American folk poetry : an anthology.
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Boston : Little, Brown, [1974].
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xxxi, 831 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Table of Contents
All the pretty little horses
The mocking bird
Go tell Aunt Rhody
Lullaby
The lost baby
Baa, baa, black sheep
Who killed poor Robin?
Squat down, Josey
Little Sally Waters I
Little Sally Waters II
Miss Jennian Jones
The tree in the wood
Fiddle-i-fee
The barnyard
Nottingham fair
The Derby ram
On a bright and summer's morning
Old Humpy
The skin-and-bone lady
Froggie went a-courting
Jinnie Jenkins
Old maids
The rich widow
King William was King George's son
Rose in the garden
Marriage
Old Grandpaw Yet
Rise you up, my true love
Here we march all around in a ring
Walking on the green grass
Lazy Mary
The keys of Canterbury
Paper of pins
Skip to my Lou
Marching 'round the levee
Weevily wheat
Mrs. Vickers' daughter
The needle's eye
Old lady sitting in the dining room
Marching to Quebec, or Quebec town (three variants)
My pretty pink
This lady she wears a dark green shawl
Tom Jones's plum tree (the juniper tree)
Pa, pa, build me a boat
The chimney sweeper
London's bridge is a-burning down
Hog drovers
Whistle, daughter, whistle
Salute your partner
Mississippi Sawyer
The girl I left behind me
Sally Goodin
Sourwood mountain
Darling Cory
Dogget gap
Blue-eyed girl
Roll on the ground
Bile them cabbage down
Shout, little Lulu
Old Kimball
Black-eyed Susie
Fod
Git along down to town
The kicking mule
Cripple creek
Tennessee
The sun shines over the mountain
Stay all night, stay a little longer
Buffalo girls
Jack of diamonds
Philadelphia
The silver dagger I
Come all ye fair and tender ladies II
The silk weaver's daughter
Johnny Dyers
A lover's lament I
Charming beauty bright II
The fair beauty bride III
Awake, arise, you drowsy sleeper
The 'prentice boy
The servant man (the iron door)
The banks of sweet Dundee
The green briar shore
The soldier's wooing I
The jolly soldier II
The jealous brothers
Edwin in the lowlands low
Lovelye William I
Willie II
The mournful dove (the false true-lover)
Ten thousand miles
When you and I must part
The Rocky Mountains
No change in me
Lonesome dove I
The little dove II
Newberry (lonesome dove) III
The greenback dollar
Forsaken (he once did love with fond affection)
Pretty Saro
Thyme
Green willow, green willow
Ibby Damsel
Kitty Kline
Free little bird
In the pines
Waly, Waly
Little sparrow (come all you young and handsome ladies)
The weeping willow
The wagoner's lad
Old Smoky
The cuckoo
My love, she passed me by
I'm going to Georgia
Farewell, sweet Mary
So I let her go
Goodbye, little Bonny blue eyes
New jail
My home's across the Smoky Mountains
The stormy scenes of winter I
The rejected lover, or the lonesome scenes of winter II
Polly Vaughn (Molly Brown)
The Sheffield 'prentice
Caroline of Edinboro' town
The butcher boy
A rich Irish lady I (Sally)
The fair damsel from London II (the brown girl
pretty Sarah)
The rejected lover
False Nancy
Early in the spring I
The trail to Mexico II
The girl I left behind me (my parents raised me tenderly)
Sinful to flirt (Willie down by the pond)
The lover's lament for her sailor
The sailor and his bride
My darling's on the deep blue sea
William was a royal lover
The silvery tide
The lowlands of Holland
Young Charlottie, or the frozen girl
Springfield Mountain
The broken token
The banks of Claudy
Johnny Germany
The mantle so green (lovelye Nancy)
Fair Phoebe and her dark-eyed sailor
The nightingales of spring (a seaman and his love
the welcome sailor)
William Hall
William and Mary
The blind beggar
Jack Monroe (Jackie's gone a-sailing)
Lisbon
The true lovers bold
The wars of Santa Fe
Caroline and her young sailor bold
The jolly plowboy
Kitty Morey
On the banks of Salee
Kate and the cowhide
Jack the jolly tar
Blow the candle out (the jolly boatsman)
The golden glove
I wish I was single I
I wish I were single again II
I once loved a young man
Trifling women
Married and single life
I wish I were single again
When I was a young maid
Bachelor bold and young
When young ladies get married
Song ballet (I was sixteen years of age)
A rich old miser
I have always heard of these old men
Soldier, won't you marry me?
Billy Grimes
I'll be fourteen next Sunday
Rolly Trudum
I love somebody (I love little Willie)
Common Bill
My grandmother Green
Buffalo boy
No, sir, no
Billy boy
As I walked out one morning
The milkmaid
Madame, I have come a-courting
Old gray beard a-shaking
The gray mare (young Johnny the miller)
Old woman
The bachelor's complaint
The widow's old broom
All night long fooling me
I don't let the girls worry my mind
There's more pretty girls than one
Soldier boy for me I
A railroader for me II
Chewing chawing gum III
I'll not marry at all IV
Old maid's song V
Father grumble
The best old fellows in the world
The old lady of London
Johnny Sands
Devilish Mary
The clever skipper
Will the weaver
My new garden field
The little drummer
There she stands a lovely creature
The nightingale
Willie Leonard, or the Lake of Cold Finn
The lady of Carlisle
All in the downs (Susan and William)
The little mohea
On the lakes of Ponchartrain
Pretty Polly of Topsham
So I let her go
Riddles wisely expounded (the devil's nine questions)
The elfin knight
The false knight upon the road
Lady Isabel and the elf-knight (pretty Polly)
Earl Brand (sweet William)
The two sisters
The cruel brother
Lord Randal
Edward
Babylon; or the bonnie banks o' Fordie
Hind horn
Sir Lionel
The cruel mother
The three ravens
The Broomfield hill
King John and the bishop (the bishop of Canterbury)
Captain Wedderburn's courtship (bold Robbington)
The two brothers
Lizie Wan
The king's dochter lady Jean (queen Jane)
Young Beichan (lord Bateman)
Dives and Lazarus
Sir Patrick Spens (sir Patrick Spence)
Young hunting (loving Henry)
Lord Thomas and fair Annet (the brown girl) (lord Thomas and fair Ellender)
Fair Margaret and sweet William (little Marg'et)
Lord Lovel
The lass of Roch Royal (sweet Annie of Roch Royal)
The unquiet grave
The wife of Usher's Well (the three babes)
Little Musgrave and lady Barnard (little Matthy Groves)
Bonny Barbara Allan (Barbara Allen)
Lady Alice (four variants)
Prince Robert (Harry Saunders)
Lamkin (Bolakins)
The maid freed from the gallows ("hangman, slack on the line") (The sycamore tree)
Willie o' Winsbury
The bailiff's daughter of Islington (The bailer's daughter of Ireland Town)
The knight and the shepherd's daughter
Robin Hood and Little John
The bold pedlar and Robin Hood (Robin Hood and the pedlar)
Sir Hugh, or, the jew's daughter (little Harry Hughes and the duke's daughter)
Sir Andrew Barton; Henry Martyn (Andrew Batann. two variants)
Mary Hamilton (the four Marys)
Archie O' Cawfield (bold Dickie)
The gypsy laddie (the gypsy Davy)
Lord Derwentwater (the king's love-letter) Geordie (Georgie)
(Georgie Wedlock)
Bonnie James Campbell (Bonnie George Campbell)
The Rantin laddie
James Harris (the daemon lover) (the house-carpenter) ("well met, well met, my old true love")
The Suffolk miracle (lady, lady, lady fair) (there were an old and wealthy man)
Our Goodman
Get up and bar the door
The wife wrapt in wether's skin
The farmer's curst wife
The crafty farmer (the Oxford merchant)
The sweet trinity (the golden vanity or the golden willow tree)
The mermaid (two variants)
Trooper and maid (two variants)
Windham
Mear
Wondrous love
Lover of the lord
Montgomery
Northfield
Mount Zion
Milford
Stratfield
Ballstown
Edom
Fillmore
Sardis
Mission
Vain world adieu
Heavenly vision
David's lamentation
Sherburne
Shouting song
Shout for joy
The traveller
Evening shade
Liverpool
Plenary
Ninety-fifth
The promised land
Ecstasy
Deep spring
Greenwich
The lonesome dove
The mouldering vine
The dying father's farewell (the dying minister)
Mr. Davis's experience
Mrs. Saunder's experience
My buried friends
Young people who delight in sin
The angel of death
A poor wayfaring stranger
Zion's sons and daughters
Death-bed song
When I survey the wondrous cross
The sons of Levi
Hide thou me
Attend, young friends, while I relate
Oh, that I had some secret place
'Tis sweet to rest in lively hope
Rufus Mitchell's confession
Little Bessie
Handwriting on the wall
You're going to reap just what you sow
Little black train
The man of Calvary (Easter Day service/sermon)
Do, Lord, remember me
Dig my grave
I'm a solider in the army of the Lord
Ain't no grave can hold my body down
This train don't cary no gamblers
The blood-strained banders
Oh! Death
Dark was the night
The cherry-tree carol (four variants)
The twelve days of Christmas (with everal variant last stanzas)
Upon a Christmas morning I
Upon a Christmas morning II
Mary and the baby, sweet lamb
The little cradle rocks tonight in glory
Jesus borned in Bethlea
The joys of Mary
The carol of the numbers
Montcalm and Wolfe
The dying sergeant
The Stately Southerner
Paul Jones's victory
Yankee Doodle
Major Andre (Arnold's treason)
Columbia
Jolly soldier
Mount Vernon
Ye parliament of England
The Constitution and the Guerriere
The banks of Champlain
James Bird
The battle of New Orleans
The maid of Monterey
The Cumberland's crew I
The Cumberland and the Merrimac II
Maggie Mac III
Virginia's bloody soil
The battle of Bull Run (fragment)
The red, white and red
The battle of Shiloh
The drummer boy of Shiloh
The battle of Antietam Creek
Goin' 'cross the mountain
Dan Ellis's boys
Fare you well, my darling
When this cruel war is over
Brother green
The last fierce charge (the message that never was sent)
The cripple for life, or the poor volunteer
One-and-twenty
Booth killed Lincoln
Charles Guiteau I
Charles Guiteau II
Zolgotz
The Miramichi fire
The Brooklyn theater fire
The Milwaukee fire
The Sherman cyclone
Wasn't that a mighty storm?
The Santa Barbara earthquake
The West Palm Beach storm
The Tupelo destruction
The Cabin Creek flood
Paddy, get back
Roll the cotton down
A long time ago
Whisky Johnny
So handy, me boys, so handy
Blow the man down
Haul away, my Rosy
Sally Brown
Reuben Ranzo
The sailors' alphabet
When Jones's ale was new
Captain Bunker
Blow, ye winds
The Greenland whale fishery
The tempest
The lightning flash
The loss of the Due Dispatch
Fifteen ships on Georges banks
The Titanic I
Great Titanic II
The loss of the New Columbia
The Flying Cloud
The wild Barbaree
The wind Sou'west
The bay of Biscay
The isle of Man Shore (the desolate widow)
Johnny Gallagher
The girls around Cape Horn
The green bed
A trip to the Grand Banks
The schooner Fred Dunbar
The Dreadnought
The Dom Pedro
The fair maid by the shore
The banks of Dee
The rocky island
The lumberman's alphabet
Once more a-lumbering go
The farmer and the shanty boy (Trenton Town)
The roving shanty boy
The shanty boys and the pine
Johnny Carroll's camp
Turner's camp on the Chippewa
Stirling's hotel
Jack Haggerty
The banks of the Gaspereaux
The little brown bulls
The wild Mustard River
The jam on Gerry's rocks
Jimmy Judge
Samuel Allen
Peter Amberley
On the banks of the little Eau Pleine
Lost Jimmie Whalen
Canada-i-o (England) I
Canada-i-o (Maine) II
Colley's run-i-o (Pennsylvania) III
Michigan i-o (Michigan) IV
The buffalo skinners (Texas) V
The shantyman's life I
The cowboy's life is a very dreary life II
The Californian
The San Francisco company
I came from Salem City
The dying Californian
Coming around the horn
Joe Bowers
Sweet Betsey from Pike
The national miner
When I went off to prospect
lousy miner
The miner's lament
Root hog or die
The gambler
Clementine
Prospecting dream
Sweet Jane
Oh, give me the hills
Lament while descending a shaft
My sweetie's a mule in the mines
Says the miner to the mucker
Dynamite song
Cousin Jack song
Tramp miner's song
Casey Jones
I'm only a broken-down miner
The hard-working miner
Only a miner
The miner boy
Down in a coal mine
The little lump of coal
The old miner's refrain
A coal miner's goodbye
Union man
Blue Monday
Drill man blues
Two-cent coal
The shoofly
The hard-working miner
The miner's doom
John J. Curtis
The dying mine brakeman
The Avondale mine disaster
Payday at Coal Creek
The handcart song
Tittery-irie-aye
The boys of Sanpete county
On the road to California, or the buffalo bullfight
St. George
Once I lived in Cottonwood
Marching to Utah
Echo Canyon
The Utah iron horse
Starving to death on a government claim
Sanford Barney
Little old sod shanty
The Sioux Indians
The dreary Black Hills
Freighting from Wilcox to Globe
One morning in May, or the young girl cut down in her prime I
St. James infirmary II
The streets of Laredo III
Earlye, earlye in the spring
The zebra dun
Red whiskey
The Old Chisholm Trail
The Texas cowboy
I ride an old paint
Bucking bronco
I've got no use for the women
Unloading rails
Tamping ties
Lining track
Track-lining song
Go down, old Hannah
Poor little Johnny
Mississippi sounding calls
Heaving the lead line
Hammer, ringt
Calling trains
John Henry
I wish I was a mole in the ground
George Allen
The wreck of the royal palm
Henry K. Sawyer
I'm going to Rocky Island
Lost Johnny
The Rock Island line
Way out in Idaho
The dying hobo
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
Johnson-Jinkson
The Oxford girl (expert town) I
The Wexford girl (the Lexington girl) II
The Gosport tragedy
Pretty Polly I
Pretty Polly II
Florella, or the jealous lover
Pearl Bryan I
Pearl Bryant II
The lily of the west
Lula Vires
Rose Connoley
Poor Ellen Smith
Ellen Flannery
Fuller and Warren
Mary Wyatt and Henry Green
The Ashland tragedy I
The Ashland tragedy II
The peddler and his wife
The murder of Goins
Naomi Wise
The death of Samuel Adams
Ella Speed
Mulberry Mountain
Dick Turpin and Black Bess, or my bonnie Black Bess
The wild Colloina boy
Bold Jack Donahue
Brennan on the moor
Captain Kidd
Sam Hall
The Boston burglar I
Frank James, the roving gambler II
Sam Bass
Jesse James
Cole Younger
The Rowan County Crew
Claude Allen
Wild Bill Jones
John Hardy
Delia Holmes
Frankie and Johnnie
Bad man ballad
Twenty-one years
Hang me, o hang me
McAfee's confession
Musgrove
John Adkins' farewell
Frankie Silvers
Tom Dooley
The hanging of Sam Archer
The croppy boy
Gonna lay my head down on some railroad line
The railroad blues
I rode Southern, I rode L & N
The train is off the track
Coal loadin' blues
Coal diggin' blues
Worried life blues
Ragged and dirty
Special rider blues
Depot blues
Mississippi blues
Four o'clock flower blues
East St. Louis blues
Low down dirty blues
The dodger
The song of Cove Creek Dam
Arizona
Go to Old Ireland
Oh, it's nine years ago I was digging in the land
The dishonest miller
The horse trader's song
The cranberry song
Lake Chemo
The factory girl's come-all-ye
Hard times
Free silver
Bryan's last battle (the Scopes trial)
Lindbergh
Mother's advice
The orphan girl
The jolly thresherman.
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Published
Boston : Little, Brown, [1974].
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Edition
[First edition]
Language
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Bibliography
"A bibliography of American folksong" compiled by J. C. Hickerson: p. [775]-816.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Emrich, D. (1974). American folk poetry: an anthology ([First edition]). Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Emrich, Duncan, 1908-1977. 1974. American Folk Poetry: An Anthology. Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Emrich, Duncan, 1908-1977. American Folk Poetry: An Anthology Little, Brown, 1974.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Emrich, Duncan. American Folk Poetry: An Anthology [First edition], Little, Brown, 1974.
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