Ballads and songs of Southern Michigan

Author

Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner

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.