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| Title [author] (comment) | Lyrics | |
| Wae's Me For Prince Cherlie (per Wilma Paterson (Songs of Scotland, 1997) this was written by one William Glen, set to the melody Ladie Cassiles Lilt, (Skene MS, 1615-20), which is a version of Johny Faa or the Gypsie Laddie. midi from the notation she gives with Johny Faa) | DT | |
| Wallaby Stew | DT | thread |
| Wallflower Waltz [Sharyn Dimmick] | thread | |
| Waltz [Jon Freeman] | thread | |
| Waltzing Matilda (Original Christina McPherson tune for Matilda.) | DT | thread |
| Waltzing Matilda (Queensland version) | DT | thread |
| Wann ich vun dem Land rei kumm (Pennsylvania Dutch original of "When I First Came To This Land" - from Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, 1949) | thread | |
| The War Game [Ewan MacColl] | thread | |
| Warlike Seamen (Copper Family) | DT | thread |
| Waterbound | DT | |
| The Waterford Boys (from the sheet music at Levy collection) | DT | thread |
| Wave Over Wave | DT | |
| We Didn't Know [Tom Paxton] | DT | thread |
| We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years [Music by Von Liebich] (from the IWW Little Red Songbook) | DT | thread |
| We'll go to Sea No More | DT | thread |
| Weave [Rosemary Crow] (from the Girl Scout Sangam GIT/Sangam Songbook) | thread | |
| The Weddin' o' Lauchie M'Graw (collected from Joe Yates of Sofala by John Meredith in 1983) | thread | |
| The Wedding Song [Stookey] | DT | |
| The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede [Matt McGinn] (from the notation in Sing a Song of Scotland (Sheila Douglas, 1981).) | DT | thread |
| Wee Sandy Waugh (In Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933); midi made from notation in that book.) | DT | |
| Wee Weaver (transcribed from Steeleye Span) | DT | thread |
| Wee Weaver Paddy Tunney's tune (transcribed from his book, "The Stone Fiddle") | DT | thread |
| Weevils in the Flour | thread | |
| Welcome Poor Paddy Home | DT | thread |
| Welcome Yule! (From The Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw. The carol appears in "Sloane MS. 2593, of the beginning of the 15th century or temp. Henry VI. Another version in the Bodleian Douce MS. 302, the collection of John Awdlay, the blind chaplain, c.1430, printed in Sandys Christmastide, 1852." The tune is modern, and was composed by Sydney Hugo Nicholson (1875-1947), sometime organist at Westminster Abbey and a prolific composer of church music. Midis made from the notation in the Oxford book Melody line only) | thread | |
| Welcome Yule! (full arrangment Text 15th Century; spelling modernised. Tune by S.H. Nicholson) | ||
| Welcome, Welcome Every Guest | thread | |
| Were you ever in Dumbarton | thread | |
| West Virginia Mine Disaster [Jean Ritchie] | DT | thread |
| The West's Asleep | DT | |
| The Western Ocean (All For Me Grog) (from Helen Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia) | thread | |
| Wexford Fishing song | DT | thread |
| Wexford Lullaby | DT | |
| The Wexford Murder (Noted by Fred Hamer from Walter "Paddy" Church of Bedfordshire, and published in Garners Gay (Fred Hamer, EFDS, 1967).) | thread | |
| The Whale Song [lyrics, Geoffrey Dearmer; music Hoagy Carmichael] | thread | |
| The Whale-Catchers (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| What Did Delaware? | thread | |
| What Will I Do Gin My Hoggie Die? / Oh Leave Novels | thread | |
| Wheel Of Fortune | DT | thread |
| When a Knight Won His Spurs (hymnbook arrangement) | thread | |
| When a Knight Won His Spurs (Jan Struther's poem was set to this air, which is a variant of The Fair Flower of Northumberland. vocal line only) | thread | |
| When A Man's In Love | DT | thread |
| When Father Papered the Parlour | DT | thread |
| When First I Went To Caledonia (Another song sung to the Mo Run Geal Dileas tune. Midi modified from the Kelvinhaugh midi with reference to a recording by Waterson/Carthy, who learnt it in Cape Breton where the song was made.) | DT | thread |
| When First We Met/So Here's to You [Alan Bell] | DT | thread |
| When I First Came To This Land (Oscar Brand's version of the tune from Singing Holidays, 1957) | DT | thread |
| When I First Came To This Land (Pete Seeger's version of the tune, from American Favorite Ballads (1961)) | DT | thread |
| When I Was A Little Boy (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | DT | thread |
| When I Was In My Prime (midi made by ear from pentangle recording) | thread | |
| When I Was Single (Lomax FSNA) (from Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America) | thread | |
| When I Was Single (Lomax FSUSA) (from Lomax, Best Loved American Folk Songs (Folk Song: USA)) | thread | |
| When I Was Young (from The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs) | thread | |
| When Mursheen went to Bunnan | thread | |
| When Poppies Close Their Eyes [Christine Turner Curtis and Ruth McConn Spencer] (from the Ginn & Company school songbook, Singing Juniors) | thread | |
| When She Cam Ben, She Bobbed (Midi made from the notation in Burns: Poems and Songs (James Kinsley, 1969).) | DT | |
| When Spring Comes In (Midi made from notation in Bob Copper's A Song for Every Season (1971).) | DT | |
| When the Battle it Was Won ( From MacKenzie's Ballads and Songs from Nova Scotia, where no tune was given. The Roud Index at present lists only two sets with tunes; one from Maine, USA, the other from Newfoundland. The latter would presumably be the one to go for here, with the usual health warning: there is no evidence that this tune is even remotely like the one that belonged to the text in the DT, but it was used for a similar version of the song in another part of Canada, so it might be. Midi made from notation in Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965): vol.3, where it is called The Deserter. Noted by Kenneth Peacock from Mrs. Thomas Walters of Rocky Harbour, July 1958. ) | DT | |
| When the Roll is Called Up Yonder | DT | |
| Where Did You Get That Hat? [James Rolmaz] | thread | |
| Where Is the Little Street (Vu Iz Dos Gesele) [Malvina Reynolds] | thread | |
| Where Moorcocks Crow | DT | thread |
| Where the Lilies Used to Spring [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow [J.J. Manners (tune traditional)] (from George Korson's Pennsylvania Songs & Legends) | thread | |
| Where There's Rest for Horse and Man /Home Lads Home (midi from transcription by jeri in thread) | DT | thread |
| Where Will Our Goodman Laye (from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion for the Flute, vol.II, c.1750. ancestral to 'John Peel') | DT | thread |
| Whiskey in the Jar (? the three versions of this in DT appear to have tunes.) | ||
| Whistle Daughter, Whistle | DT | thread |
| O Whistle, and I'll Come to Ye, My Lad (per malcolm: midi made from notation in Burns: Poems and Songs, James Kinsley, 1969. unknown contributer: Burns' song is in 'The Scots Musical Museum', II, #106, 1788. The chorus is in David Herd's MSS (Hecht's 'Herd', p. 185). The tune is first found as "The Irish Lover's Morning Walk" on a single sheet song with music, c 1780, and slightly later used for the song "Since Love is the Plan" in 'the Poor Soldier', 1783. ) | thread | |
| Whistlebinkie [Matthew Richards (MattR)] | thread | |
| The Whistler and His Dog [Arthur Pryor (1870-1942] (Published as an instrumental piece for band in 1905, featuring a piccolo solo. Used as the tune for "Piddlin' Pete.") | thread | |
| The White Buck of Epping [Sydney Carter] | thread | |
| The White Buck of Epping [S. Carter] (midi from B. Bolton) | thread | |
| White Coral Bells (from the Girl Scouts Sing Together Songbook, 1973) | thread | |
| The White Hart | thread | |
| Whitsun Carol | DT | |
| Whiz Fish Song | thread | |
| Whizz-Fish (from the 1948 edition of Song Fest, by Dick & Beth Best) | thread | |
| Who Will Sing For Me? [J.T. Ely] | DT | thread |
| Who Will Sing For Me? [J.T. Ely] (harmony version) | DT | thread |
| Who'll Sing For Me? [Thomas J. Farris] (from the 1946 Stamps-Baxter Hymnal, Inspirational Songs) | DT | thread |
| Who'll Sing For Me? (full harmony version) | DT | thread |
| Whoever Invented the Fishfinger [Leon Rosselson] (This MIDI may need some work, but it should give an idea of what the song sounds like. -Joe Offer-) | DT | thread |
| Why Doth My Goose (round) | thread | |
| Wi' My Dog and Gun | DT | thread |
| Widgegoara Joe (aka backblock shearer) | DT | thread |
| Widgery Wharf [Charlie Ipcar] (Tune prescribed is Cruising Round Yarmouth; the traditional set from Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk may be the one intended, but the only one I've got is Sam Larner's. Midi made from notation in The Singing Island (Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, 1960).) | ||
| The Widow's Walk | DT | thread |
| The Wife of Kelso | thread | |
| The Wife of Ushers Well ( The song was recorded, as There Lived a Lady in Merry Scotland, by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mrs. Loveridge at the Homme, Dilwyn, Herefordshire, in 1908, and was published in The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire, Ella Leather, 1912. Midi made from notation in that book for verse 1; Mrs. Loveridge introduced variations into the tune in subsequent verses; these appear in Ella Leather's book and are quoted in Bronson, vol.2, 79:3, p.246: There Was a Lady in Merry Scotland) | DT | |
| Wild Rose of the Mountain | DT | thread |
| Wild Roving No More (Wild Rover) (alternate tune for the traditional lyrics, performed by Sylvia Barnes with Kentigern) | thread | |
| Will You Wear Red? (Noted by Cecil Sharp from Mrs. Delie Hughes at Cane River, Burnsville, N.C., in 1918) | DT | thread |
| William Glen | DT | thread |
| Willie O' Winsbury (tune really belonged to Fause Foodrage. At all events, it's the tune that everybody seems to recognise nowadays. Midi made by ear from a recording by Pentangle) | DT | thread |
| Willie Wastle | DT | thread |
| Willie's Fatal Visit (four-line melody; the first verse of the Child text is of six lines, so the second two melody lines should be repeated to accommodate the words in that case. Tune from Bronson after Christie) | DT | |
| Willie's Lady / Son Ar Chiste (Song of Cider) (the breton tune Son Ar Chiste) | DT | thread |
| The Wily auld Carle | thread | |
| Wim Wam Waddles (collected from Harry Greening and chorus of Dorsetshire Mummers, Dorchester, Dorset, 1936 (Peter Kennedy, Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland, 1975; presuming the information he gives is accurate). Midi made from notation in Kennedy.) | DT | |
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley | DT | thread |