More Irish Songs and Ballads

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1. "Says Lloyd George to McPherson, I'll give you the sack/To uphold law and order you haven't the knack . . ." McPherson's Lament The Bold Black and Tan Spancil Hill The Battle of the Diamond

2. "In nineteen hundred and sixteen/The forces of the Crown/To take the Orange, White and Green/Bombarded Dublin town . . ." Come Out You Black and Tans The Rocky Road to Dublin The Boys of the Old Brigade The Rifles of the IRA

3. "The moon it shone down on old Dublin town/When the deadly fight was o'er . . ." Off to Dublin in the Green Tipperary So Far Away My Only Son Was Shot in Dublin A Soldier's Song

4. "I have often heard it said by my father and my mother/That going to a wedding is the makings of another . . ." Haste to the Wedding Bridget Flynn Mary From Dungloe An Old Maid in the Garrett

5. "The morn was breaking bright and fair/The lark sang in the sky/When the maid she bound her golden hair/With a blithe glance in her eye . . ." The Mountains of Pomeroy Rose of Allendale The Mantle So Green The Gentle Maiden

6. "A policeman walked out, oh so proud on his beat/When a vision came to him of stripes on his sleeve . . ." Thank You Ma'am Says Dan The Peeler and the Goat Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay The Loyal Protestant

7. "Through the little streets of Belfast/In the dark of early morn/British soldiers came marauding/Wrecking little homes with scorn . . ." The Belfast Brigade The Ballad of Bobby Sands The Men Behind the Wire The Bonfire on the Border

8. "By a lonely prison wall/I heard a young girl calling/Michael they are taking you away/For you stole Trevelyan's corn . . ." The Fields of Athenry Down By the Glenside Bantry Bay The Green Glens of Antrim

9. "A hungry feeling came o'er me stealing/And the mice were sqealing/In my prison cell . . ." The Convict of Clonmel The Old Triangle Four Green Fields The Fatal Shore

10. "But come ye back when summer's in the meadow/Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow . . ." The Emmigrant's Song Goodbye, Johnny Dear When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Danny Boy

11. "Let grasses grow and breezes blow/In a free and easy way/But give me enough of the rare old stuff/That's made near Galway Bay . . ." Whiskey You're the Devil The Moonshiner The Real Old Mountain Dew Rosin the Beau

12. "Let the farmer praise his grounds/Let the huntsman praise his hounds . . ." The Cruiscin Lan Katy Daly The Hills of Connemara The Rakes of Mallow

13. "There were half a million people there of all denominations/The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew and Presbyterian/There was yet no animosity no what persuasion/But failte and hospitality inducing fresh acquaintance . . ." The Galway Races She Moved Through the Fair Whiskey in the Jar O'Reilly's Daughter

14. "The struggle is over, the boys are defeated/Old Ireland's surrounded with sadness and gloom . . ." Bold Robert Emmet Wrap the Green Flag 'Round Me, Boys The Bantry Girl's Lament The Coulin

15. "Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed/But join with me each jovial blade/Come drink and sing and lend your aid/To help me with the chorus . . ." The Boys of Kilkenny The Rattling Bog A Man You Don't Meet Every Day Garryowen

16. "By the margin of the ocean/One pleasant evening in the month of June/When all those feathered songsters/Their liquid notes did sweetly tune . . ." The Bonny Bunch of Roses Ballinderry Mary, I'm Far From the Land The Holy Ground

17. "Well, it was down by Christchurch that I first met with Annie/A neat little girl, and not a bit shy . . ." Down By the Sally Gardens Easy and Slow The Orange Maid of Sligo The Maid That Sold Her Barley

18. "When boyhood's fire was in my blood/I read of ancient freemen/Of Greece and Rome and who bravely stood/Three hundred men and three men . . ." The West's Awake Come to the Bower A Nation Once Again Kelly, The Boy From Killane

19. "I sat me in the valley green/I sat me with my true love/My fond heart strove the two between/The old love and the new love . . ." The Star of Donegal Slievenamon The Wind That Shakes the Barley The Green Linnet

20. "If you'll listen I'll sing you a sweet little song/Of a flower that's now drooped and dead . . ." Home to Mayo My Wild Irish Rose The Lily of the West The Mist on the Mountain

21. "I went into an alehouse where I used to frequent/And I told the landlady my money was spent/I asked her for a bottle, she answered me nay/Saying 'A custom like yours I can get any day' . . ." The Wild Colonial Boy Nell Flaherty's Drake The Jug of Punch The Wild Rover

22. "We soldiers of Erin, so proud of the name/We'll raise on the rebels and Frenchmen our fame . . ." Croppies Lie Down No Surrender The Prentice Boys of Derry King William's Day

23. "My father was an Ulster man, proud Protestant was he/My mother was a Catholic girl, from Country Cork came she . . ." The Man From Mullingar The Orange ABC The Orange and the Green The Juice of the Barley For Me

24. "One evening of late into Bandon I strayed/And bound for Clonakilty I was makin' me way . . ." The Bold Tenant Farmer The Irish Rover The Whistling Gypsy The Little Beggarman

25. "Bring no ill-wind to hinder us, my helpless babe and me/Dread spirit of the Blackwater, Clan Owen's wild banshee/And Holy Mary pitying us, in Heaven for grace doth sue . . ." The Castle of Dromore Christ Child Lullaby The Banks of the Roses Fair Una