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The folk songs of North America, in the English language

Call Number

  • R 784.4 L824 (CEN)

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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.