{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_26937/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_26937","id":"gutenberg_26937","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26937","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Music","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Folk poetry, American -- Kentucky -- Themes, motives","Kentucky -- Songs and music"],"text":"Produced by David Garcia, Carla Foust and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby The Kentuckiana Digital Library)\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber's note\n\n\nArchaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuation\nerrors have been corrected without notice. A few obvious typographical\nerrors have been corrected, and they are listed at the end of this book.\n\n\n\n\n     Transylvania University Studies in English\n\n     II\n\n\n\n\n     A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs\n\n     By\n\n     HUBERT G. SHEARIN, A. M. Ph. D.\n     Professor of English Philology in Transylvania University\n\n     and\n\n     JOSIAH H. COMBS, A. B.\n     Editor of The Transylvanian\n\n     Transylvania Printing Company\n     Lexington, Kentucky\n     1911\n\n\n\n\n     TO\n\n     R. M. S.\n\n\n\n\nINTRODUCTION\n\n\nThis syllabus, or finding-list, is offered to lovers of folk-literature\nin the hope that it may not be without interest and value to them for\npurposes of comparison and identification. It includes 333 items,\nexclusive of 114 variants, and embraces all popular songs that have so\nfar come to hand as having been \"learned by ear instead of by eye,\" as\nexisting through oral transmission--song-ballads, love-songs,\nnumber-songs, dance-songs, play-songs, child-songs, counting-out rimes,\nlullabies, jigs, nonsense rimes, ditties, etc.\n\nThere is every reason to believe that many more such await the\ncollector; in fact, their number is constantly being increased even\ntoday by the creation of new ones, by adaptation of the old, and even by\nthe absorption and consequent metamorphosis, of literary,\nquasi-literary, or pseudo-literary types into the current of oral\ntradition.\n\nThis collection, then, is by no means complete: means have not been\navailable for a systematic and scientific search for these folk-songs,\nwhich have been gathered very casually during the past five years\nthrough occasional travel, acquaintanceship, and correspondence in only\nthe twenty-one following counties: Fayette, Madison, Rowan, Elliott,\nCarter, Boyd, Lawrence, Morgan, Johnson, Pike, Knott, Breathitt, Clay,\nLaurel, Rockcastle, Garrard, Boyle, Anderson, Shelby, Henry, and\nOwen--all lying in Central and Eastern Kentucky.\n\nAll of the material listed has thus been collected in this State, though\na variant of The Jew's Daughter, page 8, has come by chance from\nMichigan, and another of The Pretty Mohee, page 12, was sent from\nGeorgia. The Cumberland Mountain region, in the eastern part of the\nState, has naturally furnished the larger half of the material, because\nof local conditions favorable to the propagation of folk-song. However,\nsections of Kentucky lying farther to the westward are almost equally\nprolific. The wide extension of the same ballad throughout the State\nargues convincingly for the unity of the Kentucky stock--a fact which\nmay be confirmed in more ways than one.\n\nThe arrangement is as follows: The material in hand is loosely grouped\nin eighteen sections, according to origin, chronology, content, or form.\nThough logically at fault, because of the cross-division thus inevitably\nentailed, this plan has seemed to be the best. No real confusion will\nresult to the user in consequence. In fact, no matter what system be\nadopted, certain songs will belong equally well to two or more different\ncategories.\n\nUnder each of these eighteen main divisions the treatment of the\nindividual song-ballad is in general as follows: First, stands the\ntitle, with variant titles in parentheses. Should this be unknown, a\ncaption coined by the editors is placed in brackets. Secondly, a Roman\nnumeral immediately follows the above to denote the number of versions,\nif variants have been found. Thirdly, the prosodical character of the\nsong is roughly indicated by a combination of letters and numerals. Each\nletter indicates a line; the variation in the letters indicates, in the\nusual fashion, the rime-scheme of the stanza. Each numeral indicates the\nnumber of stresses in the line (or lines) denoted by the letter (or\nletters) immediately succeeding it. When a chorus, burden, or refrain is\npresent, the metrical scheme of this stands immediately after an \"and,\"\nas, for example, in The Blue and the Gray, page 14. In the case of the\nrefrain, the letters used are independent of those immediately preceding\nthe \"and,\" and denoting the rime-scheme of the stanza proper. Fourthly,\nan Arabic numeral follows to indicate the number of stanzas in the song,\nexclusive of the refrain, should one be present. If the number of\nstanzas in a ballad is indeterminable, because its form is fragmentary,\nor because its variant versions differ in length, this fact is indicated\nby an appended ca (_circa_). Sixth, and last, is a synopsis, or other\nattempt to give briefly such data as may serve to complete the\nidentification.\n\nIllustration of the third item above may be helpful. Thus in Pretty\nPolly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with\nfour stresses in each line. In Jackaro, page 9, 3abcb indicates a\nquatrain riming alternately, with three stressed syllables in each line.\nIn The King's Daughter, page 7, 4a3b4c3b indicates a quatrain, with only\nthe second and fourth lines riming and with four stresses in the first\nand third lines and three stresses in the second and fourth. In Johnnie\nCame from Sea, page 14, 6aa denotes a rimed couplet, with six stresses\nin each line.\n\nIt has, naturally, been difficult at times to decide whether certain\nstanzas should be counted as couplets, or as quatrains half as long. In\nsuch cases, the air, or tune, and other data, often rather subtle, have\nbeen employed in making decisions. The quatrain form has in uncertain\ninstances been given the benefit of the doubt. Even thus, certain minor\ninconsistencies will perhaps be noted. It is hardly necessary to add\nthat assonance freely occurs in the place of rime, and as such it is\nconsidered throughout.\n\nAll attempt to indicate the prevailing metrical unit, or foot, within\nthe line has been frankly given over. Iambs, dactyls, and their ilk\nreceive scant courtesy from the composer of folk-song, who without qualm\nor quaver will stretch one syllable, or even an utter silence (caesura),\ninto the time of a complete bar; while in the next breath he will with\nequal equanimity huddle a dozen syllables into the same period.\nConsequently, this item, even if it could be indicated, would have scant\ndescriptive value.\n\nIt is a pleasant duty to acknowledge gratefully the assistance of those\nwho have transmitted to our hands many of the songs: Mesdames J. W.\nCombs, W. T. Phillips, Jennie L. Combs, Richard Smith, Martha Smith,\nRuth Hackney, W. F. Hays, Ollie Huff, Robin Cornett, Lucy Banks, Sarah\nBurton, Kittie Jordan, and Ruby Martin; Misses Martha Jent, Maud Dean,\nVirginia Jordan, Jessie Green, Lizzie Cody, Margaret Combs, Barbara\nSmith, Helena E. Rose, Sarah Burton, Sarah Hillman, Cordia Bramblett,\nNannie S. Graham, Myrtle Wheeler, Melissa Holbrook, Rosetta Wheeler,\nRuth Hackney, Ora McDavid, Jeannette McDavid; Messrs. Wm. W. Berry,\nChas. Hackney, S. B. Wheeler, R. L. Morgan, Enoch Wheeler, Thos. H.\nHackney, James Goodman, W. S. Wheeler, Harry M. Morgan, Henry Lester, T.\nG. Wheeler, C. F. Bishop, and John C. Jones.\n\nEspecially helpful as collaborators have been Messrs. Winfred Cox, Emory\nE. Wheeler, Roud Shaw, A. B. Johnston, C. E. Phillips, and H.\nWilliamson.\n\nKind words or letters of appreciation and, in some cases, of suggestion,\nfrom the following have encouraged the preparation of this syllabus:\nProfessors Alexander S. Mackenzie, of the Kentucky State University;\nClarence C. Freeman, of Transylvania University; John A. Lomax, of the\nUniversity of Texas; Albert H. Tolman, of the University of Chicago;\nJohn M. McBride, Jr., of the University of the South; George Lyman\nKittredge, of Harvard University; Henry M. Belden, of the University of\nMissouri; and Katherine Jackson, formerly of Bryn Mawr College, who has\nmost generously given the use of her manuscript collection. None of the\nshortcomings of this brochure, however, can be imputed to them in the\nslightest degree.\n\n\n\n\nSYLLABUS\n\n\nI.\n\n_The songs in this group are the survivors of English and Scottish\noriginals, found for the most part in the Child collection. Certain of\nthose given in sections II to XVIII below could doubtless, with due\neffort, be identified in like manner._\n\nTHE KING'S DAUGHTER (SIX PRETTY FAIR MAIDS, PRETTY POLLY), iv, 4a3b4c3b,\n9ca: Variants of Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, Child, No. 4. By a\nstratagem she drowns the lover just as he is about to drown her.\n\nPRETTY POLLY, iv, 4aabb, 9ca: Parallel in general plot to the above,\nsave that she is led by the lover to an open grave and there slain. (Cf.\n5, page 28.)\n\nFAIR ELLENDER, 4a3b4c3b, 10: A variant of the Earl Brand cycle, Child,\nNo. 7.\n\nLORD OF OLD COUNTRY, 4aa, with refrain as below, 10ca: A variant of The\nTwo Sisters, Child, No. 10.\n\n     The miller was hung upon Fish-gate, Bosodown,\n     The miller was hung upon Fish-gate,\n     (These sons were sent to me)\n     The miller was hung upon Fish-gate\n     For drowning of my sister Kate!\n     I'll be true, true to my true-love,\n     If my love'll be true to me.\n\nTHE ROPE AND THE GALLOWS (LORD RANDAL), 4aa, 12ca: A variant of Lord\nRandal, Child, No. 12.\n\nEDWARD, 4a3b4c3b, 10: A variant of the Old World ballad of the same\nname, Child, No. 13.\n\nTHE GREENWOOD SIDE (THREE LITTLE BABES), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: Variants of\nThe Cruel Mother, Child, No. 20.\n\nLITTLE WILLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A variant of The Two Brothers, Child, No.\n49.\n\nLORD BATEMAN (THE TURKISH LADY), ii, 4abcb, 17ca: Variants of Young\nBeichan, Child, No. 53.\n\nLOVING HENRY (SWEET WILLIAM AND FAIR ELLENDER), iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca:\nVariants of Young Hunting, Child, No. 68.\n\nLORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELLENDER, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 17ca: Variants of Lord\nThomas and Fair Elinor, Child, No. 73.\n\nFAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM, iv, 4a3b4c3b, 15ca: Variants of the Old\nWorld ballad of the same name, Child, No. 74. (Published by Combs in\nJour. Am. Folklore, 23.381.)\n\nLORD LOVELY, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A variant of Lord Lovel, Child, No. 75.\n\nCOLD WINTER'S NIGHT (BOSOM FRIEND, LOVER'S FAREWELL), vii, 4a3b4c3b,\n9ca: Variants of The Lass of Loch Royal, Child, No. 76. (Published by\nShearin, Mod. Lang. Review, Oct., 1911, p. 514.)\n\nLORD VANNER'S (DANIEL'S) WIFE, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 17ca: Variants of Little\nMusgrave and Lady Barnard, Child, No. 81.\n\nBARBARA ALLEN, vi, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: Variants of Barbara Allen's Cruelty,\nChild, No. 84.\n\nTHE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON, 4a3b4c3b, 12: A variant of the Old\nWorld ballad of the same name, Child, No. 105.\n\nTHE JEW'S DAUGHTER, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Variants of Sir Hugh, Child, No.\n155. One of the Kentucky versions makes the murdered boy's mother go\nseeking him switch in hand, to punish him for not returning home before\nnightfall. (Communicated by Dr. Katherine Jackson.)\n\nTHE HOUSE CARPENTER, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 13ca: Variants of The Demon Lover,\nChild, No. 243.\n\nDANDOO: A fragmentary variant of The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin, Child,\nNo. 277, as follows:\n\n     He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, Dandoo;\n     He put the sheepskin to his wife's back,\n     Clima cli clash to ma clingo,\n     He put the sheepskin to his wife's back,\n     And he made the old switch go whickity-whack,\n     Then rarum scarum skimble arum\n     Skitty-wink skatty-wink\n     Clima cli clash to ma clingo.\n\nTHE GREEN WILLOW TREE, metre as below, 11: A variant of The Golden\nVanitee, Child, No. 286.\n\n     There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee,\n     From down in the lonesome Lowlands low--\n     There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee,\n     And she went by the name of the Green Willow Tree,\n     And she sailed from the Lowlands low.\n\nTHE DRIVER BOY (YOUNG EDWIN), 4a3b4c3b, 12; The above adapted to a\nrecital of Emily's love for the mail-driver boy and of his untimely\nmurder.\n\nPRETTY PEGGY O, metre as below, 6: A fine lilting lyric of the Captain's\nlove for his lass; his farewell; and his death. It begins:\n\n     As we marched down to Fernario,\n     As we marched down to Fernario,\n     Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove,\n     And they called her by name Pretty Peggy, O.\n\n(Cf. Child, No. 299, Trooper and Maid. Published by Shearin, Sewanee\nReview, July, 1911, p. 326.)\n\nLADY GAY, 4a3b4c3b, 9: An English woman sends her three children to\nAmerica. They die on board ship, their shades return to the mother at\nChristmas and warn her against pride. (Cf. Child, No. 79, The Wife of\nUsher's Well, and a close variant from North Carolina in Kittredge's\nEdition, p. 170.)\n\nJACKARO, iv, 3abcb, 17ca: The daughter of a London silk merchant loves\nJack, the sailor-boy, against her father's will. Disguised as a man, she\nfollows him to \"the wars of Germany,\" finds him wounded on the\nbattle-field, and nurses him back to health; then they are married. (Cf.\nChild, 1857 ed., iv, p. 328. The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow, 4abab,\n65: Maudlin disguised as a seaman follows her lover to Padua; they are\nmarried, and return to England.)\n\nTHE FAN, ii, 4abcb, 12: A sea-captain and a lieutenant woo a lady. To\ntest their love she throws her fan into a den of lions. The sea-captain\nrecovers it and wins her. (Published by Shearin, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26.\n113; for British originals see Belden, Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p.\n218, and Kittredge, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26. 168.)\n\nTHE APPRENTICE BOY, iii, 4abcb, 12ca: Like Keats's Isabella, the\ndaughter of a merchant in a post-town loves her father's apprentice. He\nis slain by her brothers and his body hidden in a valley. His ghost\nreveals the murderers, who, striving to flee, are lost at sea.\n(Identified by Belden with an English version, The Constant Farmer's\nSon, in The Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p. 222.)\n\n\nII.\n\n_The songs in this group are apparently of British origin. Material has\nnot been at hand to justify an attempt to establish their identity._\n\nTHE RICH MARGENT [MERCHANT], 2abcb, 12: Dinah, daughter of a rich London\nmerchant, loves Felix contrary to her father's wishes. Going into the\ngarden she drinks poison. Felix arrives and drains the rest of the\npotion. Both are buried in one grave.\n\nBENEATH THE ARCH OF LONDON BRIDGE, 4a3b4c3b and 4aaaa, 5ca: Here a man,\nwhose son has recently died, finds a waif. Struck by his resemblance to\nhis own heir, he adopts the orphan boy.\n\nJACK WILSON, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: The confession of Jack Wilson, a Thames\nboatman, awaiting execution in Newgate prison for robbery done in\nKatherine Street, and his denunciation of the \"false deluding girl\" for\nwhose sake he had done the wrong.\n\nTHE OLD WOMAN OF LONDON, 3abcb, 6: She causes her husband to suck two\nmagic marrowbones, which blind him; then leading him to the river, she\nessays to push him in to drown. But he steps aside, and she dies in his\nstead. The refrain is:\n\n     Sing tidri-i-odre-erdri-um,\n     Sing fol-de-ri-o-day!\n\nTHE GOLDEN GLOVE, ii, 4aabb, 9: A mariner's daughter, about to be\nmarried to a young squire of London, feigns illness, goes a-hunting on\nthe estate of her favored lover, a farmer, intentionally drops her\nglove, and vows she will marry only the man who can return it. Of\ncourse, the farmer is the lucky finder.\n\nSHEARFIELD, 3abcb, 15: An apprentice in Sheffield recites his running\naway to London, where he enters the service of an Irish Lady, who falls\nin love with him. He, however, cares only for Polly Girl, her maid. His\njealous mistress, by a stratagem, causes him to be hanged for theft.\n\nFAIR NOTAMON [NOTTINGHAM] TOWN, 4aabb, 7: An absurd recital, full of\nobvious contradictions, of a countryman's visit to the city, where he\nsees the royal progress:\n\n     I called for a quart to drive gladness away\n     To stifle the dust--it had rained the whole day.\n\nLOVELY CAROLINE OF OLD EDINBORO (EDDINGSBURG TOWN), ii, 3abcb, 9: She\nweds young Henry, \"a Highland man,\" and goes with him to London.\nDeserted by him, she wanders forlorn to a sea-cliff and plunges in, to\ndrown.\n\nWHO'LL BE KING BUT CHARLIE?, metre as below, 3: A rally-song upon the\nlanding of Charles Stuart, The Young Pretender, at Mordart, in\nInverness-shire, July, 1745, beginning:\n\n     There's news from Mordart came yestreen,\n       Will soon yastremony (sic) ferly,\n     For ships o'er all have just come in\n       And landed royal Charlie.\n\n(Published by Shearin, Sewanee Review, July, 1911, p. 323.)\n\nCUBECK'S [CUPID'S] GARDEN, 3abcb, 16: The poet overhears a lady and her\nfather's apprentice a-courting in \"Cubeck's Garden.\" The angry parent\nbanishes the lad, who goes to sea, is promoted, draws forty thousand\npounds in a lottery, returns and marries his fair love.\n\nWILLIAM HALL, ii, 4abcb, 11ca: He is a young farmer of \"Domesse-town\"\nand loves a \"gay young lady\" of \"Pershelvy-town\" against her parents'\nwishes. Banished by them to sea, he returns, finds by a ruse that the\nlady is yet faithful, and marries her.\n\nROSANNA, 4aabb, 6ca (fragmentary): Silimentary, the lover, bids Rosanna\nfarewell, and is later lost at sea; at the news she stabs herself with a\nsilver dagger.\n\nMARY OF THE WILD MOOR, 3ab4c3b, 8: She, with her babe, returns one\nwinter night to her father's door to seek forgiveness and protection, is\nrebuffed by him, and perishes in the snow.\n\nBETSY BROWN, 4aabb, 8: John loves Betsy, the waiting-maid; his old\nmother objects and packs her off across the sea. He dies of grief.\n\nTHE ROMISH LADY, 6aabb (or 3abcb), 12 (or 24): \"Brought up in popery,\"\nshe obtains a Bible and turns Protestant, is tried before the Pope, is\ncondemned, bids farewell to mother, father, and tormentors, and is\nburned at the stake.\n\n\nIII.\n\n_The songs of this group are connected more or less closely with\nAmerican colonial times. For most of them it is fair to infer a British\norigin._\n\n[TO AMERICA], ii, 4aabb, 8ca: An [English] sailor, bound for America to\nserve his King, is forgotten by his sweetheart. Returning to her\nfather's hall, he finds her married, and vows to return to Charlestown,\nwhere cannon-balls are flying.\n\nTHE SILK MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER, 2aa, 17: A London lad and his sweetheart\nset sail for America. The ship springs a leak, the passengers drift in a\nlong-boat. Lot falls to the girl to be slain, her lover takes her place.\nA passing ship carries them back to London, and they are married.\n\nTHE PRETTY MOHEE (MAUMEE), iii, 4aabb, 7: An Indian maid falls in love\nwith a young adventurer and wooes him. He tells her he must return to\nhis love across the sea. This he does, but dissatisfied returns to the\n\"pretty Mohee.\"\n\nSWEET JANE. 4a3b4c3b, 12: Her lover sails for America \"to dig the golden\nore,\" \"loads up\" his trunk with it, and after many trials reaches home,\nacross the main, and reclaims his bride.\n\n\nIV.\n\n_The songs of this group find their common bond in their reference to\nIreland, where some of them undoubtedly had their origin._\n\nIRISH MOLLY O, 6aabb and 6aabb(?), 7: A Scotch laddie, MacDonald, falls\nin love with \"Irish Molly.\" Scorned by her parents, he wanders about,\nsignifying his intention to die for her, and suggests an appropriate\ninscription for his tombstone. (See an Old World variant in Brooke and\nRolleston's Treasury of Irish Poetry, p. 15, Macmillan, 1905.)\n\nWILLIAM RILEY, 6aabb, 7: Eloping with Polly Ann, he is brought back to\ntrial by her irate father, is defended by an aged lawyer, is\ntransported, and departs wearing the maiden's ring. (See an Old World\nvariant in the volume just named, p. 6.)\n\nROVING IRISH BOY, 4a3b4c3b, 12: He lands in Philadelphia and \"makes a\nhit\" with the ladies. Then he visits \"other parts\"--among the Dutch of\nBucks County, he meets an inn-keeper's daughter, and leaves off\nrambling.\n\nTHE WAXFORD GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A youth murders his sweetheart and throws\nher into a stream. He tells his mother, who sees the blood on his\nclothes, that his nose has been bleeding. He is haunted by the ghost of\nthe dead girl. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and Miller-boy, page 28.)\n\nPATTY ON THE CANAL, 3abcb and 3abcb, 9: Pat lands in \"Sweet Philadelphy\"\nand soon \"makes himself handy\" on the canal, likewise among the girls,\nwhose mothers become anxious. He is a \"Jackson man up to the handle.\"\n\nMOLLY, 6aabb, 4: An Irish lad comes to America, courts Molly, but\nagainst her parents' will. He goes to serve a foreign king for seven\nyears, returns, and finds that Molly has died of grief.\n\nJOHNNIE CAME FROM SEA, 6aa, 10: Irish Johnnie escapes a shipwreck and\nlands in America. Thinking him penniless, a landlord refuses him his\ndaughter's hand. Johnnie \"draws out handfuls of gold\" and departs, to\ndrink \"good brandy.\"\n\nIRISH GIRL, a fragment, as follows:\n\n     So costly were the robes of silk\n     The Irish girl did wear--\n     Her hair was as black as a raven,\n     Her eyes were black as a crow,\n     Her cheeks were red as roses\n     That in the garden grow.\n\n\nV.\n\n_The songs of this group are based upon incidents or events of the Civil\nWar._\n\nBOUNTY JUMPERS, 3abcb, 9: Sam Downey, a soldier, \"jumps his bounty,\" and\nis apprehended in Baltimore. Refusing to return the money, he is shot by\nthe military authorities.\n\nHIRAM HUBBERT, 3abcb, 9: Hiram Hubbert is taken by the Rebels in the\nguerrilla warfare in the Cumberland Mountains, tried, tied to a tree and\nshot. He leaves a last letter of farewell to his family.\n\nTHE GUERRILLA MAN, 3a3b4c3b, 5: A Southern soldier goes to Shelby\nCounty, Ky., and falls in love with a \"Rebel girl,\" who loves him in\nspite of the opposition of her mother, and determines to follow him.\n\nMURFREESBORO, 4a3b4c3b, 7: A Union soldier lies dying on the\nbattlefield. He sends to his mother and sweetheart a message recounting\nhis bravery.\n\nBATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (THE TWO SOLDIERS), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 13: Two comrades\npromise each other to bear messages, in the event of death to either of\nthem on the field--one to a sweetheart, the other to a mother.\n\nTHE BLUE AND THE GRAY, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f4e and 4a3b4c3b3e4f3e, 2: A mother\nhas lost two sons in gray, at Appomattox and at Chickamauga. Her third\nhas just died in blue at Santiago.\n\nZOLLICOFFER: A fragment as follows:\n\n     Old Zollicoffer's dead, and the last word he said\n       Was, \"I'm going back South; they're a-gaining.\"\n     If he wants to save his soul, he had better keep his hole,\n       Or we'll land him in the happy land of Canaan.\n\nI'M GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY, 3abcb, 12: A volunteer's farewell to his\nsweetheart as he leaves for Pensacola, her fears, and his promise to\nreturn.\n\n[COME ALL, YE SOUTHERN SOLDIERS], 3abcb, 8: A volunteer, aged sixteen,\nfrom Eastern Tennessee, describes the march into Virginia and his\nfeelings at his first sight of the \"Yankees.\"\n\n\nVI.\n\n_The songs of this group relate to the days of pioneer migration\nWestward. The one exception is The Sailor's Request, placed here in\norder to bring it into proximity with its later variant, The Dying\nCowboy._\n\nARKANSAS TRAVELLER (SANTFORD BARNES) ii, 4a3b4c3b, 14ca: A laborer's\nhumorous recital of his hard experiences in Arkansas. He leaves the\nstate, vowing that if he sees it again it will be \"through a telescope\nfrom hell to Arkansaw.\"\n\nSTARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERNMENT CLAIM, 4aa and 4aabb, 20: \"Ernest\nSmith\" recites humorously his hard experiences as claim-holder in Beaver\nCounty, Oklahoma. He resolves to go to Kansas, marry, and \"life on\ncorn-dodgers the rest of his life.\"\n\nTHE DYING COWBOY, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 6: A cowboy, shot while gambling,\nlaments his career and fate, gives warning to his comrades, sends a\nfarewell to his family and sweetheart, and gives directions for his\nfuneral.\n\nTHE LONE PRAIRIE, 4aabb, 10: A dying cowboy requests that he be buried\nnot on the lone prairie, but at home beneath the cotton-wood boughs,\nnear his mother. His comrades ignore his petition. (Cf. The Sailor's\nRequest.)\n\nTHE SAILOR'S REQUEST, 4aabb, 9: A dying sailor requests that he be\nburied not at sea, but at home in the churchyard, near his father. His\ncomrades ignore his petition. (Cf. The Lone Prairie.)\n\nCALIFORNIA JOE, 3abcb, 17: A prospector during the California\ngold-fever, in 1850, saves a girl of thirteen years from Indians, and\ngives her over to her uncle, Mat Jack Reynolds. Later, she almost\nshoots, by accident, her saviour, thinking him a Sioux.\n\nPOLLY, MY CHARMER, 4aa, 9: An adventurous youth, on the point of going\nWest, is detained by the charms of \"Polly.\" He wishes he were like\nJoshua, in order to prolong his moments with his love, by making the sun\nstand still.\n\nJESSE JAMES, 2aa3b2cc3b and 2aa3b2cc3b, 4: A lyric concerning the\nrobbing of \"the Danville train\" and \"the Northfield raid\"; the escape of\nJesse and Frank James to the West, and Jesse's death at the hand of \"Bob\nFord.\"\n\nHANDSOME FLORA, 3abcbdefe, 6: Her lover, in prison for stabbing his\nrival, tells his yet constant devotion to the \"Lily of the West,\" the\n\"girl from Mexico.\"\n\n\nVII.\n\n_The songs of this group are of the \"good-night\" type, being the\nmeditations or confessions of criminals, while in prison and, usually,\nunder sentence of death._\n\nMACAFEE'S CONFESSION (BETTY STOUT), ii, 4aabb, 17ca: Orphaned at five\nyears of age and reared by his uncle, MacAfee becomes wayward; later he\nmarries, but falls in love with Betty Stout, poisons his wife, and\nspeaks this confession under sentence of death.\n\nBEAUCHAMP'S CONFESSION, 4aabb, 7: Under sentence of death by Judge\nDavidge, for the murder of Sharpe (see VIII, end), Beauchamp pictures\nthe meeting of himself and his victim in hell.\n\nJACK COMBS'S DEATH SONG, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 3: Jack Combs, dying,\ntells of his murder by an unknown man, and gives directions for his\nburial rites. (Based upon The Dying Cowboy, page 15.)\n\nTOM SMITH'S DEATH SONG, ii, 3a(_bis_)4b3c and 3a(_bis_) 4b3c, 2: The\ncondemned man, standing on the scaffold, asks his friends not to lament\nhis death, since he is leaving them in peace on earth.\n\nTHE RICH AND RAMBLING BOY, iii, 4aabb, 8ca: He marries a wife whose\n\"maintenance\" is so great that he is compelled to \"rob on the broad\nhighway.\" He is sent to Frankfort [Ky.] prison, but in this song he\npictures his pardon and return home.\n\n[IN ROWAN COUNTY JAIL], 3abcb, 6: While here awaiting trial for robbery,\nthe prisoner is visited by his sweetheart Lula, with \"ten dollars in\neach hand,\" to \"go on his bail.\"\n\nLAST NIGHT AS I LAY SLEEPING, 3abcb, 6: A prisoner in the Knoxville\n[Tenn.] jail dreams of his home and sweetheart, but is rudely awakened\nby the turnkey to hear his death-sentence passed.\n\nEDWARD HAWKINS, 4abcb, 9ca: Under sentence of death for murder, he warns\nhis comrades by his example, welcomes death bravely, and invites them to\nsee his execution twenty-eight days hence.\n\nROWDY BOYS, metre as below, 5: A \"rowdy\" youth scorns his mother's\nwarning, serves a term in the Frankfort State Prison for homicide, and\ncomes back home still a \"rowdy.\" The first stanza is:\n\nI heard my mother talking; I took it all for fun.\nShe said I would ride the Frankfort train, before I was twenty-one.\n\n\nVIII.\n\n_The songs of this group are epic; rather than lyric as are those in\nVII, above. They are recitals of local tragedies--murders,\nassassinations, feudal battles, and disasters._\n\nTHE CAUSE AND KILLING OF JESSE ADAMS, ii, 3abcb, 25: A detailed recital\nof a domestic tragedy on the Brushy Fork of Blaine: Adams, overhearing\nhis wife and her paramour, shoots her and attempts suicide.\n\nFLOYD FRAZIER, 3abcb, 16: A recital of Frazier's murder of Ellen\nFlannery: he hides her body under a pile of stones; later, is arrested,\nmakes confession, and is placed in Pineville, Ky., jail to await\nexecution.\n\nTALT HALL, ii, 3abcb, 8: A recital of Hall's murder of Frank Salyers,\nhis arrest in Tennessee, his confinement in the Gladeville, Va., jail,\nand his execution in Richmond, Va.\n\nWILLIAM BAKER, 3abcb, 12: A recital of Baker's murder of one Prewitt in\nClay County, Ky.: he hides the body in the woods and tells Prewitt's\nwife that her husband had deserted her.\n\nPOOR GOENS, 4aabb, 5: A recital of the betrayal and murder of Goens for\nthe purpose of robbery, on Black-spur Mountain.\n\nTHE ROWAN COUNTY TRAGEDY, ii, 3abcb, 26: A detailed account of a feudal\nbattle in Morehead, Ky., on election day, and of the succeeding events\nconnected with the arrest of the participants.\n\nJOHN T. PARKER, 4aabb, 12: An account of the drowning of Parker in the\nKentucky River one winter night, as, with three companions, he essays to\ncross, but their boat is capsized in the wash from the steamboat Blue\nWings.\n\n[JEEMS BRAGGS], 4a3b4c3b, 8: A protest against the Governor's pardon of\nBraggs, upon the eve of his execution, for the murder of one Prewitt.\n\nTHE ASSASSINATION OF J. B. MARCUM, 3aa6b3cc6b and 3aa6b3cc6b, 13: A\ndetailed recital of the shooting of Marcum as he stood in the\ncourt-house door at Jackson, Ky., with animadversions upon the identity\nof his slayers and an account of their various trials.\n\nTHE IRISH PEDDLER, 4a3b4c3b, 7: An account of the murder of an old\npeddler and his wife, shot from ambush one June morning for the purpose\nof rifling their wagon.\n\nJOHN HARDY, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 6: An account of Hardy's shooting a man in a\npoker game, of his arrest, trial, conviction, conversion and baptism,\nand of his execution and burial on the Tug River.\n\nJEREBOAM BEAUCHAMP, 3abcb, 33: A recital of the murder of Beauchamp done\nupon Solomon P. Sharpe, Attorney-General of Kentucky, at Frankfort in\nthe winter of 1824. (Cf. William Gilmore Simms' novel of the same name,\nand see VII, 2.)\n\n\nIX.\n\n_The songs of this group relate to various occupational pursuits. Of\ncourse, many of those listed elsewhere could be placed here also._\n\nTHE MOONSHINER, 4aa, 3: \"For seventeen years I've made moonshine whiskey\nfor one dollar per gallon, at my still in a dark hollow. I wish all\nwould attend to their business and leave me to mine. God bless the\nmoonshiner!\"\n\nWALKING-BOSS, metre as below, 3: A teamster's song in couplets, with\nrefrain, beginning:\n\n     Get up in the morning 'way before day,\n     Feed old Beck some corn and hay.\n     Get up in the morning soon, soon;\n     Get up in the morning soon.\n\nTHE STEEL-DRIVER, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 11: John Henry, proud of his skill with\nsledge and hand-drill, competes with a modern steam-drill in Tunnel No.\nNine, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Defeated, he dies, asking to be\nburied with his tools at his breast.\n\nROSIN THE BOW, 3abcb, 4: A lyric of an old fiddler buoyant even in the\nface of approaching death: he asks for wine and women at his funeral\nrites.\n\nROSIN THE BOW: a fragment as follows:\n\n     I'll tune up my fiddle, I'll rosin my bow,\n     And make myself welcome wherever I go.\n\nTHE OLD SHOEMAKER, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: Lately become a freeman,\nwith five pounds laid up, and half a side of leather, he sings of Kate,\nthe woman to make his content complete.\n\nTHE FARMER'S BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: An orphan lad, he obtains employment\nfrom the farmer, later to marry his daughter and inherit thus the farm.\n\nOLD GRAY, 6aabb, 5: Song of a teamster, who, lured by the still-house,\nhauls four loads of coal per day, instead of six; becoming drunk, he\nrides Old Gray off to a country frolic one night, whither his father\nfollows him, and brings him back to his duty in the morning.\n\nTHE WAGGONER'S LAD, ii, 2abcb (or 4aa), 15: A complaint, arranged as a\n_debat_, of a lorn and loving lass against the teamster lad, as he\ndeparts from her.\n\nOLD NUMBER FOUR (THE F. F. V., STOCKYARD GATE), ii, 6aabb, 10ca: George\nAllen, engineer, stays at the throttle as train Number Four on the\nChesapeake & Ohio Railroad plunges into a fallen boulder near Hinton, W.\nVa., and bids his fireman jump to safety, while he himself dies a hero's\ndeath.\n\n[RAILROAD BOY], 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 5: A maiden's song in scorn of\nall men save the railroad conductor, with his striped shirt, handsome\nface, and diamond ring.\n\nTHE OLD MILLER, 4aabb, 7: Dying, he questions his sons in order to\nchoose one of them as his successor in the mill. Dick will take a peck\nas toll from each bushel; Ralph will take half; Paul will take all. But\nhis wife assumes direction at his death.\n\nLYNCHBURG TOWN, 4a3b4c3b, 3: A teamster's song as he takes his tobacco\nto the Lynchburg (Va.) market.\n\n\nX.\n\n_The songs of this group are of partisan or sectional character._\n\nKAINTUCKY BOYS, 4abab and 4ab, 5. A _debat_ between a Virginia lad and\nthe Kentucky maiden whom he comes to woo. She scorns lands and money,\nand lauds the superior manliness of the Kentucky lads.\n\nBUCKSKIN BOYS, 4abab 9: The above adapted to the praises of the \"boys\"\nof Owsley County (Ky.).\n\nGOEBEL AND TAYLOR, 4a3b4c3d, 3: Composed soon after the assassination of\nWm. Goebel, the Democratic contestant for the Governorship of Kentucky\nin 1900: He is lauded, while Taylor, his opponent, is condemned as a\ndemagogue and conspirator, who \"ought to be in purgatory or some other\nunhealthy spot.\"\n\nJAMES A. GARFIELD: A fragment, as follows:\n\n     Mr. James A. Garfield is dead,\n     Oh, Mr. James A. Garfield is dead.\n     I will weep like a willow,\n     And I'll mourn like a dove;\n     Mr. James A. Garfield is dead.\n\n\nXI.\n\n_Here are grouped songs whose main theme is love, subdivided as below.\nMany are hardly \"popular\" in the strict sense: though current among the\nfolk, they differ from the true folk-song, or \"song-ballet.\" On the\nother hand, many bear a striking resemblance to certain of those listed\nin I and II, above._\n\n1. SONGS OF CONSTANT LOVE.\n\nAVONIA (RED RIVER VALLEY), ii, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: A constant\nlover's song of farewell to Helen, as she leaves the vale of Avonia.\n\nBARNEY AND KATE, 4abab, 6: Barney, maudlin with drink, comes one\nwinter's night to Kate's window and implores her to admit him. She\nsends him packing. He goes away whistling, rejoicing in her chastity.\n\nKITTY WELLS, 4ababcdcd and 3abab, 3. Her lover's Lament upon her death.\nThe refrain is:\n\n     While the birds they were singing in the morning,\n       And the ivy and the myrtle were in bloom,\n     The sun on the hill-top was dawning,\n       It was then we laid her in the tomb.\n\nNORA O'NEIL, 4a3b4a3b, 5: Her lover's invitation to Nora to meet him \"at\nthe foot of the lane\" when the nightingale sings in the dusk.\n\nSWEET BIRDS, ii, 4a3b4a3b and 5aa, 6: A maiden's song of longing for her\nabsent lover: she asks the birds to bear her message of devotion to him\nand to bring him back secure in his affection for her.\n\n[CONSTANT JOHNNY], 4aa, 14: A maiden sings her devotion to her absent\nsailor lover. He returns and they are married.\n\nLORLA, 4aabb, 2: A lover's elegy over the grave of Lorla beneath the\nelm, as he recalls the golden willow under which they once sat on violet\nbanks.\n\nLONESOME DOVE, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A constant husband sings his resolve to\nreturn like a lonesome dove to his wife and children in \"Californy.\"\n\nLONESOME DOVE, 4aabb, 8: The singing of a dove bereft of its mate\nreminds a constant husband of his Mary, recently dead of consumption.\n\nPRETTY SARO, iii, 4aabb and 4aabb, 6ca: Her absent lover sings of his\ndevotion, wishing he were a priest and knew how to write to her, or a\ndove to fly to her.\n\nCOME, ALL YE JOLLY BOATSMAN BOYS, 7aabb, 5: A ribald song of a sailor to\nhis amorata by night, and the birth of the child nine months later.\n\nA PACKAGE OF OLD LETTERS, ii, 8aa, 11: A dying maiden bids her sister\nbring them from their rosewood casket to read them to her again, and\nasks that at her death they be buried with her.\n\nJACK AND MAMIE, 6aabb and 4aaa3a, 4: Jack plunges into the water to\nrecover the hat of his girl sweetheart, Mamie. Jack, the man, leaves her\nfor a long voyage, and his ship never returned.\n\nSWEET SUMMER EVENING, 4abcb, 7: The poet one summer evening overhears a\nmother chide her daughter for her devotion to her roving sailor lover,\nwho soon appears and bids her an affectionate farewell.\n\nWAIT FOR THE WAGON, 3abcbdefe and 4a(_ter_), 4: A lover's call to\nPhyllis to jump into the wagon with him a-Sunday morning; he tells her\nof the cabin he has built for her, and wooes her to marry him.\n\nLOVELY NANCY, 4abcb, 5: A dialogue, in quatrains, between Nancy and her\nlover, whom she wishes to accompany on his voyage to the West Indies.\n\nNANCY TILL, 4aabb and 4aabb, 4: A serenade by her lover \"down in the\ncanebrakes close by the mill,\" urging her to be ready to go with him\n\"a-sailing on the Ohio.\"\n\n[EPHRIAM AND LUCY], 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: The night before their\nwedding-day, amid night-hawks, owls, and whippoorwills, \"we danced by\nthe light of the moon.\"\n\n2. SONGS OF LOVE INCONSTANT.\n\n[SHE WAS HAPPY TILL SHE MET YOU], 4aa5b4cc5b4dd5e4ff5e and 4ababcc5b, 2:\nA husband forsakes his wife; later, becoming repentant, he returns to\nseek her at the house of her mother, who forbids him access to her.\n\n[BEDROOM WINDOW], 4abcb, 5: The lover by night calls his sweetheart to\nawake. She warns him away, saying that her father is armed to repulse\nhis presence. He vows to have her for his own. A suggestion of his\nsinister motive closes the song.\n\nI'LL HANG MY HARP ON A WILLOW TREE, ii, 4a3b4a3b4c3d4c3d, 3: A lover\nvoices his resolve to forsake the charms of his fickle mistress to court\na warrior's fate at the Saracen's hand on the field of Palestine.\n\nTHERE WAS A RICH OLD FARMER, ii, 3abcb, 9ca: The singer recites his\nfarewell to father and sweetheart to seek his fortune, and his faith in\nher--until a letter arrives telling of her marriage to another man.\n\nJACK AND JOE, 4a3b4b3c and 4a3b4b3c, 3ca: Both are sailors, away from\nhome. Jack, returning first, is commissioned by Joe to kiss his\nsweetheart Nellie for him. When Joe returns, like Miles Standish, he\nfinds that Jack and she are married.\n\nALL ON THE BANKS OF CLAUDA, 3abcb, 10: By this stream the poet overhears\na maiden's complaint against her fickle Johnny. Like Oenone, she prays\nthe mountain to hear her, and implores Cupid to fire his heart anew.\n\nTHE AUXVILLE LOVE, 4aabb, 6: A merchant's daughter, \"in Auxville town or\nDelaware,\" love-lorn, gathers flowers, Ophelia-like, and dies under a\ngreen pine on the mountain.\n\nCUCKOO, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A love-lorn maiden's warning to her sex not to\nbe deceived, as she, by false men in springtime when the cuckoo calls.\n\nWE HAVE MET AND WE HAVE PARTED, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 5ca: A maiden's\nscornful farewell to her fickle lover, as she returns him the presents\nand letters he has sent her.\n\nIF I HAD MINDED MAMMA, 3abcb and 3abcb, 6: A maiden's regret that she\nhas been deluded by a faithless lover:\n\n     He is like the blue-birds ever\n       That flies from tree to tree;\n     And when he sees another girl\n       He never thinks of me.\n\nI USED TO LOVE, 4abcb and 4abcb, 4: A maiden voices her complaint\nagainst the \"dark-eyed girl,\" her successful rival, and her wish for\n\"coffin, shroud, and grave,\" to end her woe.\n\nTHE BUTCHER'S BOY, iii, 4aabb, 8ca: A maiden voices her complaint\nagainst the New York butcher's boy, once her childhood playmate and\nlover, who now has forsaken her for a wealthier girl; then goes upstairs\nand hangs herself, leaving a note pinned on her breast.\n\nTHE PALE AMARANTHUS, 4aabb, 5: A maiden's complaint against her\nfaithless lover, whom she vows to forget.\n\nI HAVE FINISHED HIM A LETTER, 4abcb and 4abcb, 7: A maiden's complaint\nagainst her lover, who has forsaken her for Annie Lee.\n\nCAN YOU THEN LOVE ANOTHER?, ii, 3abcbdefe and 3abcb, 3: A lorn maiden's\nplaint:\n\n     Say, must I be forgotten,\n       Cast like a flower aside?\n     Have I from memory faded,\n       Once all your joy and pride?\n\nTO CHEER THE HEART, ii, 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdede, 4: A maiden's complaint\nagainst her faithless lover. He is the son of a \"rich merchant,\" she,\nthe daughter of a \"laboring man.\" \"But why need I care? For I have\nanother man.\"\n\nA POOR STRANGE GIRL, 4aabb, 7: The poet one May morning overhears a\ndamsel complaining against her faithless lover, and against her loss of\nfriends and home.\n\nPRETTY POLLY, 4aabb, 5: A lover recites his visit one evening to her\nhome, where he sees his rivals enjoying her company. He retires to a\ngrove, sucks comfort from his whiskey bottle, and wishes that she were\ndrowned, floating on the tide, that he, like a fisherman, might draw her\nin his net to shore.\n\nHANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY, 4aabb, 2: A fragment (two quatrains),\napparently a complaint of a lover to his faithless sweetheart.\n\nTHE DYING GIRL'S MESSAGE, ii, 4abcb, 15: Her death-song to her mother,\nbreathing forgiveness for her faithless lover, and closing with a vision\nof Christ waiting to receive her.\n\nA second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.\n\nTHE COLD, DARK SCENES OF WINTER, 3abcb, 9: In the winter the lover woos\nhis fair, but is rejected. In the spring, her mind changing, she writes\nhim of her love for him. He replies that meanwhile his heart has changed\nin turn and that he is already married to another.\n\nLOVING HANNER, 3abcb, 9: The lover sings his devotion to her, but in the\nface of her coolness and her parents' opposition, vows to go on a long\nvoyage to try to forget her--but in vain.\n\nMY BONNIE LITTLE GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 4: Courting her too slow, the singer\nfinds his sweetheart has fled with another man.\n\nLOVELY NANCY, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A bachelor's warning against \"courting too\nslow\": Sweet William goes on a voyage; meanwhile Nancy, his sweetheart,\nwrites him of her marriage to another. William dies of grief and Nancy,\nof remorse.\n\nI'M SCORNED FOR BEING POOR (VAIN GIRL), 3abcb, 8: A lover's farewell to\nhis sweetheart, who has forsaken him to be married to a wealthy stranger\nfrom New England.\n\nLITTLE NELLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 8: She forsakes her lover, the singer, to marry\nwicked, wealthy Mr. Brown, who is a drunkard--and dies of a broken\nheart.\n\nTHE SQUIRE, 2abcb, 10: The wealthy young squire, being rejected in love\nby pretty Sally, vows to dance on her grave when she dies.\n\nLITTLE SPARROW (A REGRET), ii, 4abcb, 5ca: A complaint of a love-lorn\nmaiden warning her kind against the faithlessness of all men.\n\nTHE AWFUL WEDDING, 4abcb, 7: At the marriage feast each guest is asked\nfor a song. The bride's former lover sings his unchanging affection for\nher. She swoons and spends the night in her mother's bed, where she is\nfound dead the next morning.\n\nTHE YOUNG MAN'S LOVE, 2aa, 9: The singer one evening overhears a young\nman lamenting the faithlessness of his sweetheart, who scorns him for\nhis poverty.\n\n[MAGGIE], 3a3b4c3b and 2abab (approximately), 7: A story of Maggie, the\nconstant wife, who seeks in bar-room and dry-goods store her faithless\nhusband, who has eloped with Lula Fry. Failing to find him, she wanders\nto the cemetery, and thence to the railroad trestle, where she is killed\nby train No. Four.\n\nJOE HARDY, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A maiden's explanation to her jilted lover that\nwhen she plighted her troth in Bangor, she had not then met Joe Hardy,\nwhom she now adores.\n\n3. SONGS OF LOVE THWARTED.\n\nLOVELY JULIA, iv, 4abcb, 9ca: Crossed in love by her parents, she leaves\nthe city, goes upon a mountain, and plunges a dagger into her breast.\nHer lover finds her and in like manner dies with her.\n\nJOHNNY DOYLE, 2aa, 14ca: A maiden, who loves Johnny, is forced by her\nparents to prepare to marry Samuel Moore. Just as the priest enters, her\nearrings fall to the floor and her stay-laces burst. She is carried home\nfatally ill. The mother now proposes to send for Johnny Doyle, but it is\ntoo late--she is dead.\n\nANNIE WILLOW, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Her lover dreams of her and goes to her\nuncle's house to visit her. Upon being told that she is absent, he\nfights his way in with drawn sword and takes her away with him.\n\nGREENBRIAR SHORE, 4aa, 10: An amorous youth recites his love for Nancy\non Greenbriar Shore. Her father chases him away with an \"army of a\nthousand or more.\" The sad lot of womankind deplored.\n\n4. SONGS OF ABSENT LOVERS REUNITED.\n\nTHE SINGLE SOLDIER (THE SAILOR LOVER, JOHN RILEY), v, 4abcb, 8ca: \"A\npretty fair damsel in a garden\" is wooed by a passing soldier (or\nsailor). She rejects him, saying her lover is absent in the wars.\nAssured of her faithfulness, he proves his identity by taking their\nbetrothal ring from his pocket.\n\nANNIE AND WILLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He bids her farewell at the seashore and\ngoes on a long voyage. After three years he returns, and, disguised as a\nbeggar, tests her devotion, draws the \"patch from his eye,\" is\nrecognized, and marries her. (Cf. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington,\npage 8, above.)\n\nPRETTY POLLY, 4aabb, 8: Pining for her soldier lover, who is absent in\nthe \"town of renown,\" she goes in the guise of a trooper to seek him,\nbecomes his room-mate for the night, and discloses her identity in the\nmorning.\n\n5. SONGS OF THE MURDEROUS LOVER. (CF. I FOR SIMILAR BALLADS.)\n\nFLORELLA (FLOELLA, FAIR ELLA, JEALOUS LOVER), iv, 3abcb, 11ca: Her lover\ncomes one moonlit night to her cottage window and persuades her to\nwander with him \"through meadows dark and gay.\" She reluctantly follows,\nand is murdered by him, forgiving him with her dying breath.\n\nLITTLE OMY WISE (LITTLE ANNA), iii, 4aa, 13: John Lewis seduces her with\npromises, lures her to Adam's Spring, murders her, and throws her body\ninto the stream. She is \"missen,\" the body is found, the murderer views\nit and confesses the crime.\n\nMILLER-BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Johnny, the miller's apprentice, falls\nin love with a Knoxville girl. One night the pair go walking; he murders\nher with a fence-stake, explains the stains on his clothes as due to\nnose-bleed, but is convicted. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and\nWaxford Girl, page 13.)\n\nPOLLY VAUGHN, 2abcb (approximately), 4ca: One evening dressed in white\nshe goes walking, takes refuge from a shower under a holly bush, is\nmistaken for a swan by her lover, Jimmy Randal, and shot.\n\nROSE COLALEE (COLLEEN?), 4a3b4c3b, 2: She is murdered on the bank of a\nriver, by her lover, who, intoxicated with Burgundy wine, is persuaded\nby his father's promise of money, to slay her.\n\nNOTE.--_Amid the flotsam and jetsam of popular parlor-songs everywhere\ncurrent the following have come to hand. They are hardly worth\npreserving, even by title, save for the fact that in spite of their\npseudo-literary tang they are fellow travelers by oral tradition with\nthe true folk-songs and song-ballads._\n\nThe list is: The Old, Old Love is Growing Still; There's a Spark of Love\nStill Burning; I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers; The White Rose;\nI'll Love Thee Always; Jack and Mary; Willie and Kate; Won't You Ever\nCome Again?; Fond Affection; Will You Love Me When I'm Old?; Nell and I\nhad Quarrels; Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold?; I Want to be Somebody's\nDarling; By the Gate; The Broken Engagement; Say You'll be Mine in a\nYear; I Cannot be Your Sweetheart; Kiss Me Again; Just Going Down to the\nGate; Darling, We have Long been Parted; Our Hands are Clasped; Only\nFlirting; I Loved You Better than You Knew; Mollie Darling; The Jealous\nGirl; The Independent Girl; Willie, Come Back; Free Again; The Hawthorn\nTree; The Sailor Lad; I'll be All Smiles Tonight; Love, I've been\nFaithful; Maggie's Secret; I Rather Think I Will; Little Sweetheart;\nMeet Me in the Moonlight; He's Got Money, Too; After the Ball; Sweet\nBunch of Daisies; In the Shadow of the Pines; On the Banks of the\nWabash; Mary has Gone with a \"Coon.\"\n\n\nXII.\n\n_This group contains two-part songs, arranged dialogue-fashion, like a\ndebat or a tenson. All contain love-themes, as in XI above. In spite of\nthe obvious logical cross-division, it has seemed well to print them as\na separate section._\n\nI'LL GIVE TO YOU A PAPER OF PINS, ii, 4aab3b, 13: The lover offers the\nmaiden in alternate quatrains various gifts to induce her to marry him.\nShe replies in alternate quatrains, refusing him. Finally, he offers\n\"the key of his chest.\" She accepts, but he scorns her mercenary love.\n\nMADAM, I'VE A-COURTING COME, 4a3b4c3b, 7: The lover in the first three\nquatrains offers his various forms of wealth to induce the lady to marry\nhim. She refuses in the fifth stanza his mercenary love. He makes reply\nin the sixth and she in the seventh.\n\nTWO LETTERS, ii, 3abcb, 13: The first four quatrains constitute the\nletter from Charley Brooks to Nelly Adair, asking for the return of his\npresents to her, since his love for her has grown cold. The last nine\nare her reply, acquiescing with a sad dignity.\n\n[STONY HILL], 4a3b4c3b, 3: Each quatrain contains, in couplets\nrespectively, question and reply of lover and sweetheart, who is\n\"sixteen next Sunday\" and has to \"ask her mammy.\"\n\nSTELLA, 4a3b4c3b, 14: A dialogue between Alfred, a volunteer at his\ncountry's call, to Stella, his sweetheart.\n\nTHE WAGGONER'S LAD: See Section IX.\n\nKAINTUCKY BOYS: See Section X.\n\nBUCKSKIN BOYS: See Section X.\n\n\nXIII.\n\n_This group consists of humorous songs. Certain ones resemble modern\nsongs of the vaudeville, and such they probably were._\n\nGRANDMOTHER'S MUSTARD PLASTER, 4aabb, 7ca: The story of a plaster that\ndrew the buttons from a vest, axles from a wagon, a street car forty\nmiles, jerked a \"Chinee's\" boot off and pulled his leg at the \"opium\njint,\" mashed a \"cop's\" hat down, drew a wagon over town, stuck on a\npassenger train, drew it to Washington, where it remained--stuck on\npolitics.\n\nBOY AND BUMBLE-BEE, 4a3b4c3b(?), 5: An urchin puts a bumble-bee in his\npistol pocket and goes fishing. He sits down, the bee turns the trick,\nand \"spoils the urchin's disposition.\"\n\nKATE AND THE CLOTHIER, 4aabb, 8ca: A jilted maiden disguises herself in\n\"an old cowhide with crooked horns,\" and seizes her clothier-lover in a\n\"lonesome field.\" Thinking her to be the Devil, he renounces the\nlawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate.\n\nSEYMORE WILSON, 3a3b4c3b, 8ca: He is a gawky, love-sick youth. He goes\na-courting on Potriffle, but finding a rival sitting on the\n\"calico-side\" returns to his plowing, weeps, then becomes cheerful in\nhis resolve to wait for another girl.\n\nBILLY BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about\nhis wife: she is \"too young to leave her mammy,\" can \"bake a\ncherry-pie,\" is \"as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine,\"\nis \"twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven,\" and so on.\n\n[THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR], a chant of the 4a3b4c3b type, 7ca: He goes\nhunting a-Sunday, meets a grizzly bear, climbs a tree, and prays a\nhumorous prayer for help. The limb breaks; he falls, but escapes.\n\n[LOVE IS SUCH A FUNNY THING], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b, 9: It\ncauses empty pockets, second-hand clothing, collectors, and even brings\nthe \"bald-headed end of the broom\" into play: a husband's soliloquy.\n\n[THE MARRIED MAN], 4aa, 5: A married man's woes: children on his knees,\nbad clothing, \"seeping\" shoes--while the single man suffers none of\nthese things.\n\nDEVILISH MARY, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A hen-pecked husband's lament: he woos and\nmarries the termagant within three days--then follows trouble. She\n\"mashes his mouth with a shovel,\" bundles up her \"duds\", and leaves him\nwithin three weeks.\n\nI WON'T MARRY AT ALL, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3: I won't marry a rich man\nbecause he will drink and fall in the ditch; a poor man, for he will go\nbegging; a fat man, for he will do nothing but \"nurse\" the cat.\n\nPOOR OLD MAID, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity:\n\n     Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue--\n             Poor old maid!\n     Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue,\n     I'm just as sweet as the morning dew,\n     And to a husband I'd stick like glue--\n             Poor old maid!\n\nI WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN, metre as below, 5: A married man's\nrepentance: his first wife died--\n\n     I married me another, O then, O then;\n     I married me another O then;\n     I married me another, the Devil's grandmother,\n     And I wish I was single again.\n\nJOE BOWERS, 3abcb, 10: He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike\nCounty, Missouri, and goes to \"Rome,\" California, to make a home for\nher. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she\nhad married a red-headed butcher and that their baby had red hair.\n\nA POUND OF TOW, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example\nof his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has\nsince become a gad-about and a gossip.\n\n\nXIV.\n\n_The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may be called\nsentimental._\n\nTHE BLIND CHILD, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: She deplores her father's second\nmarriage, kneels to say her evening prayers, and dies. She is buried by\nthe side of her mother.\n\nTHE DYING NUN, 4abcb, 12: To Sister Martha, her nurse, Sister Clara\ntells her youthful waywardness toward her parents and recalls her early\nlove for Douglas, and dies.\n\nTHE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: The vanity of human\nwishes: a feeble lad kissing his mother good-bye as he sets sail to seek\nhealth in a foreign climate; a gallant seaman kissing his wife good-bye\nas he sets sail to seek their fortune across the seas--but the ship of\neither never returned.\n\nI HAVE NO MOTHER NOW, 3abab, 9: An orphan's lament, with a vision of the\nmother's grave, etc.\n\nTHE ORPHAN GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Refused shelter at the door of a rich man\none wintry night, she dies before it in the snow.\n\nPHANTOM FOOTSTEPS, 4ababcdcd and 4abab, 3: A mother's night-yearning for\nher dead child.\n\n[THE WAYWARD GIRL], 4aa6b4cc6b4dd6e4ff6e and 4ab2cc4bde2ff4e, 2: One\nyear after leaving her home in wayward love, her father writes her of\nher mother's death and forgives her, but she refuses to return.\n\nOLD MAN'S TROUBLE, 4aa5b4cc5b and 4aa5b4cc5b, 3: A meditation upon the\nsadness of old age and a warning to the young against their own days of\npoverty and senile helplessness.\n\nIN THE BAGGAGE-COACH AHEAD, iii, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e4g3h4i3h and 4aabb, 2:\nA crying child brings to its sad-eyed father remonstrances from sleepy\npassengers until they are told that the dead mother is in the\nbaggage-coach ahead.\n\n[SWEET MEMORY OF DEAR MOTHER], 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdefe, 3: A child's\nloving reminiscence.\n\nLITTLE MAUDIA, 4abcb, 6: A dying girl's farewell to her mother.\n\nOLD CHURCH-YARD, 4abcb, 7: A forlorn orphan's meditation upon her\nmother's grave.\n\n\nXV.\n\n_The songs of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may be called\nmoralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection._\n\n[THE BLACK SHEEP], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: Jack and\nTom prevail upon their rich and aged father to send away their brother\nFred as a \"black sheep.\" Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to\nsend the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from\nthis disgrace.\n\n[NOTHING TO BE MADE BY ROVING], 3abcb, 2: Dissipation brings discontent\nat last.\n\nTWO DRUMMERS, 6aabbccdd and 6aabb, 2: In a \"grand hotel\" they speak\nslightingly to a pretty waitress. She rebukes them, making appeal to\ntheir regard for their mothers. They apologize to her and one of them\nmarries her.\n\nTHE DRUNKARD'S DREAM, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A vision of his dead wife and\nchildren turns him from strong drink forever after.\n\nFATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and\n3a3b4c3b, 3: The little daughter begs her father to come home from the\ngrog-shop before her little brother dies. The clock tolls twelve, one,\ntwo, three--and when finally she leads him home, the boy is dead.\n\nA DRIFTER RESCUED, 4abcb, 10: The turbulent journey of a ship-wrecked\nsoul: near the brink of destruction the reckless man finds a redeemer in\nthe Savior.\n\nTHE WANDERING BOY, 4aabb and 4abcc, 4: A mother's wail for her wayward\nson: she points out the vacant chair, cradle, and shoes of his innocent\nbabyhood.\n\n\nXVI.\n\n_This group contains sequence-songs, or number-songs, like the popular\nGerman Zaehllieder, though not all are necessarily sung, but rather are\nspoken. The first one below would seem to be akin to the various cabala\nof the German Pietists of Pennsylvania._\n\n[TWELVE APOSTLES], as follows:\n\n     Twelve, twelve apostles,\n     Eleven, eleven, I went to heaven,\n     Ten, ten, commandments,\n     Nine bright lights a-shining,\n     Eight Gabel [Gabriel?] angels,\n     Seven stars a-hanging high,\n     Six, six go acymord,\n     Five all alone abroard,\n     Four scorn in Wackford,\n     Three of them are drivers,\n     Two of them are little lost babes,\n     Oh, my dear Savior,\n     One, one is left alone,\n     One to be left alone.\n\nCLUB-FIST: A series of questions and answers concerning the fire, water,\nox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, etc.--each of which terms is destructive of\nthe preceding one. (Spoken.)\n\nJOHN BROWN'S LITTLE INDIANS: An enumeration of his \"Indians\" from unity\nupward, and thence back to unity again.\n\nTHE UNLUCKY YOUNG MAN, ii, 4aa and 4aaa3b, 13ca: He exchanges oxen for a\ncow, the cow for a calf, the calf for a dog, the dog for a cat, the cat\nfor a rat, the rat for a mouse, which \"took fire to her tail and burned\ndown the house.\"\n\nOLD SAM SUCK-EGG, ii, 2aa, 10: He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and\nthis for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line,\nuntil he has lost all. (Spoken.)\n\n[I BOUGHT ME A HORSE], 4aa and cumulative refrain of animal cries: In\neach couplet a new purchase of some common animal or fowl is made, while\neach succeeding refrain gathers up cumulative-fashion the cries made by\neach succeeding addition to the collection.\n\nONE, TWO, COME BUCKLE MY SHOE, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines,\neach containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.)\n\n\nXVII.\n\n_This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, \"frolickings,\"\nand movement-games of Kentucky._\n\nCHARLIE, ii, 4a3b4c3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie,\nthe dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc.\n\nBLUEBIRD, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless, endless improvisation, in which\nare woven the \"calls\" of the dance, beginning:\n\n     Yonder goes the bluebird through the window\n       Down in Tennessee.\n\nTHE RAILROAD, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally\ndifferent, beginning:\n\n     Out on the railroad, O Jubilee,\n     Waiting for my darling, O Jubilee.\n\nTHE BOATMAN, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:\n\nHere she sits in her sad station.\n\nLONG SUMMER DAY, ii: In general form and function like the above,\nbeginning:\n\n     Skate around the ocean,\n     In a long summer day.\n\nA-MOANING AND GROANING, ii: In general form and function like the above,\nbeginning:\n\n     A-moaning and groaning,\n     And that shall be the cry.\n\nMARCHING ROUND THE LEVY [LADY?]: In general form and function like the\nabove, beginning:\n\n     We're marching round the levy,\n     For we have gained the day.\n\nGOING TO BOSTON: In general form and function like the above, beginning:\n\n     Now we'll promenade, one, two, three,\n     So early in the morning.\n\nHERE COME TWO DUKES A-ROVING, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless improvisation\nfor the men and women of the dance, alternately--beginning:\n\n     Here comes two dukes a-roving,\n     With a high-o-ransom-day.\n\nSKIP TO MY LOU, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance\n\"calls,\" beginning:\n\n     Steal your partner, skip to my lou,\n     Skip to my lou, my darling.\n\nFOL DOL SOL, 4a3b4c3b, 2ca: One quatrain is:\n\n     If you love me as I love you,\n       We have not long to tarry;\n     We'll keep the old folks fixing up\n       For you and me to marry.\n\nGREEN GROWS THE WILLOW, 4aaaa, 4ca: One quatrain is:\n\n     Green grow the rashes O,\n     Green grow the rashes O,\n     Kiss her quick and let her go,\n     For yonder comes her mammy O.\n\nTHE JOLLY MILLER, iii, metre as follows, 2:\n\n     Jolly is the miller that lives by the mill,\n     The wheel goes round with a right good will,\n     One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack--\n     The boys step forward and the girls step back.\n\nSISTER PHOEBE, 4aab, 2: It begins:\n\n     Old sister Phoebe, how happy were we\n     The night we sat under the juniper tree,\n     The juniper tree, heigh ho, heigh ho.\n\nNEEDLE'S EYE, as follows:\n\n     Needle's eye that doth supply\n       The thread that runs so true;\n     Many a beau have I let go\n       Because I wanted you.\n\nGREEN GRAVEL, 4aabb, 4ca: It begins:\n\n     Green gravel, green gravel, the grass is so green;\n     You're the prettiest maiden that ever was seen.\n\n[OLD QUEBEC], ii, 4a3b4c3b, 3ca: It begins:\n\n     We're marching down to Old Quebec,\n     Where the fifes and drums are beating;\n     America has gained the day\n     And the British are retreating.\n\n[SISTER FRANKIE], 3abcb and 3abcb, 3: The refrain is:\n\n     Twice one is two\n       And one and two is three;\n     Dance around the maypole\n       Just like me.\n\nBUFFALO, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 2: It begins:\n\n     Come along, my dearest dear,\n       Present to me your hand;\n     We are roaming in succession\n       To some far and distant land.\n\nBOUQUET PATCH (PAWPAW PATCH), ii: An endless, rimeless improvisation,\nbeginning:\n\n     Where, oh where, is pretty little Mary?\n     Way down yonder in the bouquet patch.\n\nGO IN AND OUT AT THE WINDOW: An endless, rimeless improvisation\ncontaining the dance calls in order.\n\n\nXVIII.\n\n_This group contains paralipomena which baffle individual description.\nIt embraces counting-out rimes, jigs, lullabies, child-rimes,\nnonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical, and usually\nrimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. The\nfollowing list is an attempt to name them:_\n\nCluck, Old Hen; Frog in the Meadow; Old as Moses; When I was a Little\nBoy; Sugar in the Gourd; I'll Build My Nest in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker;\nPossum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater; Chickamy\nCorney-crow; William Trimmel Tram: Shidepoke and Crane; Johnny's out on\nPicking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog; Tarry; Granny, Will\nYour Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I'm Hungry; Gray Goose;\nNeedle and Thread; It Rained so Hard; I'll Never get Drunk Anymore; Rock\nIsland; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober;\nApples in the Summertime; Coony has a Ringy Tail: I Went Down Town;\nSally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Rabbit Walked; Shoo, Old Lady,\nShine!; Hook and Line; Day I'm Gone; Churn Your Buttermilk; Kalamazine;\nHang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara Jane; Whickum-whack;\nUp to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had an Old Mare; To\nRowser's; Roll the Old Chariot Along; Shady Grove; Whangho; Cripple\nCreek.\n\n\n\n\nINDEX\n\n\n     After the Ball, 29\n\n     All on the Banks of Clauda, 24\n\n     A-moaning and Groaning, 36\n\n     Annie and Willie, 27\n\n     Annie Willow, 27\n\n     Apples in the Summertime, 38\n\n     Apprentice Boy, The, 10\n\n     Arkansas Traveller, 15\n\n     Assassination of J. B. Marcum, The, 18\n\n     Auxville Love, The, 24\n\n     Avonia, 21\n\n     Awful Wedding, The, 26\n\n\n     Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The, 8\n\n     Barbara Allen, 8\n\n     Barney and Kate, 21\n\n     Battle of Gettysburg, 14\n\n     Beauchamp's Confession, 16\n\n     [Bedroom Window], 23\n\n     Beefsteak When I'm Hungry, 38\n\n     Beneath the Arch of London Bridge, 10\n\n     Betsy Brown, 12\n\n     Betty Stout, 16\n\n     Billy Boy, 30\n\n     [Black Sheep, The], 33\n\n     Blind Child, The, 32\n\n     Blue and the Gray, The, 14\n\n     Bluebird, 35\n\n     Boatman, The, 36\n\n     Bosom Friend, 8\n\n     Bounty Jumpers, 14\n\n     Bouquet Patch, 38\n\n     Boy and Bumble-bee, 30\n\n     Broken Engagement, The, 29\n\n     Buckskin Boys, 21, 30\n\n     Buffalo, 38\n\n     Butcher's Boy, The, 24\n\n     By the Gate, 29\n\n     By-o Baby Bunting, 33\n\n\n     California Joe, 16\n\n     Can You then Love Another?, 25\n\n     Cause and Killing of Jesse Adams, The, 18\n\n     Charlie, 35\n\n     Chickamy Corney-crow, 38\n\n     Churn Your Buttermilk, 38\n\n     Club-fist, 24\n\n     Cluck, Old Hen, 38\n\n     Cold, Dark Scenes of Winter, The, 25\n\n     Cold Winter's Night, 8\n\n     Come a High Jim Along, 39\n\n     Come, All Ye Jolly Boatsman Boys, 22\n\n     [Come, All Ye Southern Soldiers], 15\n\n     [Constant Johnny], 22\n\n     Coon-dog, 38\n\n     Coony has a Ringy Tail, 38\n\n     Cripple Creek, 39\n\n     Cubeck's Garden, 11\n\n     Cuckoo, 24\n\n\n     Dandoo, 8\n\n     Darling, We have Long been Parted, 29\n\n     Day I'm Gone, 38\n\n     Devilish Mary, 31\n\n     Drifter Rescued, A, 24\n\n     Driver Boy, The, 9\n\n     Drunkard's Dream, The, 33\n\n     Dying Cowboy, The, 15\n\n     Dying Girl's Message, The, 25\n\n     Dying Nun, The, 32\n\n\n     Eddingsburg Town, 11\n\n     Edward, 7\n\n     Edward Hawkins, 17\n\n     [Ephraim and Lucy], 23\n\n\n     F. F. V., The, 20\n\n     Fair Ella, 28\n\n     Fair Ellender, 7\n\n     Fair Margaret and Sweet William, 8\n\n\n     Fair Notamon Town, 11\n\n     Fan, The, 10\n\n     Farmer's Boy, The, 20\n\n     Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now, 33\n\n     Floella, 28\n\n     Florella, 28\n\n     Floyd Frazier, 18\n\n     Fol Dol Sol, 36\n\n     Fond Affection, 29\n\n     Free Again, 29\n\n     Frisky Jim, 38\n\n     Frog in the Meadow, 38\n\n\n     Go In and Out at the Window, 38\n\n     Goebel and Taylor, 21\n\n     Going to Boston, 36\n\n     Golden Glove, The, 11\n\n     Grandmother's Mustard Plaster, 30\n\n     Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?, 38\n\n     Gray Goose, 38\n\n     Green Gravel, 37\n\n     Green Grows the Willow, 37\n\n     Green Willow Tree, The, 9\n\n     Greenbriar Shore, 27\n\n     Greenwood Side, The, 7\n\n     Ground-hog, 38\n\n     Guerrilla Man, The, 14\n\n\n     Had an Old Mare, 39\n\n     Handsome Flora, 16\n\n     Hang Down Your Head, 38\n\n     Hang Down Your Head and Cry, 25\n\n     Hawthorn Tree, The, 29\n\n     Here Come Two Dukes A-roving, 36\n\n     He's Got Money, Too, 29\n\n     Hiram Hubbert, 14\n\n     Hook and Line, 38\n\n     House Carpenter, The, 8\n\n\n     [I Bought Me a Horse], 35\n\n     I Cannot be Your Sweetheart 29\n\n     I Feel, 38\n\n     I have Finished Him a Letter, 25\n\n     I Have no Mother Now, 32\n\n     I Loved You Better than You Knew, 29\n\n     I Rather Think I Will, 29\n\n     I Used to Love, 24\n\n     I Want to be Somebody's Darling, 29\n\n     I Went Down Town, 38\n\n     I Wish I was Single Again, 31\n\n     I Won't Marry at All, 31\n\n     If I had Minded Mamma, 24\n\n     I'll be All Smiles Tonight, 29\n\n     I'll Build My Nest In a Tree 38\n\n     I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, 29\n\n     I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow tree, 23\n\n     I'll Love Thee Always, 29\n\n     I'll Never get Drunk Anymore, 38\n\n     I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers, 28\n\n     I'm Going to Join the Army, 15\n\n     I'm Scorned for being Poor, 26\n\n     [In Rowan County Jail], 17\n\n     In the Baggage-coach Ahead, 33\n\n     In the Shadow of the Pines, 29\n\n     Independent Girl, The, 29\n\n     Irish Girl, 14\n\n     Irish Molly O, 13\n\n     Irish Peddler, The, 19\n\n     It Rained so Hard, 38\n\n\n     Jack and Joe, 24\n\n     Jack and Mamie, 23\n\n     Jack and Mary, 29\n\n     Jack Combe's Death Song, 17\n\n     Jack Wilson, 10\n\n     Jackaro, 9\n\n     James A. Garfield, 21\n\n     Jealous Girl, The, 29\n\n     Jealous Lover, 28\n\n     [Jeems Braggs], 18\n\n     Jereboam Beauchamp, 19\n\n     Jesse James, 16\n\n     Jew's Daughter, The, 8\n\n     Joe Bowers, 32\n\n     Joe Hardy, 27\n\n     John Brown's Little Indians, 34\n\n     John Hardy, 19\n\n     John Riley, 27\n\n     John T. Parker, 18\n\n     Johnnie Came from Sea, 14\n\n     Johnny Doyle, 27\n\n     Johnny's out on Picking, 38\n\n     Jolly Miller, The, 37\n\n     Just Going Down to the Gate, 29\n\n\n     Kaintucky Boys, 21, 30\n\n     Kalamazine, 38\n\n     Kate and the Clothier, 30\n\n     King's Daughter, The, 7\n\n     Kiss Me Again, 29\n\n     Kitty Wells, 22\n\n\n     Lady Gay, 9\n\n     Last Night as I Lay Sleeping, 17\n\n     Little Anna, 28\n\n     Little Maudia, 33\n\n     Little Nellie, 26\n\n     Little Omy Wise, 28\n\n     Little Sparrow, 26\n\n     Little Sweetheart, 29\n\n     Little Willie, 7\n\n     Lone Prairie, The, 15\n\n     Lonesome Dove, 22\n\n     Lonesome Dove, 22\n\n     Long Summer Day, 36\n\n     Lord Bateman, 7\n\n     Lord Lovely, 8\n\n     Lord of Old Country, 7\n\n     Lord Randal, 7\n\n     Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender, 8\n\n     Lord Vanner's (Daniel's) Wife, 8\n\n     Lorla, 22\n\n     [Love is Such a Funny Thing], 31\n\n     Love, I've been Faithful, 29\n\n     Lovely Caroline of Old Edinboro, 11\n\n     Lovely Julia, 27\n\n     Lovely Nancy, 23\n\n     Lovely Nancy, 26\n\n     Lover's Farewell, 8\n\n     Loving Hanner, 26\n\n     Loving Henry, 8\n\n     Lynchburg Town, 20\n\n\n     MacAfee's Confession, 16\n\n     Madam, I've A-courting Come, 29\n\n     [Maggie], 26\n\n     Maggie's Secret, 29\n\n     Marching Round the Levy, 36\n\n     [Married Man, The], 31\n\n     Mary has Gone with a \"Coon\", 29\n\n     Mary of the Wild Moor, 12\n\n     Meet Me in the Moonlight, 29\n\n     Miller-boy, 28\n\n     Mollie Darling, 29\n\n     Molly, 13\n\n     Moonshiner, The, 19\n\n     Murfreesboro, 14\n\n     My Bonnie Little Girl, 26\n\n\n     Nancy Till, 23\n\n     Needle and Thread, 38\n\n     Needle's Eye, 37\n\n     Nell and I had Quarrels, 29\n\n     Nora O'Neil, 22\n\n     [Nothing to be Made by Roving], 33\n\n\n     Old as Moses, 38\n\n     Old Church-yard, 33\n\n     Old Dad, 38\n\n     Old Dan Tucker, 38\n\n     Old Gray, 20\n\n     Old Man's Trouble, 33\n\n     Old Miller, The, 20\n\n     Old Number Four, 20\n\n     Old, Old Love is Growing Still, The, 28\n\n     [Old Quebec], 37\n\n     Old Sam Simons, 38\n\n     Old Sam Suck-egg, 35\n\n     Old Shoemaker, The, 20\n\n     Old Woman of London, The, 10\n\n     On the Banks of the Wabash, 29\n\n     One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 35\n\n     Only Flirting, 29\n\n     Orphan Girl, The, 32\n\n     Our Hands are Clasped, 29\n\n\n     Package of Old Letters, A, 22\n\n     Pale Amaranthus, The, 24\n\n     Patty on the Canal, 13\n\n     Pawpaw Patch, 38\n\n     Peter Punkin-eater, 38\n\n     Phantom Footsteps, 32\n\n     Polly, My Charmer, 16\n\n     Polly Vaughn, 28\n\n     Poor Goens, 18\n\n     Poor Old Maid, 31\n\n     Poor Strange Girl, A, 25\n\n     Possum up a Gum-stump, 38\n\n     Pound of Tow, A, 32\n\n     [Preacher and the Bear, The], 31\n\n     Pretty Mohee (Maumee), The, 12\n\n     Pretty Peggy O, 9\n\n     Pretty Polly, 7\n\n     Pretty Polly, 7\n\n     Pretty Polly, 25\n\n     Pretty Polly, 27\n\n     Pretty Saro, 22\n\n\n     Rabbit Walked, 38\n\n     Railroad, The, 35\n\n     [Railroad Boy], 20\n\n     Red River Valley, 21\n\n     Regret, A, 26\n\n     Rich and Rambling Boy, The, 17\n\n     Rich Margent, The, 10\n\n     Rock Island, 38\n\n     Roll the Old Chariot Along, 39\n\n     Romish Lady, The, 12\n\n     Rope and the Gallows, The, 7\n\n     Rosanna, 12\n\n     Rose Colalee (Colleen?), 28\n\n     Rosin the Bow, 19\n\n     Rosin the Bow, 20\n\n     Roving Irish Boy, 13\n\n     Rowan County Tragedy, The, 18\n\n     Rowdy Boys, 17\n\n\n     Sailor Lad, The, 29\n\n     Sailor Lover, The, 27\n\n     Sailor's Request, The, 16\n\n     Sally in the Garden, 38\n\n     Santford Barnes, 15\n\n     Sara Jane, 38\n\n     Say You'll be Mine In a Year, 29\n\n     Seymore Wilson, 30\n\n     Shady Grove, 39\n\n     Shearfield, 11\n\n     [She was Happy till She Met You], 23\n\n     Shidepoke and Crane, 38\n\n     Ship that Never Returned, The, 32\n\n     Shoo, Old Lady, Shine, 38\n\n     Shoot Your Dice, 38\n\n     Show Me the Way to Go Home, 38\n\n     Silk Merchant's Daughter, The, 12\n\n     Single Soldier, The, 27\n\n     [Sister Frankie], 37\n\n     Sister Phoebe, 37\n\n     Six Pretty Fair Maids, 7\n\n     Skip to My Lou, 36\n\n     Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober, 38\n\n     Sourwood Mountain, 38\n\n     Squire, The, 26\n\n     Starving to Death on a Government Claim, 15\n\n     Steel-driver, The, 19\n\n     Stella, 30\n\n     Stockyard Gate, 20\n\n     [Stony Hill], 30\n\n     Sugar in the Gourd, 38\n\n     Sweet Birds, 22\n\n     Sweet Bunch of Daisies, 29\n\n     Sweet Jane, 13\n\n     [Sweet Memory of Dear Mother], 33\n\n     Sweet Summer Evening, 23\n\n     Sweet William and Fair Ellender, 8\n\n\n     Talt Hall, 18\n\n     Tarry, 38\n\n     Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold, 29\n\n     There was a Rich Old Farmer, 23\n\n     There's a Spark of Love Still Burning, 28\n\n     Three Little Babes, 7\n\n     [To America], 12\n\n     To Cheer the Heart, 25\n\n     To Rowser's, 39\n\n     Tom Smith's Death Song, 17\n\n     Turkish Lady, The, 7\n\n     [Twelve Apostles], 34\n\n     Two Drummers, 33\n\n     Two Letters, 29\n\n     Two Soldiers, The, 14\n\n\n     Unlucky Young Man, The, 35\n\n     Up to the Court-house, 38\n\n\n     Vain Girl, 26\n\n\n     Waggoner's Lad, The, 20, 30\n\n     Wait for the Wagon, 23\n\n     Walking-boss, 19\n\n     Wandering Boy, The, 34\n\n     Waxford Girl, The, 13\n\n     Wayward Girl, The, 32\n\n     We have Met and We have Parted, 24\n\n     Whangho, 39\n\n     When I was a Little Boy, 38\n\n     Whickum-whack, 38\n\n     White Rose, The, 29\n\n     Who'll be King but Charlie? 11\n\n     Will You Love Me When I'm Old? 29\n\n     William Baker, 18\n\n     William Hall, 11\n\n     William Riley, 13\n\n     William Trimmel Tram, 38\n\n     Willie and Kate, 29\n\n     Willie, Come Back, 29\n\n     Won't You Ever Come Again? 29\n\n\n     Young Edwin, 9\n\n     Young Man's Love, The, 26\n\n\n     Zollicoffer, 15\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTranscriber's note\n\n\nArchaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuation\nerrors have been corrected without notice.\n\nOn Page 5 the name \"Ruth Hackney\" is listed twice; this was not\nchanged.\n\nA few obvious typographical errors have been corrected and are listed\nbelow.\n\nPage 3: \"even by the absorbtion\" changed to \"even by the absorption\".\n\nPage 5: \"in making decision\" changed to \"in making decisions\".\n\nPage 11: \"Moidart, in Inverness-shire\" changed to \"Mordart, in\nInverness-shire\".\n\nPage 23: \"who soons appears\" changed to \"who soon appears\".\n\nPage 35: \"rythmical, rimeless, endless\" changed to \"rhythmical,\nrimeless, endless\".\n\nPage 40: \"Apples in the Summer-time\" changed to \"Apples in the\nSummertime\".","title":"A syllabus of Kentucky folk-songs","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":12145}