Repertoire - Songwriter - The Great Folk Scare of the 60's

 

This started it for The Bard as for many others in his generation. Who knows why folk music became popular, but we should be eternally grateful:  it led him to a life-changing discovery that much sooner. He still likes the ones everyone sang back then, even though they were slicked up for public consumption. He has always been offended that the singers of the day would think they needed to add new lyrics to already great stuff. His theory why they did it - so they could copyright stuff that had been in the public domain, for centuries, sometimes. To heck with all that; if it’s good and he likes it,  he’ll sing it, just the way he feels fits the song best!

 

 

Abilene

All My Sorrows
Banks of the Ohio
Banua

Battle of New Orleans
Big John

Billy Goat Hill
Bottle of Wine
Chase the Rising Sun
Cottonfields
Country Roads
Dark as a Dungeon
Delia
Done Laid Around

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Everglades
Four Strong Winds

Flowers of Peace

Frankie & Johnny
Green Fields
Green, Green
Gypsy Rover
Hard Traveling
Heave Away, Santy Anno

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
House of the Rising Sun
I Bawled
I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound
I Know Where I’m Going
Ira Hayes

Jamaica Farewell
Jet Plane

John Henry
King of the Road
Kisses Sweeter than Wine

Last thing on My Mind
Lemon Tree

Marianne
Mary Ann Regrets
Merry Minuet
Mighty  Day

Mountain Dew
M.T.A.

My Dirty Stream
Nine Hundred Miles

Oh Mary, Don't You Weep

Old Joe Clark

Pack Up Your Sorrows
Poor Howard
Puff the Magic Dragon
Railroading on the Great Divide
The Reuben James

Rock Me, Lord

Roll On Columbia, Roll On
Round the Bay of Mexico
Running Bear

 

Scarborough Fair
The Seine

Shady Grove

Shenandoah

Sixteen Tons
Sloop John B

Snowbird
So Long, It’s Been Good...

Spring Hill Mine Disaster
Stewball

Streets of Laredo

Tell Old Bill

Tennessee Stud
There’s Plenty of Gold

This Land is Your Land

This Little Light of Mine/Do Lord
Tie Me Kangaroo Down

The Titanic
Tom Dooley

Twelve Gates to the City

The Unicorn

Walk Right In

Waltzing Matilda

The Water is Wide

We Shall Not Be Moved

We'll Sing in the Su9nshine
Wolverton Mountain