The new Green mountain songster; traditional folk songs of Vermont
Title:
The new Green mountain songster; traditional folk songs of Vermont
Author:
Flanders, Helen Hartness, 1890-1972, editor.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale university press; London : H. Milford : Oxford university press, 1939.
Physical Description:
1 pages l., [v]-xx, 278 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
General Note:
Most of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies)
With facsimiles of t.-p., preface and early verses of the first song in the original Green mountain songster, 1923, from which the editors have taken a name for the present collection.
Language:
English
Contents:
(The) Bailiff's daughter of Islington -- (The) Banks of sweet Loch Ray -- (The) Belle of Long Lake -- Bessie of Ballydubray -- Bold Reynard -- Botany Bay -- (The) Burning of the granite mill -- (The) Calais disaster -- (The) Cambric shirt -- Caroline of Edinburgh Town -- (The) Children in the wood -- Corydon and Caroline -- (The) Cowboy's lament -- (The) Crying family -- (The) Damsel's tragedy -- (The) Dark-eyed sailor -- (The) Death of Mrs. Lydia Woodburn -- Dog and gun -- (The) Dog in the closet -- (The) Dreary black hills -- (The) Dying sergeant -- Fair Fannie More -- Fair Florella -- (The) Farmer and the shanty boy -- (The) Gallows tree -- (A) Gay Spanish maid -- (A) Gentleman of Exeter -- Guy Reed -- (The) Happy child -- Hartford wreck -- Henry K. Sawyer -- Henry Orrison -- Hewson, the cobbler -- (The) Hog-thorny bear -- (The) House carpenter -- India's burning sands -- (The) Irish mail robber -- Jam on Gerry's Rock -- James MacDonald -- Jefferson and liberty -- Jerry's account of a junket -- (The) Jew's daughter -- Jiffery, James, and John -- Jim Fisk -- Joel Baker -- John Barleycorn -- Johnny Doyle -- (The) Joys of Mary -- Katharine Jaffray -- Kathleen -- King Henry Fifth's conquest of France -- Lady Washington's lamentation -- (The) Laird o' Lauderdale -- (The) Lake of Ponchartrain -- (The) Lakes of Col Fin -- (The) Lamentation over Boston -- (The) Lawyer outwitted -- (The) Lions' den -- (The) Little Mohea -- Lord Banner -- Lovel, the robber -- Mary and Willie -- (The) Miller's three sons -- Mr. Pierce's experience -- Mountain song -- (The) Murder of Sarah Vail -- Murdered by a brother -- Next Monday morning -- (The) Noble sku-ball -- Old England forty years ago -- (The) Old maid's song -- (The) Old oak tree -- Pat O'Brien -- Peter Emery -- (The) Poor sailor boy -- Renaldine, or, The mountains of Pomeroy -- Retrospect -- (The) Sailor's bride -- (The) Ship carpenter -- Song of the Vermonters, 1799 -- (The) Spiritual railway -- Springfield Mountain -- (The) Suffolk miracle -- Sweet Gramachree -- (The) Texas Rangers -- (The) Three butchers -- (The) Three hunters -- (The) Two sisters -- Vermont -- (The) Vermont boys in Gardner -- (The) Vermont farmer's song -- (The) White captive -- (The) White pilgrim -- (The) Widow's daughter -- Wilkes Lovell -- (The) Wisconsin emigrant's song -- (The) Woodman's alphabet -- (The) Yorkshire bite -- Young Charlotte -- (The) Young men's song -- Young Strongbow.
Format :
Book