Angel Band
A farewell hymn carried by close harmony and the hope of home.
- Source
- Text by Jefferson Hascall; tune commonly credited to William B. Bradbury
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Music
The songbook
Browse the songs, read the words, or leave a few lines to the imagination. These pages gather working lyrics, chords, sources, Scrips originals, and the histories we can document.
Angeline
An urgent plea to a girl caught between the people who love her and a dangerous allegiance.
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Angeline the Baker
An old-time fiddle tune played here as an instrumental, with repeated A and B parts.
- Source
- Stephen Foster; now widely circulated as an old-time fiddle tune
- Song sheet
- Working instrumental chart
Baby-O
A traditional call-and-response song with mischievous, sometimes sharp-edged verses.
- Source
- Traditional American folk song; Scrips source follows the Kossoy Sisters title/lineage, also known as What'll We Do with the Baby-O?
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Banks of the Ohio
A dark riverside ballad of possessive love, murder, and the sheriff at the door.
- Source
- Traditional murder ballad; no single verified author located in project files
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics; chords needed
Blackberry Blossom
An instrumental fiddle tune built around contrasting A and B parts.
- Source
- Traditional old-time/bluegrass fiddle tune
- Song sheet
- Working instrumental chart
Boil Them Cabbage Down
An old-time fiddle tune, supplied here as the band’s two-line instrumental progression.
- Source
- Traditional American fiddle/banjo song
- Song sheet
- Working instrumental chart
Called
A prayer that moves between remembered answers, present silence, and a reaching hand.
- Source
- Brad Wofford
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics; chords needed
Come All You Virginia Girls
A teasing courtship song about mountain boys, rough-built homes, and Johnny cakes.
- Source
- Traditional; likely related to old-time floating-verse song families
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Cripple Creek
A driving fiddle-and-banjo instrumental with recurring A and B parts.
- Source
- Traditional Appalachian fiddle/banjo tune
- Song sheet
- Working instrumental chart
Front Porch
A summer-porch warning about jealousy and a love that turns threatening.
- Source
- Brad Wofford
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics; chords needed
Hard Times a-capella
Stephen Foster’s plea for relief from hard times, filed here for unaccompanied singing.
- Source
- Stephen Foster
- Song sheet
- Song sheet forthcoming
I'll Fly Away
Albert E. Brumley’s gospel song of release and a home beyond this life.
- Source
- Albert E. Brumley
- Song sheet
- Song information only
In the Sweet By and By
A hymn of reunion on a distant shore, with the band’s verse, chorus, and fiddle-intro notes.
- Source
- Words by S. Fillmore Bennett; music by Joseph P. Webster
- Song sheet
- Lyrics + partial chord notes
June Apple
An old-time fiddle tune threaded with floating verses about sweethearts, sheep, and a troublesome chimney.
- Source
- Traditional Appalachian fiddle tune
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
KOA
A campground summer, a first kiss, and a promise that proves hard to keep at thirteen.
- Source
- Brad Wofford
- Song sheet
- Lyrics + partial chord notes
Let’s Get the Band Together
An invitation to pick up the instruments, gather old friends, and pass the songs along.
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Marybelle
A reunion beneath county-fair lights, with a Ferris wheel turning above an unfinished story.
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Mining Camp Blues
A coal miner’s child waits at the pithead as a workday turns to loss.
- Source
- Often associated with Trixie Smith / early blues repertory; exact Scrips source unresolved
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Old Joe Clark
An old-time fiddle-and-banjo standard, represented here by an instrumental working chart.
- Source
- Traditional Appalachian song/tune
- Song sheet
- Working instrumental chart
Rice Queen
Pageant lights, restless youth, and the pull of leaving a small Texas town.
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Shady Grove
A traditional love song stitched from longing, remembered dances, and floating verses.
- Source
- Traditional Appalachian song family, related to older British Isles ballad/tune strains
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Ship and Anchor
A sea-bound pursuit turns into a storm-tossed reckoning, released as “Ships.”
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Single Girl
An old-time contrast between the freedom of single life and the work of marriage.
- Source
- Traditional Appalachian/old-time song
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
St. Augustine
A cheerful complaint about lawn care, the HOA, and a grass that takes too much time.
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
The Cuckoo
A traditional folk song that has travelled through many singers and versions, now joining the dark songbook.
- Source
- Traditional
- Song sheet
- Lyrics + partial chord notes
This Land is Your Land
Woody Guthrie’s song about the American landscape and who gets to call it home.
- Source
- Woody Guthrie
- Song sheet
- Song information only
Time
A Scrips original preserved on the live KSIJ single released in 2019.
- Source
- The Scrips
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Tom Dooley
A dark ballad of a killing on a mountain and a man facing the gallows.
- Source
- Traditional
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Two Loves
A struggle between competing loves, and a prayer to know which voice to follow.
- Source
- Brad Wofford
- Song sheet
- Lyrics + partial chord notes
Wildwood Flower
A flower-filled song of devotion, disappointment, and a lover’s departure.
- Source
- Words by Maud Irving; music by Joseph Philbrick Webster; Carter Family later popularized it
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics; chords needed
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
A family-farewell song whose country verses differ from the older hymn of the same name.
- Source
- Ada R. Habershon and Charles H. Gabriel for the older hymn; Carter Family popularized a later country variant
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords
Worried Man Blues
A restless old-time song of shackles, a departing train, and troubles that may yet pass.
- Source
- Traditional song, popularized by the Carter Family
- Song sheet
- Lyrics + partial chord notes
Yellow Rose of Texas
A promise to return to a sweetheart beside the Rio Grande.
- Source
- Nineteenth-century American song; composer often listed as unknown/J.K.
- Song sheet
- Working lyrics + chords