Love Songs
There are many, many songs about love in both of our songbooks, Rise Up Singing and Rise Again. So if you're looking for love songs there are many ways to find them!
There is a "Love" chapter in each book. You can peruse the list of the songs in this "Love" chapter of each book here: Rise Up Singing and Rise Again. There are cross-referenced list of lovesongs found in other chapters at the ends of these two chapters (on p130 in RUS & on p157 in Rise Again)
The large majority of popular songs are on the broad subject of love & intimate relationships (falling in love, long-lasting love, rotten lovers, painful breakups, etc.)
The only popular music chapter as such in Rise Up Singing is "Golden Oldies". There are, in contrast, many different chapters of popular music by song genre in Rise Again. These include:
- Blues
- British Invasion
- Country
- Golden Oldies (early popular songs often before rock 'n roll)
- Jazz standards
- Millennial Songs (popular songs after 1995)
- Motown
- Musicals
- Rock Around the Clock (early rock 'n roll)
- Surfin' USA (American popular songs after 1964)
Here are some of our favorite love songs in our songbooks and "The Music Box":
- Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
- The Bramble & the Rose (Barbara Keith)
- Bring Me a Boat (Kate Rusby)
- Broom of the Cowdenknowes (Child Ballad #217)
- Crazy He Calls Me (Billie Holiday)
- Dark-eyed Molly (Archie Fisher)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (words by William Butler Yeats)
- Dream a Little Dream of Me
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Ewan MacColl)
- Forty-Five Years (Stan Rogers)
- Hello Young Lovers (Rodgers & Hammerstein from "The King & I")
- I Live Not Where I Love (British Broadside ballad)
- I Will (Paul McCartney)
- Love Chooses You (Laurie Lewis)
- Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Dylan)
- (Our) Love Is Here to Stay
- Red Is the Rose (traditional Irish)
- Roseville Fair (Bill Staines - we met dancing!)
- Since You Asked (Judy Collins)
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly (Ewan MacColl)
- They Can't Take That Away from Me
- The Water Is Wide (Child Ballad #204 - traditional Scottish)
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Sandy Denny)
- Wild Mountain Thyme (traditional Scottish)
- You Belong to Me
- You're Not Alone (Jeff Tweedy)