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

Tag: Women’s Names

  • 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…

  • 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’…

  • 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…

  • The Christ-Child Lay on Mary’s Lap (0370 of 1000)

    In G https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chesterton-Christmas-Carol—Praetorius-Ach-Gott-Von-Himmelreiche.mp3 In C https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chesterton-Christmas-Carol—Praetorius-Ach-Gott-Von-Himmelreiche-C.mp3 The Christ-Child Lay on Mary’s Lap Gilbert Keith Chesterton Michael Praetorius The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s breast His hair was like a star. (O stern and…

  • The First Noel (0363 of 1000)

    Key of D https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-First-Noel.mp3 Key of Bb https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-First-Noel-Bb.mp3   1 The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay, in fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter’s night that was so deep. Refrain: Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, born is the King of Israel.…

  • Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly (0672 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Deck-the-Hall-with-Boughs-of-Holly.mp3 Deck the halls with boughs of holly, ‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la! Don we now our gay apparel, Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, See the blazing yule before us, Strike the harp and join the chorus, Fa la la la la la la la! Follow…

  • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (0192 of 1000)

    Key corresponding with that of the sheet music below, F. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/JeanieWithTheLightBrownHair3.mp3 Transposed key of C. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/JeanieWithTheLightBrownHairF3.mp3 Jeanie With the Light Brown HairBy Stephen C. Foster 1. I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air I see her tripping where the bright streams play Happy as the…

  • Minnie’s Yoo Hoo (0142 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Minis-Yoo-Hoo.mp3 I’m the guy they call little Mickey Mouse Got a sweetie down in the chicken house Neither fat nor skinny She’s the horse’s whinny She’s my little Minnie Mouse! When it’s feedin’ time for the animals And they howl and growl like the cannibals I just turn my heel, to the henhouse steal And…

  • 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

  • Juanita (0012 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Juanita.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/291

  • Let Erin Remember the Days of Old (0405 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LetErinRemember-TheRedFox.mp3 Let Erin Remember the Days of OldThomas Moore Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her. When Malachi wore the collar of gold, Which he won from her proud invader, When her kings with standards of green unfurled Led the Red-Branch Knights to danger, Ere the emerald gem of…

  • 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,…

  • Sweet Genevieve (Song 0008 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SweetGenevieve.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/111

  • Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary (Song 0007 of 1000)

    https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DailyDailySingToMary.mp3 Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary. St. Casimir (1458-1484); Translator: Henry Bittleston. Omni Die (Trier). 1. Daily, daily sing to Mary; Sing, my soul, her praises due. All her glorious actions cherish, With the heart’s devotion true. Lost in wond’ring contemplation, Be her majesty confessed! Call her Mother, call her Virgin, Happy Mother, Virgin blest!…

  • 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…

  • 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’…