Ran into this site when looking for a song. Thought it might be of general interest and it has only been mentioned once on the forums. It was fun browsing through and seeing songs that I haven’t heard mentioned for a decade or more.
I can’t get anything to play here. Good lists of titles and styles, but how do I hear them? 
I tried “Gospel” from the description on the first page. I then tried the first tune on the resulting page: “Amazing Grace”. You have to be careful, as this site has been cross-referenced to nth anal degree, so don’t click on anything down in the body of the page. Rather, click on the white box across the top of the page that says “Click here to display item.” I am now listening to a great acapella version of Amazing Grace as an mp3 file. 
Oh, wow! I Am A Pilgrim! 
Ma toes is a tappin’! I feel like Steve Martin at the beginning of “The Jerk”. 
djm
OH MY!!! I could spend half the night with this thing!!! 
I’m listening to Down in the Willow Garden- if you listen, you’ll know why I can’t play “Sally Gardens” - I grew up with this and always end up in the Willow Garden.
Great wonderful site that has our folks’ songs!
You know it would be intresting to see how many of these tunes are recoginzed by the folks across the “pond” (as they say) …
That is really a great place. Definitely some wonderful gospel music and at least five pages of different groups or people playing Soldier’s Joy. You could stay busy there for a very long time. Thanks!
I really should have mentioned that like I did when I posted about the song that led me there. It took me a way too long and too many visits to figure out what DJM seemed to figure out right off the bat.
After hearing “Ain’t goanna rain no more” for the first time 20 years, I thought it would be of interest to others.
Hi Cowtime
The tune to Down in the Willow Garden sounds like the tune to the song Rosin the Bow.
http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=944742
David
You’re right. The first part is very similar, the second not at all- at least the way I heard it growing up. But yes, it is closer than Sally Gardens, but, I think what always throws me is that Sally Gardens/Willow Garden starts the same, and I somehow can’t keep the tune for the former, always end up in the Willows. Now I’m gonna have to see if it’s on that Appalachian site. What fun!!
edited to add- yep, it’s there- but a very rough version. I’ve got a cd my brother made from a reel to reel tape my Dad made back in the late 60s of makin’ music . I wish I knew how to get it to computer and I’d send it to you. A very different caliber of playing. Actually, I really should get that to these folks, to keep the tunes alive.
Hi cowtime
I like to sing Sally Gardens, that helps me remember the tune
Try thinking of the tune by it’s Sunday name - The Maid on the Mourne Shore, that might help keep them separate in your mind.
David
But that would require me to know the words… 
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Good idea though, I might try that. What I really need to do is get a recording of the thing.
Here you are cowtime.
The Rankine family singing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49hbZ5Uvz4
David
Edited to add Irish band singing it, as well as above Canadian band.
Thanks for those. I really love that second version- very nice. 'At’uns a keeper.
WB Yeats admitted to swiping the Sally Gardens tune from an older song, You Rambling Boys of Pleasure. Andy Irvine sings a version of this on Planxty’s “After The Break” album.
djm