Audio Archive of Songs Featured in our Newsletter

The Cotton Patch Rag

(all songs either public domain or posted with permission of the artist)

This page is ever growing and changing!  

a Man's a Man for a' that

by Robert Burns (January 2025)

able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog

by Joe Crookston

abolitionist hymn

Melody: "Old Hundredth" Hymn
Lyrics: John Pierpont (July 2019)

Althea's Song

by Paul Cooper

amelia

by Ben Bedford

an english moment

by Jack Williams (November 2020)

another time and place

by Dave van Ronk (June 2018)

Arthur McBride

Traditional (May 2017)

Aye Waukin' o

by Robert Burns (October 2016)

Away Rio

Traditional Capstan Shanty (June 2023)

Back Home In Derry

Lyrics: Bobby Sands Melody: Gordon Lightfoot
(July 2017)

Ballad Hunter, The

by Paul Cooper

Banks of Marble

by Les Rice

Barbara allen

Traditional

Bayou Pirates

by Saena Eyre (March 2022)

Bells of Rhymney, The

Lyrics: Idris Davies (poem)
Melody: Pete Seeger

Best I can do, The

by Steve Fisher (November 2017)

Big Spike Hammer

by Bobby Osborne and Pete Gobel

Billy The Kid

by Lloyd Ernstes

Black Cat Blues

by Lightnin' Hopkins (November 2024)

Blackfly Song, The

by Wade Hemsworth

Blackberry Pie

by Jack Hardy (November 2018)

Blaydon Races

by Geordie Ridley (May 2018)

Boar's Head Carol, The

Traditional Anglo-Saxon macaronic
(December 2023)

Bold Campaneros

by Allan Taylor

Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, the

Traditional (May 2025)

Brennan on the Moor

Traditional

Bully in the alley

Traditional

Bully of the Town

by Charles E Trevathan

Bury Me Beneath The Willow

Traditional (March 2023)

calico printer's clerk

Traditional

cherry tree carol

Traditional (October 2019)

colorado trail, the

Traditional

come all you FAIR AND TENDER LADIES

1700s Broadside Ballad (August 2018)

company of friends

by Danny Schmidt (April 2017)

Cotton Mill Girls

by Hedy West (traditional) (April 2022)

Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase

by Uncle Dave Macon (February 2022)

dance around my atom fire

by Woodie Guthrie (August 2020)

deep ellum blues

Traditional

Did She Ever Mention my name

by Jay Williams (April 2025)

dink's song

collected by John Lomax
originally sung by Dink

down the river uncle joe

by Reverend T.H. Hendricks (November 2019)

duncan and brady

Traditional (January 2026)

dusty old dust

by Woody Guthrie

Edge of Oblivion

by Saena Eyre (August 2024)

family secrets

by Paul Sachs (September 2018)

farewell to the rhondda

by Frank Hennessey (September 2019)

fiddlers green

by John Connolly (March 2018)

fields of athenry

by Pete St. John (August 2017)

Flower and the Vine

by Dana Cooper and Kim Richey (February 2023)

follow the drinking gourd

Traditional (September 2020)

garfield

by Eric Johnson

gerald's song

by Paul Cooper

Gold watch and chain

by AP Carter (June 2020)

Golden Vanity, The

1600's Child Ballad (September 2023)

good luck john

by Joe Crookston

goodbye jack

by Ben Bedford (January 2020)

Grandfather's Clock

by Henry Clay Work (March 2025)

Grandpa, Do You Wonder?

by Paul Cooper (July 2022)

he was a friend of mine

Traditional

High Germany

Traditional (June 2022)

hobos in the roundhouse

by Bill Isles (October 2018)

HOLE IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

by Steve Goodchild

Home on the Range

by Brewster Higley and Daniel Kelley (August 2023)

I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE

by Woody Guthrie (September 2021)

icarus

by Anne Lister (January 2017)

an Old House near the corner

by Steve Fisher (March 2019)

in the bleak midwinter

by Christina Rosetti (December 2018, January 2021)

it only seems like christmas

by Paul Cooper (December 2016)

JACKAROE

Traditional (February 2026)

joe hill

by Earl Robinson (August 2021)

John B Sails, The

Traditional Bahamian
(July 2023, February 2024)

L & N don't stop here anymore, The

by Otto P Kelland

lady franklin's lament for her husband -
aka lord franklin

Traditional (March 2021)

lady of the arbor

by Joe Jencks

Lakes of Ponchartrain, the

Traditional

leezie lindsay

Traditional (April 2020)

Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's

by Otto P Kelland (May 2022)

letters of florence hemphill, the

by Joe Crookston (February 2018)

Lulu Walls

Traditional (January 2024)

Maid of amsterdam

Traditional (October 2017)

massacre of glencoe

Traditional (February 2021)

may Day

by Jack Hardy (June 2017)

Memorial Day

by Steve Fisher (November 2022)

Midnight On The Water

by Lucas “Red Luke” Thomasson (April 2024)

Mighty Day

Traditional Black American Spiritual

MiNSTREL BOY, THE

Traditional Black American Spiritual

MOLLY AND TENBROOKS

Traditional 

MR. ZEIDMAN

Pierce Pettis (February 2019)

My name is morgan, but it ain't jp

Lyrics: Will A. Mahoney
Music: Halsey K. Mohr (March 2024)

my wedding day

by Connie Mims

Nay, Ivy, Nay

Traditional (December 2024)

Next Door Stranger

by Brian Kalinec (May 2023)

no me dejes aqui

by Jorge Palomarez

oh babe it ain't no lie

by Elizabeth Cotten

old dun cow

by Harry Wincott

olden days

by Jimmie Joe Natoli (December 2021)

on the road to fairfax county

by David Massengill

Pandemic Shadows

by Saena Eyre (October 2022)

parting glass, the

Traditional

pastures of plenty

by Woodie Guthrie (August 2019)

Peggy Gordon

Traditional Canadian (January 2022)

raglan road

Lyrics: Patrick Kavanaugh
Melody: Luke Kelly

Rat in my Kitchen

by Paul Cooper (Summer 2025)

rider on an orphan train

by David Massengill (April 2018)

ripple

by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia

risselty rosselty

Traditional (February 2020)

road to lubeck

by Paul Cooper

roll, alabama, roll

Lyrics: Frank Townsend
Melody: Traditional Halyard Shanty

royal Canal

by Brendan Behan (December 2019)

see that my grave is kept clean

by Blind Lemon Jefferson (October 2020)

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat

by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer (February 2025)

Shine Boy

by Michael Troy (December 2017)

Shropshire Wakes

Traditional - England 1600s (December 2022)

skye boat song

Lyrics:  Sir Harold Boulton
Melody: Traditional

some regrets

by Gayle Fallon (February 2017)

songs about texas

by John Early

star of the county down

by Cathal McGarvey (August 2016)

stately mansions

by Bryan Bowers

steppin' into color

by Saena Eyre (December 2020)

streamlined cannonball

by Roy Acuff

street of disaster

by Thad Beckman (September 2017)

sunshine

by Zachary Tyndall

sweet carnlough bay

Traditional - Irish (March 2017)

Sweet Heaven When I Die

Traditional - American early 1900s (November 2023)

Talking Dust Bowl Blues

by Woodie Guthrie (October 2024)

Texian Boys

collected by John A Lomax Jr.
(September 2024)

ThAT KIND OF LOVE

by Pierce Pettis

The Arabia

by Bob Lahmeyer

The Kid

by Buddy Mondlock (May 2024)

tHE smuggler

by Ian McCalman

tHERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD

Traditional African-American Spiritual (January 2019)

This Land Is Your Land

by Woodrow "Woody" Wilson Guthrie (July 2024)

time gentlemen, please

by Steve Goodchild (May 2020)

troop train blues

by Gaylee Malone

trouble in mind

by Richard M Jones

twa recruiting sergeants

Traditional Scottish (June 2019)

Until I learn How To Fly

by Jeff Black (October 2023)

valley to pray

by Albert E Brumley (July 2020)

Waist deep in the big muddy

by Pete Seeger (July 2018)

warlike lads of russia, The

Traditional

waterbound

by Dirk Powell (November 2021)

Way Downtown

Traditional (August 2022)

way out here

by Ken Gaines

way over yonder in the minor key

Lyrics:  Woody Guthrie
Melody:  Billy Bragg
(October 2021)

weed and feed

by Tom Tranchilla (April 2023)

What Did The Deep SEA Say

by Cisco Houston (June 2024)

what was your name in the states

Traditional (March 2020)

when I stop dreaming

by The Louvin Brothers (April 2019)

when STEPHEN SPREAD HIS WINGS

by Steve Goodchild (March 2026)

where did you sleep last night

Traditional (January 2018)

where the water lilies grow

by George P Morris

who's gonna buy you ribbons

by Paul Clayton (May 2019)

Wild Mountain Thyme

by Francis McPeake

willie goggins' hat

by Jack Hardy

zamboni

by Mary Hartman

Zombie (Jumbie) Jamboree

by Conrad Eugene Mauge, Jr. (January 2023)

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