Texas Folk Songs

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ISBN: 9781574411140 | 1574411144
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2000

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This collection of songs began, William A. Owens tells us, with those sung in his home in the Pin Hook community, "where ballads and songs and spirituals seeped as easily as words" into his memory. Collecting became a serious project with him in his last college year, when he began a study of Texas play-party songs.

Preface	p. xi
Notes on Musical Transcriptions	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
British Popular Ballads	p. 3
Rosemary One Time	p. 4
Pretty Polly	p. 6
Billy Boy	p. 10
How Come That Blood on Your Shirt Sleeve	p. 11
Three Black Crows	p. 14
Loving Henry	p. 16
Fair Ellender	p. 17
Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot	p. 20
The Three Little Babes	p. 21
Barbara Allen	p. 23
The Hangman's Rope	p. 26
The Four Marys	p. 27
Gypsy Davy	p. 29
The House Carpenter	p. 31
The Drunkard's Song	p. 33
Ti Risslety Rosslety	p. 34
The Devil's Song	p. 36
The Merry Golden Tree	p. 38
A Rich Irish Lady	p. 40
Anglo-American Ballads	p. 42
William Hall, or the Brisky Young Farmer	p. 43
A Pretty Fair Maid	p. 46
Late One Sunday Evening	p. 48
Lovely William	p. 50
Once I Courted a Fair Beauty Bride	p. 51
Come All You Pretty Fair Maids	p. 52
The Little Sparrow	p. 52
I Dreamed Last Night of My True Love	p. 54
Come, All You Jolly Cowboys	p. 55
On the Red River Shore	p. 56
Lovely Mary	p. 57
As I Walked Out on a May Morning	p. 58
All in the Scenes of Winter	p. 59
I Was Out Walking	p. 60
Oh, Willie	p. 61
Young Johnnie	p. 62
The Oxford Girl	p. 64
The Drummer Boy of Waterloo	p. 65
Young Charlottie	p. 66
The Butcher's Boy	p. 68
The Wild Moor	p. 69
Little Mohea	p. 71
The Jealous Lover	p. 72
The Banks of Cloddie	p. 73
Fair Fannie Moore	p. 75
Brother Green	p. 77
I Was Standing on Pickets	p. 77
Jesse James	p. 78
Cole Younger	p. 80
The Boston Burglar	p. 81
The Two Orphans	p. 82
The Grog Shop Door	p. 84
The Roving Gambler	p. 85
Anglo-American Love Songs	p. 87
The Sailor Boy	p. 88
Nora Darling	p. 89
The Irish Girl	p. 90
Fond Affection	p. 90
Bury Me beneath the Willow	p. 91
The Birmingham Jail	p. 92
My Blue-eyed Boy	p. 93
They Say It Is Sinful to Flirt	p. 94
Too Late	p. 94
Lorene	p. 96
On Top of Old Smoky	p. 97
The Bright Sherman Valley	p. 98
Goodbye, Little Bonnie Blue Eyes	p. 99
My Pretty Little Pink	p. 101
Jack and Joe	p. 102
Anglo-American Comic Songs	p. 103
The Widow of McCarty	p. 104
Noddingham Town	p. 105
It Was a Young Man	p. 106
Come All You Fair Maidens	p. 107
Dear John	p. 108
Brynie O'Linn	p. 110
Come All You Mississippi Girls	p. 110
Went Out A-Sparkin'	p. 112
Hard Times	p. 113
The Young Men They'll Dress Up	p. 115
Not the Only Turtle in the Tank	p. 116
Old Kincaid	p. 117
Jennie Jenkins	p. 118
There Was an Old Man That Lived on the Hill	p. 119
Devilish Mary	p. 121
Blue-eyed Boy Is Mad at Me	p. 121
Rolly Troodum	p. 122
I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again	p. 123
I Wish to My Lord I Was Single Again	p. 124
The Blue-tailed Fly	p. 125
I Don't Like to See Boys	p. 126
Who Will Hold My Stovepipe Hat	p. 127
The Lazy Man	p. 128
Hurrah for Arkansas	p. 129
Pompey Smash and Davy Crockett	p. 130
Joe Bowers	p. 132
Songs and Games for Children	p. 134
Come All You Jolly Hunters	p. 135
Frog Went A-Courting	p. 136
Way Down South Where I Was Born	p. 139
When I'se a Little Boy	p. 140
Prettiest Little Tree	p. 141
Hunting the Wren	p. 143
Saw an Old Crow	p. 145
Old Jay Bird	p. 145
The Brown Duck	p. 146
Play-Party Songs and Games	p. 148
Shoot the Buffalo	p. 149
I'm on My Way to Georgy	p. 150
Weevily Wheat	p. 151
Little Brass Wagon	p. 153
The Girl I Left behind Me	p. 153
Going to Boston	p. 154
Old Dan Tucker	p. 155
Hog-Drovers	p. 155
Dance Josey	p. 156
Old Joe Clark	p. 157
Buffalo Girls	p. 159
Skip to My Lou	p. 159
Tideo	p. 160
Anglo-American Spirituals	p. 161
The Hebrew Children	p. 163
I Will Arise and Go to Jesus	p. 163
On Canaan's Happy Shore	p. 164
And Am I Born to Die	p. 164
There'll Be No Dark Valley	p. 164
No, Never Alone	p. 165
Come, Humble Sinners	p. 166
The Wicked Daughter	p. 167
The Orphan Girl	p. 168
The Romish Lady	p. 168
Afro-American Spirituals	p. 170
I've Been Listenin' All Day Long	p. 171
Travelin' Shoes	p. 172
By and By	p. 173
Oh, My Lovin' Brothuh	p. 174
Afro-American Secular Songs	p. 175
Oh, Mou'nuhs	p. 176
Oh, Hear That Trumpet Sound	p. 177
You Shall Be Free	p. 178
Go to Sleep, Little Baby	p. 179
Well, the Day I Left My Po' Mama's Door	p. 180
Go to Sleepy	p. 181
Source Notes	p. 183
Index of Titles	p. 187
Index of First Lines	p. 189
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