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

Sing Your Own Songs Which You Select, So the Bad Guys Aren’t Putting Bad Messages in Your Head

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  • Prayer of St. Ignatius-Suscipe (0051 of 1000)

    Take, O Lord, all my liberty, receive my memory, my understanding, and my whole will. All that I am and all that I have come to me from Thy bounty; I give it all back to Thee, and surrender it all to the guidance of Thy holy Will. Give me Thy Love and Thy Grace;…

  • 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 Meeting of the Waters (0106 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/meeting-of-the-waters.mp3 The Meeting of the Waters 1. There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose_ bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart, Ere the bloom of that valley…

  • K-K-K-Katy (0330 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/K-K-K-Katie+C.mp3 K-K-K-Katy 1. Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold Katy was a maid with hair of gold Like an act of fate, Kate was standing at the gate Watching all the boys file on parade Kate smiled with a twinkle in her eye Jim said “M-m-meet you by and by” That same night at…

  • God Father, Praise and Glory (0045 of 1000)

    Key of G, as in the sheet music https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/God-Father-Praise-And-Glory.mp3 Key of D, transposed https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/O-Most-Holy-Trinity-D-Major.mp3 God Father, Praise and Glory Rev. John Rothensteiner (1860–1936) Gott Vater Sei Gepriesen Limburg Gesangbuch 1. God, Father, praise and glory, Thy children bring to Thee; Thy grace and peace to mankind, Shall now forever be! Chorus Chorus O most Holy…

  • Lady of the Visitation (0272 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lady-of-the-Visitation.mp3 Midi Lady of the Visitation 1. Lady of the Visitation, Daughter of a Royal Name, Where so quickly, are you running? Glowing with the Spirit’s flame? 4. “Bless-ed is the Fruit of thy womb”, So your cousin claims her Lord, Him Who lies within your body, King Immortal, Christ adored. 2. Christ it is…

  • On This Day, O Beautiful Mother (0026 – 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/OnThisDay-O-BeautifulMother.mp3 On This Day, O Beautiful Mother (CHORUS) On this day, O beautiful Mother, On this day we give thee our love. Near thee, Madonna, fondly we hover, Trusting thy gentle care to prove. 1. On this day we ask to share, Dearest Mother, thy sweet care; Aid us ere our feet astray Wander from…

  • Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue (0136 of 1000)

    … after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom and his answers. – Luke 2:46-47 Who Taught Jesus His Torah? https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/LovelyLadyDressedInBlue.mp3 Lovely Lady dressed in blue, Teach me how to pray!…

  • A Story of Three Saints (0280 of 1000)

    Saint Augustine and Saint Monica attend a Sermon by Saint Ambrose—by the Vergós Group https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Story-Of-Three-Saints.mp3 A Story of Three Saints Henry Formby St. Monica Old English Air I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say 1. To ancient Milan’s city fair, where holy Ambrose dwelt, A woman came in deepest woe, and at his feet she…

  • Hard Times Come Again No More (0220 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Hard-Times-Come-Again-No-More.mp3 Hard Times Come Again No More 1. Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears Oh Hard times come again no more CHORUS CHORUS Tis the song, the sigh of the weary Hard…

  • Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (0195 of 1000)

    In the Key of Ab, as written https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/comin-thro-the-rye.mp3 In the Key of G https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/comin-thro-the-rye-G.mp3 Comin’ Thro’ the Rye 1. If a body meet a body Comin’ thro’ the rye, If a body kiss a body, Need a body cry? CHORUS CHORUS Ev’ry laddie has his lassie, Nane they say ha’e I, Yet a’ the lads…

  • 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…

  • O Salutaris Hostia (0058 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/O-Salutaris-Hostia.mp3 O Salutaris Hostia O Salutaris Hostia, Quae coeli pandis ostium; Bella premunt hostilia, Da robur, fer auxilium. O saving Victim, op’ning wide The gate of heav’n to us below, Our foes press on from every side; Thine aid supply, thy strength bestow. Uni, trinoque Domino Sit sempiterna gloria, Qui vitam, sine termino, Nobis donet…

  • Morgan Magan (1004 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MorganMagan.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1962

  • King of the Leprechauns (1003 of 1000)

    There are no lyrics, no sheet music, and I don’t know how you’d teach it to anyone, and besides, I don’t know if it’s authentic. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/KingOfTheLeprechauns.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1959

  • Sing the Holy Family’s Praises – Haydn Emperor’s Hymn (0036 of 1000 )

    In C https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sing-the-Holy-Familys-Praises-Haydn-Austria-C.mp3 In G https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sing-the-Holy-Familys-Praises-Haydn-Austria-G.mp3 Sing The Holy Family’s Praises Rev. Edward Vaughan Franz Josef Haydn, Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser 1. Sing the Holy Family’s prai_-ses: Mary, mother of her_ Lord; Joseph, chosen to protect_ her; Jesus, subject to their_ word. Jesus, Ma_-ry, Joseph, help_ us, That our homes on earth may be,…

  • Crusader’s Hymn – Schonster Herr Jesu (0046 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/O-God-Of-Loveliness.mp3 Crusader’s Hymn Schonster Herr Jesu 1. O God of loveliness, O Lord of Heaven above, How worthy to possess, my heart’s devoted love. So sweet Thy countenance, so gracious to behold That one, one only glance, To me were bliss untold. 2. Thou art blest Three in One, Yet undivided still, Thou art the…

  • Thine is the Glory (0390 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Hail-Conquering-Hero–ThineBetheGloryEb.mp3 Thine is the Glory (Hail, Conquering Hero) Thine is the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won. Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay. Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast…

  • Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle – You Come Down From The Stars (0377 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Tu-scendi-dalle-stelle.mp3 Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle By St. Alphonsus de Liguori 1. Tu scendi dalle stelle, O Re del Cielo, e vieni in una grotta, al freddo e al gelo. (2x) O Bambino mio Divino Io ti vedo qui a tremar, O Dio Beato Ahi, quanto ti costò, l’avermi amato! (2x) 1. You come down from…

  • Beautiful Dreamer (0191 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Beautiful-Dreamer.mp3 Beautiful Dreamer By Stephen C. Foster Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee; Sounds of the rude world, heard in the day, Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away! Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song, List while I woo thee with soft melody; Gone are the cares of…

  • The Banks of Allan Water (0022 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/banks-of-allan-water.mp3 The Banks of Allan Water 1. By the banks of Allan Water When the sweet springtime did fall Was the miller’s lovely daughter Fairest of them all For his bride, a soldier sought her And a winning tongue had he On the banks of Allan Water, none so gay as she 3. On the…

  • There Was a Crooked Man (0161 of 1000)

    Contrasts with John Graham of Claverhouse, First Viscount of Dundee, Bonnie Dundee https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/there-was-a-crooked-man.mp3 There was a crooked man, who walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a crooked little house. Alexander Leslie, 1st…

  • Cradle Roll Song (1002 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Carols-a-Book-of-Songs-and-Services-for-the-Beginners-and-Primary-Grades-of-the-Sunday-School-1914-p-17-Cradle-Roll-Song.mp3 There are blessings from God all about us; We should thank Him for gifts large and small; But His gift of a dear little baby; Needs the very best thank you of all. Bye-lo, bye-lo, bye-lo, bye-lo, bye. This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1670

  • Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms (0983 of 1000)

    A man proclaims to his wifethat he will still love herafter she is no longer young. …And around the dear ruinEach wish of my heartWould entwine itselfVerdantly still. Eb (with Bb instrumental intro, 1 verse) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/believe-me-if-all-those-endearing-young-charms-Eb.mp3 Bb (with F instrumental intro, 1 verse) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/believe-me-if-all-those-endearing-young-charms-Bb.mp3 Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms 1. Believe me, if…

  • Do They Miss Me at Home? (0025 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/do-they-miss-me-at-home.mp3 Do They Miss Me at Home? (1854) (Tacit Introduction lasting 8 measures.) (Tacit Introduction lasting 8 measures.) 1. Do they miss me at home, do they miss me? ‘Twould be an assurance most dear, To know that this moment some loved one Were saying, “I wish he were here;” To feel that the group…

  • The Other Day, I Met a Bear, Out in the Woods, a Way Out There x 2 (1001 of 1000)

    It’s ridiculous for me even to have put this in music, but I splayed it out to 8 verses. It’s really for “singing” acapella. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/The-Other-Day-I-Met-a-Bear.mp3 The Other Day, I Met a Bear (Repeat Lyrics × 2) 1. The other day, I met a bear, Out in the woods, A way out there. (×2) 5. Now…

  • 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…

  • Wedding Marches – Entrance Bridal Chorus from Wagner’s Lohengrin – Recessional Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (0580 of 1000)

    Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (Traditional Entrance) Slow Tempo Suitable for Weddings (48, Adagio) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Bridal-Chorus-from-Lohengrin-tempo-48-Adagio.mp3 Standard Operatic Tempo (78, Andante) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Bridal-Chorus-from-Lohengrin-tempo-78-Andante.mp3 Recessional Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Midsummer-Nights-Dream-Mendelssohn-Wedding-Recessional.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1383

  • Two-Part Inventions (0913 of 1000)

    Number 6 in E Major (BWV 777) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Bach-Two-Part-Invention-Number-6-E-Major-BWV-777.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1331

  • The Star-Spangled Banner – The National Anthem of the U.S.A. (0401 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Star-Spangled-Banner.mp3 Star Spangled Banner 1. O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave…

  • Going Home, Largo from the “New World” Symphony (0184 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Going-Home–Dvorak-New-World-ADAGIO.mp3 Going Home 1. Home, home, home, home, I’m going home. 2. Going home, going home, I am going home; Quiet like, some still day, I’m just going home. It’s not far, just close by, Through an open door; Work all done, care laid by, Going to fear no more. Mother’s there, ‘specting me, Father’s…

  • At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (0383 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/At-The-Lambs-High-Feast-We-Sing.mp3 At The Lamb’s High Feast We Sing 1. At the Lamb’s high feast we sing praise to our victorious King, who hath washed us in the tide flowing from His piercéd side; praise we Him whose love divine gives His sacred blood for wine, gives His body for the feast, Christ the Victim, Christ…

  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic – Glory, Glory, Halleluja (0406 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Battle-Hymn-of-the-Republic.mp3 Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe (1862) Anonymous, Traditional American (John Brown’s Body) 1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth…

  • Gigue, Water Music No. 3, Mr. Handel’s Bunny Hop (0177 of 1000)

    CAUTION: Very Loud! https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Handel-Water-Music-3-Gigue.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1169

  • My Country ‘Tis of Thee (0403 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/My-Country-Tis-Of-Thee.mp3 My Country Tis of Thee 1. My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From ev’ry mountainside Let freedom ring! 3. Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom’s song; Let mortal tongues awake;…

  • America the Beautiful (0409 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/America-the-Beautiful.mp3 America the Beautiful 1. O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain; for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. 3. O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster…

  • God Bless America (0408 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/God-Bless-America.mp3 God Bless AmericaBy Irving Berlin While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. Chorus Chorus God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her,…

  • As I was Going to St. Ives (0153 of 1000)

    A Rhyming Riddle Set to Music A Riddle that Invites a Solution https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/As-I-Was-Going-to-St-Ives.mp3 As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks; Each sack had seven cats; Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives: How many were going to St Ives? Solution…

  • Sweet and Low (0318 of 1000)

    Key of C https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sweet-and-Low.mp3 Key of Bb https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sweet-and-Low-Bb.mp3 Sweet and Low Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sir Joseph Barnby 1. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea. Over the rolling waters go; Come from the dying moon, and blow; Blow him again to…

  • 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…

  • O Come Little Children (0677 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/O-Come-Little-Children.mp3 O Come, Little Children 1. O come, little children, O come, one and all, O come to the manger in Bethlehem’s stall And see what the Father in heaven so true Has done to prepare a bright Christmas for you. 4. O kneel with the shepherds in worshipful prayer And join the dear angels…

  • Adeste Fideles – O Come, All Ye Faithful (0049 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Adeste-Fidelis.mp3 Adeste Fideles 1. Adeste Fideles laeti triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte, Regem Angelorum. Refrain Refrain Venite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adoremus Dominum! 2. Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, gestant puellae viscera. Deum verum, genitum non factum. Refrain 4. Ergo qui natus, die hodierna, Jesu, tibi sit gloria. Patris aeterni Verbum caro…