American Ballads and Folk Songs by Lomax, John A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Foreword Acknowledgement Contents Introduction 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 on Me

VIII. 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

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. Reakdowns 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 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 Ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar Beautiful The Highly Educated Man Darky Sunday School The Old Bachelor Rattle Snake

XV. Vaqueros of the Southwest

Allá en el Rancho Grande El Amor Que Te Tenía El Abandonado Cuatro Palomitas Blancas Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal

XVI. 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 Stampede 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

XVII. Songs of the Overlanders

Joe Bowers Sweet Betsy from Pike Crossing the Plains Coming Around the Horn The Bull-Whacker Brigham Young Greer County

XVIII. The Miner

The Hard-Working Miner The Dreary Black Hills Just from Dawson

XIX. 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

XX. 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

XXI. The Great Lakes

Red Iron Ore

XXII. 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

XXIII. 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?

XXIV. White Spirituals

Bear the News, Mary Parting Friends Burges Few Days Wedlock Wicked Polly Now Our Meeting’s Over The Other Shore Amazing Grace

XXV. 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’

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