| Song
Title |
Author |
|
| 36 Miles Away from the Sea |
While/Matthews |
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| Alice White |
Alan Bell |
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| All Hail This Grand Day |
- |
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| All the Dark Clouds |
Ian H Bruce |
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| Anderton Lift |
Arthur Marshall |
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The Aqueduct Song (Long Way Down)  |
Arthur Marshall |
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| The B & MK |
Graeme Meek |
 |
| The Ballad of the Brothers Gunn |
Trad/Hayward |
 |
| The Bargee |
Langtry/Whalley/Hipkiss |
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| Bargee Song |
- |
 |
| The Bargemaster (Chigley) |
- |
 |
| Barges |
Ralph McTell |
 |
| Big Diesel Blues |
Dusty Miller |
|
| Big Ditch Flood |
Matthews/While |
|
| Birmingham Lads (The New Navigation) |
John Freeth |
 |
| Birmingham-on-Sea |
- |
 |
| The Bishops turn'd Navigators |
John Freeth |
|
| A Bit of a Do |
Barry Goodman |
 |
Boater's Glory  |
David Blagrove |
|
| Boatload of Wine |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| The Boatman |
Wendy Freer |
 |
| Boaty, Boaty, Spit in the Cut |
- |
 |
| The Bold English Navvy |
- |
 |
| The Bold Navigators |
- |
|
| Bolinder Boatman |
Ian Woods |
 |
| Bosley in the Rain |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Bottom Blacking is Boring! |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| The Braunston Belle and the Number One |
Roger Gall |
|
| Bring the Sea to Manchester |
- |
 |
| Bristol through to Reading |
Foxwell et al |
 |
| Broken Boats |
Barry Skinner |
 |
The Brummagem Run  |
Peter Dodds |
|
| The Bugsworth Tipplers |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Call this a Holiday? |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| The Canal Boat Song |
- |
 |
| Canal Fever |
- |
 |
Canal Song  |
Mark Ayling |
 |
| Can't Get the Wares Away |
Matthews/While |
|
| Captains of the Waterways |
Jon Raven |
 |
| Carrying Coal |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Carrying the Load |
Barry Goodman |
 |
| Chocolate Charlie |
Bill Malkin |
 |
Coal Bargee  |
Chris Cheetham |
|
| Coal, Coal for Manchester |
Hugh E Jones |
 |
The Coal Wharf  |
David Blagrove |
|
| Company Town |
Gezz Overington |
 |
| Come Now Begin Delving |
- |
 |
| The Crinan Canal for Me |
- |
 |
| The Cruise of the Calabar |
Several versions |
 |
| Do They Know, Do They Care? |
Miller/Illingworth |
 |
| Down at the Pub on the Cut |
Johnny Handle |
 |
| Down by the Nine Locks |
Brian Langtry |
 |
| Down the Cut |
John Mills and Norma King |
 |
| Dream Captain |
Tony Haynes |
 |
| Dudley Canal Tunnel Song (Push Boys
Push) |
Dudley Canal Tunnel Trust |
 |
| The Duke of Bridgewater |
Graeme Meek |
 |
DUNCAN  |
Alexander et al |
|
| The End
of a Boating Day |
Peter Bowers |
 |
| The English Navvy (A New Temperance
Song) |
- |
|
| Faithful
Lister |
Kerry Dainty |
|
| The Famous Duke |
Jon Raven |
 |
| The Finest of Them All |
Dave Ritchie |
 |
| Firing Up the Bolinder |
Dusty Miller |
|
| The First Cargo (Tavistock Canal) |
- |
|
| Fradley Junction Bound |
Ledbetter/Miller |
|
| The Fray Bentos Tinned Pie |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| The Ganger's Wife |
Matthews/While |
|
| The Gay Gondolier |
Flanders/Swann |
 |
| Ghosts |
Colin Bargery |
 |
| The Glamorganshire Canal |
Mike Johnson |
|
| Good Old George |
Jon Raven |
|
| Grand Trunk Canal |
Dusty Miller |
|
| Grantham Canal |
- |
|
| The Greasy Wheel |
Trad/Ian Campbell |
 |
| Hard Life on the Cut |
Ian Campbell |
 |
| Hard Working Boater |
David Blagrove |
 |
| Heartbreak Hill Blues |
William Bates |
 |
| Here Come the Navvies |
Ian Campbell |
 |
| Iced In |
Barry Goodman |
 |
| I Know That I'll Be Back Again |
Fred Rogers |
 |
| Inland Navigation |
- |
|
The Inland Waterways is the Life for Me  |
Geoff Summerfield |
 |
It'll Be the Death of Me  |
Pete Thompson |
 |
| It's a Number One's Life |
The Tollhouse Company |
 |
| In Steam |
Buz Collins |
 |
| I've Been Everywhere |
Geoff Mack / Dusty Miller |
|
| The Ivel Navigation |
Graeme Meek |
 |
| The Jolly
Bargeman |
Cicely Fox Smith |
 |
Kilcock  |
- |
|
| Lass of
Coventry |
- |
 |
| Last Man Standing |
Dusty Miller |
|
| Leave Him in the Meadow |
Dusty Miller |
|
| Leave Me Alone |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| On Leeds becoming a Seaport Town |
- |
 |
| Leggin' Boats |
Whalley/Trad |
 |
| Les Morton's Men |
David Blagrove |
|
| Les Morton's Navy |
David Blagrove |
|
| A Light At The End Of The Tunnel |
Barry Goodman |
 |
| Llangollen Dreams |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| The Lock-Keeper's Daughter |
Bob Thomas & Huw Pudner |
|
| The Lock-Keeper's Daughter |
Phil Parton |
 |
| Lock Keepers of the Waterways |
Graeme Meek |
 |
| London to Birmingham in 4½ Minutes |
Buz Collins |
 |
Long Way Down  |
Arthur Marshall |
 |
| Losin' My Blues Tonight |
Dusty/Miller |
|
| Maid in
England |
Buz Collins |
 |
| The Manchester Canal (SS Irwell) |
- |
 |
| The Manchester Ship Canal |
- |
 |
| The Manchester Ship Canal (2) |
- |
 |
| The Manchester Ship Canal Navvy |
- |
 |
| The Mary Ann McHugh |
Percy French |
 |
| Mary Bottles |
Bob Thomas & Huw Pudner |
|
| Messing About on the River |
Tony Hatch |
 |
| Miles and Miles of Poly |
Dodds/Peters |
|
| Moving Up the Cuts |
Barry Skinner |
 |
| The Mystery Load |
Dusty Miller |
|
| The Murder of Tom Pudding |
Gezz Overington |
 |
| My Waterway World |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Narrowboatman
Again |
John Clachan |
 |
| Narrowboatman Blues |
Illingworth/Miller |
 |
| Narrowboat Song |
Daniel Cainer |
 |
| Narrow Boats to Tow |
Barry Goodman |
 |
| Narrow Lock Gates |
Bill Caddick |
 |
| The Navigation (Pub) Song |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Navigation (Canal Fever) |
- |
|
| Navigator |
Philip Gaston |
 |
| The Navvie Man |
- |
 |
| The Navvies Way |
Hugh E Jones |
 |
| Navvy Boots |
- |
 |
| Navvy Boots
(More versions) |
- |
 |
| Navvy on the Line |
- |
 |
| The Navvy Boy |
- |
 |
| The Neath and Swansea Canal |
Elizabeth Davies |
|
| The New Canal |
Ron Baxter |
|
| The New Navigation (Birmingham Lads) |
John Freeth |
 |
| The New Navigators |
Johnny Handle |
 |
| The New Number Ones |
H Bowden/B Peckett |
 |
| A New Song in Honour of the Proprietors
of the Navigation |
- |
|
| New Song on the Proposed Ship Canal |
- |
 |
| No Worries |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Odebury Mon |
B Spakemon and L Hipkiss |
 |
| The Oldest Springer in Town |
Bru and Glen Peckett |
 |
| Old Sam |
Peter Dodds |
|
| On the Cut |
D Boulton and J Parton |
 |
| On the Level |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Operation Working Party |
Ann Penny |
 |
| The 'Orrible Trip |
David Blagrove |
 |
| Paddy is Yer Man |
Peter Chapman |
 |
| Paddy upon the Canal |
- |
|
| Park and Glide |
Alec Hay |
|
| Poor Old Horse |
- |
 |
| The Port Dundas Canal |
- |
|
| Practical Men |
John Crowe |
 |
| Punters |
Robin Laing |
 |
| Push Boys Push |
Dudley Canal Tunnel Trust |
 |
| The
Red Jacket Stream |
C Hastings & H Pudner |
|
| The Rochdale Canal |
Mair Potter & Brian Green |
|
| Rochdale Nine |
Fred Rogers |
 |
| The Rosemary |
Peter Dodds |
 |
| Roses and Castles |
Graeme Meek |
 |
| Roses and Castles |
Geoff Summerfield |
 |
| Rosie |
Buz Collins |
 |
| The Roving Navvy |
Ian Woods |
 |
| The Roving Young Boatman |
Jane Rouse |
 |
| The Row between the Boaters |
Graham Meek |
 |
| Saturn |
Bill Webb |
 |
| Seaport Town of Manchester |
- |
|
| The Ship Canal Song (The Mary) |
- |
 |
The Shipwreck on the Lagan Canal  |
- |
|
| Shropshire Union |
Martin Graebe |
 |
| The Single Bolinder |
David Blagrove |
 |
| The Sixty Foot Narrowboat |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
There's Something in the Cutting  |
Dusty Miller |
|
| Song of the Waterways |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Still Waters |
Ian Hartland |
 |
| Stuck On My Boating Life |
John Haywood |
 |
| The Swan Song |
Tony Haynes |
 |
| Telford's
Bridge |
John Warner |
 |
| There Lies an Old Motor |
Dixon/Dusty/Miller |
 |
| The Row Between the Boaters |
Graeme Meek |
 |
The Trip to Banbury  |
David Blagrove |
|
| They're Coming Back to the Water |
Johnny Handle |
 |
| The Tilbury |
- |
|
| Tixall Wide |
Allen Maslen |
 |
| Tom Beech's Last Trip |
David Blagrove |
 |
| The Tommy Note |
- |
 |
| The Top Lock |
Ron Baxter |
|
Travelling Man  |
Arthur Marshall |
 |
| The Trip |
Gezz Overington |
|
| The Twelve Lock Dublin Canal |
- |
 |
| The Union Canal |
Robin Laing |
 |
| The Unknown Boatman |
Dusty Miller |
 |
| This Obsession |
Tony Haynes |
 |
| Until the Cut Runs Dry |
Graeme Meek |
 |
| Up the Kennet and Avon |
John Mills/Norma King |
 |
| A Vision for Marple |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Voyage of Delight |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Waterways
Lament |
David Blagrove |
 |
Wet Weather Gear  |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| When the Chestnut Blooms in Flower |
David Blagrove |
 |
| Where the Working Boats Went |
Graeme Meek |
 |
Who Stole the Lock?  |
Troy/Williams/Miller |
|
| Whisky Mac on the Macc |
Ian H Bruce |
 |
| Ballad of Wigan Pier |
Jack Winstanley |
 |
| Wild Canal |
Norma King |
 |
| William Parker |
Buz Collins |
 |
| Willow Wren Bride |
- |
 |
A Windlass and Memories  |
Miller/Illingworth |
|
| The Worst on the Cut |
Dusty Miller |
|
| A Working Boatie Man |
Graeme Meek |
 |
| Working Boatman's Way |
David Blagrove |
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