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American Ballads and Folk Songs
(John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax)
No.	Chap.	Song
	I. Working On the Railroad
1		John Henry
2		Steel Laying Holler
3		The Heavy-Hipted Woman
4		Tie Shuffling Chant
5		Tie Tamping Chant
6		Good-by, Pretty Mama
7		Paddy Works on the Erie
8		Mike
9		The Gila Monster Route
10		Hallelujah, Bum Again
11		Ten Thousand Miles from Home
12		The Wreck on the C. & O.
13		Nachul-Born Easman
14		Casey Jones
15		The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver
16		Ol' John Brown
17		Charley Snyder
	II. The Levee Camp
18		Shack Bully Holler
19		Reason I Stay on Job So Long
20		Gwinester Harncess in de Mornin' Soon
21		Leave Camp "Holler"
22		Shot My Pistol in de Heat of Town
	III. Songs from Shouthern Chain Gangs
23		Ain' No Mo' Cane on de Brazis
24		Black Betty
25		The Hammer Song
26		Rosie
27		Ol' Rattler
28		Stewball
29		De Midnight Special
30		Long Gone
31		Great God-a'mighty
32		Jumpin' Judy
33		Goin' Home
	IV. Negro Bad Man
34		Bad Man Ballad
35		Po Laz'us
36		Stagolee
37		Old Bill
38		Frankie and Albert
39		Ida Red
40		Big Jim
41		De Balit of de Boll Weevil
42		Railroad Bill
	V. White Desperadoes
43		Spanish Johnny
44		John Harty
45		Sam Bass
46		Jesse James
47		Quantrell
48		Sam Hall
49		Jim Haggerty's Story
50		Billy the Kid
51		The Crydervill Jail
52		Po' Boy
	VI. Songs From the Mountain
53		Down in the Valley
54		Every Night When the Sun Goes In
55		The Roving Gambler
56		I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
57		Sugar Babe
58		When I  Was Single [the Woman]
59		When I Was Single [the Man]
60		Darlin'
61		Polly Williams
62		The Bear in the Hill
63		The Little Mohee
	VII. Cocaine and Whisky
64		Drink That Rot Gut
65		Rye Whisky
66		The Drunkard's Doom
67		Little Brown Jug
68		Adieu to Bon Country
69		Good Ol' Mountain Dew
70		Lulu
71		Willie the Weeper
72		Honey, Take a Whiff on Me
	VIII. The Blues
73		Cornfield Holler
74		Dirty Minstreatin' Women
75		Dink's Blues
76		Dink's Song
77		Go Way f'om Mah Window
78		Shorty George
79		The "Cholly" Blues
80		Fare Thee Well, Babe
81		Alabama-Bound
	IX. Creole Negroes
82		Michié Préval
83		Rémon
84		Criole Candjo
85		Un, Deux, Trois
86		Aurore Pradère
87		Ou Som Souroucou
88		Slangadou
	X. "Reels"
89		Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd
90		Run, Nigger, Run!
91		Pick a Bale o' Cotton
92		Hard to Be a Nigger
93		Shortenin' Bread
94		Sandy Lan'
95		Pattin'
96		a. Little Gal at Our House
97		b. Rabbit Hash
98		c. Da's All Right, Baby
99		Cotton Field Song
100		De Grey Goose
101		Julie Ann Johnson
102		My Yallow Gal
103		De Black Gal
	XI. Minstrel Types
104		The Ballad of Davy Crockett
105		Raise a Rukus Tonight
106		When de Good Lord Sets You Free
107		Old Dan Tucker
108		Cotton-Eyed Joe
	XII. Breakdown and Play Parties
109		The Arkansas Traveller
110		Groun' Hog
111		Cumberland Gap
112		Sourwood Mountain
113		Old Joe Clark
114		The Gal I Left Behind Me
115		a. The Pretty Little Gal
116		b. A cowboy version
117		Ol' Mother Hare
118		Liza Jane
119		Black-Eyed Susie
120		Lousiana Girls
121		Weevily Wheat
122		Way Over in the Blooming Garden
123		Skip to My Lou
124		Shoot the Buffalo
125		Going to Boston
126		Shoo-Shoo-Shoo-Lye
	XIII. Songs of Childhood
127		What Folks Are Made of
128		All the Pretty Little Horses
129		The Old Gray Goose
130		Long Time Ago
131		Three Pigs
132		Tale of Little Pig
133		Frog Went a-Courtin'
134		Crows in the Garden
135		The Connecticut Peddler
136		Billy Boy
137		Paper of Pins
138		Hardly Think I Will
139		I Love Little Willie
	XIV. Miscellany
140		The Factory Girl
141		Hard Times
142		On Meesh-e-gan
143		Tearin' Out-a Wilderness
144		The Many on the Flying Trapeze
145		Ye Ballade of of Ivan Petrovsky Skevar
146		Beautiful
147		The Highly Educated Man
148		Donky Sunday School
149		The Old Bachelor
150		Rattle Snake
	XV. Vaqueros of the Southwest
151		Allá en el Rancho Grande
152		El Amor QueTe Tenía
153		El Abandonado
154		Cuatro Palmitas Blancas
155		Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal
	XVI. Cowboy Songs
156		From the Chuck Wagon
157		Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler
158		The Old Chizzum Trail
159		When I Was a Cowboy
160		Cowboy to Pitching Bronco
161		Other Cowboy Boasting Chants
162		Good-by, Old Paint
163		Git Along, Little Doggies
164		The Buffalo Skinners
165		The Stampede
166		Mustang Gray
167		Hell in Texas
168		Arizona
169		The Killer
170		Snagtooth Sal
171		Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail
172		Susan Van Dusan
173		The Cowboy's Dream
174		Red River Shore
175		Roy Bean
176		An Idaho Cowboy Dance
177		In Town
178		Bucking Bronco
179		Poor Lonesome Cowboy
	XVII. Songs of the Overlanders
180		Joe Bowers
181		Sweet Betsy from Pike
182		Crossing the Plains
183		Coming Around the Horn
184		The Bull-Whacker
185		Brigham Young
186		Creer Country
	XVIII. The Miner
187		The Hard-Working Miner
188		The Dreary Black Hills
189		Just from Dawwon
	XIX. The Shanty-Boy
190		The Lost Jimmie Whalen
191		The Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son
192		Gerry's Rocks
193		Bung Yer Eye
194		The Banks of the Pamanow
	XX. The Erie Canal
195		Ballad of the Erie Canal
196		The Erie Canal
197		TheErie Canal Ballad
198		Erie Canal
199		A Trip on the Erie
200		Low Bridge, Everybody Down
201		The E-ri-e
202		The Raging Can-all
	XXI. The Great Lakes
203		Red Iron Ore
	XXII. Sailors and Sea Fights
204		Johnny Come Down to Hilo
205		Heave Away
206		Whisky Johnny
207		The Rio Grande
208		The Black Ball Line
209		Blow the Man Down
210		Get Up, Jack!  John, Sit Down!
211		Jack Wrack
212		The Boston Come-Al-Ye
213		The Wonderful Crocodile
214		Captain Robert Kidd
215		They Flying Cloud
216		Constituion and Guerrière
217		Siege of Plattsburg
218		The Buccaneers
219		Destoyer Life
	XXIII. Wars and Soldiers
220		Yankee Doodle
221		Braddock's Defeat
222		John Brown's Body
223		Hold On, Abraham
224		Dixie
225		War Song
226		Good Old Rebel
227		Benny Havens, Oh!
228		The Wild Miz-zou-rye
229		Shenandoah
230		Damn the Filipinos
231		A Rockie's Lament
232		The Company Cook
233		We've Done Our Hitch in Hell
234		If You Want to Know Where the Privates Are
235		The Hearse Song
236		Hinky Dinky, Parley-Voo?
	XXIV. White Spirituals
237		Bear the News, Mary
238		Parting Friends
239		Burges
240		Few Days
241		Wedlock
242		Wicked Polly
243		Now Our Meeting's Over
244		The Other Shore
245		Amazing Grace
	XXV. Negro Spirituals
246		Many T'ousands Go
247		Lay Dis Body Down
248		Mone, Member, Mone
249		Moanin'
250		Healin' Waters
251		'Ligion So Sweet
252		Dives and Laz'us
253		Set Down, Servant
254		Oh, Lawd, How Long?
255		Never Said a Mumbalin' Word
256		Hell and Heaven
257		Man Goin' Round
258		Good-by, Mother
259		This Train
260		Deep River
261		Blin' Man Stood on de Way an' Cried
262		Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again
263		Hard Trails
264		Dat Lonesome Stream
265		Woe Be unto You
266		Tone de Bell Easy
267		Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
268		When My Blood Runs Chilly and Col'