Folk songs of old New England / collected and edited by Eloise Hubbard Linscott. With an introduction by James M. Carpenter.
| Author/creator | Linscott, Eloise Hubbard |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication Info | New York : The Macmillan company, 1939. |
| Description | xxi, pages, 1 leaf, 337 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Counting out -- Did you ever see a lassie? -- The farmer in the dell -- Go in and out the windows -- Green gravel -- Green grows the rushes, oh! -- Here come three dukes a-riding -- Here stands an old maid forsaken -- Here we go gathering nuts in May -- How many miles to London Town? -- I am a rich widow -- I<U+2019>ll give to you a paper of pins -- I put my little hand in -- Jennia Jones -- King<U+2019>s land -- Lazy Mary -- London Bridge -- Lucy Locket -- Mulb<U+2019>ry bush -- My fairey and my forey -- The needle<U+2019>s eye -- Old woman all skin and bone -- On the green carpet -- Poor Mary sits a-weeping -- Ring around o<U+2019> rosies -- Shall I show you how the farmer? -- The twelve days of Christmas -- Water, water, wild flower -- bonaparte crossing the Rhine -- Boston fancy or Lady Walpole<U+2019>s reel -- Chorus Jig -- Devil<U+2019>s dream -- The duchess -- Fishers<U+2019> hornpipe -- French four -- The girl I left behind me -- Grand March -- Sicilian Circle -- Green mountain volunteers -- Haymakers<U+2019> jig -- High, Betty Martin -- Hull<U+2019>s victory -- Lady of the lake -- The London lanciers -- Maid in the pump room -- The merry dance -- Miss Brown<U+2019>s reel -- Money musk -- Morning star -- Ninepin quadrille or The cheat -- Old zip coon -- Petronella -- Plain quadrille -- Pop! Goes the weasel -- Portland fancy -- Soldier<U+2019>s joy -- Speed the plough -- Steamboat quickstep -- The tempest -- Twin sisters -- Virginia reel -- The waltz -- The white cockade -- Amsterdam -- Blow, boys, blow! -- Blow the man down -- Captain Kidd -- The dead horse -- The gallant victory or Lowlands low -- Haul away, Joe! -- Haul the bowline -- Homeward bound -- Johnny Boker -- A long time ago -- Old horse -- Reuben Renzo -- Rio Grande -- Shenandoah or The wide Missouri -- Tommy<U+2019>s gone to Hilo -- Whisky Johnnie. |
| Contents | All bound <U+2018>round with a woolen string -- Away down east -- The bailiff<U+2019>s daughter of Islington -- Barb<U+2019>ry Ellen or Barbara Allen -- A bear went over the mountain -- Billy Boy -- Bingo -- Blow, ye winds, blow or The elfin knight -- Bold Dickie -- The brookfield murder -- The bunnit of straw -- The butcher boy -- Canaday-I-O -- Caroline of Edinboro Town -- The carrion crow -- Common Bill -- the devil and the farmer<U+2019>s wife -- Dirante, my son or Lord Randall -- Fair Rosamond or Rosamond<U+2019>s downfall -- The farmington canal song -- Fiddle dee dee -- First families of fall river -- A frog he would a-wooing go -- A fox went out on a starry night -- Frog in the well -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Gypsy daisy -- Here we go up -- I had a little nut tree -- I<U+2019>ll not marry at all -- In good old Colony Times -- Jack Haggerty or The Flat River girl -- The jam on Gerry<U+2019>s Rocks -- The jolly miller -- Jolly old Roger -- Julia Grover -- Katy Cruel -- The ladle song -- Lavender<U+2019>s blue -- Let<U+2019>s go to the woods or The hunting of the wren -- Lord Lovell -- The lumberman<U+2019>s alphabet -- Maple sweet -- The mill -- The monkey<U+2019>s wedding -- My grandmother lived on yonder little green -- The ocean burial -- The old man who lived in the wood -- Old pod-auger times -- The old sow song -- The old woman in Dover -- The old woman who went to market -- Our goodman -- Over the water to Charlie -- The oxen song -- Perrie, Merrie, Dixi, Domini -- Peter Emily -- Polly Oliver -- Polly Van -- The quaker<U+2019>s wooing -- The rolling of the stones or The Twa brothers -- The sawmill song -- Scotland<U+2019>s burning -- Three blind mice -- A ship a-sailing -- Springfield mountain or The black Sarpent -- Sweet Kitty Clover -- Three children sliding on the ice -- Three crows -- Three jovial huntsman -- Tittery Nan -- Too-ril-te-too -- Tyburn hill -- Washing day -- Will you wear the red? or Jennie Jenkins -- Willikins and his Dinah -- Young Aanthia -- Young Charlotte. |
| General note | With music. |
| General note | "First printing." |
| General note | "Includes not only ballads and songs, but a valuable group of children's singing games ... [and a] number of old country dances."--Introd. |
| Bibliography note | "References": p. 319-337. |
| LCCN | 40027042 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Music Stacks | M1629.L64 F7 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |