Love-- Songs/Ballads from Overton Co.
[Crabtree's classifications of songs are a bit capricious and in this section (120 texts), we find four versions of The Red River Valley, a song usually associated with Western Songs. There are multiple versions of several ballads and songs and five Child ballads are included (3 versions of Barbara Allen).
R. Matteson 2014]
CHAPTER XI- LOVE
The study of songs of Love shows that of the one hundred and twenty love poems, fifty-five are burdened with the story of disappointed or unhappy love; Forty-two tell of parted or parting lovers; twenty-three deal with unhappy love. The great number of songs in this section as compared with the number in other chapters indicates a favorite song theme of love.
CONTENTS
Barbara Allen (1) [Child 84]
Barbara Allen (2)
Barbara Ellen (3)
Careless Love
The House Carpenter [Child 243]
Her Bright Eyes Haunt Me Still
Flirting [Just Another Broken Heart]
Simply A Flirt [Sinful to Flirt]
Forsaken Love
The Shadow of the Pine
Jack and Joe
You've Treated Me Mean and Dirty
Lullaby Yodel
Curly-Headed Baby
Isle of Capree
May I Sleep in your Barn Tonight, Mister?
Lorena
Joe Hardy
The New River Train
My Little Lady
Thous Hast Wounded the Spirit That Love Thee
Old Ties
lover's Farewell
The lazy boy
Gypsy's Warning
The Man's Reply to the Gypsy's Warning
Girl's Reply to the Gypsy's Warning
I Have No One To Love Me
As I Walked out One Morning Fair
Brown Eyes
Green Ireland
Thou Hast Learned To Love Another (1)
Thou Hast Learned To Love Another (2)
Old Smokey (1)
On Top of Old Smokey (2)
For the Sake of Days gone By
The Fatal Wedding
Ella Dare
Charlie Brooks
Wildwood Flower (Twine Mid The Ringlets)
After the Ball
Broken Engagement
Bury me Beneath The Willow (1)
Weeping Willow (2)
Little Rosewood Casket (1)
Little Rosewood Casket (2)
Little Rosewood Casket (3)
A Package of old Letters
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, Love
bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me
Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
Leave Me Darling, I Don't Mind [Columbus Stockade Blues]
A Forsaken Lover
Conquer Pride
Poor Nell
Loving Henery [Child 68, Young Hunting]
The Two Lovers
The two Lovers (2)
Flo-Ella
Pearl Bryant
Pearl Bryant (2)
Sweet Fern (Sweet Birds- 1)
Sweet Birds (2)
Still I Love Thee
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
The Sailor's Plea
The Maple on the Hill
I'm Lonely Tonight Sweetheart
Will You Miss Me (When I'm Gone)
Will You Love Me When I'm Old
Little Darling
Are You Tired of Me My Darling?
Black-Eyed Susan
Little Sweetheart
Be Nobody's Darling But Mine
The Red River Valley (1)
The Red River Valley (2)
The Red River Valley (3)
The Red River Valley (4)
We Parted by the Riverside
Don't Be Weary Little Darling
Sweetheart Come Back To Me
Bye, Bye, Till I See You Again
Down Beside A Brook
More Pretty Girls Than One
Nobody's Darling (1)
I'm Nobody's Darling (2)
Peach Picking Time In Georgia (McMichen/Rodgers)
The Roving Gambler
The Sweet, Long Ago
What Is A Home Without Love?
Lassie Mohee (1)
The Pretty Mohee (2)
On the Banks of the Wabash
Such A Happy Little Girl Am I
Tell Me
When The Mountain Laurels Bloom
Jennie, The Flower of Kildare
Carolina Moon
Silvery Moon
Sadie Ray
I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers
The Whip-Poor-Will
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Down Among the Budded Roses
There's a Good Girl In The Mountains
The Little Brown Jug
Sparking on Sunday Night
I love Little Willie
My Happy Little Home in Arkansaw
The Boys Won't Do To Trust
The Aggravating Beauty Lulu Wall (Carter Family) (1)
Lulu Wall (2)
Meet Me in the Moonlight (Prisoner's Song- Dalhart)
Katy At The Gate
You're the Only Girl I Ever Cared About
My mother Was A Lady
Two Sweethearts
Somebody
Kitty Kline
When I was A Boy from the Mountains
I Love You Best of All
You're As Welcome As the Flowers in May
Sweet Bunch of Daisey's
You and My Guitar
Mary and Willie
The Bailor's Daughter (Bailiff's Daughter- Child 105)
The Merchant's Daughter (Dog and Gun)
The Ways Courting Breeches
Barney McCoy
Maggie Darling, Now Goodbye