Sheet Music
The folk songs of North America, in the English language
Publication Information
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1960]
Physical Description
623 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents
- All for the men
- All night long
- Am I born to die?
- Another man done gone
- Around a western watertank
- As I roved out
- Aunt Sal's song
- Avondale mine disaster
- Bad girl
- Banks of Newfoundland
- Barbara Allen
- Battle on Shilloh's Hill
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Bile them cabbage down
- Billy broke locks
- Billy the kid
- Black, brown, and white blues
- Black gal
- Black is the colour
- Black sheep
- Blind man
- Blood red roses
- Blow the candle out
- Blue
- Blue-tail fly
- Bold Jack Donahue
- Boll weevil holler
- Brass mounted army
- Brave Wolfe
- Bring me Li'l' water, Sylvie
- Buck-eye rabbit
- Buffalo boy
- Bullgine run
- Canada-i-o
- Can't you line it?
- Cape Ann
- Cape Cod girls
- Captain Kidd
- Careless love
- Casey Jones
- Charles Guiteau
- Charlie Quantrell.
- (Con't.) Chickens they are crowin'
- Cindy
- Cock Robin
- Cole Younger
- Colorado Trail
- Come life, Shaker life
- Corinna
- Cotton Mill colic
- Cotton needs pickin'
- Cowboy's life
- Cripple Creek
- Cuckoo
- Cumberland Gap
- Dark as a dungeon
- Death, ain't you got no shame?
- Deer chase
- Dese bones gwine rise again
- Devilish Mary
- Devil's nine questions
- Didn't it rain
- Dig a hole in the meadow
- Doney gal
- Don't lie, buddy
- Down in the valley
- Down on Penney's Farm
- Downward Road
- Dreary Black Hills
- Drill, ye tarriers
- Dying cowboy
- East Colorado blues
- Edward
- El-a-noy
- Fair and tender ladies
- Fair beauty bride
- Farmer and the shanty boy
- Farmer is the man
- Farmer's curst wife
- Father Grumble
- Felix the soldier
- Fiddle-I-Fee
- Fish of the sea
- Fod
- Foggy dew
- Fourth day of July
- Frankie
- Frozen logger.
- (Con't.) Gamblin' suitor
- Gentle fair Jenny
- Get up, Jack
- Girl I left behind
- Go down, old Hannah
- Go on, you little dogies
- Golden vanity
- Good mornin', blues
- Good old rebel
- Great big sea
- Green grows the laurel
- Greenland whale fishery
- Groundhog
- Hard, ain't it hard
- Hard times
- Hard travellin'
- Hattie Belle
- Hell-bound train
- Hog drovers
- Hold the wind
- Holy baby
- Horse named Bill
- Horse trader's song
- Hound dawg song
- House carpenter
- Housewife's lament
- How long blues
- How old are you, my pretty little miss?
- Hudson River steamboat
- Hurrah, lie!
- I couldn't hear nobody pray
- I don't want your millions, mister
- I got to roll
- I never will marry
- I'll give my love an apple
- I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne
- I'm all out an' down
- I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows
- I'm goin' away to Texas
- I'm troubled.
- (Con't.) In good old colony times
- In Kansas
- In the days
- In the wilderness
- Irene
- It makes a long-time man feel bad
- I'ze the bye
- Jacob's ladder
- Jerry, go an' ile that car
- Jesse James
- Joe Bowers
- John B's sails
- John Gilbert is de boat
- John Hardy
- John Henry
- John Riley
- John the revelator
- Johnny has gone for a soldier
- Johnny, won't you ramble?
- Johnson Boys
- Jubilee
- Julie Plante
- Jumpin' Judy
- Kangaro
- Keep a-inchin' along
- Kickin' mule
- Knock John Booker
- Lady Gay
- Lady Isabel and the elf knight
- Let the deal go down
- Let's go a-hunting
- Lily Munroe
- Lincoln and Liberty
- Little brown bulls
- Little John Henry
- Little Matthy Groves
- Little old sod shanty
- Lone Green Valley
- Long John
- Long time ago
- Longest train
- Lord Lovel
- Lousy miner
- Love is pleasin'
- Lovely Ohio
- Lovin' Hannah
- Lulu
- Lynchburg Town.
- (Con't.) Maid on the shore
- Many thousands gone
- Mary Ann
- Mary L. Mackay
- Me Father's a lawyer
- Miss Mary Jane
- Mister Mackinley
- Moonshiner
- Moosehead Lake
- Mule Skinner blues
- My last ole dollar
- My love is a rider
- My sweetheart's a mule in the mines
- Night herding song
- O David
- Old Ark's a-moverin'
- Old Bangum
- Old Chisholm Trail
- Old man's lament
- Old Marse John
- Old Smokey
- Oleana
- Omie wise
- On my journey home
- On the trail to Mexico
- One dime blues
- Paw-paw patch
- Pay day
- Pay me
- Peg an' Awl
- Pie in the sky
- Pinery boy
- Po' farmer
- Po' Lazarus
- Pretty boy Floyd
- Put the old man to sleep
- Quaker's courtship
- Queen's gardeen
- Railroad Bill
- Railroad Corral
- Railroader for me
- Ramblin' boy
- Rattlesnake
- Red Iron Ore
- Red River Shore
- Regular Army-o
- Reuben
- Rich old lady
- Ridin' the buggy
- Riley
- Rise up, Shepherd.
- (Con't.) Rising sun blues
- River in the pines
- Robin Hood and Arthur O'Bland
- Rock about, my Saro Jane
- Roll, Jordan, roll
- Roll on, buddy
- Roll on, Columbia
- Root, hog, or die
- Rose Connelly
- Row, bullies, row
- Run along, you little dogies
- Sailing in the boat
- Sailor cut down in his prime
- Sally Anne
- Sally Brown
- Sally Goodin
- Samson
- Santy Anno
- Satan's kingdom
- Saturday night
- Seven blessings of Mary
- Shady Grove
- Shaker funeral hymn
- She'll be comin' around the mountain
- Shenandoah
- Shortenin' bread
- Silver Jack
- Single girl
- Sixteen tons
- Soon I will be done
- Sorghum syrup
- Sound off
- Sow took the measles
- Springfield Mountain
- Springfield Mountain (Texas version)
- Stagolee
- Stand to your glasses
- State of Arkansas
- Steal, Miss Liza
- Strawberry Lane
- Sweet Betsy.
- (Con't.) Talkin' blues
- Talkin' Columbia
- Talkin' dustbowl blues
- Texas Rangers
- This train
- Three young ladies
- Tideo
- Tom Dula
- Troubled in mind
- Turkey in the straw
- Twelve days of Christmas
- Two sisters
- Tyin' a knot in the devil's tail
- Twistification
- Uh-huh-no
- Uncle Joe
- Virginia's bloody soil
- Wabash Cannon Ball
- Wade in the water
- Wagoner's lad
- Wake up, Jacob
- Wand'rin'
- Wars of America
- Way over in the heavens
- Weeping Mary
- We're coming, Arkansas
- When a man's in love
- When I was a cowboy
- When I'm gone
- When Johnny comes marching home
- When the saints go marchin' in
- When the stars begin to fall
- Whisky in the jar
- Whistle, daughter, whistle
- Whoa back, buck
- Whoa! ha! Buck and Jerry Boy
- Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet?
- (Con't.) Wicked Polly
- Wild Bill Jones
- Wild rippling water
- Willie the weeper
- Winter's night
- Yankee Doodle Dandy-o
- You cain' lose-a-me, Cholly
- Young Charlotte.