American ballads and folk songs
By: collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax ; with a foreword by George Lyman Kittredge
Contributors: Thompson, Harold William, 1891-1964
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
Subjects: English Folk songs; English Ballads; Folk music; Music; African Americans; Spirituals (Songs)
Notes: Unacc. melodies.

"Of this edition ... five hundred copies have been prepared, each signed by the authors." This copy not numbered. Signed: John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax.

Bibliography / compiled by Harold W. Thompson: p. 613-621.
Table of contents: title: Working on the railroad.; title: John Henry ;; title: Steel laying holler ;; title: The heavy-hipted woman ;; title: Tie shuffling chant ;; title: Tie tamping chant ;; title: Good-by, pretty mama ;; title: Paddy works on the Erie ;; title: Mike ;; title: The Gila monster route ;; title: Hallelujah, bum again ;; title: Ten thousand miles from home ;; title: The wreck on the C. & O. ;; title: Nachul-born easman ;; title: Casey Jones ;; title: The wreck of the six-wheel driver ;; title: Ol' John Brown ;; title: Charley Snyder -- -- The levee camp.; title: Shack bully holler ;; title: Reason I stay on job so long ;; title: Gwineter harness in de mornin' soon ;; title: Levee camp "holler" ;; title: Shot my pistol in de heart of town -- -- Songs from Southern chain gangs.; title: Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis ;; title: Black Betty ;; title: The hammer song ;; title: Rosie ;; title: Ol' rattler ;; title: Stewball ;; title: De midnight special ;; title: Long gone ;; title: Great God-a'mighty ;; title: Jumpin' Judy ;; title: Goin' home -- -- Negro bad men.; title: Bad man ballad ;; title: Po Laz'us ;; title: Stagolee ;; title: Old Bill ;; title: Frankie and Albert ;; title: Ida Red ;; title: Big Jim ;; title: De ballit of de bol weevil ;; title: Bill Martin and Ella Speed ;; title: Railroad Bill -- -- White desperadoes.; title: Spanish Johnny ;; title: John Harty ;; title: Sam Bass ;; title: Jesse James ;; title: Quantrell ;; title: Sam Hall ;; title: Zeb Turney's gal ;; title: Billy the Kid ;; title: The Cryderville jail ;; title: Po' boy -- -- Songs from the mountains.; title: Down in the valley ;; title: Every night when the sun goes in ;; title: The roving gambler ;; title: I wish I was a mole in the ground ;; title: Sugar babe ;; title: When I was single (the woman) ;; title: When I was single (the man) ;; title: Darlin' ;; title: Polly Williams ;; title: The bear in the hill ;; title: The little mohee -- -- Cocaine and whisky.; title: Drink that rot gut ;; title: Rye whisky ;; title: The drunkard's doom ;; title: Little brown jug ;; title: Adieu to Bon County ;; title: Good ol' mountain dew ;; title: Lulu ;; title: Willie the weeper ;; title: Honey, take a whiff on me -- -- The blues.; title: Cornfield holler ;; title: Dirty mistreatin' women ;; title: Dink's blues ;; title: Dink's song ;; title: Woman blue ;; title: Go way f'om mah window ;; title: My li'l John Henry ;; title: Shorty George ;; title: The "cholly" blues ;; title: Fare thee well, babe ;; title: Alabama-bound -- -- Creole Negroes.; title: Michié Préval ;; title: Rémon ;; title: Criole Candjo ;; title: Un, deux, trois ;; title: Aurore Pradère ;; title: Ou Som Souroucou ;; title: Salangadou -- -- "Reels". Foller de drinkin' gou'd ;; title: Run, nigger, run! ;; title: Pick a bale o' cotton ;; title: Hard to be a nigger ;; title: Shortenin' bread ;; title: Sandy lan' ; -- Pattin'.; title: Little gal at our house ;; title: Rabbit hash ;; title: Da's all right, baby ;; title: Cotton field song ;; title: De grey goose ;; title: Julie Ann Johnson ;; title: My yallow gal ;; title: De black gal --; title: Minstrel types.; title: The ballad of Davy Crockett ;; title: Raise a rukus tonight ;; title: When de good Lord sets you free ;; title: Old Dan Tucker ;; title: Cotton-eyed Joe -- -- Breakdowns and play parties.; title: The Arkansas traveller ;; title: Groun' hog ;; title: Cumberland Gap ;; title: Sourwood Mountain ;; title: Old Joe Clark ;; title: The gal I left behind me ;; title: Ol' mother Hare ;; title: Liza Jane ;; title: Black-eyed Susie ;; title: Louisiana girls ;; title: Weevily wheat ;; title: Way over in the blooming garden ;; title: Skip to my Lou ;; title: Shoot the buffalo ;; title: Going to Boston ;; title: Shoo-shoo-shoo-lye -- -- Songs of childhood.; title: What folks are made of ;; title: All the pretty little horses ;; title: The old gray goose ;; title: Long time ago ;; title: Three pigs ;; title: Tale of a little pig ;; title: Frog went a-courtin' ;; title: Crows in the garden ;; title: The Connecticut peddler ;; title: Billy Boy ;; title: Paper of pins ;; title: Hardly think I will ;; title: I love little Willie -- -- Miscellany.; title: The factory girl ;; title: Hard times ;; title: On Meesh-e-gan ;; title: Tearin' out-a wilderness ;; title: The man on the flying trapeze ;; title: Ye ballade of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar ;; title: Beautiful ;; title: The highly educated man ;; title: Darky Sunday school ;; title: The old bachelor ;; title: Rattle snake -- -- Vaqueros of the Southwest.; title: Allá en el rancho grande ;; title: El amor que te tenía ;; title: El abandonado ;; title: Cuatro palomitas blancas ;; title: Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal -- -- Cowboy songs.; title: From the chuck wagon ;; title: Cowboys' gettin'-up holler ;; title: The Old Chizzum Trail ;; title: When I was a cowboy ;; title: Cowboy to pitching bronco ;; title: Other cowboy boasting chants ;; title: Good-by, Old Paint ;; title: Git along, little dogies ;; title: The buffalo skinners ;; title: The stawberry roan ;; title: Mustang Gray ;; title: Hell in Texas ;; title: Arizona ;; title: The killer ;; title: Snagtooth Sal ;; title: Tying a knot in the devil's tail ;; title: Susan Van Dusan ;; title: The cowboy's dream ;; title: Red River shore ;; title: Roy Bean ;; title: An Idaho cowboy dance ;; title: In town ;; title: Bucking bronco ;; title: Poor lonesome cowboy -- -- Songs of the overlanders.; title: Joe Bowers ;; title: Sweet Betsy from Pike ;; title: Crossing the Plains ;; title: Coming around the Horn ;; title: The bull-whacker ;; title: Brigham Young ;; title: Greer County -- -- The miner.; title: The hard-working miner ;; title: The dreary Black Hills ;; title: Just from Dawson -- -- The shanty-boy.; title: The lost Jimmie Whalen ;; title: The shanty-boy and the farmer's son ;; title: Gerry's rocks ;; title: Bung yer eye ;; title: The banks of the Pamanow --; title: The Erie Canal.; title: Ballad of the Erie Canal ;; title: The Erie Canal ;; title: The Erie Canal ballad ;; title: Erie Canal ;; title: A trip on the Erie ;; title: Low bridge, everybody down ;; title: The E-ri-e ;; title: The raging can-all --; title: The Great Lakes.; title: Red iron ore -- -- Sailors and sea fights.; title: Johnny come down to Hilo ;; title: Heave away ;; title: Whisky Johnny ;; title: The Rio Grande ;; title: The Black Ball Line ;; title: Blow the man down ;; title: Get up, Jack! John, sit down! ;; title: Jack Wrack ;; title: The Boston come-all ye ;; title: The wonderful crocodile ;; title: Captain Robert Kidd ;; title: The Flying Cloud ;; title: Constitution and Guerrière ;; title: Siege of Plattsburg ;; title: The buccaneers ;; title: Destroyer life -- -- Wars and soldiers.; title: Yankee Doodle ;; title: Braddock's defeat ;; title: John Brown's body ;; title: Hold on, Abraham ;; title: Dixie ;; title: War song ;; title: Good old rebel ;; title: Benny Havens, Oh! ;; title: The wild Miz-zou-rye ;; title: Shenandoah ;; title: Damn the Filipinos ;; title: A rookie's lament ;; title: The company cook ;; title: We've done our hitch in hell ;; title: If you want to know where the privates are ;; title: The hearse song ;; title: Hinky dinky, parley-voo? -- -- White spirituals.; title: Bear the news, Mary ;; title: Parting friends ;; title: Burges ;; title: Few days ;; title: Wedlock ;; title: Wicked Polly ;; title: Now our meeting's over ;; title: The other shore ;; title: Amazing grace -- -- Negro spirituals.; title: Many t'ousands go ;; title: Lay dis body down ;; title: Mone, member, mone ;; title: Moanin' ;; title: Healin' waters ;; title: 'Ligion so sweet ;; title: Dives and Laz'us ;; title: Set down, servant ;; title: Oh, Lawd, how long? ;; title: Never said a mumbalin' word ;; title: Hell and heaven ;; title: Man goin' round ;; title: Good-by, Mother ;; title: This train ;; title: Deep river ;; title: Blin' man stood on de way an' cried ;; title: Dese bones gwine to rise again ;; title: Hard trials ;; title: Dat lonesome stream ;; title: Woe be unto you ;; title: Tone de bell easy ;; title: Swing low, sweet chariot ;; title: When my blood runs chilly and col'.