How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Cowboy’s Dream – Click To Play My friend Bill Lee recently said, “You haven’t done a cowboy song for the Folk Den in a long time. So here’s one: Most people think “Cowboy’s Dream” is a traditional song by an anonymous author. I did some digging and […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Origin of “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” – Click To Play This is the strange history of an obscure Irish ballad that became a popular song. I only played the public domain melody on my Rickenbacker 12-string with some 5-string banjo and bass thrown in. I left out the […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Dodger Song – Click To Play “The Dodger” was used as a campaign song to belittle Republican James G. Blaine in the 1884 Presidential election between Blaine and Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate. Cleveland had won the support of progressives by his fight against Tammany Hall in […]

How do I download this m4v? m4v: Hush Little Baby – Click To Play This is a traditional Southern United States lullaby. The father promises many rewards for the baby’s silence. If one reward fails he vows to replace it with a better one. This marks the 25th Anniversary of the Folk Den with over […]

How do I download this m4v? m4v: Flowers In The Valley – Click To Play This is a traditional English song. I’ve created a little video with the lyrics to make it easy for you to sing along. Lyrics: Flowers in the Valley [G] There was a woman, [C] oh but she was a [G] […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Keeper Did A-Hunting Go – Click To Play – Photo by Linda Lee This old English song (Roud 1519) dates back to the 14th century. A favorite of school children in the UK and abroad. The hunting of the doe in this song originally suggested sexual pursuit, […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Farther Along – Click To Play This is a traditional gospel song. We sang this in the Byrds and Clarence White did such a great vocal. We sang this at Clarence’s wake. This is the 300th post in the Folk Den. Lyrics: CH: [G] Farther along we’ll [C] […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Pretty Peggy-O – Click To Play Pretty Peggy-O is about the unrequited love between a captain of Irish dragoons for a beautiful Scottish girl in the fictional town of Fennario. The narration is from the voice of one of the captain’s soldiers. The captain promises the lady safety […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Courteous Knight – Click To Play This is Child Ballad #112 and has many variants. One of the most interesting to me is the sea chantey “Blow Ye Winds Of Morning.” [E] There was a knight a courteous knight A-walking [B7] up the [E] hill [A] It was […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Cafe With My Love Again – Click To Play This is a traditional song rewritten to address optimism for the end of a plague that has disrupted our world. Lyrics: [D] No more [G] plaguing [D] virus for me [G] No [D] more [A] no [D]more [D] No […]