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"Danny Boy" – one of the most popular Ireland-related songs, though the lyrics were written by an Englishman and only later set to an Irish tune [58] "Easy and Slow" – a Dublin song of somewhat constant innuendo [24] "Eileen Oge" – by Percy French, also played as a reel [59] "The Ferryman" – by Pete St. John, set in Dublin
This category contains folk songs which originated in England. For a comprehensive list of 25,000 traditional English language songs, see List of folk songs by Roud number . Contents
"The Water Is Wide" may be considered a family of lyrics with a particular hymn-like tune. [1]"O Waly Waly" (Wail, Wail) may be sometimes a particular lyric, sometimes a family tree of lyrics, sometimes "Jamie Douglas", sometimes one melody or another with the correct meter, and sometimes versions of the modern compilation "The Water Is Wide" (usually with the addition of the verse starting "O ...
This upbeat song by Irish band, The Corrs, landed on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001 and remains a popular radio staple with its infectious beat and ear-worm lyrics.
Shady Grove" (Roud 4456) [1] is a traditional Appalachian folk song, [2] believed to have originated in eastern Kentucky around the beginning the 20th century. [3] The song was popular among old-time musicians of the Cumberlands before being widely adopted in the bluegrass repertoire. [4]
Harry Smith included a number of them into his Anthology of American Folk Music. A rendition of child ballad 155 ("Fatal Flower Garden") appears on Andrew Bird's The Swimming Hour. In 2003 English folk singer June Tabor recorded the album An Echo of Hooves consisting entirely of Child ballads (210, 212, 161, 195, 191, 106, 74, 215, 88, 20, 58 ...
The Hanging Tree (The Hunger Games song) Happier (Olivia Rodrigo song) Happy Birthday to You; Hard Tack Come Again No More; Hark, from the Tomb; He Was a Friend of Mine; Hell on the Wabash; John Henry (folklore) Here's your mule; Home (Sheryl Crow song) Home on the Range; House of Gold (Twenty One Pilots song) The House of the Rising Sun
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.