A Folk Song a Day features 365 songs from the Folk Revival to sing and play throughout the year, specially selected by the celebrated folk artist and Bellowhead frontman, Jon Boden. Bursting at the seams with well-known songs from the folk canon alongside a wide variety of lesser-known finds, each song is presented with melody line, lyrics and suggested chords, as well as contextual paragraphs. Inspired by the successful ‘A Folk Song a Day’ podcast that Jon produced between 2010 and 2011, this beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic resource that is a celebration of the folk song tradition and a perfect gift for folk music lovers to enjoy every day of the year. Includes a bonus Leap Year song.
365 songs including...
The Snow it Melts the Soonest, Apple Tree Wassail, The Rain it Rains, Reynardine, January Man, The Seasons Round, Peggy Bann, Waltzing Matilda, The Innocent Hare, Cold Blow and the Rainy Night, Sheepcrook and Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, The Wellerman, Salisbury Plain, Captain Wedderburn, Worcester City, When Spring Comes In, London Town, Old Brown’s Daughter, Across the Line, On One April Morning, Oak and Ash and Thorn, The Cuckoo, The Week Before Easter, Early One Morning, Gentleman Soldier, Padstow May Song, Outlandish Knight, One May Morning Early, As I Roved Out, Barbara Allen, Lily Bulero, Fakenham Fair, Wild Rover, Little Musgrave, The Birth of Robin Hood, Wild Mountain Thyme, Rose of Allendale, The Eighteenth Day of June, Roll Alabama, Midsummer Carol, Sweet Nightingale, Banks of Green Willow, Greenwood Side, Lucy Wan, Roll the Woodpile Down, Willow Glen, The Water is Wide, Scarborough Fair, John Barleycorn, On a Monday Morning, Hunting the Hare, Ots and Beans and Barley Grows, The Huntsman, Earl Richard, The Constant Lovers, Courting Too Slow, A Sailor’s Life, The Death of Queen Jane, Tam Lin, Welcome Cold November, Spencer the Rover, Rose of Tralee, Cold Blows the Wind, A Roving on a Winter’s Night, The Boar’s Head Carol, The Holly and the Ivy, Blackleg Miner, Lyngham, Shepherd’s Arise, Jingle Bells, and many, many more...