KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN SONGS

A Collection Of Traditional Folk Songs with Lyrics & Sheet Music

Collected & Arranged by LORAINE WYMAN and HOWARD BROCKWAY Published by Oliver Ditson Company, Boston circa 1919

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From the Authors Preface: There is a unique and an individual quality in the Folksongs of the Kentucky Mountains, whether they be ballad, love song, or nursery rhyme, for they have sung their way through countless generations, unwritten and unrecorded, save by the few who still keep the love of a "song-ballad" in their hearts. It is the strong link which binds these people to the past, entirely detached as they have been from the outside world for so many generations. They have lived their lives oblivious of modern progress and have remained, like their forefathers, simple people of the soil. In presenting this volume, it is our hope, that we may share with others the genuine pleasure which these songs gave us when we first heard them in the mountain homes, where this valuable legacy has been unconsciously preserved. With but few exceptions, the origin of each song can be traced to its Eng­lish, Scottish or Irish source. Because of their preservation by oral tradition, they have been invested with a characteristic charm of their own, which we have made every effort to retain. No melody has been remodelled. The text has been changed only in a very few instances where memory failed to record words, lines, or stanzas necessary to complete a version.

KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN SONGS, Contents list & Page Numbers. deduct 100 from numbers given to get the original book page number. .

Cover Title Page Dedication Preface Contents As I walked out An Inconstant Lover - 0101 Page - 0102 Page - 0103 Page - 0104 Page - 0105 Fair Nottiman Town - 0106 Page - 0107 Page - 0108 Page - 0109 The Swapping Song - 0110 Page - 0111 Page - 0112 Page - 0113 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellendor, or The Brown Bride - 0114 Page - 0115 Page - 0116 Page - 0117 Page - 0119 Page - 0120 Page - 0121 Little Matthew Grove, or Lord Daniel's Wife (Version 1) - 0122 Page - 0123 Page - 0124 Page - 0125 Page - 0133 Page - 0134 Page - 0135 Noah's Ark - 0136 Page - 0137 Page - 0138 Page - 0139 Page - 0140 Page - 0141 Young Edward - 0142 Page - 0143 Page - 0144 Page - 0145 Sporting Bachelors - 0146 Page - 0147 Page - 0148 Page - 0149 As I walked out - 0150 Page - 0151 Page - 0152 The Daemon Lover - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 Page - 0157 Page - 0159 Page - 0160 Page - 0161 Lord Orland's Wife, or Little Matthew Grew (Version 2) - 0162 Page - 0163 Page - 0164 Page - 0165 Page - 0169 Page - 0170 Page - 0171 The Old Maid - 0172 Page - 0173 Page - 0174 Page - 0175 Charming Beauty Bright - 0176 Page - 0177 Page - 0178 Page - 0179 Come all you young and handsome girls - 0180 Page - 0181 Page - 0182 Page - 0183 Page - 0184 Page - 0185 The Toad's Courtship - 0186 Page - 0187 Page - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0191 Page - 0192 Page - 0193 The Gonesome Scenes of Winter - 0194 Page - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 No, Sir, No! - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 Page - 0201 Fanny Blair - 0202 Page - 0203 Page - 0204 Page - 0205 The Inquisitive Lover - 0206 Page - 0207 Page - 0208 Page - 0209 Pretty Polly - 0210 Page - 0211 Page - 0212 Page - 0213

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