Chapter 3

TWO LETTERS, ii, 3abcb, 13: The first four quatrains constitute the letter from Charley Brooks to Nelly Adair, asking for the return of his presents to her, since his love for her has grown cold. The last nine are her reply, acquiescing with a sad dignity.

[STONY HILL], 4a3b4c3b, 3: Each quatrain contains, in couplets respectively, question and reply of lover and sweetheart, who is "sixteen next Sunday" and has to "ask her mammy."

STELLA, 4a3b4c3b, 14: A dialogue between Alfred, a volunteer at his country's call, to Stella, his sweetheart.

THE WAGGONER'S LAD: See Section IX.

KAINTUCKY BOYS: See Section X.

BUCKSKIN BOYS: See Section X.

XIII.

_This group consists of humorous songs. Certain ones resemble modern songs of the vaudeville, and such they probably were._

GRANDMOTHER'S MUSTARD PLASTER, 4aabb, 7ca: The story of a plaster that drew the buttons from a vest, axles from a wagon, a street car forty miles, jerked a "Chinee's" boot off and pulled his leg at the "opium jint," mashed a "cop's" hat down, drew a wagon over town, stuck on a passenger train, drew it to Washington, where it remained--stuck on politics.

BOY AND BUMBLE-BEE, 4a3b4c3b(?), 5: An urchin puts a bumble-bee in his pistol pocket and goes fishing. He sits down, the bee turns the trick, and "spoils the urchin's disposition."

KATE AND THE CLOTHIER, 4aabb, 8ca: A jilted maiden disguises herself in "an old cowhide with crooked horns," and seizes her clothier-lover in a "lonesome field." Thinking her to be the Devil, he renounces the lawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate.

SEYMORE WILSON, 3a3b4c3b, 8ca: He is a gawky, love-sick youth. He goes a-courting on Potriffle, but finding a rival sitting on the "calico-side" returns to his plowing, weeps, then becomes cheerful in his resolve to wait for another girl.

BILLY BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about his wife: she is "too young to leave her mammy," can "bake a cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine," is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on.

[THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR], a chant of the 4a3b4c3b type, 7ca: He goes hunting a-Sunday, meets a grizzly bear, climbs a tree, and prays a humorous prayer for help. The limb breaks; he falls, but escapes.

[LOVE IS SUCH A FUNNY THING], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b, 9: It causes empty pockets, second-hand clothing, collectors, and even brings the "bald-headed end of the broom" into play: a husband's soliloquy.

[THE MARRIED MAN], 4aa, 5: A married man's woes: children on his knees, bad clothing, "seeping" shoes--while the single man suffers none of these things.

DEVILISH MARY, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A hen-pecked husband's lament: he woos and marries the termagant within three days--then follows trouble. She "mashes his mouth with a shovel," bundles up her "duds", and leaves him within three weeks.

I WON'T MARRY AT ALL, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3: I won't marry a rich man because he will drink and fall in the ditch; a poor man, for he will go begging; a fat man, for he will do nothing but "nurse" the cat.

POOR OLD MAID, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity:

Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue-- Poor old maid! Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue, I'm just as sweet as the morning dew, And to a husband I'd stick like glue-- Poor old maid!

I WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN, metre as below, 5: A married man's repentance: his first wife died--

I married me another, O then, O then; I married me another O then; I married me another, the Devil's grandmother, And I wish I was single again.

JOE BOWERS, 3abcb, 10: He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike County, Missouri, and goes to "Rome," California, to make a home for her. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she had married a red-headed butcher and that their baby had red hair.

A POUND OF TOW, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has since become a gad-about and a gossip.

XIV.

_The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may be called sentimental._

THE BLIND CHILD, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: She deplores her father's second marriage, kneels to say her evening prayers, and dies. She is buried by the side of her mother.

THE DYING NUN, 4abcb, 12: To Sister Martha, her nurse, Sister Clara tells her youthful waywardness toward her parents and recalls her early love for Douglas, and dies.

THE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: The vanity of human wishes: a feeble lad kissing his mother good-bye as he sets sail to seek health in a foreign climate; a gallant seaman kissing his wife good-bye as he sets sail to seek their fortune across the seas--but the ship of either never returned.

I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW, 3abab, 9: An orphan's lament, with a vision of the mother's grave, etc.

THE ORPHAN GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Refused shelter at the door of a rich man one wintry night, she dies before it in the snow.

PHANTOM FOOTSTEPS, 4ababcdcd and 4abab, 3: A mother's night-yearning for her dead child.

[THE WAYWARD GIRL], 4aa6b4cc6b4dd6e4ff6e and 4ab2cc4bde2ff4e, 2: One year after leaving her home in wayward love, her father writes her of her mother's death and forgives her, but she refuses to return.

OLD MAN'S TROUBLE, 4aa5b4cc5b and 4aa5b4cc5b, 3: A meditation upon the sadness of old age and a warning to the young against their own days of poverty and senile helplessness.

IN THE BAGGAGE-COACH AHEAD, iii, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e4g3h4i3h and 4aabb, 2: A crying child brings to its sad-eyed father remonstrances from sleepy passengers until they are told that the dead mother is in the baggage-coach ahead.

[SWEET MEMORY OF DEAR MOTHER], 3abcbdefe and 3abcbdefe, 3: A child's loving reminiscence.

LITTLE MAUDIA, 4abcb, 6: A dying girl's farewell to her mother.

OLD CHURCH-YARD, 4abcb, 7: A forlorn orphan's meditation upon her mother's grave.

XV.

_The songs of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may be called moralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection._

[THE BLACK SHEEP], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: Jack and Tom prevail upon their rich and aged father to send away their brother Fred as a "black sheep." Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to send the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from this disgrace.

[NOTHING TO BE MADE BY ROVING], 3abcb, 2: Dissipation brings discontent at last.

TWO DRUMMERS, 6aabbccdd and 6aabb, 2: In a "grand hotel" they speak slightingly to a pretty waitress. She rebukes them, making appeal to their regard for their mothers. They apologize to her and one of them marries her.

THE DRUNKARD'S DREAM, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A vision of his dead wife and children turns him from strong drink forever after.

FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 3a3b4c3b, 3: The little daughter begs her father to come home from the grog-shop before her little brother dies. The clock tolls twelve, one, two, three--and when finally she leads him home, the boy is dead.

A DRIFTER RESCUED, 4abcb, 10: The turbulent journey of a ship-wrecked soul: near the brink of destruction the reckless man finds a redeemer in the Savior.

THE WANDERING BOY, 4aabb and 4abcc, 4: A mother's wail for her wayward son: she points out the vacant chair, cradle, and shoes of his innocent babyhood.

XVI.

_This group contains sequence-songs, or number-songs, like the popular German Zaehllieder, though not all are necessarily sung, but rather are spoken. The first one below would seem to be akin to the various cabala of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania._

[TWELVE APOSTLES], as follows:

Twelve, twelve apostles, Eleven, eleven, I went to heaven, Ten, ten, commandments, Nine bright lights a-shining, Eight Gabel [Gabriel?] angels, Seven stars a-hanging high, Six, six go acymord, Five all alone abroard, Four scorn in Wackford, Three of them are drivers, Two of them are little lost babes, Oh, my dear Savior, One, one is left alone, One to be left alone.

CLUB-FIST: A series of questions and answers concerning the fire, water, ox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, etc.--each of which terms is destructive of the preceding one. (Spoken.)

JOHN BROWN'S LITTLE INDIANS: An enumeration of his "Indians" from unity upward, and thence back to unity again.

THE UNLUCKY YOUNG MAN, ii, 4aa and 4aaa3b, 13ca: He exchanges oxen for a cow, the cow for a calf, the calf for a dog, the dog for a cat, the cat for a rat, the rat for a mouse, which "took fire to her tail and burned down the house."

OLD SAM SUCK-EGG, ii, 2aa, 10: He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and this for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line, until he has lost all. (Spoken.)

[I BOUGHT ME A HORSE], 4aa and cumulative refrain of animal cries: In each couplet a new purchase of some common animal or fowl is made, while each succeeding refrain gathers up cumulative-fashion the cries made by each succeeding addition to the collection.

ONE, TWO, COME BUCKLE MY SHOE, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines, each containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.)

XVII.

_This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, "frolickings," and movement-games of Kentucky._

CHARLIE, ii, 4a3b4c3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie, the dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc.

BLUEBIRD, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless, endless improvisation, in which are woven the "calls" of the dance, beginning:

Yonder goes the bluebird through the window Down in Tennessee.

THE RAILROAD, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally different, beginning:

Out on the railroad, O Jubilee, Waiting for my darling, O Jubilee.

THE BOATMAN, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:

Here she sits in her sad station.

LONG SUMMER DAY, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:

Skate around the ocean, In a long summer day.

A-MOANING AND GROANING, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:

A-moaning and groaning, And that shall be the cry.

MARCHING ROUND THE LEVY [LADY?]: In general form and function like the above, beginning:

We're marching round the levy, For we have gained the day.

GOING TO BOSTON: In general form and function like the above, beginning:

Now we'll promenade, one, two, three, So early in the morning.

HERE COME TWO DUKES A-ROVING, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless improvisation for the men and women of the dance, alternately--beginning:

Here comes two dukes a-roving, With a high-o-ransom-day.

SKIP TO MY LOU, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance "calls," beginning:

Steal your partner, skip to my lou, Skip to my lou, my darling.

FOL DOL SOL, 4a3b4c3b, 2ca: One quatrain is:

If you love me as I love you, We have not long to tarry; We'll keep the old folks fixing up For you and me to marry.

GREEN GROWS THE WILLOW, 4aaaa, 4ca: One quatrain is:

Green grow the rashes O, Green grow the rashes O, Kiss her quick and let her go, For yonder comes her mammy O.

THE JOLLY MILLER, iii, metre as follows, 2:

Jolly is the miller that lives by the mill, The wheel goes round with a right good will, One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack-- The boys step forward and the girls step back.

SISTER PHOEBE, 4aab, 2: It begins:

Old sister Phoebe, how happy were we The night we sat under the juniper tree, The juniper tree, heigh ho, heigh ho.

NEEDLE'S EYE, as follows:

Needle's eye that doth supply The thread that runs so true; Many a beau have I let go Because I wanted you.

GREEN GRAVEL, 4aabb, 4ca: It begins:

Green gravel, green gravel, the grass is so green; You're the prettiest maiden that ever was seen.

[OLD QUEBEC], ii, 4a3b4c3b, 3ca: It begins:

We're marching down to Old Quebec, Where the fifes and drums are beating; America has gained the day And the British are retreating.

[SISTER FRANKIE], 3abcb and 3abcb, 3: The refrain is:

Twice one is two And one and two is three; Dance around the maypole Just like me.

BUFFALO, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 2: It begins:

Come along, my dearest dear, Present to me your hand; We are roaming in succession To some far and distant land.

BOUQUET PATCH (PAWPAW PATCH), ii: An endless, rimeless improvisation, beginning:

Where, oh where, is pretty little Mary? Way down yonder in the bouquet patch.

GO IN AND OUT AT THE WINDOW: An endless, rimeless improvisation containing the dance calls in order.

XVIII.

_This group contains paralipomena which baffle individual description. It embraces counting-out rimes, jigs, lullabies, child-rimes, nonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical, and usually rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. The following list is an attempt to name them:_

Cluck, Old Hen; Frog in the Meadow; Old as Moses; When I was a Little Boy; Sugar in the Gourd; I'll Build My Nest in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker; Possum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater; Chickamy Corney-crow; William Trimmel Tram: Shidepoke and Crane; Johnny's out on Picking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog; Tarry; Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I'm Hungry; Gray Goose; Needle and Thread; It Rained so Hard; I'll Never get Drunk Anymore; Rock Island; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober; Apples in the Summertime; Coony has a Ringy Tail: I Went Down Town; Sally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Rabbit Walked; Shoo, Old Lady, Shine!; Hook and Line; Day I'm Gone; Churn Your Buttermilk; Kalamazine; Hang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara Jane; Whickum-whack; Up to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had an Old Mare; To Rowser's; Roll the Old Chariot Along; Shady Grove; Whangho; Cripple Creek.

INDEX

After the Ball, 29

All on the Banks of Clauda, 24

A-moaning and Groaning, 36

Annie and Willie, 27

Annie Willow, 27

Apples in the Summertime, 38

Apprentice Boy, The, 10

Arkansas Traveller, 15

Assassination of J. B. Marcum, The, 18

Auxville Love, The, 24

Avonia, 21

Awful Wedding, The, 26

Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The, 8

Barbara Allen, 8

Barney and Kate, 21

Battle of Gettysburg, 14

Beauchamp's Confession, 16

[Bedroom Window], 23

Beefsteak When I'm Hungry, 38

Beneath the Arch of London Bridge, 10

Betsy Brown, 12

Betty Stout, 16

Billy Boy, 30

[Black Sheep, The], 33

Blind Child, The, 32

Blue and the Gray, The, 14

Bluebird, 35

Boatman, The, 36

Bosom Friend, 8

Bounty Jumpers, 14

Bouquet Patch, 38

Boy and Bumble-bee, 30

Broken Engagement, The, 29

Buckskin Boys, 21, 30

Buffalo, 38

Butcher's Boy, The, 24

By the Gate, 29

By-o Baby Bunting, 33

California Joe, 16

Can You then Love Another?, 25

Cause and Killing of Jesse Adams, The, 18

Charlie, 35

Chickamy Corney-crow, 38

Churn Your Buttermilk, 38

Club-fist, 24

Cluck, Old Hen, 38

Cold, Dark Scenes of Winter, The, 25

Cold Winter's Night, 8

Come a High Jim Along, 39

Come, All Ye Jolly Boatsman Boys, 22

[Come, All Ye Southern Soldiers], 15

[Constant Johnny], 22

Coon-dog, 38

Coony has a Ringy Tail, 38

Cripple Creek, 39

Cubeck's Garden, 11

Cuckoo, 24

Dandoo, 8

Darling, We have Long been Parted, 29

Day I'm Gone, 38

Devilish Mary, 31

Drifter Rescued, A, 24

Driver Boy, The, 9

Drunkard's Dream, The, 33

Dying Cowboy, The, 15

Dying Girl's Message, The, 25

Dying Nun, The, 32

Eddingsburg Town, 11

Edward, 7

Edward Hawkins, 17

[Ephraim and Lucy], 23

F. F. V., The, 20

Fair Ella, 28

Fair Ellender, 7

Fair Margaret and Sweet William, 8

Fair Notamon Town, 11

Fan, The, 10

Farmer's Boy, The, 20

Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now, 33

Floella, 28

Florella, 28

Floyd Frazier, 18

Fol Dol Sol, 36

Fond Affection, 29

Free Again, 29

Frisky Jim, 38

Frog in the Meadow, 38

Go In and Out at the Window, 38

Goebel and Taylor, 21

Going to Boston, 36

Golden Glove, The, 11

Grandmother's Mustard Plaster, 30

Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?, 38

Gray Goose, 38

Green Gravel, 37

Green Grows the Willow, 37

Green Willow Tree, The, 9

Greenbriar Shore, 27

Greenwood Side, The, 7

Ground-hog, 38

Guerrilla Man, The, 14

Had an Old Mare, 39

Handsome Flora, 16

Hang Down Your Head, 38

Hang Down Your Head and Cry, 25

Hawthorn Tree, The, 29

Here Come Two Dukes A-roving, 36

He's Got Money, Too, 29

Hiram Hubbert, 14

Hook and Line, 38

House Carpenter, The, 8

[I Bought Me a Horse], 35

I Cannot be Your Sweetheart 29

I Feel, 38

I have Finished Him a Letter, 25

I Have no Mother Now, 32

I Loved You Better than You Knew, 29

I Rather Think I Will, 29

I Used to Love, 24

I Want to be Somebody's Darling, 29

I Went Down Town, 38

I Wish I was Single Again, 31

I Won't Marry at All, 31

If I had Minded Mamma, 24

I'll be All Smiles Tonight, 29

I'll Build My Nest In a Tree 38

I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, 29

I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow tree, 23

I'll Love Thee Always, 29

I'll Never get Drunk Anymore, 38

I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers, 28

I'm Going to Join the Army, 15

I'm Scorned for being Poor, 26

[In Rowan County Jail], 17

In the Baggage-coach Ahead, 33

In the Shadow of the Pines, 29

Independent Girl, The, 29

Irish Girl, 14

Irish Molly O, 13

Irish Peddler, The, 19

It Rained so Hard, 38

Jack and Joe, 24

Jack and Mamie, 23

Jack and Mary, 29

Jack Combe's Death Song, 17

Jack Wilson, 10

Jackaro, 9

James A. Garfield, 21

Jealous Girl, The, 29

Jealous Lover, 28

[Jeems Braggs], 18

Jereboam Beauchamp, 19

Jesse James, 16

Jew's Daughter, The, 8

Joe Bowers, 32

Joe Hardy, 27

John Brown's Little Indians, 34

John Hardy, 19

John Riley, 27

John T. Parker, 18

Johnnie Came from Sea, 14

Johnny Doyle, 27

Johnny's out on Picking, 38

Jolly Miller, The, 37

Just Going Down to the Gate, 29

Kaintucky Boys, 21, 30

Kalamazine, 38

Kate and the Clothier, 30

King's Daughter, The, 7

Kiss Me Again, 29

Kitty Wells, 22

Lady Gay, 9

Last Night as I Lay Sleeping, 17

Little Anna, 28

Little Maudia, 33

Little Nellie, 26

Little Omy Wise, 28

Little Sparrow, 26

Little Sweetheart, 29

Little Willie, 7

Lone Prairie, The, 15

Lonesome Dove, 22

Lonesome Dove, 22

Long Summer Day, 36

Lord Bateman, 7

Lord Lovely, 8

Lord of Old Country, 7

Lord Randal, 7

Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender, 8

Lord Vanner's (Daniel's) Wife, 8

Lorla, 22

[Love is Such a Funny Thing], 31

Love, I've been Faithful, 29

Lovely Caroline of Old Edinboro, 11

Lovely Julia, 27

Lovely Nancy, 23

Lovely Nancy, 26

Lover's Farewell, 8

Loving Hanner, 26

Loving Henry, 8

Lynchburg Town, 20

MacAfee's Confession, 16

Madam, I've A-courting Come, 29

[Maggie], 26

Maggie's Secret, 29

Marching Round the Levy, 36

[Married Man, The], 31

Mary has Gone with a "Coon", 29

Mary of the Wild Moor, 12

Meet Me in the Moonlight, 29

Miller-boy, 28

Mollie Darling, 29

Molly, 13

Moonshiner, The, 19

Murfreesboro, 14

My Bonnie Little Girl, 26

Nancy Till, 23

Needle and Thread, 38

Needle's Eye, 37

Nell and I had Quarrels, 29

Nora O'Neil, 22

[Nothing to be Made by Roving], 33

Old as Moses, 38

Old Church-yard, 33

Old Dad, 38

Old Dan Tucker, 38

Old Gray, 20

Old Man's Trouble, 33

Old Miller, The, 20

Old Number Four, 20

Old, Old Love is Growing Still, The, 28

[Old Quebec], 37

Old Sam Simons, 38

Old Sam Suck-egg, 35

Old Shoemaker, The, 20

Old Woman of London, The, 10

On the Banks of the Wabash, 29

One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 35

Only Flirting, 29

Orphan Girl, The, 32

Our Hands are Clasped, 29

Package of Old Letters, A, 22

Pale Amaranthus, The, 24

Patty on the Canal, 13

Pawpaw Patch, 38

Peter Punkin-eater, 38

Phantom Footsteps, 32

Polly, My Charmer, 16

Polly Vaughn, 28

Poor Goens, 18

Poor Old Maid, 31

Poor Strange Girl, A, 25

Possum up a Gum-stump, 38

Pound of Tow, A, 32

[Preacher and the Bear, The], 31

Pretty Mohee (Maumee), The, 12

Pretty Peggy O, 9

Pretty Polly, 7

Pretty Polly, 7

Pretty Polly, 25

Pretty Polly, 27

Pretty Saro, 22

Rabbit Walked, 38

Railroad, The, 35

[Railroad Boy], 20

Red River Valley, 21

Regret, A, 26

Rich and Rambling Boy, The, 17

Rich Margent, The, 10

Rock Island, 38

Roll the Old Chariot Along, 39

Romish Lady, The, 12

Rope and the Gallows, The, 7

Rosanna, 12

Rose Colalee (Colleen?), 28

Rosin the Bow, 19

Rosin the Bow, 20

Roving Irish Boy, 13

Rowan County Tragedy, The, 18

Rowdy Boys, 17

Sailor Lad, The, 29

Sailor Lover, The, 27

Sailor's Request, The, 16

Sally in the Garden, 38

Santford Barnes, 15

Sara Jane, 38

Say You'll be Mine In a Year, 29

Seymore Wilson, 30

Shady Grove, 39

Shearfield, 11

[She was Happy till She Met You], 23

Shidepoke and Crane, 38

Ship that Never Returned, The, 32

Shoo, Old Lady, Shine, 38

Shoot Your Dice, 38

Show Me the Way to Go Home, 38

Silk Merchant's Daughter, The, 12

Single Soldier, The, 27

[Sister Frankie], 37

Sister Phoebe, 37

Six Pretty Fair Maids, 7

Skip to My Lou, 36

Sometimes Drunk and Sometimes Sober, 38

Sourwood Mountain, 38

Squire, The, 26

Starving to Death on a Government Claim, 15

Steel-driver, The, 19

Stella, 30

Stockyard Gate, 20

[Stony Hill], 30

Sugar in the Gourd, 38

Sweet Birds, 22

Sweet Bunch of Daisies, 29

Sweet Jane, 13

[Sweet Memory of Dear Mother], 33

Sweet Summer Evening, 23

Sweet William and Fair Ellender, 8

Talt Hall, 18

Tarry, 38

Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold, 29

There was a Rich Old Farmer, 23

There's a Spark of Love Still Burning, 28

Three Little Babes, 7

[To America], 12

To Cheer the Heart, 25

To Rowser's, 39

Tom Smith's Death Song, 17

Turkish Lady, The, 7

[Twelve Apostles], 34

Two Drummers, 33

Two Letters, 29

Two Soldiers, The, 14

Unlucky Young Man, The, 35

Up to the Court-house, 38

Vain Girl, 26

Waggoner's Lad, The, 20, 30

Wait for the Wagon, 23

Walking-boss, 19

Wandering Boy, The, 34

Waxford Girl, The, 13

Wayward Girl, The, 32

We have Met and We have Parted, 24

Whangho, 39

When I was a Little Boy, 38

Whickum-whack, 38

White Rose, The, 29

Who'll be King but Charlie? 11

Will You Love Me When I'm Old? 29

William Baker, 18

William Hall, 11

William Riley, 13

William Trimmel Tram, 38

Willie and Kate, 29

Willie, Come Back, 29

Won't You Ever Come Again? 29

Young Edwin, 9

Young Man's Love, The, 26

Zollicoffer, 15

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Transcriber's note

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without notice.

On Page 5 the name "Ruth Hackney" is listed twice; this was not changed.

A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected and are listed below.

Page 3: "even by the absorbtion" changed to "even by the absorption".

Page 5: "in making decision" changed to "in making decisions".

Page 11: "Moidart, in Inverness-shire" changed to "Mordart, in Inverness-shire".

Page 23: "who soons appears" changed to "who soon appears".

Page 35: "rythmical, rimeless, endless" changed to "rhythmical, rimeless, endless".

Page 40: "Apples in the Summer-time" changed to "Apples in the Summertime".