When first printed in two books during the fifties, this generous selection of some of the finest airs in the British Isles went on to become a landmark in the history of traditional music publishing and, as a result, the repertoires of innumerable musicians became strengthened and enriched; one can only speculate on the huge influence those musicians then must have had on the embellishment and continuing development of traditional music.
Now brought together in one convenient volume with chords added, this edition of The Fiddler's Tune-Book is sure to be welcomed not only by those same musicians, but also by the succession of younger traditional players eager to plunder this legendary treasure chest of timeless melodies. Complete with index with alternative titles, introduction by Peter Kennedy.
 
Contents
 
American dwarf
Ap shenkin
Astley's ride
Barbary bell
Barnacle waltz
Beaux of Oakhill
Betty Black
Biddy the bowl wife
Big ship
Billy in the Lowlands
Blackbird
Bluebell polka
Bobby Shaftoe
Boney crossing the Alps
Bonnets so blue
Bonny Ann
Bonny breast knots
Bonny Kate
Bonny lad
Bonny laddie
Bonny lass
Bonny Tyneside
Bottom of punchbowl
Breach of Killiecranky
Breakdown
Bristol hornpipe
Buffalo girls
Bunch of rushes
Captain White
Castles in the air
Cinderella waltz
Circassian circle
Cliff hornpipe
Cock o' the north
Come dance and sing
O'er the stream Charlie
Corn rigs
Cuckoo's nest
Cupid's waltz
Dashing white sergeant
Davy-davy Knick-knack
Devil among the tailors
Dorsetshire hornpipe
Drink your tea, love
Drops of drink
Drowsy Maggie
Drummer
Drunken piper
Drunken sailor
Durham rangers Elks festival
Fairy dance
Far from home
Farewell to whisky
First of May
Fisher's frolic
Flowers of Edinburgh
Friendly visit
Galopede
Gilderoy
Gipsy's hornpipe
Girl I left behind me
Girl with blue dress on
Gobby-o
Golden farmer
Goodnight and joy
Go to the devil
Grand old Duke of York
Green grow the rushes-o
Greenwood tree
Harvest home
Haste to the wedding
Hexham races
Hilly-go, filly-go
Honeymoon
Hullichan jig
Hundred pipers
I'll gang nae mair to yon
I'm over young to marry
Irish washerwoman
Jacky tar
Jenny's gone to Linton
Johnny's gone to France
John of Paris
Katie's rambles
Keel row
King William of Orange
Kitty O' Lynn
Lad wi' the plaidie
Lady in the boat
Lady Mary Douglas
Lady of the lake
Lannigan's ball
Larry Bourne
La Russe
Lassie's fancy
Lass on the strand
Lily white
Liverpool hornpipe
London bridge Lord MacDonald
Lord Moira
Lovely Nancy
Love, port and sherry
Maggie
Maggie Brown
Maid of Glenconnel
Manchester hornpipe
Marquis of Lorne
Mary the maid
Mason's apron
May day
Merry blacksmith
Merry masons
Minstrel's fancy
Miss Forbes' farewell
Money musk
Morning star
Morpeth rant
Muckin' o' Geordie's byre
Muses
My home
Lodging's on cold ground
My love is but a lassie
My wife's a wanton thing
Nancy Dill
Nancy's fancy
Napoleon crossing Alps
Navvie on the line
New rigged ship
Ninepins
Ninepins
No place like home
Off she goes
Off to California
Old Rosin, the beau
Orange and blue
Over the hills to glory
Over the moor
Over the water to Charlie
Oyster girl
Paddy on the turnpike
Peacemakers hornpipe
Peggy's wedding
Perfect cure
Persian hunt
Pet of the pipers
Petronella
Pickle tow
Pirate's waltz Plymouth lasses
Polly put the kettle on
Pop goes the weasel
Portland fancy
Princess Margarets fancy
Pullet
Quaker's wife
Rachael Rae
Rakes of mallow
Red stocking
Rifleman
Rollicking Irishman
Rose tree
Roxburgh castle
Salamanca
Scotch Mary
Scotland is my ain hame
Shepherd's wife
Silver pin
Slashers
Sleeping moggy
Smash the windows
Soldier's joy
Some say the devil's dead
Song of sixpence
Speed the plough
Starry night for a ramble
Staten Island
Steamboat hornpipe
Steamboat waltz
Stumpey
Tempest
Tenpenny bit
Three sea captains
Three "waltz-ons"
Timour the tartar
Tink-a-tink
Trip to the cottage
Triumph
Turkey in the straw
Washing day
West end
When daylight shines
White cockade
Wild hills o' Wannies
Within a mile
Wittle Dean
Wonder hornpipe
Yankee doodle
Young Jane