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American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
"A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times. With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and many others. One of the remarkable features of this collection is its authenticity. Many of the songs were recorded "on location" by noted folklorist John A. Lomax and his even more famous son, Alan, as they traveled around the United States. The results are firsthand versions of music and lyrics for over 200 railroad songs, chain-gang songs, mountain songs, Creole songs, cocaine and whisky songs, "reels," minstrel songs, songs of childhood, and a host of others. Among them are such time-honored favorites as "John Henry," "Goin' Home," "Frankie and Albert," "Down in the Valley," "Little Brown Jug," "Alabama-Bound," "Shortenin' Bread," "Skip to My Lou," "Frog Went a-Courtin'," and a host of others. An excellent introduction, notes on each song, a bibliography, and an index round out this extensive and valuable collection. Musician, musicologists, folklorists, singers — anyone interested in American folk music — will welcome this treasury of timeless song gathered in one handy, inexpensive volume.
Reprint of The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934 edition.
Table of Contents for American Ballads and Folk Songs
FOREWORD BY GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE | INTRODUCTION | CHAPTER | I. 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 | II. 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 | III. 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 | IV. NEGRO BAD MEN | Bad Man Ballad | Po Laz'us | Stagolee | Old Bill | Frankie and Albert | Ida Red | Big Jim | De Ballit of de Boll Weevil | Bill Martin and Ella Speed | Railroad Bill | V. WHITE DESPERADOES | Spanish Johnny | John Harty | Sam Bass | Jesse James | Quantrell | Sam Hall | Jim Haggerty's Story | Billy the Kid | The Cryderville Jail | Po' Boy | VI. 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 | VII. 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 o | VIII. THE BLUES | Cornfield Holler | Dirty Mistreatin' Women | Dink's Blues | Dink's Song | Woman Blue | Go Away f'om Mah Window | My Li'l John Henry | Shorty George | "The "Cholly" Blues" | "Fare Thee Well, Babe" | Alabama-Bound | IX. CREOLE NEGROES | Michié Préval | Rémon | Criole Candjo | "Un, Deux, Trois" | Aurore Pradère | Ou Som Souroucou | Salangadou | X. "REELS" | Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd | "Run, Nigger, Run!" | Pick a Bale o' Cotton | Hard to Be a Nigger | Shortenin' Bread | Sandy Lan' | Pattin' | a. Little Gal at Our House | b. Rabbit Hash | c. "Da's All Right, Baby" | Cotton Field Song | De Grey Goose | Julie Ann Johnson | My Yallow Gal | De Black Gal | XI. MINSTREL TYPES | The Ballad of Davy Crockett | Raise a Rukus Tonight | When de Good Lord Sets You Free | Old Dan Tucker | Cotton-Eyed Joe | XII. BREAKDOWNS AND PLAY PARTIES | The Arkansas Traveller | Groun' Hog | Cumberland Gap | Sourwood Mountain | Old Joe Clark | The Gal I Left Behind Me | a. That Pretty Little Gal | b. A cowboy version | 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 | XIII. 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 the Pins | Hardly Think I Will | I Love Little Willie | XIV. MISCELLANY | The Factory Girl | Hard Times | On Meesh-e-gan | Tearin' Out-a Wilderness | The Man on the Flying Trapeze | Ye Balla |
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