The Single Malt & Song Society

Song Links

Please note, all of the following are external links

You Could Do Worse Than To Start Here

• 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.

Specific Artists

• The Copper Family
  • The Copper Family song index .
• Dick Gaughan
  • Dick Gaughan's Song Archive.
• Danny Kaye
  • Danny Kaye Song Lyrics.
• Rudyard Kipling
  • Words - Rudyard Kipling, Book, etext:  Index to eText renditions of Kipling's works.
  • The New Readers' Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling.  Including the following:
    • An Index of Kipling's Verse By First Lines
    • The Major Verse Collections
  • Kipling's English History, by Marghanita Laski
• Tom Lewis
  • Tom Lewis's Index to Song Lyrics:  A listing, with full lyrics, of the songs that Tom has written and/or recorded.
• John Tams
  • Songs by John Tams.

Ballads

• 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.
• The Traditional Ballad Index:  An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World.
• Percy's "Reliques Of Ancient English Poetry": Ex-classics edition and archive.org e-text of volume 1.
• The Child Ballads Index.
• Francis J. Child Ballads.
• English ballads and songs search from Internet Archives.
• Sixteenth Century Ballads:  Also includes many good links.
• Welcome to the web page for Traditional Ballads:  A page about ballads, including web resources.

Sea Music

• Naval ballads search from Internet Archives.
• Sailor Songs - Sea Shanty Lyrics.
• Sea Shanties and Drinking Songs from the Pirates of Brown University.
• Shanties and Sailor Songs section from Robokopp Folksong Index.
• Shanties and Sea Songs.
• Shanties and Sea Songs.
• Shanty UK's archive of shanties and sea songs.
• Songs of the Inland Waterways:  Songs, old and new, which relate to British and Irish waterways.
• Songs of the Sea section from Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America.

Music Hall

• A Casquet of Vocal Gems From the Golden Days of Music Hall 
• Edwardian Music Hall Songs (Plus some from outside that era) 
• The English Music Hall 
• Windyridge CDs - British Music Hall Songs and Variety Songs on CD and MP3 Download 
• Bless 'Em All: The Songs of Fred Godfrey 

Filk

• Darn Near All the Filk on the Web:  Here there be much filk.
• FilkArchive.
• The Virtual Filksing:  The oldest anthology of recorded "filk" (science-fiction folk) music on the Internet, with hours of informal and professional performances highlighting both serious and silly songs of science-fiction, fantasy, and technology.
• SWIL Filkbooks.

Miscellaneous

• 20,000 Volkslieder:  Pages and pages of folksongs from all over the world, divided geographically.   Some have midi files to give you the melody.
• Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England:  A full online rendering of this 1857 book.  See also here.
• 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.
• Comic Songs Index.
• Cowboy Songs.
• Cowboy Songs & Bar-Room Ballads.
• Drinking Songs.
• Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America:  Folk and Traditional Music and Popular Songs, with Lyrics, Midi, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads.  Irish, British and American Folk Music including Francis J. Child Ballads.  Lesley Nelson-Burns' (aka the Contemplator)'s massive site.
• folkinfo.org forum and database copy:  A copy of the folkinfo.org forum and database, which closed in December 2012.
• History in Song.
• Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection:  A sheet music collection of MIT's Lewis Music Library, consisting of popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art.  Most of the holdings date from approximately 1890-1920, and only music published in the United States is included.
• The Jack Horntip Collection:  A collection of children's, university, and drinking songs (many bawdy), toasts, recitations, and even some graffiti.
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music.
• Popular American Music Collection:  A collection of popular American songs of the 19th century, including both lyrics and sound files.
• Public Domain Music:  A collection of 19th and early 20th century songs, organized by composer, era, style, and miscellaneous.  Lyrics and MIDI files.  These are copyrighted editions based on original sheet music sources in the public domain, but the site includes a nicely formatted page of links to the original sources.
• Robokopp Folksong Index:  Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and War Songs Lieder aus allen Ländern.
• 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.
• Scots Minstrelsie:  A National Monument of Scottish Song.  Edited and Arranged by John Greig, Mus. Doc. (Oxon.).
• The 17th Century Songbook:  Songbook from the Sir John Owens Regiment of Foote, of The Sealed Knot Society.
• Song Collection of Stephen C. Foster:  A collection of Stephen Foster songs, including both lyrics and sound files.
• Taylor's Traditional Tunebook:  Midi files for over 500 traditional tunes from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, America, and Canada.  Some with lyrics, some without.
• Traditional and Other Scottish Songs.
• A Traditional Music Library:  A large traditional and folk music library of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music theory, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.  Includes (among other things) A Tankard Of Ale (published circa 1919), Songs And Ballads Of The American Revolution (published circa 1886), and Bawdy Songs Collection.
• Traditional Song Forum:  All sorts of stuff, including TSF Internet Links (their listing of online song resources).
• Union Songs.
• Wandering minstrels website:  Lots of poems.
• White Tree Miscellany:  All sorts of stuff, including Joe Bethancourt's songbook and Banjo: A Vicious Habit.
• Wikimusica Songs.
• Lyric Wiki.