Selected Song Titles for Singing Circles Seminar

 

Golden Oldies: Alexander's Ragtime Band, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Daisy Bell, Down By the Old Mill Stream, Give My Regards to Broadway, Heart of My Heart, I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, I'm Sitting on Top of the World, Java Jive, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Shine On Harvest Moon, Tea for Two, When Irish Eyes are Smiling, The Whiffenpoof Song, You are My Sunshine.

Ballads: The Cherry Tree Carol, Geordie, Green Grow the Rushes-O, The Keeper, Mary Hamilton, Masters In this Hall, Thyme, The Water is Wide, Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies.

Farm & Country: Buffalo Gals, Ca' the Ewes, Day-O, Git Along Little Dogies, Home on the Range, I Ride an Old Paint, Ol' Texas, Old Chisholm Trail, Pastures of Plenty, Pick a Bale o' Cotton, Red River Valley, Roll on Columbia, So Long - It's Been Good to Know You, Streets of Laredo, When I First Came to this Land, Zum Gali Gali.

Work: Casey Jones, Cotton Mill Girls, Drill Ye Tarriers Drill, Mary Got a New Job, Nicolia, Please Tip Your Waitress, Rise Again, Roll the Union, Union Maid, We Shall Not Be Moved, Working Girl Blues.

Friendship: Bring Me a Rose, Getting to Know You, Lean on Me, Moon River, With a Little Help from My Friends, You are the Sunshine of My Life, You've Got a Friend.

Love Songs: Annie Laurie, Annie's Song, Colours, Comin' Thro' the Rye, Danny Boy, Dodi Li, Down by the Sally Gardens, Down in the Valley, I Just Called to Say I Love You, If Ever I Would Leave You, My Girl, O No John, Some Enchanted Evening, Spanish is the Loving Tongue, Tell Me Why, Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, You Can Close Your Eyes.

Lullabies: Abide with Me, All My Trials, All the Pretty Little Horses, All Through the Night, Angels Watchin' Over Me, Brahms' Lullaby, Day Is Done, Goodnight Irene, Kumbaya, Morningtown Ride, The Riddle Song, Skye Boat Song, Summertime.

Hope: Blackbird, Blowin' in the Wind, Give Yourself to Love, If We Only Have Love, Imagine, Let it Be, Love Grows One by One, Love Will Guide Us, The Rose, Somewhere, What the World Needs Now.

Faith: Be Thou My Vision, Bringing in the Sheaves, Brother James' Air, I Wonder as I Wander, Light One Candle, Lonesome Valley, Lord of the Dance, Mi Y'malel, Wonderous Love.

Freedom: Black and White, Follow the Drinkin' Gourd, Go Down Moses, Harriet Tubman, Hold On, It Isn't Nice, John Brown's Body, Michael Row, O Freedom, O Mary Don't You Weep, River of Babylon, This Little Light, Wade in the Water, We Shall Overcome.

Dreams & Fantasies: Both Sides Now, Camelot, Happiness Runs, If It's Magic, Lavender's Blue, Die Lorelei, Michael From Mountains, Moonshadow, My Father, Only a Song, Over the Rainbow, Scarborough Fair.

Ecology: Acres of Clams, God Bless the Grass, My Rainbow Race, Pollution, What Have They Done to the Rain?

Hard Times & Blues: Banks of the Ohio, Eleanor Rigby, Every Night When the Sun Goes In, Frankie and Johnnie, House of the Rising Sun, I Think It's Gonna Rain Today, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Midnight Special, Wayfaring Stranger, Worried Man Blues, Yesterday.

Struggle: Dona Dona, Die Gedanken Sind Frei, If I Had a Hammer, El Pueblo Unido, The Times They are A-Changin', What's That I Hear?

Travelin': Un Canadien Errant, Carolina In My Mind, Casey Jones, Early Morning Rain, The E-ri-ee, The Erie Canal, Five Hundred Miles, Four Strong Winds, Paddy on the Railway, The Rock Island Line, The Wabash Cannonball, You Were on My Mind.

Play: Alouette, Baby Beluga, The Fox, Froggie Went a-Courtin', Going to the Zoo, A Horse Named Bill, I Had a Rooster, I Know an Old Lady, I With I Were a Little Thugar Bun, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Mail Myself to You, The Marvelous Toy, Oh Susanna, On Top of Spaghetti, Puff the Magic Dragon, She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain, Yellow Submarine.

Funny Songs: Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends, Buffalo Boy, The Cat Came Back, Clementine, Father's Whiskers, Hole in the Bucket, Oleanna, On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At, The Rooster Song, Waltzing with Bears, The Wild West is Where I Want to Be.

Secular Rounds: A Ram Sam Sam, Ah Poor Bird, Chairs to Mend, Come Follow, Go to Jane Glover, Have You Seen the Ghost of John?, Hey Ho Nobody Home, I Love the Flowers, Kookaburra, Lachend, Make New Friends, Die Musici, My Dame Had a Lame Tame Crane, Sumer Canon.

Sacred Rounds: Alleluia, Dona Nobis Pacem, Haida, Hava Nashira, Hineh Ma Tov, Peace Like A River, Shalom Chaverim.


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