Band under the lights: Momus, Asmund, and Kerry practicing some O'Carolan tunes
The Book of Song has gotten larger over time. Lyrics have been added as the various Bards of the Clann have discovered the tunes over time. Please only add songs for which there is a serious intention for eventual performance for the Clann as gathered at an official event or meeting. The general format used for the Book of Song is to provide the lyrics with Guitar chords interspersed at the appropriate places. If you are not a musician, it falls to the Bards of the Clann to help provide this information in subsequent revisions of the lyrics as published.

For greater readability, the following convention has been devised. Wherever a Guitar chord should appear in the lyrical line, use the following code to insert it:

<font class="chord">[Am]</font>

The chord should appear just before the word or part of word where it would be normally played when performing the song. An example:

And its [F] all for me grog
me [Bb] jolly jolly [F] grog

note: these chord insertions will only appear in the final published page only if the Input Format of the page has been set to Full HTML. Normal Users may not have the ability to change the input format because this is a security risk.

This character font class is also currently used for notes on the song as well.

For translations, phonetics, and ABC formatted music I've used text inside

<pre>Text to be Formatted like this</pre>

The ABC format is a popular method of notating folk and Irish music using plain text making it easy to share over the internet. There are many different players available which allow users to create, edit, display, and play ABC formatted notation. I personally use Barfly for the Mac. Using one of these players, you can copy and paste the ABC text into the player, and either play the music directly or display it in normal sheet music format for reading (and playing) on an instrument.