KelticDead Music Broadsides

PDF Views of the Stories (with Sheet Music and Audio Links)
Arranged in Alphabetic Order

Banks of the Pontchartrain 

Also known as "Lakes of the Pontchartrain" Americana-Celtic from around the 1830s. 

Herr Mannelig
(Dear Mankind)

Old Scandinavian Song about the "Eternal Temptation." Northern European and Mongolian Origins.

Out on the Ocean 

This melody is often associated with the boatmen of the currach boats. Scots-Irish origins.

Those Were The Days   

Originally, this melody was composed from a Russian Gypsy song, and the lyrics written in 1926 as "On the Long Road" as a "lost love" ballad. It was immensely popular through the 30s and 40s, and in the early sixties, Eugene Raskin and his wife rewrote the lyrics as an "old friends," ballad. Eugene gave it to Paul McCartney and Mary Hopkin as a song made public with credits given.