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diff --git a/26937.txt b/26937.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c219fbb --- /dev/null +++ b/26937.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2670 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs, by +Hubert G. Shearin and Josiah H. Combs + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs + +Author: Hubert G. Shearin + Josiah H. Combs + +Release Date: October 16, 2008 [EBook #26937] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SYLLABUS OF KENTUCKY FOLK-SONGS *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia, Carla Foust and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + +Transcriber's note + + +Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuation +errors have been corrected without notice. A few obvious typographical +errors have been corrected, and they are listed at the end of this book. + + + + + Transylvania University Studies in English + + II + + + + + A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs + + By + + HUBERT G. SHEARIN, A. M. Ph. D. + Professor of English Philology in Transylvania University + + and + + JOSIAH H. COMBS, A. B. + Editor of The Transylvanian + + Transylvania Printing Company + Lexington, Kentucky + 1911 + + + + + TO + + R. M. S. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +This syllabus, or finding-list, is offered to lovers of folk-literature +in the hope that it may not be without interest and value to them for +purposes of comparison and identification. It includes 333 items, +exclusive of 114 variants, and embraces all popular songs that have so +far come to hand as having been "learned by ear instead of by eye," as +existing through oral transmission--song-ballads, love-songs, +number-songs, dance-songs, play-songs, child-songs, counting-out rimes, +lullabies, jigs, nonsense rimes, ditties, etc. + +There is every reason to believe that many more such await the +collector; in fact, their number is constantly being increased even +today by the creation of new ones, by adaptation of the old, and even by +the absorption and consequent metamorphosis, of literary, +quasi-literary, or pseudo-literary types into the current of oral +tradition. + +This collection, then, is by no means complete: means have not been +available for a systematic and scientific search for these folk-songs, +which have been gathered very casually during the past five years +through occasional travel, acquaintanceship, and correspondence in only +the twenty-one following counties: Fayette, Madison, Rowan, Elliott, +Carter, Boyd, Lawrence, Morgan, Johnson, Pike, Knott, Breathitt, Clay, +Laurel, Rockcastle, Garrard, Boyle, Anderson, Shelby, Henry, and +Owen--all lying in Central and Eastern Kentucky. + +All of the material listed has thus been collected in this State, though +a variant of The Jew's Daughter, page 8, has come by chance from +Michigan, and another of The Pretty Mohee, page 12, was sent from +Georgia. The Cumberland Mountain region, in the eastern part of the +State, has naturally furnished the larger half of the material, because +of local conditions favorable to the propagation of folk-song. However, +sections of Kentucky lying farther to the westward are almost equally +prolific. The wide extension of the same ballad throughout the State +argues convincingly for the unity of the Kentucky stock--a fact which +may be confirmed in more ways than one. + +The arrangement is as follows: The material in hand is loosely grouped +in eighteen sections, according to origin, chronology, content, or form. +Though logically at fault, because of the cross-division thus inevitably +entailed, this plan has seemed to be the best. No real confusion will +result to the user in consequence. In fact, no matter what system be +adopted, certain songs will belong equally well to two or more different +categories. + +Under each of these eighteen main divisions the treatment of the +individual song-ballad is in general as follows: First, stands the +title, with variant titles in parentheses. Should this be unknown, a +caption coined by the editors is placed in brackets. Secondly, a Roman +numeral immediately follows the above to denote the number of versions, +if variants have been found. Thirdly, the prosodical character of the +song is roughly indicated by a combination of letters and numerals. Each +letter indicates a line; the variation in the letters indicates, in the +usual fashion, the rime-scheme of the stanza. Each numeral indicates the +number of stresses in the line (or lines) denoted by the letter (or +letters) immediately succeeding it. When a chorus, burden, or refrain is +present, the metrical scheme of this stands immediately after an "and," +as, for example, in The Blue and the Gray, page 14. In the case of the +refrain, the letters used are independent of those immediately preceding +the "and," and denoting the rime-scheme of the stanza proper. Fourthly, +an Arabic numeral follows to indicate the number of stanzas in the song, +exclusive of the refrain, should one be present. If the number of +stanzas in a ballad is indeterminable, because its form is fragmentary, +or because its variant versions differ in length, this fact is indicated +by an appended ca (_circa_). Sixth, and last, is a synopsis, or other +attempt to give briefly such data as may serve to complete the +identification. + +Illustration of the third item above may be helpful. Thus in Pretty +Polly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with +four stresses in each line. In Jackaro, page 9, 3abcb indicates a +quatrain riming alternately, with three stressed syllables in each line. +In The King's Daughter, page 7, 4a3b4c3b indicates a quatrain, with only +the second and fourth lines riming and with four stresses in the first +and third lines and three stresses in the second and fourth. In Johnnie +Came from Sea, page 14, 6aa denotes a rimed couplet, with six stresses +in each line. + +It has, naturally, been difficult at times to decide whether certain +stanzas should be counted as couplets, or as quatrains half as long. In +such cases, the air, or tune, and other data, often rather subtle, have +been employed in making decisions. The quatrain form has in uncertain +instances been given the benefit of the doubt. Even thus, certain minor +inconsistencies will perhaps be noted. It is hardly necessary to add +that assonance freely occurs in the place of rime, and as such it is +considered throughout. + +All attempt to indicate the prevailing metrical unit, or foot, within +the line has been frankly given over. Iambs, dactyls, and their ilk +receive scant courtesy from the composer of folk-song, who without qualm +or quaver will stretch one syllable, or even an utter silence (caesura), +into the time of a complete bar; while in the next breath he will with +equal equanimity huddle a dozen syllables into the same period. +Consequently, this item, even if it could be indicated, would have scant +descriptive value. + +It is a pleasant duty to acknowledge gratefully the assistance of those +who have transmitted to our hands many of the songs: Mesdames J. W. +Combs, W. T. Phillips, Jennie L. Combs, Richard Smith, Martha Smith, +Ruth Hackney, W. F. Hays, Ollie Huff, Robin Cornett, Lucy Banks, Sarah +Burton, Kittie Jordan, and Ruby Martin; Misses Martha Jent, Maud Dean, +Virginia Jordan, Jessie Green, Lizzie Cody, Margaret Combs, Barbara +Smith, Helena E. Rose, Sarah Burton, Sarah Hillman, Cordia Bramblett, +Nannie S. Graham, Myrtle Wheeler, Melissa Holbrook, Rosetta Wheeler, +Ruth Hackney, Ora McDavid, Jeannette McDavid; Messrs. Wm. W. Berry, +Chas. Hackney, S. B. Wheeler, R. L. Morgan, Enoch Wheeler, Thos. H. +Hackney, James Goodman, W. S. Wheeler, Harry M. Morgan, Henry Lester, T. +G. Wheeler, C. F. Bishop, and John C. Jones. + +Especially helpful as collaborators have been Messrs. Winfred Cox, Emory +E. Wheeler, Roud Shaw, A. B. Johnston, C. E. Phillips, and H. +Williamson. + +Kind words or letters of appreciation and, in some cases, of suggestion, +from the following have encouraged the preparation of this syllabus: +Professors Alexander S. Mackenzie, of the Kentucky State University; +Clarence C. Freeman, of Transylvania University; John A. Lomax, of the +University of Texas; Albert H. Tolman, of the University of Chicago; +John M. McBride, Jr., of the University of the South; George Lyman +Kittredge, of Harvard University; Henry M. Belden, of the University of +Missouri; and Katherine Jackson, formerly of Bryn Mawr College, who has +most generously given the use of her manuscript collection. None of the +shortcomings of this brochure, however, can be imputed to them in the +slightest degree. + + + + +SYLLABUS + + +I. + +_The songs in this group are the survivors of English and Scottish +originals, found for the most part in the Child collection. Certain of +those given in sections II to XVIII below could doubtless, with due +effort, be identified in like manner._ + +THE KING'S DAUGHTER (SIX PRETTY FAIR MAIDS, PRETTY POLLY), iv, 4a3b4c3b, +9ca: Variants of Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, Child, No. 4. By a +stratagem she drowns the lover just as he is about to drown her. + +PRETTY POLLY, iv, 4aabb, 9ca: Parallel in general plot to the above, +save that she is led by the lover to an open grave and there slain. (Cf. +5, page 28.) + +FAIR ELLENDER, 4a3b4c3b, 10: A variant of the Earl Brand cycle, Child, +No. 7. + +LORD OF OLD COUNTRY, 4aa, with refrain as below, 10ca: A variant of The +Two Sisters, Child, No. 10. + + The miller was hung upon Fish-gate, Bosodown, + The miller was hung upon Fish-gate, + (These sons were sent to me) + The miller was hung upon Fish-gate + For drowning of my sister Kate! + I'll be true, true to my true-love, + If my love'll be true to me. + +THE ROPE AND THE GALLOWS (LORD RANDAL), 4aa, 12ca: A variant of Lord +Randal, Child, No. 12. + +EDWARD, 4a3b4c3b, 10: A variant of the Old World ballad of the same +name, Child, No. 13. + +THE GREENWOOD SIDE (THREE LITTLE BABES), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: Variants of +The Cruel Mother, Child, No. 20. + +LITTLE WILLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A variant of The Two Brothers, Child, No. +49. + +LORD BATEMAN (THE TURKISH LADY), ii, 4abcb, 17ca: Variants of Young +Beichan, Child, No. 53. + +LOVING HENRY (SWEET WILLIAM AND FAIR ELLENDER), iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: +Variants of Young Hunting, Child, No. 68. + +LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELLENDER, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 17ca: Variants of Lord +Thomas and Fair Elinor, Child, No. 73. + +FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM, iv, 4a3b4c3b, 15ca: Variants of the Old +World ballad of the same name, Child, No. 74. (Published by Combs in +Jour. Am. Folklore, 23.381.) + +LORD LOVELY, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A variant of Lord Lovel, Child, No. 75. + +COLD WINTER'S NIGHT (BOSOM FRIEND, LOVER'S FAREWELL), vii, 4a3b4c3b, +9ca: Variants of The Lass of Loch Royal, Child, No. 76. (Published by +Shearin, Mod. Lang. Review, Oct., 1911, p. 514.) + +LORD VANNER'S (DANIEL'S) WIFE, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 17ca: Variants of Little +Musgrave and Lady Barnard, Child, No. 81. + +BARBARA ALLEN, vi, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: Variants of Barbara Allen's Cruelty, +Child, No. 84. + +THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON, 4a3b4c3b, 12: A variant of the Old +World ballad of the same name, Child, No. 105. + +THE JEW'S DAUGHTER, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Variants of Sir Hugh, Child, No. +155. One of the Kentucky versions makes the murdered boy's mother go +seeking him switch in hand, to punish him for not returning home before +nightfall. (Communicated by Dr. Katherine Jackson.) + +THE HOUSE CARPENTER, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 13ca: Variants of The Demon Lover, +Child, No. 243. + +DANDOO: A fragmentary variant of The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin, Child, +No. 277, as follows: + + He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, Dandoo; + He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, + Clima cli clash to ma clingo, + He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, + And he made the old switch go whickity-whack, + Then rarum scarum skimble arum + Skitty-wink skatty-wink + Clima cli clash to ma clingo. + +THE GREEN WILLOW TREE, metre as below, 11: A variant of The Golden +Vanitee, Child, No. 286. + + There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee, + From down in the lonesome Lowlands low-- + There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee, + And she went by the name of the Green Willow Tree, + And she sailed from the Lowlands low. + +THE DRIVER BOY (YOUNG EDWIN), 4a3b4c3b, 12; The above adapted to a +recital of Emily's love for the mail-driver boy and of his untimely +murder. + +PRETTY PEGGY O, metre as below, 6: A fine lilting lyric of the Captain's +love for his lass; his farewell; and his death. It begins: + + As we marched down to Fernario, + As we marched down to Fernario, + Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove, + And they called her by name Pretty Peggy, O. + +(Cf. Child, No. 299, Trooper and Maid. Published by Shearin, Sewanee +Review, July, 1911, p. 326.) + +LADY GAY, 4a3b4c3b, 9: An English woman sends her three children to +America. They die on board ship, their shades return to the mother at +Christmas and warn her against pride. (Cf. Child, No. 79, The Wife of +Usher's Well, and a close variant from North Carolina in Kittredge's +Edition, p. 170.) + +JACKARO, iv, 3abcb, 17ca: The daughter of a London silk merchant loves +Jack, the sailor-boy, against her father's will. Disguised as a man, she +follows him to "the wars of Germany," finds him wounded on the +battle-field, and nurses him back to health; then they are married. (Cf. +Child, 1857 ed., iv, p. 328. The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow, 4abab, +65: Maudlin disguised as a seaman follows her lover to Padua; they are +married, and return to England.) + +THE FAN, ii, 4abcb, 12: A sea-captain and a lieutenant woo a lady. To +test their love she throws her fan into a den of lions. The sea-captain +recovers it and wins her. (Published by Shearin, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26. +113; for British originals see Belden, Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p. +218, and Kittredge, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26. 168.) + +THE APPRENTICE BOY, iii, 4abcb, 12ca: Like Keats's Isabella, the +daughter of a merchant in a post-town loves her father's apprentice. He +is slain by her brothers and his body hidden in a valley. His ghost +reveals the murderers, who, striving to flee, are lost at sea. +(Identified by Belden with an English version, The Constant Farmer's +Son, in The Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p. 222.) + + +II. + +_The songs in this group are apparently of British origin. Material has +not been at hand to justify an attempt to establish their identity._ + +THE RICH MARGENT [MERCHANT], 2abcb, 12: Dinah, daughter of a rich London +merchant, loves Felix contrary to her father's wishes. Going into the +garden she drinks poison. Felix arrives and drains the rest of the +potion. Both are buried in one grave. + +BENEATH THE ARCH OF LONDON BRIDGE, 4a3b4c3b and 4aaaa, 5ca: Here a man, +whose son has recently died, finds a waif. Struck by his resemblance to +his own heir, he adopts the orphan boy. + +JACK WILSON, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: The confession of Jack Wilson, a Thames +boatman, awaiting execution in Newgate prison for robbery done in +Katherine Street, and his denunciation of the "false deluding girl" for +whose sake he had done the wrong. + +THE OLD WOMAN OF LONDON, 3abcb, 6: She causes her husband to suck two +magic marrowbones, which blind him; then leading him to the river, she +essays to push him in to drown. But he steps aside, and she dies in his +stead. The refrain is: + + Sing tidri-i-odre-erdri-um, + Sing fol-de-ri-o-day! + +THE GOLDEN GLOVE, ii, 4aabb, 9: A mariner's daughter, about to be +married to a young squire of London, feigns illness, goes a-hunting on +the estate of her favored lover, a farmer, intentionally drops her +glove, and vows she will marry only the man who can return it. Of +course, the farmer is the lucky finder. + +SHEARFIELD, 3abcb, 15: An apprentice in Sheffield recites his running +away to London, where he enters the service of an Irish Lady, who falls +in love with him. He, however, cares only for Polly Girl, her maid. His +jealous mistress, by a stratagem, causes him to be hanged for theft. + +FAIR NOTAMON [NOTTINGHAM] TOWN, 4aabb, 7: An absurd recital, full of +obvious contradictions, of a countryman's visit to the city, where he +sees the royal progress: + + I called for a quart to drive gladness away + To stifle the dust--it had rained the whole day. + +LOVELY CAROLINE OF OLD EDINBORO (EDDINGSBURG TOWN), ii, 3abcb, 9: She +weds young Henry, "a Highland man," and goes with him to London. +Deserted by him, she wanders forlorn to a sea-cliff and plunges in, to +drown. + +WHO'LL BE KING BUT CHARLIE?, metre as below, 3: A rally-song upon the +landing of Charles Stuart, The Young Pretender, at Mordart, in +Inverness-shire, July, 1745, beginning: + + There's news from Mordart came yestreen, + Will soon yastremony (sic) ferly, + For ships o'er all have just come in + And landed royal Charlie. + +(Published by Shearin, Sewanee Review, July, 1911, p. 323.) + +CUBECK'S [CUPID'S] GARDEN, 3abcb, 16: The poet overhears a lady and her +father's apprentice a-courting in "Cubeck's Garden." The angry parent +banishes the lad, who goes to sea, is promoted, draws forty thousand +pounds in a lottery, returns and marries his fair love. + +WILLIAM HALL, ii, 4abcb, 11ca: He is a young farmer of "Domesse-town" +and loves a "gay young lady" of "Pershelvy-town" against her parents' +wishes. Banished by them to sea, he returns, finds by a ruse that the +lady is yet faithful, and marries her. + +ROSANNA, 4aabb, 6ca (fragmentary): Silimentary, the lover, bids Rosanna +farewell, and is later lost at sea; at the news she stabs herself with a +silver dagger. + +MARY OF THE WILD MOOR, 3ab4c3b, 8: She, with her babe, returns one +winter night to her father's door to seek forgiveness and protection, is +rebuffed by him, and perishes in the snow. + +BETSY BROWN, 4aabb, 8: John loves Betsy, the waiting-maid; his old +mother objects and packs her off across the sea. He dies of grief. + +THE ROMISH LADY, 6aabb (or 3abcb), 12 (or 24): "Brought up in popery," +she obtains a Bible and turns Protestant, is tried before the Pope, is +condemned, bids farewell to mother, father, and tormentors, and is +burned at the stake. + + +III. + +_The songs of this group are connected more or less closely with +American colonial times. For most of them it is fair to infer a British +origin._ + +[TO AMERICA], ii, 4aabb, 8ca: An [English] sailor, bound for America to +serve his King, is forgotten by his sweetheart. Returning to her +father's hall, he finds her married, and vows to return to Charlestown, +where cannon-balls are flying. + +THE SILK MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER, 2aa, 17: A London lad and his sweetheart +set sail for America. The ship springs a leak, the passengers drift in a +long-boat. Lot falls to the girl to be slain, her lover takes her place. +A passing ship carries them back to London, and they are married. + +THE PRETTY MOHEE (MAUMEE), iii, 4aabb, 7: An Indian maid falls in love +with a young adventurer and wooes him. He tells her he must return to +his love across the sea. This he does, but dissatisfied returns to the +"pretty Mohee." + +SWEET JANE. 4a3b4c3b, 12: Her lover sails for America "to dig the golden +ore," "loads up" his trunk with it, and after many trials reaches home, +across the main, and reclaims his bride. + + +IV. + +_The songs of this group find their common bond in their reference to +Ireland, where some of them undoubtedly had their origin._ + +IRISH MOLLY O, 6aabb and 6aabb(?), 7: A Scotch laddie, MacDonald, falls +in love with "Irish Molly." Scorned by her parents, he wanders about, +signifying his intention to die for her, and suggests an appropriate +inscription for his tombstone. (See an Old World variant in Brooke and +Rolleston's Treasury of Irish Poetry, p. 15, Macmillan, 1905.) + +WILLIAM RILEY, 6aabb, 7: Eloping with Polly Ann, he is brought back to +trial by her irate father, is defended by an aged lawyer, is +transported, and departs wearing the maiden's ring. (See an Old World +variant in the volume just named, p. 6.) + +ROVING IRISH BOY, 4a3b4c3b, 12: He lands in Philadelphia and "makes a +hit" with the ladies. Then he visits "other parts"--among the Dutch of +Bucks County, he meets an inn-keeper's daughter, and leaves off +rambling. + +THE WAXFORD GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A youth murders his sweetheart and throws +her into a stream. He tells his mother, who sees the blood on his +clothes, that his nose has been bleeding. He is haunted by the ghost of +the dead girl. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and Miller-boy, page 28.) + +PATTY ON THE CANAL, 3abcb and 3abcb, 9: Pat lands in "Sweet Philadelphy" +and soon "makes himself handy" on the canal, likewise among the girls, +whose mothers become anxious. He is a "Jackson man up to the handle." + +MOLLY, 6aabb, 4: An Irish lad comes to America, courts Molly, but +against her parents' will. He goes to serve a foreign king for seven +years, returns, and finds that Molly has died of grief. + +JOHNNIE CAME FROM SEA, 6aa, 10: Irish Johnnie escapes a shipwreck and +lands in America. Thinking him penniless, a landlord refuses him his +daughter's hand. Johnnie "draws out handfuls of gold" and departs, to +drink "good brandy." + +IRISH GIRL, a fragment, as follows: + + So costly were the robes of silk + The Irish girl did wear-- + Her hair was as black as a raven, + Her eyes were black as a crow, + Her cheeks were red as roses + That in the garden grow. + + +V. + +_The songs of this group are based upon incidents or events of the Civil +War._ + +BOUNTY JUMPERS, 3abcb, 9: Sam Downey, a soldier, "jumps his bounty," and +is apprehended in Baltimore. Refusing to return the money, he is shot by +the military authorities. + +HIRAM HUBBERT, 3abcb, 9: Hiram Hubbert is taken by the Rebels in the +guerrilla warfare in the Cumberland Mountains, tried, tied to a tree and +shot. He leaves a last letter of farewell to his family. + +THE GUERRILLA MAN, 3a3b4c3b, 5: A Southern soldier goes to Shelby +County, Ky., and falls in love with a "Rebel girl," who loves him in +spite of the opposition of her mother, and determines to follow him. + +MURFREESBORO, 4a3b4c3b, 7: A Union soldier lies dying on the +battlefield. He sends to his mother and sweetheart a message recounting +his bravery. + +BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (THE TWO SOLDIERS), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 13: Two comrades +promise each other to bear messages, in the event of death to either of +them on the field--one to a sweetheart, the other to a mother. + +THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f4e and 4a3b4c3b3e4f3e, 2: A mother +has lost two sons in gray, at Appomattox and at Chickamauga. Her third +has just died in blue at Santiago. + +ZOLLICOFFER: A fragment as follows: + + Old Zollicoffer's dead, and the last word he said + Was, "I'm going back South; they're a-gaining." + If he wants to save his soul, he had better keep his hole, + Or we'll land him in the happy land of Canaan. + +I'M GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY, 3abcb, 12: A volunteer's farewell to his +sweetheart as he leaves for Pensacola, her fears, and his promise to +return. + +[COME ALL, YE SOUTHERN SOLDIERS], 3abcb, 8: A volunteer, aged sixteen, +from Eastern Tennessee, describes the march into Virginia and his +feelings at his first sight of the "Yankees." + + +VI. + +_The songs of this group relate to the days of pioneer migration +Westward. The one exception is The Sailor's Request, placed here in +order to bring it into proximity with its later variant, The Dying +Cowboy._ + +ARKANSAS TRAVELLER (SANTFORD BARNES) ii, 4a3b4c3b, 14ca: A laborer's +humorous recital of his hard experiences in Arkansas. He leaves the +state, vowing that if he sees it again it will be "through a telescope +from hell to Arkansaw." + +STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERNMENT CLAIM, 4aa and 4aabb, 20: "Ernest +Smith" recites humorously his hard experiences as claim-holder in Beaver +County, Oklahoma. He resolves to go to Kansas, marry, and "life on +corn-dodgers the rest of his life." + +THE DYING COWBOY, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 6: A cowboy, shot while gambling, +laments his career and fate, gives warning to his comrades, sends a +farewell to his family and sweetheart, and gives directions for his +funeral. + +THE LONE PRAIRIE, 4aabb, 10: A dying cowboy requests that he be buried +not on the lone prairie, but at home beneath the cotton-wood boughs, +near his mother. His comrades ignore his petition. (Cf. The Sailor's +Request.) + +THE SAILOR'S REQUEST, 4aabb, 9: A dying sailor requests that he be +buried not at sea, but at home in the churchyard, near his father. His +comrades ignore his petition. (Cf. The Lone Prairie.) + +CALIFORNIA JOE, 3abcb, 17: A prospector during the California +gold-fever, in 1850, saves a girl of thirteen years from Indians, and +gives her over to her uncle, Mat Jack Reynolds. Later, she almost +shoots, by accident, her saviour, thinking him a Sioux. + +POLLY, MY CHARMER, 4aa, 9: An adventurous youth, on the point of going +West, is detained by the charms of "Polly." He wishes he were like +Joshua, in order to prolong his moments with his love, by making the sun +stand still. + +JESSE JAMES, 2aa3b2cc3b and 2aa3b2cc3b, 4: A lyric concerning the +robbing of "the Danville train" and "the Northfield raid"; the escape of +Jesse and Frank James to the West, and Jesse's death at the hand of "Bob +Ford." + +HANDSOME FLORA, 3abcbdefe, 6: Her lover, in prison for stabbing his +rival, tells his yet constant devotion to the "Lily of the West," the +"girl from Mexico." + + +VII. + +_The songs of this group are of the "good-night" type, being the +meditations or confessions of criminals, while in prison and, usually, +under sentence of death._ + +MACAFEE'S CONFESSION (BETTY STOUT), ii, 4aabb, 17ca: Orphaned at five +years of age and reared by his uncle, MacAfee becomes wayward; later he +marries, but falls in love with Betty Stout, poisons his wife, and +speaks this confession under sentence of death. + +BEAUCHAMP'S CONFESSION, 4aabb, 7: Under sentence of death by Judge +Davidge, for the murder of Sharpe (see VIII, end), Beauchamp pictures +the meeting of himself and his victim in hell. + +JACK COMBS'S DEATH SONG, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 3: Jack Combs, dying, +tells of his murder by an unknown man, and gives directions for his +burial rites. (Based upon The Dying Cowboy, page 15.) + +TOM SMITH'S DEATH SONG, ii, 3a(_bis_)4b3c and 3a(_bis_) 4b3c, 2: The +condemned man, standing on the scaffold, asks his friends not to lament +his death, since he is leaving them in peace on earth. + +THE RICH AND RAMBLING BOY, iii, 4aabb, 8ca: He marries a wife whose +"maintenance" is so great that he is compelled to "rob on the broad +highway." He is sent to Frankfort [Ky.] prison, but in this song he +pictures his pardon and return home. + +[IN ROWAN COUNTY JAIL], 3abcb, 6: While here awaiting trial for robbery, +the prisoner is visited by his sweetheart Lula, with "ten dollars in +each hand," to "go on his bail." + +LAST NIGHT AS I LAY SLEEPING, 3abcb, 6: A prisoner in the Knoxville +[Tenn.] jail dreams of his home and sweetheart, but is rudely awakened +by the turnkey to hear his death-sentence passed. + +EDWARD HAWKINS, 4abcb, 9ca: Under sentence of death for murder, he warns +his comrades by his example, welcomes death bravely, and invites them to +see his execution twenty-eight days hence. + +ROWDY BOYS, metre as below, 5: A "rowdy" youth scorns his mother's +warning, serves a term in the Frankfort State Prison for homicide, and +comes back home still a "rowdy." The first stanza is: + +I heard my mother talking; I took it all for fun. +She said I would ride the Frankfort train, before I was twenty-one. + + +VIII. + +_The songs of this group are epic; rather than lyric as are those in +VII, above. They are recitals of local tragedies--murders, +assassinations, feudal battles, and disasters._ + +THE CAUSE AND KILLING OF JESSE ADAMS, ii, 3abcb, 25: A detailed recital +of a domestic tragedy on the Brushy Fork of Blaine: Adams, overhearing +his wife and her paramour, shoots her and attempts suicide. + +FLOYD FRAZIER, 3abcb, 16: A recital of Frazier's murder of Ellen +Flannery: he hides her body under a pile of stones; later, is arrested, +makes confession, and is placed in Pineville, Ky., jail to await +execution. + +TALT HALL, ii, 3abcb, 8: A recital of Hall's murder of Frank Salyers, +his arrest in Tennessee, his confinement in the Gladeville, Va., jail, +and his execution in Richmond, Va. + +WILLIAM BAKER, 3abcb, 12: A recital of Baker's murder of one Prewitt in +Clay County, Ky.: he hides the body in the woods and tells Prewitt's +wife that her husband had deserted her. + +POOR GOENS, 4aabb, 5: A recital of the betrayal and murder of Goens for +the purpose of robbery, on Black-spur Mountain. + +THE ROWAN COUNTY TRAGEDY, ii, 3abcb, 26: A detailed account of a feudal +battle in Morehead, Ky., on election day, and of the succeeding events +connected with the arrest of the participants. + +JOHN T. PARKER, 4aabb, 12: An account of the drowning of Parker in the +Kentucky River one winter night, as, with three companions, he essays to +cross, but their boat is capsized in the wash from the steamboat Blue +Wings. + +[JEEMS BRAGGS], 4a3b4c3b, 8: A protest against the Governor's pardon of +Braggs, upon the eve of his execution, for the murder of one Prewitt. + +THE ASSASSINATION OF J. B. MARCUM, 3aa6b3cc6b and 3aa6b3cc6b, 13: A +detailed recital of the shooting of Marcum as he stood in the +court-house door at Jackson, Ky., with animadversions upon the identity +of his slayers and an account of their various trials. + +THE IRISH PEDDLER, 4a3b4c3b, 7: An account of the murder of an old +peddler and his wife, shot from ambush one June morning for the purpose +of rifling their wagon. + +JOHN HARDY, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 6: An account of Hardy's shooting a man in a +poker game, of his arrest, trial, conviction, conversion and baptism, +and of his execution and burial on the Tug River. + +JEREBOAM BEAUCHAMP, 3abcb, 33: A recital of the murder of Beauchamp done +upon Solomon P. Sharpe, Attorney-General of Kentucky, at Frankfort in +the winter of 1824. (Cf. William Gilmore Simms' novel of the same name, +and see VII, 2.) + + +IX. + +_The songs of this group relate to various occupational pursuits. Of +course, many of those listed elsewhere could be placed here also._ + +THE MOONSHINER, 4aa, 3: "For seventeen years I've made moonshine whiskey +for one dollar per gallon, at my still in a dark hollow. I wish all +would attend to their business and leave me to mine. God bless the +moonshiner!" + +WALKING-BOSS, metre as below, 3: A teamster's song in couplets, with +refrain, beginning: + + Get up in the morning 'way before day, + Feed old Beck some corn and hay. + Get up in the morning soon, soon; + Get up in the morning soon. + +THE STEEL-DRIVER, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 11: John Henry, proud of his skill with +sledge and hand-drill, competes with a modern steam-drill in Tunnel No. +Nine, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Defeated, he dies, asking to be +buried with his tools at his breast. + +ROSIN THE BOW, 3abcb, 4: A lyric of an old fiddler buoyant even in the +face of approaching death: he asks for wine and women at his funeral +rites. + +ROSIN THE BOW: a fragment as follows: + + I'll tune up my fiddle, I'll rosin my bow, + And make myself welcome wherever I go. + +THE OLD SHOEMAKER, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: Lately become a freeman, +with five pounds laid up, and half a side of leather, he sings of Kate, +the woman to make his content complete. + +THE FARMER'S BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: An orphan lad, he obtains employment +from the farmer, later to marry his daughter and inherit thus the farm. + +OLD GRAY, 6aabb, 5: Song of a teamster, who, lured by the still-house, +hauls four loads of coal per day, instead of six; becoming drunk, he +rides Old Gray off to a country frolic one night, whither his father +follows him, and brings him back to his duty in the morning. + +THE WAGGONER'S LAD, ii, 2abcb (or 4aa), 15: A complaint, arranged as a +_debat_, of a lorn and loving lass against the teamster lad, as he +departs from her. + +OLD NUMBER FOUR (THE F. F. V., STOCKYARD GATE), ii, 6aabb, 10ca: George +Allen, engineer, stays at the throttle as train Number Four on the +Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad plunges into a fallen boulder near Hinton, W. +Va., and bids his fireman jump to safety, while he himself dies a hero's +death. + +[RAILROAD BOY], 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 5: A maiden's song in scorn of +all men save the railroad conductor, with his striped shirt, handsome +face, and diamond ring. + +THE OLD MILLER, 4aabb, 7: Dying, he questions his sons in order to +choose one of them as his successor in the mill. Dick will take a peck +as toll from each bushel; Ralph will take half; Paul will take all. But +his wife assumes direction at his death. + +LYNCHBURG TOWN, 4a3b4c3b, 3: A teamster's song as he takes his tobacco +to the Lynchburg (Va.) market. + + +X. + +_The songs of this group are of partisan or sectional character._ + +KAINTUCKY BOYS, 4abab and 4ab, 5. A _debat_ between a Virginia lad and +the Kentucky maiden whom he comes to woo. She scorns lands and money, +and lauds the superior manliness of the Kentucky lads. + +BUCKSKIN BOYS, 4abab 9: The above adapted to the praises of the "boys" +of Owsley County (Ky.). + +GOEBEL AND TAYLOR, 4a3b4c3d, 3: Composed soon after the assassination of +Wm. Goebel, the Democratic contestant for the Governorship of Kentucky +in 1900: He is lauded, while Taylor, his opponent, is condemned as a +demagogue and conspirator, who "ought to be in purgatory or some other +unhealthy spot." + +JAMES A. GARFIELD: A fragment, as follows: + + Mr. James A. Garfield is dead, + Oh, Mr. James A. Garfield is dead. + I will weep like a willow, + And I'll mourn like a dove; + Mr. James A. Garfield is dead. + + +XI. + +_Here are grouped songs whose main theme is love, subdivided as below. +Many are hardly "popular" in the strict sense: though current among the +folk, they differ from the true folk-song, or "song-ballet." On the +other hand, many bear a striking resemblance to certain of those listed +in I and II, above._ + +1. SONGS OF CONSTANT LOVE. + +AVONIA (RED RIVER VALLEY), ii, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: A constant +lover's song of farewell to Helen, as she leaves the vale of Avonia. + +BARNEY AND KATE, 4abab, 6: Barney, maudlin with drink, comes one +winter's night to Kate's window and implores her to admit him. She +sends him packing. He goes away whistling, rejoicing in her chastity. + +KITTY WELLS, 4ababcdcd and 3abab, 3. Her lover's Lament upon her death. +The refrain is: + + While the birds they were singing in the morning, + And the ivy and the myrtle were in bloom, + The sun on the hill-top was dawning, + It was then we laid her in the tomb. + +NORA O'NEIL, 4a3b4a3b, 5: Her lover's invitation to Nora to meet him "at +the foot of the lane" when the nightingale sings in the dusk. + +SWEET BIRDS, ii, 4a3b4a3b and 5aa, 6: A maiden's song of longing for her +absent lover: she asks the birds to bear her message of devotion to him +and to bring him back secure in his affection for her. + +[CONSTANT JOHNNY], 4aa, 14: A maiden sings her devotion to her absent +sailor lover. He returns and they are married. + +LORLA, 4aabb, 2: A lover's elegy over the grave of Lorla beneath the +elm, as he recalls the golden willow under which they once sat on violet +banks. + +LONESOME DOVE, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A constant husband sings his resolve to +return like a lonesome dove to his wife and children in "Californy." + +LONESOME DOVE, 4aabb, 8: The singing of a dove bereft of its mate +reminds a constant husband of his Mary, recently dead of consumption. + +PRETTY SARO, iii, 4aabb and 4aabb, 6ca: Her absent lover sings of his +devotion, wishing he were a priest and knew how to write to her, or a +dove to fly to her. + +COME, ALL YE JOLLY BOATSMAN BOYS, 7aabb, 5: A ribald song of a sailor to +his amorata by night, and the birth of the child nine months later. + +A PACKAGE OF OLD LETTERS, ii, 8aa, 11: A dying maiden bids her sister +bring them from their rosewood casket to read them to her again, and +asks that at her death they be buried with her. + +JACK AND MAMIE, 6aabb and 4aaa3a, 4: Jack plunges into the water to +recover the hat of his girl sweetheart, Mamie. Jack, the man, leaves her +for a long voyage, and his ship never returned. + +SWEET SUMMER EVENING, 4abcb, 7: The poet one summer evening overhears a +mother chide her daughter for her devotion to her roving sailor lover, +who soon appears and bids her an affectionate farewell. + +WAIT FOR THE WAGON, 3abcbdefe and 4a(_ter_), 4: A lover's call to +Phyllis to jump into the wagon with him a-Sunday morning; he tells her +of the cabin he has built for her, and wooes her to marry him. + +LOVELY NANCY, 4abcb, 5: A dialogue, in quatrains, between Nancy and her +lover, whom she wishes to accompany on his voyage to the West Indies. + +NANCY TILL, 4aabb and 4aabb, 4: A serenade by her lover "down in the +canebrakes close by the mill," urging her to be ready to go with him +"a-sailing on the Ohio." + +[EPHRIAM AND LUCY], 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: The night before their +wedding-day, amid night-hawks, owls, and whippoorwills, "we danced by +the light of the moon." + +2. SONGS OF LOVE INCONSTANT. + +[SHE WAS HAPPY TILL SHE MET YOU], 4aa5b4cc5b4dd5e4ff5e and 4ababcc5b, 2: +A husband forsakes his wife; later, becoming repentant, he returns to +seek her at the house of her mother, who forbids him access to her. + +[BEDROOM WINDOW], 4abcb, 5: The lover by night calls his sweetheart to +awake. She warns him away, saying that her father is armed to repulse +his presence. He vows to have her for his own. A suggestion of his +sinister motive closes the song. + +I'LL HANG MY HARP ON A WILLOW TREE, ii, 4a3b4a3b4c3d4c3d, 3: A lover +voices his resolve to forsake the charms of his fickle mistress to court +a warrior's fate at the Saracen's hand on the field of Palestine. + +THERE WAS A RICH OLD FARMER, ii, 3abcb, 9ca: The singer recites his +farewell to father and sweetheart to seek his fortune, and his faith in +her--until a letter arrives telling of her marriage to another man. + +JACK AND JOE, 4a3b4b3c and 4a3b4b3c, 3ca: Both are sailors, away from +home. Jack, returning first, is commissioned by Joe to kiss his +sweetheart Nellie for him. When Joe returns, like Miles Standish, he +finds that Jack and she are married. + +ALL ON THE BANKS OF CLAUDA, 3abcb, 10: By this stream the poet overhears +a maiden's complaint against her fickle Johnny. Like Oenone, she prays +the mountain to hear her, and implores Cupid to fire his heart anew. + +THE AUXVILLE LOVE, 4aabb, 6: A merchant's daughter, "in Auxville town or +Delaware," love-lorn, gathers flowers, Ophelia-like, and dies under a +green pine on the mountain. + +CUCKOO, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A love-lorn maiden's warning to her sex not to +be deceived, as she, by false men in springtime when the cuckoo calls. + +WE HAVE MET AND WE HAVE PARTED, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 5ca: A maiden's +scornful farewell to her fickle lover, as she returns him the presents +and letters he has sent her. + +IF I HAD MINDED MAMMA, 3abcb and 3abcb, 6: A maiden's regret that she +has been deluded by a faithless lover: + + He is like the blue-birds ever + That flies from tree to tree; + And when he sees another girl + He never thinks of me. + +I USED TO LOVE, 4abcb and 4abcb, 4: A maiden voices her complaint +against the "dark-eyed girl," her successful rival, and her wish for +"coffin, shroud, and grave," to end her woe. + +THE BUTCHER'S BOY, iii, 4aabb, 8ca: A maiden voices her complaint +against the New York butcher's boy, once her childhood playmate and +lover, who now has forsaken her for a wealthier girl; then goes upstairs +and hangs herself, leaving a note pinned on her breast. + +THE PALE AMARANTHUS, 4aabb, 5: A maiden's complaint against her +faithless lover, whom she vows to forget. + +I HAVE FINISHED HIM A LETTER, 4abcb and 4abcb, 7: A maiden's complaint +against her lover, who has forsaken her for Annie Lee. + +CAN YOU THEN LOVE ANOTHER?, ii, 3abcbdefe and 3abcb, 3: A lorn maiden's +plaint: + + Say, must I be forgotten, + Cast like a flower aside? + Have I from memory faded, + Once all your joy and pride? + +TO CHEER THE HEART, ii, 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdede, 4: A maiden's complaint +against her faithless lover. He is the son of a "rich merchant," she, +the daughter of a "laboring man." "But why need I care? For I have +another man." + +A POOR STRANGE GIRL, 4aabb, 7: The poet one May morning overhears a +damsel complaining against her faithless lover, and against her loss of +friends and home. + +PRETTY POLLY, 4aabb, 5: A lover recites his visit one evening to her +home, where he sees his rivals enjoying her company. He retires to a +grove, sucks comfort from his whiskey bottle, and wishes that she were +drowned, floating on the tide, that he, like a fisherman, might draw her +in his net to shore. + +HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY, 4aabb, 2: A fragment (two quatrains), +apparently a complaint of a lover to his faithless sweetheart. + +THE DYING GIRL'S MESSAGE, ii, 4abcb, 15: Her death-song to her mother, +breathing forgiveness for her faithless lover, and closing with a vision +of Christ waiting to receive her. + +A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif. + +THE COLD, DARK SCENES OF WINTER, 3abcb, 9: In the winter the lover woos +his fair, but is rejected. In the spring, her mind changing, she writes +him of her love for him. He replies that meanwhile his heart has changed +in turn and that he is already married to another. + +LOVING HANNER, 3abcb, 9: The lover sings his devotion to her, but in the +face of her coolness and her parents' opposition, vows to go on a long +voyage to try to forget her--but in vain. + +MY BONNIE LITTLE GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 4: Courting her too slow, the singer +finds his sweetheart has fled with another man. + +LOVELY NANCY, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A bachelor's warning against "courting too +slow": Sweet William goes on a voyage; meanwhile Nancy, his sweetheart, +writes him of her marriage to another. William dies of grief and Nancy, +of remorse. + +I'M SCORNED FOR BEING POOR (VAIN GIRL), 3abcb, 8: A lover's farewell to +his sweetheart, who has forsaken him to be married to a wealthy stranger +from New England. + +LITTLE NELLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 8: She forsakes her lover, the singer, to marry +wicked, wealthy Mr. Brown, who is a drunkard--and dies of a broken +heart. + +THE SQUIRE, 2abcb, 10: The wealthy young squire, being rejected in love +by pretty Sally, vows to dance on her grave when she dies. + +LITTLE SPARROW (A REGRET), ii, 4abcb, 5ca: A complaint of a love-lorn +maiden warning her kind against the faithlessness of all men. + +THE AWFUL WEDDING, 4abcb, 7: At the marriage feast each guest is asked +for a song. The bride's former lover sings his unchanging affection for +her. She swoons and spends the night in her mother's bed, where she is +found dead the next morning. + +THE YOUNG MAN'S LOVE, 2aa, 9: The singer one evening overhears a young +man lamenting the faithlessness of his sweetheart, who scorns him for +his poverty. + +[MAGGIE], 3a3b4c3b and 2abab (approximately), 7: A story of Maggie, the +constant wife, who seeks in bar-room and dry-goods store her faithless +husband, who has eloped with Lula Fry. Failing to find him, she wanders +to the cemetery, and thence to the railroad trestle, where she is killed +by train No. Four. + +JOE HARDY, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A maiden's explanation to her jilted lover that +when she plighted her troth in Bangor, she had not then met Joe Hardy, +whom she now adores. + +3. SONGS OF LOVE THWARTED. + +LOVELY JULIA, iv, 4abcb, 9ca: Crossed in love by her parents, she leaves +the city, goes upon a mountain, and plunges a dagger into her breast. +Her lover finds her and in like manner dies with her. + +JOHNNY DOYLE, 2aa, 14ca: A maiden, who loves Johnny, is forced by her +parents to prepare to marry Samuel Moore. Just as the priest enters, her +earrings fall to the floor and her stay-laces burst. She is carried home +fatally ill. The mother now proposes to send for Johnny Doyle, but it is +too late--she is dead. + +ANNIE WILLOW, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Her lover dreams of her and goes to her +uncle's house to visit her. Upon being told that she is absent, he +fights his way in with drawn sword and takes her away with him. + +GREENBRIAR SHORE, 4aa, 10: An amorous youth recites his love for Nancy +on Greenbriar Shore. Her father chases him away with an "army of a +thousand or more." The sad lot of womankind deplored. + +4. SONGS OF ABSENT LOVERS REUNITED. + +THE SINGLE SOLDIER (THE SAILOR LOVER, JOHN RILEY), v, 4abcb, 8ca: "A +pretty fair damsel in a garden" is wooed by a passing soldier (or +sailor). She rejects him, saying her lover is absent in the wars. +Assured of her faithfulness, he proves his identity by taking their +betrothal ring from his pocket. + +ANNIE AND WILLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He bids her farewell at the seashore and +goes on a long voyage. After three years he returns, and, disguised as a +beggar, tests her devotion, draws the "patch from his eye," is +recognized, and marries her. (Cf. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, +page 8, above.) + +PRETTY POLLY, 4aabb, 8: Pining for her soldier lover, who is absent in +the "town of renown," she goes in the guise of a trooper to seek him, +becomes his room-mate for the night, and discloses her identity in the +morning. + +5. SONGS OF THE MURDEROUS LOVER. (CF. I FOR SIMILAR BALLADS.) + +FLORELLA (FLOELLA, FAIR ELLA, JEALOUS LOVER), iv, 3abcb, 11ca: Her lover +comes one moonlit night to her cottage window and persuades her to +wander with him "through meadows dark and gay." She reluctantly follows, +and is murdered by him, forgiving him with her dying breath. + +LITTLE OMY WISE (LITTLE ANNA), iii, 4aa, 13: John Lewis seduces her with +promises, lures her to Adam's Spring, murders her, and throws her body +into the stream. She is "missen," the body is found, the murderer views +it and confesses the crime. + +MILLER-BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Johnny, the miller's apprentice, falls +in love with a Knoxville girl. One night the pair go walking; he murders +her with a fence-stake, explains the stains on his clothes as due to +nose-bleed, but is convicted. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and +Waxford Girl, page 13.) + +POLLY VAUGHN, 2abcb (approximately), 4ca: One evening dressed in white +she goes walking, takes refuge from a shower under a holly bush, is +mistaken for a swan by her lover, Jimmy Randal, and shot. + +ROSE COLALEE (COLLEEN?), 4a3b4c3b, 2: She is murdered on the bank of a +river, by her lover, who, intoxicated with Burgundy wine, is persuaded +by his father's promise of money, to slay her. + +NOTE.--_Amid the flotsam and jetsam of popular parlor-songs everywhere +current the following have come to hand. They are hardly worth +preserving, even by title, save for the fact that in spite of their +pseudo-literary tang they are fellow travelers by oral tradition with +the true folk-songs and song-ballads._ + +The list is: The Old, Old Love is Growing Still; There's a Spark of Love +Still Burning; I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers; The White Rose; +I'll Love Thee Always; Jack and Mary; Willie and Kate; Won't You Ever +Come Again?; Fond Affection; Will You Love Me When I'm Old?; Nell and I +had Quarrels; Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold?; I Want to be Somebody's +Darling; By the Gate; The Broken Engagement; Say You'll be Mine in a +Year; I Cannot be Your Sweetheart; Kiss Me Again; Just Going Down to the +Gate; Darling, We have Long been Parted; Our Hands are Clasped; Only +Flirting; I Loved You Better than You Knew; Mollie Darling; The Jealous +Girl; The Independent Girl; Willie, Come Back; Free Again; The Hawthorn +Tree; The Sailor Lad; I'll be All Smiles Tonight; Love, I've been +Faithful; Maggie's Secret; I Rather Think I Will; Little Sweetheart; +Meet Me in the Moonlight; He's Got Money, Too; After the Ball; Sweet +Bunch of Daisies; In the Shadow of the Pines; On the Banks of the +Wabash; Mary has Gone with a "Coon." + + +XII. + +_This group contains two-part songs, arranged dialogue-fashion, like a +debat or a tenson. All contain love-themes, as in XI above. In spite of +the obvious logical cross-division, it has seemed well to print them as +a separate section._ + +I'LL GIVE TO YOU A PAPER OF PINS, ii, 4aab3b, 13: The lover offers the +maiden in alternate quatrains various gifts to induce her to marry him. +She replies in alternate quatrains, refusing him. Finally, he offers +"the key of his chest." She accepts, but he scorns her mercenary love. + +MADAM, I'VE A-COURTING COME, 4a3b4c3b, 7: The lover in the first three +quatrains offers his various forms of wealth to induce the lady to marry +him. She refuses in the fifth stanza his mercenary love. He makes reply +in the sixth and she in the seventh. + +TWO LETTERS, ii, 3abcb, 13: The first four quatrains constitute the +letter from Charley Brooks to Nelly Adair, asking for the return of his +presents to her, since his love for her has grown cold. The last nine +are her reply, acquiescing with a sad dignity. + +[STONY HILL], 4a3b4c3b, 3: Each quatrain contains, in couplets +respectively, question and reply of lover and sweetheart, who is +"sixteen next Sunday" and has to "ask her mammy." + +STELLA, 4a3b4c3b, 14: A dialogue between Alfred, a volunteer at his +country's call, to Stella, his sweetheart. + +THE WAGGONER'S LAD: See Section IX. + +KAINTUCKY BOYS: See Section X. + +BUCKSKIN BOYS: See Section X. + + +XIII. + +_This group consists of humorous songs. Certain ones resemble modern +songs of the vaudeville, and such they probably were._ + +GRANDMOTHER'S MUSTARD PLASTER, 4aabb, 7ca: The story of a plaster that +drew the buttons from a vest, axles from a wagon, a street car forty +miles, jerked a "Chinee's" boot off and pulled his leg at the "opium +jint," mashed a "cop's" hat down, drew a wagon over town, stuck on a +passenger train, drew it to Washington, where it remained--stuck on +politics. + +BOY AND BUMBLE-BEE, 4a3b4c3b(?), 5: An urchin puts a bumble-bee in his +pistol pocket and goes fishing. He sits down, the bee turns the trick, +and "spoils the urchin's disposition." + +KATE AND THE CLOTHIER, 4aabb, 8ca: A jilted maiden disguises herself in +"an old cowhide with crooked horns," and seizes her clothier-lover in a +"lonesome field." Thinking her to be the Devil, he renounces the +lawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate. + +SEYMORE WILSON, 3a3b4c3b, 8ca: He is a gawky, love-sick youth. He goes +a-courting on Potriffle, but finding a rival sitting on the +"calico-side" returns to his plowing, weeps, then becomes cheerful in +his resolve to wait for another girl. + +BILLY BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about +his wife: she is "too young to leave her mammy," can "bake a +cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine," +is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on. + +[THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR], a chant of the 4a3b4c3b type, 7ca: He goes +hunting a-Sunday, meets a grizzly bear, climbs a tree, and prays a +humorous prayer for help. The limb breaks; he falls, but escapes. + +[LOVE IS SUCH A FUNNY THING], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b, 9: It +causes empty pockets, second-hand clothing, collectors, and even brings +the "bald-headed end of the broom" into play: a husband's soliloquy. + +[THE MARRIED MAN], 4aa, 5: A married man's woes: children on his knees, +bad clothing, "seeping" shoes--while the single man suffers none of +these things. + +DEVILISH MARY, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A hen-pecked husband's lament: he woos and +marries the termagant within three days--then follows trouble. She +"mashes his mouth with a shovel," bundles up her "duds", and leaves him +within three weeks. + +I WON'T MARRY AT ALL, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3: I won't marry a rich man +because he will drink and fall in the ditch; a poor man, for he will go +begging; a fat man, for he will do nothing but "nurse" the cat. + +POOR OLD MAID, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity: + + Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue-- + Poor old maid! + Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue, + I'm just as sweet as the morning dew, + And to a husband I'd stick like glue-- + Poor old maid! + +I WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN, metre as below, 5: A married man's +repentance: his first wife died-- + + I married me another, O then, O then; + I married me another O then; + I married me another, the Devil's grandmother, + And I wish I was single again. + +JOE BOWERS, 3abcb, 10: He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike +County, Missouri, and goes to "Rome," California, to make a home for +her. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she +had married a red-headed butcher and that their baby had red hair. + +A POUND OF TOW, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example +of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has +since become a gad-about and a gossip. + + +XIV. + +_The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may be called +sentimental._ + +THE BLIND CHILD, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: She deplores her father's second +marriage, kneels to say her evening prayers, and dies. She is buried by +the side of her mother. + +THE DYING NUN, 4abcb, 12: To Sister Martha, her nurse, Sister Clara +tells her youthful waywardness toward her parents and recalls her early +love for Douglas, and dies. + +THE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: The vanity of human +wishes: a feeble lad kissing his mother good-bye as he sets sail to seek +health in a foreign climate; a gallant seaman kissing his wife good-bye +as he sets sail to seek their fortune across the seas--but the ship of +either never returned. + +I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW, 3abab, 9: An orphan's lament, with a vision of the +mother's grave, etc. + +THE ORPHAN GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Refused shelter at the door of a rich man +one wintry night, she dies before it in the snow. + +PHANTOM FOOTSTEPS, 4ababcdcd and 4abab, 3: A mother's night-yearning for +her dead child. + +[THE WAYWARD GIRL], 4aa6b4cc6b4dd6e4ff6e and 4ab2cc4bde2ff4e, 2: One +year after leaving her home in wayward love, her father writes her of +her mother's death and forgives her, but she refuses to return. + +OLD MAN'S TROUBLE, 4aa5b4cc5b and 4aa5b4cc5b, 3: A meditation upon the +sadness of old age and a warning to the young against their own days of +poverty and senile helplessness. + +IN THE BAGGAGE-COACH AHEAD, iii, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e4g3h4i3h and 4aabb, 2: +A crying child brings to its sad-eyed father remonstrances from sleepy +passengers until they are told that the dead mother is in the +baggage-coach ahead. + +[SWEET MEMORY OF DEAR MOTHER], 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdefe, 3: A child's +loving reminiscence. + +LITTLE MAUDIA, 4abcb, 6: A dying girl's farewell to her mother. + +OLD CHURCH-YARD, 4abcb, 7: A forlorn orphan's meditation upon her +mother's grave. + + +XV. + +_The songs of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may be called +moralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection._ + +[THE BLACK SHEEP], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: Jack and +Tom prevail upon their rich and aged father to send away their brother +Fred as a "black sheep." Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to +send the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from +this disgrace. + +[NOTHING TO BE MADE BY ROVING], 3abcb, 2: Dissipation brings discontent +at last. + +TWO DRUMMERS, 6aabbccdd and 6aabb, 2: In a "grand hotel" they speak +slightingly to a pretty waitress. She rebukes them, making appeal to +their regard for their mothers. They apologize to her and one of them +marries her. + +THE DRUNKARD'S DREAM, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A vision of his dead wife and +children turns him from strong drink forever after. + +FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and +3a3b4c3b, 3: The little daughter begs her father to come home from the +grog-shop before her little brother dies. The clock tolls twelve, one, +two, three--and when finally she leads him home, the boy is dead. + +A DRIFTER RESCUED, 4abcb, 10: The turbulent journey of a ship-wrecked +soul: near the brink of destruction the reckless man finds a redeemer in +the Savior. + +THE WANDERING BOY, 4aabb and 4abcc, 4: A mother's wail for her wayward +son: she points out the vacant chair, cradle, and shoes of his innocent +babyhood. + + +XVI. + +_This group contains sequence-songs, or number-songs, like the popular +German Zaehllieder, though not all are necessarily sung, but rather are +spoken. The first one below would seem to be akin to the various cabala +of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania._ + +[TWELVE APOSTLES], as follows: + + Twelve, twelve apostles, + Eleven, eleven, I went to heaven, + Ten, ten, commandments, + Nine bright lights a-shining, + Eight Gabel [Gabriel?] angels, + Seven stars a-hanging high, + Six, six go acymord, + Five all alone abroard, + Four scorn in Wackford, + Three of them are drivers, + Two of them are little lost babes, + Oh, my dear Savior, + One, one is left alone, + One to be left alone. + +CLUB-FIST: A series of questions and answers concerning the fire, water, +ox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, etc.--each of which terms is destructive of +the preceding one. (Spoken.) + +JOHN BROWN'S LITTLE INDIANS: An enumeration of his "Indians" from unity +upward, and thence back to unity again. + +THE UNLUCKY YOUNG MAN, ii, 4aa and 4aaa3b, 13ca: He exchanges oxen for a +cow, the cow for a calf, the calf for a dog, the dog for a cat, the cat +for a rat, the rat for a mouse, which "took fire to her tail and burned +down the house." + +OLD SAM SUCK-EGG, ii, 2aa, 10: He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and +this for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line, +until he has lost all. (Spoken.) + +[I BOUGHT ME A HORSE], 4aa and cumulative refrain of animal cries: In +each couplet a new purchase of some common animal or fowl is made, while +each succeeding refrain gathers up cumulative-fashion the cries made by +each succeeding addition to the collection. + +ONE, TWO, COME BUCKLE MY SHOE, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines, +each containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.) + + +XVII. + +_This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, "frolickings," +and movement-games of Kentucky._ + +CHARLIE, ii, 4a3b4c3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie, +the dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc. + +BLUEBIRD, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless, endless improvisation, in which +are woven the "calls" of the dance, beginning: + + Yonder goes the bluebird through the window + Down in Tennessee. + +THE RAILROAD, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally +different, beginning: + + Out on the railroad, O Jubilee, + Waiting for my darling, O Jubilee. + +THE BOATMAN, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning: + +Here she sits in her sad station. + +LONG SUMMER DAY, ii: In general form and function like the above, +beginning: + + Skate around the ocean, + In a long summer day. + +A-MOANING AND GROANING, ii: In general form and function like the above, +beginning: + + A-moaning and groaning, + And that shall be the cry. + +MARCHING ROUND THE LEVY [LADY?]: In general form and function like the +above, beginning: + + We're marching round the levy, + For we have gained the day. + +GOING TO BOSTON: In general form and function like the above, beginning: + + Now we'll promenade, one, two, three, + So early in the morning. + +HERE COME TWO DUKES A-ROVING, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless improvisation +for the men and women of the dance, alternately--beginning: + + Here comes two dukes a-roving, + With a high-o-ransom-day. + +SKIP TO MY LOU, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance +"calls," beginning: + + Steal your partner, skip to my lou, + Skip to my lou, my darling. + +FOL DOL SOL, 4a3b4c3b, 2ca: One quatrain is: + + If you love me as I love you, + We have not long to tarry; + We'll keep the old folks fixing up + For you and me to marry. + +GREEN GROWS THE WILLOW, 4aaaa, 4ca: One quatrain is: + + Green grow the rashes O, + Green grow the rashes O, + Kiss her quick and let her go, + For yonder comes her mammy O. + +THE JOLLY MILLER, iii, metre as follows, 2: + + Jolly is the miller that lives by the mill, + The wheel goes round with a right good will, + One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack-- + The boys step forward and the girls step back. + +SISTER PHOEBE, 4aab, 2: It begins: + + Old sister Phoebe, how happy were we + The night we sat under the juniper tree, + The juniper tree, heigh ho, heigh ho. + +NEEDLE'S EYE, as follows: + + Needle's eye that doth supply + The thread that runs so true; + Many a beau have I let go + Because I wanted you. + +GREEN GRAVEL, 4aabb, 4ca: It begins: + + Green gravel, green gravel, the grass is so green; + You're the prettiest maiden that ever was seen. + +[OLD QUEBEC], ii, 4a3b4c3b, 3ca: It begins: + + We're marching down to Old Quebec, + Where the fifes and drums are beating; + America has gained the day + And the British are retreating. + +[SISTER FRANKIE], 3abcb and 3abcb, 3: The refrain is: + + Twice one is two + And one and two is three; + Dance around the maypole + Just like me. + +BUFFALO, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 2: It begins: + + Come along, my dearest dear, + Present to me your hand; + We are roaming in succession + To some far and distant land. + +BOUQUET PATCH (PAWPAW PATCH), ii: An endless, rimeless improvisation, +beginning: + + Where, oh where, is pretty little Mary? + Way down yonder in the bouquet patch. + +GO IN AND OUT AT THE WINDOW: An endless, rimeless improvisation +containing the dance calls in order. + + +XVIII. + +_This group contains paralipomena which baffle individual description. +It embraces counting-out rimes, jigs, lullabies, child-rimes, +nonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical, and usually +rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. The +following list is an attempt to name them:_ + +Cluck, Old Hen; Frog in the Meadow; Old as Moses; When I was a Little +Boy; Sugar in the Gourd; I'll Build My Nest in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker; +Possum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater; Chickamy +Corney-crow; William Trimmel Tram: Shidepoke and Crane; Johnny's out on +Picking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog; Tarry; Granny, Will +Your Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I'm Hungry; Gray Goose; +Needle and Thread; It Rained so Hard; I'll Never get Drunk Anymore; Rock +Island; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober; +Apples in the Summertime; Coony has a Ringy Tail: I Went Down Town; +Sally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Rabbit Walked; Shoo, Old Lady, +Shine!; Hook and Line; Day I'm Gone; Churn Your Buttermilk; Kalamazine; +Hang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara Jane; Whickum-whack; +Up to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had an Old Mare; To +Rowser's; Roll the Old Chariot Along; Shady Grove; Whangho; Cripple +Creek. + + + + +INDEX + + + After the Ball, 29 + + All on the Banks of Clauda, 24 + + A-moaning and Groaning, 36 + + Annie and Willie, 27 + + Annie Willow, 27 + + Apples in the Summertime, 38 + + Apprentice Boy, The, 10 + + Arkansas Traveller, 15 + + Assassination of J. B. Marcum, The, 18 + + Auxville Love, The, 24 + + Avonia, 21 + + Awful Wedding, The, 26 + + + Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The, 8 + + Barbara Allen, 8 + + Barney and Kate, 21 + + Battle of Gettysburg, 14 + + Beauchamp's Confession, 16 + + [Bedroom Window], 23 + + Beefsteak When I'm Hungry, 38 + + Beneath the Arch of London Bridge, 10 + + Betsy Brown, 12 + + Betty Stout, 16 + + Billy Boy, 30 + + [Black Sheep, The], 33 + + Blind Child, The, 32 + + Blue and the Gray, The, 14 + + Bluebird, 35 + + Boatman, The, 36 + + Bosom Friend, 8 + + Bounty Jumpers, 14 + + Bouquet Patch, 38 + + Boy and Bumble-bee, 30 + + Broken Engagement, The, 29 + + Buckskin Boys, 21, 30 + + Buffalo, 38 + + Butcher's Boy, The, 24 + + By the Gate, 29 + + By-o Baby Bunting, 33 + + + California Joe, 16 + + Can You then Love Another?, 25 + + Cause and Killing of Jesse Adams, The, 18 + + Charlie, 35 + + Chickamy Corney-crow, 38 + + Churn Your Buttermilk, 38 + + Club-fist, 24 + + Cluck, Old Hen, 38 + + Cold, Dark Scenes of Winter, The, 25 + + Cold Winter's Night, 8 + + Come a High Jim Along, 39 + + Come, All Ye Jolly Boatsman Boys, 22 + + [Come, All Ye Southern Soldiers], 15 + + [Constant Johnny], 22 + + Coon-dog, 38 + + Coony has a Ringy Tail, 38 + + Cripple Creek, 39 + + Cubeck's Garden, 11 + + Cuckoo, 24 + + + Dandoo, 8 + + Darling, We have Long been Parted, 29 + + Day I'm Gone, 38 + + Devilish Mary, 31 + + Drifter Rescued, A, 24 + + Driver Boy, The, 9 + + Drunkard's Dream, The, 33 + + Dying Cowboy, The, 15 + + Dying Girl's Message, The, 25 + + Dying Nun, The, 32 + + + Eddingsburg Town, 11 + + Edward, 7 + + Edward Hawkins, 17 + + [Ephraim and Lucy], 23 + + + F. F. V., The, 20 + + Fair Ella, 28 + + Fair Ellender, 7 + + Fair Margaret and Sweet William, 8 + + + Fair Notamon Town, 11 + + Fan, The, 10 + + Farmer's Boy, The, 20 + + Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now, 33 + + Floella, 28 + + Florella, 28 + + Floyd Frazier, 18 + + Fol Dol Sol, 36 + + Fond Affection, 29 + + Free Again, 29 + + Frisky Jim, 38 + + Frog in the Meadow, 38 + + + Go In and Out at the Window, 38 + + Goebel and Taylor, 21 + + Going to Boston, 36 + + Golden Glove, The, 11 + + Grandmother's Mustard Plaster, 30 + + Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?, 38 + + Gray Goose, 38 + + Green Gravel, 37 + + Green Grows the Willow, 37 + + Green Willow Tree, The, 9 + + Greenbriar Shore, 27 + + Greenwood Side, The, 7 + + Ground-hog, 38 + + Guerrilla Man, The, 14 + + + Had an Old Mare, 39 + + Handsome Flora, 16 + + Hang Down Your Head, 38 + + Hang Down Your Head and Cry, 25 + + Hawthorn Tree, The, 29 + + Here Come Two Dukes A-roving, 36 + + He's Got Money, Too, 29 + + Hiram Hubbert, 14 + + Hook and Line, 38 + + House Carpenter, The, 8 + + + [I Bought Me a Horse], 35 + + I Cannot be Your Sweetheart 29 + + I Feel, 38 + + I have Finished Him a Letter, 25 + + I Have no Mother Now, 32 + + I Loved You Better than You Knew, 29 + + I Rather Think I Will, 29 + + I Used to Love, 24 + + I Want to be Somebody's Darling, 29 + + I Went Down Town, 38 + + I Wish I was Single Again, 31 + + I Won't Marry at All, 31 + + If I had Minded Mamma, 24 + + I'll be All Smiles Tonight, 29 + + I'll Build My Nest In a Tree 38 + + I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, 29 + + I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow tree, 23 + + I'll Love Thee Always, 29 + + I'll Never get Drunk Anymore, 38 + + I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers, 28 + + I'm Going to Join the Army, 15 + + I'm Scorned for being Poor, 26 + + [In Rowan County Jail], 17 + + In the Baggage-coach Ahead, 33 + + In the Shadow of the Pines, 29 + + Independent Girl, The, 29 + + Irish Girl, 14 + + Irish Molly O, 13 + + Irish Peddler, The, 19 + + It Rained so Hard, 38 + + + Jack and Joe, 24 + + Jack and Mamie, 23 + + Jack and Mary, 29 + + Jack Combe's Death Song, 17 + + Jack Wilson, 10 + + Jackaro, 9 + + James A. Garfield, 21 + + Jealous Girl, The, 29 + + Jealous Lover, 28 + + [Jeems Braggs], 18 + + Jereboam Beauchamp, 19 + + Jesse James, 16 + + Jew's Daughter, The, 8 + + Joe Bowers, 32 + + Joe Hardy, 27 + + John Brown's Little Indians, 34 + + John Hardy, 19 + + John Riley, 27 + + John T. Parker, 18 + + Johnnie Came from Sea, 14 + + Johnny Doyle, 27 + + Johnny's out on Picking, 38 + + Jolly Miller, The, 37 + + Just Going Down to the Gate, 29 + + + Kaintucky Boys, 21, 30 + + Kalamazine, 38 + + Kate and the Clothier, 30 + + King's Daughter, The, 7 + + Kiss Me Again, 29 + + Kitty Wells, 22 + + + Lady Gay, 9 + + Last Night as I Lay Sleeping, 17 + + Little Anna, 28 + + Little Maudia, 33 + + Little Nellie, 26 + + Little Omy Wise, 28 + + Little Sparrow, 26 + + Little Sweetheart, 29 + + Little Willie, 7 + + Lone Prairie, The, 15 + + Lonesome Dove, 22 + + Lonesome Dove, 22 + + Long Summer Day, 36 + + Lord Bateman, 7 + + Lord Lovely, 8 + + Lord of Old Country, 7 + + Lord Randal, 7 + + Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender, 8 + + Lord Vanner's (Daniel's) Wife, 8 + + Lorla, 22 + + [Love is Such a Funny Thing], 31 + + Love, I've been Faithful, 29 + + Lovely Caroline of Old Edinboro, 11 + + Lovely Julia, 27 + + Lovely Nancy, 23 + + Lovely Nancy, 26 + + Lover's Farewell, 8 + + Loving Hanner, 26 + + Loving Henry, 8 + + Lynchburg Town, 20 + + + MacAfee's Confession, 16 + + Madam, I've A-courting Come, 29 + + [Maggie], 26 + + Maggie's Secret, 29 + + Marching Round the Levy, 36 + + [Married Man, The], 31 + + Mary has Gone with a "Coon", 29 + + Mary of the Wild Moor, 12 + + Meet Me in the Moonlight, 29 + + Miller-boy, 28 + + Mollie Darling, 29 + + Molly, 13 + + Moonshiner, The, 19 + + Murfreesboro, 14 + + My Bonnie Little Girl, 26 + + + Nancy Till, 23 + + Needle and Thread, 38 + + Needle's Eye, 37 + + Nell and I had Quarrels, 29 + + Nora O'Neil, 22 + + [Nothing to be Made by Roving], 33 + + + Old as Moses, 38 + + Old Church-yard, 33 + + Old Dad, 38 + + Old Dan Tucker, 38 + + Old Gray, 20 + + Old Man's Trouble, 33 + + Old Miller, The, 20 + + Old Number Four, 20 + + Old, Old Love is Growing Still, The, 28 + + [Old Quebec], 37 + + Old Sam Simons, 38 + + Old Sam Suck-egg, 35 + + Old Shoemaker, The, 20 + + Old Woman of London, The, 10 + + On the Banks of the Wabash, 29 + + One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 35 + + Only Flirting, 29 + + Orphan Girl, The, 32 + + Our Hands are Clasped, 29 + + + Package of Old Letters, A, 22 + + Pale Amaranthus, The, 24 + + Patty on the Canal, 13 + + Pawpaw Patch, 38 + + Peter Punkin-eater, 38 + + Phantom Footsteps, 32 + + Polly, My Charmer, 16 + + Polly Vaughn, 28 + + Poor Goens, 18 + + Poor Old Maid, 31 + + Poor Strange Girl, A, 25 + + Possum up a Gum-stump, 38 + + Pound of Tow, A, 32 + + [Preacher and the Bear, The], 31 + + Pretty Mohee (Maumee), The, 12 + + Pretty Peggy O, 9 + + Pretty Polly, 7 + + Pretty Polly, 7 + + Pretty Polly, 25 + + Pretty Polly, 27 + + Pretty Saro, 22 + + + Rabbit Walked, 38 + + Railroad, The, 35 + + [Railroad Boy], 20 + + Red River Valley, 21 + + Regret, A, 26 + + Rich and Rambling Boy, The, 17 + + Rich Margent, The, 10 + + Rock Island, 38 + + Roll the Old Chariot Along, 39 + + Romish Lady, The, 12 + + Rope and the Gallows, The, 7 + + Rosanna, 12 + + Rose Colalee (Colleen?), 28 + + Rosin the Bow, 19 + + Rosin the Bow, 20 + + Roving Irish Boy, 13 + + Rowan County Tragedy, The, 18 + + Rowdy Boys, 17 + + + Sailor Lad, The, 29 + + Sailor Lover, The, 27 + + Sailor's Request, The, 16 + + Sally in the Garden, 38 + + Santford Barnes, 15 + + Sara Jane, 38 + + Say You'll be Mine In a Year, 29 + + Seymore Wilson, 30 + + Shady Grove, 39 + + Shearfield, 11 + + [She was Happy till She Met You], 23 + + Shidepoke and Crane, 38 + + Ship that Never Returned, The, 32 + + Shoo, Old Lady, Shine, 38 + + Shoot Your Dice, 38 + + Show Me the Way to Go Home, 38 + + Silk Merchant's Daughter, The, 12 + + Single Soldier, The, 27 + + [Sister Frankie], 37 + + Sister Phoebe, 37 + + Six Pretty Fair Maids, 7 + + Skip to My Lou, 36 + + Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober, 38 + + Sourwood Mountain, 38 + + Squire, The, 26 + + Starving to Death on a Government Claim, 15 + + Steel-driver, The, 19 + + Stella, 30 + + Stockyard Gate, 20 + + [Stony Hill], 30 + + Sugar in the Gourd, 38 + + Sweet Birds, 22 + + Sweet Bunch of Daisies, 29 + + Sweet Jane, 13 + + [Sweet Memory of Dear Mother], 33 + + Sweet Summer Evening, 23 + + Sweet William and Fair Ellender, 8 + + + Talt Hall, 18 + + Tarry, 38 + + Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold, 29 + + There was a Rich Old Farmer, 23 + + There's a Spark of Love Still Burning, 28 + + Three Little Babes, 7 + + [To America], 12 + + To Cheer the Heart, 25 + + To Rowser's, 39 + + Tom Smith's Death Song, 17 + + Turkish Lady, The, 7 + + [Twelve Apostles], 34 + + Two Drummers, 33 + + Two Letters, 29 + + Two Soldiers, The, 14 + + + Unlucky Young Man, The, 35 + + Up to the Court-house, 38 + + + Vain Girl, 26 + + + Waggoner's Lad, The, 20, 30 + + Wait for the Wagon, 23 + + Walking-boss, 19 + + Wandering Boy, The, 34 + + Waxford Girl, The, 13 + + Wayward Girl, The, 32 + + We have Met and We have Parted, 24 + + Whangho, 39 + + When I was a Little Boy, 38 + + Whickum-whack, 38 + + White Rose, The, 29 + + Who'll be King but Charlie? 11 + + Will You Love Me When I'm Old? 29 + + William Baker, 18 + + William Hall, 11 + + William Riley, 13 + + William Trimmel Tram, 38 + + Willie and Kate, 29 + + Willie, Come Back, 29 + + Won't You Ever Come Again? 29 + + + Young Edwin, 9 + + Young Man's Love, The, 26 + + + Zollicoffer, 15 + + + * * * * * + + +Transcriber's note + + +Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuation +errors have been corrected without notice. + +On Page 5 the name "Ruth Hackney" is listed twice; this was not +changed. + +A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected and are listed +below. + +Page 3: "even by the absorbtion" changed to "even by the absorption". + +Page 5: "in making decision" changed to "in making decisions". + +Page 11: "Moidart, in Inverness-shire" changed to "Mordart, in +Inverness-shire". + +Page 23: "who soons appears" changed to "who soon appears". + +Page 35: "rythmical, rimeless, endless" changed to "rhythmical, +rimeless, endless". + +Page 40: "Apples in the Summer-time" changed to "Apples in the +Summertime". + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs, by +Hubert G. Shearin and Josiah H. 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