The popularity of Six English Folk Songs for Easy Guitar inspired this new collection of folk songs. Each song arrangement begins with a simple setting and is followed by at least one variation. Note that some of the variations are a little more difficult, though none are higher than lower intermediate. The songs are: Spanish Ladies, The Keys of Canterbury, Searching for Lambs (a different version to the one in the first collection), The Truth from Above, The Trees They Grow So High, Dabbling in the Dew.

My Bonny Lad is an old Northumbrian folk song first seen in a publication in 1922. The first verse of the lyrics are:

Have you seen ought of my bonny lad?

Are you sure he's well-o?

He's gone o'er lang wi' a stick in his hand,

He's gone to row the keel-o.

Composer, John Frith has taken this beautiful melody and expertly crafted a "Theme and 8 Variations" of it for Tuba and Piano about 6 minutes in length and appropriate for advanced performers.



Tubists now have a high quality solo in their repertoire of this style.

The Folk Uke series offers a musical "construction kit" for traditional folk songs. Each song begins with the vocal part set for medium voice with chords for ukulele. This is followed by a fingerstyle accompaniment and a ukulele solo with introduction and coda. These different parts can be assembled in different ways, for example, very simply, with voice and strummed chords, or more elaborately: intro, verse 1 with chords, verse 2 with fingerstyle accompaniment followed by the solo, verse 3, etc., or as a duet, with uke 1 playing the melody and uke 2 playing chords or fingerstyle accompaniment.

Lady Maisry is Child ballad 65, first published in 1860, but much older. The melody is in the Aeolian mode. The audio sample is the Intro, Solo, Variations and Coda. The first variation, which is contrapuntal in style, is best suited to a solo ukulele performance. The second would make a good solo between verses of the song, though it is more difficult as it uses higher positions. The arrangement is for ukulele with re-entrant GCEA tuning.

A famous Norwegian song arranged for two guitars. The song has been sung by many artists, including Jan Werner Danielsen, Bjøro Håland, Andrea Een, Arild Sandvold, Sissel Kyrkjebø and the group Gåte. English variations on the title include, I know a castle in heaven, castle in the sky, I know there is a castle in heaven, I know of a heavenly stronghold, and, I know a castle in heaven above. The German title is Ich weiß im Himmelreich or Ich weiß ein ewiges Himmelreich.

Norwegian sheet music tablature, Norsk musikk noter og tabulatur, Norjalaiset nuotit ja taulukot, Norsk musik noter och tablatur