The James Joyce Band
The James Joyce Band
Ceilidh and Folk song Set Lists
Here you will find songs and dance music from Ireland, Scotland, England and America. The songs we have learned from great bands like The Dubliners, The Pogues and Planxty. The dance music is classic jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes to accompany fine old Ceilidh and Barn dances.
Songs and Ballads.
I'll Tell me Ma - a Belfast street song
The Irish Rover - the poor dog drowns
Whiskey in the Jar - highway robbery
The Leaving of Liverpool - the sailor's away
Dirty Old Town - from the great Ewan McColl
The Ballad of Molly Malone - alive alive oh
The Ballad of Jesse James - gunslinger gone bad
John Barleycorn - the finest Scotch whisky
The Black Velvet Band - off to Van Diemans Land
Johnny I hardley Knew Ye - The soldier returns
The Wild Rover - enough said!
Sally MacLennane - Classic Pogues
Dicey Reilly - and Classic Dubliners
The Spanish Lady - more classic
The Drunken Sailor - the old Shanty
Loch Lomond - Scottish lament
The Galway Girl - From Steve Earle
Billy The Kid - another dead gunslinger
The Pub With No Beer - how sad can a song be?
The Ballad of John Henry - Steel driving man
The Green Fields of France - Classic from Eric Bogle
The New York Gals - A sailor in port with money
Dublin in the Rare Old Times - changing times
The Fields of Athenry - another bound for Australia
The Fairytale of New York - Shane McGowan
Fiddlers Green - The singing of Barney McKenna
Flower of Scotland - rugby and other wars
The Finding of Moses - form Zozimus
Arthur McBride - The recruiting sergeant
The Road to Dundee - Old Scottish ballad
The Star of the County Down - Bantry Bay to Derry Quay
The Lark in the Morning - The ploughboy
Murshin Durkin - an old Cork Ballad
The Wild Colonial Boy - terror to Australia
The Jolly Beggar - Scottish king out walking
McAlpines Fusiliers - The men who built the M1
The Mountains of Mourne - from Co. Down
Spancil Hill - from Co Clare
Tim Finnegans Wake - The Man who never died
Seven Drunken Nights - trouble back home
The Banks of the Roses - my love and I sat down
The Cliffs of Dooneen - from Clare again
All For me Grog - Scottish drinking song
The Good Ship Kangaroo - the sailor returns
The Zoological Gardens - in the Phoenix Park
The Raggle Taggle Gypsies - and the lady of the manor
Navigator- classic Pogues
Dance Tunes and Instrumentals
The Three Kerry Polkas - Irish Polkas
The Frieze Britches - Irish Jig
The Harvest Home / Boys of Bluehill - hornpipes
Saddle the Pony / The Rakes of Mallow - jig and reel
The Dashing White Sergeant - Scottish dance tune
Merrily Kissed the Quaker - jig
The Skattery Island Slides
The Teetotaller / The Maid Behind the Bar - Irish reels
Cole Youngers Polka - American Polka
The Irish Washerwoman - jig
Madame Bonaparte - Irish Set Dance
The Atholl Highlanders - Scottish jig
The Hare in the Corn / Frost is all Over - Irish jigs
Ragtime Annie / St Anns reel - American Hornpipe / Reel
The Belfast Hornpipe
Shi Beag Shi Mhor - O'Carolan Air
The Jolly Beggar reel
Morrisons - jig
The Fair Maid of Whickham / Squire of Bensham - Northumbrian jigs
The Rocky Road to Dublin - Irish slip jig
Lord Inchquin - Irish Air
The Green Meadows / Junior Crehans - Irish reels
Rose in the Heather / The Blackthorn Stick - Irish reels
The Seneca Square Dance - American dance tune
The Nine Points of Roguery - Irish reel
The Cock of the North / Miss McLeods - Scottish jig / reel
Calliope House / Tripping up the Stairs - English / Irish jigs
The Rights of Man - Irish Set dance.
Jimmy Allen / Bonny Lad / Buttered Peas - Northumbrian polkas
The King of the Fairies - Irish set dance
The Clare Jig / Out on the Ocean / The Kesh - Irish jigs
The Battle of Aughrim - Irish set dance
Carolan's Draught - O'Carolan Air
Off to California - hornpipe
The Road to Lisdoonvarna / O'Keefes - Irish slides
The Star of Munster - Irish reel
Humphreys Hornpipe
Cripple Creek / Old Joe Clark - American oldtime
Planxty Irwin - Turlough O'Carolan
Father O'Flynn - Irish jig.
Nancy - Northumbrian tune
The Lark in the Morning - English jig.
The Ship in Full Sail / The Connacht mans Rambles - jigs
The Persian Lamb Rag - American
Carrigfergus - Irish air
Kevin Burkes Polkas
The Tourmore Polkas
So there you have it. Songs for drinking and and general jollity. Dance tunes to step the night away. I hope there's lots here that you'd like to hear.