Our Singing Country, Online Version

Complete Text, Lyrics & Sheet Music

A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY JOHN A. LOMAX Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress AND ALAN LOMAX Assistant in Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress

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First let me apologise for the odd errors and weirdnesses you will find in my web version of this book. Fortunately, the quality of the scan for this book came out better than the one for the first volume - American Ballads & folk Songs so the vagaries of scanning and OCRing, did not mess up this volume as much as the former. However, I hope you don't find the errors too annoying and will find what I have done useful. Our Singing Country is another major (400+pages) contribution by Lomax to preserving the traditional music of America.

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Our Singing Country- Contents Index of Songs & Pages
Deduct 100 from the page nubers to get the original numbers in the book

Inside Front Cover
INTRODUCTION
introduction
PREFACE
preface
preface
preface
preface
preface
preface
preface
Music Preface
music preface
music preface
music preface
music preface
music preface
music preface
music preface
Explanation Of Headnotes
explanation of headnotes
explanation of headnotes
explanation of headnotes
CONTENTS
contents
contents
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Prayer—This evening our Father - 0103
Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves - 0104
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Samson - 0106
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The Man of Calvary - 0109
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Job - 0114
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John Done Saw That Number - 0116
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John Was A-Writin5 - 0122
Them Bones - 0123
The Blood-Strained Banders - 0124
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God Moves on the Water - 0126
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God Don't Like It - 0128
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Soon One Mornin' Death Come Creepin' - 0130
I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long - 0131
If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride? - 0132
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Choose You a Seat 'n' Set Down - 0134
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Low Down Chariot - 0136
Over Jordan - 0137
Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death - 0138
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The Romish Lady - 0140
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Keep Your Hands on That Plow - 0144
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The Little Black Train - 0146
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Holy Ghost - 0148
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Bonyparte - 0154
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Callahan - 0156
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Hop Up, My Ladies - 0158
Ducks in the Millpond - 0159
Lynchburg Town - 0160
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Jinny Git Around - 0163
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King William Was King George's Son - 0165
Had a Little Fight in Mexico - 0166
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The Bank of the Arkansaw - 0168
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Ladies in the Dinin' Room - 0170
You Turn for Sugar an' Tea - 0171
Johnnie Bought a Ham - 0172
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Little Bird, Go Through My Window - 0174
Sally Go Round the Sunshine - 0175
Don't You Like It? - 0176
Cocky Doodle Doodle Doo - 0176
Kitty, Kitty Casket - 0177
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The Wind Blow East - 0180
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Biddy, Biddy - 0182
Never Get a Lickin' Till I Go Down to Bimini - 0183
Married Man Gonna Keep Your Secret - 0184
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A Wasp Bite Nobi on Her Conch-Eye - 0186
Don't You Hurry Worry with Me. - 0187
Round the Bay of Mexico - 0188
When de Whale Get Strike - 0189
Dig My Grave - 0190
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Mamma's Gone to the Mail Boat - 0194
OF Hag, You See Mammy? - 0195
Daddy Shot a Bear - 0195
Hush, Little Baby - 0196
Crabe dans Calalou - 0197
Mary Was a Red Bird - 0198
Cotton Eye Joe - 0199
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Billy Barlow - 0201
The Crooked Gun - 0202
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The Ram of Darby - 0204
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The Lady Who Loved a Swine - 0207
Toll-a-Winker - 0208
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The Marrowbone Itch - 0210
Old Blue - 0211
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Wunst I Had an Old Gray Mare - 0213
Hog Rogues on the Harricane - 0214
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Cod Liver He - 0216
TomBolyn - 0217
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The Bachelor's Lay - 0219
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Katy Dorey - 0222
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Johnny McCardner - 0224
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Lolly Too-Dum - 0226
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Where Have You Been, My Good Old Man? - 0228
Jennie Jenkins - 0229
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Married Me a Wife - 0231
Old Shoes and Leggin's - 0232
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Blue Bottle - 0234
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Devilish Mary - 0236
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Do Come Back Again - 0239
My Old True Love - 0240
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Fare Ye Well, My Darlin5 - 0242
I've Rambled This Country Both Earlye and Late - 0243
East Virginia - 0244
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Long Lonesome Road - 0246
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Little Bonny - 0248
Old Bangham - 0249
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The Mermaid - 0251
Tee Roo - 0252
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Sweet William - 0254
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Black Jack Davy - 0256
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The Irish Lady - 0260
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The Lady of Carlisle - 0262
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The Lame Soldier - 0264
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Willy Reilly - 0266
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John Riley - 0268
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LilyMunro - 0270
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Pretty Polly - 0272
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The Lexington Murder - 0274
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The Rich Old Lady - 0276
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Sept Ans sur Mer - 0280
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Blanche Comme la Neige - 0282
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Je Caresserai la Belle par Amitie - 0284
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Qu'avec-vous, Oui, Belle Blonde - 0287
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Le Petit Mari - 0289
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Les Clefs de la Prison - 0291
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Belle - 0294
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The Frenchman's Ball - 0298
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The True Paddy's Song - 0300
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Trench Blues - 0302
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Old King Cole - 0304
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Santy Anno - 0306
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Haul Away, My Rosy - 0308
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The Low-Down, Lonesome Low - 0310
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The High Barbaree - 0312
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Greenland Whale Fishery - 0314
The Beaver Island Boys - 0315
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Dark-Eyed Canaller - 0318
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The Bigler - 0320
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The Little Brown Bulls - 0324
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Moosehead Lake - 0326
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Johnny Stiles, or the Wild Mustard River - 0328
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I Came to This Country in 1865 - 0331
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Ox-Driving Song - 0333
Yo Soy de la Tierra - 0334
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Git Along, Little Dogies - 0337
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As I Went A-Walking One Fine Summer's Evening - 0340
The Sporting Cowboy - 0341
Run Along, You Little Dogies - 0342
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Texas Rangers - 0345
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Diamond Joe - 0347
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If He'd Be a Buckaroo - 0349
Doney Gal - 0350
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Peter Gray - 0352
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The Wreck on the Somerset Road - 0354
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The White House Blues - 0356
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John Henry - 0358
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Sis Joe *¦ - 0362
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Oh, Roll On, Babe - 0364
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As I Went Out for a Ramble - 0367
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Way Out in Idaho - 0369
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Oh, My Liver and My Lungs. - 0372
Down, Down, Down - 0373
Pay Day at Coal Creek - 0374
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The Coal Miner's Child - 0376
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Po'Farmer - 0380
It's Hard on We Po' Farmers - 0381
Ain't It Hard to Be a Right Black Nigger? - 0382
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Georgia Land - 0384
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Georgia Boy - 0386
Hard Times in the country - 0387
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The Dodger - 0389
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Cotton-Mill Colic - 0391
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Chilly Winds - 0393
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Pass Around Your Bottle - 0396
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Sweet Thing - 0398
Page - 0399
Three Nights Drunk - 0400
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Darling Corey - 0402
Jack o' Diamonds - 0403
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Stavin' Chain - 0405
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My Father Gave Me a Lump of Gold - 0407
As I Set Down to Play Tin-Can - 0408
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Little Willie's My Darlin' - 0410
Adieu to the Stone Walls - 0411
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We Don't Get No Justice Here in Atlanta - 0413
The Reek and the Rambling Blade - 0414
When First to This Country a Stranger I Came - 0415
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Brennan on the Moor - 0417
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The Wild Colonial Boy - 0420
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The Vance Song - 0422
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The Rowan County Crew - 0424
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Harvey Logan - 0426
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Dupree - 0428
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Bugger Burns - 0431
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Duncan and Brady - 0433
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Batson - 0435
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Po' Laz'us - 0442
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Roustabout Holler - 0450
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Trouble, Trouble - 0452
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Mamma, Mamma - 0455
Go Down, Ol Hannah - 0456
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Make Me a Garment - 0458
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Go Down, You Little Red Rising Sun - 0460
Prison Moan - 0461
Lights in the Quarters Burnin' Mighty Dim - 0462
Eadie - 0463
I Been a Bad, Bad Girl - 0464
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Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Some Day - 0466
Page - 0467
The Rising Sun Blues - 0468
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Big Fat Woman - 0470
I'm a Stranger Here - 0471
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Fm Worried Now But I Won't Be Worried Long - 0473
Lines from the Blues - 0474
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Take This Hammer - 0480
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Don't Talk About It - 0482
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Didn' OF John Cross the Water on His Knees? - 0484
Marthy Had a Baby - 0485
Lord, It's All, Almost Done - 0486
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Page - 0488
Ain't Workin' Song - 0489
I Got to Roll - 0490
You Kicked and Stomped and Beat Me - 0491
Drive It On - 0492
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O Lawd I Went Up on the Mountain - 0494
Page - 0495
Long Summer Day - 0496
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Godamighty Drag - 0498
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Johnny, Won't You Ramble ? - 0500
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Pauline - 0502
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Look Down That Lonesome Road - 0504
Bibliography - 0505
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Index of Songs - 0511
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Index of First Lines - 0514
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