Index to Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes's Collection

Folk, Bardic and SCA Songs

As of 5 November 2007
I've been collecting folk songs, ballads, and SCA songs for around 30 years. I went from one binder to so many I have to haul them around in a wheeled suitcase! Here's the list of what I currently have in my books (and of course on my computer, since I've long since typed them all in so they're easily accessible). I will add some of these songs to this site as I get time, but others I won't, as there are copyright issues. I've learned these from many sources--other bards, records, tapes, CDs, books, and the internet.

When there is a name in parentheses after the lyricist's/composer's names, it's either who I learned/collected the song from or the group that sings it in the version I have listed.

C = Guitar Chords     M = Midi     A = Audio (mp3 etc.) C M A
A-Beggin' I Will Go--See "To the Beggin' I Will Go"
Alison Gross--Child #35 (Steeleye Span) x x
All Around My Hat--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
All Souls Night--Loreena McKennit x
All Things Are Quite Silent--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
The Anachronism Tango--Coemgen of Michelwald/Tom Lehrer
The Anachronistic Lover--Unknown/James Stevens x
An Artemisian Herald--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes/Arthur Sullivan x x
An Assassin's Lot--Roger Burton-West/Arthur Sullivan
Anathea--Lydia Wood/Neil Roth x x
Another Drinking Song--Baldwin of Erebor x
Another Pict Song--Cybele of Rowengrove/Traditional x
Another War Song--Baldwin of Erebor x
Any Knight of Mine--Valeria Asgautr/Shania Twain
The Archer's Lament--Yitzhak ibn Yoshua/Traditional x
Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night)--Traditional Welsh x
A-Roving--Traditional x
Artemisian Anthem--Mary Amanda Fairchild
As Spring Comes to the Garden--Baldwin of Erebor x x
Aten Man--Ioseph of Locksley/Pat McGuigan x x
Atenveldt--Ioseph of Locksley/Thomas Davis
The Atenveldt Invasion--Ioseph of Locksley/ Traditional x
The Autumnal Recrudescence of the Amatory Urge--Susan Stiles
Awake, Awake--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
The Baffled Knight--Child #112B x
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington--Child #105
Ballad of Richard III--Gwydion Pendderwen x
The Ballad of the Black Guard--Baldwin of Erebor/Barry McGuire and Randy Sparks x
The Ballad of the Three Kings--Bela of Eastmarch (Poul Anderson)/Gordon R. Dickson x
Banks of the Ohio--Traditional (Laws #F5) x
The Banks of the Vergio--Child #14 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x
Banned from Estrella--Ioseph of Locksley/Leslie Fish x
Barbara Allen--Child #84 x
The Bard of Armagh--Traditional (Clancy Brothers) x
A Bard of Atenveldt--Baldwin of Erebor x
Barnet Fair--Traditional (Steeleye Span)
Batchelor's Hall--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
The Battle of Falkirk Muir--Traditional (Battlefield Band) x
The Beggar Laddie--Child #280
The Beggarman (Ould Johnny Dhu)--Child #279
Behold I Give You the Kingdom--Friederick vander Delft/Tom Paxton x
Beowulf!--Lance Woods/ x
Berserk Rag--Anonymous/"Country Joe" McDonald
Betsy Bell and Mary Gray--Child #201 (Steeleye Span) x
Bide, Lady, Bide--Child #44 (Keridwen of Montrose) x x
B-I-M-B-O--Anonymous/Traditional
Binnorrie--Child #10 x
Binnorrie--Child #10 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x
Bjorn, the Viking--Eogan Og MacLaren/Forrest Richard Betts x
The Birthday Dirge--Anonymous/Traditional Russian x
Black is the Color--Traditional, arranged by John Jacob Niles/John Jacob Niles
Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair--Traditional x
Black Jack Davy--Child #200 (Steeleye Span) x x
Blackleg Miner--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
The Blacksmith--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
The Blacksmith of Brandywine--Pat and Victoria Garvey x x
The Black Swan--Keridwen o'r Mynydd Gwyrdd
Black Widows in the Privy--Keridwen o'r Mynydd Gwyrdd x x
Bold Marauder--Richard Farina x
The Bold Poachers--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Bonnie Ship the Diamond--Traditional (Roger McGuinn and Judy Collins) x
Bonny Kellswater--Traditional
Bonny Moorhen--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
The Bowmen's Song--Arthur Conan Doyle/Rodema de Rohan x
Boys of Bedlam--Traditional/Nic Jones and Dave Moran (Steeleye Span) x x
The Brave and Bonny Host--Roger the Goliard x
Bring Us in Good Ale--Traditional (Tim Hart and Maddy Prior) x x
The Brisk Young Butcher--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
The Broomfield Hill--Child #43
The Broomfield Hill--Child #43A x
The Broomfield Hill--Child #43 (Ewan MacColl) x
The Broom of the Cowdenknowes--Child #217 (Andy M. Stewart)
Brown Adam--Child #98 (Martin Carthy)
The Brown Girl--Child #295 (Steeleye Span) x
Bruise Marks--Sigurd Leothsanga/Traditional x
Bugs on the Baroness--Ioseph of Locksley/Marie Cowan x
The Burden of the Crown--Baldwin of Erebor x x
Burning of Auchindoon--Child #183 (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x
Burn that Village Down, Boys--Luandir, Wizard and Minstrel/Traditional
Bushes and Briars--Traditional (Isla Cameron) x
Cadgwith Anthem--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
A Calling-On Song--Ashley Hutchings (Steeleye Span) x
Cam Ye O'er Frae France--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Captain Coulston--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Captain, Oh, Captain--Keridwen o'r Mynydd Gwyrdd x
The Catapult Song--Heinrich Palantin, Zoltan Kovacs, Su of the Silver Horn, and Christobal degli Gilicine/George F. Root x
The Causes of Rebellion--Astra of the Grey Shadows/Traditional x x
A Caveat Against Cutpurses--Ben Jonson/ x x
A Celtic Woman's Song--Heather Rose Jones x
The Champion--Edward Zifran x
The Chandler's Wife--Traditional x x
Changeling Child--Janet of Arden x
Chastity Belt--Anonymous x
The Cherry Tree Carol--Child #54 x x
The Childish Edda--Poul Anderson and Ron Ellik/Traditional x
Children of Darkness--Richard Farina
Chivalry--Morgana bro Morganwyg/Will Holt x
The Chivalry--Yang the Nauseating and the Dark Horde/
Circles--Gwen Zak/Alan Bell
A Clean Song--Unknown
The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge--Traditional Yorkshire (Pentangle) x
Cold Iron--Rudyard Kipling/Leslie Fish x x
Cold, Haily, Windy Night--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Come by the Hills--Gordon Smith/ x
Copshawholme Fair--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Courtin' in the Kitchen--Traditional (Donal Hegarty)
Courtin' in the Kitchen--Traditional
The Courtly Cod--Baldwin of Erebor x
The Crafty Maid's Policy--Traditional (Frankie Armstrong) x
The Cripple's Shield-wall--Leslie Fish x
Crone's Lullaby--Gwydion Pendderwen x x
The Cruel Mother--Child #20 (Steeleye Span) x
Cruel Sister--Child #10 (Pentangle) x
The Curse--Ynesen Ongge Xong Xeri-Ye (Greyraven)
The Cutty Wren--Traditional (Steeleye Span)
Dame Durdan--Traditional (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x
Dance With Me--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
The Dark-Eyed Sailor--Traditional (Laws N35) (Steeleye Span) x
David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Garreg Wen)--Ceiriog Hughes (English words by John Oxenford)
Demon Lover--Child #243 (Steeleye Span) x x
The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn--Traditional Irish (June Tabor) x x
Died For Love--Isla Cameron x
Doffin' Mistress--Traditional (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x
Dogs and Ferrets--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Don't Ever Love--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes x x x
Don't Ever Hug a Fighter--Bren Greyraven and Shara Tunoy/Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes x x
Do Virgins Taste Better--Randy Farran/Traditional x x
The Dragon's Retort--Claire Stephens/Traditional x x
Drastic Changes--Robert Fitzmorgan
The Dreary Dream--Child #214 x
Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
The Drunkard--Traditional (Steeleye Span)
The Dundee Cat--(Shanneyganock)
The Duties of the King--Katrine de Baillie du Chat/Arthur Sullivan x
The Dwarves of Atenveldt--Baldwin of Erebor x
An Alternative to "The Dwarves of Atenveldt"--Kathryn of Iveragh and Baldwin of Erebor/Baldwin of Erebor
Early Mournin' Dew--Mary of Glastonbury/John Denver x x
Early One Morning--Traditional x
Edward--Child #13 (Steeleye Span) x
Edwin--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Elf Call--Child #40 (Steeleye Span) x
The Elf-Knight--Child #4/Bob Johnson (Steeleye Span) x
Estrella VIII--Rathflaed DuNoir/ x
Excuse Me--Keridwen o'r Mynydd Gwyrdd
Fair Ellender--Child #295 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x
False Knight on the Road--Child #3 (Steeleye Span) x
False Knight on the Road--Child #3 (Maddy Prior and Tim Hart) x
The False Lover Won Back--Child #218 (Ewan MacColl) x
Famous Flower of Serving Men--Child #106, Laurence Price (Martin Carthy)
The Farmer Who Went Out for Beer--Traditional x
Female Drummer--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Fighting For Strangers--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Fill the Cup--Keridwen o'r Mynydd Gwyrdd x
The Final Spell--Baldwin of Erebor x
The First Pale Light of Morning--Mirendil of Alardas x
Fisherman's Wife--Ewan MacColl/Traditional x
Flower of the Desert--Baldwin of Erebor x x
The Flowers in the Valley--Child #11 x
The Foggy, Foggy Dew--Traditional (Laws O3) x
Fond Affection--Traditional (Rita Weill) x
A Foolish Tale (concerning a Gremlin, a Sarabite, and the health of our Beloved King)--Baldwin of Erebor x x
Four Loom Weaver--Traditional (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x
The Four Marys--Child #173 x
Four Nights Drunk--Child #274 x
Freaking the Mundanes--Vargskol Halfblood/Marie Cowan x x
Free Companions' March--Haakon Haukrsson
The Friar in the Well--Child #276 x
The Gage of War--Baldwin of Erebor x
Galtee Farmer--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Gamble Gold--Child #132 (Steeleye Span) x x
The Game of Cards--Traditional (Maddy Prior and June Tabor)
Gaudete--Piae Cantiones x
Gentleman Soldier--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Geordie--Child #209 (Joan Baez) x
Geordie--Child #209 (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x
Get Me to the Site on Time--Unknown/Frederick Loewe
Get Up and Bar the Door--Child #275 (Ælflæd of Duckford)
God Rest Ye, Frantic Autocrat--Tivar Moondragon/Traditional x x
Go From My Window--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Golden Fasachs--after Eldoreth and Klaus the Mighty/Jeffrey Moss x
The Golden Vanity--Child #286
The Golden Vanity--Child #286 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x
The Golden Vanity--Child #286 (Steeleye Span)
Gower Wassail--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
The Grave and Soggy Host--Shara Tunoy, Lindrael Silverleaf, and Eithne nic Danis/Roger the Goliard x
A Grazing Mace--Skald-Brandr Toralfsson/John Newton
The Great Brine Shrimp--Anne de Junius
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry--Traditional (Child #113)/James Waters (Joan Baez) x
Great Silkie of Sule Skerry--Child #113
Greensleeves--Traditional x x x
The Green Wedding--Child #221 x
The Grey Cocked Hat--Annie Lore x
Grendel (Part Two)--Skald-Brandr Toralfsson/Leslie Fish
GrinSleeves--Telbyrne Morningstar/Traditional x
Gypsy Davey--Child #200 x
The Gypsy Rover--Child #200 x
Hal an Tow--Traditional x
Hangman--Child #95 (Peter, Paul and Mary) x
Hangman, Hangman--Child #95 x
Happy Birthday Dirge--Anonymous/Traditional x x
Hares on the Mountain--Child #44 (Steeleye Span) x x
Hard Times of Old England--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Hark the Herald--Tamar ibn Vakare/Felix Mendelssohn x
Harp Song of the Dane Women--Rudyard Kipling/Ioseph of Locksley
Harvest Dance--Gwydion Pendderwen x x
Hastle Castle War Song--Ferelith MacDonald/Leslie Fish x x
Haul Away Joe--Traditional x
The Heir o' Lynne--Child #267 x
Henry Martin--Child #250 (Æelflæd of Duckford) x x
Henry Martin--Child #250 (Joan Baez) x
The Herald's Complaint--Baldwin of Erebor x x
The Heralds Said to Me--Ioseph and Cherie Ruadh of Locksley/Traditional x
The Hero of Fallshire Faire--Roger the Goliard x
The Highwayman--Alfred Noyes/Phil Ochs x x
The Hills of Greenmore--Traditional (Steeleye Span)
Hind Horn--Child #17 (Æelflæd of Duckford) x x
Homecoming--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes x x x
Horn of the Hunter--Alan Bell (Tim Hart and Maddy Prior)
House Carpenter--Child #243 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x
The House of the Fervent Kip--Anonymous/Traditional x x
How to Gain a Husband--Annie Lore x
How to Get an Award of Arms--Elinor of Rosewood, Ælflæd of Duckford, Leah Kasmira, Aldanar, Lomeadan and Kragon/Stephen Sondheim
Hunting Song--Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Thompson, Cox, and Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) x x
I Am the Very Model of a Medieval Seneschal--William Blackfox/ Arthur Sullivan
I Gave My Love a Cherry--Child #46 x
I Gave My Love an Apple--Child #46, appendix x
I'll See Your Six!--Ioseph of Locksley/Mike Cross x
I'm a Pelican and I'm Okay--Gerhardt von Nordflammen/Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson x
I Never Will Marry--Traditional (Laws K17) x x
Ingjald Ill-Raade's Saga--Haakon Haukrsson
The Innkeeper's Song--Peter S. Beagle x
I Once Loved a Lass--Traditional (Clancy Brothers) x
The Irish Ballad--Tom Lehrer x x
The Iron Boat--Gunwaldt Gullbjorn/Traditional x
I Sing of Dead Bunnies--Rivenstar Barony/Traditional x x
Isle au Haut Lullaby (Hay Ledge Song)--Gordon Bok x
Isn't Fighting Loverly?--Stephen of Durham and Brendan O'Corraide/Frederick Loewe
Jingle Bang--see "The Lusty Young Smith"
Johnny Be Fair--Buffy Sainte Marie x x
Johnny O'Breadislee--Child #114 (Hamish Imlach) x
Johnny the Daisy-O--Traditional Irish (Dick Cameron) x
Johnny Todd--Traditional (Isla Cameron) x
The Jolly Beggar--Child #279 (Planxty) x x
The Joy of Fortifications--Lachlan MacFionnlaigh MacLeoid/Traditional
Joy to the World--Unknown/Georg F. Handel x
The Jug of Punch--Traditional x
The Keeper--Traditional x x
The Keeper Would A-Hunting Go--Traditional x
The King--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
King Henry--Child #32 (Steeleye Span) x x
The Knight at Fallshire Faire--David of Bagulay x
Knight's in White Satin--Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff/Justin Hayward x x
Knight's Lament--Mika Longbow, Robert de Spencer, Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes, Zelph/Jerry Fuller x
Kyran Harper and the Elf King--Gwnber map Bran (Douglas Jole) x
Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight--Child #4 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x x
Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight--Child #4/Lisa Theriot x
Lady Mary--Traditional (Joan Baez) x x
Lament for Dylan--Mirendil of Alardas x
Lancashire Lads--Traditional (3 Pints Gone) x
Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl--Traditional x
Lancercost--(Steeleye Span) x
The Lark in the Morning--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Lass of Loch Royal--Child #76 (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x
The Last Rhyme of True Thomas--Rudyard Kipling/Gwendolyn of Caer Derddinen x
The Lay of Llewellyn--Evan ap Edmwnt Wrddgoedwig of Caer Eidyn x
Leather, Leather, Brass and Bone--Joe Maher x x
The Little Beggarman--Child #279 x
Little Sir Hugh--Child #155 (Steeleye Span) x x
Lizzie Mae--Child #51 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x
Local S.C.A.--Morgana bro Morganwyg/Traditional x x
Loch Salann Wassail--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes/Traditional x
Long A-Growing--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Longbone--(Steeleye Span)
Long Distance Squire--Genevieve Mccullum du Caen and Rei Galen of Bristol/Harry Chapin x x
Long John, Old John, and Jackie North--Child #251 (Martin Carthy) x
Long Lankin--Child #93 (Steeleye Span) x x
Lord Randall--Child #12 (Ælflæd of Duckford) x x
Lord Randall--Child #12/Bob Johnson (Steeleye Span) x
Lovely on the Water--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Low Among the Roses--Catherine Faber x
Lowlands of Holland--Child #92 (Steeleye Span) x
Lughnassadh Dance--Gwydion Pendderwen x x
The Lusty Young Smith--Traditional Elizabethan x
The Maid and the Palmer--Child #21 (Steeleye Span) x
A Maid Can Tame a Unicorn--Shara Tunoy
Maiden in Your Lofty Tower--Baldwin of Erebor x x
The Maid Gaed to the Mill--Traditional Scots (Ewan MacColl) x
Maid on the Shore--Child #43 (Laws #K27)
Maids, When You're Young, Never Wed an Old Man--Traditional
The Maid That Sold Her Barley--Traditional x
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Vikings--Morric Haast/ x
Marrowbones--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
The Marvelous Axe--Jhondo Oakenshield/Tom Paxton x x
Mary Hamilton--Child #173 (Joan Baez) x x
Mary Mac--Traditional
Mary Mack--Traditional (Tommy Makem) x x
Mary Mild--Bob Shane, Tom Drake, and Miriam Stafford (Kingston Trio) x
Mattie Groves--Child #81
Mattie Groves (2)--Child #81
Meet Me 'Neath the Greenwood Tree--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes
Men of Garlic--Robert L. Plunkett/Traditional Welsh) x x
Men of Harlech--Traditional Welsh x x
Mingulay Boat Song--Hugh S. Roberton
The Minstrel--Graham and Eileen Pratt x
The Minstrel Boy--Thomas Moore/Traditional x
The Mistletoe Bough--Thomas Haynes Bayley x
Moderation--Unknown/Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Monday Morning--Traditional (Peter, Paul and Mary) x x
Montrose--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Moon Folly, a Song of Conn the Fool--Unknown x
The Moon is High--Sheen of Ire and Siegfried von Hoflichskeit
Mountains o' Mourne--Percy French and H. Collisson (or Percy French/Traditional) (Kingston Trio) x
Must I Go Bound--Traditional x
My Awards Go Jingle, Jangle, Jingle--Gerhardt von Nordflammen/Traditional x x
My Father was from Atenveldt (My Mother from Caid)--Ioseph of Locksley/Turlough O'Carolan
My Husband's Got No Courage in Him--Traditional (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) x x
My Johnny Was a Shoemaker--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
My Favorite Things--William the Lucky/Richard Rodgers x x
My Seneschale's Fault--Unknown/Richard Rodgers x x
My Thing is My Own--D'Urfey/Traditional
My True Love (Mongol Version)--Unknown/Traditional x x
Neville, or, the Ensorcelled Son--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes x x
No Horse on the Altar--Haakon Haukarson x
Norwegian Viking--Unknown/Traditional x x
Nothing to Do--Traditional Irish (Dick Cameron)
Nottamun Town--Traditional (Oak, Ash and Thorn) x x
Odin Loves the Little Vikings--Unknown/George Root x x x
O'Donnell Abu--Michael Joseph McCann (Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem) x x
Of Two Unicorns--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes x x
Oh No, John--Traditional x
Oh Pretty Maid--Baldwin of Erebor x x
The Old Dun Cow--Harry Wincott x
The Old Maid's Song--Traditional x
One Day From Atenveldt--Hans von Bremen x x
One Misty Moisty Morning--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At--Traditional Yorkshire x
On the Battlefield--Shara Tunoy and Ian Jameson/Samuel Ward x x
Outlandish Minuet--Bren Malokai and Nicholas de Kane/Sheldon Harnick x
An Outlands Herald--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes/Arthur Sullivan x
The Pace Egging Song--Traditional x
Paddy's Song--James Treebull (SCA version)
Padstow--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Pastime With Good Company--King Henry VIII of England
Pastyme With Good Company (The Kynges Ballade)--King Henry VIII of England
Peter Kagan and the Wind--Gordon Bok x
A Pict's Song--Rudyard Kipling/Leslie Fish and Mary Frohman x x
A Place in the Choir--Bill Staines x
Polly Von--Traditional (Peter, Paul and Mary) x
Pour Another Round--Mirendil of Alardas x
Pride of Glencoe--Traditional
Prince Charlie Stuart--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Queen Eleanor's Confession--Child #156 x
The Queen of Air and Darkness--Poul Anderson/ x x
The Queen of All Elfhame--Stephen R. Melvin x
The Queen of Lilies--Sherry Kramer/Dave Thewlis x x
The Quest--Rudyard Kipling/Leslie Fish x x x
The Rambles of Spring--Tommy Makem
Rearguard's Lament--Ajed of Meridies
Red is For Purity, White is For Blood--Keridwen o'r Mynydd Gwyrdd x
Remembrance--Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes x x x
A Report on the Spanish Expedition of '92--Goddwyn of Britain/Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman x
The Riddle Song--Child #46 x x
The Rising of the Moon--Traditional (Peter, Paul and Mary)
Rising of the Moon--J.K. Casey/Turlough O'Carolan x
Rite of Passage--Conn MacNeill
Rocking the Cradle--Traditional (Rita Weill) x
The Rocky Road to Dublin--Traditional (Makem and Clancy) x x
Roddy McCorley--Ethna Carberry/Traditional (Clancy Brothers) x
Rogues in a Nation--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x x
Rosebud in June--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x
Royal Forester--Child #110 (Steeleye Span) x x
Sails of Silver--Steeleye Span x
The Sally Gardens--William Butler Yeats/Traditional
Saucy Sailor--Traditional (Steeleye Span) x