Here are grouped songs whose main theme is love, subdivided as below. Many are hardly "popular" in the strict sense: though current among the folk, they differ from the true folk-song, or "song-ballet." On the other hand, many bear a striking resemblance to certain of those listed in I and II, above.
Avonia (Red River Valley), ii, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: A constant lover's song of farewell to Helen, as she leaves the vale of Avonia.
Barney and Kate, 4abab, 6: Barney, maudlin with drink, comes one winter's night to Kate's window and implores her to admit him. She sends him packing. He goes away whistling, rejoicing in her chastity.
Kitty Wells, 4ababcdcd and 3abab, 3. Her lover's Lament upon her death. The refrain is:
Nora O'Neil, 4a3b4a3b, 5: Her lover's invitation to Nora to meet him "at the foot of the lane" when the nightingale sings in the dusk.
Sweet Birds, ii, 4a3b4a3b and 5aa, 6: A maiden's song of longing for her absent lover: she asks the birds to bear her message of devotion to him and to bring him back secure in his affection for her.
[Constant Johnny], 4aa, 14: A maiden sings her devotion to her absent sailor lover. He returns and they are married.
Lorla, 4aabb, 2: A lover's elegy over the grave of Lorla beneath the elm, as he recalls the golden willow under which they once sat on violet banks.
Lonesome Dove, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A constant husband sings his resolve to return like a lonesome dove to his wife and children in "Californy."
Lonesome Dove, 4aabb, 8: The singing of a dove bereft of its mate reminds a constant husband of his Mary, recently dead of consumption.
Pretty Saro, iii, 4aabb and 4aabb, 6ca: Her absent lover sings of his devotion, wishing he were a priest and knew how to write to her, or a dove to fly to her.
Come, All Ye Jolly Boatsman Boys, 7aabb, 5: A ribald song of a sailor to his amorata by night, and the birth of the child nine months later.
A Package of Old Letters, ii, 8aa, 11: A dying maiden bids her sister bring them from their rosewood casket to read them to her again, and asks that at her death they be buried with her.
Jack and Mamie, 6aabb and 4aaa3a, 4: Jack plunges into the water to recover the hat of his girl sweetheart, Mamie. Jack, the man, leaves her for a long voyage, and his ship never returned.
Sweet Summer Evening, 4abcb, 7: The poet one summer evening overhears a mother chide her daughter for her devotion to her roving sailor lover, who soon appears and bids her an affectionate farewell.
Wait for the Wagon, 3abcbdefe and 4a(ter), 4: A lover's call to Phyllis to jump into the wagon with him a-Sunday morning; he tells her of the cabin he has built for her, and wooes her to marry him.
Lovely Nancy, 4abcb, 5: A dialogue, in quatrains, between Nancy and her lover, whom she wishes to accompany on his voyage to the West Indies.
Nancy Till, 4aabb and 4aabb, 4: A serenade by her lover "down in the canebrakes close by the mill," urging her to be ready to go with him "a-sailing on the Ohio."
[Ephriam and Lucy], 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: The night before their wedding-day, amid night-hawks, owls, and whippoorwills, "we danced by the light of the moon."
[She was Happy till She Met You], 4aa5b4cc5b4dd5e4ff5e and 4ababcc5b, 2: A husband forsakes his wife; later, becoming repentant, he returns to seek her at the house of her mother, who forbids him access to her.
[Bedroom Window], 4abcb, 5: The lover by night calls his sweetheart to awake. She warns him away, saying that her father is armed to repulse his presence. He vows to have her for his own. A suggestion of his sinister motive closes the song.
I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree, ii, 4a3b4a3b4c3d4c3d, 3: A lover voices his resolve to forsake the charms of his fickle mistress to court a warrior's fate at the Saracen's hand on the field of Palestine.
There was a Rich Old Farmer, ii, 3abcb, 9ca: The singer recites his farewell to father and sweetheart to seek his fortune, and his faith in her—until a letter arrives telling of her marriage to another man.
Jack and Joe, 4a3b4b3c and 4a3b4b3c, 3ca: Both are sailors, away from home. Jack, returning first, is commissioned by Joe to kiss his sweetheart Nellie for him. When Joe returns, like Miles Standish, he finds that Jack and she are married.
All on the Banks of Clauda, 3abcb, 10: By this stream the poet overhears a maiden's complaint against her fickle Johnny. Like Oenone, she prays the mountain to hear her, and implores Cupid to fire his heart anew.
The Auxville Love, 4aabb, 6: A merchant's daughter, "in Auxville town or Delaware," love-lorn, gathers flowers, Ophelia-like, and dies under a green pine on the mountain.
Cuckoo, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A love-lorn maiden's warning to her sex not to be deceived, as she, by false men in springtime when the cuckoo calls.
We have Met and We have Parted, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 5ca: A maiden's scornful farewell to her fickle lover, as she returns him the presents and letters he has sent her.
If I had Minded Mamma, 3abcb and 3abcb, 6: A maiden's regret that she has been deluded by a faithless lover:
I Used to Love, 4abcb and 4abcb, 4: A maiden voices her complaint against the "dark-eyed girl," her successful rival, and her wish for "coffin, shroud, and grave," to end her woe.
The Butcher's Boy, iii, 4aabb, 8ca: A maiden voices her complaint against the New York butcher's boy, once her childhood playmate and lover, who now has forsaken her for a wealthier girl; then goes upstairs and hangs herself, leaving a note pinned on her breast.
The Pale Amaranthus, 4aabb, 5: A maiden's complaint against her faithless lover, whom she vows to forget.
I have Finished Him a Letter, 4abcb and 4abcb, 7: A maiden's complaint against her lover, who has forsaken her for Annie Lee.
Can You then Love Another?, ii, 3abcbdefe and 3abcb, 3: A lorn maiden's plaint:
To Cheer the Heart, ii, 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdede, 4: A maiden's complaint against her faithless lover. He is the son of a "rich merchant," she, the daughter of a "laboring man." "But why need I care? For I have another man."
A Poor Strange Girl, 4aabb, 7: The poet one May morning overhears a damsel complaining against her faithless lover, and against her loss of friends and home.
Pretty Polly, 4aabb, 5: A lover recites his visit one evening to her home, where he sees his rivals enjoying her company. He retires to a grove, sucks comfort from his whiskey bottle, and wishes that she were drowned, floating on the tide, that he, like a fisherman, might draw her in his net to shore.
Hang Down Your Head and Cry, 4aabb, 2: A fragment (two quatrains), apparently a complaint of a lover to his faithless sweetheart.
The Dying Girl's Message, ii, 4abcb, 15: Her death-song to her mother, breathing forgiveness for her faithless lover, and closing with a vision of Christ waiting to receive her.
A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.
The Cold, Dark Scenes of Winter, 3abcb, 9: In the winter the lover woos his fair, but is rejected. In the spring, her mind changing, she writes him of her love for him. He replies that meanwhile his heart has changed in turn and that he is already married to another.
Loving Hanner, 3abcb, 9: The lover sings his devotion to her, but in the face of her coolness and her parents' opposition, vows to go on a long voyage to try to forget her—but in vain.
My Bonnie Little Girl, 4a3b4c3b, 4: Courting her too slow, the singer finds his sweetheart has fled with another man.
Lovely Nancy, ii, 4aabb, 5ca: A bachelor's warning against "courting too slow": Sweet William goes on a voyage; meanwhile Nancy, his sweetheart, writes him of her marriage to another. William dies of grief and Nancy, of remorse.
I'm Scorned for being Poor (Vain Girl), 3abcb, 8: A lover's farewell to his sweetheart, who has forsaken him to be married to a wealthy stranger from New England.
Little Nellie, 4a3b4c3b, 8: She forsakes her lover, the singer, to marry wicked, wealthy Mr. Brown, who is a drunkard—and dies of a broken heart.
The Squire, 2abcb, 10: The wealthy young squire, being rejected in love by pretty Sally, vows to dance on her grave when she dies.
Little Sparrow (A Regret), ii, 4abcb, 5ca: A complaint of a love-lorn maiden warning her kind against the faithlessness of all men.
The Awful Wedding, 4abcb, 7: At the marriage feast each guest is asked for a song. The bride's former lover sings his unchanging affection for her. She swoons and spends the night in her mother's bed, where she is found dead the next morning.
The Young Man's Love, 2aa, 9: The singer one evening overhears a young man lamenting the faithlessness of his sweetheart, who scorns him for his poverty.
[Maggie], 3a3b4c3b and 2abab (approximately), 7: A story of Maggie, the constant wife, who seeks in bar-room and dry-goods store her faithless husband, who has eloped with Lula Fry. Failing to find him, she wanders to the cemetery, and thence to the railroad trestle, where she is killed by train No. Four.
Joe Hardy, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A maiden's explanation to her jilted lover that when she plighted her troth in Bangor, she had not then met Joe Hardy, whom she now adores.
Lovely Julia, iv, 4abcb, 9ca: Crossed in love by her parents, she leaves the city, goes upon a mountain, and plunges a dagger into her breast. Her lover finds her and in like manner dies with her.
Johnny Doyle, 2aa, 14ca: A maiden, who loves Johnny, is forced by her parents to prepare to marry Samuel Moore. Just as the priest enters, her earrings fall to the floor and her stay-laces burst. She is carried home fatally ill. The mother now proposes to send for Johnny Doyle, but it is too late—she is dead.
Annie Willow, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Her lover dreams of her and goes to her uncle's house to visit her. Upon being told that she is absent, he fights his way in with drawn sword and takes her away with him.
Greenbriar Shore, 4aa, 10: An amorous youth recites his love for Nancy on Greenbriar Shore. Her father chases him away with an "army of a thousand or more." The sad lot of womankind deplored.
The Single Soldier (The Sailor Lover, John Riley), v, 4abcb, 8ca: "A pretty fair damsel in a garden" is wooed by a passing soldier (or sailor). She rejects him, saying her lover is absent in the wars. Assured of her faithfulness, he proves his identity by taking their betrothal ring from his pocket.
Annie and Willie, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He bids her farewell at the seashore and goes on a long voyage. After three years he returns, and, disguised as a beggar, tests her devotion, draws the "patch from his eye," is recognized, and marries her. (Cf. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, page 8, above.)
Pretty Polly, 4aabb, 8: Pining for her soldier lover, who is absent in the "town of renown," she goes in the guise of a trooper to seek him, becomes his room-mate for the night, and discloses her identity in the morning.
Florella (Floella, Fair Ella, Jealous Lover), iv, 3abcb, 11ca: Her lover comes one moonlit night to her cottage window and persuades her to wander with him "through meadows dark and gay." She reluctantly follows, and is murdered by him, forgiving him with her dying breath.
Little Omy Wise (Little Anna), iii, 4aa, 13: John Lewis seduces her with promises, lures her to Adam's Spring, murders her, and throws her body into the stream. She is "missen," the body is found, the murderer views it and confesses the crime.
Miller-boy, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Johnny, the miller's apprentice, falls in love with a Knoxville girl. One night the pair go walking; he murders her with a fence-stake, explains the stains on his clothes as due to nose-bleed, but is convicted. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and Waxford Girl, page 13.)
Polly Vaughn, 2abcb (approximately), 4ca: One evening dressed in white she goes walking, takes refuge from a shower under a holly bush, is mistaken for a swan by her lover, Jimmy Randal, and shot.
Rose Colalee (Colleen?), 4a3b4c3b, 2: She is murdered on the bank of a river, by her lover, who, intoxicated with Burgundy wine, is persuaded by his father's promise of money, to slay her.
Note.—Amid the flotsam and jetsam of popular parlor-songs everywhere current the following have come to hand. They are hardly worth preserving, even by title, save for the fact that in spite of their pseudo-literary tang they are fellow travelers by oral tradition with the true folk-songs and song-ballads.
The list is: The Old, Old Love is Growing Still; There's a Spark of Love Still Burning; I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers; The White Rose; I'll Love Thee Always; Jack and Mary; Willie and Kate; Won't You Ever Come Again?; Fond Affection; Will You Love Me When I'm Old?; Nell and I had Quarrels; Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold?; I Want to be Somebody's Darling; By the Gate; The Broken Engagement; Say You'll be Mine in a Year; I Cannot be Your Sweetheart; Kiss Me Again; Just Going Down to the Gate; Darling, We have Long been Parted; Our Hands are Clasped; Only Flirting; I Loved You Better than You Knew; Mollie Darling; The Jealous Girl; The Independent Girl; Willie, Come Back; Free Again; The Hawthorn Tree; The Sailor Lad; I'll be All Smiles Tonight; Love, I've been Faithful; Maggie's Secret; I Rather Think I Will; Little Sweetheart; Meet Me in the Moonlight; He's Got Money, Too; After the Ball; Sweet Bunch of Daisies; In the Shadow of the Pines; On the Banks of the Wabash; Mary has Gone with a "Coon."
This group contains two-part songs, arranged dialogue-fashion, like a debat or a tenson. All contain love-themes, as in XI above. In spite of the obvious logical cross-division, it has seemed well to print them as a separate section.
I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, ii, 4aab3b, 13: The lover offers the maiden in alternate quatrains various gifts to induce her to marry him. She replies in alternate quatrains, refusing him. Finally, he offers "the key of his chest." She accepts, but he scorns her mercenary love.
Madam, I've A-courting Come, 4a3b4c3b, 7: The lover in the first three quatrains offers his various forms of wealth to induce the lady to marry him. She refuses in the fifth stanza his mercenary love. He makes reply in the sixth and she in the seventh.
Two Letters, ii, 3abcb, 13: The first four quatrains constitute the letter from Charley Brooks to Nelly Adair, asking for the return of his presents to her, since his love for her has grown cold. The last nine are her reply, acquiescing with a sad dignity.
[Stony Hill], 4a3b4c3b, 3: Each quatrain contains, in couplets respectively, question and reply of lover and sweetheart, who is "sixteen next Sunday" and has to "ask her mammy."
Stella, 4a3b4c3b, 14: A dialogue between Alfred, a volunteer at his country's call, to Stella, his sweetheart.
The Waggoner's Lad: See Section IX.
Kaintucky Boys: See Section X.
Buckskin Boys: See Section X.
This group consists of humorous songs. Certain ones resemble modern songs of the vaudeville, and such they probably were.
Grandmother's Mustard Plaster, 4aabb, 7ca: The story of a plaster that drew the buttons from a vest, axles from a wagon, a street car forty miles, jerked a "Chinee's" boot off and pulled his leg at the "opium jint," mashed a "cop's" hat down, drew a wagon over town, stuck on a passenger train, drew it to Washington, where it remained—stuck on politics.
Boy and Bumble-bee, 4a3b4c3b(?), 5: An urchin puts a bumble-bee in his pistol pocket and goes fishing. He sits down, the bee turns the trick, and "spoils the urchin's disposition."
Kate and the Clothier, 4aabb, 8ca: A jilted maiden disguises herself in "an old cowhide with crooked horns," and seizes her clothier-lover in a "lonesome field." Thinking her to be the Devil, he renounces the lawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate.
Seymore Wilson, 3a3b4c3b, 8ca: He is a gawky, love-sick youth. He goes a-courting on Potriffle, but finding a rival sitting on the "calico-side" returns to his plowing, weeps, then becomes cheerful in his resolve to wait for another girl.
Billy Boy, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about his wife: she is "too young to leave her mammy," can "bake a cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine," is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on.
[The Preacher and the Bear], a chant of the 4a3b4c3b type, 7ca: He goes hunting a-Sunday, meets a grizzly bear, climbs a tree, and prays a humorous prayer for help. The limb breaks; he falls, but escapes.
[Love is Such a Funny Thing], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b, 9: It causes empty pockets, second-hand clothing, collectors, and even brings the "bald-headed end of the broom" into play: a husband's soliloquy.
[The Married Man], 4aa, 5: A married man's woes: children on his knees, bad clothing, "seeping" shoes—while the single man suffers none of these things.
Devilish Mary, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A hen-pecked husband's lament: he woos and marries the termagant within three days—then follows trouble. She "mashes his mouth with a shovel," bundles up her "duds", and leaves him within three weeks.
I Won't Marry at All, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3: I won't marry a rich man because he will drink and fall in the ditch; a poor man, for he will go begging; a fat man, for he will do nothing but "nurse" the cat.
Poor Old Maid, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity:
I Wish I was Single Again, metre as below, 5: A married man's repentance: his first wife died—
Joe Bowers, 3abcb, 10: He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike County, Missouri, and goes to "Rome," California, to make a home for her. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she had married a red-headed butcher and that their baby had red hair.
A Pound of Tow, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has since become a gad-about and a gossip.
The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may be called sentimental.
The Blind Child, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: She deplores her father's second marriage, kneels to say her evening prayers, and dies. She is buried by the side of her mother.
The Dying Nun, 4abcb, 12: To Sister Martha, her nurse, Sister Clara tells her youthful waywardness toward her parents and recalls her early love for Douglas, and dies.
The Ship that Never Returned, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: The vanity of human wishes: a feeble lad kissing his mother good-bye as he sets sail to seek health in a foreign climate; a gallant seaman kissing his wife good-bye as he sets sail to seek their fortune across the seas—but the ship of either never returned.
I Have no Mother Now, 3abab, 9: An orphan's lament, with a vision of the mother's grave, etc.
The Orphan Girl, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Refused shelter at the door of a rich man one wintry night, she dies before it in the snow.
Phantom Footsteps, 4ababcdcd and 4abab, 3: A mother's night-yearning for her dead child.
[The Wayward Girl], 4aa6b4cc6b4dd6e4ff6e and 4ab2cc4bde2ff4e, 2: One year after leaving her home in wayward love, her father writes her of her mother's death and forgives her, but she refuses to return.
Old Man's Trouble, 4aa5b4cc5b and 4aa5b4cc5b, 3: A meditation upon the sadness of old age and a warning to the young against their own days of poverty and senile helplessness.
In the Baggage-coach Ahead, iii, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e4g3h4i3h and 4aabb, 2: A crying child brings to its sad-eyed father remonstrances from sleepy passengers until they are told that the dead mother is in the baggage-coach ahead.
[Sweet Memory of Dear Mother], 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdefe, 3: A child's loving reminiscence.
Little Maudia, 4abcb, 6: A dying girl's farewell to her mother.
Old Church-yard, 4abcb, 7: A forlorn orphan's meditation upon her mother's grave.
The songs of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may be called moralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection.
[The Black Sheep], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: Jack and Tom prevail upon their rich and aged father to send away their brother Fred as a "black sheep." Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to send the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from this disgrace.
[Nothing to be Made by Roving], 3abcb, 2: Dissipation brings discontent at last.
Two Drummers, 6aabbccdd and 6aabb, 2: In a "grand hotel" they speak slightingly to a pretty waitress. She rebukes them, making appeal to their regard for their mothers. They apologize to her and one of them marries her.
The Drunkard's Dream, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A vision of his dead wife and children turns him from strong drink forever after.
Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 3a3b4c3b, 3: The little daughter begs her father to come home from the grog-shop before her little brother dies. The clock tolls twelve, one, two, three—and when finally she leads him home, the boy is dead.
A Drifter Rescued, 4abcb, 10: The turbulent journey of a ship-wrecked soul: near the brink of destruction the reckless man finds a redeemer in the Savior.
The Wandering Boy, 4aabb and 4abcc, 4: A mother's wail for her wayward son: she points out the vacant chair, cradle, and shoes of his innocent babyhood.
This group contains sequence-songs, or number-songs, like the popular German Zaehllieder, though not all are necessarily sung, but rather are spoken. The first one below would seem to be akin to the various cabala of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania.
[Twelve Apostles], as follows:
Club-fist: A series of questions and answers concerning the fire, water, ox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, etc.—each of which terms is destructive of the preceding one. (Spoken.)
John Brown's Little Indians: An enumeration of his "Indians" from unity upward, and thence back to unity again.
The Unlucky Young Man, ii, 4aa and 4aaa3b, 13ca: He exchanges oxen for a cow, the cow for a calf, the calf for a dog, the dog for a cat, the cat for a rat, the rat for a mouse, which "took fire to her tail and burned down the house."
Old Sam Suck-egg, ii, 2aa, 10: He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and this for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line, until he has lost all. (Spoken.)
[I Bought Me a Horse], 4aa and cumulative refrain of animal cries: In each couplet a new purchase of some common animal or fowl is made, while each succeeding refrain gathers up cumulative-fashion the cries made by each succeeding addition to the collection.
One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines, each containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.)
This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, "frolickings," and movement-games of Kentucky.
Charlie, ii, 4a3b4c3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie, the dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc.
Bluebird, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless, endless improvisation, in which are woven the "calls" of the dance, beginning:
The Railroad, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally different, beginning:
The Boatman, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:
Here she sits in her sad station.
Long Summer Day, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:
A-moaning and Groaning, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:
Marching Round the Levy [Lady?]: In general form and function like the above, beginning:
Going to Boston: In general form and function like the above, beginning:
Here Come Two Dukes A-roving, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless improvisation for the men and women of the dance, alternately—beginning:
Skip to My Lou, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance "calls," beginning:
Fol Dol Sol, 4a3b4c3b, 2ca: One quatrain is:
Green Grows the Willow, 4aaaa, 4ca: One quatrain is:
The Jolly Miller, iii, metre as follows, 2:
Sister Phoebe, 4aab, 2: It begins:
Needle's Eye, as follows:
Green Gravel, 4aabb, 4ca: It begins:
[Old Quebec], ii, 4a3b4c3b, 3ca: It begins:
[Sister Frankie], 3abcb and 3abcb, 3: The refrain is:
Buffalo, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 2: It begins:
Bouquet Patch (Pawpaw Patch), ii: An endless, rimeless improvisation, beginning:
Go In and Out at the Window: An endless, rimeless improvisation containing the dance calls in order.
This group contains paralipomena which baffle individual description. It embraces counting-out rimes, jigs, lullabies, child-rimes, nonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical, and usually rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. The following list is an attempt to name them:
Cluck, Old Hen; Frog in the Meadow; Old as Moses; When I was a Little Boy; Sugar in the Gourd; I'll Build My Nest in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker; Possum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater; Chickamy Corney-crow; William Trimmel Tram: Shidepoke and Crane; Johnny's out on Picking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog; Tarry; Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I'm Hungry; Gray Goose; Needle and Thread; It Rained so Hard; I'll Never get Drunk Anymore; Rock Island; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober; Apples in the Summertime; Coony has a Ringy Tail: I Went Down Town; Sally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Rabbit Walked; Shoo, Old Lady, Shine!; Hook and Line; Day I'm Gone; Churn Your Buttermilk; Kalamazine; Hang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara Jane; Whickum-whack; Up to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had an Old Mare; To Rowser's; Roll the Old Chariot Along; Shady Grove; Whangho; Cripple Creek.
After the Ball, 29
All on the Banks of Clauda, 24
A-moaning and Groaning, 36
Annie and Willie, 27
Annie Willow, 27
Apples in the
Summertime,
38
Apprentice Boy, The, 10
Arkansas Traveller, 15
Assassination of J. B. Marcum, The, 18
Auxville Love, The, 24
Avonia, 21
Awful Wedding, The, 26
Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The, 8
Barbara Allen, 8
Barney and Kate, 21
Battle of Gettysburg, 14
Beauchamp's Confession, 16
[Bedroom Window], 23
Beefsteak When I'm Hungry, 38
Beneath the Arch of London Bridge, 10
Betsy Brown, 12
Betty Stout, 16
Billy Boy, 30
[Black Sheep, The], 33
Blind Child, The, 32
Blue and the Gray, The, 14
Bluebird, 35
Boatman, The, 36
Bosom Friend, 8
Bounty Jumpers, 14
Bouquet Patch, 38
Boy and Bumble-bee, 30
Broken Engagement, The, 29
Buckskin Boys, 21, 30
Buffalo, 38
Butcher's Boy, The, 24
By the Gate, 29
By-o Baby Bunting, 33
California Joe, 16
Can You then Love Another?, 25
Cause and Killing of Jesse Adams, The, 18
Charlie, 35
Chickamy Corney-crow, 38
Churn Your Buttermilk, 38
Club-fist, 24
Cluck, Old Hen, 38
Cold, Dark Scenes of Winter, The, 25
Cold Winter's Night, 8
Come a High Jim Along, 39
Come, All Ye Jolly Boatsman Boys, 22
[Come, All Ye Southern Soldiers], 15
[Constant Johnny], 22
Coon-dog, 38
Coony has a Ringy Tail, 38
Cripple Creek, 39
Cubeck's Garden, 11
Cuckoo, 24
Dandoo, 8
Darling, We have Long been Parted, 29
Day I'm Gone, 38
Devilish Mary, 31
Drifter Rescued, A, 24
Driver Boy, The, 9
Drunkard's Dream, The, 33
Dying Cowboy, The, 15
Dying Girl's Message, The, 25
Dying Nun, The, 32
Eddingsburg Town, 11
Edward, 7
Edward Hawkins, 17
[Ephraim and Lucy], 23
F. F. V., The, 20
Fair Ella, 28
Fair Ellender, 7
Fair Margaret and Sweet William, 8
Fair Notamon Town, 11
Fan, The, 10
Farmer's Boy, The, 20
Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now, 33
Floella, 28
Florella, 28
Floyd Frazier, 18
Fol Dol Sol, 36
Fond Affection, 29
Free Again, 29
Frisky Jim, 38
Frog in the Meadow, 38
Go In and Out at the Window, 38
Goebel and Taylor, 21
Going to Boston, 36
Golden Glove, The, 11
Grandmother's Mustard Plaster, 30
Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?, 38
Gray Goose, 38
Green Gravel, 37
Green Grows the Willow, 37
Green Willow Tree, The, 9
Greenbriar Shore, 27
Greenwood Side, The, 7
Ground-hog, 38
Guerrilla Man, The, 14
Had an Old Mare, 39
Handsome Flora, 16
Hang Down Your Head, 38
Hang Down Your Head and Cry, 25
Hawthorn Tree, The, 29
Here Come Two Dukes A-roving, 36
He's Got Money, Too, 29
Hiram Hubbert, 14
Hook and Line, 38
House Carpenter, The, 8
[I Bought Me a Horse], 35
I Cannot be Your Sweetheart29
I Feel, 38
I have Finished Him a Letter, 25
I Have no Mother Now, 32
I Loved You Better than You Knew, 29
I Rather Think I Will, 29
I Used to Love, 24
I Want to be Somebody's Darling, 29
I Went Down Town, 38
I Wish I was Single Again, 31
I Won't Marry at All, 31
If I had Minded Mamma, 24
I'll be All Smiles Tonight, 29
I'll Build My Nest In a Tree38
I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, 29
I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow tree, 23
I'll Love Thee Always, 29
I'll Never get Drunk Anymore, 38
I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers, 28
I'm Going to Join the Army, 15
I'm Scorned for being Poor, 26
[In Rowan County Jail], 17
In the Baggage-coach Ahead, 33
In the Shadow of the Pines, 29
Independent Girl, The, 29
Irish Girl, 14
Irish Molly O, 13
Irish Peddler, The, 19
It Rained so Hard, 38
Jack and Joe, 24
Jack and Mamie, 23
Jack and Mary, 29
Jack Combe's Death Song, 17
Jack Wilson, 10
Jackaro, 9
James A. Garfield, 21
Jealous Girl, The, 29
Jealous Lover, 28
[Jeems Braggs], 18
Jereboam Beauchamp, 19
Jesse James, 16
Jew's Daughter, The, 8
Joe Bowers, 32
Joe Hardy, 27
John Brown's Little Indians, 34
John Hardy, 19
John Riley, 27
John T. Parker, 18
Johnnie Came from Sea, 14
Johnny Doyle, 27
Johnny's out on Picking, 38
Jolly Miller, The, 37
Just Going Down to the Gate, 29
Kaintucky Boys, 21, 30
Kalamazine, 38
Kate and the Clothier, 30
King's Daughter, The, 7
Kiss Me Again, 29
Kitty Wells, 22
Lady Gay, 9
Last Night as I Lay Sleeping, 17
Little Anna, 28
Little Maudia, 33
Little Nellie, 26
Little Omy Wise, 28
Little Sparrow, 26
Little Sweetheart, 29
Little Willie, 7
Lone Prairie, The, 15
Lonesome Dove, 22
Lonesome Dove, 22
Long Summer Day, 36
Lord Bateman, 7
Lord Lovely, 8
Lord of Old Country, 7
Lord Randal, 7
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender, 8
Lord Vanner's (Daniel's) Wife, 8
Lorla, 22
[Love is Such a Funny Thing], 31
Love, I've been Faithful, 29
Lovely Caroline of Old Edinboro, 11
Lovely Julia, 27
Lovely Nancy, 23
Lovely Nancy, 26
Lover's Farewell, 8
Loving Hanner, 26
Loving Henry, 8
Lynchburg Town, 20
MacAfee's Confession, 16
Madam, I've A-courting Come, 29
[Maggie], 26
Maggie's Secret, 29
Marching Round the Levy, 36
[Married Man, The], 31
Mary has Gone with a "Coon", 29
Mary of the Wild Moor, 12
Meet Me in the Moonlight, 29
Miller-boy, 28
Mollie Darling, 29
Molly, 13
Moonshiner, The, 19
Murfreesboro, 14
My Bonnie Little Girl, 26
Nancy Till, 23
Needle and Thread, 38
Needle's Eye, 37
Nell and I had Quarrels, 29
Nora O'Neil, 22
[Nothing to be Made by Roving], 33
Old as Moses, 38
Old Church-yard, 33
Old Dad, 38
Old Dan Tucker, 38
Old Gray, 20
Old Man's Trouble, 33
Old Miller, The, 20
Old Number Four, 20
Old, Old Love is Growing Still, The, 28
[Old Quebec], 37
Old Sam Simons, 38
Old Sam Suck-egg, 35
Old Shoemaker, The, 20
Old Woman of London, The, 10
On the Banks of the Wabash, 29
One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 35
Only Flirting, 29
Orphan Girl, The, 32
Our Hands are Clasped, 29
Package of Old Letters, A, 22
Pale Amaranthus, The, 24
Patty on the Canal, 13
Pawpaw Patch, 38
Peter Punkin-eater, 38
Phantom Footsteps, 32
Polly, My Charmer, 16
Polly Vaughn, 28
Poor Goens, 18
Poor Old Maid, 31
Poor Strange Girl, A, 25
Possum up a Gum-stump, 38
Pound of Tow, A, 32
[Preacher and the Bear, The], 31
Pretty Mohee (Maumee), The, 12
Pretty Peggy O, 9
Pretty Polly, 7
Pretty Polly, 7
Pretty Polly, 25
Pretty Polly, 27
Pretty Saro, 22
Rabbit Walked, 38
Railroad, The, 35
[Railroad Boy], 20
Red River Valley, 21
Regret, A, 26
Rich and Rambling Boy, The, 17
Rich Margent, The, 10
Rock Island, 38
Roll the Old Chariot Along, 39
Romish Lady, The, 12
Rope and the Gallows, The, 7
Rosanna, 12
Rose Colalee (Colleen?), 28
Rosin the Bow, 19
Rosin the Bow, 20
Roving Irish Boy, 13
Rowan County Tragedy, The, 18
Rowdy Boys, 17
Sailor Lad, The, 29
Sailor Lover, The, 27
Sailor's Request, The, 16