Family Life (Chapter 2)- Songs & Ballads from Overton Co.
[Some individual texts for songs in this chapter are attached to this page on the left hand column. Links from this page may be done at a later date.
R. Matteson 2014]
CHAPTER II- FAMILY LIFE
This chapter falls naturally into two main groupings. The first deals with family and friends and the second with mother. In the ballads treating of family and reminiscences, stories of troubles of various members of the family, and advice constitute the greater part of the division. The section on family life shows three kinds of trouble; first, trouble caused children by their parents; second, trouble caused parents by their children; and third, trouble between husband and wife. The latter are in forms of laments. The song called, Advice to Young Men," has no special claim to being in this group, except that it may be a member of the family advising the youth to be wary of the lasses.
Several songs have been omitted from this group because they are often included in other collections, and some of them appear to be by some recent writer.
The first group is reminiscent of home:
CONTENTS:
Little Brown Cot
Blue Ridge Mountain Home
My Clinch Mountain Home
Little Home in Tennessee
The Old Door Step
Friends of Long Ago
A Message From Home Sweet Home
The Drunkard's Lone Child
The Wild Moor
If I Only Had a home Sweet Home
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
I wish I was Single Again
I Wish I was Single Again (2)
Ain't Gonna Be Treated This-A-Way
Married Man's Troubles
Now Moses
Advice to Young Men
Boys Keep Away From the Gals
Grandma's Advice
The Cumberland
You'll Never Know a Mother's Love Again
I've No Mother now
The Picture on the Wall
Motherless Children
You'll Never miss Mother
Shake Hands with Mother Again
Ten Thousand Miles away
The Lightning Express
I have no Loving Mother Now
Pictures form life's Other Side
Mother Queen of my Heart
Mother and Home
There'll Come A Time
Hello Central, Give Me Heaven
Step-Mother
Don't Grieve Your Mother