Repertoire - Historical - New York Songs
Having decided that he better pay attention to where his bread was buttered as there is a definite demand locally for such music, The Bard Rocks started digging and discovered that, yes, he already sang and knew quite a few songs with historical and regional import, and, hey, they are pretty good ones, too. So, he learned more. And then, because he loves where he lives, he wrote a couple as well.
Aimee McPherson
Ballad of the Great Schoharie Flood
Barney McCoy
Barbry Allen (Child 84)
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Battle of New Orleans
Battleship of Maine
Bert La Fountain's Packard
Blue Mountain Lake
Bonnie Heilin’ Laddie (Erie Canal Version)
Bowery Grenadiers
The Boy Who Lives Here
Bright Mohawk Valley
Bring It On
Castle By the Sea
Charles Guiteau
The Chickens Grow Tall
Curly Head of Hair
Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Erie Canal
The Farmer's Boy
The Farmer & the Shanty Boy
Follow the Drinking Gourd
For Bales
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
Grand Coulee Dam
Greenland Fisheries
Henry Martin
Hudson River Steamboat
In Tarrytown
Ira Hayes
I’ve Got a Mule, Her Name is Sal
Jay Gould’s Daughter
Jingle Bells
Jubilo
Just Before the Battle, Mother
Murder at Moose Lake
My Dirty Stream
No More Booze
Oh, Dat Low Bridge
Once More A-Lumberin' Go
The Orphan Girl
Paddy on the Erie
Peg & Awl
The People Are Scratching
Rainbow’s End
Root
Rosewood Casket
Springfield Mountain
Survivor Leave
Tenting Tonight
Teterboro Tower
Titanic
The Water is Wide
White House Blues
Working Down the Line