DON'T FORGET THE UNION LABEL (Thomas H West) Copyright 1901 by Thomas H West, Kansas City, Mo Dedicated to the Woman's International Union Label League There's...

DON'T GO IN THEM LION'S CAGE TONIGHT! (from RG's childhood; printed in Pious Friends etc (Shay) A mother once she had a lovely daughter, The mother was an actr...

Don't Go Out Tonight Dear Father Don't go out tonight dear father Don't refuse this once I pray Tell your comrades mother's dying Soon her soul will pass away ...

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down I've been all around this whole wide world, Way down in Memphis Tennessee Any old place I hang my hat Seems like home to me cho: Don...

Don't Put Your Finger Up Your Nose (Barry Louis Polisar, 1978) Don't put your finger up your nose 'Cause your nose knows it's not the place it goes You can sni...

DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALL RIGHT (Bob Dylan) It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe It don't matter any how And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Ba...

Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan? There's a Meth'dist preacher, you can tell him by his bow--- Don't you hear Jerusalem moan? Never grubbles at a chicken, just pi...

Doodle doodle doodle dandy Cornstalks, rum and homemade brandy Indian pudding and pumpkin pie And that will make the Yankees fly! And ev'ry Yankee shall have o...

Doodle Let Me Go (Yeller Gals) I wish I was in Madame Gashay's, down in Callayo, Hooraw! Me yeller gals, doodle let me go! Doodle let me go, me gals Doodle le...

Doors to my Mind (Frankie Armstrong) I've been told since a kid in my cradle To be ladylike sweet and demure To rely on my elders and betters And I'd grow up l...

The dove she is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies She brings us glad tidings and tells us no lies She drinks the spring water for to make her voice clear Wh...

Dover Strand (The Kipper Family) As I was a walkin' along the seaside Along the shore at Dover strand I met with a body washed up by the tide Along the shore a...

There lived a lady in the North You could scarcely find her marrow She was courted by nine noble lords And a plooman lad fae Yarrow They nine sat drinking at t...

Here's a health to the King, and a lasting peace May faction end and wealth increase Come, let us drink it while we have breath, For there's no drinking after d...

DOWN BY THE GLENSIDE (BOLD FENIAN MEN) 'Twas down by the glenside, I met an old woman She was picking young nettles and she scarce saw me coming I listened a w...

Down, Down, Down With your kind attention a song I will trill, All ye who must toil with the pick and the drill, And sweat for your bread in that hole at Oak H...

Down in Charleston Jail (Sergeant Johnson) When I enlisted in the army, Then I thought 't was grand, Marching through the streets of Boston Behind a regimental ...

Down By the Sally Gardens Down by the sally garden, Upon an ivy bush, At morning and at twilight, There sings a sweet song thrush His notes come clearly ringi...

I am a jovial collier lad As blithe as blithe can be And let the times be good or bad It's all the same to me It's little of the world I know And care less for ...

Down in the valley, the valley so low Hang your head over, hear the wind blow Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind blow Hang your head over, hear the wind bl...

DOWN ON THE PICKET LINE (Sarah Ogan Gunning) Come on, friends, and let's go down, Let's go down, let's go down, Come on, friends, and let's go down, Down on th...

DOWN WENT MCGINTY (Joseph Flynn) Sunday morning just at nine, Dan McGinty dressed so fine Stood looking at a very high stone wall, When his friend, young Pat M...

SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer SOURCE'S SOURCE: Dixon Brothers TEXT: D G D It was 25 years ago when the wings of death ca...

DOXOLOGY II (Martin Grosswendt) Praise God from whom all blessings flow Who made clams and Spaghetti-O Prunes, pickled onions and Cheez-Whiz Praise Him who am ...

DR FREUD (David Lazar) Oh, it happened in Vienna, not so very long ago, When not too many folks were getting sick That a starving young physician tried to bett...

Drawing Near to the Merry Month of May (The Copper Family) Rise up the members of this house Together come as we For the summer springs so fresh and green and ...

THE DREADFUL GHOST Its of a sailor of whom I write Unto the seas he took great delight Two maidens fair he did beguile, And those two maidens he had with child ...

DREADFUL MEMORIES (John Greenway) Dreadful memories, how they linger, How they ever flood my soul How the workers and their children Die from hunger and from c...

The Dreadnaught lt's of a flash packet, a packet of fame, She hails from New York and the Dreadnaught's her name 'Cross the wild Western ocean, she's bound for ...

The Dreary Black Hills Kind friends, you must pity my horrible tale, An object of pity, l'm looking quite stale, I gave up my trade selling Wright's Patent Pil...

Dremlen Feygl (Drowsing Birds) Words by Leah Rudnicki; Music by Leyb Yampolski Dremlen feygl af di tsvaygn, Shlof, mayn tayer kind Bay dayn vigl, af dayn nare ...

Every morning about seven o'clock There were twenty tarriers drilling at the rock The boss comes along and he says, "Keep still And bear down heavy on the cast ...

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss within the cup, And I'll not ask for wine The thirst that from the soul doth rise...

Drive Dull Care Away (Joe Hickerson) Why should we of our lot complain Or grieve at our distress? Some think if riches they could gain T'would be true happines...

You see we brave sailors so cheerful and gay Since we've learned a new act to drive sorrows away Sorrows away (3x) Since we've learned a new act to drive sorrow...

There walked on Plover's shady banks One evening last July A mother of a shanty boy And doleful was her cry Saying, "God be with you, Johnny Although you're far...

Drop your nets, drop your nets and follow me From the land and the oceans to the sea From this day, and henceforth, will I make you fishers of men Drop your net...

Drop-kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life (Paul Craft) Drop-kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life, End over end, neither left nor to right Str...

THE DRUMMER BOY Early one morning, one bright summers' day Twenty-four ladies were making their way A regiment of soldiers were marching nearby The drummer on ...

The Drunkard (Mike Cross, 1983) One night some friends and I went out To have us a couple of rounds When who should appear there at the bar But the drunkard of...

The Drunkard's Child I'm alone, all alone, my friends all have fled My father's a drunkard, my mother is dead I'm a poor little girl, I wonder and weep For the...

The Drunkard's Dream Dear mate, I see you're healthy now, Your clothes are neat and clean, No more I see you drunk about, Pray tell me where you've been Your w...

DRUNKEN HICCOUGHS a Rye Whiskey variant I buy my own liquor and make my own stew If I get drunk, it's nothing to you Hiccough, o Lordy, how crazy I feel Hicco...

There were three drunken maidens Come from the Isle of Wight They drunk from Monday morning Nor stopped till Saturday night When Saturday night would come me bo...

cho: Way hay and up she rises Way hay and up she rises (patent blocks o' diff'rent sizes) Way hay and up she rises Earl-eye in the morning What shall we do wit...

As I went out through Dublin City At the hour of twelve o'clock at night Who should I see but a Spanish lady Washing her feet by candle light First she washed t...

Dublin Lady (John Connolly) It if wasn't for the ships that do sail, that do sail, It if wasn't for the ships that do sail, Dublin Lady wouldn't have to sit al...

Dumb, Dumb, Dum There was a bonny blade had married a country maid And safely conducted her home, home, home; She was neat in every part and she pleased him to...

DUMBARTON'S DRUMS D A Dumbarton's drums, they sound so bonnie When they remind me of my Johnny G D What fond delight can st...

THE DUMMY LINE Across the prairie on a streak of rust There's something moving in a cloud of dust It crawls into the valley with a wheeze and whine It's the tw...

DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK (John Brill) Are you poor, forlorn and hungry? Are there lots of things you lack ? Is your life made up of misery? Then dump the ...

G - D7 G / G - A7 D/ C G Am D7 / G - D7 G There was a man named Dunderbeck, invented a machine, For grinding things to sausage meat and it was run by steam Now ...

DURHAM LOCKOUT by Tommy Armstrong In our Durham County, I am sorry for to say That hunger and starvation is increasing every day For the want of food and coals...

THE DUTCHMAN The Dutchman's not the kind of man Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam That holds his dreams in But that's a secret that only Margaret knows Wh...

from Helen Schneyer's first album Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is falling, Then I know the sins of earth beset on every hand; Doubt and fear and th...

THE DYING AIRMAN A handsome young airman lay dying And as on the airdrome he lay To mechanics who 'round him came sighing These last parting words he did say: ...

The Dying British Sergeant Come all you good people where'er you be Who walk by the land or sail by the sea Come listen to the words of a dying man, I think yo...

THE DYING CALIFORNIAN Lay up nearer, brother, nearer, For my limbs are growing cold And thy presence seemeth nearer When thine arms around me fold I am dying, ...

The Dying Hobo Behind a Western water tank a dying hobo lay, Inside an empty box-car, one cold November day ; His comrade sat beside him with low and drooping ...

The Dying Pilot Beside a New Guinea Waterfall One bright and sunny day Beside his shattered P-51 A young pursuiter lay His parachute hung from a nearby tree H...

EARLY ONE MORNING (English, Traditional) Early one morning, Just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing, In the valley below Chorus: Oh, don't deceive me...

I was born in east Virginia North Carolina I did roam There I met a pretty fair maiden Her name and age I do not know Her hair it was of a brightsome color And...

I have my woman to keep me warm, But there's one thing that I do fear, That Eastern wind is getting near; There's a shotgun beside my bed, This is my country, w...

EAT BERTHA'S MUSSELS (John Roberts) (G) F# Eat Bertha's mussels, they're the best there is by far You can eat them in the dining room, you can eat them in the...

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I guess I'll go eat worms Big ones little ones, ushy gooshy gooshy ones Worms that like to squirm Bite their heads off, su...

The Ebenezer I shipped on board of th' Ebenezer Every day you "Scrub and grease 'er" Send us aloft to scrape 'er down And if we growl they'll knock us down ch...

(GCCG) C - - - / F G C - : / / My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light And he slept with a mermaid one fine night From this union there came three A po...

EDEN WAS JUST LIKE THIS from the singing of Harry Belafonte Sun touches Earth like a lover's kiss Sky and ocean are joined in bliss All's well and nothing can ...

THE EDMUND FITZGERALD (Gordon Lightfoot) The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitchigumi The lady, it's said, never gives up...

Edmund of the Hill (Ned of the Hill) "Oh who is without That with passionate shout Keeps beating my bolted door?" "I am Ned of the Hill Forspent wet and chill ...

It was in the Mid-Lothian Country Up near the Pentland hills Two brothers met one summer's day To test their strength and skill Edward was the eldest one And J...

Young Edward came to Emily His gold all for to show, That he has made all on the lands, All on the lowlands low My father keeps a boarding house All down by yon...

My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land, Only to you, is my due hearty love at command, My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land, Only to you is my due hea...

Ella was a dancing girl who started getting fat Every day saw three more pounds on Ella Until one day she found she'd lost her job because of that And to make i...

When, like the dawning day Eileen Aroon Love sends his early ray Eileen Aroon What makes his dawning glow Changeless through joy and woe Only the constant know ...

SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer SOURCE'S SOURCE: Marty Robbins (1959) TEXT: D e Out in the West Texas town of El Paso A7 ...

Way down upon the Wabash, such land was never known; If Adam had passed over it, the soil he'd surely own He'd think it was the garden he'd played in as a boy, ...

Election Song (David Diamond) There's a politician talking On the box again tonight And I am sure that he is wrong, Just because he's sure he's right And he sa...

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium,...

How I try to tell of my love for you But I cannot find the words So I say X2 + 7x + 2 Minus eleven thirds, minus eleven thirds O the poets sing of the sky so b...

I heard a bonny cow low over the lea And it was an elf call calling unto me And the little elf call said unto me Come and nurse an elf child underneath the sea ...

chorus: Di' ye ken Elsie Marley, honey The wife that sells the barley,honey She lost her pocket and all her money A-back o' the bush in the garden, honey Els...

EMILY'S ANIMALS I have a little pet, my pet's name is Ida I love my litte pet, she's a black widow spider I threw her on my sister, and she made a horrible roa...

ENGLAND HAS TAKEN ME or SIR RICHARD'S SONG by Rudyard Kipling in Puck of Pook's Hill I followed my Duke ere I was a lover To take from England fief and fee Bu...

Four-and-twenty Hielan' men Cam' frae the Carron side To steal awa' Epple Morrle For she wadna be a bride, a bride, She wadna be a bride Then oot it's cam' her...

The Erie Canal I am all the way from Buffalo, Upon the good boat Danger A long, long trip we had, my boys, I feel just like a stranger Petty fogs, artful storm...

ERIE CANAL (MULE NAMED SAL) I've got an old mule and her name is Sal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal She's a good old worker and a good old pal Fifteen miles o...

Erin-Go-Bragh My name's Duncan Campbell from the shire of Argyll I've travelled this country for many's the mile I've travelled through Ireland, Scotland and a...

Erin's Green Shore One evening so late as I rambled On the banks of a clear purling stream, I sat down on a bank of primroses, And so gently fell into a dream ...

Essay in Creative Specification (David Diamond) In the beginning was the Specification, And the Specification was without form, and void, And Darkness was upon...

Essiquibo River is the King of rivers all, Buddy ta-na-na, we are somebody, Oh Essiquibo River is the King of rivers all, Buddy ta-na-na, we are somebody, Oh c...

Eternal Doom (Mark Graham) What an awful day When the judgment come! When the Lord above Turns down his thum All the goons and the ginks Who ain't paid their du...

Ethiopia land of our fathers the land where our God wants to be like bees to a hive swiftly gather God children are gathered to thee With our red, gold and gree...

EVENING SONG (CORNELL) When the sun fades far away In the crimson of the West And the voices of the day Murmur low and sink to rest Music with the twilight fa...

EVERGREEN BAR by Jerry Rasmussen 1 Over in Kenosha, where the Ramblers grew, They had themselves a tough old crew And Friday nights, when the week was done, Th...

EVERY MAN (Kipper Family) Our master of old Have now passed away At peace and at rest, We may all see him lay We've one consolation Now we are unmastered Until...

Every night when the sun goes in (3 times) I hang down my head and mournful cry True love, don't weep, true love, don't mourn (3 times) True love, don't weep no...

EVERY STAR SHALL SING A CAROL (Sydney Carter) Every star shall sing a carol Every creature high and low, Come and praise the King of Heaven By whatever name yo...

SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer SOURCE'S SOURCE: Jimmy Rodgers, REC: The Short but Brilliant Life of Jimmy Rodgers (RCA LPM-2634) COMMENTS: Capo up to E ...

EVERYTHING'S GOING MY WAY I've got the left hind foot of a rabbit Looks like luck is getting to be a habit Look at me and Lordy, Lordy, Lordy Everything's goin...