This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
Book Title: Songs That Never Die
Compiled by: Henry Frederick Reddall
Editor: Dudley Buck
Publisher: W. J. Holland
Copyright: 1894
The Internet Archive has Songs That Never Die available for download.
Contents:
- Abide With Me
- Annie Laurie
- Araby’s Daughter
- Auld Lang Syne
- Auld Robin Gray
- Barney Buntline
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- The Bay of Biscay
- Beautiful Nell
- Believe Me If All Those Enduring Young Charms
- Ben Bolt
- Black-Eyed Susan
- Blest Be the Tie That Binds
- Bliss Forever Past
- Blissful Dreams Come Stealing Over Me
- The Bloom Is On the Rye
- Blue Bells of Scotland
- Bonnie Blue Flag
- Bonnie Dundee
- Bright Waves Are Dancing
- The Broken Ring
- By the Sad Sea Waves
- Call Her Back and Kiss Her
- The Campbells Are Coming
- The Canadian Boat Song
- Champagne Charley
- Cheer, Boys, Cheer
- Christians Awake
- Christmas Prayer
- Columbia, God Preserve Thee Free
- Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
- Come Back to Erin
- Come gracious Spirit (Federal Street)
- Come In and Shut the Door
- Come, Thou Almighty King
- Come With the Gipsy Bride
- Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
- The Danube River
- Days of Absence
- The Dear Little Shamrock
- The Dearest Spot
- Do They Think of Me At Home?
- Dolly Varden
- Don’t Forget to Say Your Prayers
- Dost Thou Love Me, Sister Ruth?
- Douglas, Tender and True
- Down the Quiet Valley
- Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
- Dublin Bay
- Ein’ feste Berg
- Embarrassment
- Evening Song
- Ever of Thee
- The Exile of Erin
- Fairly Caught
- Far Away
- The Farmer and the Pigeons
- Fine Old English Gentleman
- Fly Forth, O Gentle Dove
- From Greenland’s Icy Mountain
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- God Save Our President
- God Save the Queen
- The Golden Shore
- Gone Where the Woodbine Twineth
- Good-by Dear Mother
- The Good-bye At the Door
- Good-Bye, Sweetheart, Good-Bye
- Good Night
- Good-night, Ladies
- Grandmother’s Chair
- The Groves of Blarney
- Hail Columbia
- Hail to the Chief
- The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls
- Heart Bowed Down
- Hearts and Homes
- Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still
- Highland Mary
- Home Again
- Home So Blest
- Home Sweet Home
- Homeward Bound
- Hour of Parting, The
- How Can I Leave Thee?
- Humming Like the Bee
- Hymne de Riego
- I Built a Bridge of Fancies
- I Cannot Sing the Old Songs
- I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
- I Love My Love
- I Love to Tell the Story
- I Wandered By the Brookside
- I’d Be a Star
- I’ll Hang My Harp on the Weeping Willow Tree
- I’ll Plant a Rose Beside Thy Grave
- I’m Called Little Buttercup
- I’ve Been Roaming
- I’ve Brought Thee An Ivy Leaf
- I’ve No Mother, Now I’m Weeping
- If My Wishes Would Come True
- In Happy Moments
- In the Gloaming
- Irish Emigrant’s Lament
- Isle of Beauty
- Jamie’s On the Stormy Sea
- Jeannette and Jeannot
- Jerusalem the Golden
- Jessie, the Flower of Dumblane
- Jesus, Lover of My Soul
- John Anderson, My Jo
- John Brown’s Body
- Juanita
- Katy’s Letter
- Killarney
- King Christian Stood Beside the Mast
- Larboard Watch
- The Last Greeting
- The Last Rose of Summer
- Let Me Dream Again
- The Letter in the Candle
- A Life on the Ocean Wave
- The Light of Other Days
- Lights Far Out At Sea
- Lilly Dale
- Litany Hymn
- The Little Fishermaiden
- Little Gipsy Jane
- Little Maggie May
- Long, Long Ago
- Looking Back
- Love Not
- Love’s Old Sweet Song
- Love’s Young Dream
- The Low-Backed Car
- Lullaby (Peep of Day)
- Maggie’s Welcome
- Maid of Athens
- A Maiden Fair to See
- The Maple Leaf Forever
- Marseilles Hymn
- Mary of Argyle
- Mary of the Wild Moor
- The May Breeze
- Meet Me in the Twilight
- Men of Harlech
- The Merry Heart
- The Minute Gun At Sea
- Moet and Chandon; or The New Champagne Charlie
- The Moon Is Beaming O’er the Lake
- My Blue Eyed Nellie
- My Little Child
- My Maryland
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Nancy Lee
- National Hymn (My Country ‘Tis of Thee)
- Never a Care I Know
- No, Sir!
- Nothing Else to Do
- Oft in the Stilly Night
- Oh Mother! Take the Wheel Away
- Oh, No! We Never Mention Her!
- Oh Ye Tears
- Oh You Little Darling
- Old Hundred
- The Old Oaken Bucket
- The Old Sexton
- On the Rocks By Aberdeen
- Only a Face
- Only a Lock of Her Hair
- Only Friends and Nothing More
- Open the Pearly Gate
- The Open Window
- Over the Garden Wall
- Over the Stars is Rest
- Paddle Your Own Canoe
- The Party At the Zoo
- The Pilot
- Primrose Farm
- Pull Down the Blind
- Pulling Hard Against the Stream
- Quaker Cousins
- Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel
- Rest for the Weary, Rest
- The Roast Beef of Old England
- Robin Adair
- Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
- Rule, Britannia
- Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman
- Sally In Our Alley
- Scenes That Are Brightest
- Scots Wha’ Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled
- Serenade to Ida
- She Wore a Wreath of Roses
- Shells of Ocean
- Softly the Night is Sleeping
- Soldiers’ Chorus
- Some Day
- Speak to Me (Only Be Kind)
- Spring! Gentle Spring!
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- A Starry Night For a Ramble
- Strangers Yet
- The Stray Dove
- Sun of My Soul
- Sunday Morning
- Sweet and Low
- Sweet Birdie, Sing
- Sweet Love of Mine
- Switzer’s Farewell
- Take Back the Heart
- Tallis’ Evening Hymn
- Tapping At the Garden Gate
- Then You’ll Remember Me
- There Are Friends That We Shall Never Forget
- Thousand Leagues Away
- Three Fishers
- Thy Face
- Time of Apple Blossom
- Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
- Tired
- Tom Bowling
- Too Late to Marry
- The Torpedo and the Whale
- Touch the Harp Gently
- Turnham Toll
- Twenty Years Ago
- Twickenham Ferry
- Under the Sod
- Wait For the Turn of the Tide
- Wait For the Wagon
- Wait Till the Moonlight Falls on the Water
- A Warrior Bold
- Waste Not, Want Not (You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry)
- The Watch on the Rhine
- The Water Mill
- We Sat By the River
- We’d Better Bide a Wee
- We’re Nearing the River
- Wearing of the Green
- The Wee Bird
- A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
- What Are the Wild Waves Saying?
- What Will You Do Love?
- When the Autumn Leaves Are Falling
- When the Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear
- When the Mists Have Cleared Away
- When the Swallows Homeward Fly
- Where Are the Friends of My Youth?
- Wherefore?
- The Wife
- Within a Mile of Edinboro Town
- Won’t You Tell Me Why, Robin?
- Yankee Doodle
- Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon
- Yesterday
- You’ll Soon Forget Kathleen
Notes:
Similar in scope and quality to Heart Songs, Songs That Never Die contains little music that would be appropriate for the concert stage, and a portion of the songs are presented in four part arrangements. However it does represent the literature which was popular in the late 19th Century, and has a number of well known chestnuts.
There are a number of piano selections at the end of the book. Only the vocal music has been listed.