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Featured BUG Jam 05/24 1 January 2024 BUG "Dance Party" Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024 It's time for a May ukulele dance party and you're invited! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Don't worry - no dancing required just enthusiastic uke playing and singing! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 06/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 19, 2024 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 1 June 2023 Until It’s Time For You To Go "Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Songs 5 March 2020 Aragon Mill DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETAragon Mill (WORD) Aragon Mill (PDF) See a cover/adaptation of this song which was retitled "Belfast Mill" on our SONGS page. Si
Songs 30 October 2019 Walk Right In "Walk Right In" is the title of a country blues song written by musician Gus Cannon and originally recorded by Cannon's Jug Stompers in 1929. It was reissued on album in 1959 as a track on The Country Blues.
Songs 5 July 2019 We'll Sing In The Sunshine "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" is a 1964 hit song written and recorded by Gale Garnett which reached number two in Canada, and number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending 17 October 1964.
Songs 22 June 2018 Ugly Bug Ball, The The Ugly Bug Ball" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers in 1963 and sung by Burl Ives as Osh Popham in the movie Summer Magic.
Songs 23 August 2017 Row Bullies Row Traditional song, also called "Liverpool Judies". The song sheet is based on the Ewan McColl and A.L. Lloyd recording from 1957.
Songs 11 June 2017 Great Lakes Song "Great Lakes Song" written by Shel Silverstein and Pat Dailey in 1990.
Songs 22 April 2017 Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Dave Van Ronk just missed the boat—check out the Cohen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis to get my meaning.
Songs 3 July 2016 Shady Grove "Shady Grove" is a traditional Appalachian folk song, common in the repertoire of bluegrass and old-time musicians of the Cumberlands.
Songs 3 June 2016 Another Time and Place This song is from "From...Another Time & Place", an album by folk singer and guitarist Dave Van Ronk, released in 1995.
Songs 30 October 2015 A Little Bitty Tear "A Little Bitty Tear" is a song written in 1960 by the American country songwriter Hank Cochran.
Songs 5 June 2015 This Land Is Your Land "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody. A Canadian version was written and popularized by Canadian folk music group The Travellers in 1955.
Songs 9 May 2015 Buffalo Gals "Buffalo Gals" is a traditional American song, written and published as "Lubly Fan" in 1844.
Songs 12 January 2015 Marvelous Toy, The "The Marvelous Toy" was written in 1961 by Tom Paxton an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Songs 8 January 2015 Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream This 1950 folk classic "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream" remains a powerful anti-war favourite. It is the most famous song written by U.S.-born, naturalized Canadian folk singer, Ed McCurdy.
Songs 8 January 2015 Little Girl and The Dreadful Snake, The There isn’t much history for a deep dive on this one. It’s a 20th century original. Bluegrass founding father Bill Monroe wrote “The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake” using the name Albert Price, one of his many pseudonyms.
Songs 9 November 2014 If I Had A Hammer "If I Had a Hammer" was written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949, and was first recorded by their band the Weavers.
Songs 27 October 2014 Little Boxes "Little Boxes" was written by Malvina Reynolds, a social activist and writer of protest songs.
Songs 4 July 2014 Tom Dooley "Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, allegedly by Tom Dula.
Songs 9 March 2014 Ballad Of Springhill "The Ballad Of Springhill" is perhaps the most famous of all the Springhill disaster songs, not least because of Peggy Seeger’s and Ewan MacColl’s high profiles in the folk music world.
Songs 21 October 2013 Hard Travellin' DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETHard Travellin' (WORD) Hard Travellin' (PDF) Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and one of the
Songs 13 October 2012 Swimming Song, The After the success of Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk," Columbia Records was eager for another "silly animal song" to appeal to the public.
