The Great Irish Songbook

Description

This book is the finest vocal collection of Irish favorites ever assembled in one book. The over eighty songs are expertly and easily arranged by Dan Fox for piano with guitar chords.
This edition includes an essay on Celtic and Irish music, arrangements categorized by section and topic, an index of songs listed by the first lines and a special section for jigs, reels and hornpipes.

Contents:

• The Irish Wedding Song

• Believe Me

• The Foggy Dew

• The Girl I Left Behind Me

• The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

• The Irish Emigrant

• The Kerry Dance

• Molly Brown

• Molly Malone

• The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow

• Rory O'More

• The Rose of Tralee

• Tis the Last Rose of Summer

• Kathleen Mavourneen

• The Minstrel Bok

• The Wearing of the Green

• Come Back to Erin

• Danny Boy

• Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill!

• The Green Little Shamrock

• I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

• Killarney

• Paddy Works on the Railway

• Where the River Shannon Flows

• That Tumble-down Shack in Athlone

• Ireland Must Be Heaven

• It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary

• Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

• I've Got Rings on My Fingers

• Harrigan

• Macushla

• A Little Bit of Heaven

• Little Annie Rooney

• Mary's a Grand Old Name

• McNamara's Band

• Mother Machree

• My Wild Irish Rose

• Sweet Rosie O'Grady

• Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral

• Peg O' My Heart

• You Can Tell That I'm Irish

• Who Threw The Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder?

• When Irish Eyes are Smiling

• Devil's Dream

• Garryowen

• The Irish Washerwoman

• Paddy Whack

• St. Patrick's Day in the Morning

• Stack O'Barley

Composer:

• Fred Fisher
• Dermot MacMurrough
• Samuel Lover
• James Royce Shannon
• George Geifer
• Jack Judge
• Shamus O'Connor
• G. Barker
• Joseph McCarthy
• Harry Williams
• Ernest Ball
• Maud Nugent
• T. Westendorf
• Will Letters
• Michael Nolan
• F. Crouch
• Monte Carlo
• Maurice Scott
• James Russell
• Howard Johnson
• James Molloy
• Thomas Moore
• Michael Balfe
• Clarence Murphy
• Alma Sanders
• Chauncey Olcott
• Alexander Lee
• Claribel
• Charles Glover
• Anonymous
• Ian Betteridge
• Thomas Casey