Songs and ballads from Nova Scotia / collected by Helen Creighton.
| Other author | Creighton, Helen, 1899-1989. |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication Info | New York : Dover Publications, ©1966. |
| Description | xxiv, 333 pages : frontispiece ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | False knight upon the road -- Cruel mother -- Captain Wedderburn?s courtship -- Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor -- Little Musgrave and lady Barnard -- Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood -- Robin Hood?s progress to Nottingham -- Sir Hugh ; or the Jew?s daughter -- Farmer?s curst wife -- Sweet trinity ; or the golden vanity -- Katharine Jaffray -- Song of a soldier -- Turkish rover -- Well sold the cow -- Annie -- Butcher boy -- Diana and sweet William -- Villikens and his Dinah -- Green bushes -- I wrote my love a letter -- James McDonald -- Jocky said to Jinnie -- Quaker?s courtship -- Rich counsellor -- Silvy -- When I was in my prime -- Broken ring song fragment -- Broken ring -- The dark-eyed sailor -- Mantle so green -- Bessie beauty -- Billy Taylor -- Caroline and her young sailor bold -- Female sailor bold -- The gay Spanish maid -- Gallant Brigantine -- Homeward bound -- It is of a rich lady -- Jack the sailor -- Jack Robeson -- Jimmie and Nancy -- Lily of the west -- Lion?s den -- My sailor lad -- Sailor bold -- Prentice boy -- Pretty Polly --Rambling rover --Rose of Britain?s Isle -- A sailor courted -- When I was a young man -- Young Indian lass -- Bay of Biscay oh -- Bold princess royal -- Captain Burke -- Captain Glen -- Chanty song (So it?s pass) -- Chanty song (Soon we?ll be) -- City of Baltimore -- Come, all ye old comrades -- Crocodile song -- Donald Munro -- Flying cloud -- Van Diemen's land -- Western ocean -- Wild rover -- Ye gentlemen of England -- Battle of Alma -- Bonny bunch of roses o -- Bonny light horseman -- Drummer boy -- Erin far away -- Napoleon's farewell to Paris -- Casey's whiskey -- Courtship of Willie Riley -- Doran's ass -- Down by the tan-yard side -- Green mossy banks of the lea -- Jessie Munroe -- The mantle of green -- Mary Nail -- My Irish Polly -- Paddy Backwards -- Rambling shoemaker -- Since love can enter an iron door -- Song of the croppy boy -- Tim Finnigan's wake -- Tom O'Neil -- Whiskey in the jar -- It was a mouse -- Me one man -- Old King Cole -- On this hill -- Three men went a-hunting -- The miller -- Mush a doody -- Boston burglar -- The three gallant huntsmen -- Alphabet song -- American woods -- As now we are sailing -- Back Bay hill -- Bad girl's lament -- Banks of Newfoundland -- Barrack street -- Brigantine Sinorca -- Canso strait -- Captain Conrod -- Charles G. Anderson -- George Jones -- Saladin's crew -- Dutchman's song -- The Flemmings of Torbay -- Fox river line -- The ghostly sailors -- Granite mill -- Guysboro song -- Hanstead boys -- Indian song 1 and 2 -- In the month of October -- Irish labourer -- Joe Livermore -- Jolly fishermen -- Liverpool girls -- Loakie's boat -- Loss of the philosophy -- Louisiana lowlands -- Lumbering boy -- Maggie Mac -- The Mary L. MacKay -- McCarthy's song -- McNab's island -- Meagher's children -- Ocean Queen -- On the lakes of Ponchartrain -- Peter Rambelay -- Prentice boy (To a New York trader) -- Prince Edward island murder -- Prisoner's song (Oh it's hard to be) -- Sable Island song 1 -- Sable Island song 2 -- The seizure of the E.J. Horton -- Song the Tangier gold mines -- Sweet fair Ella -- Tacking of a full-rigged ship off shore -- Twas in the town of Parsboro -- Unicorn -- Young Charlotte. |
| General note | Unacc. melodies. |
| General note | Reprint. Originally published: Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1932. |
| LCCN | 66026823 |