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Folk songs of old New England / With an introd. by James M. Carpenter.

Author/creator Linscott, Eloise Hubbard, 1897-1978
Format Musical Score and Print
Edition2d ed.
Publication InfoHamden [Conn.] : Archon Books, 1962.
Descriptionxxiii, 344 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Did you ever see a lassie? -- The farmer and the dell -- Go in and out the windows -- Green gravel -- Green grow the rushes, oh! -- Here come three dukes a-riding -- Here stands and old maid forsaken -- Here we go gathering nuts in May -- How many miles to London town? -- I am a rich widow -- I'll give to you a paper of pins -- I put my little hand in -- Jennia Jones -- King's land -- Lazy Mary -- London bridge -- Lucy locket -- Mulb'ry bush -- My fairy and my forey -- The needle's eye -- Old woman all skin and bone -- On the green carpet -- Poor Mary sits a-weeping -- Ring around the rosies -- Shall I show you how the farmer? -- The twelve days of Christmas -- Water, water, wild flower -- Bonaparte crossing the Rhine (march) -- Boston Fancy (Lady Walpole's reel) -- Chorus jig -- Devil's dream -- The duchess -- Fisher's hornpipe -- French four -- The girl I left behind me -- Grand march/Sicilian circle -- Green mountain volunteers -- Haymaker's jig -- High Betty Martin -- Hull's victory -- Lady of the lake -- The London lanciers -- Maid in the pump room -- The merry dance -- Miss Brown's reel -- Money musk -- Morning star -- Ninepin Quadrille (The cheat) -- Old zip coon -- Petronella -- Plain quadrille -- Pop! goes the weasel -- Portland fancy -- Soldier's joy -- Speed the plough -- Steamboat quickstep -- The tempest -- Twin sisters -- Virginia reel -- The waltz -- The white cockade -- Amsterdam -- Blow, boys, blow! -- Blow the man down -- Captain Kidd -- The dead horse -- The gallant victory (Lowlands low) -- Haul away, Joe! -- Haul the bowline -- Homeward bound -- Johnny Boker -- A long time ago -- Old horse -- Reuben Renzo -- Rio Grande -- Shenandoah (The wide Missouri) -- Tommy's gone to Hilo -- Whisky Johnnie -- All bound 'round with a woolen string -- Away down east -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- Barb'ry Ellen (Barbara Allen) -- A bear went over the mountain -- Billy boy -- Bingo -- Blow, ye winds, blow (The elfin knight) -- Bold Dickie -- The Brookfield murder -- The bunnit of straw -- The butcher boy -- Canaday-i-o -- Caroline of Edinboro town -- The carrion crow -- Common Bill -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- Dirante, my son (Lord Randall) -- Fair Rosamond (Rosamond's downfall) -- The Farmington canal song -- Fiddle dee dee -- First families of Fall River -- A frog he would a-wooing go -- A fox went out on a starry night -- Frog in the well -- Go tell aunt Rhody -- Gypsy daisy -- Here we go up -- I had a little nut tree -- I'll not marry at all -- in good old colony times -- Jack Haggarty (The Flat River girl) -- The jam on Gerry's rocks -- The jolly miller -- Jolly old Roger -- Julia Grover -- Katy Cruel -- The ladle song -- Lavender's blue -- Let's go to the woods (The hunting of the wren) -- Lord Lovell -- The lumberman's alphabet -- Maple sweet -- The mill -- The monkey's wedding -- My grandmother lived on yonder little green -- The ocean burial -- The old man who lived in the wood -- Old pod-auger times -- The old sow song -- The old woman in Dover -- The old woman who went to market -- Our goodman -- Over the water to Charlie -- The oxen song -- Perrie, merrie, dixi, domini -- Peter Emily -- Polly Oliver -- Polly Van -- The quaker's wooing -- The rolling of the stones (The Twa brothers) -- The sawmill song -- Scotland's burning/Three blind mice -- A ship a-sailing -- Springfield mountain (The black sarpent) -- Sweet kitty clover -- Three children sliding on the ice -- Three crows -- Three jovial huntsmen -- Tittery nan -- Too-ril-te-too -- Tyburn hill -- Washing day -- Will you wear the red? (Jennie Jenkins) -- Willikins and his Dinah -- Young Alanthia -- Young Charlotte.
General noteIncludes children's singing songs, with directions for movement.
LCCN 62051281

Available Items

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Music Music Stacks M1629.L64 F7 1962 ✔ Available Place Hold