category: american ballads and songs

The American College Songster: A Collection of Songs, Glees, and Melodies, Sung by American Students : Containing Also Popular American, English, Irish and German Songs, Negro Melodies, Etc

... Songs, Negro Melodies, Etc. One night he caught a Freshman tight , And helped ... book , When pastors rest by hook or crook , When city bankers seek to know A bank ... peanuts , And will give his neighbors none , He sha'n't have any of my ...

Folk-songs of the South

... Songs of the Peasantry , p . 237 ; Kidson , Traditional Tunes , p . 92 ; Mason , Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs , p . 33 ; Graham , Dialect Songs of the North of England , 2d ed . , p . 11 ; Greig , Folk - Song of the North - East ...

Henry De Marsan's New Comic and Sentimental Singer's Journal

... dead , And gone with the Angels of light .. And these were the very last ... Walking through the cabin , passing all the style , Smiling on the lair sex ... torrents : Pray , kill me now , said he ; For , I will die for Mary on the banks ...

A Comparative Study of British Traditional Ballads and American Indigenous Ballads

Frances Bartlett Kinne. Child also refers to an early reference to a " Thomas Robinhood " as " one of six witnesses to a grant in 1380 or 1381 ( Historical MSS . Com- mission , Fifth Report , Appendix , p . 551 ) " . He also points to ...

The Ballad of Tradition

Gordon Hall Gerould. IT Chapter Five BALLAD CHARACTERISTICS T is time for us to turn from the stories embodied in our English and Scottish ballads , and from the melodies that accompany them , to the texts themselves . We must see what ...

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