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Sheet Music

Ballads and songs of Southern Michigan

Call Numbers

  • H 784.4 G22F (CEN)
  • M 784.4 G22F (CEN)

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Publication Information

Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, 1967 [c1939]

Physical Description

xviii, 501 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes

"Reprinted from the original edition of 1939."

"Other songs sung in Michigan": p. 477-483.

Includes unacc. melodies with words.

Contents

  • An account of a little girl who was burnt for her religion
  • Alnomack
  • American taxation
  • The American volunteer
  • Andrew Battan
  • Animal song
  • Anson Best
  • The apprentice boy
  • Archie o' Cawfield
  • Arise and bar the door-o
  • As I sat on the sunny bank
  • The auction sale
  • Aunt Tabbie
  • The Avondale disaster
  • The babes in the woods
  • Bachelor's hall
  • The backwoodsman
  • The baggage coach ahead
  • The Bainbridge tragedy
  • The banks of Brandywine
  • The banks of Champlain
  • The banks of Claudy
  • The banks of the Dee
  • The banks of the Nile
  • The banks of the Obadee
  • The banks of the River Dee
  • The banks of the Sweet Dundee
  • Barbara Allen
  • Barney McCoi
  • Ben Fisher.
  • (Contents con't.) Bessie, the drunkard's poor child
  • Betsy of Dramoor
  • Billy boy
  • Billy Grimes
  • The black water side
  • The blind girl
  • Blood
  • Bloody Waterloo
  • The blue-tailed fly
  • Bold dighton
  • The bonny laboring boy
  • Bony's lament
  • The Boston burglar
  • Botany Bay
  • Brave old Anthony Marala
  • Brave Wolfe
  • The butcher boy
  • The cabin boy
  • Captain Kidd
  • Captain Ward
  • Caroline of Edinburg Town
  • Charles Guiteau
  • The charming moll boy
  • The choice of a wife
  • Clarence McFaden
  • Colin and Lucy
  • Come home, Father
  • Common Bill
  • The county jail
  • Creeping Jane
  • The crimean war
  • The cup of cold poison
  • The darby ram
  • The dark-eyed sailor
  • The darling black mustache
  • David Ward
  • The death of six young persons.
  • (Contents con't.) The derby sheep
  • The diary farmer
  • The doctor and Clara
  • The dog and the gun
  • Donald's return to Glencoe
  • The dreary Black Hills
  • The drowned lover
  • The drowsy sleeper
  • A drunkard's child
  • The drunkard's doom
  • The drunkard's dream
  • The drunkard's lone child
  • Dublin Bay
  • The dying Californian
  • The dying cowboy
  • The dying hobo
  • The dying miller
  • The dying nun
  • The dying soldier
  • Erin's green shore
  • Escape from Basterry
  • The exile of Erin
  • The factor's garland
  • Fain waterloo
  • Fair Fanny Moore
  • Fair lady of London
  • The fair Sharlot
  • The false girl
  • False Nancy
  • Farewell he
  • Farewell to bonny Galway
  • The farmer's boy
  • The farmer's curst wife
  • The fatal wedding
  • The fellow that looks like me
  • Finnigan's wake
  • The first night's courtship.
  • (Contents con't.) The fisherman's girl
  • Floyd Collins
  • The foot of the mountain bow
  • For four score years we've flourished
  • The fox and the goose
  • The fox and the grapes
  • A frog he would a-wooing go
  • The frog's courtship
  • A frog went a-courtin'
  • A frog went a-courting
  • A froggie did a-courting go
  • Frozen Charlotte
  • Georgie
  • Gifts from over the sea
  • The girl I left behind
  • The girl who chawed gum
  • The golden ball
  • The green beds
  • Green grows the laurel
  • Green laurels
  • The green mossy banks of the Lea
  • Green mountain
  • The gypy's warning
  • The handsome cabin boy
  • Hard times
  • Harry Bail
  • Harry Dunn
  • He plowed the lowlands low
  • The heights at Alma
  • The hen and the duck
  • The historian
  • The house carpenter.
  • (Contents con't.) I once did know a farmer
  • I wish I was single again
  • I'll be all smiles tonight
  • The Indian hunter
  • India's burning shore
  • Jack Hagade
  • Jack Haggerty
  • Jack Haggerty's lament
  • Jack Hargaty
  • Jack, the sailor boy
  • Jack Williams
  • The jam on Gerry's rock
  • James Bird
  • James Ervin
  • James Wayland
  • The jealous lover
  • The jealous sweetheart
  • Jesse James
  • Jessie at the Railway Bar
  • Jessie of Ballington Brae
  • Jim Blake
  • Jimmie Judd
  • Joe Bowers
  • Joe Kimball
  • John Riley
  • John sold the cow well
  • Johnny and Betsy
  • Johnny German
  • Johnny Sands
  • Johnny Troy
  • Johnson's mule
  • Jolly old Roger
  • Jonah and the whale.
  • (Contents con't.) Kate and the cowhide
  • Kate and her horns
  • Katie's secret
  • Kellyburnbraes
  • King John and the bishop
  • King Solomon's temple
  • Kitty Gray
  • Kitty of Coleraine
  • Kitty O'Noory
  • Kitty Wells
  • The Knoxville girl
  • Lady Bonaparte's lamentation
  • Lady Elgin
  • Lady Isabel and the elf knight
  • Lady Leroy
  • Lady Washington's lamentation
  • The laird o'drum
  • The lake of Pontchartrain
  • The lakes of Cold Finn
  • Lamkin
  • Lanigan's ball
  • Larry O'Byrne
  • The lass of Glenshee
  • A laundry song
  • Lavender girl
  • The little brown bulls
  • The little family
  • A little husband
  • The little Indian maid
  • Little Johnny Green
  • Little Mary Phagan
  • Little Nell of Narragansett Bay
  • Little Susin, the pride of Kildore
  • The little Yorkshire boy
  • The London mason
  • The lone Indian.
  • (Contents con't.) Lord Arnold's castle
  • Lord Bateman's castle
  • Lord Lovel
  • Lord Thomas
  • Lord Valley
  • Lorena
  • Lorilla
  • The lost Johnny Doyle
  • Lovely Willie's sweetheart
  • A lover's farewell
  • The lowlands low
  • The lumberman's alphabet
  • McAfee's confession
  • The maid I left behind
  • A maid in Bedlam
  • The maid in sorrow
  • The mantle so green
  • Martin, Tim, and Dan
  • Mary of the wild moor
  • Mary's dream
  • Massa had a yaller gal
  • Master frog went a-courting
  • Me father is a lawyer in England
  • A melancholy accident - The death of M. Hodge
  • The merchant's only son
  • Michigan-I-O
  • The mistletoe bough
  • Molly Baun
  • The monkey's wedding
  • The mossback
  • Mr. Woodburn's courtship
  • Mrs. Johnson
  • My bonny black Bess
  • My Ella.
  • (Contents con't.) My father's gray mare
  • My good-lookin' man
  • My gum tree canoe
  • My love is a youyou
  • My love is on the ocean
  • My old wife
  • Nat Goodwin
  • The new dress
  • The old broad horn
  • The old grey goose
  • Old grimes
  • Old grumble
  • The old man
  • An old man and a young man
  • The old man that came over the Lea
  • The old New England girl
  • The old oak tree
  • The old Quaker
  • Old sheep went to sleep
  • On the banks of the Old Knee
  • On the banks of the Old Pedee
  • On the banks of the Old T.B.
  • On the banks of the sweet Dundee
  • On the hills of Glen Coe
  • One and twenty
  • One fine day
  • The orphan boy
  • The orphan girl
  • The orphans
  • Ossian's seranade
  • Our grandfather's days
  • Oxford City.
  • (Contents con't.) A paper of pins
  • Patrick Sheehan
  • Patrick's baby
  • Pat's wedding
  • Polly and Willie
  • Polly Band
  • Poor little Joe
  • The poor tailor's high relations
  • The pretty Mohea
  • Pretty Polly
  • Pretty Polly Oliver
  • The pride of Glencoe
  • Prince Charlie
  • The Quaker song
  • The Quaker's courtship
  • A quarrelling couple
  • The raffle for a stove
  • Red River Valley
  • Reily's answers, Releasement, and Marriage with Coolen Bawn
  • Reily's trial
  • The rich merchant's daughter
  • A rich miser
  • A rich old miser
  • The rich young farmer
  • Rinordine
  • The roaming gambler
  • Robin Tamson's smiddy
  • Roll the old chariot along
  • The rosewood casket
  • Rosie Nell
  • The roving rangers
  • Rusty old Rover
  • Sadie Ray
  • The sailor boy
  • The sailor boy's dream
  • The sailor boy's farewell
  • A scolding wife
  • A seaman and his love
  • The seno wreck
  • Seven long years.
  • (Contents con't.) The shanty boys
  • The shantyman's life
  • The Sherfield apprentice
  • The Sherfield printice
  • The ship that never returned
  • Sidney Allen
  • The silk merchant's daughter
  • The silver dager
  • The silver dagger
  • The silver tide
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • The soldier's boy
  • The soldier's letter
  • A Spanish maid
  • The Spanish maid
  • The Spanish maiden
  • Springfield Mountain
  • The stepfather
  • The stepmother
  • The sweet sunny South
  • Sweet William and Lady Margaret
  • The tattoo on the arm
  • The Texas rangers
  • The Texy rangers
  • That Southern wagon
  • There was an old soldier
  • There's nae luck about the house
  • Things impossible
  • Three angel visitants
  • Three girls drowned
  • The three Jews
  • The three Scotch robbers
  • The Titanic
  • The tragety of Henry Green
  • The tree in the wood
  • A true lover of mine
  • The trust shave.
  • (Contents con't.) The twelve Apostles
  • The two orphans
  • Two rigs of rye
  • The two sisters
  • Uncle Sam Simmie
  • The valiant soldier
  • The victory of Commodore Perry
  • Vilikins and his Dinah
  • The village pride
  • Wakken
  • The Waxford girl
  • The wealthy merchant
  • We are coming, Sister Mary
  • The weaver is handsome
  • When ye gang awa, Jemmy
  • The white maiden captive
  • Who is tapping at my bedroom window?
  • The widow's plea
  • The wild colloina boy
  • Th wild colonial boy
  • The wild Mustard River
  • Wilkens and Dinah
  • William and Nancy
  • William Reily's courtship
  • Willie and Mary
  • A wonderful account of a little girl ten years old
  • The wonderful crocodile
  • The wooing
  • Young Charlotte
  • Young Diana
  • Young Henry Green
  • Young Monroe
  • Young Munroe.

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