Songs of England for Voice and Piano is a fantastic collection of some of your favourite English Traditional songs arranged for voice, piano and optional guitar accompaniment, so you can play and sing with friends!

45 English Folk Songs

All the English folk songs you’ve ever wanted to play are most likely in ‘Songs of England’, with favourites for all ages, including ‘Robin Hood’, ‘What shall we do with the drunken sailor?’, ‘Rule Britannia’, and ‘My bonnie is over the ocean’. It’s arranged for voice and piano, however the vocal line is doubled in the right hand piano part so you could alternatively play them as solo piano pieces (approx grades 3-4 standard). There are also guitar chords so your friends can strum along, and suggested alternative guitar chords with capo directions parts to make them easier to play. The music includes dynamics and performance directions.

Useful background information

‘Songs of England’ tells you the authors of the music and lyrics for each piece, and there is an introduction telling you about the different types of songs and how these folk songs were collected.

Contents (A-Z)

• The Baliff’s Daughter
• Barbara Allen
• Begon, Dulle Care!
• Billy Boy
• Blaydon Races
• Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind
• Bobby Shaftoe
• The British Grenadiers
• The Candlelight Fisherman
• Come Lasses and Lades
• Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
• The Derby Ram
• Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
• The Drummer and the Cook
• Early One Morning
• The Girl I Left Behind Me
• Greensleeves
• Heart of Oak
• I Gave My Love a Cherry
• Johnny Todd
• The Keel Row
• The Leaving of Liverpool
• The Lincolnshire Poacher
• Maa Bonny Lad
• The Mermaid
• The Miller of Dee
• My Bonnie is Over the Ocean
• Waly Waly
• The Oak and the Ash
• On Ilkley Moor Baht’at
• Ould John Braddlum
• Polly Oliver
• The Rio Grande
• Robin Hood
• Rule Britannia
• Sally in our Alley
• Scarborough Fair
• Song of the Western Men
• Sweet and Low
• The Vicar of Bray
• The Water of Tyne
• What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
• Widdicombe Fair
• Windy Old Weather
• The Wraggle Taggle Gyspsies