A Chronology of English Song -- Alphabetical Within Century

Speranza

16th and 17th Century

By a known author:

As I Walked Forth

The Bay of Biscay, O!
Come Live With Me (Marlowe)

I Pass All My Hours
Lilli Burlero
My Lodging It Is On the Cold Ground
Old Maid In the Garret
When the King Enjoys His Own Again
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From Broadsides of the 16th and 17th Century

The Ages of Man

As I Was Going to Banbury

Barbara Allen

The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
The Bold Soldier
Blow Away the Morning Dew
By A Bank As I Lay

The Carman's Whistle
Chevy Chase
Child Waters
The Coasts of High Barbary
Corydon and Phyllis
The Cruel Mother
Death and the Lady
Go No More A Rushing
The Golden Vanity
Greensleeves
The Hawthorn Tree
I Once Loved a Lass (The False Bride)
John Barleycorn
Johnie Scot
King Arthur
King Pharoah (Gypsy Christmas Carol)
Lavender's Blue
Leather Bottel, The
Lord Bateman
Love Will Find Out The Way
Maid of Amsterdam
Near Woodstock Town
Oak and the Ash, The

Oh No, John

Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
Robin Hood and the Tanner
Scarborough Fair
Seeds of Love, The
Seventeen Come Sunday
Some Rival Has Stolen My True Love Away
Spanish Ladies
Sweet William
Three Butchers, The
Three Ravens, The

Trooper and the Maid, The
Two Magicians, The

Valiant Lady, The

Ward the Pirate

We Be Three Poor Mariners
Woods So Wild, The

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Songs that may have been known in the 17th Century


Battle of Otterburn, The
Briery Bush, The

Bruton Town
Barkshire Tragedy, The
Bird Song, The

Blow, Ye Winds, Blow
Death of Queen Jane, The

Duke of Bedford, The
Drowned Lover, The

Edward

Girl I Left Behind Me, The

Lord Rendal
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor

Murdered Brother, The

Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero
Tarry Trousers
Twa Corbies, The

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18th Century

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By a known author

A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
A Soldier and a Sailor
Ally Croaker
And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire
Bay of Biscay, The

Black-Eyed Susan
Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze
Dashing White Sergeant, The

God Save the King/Queen (Arne)

Heart of Oak
Lass of Richmond Hill, The

Married to a Mermaid
Miss Bailey's Ghost
Norah, Dear Norah
Sally In Our Alley (Carey)

Sweet is the Budding Spring of Love
To Anacreon in Heaven
Toll For the Brave
----- Folksongs
Abroad As I Was Walking
Admiral Benbow
Andrew Barton
Arethusa, The

Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The
Bedlam
Billy Taylor
Blackbirds & Thrushes
Blow the Candle Out
Blow the Candles Out
Buffalo, The
Captain Kidd
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
Cheshire Man, The

Come Here, Fellow Servant
Dabbling in the Dew
Down Among the Dead Men (1700)

Early One Morning

Fair Maid of Islington, The

False Lamkin
Flash Lad
Foggy, Foggy Dew, The
Good Morning, Pretty Maid
Green Bushes
Hares on the Mountains

Henry Martin
High Germany
Irish Girl, The
Jack Hall
The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter
Lady Maisry
Lincolnshire Farmer, The
 
Little Turtle Dove, The

Little Sir Hugh
Lord Lovel
Low, Low Lands of Holland, The
Lucy Wan
Mermaid, The

O Sally, My Dear

Outlandish Knight, The
Over the Hills and Far Away

Paul Jones
Ploughboy, The

Polly Vaughn

Rare Willie

Rolling in the Dew
Saucy Sailor Boy, The

Spanish Lady, The

Still Growing
Trees They Do Grow High, The

True Lover's Farewell, The

Water is Wide, The   (O Waly, Waly)
Waxie's Dargle
Well of St. Keyne , The

Why, Soldiers, Why

William and Mary

William Taylor
Women All Tell Me, The

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19th Century Music

---- By a known author
SONGS BY Charles Dibdin

Ben Backstay

Jolly Young Waterman, The
Lass That Loves a Sailor, The
 
Token, The

Then Farewell My Tridonotuse-Built Wherry
Tom Bowling
Tom Tough

--- SONGS BY Thomas Haynes Bayly
Gaily the Troubadour
Long, Long Ago
Others -- Songs by 19th century composers other than DIDBIN AND BAYLY:

Ballynamony

Mulligan Guard, The
Nancy Lee
Poor Murdered Woman, The

Private Tommy Atkins
Sling the Flowing Bowl
Tarpaulin Jacket. The

Three Fishers

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Folksongs and Shanties
For more shanties (because so few have definite country origins) go to Songs of the Sea.

A Hundred Years Ago

A Woman's Work is Never Done

Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries

Alice Gray

All Round My Hat

As I Walked Through the Meadow 

Bachelor's Hall

Banks of the Sweet Primroses, The

Belfast Mountains

Billy Boy

Blacksmith, The
Blow the Man Down

Blow the Wind Southerly

Bold Nelson's Praise

The Bold Princess Royal

A Bold Young Farmer

Boney's Lamentation

Boney Was A Warrior

The Bonny Lighter Boy

Bonny Light Horseman

The Bonny Ship The Diamond
Botany Bay

Brimbledon Fair

A Brisk Young Sailor

Britons, Strike Home

Can of Grog

Chesapeake and Shannon

Dance to your Daddy

The Dead Horse

Derry Down Dale

Drink Little England Dry

Drunken Sailor

Eight Bells

Eliza Lee

English Country Gardens

Fair Susan

Farewell, Nancy

The Female Highwayman

The Female Smuggler

Fire Down Below

The Fish Of The Sea

Hanging Johnny

Here's to the Grog

Homeward Bound

The Isle of France

It's of a Sailor Bold

Johnny Todd

The Gallant Hussar

George Collins

Grand Conversation of Napoleon

Gypsy Rover

Haul Away, Joe


House Carpenter

How Happy the Soldier

I Know Where I'm Going

I Must Live All Alone

Jackaroe

The Keeper of the Eddystone Light

The Keys of Canterbury

The Lass of Swansea Town

The Lass That Loves A Sailor

Leave Her, Johnny

The Little Lowland Maid

Lord Franklin

The Lost Lady Found

Madam, Will You Walk?

Marlboro

Mary of the Moor

My Darling Ploughman Boy

My Johnny Was a Shoemaker

Nancy Whisky

On Board a Ninety-Eight

Our Ship She Lies in Harbour

The Ox-Eyed Man

Paddy Doyle's Boots

Paddy, Get Back

Paddy West

The Pirate Song

The Ploughboy (Lark in the Morn)

Poor Old Horse

Poor Sally Sits A-Weeping

The Pretty Ploughboy

Pretty Polly Oliver

Quare Bungle Rye

The Rambling Sailor

Reuben Ranzo

Reynardine

The Rich Nobleman and His Daughter

Richard of Taunton Dean

The Rio Grande

Rolling Down to Old Maui

Rolling Home

Rosetta and Her Gay Ploughboy

Sam Hall

The Sheffield Apprentice

At the Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell

The Soldier's Farewell

Sweet Joan

Sweet Lovely Joan

Through Moorfields

Travel the Country Round

Undaunted Mary

The Unquiet Grave

Van Diemen's Land

The Wealthy Farmer's Son

We'll Rant And We'll Roar

We're All Bound To Go

Whisky Johnnie

Will Watch

The Willow Tree

Ye Sons of Albion

Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low

Young Ramble-away

The Young Servant Man


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After 1900
Go Get the Ax
Private Tommy Atkins