Benjaman Baker

Celtic Session Songbook for Mandolin and Related Instruments Benjaman Baker

This 400-page songbook contains all of the best and most beloved traditional songs from Ireland, Scotland and beyond, ready to be sung and strummed at your favorite session! Contains Love Songs, Rebel Songs, Drinking Songs, Session Tunes, Folk Ballads, Sea Shanties and more. The author created this book specifically for people who like to play and sing Celtic songs. Full large-print lyrics are given for each song, along with the mandolin chords for strumming along. This songbook is great for mandolin players, but also players of any other fretted instrument tuned to GDAE: Irish tenor banjos, octave mandolins, tenor guitars, Irish bouzouki and more!A short informational snippet for each song, explaining some of its origin and history, is also included. A special "First Lines and Alternate Titles" index is also included, to help you find the song you are looking for. Each song is given in two different keys (C and G), with capo information to help you find your best key for singing. This is not a tablature songbook: only the lyrics and chords are given. This is a wonderful treasury of Celtic music perfect for session musicians or anyone wanting to learn more of this beautiful music. Contains these songs and many more: - All For Me Grog - Auld Lang Syne - Blow the Man Down - Black Velvet Band - Bonnie Charlie - Brennan On the Moor - Carrickfergus - The Cobbler - Danny Boy - Farewell To Nova Scotia - Finnegan's Wake - The Foggy Dew - Haul Away Joe - The Holy Ground - I'll Tell Me Ma - The Irish Rover - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Jug Of Punch - Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her - The Leaving Of Liverpool - Loch Lomond - The Mermaid - MacPherson's Lament - The Moonshiner - Nancy Whiskey - Paddy West - The Parting Glass - The Rattlin' Bog - Red Is the Rose - Rolling Home - South Australia - Star Of the County Down - Too-Ral-Loo-Ral-Loo-Ral - The Water Is Wide - What Do We Do With A Drunken Sailor - Wild Mountain Thyme - Wild Colonial Boy - The Wild Rover