This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
Book Title: Sixty Irish Songs
Editor: William Arms Fisher
Publisher: Oliver Ditson Company
Copyright: 1915
A complete copy of this work can be found at the University of Rochester. It is also available via Google Books: Sixty Irish Songs
Contents:
- All in the morning early, O!
- At dawning of the day
- Avenging and bright
- Barney O’Hea
- Believe me if all those endearing young charms
- The Blatherskite
- Bright Darling of my Heart
- A Broken Song
- By the Lakes of Killarney
- The Curse of Mora
- The Dawning of the Day
- Down by the sally gardens
- Ere the long roll of the ages end
- Farewell to Sliev Morna
- For Ireland
- The Harp that once through Tara’s halls
- Has sorrow thy young days shaded?
- The Heather Glen
- I heard in the night the pigeons
- I love my love in the morning
- I love the din of beating drums
- If I were King of Ireland
- The Lark in Clear Air
- The Last Rose of Summer
- The Leprehaun
- Little Mary Cassidy
- The Little Red Lark
- Love is cruel, love is sweet
- Love’s Young Dream
- The Low-backed Car
- Maura dhu of Ballyshannon
- May Eve
- The Minstrel Boy
- Mo Bouchaleen bwee
- My fair love leaving me
- My Little Kerry Cow
- My love’s an arbutus
- Nelly, my Love, and Me
- The Ninepenny Fidil
- Oh! if I were yon gossamer
- The Ould Plaid Shawl
- Over the Hills and far away
- The Passing of the Gael
- A Piper
- The Sedges
- Shule Agra
- Silent, O Moyle, be the roar of thy water
- The Snowy-breasted Pearl
- A Song of Glenann
- Soontree
- A Sword of Light hath pierced the dark
- The Time for Love
- The Voice of the Sea
- The Wearing of the Green
- We’re wearin’ av the Green
- When she answered me her voice was low
- When the West Wind blows
- The Wind from the West
- The Wind that shakes the Barley
- Would God I were the tender apple blossom
Notes:
This is the “high voice” edition.
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