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