Bluegrass Ballads, Text & Lyrics

Ballads popular in Kentucky from about 1850 to the early 1900's, Collected And Compiled By William Lightfoot Visscher

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This book has little direct connection with modern bluegrass music as it is known today but is included here for research purposes as it documents songs and ballads popular in Kentucky from about 1850 to the early 1900's. Musicians may also find some of this material suitable for performance or inspiration. It is almost certain that many of the pieces in this collection had at least some influence on the bluegrass music emerging from performers like Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs.
Warning: This book dates from 1900, a time when the social milieu was very much different from today, and some of the content falls short of current political correctness. The fact of it's inclusion here should not be taken to mean that the publisher of this web site condones or agrees with this content but neither do I believe uncomfortable parts of our history should be edited out.
I also have to apologise for the odd errors and weirdnesses you will find in this text, which are due to the inherent problems of scanning and OCRing old books. I hope you will not find them too distracting.

Bluegrass Ballads, Content Index - Songs & Page Numbers. Note: deduct 100 from the numbers shown to get the original page number from the book.

Inside front cover contents list 1 contents list 2 contents list 3 Kentucky - 0111 Songs of Long Ago - 0112 When the Corn's Laid By - 0113 Page - 0114 My Own Kentucky Girl - 0115 Page - 0116 Ike - 0117 Page - 0118 A Song for Tennessee - 0119 When Ben Brush Won the Derby - 0120 Page - 0121 Balcazar - 0122 The Rifle in the Hall - 0123 Page - 0124 New Ground  - 0125 The Fee' Lark's Song - 0126 Our Cabin - 0127 Page - 0128 My Mother's Portrait. - 0129 A Love Song ... - 0130 Page - 0131 Down at the Rocky Spring - 0132 Page - 0133 The Old Grindstone - 0134 Page - 0135 On Next Court Day - 0136 Waiting for the Call - 0137 Page - 0138 Fetch Over the Canoe - 0139 Page - 0140 A Summer Night - 0141 Songs We Used to Sing - 0142 Page - 0143 Page - 0144 Old-Time Melodies - 0145 Lucie Lee of Tennessee - 0146 In Mississippi Woods - 0147 Dancing in the Old Time - 0148 Page - 0149 The Kentuckian's Lament - 0150 Page - 0151 Down South ... - 0152 Page - 0153 Old Mart an' Me - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 Harp of the South .. - 0157 Page - 0158 In Mexico .. - 0159 Christmas in the Ole Time - 0160 Page - 0161 Page - 0162 When the Julep's Ripe - 0163 Page - 0164 Other Verse— The Governor's Violin - 0167 Page - 0168 The Barbarian ... - 0169 Here's to You, My Brother - 0170 Page - 0171 Refugium - 0172 A Critic's Reward .. - 0173 Mount of the Holy Cross - 0174 Baby's Morning - 0175 The Gourd Beside the Spring - 0176 A Little Shoe ... - 0177 Sandy McCann ... - 0178 Page - 0179 Chiquita, La Bonita - 0180 Page - 0181 My Mother's Wedding Ring - 0182 The Poet King .. - 0183 The Coming Master - 0184 Cando - 0185 Page - 0186 A Modern Temple. - 0187 Page - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0190 Page - 0191 Castelar - 0192 Page - 0193 Page - 0194 Renaissance - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 Page - 0198 Page - 0199 Easter Lilies and Easter Bells - 0200 Page - 0201 Two Revels - 0202 Page - 0203 Give Us, O! God, to Know - 0204 Mistletoe - 0205 Buffalo Bill, A Knight of the West - 0206 Page - 0207 Page - 0208 Page - 0209 Page - 0210 The Modern Steed - 0211 Page - 0212 The Storm King - 0213 Bohemia's Rest. - 0214 Page - 0215 Page - 0216 Page - 0217 A Gentleman - 0218 Don't Saw Yourself Off of a Limb - 0219 Page - 0220 One More Valentine - 0221 Page - 0222 On the Summer Sea - 0223 Page - 0224 Be Fair and Just, My Son - 0225 Go Easy - 0226 Two Dead - 0227 The Tiger's Cub - 0228 Page - 0229 Page - 0230 Jim Marlinspike - 0231 Page - 0232 Page - 0233 A Memory and a Tear - 0234 Page - 0235 His Angel Slept - 0236 Page - 0237 The Woman of the Moon - 0238 A Talisman - 0239 Chicago - 0239 Page - 0240 Page - 0241 Page - 0242 Page - 0243 Page - 0244 Page - 0245 Page - 0246 Page - 0247 Page - 0248 Page - 0249 Page - 0250 Page - 0251 Page - 0252 Page - 0253 Page - 0254 The Dove - 0257 The Other End of War - 0258 Page - 0259 Page - 0260 Battle - 0261 Page - 0262 Page - 0263 War - 0264 The Anglo-Saxon Way - 0264 Page - 0265 Page - 0266 Page - 0267 Blue and Gray are One - 0268 All in Gray - 0269 The Regimental Flag - 0270 Page - 0271 Rhoda Ragland - 0272 Page - 0273 Page - 0274 Page - 0275 Le Reve - 0276 Daughters of America - 0277 A Song of Peace - 0278 A Song of Thanksgiving - 0279 Old Glory" ... - 0280 In the Fall of the Year - 0283 Page - 0284 Rosie's Sunday Clothes - 0285 Page - 0286 If I Could Live as Long as Methusalum - 0287 There's No Little Coon Like Mine - 0288 Page - 0289 Cawn-Pone an' Greens - 0290 You Can Nevah Make a White Man from a Coon - 0291 His Bracer in the Morning - 0292 Page - 0293 I'm a King an' I w'ars de Crown - 0294 Page - 0295 All Day on Lawd's Day - 0296 How Ephum Won a Gun - 0297 Page - 0298 Sandy's Sunday Shirt - 0299 Jaw-Bone Talk ... - 0300 Dem Skeeters - 0301 Tell Me, Honey - 0302 Page - 0303 Fo' Dey Set de Darkies Free - 0304 Hard Times Gwine Away - 0305 Page - 0306 Zoe's Plea - 0307 The Dinner Horn - 0307 Page - 0308 My Alabama Rose - 0309 Rambo's Serenade - 0310 Page - 0311 Loo, John - 0312 A 'Possum Song - 0313 Page - 0314 Hear dem Niggahs Singin' - 0315 Sorry for the Lord - 0316 Jube's Old Yaller Dog - 0317 Old Cato's Creed - 0318 Page - 0319 Some Singin' ... - 0320 Juley Ann - 0321 Page - 0322

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