AMERICAN BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS
by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax
[This page has Contents; Acknowledgement; Bibliography; Index. All the songs are in the individual chapters in separate pages found attached to this page (click on chapter). To find a song look at the Index below and see which chapter to find the song.
The Lomaxes freely admitted that ''we have brought together what seem the best stanzas, or even lines, from widely separate sources"; but they failed to specify the sources.]
CONTENTS--CHAPTERS AND SONGS BY PAGE NUMBER
Acknowledgement
I. Working on The Railroad 3-41
John Henry - 03
Steel Laying Holler- 10
The Heavy-Hipted Woman - 13
Tie Shuffling Chant - 14
Tie Tamping Chant - 17
Good-by, Pretty Mama - 20
Paddy Works on the Erie - 20
Mike - 23
The Gila Monster Route - 24
Hallelujah, Bum Again - 26
Ten Thousand Miles from Home - 28
The Wreck on the C. & 0 - 31
Nachul-Born Easman - 34
Casey Jones - 36
The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver - 39
Ol' John Brown - 40
Charley Snyder - 41
II. The Levee Camp 45-52
Shack Bully Holler - 45
Reason I Stay on Job So Long - 46
Gwineter Harness in de Mornin' Soon - 47
Levee Camp "Holler" - 49
Shot My Pistol in de Heart of Town -52
III. Songs From Southern Chain Gangs 58-84
Ain't No Mo' Cane on de Brazis -58
Black Betty - 60
The Hammer Song - 61
Rosie - 62
Ol Rattler - 66
Stewball - 68
De Midnight Special - 71
Long Gone - 75
Great God-a'mighty - 79
Jumpin'Judy - 82
Goin' Home - 84
IV. Negro Bad Men 89-118
Bad Man Ballad - 89
PoLaz'us - 91
Stagolee - 95
Old Bill - 100
Frankie and Albert - 103
Ida Red - 110
Big Jim - 111
De Ballit of de Boll Weevil - 112
Bill Martin and Ella Speed - 117
Railroad Bill - 118
V. White Desperadoes 123-142
Spanish Johnny - 123
John Harty - 124
Sam Bass - 126
Jesse James - 128
Quantrell - 132
Sam Hall - 133
Jim Haggerty's Story - 135
Billy the Kid - 136
Page - 137
The Cryderville Jail- - 138
Po' Boy - 142
VI. Songs From The Mountains 147-163
Down in the Valley - 147
Every Night When the Sun Goes In - 149
The Roving Gambler - 150
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - 152
Sugar Babe - 153
When I Was Single [the Woman] - 154
When I Was Single [the Man] - 156
Darlin' - 158
Polly Williams - 159
The Bear in the Hill - 162
The Little Mohee - 163
VII. Cocaine and Whisky 169-186
Drink That Rot Gut - 169
Rye Whisky - 170
The Drunkard's Doom - 174
Little Brown Jug - 176
Adieu to Bon County - 178
Good Ol' Mountain Dew - 180
Lulu - 182
WillietheWeeper - 184
Honey, Take a Whiff on Me - 186
VIII. The Blues 191-206
Cornfield Holler - 191
Dirty Mistreafin' Women - 192
Dink's Blues - 193
Dink's Song - 195
Woman Blue - 196
Go Way f'om Mah Window - 198
My Li'l John Henry - 198
Shorty George - 199
The "Cholly" Blues - 201
Fare Thee Well, Babe - 204
Alabama-Bound - 206
IX. Creole Negroes 213-223
Michie Preval - 213
Remon - 215
Criole Candjo - 216
Un, Deux, Trois - 218
Aurore Pradere - 220
Ou SomSouroucou - 222
Salangadou' - 223
X. "Reels" 227-246
Foller de Drinkin' Gourd - 227
Run, Nigger, Run! - 228
Pick a Bale o' Cotton - 231
Hard to Be a Nigger - 233
Shortenin'Bread - 234
Sandy Lan' - 236
Pattin' - 237
a) Little Gal at Our House - 238
b) Rabbit Hash - 238
c) Da's All Right, Baby - 239
Cotton Field Song - 240
De Grey Goose - 242
Julie Ann Johnson - 244
My Yallow Gal - 245
De Black Gal - 246
XI. Minstrel Types 251-262
The Ballad of Davy Crockett - 251
Raise a Rukus Tonight - 253
When de Good Lord Sets You Free - 254
OldDanTucker - 258
Cotton-Eyed Joe - 262
XII. Breakdowns and Play-Parties 267-299
The Arkansas Traveller - 267
Groun' Hog - 271
Cumberland Gap - 274
Sourwood Mountain - 276
Old Joe Clark - 277
The Gal I Left Behind Me - 280
a)That Pretty Little Gal - 281
b) A cowboy version - 282
Ol Mother Hare - 283
Liza Jane - 284
Black-Eyed Susie - 286
Louisiana Girls - 288
Weevily Wheat - 290
Way Over in the Blooming Garden - 293
Skip to My Lou - 294
Shoot the Buffalo - 296
Going to Boston - 297
Shoo-Shoo-Shoo-Lye - 299
XIII. Songs of Childhood 303-327
What Folks Are Made of - 303
All the Pretty Little Horses - 304
The Old Gray Goose - 305
Long Time Ago - 306
Three Pigs - 307
Tale of a Little Pig - 308
Frog Went a-Courtin' - 310
Crows in the Garden - 314
The Connecticut Peddler - 317
Billy Boy - 320
Paper of Pins - 323
Hardly Think I Will - 325
I Love Little Willie - 327
XIV. Miscellany 331-356
The Factory Girl - 331
Hard Times - 332
On Meesh-e-gan - 334
Tearin' Out-a Wilderness - 336
The Man on the Flying Trapeze - 338
Ye Ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar - 341
Beautiful - 344
The Highly Educated Man - 346
Darky Sunday School - 351
The Old Bachelor - 354
Rattle Snake - 356
XV. Vaqueros of the Southwest 361-368
Alia en el Rancho Grande - 361
El Amor Que Te Tenia - 362
ElAbandonado - 364
Cuatro Palomitas Blancas - 366
Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal - 368
XVI. Cowboy Songs 375-418
From the Chuck Wagon - 375
Cowboys' Gettin'-Up Holler - 375
The Old Chizzum Trail - 376
When I Was a Cowboy - 379
Cowboy to Pitching Bronco - 381
Other Cowboy Boasting Chants - 382
Good-by, Old Paint - 383
Git Along, Little Dogies - 385
The Buffalo Skinners - 390
The Stampede - 392
Mustang Gray - 395
Hell in Texas - 397
Arizona - 401
The Killer - 403
Snagtooth Sal - 405
Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail - 406
Susan Van Dusan - 409
The Cowboy'sDream - 410
Red River Shore - 412
RoyBean - 413
An Idaho Cowboy Dance - 415
InTown - 416
BuckingBronco - 417
Poor Lonesome Cowboy - 418
XVII. Songs of the Overlanders 421-434
Joe Bowers - 421
Sweet Betsy from Pike - 424
Crossing the Plains - 427
Coming Around the Horn - 429
The Bull-Whacker - 430
Brigham Young - 432
Greer County - 434
XVIII. The Miner 437-440
The Hard-Working Miner - 437
The Dreary Black Hills - 438
Just from Dawson - 440
XIX. The Shanty-Boy 445-451
The Lost Jimmie Whalen - 445
The Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son - 446
Gerry's Rocks - 448
Bung Yer Eye - 450
The Banks of the Pamanow - 451
XX. The Erie Canal 455-471
Ballad of the Erie Canal - 455
The Erie Canal - 457
The Erie Canal Ballad - 459
Erie Canal - 464
A Trip on the Erie - 465
Low Bridge, Everybody Down - 467
The E-ri-e - 470
The Raging Can-all - 471
XXI. The Great Lakes 477
Red Iron Ore - 477
XXII. Sailors and Sea Fights 483-514
Johnny Come Down to Hilo - 483
Heave Away - 485
Whisky Johnny - 486
The Rio Grande - 488
The Black Ball Line - 489
Blow theManDown - 491
Get Up, Jack!John, Sit Down! - 493
Jack Wrack - 494
The Boston Come-All-Ye - 496
The Wonderful Crocodile - 498
Captain Robert Kidd - 501
The Flying Cloud - 504
Constitution and Guerriere - 507
Siege of Plattsburg - 510
The Buccaneers - 512
Destroyer Life - 514
XXIII. Wars and Soldiers 521-557
Yankee Doodle - 521
Braddock's Defeat - 526
John Brown's Body - 528
Hold On, Abraham - 529
Dixie - 531
War Song - 534
Good Old Rebel - 535
Benny Havens, Oh! - 540
The Wild Miz-zou-rye - 543
Shenandoah - 546
Damn the Filipinos - 547
A Rookie's Lament - 548
The Company Cook - 551
We've Done Our Hitch in Hell - 552
If You Want to Know Where the Privates Are - 554
The Hearse Song - 556
Hinky Dinky, Parley-Voo? - 557
XXIV. White Spirituals 563-573
Bear the News, Mary -563
Parting Friends - 564
Burges - 565
FewDays - 566
Wedlock - 567
Wicked Polly - 569
Now Our Meeting's Over - 571
The Other Shore - 572
Amazing Grace - 573
XXV. Negro Spirituals 577-610
Many T'ousands Go - 577
Lay Dis Body Down - 577
Mone, Member, Mone - 578
Moanin' - 579
Healin' Waters - 581
'Ligion So Sweet - 582
DivesandLaz'us - 583
Set Down, Servant - 584
Oh, Lawd, How Long? - 586
Never Said a Mumbalin' Word - 587
Hell and Heaven - 588
Man Goin'Round - 591
Good-by, Mother - 592
This Train - 593
Deep River - 594
Blin' Man Stood on de Way an' Cried - 595
Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again - 597
Hard Trials - 600
Dat Lonesome Stream - 602
Woe Be unto You - 604
Tone de Bell Easy - 605
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - 608
When My Blood Runs Chilly and Col' - 610
Bibliography - 0714
Index
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
When I went first to college in Texas I carried in my trunk, along with my pistol and other implements of personal warfare, a little manuscript roll of cowboy songs. My father's farm and small ranch was located on the Chisholm Trail, over which many thousand Longhorn cattle were driven to Dodge City, Kansas, sometimes on to Montana and the Dakotas. Especially at night when lying awake, I had heard the cowboys sing to the cattle "bedded down" near our home. These songs and others like them were also current among a number of neighbor boys, older than myself, who each spring went on the round-up and afterwards trailed a herd of cattle to a Northern market. They brought new songs back with them for the entertainment of their friends.
On one occasion I exhibited my store of cowboy songs to a somewhat startled Texas English professor. I was told politely that they had no value. So I put them away until I became, years afterwards, a student in Harvard. There, during a course in American literature taught by Professor Barrett Wendell, I was encouraged to believe that the songs were worth preserving. In order to aid my work in collecting, he and Professor George Lyman Kittredge sent out to many newspapers of the country a letter asking that all types of folk songs be forwarded to me. Later on, after I had been appointed a Traveling Sheldon Fellow "to investigate American folk songs," Professors Wendell and Kittredge were joined in a second appeal to the public by Dean L. B. R. Briggs and Professor Fred N. Robinson. Such sponsorship resulted, during the three years I held the Sheldon fellowship, in the accumulation of a great mass of material.Two books of cowboy songs were issued from material secured principally in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado,Wyoming, and other states where I visited and recorded tunes in saloons and on remote ranches.
Several thousand pages of unused manuscript were filed away. The present book is a direct outgrowth of the collection which was then made under Harvard patronage. Whatever its fortune, it goes to a public whose interest in folk material is much greater than in 1910, when Cowboy Songs was published. At that time no publisher would print the cowboy song music, except a few illustrative examples. Records of this music had been made on wax cylinders, which, alas! have crumbled with age* However, the music then set down and printed, long unnoticed, is now often heard over the radio. It has been said that the song "Home on the Range" was the most popular tune of the first half of 1933, The music for that song was obtained twenty-three years ago from the Negro proprietor of a low drinking and gambling dive in the slum district of San Antonio. It remained safely buried in Cowboy Songs for nearly a quarter of a century. The publication of this volume is, therefore, largely due to the unflagging interest of two men. So long as Professor Barrett Wendell lived, he gave my work his cordial support, and through the resulting association I, in turn, gave him my everlasting affection. To me, as well as to all who collect folk songs, or who write of this literature, Professor Kittredge is ready with advice, help, and, when needed, forceful admonition* These words are set down in grateful recognition and appreciation. Many other people have helped to make this book possible. Entitled perhaps to first mention is Miss Mary Gresham, a competent musician and teacher of Washington, who transcribed from aluminum, wax, and celluloid records made this summer much of the Negro music in this book, and, in addition, other songs from singing and from rough manuscript notation. Edward Neighbors Waters, Assistant in the Music Division, Library of Congress, wrote out the music for approximately fifty songs, principally from singing. Other members of the Music Division, notably Carl Engel, its. Chief, Oliver Strunk, Assistant Chief, and Frank Megill, Assistant, were constantly courteous and helpful. None of the faults of the book or responsibilities growing out of it, however, are chargeable to these persons.
To Mrs. Janice Reed Lit of Haverford, Pennsylvania, whose helpfulness in many ways has been constant since the book was first definitely planned; to Professors Howard W. Odum, Guy Johnson, and A. P. Hudson, all of the University of North Carolina, that is, along with near-by Duke University, the folk song collecting center of the South; to Professor Arthur G. Brodeur of the University of California; to Professor Joseph W. Clokey of Pomona College; to Frank Dobie of the University of Texas; to Professor E. C. Beck, Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; to Louise and Cletus Oakley of Brown University; to Professor Lucy Lockwood Hazard of Mills College; to "Slim" Critchlow, Forest Ranger and soloist for the Utah Buckaroos; to Dean L. B. R. Briggs of Harvard University; to Professors Josiah Combs and Newton Gaines of Texas Christian University; to Professor George E. Hastings of the University of Arkansas; to Sigmund Spaeth, New York City; to Professor George Pullen Jackson, Vanderbilt University; to Sam P-Bayard, State College, Pennsylvania; to Mr. H. H. Fuson, Harlan, Kentucky; to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Callaway, Comanche, Texas; to Carl Sandburg, Harbert, Michigan; to Professor and Mrs. Harold William Thompson, New York State College for Teachers; to Miss Dorothy Scarborough, Columbia University; to Major and Mrs. Isaac Spalding, Washington, D. C; to Professor H. M. Belden, University of Missouri; to John A. Lomax, Jr.; to Miss Martha Harrold, Memphis, Tennessee; to John Lang Sinclair, New York City; to Shirley Lomax Mansell and Bess Brown Lomax, Lubbock, Texas— to all these, special thanks are due for special favors.
Along with these in point of service I must place that group of Negro "boys'* who this summer, cheerfully and with such manifest friendliness, gave up for the time their crap and card games, their prayer meetings, their much needed Sunday and evening rest, in order to sing for Alan and me—that group whose real names we omit for no other reason than to print the substituted picturesque nicknames. Those black "boys" of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee by their singing removed any doubt we may have had that Negro folk songs are without a rival in the United States, To Iron Head, Clear Rock, Chin Shooter, Lead Belly, Mexico, Black Samson, Lightning Can't Make It, Butter Ball, Ing Shing, Scrap Iron, Bowlegs, Tight Eyes, Double Head, Bull Face, Log Wagon, Creepin' Jesus, Long Distance, Burn Down, Steam Shovel, Rat, Black Rider, Barrel House, Spark Plug, to two "girls," Dink and Bat, and others who helped without giving their names, and to many another among the thousands we saw, in happy memory tinged with sadness, I offer grateful thanks.
As this book represents twenty-five years of desultory collecting, I cannot but fail to omit to mention names that should be included in the list to whom is also due, and who herewith receive, my gratitude: Miss Virginia Brown, Dallas, Texas; Joanna Colcord, author of Roll and Go; Professor John H. Cox, University of West Virginia; Professor Frank Davidson, Indiana University; Captain A. E. Dingle, West Bermuda; Professor Horace A. Eaton, Syracuse University; Professor Milton Ellis, University of Maine; Captain R* J. Flanagan, Manager of Central State Farm, Texas; Colonel Frederick Stuart Greene, Commissioner of Public Works, Albany, New York; Judge Louis B- Hart, Buffalo, New York; Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Superintendent R. L. Himes, General Manager Louisiana prison system; Captain H, J, Jackson, Manager Darring-ton State Farm, Texas; George Milburn, formerly of the University of Oklahoma; Professor and Mrs, George M. Miller, University of Idaho; Bertha K. Millette, Washington, D. C; John J. Niles, co-author Songs My Mother Never Taught Me; Miss Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, New York University; Professor L* W, Payne, University of Texas; F. E, Peyton, Greenwich, Connecticut; Miss Louise Pound, University of Nebraska; Allen Prothro, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Augustus H, Shearer, Buffalo, New York; Frank Shay, author of Drawn from the Wood, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Peter Smith, publisher, New York; Manager O. G. Tann, Parchman, Mississippi; Professor W. H. Thomas, College Station, Texas; Henry Trevelyan, Wiergate, Texas; Professor R. P. Utter, University of California; R. V. Utter, Clayton, Missouri; John T. Vance, Library of Congress; Stewart Edward White; Professor Newman I. White, Duke University; Owen Wister, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Professor Homer E. Woodbridge, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Miss Louise Wyman, author of Lonesome Tunes; Miss Jean Thomas, author of Devil's Ditties, Ashland, Kentucky.
J. A. L.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
A bibliography of American folksongs, compiled by Harold W. Thompson for his class in American Folk-Literature at the New York State College for Teachers and presented with his compliments to John A. Lomax, with New York's greetings to Texas and a loud shout for Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard.
Allen, W. F., Ware, C. P., and Garrison, L. McK., Slave Songs of the United States. New York: Peter Smith, 1929. The original edition was published in 1867 by A. Simpson and Co., New York. Important.
Ballanta-Taylor, N. G. J., St. Helena Island Spirituals. New York: G. Schirmer, 1925. Barbeau, C. M., and Sapir, E., Folksongs of French Canada. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Barbeau, M., England, P., and Willan, H., Chansons Canadiennes.
2 vols. London and Boston: Frederick Harris Co. and Boston Music Co., 1929.
Barnes, Nellie, American Indian Love Lyrics and Other Verse. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925. Barry, P., Eckstorm, F. H., and Smyth, M. W., British Ballads from Maine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. Important.
Bartholomew, M,, Yale Glee Club Series. New York: G. Schirmer, 1927-Some of the best chanteys and spirituals arranged for choral use with men's voices.
Bingham, Seth (composer), Five Cowboy Songs. New York: H. W. Gray Co., 1930. Solos with elaborate accompaniments; also choral arrangements for men's voices.
Bone, D. W., Capstan Bars. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1932, Chanteys and sketches about their use. Bulletin of the Folksong Society of the Northeast} 1930-
Burleigh, H. T. (composer), Four Negro Folksongs. New York: Ricordi, 1921. Not spirituals.
Burleigh, H. T., Negro Spirituals. New York, 1917- Many o£ the most beautiful spirituals arranged for solo voice with rather elaborate accompaniments; also arrangements for choral use. Burlin, Mrs. N. C. (Natalie Curtis), Hampon Series of Negro Folk-Songs. 4 vols., 8vo. New York: G. Schirmer, 1918-1919. Very careful recording of Negro harmonizations.
Burlin, N. C. (Natalie Curtis), The Indian's Book. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Campbell, O., and Sharp, C. J., English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. See also Sharp, C. J. Colcord, Joanna, Roll and Go. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1924.
Chanteys. Out of print, but best American collection.
Cox, J. H., Folk-Songs of the South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925.
Important collection of the West Virginia Folklore Society. Cronyn, G. W., The Path on the Rainbow. New York:Boni & Liveright, 1918. Anthology of songs and chants from the Indians of North America; words only.
Dann, H., and Loomis, H. W., Fiftyreight Spirituals for Choral Use. Boston: C. C. Birchard Co., 1924.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Songs. Salt Lake City, Utah: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1932. By no means all of these are genuine folksongs. The arrangements are by A. M. Durham.
Davis, A. K., Jr., Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1929. Important collection of the Virginia Folklore Society.
Densmore, Frances, The American Indians and Their Music. New York: Woman's Press of the Y.W.C.A., 1926.
Popular presentation by a recognized authority on the Indian. Densmore, Frances, Indian Action Songs. Boston: C. C. Birchard, 1921.
Densmore, Frances. An important series of bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, including: No. 80, Mandan and Hidatsa Music (1923) ; No. 90, Pafago Music (1929); No. 93, Pawnee Music (1929); No. 102,
Menominee Music (1932) 5 and No. 110, Yuman and Yaqui Music (1932). See also, if possible, Bulletins Nos. 45, 53, 61, 75—all out of print. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Dett, R. N., Listen to the Lambs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1923. The most famous adaptation of a spiritual for choral use, as an anthem in eight parts.
Dett, R. N., Negro Spirituals. Cincinnati: John Church Co., 1919. Some of the finest adaptations of spirituals as art-songs for solo voices; also choral arrangements.
Dett, R. N., Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as Sung on the "Plantations. Hampton, Va., and New York: Hampton Institute and G. Schirmer, 1926.
Diton, C, Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals. New York: G. Schirmer, 1928. Simply harmonized in four parts.
Dolph, E. A., Sound Off: Soldier Songs. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927.
Eckstorm, F. H., and Smyth, M. W., Minstrelsy of Maine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927. Important.
Farwell, Arthur, Folk-Songs of the West and South. Newton Center, Mass.: Wa-Wan Press, 1905. One of a series of publications marking the rise of interest in our folksongs on the part of American composers.
Finger, C. J., Frontier Ballads. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1927.
Fisher, W. A., Seventy Negro Spirituals. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1926. For solo voice, with admirable introductions and with accompaniments by leading composers. Fisher, W. A., Ye Olde New-England Psalm-Tunes, 1620-1820. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1930. Flanders, H. H., and Brown, George, Vermont Folk-Songs and Ballads. Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Daye Press, 1931. Important collection by Vermont Folklore Society.
Fletcher, A. C, Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs. Boston: C. C. Birchard Co., 1915. Folk-Say. Published annually since 1929 by the University of Oklahoma.
Fuson, H. H., Ballads of the Kentucky Highlands. London: Mitre Press, 1931.
Gaul, H. B., Nine Negro Spirituals. New York: H. W. Gray Co., 1918. In octavo volume, paper cover. Some of the most attractive of the art-song arrangements for solo voice.
Gibbon, J. M., Canadian Folk Songs. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927.
Gordon, R. W., "The Folk-Songs of America": a series of 18 articles in the Sunday Magazine of the New York Times, beginning 2 January, 1927. Popular articles by a scholar; important.
Gordon, R. W., "Old Songs That Men Have Sung": a department in Adventure Magazine from 10 July, 1923, to November, 1927. Very important; edited by one of the leading collectors.
Gray, R. P., Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1924.
Greenleaf, E. B., and Mansfield, G. Y., Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1933.
Hague, E., "Spanish-American Folk-Songs." In Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, Vol. X, 1917.
Haixowell, E., Calhoun Plantation Songs} 2nd ed. Boston: C W. Thompson Co., 1907.
Handy, W. C, Blues. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1926.
Howard, J. T., Our American Music. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1931. Note especially Chapter XV on "Our Folk-Music," and also the Bibliographies.
Hudson, A. P., Specimens of Mississippi Folk-Lore. Ann Arbor, Mich, (mimeographed), and University of Mississippi, 1928. Mimeographed for the editor and on sale in well-bound copies. Important collection of the Mississippi Folklore Society.
Hulbert, A. B., Forty-niners. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1932. Contains migration songs and tells of the circumstances under which they were sung.
Jackson, G. P., White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1933. Pioneer work; important also for the history of the Negro spiritual.
Jackson, G. S., Early Songs of Uncle Sam. Introduction by K. B. Murdock. Boston: B. Humphries, 1933.
Johnson, Guy B., Folk Culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1930. -Important; should be read in connection with Mr. Ballanta-Taylor's book listed above.
Johnson, Guy B., John Henry. Chapel Hill, N. C; University of North Carolina Press, 1929.
Johnson, J. R., Utica Jubilee Singers Sfirituals. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1930. For male voices in harmony. An important Introduction by C. W. Hyne contains a valuable classification of Negro folksongs.
Johnson, J. W. and J. R., The Book of American Negro Spirituals and The Second Book of American Negro Sfirituals. New York: Viking Press, 1925, 1926.
Journal of American Folk-Lore. 1888— There is an Index to Vol. I-XL, covering the years 1888—1927, published as Volume XIV of the Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society and distributed by G. E. Stechert and Co., New York, in 1930. In Vol. XLI of the Journal, pp. 1—60, will be found an important "Bibliography of American Folklore, 1915—28," compiled by Alexander Lesser. The Journal is the most important publication named in the present Bibliography.
Kennedy, R. E., Black Cameos. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1924. Sketches and songs.
Kennedy, R. E., Mellows. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1925. Negro work songs, street cries, and spirituals.
Kennedy, R. E., More Mellows. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1931. Accompaniments free but not difficult. Entertaining descriptions of the singers.
Korson, G. G., Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miner. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, The Grafton Press, 1927.
Krehbiel, H. E., Afro-American Folk Songs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1914. Pioneer work by distinguished critic of music.
Larkin, M., and Black, H., Singing Cowboy. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1931. Simple accompaniments.
Lomax, John A., Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1910. Revised with additions, 1916; several reprints.
Lomax, John A., Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camf. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. Luce, Allena, Canciones Pofulares. New York: Silver, Burdett 8c Co., 1921. Contains many songs and children's games from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Mexico.
Lummis, C. F., The Land of Poco Tiemfo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
McGill, J., Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains. New York and London: Boosey & Co., 1917.
Mackenzie, W. R., Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia. Cambridge,. Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928.
Mackenzie, W. R., The Quest of the Ballad. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1919.
Mattfeld, J., The Folk-Music of the Western Hemisphere: A List of References in the New York Public Library. New York Public Library, 1925. Out of print; important.
Metfessel, M. F., Phonofhotografhy in Folk Music. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1929.
Michelson, Thomas, Important series of studies of Indian rituals, published in bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, including: No. 87, Notes on the Buffalo-Head Dance of the Thunder Gens of the Fox Indians (1928); No. 89, Observations on the Thunder Dance of the Bear Gens of the Fox Indians (1929); No. 95, Contributions to Fox Ethnology [Buffalo Dance and Great Sacred Pack] (1930); No. 105, Notes on the Fox Wafanowiweni (1932). Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution.
Monroe, Mina, and Schindler, K., Bayou Ballads, Twelve Folk-Songs from Louisiana. New York: G. Schirmer, 1921.
Newell, W. W., Games and Songs of American Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. Out of print; still the standard work.
Niles, J. J., Singing Soldiers. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.
Odum, H. W., Rainbow Round My Shoulder. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928.
Odum, H. W., and Johnson, G. B., The Negro and His Songs. Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1925.
Odum, H. W., and Johnson, G. B., Negro Workaday Songs. Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. Important.
Paskman, D., and Spaeth, S., Gentlemen, Be Seated. New York: Double-day, Doran & Co., 1928. Minstrel shows and minstrels.
Peterson, C. G., Creole Songs from New Orleans in the Negro Dialect. New Orleans: L. Gruenewald and Co., 1902. Revised, 1909.
Pound, Louise, AmeAcan Ballads and Songs. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Songs of whites only. Admirable introduction and notes.
Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society 1916— First volume out of print. Admirably written to entertain as well as to inform; contributions from such important collectors as the present editor, J. Frank Dobie. Volume X, for 1932, entitled Tone the Bell Easy, is a good example of the great interest of the series.
Randolph, Vance, Ozark Mountain Folks. New York: Vanguard Press, 1932.
Randolph, Vance, The Ozarks. New York: Vanguard Press, 1931.
Richardson, E. P., and Spaeth, S., American Mountain Songs. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1927. Simple accompaniments.
Rickaby, Franz, Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926.
Sandburg, Carl, The American Songbag. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927. Two editions—the second much lower in price than the first. Words and music, with delightful comments; a very important book, avowedly borrowing from Messrs. Gordon, Lomax, and other leading collectors. Some of the musical settings are much too elaborate and "modern."
Sargent, H. C, and Kittredge, G. L., English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904. Edited from the great Child Collection. Indispensable for an appreciation of ballads; very important Introduction by Professor Kittredge.
Scarborough, Dorothy, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925.
Sharp, C. J., American-English Folk Songs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1918.
Sharp, C. J., Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains. London and New York: Novello & Co., 1921-1923.
Sharp, C. J., and Campbell, O., English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. The enlarged edition of this work published in two volumes by the Oxford University Press in 1932 is the most important of the contributions to the subject of American folk-song made by the greatest English collector. The editor of the new edition is M. Karpeles.
Shay, Frank, Iron Men and Wooden Ship. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1925. Sailor songs and chanteys.
Shay, Frank, My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. New YorkS Macaulay Co., 1927. Songs and ballads of conviviality.
Shay, Frank, More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. New York: Macaulay Co., 1928.
Sherwin, S., Katzman, L., and Moore, B., Songs of the Gold Miners, New York: Carl Fischer & Son, 1932.
Shoemaker, H. W., Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: McGirr, 1931. Sires, Ina, and Repper, C, Songs of the Of en Range. Boston: C. C. Birchard Co., 1928.
Smith, N. C, New Plantation Melodies as Sung by the Tuskegee Students. Tuskegee, Ala.: Tuskegee Press, 1909.
Smith, Reed, South Carolina Ballads. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928. Important collection of South Carolina Folklore Society; lucid and interesting discussions by the editor, forming an excellent introduction to the whole subject of the American ballad.
Smythe, A. T., and others, The Carolina Low-Country. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. Handsome and important volume containing forty-nine Negro songs and several valuable essays, including R. W. Gordon's chapter on "The Negro Spiritual."
Spaeth, S. G., Read 'Em and Weef. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1927. Spaeth, S. G., The Songs You Forgot to Remember. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1927.
Spaeth, S. G., Weef Some More, My Lady. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1927.
Speck, F. G., Ceremonial Songs of the Creek and Yuchi Indians. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Anthropological Publications, Vol. I, Number II, 1911.
Sturgis, E. B., and Hughes, R., Songs from the Hills of Vermont. New York: G. Schirmer, 1919. Texts important; accompaniments too elaborate.
Talley, T. W., Negro Folk Rhymes. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1922. Some of these rhymes are probably of white origin.
Terry, R. R,, The Shanty Book. 2 parts. London: J. Curwen & Sons (Germantown, Philadelphia: Curwen, Inc.), 1921, 1926. Inasmuch as chanteys are usually common property of British and American sailors, the best of English collections, arranged for solo voice with pianoforte accompaniments, deserves mention.
Thomas, Jean, Devil's Ditties. Chicago: W. Wilbur Hatfield, 1931.
Thorpe, N. H., Songs of the Cowboys. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921.
Turner, Harriet, Folk Songs of the American Negro. Boston: Boston Music Co., 1925.
Van Stone, M. R., Spanish Folk Songs of New Mexico. Chicago: R. F. Seymour, 1926.
White, C. C, Negro Folk Melodies. Philadelphia: Presser, 1927.
White, N. I., American Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928. Important. Extensive bibliography.
Whiteman, P., and McBride, M. M., Jazz. New York: J. H. Sears and Co., 1926.
Whitney, A. W., and Bullock, C. C, Folk-Lore from Maryland. Vol. XVIII of the Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. New York: G. E. Stechert and Co., Agents, 1925. Contains words of songs.
Wolford, L. J., The Play-Party in Indiana: A Collection of Folksongs and Games. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1916.
Work, J. W., Folk Song of the American Negro. Nashville, Tenn.: Fisk University Press, 1915.
Wyman, Loraine, and Brockway, Howard, Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains. New York: H. W. Gray Co., 1916. Accompaniments elaborate; a volume popular among professional singers, and a pioneer work in arousing interest.
Wyman, Loraine, and Brockway, Howard, Twenty Kentucky Mountain Songs. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1920.
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INDEX
Adieu to Bon County, 178-179
Am' No Mo' Cane on de Brazis, 58-59
Alabama-Bound, 206-209
All the Pretty Little Horses, 304-305
Alia en el Rancho Grande, 361-362
Amazing Grace, 573-574
Arizona, 401-402
Arkansas Traveller, The, 267-270
Aurore Pradere, 220-221
Bad Man Ballad, 89-91
Ballad of Davy Crockett, The, 251-253
Ballad of the Erie Canal, 455-457
Ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar, Ye, 341-343
Ballit of de Boll Weevil, De, 112-117
Banks of the Pamanaw, The, 451-452
Bear in the Hill, The, 162-163
Bear the News, Mary, 563-564
Beautiful, 344-345
Benny Havens, Oh!, 540-543
Big Jim, 111-112
Bill Martin and Ella Speed, 117-118
Billy Boy, 320-322
Billy the Kid, 136-138
Black Ball Line, The, 489-490
Black Betty, 60-61
Black-eyed Susie, 286-288
Mack Gal, De, 246-247
Blin' Man Stood on de Way an' Cried, 596
Blow the Man Down, 491-493
Boston Come-All-Ye, The, 496-498
Braddock's Defeat, 526-527
Brigham Young, 432-434
Buccaneers, The, 512-514
Bucking Bronco, 417-418
Buffalo Skinners, The, 390-392
Bull-Whacker, The, 430-432
Bung Yer Eye, 450-451
Burges, $6!s
Captain Robert Kidd, 501-504 Casey Jones, 36-39
Charley Snyder, 41-42
"Cholly" Blues, The, 201-203 Coming Around the Horn, 429-430 Company Cook, The, 551-552
Connecticut Peddler, The, 317-320
Constitution and Guerriere, 507-509
Cornfield Holler, 191
Cotton Field Song, 240-242
Cotton-eyed Joe, 262-263
Cowboy Boasting Chants, 382-383
Cowboy to Pitching Bronco, 381-382
Cowboy's Dream, The, 410-412
Cowboys' Gcttin'-up Holler, 375
Criole Candjo, 216-218
Crossing the Plains, 427-428
Crows in the Garden, 314-316
Crydervillc Jail, The, 138-143
Cuatro Palomitas Blancas, 366-368
Cumberland Gap, 274-276
Damn the Filipinos, 547-548
Darky Sunday School, 351-354
Darlin', 158-159
Da's All Right, Baby, 239-240
Dat Lonesome Stream, 602-604
"Dead Man's Chest", The, 512-514
Death of Jack Hinton, The, 31-34
Deep River, 594-595
Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again, 597-600
Destroyer Life, 514-517
Dink's Blues, 193-194
Dink's Song, 195-196
Dirty Mistreatin' Women, 192-193
Dives and Laz'us, 583-584
Dixie, 531-533
Down in the Valley, 147-148
Dreary Black Hills, The, 438-440
Drink That Rot Gut, 169
Drunkard's Doom, The, 174-175
El Abandonado, 364-366
El Amor Que Te Tenia, 362-364
E-r-I-e, The, 470-471
Erie Canal, 464
Erie Canal, The, 457-466
Erie Canal Ballad, The, 459-463
Every Night When the Sun Goes In, 149-150
Factory Girl, The, 331-332
Fare Thee Well, Babe, 204-205
Few Days, 566
Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal, 467-469
Fishes, The, 496-498
Flying Cloud, The, 504-507
Foller de Drinkin> Gou'd, 227-228
Frankie and Albert, 103-110
Frog Went a-Courtm', 310-313
From the Chuck Wagon, 375
Gal I Left Behind Me, The, 280-283
Gerry's Rocks, 448-450
Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!, 493-494
Gilla Monster, The, 24-26
Git Along, Little Dogies, 385-389
Go Way Pom Mah Window, 198
Goin' Home, 84-86
Going to Boston, 297-298
Good OP Mountain Dew, 180-182
Good Old Rebel, 535-540
Good-by, Mother, 592-593
Good-by, Old Paint, 383-385
Good-by, Pretty Mama, 20
Great God-a'mighty, 79-82
Greer County, 434
Grey Goose, De, 242-243
Groun* Hog, 271-274
Gwineter Harness in de Mornin* Soon, 47-49
Hallelujah, Bum Again, 26-28
Hammer Song, The, 61-62
Hard Times, 332-334
Hard to Be a Nigger, 233-234
Hard Trials, 600-602
Hard-Working Miner, The, 437-438
Hardly Think I Will, 325-326
Healin' Waters, 581
Hell and Heaven, 588-591
Hell in Texas, 397-401
Hearse Song, The, 556-557
Heave Away, 485-4-86
Heavy-Hipted Woman, The, 13-14
Highly Educated Man, The, 346-350
Hinky Dinky, Parley-voo?, 557-560
Hold on, Abraham, 529-530
Honey, Take a Whiff on Me, 186-188
I Love Little Willie, 327
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground, 152-153
Ida Red, 110-111
Idaho Cowboy Dance, An, 415
If You Want to Know Where the Privates are, 554-556
In Town, 416
Jack Wrack, 494-496
Jesse James, 128-131
Jim Haggerty's Story, 135-136
Joe Bowers, 421-423 ,
John Brown's Body, 528-529
John Harty, 124-126
John Henry, 3-10
Johnny Come Down to Hilo, 483-485
Julie Ann Johnson, 244-245
Jumpin' Judy, 82-84
Just from Dawson, 440-441
Killer, The, 403-404
Lay Dis Body Down, 577-578
Levee Camp "Holler", 49-52
'Ligion So Sweet, 582-583
Little Brown Jug, 176-177
Little Gal at Our House, 238
Little Mohee, The, 163-165
Liza Jane, 284-286
Long Gone, 75-79
Long Time Ago, 306-307
Lost Jimmie Whalen, The, 445-446
Louisiana Girls, 288-290
Low Bridge, Everybody Down, 467-469
Lulu, 182-184
Man Goin' Round, 591
Man on the Flying Trapeze, The, 338-340
Many T'ousand Go, 577
Michie Preval, 213-214
Midnight Special, De, 71-75
Mike, 23-26
Moanin', 579-580
Mone, Member, Mone, 578-589
Mustang Gray, 395-396
My Li'l John Henry, 198-199
My Yallow Gal, 245-246
Nachul-Born Easman, 34-36
Never Said a Mumbalin' Word, 587-588
Now Our Meeting's Over, 571
Oh, Lawd, How Long?, 586-587
Old Bachelor, The, 354-355
Old Bill, 100-102
Old Chizzum Trail, The, 376-379
Old Dan Tucker, 258-262
Old Gray Goose, The, 305-306
Old Joe Clark, 277-280
OP John Brown, 40-41
OP Mother Hare, 283-284
01* Rattler, 66-67
On Meesh-e-gan, 334-335
Other Shore, The, 572
Ou Som Souroucou, 222
Paddy Works on the Erie, 20-22
Paper of Pins, 323-324
Parting Friends, 564-565
Pattin', 237
Pick a Bale o» Cotton, 231-233
Po' Boy, 142-143
Po' Laz'us, 91-93
Polly Williams, 159-162
Poor Lonesome Cowboy, 418
Quantrell, 132-133
Rabbit Hash, 238-239
Raging Can-all, The, 471-474
Railroad Bill, 118-120
Raise a Rukus Tonight, 253-254
Rattle Snake, 356-357
Red River Shore, 412-415
Reason I Stay on Job So Long, 46-47
Red Iron Ore, 477-479
Re*mon, 215
Rio Grande, The, 488-489
Rookie's Lament, A, 548-551
Rosie, 62—65
Roving Gambler, The, 150-151
Roy Bean, 413-415
Run, Nigger, Run!, 228-231
Rye Whisky, 170-173
Salangadou, 223
Sam Bass, 126-128
Sam Hall, 133-134
Sandy Lan', 236-237
Set Down, Servant, 584-586
Shack Bully Holler, 45-46
Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son, The, 446-447
Shenandoah, 546
Shoo, Shoo, Shoo-lye, 299
Shoot the Buffalo, 296-297
Shortenin' Bread, 234-236
Shorty George, 199-201
Shot My Pistol in dc Heart of Town, 52-53
Siege of Plattsburg, 510-512
Skip to My Lou, 294-295
Snagtooth Sal, 405-406 Sourwood Mountain, 276-277
Spanish Johnny, 123-124
Stagolee, 93-99
Stampede, The, 392-395
Steel Laying Holler, 10-12
Stewball, 68-71
Sugar Babe, 153-154
Susan Van Dusan, 409-410
Sweet Betsy from Pike, 424-426
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, 608-610
Tale of a Little Pig, 308-310
Tearin' Out-a Wilderness, 336-338
Ten Thousand Miles from Home, 28-31
That Pretty Little Gal, 281
This Train, 593-594
Three Pigs, 307-308
Tie-Shuffling Chant, 14-17
Tie-Tamping Chant, 17-19
Tone de Bell Easy, 605-608
Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal, 368-371
Trip on the Eric, A, 465-466
Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail, 406-409
Un, Deux, Trois, 218-219
War Song, 53^-535
Way over in the Blooming Garden, 293-294
We've Done Our Hitch in Hell, 552-554
Wedlock, S67-S69
Weevlly Wheat, 290-293
What Folks Are Made of, 303-304
When de Good Lord Sets You Free, 254-258
When I Was a Cowboy, 379-380
When I Was Single, 154-158
When My Blood Runs Chilly and Col>, 610-611
Whisky Johnny, 486-487
Wicked Polly, 569-570
Wild Miz-zou-rye, The, 543-546
Willie the Weeper, 184-185
Woe Be unto You, 604-605
Woman Blue, 196-197
Wonderful Crocodile, The, 498-500
Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver, The, 39-40
Wreck on the C. & O., The, 31-34
Yankee Doodle, 521-526