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)

    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 Bonny Dundee 1. Tae the Lords o’ convention ’twas Claverhouse spoke E’er the King’s Crown go down there are crowns to be broke So each cavilier who loves honor and…

  • 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…