/"w r^ oil Cornell University Library ML 3553.S53 A syllabus of Kentucky fojk-|0^^^^^^ 3 1924 022 371 474 «» (Hmmll Uttirmitg JilrtBg THE GIFT OF .M..,.:AJ...55>WyuA:\. kzbi%S\ skiii ISS CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MUSIC Transylvania Univ les in English II Ai>gUab«a of^mtm^i^ S^nlk-^ottsB , ^ - ; By ■^ - . HUBERT G. SHEARIN, A. MjPh. D. Professor of English Philology in Transylvania University and JOSIAH H. COMBS, A. B. Editor of The Transylvanian Ttaaiylvuiia Printing Compthy Lexington, Kentucky 1911 Cornell University Library The original of tliis book is in tlie Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022371474 Transylvania University Studies in English I II By HUBERT G. SHEARIN, A. M.^Ph, D. Professor of English PhUology in Transylvania University and JOSIAH H. COMBS, A. B. Editor of TheTransylvanian Traosylvania Printing Company Lexington, Kentucky 1911 ''H TO R. M. S. INTRODUCTION This syllabus, or finding-list, is offered to lovers of folk- literature in the hope that it may not be without interest and value to them for purposes of comparison and identifica- tion. It includes 333 items, exclusive of 114 variants, and embraces all popular songs that have so far come to hand as having been "learned by ear instead of iby^eye," as existing through oral transmission — song-ballads, love-songs, number- songs, dance-songs, play-songs, child-songs, counting-out rimes, lullabies, jigs, nonsense rimes, ditties, etc. There is every reason to believe that many more such await the collector; in fact, their number is constantly being increased even today by the creation of new ones, by adapta- tion of the old, and even by the absorbtion, and consequent metamorphosis, of literary, quasi-literary, or pseudo-literary types into the current of oral tradition. This collection, then, is by no means complete: means have not been available for a systematic and scientific search for these folk-songs, which have been gathered very casually during the past five years through occasional travel, acquaint- anceship, and correspondence in only the twenty-one follow- ing counties : Fayette, Madison, Eowan, Elliott, Carter, Boyd, Lawrence, Morgan, Johnson, Pike, Knott, Breathitt, Clay, Laurel, Eoekeastle, Garrard, Boyle, Anderson, Shelby, Henry, and Owen — all lying in Central and Eastern Ken- tucky. All of the material listed has thus been collected in this State, though a variant of The Jew's Daughter, page 8, has come by chance from Michigan, and another of The Pretty Mohee, page 12, was sent from Georgia. The Cum- berland Mountain region, in the eastern part of the State, has naturally furnished the larger half of the material, be- cause of local conditions favorable to the propagation of folk- song. However, sections of Kentucky lying farther to the westward are almost equally prolific. The wide extension of the same ballad throughout the State argues convincingly for the unity of the Kentucky stock — a fact which may be con- firmed in more wavs than one. The arrangement is as follows: The material in hand is loosely grouped in eighteen sections, according to origin, chronology, content, or form. Though logically at fault, be- cause of the cross-division thus inevitably entailed, this plan has seemed to be the best. N'o real confusion will result to the user in consequence. In fact, no matter what system be adopted, certain songs will belong equaljy well to two or more different categories. TJnder each of these eighteen main divisions the treat- ment of the individual song-ballad isi in general as followsi: First, stands the title, with variant titles in parentheses. Should this be unknown, a caption coined by the editors is placed in brackets. Secondly, a Eoman numeral immediately follows the above to denote the number of versions, if variants- have been found. Thirdly, the prosadical character of the song is roughly indicated by a combination of letters and numerals. Each letter indicates a line; the variation in the letters indicates, in the usual fashion, the rime-scheme of the stanza. Each numeral indicates the number of stresses in the line (or lines) denoted by the letter (or letters) imme- diately succeeding it. When a chorus, burden, or refrain is present, the metrical scheme of this stands immediately after an "and," as, for example, in The Blue and the Gray, page 14. In the case of the refrain, the letters used are independ- ent of those immediately preceding the "and", and denoting the rime-scheme of the stanza proper. Eourthly, an Arabic numeral follows to indicate the number of stanzas in the sons;, exclusive of the refrain, should one be present. If the num- ber of stanzas in a ballad is indeterminable, because its form is fragmentary, or because its variant versions differ in length, this fact is indicated by an appended oa (circa). Sixth, and last, is a synopsis, or other attempt to give briefly such data as may serve to complete the identification. Illustration of the third item above may be helpful. Thus in Pretty Polly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with four stresses in each line. In Jackaro, page 9, Sabob indicates a quatrain riming al- ternately, with three stressed syllables in each line. In The King's Daughter, page 7, 4a3b4c3b indicates a quatrain, with only the second and fourth lines riming and with four stresses in the first and third lines and three stresses in the second and fourth. In Johnnie Came from Sea, page 14, 6aa denotes a rimed couplet, with six stresses in each line. It has, naturally, been difficult at times to decide -whether certain stanzas should be counted as couplets, or as quatrains half as long. In such cases, the air, or tune, and other data, often rather subtle, have been employed ia making decision. The quatrain form has in uncertain instances been given the benefit of the doubt. Even thus, certain minor inconsistencies will perhaps be noted. It is hardly necessary to add that assonance freely occurs in the place of rime, and as such it is considered throughout. All attempt to indicate the prevailing metrical unit, or foot, within the line has been frankly given over. Iambs, dactyls, and their ilk receive scant courtesy from the com- poser of folk-song, who without qualm or quaver will stretch one syllable, or even an utter silence (caesura), into the time of a complete bar ; while in the next breath he will with equal equanimity huddle a dozen syllables into the same period. Consequently, this item, even if it could be radicated, would have scant descriptive value. It is a pleasant duty to acknowledge gratefully the as- sistance of those who have transmitted to our hands many of the songs: Mesdames J. W. Combs, W. T. PhUlips, Jennie L. Combs, Eichard Smith, Martha Smith, Kuth Hackney, W. P. Hays, Ollie Huff, Eobin Cornett, Lucy Banks, Sarah Burton, Kittie Jordan, and Euby Martin; Misses Martha Jent, Maud Dean, Virginia Jordan, Jessie Green, Lizzie Cody, Margaret Combs, Barbara Smith, Helena E. Eose, Sarah Burton, Sarah Hillman, Cordia Bramblett, Kannie S. Graham, Myrtle Wheeler, Melissa Holbrook, Eosetta Wheeler, Euth Hackney, Ora McDavid, Jeannette McDavid; Messrs. Wm. W. Berry, Ohas. Hackney, S. B. Wheeler, E. L. Mor- gan, Enoch Wheeler, Thos. H. Hackney, James Goodman, W. S. Wheeler, Harry M. Morgan, Henry Lester, T. G. Wheeler, C. P. Bishop, and ^ohn C. Jones. Especially helpful as collaborators have been Messrs. Winfred Cox, Emory E. Wheeler, Eoud Shaw, A. B. John- ston, C. E. Phillips, and H. Williamson. Kind words or letters of appreciation and, in some cases, of suggestion, from the following have encouraged the prep- aration of this syllabus : Professors Alexander S. Mackenzie, of the Kentucky State University; Clarence C. Freeman, of Transylvania University; John A. Lomax, of the University of Texas; Albert H. Tolman, of the University of Chicago; John M. McBride, Jr., of the University of the South; George Lyman Kittredge, of Harvard University; Henry M. Belden, of the University of Missouri ; and Katherine Jackson, form- erly of Bryn Mawr College, who has most generously given the use of her manuscript collection. None of the shortcom- ings of this brochure, however, can be imputed to them in the slightest degree. SYLLABUS I. The songs in this group are the survivors of English and Scottish originals, found for the most part in the Child col- lection. Certain of those given in sections II to XVIII ielow could doubtless, iclth due effort, he identified in like manner. The King's Daughtek (Six Peetty Fair Maids, Pretty Polly), iv, 4a3b4-c3b, 9ca: Variants of Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, Child, No. 4. By a stratagem she drowns the lover just as he is about to drown her. Pretty Polly, iv, 4aabb, 9ca: Parallel in general plot to the above, save that she is led by the lover to an open grave and there slain. (Cf. 5, page 28.) Fair Ellender, 4a3b4c3b, 10: A variant of the Earl Brand cycle. Child, No. 7. Lord of Old Country, 4aa, with refrain as below, lOca : A variant of The Two Sisters, Child, No. 10. The miller was hung upon Fish-gate, Bosodown, The miller was hung upon Fish-gate, (These sons were sent to me) The miller was hung upon Fish-gate For drowning of my sister Kate ! I'll be true, true to my true-love. If my love'll be true to me. The Eope and the Gallows (Lord Eandal), 4aa, 12ca: A variant of Lord Eandal, Child, No. 12. Edward. 4a3b4c3b, 10 : A variant of the Old World ballad of the same name, Child, No. 13. The Greenwood Side (Three Little Babes), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9 : Variants of The Cruel Mother, Child, No. 20. Little Willie, 4a3b4c3b, 5 : A variant of The Two Brothers, Child, No. 49. Lord Bateman (The Turkish Lady), ii, 4abcb, 17ca: Variants of Young Beichan, Child, No. 53. 8 Loving Henet (Sweet William and Fair Bllbnder), iii, 4a3b4c3b, Ilea: Variants of Young Hunting, Child^ No. 68. Lord Thomas and Fair Bllender, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 17ca : Variants of Lord Thomas and Fair Elinor, Child, 'No. 73. Fair Margaret and Sweet William, iv, 4a3b4c3b, 15ca: Variants of the Old World ballad of the same name, Child, N"o. 74. (Published by Combs in Jour. Am. Folk- lore, 23.381.) Lord Lovely, 4a3h4c3b, 9 : A variant of Lord Level, Child, Ko. 75. Cold Winter's Night (Bosom Friend, Lover's Fare- well), vii, 4a3b4c3b, 9ca: Variants of The Lass of Loch Eoyal, Child, No. 76. (Published by Shearin, Mod. Lang. Eeview, Oct., 1911, p. 514.) Lord Vanner's (Daniel's) Wife, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 17ca: Variants of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, Child, No. 81. Barbara Allen, vi, 4a3b4c3b, Ilea: Variants of Barbara Allen's Cruelty, Child, No. 84. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, 4a3b4c3b, 12: A variant of the Old World ballad of the same name, Child, No. 105, The Jew's Daughter, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Variants of Sir Hugh, Child, No. 155. One of the Kentucky versions makes the murdered boy's mother go seeking him switch in hand, to punish him for not returning home before night- fall. (Communicated by Dr. Katherine Jackson.) The House Carpenter, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 13ca: Variants of The Demon Lover, Child, No. 243. Dandoo: a fragmentary variant of The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin, Child, No. 377, as follows : He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, Dandoo ; He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, Clima cli clash to ma clingo. He put the sheepskin to his wife's back And he made the old switch go whickity-whack, Then rarum scarum skimble arum Skitty-wink skatty-wink Clima eli clash to ma clingo. The Green Willow Teee, metre as below, 11: A variant of The Golden Vanitee, Child, No. 286. There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee, From down in the lonesome Lowlands low — There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee, And she went by the name of the Green Willow Tree, And she sailed from the Lowlands low. * The Deivee Boy (Young Edwin), 4a3b4c3b, 12: The above adapted to a recital of Emily's love for the mail- driver boy and of his untimely murder. Peetty Peggy 0, metre as below, 6 : A fine lilting lyric of the Captain's love for his lass; his farewell; and his death. It begins : As we marched down to Pernario, As we marched down to Fernario, Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove. And they called her by name Pretty Peggy, 0. (Cf. Child, No. 299, Trooper and Maid. Published by Shearin, Sewanee Eeview, July, 1911, p. 326.) Lady Gay, 4a3b4c3b, 9 : An English woman sends her three children to America. They die on board ship, their shades return to the mother at Christmas and warn her against pride. (Cf. Child, No. 79, The Wife of Usher's Well, and a close variant from North Carolina in Kittredge's Edition, p. 170.) Jackaeo, iv, 3abcb, 17ca: The daughter of a London silk merchant loves Jack, the sailor-boy, against her father's will. Disguised as a man, she follows him to "the wars of Germany," finds him wounded on the battle-field, and nurses him back to health; then they are married. (Cf. Child, 1857 ed., iv, p. 328, The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow, 4abaJb, 65 : Maudlin disguised as a seaman follows her lover to Padua; they are married, and return to England.) 10 The Pan, ii, 4abcb, 12 : A sea-captain and a lieutenant woo a lady. To test their love she throws her fan into a den of lions. The sea-captain recovers it and wins her. (Published by Shearin, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26. 113; for British originals see Belden, Sewanee Eeview, April, 1911, p. 218, and Kit- tredge. Mod. Lang. Notes, 26. 168.) The Appeentice Boy, iii, 4abcb, 12ca: Like Keats's Isabella, the daughter of a merchant in a post-town loves her father's apprentice. He is slain by her brothers and his body hidden in a valley. His ghost reveals the murderers, who, striving to flee, are lost at sea. (Identified by Belden with an English version. The Constant Parmer's Son, in The Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p. 222.) IL The songs in this group are apparently of British origin. Material has not been at hand to justify an attempt to estab- lish their identity. The Eich Maegent [Merchant] , 2abcb, 12 : Dinah, daughter of a rich London merchant, loves Pelix contrary to her father's wishes. Going into the garden she drinks poison. Pelix arrives and drains the rest of the potion. Both are buried in one grave. Beneath the Aech of London Beidge, 4a3b4c3b and 4aaaa, Sea: Here a man, whose son has recently died, finds a waif. Struck by his resemblance to his own heir, he adopts ,\he orphan boy. Jack Wilson, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9 : The confession of Jack Wilson, a Thames boatman, awaiting execution in Newgate prison for robbery done in Katherine Street, and his denun- ciation of the "false deluding girl" for whose sake he had done the wrong. The Old Woman of London, 3abcb, 6 : She causes her husband to suck two magic marrowbones, which blind him; then leading him to the river, she essays to push him in to drown. But he steps aside, and she dies in his stead. The refrain is : Sing tidri-i-odre-erdri-um, Sing f ol-de-Tfi-o-day ! 11 The Golden Glove^ ii, 4aabb, 9 : A mariner's daughter, about to be married to a young squire of London, feigns ill- ness, goes a-hunting on the estate of her favored lover, a farmer, intentionally drops her glove, and vows she will marry only the man who can return it. Of course, the farmer is the lucky finder. Shearfield, 3abcb, 15 : An apprentice in Sheffield re- cites his running away to London, where he enters the service of an Irish Lady, who falls in love with him. He, however, cares only for Polly Girl, her maid. His jealous mistress, by a stratagem, causes him to be hanged for theft. Fair Notamon [Nottingham] Town, 4aabb, 7: An absurd recital, full of obvious contradictions, of a country- man's visit to the city, where he sees the royal progress: I called for a quart to drive gladness away To stifle the dust — it had rained the whole day. Lovely Caroline of Old Bdinboko (Eddingsbukg Town), ii, 3abcb, 9 : She weds young Henry, "a Highland man," and goes with him to London. Deserted by him, she wanders forlorn to a, sea-clifE and plunges in, to drown. Who'll be King but Charlie ?, metre as below, 3 : A rally-song upon the landing of Charles Stuart, The Young Pretender, at Moidart, in Inverness-shire, July, 1745, be- ginning : There's news from Mordart came yestreen. Will soon yastremony (sic) ferly. For ships o'er all have just come in And landed royal Charlie. (Published by Shearin, Sewanee Eeview, July, 1911, p. 323.) Cubeck's [Cupid's] Garden, 3abcb, 16: The poet overhears a lady and her father's apprentice a-courting in '"'Cubeck's Garden." The angry parent banishes the lad, who goes to sea, is promoted, draws forty thousand pounds in a lottery, returns and marries his fair love. William Hall, ii, 4abcb, Ilea: He is a young farmer 13 of "Domesse-town" and loves a "gay young lady" of "Per- shelvy-town" against her parents' wishes. Banished by them to sea, he returns, finds by a ruse that the lady is yet faith- ful, and marries her. EosANNA, 4aabb, 6ca (fragmentary) : Silimentary, the lover, bids Eosanna farewell, and is later lost at sea; at the news she stabs herself with a silver dagger. Mart of the Wild Moor, 3ab4e3b, 8 : She, with her babe, returns one winter night to her father's door to seek forgiveness and protection, is rebuffed by him, and perishes in the snow. Betsy Brown, 4aabb, 8: John loves Betsy, the wait- ing-maid; his old mother objects and packs her off across the sea. He dies of grief. The Eomish Lady, 6aabb (or 3abcb), 13 (or 24) : "Brought up in popery," she obtains a Bible and turns Prot- estant, is tried before the Pope, is condemned, bids farewell to mother, father, and tormentors, and is burned at the stake. III. TJie songs of this group are connected more or less closely with American colonial times. For most of them it is fair to infer a British origin. [To America], ii, 4aabb, 8ca: An [English] sailor, bound for America to serve his King, is forgotten by his sweetheart. Eeturning to her father's hall, he finds her mar- ried, and vows to return to Oharlestown, where cannon-balls are flying. The Silk Merchant's Daughter, 2aa, 17: A Lon- don lad and his sweetheart set sail for America. The ship springs a leak, the passengers drift in a long-boat. Lot falls to the girl to be slain, her lover takes her place. A passing ship carries them back to London, and they are married. The Pretty Mohee (Maumee), iii, 4aabb, 7: An In- dian maid falls in love with a young adventurer and wooes him. He tells her he must return to his love across the sea. This he does, but dissatisfied returns to the "pretty Mohee." 13 Sweet Jane, 4a3b4c3b, 13 : Her lover sails for Amer- ica "to dig the golden ore," "loads up" his trunk with it, and after many trials reaches home, across the main, and re- claims his bride. IV. The songs of this group find their common bond in their reference to Ireland, where some of them undoubtedly had their origin. Irish Molly. 0, 6aabb and 6aa)bb( ?), 7 : A Scotch laddie, MaeDonald, falls in love with "Irish Molly." Scorned by her parents, he wanders about, signifying his intention to die for her, and suggests an appropriate inscription for his tombstone. (See an Old World variant in Brooke and EoUeston's Treasury of Irish Poetry, p. 15, Macmillan, 1905.) William Eilet, 6aabb, 7: Eloping with Polly Ann, he is brought back to trial by her irate father, is defended by an aged lawyer, is transported, and departs wearing the maid- en's ring. (See an Old World variant in the volume just named, p. 6.) EoviNG Irish Boy, 4a3b4c3b, 13: He lands in Phila- delphia and "makes a hit" with the ladies. Then he visits "other parts" — ^among the Dutch of Bucks County, he meets an inn-keeper's daughter, and leaves off rambling. The Waxford Girl, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A youth murders his sweetheart and throws her into a stream. He tells his mother, who sees the blood on his clothes, that his nose has been bleeding. He is haunted by the ghost of the dead girl (Of. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and Miller-boy, page 28.) Patty on the Canal, 3abcb and 3abcb, 9 : Pat lands in "Sweet Philadelphy" and soon "makes himself handy" on the canal, likewise among the girls, whose mothers become anxious. He is a "Jackson man up to the handle." Molly, 6aabb, 4 : An Irish lad comes to America, courts Molly, but against her parents' will. He goes to serve a for- eign king for seven years, returns, and finds that Molly has died of grief. I 14 Johnnie Came peom Sea, 6aa, 10: Irish Johnnie es- capes a shipwreck and lands in America. Thinking him pen- niless, a landlord refuses him his daughter's hand. Johnnie "draws out handfuls of gold" and departs, to drink "good brandy." Irish Giel, a fragment, as follows: So costly were the robes of silk The Irish girl did wear — Her hair was as black as a raven. Her eyes were black as a crow, Her cheeks were red as roses That in the garden grow. TJie songs of this group are hosed upon incidents or events of the Civil War. Bounty Jumpeks, 3abcb, 9 : Sam Downey, a soldier, "jumps his bounty," and is apprehended in Baltimore. Ee- fusing to return the money, he is shot by the military au- lihorities. HiEAM HuBBEETj 3abcb, 9 : Hiram Hubbert is taken by the Eebels in the guerrilla warfare in the Cumberland Mountains, tried, tied to a tree and shot. He leaves a last letter of farewell to his family. The GuEREiLiA Man, 3a3b4c3b, 5 : A Southern soldier goes to Shelby County, Ky., and falls in love with a "Eebel girl," who loves him in spite of the opposition of her mother, and determines to follow him. MuRFEEESBOKO, 4-a3b4c3b, 7 : A Union soldier lies dy- ing on the battlefield. He sends to his mother and sweet- heart a message recounting his bravery^ Battle of Gettysburg (The Two Soldiers), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 13: Two comrades promise each other to bear messages, in the event of death to either of them on the field — one to a sweetheart, the other to a mother. The Blue and the Gray, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f4e and 15 4a3b4c3b3e4f 3e, 2 : A mother has lost two sons in gray, at Appomattox and at Chiekamauga. Her third has just died in blue at Santiago. Zollicoffer: A fragment as follows: Old Zollieoffer's dead, and the last word he said Was, "I'm going back South; they're a-gaining." If he wants to save his soul, he had better keep his hole, Or we'll land him in the happy land of Canaan. I'j: Going to Join the Army, 3abcb, 13 : A volun- teer's farewell to his sweetheart as he leaves for Pensaeola, her fears, and his promise to return. [Come All Ye Southern Soldiers], 3abeb, 8: A volunteer, aged sixteen, from Eastern Tennessee, describes the march into Virginia and his feelings at his first sight of the "Yankees." VI. The songs of this group relate to the days of pioneer migration Westward. The one exception is The Sailor's Re- quest, placed here in order to iring it into proximity with its later variant. The Dying Cowboy. Arkansas Traveller (Santford Barnes ^ ii, 4a3b- 4c3b, 14ca : A laborer's humorous recital of his hard expe- riences in Arkansas. He leaves the state, vowing that if he sees it again it will be "through a telescope from hell to Ar- kansaw." Starving to Death on a Government Claim, 4aa and 4aabb, 20 : "Ernest Smith" recites humorously his hard ex- periences as claim-holder in Beaver County, Oklahoma. He resolves to go to Kansas, marry, and "life on corn-dodgers the rest of his life." The Dying Covi^boy, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 6: A cow- boy, shot while gambling, laments his career and fate, gives warning to his comrades, sends a farewell to his family and sweetheart, and gives directions for his funeral. The Lone Prairie^ 4aabb, 10: A dying cowboy re- 16 quests that he be buried not on the lone prairie, but at home beneath the cotton-wood boughs, near his mother. His com- rades ignore his petition, (Cf. The Sailor's Eequest.) The Sailor's Request, 4aabb, 9 : A dying sailor re- quests that he be buried not at sea, but at home in the churchyard, near his father. His comrades ignore his peti- tion. (Cf. The Lone Prairie.) California Joe, 3abcb, 17: A prospector during the California gold-fever, in 1850, saves a girl of thirteen years from Indians, and gives her over to her uncle. Mat Jack Eey- nolds. Later, she almost shoots, by accident, her saviour, thinking him a Sioux. Polly, Mx Charmer, 4aa, 9 : An adventurous youth, on the point of going West, is detained by the charms of "Polly." Me wishes he were like Joshua, in order to prolong his moments with his love, by making the sun stand still. Jesse James, 2aa3b3cc3b and 2aa3b3cc3b, 4: A lyric concerning the .robbing of "the Danville train" and "the ISTorthfield raid"; the escape of Jesse and Frank James to the West, and Jesse's death at the hand of "Bob Ford." Handsome Flora, Sabcbdefe, 6 : Her lover, in prison for stabbing his rival, tells his yet constant devotion to the "Lily of the West," the "girl from Mexico." VII. The son^s of this group are of the "good-night" type, heing the meditations or confessions of criminals, while in prison and, usually, under sentence of death. MacAfee's Confession (Betty Stout), ii, 4aabb, 17ca: Orphaned at five years of age and reared by his uncle, Mac- Afee becomes wayward; later he marries, but falls in love with Betty Stout, poisons his wife, and speaks this confession under sentence of death. Beauchamp's Confession, 4aabb, 7: Under sentence of death by Judge Davidge, for the murder of Sharpe (see VIII, end), Beauchamp pictures the meeting of himself and his victim in hell. 17 Jack Oombs's Death Song, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 3: Jack Combs, dying, tells of his murder by an unknown man, and gives directions for his burial rites. (Based upon The Dying Cowboy, page 15.) Tom Smith's Death Song, ii, 3a(ftis)4b3c and 3a,(Ms) 4b3e, 2 : The condemned man, standing on the scaffold, asks his friends not to lament his death, since he is leaving them in peace on earth. The Eich and Eambling Boy, iii, 4aabb, Sea: He marries a wife whose "maintenance" is so great that he is compelled to "rob on the broad highway." He is sent to Frankfort [Ky.] prison, but in this song he pictures his pardon and return home. [In Eowan County Jail], 3abcb, §: While here awaiting trial for robbery, the prisoner is visited by his sweetheart Lula, with "ten dollars in each hand," to "go on his bail." Last Night as I Lay Sleeping, 3abcb, 6 : A prisoner in the Knoxville [Tenn.J jail dreams of his home and sweet- heart, but is rudely awakened by the turnkey to hear his death-sentence passed. Edwaed Hawkins, 4abcb, 9ca: Under sentence of death for murder, he warns his comrades by his example, welcomes death bravely, and invites them to see his execu- tion twenty-eight days hence. EowDY Boys, metre as below, 5: A "rowdy" youth scorns his mother's warning, serves a term in the Frankfort State Prison for homicide, and comes back home still a "rowdy." The first stanza is: r I heard my mother talking; I took it all for fun. She said I would ride the Frankfort train, before I was twenty-one. ■ '~ ■ ■ 18 VIII. The songs of this group are epic; rather than, lyric as are those in VII, above. They are recitals of local tragedies — murders, assassinations, feudal battles, and disasters. The Causbj and Killing op Jesse Adams^ ii, 3abcb, 25 : A detailed recital of a domestic tragedy on the Brushy Fork of Blaine : Adams, overhearing his wife and her para- mour, shoots her and attempts suicide. Floyd Fraziee. 3abcb, 16 : A recital of Frazier's mur- der of Ellen Flannery: he hides her body under a pile of stones; later, is arrested, makes confession, and is placed in Pineville, Ky., jail to await execution. Talt Hall, ii, 3abcb, 8 : A recital of Hall's murder of Frank Salyers, his arrest in Tennessee, his confinement in the Gladeville, Va., jail, and his execution in Richmond, Va. William Baker, 3abcb, 13 : A recital of Baker's mur- der of one Prewitt in Clay County, Ky. : he hides the body in the woods and tells Prewitt's wife that her husband had deserted her. Poor Goens, 4aabb, 5 : A recital of the betrayal and murder of Goens for the purpose of robbery, on Black-spur Mountain. The Eowan Codnty Tragedy, ii, 3abcb, 26: A de- tailed account of a feudal battle in Morehead, Ky., on elec- tion day, and of the succeeding events connected with the arrest of the participants. John T. Parker, 4aabb, 13 : An account of the drown- ing of Parker in the Kentucky River one winter night, as, with three companions, he essays to cross, but their boat is capsized in the wash from the steamboat Blue Wings. [Jeems Braggs], 4a3b4c3b, 8: A protest against the Governor's pardon of Braggs, upon the eve of' his execution, for the murder of one Prewitt. The Assassination oe J. B. Marcum, 3aa6b3cc6b and 3aa6b3cc6b, 13: A detailed recital of the shooting of Mar- cum as he stood in the court-house door at Jackson, Ky., with 19 animadversions upon the identity of his slayers and an account of their various trials. Thb Irish Peddler, 4a3b4c3b, 7: An account of the murder of an old peddler and his wife, shot from ambush one June morning for the purpose of rifling their wagon. John Hardy, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 6 : An account of Hardjr's shooting a man in a poker game, of his arrest, trial, convic- tion, conversion and baptism, and of his execution and burial on the Tug Eiver. Jereboam Beauohamp, 3abcb, 33: A recital of the murder of Beauchamp done upon Solomon P. Sharpe, Attor- ney-General of Kentucky, at Frankfort in the winter of 1834. (Cf. William Gilmore Simms' novel of the same name, and see VII, 2.) IX. The songs of this group relate to various occwpaiional pursuits. Of course, many of those listed elsewhere could he placed here also. The Moonshiner, 4aa, 3: "For seventeen years I've made moonshine whiskey for one dollar per gallon, at my still in a dark hollow. I wish ^11 would attend to their busi- ness and leave me to mine. God bless the moonshiner!" Walking-boss, metre as below, 3: A teamster's song in couplets, with refrain, beginning: Get up in the morning 'way before day. Feed old Beck some corn and hay. Get up in the morning soon, soon; Get up in the morning soon. The Steel-driver, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 11 : John Henry, proud of his skill with sledge and hand-drill, competes with a mod- em steam-drill in Tunnel No. Nine, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Defeated, he dies, asking to be buried with his tools at his breast. EosiN THE Bow, Sabcb, 4: A lyric of an old fiddler buoyant even in the face of approaching death: he asks for wine and women at his funeral rites. 20 EosiN THE Bow : a fragment as follows : I'll tune up my fiddle, Fll rosin my bow, And make myself welcome wherever I go. The Old Shoemaker, 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 4: Lately become a freeman, with five pounds laid up, and half a side of leather, he sings of Kate, the woman to make his content complete. The Farmer's Boy, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9 : An orphan lad, he obtains employment from the farmer, later to marry his daughter and inherit thus the farm. Old Gray, 6aabb, 5 : Song of a teamster, who, lured by the still-house, hauls four loads of coal per day, instead of six; becoming drunk, he rides Old Gray oif to a country frolic one night, whither his father follows him, and brings him back to his duty in the morning. The Waggoner's Lad, ii, 2abcb (or 4aa), 15: A com- plaint, arranged as a debat, of a lorn and loving lass against the teamster lad, as he departs from her. Old Number Pour (The P. F. V., Stockyard Gate), ii, 6aabb; lOea: George Allen, engineer, stays at the throttle as train Number Four on the Chesapeake & Ohio Eailroad plunges into a fallen boulder near Hinton, W. Va., and bids his fireman jump to safety, while he himself dies a hero's death. [Railroad Boy], 4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b, 5: A maiden's song in scorn of all men save the railroad conductor, with his striped shirt, handsome face, and diamond ring. The Old IIiller, 4aabb, 7: Dying, he questions his sons in order to choose one of them as his successor in the mill. Dick will take a peck as toll from each bushel; Ealph will take half; Paul will take all. But his wife assumes di- rection at his death. Lynchburg Town, 4a3b4c3b, 3: A teamster's song as he takes his tobacco to the Lynchburg (Va.) market. 21 X. The songs of this group are of partisan or sectional character. Kaintucky Boys, 4abab and 4ab, 5. A debat between a Virginia lad and the Kentucky maiden whom he comes to woo. She scorns lands and money, and lauds the superior manliness of the Kentucky lads. Buckskin Boys, 4abab, 9: The above adapted to the praises of the "boys" of Owsley County (Ky.). GoEBEL AND Tayloe, 4a3b4c3d, 3 : Composed soon after the assassination of Wm. Goebel, the Democratic contestant for the Governorship of Kentucky in 1900: He is lauded, while Taylor, his opponent, is condemned as a demagogue and conspirator, who "ought to be in purgatory or some other unhealthy spot." James A. Garfield: A fragment, as follows: Mr. James A. Garfield is dead. Oh, Mr. James A. Garfield is dead. I will weep like a willow, And I'll mourn like a dove; Mr. James A. Garfield is dead. XI. Here are grouped songs whose main theme is love, sub- divided as below. Many are hardly "popular" in the strict sense: though current among the folk, they differ from the true folk-song, or "song-ballet." On the other hand, many bear a striking resemblance to certain of those listed in I and II, above. 1. Songs* of Constant Love. AvoNiA (Red Rivee Valley), ii,4a3b4c3b and 4a3b4c3b 4 : A constant lover's song of farewell to Helen, as she leaves the vale of Avonia. Baenby and Kate, 4abab, 6: Barney, maudlin with drink, comes one winter's night to Kate's window and im- 23 plores her to admit him. She sends him packing. He goes away whistling, rejoicing in her chastity. Kitty Wells, 4ababcdcd and 3abab, 3. Her lover's la- ment upon her death. The refrain is: ■"While the birds they were singing in the morning, And the ivy and the myrtle were in bloom, The sun on the hill-top was dawning. It was then we laid her in the tomb. KoEA O'Neil, 4a3b4a3b, 5: Her lover's invitation to N'ora to meet him "at the foot of the lane" when the night- ingale sings in the dusk. SvTEET Birds, ii, 4a3b4a3b and 5aa, 6 : A maiden's song of longing for her absent lover: she asks the birds to bear her message of devotion to him and to bring him back secure in his affection for her. [CoNSTASTT Johnny], 4aa, 14: A maiden sings her de- votion to her absent sailor lover. He returns and they are married. LoELA, 4aabb, 2: A lover's elegy over the grave of Lorla beneath the elm, as he recalls the golden willow under which they once sat on violet banks. Lonesome Dove, 4a3b4c3b, 5 : A constant husiband sings his resolve to return like a lonesome dove to his wife and children in "Californy." Lonesome Dove, 4aabb, 8: The singing of a dove be- reft of its mate reminds a constant husband of his Mary, recently dead of consumption. Pretty Sabo, iii, 4aabb and 4aabb, 6ca : Her absent lover sings of his devotion, wishing he were a priest and knew how to write to her, or a dove to fly to her. Come, All Ye Jolly Boatsman Boys, 7aabb, 5: A ribald song of a sailor to his amorata by night, and the birth of the child nine months later. A Package op Old Letters, ii, 8aa, 11: A dying maiden bids her sister bring them from their rosewood casket to read them to her again, and asks that at her death they be buried with her. 33 Jack and Mamie, 6aabb and 4aaa3a, 4: Jack plunges into the water to recover the hat of his girl sweetheart, Mamie. Jack, the man, leaves her for a long voyage, and his ship never returned. Sweet Summer Evening, 4abcb, 7 : The poet one sum- mer evening overhears a mother chide her daughter for her devotion to her roving sailor lover, who soons appears and bids her an affectionate farewell. Wait foe the Wagon, Sabcbdefe and 4a("), 4a3b4c3b, 2: She is mur- dered on the bank of a river, by her lover, who, intoxicated with Burgundy wine, is persuaded by his father's promise of money, to slay her. Note. — Amid the flotsam and jetsam of popular parlor- songs everywhere current the following have come to hand. They are hardly worth preserving, even ly title, save for the fact that in spite of their pseudo-literary tang they are fellow travelers by oral tradition with the true folk-songs and song-ballads. The list is : The Old, Old Love is Growing Still; There's a Spark of Love Still Burning; I'll Kemember You, Love, in 29 My Prayers; The White Kose; I'll Love Thee Always; Jack and Mary; Willie and Kate; Won't You Ever Come Again?; Fond Affection; Will You Love Me When I'm Old?; Nell and I had Quarrels; Tell M:e Why You've Grown so Cold?; I Want to be Somebody's Darling ; By the Gate ; The Broken Engage- ment ; Say You'll be Mine in a Year ; I Cannot be Your Sweet- heart ; Kiss Me Again ; Just Going Down to the Gate ; Darling, We have Long been Parted; Our Hands are Clasped; Only Flirting; I Loved You Better than You Knew; Mollie Dar- ling ; The Jealous Girl ; The Independent Girl ; Willie, Come Back; Free Again; The Hawthorn Tree; The Sailor Lad; I'll be All Smiles Tonight; Love, I've been Faithful; Mag- gie's Secret ; I Bather Think I Will ; Little Sweetheart ; Meet Me in the Moonlight; He's Got Money, Too; After the Ball; Sweet Bunch of Daisies; In the Shadow of the Pines; On the Banks of the Wabash; Mary has Gone with a "Coon." XII. This group contains tivo-part songs, arranged dialogue- fashion, like a debat or a tenson. All contain love-themes, as in XI above. In spite of the obvious logical cross-division, it has seemed well to print them as a separate section. I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, ii, 4aab3b, 13 : The lover offers the maiden in alternate quatrains various gifts to induce her to marry him. She replies in alternate quat- rains, refusing him. Finally, he offers "the key of his chest." She accepts, but he scorns her mercenary love. Madam, I've A-courtin(j Come, 4a3b4c3b, 7: The lover in the first three quatrains offers his various forms of wealth to induce the lady to marry him. She refuses in the fifth stanza his mercenary love. He makes reply in the sixth and she in the seventh- Two Letters, ii, 3abcb, 13: The first four quatrains constitute the letter from Charley Brooks to Nelly Adair, ask- ing for the return of his presents to her, since his love for her has grown cold. The last nine are her reply, acquiescing with a sad dignity. 30 [Stony Hill], 4a3b4e3b, 3: Bach quatrain contains, in couplets respectively, question and reply of lover and sweet- heart, who is "sixteen next Sunday" and has to "ask her mammy." Stella, 4a3b4c3b, 14: A dialogue between Alfred, a volunteer at his eoimtry's call, to Stella, his sweetheart. The ■Waggoner's Lad: See Section IX. Kaintucky Boys : See Section X. • Buckskin Boys : See Section X. XIII. This group consists of humorous songs. Certain ones resemble modern songs of the vaudeville, and such they probably were. Grandmother's Mustard ^Plaster, 4aabb, Tea: The story of a plaster that drew the buttons from a vest, axles from a wagon, a street car forty miles, jerked a "Chinee's" boot off and pulled his leg at the "opium jint," mashed a "cop's" hat down, drew a wagon over town, stuck on a pas- senger train, drew it to Washington, where it remained — stuck on politics. Boy and Bumble-bee, 4a3b4e3b( ?), 5 : An urchin puts a bumble-bee in his pistol pocket and goes fishing. He sits down, the bee turns the trick, and "spoils the urchin's dis- position." Kate and the Clothier, 4aabb, 8ca: A jilted maiden disguises herself in "an old cowhide with crooked horns," and seizes her clothier-lover in a "lonesome field." Thinking her to be the Devil, he renounces the lawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate. Seymore Wilson^ 3a3b4c3b, 8ca : He is a gawky, love- sick youth. He goes a-courting on Potriffle, but finding a rival sitting on the "calico-side" returns to his plowing, weeps, then becomes cheerful ia his resolve to wait for an- other girl. Billy Boy^ ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about his wife: she is "too young to leave her mam- 31 my/' can "bake a cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as ^raight as a pumpkin-vine," is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on. [The Preacher and the Bear], a chant of the 4a3b4c3b type, 7ca: He goes hunting a-Sunday, meets a grizzly bear, climbs a tree, and prays a humorous prayer for help. The limb breaks ; he falls, but escapes. [Love is Such a Funny Thing], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b, 9: It causes empty pockets, second-hand clothing, collectors, and even brings the "iDald-headed end of the broom" into play : a husband's soliloquy. [The Married Man], 4aa, 5: A married man's woes: children on his knees, bad clothing, "seeping" shoes — while the single man suffers none of these things. Devilish Mart, 4a3b4c3b, 5 : A hen-pecked husband's lament: he wooes and marries the termagant within three days — then follows trouble. She "mashes his mouth with a shovel," bundles up her "duds", and leaves him within three weeks. I Won't Marry at All, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3 : I won't marry a rich man because he will drink and fall in the ditch ; a poor man, for he will go begging ; a fat man, for he will do nothing but "nurse" the cat. Poor Old Maid, metre as below, o : She laments her virginity ; Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue — Poor old maid ! Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue, I'm just as sweet as the morning dew. And to a husband I'd stick like glue — Poor old maid! I Wish I was Single Again, metre as below, 5 : A married man's repentance : his first wife died — I married me another, then, then; I married me another then; I married me another, the Devil's grandmother, And I wish I was single again. 33 Joe Bowers, 3abob, 10 : He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike County, Missouri, and goes to "Eome," Cali- fornia, to make a home for her. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she had married a red- headed butcher and that their baby had red hair. A Pound of Tow, Sabcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has since become a gad-about and a gossip. XIV. The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may he called sentimental. The Blind Child, iii, 4a3b4c3b, Ilea: She deplores her father's second marriage, kneels to say her evening pray- ers, and dies. She is buried by the side of her mother. The Dying Nun, 4abcb, 13: To Sister Martha, her nurse, Sister Clara tells her youthful waywardness toward her parents and recalls her early love for Douglas, and dies. The Ship that JSTeveb Eetuened, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, G : The vanity of human wishes : a feeble lad kissing his mother good-bye as he sets sail to seek health in a foreign climate; a gallant seaman kissing his wife good-bye as he sets sail to seek their fortune across the seas — but the ship of either never returned. I Have no Mother Now, 3abab, 9: An orphan's la- ment, with a vision of the mother's grave, etc. The Orphan Girl, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Eefused shelter at the door of a rich man one wintry night, she dies before it in the snow. Phantom Footsteps, 4ababcclcd and 4abab, 3 : A mother's night-yearning for" her dead child. [The Wayward Girl], 4:aa6b4ccGb4dd6e4ff6e and 4ab3cc4bde3ff4e, 3: One year after leaving her home in wayward love, her father writes her of her mother's death and forgives her, but she refuses to return. 33 Old Man's Trouble, 4aa5b4cc5b and 4aa5b4cc5b, 3 : A meditation upon the sadness of old age and a warning to the young against their own days of poverty and senile helpless- ness. In the Baggage-coach Ahead, iii, 4a3b4e3b4d3e4f3e- 4g3h4i3h and 4aabb, 2 : A crying child brings to its sad- eyed father remonstrances from sleepy passengers until they are told that the dead mother is in the basreage-coach ahead. [Sweet Memory of Dear Mother], Sabcbdefe and 3abcbdefe, 3 : A child's loving reminiscence. Little Maudia, 4abcb, 6 : A dying girl's farewell lo her mother. Old Church-yard, 4abcb, 7 : A forlorn orphan's medi- tation upon her mother's grave. * XV. The songs, of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may he called moralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection. [The Black Sheep], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b- 4d3e4f 3e, 6 : Jack and Tom prevail upon their rich and aged father to send away their brother Fred as a "black sheep." Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to send the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from this disgrace. [Nothing to be Madb; by Eoving], 3abcb, 2 : Dissipa- tion brings discontent at last. Two Drummers, 6aabbccdd and 6aabb, 2: In a "grand hotel" they speak slightingly to a pretty waitress. She re- bukes them, making appeal to their regard for their mothers. They apologize to her and one of them marries her. The Drunkard's Dream, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9 : A vision of his dead wife and children turns him from strong drink for- ever after. Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f 3e and 3a3b4c3b, 3 : The little daughter begs 34 her father to come home from the grog-shop before her little brother dies. The clock tolls twelve, one, two, three — and when finally she leads him home, the boy is dead. A Drifter Eescued^ 4abeb, 10 : The turbulent journey of a ship-wrecked soul: near the brink of destruction the reckless man finds a redeemer in the Savior. The "Wandering Boy, 4aabb and 4abec, 4 : A mother's wail for her wayward son: she points out the vacant chair, cradle, and shoes of his innocent babyhood. XVI. This group contains sequence-songs, or numier-songs, like the popular German Zaehllieder, though not all are nec- essarily sung, tut rather are spolcen. The first one lelow would seem to he ahin to the various cabala of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania. [Twelve Apostles], as follows: Twelve, twelve apostles. Eleven, eleven, I went to heaven. Ten, ten, commandments, Nine bright lights a-shining. Eight Gabel TGabriel?] angels, Seven stars a-hanging high. Six, six go acymord. Five all alone abroard. Pour scorn in Wackford, Three of them are drivers. Two of them are little lost babes. Oh, my dear Savior, One, one is left alone, One to be left alone. Club-fist: A series of questions and answers concern- ing the fire, water, ox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, etc. — each of which terms is destructive of the preceding one. (Spoken.) John Brown's Little Indians: An enumeration of 35 his "Indians" from unity upward, and thence back to unity again. The "Unlucky Young Man, ii, 4aa and 4aaa3b, 13ca: He exchanges oxen for a cow, the cow for a calf, the calf for a dog, the dog for a cat, the cat for a rat, the rat for a mouse, which "took fire to her tail and burned down the house." Old Sam Suck-egg, ii, 2aa, 10 : He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and this for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line, until he has lost all. (Spoken.) [I Bought Me a Horse], 4aa and cumulative refrain of animal cries: In each couplet a new purchase of some common animal or fowl is made, while each succeeding re- frain gathers up cumulative-fashion the cries made by each succeeding addition to the collection. One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 2aa, 10: A se- quence of riming half-lines, each containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.) XVII. This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, "frolichings," and movement-games of Kentucky. Chaelie, ii, 4a3b4e3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie, the dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc. Bluebird, ii: A rythmical, rimeless, endless improvi- sation, in which are woven the "calls" of the dance, begin- ning: Yonder goes the bluebird through the window Down in Tennessee. The Eaileoad, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally different, beginning: Out on the railroad, Jubilee, Waiting for my darling, Jubilee. 36 The Boatman, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning: Here she sits in her sad station. Long Summer Day, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning: Skate around the ocean. In a long summer day. A-MOANiNG AND Geoanino, ii : In general form and function like the above, beginning : A-moaning and groaning. And that shall be the cry. Marching Eound the Levy [Lady ?] : In general form and function like the above, beginning : We're marching round the levy. For we have gained the day. Going to Boston: In general form and function like the above, beginning: Now v/e'll promenade, one, two, three. So early in the morning. Here Come Two Dukes A-roving, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless improvisation for the men and women of the dance, alternately — beginning : Here comes two dukes a-roving, With a high-o-ransom-day. Skip to My Lou, ii : A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance "calls," beginning: Steal your partner, skip to my lou. Skip to my lou, my darling. FoL DoL Sol, 4a3b4c3b, Sea : One quatrain is : If you love me as I love you. We have not long to tarry; We'll keep the old folks fixing up For you and me to marry. 37 Geeen Grows the Willow^ 4aaaa, 4ca: One quat- rain is: Green grow the rashes 0, Green grow the rashes 0, Kiss her quick and let her go, For yonder comes her mammy 0. The Jolly Miller, iii, metre as follows, 2: Jolly is the miller that lives by the mill. The wheel goes round with a right good will, One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack — The boys step forward and the girls step back. Sister Phoebe, 4aab, 2: It begins: Old sister Phoebe, how happy were we The night we sat under the juniper tree. The juniper tree, heigh ho, heigh ho. Needle's Bye, as follows: Needle's eye that doth supply The thread that runs so true; Many a beau have I let go Because I wanted you. Green Gravel, 4aabb, 4ca : It begins : Green gravel, green gravel, the grass is so green; You're the prettiest maiden that ever was seen. [Old Quebec], ii, 4a3b4c3b, 3ca: It begins: We're marching down to Old Quebec, Where the fifes and drums are beating; America has gained the day And the British are retreating. [Sister Frankie], 3abcb and Sabcb, 3 : The refrain is : Twice one is two And one and two is three; Dance around the maypole Just like me. 38 Buffalo, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 2 : It begins : Come along, my dearest dear, Present to me your hand ; We are roaming in succession To some far and distant land. Bouquet Patch (Pawpaw Patch), ii: An endless, rimeless improvisation, beginning: Where, oh where, is pretty little Mary? Way down yonder in the bouquet patch. Go In and Out at the Window : An endless, rimeless improvisation containing the dance calls in order. XVIII. This group contains paralipomena which iaffle individ- ual description. It embraces counting-out rimes, jigs, lul- labies, child-rimes, nonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical, and usually rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. The following list is an attempt to name them: Cluck, Old Hen; Prog in the Meadow; Old as Moses; When I was a Little Boy ; Sugar in the Gourd ; I'll Build My Nest in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker; Possum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater ; Chickamy Corney- crow; William Trimmel Tram; Shidepoke and Crane; Johnny's out on Picking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog; Tarry; Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I'm Hungry; Gray Goose; Needle and Thread ; It Eained so Hard ; I'll Never get Drunk Any- more; Eock Island; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Some- times Drunk and Sometimes Sober; Apples in the Summer- time; Coony has a Eingy Tail; I Went Down Town; Sally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Eabbit Walked; Shoo, Old Lady, Shine!; Hook and Line; Day I'm Gone; Churn Your Buttermilk; Kalamazine; Hang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara Jane; Whickum-whack ; Up 39 to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had an Old Mare; To Eowser's; Eoll the Old Chariot Along; Shady- Grove; Whangho; Cripple Creek. 40 INDEX After the Ball 29 All on the Banks of Clauda. . 24 A-moaning and Groaning ... 33 Annie and "Willie 27 Annie Willow 27 Apples in the Summer-time, 3S Apprentice Boy, The 10 Arkansas Traveller 15 Assassination of J. B. Mar- cura, The 18 Auxville Love, The 24 Avonia 21 Awful "Wedding, The 25 Bailiff's Daughter of Isl- ington, The ? Barbara Allen 8 Barney and Kate 21 Battle of Gettysburg 14 Beauchamp's Confession 16 [Bedroom "Window] 23 Beefsteak "When I'm Hungry, 38 Beneath the Arch of Lon- don Bridge 10 Betsy Brown 12 Betty Stout Ifi Billy Boy 30 [Black Sheep, The] 33 Blind Child, The 32 Blue and the Gray, The 14 Bluebird 35 Boatman, The 36 Bosom Friend S Bounty Jumpers 14 Bouquet Patch 38 Boy and Bumble-bee 30 Broken Engagement, The. . . 29 Buckskin Boys 21, 30 Buffalo 38 Butcher's Boy, The 24 By the Gate 29 By-o Baby Bunting 3S California Joe 16 Can Tou then Love An- other? 25 Cause and Killing of Jesse Adams, The IS Charlie 35 Chickamy Comey-crow 38 Churn Tour Buttermilk 38 Club-fist 34 Cluck, Old Hen 38 Cold, Dark Scenes of "Win- ter, The 25 Cold "Winter's Night 8 Come a- High Jim Along 39 Come, All Te Jolly Boats- man Boys 22 [Come, AU To Southern Soldiers] 15 [Constant Johnny] 22 Coon-dog 38 Coony has a Ringy Tail 38 Cripple Creek 39 Cubeck's Garden 11 Cuckoo 24 Dandoo 8 Darling, "We have Long been Parted 28 Day I'm Gone 38 Devilish Mary 31 Drifter Rescued, A ?i Driver Boy, The 9 Drunkard's Dream, The 33 Dying Cowboy, The 15 Dying Girl's Message, The. . . 25 Dying Nun, The 32 Eddingsburg To-wn 11 Edward 7 Edward Hawkins 17 [Ephraim and L'acy] 23 P. P. v.. The 20 Fair Ella 28 Fair Ellender 7 Pair Margaret and Sweet "William 8 Fair Notamon Town 11 Pan, The 10 Parmer's Boy, The 20 Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now 33 Floella 28 Florella 2S Ployd Prazier IS Fol Dol Sol 3S, Pond Affection 29 Free Again 29 Frisky Jim 38 Prog in the Meadow 3S 41 Go In and Out at the Win- dow 3S Goobel and Taylor 21 Going to Boston 36 Golden Glove, The 11 Grandmother's Mustard Plaster 30 Granny, Will Tour Dog Bite? 38 Gray Goose 38 Green. Gravel 37 Green Grows the WUiow 37 Grean Willow Tree, The 9 Greenbriar Shore 27 Greenwood Side, The 7 Ground-hog 38 Guerrilla Man, The 14 Had an Old Mare 39 Handsome Flora IG Hang Down Your Head 3S Hang Down Your Head and Cry 25 Hawthorn Ttee, The 29 Here Come Two Dukes A- roving 36 He's Got Money, Too 29 Hiram Hubbert H Hook and Line 38 House Carpenter, The S [I Bought Me a Horse] 35 I Cannot be Your Sweet- heart 29 I Feel 38 I have Finished Him a. Letter 25 I Have no Mother Now 33 I Loved You Better than You Knew 28 I Rather Think I Will 29 I Used to Love 24 I Want to be Somebody's Darling 29 I Went Down Town 38 I Wish I was Single Again.. 31 I Won't Marry at All 31 If I had Minded Mamma 24 I'll be All Smiles Tonight... 29 I'll Build My Nest in a Tree, 38 I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins 29 I'll Hang My Harp on a Wil- low tree 23 I'll Love Thee Always 29 I'll Never get Drunk Any- more 38 I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers 28 I'm Going to Join the Army, 15 I'm Scorned for being Poor, 26 [In Rowan County Jail] 17 In tho Baggage-coach Ahead 33 In the Shadow of the Pines. . 29 Independent Girl, The 2"j Irish Girl 14 Irish Molly O 13 Irish Peddler, The 19 It Rained so Hard 38 Jack and Joe 24 Jack and Mamie 23 Jack and Mary 29 Jack Combs's Death Song.. 17 Jack Wilson 10 Jackaro 9 James A. Garfield 21 Jealous Girl, The 29 Jealous Lover 28 [Jeems Braggs] 18 Jereboam Beauchamp 19 Jesse James 16 Jew's Daughter, The 8 Joe Bowers 32 Joe Hardy 27 John Brown's Little Indians, 34 .John Hardy 19 John Riley 27 John T. Parker IS Johnnie Came from Sea 14 Johnny Doyle 27 Johnny's out on Picking. ... 38 Jolly Miller, The 37 Just Going Down to the Gate 29 Kaintucky Boys 21, 30 Kalamazine 38 Kate and the Clothier 30 King's Daughter, The 7 Kiss Me Again 29 Kitty Wells 32 Lady Gay 9 Last Night as I Lay Sleeping, 17 Little Anr.a 38 Little Maudia , 3.^ Little Nellie 26 Little Omy Wise 28 Little Sparrow 25 Little Sweetheart 29 Little Willie 7 Lone Prairie, The 15 Lonesome Dove 23 Lonesome Dove 32 Long Summer Day 36 Lord Bateman 1 43 Lord Lovely 8 Lord of Old Country 7 I^rd Randal 7 Lord Thomas and Fair El- lender 8 Lord Vanner's (Daniel's) Wife S Lorla 22 [Love Is Such a Funny Thing] 31 Love, I've been Faithful 26 Lovely Caroline of Old Edinboro 11 Lovely Julia 2,7 Lovely Nancy 23 Lovely Nancy 26 Lover's Farewell 8 Loving Hanner 26 Loving Henry 8 Lynchburg Town 20 MacAfee's Confession 16 Madam, I've A-courting Come 28 [Maggie] 26 Maggie's Secret 29 Marching Round the Levy. . 33 [Married Man, The] 31 Mary has Gone with a "Coon" 29 Mary of the Wild Moor 12 Meet Me in the Moonlight... 29 Miller-boy 28 Mollie Darling 29 Molly 13 Moonshiner, The 19 Murfreesboro 14 My Bonnie Little Girl 26 Nancy Till 23 Needle and Thread 38 Needle's Bye 37 Nell a.nd I had Quarrels 29 Nora O'Neil 22 [NotTiing to be Made by Roving] 33 Old as Moses 38 Old Church-yard 33 Old Dad 33 Old Dan Tucker 33 Old Gray 20 Old Man's Trouble 3? Old Miller, The 20 Old Number Four 20 Old, Old Love is Growing Still, The 23 [Old Quebec] 37 Old Sam Simons 38 Old Sam Suck-egg 35 Old Shoemaker, The 20 Old Woman of London, The 10 On the Banks of the Wa- bash 29 One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe 35 Only Flirting 29 Orphan Girl, The 32 Our Hands are Clasped 29 Package of Old Letters, A.. 22 Pale Amaranthus, The 21 Patty on the Canal 13 Pawpaw Patch 38 Peter Punkin-eater 38 Phantom Footsteps 32 Polly, My Charmer IG Polly Vaughn 28 Poor Goens 18 Poor Old Maid 31 Poor Strange Girl, A 25 Possum up a, Gum-stump... 3>' Pound of Tow, A 33 [Preacher and the Bear, The] 31 Pretty Mohee (Maumee), The 12 Pretty Peggy O 9 Pretty Polly 7 Pretty Polly 7 Pretty Polly 25 Pretty Polly ?7 Pretty Saro 22 Rabbit Walked 38 Railroad, The 35 [Railroad Boy] 20 Red River Valley 21 Regret, A 26 Rich and Rambling Roy, The 17 Rich Margeut, The 10 Rock Island 38 Roll the Old Chariot Along, 39 Romish Lady, The 12 Rope and the Gallows, The.. 7 Rosanna 2 '2 Rose Colalee fColleen?) 28 Rosin the Bow 19 Rosin the Bow 20 Roving Irish Bov 13 Rowan County Tragedy, The 18 Rowdy Boys 17 Sailor Lad, The 29 Sailor Lover, The 27 Sailor's Request, The 16 43 Sally in the Garden 38 Santford Barnes 15 Sara Jane 38 Say You'll be Mine in a. Year 29 Seymore Wilson 30 Shady Grove 39 Shearfield 11 [She was Happy till She Met You] 23 Shidepoke and Crane 38 Ship that Never Returned, the 32 Shoo, Old Lady, Shine 38 Shoot Your Dice 38 Show Me the Way to Go Home 38 Silk Merchant's Daughter, Tho 12 Single Soldier, The 27 [Sister Prankie] 37 Sister Phoebe 37 Siic Pretty Fair Maids 7 Skip to My Dou 3S Sometimes Drunk and Some- times Sober 38 Sourwood Mountain 38 Squire, Ihe ,. 26 Starving tc Death on a Gov- ernment Claim 15 Stcel-drijer, The 19 Stella 30 Stockyard Gate 20 [Stony Hill] ; 30 Sugar in the Gourd 38 Sweet Birds 22 Sweet Bunch of Daisies 29 Sweet Jane 13 [Sweet Memory of Dear Mother] 33 Sweet Summer Evening 23 Sweet William and Fair Ellender 8 Talt ajl IS Tarry 3i< Tell Me Why You've Grown so Cold 29 There was a Rich Old Farmer 23 There's a Spark of Love Still Burning 28 Three Little Babes 7 [To America] 12 I'o Cheer the Heart 25 To Bowser's 39 Tom Smith's Death Song. . . 17 Turkish Lady, The 7 [Twelve Apostles] 34 Two Drummers 33 Two Letters 29 Two Soldiers, The 14 Unlucky Young Man, The . . . o5 Up to the Court-house 38 A^ain Girl 26 Waggoner's Lad, The 20, 30 Wait for the Wagon 23 Walking-boss 19 Wandering Boy, The 34 Waxford Girl, The 13 Wayward Girl, The 33 We have Met and We have Parted 24 Whangho 39 When I was a Little Boy... 38 Whickum-whack 38 White Rose, The 29 Who'll be King but Charlie? 11 Will You Love Me When I'm Old? 29 William Baker 18 William Hall 11 William Riley 13 William Trimmel Tram 38 Willie and Kate 29 Willie, Come Back 29 Won't You Ever Come Again? 29 Young Edwin 9 Young Man's Love, The 26 Zollicoffer 15