"A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times. With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and many others. One of the remarkable features of this collection is its authenticity. Many of the songs were recorded "on location" by noted folklorist John A. Lomax and his ... Read More
"A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times. With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and many others. One of the remarkable features of this collection is its authenticity. Many of the songs were recorded "on location" by noted folklorist John A. Lomax and his ... Read More
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"A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times. With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and many others. One of the remarkable features of this collection is its authenticity. Many of the songs were recorded "on location" by noted folklorist John A. Lomax and his even more famous son, Alan, as they traveled around the United States. The results are firsthand versions of music and lyrics for over 200 railroad songs, chain-gang songs, mountain songs, Creole songs, cocaine and whisky songs, "reels," minstrel songs, songs of childhood, and a host of others. Among them are such time-honored favorites as "John Henry," "Goin' Home," "Frankie and Albert," "Down in the Valley," "Little Brown Jug," "Alabama-Bound," "Shortenin' Bread," "Skip to My Lou," "Frog Went a-Courtin'," and a host of others. An excellent introduction, notes on each song, a bibliography, and an index round out this extensive and valuable collection. Musician, musicologists, folklorists, singers — anyone interested in American folk music — will welcome this treasury of timeless song gathered in one handy, inexpensive volume.
Reprint of The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934 edition.
Details
Price: $39.95
Pages: 672
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
Publication Date: 21st October 1994
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
ISBN: 9780486282763
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology MUSIC / Ethnomusicology MUSIC / History & Criticism MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
Table of Contents
FOREWORD BY GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 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 Away 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. BREAKDOWNS 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 the 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 All the Pretty Little Horses 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 Cowboy's Getting'-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
"A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times. With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and many others. One of the remarkable features of this collection is its authenticity. Many of the songs were recorded "on location" by noted folklorist John A. Lomax and his even more famous son, Alan, as they traveled around the United States. The results are firsthand versions of music and lyrics for over 200 railroad songs, chain-gang songs, mountain songs, Creole songs, cocaine and whisky songs, "reels," minstrel songs, songs of childhood, and a host of others. Among them are such time-honored favorites as "John Henry," "Goin' Home," "Frankie and Albert," "Down in the Valley," "Little Brown Jug," "Alabama-Bound," "Shortenin' Bread," "Skip to My Lou," "Frog Went a-Courtin'," and a host of others. An excellent introduction, notes on each song, a bibliography, and an index round out this extensive and valuable collection. Musician, musicologists, folklorists, singers — anyone interested in American folk music — will welcome this treasury of timeless song gathered in one handy, inexpensive volume.
Reprint of The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934 edition.
Price: $39.95
Pages: 672
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
Publication Date: 21st October 1994
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
ISBN: 9780486282763
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology MUSIC / Ethnomusicology MUSIC / History & Criticism MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
FOREWORD BY GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 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 Away 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. BREAKDOWNS 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 the 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 All the Pretty Little Horses 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 Cowboy's Getting'-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
