Contents: John Henry -- Steel laying holler -- The heavy-hipted woman -- jTie shuffling chant -- Tie tamping chant -- Good-by, pretty mama --Paddy works on the Erie -- Mike -- The gila monster route -- Hallelujah, bum again -- Ten thousand miles from home --The wreck on the C. & O. --Nachul-born Easman -- Casey Jones --The wreck of the six-wheel driver -- Ol' John Brown -- Charley Snyder -- Shack bully holler -- Reason I stay on job so long -- Gwineter harness in de mornin' soon -- Levee camp "holler" -- Shot my pistol in de heart of town -- Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis -- Black Betty -- The hammer song -- Rosie -- Ol' rattler -- Stewball -- De midnight special -- Long gone -- Great God-a'mighty -- Jumpin' Judy -- Bad man ballad -- Po Laz'us -- Stagolee -- Old Bill -- Frankie and Albert -- Ida red -- Big Jim -- De ballit of de boll weevil -- Bill Martin and Ella Speed -- Railroad Bill -- Spanish Johnny -- John Harty -- Sam Bass -- Jesse James -- Quantrell -- Sam Hall -- Jim Haggerty's story -- Billy the Kid -- The Cryderville jail -- Po' boy -- Down in the valley -- Every night when the sun goes in -- The roving gambler -- I wish I was a mole in the ground -- Sugar babe -- When I was single [the woman] -- When I was single [the man] -- Darlin' -- Polly Williams -- The bear in the hill -- The little Mohee -- Drink that rot gut -- Rye whisky -- The drunkard's doom -- Little brown jug -- Adieu to bon county -- Good ol' mountain dew -- Lulu -- Willie the weeper -- Honey, take a whiff on me -- Cornfield holler -- Dirty mistreatin' women -- Dink's blues -- dink's song -- Woman blue -- Go way f'om mah window -- My li'l John Henry -- Shorty George -- The "cholly" blues -- Fare thee well, babe -- Alabama-bound -- Michie Preval -- Remon -- Criole candjo -- Un, Deux, trois -- Aurore Pradere -- Ou som souroucou -- Salangadou -- Foller de drinkin' gou'd -- Run, Migger, run! Pick a bale o'cotton -- Hard to be a nigger -- Shortenin' bread -- Sandy lan' -- Pattin' a. Little gal at our house b. Rabbit hash c. Da's all right, baby -- Cotton field song -- De grey goose -- Julie Ann Johnson -- My yallow gal -- De black gal -- The ballad of Davy Crockett -- Raise, a rukus tonight -- When de good Lord sets you free -- Old Dan Tucker -- Cotton-eyed Joe -- The Arkansas traveller -- Groun' hog -- Cumberland Gap -- Sourwood Mountain -- Old Joe Clark a. that pretty little gal b. A cowboy version -- Ol' mother hare -- Liza Jane -- Blck-eyed Susie -- Louisiana girls -- Weevily wheat -- Way over in the blooming garden -- Skip to my Lou -- Shoot the buffalo -- Going to Boston -- Shoo-shoo-shoo-lye -- What folks are mode of -- All the pretty little horses -- The old gray goose -- Long time ago -- Three pigs -- Tale of a little pig -- Frog went a-courtin' -- Crows in the garden -- The Connecticut peddler -- Billy boy -- Paper of pins -- Hardly think I will -- I love little Willie --The factory girl -- Hard times -- On Meesh-e-gan -- Tearin' out-a wilderness -- The man on the flying trapeze -- Ye ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar -- Beautiful -- The Highly educated man -- Darky Sunday school -- The old bachelor -- Rattle snake -- Alla en el rancho grande -- El amor que te tenia -- El abandonado -- Cuatro palomitas blancas -- Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal -- From the chuck wagon -- Cowboys' gettin' up holler -- The old Chizzum trail -- When I was a cowboy -- Cowboy to pitching bronco -- Other cowboy boasting chants -- Good-by, old paint -- Git along, little dogies -- The buffalo skinners -- The stampede -- Mustang gray -- Hell in Texas -- Arizona -- The killer -- Snagtooth Sal -- Tying a knot in the devil's tail -- Susan Van Dusan -- The cowboy's dream -- Red River shore -- Roy Bean -- An Idaho cowboy dance -- In town -- Bucking bronco -- Poor lonesome cowboy -- Joe Bowers -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Crossing the plains -- Coming around the horn -- The bull-whacker -- Brigham Young -- Greer county -- The hard-working miner -- The dreary Black Hills -- Just from Dawson -- t Whalen -- The shanty-boy and the farmer's son -- Gerry's rocks -- Bung yer eye -- The banks of the Pamanow -- Ballad of the Erie Canal -- The Erie Canal -- The Erie Canal ballad -- Erie Canal -- A trip on the Erie -- Low bridge, everybody down -- The E-ri-e -- The raging can-all -- Red iron ore -- Johnny come down to Hilo -- Heave away -- Whisky Johnny -- The Rio Grande -- the Black Ball Line -- Blow the man down -- get up, Jack! John sit down -- Jack Wrack -- The Boston come-all-ye -- The wonderful crocodile -- Captain Robert Kidd -- The Flying Cloud -- Constitution and Guerriere -- Siege of Plattsburg -- The buccaneers -- Destroyer life -- Yankee doodle -- Braddock's defeat -- John Brown's body -- Hold on, Abraham -- Dixie -- War song -- Good old rebel -- Benny Havens, oh! -- The wild Miz-zou-rye -- Shenadoah-- damn the Filipinos -- A rookie's lament -- The company cook -- We've done our hitch in hell -- If you want to know where the privates are -- The hearse song -- Hinky dinky, parley-voo? -- Bear the news, Mary -- Parting friends -- Burges -- Few Days -- Wedlock -- Wicked Polly -- Now our meeting's over -- The other shore -- Amazing grace -- Many t'ousands go -- Lay dis body down -- Mone, member, mone -- Moanin' -- Healin' waters -- 'Ligion so sweet -- Dives and laz'us -- Set down, servant -- Oh, Lawd, how long? -- Never said a mumbalin' word -- Hell and heaven -- Man goin' round -- good-by, mother -- This train -- Deep river -- Blin' man stood on de way and cried -- Dese bones gwine to rise again -- Hard trials -- Dat lonesome stream -- Woo be unto you -- Tone de bell easy -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- When my blood runs chilld and col'

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Label: American ballads and folksongs/, Collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, with a foreward by George Lyman Kittredge

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New York, New York, Macmillan Company, 1934, 1964

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"Published October, 1934. Reprinted 1964."
Unacc. melodies

Bibliography note: Includes bibliography and Index

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Contents: John Henry -- Steel laying holler -- The heavy-hipted woman -- jTie shuffling chant -- Tie tamping chant -- Good-by, pretty mama --Paddy works on the Erie -- Mike -- The gila monster route -- Hallelujah, bum again -- Ten thousand miles from home --The wreck on the C. & O. --Nachul-born Easman -- Casey Jones --The wreck of the six-wheel driver -- Ol' John Brown -- Charley Snyder -- Shack bully holler -- Reason I stay on job so long -- Gwineter harness in de mornin' soon -- Levee camp "holler" -- Shot my pistol in de heart of town -- Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis -- Black Betty -- The hammer song -- Rosie -- Ol' rattler -- Stewball -- De midnight special -- Long gone -- Great God-a'mighty -- Jumpin' Judy -- Bad man ballad -- Po Laz'us -- Stagolee -- Old Bill -- Frankie and Albert -- Ida red -- Big Jim -- De ballit of de boll weevil -- Bill Martin and Ella Speed -- Railroad Bill -- Spanish Johnny -- John Harty -- Sam Bass -- Jesse James -- Quantrell -- Sam Hall -- Jim Haggerty's story -- Billy the Kid -- The Cryderville jail -- Po' boy -- Down in the valley -- Every night when the sun goes in -- The roving gambler -- I wish I was a mole in the ground -- Sugar babe -- When I was single [the woman] -- When I was single [the man] -- Darlin' -- Polly Williams -- The bear in the hill -- The little Mohee -- Drink that rot gut -- Rye whisky -- The drunkard's doom -- Little brown jug -- Adieu to bon county -- Good ol' mountain dew -- Lulu -- Willie the weeper -- Honey, take a whiff on me -- Cornfield holler -- Dirty mistreatin' women -- Dink's blues -- dink's song -- Woman blue -- Go way f'om mah window -- My li'l John Henry -- Shorty George -- The "cholly" blues -- Fare thee well, babe -- Alabama-bound -- Michie Preval -- Remon -- Criole candjo -- Un, Deux, trois -- Aurore Pradere -- Ou som souroucou -- Salangadou -- Foller de drinkin' gou'd -- Run, Migger, run! Pick a bale o'cotton -- Hard to be a nigger -- Shortenin' bread -- Sandy lan' -- Pattin' a. Little gal at our house b. Rabbit hash c. Da's all right, baby -- Cotton field song -- De grey goose -- Julie Ann Johnson -- My yallow gal -- De black gal -- The ballad of Davy Crockett -- Raise, a rukus tonight -- When de good Lord sets you free -- Old Dan Tucker -- Cotton-eyed Joe -- The Arkansas traveller -- Groun' hog -- Cumberland Gap -- Sourwood Mountain -- Old Joe Clark a. that pretty little gal b. A cowboy version -- Ol' mother hare -- Liza Jane -- Blck-eyed Susie -- Louisiana girls -- Weevily wheat -- Way over in the blooming garden -- Skip to my Lou -- Shoot the buffalo -- Going to Boston -- Shoo-shoo-shoo-lye -- What folks are mode of -- All the pretty little horses -- The old gray goose -- Long time ago -- Three pigs -- Tale of a little pig -- Frog went a-courtin' -- Crows in the garden -- The Connecticut peddler -- Billy boy -- Paper of pins -- Hardly think I will -- I love little Willie --The factory girl -- Hard times -- On Meesh-e-gan -- Tearin' out-a wilderness -- The man on the flying trapeze -- Ye ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar -- Beautiful -- The Highly educated man -- Darky Sunday school -- The old bachelor -- Rattle snake -- Alla en el rancho grande -- El amor que te tenia -- El abandonado -- Cuatro palomitas blancas -- Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal -- From the chuck wagon -- Cowboys' gettin' up holler -- The old Chizzum trail -- When I was a cowboy -- Cowboy to pitching bronco -- Other cowboy boasting chants -- Good-by, old paint -- Git along, little dogies -- The buffalo skinners -- The stampede -- Mustang gray -- Hell in Texas -- Arizona -- The killer -- Snagtooth Sal -- Tying a knot in the devil's tail -- Susan Van Dusan -- The cowboy's dream -- Red River shore -- Roy Bean -- An Idaho cowboy dance -- In town -- Bucking bronco -- Poor lonesome cowboy -- Joe Bowers -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Crossing the plains -- Coming around the horn -- The bull-whacker -- Brigham Young -- Greer county -- The hard-working miner -- The dreary Black Hills -- Just from Dawson -- t Whalen -- The shanty-boy and the farmer's son -- Gerry's rocks -- Bung yer eye -- The banks of the Pamanow -- Ballad of the Erie Canal -- The Erie Canal -- The Erie Canal ballad -- Erie Canal -- A trip on the Erie -- Low bridge, everybody down -- The E-ri-e -- The raging can-all -- Red iron ore -- Johnny come down to Hilo -- Heave away -- Whisky Johnny -- The Rio Grande -- the Black Ball Line -- Blow the man down -- get up, Jack! John sit down -- Jack Wrack -- The Boston come-all-ye -- The wonderful crocodile -- Captain Robert Kidd -- The Flying Cloud -- Constitution and Guerriere -- Siege of Plattsburg -- The buccaneers -- Destroyer life -- Yankee doodle -- Braddock's defeat -- John Brown's body -- Hold on, Abraham -- Dixie -- War song -- Good old rebel -- Benny Havens, oh! -- The wild Miz-zou-rye -- Shenadoah-- damn the Filipinos -- A rookie's lament -- The company cook -- We've done our hitch in hell -- If you want to know where the privates are -- The hearse song -- Hinky dinky, parley-voo? -- Bear the news, Mary -- Parting friends -- Burges -- Few Days -- Wedlock -- Wicked Polly -- Now our meeting's over -- The other shore -- Amazing grace -- Many t'ousands go -- Lay dis body down -- Mone, member, mone -- Moanin' -- Healin' waters -- 'Ligion so sweet -- Dives and laz'us -- Set down, servant -- Oh, Lawd, how long? -- Never said a mumbalin' word -- Hell and heaven -- Man goin' round -- good-by, mother -- This train -- Deep river -- Blin' man stood on de way and cried -- Dese bones gwine to rise again -- Hard trials -- Dat lonesome stream -- Woo be unto you -- Tone de bell easy -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- When my blood runs chilld and col'

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