An edition of American ballads and folk songs
(1934)
American ballads and folk songs
by John Avery Lomax and Alan Lomax
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English Ballads, Spirituals (Songs), English Folk songs, Music, Folk music, African AmericansPlaces
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Table of Contents
Working on the railroad.
John Henry ;
Steel laying holler ;
The heavy-hipted woman ;
Tie shuffling chant ;
Tie tamping chant ;
Good-by, pretty mama ;
Paddy works on the Erie ;
Mike ;
The Gila monster route ;
Hallelujah, bum again ;
Ten thousand miles from home ;
The wreck on the C. & O. ;
Nachul-born easman ;
Casey Jones ;
The wreck of the six-wheel driver ;
Ol' John Brown ;
Charley Snyder -- -- The levee camp.
Shack bully holler ;
Reason I stay on job so long ;
Gwineter harness in de mornin' soon ;
Levee camp "holler" ;
Shot my pistol in de heart of town -- -- Songs from Southern chain gangs.
Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis ;
Black Betty ;
The hammer song ;
Rosie ;
Ol' rattler ;
Stewball ;
De midnight special ;
Long gone ;
Great God-a'mighty ;
Jumpin' Judy ;
Goin' home -- -- Negro bad men.
Bad man ballad ;
Po Laz'us ;
Stagolee ;
Old Bill ;
Frankie and Albert ;
Ida Red ;
Big Jim ;
De ballit of de bol weevil ;
Bill Martin and Ella Speed ;
Railroad Bill -- -- White desperadoes.
Spanish Johnny ;
John Harty ;
Sam Bass ;
Jesse James ;
Quantrell ;
Sam Hall ;
Zeb Turney's gal ;
Billy the Kid ;
The Cryderville jail ;
Po' boy -- -- Songs from the mountains.
Down in the valley ;
Every night when the sun goes in ;
The roving gambler ;
I wish I was a mole in the ground ;
Sugar babe ;
When I was single (the woman) ;
When I was single (the man) ;
Darlin' ;
Polly Williams ;
The bear in the hill ;
The little mohee -- -- Cocaine and whisky.
Drink that rot gut ;
Rye whisky ;
The drunkard's doom ;
Little brown jug ;
Adieu to Bon County ;
Good ol' mountain dew ;
Lulu ;
Willie the weeper ;
Honey, take a whiff on me -- -- The blues.
Cornfield holler ;
Dirty mistreatin' women ;
Dink's blues ;
Dink's song ;
Woman blue ;
Go way f'om mah window ;
My li'l John Henry ;
Shorty George ;
The "cholly" blues ;
Fare thee well, babe ;
Alabama-bound -- -- Creole Negroes.
Michié Préval ;
Rémon ;
Criole Candjo ;
Un, deux, trois ;
Aurore Pradère ;
Ou Som Souroucou ;
Salangadou -- -- "Reels". Foller de drinkin' gou'd ;
Run, nigger, run! ;
Pick a bale o' cotton ;
Hard to be a nigger ;
Shortenin' bread ;
Sandy lan' ; -- Pattin'.
Little gal at our house ;
Rabbit hash ;
Da's all right, baby ;
Cotton field song ;
De grey goose ;
Julie Ann Johnson ;
My yallow gal ;
De black gal --
Minstrel types.
The ballad of Davy Crockett ;
Raise a rukus tonight ;
When de good Lord sets you free ;
Old Dan Tucker ;
Cotton-eyed Joe -- -- Breakdowns and play parties.
The Arkansas traveller ;
Groun' hog ;
Cumberland Gap ;
Sourwood Mountain ;
Old Joe Clark ;
The gal I left behind me ;
Ol' mother Hare ;
Liza Jane ;
Black-eyed Susie ;
Louisiana girls ;
Weevily wheat ;
Way over in the blooming garden ;
Skip to my Lou ;
Shoot the buffalo ;
Going to Boston ;
Shoo-shoo-shoo-lye -- -- Songs of childhood.
What folks are made of ;
All the pretty little horses ;
The old gray goose ;
Long time ago ;
Three pigs ;
Tale of a little pig ;
Frog went a-courtin' ;
Crows in the garden ;
The Connecticut peddler ;
Billy Boy ;
Paper of pins ;
Hardly think I will ;
I love little Willie -- -- Miscellany.
The factory girl ;
Hard times ;
On Meesh-e-gan ;
Tearin' out-a wilderness ;
The man on the flying trapeze ;
Ye ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar ;
Beautiful ;
The highly educated man ;
Darky Sunday school ;
The old bachelor ;
Rattle snake -- -- Vaqueros of the Southwest.
Allá en el rancho grande ;
El amor que te tenía ;
El abandonado ;
Cuatro palomitas blancas ;
Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal -- -- Cowboy songs.
From the chuck wagon ;
Cowboys' gettin'-up holler ;
The Old Chizzum Trail ;
When I was a cowboy ;
Cowboy to pitching bronco ;
Other cowboy boasting chants ;
Good-by, Old Paint ;
Git along, little dogies ;
The buffalo skinners ;
The stawberry roan ;
Mustang Gray ;
Hell in Texas ;
Arizona ;
The killer ;
Snagtooth Sal ;
Tying a knot in the devil's tail ;
Susan Van Dusan ;
The cowboy's dream ;
Red River shore ;
Roy Bean ;
An Idaho cowboy dance ;
In town ;
Bucking bronco ;
Poor lonesome cowboy -- -- Songs of the overlanders.
Joe Bowers ;
Sweet Betsy from Pike ;
Crossing the Plains ;
Coming around the Horn ;
The bull-whacker ;
Brigham Young ;
Greer County -- -- The miner.
The hard-working miner ;
The dreary Black Hills ;
Just from Dawson -- -- The shanty-boy.
The lost Jimmie Whalen ;
The shanty-boy and the farmer's son ;
Gerry's rocks ;
Bung yer eye ;
The banks of the Pamanow --
The Erie Canal.
Ballad of the Erie Canal ;
The Erie Canal ;
The Erie Canal ballad ;
Erie Canal ;
A trip on the Erie ;
Low bridge, everybody down ;
The E-ri-e ;
The raging can-all --
The Great Lakes.
Red iron ore -- -- Sailors and sea fights.
Johnny come down to Hilo ;
Heave away ;
Whisky Johnny ;
The Rio Grande ;
The Black Ball Line ;
Blow the man down ;
Get up, Jack! John, sit down! ;
Jack Wrack ;
The Boston come-all ye ;
The wonderful crocodile ;
Captain Robert Kidd ;
The Flying Cloud ;
Constitution and Guerrière ;
Siege of Plattsburg ;
The buccaneers ;
Destroyer life -- -- Wars and soldiers.
Yankee Doodle ;
Braddock's defeat ;
John Brown's body ;
Hold on, Abraham ;
Dixie ;
War song ;
Good old rebel ;
Benny Havens, Oh! ;
The wild Miz-zou-rye ;
Shenandoah ;
Damn the Filipinos ;
A rookie's lament ;
The company cook ;
We've done our hitch in hell ;
If you want to know where the privates are ;
The hearse song ;
Hinky dinky, parley-voo? -- -- White spirituals.
Bear the news, Mary ;
Parting friends ;
Burges ;
Few days ;
Wedlock ;
Wicked Polly ;
Now our meeting's over ;
The other shore ;
Amazing grace -- -- Negro spirituals.
Many t'ousands go ;
Lay dis body down ;
Mone, member, mone ;
Moanin' ;
Healin' waters ;
'Ligion so sweet ;
Dives and Laz'us ;
Set down, servant ;
Oh, Lawd, how long? ;
Never said a mumbalin' word ;
Hell and heaven ;
Man goin' round ;
Good-by, Mother ;
This train ;
Deep river ;
Blin' man stood on de way an' cried ;
Dese bones gwine to rise again ;
Hard trials ;
Dat lonesome stream ;
Woe be unto you ;
Tone de bell easy ;
Swing low, sweet chariot ;
When my blood runs chilly and col'.
Edition Notes
Unacc. melodies.
"Of this edition ... five hundred copies have been prepared, each signed by the authors." This copy not numbered. Signed: John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax.
Bibliography / compiled by Harold W. Thompson: p. 613-621.
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