The Ship That Never Returned-American Folk Song (Sheet Music and Lyrics)

The Ship That Never Returned
Henry Clay, 1865

On a summer's day,
When the wave was rippled
By the softest gentlest breeze,
Did a ship set sail
With a cargo laden
For a port beyond the seas.
There were sweet farewells
There were loving signals
While a form was yet discerned;
Though they knew it not,
'twas a solemn parting
For the ship, she never returned.

Chorus:
Did she never return?
She never returned,
Her fate, it is yet unlearned,
Though for years and years
There were fond ones watching,
Yet the ship she never returned.

Said a feeble lad
To his anxious mother,"
I must cross the wide, wide sea,
For they say, perchance
In a foreign climate,
There is health and strength for me."
'Twas a gleam of hope
In a maze of danger
And her heart for her youngest yearned,
Yet she sent him forth
With a smile and blessing
On the ship that never returned

Chorus:

"Only one more trip",
Said a gallant seaman,
As he kissed his weeping wife,
Only one more purse
Of that golden treasure
And 'twill last us all through life.
Then I'll spend my days
In my cozy cottage
And enjoy the rest I've earned;
But alas! poor man!
For he sail'd commander
Of the ship that never returned.

Chorus:

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Carry Me Back to Old Virginny - American Folk Song (Sheet Music and Lyrics)

Carry Me Back to Old Virginny 

James A. Bland, 1880 (1854-1911)

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and 'tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where the old darkey's heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place on earth do I love more sincerely,
Than old Virginny, the state where I was born.

Refrain:
Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and 'tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where the old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There let me live 'till I wither and decay,
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
There's where this old darkey's life will pass away.
Massa and missis have long gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore;
There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.
Refrain:


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By the Light Of the Silvery Moon: American Traditional Folk Song-Piano Sheet Music and Lyrics

By the Light Of the Silvery Moon

Gus Edwards, 1909

Lyrics

Place, park, scene, dark,
Silv'ry moon is shining through the trees
Cast: two, me, you,
Sound of kisses floating on the breeze.
Act one, be-gun.
Dialog: "Where would you like to spoon?"
My cue, with you,
Underneath the silv'ry moon.         Act two, scene new,
Roses blooming all around the place.
Cast three: you, me,
Preacher with a solemn-looking face.
Choir sings, bell rings,
Preacher: "You are wed forever more."
Act two, all through,
Ev'ry night the same encore.

Refrain:
By the light of the silvery moon
I want to spoon,
To my honey I'll croon love's tune.
Honey moon,
Keep a-shinin' in June.
Your silv'ry beams
Will bring love dreams,
We'll be cuddling soon
By the silvery moon.

Repeat Refrain

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Beautiful Dreamer - American Traditional Folk Song Midi, Sheet Music and Lyrics

Beautiful Dreamer - American Traditional Folk Song
Stephen C. Foster, 1825-1864
Lyrics

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me.
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight, have all pass'd away!
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng.
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea.
Mermaids are chaunting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn,
Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn' on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

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Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis - American Folk Song (Piano Sheet Music)

Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis
American Folk Song
Kerry Mills, 1904
Lyrics


When Louis came home to the flat,
He hung up his coat and his hat,
He gazed all around,
But no wifey he found,
So he said "where can Flossie be at?"
A note on the table he spied,
He read it just once, then he cried
It ran: "Louis dear,
It's too slow for me here
So I think I will go for a ride!"

The dresses that hung in the hall,
Were gone, she had taken them all,
She took all his rings
And the rest of his things,
The picture he missed from the wall.
"What moving?" the janitor said,
"Your rent is paid three months ahead."
"What good is the flat?"
Said poor Louis: "read that!"
And the janitor smiled as he read.

Chorus:
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Any place but there,
We will dance the hoochee koochee,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair!"

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Aura Lea (Video Karaoke)- American Folk Song

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Alexander's Ragtime Band - American Traditional Folk Song (MIDI, Piano Sheet Music)

Alexander's Ragtime Band
American Traditional Folk Song
Irving Berlin (Israel Baline), 1911
Lyrics

Oh, ma honey, oh, ma honey,
Better hurry and let's meander
Ain't you goin', ain't you goin',
To the leader man,
Ragged meter man?
Oh, ma honey, oh, ma honey,
Let me take you to alexander's
Grand stand, brass band,
Ain't you comin' along?

Oh, ma honey, oh, ma honey
There's a fiddle with notes that screeches,
Like a chicken, like a chicken
And the clarinet
Is a colored pet,
Come and listen, come and listen,
To a classical band what's peaches,
Come now, somehow,
Better hurry along.

Refrain:
|: Come on and hear, :|
   Alexander's Ragtime Band,
|: Come on and hear, :|
It's the best band in the land!
They can play a bugle call
Like you never heard before,
So natural that you want to go to war
That's just the bestest band what am,
Honey Lamb!

|: Come on along, :|
   Let me take you by the hand
|: Up to the man, :|
Who's the leader of the band,
And if you want to hear
The Swanee River played in ragtime
|: Come on and hear, :|
Alexander's Ragtime Band

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The Yellow Rose Of Texas Video Karaoke - American Traditional Folk Song

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American Traditional Folk Song

Filipino Baby - Folk Song

Filipino Baby
(Billy Cox and Clarke Van Ness)

When the warships left Manila
Sailing proudly o'er the sea,
All the sailor's hearts were filled with fond regret
Looking backward to this island
Where they spent such happy hours
Making love to every pretty girl they met.

When up stepped a little sailor with his bright eyes all aglow
Sayin, "Take a look at my gal's photograph"
Then the sailors gathered round him just look upon her face
And he said, "I love my Filipino Baby."

cho: She's my Filipino baby
     She's my treasure and my pet
     Her teeth are bright and pearly
     And her hair is black as jet
     Oh, her lips are sweet as honey
     And her heart is true I know
     She's my darlin' little Filipino Baby.

In a little rustic cottage in the far off Philippines
Dwells a pretty little maiden all alone
She is thinking of her true love, though he's far across the sea
And her heart beats true for him and him alone.

Then one day he whispered, "Darlin' I've come back from Caroline
I've come back to claim the only girl I love
Then that night there was a wedding while the ship's crew gathered 'round
And he wed his little Filipino Baby.

CHORUS

Source. Ernest Tubb's Golden Favorites
Adapted from a song written by Charles K. Harris
during the Spanish-American War.

The Train's a-Comin' Lyrics - American Folk Song

The Train's a-Comin'
American Folk Song
Lyrics
 
The train's a-comin' around the bend
Goodbye my lover, goodbye
The train's a-comin' around the bend
Goodbye my lover, goodbye
By baby by-oh, what makes you cry so
By baby by-oh, goodbye my lover goodbye.

Who Will Care for Mother Now? (1863) MIDI - American Traditional Folk Song

Who Will Care for Mother Now?
(1863)
American Traditional Folk Song
Lyrics

Why am I so weak and weary?
See how faint my heated breath,
All around to me seems darkness,
Tell me, comrades, is this death?

Ah! how well I know your answer,
To my fate I meekly bow,
If you'll only tell me  truly,
Who will care for mother now?

chorus:
Soon with angels I'll be marching
With bright laurels on my brow;
I have for my country fallen,
Who will care for mother now?

Who will comfort her in sorrow?
Who will dry the falling tear?
Gently smooth he wrinkled forehead?
Who will whisper words of cheer?

Even now I think I see her
Kneeling, praying for me! How
Can I leave her in anguish
Who will care for mother now?

Let this knapsack be my pillow,
And my mantle be the sky.
Hasten, comrades to the battle
I will like a soldier die.

Soon with angels I'll be marching
With bright laurels on my brow;
I have for my country fallen,
Who will care for mother now?

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Daisy Bell or A Bicycle Made for Two Karaoke - American Traditional Folk Song

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Alabama Jubilee(Karaoke) - American Traditional Folk Song

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Acres of Clams - American Traditional Folk Song (Karaoke/Videoke)

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California Here I Come - American Traditional Folk Song Midi, and Lyrics

California Here I Come
American Traditional Folk Song
Lyrics

When the wintry winds are blowing,
And the snow is starting in to fall,
Then my eyes turn westward,
Knowing that's the place
I love the best of all.
California, I've been blue,
Since I've been away from you,
I can't wait 'til I get going,
Even now I'm starting in to call:

Anyone who likes to wander,
Ought to keep this saying in his mind:
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
Of the good old place
You leave behind.
When you've hit the trail a while
Seems you rarely see a smile;
That's why I must fly out yonder,
Where a frown is mighty hard to find!

Chorus:
California here I come,
Right back where I started from,
Where bowers of flowers bloom in the sun,
Each morning at dawning
Birdies sing an' ev'rything:
A sun-kiss'd miss said, "don't be late,"
That's why I can hardly wait,
Open up that golden gate,
California here I come.


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Alabama Jubilee - American Traditional Folk Song Midi, Sheet Music and Lyrics

Alabama Jubilee
American Traditional Folk Song
George Cobb, 1915, Jack Yellen
Lyrics

Mandolins, violins,
Hear the darkies tunin' up, the fun begins,
Come this way, don't delay,
Better hurry, honey dear, or you'll be missin'
Music sweet, rag-time treat,
Goes right to your head and trickles to your feet,
It's a reminder, a memory finder
Of nights down in old Alabam'.
         Hear that flute, it's a beaut,
And the tunes it's tootin', tootsie, ain't they cute?
Let's begin, it's a sin,
To be missin' all this syncopated music!
Oh, you Jane, once again
Give your legs some exercise to that refrain,
Boy, that's what makes me so dreamy and takes me
Back home to my old Alabam'.

Chorus:
You ought to see deacon Jones
When he rattles the bones,
Old parson Brown foolin' 'roun like a clown,
Aunt Jemima who is past eighty three,
Shoutin' "I'm full o' pep!
Watch yo' step!, watch yo' step!
One legged Joe danced aroun' on his toe,
Threw away his crutch and hollered, "let 'er go!"
Oh, honey, hail! hail! the gang's all here
For an Alabama jubilee

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Harrigan - American Traditional Folk Song Midi, Sheet Music and Lyrics

Harrigan
American Traditional Folk Song
George M. Cohan, 1907
Lyrics

Who is the man who will spend
Or will even lend?
Harrigan, that's me!
Who is your friend when you find
That you need a friend?
Harrigan, that's me!
For I'm just as proud of my name you see,
As an emperor, czar or a king, could be
Who is the man helps a man
Ev'ry time he can?
Harrigan, that's me!
         Who is the man never stood
For a gadabout?
Harrigan, that's me!
Who is the man that the town's
Simply mad about?
Harrigan, that's me!
The ladies and babies are fond of me,
I'm fond of them, too, in return you see,
Who is the gent that's deserving
A monument?
Harrigan, that's me!

Chorus:
H a double r i, g a n spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me,
Divil a man can say a word agin me.
H a double r i, g a n you see,
Is a name that a shame
Never has been connected with
Harrigan, that's me!

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Acres of Clams - American Traditional Folk Song Midi, Sheet Music and Lyrics

Acres of Clams
American Traditional Folk Song
Lyrics

I've wandered all over the country,
Prospecting and digging for gold.
I've tunneled, hydaulicked and cradled,
And nearly was froze in the cold.

Chorus:
And so I departed for Puget Sound,
Away from a world full of shams,
I sing of my happy condition,
Surrounded by acres of clams.
For one who gets wealthy by mining,
I know many hundreds get poor,
I made up my mind to go digging
For something a little more sure.
Chorus:

No longer the slave of ambition,
No leader, just one of the lambs,
I sing of my happy condition,
Surrounded by acres of clams.
Chorus:

The time that you know you have ample,
That's when every care quickly scrams
Take heart in my fate, for example,
Content on my acres of clams.
Chorus:

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Bill Bailey - American Traditional Folk Song Midi, Sheet Music and Lyrics

Bill Bailey - American Traditional Folk Song
Hughie Cannon
Lyrics

One one summer's day,
Sun was shinin' fine,
The lady love of old Bill Bailey
Was hangin' clothes on the line
In her back yard,
And weepin' hard.
She married a B&O brakeman
That took and throwed her down,
Bellerin' like a prune-fed calf
With a big gang hanging round
And to that crowd,
She hollered loud:
Refrain:
Won't you come home, Bill Bailey
Won't you come home?
She moans the whole day long.
I'll do the cookin', darling
I'll pay the rent,
I know I've done you wrong;
'member that rainy eve that
I threw you out,
With nothing but a fine-tooth comb?
I know I'm to blame,
Well, ain't that a shame
Bill Bailey won't you please come home.
Bill drove by that door
In an automobile,
A great big diamond, coach and footman
Hear that lady squeal.
He's all alone
I heard her groan.
She hollered through the door
Bill Bailey, is you sore?
Stop a minute, listen to me
Won't I see you no more?
Bill winks his eye
As he heard her cry:
Chorus:

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A Life in the West - American Traditional Folk Song (Lyrics)

A Life in the West
American Traditional Folk Song
George Pope Morris, 1802-1864 
Lyrics

Oh! brothers, come hither, and list to my story
Merry and brief will the narrative be
Here, like a monarch, I reign in my glory,
Master am I, boys, of all that I see.
Where once frown'd a forest, a garden is smiling
The meadows and moorlands are marshes no more;
And there curls the smoke of my cottage, beguiling
The children who cluster like grapes at the door,

Refrain:
Then enter boys; cheerly, boys, enter and rest;
The land of the heart is the land of the west.
O-ho, boys! O-ho, boys! O-ho, boys! O-ho!

Talk not of the town, boys - give me the broad prairie,
Where man like the wind roams impulsive and free;
Behold how its beautiful colours all vary,
Like those of the clouds, or the deep rolling sea.
A life in the woods, boys, is ever as changing;
With proud independence we measure our cheer,
And those who the world are for happiness ranging,
Won't find it at all if they don't find it here.

Refrain:

Here, brothers, secure from all turmoil and danger,
We reap what we sow, for the soil is our own;
We spread hospitality's bread for the stranger,
And care not a fig for the King on his throne.
We never know want, far we live by our labour,
And in it contentment and happiness find;
We do what we can for a friend or a neighbor,
And die, boys, in peace and good will to mankind.

Refrain:

You're in the Army Now - American Folk Song Lyrics and Sheet Music

You're in the Army Now
American Folk Song
Lyrics

You're in the Army now,
You're not behind a plow;
You'll never get rich,
You son of a gun,
You're in the Army now. You're in the Army now,
You're in the Army now,
You'll never get rich,
On the salary which
You get in the Army now.

Weeping, sad and Lonely - American Folk Song (MIDI Video and sheet music)

Weeping, sad and Lonely or When this Cruel War is Over - American Folk Song
Words by Charles C. Sawyer
Music by Henry Tucker

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Battle Hymn of the Republic - American Folk Song: Civil War

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