The 1,000 Good Songs, Parallel to John Senior's 1,000 Good Books

Category: Celtic

  • St. Patrick’s Breastplate (0281 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/I-Bind-Myself–St-Patricks-Breastplate.mp3 I Bind Unto Myself Today – St. Patrick’s Breastplate Saint Patrick (372-466) Cecil Francis Alexander (1818-1895) Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) St. Patrick LMD. St. Patrick’s Breastplate. Atomruig Indiu – I Bind Myself Today Minor mode melody 1. I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity by invocation of the same,…

  • The Blue Bells of Scotland (0150 of 1000)

    Bb, transposed, for tenors https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Blue-Bells-of-Scotland-Bb.mp3 Eb, the key of the sheet music, for sopranos https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Blue-Bells-of-Scotland.mp3 The Blue Bells of Scotland 1. Oh! where, tell me where is your Highland laddie gone? Oh! where, tell me where is your Highland laddie gone? He’s gone with streaming banners, where noble deeds are done. And its oh in…

  • Men of Harlech (0198 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/men-of-harlech.mp3 Men of Harlech 1. Men of Harlech in the hollow, do you hear like rushing billow Wave on wave that surging fellow battle’s distant sound   ‘Tis the tramp of Saxon foemen, Saxon spearmen, Saxon bowmen Be they knights or hinds or yeomen, they shall bite the ground   Loose the folds asunder, flag…

  • Loch Lomond (0023 of 1000)

    In the key of the sheet music, G. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/loch-lomond.mp3 In a lower key, F. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/loch-lomond-f.mp3 Loch Lomond 1. By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes, Where  the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond, Oh, we two have passed so many blithesome days, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond CHORUS CHORUS O…

  • Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon (0021 of 1000)

    Key of G – Consonant with the Sheet Music https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ye-Banks-and-Braes-o-Bonnie-Doon.mp3 Key of F – Transposed https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ye-Banks-and-Braes-o-Bonnie-Doon-F.mp3 Robert Burns (1759-1796) Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon 1. Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu’ o’…

  • The Skye Boat Song (0020 of 1000)

    A Lullaby to Commemorate the Evacuation by Boat, of the Last Catholic Prince of Great Britain, Bonnie Prince Charlie, to a Remote Hebrides Island, The Isle of Skye, Following His Final Defeat Key of G, as printed in the sheet music https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/skye-boat-song.mp3 Key of Eb, transposed https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/skye-boat-song-Eb.mp3 Skye Boat Song Refrain Speed bonnie boat like…

  • Bonnie Dundee (Song 0019 of 1000)

    Contrasts with “Covenanter” Alexander Leslie, in “There Was a Crooked Man“. In the same key as the accompanying sheet music, Eb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/bonnie-dundee.mp3 In the key of C. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/bonnie-dundee-in-c.mp3 John Graham of Claverhouse, First Viscount of Dundee Some Scottish Lords such as Claverhouse (Dundee) supported the Monarchy. His opponents in the de facto Scottish Parliament, “Convention”,…

  • Oft in the Stilly Night (0018 of 1000)

    In the same key as the accompanying sheet music, Bb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oft-in-the-Stilly-Night.mp3 In the key of Eb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oft-in-the-Stilly-Night-Eb.mp3 Oft in the Stilly NightThomas Moore Verse 1 Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light, Of other days around me; Chorus 1 The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood’s years,…

  • Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (Song 0017 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Flow-Gently-Sweet-Afton.mp3 Flow Gently Sweet Afton 1. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds thro’ the glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den,…

  • Robin Adair (0015 of 1000)

    In the key of the sheet music, Bb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Robin-Adair.mp3 Transposed into the key of F. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Robin-Adair-F.mp3 Robin Adair 1. What’s this dull town to me? Robin’s not near: What was’t I wish’d to see? What wish’d to hear? Where’s all the joy and mirth, Made this town a heaven on earth? Oh! they’re all fled…

  • All Through the Night (0141 of 1000)

    In the key as written in the sheet music, G https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/All-Through-the-Night.mp3 Transposed into Eb https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/All-Through-the-Night-Eb.mp3 All Through the Night 1. Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee All through the night; Guardian angels God will send thee All through the night. Soft the drowsy hours are creeping, Hill and vale in slumber sleeping, I my…

  • The Wife of Usher’s Well (0222 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/The-Wife-of-Ushers-Well.mp3 1) THERE lived a wife at Usher’s Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o’er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. 4) “Blow…

  • Lilliburlero (0138 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Lilliburlero.mp3 There was an old woman, whisked up in a basket, Seventeen times as high as the moon. And where she was going, I couldn’t but ask it, for in her hand she carried a broom. Old woman, old woman, old woman, said I, O whither, o whither, o whither so high? To sweep the…

  • Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (0039 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Come-Thou-Long-Expected-Jesus–Hyfrydol.mp3 Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus 1. Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. Israel’s strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art; dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart. 2. Born thy…

  • Kathleen Mavourneen (0014 of 1000)

    In the key of the Sheet Music, Eb https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Kathleen-Mavourneen.mp3 Transposed into the key of C https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Kathleen-Mavourneen-C.mp3 Link to an edited version of the sheet music with “helper notes” hand-notated in the right hand an octave above the same notes with excessive “stretch” in the left hand. This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/303

  • Scots Wha Hae Wi Wallace Bled (0417 of 1000)

    Digital audio recording in Bb, the key of the sheet music https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Scots-Wha-Hae-Wi-Wallace-Bled–Academy-Songbook-Bb.mp3 Digital audio recording in F, transposed for men’s voices https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Scots-Wha-Hae-Wi-Wallace-Bled–Academy-Songbook-F.mp3 Analogue audio recording in F#, the key of the video at the bottom https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HeyTuttieTatie.mp3 Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled 1. Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led;…

  • The Harp That Once Through Tara`s Halls (0016 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TheHarpThatOnceThroughTarasHalls.mp3 The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls 1. The harp that once through Tara’s halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls, As if that soul were fled. — So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory’s thrill is o’er, And hearts, that once beat high for praise,…

  • Last Rose of Summer (Song 0006 of 1000)

    Key of D, as written. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LastRoseOfSummer-D.mp3 Key of Bb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LastRoseOfSummer-Bb.mp3 ‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1779 – 1852 Irish Air, “The Groves of Blarney” 1. ‘Tis the last rose of Summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone; No flower of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh, To…

  • Auld Lang Syne (Song 0005 of 1000)

    (Two Verses for Instrumental Lead-In) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AuldLangSyne.mp3 (Three Verses for Singing) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AuldLangSyne-3-verses.mp3 Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 1. Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot and old lang syne? Chorus Chorus For auld lang syne, my dear for auld lang syne we’ll take a cup of kindness yet…

  • Londonderry Air (Song 0004 of 1000)

    In Bb https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LondonderryAir-IrishLoveSong-Bb.mp3 In Eb https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LondonderryAir-IrishLoveSong.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/73

  • Annie Laurie (Song 0002 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Annie-Laurie.mp3 Annie Laurie 1. Maxwellton braes are bonnie Where early fa’s the dew And ’twas there that Annie Laurie Gave me her promise true Gave me her promise true Which ne’er forgot will be And for bonnie Annie Laurie I’d lay me doon and dee 3. Like dew on th’ gowan lying Is the fa’…