Publisher's Synopsis
Here is a wonderful collection of 177 of the best traditional songs, tunes and sea shanties from Ireland, Scotland, England and beyond. Also included are a number of songs written by people who emigrated from the British Isles and settled in other parts of the world, notably the United States and Australia. All of these timeless songs are arranged by Ben "Gitty" Baker for 3-string "GDG" cigar box guitars.Song List: A Nation Once AgainA Jug of This; Ae Fond Kiss; All For Me Grog; Annie Laurie; Arthur McBride; As I Roved Out; Auld Lang Syne; Aweigh, Santy Ano; The Bard of Armagh; The Barnyards of Delgaty; Beer, Beer, Beer; Black Velvet Band; Blarney Pilgrim Jig; Blarney Stone; Blow, Boys, Blow; Blow the Man Down; Blow Ye Winds in the Morning; The Blue Bells of Scotland; The Bold Fenian Men; Bold Thady Quill; Bonnie Charlie; Bonnie Dundee; Bonnie Hieland Laddy; Bonnie Ship the Diamond; Botany Bay; Boulavogue; Boys From the County Armagh; The Boys of Wexford; Brennan on the Moor; Broom of the Cowdenknowes; The Butcher Boy; Carrickfergus; The Cobbler; Cockies of Bungaree; The College Hornpipe; Comin' Thro the Rye; Courtin' In the Kitchen; The Croppy Boy (Versions 1 & 2); Cruiscin Lan; Cruising 'Round Yarmouth; Cunla; Danny Boy; Donkey Riding; Down by the Sally Gardens; Drill Ye Tarriers Drill; Eileen Aroon; Enniskillen Dragoons; Farewell to Nova Scotia; Farewell to Tarwathie; Finnegan's Wake; The Flowers Of the Forest; Foggy Dew; The Gallant Forty-Twa; Galway Races; Galway Shawl; Go To Sea No More; God Save Ireland; Green Grow the Rashes-O; Greenland Whale Fisheries; Haul Away Joe; Hector the Hero; Her Mantle So Green; The Holy Ground; Homeward Bound; I'll Take you Home Again Kathleen; I'll Tell Me Ma; I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everyday; Irish Washerwoman Jig; Isn't It Grand Boys; It's A Long Way To Tipperary; The Irish Rover; Johnson's Motor Car; Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye; The Jolly Tinker; John Barleycorn; Juice of the Barley; Jug of Punch; Kelly the Boy from Killane; Kevin Barry; Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl; Lark In the Morning; Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her; Leaving of Liverpool; Leezie Lindsay; Legion of the Rearguard; Let Your Back and Sides Go Bare; The Little Beggarman; Loch Lomond; Loch Tay Boat Song; MacPherson's Lament; Maid of Fife; Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe; Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man; Master McGrath; The Men Of the West; The Mermaid; The Merry Ploughboy; Mick McGuire; Minguilay Boat Song; The Minstrel Boy; Molly Malone; The Moonshiner; Morning Glory; Muirsheen Dirkin; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean; My Johnny Lad; My Wild Irish Rose; Nancy Whiskey; Nell Flaherty's Drake; The Nightingale; The Night That Paddy Murphy Died; The Night Visiting Song; Off To California Hornpipe; The Old Dun Cow; The Old Orange Flute; Old Woman From Wexford; Oro Se Do Bheatha Abhaile; Paddy Doyle's Boots; Paddy West; The Parting Glass; Peggy Gordon; Poor Old Dicey Reilly; Poor Paddy On the Railway; Quare Bungle Rye; The Rakes of Mallow; Rare Old Mountain Dew; Rattlin' Bog; Rattlin' Roarin' Willie; Red Is the Rose; Reilly's Daughter; Rising of the Moon; Rocky Road to Dublin; Roddy McCorley; Rolling Down to Old Maui; Rolling Home; The Rose of Allendale; Rose of Tralee; Rosin the Bow; Rothsea-O; Scotland the Brave; Sam Hall; Sean Ryan's Polka; Seven Drunken Nights; Siege of Ennis Polka; Skibbereen; Skye Boat Song; Soldier's Song; Sound the Pibroch; South Australia; Spancil Hill; Spanish Lady; Stand To Your Glasses Steady; Star of the County Down; Threescore and Ten; Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral; Waly, Waly (The Water Is Wide); Wearing of the Green; Weile Waile; The West's Asleep; Westering Home; Whack Fol the Diddle; What Do We Wo With A Drunken Sailor; When Irish Eyes are Smiling; When You And I Were Young, Maggie; Whiskey in the Jar; Whiskey is the Life of Man; Whiskey You're the Devil; The Whistling Gypsy; Wild Colonial Boy; Wild Mountain Thyme; Wild Rover; Wind That Shakes the Barley; Work of the Weavers;
