Roger McGuinn's Folk Den

64Guitars · November 21, 2010, 12:09:46 PM

I found a great website that some of you might enjoy:

Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/

It has many folk songs with lyrics and chords for each song plus an MP3 by Roger McGuinn which you can play and/or download. All of the songs are licensed under a Creative Commons license, so you can legally download them and share them.

I think this site is a wonderful resource for learning folk songs. If we ever have a FolkFest, it will be especially useful and inspiring. The song categories include Blues, Cowboy, Mountain/Southern, Seafaring (wish I'd known about this site during PirateFest), and Seasonal (great for YuleFest).

Here are a few songs from Roger McGuinn's Folk Den:

The John B's Sails

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(Someone should have done this for PirateFest!)

Dink's Song

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Wayfaring Stranger

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Old Paint

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I love Linda Ronstadt's recording of "Old Paint".

You probably know the Peter, Paul & Mary recordings of these:

500 Miles

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Stewball

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The Cruel War

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Gu Djin · November 21, 2010, 12:18:05 PM

I found this site a while ago, however when, my old laptop failed I lost all the links and ended up forgetting about it. So thank's for bringing this back to me. It's packed full of goodies and a terrific learning resource. More time I shan't get back.

Leigh