Songs

Auld Lang Syne

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the Cherry-Tree Carol

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  • Child Ballad #54 (1885)
  • Oxford Book of Ballads (1910)

the Ballad of Duncan Campbell

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• “Piper’s Refrain” at The Mudcat Café

Nature Boy

“Nature Boy” (1947) by eden ahbez for Nat King Cole

This story is about love

The woman I loved is dead

There was a boy

A very strange, enchanted boy

They say he wandered very far

Very far, over land and sea

A little shy and sad of eye

But very wise was he

And then one day

One magic day he passed my way

While we spoke of many things

Fools and Kings

This he said to me:

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn

Is just to love and be loved in return”

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn

Is just to love and be loved in return”

[Instrumental Interlude]

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn

Is just to love and be loved in return”

Show me the way to go home

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Show me the way to go home,

I’m tired and I want to go to bed.

I had a little drink about an hour ago,

And it’s gone right to my head.

Wherever I may roam,

By land, or sea, or foam.

You can always hear me singing this song,

Show me the way to go home, home.

the Sloop John B

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