The Folk Songs of North America: in the English Language

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The North. Old colony times. In good old colony times ; Cape Ann ; Springfield Mountain ; Billy broke locks ; Captain Kidd : I ; Whisky in the jar ; Strawberry Lane ; Lady Isabel and the elf knight ; Edward ; Father Grumble ; Ill give my love an apple ; The Quakers courtship ; Sailing in the boat ; As I roved out ; The sow took the measles --Yankee soldiers and sailors. Brave Wolfe ; The wars of America ; Felix the soldier ; In the days of 76 ; Johnny has gone for a soldier ; Yankee Doodle dandy-o ; The fish of the sea ; Cape Cod girls ; Sally Brown ; Shenandoah ; Santy Anno ; Blood red roses ; A long time ago ; The bullgine run ; Row bullies row ; The banks of Newfoundland ; The Greenland whale fishery ; Get up Jack --Shouters and shakers. Captain Kidd : II ; Wicked Polly ; Satans kingdom ; Come life Shaker life ; Shaker funeral hymn --Pioneers. The lovely Ohio ; Hudson River steamboat ; El-a-noy ; Oleana ; The foggy dew : I ; The foggy dew : II ; In the wilderness ; The paw-paw patch ; The lone green valley ; Young Charlotte ; Turkey in the straw ; Lincoln and liberty ; When Johnny comes marching home ; Virginias bloody soil --Timber tigers. The farmer and the shanty boys ; The little brown bulls ; The pinery boy ; The river in the pines ; Canada-i-o ; Moosehead Lake ; Bold Jack Donahue ; Silver Jack ; The frozen logger --Workers and farmers. The Julie Plante ; Red iron ore ; The Avondale mine disaster ; My sweethearts a mule ; The farmer is the man ; The housewifes lament ; Me fathers a lawyer in England ; The horse named Bill ; Love is pleasin --The Maritime Provinces. Three young ladies ; The kangaro ; The maid on the shore ; The Mary L. MacKay ; Mary Ann ; When a mans in love ; A great big sea ; Ize the bye. The Southern mountains and backwoods. Across the Blue Ridge. John Riley ; Cumberland Gap ; The deer chase ; Lily Munroe ; Rattlesnake ; Single girl ; Gentle fair Jenny --The old ballads. The devils nine questions ; Cock Robin ; The house carpenter ; Barbara Allen ; The two sisters ; Lady gay ; The farmers curst wife ; Devilish Mary ; Robin Hood and Arthur OBland ; The Golden Vanity ; The ramblin boy ; The bad girl ; A fair beauty bride --Lonesome love songs. Fair and tender ladies ; Black is the colour ; Aunt Sals song ; Im troubled ; Lovin Hannah ; The gambling suitor ; Chickens they are crowin ; How old are you my pretty little miss? ; Whistle daughter whistle ; Winters night ; Whos gonna shoe your pretty little feet? ; The cuckoo ; The fourth day of July ; The wagoners lad ; Old Smokey ; I never will marry ; Johnson boys --Frolic tunes. Uncle Joe ; Sally Anne ; Cripple Creek ; Cindy ; Shady Grove ; Sally Goodin ; Jubilee --White spirituals. The seven blessings of Mary ; The twelve days of Christmas ; Am I born to die? ; On my journey home ; Way over in the heavens ; Weeping Mary ; Death aint you got no shame? ; O David --Rowdy ways. Groundhog ; Sorghum syrup ; The good old rebel ; Moonshiner ; Dig a hole in the meadow ; Hurrah lie! --Murder ballads. Rose Connelly ; Omie Wise ; Tom Dula ; Wild Bill Jones ; John Hardy ; Charles Guiteau ; Mister MacKinley --Hard times and hillbilly. Peg an awl ; Roll on buddy ; Pay day ; Down on Penneys farm ; Cotton mill colic ; My last ole dollar ; Down in the valley ; The rising sun blues ; Mule skinner blues ; I dont want your millions mister ; Sixteen tons ; Dark as a dungeon. The West. Beyond the Mississippi. Were coming Arkansas ; Blue ; The hound dawg song ; Lets go a-huntin ; Blow the candle out ; Uh-uh no ; Buffalo boy ; Twistification ; Little Matthy Groves ; The girl I left behind : ballad ; Im goin away to Texas ; The state of Arkansas ; The horse traders song --Plainsmen and 49ers. The Texas Rangers ; Green grows the laurel ; Root hog or die ; Whoa! ha! Buck and Jerry boy ; Sweet Betsy ; Joe Bowers ; Lousy miner ; The dreary Black Hills ; The Regular Army-o ; Lulu --Soldiers and renegades. Charlie Quantrell ; The brass mounted army ; The battle on Shilohs Hill ; Cole Younger ; Jesse James --Cowboys. Wake up Jacob ; The railroad corral ; Im bound to follow the longhorn cows ; A cowboys life ; The Old Chisholm Trail ; Go on you little dogies ; Run along you little dogies ; Put the old man to sleep ; The old mans lament ; Night herding song ; Doney gal ; Im a-leavin Cheyenne ; On the trail to Mexico ; When I was a cowboy ; The wild rippling water ; My love is a rider ; The dying cowboy ; The sailor cut down in his prime ; Billy the Kid ; Tyin a knot in the devils tail --Prairie farmers. In Kansas ; The little old sod shanty ; The Red River shore ; Hog drovers ; Tideo ; Lord Lovel ; The hell-bound train ; Colorado Trail ; Springfield Mountain : Texas version ; Fod --Railroaders and hoboes. Shell be comin around the mountain ; A railroader for me ; Jerry go an ile that car ; Drill ye tarriers ; Wandrin ; Around a western water tank ; The Wabash Cannon Ball ; The Big Rock Candy Mountains ;...