Details

Subject(s)

• Folk songs, English—New York (State)—Catskill Mountains [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Folk songs [Browse]
• Folk music [Browse]

Notes

"All the songs were collected on the scene in the Catskill Mountain area of New York State."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Songs for every day. Awake, awake ; I walked the road again ; Jam at Gerry's rock ; Cutting down the pines ; Shantyman's life ; Woodmen's alphabet ; Cordwood Cutter ; Paul Jones ; Bright Sunny South ; 'Cumberland' crew ; Bonny laboring boy ; Banks of sweet Dundee ; Fair Julian Bond ; A-walkin' and a-talkin' ; Johnny Riley ; Foggy Dew ; Rainbow ; Friends and neighbors ; Dens of yarrow ; Bold soldier ; Wild Americay ; Bold Trellitee ; Fare you well ; She perished in the snow ; Rock Island Line ; Will you go out west? ; Rolling stone ; Ship of Zion ; Puttin' on the style ; Plains of Illinois ; Newburgh Jail ; Last winter was a hard one ; Poor and foreign stranger ; Resurrection ; Brennan on the Moor ; Betsy ; Jacket so blue ; Old spotted cow ; Mule song ; Ship's carpenter
• My love is like a dewdrop ; Erin's green shores ; Bright Phoebe ; Missie mouse ; Jolly thrasher ; Hills of Glenshee ; Knickerbocker Line ; Lather and shave ; Petticoat lane ; Jolly stage driver ; John Whipple's mill --
• Songs for Saturday night. Rolling in the dew ; I know my love ; What can the matter be? ; Maid on the shore ; Little scotch girl ; Trooper and the tailor ; Little sparrow ; Let's have another round ; Captain Walker's courtship ; I wonder when I shall be married ; A-roving ; Billy boy ; Katey Morey ; My pretty little maid ; Jennifer gently ; Unfortunate Miss Bailey ; Poor countryman ; Seventeen come Sunday ; Island of Jamaica ; Early one morning ; Brats of Jeremiah ; Lolly too-dum ; Blow the man down ; Leather-winged bat ; Devilish Mary ; Jackie Rover ; Wagoner's lad ; West Virginia boys ; Maid on the mountain's brow ; Hi ho, Jerum ; Wife who was dumb ; Devil and the farmer's wife ; Willie the weaver ; Won't you sit with me awhile? ; Michael Finnigan ; Jolly boatswain ; I was there ; Simple little Nancy Brown ; I wish I was a single girl ; Lavender's blue ; Kate and her horns ; Bold grenadier ; My ducksie has fled ; Old maid's lament ; Roving pedlar ; Flat river raftsman ; I wish I was single again ; Down by the Greenwood Shady ; Little cabin boy ; Black is the color ; Bible stories.

LCCN

m 58001011

OCLC

355096

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