Sarah Makem - Songs

Songs

Note: Footnotes take you to lyrics but not necessarily to the recordings of Sarah Makem as many of the songs are traditional.

Sarah Makem collected, performed and/or composed, and handed down hundreds of songs including:

  • As I Roved Out
  • Barbara Allen
  • Barney Mavourneen
  • Blow Ye Winds
  • The Butcher Boy
  • Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold
  • The Cobbler
  • The Cot in the Corner
  • Derry Gaol
  • Dobbin's Flowery Vale
  • The Factory Girl
  • Farewell My Love, Remember Me
  • I Courted a Wee Girl
  • John Mitchel
  • The Jolly Thresher
  • Little Beggarman
  • Magpie's Nest
  • A Man in Love He Feels No Cold
  • Mary of Kilmore
  • May Morning Dew
  • Month of January (The Forsaken Mother & Child)
  • On the Banks of Red Roses
  • Our Ship She's Ready to Bear Away
  • Robert Burns and his Highland Mary
  • A Servant Maid in her Father's Garden
  • Willie Reilly
  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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