Artist	Song
Leo Kottke	Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
from 6- and 12-String Guitar (2006)
Nanci Griffith	From a Distance
from Lone Star State of Mind (1988)
Christine Lavin	Regretting What I Said
from Traditional Music Revisited (1982)
Billy Bragg & Wilco	At My Window Sad and Lonely
from Mermaid Avenue (2007)
Loudon Wainwright III	Dead Skunk
from Album III (1990)
Dave Van Ronk	Duncan and Brady
from The Folkways Years 1959-1961 (1991)
Burl Ives	Wayfaring Stranger
from The Asch Recordings, 1939-1945, Vol. 2 (1967)
Patty Larkin	I Told Him My Dog Wouldn't Run
from The Silverwolf Homeless Project (2005)
Townes Van Zandt	Pancho and Lefty
from Be Here to Love Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2006)
The Brothers Four	Greenfields
from The Brothers Four: Greatest Hits (2008)
Eric von Schmidt & Rolf Cahn	Wasn't That a Mighty Storm
from Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt (1961)
Taj Mahal	Candy Man
from Giant Step (1989)
Eric Andersen	Thirsty Boots (Extended Version)
from 'Bout Changes and Things (2006)
Richard Thompson	1952 Vincent Black Lightning
from Rumor and Sigh (1991)
Tom Rush	Merrimac County
from The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, 1962-1999 (1999)
Dian & The Greenbriar Boys	He Was a Friend
from Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records - 1963-1973 (2007)
Iron & Wine	Naked As We Came
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Elizabeth Cotten	Freight Train
from Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (1989)
The Limeliters	When I First Came to This Land
from The Limeliters (2005)
Indigo Girls	Kid Fears
from Indigo Girls (1992)
David Wilcox	Eye of the Hurricane
from The Very Best of David Wilcox (2001)
John Gorka	Houses In the Fields
from Pure John Gorka (2006)
Bill Morrissey & Mark Dann	Small Town On the River
from CooP - Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 3) (1982)
Great Big Sea	Boston and St. Johns
from Great Big CD (2004)
Mitch & Mickey	A Kiss At the End of the Rainbow
from A Mighty Wind - The Album (2003)

Comment:

Not all folk songs have words, and not all folk songs, strictly speaking, are folk songs. For instance the melody for "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" was originally part of Bach's Cantata No. 147, but Leo Kottke has arranged it for solo acoustic guitar and dropped it squarely in the middle of the folk world. Ralph McTell's "Streets of London," a world-weary ode to the vagrants, homeless, and other forgotten souls in Britain's capital city, jump-started his career; the song was later transformed into a punk anthem by the Anti-Nowhere League. And Canadian folk-rockers Great Big Sea spun a Celtic-flavored sailing yarn of lovers separated — but not for very much longer — in "Boston and St. John's."

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