I am unable to find the lyrics of songs that form our rich heritage. And when I sy folk songs, I mean to say those ones which one sung by our folks through generations. Warish Shah, Mirza Sahiban, also the songs sung by Surinder kaur, Asha Singh Mastana and the like.
Try Bulla Ki Jana Main Kaun (Rabbi Shergill). This guy’s on fire!
do not post other genres please. it would be good to hear some nice folk songs from Portugal.. lively ones preferred. thanks
hmmm….i was brought up listening to old fartsy portuguese music cause my parents came from the boat lol but now im drawing a huge blank… jorge ferriera is a big time dude around here but if you just want like basic traditional music then i went on amazon.com and found a compilation cd heres the link: http://www.amazon.com/Portuguese-Folk-Music-Various-Artists/dp/B00002DDJ7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252512825&sr=1-1
however if you want a good portuguese rock band, i suggest quinta do bill they got a good style
also, if you want a personal recommendation i like a little of luciana souza shes upbeat
if you want fado you have to get either amalia de riques or christina branco
and if all else fails: theres always the "rei do gado" soundtrack but it may be hard to find considering it was a show in the 90′s
I prefer songs like "Ghost Riders In The Sky" by The Doors, or "The Times They Are A-Changin" by Bob Dylan.
Here is some kick-asss folk-rock
Tangled Up In Blue ~ Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZdyq-9unY
Heart Of Gold ~ Neil Young
Poor Elijah ~ Delaney & Bonnie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYVlYEMNIw
The Weight ~ The Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhrN39li1M
Won’t get Fooled Again (unplugged) ~ Pete Townshend
The Boxer ~ Simon & Garfunkel
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands ~ Bob Dylan
Copperhead Road ~ Steve Earle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0
Diamonds and Rust ~ Joan Baez
Teach Your Children ~ Crosby, Stills, & Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pphVs8bF0
Waitin’ around To Die ~ Townes Van Zandt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYkFKNroBVA
Woodstock ~ Joni Mitchell
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Woodstock/585248
I want to find a book with simple sheet music with folks songs and nursery rhymes.
My library has about ten feet of these sort of books, yours might as well.
Here is a web site that claims it has free sheet music. try googling Free folk sheet music, you’ll get tons of hits.
http://www.free-scores.com/index_uk.php3
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I need Irish folk music about missing Ireland for a book report, any suggestions?
1. Carrigfergus
I wish I was in Carrigfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrant
I would swim over the deepest ocean
For my love to find
But the sea is wide and I cannot cross over
And neither have I the wings to fly
I wish I could meet a handsome boatsman
To ferry me over, to my love and die.
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Of happy times I spent so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Have all passed on now like melting snow.
But I’ll spend my days in endless roaming
Soft is the grass, my bed is free.
Ah, to be back now in Carrigfergus
On that long road down to the sea.
But in Kilkenny, it is reported
On marble stones there as black as ink
With gold and silver I would support her
But I’ll sing no more ’till I get a drink.
For I’m drunk today, and I’m seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
Ah, but I’m sick now, my days are numbered
Come all you young men and lay me down.
2. Spancil Hill
Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by
My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision and I followed with the wind
And I shortly came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill
It being the 23rd June the day before the fair
When lreland’s sons and daughters in crowds assembled there
The young and the old, the brave and the bold their journey to fulfill
There were jovial conversations at the fair of Spancil Hill
I went to see my neighbors to hear what they might say
The old ones were all dead and gone and the young one’s turning grey
I met with the tailor Quigley, he’s a bould as ever still
Sure he used to make my britches when I lived in Spancil Hill
I paid a flying visit to my first and only love
She’s as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove
She threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I love you still
" Oh she’s Ned the farmers daughter and the flower of Spancil HiII
I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days of yore
She said, "Johnny you’re only joking like many’s the time before"
The cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill
And I awoke in California, many miles from Spancil Hill.
3. The Wearin’ O’ the Green
O Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his color can’t be seen
For there’s a cruel law ag’in the Wearin’ o’ the Green."
I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand
And he said, "How’s poor old Ireland, and how does she stand?"
"She’s the most distressful country that ever yet was seen
For they’re hanging men and women there for the Wearin’ o’ the Green."
"So if the color we must wear be England’s cruel red
Let it remind us of the blood that Irishmen have shed
And pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod
But never fear, ’twill take root there, though underfoot ’tis trod.
When laws can stop the blades of grass from growin’ as they grow
And when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show
Then I will change the color too I wear in my caubeen
But till that day, please God, I’ll stick to the Wearin’ o’ the Green.
I’m working on the rationale of a thesis and need some support material to enlarge its scope, from which objectives including: differentiation of alternative from folk songs, examples of each material, methodology, survey questionnaires, expected outcomes need to be evolved.
In the Philippines, folk music reveals the culture of indigenous artists, mostly common people, who have brought oral tradition, song, and dance into interplay to create easily remembered, fast and danceable tunes which can be transmitted orally through music.
An untrained voice can sing Philippine folk songs, which usually employ the diatonic scale rather than the more famous pentatonic scale. Corridos, lullabies, work songs, and Christmas carols are the more famous among these traditional songs.
Folk songs regale the pulchritude and grace of women, the gaiety and nonchalance of workers, and the candor and wit of its composers, as "Bahay Kubo" and "Anak".
You mean folk songs out do alternative songs in the Philippines?….you need to move to the U.S.A…ROCK AND ROLL!!!!
do you know any good old persian folk songs? please provide me with the title and singer 
thanks!
Sima Bina is an Iranian singer whose speciality is to find and re-sing the old persian folk songs. Some of her works are "bia berim kooh", "shah sanam", "emshab shabe mahtabe",…
You can look her name up on the web.
was just wondering…
They certainly can be. Consider the book of Psalms in the bible. They are supposedly songs written by King David. But what ever the melodies to them were are long gone. All we now have are the verses, which most view as early poetry.