All song lyrics are original, except the ones listed below.
CHAPTER 1
“Somebody’s Tall and Handsome,” composed by “J.R.M.” in 1884, https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1884.03529.
“Handsome Mary, the Lily of the West,” traditional Irish folk song, later Americanized, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_of_the_West.
CHAPTER 3
“Old Bangum,” traditional, https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1499.
CHAPTER 4
“The Nightingale (The Soldier and the Lady),” traditional, extant copies as early as 1682, http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hend/songs/Nightingale.html.
CHAPTER 6
“The Fairy Lullaby,” found in Seventy Scottish Songs by Helen Hopekirk, first published, 1905.
CHAPTER 8
“The Dead Brother’s Song,” composed in Asia Minor during the ninth century, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Brother%27s_Song.
CHAPTER 20
“Young Orphy,” anonymous retelling of the Orpheus legend, found in the Auchinleck manuscript from the fourteenth century, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Orfeo.
CHAPTER 23
“The Two Sisters,” number 10 of the Child Ballads, collected in the nineteenth century by Francis James Child.
CHAPTER 29
“Against the Black,” written by Jen Cass and Eric Janetsky, © 2015, used by permission.