Ozark folksongs /collected and edited by Vance Randolph ; edited for the State Historical Society of Missouri by Floyd C. Shoemaker, secretary, Francis G. Emberson, research associate.

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v. 1.British ballads and songs --v. 2.Songs of the South and West --v. 3.Humorous and play-party songs --v. 4.Religious songs and other items.^^v. 1. British ballads and songs. The traditional ballads. The cambric shirt -- Pretty Polly Ann -- Rise ye up -- The miller's daughters -- Johnny Randolph -- What blood on the point of your knife -- Old Bangum -- Down by the greenwood side -- The three crows -- The two brothers -- Lord Bateman -- The cherry-tree carol -- The little page boy -- Lord Henry and Lady Margaret -- The brown girl -- Lady Margaret -- Lord Lovel -- Oh who will shoe my foot -- The three little babes -- Little Mathy Groves -- Barbara Allen -- George Collins -- False lamkin -- Hold your hands, old man -- The Jew's garden -- The four Marys -- The Gypsy Davy -- The life of Georgie -- New Yealand -- The house carpenter -- Andrew Bardeen -- Lady fair -- I went home one night -- Get up and shut the door -- Dan-doo -- The old man under the hill -- The jolly beggar -- The lowlands low -- The wrecked ship -- Pretty Sally of London -- A soldier rode from the east. Some later importations. Men's clothes will I put on -- The silk merchant's daughter -- Johnny must fight -- The butcher boy -- The brisk young farmer -- The banks of Cloddy -- Betsy is a beauty fair -- The cuckoo -- Caroline of Edinborough Town -- Courting Jessie -- The drowsy sleeper -- Johnny the sailor -- Molly Vaughn -- The maiden in the garden -- John Riley -- Mary and Willie -- One morning in May -- Two strangers in the mountains alone -- The lost girl -- The orange and blue -- On the banks of sweet Dundee -- The pretty Mohee -- The girl I left behind -- Soldier, soldier, marry me -- The old black booger -- Willie Taylor -- The sailor's sweetheart -- The skin and bone woman -- The valiant soldier -- With her dog and gun -- The wild moor -- You fair and pretty ladies -- Father Grumble -- Erin's green shore -- Bold ranger -- We hunted and we hollered -- Pretty Nancy of London -- The milking maid -- Vilikens and Dinah -- Early, early in the Spring -- Young Edward -- The lily of Arkansas -- Down by the sea shore -- Lone the plow boy -- The beauty, beauty bride -- Johnny Doyle -- The sailor boy -- Erin's lovely home -- Keep your garden clean -- There was an old miller -- Babes in the woods -- The silvery tide -- The mantle so green -- Liverpool dock -- Botany Bay -- Dixon and Johnson -- Lily Lee -- Rinordine -- The jealous brothers -- Grandmaw's advice -- Dick German the cobbler -- The fox walked out -- Billy Boy -- The foggy dew -- The Derby ram -- Shule, shule -- The frog's courtship -- Whistle, daughter, whistle -- I dreamed of my true lover -- Polly and Willie -- In the good old colony times -- Lovely William -- Coleen Bawn -- Willie Riley -- The blackbird -- Betsy Baker -- The farmer's boy -- Common Bill -- Prince Charles he is King James's son -- The apprentice boy -- The bonnie wee window -- The four brothers -- Gay girl Marie -- Gay Spanish Mary -- Macdonald's return to Glencoe-- Poor man, poor man -- The croppy boy -- The Gypsy maid -- Three wise old women.^^v. 2. Songs of the South and West. Songs about murderers and outlaws. Cole Younger -- Jesse James -- McFee's confession -- Charles Guiteau -- The Dallas County jail -- The Louisville burglar -- Gambling on the Sabbath day -- The jealous lover -- The silver dagger -- Young Edmond Dell -- Fair Fanny Moore -- Young Sam Bass -- Fuller and Warren -- Locked in the walls of prison -- The lily of the West -- My father was a gambler -- The Cassville prisoner -- The rambling boy -- Poor Oma Wise -- The Noel girl -- Wild Bill Jones -- The Meeks murder -- Pretty Polly -- Bald Knobber song -- Bad Lee Brown -- Ewing Brooks -- Henry Green -- Frankie Silver -- Frankie and Johnny -- Down on the banks of the Ohio -- Taney County -- Harrison Town -- John Hardy -- A prisoner for life -- St. Louis, bright city -- The horse thief -- Bonnie black Bess -- Twenty one years -- The Rowan County crew -- Moonlight and skies -- Cotton the kid -- The fate of Harry Young -- The murder of Charley Stacey -- They put me up to kill him -- The Tennessee killer -- Brennan on the moor. Western songs and ballads. The Texas Rangers -- Little doogie -- The old Chisholm Trail -- Come all ye lonesome cowboys -- Come list to a ranger -- The cowboy's lament -- The dying Californian -- Oh bury me not on the lone prairie -- One night as I lay on the prairie -- Starving to death on a government claim -- Joe Bowers -- The dying cowboy -- A fair lady of the plains -- The wandering cowboy -- To the West awhile to stay -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Home on the range -- The rolling stone -- The Indian fighters -- Hell and Texas -- The little old sod shanty on the claim -- The days of forty-nine -- Bill Vanero -- The bucking bronco -- The Brazos River -- Strawberry roan -- Little Joe the wrangler -- Little Joe the wrangler's sister Nell -- Cowboy song -- Utah Carl -- Pattonia, the pride of the plains -- Zebra Dun. Songs of the Civil War. The Pea Ridge battle -- Manassa Junction -- Brother Green -- We have the Navy -- A soldier from Missouri -- The bonnie blue flag -- The homespun dress -- The dying soldier -- I fight mit Sigel -- The Yankee Dutchman -- Joe Stiner -- The battle on Shiloh's hill -- The brass mounted army -- Prairie Grove -- The southern encampment -- Old General Price -- The battle of Vicksburg -- The happy land of Canaan -- In eighteen hundred and sixty-one -- The captain with his whiskers -- Babylon is falling -- The year of jubelo -- I'm a good old rebel -- Benjy Havens -- The union volunteer -- That last fierce fight -- Come raise me in your arms, dear brother -- John Marshall -- Andersonville Prison -- Barbro Buck -- The drummer boy of Shiloh -- I wish I was at home -- It's time I was a bride -- The jolly Union boys -- Mother, is the battle over -- The soldier's letter -- Old Abe's elected -- The rebel soldier -- Colonel Shelby -- Root hog or die -- Confederate Yankee Doodle -- Oh you who are able -- There will be one vacant chair. Negro and pseudo-negro songs. Jump Jim Crow -- The banjo song -- Injy-rubber overcoat -- Shortenin' bread -- Went to the river -- Don't you grieve after me -- Ease that trouble in the mind -- The jawbone song -- Kitty, caint you come along too -- Uncle Ned -- Jacob's ladder -- Dinky -- Run, Nigger, run -- Rat coon, rat coon -- I hope I'll jine the band -- I'll meet you in the evening -- Mister Booger -- Black sheep lullaby -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- The old gray horse -- Jinny go round and around -- Shoo fly -- Turkey in the straw -- The crow song -- The possum song -- Old Molly Hare -- Go slow, boys -- If I had a scolding wife -- Possum up a gum stump -- Couldn't raise no sugar corn -- There was an old frog -- On a cold frosty morning ; The golden axe -- Whistling Rufus -- Johan and the whale -- Turnip greens -- History of the world -- Song and dance -- Old Moses smote de waters -- Methodist pie -- The midnight special -- Old Zip Coon -- One more river -- Old Blue -- Walk along John -- Chicken run fast -- Ginger Blue -- I know a littler feller -- Oh you caint go to heaven -- Climbin' up the golden stairs -- The Devil's mad and I am glad -- Roll, Jordan, roll -- In the morning by the bright light -- The other side of Jordan. Songs of temperance. The drunkard -- The drunkard's dream -- Father, dear Father, come home with me now -- The drunkard's lone child -- The twin ballots -- Little blossom -- The whiskey seller -- The drunkard's Hell -- Put the traffic down -- Gone long ago -- Oh, once I had a fortune -- Temperance song -- The drunkard's horse -- Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes -- Rag Pat -- We'll get there all the same -- Don't sell him any more run -- These temperance folks -- The drunkard's story -- Father is drinking again -- Friends of temperance -- Shivering in the cold -- Signing the pledge -- Stay, Father, stay -- Touch not the cup -- The drunkard's child -- The drunkard's wife -- The rum saloon shall go -- We'll crown them with roses -- Down in a licensed saloon -- Nor will I sin -- Don't never marry a drunkard -- Molly and the baby -- Don't go out tonight, my darling -- I'm sticking to the Murphys -- Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.^^v. 3. Humorous and play-party songs. The Arkansas boys -- Eureka -- In Arkansas -- Benton County, Arkansas -- The Arkansas traveler -- The State of Arkansas -- Since I left Arkansas -- Down in Arkansas -- Way down in Rackensack -- If I die in Arkansas -- I bought me a rooster -- Old woman, old woman -- The paper of pins -- The beaver cap -- Buy me a China doll -- When I was a little boy -- Now I am a big boy -- Mamma, Mamma, have you heard -- Mary had a little lamb -- The courting cage -- The courting song -- I'm going away to Texas -- The old maid's song -- I wish I was single again -- A married woman's lament -- I married me a wife -- Fond of chewing gum -- Time enough yet -- Rolly Trudum -- Sim courted the widow -- Beautiful Bill -- I'm dying for some one to love me -- A young man's love -- Don't stay after ten -- I'll give you one more as you go -- He kept a-kissin' on -- The bowl of green peas -- Sparking Sunday night -- Somebody's tall and handsome -- Beware, o beware -- I love little Willie -- Lula Walls -- Betsey Brown -- No sir! No sir -- The bald headed end of the broom -- The widow's old broom -- The dark girl dressed in blue -- The girl with the waterfall -- The charming young widow I met in the train -- The Harvard student -- It's no business of mine -- Rock all our babies to sleep -- The dumb wife cured -- My mother-in-law -- She won't get up -- The scolding wife -- The wife who wouldn't spin tow -- He never came back -- I won't be a nun -- Stand back, old man, get away -- The little black mustache -- The juice of the forbidden fruit -- The drunkard's hiccoughs -- Rye whiskey, rye whiskey -- I am a done-up man -- I was drunk last night -- The little brown jug -- I'm the man that rote Ta rarra bumdia -- I was born about four thousand years ago -- The tune the old cow died on -- The measles in the Spring -- The ground hog song -- Sheepskin and beeswax -- Possum sop and polecat jelly -- Jingle-berry tea -- Sourwood Mountain -- Come all you young men -- The Devil came to my door -- Johnny fell down in the bucket -- Old Zip Lyda Coon -- Root hog or die -- Davy Crockett -- Springfield Mountain -- Old Tom Bolen -- The best old feller in the world -- Old Dumpty Moore -- Old Father Grimes -- John the boy, hello -- Windy Bill -- Frisky Jim -- John Morgan -- I'm seventy-two today -- Uncle Joe -- Liza Jane -- Charming Betsey -- Devilish Mary -- Sukey Sudds -- Risselty, rosselty, now, now, now -- The unfortunate man -- The lazy young man -- Ida Red -- Sweet thing -- The cat came back -- Johnny fool -- Nottingham Fair -- Popular gag song -- Ah roop doop doop -- Anything -- At Barnum's show -- The Hamburger Fair -- I got a gal in Baltimore -- I'll never wear the red any more -- The turnip patch -- When I get on yonder hill -- Ninety-nine blue bottles -- The merry green fields of the lowland -- Old Missouri -- The green grass grew all around -- The boys around here -- The boys won't do to trust -- We're all dodging -- The fellow that looks like me -- My Pony -- The warranty deed -- The old leather bonnet -- Granny's old arm chair -- Sparking on Sunday night -- Putting on the style -- Putting on airs -- Bryan O'Lynn -- The Irish jubilee -- The Irish wake -- Just tread on the tail of me coat -- Bachelor's hall -- The man you don't meet every day -- 'Twas nine years ago -- The boarding house -- I know a boarding house -- The biscuits Mis' Flanagan made -- A stern old bachelor -- Don't count your chickens -- Great Grand-dad -- Money, money, oh sweet money -- I had but fifty cents -- The Wilson patent stove -- Buy a charter oak -- Donderback's machine -- The new electric light -- Jockey hat and feather -- Tassels on her boots -- The farmer, he must feed them all -- The railroader -- Tie-hacking's too tiresome -- The horse traders' song -- Roger the tinker man -- The treadmill -- Cumberland Gap -- Hobo diddle de ho -- The Mormons -- She's gone to be a Mormonite -- Go to Helen Hunt for it -- Woman's rights -- Keep it dark -- The kicker -- Wizard oil -- Willie the weeper -- Tobacco union -- Ridin' on de cable car -- Twisting on the train -- Riding on the dummy -- The hound dog song -- The whole hog or none -- Meet me at the fair -- Titles of songs. Play-party songs. Skip to my Lou -- Waltz the hall -- The miller boy -- We're marching down to old Quebec -- Weevily wheat -- Old Dan Tucker -- Pig in the parlor -- Shoot the buffalo -- Four in the middle -- Jingle at the window -- We'll all go to Boston -- The old brass wagon -- We'll all go down to Rowser's -- Molly Brooks -- In eighteen hundred and sixty -- Sugar and tea -- Green gravel -- Old Joe Clark -- The brown jug -- Buffalo gals -- Across the hall -- Chase the squirrel -- Round and round the levee -- Roxie Ann -- The juniper tree -- My pappy he will scold me -- Tylus and Talus -- King William was King James's son -- Sally Goodin -- The needle's eye -- The girl I left behind me -- Captain Jinks -- Danny Winters -- Little fight in Mexico -- Black them boots -- Raz-ma-taz-a-ma-tee --Lead her up and down -- Paw-paw peeling -- Loupy Lou -- Hog rovers -- Pop goes the weasel -- Ain't going to rain no more -- Circle four in London -- Out of the wilderness -- Old General Lane -- Gathering nuts in May -- Lark in the morning -- Wait for the wagon -- Get along home, Cindy -- Sugar in my coffee -- The shoemaker -- Old Father Gray -- Black-eyed Susan -- Old Bumpy -- Chickee chickee ma craney crow -- The chimney swallow -- Down on the Pichelo farm -- Here I stand all ragged and dirty -- The jaybird's altar -- Jim along Josie -- Ju tang ju -- Ladies to the center -- London Bridge is falling down -- Rock-a-by ladies -- The ocean is wide -- One little frog -- Roll the 'tater -- Turn that cinnamon -- Steal apples for me -- You're from the nation -- You stole my pard -- I'm going to cross the sea -- Three little girls a-skating went -- Long the days of sorrow -- Rocky road to Georgia -- Marching round the gum stump -- Down the river -- All over Arkansas -- John Brown had a little Indian.^^v. 4. Religious songs and other items. Brush-arbor music. The dying youth -- Wicked Polly -- The dying boy -- Judgment day is rolling around -- The Hell-bound train -- The road to Heaven -- The skeptic's daughter -- Many say I am too noisy -- A picture from life's other side -- The death of a Romish lady -- The twelve apostles -- The angel of death -- The lonesome dove -- William Cook -- Companions, draw nigh -- Tossed and driven -- On that other bright shore -- I have no loving mother now -- Little Willie -- The little family -- Oh Lord, how long -- I had a heart that doted once -- The dying preacher -- The great judgment -- The white pilgrim -- The old church yard -- The great speckled bird -- Some folk say John was a Baptist -- Come, ye sinners -- I'm bound for the promised land -- How tedious and tasteless the hours -- Palms of victory -- Only remembered -- The old time religion -- The life boat -- I would not live always -- Show pity, Lord -- We're marching on to war -- Shout, shout, we're gaining ground -- We shall rise, hallelujah -- Can the circle be unbroken -- I'm just from the fountain -- My lovin' father -- Hark from the tomb -- Oh ye young, ye gay, ye proud -- Something got hold of me -- The missionary's farewell -- The spelling song -- You must live holy -- Why do you bob your hair, girls -- Death, 'tis a melancholy day -- The dividing line -- I am a great complainer -- I believe this dear old Bible -- Oh, Lord, send us a blessing -- Pass under the rod -- Sinners will call for the rocks and mountains -- Whene'er I take my walks abroad -- Young people, take warning -- You've got to be a lover of the Lord -- The harp on the willow -- Religion is the best of all -- Jesus is the rock -- The winding sheet coffin -- The ship that is sailing by -- The heavenly aeroplane -- Lazarus and the rich man -- Little Moses -- Conversation with death. Miscellaneous songs and ballads. Brave Wolfe -- The field of Monterey -- A hunter from Kentucky -- Young Charlotte -- The little chickens in the garden -- The twig so tender -- The boys of Virginia -- The last gold dollar -- The blue velvet band -- Wild rovers -- Her white bosom bare -- A heart that forms for love -- The dark hollow -- Becky at the loom -- Ride about, ride about -- Only a brakeman -- Only a miner -- The Chatsworth wreck -- The wreck on the C & O -- The wreck of the Southern old 97 -- The wreck of old number nine -- The two lanterns -- Asleep at the switch -- The brave fireman -- The Brooklyn fire -- My sweetheart went down with the Maine -- The ship that never returned -- Dublin Bay -- Lost on the Lady Elgin -- The great Titanic -- The train that never returned -- The true and trembling brakeman -- The express office -- Ten thousand miles away -- The sad song -- The ring my mother wore -- On the banks of the old Tennessee -- Gentle Annie -- The widow in the cottage by the sea -- The letter edged in black -- The baggage coach ahead -- Come all you young of wary age -- The dying nun -- The dying girl's message -- The old elm tree -- The pardon came too late -- Rosalie -- The willow tree -- Darling little Joe -- Willy, Willy -- The basket maker's child -- Put my little shoes away -- Poor little Joe -- Stick to your mother, Tom -- A soldier's poor little boy -- Motherless children -- Please, Mister Conductor -- Going for a pardon -- Nobody cares for me -- I'm nobody's darling on earth -- The blind child -- The orphan child -- The stepmother -- Little Alice Summers -- The lost child -- Mister, please give me a penny -- The Red River Valley -- Oh Lily, dear Lily -- The loving girl -- Don't forget me, little darling -- Goodbye, little bonnie blue eyes -- Charley Brooks -- Fare you well, my darling -- Forget you I never may -- I loved you better than you knew -- The last token -- Texas cowboy -- There is somebody waiting for me -- The last serenade -- The Gypsy's warning -- Pretty Saro -- In eighteen forty-nine -- Meet me tonight -- Bury me beneath the willow -- Once I was happy -- Black-eyed Mary -- Dark and dreary weather -- Adieu to dark weather -- The frowns that she gave me -- Ye guardian powers -- Johnny Sands -- The broken heart -- Farewell, sweetheart -- Lorena and Paul Vane -- Shamus O'Brien -- My blue eyed boy -- I love you well -- The last farewell -- My lovely sailor boy -- The little rosewood casket -- She said she was only flirting -- Falling leaf -- The fatal wedding -- The fatal wedding morn -- The broken home -- The banks of the Schuylkill -- Sadie Ray -- The broken engagement -- Down in the valley -- Katie Lee and Willie Gray -- Little Annie Rooney -- Anna Lee -- Barney McCoy -- The letter in the candle -- Katie's secret -- White wings -- Lucy Long -- The Indian hunter -- I love a nobody -- Come, gang awa' with me -- Bridget Donahue -- Come and kiss me, Robin -- The fisherman's daughter -- The gum tree canoe -- I've built me a neat little cot, darling -- Just one girl -- Lenora -- The old brown coat -- All good times are past and gone -- Careless love -- The deep blue sea -- Willie Moore -- Once I had a sweetheart -- Christine Leroy -- The wildwood flower -- If I was on some foggy mountain top -- The silvery moon -- The little seaside village -- The mistletoe bough -- Out in the moonlight -- Amber tresses tied in blue -- Belle Brandon -- Don't never trust a sailor -- Faithless husband -- The fatal rose of red -- The gambler's sweetheart -- The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee -- How sadly my heart yearns toward you -- I'll be all smiles tonight -- Jack and Joe -- Oh Mother, take the wheel away -- 'Tis not always the bullet that kills -- Two little girls in blue -- Willie dear -- The moth and the flame -- Snake in the grass -- Take back your gold -- Twila was a city maiden -- Those wedding bells shall not ring out -- Sweet Evelina -- Will you love me when I'm old -- The church across the way -- The volunteer organist -- She was happy till she met you -- The prisoner at the bar -- A gentleman still -- Hostler Joe -- A picture no artist can paint -- Sweet as the flowers in May time -- Whip-poor-will -- My father gave me a lump of gold -- The guerilla man -- A wild and reckless hobo -- The dying hobo -- Hard up and broken down -- I'm a man that done wrong to his parents -- The Wabash Cannonball -- Can I sleep in your barn tonight -- My lone rock by the sea -- The tramp -- The tramp's story -- The wandering boy -- Old Rosin the bow -- A distant land to roam -- The prettiest little song of all -- Mother, the queen of my heart -- My little one's waiting for me -- Be home early tonight, my dear boy -- The old farm gate -- The old stepstone -- Save my father's picture from the sale -- After the war is over -- As welcome as the flowers in May -- Don't go, Tommy -- Do they miss me at home -- The dream of the miner's child -- Ella Rhee -- Ere you ask a girl to leave her happy home -- Just plain folks -- The new organ -- Two sweethearts -- Stay on the farm -- Far away, far away -- Over the garden wall -- My happy little home in Arkansas -- Forty years ago -- My little German home across the sea -- Swinging in the lane -- School days of long ago -- The alphabet song -- A is for apple pie -- The books of the Bible -- The counties of Arkansas -- The presidents -- States and capitals -- Good morning, merry sunshine -- The sweet little birdie -- Timbrook -- The Ponsaw train -- We're all nodding. 4 volumes of music :portraits ;26 cm

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Publication Subjects

Folk songs, English--Southern States. Ballads, English--Southern States. Ballads, English.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00825896 Folk songs, English.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00929875

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M1629.R23 O9

LCCN

47001554

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Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references. Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier Media type: unmediatednrdamedia Publication Info: Columbia, Mo. :State Historical Society of Missouri,1946-50.