American Ballads and Songs

Complete Text & Lyrics - online book

An Anthology Of Traditional Song Compiled and Edited By
Prof Louise Pound Of The University Of Nebraska. c1922

About This Book
This anthology is intended to present to lovers of traditional song such selections as shall illustrate the main classes and types having currency in English-speaking North America. The interest attaching to them is partly literary, partly historical, and partly the interest of folk-lore. Please excuse the odd errors due to the normal vagaries of scanning and OCRing. I hope you find what is here useful. Rod March 2007

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American Ballads and songs, Contents index. Note: deduct 100 from the numbers shown to get the original page number from the book.

Title Page Copyright notice Preface Preface Contents Contents Contents Introduction Introduction - 0017 Introduction - 0018 Introduction - 0019 Introduction - 0020 Introduction - 0021 Introduction - 0022 Introduction - 0023 Introduction - 0024 Introduction - 0025 Introduction - 0026 Introduction - 0027 Introduction - 0028 Introduction - 0029 Introduction - 0030 Introduction - 0031 Introduction - 0032 Introduction - 0033 Introduction - 0034 Introduction - 0035 Introduction - 0036 Introduction - 0037 Introduction - 0038 Introduction - 0039 Introduction - 0040 Introduction - 0041 Johnny Randall - 0103 Lord Lovel - 0104 Page - 0105 Page - 0106 Barbara Allen - 0107 Page - 0108 Page - 0109 Page - 0110 The Two Sisters - 0111 Page - 0112 The Jewish Lady - 0113 Page - 0114 Page - 0115 The Wipe Wrapt in Wetheh's Skin - 0116 Page - 0117 Children's Song - 0118 Page - 0119 Page - 0120 The Cruel Brother - 0121 Page - 0122 Edward - 0123 The Lowlands Low - 0124 Page - 0125 Three Sailor Boys - 0126 Lord Thomas - 0127 Page - 0128 Page - 0129 Page - 0130 The Hangman's Song - 0131 Page - 0132 Lord Bayham - 0133 Page - 0134 Page - 0135 Page - 0136 Little Matthy Groves - 0137 Page - 0138 Page - 0139 Sweet William - 0140 Page - 0141 Page - 0142 The House Carpenter - 0143 Page - 0144 Two Little Boys - 0145 Page - 0146 The Cherry Tree Carol - 0147 The False Knight - 0148 The Drowsy Sleeper - 0151 Page - 0152 The Bamboo Briars - 0153 Page - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 The Boston Burglar - 0157 Page - 0158 Page - 0159 The Butcher's Boy - 0160 Page - 0161 Page - 0162 The Death op a Romish Lady - 0163 Page - 0164 Page - 0165 .Johnny and Betsy - 0166 Page - 0167 The Soldier - 0168 The Farmer's Boy - 0169 Page - 0170 The Rich Young Farmer - 0171 Page - 0172 The Lover's Return - 0173 The Prentice Boy - 0174 Page - 0175 The Constant Farmer's Son - 0176 Page - 0177 Mollie Bond - 0178 Page - 0179 My Father's Gray Mare - 0180 Mary O' the Wild Moor - 0181 Father Grumble - 0182 Page - 0183 Guy Fawkes - 0184 Page - 0185 William Reilly's Courtship - 0186 Page - 0187 Page - 0188 Jack Riley - 0189 Page - 0190 The Battle op Point Pleasant - 0193 Page - 0194 Page - 0195 Page - 0196 Springfield Mountain - 0197 Page - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 The Jealous Lover - 0201 Page - 0202 Young Charlotte - 0203 Page - 0204 Page - 0205 Page - 0206 Page - 0207 The Old Shawnee - 0208 Page - 0209 The Man That Wouldn't Hoe Corn - 0210 Wicked Polly - 0211 Page - 0212 Page - 0213 Johnny Sands - 0214 Page - 0215

Fuller and Warren - 0216 Page - 0217 Poor Goins - 0218 PoorOmie - 0219 Page - 0220 Silver. Dagger - 0221 Page - 0222 Page - 0223 The Aged Indian - 0224 Page - 0225 Calomel - 0226 The Creole Girl - 0227 Page - 0228 The Blue and the Gray - 0229 The Gambler - 0230 The Baggage Coach Ahead - 0231 Page - 0232 Casey Jones - 0233 The Lady Elgin - 0234 The Jamestown Flood - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 The Milwaukee Fire - 0238 Page - 0239 The Fatal Wedding - 0240 Page - 0241 Page - 0242 Jesse James - 0245 Charles Guiteau - 0246 Page - 0247 Page - 0248 Sam Bass - 0249 Page - 0250 Page - 0251 Jack Wilijams - 0252 Young McFee - 0253 Page - 0254 My Bonny Black Bess - 0255 Page - 0256 Turpin and the Lawyer - 0257 Jack Donahoo - 0258 Page - 0259 Captain Kidd - 0260 The Texas Rangers - 0263 Page - 0264 The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim - 0265 Cowboy Song - 0266 The Old Chisholm Trail  - 0267 Page - 0268 Page - 0269 The Dying Cowboy - 0270 0 Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie - 0271 Page - 0272 I Want to Be a Cowboy - 0273 Whoopee Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Dogies - 0274 Cheyenne Boys - 0275 Breaking in a Tenderfoot - 0276 Page - 0277 Starving to Death on a Government Claim - 0278 Page - 0279 Page - 0280 The Buffalo Skinners - 0281 Page - 0282 Page - 0283 The Kinkaiders' Song - 0284 Dakota Land - 0285 Joe Bowers - 0286 Page - 0287 Page - 0288 In the Summer of Sixty - 0289 Page - 0290 The Dying Californian - 0291 Page - 0292 Page - 0293 The Pretty Mohea - 0297 Katie's Secret - 0298 Page - 0299 Mary and Willie - 0300 Page - 0301 Kitty Wells - 0302 Pastoral Elegy - 0303 Page - 0304 The Courtship of Billy Grimes - 0305 Fair Fanny Moore - 0306 I Wish I Was Single Again - 0307 I'll Not Marry At All - 0308 Rosen the Bow - 0309 Page - 0310 Evalina - 0311 My Blue-Eyed Boy. - 0312 The Old Gray Mule. - 0313 I Will Tell You of a Fellow - 0314 Page - 0315 The Preacher's Legacy - 0316 Page - 0317 The Spanish Cabineer - 0318 Page - 0319 Page - 0320 The Quaker's Courtship - 0323 Dutchman, Dutchman, Won't You Marry Me? - 0324 What Will You Give Me If I Get Up? - 0325 Paper of Pins - 0326 Page - 0327 The Milkmaid - 0328 Page - 0329 Page - 0330 Billy Boy - 0331 Poor Robin. - 0332 Babes in the Woods - 0333 In Good Old Colony Times - 0334 Let's Go to the Woods. - 0335 I Bought Me a Wife - 0336 We'll All Go Down to Rowser's - 0337 Sweet Fields of Violo - 0338 Page - 0339 Page - 0340 Notes Notes - 0344 Notes - 0345 Notes - 0346 Notes - 0347 Notes - 0348 Notes - 0349 Notes - 0350 Notes - 0351 Notes - 0352 Notes - 0353 Notes - 0354 Notes - 0355 Notes - 0356 Notes - 0357 Index Index - 0362 Index - 0363 Index - 0364 Index - 0365 Index - 0366