LYRICS: Songs by Andrew Calhoun (unless otherwise attributed). Song titles link to full lyric pages and individual song downloads when available. Album titles link to the albums on which the songs are recorded (unless the album is out of print). New site-exlusive .wav file recordings available for many songs, look for the *. There's a donation button if you'd like to support the ongoing work.
A - L
Ain't No One (The Gates of Love)
Anchor Line (trad, Bound to Go)
Atmospheres (Staring at the Sun)
B
Baby-O (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Back Home in Georgia (trad, Bound to Go)
The Battle of Harlaw (trad, Telfer's Cows)
The Battle of Otterburn (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Battling Tops (Walk Me to the War)
The Beggarman (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel (trad, Bound to Go)
Bound to Go (trad, Bound to Go)
Bow and Arrow (*site exclusive recording)
Boy Chased a Bike Tire (unreleased)
Boy of the Woods (*site exclusive recording)
Broken Boundaries (Staring at the Sun)
Broken Feeder (Shadow of a Wing)
Buffalo (Where Blue Meets Blue)
The Bull (Water Street)
Butterfly (unrecorded)
C
Calvary (trad, Bound to Go)
Captain Susan (unrecorded)
Casey Jones (trad, Grapevine)
Catching on Fire (Tiger Tattoo)
Christ Comes Like the Spring Bud (*site exclusive recording)
Circle of Killers (Staring at the Sun)
Clark Colven (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Come and Go With Me (trad, Bound to Go)
Cows On the Highway (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Crawdad Song (trad, Living Room)
Cruel Winter (*site exclusive recording)
D
Daughter of a Drunk (Shadow of a Wing)
Day In and Night Out (Tiger Tattoo)
The Death of Parcy Reed (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Deliver Me (Staring at the Sun, Walk Me to the War)
Dick o' the Broom (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Different Now (unrecorded)
Doghouse (unrecorded)
E
The Eagle (Walk Me to the War)
Elizabeth (unrecorded)
Eppie Morrie (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Everyone Sang (by Siegfried Sassoon, Tiger Tattoo)
F
Farewell Butterfly (Shadow of a Wing)
Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal (trad, Grapevine)
The Fire (*site exclusive recording)
Flodden Field (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
The Flower of Northumberland (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Flowers on the Weekend (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Fluttering Wings (Shadow of a Wing)
The Foggy Dew (by Charles O'Neill, Grapevine)
Folksingers are Boring (Phoenix Envy)
Four and Twenty Elders (trad, Bound to Go)
Freedom Road (Living Room, Phoenix Envy)
Friendship (unrecorded)
Follow the Heron (Karine Polwart, Skeins)
From Time to Time (Staring at the Sun)
The Future (unrecorded)
G
Gabriel (Water Street)
Garage (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Gartan Mother's Lullaby (by Joseph Campbell, Grapevine)
The Gates of Love (Living Room, The Gates of Love)
Gifts (*site exclusive recording)
Girl With a Hay Rake (Jack Harris, Skeins)
Go to Sleep, My Baby (trad, Bound to Go)
God Told Me I Could Come (Staring at the Sun, Water Street)
Goin' Down to See John Prine (Tiger Tattoo)
The Golden Gate Bridge (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Grandfather's Time (*site exclusive recording)
Guilty In Your Home (unrecorded)
Guns (*site exclusive recording)
H
Hallelujah Morning (Living Room)
Hammerin' Judgment (trad, Bound to Go)
Hangin' Out the Linen Clothes (trad, Grapevine)
Hear the Trumpet Sound (trad, Bound to Go)
Heavy Log (Elegy for James McCandless)
Here Comes That Lady Again (Phoenix Envy)
Hobie Noble (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
A Hoosier in Paris (Shadow of a Wing)
How Can I Keep From Singing? (Robert W. Lowry, Grapevine)
Hualapai Mountain (Shadow of a Wing)
Hughie Grime (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Hup Two Three (unrecorded song)
I Gave My Love a Cherry (trad, Grapevine)
I Have Not Lost It All (Water Street)
I Have Run and I Have Crawled (Staring at the Sun)
I Love You All the Time (Hope)
I Love Your Letters (Shadow of a Wing)
I Shall Not Look Away (Tiger Tattoo)
I Ride an Old Paint (trad, Grapevine)
I Will Go With My Father a-Ploughing (Joseph Campbell, Skeins)
Ice Grows on the Water (*site-exclusive recording)
If I Were In Your Home (*site exclusive recording)
I'm a Rover (trad, Tiger Tattoo)
It's Not You That I'm Leaving (Phoenix Envy)
J
Jack and Jill (Phoenix Envy, Walk Me to the War)
Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead (Rhymer's Tower)
Jaybird and Sparrow (trad, Bound to Go)
Jazz Guys (unrecorded)
Jeannie o' Bethelnie (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Jock o the Side (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Johnie Armstrong (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
John's Wife (Staring at the Sun, Water Street)
John Henry (trad, Grapevine)
Johnie o Cockley's Well (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier (trad, Grapevine)
Journey (Skeins, Phoenix Envy)
K
The King (Where Blue Meets Blue)
King Orfeo (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Kinmont Willie (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Kiss That Goblet! (Staring at the Sun)
L
Lady Daisy (trad, unrecorded)
Lass of Roch Royal (trad, unrecorded)
Letting Go (*site exclusive recording)
Lie of a Poet (Water Street)
The Little Beggarman (trad, Grapevine)
The Living and the Breathing Wind (Staring at the Sun)
Look Away (unrecorded)
Lost John (trad, Bound to Go)
Louis (unrecorded)
M - Z
Mama's City (unrecorded)
May Colvin (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Meditation Song (Shadow of a Wing)
Michael and Sally (unrecorded)
Michael, Haul the Boat Ashore (trad, Bound to Go)
Midnight Pirouette (Leslie Smith, Skeins)
Milly Biggers (trad, Bound to Go)
Molly Cottontail (trad, Bound to Go)
Moses (Staring at the Sun, Water Street)
Mothers (poem from Hay)
Mrs McGrath (trad, Skeins)
A Musical Instrument / Song (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Living Room)
My Bonnie and Jean (unrecorded)
My Mother, Calling Me (unrecorded)
N
Never Enough (Phoenix Envy, The Gates of Love)
Noah's Dove (trad, Grapevine)
No More Cane on the Brazos (trad, Bound to Go)
No Secret Castle (Phoenix Envy)
O
O Mary Don't You Weep (trad, Grapevine)
O'er the Crossing (trad, Bound to Go)
Of Thee I Never Weary (Living Room)
Old Man's Song (trad, Bound to Go)
Ol' Elder Brown (trad, Bound to Go)
Ol' Egyp' (trad, Bound to Go)
On the Bus (unrecorded)
The One Who Wants to Know (unrecorded)
Open the Door Softly ((Dion Boucicault/Herbert Hughes, Skeins)
Open the Window, Noah (trad, Bound to Go)
P
The Paul Scott Rap (Phoenix Envy)
Peach Song (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Pearl (unrecorded)
Politics (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Poetry Workshop (poem, Hay)
Portrait of a Girl and Her Parents (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Prayer (unrecorded)
The Promise (Shadow of a Wing)
R
Recompense (unrecorded)
Red Star (unrecorded)
Reflections (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Renaissance Land (*site exclusive recording)
Reunion (unrecorded)
Rio Bravo (unrecorded)
River Song (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Roads in Disrepair (Where Blue Meets Blue, The Gates of Love)
Roll, Jordan, Roll (trad, Bound to Go)
The Rookhope Ryde (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
A Rosebud By My Early Walk (Robert Burns, Skeins)
The Rose of Yarrow (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Rough and Rolling Sea (trad, Bound to Go)
Run Mary Run (trad, Bound to Go)
Run to Jesus (trad, Bound to Go)
Rye, New Hampshire (*site exclusive recording)
S
Sam (*site-exclusive recording)
Sandy Land (trad, Bound to Go)
Sea of Snow (Where Blue Meets Blue)
A Seat in the Mezzanine (Staring at the Sun, The Gates of Love)
Shadow of a Wing (*site exclusive recording from 2004)
A Shake in the Basket (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Sheep and Goat (trad, Bound to Go)
She's of Earth (unrecorded)
Sheila (Phoenix Envy, Water Street)
Shenandoah (trad, Grapevine)
Shine On Harvest Moon/The Glory of Love (Norworth & Bayes/Hill, Skeins)
Single Roses (Shadow of a Wing)
Slippery Fish (unrecorded)
Smile for your Daddy (Walk Me to the War)
Smokin' and Drinkin' (Shadow of a Wing)
The Snake (Water Street)
Sperm Whale Fishery (trad, Grapevine)
Spit from the Sky (Walk Me to the War)
Sun Don't Set in the Morning (trad, Bound to Go)
Sweet William (unrecorded)
T
Telfer's Cows (trad, Telfer's Cows)
Them Ol' Black Gnats (trad, Bound to Go)
Thomas the Rhymer (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Tree of Life (trad, Bound to Go)
Trout (poem)
Trumpet (Skeins, Walk Me to the War)
Turkle Dove (trad, Bound to Go)
The Two Ravens (trad, Rhymer's Tower)
Two Sisters (trad, Telfer's Cows)
U
Uncle Billy (trad, Bound to Go)
The Unquiet Grave (trad, Telfer's Cows)
V
Vancouver (Where Blue Meets Blue, The Gates of Love)
W
Wake Up, Jacob (trad, Bound to Go)
Walk Me to the War (Staring at the Sun, Walk Me to the War)
Walking Through Sand (Staring at the Sun)
Water Street (*site-exclusive recording)
Way Up On the Mountain (trad, Bound to Go)
We'll Rant and We'll Roar (trad, Grapevine)
When I Have Arms Again (Skeins, Tiger Tattoo)
When My Time Comes (Phoenix Envy)
Where Blue Meets Blue (Where Blue Meets Blue)
Where You Gonna Sit Now? (Living Room)
While Jesus was Waiting to Die (Phoenix Envy)
Wild Birds (by Kate MacLeod, Skeins, Where Blue Meets Blue)
The Wren's Nest (Robert Burns, Skeins)
Y
You Better Get a Lawyer (Hope)
You Bother Me (*site exclusive recording)
You Never Can Have Enough Pens (*site exclusive recording)