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Ballads and songs of southern Michigan Cover Image Music Score Music Score

Ballads and songs of southern Michigan; collected and edited by Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner and Geraldine Jencks Chickering.

Record details

  • Physical Description: xviii [2] 501 p. : ill. front., illus. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan press; 1939.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Some of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies).
"Other songs sung in Michigan" (list of titles): p.477-483.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p.491-494.
Formatted Contents Note:
An account of a little girl who was burnt for her religion -- Alnomack -- American taxation -- American volunteer -- Andrew Batton -- Animal song -- Anson Best -- Apprentice boy -- Archie o Cawfield -- Arise and bar the door-o -- As I sat on the sunny bank -- Auction sale -- Aunt Tabbie -- Avondale disaster -- Babes in the woods -- Bachelor s hall -- Backwoodsman -- Baggage coach ahead -- Bainbridge tragedy -- Banks of Brandywine -- Banks of Champlain -- Banks of Claudy -- Banks of the Dee -- Banks of the Nile -- Banks of the Obadee -- Banks of the River Dee -- Banks of the Sweet Dundee -- Barbara Allen -- Barney McCoi -- Ben Fisher -- Bessie, the drunkard s poor child -- Betsy of Dramoor -- Billy boy -- Billy Grimes -- Black water side -- Blind girl -- Blood -- Bloody Waterloo -- Blue-tailed fly -- Bold Dighton -- Bony s lament -- Boston burglar -- Botany bay -- Brave old Anthony Marala -- Brave Wolfe -- Butcher boy -- Cabin boy -- Captain Kidd -- Captain Ward -- Caroline of Edinburg Town -- Charles Guiteau -- Charming Moll boy -- Choice of a wife -- Clarence McFaden -- Colin and Lucy -- Come home, Father -- Common Bill -- Country jail -- Creeping Jane -- Crimean war -- Cup of cold poison -- Darby ram -- Dark-eyed sailor -- Darling black mustache -- David Ward -- Death of six young persons -- Derby sheep -- Diary farmer -- Doctor and Clara -- Dog and the gun -- Donald s return to Glencoe -- Dreary black hills -- Drowned lover -- Drowsy sleeper -- Drunkard s child -- Drunkard s doom -- Drunkard s dream -- Drunkard s lone child -- Dublin Bay -- Dying Californian -- Dying cowboy -- Dying hobo -- Dying miller -- Dying nun -- Dying soldier -- Erin s green shore -- Escape from Basterry -- Exile of Erin -- Factor s garland -- Fain Waterloo -- Fair Fanny Moore -- Fair lady of London -- Fair Sharlot -- False girl -- False Nancy -- Farewell he -- Farewell to Bonny Galaway -- Farmer s boy -- Farmer s curst wife -- Fatal wedding -- Fellow that looks like me -- Finnigan s wake -- First night s courtship -- Fisherman s girl -- Floyd Collins -- Foot of the mountain bow -- For four score years we ve flourished -- Fox and the goose -- Fox and the grapes -- Frog he would a-wooing go -- Frog s courtship -- Frog went a-courtin -- Froggie did a-courting go -- Frozen Charlotte -- Georgie -- Gifts from over the sea -- Girl I left behind -- Girl who chawed gum -- Golden ball -- Green beds -- Green grows the laurel -- Green laurels -- Green mossy banks of the lea -- Green mountain -- Gypsy s warning -- Handsome cabin boy -- Hard times -- Harry Bail -- Harry Dunn -- He plowed the lowlands low -- Heights at Alma -- Hen and the duck -- Historian -- House carpenter -- I once did know a farmer -- I wish I was single again -- I ll be all smiles tonight, love -- Indian hunter -- India s burning shore -- Jack Hagade -- Jack Haggerty -- Jack Haggerty s lament -- Jack Hargaty -- Jack, the sailor boy -- Jack Williams -- Jam on Gerry s rock -- James Bird -- James Ervin -- James Wayland -- Jealous lover -- Jealous sweetheart -- Jesse James -- Jessie at the Railway bar -- Jessie of Ballington Brae -- Jim Blake -- Jimmie Judd -- Joe Bowers -- Joe Kimball -- John Riley -- John sold the cow well -- Johnny and Betsy -- Johnny German -- Johnny Sands -- Johnny Troy -- Johnson s mule -- Jolly old Roger -- Jonah and the whale -- Kate and the cowhide -- Kate and her horns -- Katie s secret -- Kellyburnbraes -- King John and the bishop -- King Solomon s temple -- Kitty Gray -- Kitty of Coleraine -- Kitty O Noory -- Kitty Wells -- Knoxville girl -- Lady Bonaparte s lamentation -- Lady Elgin -- Lady Isabel and the elf knight -- Lady Leroy -- Lady Washington s lamentation -- Laird o Drum -- Lake of Pontchartrain -- Lakes of cold Finn -- Lamkin -- Lanigan s ball -- Larry O Bryne -- Lass of Glenshee -- Laundry song -- Lavender girl -- Little brown bulls -- Little family -- Little husband -- Little Indian maid -- Little Johnny Green -- Little Mary Phagan -- Little Nell of Narragansett Bay -- Little Susin, the pride of Kildore -- Little Yorkshire boy -- London mason -- Lone Indian -- Lord Arnold s castle -- Lord Bateman s castle -- Lord Lovel -- Lord Thomas -- Lord Valley -- Lorena -- Lorilla -- Lost Johnny Doyle -- Lovely Willie s sweetheart -- Lover s farewell -- Lowlands low -- Lumberman s alphabet -- McAfee s confession -- Maid I left behind -- Maid in Bedlam -- Maid in sorrow -- Mantle so green -- Martin, Tim, and Dan -- Mary of the wild moor -- Mary s dream -- Mason s dream -- Massa had a yaller gal -- Master frog went a-courting -- Me Father is a lawyer in England -- Melancholy accident, The death of M. Hodge -- Merchant s only son -- Michigan-I-O -- Mistletoe bough -- Molly Baun -- Monkey s wedding -- Mossback -- Mr. Woodburn s Courtship -- Mrs. Johnson -- My Bonny Black Bess -- My Ella -- My father s gray mare -- My good-lookin man -- My gum tree canoe -- My love is a youyou -- My love is on the ocean -- My old wife -- Nat Goodwin -- New dress -- Old broad horn -- Old grey goose -- Old Grimes -- Old Grumble -- Old man -- Old man and a young man -- Old man that came over the lea -- Old New England girl -- Old oak tree -- Old Quaker -- Old sheep went to sleep -- On the banks of the old Knee -- On the banks of the old Pedee -- On the banks of the old T. B. -- On the banks of the sweet Dundee -- On the hills of Glen Coe -- One and twenty -- One fine day -- Orphan boy -- Orphan girl -- Orphans -- Ossian s serenade -- Our grandfather s days -- Oxford city -- A paper of pins -- Patrick Sheehan -- Patrick s baby -- Pat s wedding -- Polly and Willie -- Polly band -- Poor little Joe -- Poor tailor s high relations -- Pretty Mohea -- Pretty Polly -- Pretty Polly Oliver -- Pride of Glencoe -- Prince Charlie -- Quaker song -- Quaker s courtship -- Quarreling couple -- Raffle for a stove -- Red River Valley -- Reily s answer, releasement, and marriage with Coolen Bawn -- Reily s trial -- Rich merchant s daughter -- Rich miser -- Rich old miser -- Rich young farmer -- Rinordine -- Roaming gambler -- Robin Tamson s smiddy -- Roll the old chariot along -- Rosewood casket -- Rosie Nell -- Roving rangers -- Rusty old Rover -- Sadie Ray -- Sailor and the tailor -- Sailor boy -- Sailor boy s dream -- Sailor boy s farewell -- Scolding wife -- A seaman and his love -- Seno wreck -- Seven long years -- Shanty boys -- Shantyman s life -- Sherfield apprentice -- Sherfield printice -- Ship that never returned -- Sidney Allen -- Silk merchant s daughter -- Silver dager -- Silver dagger -- Silver tide -- Sir Robert Peel -- Soldier s boy -- Soldier s letter -- Spanish maid -- Spanish maiden -- Springfield Mountain -- Stepfather -- Stepmother -- Sweet sunny south -- Sweet William and Lady Margaret -- Tattoo on the arm -- Texas Rangers -- Texy Rangers -- That southern wagon -- There was an old soldier -- There s nae luck about the house -- Things impossible -- Three angel visitants -- Three girls drowned -- Three Jews -- Three Scotch robbers -- Titanic -- Tragety of Henry Green -- Tree in the wood -- True lover of mine -- Trust shave -- Twelve apostles -- Two orphans -- Two rigs of rye -- Two sisters -- Uncle Sam Simmie -- Valiant soldier -- Victory of Commodore Perry -- Vilikins and his Dinah -- Village pride -- Wakken -- Waxford girl -- Wealthy merchant -- We are coming, sister Mary -- Weaver is handsome -- When ye gang awa, Jemmy -- White maiden captive -- Who is tapping at my bedroom window? -- Widow s plea -- Wild Colloina boy -- Wild colonial boy -- Wild Mustard River -- Wilkens and Dinah -- William and Nancy -- William Reily s courtship -- Willie and Mary -- A wonderful account of a little girl ten years old -- Wonderful crocodile -- Wooing -- Young Charlotte -- Young Diana -- Young Henry Green -- Young Monroe -- Young Munroe.
Subject: Folk songs, English > Michigan.
Ballads, English > United States.

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