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The Resource The folk song abecedary,, by James F. Leisy. Musical autography by Alfredo Seville

The folk song abecedary,, by James F. Leisy. Musical autography by Alfredo Seville

Creator
Summary
Collection of more than 200 folk music favorites from all over the world
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xix, 391 pages
Note
Unacc. melodies, with chord symbols, each preceded by a historical note and discography
Contents
  • A-Roving
  • The Ash Grove
  • Bailiff's daughter of Islington
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • Barbara Allen
  • Beautiful beautiful brown eyes
  • Betty and Dupree
  • The big rock candy mountain
  • Billy Barlow
  • Billie Magee Magaw
  • Abilene
  • Billy Boy
  • Black is the color of my true love's hair
  • Blow the candles out
  • Blow the man down
  • The boll weevil
  • Boll weevil blues
  • Brennan on the moor
  • Buffalo boy
  • Bury me beneath the willow
  • The butcher boy
  • Acres of clams
  • The cambric shirt
  • Can the circle be unbroken
  • Careless love
  • The cat came back
  • The cherry tree carol
  • Cindy
  • Clementine
  • Cockles and mussels
  • Coplas
  • Copper kettle
  • Old rosin the beau
  • Corena
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The crawdad song
  • Cripple Creek
  • The Danville girl
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Deep blue sea
  • Delia's song
  • The derby ram
  • Don't you weep after me
  • Lincoln and liberty
  • Down in the valley
  • Drill, ye tarriers, drill
  • The drunken sailor
  • Early one morning
  • East Virginia
  • Easy rider
  • Eggs and marrowbone
  • Every night when the sun goes in
  • The farmer who went out for beer
  • Farther along
  • God's children got shoes
  • Florella (the jealous lover)
  • The foggy, foggy dew
  • Follow the drinking gourd
  • The four maries
  • Four night drunk
  • The fox
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Gently, Johnny, my jingalo
  • Go down, Moses
  • Go tell Aunt Rhody
  • All my trials
  • Go tell it on the mountain
  • Goin' down the road feelin' bad
  • The golden vanity
  • Good news
  • Gospel train--
  • Great silkie of Sule Skerry
  • The great speckled bird
  • Green grow the lilacs
  • Green grow the rushes
  • Greenback dollar
  • All the good times
  • Greensleeves
  • What child is this?
  • The gypsie laddie
  • Gypsy Davey
  • The wraggle-taggle gypsies
  • The gypsy rover
  • Hangman, hangman
  • Haul away, Joe
  • Haul on the bowline
  • Henry Martin
  • Anne Boleyn
  • He's got the whole world in his hands
  • Hey Lidee
  • The holly and the ivy
  • Home on the range
  • The house carpenter
  • Hush, little baby
  • I am a pilgrim
  • I know where I'm goin'
  • I never will marry
  • John Henry
  • Where are you going, my good old man?
  • Whistle, daughter, whistle
  • Whens the Saings go marching in
  • When the Saints go marching home
  • Whiskey Johnny
  • Whiskey in the jar (Kilgary Mountain)
  • Who's gonna she your pretty little foot?
  • Whoopee ti yi yo
  • Wildwood flower
  • Willie the weeper
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier (Butterlmilk Hill)
  • Cocaine Lil
  • The Willow Garden
  • The Willow Tree
  • The Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues
  • Worried man blues
  • Young Charlotte
  • Johnny, I hardly knew ye
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • Johnny, fill up the bowl
  • Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho
  • The jug of punch
  • Just a closer walk with thee
  • The keeper of the Eddystone Light
  • The keeper of the Asteroid Light
  • I ride old paint
  • The keeper of the London zoo
  • The keeper would a-hunting go
  • Knaves will be knaves
  • Kuma ba ya
  • Landlord, fill the flowing bowl (Three jolly coachmen)
  • Let smy little light shine
  • The Lincolnshire poacher
  • Little Maggie
  • Lolly too dum
  • Lord Lovel
  • I wish I was single again
  • Lord Randall
  • Mama don't allow
  • Man of constant sorrow
  • Maryanne
  • Michael, row the boat ashore
  • Midnight special
  • Miss Bailey
  • The hunters of Kentucky
  • Mister Froggie went a-courtin'
  • Must I go round
  • I wish I was a single girl
  • New river train
  • Nine hundred miles
  • Nine-round hammer
  • Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
  • Oh Mary, don't you weep
  • Oh, no, John
  • The old ark's a-moverin'
  • The Old Chisholm Trail
  • The old maid's song
  • Old mountain dew
  • I'm a rambler
  • Old stormalong
  • Omie wise
  • On top of old smoky
  • Paper of pins
  • Pat works on the railway
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • Putting on the style
  • Railroad Bill
  • Raise a ruckus
  • Red apple juice
  • In the pines (Black girl)
  • The red light saloon
  • The Red River Valley
  • Reuben ranzo
  • The riddle song
  • Rock about my Saro Jane
  • The Rock Island Line
  • 'Round the Bay of Mexico
  • The roving gambler
  • Rye whiskey
  • Saint James in firmary blues
  • Jacob's ladder
  • Sally, let your bangs hang down
  • Shenandoah
  • The ship that never returned
  • Silver dagger
  • Sinner man
  • Skip to my lou
  • The sloop John B.
  • Soldier, soldier, will you marry me?
  • Springfield Mountain
  • Stagolee
  • Jesse James
  • Steal away
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Vilikins and Dinah
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • Talking blues
  • Tell old Bill (this morning, this evening, so soon)
  • There's ahole in my bucket
  • This train
  • The Titanic
  • Tom Dooley
  • Joe Bowers
  • The twelve days of Christmas
  • The two sisters
  • The Vicar of Bray
  • The Courtier
  • The Wabash Cannonball
  • The wagoner's lad
  • Wanderlin'
  • The water is wide
  • We wish you a Merry Christmas
  • The wee Cooper of Fife
Instance
Label
The folk song abecedary,
Title
The folk song abecedary,
Statement of responsibility
by James F. Leisy. Musical autography by Alfredo Seville
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Collection of more than 200 folk music favorites from all over the world
Accompanying matter
bibliography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/comandarr
WiBkRWiko3g
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Leisy, James F
Dewey number
784.4973
Form of composition
multiple forms
Format of music
unknown
Literary text for sound recordings
not applicable
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Ballads, English
  • Folk songs, English
  • Ballads, English
  • Folk songs, English
  • Folk music
  • Ballads, English
  • Folk music
  • Folk songs, English
  • United States
Label
The folk song abecedary,, by James F. Leisy. Musical autography by Alfredo Seville
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Unacc. melodies, with chord symbols, each preceded by a historical note and discography
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-383)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
notated music
Content type code
  • ntm
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • A-Roving
  • The Ash Grove
  • Bailiff's daughter of Islington
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • Barbara Allen
  • Beautiful beautiful brown eyes
  • Betty and Dupree
  • The big rock candy mountain
  • Billy Barlow
  • Billie Magee Magaw
  • Abilene
  • Billy Boy
  • Black is the color of my true love's hair
  • Blow the candles out
  • Blow the man down
  • The boll weevil
  • Boll weevil blues
  • Brennan on the moor
  • Buffalo boy
  • Bury me beneath the willow
  • The butcher boy
  • Acres of clams
  • The cambric shirt
  • Can the circle be unbroken
  • Careless love
  • The cat came back
  • The cherry tree carol
  • Cindy
  • Clementine
  • Cockles and mussels
  • Coplas
  • Copper kettle
  • Old rosin the beau
  • Corena
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The crawdad song
  • Cripple Creek
  • The Danville girl
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Deep blue sea
  • Delia's song
  • The derby ram
  • Don't you weep after me
  • Lincoln and liberty
  • Down in the valley
  • Drill, ye tarriers, drill
  • The drunken sailor
  • Early one morning
  • East Virginia
  • Easy rider
  • Eggs and marrowbone
  • Every night when the sun goes in
  • The farmer who went out for beer
  • Farther along
  • God's children got shoes
  • Florella (the jealous lover)
  • The foggy, foggy dew
  • Follow the drinking gourd
  • The four maries
  • Four night drunk
  • The fox
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Gently, Johnny, my jingalo
  • Go down, Moses
  • Go tell Aunt Rhody
  • All my trials
  • Go tell it on the mountain
  • Goin' down the road feelin' bad
  • The golden vanity
  • Good news
  • Gospel train--
  • Great silkie of Sule Skerry
  • The great speckled bird
  • Green grow the lilacs
  • Green grow the rushes
  • Greenback dollar
  • All the good times
  • Greensleeves
  • What child is this?
  • The gypsie laddie
  • Gypsy Davey
  • The wraggle-taggle gypsies
  • The gypsy rover
  • Hangman, hangman
  • Haul away, Joe
  • Haul on the bowline
  • Henry Martin
  • Anne Boleyn
  • He's got the whole world in his hands
  • Hey Lidee
  • The holly and the ivy
  • Home on the range
  • The house carpenter
  • Hush, little baby
  • I am a pilgrim
  • I know where I'm goin'
  • I never will marry
  • John Henry
  • Where are you going, my good old man?
  • Whistle, daughter, whistle
  • Whens the Saings go marching in
  • When the Saints go marching home
  • Whiskey Johnny
  • Whiskey in the jar (Kilgary Mountain)
  • Who's gonna she your pretty little foot?
  • Whoopee ti yi yo
  • Wildwood flower
  • Willie the weeper
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier (Butterlmilk Hill)
  • Cocaine Lil
  • The Willow Garden
  • The Willow Tree
  • The Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues
  • Worried man blues
  • Young Charlotte
  • Johnny, I hardly knew ye
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • Johnny, fill up the bowl
  • Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho
  • The jug of punch
  • Just a closer walk with thee
  • The keeper of the Eddystone Light
  • The keeper of the Asteroid Light
  • I ride old paint
  • The keeper of the London zoo
  • The keeper would a-hunting go
  • Knaves will be knaves
  • Kuma ba ya
  • Landlord, fill the flowing bowl (Three jolly coachmen)
  • Let smy little light shine
  • The Lincolnshire poacher
  • Little Maggie
  • Lolly too dum
  • Lord Lovel
  • I wish I was single again
  • Lord Randall
  • Mama don't allow
  • Man of constant sorrow
  • Maryanne
  • Michael, row the boat ashore
  • Midnight special
  • Miss Bailey
  • The hunters of Kentucky
  • Mister Froggie went a-courtin'
  • Must I go round
  • I wish I was a single girl
  • New river train
  • Nine hundred miles
  • Nine-round hammer
  • Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
  • Oh Mary, don't you weep
  • Oh, no, John
  • The old ark's a-moverin'
  • The Old Chisholm Trail
  • The old maid's song
  • Old mountain dew
  • I'm a rambler
  • Old stormalong
  • Omie wise
  • On top of old smoky
  • Paper of pins
  • Pat works on the railway
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • Putting on the style
  • Railroad Bill
  • Raise a ruckus
  • Red apple juice
  • In the pines (Black girl)
  • The red light saloon
  • The Red River Valley
  • Reuben ranzo
  • The riddle song
  • Rock about my Saro Jane
  • The Rock Island Line
  • 'Round the Bay of Mexico
  • The roving gambler
  • Rye whiskey
  • Saint James in firmary blues
  • Jacob's ladder
  • Sally, let your bangs hang down
  • Shenandoah
  • The ship that never returned
  • Silver dagger
  • Sinner man
  • Skip to my lou
  • The sloop John B.
  • Soldier, soldier, will you marry me?
  • Springfield Mountain
  • Stagolee
  • Jesse James
  • Steal away
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Vilikins and Dinah
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • Talking blues
  • Tell old Bill (this morning, this evening, so soon)
  • There's ahole in my bucket
  • This train
  • The Titanic
  • Tom Dooley
  • Joe Bowers
  • The twelve days of Christmas
  • The two sisters
  • The Vicar of Bray
  • The Courtier
  • The Wabash Cannonball
  • The wagoner's lad
  • Wanderlin'
  • The water is wide
  • We wish you a Merry Christmas
  • The wee Cooper of Fife
Control code
ocm23286342
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
xix, 391 pages
Lccn
66015352
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
The folk song abecedary,, by James F. Leisy. Musical autography by Alfredo Seville
Publication
Note
Unacc. melodies, with chord symbols, each preceded by a historical note and discography
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-383)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
notated music
Content type code
  • ntm
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • A-Roving
  • The Ash Grove
  • Bailiff's daughter of Islington
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • Barbara Allen
  • Beautiful beautiful brown eyes
  • Betty and Dupree
  • The big rock candy mountain
  • Billy Barlow
  • Billie Magee Magaw
  • Abilene
  • Billy Boy
  • Black is the color of my true love's hair
  • Blow the candles out
  • Blow the man down
  • The boll weevil
  • Boll weevil blues
  • Brennan on the moor
  • Buffalo boy
  • Bury me beneath the willow
  • The butcher boy
  • Acres of clams
  • The cambric shirt
  • Can the circle be unbroken
  • Careless love
  • The cat came back
  • The cherry tree carol
  • Cindy
  • Clementine
  • Cockles and mussels
  • Coplas
  • Copper kettle
  • Old rosin the beau
  • Corena
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The crawdad song
  • Cripple Creek
  • The Danville girl
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Deep blue sea
  • Delia's song
  • The derby ram
  • Don't you weep after me
  • Lincoln and liberty
  • Down in the valley
  • Drill, ye tarriers, drill
  • The drunken sailor
  • Early one morning
  • East Virginia
  • Easy rider
  • Eggs and marrowbone
  • Every night when the sun goes in
  • The farmer who went out for beer
  • Farther along
  • God's children got shoes
  • Florella (the jealous lover)
  • The foggy, foggy dew
  • Follow the drinking gourd
  • The four maries
  • Four night drunk
  • The fox
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Gently, Johnny, my jingalo
  • Go down, Moses
  • Go tell Aunt Rhody
  • All my trials
  • Go tell it on the mountain
  • Goin' down the road feelin' bad
  • The golden vanity
  • Good news
  • Gospel train--
  • Great silkie of Sule Skerry
  • The great speckled bird
  • Green grow the lilacs
  • Green grow the rushes
  • Greenback dollar
  • All the good times
  • Greensleeves
  • What child is this?
  • The gypsie laddie
  • Gypsy Davey
  • The wraggle-taggle gypsies
  • The gypsy rover
  • Hangman, hangman
  • Haul away, Joe
  • Haul on the bowline
  • Henry Martin
  • Anne Boleyn
  • He's got the whole world in his hands
  • Hey Lidee
  • The holly and the ivy
  • Home on the range
  • The house carpenter
  • Hush, little baby
  • I am a pilgrim
  • I know where I'm goin'
  • I never will marry
  • John Henry
  • Where are you going, my good old man?
  • Whistle, daughter, whistle
  • Whens the Saings go marching in
  • When the Saints go marching home
  • Whiskey Johnny
  • Whiskey in the jar (Kilgary Mountain)
  • Who's gonna she your pretty little foot?
  • Whoopee ti yi yo
  • Wildwood flower
  • Willie the weeper
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier (Butterlmilk Hill)
  • Cocaine Lil
  • The Willow Garden
  • The Willow Tree
  • The Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues
  • Worried man blues
  • Young Charlotte
  • Johnny, I hardly knew ye
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • Johnny, fill up the bowl
  • Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho
  • The jug of punch
  • Just a closer walk with thee
  • The keeper of the Eddystone Light
  • The keeper of the Asteroid Light
  • I ride old paint
  • The keeper of the London zoo
  • The keeper would a-hunting go
  • Knaves will be knaves
  • Kuma ba ya
  • Landlord, fill the flowing bowl (Three jolly coachmen)
  • Let smy little light shine
  • The Lincolnshire poacher
  • Little Maggie
  • Lolly too dum
  • Lord Lovel
  • I wish I was single again
  • Lord Randall
  • Mama don't allow
  • Man of constant sorrow
  • Maryanne
  • Michael, row the boat ashore
  • Midnight special
  • Miss Bailey
  • The hunters of Kentucky
  • Mister Froggie went a-courtin'
  • Must I go round
  • I wish I was a single girl
  • New river train
  • Nine hundred miles
  • Nine-round hammer
  • Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
  • Oh Mary, don't you weep
  • Oh, no, John
  • The old ark's a-moverin'
  • The Old Chisholm Trail
  • The old maid's song
  • Old mountain dew
  • I'm a rambler
  • Old stormalong
  • Omie wise
  • On top of old smoky
  • Paper of pins
  • Pat works on the railway
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • Putting on the style
  • Railroad Bill
  • Raise a ruckus
  • Red apple juice
  • In the pines (Black girl)
  • The red light saloon
  • The Red River Valley
  • Reuben ranzo
  • The riddle song
  • Rock about my Saro Jane
  • The Rock Island Line
  • 'Round the Bay of Mexico
  • The roving gambler
  • Rye whiskey
  • Saint James in firmary blues
  • Jacob's ladder
  • Sally, let your bangs hang down
  • Shenandoah
  • The ship that never returned
  • Silver dagger
  • Sinner man
  • Skip to my lou
  • The sloop John B.
  • Soldier, soldier, will you marry me?
  • Springfield Mountain
  • Stagolee
  • Jesse James
  • Steal away
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Vilikins and Dinah
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • Talking blues
  • Tell old Bill (this morning, this evening, so soon)
  • There's ahole in my bucket
  • This train
  • The Titanic
  • Tom Dooley
  • Joe Bowers
  • The twelve days of Christmas
  • The two sisters
  • The Vicar of Bray
  • The Courtier
  • The Wabash Cannonball
  • The wagoner's lad
  • Wanderlin'
  • The water is wide
  • We wish you a Merry Christmas
  • The wee Cooper of Fife
Control code
ocm23286342
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
xix, 391 pages
Lccn
66015352
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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