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Our singing country; a second volume of American ballads and folk songs
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- Creator
- collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; Ruth Crawford Seeger, music editor
- Format
- Music Scores
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, Macmillan Co., 1941
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 416 pages 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm08235985, ocm08235985
- Unacc. melodies.
- "List of books to which reference has been made in the headnotes: " p. xxvi-xxviii; "Bibliography [compiled by Harold W. Thompson]": pages 405-410.
- Prayer -- Adam in the garden pinnin' leaves -- Samson -- The man of Calvary -- Job -- John done saw that number -- John was a-writin' -- Dem bones -- The blood-stained banders -- God moves on the water -- God don't like it -- Soon one mornin' death come creepin' -- I feel like my time ain't long -- If I got my ticket, can I ride? -- Choose you a seat 'n' set down -- Low down chariot -- Over Jordan -- Oh, lovely appearance of death -- The Romish lady -- Keep your hands on that plow -- The little black train -- Holy Ghost -- Bonyparte -- Callahan -- Hop up, my ladies -- Ducks in the millpond -- Lynchburg Town -- Jimmy git around -- King William was King George's son -- Had a little fight in Mexico -- The bank of the Arkansas -- Ladies in the dinin' room -- You turn for sugar an' tea -- Johnnie bought a ham -- Little bird, go through my window -- Sally go round the sunshine -- Don't you like it? -- Cocky doodle doodle doo -- Kitty, kitty casket -- The wind blow east -- Biddy, biddy -- Never get a lickin' till I go down to Bimini -- Married man gonna keep your secret -- A wasp bite Nobi on her conch-eye -- Don't you hurry worry with me -- Round the Bay of Mexico -- When de whale get strike -- Dig my grave -- Mamma's gone to the mail boat -- Ol' hag, you see mammy? -- Daddy shot a bear -- Hush, li'l' baby -- Crabe dans calalou -- Mary was a red bird -- Cotton Eye Joe -- Billy Barlow -- The crooked gun -- The ram of Darby -- The lady who loved a swine -- Toll-a-winker -- The marrowbone itch -- Old Blue -- Wunst I had an old gray mare -- Hog rogues on the harricane -- Cod liver ile -- Tom Bolyn -- The bachelor's lay -- Katy Dorey -- Johnny McCardner -- Lolly too-dum -- Where have you been, my good old man? -- Jennie Jenkins -- Married me a wife -- Old shoes and leggin's -- Blue bottle -- Devilish Mary -- Do come back again -- My old true love -- Fare ye well, my darlin' -- I've rambled this country both earlye and late -- East Virginia -- Long lonesome road -- Little Bonny -- Old Bangham -- The mermaid -- Tee roo -- Sweet William -- Black Jack Davy -- The Irish lady -- The lady of Carlisle -- The lame soldier -- Willy Reilly -- John Riley -- Lily Munro -- Pretty Polly -- The Lexington murder -- The rich old lady -- Sept ans sur mer -- Blanche comme la neige -- Je caresserai la belle par amitié -- Qu'avec-vous, oui, belle blonde -- Le petit mari -- Les clefs de la prison -- Belle -- The Frenchman's ball -- The true Paddy's song -- Trench blues -- Old King Cole -- Santy Anno -- Haul away, my Rosy -- The low-down, lonesome low -- The High Barbaree -- Greenland whale fishery -- Beaver Island boys -- Dark-eyed canaller -- The Bigler -- The little brown bulls -- Moosehead Lake -- Johnny Stiles, or, The wild Mustard River -- I came to this country in 1865 -- Ox-driving song -- Yo soy de la tierra -- Git along, little dogies -- As I went a-walking one fine summer's evening -- The sporting cowboy -- Run along, you little dogies -- Texas Rangers -- Diamond Joe -- If he'd be a buckaroo -- Doney gal -- Peter Gray -- The wreck on the Somerset Road -- The White House blues -- John Henry -- Sis Joe -- Oh, roll on, babe -- As I went out for a ramble -- Way out in Idaho -- Oh, my liver and my lungs -- Down, down, down -- Pay day at Coal Creek -- The coal miner's child -- Po' farmer -- It's hard on we po' farmers -- Ain't it hard to be a right black nigger? -- Georgia Land -- Georgia boy -- Hard times in the country -- The dodger -- Cotton-mill colic -- Chilly winds -- Pass around your bottle -- Sweet thing -- Three nights drunk -- Darling Corey -- Jack o' Diamonds -- Stavin' chain -- My father gave me a lump of gold -- As I set down to play tin-can -- Little Willie's my darlin' -- Adieu to the stone walls -- We don't get no justice here in Atlanta -- The reek and the rambling blade -- When first to this country a stranger I came -- Brennan on the moor -- The wild colonial boy -- The Vance song -- The Rowan County crew -- Harvey Logan -- Dupree -- Bugger burns -- Duncan and Brady -- Batson -- Po' Laz'us -- Roustabout holler -- Trouble, trouble -- Mamma, mamma -- Go down, ol' Hannah -- Make me a garment -- Go down, you little red rising sun -- Prison moan -- Lights in the quarters burnin' mighty dim -- Eadie -- I been a bad, bad girl -- Sun gonna shine in my door some day -- The rising sun blues -- Big fat woman -- I'm a stranger here -- I'm worried now but I won't be worried long -- Lines from the blues -- Take this hammer -- Don't talk about it -- Didn' ol' John cross the water on his knees? -- Marthy had a baby -- Lord, it's all, almost done -- Ain't workin' song -- I got to roll -- You kicked and stomped and beat me -- Drive it on -- O Lawd I went up on the mountain -- Long summer day -- Godamighty drag -- Johnny, won't you ramble? -- Pauline -- Look down that lonesome road