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Religious songs: Prayer -- Adam in the garden pinnin<U+2019> leaves -- Samson -- The man of calvary -- Job -- John done saw that number -- John was a-writin<U+2019> -- Dem bones -- The blood-strained banders -- God moves on the water -- God don<U+2019>t like it -- Soon one mornin<U+2019> death come creepin<U+2019> -- I feel like my time ain<U+2019>t long -- If I got a ticket, can I ride? -- Choose a seat <U+2018>n<U+2019> set down -- Low down chariot -- Over Jordan -- Oh, lovely appearance of death -- The romish lady -- Keep your hands on that plow -- That little black train -- Holy Ghost. |
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Social songs: Bonyparte -- Callahan -- Hold up, my ladies -- Ducks in the millpond -- Lynchburg town -- Jinny git around -- King William was King George<U+2019>s son -- Had a little fight in Mexico -- The bank of the Arkansaw -- Ladies in the dinin<U+2019> room -- You turn for sugar an<U+2019> tea -- Johnnie bought a ham -- Little bird, go through my window -- Sally go round the sunshine -- Don<U+2019>t you like it? -- Cocky doodle doodle doo -- Kitty, kitty casket -- The wind blow east -- Biddy, biddy -- Never get a lickin<U+2019> till I go down to Bimini -- Married man gonna keep your secret -- A wasp bite nobi on her conch-eye -- Don<U+2019>t you hurry worry with me -- Round the bay of Mexico -- When de whale get strike -- Dig my grave -- Mamma<U+2019>s gone to the mail boat -- Ol<U+2019> hag, you see mammy? -- Daddy shot a bear -- Hush, li<U+2019>l<U+2019> 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<U+2019>s lady -- 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<U+2019>s -- Blue bottle -- Devilish Mary -- Do come back again -- My old true love -- Fare ye well, my darlin<U+2019> -- I<U+2019>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<U+2019>avec-vous, oui, belle blonde -- Le petit mari -- Les clefs de la prison -- belle. |
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Men at work: The Frenchman<U+2019>s ball -- The true paddy<U+2019>s song -- Trench blues -- Old King Cole -- Santy anno -- Haul away, my rosy -- The low-down, lonesome low -- The high barbaree -- Greenland whale fishery -- The 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<U+2019>s evening -- The sporting cowboy -- Run along, you little dogies -- Texas rangers -- Diamond Joe -- If he<U+2019>d been 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<U+2019>s child -- Po<U+2019> farmer -- It<U+2019>s hard on we po<U+2019> farmers -- Ain<U+2019>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. |
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Outlaws: Pass around your bottle -- Sweet thing -- Three nights drunk -- Darling Corey -- Jack o<U+2019> diamonds -- Stavin<U+2019> chain -- My father gave me a lump of gold -- As I set down to play tin-can -- Little Willie<U+2019>s my darlin<U+2019> -- Adieu to the stone walls -- We don<U+2019>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 Bradley -- Batson -- Po<U+2019> Laz<U+2019>us. |
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Hollers and blues: Roustabout holler -- Trouble, trouble -- Mamma, mamma -- Go down, ol<U+2019> Hannah -- Make me a garment -- Go down, you little red rising sun -- Prison moan -- Lights in the quarters burnin<U+2019> 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<U+2019>m a stranger here -- I<U+2019>m worried now but I won<U+2019>t be worried long -- Lines from the blues. |
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Negro gang songs: Take this hammer -- Don<U+2019>t talk about it -- Didn<U+2019> ol<U+2019> John cross the water on his knees? -- Marthy had a baby -- Lord, it<U+2019>s all, almost done -- Ain<U+2019>t workin<U+2019> song -- 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<U+2019>t you ramble? -- Pauline -- Look down that lonesome road. |
| General note | "First printing." |
| General note | With music (unaccompanied melodies) |
| Bibliography note | "List of books to which reference has been made in the headnotes": p. xxvi-xxviii. "Bibliography [compiled by Harold W. Thompson]": p. 405-410. |
| LCCN | 41026604 |
