The Single Malt & Song Society

Song Links

Please note, all of the following are external links

• The Mudcat Café:  Looking for a song?  You can search here.  Want to browse songs?  You can do that here as well.
• Yet Another Digital Tradition Page:  DigiTrad links seem to come and go; here is one that is currently working.
• Taylor's Traditional Tunebook:  Midi files for over 500 traditional tunes from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, America, and Canada.  Some with lyrics, some without
• Wikimusica Songs
• Shanties and Sea Songs
• 20,000 Volkslieder:  Pages and pages of folksongs from all over the world, divided geographically.   Some have midi files to give you the melody.
• SCA Minstrel Homepage:  A homepage for the performing arts as practiced in the SCA.  Includes songs (both SCA period and filk), story-telling, and juggling.
• The Copper Family song index:  The Copper family.  'Nuff said.
• Contemplations from the Marianas Trench/Folk Music of Britain, Ireland & America:  Several subsites including all sorts of songs.
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:  The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections.  The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century.  The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community.
• Darn Near All the Filk on the Web:  Here there be much filk.
• Danny Kaye Song Lyrics:  Need I say more?
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music 
• Traditional and Other Scottish Songs 
• Sixteenth Century Ballads:  Also includes many good links.
• The Child Ballads:  Note - one large page, slow to load.
• Bruce Olson's web site
• Cantaria:  A library of traditional and contemporary folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, and England.  All include at least partial MP3 recordings.