A song catcher in southern mountains ; American folk songs of British ancestry / by Dorothy Scarborough.
| Author/creator | Scarborough, Dorothy |
| Other author | Lyon, John H. H. (John Henry Hobart), 1878-1961. |
| Other author | Loggins, Vernon, 1893-1968. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia university press, 1937. |
| Description | xvi, 476 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Ballads: Bonny Barbara Allen ; The ballet of Barbara Allan ; Barbry Ellen ; Barbara Allen ; Barbare Allen ; Barbara Ellen ; Barberie Allen ; The brown girl ; There was a young lad y ; Lord Lovel ; Fair Margaret and sweet William ; Lady Margret ; Lord Thomas and fair Annet ; Lord Thomas and fair Ellen ; Lord Thomas ; Fair Ellender ; Lord Thomas and fair Ellendar ; Earl Brand -- Sweet William ; Molly Vaughn -- Death of Molly Bender ; George Collins ; George Allien ; The lass of Roch Royal ; Honey babe ; I truly understand that you love some other man ; Lady Isabel and the elf-knight ; The cruel ship's carpenter ; Pretty Polly ; Dying Polly ; Oh, Polly! ; Young hunting ; Loving Henery ; Come in, loving Henery ; Loving Henry ; Lady Maisry ; Awake! awake! ; Katy dear, or Willie darling ; Mollie dear, go ask your mother ; Drowsy sleepers ; Little Willie ; Little Musgrave and lady Barnard ; Little Mose Groves ; Lord Donald's wife ; James Harris (the daemon lover) ; House carpenter ; The house carpenter ; The Wexford girl; hanged I shall be; the prentice boy ; Knoxville girl ; Knoxville gal ; The twa sisters ; The two sisters ; The twa brothers ; The two brothers ; The wife of Usher's well ; There was a lady and a lady was she ; The cruel mother ; Sir Hugh, or the Jew's daughter ; A little boy threw his ball so high ; Little Sir Hugh ; Huge of Lincoln ; A lady's daughter of Paris ; Lord Randal ; Randal, my son ; Edward ; The murdered brother ; The sweet trinity; the golden vanity ; The golden willow tree ; The mermaid ; Bessie Bell and Mary Gray ; Sir Lionel ; Ole Bangum ; The three ravens (the twa corbies) ; Three old crows ; The little family ; The maid freed from the gallows ; The hangman's son ; Hangman, hold your rope ; The lady and the dragoon ; A brave soldier ; The silk merchant's daughter ; Jackaroe ; Jacky Freasher ; Jackie Frazier ; Young Beichan ; The jailer's daughter ; Geordie ; Georgy-O ; The gypsy laddie ; The three gypsies ; Black Jack Davy ; Gypsia song ; Oh come and go back my pretty fair miss ; Gypsy Davy ; The lady's disgrace ; John of Hazelgreen ; John over the Hazel Green ; The golden glove ; Lady lost her glove ; The dog and gun ; Captain Wedderburn's courtship ; Our Goodman ; Three nights of experience ; I called to my loving wife ; Parson Jones ; Will de weaver ; A cruel wife ; The miller's advice to his three sons, on taking of toll ; The old miller ; Father Grumble ; There was an old man ; the frog he went a-courting ; Frog went courting ; The gentleman frog ; Johnny Doyle ; Johnny Dile ; Tam Lane ; Queen Jane. |
| Contents | Songs: The true sweetheart ; Pretty fair maid ; A pretty fair damsel ; A lily fair damsel ; The true sweetheart ; William hall ; A soldier boy ; The banks of Claudy ; The soldier's return ; Fair Phoebe and her dark-eyed sailor ; Young Willie's return, or The Token ; The sailor ; Billy ma hone ; The false young main ; Come along, my own true love ; Set you down, my own true love ; As I walked out one may morning ; The waggoner's lad ; My fortune's been bad ; The last farewell ; Old Smokie ; My horses ain't hungry ; Old Smoky ; A false lying true love ; I'll build my log cabin on a mountain so high ; The butcher boy ; Butcher's boy ; Jersey City ; In Johnson City ; The girl died for love ; The Boston burglar ; Covington ; I was borned and raised in Covington ; Frank James, the burglar ; Billy boy ; A paper of pins ; Kind sir ; the courtin' cage ; Common Bill ; One morning in May ; See the waters gliding ; One morning, one morning, one morning in May ; The lover's lament ; A soldier's sweetheart ; Come all you fair and tender ladies ; Come all ye maids and pretty fair maidens ; The cuckoo ; The time has come, my dearest dear ; William and Nancy ; Come all ye unmarried med ; Oh, captain, captain, tell me true ; The single girl ; Come all you fair and handsome girls ; Fair and handsome girls ; Far and handsome girls ; Pretty Saro ; Pretty Sarah ; Early, early in the spring ; Song ballet: earl-ly, ear-ly in the spring ; Ear-ly, ear-ly in the spring ; The orange and the blue ; Red, white and blue ; Green grows the laurel ; Lovely Polly ; Pat Malloy ; The wind that blew o'er the wild moor ; Poor Mary ; The Indian lass ; Pretty Mauree ; The pretty Mohea ; Pretty Mohea -- The lass of Mohee ; Mawhee ; The pretty Mahee ; New Jail ; Prisoner's song ; Here's adieu to all judges and juries ; I'm going to my new jail tomorrow ; Meet me in the moonlight ; The great ship ; The poacher's fate ; A fox chase ; The dying cowboy ; Young cowboy ; Cowboy song ; The tree in the wood ; Pretty bird ; Give me three grains of corn, mother ; Three grains of corn ; The little orphan girl ; Little orphan girl ; The drunkard's dream ; Lovely Nancy ; Grandmother's old armchair ; Die an old maid ; My grandmother lived on yonder little green. |
| General note | Preface signed: John H.H. Lyon, Vernon Loggins. |
| Bibliography note | "Music" (unaccompanied melodies): p. [383]-457. |
| LCCN | 37004992 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Music Stacks | M1629.S29 S6 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |