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A for the Anchor

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Aberlady Bay

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Anchor’s Weigh’d, The

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As we lows’d from the Downs in the Nancy

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Ba Ba Bitty

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Baa Loo Lilli

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Baabie Murray

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Back to the Old Home Again

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Baloo Balilli

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Banks of Claudy, The

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Battle of Alma, The

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Binnorie

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Black Eyed Susan

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Black Eyed Susan

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Bold Ramillies, The

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Bonnie Fisher Lass, The

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Bonnie Mary of Glengarry

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Bound Down to Newfoundland

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Bride’s March, The

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Chase the Buffalo

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Clara’s Rhyme

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Come you here to court and clap

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Da Boanie Lass o’ Bekka Hill

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Dandling rhyme

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Donald Munro

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Edward Anderson

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Erin go bragh

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Farewell Isabelle

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Fate of Franklin, The

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Fate of Franklin, The

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Fate of Franklin, The

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Fish and the Ring, The

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Fit da Gutters

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Flower of Scotland

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Foolish young girl, The

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Glengyle

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Good Ship Ragamuffin, The

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Goodbye Molly dear

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Grace Darling

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Guddicks

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Gum-tree Canoe, The

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Hap and Row

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Harvest Moon

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Hey tongue bonnie lass

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Hushy baa, hushy baa

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Hushy-ba my curry ting.

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I can’t change it

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I must away, love.

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I’ll sit on my creepie

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It was in the month of January

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Jaanie Nittle

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Jock Tamson’s Tripe

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Kevin Barry

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Kitty from the coast of Spain

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Lad that wears the plaidie, The

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Lasses’ Lament, The

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Lilli baa lillie

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Little Shirt my Mother Made For Me, The

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Logie o’ Buchan

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Loss of the Vestris, The

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Lovely Nancy

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MacCarfrae

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MacDonald of Glencoe

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Mantle of Green, The

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Marigold, The

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Me mither sent me to the well

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Middlesex Flora, The

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My friend the sea

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My gruel, my gruel

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Nicky Tams

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Oh my comrades you must know

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Oh the laddie leuchd

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Paddy’s Leather Breeches

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Peggy Gordon

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Piddle and Craigie

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Pulling hard against the stream

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Red Robbie

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Resolution, The

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Robin Tamson’s Smiddie

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Rose of Mooncoin, The

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Row the boats o’ mailie.

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Rowan Tree, The

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Sally Munro

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Sheffield Apprentice, The

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Ship that never returned, The

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Sights of Liverpool, The

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Soft and easy is thy cradle

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Spanish Ladies

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Stately Southerner, The

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Stone outside Dan Murphy’s door, The

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Strathairly

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Sweet Ellie Rhee

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This is no my ain house

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Waly Waly

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Warm dee weel.

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Wedding songs

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What do we do with Dozie Mozie?

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Woo’d and Married and Aa.

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Wreck of the Pacific, The

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Yarmouth Tragedy, The (1)

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Yarmouth Tragedy, The (2)

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You mean all the world to me

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Young Gregor’s Ghost

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Your little band of gold.

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  • Songs A – H
  • Songs I – P
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  • Anderson, Grace
  • Anderson, Iris
  • Anderson, Joey
  • Anderson, Mary
  • Arthur, Davy and Netta
  • Hughson, John
  • Hutchison, Gilbert
  • Hutchison, Jeannie
  • Hutchison, Robert
  • Hutchison, Robina
  • Hutchison, William
  • Hutchison, William (a’ Tip)
  • Irvine, Jean
  • Jamieson, Thelma
  • McLeod, Rea
  • Moar, Andrew
  • Poleson, Andrew
  • Poleson, Anne
  • Poleson, Betty
  • Rognaldson, Thora
  • Sandison, Harriet
  • Shearer, Janet
  • Stewart, Arthur
  • Stewart, Elsa
  • Stewart, Robert
  • Sutherland, Maisie
  • Williamson, Jeanette
  • Williamson, Maggie
  • Williamson, Willie

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