English Folk Tunes for Accordion (book/CD)

Schott Music Ltd., London
88 Traditional Pieces for Accordion

A lively and wide-ranging collection of great tunes from all around England, suitable for playing on piano accordion, melodeon! Included are many well-established favourites for dance bands and informal sessions, plus some lesser-known gems and recent compositions.
Reels, jigs, hornpipes and slow airs drawn from the 17th Century to the present day, with chord suggestions, background information on the tunes and detailed guidance on how to get the best out of this vibrant music.

SOME GREAT OLD TUNES:
Sir Roger de Coverley
Me Laddie Sits Ower Late Up
Speed the Plow
Napoleon's March
Spirit of the Dance
Oswestry Wake
Morgan Rattler
Swarb’s Tune ('I-tiddly-i-ti')
The English Bonny Kate
The Sloe
Sweet Hesleyside
The Hen’s March to the Midden
The Princess Royal
Because He Was a Bonny Lad
Hesleyside Reel

PLAYFORD TUNES:
Jack's Maggot
Newcastle
Kemp’s Jig
Childgrove
Portsmouth
Mr. Isaac's Maggot

MORRIS TUNES:
Constant Billy
The Black Joak
The Old Kent Cricketer
Mrs Casey
Bonnets so Blue
Shepherd's Hay
Chow Bang
Shooting Star Polka
Bacup Garland Dance Tune No. 3
The Rochdale Coconut Dance

HORNPIPES: 
‘Dotted Hornpipes’: The Navvie on the Line
The Steamboat
Redesdales Hornpipe
Proudlock’s Hornpipe
Miss Thompson's Favourite
The Wonder
Harvest Home
Trumpet Hornpipe
(b) ‘Straight’ Hornpipes: Enrico
Henry Stables’s Grand Hornpipe
St George's Polka
(c) 3/2 Hornpipes: Reed House Rant
Rusty Gulley
Lads of Alnwick
Shropshire Rounds
The Three-Legged Chestnut

MORE TUNES IN SETS:
The Ploughboy
Dorset 4-Hand Reel (1st tune)
Dorset 4-Hand Reel (2nd tune)
La Russe
Davy Nick Nack
Soldier's Joy
Three Around Three
Come Let Us Dance and Sing
Galopede
Jane's Fancy
Roxburgh Castle
Whinshields
I've Lost My Love, I Care Not
Smash the Windows
The Oyster Girl
The Moon and Seven Stars
Haste to the Wedding
The Blackberry Quadrille
Hot Punch
John of Paris
Carenta

RECENTLY-COMPOSED TUNES:
Snowy Monday
Yule Sea
Margaret's Waltz
Sharon Davis, USA
Puddleglum's Misery
Cocking the Chafer
Jump at the Sun
Pam and Julia's
The New March
The History Man
To The Edges
Flatworld
Horizonto
The Great North Run
The Curlew
Calliope House
The Road to the North