Contents: Dramas and portraits. He's gone away --
Dis mornin', dis evenin', so soon --
Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie --
The ould sod. As I was walkin' down Wexford Street --
Sh-ta-ra-dah-dey (Irish lullaby) --
She said the same to me --
Who's the pretty girl milkin' the cow? --
Give me three grains of corn, Mother --
The son of a gambolier --
Minstrel songs. I wish I was single again --
Tarnished love tales or Colonial and Revolutionary antiques. Barbra Allen --
The maid freed from the gallows --
Frankie and her man. Frankie and Albert --
Pioneer memories. The little old sod shanty --
Where o where is old Elijah? --
Who will shoe your pretty little foot? --
The true lover's farewell --
Fair Annie of Lochyran --
Ten thousand miles away --
What was your name in the states? --
The banks of Sacramento --
Hanging out the linen clothes --
The Lane County bachelor.
Contents (cont.): Kentucky blazing star. Sourwood Mountain --
Love somebody, yes I do --
Mister Frog went a-courting --
The ship that never returned --
I dreamed last night of my true love --
The Lincolns and the Hankses. The Missouri harmony --
Brown Girl or Fair Eleanor --
Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness --
Great Lakes and Erie Canal. The Erie Canal --
Hobo songs. Shovellin' iron ore --
Hallelujah, I'm a bum! --
Tramp, tramp, tramp, keep on a-tramping --
The big brutal city. The poor working girl --
It's the syme the whole world over --
In the days of old Rameses --
She promised she'd meet me --
No more booze (Fireman save my child) --
Prison and jail songs. Bird in a cage --
Yonder comes the high sheriff --
Seven long years in state prison --
When I was young and foolish --
Been in the pen so long --
The preacher and the slave --
Blues, mellows, ballets. Levee moan --
Coo-coo (Peacock song) --
Great Gawd, I'm feelin' bad --
O my honey, take me back --
What kin' o' pants does the gambler wear? --
Times gettin' hard, boys --
I'm sad and I'm lonely --
Ballet of de boll weevil --
Contents (cont.): The great wide open spaces. When the curtains of night are pinned back --
When the work's all done this fall --
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo --
The dreary Black Hills --
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little doggies --
The tenderfoot (p.274) --
Mexican border songs. La cucaracha (Mexican cockroach song) --
Mañanitas (De Jalisco) --
Southern mountains. Way up on Clinch Mountain --
Liza in the summer time (She died on the train) --
Yonder comes my pretty little girl --
O bury me beneath the willow --
The orphan girl or no bread for the poor --
I got a gal at the head of the holler --
Go bring me back my blue-eyed boy --
I don't like no railroad man --
Picnic and hayrack follies, close harmony, and darn fool ditties. Sucking cider through a straw --
Did you ever, ever, ever? --
I was born almost ten thousand years ago --
Cigarettes will spoil yer life --
Mary had a William goat --
I wish I was a little bird --
Crazy song to the air of "Dixie" --
Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer --
Railroad and work gangs. Bolsum Brown --
Poor Paddy works on the railway --
The railroad cars are coming --
Jerry, go an' ile that car --
If I die a railroad man --
Jay Gould's daughter and On the Charlie so long --
Mama have you heard the news? --
Don' let yo' watch run down --
There's many a man killed on the railroad --
She'll be comin' round the mountain --
I went down to the depot --
Ever since Uncle John Henry been dead --
Go 'way f'om mah window --
The wind it blew up the railroad track --
My sister she works in a laundry --
Contents (cont.): Lumberjacks, loggers, shanty-boys. James Whaland --
The jam on Gerry's Rock --
Driving saw-logs on the Plover --
Morrissey and the Russian sailor --
Sailorman. Whisky Johnny --
I catch-a da plenty of feesh --
Leave her, bullies, leave her --
Across the western ocean --
Bandit biographies. Jim Fisk --
Five wars. The hunters of Kentucky or Half horse and half alligator --
There was an old soldier --
The sergeant, he is the worst of all --
Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket and The handsome young airman --
A war bird's burlesque --
Hinky dinky, parlee-voo --
Lovely people. Man goin' roun' --
Blind man lay beside the way --
Ten thousand miles away from home --
I met her in the garden where the praties grow --
I don't want to be a gambler --
When poor Mary came wandering home --
Road to heaven. Jesus, won't you come by'm-by? --
Dese bones gwine to rise again --
Way over in the new buryin' groun' --
Mary wore three links of chain --
Pharaoh's army got drownded --
God's goin' to set this world on fire --
Ain' go'n' to study war no mo' --
Standin' on the walls of Zion --
You got to cross it foh yohself --
I got a letter from Jesus --
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