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Countryside songs

Songs in praise of country life and sometimes mimicking the folk who live there…

All the little chickens in the Garden
And His Day’s Work was Done
As welcome as the flowers in May
Buttercup Joe
Eggs for your breakfast in the morning
Farmer (Varmer) Giles
Gee Woah
Harvest Home, The
Horticultural Wife, The
I fancy I can see her now
If it wasn’t for the ‘ouses inbetween
In the shade of the old apple tree
Jollity Farm
Love in a hayband
Mucking about the garden
My pretty Yorkshire Lass
Oh! Marigold
Our little garden sub-bub
Out in the green fields
Out with my gun in the morning
Rest of the day’s your own (The)
Riley’s Cowshed
Roger and Dolly
Rolling on the Grass
She’s proud and she’s beautiful
To be sure
Up with the lark in the morning
Village pump, The
Weepin Willer, The/The Miller’s Daughter
What are you going to do about Mary
When the cock begins to crow
Young Country Squire, The

Last Updated on March 15, 2021 by John Baxter | Published: February 20, 2021

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If you know the Roud Number search for RN[number], so a search for Roud Number 6093 would be typed in as “RN6093” –  which should find Paddle your own Canoe.

 

Song themes:

  • Advice
  • Americas, Songs of the
  • Beer and its effects
  • Christmas songs
  • Cockney and Coster Songs
  • Countryside songs
  • Emigration songs
  • English songs, Empire songs
  • Fathers
  • Folk or Music Hall?
  • The Great War
  • Ireland and the Irish
  • Lancashire songs
  • Look at me!
  • Love’s Joys
  • Love’s sorrows
  • Marriage
  • Mothers
  • Music Hall Hits
  • One thing after another
  • Scottish Music Hall songs
  • Sea and sailor songs
  • Social comment
  • Suggestive songs
  • Surreal Songs
  • Transport
  • Tyneside Music Hall songs
  • Women have the upper hand
  • Yorkshire songs

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  • Home
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • The songs
    • A-Z of all songs
    • Song themes
    • Songs categorised by relationship to folk song
      • Classic Music Hall songs
      • Folksongs which come from the Halls
      • Folksongs sung in the Halls
      • Other songs
  • Songwriters
  • Sources etc.
  • Comments and suggestions
  • Videos of talks
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