters Of Kentucky Hush Little Baby Hymn For Nations I Aint Broke I Am A Pilgrim I Cant Feel At Home In This World Anymore I Couldnt Hear Nobody Pray I Dont Want To Get Adjusted I Gave My Love A Cherry I Had A Rooster I Had A Wife I Know My Love I Know Where Im Going I Know You Rider I Never Will Marry I Ride An Old Paint I Saw Three Ships Chords I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago I Was Young When I Left Home I Wish I Was Single Again Ida Red If I Had A Hammer Chords Ilkley Moor Baht At Ill Remember You Love In My Prayers Ill Take You Home Again Kathleen Ill Tell Me Ma Im A Stranger Here Im Alone All Alone Im Forever Blowing Bubbles Im Going Down This Road Feeling Bad In Kansas In The Evening By The Moonlight In The Garden In The Gloaming In The Good Old Summertime In The Pines In The Sweet Bye And Bye Internationale Intoxicated Rat Irish Rover Is The Boy Is This Land Your Land Isle Of France It Was A Lover And His Lass Its A Good Thing To Join A Union Its Glory To Know Im S A V E D Its Me Oh Lord Its The Syme The Whole World Over Ive Been Workin On The Railroad Ive Been Working On The Railroad Jack Is Every Inch A Sailor Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor Jackson Jacobs Ladder Jacobs Vision Jam On Gerrys Rocks Jane Jane Jay Goulds Daughter Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair Jefferson And Liberty Jenny Jenkins Jesse James Jim Jones Jimmy Crack Corn Jingle Bells Joe Bowers John Anderson My Jo (ii) John Anderson My Jo John B Sails John Barley Corn John Hardy John Henry John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt John Peel John Riley Johnny Boker Johnny Bull My Jo John Johnny I Hardly Knew You Johnny Todd Johnson Johnsons Ale Johnsons Motor Car Jolly Beggarman Jordan Joy To The World Juanita Jubilee Just A Closer Walk With Thee Just As The Tide Was Flowing Just Before The Battle Mother Just Before The Battle Mother2 Kansas Boys Kansas City Blues Kathleen Mavourneen Katy Cline Katy Cruel Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy Keep Your Eyes On The Prize Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Keeper Kentucky Bootlegger Kerry Recruit Kevin Barry |
King Henry Knocking On Your Door Knoxville Girl Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight Lady Margaret Lady Of Carlisle Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl Lass Of Roch Royal Last Rose Of Summer Last Thing On My Mind Lavender Blue Leatherwing Bat Leave Her Johnny Leaving Of Liverpool Leezie Lindsay Let Me Fly Let Us Break Bread Together Letter Edged In Black Life Is Like A Mountain Railroad Life On The Ocean Wave Like A Train Lil Liza Jane Lily Of The West Lincoln And Liberty Lincolnshire Poacher Linstead Market Listen To The Mockingbird Little Ball Of Yarn Little Bessie Little Birdie Little Brass Wagon Little Brown Dog Little Brown Jug Little David Little Joe The Wrangler Little Maggie Little Mohee Little Moses Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim Little Phoebe Little Rosewood Casket Little Sadie Little Sally Racket Little Sally Walker Little White Church Loch Lomond Loch Lomond2 Locks And Bolts Lolly Too Dum London Bridge London Lonesome Road Blues Lonesome Valley Long John Long Journey Home Long Line Skinner Long Long Ago Lord Im Coming Home Lord Lovel Lord Randall Lorena Lost Ill Never Find The Way Love Somebody Yes I Do Lowlands Of Holland Lowlands Macphersons Farewell Mademoiselle From Armentieres Maggie May Maids When Youre Young Never Wed An Old Man Mairis Wedding Mama Dont Low Man Of Constant Sorrow Man Of Constant Sorrow2 Man On The Flying Trapeze Man That Waters The Workers Beer Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo Many Thousand Gone Marching Through Georgia Marching To Pretoria Marrowbones Mary Ann Mary Had A Baby Masters In This Hall Matty Groves Meadowland Meet Me In St Louis Louis Meeting At The Building Mermaid Methodist Pie Michael Finnigan Michael Row The Boat Ashore Midnight On The Stormy Deep Midnight Special Midnight Special2 Midnight Train Miller Miners Lifeguard Minstrel Boy Model Church Mole In The Ground Molly Brannigan Molly Malone Money Is King Moonshiner Moscow Nights Motherless Children Mountain Dew Mountains Omourne Mrs Mcgrath Mule Skinner Blues Muskrat My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean My Homes Across The Smokey Mountains My Horses Aint Hungry My Lord What A Mourning My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose2 My Old Kentucky Home My Rambling Boy My Sweethearts The Mule In The Mines My Wild Irish Rose Nearer My God To Thee Nelly Bly New River Train Next Market Day Nightingale Nine Pound Hammer No John No Room At The Inn Noble Duke Of York Nobody Knows The Trouble Ive Seen Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out Number Twelve Train O Come All Ye Faithful Oak And The Ash Odonnell Aboo Oh Babe It Aint No Lie Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be Oh Freedom Oh How Lovely Is The Evening Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem Oh Mary Dont You Weep Oh My Darling Clementine Oh Shenandoah Oh Susanna Old Abe Lincoln Came Out Of The Wilderness Old Arks A Moverin Old Bangum Old Blue Old Cow Died Old Dan Tucker Old Dan Tucker2 Old Dog Tray Old Folks At Home Old Gospel Ship Old Gray Mare Old Hannah Old Hundred Old Joe Clark Old King Cole Old Macdonald Had A Farm Old Maids Song Old Man In The Wood Old Oaken Bucket Old Orange Flute Old Rattler Old Rosin The Beau Old Soldiers Never Die Omie Wise On Ilkla Moor Bahtat On The Banks Of The Wabash On Top Of Old Smoky Once I Had A Sprig Of Thyme Once There Were Three Fishermen One Fish Ball One More River To Cross One Morning In May Onward Christian Soldiers Oranges And Lemons Other Side Of Jordan Ox Driver Pallet On Your Floor Paper Of Pins Pat Works On The Railway Patriot Game Paw Paw Patch Pay Me My Money Down Peggy O Peter Gray Pick A Bale Of Cotton Picket Line Song Pig In A Pen Pity The Down Trodden Landlord Plastic Jesus Polly Wolly Doodle Poor Boy Poor Man Blues Poor Wayfaring Stranger Pop Goes The Weasel Popular Wobbly Portland County Jail Praties Precious Memories Pretty Polly Pretty Saro Prospecting Dream Putting On The Style Quartermaster Store Queen Jane Queen Of Hearts Raccoons Got A Bushy Tail Rackets Around The Blue Mountain Lake Raftsmen Raggedy Raggle Taggle Gypsy Railroad Bill Railroad Corral Rain And Snow Real Old Mountain Dew Rebel Girl Red Apple Juice Red Bird Red Flag Red Iron Ore Red River Valley Red Wing Reillys Daughter Reuben Ranzo Reuben Reuben Reubens Train Rich Irish Lady Rich Man And The Poor Man Riflemen At Bennington Rio Grande Rise And Shine Rise Up Shepherd And Follow Rising Of The Moon Roberts Farm Rock A My Soul Rock About My Saro Jane Rock Island Line Chords Rock N Row Me Over Roddy Mcorley Roll In My Sweet Babys Arms Roll On Buddy Roll On The Ground Roll Over Rolling Home Root Hog Or Die Rose Of Tralee Rosewood Casket Rothesay O Round And Round Hitlers Grave Round Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Roving Gambler Blues Roving Gambler Row Row Row Your Boat Rue Rye Whiskey Sacramento Sail Away Ladies Sailing Sailing Sailor On The Deep Blue Sea Sal Got A Meatskin Sally Ann Sally Brown Sally Girl Sally Goodin Sally In Our Alley Sally My Dear Salty Dog Blues Salute To Life Sam Bass Sam Hall Santa Lucia Santy Anno Scarborough Fair School Days Scotland The Brave Scotlands Burning See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Seeing Nellie Home Seven Blessings Of Mary Seven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat Seven Drunken Nights Shady Grove Shalom Altman Shan Van Voght She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured She Moves Through The Fair Shell Be Coming Round The Mountain Shenandoah Shes Like The Swallow Ship That Never Returned Shoo Fly Dont Bother Me Shootin With Rasputin Shorty George Sidewalks Of New York Silent Night Silver Dagger Silver Dagger2 Silver Threads Among The Gold Single Girl Sinner Man Sipping Cider Through A Straw Sitting On Top Of The World Skip To My Lou Skip To My Lou2 Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last Sloop John B Smugglers Song Soldier Soldier Wont You Marry Me Solidarity Forever Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child2 Soup Song Sourwood Mountain South Australia Sow Took The Measles Sowing On The Mountain Spanish Is The Loving Tongue Spanish Lady Spinning Wheel Sporting Life Blues Spotted Cow Springfield Mountain Squid Jiggin Ground Squirrel St James Infirmary St James Infirmary2 Stagolee Star Of The County Down Starving To Death On A Government Claim State Of Arkansas Steal Away Stealin Stealin Steamboat Bill Stenka Razin Step It Up And Go Step It Up And Go2 Stewball Storms Are On The Ocean Strawberry Roan Streets Of Glory Streets Of Laredo Streets Of London Study War No More Summer Is A Coming In Swannanoa Tunnel Sweet Adeline Sweet And Low Sweet Betsy From Pike Sweet Betsy From Pike2 Sweet Evelina Sweet Thing Swing Low Sweet Chariot Ta Ra Ra Boom Der E Take A Drink On Me Take A Whiff On Me Take This Hammer Take Your Fingers Off It Talking Blues Talking Nothin Tam Lin Tarn Pierce Tell Me What Month Was My Jesus Born In Tell Old Bill Ten Thousand Miles Away Tenderfoot Tenting On The Old Camp Ground Texas Rangers That Crazy War The Ash Grove The Blacksmith The Blaydon Races The Curragh Of Kildare The Elf Knight The Grand Old Duke Of York The Lark In The Morning The Last Rose Of Summer The Lowlands Of Holland The Maid And The Palmer The Newry Highwayman The Parting Glass The Rocky Road To Dublin The Rose Of Allendale The Skye Boat Song The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine The Water Is Wide The Whistling Gypsy Rover The Wife Of Ushers Well The Yellow Rose Of Texas There Aint No Bugs On Me There Is A Tavern In The Town There Is Power There Was An Old Soldier Theres A Man Goin Round Takin Names Theres More Pretty Girls Than One Theyre Moving Fathers Grave Things About Comin My Way This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land2 This Little Light Of Mine This Old Man This Train This World Is Not My Home Three Blind Mice Three Ravens Timber Titanic Tom Brown Tom Cat Blues Tom Dooley Tommys Gone To Hilo Trail To Mexico Tramp Tramp Tramp Tramp Trooper And The Maid Troubles Up And Down The Road Turkey In The Straw Turn The Glasses Over Turtle Dove Twelve Days Of Christmas Twelve Gates To The City Two Butchers Two Maids Went A Milking One Day Two Sisters Tyin A Knot In The Devils Tail Uncle Joe Uncle Reuben Uncloudy Day Unfortunate Miss Bailey Unquiet Grave Utah Carroll Vacant Chair Van Diemans Land Venezuela Vicar Of Bray Villikins And His Dinah Virgin Mary Had One Son Virgin Sturgeon Vive La Compagnie Wabash Cannonball Wade In The Water Waillie Wait For The Wagon Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie Wake Nicodemus Wake Up Jacob Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John Walking At Night Waltzing Matilda Wandering Wassail Song Water Is Wide Way Downtown Way Out In Idaho Wayfaring Stranger We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus We Pity Our Bosses Five We Shall Not Be Moved We Shall Overcome We Shall Walk Through The Valley We Wish You A Merry Christmas Wearing Of The Green Weave Room Blues Weavers Life Wee Cooper Of Fife Weeping Sad And Lonely Weevily Wheat Were You There Weve A Story To Tell To The Nations What A Friend We Have In Jesus What A Friend We Have In Mother What Child Is This What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor Wheel Of Fortune When First Unto This Country When I Was Single When Johnny Comes Marching Home When The Boat Comes In When The Iceworms Nest Again When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder When The Saints Go Marching In When The Works All Done This Fall When Things Go Wrong With You When You And I Were Young Maggie When You And I Were Young Maggie2 When You Were Sweet Sixteen Where Are You Going My Good Old Man Where Have All The Flowers Gone Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight Where The Soul Never Dies While Strolling Through The Park One Day Whirlwinds Of Danger Whiskey In The Jar Whiskey Johnny Whistle Daughter Whistle White House Blues Who Did Swallow Jonah Whos Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot Wild Colonial Boy Wild Rover Wildwood Flower Will The Circle Be Unbroken Will You Go Lassie Go Willy The Weeper Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues Wondrous Love Woodman Spare That Tree Work Of The Weavers Working On A Building World Youth Song Worried Man Blues Wraggle Taggle Gypsies Wreck Of The Old 97 Yankee Doodle Yellow Rose Of Texas You Can Dig My Grave You Gotta Go Down Young Charlotte Young Man Cut Down In His Prime Young Man Who Wouldnt Hoe Corn Youre Gonna Quit Me Baby Zebra Dun |