English folk songs from the southern Appalachians

Author

Cecil James Sharp

Call Number

• R 784.4 S53.1 [multiple volumes] (CEN)

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Publication Information

London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1932.

Physical Description

2 v. fold. front. (map.) 26 cm.

Contents

• Vol. 1: The elfin knight
• The false knight upon the road
• Lady Isabel and the elf knight
• Earl Brand
• The two sisters
• The cruel brother
• Lord Randal
• Edward
• Sir Lionel
• The cruel mother
• The three ravens
• The two brothers
• Young Beichan
• Lizzie Wan
• The cherry-tree carol
• Fair Annie
• Lady Maisry
• Young hunting
• Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor
• Fair Margaret and Sweet William
• Lord Lovel
• The wife of usher's well
• Little Musgrave and Lady Barnyard
• Barbara Allen
• Giles Collins
• The lowlands of Holland
• Lamkin
• The maid freed from the gallows
• Johnie Scot
• The bailiff's daughter of Islington
• Sir Hugh
• The death of Queen Jane
• The gypsy laddie
• Geordie
• The daemon lover
• The grey cock
• The Suffolk miracle
• Our Goodman.

• (Vo1. 1 con't.) The wife wrapt in Wether's skin
• The farmer's curst wife
• The golden vanity
• The mermaid
• John of Hazelgreen
• The brown girl
• The trooper and the maid
• The blind beggar's daughter
• The babes in the wood
• In seaport town
• The cruel ship's carpenter
• Shooting of his dear
• The lady and the dragoon
• The boatsman and the chest
• The holly twig
• Polly Oliver
• The rich old lady
• Edwin in the lowlands low
• Awake! awake!
• The green bed
• The simple ploughboy
• The three butchers
• William Taylor
• The golden glove
• Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth
• The silk merchant's daughter
• Jack went a-sailing
• The bold lieutenant
• The banks of Sweet Dundee
• The councillor's daughter
• Caroline of Edinboro' town
• The clothier
• The miller's apprentice, or The Oxford tragedy
• Still growing.

• Vol. 2: Married and single life
• Betsy
• If you want to go a-courting
• Pretty Saro
• My dearest dear
• I'm going to Georgia
• Macafee's confession, or Harry Grey
• Locks and bolts
• William and Nancy
• George Reilly
• Johnny Doyle
• Lazarus
• Black is the colour
• The single girl
• John Hardy
• Betty Anne
• My boy Billy
• Soldier, won't you marry me?
• Swannanoa town
• The keys of heaven
• Putman's Hill
• The false young man
• Pretty Peggy O
• My parents treated me tenderly
• The Sheffield apprentice
• The broken token
• Wild Bill Jones
• The shoemaker
• The brisk young lover
• Seven long years
• Come all you young and handsome girls
• Loving Reilly
• The awful wedding
• Sweet William
• Good morning, my pretty little miss
• My mother bid me
• The rejected lover
• The lover's lament
• The dear companion
• The rocky mountain top
• The warfare is raging
• The true lover's farewell
• Katie Morey.

• (Vol. 2 con't.) Rain and snow
• The wagoner's lad
• Come all you fair and tender ladies
• Ibby Damsel
• Handsome Sally
• William and Polly
• Hick's farewell
• Poor Omie
• The Virginian lover
• Early, early in the spring
• Green bushes
• I'm seventeen come Sunday
• I must and I will get married
• The lost babe
• The noble man
• St. James's hospital
• Springfield Mountain
• Tarry trousers
• Whistle daughter
• Brennan on the Moor
• The battle of Shiloh
• The foggy dew
• The bold privateer
• Waterloo
• The cuckoo
• The derby ram
• The green briar shore
• I'm going to get married next Sunday
• The riddle song
• The nightingale
• One cold winter's morning
• The lonesome grove
• The lily of the west
• Devilish Mary
• Ha, ha, ha
• Tom Bolynn
• The gambling man
• When boys go a-courting
• Will the weaver
• Sally and her lover, or Lady Leroy
• Green grows the laurel
• The rebel soldier, or The poor stranger
• No-e in the ark.

• (Vol. 2 con't.) Sally Buck
• The horse's complaint
• The miller's will
• The sons of liberty
• Loving Nancy
• The boy on the land
• The silver dagger
• Niagara Falls
• In Old Virginny
• The saucy sailor
• The lonesome prairie
• Old Arkansas
• William Hall
• Farewell dear Rosanna
• Boney's defeat
• The fateful blow
• The slighted soldier
• Billy Grimes
• The courting case
• The deaf woman's courtship
• Come all ye southern soldiers
• The Irish girl
• Johnny German
• Harm Link
• Old Joe Clarke
• The poor couple
• Susannah Clargy
• The sunny South
• True love from the eastern shore
• The drummer and his wife
• Every night when the sun goes in
• I love my love
• In Nottamun town
• Samuel Young
• When Adam was created
• Daniel in the lion's den
• Jesse Cole
• Barbara Buck
• Clay Morgan
• Way down the Ohio
• The crow-fish man
• Barber's cry
• Lulie.

• (Vol. 2 con't.) A Monday was my courting day
• Black girl
• Harding's defeat
• Come my little roving sailor
• The tree in the wood
• The ten commandments
• The sinner-man
• Hold on
• Christ was born in Bethlehem
• 'Tis a wonder
• Jacob's ladder
• Cocky robin
• The three huntsmen
• The bird song
• Sourwood Mountain
• The foolish boy
• The farmyard
• I whipped my horse
• A frog he went a-courting
• The frog in the well
• The carrion crow
• The old grey mare
• The bridle and saddle
• The squirrel
• The old black duck
• What are little boys made of?
• What'll we do with the baby?
• Poor old maid
• The good old man
• The ground hog
• Bye, bye, baby
• Mammy loves
• The mocking bird
• The old woman and the little pigee
• The old grey goose
• Phoebe in her petticoat
• Snake baked a hoe-cake
• The Tottenham toad
• Sally Anne
• Cripple Creek
• The opossum
• Liza Anne
• Eliza Jane.

• (Vol. 2 con't.) Sugar babe
• Give the fiddler a dram
• Gone to Cripple Creek
• Run, nigger, run
• Porto Rico
• The hog-eyed man
• The jackfish
• Marina girls
• O this door locked
• The shad
• Yonder stands young couple
• Old Doc Jones
• Up she rises
• Maria's gone
• Old Roger
• Will you wear red?
• Going to Boston
• Chase the buffalo
• Sad condition
• Early Sunday morning
• Old bald eagle
• Philadelphia
• Charlie's sweet
• The higher up the cherry tree
• The chickens they are crowing
• Swing a lady
• Reap, boys, reap
• Soldier boy for me
• I wish I was a child again
• Some love coffee.