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Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads
by John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax

ISBN: 0486410897
Dover Publications Price: $16.95
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This sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes from all parts of the country. Songs include spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, chain-gang work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, and many more. Includes over 200 authentic folk songs and ballads.


Table of Contents for Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads
INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1941 EDITION
PREFACE
MUSIC PREFACE
EXPLANATION OF HEADNOTES
I RELIGIOUS SONGS
 1. NEGRO SPIRITUALS
   "Prayer-This evening, our Father"
   Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves
   Samson
   The Man of Calvary
   Job
   John Done Saw That Number
   John Was A-Writin'
   Dem Bones
   The Blood-Strained Banders
   God Moves on the Water
   God Don't Like It
   Soon One Mornin' Death Come Creepin'
   I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long
   "If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?"
   Choose You a Seat 'n' Set Down
   Low Down Chariot
 2. WHITE RELIGIOUS SONGS
   Over Jordon
   "Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death"
   The Romish Lady
 3. THE HOLINESS PEOPLE
   Keep Your Hands on That Plow
   The Little Black Train
   Holy Ghost
II. SOCIAL SONGS
 1. WHITE DANCE TUNES
   Bonyparte
   Callahan
   "Hop Up, My Ladies"
   Ducks in the Millpond
   Lynchburg Town
   Jinny Git A
   King William Was King George's Son
   Had a Little Fight in Mexico
   The Bank of Arkansaw
 2. NEGRO GAME SONGS
   Ladies in the Dinin' Room
   You Turn for Sugar an' Tea
   Johnnie Bought a Ham
   "Little Bird, Go Through My Window"
   Sally Go Round the Sunshine
   Don't You Like It?
   Cocky Doodle Doodle Doo
   "Kitty, Kitty Casket"
 3. BAHAMAN NEGRO SONGS
   The Wind Blow East
   "Biddy, Biddy"
   Never Get a Lickin' Til I Go Down to Bimini
   Married Man Gonna Keep Your Secret
   A Wasp Bite Nobi on Her Conch-Eye
   Don't You Hurry Worry with Me
   Round the Bay of Mexico
   When de Whale Get Strike
   Dig My Grave
 4. LULLABIES
   Mamma's Gone to the Mail Boat
   "Ol' Hag, You See Mammy?"
   Daddy Shot a Bear
   "Hush, L'i'l' Baby"
   Crabe dans Calalou
   Mary Was a Red Bird
   Cotton Eye Joe
 5. WHOPPERS
   Billy Barlow
   The Crooked Gun
   The Ram of
   The Lady Who Loved a Swine
   Toll-a-Winker
   The Marrowbone Itch
   Old Blue
   Wunst I Had an Old Gray Mare
   Hog Rogues on the Harricane
   Cod Liver Ile
   Tom Bolyn
 6. COURTING SONGS
   The Bachelor's Lay
   Kate Dorey
   Johnny McCardner
   Lolly Too-Dum
   "Where Have You Been, My Good Old Man?"
   Jennie Jenkins
   Married Me a Wife
   Old Shoes and Leggin's
   Blue Bottle
   Devilish Mary
   Do Come Back Again
   My Old True Love
   "Fare Ye Well, My Darlin'"
   I've Rambled This Country Both Earlye and Late
   East Virginia
   Long Lonesome Road
   Little Bonny
 7. OLD-TIME LOVE SONGS
   Old Bangham
   The Mermaid
   Tee Roo
   Sweet William
   Black Jack Davy
   The Irish Lady
   The Lady of Carlisle
   The Lame So
   Willy Reilly
   John Riley
   Lily Munro
   Pretty Polly
   The Lexington Murder
   The Rich Old Lady
 8. FRENCH SONGS AND BALLADS FROM SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA
   Sept Ans Mer
   Blance Comme la Neige
   Je Caresserai la Belle par Amitié
   "Qu' avec-vous, Oui, Belle Blonde "
   Le Petit Mari
   Les Clefs de la Prison
   Belle
III. MEN AT WORK
 1. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
   The Frenchman's Ball
   The True Paddy's Song
   Trench Blues
   Old King Cole
   Santy Anno
   "Haul Away, My Rosy"
   "The Low-Down, Lonesome Low"
   The High Barbaree
   Greenland Whale Fishery
   The Beaver Island Boys
   Dark-Eyed Canaller
   The Bigler
 2. LUMBERJACKS AND TEAMSTERS
   The Little Brown Bulls
   Moosehead Lake
   "Johnny Stiles, or the Wild Mustard River"
   I Came to This Country in 1865
   Ox-Driving Song
   Yo Soy de la T
 3. COWBOY SONGS
   "Git Along, Little Dogies"
   As I Went A-Walking One Fine Summer's Evening
   The Sporting Cowboy
   "Run Along, You Little Dogies"
      Texas Rangers
   Diamond Joe
   If He'd Be a Buckaroo
   Doney Gal
   Peter Gray
 4. RAILROADERS AND HOBOS
   The Wreck on Somerset Road
   The White House Blues
   John Henry
   Sis Joe
   "Oh, Roll On, Babe"
   As I Went Out for a Ramble
   Way Out in Idaho
 5. MINERS' SONGS
   "Oh, My Liver and My Lungs"
   "Down, Down, Down"
   Pay Day at Coal Creek
   The Coal Miner's Child
 6. FARMERS OF THE SOUTH
   Po' Farmer
   It's Hard on We Po' Farmers
   Ain't It Hard to Be a Right Black Nigger?
      Georgia

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