Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Ballads and Songs
1. Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (Child, No. 4)
2. The Two Sisters (Child, No. 10)
3. The Cup of Cold Poison (Child, No. 12)
4. Lord Thomas (Child, No. 73)
5. Sweet William and Lady Margaret (Child, No. 74)
6. Lord Lovel (Child, No. 75)
7. Lord Valley (Child, No. 81)
8. Barbara Allen (Child, No. 84)
9. A Lover's Farewell (Child, No. 85)
10. The House Carpenter (Child, No. 243)
11. The Apprentice Boy
12. He Plowed the Lowlands Low
13. Caroline of Edinburg Town
14. Molly Baun
15. The Lost Johnny Doyle
16. The Sherfield Apprentice
17. The Silver Tide
18. Oxford City
19. The Knoxville Girl
20. The Banks of the River Dee
21. The Jealous Lover
22. Who Is Tapping at My Bedroom Window?
23. The Silver Dagger
24. The Green Beds
25. The Sailor Boy
26. Green Mountain
27. Rinordine
28. The Girl I Left Behind
29. Green Grows the Laurel
30. Lovely Willie's Sweetheart
31. Jessie of Ballington Brae
32. Kitty Gray
33. The Old Oak Tree
34. False Nancy
35. The Rich Merchant's Daughter
36. Johnny and Betsy
37. The Butcher Boy
38. Springfield Mountain
39. The Foot of the Mountain Bow
40. A Spanish Maid
41. Frozen Charlotte
42. Farewell He
43. My Love Is on the Ocean
44. Seven Long Years
45. The Lake of Pontchartrain
46. The New Dress
47. A True Lover of Mine (Child, No.2)
48. Mr. Woodburn's Courtship (Child, No. 46)
49. Lord Bateman's Castle (Child, No. 53)
50. The Golden Ball (Child, No. 95)
51. The Laird 0' Drum (Child, No. 236)
52. Fair Lady of London (Child, No. 295)
53. A Seaman and His Love
54. The Rich Young Farmer
55. Johnny German
56. Fain Waterloo
57. The Dark-eyed Sailor
58. Two Rigs of Rye
59. The Wealthy Merchant
60. Pretty Polly Oliver
61. William and Nancy
62. The Weaver Is Handsome
63. Lady Leroy
64. The Silk Merchant's Daughter
65. A Maid in Bedlam
66. The Bonny Laboring Boy
67. Robin Tamson's Smiddy
68. The Charming Moll Boy
69. The Banks of the Sweet Dundee
70. The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea
71. The Banks of Claudy
72. The Banks of Brandywine
73. The Dog and the Gun
74. The Merchant's Only Son
75. The Roaming Gambler
76. Farewell to Bonny Galaway
77. The Lass of Glenshee
78. The Choice of a Wife
79. Betsy of Dramoor
80. Prince Charlie (Child, No. 199)
81. The Three Scotch Robbers (Child, No. 250)
82. The Lowlands Low (Child, No. 286)
83. Captain Ward (Child, No. 287)
84. Archie O' Cawfield (Child, No. 188)
85. Pretty Polly
86. The Village Pride
87. The Pride of Glencoe
88. Bloody Waterloo
89. Bony's Lament
90. The Heights at Alma
91. The Crimean War
92. James Ervin
93. The American Volunteer
94. Bold Dighton
95. The Texas Rangers
96. One and Twenty
97. The Sweet Sunny South
98. The Dying Miller
99. Creeping Jane
100. The Dying Cowboy
101. Blood
102. The Lumberman's Alphabet
103. The Shantyman's Life
104. The Shanty Boys
105. Michigan-I-O
106. The Mossback
107. The Little Brown Bulls
108. Jack Haggerty
109. The Jam on Gerry's Rock
110. James Wayland
111. The Wild Mustard River
112. Jimmie Judd
113. Harry Bail
114. Harry Dunn
115. David Ward
116. Martin, Tim, and Dan
117. Roll the Old Chariot Along
118. Ben Fisher
119. I Once Did Know a Farmer
120. The Titanic
121. The Seno Wreck
122. The Avondale Disaster
123. Three Girls Drowned
124. The Bainbridge Tragedy
125. Floyd Collins
126. A Melancholy Accident-the Death of M. Hodge
127. Lamkin (Child, No. 93)
128. Georgie (Child, No. 209)
129. Captain Kidd
130. My Bonny Black Bess
131. Botany Bay
132. The Cabin Boy
133. The Wild Colloina Boy
134. Johnny Troy
135. Wakken
136. Jack Williams
137. The Boston Burglar
138. McAfee's Confession
139. Jesse James
140. Sidney Allen
141. The Babes in the Woods
142. Young Henry Green
143. Nat Goodwin
144. Little Mary Phagan
145. Anson Best
146. The Widow's Plea
147. The County Jail
148. A Laundry Song
149. An Account of a Little Girl Who Was Burnt for Her Religion
150. The Twelve Apostles
151. The Little Family
152. As I Sat on the Sunny Bank
153. Arise and Bar the Door-O (Child, No. 275)
154. The Farmer's Curst Wife (Child, No. 278)
155. King John and the Bishop (Child, No. 45)
156. The Valiant Soldier (Child, No.8)
157. John Sold the Cow Well (Child, No. 283)
158. Things Impossible
159. Kate and the Cowhide
160. My Father's Gray Mare
161. Kitty O'Noory
162. Young Diana
163. The Handsome Cabin Boy
164. The Maid in Sorrow
165. Jack, the Sailor Boy
166. Pat's Wedding
167. The First Night's Courtship
168. The Backwoodsman
169. Finnigan's Wake
170. Clarence McFaden
171. The Old Man
172. Old Grumble
173. The Wooing
174. An Old Man and a Young Man
175. A Rich Old Miser
176. The Quaker Song
177. A Paper of Pins
178. Common Bill
179. A Scolding Wife
180. Rusty Old Rover
181. Me Father Is a Lawyer in England
182. My Good-lookin' Man
183. Bachelor's Hall
184. Hard Times
185. The Three Jews
186. Johnson's Mule
187. The Historian
188. Gifts from over the Sea
189. The Frog's Courtship
190. The Darby Ram
191. Old Sheep Went to Sleep
192. The Fox and the Goose
193. Aunt Tabbie
194. Old Grimes
195. Uncle Sam Simmie
196. The Wonderful Crocodile
197. The Monkey's Wedding
198. Animal Song
199. The Hen and the Duck
200. The Tree in the Wood
201. One Fine Day
Other Songs Sung in Michigan
List of Informants
Bibliography
Index of Tunes
Index of Ballads and Songs