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Eighty English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians
English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians
The lovers' tasks (The Elfin knight).--The false knight upon the road.--The seven sleepers (Earl Brand).--The outlandish knight (Lady Isabel and the Elf knight).--The two crows (The three ravens).--The two sisters.--John Randolph (Lord Randal).--Edward.--The cruel mother.--Lord Bateman (Young Beichan).--The two brothers.--The cherry tree carol.--Love Henry (Young Hunting).--The maid freed from the gallows.--Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor.--Fair Margaret and sweet William.--The three little.babes (The wife of Usher's Well).--Matthy Groves (Iittle Musgrave and Lady Barnard).--Barbara Ellen.--Little son Hugh (Sir Hugh).--The death of Queen Jane.--Gypsy Davy (The Gypsy laddie).--The wife wrapt in wether's skin.--Georgie (Geordie).--The house carpenter (The daemon lover).--Our goodman.--The farmer's curst wife.--The weeping willow tree (The golden vanity).--Fair Sally (The brown girl).--The lady and the dragoon.--Locks and bolts.--Jack went a-sailing.--William Hall.--William and Polly (Lisbon).--Sweet William.--The cruel ship's carpenter.--The true lover's farewell.--The cuckoo.--Pretty Saro.--My dearest dear.--Black is the colour.--The false young man.--The dear companion.--The Irish girl.--Come all you fair and tender ladies.--Arise! Arise!.--The nightingale.--Green bushes.--Good morning my pretty little miss.--The rebel soldier.--The rich old lady.--Katie Morey.--I must and I will get married.--Old woman (The deaf woman's courtship).--Come my little roving sailor.--The miller's will.--Betty Anne.--The tree in the wood.--The riddle song.--When Adam was created.--Sinner man.--The crow-fish man.--Sally Anne.--Cripple creek.--Will you wear red?.--The chickens they are crowing.--Going to Boston.--Soldier boy for me.--Nottamun Town.--The sally buck.--I whipped my horse.--The swapping song (The foolish boy).--The bird song.--Tommy Robin (Cock Robin).--The frog and the mouse.--The squirrel.--The old woman and the little pig.--The farmyard.--What's little babies made of?.--The bridle and saddle.
Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Maud Karpeles. Specimen piano accompaniments by Benjamin Britten. Chord symbols by Pat Shaw.
"Selected from a collection of about five hundred [songs] made in the Southern Appalachian Mountains during the years 1916 to 1918."
Gift from the library of Frank and Elizabeth Coulter, December, 1999.