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A song catcher in southern mountains ; American folk songs of British ancestry / by Dorothy Scarborough.

Author/creator Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935
Other author/creatorLyon, John H. H. (John Henry Hobart), 1878-1961.
Other author/creatorLoggins, Vernon, 1893-1968.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia university press, 1937.
Descriptionxvi, 476 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Ballads: Bonny Barbara Allen <U+2013> The ballet of Barbara Allan <U+2013> Barbry Ellen <U+2013> Barbara Allen <U+2013> Barbare Allen <U+2013> Barbara Ellen <U+2013> Barberie Allen <U+2013> The brown girl <U+2013> There was a young lad y <U+2013> Lord Lovel <U+2013> Fair Margaret and sweet William <U+2013> Lady Margret <U+2013> Lord Thomas and fair Annet <U+2013> Lord Thomas and fair Ellen <U+2013> Lord Thomas <U+2013> Fair Ellender <U+2013> Lord Thomas and fair Ellendar <U+2013> Earl Brand -- Sweet William <U+2013> Molly Vaughn -- Death of Molly Bender <U+2013> George Collins <U+2013> George Allien <U+2013> The lass of Roch Royal <U+2013> Honey babe <U+2013> I truly understand that you love some other man <U+2013> Lady Isabel and the elf-knight <U+2013> The cruel ship<U+2019>s carpenter <U+2013> Pretty Polly <U+2013> Dying Polly <U+2013> Oh, Polly! <U+2013> Young hunting <U+2013> Loving Henery <U+2013> Come in, loving Henery <U+2013> Loving Henry <U+2013> Lady Maisry <U+2013> Awake! awake! <U+2013> Katy dear, or Willie darling <U+2013> Mollie dear, go ask your mother <U+2013> Drowsy sleepers <U+2013> Little Willie <U+2013> Little Musgrave and lady Barnard <U+2013> Little Mose Groves <U+2013> Lord Donald<U+2019>s wife <U+2013> James Harris (the daemon lover) <U+2013> House carpenter <U+2013> The house carpenter <U+2013> The Wexford girl; hanged I shall be; the prentice boy <U+2013> Knoxville girl <U+2013> Knoxville gal <U+2013> The twa sisters <U+2013> The two sisters <U+2013> The twa brothers <U+2013> The two brothers <U+2013> The wife of Usher<U+2019>s well <U+2013> There was a lady and a lady was she <U+2013> The cruel mother <U+2013> Sir Hugh, or the Jew<U+2019>s daughter <U+2013> A little boy threw his ball so high <U+2013> Little Sir Hugh <U+2013> Huge of Lincoln <U+2013> A lady<U+2019>s daughter of Paris <U+2013> Lord Randal <U+2013> Randal, my son <U+2013> Edward <U+2013> The murdered brother <U+2013> The sweet trinity; the golden vanity <U+2013> The golden willow tree <U+2013> The mermaid <U+2013> Bessie Bell and Mary Gray <U+2013> Sir Lionel <U+2013> Ole Bangum <U+2013> The three ravens (the twa corbies) <U+2013> Three old crows <U+2013> The little family <U+2013> The maid freed from the gallows <U+2013> The hangman<U+2019>s son <U+2013> Hangman, hold your rope <U+2013> The lady and the dragoon <U+2013> A brave soldier <U+2013> The silk merchant<U+2019>s daughter <U+2013> Jackaroe <U+2013> Jacky Freasher <U+2013> Jackie Frazier <U+2013> Young Beichan <U+2013> The jailer<U+2019>s daughter <U+2013> Geordie <U+2013> Georgy-O <U+2013> The gypsy laddie <U+2013> The three gypsies <U+2013> Black Jack Davy <U+2013> Gypsia song <U+2013> Oh come and go back my pretty fair miss <U+2013> Gypsy Davy <U+2013> The lady<U+2019>s disgrace <U+2013> John of Hazelgreen <U+2013> John over the Hazel Green <U+2013> The golden glove <U+2013> Lady lost her glove <U+2013> The dog and gun <U+2013> Captain Wedderburn<U+2019>s courtship <U+2013> Our Goodman <U+2013> Three nights of experience <U+2013> I called to my loving wife <U+2013> Parson Jones <U+2013> Will de weaver <U+2013> A cruel wife <U+2013> The miller<U+2019>s advice to his three sons, on taking of toll <U+2013> The old miller <U+2013> Father Grumble <U+2013> There was an old man <U+2013> the frog he went a-courting <U+2013> Frog went courting <U+2013> The gentleman frog <U+2013> Johnny Doyle <U+2013> Johnny Dile <U+2013> Tam Lane <U+2013> Queen Jane.
Contents Songs: The true sweetheart <U+2013> Pretty fair maid <U+2013> A pretty fair damsel <U+2013> A lily fair damsel <U+2013> The true sweetheart <U+2013> William hall <U+2013> A soldier boy <U+2013> The banks of Claudy <U+2013> The soldier<U+2019>s return <U+2013> Fair Phoebe and her dark-eyed sailor <U+2013> Young Willie<U+2019>s return, or The Token <U+2013> The sailor <U+2013> Billy ma hone <U+2013> The false young main <U+2013> Come along, my own true love <U+2013> Set you down, my own true love <U+2013> As I walked out one may morning <U+2013> The waggoner<U+2019>s lad <U+2013> My fortune<U+2019>s been bad <U+2013> The last farewell <U+2013> Old Smokie <U+2013> My horses ain<U+2019>t hungry <U+2013> Old Smoky <U+2013> A false lying true love <U+2013> I<U+2019>ll build my log cabin on a mountain so high <U+2013> The butcher boy <U+2013> Butcher<U+2019>s boy <U+2013> Jersey City <U+2013> In Johnson City <U+2013> The girl died for love <U+2013> The Boston burglar <U+2013> Covington <U+2013> I was borned and raised in Covington <U+2013> Frank James, the burglar <U+2013> Billy boy <U+2013> A paper of pins <U+2013> Kind sir <U+2013> the courtin<U+2019> cage <U+2013> Common Bill <U+2013> One morning in May <U+2013> See the waters gliding <U+2013> One morning, one morning, one morning in May <U+2013> The lover<U+2019>s lament <U+2013> A soldier<U+2019>s sweetheart <U+2013> Come all you fair and tender ladies <U+2013> Come all ye maids and pretty fair maidens <U+2013> The cuckoo <U+2013> The time has come, my dearest dear <U+2013> William and Nancy <U+2013> Come all ye unmarried med <U+2013> Oh, captain, captain, tell me true <U+2013> The single girl <U+2013> Come all you fair and handsome girls <U+2013> Fair and handsome girls <U+2013> Far and handsome girls <U+2013> Pretty Saro <U+2013> Pretty Sarah <U+2013> Early, early in the spring <U+2013> Song ballet: earl-ly, ear-ly in the spring <U+2013> Ear-ly, ear-ly in the spring <U+2013> The orange and the blue <U+2013> Red, white and blue <U+2013> Green grows the laurel <U+2013> Lovely Polly <U+2013> Pat Malloy <U+2013> The wind that blew o<U+2019>er the wild moor <U+2013> Poor Mary <U+2013> The Indian lass <U+2013> Pretty Mauree <U+2013> The pretty Mohea <U+2013> Pretty Mohea -- The lass of Mohee <U+2013> Mawhee <U+2013> The pretty Mahee <U+2013> New Jail <U+2013> Prisoner<U+2019>s song <U+2013> Here<U+2019>s adieu to all judges and juries <U+2013> I<U+2019>m going to my new jail tomorrow <U+2013> Meet me in the moonlight <U+2013> The great ship <U+2013> The poacher<U+2019>s fate <U+2013> A fox chase <U+2013> The dying cowboy <U+2013> Young cowboy <U+2013> Cowboy song <U+2013> The tree in the wood <U+2013> Pretty bird <U+2013> Give me three grains of corn, mother <U+2013> Three grains of corn <U+2013> The little orphan girl <U+2013> Little orphan girl <U+2013> The drunkard<U+2019>s dream <U+2013> Lovely Nancy <U+2013> Grandmother<U+2019>s old armchair <U+2013> Die an old maid <U+2013> My grandmother lived on yonder little green.
General notePreface signed: John H.H. Lyon, Vernon Loggins.
Bibliography note"Music" (unaccompanied melodies): p. [383]-457.
LCCN 37004992

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