Backs and Forwards Sing This Song: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah

If we’ve been asked this question once, we been asked it a thousand times: where can I find sheet music for tunes commonly played in British pubs? We usually answer this query with the reference librarian’s shrug. But now a new source has appeared: A Traditional Music Library. This web site out of the U.K. is a “large traditional and folk music library of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music theory, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.” It has handy full-text searching capability, too. Impress/bore/frighten your friends at your next gathering with rugby songs, sea chanties and banjo ballads.