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Folk-songs from the southern highlands / collected and edited by Mellinger Edward Henry.

Author/creator Henry, Mellinger Edward
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoNew York city : J. J. Augustin, [©1938]
Descriptionxiii, pages, 1 ., 460 pages : plates, portraits ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents The elfin knight -- Lady Isabel and the elf-knight -- Earl Brand -- The Twa sisters -- Lord Randal -- The cruel mother -- The three ravens -- The Broomfield hill -- Young Beichan -- The cherry-tree carol -- Lord Thomas and fair Annet -- The lass of Roch royal -- The wife of Usher's well -- Little Musgrave and lady Barnard -- Bonny Barbara Allan -- Lady Alice -- Lamkin -- The maid freed from the gallows -- Johnny Scot -- Sir Hugh, or the Jew's daughter -- King Henry fifth's conquest of France -- The gypsy laddie -- James Harris (the daemon lover) -- Our Goodman -- The wife wrapt in wether's skin -- The farmer's curst wife -- The sweet trinity -- The mermaid -- The brown girl -- The Yorkshire bite -- I gave my love a cherry -- The judge and the jury -- Young hunting -- The perjured maid -- Little Dicky Whigburn -- The holy twig -- Twelve apostles (the Ten Commandments) -- Home, dearie, home -- The bramble briar -- Johnny Doyle -- Young Edmund in the lowlands low -- William and Polly -- Young Johnny -- William and Mary -- Jack and Joe -- Derby ram -- Johnny Troy -- The brisk young farmer -- The bugaboo -- The Sheffield apprentice -- The soldiers wooing -- Sweet William (sailor boy) -- The drowsy sleeper -- The three sons -- The boatsman and the chest -- The dishonest miller -- The butcher boy -- One morning in May -- Pretty fair miss -- Fair damsel -- Farewell, parting lover -- Jackaro -- Pearl Bryan -- The Wexford girl (the cruel miller) -- On the banks of the Ohio -- Poor Omie -- Come, pretty Polly -- Early in the spring -- Broken vows -- Short life of trouble -- Little sweetheart -- Flirting -- A package of old letters -- Forsaken -- Forsaken lover -- The dear companion -- I dreamed last night of my true love -- Song ballen (I rode to church last Sunday) -- Young ladies (little sparrow) -- My pretty little pink -- The true lover's farewell -- Black is the color -- Lonesome dove -- My dearest dear -- The lover's lament -- No change in me -- Old Smoky -- Sweet Willie (sweet Lillie) -- I'm going to Georgia -- The wagoner's lad -- I love little Willie -- Pretty Saro -- Little Nell of Narragansett Bay -- Pretty Mohea -- Paper of pins -- The black mustache -- The lonesome scenes of winter -- The old man's courtship -- The crafty lover -- Will the weaver -- The weaver had a wife -- The battle of the waterfall -- Old maid's song -- I'll not marry at all -- Come, all young men -- An old man at his grave -- I have always heard of these old men -- Song ballet (I was sixteen years of age) -- Ellen Smith -- Claude Allen -- Sidney Allen -- Jesse James -- Wild Bill Jones -- Tom Dooley -- The prisoner's song -- The rich rambler -- Logan county court house -- The peddler and his wife -- Charles Guiteau or James A. Garfield -- A Kentucky feud song -- Leo Frank and Mary Fagan -- Frankie and Albert -- The Texas rangers -- When the work's all done this fall -- The rambling cowboy -- Death of a maiden fair -- The lone prairie -- The dying cowboy -- The Arkansas traveler -- The battle of Fredericksburg -- Brother Green -- The drummer boy of Shiloh -- The soldier boy -- The dying soldier -- The ship that never returned -- The blind child's prayer -- Mary of the wild moor -- Orphan girl -- Orphan's song -- The drunkard's hell -- The drunkard's lone child -- Billy boy -- The ground hog -- The frog and the mouse -- Sourwood mountain -- First she gave me was a old shotgun -- Sandy -- There was a little tree -- King William was King George's son -- Who killed poor robin? -- Old Grampus -- Irish barber -- The old gray mare -- Calomel -- My old banjo -- Kitty Wells -- Were you there? -- The little family -- Old ship of Zion -- All my sins are taken away -- My Lord, what a morning! -- She'll be coming around the mountain -- When you hear that whistle blow -- I heard the whistle blowing -- Fragment of a negro song -- The great Titanic -- Shortening bread -- I went up to the mountain top -- Eliza Jane -- Cindy -- Massa had a little yaller gal -- Lulu -- Big-eye rabbit -- Sal's got a meat-skin -- When I die -- Fragments of negro songs -- Cocaine -- Jake walk blues -- John Henry -- Swannanoa tunnel.
General notePrinted in Germany.
General noteSome of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies)
General note"First edition."
Bibliography note"List of references - abbreviations": p. xii-xiii.
LCCN 38027500

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