Barroom ballads.
By: Convivially collected by Frank Shay. Magnificently illuminated by John Held
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Ballads, English -- United States; Folk songs, English -- United States; Drinking songs
Other titles: My pious friends and drunken companions; More pious friends and drunken companions
Notes: Reprint of 1961 Dover edition of My pious friends and drunken companions and More pious friends and drunken companions

Includes unacc. melodies

Includes indexes
Table of contents: value: My pious friends and drunken companions. Abdullah Bul-Bul Amir ; The band played on ; O! Susanna ; Sam Bass ; Brother Noah ; The butcher's boy ; Casey Jones I & II ; Navy fragment ; Forty-nine bottles ; Ach, du lieber Augustine ; I wanta go home ; In the sweet bye and bye ; Christofo Columbo ; Clementine ; When I die ; One more drink for the four of us ; Sweet Rosie ; The foggy, foggy dew ; A catch ; The ballad of Captain Kidd ; The old grey mare ; The dying hobo ; Way down yonder in the cornfield ; The lamentable history of Frankie and Johnnie ; Just a wee doch-an-dorris ; Hail, hail! ; The dying fisherman's song ; I had but fifty cents ; I've been workin' on the railroad ; Little brown jug; I know where they are ; I'm full ; Jesse James ; Back and side go bare, go bare! ; Fill the flowing bowl ; Le chef de gare ; The ballad of Lydia Pinkham ; Railroad Bill ; The morning after ; The Oregon trail ; O'Slattery's light dragoons ; Samuel Hall ; Down among the dead men ; It's the sime the 'old world over I & II ; That tattooed French lady ; The son of a gambolier ; Water boy ; There is a tavern in the town ; Wal, I swan ; Young Charlotte ; Whiskey for my Johnny ; I wish I was single again ; Rolling home ; Oh! Oh! Oh! it's a lovely war! ; Maid of Amsterdam ; Mademoiselle from Armentieres ; The cowboy's lament ; The face on the bar-room floor ; Twenty years ago ; Lasca ; 'Ostler Joe ; The kid's fight ; Don't go in them lions' cage tonight, mother ; The high Barbaree ; The Marines' song; value: More pious friends and drunken companions. A pack of cards ; The roving gambler ; Australian highwayman's song ; Our gude-man ; Down in dear old Greenwich Village ; The wreck of the Old 97 ; The female smuggler ; O, give me a home where the buffalo roam ; Heenan and Sayers ; Rio Grande ; False Henry ; The charming young widow I met on the train ; Hop head ; Salvation Army song ; Hannah ; The cannibal maiden ; Life is but a game of cards ; Pictures from life's other side ; Old Joe Clark ; Cocaine Bill and Morphine Sue ; Rollicking Bill the sailor ; Texas Rangers ; Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue ; Oh, no, John! ; Duckfoot Sue ; Willie the weeper ; Hop song ; Johnny Sands ; A little more cider ; Lucky Jim ; The Boston burglar ; Fair Fanny Moore ; I've only been down to the club ; Springfield Mountain ; My cottage by the sea ; The hell-bound train ; Drunkard John ; Once I loved a railroad brakeman ; Ballad of a young man ; The dog-catcher's child ; Je donnerais Versailles ; The sailor's return ; The caissions are rolling along ; Young Monroe at Gerry's Rock ; The midnight expres ; Bible stories ; When you and I were young, Maggie ; Seven long years ; The letter edged in black ; I'll give my love a cherry ; Jim Fisk, Jr. ; What's the use? ; Get away, old man, get away! ; Dis mornin', dis evenin', so soon ; The dying ranger ; Shanahan's ould Shebeen ; Sally Brown ; The recruit ; The flying cloud ; The girl in the blue velvet band ; The millman tragedy ; In Bohemia hall ; The actor's story