This is an index to all of the songs on TomSmithMusic.com, listed chronologically (most recent first).
These are the informal recordings I made shortly after writing these songs, as they appear in my Kitchen Musician blog. Click on each title link for audio/video and more information. I am happy to send you an mp3 of any of these. Just contact me. For studio recordings of some of these songs, please visit my store page.
Enjoy!
~ Tom
“Do It Yourself” (video)
© 2013 Tom Smith
In praise of doing it yourself.
“Talking About Love” (video)
© 2013 Tom Smith
Written as an assignment for Vanilla Bean Cafe Songwriter Sessions.
“Talk to Me” (video)
© 2012 Meryl Ayres, Caity Richards and Mally Smith
A different take on the same subject.
“Carol of the Beasts” (video)
A 17th century French Christmas carol.
“Farewell Good Friend” (video)
In memory of Bill Kehoe.
“You, Love and Me” (video)
A musical gift to my wife on our 36th wedding anniversary.
“The Money Flows Up” (video)
In the spirit of Woody Guthrie, commenting on a critical issue.
“New Hampshire Wind” (animation)
Delightful animation of my song by several young animators.
“Tom’s Junk Band” (video)
A little fun with some teachers as we build a junk band in front of their students.
“Dancing at Whitsun” (video)
A wonderful song written by Austin John Marshall about how English women
kept the Morris Dancing tradition alive during World War I.
“Tom’s Krummy Horn” (video)
A little Beethoven played on my home made krummy horn. Just for fun.
“The Meeting is O’er” (video)
Traditional hymn, new music and words by Tom Smith
“You Live in My Heart” (video)
Thinking about someone who is having a tough time on Valentine’s Day.
© 2012 Tom Smith
“Follow Me Down” (video)
A song in praise of the open mic community and self-made music.
© 2011 Tom Smith
“Song for Bill” (video)
A tribute to songwriter, Bill Morrissey 1951 – 2011.
© 2011 Tom Smith
“You Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me” (video)
A mid-summer song in praise of simple pleasures.
Lyrics: © 2011 Tom Smith, Music: Bo Carter
“Angelina Baker” (video)
An traditional old-time song played on my home made fretless banjo.
“Something Wonderful” (video)
A video of Mally and Tom Smith sharing traditional music with first graders.
“The New Old Cow Puncher” (video)
Lyrics: © 2010 Genny Haley and Tom Smith
Tune: Traditional
“One More Sail Around the Sun” (video)
© 2011 Tom Smith
“New Hampshire Traveler” (video)
Traditional, Text adapted by Tom Smith
“My Mark Upon My Son” (video)
© 2011 Tom Smith, Inspired by the January 2011 Arizona shootings
“I Will Always Be Part of the Farm” (video)
© 2011 Tom Smith
“Journey Home” (video)
© 2010 Tom & Margo Smith
“The Captain With His Whiskers” (video)
Traditional, Civil War Era. Collected in Montrose, Pennsylvania
“Phil’s Guitar” (video)
© 2010 Tom Smith, (For Phil Knudsen)
“Peabody Hill”, with Mally Smith at HCAM-TV (video)
© 2008 Tom Smith
An untitled song by Mally Smith at HCAM-TV (video)
© 2010 Mally Smith
“Apples and Cheese” (video)
© 2010 Tom Smith, A little silliness
“The Cards are all Stacked on My Side” (video)
© 2010 Tom Smith, A song inspired by the savings and loan crisis
“Buttercup Joe” (video)
Traditional, Live at The Bull Run Soundstage
“You’re Not Alone” (video)
© 2010 Tom Smith
Live at The Bull Run Soundstage
“Annie on the Stairs” (video)
A collaboration with poet, Bill Thibodeau.
© 2010 Tom Smith & William Thibodeau
“A Prayer for Peace” (video)
A new recording by Tom & Mally of a previously posted song.
© 2007 Tom Smith
“I’ll Make it Easy” (video)
Accompanying Mally Smith at Emerson Umbrella
© 2009 Mally Smith
“New Hampshire Wind” (video)
© 2009 Tom Smith & Mally Smith
“The Jolly Roving Tar” (video)
Traditional
“A Declaration of Independence” (video)
© 2009 Tom Smith
Note 4/14/2011 – The name of this song has been changed to “Lick My face”
An assignment for the Vanilla Bean Cafe, Songwriter Sessions.
“The Last Folksinger” (video)
© 2009 Tom Smith
“Turn Right Then Move On” (video)
Also known as “A Folksinger’s GPS”
© 2009 Tom Smith
“The Lucky Loser” (video)
My entry into the Amazing Things songwriting exercise, July 2009.
© 2009 Tom Smith
“To a Songwriter” (video)
An open letter to those who pour their hearts into the songs they write and sing.
© 2009 Tom Smith
“A Fiddle with a Broken String” (video)
For those living with PTSD. © 2009 Tom Smith & Jud Caswell
Saint Patrick’s Day at Emerson Umbrella (video)
Two songs from an evening shared with Kate Chadbourne, Bill Kehoe, Pat Kenneally, and Robert Phillipps
“Old Bangum” (video)
A traditional song, variant of Child #18, “Sir Lionel”
“Working Poor (A Single Room)” (video)
A song about the working poor. © 2009 Tom Smith
“The Writer” (video)
A poem © 1969 Richard Wilbur, Music: © 2008 Tom Smith
Peace on Peabody Hill (CD Release)
A CD of informal recordings made for my granddaughter and the benefit of Tunefoolery.
“I’ll Sing it Myself” (video)
My song for those who find it difficult to share their music.
© 2008 Tom Smith
“Rolling of the Stones” (video)
An old folk ballad about a tragic accident and the scary stuff that followed.
“Peabody Hill” (video)
A song about a special place, © 2008 Tom Smith
“Join Me, Give Obama Your Vote” (video)
To encourage you to vote for Barack Obama in November, © 2008 Tom Smith
“Swallowed by the Hole” (video)
My song about the Knox Mine Disaster, © 2008 Tom Smith
“The Eensie-Weensie Spider” (video)
An allegory of hope and encouragement. Lyrics © Bob Blue and Tom Smith
“Another Box from the Combat Zone” – “Ohio” (video)
Inspired by the anniversary of the shootings at Kent State University
New lyrics: © Tom Smith
Acoustic Music Television (video)
Bruce Jones interviews me on Norwood Public Access TV, plus 5 songs
“The Garden Song” (video)
© David Mallett, Cherry Hill Music (ASCAP)
“A Song for Ellen” (video)
© 2008 Tom Smith, written in honor of my friend Ellen Schmidt
“How Happy I Am” (video)
Written by Reverend Gary Davis, new words © 2008 Tom Smith
“Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake” (video)
Words & Music, 1883, C. Frank Horn, arranged by Tom Smith
“A Prayer for Peace” (video)
© 2007 Tom Smith
Performed live at Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord, MA, December 3, 2007
“The Man Behind the Plow” (video)
music © 2007 Tom Smith, original words © 1918 Ralph Gordon
a song to praise farmers and farming
Traditional, with my home made banjo, learned from Bascom Lamar Lunsford
“The Jolly Glazier” (video)
words © 2007 Tom Smith, music © Larry Hanks
“Dream of Butterflies”
© 2007 Billy Walsh
© 2007 Tom Smith
“What’s going to happen when our hidden injuries run out of places to hide?”
“Blind Fiddler”
Traditional
August, 1986 (video)
© 2007 Tom Smith
“Yearning and Blue”
Learned from the “Cheap Suit Serenaders”
“Put Your Records On”