The American songbag

[1.] Dramas and portraits : He's gone away ; Boll weevil song ; Moanish lady! ; I ride an old paint ; Foggy, foggy dew ; Waillie, Waillie! ; Dis mornin', dis evenin', so soon ; Oh, bury me not on the one prairie ; Careless love ; The John B. sails ; John Henry ; Midnight special ; Alice B. ; Po' boy

[2.] 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 ; Kevin Barry ; The son of a gambolier

[3.] Minstrel songs : I wish I was single again ; Walky-talky Jenny ; Hayseed ; Good-by Liza Jane ; Wizard oil

[4.] Tarnished love tales or colonial and revolutionary antiques : Barbra Allen ; The frozen girl ; Pretty Polly ; Common Bill ; Little Scotch-ee ; The house carpenter ; A pretty fair maid ; Lord Lovel ; The Quaker's wooing ; The maid freed from the gallows

[5.] Frankie and her man : Frankie and Albert ; Frankie and Johnny ; Frankie blues ; Josie ; Sadie

[6.] Pioneer memories : The little old sod shanty ; Where O where is old Elijah? ; Turkey in the straw ; Who will shoe your pretty little foot? ; The true lover's farewell ; Fair Annie of Lochyran ; Ten thousand miles away ; Old gray mare ; The drunkard's doom ; What was your name in the states? ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; California ; The banks of Sacramento ; Money ; The monkey's wedding ; Rosie Nell ; Chicken reel ; Hanging out the linen clothes ; Down, down derry down ; The Lane County bachelor.

[6.] Kentucky blazing star : Sourwood mountain ; The lover's lament ; Hello, girls ; Kansas boys ; Red River Valley ; Liza Jane ; Mountain top ; Negro reel ; One morning in May ; The troubled soldier ; Post-rail song ; Hammer man ; Love somebody, yes I do ; Ain't gonna rain ; Kentucky moonshiner ; Mister frog went a-courting ; Kind miss ; Goin' down to town ; The ship that never returned ; Down in the valley ; I dreamed last night of my true love ; Drivin' steel

[7.] The Lincolns and Hankses : The Missouri harmony ; Windsor ; Greenfields ; Worthington ; Highbridge ; Legacy ; The brown girl or fair Eleanor ; Hey Betty Martin ; Old brass wagon ; Cuckoo waltz ; Weevily wheat ; El-a-noy ; Hoosen Johnny ; My pretty little pink ; Lincoln and liberty ; Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness

[8.] Great Lakes and Erie Canal : The Erie Canal ; Bigerlow ; Red iron ore ; Raging canawl ; The E-ri-e

[9.] Hobo songs : Shovellin' iron ore ; Hallelujah, I'm a bum! ; Tramp, tramp, tramp, keep on a-tramping ; The dying hogger ; Wanderin' ; A.R.U. ; We are four bums

[10.] The big brutal city : The poor working girl ; Roll the chariot ; Brady ; On to the morgue ; It's the syme the whole world over ; In the days of old Rameses ; The good boy ; Willy the weeper ; Cocaine Lil ; She promised she'd meet me ; No more booze (fireman save my child) ; Lydia Pinkham.

[11.] Prison and jail songs : Bird in a cage ; Yonder comes the high sheriff ; Portland County jail ; Moonlight ; Midnight special ; Seven long years in state prison ; When I was young and foolish ; Been in the pen so long ; The preacher and the slave

[12.] Blues, mellows, ballets : Levee moan ; Those gambler's blues ; Got dem blues ; De blues ain' nothin' ; When a woman blue ; Coo-coo (peacock song) ; Great gawd, I'm feelin' bad ; O my honey, take me back ; What kin' o' pants does the gambler wear? ; Joe Turner ; Times gettin' hard, boys ; I'm sad and I'm lonely ; C.C. Rider ; You fight on ; Satan's a liah ; Ballet of de boll weevil ; De Titanic

[13.] The great 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 ; The lone star trail ; Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies ; The buffalo skinners ; Poor lonesome cowboy ; The tenderfoot ; Little ah Sid ; The Kinkaiders ; Dakota land ; The farmer ; Rabble soldier ; The train to Mexico

[14.] Mexican border songs : La cucaracha (Mexican cockroach song) ; Mañitas (de jalisco) ; Lo que digo ; El abandonado ; Cielito lindo ; Adelita ; Versos de montalgo

[15.] Southern mountains : Way up on Clinch Mountain ; Liza in the summer time (she died on the train) ; Coon can (poor boy) ; Gypsy Davy ; The roving gambler ; Yonder comes my pretty little girl ; The gamboling man ; O bury me beneath the willow ; Mag's song ; The orphan girl or no bread for the poor ; I got a gal at the head of the holler ; Lonesome road ; Fond affection ; Go bring me back my blue-eyed boy ; London city ; The midnight train ; I don't like no railroad man.

[16.] 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 ; Go get the ax ; Abalone ; In de vinter time ; Cigarettes will spoil yer life ; Mary had a William goat ; I wish I was a little bird ; Old Adam ; The horse named Bill ; Crazy song to the air of "Dixie" ; A boy he had an auger ; Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer ; Greens ; Animal fair ; Calliope ; Si Hubbard

[17.] 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 ; Cap'n I believe ; Jay Gould's daughter and on the Charlie so long ; Casey Jones ; 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 ; My Lulu ; The wind it blew up the railroad track ; Hog-eye ; My sister she works in a laundry ; I found a horse shoe ; Railroad Bill ; Hangman ; Timber

[18.] Lumberjacks, loggers, shanty-boys : James Whaland ; The shanty-man's life ; Flat River girl ; The jam on Gerry's rock ; Driving saw-logs on the plover ; Morrissey and the Russian sailor ; Mule skinner's song

[19.] Sailorman : Whisky Johnny ; Blow the man down ; The dead horse ; Heave away ; The wide Mizzoura ; I catch-a da plenty of feesh ; The hog-eye man ; Leave her, bullies, leave her ; Across the western ocean

[20.] Bandit biographies : Jim Fisk ; Jesse James ; Sam Bass.

[21.] Five wars : The hunters of Kentucky or half horse and half alligator ; Jackson ; Poor Kitty Popcorn ; There was an old soldier ; A Filipino hombre ; 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 ; Where they were ; The hearse song

[22.] Lovely people : Man goin' roun' ; All night long ; Zek'l weep ; I know moonlight ; Blind man lay beside the way ; By'm by ; Go to sleepy ; Jungle mammy song ; Ten thousand miles away from home ; My old hammah ; Chahcoal man ; The weaver ; The Colorado trail ; I met her in the garden where the praties grow ; Somebody ; I don't want to be a gambler ; When poor Mary came wandering home

[23.] Road to heaven : Jesus, won't you come b'm-by? ; Dese bones gwine to rise again ; Two white horses ; Way over in the new buryin' groun' ; Mary wore three links of chain ; Pharaoh's army got drownded ; Good-bye, brother ; God's goin' to set this world on fire ; Ain' go'n' to study war no mo' ; Things I used to do ; In my father's house ; Standin' on the walls of Zion ; A hundred years ago ; You got to cross it foh yohself ; I got a letter from Jesus ; Ezekiel, you and me.