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The Alabama folk lyric : a study in origins and media of dissemination / collected and edited with an introd. and notes by Ray B. Browne.

Other author/creatorBrowne, Ray B. (Ray Broadus), 1922-2009.
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoBowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1979.
Descriptioniii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Sweet Lily -- Katy did -- Lonesome seems the winter -- Why don't you try? -- Flirting -- Anna Lee -- Wait till the clouds roll by -- Venus, my shining star -- Pretty saro -- The batchelor's prayer -- Charming little girl -- I have a sweetheart -- Sweet birds -- Willie, oh, willie -- The merry girl -- Love me now -- Little Julie -- I'll do anything, dear -- Dewdrops are falling on me -- Over the garden wall -- When the stars above are shinning -- When I left the state of Georgia -- Midnight Serenade -- Why can't we wed? -- Paul Vane -- Love you in the days of joy -- Riding in a sleigh -- Kitty Clyde -- Swinging, swinging -- Mollie Darling -- Kan Kelly -- Somebody loves me -- Somebody -- On the Tombigbee River so bright -- The Ohio -- The twelve days of Christmas -- Swinging in the land -- My pretty quadroon -- The sailor boy -- The blackest crow -- Barney McCoy -- I'm sitting by the stile, Mary -- Woe unto me when the time draws near -- I cannot be your sweatheart -- Dark blue eyes and raven hair -- Blue belle -- Zula -- Thou hast learned to love another -- You are false but I forgive you -- Don't like your family -- Twenty long years since I married -- A single life -- Spinsters gay -- The old maid's song -- Poor old maids -- The waterfall -- Kissing -- James and A -- I don't know why I feel so shy -- Once I was single, boo hoo hoo hoo -- Early in the spring when I was young -- Boys, keep away from the girls -- Old straw bonnet -- Shoemaker's song -- Dumma Locy Locy -- Rolling river -- Little black mustache -- Devilish Mary -- Fare you well, sister Phoebe -- A farmer's life for me -- Little automobile song -- The burglar man -- Pretty Fanny o -- Man without a woman -- How sad -- The boys won't do to trust -- Sorghum molasses -- Common Bill -- Want to go a-courting -- When I was a little boy -- Don't stay after ten -- I'm sighing to catch a nice beau -- My wife's gone off and left me -- Good-bye, Susan Jane -- Coochie coo -- You say you love me -- Oh, where is my sweetheart? -- Lula walls -- She was bred in old Kentucky -- The hills of Tennessee -- Two sweethearts -- The little old long cabin in the lane -- Widow in the cottage by the sea -- Mabel Clare -- After the ball -- The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee -- In the shadow of the pines -- I'll wear the violets, sweetheart -- I'll remember you, love in my prayers -- Come, Birdie, come -- The chickadee song -- Erin's green shore -- Mandelin -- My little home in Tennessee -- Ben Bolt -- The fisherman's girl -- Marionene -- I'm wearing my heart away for you -- Where is my darling tonight? -- Only a rosebud -- Welcome as the flowers in May -- Little white rose -- Two little girls in blue -- I'll be all smiles tonight -- Darling Cloe -- Old Carolina state -- Little old log cabin in Tennessee -- The jawbone song -- Aunt Jemima's Plaster -- 'Tater pie -- As I went down to Mas' cornfiel' -- Bill Bailey -- Loving Henry -- Johnson had an old grey mule -- Old Miss Ruckett -- Old Tom Wilson -- Old Miss Wilson -- The high society girl -- Boys in this country trying to advance -- Putting on the style -- It's the fashion -- Twenty years ago -- Booker T. Washington -- Climbing up the White House stairs -- Arkansas traveler I -- Arkansas traveler II -- Tommy and Jack -- My mother-in-law -- I had but fifty cents -- Bill Morgan -- Chinning music -- Home sweet home to me -- The old miller -- Brian O'Lynn -- The Dutchman song -- Down on the farm -- Parody of Down on the farm -- Maggie Jones -- You drove a buick -- Parody of Home, sweet home -- Just tell them that you saw me -- Parody of Just tell them that you saw me -- Sweet Marie -- Parody of Sweet Marie -- Old Zachariah fell in the fire -- Old rosin the beau -- George Buck -- Sam Simon -- The old gray horse -- Necktie's up behind -- The beaver cap -- She don't wear no -- Jennie Jenkins -- Buy me a rocking chair -- When I was a little boy -- Had a fine sash -- Where shall I go? -- Saint Jonah -- My sweetheart's gone to the fair -- Trouble on your mind -- Hop light, ladies -- Lazy Mary, will you get up? -- Hop along, sister Mary -- Send for the ladies -- Going up Hippocreek -- A medley -- Simon Slick -- Chicken in the bread trough -- Jaybird sitting on a hickory limb -- Old cow died of whooping cough -- Sir Piggy -- Chicken pecking on a tambourine -- Jaybirds gave a concert free -- Jaybird died with the whooping cough -- The cottage girl -- Maid of Athens -- The bridge -- Little yellow bird -- Little boy blue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 78061076
ISBN0879721294

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