Boosey & Hawkes

This famous sea song is a windlass and capstan shanty collected by Sir Richard Runciman Terry and published in 1921. It follows the form of solo and chorus.

This beautiful Northumbrian folk song is in the same vein as Maa Bonny Lad, except that it is the River Tyne that separates the lovers in this song.

This famous and popular song is a windlass and capstan shanty collected by Sir Richard Runciman Terry.

This Devonshire folk song was collected by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Widecombe-in-the-Moor is a picturesque village in a high fold of Dartmoor. Widecombe Fair is held on the second Tuesday in...

This fishing song comes from the Norfolk coastal village of Happisburgh (pronounced as in verse 1), which has a lighthouse.

Little is known about this song, but Aiken Drum may have been a Scottish gnome or brownie who would only accept payment in food and drink for his work.

This is probably not a genuine Scottish song, but one of the London imitations so popular around 1700.

The first published date of this piece,also known as Captain Morgan's March, is 1784, when it appeared in Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards in London. It is sung to honour the winning Ba...

Snowdon has always been a powerful symbol in Wales: as early as 1230 Llewelyn the Great proclaimed himself Lord of Eryri (Snowdonia).

The bard, Hoel ap Einion, fell in love with the celebrated Myfanwy Vechan, who lived at Castel Dinas Bran, in the Vale of Llangollen around 1390. He died brokenhearted because she rejected him.

This song was sung by a comic Welsh character in the Drury Lane opera Liberty Hall in 1785 and was subsequently included in many volumes of songs by the same composer. This led to it gradually being t...

Tradition has always held that this song commemorates the great battle under Offa of Mercia and Caradoc. The real origin is unknown. It is the lament of a nation brokenhearted under a great disaster.