Ballads and songs from Ohio / collected and arranged by Mary O. Eddy. Foreword by D. K. Wilgus.

Author/creator Eddy, Mary Olive
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoHatboro, Pennsylvania : Folklore Associates, 1964 [©1939]
Descriptionxxvii, 330 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Subjects
Ballads, American.
Folk songs--Ohio.

Contents The elfin knight ; Lady Isabel and the elf knight ; Earl Brand ; The twa sisters ; Lord Randal ; Edward ; The cruel mother ; Captain Wedderburn's courtship ; The twa brothers ; Young Beichan ; Lord Thomas and fair Annet ; Fair Margaret and sweet William ; Lord Lovel ; The wife of Usher's well ; Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard ; Bonny Barbara Allen ; Lamkin ; The maid freed from the gallows ; The baffled knight ; Sir Hugh or the Jew's daughter ; The gypsy laddie ; Rare Willie drowned in Yarrow ; James Harris ; Henry Martyn ; Our Goodman ; The blind beggar's daughter of Bednall Green ; The bramble briar ; Once I had plenty of thyme ; Johnnie Sands ; And old woman's story ; The drowsy sleeper ; The green bed ; Sweet William ; The sailor and his bride ; Jack went a-sailing ; Charming beauty bright ; George Reilly ; Billy boy ; The keys of heaven ; Putman's hill ; The butcher boy ; An old man who came over the moor ; Father Grumble ; The frog and the mouse ; The opossum ; Jolly Boatman ; The female warrior -- No, sir ; The lily of the west -- Vilikens and his Dinah ; A pretty fair maid ; The milkmaid ; Thornymoor fields ; The banks of sweet Dundee ; The banks of Claudie ; Pretty Polly ; Common Bill ; The drummer boy of Waterloo ; Caroline of Edinburgh town ; Out on the silvery tide -- The dishonest miller ; Jack Williams ; Young Rogers, the miller ; Dog and gun ; Old granddaddy's dead ; The fisherman's girl ; The fisherman's boy ; Old Sam Fanny ; When I was a young man ; How I wish I was single again ; When I was single ; Shab-i-da Ru-dy ; Johnny Doyle ; My pretty maid ; Old Uncle Noah ; Rinordine ; Mollie Vaughn ; The garden game ; The bold privateer ; The three rogues ; The darby ram ; Farewell, sweet mary ; Mary o'the Dee ; The ranger ; The Boston burglar ; The skin-and-bone lady ; Three jolly Frenchmen ; Mary of the wild moor ; Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me ; Now, my bonny, bonny boy ; The fox ; The scolding wife ; The swapping song ; Poor Omie ; Betsey ; Lonely Louisa ; The Romish lady ; Spanish lady ; There was a man and he was mad ; The gypsy's wedding day -- The drunkard's dream ; The green fields and meadows ; One morning in May ; The murdered girl -- A fatal acquaintance-The Fort Thomas murder ; The young man who wouldn't hoe corn ; The peacock that lived in the lady of King George ; Maggie was a lady ; Springfield mountain ; Leo Frank and Mary Phagan ; The song of Mary Phagan ; The song of Brother Green ; The blackbird, or Logan's lament ; James Munks's confession ; Major Andrew's execution ; A song on the death of Colonel Crafford ; On the eighth day of November ; The Wyandotte's farewell song ; James Bird ; John Funston ; Maria Bewell ; Story of Gustave Ohr ; Story of George Mann ; Fair Charlotte ; The dying cowboy ; California ; The dying Californian ; Ohio ; Charles Guiteau, or the murder of James A. Garfield ; McAfee's confession ; Come, all ye roving rangers ; The Quaker's wooing ; The sober Quaker ; The little family ; A soldier's poor little boy ; I wouldn't have an old man ; Old woman, old woman ; The nurse pinched the baby ; Little Johnny green ; The last fierce charge ; Wicked Polly ; Our cherries ; Temperance song ; Barney and Katie ; I'm a tight little Irishman ; Billy O'Rourke ; Finnigan's wake ; A damsel possessed of great beauty ; We fought like the devil ; Go to Saint Pether ; Fare ye well, Inniskillen ; I went to the fair at Bonlaghy ; Barney O'Lean ; Fragments of Irish songs.
General noteSome of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies)
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. xxv-xxvii.
LCCN 39025130

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