Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and BalladsThis sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes from all parts of the country. Songs include spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, chain-gang work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, and many more. Judith Tick, a scholar and award-winning author, provides a new fact-filled Introduction; notes on tune origins, two indexes, and an extensive bibliography round out this archive of some 200 authentic folk songs and ballads. |
Contents
PAGE | 51 |
Hop Up My Ladies | 58 |
9 | 62 |
King William Was King Georges | 65 |
You Turn for Sugar an | 71 |
Kitty Kitty Casket | 77 |
Mammas Gone to the Mail Boat | 94 |
14 | 106 |
Adieu to the Stone Walls | 311 |
Brennan on the Moor | 317 |
The Rowan County Crew | 324 |
Bugger Burns | 331 |
24 | 339 |
Po Lazus | 342 |
Roustabout Holler | 350 |
Go Down Ol Hannah | 356 |
80 | 114 |
Old Bangham | 149 |
82 | 162 |
22 | 168 |
MEN AT WORK | 197 |
The Wreck on the Somerset Road | 254 |
Pass Around Your Bottle | 296 |
23 | 302 |
Set Down to Play TinCan | 308 |
Lights in the Quarters Burnin Mighty Dim | 362 |
The Rising Sun Blues | 368 |
Lines from the Blues | 374 |
Take This Hammer | 380 |
Lord Its All Almost Done | 386 |
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| 411 | |
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Common terms and phrases
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