Because I’ve been asked more than once about the contents of my bard book, this is what’s in the latest incarnation. This is what’s in the book I carry with me, not my books at home or binders. I wear this volume (well, one very similar to this. This includes pages I just have sticking into the one I wear, which is leather with several signatures sewn in, each representing new additions. It’s a bit haphazard, but I seldom keep it out of my reach.*
It’s often worn on my belt, and I like having something for pretty nearly every occasion at my easy reach, should I be asked. It has served me very well.
| A Blacksmith Courted Me | traditional |
| A North Country Lass or Northern Lasses Lamentation | Broadside, Northern Lasses lamentation, / OR / the unhappy Maids Misfortune |
| A Song For King Gregor’s Private Ears | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| A Young and Henpecked Husband’s Complaint | anon c. 15c. |
| All in a Garden Green | John Playford (1623-1686) |
| Alysoun | anon middle English (1100-1250?) |
| Amarilli Mia Bella | Giulio Caccini (1546-1618) |
| An Ode to Boorish Critics Everywhere | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Angus, Build a House For Me | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Anthem For Malewerdia | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| As the Chain Holds Many Links | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Ave Tigris Regia | Text by Judith FitzHenry, Fiana of Clare, & Alexandre d’Avigne, Melody 13th Cent. anon |
| Beloved | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Blou Northerne Wynd! | anon. c. 1300 (Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. the Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900) |
| Bonny Portmore | traditional |
| Bow to the Crown Lyrics | Heather Dale |
| Broom of the Cowdenknowes | traditional Scottish, Child #217, earliest pub 1651 |
| By the Weight of the Chain | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Caledonia | Dougie MacLean |
| Called the Captain -A Song For Cedric of Armorica and the Eastern Unbelted Champions of Pennsic Xl. | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Can She Excuse My Wrongs | John Dowland, No V from First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597 |
| Carmen Orientalis | Text by Wendy Gale (Sabine de Kerbriant). Medody: In Taberna from the Carmina Burana, 13th Century |
| Come Again Sweet Love…the Parental Version | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite | John Dowland, the First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597), No. 17 |
| Coronation Feast From Hell | Emil Allzuwissender |
| Corpus Christi Carol | anon, middle English |
| Cruel | Kate Rusby |
| Dance the War Away | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Death and the Maid | tradtional, tune from 1729 is Broadside 107, late 16th century |
| Death Holds a Rapier | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Ever Comes the Sun | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Every Man May Be a King | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Excelsior | Sir Diomedes Sebastianus |
| Fair Lady Atlantia (Lady by the Sea) | Master Efenwealt Whystle (Scott Vaughn) |
| Farewell My Bonny | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Fighters of the Center of the Realm | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Fill the Cup Oh Merry Barmaid | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Fine Knacks For Ladies | John Dowland, No. XII from Second Book of Songs or Ayres (1600) |
| Fire If You Expect Admiring | Thomas Campion, 1601 |
| Flow, My Beers | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Flow, My Tears | John Dowland, 1600 in The Second Book of Songes (No.2) |
| Fly on Whitened Wing, a Poem For Dziuginte Stickbait | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Follow Me | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| For Master Kraken Gnashbone, Fifteenth Tyger of the East | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Forsaking All Others | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Four Green Fields | Tommy Makem, 1967 |
| Gaudete, Gaudate | 16th century, possibly earlier |
| Good People | Gallowglass |
| Green Groweth the Holly | Henry VIII, d.1547 |
| Hardian’s Town / to the Hadchester Coast You Should Go | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Harvest | Lisa Theriot |
| Health to the Company | traditional |
| Here Comes the East | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Hold Fast Me Boys | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Hweat! Celowyn | Aneleda Falconbridge, filk Neil Diamond |
| I Am My Mother’s Other Daughter | Kudrun Pilegrim |
| I Am of the North | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| I Care Not For These Ladies | Thomas Campion, #3 in a Book of Ayres for the Lute, Bass Viol and Voice 1601 |
| I Fight For You | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| I Have a Gentle Cock | anon 15th c. Sloane |
| I Have a Yong Suster | anon, based on John Fleagle |
| I Know What Summer’s For | Jean du Montagne |
| If I Die An Old Maid in a Garret | Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem |
| If I Were a Black Bird | traditional |
| If I Were a Poet | Kermit the Frog, Music by Stephen Lawrence / Lyrics by David Axlerod, 1982 |
| Introverted Spouse | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| I’Ve Gone to the Tourney on a Horse With No Name | Aneleda Falconbridge, filk America |
| Jack and Joan | Thomas Campion, the First Booke of Ayres. Contayning Divine and Morall Songs (about 1613 |
| Joan’s Ale | broadside, c.1594 |
| Kingmaker and Valkyrie | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Ladies Revolt of AS 44 Written on the Occasion of Her Majesty Marguerite’s First Court | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Lady Isobel and the Elf-Knight | Lisa Theriot |
| Leaves As Red As Love | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Lifeblood, a Viking Drinking Song | Mistress Wyndrith Berginsdottir |
| Love Fights the Good Fight | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Love Song For the Poetically Challenged | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Maiden in the Moor | anon, middle English, based on John Fleagle |
| Maleweardian Anthem | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Martin Said to His Man (Fie, Man Fie!)- | Thomas Ravenscroft, Deuteromelia, 1609 |
| Merie It Is | middle English, Theodore Silverstein “English Lyrics Before 1500” (1989) |
| Monument | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| My Heart Is offered Still to You | Orlando di Lasso, 1560 |
| My Lemman Doth Give Me Joy! | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| My Mother’s Savage Daughter | Mistress Wyndrith Berginsdottir |
| Neuer Ic the Ne Yeve Away | Aneleda Falconbridge & Sir Richard Rollings |
| No Gentle Lamenting, a Lullaby For Daughters | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Northern Love | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Northguard! | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Now Springes the Spray – lyric anon. c.1300, tune | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Ode to Endewearde | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Ode to the Eastern Army | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Oh Rise Up My King | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| On Christmas Day | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| On Courtly Love by a Modern Troubador | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| On Recognitions | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| One of Us | Heather Dale |
| Only | Thl Lucia Elena Braganza |
| Over My Mountain | Dougie MacLean |
| O’er the Hills (and follow Kenric) | Aneleda Falconbridge, filk traditional |
| Parting Glass | traditional |
| Passetyme With Good Companye | Henry VIII, d.1547 |
| Please to See the King | traditional (popularized by Martin Carthy) |
| Raise Up the Sword, a Poem For Julien | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Reynardine | traditional, Fairport Convention |
| River-Bone Warrior, a Song For Talen | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Robins m’Aime | Adam de la Halle ca. 1284 |
| Sailor’s Vigil | Andrew O’Brien |
| Sainte Nicholaes | English Mystic, Godric of Yorkshire, c.1065-1170 |
| Saturday Night Up in Asgard | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Savage Father | by Master Fiskr Hamondsen |
| See the Fires of Endewearde | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Sellinger’s Round/Under the Greenwood Tree | William Byrd, 1591 |
| Shield My Kinsmen | Mistress Windryth Berginsottir |
| Song For the Bare Blade Tavern Brawl | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Song of the Shieldwall | Words: Malkin Gray (Debra Doyle) Tune:Peregrynne Windrider (Melissa Williamson) |
| Stalk Like the Tyger | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Stands a Warrior | Baroness Emma MacMinn |
| Stone Soup | Healther Dale |
| Sweeting Carolyne | Aneleda Falconbridge, filk Neil Diamond |
| The Book of Love | Magnetic Fields |
| The Brigantia’s Lament | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Broken Towers | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Burning of Auchindoun | traditional |
| The Call of the Drum | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Cardinal Ordained, For Master Julien De Lapointe | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Clean Song | traditional shanty |
| The Compleynt of Anelida the Quene Upon Fals Arcite | Chaucer, c. 1340–1400 |
| The Drum and the Sword (Mylisant’s Song) | Jean du Montagne |
| The Eastern Tygers Roar | Aife ingen Chonchobair in Derthaige |
| The Favored One | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Fight | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Good Man | traditional |
| The Hern | anon, based on John Fleagle |
| The Keeper/Among the Leaves So Green-O | collected by Cecil Sharp 1909, traditional |
| The King’s Man | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Lady Reynardyne | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Links of Virtue | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Love Story of Turi Mackinnon and His Marguerite | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The March Home | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Minstrel and the King | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Minstrel Boy | Thomas Moore (1779–1852), set to Irish air, The Moreen |
| The Northern Star | Andrew O’Brien |
| The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood | Fairport Convention |
| The River Ran Red | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Sad Thistle | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Tale of Jaden’s Shield | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Tale of Spring Crown Tourney, As46 | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Tale of Titus | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| The Three Ravens | Ravenscroft |
| The Veil | Garraed Galbraith |
| The War Song | Countess Maguerite (Katheryn Journay) |
| The Warlord Sits Upon His Throne | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| There Was a Bard in London Town | Aneleda Falconbridge & co. |
| This Endris’ Night I Saw a Sight | c. 1475 |
| This Worldes Joie | middle English circa 1300, Aneleda Falconbridge tune |
| traditionalitional Irish Love Song (He Died, He Died, He Died) | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| True Love’s Kiss | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Twa Corbies | traditional |
| Unrequited, Unrequited | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Vade Mecum Ad Honorum | Aneleda Falconbridge & Jean du Montagne |
| Vivat, the Dream! | Warjna Waleska Katzjmjr (Varina Suellen Plonski) 1992 |
| Wait For the War to Be Over | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Warriors of Endewearde | Brian A. Hubbard/Lord Gwillim Kynith |
| We Be Three Poor Mariners | Thomas Ravenscroft, Deuteromelia, 1609 |
| We Wear the Purple and Gold | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Where the Bard Sings | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Wind That Shakes the Barley | Robert Dwyer Joyce, Ballads of Irish Chivalry,1872 |
| Wir Zogen in Das Feld (German and English) | Georg Forster, Fresh teutsche Liedlein 1539-1556 |
| Women of the Northern Army | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Word Burned Allies | Aneleda Falconbridge |
| Wordles Bliss | anon. 1265, after John Fleagle |
| Worms of the Earth | Sir Volodomir Kambionets, OL (Bob Esty) (c)1986 |
| Worms of the Earth (duplication) | Sir Volodomir Kambionets, OL (Bob Esty) (c)1986 |
| Þis Feste Is Ine Myne Stomak | Aneleda Falconbridge & Yo Gabba Gabba |
*The only time she’s been away for a night was after the Yukka Party at Duchy Von Drachenklaue one Pennsic. Billy Fish took good care of her and brought her back to me in the morning. (I was lucky that I brought home my own name that night and he didn’t have to bring that back to Thanet House too. Oi! Good times!)