Roll Me in Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume I, Folksongs and Music
by Vance Randolph
translated by G. Legman
translated by G. Legman
University of Arkansas Press, 1992
Cloth: 978-1-55728-231-6
Library of Congress Classification PS477.5.B37R36 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.421621307671
Cloth: 978-1-55728-231-6
Library of Congress Classification PS477.5.B37R36 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.421621307671
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Roll Me in Your Arms, Volume I includes 180 unexpurgated songs collected by Randolph, with tunes transcribed from the original singers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
1. Pretty Polly
IB. The Snoring Maid
2. I Blowed Her with My Hom
3. The Bonny Black Hare
4. I Reckon You Know
4B. Ho Green!
4C. Green Grows the Hill-O
4D. Formations of Nature
5. The Old Man Came Home (Our Goodman)
6. Boring for Oil
7. Blow the Candle Out
7B. Blow the Candle Out (II)
8. The Old Sea Crab
9. The Night-Hawk
9B. The Sailor-Girl's Lament
9C. An Inch above Your Knee
10. The Sailor Boy (Rosemary Lane)
11. The Billy-Goat of Durbytown
12. The Little Ball of Yam
12B. The Little Ball of Yam (II)
12C. The Little Ball of Yam (III)
13. I Went to the Drug Store
14. I Went Upstairs
15. I Went to the River (Swapping Song)
16. The Jolly Tinker
17. There Was an Old Woman
18. Old Moll Roe (Molly Monroe)
19. The Horny Crew (Three Old Whores)
20. The Amsterdam Maid (A-Roving)
21. My Tra-La-La-Lee
22. The Old Spencer Rifle
23. Baby, Take Your Leg Off Mine
23B. Take a Whiff on Me (Rebecca)
24. I Ask that Gal
25. Bo-Wow and Bo-Wee
26. The Old Woman Pf-ff-t!
27. The One-Eyed Riley
28. My Pretty Little Miss (Seventeen)
29. The Bear Went over the Mountain
30. Two Ruby Red Lips
31. The Ring-Dang-Doo
31B. The Rang-a-Tang-Too
32. All I Need
33. The Old Gray Mare (Whiffletree Song)
34. John Briney Linn (Tom Bolynn)
34B. Brinzi O'Flynn
35. Old King Cole
36. I Ain't So Young
36B. When I Was in My Prime
37. To Market, to Market
37B. Tottingham Fair
38. Nelly Was a Milkmaid
39. Funky-Butt
39B. The St. Louis Tickle(r)
40. The Schoolhouse Door (This Mornin')
41. Peckerwood a-Peckin' (Sweet Thing)
42. I Got a Gal in Berryville
43B. Head 0' the Holler (Sowcoon Mountain)
44. The Rogue (Knaves Will Be Knaves)
45. My Father Was Hung (The Gypsy Maid)
46. I Wish I Was a Finger Ring
46B. I Wish I Was a Finger Ring (II)
47. The Old Chisholm Trail
47B. That'll Do, Young Man
48. Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
49. Do Your Balls Hang Low?
50. A Soldier Rode (Trooper and Maid)
51. When I Was Young (The Battleship Maine)
52. Peter Murphy's Little Dog
53. Down on the Farm
53B. Down on the Farm (II)
53C. The Handsome Young Farmer
53D. There's Fun in the Country
54. Waltz Me Around Again (Limericks)
55. We Are the Kappas
56B. Old Aunt Sis
57. I Saw Her Snatch
57B. I Saw Her Snatch (II)
58. A Dark and Rolling Eye (The Fireship)
59. Fascinatin' Lady
60. The Lady in Red
101. The Fiddler's Bitch
61. Poor Lil (Opium Lil)
62. The House of the Rising Sun
63. The Runaway Train
64. The Foggy Dew
64B. The Foggy Dew (II)
64C. Eyes Like Sloes
65. The 'Taters They Grow Small
66. The Inches Song (Drive It Home)
67. Down in the Lehigh Valley
67B. Down in the Lehigh Valley (II)
68. My Foot Is in the Stirrup
69. Jake and Julie (Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay)
70. The Winnipeg Whore
71. The Long Peggin' Awl
72. I Asked My Mother
73. Cocky-Doodle Ass-Hole
74. Big Joe Clipler
75. Left Me with Child
76. Drinkin' Com Whiskey
77. At the Cross
78. Jackie and Mossy
79. Baby Shit in Papa's Hand
80. She Keeps Her Boody Clean
81. She's a Grinder
82. Sweet Betsey from Pike
83. Nottingham Fair (Nottamun Town)
84. The Three Butchers (We Hunted and We Hollered)
85. I'm Ruint Forever (Snapoo)
85B. Snap-poo, Snap-peter
86. Molly, Oh Molly (The Beehive)
87. Yaller Gal, Yaller Gal (Green Com)
88. School Days, School Days
89. Peezy-Weezy
90. Liza Ann
91. Miss Lucy
91B. I Wish I Was in Alabam'
92. I Want to Be a Farmer
93. Bumblebee Cotton, Peckerwood Com
94. The Wide Missouri (Shenandoah)
95. Haul Away, Joe!
95B. When I Was a Little Boy
96. The Red-Bird and the Crow
97. I Wouldn't Marry an Old Man
98. With That Old Thing a-Shaking
99. Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud
100. No Use to Rattle the Blind
102B. The BowlIs Yetto Fill
103. Bang Away, My Lulu
104. My Gal Ain't Got No Tail
105. Wings of Gold
106. Rinky Dinky Di-Lo
107. Mammy, What Is That?
108. Tum to Your Wives
109. The Girls around Here
110. Pennyroyal Tea
111. Old Aunt Kate
112. Shaggin' Away
113. Rub It Up, Shove It Up
114. Ashes to Ashes
115. Fire in the Whore-house
116. Of All the Beasts
117. With a Rag in Her Ass
117B. The Twig So Tender
118. Old Granny Blair
119. One Little Nigger
120. The Old Cat
121. Kiss That Man's Ass
122. Roll Me Over in the Clover
123. Lizzie Brown
124. Big Fat Gals in Sandy Land
125. Black-Eyed Susan
126. The Hog-Eye Man
127 Cotton-Eye Joe
128B. Cripple Creek (II)
129. Down on the Pichelo Farm
130. Sally Goodin
131. Pop Goes the Weasel
132. Turkey in the Straw
132B. Turkey in the Straw (II)
133. Higher Up the Cherry Tree
134. Buffalo Gals (Goin' to Come Out Tonight)
135. The Crow Fucked the Buzzard
136. Old Joe Clark
137. Old Dan Tucker
138. The Girl I Left Behind Me (Wayward Boy)
139. Sugar in My Coffee (Sugar in the Gourd)
140. The Wild Irishman (Old Irish Washerwoman)
141. In the White-Oak Timber
142. Uncle Joe
143. Dog Shit a Rye Straw
144. Ida Red
145. Sal's Got a Meat-Skin
146. Oh Lord, Gals!
147. Little Liza Jane
148. Hi Rio, Randy-O (Organ Grinder)
149. Shave 'Em Dry
150. Skinner on the Dock
151. Peggy Howatt
152. Casey Jones
153. Frankie and Johnny
154. Lydia Pinkham
155. The Dogs' Convention
156. The Spanish Patrillio
157. Cornbread When I'm Hungry
158. A Little Piece of Whang
159. I Fucked Sal
160. She Sprang Aloft
160B. Christopher Columbo
161. The Bastard King of England
162. The Mountaineers
163. Mademoiselle from Armentieres
164. Jingo Jang-Jingo
165. Captain Perkins' Troopers
165B. The Foreskin Fusileers
166. Down in the Valley (Abelina)
167. The Hoochie-Koochie Dance
168. A Letter from Home
168B. My Family Life (Dismal Shits)
169. In the Prison Cell I Sit
170. There'll be a Hot Time
171. Under the Garden Wall
172. The Keyhole in the Door
173. Tickle My Toe (I Touched Kind Betty)
174. Chippy on the Rooftop
175. Jingle-Berry Tea
175B. Sheep-Shit Tea
176. This Mornin'
176B. Walking Down Canal Street
177. Red As a Jaybird's Ass
178. Redwing
179. My Name Is Jim Taylor
180. Root, Hog or Die!
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