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American ballads : folk treasures of the American past in verse and song

Call Number

  • R 784.4 K35 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications [c1956]

Physical Description

272 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes

Crest book.

Contents

  • Jim Bludso
  • The dying hobo
  • The bootblack's christmas
  • The man on the flying trapeze
  • The girl with the blue velvet band
  • To Maurice Barrymore
  • The piddling pup
  • The Erie Canal
  • The little brown jug
  • Always the woman pays
  • The deacon's masterpiece or the wonderful "one-hoss shay"
  • The passing of the backhouse
  • War
  • The morning's mornin'
  • Finnigan's wake
  • But I know what I like
  • The ballad of Yukon Jake
  • A persian kitty
  • Mary Anne Lowder
  • Johnny Appleseed
  • I've been workin' on the railroad
  • Where is your boy tonight?
  • Opportunity
  • Abdullah Bulbul Amir
  • Billy Boy
  • Lasca
  • Do you know how many stars?
  • Mother's letter
  • Annie Breen
  • Ballad by Abraham Lincoln
  • America greets an alien --
  • Natchez Nan and her gambling man
  • The dead men's song
  • Had a set of double teeth
  • The charming young widow I met on the train
  • Willie the weeper
  • There is a tavern
  • Punch, brother punch
  • The eagle's song
  • The orphan girl, or no bread for the poor
  • The Kilkenny cats
  • A stein song
  • A song of panama
  • After the ball
  • The hell-bound train
  • On cheese
  • Maria Peripatetica
  • The downfall of piracy
  • The face on the barroom floor
  • Bury me not on the lone prairie
  • Roy bean
  • Joshua Ebenezer Fry
  • The kid's last fight
  • Unhappy Boston
  • The ballad of the Oysterman
  • Dot Leedle Loweeza
  • Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith
  • Casey at the bat
  • The frozen maid
  • The letter edged in black
  • John Maynard
  • The Lily of the west
  • Root hog or die
  • A poor unfortunate
  • Frankie and Johnnie
  • A taking girl
  • Down went McGinty
  • Barbara Allen
  • Wait for the wagons
  • The whore on the snow crust --
  • Liquor and longevity
  • Caution
  • When Willie wet the bed
  • A prayer
  • Madamoiselle from armentiers
  • The shooting of Dan McGrew
  • The Boston burglar
  • Quatrain
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • Polly-wolly-doodle
  • Black rock pork
  • When someone cares
  • What the engines said
  • You never miss the water till the well runs dry
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • No more booze
  • Sisters of the cross of shame
  • The new colossus
  • The cremation of Sam McGee
  • What one may and may not call a woman
  • The Oregon Trail
  • The dark girl dressed in blue
  • The fall of Tecumseh
  • Sam Hall
  • The battle of Eutaw
  • A drunkard's ode
  • Racketty Jack
  • Out of the tavern
  • The rolling stone
  • Lips that touch liquor
  • Duty
  • Battle-hymn of the Republic
  • She plays the game
  • A fireman's life
  • The old oaken bucket
  • Oh, my darling Clementine
  • A mother's name
  • The old, old story.
  • Rock me to sleep
  • Sam Bass and how his career was short
  • The flat river girl
  • Captain Jinks
  • Out where the west begins --Do you fear the force of the wind?
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • The house by the side of the road
  • My Maryland
  • Why are you weeping, sister?
  • Oh? Susanna
  • The cumberland
  • Legs
  • When a fellow begins to get bald
  • There was a little girl --The death of Jesse James
  • The end of the trail
  • Handsome Harry
  • The stormy winds do blow
  • Dried apple pies
  • My mother was a lady
  • The little red god
  • The cry of the dreamer
  • The letter
  • Five kernels of corn
  • The lure of the tropics
  • Come home, father
  • Evolution
  • The men of the Alamo
  • The fatal wedding
  • In the baggage coach ahead.

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