Folk songs of old New England
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Archon Bks.
Published: 1962
Language: eng
Subjects: Dance; Folk songs; Folk and national dances; Ballads; Singing games
Notes: Other editions available: 1939.

Includes children's singing songs, with directions for movement.

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Table of contents: title: Singing games. 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 an 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 fairey and my forey ; The needle's eye ; Old woman all skin and bone ; On the green carpet ; Poor Mary sits a-weeping ; Ring around o' rosies ; Shall I show you how the farmer? ; The twelve days of Christmas ; Water, water, wild flower; title: The country dance. Bonaparte crossing the Rhine (march) ; Boston fancy, or, Lady Walpole's reel ; Chorus jig ; Devil's dream ; The duchess ; Fishers' hornpipe ; French four ; The girl I left behind me ; Grand march, followed by Sicilian circle ; Green Mountain volunteers ; Haymakers' 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, or, 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; title: Sea chanteys and fo'castle songs. Amsterdam ; Blow, boys, blow! ; Blow the man down ; Captain Kidd ; The dead horse ; The gallant victory, or, Lowlands low ; Haul away, Joe! ; Haul the bowline ; Homeward bound ; Johnny Boker ; A long time ago ; Old horse ; Reuben Renzo ; Rio Grande ; Shenandoah, or, The wide Missouri ; Tommy's gone to Hilo ; Whisky Johnnie; title: Ballads, folk songs, and ditties. All bound 'round with a woolen string ; Away Down East ; The bailiff's daughter of Islington ; Barb'ry Ellen, or, Barbara Allen ; A bear went over the mountain ; Billy boy ; Bingo ; Blow, ye winds, blow, or, 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, or, Lord Randall ; Fair Rosamond, or, 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, or, 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, or, 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, or, The twa brothers ; The sawmill song ; Scotland's burning ; and, Three blind mice ; A ship a-sailing ; Springfield Mountain, or, 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?, or, Jennie Jenkins ; Willikins and his Dinah ; Young Alanthia ; Young Charlotte.