Georgetown Peabody Library

The ballad of America, the history of the United States in the stories, the words and the music of more than 125 songs

eng

no index present

non fiction

The ballad of America

the history of the United States in the stories, the words and the music of more than 125 songs

This book is an attempt to show how the story of the American people is revealed in their song; to provide an introduction to this national song heritage, and to indicate its extent, variety and beauty

I THE COLONIAL PERIOD: The British Heritage: Bawbee Allen -- I will give my love an apple -- The keys of Canterbury -- The sycamore tree -- The trees they grow so high (west of England) -- The bonny boy (Eire) -- The bonny lass o' Fyvie -- Lord Ronald -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Psalm 100 (a psalm of praise); Colonial Songs and Ballads: Soldier, soldier won't you marry me? -- Siubhail a Gradh -- Come, my love (Eire) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier (Hudson Valley) -- The death of General Wolfe -- Sweet William -- The old man who lived in the woods -- Springfield mountain -- The young man who couldn't hoe corn (The lazy man) -- Jenny Jenkins -- Katie cruel; II THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Young ladies in town -- The rich lady over the sea -- The folks on t'other side the wave -- Sir Peter Parker -- Nathan Hale -- The dying redcoat -- The battle of Trenton -- The fate of John Burgoyne -- The battle of the kegs -- Paul Jones's victory (Poor Richard and the serapis and alliance) -- The ballad of Major Andre -- Lord Cornwallis's surrender; III THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD: Caitilin ni uallachain (Cathaleen ni Houlihan) -- Green grow the rushes -- Jefferson and liberty -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- The bonny bunch of roses o -- The constitution and Guerriere -- The Chesapeake and the Shannon -- The hunters of Kentucky -- Johnny Bull, my Jo, John -- Mrs. McGrath; Sea and Immigration: Haul on the bowline -- Blood-red roses -- Leave her, Johnny, leave her -- The Golden Vanity -- Off to sea once more -- The Greenland whale fishery -- The banks of Newfoundland -- The praties they grow small -- Across the western ocean -- The farmer's curst wife (the devil and the farmer) -- The castle of Dromore (Caislean Droim an Oir) -- The pesky sarpent; IV THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT: The Wisconsin emigrant -- Hush, little baby -- Let's go a-huntin' -- Skip to my lou -- When I was single -- The single girl -- The lumberman's alphabet -- The jam on Gerry's rock -- Sioux Indians -- The fools of forty-nine -- Santy Anno -- The dying Californian; Slavery Days: Roll, Jordan, roll -- Sail, o believer -- Poor Rosy -- Bound to go -- Hushabye (All the pretty little horses) -- Sold off to Georgy -- Hangman, slack the line -- Lay this body down -- Jimmy Rose -- T'aint gonna rain no mo' -- The rose of Alabama; V THE CIVIL WAR: The northern bonny blue flag -- The bonny blue flag (Southern) -- Song of the southern volunteers -- Flag of the free -- The Yankee man o' war -- The homespun dress -- On to Richmond! -- General Lee's wooing -- What gives the wheat fields baldes of steel? ; Freedom Songs: Many thousand gone -- Oh, freedom! -- Song of the freedmen -- A plaint -- Roll, Alabama, roll -- Sherman's march to the sea -- The southern girl's reply; VI BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Farmers and Workers: Ride an old paint -- The Colorado trail -- Goodbye, Old Paint -- Brennan on the Moor -- The farmer is the man -- Peter Emberley -- Hard times in the mill -- The shoofly -- The Ludlow Massacre -- Solidarity forever; Immigrants: Ot azoy neyt a shnayder (weary days are a tailor's) -- Schlof mayn kind (sleep, my child) -- Mayn yingele (my little son) -- Papir iz doch vays (silver is the daylight) -- Son petit jupon (the little dress of gray) -- Isabeau s'y promene (Isabel); The Negro People: Pick a bale o' cotton -- No more cane on this brazos -- Another man done gone -- Godamighty drag -- No more, my lord -- Settin' side that road -- The ballad of the boll weevil -- Ragged and dirty blues -- yonder come day; VII BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS: When Johnny comes marching home -- Johnny, I hardly knew you -- Mademdoiselle from Armentieres -- Pack up your troubles -- Wandering -- Raggedy -- The mouse's courting song -- Which side are you on? -- We shall not be moved -- Goin' down the road -- Roll on, Columbia -- Discrimination blues -- We shall overcome -- Die moorsoldaten (peat-bog soldiers) -- Ot kraya i do kraya (from frontier to frontier) -- D-Day dodgers -- Partizaner Lid (the partisan); VIII SINCE THE WAR: Plane wreck at Los gatos -- In contempt -- Bull Connor's jail -- Keep on a-walkin' -- One man's hands -- Little boxes