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Bill Staines

Bill Staines
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About the artist

Bill Staines is an American songwriter and folk singer from New England, well known for composing children's songs as well as folk songs with a timeless quality. In the early 1960s he started his professional career in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. Staines began touring nationwide a few years later. In 1975 he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival. He performs about 200 times a year and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and The Good Evening Show.

Top songs

  1. The Logging Song
  2. Andie's Air
  3. River
  4. The Roseville Fair
  5. The Happy Wanderer
  6. Winter
  7. A Place in the Choir
  8. The Fox
  9. Walker Behind The Wheel
  10. A Cowboy's Hard Times
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  1. Music To Me
  2. Missouri Road Song
  3. Traveling Shoes
  4. The Black Fly Song
  5. Henri LeBlanc
  6. Kookaburra
  7. My Sweet Wyoming Home
  8. Roseville Fair
  9. The Streets Of Old Quebec
  10. Bridges
  11. The Lost Mine Of The Chisos
  12. Child of Mine
  13. Piney River Girl
  14. Sweet Wyoming Home
  15. The Philosopher's Song
  16. Old Dogs
  17. Ol' Jack
  18. Jubilee
  19. My Grandfather's Clock
  20. Home on the Range
  21. Little Brown Dog
  22. The Lover's Waltz
  23. This Song Is for the Birds
  24. The Rivers of Texas
  25. So Sang the River
  26. Joli Girl
  27. Crossing the Water
  28. The Applepicker's Song (the Apple Picker's Reel)
  29. Mexico Way
  30. Leatherwing Bat
  31. Red Clay Country Blues
  32. I Must Be Going Home
  33. Dear Friend
  34. Four Little Sailors
  35. Prairie Song
  36. In Order To Survive
  37. Winter On The Railroad
  38. The Happy Yodel
  39. The Gypsy Rover
  40. Autumn Waltz
  41. Walk Down by the Water
  42. Shady Grove
  43. Wild Rippling Waters
  44. Louisiana Storm
  45. Rye Whiskey Joe
  46. Less Of Me
  47. White Mountain Goodbye
  48. Heart of Stone
  49. The Riddle Song
  50. Tell Ol' Bill
  51. The Boats They Come and the Boats They Go
  52. The Music Box
  53. Pretty Boy Floyd
  54. Wild, Wild Heart
  55. Alkali
  56. Down the Road
  57. I Bid You Goodnight
  58. Going To The West
  59. Journey Home
  60. Eyes to Eyes
  61. Railroad Blues
  62. Once We Walked
  63. Moving It Down The Line
  64. Distances and Miles
  65. October Winds
  66. Savannah
  67. How Can I Keep from Singing
  68. Spanish Is a Loving Tongue
  69. Lynchburg Town
  70. Bridges (live)
  71. Cody
  72. Gold Dust In Our Eyes
  73. Show Me The Road
  74. Liverpool Light
  75. Yellowstone Winds
  76. Salt Air
  77. I Never Got To Say Goodbye
  78. The Faith of Man
  79. Along the Road
  80. Buffy's Quality Cafe
  81. Hobo's Lullaby
  82. Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Rabbit
  83. Old Silver
  84. Black Sheep Boy
  85. The Porcupine Talks To Itself
  86. One Goodbye
  87. Early Morning Rain
  88. When I Hear the Music Play
  89. That's My Song
  90. Song For Tingmissartoq

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