Oh, a raftsman's life is a wearisome one, It causes many fair maids to weep and mourn It causes them to weep and mourn For the loss of a true love that never ca...

I'm a rambler and rover and I wander it seems I've traveled all over, chasing after my dreams But a dream should come true and a heart should be filled And a li...

I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it's hot I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not But sometimes in the springtime and most often in the F...

The piper came to out town, To our town, to our town The piper came to our town And he played bonnielie* He play'd a spring the laird to please A spring brent n...

F Bb F Please open your hearts and your purses F7 Bb Bbm F To a man who is misunderstood A A7 Dm He get...

PLAISIR D'AMOUR The joys of love are but a moment long The pain of love endures the whole life long Your eyes kissed mine, I saw the love in them shine You br...

I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car, through my trials and tribulations And my travels throug...

PLASTIC JESUS (2) Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes, Long as I have my plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Through all trials and tribulati...

PLAY ME (Neil Diamond) She was morning and I was night time And when she woke up to find the light Beside my bed, I softly said to come take me For I've been ...

It was pleasant and delightful one midsummer's morn When the fields and the meadows were all covered in corn And the blackbirds and thrushes sang on every green...

Pleasant and Delightful, Seattle It was pleasant and delightful On a wet Seattle day To go strolling with your true love Down by Elliot Bay You hold her oh so ...

Joy, health, love, and peace be all here in this place By your leave, we will sing concerning our King Our King is well dressed, in silks of the best In ribbon...

Cho: Pleasure and pain is like profit and gain Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose Be kind to yourself when you're tired of yourself Don't go mixing the re...

Boze, cos Polske Boze! cos Polske przez tak liczne wieki Otaczal blaskiem potegi i chwaly, I tarcza Twojej wszechmocnej opieki Od nieszczesc, ktore przygnebic j...

One night Polly Oliver lay musing in bed, A comical fancy came into her head; "Neither father nor mother shall make me false prove I'll 'list for a soldier and ...

Come all you wild young men and a warning take by me Never lead your single life astray or into bad company As I myself have done, being all in the month of May...

So come all you young sportsman, that carry a gun I will have you go home by the light of the sun, For young Jimmy was a-fowling, was a-fowling alone When he sh...

Dm Gm I shall tell of a hunter whose life was undone Dm A By the cruel hand of evil at the setting of the...

When I went down to the river, poor boy, To see the ships go by; My sweetheart stood or the deck of one, Where she waved to me goodbye cho: Bow down* your head...

Poor Ellen Smith (Peter Degraph?) Come all kind people, my story to hear, What happen'd to me in June of last year It's of poor Ellen Smith and how she was fou...

I ain't got no father, I ain't got no father, I ain't got no father, To buy the clothes I wear I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, (3x) And a long ways from home I ai...

The Poor Man O poor man, O poor man come tell unto me true; How you maintain your family and how you carry them through; How you maintain your family when most ...

Here I am, as you can see, poor old maid All the way from Kankakee, poor old maid My disposition's very mild I'm just as meek as a little child And for a husban...

THE POOR WHORES' COMPLAINT Come listen a while and you shall hear How the poor whores fare in the winter They've hardly any rags to hide their wares Indeed 'ti...

'Round and 'round the cobbler's bench The monkey chased the weasel, The monkey thought 'twas all in fun Pop! Goes the weasel A penny for a spool of thread A pe...

The Popular Wobbly (T-Bone Slim) I'm as mild-mannered man as can be, And I've never done no harm as I can see Still on me they put a ban, And they threw me in ...

THE POSIE O, luve will venture in where it daur na weel be seen! O, luve will venture in, where wisdom ance hath been! But I will doun yon river rove amang the...

They come in their summery dress and jackets so fine Rich folks who measure success with a big dollar sign They gaze with delight at the rocks and the scraggly ...

Up in the morning at five, it's a wonder that we stay alive It sets me yawning to great the cold dawning And back to the old, dreary drive Oh dear, I'm going t...

THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE (Joe HilI) Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right; But when asked how 'bout somet...

THE PRESSERS By Mary Brooksbank There is nocht in this wide world but sorrow and care I weary on Johnnie, but Johnnie's no there Sae waesome and dowie, I feel ...

Oh, don't you remember, a long time ago Those two little babes, their names I don't know They strayed away one bright summer's day Those two little babes got lo...

If I was a pretty little bird, I would never build my nest on the ground; I would build my nest in the highest oak tree* Where the wild boys couldn't tear it do...

I dream of pretty Polly forever lying free** Hard has been my fortune, sad has been my fate Came unto my love's door, expecting to get in Instead of finding ple...

I am a broken-hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed Through keeping of the company of a young servant maid Who lived on board and wages the house to keep clean ...

(G) CFCGCFC/CFCGCG/C-GCFC/CFCGCFC Down in some lone valley, in some lonesome place Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase Farewell pretty ...

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM Air:"Annie Laurie" The night is dark about me; I hear the midnight bell; Before another midnight It will ring my funeral knell, It will r...

As I was a walking one evening of late Where Flora's green mantle the fields decorate I carelessly wandered, where I do not know By the banks of a fountain that...

THE PRISONER'S SONG Oh I wish I had someone to love me Someone to call me her own, Oh I wish I had someone to live with For I'm tired of living alone Oh pleas...

Private John Q (Roger Miller?) Well, I read it in the paper and I seen it on the television Ever'body's worryin' 'bout a World War III I am just a single boy, ...

The Pro Musica Antiqua (From a Julius Monk Revue ca1955) I'll sing you a song of the Cloisters if you hark I'll sing of the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park Where ...

The Process Man A process man am I and I'm telling you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky There's thunder all around me and po...

The Programmer's Lament As I walked out in the DP Department, As I walked out down in DP one day, I met a young programmer rolled up in white listings, A-chewi...

In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day Rose a lady in skunk with a top-heavy sway Raised a knobby red finger - all turned from their beer - While with eyes brig...

The Provincial's Farewell (Harry & Sandy Berkowitz) Goodbye to Toms River and Barnegat Bay Farewell to the ocean strand Goodbye to the friends so dear unto me ...

Voor Rood-Wit gezongen Vol man'lijke kracht Een lied voor ons allen want eendracht maakt macht Wij trekken ten strijde Een strijd vol van vree Vooruit nu Rood-...

Early one evening Just as the pubs were opening A traveler was walking down A cold and windy street He saw a door ajar He stepped in a public bar Said, Landlord...

The Puddy and the Mouse (In braid Scots, please) There lived a puddy in a well, Cuddy alone, Cuddy alone There lived a puddy in a well Cuddy alone and I There ...

PUFF, THE MAGIC DRAGON G Bm C G / C G A D / G Bm C G / C G AD G Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honal...

Punch and Judy (John Pole) I am the showman and on me back I carry's me actors, in me pack A puppet showman, that is yours truly And the stars of me show are P...

cho: Put another log on the fire Cook me up some bacon and some beans, Go out to the car and change the tires, Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans; (C'mon b...

PUT IT IN A COOL DRY PLACE (Peter Nappa) Well I woke up in the morning The place was such a wreck And I couldn't reach the bathroom Thought I'd better clear th...

Young man in a carriage, driving like he's mad With a team of horses, he's borrowed from his dad He cracks his whip so lively, just to see his lady's smile But ...

Come all you bold robbers and open your ears Of QuantrelI the lion-heart you quickly will hear With his band of bold raiders in double-quick time He came to bur...

Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town And she was a damsel who skipped up and down Said the damsel to Jack as she passed him by Would you care for to pur...

The Quartermaster Corps It's the beer, beer, beer that makes you feel so queer In the corps, in the corps It's the beer, beer, beer that makes you feel so quee...

QUEEN ELEANOR'S CONFESSION Queen Eleanor was a sick woman and sick just like to die And she has sent for two friars of France to come to her speedily The King c...

The Queen of Connemara (Francis A Fahy) Oh! My boat can safely float in the teeth of wind and weather And outrace the fastest hooker between Galway and Kinsale...

Queen of Elfan's Nourice I heard a cow low and a bonnie cow low An' a cow low down in yon glen Lang, lang will my young son greet Or his mither bid him come be...

To the queen of hearts is the ace of sorrow He's here today, he's gone tomorrow Young men are plenty but sweethearts few If my love leaves me what shall I do? ...

QUEEN OF THE RAILS (Bruce Phillips) I guess his name was Boomer Bill If that won't do another will A hobo doesn't need a name "Cause he gets no mail And the on...

THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER (Charles K Harris) A Rabbi sat one evening With Bible on his knee, His daughter knelt beside him For she loved him tenderly, "Come tell me...

The Raftsman's Song (Collected by Ellen Stekert from Ezra "Fuzzy" Barhight, Recorded by Stekert 1958 on Songs of a New York Lumberjack, Folkways FA2354)(I don...

I just called up to tell you that I'm ragged* but right; Thief and a gamblin' man, drunk every night I eat porterhouse steak three times a day for my board, Tha...

The Raging Canal (Two in the Middle) Coffee growa on white oak trees (tune 1) Rivers flow with brandy, O, Go choose someone to go with you Sweet a 'lass...

The Raging Canoe* (Sent my Brown Jug etc) Sent my brown jug down town, Sent my brown jug down town, Sent my brown jug down town, So early in the morning It ca...

RAGTIME COWBOY JOE (Grant Clarke, Lewis Muir and Maurice Abrahams) Out in Arizona where the bad men are, And the only friend to guide you is an Evening Star, T...

Ragtime Suffragette (Harry Williams and Nat D Thayer) What's that noise upon the avenue? What's that crowd a-doin' 'round there too? What's the meaning of that...

I tried so hard, Wild Bill, to cut That streak of railroad track But I'm afraid that all I did Was dodge that flying flak I know that one is all it takes To blo...

Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill He never worked, and he never will, And it's ride, ride, ride Railroad Bill's a mighty mean man Shot the light out of the poor bra...

SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer SOURCE'S SOURCE: Andy Breckman TEXT: Railroad Bill was a hard livin' man He used to take his women two at a time Everyone agreed...

cho: Well I'm a rake and a rambling boy There's many a city I did enjoy And now I've married me a pretty little wife And I love her dearer than I love my life ...

THE RAKES OF MALLOW Beauing, belleing, dancing, drinking, Breaking windows, cursing, sinking Every raking, never thinking, Live the Rakes of Mallow; Spending fa...

THE RAKES OF POVERTY cho: I am a rambling young man, from town to town I steer, And like an honest fellow, I like my whiskey clear, And like an honest fellow, ...

As I was a-walking to Derry Down Fair In my bright scarlet coat and everything rare Enough to entice all the maidens that day When they set their eyes on young ...

The Ramblin Rover (Andy M Stewart) Oh, there're sober men and plenty, And drunkards barely twenty, There are men of over ninety That have never yet kissed a gi...

The rambling Sailor l am a sailor stout and bold, Long time I have ploughed the ocean To fight for my king and country too, For honour and promotion I said: "B...

The Rambling Sailor (Trim-Rigged Doxy) I am a sailor brisk and bold Long time I've sailed the ocean, And if you want to know me name Me name it is Jim Johnson ...

Last night as I lay sleeping, I had a pleasant dream I thought I was in Minnesota, Down by a quiet stream With a charming gal beside me, The lights would never ...

Now we are ready to head for the Horn Way Hey Roll and go! Our boots and our clothes, boys, are all in the pawn To me rollicking randy dandy, oh! (can use vers...

THE RANGER FIGHT SONG Murder the fucking heathens We'll kill for any reason, Onward the King and colours And all his mercenaries; We'll kill the Goddamn rebels...

The Rantin' Laddie Aft hae I played at the cards and the dice Wi' my ain dear rantin' laddie; But noo I maun sit in my father's kitchen nook, And sing baloo to...

Rantin' Rovin' Robin There was a lad was born in Kyle, But whatn'a day, o' whatn'a style I doot it's hardly worth the while Tae be sae nice wi' Robin For Robi...

Well it's poor old Reuben Ranzo, Ranzo, boys, Ranzo! Yes it's poor old Reuben Ranzo Ranzo, me boys, Ranzo! Ranzo was no sailor, He was a New York tailor He wa...

We're bound for Valpariser with a load of rusty razors, Ranzo ranzo, hurray hurray! We're bound for Venezuela with a load of drunken tailors, I love me Ranzo Ra...

Ranzo Ray Ooh the bully boat's a-comin' don't ye hear the paddles rollin' Ranzo, Ranzo, hurray, hurray! Oh the bully boat's a-comin' down the river she's a-bowl...

Rap-Tap-Tap So come all ye farmer's servant-men That are both stout and bold And If you do as I have done You will never catch any cold For when my master goes...

THE RARE OULD TIMES Raised on songs & stories Heroes of renown The passing tales & glories That once was Dublin Town The hallowed halls and houses The haunting...

As I walked out in Raspberry Lane I chanced for to meet with a mistress of fame The oak and the ash are a pretty plant and tree Now growing green in North Ameri...

RAT RACE (Sidney Carter) The rat race is a cruel race and crooked are the rules You'll never be a millionaire unless you win the pools Will somebody tell me ho...

As I was a-walking down Wapping I stepped into Ratcliffe Highway, And there I went into an alehouse To spend all that night and next day Two charming young gir...

THE RATTLIN' BOG Hey ho, the rattlin' bog The bog down in the valley-o The rare bog, the rattlin' bog The bog down in the valley-o Now in this bog there was a...

When you drove a Buick, A big yellow buick, And I drove a rattling Ford How you would guy me As you would pass by me But your insults I ignored Then you hit a m...

Razorback steak, razorback steak, Lost all my teeth on that razorback steak It's tough as can be, made a man out of me Give me some more of that razorback steak...

RECIPE FOR HOT CIDER (Lorraine Lee) Swirling snowflakes, winter wind Welcome wild November in Ginger, nutmeg, cinamon, cloves, Simmer in the cider on the old w...

The Recruited Collier O what's the matter wi' you my lass And where's your dashing Jimmy? O, the soldier boys have ta'en him up And sent him far, far from me L...

RED APPLE JUICE (from Hally Wood) Well I ain't got no use for your red apple juice Ain't got no honey baby now Ain't got no honey baby now Ain't got no use fo...

Jimmie was a maritime worker He worked night and day Workers at his Side were unhappy, Needed higher pay The bosses of the ships said "No -- You ain't a-gonna ...

The Red Flag (James O'Connell, 1899) The worker's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead; And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their life-blo...

RED HAIRED MAN'S WIFE Oh ye muses divine, Combine and lend me your aid To pen these few lines, For I find that my heart is betrayed By a virgin most pure, Who ...