An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century / edited by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas.

"This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread familiarity throughout twentieth-century America. Within are the one hundred folk songs that most frequently occurred in a methodical survey...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Recent researches in American music ; v. 89.
Music of the United States of America ; 32.
Other Authors: Cohen, Norm, 1936- (Editor)
Cohen, Carson (Editor)
McLucas, Anne Dhu, 1941-2012 (Editor)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
English words.
Staff notation.
Published: Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, [2021]
Series:Recent researches in American music ; v. 89.
Music of the United States of America ; 32.
Subjects:
Genre:
Physical Description:1 score (xlix, 546 pages) ; 31 cm.
Format: Musical Score
Contents:
  • Barbara Allen
  • Frog he went a-courting
  • The house carpenter
  • Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
  • Black Jack David
  • The jealous lover
  • The lassie Mawhee
  • Sweet Willie
  • The butcher boy
  • Jimmie Randall (The pizen song)
  • Tom Sherman's Barroom & St. James' Hospital
  • The golden willow tree
  • The devil and the farmer's wife
  • Hangman, hangman, slack the rope
  • Knoxville girl
  • A package of love letters
  • My horses ain't hungry, they won't eat your hay
  • Pretty fair miss in the garden
  • Lord Lovel
  • Lady Marg'et
  • young Charlotte
  • Lord Bateman
  • Pretty Polly
  • three nights experience
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Madam I've come to marry you
  • The three babes
  • The two sisters
  • As the dew flies over the green valley
  • Lord Daniel
  • Charming Billy
  • John Henry
  • Sleepy desert
  • The story of George Collins
  • Springfield Mountain
  • Ommie Wise
  • Jesse James
  • I've always been a rambler
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Little Sir Hugh
  • The prisoner's song
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • The blind child
  • Father go dig me a boat
  • The cuckoo she's a fine bird
  • The orphan girl
  • Beware all you handsome ladies
  • Lord Varnold
  • Sourwood Mountain
  • Jack Monroe
  • Bury me under the weeping willow
  • Boston Burglar
  • Who's going to shoe your pretty little feet
  • The Darby ram
  • Little old log cabin in the lane
  • Charley he's a good old man
  • Pretty Sally
  • Rye whisky
  • Give my love to Nellie
  • Texas Rangers
  • Wild rippling water
  • Charles Guiteau
  • John Hardy
  • The golden dagger
  • The roving gambler
  • The three crows
  • Casey Jones
  • The miller's will
  • Birmingham Jail
  • Red river valley
  • Edward
  • Go tell Aunt Phoebe
  • I courted a fair maid
  • Skip to my Lou
  • I wish I was single again
  • The two school boys
  • The dying cowboy
  • Old woman and the cow
  • Early, early in the morning
  • Cambric shirt
  • Sally Goodin'
  • King William was King George's son
  • Cripple Creek
  • They say it is ismple to flirt
  • Old ninety-seven
  • Foreman Monroe
  • Cindy
  • Round town gals
  • Little brown jug
  • In the state of Arkansas
  • Going down the road feelin' bad
  • With his old gray beard a-shining
  • Mary of the wild moor
  • Pretty Saro
  • Liza Jane
  • Single girl, married girl
  • Kitty Wells
  • Jimmie Randall
  • Wild Bill Jones
  • Down by the greenwood side.