Songs That Never Die

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.