Features 150 authentic songs collected by a foremost authority. Songs of love, of the sea, of battle; humorous songs, songs on the theme of the broken ring token, Irish songs, nursery songs, songs native to the province or North America and more. Includes the words and music. Introduction. Bibliography. Index of Titles.

Table of Contents for Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia

1. False Knight Upon the Road (A)
2. Cruel Mother (B)
3. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
4. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor (B)
5. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
6. Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (A)
7. Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
8. Sir Hugh ; or The Jew's Daughter
9. Farmer's Curst Wife (A)
10. Sweet Trinity ; or The Golden Vanity
11. Katharine Jaffray (B)
12. Song of a Soldier
13. Turkish Rover
14. Well Sold the Cow (A)
15. Annie (A)
16. Butcher Boy (B)
17. Diana and Sweet William (A)
18. Villikens and His Dinah (B)
19. Green Bushes (B)
20. I Wrote My Love a Letter
21. James McDonald
22. Jocky Said to Jinnie
23. Quakers Courtship
24. Rich Counsellor (B)
25. Silvy
26. When I Was in My Prime (A)
27. Broken Ring Song Fragment
28. Broken Ring Song
29. The Dark-Eyed Sailor (B)
30. Mantle So Green
31. Bessie Beauty
32. Billy Taylor (B)
33. Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold (B)
34. Female Sailor Bold (B)
35. The Gay Spanish Maid (B)
36. Gallant Brigantine
37. Homeward Bound
38. It Is of a Rich Lady (B)
39. Jack the Sailor
40. Jack Robson
41. Jimmie and Nancy (A)
42. Lily of the West
43. Lion's Den
44. (1) My Sailor Lad (B). (2) Sailor Bold
45. Prentice Boy (B)
46. Pretty Polly
47. Rambling Rover
48. Rose of Britain's Isle
49. A Sailor Courted
50. When I Was a Young Man
51. Young Indian Lass
52. Bay of Biscay Oh
53. Bold Princess Royal (B)
54. Captain Burke (A)
55. Captain Glenn
56. "Chanty Song (So, it's pass)"
57. Chanty Song (Soon we'll be)
58. City of Baltimore
59. "Come, All Ye Old Comrades (A)"
60. Crocodile Song (A)
61. Donald Munro (B)
62. Flying Cloud (B)
63. Van Diemen's Land (B)
64. Western Ocean
65. Wild Rover
66. Ye Gentlemen of England (A)
67. Battle of Alma (B)
68. Bonny Bunch of Roses O
69. Bonny Light Horseman (A)
70. Drummer Boy
71. Erin Far Away
72. Napoleon's Farewell to Paris (B)
73. Casey's Whiskey
74. Courtship of Willie Riley (B)
75. Doran's Ass (B)
76. Down By the Tan-Yard Side (B)
77. Green Mossy Banks of the Le
78. Jessie Munroe
79. The Mantle of Green
80. Mary Nail
81. My Irish Polly (B)
82. Paddy Backwards (B)
83. Rambling Shoemaker
84. Since Love Can Enter an Iron Door
85. Song Of the Croppy Boy (B)
86. Tim Finnigan's Wake (B)
87. Tom O'Neil
88. Whiskey in the Jar
89. It Was a Mouse
90. Me One Man
91. Old King Coul
92. On This Hill
93. Three Men Went A-Hunting
94. The Miller (B)
95. Mush a Doody
96. Boston Burglar (B)
97. The Three Gallant Huntsmen
98. Alphabet Song (B)
99. American Woods (B)
100. As Now We Are Sailing
101. Back Bay Hill (B)
102. Bad Girl's Lament
103. Banks of Newfoundland (1)
104. The Banks of Newfoundland (2)
105. Barrack Street
106. Brigantine Sinorca (B)
107. Canso Strait
108. Captain Conrod (B)
109. Charles G. Anderson (A)
110. George Jones
111. Saladin's Crew (B)
112. Coloured Girl from the South
113. Cumberland's Crew
114. Dutchman's Song
115. The Flemmings of Torbay (A)
116. Fox River Line
117. The Ghostly Sailors
118. Granite Mill (B)
119. Guysboro Song
120. Hanstead Boys
121. Indian Song (1) and (2)
122. In the Month of October
123. Irish Labourer
124. Joe Livermore
125. Jolly Fisherman
126. Liverpool Girls (B)
127. Loakie's Boat
128. Loss of the Philosophy (A)
129. Louisiana Lowlands (B)
130. Lumbering Boy
131. Maggie Mac
132. The Mary L. MacKay (B)
133. McCarthy's Song
134. McNab's Island
135. Meagher's Children (A)
136. Ocean Queen
137. On the Lakes of Ponchartrain
138. Peter Rambelay (B)
139. Prentice Boy (To a New York trader)
140. Prince Edward Island Murder
141. Prisoner's Song (Oh it's hard to be)
142. Sable Island Song (1)
143. Sable Island Song (2)
144. The Seizure of the E. F. Horton
145. Song of the Tangier Gold Mines
146. Sweet Fair Ella
147. Tacking of a Full-Rigged Ship Off Shore
148. Twas in the Town of Parsboro
149. Unicorn
150. Young Charlotte
Index of Titles

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