The Minstrel Boy, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Carrickfergus, All Though the Night, and Come to the Hills are five of my favorites. I would love hear them in a pub.
"Liffey Ferryman" "Rambles of Spring" "Rising of the Moon" "Stick to the Craythur" "Red is the Rose" "Sean South of Garry Owen" "Broad Black Brimmer" "Four Green Fields" "Come Out You Black & Tans" "God Save Ireland" "Foggy Dew" "Fiddler's Green" "My Little Armalite" "Grace" "A Nation Once Again" "Parting Glass"
"Ramblin' Rover" "Fields of Athenry" "Boston Rose" "Leaving of Liverpool" "Wild Mountain Thyme" "Merry Plowboy" "The Town I Knew So Well" "Rare Old Mountain Dew" "Barrett's Privateers" "Roddy McCorley" "The Bricklayer's Lament" "Farewell to Nova Scotia"
Four Green Fields Carrickfergus Red is the Rose Black Velvet Band Finnegan's Wake Fiddler's Green Barrett's Privateers Parting Glass The Irish Rover Danny Boy and at least 100 more
JIM (mainopsman)
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Oh, hey, how can you and why would you just pick 5? pub songs, eh -- I tend to run to the sad ballads.
OK -- drink up:
Rocky Road to Dublin Barrett's Privateers Mairidh Mac's Mother ('s makin' Mairidh Mac marry me) Finnegan's Wake The Parting Glass Wild Mountain Thyme Caledonia The Old Dun Cow Ilkey Moor Bat Hat (welsh) MacPherson's Lament Flower of Scotland Captain Wedderburn's Wedding The Minstrel Boy Bridie's Song (Black 47)