Folk songs for choir, part by part

Some of these tunes have no known author, and others have one. Greensleeves is an English tune of the 1500s, the tune of the Welsh lullaby All Through the Night has its earliest known printing in 1784, and Cecil Sharp heard The Water Is Wide in Somerset. Loch Lomond and Auld Lang Syne come from Scotland, Danny Boy sets words of 1913 to the Londonderry Air, an Irish tune printed in 1855, Home on the Range comes from Kansas, Sakura Sakura from Japan, and La Paloma is the habanera Sebastián Iradier wrote after he heard habaneras in Cuba. From Scotland, too, come Comin' Thro' the Rye, My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose, Annie Laurie, Will Ye No Come Back Again?, Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon and The Skye Boat Song. I Will Bow and Be Simple, O the Beautiful Treasure, Who Will Bow and Bend and I Am Fill'd with Heavenly Treasures are Shaker songs from Mary Hazzard's manuscript songbook, begun in 1847, and Las Mañanitas is the Mexican song of birthday mornings.

Every song here is public domain and set for 2 to 4 singers, and each card says its key and how hard it is. Play a song's first line to hear every part together, then open your part to hear it alone or with the others under it, and sing along as each note lights up. Each song's page tells where it comes from.

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