Can you name the (k)nown or (u)nknown authorship for these folk songs? by goseaward

Can you name the (k)nown or (u)nknown authorship for these folk songs?

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Source: The Mudcat Cafe / The Digital Tradition Database
Additional source info, especially including dates, from the Traditional Ballad Index and allmusic. Dates are date of composition or first recording for known authors and first collection or publication for unknown authors.
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Song Title	(K)nown or (U)nknown Author	Sample Lyric
I'll Take You Home Kathleen		_{Oh! I will take you back, Kathleen To where your heart will feel no pain}
Lavender Blue		_{Lavender's blue, dilly dilly Lavender's green}
Early One Morning		_{Oh, don't deceive me! Oh, never leave me!}
Finnegan's Wake		_{Wasn't it the truth I told you Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake}
House of the Rising Sun		_{There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun}
London Bridge is Falling Down		_{London bridge is falling down My fair lady}
Gypsy Davy		_{Tonight I lie in a wide-open field In the arms of the raggle-taggle gypsy, O.}
Alouette		_{Alouette, gentile Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai}
Shoals of Herring		_{As a cabin boy on a sailin' Lugger We were off to hunt the shoals of herring}
Streets of London		_{Let me take you by the hand And lead you through the streets of London}
Hard Times Come Again No More		_{Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor}
I'll Tell Me Ma		_{I'll tell me ma, when I get home The boys won't leave the girls alone}
The Lion Sleeps Tonight		_{In the jungle, the mighty jungle The lion sleeps tonight}
Leaving of Liverpool		_{It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me But my darling when I think of thee}
Mr. Bojangles		_{I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you In worn-out shoes}
Loch Lomond		_{You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road And I'll be in Scotland before ye}
This Little Light of Mine		_{This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine Ev'ry day, ev'ry day, ev'ry day, ev'ry day.}
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt		_{John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt His name is my name too}
Bicycle Built for Two		_{Daisy, daisy Give me your answer, do}
The Ballad of Glencoe		_{Oh, cruel was the snow that sweeps Glencoe And covers the grave o' Donald}
Tam Lin		_{I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair To travel to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is there}
Blowin' in the Wind		_{How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?}
Fair and Tender Ladies		_{Come all you fair and tender ladies Take warning how you court young men}
Leaving on a Jet Plane		_{I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again}
Jug of Punch		_{A small bird sat on an ivy bunch And the song he sang was a jug of punch.}
There But For Fortune		_{And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I}
The Dutchman		_{Let us go to the banks of the ocean Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee}
Will the Circle Be Unbroken		_{Will the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by?}
Holy Ground		_{Fare thee well, my lovely Dinah, a thousand times adieu We are bound away from the Holy Ground and the girls we love so true}
Across the Great Divide		_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Will the Circle Be Unbroken	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Blowin' in the Wind	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Shoals of Herring	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Bicycle Built for Two	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
This Little Light of Mine	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Mr. Bojangles	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
The Ballad of Glencoe	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Leaving on a Jet Plane	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Across the Great Divide	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
The Dutchman	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
There But For Fortune	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Streets of London	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
The Lion Sleeps Tonight	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Hard Times Come Again No More	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
I'll Take You Home Kathleen	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Lavender Blue	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Gypsy Davy	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
London Bridge is Falling Down	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Tam Lin	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Loch Lomond	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Finnegan's Wake	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Early One Morning	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Alouette	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Jug of Punch	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Fair and Tender Ladies	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
I'll Tell Me Ma	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
House of the Rising Sun	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Holy Ground	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}
Leaving of Liverpool	_{Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide}

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