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American ballads and folk songs

Call Number

  • M 784.4 L83 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, Macmillan, 1934.

Physical Description

xxxix, 625 p., 1 27 cm.

Contents

  • Adieu to Bon County
  • Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis
  • Alabama-bound
  • All the pretty little horses
  • Allá en el Rancho Grande
  • Amazing grace
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas traveller
  • Aurore pradère
  • Bad man ballad
  • Ballad of Davy Crockett
  • Ballad of the Erie Canal
  • Ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar
  • Ballit of de boll weevil
  • Banks of the Pamanaw
  • Bear in the hill
  • Bear the news, Mary
  • Beautiful
  • Benny Havens, oh!
  • Big Jim
  • Bill Martin and Ella Speed
  • Billy boy
  • Billy the kid
  • Black ball line
  • Black Betty
  • Black-eyed Susie
  • Black gal
  • Blin' man stood on de way an' cried
  • Blow the man down
  • Boston come-all-ye
  • Braddock's defeat
  • Brigham Young
  • Buccaneers
  • Bucking bronco
  • Buffalo skinners
  • Bull-whacker
  • Bung yer eye
  • Burges.
  • (Con't.) Captain Robert Kidd
  • Casey Jones
  • Charley Snyder
  • "Cholly" blues
  • Coming around the horn
  • Company cook
  • Connecticut peddler
  • Constitution and Guerrière
  • Cornfield holler
  • Cotton field song
  • Cotton-eyed Joe
  • Cowboy boasting chants
  • Cowboy to pitching bronco
  • Cowboy's dream
  • Cowboys' gettin'-up holler
  • Criole candjo
  • Crossing the plains
  • Crows in the garden
  • Cryderville jail
  • Cuatro palomitas blancas
  • Cumberland gap
  • Damn the filipinos
  • Darky Sunday school
  • Darlin'
  • Da's all right, baby
  • Dat lonesome stream
  • "Dead man's chest"
  • Death of Jack Hinton
  • Deep river
  • Dese bones gwine to rise again
  • Destroyer life
  • Dink's blues
  • Dink's song
  • Dirty mistreatin' women
  • Dives and Laz'us
  • Dixie
  • Down in the valley
  • Dreary Black Hills
  • Drink that rot gut
  • Drunkard's doom.
  • (Con't.) El abandonado
  • El amor que to Tenia
  • E-r-i-e
  • Erie Canal
  • Erie Canal ballad
  • Every night when the sun goes in
  • Factory girl
  • Fare thee well, babe
  • Few days
  • Fifteen years on the Erie Canal
  • Fishes
  • Flying cloud
  • Foller de drinkin' gou'd
  • Frankie and Albert
  • Frog went a'courtin'
  • From the chuck wagon
  • Gal I left behind me
  • Gerry's rocks
  • Get up, Jack! John, sit down!
  • Gilla monster
  • Git along, little dogies
  • Go way f'om mah window
  • Goin' home
  • Going to Boston
  • Good ol' mountain dew
  • Good old rebel
  • Good-by, Mother
  • Good-by Old Paint
  • Good-by, pretty mama
  • Great God-a'mighty
  • Greer County
  • Grey goose
  • Groun' hog
  • Gwineter harness in de mornin' soon
  • Hallelujah, bum again
  • Hammer song
  • Hard times
  • Hard to be a nigger
  • Hard trials
  • Hard-working miner
  • Hardly think I will
  • Healin' waters
  • Hell and heaven.
  • (Con't.) Hell in Texas
  • Hearse song
  • Heave away
  • Heavy-hipted woman
  • Highly educated man
  • Hinky dinky, parley-voo?
  • Hold on, Abraham
  • Honey, take a whiff on me
  • I love little Willie
  • I wish I was a mole in the ground
  • Ida Red
  • Idaho cowboy dance
  • If you want to know where the privates are
  • In town
  • Jack Wrack
  • Jesse James
  • Jim Haggerty's story
  • Joe Bowers
  • John Brown's body
  • John Harty
  • John Henry
  • Johnny come down to Hilo
  • Julie Ann Johnson
  • Jumpin' Judy
  • Just from Dawson
  • Lay dis body down
  • Levee camp "Holler"
  • 'Ligion so sweet
  • Little brown jug
  • Little gal at our house
  • Little Mohee
  • Liza Jane
  • Long gone
  • Long time ago
  • Lost Jimmie Whalen
  • Louisiana girls
  • Low bridge, everybody down
  • Lulu.
  • (Con't.) Man goin' round
  • Man on the flying trapeze
  • Many t'ousand go
  • Michié Préval
  • Midnight special
  • Mike
  • Moanin'
  • Mone, member, mone
  • Mustang Gray
  • My li'l John Henry
  • My yallow gal
  • Nachul-born Easman
  • Never said a mumbaln' word
  • Now our meeting's over
  • Oh, lawd, how long?
  • Old bachelor
  • Old Bill
  • Old Chizzum Trail
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Old gray goose
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Ol' John Brown
  • Ol' Mother Hare
  • Ol' rattler
  • On Meesh-e-gan
  • Other shore
  • Ou som souroucou
  • Paddy works on the Erie
  • Paper of pins
  • Parting friends
  • Pattin'
  • Pick a bale o' cotton
  • Po' boy
  • Po' Laz'us
  • Polly Williams
  • Poor lonesome cowboy
  • Quantrell
  • Rabbit hash
  • Raging can-all
  • Railroad Bill
  • Raise a rukus tonight
  • Rattle snake
  • Red River shore
  • Reason I stay on job so long.
  • (Con't.) Red Iron Ore
  • Rémon
  • Rio Grande
  • Rookie's lament
  • Rosie
  • Roving gambler
  • Roy Bean
  • Run, nigger, run!
  • Rye whisky
  • Salangadou
  • Sam Bass
  • Sam Hall
  • Sandy Lan'
  • Set down, servant
  • Shack bully holler
  • Shanty-Boy and the farmer's son
  • Shenandoah
  • Shoo, shoo, shoo-lye
  • Shoot the Buffalo
  • Shortenin' bread
  • Shorty George
  • Shot my pistol in de heart of town
  • Siege of Plattsburg
  • Skip to my Lou
  • Snagtooth Sal
  • Sourwood Mountain
  • Spanish Johnny
  • Stagolee
  • Stampede
  • Steel laying holler
  • Stewball
  • Sugar babe
  • Susan Van Dusan
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • Tale of a little pig
  • Tearin' out-a wilderness
  • Ten thousand miles from home
  • That pretty little gal
  • This train
  • Three pigs.
  • (Con't.) Tie-shuffling chant
  • Tie-tamping chant
  • Tone de bell easy
  • Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal
  • Trip on the Erie
  • Tying a knot in the devil's tail
  • Un, deux, trois
  • War song
  • Way over in the blooming garden
  • We've done our hitch in Hell
  • Wedlock
  • Weevily wheat
  • What folks are made of
  • When de good Lord sets you free
  • When I was a cowboy
  • When I was single
  • When my blood runs chilly and col'
  • Whisky Johnny
  • Wicked Polly
  • Wild miz-zou-rye
  • Willie the weeper
  • Wo be unto you
  • Woman blue
  • Wonderful crocodile
  • Wreck of the six-wheel driver
  • Wreck on the C. & O.
  • Yankee Doodle.