The Ballad Archive
A collection of mainly Irish song lyrics. You will also find plenty of Scottish and some English, American and Australian lyrics too. Online since 1996.
William Bloat
In a mean abode on the Shankill Road Lived a man named William Bloat And he…
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Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie’s Plaidie Awa (The)
For there wis a bonnie lassie an’ she lived in Crieff She went into a butcher’s…
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Wind That Shakes The Barley (The)
I sat within the valley green I sat me with my true love My sad heart…
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Winds Of Morning
I’ve walked the hills when rain was falling Rested by a wide oak tree Heard a…
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Women Of Ireland
Women, Women of Ireland your glory’s in the shade Your dreams they have gone and decayed…
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Wooloomooloo
On the day that I was born, it was a cold and a frosty morn In…
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Work Of The Weavers (The)
We’re all met together here to sit and to crack Wi’ our glasses in our hands…
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Workmans Friend (The)
When things go wrong and will not come right Though you do the best you can…
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Worms
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out The ones that go in are lean…
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Writing Of ‘Tipperary’ (The)
King Edward the Seventh, who some called The Peace Maker Died back in nineteen-and-ten He was…
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