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Subject(s)

• Ballads, English—United States [Browse]
• Ballads, English—United States—History and criticism [Browse]
• Folk songs, English—United States [Browse]
• Folk songs, English—United States—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ballads, English—United States—Discography [Browse]
• Folk songs, English—United States—Discography [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

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

Notes

Unacc. melodies, with chord symbols, each preceded by a historical note and discography.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-383).

Contents

• Abilene
• Acres of clams
• Old rosin the beau
• Lincoln and liberty
• God's children got shoes
• All my trials
• All the good times
• Anne Boleyn
• A-Roving
• The Ash Grove
• Bailiff's daughter of Islington
• Banks of the Ohio
• Barbara Allen
• Beautiful beautiful brown eyes
• Betty and Dupree
• The big rock candy mountain
• Billy Barlow
• Billie Magee Magaw
• Billy Boy
• Black is the color of my true love's hair
• Blow the candles out
• Blow the man down
• The boll weevil
• Boll weevil blues
• Brennan on the moor
• Buffalo boy
• Bury me beneath the willow
• The butcher boy
• The cambric shirt
• Can the circle be unbroken
• Careless love
• The cat came back
• The cherry tree carol
• Cindy
• Clementine
• Cockles and mussels
• Coplas
• Copper kettle
• Corena
• The cowboy's lament
• The crawdad song
• Cripple Creek
• The Danville girl
• Darlin' Corey
• Deep blue sea
• Delia's song
• The derby ram
• Don't you weep after me
• Down in the valley
• Drill, ye tarriers , drill
• The drunken sailor
• Early one morning
• East Virginia
• Easy rider
• Eggs and marrowbone
• Every night when the sun goes in
• The farmer who went out for beer
• Farther along
• Florella (the jealous lover)
• The foggy, foggy dew
• Follow the drinking gourd
• The four maries
• Four night drunk
• The fox
• Frankie and Johnny
• Gently, Johnny, my jingalo
• Go down, Moses
• Go tell Aunt Rhody
• Go tell it on the mountain
• Goin' down the road feelin' bad
• The golden vanity
• Good news
• Gospel train-- Great silkie of Sule Skerry
• The great speckled bird
• Green grow the lilacs
• Green grow the rushes
• Greenback dollar
• Greensleeves
• What child is this?
• The gypsie laddie
• Gypsy Davey
• The wraggle-taggle gypsies
• The gypsy rover
• Hangman, hangman
• Haul away, Joe
• Haul on the bowline
• Henry Martin
• He's got the whole world in his hands
• Hey Lidee
• The holly and the ivy
• Home on the range
• The house carpenter
• Hush, little baby
• I am a pilgrim
• I know where I'm goin'
• I never will marry
• I ride old paint
• I wish I was single again
• I wish I was a single girl
• I'm a rambler
• In the pines (Black girl) --
• Jacob's ladder
• Jesse James
• Joe Bowers
• John Henry
• Johnny has gone for a soldier (Butterlmilk Hill)
• Johnny, I hardly knew ye
• When Johnny comes marching home
• Johnny, fill up the bowl
• Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho
• The jug of punch
• Just a closer walk with thee
• The keeper of the Eddystone Light
• The keeper of the Asteroid Light
• The keeper of the London zoo
• The keeper would a-hunting go
• Knaves will be knaves
• Kuma ba ya
• Landlord, fill the flowing bowl (Three jolly coachmen)
• Let smy little light shine
• The Lincolnshire poacher
• Little Maggie
• Lolly too dum
• Lord Lovel
• Lord Randall
• Mama don't allow
• Man of constant sorrow
• Maryanne
• Michael, row the boat ashore
• Midnight special
• Miss Bailey
• The hunters of Kentucky
• Mister Froggie went a-courtin'
• Must I go round
• New river train
• Nine hundred miles
• Nine-round hammer
• Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
• Oh Mary, don't you weep
• Oh, no, John
• The old ark's a-moverin'
• The Old Chisholm Trail
• The old maid's song
• Old mountain dew
• Old stormalong
• Omie wise
• On top of old smoky
• Paper of pins
• Pat works on the railway
• Pick a bale of cotton
• Putting on the style
• Railroad Bill
• Raise a ruckus
• Red apple juice
• The red light saloon
• The Red River Valley
• Reuben ranzo
• The riddle song
• Rock about my Saro Jane
• The Rock Island Line
• 'Round the Bay of Mexico
• The roving gambler
• Rye whiskey
• Saint James in firmary blues
• Sally, let your bangs hang down
• Shenandoah
• The ship that never returned
• Silver dagger
• Sinner man
• Skip to my lou
• The sloop John B.
• Soldier, soldier, will you marry me?
• Springfield Mountain
• Stagolee
• Steal away
• Sweet Betsy from Pike
• Vilikins and Dinah
• Swing low, sweet chariot
• Talking blues
• Tell old Bill (this morning, this evening, so soon)
• There's ahole in my bucket
• This train
• The Titanic
• Tom Dooley
• The twelve days of Christmas
• The two sisters
• The Vicar of Bray
• The Courtier
• The Wabash Cannonball
• The wagoner's lad
• Wanderlin'
• The water is wide
• We wish you a Merry Christmas
• The wee Cooper of Fife
• Where are you going, my good old man?
• Whistle, daughter, whistle
• Whens the Saings go marching in
• When the Saints go marching home
• Whiskey Johnny
• Whiskey in the jar (Kilgary Mountain)
• Who's gonna she your pretty little foot?
• Whoopee ti yi yo
• Wildwood flower
• Willie the weeper
• Cocaine Lil
• The Willow Garden
• The Willow Tree
• The Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues
• Worried man blues
• Young Charlotte.

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990930

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