ALL SONGS THAT ARE IN RED ARE MP3S OF THE BAND (not necessarily our best work, just happened to be a recorder running)
A
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A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow Traditional
- All Around My Hat Steeleye Span
- Alison Gross Traditional inspired by Steeleye Span
- Amazing Grace
- America the Beautiful
- An Irish Lullaby Traditional
B
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Back in the Saddle Again 1930′s American
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Barbara Allen
- Black Velvet Band Inspired by Irish Rovers
- The Bonnie Ship the Diamond TraditionalBonnie Ship The Diamond
- Brennan on the Moor Clancy Brothers
- Brigid Flynn
C
- Caledonia played much better by Dougie MacCleanCaladonia
- Can’t Help Falling in Love
- Cat’s In the Cradle Harry Chapin
- Cigareets & Whiskey, & Wild Wild Women
- Come In As performed by the Irish Rovers
- Cuckoo’s Nest Inspired by Steeleye Span
D
- Danny Boy Done better by just about anyone alive
- DO RE MI Woody Guthrie 1930′s
- Down On the Farm Stu original
- Drunken Sailor traditional used in a medley with Bonnie Ship the Diamond
- Drunken Soundman Penned by Maggi to the tune of drunken sailor
F
- Fiddler’s Green Maggi says written by John Conolly a long time ago.
- Finnegan’s Wake Not as difficult as we thought it would beFinnegan’s Wake
- Four Green FieldsTommy Makem
- The Fox inspired by Nickel Creek
G
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Galway Bay
- Gentle Annie Tommy Machem God rest his gentle soul
- Gentleman Soldieras inspired by Steeleye Span
- God Bless the USA thrown in for good measure Lee Greenwood
- Good Night Irene Leadbelly of course kind of Irish Rovers like
- Gypsy Rover Leo Maguire gets credit here
H
- Hares on the Mountain Heard Steeleye Span do this first
- The Hard Times Of Old England (Nebraska)
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You Van Morrison
- The Hills of Connemara Traditional Noel McLoughin
- Hobo’s Lullaby
- The Holy Ground traditional
- Home Grown Tomatoes learned from John Denver rendition
I
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I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
- I’ve Been Working on the Railroad trad. built by Irishmen of course
J
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Jesus Christ Woody Guthrie 1930′s
- The Juice of the Barley Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers made this one famous
L
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Last Train to Glory Arlo Guthrie
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Lazy Bones
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Let’s Go Down to the River to Pray
- Lilly the Pink performed in the Spirit of the Irish Rovers
- Long Black Veil we had to add this because everyone plays this
- Lorena
M
- Maggie May Rod Stewart of course
- Maids When You’re Young Traditional
- Mermaid Traditional
- Minnie the Moocher 1930′s Cab Calloway
- Molly Malone
- My Wild Irish Rose
N
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Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
O
- The Old Dun Cow Haven’t a clue who it’s by, but it sure is funOld Dun Cow
- Old Mctavish Is Dead Traditional
- One Misty Moisty Morning From old nursery rhyme inspired by Steeleye Span
- Orange and the Green The Irish Rovers had a hit with this one
P
- The Parting Glass
- Padstow Mayday Song
- Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie 1930′s
- Pennies From Heaven 1930′s
- Puff the Magic Dragon as performed by Peter Paul and Mary
R
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Ramblin’ Round Woody Guthrie 1930′s
- Ready For the Storm Dougie MacClean
- Red is the Rose Trad. !st recording I heard was Cieftains with Nancy Griffith (early rewrite by Tommy Makem
- Rosin the Bow Traditional
S
- Sam Hall slow version from the Irish Rovers not the quick version of Steeleye Span
- She Walks in Shadow Maggie and Ed Original
- Drunken Scotsman Heard this first performed by John Denver. Courtesy of Doctor Dimento
- Simple Gifts Old Shaker tune
- Snoopy and the Red Baron Lost Planet Airmen?(I think)
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow Somewhere Over The Rainbow
- Summertime 1930′s From Porgy and Bess
T
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Teach Your Children Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
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Teen Angel
- Ten Long Years once again inspired by Steeleye Span
- This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie 1930′s
- This Love Will Carry Another Dougie MacClean Classic
- Two Butchers traditional
- Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds 1930′s
U
- Unicorn Words by children’s author Shell Silverstein, music from the Irish Rovers
W
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Wabash Cannonball 1930′s
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Wedding Song Paul Stookey
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Traditional
- Whiskey In the Jar first heard performed by the Dubliners Whiskey in the Jar
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- The Wild Rover Traditional the Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers
- The Wind That Shakes the Corn By the Irish Rovers.
- WorstDay Since Yesterday Flogging Molly
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- ANIMAL BLESSING TUNES
- All God’s Creatures Have a Place in the Choir
- As the Deer Panteth For the Water
- The Unicorn SongThe Unicorn Song
- Man Gave Names to all the Animals
- On Eagles Wings
- Bless the Beast and the Children
- All Things Bright and Beautiful
- Pigeons and Swallows
- On the Wings of a Snow White Dove
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Christmas Songs
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Joy to the World
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
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O Come O come Emmanuel
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Come All Ye Faithful
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Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
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Mrs. Fogarty’s Christmas Cake
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Deck the Halls
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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
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Blue Christmas
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Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
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The Christmas Song
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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
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Jingle Bells
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Away In A Manger
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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Silent Night
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It’s Begining to look a Lot Like Christmas
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Jingle Bell Rock
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Let it Snow
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O Tannenbaum
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Mary’s Boy Child
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All Through the Night
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We’ll be starting on learning some Christmas songs soon. Open to suggestions from anyone visiting the website.
I know a couple of Halloween songs. The Legend of King Henry, ANd Allison Gross come to mind. Open to suggestions here too.
October 4th is the blessing of the animals at the Methodist Church on McDonald RD.
We’ll be playing:
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All God’s Creatures Have a Place In the Choir
As the Deer Panteth
The Unicorn Song
On Eagle’s Wings
and possibly a few others.
STU
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Exellent job putting the tunes in there Don. Thanks!!
STU
I love Caledonia. What a pretty song! Sorry I missed the Listen In on 1/11.
I just listened to your arrangement of Somewhere Over the Rainbow with What a Wonderful World. I really, really liked it a LOT!
Miss you guys. Wish we lived closer so we could hear your group from time to time in concert – and at the book store too. Blessings! Melinda & Roy
I love your playlist of songs you chose for the blessings of the animals service. Two songs I am not familiar with: Man Gave Names To All The Animals and Pigeons and Swallows. I am especially curious about the latter. Wishing you all a great week. M & R
Regarding your question the song about the birds was penned by Writer Ray and set to music by Stu Meesenburg. The Man Gave Names to the Animals tune comes from Bob Dylan. (SLOW TRAIN COMING)
We learned a couple new song at Ed’s last week. We have two definite start the night and end the night songs now. “Come In” as performed by the Irish Rovers to start the night and the “Parting Glass” to close it all down.
We also worked on Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle”, “Puff the Magic Dragon”, “Hard Times of Old England”, and “The Worst Day Since Yesterday”. We’ll have to start memorizing this music for sure. The Books are getting to big to drag around with us.
STU
Another post from me. We are preparing to do a 1930′s depression era concert for the Chataqua here at Cody Park. We are adding numerous Woody Guthrie Tunes, And some top hits from the 1930′s. When I feel more ambitious I’ll add them to the play list.
STU
Well we learned our Christmas songs this year. We have about an hours worth of music secular and religious. Some traditional folk, some light rock n roll and 1 or 2 calipso like tunes. Check us out on the 17th at Harvest Church on the corner of Rodeo Rd and Buffalo Bill Rd. Donna of Donna’s Kitchen will be serving “FREE” Christmas dinner and we will seranade you. Be there or be square.
STU
Hi Melinda, finally taking care of editing on the website. Man gave names to the animals is a Bob Dylan tune andPigeons and Sparrows was written by a cowboy poet friend of mine from A-Z Books (Writer Ray). He gave me the words and I wrote the tune. iT’S A SIMPLE STRUCTURE. I’ve included the chord structure. The letters between the slashes are each line of the song. (example line 1 G – - D / is the first line of the chorus) and the Words go like this:
key of G
G – - D / G – - C / G – - D – C – G / G – D – / – C – D -G / G- – D -C – G (chorus)
Pigeons and swallows,
Pigeons and swallows
Pigeons and swallows on the wing
Always urge my heart to sing
If I find feathers on the ground
I always look up and around
G – D – / – C – -G / G – D – / – C – G – /
These little things by nature brought
have deeper meaning than others taught
In widely revered halls of learning
brings peace to mind always churning.
G – D – / – C – -G / G – D – / – C – G – /
Do not spend your life on earth
Spend your time upward winging
let your life be full of mirth
Let your life be full of singing
G – D – / – C – -G / G – D – / – C – G – /
Be a swallow, be a pigeon
Travel far above the earth
Let happiness be your religion
Enjoy a life full of mirth
G – D – / – C – -G / G – D – / – C – G – /
Find a feather on the ground
From a pigeon or a swallow
Pick it up, look all around
Where they go you can follow.
G – D – / – C – -G / G – D – / – C – G – /
All it takes is in your mind
Your must want to follow
Close your eyes if you believe
You can fly just like a swallow.