The

CELTIC SONG BOOK

BEING

Representative Folk Songs of the Six Celtic Nations

Arranged by

ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES

LITT.D., F.R.S.L.

Author of ‘The Irish Song Book’

‘The Irish Fairy Book’

‘Irish Doric’

Etc.

To the many music-lovers who know only imperfectly how splendid is the Celtic heritage of song, this volume will come as a happy surprise; whilst all folk-song enthusiasts will be glad to possess so comprehensive and important a collection.

1928

ERNEST BENN LIMITED

Printed in Great Britain

Table of Contents

• Dedication

  • The Song of the Heather

• Preface to the Online Edition

• Preface

• Introduction

• Irish Section

  • Erin, the Tear and the Smile

  • Go where Glory waits Thee

  • Let Erin remember the Days of Old

  • Silent, oh Moyle

  • Avenging and Bright

  • The Flight of the Earls

  • Clare’s Dragoons

  • At the Mid Hour of Night

  • The Little Red Lark

  • I’ve found my Bonny Babe a Nest

  • Shule Agra

  • Kitty of Coleraine

  • The Lark in Clear Air

  • The Snowy-Breasted Pearl

  • Down by the Sally Gardens

  • Pastheen Fionn

  • The Welcome

  • The Heather Glen

  • No, not more Welcome

  • Little Mary Cassidy

  • The Winding Banks of Erne

  • The Red-Haired Man’s Wife

  • Emer’s Farewell

  • Happy ‘tis, thou Blind, for Thee

  • His Home and His Own Country

  • Dublin Bay

  • The Meeting of the Waters

  • The Song of the Woods

  • The Widow Malone

  • Father O’Flynn

• Scotch Section

  • The Bonnie Brier-Bush

  • The Blue Bells of Scotland

  • There’s nae Luck about the House

  • Afton Water

  • A Man’s a Man for a’ That

  • Annie Laurie

  • Charlie is my Darling

  • Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled!

  • The Campbells are comin’

  • Bonnie Dundee

  • Robin Adair

  • Jock o’ Hazeldean

  • The Hundred Pipers

  • Leezie Lindsay

  • Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon

  • The Auld Hoose

• Manx Section

• Welsh Section

• Cornish Section

• Breton Section

• (back page)

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page