The Essential Folk Song List.
1) Flower of Scotland – The Corries
2) A Nation Once Again. – The Wolfe Tones’ Derek Warfield
3) The John MacLean March. – Tonight At Noon
4) Freedom Come-all-Ye. – Arthur Johnstone
5) Caledonia - John Morran
6) The Battle of Harlaw – Andy Hunter
7) The Fields of Athenry – The Wolfe Tones’ Derek Warfield
8) Steal Away - Stephen Quigg
9) The Green Fields of France- The Corries
10) Massacre of Glencoe – Norma Munro

OK, we know this is STUPID! There are literally hundreds of great folk songs and we have decided to pick just ten. It’s such a rich source of great songs – political, comic, love, hate and the rest of the human emotions. Yes, you get all of life in folk song.

Of course the nearer it gets to the original the couthier it gets so you might just have a minor problem with some words, dialect or that the song is in Gaelic. Relax. Your only just starting out on a wonderful journey.