| Description |
xxvi, 590 p. : music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music in American life |
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Music in American life.
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| Note |
Unaccompanied melodies. |
| Bibliography |
Discography: p. [541]-547. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-571) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Adieu to dark weather -- Ain't going to rain no more -- The alphabet song -- The Arkansas boys -- The Arkansas traveler -- The babes in the woods -- The bald-headed end of the broom -- The bald knobber song -- The banks of the Nile -- Barbara Allen -- The basket-maker's child -- Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes -- Beautiful Bill -- The beauty, beauty bride -- Be home early tonight, my dear boy -- Benton county, Arkansas -- The best old feller in the world -- Beware, oh beware -- Bill Vanero -- Billy boy -- Black-eyed Susan -- The blackbird -- The blind child -- The boardinghouse -- The brass-mounted army -- The broken engagement -- The broken heart -- The brown girl -- The bucking bronco -- Bury me beneath the willow -- Buy me a china doll -- The cambric shirt -- Can I sleep in your barn tonight? -- Can the circle be unbroken -- The captain with his whiskers -- Careless love -- The cat came back -- Charley Brooks -- Charming Betsey -- The charming young widow I met in the train -- The Chatsworth wreck -- Christine Leroy -- Cole Younger -- Come raise me in your arms, dear brother -- Companions, draw nigh -- The courting song -- The creation -- The cuckoo -- Danny Winters -- The dark hollow -- Darling little Joe -- Davy Crockett -- The deep blue sea -- The derby ram -- Devilish Mary -- Dick German the cobbler -- Dixon and Johnson -- Don't forget me, little darling - Don't sell him any more rum -- Don't you grieve after me -- The drowsy sleeper -- The drunkard's dream -- The drunkard's hell -- The drunkard's hiccoughs -- The drunkard's horse -- The drunkard's lone child -- The dying Californian -- The dying nun -- Early, early in the spring -- Eureka! -- Ewing Brooks -- The express office -- A fair lady of the plains -- Falling leaf -- The farmer's boy -- Father Grumble -- The foggy dew -- Fond of chewing gum -- Forty years ago -- The fox walked out -- Frankie and Johnny -- The frog's courtship -- Gambling on the Sabbath day -- Georgie Jeems -- The girl I left behind -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- The great speckled bird -- Green corn -- The guerrilla man -- The gypsy Davy -- The gypsy's warning -- Harrison town -- The Harvard student -- He never came back -- Here comes two dukes a-roving -- History of the world -- Hold your hands, old man -- The horse traders' song -- The hound dog song -- The house carpenter -- How to kiss your girl -- I bought me a rooster -- I fight mit Sigel -- I have no loving mother now -- I hope I'll j'ine the band -- I'll give you one more as you go -- I'll you in the evening -- I love a nobody -- I'm a good old rebel -- I'm dying for someone to love me -- I'm going away to Texas -- I'm nobody's darling on earth -- In Arkansas -- The Irish jubilee -- The Irish wake -- I went home one night -- I wish I was single again -- The jawbone song -- The jealous lover -- Jesse James -- The Jew's garden -- Jinny go round and round -- Joe Bowers -- Johnny Doyle -- Johnny must fight -- Johnny the sailor -- The juice of the forbidden fruit -- Jump Jim Crow -- Keep your garden clean -- King William was King James's son -- The last farewell -- The letter edged in black -- The life of Georgie -- Lily Lee -- The lily of Arkansas -- Little blossom -- The little rosewood casket -- The little seaside village -- Lord Bateman -- Lord Henry and Lady Margaret -- Lord Lovel -- Lord Thomas and fair Elinor -- Lost on the Lady Elgin -- The lowlands low -- The maiden in the garden -- The meeks murder -- Meet me tonight -- Men's clothes I will put on -- Methodist pie -- The miller's daughters -- The mistletoe bough -- My father was a gambler -- My last gold dollar -- My little German home across the sea -- The noel girl -- Oh, who will shoe my foot -- The old black booger -- Old bumpy -- The old farm gate -- The old gray horse -- Old Joe Clark -- The old man under the hill -- Old Molly Hare -- Old rosin the bow -- The old-time religion -- Once I had a sweetheart -- One more river -- Only a brakeman -- On the banks of sweet dundee -- On the banks of the old Mississippi -- On the banks of the old Tennessee -- The orange and blue -- The orphan song -- Palms of victory -- The paper of pins -- The Pea Ridge battle -- A picture from life's other side -- Please, mister conductor -- Poor Oma Wise -- Pop goes the weasel -- The possum song -- Prairie grove -- The presidents -- The pretty mohee -- Pretty Polly Ann -- Pretty Sally of London -- A prisoner for life -- Put my little shoes away -- Put the traffic down -- The railroader -- Raz-ma-taz-a-ma-tee -- A rich lady from London -- The ring my mother wore -- The rolling stone -- Rolly Trudum -- Root hog or die -- Run, nigger, run -- Rye whiskey, rye whiskey -- The sad song -- The sailor's sweetheart -- Sally Goodin -- Save my father's picture from the sale! -- Sheepskin and beeswax -- Sic him, Towse! -- The silver dagger -- Sim courted the widow -- The skeptic's daughter -- Skip to my lou -- A soldier from Missouri -- Somebody's tall and handsome -- Sourwood mountain -- The southern encampment -- The state of Arkansas -- The stone that goes rolling will gather no moss -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Sweet thing -- Taney county -- There was an old frog -- There was an old miller -- The three little babes -- Tie hackin's too tiresome -- Timbrook -- Titles of songs -- Tobacco union -- To the west awhile to stay -- The tune the old cow died on -- Turkey in the straw -- Turnip greens -- The twelve apostles -- Twenty-one years -- The twin ballots -- The two brothers -- Uncle Joe -- Uncle Ned -- The unfortunate man -- The valiant soldier -- The Wabash cannonball -- The warranty deed -- Weevily wheat -- We'll get there all the same -- We're all nodding -- What blood on the point of your knife? -- Whippoorwill -- The whiskey seller -- Whistling rufus -- The white pilgrim -- Who will shoe my foot? -- Why do you bob your hair, girls? -- The wicked girls -- Wicked Polly -- The wild Moor -- The wildwood flower -- Willie Moore -- With her dog and gun -- A woman lived in a far country -- Woman's rights -- The wreck of old number nine -- The wreck of the southern old 97 -- Ye guardian powers -- You fair and pretty ladies -- Young Charlotte -- A young man's love. |
| Subject |
Folk songs, American -- Ozark Mountains.
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| Added Author |
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980.
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Cohen, Norm, 1936-
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| ISBN |
0252009525 (pbk.) |
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9780252009525 (pbk.) |
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