Other Song Sources

If the Ballad Index does not offer the information you want about a particular song, here are some other places you can look on the Internet.

Steve Roud's Folk Song Index is the other major song catalog on the Internet.

Jane Keefer's Folk Music - An Index to Recorded Resources includes an extensive collection of recordings, both from traditional singers and modern pop performers.

You can find broadside prints at the following sites (among others):

Bodleian - Bodleian Library site Ballads Catalogue. Ballads cited by shelfmark. Located as of this writing at http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/maske.pl?db=ballads
EngBdsdBA - UC Santa Barbara English Broadside Ballad Pepys Collection. Ballads cited by Pepys volume and page. Located as of this writing at http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/pepys
NLScotland - National Library of Scotland Word on the Street site. Ballads cited by shelfmark. Located as of this writing at http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/search.html
Murray - Glasgow Broadside Ballads site Murray Collection. Ballads cited by manuscript number. Located as of this writing at http://www.gla.ac.uk/t4/dumfries/files/layer2/glasgow_broadside_ballads/
LOCSinging - America Singing at the Library of Congress American Memory site. Ballads cited by digital id.
LOCSheet - Sheet Music at the Library of Congress American Memory site. Ballads cited by digital id Located as of this writing at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Performing%20Arts,+Music
PopMusicMTSU - Middle Tennessee State Center for Popular Music Kenneth Goldstein Broadside Collection at http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/collections/default.aspx

The Digital Tradition -- an online collection of songs and song texts. http://www.mudcat.org/
Smithsonian Folkways offers access to one of the largest libraries of recorded folk music available.
The Library of Congress probably contains information about the song you want (if you can find it).