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Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads by John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax ISBN: 0486410897 Dover Publications Price: $18.95 click here to see this book 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 Around 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 Darby The Lady Who Loved a 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 Soldier 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 Tierra 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 Diamon 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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