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SONG TOPIC LEVEL THEMES
It's a long way to Tipperary NOSTALGIA places 1 HOMES & HABITATS
My bonnie LOVE separation 1 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Hello Goodbye LOVE troubles 1 UPS & DOWNS
Sailing NOSTALGIA sailing 1 UPS & DOWNS
Kum Ba Yah SPIRITUAL do right now 1 UPS & DOWNS
Michael row SPIRITUAL do right now 1 UPS & DOWNS
This old man WARMUP counting 1 UPS & DOWNS
Animals went in two by two WARMUP counting 1 UPS & DOWNS
One man went to mow WARMUP counting 1 UPS & DOWNS
Ten green bottles WARMUP counting 1 UPS & DOWNS
Ten in a bed WARMUP counting 1 UPS & DOWNS
One man's hands PROTEST 2 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
What did you learn in school? PROTEST 2 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Where have all the flowers gone? PROTEST fraternity 2 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Ebony & Ivory PROTEST fraternity 2 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Red river valley NOSTALGIA places 2 HOMES & HABITATS
Little Boxes PROTEST freedom 2 HOMES & HABITATS
When I first came to this land TROUBLES solutions 2 HOMES & HABITATS
Leaving on a jet plane GOODBYE love 2 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Where are you going my pretty maid? LOVE courting women 2 LOVE & MARRIAGE
And I love her LOVE loving women 2 LOVE & MARRIAGE
All my loving LOVE separation 2 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Yesterday NOSTALGIA 2 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Santy Anno NOSTALGIA sailing 2 UPS & DOWNS
Yellow submarine NOSTALGIA sailing 2 UPS & DOWNS
All my trials SPIRITUAL better to come 2 UPS & DOWNS
John Brown's body SPIRITUAL better to come 2 UPS & DOWNS
Nobody knows the trouble I see SPIRITUAL better to come 2 UPS & DOWNS
Swing low sweet chariot SPIRITUAL better to come 2 UPS & DOWNS
Worried man blues SPIRITUAL better to come 2 UPS & DOWNS
We shall overcome SPIRITUAL do right now 2 UPS & DOWNS
When all the saints SPIRITUAL do right now 2 UPS & DOWNS
Down by the riverside SPIRITUAL do right now 2 UPS & DOWNS
Turn turn turn SPIRITUAL do right now 2 UPS & DOWNS
Hey Jude TROUBLES solutions 2 UPS & DOWNS
Let it be TROUBLES solutions 2 UPS & DOWNS
Oh, Susanna WARMUP 2 UPS & DOWNS
Going to the zoo WARMUP 2 UPS & DOWNS
She'll be coming round the mountain WARMUP 2 UPS & DOWNS
Drunken sailor WARMUP 2 UPS & DOWNS
What have they done to the rain? PROTEST 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
If I had a hammer PROTEST 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Show me the prison PROTEST equality 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Marvellous toy PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Blowin in the wind PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
H-bomb's thunder PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Universal soldier PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Last night I had the strangest dream PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
March with us today PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Johnny, I hardly knew you PROTEST fraternity 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Gypsy rover PROTEST freedom 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
She's leaving home PROTEST freedom 3 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
This land is your land NOSTALGIA places 3 HOMES & HABITATS
Down the lane NOSTALGIA places 3 HOMES & HABITATS
Streets of London PROTEST equality 3 HOMES & HABITATS
Old mother earth PROTEST freedom 3 HOMES & HABITATS
Banks of Ohio CRIME passion 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
I'll never find another you LOVE 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
First time ever LOVE 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Oh, no John LOVE courting women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Shenandoah LOVE courting women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Sweet nightingale LOVE courting women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
My lady's a wild flying dove LOVE loving women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
I've just seen a face LOVE loving women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Annie's song LOVE loving women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
I give you the morning LOVE loving women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Colours LOVE loving women 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Leaving London LOVE separation 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Water is wide LOVE troubles 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Girl LOVE troubles 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
I should have known better LOVE troubles 3 LOVE & MARRIAGE
I don't know how to love him LOVE troubles 3 UPS & DOWNS
Morning has broken NOSTALGIA 3 UPS & DOWNS
Cockles & mussels NOSTALGIA 3 UPS & DOWNS
Freight train NOSTALGIA places 3 UPS & DOWNS
Sloop John B NOSTALGIA sailing 3 UPS & DOWNS
Beans, bacon & gravy PROTEST freedom 3 UPS & DOWNS
Nowhere man TROUBLES 3 UPS & DOWNS
Deep blue sea TROUBLES 3 UPS & DOWNS
I can't help but wonder TROUBLES 3 UPS & DOWNS
All night long TROUBLES 3 UPS & DOWNS
Now I'm easy TROUBLES solutions 3 UPS & DOWNS
Wild rover TROUBLES solutions 3 UPS & DOWNS
Clementine TROUBLES solutions 3 UPS & DOWNS
We can work it out TROUBLES solutions 3 UPS & DOWNS
Moonshadow TROUBLES solutions 3 UPS & DOWNS
Hippies & the beatniks PROTEST freedom 3 WORK & LEISURE
Lag's song CRIME punishment 4 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Times they are a-changing PROTEST equality 4 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Rider pass by PROTEST fraternity 4 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
No man's land PROTEST fraternity 4 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Hard rain's a gonna fall PROTEST fraternity 4 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Imagine PROTEST fraternity 4 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Free born man NOSTALGIA 4 HOMES & HABITATS
Country roads NOSTALGIA places 4 HOMES & HABITATS
Dirty old town NOSTALGIA places 4 HOMES & HABITATS
Fiddler's green NOSTALGIA sailing 4 HOMES & HABITATS
Skye boat song NOSTALGIA sailing 4 HOMES & HABITATS
When the ship comes in NOSTALGIA sailing 4 HOMES & HABITATS
Going to the west GOODBYE love 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Last thing on my mind GOODBYE love 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Darlin Annie LOVE 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
What the poet called her LOVE courting men 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Maids when you're young LOVE courting men 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
I'm a rover & seldom sober LOVE courting women 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Rosalie LOVE courting women 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Wild mountain thyme LOVE loving women 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Early one morning LOVE troubles 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Down by the Sally Gardens LOVE troubles 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Foggy dew NOSTALGIA 4 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Ramblin' boy NOSTALGIA 4 UPS & DOWNS
Housewife's alphabet PROTEST equality 4 WORK & LEISURE
Banks of marble PROTEST equality 4 WORK & LEISURE
Net hauling song WORK celebration 4 WORK & LEISURE
Miner's wife WORK protest 4 WORK & LEISURE
My old man WORK protest 4 WORK & LEISURE
Come my little son WORK protest 4 WORK & LEISURE
Gilgarra mountain CRIME romantic villain 5 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Thirty foot trailer NOSTALGIA 5 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Sunday supplement world PROTEST equality 5 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Little girl child PROTEST equality 5 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Swansea town NOSTALGIA sailing 5 HOMES & HABITATS
Leaving of Liverpool NOSTALGIA sailing 5 HOMES & HABITATS
Don't think twice GOODBYE love 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Four strong winds GOODBYE love 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Talking want-ad blues LOVE courting men 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Squire of Tanworth LOVE courting men 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Wish I had a troubador LOVE loving women 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Nine month blues LOVE troubles 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
She moved through the fair LOVE troubles 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Sweet Thames flow softly LOVE troubles 5 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Auld lang syne GOODBYE celebration 5 UPS & DOWNS
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail NOSTALGIA 5 UPS & DOWNS
Blow the man down WARMUP 5 UPS & DOWNS
Work of the weavers WORK celebration 5 WORK & LEISURE
Shoals of herring WORK celebration 5 WORK & LEISURE
Come fill up your glasses WORK celebration 5 WORK & LEISURE
I'm gonna to be an engineer WORK protest 5 WORK & LEISURE
Diggers' song WORK protest 5 WORK & LEISURE
Poor Paddy works on the railway WORK protest 5 WORK & LEISURE
Legal illegal CRIME justice 6 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Alan Tyne of Harrow CRIME romantic villain 6 EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Joy of living GOODBYE love 6 HOMES & HABITATS
Angela Davis (Love for love) LOVE 6 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Ramblin man LOVE courting men 6 LOVE & MARRIAGE
Both sides now TROUBLES 6 UPS & DOWNS
Nuclear energy means jobs PROTEST freedom 6 WORK & LEISURE
Manchester rambler PROTEST freedom 6 WORK & LEISURE
Ballad of accounting PROTEST freedom 6 WORK & LEISURE
Daddy what did you do in the strike? WORK protest 6 WORK & LEISURE

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