The Folk Handbook

Sample pages

Some pages from The Folk Handbook.

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The songs

• Songs of death
• Songs of drinking
• Songs of love
• Songs of murder
• Songs of sailors and the sea
• Songs of sex and seduction
• Songs of trickery and outwitting
• Songs of war and army life
• Songs of work and protest

The book

• Reader area
• Buy The Folk Handbook (US)
• Buy The Folk Handbook (UK)

Links

• Useful folk links
• Backbeat Books

Site maintained by John Morrish, editor of The Folk Handbook. Images from the collection of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.