Category: folk song / traditional
All Through the Night (Ar Hyd y Nos)
Lyrics (Welsh folk song) Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee,All through the night.Guardian angels God will lend thee,All through the night.Sort the drowsy hours are creepingHill and vale in slumber sleeping,I my lonely vigil keeping,All through the night. See ...
Cowboy’s Life
Lyrics (American folk song) 1. A cowboy’s life is a weary, dreary life.Some say it’s free from care,Rounding up the cattle from morning till nightIn the middle of the prairie so bare. 2. The wolves and owls with their terrifying ...
Dan Doo
Lyrics (American folk song) There was a good old man lived out west,Dan Doo, Dan Doo,There was a good old man lived out west,Tom Klingklass McKlingle.He had an old wife that was none of your best,And it’s harum, barum, compario,Hicky-u-ka-tack klemingo,Tom Klingklass ...
Cowboy Jack
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. He was just a lonely cowboy,With a heart so brave and true.And he learned to love a maidenWith eyes of Heaven’s own blue. 2. They learned to love each otherAs they named their wedding dayWhen a quarrel came ...
Come All Ye Young Sailormen (Boston Come-All-Ye)
Info This shanty probably originated as a Scottish fisherman’s song. It was also popular with Gloucester fishermen in the American Northeast. Lyrics (Sea shanty) 1. Come, all ye young sailormen, listen to me,I’ll sing you a song of the fish ...
Cradle Spell of Dunvegan
Info Dunvegan Castle is a castle off the West coast of Scotland. (source) Lyrics (Scottish folk song from the Hebrides) 1. Sleep, my little child, hero tenderling,Dream, my little child, hero fawnlike one,High on mountain brows, be thy stagtryst,Speed thy yew ...
Colorado Trail
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. Eyes like a morning star, cheeks like a rose,Laura was a pretty girl everybody knows RefrainWeep, all you little rains, wail, winds, wail.All along along along the Colorado trail. 2. Laura was a happy girl, smilin’ as the ...
Col o coco
Lyrics – Spanish (Folk song / Tongue twister) Yo no compro col o coco.Col o coco no compro.Porque yo no compro col o cocoYo no compro col o coco. English Translation – Cabbage or coconut I don’t buy cabbage or ...
Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone)
Lyrics (Irish folk song) 1. In Dublin’s fair city where the girls are so pretty,“Twas there I first met with sweet Molly Malone.She wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow, crying,“Cockles and mussels alive, alive, oh!”Alive, alive, oh, Alive, ...
Crawdad Song
Lyrics (Folk song) You get a line and I’ll get a pole, honey.You get a line and I’ll get a pole, babe.You get a line and I’ll get a pole,We’ll go fishin’ in the crawdad hole,Honey, baby mine. Here comes ...