Contents
The elfin knight (Child, no. 2)Lady Isabel and the elf-knight (Child, no. 4)
Earl Brand (Child, no. 7)
The twa sisters (Child, no. 10)
Lord Randal (Child, no. 12)
The cruel mother (Child, no. 20)
The three ravens (Child, no. 26)
The Broomfield Hill (Child, no. 43)
Young Beichan (Child, no. 53)
The cherry-tree carol (Child, no. 54)
Lord Thomas and fair Annet (Child, no. 73)
The lass of Roch Royal (Child, no. 76)
The wife of Usher's Well (Child, no. 79)
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Child, no. 81)
Bonny Barbara Allen (Child, no. 84)
Lady Alice (Child, no. 85)
Lamkin (Child, no. 93)
The maid freed from the gallows (Child, no. 95)
Johnny Scot (Child, no. 99)
Sir Hugh, or The Jew's daughter (Child, no. 155)
King Henry Fifth's conquest of France (Child, no. 164)
The gypsy laddie (Child, no. 200)
James Harris (The daemon lover) (Child, no. 243)
Our goodman (Child, no. 274)
The wife wrapt in wether's skin (Child, no. 277)
The farmer's curst wife (Child, no. 278)
The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity) (Child, no. 286)
The mermaid (Child, no. 289)
The brown girl (Child, no. 295)
The Yorkshire bite
I gave my love a cherry
The judge and the jury
Young Hunting
The perjured maid
Little Dicky Whigburn
The holy twig
Twelve Apostles (The Ten Commandments)
Home, dearie, home
The bramble briar
Johnny Doyle
Young Edmund in the lowlands low
William and Polly
Young Johnny
William and Mary
Jack and Joe
Derby ram
Johnny Troy
The brisk young farmer
The bugaboo
The Sheffield apprentice
The soldier's wooing
Sweet William (Sailor boy)
The drowsy sleeper
The three sons
The boatsman and the chest
The dishonest miller
The butcher boy
One morning in May
Pretty fair miss
Fair damsel
Farewell, parting lover
Jackaro
Pearl Bryan
The Wexford girl (The cruel miller)
On the banks of the Ohio
Poor Omie
Come, pretty Polly
Early in the spring
Broken vows
Short life of trouble
Little sweetheart
Flirting
A package of old letters
Forsaken
Forsaken lover
The dear companion
I dreamed last night of my true love
Song ballen ("I rode to church last Sunday")
Young ladies (Little sparrow)
My pretty little pink
The true lover's farewell
Black is the color
Lonesome dove
My dearest dear
The lover's lament
No change in me
Old Smoky
Sweet Willie (Sweet Lillie)
I'm going to Georgia
The wagoner's lad
I love little Willie
Pretty Saro
Little Nell of Narragansett Bay
Pretty Mohea
Paper of pins
The black mustache
The lonesome scenes of winter
The old man's courtship
The crafty lover
Will the weaver
The weaver had a wife
The ballad of the waterfall
Old maid's song
I'll not marry at all
Come, all young men
An old man at his grave
I have always heard of these old men
Song ballet ("I was sixteen years of age")
Ellen Smith
Claud Allen
Sidney Allen
Jesse James
Wild Bill Jones
Tom Dooley
The prisoner's song
The rich rambler
Logan County Court House
The peddler and his wife
Charles Guiteau, or James A. Garfield
A Kentucky feud song
Leo Frank and Mary Fagan
Frankie and Albert
The Texas Rangers
When the work's all done this fall
The rambling cowboy
Death of a maiden fair
The lone prairie
The Arkansas traveler
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Brother Green
The drummer boy of Shiloh
The soldier boy
The dying soldier
The ship that never returned
The blind child's prayer
Mary of the wild moor
Orphan girl
Orphan's song
The drunkard's hell
The drunkard's lone child
Billy boy
The ground hog
The frog and the mouse
Sourwood Mountain
First she gave me was an old shot gun
Sandy
There was a little tree
King William was King George's son
Who killed poor Robin?
Old Grampus
Irish barber
The old gray mare
Calomel
My old banjo
Kitty Wells
Were you there?
The little family
Old ship of Zion
All my sins are taken away
My Lord, what a morning!
She'll be coming around the mountain
When you hear that whistle blow
I heard the whistle blowing
Fragment of a Negro song
The great Titanic
Shortening bread
I went up on the mountain top
Eliza Jane
Cindy
Massa had a little yaller gal
Lulu
Big-eye rabbit
Sal's got a meat-skin
When I die
Fragments of Negro songs
Cocaine
Jake walk blues
John Henry
Swannanoa Tunnel.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Folk songs, English
-- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Folk music -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern. |
| Publisher | New York City :J.J. Augustin,1938 |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Contributors |
Henry, Mellinger Edward,
1873-1946, editor. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Some of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies). |
| Description |
xiii pages, 460 pages of music : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xii-xiii). |
| Other | Classic View |